skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a true phenomenon but hasn't much to do with AI specifically. It's an observation that some people made much earlier, like Baudrillard, who went deeper by pointing out that this isn't just the result of automation, but the logical consequence of mass communication in itself. It's worth quoting the part from SSM in full and noticing how much this sounds like the AI debate. It's even hilarious how technically accurate that description is by chance.

"The real is produced from miniaturized cells, matrices, and memory banks, models of control - and it can be reproduced an indefinite number of times from these. It no longer needs to be rational, because it no longer measures itself against either an ideal or negative instance. It is no longer anything but operational. In fact, it is no longer really the real, because no imaginary envelops it anymore. It is a hyperreal, produced from a radiating synthesis of combinatory models in a hyperspace without atmosphere. By crossing into a space whose curvature is no longer that of the real, nor that of truth, the era of simulation is inaugurated by a liquidation of all referentials - worse: with their artificial resurrection in the systems of signs, a material more malleable than meaning, in that it lends itself to all systems of equivalences, to all binary oppositions, to all combinatory algebra. It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody. It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real, that is to say of an operation of deterring every real process via its operational double, a programmatic, metastable, perfectly descriptive machine that offers all the signs of the real and short- circuits all its vicissitudes. Never again will the real have the chance to produce itself - such is the vital function of the model in a system of death, or rather of anticipated resurrection, that no longer even gives the event of death a chance. A hyperreal henceforth sheltered from the imaginary, and from any distinction between the real and the imaginary, leaving room only for the orbital recurrence of models and for the simulated generation of differences."
GP is talking about getting jobs via professional colleagues that know you're good at what you do. Nepotism is the opposite of that - getting a job from connections that aren't work-related.
There are also quite a few companies that offer “unlimited” vacation, but in practice they pressure/shame their employees not to take “too much” time off.
If its.local first, hash the username about 50000 times.
Thanks! We're using a server side ffmpeg process for the encoding right now, so running a server is required for rendering. We are exploring fully client-side rendering too but I'm hesitant to use WebCodecs because of the limited compatibility with many browsers. Ffmpeg-Wasm does look promising so I'll give that a closer look very soon. I'll also check out your project, thanks for sharing.
> Their cost per Max chip is probably $200-300 which beats the 4090 by a massive margin...

That's true. I was talking about end user pricing.

> ...each chip can do more than a 4090 because it also has a CPU onboard.

That's a strange thing to say. It has a CPU, correct. It makes the chip more versatile but for data center ML tasks it doesn't really matter. A 4090 chip also has much more ML relevant compute per chip. So apple's chips can't really "do more than a 4090" in any relevant way.

Of course apple pays less for their in house made chips vs external products. That comparison doesn't seem relevant to the context, e.g. they're not going to challenging CUDA with internal chips.

They might get more compute per watt though. My guess is that nvidias datacenter chips are competitive in that space, but that's another story.
Why, simply pawn some of Father's apartheid emeralds to Tiffany's, why didn't any of you lazy imbeciles ever think of that?
I learned Go "on the job" - I wrote a codebase during a company hackathon, and it ended up being shipped into production not long after. The good thing about Go is that the tooling and libraries quickly steer you towards using the language in a particular way, meaning that you learn how to write idiomatic Go quite quickly. In my case, my Golang code was reviewed by those with years of Go experience and they were surprised to find out that it was my first Go codebase.

I suspect that most half-decent Golang shops will know this and be open to hiring an experienced C developer.
The pattern changes in the middle as well. so you'd need to show on the full size
It sounds like they could’ve fulfilled the requirements and had more than 10 sellers but chose not to.
With your C skills I'd consider a parallel market in embedded or low level work to expand your skills in those areas.
You might be able to move from that up to to mobile development etc.
Tech stacks there tend to be Java, Swift, C, React Native (similar to React web) so it opens a lot of areas.

P.S. I'm not far behind in age but I code in 2 different tech stacks daily at work, on FE and BE, and stick my nose into parallel stacks to get that experience, specifically so I don't get COBOL'd (do one thing my entire career, and then that one thing no longer has developer demand).
I don't think many people are voting for AfD because of gas pipes.

Nordstream isn't a case of someone burning down the German people's car. Its more like Russia persuaded the German people to pay for the chains and manacles which kept Germany captive. Sure you paid for them, but they were still your chains.

Its worth pointing out that Nordstream 2 never delivered any gas, and Nordstream 1 stopped delivering gas a year before the destruction, so its not like they were actually helping Germany's energy situation at all.
forloni account was just created to make this comment. hello russian troll factory!
>> So it's sad to see anyone falling for Putin's lies so easily. (See also Mearshimer.)

