skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody needs a Tesla.

But does everybody need another 100 years of gasoline cars?

It probably is a bizarre way to look at things, but the wealthy people are paying to develop EVs, then the not so wealthy to develop even more practical cars and so on until they are practical for normal folks. And they reach price parity with ICE cars.

People have been saying that the economical/low impact car to buy is a used car that was already built. Now you can buy used teslas.
I mean there's a world of difference between "Perhaps millions of people, given motivation and a bit of luck, can pull off a thing" and "A super rich guy can pull off a thing"

This is the whole reason people talk about middle-class modern humans of various recent eras "living like kings" in comparison to humans of less recent eras. The thing (Maybe that's "having people from across the world entertain you in your living room", maybe it's "Eating elaborately prepared deserts made out of refined sugar") was possible for some before, but not nearly as many. This is the kind of thing technology tends to change most often. Not best-case capability, but access and scale

Like some of those things are mass-produced superstimulus facsimiles and not good in the same way they were for the ultrawealthy of old, but even those genuinely are changes in how the world effectively works
That is "do what comes naturally for a long time". Is education about efficiently and effectively transferring thousands of years of invention and practice insights or about letting everyone build civilization from first principles?
The Farbrausch demo and a talk by Will Wright on the (originally planned) procedurally generated design of Spore lives rent free in my brain every time I see the list of 100's of gigabytes of queued game updates in Steam nowadays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofA6YWVTURU&t=100s
I seem to get way more interesting (and weird..) ads from Google than most of the people I know.

But maybe that's just because Google gives me things I find interesting?

It's stuff like a three story tall Diesel engine for a container ship. I'm not really in the market for that, but I would totally want to be someone who's casually in the market for that.
> If the western military switches gears into kill'em all mode all the little shits who want rule the world by terror will find themselves with bigger problems.

Ye the potential resurgence of open genicidial colonial policies is a concern.

The good thing about the usual suspects pretending to bomb people for their own good is that there is like a limit on how many weddings they can blow up before they are forced to pull out by other political forces.
In the same vein, I've used Unpoly: https://unpoly.com
I don't understand, in the two cases there is a local x shadowing a function parameter also named x.. in the first case it is a local variable that shadows the parameter, in the second it's a closure binding.

Are you sure that, in the first example, in int x = x, the local variable x doesn't get initialized with the function parameter x, but rather gets initialized with itself (uninitialized memory)? Is this instant UB?

Is the second example actually legit, and initializes the closure bound variable with the x function parameter?
Either switch off `-webkit-font-smoothing` in the CSS of the site or use Firefox (Safari also uses `-webkit-font-smoothing: none`).
It's… probably not worth it.

I just wrote this years ago (go.mod said 1.12) for the fun of it, thought I had it in a Gist/GitHub, and uploaded it yesterday in response to this post.

One thing I remember trying was coding this up in ASM… which makes it worse, because it prevents inlining. But I learned the Go ASM syntax that way.
> I would expect Person A to be better than Person B in every notable category, except for video game skill.

Not necessarily. Person A might beat B at video games, too. Just spending time doesn't necessarily make you good at something.
A fun challenge - try and do nothing.

I did it on the way to Singapore and it was, eventually, bliss. No music, no book, no film, nothing. I just sat.
Please be aware that a lot of stories about bots on social media are themselves misinformation. If you trace them back to the sources you arrive at academic papers that are just intellectually fraudulent in various ways, like they misrepresent their data or they are identifying real westerners as Russian bots. I did some deep dives on this topic back in 2017-2018 or so:

https://blog.plan99.net/did-russian-bots-impact-brexit-ad66f...

https://blog.plan99.net/fake-science-part-ii-bots-that-are-n...

Also, a lot of stories on Russia are or were plain old western misinformation, long predating Ukraine:

https://blog.plan99.net/правда-6e24757a67ba

So it's very important to be careful when making claims about "influencing elections" because there's such a long history of false claims from western sources, amplified by western media, of which the outlets you've cited are prime offenders unfortunately.
The thread below was an interesting discussion I thought. I believe this reply on an HOA topic on my specific comment is ironic comedy gold though, so I take the loss with a smile and will think again next time. Thanks for you work Dan!
Talked like somebody that doesn't understand the stack at all.

