skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if I buy the thesis entirely (that thesis most aptly being: "Gelsinger does have one fatal flaw: he still believes in Intel, and I no longer do.")

The biggest reason is geopolitics: If escalated confrontation happens with China, Intel becomes one of the most valuable companies on the planet, period. TSMC will finish western fabs eventually, but the delta-t on when they become competitive (tech, capacity & cost, remember) with even Intel's western fabs is... decades, plural? Maybe never? The CHIPS act helped, but TSMC is dragging their feet for very, very (existentially) good reason. Also, remember that TSMC is built entirely on the back of ASML; conflict with China doesn't just block the west's access to the east's fab capacity, it blocks the east's access to the west's tooling to build more and better fabs. TSMC craters in this scenario. Samsung also exists. That's the list of near-SotA fab capacity, globally.

Capacity is another good reason: TSMC is not a bottomless bucket, and every year for the past at least two years Apple has purchased 100% of their SotA fab capacity. No one is competing with Apple's margins (except Nvidia, but that's a bubble market; numbered days). His argument is that there's no market reason for Intel's fabs to exist; we don't have the data to say for certain, but I'd guess that if Intel went to TSMC and said "you're already making lunar lake, make our xeon chips too" TSMC would say "we can't" (especially on SotA nodes, but maybe even near-SotA). They're tapped out, they grow, they're instantly tapped out again, everyone wants what they're selling. Intel fabs Lunar Lake and Arc with TSMC; both very-low volume.

Also worth keeping in mind: Intel was at one time the global leader in chip fabrication; but they lost that crown. People view TSMC as this unassailable beast, but they're just as fallible; and when I hear people say "Well, Intel 18A is probably three years out and by that time we'll have TSMC N2P with backside power delivery so who will even care about Intel 18A" are just extrapolating history. That's a dangerous game when all these rankings and valuations are based on asymptotically approaching the limits of the laws of physics. And while it is unlikely that Intel will take the lead again, TSMC showing any sign of faltering will raise the relative value of the #2 companies.

Intel is not in a good spot, but they're still an interesting business, they're still designing some of the best chips on the planet, and with the right decisions could grow to be even better than interesting. IMO, this article is missing a lot of the hard analysis and data that Stratechery is usually known for; I don't feel you can have a researched discussion on Intel without talking about fabrication volume or their concerning levels of debt, but he didn't mention either of those things. Heck, more than one passing mention of China feels kinda important to the topic.
> a working HIV vaccine

It's worth pointing out we kind of have this now. Or, to your point, are definitely inching (a lot) closer. The lenacapavir trial results are great. From the press release https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-relea...

> Gilead’s Twice-Yearly Lenacapavir Demonstrated 100% Efficacy and Superiority to Daily Truvada® for HIV Prevention

> – First Phase 3 HIV Prevention Trial Ever to Show Zero Infections
Agree completely. It's one reason I'm weary of the police. What for them is just the daily grind, not unlike fixing a software bug is for many in this audience, is for others very possibly negatively life-impacting or even negatively life-changing.

I have to imagine it's all too easy to let routine and normalcy blunt consideration of the impacts of that routine or allow you to ignore the responsibility that such power over others rightfully demands.

To be clear, I'm not necessarily talking about an individual officer carrying out assigned duties (though it may all still largely apply)... I'm really speaking about low and mid-level policy decisions that are just out-of-press-scrutiny... the indifference of a bureaucracy to the power it wields over others but to which society simply doesn't care enough to make a stink.
yes, there are important similarities
While I get the cynicism (and yes, there is certainly some dumb money involved), it’s important to remember that every tech company that’s delivered 1000X returns was also seen as ridiculously overhyped/overvalued in its early days. Every. Single. One. It’s the same story with Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook/Meta, Microsoft, etc. etc.

That’s the point of venture capital; making extremely risky bets spread across a wide portfolio in the hopes of hitting the power law lottery with 1-3 winners.

Most funds will not beat the S&P 500, but again, that’s the point. Risk and reward are intrinsically linked.

In fact, due to the diversification effects of uncorrelated assets in a portfolio (see MPT), even if a fund only delivers 5% returns YoY after fees, that can be a great outcome for investors. A 5% return uncorrelated to bonds and public stocks is an extremely valuable financial product.

It’s clear that humans find LLMs valuable. What companies will end up capturing a lot of that value by delivering the most useful products is still unknown. Betting on one of the biggest names in the space is not a stupid idea (given the purpose of VC investment) until it actually proves itself to be in the real world.
seccomp at least restricts access to certain kernel APIs. Although it is quite brittle.
LM-Kit.net:SDKs for Integrating On-Device Generative AI Capabilities in C# Apps
LM-Kit.NET is high-level inference SDK designed for using Large Language Models (LLMs) in C# and VB.NET.

