skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quality focused monetized solutions that reward increasing the continuous length but work at shorter lengths as well. Everyday materials come to mind.
I don't agree with this take, the layoffs are companies simply returning to their regular baseline numbers. AI was just a comfortable scapegoat for many to put the blame on rather than "we like money".
Progress on the preparation phase of a digital euro [pdf]
> Yes, you can transfer a bit into special travel containers but you'll have to hit the spray button dozens of times to transfer even a meaningful quantity.

Fortunately with a lot of modern expensive perfume it's usually possible to just open bottle and use some easier way to transfer the liquid like with syringe. Transfering it by spraying is very invonvinient.

So at least there is one good and useful consequence of eco / reuse movement.
The real winner here is the marketing department who manage to make this article a "celebration of successes" when in fact we know the TPU is yet one more of those biggest failures of Google to have the lead by a mile and then.. squander it. And no, "it's on our cloud and Pixel phones" doesn't cut it at this level.
the dude's email is w_p@yah... talking about OG!
You pretty much answered your own question. ~20 years ago and back. But I think it is also worth pointing out that it has gotten worse, those 20 years has been a steady trickle of new foot guns.
> Difficult to politically oppress wide swaths of the population on a person by person basis

In the Brazilian Old Republic (pre-1930), that was widely practiced. Historians call it "voto de cabresto" (loosely translated to "halter vote").

> why not simply oppress entire regions?

That's what in Brazil is called a "curral eleitoral" ("electoral corral").

The latter still exists and I imagine exists in many countries. Its effectiveness is highly curbed with anonymous voting though.

In the Old Republic, where voting was not anonymous, the electoral corral combined with the halter vote meant very few people were free to vote according to their wish. Local oppression is a powerful tool.
I don't want to be accused of pedantry...but isn't this a gardening robot? I don't see how it scales to fields.

I don't really see what problem it solves. Growing in a raised bed with drip irrigation looks a lot less hassle than setting up a giant cnc watering machine. If you mulch once a year you don't need to add nutrients to a no dog bed at all.
If it was just a automated irrigation system and a camera with some detection for seeing if the plants look oka and can send a ping if a human needs to intervene. I remember hearing about this year's ago, and find it really cool, but it probably does to little, or is to expensive to be able to justify.
I read a bit the approach but wouldn't an attacker take 1 bottle for reference and just make 1 pill with the same exact pattern?

The manufacturer wouldn't know if there are conflicts or if the user wanted to check a pill twice.
So, throw out the baby with the bath water?
Nah. It's much more likely to be the interest rates.

The interest rates mean that the now gets a higher priority, and software ready in 2030 or later a lower priority.
> Australia is money laundering paradise and as a result dirty money is pouring in from around the world and sending house prices to the moon because money launderers do not care about a fair price, they care about being able to dump the money.

I'm not sure that's true. According to the Foreign Investment Review Board[1], foreign residential purchase only makes up about 1% of sales.

Are you positing that this is incorrect data by the FIRB, or that these purchases are made in a different way which eludes this data? If so, how?

1. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-27/foreign-buyers-china-...
Ending the Consultancy Cult
My tired mind had to read your comment a couple of times before realising you actually meant Steven, not Nsteve.
No, I am not saying that every project in the wild has a bad "coding strategy". Some of the most reliable software I use everyday is written in C. Some of this I use for decades without every encountering a crash or similar bug. So the meme that "all C code crashes all the time because of UB" is clearly wrong. It is not intractable, in my experience you just have to document some rules and occasionally make sure they are followed. But I agree that a formal system to enforce ownership is desirable.
Yet another word for "top-down" design.
Thank you. I should have been clearer and mentioned that I'm on Debian ))

But in any case, Safari's reader mode can be scripted from the CLI? That is good to know, maybe I'll try to find something similar for Firefox's Reader Mode. Thank you.
This could have been written and 2014 and 2004 (hi, it's me). There will always be people who don't use it and others who won't remember a time when they hadn't used it :P
"Covid" implied both the stay at home digital boom and low interest rates.
Ah! That is interesting.
And that’s why we need a healthy story for installing apps found outside the App Store.
BTW I not sure if it's would work in EU, but in US you can certainly take as much water as you want with you if you freeze it. Then just drink what's unfrozen liquid before you pass security and you're golden.

