skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One way to think about ai programming is that it's another step on the continual ladder up from writing machine code to writing more in more 'human readable' programming languages. It's essentially a non-deterministic compiler from natural language to an intermediate representation like python. Even assuming it was able to near perfectly translate intent to code, that doesn't mean it will replace programmers, necessarily.

The way to think about the impact on employment is comparative advantage. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/comparativeadvantage.as... Even if AIs are better than humans at every programming task, there is still a limited amount of compute in the world and unlimited amount of potential work to do, so there will always be tasks available for humans to work on. If the cost of writing code becomes cheaper, there will be tasks to automate that aren't worth the effort to automate now, that will _become_ worth the effort to automate in the future.
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Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
I go to the gym more than once a week and have been for years. It is a massive effort and trade-off and no fun at all, and I can definitely see how one might very reasonably choose to live as a blob instead.
If you mean in the sense of pulling, probably Nordic curls, although they're a pretty advanced movement.

Usually, though, pushing strength is enough for most people for their legs, so if you mean in terms of hard, difficult movements, then working your way up to pistol squats is a good goal for most people.
Maybe it was written by an AI. I'm serious. That a human would leave out that crucial component is indeed boggling.

An AI. Writing and publishing a stream of mid-quality articles. With ads inserted. Profit. Occasionally insane.
Looks liked they used Google TPUs

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/h...
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> You have way more time than you might expect after a plane crash. "Finally, [Captain] Sullenberger walked the cabin twice to confirm it was empty" [1]. If anybody had grabbed their hand luggage (especially from below their seat) they would've still had time to evacuate.

But if they had taken their backpack or suitcase, and had dropped it, they could have blocked other people; knocked other people out; broken someone's ankle making them harder to evacuate etc etc.

And this was a calm evacuation. Imagine a fire, low visibility due to the smoke, the sense of urgency, and you trip on some dimwit's suitcase, pushing the people in front of you down, some of them hitting heads, then panic sets in, the path towards that emergency exit is blocked, etc etc etc.

Leave your fucking luggage behind. If everything is fine, it will get to you afterwards. If the plane is on fire, you won't, but you'd also not kill people by not taking it.
You’re absolutely right! Full disk encryption (FDE) does indeed fall short of PCI 4.0 requirements because it transparently decrypts data for anything running on the OS or accessed by the user, which isn't sufficient for finer-grained control.

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The problem (and for the record I favor LVT myself) is that many of the other things you mention -- the 8 hour workday, environmental regs, etc. -- have clear positive effects that an average person doesn't have to take action to benefit from. If you tried to take them away, people would notice and object.

For a typical homeowner, the effect of LVT would be pretty neutral, by design. Proposals I've seen advocate changing the _distribution_ of single-family home taxes between land and improvements, but not the _total_.

Yes, LVT would discourage speculators from buying land as an investment without improving it, which is a societal good. But it's not direct and short term like many of your other examples.

I think GP's point stands that rolling back LVT would be highly desired by big landowners (who could then return to do-nothing land appreciation and rents for their profits rather than be required to actually _do something_ with the land to earn over its taxed value), while the average Jane couldn't care less, because it wouldn't really impact her tax bill.

That sort of situation is not stable long term. To make it more stable, you'd need to set it up so that LVT lowered the average voter's tax bill. I'm not sure how feasible that is.
That's just a measure of how big those crops are compared to others. Absolute numbers are not a fair comparison. In terms of chemicals per calorie those three don't even make the top ten.
The classic outsider perspective: I can move in several dimensions, why cant they? Cause its diffcult, by law, by the supply and demand of various ressources.
Barbell squats or deadlifts, squats will hit hams, quads, and glutes along with supporting muscles and spinal erectors

Deads hit mostly glutes and hams, almost no quads, but a bit more back involvement

I recommend doing both, personally

If you want bodyweight only then probably pistol squats but it's difficult to work the legs that much with just bodyweight because they already carry your body weight every day
Seems like you could do something similar, combined with an exclusive scan, to rapidly find all the (potential) tag offsets in an HTML file on the GPU. I doubt that would be worthwhile in a browser due to the overhead of simply talking to the GPU, but it seems like it could be a useful trick if you have gigabytes of HTML to scan.
Probably "air" squats, just squatting to parallel or below without any weights.
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I'm curious as to what engineering solutions you think are available to solve this problem?

