skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's more or less how graphics programming evolved over the last 20 years. Give up conviniences for the more performance, using as much control as GPU vendors would allow. It's basically inaccessible unless you're studying it in academia or employed in the few domains that require that power.

This also sadly means that most tools to help navigate these are probably also trapped in some studio codebases. I remember those promises with Vulkan 1.0 where you could potentially just wait until others would make some boilerplate abstraction so other could learn graphics programming before diving deep down into every nitty gritty detail. I haven't looked extensively for that, but nothing came on my radar while navigating through learning Vulkan.
Lots of embedded systems (including mine) are used to control specialized expensive hardware and aren't something one can just “put Linux on”. I say this as someone with several Linux desktops/laptops, so it's not like I'm averse to non-Windows.
This is just a political fight to see who's got more power. Elon Musk isn’t really defending free speech — he follows authoritarian orders in other countries [1]. He’s just looking out for his own political interests and turning X into a playground for his political ideology.

And regarding the ban, yeah, there are definitely violations of free speech, just like in a bunch of other democracies, like the U.S., which banned TikTok [2].

[1]: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/world/2024/04...

[2]: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/24/1246663779/biden-ban-tiktok-u...
2005 was when Kurzweil was trying to tell everyone we'd have artificial hemoglobin nanobots that would allow us to swim around under water for an hour on one breath, based on the exponential growth of.. who knows what.

Also in 2005 IIRC we were still expecting to eventually hit 10GHz/core, but my recollection is hazy that dream might have been quashed by then. The point is, the wild overestimates of techno-progress aren't anything new.
No. While nohup redirects standard input and output and block the SIGHUP signal, it does not actually detach the process from the TTY session.
<< don’t be under the impression that individual and population level manipulation techniques haven’t progressed well past simple propaganda.

I absolutely buy it based merely on the glimpse of the document from various whistleblowers over the years. At this point, I can only imagine how well oiled a machine it must be.
I do not wish to be perceived.
> There's really no excuse for the library not having simple case conversion functions that operate on strings in-place.

Could not agree more. Any time I touch a C I want to scoop my brain out of my ear. So many simple unbelievably common operations have fifty "best" ways to do them, when they should have one happy path 99% of usecases require baked in. Nobody should ever have to seriously consider something as ridiculous as "is tolower addressable?".
I think the trick here is going to be using at a minimum only automotive rated parts or better, FRAM storage if possible, tantalum and ceramic caps, things like that.

Speculatively, with AI moving along as it is, a “computer” might be very much like a typewriter, primarily a device for creating documents, getting them to peripherals, etc for the human user and their AI ghost/API.

With thermodynamic neural nets, especially if we can get them working at room temperature, we could easily see a situation where it would be more cost and power efficient to have local generative AI simulate standard computer architecture than to actually build a Von Neumann computer from discrete components.

If we can get the thermodynamic wells down to the size of flash cells, that could mean running 1024b models locally on chips the size of an SD card, peaking at around 20 watts at full utilisation.

I could easily see using MCU scale compute to run a stripped down system to provide the wireframe from which the GAI could hang on the pixels and pizaz, helping the user to stay on the rails of a strictly deterministic system while decorating it with GAI. A “50 year computer” might be useful as a stand alone, but basically be an interface device when combined with generative AI running on devices that would probably be much more needful to keep current.
Is there an alternative service that offers similar service? I am not sure if I have ever seen anything else come close to what these guys do. I recall them going into battle with apple and it looks like they had won. But it sucks that we do not have any open source solution for iOS or Android to emulate the OS for these devices.
> There has to be something more sophisticated than single-use CD-ROMs

But why, when a DVD-R handles most use cases at a cost of < $0.25 each, are reliable and ubiquitous, the hardware is likely already there (unless you are using Apple - caveat emptor) and they close the threat vector posed by read/write USB devices.

Sometimes the simplest solution is the best solution.
Oak Park guy is a little fish.
Nuernberger trial was mostly a vae victis show.
They hanged few high level Germans and left tens of thousands of war criminals free. Adenauer's governments (1949-1963) were full of former nazis, amnesties of 1949 and 1954 cleared the slate of many mass murderers.
yeah i prefer just plain ol' if statements, i find them easier to debug
> APL code can be directly mapped to algorithms or mathematical expressions on a blackboard and vice versa

After looking at the code, I find this claim questionable.
Which ironically describes them evolving into software driven gateways.
and in the 3 seconds it took to read you comment, the interest on the debt increased more than this "gift"
Ditto in Spanish with the former currency, the peseta.

1 euro = 166 PTS, 6 euro ~ 1000 PTS, the basic banknote.