It brings a bunch of advanced generative AI features to the table, like text completion, NLP, function calling, content retrieval, translation, text rewriting, and more. It’s pretty versatile, so it can be used across different industries for a range of AI-driven tasks.

LM-Kit.NET also has a free Community Edition available if your company has fewer than 20 people. It's a solid option to get started with all the features without any upfront costs. You can check it out here: LM-Kit.NET Community Edition: https://lm-kit.com/products/community-edition/
I haven’t read Marx, nor do I particularly care to, but this seems like an endorsement for intellectual incuriosity.
Kind of a tangent but my biggest blocker to adopting an iPad workflow is the lack of support for a customizable keyboard layout. Does anyone know any app or something that allows this or non-canonical layouts impossible on iPad?
Based on what I've heard I'd love to visit there and even have a chance to intern there. I'd like to see for myself firsthand what life would be like. Would it be boring? Would it be bureaucratic or unmeritocratic? Would that bother me personally? I don't speak Spanish, unfortunately.

Obviously this article gives a rosy picture. However, the renewed interest in alternatives is precisely due to the new forms of arbitrary oppression that 21st century capitalism inflicts on many people, so maybe that would be one pathway for Mondragon and other meta-coops to flourish. Who knows.

Moreover, it's not like actually-existing capitalism doesn't tend to produce its own forms of inequality. Maybe a sociologist or economist could show that the "patronage networks" in something like Mondragon are an effect of their structure but the overall negative outcomes are lessened/mitigated compared to the negative social outcomes of Western capitalism. A proper comparison would be an open research question.

That's too bad about Fagor, 10 years ago I ordered a pressure cooker from them but had it returned immediately due to an improper lid fit. That would've been around the time of its decline and eventual closing off. I ended up buying a 2x more expensive pot from a Swiss company, it's lasted me 10 years so far.
The example way above was NVIDIA. Suppose the person who passed away was one of the founding researchers at the NVIDIA worker coop. They developed most of the key technologies that go into a graphics card, but they died during the later stages of production ramp up, before the first GPUs are able to hit the market.

The issue is that the deceased researcher's contribution to the project may be so central and foundational that they may be entitled to a large plurality (or even majority) stake, but forcing the other worker-owners to buy out that stake to pay the estate would bankrupt the coop at this critical pre-production stage. Since only active workers are allowed to maintain ownership, allowing the estate to retain those shares and later receive dividends on future profits is off the table. This issue seems to tie everyone's hands and sound the death knell for the coop.

The novelist case was meant to show an extreme non-coop situation. I don't see any compelling reason for writers of books to join coops, since the writing of the book is the only hard part these days (and countless ways to self-publish exist).
Safe super-intelligence will likely be as safe as OpenAI is open.

We can’t build critical software without huge security holes and bugs (see crowdstrike) but we think we will be able to contain something smarter than us? It would only take one vulnerability.
Maybe the more generic claim is 'when pure-play foundry companies started earning more money than the "integrated device manufacturer" companies')

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundry_model
I agree SELinux is awesome.

SELinux can be frustrating without the proper background about what it is, how it works, and how it helps you. There is a surprising amount of tooling for it actually.
Launch event video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcuoqE3Qumk

Interesting approach/angle they are taking about being distraction-free. Intentionally no email, etc.
Not sure if a fighter jet is easy to make, even countries like South Korea have taken two decades to produce the 4.5 generation fighter jet and they still can't build their own jet engines, and the KF-21 is still on block 1.

Avionics and radar seems to be very expensive and where fighter jet manufacturers can make their own to capture the margins but I'm questioning whether a founder with no aerospace experience is able to produce military jets with even more stringent regulation than supersonic flights
Child neglect is often a bigger trauma than child abuse is. I'm talking about all known trauma recognized by professionals.

Bipolar/schizophrenia are often very genetic, they run in families.
>In the short term, additional spaces will be started by people who have contributed significantly to an existing space and have internalized the culture and its values

there's something ominous, weird, and sort of damning about being protective of your "culture and values" in this way and to this extent. If Dynamicland offered a truly novel computing paradigm, it should be one that is accessible by other cultures. If it offers a valuable culture and worthwhile values, those values should be viral on their merits. They should be broadcast, rather than kept closely guarded.

If you have to carefully indoctrinate new users into your culture in order to protect it and keep out the Others who might ruin your culture with wrongthink, maybe what you actually have is a cult.
While there are a number of technical issues with respect to the limited trickle of multifamily permits that are given, the fundamental dynamic is that engaged voters don't want to see significantly more people living in the region, and therefore it doesn't happen.
You can always convert a recursive function call to a loop.
Much love to Bret. Dynamicland represents such a big shift in traditional computing.
Honestly the dumbest possible move by Internet Archive. IA has gotten more and more ideological as well, and it's been censoring content it doesn't like. I'm not sure if they're in the Wikipedia/Mozilla boat of screwed up political spending, but if they are, this decision should at least temper that down.

