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> peak interest in LLMs is already over

Where are you seeing this? It feels like it's just beginning. Also really not sure that the software development and writing applications have not materialized, I know multiple people who actively use it for both.
It is annoying that American enterprisers have to capture two continents now, but I never saw anything unique about the EU structure that would make it less susceptible aside from being new, and only a matter of time
One time I processed a lot of hot peppers and was foolish enough to do it bare handed. I can't taste things with my hand but it was burning and hurting to the point where I couldn't sleep that night from the pain. I don't think a mouth with duller senses and a lot of taste from covid would increase the enjoyment of a pepper.
I went in TVTropes looking for the definition of "crapsack world" a few years ago and I haven't been able to get out yet.
tmux, screen, emacs, and vim all have terminal emulators in them because it’s required, not because they’re crazy.

Consider a really simple case. You are using screen (or tmux, or emacs, or whatever) and you have your terminal divided in half so that you can use a program in one half and tail a log file in the other. The program sends a ^L to clear the screen. Screen (or tmux or whatever) must read the ^L and then _not_ send it on. If it sent it on, the whole screen would be cleared, not just the half with the program in it. Instead it has to send whatever control sequences would erase the text from just the right portion of the screen while leaving everything else alone. Virtually everything sent by the program(s) has to be intercepted and reinterpreted in order for it to work right.
Very small consulting firm here, with a niche. Another average year for us. That is, no real growth or decline. I prefer this actually, I like to coast and have an easier life and more time to spend with my young kiddo.
I find this headline strange.

It appears that there was a small group of people within the World Bank who were directly involved with this project who were collaborating with the drivers of the project to suppress a World Bank investigation report itself.

There’s clearly something the World Bank needs to do here to avoid stuff like this happening again. But to focus the article in a way that it’s only the World Bank that’s responsible for the bad activities, when literally the only entity trying to investigate, report and do anything about this situation was the world bank.

Everyone else involved didn’t even seem to bother looking into what was happening. And the people involved included deep pocketed folks such as
“Bill Gates and eBay and Intercept founder Pierre Omidyar … The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative”.
>A rhythmically pulsing leaf-spring DNA-origami nanoengine that drives a passive follower

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-023-01516-x
hah - I was with you until the "ten papers a week" part. You say it yourself, there are parts to the paper, and also levels of concentration and re-reads. Drilling is useful for hyperactive monkey minds who are doing something else instead of studying
> It fell not because the owners sought to grow it unreasonably

Twitter was nicely profitable in 2018 and 2019[0], then went on an overzealous hiring/spending spree in 2020 and was in not-great financial shape by the time Musk happened. Maybe the previous owners could have turned it around, but we'll never know.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/274563/annual-net-income...
It's a natural cycle: Someone makes something cool, they get a huge buyout offer and sell it, the new owner destroys it. Rinse lather repeat. What we have is a shortage of people who make cool things, and an overabundance of corporations looking for things to destroy.
Along with JRR Tolkien, Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad and George Orwell.
I absolutely agree. The implications of AI are much more concerning considering how accessible it is to everyone, especially bad actors. At least if a black hole appeared in the middle of the LHC, the collapse of society would be literal and rapid.
What you are describing is exactly transcendence.

People are giving themselves to higher-order causes beyond material comfort. They are organizing around rituals of belonging, gurus, directly seeking meaning, applying rational thinking towards advancing their values, experiencing deep personal emotion around systemic or cosmic injustices, and deriving a sense of elevation among "the dreary day to day".
I thought we were supposed to be talking about Humming Birds, not bike shedding a comment.

I have feeder outside my window. They come and go all day long. Beautiful birds really.
Out of credit
> form artist-driven, bottom-up, non-profit organizations to nurture communities

Unfortunately those sort of things (that are genuinely good) attract the wreckers like a flame attracts a moth.
I must say I am SOMEWHAT happy with USCIS and IRS, which are the two ones I deal with the most, they actually resemble modern systems and not something made in the 90s.
> refrain from painting all of his success as pure luck

It's not that all of it is pure luck -- it's that it was a significant factor. The dotcom bubble was awash with cash and the distribution of same was not exactly merit based. And a fair chunk was being in the right place at the right time and knowing the right people.

Going back to the OP title, perhaps its overly harsh but we can meet in the middle that his success is not a guarantee that he's a savant. The fact that he pushed NFTs tarnishes his reputation in my eyes.
I think the lesson is that we have a system in place which incentives this categorically and there's no escape hatch from it. What systems could be developed which would counter or de-incentivize this from occurring?
I think that journalists (or well, "company-owned content teams") are very quick to overestimate the spirituality and necessity of their work.

