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> The big selling-point is responsive UI, but I feel that should be the minimum we expect from software.

Agreed! That's a big part of what motivated us to build Godspeed.

> Perhaps some testimonials from organisations/teams that have used it would be a better thing to lead with than a strange technical statement which most users won't understand. I'm a fairly technical sort of guy myself and I don't exactly know off the top of my head what 50ms latency feels like or how it compares to other note taking software.

Appreciate that feedback! Today is our 1.0 launch, we'll definitely add some testimonials in the coming weeks.

For what it's worth, a response time of 100ms is perceived as instantaneous [0].

[0] https://www.pubnub.com/blog/how-fast-is-realtime-human-perce...
I promise I'm not trying to rain on your parade, and I blame the academics for this, but:

1. NP-complete problems are (today) global search problems (3-SAT algos search for a satisfying assignment...);

2. Combinatorial search spaces are not only non-convex, they don't have gradients (sub-gradients don't count) and even if they did, without convexity, it's still hopeless.

Thus, you cannot (today) appreciably parallelize NP-complete algos, you can only draw more lottery tickets (for where to seed your search), i.e., constant factor improvement.

I'm just putting this out there in case someone gets tantalized by the "fancy math/physics/fpga thing solves NP-complete problems" hook. Yes it can but no better than your computer (despite what paper authors claim in order to get published). To wit: if this were a compelling solution to NP-complete problems it would either a) already be a proof that NP=P or b) be implemented in absolutely every single SAT solver (using GPU or whatever rather than FPGA). In contrast, every single SAT solver uses CDCL which is ~roughly DFS with clever backtracking.

And I say this as someone that has investigated solving ILPs on FPGA - i.e., I wish it were true but it ain't.
I found the clutch was easier once I started finding the average speed of traffic and did that instead of changing speed to keep up. Those large gaps were safer too.
Volvo had at least in 2015 automatics which would not shift unless told.
Looks good! TailwindUI? I'm a fan of this.
That’s why you buy a cyber insurance policy.
United Airlines Suffers 10th Incident in Two Weeks
Extracting makes it sound like they're taking something from me. From my perspective they're not. If they can make value from shit I do that's great, at least someone's getting something out of my procrastination.

And I get to use neat stuff like youtube, Google Docs etc without paying any money. Sounds like a win win to me.
Yes, the word “represented” is too widely used and abused in neuroscience—to the point where a frog has “fly detector” neurons. Humberto Maturana pushed back against this pervasive idea. Chapter 4 of Terry Winograd’s and Francesco Valera’s Understanding Computers and Cognition has a good overview of common presumptions.

Given that CNS is a 700 million year hack, there will be lots of odd tricks used to generate effective behaviors.
It’s a lot of extra weight to carry around and extra systems that can break and need maintenance. Especially tricky since they’re only expected to be used sparingly.

Batteries keep going down in price and weight
I don't know. It very much depends on what you are into. I feel like a lot of the stuff that Lego does got way better in recent years. For instance the manuals in the app are a step above and beyond of where they were, and the build together element means that my kids are playing together and rebuilding old sets.
Microsoft tinkers with its capex depreciation accounting
> …get good at programming. That has been the source of the median startup for the last 30 years, and this is probably not going to change in the next 10.

Interesting comment; seems at odds with what a lot of others seem to think at the moment. But time will tell. I suspect he’s right.
In the past 10 years, Microsoft quality of earnings has dropped as the company became more capital intensive.

As of 2023, it changed its accounting for capex from a useful life of 4 years to a useful life of 6 years.
Analogue computers aren't equivalent to Turing machines.
There seem to be some synergies that you can leverage with spend management and expense management platforms (such as Brex, Ramp, etc.). Is this a fair assumption, and if so, have you considered exploring any opportunities in this area?

Interesting stuff!
Heckler's veto will make this real easy for people to slander all sorts of content as "radicalizing" and have it removed.
Jobs left Apple in 1985, and there hadn't been anything but one model of Mac by then, and he wouldn't return until 1997. The PC-like explosion of Mac models and various peripheral projects like printers, cameras, and PDAs happened without him.

Of the time they did have Jobs at the helm, he had a remarkable track record with new products outside of their "core competencies" as you put it. This includes the Mac itself, which abandoned wholesale their existing lineage of computers and software for a pretty different paradigm tuned for the non-technical customer.
Often manuals are whatever they have instead of desinging one with optional gear ratios.
Sure, but there are many ways that VCs can force companies into incentive structures that put them in a failing position. If you include stupid executives and poor long-term decisions in the corporate model, you also have to include stupid VCs or board members and poor long-term decisions in the startup model.
I say the same thing about Electric Cars. Being able to effortlessly press someone back into their seat on a open empty road while hearing the whine of the electric motors is incredibly fun, so much more so that manual cars.
I was stoked to find the new Eldorado fortress to be an improvement on the original and free from stickers. I got plenty of extra pieces too.
We say "<50ms" rather than "instantaneous" because a lot of companies will claim that their software is fast and not actually meet a specific threshold. This claim keeps us from cutting corners – we're serious about keeping everything blazing fast, even if that means it takes longer to build.
I don’t disagree that self driving is good and will eventually get there. Just pointing out a flaw in your reasoning.

