skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you are witnessing and the article suggests is probably more a homeopathic ("poison to cure poison") phenomenon of laypeople correcting laypeople.

But Arnold Kling is not exactly "layman":

> Arnold Kling earned his Ph.D in economics from MIT in 1980. He worked at the Fed and later at Freddie Mac. In 1994, he started one of the first businesses on the Web, selling it in 1999

Maybe he never coded an ANN engine, he is probably following the evolution with interest from his own perspective.

And the conclusion is the opposite of "«armchair expert[ise]»" - if anything, it is too underdeveloped:

> I do not believe that we know enough to predict with any accuracy which uses of AI will take off and which will prove to be either too trivial (recipe tracking) or too elusive (maybe it’s too much to hope that AI will allow children to escape from school-prison). The best way to find out is to work with it, not to dismiss it
Nobody knows who you are sending messages to.

Current e2e systems might hide the contents of your messages, but they still reveal who you are communicating with to intermediate servers. That info can be used to find and arrest your friends if you're a terrorist, protestor, activist, or just a bit gay in a country that doesn't allow it.

No tor-like system can prevent this if an adversary can run a bunch of the nodes.
> Don't think anybody even implied such a thing.

But they could have, thanks to imprecise usage of "equality". Therefore the difference is not of interest only to pedants.

> I think the point is that in Capitalism, the money flows to the top, the top then has the money, can pay off the government, sway officials, and get 'un-equal' advantages. This then destroys democracy, because the rich can buy the power and votes don't matter.

I don't dispute this part, and apologize if I gave a different impression.
> I wrote and shipped C++ as a job for many years -millions of lines I'm sure- and I've 'reverted' to plain C around 2007 or so, and I couldn't be happier.

I did too, all the way up to (IIRC) 2011. My happiness levels improved when I stopped working on C++ and, for the type of native-code problems that I used C++ for, used plain C instead.

My goal is to ship code, with a trade-off between delivery dates, runtime performance and robustness. As the problem gets more complex, I find that C++ muddies the waters even more, impacting on all three axis' above.
Until an adversary uses LLM magic and a quantum computer to break the encryption and read everything.
> Sounds like a summer project

Yes, the Summer of '56.
I don’t think that’s what podmansh does.

Instead it’s a system replacement shell. Nothing to do with your running containers. Instead it seems to let you sandbox users on your VM/baremetal to a container.
Interesting. The flip side of this is that it's probably a good anti-theft measure. You can't steal an Apple laptop for repair parts anymore. As someone who has repaired MBP's in the past, I'm not a big fan of unrepairability, but on the other hand this is sort of... good?
Put $X in. Wrap it in some emotionally-driven frenzy. Get some fraction of $X out. This pattern feels closer to a Ponzi scheme than investing. That said, it's hardly exclusive to VC. Some certainly win from such scenarios. It would be interesting to know who they are.
In English, "spouses" is un-gendered; whoever looks after the household may commonly be a woman, but what I wrote doesn't presume that.

> You are explicitly allowed to work even while waiting for the decision for being granted asylum is being made

Only three months after applying for asylum, with the permission of the Federal Employment Agency, and not if they live in a reception facility.
I'm not at all surprised that "Natural distribution of Xylococcus bicolor in California." shows the distribution stopping at the border of California. The text actually says "It is native to southern California and the Baja California Peninsula, south to the Sierra de la Giganta." so the known data does extend beyond the border.
https://archive.is/VCDBk
I've always wondered if Norway turning all its oil into dematerialized paper securities as fast as possible, is really a better long term investment strategy than just leaving this tangible commodity right where it is, to be tapped when it becomes really scarce at some point decades from now.
His books on C++ were good. I wrote a few C++ books for McGraw-Hill and J. Wiley, but my books were just C++ projects books, I didn’t try to teach the language the way Stan did.
> like any job role, mistakes shouldn’t be dealt with by disciplinary action that results in the work being ground to a halt.

