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That's still only 2D, not 3D navigation
Rankine and Fahrenheit, all you need for science and everyday.
Yup. As a senior programmer who's been a professional for 10+ years and has been programming on and off since roughly 10 years old, I have found that the more time I spend in my field, the harder my work becomes in a way that is disproportionate to my experience. It's not the programming itself that has become more difficult, but all the process, tooling, and lack of organizational self-correction that makes aspects of my job hell.

Do I have the hardest job in the world? Not even close, by most measures. It can still be psychologically torturing at times and even cause a form of internal suffering that is distinct from the existential dread that comes from doing menial or repetitious work. Unlike the feeling of being a human robot, it's a feeling of the system attempting to slowly stretch my humanness to its limit.

Before I say anything else, there are still things I like about my profession and the company I work for. I don't think being a programmer is a complete waste of time.

However, in many ways, it indeed has become a waste of time.

I'd say easily one of the worst things about being an experienced programmer today is knowing that the task you are working on would have taken you 1/10 the amount of time to complete when you were a novice a long time ago. Even if your younger self wouldn't have gotten it totally right the first time, there was enough of a lack of friction there that a n00b could at least figure out how to integrate something workable.

At my current and few prior jobs before it, I have no clue how a junior programmer would survive. Maybe that's why all of my most recent employers only hire "seniors". Code bases are architected using approaches that everyone eventually agrees are bad, but the establishment inevitably uses the "that's just how we always do it" or "we'll make it better someday" excuses, and if you suggest a solution that goes against that attitude you'll likely get nowhere – that is, unless you have some clout, like if you're a prominent contributor to some framework, in which case you're given license to dictate the views of non-staff engineers and force new languages and tools down their throats without having to actually prove any of your assumptions. Because framework contributors are better than all of us?

If the software industry hits a greater downturn than the one it's experiencing right now, to the point where I'm laid off, I can't say I'll be terribly disappointed. It was a great ride and fun while it lasted. Today, programmers are merely seen as a necessary evil rather than an asset. Many companies still pay programmers handsomely, but those programmers are otherwise not treated that well because their real purpose is to duct tape the mess and allow middle management to collect their own paychecks. It will be rough not having that sweet programmer paycheck, but fortunately I have other ways to make income now.
Think more about the backgrounds used in shows like Mandalorian. Think about the size of the stage/studio/set that Mandalorian filmed on. It's going to get smaller, and the backgrounds and other details used in music videos, tv shows, commercials and films will be far more virtual than even today.

All the components will still be needed, but the levels and origins of them all will change.

If you go back and look at how the median productions have changed at 5 year intervals (going in the past), it'd be a poor choice to commit $800M to something that's probably going to remain exceedingly fluid for a while.

The SFX industry is probably the most prepared to shift, as it's already screens, pixels, and servers. The days of green dots are already (mostly) over (see the ILM SFX reel for The Creator -- wholesale human detail replacements without tracking dots).

The change will affect everyone else more.
Is it not possible to add Gemma support on Llama.cpp?
5.3% https://www.viobank.com/cornerstone-money-market-savings
Feels like some 2000s hip hop lyrics
Using no-script made me realize how unchained the Internet has become. Sites with upwards of 15 different domains all running whatever JS they want on your machine. Totally insane.
Yes, the overclockable chips are better-binned/faster chips even without enabling overclocking. (Unless you're talking about X3D chips, which have most overclocking features turned off due to thermal limitations of stacked cache.)
Beyond Code: Confronting PTSD in the Tech Industry – Debug:Mind – S01E03 [video]
it took me two weeks to get the sealed pinetime working back when it launched. for some reason it would get stuck on the initial boot screen, and it would be in a state to where I couldn't update the firmware. eventually in a mindless "flap/spin it in a circle with my hand while I was thinking about work" I felt it vibrate and to my surprise, it booted for the first time ever.

