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Hi there,

I’m a developer and I have always struggled with design aspects and have always been in need for a designer. There used to be a website called programmermeetdesigner.com, but that shut down a long time ago. I have never found a place like that anymore, so after 15 year of having the desire for a place like that I have decided to make it myself. Hence DevBuddies.

DevBuddies is a place focussed on developers looking for other people to help them with development and design, and I also added marketing, entrepreneurship and coaching/mentoring.

Of course nowadays there are a lot of other ways and places to meet other developers, designers, etc, but not like I wanted it. DevBuddies is not that special or complex (this is the best sales talk you are ever going to see..), but I just wanted it like that.

However. I have no wish for growing a community or pushing this into the world, which is probably necessary for DevBuddies to be ‘successful’. I just wanted to fulfill a long-standing wish to create DevBuddies. That’s also the reason that for initial content I have decided to add Reddit content through scraping. This is actually not a bad thing since that content is now better searchable by DevBuddies users and adds value for them. Anyhow, if you have any ambitions for something to help me out on growing DevBuddies or take it over let me know.

For now, enjoy DevBuddies!
Nvidia can't copyright an API. Sure they can sue, but that would be a SLAPP.
Oh there are definitely people who avoid it because it's made by Meta. Maybe a bunch. On the other hand, it seems to be the most popular VR headset line by a wide margin.

It would be cool if Valve came out with a standalone headset, they're one of the few companies I can see that would be in a good position to do that: they already have a good amount of VR experience with one high-end headset + SteamVR APIs + a couple VR games, they have their own highly popular store/platform, they generally have a positive reputation with gamers, and they have a decent amount of hardware experience in general including the recent Steam Deck for mobile gaming hardware specifically.

And of course, a Valve headset would probably be significantly more open than the Quest. The Steam Deck has gotten some good reputation among more FOSS/hacker-oriented people for being fairly open: you can use it in a regular Linux desktop mode, you can install Windows (or presumably other OSes) on it, it's fairly repairable, etc. The default behavior is very console-like, but it's not very locked down if you don't want it to be. Best of both worlds, really.
OK, so assuming a script kiddy with LLM can be as efficient as a junior without LLM, junior with LLM is going to be even more efficient. So we are back to where we are, except everyone is more efficient.

I myself don't tend to believe that performance improvement is that dramatic.
About 15 years ago at a state school, it was still like 10-15 males to 1 female in my CS classes. My masters classes at a bigger school about 7 years ago were more evenly split. I'm not sure if there was a massive increase during that time. In my experience it seems like there was a slight increase in undergrad but that a much higher percentage of females went on to a masters program than did males.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39603074
Google is starting to squash more spam and AI in search results
Wherever the pay is proportionally lower. If people are making 1500 bucks then charging them 2000 won't work.
Have you checked out this repo: https://github.com/supabase-community/supabase-custom-claims?

The "raw_app_meta_data" stored for a user is not writeable by the user, so you can store roles and/or privileges in there.
Microsoft Ending Support for Windows Subsystem for Android
It changes resistance. My dad had an old, full mechanical/hydraulic automatic car and it was an extremely visible feeling from the throttle pedal when it changed gears or when it engaged the extra clutch (it had torque converter and some extra clutch on top of it for fuel efficiency)

The sound of the engine also changes greatly depending on the throttle position and engine load but for me it was more audible and I couldn’t feel it from the throttle. Modern cars are pretty good with sound insulation from the engine, but I’ve heard some “sporty” cars direct the intake sound to the cabin for giving the noisy sports car experience to the driver without being obnoxious with the exhaust side.
The entire VMware rugpull of all subscriptions is a huge dick move. I hope they eat a bag of dicks and go under entirely.
Think about money as voting power for what the collective production force does.

You buying flowers is a tiny bit of vote for someone making flowers, giving you happiness. Someone buying a dog chef is a significant vote (enough for a whole worker) for... two happy dogs?

I don't think about employment as a 'gift' from the ones employing. The dog chef could, and would, have done something else if they did not cater to a couple of dogs. The billionaire gets to make another human waste their production because they have such immense voting power with all their money. And yes, the dog-chef might be happy, or maybe they are just a wage-slave doing what they can to survive.
Not true. You can turn off the wifi and the headset works fine.

The current problems sound like a server-side bug while it phones home. But usually it can work fine without internet.

Standalone just means the VR compute is happening on the headset itself, not on a console or gaming PC the headset is tethered to. Of course, most of the people disputing "standalone" already know that, they're just playing definitional games.
Is there a programming language that compiles into any of the various kernel languages like Metal, CUDA, whatever AMD has, etc? If not, why not? We have C compilers that compile to various CPU architectures. Shouldn’t there be a compiler to GPU architectures? Perhaps it’s just that no one has created it yet?
Something nobody else has mentioned, it's almost like a completely different celestial body.