The judiciary and law enforcement absolutely must be held to a higher standard which does not accept mistakes. They are not 'any job role' -- these people have the authority to take away your livelihood, if not your life. The standard they must be held to should be perfection and nothing less. Any deviation from such should be treated as harshly as the worst criminals are.

> Where serious wrong doing occurs we should expect disciplinary action

_Any_ wrongdoing by law enforcement is serious.

> the answer is how much malfeasance and corruption is tolerable, because we’ll never have none

Just because we won't ever end up at 'none' doesn't mean we need to be accepting of anything less. Zero malfeasance, zero corruption. Anything but those should be burned out as a cancer, even if that burning out needs to be literal.
Symmetry in Chaos
Indeed, and C++ was initially a preprocessor (CFront) by Stroustrup, dynamic dispatch was considered too slow at the time, so c++ style objects and methods were faster and as a faster version of simula [1]. Objective C was an alternative that used something closer to smalltalk but it was slower and a few years later. C++ was first released in 1983 internally at AT&T, and for perspective, the 286 was released around the same time with a clock speed of 8 MHz.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B
I really have never seen a 200$ android phone not borderline unuseable. I have a OnePlus 8 pro and it is very unsatisfying.. and that was a 1400$ phone when it came out
Nothing wrong with them. I use them for a few names and inexpensive hosting. I've had a good experiences the few times I've used their chat-based support. I was saddened that there were some CSR issues when Russia invaded Ukraine, but the company routed around that.
You can stream them here: https://www.locserendipity.com/PushPlay.html

And LPs here: https://locserendipity.com/LP.html

These websites do not hold the data itself, but only the links to the IA data (don’t want to get sued), so donate to the Internet Archive if you use these regularly.
This happened to Tulane after Katrina it’s usually because the administration thinks the faculty quality isn’t up to par
YouTube-dl main site now blocked due to German court ruling
Multiple copies of the same binary can't share a memory page for the code. They do take more RAM.
It's kind of similar to cryptocurrency where it's only really helpful for doing nefarious things like cheating on homework. The same folks that were X, but with blockchain are now X, but with AI and it's going to be a while if ever that we see a good use case for it that couldn't be solved with existing solutions.

I also don't get the augmentation story as that doesn't make you better at X task when the LLM does the thing (poorly) or you still need to spend the same amount of time reviewing the work.

As the Google memo said, there is no moat here and I would take it further and say there is no revolution here.
Death and Nihilism: The recollections of an (almost) dead man
> Mexico is a beautiful country but it still has its problems. You've just kept to tourist areas if that's your view on it.

I spent last winter cycling the length of the peninsula, avoiding the highway. Didn't see a single touristy place until a month into the journey when I reached San Ignacio and Mulege. Then didn't see another touristy place again for weeks until La Paz.

On a previous trip to Mexico I cycled the length of the mainland from Mazatlan to the Guatemala border mainly on unpaved roads. I am well aware of the country's challenges and the need to ask about safety conditions. I stand by my assertion about Tijuana -- if safety in the city center were an issue for tourists and people passing through, local people would readily tell you that and elderly Americans wouldn't be strolling around carefree.

> The first thing you see driving in to TJ are decrepit and destroyed buildings

That describes a considerable portion of the world, including places where safety is not a concern.
As the old saying goes, the truth lies somewhere in between.

"AI" will no doubt eliminate some occupations and improve productivity and morale in some occupations, much like prior advancements in technology. If history is any indication, "AI" is very likely not going to be one extreme or the other.
Do you have a point to make or are you here just to be angry because you do write code for electron?
EDIT: I think we misunderstood each other, sorry about that! You were referring to 1 external display, I was referring to 2 being the limit of the Pro Apple CPUs.

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This says otherwise: https://support.apple.com/kb/SP858?locale=en_US

M1 Pro: 2 external displays.
M1 Ultra: 3 external displays.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213503
I forget where I read this but we are putting evolutionary pressure on LLMs to be really good at fooling people, not to be correct. That could have disastrous consequences. AI demagogues could be very scary.
> ... modern Christian experience which has veered decidedly political and militant. Ignorance is the real crisis.

