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Sicily is really stunning. You make me want to return there now…

But I’m curious (if you don’t mind) - as an accomplished programmer/entrepreneur, do you ever feel torn between wanting to live in your idyllic home of Sicily, vs. a hub like Silicon Valley? Do you feel limited in terms of what you can do, and does that matter to you?

I ask because Sicily seems close to your heart, while I think it’s also safe to assume that you would have lots of opportunity elsewhere. I imagine staying was a very conscious decision?

There are lots of wonderful but “small” corners of the world where people might face the same dilemma.
i could complain about all day about how it's impossible to write a decent driver for ssd here, even hdd drivers seen like decent, which is a far cry, but besides amusing you, where do you think this will go?
Imagine a backlog of frozen people who can now be unfrozen due to the availability of a cure, but who now have to reintegrate into society. The political implications would parallel the controversy introducing refugees
You know that these KAB bombs are launched from airplanes that are directly countered by these exact propositions, right?
I actually switched from Clojure to CL.

I switched because I was making command line tools and clojure's startup time is abysmal. Babashka doesn't have all the libraries and GraalVM's native image requires herculean effort to work even a little bit and spits out monstrously huge binaries.

Common Lisp is actually a lot more popular than I thought it was. I think perhaps it doesn't look that way, but it's very strong I assure you. Join us on the lisp Discord!

It is possible to create relatively small binaries out of the box with nearly instant startup time. There's plenty of libraries and a strong community. There's also a great number of implementations.

A lot of the things that are not standardized in the standard have been standardized via implementation agreement and libraries abstracting away different implementation differences, such as cffi and bordeaux-threads. I defy closure to have anything nearly as feature complete for parallelization as parallels, blackbird, and CL-async. Speaking of which, the C FFI story is strong enough with lisp that any major missing library or language feature usually has a wrapping list Library around that feature written in C. While it's not standard, all the major implementations have adopted gray streams and people use flexi streams to open sockets. It's the same kind of du jour standard that Clojure relies on.

The standard is flexible enough to have several different implementations on several different platforms. If I need to interface with jvm languages, I can use armed bear common lisp. If I need just a really strong implementation that works in most situations I can use CCL or sbcl. If I need to integrate heavily with C or C++ code I can use ecl or clasp.

It is clunkier because it takes the view that agreement between programmers is more important than clean syntax. The standard was created to unite the different lisp implementations instead of divide them. I value this view.
I guess Europeans forgot how to build and learned how to consume funding from public projects. I am not sure how good is the source, but the sums are the same as in serious German articles: https://eulerpool.com/en/news/politics/the-planned-train-rou...

Stuttgart 21: from €3,5B to €11,5B and finish not in sight. So the bridge has potential to reach €50B.
I don't think Putin can reasonably enter any kind of peace negotiations now: he's clearly losing Crimea, and the rest of the territory the troops under his command was able to invade does not at all resonate with the Russian people. Also there is the question of reparations: the Russians have already done more damage than the 350B$ of foreign currency their central bank has (had?) oversea...
JDAM-ER (which Ukraine has) have an extended range of about that.

https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/joint-direct-at...
Davinci Resolve has a free (as in beer) version that is quite capable and easy to use, even as someone who'd only used iMovie before. The only problem is that "how to do X in Davinci Resolve" has been taken over by slop.
People like to ignore the fact that Apple has just as much a monopoly as Microsoft and exploits it just as often.

Making your fealty to a monopoly a proud point of personality is a distinctly modern affect.
Peace does not require "negotiation" in this war. There is a clear aggressor: Russia. So things are really simple, at least this once. All that is needed is for Russia to stop murdering Ukrainians and retreat from all Ukrainian territory, and we will have peace.
640kb “should be enough for everyone”
lol sometimes I wonder if the reason so many tech bros make so many grandiose statements about how AI has already trancended the bounds of human creativity is because they've never really had actual experience with art and literature and music growing up. They say things like this and then you go and look for an example of these incredible works of artificial art and it is the biggest pile of shit you have ever seen.

Just like how they think that these glorified typing assistants function identically to the human brain. I mean maybe they really do replicate the level of creativity and intelligence of the people who believe these things, but maybe the people with decades of research in linguistics and neuroscience are right to be skeptical.

Its kinda like when people talk about research mathematics like its all adding really big numbers together or calculating really tricky integrals.
Contrastively, if the computer has no dedicated copilot button then it’s not at “AI PC”. Makes it simple to avoid the undesirable product lines.
My argument is that based on everything which we do already know, it is unlikely that any material with the physical and economic properties like what you are suggesting can exist, and any "suggestion" that such a material does exist is completely arbitrary. Russell's teapot, and all that. There's plenty new to learn, but it'll probably be closer to strangelets and dark matter in exotic conditions than "baryonic rocks but amazingly shiny".

