skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s incredible, I had no idea this was even possible. Are most auto manufacturers modelling their vehicles this way? Seems like an amazing way to search for optimizations, predictive failures, etc.
My experience trying to get home from around 二丁目 says otherwise re/ availability, but I'll admit I might have given up too quickly.
>You can’t really put a corporation in jail, but you could cut it off from the world in the same way that a person in jail is cut off.

I have imagined a sci-fi skit where James works at CorpCo, a company that was caught doing something illegal and sentences to prison. As punishment James goes to work by reporting in at a prison at 8 am. He sits in his cell until his 'work day' is over and it's released at 5 pm to go home. It's boring, but hey, it pays well.
If the only antiquated defaults are the ones you listed we're not in a bad shape at all...

Curious about light/dark mode, what does it do more than loading a theme? something like circadian.el? maybe it's because I hide menu-bar/tool-bar/scrollbars by default but `M-x load-theme modus-operandi` is all I need for whenever a room is too bright or a colleague complains about my dark theme.
Assuming LLMs grow past their current state where they are kind of hit-and-miss for programming, I feel like this question is very similar to e.g. asking an assembly programmer what they are doing to future-proof their career in light of high-level languages. I can't recall a situation in which the correct answer would not be one of

(1) "Finding a niche in which my skills are still relevant due to technical constraints",

(2) "Looking for a different job going forward", or

(3) "Learning to operate the new tool".

Personally I'm in category (3), but I'd be most interested in hearing from others who think they are on track to (1). What are the areas where LLMs will not penetrate due to technical reasons, and why? I'm sure these areas exist, I just have trouble imagining which they are!

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One might argue that there's another alternative of finding a niche where LLMs won't penetrate due to regulatory constraints, but I'm not counting this because that tends to be a short-term optimisation.
> "The biggest propaganda win that Microsoft pulled was getting nerds - the biggest loudmouths about software freedom - off their case."

Microsoft didn't lift a finger. In the early years while they still had developer fanaticism behind it, the FOSS movement delivered Linux, which was an adequate substitute for Windows, but failed to deliver an adequate software ecosystem to compete with the Windows software ecosystem to jumpstart Linux desktop adoption. Excel and Active Directory are big examples but I'm sure people can come up with others. So users stayed where the software they needed was.

FOSS momentum really began to falter once it became clear that none of the proposed business models that were based on being free and open, OSI style, were working and the money hungry beancounters started moving to faux open source licenses like shared source. But Microsoft had nothing to do with that either other than simply surviving long enough for it to happen.

> "Because Windows is now widely regarded as a pile of shit..."

People eat at McDonalds and drink coffee at Starbucks by the millions every day. It all might be shit but being consistent has a value of its own.
but they also have this:

> In order to keep SQLite completely free and unencumbered by copyright, the project does not accept patches. If you would like to suggest a change and you include a patch as a proof-of-concept, that would be great. However, please do not be offended if we rewrite your patch from scratch.

https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
New Report Reveals How Anime and Manga Industry Is Using Generative AI
There are always people vested in the current way of doing things. If they happen to be influential, you will have to swim upstream no matter how much better your solution is. Companies are ultimately people, not in the Citizens United sense but in that they are made by people, staffed by people, and you will be dealing with people and all their foibles.
They cut the tree down for the rebuild? That seems kinda sad.
Swoole (Coroutine-based concurrency for PHP) v6 released
I would not hire someone who eschews LLMs as a tool. That does not mean I would accept someone mindlessly shoving its code through review, as it is a tool, not a wholesale solution.
> and so many traffic violations and crashes that they were (eventually) barred from expanding their testing by the state.

As far as I can tell, that literally didn’t happen. Instead, they both got approved for a major expansion this year and have no new restrictions on any future expansions.

CPUC approved a major expansion this year, some local agencies raised issues and called for a rehearing, and CPUC reheard it and approved it again. There’s a member of the state legislature that has proposed a bill changing the process for such expansions to a less favorable one in the past who talked about maybe reintroducing it this session in response, but nothing like that passed that I can find.
Which is why Haskell likes single letter variables too
This was interesting, but by the end of it, I was still expecting some weird trick to work around the problem without the patch.
The reason why software is crappy compared to physical products is because products come with a warranty and software doesn't. If you buy a blender and it makes some strange noise, you don't think twice about returning it, and maybe buying a different brand. If it breaks later, you can get repaired for free under the warranty, or else get it repaired.

You have none of these recourses with software. Yes, there are trial periods but that's not the same as buying and returning, and they're usually shorter than return windows.