Not even very much like my home planet at all ;)
That's a fair take. I can't overstate Stack Overflow has been in the past, I think I often had that experience that it usually caters to common but specific scenarios, or I'm just impatient and lurk instead of asking a question and waiting for a response. Interesting I could paste Stack overflow discussions into ChatGPT to ask if this insight is related to my issue and it was usually open to relating the new info and helping me
Also images and text have tons of recurring patterns that can be exploited to train big models with lots of data. There is an internet worth of each modality that at least generally can all contribute helping a model build up a better overall understanding.

There is no analog for tabular data, it's all different.
> I view VR headsets and their peripherals as no different than a mouse, keyboard, and display

That could be valid when VR headsets were tethered to a PC via a DisplayPort or HDMI connection and essentially mirrored the display.

The Quest is closer to an iPhone or Android phone or an all-digital handheld gaming device. With integrated compute, display, battery, text input, pointing devices, mic, and speakers, it bears little functional resemblance to peripherals like a mouse, keyboard, or display with no utility unless slaved to another device.

Considering I can use my Quest with no wifi or other network to log in (once initial set up is complete), it seems that the Meta back-end APIs must have broke in some way that confused the headsets into thinking they were available when they weren't.
Intellexa is Greek [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/us-slaps-sa...
The Starlink satellite antennas all point at the Earth. The antennas are also small compared to radio telescopes. They also listen to specific frequencies. They would make the best radio telescope for detecting Starlink customers.

The customer antennas would make poor radio telescope because the antennas are small. If using array of small antennas as radio telescopes were possible, we would see them. Using interferometry requires measuring positions and times to sub-wavelength. The Square Kilometer Array is the closest, but it is small extent, with large dishes, and many low-frequency antennas.
To be fair, it the most honest product description available. A traditional WAF is - at best - a layer of security that is not guaranteed to stop a determined attacker. This service is the same - a best effort approach to stopping common attacks. There is no way to deterministically eliminate the classes of attacks this product defends against. Why not try and undersell for the opportunity to overdeliver?
I know that "Beverly Hills Ninja" with Chris Farley features "Low Rider" by War, but it wasn't a correct answer :(
I think the issues are mostly relating to getting the optimizer right. After all, not much of a point to GPU acceleration if it isn't meaningfully faster than CPU. A lot of these compatibility layers have this issue, DirectML, ZLUDA, etc. GPUs tend to expect the compiler to bake in things like instruction reordering/out of order execution for optimal performance.

The other challenge is that there isn't an "AMD-opcode", each generation tends to change around the opcodes a bit, so you want to compile to an intermediate representation which the driver would ingest and compile down to what the GPU uses. NVIDIA uses PTX for this, it works very well.

AMD's ROCm doesn't use an IR, it compiles the code for each architecture, which means they have a very limited support window for consumer GPUs (to limit binary size). OpenCL and Vulkan supports SPIR-V as an IR, but IIRC, the OpenCL SPIR-V on AMD is very buggy, and Vulkan SPIR-V is very different.

This has other side effects, like BLAS library support range. Hard for an open source community to justify putting in tons of effort into optimizing an entire BLAS library for each generation, when it'll only be supported for ~4 years (so, by the time you're finishing up with driver stability and library optimization, you're probably already at least a quarter of the way through the support period).
The European Commission isn't one person either, actually.
How do new search engines like Perplexity and Kagi avoid getting rate limited or hitting captchas as they build and maintain their indexes?

Sites have to make exceptions for Google, but likely wouldn’t care enough to allow other search engines in.
Probably, but the comparison wasn't meant to imply that fast food is a reasonable alternative. The point was to illustrate how bad things in tech are that recognizable companies (Oracle in this case) are hiring for extremely senior positions at salaries that make fast food look even remotely competitive. It's a very different market from two years ago.
Indeed, I never get the point of wishing for something that already exists.

Usually feels like many Rust users never seen other ML linage languages.
I've had a few fillings without anesthetic. My dentist told me that most of the pain of drilling is because the drill bit and tooth heat up through friction. Modern drills have water cooling and don't heat up at all. So for shallow fillings there is no pain.

My two root canal procedures did have local anesthetic though. Didn't hurt either.
The M series laptops do not have fan noise. I have a M1-Pro 16" (personal) and M2-Pro 16" (work) and never heard the fans.
Another similar site is cinequote.net
Yes, those are all just Down Detector’s bog standard false positives.

Pull the page up tomorrow and you’ll see the same morning spike there as people wake up.
Women's salaries are 95-99% of men's, when adjusted for lifestyle choices, on a macro scale. It is almost impossible to achieve complete salary parity. Let's not forget, men have higher physical performance, take more risks, and are willing to do dirtier work. These factors increase the salary ceiling. It's actually quite impressive if the difference is only about 5%.

