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Technological Acceleration Paradox – Why the future is already obsolete
Florida lawmakers pass ban on social media for kids under 16
It might be helpful if you said why you think Spotify is better. I have no idea based in this comment.
If you're using multiple devices to read a book, physical memory goes right out the window. The location of a phrase on your phone screen is very unlikely to correspond with its location on a tablet screen. It gets even worse if you change the font size depending on your situation.
> I have quite a lot of concurrency so I think my ideal hardware is a whole lot of little CPU cores with decent cache and matmul intrinsics

Back in 2015 I thought this would be the dominant model in 2022. I thought that the AI startups challenging Nvidia would be about that. Instead, they all targetted inference instead of programmability. I thought that a Tenstorrent hardware would be about what you are talking about - lots of tiny cores, local memory, message passing between them, AI/matmult intrinsics.

I've been hyped about Tenstorrent for a long time, but now that it is finally coming out with something, I can see that the Grayskulls are very overpriced. And if you look at the docs for their low-level kernel programming, you will see that Tensix cores can only have four registers, have no register spilling, and also don't support function calls. What would one be able to program with that?

It would have been interesting had the Grayskull cards been released in 2018. But in 2024 I have no idea what the company wants to do with them. It's over five years behind what I was expecting.

My expectations for how the AI hardware wave would unfold were fit for another world entirely. If this is the best the challengers can do, the most we can hope for is that they depress Nvidia's margins somewhat so we can buy its cards cheaper in the future. As we go towards the Singularity, I've gone from expecting revolutionary new hardware from AI startups to hoping Nvidia can keep making GPUs faster and more programmable.

Ironically, that latter thing is one trend that I missed, and going from Maxwell cards to the last generation, the GPUs have gained a lot in terms of how general purpose they are. The range of domains they can be used for is definitely going up as time goes on. I thought that AI chips would be necessary for this, and that GPUs would remain as toys, but it has been the other way around.
That’s how a “studied” physical chemistry. Before the test, I’d flip through the book and review the equations. My brain encoded it as location on the page. Then at the beginning of the test, I’d scribble down all of the relevant equations from pictures in my mind. During the test, I’d flip back to my index of equations to solve the problems.
Not wanting the lifestyle that would certainly come with it like harassment, being recognized constantly in public, drawn into lawsuits, controversy, the market hanging on his every word, swatting, etc.
The only conclusion that seems even remotely supported by the evidence here is that writing by hand is important for learning letters. As in, learning your ABC's. No arguments there.

The new study cited is a Norwegian small-sample-size study of college kids typing vs. writing Pictionary words while wearing an EEG. Not learning, I would point out.

What they observe is more connectivity between brain regions when they write, because well, writing and uses more of your brain. And then they make this immense leap to, "and it seems like the connectivity we see when people learn, ergo it's good for learning."

Then Scientific American amplifies it because it's a divisive non-falsifiable thing that people (like me, admittedly) get weirdly invested in. This is bad science and bad science comms. Show me how you decided that this connectivity pattern was evidence of learning when observed in a non-learning context—that's the crux of the issue.

I suspect you can't "see" learning of the type that college kids do in an hour-long EEG session. It unfolds over days, months, years.
Former Austrian Chancellor found guilty
Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build An Atomic Bomb
"Most" programs used epoch time, like video games. The minority that didn't were the big, stable, old programs that ran on big computers. Things like payroll and flight schedules.
I have one of the nicer APC units (for use in offices, not racks). Recently, when the power blipped, it went into backup mode and got stuck there, draining the battery. I had to physically unplug it and plug it back in to get it to turn back on.

I'm not sure if there's a decent UPS brand any more. I get the impression APC has been going downhill since the acquisition.
> many American politicians personally lost money in its collapse
Maybe they're harder on conmen who buy super bowl ads.
https://fixedincome.fidelity.com/ftgw/fi/FILanding?bar=p
I just read an article detailing how thousands of Americans fall for scams run by Mexican cartel proposing to buy their timeshare from them. Americans buying Mexican timeshares is a big thing apparently. One guy kept getting pulled into the scams eventually paying them (and losing) $1.8MM. Others had lost tens or hundreds of thousands to the same type of scam.

Every time someone supposedly bought their timeshare there would be a bank fee or tax they would have to wire money for. The guy who lost $1.8MM wired money 90+ times.

These are lawyers and doctors, educated people getting ripped off.
This is true, but having multiple people involved makes it every difficult to pinpoint one true source. Plus, when I say multiple people I mean 2-3 or 3-4. Not like a big operation. And if these small number are so paranoid about privacy and identity that they invented Bitcoin, I would expect them to be able to keep a secret.

