skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's substantial wafer capacity in the US, from silane production, through polysilicon granule production and wafer making. There are several different wafer makers in the US with both 200mm and 300mm wafer capacity.

Some of the silane and polysilicon companies are US owned, but I don't think that any of the wafer makers are US headquartered anymore.
Was it not possible to build two fabs and make $48 billion?
> google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/AI/):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)

this has to be a joke right?
Regexes are one case where I think it's already extremely unbalanced wrt being easy to write but hard to read. Using stuff like special Unicode chars for this would make them harder to write but easier to read, which sounds like a fair deal to me. In general, I'd say that regexes should take time and effort to write, just because it's oh-so-easy to write something that kinda sorta works but has massive footguns.

I would also imagine that, if this became the norm, IDEs would quickly standardize around common notation - probably actually based on existing regex symbols and escapes - to quickly input that, similar to TeX-like notation for inputting math. So if you're inside a regex literal, you'd type, say, \A, and the editor itself would automatically replace it with the Unicode sigil for beginning-of-string.
I’d rather we be able to teach people so they’re safe when they experience the FO part of thermal runaway. Hey, I really needed that bucket of sand.

But I don’t control what other people are doing, so, like you said, natural selection. The problem comes when that garage is adjacent to the neighbors garage, and it catches from there, that we do need to control what other people are doing.
Reduction in the rate of murders seems like a good metric.
> The energy to move the object into a given position is an additional element here unaccounted for in your model.

You can set the experiment up so the energy is the same in both cases (for example, both positions at the same height, just horizontally separated). If you don't, then yes, you have to include the effects of the different energies in your model.

> When corresponding moving energies (ie. their GR effects) are accounted for in those 2 cases it may as well be that those 2 cases are indistinguishable from the GR point of view, ie. those 2 supposedly different spacetime geometries happen to be the same.

I'm not sure how this would work if the energies were different, since "different" means a different source for the spacetime geometry.

But in any case, yes, for such an experiment to be relevant at all to the question I was discussing, the spacetime geometries being superposed would have to be different.
Yeah, I actually forked the list to go through each site later and check most of them out. It honestly seems like a great way to discover new AI tools/websites since it looks like it'll be easy to spot the low-quality sites among the sea of actually-interesting/helpful ones blocked for no reason.
To be fair, every AI community that allegedly attempts to exclude the latter ends up failing badly, so the former is really the only option.

I trust no claims of "actually useful AI" after being burned so many times.
> This also means that its size is tiny, in the order of a few kilobytes in contrast to the 20+MB required by its counterparts.

A full, performant ES2023 runtime, in "the order of a few kilobytes"? Even when you remove all JIT and GC, that sounds too fantastic.

I'll believe it when I see it.
Just watched Aliens [1] this weekend and it's my favourite film in the alien series. Probably the best of James Cameron as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_(film)
This was one of the selling points for RISC: to focus on the most frequently used instructions and implement the rest in software would yield smaller and faster designs.

I have the feeling that GPUs are on the sweet spot where smaller footprint directly translates into more executions and, therefore, higher throughput for the same chip area.
Nit: Masayoshi Son
If it were, why would they offer welfare programs at all? Surely an "indolence tax" assessed on anyone with income below a certain threshold would be more cruel.
I hope this funds contracting top authors for the Encyclopaedia. If you check an article's authors, you'll see that many are written by experts in their field (professors, high-level practicioners, etc.) and some by leading people in their field. In the past they were written by people like Einstein and Freud. And often articles by leading experts can be very engaging, written with a personality and point of view (though they seem to cover all sides).

But it seems like many of those authors are long retired, maybe dead, and I wonder how old their contribution is (Britannica seems to update it). And many articles say they are written by the 'Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica', though maybe that always was the case.

I have nothing against the editors, but an expert in that domain will have perspective, insight and current knowledge (i.e., not yet in textbooks) that is impossible to match, imho. I'd love to see them again hiring leading people to write.
that makes more sense!
It depends on the climate. If you live in California or west coast outside of rainy seasons, there really isn't much of a problem unless you have a huge hill to climb on the way to work. Actually, that was my problem in Lausanne (3D town, I road up the hill every morning, and would be a bit sweaty, but I had my own office so I didn't care).

Riding worked for a particular phase of my life, now it doesn't, since I have a kid to take care of and the bike theft problem has gotten out of control in my locale.
zabzonk said "if a type has a constructor", but I don't think the int type does, which is why you get uninitialized memory here.