I don't know why we have to pretend men and women are exactly the same. They're not. They each have different characteristics, different preferences, and different capabilities.
iPad pro with VLC
Silk, and in general almost every type of clothing until modern cotton processing. Most traditional clothing was very coarse and one of the most obvious class indicators, across millenia.
You probably know all this as well, but for future googlers:

I used to use Libre + MiaoMiao + Nightscout, but these days I much prefer Dexcom G6 + xDrip + Nightscout.

Pros for the G6:

- No 3rd party transmitter (e.g. the MiaoMiao)

- It's smaller and can go on the stomach so it's less likely to get ripped off

- 1 less app involved -- xDrip integrates directly to Nightscout and there is no need for the Dexcom app

- Supposedly the glucose readings are a bit more accurate than the Libre

Cons:

- Sensors are more expensive than the Libre

- The transmitter is not rechargeable so you need to keep buying them every 90 days
There's a manual rate limit that can be assigned to your account if you post frequently on controversial topics. Afaik once it's there it stays until removed by a moderator.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39603540
The secretary who turned Liquid Paper into a multimillion-dollar business
Fair, I should have rephrased the comment to more directly reference the thread-starter, which is encoding bits "using lexicographic order of the permutation, doing a binary search each time." It's not that your computation of 2-adic decomposition is wrong, it's the idea that using 2-adic decomposition produces the number that is too low.

Let me elaborate:

I am not 100% sure what user qsort meant by "binary search", but one of the simplest manual algorithms I can think of is to use input bits as decision points in binary-search-like input state split: you start with 52 cards, depending on first input bit you take top or bottom half of the set, then use 2nd input bit to select top or bottom of the subset, and so on, repeat until you get to a single card. Then place it in the output, remove from input stack, and repeat the procedure again. Note there is no math at all, and this would be pretty trivial to do with just pen & paper.

What would be the resulting # of bits encoded this way? With 54 cards, you'd need to consume 5 to 6 bits, depending on input data. Once you are down to 32 cards, you'd need 5 bits exactly, 31 cards will need 4-5 bits depending on the data, and so on... If I'd calculated this correctly, that's at least 208 bits in the worst case, way more that 51 bits mentioned above.

(Unless there is some other meaning to "51" I am missing? but all I see in the thread are conversations about bit efficiently...)
What about the body autonomy to put what drugs I want in my own body?
They converted a battleship into a spaceship (Space Battleship Yamato), why couldn't they do the same with a submarine?
No system indeed, only your own choices.
>> honda camry

Toyota Camry
What implication does this have for AI workloads - the computation intensity would be similar? (Assuming a popular service saturating the machines)

I see some other comments mentioning ssd wear which I don't think would apply to AI stuff, but the utilisation/power consumption certainly would.
I’ve spent money on things because I had to, I’ve spent money because I wanted to. I have rarely spent money on something because the idea just sounded good and been so consistently pleased with what I received for my investment. It’s not free, but Kagi is a small investment for a vastly improved (and customizable) search experience.
imho this is a stance you certainly have every right to take, but good luck. If you want to be part of the world of things like VR, smartphones, etc. then refusing (on principle) to participate in things like "accounts" and "cloud" is going to cost you far more time than the number of hours a massive company like Meta may have downtime. Likewise, yes, at some undetermined future date a lot of this hardware will become a complete doorstop due to their supporting servers being taken offline, however again, if you are doing this advanced gadget thing, it'll be long after you would have decided to upgrade to new hardware anyway because it can't do any of the latest stuff.

(and yes, there are ways if you're devoted enough, to roll your own everything and run Linux on a Framework laptop, and use some kind of custom ROM on your phone without Google anything, 3d print yourself a VR headset, etc. But all of this will cost you several orders of magnitude more time than Meta outages ever would.
I know I remember there being a couple big events in the news, and I know the Javascript ecosystem is also a bigger target also because it's so popular, but do you have examples of these attacks?
In WolframAlpha (no Kago subscription, but I assume it works just the same), to achieve your desired result, you merely have to use:

> 14:50 - 16:28

Or

> 14:50 to 16:28

It makes sense when you think of it.

I’ve been using this for years, and it works wonders for datetimes too.
> Haven’t figured out what should trigger updates.

What triggers updates when it is not local?
This had me thinking, in order to get someone's username and spark up a convo, you have to use lesser secure channels to obtain the username?
Recovering the Lost Aviators of World War II
“Do you think they will grow in the coming years like it did for data scientists?”

Maybe. But then the demand might also shrink quickly after a couple of years. Is it worth that risk? Only you can decide.
does passport necessitate mailing address?

but anyhow, you could plausibly get by with not paying any taxes by continuously moving countries. The real question is to which bank is the payment being made? If your an employee you'll probably have your income reported. you could skirt that, somewhat, by being a contractor, but even then, to which business, or to which bank account is being made?