They might think that their work is necessary and invaluable, but it doesn't mean that the company or their users will. Like you're saying, I have a hard time caring about Bandcamp losing full-time writers when they weren't the main attraction at all.
Bandcamp is widely reported to have been profitable since 2012, and it was still steadily growing. Contrary to MySpace and Twitter, its core business is actually selling stuff.

In other words, "Even if you make money, they will ruin your business".
There's an incentive for scholarly publishers and authors to have their works cited on Wikipedia, since there is a belief (supported by some research [0]) that citation on Wikipedia increases subsequent scholarly citations to those articles. Such a benefit could be used to increase a Journal Impact Factor & similar metrics [1,2] or the citations to one's own works, which is beneficial to academics competing for promotion, tenure, and research grants which are partially based on citation metrics.[3] I wouldn't be surprised if there was some indiscriminate citation on Wikipedia to bolster the metrics.

[0] https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/11/01/guest-post-wi...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_impact

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6668985/
Anything in there about highly ornamental gargoyles etc, grappling hooks and cat burglaries? ;)
If you could represent the docker state as a file with an updating (incrementing) timestamp, then you might be able to do something.
Ubiquitous <Programming> Language
Classic HN comment though - adds nothing to the discussion outside of "I want to smugly have my thoughts out there". Of course, upvoted to the top.
Long-Term Financial Implications of Current Federal Budget Policies(2022)
I'm not sure I'd agree, at least not directly. Community is transcendence of self, and both Pentacostals and Lutherans concern themselves with questions of divine order. I'm not sure I see a significant difference between the two (for our purposes, at least).
This is a terrible analysis. Many of the basic observations are wrong - photos from other angles contradict them. Most importantly, a car bomb would blow the doors clean off and scatter debris from the vehicles in a radius nearby. There’s none of that.
Higher clock speeds in processors always come with additional self-interference (crosstalk), signal degradation, signal reflection, etc. so such a significantly higher clock speed than typical desktop processors indicates interesting strategies and problem-solving. This article doesn't really talk about why, but performance being irrelevant, a 6GHz clock is notable. It's not implied unless you're not familiar with the problems of higher clock speeds.
As someone whose partner works as a writer in Hollywood — the strike’s AI-demands weren’t “resistance” to AI, as studios and certain circles were reporting.

It was a protection of payment: specifically, ensuring AI itself could not be given writing credit, nor could it be considered “source material”. These are important distinctions because if AI was considered a “writer” (and potentially thus a “showrunner”), then other human writers in the room could be paid as merely “writing assistants” to what is ultimately itself is supposed to be the assistant, like a tail wagging the dog. Furthermore, AI-generated scripts being unable to be classified as “source material” on their own means a studio can’t simply generate a very rough story outline, have writers actually make it a real story, and pay the writers much less because their work is considered an adaption rather than an original work. These are the same rules e.g. a Wikipedia article, or court case transcripts, etc fall under— they can be used as inspiration, but they don’t effect how much a writer gets paid.

Nowhere is AI usage actually prohibited, on both the studio and writer side of the equation.

Essentially, this would be like if Google announced everyone would be taking a 1-level pay cut because AI potentially makes them more efficient. That doesn’t make sense!
> adding hints makes your queries dependent on current performance

I don't understand this, can you explain.

> Assuming you're a good DBA, you can be better than the optimizer because you understand the whole system

That's inaccurate. As a DBA I can understand the system better at higher level, but the database has statistics which gives it typically better understanding of the data distribution at a lower level. Indeed I could get that information and feed it into the query plan via hints, but that's going to be an enormous amount of my time, and I would have to do it every time the query is run whereas the database can keep an eye on the statistics as it varies and rebuild the query over time.

Equally, if an index is added you can expect the database to start using it immediately without adding hints. Etc

I am a fairly(?) skilled DBA who has a reasonable idea of what goes on underneath the hood, I do have some idea what I'm talking about.
Windows 11 Pro's On-by-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up to 45%
… this is just whataboutism.

I can disagree with Republican cronyism and the endless "let some private contractor do it poorly" when the Federal government could just do it directly, and poorly, but with less indirection.

… I can also disagree with blue state's NIMBYism, "I got mine and screw you" attitudes towards housing, and work to promote things like better zoning laws, fairer tax legislation, better public transit, etc. at the same time.

(Note: the parent edited the above comment to add the CNN article. At the time I replied, it was only the NYT link.)
Won't they just create tons of shell companies then to get around the caps?
> The only sustainable way forward is to form artist-driven, bottom-up, non-profit organizations to nurture communities like BandCamp.

It will only work if there is laser-like focus on the primary organizational objective: letting artists make a living.

