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This has happened to me. The CEO of a startup I was working for asked me for something. I recall that he did not provide many words to the ask. Maybe one or two sentences. This lead to a 14 page report I put together. I spent several hours doing it, and did most of it on my own time. I sent the CEO the report. Never heard back from him after that. Nothing came of it.

I created a new rule for myself after this. The cost of the ask, should be proportionate to the cost of delivering that ask. Now if I get an ask that is very costly, I will wait and delay and request escalations and such. The person asking should show that it is worth the cost by doing their due diligence and getting approval from people higher up the food chain. If the ask is a bunch of BS, then I will never hear about it again. If it is worthy, I will do it and also I get the added bonus of the effort not being done in secret without the appropriate visibility.
Is it nefarious marketing or just that a lower end CPU with 8 memory channels doesn't need a whizzbang memory controller to get the memory capacity/performance it needs? Besides, doesn't the platinum version only go to 4800 MHz anyways? (split comment to separate topics)
My expectations here were a bit lower, given the individual involved: write code that actually runs.
Yes that makes sense.

I am not familiar enough with llama.cpp, but from what I see they have mostly copy-pasted it into WasmEdge for the WASI-NN implementation.

Surely a simple compiled binary of llama.cpp is better than Rust compiled to WASM plus the WasmEdge runtime binary wrapping the same llama.cpp.

It wouldn't be more portable either, all the heterogeneous hardware acceleration support is part of llama.cpp not WasmEdge.

I guess theoretically if the WASI-NN proposal is standardized, other WASM runtimes could implement their own backends. It is a decent abstraction to cleanly expand portability and for optimizing for specific instrastructure.

But at this point it doesn't have much to do with Rust or WASM. It's just the same old concept of portability via bytecode runtimes like the JVM or, indeed, the Python interpreter with native extensions (libraries).
One of the people involved in the film this is related to (Pistachio Wars) is Yasha Levine, whose book about the history of the Internet, Surveillance Valley, is excellent (if controversial!).

Background on the film: https://yasha.substack.com/p/pistachio-wars-the-back-story-5...

Surveillance Valley: http://yashalevine.com/surveillance-valley
And lots more.

Ruby 3.3 YJIT is 2x faster than Ruby 2.5 in RailsBench.

Work on brining more Ruby Gem from C to Ruby ( easier JIT )

Lots of dev tooling around Ruby and Rails coming.

Hopefully there are more good things to come in Rails 8.0 and Ruby 3.4
I didn't understand from the title. But it turns out that Broadcom has pantented "high efficiency video coding" HEVC (which I have seen before as H.265). Netflix uses HEVC to stream 4K video. Broadcom sued to stop Netflix from infringing on their patent.

Presumably now Netflix will have to pay Broadcom some amount to stream over HEVC.
Well, I guess apparently not? Otherwise how would the court end up deciding they have to stop using HEVC, if they're not using it?
Not pedantic at all! https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/336 is a (somewhat rambling) discussion on whether it would even be worthwhile to use the neural engine specifically, beyond the GPU.
I read this as just another way for privilege to shut down discourse. "You're just offended."
LOL. Oh yes, that's true: There are a lot of cheerleaders with shiny pom-poms, always chanting and dancing, trying to get others into joining the AI frenzy.
Well sure - the median is just one particular percentile - not a magically special one. The existence of a median also implies that there are probably limits for every other percentile - or, indeed, that for any number, there is some in-the-limit proportion of numbers for which the second prime factor is greater than that number (and for 37 that happens to be .5).
I don't think all devices support AV1 decode, so unlikely.
People in power often don't have the expertise to be competent in their role. They didn't rise on competence. So, don't expect more from them.
I've seen you frequently argue similar points about LLMs, but matching a statistical distribution of text is imitation, which necessitates confabulation on the part of LLMs. Namely, humans have underlying causes that affect their writing, like being tired after a long period without rest, frustrated at a traffic jam they are stuck in, or even making typos because they are using a crappy input device like a mobile phone.

If an LLM matches the distribution of text, it might superficially make similar mistakes a human would: introducing a typo that might be common on a phone keyboard. If asked, its reasoning will likely be that the typo was due to a phone keyboard, or maybe another common reason humans give for their typos. Though it's super unlikely that it will give the true reason: that it's been trained on text that exhibited this property.

That's a fundamental difference between an LLM doing an exceedingly competent job at pattern matching human behavior and real human behavior (unless maybe you're a human with schizophrenia).

That doesn't mean current LLMs aren't useful, but it does mean there is a very significant gap between them and the idea of an AGI. As a NLP researcher, I can confidently say we currently don't know how to imbue agency (as in embodied causal reasoning as I described above) into LLMs. There are definitely differences of opinions on how difficult that step is and if we are close, but it is a major limitation of current LLMs that can't be ignored.
I doubt this will go anywhere, but it’s certainly a reminder for any in the EU who have lofty software monetization ambitions to take their talents elsewhere.
Do you have an example?