On Linux, the stack grows automatically and never shrinks.
Laziness tends to be a great catalyst for genius work
It's not. They are statistically insignificant compared the rotation of the core mass.
There's a profiler cell magic for Notebooks which helps identify if you run out of VRAM (it says what runs on CPU and GPU). There's an open PR to turn on low-VRAM reporting as a diagnostic.
CuDF is impressive, but getting a working setup can be a PITA (and then if you upgrade libraries...).
Personality I think it fits in the production pipeline for obvious bottlenecks on well tended configurations, using it in the r&d flow might cost diagnostic time getting and keeping it working (YMMV etc)
This is being faded, but I want to double-down: This is true, they're really that crazy.
Well, at least you can feel proud of the kid!
But on the other side this contributes to global warming which melts of a lot of water-ice that is in high places and will (as water does) go to low places.
> The only important differences in throughput between Intel and AMD

Not exactly related, but AMD also has a much better track record when it comes to speculative execution attacks.
Since Formlabs position themselves at the higher end, I was surprised they didn't skip LCDs and went straight to DLP.

PDF from TI from 2019, though I think they have updated their line up since: https://www.ti.com/lit/sl/dlpt019e/dlpt019e.pdf
Why would he be fine with a "huge, shiny, lifted F-350 that the owner drives 5km once per week to the ice cream shop"?

Didn't he already explained he's against buying of trucks when there's no real need?
API calls in second to DDoS competitors, or to call a paginated API
Web search no, code execution yes.
Just think about all the computer science stuff from last century that gets traction lately.

Theory is just much faster than practice.
sama will be forced to step down as OpenAI CEO in 12 months.
Well perhaps I will stop holding out and just get the 7800x3d, if the 9000 generation won't be too terribly groundbreaking.
I no longer have the 150,000 GPUs I was mining with.

The only ones left standing are the small ones and most of them are just using what they already purchased.

There is no liquidity in the shitcoins to be able to support daily large dumps of their tokens and unless you have almost free power, there is zero profitability.
Hand written post cards still carry more emotional weight than email. Arguably even more so.
I know it's hard to believe, but GTA V is now over 10 years old...
For AM5 most boards with 4 DIMM slots will support 128 GB, some support 192 GB.
One becomes a CEO like a politician by talking to the right crowd and convincing them.

Perhaps for some company in the future this will be replaced by AI salesmen talking to the right crowd and convincing them.
"Horseshoe crab census" would had been the obvious solution available
Its enough to decrease the amount of ppl you need in IT by a factor of 20-30%.

Ppl dont want to hear that, but you see less and less offers and not only for junior positions.

Hard truth is that like with any tool/automation - the higher performance improves, the less ppl are needed for this kind of work.

Just look at how some parts of manual labor were made redundant.

Why ppl think it wont be the same with mental work is beyond me.
For anyone else as dense as me, I had to look this up. "Pan de Ayer" means "Yesterday's bread". Good story OP :-)
That's why every time I run into a program-specific config I curse the developer because there's no way of knowing what exactly a particular program (or a framework) needs :)
The problem in software is that very frequently you dont have a real hammer. You have hundred amalgamations of swiss army knives that do everything. Like what is the hammer when you want to add some nice dynamic content to a website? Is it just javascript or maybe react?, Angular?, Svelte? Or another example: you want to code a command line app, what language is a hammer here?: C++?, Go?, Bash?, Python?

This analogy falls apart the moment you apply it to anything in software.
Message authentication codes for safer distributed transactions
A lot of steps are being taken to "stay ahead" though. Consider something like the CHIPS act, I actually got offered a research grant for the summer from it. This is the first time I felt such direct influence and urgency from the politicians
I wonder when the PC world will transition to unified memory and more monolithic architectures as seen in the Apple M-series chips, but also in the NVIDIA GB200 "superchip", the AMD MI300 accelerator, the X-Box and Playstation consoles, and even in some mobile phone system-on-a-chip designs. It feels like the PC is the "last holdout" of discrete upgradeable components with relatively low bandwidth between them.

Sooner or later, AI will need to run on the edge, and that'll require RAM bandwidths measured in multiple terabytes per second, as well as "tensor" compute integrated closely with CPUs.

Sure, a lot of people see LLMs as "useless toys" or "overhyped" now, but people said that about the Internet too. What it took to make everything revolve around the Internet instead of it being just a fad is broadband. When everyone had fast always-on Internet at home and in their mobile devices, then nobody could argue that the Internet wasn't useful. Build it, and the products will come!

If every gaming PC had the same spec as a GB200 or MI300, then games could do real-time voice interaction with "intelligent" NPCs with low latency. You could talk to characters, and they could talk back. Not just talk, but argue, haggle, and debate!

"No, no, no, the dragon is too powerful! ... I don't care if your sword is a unique artefact, your arm is weak!"

I feel like this is the same kind of step-change as floppy drives to hard drives, or dialup or fibre. It'll take time. People will argue that "you don't need it" or "it's for enterprise use, not for consumers", but I have faster Internet going to my apartment than my entire continent had 30 years ago.
I made a website for product managers in need [in need of feedback]
Most product managers struggle with the same problems. I'm aiming to make a website that gathers all product management problems in one place and provide guides to navigate these problems.

