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Is there a link to these prompts somewhere that I'm not seeing?
A few months ago I bought a Mac with a M2 Pro 32G, and it is great for LLMs. I never thought that I would be running models like mixtral-8-7B-q3 locally on my own computer. I think the M2 Pro has 200GB/sec internal bandwidth, about 25% faster than the M3.

I think smaller models will keep getting better. For privacy and economic reasons, it makes sense to do as much AI on-device as possible.
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Why exactly do we multiply made up numbers and then get our knickers in a twist?

$Current_Stock_price * #Number_of_Shares != Actual Wealth by owner of those shares.

Like take "Ol'Muskie", if we are to believe the linked article above that "His fortune rose by $6 billion during December 2023", then are we to also believe he actually lost 200 BILLION BENJAMINS at the end of 2022?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-30/elon-musk...

He neither lost the money then, neither gained it now. It was just paper gains and paper losses.

These are not Saudi princes or whatever, the "wealth" they have is meaningless. They are wealthy, absurdly so, but the exact number (and ranking on some list) are not worth bothering about.

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I fully understand the need to tax rich individuals, but that requires adjustment to the tax code... an adjustment that would most likely be most fiercely fought against; not only by these dunderheads, but by the far less visible but the far more populous (and powerful) group of low-billionaires and multi-millionaires.

I have long maintained[1] that the next-tier rich people have a far more secretive and negative effect per dollar; the ~10 or so tippy-top rich are just far too visible to escape the scrutiny in ways the next group does. Just my personal observation, I could be wrong.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38262314

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Like most people, the "loan against shares" in lieu of salary really grates at me. I think there needs to be some sort of "deemed salary" type thing, but it needs to have a carve out for people who truly are taking a loan against their assets as collateral.

No idea what qualification for a "true loan" would be most fair, but here is an idea...

There is an growing consensus that if you are a billionaire (or whatever wealth level is considered appropriate), then any shares you take a loan against, should be considered "sold" for tax purposes, and any gains should be realised and taxed... but if they start "repaying" the "loan", then they can deduct that amount from their future taxes.

I think this might help offset some of the tax burden from the salaried class (also make things feel more fair), but I would love to hear if there are some flaws in this plan.

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but we need to stop faffing over these "paper wealth" lists, that only re-direct our energies from where they need to be, and give us false targets to focus on.
sensors would be passive, thus no maintenance. 10,000$ every 200m is stupid. You use RFID chips or similar things.

I don't know how often signs are replaced, but at some point every sign should come with an RFID chip that encodes information about it, although you can probably just glue a chip onto a sign as well.

We scoff at Tesla's self driving claims and the valley between their "FSD" and actual required products, but they'll keep hammering at it. There's probably a trillion dollars of valuation for solving it. Musk's current managerial incompetence aside, Tesla DOES have the data collection platform to get all the data needed for self-driving, especially the "easier" stuff.

Once enough cargo is moving along a route, if there's sections of that route that are not ideal for automated movement, that will be brought to attention of the transportation agency.

The value proposition is obvious: generally, interstate highways are almost totally unutilized from about 10pm to 5am (outside of cities). 6-7 hours of transit that could be used (and offload the transit from rush hour times when passenger cars demand it more).
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Any other sync solution will do the job - it's just text files.

If you just want to support the project, they have the Catalyst once-off payment that gives you beta access and VIP status on their Discord.
Cost, unlimited cost- but no cost.
Agile had it's moment back then.
Is agile still appropriate today?

Now we have agile coaches (per team), agile leads (all teams' agile lead), scrum masters (the guy who does the meetings), and project owners (giving requirements), and lead project owners (planning) all trying to get developer time and attention.

Right size this, OKR that, attend this attend that.
Wasn't agile always about finding what works best for the team and doing it, with consideration of tracking what works well and what doesn't, and refining the process to fix it?

Now it seems to be some sort of glorified job role, so even if the team get it right and run well they're patronised into attending non stop meetings from non technical staff trying to justify their jobs and whose own job role even states if the team is running well and self organising, then they need no involvement.

All I hear these days is, how can we fix that? And the team answers; the delay is off team, in either third parties, business itself, or we've worked around the bits that we can.

The dev team is now being asked to fix other teams' delay causing problems and then effectively silently shamed for not doing it week after week (because it gets raised again and again).

This is end game and wasting time if you're team reaches this point, yet the coaches still pound that shaming in like there's something that can be done in team.
Of course these meetings aren't meant to do that, but when has human psychology ever been considered (being asked how to fix something a dev has no control over is now a common theme in questions I'm asked)?