Mearsheimer can be a bit too convincing for his own good, surely. What he has argued that is certainly convincing is that Russia was ready to negotiate a peace at the start of the war, when Russians and Ukrainians met in Belarus and then in Istanbul. If Putin wanted to recreate Imperial Russia, or the Soviet Union, then why would he negotiate for peace?

That's Mearsh's argument, which he articulates, e.g. here in Lex Friedman's show (sorry, I couldn't find a better source):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=r4wLXNydzeY&t=2684

Full transcript here:

https://lexfridman.com/john-mearsheimer-transcript/
Doing this by tenure seems like a fairer way to distribute the liquidity. The founders still get preferential access to it, but because they really have taken more risk (bigger stake for a longer time period), not just because they have a better individual negotiating position.
Researchers engineer bacteria to deliver chemotherapy in a targeted manner
Plant-based ultra-processed foods linked with risk of cardiovascular disease
Some ESP32 chips have in-package flash, e.g. ESP32-C6FH4.
GP didn’t
No, if you have problems with upper management, you should do something about it, but nobody owes their management a discussion about it. If leadership doesn't know how to build a healthy work environment, then people will decide for themselves whether to "manage up" to try to correct it, or to just step out of that environment in whatever way works for them.

That doesn't always mean quitting - I personally try to just change my job role and find that I often can adjust the work to avoid the toxic leaders. But if that cannot be done, leaving the job is a reasonable action.

And "as a Founder", if you think your staff is obligated to pull you out of any holes you dig, you are going to be in for a surprise when you find out just how many people are happy to let toxic leaders fail.
Glad to see someone else say this. I feel like I'm crazy reading these replies about being ripped off. I've been working startups my whole career, earning salaries, working with good people and having fun at times. Sometimes the equity even pays out, but that's not my only financial "egg".
It is a waste of time to continue to try to develop a power one does not have.

Manipulating (e.g. "people who down vote [sic] refuse to believe"), spreading fear (e.g. "[mind manipulation occurs on] an 'industrial' scale"), and inflating one's own ego (e.g. "I am a renegade of thought control") contribute little to the discussion of this article.

That is all.
In 2024, not using SQLite as your application file format, should really force an engineering team to have a damn good explanation....

https://www.sqlite.org/famous.html
It’s more about not training AI on the output of other AI’s.
This is not speculation, it is what multiple Canadians I've tried to poach have told me: they don't want to move to a country where one medical emergency can put them in 6 figures of debt
I wonder how much of a factor the "One DB, one file" concept is in SQLite's success.

I always loved that an SQLite DB is just a single file. People say "Who cares how many files the DB is?". But in practice, I always found it to be very convenient. It makes the concept of a project easy to grasp when the data store is simply a file.

I recently realized that a Django project can also be done in a single file. That made me like Django even more.

I have the feeling that this type of logic and simplicty is indeed a factor in the long term success of a software project.
Jet missing since 1971 has been found at the bottom of Vermont's Lake Champlain
It's technically a labyrinth rather than a maze as there's a single path.
> Or no credence should be given to such promises.

This should always be the default. The first rule of capitalism is that companies lie. Who’s going to stop them?
Thank you! A lot of people have mentioned this to us already - we did not think about the LLM use case when getting started with Revideo, but it does make a lot of sense that it can be used to build text-to-video products and fully automate video editing.

As you mentioned, letting LLMs generate high-quality Revideo code is probably not yet possible, but something I believe could make a lot of sense is using LLMs to choose parameters for your video. Video parameters can get as complex as you like in Revideo (any JSON object is accepted), so you could build a very flexible template that lets you define pretty much any video by using a "universal" JSON representation (essentially, this would be a list of elements such as audio files, videos, images, texts, along with attributes describing the timing, position, etc. of the element)

Letting the LLM generate input variables for your template instead of the code would at least allow you to do type checking and ensure that there are no bugs in your video code - however, I still doubt that the resulting video will be of high quality, LLMs are probably not yet smart enough for this.
Yes.

I am 52, having a good workplace but terrible job (bad quality desktop system to maintain, very frustrating like pissing into headwind against a hill), so I am looking around. If you do not have that _specific_tech_stack_ right now with 3+ years day to day proven professional experience (i.e. already working with it 8 hours or more per day for years), knowing its tricks the interviewee finds essential for that particular position among the hundreds out there (good practices) then don't even dream of competing with the dozen plus eager youngsters live and breath obscure tests and open to do anything told, like instant relocation or shady clause in the contract and whatnot - e.g. pretend and lie as some suggest here -, for less than you, because you have a family with needs.

