skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of folks remember the 2m/440 activity in the days before unlimited cell phone minutes. Nothing compares to that. I'll say that, in my major west coast metro, the repeaters are pretty dead outside of nets.
Amazing bash programming skills, this is so cool that i want to find a problem to solve using it right now!!
Twice as fast is way over exaggerating the reality. In certain cases, sure, but more generally you are looking at 10%-50% productivity increase, more likely on the lower end. I say this as someone who has access to ChatGPT and AI code completion tools and use them every day, and the numbers are backed up by Google's study. https://research.google/blog/ai-in-software-engineering-at-g...
My rule of thumb is that if someone was super bullish on crypto 3 years ago and is now super bullish on AI then their opinion is probably not worth that much. But if they've been consistently optimistic about AI progress over the last 5-10 years then they probably know what they're talking about.
>Repeat after me: An LLM is not AI.

They are more intelligent than the average person I deal with on a daily basis.

The one thing us meat bags have going for us is that we have bodies and can do things.
> So why aren't there more entrants in the CPU cloud area?

Because the market is saturated with players.

AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, IBM Cloud, Digital Ocean, Tencent, Oracle Cloud, Huawei Cloud, that Dell/VMware thing, Linode/Akamai, HP, Scaleway, Vultr, GoDaddy, OVH, Hetzner, etc.
Well it is the theory that underpins those at the moment, but that doesn't say much about the counterfactual where it isn't.

But I think I can say with confidence that none of those fields care about the fact that hitting a rational number out of the reals has probability 0. If they do something's wrong.

Edit: oh wow your reply got a lot longer after I responded
This really is different, and I say that as someone who spent a lot of time on expert systems, not as someone who is overly bought into AI hype.

The problem with expert systems is that even if the tooling was perfect the people using them needed a rather nuanced and sophisticated understanding of ontologies. That just wasn’t going to happen. There is not enough of that kind of expertise to go around. Efforts to train people largely failed. I think the intentional undermining of developer salaries pushed a lot of smart people out of the software industry making the problem even worse.

That’s what makes AI special, the ability to deliver value even when used by unsophisticated operators. Many workflows can largely stay the same and AI can be sprinkled in where it makes the most sense. I use it for documentation writing and UI asset production and it’s better in that role than the people I used to pay.
> How can anyone be so certain about this?

Oh, it's really simple, you see if they don't get rewarded handsomely, that proves they didn't focus on delivering true [Scotsman] value. /s
Thunderbolt/USB4 -> NVME enclosure -> M.2-to-SATA OR M.2-to PCIe to HBA-to-SATA.
Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. But they'd be forced to pay exorbitant fees to lawyers regardless.
> You do know that Apple is basically the original author of WebGPU, right (together with Mozilla)?

Apple is the original author of a lot of tech they end up abandoning. Certainly a lot of Khronos IP, paging through their history.

> And your fantasy of Apple deliberately avoiding it is based on what exactly?

Based on a 4 year (!!!) porting time from MacOS Safari to iOS Safari. Basically textbook feet-dragging there.
Why does it have to be different?
Tried it with several files.

It didn't seem to do much better than audio filters for ffmpeg that have been tuned for removing background noise and enhancing voice. Maybe I'm missing something or using the wrong source data.
When I first got a RAV-4 hybrid, I had no idea that this sound was being pumped out of a speaker. I thought it was an artifact of the electric motor. As it happens, companies spend a lot of time designing their unique electronic sound as a signature of the vehicle. My dog has learned to recognize the sound and he barks when the car is as much as 1km away.
I don’t think FTX is the right contrast here. This document is mostly about business realism: revenue, margins, etc.

VCs did get burned by speculative investing in the 2019-21 period but FTX wasn’t like the others. At the time of its collapse, FTX was profitable and had $1+ bn in revenue, its doom had nothing to do with product market fit, revenue, margins, etc.

Quibi might be a more relevant example of a learning opportunity.
Exactly. If I find myself in a school taking an exam I did not study for I have to realize I’m dreaming, remember I have total control of my surroundings, stand up, walk out of the classroom while thinking about where I want to go. Sometimes the dream throws roadblocks like “I can’t find the door out of this classroom.” The trick when a roadblock happens is to remain clam, remain confident, and find an alternative “Oh yea, the door is behind me.” If I begin losing control I often begin losing lucidity. If I exert too much control (Let’s just walk through the wall, I can do anything) then I will wake up.
In theory you can get a pretty good idea of where instructions came from in the source code though the optimizer does, shall we say, obfuscate/spread that a little bit (which is why debugging through optimized code or looking at core dumps from optimized code can be tricky- but you can still mostly do it, there's just some lack of precision in the mapping back).

