skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EUV is the most complex machine on earth.

China has tried to create them in house, they have brought talent from TSMC, chinese employees whom worked in ASML, yet it is way too complex. No country in the world has all the pieces and even though it took decades to ASML to breakthrough with EUV.

And now they are working with high numerical amplitude (high NA) systems, even further.

My fear is after Wennick and Van Den Brink, we don't know if the show may go on. Hope they found their Tim Cook.

The US still has Jepsen Huang and Lisa Su. But I'm sure the next generation of semiconductor golden boys is growing up in China. The military discipline and community values they exude is admirable. In that sense Taiwan, Japan and Korea served the US, who shared the bonanza of being the benign world hegemon for almost a century.

Even though, I may be wrong, the words of Buffet always follow my analysis: never bet against the US
I’m wondering how viable you think it is to do that 7 days a week with a farm 60+ miles from the nearest town? Much of the midwestern US is really empty.
I'm rather curious what you would put as worse options, because Confidence is by far the worst wiki I've ever touched. After well over 20 years of touching various wikis, professionally and out of curiosity... but they're not really a passion of mine so I suppose that isn't saying all that much.

The only reason I would even remotely consider it is if I already had gigantic investment in Jira, and even then I'd strongly consider doing something else and writing up a small sync tool to keep task statuses updated.
Except that's not how it works. You don't pay the mortgage company, you pay the seller.
Okay so like, genuinely not trying to do a "back in my day" fuckin thing here, but also: what the fuck is wrong with kids? Back when I was coming up, pranking at it's absolute worst was like, filling a dudes shoes with yogurt in the locker room, or like, putting plastic bugs in people's desks n shit. Why the fuck are teenagers trying to get each other murdered by cops!?
The only EV I'm even interested in is an Aptera. They're building a new class of vehicle that takes advantage of the affordances of full electric. I want a small efficient car that can go long distances and nobody else is building anything like that. Even US capital markets don't understand the appeal of this class of vehicle, but luckily they were able to fill their funding in global capital markets. I'm pretty pessimistic about US EVs, but Aptera gives me a little hope.
It's fun and interesting. Those are already pretty great benefits for something free and zero calorie, that takes up zero extra hours in the day.
Man this thing is awesome. One of my dream cars was always a 90s hilux - I got so disappointed when they started taking design cues from giant American trucks and making them bigger. Single cab with maximized tray space is the most practical option if you actually need to use it as a ute.
Honestly that analogy feels like a stretch. I like my Nortons, BSAs and Triumphs, but the Japanese honestly just built better bikes at the end of the day (que joke about Lucas electrics and all of the other shit that seems to go wrong on British vehicles of that era). The British built really beautiful bikes and sports cars, but their reliability and general aggravation of ownership was kind of abhorrent. A good Yamaha, Suzuki, Honda, etc. even from that era, I've come to expect will be cheaper to maintain, not come with half a dozen headaches out of the box, and will "Just Run" when you turn the key.

I've yet to see good evidence that the Chinese cars are actually built in a way that they're more reliable or a better value than counterparts from other countries, they're just cheaper.
It's probably slightly worse than an educated guess?
Imagine what would happen if a dot-com billionaire started a space company.
I'm skeptical anyone here has actually bought a house. That's not how it works at all.
I'm at the opposite end. I dream every time I sleep, even if it's a 10-minute nap. Could be undiagnosed narcolepsy in my case, but it doesn't bother me enough to get it checked out.

When you say "nothing happens", I'm not even sure what you mean. Do you just fall asleep and wake up hours later with no sense of time passing?
Warning: Diving into SCIP/Lisp/Scheme can transform how you think about programming... food for thought is always welcomed! But applying those ideas wholesale to OOP codebases often backfires or gets pushback from teammates. Languages handle paradigms differently, and going against the grain usually leads to worse code.

Example: After Lisp, you might replace every for loop with forEach or chain everything through map/reduce. But unless you’re working in a language that fully embraces functional programming, this approach can hurt both readability and performance.