IMHO agile in its current bastardised form should be taken out the back and shot.
When it became a rigid set of rules (oh but "that's not how it's meant to be applied" is the war cry!) which promotes long term job roles preaching it, adds nothing to the teams' ability to adapt, and the team is already meeting most sprint goals and deliverables, the team has hit peak agility already.
Wait until we'll start seeing error messages like "I Cannot Fulfill This Request It Goes Against OpenAI Use Policy".

Then we'll know why QA went bad.
Thats not how having power over others works.
Cecil Adams is an internet treasure. Before Reddit, his site was the main GOTO for interesting in depth answers to inane questions.

One of my favourites is the cause of the "piss shiver" (the shiver you sometimes get when peeing):

https://www.straightdope.com/21342202/what-causes-piss-shive...
You said:

> [America is a country] where so many of these absolutely rotten-brained zero tolerance takes on immigration become popular.

Can you explain what you mean by that? Because it sounds to me like you believe there’s some sort of zero tolerance immigration policy that is popular in America, but you haven’t been able to produce evidence of it so far.

As for the left leaning and right leaning media, they both lie. And I was right there with you believing the left’s over the right’s up until 2020. Since then I don’t lean one way or the other, but I do demand every claim be accompanied with concrete evidence. This is the only way to find truth.
Are these problems unique enough that they couldn't have circulated before the AoC where they appear now?

I notice that for "novel" code that CoPilot hasn't seen before, it's mostly useless, but when writing a hobby project which is a path tracer (of which there are probably 1000 implementations on GitHub) it's excellent. Which isn't surprising. It has seen the exact same function I'm writing, written 100 times in every language imaginable. There are books on the topic etc.
There is already illegal speech.
How does the 1 month compare to the 0 month trial period offered by of MacOS?

I think one month is decent. But I'm pretty sure if it would be 2 months, you'd say 2 months is pretty short (why?), 3 would better (sure, more is better).
But when they’re buried they require access FAR less frequently. In cities with buried power lines, power loss pretty much only occurs when the entire grid is undersupplied or goes down entirely like in the 2003 blackout. And those situations don’t require access to the buried lines.

My city has areas with both buried and above-ground lines, and the above-ground areas see a week or two without power every year or so. Living in the buried-line areas, I haven’t seen an outage since ‘03. There’s one area of the city with buried lines that lost power a while back —- when an entire power plant went offline due to a bad storm. And again, they didn’t have to tear up the streets to fix that.
Why would you want to develop a native Windows app in 2024 rather than a cross-platform or browser-based application?
> There are plenty of very wealthy people who never show up on the Forbes list because their money isn't new and it isn't public.

This is a very important fact that is lost on most people. When people hate on Bezos, Gates and Musk for their wealth, it's because it is all based on stock wealth that is transparent. They don't have this cash sitting in a bank.

However, there are undoubtably people with much more money than these 3 with assets so hidden governments can barely keep tabs on their actual wealth.

So we just settle on easy targets.
In a word ---- marketing.

For the same reason people currently buy "American" autos (and planes) built from parts sourced around the world.

In American management culture, marketing is the knee jerk solution to any problem and the holy grail from which all revenue is gifted. They are true believers in the "magic" of being able to "game" people into making decisions based on something other than logic.

This same culture explains how/why the internet we have today is built around privacy invasion and (wait for it) ... marketing.
Lowe’s is more for home remodeling/furnishing. I’ve seen those things there. Granted you may two options for what you want to buy.

Also Target has a good selection of items.
It turns out the John Mayer of all people wrote a (imho) really beautiful song about a man building a homemade submarine in his basement, called "Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967". If you feel like taking a listen, it might stir up some memories; I know that I usually connect with it more after a weekend of getting lost in a passion project.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrcMMyNeJJs
What are you going to do to prevent it, though.
Nice. I often use pgf tikz but the syntax is very convoluted. I like how Penrose separate substance from the rest.
In this part 2 of B2B Ad Campaigns series, we are focusing on creative assets and how to scale them quickly.
This is the best advice here. You want to be able to say, “during the time I worked here, I did X and the company’s revenue increased by Y.” Swap in whatever metrics are particularly relevant to the job you’re applying for.
Because that subscription doesn't stop google tracking those users.
Drugs of the future will be easier and faster to make, thanks to mRNA
Pretty much every journaling mechanism requires snapshots for reliable backups. This includes either of SQLite's modes (undo journal and WAL).
Here they are buried and even I have the map of the cables going in front of my house - and no I'm not from the power company. If it doesn't work in one place doesn't mean it cannot work. Maybe the infrastructure in some places is better because those places were more concerned with the infrastructure in the first place? Because nowhere on earth did those underground cables just pop into existence...
The stock market dropped 30% from Feb-March 2020, and then recovered it's Feb value by Aug 2020. The Feb-Aug "increase" is really a recovery. Endpoints are always a little arbitrary but this was really egregious.