And there's never any guarantee that it will "just work". We have managed to convince consumers to put up with software that "breaks" in a way that they would never do with hardware.
Better than the opposite. You can always skip frames to get the normal speed. But motion interpolation never looks good to me.
Is there a reason to use 9p over virtiofs in this case? It looks to me as though virtiofs was made exactly with the idea to deal good performance.
"The Skyscraper Curse"

https://mises.org/online-book/skyscraper-curse-and-how-austr...

There's an interesting correlation between the business cycle and record breaking skyscrapers.
The trouble is that governments might not have a bias towards any company, but the government employees doing everything do. If the government is handing out a lot of assistance then you get a layer of middlemen who will help companies "get things done". The issue with this is that they are an additional burden that suck out resources from the system.
Last time I took a cab in Japan the driver pushed a button to open the door and pressed a button to close it. It was surreal actually.
> All the greats, like Steve Jobs and so on said that you've got to love what you do.

This is probably true for them but the other thing that can happen is that when you take what you love and do it for work or try to make it a business you can grow to hate it.
A page with a bunch of videos struggles to scroll on iphone and crashes the browser for me. Google actively punches through rock bottom with its frontend teams.
Nah, moving up the Kardashev scale means more control over biology. "Workout in a pill" is not far off. Genetic engineering to retain high levels of fitness with little effort is in the realm of feasible too.
Don't you think people will just add better models to meet available memory?

If we run 7B now, why wouldn't we run 700b with memory optimizations?
Nothing about autonomous vehicles has ever prevented municipalities from improving public transit and in all likelihood, never will. They're two entirely separate pots of money by two entirely separate sets of organizations.

American transit sucks. It's sucked for decades. It's going to continue sucking as long as we keep playing this stupid game of "let's discuss maybe eventually building something in 50 years" that happens in every metro area. In the meantime, I'll keep commuting by public transit to my job developing autonomous vehicles.
Have you considered this?
https://flatbuffers.dev/
The costs are not zero. I recently generated a short AI video for my son in Runway Act One. That $15 balance evaporated in like 6 prompts.

Of course, it's orders of magnitude cheaper than making a video or an animation yourself.
MySQL Branch Action: Open-Source Database Branching for CI/CD
Claude Became Tech Insiders' Chatbot of Choice
> memcpy is the fastest way

To bake endianess and alignment requirements into your protocol.
I guess because mathematical formulas usually use single letters for symbols. It is so common that you end using several different alphabets, lower/upper case and even calligraphic variations. Of course it doesn't scale when you need thousands of symbols and your variables doesn't have well established meanings like "magnetic field" or "pressure". However they are used to it and it's hard to break some mental models after several years of using them everyday. For good or bad some scientific computer languages (like Julia) encourage you to use the Unicode alphabet to align your code with your paper/book.
TRT isn't unpleasant or dangerous to take at all though from any research I've seen. It's sitting in the low testosterone epidemic we have found ourselves in that has health risks and makes you feel very unpleasant indeed.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/2017/10/02/youre-not-t...
Well, the article is fairly short, so a TLDR is perhaps not necessary.
And "manual intervention from the vendor" didn't involve fixing that, if it was such a trivial configuration issue?
He’s not concern trolling he’s just being contrary with the inputs because he fundamentally disagrees with law that is the topic here. First, question the existence of EVERYTHING in a bad faith way.

I think you’ve misread that I have any stake at all in proana/anorexia promotion - I just know it exists and the “online 10 hours a day for 10 years” guy who hasn’t come across it went straight to ‘is there a single site’ rather than I dunno, googling it.
I agree on the taxi experience being next level. I just wonder how the aging population will replace them. Have you ever seen a 20 something cab driver in Japan? I been many times and never have so wonder if there is a job shortage coming
Tl;dr: file descriptors for the guest os are stored as linked lists by qemu, and changing that sped qemu file copying up by a ton.
Some things just get brought up a lot. Like when ever something about the antikythera mechanism someone will link to Clickspring.
Not inconceivable. There are plenty of executives and mba types that are eating up the 'ai thing'... those guys will pay some consultants layoff their workforce and fucking die in the market when the consultants can't deliver.
Likewise, my Bambu X1C changed my 3d Printing experience. Prior to it, I was spending an insane amount of time on fixing my printer, testing my printer, trying to improve my printer. The Bambu just worked. It breaks my heart a little that the machine I use daily isn't open source, doesn't have open parts that I can just replace. But just a little. Because the printer keeps working, really well.
What if I changed the heading to

"The higher fertility of ( $ Wealthiest Company in the Country ) workers" ?

