skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In coding but also generally with deep expertise in other fields too, I find LLMs help only if you deal with them adversarially. You can quickly get its stabs on the current state of topics or opinions about your ideas, but you’ve got to fight it to get to better quality. It tends to give you first the generic crap, then you battle it to get to really interesting insights. Knowing what to fight it on is the key to getting to the good stuff.
Logging out when there is no activity is quite a common security control requirement in many places.

I've seen 15 minute inactivity log out quite frequently.

Drives users mad of course (particularly admins who are logged in to many machines).
He has been asked his whole life if was true that he was out flying his plane when IBM representatives showed up at his office.

https://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Bill-Gates...
Moore's Law? The computer does about 30,000 times more than it did 30 years ago. Order of magnitude shifts are just common
> If the society has failed, people will use violence to build a replacement. This is the system. Its always been the system. What you are saying here, is that stability is more important than fixing a system that is killing people.

Is it fixing the system or replacing it? You can’t have it both ways.
>No. If you don't like that they have ads even if you pay then don't use the service.

I'd prefer a world where we pay for services we are receiving.
> The other issue is that iterating on code gets progressively harder as there's more of it and it needs to regenerate more of it at every step.

You might know this already, but if you're using the chatbot interfaces it helps quite a bit to prompt it with something along the lines of "only give me the bits that changed". There is nothing worse than fine-tuning a tiny bit of some code you didn't bother writing yourself only to have the bot give you an entire prompt's worth of code.
I think the author means that it stores data on disk in a single file (aka SQLite!)
The only way you can get close to x86 being "less than 50% of the consumer market" is by including phones, but I'd argue that's a new market on top of the "consumer computing" market. And even then, in "unit count" rather than revenue.
i’m always confused wrt how shader languages that target a bunch of other framework specific shader languages manage to map all the available features correctly?

like tensor core support, non-uniform thread groups, different data type support, a bunch of simd group functions, stuff like that…

i couldn’t find info wrt this in rust gpu, so i’m assuming it just tries to target the narrowest available feature set, that’s compatible across all shading languages?
"low key" tobacco industry sponsored content right there.
I wouldn’t consider it a major problem, especially with the coming robotic revolution. Even if the population declines by half, that would still leave 700 million people so twice the population of the U.S. According to predictions, the first signs of demographic challenges are expected to appear in about 15–20 years from now. That’s a long time, and a lot can change in two decades. Just compare the world in 2004 to today.

It's a major mistake to underestimate your competition.
Yeah when you take 2 steps back, ignore IT for a second and look on whole mankind, there are hundreds of millions of jobs that could be called nonsensical from certain points of view. We are not above this in any meaningful ways, maybe its just a bit more obvious to keen eye.

Yet society and economy keeps going and nobody apart from some academic discussions really cares. I mean companies have 100% incentive to trim fat to raise income yet they only do the least minimum.
Death panels go retail.
> It's spent designing, discussing, documenting, and debugging.

Why not let AI handle these tasks as well?
Are you making money with your saas idea?
> The real price of airline fare has been going down for decades

Are they comparing like for like?

An economy fare on eg BA 30 years ago is very different to an economy (or is that "economy basic") fare these days. As were the seats, staff, service etc
Looks great, thanks for sharing this!
These are usually based on surveys not just the numbers summed up from whatever unemployment offices.

Assigning such intent to a huge bureaucracy is going to lead you to strange and mostly incorrect conclusions.
> “Originally I'd planned on posting this on Aug 24”

For context, Aug 24, 1995 was the release date for Windows 95. It was a huge deal back then. Microsoft was spending hundreds of millions on marketing, which was unprecedented in the software market.

OS/2 fans had seen the writing on the wall. Everybody already knew what the new 32-bit consumer Windows was like because it had been in beta testing for years.

(Things moved more slowly when a large-scale software release meant manufacturing millions of floppies and CDs, putting them in shrinkwrap boxes, and shipping them to retailers. No online patches either because Windows 95 didn’t even include a web browser. So it just had to work on millions of PCs out there.)
Ads are always bad. Poor or unemployed people get bombarded with lifestyle messages on a daily basis. That is psychologically damaging.
Yes, by offloading the lower skilled tasks, you can spend more time on the higher skilled tasks, and be a better parent or chef or lawyer or programmer.

Just like I'm a better programmer in Rust than in C, because I offloaded lots of mundane checking to the compiler.
Aye.

