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>Social media companies don’t want any kind of regulation because it adds cost to them. Their PR bangs the drum of free speech and people economically tied to the industry gobble it up while trying to ignore the self serving nature of their new beliefs.

Disagree here. If it is legally onerous for me to start a forum, I am more inclined to use a large social media site like Facebook, since they will handle the legal part for me. They are fine with that, they already have legal teams.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51518773 "Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook boss urges tighter regulation"
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I just learned about fractional jobs. I've bounced around my company for a while and also led some independent projects.
I'd like to break into this space. I'd be curious to know what was causing your CTOs to strike out to know what pitfalls I could avoid (Also open to discuss your role specifically if you're interested in someone trying to get their feet wet in fractional work, but am comfortable in the engineering space)
I've had a reasonable run with athom pre-flashed tasmota kit and HA.

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/5790427

Low effort, low maintenance, works good. mqtt & wifi, tasmota has everything you could want in a timer interface while still exposing switching etc to override it HA.
Sounds similar to Amazon Sidewalk...
Locally hosting platform IO is definitely on my to-do list but it is a problem which looks vast.

I have SQUID doing TLS MITM in front of it right now, but that doesn't get me really to "offline builds".
> How can I compete with a 20 something years old who has sharper memory, more free time (due to lack of obligations like family/relationships),

Is it a USA/Silicon Valley thing to miss the arrogance and insufferability most fresh grads have when entering the workforce?

It's kind of tone-deaf to attempt to self-victimize as someone with significant work experience being concerned of being replaced by a demographic that is notoriously challenged to build experience.
Maybe? I feel like an awful lot of people today, especially in wealthy countries, have at least 7 hours a week of time that they do not carefully allocate. Many have much more than that.
I am not a lawyer, but my opinion is the people who hate on trial lawyers do so because they sue for astronomical amounts of money when the doctors fuck up and accidentally ruin peoples lives.

People who hate on "trial lawyers" driving up the cost of medical services in America should shut their traps because Doctors are not saints.

For instance, Dr. Paduch:

https://nypost.com/2024/11/20/us-news/disgraced-nyc-urologis...

Do you think that the hospital who employed the Doctor who used his medical practice to enable him to molest young boys so horrifically that they gave him life in prison should not be at least somewhat responsible for the crimes he committed? Should they not provide oversight?

I'm sure those victims are going to get a lot of money, and it's going to come from the insurance that the hospital paid for to protect itself from these kinds of insane scenarios.

If it weren't for trial lawyers, victims would go on being victims, and it's not like the hospitals would charge less just because they didn't have high insurance premiums, they would just get to pocket more of the money themselves.
Pointless article.

Zotac accidentally listed filter options for 5090 series on their website for a few minutes. Well, that could have just been a web developer testing that the filters worked. It doesn't mean that they actually have these cards. It's a pretty reasonable thing to guess that the next gen of cards will follow the last gens naming conventions. They even list a 5070 TI and that's not expected to release for another year at least.

The ram thing is even more of a reach. They never listed "5090 with 32gb ram". The ram option is in an entirely different filter list, to filter all cards by amount and type of ram. So again, maybe they're just prepping the list to make sure these amounts of ram will fit and filter correctly. Or maybe it's for an AMD or a Nvidia workstation card.

The only actually interesting thing here is that there'll be a 5090D version for China.
Of course they are threats, but ...

Meaning: "Of course he is threatening, but ..." after you just said "He isn't capable of even threatening".

Can't you just acknowledge that it wasn't the best choice of language you used up front?
Overlooked option for running these things in containers is macvlan networking. Just give it its own MAC address on the network. Works great and you don't have to compromise on isolation.
Is that 18 million levied on the company? Or the individual?

If it's the company, the shareholders etc are not liable.
"My inability to make reasonable comparisons is worse than slow death from starvation."
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You may be being facetious but if you’re not I would take hair loss over death any day.
What exact IP makes TSMC so valuable?

We know the EUV machines are produced by ASML

We know ASML optics are produced by Zeiss.

So what is it?
You and your friends gather around the TV to watch a video about the time that you all traveled abroad and met a mysterious stranger. In the film, you witness each other take incredible risks, have intimate private conversations, and change in profound ways. Of course none of it actually happened; your voices and likenesses were fed into the movie generator. And did I mention in the film you’re driving expensive cars and wearing designer clothes?
> Sometimes we still get it and i drink it watered down bc its just so dang tasty.

For me that's the actual danger of absinthe. It is indeed ridiculously easy to drink and does not impart any of the 'fire' typically associated with spirits. And I also got the same sensation of 'body upside down'. I relate it to just how quickly my blood alcohol shot up.
I have the weirdest issues with HA. Like I can either make or find everything I need, except audio inputs and outputs which seem like some kind of horrifying netherworld of barely supported through config hacks.