Any instance of Foo will run Foo's constructor because Foo has one. The problem is that that instance of Foo won't definitely have x initialized, because int doesn't.
Ok how about a gas powered RV, a highschool chemistry teacher, and one of his former students, Jesse. I think that's enough expertise.
Now is Active directory + Office 365 + Teams
It helps that the Netherlands is mostly flat and has pretty good weather for it (I guess rain is kind of an issue). They also have awesome infrastructure and don't just expect cars to do the right thing (they actually design and redesign roads to make biking safe).
Suppose you get a job offer, or your adult child has a newborn, or your aging parent's health takes a turn for the worse. Instead of being able to simply move, this instead starts a decade-scale process that has a 1% of chance of allocating you a public housing unit in the end. What does that do for dynamism?

People's intentions about when and where to move are important. A housing system that removes all individual agency from this question, abdicating everything to a government lottery/waiting list system, can meet other desiderata but is clearly losing something important.
The c++ standard absolutely cares deeply about abi compatibility. The committee can't even update intmax_t because it is an abi break. "Code compiled today and linked against code compiled years and years ago must behave correctly" is an absolutely premier design constraint when it comes to papers and it has prevented oodles of low hanging performance opportunities.
It’s not in coastal cities either, except where the police stopped enforcing the law as a negotiating tactic. For example, in San Francisco note how the work stoppage was focused on getting rid of a DA who threatened to prosecute a police officer who shot an unarmed man:

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/02/today-in-acab-2/
You're suggesting that a printer being launched into space on a rocket would also not be secured in a similar fashion? What's your point otherwise?
They are not really playing games, they are picking at dots appearing at the screen, as they would do with seeds and insects. So is it play a tablet game?
Appium project starter here. Congrats on the launch! If you ever want to talk shop, let me know!

I'm glad to see more vision-first, AI-powered testing tools in the world.
This is such a silly send-up. They don't know what's good for me. They tell me what their language is good for. I decide if what the language is good for is good for me.
Isn't La Defense on a hill? I remember the escalators going up to it and down from it, anyways.
Can someone explain why we want to crawl and/or monitor? What is this used for?

When I think of a crawler, I think of a non-homogonous network (if that is the right term).

But with the blockchain, isn't it the case that each node has an entire copy of the blockchain, so you don't need to "crawl" it, it works more like a database.

What am I not understanding about this?
It's not iffy, at all. The CSUs (except Cal Poly) are small, largely commuter schools, predominantly filled with students who otherwise wouldn't be going to college. No one's traveling from out of state to attend a CSU.

In contrast, the UCs range from "notable mid-size university", comparable to the most prestigious state schools in any other state on the low end with UC Riverside, to "top 10 universities in the world"-type institutions on the high end with Berkeley and Santa Cruz. People absolutely travel from not just all over the country, but all over the globe, to attend UCs.
You can configure Postfix to filter content based on a shell script. https://www.postfix.org/FILTER_README.html You can turn the email into plain text from your shell script using links and then ask Mistral if it's spam or political: https://justine.lol/oneliners/#url You can use the grammar flag to force Mistral to only provide a YES or NO answer, which is easy to check from your script using an IF statement. Then boom, no more spam or politics.
I see the utility of this as removing AI image results from google images. Many artists need to search for real life photo reference in order to improve their drawing or painting skill. If you've never heard "photo reference" before, you may assume this is like tracing, but that is not the case. What you do is "study" a reference then paint on your canvas separately. This is to improve your ability to render particular subjects and materials.

Although AI generated art is fairly adept at rendering materials at the small scale, they often have issues of large scale consistency (e.g. clothing wrinkles turning into seams in an unrealistic way) or being inaccurate (e.g. a certain type of wild cat having ear tufts when it shouldn't). These are real examples that I have seen.

Needing to sift through AI art in order to find true photographs for reference is frustrating. A blocklist helps with that.
Yes, absolutely. AI has been an amazing learning tool for me as I transitioned into gamedev working at a Unity studio. What used to take upwards of hours to research or debug can now be solved in minutes by asking AI about solutions, best practices, and feedback on code.

I am constantly using AI to learn more every day -- and learning at a faster rate than I was just pouring through the internet for those same answers.
I ordered one of each on Amazon. I'll let you know...
Heh, wasn't 16k most of the memory in the machine? Large buffers do have other interesting and fun side effects, though back then you probably didn't have any threads or any/many of the things buffers cause these days.
And for that theoretical tiny category there are tax deductions and other exceptions to the law (for instance in many jurisdictions sites of religious worship are exempt from property tax). The overwhelming majority of owners do not and should not qualify for this.
Of course I know that uint16_t+uint16_t gives an int. If you're gonna be programming in C or C++, you need to know these things.