It turned out, even with a firmware update months later applied to it, that whenever it gets rebooted, I have to do the above movement until it finally decides to boot, and it's random. Sometimes it takes a few spins/flicks, sometimes I'm doing it for minutes on end.

I confirmed this isn't a red herring by leaving it in its frozen state and motionless, and it would never recover, even 24hr later.

This was the second Pine purchase of mine, the first being the PinePhone Pro, which A) I couldn't get activated on AT&T (not Pine's fault with the 3g phase out and whitelist approach, but I digress), and when I used TMobile, I couldn't make a call with it without having audio problems or etc.

Look, I wanted to support them, and the idea of less expensive open hardware/software, even if it meant rough edges, but completely non functional for even the most basic usages... I might as well just build my own and understand all of the reasons why something doesn't work instead of spending days or months getting it to do what it said it would do on the tin out of the box.
You can fix this by holding a notebook while you read the ebook, and turn the pages as you read.
Fiche – Command line pastebin for sharing terminal output
1. Apple isn't interested.

2. Apple is focused on consumers and that's where their strength is.

3. Apple probably isn't capable (without a lot of hiring and re-org). I suppose this point might be debatable, but they'd need to develop GPUs and an open-use library that overthrows CUDA.

4. Apple doesn't do or support modular, commodity hardware.
Most people can't do 100/0 because they're structurally overweighted on a single weird illiquid asset that pays out more distributions than the rest of their assets combined.
I also disagree. Sure, there are still hard problems, but for the most part, I think it's pretty easy. People from past jobs tell me my work is super straightforward so I don't think I'm tripping.

Even the other things like writing documentation or being in meetings is fun. I got into this field (well, I got an EE degree) because I like engineering and building things, not specifically programming, and meeting with people to figure out what the hell we want is at least half of engineering.
Meredith Patterson might know, then.
The conspiracy is to cover up the accident, and to deny that any unsavory/illegal research was going on. Some people go even further and think it was intentionally leaked. I wouldn't necessarily go that far. But yes, one could believe in the accident and think everyone else is just honestly ignorant about the nature of the accident. This turned political for multiple reasons, chief among them that Trump said there was a lab leak. The media could not admit anything he said was legit, because they wanted him out. They were also against "rushed vaccines" until a new president was in, then they wanted to force that injection on everyone whether they needed it or not.
I personally prefer "woman on weed" much more than those on alcohol. But i think that wasn't the topic at all :)
> With that, I'm not so sure your premise of "semantics are meaningful distinctions."

That's a simplistic definition for introductory purposes. I think a more precise definition is that syntax consists of local properties of X, and semantics are broader, possibly global properties of X, eg. how X is related to Y, Z, A, B, etc.

For any real world object, semantic properties of an apple pull in all sorts of sophisticated relationships depending on the perspective, eg. redness, taste, crunch if you're hungry, genes if you're a biologist, particles if you're a physicist, etc. But in the end, we're all just locally acting particles and fields (syntax) lacking any semantic properties, and so semantics must be emerge from syntax. It's the only thing that makes sense in a mechanistic universe.

It seems clear that LLMs do build a model relating X, Y, Z, A, B, etc., it's simply lacking some relations, namely, the sensory relations that humans have. That's a lot of missing data, which is one of the reasons why LLMs make mistakes.

> My gut says yes. And yes, humans could misspeak, but we can also self correct.

Yes, LLMs don't typically have review-loops, where they check what they were about to say before spitting out an answer. But if you explicitly ask it to review its answer for any errors, it's accuracy goes up noticeably. There are plenty of follow-up papers that add this sort of review automatically and show considerable benefits.

There's still probably still some form of generalization that's missing to make best use of training data, but I still think it's wrong to say that LLMs lack any understanding. I think this is a good analysis of the situation:

https://reddit.com/r/naturalism/comments/1236vzf/on_large_la...
Yes. I find the physical book provides context, as I can feel how far into the book I am. So if in need to find something later I know roughly where to turn and what the pages looked like as I fan through.