Which wouldnt be an issue if their voice assistant stuff wasnt otherwise fantastic.

They seem to really rely on some kind of all in one third party device, but I havent found any that work for me.
Well it certainly depends on how much induced demand there is, and how much automation can multiply developer productivity.

If we are talking an 80% reduction in developers needed per project, then we would need 5x the amount of software demand in the future to avoid a workforce reduction.
I mean during my work hours I spend the majority of my time reading and thinking rather than programming.

In my personal life I try not to program. I do other things.
> The problem is you’re simultaneously arguing two points and relying on whichever point gives you the most leverage at each juncture.

No I am not.

> If .gov == bad guy then you’re screwed whether or not you leave a digital trail on social media because you’re already leaving one anyway (unless you’re a marginal outlier that isn’t worth considering for this “problem”). If that’s your threat model then you’re either super-important or I worry you’ve been sold a scary story by social media algorithms.

You are pretending as if one would need perfect op-sec (which is impossible). If you have a throwaway email, a sim paid for via cash and a VPN/Tor will make you much more difficult to track down and most of this can be learned via watching a few YouTube videos. You don't even have to do the more crazy stuff like running Tails.

Having an ID requirement will make it much more difficult as I suspect other regions will soon follow suite in implementing something similar.

There are also benefits to pseudo-anonymity. I want to keep my online life and my real life separate. This will mean that they can never be separate.

> On the other hand, the idea that this is an impossible tech problem to solve is also disingenuous. My point is that it could be solved. And quickly and easily too. If the incentive model were there. And whilst I’ve not given the solution a huge amount of thought (I’m not actually that interested in solving it) I’m certain that an authenticated assertion could be made that wasn’t directly attributable to an individual - i.e., a mechanism could be developed that would solve for both problems.

I never said that the tech problem was impossible to resolve. Again that is your assertion. I simply stated what I believe is most likely to happen in the near to medium term.
Superficially impressive but what is the actual use case of the present state of the art? It makes 10-second demos, fine. But can a producer get a second shot of the same scene and the same characters, with visual continuity? Or a third, etc? In other words, can it be used to create a coherent movie --even a 60-second commercial -- with multiple shots having continuity of faces, backgrounds, and lighting?

This quote suggests not: "maintaining complete consistency throughout complex scenes or those with complex motion, remains a challenge."
Not American but it seems so crazy to me that you can't even realistically choose your provider, since it's combined with your job. Seems insane.
That's quite an unexpected piece from APNIC. Basically, they openly question the need for unique addressing and end-to-end communication given today's market shift from the network itself to apps as the valuable thing, and they conclude that the market has no need for IPv6.
That’s what I mean, reduce us and the entire ship can be reduced too. We can’t go interplanetary with humans as evolved today. Solar sails can only push a very small payload.
Wow this is fantastic. Stealing some ideas from this.
I must confess, I looked at the map, looked at the streets, and even though I know exactly where that is as I live at Ossington and Dundas, my brain took spadina crescent on that map and somehow anchored it as the area next to the U of T circle to the east, so in my mind the map was all around the AGO... I dunno why.
Some extra notes: Ruby Video is a Rails application backed by SQLite, its frontend powered by Hotwire. It is open source on GitHub. I’d consider the repo a great resource for anyone looking to learn more about how modern Rails apps are built.

https://github.com/adrienpoly/rubyvideo

https://hotwired.dev/
Can't do with docker or can't do as easily with docker as you can with HAOS? My understanding has been that everything can be done by just adding new containers or files, and it's worked for me thus far.
that is super strange thing to say… if you know and trust the author what does it matter where the article is published…?
Before farming technology like tractors, 97% of people worked the fields on come capacity. Now it’s the inverse. Technology frees human potential from drudgery.
What is the over/under on a $2,000 price point?
Generally the number of your friends who have funerals is heavily biased towards the end of your life.

America's average lifespan is 77. When you're 16, your parents are perhaps 46, and their parents are maybe 76.

And a lot of people live for 10+ years after retirement, so your teachers might all be alive too.

If you've got a big extended family, or you're part of an organisation like a church where 16 year olds come are getting to know 70+ year olds, you might have gone to more than 6 funerals.

But generally? At 16 your parents, their friends, your aunts and uncles, your 16 year old friends, their parents? Good chance they're all still alive. Your grandparents - maybe, maybe not.
And with enough practice, "weird" becomes ordinary. I can keep rhythm in 7/8 and 7/4 almost as easily and automatically as 4/4 now, but 10 years ago it still took work. I sometimes go entire days with unbroken 7/8 music going in my head.
The brain also does that . It doesn’t do it exclusively, but we do it an awful lot .

we do extensive amount of pattern matching and drop enormous amount of sensory input very quickly because we expect patterns and assume a lot about our surroundings.