At the end of the day, it’s grounding to remember there’s mutable memory and a CPU processing the code. These days, I find data-oriented design and “mechanical sympathy” (aligning code with hardware realities) more practical day-to-day than more abstract concepts like Church numerals.
>why isn’t this a screaming opportunity

with the American consumer buying 15M cars a year at those average $50K there isn't an opportunity for the low end. And if such market really appears - i.e. if the American consumer would hit hard economic patch and would really need cheap car - it will be at any moment filled by cheap Chinese EVs.
I think the Voyager probes teach us lots about what's wrong with corporate America. Imagine devices that don't have built-in obsolescence, or licensing that expires, or that isn't built by committee where they just keep shipping requirements around from one department to another. Imagine if it weren't all proprietary and if it didn't have no public or even complete documentation.

Think of all the problems we have instead: Boeing airplanes that need to be rebooted if their computers are up for too long, an Ariane 5 blowing up because using the old thing should be "good enough", Microsoft Windows on ATMs and vending devices that literally can't not have pop-ups. It's like we've ceded control of our ability to do things to "methods" that corporations insist upon, even though they've been proven worse.

Heck - if businesses had their way, would the Internet be run on Novell, with millions of Novell admins all around the world constantly needing to fuss with things just to keep it running?

It's nice to see when science takes priority to everything else, and the hardware reflects that.
You get notifications to charge the mouse before the charge runs out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting?wprov=sf...
Republican lawmakers and the water industry sued the EPA saying it would be too expensive to secure water systems.

> In a statement to Recorded Future News, an EPA spokesperson confirmed that the memorandum – handed down in March – was being withdrawn due to lawsuits filed by attorneys general in the States of Missouri, Arkansas, and Iowa as well as industry groups American Water Works Association (AWWA) and National Rural Water Association (NRWA).

There is no point in trying to solve what there is no will to solve. Less money, more money, they just don’t want to have to do it or be liable.

https://therecord.media/epa-says-litigation-from-republicans...

https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/newsroom/attorney-genera...

https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/IACIO/2023/04/18...
Kernel exploits would let someone bypass the lockscreen and access all the data they want immediately, unless I'm missing something. Why would you even need to disable the reboot timer in this case?
How do the screens between the 13" and 16" compare in quality / brightness etc?
And that's not even enough time.
As I explained it: the data indicates that it does not matter much, if at all. It just is not "extremely relevant".

This does not mean that it might not be extremely relevant in a certain subdomain, such as academics. But generally? No.
Who cares. If it's not provably written by a human but instead by an RNG, I'm not interested. Don't give me that crap about it being "indistinguishable" or better and that I couldn't tell the different in a blind test. That's completely irrelevant.
I was lucky enough to be in undergrad with Dr. Rodman. One of the kindest and most intellectually honest people I’ve ever met. Passionate about ideas but at the same time, emotionally uninvested in bad ones.

He was a history major before he went on to study medicine, and he now does a podcast on the history of medicine called Bedside Rounds. He gets really excited when talking about something he finds interesting and it makes you want to follow him down the rabbit hole. Highly recommend listening at half speed: http://bedside-rounds.org/
And this is why more people should use iOS Shortcuts app to lock the screen if someone opens files, messages, etc.