Yes, such a person can exist, the hypothetical counter example doesn’t disprove the general statement. I think it’s safe to say that in general the more time someone spends driving the better driver they are.
I’ve got this one here, along with a couple of country specific power cables:

https://www.anker.com/products/a2046?variant=42448630612118&...
It was magical when apple released the LaserWriter printer in 1985 that took postscript files. No need for custom drivers. You would think these days all printers would be driverless.
Lucky are those with showers at the workplace.
I converted an old system to a server, and the WOL was super unreliable (poor mobo support, crappy network, ??). Wound up getting a PiKVM setup for $100 + RPi5 (Geekworm KVM-A8 Kit "PCIe" Version) which works pretty well, if perhaps overkill. The "official" PiKVM hardware is a bit more expensive (~$300 but also has a fancy steel case and HDMI passthrough)

There's a BliKVM "card" which also looks interesting and I'd probably use if I did it again because I was trying to fit the card above the GPU and it took some modding.
Not either-or. It is both. Spike rate variation is way too slow for some types of low level compute. Spike timing us critical for actions as “simple” as throwing a fast ball into the strike zone.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39759819
Jim Irwin, who walked ( and rode a car ) on the moon on Apollo 15, and had some heart problems while on the moon. He was obviously healthy before. He ended up having several heart attacks, and died at age 61. He is an outlier in this regard, and there will always be speculation as to whether the strain of walking on the moon damaged his heart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Irwin
The nice part about E2EE is that it makes a zillion compliance issues go away. It's always encrypted at rest. It's always encrypted in transit. There are no DLP issues. There are no data sharing or processing issues. There are no multi-tenant issues. There are no law enforcement data access issues.

(All of those are for sufficiently small values of "no", perhaps literally not none whatsoever, but guaranteed better than if you're storing readable data.)
> And it simulates sound of gear changes during acceleration even if there are no gears whatsoever, since that's apparently what makes it more exciting and enjoyable to us petrolheads:

Only the gearheads who don't understand torque and efficiency curves! I hate that Honda made this change on their latest generation of Hybrids. It is an intentional performance compromise made just to satisfy the expectations of an uninformed buyer. RPM fluctuation under acceleration is a drawback of fixed gear ratio transmissions, not an advantage.
Here's an excellent recent comment along the same lines (in response to whether our intelligence is statistically based like LLMs):

> mjburgess 9 days ago

Suppose you touch a fireplace once, do you touch it again? No.

OK, here's something much stranger. Suppose you see your friend touch the fireplace, he recoils in pain. Do you touch it? No.

Hmm... whence statistics? There is no frequency association here, in either case. And in the second, even no experience of the fireplace.

The entire history of science is supposed to be about the failure of statistics to produce explanations. It is a great sin that we have allowed pseudosciences to flourish in which this lesson isnt even understood; and worse, to allow statistical showmen with their magic lanterns to preach on the scientific method. To a point where it seems, almost, science as an ideal has been completely lost.

The entire point was to throw away entirely our reliance on frequency and association -- this is ancient superstition. And instead, to explain the world by necessary mechanisms born of causal properties which interact in complex ways that can never uniquely reveal themselves by direct measurement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39661963
I always wonder about the success rate of advice. Do we have any student from this talk of PG who succeeded later in life? Joined an ivy league school? Proceeded to create a startup? Had success with it?

Don’t get me wrong. This folklore is extremely important, if not just to raise the grades of one student. But as a founder, when I give advice, out of inflated ego generally, I also have vertigo from the height of everything that could go wrong about being mistaken about my advice.
I can't help but think back to my childhood in the 1980s... there were always stickers included. In the Lego idea books they always showed those same stickers in use, making the association and relevance clear. So how many is too many? I mean, I'd say the more the merrier if that gives the set another dimension of play.
The digital ising thing was a very interesting line of research that Fujitsu has been trying to sell for 10 years or so: https://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/business-services/di...

They presented their v1 chip architecture at ISSCC in 2015 much to the consternation of a few quantum computing people who (rightly) objected to the characterization of it as an "Ising" chip, because it cannot represent superposition.

