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> Scott shouldn’t be hard on himself at all for opinions stated 15 years ago. Even over short time spans of a few years, I change my perspective quite a bit.

I've came here to write a similar thing. Fifteen years is a long time, and just as you wrote, I also tend to change my perspective and opinions quite a bit (and sometimes even quite a lot) over much shorter time spans.

And I'm not even talking about tech--but about life in general. In fact, I remember some of my opinions from 5, 10, 15 year ago, and some of them are cringeworthy (to put it rather mildly) to my present self...
There is competitive rock climbing. Rock climbing isn't all about physical strength, you have to pick your route. Eventually some military robot company will want to prove that its combat bot can out perform humans on any terrain. And we'll see best humans vs matches that can match and a few years later beat their performance.

Of course the professional competitors don't have to worry about competing against a human that's cheating using a robot; the exoskeleton would be obvious.

But it isn't unimaginable that, in some distant future, nanobots could be inject to infiltrate our muscles and tendons, and then assemble in to fibers that would assimilate with them and look normal from the outside. Competitions are won by incredibly small percentages.
Businesses that don’t get subsidies pay the same exact taxes. And businesses pay very little tax in the first place. Finally, tax revenue isn’t an ownership stake in a company; no amount of money is.
Or an mcedit clone, as mcedit it's a merge between DOS edit design and the midnight commander tools.
> As we have much better welfare and higher taxes, income inequality is much lower here in Europe. And in particular violent crime is much much lower as a result.

I don't think this is an obvious inference. There are many factors that cause crime, and violent crime. E.g. I don't know if this is valid, but as an example to consider: America has countries to its south that are markedly different in prosperity. As people move from those countries into America, wealth disparity goes up without anyone doing anything to make others poorer. If Western Europe doesn't have this same situation, then the disparity won't be constantly increased, and it's easier to optimise over time with taxes.

Or how about this: the US taxpayer pays for the majority of global defence. If you live in a Western European country, you have benefitted from this. You may have only recently joined NATO having suddenly realised it's time to buy some insurance one second before the car crash, and luckily for you the US is willing to be that insurer that accepts you. This means you could spend money on vote-winning policies instead of on national defence for a long time.

As I say, there are many factors. Just saying that raising taxes and increasing welfare are the keys to lowering violent crime is not sufficient, I think.
When you pitch a team as research, it’s in very bad taste. Google used to set itself apart from Oracle by not tying stupid commercial interests to teams like that.

The reputation damage to that team for being tangled in GCP shilling is subtle but immense. Pure security researchers will be driven away by this kind of thing and just stick with academia or other research institutions.
Why? The stock has consistently risen since Sundar was hired. So all is well! /s
V8 is Faster and Safer than
I guess they can't claim any copy write / drm violations if they also deny it was their code.
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Going up is difficult but going down takes a lot longer than expected from the top, usually; so yeah, the hill should be skewed to the left and have a fat right tail.
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Agreed. It seems to have something to do with the mainstream medias intense need to shame poor people.
You've got to be kidding me. This almost deserves its own post.

That last picture is still so horribly bad it's no wonder Google made it almost impossible to access this tech.

How did Google drop the ball on AI like this when they pioneered the entire field?
The paper referenced by the article actually shows what the author is saying is false. He is either very confused or convinced that nobody will read the linked paper so he can make up what he wants.
> It really must be bizarre watching an empire crumble. I can only liken it to the immediate aftershock of Brexit in London.

The British empire fell way before Brexit. Swinging demographic changes, neoliberalism, decolonization, globalization, delegating policy to Brussels, etc. The same thing is happening in most western nations. It doesn't have to be this way but it is.
Some of it is opinion and personal preference, some of it is respecting and adhering to patterns and techniques already in place. All of it requires some understanding of the pros and cons of different technologies and architectural decisions.

I'd be surprised if you could simply read a book or watch a video and learn how to architect complex software solutions, honestly. For me working at different orgs and being curious about how all the various layers of the software stack fits together has given me a decent perspective on different approaches to problems.

Also, "good" here is somewhat relative. Being "good" an architecting problems for large orgs operating at scale is far more challenging than being good at architecting solutions at a small startup.

Smaller, younger companies generally don't need anything super fancy or complex, what's important is getting things done so typically you build simple and worry about doing things right later. Some basic AWS knowledge and a strong coding background is probably all you need.

Larger, older orgs are far more intimidating because there's so much complexity already in place, and often there will be entire teams built around managing that complexity. In these cases you need have an appreciation for what already exists and build things that complement and improve on that. You also need more experience with building at scale. At a small startup whether you decide to go serverless or not doesn't really matter, but at a large org with tens of thousands of daily users the cost of a bad decision grows exponentially.