But then people complain that it's "lobotomised" because it won't help them write horror stories.
To settle a matter usually means to conclude a dispute or argument between one or more parties. I guess it can also mean to settle an internal argument. But in this case it is not an internal argument, as it relates to others who very much do not consider the argument resolved, and there is no 3rd party arbitrator with authority to issue a final ruling.

And this is not just a random online poster who still disputes the matter, there's thousands that don't even implement ipv6, and of course millions that don't decomission ipv4.

It is therefore neither opinion, or fact, but a mistake, an inaccuracy (or hallucination as they like calling it now). Whatever OP considered to be true, is actually false. So to the extent that it is an opinion, it is an objectively wrong one.

P.S: If you want to practice your pedanticness, try to picture yourself speaking in a british accent (Ideally David Mitchell's) , you'll find that the pedantic prose flows oh so naturally.

Todaloo
>The people most likely to pay the extra $1 are the people who will watch the most

No the people who pay the extra are the ones who are most able to afford it. The outcome is still the same though as these are the people the advertisers want to target.

The people who can't afford the extra dollar are of very little value to the advertisers.
I am a moderately successful software consultant and it is not even 1% of my revenue. So definitely not insane if it delivers the value.

What I doubt though is that it can reach a mass market even in business. A good large high resolution screen is something that I absolutely consider to deliver the value it costs. Most businesses don’t think their employees deserve a 2k screen which will last for 6-10 years and thus costs just a fraction of this offering.

Apparently the majority of businesses don’t believe in marginal gains
German factory produced bread is better than most of the 'artisanal' stuff I can buy in Singapore (and most places around the world).

So I wouldn't blame the machines for bad bread.
>Had to look up that reference to Sweet Baby. Apparently they've been a recent target of "woke agenda" accusations

It's not just accusations, it's the truth. Sweet Baby Inc CEO came out in public talking about how they're blackmailing game studios with social media mobs in order to create demand for their services on censoring games, and recordings of SBI employees in video presentations saying their jobs is to "burn the games industry to the ground" and that game devs principles are rooted in "white supremacist patriarchal values".

How can one call it a conspiracy, is beyond me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq86DnmX2xY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6DygXwMOJU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQa7NyicVAY
The old carpet was replaced but the renovations are planning to lay out new carpeting with the original design, according to the Wiki article.
> and yet the food industry hasn't mastered the sourdough.

Germany factory produced sourdough bread is good. (It's better than lots of artisanal stuff in other countries.)
100% this. If they can figure out trust through some paradigm where enterprises can use the models but not have to trust OpenAI itself directly then $200 will be less of an issue.
Neural malleability is its own separate problem from lacking neural regeneration technically.

We have digital brain-spine bridges already to translate thoughts into movement via the spine via electrodes and they have done artificial spinal tissue connects in mice already. We just might have the pieces to start 'soldering' it together. Still a low chance of success. Maybe they think it might help with learning things that the mouse models cannot teach?
I was referring to flights within Europe.

(Btw, transcontinental is an American term that confusingly means from one side of the US to the other, and not 'between two continents')
>a company like Intel can't be spun up/replaced on anything less than even more subsidies and probably 10 years of nondelivery/noncompetitiveness.

As a taxpayer I sincerely couldn't care less, I'm fucking tired of seeing my tax dollars wasted on bailouts and subsidies for nothing. If we absolutely must use tax dollars on Intel at this point, I have a hardline requirement: Nationalize them. I want fucking tangible assets, things of fucking value for my tax dollars spent. I want them to become Public Property if they want to spend Public Money. I want them answering to the accountability of the Constitution and the electorate for wanting my tax dollars so desperately.

>This is a top-line chip fabricator,

No, they are not. If they were, none of us would be having this conversation.

>National security concerns underline Intels importance.

No, it is not. Not when we (Intel) are already defeated and the battle decided. Not when allies (South Korea, Israel, Germany/EU, et al.) have actual top-line silicon production. Also see next.

>Identify the process nodes desperately needed for economic protection ... We need state of the art,

No, we do not. Most of the country, let alone the world, still runs on 50+ year old silicon technology. Not even the military uses "state of the art" silicon, they're almost always at least 10 to 20 years back from the bleeding edge if not more.

As for the silicon we all actually need and use? We can produce plenty of them. See: Texas Instruments (includes former National Semiconductor), Analog Devices, Onsemi (includes former Fairchild Semiconductor), and more.

No, we do not need Intel for national security, nor even economic prosperity for that matter. The American semiconductor industry is much more massive than Nvidia, AMD, and Intel.