Unlearning this is a hard skill to pick up. There are many versions of training from martial arts to meditation that attempt to achieve this .

Point is that alone is not sufficient, the other core component is reasoning and understanding , transformers and learning on data is insufficient .

Parrot and few other animals can imitate human speech very well , that doesn’t mean they are understanding the speech or constructing .

Don’t get me wrong, i am not saying it is not useful, it is , but this attribution of reasoning and understanding to models that foundationally has no such building block is just being impressed by a speaking parrot
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Read this interview, and you will see that it's the work ethic.

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10265812...
I wouldn’t blame you - it was a sweet case. But wireless charging ensures I don’t lazily decline to charge my phone at night.
States have a shelf life of about 200 years
Well, I was thinking that for GHz level signals, you can't just beam your stuff down to a ground station due to bandwidth limitations, so your drones can't be just dumb ADCs, and there would need to be some compute on board. Time synchronization also becomes interesting.
Yes. I think so. The chances of some well meaning forums being taken down by this law is zero.
Ha - I’m on the other side of the grant application process and used an LLM to make a tool to describe the project, track milestones, sub-contractors, generate a costed project plan and all generate the other responses that need to be self-consistent in the grant application process.
Not to mention, I love working out.

If anything, I need more reasons to leave the house. Not more reasons to stay inside and be on the computer even more.

I do agree that GLP-1s can't be a free lunch. It can't be that powerful for free. Even beyond that, we might not know what we are doing with them.

It use to be standard for testosterone replacement to get a shot from a doctor every two weeks. This is an unbelievably stupid way to take testosterone. Blasting a super physiologic level of testosterone and then crashing over a two week period would be a good way to amplify side effects if that were the goal but we didn't know what we were doing then.

It is very unlikely we would have just randomly stumbled on the best way to take GLP-1s out of the gate.
Wow, great answer. That deserves more upvotes than it's probably going to get. So what that means for compute shaders is I will need to partition the vectors being multiplied into power of 2 sized partitions and repeatedly call the kernels, but with offsets appropriate to the partition size, and then have the overrun contribute zero as you said.

Obviously not as efficient as doing it all GPU side, still faster than doing it on the CPU. Thank you!
>teaches—by way of images, information and gameplay—skills and knowledge that are used in poker … this knowledge and skill could be transferred to a real-life game of poker.

Battleship conveys knowledge and skill that could be transferred to a real-life blue-water naval engagement.
Interview: Tae Kim, Author of the Nvidia Way
I do! I posted this a while down below but I guess the way the algorithm here works it got super deprioritized. Full repost:

I can chip in from my tech consulting job where we ship a few GenAI projects to several AWS clients via Amazon Bedrock. I'm senior level but most people here are pretty much insulated.

I think whoever commented once here about more complex problems being tackled, (and the nature of these problems becoming broader) is right on the money. Newer patterns around LLM-based applications are emerging and having seen them first hand, they seem like a slightly different paradigm shift in programming. But they are still, at heart, programming questions.

A practical example: company sees GenAI chatbot, wants one of their own, based on their in-house knowledge base.

Right then and there there is a whole slew of new business needs with necessary human input to make it work that ensues.

- Is training your own LLM needed? See a Data Engineer/Data engineering team.

- If going with a ready-made solution, which LLM to use instead? Engineer. Any level.

- Infrastructure around the LLM of choice. Get DevOps folk in here. Cost assessment is real and LLMs are pricey. You have to be on top of your game to estimate stuff here.

- Guard rails, output validation. Engineers.

- Hooking up to whatever app front-end the company has. Engineers come to the rescue again.

All these have valid needs for engineers, architects/staff/senior what have you — programmers. At the end of the day, these problems devolve into the same ol' https://programming-motherfucker.com

And I'm OK with that so far.
I don't see it.

Trading is about doing very specific math in a very specific scenario with known expectations.

Software engineering is anything but like that.
Square joy: tile crush (exploding tiles in j)
I wouldn't limit it to rock but anything that sticks to one time signature is pretty simple. Any 4/4 or 3/4 or 6/8 is easy to count. Then you have rock groups like Tool where the drummer is playing a totally different time signature than the guitar and only sync back up on least common denominator multiples. Jazz gets crazy too like you said.

What's weird is there are bands that deliberately play odd meters in their time signatures to match some sort of math concept that is just no where near the same likeability as what Tool does with their Fibonacci sequence and other things. I don't know if they are just lesser musicians, but it definitely feels forced. This is what I notice a lot about some jazz where they are doing it for the sake of doing it not because it sounds good.

