skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it's anything of significant importance, it should be documented in a place that is meant, by design, for documentation.

The challenge we have found is that amazing technical documentation is often born from ephemeral conversations. I would love a solution that eliminated the toil required to clip out those comments into a long-term store.

The flip-side to the challenge is that moving our team from Slack to another platform better suited to long-term technical Q&A requires a significant cultural shift that may not be practical.
Thermal power plants don't use up the heat. They make energy through its transfer (like a dam with water).
Oh, I just realized that will never work. Nobody pays in cash anymore.
> it is impossible to know this without long term data which is simply not available

Generating these data is one of the biggest pay-offs of a lunar colony.
It doesn't have to be a fundamental right, that's just roughly where I have found the line to be for me. There are always exceptions and I'm sure there are things I think are worth protecting, but I do keep a pretty high bar.

I don't see something like an operating system nearly on the level of worth protecting for a couple reasons. Humans can live just fine without operating systems and computers, and we can certainly live with or without support for local accounts. Additionally, there are other operating systems to choose so even if that's a red line for someone consumers still have options.

I can say I'd have less opposition to such specific laws if they came with an expiration date. At least in the US we don't do that and we end up with an ever growing list of laws that are either irrelevant or out of touch with future generations' morales or ethics.
The POSIX layer was added the year before Elop came to Nokia, Symbian with Qt and PIPS was starting to look rather good, and Symbian Belle on an Nokia C7 was rather nice.
iBusiness Funding to acquire Funding Circle's U.S. business
thanks, but if i add a new todo in sync mode left say "uni" , go offline and change one side to "universe" and other to "unicorn", one overwrites another its random on who wins. Shouldn't it maintain both ?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791195
Leaving the classroom, I tip my fedora and chuckle to myself. As I smile at my own cleverness I wonder how much karma this story is going to get when I post it on the atheism subreddit later.
Go into the chat, click the header, click delete.
I'm not saying restaurants are insincere about it, just that it's a cost of doing business many won't (or can't) absorb. It's usually the more expensive hippie-tastic places with already-high prices (and hopefully higher margins) that can afford them.

Culturally, I don't think customers would accept a choice on the matter either, like I've never seen a place offer "you can have the plastic box for free, or buy the sustainable wooden one for $2". In lieu of that, I used to bring my own reusable tupperware to the restaurants for takeout, but got a looooooot of strange looks and comments about that. What I'd really love to see is more of a "borrow a tupperware, bring back a tupperware" model where they just loan you containers. I'd only ever seen that on college campuses, not in the real world.

Anyway, none of that is really the point. There's nothing wrong with fancy sustainable/reusable dishware, but something that's incrementally better and not much more costly than regular plastic is much more likely to see widespread adoption. I think the gradual phase-out of styrofoam to plastics is one such example, and cheap bioplastics of the less-biodegradable kind are more common now (though not everywhere), paperboard boxes with some wax paper/foil lining are popping up, some places are doing away with bottled plastic water in favor of water in milk-like cartons... gradual incrementalism seems to work better than revolutionary approaches in that industry.
I know people have been doing really cool things writing new projects. But everything I try to do with Sonnet 3.5 with an existing codebase, with its own intricacies like library versions is really bad

I've been trying to generate test coverage with 3.5 on a repo that has existed for years. it can take up to 20 attempts of file -> this is the error i get -> error -> error until i get one that runs successfully. It slightly improves when i give it a file, and also give it other files it successfully generated after 20 attempts and ask it to use the same style and learn from the changes it made previously to make it work

But its very hard to get it done with less than 10 attempts.
Scientists can now detect antibiotics in your fingerprints
Qwak AI Platform acquired by JFrog for $230M
Ex-Fujitsu engineer admits changing court testimony at request of Post Office
> The last example of this was the Marc Rebillet performance at Google I/O. The mother of all cringe

You're complaining about the warmup entertainment at a tech conference???
Related: "AI startup Etched raises $120 million to develop specialized chip"

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/a...

The CEO was also on Bloomberg Technology today talking about their strategy a bit. There's an article but I didn't find a video of the interview after quick googling:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-25/ai-chip-s...
I was under the impression that Americans landfilled their garbage. I don't doubt that waste export is a thing, but is it really that large a proportion?
> the lunar landing of the probe using image processing to guide the final approach

Anyone building precision weapons has gotten fairly good at this.
Hahaha, there’s more to that than Seinfeld :-)
That's fair. And I'm definitely in favor of doing whatever's best for the environment. Just pointing out that it's not as simple as "reusable is better" - depending on the set of metrics being measured, it might not be.
This is already happening. At a previous job I saw an applicant who was struggling to figure out how to use any of the company’s standard tooling for version management and development because they spent their whole career only working with the Google internal versions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...

