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They didn't say Apple invented the iPhone. That was a counterfactual example to make a point.

Also, the point counts even if Apple just patented enough to block comparable phones.

The point: For the smartphone market, 20 years would be a very long effective time for any foundational or gatekeeping patents.
There is widespread bipartisan support for noncompetes. NY, a bastion of liberal politics still overwhelmingly refuses to make noncompetes illegal.
This sounds like it would benefit from modifications to linkers to make decomposition easier. The benefits of code reuse might make it worthwhile, although the security implications of code reuse without having any idea of what's in the code seem formidable.
No comments on the correctness of his work (plenty of discussions online e.g on MO) but why do you say he's from IAS?
> I've always thought of that as representing a stifling of innovation.

Sadly, over my long career as a tech startup entrepreneur, my experience has been that your assumption is correct the vast majority of the time. Now when I teach or mentor young tech entrepreneurs I'm often explaining why they probably don't want to prioritize filing patents as part of their startup strategy. While there are certain exceptions, especially in pharma, biotech, materials science or medical fields, the years it takes for a patent to become enforceable and then the upfront cost + further years required to actually get a judgement, make patents largely ineffective in most startup contexts. There's also substantial uncertainty as to whether a startup can get the patent granted at all. After that, there's the challenge of getting it granted in a form which remains defensible and can't be easily worked around. Many people don't realize patent examiners can refuse to grant a patent unless the applicant narrows the claims.

Conversely, as a tech startup these days you do need to worry about patents potentially being used against you. The majority of tech patent cases are giant vs giant fighting over turf, a large incumbent trying to kneecap an emerging startup competitor (usually filing suit to make the startup unattractive to investors for a year and never intending to actually go to court) or patent troll vs everyone. Personally, I had both a giant trying to stop my startup's Series A funding and several patent trolls. Despite having no actual merit, the giant's suit did freeze our Series A and we nearly died. After seven months we'd demonstrated we could survive without a Series A so they dropped the suit (of course) but by then they'd cost us more than half our cash in just defending an obviously sham claim. As one investor told me, "Yes, it's clearly a bullshit claim but it will still cost serious money and a lot of founder attention over the next 18 months to get it thrown out and that, unfortunately, tips this deal over our risk threshold." And responding to the constant patent trolls just burns up startup founder attention and scarce cash in nuisance legal fees.

Despite the old-school trope of "garage inventor patents invention, makes fortune", frankly, from the perspective of fostering typical tech startups, you'd probably prefer a world where there were no patents outside of pharma, medical, bio, etc.
What you're proposing is not an objective measure, it's a popularity contest.

And yes, in a lot of such surveys you'll find Chinese/Japanese/Korean sitting at the top of the list. Sometimes with Arabic.

Maybe Japanese is a really hard language objectively, but these surveys aren't actually showing that. What they are showing is that the majority of organizations that are doing these kind of surveys are populated by speakers of western European languages, who find Japanese "objectively" much harder than Spanish.
In my experience 40 hours plus 40 hours does not equal 80 hours in the office. Someone working twice as long is just able to accomplish a ton more than two people working 40 hours because theres less collaboration friction.
While I totally agree that Atlassian products are terrible and steadily getting even worse, I'm not sure they are going anywhere anytime soon given their disconnect between users and customers. Most people who have to suffer their products have no say in the purchasing decision, and the company does a somewhat better job of appealing to the relative small group that does. Atlassian could very well have Oracle-like staying power.
I learned CAD / fusion for both work and a burgeoning interest in 3d printing. I'm a product manager in my day job. Being proficient in CAD and do simple renderings has been extremely helpful with work.

I'm now looking at going down the Blender / render rabbit hole as Fusion can only get you so far.
Then nothing involving WebGPU counts since it's not implemented on other browsers than Chromium and not on Linux even in Chromium…

WebGPU is brand new, and the paint is still wet. It doesn't make sense to dismiss things that haven't landed in browsers yet as “unusable on the web”.
In SF libraries are mostly used for clean air during the fire season. Sad but true
These llm's are usually only proving some trivial lemmas right now. Hopefully it changes soon but...
The article does also say

> As a side note, the general story is nearly identical to the Original Series episode "The Changeling,"

That episode was one of the other examples in my post (Nomad).
No, Stallman has always insisted from its inception that free software is firstly a moral principle, a sort of human right like free speech in the traditional liberal worldview, and only secondarily a pragmatic one.[0][1] I suspect if you asked most people involved with the FSF, they'd say something similar. This is probably the largest difference between the free software movement and the open source movement.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/the-moral-and-the-legal.html
[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html
I was reading the making of at the end of Roadside Picnic and the authors wrote there was no word stalker in the Russian language until they wrote their book and introduced the concept and word to Russian language. Maybe more properly a neologism.
Same here with YouTube, assuming they use ML, which is likely.