Doing this the agile way, so while the site is live, 99% of the content isn't ready yet.

Looking for some of that rapid feedback we talk som much about in the industry. Doesn't matter if you're a noob or a seasoned veteran, but I would highly appreciate if you disclose your experience points in the comment to make it easier to categorize the feedback.
or &si= when you share YT videos nowadays
They've fixed it. You can check out the update here: https://x.com/dhh/status/1797370923391357143
What a cute and charming game! Love the aesthetic of 90s Japan-only PC market. Looks so familiar and foreign at the same time, some type of electronic alternative-history; only it is conventional-history for so many :-).
Thanks to the author of the patch (and description page, which is equally charming). Her homepage highlights many other "quirky" projects which I will enjoy taking a look at!
If the ML models think that beautiful women are thin........ good! It means they're learning correctly from the labelled training data. As of 2024, that's certainly the prevailing standard of beauty, and it's very annoying for me to see people criticizing ML models for picking up on obvious human biases.

It's so easy to point a finger at AI and blame it for being prejudiced, but it's hard to fix the prejudices in our society which contaminated the training data in the first place.
I have a separate KeepassXC database for 2FA. I guess my life experience is limited, but I am yet to encounter cases when this would be outright required. The closest one was Steam, but I used an Android VM for this.
I'm not so sure.

I can imagine trusting someone to set up (and even enforce) eg an alcohol policy, but still be prone to alcohol abuse themselves.

Weak wills are a thing. Or people thinking they are smarter than the protocols that apply to the masses.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but with recent GPUs you should just be able to memory map a file on "disk" to the GPU address space?

Open, mmap and then import the host pointer to GPU API (Cuda or Vulkan). Paging should work as expected, but "stupid" access patterns hurt throughput.

This requires a GPU, a CPU and a kernel driver that supports it. E.g. my laptop Intel GPU has the host pointer import Vulkan API but last I checked it does not support pointers imported from mmap.
Obviously I'm saying "boom powder" as a generic and funny term for the various fuels used in rocketry. They can be liquids (RP-1, liquid hydrogen, liquid methane, various hypergolics like UDMH, etc.) or solids (eg: solid rocket boosters, most military missiles and rockets).

The Saturn V used RP-1 and liquid oxygen for the first stage, and liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for the second and third stages. The Apollo CSM used dinitrogen tetroxide and "Aerozine 50", a 50:50 mix of hydrazine and UDMH hypergolic fuels that was originally used for the Titan II ICBM.

Further reading:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_command_and_service_mod...
4 DIMMs does not equal Quad-channel.
I see in AMD's presentation Quad-channel is supported by chipsets, but I am not aware of a current AMD consumer/hedt chip with 4 memory channels.
Wow Slashdot still exists?
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I'm legitimately surprised that there seems to be no pornographic equivalent to this yet (or, at least, not one I've heard about in passing). Porn-on-demand seems like it's always a prime target for AI tech, maybe because the demand is automatically there, maybe because it doesn't really matter if it's poorly made as long as the gist is there. Maybe audio porn is just too niche?
I don’t doubt it can work and be used correctly, I’ve just never experienced that.

In my experience I’m left scratching my head when it cures time to write my OKRs since as an IC, who doesn’t get to choose what I work on or what gets released, everything comes down to essentially “do my job more gooder”.

Maybe I’m just bad it or my managers were bad at guiding me, but every OKR I’ve written was essentially bullshit and at performance review time my manager sat down with me and we bullshitted how they were achieved so I could keep my job. It’s what everyone did. No one ever did not achieve a goal. How could I write a measurable goal that contributed to revenue if I had no control over anything but my own work? I can’t say “release N features” because I can’t control if I’ll work on N features that actually get released. And so on.

I’m just happy OKRs are firmly in my rear view mirror now.
AMD Announces Instinct MI325X Today, CDNA4 to Come
Since we're on the topic of your business: I am training a decent amount of neural nets nowadays (mostly, around the new-gen robotics policies) and use vast.ai instances with 8x RTX 4090 cards.

I've been interested to give 8x MI300x a try, as they are supposed to be cheaper per FLOPs, but it looks like your service does not provide on-demand pay-per-second instances. Any plans to change that?
It's not just proper nouns. Korean MT seem to routinely "de-synchronize" into wonbonhangugeotegseuteububun mid-sentence and sometimes comes back in sync, sometime stays out of sync until the end of the sentence. it happens way more often than average with the Korean language.
>paying for education doesn't work

May have a point there.

Sure puts it out of a lot of people's reach.

But ideally aren't you supposed to want to be educated without any consideration of whether you or anyone else is "getting their money's worth"?