It's definitely a case of learning the rules so you know how best to break them. If you just start breaking them without knowing why they are there in the first place just sounds bad to me.
They know how to integrate and operate those and all the other pieces required to go from a hardware design to hardware you can touch. If you just had to take delivery of ASML machines Intel wouldn't be struggling to get below a (so called) 7nm node.
The claim that mirror molecules would not be subject to immune surveillance makes no sense to me. The immune system is happy to react to non-biological molecules. It reacts to shapes, not chirality. It is a separate question whether the immune response could break into mirror membranes and break down mirror molecules.
First I've heard of fractional roles. Is there any loose guidelines of what level of experience is required to break into the space?

I've been doing software for about a decade now. But I'm still (relatively) young. I do feel I have good breadth though and could provide value to a fledgling company to move in the right direction.
He explicitly opposes liberalism and pluralist democracy. He's not a libertarian.
You'll be thrilled to hear about upb then, which was designed to be embeddable to power other languages without a from-scratch implementation - and now powers python protos.

https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/tree/main/upb
Speed is just one dimension of intelligence, no?

Who's more intelligent, person A that would score 80% on a test given 30 minutes, and 85% given 60 minutes; or person B that would score 50% given 30 minutes, but 99% given 60 minutes?

Person A might be perceived as quick, have an accurate intuition, and able to come up with a lot of ideas. Person B on the other hand is of the slow and steady kind that will methodically and tirelessly work on a problem until it's solved.
> I’ll continue using it to generate sed and awk commands,

The first example I gave was an example of someone using an LLM to generate sed & awk commands, on which it failed spectacularly, on everything from the basics to higher-level stuff. The emitted code even included awk, and the awk was poor quality: e.g., it had to store the git log output & make several passes over it with awk, when in reality, you could just `git log | awk`; it was doing `... | grep | awk` which … if you know awk, really isn't required. The regex it was using to work with the git log output it was parsing with awk was wrong, resulting in the wrong output. Even trivial "sane bash"-isms, it messed up: didn't quote variables that needed to be quotes, didn't take advantage of bashisms even though requiring bash in the shebang, etc.

The task was a simple one, bordering on trivial, and any way you cut it, from "was the code correct?" to "was the code high quality?", it failed.

But it shouldn't be terribly surprising that an LLM would fail at writing decent bash: its input corpus would resemble bash found on the Internet, and IME, most bash out there fails to follow best-practice; the skill level of the authors probably follows a Pareto distribution due to the time & effort required to learn anything. GIGO, but with way more steps involved.

I've other examples, such as involving Kubernetes: Kubernetes is also not in the category of "4 people in the world know": "how do I get the replica number from a pod in a statefulset?" (i.e., the -0, -1, etc., at the end of the pod name) ­— I was told to query,

.metadata.labels.replicaset-序号

(It's just nonsense; not only does no such label exist for what I want, it certainly doesn't exist with a Chinese name. AFAICT, that label name did not appear on the Internet at the time the LLM generated it, although it does, of course, now.) Again, simple task, wide amount of documentation & examples in the training set, and garbage output.
> never provide code that pass my sniff test

Unfortunately it won't be your sniff test that matters. It's going to be an early founder that realizes they don't need to make that extra seed round hire, or the resource limited director that decides they can forgo that one head count and still deliver the product on time, or the in house team that realizes they no longer need a dedicated front end dev because, for their purposes, AI is good enough.

Personally, the team I lead is able to ship much faster with AI assistants than without, which means in practice we can out compete much larger teams in the same space.

Sure their are things that AI will always struggle with, but those things aren't merely "senior" in nature, they're much closer to the niche expert type of problems. Engineers working on generally cutting edge work will likely be in demand and hard to replace, but many others will very likely be impacted by AI from multiple directions.
https://www.home-assistant.io/yellow has the extra interfaces for Zigbee and Z-Wave - and the compute board is an Raspberry Pi 4 or 5.
> people like you are a tiny minority

According to some rumors, Valve is currently developing a Linux-based computer with software stack ported from Steam Deck. If the rumor is true and the device will be good, Microsoft will be very surprised with how many people will switch from Windows 11 into that new platform.
As far as I remember, they have always been there.
The record keeping requirements described by the parent are completely wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42436626
If they're the older Kasa bulbs/switches (before they got all Matter), they have a dead simple local, MAC-addressed TCP packet protocol. I've implemented basic ON/OFF commands in ESPHome C++ code, but there's also a command line tool: https://github.com/python-kasa/python-kasa?tab=readme-ov-fil... There's a list at the bottom of supported devices.

Last used the command-line utility with a PowerShell script to make the lights in the playroom do a rainbow-random color dance party for the kiddos. Was nice to crank out a working automation in 2 minutes.