My own end-dates, picked for convenience rather than ideology[0]:
S&P500 Jan 2 2020 close: 3,257
S&P500 Jan 2 2024 close: 4,742
Increase: 1,485, which is 45% up from 2020, annualized that's ~9.7% (1.45^0.25). That's actually the historical norm.

There's a lot more in this report than just that one headline stat, but one does wonder about the reliability of everything else as well (and I can't fact-check everything). If we assume the worst they do is cherry-pick endpoints that means graphs could be trustworthy, but basically any numerical text statement (of which there are many) is unreliable.

[0] I guess I can't prove this but I picked the dates while only having an approximate idea of the numbers.
The default mode for sqlite isn't WAL though so turning that on is a choice. End-users should have a safe mode of backup if they're not expected to understand the tech.

I know reading the manual isn't very common and people are lazy, but getting burned can be a useful and necessary lesson.
first, there's a definitely a stamina to it - I worked in an XP team for best part of 3 years and have at other jobs done a lot of full-time pairing (sometimes months at a time).

Second, there's a chemistry element. When there's good chemistry it can be quite effortless and the chemistry can grow - as you start to develop an intuition for how the other person thinks there's less communication and mental jostling.

I've had remote pairing sessions that have felt almost as fun as online gaming.
I Bought the World's Hottest High-Tech E-Bike. Then Its Maker Went Bankrupt.
In India, cost of running a petrol car is almost 7x that of a electric car. Where i live, the electricity rate is like 7 rs/kwh and gasoline rate is like 100 rs/l.
My earlier gasoline car had an running rate of like 10km/l which turns out to be 10Rs/km price point. While, in an EV, i get like 250 kms minimum on full charge with a 40 kWh battery which is like 1.12 Rs/km. Also simpler maintainance in an EV and much more easier to drive. No vibration and an almost silent drive. Whats there not to like. Not sure why people hate on EV so much here. Even when i use fast chargers in india, the rate is 21 rs/kwh. Which is still 3 times cheaper than using a gasoline car. For reference, the cars were Petrol -> Honda city and EV -> Tata nexon EV Max.
The numbers are based on daily drive in city traffic for 40kms of drive daily.

I charge at home every 4-5 days using the standard 15A-250V socket that is present in every single indian home. So, no matter where i go, i am able to find a socket to charge my car.
Whether its a hotel/airbnb/friend's place
Yeah, definitely a fair critique. Actually, we have been researching the usage of LLMs to generate Penrose diagrams! We presented a poster on this at SPLASH 2023 in October: https://2023.splashcon.org/details/splash-2023-Posters/14/Ge... I'm not sure if Rijul updated his poster before the conference, but here's a photo of it from a different poster session in August (hopefully this Discord media link works): https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1136758988751503381/1...
Scrum, XP and/or Agile are not going to save you if the guy leading the project decides the hardware and firmware have to be completely re-done for no good reason other than his own opinion, lack of experience and ego mixed in with a bit of "not invented here syndrome", "if it ain't broken fix it anyway" and "make it complex not simple stupid" (recent random example).

My point being: other aspects of companies and teams are far more important than the latest fashionable project management methodologies/frameworks/philosophies.

I find it hard to care about these trends.
A company's income comes from people spending and consuming. The propensity to consume of owners is less than workers.

The more you invest in machinery and lay off workers, the fewer people you have with income they want to spend, and that's when the prices plummets.
Independent Party ID Tied for High; Democratic ID at New Low
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There is a massive difference between "[if X happens] consider dropping the cloud" and "cloud bad".
Maybe I'm being idealistic, but wouldn't it be nice if YT tried to engage with users of ad blockers in some way to see if a middle ground could be found?

I'm sure Google considers itself all-powerful, but in this case they cannot win. They should look at what happened with the music industry and attempt to engage instead of punish.
It does happen with consoles but much later. This lets you understand why.

It comes from various electric components, for example electrolytic capacitors dry out.

The reason consoles don't use them, they don't want to ever have the bad reputation of dying consoles.

Why do 'computers' use them? Planned obsolescence. You will go buy that new computer basically by certain number of years.
You'd be surprised at how many await's it takes to produce a try/catch. The attitude of being extra vigilant, pedantic, and strict around exception and error paths forces the happy path to be as well defined as it possibly can be given the requirements. It's defensive programming. Assume everything will break in ways you don't know about when writing it. Especially true for async/await code. I don't find it silly. It's like a seasoned sarge telling you not to pull the pin on that baseball object you have in your hand.
If your on-prem team can't spin up a VM same day, then firing them is probably higher ROI than "going to cloud". Further, a lot of the shops "going to cloud" because their infra team is slow.. then hide cloud behind their infra team.