It went far beyond a couple of artificial protests.

Russia did support Trump in 2016 (and beyond), Trump was quite happy about it.
And it's gotten worse the more the government steps in to help.

The problem is the suggestion that government solutions will solve government created problems.

I have no problem admitting things can be fixed... but stuff like the unAffordable Care Act which is built on lies (Like your plan? Like your doctor? save $2500/year) is not going to solve the issues - nor is single payer, government ran solutions.

You'll never solve government created problems with government ran beauracracy.
Similar thing in California happened about 10 years ago - 10 cents per bag. Unfortunately, it backfired - because the 10 cent bags are thicker (they can't be designed for "single use", so they have to be thick enough to be "reusable"), the amount of plastic bag waste in landfills has actually risen dramatically in that time.

California kinda screwed up by not mandating paper bags, or carving out an exception for them to promote their use.

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Whether good or bad, it's marketing
If you actually read all the material on the Clintons, it's hard to imagine anyone not hating them. That's just evidence the man's got a soul.
Most likely it really is better overall.

Think of it this way: AMD is pretty good at hardware, so there's no reason to think that the raw difference in terms of flops is significant in either direction. It may go in AMD's favor sometimes and Nvidia's other times.

What AMD traditionally couldn't do was software, so those AMD GPUs are sold at a discount (compared to Nvidia), giving you better price/performance if you can use them.

Surely Microsoft is operating GPUs at large enough scale that they can pay a few people to paper over the software deficiencies so that they can use the AMD GPUs and still end up ahead in terms of overall price/performance.
https://archive.is/Wa8Rx
No, what you explained is 100% what I expected. Driverless cars for Google. For me, I'll be waiting a loong time.
A lot could be said about it, but the first thing that comes to mind is that not every application uses a db.

And not every application that uses a db needs an ORM.

You probably can build an ORM into the single file. But I'm not saying every application should be developed as a single file forever. I just like that you can start with one and expand later.
> eventually people who have worked at google are going to have more trouble getting jobs elsewhere when all the tools they've worked with are things that nobody outside of google has heard of

This has already happened. Many companies offer dictionaries to translate the names of Google tools to their tools. Open source ones exist as well: https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg

An issue I’ve ran into is startups being very hesitant of hiring Googlers because of a perception that they can’t engineer without other teams of developers supporting all of their tooling. One startup specifically asked how to create a dashboard without using Plx - a wild question given the vast OSS dashboarding ecosystem - but it was still a concern to them.
John James, the electrical engineer who made computers paint (1970)
10 years ago they were basically broke and bet the farm on Zen. That bet paid off. I doubt a bet on CUDA would have paid off in time to save the company. They definitely didn't have the resources to split that bet.
why not use a self-hosted solution or discord?
Scaling your impact: A polynomial model of career growth
I largely agree that independent thinking isn't a priority, but there was TAG (which admittedly emphasized skills that all kids should've been taught), and the occasional outstanding teacher.

I do believe that critical-thinking is the single-most impactful untaught skill in public schools. It's a gateway to so much more, including an autodidactic lifestyle. It's honestly mind-boggling that logic and critical-thinking aren't a recurring theme.

Still, our schools produce a lot of amazing students who go on to make hugely impactful contributions.

Sure, it needs improvement. But I think the degree of dysfunction is overstated.
It's not like the specific push for AI on GPUs came out of nowhere either, Nvidia first shipped cuDNN in 2014.
I'm talking about what goes on between growing barley and the end product.
You should want transparency as a matter of the rule of law - you can’t know what laws are broken or what changes to the law need to be made if there isn’t transparency.

Again, we’re aligned on that. But the “ma taxes” argument is facile because for nearly 100 years there wasn’t even income tax so it was secondary taxes through purchases or tariffs. As for off duty codes, there usually aren’t any meaningful ones and they generally are very constrained by the legal system (eg they can’t punish you for political activity). It’s the same reason someone standing up to a politician and screaming “my taxes fund your salary” is blatantly incorrect. The economy is a circular dependent system. For example, government tax dollars pay corporations which then pay your salary which you then get taxed on. You’re over privileging your personal role in the economic system when you make this argument and then the next follow up argument is “well I pay more taxes than you so I should get more of a say than you in how government is run”. It’s a flawed premise that leads to all sorts of directly harmful lines of reasoning. Just argue that we’re a country based on the rule of law and no one is above that. That’s literally the founding principle of the country.
Kind of an extreme position. How many Amish do you know? Ever had an Amish family as next-door neighbors? I grew up in an area that now has a lot of Amish. My in-laws had them as neighbors.