With audiobooks, I find I remember better if I’m walking somewhere new. It also provides context. I can recall details of the book by remembering where I was walking when I heard it.
VVVVVV (6 V's) is a fun game (I've played it before, and it has "overwhelmingly positive" reviews on steam). VVVVV (5 V's) appears to also be a game on Steam with mixed reviews, maybe looking for customers confusing it with the other game?
I made this for myself, and some of my friends found it useful so I opened the tool up to the public.

i called it tinydesk.ai, and it's free
>" While Gemini Pro 1.5 is comfortably consuming entire works of rationalist doomer fanfiction, GPT-4 Turbo can only accept 128,000 tokens."

A.I. Doomers will soon witness their arguments fed into the machine, generating counter-arguments automatically for 1000 books at a time. They will need to incorporate a more and more powerful A.I. into their workflow to catch up.
A 3D Memristor Architecture for In-Memory Computing Demonstrated with SHA3
Kudos on your release! I know this was just made available but

- Somewhere the README, consider adding the need for a `-DWEIGHT_TYPE=hwy::bfloat16_t` flag for non-sfp. Maybe around step 3.

- The README should explicitly say somehere that there's no GPU support (at the moment)

- "Failed to read cache gating_ein_0 (error 294)" is pretty obscure. I think even "(error at line number 294)" would be a big improvement when it fails to FindKey.

- There's something odd about the 2b vs 7b model. The 2b will claim its trained by Google but the 7b won't. Were these trained on the same data?

- Are the .sbs weights the same weights as the GGUF? I'm getting different answers compared to llama.cpp. Do you know of a good way to compare the two? Any way to make both deterministic? Or even dump probability distributions on the first (or any) token to compare?
If you are finding programming easy doesn't that just mean you aren't trying hard enough? There are tons of unsolved problems, tools that aren't optimal, and products that don't work as well as they should.

If fixing those things were easy for you, you would be a billionaire.
no, it's not allowed to sell it commercially, so no VAT.
You can only obtain it through clubs for a fee to cover the production cost.
With more reflection. There are only a handful of times in my 20 year career I've felt the programming itself was difficult. It was feeling like my hands were tied by 'easy' languages like Python and Go. The simplicity of the languages meant there was far more I had to keep track of in my head and less I could reason through.
I found those specs really curious as I worked in webhosting (even rax which is in the thread) and we didn't have anything near that low for a vps, but reading further I guess they're using some random fly-by-night webhost that doesn't even have a cPanel or Plesk license or anything for the user to self-service, they base all of their pricing on linode and you have to call/ticket in to manage your site.

I don't know the background of satoshi, etc (of course) but that's a $10 vps and they're complaining about running out of memory, etc in the thread.. Why so cheap? Dedicated xeon servers back then were 80-250 and vps filled every other price range.

And if they just need to compile a python widget on linux with a desktop WM... we had the technology to do that locally in 2009..
> They just need to release all the libraries with their open source CUDA alternative

Yeah but they've tried. Year after year for the last decade. They keep failing.
Maybe they're more motivated now? But CUDA isn't a moat because it's unassailable, it's a moat because nobody trying to cross it knows how to operate a shovel
Got ECC memory in my server - I am a value for money - my previous kit was i7-6700 system 48GB so I really sweated it until Jetbrains let me know "She canno go more Captain".

DDR4/Intel motherboards are cheaper than AM5/DDR5 - also a Ryzen laptop foobarred on my daughter so to me Intel kit was just more stable - no weird XMP issues or overclocking to the nines.
Free note taking browser companion for Chrome
I’ve built a simple and superfast note-taking tool called klemmbrett. It sits right on the bottom of the browser window and makes taking notes while browsing less of a pain, since there is no need to open yet another tool.

lmk what you think! :)
The Apple case has safe stowage for the battery. It is categorically not going to be banging around if you secure it in the case properly. I've taken mine to work frequently since release and have not observed it coming loose.
That's always drove me nuts because the underlying issue is a great idea, frustrated by its implementation.