Maybe the bigger problem is at what point do the profiles feed back. Since a compiler may generate many object files which are then linked to form the final binary you'd sort of maybe want to do this in the linker vs. earlier on.

I guess specifically with the kernel there's an extra layer of complexity. It looks like they use `perf` to record the profile which is cool. And then they apply the results to the binary which is also cool.
Nope. 10 years experience working at startups and FAANG.

And yes cursor AI/copilot helps with bugs as well.

It works because when you have a bug/error message, instead of spending a bunch of time on Google/searching on stack overflow for the exact right answer, you can now do this:

"Hey AI. Here is my error message and stack trace. What part of the code could be causing it, and how should I fix it".

Even for debugging this is a massive speed up.

You can also ask the AI to just evaluate your code. Or explain it when you are trying to understand a new code base. Or lint it or format it. Or you can ask how it can be simplified or refactored or improved.

And every hour that you save not having to track down crazy bugs that might just be immediately solvable, is an hour that you can spend doing something else.

And that is without even getting into agents. I haven't figured out yet how to effectively use those yet, and even that is making me nervous/worried that I am missing some huge possible gains.

But sure, I'll agree that of all you are doing is making scaffolding, that is a fairly simply usecase.
How are you so sure that you aren't the one that needs better measures of what's going on outside of your immediate field of view?
> We've yet to see a single amazing PWA future we hear so much about.

Then maybe it's time you gave Android another try. Chrome runs on mobile just as well as it does on desktop, so any of the web apps you use on your computer work fine on phone too. It makes modern Safari look like a tofu browser substitute by comparison.
> And then someone else starts giving away shovels for free.

And their business model is shovel-fleet logistics and maintenance... :p
Would the Graviton CPUs from Amazon and upcoming Axion from Google not count?
> How can anyone not see just how impactful it's going to be? Or already is? I can't think of a single recent technology that was so widely adopted by tech and non-tech people alike, immediately integrated into day-to-day experience. The rise of mobile phones and e-commerce in the 90s would be the last time I've seen this happen (I'm not counting smartphones, as those are more of an iteration). Or social media, in purely software space.

You can't know this for certain until you look back on it in retrospect. We did not know mobile phones and e-commerce were going to be huge back in the 90s. We know now, of course, looking back, and the ones who guessed right back then can pat themselves on the back now.

Everyone is guessing. I'll admit it's totally possible LLMs and AI are going to be as earth shattering as its boosters claim it will be, but nobody can know this now with as much certainty as is being written.
“Costs 1000 characters for every minute of audio” suggests this is not about the text characters in the sample. It makes it sound like a form of digital credit.
I’m immensely annoyed by it as well. I frequently used that feature to figure out useful, local information.
A non-procedural approach might be easier: collect loops of baseline murmurs / elevated cheering / peak ecstatic crowd and vary the volume of each based on what is happening on screen. If you have variants of each "energy level" you can also smoothly fade between them, queuing the next one randomly as the current version runs out. This way the wrap-around point should not be that noticeable.

Something similar is done for music that varies according to gameplay intensity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_music
My unqualified proposal as an NGE fan and an experienced KSP player: ion thruster pack installed inside of orbital module of a Progress, facing its own descent vehicle.

A modified Progress cargo vehicle is docked to the tail end of the Russian segment. The docking part of Progress is then permanently installed by a closeout crew, and additional power to the pack routed. Progress descent/service module stack is then jettisoned, exposing the thruster pack to the space, allowing the ISS to be boosted by the pack just like how it's normally done. No way ISS needs more than a Progress full of Xenon to get to a centuries lasting orbit, but additional tanks can even be installed as expendable Progress spacecrafts to other ports if needed.

I think similar device can be delivered by a Dragon, but it'll have to replace PMA-2 in Node 2 V-bar side, so logistics would be more complicated(dock second to last crew to PMA-2, dock the last crew to PMA-3, get second to last crew off, move PMA-2 somewhere else, dock Dragon to relocated PMA-2, install pack to CBM, everyone leaves and pack activates).
I forgot about the Fructose pathway. Yeah that's been known for ages.

It turns out though that maltodextrin didn't exist in manufactured quantities until the mid 1970's, which was after Gatorade was a national brand. That they never changed their formula is disappointing but maybe not surprising (especially after Quaker Oats bought them in '83)

But none of the 'sports drinks' that Coca Cola and friends were pumping out in the 90's had maltodextrin in them to my knowledge. It was just more sucrose and glucose, so its star fell a bit more recently.

Do you know when the isotonic research was done? I don't have any recollection of that being even mentioned in the tests I talked about.