And yes, I do agree the fact that I know so much minutiae about those languages is part of the reason why I'm reluctant to go for something else I have a more shallow knowledge of. But that level of attention to detail is also what allows me to deliver high-quality code that does exactly what I intend it to do.
I think his point is, that there are (due to the limits of longs/BigInts) only a finite number of configurations before an integer overflow. I am not qualified to present an argument against, but I think there are some programs for which the computation time would be greater than the age of the universe. For example, “Print all possible configurations of this 4k monitor”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_and_crime#notab...

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

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

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

Etc.
I understand that rustup can be convenient, but I don't get why they insist on using this tool. It should be enough to distribute the toolchain and std as a zip file.
A turing machine has unbound memory, so this isn't a problem.

Example:

ax is a 2 bit register initialized to 0.

100: add 1 ax

101: jmp 100

ax is 0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 1, 2, 3

0 is compared to 1, 1 is compared to 3, 3 is compared to 2, 2 is is compared to 2, wait, that's an infinite loop...
Good thing no Musk owned companies have a well established track record of faking the entire thing
That's not the point.

I am not opposed to issues per se. The problem is dealing with the amount, it's exhausting. It's just too easy to make issue or comment on GitHub because of network effect. This sums it up pretty well: https://nolanlawson.com/2017/03/05/what-it-feels-like-to-be-... (my workload is of course far smaller, but still it takes time and saps energy)

Yes, that issue has been opened for 4 years and I don't consider it important and neither did any of "me too" comments to do anything about it. At best I sometimes get drive by PR, which takes far more time to deal with than if I just did it myself.
Hybrid-casual mobile games generate 800% more revenue per user than Hyper-casual
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Related discussion:

The C++ Killers (Not You, Rust) - Feb 2023 (59 comments) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34792932

It seems author has published the article last year but moved it to his blog now
most people want to never hear about AI again, it's everywhere in their face all of the time. Technologists and grifters are so dominant in the field and have zero ethics, people just don't want to deal with anything adjacent.
Revenue through hosting continues to be the big driver for all of these projects, which is what is motivating the license changes.

The trend indicates that only open source libraries work for companies that own projects. If it's a program (e.g. server software like a database) then it's either source available or under a foundation. It's tough and I don't know what the answer is here.

I'd love to see a model that causes the pendulum to swing back the other way with open source permissive licenses for complex programs, but I don't see a viable way yet. Maybe trademark enforcement and open source code only with licensed builds?

Either way, I'm sure we'll continue to see the rise and fall (or license change) of popular open source software for years to come. There's too much benefit for developers and companies to start out open source. And there's too much pressure later on to change it.

At the very least, I'll give Redis credit for giving far more value to the world than they've captured. By an absolutely massive margin.

It'll be interesting to see how long a fork takes to land and if it'll be successful. And it'll be interesting to look at Redis (the company)'s revenue growth curve in 5 years.
You're right, I mistook the year-to-date figure for the full-year projection.

That said,

> It's been widely reported [1] that the US debt reached $32T in June 2023, $33T in Sept 2023, $34T January 2024, achieving those milestones roughly every 100 days. The projections indicate an exponential increase, which doesn't help the case for sustainability.

These figures aren't interesting because they include debt that the government owes to itself (intragovernmental debt). The debt held by the public is presently around $27T.

When actually considering long-run sustainability, you don't just consider the real GDP growth rate (as I did above). You really need to consider several factors:

1) Deficits

2) Nominal GDP (i.e., disregarding inflation)

3) Nominal interest rates

If you have a ton of inflation, you can effectively reduce the debt burden in terms of a % of GDP, since the GDP grows with inflation and the debt does not.

This is the data series that should interest you:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S

You'll note an explosive increase due to the extreme pandemic deficit spending (and during the financial crisis), but lately it's actually not an "exponential increase".

The bottom line is it's not as though these are uncharted heights, or that we're presently on an uncontrolled exponential trajectory -- but, we have "run out of room", and if we have another crisis, we're going to be unable to engage in the kind of deficit spending that we have in the past without serious consequences.
> Just as Latin never actually died, just like COBOL, Algol 68, and Ada, – C++ is doomed to eternal half-existence between life and death.

I'm almost afraid to ask, but I'd love to know: are there any Algol 68 projects in active use? Anyone have war stories of maintaining them (bug fixes, new features, improvements to interface with more modern systems) in the last couple decades?
Appraisals function as a major fraud reducer, especially for internal fraud.

Appraisers will fudge $100k on the value of a $1m house because that's their opinion as an appraiser. They won't fudge $1m on the exact same house (2x value).

That serves as a kind of cap on funny business to some extent. 10% of the value isn't going to make that much difference on the ability to pay for most borrowers so an excess $100k in the valuation doesn't really matter anyway. As long as appraisals don't get too out of line they serve their purpose.
Well… yes definitely. You are worth more than your salary, otherwise your employer wouldn’t keep you around.

