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Whenever I see talk about Intel's FPGA unit, I link back to an invention I submitted to Intel while I was an intern there [0]. I went through the patent pipeline, but to my knowledge they never did anything with it. This was during the excitement of Intel's original acquisition of Altera.

In fairness, I never mocked up a true enough implementation in Verilog to get an idea of real world speedup, and even now, I'm not sure exactly what operations you could see real gain with from small reconfigurable fabrics near the CPU. Still, I liked the elegance of having L1-L3+ FPGA's for speeding up operations of increasing levels of complexity, and I figured programmers smarter than me would find creative ways of using the FPGA's with the added instructions.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US10310868B2/
TOSTING: Investigating Total Store Ordering on Arm [pdf]
Yeah, but the main difference I see is that the new tech being added now had almost nothing to do with driving or improving safety. DFI, ABS, etc great. Infotainment, touchscreen vs buttons, heated seats, autopilot, App to control my car, etc is just garbage I don't need or want, and certainly don't want to pay for.
Fly by wire - controlled by software. God help us all.
> If I do something very shady, they can sue me in the jurisdiction of the contract (I'm happy if it happens to be their country).

If you only look at this from the perspective of a good actor who does the right thing and flies to foreign countries to get sued, it's never going to make sense. The thing about bad actors is that they don't play by the rules if they can get away with it. If you're forced to sue someone or press criminal charges, they've likely done something very bad and will just avoid traveling to that country.

That is the problem. There is no practical recourse, even if it's theoretically possible to start proceedings against the person.
They have to have some accommodation for blatant and willful violation of the spirit of the law and taking advantage of the law and violating other people's property rights for an excessive amount of time.
Can you disable the blocking on each device as and when needed (for a little while) and enable it back again (on iOS)? That would be a killer feature for running a DNS server and pi-hole at home.
Here is a fun fact that you don't realize.

Say you can do the project in 2 ways.

First way is to use a strongly typed language, think about the data, and design your code in the appropriate way. You code it up, go through the loop of compiling and fixing errors, and get your code to run.

The second way is to write your code in Python, without worrying about strong types. You complete the code quite a bit faster, but since you also want your code to be correct, you spend time writing an end to end test suit for your code.

The second approach is not only faster (since you are writing tests in both cases), its overall better. Spending time writing tests allows you to essentially validate things that modern mainstream strongly typed languages can't catch at compile time (for example, what happens when the input is unicode strings?). It also forces you to think about end to end behavior and making sure that is correct, rather than just the behavior within your code.

Strong typing is a simply hand-holding tool for programmers. If you cannot write correct code without it, you are on a fast track to being replaced by AI eventually. The future of programming is not going to be designing data structures and types, its going to be using English to generate large chunks of code in most likely Python, and then tweak fine details in those.
I agree, if I can't see it, it's not happening.
Colima on mac is struggling with ipv6.
Not sure what component is responsible, but I have been unable to connect ipv6 hosts from colima containers.
The entire idea of "spit out knowledge in 1 hour without references" is such a terrible test of one's capability in the real world that it should not be done at all.
GPT-4 should do significantly better, but still worse than expert humans, on the tasks you mentioned. They would also benefit from good prompting, such as those in

- https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-03-15-prompt-enginee...

- https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6654000-best-practices-f...

Not a large percentage of humans would be able to do the tasks listed above without significant experience or training either. Average humans are also not great at reasoning.
Looks like Figma is selling via a backdoor.
I keep hearing comments like that, even from people otherwise in Biden's side. I try to avoid the news; what I hear is only the stuff that creeps over my barriers (and is hopefully in some sense "important").

Biden seems to be dull but moderately effective. He's had no great legislative triumphs, but that's no surprise. The few things he's tried to do dramatically, like student loan forgiveness, have been slapped down by the Supreme Court -- again, no surprise. His son appears to be a real jackass, but only after you factor out vast amounts of outright lies.

He's successfully supported the war in Ukraine, kept inflation and gas prices from getting all that much worse, oversaw the pandemic and transition out of it. Not thrilling, but competent. And yet his approval levels are worse than those of a guy who is literally under indictment for, among other things, mishandling vast amounts of classified material.

