skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've just had GPT-4o write me a full-featured 2048 clone in ~6 hours of casual chat

Honestly I'm totally in the AI camp but 6 hours to make a 2048 clone?! And that's a good result? Come on.
> If you think the answer might be no, then congratulations, you actually believe in immaterial souls

If you scan a body of water, and simulate it perfectly, the resulting simulation will not be wet. You can't separate a material process from the material completely. Consciousness may be a result of carbon being a substrate in the interactions. It might be because the brain is wet when those processes happen. There is plenty of room between believing a perfect computational simulation is not conscious and believing in immaterial souls.
Pew Research asked Americans this March:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/26/americans...

23% said they'd used ChatGPT, 43% said they hadn't, 34% didn't know what it was.
as in, read and reply to tedious posts, forward funny stories to my friends and just generally free us from our phones? the same way a video recorder watches tedious tv in our place and an electric monk believes in silly things for us?
There's also a community of people with dedicated "tracking phones" or GPS beacons to record every place they go and store it in apps like https://fogofworld.app

The nice part is that it's not some data silo but that it supports open formats and you can import / export everything very easily.
Thanks for the explanation. And no worries. I was only mildly surprised it was on one direction. Now I know why.
Making CCP tech open source will enable EVE Online to live forever
Note that AMD APUs prior to the 5000 series only supported ECC on the "PRO" models. For example, the Ryzen 3 PRO 3200G supports ECC, but the Ryzen 3 3200G doesn't.
Definitely a form of credit. Of course it seems to be rather obtuse but it's still possible to make some sense of it given the information on their pricing page.

The definitely-most-popular Creator price point is 100,000 "characters" for $22, meaning, according to the FAQ, 100 minutes of audio listening costs $22. Not sure why they can't just say "100 listening minutes" or whatever.

Though I just noticed they also claim that the 100k characters is ~120 minutes of audio but 30k is 30 minutes of audio. I'm not sure where they're getting their numbers but it looks like they're either being dishonest about the former or underselling the latter.
Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI
Oh the belief is so strong! Wouldn't it be great if this were true.
Better yet, maybe I'll have them make an RSS reader.
Which also leads to him making a fundamentally wrong analysis of the situation.

Now before you all yell at me, let me explain where I am coming from.

One of the great tragedies regarding the rise of fascism in Germany is that the left-wing forces did not manage to unite in time to stop it. Communists and social democrats preferred to fight each other instead. They did work together in the resistance later but then it was way too late.

This is fundamental for understanding the behavior of the communists in the Spanish Civil War. Simplified, they switched strategies from immediate revolution to focusing on fighting fascism first.

The Anarchist and other left-wing radicals like the POUM on the other hand wanted to do a revolution WHILE the republic was fighting for survival against fascism.

Do I need to explain why such a strategy was madness? They were destabilizing the country while not really contributing that much militarily. In a war you need a united leadership, you need clear hierarchies, that is how you win. You don't win with romanticism.

So what was to be done? Yes, the Republic had to get rid of these radicals.

I know people like Orwell's interpretation of history because it fits with their anti-communist biases. Sure you can say the communists had plans for after the war and you might not agree with those plans if you are not very fond of communism, that is fair. But saying the Anarchists and other left-wing radicals where the good ones, makes no sense. At least the communists did focus on fighting fascism.
I have followed one site that has own AI generator for certain type of content... And after a while it just start to feel samey and soulless... I kinda noticed similar stylistic patterns with text generated I have seen posted... Different styles can be asked, but I wonder how soon the AI output stops feeling worth seeing or reading.
I use a mixture of --advertise-subnet on a dedicated tailscale VM to act as an exit node for when I'm away and ephemeral sidecars for everything I run in containers, this gives me magic dns but doesn't work with everything. I.e. I couldn't get a transmission-torrent container to download reliably with this setup and I have no idea why.
My toy language project is also built around multi-stage (though the way it's formed it's more like literate programming) and partly motivated by writing cloud-native applications. I played around with a sketch of this idea implemented using F# computation expressions[1] and partly implemented an Azure backend, at a high level it appears pretty similar to Winglang. When run at "comptime" / CLI, it spins up those resources if necessary and then produces artifacts via msbuild task for servers that run the "runtime" part of the code. The computation expression handles exposing a client and forming the ARM template based on the context. It gets around the inflight/preflight distinction by including the entire app (including provisioning stuff) in each runtime instance, so references outside of route scopes work (instance-globally, not app-globally).

Very excited for multi-stage - especially it's potential to provide very good LSP/diagnostics for library users (and authors). It's hard to provide good error messages from libraries for static errors that are hard to represent in the type system, so sometimes a library user sees vague/unrelated errors.

[1] https://github.com/gsuuon/kita/blob/d741c0519914369da9c89241...
Showstopper, about windows NT, is a good replacement for Soul.
The pinky finger isn't used for '.' (ring) or ',' (middle).