Falling of a cliff when blindly chasing growth is just one problem. In the current era, the probability that they will get involved in policing the politics of their members and issue statements on everything from the state of rain forests to Palestine is close to 1.0. The organization will thus be torn apart by internal rivalries.
Except for Andor, which is fantastic.
OT: Anyone here know of any mixed-reality/AR games like Factorio? I think it'd be fun to build a virtual thing on my desk and bolt it on to a factory (say, in another room, or just behind me).
I changed my mind - mastodon.social was easy to use
And the Bing chatbot runs GPT-4 under the hood, due to MS's sizeable investment into OpenAI
I think it's extremely valuable to hear perspectives like this and wish they were more commonly shared. We tend to focus on the downsides/problems of a lot of new tech, which are, to be fair very real and in some cases quite serious, but we tend to forget the often very large good that these technologies can often provide as well. That doesn't mean we should just let things go willy-nilly "because they do good stuff too", but it should temper our attempts to "fix" everything, and probably make us more cautious to not throw out the baby with the bathwater when we are trying to "improve" things.
Without commercial spam (which I don't think can be blamed on VCs) it is possible all this would be readily doable through things like email, newsgroups, IRC, XMPP. Inauthentic users/coordinated interests beyond commercial spam would also have been an eventual problem to overcome.
The poster's intention is to fish for people that feel similarly and drive discussion, not flex that they are unaffected.
Around the same time, I wrote an extremely convoluted MySQL query that changed its plan based on the column order in the SELECT clause.

I wouldn't post snooty and dismissive comments about this - assume that you are in a company of people who have been to more rodeos than you have.
Thanks for clarifying, reading your first comment again you say that you can cook up quite easily some other examples of islands like the 3 ones in the article, for the sake of curiosity I would be interested if you could give another comment expanding on that too.
Capitalism means free movement of capital

No it doesn't. It means that power structures follow the allocation of capital. And just like power tends to gravitate towards the powerful, so does capital under capitalism. It has nothing to do with movement of capital, which is a property of market strategy rather than of an economic system.
> Internet Archive should be illegal because it violates human rights.

You raise some interesting points, but the kill-it-with-fire solution ignores the great (necessary!) benefits the archive provides to humanity, by protecting useful public/published information from constant churn.

Humanity is just beginning to find its moral/ethical way forward, in this new integrated world of information, by feel in the dark.

In the meantime, its unavoidable that many things will be imperfect balances, and people will disagree where the balances should be.
related twitter thread, https://twitter.com/jobergum/status/1715440569973952568

beat me to posting
The Node
You’re describing the labor theory of value, which you present as undeniable fact, but which of course is the subject of one of the most salient and contentious debates of the last century.
Depends how far back you go, they banked with the Panamanian money launderer Crypto Capital Corp back in the day.

CCC president Ivan Manuel Molina Lee was arrested in 2019 in Poland and Reginald Fowler (formerly part owner of the Minnesota Vikings) pled guilty last year and is facing 20 years.

I’d speculate if the government dug around they could rustle up some wire possible fraud. It’s my understanding the shadiness of CCC was not a secret.

https://decrypt.co/collections/the-crypto-capital-scandal
At higher levels you usually have insight that these things are coming and can negotiate retention bonuses and other benefits, or threaten to walk (sinking shop and all), and I think it's likely, so I asked the question....
Echo chambers are very, very real and it’s easy to get caught up when everyone around you is drinking the kool-aid.

I moved to a new city a couple years ago and met up with some other devs as a way to make new friends. There were 4 or 5 of us going out for beers and the discussion inevitably turned to crypto. I’ve been a skeptic for many years and when asked about my crypto holdings, I politely said that I wasn’t invested or interested.

One guy in particular kept telling me that I was going to get left behind and that I really needed to buy in before it was too late. I told him that I didn’t trust the market and he went on about how corrupt the Fed is. He was really awkward, and at times, emotional about it.

Needless to say, friends were not made that night and I’m glad that the peer pressure aspect doesn’t bother me because a lot of people would cave in that situation.
It's not weird to share opinions on a forum, I don't read any smugness in their tone.
Make sure one has ncurses installed before switching to tput. Alpine Linux does not install this by default for what it's worth.
> I think it’s because they know there isn’t enough lithium supply for 100% of their sales to be electric.

Somebody tell Europe this, since many countries are sunsetting new sales of ICE cars within the next decade, right?

I'm skeptical that mining and recycling won't be able to be steadily ramped up to match demand.
Well, consider that you are privileged. Like, in the top 1% - 3% of tech workers privileged.

I didn't have a single job as a programmer in the last 22 years where I was able to dispute orders.

