skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “When a member computer is about to perform a computation, it would first check this database. If the computation has already been done, the computer would simply fetch the pre-computed result instead of redoing the computation. The underlying goal is to save on compute resources globally.”

This idea glosses over the engineering complexity of “searching” the cache, which sounds like it will grow to include every possible computation ever.

The reason it’s not feasible is the same reason computers can’t just have an huge L1 cache, instead of a hard drive. There’s physical limitations of materials when retrieving and searching the cache. So just performing the computation is often quicker.

However… your suggestion would be suitable for functional programming. Pure functions should always return the same result, so caching the result of CPU intensive functions makes a lot of sense… which is what [1] bazel’s remote cache does. But most software does not use pure functions…

Also, there is another interesting question that comes to mind. What if “quantum computing” could allow us to do “branch prediction” of computation at an incredible scale?

[1] https://bazel.build/remote/caching
But our universe adheres to AdS constraints. As far as we know.

When you reach the information density limit in AdS, in our universe you get a black hole.
It works (and should work) both ways. Main reason is that abandoning the principles doesn't automatically mean innovation. Most of the time it's just tradeoff between safety/cost and perceived convenience. And quite often the convenience is illusory because the costs are simply pushed to someone else or just delayed.
Thorn and all its supporters should be branded for what they are: Enemies of the free world. Enemies of democracy and fighters for oppression and dystopian police states.

If you look at the developments in Hungary and Poland (or the polls in Austria), any form of surveillance will be just used as another vehicle to keep autocrats and would-be dictators in power.

I doubt that the election in Poland in 2023 would have turned out like this if the PiS had seamless protocols of the opposition's communication.
I was thinking about this the other day when I was using my 11 year old X1 Carbon. It was used an abused for most of those years and aside from the battery which doesn't have the life it used to, everything else works just as well as it did when it came out of the box (oh, and the 3G modem that will stop working soon)

My 2017 MacBook Pro on the other hand was comparatively coddled, yet in spite of Apple's quality engineering... one of the keys doesn't work, the coating of the screen has worn in places, the USB ports don't hold cables without them falling out, the touchbar occasionally flickers, it can overheat with worse performance than the X1.

Some of these are just luck (but the 2017 MBP was probably Apple's worst product in recent memory for me), but what can't be attributed to luck is the support. Okay, neither Apple nor Lenovo really supports either of those machines any more, but the Macbook will not receive the Sonoma update, and as a consequence at some point will no longer work with the latest XCode. The X1 on the other hand is still running the latest Windows 10 and probably will do for another 5 years.
...actually

find . -path '/bar/.foo' -print0 | xargs -0 grep baz

;-) no regex, no nested suff, much shorter. My brain went back to it ;-)
> yet nobody provides anything better

No, we got systemd because it was better. Both theoretically and in practice. We can quibble about complexity and configuration quirks until the cows come home, but it is objectively better than InitV and the things like Upstart that were bumbling around trying to solve the same problems. It won on merit, not apathy.

And I think the same is true for Wayland. It's far more complex than just starting every system and user service so the teething issues are that much bigger, but when it works and you get a VRR desktop, it's just feels breathtakingly light and responsive.

I don't miss X. It wasn't just rotting, it was objectively worse. And all this is from a Nvidia users who's still battling XWayland sync issues.
They phrased it strangely but I interpreted the sentence to mean 'the public accountancy firm hired to do Truth Social's books'.

They are effectively warning that the company may not be a going concern for much longer.
I just asked it to print the Debian logo as ascii art and it produced an obscure looking triangle brick thing
Don't Do Invisible Work [video]
I understand why some people like it, and yes a lot of software does that as well, but in my case sometimes I accidentally end up pressing some menu option because I'm not perfectly steady. That's why I'd like it to be an option.
Likely CERN or NCSA httpd, as apache came out in 1995.

Before apache came out (1995), it wasn't wild for an OS not to have a native TCP/IP stack.

