skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
theres no absolute free speech in the US. There are most certainly plenty of things you cannot say and protestors are often violently silenced by police and riot squads. Then the media upholds its end of the bargain by heavily re-enforcing the State Dept. position while besmirching the message of the protestors and misrepresenting them in any and every way imaginable.

You can say a lot of awful shit, but you really can't openly oppose the State with any real threat of power. I mean, I wouldn't really call the US admitting to assassinating Malcom X, MLK, among others, the pinnacle of free speech... all theses people did was speak out against injustices that they observed... and that's just one incident. This happens everyday.
Free speech is all that matters. Musk is not perfect by any means here but he is better than the rest. He is exporting the 1st amendment to us nations who don't get to experience such freedoms. Which is what Twitter should have been doing, instead of kowtowing to the likes of the German and Saudi govts among others...
Massachusetts Bodged Transistor Authority
It's possible to train useful LLMs on affordable harwdare. It depends on what kind of LLM you want. Sure you won't build the next ChatGPT, but not every language task requires a universal general-purpose LLM with billions of parameters.
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Plastic is great, it's extremely reusable, Tupperware containers last decades, then can be melted and reformed, or chipped and used in other products.

Plastic per se isn't the problem, lack of reuse is, and that's a problem of not having to account for externalities.

If it weren't for marketing then we could refill simple reusable packets.
Random Values in Pointers
Misinformation has been rampant ever since social media has gained momentum, on both sides of the political aisle.

The sad part is that some folks on the left would happily have a site banned now that Musk is a right-wing nut. They don't seem to grasp the implications this would have on free speech once other countries adopt Brazil's model. In their world, it's a 'nothing burger', as they'd been calling 'the twitter files.'
> If your car is regularly being driven by your brother at 100mph, it's still your insurance that's going to pay if he gets in an accident.

Not if your brother isn't listed as an insured party on your insurance. The insurance company will tell you to pound sand in that case. And if your brother is on your insurance, and you're paying for it and giving him a free ride, that's on you.

> And while that's sad, maybe private sousveillance is better than anarchy. People can have differing opinions.

::raises hand:: We shouldn't accept either. Private surveillance is not the solution to anarchically poor enforcement.
From the article:

> The more time I spent with it, the more I thought: “I can’t do this; coding’s not for me – I don’t have the right kind of mind

I’ve been writing JavaScript for a good 20 years and still feel this!
Yeah, they just write OS in those.
Thanks for noticing, I've changed it
Both PS1 and N64 games were beyond the generation where direct assembly was required to achieve necessary performance.

Compilers were good enough by that point in time for the vast majority of games.
Did someone say e-barnacles ?
We've had serious trouble with migration merges when two people work on different parts of the code, yet in the same module, and they both generate a "migration nr. 6" on their feature branches.
Better to stand strong in the principles of the 1st amendment than bend the knee to a foreign government. Free speech is the milk of the gods, the US constitution is something to be coveted...
sqlalchemy is easily one of the best ORMs ever made for any language. Hats off to zzzeek.

Currently working in typescript and writing SQL queries out by hand since I just don’t trust anything to do the right thing wrt units of work.
The cute thing there being they outnumber the big fish by something like 400,000 to 1 in the US and without them there is literally no economy and no billionaire class.
The difference is that, in Brazil, he would be censoring the far right and Musk wouldn't do that
Banning a company from doing business in your country is one thing, free speech be damned. But immediately threatening your own people with ungodly fines is authoritarianism pure and simple. Love or hate Musk, it's still not justified.
The algorithm would analyze the post's/user's likes. If a post/user is liked by people who often disagree, then boost the engagement of that post/user. If a post/user is liked by an echo chamber, then deboost it.
I have been doing the VM for my entire albeit somewhat sort career.

It actually makes lot of sense in modern development. VMs can be throwaway, you set up them as needed and if they break well, new one is hour or two.

And this model is actually pretty close how server software is developed with cloud. Either you roll VM there, or some set of containers.
There are very, very few YouTube creators that actually have thousands of hours of video.

Even if it's a vtuber/live streamer they'd still have to publish ~6 hours every day for a full year to get to 2 thousand hours

It's pretty much the peak of the iceberg
Executives have, by definition, cobtrol over everything inside their company.
What's wrong with the use of the word?
Sorry, what do you think a landfill is? In the UK it's a big area where rubbish is dumped, it's exposed to the elements, microplastics wash and blow away from such sites.

Eventually, when decommissioned the area gets covered with dirt.

How is that kinda solved, do you mean like "I don't live near a landfill so I assume that air full of microplastics isn't the air I'm breathing and that water isn't the water I consume"? That sort of solved? Because beyond that I ain't seeing it.
> With some amount of redundancy and growth that would be 24TB of drive capacity at least. You're looking at $250k in drives alone.