You can’t paint all Amish groups with the same brush. Different communities can have highly different rules and norms. And, Amish are like any other community of sufficient size - there are a percentage of honorable folk and a percentage of scoundrels and a vast middle just trying to get along.

And it isn’t impossible to leave. I know several Amish that have “gone English”. Not an easy decision, but it is not a trap.
I disagree. Using vaults isn’t that bad. And I’d also like developers to never actually know the secrets.

It’s a learning curve, but I think it’s best to just bite the bullet and use a vault rather than trusting developers to know and manage secrets properly.
Using GPUs for physics-based audio synthesis [video]
There's also sops: https://github.com/getsops/sops

I've used it at two jobs now over about 5 years and have had zero issues.
> there are certain industries important for national security where a country may wish to subsidize an industry ... against a country like China that is trying to corner the market through nationalized companies

Your argument doesn't even make sense: in the first part you say yes, we need national support for this sector of the economy, while a few words later you say that China is cheating by giving support to the same sector.
Fun fact: If current birthrate trends hold, in 200 years approximately 100% of the American population will be Amish.
>> They were trying to cause chaos, not try and get one party or another elected.

But what if the decision is between a stability candidate and a pro-chaos candidate? I think then that Russia would take a side. And I doubt many would debate that one candidate is clearly more pro-chaos than the other.
It might not say much about how male and female brains are different, but just being able to measure whether a brain has male or female brain activity could be a powerful health tool. For example, what if we could use this to determine ahead of time who will respond positively to gender-affirming care and who will respond negatively? It could save lives.
Good news! Thermal cycles are caused by the sun, and we can harvest sunlight directly! Storage is an issue...
When one of the parties of a "war" elects not to leave that "war", can you argue the "war" ever truly ended, even if one side sent an olive branch?
Threads users can now share to the open social web, a.k.a. the Fediverse
Expanding to 100+ countries now
> I am pretty sure people in some distant future will think about us as heathens for eating meat, driving cars and wearing plastic. I hope they will be wise enough not to cancel us complete for this and hear out other wisdom we might want to pass.

I think we're pretty poor at predicting what future generations will think about us. To that point I heartily recommend "But What If We're Wrong" by Chuck Klosterman.
I know very little about hardware, but could they presumably take whatever they learn from this chip and transfer some of that knowledge into a 1.5bit implementation?
CUDA of 18 years ago is very different to CUDA of today.

Back then AMD/ATI were actually at the forefront on the GPGPU side - things like the early brook language and CTM lead pretty quickly into things like OpenCL. Lots of work went on using the xbox360 gpu in real games for GPGPU tasks.

But CUDA steadily improved iteratively, and AMD kinda just... stopped developing their equivalents? Considering a good part of that time they were near bankruptcy it might have not have been surprising though.

But saying Nvidia solely kicked off everything with CUDA is rather a-historical.
Does that not fail when you hit the maximum command line length? Doesn't the entirety of the directory get splatted? Isn't this the whole reason xargs exists?
Thanks, I have seen a lot of pages on nasa.gov, but not that one. Neato!
It would be great if I could give it the url of some relevant documentation that it could use when generating code
Been a while since AMD had the top tier offering, but it has been trading blows in the middle tier segment the entire time. If you are just looking for a gamer card (ie not max AI performance), the AMD is typically cheaper and less power hungry than the equivalent Nvidia.
Synthesized Google storage I/O traces now available to the community
Since this is LWW, does it mean the amount of information on the client scale linearly with the number of operations? (meaning: the more users modify a database, the more the operations log grows)? Or do you do checkpoints? How does it scale space-wise when the user does millions of ops per day?
I just mean the "violin" part - yes, just a vertical histogram, but centered - without including the "hard to read" summary metrics on top of it.
My son and I have wargamed it a bit. The trouble is there is a huge box of tricks used in open world and other complex single player games for conserving RAM that compete with just having a huge amount of RAM and it is not so clear the huge SMP machine with a huge GPU really comes out ahead in terms of creating a revolution in gaming.

In the case of Stadia, however, failing to develop this was like a sports team not playing any home games. One way of thinking about the current crisis of the games industry and VR is that building 3-d worlds is too expensive and a major part of it is all the shoehorning tricks the industry depends on. Better hardware for games could be about lowering development cost as opposed to making fancier graphics but that tends to be a non-starter with companies whose core competence is getting 1000 highly-paid developers to struggle with difficult to use tools and the idea you could do the same with 10 ordinary developers is threatening to them.
When concurrency matters: behaviour-oriented concurrency
Looks like it could be a more batteries-included/opinionated alternative to RxDB (https://rxdb.info). The relational queries might help some people who tend to think in SQL as opposed to documents (as in CouchDB or MongoDB) and the WebSockets for synchronization will help people get started more quickly. (RxDB provides interfaces for those who want to implement their own storage engine and/or synchronization backend.)
Reminder, for context, since news stations that should know better are parroting the narrative that he published unredacted stuff as soon as he got it, instead of What Actually Happened:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110901064746/https://wikileaks...
I’m not hiding from anything! You presented an argument (a hat falling from the sky will kill you) and then have been spouting irrelevant nonsense!

