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Thank you for this. I'm not an advanced user but I do use some advanced features, and having to fight the OS in order for it to make what I want is not in my list of desirable "features".

Will delay this update as long as possible.
>entrenched management class

This exists among the ICs class, too. "The bar" is under active manipulation so that they sit higher amongst the sea of low performers.
I find this to be a bit exaggerated but there are a few fair points. I think people are starting to see that ai is not as good as the demos and flashy videos makes them believe. Since the day chatgpt came out, my biggest problem with it has been the fact that you will ask it a mildly difficult question on any subject and it will confidently give you a response that's complete bs. And I'm starting to see people coming to the same conclusion as time goes by, despite the advancements. Ai has a place in this world even with it's current limitations and shortcomings, no doubt about it - there are cases in which it does a nearly perfect job - I'm currently building an AI rig for my home lab because it has a ton of use cases even outside my daily work(where I do use llms for processing unstructured data).

The second issue I see is that data is becoming widely unavailable-everything is getting blocked, crawlers are getting cut off immediately, 1000 API calls cost as much as a mid-sized flat in a European capital - the complete opposite of what the internet was supposed to be.

The third issue is the fact that people are gladly using chatgpt to answer questions on stackoverflow for example. We know how badly llms start performing when you train them on their own data... Not to mention the considerable spike in critical bugs in open source projects over the last two years-there's a good chance it a lot to do with it.

The fourth is social media-there are already tons of examples where troll farms are no longer paid workers in some dump in siberia but are in fact powered by chatgpt out some other service. And to think that I laughed at the dead internet theory when I first heard about it...
Co-LLM: Enhancing LLM collaboration for smarter, more efficient solutions
Core d&d is lord of the rings and the hobbit, with much more powerful magic.

Really the essence of the game is right in the name: dungeon crawl, fantasy creatures. Everything else is a bolt on.

Personally I apply a rule that there is no way to "mass produce" magic effects. Each spell invocation is unique based on local conditions/environment, and enchantment of magical items is unique to the item, even if quantities, materials, shapes, etc is precisely identical.

Otherwise magic is essentially more powerful than modern technology and medicine: infinite power generation, cure anything, raise dead, invulnerability, produce almost anything from thin air, know anything, teleport anywhere, and it would be inevitable that machines would be made to do so

It is kind of like the navigators in dune, although that has a prohibition on computers, I believe that computers pre jihad couldn't compete with spice enabled navigator prescience.

What was always funny to me as a teenager was the price tables for castles like barbicans, crenellations, etc: I had no idea what these were before the Internet. I knew towers, walls keeps.

Castles themselves seem much useless in the age of dragons, flying carpets, disintegrate spells, and flying mounts. There's a reason the US military doesn't have castles for defense.
Seems that bclm no longer works

https://github.com/zackelia/bclm/issues/49

I had to start using it because macOS insisted on keeping my battery charged to 100% no matter what I did, and that can damage the battery.
I use `ping -a` so that when the host comes up, my terminal will beep.
EGR is not required to control combustion temp. I’ve been building motors and competing in Motorsport all my life, never used EGR and my temps are great.
It’s for emissions and on a diesel, injects soot into the intake
Oh yes, I should have looked at it before posting :(
Yep, Mac OS is sadly the least shitty option we can get for desktops. Don't call it the best, because there is no good option.
Darbat was their project mainly to run macOS on L4. AFAIK this was canceled, and no work has happened since around 2006.

The newer L4 stuff (like Apple's Secure Enclave) is based on L4Ka::Pistachio, but with proprietary changes made by Apple. [1]

[1] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Mandt-De...
Well.. ecmascript got a lot of marketing value from JavaScript and thus Java. If it was called something else it would’ve never become so big
Intel’s absolute best integrated GPU being roughly comparable to a lower end model from the competition is not “getting good.”
Maybe that person should say something else instead.
That sounds pretty bad to me. "At some point" would probably be millions of years in the future, but you're ready to force the issue this decade. If you asked everyone in a developed country what they think about completely upending life as they know it and replacing it with something unknown; that might be better, or might be horrifically worse, we'll just have to see what happens; most people would be strongly opposed to that proposition.
> They then hand over the crappy MVP to other engineers to support and move on to other new products. On-call is absolutely brutal because of exactly that.

So fucking true. They also treat their employees like shit generally, and prefer to hire externally for higher level positions - causing existing engineers who are closely familiar with the systems to quit and replacing them with higher-paid new hires, who have no context or familiarity with the service/product in question. I worked there for a few years on some fairly important, foundational services, and it was incredible that they had almost no-one around who initially built these services... 50% of the job was oncall, 40% was reading and trying to understand huge amounts of undocumented code that no one was familiar with... I felt like I was back to working on legacy banking systems.
Can humans grow new islands in the lowest-lying country?
The director told my manager that I could ignore it, then the director was made to move out of the house he just built!