Has anyone tried it in EU or SEA?
What do i need to say or promote to get some of these billions?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron

"They rarely show signs of wear" ...
https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-mirror
It may not be obvious but (like in most countries) people in Australia mostly live near cities with jobs, infrastructure, etc.

Various satellite cities (Geelong, Wollongong) have built up via incentive schemes, but most people don't want to live that far from their friends and families, let alone in the red desert.
It is always possible to trash-talk people who actually do things.

Sure the brits in general were full of self-confidence and stiff upper lips and lacked competence, but that includes most of them.

Scurvy was not well understood at the time, most other polar explorers avoided it, not with lime juice, but by eating raw meat.

Not using skis were a huge mistake by all of the brits, but it was just not part of the culture. Norwegians grew up on them.

Same with dogs, it takes a lot of competence and energy to train, you can not do that at a whim.

Schackleton is still the most successful among the british in my opinion, and a hero.

Scott though...
But the interest rates were low already after 2008.
I gather what the parent is saying is that it’s better to just keep investing in index funds or equivalents, because it’s impossible to tell where we are, i.e. timing the market.
They could probably be separated by distillation, but the temperature would be quite high. Alternately, maybe some element could be found that would preferentially dissolve aluminum (magnesium?) and that then could be separated, again perhaps by distillation. Al/Mg mixtures can melt as much as ~200 C cooler than pure Al.
A few years ago everything had to be CUDA. Opencl and so forth were unacceptable.

Now people say CUDA is better optimised than ROCm. Fewer claims that ROCm never works, more that it leaves performance on the table.

You've just offered that people are using AMDGPU in production for inference. I think some are using it for training.

That software moat is looking rather empty to me. And good riddance, the cuda programming model is nasty.

The MI300A is gorgeous. Massive APU thing. Single block of fast memory that x64 threads and gpu kernels have atomic RMW access to. It is the evolution beyond the separate accelerator concept and the whole language patterns around "offloading" kernels is kind of nonsense on it. The gpu and x64 cores are peers.

Viable alternatives to cuda are coming online at the same time as the hardware moves beyond it. It's a liability, not a moat.
You are not disagreeing with me.
Has the Long Friendship of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Reached Its Final Act?
Search should survive. The information is still out there and there is value in finding it. Google is on thin ice though.
Likewise. And I look at the current situation and also see investor error, but in the opposite direction, as a great many investors equate LLMs to AI/ML, and vastly underestimate the space in which this technology will disrupt. I keep reading pieces in Forbes and similar which are like “does the world really need a better chatbot?” or “can Google justify spending $10bn on making a better cat picture?”
Aluminum is used in steelmaking to "kill" (deoxygenate) molten steel. Aluminum oxide is used for some surfaces facing molten steel, as it doesn't dissolve.
I see those as the lazy ones that are the tip of the iceberg. A non-zero amount will even be intentionally lazy (analogous to the Nigerian Prince theory), or to get feedback from people flagging them.

I think the sensible assumption is that there is a 'rest of the iceberg' growing rapidly below the surface, and that the horse has truly bolted.

I currently suspect that ~1-5% of the 'people' I interact with online are LLMs.
I suspect that a few Redditors and Facebookers are up to about ~10-25% without realising it, caught in 'AI social media eddies'. Older generations especially susceptible.
This was a very good example for the nonconstructive attitude I was talking about.
From one Hamburger to another...just where, please?

