skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Software does not make money. Not ever. Sales makes money. Software only costs money. When your developer peers get confused, distracted, or lost on this matter you better hope your employer is either too big, too stupid, or too wealthy to care.

2. The only purpose of software is automation. There is ultimately no other goal. When your peers start talking about frameworks, easiness, a bunch of tools, or other bullshit realize they have absolutely no idea what they are doing. Typically that occurs from some combination of narcissism, self-preservation, and stupidity. Either way when too many bad decisions occur your peers will burn you.

3. Becoming excellent at software is no different than becoming excellent at absolutely anything else. Software isn’t special. Practice. The people that argue against this are lazy and stupid. As an example of talent look at the Polgar sisters.

4. Just like with absolutely everything else being excellent at software means having enough challenging experience to form a vision around risk management, cost analysis, and unnecessary repetition. All of that should be tempered against novelty and asking the right extraordinarily critical/harsh questions. Most people don’t do any of this because of some combination of real life constraints and cowardice.
That would mean most likely that the video is the result of a prompt without any example.

Illustrated examples from how Google does it here: https://blog.research.google/2023/11/zero-shot-adaptive-prom...

EDIT: corrected answer factuality.
The only reason I sometimes hesitate to agree with this line of thinking is precisely because we have the ability to think about free will at all.

I can take a moment right now to consider whether I want to lift my right hand over my head - to no benefit of my own. I can also consider how free will plays into that and decide to lift my left hand instead, stay with my right hand, or lift no hands at all.

When you have the ability to do that, I think you have free will. At least, you have the closest thing to free will anyone can ever have.

By the way, I wiggled my right foot. That was my decision after my comment.
Microsoft.com has been constantly trying to fool me into subscribing to their Office tools.
I'm sure it would be possible to fine tune a LLM like mistral to search a database or a document
People had thousands of books and hundreds of music records back in Soviet times too.
I don't think it's very interesting unless you use it a lot. I generally abhor "as a service" for physical goods though.

When electrical cars first appeared on the market here in Europe leasing the battery was usually the only option. Luckily not anymore.

The hotswapping adds an interesting component to it though, that's true.
Yeah, “Predictor.” And “Story of your Life” (aka “Arrival”) also has elements of this. “Predictor” is about Compatibilism, the idea that free will and determinism are compatible with each other depending on the boundaries. The paper could use some perspective.
Maybe not, still I like to follow up on GraalVM, as I used to for MaximeVM and JikesRVM, and MSR Phonenix compiler, exactly because of that.

Compiler building frameworks in managed languages.
> From a person who really shouldn't be giving others advice.

Ok, now I’m listening.

Also, #8 is the best long term advice for programmers. Walk.
Alas, I’ll have to disagree with you.
Same happens also with 1.8" HDDs.

They created it but don't know how to market it.

At same time Steve Jobs and his right hands was at Japan manufacturers so they can see about their technology. And someone shows to them that disk... they was finally found missing component for an iPod.
There is no excellence in software — only advanced opinion.
> building them will be cheaper and will benefit community more than building a tunnel

If you think sidewalks would benefit an entirely car-based community, I’d wonder if you’ve ever been to suburbs. You’re suggesting building (and maintaining indefinitely) the length of sidewalks, along with road crossing markings, signs, street lights, and all the rest that walkability comes with, to cover a sprawling area where, crucially, people don’t walk, and you are seriously saying that this startup is the money-burner?

Sidewalks will either fall into disrepair and be useless in a few months, or continuously drain the budget just for the benefit of [slow as hell and easy to steal] delivery bots. At this point, one might consider just moving those bots underground, so that they have no obstacles, are harder to steal, can move faster, can handle really large payloads like furniture/boilers/cars, and you have much shorter distances to maintain because they can go direct instead of being limited to public roads. As you can see, perhaps someone has given it a bit more thought than you.