They routinely give me brain-dead suggestions such as to watch a video I just watched today or yesterday, among other absurdities.
Any idea which one Copilot uses? I'm interested in exploring ways to get down autocomplete suggestion latency.
Did I mention I was more pessimistic? :-) I expect that today they could layoff 150k, keep the 30K that are involved with search and enough ads that are making business and that husk would do okay for a long time. I don't suppose you watched SGI die, that happened to them, kind of spiraled into a core that has some money making business and then lived on that.

One of my observations between "early" Google and "late" Google (and like the grandparent post I see 2010 as a pretty key point in their evolution) was employee "efficiency." I don't know if you've ever been in that situation where someone leaves a company and the company ends up hiring two or three people to replace them because of all the things they were doing. Not 10x engineers but certainly 3 - 5x engineers. Google starting losing lots of those in that decade. They had gone through the "Great Repricing" in 2008 when Google lowered the strike price on thousands of share options. And having been there 5 to 10 years had enough wealth built up in Google stock that for a modest level of "this isn't fun any more" could just do that.

But aside from your observation that "they have plenty of people" it is similar to observing that a plane that has lost its engine at 36,000' has "plenty of altitude" both true and less helpful than "and here is the process we're going to use as we fall out of the sky to get the engines back on."

Google has lots of resources. If you have ever read about IBM reinventing itself in the 90's its quite interesting to note that had IBM not owned a ton of real estate it likely would not have had the resources to restructure itself. I worked with an executive at IBM who was part of that restructuring and it really impressed on me how important "facing reality" was at a corporation, and looking at the situation more realistically. I had started trying to get Google to do that but gave up when Alan Eustace explained that he understood my argument but they weren't going to do any of the things I had recommended. At that point its like "Okay then, have fun." Still, at some point, they could. They could figure out exactly what their "value add" is and the big E economics of their business and realign to focus on that. Their 'mission oriented' statement suggests that they are paying some attention to that idea now. But to really pull it off a lot of smart, self-interested, and low-EQ people are going to have to come to terms with being wrong about a lot of stuff. That is what I don't see happening and so I'm not really expecting them to transform. Both not enough star bits and the luma are just not hungry enough.
My opinion on hcl: better than yaml / json, worse than Python / Typescript / most real languages.

In fact I will use a real programming language for IaC over pretty much anything, as long as the language has an expressive type system and allows declarative idioms.
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One of the best decisions made. Non-competes are harmful and the problem they claim to solve can be resolved in other ways.
But the language processor is in place (and arguably robust enough to map any arbitrary language in the world)
> I'm not taking a position for or against the article; I haven't read it.

If you haven't read it, why are you in a position to suggest whether the title is accurate to the article's contents or not?
I've never understood the idea of a "forever home". Why would that be a thing you would want? I start feeling antsy when I spend too long living in one place; there's a whole world out there!

My "forever home" will feature a headstone in a grassy field; until then, it's all temporary.
It'd be nice to have a similar site but cost per token.
Me too. I use the sarcastic mark (/s) nowadays when conveying that through text.
I didn't know it runs an LLM when you append a "?", but for any Kagi-users out there, you can use the bang: !fgpt $QUERY if you automatically want to jump to an LLM.

The !fgpt-bang seems to be the model: "Claude 3 Haiku" going by the developer notes. Which often outperforms at least ChatGPT 3.5, easily recouping some of the money I put into Kagi every month.
Only a non-American feels constantly compelled to point stupid things like that out.
This is a great idea. We'll add it.
> That's why you "whitelist" those you wrote down and re-used with success: a little checkbox, which when checked means "Successfully re-initialized an authenticator with this 2FA?", works wonder.

I just bake the whitelisting into every 2FA code I handwrite. Instead of scanning the QR into the phone and then writing down the backup, I just start by writing down the backup, and then input it manually from the note into my phone. Once successfully used, I know the handwritten 2FA code is valid.

> A "dot" underneath a character means it's a number (so I'm sure not to mistake '5' with 'S', for example).

That one's good, I'll start doing that from now on! I also found writing letters partially in cursive to help too.

> My "paper 2FAs" then go to the bank, in a safe.

Yep same, I got a bank SD box back in 2017 during my first crypto wave. Have found the $100/yr to be incredibly useful. More recently I've created a sort of "defense in depth" for my passwords/codes. Least important things are available a button click away on Bitwarden Chrome extension, more important things are non-cloud-synced google-authenticator on my phone with 2FA backup in bank SD box. Most important things (i.e. crypto private keys) are sharded into pieces and distributed amongst multiple SD boxes.
> there's absolutely no evidence that they've ever voted more than a random one-off that's almost always caught and prosecuted.