I'm aware of books, which come in three volumes and this seems completely unnecessary. Subutex by Virginie Despentes comes to mind but that was already in the original.

I'm not aware of a German trilogy, which wasn't a trilogy in its original edition.

Thus, genuinly curious.
We've been using https://github.com/electric-sql/electric for real-time sync for the past month or so and it's been great. Rather than make you think about CRDTs explicitly, Electric syncs an in-browser sqlite db (WASM powered) with a central postgres instance. As a developer, you get local-first performance and real-time sync between users. And it's actually faster to ship an application without writing any APIs and just using the database directly. Only downside is Electric is immature and we often run into bugs, but as a startup we're willing to deal with it in exchange for shipping faster.
I tried using Azure for hosting my email, it was an absolute trainwreck.

They couldn't even do a mailing list, so that I could have a single email address for the kids school, etc, that emails both myself and my wife. The best they could offer was a shared mailbox, but it wouldn't go into my wife's inbox so not much point in that.

Fastmail did a better job than that.
Like most government systems these days corporate interests have turned it into a moat.
I could never find x86 AIX anywhere. Does it work well with emulators?
AV1 hardware decoding is still pretty rare, it seems unlikely that the cheap SOCs in smart TVs and the like are able to software decode AV1 at high resolutions.
> And then we are a step closer to the free market that is efficient and good for consumers.

With Apple, Amazon and Microsoft doing the same in same markets... are we? Because it doesn't seem like "whap the random company that didn't pay enough for marketing" strategy isn't really working into establishing proper competition that benefits society.

Maybe... a different approach needs to be taken? How about starting to talk about legislation which would force large companies to allow competition into their vertical integrations - ALL of them, not just the single pet megacorp we hate this week. Level playing field and all that.
A personal anecdote: I don't like public speaking, but I do it frequently to large audiences. I became much better at it and I feel much less uncomfortable now than before.

...But the dread is still there. I still regret it every time I have to do it. It's just less stressful now.
> Presumably now Netflix will have to pay Broadcom some amount to stream over HEVC.

Presumably, Netflix will in the short-term pay X amount for this but work probably started yesterday or earlier to replace it with something that doesn't have fees to use.
I couldn't agree more. There is also a technology aspect to it. Rails is objectively veeeeeery slow. Concurrency support is nonexistent. This is not a good
fit for all problems. It also to some degree prevents you from breaking out the parts that would benefit from a different language into their own services (Rails needs to call them, but it's really not good at IO).
You're not going to shut them down, it sounds like they shut you down. Just pony up the $100/year. It's the cheapest television has ever been. This is hacker news, not hobo news. If you've been using the Internet this long, then you should remember the outrageous amounts of money people were paying for cable television back in the 90's. And that still had ads.
Just a friendly reminder: if you decide to combine carbon fiber with any of those metals, avoid diving at extreme depths. This could be catastrophic.
The Secretive Rise of the 'Overemployed'
What does "made for VLIW" imply? Using intrinsics?
> (It helped that at this time my English got good enough that I could read whole novels complete with puns and obscure references.)

It's been almost a decade since I started watching movies/tv shows, and playing games with original audio (usually english or japanese) and english subtitles instead of my native language, to help improve my english.
But I to this day, every time I rewatch the movie Airplane, there are new jokes I hadn't understood before. It's one's of the reason I like to rewatch it every couple of years, the other being that it's my favorite comedy movie.
Sounds like from the comments that Rails is gaining a little bit more popularity again instead of being known as the boring robust framework
I'd agree with first sentence. But yeah its a low hanging fruit that's too low and its microscopic, so doesn't solve even 0.0001% of the overall problem. I think what irks most people is that its given disproportionate PR like we're almost fixing climate crisis, when we are actually still pretty much in free fall.
Junior engineers might be doing some of the actual work, but by the nature of being junior tend to lack any context around how their work fits into or impacts the overall system. Mix that with being too green to feel confident pushing back at all, and you get someone who will say yes to nearly any question you ask them.

“Hey junior front end engineer, how long will it take you to change that passcode from 4 digits to 6?”

The junior responds with “There’s nothing to it. A day tops.”

But the junior doesn’t realize that the devices that are integrated with the system are statically allocating memory to hold that passcode and can’t change the length without shipping new firmware.

Of course that kind of thing can happen when asking a more senior person as well but it’s much, much less likely.
I unironically said GitHub Actions was the worse thing they made when it came to CI/CD. I tried setting up a local runner for Forgejo Actions (compatible with GHA) on my k8s cluster and it was a pain to properly set it up, 1) because Forgejo/Gitea Actions is in beta and k8s support is experimental and 2) because GHA has a very dumb syntax.

The thing others mentioned: you just add an external action and you have absolutely no idea what it's doing and you barely have useful output from it.

I'd rather continue using CI like Woodpecker or any other one because at least you can understand what's going on behind the scenes, but GHA is inherently bad.