I could swear I saw a drinking fountain once, somewhere along that long corridor connecting the gates but I never found it again and, to this date, I've never drank from it. (I mostly fly Eurowings to other Schengen destinations.) If it really exists, I'm sure there is only one such station past security, or maybe one per airport wing.

And look, in a pinch I'm ready to drink tap water from the airport toilet faucets. I'm ready to entrust my life to that dice roll. But, as a matter of human dignity being inviolable and all that, I would much rather shell out money for an expensive bottle of water.
As someone who has it doesn’t look convoluted and solves problems I’ve seen many computer languages have, especially non-functional-style ones.
Obviously depends on what you read...

> innovative courses to help people deal with the daily emotional challenges of existence.

No offense, but what the hell is this.
I don't know how much of a problem this was in the rest of the FPS world, but in the Descent world in 96, 97, 98 - when keyboard only was a common choice, at least for beginners - there was trouble with keyboards detecting all the necessary combinations of keystrokes. You'd hold down an A and a W and it couldn't see D presses or releases at all. It varied a lot by the particular keys and the particular keyboard. I'd often react to getting a new keyboard by shifting my familiar config around until I found a spot where all the needed independent keys would register.

They still advertise 10 key rollover keyboards today. I feel like they're more common, but perhaps I have just always insisted on having one.

I've always wondered if it was a problem for other communities. I certainly think it was a contributing factor to why no default control scheme emerged in the Descent world, and even very top pilots used an astonishing array of very different methods.

A serious drawback of the standard WASD configuration for me is the need to move the middle finger to switch between forward and reverse. This adds latency, and can be a source of error. In games that rely a lot on accurate timing and quick reactions, I generally avoid this. There is a tradeoff, of course, but in the extreme case of a very simple and twitchy game, I like to map up/down/left/right to sit under pointer and middle finger on each hand. This seems like a lot of a geeky departure from intuitive arrow keys for a dubious benefit, and I don't often see others do it. But I can't help but wonder if FPS design and history is informed by better reactivity along that strafe axis. Or perhaps it really is the best design - you do tend to dodge perpendicular to where you're looking.
I like to compare GPT3 to the 286 Processor and GPT4 to the Pentium chip.
There is still a lot that doesn't work but basic tasks can be done.
Right now most genAI applications are toys. And a lot still doesn't work text in Stable Diffusion, true reasoning/planning, agents with agency. A lot of demos and evals are optimized for marketing benefit but fail in production systems.
> forgetting how common shitty banners were in the early 90's when this feature first came out.

Oh, indeed. MS WordArt is the bastard quirky daughter of MS Clippy and an animated GIF.-
Yeah, also the submission headline is wrong. He was using Haskell only for the toy example. He is using HVM for the actual Discrete Program Search. See also the follow up post: https://x.com/VictorTaelin/status/1819774880130158663
no need to blame a hidden boogieman - this problem is all about inflation couple with end of low interest rates.
LLMs are a subset of AI/ML. They are not the totality of the sphere, nor are they what is being worked on exclusively.
Formspree has a free plan, 50 subs/month: https://formspree.io/plans . No ads either.

I'm in a similar situation, a site with one form submission a month (https://ukcompanydatabase.com) , and it works like a charm.
AMD was very worried about Intel. Rightly so, with the background on appalling anticompetitive behaviour from team blue combined with their huge tech advantage. Intel stumbled badly enough for Zen to take root and Epyc is now riding roughshod over them.

Now that conflict is largely forgotten. Despite being so recent that server farms are still running xeon purchased when that was a vaguely reasonable thing to do.

Nvidia and AMD are both pushing hard on GPUs. Team green announcing a yearly release cadence was a big deal, team red followed up with the same. That's really pushing the engineering teams at both sides. Lots of work being done to bring tape outs closer. It's not looking like either group is remotely inclined to relax and seek out profits instead of progress.
> From the description, I'm guessing that the game your father played was "Firefox", a 1983 laser disc game by Atari.