>The gap in ability between the best creator and the next best is much larger than the gap between the best factory worker and the next best. By many orders of magnitude.

Not so fast.

That seems like a sensible concept, but it's surely not universal.

What about times when the best creator and the second best are both working in the same factory?

For whatever reason.

As we know also, it's getting more common every year for creative or leadership positions to be occupied by those having less ability than below-average factory workers have traditionally been given credit for.

In those common situations then it looks like everything is upside down

I would say the difference is due to the factory not the person.

Plus every factory is not the same and neither is every person.
Unless you can provide some kind of transcription option for the voice messages so I don't have to listen to them, I find the idea nightmarish. Therefore I'm definitely not the target market. But hey, it looks nice?

I have a colleague who insists on sending me WhatsApp voice notes despite requests not to, and it just ends up obfuscating information eventually: it's not searchable, it requires effort to go back through, etc.
The space is an uncountable set, at the limit. Mostly it’s noise. See: curse of dimensionality.
Yes it's showed a while ago. But now it's in the next round of refactoring. The syntax does not change much, but the core speed is optimized. The website needs to be rewritten. I am considering using solidjs, dioxus and egui. In addition to the browser editor, there is also this cli that can be used: https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" - Margaret Wolff Hungerford, 1878
I find your phrasing of "your group" interesting. I've taken over a Meetup group after the original organizer vanished, and I never felt that the community was mine. I was just the guy keeping the ball rolling, same as the one before and same as the one who took over afterwards.

I consider few things as annoying as a single person deciding that a community is done for good.
Agreed it’s a good quote, have heard it more generally as “be careful what you get good at”
> By far the biggest lesson that you can verify even on this thread, is that the biggest tech problems are actually people problems.

The opposite lesson is also useful: sometimes you can turn people problems into tech problems, and that's how you can 'solve' them.

Slightly hypothetical scenario: assume your team keeps all the source code on a shared drive. You are supposed to coordinate with your coworkers before touching any code. Sometimes that goes wrong, and looks like a people problem.

If you introduce eg git and automated-tests-before-merging, you can turn that into a technical problem.

My thesis is that organisations (and people in those organisations) can only solve so many people problems. If you lighten the load by automating some of the problems into tech problems, you have more levity on the remaining people problems.

(This happy state of affairs isn't always possible. And sometimes it can backfire.)
You know this happened 2 days ago, right? I don't know why you would expect it to be on the front page of anything today.
I think you're right in a sense. Expert-level guidance is helpful, but I think its main value is filling up the gaps of motivation.

Take school as an example. You don't need a math teacher to learn math. Everything you learn in that class is in the textbook. The textbook will even teach you math in a more formal way than a teacher will (at least mine did). But very few people end up learning math from the textbook. It's not because the teacher has better expert knowledge than the book, but because the teacher keeps you engaged in the learning process. A book won't do that.

I think a sufficient amount of motivation can overcome a lack of expert guidance and lack of formal training. It might not get you to the exact same result as somebody that did receive all that, but for a lot of things I think it can get you close.

I do agree with you on monetary resources. That will kill motivation and limit your ability to get guidance.
For what is worth, android accumulates minor glitches by running all the time, so rebooting is not a bad idea. These are small bugs, people might not notice them
> I just had a look and the comparison website I use

Which website is that?
What Rust really shines in is in making you handle things that need to be handled. For example: your user might input valid UTF-8 text as a filename for saving. But not all filesystems allow all UTF-8 characters in filenames. Rust makes that explicit because it makes you convert the str/String to another special string type and forces you to handle errors in that conversion explicitly.

Before I encountered that in Rust I have never even given it a thought, and I have been programming for years. And this is just one example, and also why I still recommend to anybody to learn Rust even if you will never use it. There are many valuable lessons in that language that will make you a better programmer in all other languages as well.
Same here! Please provide some details, very curious.
Linked in the footer of that website is https://llili.li/. Even better!
I think it is best just to provide the mathematical definition, provide the commutative diagrams that explains the concept graphically and then provide an example for computer scientists in Haskell: https://beuke.org/monad/
China has been much smarter about geopolitics in general.

- building infrastructure in developing economies

- overfishing contested waters

- building artificial islands to claim contested waters as near their land

- buying the debt of other countries

- Yuan shenanigans to make importing from China more desirable
The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
Yes, the Zero 2 W is well worth it for wireless streaming. With MediaMTX's WebRTC you get great quality and really low latency.
No, it doesn't block Google's sponsored ads. It blocks embedded ads that track you.
Cheep, low power, same GPIO, same great software support? I rarely use none zero's now what is missing?
If that chatbot had Steve Jobs voice ?

I dunno, I would probably prefer to work under that chatbot than my current CEO that only tries to squize as much as possible out of ppl already working for him.
The Popover Drama