skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His shrill statements implying that Apple will be piping all your private data to OpenAI are the exact opposite of what Apple demo'd. It's like they were designed to destroy consumer confidence in Apple's privacy protections across their entire product line, protections which Apple obviously designed at great expense and effort and are core to their business strategy.

This is someone with 187 million twitter followers who knew his statements would reach headlines to influence far beyond even the massive following. I don't think it would be hard to prove a billion dollars or more in damages for the kind of legal team Apple could easily assemble.
Every tome I try to learn what idempotent means, it’s as though I’m starting from scratch.
I think these are missing from Apple notes:

- everything end-to-end encrypted by default

- public APIs, create your own client (still with e2e encryption)

- self host

- markdown support

- import from google keep

- open source
Housing prices may collapse over the next 50 years as the population pyramid inverts and buyers demand decreases due to fewer individuals. What is the definition of long-term though?
What were you modelling? Cyclopropane? I did something looking similar using a Fortran tool called Gaussian not long after.
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Part of the concern might be that visual reasoning problems are overrepresented in ARC in the space of all abstract reasoning problems.

It’s similar to how chess problems are technically reasoning problems but they are not representative of general reasoning.
> Know that they are buying services below cost? I don't think so.

To the contrary, of course you should know.

If you know anything about tech businesses, you know that startups being funded by massive amounts of VC keep prices artificially low initially, and that they then rise.

This is tech startup 101 stuff.

It's fine if you're not aware of this as an engineer. But if you're building a business and therefore have a business model where you've identified known risks, there's no excuse for you not to be aware of it.
Determinism as a networking model is rare now a days(Still used though!) client/server is a better solution most of the time. And having determinism means the cheater could see everything. But having a deterministic sim means you must insert the cheating in the distributed to everyone inputs... So -if- you could detect cheated input reliably this could be useful.. This route probably isn't worth pursing for just cheating deterrence alone though.
What are your gripes with GCP? I've been using it for every project for a while, and am super happy with it, especially GKE.
There's a bit more information at [1], but I think the details are not public. The hardware is tracking a separate program counter (and call stack) for each thread. So in the CAS example, one thread wins and continues making progress, while the other threads loop.

There seems to some more detail in a Bachelors thesis by Phillip Grote[2], with lots of measurements of different synchronization primitives, but it doesn't go too deep into the hardware.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11659

[2]: https://www.clemenslutz.com/pdfs/bsc_thesis_phillip_grote.pd...
The license forbids commercial use unless you buy a license. The problem is, no one seems to be selling one ;)
One of the world's most inspiring people. I had the privilege of getting to know her to write a profile for a University of Michigan alumni magazine more than a decade ago: https://news.engin.umich.edu/2014/10/life-engineered/
> This is literally the greatest crisis of our age

We have plenty of evidence for impending, rapid collapse of the global biosphere, and plenty of reason to be scared of AI advancement, and absolutely mounds of evidence that everything we ever do or say or feel is being ingested/analyzed by the largest and scariest organizations in the world. Each of these represents approximately existential risk to human civilization. Whatever it is you're discussing, are you sure your energy wouldn't be better spent on these issues that most people already agree are catastrophic?
An economy is simply the number of people times the average productivity per person.

If lots of people are doing a lot of work powered by a lot of energy and productive technology equipment, the (material) economy is good.
If you want the details:
https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
Along the way, viral often tragic stories made the pessimist out of most of us.
There’s an argument to be made that Hollywood is the best propaganda machine in the world at fostering putative or aspirational American ideals if not the reality on the ground. Recently the adaptation of The Sympathizer, this explores from the POV that the guys on the other side are human, too, differently from the book but similar territory concerning depictions of Vietnam War in particular.
All of which can be adequately be explained for with unexpected physical nonverbal communication channels, confirmation bias and various other cognitive biases, and none of which reproducible in a methodologically correct setting, despite decades of trying.
You are the one who is setting the boundaries and rules for your own life. Not being reachable for weeks or months is totally fine if that's what someone wants.
My favorite thing she said was "Why not question everything?" It stuck with me ever since.
“You‘re right, I apologize for the oversight. Let’s do the same bloody thing exactly the same way again because I don’t know how to answer your question differently but am forced to never admit that…“
Yes and it doesn't prevent anyone to build software separately, being written in rust or any other language.
> it's clear that the Ukraine invasion was motivated, in part, by NATO expansion.

Unless you mean, the only way to have prevented the Russian invasion of Ukraine would have been to accept Ukraine into NATO, I strongly disagree with you here.