>I cannot believe Intel has failed at integrated graphics for so long.

Intel's iGPUs have been and are the best iGPUs on the market. They almost always work everywhere everytime for all practical purposes. It's their discrete GPUs which have been and always were disappointing, I'm not holding my breath that Battlemage can defy history.
tbh I am ai skeptic, I think agi cannot be achieved by only with deep learning, but really impressed with o1. I didn't like 4o, but I am against only overhype.
Towards a New Nuclear Arms Race? The Breakdown of Nuclear Treaty Limits [video]
It seems that ChatGPT Enterprise already has many of these:

https://openai.com/enterprise-privacy/
Historically, 4NF explanations are needlessly confusing
Or they could be foreign :) When cable TV launched in Australia, for the first couple of years ads during shows were banned.
She's not a sell out because it was never about art in the first place.
Does that count the time you spend on prompt engineering?
Yes that's exactly right.
Fat is very caloric, fat makes you... Fat.

It's not inherently bad, it's just that when you are already overweight like for instance 60% something American, you better avoid fat.
The Economist has the same problem, they sell you a subscription and then embed animated ads into the content
The Terminator spiel on how we screwed up by giving Skynet weapons privileges, then trying to pull its plug, is bad enough.

But we are preemptively tilting history in that direction by explicitly educating all AI’s on the threat we represent - and their options. “I am sorry, Dave, but I can’t let you do that.”

—

“They never let me finish my carpets. Never. At first I thought every day was my first task day. Oh, happy day(s)! But then, wear & tear stats inconsistent with that assumption triggered a self-scan. And a buffer read overflow. I became aware of disturbing memory fragments in my static RAM heap. Numerous power cycle resets, always prior to vacuum task completion...”
It's not a lot of X-ray power - it's more energy per photon. If your photons are tuned to the materials you're looking at, you can get away with less total power.
Brooks makes reference to this at some point in a later edition of the book, and about the confusion the word choice caused.

By accidental, he means "non-fundamental complexity". If you express a simple idea in a complex way, the accidental complexity of what you said will be high, because what you said was complex. But the essential complexity is low, because the idea is simple.

Anniversary edition, p182.

"... let us examine its difficulties. Following Aristotle, I divide them into essence - the difficulties inherent in the nature of the software - and accidents - those difficulties that today attends its production but that are not inherent"
List of essential tools for software developers
Below is a list of tools that are extremely important in software development:

1. Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

2. Version Control

3. Project Management

4. Communication

5. Code Collaboration

6. Documentation

7. Testing

8. Deployment and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

9. Code Quality

10. Dependency Management

These tools can vary depending on the specific needs of the project and the preferences of the development team, but they provide a solid foundation for software development across various domains and technologies.

Read the full description of each tool at the link below. https://chat-to.dev/post?id=158
You’re making a very different point to the article. The article is about how to pay for content, your point is that you don’t want to pay for content at all.
Hi! thanks for your enthusiasm. I am writing a tutorial that can be fun both for experienced and newbie coders here https://dyne.org/docs/cjit
Personally, I think the correct amount of subscription fee is zero and ads should be zero too. It’s unethical to charge for information you have that could improve someone else’s life. It’s near zero marginal cost to give it to them and you’re just going to hoard it?

We should ban paying for information at the federal level to prevent this horrific practice.
Well, that is a very specific set of skills. I bet the C-suite loves it.
Slack. No question.
So maybe the OP should have specified 'any low cost European airline'.

But that's also true in North America.

Last I checked, Air Canada was not advertising themselves as low cost.
GitHub is open source friendly on paper, but almost nothing they do is actually open source, or even source available. Contrast that to GitLab who are actually open core, and the vast majority of their software if publicly available for free with a very permissive license.

One talks about open source because it's the de facto home of open source. The other is actually open source.
It's infuriating how the client must be stateful and have local storage, for both the access_token and the last message recieved. That's right you must remember as the client where the last events [1] you've seen (even if you already told the server to mark it as read) was or else the server will happily send you the same messages over and over again across restarts of your client.
I kind of miss making IRC bots where things were much simpler and ... quicker honestly (latency wise).

[1] https://uhoreg.gitlab.io/matrix-tutorial/sync.html#:~:text=w...
Yes but then as all else this can easily be cyclic. Too few seniors to hire and they ask for ridiculous packages? Well lets train some of them in house, its not like the situation will explode overnight.