We need luck finding the last places still suitable for the dying breed. Like maintaining a bad quality desktop system among nice people ... maybe I should stick what I have and pray the new owner of the company will keep me after the retiree management sells to.
Well, the hand-written double-buffering code of Brick (Haskell TUI framework) does also only lines...
Nuclear can be a win-win. Build enough to reach peak use, and then use the extra capacity during low use hours for producing hydrogen for clean vehicle fuel. All at near zero CO2 emission.
Let me tell you, since I have only access to an analogue bike, and no car at all, an e-bike is looking more and more like a it'll be life changing for me. We have some rental e-bikes in my town that I've used from time to time, but I don't like them as the designated parking spots is not ideal for my use case.

Access to an ebike will probably result in me taking significantly more trips with it, where I would otherwise have opted to either rent a car for an hour, or just not make the trip.

I don't have hard evidence to back up the claim, but I'm certain that an e-bike will rack up more than enough km's in a time period that the overall volume of ebike-exercise outweighs analogue-bike exercise, even if you subtract the "lost" exercise due to the e-bike assistance.

The amount of emotional and confidence boost you get from 250W of electricity honestly cannot be measured.
> the effect of "finally having pentiful and affordable power" has on the industrial landscape

The nice thing about induced demand from something getting cheap, is that it only happens if that thing gets cheap.

If we can't install enough solar to crater prices, then that extra demand simply won't happen. There won't be a massive spike in coal/gas use that makes the solar a waste of time.

> It needs to be an order of magnitude large to deal with the EV push

Please do the math. Switching every single US car to electric would be less than 150GW average, somewhere around a 25% increase in electrical demand. And even 50% electric is a lot of years away.
nonce really should be renamed. if only for british slang avoidance.
I wish people gushing on ML code generation would familiarize themselves with SW development history bit more. For example the introduction of SEQUEL (predecessor of SQL) paper is worth reading, its just few pages: https://web.archive.org/web/20070926212100/http://www.almade...

Key quote:

> Much of the success of the computer industry depends on developing a class of users other than trained computer specialists

I believe COBOL had similar aspirations to be language for non-professional developers. One of the first high-level languages were called autocodes because they automated code generation. Sound familiar?

The difference between compiler and ML model is not that great from high level. Both take human-readable(/writable) input and produce machine-executable code in the end.

Huge amounts of SW engineering has been already automated and delegated. Consider how much effort setting up a CRUD application would be if you were writing machine code on bare metal system compared to writing high-level language and leveraging stuff like Linux and PostgreSQL.
No. I mean, yes, you do need some stabilization, but the amount is trivial.

First, it is only the demand that varies, not both supply and demand. Second, variations in demand are very predictable, unlike variations in supply by renewables (those aren't completely unpredictable, but highly so). Third, the magnitude is just not nearly the same.

For example, the cost for grid stability measures in Germany increased by more than an order of magnitude between 2011 and 2020.
I sympathize, and I think this is a bigger problem than the skills/experience/age issues. I'd do what I can to either move to a more dynamic place, or get a remote job for a US company. I know it's hard, but it's better than investing two years to become a pro in a different stack - and still be stuck in the same socioeconomic trap.
I have this and what helps me to wake up is to have a conversation with someone. Have them ask you if you dreamt, if you want to eat something or about plans for the upcoming day.
I guess BI stands for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence?
For numeric values only, any advantage of using sqlite over let's say parquet with Apache Arrow/duckdb?
In Western Europe at least, I think you would have a much better chance if you were applying for a .NET, Java, or PHP position (which given your C experience, you should be able to master any of them). Golang has a much smaller market share here, so that is very limiting (even for younger devs). Most .NET and Java companies I work for would still happily hire experienced senior developers in their 40s or 50s.
If you need replication on the app level, SQLite doesn't make sense, because it's not built for networks.

But...

Many projects won't ever need that. A bare metal machine can give you dozens of cores handling thousands of requests per second, for a fraction of the cost of cloud servers. And a fraction of the operational complexity.

Single point of failure is really problematic if your system is mission critical. If not, most apps can live with the possibility of a few minutes of downtime to spin up a fail over machine.
> the afterlife has been described by religions as a place where we will not only reflect on our life but also be able to mingle with our ancestors as well as seek out any other individual who has ever lived.

Not only by religions; also by Philip José Farmer in his Riverworld series of SF novels.
Smart Filters with Vercel AI SDK and Next.js
Let's see how to integrate a smart filtering system into a Next.js application using the Vercel AI SDK. The idea is to allow the user to filter data using a simple description.

This feature, seen in products like Linear or Dub.co, will be implemented in an isolated example that we will detail technically.
AMEN

lol
Meat production is still significantly more resource intense, we are cutting down the rainforest to make more room for feed crops.
the biggest ecological disaster was building this pipe, blowing it just made it worse
Chromebooks. Remember that part of the industry lives in China and has large ambitions. Thanks for the reality check.
Not OP but just checked the logs for one that I'm running.