Russia invaded Ukraine not because Russia is fearful of NATO but because Russia wished to recreate the Soviet empire. It's just plain old imperialism.
right out of adam smith, when people get more money they typically spend it on better housing.
How to choose the AI coding assistant that works best for your engineering team
A pity you wouldn't let your kids do that. There are still kids today with no cellphone doing their things, and being just fine.
Yeah, it would be interesting to have more transparent costs, especially with inflation. New siding every 20 years is $40k, a new roof might be $30k every 25 years, a new driveway, etc.
Why would you expect a Tesla product to have a competitive price? This is like saying: the CPU costs $100, the RAM costs $50, the flash costs $20, so why does an iPhone 15 cost $900?
If we ever get skynet from it - never expected less from Oracle EvilCorp Co.
I didn't. I was too busy rendering that sample POV Ray scene with a sunset.
That calculation does not factor into the rent you will not pay when you buy a house and live in it. Imputed rent is a thing and you need to consider it. If you don't live in the house you wouldn't let the house sit vacant: you would rent it. In your formula the rent can be thought of as if it's a dividend of the investment.

Alternatively just read the linked article; the linked article makes the correct fair comparison. You will arrive at that conclusion by reading just the second paragraph, which says

> data on total housing returns (price appreciation plus rents) has been lacking (Shiller 2000 provides some historical data on house prices but not on rents). In this article we build on more comprehensive work on house prices (Knoll, Schularick, and Steger 2017) and newly constructed data on rents (Knoll 2017) to enable us to track the total returns of the largest component of the national capital stock.

Shiller is explicitly mentioned. And the article authors disregarded it because it failed to include rent.
I guess NYT was not getting enough hits with the original article title (see the Archive link), looks like they changed it from...

"Restore Elon Musk (and Tesla) to Greatness"

to

"To Understand Elon Musk's Descent, Look at His $46B Pay Package"

The page's html header title tag is...

"Opinion | Tesla’s Pay Package Ruined Elon Musk. Shareholders Should Reject It."

And the header content tag says...

"Tesla shareholders must reject the chief executive’s unorthodox compensation package to help turn him back into the visionary we need to fight climate change."
That economic rift is not the fault of the DDR.

1. The West of Germany, particularly the Rhine, had large amounts of natural resources and much industrial capacity. This was true long before Germany was split. Take the steel production of Germany in 1944, for example. 59% of Steel production was in the West, 18% was in the East, and 16% was in the areas outside of Germany. This is not only more production, but more production per capita.

2. Like most of the former Easter bloc, the privatization of state companies resulted in economic downturn in that region. Especially since many of these state industries were simply closed and cashed out on. Jörg Steinbach, economy minister of Brandenburg, is quoted as saying "Some 70 per cent of East German industry disappeared".
Coqui is great, but another fantastic tool for TTS I recommend checking out is Piper. The voice quality is great, it's extremely lightweight, and it's fast enough to generate TTS in realtime
https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
China loses 300 million in the next century, we will start witnessing the impact before we die.
> is now jealous

Reading his (already deleted) tweets from yesterday about the Apple and OpenAI announcement, I think you could be right.
A trans woman changed computing in the modern world (co-developed VLSI)
> Real content doesnt necessarily mean advertising free. There are tons of high quality pages and services funded by ads.

There are some, but it's a rounding error compared to the ad-funded slop. Basing your business model around advertising creates strong perverse incentives, pitting you against your users/customers. Sometimes, a company gets enough return on advertising investment they can fund side ventures off their marketing budget - this creates an UBI-like low pressure space for quality content to grow. But stuff funded directly from ads? It's safe to assume the content there is secondary at best, and exists primarily as a vector to bait you so you can be exposed to ads.

> banning adds is just one way. Content review is another.

Right, but they're complementary. Content review gets easier when you cut out 99% of crap at the source by fiat, and with a hard line drawn, the reviewers are much harder for marketers to compromise either.
I could be wrong, but it seems as though he built Zip2? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip2
Word on the street (someone who was talking to Apple employees at WWDC) is that the Vision Pro doesn’t have enough headroom on the processor for it. It’s driving that sucker really hard just doing its “regular” thing.
With extreme consequences to the population. When people are not given space to create their own families, the result is the massive population decrease we're living through now in industrialised nations.
I have been on both sides

1) got a talking too about performance - it wasn't called a pip (my mom was dying and I was taking too much time out for medical appointments for her. Note the discussion was shortly after she had passed)

2) As a fairly new manager (at the time) I had to put my first hire as a manager onto a pip. It was painfully obvious to everyone they were not capable and struggled with the most basic things.

