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Both of the Henry Rollins interviews. The second one really reveals something about Rollins: he accepted a second interview knowing exactly what to expect and nevertheless couldn't help behaving like a dick.
Naturally AOT also counts, you will find plenty of comments from me regarding CPython versus Common Lisp performance.

However in regards to dynamic languages, unless they support and make use of type annotations with an optimizer compiler, JIT will always perform better than AOT, due to what is possible to do in those languages.

That is why AOT toolchains in Java and .NET world are actually JITs in disguise, because while the languages look static, they inherited much of Smalltalk and Objective-C dynamism that inspired Java semantics, only the syntax was done in a way to be attractive to C++ folks.
Treating corporations as "people" for policy's sake is a legal decision which has essentially killed the premise of the US democratic republic. We are now, for all intents and purposes, a corporatocracy. Perhaps an even better description would simply be oligarchy, but since our oligarchs' wealth is almost all tied up in corporate stocks, it's a very incestuous relationship.
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The gambling bans in the US weren't that effective. People who wanted to gamble went to crypto casinos or other online gambling games.
Ubuntu Snap Packages install CUPS on servers
We are using it internally as just a document store (with some erlang views but that is it). It scales very nicely, but for smaller documents postgres does the job for us so we are (slowly) moving away to simplify the tech stack.
Right that is well understood, but having an LLM compile together functions under the guise of custom built library is hardly a software engineer applying established patterns.
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> The first VHS camcorder (a combined camera and recorder unit) was VHS-C

VHS was released in 1976. VHS-C was released in 1982. The first VHS camcorder was not VHS-C.
I know a lady hoarder. She would buy lots and lots of thrift shop stuff, some to just have and appreciate, some to use as raw materials for artsy projects.

Her father was a computer hoarder. She never saw a parallel there.
Centuries seems like quite a stretch, we haven't even been doing this computer stuff for one century yet.
The nice thing about Studio Display is that it's exactly 2X the resolution of 1440p, so that resolution works very nicely on it. Definitely want to give GFN a shot too though, thanks for the recommendation.
That would be my recommendation as well. this was the first resource that made me really grok 3d graphics in an easy and approacheable way. the course is mostly speaking about cpu rendering but the math foundation is all there and it's nice to also be able to code a simple implementation together.

Good one.
NO its not its pushing society forwards and society need to be pushed forwards even SHOVED forward it needs to be accelerated, cars used to be a joke why have this mechanical wonky slow thing when I can just ride my horse on a 5 day trip this car cannot even go that long, then the stables became useless and no horsing around anymore and thus let the robots be and the AI do so we can focus on more difficult tasks that require thinking and focus such as harmonic analysis.
Considering the current state of the industry, and the prevailing corporate climate, are you sure your job is about to get easier, or are you about to experience cuts to both jobs and pay?
You’re asking me to remember something that you explicitly state is your personal opinion?
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In defense of the washing machine
Considering Musk isn't the founder of Tesla, that's obviously not true. He is the founder of SpaceX so that's probably true that it wouldn't exist without him.

Walter Isaacson doesn't have the best reputation for covering his subjects objectively to be fair. If your source for what Elon has or hasn't done is Isaacson, you aren't standing on very solid ground.

The bigger picture point though is that you can easily argue that the employees at those companies, and not a single man, are responsible for the success of those companies. We give far too much credit to CEOs.
The problem Django solves is popular, which is why we have so many great frameworks that shorten the implementation time (I use Laravel for that). Just like game engines or GUI libraries, assuming you understand the core concepts of the domain. And if the tool was very popular and the LLMs have loads of data to train on, there may be a small productivity tick by finding common patterns (small because if the patterns are common enough, you ought to find a library/plugin for it).

Bad tools often falls in three categories. Too simple, too complex, or unsuitable. For the last two, you'd better switch but there's the human element of sunken costs.
Crop insurance, even of the subsidized variety, could refer to all kinds of different systems. But, I'll assume that which is under the USDA RMA. You don't consider any of the following to be fruit?

Apples, Apricots (Fresh, Processing), Avocados, Bananas, Blueberries, Caneberries, Cherries, Citrus (Grapefruit, Limes, Oranges), Cranberries, Figs, Grapes, Kiwifruit, Lemons, Mandarins/Tangerines, Nectarines (Fresh), Olives, Papaya, Peaches (Cling Processing, Freestone Fresh, Freestone Processing), Pears, Plums, Pomegranates, Prunes, Raisins, Strawberries, Tangelos, Tangors, Tomatoes (Fresh, Processing).

Maybe you meant Agricorp? None of the following are fruits?