Be wary of who and what you trust. There are proper remote gigs, don't risk it IMO.

edit: To be clear, this wasn't at Amazon or even part of FAANG. I took my own advice and went elsewhere, seeing the writing on the wall.
D&D isn't American history. It's fantasy fiction. The "American History"-like elements come from fantasy fiction, where someone like Conan could become a king and there are unexplored areas full of hostiles all over the place.
Yeah, for sure. After all, it's a Tier 1 city in the United States. It's just different in the Bay, but it's different than anywhere else in the world.
The opposite, as it is a privilege to work somewhere without externalities.
Basic/Expert (and the BECMI -> Rule Cyclopedia) line were parallel to AD&D. TSR claimed these were the rules meant for "Home" play and AD&D was meant for "Tournament" play. More plausibly, this was an attempt to escape from having to pay Arneson any royalties for continued editions of D&D.

OD&D predates both and was the original release.
Isn't this (kinda) true, in general?

I work at Google. Many of the "official descriptions" of various levels include "size of team" as part of the description. I think, generally, anyone in a middle management position, particularly at a growing company knows that "more people equals more advancement".
While I love generative AI and support open source AI movements because of my enthusiasm for the technology, I have been extremely skeptical about all the efforts to monetize it in big time capitalist terms, both from big companies and several friends who thought AI was their big break to get into tech millions. There's just no full product there that isn't tacking an LLM or image generation into an existing product. So, at face value, I agree with this article, but I think it feels a little too gleeful, a little too "I told you so", even if in some ways it validates my own personal "I told you so". I worry the author overall does not like AI technology, which is popular to dislike these days, and that is coloring the overall tone of the piece, it's hard to tell.
> You seem to disbelieve such a narrative exists.

It has been said over and over that it no doubt has happened, but is not common enough that anyone here would speak to it. Digging deep into the depths of what HN largely considers a trolling website to find some random nobody has ever heard of once saying what you want to hear is not indicative of anything.

I'm surprised you don't take your comedy show on the road. People would pay good money for the laughs you've brought us.
> I like all the privacy protections that Safari gives me as a user.

... compared to Chrome, right? Not to Firefox with uBlock Origin and Facebook and Google containers ...
You can also rate limit on the server side. Service A talks to Service B. Service B is 3 replicas. Each replica keeps track of how many times Service A talked to it. If that goes over the limit / 3, deny the request. Now there is no IPC required.

This isn't as accurate, but it's often adequate. I have never liked making a network request to see if I can make a network request; too slow. (I do use this architecture to rate-limit my own website, mostly because I wanted to play with writing a service to do that. But I'd hesitate to make someone else use that.)
Where do you draw the line between "it's the employees fault for not wanting to live next to work in an industrial office park adjacent to a homeless encampment" and "it's the employers fault for insisting people commute in when they can achieve just as much from home without?"

Do you expect people who change jobs to only work at employers they're proximate to - or to sell their homes each time? What if moving means the kids have to change schools? Or a married couple, do they both have to change jobs?

My employer happened to move offices, so my 10 minute walk turned into 45-60 minutes multi-modal. Does that mean I should be fired for their decision to move to a lower cost jurisdiction when I can provide the same value? In that case am I just being fired for not asking "how high?"

I think in practice it ends up being "is this a hot job market or not" and if yes, then the employee gets to dictate, and if not the employer does. This doesn't really resolve the underlying issue though.

I think a simpler model is just to allow employees to expense commute costs at the ~IRS rate. If the employer doesn't want that they can choose to hire only people nearby. If they move offices they should factor that into their cost estimates. But what do I know, maybe they should just fire everyone ;)
Commenting here as a bookmark to not forget.
Magnet is great, with very good sane default keybindings so you can just install and go.
Anything you compile on your own system you can run. This only affects downloaded binaries.
It was not a straw man. I've seen it specified in contracts. I've seen audit teams sent in to verify an SDLC (system development life cycle). Arthur Andersen (now Andersen consulting) had it formalized in their "Method 1" system development approach.

Any semblance of agile was met with hostility. You were labeled a "cowboy programmer" or "hobbyist programmer" if you dared start with code instead of specification and approved plan.

Also, it is easy to forget those "rules" weren't wrong. People were coding in non-agile languages. Version control tools had strict checkout and locking. Project communication was in the form of rows of three ring binders -- everytime you added or changed a function, you marked up the existing doc page and a secretary retyped it with carbon paper (for a subject book, title book, and subsystem book).

Changed to requirements were very expensive, so the whole system was designed to get full buy in a once. Consider that even now in this "age of enlightenment", we take a waterfall approach in nonsoftware projects simply because changes are expensive. If you're having a custom home built, you need to make a lot of decisions early. You're charged heavily if you want to change the spec during construction.
Unfortunately, yes. @HeatrayEnjoyer said it well.

