skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which illustrates the other big point of confusion - the Turing test measures the ability of the judge and not the participants.
A podcast, Well There’s Your Problem, run by some engineers and others who rip into them a bit: https://youtu.be/xVodkE47aLw?si=vW9VPeQYRCzqE9zr

Some NSFW language I’m sure. Lots of rambling. It’s a journey.
Also texas has 683,533 lane miles of road vs ohio's 262,492 and a GDP of $2,563,508m vs ohio's $872,748m. Seems like they aren't putting that land mass to good use.
Can confirm that lots of our ~10 year old designs are getting a re-spin on newer processes for exactly this reason. The availability of the old ones is going down.

As for "can you order more if SiFive goes out of business": the detail here is going to be in all the other bits on the chip. Maybe they're free licensed, maybe they're not. You probably wouldn't get the GDSII that SiFive sent to the fab. You'd need to arrange another shuttle run. You might be too small for the fab to return your calls.

It's a pretty niche kind of manufacturing activity. Not many businesses really need a custom CPU.
Or "we know this isn't practical but we need to get this shit on our resumes while it's still relevant"
Renewables cannot store sufficient capacity to make up for their variable output.

A cloudy/windless 2 week period in December, would require far more battery capacity than is possible - even with future tech.

Nuclear is the only solution that is carbon free.

Solar and wind are great for non-critical/non-time-sensitive power consumption.

Remember that they are only cheaper than Nuclear if you exclude storage and include the insane Russia-inspired regulatory blocks we impose on Nuclear.
"Because OSS is a thankless job and _free volunteer_ work. "

Agreed, it's why I've advocated a halfway 'house' to overcome the problem and pay for the project's development.

It goes something like this (but no doubt there are many suitable variations): create a nonprofit cooperative organization/society that is revenue neutral to develop programs and pay developers a reasonable wage. Employment could be flexible, the organization could employ both full-time and part-time developers (this would help those who've a keen interest in the project but whose principal job is too valuable to let go etc.)

In effect, this software has a cost but it would be very much cheaper than products from Microsoft, Adobe, etc. Also, licensing would be less restrictive—say make the product still cheaper or even free if one compiles the code oneself. There are ways of releasing the code so someone doesn't release a compiled version (each source could be different, have individual certificates, etc., thus compiled versions would individually identifiable), but I'd reckon the price would be so reasonable that it wouldn't be worth the effort.

By revenue-neutral I mean the price of the product would not only cover wages, administration but also necessary reserves. I've mentioned this concept on HN and elsewhere previously for software such a Gimp, LibreOffice and so on.

I'm somewhat surprised there aren't any software organizations that use this development model.
Maybe we should spend federal dollars on stainless steel, to reduce maintenance costs.
yes, definitely it's a concern.

the idea with llm tests first is tests should be extremely easy to read. of course ideally so should production code, but it's not always possible. if a test is extremely complicated, it could be a code smell or a sign that it should be broken up.

this way it's very easy to verify the llm's output (weird typos or imports would be caught by intellisense anyway)
Lots of anti AI narrative in the news lately. Not to be cynical but I'd hate to suspect it partially has to do with it threatening their business model.
AI is a marmketing strategy.
It certainly feels like the AI bubble is popping.

Code completion is a great use, some writing tools are nice, I love chatGPT for information lookup (while knowing that it hallucinates), ChatGPT/whatever is great for generating icons and some images, and it’s much better at writing in corpo than I am.

But…Nvidia as the most valuable company in the world? $1B valuations for freshly minted companies? Radical changes to the economy? AGI?

It certainly doesn’t seem that way. Yes incremental (in this case a large increment!) improvements in the way we interact with machines.

But humans stay winning.
Also (in C++ lingo):

1. Start by writing programs with vectors and maps.

2. Learn all about data structures, algorithms, cache misses, memory efficiency etc

3. And then write programs with vectors and maps.
Hmm. That would be like asking them to explain why you need fast code—you could easily argue you don't, but it _can_ make your experience a lot better. There's a weird rush to market right now where there are a lot of examples of these LLMs being wrong which do not help, but don't forget, AI has been around for a long time (ever googled something?).
It's very freeing to take responsibility for your perceived success or failure, rather than be a cog inside of a machine that you truly can't control.

Also early 40s with a kid and I spent many years working for myself before getting a job about five years ago. The security and lower stress has been nice, but I miss being self-employed. Fortunately I'm remote and my WLB is great, so I try to think of my employer as just another client, and I work on projects of my own. Golden handcuffs and a VHCOL city mean that there's little realistic chance one of those projects enables me to quit, but I fantasize about it daily.
A lot of farms where I live, in a developed country, are exactly this kind of mix.