As for stretching, your hands get used to it and the muscles build up to it.
You are spending far too much time online if three neutral words sound like being "pretty upset" to you. There's grass to be touched outside. No one really cares.

You should find a better hobby than getting offended because people that have a different world view than yours. Part of growing up is learning to deal with this fact.
I use devenv.sh and generate oci containers out of it, which give me kinda the best of both worlds!

(nobody in my team use vscode or devcontainers but enjoy using docker)
> Like how was that impactful that you were able to make another one yourself for $4?

It's been my "concentration ritual", an equivalent of doodling, for a few years in 2010s, so I have a soft spot for it. Tried getting back to it the other day, all my usual web and Android versions went through full enshittification. So that $4 and couple hours bought me a 2048 version that's lightweight, works on my phone, and doesn't surveil or monetize me. Scratched my own itch.

Of course, that's on top of gaining a lot of experience using aider-chat, by setting myself a goal of making a small, feature-complete app in a language I'm only moderately good at (and environment - the modern web - which I both hate and suck at), with extra constraint of not being allowed to write even a single line of code myself. I.e. a thing too boring for me to do, but easy enough to evaluate.

And no, the clone aspect wasn't really that important in this project. I could've asked it for something unique, and I expect it to work more-less the same way. In fact, this is what I'm trying right now, as I just added persistent state to the 2048 game (to work around Firefox Mobile aggressively unloading tabs you're not looking at, incidentally making PWAs mostly unusable) and I have my perfect distraction completely done.

EDIT:

BTW. did I ever tell you about the best voice assistant ever made, which is Home Assistant's voice assistant integrated with GPT-4o? I have a near-Star Trek experience at my home right now, being able to operate climate control and creature comforts by talking completely casually to my watch.
Video coincidentally posted today that details some of the design requirements of these sounds: "What should an electric car sound like?" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnAGXvVNMB8)
From Code to Camino: A Software Engineer's 530-Mile Journey
Core to a lot of this, is learning how to model things in such a way that you can send them to a solver. After that, how to take a solution and present it in a way that can be understood.

It is a shame, as most programs work against the ideas here by trying to have a singular representation of their data. This is just not reasonable for most things and leads to a lot of contortions to get the algorithms to work on a new representation.

This article touches on it with the brief touch of declarative at the top. I always regret that more of my code is not translating between representations more often. You can wind up with very concise representations when you do this, and then you can get a double bonus by having things run faster by virtue of being concise.

(And, yes, I realize I'm basically describing many data pipelines. Where you spend most of your time translating and fanning out data to places for more compute to be done on it.)
I'm of the "If it's hard it's worth it" camp which has loose goals of "get better". So it works for me!
You can make a steel frame bike which will be lighter than the UCI weight limit with modern technology. It's just nobody cares to make one because the "unracer" crowd who believe steel frames are magic, won't be spending a couple grand on a light steel frameset and the actual racers are fine with the carbon frames, where it's much easier to control properties of different parts of the frame through fiber layout.
Based on what? Have revenues for pro cycling dropped off? I honestly don’t know.
> Correct, but the thing is, AI blown up much faster than phones

What do you base that on though? Two years into the iPhone, Apple reported a $6.75b revenue on iPhone related sales. ChatGPT may reach or surpass that this year considering they're currently at $3.4b. That's not exactly what I would call growing faster than phones, however, and according to this article, very few people outside of nvidia and OpenAI are actually making big money on LLM's.

I do think it's silly to see this wave of AI to be referred to as the next blockchain, but I also think you may be hyping it a little beyond its current value. It being a fun and useful tool for a lot of things isn't necessarily the same thing at it being something that's actually worth the money investors are hoping it will be.
I've yet to see many small portable ac units running R744 at least in the US. It requires really high pressures to run well.
No ECC RAM and no quicksync for Plex and frigate.video are the downsides I can see, but I'm not sure this CPU doesn't have an APU for Plex/inference so speculating on that part, can anyone confirm? I'm personally running an R230 with a P400 quadro, it idles at 45 watts with 4 SATA SSDs and is dead silent. I know that's a stretch from the claimed 10W idle Michael gets but that's not bad for me either.

Btw, thank you Michael for running a solid speedtest host which cleared my doubts about the Zyxel router init7 gave me, it's adequate enough :)
Follow your interests.
I still don't think I understand the pricing model based on your additional info. If characters are currency that you buy with real money, what does "characters per minute" mean? I guess if each character is $0.01 and then you want 20 minutes of audio, you can say that's $10.00 per minute for 20 minutes, but that means that the number of characters in the actual text wouldn't affect it at all, so...why even make up a different currency then?
I've generally found the opposite. Polemically, a true mathematician can write theorems where every single proof is riddled with errors (actual errors, not just "typos") but all results, building upon each other, are still true; a true physicist can tell you what the result of a calculation will be even if they are unable to actually do the calculation.