I'm sure they'll be able to raise the money needed to pay off this lawsuit. It's true the Archive has a lot of amazing things not found elsewhere. Still, I've been hesitant to give them any money for years.

The replies in that thread are dumb too. I don't think people understand the legal complexities here, what a huge advantage it was for IA to even be able to lend out digital books in the way it was doing, and how dumb it was for them to think they could create new legal/copyright theory in the wake of the mass-hysteria of 2020.

It does show the two tiered system. Amazon, big tech and others massively got away with absorbing huge amounts of money in 2020. This non-profit tried to do equally shady things and it bit them in the ass. You clearly see where the system is tilted towards.
So these AI PCs the article is talking about also aren't PCs? They run on ARM.

You could buy ARM PCs in 2018 too, like the Asus NovaGo.
Major book publishers defeat Internet Archive appeal over digital scanning
Part of the equation must be the simple fact that the US is big and has the option to give many people the 0.1+ acre detached single family home with a yard and 2+ car driveway/garage lifestyle (and schools with more exclusive student populations).

In smaller places, that simply isn’t an option, so there exists greater demand for family living in high rises.
It might be more time-understanding efficient to watch the video if/when you have enough time to mull what they show in it over. I'm not sure I would have gotten a useful take on this particular thing in a set of short text summaries and I'm usually one very biased towards that kind of consumption.
Let v = high violence, d = dem mayor, r = republican mayor.

You seem to want to compare P(v|d) to P(v|r). We have little to no data for comparison because there are so few examples of cities with republican mayors. Those that exist are amongst the smaller American cities. This means you need to disentangle the effect of city size on violence rates from the effect of the mayor's party.

I repeat:

There are 10 Republican mayors amongst the 50 largest cities, and furthermore, these are heavily concentrated at the low end.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_the_50_lar...

It turns out the relationship between crime and population is non linear, and that nonlinearity is also true outside of the US and it's political context.

https://crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11...

So, what you're seeing is bigger cities with higher per capita rates due to the underlying relationship between population density and crime. It also happens to be the case that in the US, urban areas strongly prefer Democratic mayors.
As someone else not living in the western world, beards may as well be extinct here outside of the creative industries (arts, fashion, music).
> Those who ape the Tolkien high-fantasy school lean on it more, meandering descriptions

You seem to have a very specific idea of what constitutes "worldbuilding".

In my mind, every scifi has to do worldbuilding, because they deal with some non-existent worlds - they can't just rely on reader's being familiar with reality. They can't just say "imagine it exactly like today's US, just with faster than light travel". The authors have to describe the setting of the plot to the reader to at least some detail. Stephenson does that in my opinion very well and it's the main draw for me.
Only if you’re knowledgeable enough to double-check the resulting configuration and correct any mistakes or omissions.
I do a lot in Kubernetes, and there's been more than one CVE with a line like "Affects all versions of docker/containerd, unless running SELinux," which gave me a lot of reassurance that the effort put into making SELinux work was worth it.

I've seen this too, but I usually see AA mentioned in the same situations as an equivalent mitigation to SELinux.
Patroni 4.0 released, introduces Quorum-based failover
Discoveries are made and measurements are taken with the tools available.

The measurements, theories, and currently understood or applicable math may not match up with observations.

People ponder and discover, then attempt to explain the observations and measurements with a new theory. If the theory pans out, a deeper explanation of that theory is necessary and that's where the new math's at.

It's not that physics is good at creating math. Physics is good at describing our observations /with/ math. That's kind of its whole job.

Next time you look at raindrops in a puddle, try to imagine how you would describe those movements scientifically. One needs math for that.

Sometimes the available tools and math are sufficient for a thorough explanation, and sometimes one needs to invent a universe of math to describe a tiny fluctuation.
> "I just worry about using Android…"

Exactly, I'm avoiding them for the same reason, I don't want to use a personal e-ink device running on an OS created by the biggest advertiser in the world.

I was hoping Pocketbook would release something new this year running some Linux distro / with less tracking, and more privacy.

PS. Also: i want a light sensor to automatically adjust brightness/night mode based on lighting conditions (previous Pocketbook models don't have this.)
Microsoft is now largely a public cloud company, also supporting a very healthy suite of B2B productivity tools.

Which makes the B2C ad stuff they shove into Windows all the more infuriating: it's a drop in the bucket relative to their other product verticals.
> literally nothing in the observed universe does

There are many things on earth that don't exist anywhere else in the universe (as far as we know). Life is one of them. Just think how unfathomably complex human brains are compared to what's out there in space.

