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Until recently, Qualcomm provided BSPs (binary support packages) including the kernel for Google phones. For whatever reason -- possibly that their one and only corporate purpose is to sell as many chips as possible -- Qualcomm only briefly updated their packages for chips they no longer sold.

Google updates as much of the Android ecosystem as it can. First-party Play Store apps, system webview... if you look at the normally hidden system apps on your phone you'll see that the Android team has "unbundled" many parts of the formerly monolithic system to allow updates to as much of it as possible even if the kernel is marooned at an older version.

Unfortunately, some bugs are in the kernel or drivers, so there's nothing any Android OEM (including Google) can do if their chipset vendor won't do the (admittedly non-revenue-generating) engineering to update that firmware. And eventually the system itself requires newer kernel features, so there's a limit to how far back Google or other OEMs can reasonably backport a newer version of Android.

This is part of why Google's recent phones are based on Google-designed, non-Qualcomm chipsets. It was a truly Herculean effort to scrub the Pixel line of Qualcomm, and especially of Qualcomm's incentives to abandon still-good phone hardware in order to sell more chipsets.

Your PC's OS distribution is nearly totally open-source, and the economic incentives for the Linux ecosystem are completely different from Qualcomm's. That contributes to any given general-purpose computer's longevity if it runs Linux.
Yes. Coding will be alive and well. Have a little bit of faith in the theory behind the Rice’s theorem. :)

https://busy-beavers.tigyog.app/rice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem
I asked Bard to summarize this by pasting the URL.

It made something up!! (it said the author talked about a poem about cat and mice as an example of confabulation)

Then I asked "are u confabulating? because i do not see that quote in the original article"

You are correct. I confabulated that information. I apologize for the mistake.I am still under development, and I am always learning. I will try my best to avoid making similar mistakes in the future.Thank you for pointing out my error. It helps me to improve.
I'm more on the level of wondering why people want a mini smartphone on their wrist. Isn't one in your pocket enough?

I do like having a heart-rate tracker, but having had a couple of fitbits the novelty eventually wears off and the reality that knowing the numbers isn't important sets in.
Definitely. It's possible that programming will reach its peak as a percentage of the population that's employed within 5 years as AI tools make people more productive, but I don't see things changing to "AI, write me an app that does this" and the AI getting it to build, run, and deploy perfectly in anything under 20 years. Programmers will be required until it can do that, because any tiny issue can cause the program to fail and the AI would need to find requirements from whoever is prompting it, which is the hard part.
This won’t help at all. Literally zero videos or photos you see have come directly bit for bit from a sensor.

Adobe Premiere, After Effects, and Photoshop would like a word.
The ai for day of charge is important so that in a few years it will no longer last a day and you’ll be motivated to buy a new device. That and the blatant software obsolescence
GrapheneOS has been the target of ongoing personal attacks against the former lead dev. None of the claims are true. GOS devs have been swatted and harassed on multiple occasions.

I suggest you examine the baseless claims against the (former) lead dev more closely - they are fabrication.

(He has been harassed so much, with death threats and the like, that he has recently stepped down as lead dev).
Yes. They are uncertain, though I would contend that the vast majority of times that "negative externalities" come up in political argumentation that there's a certain disingenuousness about the reasoning: usually what counts as "negative" is presumed in such cases even though what is really counted as a negative or not is itself ambiguous. Ultimately the complexity of the subjects discussed most frequently leave so many variables on the table that such discussions seem, at least to me, silly and only serve the speaker's desire to rationalize their position. I do find that the discussion of "negative externalities" is really always from the progressive point of view: the phrase sounds intellectual and progressives tend to like that more than conservatives... modern conservatives have long ago abandoned the Buckley-esque pretentions of erudition and embrace simple in-your-face ignorance as more palatable.

This might not be clear... but I very much liked your response. I skimmed the report that you linked. I think they may have missed something in their analysis. I might be reading it wrong, but I think they've underplayed the transport of physical cash. They do mention it, but I didn't see it really discussed very thoroughly and daily transport of cash in the normal course of business is where I would think the greatest efficiency variances would be found. I kinda got the sense the transport they were talking about was between the mint and the banks and the banks and the mint: essentially the cost of transport to the government itself and not more broadly across the economy. That's not unreasonable for the report if they were trying to figure out the difference from their own perspective rather than the broader economy. However, there's significant transport for businesses that trade with cash. The first ~15 years of my career was spent in the corporate management of a few retail chains and providing professional services to others. Cash management was resource intensive relative to electronic payment processing. In one chain I worked in, armored trucks would do cash pickups from each of our stores daily (and sometimes more) and in many locations we had to have extra security staff to escort cash off the retail floor and watch the cash office (which means more people to transport, etc), not to mention other specialized equipment for dealing with cash (counters, etc). All of the chains I was involved in had some variance of this... at least the trucks showing up.
Thats why I love the minimap in VS code, it is basically an enlarged scrollbar!
I couldn't relate to any one of those fully. Boy is there a difference in culture!
For us friends are not for helping when needed, networking, getting jobs for us or what not. In most cases of 'friends', its a non-transactional relationship. You just like talking to them, spending time with them. Yes, there are other 'acquaintances' for other things.
Not sure if we need to make it so complicated.
Aren't the speed constraints on SD cards due to the controllerless single flash chip design rather than the connector format? Unless you also shoved an ssd controller on the SD Express card I can't see it being much of an improvement.
Firecracker is a fine technology, but serverless companies have started taking advantage Wasm's faster start-up and invocation times for use cases of running Wasm on the server (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqgCxhPAao0). The deny by default security policy makes Wasm a popular choice to run code in isolation, particularly for maximizing hardware resources in the multi-tenant environments these serverless companies operate.