I'm older than you think (and so is my father). The arcade machine he played dates from the 1960s, and did not involve a computer.
And that current valuation of the underlying market is x times the real valuation. And real valuation can be significantly non-zero. Take housing market. Most of the houses do have some real value. And even if the bubble pops, it doesn't take their values to zero, it might be momentarily be just below real value.
You're telling me I have no clue. I don't disagree. But what would be much more interesting is for you to address the points I made.
I keep telling people that this is why AI will turn the industry on its head very soon. It doesn't need to be better than a good developer or designer. Because if you look at the landscape in tech, the vast majority of people simply are not that good. People who are actually objectively good are few and far between and usually very expensive.

If you have an average company that needs to settle for something that works instead of something that is great, you could already replace a ton of jobs with AI. When the C-suite realises this, below average devs are doomed. In the coming years we will probably see the first companies taking off primarily employing AI as coders - long before AIs can beat elite programmers.
The Elder Scrolls Online is awesome as well. Never ending adventure.
> Cue has no functions so there is nothing to recurse.

CUE developer here. This is wrong. CUE doesn't have functions, but it does have abstraction and beta-reduction, just like lambda calculus. Types can refer to themselves. There is also mutual recursion between types. We have a termination checker than ensures CUE programs are total (although it works by very different principles compared to other total languages).

If you disable the CUE termination checker you get a a Turing complete language.

If you leave it alone you get a primitive recursive language. Here is CUE implementing an arbitrary number of steps of rule 110 cellular automaton[1], which is Turing complete: https://cuelang.org/play/?id=Ityqia88Mvq#w=function&i=cue&f=...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110
Sun was a treasure. Lots of the engineering leads at AMD have Sun on their CVs.
Do you think that people that are bullied by their parents to become doctors are doing medicine to help people?
And then there is burried drip irrigation...
I understand that a lot of science and technology goes into modern farming, and that it's much better than it used to be. You did not address one of the main downsides I mentioned, which is that it still seems to be extremely reliant on the weather.
+1. What city?
If you look at the advancements over time you see exactly how it correlates with nvidias architecture tocks and the availability of better cards for someone tinkering in their basement. We need better consumer cards for your dream to come true.
The price of these computers is high now, due to supply constraints, so buying now isnt necessarily the best time for this outcome. You can buy some later...

The things these can do is (a) memory bandwidth, Nvidia GPUs have been described as "the worlds most expensive memory controller". Generally very useful anywhere. (b) fast low precision floating point. Historically most of the uses of supercomputers wanted high precision, eg for physics etc but people are now experimenting with using lower precision given availability (c) fast networking. generally useful.

We were seeing a spread of GPU into other applications pre AI, like GPU driven databases, I think this stopped a bit just because of pricing and availability.
Well, no, that’s why it’s a rumour i.e. a currently circulating story of uncertain or doubtful truth.

Maybe it’s just that there is a major issue with all the C3 scanners currently on the market which was somehow missed during all these years of strenuous certification. Who knows? Certainly not me.
It might be difficult, but maybe strain your imagination to consider scenarios where people live remotely, off grid, or in areas with unreliable supply chains, or they might even live right next door to be more self-sufficient. Accepting that other people might have different values than you can be challenging, but I have confidence you can do it.
Amazing! I made a Sudoku game with vim bindings: https://vimsudoku.com
Outside of LLM's, which AI/ML product has the potential for widespread consumer adoption? I recognize the usefulness of modern AI in all sorts of domains, but they are almost entirely niche services for business and not targeted to the broad consumer. The problem then is not that AI is not cool or useful, just that it won't make as much money as the enthusiasts think, at least not now.
Man I just keep getting more jelaous xD

1gps/1gps is my wet dream. The house I live in is tied into a pretty shitty ISP, didn’t know that though until after I bought the place. You live and you learn, someday I too will have a setup this beautiful.

