skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do use native GUI frameworks rather than something like Electron, which they still mention. And maybe they also used to have something about relying on Apple's Virtualization Framework or something like that, rather than qemu as Lima used for a long time. (I think it may still be Lima's default, but not for long.)
Speed is consistently higher than advertised (330-350ish), latency is fine, 1 TB/month (it says this, but then also says X GB of unlimited used), and I don’t think I’ve had an outage in the two years that we’ve been here. I’ll be considering it still (just became available last week in my neighborhood) but since I work remotely I have to be risk averse on switching internet providers.
> The biggest change coming for Americans will be the ability for banks to issue one physical payment card that will be connected to multiple bank accounts. That means no more carrying, for example, a Bank of America or Chase debit card as well as their respective credit cards in a physical wallet. Americans will be able to set criteria with their bank — such as having all purchases below $100 or with a certain merchant applied to the debit card, while other purchases go on the credit card.

What's the startup that tried to do this but failed due to bank integration issues?

Anyway, this is HUGE news.
Pointless waste of time. For progress you already have stand ups daily and sprints every other week.

1:1 are mostly about bitching about other people in not so blunt words. He could use more of... She is too... They doing that would be nice... and such.

As for career development, let's not get delusional about it. It's a fraud and most pretend its not. We're masons. At best you can oversee other masons may be 5 at the lower end and few hundred to thousands on the higher end and for the too, there's no objective criteria rather a function of who you know, who knows you, who you talk to and who talks to you. Not such a deterministic meritocracy.
Thank you. I've updated my initial guess of p(critical bugs | did not find critical bugs) from 0.5 to 0.82 given my estimate of likelihood and base rates.
Of course you can. If you invented it, and nobody else has patented it, you can patent it. Opening the source doesn’t invalidate your rights as an inventor or copyright holder, though it can add confusion and/or complexity to the enforcement of both the patent and the open source license.
This article is quite long-winded, but to summarize, they are proposing a desalination scheme assuming cheap solar energy.

Given that California electricity is pretty expensive even though we have lots of solar energy, how can that be done? Why not sell it to the grid?

It might help to know that the author of the article is the founder of Terraform Industries, which aims to use solar power to synthesize natural gas. Likely the hope is to get efficiency by closely integrating the solar panels with the desalination plant, similar to how they do it in that project.

I think if they really can get cheap desalination, there are many cities that would buy the water and pay more than agriculture. It wouldn't make sense to tackle agricultural use first, since it's more price-sensitive.
I almost wish we had actual imperial ambition instead of all the cloak and daggers garbage the CIA gets up to. At least there would be economic stability and decent education and infra in annexed countries.
Official release:

https://www.utopiafiber.com/2024/05/08/utopia-fiber-adds-thr...
I would and sort of still do buy the text books as soon as I registered and make sure to read at least the first few chapters before class. Makes it easier to know what to take. It’s on, ask better questions, and remember it longer. I wouldn’t do the homework tho till just before the deadline.
We saw dystopia; they saw unbelievable profit

Also, to be fair:

- Siri had come out two years before "Her" was released to theaters, so the critique was more about voice assistants (which is a form of AI) than AGI or the AI sota.

- The closest thing to "Her" would be a Humane Pin with 4o or higher. A Humane Pin like experience that didn't suck would honestly be super cool. That would allow me to leave the phone at home!
What they describe there is not necessary. You can use the built-in Object.create function. The code shown at the bottom can be used in case you are using a old version of JavaScript that does not have Object.create.

Like they say, there are many benefits of prototype inheritance compared with class inheritance, and I agree with that.

I think that it is not a good idea to affect Object.prototype, and I think it might have been a bad idea even to put anything there at first when they invented JavaScript. (For this reason, sometimes Object.create(null) is used, which creates an object with no prototype.)
A quick side note for those interested: this is not the British ISP thing where certain sites don’t resolve in DNS (e.g. RT.com).