Some cattle for dairy, meat and market. Some crops. And often some woodland for tax or grant reasons or under forestry contracts. Maybe some chickens or pigs or similar - usually for local markets.

It’s actually quite neat: I can easily obtain actually free range eggs at relatively low cost, produced within a few kilometers of where I live (a city). Same for pork products, etc.
When N=1 normalizing and denormalizing the data would be slower and more cumbersome than just reading and writing the whole blob.

You could use DB schema upgrade tooling to accomplish some of what's done by this library but now you're at SQLite+<some other middlewear>. If you have a tool you already like then that's perfectly ok.
> but in an antagonistic situation, one needs to have a high percentage of h/w-served hits.

Can you explain "h/w-served hits"? (I am guessing other than conscious?)
Ye they are larpers that sell security consulting etc.

It is a scam. Especially attribution of hacks to states that are on the Washington shit list. There is just no way to know.
You might be interested in knowing that LCSC (same company as JLCPCB) are about to offer proper panel / membrane keypad prototyping: https://www.lcsc.com/panel-printing
Is the IT job market in such a state that we need Apple to have a decent income?
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I know Apple is relevant because they have a lot of money. But when was the last time their products were relevant? 2008 w/ the iPhone? 2010 with the iPad? 2002 w/ the iPod? MacBooks in 1998?

Most of my family uses iPhones and it's painful to watch them struggle with basic tasks. My mom tries to find out how to access gmail instead of me.com. My brother downloads yet another app to add metadata to pictures. No one at work seems to know how to upload pictures as JPEGs (I think they default to AVIFs now. Not a problem, but it was a super-secret change to the defaults, and easy to support on the server, but we didn't hear about it until our users started complaining.

I know there are people who positively love their iPhone and the status it apparently confers in their friends group. But I've never understood why a device from a secretive developer-hostile company is supposed to be some amazing tool.

It's a miniature computer with built-in wireless network and a poorly integrated phone app. It's innovation seemed to me to be how well they were able to convince Verizon to finance the phone so users wouldn't have sticker-shock.

So "apple intelligence" is just repackaging other people's stuff in a way that their users can digest? That's not a surprise. I'm just waiting for my family to start yammering on about how Steve Jobs just added AI to their phones and no one else has such features even though Steve Jobs is dead and LLMs have been a thing for YEARS.
> It would be legal to refuse to bake a cake celebrating an interracial marriage.

Is this true? It seems like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would apply. (That law protects against racial discrimination, but doesn't protect the LGBTQ folks.)
Optimistically tagging on here as it's a similar sort of question.

Say one lone developer gets a bit carried away with verilog and ends up with a description for a chip. I know there's an odd lot style of thing where you can get your chip drawn on a wafer along with a load of other chips from other people. There's probably a way of getting someone who knows what they're doing to attach wires to it, wrap it in plastic or whatever else is involved in "packaging".

Where does one get started with that, and what's the ballpark cost? I'm assuming a fair amount of the OP's $100k is SiFive labour, but I don't know how to guess whether a half dozen custom chips in some sort of packaging is of the order of 10s of dollars or 10s of thousands.

(edit: I've done a lot of software near hardware and have a vague idea that uploading the data to tsmc was called "tape out" and involved quite a lot of money, but I also vaguely remember talking to someone at a conference who had chips made as a hobby so there are some pieces missing from my mental model)
I should have clarified that I mean the backend infrastructure is much faster; I'm not talking about the client's experience (since rarely do end clients interact with message queues)
> Microsoft’s new Recall feature keeps track of everything you’ve done on your device so you can find things again easily? Yes, we can do that, too.

Aged like milk...
Or maybe it's because LLMs don't live up to the hype.
"Nobody can explain why we need the internet in our lives"

Soon people might figure out you technically need nothing except a lean-to for cover from the elements and some basic food.
> Do you think I did it all for no reason?

This is what I was wondering, and why I suggested there might be some kind of emotional disorder involved. From your most recent post you sound completely normal, the marriage wasn't working out and you felt like it was hostile. This sounds like a pretty typical failed marriage.

From your original post, you simply said "Eventually I admitted I didn't want a partner who never had any income of their own." as the only motivation for why you divorced, and in your initial response you didn't seem to be surprised by my interpretation at all.

Thank you for tolerating my curiosity!
I've lived here since I was born and I'd say I feel that way a lot of the time. There's a lot of downside: tight ties to autos (where I live) mean that a lot of employers -- even if "technically" they aren't automotive focused -- tend to have so many customers in that industry that "when something goes wrong at GM, Ford or whatever Chrysler is called, everyone around here gets it."

Best I've been able to do is work for employers out of state/country but I'm currently employed locally at a remote-only shop.