Sorry I couldn’t be of any real help :)
Conservatives might not have a logical argument against this, but feminists have plenty. And if you read radical feminist writings they've been warning about this and the outcomes of this for decades. Take prisons for example. The policy changes that in some states now separate prisons by "gender identity" instead of sex has led directly to males being locked up in women's prisons, some of whom have sexually assaulted, raped and impregnated female prisoners incarcerated with them. This is just one negative outcome of many. The ideology behind "trans" causes demonstrable harm towards women and girls.
Is this where we request commentators to ‘out’ themselves as Australian citizens/residents (or not) before they respond (born Brisvegas 1970 here)
I think the bubble was more about the lack of viable business models. The technology was real and the investors saw it, but the business models needed another decade to mature.

The same could happen again. It may be easier to find good uses for AI than to make large amounts of money with it.
I don't quite understand what is the purpose of ITER. What is it trying to achieve?

Just demonstrating Q>1 won't be useful.

If it's improvements in plasma modeling and material science, won't it be possible do achieve that in smaller scale experiments?

Like it's very hard for me to believe that the only way to improve knowledge of plasma and stuff is to spend $20+B on ITER.

Especially as ITER goals were set in 1980s. Computing capabilities are now many orders of magnitude better and are going to grow further in 2030s. Isn't there a possibility that by 2040 they'd just be able to do high-precision simulation of ITER?

And if you have a choice to spend $20+B on building the thing or $20+B to simulate it, the later is probably much more preferable as then you can simulate millions of alternative designs without actually building them.
> a function that runs in constant stack space, yet it hangs

I don't think it actually runs in constant stack space, but it takes an exponential number of execution steps to get to any given stack depth, as the number of function arguments that need to be unraveled doubles with every invocation of f.
Or they invested in GPU’s to mine bitcoin and the ASIC’s are just starting to arrive. At least for inference, GPU’s are not the end game. And who knows if training will continue to need them.

If so there could be another round of investment at a better performance per watt, and specialised hardware will be the key. They’ll all be building custom chips.
Show HN: I build a tool to crawl the web for pain points
I'm a solopreneur and build an application that crawls the web for customer pain points.

I am building painscount because more and more indie hackers want to browse for real world problems so they build something people actually need.

Painscount is built by an indie hacker for other indie hackers.

Feedback wanted!

Marcel
A friend once picked up a tiny contract from Uncle Sam, requiring some changes to a Perl script that stashed values as "this/that/thenext" in one column of an Oracle table. She had not previously dealt with Perl, so I explained to her about "split" and "join".

I don't know why the developers had chosen that method.
1500sqm is absolutely not needed for occasional nutritional enrichment. That's why I mentioned pot on balcony. But yes, being forced as kid to help tending big garden does leave some scars.
I can only see this as diluting and harming the brand, not as making it more prestigious.
And now the US complains about chinese intellectual tefts. How the world turns...

> Zambernardi also controlled a team of mercenaries he called Rudos—“tough guys”—from Mexico’s corrupt and violent Federal Judicial Police. They made treasonous Americans “disappear,” according to Mexican journalist and TV personality Jaime Maussan, who interviewed Zambernardi for a 2017 book about the mission, Operación LightFire.

the extrajudicial killings of american citizens under the directions of an american institution are mentioned so casually, one is tempted to skipped them and move to the interesting part of the story.
Gates Law variant: "People always overestimate the impact of a new technology in a year and underestimate its impact in ten years."

In 1999 people predicted that the Internet would change everything, in 2000 people called the Internet a flop and made fun of pets.com sock puppets, by 2010 the Internet had in fact changed everything.
if i asked for advice on buying a car would you recommend me a steel factory?
It is not a problem that different CPUs have different execution time, the problem is if the same CPU, running the same instruction has a timing difference depending on the data it operates on. In this regard CPUs have actually gotten better, specifically because it is a feature that AMD and Intel has pursued.
Rubber tyres won't last a 1000 years. In videos available of it they already look a bit worn and dirty.