Though I'd love to work -- like actually work for good money -- for an organization like Wikipedia.
I'm pretty sure Bandcamp could be cloned as a dapp and then nobody would have to worry about acquisition, but then, that would cut the middle man out and labels won't like that
>Seems like a common theme: people build a community around something, it becomes something really cool, and then a bunch of businesspeople insert themselves and liquidate the trust that’s been built

So do the people who let the business people in just get to dodge the blame? "Oh well, we can't expect anyone to have principles in the face of so much money, so we shouldn't hold anyone to a standard?"
In ISO languages the features that get win are the ones that win elections rounds, currently C++ has more than 300 people voting, and submitting proposals, that is naturally a problem.
And going the other way, the consumer 7900x3d has 57% as much L3 cache (128MB)...
There is no rule about how fast entropy has to go up. Systems can just be made universally more efficient without shifting that entropy elsewhere as long as they are just decreasing the rate of entropy increase as opposed to actually decreasing entropy.
yes, that source "informant" site distributes lots of click baity news in social media, and you need to buy subscription to read them.
https://archive.ph/wip/drZUs
The GOP does many things that would be political suicide, but the Democrats never make them pay a price, never even try. How are the Dems using the Speaker of the House debacle? They should be all over the place talking about GOP incompetence, and here's what you'll get if you elect them.
The "Clockwork Mansion" level of Dishonored II is could be seen as almost a deconstruction of this concept, making you infiltrate and explore a mansion where the walls and floors move and rooms turn into other rooms by means of intricate machinery – turning the very architecture of the house into a puzzle you have to solve. Inevitably, of course, you find your way "behind the scenes", into the access corridors behind the walls and underneath the floors, revealing the complex mechanisms responsible for the transformations. It's a level design masterpiece, and honestly it's a bit crazy that they really went and made everything physically and mechanically plausible.
Two still has bugs that effect basic gameplay. E.g. the game being in the same state when you reload as when you saved.
The "making of" process—generating random points and then using them to position the bird illustrations at each point—does not make a lot of sense to me. The final bird positions are nowhere near the random points.

https://www.c82.net/images/blog/hummingbirds-murmuration-v1-...

A possibly better approach would be to use Bridson's algorithm with a radius that roughly corresponds to the size of each bird image. You could reject points that are outside the overall shape.

https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/poisson-disc-distribution
I remember working with these guys as well all got pulled in to help fix it. Gabe coded in VIM like a like a master violinist. Working with Mikey showed the power of metrics/SRE. Went from having everyone in the room pointing at the next vendor to figuring out part of the bottlenecks. Having a system -- largely broken -- and fixing it without being able to take it off line for major refactoring was like doing surgery on a jogger. What a wild experience.
This is by design. A lot of articles, especially recently created ones, get deleted because they consist of material which is legally problematic (e.g. text which is a copyright violation, which is libelous, which violates someone's privacy, etc).
(Author here)

Well, unfortunately a lot of new stuff becomes controversial on the pure ground of "no new language changes! it is good enough for me!"

TBH, I thought about a post series like this for a long time, but the last trigger was an announce of a special Rubocop addon to "disable useless syntax sugar"[1], and pattern matching was one of the "useless sugars" in the list. So I felt I need to cover it, too. And in the end of the day, I think it is an interesting excercise to analyse it in the same way as other, less significant and more controversial, features (the most intresting stuff would be in the second part, though).

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/16slc10/announcing_ru...
You can say the same about the entire stock market, but Bitcoin is fundamentally different. With stocks the most you can do is "technical analysis" which I am not convinced is real because its data based entirely on speculation.

There is nothing to speculate with Bitcoin. Like being a data analysis for a company, you can monitor the entire network for user behavior. You can know when large entities flow funds to and from exchanges. You can monitor user behavior over time and see what is going on with the supply and understand which entities are accumulating and holding supply for long-term. This is called "On-Chain" analytics but it is really no different than data science within a company.

This is only possible because of Bitcoin's ledger being open for anyone to see (IE: https://mempool.space/ ). Companies like Blockware and Glassnode are taking this data, enriching it, and identifying which Bitcoin belongs to which entities, not just that there is "an" entity that owns it, but who.
Have you worked in a physical trade?

As someone who has, I personally wouldn't go so far as to fetishise blue-collar over white collar. Both have BS - most agency recruiters in construction are really dishonest (and remain profitable) and construction companies generally take their time in paying their bills far beyond the agreement.

casual != candid
I agree that the way we fund (and don't fund) programs is crazy.

It will be a significant time before we colonize the Mars or Venus, and that's only within our solar system.

We're going to have to practice and master doing that before we can consider putting people in a giant can in space with zero guarantees that their efforts will succeed.

I'm not trying to dismiss the value of it, just that we've got a long way to go and a lot of problems to solve first.
Those have massively greater surface area than this one. Have you seen how dusty it gets inside a laptop? This looks like it could choke in a month.