EDIT: author makes a point about confusing terminology from GHA:

> I think some disambiguation is in order: The whole thing is advertised as "GitHub Actions", however doing something is defined in a "workflow", and workflows can be packaged, parameterized, and reused in other workflows, and this is then called an "action" again.

I noticed this when I was setting up my local runner. What is an action, is Action the CI program itself or the job or a stage of the pipeline? What is the workflow, is it a job or a stage?

Now I'm more convinced that this is just something stupid made by Microsoft, instead of relying on existing infra they wanted to create something "entirely new" just to force people to use GitHub. Traditional big corpo fuck you right there.
youtube-dl isn't hosting. It's like the opposite of hosting.
Yup, pretty much this. Thank you!
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Absolutely.

We were lucky enough that we joined at the same time as three other mostly-beginners, and one of the regulars volunteered to run a beginner's campaign (Dragon Of Icespire Peak). It's also a big post-game pub group so lots of chatter afterwards.
Here in America we have something called “term” life insurance which pretty much is just limited to say, “if you die in 20 years”

I find that insurance a lot more reasonable because looking at it from a lifetime cost it makes a lot of sense.

For example for a $500,000 I $9,600 over the 20 years. That’s not bad for shifting the risks of premature death from me to somebody else. At the same time I’m working on saving so by the end of the 20 years I already have a similar amount that could be passed to them in case that something happens to me.
Netflix has primarily used HEVC every time I've checked for a while now. Especially for any of the 4K HDR stuff.
Kudos to officer Garcia. I don’t know many people who still bring that kind of responsibility to their job. So much easier to just follow the rules. Even among judges I know only very few who have the guts to make an actual judgement, which, after all, requires to say “I” - which seems almost an audacity today.
It's the EU, of course they have to get involved. How else are they going to justify the salaries of those unelected officials?
"Each person looking at this is going to achieve a slightly different amount in 20 mins. Even if we ignore that, there's no guarantee that the manager making the request is going to get what they need from 20 minutes of your effort."

It is a managers job to delegate tasks appropriately. That isn't just assigning bodies to jobs. But assigning the right job to the right people with the right skills.
If you need to be marked as owned to not cheat, the marriage is probably not going to work anyway...
The title is misleading. He really advocates for leaving your comfort zone.

That said, I would really love it if everybody could calm down and stop getting offended so much.

Realize that from the perspective of the other person, YOU are the one spewing obvious falsehoods and uttering offensive things. Everybody is the hero in their story.

Yes, some trolls are out to cause offense. You know what empowers and enables those people? Success. If anyone actually does get offended by their trollery.
Bangladesh is a good A/B example of how much poverty in the developing world is driven by ineffective government. When my family left the country in 1989, it was a poster child for third world dysfunction. At the time it was ruled by a military dictator. Through the 1990s, “democracy” proved ineffective and fragile.

Then something changed. Starting in 2001, the leaders of both main parties adopted a sort of autocratic neoliberalism. They implemented IMF mandated reforms, etc. Since 2001, Bangladesh’s GDP per capita has increased by a factor of six. It’s still a breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent country. The opposition leader is currently in prison. And the son of the current Prime Minister fled the country and is living in the US. But it’s at least minimally competent. Foreign money doesn’t completely disappear when it comes into the country. Chinese and Russian funding has actually turned into real infrastructure: railroads, a nuclear power plant, etc. It’s been a remarkable change.
> It's the starting and most profitable part that paid for all the rest, no? How it could not be viable.

It relies on your information taken from your phone/email/search/youtube history/etc. Without all that data the value of ads is much lower.
I don’t want to help them.

Not wanting to hurt people deliberately, is not the same thing as wanting to help them, or supporting them.

When we engage in retaliatory behavior, it can have negative consequences on our own psyche. This is something I know well.
Really amazing documentary! Been using Rails for the last couple of years and it’s just so productive for a small team to build product and follow well established patterns in building business logic.

I’d recommend to those interested in seeing how a real Rails app is structured to look at the Jumpstart codebase as it’s a great resource on how to structure things

https://jumpstartrails.com/

As an alternative Bullet Train is pretty good, even though it adds a lot of bespoke libraries that aren’t the “Rails way”

https://bullettrain.co/
This isn't directed at the author of this post. I was just referring to the plethora of thin x.cpp wrappers.
Typical low quality analysis from Jacobin. Land value tax solves the problem of land being a speculative asset.
av1 is not broadly supported, for example the Chromecast does not supports it.
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That's mostly been my experience as well, that GNU extensions are the largest real difference between between the various Unix implementations in practice, at least in terms of software compatibility.
Nowadays its pretty common, but not everyone has relatively recent devices.
Leaving my door unlocked doesn't excuse burglary.

One party can make a bad deal, but that doesn't mean the other party isn't immoral for taking that deal, especially when it has substantial negative externalities.
Read my comment [1] for this one academic's take on intelligence in current LLMs. I feel it passes the spirit of the test you provide (doing it literally would be a bit nonsensical).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38249957