> Is there a good reason to do this?

One use case to run JS inside a Wasm VM is Shopify Functions. Shopify allows their customers to customize things like checkout flow by writing code compiled to Wasm which gets executed during the checkout process. They want their customers to be able to write JS as well as other languages. https://github.com/Shopify/function-runner

> I thought WASM typically used the V8 JavaScript interpreter as its sandbox and to execute code.

V8 is popular for running Wasm on the web and for some serverless companies, but there are a bunch of serverless, blockchain, and iot projects that use other Wasm runtimes (Wasmtime, WAMR, WasmEdge, and Wasmer to name a few) - https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-runtimes
This is interesting because it does not mention Vector database powered by Apache Cassandra or the hosted serverless version DataStax Astra. Here is write up we did on 5 hard problems in Vector database and how we solved them. https://thenewstack.io/5-hard-problems-in-vector-search-and-...

In full transparency: I work for DataStatx and lead engineering for Vector database.
Sure. They just have a friendship where at least one of them takes the other for granted.
Worth noting they are offering a promo, at least in some markets, that you get the pixel watch 2 for free if you preorder the pixel 8 pro, or $200 off if you preorder the pixel 8.
This is a pretty rosy interpretation of how the science sausage is made.

1. The scientific method might be reproducible by design, but there can be (and often is) a very large gap between "Science" and what gets published as a paper.

2. Peer review is a grab bag. Sometimes it's obvious the reviewers barely read or understood what was written. Other times they provide feedback that is asinine. Or simply they provide commends and you tell the editor you're ignoring those comments and the paper still gets published.

3. Only a fraction of reviewers (depending on field) will check that the paper includes enough information to be reproduced. This is easy to verify, just go ask different academics how many papers they read that don't include enough information to reproduce. And only a fraction of a fraction make any attempt at reproducing the paper to any degree before signing off on it. (and if they say that they couldn't reproduce it, then see the end of point 2 above)

> If the majority of author papers align that means either there is a conspiracy or some fraction of things was reproducibile.

This is a false dichotomy. It misses some very real dynamics, none of which are conspiratorial.

1. It's hard to publish negative results, especially if the paper written by someone influential in the field. Which means that there's a great disincentive to even try.

2. Competing theories are difficult to study not just because of peer review issues but also because of financial and repetitional issues. Getting funding is significantly harder if your work doesn't use the methods that the funding agencies expect. Same idea with reputation, hard to get your career started if you want to work on theories that go against the prevailing theory or if you have work that contradicts it.

This is the whole idea behind the concept of paradigm shifts.
LLMs do not confabulate or hallucinate. They predict the next word in a sequence based on correlations derived from a lot of training data. Sometimes that data happens to be structured enough to statistically generate a word that is fluent and corresponds to what we as readers understand as reality. Sometimes, due to the unclear nature of "truth" and the necessarily incomplete data used to train the model, the word or words that are statistically generated are merely fluent but do not correspond to reality.

The answer to "What are LLMs but humans with extreme amnesia and no central coherence?" is that they are not like humans at all, and only resemble them superficially due to our anthropomorphic tendency to infer a mind upon seeing fluent and roughly correspondent text.
Amazon Shuts Down Amp, Its Live-Audio Streaming App
I'm not keen on Apple's products. Getting their watch to go with my Pixel phone seems kinda ... no.

So, this product is for the part of the world that doesn't use iPhones, I suppose.

I'm kinda keen. Awaiting a MKBHD video, as per.

.edit: Guessing that feature's locked because it's part of FitBit, which was purchased by Google but probably still functions a bit separately.
I have a Forerunner 265, which I think was refreshed earlier this year to have the new AMOLED display. It looks nice, but it doesn’t last more than about 3 days in always-on mode.