That's the year of the eponymous Windows 95 which had its own TCP/IP stack. Windows for workgroups 3.11 only got a TCP/IP stack from Redmond in 1994, so until that time you needed to install a third party winsock, like Trumpet winsock or the one that came with the Quarterdesk browser.
Epsio's Diff in the Streaming Landscape
Searching for SaaS – Multithreaded Income Episode 16 with Nate Bosscher
i would rather have one source of fragile success (crates.io) than millions of points of constant failure. (Cmake, ninja, automake, etc etc)

dynamic linked libraries are a way to save tiny amounts of RAM and disk space while wasting millions of hours of people's time.
> What I learned was that programming is not really about knowledge or skill but simply about patience, or maybe obsession.

Damn, the secret is out.
I wonder why they use GitHub instead of self hosting?

A FOSS GitHub would be cool, but GitHub does so much, including some very bandwidth heavy stuff. I think P2P tech would be needed to really replicate what GH does,
Who pays to let people know there’s a referendum they should vote in?
It's slow as heck for me this morning.

Also, asking the usual questions frequently gets it stuck in "Searching Bing for this answer" or something similar, but not 100% of the time.
> False DMCA claims are technically considered perjury I think. The problem is that most so-called DMCA claims are actually not using the DMCA mechanism at all […]

The other issue is that, if I recall correctly, the perjury penalty is not about whether the claim is accurate. It’s about whether you actually represent the rights holder of the content you claim is being infringed.

That is, if I make a DMCA claim that says this video infringes on Frozen, it’s perjury only if I’m not the rights holder (or representative thereof) for Frozen.
What is the mechanism for “crypto assets to avoid tax?”
> Aren't there things that you have to do in your job that really could be done by a junior programmer?

Hardly, because explaining how basically everything fits together is the hard and central part. Thus, the way to make things doable by a junior programmer is to teach him to become much better in programming and the software that is developed (which the company attempts). Until then, there are few things where a junior programmer is of productive help.

> Don't you ever have one-off (or once-a-year) things you have to do that each time you have to invest a lot of time refreshing in your brain, and then basically forgetting for lack of use?

Hardly, because I have a pretty good long-time memory.
If you aren’t willing to pay $10 a month for this, frankly you aren’t the customer.

I’m in a small business that pays much more per person for mapping software :)

(10 person team, probably £8k per year spend)
Looks better than last time I checked. I like the idea and it's getting there.
When you say anticommons, do you mean commercial entities abusing open source or just like rich folks in general?
Woooo!!!!! This is awesome news.
It seems like lots of people are pointing out the inadequacies of the current state of the art models. It doesn't seem that unlikely that many of these problems will be solved in the coming years. I won't make any guesses about timelines, but there is certainly a large number of very well funded smart people working on these problems. I'm not sure if this current path leads to AGI, which is what I would consider the minimum requirement for truly replacing human jobs. However, it does suggest to me that building AGI is achievable.

In my mind there are two major architectural problems that still need to be solved if I am to be convinced AGI is close:

1. Medium term memory

2. The need to relive an entire conversation just to produce the latest response.

Here is another question:
Suppose we develop AGI. What will the energy requirements be for that system? The scale at which ChatGPT is used today would be peanuts compared to a system that is supposed to replace millions of knowledge workers.
Our POV: When bootstrapping works (and when it doesn't)
>I’m sympathetic to the problem. Supply chain attacks are way too easy

This is the crux as to why crate.io is great: you have one official place for packages that can be continuously audited and monitored. This is the way to do security, in my opinion, because you are always able to look at incoming and outgoing packages.

Now, you can argue if we are doing enough with this, and that is definitely up for debate, however, I contend that the premise of having one canonical place for package origination and hosting makes it easier to monitor for security purposes
The article has little info about what actually was agreed upon. All it says is these countries will share info. Blockchains are already public. So what will they be sharing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number

Read down until 'similarity of flows'
trackpad is useful as a scrollbar. Main mouse is the nipple, or an external mouse when I'm at my desk, but for scrolling I do find the trackpad useful. My window manager has "disable while typing" set, and scrolling set to edge scrolling, so I can use my right thumb to scroll without moving my hands.
That such an ignornat thing to say.