Would that makes it easier to understand? Not to mention TSMC employees have decent social status in Taiwan. Well Paid and High Benefits by Taiwan Standard, and tends not to do layoffs for stupid reasons. Long terms planning and Institutional Knowledge is important at TSMC. Unlike Intel 2009 - 2021.
Sure, nothing is stopping them from offering both.
Is legalese not just the result of trying to use English as a programming language? Any time I try to write English (or other natlang) precisely and unambiguously and robust against adversarial interpretations, it comes out looking like legalese.
Can you elaborate for those less informed? Is there a higher fare after the trains stop?
always thought the problem was not multi-threading per se but the whole rendering code that's single threaded with tons of global state that's difficult to decouple without breaking the ecosystem
> used in names in generated code

Fair enough but now this name leaks out into code I have to type. I don't dig highly opinionated languages with tooling that complains at me over style guidelines breaking their own style guidelines to solve a problem that they themselves have created.

They painted themselves into a corner and their solution is for me to hit myself in the head with a hammer.
That's a good observation. How would you teach an LLM the processes and conduct in your company? I suppose you'd need to replace code reviews and tutoring with prompt engineering. And hope that the next software update to the LLM won't invalidate your prompts.
Cryptocurrency more broadly can be used to send vast amounts of money, anywhere in the world for near-zero fees regardless of sovereignty. And Bitcoin is still faster and cheaper than shipping gold around.
In San Francisco, pedestrians and bikes can appear anywhere around your car, at any speed in any direction. Including wearing all black, no light and taking 2 steps forward then turning around and taking 2 more steps forward (repeat but vary everything randomly). Or doing lasso circles with something heavy at the end of a rope in the middle of the street (last weekend). Just because this is not 100% of the time is not a license to run over ANY of them.

This is a kind of environment that human drivers are NOT made for. All the more not while clicking around on their Uber app or changing the music track or trying to read street signs or understand a Nissan dashboard map. In San Francisco, computers with multiple sensors have a gross advantage over humans.
Which ones? I could see the pull to refresh maybe not being a bug, but every single other one sounds like a bug to me.
I liked this final paragraph:

Scientists around the world are also welcome to mine PanSci for their own research, Zhang adds. “Researchers studying specific organs can extract organ-specific data, while those focusing on specific cell lineages such as immune or endothelial cells can extract the same cell types from different organs,” he says. “And because the dataset is well-curated and annotated, it’s ideal for training large machine-learning models for applications like age prediction, finding rare cell types, and building virtual cells for in silico perturbation studies.”
I disagree. There's plenty of cheaply made stuff that doesn't last very long, and other brands that focus on lasting quality, where stuff lasts a very long time. This is mostly evident in items that get a lot of use.
I've got you:

hashtables faster than linked lists in places where lookups are frequent & item count is high
Because they don’t have an actual argument.
Absolutely not. The alternative to using electric energy is using manpower. Blood, sweat and tears.

What must be gotten rid of is high emission energy sources.
If you work with both the ergonomic advantages of protobufs become quickly apparent - starting the first time you nest things a few times. Unless you are very very frequently not going to deserialize your entire messages and so can get huge benefits from the better selective-deser of only what a given consumer cares about at a certain time, I find using flatbuffers hard to justify.
The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy it is capable of harnessing and using.
I remember I tried to get an early version of Midjourney to draw something in ligne claire-style, no matter how I expressed it, it failed miserably at that. It was an early "Yeah, these models are actually pretty overfit" moment for me.

I haven't tried lately, though. I would assume it's better now.
Are you implying that Tokyo already has a lot of car/truck traffic? (It does not.) Or implying that Waymo meaningfully increases traffic? (I doubt it.)
So to take that a step further couldn't all businesses be killed as well?
Anabolic steroids already exist.
Discussed at the time:

Digging into a QEMU problem of slow data copying - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33192152 - Oct 2022 (31 comments)
This site is not content-heavy, it’s less than a bunch of videos, pictures and text. This site was just done by useless jokes not worth their money.
Infosys Founder Calls for 70-Hour Work Week, Again
I don't think the problem is the LLM.

I think of LLMs like clay, or paint, or any other medium where you need people who know what they're doing to drive them.

Also, I might humbly suggest you invest some time in the junior dev and ask yourself why they keep on producing "garbage code". They're junior, they aren't likely to know the difference between good and bad. Teach them. (Maybe you already are, I'm just taking a wild guess)
I assume they mean: Given turning/waiting car A, passing car B that is going straight and car C coming from right going straight. Car B likely has right of the way as they are going straight and they are on the left from viewpoint of car C, but car C may not see behind car A (like due to it being truck for example). Both B & C might think they have right of the way. B due to fact they should normally only need to avoid people coming from left and he can see there is no one there, C due to fact he entered intersection when he only saw A who is waiting to turn. I don't know Japan law so I don't know actually has right of the way here (in Finland A would actually have right of the way in mirrored situation as you always need to yield those coming from right in equal intersection, even if they are turning left).
Not to mention it was some idiot who threw firecrackers in a Waymo. I don't think this person made a super calculated decision.
I'm trying to complete each challenge in a different language. I've written up the first five days on my blog[1]. Have completed a few more than just these, but I don't know that I'll get all of them done by Christmas.