I don’t understand how the Amazfit watches get 2+ weeks, with such nice-looking screens. I would have gotten one but don’t feel comfortable due to data/privacy issues, and the menus were clearly not written English-first. But the battery life was amazing!
Inverse square law dude. We're talking about nanowatts, at most, here.
It’s open question who stoled from whom with leasing companies refusing payments and all Russian assets frozen in EU/US.
We're talking "little" as in "need a powerful microscope to see it", not "small".
> If society had wanted straight talking, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

USA is by far the worst climate change offender, and USA uses way more alarmist messaging than any other country I've seen. So to me it looks like alarmist messaging makes it worse, not better.

Facts and honesty does help, big tobacco lost, tons of countries all over the world have already added plans to ban fossil fuel cars in about a decade etc. The caveat is that it takes decades for that change to happen, and US "scientists" seems to always want to sway the current election in their favor, so they happily sacrifice trust and long term get those small short term wins.
Long live IMDF!
Ever driven a car through a field? What looks smooth is often anything but, and airliners are simply not designed to take off from unprepared surfaces.

Flattening frozen ground seems significantly more difficult than just laying down panels.
I always took exception to the word “hallucination” with respect to LLMs anyway - they aren’t databases of facts, they’re language models, trained to be really, really good mimics of human communication.

As such, while they are trained on an existing corpus that no doubt contains many facts and many falsehoods, their task is to produce more material that looks like this corpus, not be a source of truth.

So an LLM “hallucinating” or confabulating is not some aberrant behaviour, it’s fundamental to the nature of the beast.

It always worries me when people say they’re using an LLM as a search engine or source of knowledge.
The difference makes sense because if a car fails, it just stops and you tow it to get fixed. But if a plane fails, it falls out of the sky, killing everyone on board.
I haven't been able to verify, but I was once told at an optometrist or dentist office that they were prohibited from having a different rate for private pay than insurance. Not sure if it was a contractual obligation with insurance companies, a law on the books, or a misunderstanding by the employee.
Hasn't djb always been rather difficult and ranty? That's certainly always been my impression of him.
Its easier to justify cost of custom chips after you have a successful high volume product that uses something similar, but its a big gamble before that
> You wouldn't notice it, the difference in weight between aluminum and titanium phone shell is negligible compared to the weight of the glass, battery, and PCBs combined.

The previous iPhone Pro's have a stainless steel shell, not aluminum, and the ~30 gram difference is noticeable.

Of course, they caused this problem themselves by using stainless steel rather than aluminum like the regular iPhones, but they are nonetheless solving a problem with the titanium frame.
The consequence of their upgrade was a slow down. But they didn’t slow it down just because they could. It was to prevent a phone with an old shitty battery to shut down in the middle of a task when there was still battery left. Better a slow down than just no phone at all.

And yes they didn’t communicate it, that’s why they got sued. But this problem was real.
awesome! Thanks for the feedback. I would love to give it a try. If you have any suggestions about future experiments please do let me know. I was also thinking to redo the TCP attack but this time from a third computer on the network. For that I have to make some changes to network adapter (seems like promiscuous mode does it) I guess. another one I would like to try is SYN flooding attack.
Shareware-style nagging? You get the pop-up when you boot the phone... then you can just dismiss it. What are you talking about? The notification in the Settings forever seems fully appropriate, since that is something I would want to know if I was buying a phone from someone.
Google has been successfully using their custom silicon. Apple as well. Meta's bet probably wasn't so misguided as to warrant this shallow criticism.
i would suggest getting a job (any job) so u can live to fight another day

remote job would give you the most lifestyle freedom.

at least temporarily, turn your old self into a character that u perform 8 hrs a day. thats what we all have to do, really

then figure out the rest when you can
RAG in this case is essentially the same as a recommender system so you can approach it with the same metrics you would there.

You'll need to build a data set with known correct answers but then it's basically, NDCG (Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain) is a good place to start, MRR (Mean Reciprocal Rank) and MAP (Mean Absolute Precision) are other options. You could also just look at the accuracy of getting your result in the top K results for various thresholds for k (which can be interpreted as the "probability of getting your result in 'k' results).
I’m pretty good about going to bed every night and manage to get through the ritual of putting on pajamas at the same time as I put my watch on its charger.

It’s never been an issue.
Rents in Berkeley have come down more than 10% since 2019.
I've been getting 1-2% raises for a couple years now. Granted I think I was a little overpaid for a while. RSU cliff just hit though so next year I'll be going from ~$250k of equity to maybe $80k. Base is $250k. Since I'm in such a high tax bracket I don't expect to feel it too much. I might use it as an excuse to switch companies but I'm not sure yet.
The device’s utility is what gives it value. I appreciate that repairability is a desirable aspect, but it’s not the tipping point for most people. Repairabilty is a “what if” feature.
Synchronized action doesn't necessarily imply collusion. Companies reduce headcount all the time when economic conditions get worse. There's no need to invoke conspiracy when straightforward logic (ie. money gets expensive -> future profits gets valued less -> shareholders/board demand immediate profits rather than future growth -> executives oblige) explains the behavior just fine.
The point is that this is a societal issue. One person paying doing some charity on their own doesn't solve the societal issue.

