skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thing is a great way to brick (until you offline reflash, which all AM5 boards have a USB port for) your ASUS AM5 board, since they seemed to have relocated settings on the NVRAM for some unknown reason.
Are you sure govts never bought an Iphone?
There's also the apparent reversal of the Flynn effect in recent years:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a43469569/american-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35511744
Dave Thomas has a talk about this

Agile is Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M

To oversimplify it, he says "agile" has become a noun when it was always meant to be an adjective. In other words, if you are "doing" agile, you aren't really being agile.
That has been discussed before, same question for ruff, rye etc.

Maybe it shows the challenges with using python for deployment and distribution of binaries.

uv, rye they want to install and manage python, so they try to solve the bootstrapping problem - should a tool that installs python require python to be installed, etc?
Yeah, I only remembered the four main lines and was, uh, "pattern matching" with other language stuff.

More or less same mistake as (unfortunately) conflating "I don't like X" with "I dislike X", which also falls into into the black-and-white tendency you mentioned.
all the corruption investigations his team did is a redeeming quality. No one else in russia did such thorough investigations
Eh. Someone named it after him, and the name stuck. It's a good concept. Why shouldn't he? What does it matter? Who's harmed by this?
> but there are also potential technologies that could allow humans to ... "upgrade" themselves

I hope so.

But transforming ourselves into GAI to keep up (while maintaining continuity of memories, etc.) is going to be a much more expensive proposition than simply making more GAI hardware from scratch.

So economically, where are humans going to earn that additional value, needed to account for the extra cost? When the premise of upgrading ourselves is our native biology isn't keeping up and so not actually needed?
Website Backups with Apple iCloud
Most early window managers, including fvwm, were configurable, with few hardcoded defaults.
Spnec fast-tracks ₱200B solar farm in Central Luzon
I wonder if there's a pixel-perfect Win95 WM out there.
I just have a bog standard cheapest 4K display, and I have more or less the same experience.
Thanks, that's great!
I don't disagree with you. China clearly takes advantage of asymmetries, and will gain more power as a result. I just don't agree with the idea that it wouldn't happen to the West if China didn't exist.
Having a part-grey-beard manager role of a team with junior software engineers, I can attest that this is true hahahahaha! :)
I've been plagued with the wifi problem since changing routers. Devices on the local network will randomly lose the ability to connect to it, but everything else is fine.
By the same logic the mere existence of Safari would be unfair because other browsers are not ported yet. This is of course incorrect reading of DMA. Have a look yourself:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?toc=OJ%3AL%3...

If Apple demonstrates that the entry barrier is sufficiently low by cooperating with other vendors, how one could possibly build a legal case under DMA against them? On the contrary, by disabling PWA in Safari Apple acts as a gate keeper complicating access to the platform for business users. THIS is what DMA forbids.

Also it has to be taken into account that the less PWA engines exist the lower is actually the entry barrier. We only need 2-3 competing solutions max to support innovation without harming PWA developers.
I'd consider enabling the hardware watchdog as well.

While one could argue that you should figure out the source of your device freezing in the first place;

Nothing is better than having to ask someone to power cycle your Raspberry Pi while you're away.
Ahh I see. That's quite disappointing.

I know nothing about it, but I wonder if web assembly could help out here.
I get this feeling that AI might be like full self driving in 2016. Elon said in months it would be solved. It seemed like it might be true, but it wasn't.

One thing I definitely know is that no middle manager is showing up to work on Monday saying they could replace their team with an LLM. Every person that manages a team will fight to keep their status.
Is this a way to automate /(create a UI macro) of windows applications?
Sort of like AutoHotKey but with a nicer developing experience?
Reading the page and watching the demo and I am still a bit confused
about what it is.
New Gnome Mutter Code Prepares Fractional Scaling for XWayland
I think longevity is the one thing humans still beat machines for? Cars, even electric, don't last as long as our bodies.

Of course, there's a whole bunch of other differences, like the machines don't need to wait 18 years after construction for physical labour, they don't need to be trained for 21 years for mental labour, they don't sleep, and the "working lifespan" target is about 47 years rather than the full 84 years average human life expectancy at birth in developed nations.
Remember Brexit and how long it took corporations to move their entities? It’s 12-36 months, from my experience in investment banking at the time.
I'd also say viruses don't work very hard (maybe phages a little bit) and they are quite successful.
> If you can never have a "moral basis" for compelling payment, than I'm curious how you think any contract law can work to secure payments?

If 2 parties voluntarily agree to do something, and voluntarily agree to go into contract and by bound by such-and-such terms, there is no force or coercion.

Did you sign a contract with the IRS or the government? No. Your bondage is assumed.