This is not the British government blocking a site.

This is apparently the New Yorker refusing to serve a page (with a 404!) to the UK. So they (or a UK distributor or subsidiary I suppose?) have been given legal advice that it would breach a court order banning media coverage, since she has both a retrial on some charges and an appeal in her future and any coverage could be prejudicial to it. Indeed, given the way the guilty verdict was covered in national press, almost certainly would be.

This would not ordinarily be particularly controversial, because it’s the law, it’s commonplace, and it is designed to protect a process.

But I think David Davis (one of the UK’s few longstanding political stalwarts at this point) is making the point that the ban has the effect of making it challenging to discuss wider aspects for an unusually long period of time.

He is also using parliamentary privilege, in effect, to make it clear that a discussion and meaningful counter-narrative potentially in the public interest exists, in a way that newspapers can report without themselves contravening the ban.

This is a longstanding, common application of parliamentary privilege, so it is not of itself newsworthy or radical.
If you run it through bayes theorem, it adjusts the posterior very little.
Wait, does that mean hallucinations should be embraced and improved uppon?
No offense, but this is just terrible C++ and the author needs to go back to the basics and understand how objects, references, and pointers work. His proposed "solution" is also terrible.

All you need is this:

https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/cEo9sYGTa
> people do the same thing

You're right, most people do that, but that's because they haven't trained themselves to be inventors. This is a skill that definitely needs to be developed more, but finding truly creative (and sometimes backwards-seeming) solutions can sometimes mean thinking about problems in a completely different way.

However, all LLM's do this. That's one of the points of the article.
At Kranowitz he capitulated. Interesting.

RE: mutual suspicion: precryptographic techniques, presumably?
i really suggest digging deeper than Netflix or HBO before making such a claim
This New Internet Thing, Chapter 2. That Retirement Gift
Essentially. It's better than conventional stacking because they are taken through different lenses, so any lens flares/distortions/reflections etc in each camera should get averaged away by the others.
I would love to see the code of Fireworks. Adobe bought macromedia just to kill the apps.

If I could bring one app back to life, it would be Fireworks. I was soooo good as it, no other software compares.
There's only big money in meaningful ownership, which is not afforded to startup employees who are merely workers with a pittance of low liquidation preference shares far down on the cap table.

And the TC "startup haircut" is a reality distortion field that makes me avoid 99.998% of startups in an employment arrangement because they want something for nothing in addition to being unlikely to survive. The truth is startups must compete with FAANG and other businesses for talent.
Gravel bikes are much more comfortable and fast than road bikes on unpaved roads, which is what they are designed for. Wider wheels will add more weight and more angular momentum, making it harder to climb and harder to steer so you might need to replace the drop bar with the MTB flat bar and without the drops you can move the saddle into a more comfortable position as well... ending with a hardtail w/o the suspension fork.
I haven’t used Remix, but I regret choosing react-router due to frequent major version upgrades.
We got cheap desalination, supposedly - https://humanprogress.org/desalinating-water-is-becoming-abs...
Sounds about right assuming the global solar installation figures are ballpark correct. (See World in data [1], etc).

We've gone from ~200 GW installed per year to ~400 GW per year.

The India mega solar farm [2] is quoted as designed to deliver 30 GW from 72,600 hectares (179,398.5 acres).

Sanity checking ( 437 / 30 ) x 179,398 gives 2.6 million acres.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/installed-solar-pv-capaci...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat_Hybrid_Renewable_Energ...
I’m just about to lose a friend from this. So wish the science was further along for everyone. Hopefully in the future for others.
Pedantic opening line aside, I think software engineers in general underestimate how much of our electrical infrastructure still runs on coal and natural gas, and also underestimate the amount of time required to stand up new capacity on "green" sources, especially nuclear.