Another thing I'll note is that if you're doing this for career opportunities whether you can do something doesn't matter one bit. Companies won't hire you unless you have a track record. If you want to become a technical architect I think the challenge is mostly knowing how to play the game in such a way that you can take on those responsibilities at the place you work. Learning how to architect new solutions isn't that difficult if you're curious about how things work.
That's similar to the e-fuses cellphone manufacturers use to know when a phone was rooted and void warranty regardless of what caused the malfunction, right?
Impressive is not a big enough statement! This is incredibly smooth on my phone and crazy good on a desktop pc. Keep it up!
Feel free to share the URL and HN can help debug further..
Not at all true that nuclear puts more generational demand that any of the other energy sources, taking scale into consideration. Just compute how many wind-turbine poles, how many eventually-leaky solar panels, how much surface of land used up, or flooded, for a given MWh of generated power: Nuclear is arguably least impact. And scrubbing CO2 is going to be a massive undertaking, most likely will not be undertaken, again the generational impact is enormous, a lot more than some localized dump with Cesium, even if not buried as it should, and will, be.
There are a bunch of collector tools for capturing application side events and sending them into your server.

The common stack is then to ingest them from Kafka into an OLAP datastore like ClickHouse or Pinot.

Then I think you are referring to what is sometimes called “user facing analytics” against that datastore.

We like to use a tool called Cube.dev as middleware between the app and OLAP database which gives APIs and a semantic layer.
No, murder risk is negligible not because you avoid going out, but because of law.

You conflated the two.
Yes, TRI is a co-author of this paper (along with MIT). I am curious how much Tesla’s approach differs with their robot, though.
The only reason we claim that no information can escape a black hole is because of a theory that makes assertions about what is beyond the event horizon. In other words, it's a claim that is only unfalsifiable... if it is true.

If you reject the theory because it makes unfalsifiable claims, you no longer get to claim they are unfalsifiable.
I would really appreciate a clear, concise, direct answer to my question.

I don't think I'm asking too much.
A concrete mixed bag.

I am no longer experiencing brand slop [0]. For following tech news, it's pretty good - the Verge and their journalists in particular seem to live on the app, and I had no issue following the OpenAI debacle on it.

I can see the NBA side of Threads is growing, and Woj in particular is apparently moving over his weekly AMAs to Threads.

Activity is fairly strong. The viewcounts are lower than Twitter, but I don't trust Twitters' viewcounts at all [2]. Either way, Threads is almost certainly the small fish in Twitter's pond.

Threads users still aren't funny, though [1].

But hey, beats being on Twitter.

[0]: https://internettalk.substack.com/p/i-am-drowning-in-mutes-p...

[1]: https://www.threads.net/@crumbler/post/C0wyTzMPl6v

[2]: https://sea.mashable.com/tech/26293/no-tucker-carlsons-trump...
Personally, I don't really agree with a lot of Yudkowsky's opinions, but I love his writing style! I wish he'd write more SF.
Someone somewhere is cursing that the entire reason he/she is using this product is now gone.
I wanted to critique your argument on the basis of Oculus Quest and DeepMind, but then I realised both were acquisitions.
The closest I've found is vector generative AI like what's in Adobe Illustrator today.
Well, no, and I'll go even a step further and consider anyone saying such things to be a bad parent. But the context here isn't a parent trying to get the most for their kids, it's people thinking on how to organise a reasonably just and fair society. And in this context, I think it's important to realize that no matter what we do need people doing these jobs, and that these people also deserve a reasonable standard of living. I don't have a problem with "poor" per se, but there's different levels of "poor" and right now you can work an honest full-time job and not make rent – I don't consider that to be reasonable.
Has it really launched here? I had no idea. I don't think I've heard anyone even mention it I know.
Imagine a time keeping system where employees regularly enter their hours and schedule time off. But somewhere is a button or screen that gets used once a week called "run payroll". Aside from being periodic and not available to everyone, no metrics can capture how important it is.

Never the less, my favorite thing to do with code is running over it with the delete key. Just be careful about what gets it ;-)
Huh, this is exactly how Evernote ported their application. Removed a bunch of features that paying customers only used "sometimes".

After a couple of years the feature set has mostly returned.

I cancelled my subscription and mostly moved to other apps. I still utterly despise everybody at Evernote.
>The lack of vision has slowly turned into a lack of hope.

Couldn't have said it better. Lack of Vision, Lack of Leadership, and Lack of execution.
The only clean energy that's capable of producing constant power is if we put the power plants on the sun!