To be more precise, the evidence is that non-citizen attempts to vote are somewhere on the order of one vote in ~hundred million. Screwing up voter registration forms is somewhat more common, but people who actually cross reference databases have found that the people who incorrectly mark "I want to be registered to vote" on their drivers license forms don't actually vote, which suggests it's mostly a mistake.

There are issues with the amount of people on voter registration rolls who shouldn't be, but I should also point out that anytime someone claims ridiculously high numbers of potential misvotes, it's because they do coarse-grained database mismatches, and so they'll catch people whose names match. When you do the actual legwork, the voter registration issues go down dramatically, and the principal cause of that is that people aren't correctly unregistered when they move (and people don't attempt to vote in their previous place of residence, so there's very few actual vote attempts!)

In fact, the largest category of illegal vote attempts I believe is felons who try to vote. Because the voter registration system does a poor job of actually working out who is a felon whose right to vote has been revoked.
Yeah, definitely don't rely on them for assembly. For prototype runs of a couple to tens of units, just do it yourself. Hire an intern for assembly and just order bare boards. Standard lead time for boards is on the order of a week, if not 24h.

The equipment isn't expensive and you don't need much labor. I bet a 2-3 week wait costs you a lot more than a part time assembly tech.
First the search space is way too large for brute force enumeration. We’re talking like 10^300 combinations. Also the hard part isn’t just listing amino acid sequences, its finding ones that do what you want them to. The only way to figure that out is by testing them, which is difficult and expensive. So you need an algorithm that is good at only listing sequences that are likely to work. That’s precisely what LLM’s are good at: finding patterns and sequences that are correlated in a useful way
Legislator is a person that can write laws, it does not mean it's their duty to write laws. In the United States their duty is to uphold the constitution and represent their constituents. Not to create more rules.
Luckily for you, there's no professional engineering society on the planet that considers computer programming to be engineering.
https://archive.ph/jvBLJ
> This make me wonder on the connection between 2, 3 and 4 dimensions, and Hamilton found out the hard that you need 4 numbering system or quaternion, in order to properly represent 3 dimensions [1].

Sort of. Quarternions have some nice properties as representations of _rotations_ in 3d space. 3d space works just fine with 3 dimensions.
Yeah they're not happy about that

https://wow.groq.com/hey-elon-its-time-to-cease-de-grok/
No prompt length? For practical purposes, the prompt processing time would far more important.
Yeah, what is scared into compliance?
ChatGPT is my default now basically.. almost anything I search for is technical in nature and it gives me the proper result almost all the time. Even if it's setting up a dedicated server for a game etc
Meanwhile facebook does not show you updates about your friends.

And yes, I know they post rarely and they cannot "feed" your.. feed since it would be nearly empty.

But those few posts that friends make are not promoted at all. You can as well just go to their profiles to read. Faster too.

On android they have a "secret" feed that shows only friends, but it also seems to be very hit and miss.
https://archive.ph/YlYhx
I'm also surprised, FWIW. In July 2023, I wasn't sure if my lifespan might be measured in weeks, and doctors conceded that, given how fast the tumors had recurred and metastasized, "weeks" was plausible.
Why economists are so critical of non-competes - https://www.nominalnews.com/p/to-compete-or-non-compete
Consider ordering reusable chunks of your circuit as PCBs instead of iterating on entire boards. You can connect the chunks with breadboards or connectors or something.
and that seems to be kindof a problem? in so far as possible, hardware should attempt to be unbrickable
I agree with you somewhat, having spent ~4 years at Google... though I think "perf-driven development" is IMO a symptom and exacerbating factor, but not a root cause.

Advancement and fulfilling of personal ambitions is a common thing in basically every sufficiently large company. Google isn't unique in having that problem - nor is their promotion process markedly different than everyone else's!

What is different is that Google is extremely metrics and OKR driven, combined with a near-total absence of product leadership. There is often no broader product strategy besides "grow X by Y".

This results in a critical weakness where you can get promoted for shipping Obviously Dumb Shit, because it hits some ill-defined OKR. It's practically an annual tradition within Google's management: creatively interpret pointless and vague OKRs so that you can make a (contorted) argument that Projects X and Y contribute to it, so you can ship it and get everyone involved their promos.

People in other companies are ambitious and want to get promoted too! The difference is that in many other companies there are other sanity checks in place that you don't get promo'ed for shipping Obviously Dumb Shit.

Google's root problem IMO is that there is an extreme lack of product leadership and product vision at the very top levels of the company. This results in a near-total inability to mitigate meta-hacks of internal promotion systems.