I consider it reasonable to have a conversation about AI with respect to how worth it it is vis a vis climate goals. The verge just ran article that stated that Microsoft's emissions had increased substantially in 2023 even with investments in green infrastructure, with one of their executives stating explicitly that AI had pushed back sustainability goals. I also think it's obvious that the free market has failed to have a meaningful positive impact on this issue considering that this entire problem is caused the negative externalities of emissions, despite solar becoming the cheapest source of electricity.

I also disagree that it's not worth discussing computing efficiency with respect to this problem. Crypto is rightly criticized for using a ton of power to do essentially zero useful work. That power could have gone towards displacing some kind of fossil fuel usage but it didn't and that means we now have more work to do with respect to climate goals. According to the article we're commenting on here, Virginia could have powered 1.5 million homes with the power they used on the AI data center boom. And what value did we really get out of it? I believe strongly that it's fair to critique this.
I'm curious for someone like Ilya does he use LLM for daily brainstorming ?
Laryngologists are head and neck surgeons, in the US and most commonwealth at least where the general training is “otolaryngology-head and neck surgery”.
There is further subspecialization in head and neck for oncologic, reconstructive, and (micro)vascular procedures usually just called “head and neck”, true, which is confusing.
You're just wrong about this, sorry -- your comments make it sound like you haven't put time in with one, and if you haven't, then it might be you could become more informed by talking with someone who has.

To respond to how you imagine me, I have no need to "justify" my purchase; for reference I don't use it that often, and I'm glad I bought it for a peek into the future. You may notice that I said I have a Magic Leap 2 -- significantly more expensive, and used for under 2 hours -- I would not recommend someone even try it out. And I wouldn't even say I regret buying that -- it's useful to see what $8bn of early tech development gets you, and they did some things amazingly well.

Further, I am fully aware of the use cycle of VR goggles, see my above list of devices I've purchased.

These goggles are really not VR, and it's a mistake to think they are without using them. For instance, on a plane, wearing the vision pro, when a stewardess approaches you, the AVP notice a human is entering your field of vision, and blur them in to the scene, regardless of what you're doing.

Is this world changing? No. Is it "VR with passthrough"? Nope. It's a much harder thing, a spatially aware pipeline (one that can recognize humans) interjecting itself into a rendering pipeline. There are a number of these little moments with the AVP that show Apple did the hard, very hard work to build a new OS pipeline. Right now, they're using it for entertainment, and if you're wealthy enough, they're a great purchase for a plane ride. They cost less than a business class upgrade, and they make the flight go away.

Later, I predict if they stick with it, the IP and knowhow they're building here are going to be super valuable.
The creators of these LLMs train it not to offend, to an extreme degree, so much so that it sounds unnatural to humans.
That's a truly innovative approach! This will create a robust solution to that problem.
Aren’t independent LLMs just more data? Some AI researchers are arguing that more data is the primary thing that got us this far, and the primary thing that will improve AI from here. Here’s an example (and a very good talk whether you believe my summary) https://www.youtube.com/live/a13aqr07tJ4?si=FZO5m_XzrfpDhyQP

As a part-time generative artist for several decades, a user of Monte-Carlo methods on a daily basis, and author of some papers on the topic, I personally believe that randomness is not a good answer to anything creative. Randomness is boring, and average. Randomness only helps you when you have a high quality Markov model constraining what your RNG chooses between, and that’s more or less all LLMs actually are. Adding more randomness to creative works in general makes creative works muddy and lowers quality, it needs to be guided. Randomness is a useful tool, but is widely misunderstood IMO and not very effective at brainstorming style exploration; brainstorming is about solving problems in interesting ways, i.e., there is reasoning behind it, not slightly more random word salad.
Essen is like this in Manhattan, probably the closest spiritual successor to Horn & Hardart and the automats there is. A big buffet cafeteria. Not too cheap though, though OK for manhattan commuter office worker lunch prices I guess

Unfortunately in most markets cafeteria style restaurants, especially affordable ones, are rare. A shame, it's my favorite genre of restaurant
The scene where Joaquin has sex with a Her TaskRabbit was creepy and dystopian af IMO
I can't edit now... but one thing I'd like to change - it's not fair to call this their first line of defense.