16TB drives are available for ~$150:

https://www.amazon.com/Exos-SATA-512E-%E5%86%85%E8%94%B5%E3%...

12,400TB is 775 16TB drives. Add 20% for redundancy and this is 930. At $155 this is <$150,000, not $250,000, and this is the primary expense.

> You also need almost 100 servers to host that many drives

No you don't, you put them in an array container, which will hold 24-48 drives, e.g.:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/226215269668

Those hold 48 drives, so you'd need 20 of them and they're ~$300. It doesn't even move the needle.

> Then they'd have to pay maybe $500k/yr for three sysadmins (including benefits)

Why on earth would you need three sysadmins? After the initial setup this is a part time job for one person, and you probably already have that person because they're the ones dealing with all the problems caused by unreliable cloud vendors and forced SaaS software changes.

> Then some amount for tape backups, connectivity, electricity, maintenance.

Tape is cheap. Universities already have fiber. Maintenance contracts are for bureaucrats, you just use commodity parts and then keep a few spares. Electricity is going to be some tens of thousands of dollars a year. This is all still "on the order of $100,000", i.e. the price has that number of significant figures. Then annual cost is actually less because the drives etc. will last for more than a year.
No need to fear anything. Will be handled similar to Parasites and Pandemics. Scale is over rated, if the host gets drained and dies too quickly. Past couple decades have taught corporate wonderland how to combine mindlessly ambitious people(parasites) and button press scalability, to generate mesmerizing levels of profits. But the scheme is getting old. Everyone has copied the model. The host is taking more hits than it can afford. And therefore there is greater recognition about which parasites to keep locked up and which can be safely controlled.
There were and are many unknowns and fear about the internet at the time, too.
I believe the distinction from NVIDIA was that they considered their product as the first all in one graphics unit

> a single-chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that is capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second

It’s kind of arbitrary, even when you take out the processing rate. But prior to that there was still a significant amount of work expected to be done on the CPU before feeding the GPU.

That said, the term GPU did definitely exist before NVIDIA, though not meaning the same thing we use it for today.
Pardon the delayed response, I'm not sure if this will still reach you but I'll type it nonetheless.

I unfortunately am not very fast at reading Tex so I could not quite grasp it. My main touch points with literate programming were probably iPython Notebooks and ObservableHQ. I like interspersing code with (rich) text, and starting with a top-down view of a codebase is imo also the way to go.

I'm less sure about the macro bits, I have yet to see a language where it makes for sane means of abstraction. It certainly solves for a hole in our meta-programming design space, but I don't think we've found the right hammer for that nail yet.

From the ones I know of, Pharo is probably closest to my vision, though it is still very far from it, being brutally OOP (the obtuse kind, for me at least) and it still puts a wall between code and visualization. A wall which I intend to tear down.

Thanks for the Hesse recommendation, first time I'm getting one in my native german on this site.
orms are exercises in OCD.

Databases are the bottleneck your classic website. We choose to query these databases in a extremely high level language called SQL. This language is so high level that you need to come up with tricks and query analyzers in order to hack the high level query into something performant.

A better abstraction would be one that's a bit more similar to a standard programming language with an std that has query related operations/optimizers that can be composed so programmers can compose and choose query operations and avoid optimization issues that are hidden by high level languages like SQL.

We are unfortunately, sort of stuck with SQL (there are other options, but SQL remains popular because years of development has made it pretty good in spite of the fact that it's a poor initial design choice). This is already a historical mistake that we have to live with. Same with javascript (which has been paved over with typescript), same with CSS, etc. The web is full of this stuff. It's fine. My main problem is the ORM.

The ORM is just another layer of indirection. You already have a high level language you're dealing with, now you want to put Another High level language on top of it? ORMs are basically high level languages that compile into SQL.

What is the point? The ORM isn't actually making things easier because SQL is pretty much as high level of a language you can get outside of having an LLM translating direct english.

The point is OCD. Programmers find it jarring to work with SQL strings inside their beautiful language so they want to chop up a SQL string into web app language primitives that they can compose together. Query builders operate on the same concept but are better because they aren't as high level.

This is basically the main reason why Many programmers experience the strange counter intuitive phenomena about why ORMs actually makes things harder. You have to Hack SQL to optimize it. Now you have to hack another ORM on top of it in order to get it to compile it into the hacked query.
Steamdeck user experience once you well leave the Steam and software run from there is well not really that great. It is different Linux experience and not actually that great. Specially if you are trying to do something like developing stuff.
I mean. It’s no mystery is it. Microsoft. meta, Amazon and even Oracle
Is OpenAI Worth $100B?
It's in full swing here in Sweden too. Me and a close colleague bought new cars a couple of months apart. My left-leaning teammates who are usually pretty climate aware only offered congratulations to my colleagues new gasgussler, but had some criticisms for me who bought a Tesla.