Maybe you would call that "a mathematician's/physicist's intuition", rather than "human"?
I think the tech sector was pumped up by the long period of zero interest rates and falling back down since interest rates are up, have been up for a while, and looks like they will stay up longer than expected.

Meanwhile, most of the rest of the economy didn't benefit very much from the zero interest rates - it didn't grow like crazy with huge job demand and high wages. So, it isn't as affected as much by the higher interest rates. Which makes the overall job growth look stable even though the tech sector is hurting.
This guy’s videos are consistently great, they get a lot more technical than most other edutainment without getting bogged down.
A raspberry pi 400 can handle around 875 MBit when bridging two interfaces. So it’s not even fast enough for two ports let alone full duplex. I doubt a n100 can handle more than three.
Check Storj
distributed storage.
Fraction of aws
Storage*

$0.004 Per GB/month
Literally nothing. I don't have any personal information about you unless you’ve shared details in this conversation. Each session with me is independent, and I don't retain data between sessions for privacy reasons. How can I assist you today?
I would assume largely similarly? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107658799/ is the book I last went through on this and it covers a lot of the same ideas. In particular, I'm assuming the section of this post that aims to minimize some value are directly using the same stuff.
It's like premium currency in games that don't want you to realize how much real money you are spending and premium currency packets are always constructed so that you overspend because you cannot get exact amount needed
> next Chechnya

In the sense that Ukrainians then get to invade Kazakhstan around 2040 on behalf of Russia, and film Tik Tok videos about how nasty of fighters they are?

(This might as well happen)
I know that meaning, as well as the meaning from stories. What I don't know is what this has to do with removing background noise from audio.
the article states

> The Information recently reported that OpenAI’s revenue is now $3.4B, up from $1.6B in late 2023.

and links to

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-annualized-r...

That's a lot of $20/month subscriptions. it's not all that but that's a lot of money, regardless.
Has anyone asked will AI actually very soon be commodity tech? With too many players competing with each other driving prices to bottom? Is there actually meaningful value to extract, after you have spend money on hardware and power?

Modern web is full of examples of platforms that really don't make money...
Okay. It's interesting that most of the Death Star's interior views failed on that. Yes a droid is useful to make sense of the plans but most of it seems... flat floors and vertical elevators and "vertical" shafts.

Even the Seattle Central Public Library - a real building - did it better, with tilted multi-floor window planes, escalators, multi-floor corkscrew walking path with numbering on the floor, unexpected openings overlooking big open spaces, etc.
That part really should just be a straight quotation; the very light rewording of the original post feels in poor form.
Not to mention: What if the vocal portion of an audio clip doesn't translate to characters? What if it's all "oooh" and "ahhh," as in a choral segment?
Same thing happened to big capacity spinning rust drives. I have 2 20TB exos and want to buy 2 more, but they climbed from ~280 moneys to 360 moneys in a few months and it feels dumb to bite now. I read that AI rush is to blame, dunno.
Something really cool I stumbled upon recently - someone near me hosts a trivia show via ham radio once a week, and other folks in the area will listen for their callsign and then answer his questions

Makes me really happy to run across random unexpected things like that
Yes, I used to practice lucid dreaming and parent post's description is different than what I experienced. When entering the lucid state I was similarly fully (or nearly fully) context aware.

My problem was always maintaining the lucid state. Doing anything to change the dream risked awakening early and I never got great at maintaining the state for long.
> If you scan a body of water, and simulate it perfectly, the resulting simulation will not be wet.

It will be wet to the simulated being that's swimming in it.

> Consciousness may be a result of carbon being a substrate in the interactions.

Are you conscious? If so, how did you find out that you're made from actual carbon atoms and not simulated ones?
I don't think I ever understood Douglas Adams's quote about digital watches and going down from the trees more than I have today.
If that's really it, then why the obtuse intermediate conversion unit? Just bill by the minute.
> What do you base that on though?

My childhood? I was a teen when mobile phones started to become widely used, and soon after pretty much necessary, in my part of the world. But, to reiterate:

> Two years into the iPhone, Apple reported a $6.75b revenue on iPhone related sales.

That's just an iteration, and not what I'm talking about. Smartphones were just different mobile phones. I'm talking about the adoption of a mobile phone as a personal device by general population.

> It being a fun and useful tool for a lot of things isn't necessarily the same thing at it being something that's actually worth the money investors are hoping it will be.

That's probably something which needs to be disentangled in these conversations. I personally don't care what investors think and do. AI may be hype for the VCs. It's not hype for regular Janes and Joes, who either already integrated ChatGPT into their daily lives, or see their friends doing so.
Use it or lose it quantified.
I have used ai|coustics previously and I think their output quality is way better than Eleven Labs or Auphonic. They really do a good job there.
Second that way of thinking, for me GIT is as good as it gets for versioning text files.