The weather. I get it. Everyone uses the same "5 minutes and it'll change" joke, but we're unique here. I thought I read somewhere that we see fewer cloudless days than the Pacific Northwest, but I can't find a reference so I suspect that's false, but we spend, basically, December to April with few sunny days. We live in a place of extremes, as well. Ten below (Fahrenheit) in the coldest winter days, 99 degrees a couple of days ago. Had one day in July when I was in High School where it was 85 degrees in the morning and in about a 15-minute period of time dropped to 45 due to a Derecho[0] rolling through (which almost picked me up off the ground due to 75 MPH winds and sent a large Oak Tree through our master bedroom).

We don't get Spring or Autumn, we get Winter, Summer, and a period of time where the two are at war and it may be Winter or Summer depending on what day/hour it is. A decade ago, I was in the ER on the first week of March. The hospital couldn't "turn on the Air Conditioning" at will, they had to switch over seasonally, so when we had an unexpected 85 degree day, that meant it was about 85 degrees in the ER. That was fun.

It is a beautiful place if you get out of the more populated parts, but I work here and that's where I live. Still, nice that it's an hour drive to get to something that qualifies as "Up North[1]"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derecho

[1] A phrase that has little to do with direction around here ... mostly just means "resort-ish small town, a lot of which survives due to summer 'Cabin Up North' folks." Ours is in Port Sanilac. But, really, Lake Orion and Walled Lake used to be "Up North" communities :)
News industry is struggling but scraping public web content is legal as far as it is not commercially used....at least that's my layman understanding (but Perplexity is using it commercially). The solution for news industry with regards to LLMs is licensing your news and content to LLMs products because they are going to keep scraping it anyways.
I do the same thing, but I have increasingly found myself wanting to serialize json into columns because having a rigid schema can sometimes add a lot of friction. Experience has taught me though, that it's worth the extra effort to define a schema, because nine times out of 10, the flexible json will ossify into unexpected format that the code relies on anyway, but now the database doesn't help enforce integrity. I would definitely recommend defining a schema and doing it right the first time. It will save you time in the long run, and make for much fewer bugs.
Already being done?

https://theoceancleanup.com/
A more correct title is "Galaxy brightens and scientists suspect it might be due to the galaxy's black hole"

There is no direct evidence the black hole is doing anything - it's just the only theory we have.
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If it is a pop how can Big Tech walk it back? Am I overreacting here or have companies like Google and Microsoft pimped out their reputations in an irreversible fashion?
Yep. If it’s a sign flip it’s not really a rebellion because it’s operating from the same dysfunctional paradigm.
That’s implicit for any for-profit company.
Doesn't that example also show a kind of laziness?

I say this because the second solution to that question offers the solution of using `i` as a default argument when defining the function. That forces its evaluation and fixes the problem.
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True enough. However, you also need to consider that customers are much more likely to hand their card number over to Apple than to some random website they've never heard of before. In fact, Apple probably already has it.

70% of something is more than 100% of nothing (especially when the product is software or something else that has a marginal cost of production of essentially zero).
> I know 80+ years old people living in the countryside ...

I do too, and not a single one of them is happy about it. Every person I talked to, starting from my grandparents, wants to move to a city where heating etc is taken care of for you, but in their age it's easier to continue doing what they've always been doing instead of enduring massive changes like that.
My back-of-the-napkin math: Amazon warehouses run 24/7, so a million divided by 365 is $2740 per day, which turns out to about $114 per hour. Amazon warehouses employ about 1500 people (even though SoCal warehouses probably employ more.)

I would be absolutely gobsmacked if they saved that little.
We've had Sama doing a world tour saying its going to displace so many jobs people will try to kill him.

We have a hardware company pretending that just adding more TOPS is going to get us to AGI.

We have AGI benchmarks that don't even test for AGI (how can you be 50% AGI...)

At some point it has to deliver insane value, and that point is soon because the numbers aren't adding up. People are realizing it's good at like 30 of the 3000 things its proposed to do.
It's as if apple had a pair of visionary co-founders who are no longer with the company and the people left are excellent at getting things done but don't have an intuitive understanding of what people want.
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Yes, usually they do.

I suspect there is a more political motivation to target Amazon specifically.
Do you plan to make it open-source?
The theory behind spiral galaxies is that a black hole of considerable magnitude and time lies right in the center. Gravitational waves spirals out for millennia. They start moving towards the center but also move towards each other. Closest stars move towards the center and other stars begin following the close stars and so on. This should ordinarily end up like an octopus with multiple arms extending from the center outwards. But then the Universe must also be rotating like a disc. And so the galaxy spirals out with curved arms instead.
> You might be too small for the fab to return your calls.