At companies with more product strategy at some point someone at a high level goes "Projects X makes no damned sense!" and puts the kibosh on it. At Google Project X will ship, and then after its badness becomes inescapable, get shut down.
No. but you can try the search here:

https://roastidio.us/search
It is interesting that Google gets a lot of flak for canceling products, while Microsoft effectively cancels products all the time through EOL, but it doesn't register the same because they will sell you the next version (which is NOT the same as the old version only better).

Would love to still run Windows XP.
This implies that posting a multi-paragraph comment on an article without bothering to read it, as dang did here, is the standard that HN should aspire to going forward.
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Glad others were photographing it. I was just there for the ahhhhs. It's a kind of a religious experience for me and, though it was my second, I knew from the first one that I ought to just ignore the phone and just take in the experience. No regrets.

I'm old enough that it's questionable I'll be around in 21 years for the next one in the U.S.. Only my middle daughter has not yet seen one (wife and the other two daughters are good). If I am lucky I'll be alive to join her for it.

I have to say, bit off topic, I'm fairly pissed off that I didn't get "my Halley's comet". Or rather, I got it, but it was crap. I suppose I could live to be 97.... (I am not sure if Mark Twain was lucky or unlucky with regard to Halley's.)

Anyway, Hale-Bopp was a treat, I have to confess. I suppose I am fortunate for that.
El Reg doing the decent thing with the health warning, but sad that this is a) necessary and b) starting to have consequences for those wanting security updates after having decluttered.
EU Police Chiefs want an end to end-to-end encryption
Caveat: I know nothing about this, but have some experience with grid and flexbox.

To my mind flexbox could be a basis for masonry way better than grid with less overhead.

I also think mosaic would be a better name.
I feel like Apple lost sight of the early and late majority and zoomed in too much on the early adopters with this one.
"Innovative engineering?" I think you mean "fundamental research." The classic ∞/100 rule?
Couple of things:

1. Filtering by model should be enabled by default. Mixtral-8x7b-instruct on Perplexity is almost as fast as the 7B Llama 2 on fireworks, but are quite different in sizes.

2. Pricing is a very important factor that is not included.

3. Overall service reliability should also be an important signal.
I like the article and I share the same sentiment. However, let's not assume these people care about Google search, cause most of them don't. They care about making the most money they can, until the next thing.
I'll act as official mediator. Conclusion: both should change their name
I think novels also suffer from a lack of independent tastemakers. Book stores all went out of business, and none of the publishing houses have an identity beyond publishing what sells. I can't think of any book review blogs that have loyal followings, so you end up with the only exposure being pay-for-play. It's really difficult to discover new authors that I like with the current systems.
What's BDA in that context, please? I can only confidently assume it's not “battle damage assessment”.
You seem to imply they are a higher rate of rich
assholes, no? The most cited research on this (Piff et al.) is highly flawed IMO and hasn’t been able to be replicated.

Or is your point that people are assholes in general? If the latter, I’m failing to see how that gets connected to rich people actively suppressing education, especially when, as you say, they are the most likely to donate money to those causes.
Good, I hope this trickles down to other countries that seem to just copy paste US laws like mine.

I have a non compete that bans me from working in my field for 6 months, like how is this legal? absolutely crazy how every company basically copy pasted that clause into their contracts.
its 4 months old and not free to watch?
wtf?
I don't understanding why would we need to having similar expectations from systems that we have from humans and building a whole theory on it. I can adjust my behaviour around systems. I am not restricted to operate within default values. e.g Whenever a price is listed as $99, I automatically know it is $100. Marketing gimmicks don't work once you know about them or in other words, expectations can be set in a new environment.
As Jackson quipped; "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it." We'll see where this goes, and if it's honored.
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"The content of their character, not the color of their skin (or passport)" per the famous saying.
It really is the most mystical experience I’ve ever had. Also was my second time and also decided not to even attempt to photograph it.

Glad you got to experience it with many of your loved ones!
Been looking a lot for a simple overview like this, I’ve spent too much time benchmarking models/regions myself. Thank you for creating!
Another good resource: https://artificialanalysis.ai/
I think Github Copilot itself is GPT-3.5, but Copilot Chat is GPT-4.
I'm amazed that the scientific community of the time happened to have some kind of equipment to measure this phenomenon... all right before the time of the American Civil War.
Reminds me of my friend's visualisation of tracks on the popular London station NTS https://www.barneyhill.com/pages/nts-tracklists/. Turns out a lot of cool artists like the same tracks... ;)
The spelling with a 'k' is more canon (referring to the term from Heinlein) and that was the spelling in the tech culture that borrowed it... what is the reason for choosing a 'q' in theirs, do you know?