Apples, Grapes, Peaches and nectarines, Pears, Plums, Sour cherries, Sweet cherries.
> If an AI can do my job, why would my employer fire me? Why wouldn’t they be excited to get 200% productivity out of me for the marginal cost of an AI seat license?

They’d be excited at getting 100x of 100% output out an AI for 20 dollars a month and laying you off as redundant. If you aren’t scared of the potential of this technology you are lying to yourself.
Just like the lottery, you can never really ban it. It just shifts to a shadowy, untaxed venue. The least bad law would be to put restrictions on advertising. I don't understand why people tolerate State-sponsored lotteries being able to advertise like they do.
> The man had a totally reasonable expectation that the state would protect his land with erosion control measures

Is that a reasonable expectation there? Many islands “migrate” by eroding on the side with more wind/currents and accumulating new land on the other side (http://www.sepmstrata.org/page.aspx?pageid=301).

Long-term protection against that may be almost impossible. If so, governments can tell the population that their land will eventually disappear.

I do not rule out this were the case here, too.
That’s absolutely not my experience. I struggle to find tasks in my day to day work where LLMs are saving me time. One reason is that the systems and domains I work with are hardly represented at all on the internet.
what's an adult for you? Studies show effects on people of up to 25 years of age.
its going to end with these companies going towards zero and then possibly being acquired by private equity
> The thing I’m tired of is elites stealing everything under the sun to feed these models.

I suggest to apply the same to property law: make a photo and obtain instant and unlimited rights of use. – Things may change faster than we may imagine…
The Bank of England quoted reason is explicitly to suppress demand:
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/how-do-higher-int...

It's hard to see how that's not synonymous with increased unemployment, particularly given the oft quoted Phillips curve and the NAIRU.
The site is ugly and difficult to navigate. Go there and enter TCL in the search box and see how many clicks you have to do to actually find the project. Then when you click the download button a timer has to run out before the download will start.

Maybe it technically works, but it's a terrible UX.
I wonder how can the per capita household electricity use be double in the US vs EU then...
I sing a lot and my choir friends can do karaoke sober, but they are the only people I know who can sing in public with no social lubricant. Citing karaoke as a sober activity was very odd to me.
Remember when the Russians mocked Elon Musk for his rocket purchase?

Remember when Blockbuster mocked Netflix?

Remember when Steve Ballmer mocked the iPhone?

Remember when Zuck was mocked for the Metaverse?

I'm pretty sure Sam would have heard similar mockings like "You can't take on Google behemoth, podcaster bro" before.

But the sad part is, the newer tech generation is so brainwashed that it takes the side of the mocker instead of the mockee.

Watch Sam partner with some other fab like Intel and make TSMC irrelevant. Of course HN will then side with Sam
It's like Groupon for paid dev tools
Expanding Cloudflare's support for open source projects with Project Alexandria
In a few months US will have an anti-islamic version of Putin. He is the one who withdrew from treaties you linked.

> consideration to the harms done to non-combatants, both in the sense of "civilians" and "neutral countries".

Knocking down Starlink is perfect version of no-harms strike. Nobody dies, only person negative affected is Musk and some techno bros.
> There was a report that Microsoft is losing $20 for every $10 spent on Copilot subscriptions, with heavy users costing them as much as $80 per month. Assuming you're one of those heavy users, would you pay >$80 a month for it?

I'm probably one of those "heavy users", though I've only been using it for a month to see how well it does. Here's my review:

Large completions (10-15 lines): It will generally spit out near-working code for any codemonkey-level framework-user frontend code, but for anything more it'll be at best amusing and a waste of time.

Small completions (complete current line): Usually nails it and saves me a few keystrokes.

The downside is that it competes for my attention/screen space against good old auto-completion, which costs me productivity every time it fucks up. Having to go back and fix identifiers in which it messed up the capitalization/had typos, where basic auto-complete wouldn't have failed is also annoying.

I'd pay about about $40 right now because at least it has some entertainment value, being technologically interesting.
This is strictly a miscalculation/fudge.

In isolation (which is what CVSS is all about) this is not a network exploitable vulnerability, even if you can craft an attack chain which exploits it over the network.

So:

AV:N -> AV:L - reason above

AC:L - correct

PR:N -> PR:L - to exploit this you need to get cups to process a PPD file. Ignoring how it got there, writing a PPD file requires low privileges on the local machine (unless I'm wrong and you can't add a printer to cups as a local user by default, in which case this becomes PR:H with an overall score of 7.7). These might be fulfilled by another component of the attack chain, but again, you need to strictly think in terms of the vulnerability in a vacuum.