It's a pretty cool sort of system that should be able to solve pseudo-energy-minimization problems, but they are only theoretically sound when energy minimization corresponds to minimizing a Lyapunov function. Sadly, it's not clear that there is a way to generically construct a Lyapunov function with a minimum that corresponds to an NP-complete problem. The Fujitsu device supposedly is good at "easy" versions of problems, but so is a SAT solver.
Threshold for wealthy enough to "never work again" is actually very high if you have a mortgage and a couple kids you want to put through school, and are thinking about living past 75. Even here in Canada where healthcare is not really a cost, retirement and nursing homes constitute a huge expense that could go on for years in your last phase.

I'm sitting on the accumulated wealth of 25 rather up-and-downish years in this industry, 10 years at Google, an almost paid-off mortgage, and a decent lump sum I got from when Google bought my employer, I turn 50 this year, and there's no way I can retire. Not without selling my home and moving somewhere a lot cheaper (hard to find here).

Maybe I've made some bad financial choices (not that many), but mostly it's that compensation packages in our industry are set just high enough to keep people on the upper side of comfortable middle class.

If you don't own capital -- haven't invested in rental properties or starting your own business --getting out of the job market isn't really a thing before 65 for most people even in our very well compensated industry.

If I were single or it were just me and my wife, sure.

I've been through tldroptions, and looked at enough options agreement given out by startups in the last few years, to know that as an IC engineer... even if you are lucky enough to be part of the very few startups that have a liquidity event... you're likely gonna get $300k, $400k USD tops.

Unless you're 25 and can shove that in the bank without touching it at all... that's not the life changing event some people think it is. Once the gov't takes their share, it's enough for a house downpayment or a very nice car, and you're certainly not going mortgage free with it.
Most of the complaints there about social media come from monopoly, not AI. Read the list that begins "You must be suspicious of tech leaders when…". Most of those problems only happen if you have a monopoly. If you have four sizable competitors in a category, market forces tend to work for the buyer. (Or so says an EU study. The EU takes monopoly as a problem seriously.)
Below four, market forces seem to stop working. This is probably the biggest problem with "tech".

As for SXSW, that's a different problem. Who goes to SXSW? People who want to talk and be listened to. Influencers. C-level executives. Journalists. Bloggers. In other words, people who do what large language models can do cheaper. Of course they don't like it. They see the steam drill coming for their job.
This is great! I see it also supports an 'ignore' parameter.
> If all those steps in your pipeline are defined in the same codebase

I find that rule a bit arbitrary. For example, I have data-import pipelines where some steps are unique to each task, but some others are shared across tasks. Why does it matter whether the steps are defined in the same codebase or not?
> Why are we asking tech CEOs about societal racism and politics?

We’re not asking “tech CEOs,” we’re asking one specific tech CEO who has chosen to insert himself into the conversation both by purchasing Twitter and by frequently and publicly commenting on those issues himself. When he wasn’t the owner of a major social media network and he spent his time talking about rockets and electric cars, hardly anyone was asking him about these topics.
I consider a sentence as a formatted thought. That implies a thought exists before it is expressed in words. There's a ton of thoughts in my head which can't be transformed into any language I speak. I wish I could somehow acquire some proficiency in the other thousands of languages spoken by humans on this planet, just to proof their immense lack of features.

Also our natural languages restrict information bandwidth to a few bytes per second. Imagine doing sports like tennis, chess or soccer at this speed...
A road trip by random walk is a valuable experience, the kind most people on HN lack.
Oh, neat! Thanks. I didn't know about AmbientCapabilities.
It's also guaranteed to be as good as it is. System doesn't mean zero change. It just means not abandoning imperfect situations for terrible ones.
One thing that is not captured accurately in a simple price over parts count computation is the fact that parts complexity is wildly different between shapes. There's a huge difference between a 1x1 plate and a Technic baseplate with holes pointing in every direction, to pick extreme examples.

I believe that even factoring in the extra handling costs and margins, the prices on Pick a Brick give a decent approximation of the actual price span (<$0.10 to >$2.00 per piece).
> IBM mainframes have five nines of availability

This is incredible. I miss that time, when seen with naked eye difference of reliability of mainframes.

Now, I know many organizations using Erlang/OTP or Java EE, and mostly think them good enough comparable to mainframes environment and few times cheaper.

BTW Erlang in British Telecom achieve five nines reliability.

But must admit, Erlang/Java are not best suited for finance/lawyer applications, and I don't hear about finance/law libraries for Erlang, so this could be issue (or opportunity for somebody, depend on how you look on it).
Are context windows not long enough to do this for most news articles and forum posts nowadays? I'd've thought the issue would be finding the relevant and reliable sources of truth for comparison would be the difficult part.
> Can't someone feel good that they dodged a bullet that another person was not willing to dodge?

Sure. But that doesn't mean you can't show some basic human sympathy to the people who didn't "dodge the bullet".
Great point! I cite Turing so much that I feel like I have to start it with “Can Machines Think?”, but that’s definitely the more historically valid answer. It certainly is if you ask Dartmouth lol, they have a whole page for it.