The serial port serves dual-purpose. Along-side the obvious serial, you can also provide some inputs by grounding certain pins, and some outputs by sinking current from others. This has got me through some unorthodox integrations by having the UPS signal that it's on battery by having these "simple signals" close a contact/relay on the load. It's not quite a full suite of dry contacts, but it's pretty serviceable.

The problem is that 9 pins doesn't leave many spare, so to achieve this they've repurposed some. I really wish they'd implemented this as an alternate mode so you'd, for example short tx to rx to change the behaviour - instead of having the 'alternate behaviour' sitting on standard DTR/RTS pins.

Getting industrial interfaces at SOHO prices was awesome. The unintended consequences .. less so.
For scale: The global box office revenue of every single nation's film industry combined is about 42 billion dollars as of 2019. Nvidia's growth in market cap of ~350 billion since end of 2022 to 2 trillion today is almost enough to account for the entire 1.6 trillion (6%) growth in US economy for 2023.

Nvidia single-handedly carried the United States of America's 2023 GDP from recession territory (0% growth) to unprecedented massive economic boom (6% growth)!

--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_industry

https://www.bea.gov/news/2024/gross-domestic-product-fourth-....
> They will only get better from here.

What's not clear is if they'll get 20% better or 500% better.
The Muses Have Spoken
I'm looking for a notes webapp. Not something overly powerful, I just want something really, really simple where I can drop my stuff. I'd like to try yours.
There is not a single good Linux DE.

So the other option is macOS. Good hardware but the os is annoying in some parts.
It was possible to write before the printing press, too.
These are some of the cleanest rooms on the face of the planet. These processes are ultra-sensitive to any kind of physical disturbance, dirt, etc. These individual machines are hand-assembled by ASML on-location.

TSMC under peacetime conditions has issues obtaining acceptable yields on this equipment. In an armed conflict, there will be no operation at all, much less one that requires a Stuxnet-style attack to shut down.
And tangentially related, it was much easier for anyone to eavesdrop on your conversations.

When it rained, I could pick up my phone and hear conversations from my neighbor on my landline and talk to them without calling.

Not to mention if you were in the same house, you could surreptitiously here conversations by just picking up the phone or getting a device from radio shack that didn’t have a microphone, that you could plug in to another phone outlet.

With analog cellular, you could also buy a receiver from Radio Shack and hack it to pick up the unencrypted signals from cell phones.
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What is it that you disagree with? It seems that this is primarily a matter of: some people naturally take to programming, and some people have a much harder time with it.

The same is true in many fields. Music has its virtuosos and naturals. The same can be said for art. Programming requires a certain kind of mindset and abstract thinking ability that comes naturally to some, and is much harder for others.
OK... So care to share what that benefit looks like? This whole thread was about asking for concrete examples of generative AI's utility.
I'm just looking for ballpark figures. Maybe a common aws instance type
Thank you for sharing! I tried it out with my 7yo, who was interested. Unfortunately we had some issues with the toddler interfering so our session got interrupted.

I did find an online version here, for anyone who wants to try it without cutting out a bunch of alligators: https://tibordp.github.io/gator-calculus/

I am also on the search for more puzzles/challenges to do with it.
There is more than enough evidence now to make a strong conclusion, as the OP shows.
When the people were caught lying, only like 5% of the eventual information was known. It’s bad for their personal reputations that they were caught lying (or at minimum misrepresenting their own views), but their lies don’t change the underlying facts. I also think it is notable that the politically correct view turned out to be most likely correct.

I also strongly suspect a lot of lab leak proponents and/or anti-vaxxers are knowingly lying as well. But still it doesn’t change the underlying facts.
I would absolutely bet on the Death Star knowing the exhaust port issue exists.