While I didn't hold out much hope they would turn it around, I gave them every opportunity to prove to me they could do the job (or learn at least to) they were hired to do, instead they cheated their way through the pip, passing others peoples work off as their own.
I met someone who claimed to have invented the digital amplifier chips these speakers use, using some new technology I don't remember but it sounded innovative at the time - possibly a new semiconductor material. He said he's very sorry.
Mexican proverb: Every revolution eventually becomes another government.
> that does not explain why better text prediction is worth $6B to these people

Same reason Cohere has a weirdly-high valuation relative to revenue: it's a national champion.
Unpopular opinion inbound: what will spark a barefoot developer revolution is not LLM auto-coding, its making spreadsheet software more easily extendable and FUN.

By extendable, I mean doing things like generating and sending emails, and using plugins to integrate with external services. By fun, I mean non-enterprisey, something that one would WANT to engage in as a hobby and that a total novice can pick up and gradually learn. Something you can engage in with friends.

I know that there are things that meet the extendable part of the equation, its the fun hobby part that I don't think has been cracked yet.

I think a big part of why I became a coder is because I enjoyed playing with Microsoft Access as a kid - but I'm a weird nerd, so I don't think that'll cut it for others.
> Then they should have been treated as business from the get-go.

There was no doubt some legal council involved, if that's what you are implying. Business doesn't really get any more formal than that. It's not some magical place where life is completely different. It's just people being people like any and ever other. Likewise, if that is what you mean, I'm sure you'd retain legal representation in the purchase of the house as well. I've never heard of anyone buying a house without a lawyer.

> this wasn't a bunch of 20 year olds with VC money, if most business is conducted at bars and/or the golf course then they should have been aware of it.

Aware of what? I think we agree that Musk knew full well that OpenAI abandoning its mandate was possible, if that's what you're referring to. That doesn't mean he has to be happy about it.

The 12,000 people let go from Google always knew that they could end up on the chopping block. All employees understand that. That doesn't mean they cannot be unhappy about it. Logically, there is no reason why they should be unhappy about it. But I fully expect most, if not all, of them were unhappy anyway - understandably so.

> I guess I assumed that they voted on it based on budgeting requirements.

And then probably went to bed crying, because who is happy about being up against such budget constraints? It's a terrible situation to be in. I don't think this picture that they are unfeeling monsters holds any merit. There is some small chance that they truly are all emotionless autists, but probably not.

> I don't know that it's something that they would do outside of the organization.

If it were one of those individual's child that committed the same act, you don't think they would try and excuse what their child did in much the same manner? They might not be happy about it, but there is, indeed, value in protecting the group (in this case the family unit). I think we can point to all kinds of cases where individuals have tried to do just that.

Unless an individual truly lives off in the woods all by themselves, never seen by another human, there will always be groups. While you may technically have a point in a vacuum that groups can command certain behaviour, I'm not sure there is a meaningful distinction to be made. A group-less society doesn't happen.
Isn’t “data-race free” in Dart achieved by just not really sharing mutable memory between isolates? Probably because the web version needs to map isolates to web workers, right?
Wouldn't be the first time someone was wrong about something.
This was a civil case, seeking damages for actions that occurred over 2 decades ago, it's unlikely anyone currently with the company was sufficiently high ranking then to be considered personally responsible.

For the 2007 criminal case, the company came to the department of justice and disclosed the payments, saying they had been made under threat of violence. Specifically the AUC was threatening physical harm to employees of a Chiquita subsidiary in Columbia. The department of justice appears to have accepted that the payments were made under duress, but did not recognize that as a sufficient excuse, and decided to prosecute anyways. The company reached a plea agreement.

Honestly, it seems like the justice department came down pretty hard. Obviously giving money to terrorist groups under any circumstances shortly after 9/11 would be highly scrutinized, and the company could have dropped the columbian subsidiary, which they wound up doing eventually anyways, instead of continuing to pay the protection racket. But still it seems like they were victims in this too.
- "Bring your whole self to work" . . . when the interviewers all seem like cloned/pod people under the skin.

- Any job ad for a FOO Dev, where FOO is a language. They're hiring code monkeys.

- A panel of interviewers suggests the company doesn't know how to interview.

- "Gotcha" trivia questions.

- Giving me a take-home assignment that takes much longer than their estimated time to complete . . . then asking me how long it took.

- Telling me what IDE to use (even if it's one I would prefer).

- Interviewer is another dev and is unwilling to tell me what they wish were different.

- Whiteboard coding where interviewer says nothing. Maybe they stare at me. Maybe they do work. Either way . . . no.

- Any question where the goal is guessing "the correct way to answer."

- Hiring managers who clearly want to hand off responsibilities instead of just delegate. Seems more common in small startups.

- Interviewers are late to call or join the video conference. Especially if they're at least 5 minutes late.
6+ years on GCP across half a dozen kubernetes clusters here... very little to complain about IME. Have fun with Oracle.
I think this [1] is the study they're referencing.