Not handling binary files is not a downside for me because GIT should not be a tool to handle binary files versioning and we should use something else for that.
I’ve never used eBPF, does anyone have some good resources for learning it?
That's lame, akin to selling cars by using pears as a unit of exchange.
You don't even have to do that, just go to http://ChatGPT.com and type at it. you don't even need to make an account.
AI Conundrums
Yeah, I shouldn't have written that. The comment comes from a place of frustration with the interview process and my perceived cultural differences with how people who grew up in the US interview candidates and test whether they are a fraud or a bullshitter VS how people from other backgrounds interview. Too late to remove the comment now. My mistake.
Can you elaborate? What’s the economic way to do this?
The joy of reading books you don't understand
When you think about the promise (or hype) of crypto/bitcoin/blockchain 10 years ago, in some sense it augured equally, if not more, transformative change/disruption than AI.

Crypto portended drastic and fundamental changes: programmable money, disintermediation, and the decentralization of the very foundations of our society (i.e. money, banking, commerce). Suffice to say that nothing close to this has happened, and probably will never happen.

So I can see how many people are equally skeptical that AI, as the next hyped transformative technology, will achieve anything near the many lofty predictions.
I hope you don't have to do that very often. Occasionally, sure, but a lot of functions that have an indentation drop of 3 or 4 levels would be better refactored.
I don't know about SOTA, but 'Adobe Podcast Studio' a web app that I believe is still free / in beta offers excellent sound cleanup. So much so that many podcast / radio producers I know no longer frequently use Izotope RX - one of the industry standard tools. Adobe are obviously horrendous, but if its for a one time use I'd give it a go. The feature you want is the 'enhance speech filter'.

https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance
You can ask candidates for a piece of code they've written in the past and discuss the code with them. That should be adequate.
Thanks, haven't tried it yet. Are you using it with a dynamic mic? Did you get the same crisp detailed sound as you get when using the mic as a raw input?
If it were only for the money...In CrossFit, even in competitions at the regional or provincial level, the top positions are practically all taken by athletes who use performance-enhancing drugs. Or, to take another example, in jiu jitsu, a discipline in which you almost always have to pay to compete and win nothing but a medal that will cost five dollars at the department store, I would venture to say that at least 90% of those placed in the top positions use PEDs.
Because virtually no one is an SWE?

Software jobs were fueled by stupid startups creating flashy cash incinerators hoping to get bought up before burning out.

Then interest rates came and gave VCs a reality check. It's unsurprising tech is going through withdrawal after the madness of 2020/2021.
Don't miss the 2023! The article really is already a little outdated: since Rust 1.78, the compiler uses some more aggressive loop unrolling (and a little bit of SIMD): https://godbolt.org/z/zhbobW7rr

OP wrote: "Looking at the assembly, it's doing some loop unrolling.", linking to https://godbolt.org/z/Kv77abW6c, which is using "Rust Nightly", a moving target. By now, there's more loop unrolling.

Loop unrolling started with Rust 1.59: https://godbolt.org/z/5PTnWrWf7

Update: The code on Github shows they were using Rust version 1.67.0-nightly, 2022-11-27.
It's not hard to have strong beliefs about something that's real.
This should be fixed now. Thanks for the find.
Why? If cost is prohibitive maybe you need less AWS and more Ububtu Server. That is to say, host your own. You'd be surprised how much host you can get out of a few nucs strewn across the country.

AWS isn't actually that great for most users, I mean how many of you are actually going to need overnight scaling to x thousand servers? Probably bugger all. But folks sure do like paying the premium for it!
It’s ironic they call themselves Libre Computer, but don’t release the tools to allow users to create their own images
Not if everybody plays, in every school recess, every park, rec center, etc.
That's how football is in most countries. "Pay to play" is a very US thing.
I would classify them as tablets. At least what I thought my N810 as.
exactly, The parent post does not address the issue of representation vs reality.

You can simulate every molecular interaction in a fire, but that does not mean the simulation gives off the same heat. You can write a perfectly accurate equation for splitting an atom, but the equation does not release energy.
It is something negotiated BEFORE layoffs. In regular contract negotations you put in terms that say "in the case of a layoff, X, Y, Z". Everyone is still aligned at that point.
> willingly pay for infrastructure today that will get more use by my children than I will ever see

Well, not many voters think that way...
Oldest cave art found
5% doesn't sound like what you would get addressing the lowest hanging fruit.. Which makes sense because the Linux kernel's primary bloat is mostly in the form of drivers that never load on any specific system. So sure, a pretty good result for not a very relevant optimization but I'd be disappointed if I built this tool specifically for the kernel instead of applied it because I had it..