Just because something doesn't exist anywhere in the universe doesn't mean that humans can't create it (or humans can't create a machine that creates something that doesn't exist anywhere else) even if it might seem unimaginably complex.
Possibly Battlemage running at 100% will use more power than M3's GPU running at 100%...it will take some detailed testing to track that+ Lunar Lake can be set at different TDP's (plus performance settings, on battery vs connected to power). Not to mention different "100%" GPU workloads.

At the end of the day though, users vastly prefer a more powerful built in GPU for the occasional game session...Intel is willing to pay for the transistors, and Apple reserves them for the M3 Pro instead.

Nice to see ANE supports that...good to know!
What's your next step? Why did you decide to focus on enzyme design?
Maybe one of the e-beam startups can pull it off. Aside from scaling issues, direct electron beam lithography ought to outperform optical lithography by many metrics, not to mention that there would never be costs associated with mask revisions.

Here’s one of them: https://multibeamcorp.com/

I remember touring a little research fab, maybe around 2000, that could achieve feature sizes comparable to what TSMC can do today. But they were very, very, very slow.

(Fast-moving electrons are easy to make, easy to aim, and have teeny tiny wavelengths that entirely sidestep most the issues that people have with photons having obnoxiously large wavelengths. But electrons have all manner of downsides that explain why fabs spend many billions of dollars on optical lithography, one of which is that they repel each other, which makes shining a lot of them at a wafer at once quite problematic.)
Serial Silion Valley Tech Fraudster Flees Sentencing
I interpret your story as the American workers thinking "wow, I'm not getting paid enough to deal with this s***."

I also interpret your story as the children of immigrants realizing "wow, I'm not going to be paid enough to deal with the s**
* my parents deal/dealt with." So they find a way to get a tech job or desk job.

One could just as easily denigrate the children of immigrants as being lackadasical, but that's not necessary. Why denigrate people?
It’s a good point, but one thing to consider is that ultra long hard tech might be structurally challenging as well. If fusion requires 100 years of capital and R&D it won’t be viable ever due to economic/societal/structural reasons.
The example for "Don't split up identifiers" is impractical when you need to construct a string on the fly. Author's example might work for the simple case of two potential values, but as soon as addressType can take on more than a trivial number of values, the code becomes very non-DRY.

Also, the example completely glosses over the egregious use of magic constants. Wouldn't it be better to declare addressType an enum?

The example for "Use the same names for things across the stack" only works if you control the whole stack. Sometimes you have to get fetch data from a 3rd party. And even if you do own the whole stack, sometimes it's nice to be able to search for 'streetName' when you're looking for the JS symbol, and 'street_name' when you're looking for the DB column. So I don't think this rule is always beneficial.

At the end of the day, if you really want to make your code grepable, add some verbose comments that include useful keywords. (I've found it useful to include keywords that aren't even in the code but which devs may search for.) This lets you grep regardless of how the code is written or formatted.
You can get a loan against the value of a purchase contract if you have a firm purchase contract (i.e. from the government) and a convincing plan on how to manufacture to that price point...
The OP makes a compelling case that Intel's foundry operations have fallen so far behind that they are no longer economically viable on their own, in the face of current market forces, i.e., Intel's foundry business may not be able to earn a positive return on the tens of billions of dollars of capex now required to catch up with TSMC.

If the US truly views having a domestic foundry as critical to national security, the US federal government has no choice but to pay up big time to support Intel's foundry business until -- hopefully, eventually -- that business is able to compete profitably against TSMC to manufacture chips for Apple, Nvidia, AMD, etc.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen!
I think their goal is similar to what smalltalk's goal originally was: To allow for regular people to do complex things with a computer.

Ultimately, it didn't succeed in that goal but I believe inventing the first spreadsheet software can be counted as achieving some success there.

I admire this project and hope they can one day move beyond simply typing code on a sheet of paper to creating tools that actually make our compilers/IDEs look like using punch cards.
I had the good fortune of taking a field trip there in 2018.

The video is a very good overview of the project.

One interesting artifact of "the real world simulates itself" is version control. At Dynamicland, each version of a program is a sheet of paper (with a unique set of fiducials along the edges). If you want to edit a program, you grab a keyboard and point it at the program. A text editor comes up; you make your changes, and hit commit. When you do, it spits out a new piece of paper with your changes. Put it in the view of the camera to use the new version. Take it away and use the old paper to roll the change back.
I think because setting up NFS and attaching it is still way more difficult to support than just allowing an app to make HTTPS calls to S3 to manage its storage.

It also dramatically increases the flexibility THEY have in their underling infrastructure to scale up, down, and move your instances around.

When you interact with an NFS your code may have certain expectations of timeouts etc because you're using the filesystem API.
What's the advantage of calling a locally running server vs running the codegen directly on the command line?
In theory. But if everything is in the password safe, the malware can just grab that and upload? And cover its traces. As opposed to patching every application/service you might use, and get access only when you use it.