Do you think we could built an exact replica of the Model T and its manufacturing line? We could build something kind of like it, but it would require a lot of engineering.

The type of plastic and cloth used is likely not manufactured anymore. The processes used and tools used don't exist anymore in the exact same way they did then. And the people trained to build those tools and operate them don't exist anymore.

The idea that all technology once built can just be recreated without any issue is just complete nonsense.

Do you not know anything about how technology works?
Understanding on core principle is definitely needed, but it helps you to punch above your weight.

Generally, generative AI gives mastery of an art to a theorists. To generate an impressive AI Art, you still need to have understanding of aesthetics and have an idea, but don't have to know how to use the graphic editors and other tools. It's quite similar for programming too, You still need understanding of whatever you're building, but you no longer have to be expert in using the tools. To build a mobile app you will need to have a grasp on how everything works in general, but you don't have to be expert in Swift or Kotlin.
Microsoft, Meta to Combat "Election Disinformation" with Meme Watermarks
At the end of the article he elaborates the problem in a way he seems to feel is too complex to mention in the interview itself: what if there's a third day?

If there are three server days of logs and a loyal customer continues to be defined as one who visits on two different days, the timezone problem essentially goes away. More fully:

- if a loyal customer is one who visits regularly;

- and we sample several days of visits;

- then loyal customers will be detected regardless of their timezone.

If you want the concept of a "loyal customer" to match the detection threshold, the weirdness related to timezones will still exist, but if you think of the detection threshold as a tool that's good enough to detect loyal customers, then it won't.
Thanks for the answers :)

I'm from The Netherlands, so I'm lacking certain insights into the US
Using actions is painfully slow this morning. Responses are slower than a 300 baud modem.
If it just were the like bots... Twitter has a serious problem with spam and scams, I have provided more sources at [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38263468
Is the €134k/mo figure including all corporate sponsors? Approximating that as one developer salary per month then what they've continued to accomplish is still very impressive.
Best of luck. I think you need to answer two questions -- (i) how would you compete/compare against the likes of documenso.com and (ii) the usual legalities - authoritativeness, acceptance, etc.
> I'm amazed at how professional and finished Blender is for being an open source project. It feels like I'm using an Adobe product or similar.

The "open source" label applied to Blender today inadvertently minimizes the commercial origins of it.

Blender's development has a unique (accidental) history that other open-source projects can't replicate deliberately: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/getting_started/ab...

In summary:

- Blender was originally paid commercial software that attracts venture capitalists to invest €4.5M and funds the salaries of 50 people to work on it

- The VC investors later sell it at a loss for €100k back to the original team to release it as open source.

Because many users of Blender are unfamiliar with the timeline of its development, they wonder why other open-source software like Gimp "isn't more polished" like Adobe Photoshop. Well, Gimp never had investors write off €4.5M of development on it.
I have found geology professor Shawn Willsey's YouTube channel to have high value, no drama interpretations of the situation in Grindavik. He has been posting 1-2 videos per day for the past few days as new information arises.

https://youtu.be/xvlZOpZE2KE?si=c2_Ew7LDKHrEpoN9
I don’t have anything better for you than “be careful” and “prototype a lot”. Adding new fields is fine, changing the meaning or type of existing fields is annoying.

You should try to brainstorm a lot of future feature improvements and ideas you might want in 2 years and consider if your v1 design would block or need a challenging migration to support the hypothetical v100 designing. A classic example is if you need a one-to-one relationship in v1, think about how you’d support that as a one-to-many or many-to-many. It might be better to start with a schema that supports many-to-many to avoid shenanigans down the line.