Of course, you might want to consider decent public transit and replanning the entire area more densely, that would lead to useful sidewalks and actually benefit the community (and probably remove the need for these delivery trains), but in the US it’s never going to fly.

The only alternative to underground trains is armoured aerial delivery drones, and I tell you that’s where it’s at. If you don’t do it today, Musk will tomorrow.
I think I'm probably smart enough to follow this, but maths notation is so opaque that I get stuck the moment the greek letters come out.
Needs more snake case for added width sillyness :)
Documentation. The python example is a bit on the nose. I've not had good times with ROCm's documentation either.

Can anyone point to an example of good documentation for a big software system where they can also sketch how that was achieved? E.g. Cuda's docs are pretty good but I've no idea how they came to be, or how they stay up to date. LLVM's docs are a small amount of handwritten webpages which correlate with reality to some extent, the source for which lives in the same repo as the code.

I have an idea that it needs to combine programmers writing some things, some testing infra to notice things like internal links will 404 and some non-developers writing things.

I started trying to document one of my own systems as freeform notes under obsidian and while it kind of works at the time it diverges from reality pretty quickly, and that's without trying to have anyone else working on either the docs or the system.

So what's the proper, established answer to this?
Yeah CEOs are well known for their unbiased claims about their own companies, much more so than standards bodies (however flawed)
Maybe, idk. But you'll definitely get accidents of history. For example about half the world speaks a Proto-Indo-European-derived language, which included vocabulary around wheels, horses, wagons and chariots. Those words tend to have cognates across many languages, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're universal or fundamental.
There’s indeed a lot of GPU time not utilised even by modern games. I can definitely imagine new games utilising llms much more even and with local inference option.
Nolan should've used a real nuke
Considering that the Tesla Supercharger stations are the gold standard for EV charging, is the decision to adopt the NACS plug by other car makers caused by the ability to use superchargers?
> The performance of any application on SYCL is currently quite poor.

SYCL can get pretty much equivalent performance in Kernels to eg. CUDA. Try looking at SYCL performance papers on Arxiv. Eg. see [1].

That isn't to say that SYCL code is optimised on every platform without tweaking - you do still need to put effort into target specific optimizations to get the best performance, like you would in the CUDA or HIP.

> Why drop ROCm (used on the world's largest supercomputer?)

Some of the world's largest super-computers / HPC applications do use SYCL for AMD! The application I'm most aware of for this is GROMACS. As to why? - because having 3 version of the same code using different programming APIs is a big maintenance burden.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.09609.pdf
The issue seems to be more subtle. Nobody is trying to explain all of human behavior with primate studies. Rather, to establish that there are still traces of our animal nature visible in human behavior.

We tend to believe we are no longer influenced by our animal nature. But without accepting that part of our construction, it not possible to understand human behavior, because that part is essential. Usually, statements like "primate studies cannot explain all human behavior" are used to de-legitimize some studies, in order to protect the taboo.

If you think that not all of human behavior is influenced by our animal nature, then certainly you can name some behavior that you believe is influenced by our animal nature. So start by asking yourself, what is such a behavior.
Absolutely. You usually end up with software stack where NOTHING can be updated, most of the stuff is forked with custom patches and the learnings there aren't reusable elsewhere because the code is full of "// replace this with hardcoded constant 59843 because it prevents crash on HPC machine".

It's a good marketing metric, but probably contraproductive the AMDs longterm success in the field. They're spending engineering time building something they'll unlikely to be able to translate into other fields.
I wonder why "zero-shot" rather than "one-shot".
> some kind of centralized credit history

> there is a centralized database of failed payments

exactly what I assumed, and pretty much the same as how the US credit-check system works.
What can you do theoretically?
"Control-seizing is a more fundamental principle from which intelligence emerges, not vice versa"

(quote from a slide in Alex Wissner-Gross's A new equation for intelligence @TED)
The more I read about just about anything coming from the UK Government, the more I suspect that its bureaucrats and government leaders have all collectively flushed their brains down a vast stinking toilet.