Anyhow, none of that precludes him from being a nomad. it seems you have more of a bone to pick with the choice of the word nomad, which descends from 'noman' or more modernly 'nobody'. I think it has more to do with a lack of permanent community than a lack of a mailing address.
Sorry, typo. I was working towards citizenship and wanted to keep my PR.
Rough. PT's "automatic" sprint planning and velocity measurement has always been a killer feature for me as a solo user. Even if the free plan isn't going away immediately, the writing's on the wall.

Anybody know of other task/project management software that has similar automatic velocity measurement and sprint planning functionality? It does so much for my productivity that I might just build something myself if there's nothing else around.
Even if half that, still crazy, no?
C is an abstraction layer for assembler, created at a time when software people were very close to the hardware. Not surprising that it works very well for those use cases.

Recent languages tend to come from the other direction.
To me it seems to compute number of hours in the interval between those times.
What happened to ASR-1 through 31?
Great news: Thanks to Apple, $1600 is now a budget super-economy VR headset!

Courage.
The message for this is something like "we can't serve your requests that fast". The GP is quoting the site overloaded message.
> In additon to your points, one thing about DEI initiatives that I don't like is how they ignore other types of diversity, including people with disabilities

This varies. I've led DEI initiatives and one of the points I make is "there's diversity in diversity". Meaning it isn't just gender and ethnicity. I do believe that actually caring about people is the most important thing, and I've found that people who do care about others generally share the trait that they want diversity in their environment -- at least certain types of diversity that aren't inherently detrimental to the work they do (e.g., you probably don't want small/light offensive linemen). The reason for this is because I think most rational people who care realize they have major gaps in their understanding and want to bring in more people, in whatever capacity makes sense.

While I don't have anything near conclusive data, the people most against DEI tend to be the most insular in general. That said, often those the most extreme for "DEI initiatives" aren't really pro-DEI -- rather they are just pro their specific group, which just reduces to being the same as those that are against DEI.
Someone got ZLUDA running llama.cpp a while back (search the ZLUDA/llama.cpp issues). If I recall, it ran about half the speed of the existing ROCm implementation.

I tried ROCm on my iGPU last year and you do get a bit of a benefit for prompt processing (5x faster) but inference is basically bottlenecked by the memory bandwidth whether you're on CPU or GPU. Here were my results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kT4or6b0Fedd-W_jMwYp...

Note, only GART memory, not GTT is accessible in most inferencing options, so you will only basically be able to load 7B quantized models into "VRAM" (BIOS controlled, but usually max out at 6-8GB). I have some notes on this here: https://llm-tracker.info/howto/AMD-GPUs#amd-apu

If you plan on running a 7B-13B model locally, getting something like a RTX 3060 16GB (or if you're on Linux, the 7600 XT 16GB might be an option w/ HSA_OVERRIDE) is probably your cheapest realistic option and will give you about 300 GB/s of memory bandwidth and enough memory to run quantizes of 13/14B class models. If you're buying a card specifically for GenAI and not going to dedicate time to fight driver/software issues, I'd recommend going w/ Nvidia options first (they typically actually give you more Tensor TFLOPS/$ as well).
React does have server components which are completely rendered server side, ala PHP or similar. Even SSG/pre-rendering support.
"We don't store any code on our servers after initial processing"

Are you storing the embedding vectors you've calculated from the code? If so, those are likely quite easily reversible - so I would still consider that source code stored on your servers from the point of view of a security audit.

As a result, I might actually prefer to have copies of my code stored on your servers if it resulted in faster performance.
I mean "terribly" no, but imagine you can take that cost of materials, and eliminate those jobs by going 100% digital, not lower the price of the vehicle, and then pass on the savings to your shareholders? Might even be worth a golden parachute.
I find it hard to believe the dropped coordinates approaches were first noticed in 2010 and proven in 2017.
I love using WA as a calculator since it's so good at handling units.

Silly example: I just tried "average distance to moon/Eiffel Tower height" in Kagi and got "= about 1.167 million" (powered by WA).
How do you verify the work of training without redoing the exact same work for training? (That's the neat part: you don't)

Bitcoin is trust-solved because of how the new blocks depends on previous blocks. With training data, there is no such verification (prompts/answers pairs do not depend at all on other prompt/answer pairs) (if there was, we wouldn't need to do the work of training the data in the first place).

You can rely on multiplying the work where gross variations are ignored (as you suggest): but that will take a lot more overhead in compute, and still is susceptible to bad actors (but much more resistant).

There is no solid/good solution - afaik - for distributed training of an AI (Open assistant I think is working on open training data?), if there is: I'll sign up.
"It's not a negligible difference even with your handwaving."

So what are the root causes and fixes?