I linked the Cambria essay below which has a lot of food for thought.
> Then little cherry on the cake, this system eventually leads to child labor

Given that you've spelt it as "labor", I'm going to explain how this works in the UK:

Deliveroo's discretionary policies aside, you are allowed to work when you reach school-leaving age in the country you live in (subject to some common-sense restrictions) within the United Kingdom. There is nothing illegal about this whatsoever. Someone aged 17 is not a child and is considered entitled to work (either as an employee or as someone self-employed) just as they are entitled to join the army, start a family or drink alcohol in a restaurant.

In England, the intention is for this to happen alongside training or further part-time education but there is no criminal offence committed by a young person who decides they would prefer to occupy their time in full-time work and e.g. save money. That's their choice to make.

> Plus chocolate toping, eventually someone died.

The article has no information about how this happened. If they got into an accident because of another reckless driver on the road, then the article should've been about improving road safety. If the accident was their fault, then we should probably have a conversation about the mandatory CBT training in the UK that riders will have gone through and how it approaches safety topics.

The problem is not that substitution works the way it does.
Twitter's net loss may be higher, but I bet Twitter's revenue divided by cost is better.
Now do "international convention to spend tax revenues more prudently."
It looks like Chrome is doing the pro software then.

Parent said blender was opening the menu onPress, which according to your comment is OK for pro software, Chrome is also doing the menu onPress
Ok, this is awful, and clearly goes much deeper, and I'm starting to be very convinced of your position:

https://www.science.org/content/article/misconduct-concerns-...
Wouldn’t three dimensional tracking need four antennas?
* all SPACS
I agree. I mean today anyone could just do this in LESS than 10s with AI!

/s
True, that's a good counter point. I'll take it :)
Of course. But the discussion gets partially derailed against Facebook and Instagram and not about the original article about TikTok.
Google, "UI developer".
i wonder how many of the commenters who bemoan how GPT-4 can't do this or that task, could have predicted 2 or 5 years ago what GPT-4 can do easily today
I have a hard time getting a React project from a few years ago to `npm install`.
Have not noticed an issue this week.
> And cargo and npm show just how unnecessary all that pain is in C!

Leftpad would like a word.

Every dependency is a liability. It's another thing to vet, another thing which can disappear. Having few dependencies in c is a feature, not a bug. The approach to dependencies in rust was a major turn off to me. I recall 15 just to get random numbers in the intro tutorial. No thanks.
On my Windows machine, all the "native" software like the file explorer and so on, opens when releasing the right click. Blender 3.6 opens as soon as you press the right click (allowing you to "drag" the cursor to the menu option and releasing it there)
Have been getting the regenerate message a lot past week but regenerating has worked and other times fine. So certainly not broken for me at all and I’m sure if it were for everyone would be headline news, but definitely seems like some growing pains since launching the updated model.
I'm not sure I agree that there's any exploit here. The crux of the claim seems to be that JavaScript code in an onbeforetoggle attribute is "unlikely to be filtered by a WAF".

In any case, this game doesn't involve any of that, it just uses popovers as fancy internal links.
If we diverted 10% of the DoD budget, we could launch 800,000 tons, about 5,300 starships, per year.
Web Browsing Data Is 'Serious Security Threat' to EU and US
Surveillance capitalism at it's finest.
OAuth Transaction Tokens
CNCF Cloud Native Definition
Why not resell testers from Amazon Turk with a hefty markup?
There's a slight difference in abstraction level there. I've done more than my fair share of stepping through assembly in my life and learning things from even minified JS is a lot easier.

But I don't think many people learned programming by studying random real-world programs in a disassembler. It was once at least theoretically possible to do that with web programming, albeit not well and not anymore.
And then ideally wait a hundred years for all the dirt to come out.
I suspect we're going to see this article in many different forms over the next few years. That's when the hype cycle will settle and people realize that LLMs are amazing search engines on steroid buy will never replace actual developers.
I still want to know the full extent of Jared Kushner's work in Saudi Arabia, acting as a senior policy advisor hired by Trump.