Examples in many contexts (some darker than others) abound, and quite aside from some of them being intentionally self-serving, others are simply bizarre. This is one of them.

For documents as fundamental as these, the basic premise should be that sure, you create digital copies, but for the sake of having such as backups in case some extreme situation causes the destruction of the hard copies, not as a bloody substitute and excuse to destroy them.
plus efficacy :-)
There is no tenable contemporary argument for keeping them in the Bristish museum, IMO.

It seems to be all variations of "You gave me for safekeeping, now it's mine".

The weird thing for me is that there is no strong cultural link between Britain and the marbles. These might as well be the Rapa Nui Moai statues. Even the British Museum having the Liberty Bell would make more sense from an historic POV.

Again, just my opinion, but it seems like the British museum is using this to fight back against a very British malaise: not handling well with the slow decline of its status as a world power.
This is where I see K8s fit in, future proofing and un-vendoe-locking (mostly).
My own experience running on DO and moving to AWS (free credit ) while using DO S3 clone, managed pg and K8s, the move was rather straight forward..
"Look at me, look at me! Oh yeah, you're here, too."

I find interviewers like that almost unwatchable. Sorry, I’m here to see the guest, not the interviewer. It’s unbelievably arrogant for an interviewer to behave like that.

The best interviewers say almost nothing at all, yet manage to get their guests to really open up and talk about many interesting things. It’s like some kind of superpower, the ability to say just a few, carefully chosen words and have the guest talking for hours.
Was someone able to generate a *.microsoft.com SSL certificate when doing domain validation on non-microsoft machine ?
Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [video]
Humans are used to dealing with natural intelligences all the time, in the form of other humans. Other humans often get a sense of what we're going to do next based on what we've done before and move to our next step alongside or slightly before us. This kind of experience-based cooperative alignment arguably even has an evolutionary advantage.

The fact that a computer can do it now too doesn't make it a novel experience for us. Most of us have known since we were kids that we can affect the actions of other entities by establishing a pattern.
If you like this, you'll also enjoy Ten Minute Physics, especially chapter 17 "How to write an Eulerian Fluid Simulator with 200 lines of code."

https://matthias-research.github.io/pages/tenMinutePhysics/i...
https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Firewalker Was more what came to my mind.
Show HN: Andromeda Invaders Auto Play Algorithm Demo
> Today, I know what Spotify is trying to push, but I have no idea if that is what is actually popular. Even if I were to install TikTok I probably wouldn't see the same things they are. I have no idea if the garbage on the front page of reddit is really reflective of how younger people think, or if it just an engagement algorithm feedback loop gone wrong where everyone reasonable has long since checked out.

In the case of youtube, you can just open the front page in an incognito tab. There's also the trending category which isn't catered to you specifically but to what's popular in your country/area around you.
> My point is more that in Poland, communism was always something of a foreign imposition by the Soviet Union

I think communism or not is besides the point. Poland has a strong imperial tradition where the state spanned from Baltic almost to the Black Sea. They’ve been occupying and ruling for much longer than they’ve been in a socialist camp, and that had a much bigger impact on their national identity. And, as some others noted, being close to Germany gives Poland a big advantage.

On the point of “communism”, take Romania as an example. I took a tour of the Presidential palace when I was in Bucharest. The guide was extremely negative about the communist era(when the palace itself was built), as many Romanians are. She went on and on how the dictator forced the palace construction and how terrible it was. Ironically, the palace is one of the few attraction in Bucharest. Walk just 200m away and it’s going to be rubble and desolation. In summary, I don’t think being anti-communist helps them all that much.

> Bulgaria, on the other hand, was a close ally of the Soviet Union and more historically, of Russia

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Bulgaria never was an economic powerhouse or major European power, unlike Poland. Between the Ottomans and other empires, they probably don’t have a history of building a strong economy. Being between rock and a hard place, not having resources, etc. probably contributed much more than what you say.
I have heard the hope expressed, that quantum computers might solve that one day, but I believe it, once I see it.