All the solutions I've heard up until now is "we just need more data" which isn't particularly sustainable or something a SWE would be in charge of doing
But it's going to run on servers anyways, both Apple's and OpenAI's.
Seems very good, thank you.

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> are you an Apple fanboy/fan girl?

Nope. Would that invalidate the facts? Are you an Applephobe?

They stated that apple phones are essentially the same as they were years ago, when it is very clear that the hardware is considerably more powerful. Their devices are now capable of on-device inference of a 3B parameter language model.

The commenters device is not capable of such a thing, as it is old hardware, which is counter to his position that there is little difference between the new and old phones.
Are you using serde as a general term here or are you specifically referring to the rust library? The former would make sense but I've never heard it used that way before.
Lenia is a system of continuous cellular automata
Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids (ASHA), an open streaming media protocol for audio casting to hearing receivers.
This one specifically is just how C# is today. Otherwise, it's like saying that lack or presence of C++ constexpr is a LLVM feature - JIT/ILC have little to do with it.

Keep in mind that const patterns is a relatively niche feature, and won't be bringing C++ level of constexpr to C#. As it is currently, it's not really an issue outside of subset of C++ developers which adopt C# and try to solve problems in C++ way over leaning on the ways offered by C# or .NET instead (static readonly values are baked into codegen on recompilation, struct generics returning statically known values lead to the code getting completely optimized away constexpr style, etc.)

As long as you don't fight the tool, it will serve you well.
There is a streamer named RockyNoHands[0]
He plays Warzone entirely with his mouth. His controller has tubes that he blows and sucks to control the character.

It is really impressive watching him live on such a competitive game.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RockyNoHands
A bichon is not a dog, it is a human baby with extra floof.
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How do you feel about all the manufacturer bloatware installed on Windows PCs? After all, you can turn it all off if you don't want to use it.
Describing liberals as left wing is really frustrating but it demonstrates exactly how liberal politics lead to right-wing authoritarianism and how ineffective liberals are at countering right-wing populism.

If you think this way remember all the left-wing popular movements in recent times, like Occupy Wallstreet, Universal Healthcare, Climate Change, BLM or Palestine Solidarity. Now why do you think liberals in power did absolutely nothing for any of those causes? Why do left-wing protests do nothing if we are ruled by left-wing politicians?
"politics" is quite the euphemism for "military invasion, violent aggression, and war crimes"!
I think you’re missing the point, you’re focusing on one very specific feature, but ignoring the larger argument here.
Who else would still want to advertise on twitter?
Not only does the article mention that

"They are also 11.2% more than in the first quarter of 2020 when 4,683 corporate insolvencies were filed before the COVID-19 pandemic had its full impact. The coronavirus pandemic period itself saw special, temporary regulations introduced and low insolvency rates."

Your own statista link shows that the number of bankruptcies was steadily decreasing between 2010-2019, now it's going up again.
Or just getting it below the base rate of human software programmers. Humans hallucinate all the time; we've just built the systems around ourselves to tolerate a bit of silliness.
>However much you can "save" by outsourcing...in a sufficiently fraud-plagued business environment, it's seldom worth it longer-term.

Outsourcing is mandatory if you are a company in aerospace. How would you even start making an airplane without outsourcing?
Squats.

If you were only ever allowed to do one exercise, I would say the squats is the best.

It hits the big muscles. Forces you to learn balance through the range of motion. And improves flexibility.

The hormone release from training big muscles under heavy weight will echo throughout the body and help stimulate growth everywhere.

Deadlift is more fun, hits the big muscles, and you can go even heavier. But I don’t see the same benefits when I focus on a heavy deadlift cycle as compared to a heavy squat cycle.
> if you want to write something that is GC-less, you're on your own

GC allocations only harm performance when they happen often. It’s totally fine to allocate stuff on managed heap on startup, initialization, re-initialization, or similar.

