skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you avoid it then you won't be using RISC-V at all, right now.

I'm sorry this just isn't true. The K230 has RVV 1.0 hardware and has been available for 5 months.

> Which matters much less than it used to, as gcc 14 can compile C code with RVV intrinsics to either.

This is still a huge problem for fragmentation. Multimedia libraries in FFmpeg and VideoLAN use hand written assembly and only support standards compliant RVV 1.0.

There is no reason to ever produce a binary for RVV 0.7.1, it will simply fail if run on standards compliant hardware.
> In multi-threaded workloads, Geekbench 6 reveals that the Snapdragon X Elite is actually 16 percent faster than the M3 and trails behind the latter in the single-core run.

What's impressive to me is that Snapdragon X Elite is already competitive despite being built in an older N4P tech (announced in 2021). IIRC Apple's latest offerings are built using N3B.

So Qualcomm is onto something here.
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I'm sorry but your comment is incredibly I'll informed.

Not only because you think Musk is any where near the leader in the implant space, but more so that you don't understand optogenetics. The device referenced here was transcranial (i.e., non-invasive) but regardless optogenetics requires tagging specific neurons with an opsin (usually via viral vector).

I'm sorry for being curt but this is the 4th or 5th neuroscience post in the last 72h that HN have blasted with shit takes. If I wanted misunderstood science I'd revive my Reddit account.
I would say it's debatable whether centralised intelligence can outperform collective intelligence. Centralised intelligence can be very efficient, but by definition it will lack the perspectives that a diverse collective intelligence can offer. In the long run, if the search for global optima is the ultimate goal, a diverse collective intelligence will have a higher chance of success than a centralised intelligence, especially in multidimensional spaces.
Counterexample for the sake of argument: photography almost entirely replaced human painting.
MSSQL lets you save a query plan as XML then upload to another system as a hint. PG could do this using the json or xml output of EXPLAIN.
Especially the European leaders, what a way to discredit themselves in the books of history.
These "harmful" responses seem completely useless; exploits are readily available on the net in the form of metasploit, vulnerability databases, etc. Pretty standard stuff.

The counterfeit money response is even more useless; all it says is "copy real money" but in a really roundabout way. Well, who would have guessed? And these type of instructions are readily available on e.g. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG6oCrtef5A

If you're savvy enough to do these type of prompt injection then you're savvy enough to get more useful responses from other sources, like this little obscure site called "Google".
And another outage a day later: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68584235

I can't even use an app from my Gym without it lagging / crashing. Many of us predicted this was going to start happening at an increasing rate because of AI and the over-saturation of under-qualified students with CS degrees. It is going to be a bad decade for software.
The first link is for people looking for insurance quotes, not actual crash data

Link 2 is about deaths. Let's find the death rate per registered car years from the NHTSA's data.

For all 2020 vehicles it's 38 per million, for midsize luxury, 23, Tesla Model 3 2WD: 15, 4WD: 52

For large luxry: Model S 4WD 17, vs 22 average

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-...
Summary: the author updated a library without noticing and/or without knowing what version they were using before, because they aren't using lock files.

The library that broke was something using the AWS SDK. The library stopped working with an updated version of that AWS SDK.

They experimented with different package versions and combinations of service instances to fix the issue, because they didn't know what version of the package they were using in production before the package broke for them. They got an error message about a missing function in the updated library related to streams. That led to some false guesses about the source of the error.

The conclusion is that JS is not a serious programming language like Rust or C#.

Seems like they have complex CI/CD in place, but don't conclude that they should be pushing their package lock files.

And I don't understand at all how using another programming language would have prevented this issue.
True, the scheduler usually does do fine job CPU-wise. In terms of RAM though, if an app sees 120GB it will expand to 120GB before considering paging.

I'm just not a fan of software that immediately tries to use all possible resources for 2% gain in a performance benchmark over peers.
I basically agree. We'll have AI create some very high-level programming languages that suit various ways of specifying problems precisely, then program in those. Of course, the AI will also know how program in these languages, which will make development very accessible as you could describe a problem vaguely in natural language, get a specific solution back, then confirm it works for your needs or tweak it until it's suitable.
Very good question, just came across - https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2106553118 which seems designed for braille.
Most CEOs are focused on top-line (revenue) growth, instead of bottom-line (COGS) savings.

Reason being, you have unlimited potential to growth your revenue.

The max you can save, is 100% (fire everyone).
Boeing is destroying shareholder value.
> Available Soon.

Some screenshots or video preview would be interesting - if included
>A motivated actor will find the information they need, regardless of whether ChatGPT helps them.