Shortcuts > Automation (bottom) > + > App > (Choose app you wish to protect, Check "Is Opened", check "Run Immediately") > Next > Search "Lock Screen"
I tried Gliimly. I just had to after some really weird comments below that start like a gossip club and then degenerate into preferences for git commiting (like anyone cares about either). Anyway, Gliimly's simple to write code with, and without being too pedantic about what some people think "web service" or "service-oriented" means, it did what I needed it to do. That is to say, I was able to build a web application for work (insurance) pretty darn quickly, all in a REST-like structure of service calls. I am not a fan of an object oriented paradigm, though the company I work for (still) uses C++. I used to be all over it. But it's gotten so complicated that I am looking to make a 180 and find something so simple it stinks. Gliimly could be it, or not, but I like simpler. Is it safe? I did try some nasty stuff that would overwrite memory, and the program stopped with the appropriate message. I tried SQL injection and couldn't do it. So the fact it's written in C doesn't mean anything, I mean lots and lots of critical software are written in it. I haven't run into any bugs, and compiler error message were pretty descent. The performance was better than C++ for the same legacy app we have, and that's about 12x larger in terms of source code. Overall, Gliimly is something I could work with, assuming it stays, which is a big if. Most projects like this eventually lose steam unless they get some kind of sponsorship from a "consortium" of companies, but hey, some work out without that kind of backing just on their merit. Time will tell.
Think more is made of this asterix than necessary. Quite possible adding 10x more GPUs would have allowed it to solve it in the time limit.
You need to be on THC break to resume sleeping. What you suspect is true as THC disrupts the sleep cycle and you don't get much of REM sleep while on it.
I always buy used so I have some time left, but not much. When I bought my last vehicle the person had one of those insurance GPS devices in it. I can't even begin to understand why anyone would do that. It is so obviously going to be used against the driver and it is also obvious that it will eventually become 'required' and that just depresses me.
We pay more, yes, but not 2x what the city people pay in the next county over. Maybe 1.2x or so. Obviously there is no sewer service, just septic tanks. That cost is minimal once they're installed. Install price was around 5k, and it costs $200 to have it pumped ever four or five years.

The definition of rural to me is around 12k residents in a county that is around 1000 square miles. That's the size of where we are. The largest town is around 3k people. Two counties over is a city of about 40k. The 3k town is part of our co-op, so they have fiber. The 40k had less than 15% on fiber the last I knew, but that was two years ago. Since then they haven't run anymore lines, but have added customers on their existing lines.
Pyret would be a good alternative. It's designed for education by racketeers.

https://pyret.org/
Apple's Tim Cook Has Ways to Cope with the Looming Trump Tariffs
https://archive.is/JL16M

Related:

> Apple's Next Device Is an AI Wall Tablet for Home Control, Siri and Video Calls

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42119559
n times faster than C, Arm edition
If I weren’t retired, I would totally apply to work for you
Does this approach scale with complexity? At some point, you're better off planning for failures and engineering for redundancy.
It’s more likely than you think!

> Apple's Next Device Is an AI Wall Tablet for Home Control, Siri and Video Calls

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42119559

via

> Apple's Tim Cook Has Ways to Cope with the Looming Trump Tariffs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42168808
I've never understood why people have such trouble with having their camera on during video meetings. Is it just some people being conscious of the always true fact that everybody else in the meeting can see you zoning out of the meeting?

As far as I can tell the rule is simple: If you are not expected to speak in the meeting, your camera should be off; otherwise your camera should be on the entire meeting.
You can do this yourself with Shortcuts app.

Create a timer function to run a shutdown on a time interval you order. Change shutdown to "restart".
I suspect its more about how much national information you're exposed to today than any sort of time based moral failing.
The creators of AutoGen and a team of maintainers (including me) are continuing the work on AutoGen under a new organization called AG2, GitHub for this AutoGen:

https://github.com/ag2ai/ag2

If you are using the "autogen" or "pyautogen" packages then this is the GitHub repository that it is based on. If you are developing for AutoGen, or want to, it would be great if you could continue developing for it there.

If you're on Discord, the [announcement is here](https://discord.com/channels/1153072414184452236/11530724141...).

The announcement, as written by AutoGen founder Chi:

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Hi everyone, we wanted to take a moment to share some exciting news about AutoGen's next chapter: AG2.

When we started AutoGen, we had a bold vision: to revolutionize how AI agents collaborate and solve complex problems. The achievements of AutoGen since then have been nothing short of extraordinary with all the support from this amazing community.