Till then, I have some hope, that native support for raytracing on the GPU will allow for more possibilities ..
Microscope is one of those games that is easier to play solo than most RPGs that were not meant to do that, when you use it just like your creative writing exercise quide. And somebody even made a nice app - https://utgars-chronicles.app/ if you happen to have easier time tempting your internet-friends than your irl friends.

Another fun thing to try with the irl group, if like having longer campaigns, is to start with a session of microscope first and then play in the world you scoped out :)
The author talks about many aspects of traveling in London as though they are novel.

Signs to hold on to the handrail, or to report antisocial behaviour are not new in London - and many famous styles of public information poster originate from this area, in particular, the Underground.

The opening paragraphs suggest a level of paranoia, frankly.
I recall a study with a setup similar to what's described in this article, but with an important change. In the experiment, when the equipment predicted a subject's choice to push button 'A', they ingeniously manipulated the outcome (perhaps through some neural stimulation?) causing the subject to choose button 'B' instead.

What's fascinating is how participants consistently rationalized their choices as products of their own free will, despite the external influence. This suggests that our conscious mind might often act as a 'spokesperson', justifying actions initiated by our subconscious.

Can anyone remember this and perhaps post a link to that study?
Flowers 'giving up' on scarce insects and evolving to self-pollinate
Blue lights are banned on cars in lots of places (so that you don't look like a cop car). I'm assuming SAE has thought of this already? It doesn't look too similar to the bright blue lights on cop cars, but still.
Just use a regular spinning hard drive, not any kind of solid state media. Solid state media must be charged and accessed periodically to retain its contents, like RAM, but billions of times slower.

Spinning hard disks use aluminum platters coated in an extremely purified layer of iron oxide (rust) all of which is super chemically stable. Once written your data will remain stable for hundreds of years until it is slowly ripped off the disk over time by gravity.

These drive are mechanical and the mechanics will fail far earlier so the data will need to be extracted from the disk directly by some invasive means. People already do this now to extract valuable data from damaged disks.
The best laptop I ever owned was from Toshiba. Fantastic performance for what I paid, quiet and seemingly indestructible based on what it went through. When it came time to upgrade I learned that Toshiba had exited the market entirely and that everyone else had switched to making shit tier garbage designed for Windows 8. At that point I bought a Macbook Pro but I can't say I was ever thrilled by it, or that my feelings have changed with each successive iteration. Go well Toshiba, you'll be missed.
I went into this expecting another 'hurr UK surveillance hell CCTV cameras' hot take but what I got was much better. I wish I could write something as good as this.

As someone who doesn't live close to London, it perfectly captured my thoughts on how alienated I feel in a world where I'm seen less as a person, but more of a consumer or even product. The world is feeling less legitimate as more of Big Finance creeps in and resells everything around me.
he did say he hadn’t been there for a while.
I never used a clipboard manager up until about 3 months ago when I decided to give Maccy a try. It's a free/open source one for macOS. It has absolutely ruined my ability to use a computer without one now! The inline popup feature when hitting cmd+shift+c to copy is amazing and I use it probably 500 times a day.
Intel as a whole seems to be in pretty big trouble and rumor is that the GPU org is a dumpster fire in particular. I'd bet it's more likely than not that intel's GPU experiment ends within a year or two, unfortunately.

Which is a crying shame because the space could really use more competition, instead of less.
If the allocator is unaware of your type, how do you initialize the underlying object? That is - how do you invoke the default or non-default constructor of type T over the memory region you just allocated?
Sidewalk fall into disrepair in few months? Here in my city sidewalks are keeping well intact for more than 10 years.

Is theft a huge problem? Electric scooters are everywhere in the streets.