Also maltodextrins are made from wheat in Europe and a problem for celiacs.
cold calling isn't an art, but smooth talking/networking is. There's no exact science to making people feel good and wanting to form a relationship with you (despite centuries of literature claiming that there is).
https://apnews.com/article/47-activists-explainer-national-s...

Rule of law has been abandoned.

More generally, all economic growth has been moved to mainland China. This started to be true around 2016, but was very clear by 2019, and is fully complete now. This is true of construction, shipping, travel, and finance.

https://www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/wbr.html?ecode=B10200082023QQ...
i read Homage to Catalonia on the TGV to... Catalonia drinking a bottle from De Wijnerij in Amsterdam. it was fantastic

2018. Rebellion broke out on the Spanish side of Catalonia a week later.
How the Smithsonian's Feather Identification Lab Saves Lives
We're already entering Late Majority stage. Early Majority is like a good chunk of the western population, which already should tell you something - the "technology adoption model" might not make much sense when the total addressable market is literally everyone on the planet, and the tech spreads itself organically with zero marketing effort.

And/or, it's neither hard nor shameful to be True Believers, if what you believe in is plain fact.
For me, what is visual clutter is all about what I'm used to. After a short period of adaptation, I found indentation guides disappeared when I was looking for them. You can also choose your styling. As I mentioned above, that was an extreme example. Here's a style that adds very little clutter (mine look a lot like this): https://i.sstatic.net/nxPrP.png

Also in the spirit of modern tooling, VSCode has had the ability to navigate GitHub Pull Requests, with all the normal code editing tooling, since 2018. I'd be surprised if it's alone in that ability in 2024. The same is possible with Gitlab Merge Requests using Gitlab's own extension. I can also use VSCode to remotely edit on almost any Linux/Mac/Windows machine that I can ssh into, or inside Docker containers.
I had very loud background music playing, and while it could completely eliminate that (impressive!), the voice was much more garbled then when there wasn’t any background noise playing.
What’s a 2048 clone?
Seems largely reasonable. employers can request a sixth working day, but it pays at 140% the five day rate.

This is essentially how it works in the US, arguably better. The US requires wage workers to get 150% if going over 40 hours, but had no restrictions on the number of days per week.

The interesting part of this to me is that employers would rather pay overtime rates than higher more staff. I wonder if Greece is like the US where there are major fixed taxes and benefit costs tied to each employee.

Alternatively, it is possible that despite the high unemployment, workers with the needed skillset are in high demand. Either way it seems that Greece has some structural problems.

It reminds me of an anecdote a Greek friend told me. In Most of Europe cars leaving a traffic circle have priority. In Greece it is cars that enter the traffic circle that have priority, leading to congestion. However, this isnt a uniform rule, so you have to check at each traffic roundabout to see what the policy is for that one.
>5% of execution time was spent missing branches and instruction cache misses... Which sounds utterly implausible.

You could be right, but this reminds of the "efficient markets" joke.
Wherein two economists refuse to believe the $100 the see on the ground is real because "someone would have picked it up" :-)
I suspect in the near future people are going to report randomly hearing themselves in advertisements.
I very carefully read through this issue years ago when Christopher Hitchens came to his aid. Yeah, that Christopher Hitchens, the much later Iraq War II fanatic.

I'm not going to repeat the exercise but at the time it was a teaching moment for me, that anybody can get things wrong. I would not be surprised that he walked back his initial strongly held stance, good for him.

The Ukraine/Russia stuff though is just ridiculous, but he's old. I know (former) world class scientists who are old, and also sadly ridiculous. Terrifying when you yourself are getting old.
> 100Mb may seem like a joke nowadays, but the main purpose of such a toy NAS for me is to keep a copy of a directory with ~200K small files. Having 1Gb would only marginally improve the syncing speed even if the SBC supported USB 3.0.

He's wrong here. The most important thing with small files is latency, and a 1000M network will have significantly less latency than a 100M network.

Anyone running TimeMachine over network knows what I mean - local attached storage is blazing fast (particularly SSDs), wired network storage is noticeably worse performing, and wifi is dog f...ing slow.
40+ years of coding here. I've been using LLMs all day and getting a large boost from it. That last thing I did was figure out how to change our web server to have more worker processes. It took a half dozen questions to cure a lot of ignorance and drill down the right answer. It would have taken a lot longer with just a search engine. If you're not seeing the large economic advantage of these systems you're not using them like I am.
Kodi is a native Jellyfin client, isn’t it?