80k new jobs is barely slowing the problem down.
I had to retake a driver’s test recently and I’ve never heard of checking your mirrors before a yellow. What’s “a vehicle unlikely to stop” even mean? Like I can ascertain that in a second? The driver behind you is supposed to be traveling a minimum safe distance behind you for their reaction time. If they aren’t it’s 100% their problem.
It seems crazy to strongly link your spreadsheets to the cloud.
Can confirm. I saw a flood of ex-Amazonians come to Meta in the late 2010s. Not sure I interpreted their comparisons of Meta being more cut-throat, but it did seem like Amazon had way more intense politics with opaque decision making that hurt morale. Kind of seemed like they paid less for the same amount of stress but from different reasons.
I understand the argument that it's quite annoying that so much of the hardware you own relies on Apple permitting you to keep using it, but on the other hand what are you even doing to make them ban you? Their terms and conditions make it fairly clear that the only thing that would cause this is if you upload illegal content to their platform or attempt to chargeback purchases.
Nope, that is Basic/Expert, and eventually BECMI/Rules Cyclopedia. These were released in parallel with AD&D.

In theory they catered to different playstyles, in practice it was largely to escape paying Arneson royalties.

OD&D is the original 1974 release co-authored by Gygax and Arneson
I think the overall thesis here is accurate. I can fill in the blanks where Fowler is light on anecdotal evidence. I have done many architecture reviews and private equity due diligence reviews of startup systems.

Nearly all the micro services based designs were terrible. A common theme was a one or two scrum team dev cohort building out dozens of
Micro services and matching databases. Nearly all of them had horrible performance, throughout and latency.

The monolith based systems were as a rule an order of magnitude better.

Especially where teams have found you don’t have to deploy a monolith just one way. You can pick and choose what endpoints to expose in various processes, all based on the same monolithic code base.

Someday the Internet will figure out Microservices were always a niche architecture and should generally be avoided until you prove you need it. Most of the time all you’re doing is forcing app developers to do poorly what databases and other infrastructure are optimized to do well.
Does the command line to remove the quarantine flag (xattr -d com.apple.quarantine filename) still work?
It could be that they're plowing billions of dollars into engineering and missing some obvious solution.

I think it's more likely that once you get down the details (which are going to much more intricate than a post like this can convey), then it may turn out to actually be a hard problem that requires a bunch of engineering.

For a relevant example of the "how hard could it be"-mindset: See George Hotz's short stint at Twitter.
In my experience the app submission needs to be fully functional and then it will be rejected for this reason.
Especially as Q4 is a slow time for hiring from seasonal factors alone. Companies doing layoffs in Q4/Q1 to boost numbers for whatever the end of their financial year is, holidays and stuff slowing down hiring pipelines.
presumably you would want it in order to do research on quantum algorithms, but i don't see what that has to do with fractran
I’m sure there is some variance in IRS customer experience. I received similar letters from the IRS and after calling them (and waiting for a callback) the matter was always swiftly resolved.

That said, it wouldn’t hurt if their customer support division had more resources.
When I've had longer-running test/lint suites in the past, I've added simple sounds to the ends of their run scripts (birds chirping for success, alarm blare for fail) that help me draw my attention back. I had an issue where I would go off and read the news, or social media, or whatever, when running my tests, then suddenly it would be twenty minutes later and not only would I have wasted fifteen minutes, I'd have forgotten what it was I was even doing...
It's very easy to make sqrt(n) DLP solvers for known subranges.

Here is a trivial one:

In advance, make a table of all the pubkeys xG for secret key s = (0,2^33].

When you get a target key T, compute T - (2^33)xG for x = (0,2^33] and look up the result in the table.

When you get a hit, you've found the private key for T it's (2^33)x + s.

Of course, this is a trivialized example, many optimizations are possible and you can specialize any generic DL solver to work in a known range.
I used to hate the over-employment thing, because I suspected it was making my own job harder while I do someone else’s job. But I get it now. Workers can only be punished so many times for being passionate, interested, and trustworthy before they say “ok, let’s do things your way” to management, and start to play the game that the system has pushed them into.

If you want to treat your employees as cogs in a machine, constantly frustrate well intentioned shows of initiative, remove their job security and treat them as interchangeable and discardable.. then you should expect them to do exactly and only what they are told rather than looking around for the best way to help. If you can’t keep them busy & don’t really understand what they do well enough to supervise or evaluate the work, and you slashed wages for the same job to half what it was a few years ago.. hell yes they are getting another job and laughing if you’re upset about it.
We're getting closer to the bottom of the slope! I wonder what their next step will be.