Underground tunnel which is capable to fit furniture and cars will be extremely expensive. The whole idea for last mile delivery via tunnel is not economically viable.
>Because I don’t want to support the long-term value of an antagonistic provider.

Such a terrible take. You're not hurting Reddit's bottom line with this, you're hurting the users looking for answers.
ROCm works better in HPC than on consumer systems because it was initially written for HPC and arguably is still tested with HPC in mind. ROCm development was substantially funded by the Frontier supercomputer and the DoE developers get to complain directly at AMD developers when they're not happy.

The DoE doesn't like having single suppliers for their tech. AMD/HPE's Frontier bid was a bit of a gamble from the DoE - it wasn't remotely obvious whether they'd be able to deliver it or not, and was against a background of Intel broadly failing to deliver Aurora - whereas nvidia was a known safe bet. However placing a big order with Intel and another one with AMD was their best shot at getting away from being wholly reliant on nvidia.

Frontier shipped. It's a real thing, people run code on it. I'd guess the DoE labs talk to each other to some extent and thus AMD ended up winning the El Capitan bid. That means AMD has a flagship HPC machine that sales people can point to and a big ongoing revenue stream to continue funding development from. It looks like the DoE plan to have two HPC vendors has worked.

Aurora seems to be somewhat in existence now but is less compelling as a story other potential customers might want to copy. I'm curious whether Intel end up making a loss on it.
A quite similar story to the one depicted in Spread Your Wings (Donne-moi des Ailes).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10204940/
You can always start with something simple, and maybe just fork it for your own use. Do a little improvement here and there ...
This makes me sad. They funded a lot of GNU toolchain in the late 90s / early 00s, directly and indirectly, and I have a lot of good memories working with the people there.
A challenge with this is that all current AMD GPU support in SYCL compilers (DPC++ w/ Codeplay's oneAPI for AMD GPUs, and AdaptiveCpp), is built atop of ROCm / HIP.

If AMD were to move away from ROCm, they would have to adopt some other API for SYCL to use as a backend. Potentially, this could be the level zero spec from UXL foundation, but that is not the same as SYCL.

However, no changing between APIs etc. will help with troublesome drivers, or issues with OS compatibility, or documentation. Those issues are orthogonal.
Great time to start using different sources
I'm not sure but I think that's a selling point of the new pixel
function $ (s) { return document.querySelectorAll(s); }

Would be more jquery like.
> Failing that it is probably worth listening-to/reading Matt Taibbi:

No it is not.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-host-mehdi-hasan-makes-m...
> changing one small system would impact a lot of other ones

This is a misunderstanding.

_Components_ don't depend on each other, nor do they (or should they) access each other, because they don't contain any logic. _Systems_ access components.
Reddit didn’t die. That you think it did is telling.
EV's have a problem with the battery being by far the most expensive part, the quickest depreciating part of the car and a huge issue for when you are trying to sell your car.

Buying the car and paying a reasonable monthly subscription to always have an available swappable battery is not bad at all.
Yes, killing all life would be indeed really hard. But killing all "advanced" life, is quite possible on the other hand.
I listened to the first YT video from VASAviation and then the followup video that is very long with a lot of explanations.

I think Lufthansa was in the wrong here:
- they knew SFO does visual parallel landings, and ILS is provided if able and it does not interrupt the flow of planes
- pilots attitude was not very professional and they started on the wrong foot with "you told us 10 minutes that ended 4 minutes ago"
- then they told ATC they're gonna fuck up their sequence
- then they started complaining again that why is everyone sequenced before them even though ATC told them that they will be cleared once there's a hole in the arrivals sequence long enough to accommodate an ILS landing, and the new estimate was 15-20min more

It is a requirement for pilots to know how an airport operates and what to expect when they get there or depart.

I guess in the end Lufthansa needs to send pilots with better manners to SFO and put more fuel in their airplanes in case they need to wait for a gap in the arrival sequence to accommodate ILS.