A prior 200+ dev shop went from automated on-prem VM builds happening within hours from when you raise a ticket, to cloud where there was a slack channel to nag&beg for an EC2 which could take a day to a week. This was not a temporary state of affairs either, it was allowed to run like this for 2 years+.

Oh and, worth mentioning, CTO there LOVED him some Gartner.
> At the same time having a very high reparability

If you exclude the awful glued battery with the audio cable taped on it.
I have an intel Thinkpad X1 Carbon, S3 sleep is catastrophically broken:

Putting the laptop to S3 sleep puts the M.2 SSD into some kind of sleep mode, when the system wakes back up, it fails to wake the M.2 SSD back up. The sleeping M.2 SSD mode is persistent across reboots, so upon reboot the laptop fails to boot because it can't find it's main storage. The only way I've found to fix this is to pull the SSD and put it in another working machine.

S0ix is also completely broken under linux with it draining the battery 30% in around 4 hours.
Isn't the best stereo system in the world a pair of decent headphones?
Likewise, if you knew about err.exe, you'd also know how to be able to get the error message behind the error code.
Rethinking Monarchs: Does the Beloved Butterfly Need Our Help?
The GP said "[if X happens] consider dropping the cloud". Which is totally different from a mantra.

There is virtually nobody saying "cloud bad" without nuance.
It's about one-click-solutions what makes Windows a nice-to-use-tool, not the error messages.
How common is an automatically expanding WAL across other DBs? I'm most familiar with MySQL which uses a fixed size WAL (unless something changed recently). That of course comes with other tradeoffs like potentially blocking writes if checkpointing falls behind. But I'm curious if SQLite is an oddity in this respect compared to other DBs. Since it is used in embedded contexts it might prefer to save less data on disk in the common case, but with the edge case that wal2 mode now fixes.
I agree the article is biased, I just found the framework of analysis they were using to be more interesting though.
I agree with your main point but

>why this is a polarizing issue as 99.5% of people are on the same side of the threshold

are we? I earn way less than mid-level programmer in SV and I'm pretty sure I'm on the "rich" side of threshold already. Granted I'm relatively frugal, live alone, and live in a (capital of a) low cost of living country but fact is a fact. I'm sure every single homeowner in California can achieve financial independency (if they sell their property and move somewhere cheap).
Sort of tired of smart, intelligent, wealthy people convincing the general population to use proprietary platforms when it's obviously not in their best interest.
I live just outside of Seattle. Major urban area.

I got so tired of multi hour power outages, I paid something like $20k to have a natural gas generator installed in March 2022. Since then it has run 16 times (based on a quick read of the monthly summary emails), of which maybe 5 were short term couple of minutes.

Even when I've lived in other parts of the US, I've experienced more, and longer, power outages than I ever experienced in the UK, in areas of comparable urban density.

But, you know, what's lots of inconvenience to customers when we could be making more profit for our shareholders, instead of burying our power lines!
I’m curious…if you’re writing a path tracer for fun, does using Copilot not take the fun out of it? If it’s already been done a thousand times, it feels like the point has got to be to write your version, otherwise why not just copy-paste or pull in a library? If you use Copilot are you not giving up the joy of building it with your own hands? What’s left at that point?
I'm not so cynical. Affirmative Action is generally a policy with good intentions behind it (addressing historical inequity) but is limited because institutions are not willing to take steps that address the full breadth of inequity. I do not believe that Affirmative Action was some sort of cover to get institutions out of the spotlight.
I thought the Mormons owned it due to some religious beliefs about bloodlines sharing the same after life. Article clearly states black stone owns it now. That’s frightening. I uploaded with a fake name years ago, regret it deeply. Though it did help me diagnose my wife with a potentially life threatening condition that is easily treatable but rarely treated for until after complications. Still, I can’t believe gone dumb I was. It was a Christmas gift.
Because sometimes you need/want to or someone pays you to?

Think any browser, heavy 3d/rendering stuff (Maya, Blender, etc), games/game engines, etc.

Even basic streaming/video/music players (Spotify, VLC or even ffmpeg has a Windows port/build that could have platform specific bugs).

Also even in the case that the application is mostly just an embedded browser window it can still have platform specific bugs.

I would argue the vast majority of native desktop applications are Windows applications just due to its massive marketshare. So in most cases if you are making a native application for desktop you will have to at the very least debug it on Windows sooner or later.
I'm not sure if it'll be useful, but it could be a lot of fun : )