I just find it hard to believe there isn't a single soul walking on this planet right now that has any idea who Satoshi Nakamoto is/was.
Especially considering the amount of trivial mainstream tech articles nowadays. It's cool to see more algorithmic topics.
How the Web Could Eat Software
After using hundreds, hundreds of very cheap to huge expensive APC UPS' I can say I have never experienced a fire. They have all used lead acid batteries, some as heavy as 50lbs.
I have even had to cut UPS' open to remove swollen batteries.
Gemini image generation got it wrong. We'll do better
The failures analysis is super well done, nice work! Curious what qualifies as hardware failure, e.g. there's 5 trials where the "Realsense gave bad depth", and how that's determined.
A Cloudflare Perspective. All about Privacy and Europe's Digital Services Act
It’s looking more like FTX is going repay customers in full, with a cash value computed based on the value of crypto deposits when the company went bankrupt in November 2022. That was a time when the prices of crypto had fallen, and they’ve gone back up.

If FTX has billions of dollars left over after paying depositors, FTX equity holders could end up getting paid too. If that happens, the outcome arguably would be pretty unfair. You’d have a situation where an insolvent FTX effectively managed to crash the crypto market, forcibly cash out all its customers at the low prices, but hold onto the other assets that it bought with customer money.

In effect, capital gains that were earned with the capital of FTX customers are going to go FTX shareholders instead. Same happened with Mt Gox.
Is this specific to Lithium battery UPS units?

For home use I bought a lead acid UPS specifically to avoid a fire. For a 5 hour power outage it makes no difference to me if the UPS powers my machine for 5 minutes or 20 minutes; as long as I can save my stuff and shut down it works for me.
The main trouble was Byju (the founder) was never a tech person or a product builder. Byju was a tutor (at mass scale), he at best was an excellent service person.

The VCs (Sequoia, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Tencent, Lightspeed, Naspers...) had ONE JOB - founder evaluation - should have seen it coming from far that Byju will not be able to create a scalable tech product worth $22 Billion.
The guy in the OP paid somebody $100k to beat him a debate using a self-defined empirical system, which somebody did, and the original guy now believes the lab leak theory even more.

Honestly I think I’d prefer if it were a lab leak, since that seems easier to prevent in the future, sadly for me I think the overwhelming evidence points otherwise. A quest for the truth isn’t real if the truth can only be one thing.

But look I’m not going to convince you, your faith is your own and I hope it serves you well.
> - Investing money in a friend's company - this was the most painful as it was perpetuated by our family members who lived here for a while that we trusted

I don't know your parents' experience, of course, but this method of losing money is one of the most popular for everyone. I once saw an expert who provides finanical education to new professional atheletes (known for being bankrupt soon after retirement despite millions in income). Loans to family/friends' businesses was top of their list of no-no's.

On the other hand, many successful businesses have started that way. Many more legitimate but failed efforts also have begun that way. Not everyone has access to VC capital, personal wealth, or a bank loan.
I feel quite a lot of people on HN simply react to the titles and that's it. Many people on HN also only read the comments. I know I do. I also sometimes read the post, it really depends.
> Unless of course he was a state-backed actor(s)

I'd be even more impressed if some state had the foresight to come up with Satoshi
Did you confirm this with blind testing?

Often it’s also just loudness/dynamic range compression.
If you've inadvertently committed, say, copyrighted material to GitHub, and want to fully erase it, is there a way? Other than contacting GitHub as this article mentions.

Even if you contact them, GitHub says[1] that they will not remove "non-sensitive data", but makes no reference to copyrighted material.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou...
Rex(): a smol regex engine in Go
A small regex engine in Go made to learn NFA and Automata and also to use in another project.
I'd go a bit further: for those who have terrible handwriting (or spelling, or both) typing has played a big role in landing an education or job. Before modern word processing it was much harder for these people to be taken seriously.

I don't doubt that writing by hand can be very useful to many, maybe even most people, but it's not for everyone.
A big part of why investors are being made whole is also that what they are owed froze into dollars at the moment of bankruptcy. If you had 1 BTC in FTX at the point of bankruptcy, and that was worth 20,000 on that day, you do not get 1 BTC back (or what 1 BTC is worth today)- you get cash for the amount it was worth on the day of bankruptcy. So as crypto prices have gone up again, the assets that FTX owned have gone up and the amount they owe has stayed constant.

This is only possible because FTX is no longer a continuing operation- if they still owed that customer 1 BTC then the assets appreciating and the debts increasing does nothing to help them.
Second-tier 'legacy chips' at forefront of battle for semiconductor supremacy
If you aren’t working with multiple people or making a mess of your repo then git pull is fine.
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VC and private equity vultures have been buying up FTX debt at a loss since the collapse, with this being the singular reason why, to make a huge profit off the Anthropic shares. Any retail investor that sees this as a possibility of getting their money back is about to be disappointed once again.
> That's how much better Spotify is.

I think the situation here is that your sentence can be finished with "...for me." It's closer to an opinion or preference than a fact.