The entire point of "science" is that you can and should make reasonable predictions based on past observations. E.G. Mendelevium. Calling that a "obvious logical fallacy" is… Disturbing, frankly.

You know, I've yet to see you make a single point that's based on anything more than "Maybe", "No, it doesn't", or "How dishonest you are". Lots of rhetoric. Not much else.

It is your choice to interpret disagreement and contradictory information as "dishonest". Have fun with that.

"I never claimed… I just suggested." Ffs.
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Lefties? It's the usefools on the right wing who oppose it. At least in my country and the US.
I'd like to see a stellaser. Asimov wrote about them, but we'd just need to get one close enough to the Sun and have unlimited power to the darker parts of space
Ukraine is literally banned by the US from using US ordinance in RU. But at this point, Ukraine better break some rules.
Huh? An aging population is actually one of the things that will force it. More retirees will take more of the surplus from the productive population and reduce the surplus left for export.
A one time tax write off for bad AI investments is required. Otherwise, Microsoft has billions of dollars locked up in this premature idea, and out of shareholder embarrassment has to attempt to recoup that in some meaningful way.
What's Up with Mastodon and "Referer" Headers?
Well, it's a noble goal, but fails rather spectacularly right off the bat.

> Bel has four fundamental data types: symbols, pairs, characters, and streams.

The inclusion of streams is already enough to make me go WTF, and the absence of numbers, vectors, and functions as primitives is a big yellow flag. Punning lists as functions is huge blunder because it makes it nearly impossible to compile the language.
Apologies for my rudeness, I'm afraid I let a pet peeve get the better of me. I often read health and wellness content on Reddit. There you'll find highly ranked comments expressing opinions such as "you should never eat below 1200 calories", or "walking on a treadmill burns a pittance of calories".

In my opinion, these sorts of observations are uninteresting at best, and misinformative at worst. Hacker News, as you may well know from your nearly three year comment history here, is a place where detail and nuance are roundly appreciated.
Video is not the standard medium of communication in academic philosophy. I imagine the GP mentioned youtube because most people are more likely to watch a video than read a paper.

Bernardo Kastrup has a bunch of essays/books up for free at his website https://www.bernardokastrup.com/p/papers.html?m=1
Which 'lefties' in congress have been holding up additional aid to Ukraine?
> Here’s a little-known secret: most six-nines reliability software projects are developed using a waterfall methodology.

I've designed and deployed Tier 1 services for a Big Tech company, and here's is a little-known secret: when nothing changes, our reliability is higher than six-nines.

Last year I measured our uptime during Black Friday for fun. Our error rate was measured in scientific notation because the number was so small. We didn't do any deployments or changes during that period.

When you operate in a steady state it's easy to achieve zero errors, and most downtime comes from random failures in hardware, i.e. servers crashing or network blips (which, operating at scale, are relatively common).

So my and other's personal experience is that most outages are due to changes in the software, dependency outages, or the rare large scale event that completely kills your SLA (e.g. a whole AWS region is down). Taming these is at the essence of reliable software.

Whoever tells you that the best software is made using waterwall methodologies from a fixed and never changing set of specifications, lives in a fantasyland alien to the vast majority of developers.
I had something like this from a temp job that was liquidating old hardware. They were Northgate PCs and they had two extended 32-bit ISA slots that were giant memory cards. I’m pretty sure the platform was i386.
For how long?

Terrific for a hobby project, build farm, or even a business in a prototype stage (buy 3-4 then).

Hardly acceptable in a larger setting where continuity in 10 years is important. Of course, not the exact same part available in 10 years (which is not unheard of, though), but something compatible or at least comparable.
Wish we could apply that logic to software. AI is in a magical universe where we all pretend copyright isn't a thing just because we don't like it.
Intentionally targeting civilian areas with those bombs is a war crime. Ukraine avoids committing war crimes, Russia has committed many of them. There will be charges against Russia. There is even some evidence that Russia commits genocide: forced kidnapping of children, forced reeducation, some ethnic cleansing with deportations (though not very systematic), mass killings of civilians, and public speeches by government officials who deny Ukraine a right to exist and therefore can serve as proof of intent.
YouTube generated $31.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2023.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/#:~:t....