Rachel did the most important thing right: taking backups at the first sign of trouble, presumably beforehand too.

I just feel they're off the mark foregoing block devices and having a strange process as a result... "because images are big". Speeding up doesn't normally quiet a squeaky wheel. Not to say it can't... but let's place bets :)

There are options for this concern without compromising the efficacy of the whole process; for example, {de,}compression.

Yes, you care about the files, but to recover them... you don't get to ignore the details of the filesystem - or the constraints you're allowing it (and yourself) to operate under.

The takeaway from this isn't "substitute well-established recovery processes..." but, make sure you have backups so you can afford two perks:

* ignore a failing drive for weeks
* not care *at all* about your attempts to recover the source filesystem

The filesystem, your storage, everything will lie.

Prepare for it; make copies and accept this will take time. This chestnut still applies: "If you don't have time to do it right, you must have time to do it again."

The recovery or your data?
Tried putting that verbatim into Phind, got back an essay on how to get funding to start a business. In the conclusion was this gem: "While the idea of harvesting cat feces for carbon sequestration is innovative, success will depend on thorough research, strategic planning, and effective execution."
It can also work the other way though on rare occasions. The Blender UI revamp had the opposite effect, it helped drew more users to the platform (although so did the addition of Cycles and later EeeVee renderers).
Lots of rich people are preppers; I don't think AGI is the chief catalyst here
Agreed that this is a super luxury super early adopter purchase -- on those terms, I recommend it wholeheartedly. Otherwise -- wait four years. The hardware needs two revs, and the software needs two revs, plus an app ecosystem.

That said, it could become absolutely indispensable very quickly if OpenAI builds a quality spatial app. Like, this summer. We'll see.
Same here with essential tremor. Rarely do people think of us.
I can do transfers of at least $250k from my phone.
LLMs seem to be unsuitable for a lot of work.
>why do other people use debit cards at all?

... to purchase goods and services?

You know they can be used in places other than ATMs, right?
Do you live in a donut of Sonic coverage? There definitely is Sonic 10gbps service in Mountain View.
The ESP32 is not the real threat. The real threat are new integrated chips from small Chinese companies that are coming down the pipeline - like the SG2002. They run RISC-V, have integrated RAM and run Linux.

They greatly simplify the whole SBC and effectively bridging the gap between RPis and Arduino - in cost and easy of use

It's not a full desktop experience, but they're running full Ubuntu - so you code on your laptop and it'll run on the thing - run whatever language you want and blink lights, shoot out emails or do whatever other hobby projects you want using your desktop dev environment. No fiddling with icky micro Arduino/ESP32 libs.

RPi have shown themselves to be a Broadcom shop - so their product direction is dictated by Broadcom's chip offerings

Example: LicheeRV Nano

https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/02/08/licheerv-nano-low-co...
tl;dr: Fear of the unknown. The problem is more and more people don't know anything about anything, and so are prone to rejecting and retaliating against they don't understand while not making any effort to understand before forming an emotionally-based opinion.
Hadn’t heard of this before, it looks great! Need it on mobile though, and would be happy to pay a reasonable fee for it.
Why not?

Existing ocean currents in the Gulf of California driven by wind, tides, and thermohaline circulation are on the order of 10cm/s, tens of kilometers wide, hundreds of meters deep. Very little of that is associated with local rivers, which are relatively tiny because the whole region is extremely arid. Are you going to be desalinating 0.1 km^2 of water per second?

The Sun pumps a thousand watts a square meter onto the surface of the Earth on a 24-hour cycle and this tends to shake things up.
The original blog post from John Romero had the video uploaded to Vimeo
(http://vimeo.com/4022128)

https://web.archive.org/web/20120502150657/http://rome.ro/20...