Is there something I'm missing? Or do people just want something that the President can't, and shouldn't, do?
The Toronto CS group(CS Cabal) has started using Guild: https://guild.host/. It's free.
My interpretation isn’t the worst possible interpretation, it’s the realistic interpretation based on how permitting discretionary application of the law actually works in practice. Your view is fine in theory but fails (and not just fails theoretically - it has failed and continues to fail actually) in practice. Advocating for your theoretical ideal when we know it fails in practice is… well, just not useful.
I think you are right. Though I think that one can have all the benefits of the “community-developed stdlib” with the namespaces approach as well — e.g. Java’s new Date/Time API actually comes from a third-party package called jodatime, it was just so good that it found itself implemented in the standard library of java, and then later on plenty other languages as well.
Apple Releases iPhone Software Update to Fix Overheating Issue
Yeah... What of it?
> In May, I sold 850 tickets for just under $121,000 in sales, which equaled about $32,000 in profit

So net
I think the author conflated things or interviewed poor project managers, or something something bad journalism/wired/etc

The Gantt chart is from Gantt’s method that I think were pretty much all waterfall projects as he practiced 100 years ago making factories or whatever.

But the chart is used everywhere and is super common in agile tools just to sequence stuff and demonstrate your start to start and start to finish, etc dependencies. It’s a common test to see if things targeted will fit in a sprint.

It’s funny when an article’s author doesn’t even read the Wikipedia article on things which makes you wonder what his method is for writing these. Is he randomly inserting terms?
I really don't understand the logic here. If the space is not permitted for occupancy, how can she be a tenant (legally speaking)?
Thank you, this gives me some idea
> share confidential information

Valid point.

> double-sell their software that you wrote

Some are indeed producing some innovative code, and might warrant limiting their pool of candidates to their jurisdiction only, but I don't think this is an issue for 95% of engineering jobs out there.

> which requires your local jurisdiction to play ball

Yeah, this can be a problem if my local jurisdiction is, say, Russia or Iran. Normally this shouldn't be an issue though?
???

The commenter was kind enough to point out that I just copy and pasted the title from the source I found and didn't bother to search for the original title.

I gave them a compliment and said thanks. Not sure what more you want from me here?

And not sure where I appealed to seniority in my reply.

Sorry if i offended you somehow here.
There was a COVID-related eviction moratorium in LA that recently expired. (see https://cityattorney.lacity.gov/tenant-protections)

But in this guy's case, because he was renting out an unregistered AirBnB, and for a term of greater than 30 days, it was treated as a normal tenancy rather than as a short-term stay, and thus normal landlord-tenant laws apply.

Generally, one of the main rules of rental law is that tenants cannot be evicted for nonpayment of rent if there are habitability and compliance issues with the unit, which it appears there may be. (EDIT: also, it appears the unit itself was never permitted for occupancy, so he shouldn't even have been renting it out on AirBnB. This is probably why he didn't register it as a short-term rental.)

Basically, she's the tenant from hell...but he's also made a number of serious mistakes which let her take advantage of him in the first place.
It's not the first time this has been a problem to accurately specify either. Throughout history animals proved nigh impossible to classify in these terms and were considered so many things, from something that's intertwined with nature as a hive mind of sorts, to complete automatons by Descartes, and later to beings that are mostly completely identical to us by Darwin.

I suppose it's also an interesting juxtaposition, animals can do everything but talk, while LLMs can do nothing but talk.
This is the same reasoning that Ilya Sutskever uses. That next token prediction objective causes the model to learn world models. Because being able to predict the next token requires a lot of the knowledge/model of the world.
It’s not about efficiency. It’s about interoperability. There are a gazillion minor variants of Base64. Being explicit about which one you’re using is entirely sensible.
Would you say that this in itself is due to how incomplete human reasoning is in the first place? That as a result, our ideas of logic and what perfect logic looks like are bound to fail? Or are you saying that the purest mathematical representation of logic cannot scale to a point where they can model and predict real world relationships successfully?
That's all fine but the fact of the matter is that a lot of web3 content is built on IPFS and not on all those other technologies (partially because IPFS is truly permissionless), so the "just use another tech" argument is quite moot/academic
Turbopuffer looks like something I would consider. And the pricing looks to be lowest on the list from what I can see
Easy enough to encrypt with your password so the backend has the info but can't 'see' it.

Google already does this optionally for Chrome synced data.
> If the CIA was competent enough to create mass protests to oust leaders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27état?

(fails the "and not leave significant evidence of their involvement" part of your test, however)
Guidelines for Show HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html are pretty clear that most of what is suggested in the tweet thread is out of bounds
I've done remote hiring for a long time. Starting with COVID, the number of applications for remote jobs exploded. I'm not exaggerating when I say 1000s of applications within days.

Like it or not, employers have the upper hand with remote hiring right now.

It's not impossible to find good remote jobs, but you have to look deeper than the public job listings most of the time.
The market is currently on the side of tech employers and those who want things to go back to the way they were are taking advantage of the situation. The pendulum pretty much always swings back and when things are in the favor of employees again, the companies that are now busy fostering bad will are going to have a much more difficult time attracting talent than those who are structuring their work environment for the new reality.
That is one of the major reasons the game industry wants to push consumers to all-digital.