Just because some 1% chance that a new Jedi comes along actually happens doesn’t make it a bad bet.
This is the usual silicon lottery. Every chip will work at stock settings. Some will be stable when overclocked and some won't.
The processing fee is as high as $35 when the taxes are as low as $10, and then you get charged tax on the fee too!

CBSA should require affirmative opt-in to use the shipper as the broker, and allow you to file the paperwork yourself on their site.
For all we know, some of the current best (still exponential) algorthms were guided by AI. If a mathematician solves a problem using mathematica, they don't usually write in the paper what tools they used.
Len was a Linux guy, Satoshi was not. There's even an email here that says just that, "technically much more linux capable than me."

https://mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/#email-241
I think this gets at my feelings on latency as well.

Terminal emulators with GPU-accelerated rendering became popular, but I often found the latency to be quite bad. (I eventually settled on Kitty and foot.)

With VS Code in particular, it’s just not designed to be operated via keyboard. With enough effort, you can map/script everything, but many actions translate to opening a pane and then focusing it. It’s an implicit modality switch that often ignores input during the transition. Also, opening a new terminal is oddly slow, I think due to VS Code injecting things into zsh init.

With tmux+nvim, it’s much more predictable. For example, if I think “I want to copy three lines out of this file and paste it into a new shell”, it’s just: `3yy alt+enter ctrl+shift+v`, and I know it’s going to work every time. Not to mention the composability of keybinds in different scenarios.

(Also, hi saurik! Cydia on my OG iPod Touch is a big part of what got me into coding in the first place :)
The key is to stop looking at progress as a war to be won, but as a value to be instilled and maintained in a society. We will always struggle to improve our society and human civilization - it will never end. This may seem daunting or exhausting, but it's the reality of life.

Cynicism undermines our motivation to make progress, and that is why so much disinformation is intended to muddy the waters and make people feel hopeless. The reality is - there is no way in hell any of us should want to have been born 1,000 or even 100 years ago and things will be much better in a century or a millennium if we keep pushing for it.
He didn't say this. Wired, however, did.

If you go to the source, Apple/Jobs took accountability. But Wired got clicks.
They are running mixtral, which is open source, so they can keep LLM costs to a minimum since they're probably running on their own hardware

Also I think they have loads of funding, and are factoring all of this into user acquisition costs
Show HN: An open-source app to easily interact with your LLM
Be careful about those chargebacks. I bought two new pixel phones directly from Google and only one arrived. Google support was of course awful and Fedex did absolutely nothing outside of asking me what color the phone was. lol

I ended up reversing charges for the missing phone and Google immediately wrecked me - I was using Fi at the time so they killed my cell service and killed my ability to use Google Pay for anything - including the Play Store. Probably some other stuff I don't even remember.
Between my personal account and my business accounts I realized at that moment that Google could completely wreck my life. Be careful about retaliation for a chargeback, if you live within one company's ecosystem it can be a brutal retaliation you're not ready for.
Very annoying namespace conflict since a package called "mamba" (faster reimplementation of the python conda package manager) already existed for awhile before this architecture was even dreamed up.

https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba

Beyond that, I'll care about an alternative to transformers when it shows superior performance with an open source 7b-34b model compared to transformer model competitors. So far this has not happened yet
You shall know by the assembled slang what series they watch
But then you'd have to agree that as a rule of thumb 900 lines is too big.
AAPL wasn't riding any hype waves in 2005.
At 12-14 years old, I remember jumping straight to the "Inside Track" section of PC Mag first. One of the best in his prime, and a Patriot.
No. If the feature requires 10 commits and only 9 are universally agreed on then under this model you would merge 9 commits. Those 9 commits, despite doing nothing, would have agency and real estate in the code. There's nothing that says that 10th commit will even get merged if it's so controversial.

To be frank, PRs are almost never universally controversial. It's the details that make them controversial, so this outcome is likely more often than not.
Exactly how we learned to do in keyboarding class. It’s still with me after all these years.
Where will this existing equipment be operating if an EU nation has a critical piece of infrastructure "blown up?"