I have been a Spotify user for a very long time, but I left for Apple Music because I wanted different features than Spotify was willing to give. Apple Music lets me edit the metadata for tracks, easily upload my own music that lives right alongside the tracks from the streaming service, and has discovery and categorization algorithms that, in my opinion, are better for me.

I am now with Apple Music where you are with Spotify: I would pay triple to keep the service going as it is now because it is great for me. I have no desire for exclusive content or add-ons like audiobooks or integrated podcasts. Give me the jukebox in the sky where I can insert my own CD and vinyl albums and I am very content.

Spatial Audio and lossless are nice add-ons to have, though.
Birds are able to do it as well, this popular bird on youtube seems to know at least that many words https://www.youtube.com/@ApolloandFrens
The spotify app experience is what drove me away in the first place. Once they started cluttering the home screen with TikTok style videos and banner sized ads for podcasts I have no interest in, I left for Apple Music and have not looked back.
Many years ago there was an MIT startup based on the idea, IIRC, that subliminally flashed names increased recall among cognitively impaired elderly when the flashed names were correct, but didn't negatively impact recall when the flashed names were incorrect. So even quite poor face recognition could be worthwhile.
Don't rephrase me to suit your narrative/argument. What kind of garbage person does that?

I said:

> more likely to frustrate new users away from Linux.

Because, as little as you may agree, most people are well aware that Arch is more complicated/advanced than the "beginner distros"; and one of the major turn-away points for Linux is it's complexity. Thus why it maintains a minuscule sliver of consumer users.

That's not me disliking Linux (I use it as my primary OS, for about 20 years now), that's just being in tune with reality.
What's being punished is the fraud, not the losses. We do not want to incentivize companies putting it all on red with customer funds they don't have a right to touch as long as they win the bet, we want to punish them for even trying, regardless of whether it happened to work this time.
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> Cracking the coding interview came out in 2008. 14 years ago, none of this is new.

Considering that Cracking the Coding Interview is no longer enough for most people, I think it's fair to say that the difficulty has increased.
Audio compression is based on psychoacoustic methods. Perhaps it's not your ears but different wiring in your brain that makes you capable of telling the difference.
"But opponents say it blatantly violates the First Amendment and that it should left to parents, not the government, to monitor children’s social media use."

[...]Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo sarcastically said lawmakers have other options if they want to parent other people’s children.

“Let’s have a bill that encourages engaging with your children, cooking dinner, sitting at a table together, making eye contact, calling grandma to see if she’s OK once in a while.” he said."

Wouldn't you apply this stupid argument to gambling, drinking alcohol, watching adult content, etc?
Of course.

I'm not wanting nor advertising nor where everything much match 100% in common. That would be silly.

I was just making a figure of speech that my interests, are those which are not topic of conversation that you would have at a bar or tavern nor really any other place were you would socialise to court.

If the other party cannot resonate with the other persons hobbies or interests than as much care and love you give, it won't last; I'm just happy with fun and personality if I were to scrap all above.

But I still hold belief that of if there are not mutual interests between one and another then the relationship cant grow.

I don't disagree.

Love and Care are ever so important; they are the basics to form the spark, to light the candle, however.

The other party are too needing to be ready to engage in the passions you enjoy and that to share my passions I would need to take interest in vice versa. Incompatibilities are true and its not a percentage.

Would you be ready to play with fire? Go out on cold wet rainy night with a litter picker and carry a dripping wet trash bag ring? Listen to me ramble on how I've configured vtnet jails which allows me to host jailed bhyve VMs?

Because for me, the personality type I am is someone who would like to do them with me. The same goes for me if I was to be in a relationship I would like to do what you would want to do too. Compiling kernels till 2am and then going litter picking is my idea of fun. If not dorky.

Not everything is going to gel but the comprise is to find an equal balance you both enjoy. That however only comes from an established relationship, which is hard when you don't connect and they don't give you the benefit of the doubt.

My gripe is that when it comes to IT unless your kitted in the IT world its boring as * to anyone else. Goth is a niche outlet, stomping boots and wearing black isn't everyones taste and fire spinning is out there but fencing is an commitment.

I don't hold the "woe is me, single forever" maturity. Life is too short for that. It will either will, or it won't. It's hard and depressing at times but hey, I'm proud of what I have interests in.
I don't think that's true - the loudness wars haven't really been a thing for a few years now, the streaming services all "normalise" the loudness which makes pushing it in the master pointless.
If you're getting residual revenue on a website, at some point someone's going to figure they could get a bit more residual revenue by adding some ad scripts, and pretty soon you've got an entire stack for serving ads that needs maintenance and ROI.
The 'Pro' Paradox and the Allure of Style over Substance
The Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors
Likewise. I think they have some great playlists, but I dunno if I'd pay 3x for that.