I found it weird tho, like fair, they were pissed about Twitter, but surely the planet is the bigger issue?

Musk has pissed off the left to the point where the left is not thinking clearly about him and his companies anymore. Regardless of what you think about Musk, Tesla is actually pretty great.
Because you'll never be able to prove it, but the proof is arguably in it's effects... whether it's riling up domestic activists to block naval operations in home ports, messaging your entire userbase in-country to DDoS elected representatives or drive political violence through mis/disinformation . I think the entire western world should unify to push TikTok out and at the very least ban all types of "recommendation" algorithms on foreign and domestic social media applications. Free market economics be damned pull out the regulation stick and go whacking
What stands out to me is that private actors figured out a loophole within weeks/months and it took the government 4 years to close it. A familiar story of the sad state of government regulation wherever you look. They treat lawmaking as a waterfall process, trying to plan for every eventuality years into the future and inevitably failing instead of going faster and course-correcting along the way.
Really? Where? That happened about twenty years ago where I live in Norway. The result was that bus drivers got severe tellings off, mostly from elderly women who had been used to arriving at the bus stop just in time. After a couple of weeks the practice was stopped.
I don’t want to be rude, but have you looked into the established scientific knowledge which has accumulated on the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the human body?

I really truly don’t want to be rude. I only want to point to the existence of literature on this.

There are results from molecular biology, from the various medical specializations, from population-scale studies.

There are certainly symptoms and biomarkers. There are documented changes to physiology, and there exists at least some information on how to help the body recover.
Musk and his people officially don’t have any control over political decisions taken in any country, be it Brazil, Germany, or even home in the US. And they shouldn’t but by virtue of a ton of money thrown towards politicians, and general US global influence, many times this happens.

So your explanation should be rewritten as “remove people from the way of legal consequences from breaking local laws they/Musk can’t control (buy) in their favor”.

It sounds like the same thing but it’s the difference between fleeing persecution and fleeing prosecution.
The Message (1976)
> I think he legitimately believes that “the woke mind virus” is an existential threat to our society

The issue is that many people who feel this way (seemingly Musk included) swing to the other extreme and embrace policy positions that only serve to further support and entrench systemic racism.

I'm not always comfortable with the methods and rhetoric of some social justice advocates, but I'm not going to present that as evidence that the movement they support is dangerous and we should strive for social injustice instead.
And why should Twitter recognize the Brazilian courts authority on speech?
Nah I think it's like (a more mild) Electroboom, he only plays it dangerous but knows how to control the risks
Are you telling me Unix was worse? Why do I get feeling that everyone in software has Stockholm syndrome...
The Kremlin Has Entered the Chat Room (2023)
Russian antiwar activists placed their faith in Telegram, a supposedly secure messaging app. How does Putin’s regime seem to know their every move?
A surge protector dimensioned for protection against lightning induced overvoltages will probably not trip at the level of overvoltage that could be produced by an ordinary inverter.
bbc lol
I am from Europe and I am not completely sure about that to be honest. I also prefer programming.

I also dislike software development as it reminds me of developing a photograhic negative – like "oh let's check out how the software we developed came out".

It should be software engineering and it should be held to a similar standard as other engineering fields if it isn't done in a non-professional context.
Maybe faking most of the data to join the Eurozone is not such a good idea then, Greece. So is also not kicking them out the second the swindle is realized, EU.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/23/world/europe/greece-admit...
Quite a cry, in a submission page from one of the most language "obsessed" in this community.

Now: "code" is something you establish - as the content of the codex medium (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex for its history); from the field of law, a set of rules, exported in use to other domains since at least the mid XVI century in English.

"Program" is something you publish, with the implied content of a set of intentions ("first we play Bach then Mozart" - the use postdates "code"-as-"set of rules" by centuries).

"Develop" is something you unfold - good, but it does not imply "rules" or "[sequential] process" like the other two terms.
About Half of You Don't Have Your Databases Under Control
The threats were themselves due to failing to follow a court order.

I'm not qualified to tell if the judge giving them is a partisan hack or not, just like I can't make that distinction with the judges that Musk appears to shop for in the US with what others describe as SLAPP lawsuits.

But obeying a judge isn't optional in either case.
Not at my desk but from memory, this is a something with a clearly documented "solution".

I put that word in quotes because I don't want to imply it's a problem - it's just something you need to know how to handle.
100%. ORMs are good for basic queries but the messes I have seen written joining 20 plus tables with conditions and left joins, etc, oof. Just use SQL, it’s much cleaner and easier to maintain.
Pretty easy to secure: Call it chatbots and not AI.