As a first approximation I grepped for PATCH in the web server logs and it seems to service about 30 of those per second on a $40/month vps. I haven't load tested it so not sure how high it could go. That's not including any POSTs etc which may also generate DB writes.

Bear in mind this isn't particularly performance tuned either as the webserver uses go (slow in general) and the portable go sqlite3 driver (also slow)
Zahedan to the border: taxi.

Taftan to Quetta: a bus, leaves before sunset to travel out of the worst heat. Takes about 10-12h. The bus has two massive diesel engines, one in the front driving the bus forward, one in the back to drive the AC.

In the 600 or so km about half of it has some pavement, rest is just desert. The bus does not slow down for potholes, dunes, anything. You jump a lot.

Every couple of hours bus stops, half of the time for people to go in the desert to squat and the other half to pray. Try not to mix them up, could be dangerous.

The route comes within a few km of Afgani border but that does not matter the baluchistan region does not have much of dealings with the central govt.

Quetta is very-very dangerous for westerners, lots of kidnappings. I only found out later, thankfully.

The train from Quetta to Lahore takes about 26h. There is 1st class AC sleeper, 1st class sleeper and second class.

The 1st class feels like it was last updated before independence.

The train crosses wast deserts where temperature is 50C-ish.

This was more than 15 years ago, things might have changed YMMV.
Copilot (and so on) are simultaneously incredible and not nearly enough.

You cannot ask it to build a complex system and then use the output as-is. It's not enough to replace developer knowledge, but it also inhibits acquiring developer knowledge.
And once they learn sarcasm, small dogs are cats again :-)
But not their industrial complex, what is you reasoning? France is forcing Slovakia to build nuclear to support military industrial complex? A little bit of conspiracy here. The first was a soviet "gift".
it's important to figure out where to set your own boundaries. people out to exploit you will seek to see how far they can push. congratulations for leaving.

one thing that catches out some junior folks is that they may believe this kind of behaviour from bosses is normal and unavoidable as they have only worked for exploitative bosses at places with toxic cultures. you can do better, you're worth it. get out. find a more mature company with professional managers, where it's normal to leave the office on time and turn off all your work comms and leave all work-related messages unanswered until you're back in the office and getting paid to think about work again.
Rational comments can't change a mind driven primarily by emotions, especially negative ones like fear. We humans are not rational beings at the bottom of the things, and our school system does little to fight that.

Thats why elections look like they look, that's why internet is not anymore a beacon of freedom and truth, but rather swamp of lies, manipulation and half-truths that one has to have a dedicated skill to navigate through. A skill many older folks (but not only them) simply don't have and probably never will, this covers ie my parents too.

Folks that will listen to those sweet little and big lies about how everything will be great without great changes and sacrifices, when reality is way more complex.
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I don’t agree with this sentiment: Investors, founders, and employees all believe that founders are taking more risk than early employees (this isn’t true once founders have exclusive access to liquidity)

This completely discounts how much risk and stress go into the early stages before money is raised, or before enough money is raised to pay founders properly. They often go into debt, put many aspects of their lives on hold, and undergo outsized stress that is largely alleviated by the liquidity event, enabling them to plow forward and shoot for the moon. There are outliers that are insane, but you can’t throw the baby out with the bath water.
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The tasks are handmade. There is no "problem generator".
From the environmental point of view, it's incredible that they want these machines, built with so much energy and resources (e.g. a chip fab uses a lot of water [1], and a laptop is more than just chips), to just be destroyed...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/22628925/water-semiconductor-shorta...
Usually hanging at the end of the aisle. Go ahead and ask a worker to show you. Something like this: https://explore-blog.griffith.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2015...
ahah careful that might actually turn them off :P
This confuse us foreigners trying to use the English language even more than it must confuse regular english speakers.

Not only did you (you guys, y'all, plural you, whatever...) mix up ye with you, using only the object form, but also started using it for thou and thee. Also, it was thy/thine not yours in the singular form.

I suggest you "fix" your language by reintroducing these words, they (plural they) are not completely lost yet (ref: dialects and the Bible).

https://langeek.co/en/grammar/course/8/archaic-pronouns#revi...
Based on the grammar and spelling mistakes in your post, I suspect that your written communication skills might be holding you back. It's quite easy to paste those paragraphs into ChatGPT and say "rewrite this." It will provide you with a clear and error-free version. I recommend doing this for every email you send. It can significantly increase the respect you receive from both your current coworkers and potential employers. Even though I have good grammar, I still use it for half the emails I send to see if they can be improved.
If you exclude legacy CDMA sites, the US and UK have basically the same number of cell sites per capita.

https://opencellid.org/stats.php