That's... a lot! Plenty of historical precedent for fully advertising-supported media with high expenses, from OTA network television and radio to free weekly newspapers... or inexpensive subscriptions to daily newspapers subsidized by advertising. Advertising has been paying the bills for electronic media for a century now.
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We had really better hope that biological brains are fundamentally "bad" at consciousness, because if a human brain is as efficient at generating consciousness as other biological brains are at doing much older, more refined tasks, we're totally fucked. For example, a dragonfly brain takes visual input from thousands of ommatidia and uses it to track prey in 3D space and plot intercept vectors using only sixteen neurons. How many transistors does a computer need to do the same thing? Now scale that to however many neurons and synapses you guesstimate a human brain needs to create consciousness. The numbers are bad news.

There's little doubt that eventually we will be able to design a computer version of a human soul. Whether that sapience fits in a computer smaller than a zip code or thinks any faster than a person is an entirely different question.
…what on earth do you find you’re not able to remove?
Looking forward to it.

I know that there was the Starry Expanse project, but I think it was too piecemeal, and disjointed. I think Cyan had to do it.
Detractors please don't get so upset at someone pointing out broad,
sweeping, parochial generalisations are not okay (or at least try to
defend your position). If nothing else they just make a bad argument.
I have ollama set up on a beefy desktop and it's a neat toy, but it's definitely not yet to the point of being useful enough that I'd want it bundled with the OS, and that's with the latest and greatest open source models running on a gaming rig. The kind of models Microsoft can reliably run locally on a typical PC are going to be pretty poor.
Have you ever used Kubernetes and it was worth it?
> * Begging the question: What moral right, other than the legal copyright that was already asserted separately?*

Some countries have a legal concept that is called that, distinct from the usual commercial rights.

https://cyber.harvard.edu/property/library/moralprimer.html
I should have pointed out, the big difference between the rival weapons is political. Ukraine is restricted to using its JDAMs against targets in occupied land. Russia isn't bound that way, which is a problem for cities close to the Russian border, such as Kharkiv and Sumy.
You don’t criticize, you’re making an unsubstantiated claim.

Criticizing requires making an argument, opening you up for counter-criticism.
So I like the question it's asking, but disagree that the point of conversation is to "solve problems."

I think vibes are self-propagating. If every time I turn on the radio all I hear about is 2 wars (when we live in the most peaceful part of recorded history) then I am getting worry-signals over and over (people who lived in times much much worse often were in blissful ignorance of other continents). And that's just NPR, you wouldn't believe the kind of Alex-Jonesy stuff that goes out on the radio in every rural area I've ever visited.

So part one is media/clickbait having an incentive to inundate you with controversy/worry, which I think most people have trouble putting in perspective.

Then there's some other component, where some percentage of Americans are more bitter than I can explain and have very "burn it down"/civil-war attitudes with absolutely no plan or reason to think they would do well in a war and thought as to what a better system would look like. As best I can tell, this is partly from political parties having an incentive to create a false narrative that every single thing in crisis to activate tribalistic behaviors.

I feel like this aligns with the suprising phenomenon of underestimating everybody else's happiness.
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Yep and Israel has used many in Gaza.
There was another one on the front page recently called Plane (https://plane.so)
You missed the point.

You view it as a war against human rights. Copywrite.

I view it as a lost war. The war against human meaning.

We're living in a bubble. Where we pretend it all still matters and that AI will always be inferior to everything we do forever and for all eternity.

All bubbles will eventually pop.
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There was serious discussion in Washington of nuking China after China's entry into the Korean war. (Specifically, nuking concentrations of rice fields, causing starvation until the Beijing relents, at which time Washington would provide food aid.)

When in the 1960s tensions between Moscow and Peking rose, Moscow asked Washington if Washington would be okay with Moscow's nuking China. (Washington replied with a firm no.)

Although Russia is probably not going to resort to nukes, the risk is high enough that I wish my country (the US) had started drastically increasing American preparedness for nuclear war when it started sending military aid to Ukraine.
The relationship between language acquisition and age is well studied and widely acknowledged by both the scientific community and the general population. Your characterization of this relationship as "discriminatory lies" is both a violation of this website's commenting policies and flatly absurd.
It’s crazy to me that $20,000 to $30,000 (£15,700-£23,600) is considered “cheap”.
We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia [video]
Yes, thank you for asking a clarifying, good-faith question in order to learn. In fact, the habitat part isn't even required!

A dyson swarm is just a bunch of satellites, each harnessing energy from a the same star (what they do with that energy is up to them). 1 satellite is the singular form of satellites. No need to alert NASA, they already know :)

The good news is that it seems you might be just now learning that humans have the beginnings of a dyson swarm already in the works. What a great day for you!
Please is there anything like this for writing? I am serious, I do write and want to experiment. Please would you have any suggestions for me? Thanks for your time.
Just curious, why do you write like that? Reminds when I was 11 and wanted to sound smarter on the internet.
Human creativity turns into a point on that curve. One mission of art is to find a different dimension, out of the curves reach, until eventually it becomes more common and the curve can be fitted to it again. AI cannot think outside of the box because it cannot think at all, there is no meaning behind what it does.
The Straits of Messina are ~250m deep, and Sicily has seen earthquakes up to magnitude ~7.5.