Another thing, modern C# is very usable even without GC allocations. Only some pieces of the standard library allocate garbage (most notably LINQ), the majority of the standard library doesn’t create garbage. Moreover, I believe that percentage grows over time as the standard library adds API methods operating on modern things like Span<byte> in addition to the managed arrays. Spans can be backed by stack memory, or unmanaged heap, or even weird stuff like the pointers received from mmap() Linux kernel call to a device driver.

> I'm not talking HFT here, I'm talking about performance intensive games.

You want to minimize and ideally eliminate the garbage created by `operator new` during gameplay of a C# game. But it’s exactly the same in C++, you want to minimize and ideally eliminate the malloc / free runtime library calls during gameplay of a C++ game.

In practice, games use pools, per-frame arena allocators, and other tricks to achieve that. This is language agnostic, C++ standard library doesn’t support any of these things either.
Am I missing something? The AI video examples on this just look like non-temporally stable image gen frames with the wobbly/morphy look. I don't think the comparison is there to what Luma shipped.
But the problem isn't outsourcing, it is failed incoming inspection.
> Milling machines make hand driven milling something of a niche whereas microwaves arguable have displaced no jobs in cooking and food preparation.

I would argue that generative AI in the hands of an already skilled developer is equivalent to the mill scenario. One person's expertise leveraged by way of this tool can allow for output that is orders of magnitude greater. The mere inertia of the "machine" encourages more productivity than otherwise. It is almost as if it is pulling you forward when you use it properly. Knowing when not to use it is also very important.

The concerns over hallucinatory output do not seem as relevant to me in this scenario of highly-skilled milling machine operator. You expose yourself to something for 10k+ hours and you will immediately recognize when it does something funny. Novices will cause trouble in any domain regardless of quirks in their tools. I don't think lack of experience should be conflated with hallucinations when evaluating the impact these tools might have at large.
The article have an ad for a cooking app, by The Guardian it think. Seems a little out of place on an article like this.
I don't think bodyweight training is relatively easier get into neither to perform.

I really enjoy bodyweight movements and I include them in my routine, mainly splits squats, pushups, pull ups and abs, but I still think one of the best things you can do to yourself is trying to get over what you call "hassle of going to the gym".

If done properly, the gym will teach you periodization and allow you to:
- practice different repetition patterns
- you can't perform useful 6's, 10's and 15's if you can't change the (body)weight variable
- you can't perform useful < 15reps (for strength or hypertrophy) if you can do 100 repetitions of it (like abs or pushups)
- want to work the delts? Just get into a rack and press the bar up, get a minimum weight dumbbell and do some raises, facepull a rope. Now try it in bodyweight movements.
- form a habit (you have to go to the gym, if you hate exercises, being at home will just be a "I will a do pushup and it's over).

It's always about preferences, but honestly, I find that creating and maintaining a bodyweight workout routine will always be harder and a last-case option compared to the gym.
You know the answer to your question, so the question itself does not add to the discussion. If it turns out the iPhone AI assistant lives up to the expectations, I think you will see people moving platforms.
I feel like this goes for personal life too. My particular problem du jour: some parts internal to my lawn mower engine crankcase self destructed and the engine needs a total rebuild or replacement. I replaced the camshaft 2 years ago with a cheapo Amazon part and I'll forever be kicking myself wondering if saving $20 on that destroyed a $1k (new price) engine.
Shkreli actually tried to upload the album to what.cd. They didn’t accept him as a member.
After years of dismantling Solarwinds, a ubiquitous network management software, Thoma Bravo and Silver Lake dumped $286 million of shares in December 2020, the day before the company disclosed a staggering malware breach. The “Sunburst” cyberattack exposed data from California hospitals, the Department of the Treasury, the U.S. nuclear weapons agency, and dozens of other agencies and major companies. While the root cause is still under investigation, multiple lawsuits and reports describe a culture of cost-cutting and frequent security lapses. “Typically Thoma Bravo raises prices and cuts quality, but the affected constituency group—corporate IT managers—don’t have a lot of power or agency,” Stoller writes of this precarious stalemate, with potential geopolitical implications. “Their superiors don’t want to think about a high-cost but low-probability event, especially if every other big institution would be hit as well.”
Something that many people can do is add weights to a backpack. If you have a good backpack and you can add books/water/rocks etc you can squat with that. If the balance of the movement gets a little unwieldy, a slight heel lift block can help. Also, goblet squats with a kettlebell.
Bingo. For people like me my phone is indispensable, not as a source of endless distractions (though I dabble like anyone) but I put everything in my phone. It's literally an extension of my brain, because my brain is bad at remembering things, so every last thing goes in the phone. Plans with friends, important dates in relationships, birthdays, I have calendar reminders for practically everything going on in my life, and even a bunch strictly for work. My reminders app is packed to the gills with everything from random little to-dos to full-bore projects I'm working on, with notes and documentation in other apps to boot.