Also with YouTube Music you can bundle in YouTube Premium which is pretty great value if you watch a lot of YouTube IMO.

I think he's right though; nobody except dumb audiophiles care about lossless.

Still, I won't go back to Spotify after I tried to export playlists from there years ago and found the only way was to copy and paste them into MS Word. Yeah really. Say no to lock-in!
Great example. The best commercials will still have big budgets and location shoots but generated videos will raise the quality floor for local commercials.
Ironically, you can probably just ask a Transformer model to explain it to you.

I'm the same as you: I have no problem grasping complex concepts, I just always struggled with the mathematical notation. I did pass linear algebra in university, but was glad I could go back to programming after that. Even then, I mostly passed linear algebra because I wrote functions that solve linear algebra equations until I fully grasped the concept.

I've found that GPT-4 is very good at taking a math-notation-rich document and just describing it in terms a math-notation-averse engineer would understand.

I was a data engineer for about 6-7 years at various companies, always working together with data scientists who insist that `x_` or `_phi` are proper variable names. Man am I glad to be working with engineers now.
That too, and it was a general embarrassment for the U.S. government because he was the largest donor for many politicians who remained in office. They couldn't afford to not prosecute him, because it'd make them look (even more) corrupt.
Yeah. Except I need you to work on a legacy system from which we have only the source. Or on a project that you won't be able to handle alone for a time short enough for the product to keep relevance. Or any other big projects... How do you deal with this ?

Let's not speak about the need to sync with other team, external partner, showing progress to the management, getting the information from all those peoples, getting ready with side department like compliance, marketing or whatever is needed to make the work relevant.

So no, it's not to prevent anyone from starting a project from scratch. It's to make sure that the project will come to fruition, useful and if possible reach its goal.

And honestly, a good manager/tool will help deal with that. Now... there are a lot of them that create a kafkaesque hell.
Do you have any proof to anything you said? It just sounds like you hate the people of Alabama and are fantasizing about how dystopian it would be more than anything based in reality.
Well, that's very mature and noble of you on a personal level, but you are apparently very out-of-step with the AMD community and social media as a whole.

Remember - we are talking about 95% consensus that hitting advertised boost only when running NOPs in a loop, or running under LN2, meant that Zen2 wasn't "technically" defective or false advertising. You are an extreme minority here - this isn't an edge-case, this is how people actually think on social media.

And that's the problem - the public perception of all of this is shaped by the AMD social-media hype machine. Whether or not people think it's a "disaster" or a "nothingburger" is primarily determined by how much the AMD fans melt down about it. And they tend to blow up anything intel or NVIDIA to a massive degree.

Smeltdown was a disaster - the AMD prefetch+TLB vulnerability was a nothingburger, even though it was found by the same team and stated to be actually a worse exploit than Meltdown. AMD continued to even ship insecure-by-default and just slip in a small, non-explicit implication that if you cared you should enable KPTI manually (which of course hurts their benchmarks).

Over and over again.

you simply cannot broach almost any "is X thing actually important" without running into this issue - whether it's important depends on whether it favors AMD or not. People will literally flip stances topics overnight once it benefits AMD - more recently with framegen and latency. People will literally go from "unplayable fake frames" to "possibly the best part of FSR" literally overnight.

How do you have tech discussions in that atmosphere? On anything? I don't have a magic wand to fix that, but I'm just begging you here: this is going to be yet another Ayymd shitfest that nobody will remember in 2 years, just imagine that it's AMD in the hotseat and scale your reactions accordingly.

Just like New Worlds wasn't the end of NVIDIA (or even an NVIDIA-specific issue)... just like POSCAP/MLCC wasn't the end of 30-series... over and over again.

The chips have been out for literally 2 years already and the microarchitecture has been out for 3 years. It literally has to be a minor edge case or someone would have noticed it already - segfault on ryzen was noticed within months.

And this isn't a strawman or bait: you've already got people within this very thread winding up about "turning off turbo on intel" and shit like that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39480731
A bank called me to ask me security questions. I said that I would call back using the number on the bank's website. They said (and the bank confirmed when I did call the number) that there is no way to be transferred to the security question people when I call the bank - the only way is for them to call me. I explained that that was poor security practice. They said that I should just look at the caller ID to see that it was the bank calling. It was useless trying to tell them about caller ID spoofing.
Title had to be shortened due to size restriction for HN articles.
> For reference, 192kbps mp3 is considered "transparent" for most people.

With the caveat that the right encoder has been used. Late 90s/early 00s 192k MP3s will sound audibly worse than those encoded by LAME[0] some time in the past decade due to the many improvements and optimizations that encoder has seen over the years.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAME
I actually have access to audio books on my version of the app. I have a family plan and on the main account page it says that I get access to 15 hrs of audiobooks before I need to “top-up”. None of the other seats in the family plan have this though just me as the account manager.