Of course then they couldn't leak the latest exponential growth stories to the press, which now appear every week.
I got ChatGPT to write poetry about what it is to talk to an LLM
> there would be a lot of pressure on the legislature (by those who currently get away with it) to make the rules better.

Making perfect rules is basically impossible, they'd be millions of pages long to fully capture all the caveats and exceptions. The world is fractals complex and so we rely on intelligent prosecutors and police not bothering to pursue things that are illegal but fine.

It's just not worth it to try and make perfect laws.
growth stops, investments stop, projects and orderds get cancelled, consolidation happens, unused stock shows up on the secondary market which puts a downward pressure on unit prices of nvidia datacenter GPUs
Good for them. I think I got old because I don’t entirely understand why someone would put themselves through hosting and policing an open file storage system in 2024.
You have to use the ORM with a bit of awareness of the query it it generates. Django provides plenty of tools and great documentation for reducing, combining and managing queries. It's not like it's a deep dark corner.

It's like understanding memory allocation if you're writing c. It's just part of the job
Predictable comments here - 'How can the children do this?'; 'Why can't people get along?'; 'but they're you're family'. Sure people, this is just a casual social fashion and estrangement something that people could not possibly do for a valid reason. You know it 'couldn't be right' and so people feel free to judge.

The key issue as you will see from a lot of the Reddit communities mentioned as well as the examples in the article is the narcism of the parents. There is no compromise with such people, it's either their way or the highway and we are reading about the people who took the highway.

Consider another family relationship: Divorce. Apart from a few religious fundamentalists we don't see people queuing up to try and reconcile divorced couples simply because they are divorced. We don't expect such people to be comfortable in their ex's presence, we don't feel the need to apply thought-terminating clichés to shut down the idea that they might be right. For some reason there is a societal inertia that parents have a divine right to just carry on being a*holes to their children if they wish and it is the children's fault if they don't like it.
My biggest reason for wanting to switch away from GPUI is because there is barely any momentum in making it a general purpose framework. Zed team is mostly just focusing on Zed usecase and the end user is left implementing basic functionality themselves.

On top of that you are stuck with their async runtime of choice (smol), while Iced supports both tokio and smol. This is annoying when you have some tokio dependencies, of which there are a lot.

I played around with Iced a bit now. I like it a lot. The only issues that keep me from porting are:

1. I can’t replicate the GPUI popup window with winit. I am currently trying to patch winit to make it possible, but am a bit lost.
2. I do like the tailwind like syntax for styling components in GPUI a lot. It just fits my mental model a lot better than Iced.

That said I think Iced is the cleaner framework of the two and if you are designing a traditional windowed application, I would recommend it in a heartbeat.
I was just fixing some php from 2001 and it allows visitors to execute php, inject js, read/write the database, send emails, extract md5 passwords, extract email addresses.

I'm surprised things worked out so well.
> There is a significant amount of people choosing to not purchase a Tesla because they don’t want to be associated with Mr. Musk.

Yep, and I know people who have sold their Teslas because they don't want to be associated with Musk any longer.
Asking for a coup IS an attempted coup
Regardless of whether he can wait 30 seconds there is no good reason to impose that cost. Its just randomly making someone's life worse for literally no gain. Time is our most precious and finite commodity and should not be wasted.
> I think it's fair to say that these models may have some grasp of reality insofar as the data we collect ballparks reality, and also insofar as the mechanism to learn from the data effectively extracts the truth value of the data.

No, it would be fair to say they have a "grasp" of predicting the next word in a given sequence of words based on a set of words in their training set. Hallucination then is what people call their inherent tendency to run into a situation where the probability of the next word being predicted "wrong" is high. And once one "wrong" word has been predicted the probability that the next word is also "wrong" rises exponentially.

LLMs do not have any grasp of reality. They just predict text based on trained patterns. Too many people have been fooled into believing that LLMs can understand anything about reality, but a word-based description of reality is not the same as reality.

> We might say the same thing about people.

If you want to reduce a human being down to being a word predictor, then I guess you could say that?
Pianos are not proprietary in that they all have the same interface. This is like a web development tutorial in ColdFusion.
Perhaps housing shouldn't be market determined, but considered essential habitat.

I didn't get any further with this train of thought, but i thought of smarmy shiny-clothed grifty realtor types worrying about the placement of a fridge in a mcmansions kitchen, and how so much of interior design has become ikea airbnb style for flipping rather than living in.

Perhaps turning houses into status symbols instead of shelter has a down side.

I suspect mortages are a relatively recent invention, and that this is why moneyed families had grand houses and poorer folk had self-built hovels a century ago.
Btw 2016 was a coup, there is even recordings of people colluding