Another reason is that costs are far lower with digital distribution as is time to market.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex–and Maybe You Should Too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33672924 - Nov 2022 (83 comments)

Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex—And Maybe You Should Too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33573636 - Nov 2022 (32 comments)

Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex–and Maybe You Should Too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33551288 - Nov 2022 (2 comments)

Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33549059 - Nov 2022 (148 comments)

Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex – and Maybe You Should Too (Sep 2022) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33543718 - Nov 2022 (3 comments)

Sequoia: Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex–and Maybe You Should Too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33527047 - Nov 2022 (8 comments)
That's one possibility! But Amazon also hides the buy box when the only offers are not what Amazon considers "competitive" because it hurts their brand if consumers see shitty deals.

In this example, the pens with the buy box are 50% cheaper and have much faster shipping.
It sounds to me that the owner must be badly represented.

The reason he can't evict appears to be that the accomodation isn't considered suitable to let, because it has an "illegal shower". As a consequence he is denied access to remedy other causes of problems with the property (damp penetration).

I'm not American, and definitely not from CA; and I'm certainly not any kind of lawyer. It seems to me that the Department of Building and Safety must be guilty of gross maladministration, and the landlord should be able to sue for compensation and punitive damages. It seems obvious.

Meanwhile, I detest AirBnB. My neighbour is a non-resident AirBnB host.
> If he had a standard year long lease with this tenant, I would be much more upset for him not getting paid or the tenant evicted!

He did have a long term lease with her. From the ladies lawyer:

> “This is not a short-term Airbnb — it was a long term rental, they had a separate long term rental agreement and there’s documentation to prove it. In fact, the City of Los Angeles has sent multiple letters to Jovanovic outlining to him why his conduct is illegal and must cease.”

That's the whole premise of this legal loophole. He didn't have the permits to rent long term, yet did so because airbnb makes it easy and he didn't know the law.

Then he was nice and let her stay longer, which gave airbnb an out for liability.

Then she realized she had an ace up her sleeve and is milking the system to get a payout.

The net result is that this lady wins, but society loses because people will read this, and start question if it's actually worth taking advantage of SB9 and building that ADU for long-term leases, if something like this can happen if you make a single mistake with the law or rental ordinances.

This type of thing just hurts housing availability, and drives consolidation to corporate landlords.
What do you mean? My Android phone does IPv6?
Not true. There are plenty of people, like my mother, who are perfectly happy using a 5 or 6 year old phone. Does it still make calls, send texts and allow them to access some assortment of apps? Good enough. Is the battery shot? Totally, she's got it plugged into the wall, a battery or the car at least 50% of the day now. Doesn't care, it's good enough.

My mother has zero desire to upgrade. I told her in another year her phone may no longer be supported by the latest iOS, in which case she was getting a forced upgrade (by me). Because everyone's phone has becomes the center of their lives and security of that device is of the utmost importance.
The emergency brake is probably electronic and it wouldn't shock me if it was locked out if the car was in motion or defeated by some other similarly idiotic assumption.
I hope I'm able to be buried in my 20+ year old cars at this point.
> You don't believe me? That's an extremely weird reaction

Really? Let me spell it out for you. You wrote:

> The 100 or so developers all left the talk in silence, mourning the loss of the hero we had imagined him to be.

That is completely not credible on its face. It was a public event. I've been to RMS speeches, seen recordings, and I estimate there was a ~0% likelihood that all the people who attended that event considered RMS a hero before the event and lost that impression through it.
The small downside to using kwargs is just the extra letters needed to call the function but I can live with that.

As for args with the same type, you can use phantom types I guess but I haven't explored it much in python. I'm pretty interested in the dfdx library in rust which can type enforce matrix or vector operations on it's shape. Stuff like that would really help me
Yikes - apart from this being a dupe, please don't editorialize titles like that! This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
> Isn't it a requirement for cars to have emergency brakes for situations when the normal method of braking fails?

No. Cars usually have parking brakes, which can be more or less useful as emergency brakes, but that is not their primary function and they are not designed or usually very useful for that purpose for a vehicle stuck with more than minimal power being applied.
You should check out the P language and consider the implications of CRDTs on the `machine` constructs :)
> I'd love a return to the old snap-fit plastic cases.

I wish OEMs would do this as well. Polycarb is strong. Safety glasses are made out of it for a reason. Sure, it scratches, but so does glass.
Yeah, I think in this case the employee / contractor is in the weaker position. Personally, I don't mind, as long as I can get more jobs that way.
If you sell 100 soaps for a loss of $1 each, you lose $100. If Amazon competes by selling 10,000 soaps for a loss of $1 each, Amazon loses $10,000.