Being able to play media from Jellyfin and other locations like YouTube, samba shares, etc is why I tend to use Kodi. I’m not stuck with one server/service.
As I said there is too much to summarize here. The Republicans, communists, and anarchists were very divided within themselves and their "goodness" varied a lot from person to person, group to group. Certainly that coalition was flawed. These are all commonly cited as reasons for their failure. There are some positive things to take from them however. And I find it rather unambiguous that Franco was bad for Spain.
Hey, there's a sub for that!

https://www.reddit.com/r/NominativeDeterminism/
http://jacek.zlydach.pl/v/2048/
MPC-HC 2.3.2 Released
"Audio generation consumes characters. 1k characters approximate 1 minute of audio. Character counts reset each billing cycle without rollover."
AMD bought Xilinx, but Intel recently spun off Altera.
Sibling comment explains about the maltodextrin. I'll have to read up more.
Thanks, this is great. The people alone make this like Where's Waldo: find the mahjong parlor, the elementary school, the dude taking a dump, the couple having sex, etc.
I don't think the complaint is that the article exists, it's that it perhaps needs more context. The article does not present the level of skill assumed about the reader or of the author, so comments like these help put that in perspective.

The commentary from "old salts" isn't meant to insult or discourage you but to inform your world view with hard earned experience.

It all has a value that's greater than the sum of it's parts and there's no good reason to be critical or reactionary about it.
Newsweek: A yellow journalistic rag corporation that was bought for exactly $1.00 by a billionaire car radio magnate as a gift for his wife [2], a radical Democrat ex-Congresswoman so she can prop her party up. [1]

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/its-official-newsweek-will-b... be-bid-1-in-excha-2010-8?op=1

2. https://www.whomarried.com/sidney-harman-469735
Embedded software?
Just as there is no single strongest "for-argument", same with the "against-argument" -> context matters more than 'best practice'.

FWIW, I noted:

> Better options exist, namely the "ship/show/ask" strategy: https://martinfowler.com/articles/ship-show-ask.html

AT the end of the day, IMO it's like Agile & Scrum. You actually have to think hard about your context, can't just go in and apply a boiler-plate one-sized fits all solution. (I've got a chip on my shoulder these days as I feel too many in IT don't really want to think hard about their context. Too much of: "I want the magic formula for my team to 'go fast!'". The mantra: just do the stand-ups, do the retro, do the code review, do the planning poker, add checkstyle (a code syntax linter) - it'll all go great! I've now learned to ask - but did the project ship in time? Were any of those items actually useful in this context? If so, tell me exactly why and give details. I've also learned that if a team is far in the stone age, trying to adopt all of the best practices is likely to take longer than the remaining lifetime of that team and/or company. Which means they will do nothing further useful other than churn on process changes. Which brings me back to CRs, how many of them are actually useful? Some CRs are useful for sure. Though, how can a team spend more time doing useful CRs and less time doing non-useful CRs. What's more, every PR is a blocking activity, if we are blocking development for a usually not-useful activity -> that is a problem. The alternative does not have to be to throw out CR completely - I already mentioned two: "ship/show/ask", & post-merge review)
Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution
> All objective observations of time involve reading numbers. You can't test subjective perception.

Not all experiments testing the perception of time require the person undergoing the experiment to read the time themselves, though.

> Sure, maybe stressful conditions make it harder to read, but then again the watch is stationary with respect to the eye while falling.

My point wasn't that the stress could cause it to be harder to read, but that the physical act of falling could cause it. The experiment intended to test if a psychological phenomenon (the slowed perception of time) could be caused by a certain psychological cause (stress), but they tested it in a way where both the cause _and_ the effect could be unrelated to their testing; we don't even know if falling makes it physically harder to read independent of stress, so I don't know how you can conclude anything psychologically about what might be going on. The watch being stationary relative to the eye also doesn't rule out vision impairment regardless of what's being looked at; the strain on the eyes from the air rushing by could be enough to make it hard to see clearly.
Why was this created?
I personally attribute this FOMO to so called AI influencers who love "shilling" AGI as something that's as true as 1 + 1 = 2
well, no one's going to be talking about the secrets behind LLM while the market is paying billions to own their slice of the pie.

And in reality, most software work is 1) API calls and 2) applied math. If you're not in cutting edge private tech or acedemia, your work probably falls into 1 or both categories. Modern "Software engineers" is more a matter of what scale of APIs you're wrangling, not how deep of domain knowledge you have.
> You can't know this for certain until you look back on it in retrospect.

Correct, but the thing is, AI blown up much faster than phones - pretty much a decade in a single year, in comparison. Mobile phones weren't that useful early on, outside of niche cases. Generative AI is already spreading to every facet of peoples' lives, and has even greater bottom-up adoption among regular people, than top-down adoption in business.
Google has 5 times as many employees as NASA, SpaceX, ULA, Rocket Lab and Aerojet Rocketdyne have combined. Which is actually a lot closer than I would have expected. But still, just Alphabet is a lot bigger than the entire US space industry. Adding Fusion probably doesn't change the numbers much.
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