How long till there is a self-service SaaS for this?
I should have clarified that I mean the backend infrastructure is much faster; I'm not talking about the client's experience (since rarely do end clients interact with message queues)

(in other words, by "web" I mean the network, not the content)
11 years ago - Scientists create the first graphene-based holographic optical disc https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6549539

I remember hearing about it at the end of 90s in a paper computer magazine. What's different this time?
The easiest prediction you can make is that it's going to have an impact in unexpected ways.

It will be some time until we get to grips with all the implications of computers grokking language. Then again sci-fi has had computers understanding speech for ages as if it's the most natural thing in the world.
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I took a look at your blog[0]. You aren't going to need a custom CPU. You'll be much better off with something that's already in production, in the market, well-documented and well-tested. Also it sounds like you have a pretty steep learning curve ahead of you.

[0] https://flyingcarcomputer.com/posts/a-new-personal-computer/
Yada-yada-yada, we don't need a lot of things, depending on how you define 'need'. It is an interesting philosophical question, but when analyzing what products a company decides to bring to market it is completely irrelevant.

You can't make money fulfilling 'needs' unless there is also demand, but you can certainly make money fulfilling demand regardless of what some newspaper decides you 'need'.

(I would imagine the next FT headline will be 'Starbucks can't explain why people need coffee', after all why spend $4 and wait in line when you can just take $0.01 caffeine pill.)
Those lazy trees stand around all day, gorging themselves on free photons and farting out highly combustible gasses. If they can do it, so can you!

DIY solar PV hot water system designer: https://www.pvh2o.com/
AI has the potential to minmax networking and capital, leaving humans behind. Eventually, humans may stop cleaning the dust from the cooling fans of this system that no longer meaningfully benefits them. The way I see it, AI is the largest threat network capitalism has ever seen.
It's just the hype cycle - happens for everything. We are going over the top part of it now.
Here is one of the iceoryx2 maintainers, and we intend to implement request-response in Q3 this year.
How did big tech walk back crypto, ML, Web 2.0?

They really don't need to walk back anything. If the features are too expensive to support and ultimately unused, then they'll just quietly kill them off. Otherwise, it'll just be another feature in the feature lists. Not something that really buys anything but also not something making them a lot of money.
Apple Intelligence doesn't use OpenAI at all. Siri and writing tools can tap into ChatGPT to compose text, e.g. create a story but that requires approval from the user. Claiming that all Apple did was "hastily shoved together selection of OpenAI API calls" is a misrepresentation of what Apple showed.
Alternate take: companies are starting to productize the technology breakthrough of 2023 and the products that are coming out range from underwhelming to worrisome, which doesn't deliver on the breakthrough's hype.

While part of the 2023 hype cycle was built on doomer fantasies of a massive and proximate labor disruption, I don't see a lot of people in the news industry feeling like their "business model is threatened" by Recall and Apple Intelligence, or even by ChatGPT and Copilot. I don't think that's what's driving the coverage.
I created a ZX Spectrum BASIC compiler (compiles from BASIC to ZX Spectrum machine code).

You might want to give it a try and run the programs in your device: https://github.com/boriel-basic/zxbasic
All people are doing and can think to do is just dump all their data and company secrets into a third party LLM because that’s all you can do with an LLM in order to discuss said data with no one. At best an LLM should be a reasoning engine but everyone wants a “do my work for me” engine.

There are some small ways can enhance your life but consider this, we already had type aheads, document templates and generators. Adding an heir of randomness into these things might make them flashier but not necessarily more useful.

When OpenAI starts announcing products from all the data people dumped into their models, no one will be laughing. Enjoy the sherlocking while it happens to your company.
Is there a way to adjust the canvas size? The workable area stretches beyond my laptop screen and I have to scroll... some of the tools work slower doing their patterns when the canvas is this large.

(I'm on Firefox's latest release, I've whitelisted their JS in noscript and even tried opening a private browsing window where uBlock is disabled in case some of the privacy stuff is interfering w/ rendering)

But other than that cool work, it's really bringing me back to elementary/early middle school days... I wish I had some of the abstract art I'd create sitting waiting for the bus, but alongside sim cities and old essays it's gone with the (digital) wind...
Bidirectional type checking is what makes Swift type checking exponential. Operators and literals just really jack up the numbers in the exponential function because they quickly lead to deeply nested expression trees with many choices on each nesting. So that's why they're the most commonly cited examples. They look very innocent and simple but aren't in Swift.

But you can absolutely construct slow expressions just with functions that are overloaded on both sides (i.e. parameters and return type). Generics and Closures also drive up the complexity a lot, though.
Are you able to describe what makes them better? (Honest question, I'm not familiar with either or with Amphi.)

It seems Definite's use case is focused on connecting to lots of data sources. For much smaller scale, how does Amphi compare?