As analogy: "It sucks that my peers earn less than me because they are part of <X disenfranchised group>"; You: "Why don't you just take your extra income and give it to them?"
Given that dataset anomalies can result in LLM output corruption, I'm not convinced that cross-training like that would even work.
The "highest order" in this case meaning of virtue. So three kinds of "friendship" (philia): of pleasure, of utility, of virtue (moral goodness). When we think of "real friendship" we're thinking of the third kind.
Can you find companies that are doing pro-lgbt+ advocacy work and need SWEs? Or non-profits that need SWEs? Some non-profits pay well, but it might not be up to your previous level. Rights groups and non-profits may be best bets right now.
This likely has a tangent to quantization research from Dettmers et al that corresponds to outlier weight values in models >6B params. Might allude to why the outliers emerge.
I like "Unbounded".
They did not prompt at all. They used GitHub’s code search to find projects where the repo owner specified that the code was generated “by Copilot” and the authors took that at face value for all code in the project. Whether the code was actually suggested by Copilot is not at all analyzed in the paper. As such, the results are highly questionable.
Yes, that doesn’t mean the corporate media doesn’t have a huge amount of influence due to their consolidation. Technical ability to communicate is not the only factor in power of reach. I’m not sure how else to explain it.
>And though my account is "anonymous", if you ever show up to my lectures, not as a student but just sitting in (I don't take attendance, idk if you walk off the street and want to sit in), you too are welcome to participate.

Good on you for allowing auditing. I had only one teacher in college who allowed people to audit my classes and he even fought the administration to give me credit for the class after I sheepishly approached him and asked if he would mind letting me taking the exam to make sure I understood the material. One of the most insightful classes I took my entire time in college
Yea, I'm finding this market to be significantly more competitive that I thought it would be. Which not impossible I will do virtually anything for this. It's just tough managing depression, and the existential dread that this might not happen.
Any use at NVidia for that tech?
If the biggest problem is process, Altera should be shopping around for a company with an in on manufacturing at TSMC.
(I doubt AMD's an option, since they already subsumed Xilinx.)
I think it goes down to what you'd be willing to sacrifice for them. There are a few people in this life I know I'd jump in front of a bus for. I don't actually need to know that they'd do the same for me, but I know it anyway. Trust is what you give, not what you get. What I'm willing to give when I don't want to give it. That's the meter, for me, of a friendship.
Individual landlords don't have market power. They'll lower the price when their alternative is that the unit stays empty indefinitely. That means when the supply goes up or the demand goes down.

People moving out of the city could reduce demand, if a significant number of people actually do. But this is not a sharp drop and the growth rate is already back to being non-negative:

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/23130/san-francisco/popul...

Lower salaries could reduce demand in a different way.

The better way is, of course, to increase supply.
Well, you can mitigate some of the negative effects of notifications by reducing them everywhere - on your phone, on your PC, on your watch. But a watch is a new way for them to reach you. It goes in the opposite direction to reduction.

I'm probably showing my age here, but there was a time that's hard to remember now when there were no notifications, no devices constantly vying for our attention. You would know what you deemed important when you wanted to know it. No notification angst to reduce, no distractions to fight, no productivity to claw back, no sleep disruption to schedule DND around, no cognitive overload of all the systems on your machine, let alone a computer we carry around all the time, trying to tell you their state. That was for engineers operating complex systems, for 8 hours a day - very rarely more.

Perhaps we are accepting things like "you can snooze notifications now" because we've adjusted to the new, quite crappy, normal. Imagine an advert for a car that says "you can turn off sudden unintended accelerations on your preferred hours" in a market where cars would never SUA. That's the normal we had for notifications - none of the stress or anxiety.
I believe there’s a vote threshold where HN blocks resubmission.
> they are not like humans at all, and only resemble them superficially due to our anthropomorphic tendency to infer a mind upon seeing fluent and roughly correspondent text.

Alternatively, we overestimate human abilities, and imbue our thoughts with deep meaning and significance, simply as a way to feel more important than we actually are. Ultimately, we may rely on statistical prediction quite a bit as well.

Obviously, LLMs aren't at the level of human cognition, but the impressive results they do produce, given their obvious simplicity, hints that intelligence may not be as hard to reproduce in silicon as we have previously assumed.
Another good question would be "how is generative AI using consumers?"
This is a really good suggestion, and I haven't thought of this. I do worry though about the rest of my career, but you're right about this.
"More flexible f-string parsing"

sweet
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