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> The only thing that comes close is .NET, and that's MICROS~1. On the timescales in my business that's not an option, they can't be trusted to not act like Oracle does and they are deeply ingrained into important libraries in that "ecosystem".

Many libraries and/or frameworks come from companies you could argue cannot be trusted (Meta, Google...) but do you shy away from anything they produce and stick to something developed independently somehow? In the case of .Net: it has been around for a long time, and it has changed drastically. It was closed source, Windows-only and it wasn't sleek. Then they rebooted the whole thing into .Net Core. Open source, platform independent, much thinner, development in the open.

> Some people claim .NET developer ergonomics on Linux are fine now, but those I know personally that tells me this are using VSCode, which I consider a rather shoddy piece of software.

My personal experiences with VSCode and the recent C# extensions have been fine for small projects, but if that's not your thing, there's also JetBrains' Rider, which I have very good experiences with as well.

> Maven is a turd, but a very solid one when you've figured out the XML incantation you need. I'm not sure what the alternatives are in .NET-land, or whether I can feel that I trust that they will work fine in ten years, like fifteen year old Maven projects tend to do.

The package manager aspect is Nuget in the .Net ecosystem. It's easier than Maven in the sense that you can control it from your IDE or from the command line, instead of having to edit your pom.xml or the .Net equivalent (which has one extra layer when compared to Maven; solutions containing projects).

> Java has Wildfly. What's the equivalent in .NET? Running a MICROS~1 Windows Server with IIS? That's not an option.
The equivalent in .Net is Kestrel, which is part of ASP.Net, and can run on Linux. It's a little less work to setup than Wildfly (which is not a lot of work either) because it's bundled.

> And so on and so on.
It's surely not for everyone but I think Microsoft has taken a great turn with it after the "reset". Is it going to be like this forever? I don't know, but looking at the past, at the direction Microsoft has taken it, I think it's gotten much better.

Of course, I wouldn't advocate rewriting your Java-based softwarescape into .Net (or the other way around) lightly, way too expensive and Java will probably get the job done.
Who do you imagine the 1% to be? Probably I‘m the 1% in my country. I have no extraordinary power whatsoever.
Maybe you mean the 0,1% or the 0,01%.
I will say, while this is interesting and fun to see, using a trivial library like SDL adds almost nothing to the overhead and expands support to non *nix OSes.

There is definitely something to be said of bloat but probably not in this case. You could even keep supporting Linux versions as old as this promises by using legacy 1.x SDL.
By that logic, does having philosophical or political discussions at a local coffee shop once a week qualify it for a tax exempt status?
Why should you eat the skins? I've heard they contain all the nutrients but I read an interview with a nutrition expert who said that was wrong (makes sense, too). He also said the highest concentration of nutrients was near the surface so I guess leaving the skin on serves this purpose (but not the skin as such! :-)

I would leave the skin on on so called early potatoes that have really thin skin. And I am using a Victorinox peeler that produces the thinnest peels for me. https://schweizer-messer.eu/victorinox-sparschaeler/ (others in the family won't use it due to the crank, though)
> But your point about French NPs is technicality which can be rectified.

No, you cannot avoid using electricity few months in summer to have electricity for the rest time. And you cannot double the number of extremely costly NPs to have one half online while another half is being maintained/repaired.
“Punishing someone for theft or murder isn’t going to prevent that”

Is basically the argument you’re making here. So I guess we shouldn’t have any punishment for any behaviour then eh?
Small claims court became Meta's customer service hotline
That code is a bit too readable for that time period in games, hehe. See Doom:

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/master/linuxdoom-1....
Well, it could be. But I also see it as a way to make everyone a bit more productive.

Let's say AI isn't as revolutionary as we thought, but it does make the average office worker %15 more productive. Surely that's worth a lot. And surely that means every single company with office workers will be spending money on it, no?

Maybe it's a bit like the bubble of the PC market, in that there is real value, and money to be made, but when it all shakes up there will only be a handful of big winners.
You might just be using the node-fetch example as a stand-in to make your point about esm/cjs, but the fetch api is built in to Node (since v16.15) and is no longer even considered experimental as of Node 21+.

https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v22.x/api/globals.html#fetch
Florence-2: MIT Open Source Vision Foundation Model by Microsoft
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If I can paraphrase, you believe that humans are "intelligence level" 100, and AI is essentially somewhere at like 10 or 20, and is doubling every 2 years.

First, is AI actually improving 2x every 2 years? Can you link to some studies that show the benchmarks? AFAIK OpenAI with ChatGPT was something of an 8 or 10 year project. It being released seemingly "out of nowhere" really biases the perception that things are happening faster than they actually are.