This is true, of course, but ChatGPT still shouldn't do it. A motivated actor may find out how to make a bomb, but that doesn't mean HN should feature posts about the best bomb-making techniques and materials.
https://www.oct7factcheck.com/index
Unfortunately, Putin still occasionally invokes Russia as the successor to the Eastern Roman Empire in an attempt to justify his imperial ambitions, so we're still riding this train.
I often wonder how much productivity we're leaving on the table by not making systems that are harder to learn but more efficient.
Walmart Brings the Popular MacBook Air with the M1 Chip to Its Shelves (USD 699)
I'm not on the hype train myself, but I'd never say never. I can certainly picture much of what devs do today become automated. Heck, we already have plain old deterministic tools that are ridiculously productive compared to common tech stacks in the industry.

That said, it is the very nature of software development (or any endeavor in building complex systems) that we discover a lot of the detail problems later down the line. I don't think of concerns about something like this as "shifting goal posts", I think of them as refining our understanding of the nature of the problems (in this case, the nature of a developer's work).
It means more consistent energy output, higher “capacity factors”. It will always be intermittent but taller turbines reduces the intermittency
Devin AI: The First Autonomous AI Software Engineer
Traversal of embedding space of human vs. ChatGPT generated text
This reads like a slightly clueless IT worker who has a problem they don’t know how to fix reaching for the most expensive solution (purchasing a “real server”) instead of diagnosing and fixing the problem in front of them.

If the Mac mini is slow and not able to keep up then fair enough, that’s a good reason to invest in new hardware. But monitoring your emails for software updates makes zero sense, and is clearly just an excuse for something else that IT is doing wrong.
Substack has problems too.

For hosted foss services, write.as (https://write.as/) and bearblog (https://bearblog.dev/) are good. If self-hosting, the choices are infinite.
Here's a quick rundown, you can pull a list of up to 200 "Ask HN" stories using this endpoint:

ask_stories = client.get_askstories()

then you have the ids and you can sort them reversed to catch the latest stories.

client.get_item(<id>) will give you the story's details, in which you'll find item['kids'], which are the IDs for the top-level comments. You can then loop through these comment IDs to get more info on each comment.

Another option is to use Algolia's API for HN. But that's not yet supported in my wrapper.
I'm not sure why you are assuming that ollama users are developers when there are at least 30 different applications that have direct API integration with ollama.
I'd like to think that:

- such an airplane already should have sensors to judge whether someone is in the seat or not

- a false-negative preventing the shift of a seat mid-air isn't that critical of a failure (compared to a false-positive, where the seat shifts despite someone being in it)
What's the software story expected to be like with these desktop Qualcomm chips? Any chance of official Linux support, or are we just getting Windows drivers and maybe semi-working reverse engineered Linux support years down the line?
The Decline of Work-Life Balance: A 12-Year Tech Industry Perspective
T-Rex with feathers looks just like a giant chicken. Chickens aren't exactly awe inspiring so I think that is part of it.

Chickens do ruthlessly hunt mice and other small things so a giant chicken would be really scary, just that our minds don't see them that way. But I can easily see raptors and t-rexes being just giant versions of our chickens with similar feathers, they are so similar in all other aspects.
Killing doesn't violate a law of nature, it violates the social contract. So while the line is drawn differently in each society, crossing it is the same indicator.
I think the issue with LLM based agent behavior is that it ends up being limited by the need of hand crafted functions that the NPCs use to operate. And in the end those actual actions and interactions with the visible game world - tangible game state - is what the player cares about the most. There's only so many ways that an NPC can say a thing that ends up linking to the same action taken.

So, if you want the NPCs to be able to take over a town hall after the mayor has went off the rails (or some equally unexpected event that makes all the possible planning worthwhile), you'll still need a system that keeps track of it all: Who the mayor is, that there is a mayor, there is a town hall, that you can perform a coup in this specific world, the specific ways in which the NPCs can participate in the coup, etc. If you generate all of this completely procedurally, you'll end up with the NPCs falling out of sync with each other when you have a bunch of them going about their days.

After you've created a sensible database for keeping track of the current world state, character states, character relations, possible character actions, character needs, etc, doesn't that end up adding to something that would work almost equally as well without the LLM? Although LLMs are extremely powerful tool for free text input into that system on the player's end, even if you're just getting the embeddings of that text and hooking that up to a cosine similarity search of pregenerated NPC responses.
Most shots don't kill instantly, unless you go straight through the brain.
Are we at a fifth-generation programming language yet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_l...
Underrated comment. Grids need less upgrades, less congestion, less curtailment of other renewables can add up to billions in savings for a country
Tick-killing pill shows promising results in human trial
But then you have to compromise on speed of generated code, poor support of windows, number of libraries and overall ecosystem, no ability to generate standalone executables and probably more but I tried OCaml only briefly so can't speak to all of its shortcomings.
> Xorgs decades of highly dubious technical decisions.