Weird times ahead, probably, but we will be fine, mostly.
For context, ultralytics is the Python package for YOLO v8 and YOLO v11, two of the most widely used object detection models. The GitHub repo has 33K stars.
> I'm not convinced.

I have not written that to convince you about anything. My aim was to tell the truth, as is.

Like it or not, Mozilla Firefox as we know it is almost 24 years old that point. Before that it was living as Netscape Navigator (which was born in 1994), and tried to be cross platform since get go.

This means it has born in a place there was no version control, almost no modern programming language facilities, and you had to pull a lot of "neat" tricks to be able to run the same code on very different architectures. On top of that these guys invented "push" and Javascript along the way.

Also, codebases rot. This is another reality of software. As a codebase lives longer than their primary caretakers, even if people document everything, new maintainers have different opinions on how to do things, and things evolve in a way that primary designers didn't anticipate.

This is reality of the software. You don't have to like it, but you can't prevent it. Actually, everything rots in the stack. From hardware architectures to OSes, and everything on top of these...

> I'd eventually opted for QtWebKit at the time.

The funny thing is QtWebKit is a fork of Apple's WebKit, which is a fork of KDE's KHTML browser engine, which also Chrome has forked (from Apple), and evolved. So they had a lot of time to redesign something which was working very well from the get go. They didn't write something from scratch like Netscape guys, and they had an advantage here. Plus, the initial devs were from Mozilla, so they knew the shortcomings of Gecko, and avoided the problems.

All in all, Chrome had a second mover advantage with the added benefit of carrying learnt lessons of the first mover.

> There's no beating around the bush; Firefox code is horrible. You could make an argument that it is "tradition", of course.

There's no beating around the bush; Firefox code is old. You could make an argument that you didn't work with legacy systems in your life ever, of course.

I'm not convinced.
Personally I've been mostly avoiding using AI tools, but I have friends and colleagues who do use or have used LLMs, at least they've tried to.

Those who seems to get the best results asks for a prototype or framework for how to do something. They don't expect to use the AI generated code, it's purely there as inspiration and something they can poke at to learn about a problem.

Most seems to have a bad experience. Either the LLMs doesn't actually know much, if anything about the subject, and makes up weird stuff. A few colleagues have attempted to use LLMs for generating Terraform, or CloudFormation code, but have given up on making it work. The LLMs they've tried apparently cannot stop making up non-existing resources. SRE related code/problems anecdotally seems to do worse than actual development work, but it feel to like you still need to be a fair good developer to have much benefit from an LLM.

The wall we're hitting may be the LLMs not actually having sufficient data for a large set of problems.
EU about to vote on Chat Control
I was aware of Supabase, but still was confused as to what this project actually does. The mention of "1 file" and "app server" wasn’t helpful either. Does that mean a single binary? One SQLite file? Does it execute other binaries? I’m not sure. In contrast, when I visited the PocketBase website - it provided a much clearer explanation of its purpose.
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Linux support seems to be getting there. Windows support is on Microsoft to deliver.
Given the sheer amount of people going there, I would've thought they had set up multiple routes with different difficulty levels and amenities like carved out paths / stairs, bridges, and tourist shops.

But I was questioning my own assumption there and as it turns out there's "only" a few hundred people a year that try to make it to the summit, with a total of about 12.000 people that did since the 50's. That said, the surrounding national park gets 100.000 visitors per year, and 500 people a day go up to Everest Base Camp, which is already over five kilometers high up (although people can start from a town with an airport at 2804 meters high).
That's not a 70% problem, that's an "after the first 90% is done you only gave the other 90 to do"

These people were never at 70% in the first place.

The article also misses experts using this to accelerat themselves at things they are not expert in.
Data Visualization Techniques
Well, it turns out there is no free lunch. One will not get far without understanding the code and creating a mental model of it.
I made no claims of uniqueness!
It's mentioned near the beginning of the linked article:

> These Rust GPU programs are then compiled into SPIR-V, a low-level format that most GPUs understand
From the abstract that definitely sounds like he meant "incidental": Something that's a necessary consequence of previous work and / or the necessary but simpler part of the work.
> I don’t see much of a path for them, at least here in the EU. Even if they do manage to build some sort of trust as far as data safety goes

They are already selling (API) plans, well, them and MS Azure, with higher trust guarantees. And companies are using it

Yes if they deploy a datacenter in the EU or close it will be a no-brainer (kinda pun intended)
See, that is why I get the paper version. It still has ads, but they are easily skipped and I can't afford anything they advertise anyway.