Whatever their budget - there isn't enough unobtainium around to construct tunnel wall strong enough.
Careful, until the developers clarify.
https://github.com/lencx/ChatGPT/issues?q=trojan
https://github.com/lencx/nofwl/issues/102
PG&E has over 100k miles of electric distribution lines (excluding transmission). Their numbers state it's $3M per mile to bury a line. Did they get $300 billion?
From what I understand, the NSP on these SoCs performs better on inferences than any other mobile GPU/neural engine. But yeah probably some very significant limitations when it comes to LLMs for this generation anyway.

Forget about whatever models Microsoft ships, put whatever ones you want on there.
Ukraine needs to be able to use its western supplied longer range weapons against the airbases these sorties are launched from.
Not yet but this is not too far off:

One day you're going to encounter something that really moves you.

And then you'll realize it was procedurally generated, by an AI.

We're only about 1 - 2 years into AI. Think about the pace of progress.
Yeah, I think he missed the part where it discussed the swarm would have to be mostly autonomous since communicating back to earth for any sort of management commands is completely out of the question.

It's amazing they can still do it with voyager which is roughly 24 hours for one way traffic, 48 for round trip.
I suppose the military will just wait patiently for their citizens to be starved out by quadcopters.
Agrree it's inexcusable. But I still find it hard to belive that 22,
one of the most disciplined regiments, have totally gone to shit
andlost the plot (notwithstanding some seriously criminal instruction
from higher up). And thankyou for the elightening links.
These bombs are launched from planes. Patriot missiles can take down those planes but need to be very close to the frontline and therefore are vulnerable. Ukraine lost part of a Patriot system at the Eastern front that way. AFAIK, fighter jets are commonly regarded as the better solution to that particular problem, though these are in turn vulnerable to enemy AA, of course.
Show HN: I built a simple open-source API Proxy to protect third party API keys
I don't see them as right wing really, they act the exact opposite of what they should do. There are no rapid actions performed, every bit is very slow and delayed.
Yep, the performance of the Apple watch is nothing but stunning especially given their medical grade ECGfeature. The (lack) progress of the others is disappointed.

The Oura3 numbers are pretty impressive and at 3-5 days of battery life gives it an edge over the Apple Watch. I prefer ambient devices that lack screens so it is pretty good in that sense too.
If leaky bucket means "manages burst sizes and burst intervals" then yeah, they are similar in that regard but they do it differently. GCRA is more analogous to a traffic light where its solely time-based and there is no overhead needed to remove/add tokens so you are storing 1 less state object. For all purposes its probably a micro-optimization but being aware how GCRA works can yield less code but perhaps at the expense of obscurity of a lesser known algo.

I think you understand the differences but I think its improper to consider it a variant of leaky bucket as various resources refute
So you’re giving up and leaving the country? Because I’m not prepared to do that. I haven’t lost all faith in my countrymen yet.
Sidenote a lot of people get triggered by videos as information. Cause reading is indexable. I used to be a bit like that and ran into a few extremists.
Web3.py: a Python library for interacting with Ethereum
Head of Canada's intelligence agency warns Canadians not to use TikTok
Yup, I am also looking forward to finding Zelensky in Spain in a couple of months at the beach.
Thanks for posting it. Hackernews was somewhat buggy today and didn't let me post it my self. If you guys have more questions or want to try it out, just write me an email at vankatadam@gmail.com or signup at the crashly webpage
Why Can't I Focus?
to be fair that would also cover verifying the ROM file with a checksum. It might not read any assets.
Do you want a world where google can sue your open source project because it utilizes it's style of coding?
>Obviously there’s nothing on Proxima, just like there’s nothing on the Moon.

Not necessarily obviously. The moons of the gas giants was thought to be inert and boring, until we went there and realized they are varied and brimming with interesting features.
You can finetune a llama3 (not instruct) model on your own text.
>Human creativity turns into a point on that curve.

All human creativity are points ON the SAME Curve.

It doesn't matter what turns what into what into some point on the curve or finding a different "dimension"

If you come up with an algorithm that can traverse that curve you've found the algorithm for human creativity.

We are close, deadly close, to the end.

Especially given the fact that these AI algorithms literally treat the problem as a best fit curve from a mathematical perspective. Like the analogy I made is not even really an analogy, it's the reality of how these algorithms actually work.
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"Stop having fun, there are much more important things to worry about."

Like moaning on the Internet about what people do with their time and talent?