People like to say this, yet time and time again, X's design proves to be the superior one in the real world.

Some of it could use minor revisions (adding some image compression would be fine, etc), but it is hard to seriously say things are "highly dubious" compared to the competition.
Someone will still need to review the reams and reams of bullshit code generated by these Markov chains. It'll be like all your code gets written by first-term co-op students who have discovered alcohol for the first time and think it's pretty neat, but you're still responsible for the final output and don't get to do any of the fun and interesting stuff. Just constant, mind-numbing code reviews of something that might look OK on the surface but is really just blow-up punching clowns all the way down and already shipped by the marketing department because your backlog is massive and after all, you've been replaced by a random number generator fed through an incomplete Bayesian database of random bad code that costs so much less,
Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans
Would you mind sharing some examples.

I’m genuinely curious to learn true facts.

(Would this be like dinosaurs might have actually had feathers/fur, and not just look reptilian)
Perhaps I'm out of date on the subject, but does it matter how fast it is when Apple's x86 translation layer makes Microsoft's look like banging rocks together? Not to mention the fact much of Apple's ecosystem now runs natively on ARM whereas that is decades away for Microsoft if it ever happens at all.
If we're going to start going down the adolescent blame game, what was happening until October 6? How many pre-teens were in Israeli jails getting tortured, raped, etc? We all saw how the hostages - sorry prisoners - released by Israel walked [1].

How are illegal settlements built? With a friendly smile and cash payment, or with non-uniformed combatants with AR15 spraying bullets at fleeing homeowners? (For what it's worth, the guns makes settlers legitimate targets and the lack of uniform means they are not covered by the Geneva convention)

Those of us fortunate enough to follow Hebrew media (as I have since I was a boy decades ago) saw how the hostages released by Hamas all claimed they were well treated and not raped until the narrative flipped.

You know... memories.

Oh, we have selective memory? Ok, well tens [2] of thousands of dead Palestinian kids and the largest genocide [3] in decades have erased the world's memory of Oct 7.

[1] Turns out Israeli tortures kids in jail! But, we knew that. Every intl. law organization has thoroughly documented that for decades.
Israeli media is great, btw; there's a recent Israeli documentary interviewing old IDF soldiers laughing at their past exploits raping pre-teens). Turns out the IDF has been using rape as a weapon since the 40s.

[2] Actually probably a hundred thousand by now. The 30k are the recovered bodies, not the missing under the rubble.

[3] Yes it is a genocide - all you need to do is go to Israeli hebrew language media and read, listen, see how Israelis, especially government ministers, are taking.
The Israeli come from a long history of millennia of persecution for their faith.

That past violence and the fact that they are excellent storytellers and record keeper of thir faith makes this situation special

Israelis might hold the power now but as far as Arabs vs. Jews is concerned the Jews suffered a whole lot more (or at least they have been able to convey their suffering and make people empathize a whole lot more)
They're able to pay East European salaries but land Enterprise deals in the US.

That's the main difference, as they had lower margins compared to Hashicorp which traditionally had most of their enfineeeing in the US.

Hashicorp has started pivoting hiring to Bulgaria, Poland, and India now for that reason.
How would solar help with "milk powder"? Or recycling? Or transport?
The 'insane' plan to save the Arctic's sea-ice
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Mainline-Linux-2024
One I've been thinking of for a while is you travel back in time to the pre-fire era and have to reinvent as much as possible. There would be a lot of fun in seeing how you could convince everyone to start washing their hands.
It's more about defining outcomes exactly rather than a sequence of exact steps.
As someone in this field (research field not football field) I'd say that is an excellent layman explanation.
Scientists divided over whether record heat is acceleration of climate crisis
The Global Danger of Boring Buildings
Article is nearly a week old. We know more now; it appears to have been a flight attendant triggering the pilot seat to move forwards. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/business/boeing-787-dream...
Minor correction: Go compiler used to be a modification of Plan9 C compiler, then a Go port of that modification but then it was completely rewritten as a SSA-based compiler so today it has almost nothing to do with the original Plan9 code.
You would be right if that had happened out of the blue but, Palestinians have been bullied and humiliated for decades and, at the same time Israel has been financing extremist movements in Gaza.
Does it go down for the people committing crimes? Prisons are full of inmates with poor impulse control, and/or who aren't capable of understanding risk.

I understand that for the average HN reader the known presence of guns in an area is probably going to move the probability of robbing a stranger from 0.001% to 0.0005% or something, but I'm not convinced the thought process of actual criminals works the same way.
> My cousin in Germany is doing a 1-year long IT schooling course (going from how a PC works, how Win and Linux work, Shell/PS scripting to python and AWS) and the course material has all the technical terms in German: "Rechner", "Speicher", Ordner", "Betriebssystem", instead of Computer, Memory, Folder, Operating system.