I don't care how much effort the IRS take to be nice. If they are forcibly extracting wealth, this is always a wrong. You wouldn't initiate forcible extraction of wealth from another and call it right, would you?
Organisations make it very hard to be that manager. On top of the human tendency to overmanage there's often push from top for "more visibility and accountability" which results in forcing stuff rather than facilitating.
Anti glare covers for laptop monitors are significantly cheaper.
>> at that point what are you testing?
> Memory.

It doesn't make sense to test something you have no control over, if the OS fails to allocate memory there's nothing you can change in your code to fix that.

Likewise, if you're improperly instructing the OS to allocate memory (via some constructor or factory or whatever) there is no test you can write to test your own intentions that won't be subject to exactly the same level of incorrectness as the implementation code itself. If you've written "do the thing" writing a "test" that says "hey make sure I wrote 'do the thing'" is ridiculous.

I've often found this to be a matter of semantics. Someone will say they're writing a "unit test" and load all the assertions and logic associated with the meaning of "unit test" into their brain and then try to apply it in a way that subtly invalidates those assertions when they start writing.

To make things worse, there's a cultural disinclination toward "semantic arguments" so you end up arguing with people that have basically no chance of understanding why what they're doing doesn't provide the value it should
That is one way of looking at it. The other is that we are now all artists.

And GAI's are not our end, they are our future, our mind children - just another generation eclipsing and replacing their predecessors. Just eclipsing and replacing faster.

I say this with all humor, but some seriousness stoicism may be the healthiest way to process what is happening.
Just read the data sheet of the Sandisk Max Endurance and, oh boy, what a fsck’ing marketing bs language.

They state the endurance on thousands of hours of FHD video, but what assumptions do they make in bitrate etc?

Can‘t they state total TB written or drive writes per day or something sensible?
The USA isn't important enough to reverse global progress in this area.

Slow down, sure, but not reverse.
It's strange. It happened before, with the Industrial Revolution wiping out whole professions, and same for mechanised farming, as mentioned by a sibling comment. Ditto for printing press, cars etc, albeit on a smaller scale.

But then, jobs didn't disappear, but shifted to other professions. So to me, there are two questions:

- if AI wipes out professions like tech, what jobs will people do? AI jobs seem great for now, but surely there's only so long until they themselves are automated.

- if suddenly the whole economy is ran by robots, how is the wealth distributed? Will there be a huge grey underclass of non working humans and a tiny owner class? Some kind of egalitarian paradise? I suspect neither, but not sure what in-between.

It could be great. If I knew I will be fed for a lifetime, have a house, my kids well schooled, and not much more, I can live a great life. I'll take that over the daily grind any time.
That’s getting “fixed” in upcoming release, in EU at least.
Thanks for the feedback! I must say I've never worked in real big tech, and I've never worked with an IC beyond staff level. I'd imagine promotions to principal / fellow are quite rare as well? Besides, most "normal" companies don't have these grades, at all.

By transferable, I mean skills that are useful outside of our big tech bubble. You might not want to go out as money is very nice, but still good to know you can do something beside computer beep bop.
>. It would be better if they just focused on what works, reliable and secure consumer electronics, instead of trying to be what they were under Steve Jobs.

Man, the amount of history rewriting that happens in tech world is actually insane.

Louis Rossman literally made his career out of showcasing how shit apple laptops have been through the years. The evidence is all there. I dunno if people are just willfully ignorant or are actually just lying.
Not affiliated, just came across it randomly and it is a fun distraction that stimulates parts of my brain that often aren't.

20 'puzzles' to work through.
I also set up recently the policy to only use merge commits on stable branch, as otherwise the path filter^1 in the workflows would not detect correctly which files changed after merging a PR.

[1] https://github.com/dorny/paths-filter
Already do. CNC lathes, (GOF)AI designing chips. A "century or two" is a framing so alien to me that I don't understand how anyone can think it would take that long.
I've seen broken hash implementations many times, so I'm not sure it would be a bad idea to require tests for them ;)

My other favourite of trivial code that's broken: returning the same Iterator instance in Iterable.iterator()
Do you have recommendations for a NUC to replace a raspberry pi that draws around 10W when idle?
fair enough. It might be better to use other word.
> LLM generated tests is that it seems highly likely that they'd "ratify" buggy behavior

For a new project or a project under active development, I agree that auto generating tests is probably a bad idea. But there are countless legacy systems with low coverage that are in maintenance mode. For those, generating tests that verify the current behavior is super useful. It lets someone make a change, and see that everything else stayed the same.
Drop a link to your friend’s work?
You shouldn't have setters in the first place. What's the point of encapsulation if anyone can just set properties at will?
Another way is resetting BIOS to factory settings. I am using a screwdriver to short two pins. Needed that because I was overclocking RAM for a better throughput for LLM.