On the topic of “incredible women historians of AI”, this article by Grace Solomonoff was posted here a while back and blew my mind. Would highly recommend for anyone interested in the minds that started this whole kerfuffle.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/dartmouth-ai-workshop
what is the difference between this and jiq and ijq?
Drawback Chess
Those are all meaningful measures of complexity, but it's worth noting that all of them are a function of the number of legal positions (among other things as well).
Not anymore, London is the biggest startup hub in Europe and top AI companies like Google Deep Mind and Stability AI were founded and HQ is based in London. These days all you need is talent and funding, once you have that you can do it from anywhere.
not all devices are connected to the internet

and writing software in c++ does not imply the software is unsafe
Good article, but the author is using low numbers for the "speeding bullet" stats.
Like many jobs both around the house and industrial stuff, know what you are doing before you attempt it. But go away with the "it's too dangerous for mere mortals" speeches and special legislation to protect us all. Many people are capable and willing to do work that is hard and or dangerous. Snowflake legislation doesn't help the world work. Darwin awards work for the betterment of society.
> the employee collaborates with her boss on deciding what kinds of problems you will work on. Of course, it will only be enjoyable if the company's problems are aligned with the employee's interests.

And that's a huge if. PG's view of regular jobs might be colored by his own experience (working for Yahoo after they bought Viaweb--of course it's going to jar when the thing you built is now owned by someone else that you now have to work for), but it's still the case that even the best case regular job (and of course most regular jobs aren't the best case) is going to give you significantly less autonomy than owning your own company--because you don't make the final business decisions for a company you don't own. If you're the type of person that's going to jar (and I suspect PG is that type of person), you're not going to like even the best case regular job.

> "Making it" as a startup founder should be seen in the same class of success as making it as a rock star or an actor. There are lots of aspirants and hardly any of them succeed. Even though some manage to become wildly wealthy, the prior expected payoff is negative.

This is probably true if you take VC funding, since VC outcomes are basically bimodal: either "huge win" or "tank". I'm not sure all startups actually need to take VC funding, however.
A new kind of MD5 collision
2X. Converting old NVidia 2080s from 11GB to 22GB. [1]

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/chinese-work...
Toyota's Power Split Device seems like a superior design to me.

1. Change the engine to Atkinson Engine. This makes low-end torque terrible.

2. Make up for low-end torque by paring a small 80 horsepower electric motor (which handles 0rpm exceptionally well). Atkinson Engine does 2000+ rpm / highway speeds exceptionally well. Use a computer + a 3rd electric motor to configure the planetary gears to make the EV motor #1 and ICE engine cooperate best.

3. Beef up the alternator into a proper generator (to charge the battery when its low). Use the motors to hold the car still if stopped at a stop-light but keep the ICE engine on the generator to build up the charge you need to take off later.

4. Use the EV motor as the starter (hook it up to the engine to start it up, much like a traditional starter).

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As such: the Power Split Device removes the alternator, starter, and traditional transmission (with the EV motor#1 and EV motor#2 + computer allowing different configurations / rotations to recreate alternator / starter / transmission-like behaviors).

With... here's the big magic... the ICE + EV Motor being able to assist each other on the highway. (Honda's ICE as Generator approach leads to 100% ICE on the highways). Toyota Prius has a better ability to mix EV vs ICE (even the ability to run 100% EV at the push of a button, though at dramatically worse performance since IIRC its only a sub-100hp electric motor).
It also gave away if you’re playing and invisible, as someone who has access to your library wouldn’t be able to play :))
This seems a use case where the smallest the better since the small system only has to close a contact according to a condition on the local network. This could also be done with a very small uC with Ethernet (example: Arduino and others + w5100 or compatible Ethernet chip; I'm not a fan of WiFi in these contexts). There is also a SSL library that can be used to run a minimal secure web server to host the magic button that would trigger the switch on through the gpio.

https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/libraries/ethernetwebser...

Or it could employ some sort of port knocking on the uC+Eth board so that it wakes up the main system only when the right sequence is used. The advantage of using a uC, lower power draw aside, is that micro SD cards (and their sockets) are less reliable than internal flash.
I am totally on the same page with you. It definitely boils down to what are you doing. There are a ton of cool pieces these days that would've been a pipe dream when we were kids. And lego's MO has always been imagination and creativity. I feel like the addition of stickers in essence sort of rules out the variable, but forces the builder to use it if they are following the kit by the book. Where as with a printed brick the person gets to choose whether they use it or not.

It's really splitting hairs at that point, but ascetically speaking it doesn't fit their ethos.
Good luck. With 100+ engineers and practices that have been in place for years, it'll be very difficult for you to make major changes in a reasonable amount of time.
Worth it for the implementation of something like a 'pie-menu' alone! :-)