There may be minor technical hurdles but only nattering naysayers think they're impossible to overcome.

If we can put people on the moon, we can certainly put them on the sun.

This is, of course, satire. There is every evidence that yes, nuclear energy is a viable base load generator that would be tremendously useful for a wide variety of scenarios (as putting power plants on the sun would also be a tremendously useful technology). It's also clear that there are serious, possibly impossible to overcome technical reasons why these plants haven't really been deployed in great numbers (other than france in the 70s), and haven't been proven to be economically viable. "It would be economically viable if we focused our whole global economic output on developing the technology to make standardized, modular power plants, and then if we eliminate most regulation everywhere except where I and my kids live and go to school" is maybe true, but also probably not realistic.

Fusion power from the sun, though, has proven to be pretty economically viable.
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Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
Yeah, I'm thinking about the apps I use all the time and the features that I rarely use but would miss.

Like reset password... or account cancellation ... stuff like that.
Originally Tandem (despite their swag coffee mugs that had only two handles) ran 3 systems; having an odd number made it easier to compare outputs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tandem_Mug_with_Redundant...
Here's a video[0] about it that I was glad to find when I first considered these aspects of the franchise. There's quite a lot of talk about it elsewhere online.

There are no black people indeed, the characters are mostly animals. The issue is that the primate characters are portrayed using negative stereotypes of black culture.

0: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KRYKE3MUMo4
We also know GR is incomplete because it cannot explain what happens in a black hole at the singularity. Objects within have to always be approaching it but never reach it (since then they would not be approaching it) but it has a finite volume in space, so they must eventually get there.
No, lobbying is “attempting to influence the government”. Advertising about proposed bills is 100% lobbying.

Without any funding to the politician involved, a lobbyist’s job is to convince the politician of voting a particular way.

A sleazy lobbyist may try money in indirect ways for/against the politician, but a regular one will try to raise awareness through advertising and public pressure. It’s all lobbying.
Brings to mind this story from the development of the Lisa at Apple in the early 80s:
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
Now I know where platitudes like "Be your own spectator; seek your own applause." come from.
Yes I agree; that was my point more or less: people should be able to work these "poor jobs" and still have a reasonable standard of living. I'm okay with people being "poor relative to middle class", as long as everyone has a reasonable standard of living (barring exceptional circumstances).
If you're a fan of the movie, this youtube channel has amazing interviews with cast and crew. So many great anecdotes buried within...

https://www.youtube.com/@HackersCurator/videos
Other commonly emulated devices are not "general purpose" computers like phones, tablets and laptops. There is no need to emulate those systems generally since they can be ran in a VM (Linux, Android (mostly), and Windows).

I know your main point is comparing to consoles and that is probably fair to some extent, but still, I wanted to mention these.
True, but we haven't found anything older than 12000 years, haven't we?
Of course every distinct grouping of people have a shared history and a sense of their human journey. My point was addressing the absence/silence of other points of view. What did the ethnic Hungarian think about all this, or the German or Croatian?

More interestingly, when, where, and how did nationalist thought begin to rise in the Austro-Hungarian empire? Was its dissolution organic or were midwives involved? The war famously began because of an assassination by a Serbian nationalist. (Wikipedia has nationalism modern root in the French Revolution but as a non European I find that unconvincing.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip
Garbage. I focused on roles that were a good fit for my resume , and initially at around what I had previously been making, and progressivley lowering as time went on , but to no avail. Recruiters almost immediately vanished and never returned. It was very unpredictable. Some months I might get a handful of interviews, most months radio silence. Interviews were weird too. There was a lot of not progressing past first round, which was usually understandable, but also a lot of ghosting after making it to final rounds and hearing good feedback. The same jobs would be posted, then deleted, then posted again.

There also seemed to be a lot of unicorn hunting, even in generalist positions.

To be fair though, it could have been a lot easier. Particularly early on, I had one criteria, I wanted to stay remote and I sure as hell didn't want to move. I was ready to accept less money, but it was no use.

Eventually everything caved in and I took a new job and had to move. Only got it because of a referral, and arguably I was less qualified for it than the numerous jobs I wasted months applying to and interviewing for. It's hybrid with three days remote, but rumor is management plans to claw back despite worrying about retention and many of the developers claiming it's one of the things that would retain them.

I really hate this field. I would kill to get out, but that seems less and less likely every year.
There's this concept of a shared library, you should check it out.
You're absolutely right. I'm somewhat new here, despite having an old account. I will try harder to follow the guidelines.
> You had to pay for the monthly service, as well as PURCHASE the games

This was never true. You could do _either_ to access the platform.