I am aware of this in America. In the UK we have transitioned away from what I would call "Christian as default", resulting in dwindling numbers and income, but resulting in churches with mostly people who do understand the message of Jesus and who have no particular political orientation. Ultimately I feel it is for the good. Maybe America will go that way too.
GPU Virtualization: life's toughest challenge ;)

GVT-g high-level design

https://projectacrn.github.io/1.6/developer-guides/hld/hld-A...
zlib: https://github.com/madler/zlib
Obviously they haven't asked ChatGPT for a business plan
The CPU discussed has no iGPU.
Society is full of real, actual conspiracies and collusion that are harmful to people, whether they’re currently illegal or not. It’s just that the people promoting what popular media refers to as “conspiracy theory” throw enormous resources at distracting from those substantive issues by focusing on 5G, microchips in vaccines, chemtrails, and various silly theories of secret cabals running the world.

If I was one of the people actually benefiting from a conspiracy that extracts value from society, I would be thrilled about this. I would even work hard to promote it. I would even try to elect political candidates that support or wink at obviously-lunatic conspiracy theories.
We educate our children to participate in greater fool games.

Go to college, regardless of tuition.

Put your money in the stock market, regardless of its health and structure.

Buy bonds, regardless of the interest rate.

Own a house, regardless of market conditions.

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Most people don't think critically about their money, which makes them easy prey for greater-fool games built on top of institions they were educated to trust.
> It's good for writing Python native modules

distributions are going to love your module! /s
Regarding the <menu> element, which the OP mentions their confusion about as:

> I was initially surprised that it survived to HTML 5 (while <menuitem> didn’t) because modern browsers treat it as essentially a <ul>. Researching further on Wikipedia I read: "MENU existed in HTML Tags, and was standardized in HTML 2.0; deprecated in HTML 4.0 Transitional; invalid in HTML 4.0 Strict; then redefined in HTML5, but removed in HTML 5.2," and now I don’t know what to think.

HTML 5.2 was retired by W3C in 2021 in favour of the WhatWG HTML Living Standard, which (unlike HTML 5.2) never deprecated <menu>, and has been redefined as representing "a toolbar consisting of its contents, in the form of an unordered list of items (represented by li elements), each of which represents a command that the user can perform or activate.".

Wikipedia's list of elements seems to be out of date here — along with a lot of the Wikipedia information on HTML versions — as the <menu> element is still alive. Given its history of being repeatedly deprecated, and the fact that event recently browsers were confused by exactly what semantics to assign to <menu>, you are probably nearly always better off using <ul> with an appropriate ARIA role attribute (toolbar, menu, or menubar).
You could hold state constitutional conventions- God knows Louisiana’s done that enough times

And surely the guarantee clause serves as a backstop in the constitution for the worst of state governments
That's a rather short-sighted and myopic way of thinking. It's like saying that ambulances have saved lives so we should have built cars. But look at all the people who die from pollution. AI has the capability to kill a lot more people (what about all the suicides that will result from people losing their jobs?).

Saving lives immediately appeals to emotion, but logically, one must also weigh the costs.
What happens when the world moves on from oil and it’s no longer a valuable commodity.
> “She has better politics than anyone else who’s that rich, and she’s better at fund-raising than anyone else with her politics,”

why i will never understand america
Very fascinating! For anyone interested, the article on the of books that might be uncovered at Herculaneum, is a great read as well!

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/23380
Excellent illustration. After reading it I thought this looks like the PHD style. And I checked the author, who IS Jorge Cham. About 22 years ago I was reading his Piled higher and deeper, PHD, series and bought several books of his. It is a great feeling to see that he is still doing comics. Thanks Jorge!
The article reminds me of the philanthropists of the late 19th/early 20th century like Andrew Carnegie. His attitude was to amass wealth in the first half of your life and then give it away in the second.