Those are established popular terms with nearly half a century of usage. Newer or less popular terms are often just English.

> Almost nothing from the course material is in English, which was shocking to me

Maybe you don't see it? What about shell, cloud, webservice, etc. Is there something about router, switch, smartphone, microservice, AI? Ai is a pretty funny case, as there is a German term for it (KI), but in the new hype now, it's barely used at all, even in academics.

> So despite the new clothing, Germany is still a conservative digital dinosaur underneath

It's not conservative to have your own culture and history.
Thinkpad has a ARM Snapdragon model and people have been working on it in Linux for a while. Linux support is unofficial, and still crap, years after release.

For example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37431710 ("Linux on the Arm-Based ThinkPad X13S: Getting There")
I think we're all in agreement here. The comment you're replying to, and mine along the chain, are only making the point that corporate leadership is required to act in the best interest of shareholders but that this can be interpreted more broadly than just profits.
> But still a work-in-progress is audio support, DP Alt-Mode, enabling the DSPs, USB-C power delivery, and GPU acceleration.

AKA still garbage.
So we get to do the shitty part.
Yes he very clearly was. The article tries to make it as clear as possible that this guy is a massive scumbag who was fucking others over to save a dime at each opportunity. The clearest example is:

> A couple of months later, the ad agency agreed to buy a new file server. A real one. Aaron built the box with a glad heart.

> But the agency never paid for it.

So he had his company agree to pay for a replacement server but after they procured it he just refused to pay for it and forced the MSP to eat the cost instead.

> Why does everybody think it is absolute must to maximise the profits? Maybe he was ok with his profits and just didn't care to optimise his business as long as he has comfortable life? Is there something wrong with it.

This clearly isn't the case as the article says quote:

> The Ferrari-owning boss got wind of this mess and would berate Aaron and his crew whenever the server became unavailable, citing the enormous cost of outages.

So he was penny pinching and refused to do things that would allow the company to save money while harassing the MSP each time his self inflicted problem occurred.

This is a trend with a lot of these types where they will not spend a dime to fix a problem in a perceived cost center but then each the problem predictably occurs, they subject said "cost center" with abuse for not fixing the problem despite actively being the reason the problem is unresolved.
Does Windows run natively on ARM + most of its software?

Do they have their own translation layers as fast as Rosetta 2?

Just curious as to how it works.
Not sure why this is down voted, I also looked into this at some point but was unable to find a solution.
Isn't this just wrapping existing agents with a "secure" coding environment?

Does this represent a meaningful improvement in AI?
> So it being the "age of Terabyte HDDs" does not matter, for packages expected to be installed on a normal desktop system.

But neither does the "size on disk" because the ACTUAL size on disk might be reduced by gzip/bzip2/xz/zstd/whatever is invented later. Even if the program using the package doesn't support compression, it supports filesystems and filesystems often support some kind of transparent compression. It isn't a hard problem to solve.
>They try and not focus on just specs.

If I could focus on specs, I wouldn't need spectacles!
Considering the human finger is very sensitive to texture perhaps there is a material that change its texture in response to voltage?
Lincoln woman exploits pump glitch to get over $27,000 of free gas
And I suppose you pasted this from some ai summary.
Time to unionize
I am especially disgusted by the German leaders. Especially Robert Habeck. To think I could have voted for him. Even Macron who is as Machiavellian as they come didn't put his full support behind Israel.
Just put the words in there, signed The Prompt Engineer
I saw a private school demand the head of IT (who had more then 30 IT certs and had a salary history making $500k/year) upgrade PCs with $10 eBay processors that were 10% faster than the old processors. There were $30 eBay processors that were 100% faster than the existing processors, but they wanted to see if $10 would fix it. Then they made him ripple down the old processors into other machines, and then move those used processors into yet other machines.

The head of IT was volunteering there, and finally got so fed up that he quit. Everyone in IT left at the same time and now the new head of IT can not build a PC, because a math teacher is the only person who will take the job.

Seriously.
I don’t buy the story, neither the need for a “server”. If mac mini software was their problem, they could just buy a dirt cheap pc for debian os and connect the drives to it. And another one for hotswap. The amount wouldn’t probably even be collegial.

Heck, if I was Aaron, I’d just go to the storage room and dig out parts or a whole pc out of it. There’s always some electronic residue. Worst case buying it at my expense.

Also, I remember integrating a realty company that needed client accounting (among other things). My app was pretty light and cheap and could run on a simple pc. Then their serious IT guys came to the meeting and added virtualization, firewall services, SQL server, numerous licenses, a beefy rack server, etc. Even their assistant director had her eyes widened when they announced the estimates. Later I told her my thoughts on it in private, so she could make her own decision. So keep in mind that TFA is only one side of the story.