Just like you pay extra for Netflix, high bandwidth 4K and HDR content was part of the $10/mo subscription.

If you bought a game, you owned that game, no monthly fee required to play it at FHD anytime and anywhere (with Internet, of course).

There was the additional benefit of the $10/mo subscription also giving you new games monthly, without buying them at full price (as you were saying, spending $60 per game). You would have access to these games so long as you maintained a membership.

You could have only ever paid $10/mo and had access to a wide array of games over time.

Conversely you could never pay for the subscription and just enjoy PS4-level gaming through your phone, laptop, or Chromecast for the games you bought a la carte. Pay $60 for one game, one time, and put in as many hours as you'd like, no console purchase necessary.

The failure of their marketing is pretty obvious, since as an early adopter you're still saying things like NEEDING to do both.
Obviously its the workers who are greedy, and not the oligarch-owner of Tesla.
Humans will weaponize anything. If AI is trained on human data, it will most certainly extinguish us. How can we use the behavior of all animals to train AI? I’d rather have a smart dog (retriever?) to talk to than a human. I could trust it
> WebGPU is still considered unstable in Deno. To access it in Deno use the --unstable-webgpu flag
It's also gaslighting ... I'm also imagining a whole bunch of users trying to find some rarely used feature that they remember being there, isn't in the menu anymore and questioning their sanity.
Yes although this requires the author to assess what they are showing to see if it makes sense from a teaching / learning perspective.

I remember watching a tutorial about a new feature in Photoshop. The author

* showed some results

* showed how the older version of the feature worked (assuming we were all familiar with it)

* did 'undo' multiple times to get back to the original image

* started showing the sequence of steps to use the new feature

* realised they had made a mistake and undid some of the steps

* restarted from the point where they had made the mistake.

I had to watch this about five times to work out the actual minimal sequence of steps involved. Some editing or a retake would really have helped here.
JavaScript is useless for data exploration, that's why very little data scientist uses JavaScript and all kinds of none white spaces languages.
Curly braces doesn't work well in iterative explorative programming
Like their brain? /s
Please, please do not use screenshots of terminal sessions in documentation, there are so many reasons not to do this, no copy/paste, loss of textual data, harder to update/correct, size of document, etc.

Instead make that little extra effort to use provided formatting in your wiki/blogging/word processing software using a non-proportional font and ideally appropriate syntax highlighting.

Incidentally this also goes for chat and email.
Not to mention that the phrase has existed for over 100 years, which is quite a long "late stage" for an economic system that's arguably only a few hundred years old. It's used in conversations like religious doomsday predictions, to conjure up the idea that the collapse of capitalism (and subsequent revolution) is coming Any Day Now.

It wears especially thin when people use the phrase to imply that companies overlooking the environment in the following of money is a brand new thing.
The electron wavelength is around 4 picometers at low energies. The wavelength also imposes a limit on the resolution of electron microscopy, for example. The wavelengths are really small, but they are not zero.
>building chips on-shore at the 40-20nm

>the process is long and arduous and the risks are huge.

Plenty of 28nm+ chips Fabs are inside EU. And more are coming online. This isn't a long or arduous process.

Edit: Should have been Plenty of 28nm and above. As the original quote state.
I work at a big corp and my experience is swaths of the year (I'm talking weeks at a time) when upper management is engaging in faction warfare many levels above me, and my own manager doesn't know what the team should be working on until upper management can set priorities. So I have nothing to work on. I guess this is 'coasting'.
That’s not at all how economics works. Unless a technology breakthrough comes in that reduces cost at scale, increased demand increases price.

The only exception is if producers are already selling at essentially the marginal cost of production for the whole industry. This scenario is extremely rare, especially in base materials.
> which means even fewer people finetuning those models.

Finetunes rarely led to "Top 5 performance" for the small ones.
Previously the top 10+ were all 70B, with maybe a few 30B in there. There were nearly no 13B's, let alone 7B.

The Zephyr-7b-β was one of the best 7B mistral 0.1 finetunes the past month and a half, and that didn't beat most 70B's.

Even at 7B there are few foundational models as even those take a relatively large amount of money. The only decent one for months has been 7B mistral which again didn't come that close to 70B performance.
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You are right, of course. Sorry! "Colon belongs to Larry" :-)

I think I made this mistake because :: was used in one of the drafts for Perl 6, but the final specification uses !!
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In the 90's even hackers loved some bling-bling. Maybe not with E16, but some WMaker with a nice backdrop and a transparent UXTerm was really nice and much faster than the emerging KDE in late 90's.

Also, heck, it was cool and pretty having some city at night while you were day and night with URxvt with links or lynx on it reading media and posting to fora.