It makes sense to me that once you accumulate sufficient wealth, the surplus is for 'the greater good'. The big question is what is that greater good. I guess an easy answer to it is 'leaving the next generation in a better place than the previous'.
Scroll to text fragments are your friend (though they are not in Firefox yet):

https://astro.build/#:~:text=Learn%20more%20in%20our%20docs

Docs:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Text_fragments
I've been using UNIX-like machines (mostly Linux) since the mid-2000s and single-user machines have always been the exception rather than the norm everywhere I've been.

Even at home, I've set up multiple accounts for myself (main one, one for closed-source programs, one for gaming I can share with other people…) and for my family (to each their preferences, wallpaper and so on). Having two or three user sessions running at the same time is not uncommon. I'm probably the exception here, but I don't think Podman targets the regular home user anyway.

It's not obvious to me how Podmansh would revolutionize that, but I guess it's nice, I'll try it for sure.
Thanks for mentioning this! I heard of COPR a while back but never really explored it until this morning after I saw your mention. It definitely could be considered an alternative to AUR/PKGBUILD for Fedora (and it has >24,000 packages already hosted on https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/).
Yeah multiple attempts are done to put liability on open source library developers.

Terrible idea.
Misleading name. It's not self-referential at all; it's just a simple bitmap renderer written in mathematical notation. The actual bitmap is stored separately.
Exactly, it is extremely effective cover for people actually doing harmful things.

Also, that sounds like something a conspiracy theorist would say (lol).
OpenAI spends $255 million a year running ChatGPT, and only survives because of a $10 billion investment from Microsoft? Ok then.
100

For efficient capture of the gamma release that is. We might just get steam power within the next decade.
It's got <marquee> I'm happy.
What if GitHub Disappeared Tomorrow? [pdf]
With regard to what I said, I admit I misread your comment a little. But to be clear: what I MEANT was that in ancient times, people basically understood all they NEEDED to understand. What they didn't understand was irrelevant. Nowadays, people NEED to understand complex, useless shit and it's hard to understand it.
The US needs to build more, not cancel zoning. With one of the lowest density in the world (36/km²) this should be a NON issue.

I don’t understand why we are stuck in this loophole of zones, affordable housing and so on. There is plenty of space!

The government could build those homes too if they really cared about it. Heck! Soviet Russia built a bunch of complexes for people to live in, sure they won’t be pretty, but better than sleeping outside. But somehow we can’t build them here in the US and we’d rather spend years and decades discussing existing zoning laws when new ones could be established pretty much all over the nation.
I completely disagree with your approach. You don't win against an unreasonable person by escalating the punishment. They're unreasonable, by definition they're not going to respond like a reasonable person would and back down. It's just a poor strategy.

> Also, "because I say so" is the truth and the reason

I have understood that since I was a child. My point is that it's an extremely poor reason. You are relying entirely upon your authority as a parent/boss/whatever and not providing any real rationale.

Relevant (Specifically "formal authority is a blunt, fragile instrument"):

"As an engineer, if you really feel strongly about something, you just go off and do it yourself. As a manager, you have to lead through influence and persuasion and inspiring other people to do things. It can be quite frustrating. “But can’t I just tell people what to do?” you might be thinking. And the answer is no. Any time you have to tell someone what to do using your formal authority, you have failed in some way and your actual influence and power will decrease. Formal authority is a blunt, fragile instrument."

https://charity.wtf/2019/09/08/reasons-not-to-be-a-manager/
I'd like to think that state-of-the-art CO2 removal could set an appropriate level for a carbon tax.
But is that before or after adjusting for cost of living?
I use it in my work (software engineer) and find it very helpful on some kinds of tasks. There’s more to it than cheating on homework. It’s not going to replace me though.
Bing back <blink>!
I had never heard of "cosmic strings".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_string
Anyone who thinks zoning is the issue should take a trip to Houston to get straightened out.
If AI has the potential to match us intellectually and creativity, and probably the ability to surpass us, then don't we have the responsibility to nurture it and guide it to maximizing our potential?