It's one of the reasons I'm still an ardent Apple user, the fluidity I have between my tablets, phone and Mac is essential for my workflows. I just couldn't use a PC full time, even if I wanted to.
Europe's biggest problem: It is falling way behind America's powerhouse economy
No, using SSO simply let's you worry about one less thing.
"politics" did not stop the US from acquiring Russian Ti during the cold war.
Those things arguably did reduce intelligence. It's frustrating how often people present this point (on varying topics) in a completely standalone fashion. I.e. they say "yeah yeah, people had X complaint at Y historical time too", implying those historical people were wrong because...? They were in the past? The world hasn't ended? Technological progress continues? Usually none of that is evidence to the contrary. In this case, none of that implies that people in developed societies aren't becoming dumber over the centuries. I think people sometimes make the assumption that knowing more is a synonym for intelligence.
Do you happen to have any source/book on why you can't use anything but a conservative gc on C-like languages? I would really like to know why that's the case.
Or, in XKCD form: https://xkcd.com/1425/
Uh. I rephrased the post but forgot to delete the original line and now it's not editable if anyone is wondering about the last sentence. Now its too late.
https://archive.ph/ioR93
AI isn't about to become capable of doing the job of a software developer any time soon, not least because two of it's major weaknesses - extremely limited reasoning ability and extremely limited learning ability (in-context only) are the two things that software developers most heavily lean on. It's not clear whether these are things that can really be addressed without major architectural change.

There's still massive hype and group think about LLMs and what people project they will soon be able to do (or even what they can currently do - Dwarkesh's insider friends surprised it fails on Chollet's simple ARC tests!). A large part of this seems to be based on how new the tech is, and how capable it is, but people seem to be forgetting that the capability is based on brute force training time gradient descent. There is no runtime gradient descent or any alternative runtime learning method ... just limited in-context learning by example.
I totally agree, I hate it. Just answer the question of why people do this.
Trying to see the motivation for the Saudi government here: OBL was a mortal enemy of the Saudi regime before the USA had even heard of him.
I remember some crazy insecure drivers on Android drivers back in the day (2012-13 or so) -- stuff like `/dev/fbN` and `/dev/input/eventN` being world read/writeable, allowing unprivileged screen and input capture from any application.

It was far more basic than what's described in this blog post, but really good fun to poke around at.
Oddly enough, this one seems to pass at least some testing even despite the phony documentation.

This seems to be about this titan: «Boeing and Airbus both said their tests of affected materials so far had shown no signs of problems.» I read this as implying that Airbus has been buying other things from the same source and done its own tests on samples: «“Numerous tests have been performed on parts coming from the same source of supply,” an Airbus spokeswoman said…»

Is the documentation process expensive enough that it's worth faking it even when the tested material is OK? Weird if so.
Only the 15 pro line will get it, not the plain iPhone
Learning biology to understand software-system concepts is underrated. For example:

- the way pain-killers work tells you a lot about how keyloggers or man-in-the-middle attacks work

- look at how DNA "syntax checking" happens during mitosis to learn about compiling in general

- a puppy swallows whatever it sees; this gives the immune system enough test data about the surroundings etc. (similar to ML)

- a huge amount of cyber-security concepts can be understood by learning biology
The backward incompatibility story https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration70.incompatible.php is not empty