Guess what happened. Exactly. Bread costing 100 PTS began to cost... 166, 1 euro.
I agree with this, and what is amazing is that one particular layer in our systems with the biggest impact is electoral systems. Most people are blind to the fact that we live in the side effects of bad math that leads to less accountability. Electoral reform has trouble getting traction in some places. (Canada, USA, UK, and all these other fantastic "democracies" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting)

If we all had better representation, maybe we could have some accountability in governments to help enact policy that we actually want.
> If we were not computationally bounded, we could “perceive the whole of the future in one gulp” and we wouldn’t need a notion of time at all.

Maybe, if we assume we aren't axiomatically bound, despite knowing that we are (but that knowledge is rarely in context, so we can only know it sometimes...once again: time...weird).

"Thought is Time."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti
> Some tax attorneys I spoke with theorized that the $7 billion payment was in fact a gift tax paid as part of an estate-planning strategy designed to avoid an even larger payment down the road, a strategy they expect to be common ahead of the Trump tax expiration.
Well, the Academy did award the Peace Prize to Obama so this is not out of character.
Is any of what he’s saying here, something he hasn’t essentially already said before?

The parts of this which were a little surprising to me (e.g. the bit about comparing time to heat, and the bit about running out of steps to do at an event horizon) iirc all linked to a thing posted a while ago?

I don’t share his enthusiasm for the phrase “computational irreducibility”. I would prefer to talk about e.g. no-speedup theorems.
It’s probably just not that interesting. There’s generally a proprietary encode/decode pipeline on chip. It can generally handle most decode operations with CPU help and a very narrow encoding spec mostly built around being able to do it in realtime for broadcast.

Most of the video you encode on a computer is actually all in software/CPU because the quality and efficiency is better.
Programs that deamonize should have a way (e.g. command line option) to opt-out of it, or opt-in. Unconditional daemonizing interferes with debugging, for instance. That's bad.

But don't forget that the service managers themselves have to daemonize. :) The programs which they launch don't have to daemonize only because their parent did that already.
Referencing Org Table Cells with Text Regions
I'd say you are right that solar is at your stage 4.. for countries with particular geographical features. If you have a large land mass to distribute solar utility sites over, the power curve becomes predictable since weather that impacts solar production is also geographically distributed (its highly unlikely to be cloudy everywhere in a large country). With this predictability comes the ability to use the least amount of storage (cheaper) for continual, reliable power. And China being responsible for the continual price drops of production of panels, and storage, it makes sense they will be the first to achieve this, despite other countries (Australia for example) having a more favorable irradiance, and larger land mass.

Countries without a large land mass can't do this, a good example being Singapore. And even then, solar is being a potential large reliable power source by getting Australia to literally cable power thousands of kilometers.[0]

Solar has won IMO, it will just take a while for it to reach stage 4 everywhere.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/21/australia-greenligh...
> 80% of the solution

In the US, only 39% of emissions are from fossil fuels used for transportation [1]. Where I am, around 60% of my EV power comes from natural gas plants that run at night, where electricity is 3.5x cheaper (electricity costs more than gas during peak hours where I am).

With the lack of new nuclear, and the required 25-50% increase in our power grid, a quick (as in 20 year) change in EV adoption would almost certainly mean that more of these natural plants come online when charging happens, negating at least some of the CO2 savings.

80% seems fictitious.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=307&t=10#:~:text=C....
I was asking myself this as I was writing it as well. I would assume that the State Government can choose to do what they will with regards to their own ferries, but that it would not be legal (interstate commerce) for them to require other companies in state to get their ships build in state.
Perhaps once all the easy obtainable fossil resources are gone, and climate change settles down on a new equilibrium, humanity will also settle on a long-term sustainable way of living. Perhaps that will even be a civilized way, but it may also well end up a hunter-gatherer existence akin to what Europeans found in North America a few centuries ago.
I love these old advertisements. BTW, even in late and mid 80's, there were adverts on the Spanish Reader's Digest on courses about computers. I rememember showing images of both PDP front panels and maybe Altair 8800, not IBM PC's. These were top notch stuff for big corporations and banks filling their offices.

BTW, on the 'computadora' term, these looked outdated, and to anyone non-Latin American descent here 'computadora' would mean an old IBM mainframe the size of two wardrobes and more.
I’d rather be Amish than dead!
Exact same except with my crack cocaine business.
If I took the binary representation of that log and XOR'ed it with a random binary string, then would the result also have observers with the same observations?
Ask HN: AI is smarter than the average person but feels like nothing's changed?
Primarily asking because I'd like to hear different perspectives, perhaps I am missing something.

Arguably, since OpenAI released the o1 models, LLMs are now 'smarter' than the average human when measured by IQ (I'm going by this study [0] which sets o1 at a 120 IQ).