1. Need to disable gatekeeper to run unsigned code.
2. Need an active developer account.
3. You can't run downloaded unsigned code.
Before the pandemic, everyone was working in-office 5 days a week. The pandemic is now over. Why is it so controversial to return to what everyone was already doing previously?

Kudos to Jassy for being a leader in this space.
> They'll invest as much, if not more, into trying to find other ways to grow

Management will try to hold on to the capital for as long as shareholders let them. But if the growth prospects from AI significantly diminish, 20,000 jobs in tech is a pretty conservative estimate for lay-offs.
Is the goal here to act as some sort of honeypot for security researchers?
Apple always delivers what its customers want, after all alternatives have been exhausted.
Objective info is currently hard to come by, but my horse sense is that Big AI is subsidizing it for many projects, including those in other companies, to gain both market share and investor excitement (deserved or not).

If one looks at most the bubbles of the past, the writing is on the wall. AI won't go away, but will probably take longer to make profitable than anticipated, just like dot-coms and smart-speakers. Force feeding it is causing indigestion, and it's likely to PukeGPT.
I think the main problem with AI sustainability is that all this VC investment is burning through ungodly amounts of money to produce something that provides no moat.

Even if all AI investment froze tomorrow, I'd still have my 405B Llama 3.1 model, along with countless other smaller models, and I'd run them to do whatever the heck I felt like doing, with no commitment to any provider.

Writing code with AI? I could swap to a local model. Costs nothing. Provides no revenue to any VC-backed company.

Yes, bigger models will always command a premium for the highest end of reasoning. But you don't always need the best possible reasoning. GPT-3 and early GPT-4 were more than good enough for a ton of use cases last year.

And we've seen the pace of development in the open source world these past two years. The open source community (Meta in particular) has completely obliterated the commercial value of these models.

If there were no "weights available" models, OpenAI would have an incredible, unbeatable moat, and they would be worth truly astounding amounts of money. But as it stands, we all have free, unfettered access to local models far better and cheaper than models that were flagship 18 months ago, and close enough to the performance of current flagship models that it won't make a difference for a ton of use cases.

There is no way to justify the current level of investment, with local models being freely available.

The assumption I'm making, of course, is that this transformer technology won't ever lead to AGI - it will just be another tool in our ever-expanding tool-belt.
And for that matter you don’t build a twitter client the same way you built a backend for twitter clients to connect to. In my experience every team and project has a unique way of working and that could be encouraged.
For anyone thinking about a Framework I would echo the same final thought. They have there issues but are really worth giving a shot.

I have a 16 that had a motherboard that got bricked by a bios update. After trying everything to fix it that their tech support advised I did get a new motherboard shipped to me. Not a trivial thing to replace but doable and I've had no issues since. I realize that to many just hearing about that failure would turn you off of getting one but if it were any other company, I would have to send it back and more than likely the whole laptop would be scrapped. I probably also would have gotten the run around to get the approval to fix it first. I wish it just worked perfectly out of the box but their response was about as good as one could hope for.

I can also say that on the 16, the hinge issue is fixed. I have a type A port but haven't used it heavily yet so can't comment on that one. As far as the sleep situation, I've been running linux for close to 10 years as my daily driver and I've had sleep issues off and on the entire time (with two previous Dell XPS 13's running mostly Ubuntu or Fedora). So far I haven't had them with the Framework 16 but I'm sure some update will trigger it at some point.

I don't use my laptop for work, just for personal use, so maybe that lets me lean towards things that are a bit more finicky but if you care about open hardware this is a product that deserves your support. Having basically taken one apart as much as one can, I feel confident saying alot of good design went into this thing to make it physically durable and easy to take apart/assemble.
Silent quitting is a great way to permanently ruin your reputation. Even if you never get a job there again, you could never ask your coworkers or management for a job. Silent quitting is indistinguishable from being a bad employee.

From my experience though WFH just doesn’t work. People aren’t as invested in the company and they produce worse results. If companies could figure out how to keep productivity and quality up while not paying rent I’m sure they would, it’s just nobody has figured out how to do that on a large scale yet.

Edit: My experience with WFH has to do with software development. It may work for other fields, however WFH often attracts the wrong kind of employee which is why I don't do it anymore. If you can't be bothered to drive 10 minutes into work you probably aren't that motivated and you probably won't stay that long.
I've seen people use it to make loras of themselves, paying to get it trained and paying to leverage them in generating images.
Yeah I read it. I define memory safe as: Any program accepted by the compiler follows the typing rules of the language.

That holds for Rust if you don’t use unsafe at all. It also holds in other memory safe languages (like JavaScript). Some memory safe languages gaurantee this without any caveats (JavaScript) while others guarantee it with caveats (Rust if you don’t use unsafe, Java if you don’t use certain APIs, etc).