But this is just the beginning. To ensure that AutoGen continues to grow as an open and inclusive project, we believe it’s time for a bold new chapter – AutoGen is becoming AG2. This isn’t just a rebrand; it’s a reimagining. AG2 represents our commitment to push boundaries, drive innovation, and focus even more sharply on what our community needs to thrive. The new structure will amplify our collective impact and open new avenues for growth.

→ NEW HOME: github.com/ag2ai/ag2 (please give it a star)

→ CURRENT PACKAGES: ag2, autogen and pyautogen (they're identical)

→ CURRENT VERSION: v0.3.2

What this means for users:

→ If you're using autogen or pyautogen packages → You're good to keep using them

→ These packages are now maintained at ag2

→ No breaking changes planned for v0.4

→ For support/issues going forward, use ag2 & this Discord server

Note:

→ A different team is working on a separate fork at github.com/microsoft/autogen

→ They will use different package names (starting with "autogen-xxx")

→ Their docs, microsoft.github.io/autogen/dev/, are for those separate packages.
I suspect because now everyone is in front of a camera. It's all become a show.
They used to, that’s the thing. It used to be possible to get barebones A-to-B transportation with zero frills. Power windows/locks, air conditioning, ABS, power steering, automatic transmission—all manner of things that aren’t strictly required to get a person to/from where they need to go—could be optioned away if the buyer was very price sensitive.

In 1998 a Chevrolet Metro could be optioned without a radio or rear defogger, even. New purchase price was about $9k (equivalent to $14.5k today). Somebody was buying those, enough for it to be worth the manufacturer’s effort to produce it.

I suspect a whole segment of people would be willing to consider a no-frills EV at a comparable price point. Hell, if somebody made something new like a base model 90s Civic into a $15k EV without extra luxury nonsense I don’t actually need, I’d be in the dealership tomorrow.
They have a long history of encrypting firmware. iBoot just stopped being decrypted recently with the launch of PCC, and prior to iOS 10 the kernel was encrypted too.

The operating theory is that higher management at Apple sees this as a layer of protection. However, word on the street is that members of actual security teams at Apple want it to be unencrypted for the sake of research/openness.
It's viable to minimise personal use.

It's viable to live on a farm and rarely leave it, many do and many enjoy that lifestyle.

It's viable to have shopping and personal items shipped in with larger supply deliveries and fold that personal usage into the neccessary usage for production.

FWiW I grew up on a cattle station in one of the more remote parts of the planet, no proper roads, TV, shops, etc and somehow still managed to get a good education and write a few million SLOC of mapping, geophysics, and asset managent code in the 80's and 90's.

So yes - I do think its viable ( QED ).
I can answer this one, you are aware of time passing and if you've trained yourself with an alarm you can still wake on cue. But there's just nothing in between, higher order thought just turns off.
Debugging must be fun
Australia gets two of the three in supermarkets and sugar bananas and plantain are in street markets.
No the common wisdom is that you should not...
Japanese and Korean automakers make a lot of their US-bound cars in USA, so I don’t think it will be that bad. A Honda civic is likely to be more American than a Chevy compact, for example.
Yes, I guess it is very efficient to not need to spend any money on R&D, and just steal from those who do spend the money.

Will anyone spend money on R&D in this efficient world when the result is you just go out of business because you can't compete against anyone who does?
From 2007?
Not the future, but the domain.
Every day multiple people post on LinkedIn “my team is hiring a <your role here>.” You can search for this on the main search bar “hiring a <role>” or variations of that.

Connect with them on the LinkedIn desktop web app and include a personal note how you’re interested in the role.

I have had a lot of success-maybe something like 30%+ interviews from the cold outreach.

Worth noting I was targeting early stage startups who are more likely to engage with any interested candidate. These folks are also more motivated to talk with you - they are literally posting hoping that it will happen.

For more mature companies apply through LinkedIn was actually fruitful for me too, but I had to be eagerly watching and ready to apply within the first few hours of posting.