What I am trying to wrap my head around is why has this not changed our entire world much? Sure, if you live on Twitter, a lot of people made a big deal about it. But in my day to day, specially when offline, nothing seems to have changed. In fact, I don't think most people are even aware that a computer is now smarter and cheaper than them and it's widely available via API.

Am I exaggerating things here? It almost feels like the world has not caught up to the latest technology. Does this happen with every new tech? Is this period basically a huge opportunity for early adopters? Perhaps we are missing ways to connect the o1 brain to the real world so it can have real world applications?

For context, I am deep in LLMs stuff daily as it is part of my work. I am keenly aware of the improvements that have been made in coding for example, I just don't believe this is on the same magnitude as 'AI is now smarter than the average human'.

The other side of this argument is that the LLMs are not that good, and they just test high because the questions are part of the training data, and in fact they cannot adapt and learn on the spot the way humans can (which I believe is the point of the ARC prize [1]). Another counter-argument might be that it's just too early?

Would love to hear what you have to say. Tell me how I'm wrong, or tell me how you think AI has already materially changed our world in a big way.

[0] - https://trackingai.org/IQ

[1] - https://arcprize.org/
Catastrophic hack of AT&T and Verizon proof Apple is right about encryption
What data
> Maybe think of it as scrambled data that has just the right level of detail for the machine to do its thing but not something where you can get back the full color image via any means.

Information theory says this is impossible. https://anishathalye.com/inverting-photodna/
I don't really know what it is that Musk does on his platform or why he does it. The Twitter-Brazil incident however is about free speech. Brazilian constitution says that any and all censorship of political speech is prohibited. These were political accounts. This judge, a government official, ordered their banishment from the platform. Political censorship.
Apple Store in Belarus is stuck in time
Why I use KDE
> while I sit on the couch doomscrolling or watching Netflix

It'd say that's a tangible improvement to your life. Less mundane chores, more leisure time to unwind after a long day.

Permanently removing something from the "todo" list is always a significant positive.
However backoff without circuit-breakers is bad juju. The author asserts that circuit breakers are necessary but insufficient counter for retry storms. I'm not sure if I agree, but I don't have a solid counterargument at the moment.

I think it also depends on how you think about reverse proxies. Are they a given or do you need to explicitly mention that you can cut servers or processes out of the cluster that are lagging and timing out?
I was referring to in-fix, like can be found in Kotlin and Ruby, not necessarily operator overloads. I've found pretty usable operator overloading, in appropriate contexts, like adding two lists meaning append.
The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth
Counterpoint: there's a vast underinvestment in academia and universities are cutting faculty jobs in favor of underpaid sessional instructors. We're paying much more for administration and executive salaries which don't add value to society, only line their pocketbooks with taxpayer dollars and ever-increasing tuition.
The word "simulation" is it self a simulation. So is the word "is".

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

Reality is a multi-disciplinary domain, but it gives off the appearance of being physics only, because of its metaphysical nature.
Not on this in particular but in general: I’ve held off on diving into front end because it’s just such a circus. So many options, so many opinions, so much criticism and then as if that wasn’t enough the whole fkin meta changes monthly. We’re doing react. No actual wasm. Wait no static page. Or maybe htmx. Or vanilla js. Or maybe a mix…well call it remix…it just never ends

I do believe everyone involved means well and aims for technically strong outputs but my good the end result is still fuckin chaos.

Backend and systems programming has people with strongly held opinions and flame wars too but somehow it feels more like a war between gentlemen and less The Purge chaos.
Bro you need help
Yes, I am using the same rhetorical technique ironically to point out how annoying it is.
I think reducing fossil fuel use is separate from petroleum product use. We can have petroleum products without burning fossil fuels. Costs of petroleum extraction might go up, though, I imagine.
Beats me, I'm just getting into this now. I started with a Reolink NVR, but it's a piece of crap, so I'm looking for a better alternative.

It looks like either Frigate or Viseron will do what I want. I started setting up Frigate, but realized I should downgrade my Reolink Duo 3 to a Duo 2 before I go too far. The Duo 3 really doesn't offer much better image quality but forces you to use h265 and consumes a lot more bandwidth. Once I stabilize my camera setup I'll get back to setting up both Frigate and Viseron and see what performs better. I like that the pro upgrade of Frigate allows you to customize the model and may make use of that.
I believe when in life you are exposed makes a difference too. Children are at a higher risk for being harmed by lead for a number of reasons including having less blood than an adult, and being more likely to eat paint chips off the ground than (most) adults. I'd imagine that lead replacing calcium in the brain during critical developmental periods also matters a lot.

Effects of calcium supplementation on blood lead levels and short term memory of chronically exposed children
https://oamjms.eu/index.php/mjms/article/view/3285
Has this statistic changed much over time?
So the back door the FBI supposedly uses is just an internet rumor?
God exists because you wore a collared shirt?