This is a losing proposition for Amazon.

Spread that over its product line, and it is not sustainable.
Exactly, I'm just having a meandering dialogue, not trying to have a debate. I don't mean to bother you.

The root of what I'm getting at is just modern America has a diffuse and immature national culture. There's nothing like 1,000 years of dynasties, the legacy of Greece or Rome and their Gods, etc. The culture folk have is usually from a subculture or region, and even those may be ephemeral/inconsistent due to how often we move around cities for employment.

On top of that, as someone else mentioned, much of our culture gets immediately re-exported and blends into a worldwide "default" kind of state. Japanese baseball and whiskey and jeans. They no longer invoke a feeling of "being American". The parts that don't get exported are often things we don't want to actively associate with.

Combine all that with the lack of time a national identity has even had to foment. Compared to, say, the French, who will make signs like "Je suis circonflexe".

So many Americans are (in my opinion and experience) extra susceptible to seeing nations with a legacy and living traditions and national identity and feeling we are missing out.

Would love to hear your opinions!
I also hate autocomplete. It just gets in my way. Autocomplete doesn't really work unless you already know what you're going to code, and if you already know what you're going to write the autocomplete prompt just gets in the way and often messes with keyboard entry of what I was typing. I just switch it off, it never saved me any time and just gets kind of annoying.
Except for Baltic Birch plywood, its still 3x what I was paying a couple years ago. (It used to be around $65 for a ¾" 4x8, now its $180)
The FTC is going to lose this case like they have lost others.

They are suing someone with the power of a government. Whether it is "right" or not, the legal case needs to be incredibly strong and airtight to make it through court, and a loss looks really bad. It signals that other companies can be even more anticompetitive because they know the FTC will lose against the biggest fish in court.
> Would another country do better (ethically, morally etc.?

This seems like a rhetorical question (answered with "yes"), or are you implying that it is a strange coincidence that the nation responsible for the largest ethnic cleansing in the last 500 years (that of North America, which inspired Adolf Hitler), and the only one to deploy nuclear bombs on civilians, would also happen to have an unaccountable intelligence agency that inspires comic book villains?
3/5 days is hybrid. Mostly remote is twice a year in an office.
How is Apple to blame for non-replaceable batteries?

It's just the easiest way to construct a "modern" phone. Stick the battery in with a 3M Command Strip style sticker and it won't move, construct phone around it.

Having to add toolless latches while keeping some kind of IP rating AND not looking like a rugged phone is a whole different thing.
The fact that strong static types makes the code self-documenting is the reason I vastly prefer it.

It makes me so much more productive, by orders of magnitude. And I say this as someone who has worked extensively in several different languages which covers large parts of this spectrum, like C, C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, TCL and others.

It makes it much easier for me to reason about code I have not recently worked on, be it in the current project or in dependencies. It also means I can be way more focused on the problem at hand, since I'm not constantly having to go on tangent goose chases to figure out what exactly I can do with this object that some function returns.

Sure there's the good, fuzzy feeling when the compile doesn't error out. But that's secondary.
No, this paper doesn't change that claim at all.

This paper is about learnability and not generalization of what is learned.

From the papers summary, note that they are referencing learning and not some implications that it gets us closer to a universal quantifier.

"We have provided evidence that LLMs learn linear representations of space and time that are unified
across entity types and fairly robust to prompting, and that there exists individual neurons that are
highly sensitive to these features. The corollary is that next token prediction alone is sufficient for
learning a literal map of the world give sufficient model and data size."
Complicated why?
Ideally you only verify at time of purchase and do not care afterwards until next purchase. Bare minimum to hold to laws
Your delivery is beyond deadpan to a kind of exhumed-pan I find impressive. Superior snark sir.
Yeah it’s remarkable how downvoted my comment is. People keep talking about “when will be get AGI?” But the transformer LLM architecture is:

Artificial: man-made

General: able to solve arbitrary problems from any problem domain it was not specifically trained on

Intelligent: capable of producing efficient, sometimes best of class solutions by applying prior or transferred knowledge

A.G.I.

If this doesn’t meet your definition of general AI, then I ask you: what does? I’d like to know where we’ve moved the goalposts to, just so I can keep up please.
The Kansas police chief who led the raid on a small newspaper has resigned
I've seen some postings in recent months say salary ranges are available by request of residents of the state where they're legally required to be given. I'm really curious if this fulfills the requirements of the laws in those states or not.
Me too! Couldn't find a lot of information on it yet, but I might have to try it myself to get some benchmarks