I suspect that, if the notion of a hat falling 20 feet out of a window terrifies you this much, you’ve probably not engaged much with real people or the world around you, such that I wouldn’t really have expected anything different. Glad I was not wrong!
Dotenvx has a cloud hub from which the keys can be pulled. I imagine an eventual feature will be for the keys to expire, and you’ll have to re-authenticate with the cloud to get new credentials, just as you would with AWS.
From bare metal to a 70B model: infrastructure set-up and scripts
Journalism has become ground zero for the vocation crisis
Flutter for Back End Developers
This "fairness" angle (if true) is such an embarrassing reach.

IDGAF if Russia and China do the same things. I ASSUME they do them.

The west enjoys the "free world" moniker and the distinction it implies. It should be held to an accordingly higher standard.
Yeah but those kids hunting had single shot or bolt action rifles with 4-5 round fixed magazines, with either .22 or full power rifle cartridges, a conventional stock, and a long barrel. An AR-15 with a pistol grip, 30 round detachable magazine, short barrel, and semiautomatic action is much more dangerous in a mass shooting attempt.

Pistols are also much more powerful. Instead of the standard 5 shots and slow to reload, modern pistols have 17-23 round detachable magazines.

All of these things have been available since the eighties, but now they’re the standard purchase and they’re in a lot of homes.
I was desktop client lead for Syncplicity (major Dropbox competitor) for almost a decade.

Some thoughts:

Most important: Git (the protocol) kinda-sorta does this already. I personally don't know if git is CRDT; but the .git folder is a database that contains the entire history of the repos. The "git" command can be used to sync a repository among different computers. You don't need to use Github or set up a git server. (But everyone does it that way because it's much, much easier.)

Secondly: The proposal made assumes that everyone will rewrite their software to be CRDT-based and fit into this schema. Writing software this way is hard, and then we need to convince the general public to adopt versions of software that are based around this system. Could you port LibreOffice to writing out documents this way?

Thirdly: Resolving conflicts when computers are disconnected from the network is always a mess for end users. (This was a huge pain point for Syncplicity's users, and is a huge pain point in other "sync" products.) CRDTs don't "solve" the problem for users: The best you can hope for is something like git where it identifies merge conflicts, and then the user has to go in and clean them up.

For example: Two computers are disconnected from the network. Edits are made to the same sentence in a document while disconnected. What happens? The CRDT approach might result in "consistent data," but it cannot "read minds" and know what is the correct result.

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IMO, some things I would consider:

Try to somehow replicate the desired workflows with git or a similar tool. (Remember Mercurial?) See what kind of problems pop up.

Consider writing a "git aware" word processor that is based around Markdown; and is somewhat aware of how git behaves around conflicts.

Try "bolting on" a sync protocol (or git) to LibreOffice as a way to understand just how easy / hard a project like this is.

Consider encapsulating the entire database in a SQLite file, instead of using the filesystem.
Google is heading for a world of hurt with their internal web framework decisions as of late. They've been spinning their wheels for years trying to reinvent Wiz, and it's not going well.

I'm sure they've wasted literally billions of dollars in salary and opportunity costs. And in the end they're building multiple incompatible proprietary systems, with seemingly no checks on the team in charge of this effort. Even if they manage to succeed somehow, they'll have a system that no new hire will know, that doesn't have any external ecosystem, and definitely, that doesn't attract up-and-coming talent that wants experience that applies to the rest of the industry.
Not mandatory, you could remove that
That's what's great about a16z's blog and what's bad about these movies. They don't connect in a fun or thoughtful way, that I can decipher. If they did, I might like it.
Presumably you're referring to the "it looks like a vulva" thing that some other commenter mentioned, which honestly makes me think I must be trying to give credence to the opinions of people who have not progressed past adolescence, if this is truly their issue.
Technically, it's very impressive.

Aesthetically, as a work of art - setting aside any arguments about whether something generated by AI can be considered art at all and pretending human beings made this - it's uninteresting, derivative and banal. A fever dream of mediocrity.

That said, I kind of want to see something intentionally weird done with this. Some real body horror or sci-fi. If there's any real "creative" value to be had with this technology, it's going to be making that kind of thing easier (unfortunately at the cost of working artists, IDK how to square that circle.)

But this? I see absolutely no reason why this necessitates AI. The exact same concept would literally look better done with real actors, locations and practical effects.