UI:N -> UI:R - that a user must perform a task after you begin exploitation in order for the exploit to complete is a classical example of required user interaction

S:C - correct, attacking cups and getting root on the whole machine is considered a scope change

C:L -> C:H - Running arbitrary code as root on a machine is a total breach of all confidentiality of the local machine, so not sure why this was marked as low.

I:H - correct

A:L -> A:H - Running arbitrary code as root on a machine lets you do anything to completely disable it permanently. Availability impact is high.

In summary a score of 8.2 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H) for CVE-2024-47177 in a vacuum.
I feel the same, and I am happy that new programming languages like Go or Swift make small improvements.

I still feel I need a different programming language to write business code.
Well I heard someone named Elon did try.
I don't think sony have these codes, more likely the finished build. And all the major studios have game engines for their core product (or they license one). The most difficult part is writing new game mechanics or supporting a new platform.
I've commented about sports betting a bit of HN in the past, but it's such a tricky situation for me.

On one hand, this is actively bad for people. You can make the argument that some people win, but the vast majority do not (over any extended period of time). People are hurting themselves and the people around them. I personally know so many young guys who have lost thousands of dollars that they really didn't have the opportunity to lose on sports betting in the last few years.

On the other hand, why would I restrict someone's freedom to choose to make a poor decision?

I find this so hard to make a personal judgement on because I see myself going both ways in my own life. I drink alcohol despite it being bad for my health, but I scoff at smoking cigarettes for the same reason. You can actively justify either of these, but that's not the point I'm trying to make. I just don't know where we begin to restrict people's choices when it primarily affects them - the obvious exception being their friends and family who are affected as well.

Do we step in and prevent this transitive negative effect? I'm really not sure.

I've seen some other comments mention having heavier regulation. That idea makes sense as a middle ground to me, I guess (although I'm really not sure).
Yeah, important distinction. But also I think hopefully there's some understanding that random things aren't good.

My attitude used to be "who cares if there's a bit of random chemicals in your body, what's the worst that can happen?" but then I learned that tons of random chemicals happen to interact with our biology, like Xenoestrogens which are a whole class of chemicals (some in food packaging, like soda cans) that fit into estrogen receptors in the body and act like estrogens.
What LLM abilities, if you saw them demonstrated, would cause you to change your mind?
The origin of the term "Asia" is from ancient Greece, and meant anything to the east of the Dardanelles Strait. The Romans used the term specifically for the province of western Anatolia.

To extend that term to include all those landmasses, including China, India and Japan is extremely Eurocentric.

I would consider "Far East" quite neutral by comparison.
It is reasonable from his point of view - you guys sink the capital, I will have more compute. And if it doesn't work out and orders stop coming in then well that's not my problem, is it?
Nobody wants to fight China because the cost is so high - we are talking about lives more than dollars here (though dollar cost is high too).

What everyone worries about is being forced to fight China anyway. China is not playing nice with the US on the world stage. They are clearly supporting Russia over Ukraine (while pretending to be neutral). They are siding with Iran in the middle east. They are doing things in Africa that are against US interests (the US doesn't have a good record in Africa, but the US generally has supported democracy while China is fine with dictators which leaves lots of room for China to be worse though only time will tell). They escalating with Taiwan and the Philippians. Those are the major reasons I'm aware of to be worried about China, there is more that I didn't write.

How will this turn out - we can only guess. But there is reason to worry.
Just use non-official print cartridges and you'll get your HAL
>I'm confused why you expect most compression schemes to be necessarily seekable after all.

Wtf, you were the one who brought that up.
In Massachusetts, Kia has disabled Kia Connect for all vehicles purchased over the past few years. Any data collected by cars must be made accessible to third-party shops, and Kia opted to disable any data collection (and thus disable Connect entirely) rather than allow that to happen. It doesn't matter where you actually live — as long as you bought in MA, the car's VIN is locked out and no one can do anything about it. You're typically told this at the very end of the sales process, after everything is signed, and it's framed as "oh, by the way, MA has a terrible right-to-repair law that has forced Kia to disable Connect, you should write your state senator."

It's... interesting to see just how easy it is to access this functionality if the VIN check is bypassed.
Ummm sure buddy. Let's bring anecdotes vs real world data
This depends very much on how you define gambling. The stock market very much is gambling, though most people consider it investing.
I tried many times. Things that AI is good at:

- Generate boilerplate

- Generate extremely simple code patterns. You need a simple CRUD API? Yeah, it can do it.

- Generate solutions for established algorithms. Think of solutions for leetcode exercises.

So yeah, if that's your job as a developer, that was a massive productivity boost.

Playing with anything beyond that and I got varying degrees of failure. Some of which are productivity killers.