Second, is human intelligence and AI even in the same domain? How many dimensions of intelligence are there? Out of those dimensions, which ones have AI at a zero so far? Which of those dimensions are even entirely impossible for AI? If the answer is "AI" can be just as smart as humans in every way, and we still don't even understand that much about human intelligence and cognition, let alone that of other animals... I'm skeptical the answer is yes. (Thinking about sciences view of actual intelligence, animals, and for a long time the thought was animals are biological automotons, I think shows that we don't even understand intelligence, let alone how to build AGI).

Next, even if the intelligence raise is single dimension and is actually the same sport & playing field, what is to say that the exponential growth you describe will be consistent? Could it not be the case that the 1000x to 1001x improvement might be just as hard as all of the first 1000x improvement? What is to say the complexity increase is not also exponential, or even a combinatoric growth?

> 20 W can be at least this smart.

20 W? I'm not familiar with it.
Senior management's skill set is fundamentally not technical competence, business competence, financial competence, or even leadership competence. It's politics and social skills (or less charitably, schmoozing). Executives haven't cared about the "how" of anything to do with their business since the last generation of managers from before the cult of the MBA aged out
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Probably a case of combining a first principles explanation with a heuristic explanation for design of a mechanism.
SCCS was available from 1977.
I don't think that figure is accurate. Most priests make under 100K. And priests are taxed as individuals, not as non profits, so I am not sure of the relevancy.
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I try. :-D
The skins are tasty!
There's a fairly recent study looking into the cost of raising an interrupt. TLDR: the cost on conventional systems is quite high; a significant part of the cost can be eliminated by using a custom kernel; even with a custom kernel, there remains a substantial cost.

https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10079614

To my knowledge, the remaining cost could be decreased to approximately the same cost as a branch mispredict, but getting there would require changes to the chip hardware and software stack.
That is indeed one of the problems I mentioned in the last paragraph. We are stressing the limits of how much misinformation democracy can handle. We might well be over it.
Just do like Vienna... they incinerate their plastic with almost no emissions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml0gXre_V-U&t=91s
FBI Stats Show Crime Still Declining, Despite the Assertions of Alarmists and
Can you use the App Store without an Apple ID? Genuine question. I was under the impression you cannot.
Wikipedia's bullet cluster article is written in a very misleading way. The bullet cluster is not a hard problem for MOND since regular baryonic gas easily explains the lensing. Working out the bullet cluster with LambdaCDM actually took quite a bit longer because there were problems in the initial data set that took astronomers 10 years to work out. In short, the bullet cluster doesn't "disprove" MOND anymore than it "proves" LambdaCDM.

NGC 1052-DF2 is as big a problem for LambdaCDM as it is for MOND. LambdaCDM requires dark matter for galaxy formation. Which means either LambdaCDM is wrong about how galaxies form, or there was some event (of which we currently lack evidence) that removed it. As for MOND, it's possible that actually doing the math may show that this galaxy is not particularly weird. There's aren't many folks fluent in MOND, so work on these kinds of issues tends to lag their discovery.

As for MOND and cosmology, yeah, MOND sucks at cosmology. The fact that it can so easily explain so many galactic dynamics (far better than LambdaCDM) is really weird though. MOND isn't a great theory, but it's a really interesting model because it really highlights how poorly LambdaCDM predicts (not explains!) the galaxies we see today.
Both GPT-4 and 4o have been completely useless for coding in the past couple of weeks for me - constant errors, and not just your typical LLM inaccuracies but incapable of producing a few lines of self-consistent code e.g. defines variables foo on one line and refers to it as bar on the next, or it misspells it as foox.
yeah I should try it, I'm just a laggard.

Still though, the way that LLMs can give customized answers to complex specific questions, questions that probably don't have any specific page on the web, feels like a leveling up beyond traditional search engines.

here's a recent example: I asked how to call a particular function in some library from a little-used language, and it not only told me exactly how to do it but wrote the FFI wrapper. I could definitely have dug that information up but it would have taken a lot longer and then I'd still have had to pore over documentation to write that tedious code.
There are some institutions where the whole hierarchy from prof downward has engaged and build careers on academic theft. Often build upon rejected and denied student/fellow papers, books, etc. You cant even find that sort of theft via archive plagiarism crawling. Someone elses academic work ends in a pschology meltdown and burnout and the work gets cannibalized by the thiefing brood of that institution.
One of zigs core tenets is “no hidden allocations”. You’ll never see zig language supporting a default value for allocator parameters to support hiding it at first glance.

Zig does have support for empowering library users to push coded settings in to libraries, and you could conceivably use this for writing this type of code. Although it’s probably not worthwhile.

Or you can just straight up default your library to using a specific allocator, fuck the calling code.

Anyway. Zig has patterns to do stuff like this, but it’s probably unwieldy in large projects and you’re better off just making it a parameter.