The problem is that it’s definitely a lot easier to just cruise along, punch 40 hours, and leave work at work. Startup founder life is rough. I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to extract that worth from themselves.
Glad we could all spend years creating that juicy AI training content so Reddit can get paid! /s
Encrypt your private repos..
That was unexpectedly charming.

Something hinted at, here, and something I've only recently come to accept, is that we - we humans - are Earth. I mean, literally, we're systems of systems composed of stuff that's Earth stuff. And of course many interlocking systems besides, all made of the same stuff.

Separate a portion of the larger system, and the component will not retain the original's complexity - it will lose complexity to entropy, and revert to the mean.

Along those same lines, imagine, just for a second, a completely separated other Earth, and the systems interlocked inside it. Now imagine those, mixing with ours, all those interlocking systems, interfering, constructively and deconstructively. There's only one way that shakes out[1]. It's not great.

I'm not saying interstellar voyaging is impossible. I just think it's impossible for us, as human animals, as Earth systems. But Earth systems are not the only systems that exist. Our technological systems have a leg up, in that they can be developed on a substrate of understanding beyond just the crust of the one planet. Technological systems have better messaging between systems, and they can make at least an attempt at centralized control. A technological surrogate will be the one to experience other suns. Something that remembers us, and maybe remembers us well enough it can pretend to be human occasionally.

I suppose that sounds nice, in the same way the traditional blue-sky-golden-gate-fluffy-cloud-big-bearded-old-chap afterlife sounds nice. But God, it also sounds patronizing as all hell. Just put me in the ground so I can help the garden. See, as I get older, watched things die and grow, I've come to realize: the afterlife quantifiably exists . . but you don't get to be selfish about it.

[1] Not counting technological solutions, like genetic engineering and, failing that, the magical realm of nanowhatever, although I suspect nanowhatsit will act an awful lot like living systems, which are of course their own sort of nanothingy
Classic Hacker News moment. Thanks Rob, love everything you do! Your recent SaaS Playbook is awesome.
Well, the press has always been truly awful at reporting on technical topics. It's why you can't, and never could, take any reporting on such things at face value at all, is why all of the scientists and researchers I've worked with have disliked it when their work gets reported on, and is why the so much of what regular people think "scientists say" is incorrect. Nuance and therefore accuracy gets dropped in favor of having a clear, simple story.

I don't see why LLM-related topics would be any different. But the reasons why this happens are pretty clear, and poor intentions or even laziness on the part of the reporters are rarely factors.
In the 200MB (lite!) pdf book they suggest the finest woven objects (and most of the metal-work) were from regional trade not produced locally. And many of the items of the site came from Ireland and some as far away as Iran.
I always decline the tracking from the websites so the EU laws had an effect giving me the option to decline.

At my work we also did updates , for example purging the user data when they close their account.

See changes happened, too bad that most websites decided to make the popups super evil and try to make it hard to decline, EU did not ask the websites to implement them like that, some other evil capitalists decided that screwing humans for a few dollars is worth it.
No, GR says that the Newtonian law of gravity is an approximation that makes reasonably accurate predictions when the spacetime curvature is small and all relative motions are slow compared to the speed of light. It does not say that the Newtonian interpretation of that equation is correct.
Yes but the same could be said about rocm.
More of this please!

It's astonishing how anti-modular various industries are. Even batteries, which for all their "oh no gonna blow" are really quite simple components. But why are cars not modular? How about HVAC? Housing is pretty modular.
I haven't followed Neuralink too closely since it was announced, so I was not expecting to see what I just saw. I've seen a handful of breakthrough moments in my life - I think this will be remembered as one.
>> The norm for most people used to be to work for the same company most of their career (if not all of it) and retire from there with a pension

Stats on that?

That absolutely was not the norm. Again, most companies did not exist long enough for someone to work at one for their entire career. Median job tenure 40 years ago was around 4 years (BLS).

A minority of private workers were covered by pensions at the highest point, and being covered by a pension plan did not mean you got a pension. A company might have required 30 years of service to get a pension. Work there 29 years and 11 months, get fired, no pension. Work somewhere ten years and then decide you hate it? Either work there another 20 years hating it or quit and lose your pension. Job hop for a raise every few years? No pension. Many pensions were not adjusted for inflation. Many pension plans went bankrupt. Pensions sucked. I know, I have one from the 90's. Worked there 7 years, that pension is going to pay me roughly the same monthly amount as I will be able to take from my last year's contributions to my 401K, even if those contributions make no investment returns before I retire.

I have no idea how young people get these fantasy ideas about the past. And do you really want to work in the same place for 40 years? A 401K is better than a pension. A 401K, Roth IRA and HSA is immensely better than a pension.
I don’t think that “implied license” you’re referring to holds up in the courts.