Some discussion a ways back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=549748
Businesses can impose the credit card transaction fee on consumers as a surcharge, and many are starting to. Using debit rails (or hopefully soon, FedNow instant payments) avoids this fee burden.
The LISP parser my co-worker built had the ability to encode in a grammar rule which "corner" to trigger that rule on. Often it was the head of the phrase, but it could be things like the word "and" (no need to trigger a conjunction rule unless there's a conjunction).
I'm not a fan of regularly-scheduled meetings in general.

I prefer using a mix of communication media, appropriate to the information and urgency, including async-friendly, documentation-friendly, and time-respecting.

But I also think having occasional face-to-face occasionally (preferably in person, but if not, on videoconf) is generally good. Not necessarily regularly-scheduled, though.

If recent face-to-face doesn't happen incidentally for project/task-oriented purposes, or we did but it was always some highly focused (no deep breath and how's things going), then I might ask when's a good time for non-urgent general checkin.

For these general checkins, super-ideal would be WFH of a small team of people who are aligned and very good at their jobs, and who're close enough to the same city, such that we could easily meet up for coffee/juice/whatever. Then it's not just an interruption of your flow, but a bit of a deep breath and step back, when the timing is good, and the in-person and physical context change reinforces that.

Of course, if a situation has gotten too crazy, and someone seems to be running themselves into the ground and hurting their health (this is not so unusual)... then it's time to talk with them, even if they feel like they need to stay in self-immolating marathon mode for "just another few weeks...".
I don't think that's entirely why. They kept Flash around for a long time
Thank you for your reply. My initial testing yielded no results, but simplifying the search term to single words (like "mountain") worked to turn up a few (among many that should have appeared). Seems like there may be room for Desktop Docs, at least until Apple's own ML search improves.
I use my xreal on flights; it’s very light so no issue taking it everywhere. Vision Pro is just too big to take everywhere imho, even though it’s much better in general.
I took an image processing class during my Comp Eng undergrad. We learned about and implemented (in C, or maybe Java; I think it was C) some of the bitmap processing algorithms that Photoshop incorporated. Some of that math is no joke, and making it tight in the late 80s must have been harder still.
Ditto; so my task has to be to re-SIMD The Dispossessed (UKLG), The Possessed (FMD), & HH, paying attention to any superpositions of child-likeliness and ambition.
Build super fast AI assistant with Groq
Science is moving faster than ever and this dude is really like "people don't ever invent anything new actually"
Details are hazy as this was a long time ago, but at some point you could make parts of messages not render in Outlook and Outlook Express by writing "begin something" (two spaces after "begin") by itself in a single line. Outlook would thing that it was the start of an uuencoded block and not render anything after that.

I remember annoying friends in a mailing list by quoting emails with "begin quote from Person Name:" :)
I tried asking an LLM for assistance with Chef Policyfiles today (more specific than that of course), and the response was as if it was for a non-existent product rather than Chef. It even included a code block that it claimed I could run on repl.it if I had an account, which resembled a resource block in chef (policies are not a kind of resource).

If a coworker confidently gave me code that is not only wrong, but relies on things that don't exist, I wouldn't call it creative. If they tried to claim that no I'm wrong, it is real, I might even say they hallucinated it.
I get your point. Your view is widespread. The war is over, video has won. I know I have to accept this.

It just makes me sad, because there's no way around the fact it just takes _longer_ on a time-per-idea basis to consume content this way, no matter what I do, whether I use the AI generated transcript, use the speed up fourier transform feature at 2x, skim it with scrobbing time jumps, or whatnot.

PS: Blog posts support photographs. A slide show did not need to be a video. I'm OK with videos that really make use of the video medium -- this is not one of those.
Increasing efficiency is good, yes. Crypto sucks because it doesn't do anything useful and intentionally burns compute. If AI is not useful, then we will not need to spend the power on it because no one will want or need it. If it is useful, we will need to spend the power on it.
...and completely changing how everything works on each major version change.