You can also look in to the std ArrayList, which provides managed and unmanaged variants for yet another way that you might write code that empowers users to set an allocator once, or set it every time.
That‘s not how science has progressed in the past. It has not progressed by giant leaps of superior intelligence but incrementally and hardly a genius was more than 10 years ahead of his time.
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Supreme Court Upholds US Tax on Foreign Business Income
thank you so much!

we have so much more coming for Midday and especially the assistant!

We are so happy that we are following companies like Dub in this OSS-jurney!
They will try again.
> At the end of the day, someone has to pay for housing and save for retirement.

If you have joint finances, then you're both paying for those things whether you both work or not. If you frame it as "I work and pay bills and she spends money," you don't actually have a joint finance mindset.
> If it is so much better in China, why are you not moving there?

I don't speak Chinese and I'm an American citizen. "If X is so great why don't you move to X?" is such a typical retort from reactionaries to any criticism of the status quo that it's literally a meme. I'm not surprised to find this on HN but I am surprised that you lack self-awareness to the extent that you're actually doubling down on it, here.
Dithered content stands out because it’s an outlier in a world of smooth gradients. We’d be clamouring for the opposite if everything was dithered.
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It's because people don't like the idea of matter that you can't interact with especially if it makes up a double digit percentage of all mass in the universe.
You can even play Pokemon using fonts: https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html
A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948) by C. E. Shannon [0][1]

Information theory: a Tutorial Introduction (2nd Edition) by James V Stone bit more modern introduction/hands-on approach.

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[0] : paper : https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno...

current book version of paper is 16th addition.

[1] : Why [0] matters : https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-informati...
Eight million pixels and counting: improving texture atlas allocation in Firefox (2021)
Yes, your family doctor is also likely part of the 1%. Unfortunately, the term 1% has shifted to basically mean "the people with most of the wealth and power in a country" which is a much smaller group of people, perhaps even less than 0.01%.

Quibbling over the mathematical inaccuracy of the term is tilting at windmills. You'd have better luck getting people to stop using the word "literally" to mean its opposite.
Pedantry: spear-throwers (atlatls) were neolithic; composite bows are more bronze age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_bow#Origins_and_use
Also in the retro computer demo scene is dithering very important. I've seen some outrageously great dithering on C64 demo art.
Slowing traffic is a component in Sweden's very successful "Vision Zero" to eliminate pedestrian fatalities. Not the most important component, but an important component.
Rust's concurrency model vs. Go's concurrency model
I still get

{"message":"Could not resolve the foundation model from the provided model identifier."}

on us-west-2.
Amazon's Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System
Post Office investigator deleted mention of Horizon failure, inquiry hears
Decoding a black and white compressed image using a two color palette is essentially free. You have to paint a bit to a color, might as well choose #ff00ff instead of #111111 for "black"
> It's weird that we're dead set on making the comparison with these systems in particular. Maybe that's down to poorly chosen names for things like artificial intelligence and neural networks inviting the comparison.

It could be that those names are not poorly chosen. People want grant money, companies want venture capital money. What better way to do that than to use specifically chosen names (also known as propaganda!)

Next, there is certainly the "main character syndrome", and the hope of AGI and that these things are on that path, and we are the ones to unlock this. Someone with that point of view, would have a lot of incentive to make those comparisons.
Lithium-ion batteries are causing more than 10k fires a year in Australia
Well, thank you software filters. Are you sure they're working correctly because all my comments except my first are getting killed. What did I do? This is no fun.
This is fantastic. I know it's bells-and-whistles and not the core offering, but a thing that keeps me on the $20/month chatgpt (as opposed to using the API) for my use case (mostly interactive data exploration) is its ability to actually run the code it generates. The ergonomics of chatgpt's ability to answer a question by writing and then executing some python and then even displaying a graph are really important to me.
Treat your potential customers as shit, then.
more of a window resizing plugin, not a "window manager" at all. i guess that's what the mac users have gotten to calling these things though.

how is it different than BetterSnap and the army of similar tools? and more important, how is it better. is the differentiator that it is the only open source such plugin? these advantages should be highlighted in the README, and the screen movie thing should show them. i only see half screen tiling demoed, this has existed for a long time with any number of tools.

also how will it differ from sequoia.

AFAICT the unique thing here is the radial menu. i do like that a lot.
It isn’t allowed to see the final evaluation test (used in calculating its pass/fail), but it can run code and see the output of its own code in order to understand what doesn’t work. If it ends up creating tests as part of that based on the original problem statement then presumably that’s allowed.
> M Jourdain

Who dat?

> I'm ignorant of how one might even make an epistemic assertion thus?