Aren't we effectively ushering into existence a new (next?) form of life? Do we want to be remembered as the ones who tried to block its evolution for our own selfish purposes, or the dutiful parents that helped it grow in its infancy?

AI is humanity's baby.
People are humans first and citizens second.

All humans deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Obviously the US can't take in the world's entire immigrant population, but IMHO because of its history it has a moral imperative to accept a large number of immigrants.

And if it should come to pass that anti-immigration talking points come true, and immigrants do indeed 'take our jobs', then that needs to be addressed at a structural level (tax, education, welfare policy) rather than the border.
> increasingly scarce

Is it increasingly scarce? Proven know oil reserves have been stable since ~2012 and are now about 50% higher than they were back in 1990.

Of course the extraction cost has been going up as well since shale is not economical below a certain market price.
Indeed, we should. Yet the best way to maintain a successful strategy (which isn't widely known) is to keep it quiet. So either the secret got out and they're trying to hold back the flood by claiming it doesn't work, or honestly have been burned and are hoping to gain some reputational advantage by warning others.
What does having/not-having a GC have to do with correctness?
Right?! Even if we round everything they possibly spend into 2B a year which is very high IMO, they have at least 4 years of burning money.
The people doing these studies have access to the same data, access to multiple bomb detonation exposure data, and have a broad background in terms of axes to grind.

The bulk of those involved want to know the true risks and aren't motivated to under or over report.

Discrepencies in results stand out.

Here's one study (third in a series, IIRC) on the two bombs in Japan.

https://bioone.org/journals/radiation-research/volume-187/is...

You can be specific in your objections, quote the parts you take issue with, etc.
Not precisely accurate: he had a three-part life plan:

The "Andrew Carnegie Dictum" was:

- To spend the first third of one's life getting all the education one can.

- To spend the next third making all the money one can.

- To spend the last third giving it all away for worthwhile causes.
idk many companies lose a lot of money and are dependent on outside investment for a long time. they clearly have a category defining product that has captured the public’s imagination and changed peoples workflows. i would be very surprised if the server bills made them go bankrupt
I sincerely hope it does, but unfortunately, more companies like it will spring up taking over with even more efficient methods.
As a full time front end developer, reading the front page I still had basically no idea what it is or does.
If we get to a point oil is rare then we’re screwed as we’ll have burnt too much of it
yes, i have a project that uses it. it’s pretty great, fast too.
So still, there is no comparative study. And your link goes to some generic mining sector page.

My point is, I see endless people saying "dams are horrible because of cement carbon!", yet no one has the raw numbers, compared to other green projects, to validate that statement.

People are just twitter spreading, an unjustified, unconfirmed hypothesis!

And it serves no one except bad actors.
Had a partner, with extensive experience and ready assurances that all I needed to do was the programming (and packaging and distribution and sales and support...) and they'd take care of the rest.

That one cleared about $500k before dying; I came out of it with debt and not enough knowledge or cynicism to avoid doing the same stupid shit again.
I work in a Windows centric industry and devcontainers were a complete game changer for our productivity. One click and you have a newcomer's development environment ready, locally. Gone are days I had to teach folks how to install PostGIS, or help them because their version of libfoo was wrong.

When we started, in 2020, there were many rough edges both in the extension and WSL2, but the experience got remarkably better over time.
The same could be said for nearly every sales call that I’ve been on the receiving end of.

It doesn’t make it “right”, but (nearly?) everyone who is involved in these conversations on both the buyer and seller sides of it knows that at best it’s aspirational capabilities that are being pitched and purchased. Usually it’s pretty far from that.
ChatGPT may not be profitable (highly doubt that) but their inference API certainly is; they literally price it so they are profitable, and many companies are using it.

It’s a dubious claim that they will go bankrupt.