Hopefully you saved your last working settings. You can save to USB from BIOS.

By the way, I think for my system this tool is not really neccessary because BIOS seems to offer at least the same settings (BIOS >= Master Utility).
Learning curves: What does it mean for a technology to follow Wright's Law?
In 1812, Britain was a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system dominated by landed aristocracy and gentry – 3% circa of the population, and it was exclusively males.

Members of Parliament (MP's) were often elected in rotten and pocket boroughs where a single patron could (and unashamedly did) buy up the votes in one or multiple boroughs and essentially dictate the outcome of elections. Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk controlled 11 boroughs, as an example.

The rotten boroughs were only disenfranchised by Reform Act 1832 which granted seats in the House of Commons to large cities instead.

In the pocket boroughs, the landowner could evict electors who did not vote for the two men he wanted, the practice that did not cease to exist until secret ballots were introduced in 1872.

There were also «open boroughs» where the vote was more competitive but still limited to male property owners only.

Since «demos» in «democracy» stand for «people», calling Britain a democracy in 1812 is not even a stretch.
It is my opinion not FUD, I clearly mean well, and you read a lot of non existent negativity into my post and didn't understand the points made as written - the overall guiding principle should be whatever works for a particular individual.

> It won't fuck up your joints if you very gradually increase your total exercising volume.

Congratulations on more or less paraphrasing my point.

Somebody who is a couch potato who takes Nike commercials overly seriously is not unlikely to push too hard and injure themselves - extremely common for beginners. We are saying the same thing. Ease into it.

By developing the walking habit first you've also carved out time for such things, the most important thing is consistency.

Even minimal but consistent effort is better than going for a few runs here and there and not forming a routine around it.
A sales guy told me his team does Agile. I asked him what he meant.

“We have don’t have assigned desks”.
I mean public final was there before as well.
You can also use a Raspberry Pi compute module in an appropriate carrier. I use the CM4 for work and consequently it’s all I use at home too. Lovely versatile device that fits in whatever carrier you want (including one that mocks a regular pi) and it has industrial grade flash.
I believe this to be a failure of imagination. You're assuming Sora stays like this. Reality is we are on an exponential and it's just a matter of time. ILM will be the last to go but it'll eventually go, in the sense of having less humans needed to create the same output.
You don’t have to do all this hand waving about what you think is going to be happening in the near future.

Just explain why AGI will be in our near. Frankly, I don’t see how from what we have now.
The irony here is that the unusual weight of the headset was completely avoidable. The headset has a heavy aluminium frame, which is a terrible idea that serves no practical purpose except of an aesthetic one. No other headset does this. For comparison, the Quest 3 is significantly lighter despite including a battery.
From a programmatic and practical point of view, I don't understand why would someone want to put a bang in the middle of a request or within a word.

Basically you have your request and you add a criteria on it, not in it.

It's like ordering at a restaurant : you wouldn't say "I'll have a burger to take away, some fries and a coke". You either specify how you'll have your order before or after the actual order. And you don't create a new word like "a cokedinein".

Furthermore, I want Kagi to be able to reply to the request "how do the !g bang works?"; if I want something else to reply, I'll add the relevant bang around my request.

Or I'm missing something?
All my SD cards are Sandisk in all my Pis. (2x B+ and a 4, and a Zero). Never a single issue in over 10 years of running at least 1 Pi 24/7.

Only buy Sandisk I guess!
A couple of other points that struck me as different from my experience, and maybe more a function of where this person is working rather than some fundamental difference between the roles:

The idea that your word is taken more seriously as an EM rather than an IC when it comes to (for example) needing to test more.

I have to admit that this may have been one of the reasons I felt the need to switch to a management role myself (I was an IC that had recently been promoted to a staff level role and subconsciously I felt like I lacked credibility and hiding behind a title would help me get some). In practice that turned out not to be true -- I didn't need to do that at the time, and now as an IC in a different company, my thoughts and feedback are taken seriously at an organisational level and by my peers.

The fact that you have to stack rank and pick an under-performer every half is just broken. I know it's a sad reality of performance management in a lot of places but it's not a universal truth that you will have to do that as a manager. Statistically, you can't avoid having difficult conversations about real performance problems, but there are companies where managers don't have to have the "everyone else on the team did better than you this half" conversation or the "I had to pick so this half you got the short straw" conversation.
Also, de-weigh anything Apple branded significantly.