The worst is when I am trying to do something in a language/framework I am not familiar with, and AI generates plausibly sounding but horribly wrong bullshit. It sends me in some deadends that take me a while to figure out, and I would have been better just looking it up by myself.
Trusting your gut isn't a useful debate tactic, but it is a useful tool for everybody to use personally. Different people will come to different conclusions, and that's fine. Finding a universal consensus about future predictions will never happen, it's an unrealistic goal. The point of the discussion isn't to create a consensus; it's useful because listening to people with other opinions can shed light on some blind spots all of us have, even if we're pretty sure the other guys are wrong about all or most of what they're saying.

FWIW my gut happens to agree with yours.
Don Adams and Jonathan Harris were in an earlier 1963 show. They did "Oh, the pain", "Missed it by that much", and "Would you believe?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-jtYPHftfY

When GRU defector Viktor Suvorov was in training, he was told, "This is what a spy looks like:" (shifty man in fedora with his collar turned up) "You are not allowed to look like this."
When electricity got cheap - we use MORE electricity.

Think how many places you see shitty software currently.

My wife was just trying to use an app to book a test with the doctor - did not work at all. The staff said they know it doesn’t work. They still give out the app.

We are surrounded by awful software. There’s a lot of work to do- if it could be done cheaper. Currently only rich companies can make great software.
I take it you haven't seen the world of HTML cleaners [1]?

The concept of glueing together text until it has the correct appearance isn't new to software. The scale at which it's happening is certainly increasing but we already had plenty of problems from the existing system. Kansas certainly didn't develop their website [2] using an LLM.

IMO, the real problem with software is the lack of a warranty. It really shouldn't matter how the software is made just the qualities it has. But without a warranty it does matter because how its made affects the qualities it has and you want the software to actually work even if it's not promised to.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=html+cleaner

[2]: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/1046124278/missouri-newspaper...
If a8c wants WPE to mirror the plugin and theme repos, they maybe should have asked for that. MM led out of the gate with his now-well-worn "existential threat" rhetoric and actually managed to escalate it from there. As one reddit commentator put it, "you catch more flies with honey than with lighter fluid".

The WP ecosystem needs mirrors anyway, but at this point I think it needs outright alternate repos, not under control of a8c in any way. This could be an attractive proposition to plugin/theme devs, because in this case, MM has been poisoning his own well for some time now (https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6511). What are the odds that MM will accept a patch to WP core that allows alternate plugin/theme stores?

At the rate things are going though, a hard fork of the GPL'd core is looking more attractive every day. It just needs a catchy name. ClassicPress is already out there, but ... meh. How about FreePress?
> There will always be people who disagree with the politics/opinions/alleigances of a successful person and who wish to downplay their success for selfish reasons.

And conversely, there will always be people who agree with the politics/opinions/alleigances of a successful person and who wish to overstate the reasons behind their success for selfish reasons.
How could this ever IPO? And if it cannot, who could ever buy it at a multiple of this?
Oof. If I had shares in any AI-ish company, I think I'd probably take this as my cue to sell. EXTREMELY peak-of-bubble behaviour.
Hit piece on Telegram?
I remember the story about Larry and Sergei pitching their new search engine to investors: "Will make 10B annually in maximum 10 years". Nowadays 10B is the paper clips fund at Alphabet.
Altman is used to deal with people whose medium is mostly hot air. I'd expect a chip manufacturer to have a healthy allergy against that. Having your process filled with 99% bullshit might be good enough if the desired outcome is investment, but if you want to produce functional hardware, you can't afford that.
One is a complaint that everything is constantly changing, the other that nothing ever changes. I don't think you could misunderstand what either is trying to say harder if you tried.
So webrings?
Funny but VHS is probably the most accessible obsolete medium. This place

https://ithacareuse.org/

sells decks for about $12 and Ebay prices aren't much more. Most TVs still have a composite in that will work great, and that place sells prerecorded tapes for about $2. Audio quality on VHS is surprisingly good and really pops with Dolby Pro Logic on my AV receiver.

Such a deck is likely to work just fine. Contrast that to a cassette deck which often has problems a lot worse than old belts. I have been looking for one of those because my son's 96 Buick came with a broken stereo and he eventually found a working OEM stereo that had a tape player but no CD player. (He really wants a copy of Deltron 3030)

After trying a few $20 decks I found locally I gave up and spent 10x that on Ebay. Blank tapes are more expensive than minidiscs in lots from Japan although prerecorded cassettes are cheap and abundant, he's already got more that he can keep in the car.

(If it were my car I'd get one of those minidisc players from Japan that looks like it came out of a Gundam...)
except it's walmart tools