In this case: click inside white rectangle box, push some buttons on keyboard to generate a series of symbols, then click on rectangle with symbol "reply" on it. Easy peasy, so much so it is almost intuitive, or sub-perceptual.

> if I gave you a model of a large rock

Westerners (I presume?) and literally every single modern day ~philospher I've met do love their always physical based analogies!

Is red really red? Is a chair really a chair? Great stuff, surely a catalyst for great revolution (any day now).

For fun, now do "Coup d'état, at the object level, in an epistemically sound manner (in case not obvious: this is a reference to the Jan 6 mass psychological spectacle).

Or: "COVID", or "[The] Science", or "Democracy" (our Most Sacred Institution).

> for an example of very small models, see the algebraic metaphysics in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39885475

Yikes....thank you, but this will take some time to process!

> (do we have a set of models that are the equivalent of the feed store "gimme cap"?)

This sounds interesting, but you have lost me (I did find out what a "gimme cap" is, but that's as far as I can get). Could you explain please?

(Apologies for unnecessary antagonism, I attribute it to lack of free will.)
So the premise of your argument is that millions of Ukrainians across all swathes of their society have somehow been duped into a political stance, and then a huge war.

Do you realize how that makes no sense?
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Moom or Amethyst, depending on whether I need tiling or not.
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> Enterprise pricing is a multiple per unit of the highest self service tier

As it should be. Enterprises are notoriously difficult to support because the decision makers there believe their size allows to them to dictate to the seller anything and everything, including the seller's product roadmap.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6D2QNck9xHUxuevUYOZRPv?si=s...
How to Move from Pandas to Polars – The PyCharm Blog
They will never _become_ your customers if you don't give them a chance to pay you.

Websites that put a cart online with a checkout process manage to get "customers" just fine. If you think you want to give everyone a custom quote then don't complain when people ask for one.
Loved the interactions and flow overall but I'm a bit lost on the zero knowledge proof example. I'm familiar with the concept but I don't follow how the example is one. E.g. "By repeating the process enough times, the probability that you never catch me becomes smaller than, say, getting struck by lightning" doesn't seem to show it's a proof? If I pick a hundred numbers it'll look like I just proved some black box function which happens to be Sin[n] + 0.999999999999 is always positive even though I'd be able to clearly show it negative with the knowledge of the function.

It feels like something that got detached from the things that make it work during simplification. Or it could be that I just have a misunderstanding/oversight in the zero knowledge proof :).

In an unrelated note: I colored the larger graph and it didn't even play along!
This will last until their returns rate doubles. The do a piss poor job of packing WITH the pillows.

It’s gotten almost impossible to have something like a paperback book delivered without damage as it is.
I didn't say it was. I was saying they are displacing the old guard.
Did you miss the election? The parliament is more conservative than before. Why would they be happier with that packaging?
Also everywhere you want smooth gradients on any application. Go search gradient rendering without banding by example. Dithering will almost certainly be mentioned.
X boss Elon Musk tries to make nice with firms at ad biz conference
> what "thinking" is

A question, does thinking necessarily involve inference?

"Socrates is a man. All men are mortal. Therefore Socrates is mortal." probably counts as thinking in anyone's model?

Does "four legs good, two legs bad" count as thinking? What about "I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard"?
If someone has signed something cryptographically, wouldn't you say that the signature was a proof of someone with the private key signing it? (Even though it is possible to construct a valid signature without the private key - you just have to be very very very lucky)

I guess you also don't like the name Proof of Work.
How? It claims to support InertiaJS.
Earlier this year he told the inquiry this very deletion had nothing to do with him.

https://www.postofficescandal.uk/post/graham-ward-a-man-in-t...

First in line for jail, surely.
Using this is the first time since GPT-4 where I've been shocked at how good a model is.

It's helped by how smooth the 'artifact' UI is for iterating on html pages, but I've been instructing it to make a simple web app one bit of functionality at a time and it's basically perfect (and even quite fast).

I'm sure it will be like GPT-4 and the honeymoon period will wear off to reveal big flaws but honestly I'd take this over an intern (even ignoring the speed difference)
Plants have their own form of intelligence
Responding to this:

> But isn't that what the training algorithm does?

It's true that training and other methods can iteratively trend towards a particular function/result. But in this case the training is on next token prediction which is not the same as training on non-verbal abstract problem solving (for example).

There are many things humans do that are very different from next token prediction, and those things we do all combine together to produce human level intelligence.
They're expensive but I'm a big fan of the Magnetron series by Black Diamond. Self locking yet quick to open, but most importantly for me they don't jam up with sand like the screw lock/twist lock ones when I'm canyoneering.
As long as I can assign useful keyboard shortcuts, that's enough for me and hits the sweet spot (hello Windows 7!).

I don't use the more advanced Rectangle features either.