We know about the $100 billion dollar Saudi arms deal that Kushner inserted himself in after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. We know he personally backed Saudi Arabi in their conflict with Qatar. We know Kushner failed to disclose he owed around a billion dollars on failed investments in real estate.

Now after Kushner leaves government, MBS overrode his advisors to hand over $2 billion of state investment to Kushner's newly established fund.

What happened there?
I think I've seen that on some Linux distros. But on Windows, chrome works onRelease (like all built in windows programs do)
Standard For Identity Chaining Across Trust Domains
ISO C requires that. PIC C doesn't. There aren't that many C dialects, but there are a few.
> When the volcano blows, it should only be property, building, and road damage.

Mind you, those roads in Iceland might be expensive, with luxurious built-in heating. ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowmelt_system
That's been the case with every technology made by man since fire.
> Finetuning seeks to extend the length of the context window itself.

Does it? I'd thought fine-tuning was more like transfer learning, adding highly specific data to the training set (e.g. your internal codebase) rather than actually modifying the architecture.
Ah, yes: negotiations between the EU Father, the EU Son, and the EU Holy Spirit.
The original title was "EU Parliament Decides That Your Private Messages Must Not Be Scanned" and it was linked to a different article, I think this comment was written before the title and the url were changed.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231114102908/https://news.ycom...
Yes, I didn't say they're the same, only that they are of similar levels of power. Write the same program in all three and there won't be a big gap in level of bugginess.

Sometimes Rustaceans like to claim otherwise, but most of the work in Rust's type system goes into taming manual memory management which is solved with a different typing approach in the other two, so unless you need one of those languages for some specific reason then the level of bugs you can catch automatically is going to be in the same ballpark.
Hum that might explain the situation here. I'm on Ubuntu with KDE
Haven't used it in ages, but Blender did not feel like an Adobe product when it was first open sourced. IIRC its UI was considered notoriously unintuitive.
Mostly 64-bit by default (going from 4GB to 16GB in 2011 was huge), SSD Trim support and some updated networking protocols.
Thank you for guiding me. Next time I'll follow this rule
ChatGPT somehow gets me the right answers and google doesn’t. I know they are right because often I’m just looking to remember something, and once I do, it clicks.
Something as simple as googling “how todo X in Y”. Somehow google always gives me pages of bullshit or tutorial-like content which doesn’t quite answer my question. But when I ask ChatGPT, often without any more back and forth, it gets it.

How? Maybe because it was trained on lots of data and therefore isn’t just “spitting the first thing”, or perhaps it’s because it’s actually just answering the question I asked, without muddling it in a page with 50 other similar questions designed to up the SEO ranking. Whatever the reason is, it clearly happens often.

I’m not advocating for not fact checking ChatGPT. Quite the opposite. But even with that caveat, it adds tremendous value, at least to me.
Check out Ostrom's work and the long line of work following it. Not just Ostrom though.
Looking for Grindavik news on X etc right now, there is already an annoying amount of video and images of erupting volcanoes, from previous years, or from somewhere else completely. Even though there is no eruption at all yet. Annoying.
Four Hours of Concentration a Day
This will be useful when humanity needs to retreat into black holes to (subjectively) extend the heat death of the universe.
Those monochrome monitors were very sharp. In elementary school, I had a friend with a IIe at home.
Also, it won't shut up about it's couple AI utilities.
Or just outside of rush hour.
>why banning it then?

Because it’s the most logical thing to do and not doing so is a national security nightmare
I agree this must be a "me" problem.

I just have never found these three "universal" categories useful for anything whatsoever except for a semiotics class in university where he was one of the study subjects.

Umberto Eco on the other hand... every single thing he wrote was immediately interesting and useful.

Or funny. His Lolita's parody, Granita, was Pratchett and Adams levels of funny. He was awesome.