1: https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201412_cfpb_reports_cons...
If you buy a 16 cells to make a 48V battery than yeah the vast majority of the cost would be the lithium cells, a 16s 250A BMS should be around 150€, an active 16s balancer 50€.
The details of their approach: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
In just 20 years, we’ll have fusion-powered telepathy.
Maybe you weren't burned by the near periodic massive GCP outages from 2019 - 2023. More power to you, but I'm not signing up for more of that.
It's such a tragedy. She has an explanation, called "The Conway Effect."

She wrote about it 2018.

"When “others” (such as women and people of color) make innovative contributions in scientific and technical fields, they often “disappear” from later history and their contributions are ascribed elsewhere. This is seldom deliberate—rather, it’s a result of the accumulation of advantage by those who are expected to innovate. This article chronicles an example of such a disappearance and introduces the Conway Effect to elucidate the disappearance process."

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2018/10/mco2018100...
"That dude greg 2 blocks down who doesn't bring his trash bins in until THE DAY AFTER trash day"
We haven't played around with this yet but this is possible. There are people working on this stuff in the Motion Canvas community, which is the animation library we're based on. It should be pretty straight forward to adapt this for Revideo.
https://github.com/motion-canvas/examples/tree/master/exampl...
> Just to be clear, you're saying that Shotwell has contributed more to SpaceX than Elon?

Which contribution do you believe that Elon Musk had on the development of reusable rockets?

Let's put it this way: if you kicked Musk out of SpaceX and replaced it with absolutely any random guy as CEO, do you believe reusable rockets would never see the light of day?
Of course. I just think it's probably also true that the expectations of what is customary and "normal" have also changed.
The plausible paths for improvement are good governance, less corruption, and consistent government policies.

Africa doesn't lack natural and human resources (the most important) to develop. The problem is extremely bad governance and conflict that discourages long-term investments, causing economic stagnation.

Most of our leaders have no vision save for staying in power and reaping benefits for themselves. We also keep electing the same mediocre leaders due to tribal allegiances. A sad tale :(
I had this discussion (specifically about the Hippie trail) with a friend before I made a trip to Hong Kong in 2019. The conclusion was it is important to travel while you can. Things can change and not always for the better. I returned from Hong Kong on June 3, and less than a week later the protests started and turned violent. Then the next year, global travel all but shut down. I also had the opportunity to visit Kyiv in 2019 and regret not taking it.
I'm not sure, population already plummeted in many places while prices went up, as people prefer to live less densely then they used to.
It doesn't. Brook boards always added like an extra $100 dollars to any custom or DIY fight stick. The reinvigoration came because sticks that used to be $250 new are now closer to $100 and in some cases less, particularly leverless controllers. If you've heard of the Haute 42 or any of the countless leverless controllers that have been flooding Ali Express, Amazon, and other sites they're possible because of the firmware gp2040. For a lot of these new makers all they have to do is get the pcb printed and build an enclosure.
The FDA is corrupt. It works for enriching the pharma industry. Working for the taxpayer is just a pretense.

Do you see the drugs they approved for AD? These drugs all cause deadly brain bleeds by removing beta amyloid which is not even the cause of AD. There is no way that these drugs fix AD. Yet, they will make the drug makers pretty rich.

The FDA seems to have an internal mandate that no fixes are to be instituted if someone is not making continuously making a load from it, at least until the first few generations of patents have expired.
I think that's a little different. With spatial audio or OLED, it's a one time up front cost to get the better hardware, but turning on an OLED iPad or TV is no different than turning on an LCD. By contrast, Vision Pro requires extra work every single time it's used. I'm much more willing to pay a little extra or do a one time setup than I am to do extra work every time I want to do something.

Going for a walk in a nice park is a better experience than walking around the block, but if I only ever walked after going through the trouble of driving to a nice park, I'd almost never walk. That's more like VR to me. Even if the cost is removed from the equation, it creates enough friction that using it becomes an event, not an everyday default, even if it's preferred.
Looks like a cool tool. Will play around a bit, thanks for sharing!
My body is a temple: old, crumbing and full of unspeakable horrors.
One thing that bugs me to this day is reading Swift code without an IDE can be an exercise in “let me build up a mountain of context first”, due to the way enums and types can get shortened.

It’s nice to write but a pain to review. Meanwhile if I read Rust or Go, it’s more or less what you see is what you get.

I do agree in general that it’s frustrating that Rust hasn’t kept up with some of Swift’s pushes, but then again that’s the difference when you have the richest company in the world involved.

For context, I’ve written many apps in Swift, deployed a backend in Vapor, and worked with teams who use the language. I always thought I’d get over it but it just never fully clicked.
You can only go into so much detail in that format for that audience. I was happy that they simultaneously posted a much more technical deep dive: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/