You can easily code on Quest 3 if you really wanted to do AR/VR, and could do it on Quest Pro as well a year ago. While its true that Vision does offer better resolution, lets not pretend that people who are trying the Vision Pro have significant experience with AR/VR headsets, chasing the ability to work anywhere. Its brand fanboyishness at its core: "Apple made therefore its good and usefull".
Testability of code is indeed a good benchmark for code quality. The things that make it hard to test code are also the things that are associated with low quality code.

Something with low coupling, high cohesion, and low complexity should be easy to unit tests.
Do you guys feel frustrated that if you were on Linux, you could fix those small annoying bugs or glitches yourself, but since it’s Apple you can’t, and since it’s Apple these bugs won’t get fixed ever at all for being too minuscule, so you have to accept to live with them?
Is there any data to back this up? There is no way the startups even make a dent in total cashflow for the sector.
If anyone else did this then some useless lawyer would be activated from their slumber to send out OSS devs cease & desists based on supposed violations of sacred terms and conditions.

This project is the future that we were promised but it is under threat by supposed legal challenges.

What if the demo asked the email to be sent as a message via whatsapp desktop instead? That would (according to their anti-freedom lawyers) constitute an offense worthy of legal threats.

The tech industry needs to reckon with ToS trolls before it's too late.
Master of the Playing Cards
AMD's OpenCL support on GPU is overall excellent in my experience (2x commercial apps and lots of hobby code), but I tend to mostly use low level OpenCL 1.1 stuff, which I find sufficient.

Also Intel GPUs are actually incredibly competent with OpenCL if you give them wide enough NDrange, and somehow try to look past lack of any fp64 support at all :/
This is false. All you have to do is look at the R&D spending of big pharma versus government.

It dwarfs the R&D spent by the NSF, NIH, etc.
Nice aka perfect timing.I just restored "some" files (40GB) with [1] But the filetype detection of photorec set some wrong file types.

Edit:
It would be super helpful if the "suffix" could be added as output so i can move the files to the right directory [2] ;)

[1] https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
[2] https://github.com/google/magika/issues/63
> because telling people about nonguix in any official docs or communication channels is disallowed.

That's pretty bad. I'm definitely against that.

> We call that a web browser.

Are there known exploits based on web browser use, which are foiled by CPU microcode changes? Or, are these speculated to be possible?
There were slightly more L7 EMs than L7 SWEs every time I looked, but there's nuance to that. If the company decides it needs an L7 EM and nobody is available to promote, they'll hire externally. Your chances of being promoted into that role are reduced by the proportion of L7 EMs who were external hires. The other nuance is that those numbers don't correct for overall tenure, but I don't know how that would change things. Finally, getting to L7 EM is maybe 30% in your control and 70% circumstances, but that ratio is IMO inverted for ICs.

So even though there are more L7 EMs than SWEs, you might still have an easier time getting to L7 SWE, if you're ready to be an L7 SWE.

Your point about ageism is well-taken. I'm not yet old enough to really feel it, but I have heard it's rough.
Think in AI and Neuroscience, there has been some progress since 1950.
This is pretty much it from what I see. Stripping back bit of the over growth from 2020-22, leave a bit more cash in the business.
Second the recommendation, learned a lot watching this.

If you don't have time to watch all 23 episodes, the last one is a bit of a summary, discussing the history of European imperialism and colonialism, particularly Nazi German imperialism (conquering Ukraine was a central strategic goal of WW2), and pointing out some European hypocrisy in their reckoning of this history, and how Russia is exploiting that to pursue its own imperialist and colonialist goals.
We're so close to having ai just re-render your face in the videos.
> but explaining the new world, which is going to be completely foreign to you

It might be different this time, if we are looking at accelerating higher order change.

Human's have a speed limit. AI progress doesn't, and its rate of improvement is going to surpass the rate any human child can learn.

Crossing major thresholds tends to break previous patterns.

(Not trying to be downer. Just trying to understand what may happen, regardless of whether I like it or not.)
Great. Call it what you will. The point is to find a maintainable cadence and avoid injury, you're not competing against anybody.

Whoever is reading this: You can get started with walking immediately, right now. Step away from the computer. Or you can get caught up endlessly debating which way is best and never actually get going.

I lift weights and run and highly recommend it for people who can find joy in it. It is strictly not necessary to do any of that to get started with losing weight.
> I guess it all boils down to good SD cards and stable power supplies.

Agree, I've also been running a number of PIs and when they broke, it was because of failing SD cards.

I found pibenchmark to be a good source of info --> https://pibenchmarks.com/

Definitely compare SD cards before buying.
> I guess it all boils down to good SD cards and stable power supplies.

I would say your sample size has a stronger effect on your experiences. With a large enough pool of devices everything will go wrong, what can go wrong. And there will be also new failure modes that you have never even dreamed of.