Honestly if AI gave these three images as proof of the existence of god or even as the support for a conjecture that god exists then I would see it as a fail case.
Are you saying that some things are just not simulable, given a sufficiently large and powerful computer, or that the universe is or might be infinite?
I think he's a quack trying to torture an explanation of the universe out of his pet theory that uses a lot of words to say simple things but doesn't predict anything. If "time is what progresses when one applies computational rules" then how is the order in which the rules are applied defined in the first place?

Computational irreducibility is a neat idea but i'm not sure its novel or something that explains the entire universe. My basic intro course on differential equations taught us that the vast majority of them cannot be solved analytically, they have to be approximated. I don't know if the irreducibility idea is anything fundamentally different than saying some problems are hard, whether its non analytical equations or NP hard problems.
I'm curious, which provider have you been using for 20 years?
Got time to test it and it works.

2 Ch 48kHz for output and 1 Ch 48kHz for input while using Airpod 2 on Sequoia. Be aware that the app must request a high bitrate for this to work.

Example: you need to use Safari for Google Meet. It doesn't work with Chrome.
I never heard it called caveman debugging before but I love the name.

I am a huge fan of print debugging. Debuggers have their place, but most of the time print is just easier and it fits better into my mental model.
>If you find graphics APIs too much work, you're not their target audience and you should be using a higher level API.

That's a pretty sad state of affairs given the "audience" is shrinking by the day. And then later those graphics programmers leave/get laid off by Unity/Epic/AAA Studio with a custom engine and they wonder why they can't find any DX12/Vulkan engineers to their satisfaction.

For the lifeblood of the industry, tools need to also be learnable by hobbyists. At least, if you don't want to spend 6-12 months training your graphics programmers yourself. The courses I peeked at at my Alma mater (when Vulkan was still brand new) are still using OpenGL 3 to teach, so it doesn't sound like Universities are picking up the slack.
Apple’s website is a mess. Look around for a while and you’ll find similar pages for PowerPC era releases as if they just launched
I hope this is educational for people, indeed the forbes rich list is inaccurate and there is no way to know how much anyone is worth, with just 5 minutes of planning it all goes opaque if you so desire

Although there is the aspect of the immigrant being grateful for American opportunities, its far more likely that Fayez Sarofim didn’t expect to die and had these naked assets outside of the trusts and nonprofits. Since he also had trusts and nonprofits.
Are you implying TV is harmless? It mollifies and brainwashes people to a saddening degree; even though it can be hard to differentiate symptom from cause, here.
Seems like an appropriate post on a day when the Nobel of Physics was awarded not for Physics discoveries but for computer science...

But from Wheeler's "it from bit" to Wolfram's computational universes, the question is: where is the beef.

Now, there might be ultimately something worthwhile with the obsession with digi-physics. Mental models that seemed disparate may merge and become fruitful. It doesnt even have to be a fully formed toolkit. Newton's invention of calculus was kinda sketchy. But he was explaining things with it, things that were not undestood before.
What does a VM mean to you? Because LLVM as a target is a VM of sorts too, and so is the memory model assumed by C.
Thanks for saving me from the clickbait. I think this sort of social archaeology is overrated; this was a person who was explicitly protective of her privacy.
It has been said before, but by Stephen Wolfram.
It’s totally reasonable to assume your users are in the US if your business only sells to people in the US. I work in the health insurance sector; there’s absolutely no chance my company ever sells these products internationally. We can’t even sell them in every state.
There are clearly a lot of things you don't understand. The word "learn" is extremely broadly defined in current use. Evolution is a form of learning, at the population level (given the broad definition of learning).

https://chatgpt.com/share/6705bfa0-67e8-8002-b570-010e7a25db...

The data is either the genes or the combination of genes and environment/laws of physics. It's laid out in the post. This blog post may or may not be right, but the idea that it's some obviously stupid idea is obviously stupid. It's not even novel - this idea has been around.
> but it may also well end up a hunter-gatherer existence akin to what Europeans found in North America a few centuries ago.

How could finding naturally growing plants eventually be more successful than technological innovations around agriculture, in a drier climate (our future)? This doesn't seem logical/rational, since every desert civilization moved away from a hunter-gather existence. Irrigation has existed for millennia, invented by people that lived in dry places [1], because it wasn't optional.

[1] https://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/id/eprint/815/1/1070.pdf
the-computer-wears-sneakers-net
If you don't publish by 30...
>God exists because you wore a collared shirt?
That is not a summary of what was written
When and in which city/county did that happen? I've never heard of BAR sending out unsolicited mail offers before. You always had to go to them.
Ah, yeah. I was wondering how it could work without an antenna. I guess an FM antenna needs to be larger than the 5G antenna built into phones too.