[1]: https://davidyat.es/2024/12/16/aoc-2024-part1/
For SQL based query, you could take a look at Karpor(https://github.com/KusionStack/karpor), which provides powerful, flexible queries across multi clusters, also in the next release we will support Cyphernetes as other query method.
A lot of the older ones came from the Forest of Bercé which has been managed since the 17th century. It was originally a royal forest meant to grow long timber for ships, so it’s not like they’re cutting down virgin forest. They only used about a thousand oaks and Bercé alone is thousands of hectares (I think they sourced from over 100 other public and privately managed forests too).
> search speed for potential room temperature superconductors?

and what if it's a dead end?
> what I'm saying is of LLM generated code that is reviewed, what is the quality & correctness of the reviewed code? And it's resoundingly (easily >90%) crap.

What makes you so sure that none of the resoundingly non-crap that you have reviewed was not produced by LLM?

It’s like saying you only like homemade cookies not ones from the store. But you may be gleefully chowing down on cookies that you believe are homemade because you like them (so they must be homemade) without knowing they actually came from the store.
How humanities classes benefit students in the workplace and combat loneliness
> machines with memory of 32MB or less was the norm

My memory of 1998 is that 64mb-128mb was common by then.

Around then my main machine had 128mb, until 2001 when I switched to 256mb and a 1ghz cpu. I also had an older machine with 8mb that was given to me for free. I recompiled OpenBSD to exclude PCI support to get it to stop swapping, then it was pretty usable as a headless machine.
They already do that. 90% of cheerful top comments on some channels are clearly generated. They never mention content (yet) and are abstract as hell. “Very useful video, thanks”, “I’m watching this every day, love the content” and so on. It’s unclear if they have a real view count either, at least in promotion phase.
I learned more (dubious) Roman history from Asterix than all other sources combined
"American torpedoes utilized 180-proof ethyl alcohol as fuel for the miniature steam engines that drove them toward their targets."

I wonder if this was by design ...

I think isopropyl alcohol is probably generally available/popular only because it is not drinkable.
save it to a private github repo, pull periodically using a cron job
It's attempt to provide a much more efficient and harder to misuse implementation to a project used in tons of places.
I am 61, I have been a full time developer since I was about 19. I have lost count of the number of 'next thing to replace developers' many many times. many of them showed promise. Many of them continue to be developed. Frameworks with higher and higher levels of abstraction.

I see LLMs as the next higher level of abstraction.

Does this mean it will replace me? At the moment the output is so flawed for anything but the most trivial professional tasks, I simply see, as before, it has a long long way to go.

Will be put me out of a job? I highly doubt it in my career. I still love it and write stuff for home and work every day of the week. I'm planning on working until I drop dead as it seems I have never lost interest so far.

Will it replace developers as we know it? Maybe in the far future. But we'll be the ones using it anyway.
> But why all this effort to re-create a burial ship?

Burial ships are generally how we have found out details of such old ships, as otherwise they'd have rotted away, or been chopped up, at the end of their lives. Similar to Viking ships.

It's not like they're trying to recreate the burial. They want to sail it and see how it works, giving us information on life back in the Saxon days.
> I guess in the US I would expect wealthy to find some interest, donate some money, start ( funding ) planting Oak trees and get this moving.

Commercial oak trees take decades for furniture grade wood and most are harvested after 50-80 years. The ones this project needs are at least 150-200 years old, which are very expensive in the UK. Anyone who plants them today is doing so for their great-great-great-great-… grandkids.

France has tons of them in forests specifically started centuries ago for the French navy but this project is insisting on UK wood for… reasons.
Is it so? I imagine trading worked this way upto the late 90s, but today with algos running the show, is it still true?
>They have a long, long history of price discrimination using techniques like this.

Had AI and Crypto not been a thing. These so called price discrimination was what kept the company afloat and continue to spend stupid money ( according to many ) on CUDA rather than making gaming better.

And when often people say "X" needs competition. What they really want is just cheaper price for the same thing. Would it be great if Nvidia had more competition? Absolutely, but is Nvidia not making progress and milking everything they have? Absolutely not. They invested even more in CUDA, Large Die Size Correction Tooling, Assisted EDA Design and many more to their arsenal to built their moat.

I also often found when a successful founder is still working at a company, that company is often pushed far harder by its founder than whatever market force is driving them. So we need competition for Intel 2009 - 2021, Microsoft in 2000, Any company who just sit there and no longer improves or failed to execute.

Nvidia? They are doing fine if not better than I could imagine. ( I just wished they spend a little more money to compete in the Mobile and Desktop Consumer SoC space. I guess that is coming soon. )