You can also toggle on that you’re looking for a new job and recruiters should ping you if you have the right stuff in your profile - which is really just “software engineer” and use the keywords.

Good luck!
I was looking for the buried advert and it shows up in paras 11 and 12.

“
And Dr Goodall says taking action to slow down the warming of our planet is more urgent than ever.
“We still have a window of time to start slowing down climate change and loss of biodiversity,” Dr Goodall says. “But it's a window that's closing.”
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It really isn't, unless you go full server-side session (with something like Wicket), and the latency of that is usually unacceptable these days.
AG2 (Formerly AutoGen): Open-Source AI Agent Operating System
ChatGPT Spoiled My Semester
I cannot be convinced that swatting is something that used to happen. Is there a history of this?

I legit do not remember seeing anything on the evening national news about that in the past, like from before 2000.
Yes, your combined blocklist is point-in-time. If you unsubscribe from a blocklist, a user on that blocklist will be immediately unblocked, provided they're not also on another blocklist you subscribe to (and that you didn't block them directly).

(Outside of eventual consistency, of course.)
There's only one reason why US cars are more expensive than CN cars: People will pay it. All that other stuff is window dressing. The US is way, way better at financial engineering than China; we can sell an $80,000 Tahoe to a single mom between jobs on zero down and 10% APR, somehow she'll take that deal, and somehow the system doesn't explode into a fiery deathball; so you get $80,000 Tahoes. That's it.

Short-term vs long-term focus means nothing. Government subsidies run out. Rapid development is easy when its a first generation product with no customers. Lower wages means fewer of your own people can afford it (though it does help with export pricing to richer first world countries... what's that word I'm looking for... it starts with a T, I heard an orange man say it recently. eh probably nothing)

The 2008-2023 US economy was basically the strongest national economy in the history of humanity; but, obviously, that's changing. And no, I'm not doomering about a mother-of-all-crashes. The world is just getting more realistic, as it should.
I'd say it is the same difference between a police officer remembering a license plate for the getaway car of a bank robbery, and having pervasive automatic surveillance tracking everywhere everyone goes.
https://archive.ph/1ySoo
> Moon is an option here, so likely it’s 5-15 years after first Moon base is established (I‘d expect exponential growth of it).

I think that’s probably a very optimistic timescale. If there’s heavy industry on the moon inside 50 years I’d be surprised.
not sure what the best is these days because models improve so rapidly. LocalLlama subreddit is probably a good place to ask
> 1. Making a new commit is not equivalent at all to reverting a commit. I'm a fan of failing forward too, but reverting the exact commit you know caused the issue implies you know exactly what the issue is, which is invariably good.

This seems like backwards logic. Even if reverting the commit implies you know (or think you know) exactly what the issue is, doesn't adding a new commit fixing the issue also imply this?

> 2. For the same reason that 'lets rewrite everything from scratch' generally is a bad idea.

I'd vehemently object to the two being equivalent. Big refactorings are more laborious for sure and all else being equal, smaller are arguably preferrable to larger, but there are worthwhile changes you simply can't implement in small steps. Big refactoring tasks are mostly a problem if you have too many people working on a codebase, as it requires some degree of freezing a part of the codebase for changes to avoid merge issues.

> 7. I think it should be fairly obvious that you only care about this if you _want_ to keep the implementations the same.

The scenario as being discussed actually goes into the case where their requirements do in fact diverge, and suggests adding parameters to coax the divergent implementations into still being the same code.

> Easily testable is a requirement for good design.

I'd ask in what sense you mean the design is good? The test suite surely serves the code, and not the other way around. Afer all, we've sent people to the moon with code that never saw modern testing practices. There are other ways of ensuring code does what it should than unit tests.

I agree there are some types of code that benefits from extensive testing, but it's far from universal, and the tools needed to provide testability are anything but free, both in terms of performance and driving software complexity.

In that case, an alternative to extensive testability is to design the code in such a simple way that there isn't many places for bugs to hide.
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