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>An adjacent question is whether there are too many people on the planet for that to be an option anymore even if it were legal.

Do you mean for everyone to be hunter-gatherers? Yes, that would be impossible. If you mean for a smaller number then it depends on the number.
The area of Rust code that is unsafe is much, much smaller than the amount in equivalent C code, making it much more tractable to audit. I won't pretend that it's perfect, but it's not remotely comparable to C.
Projects like this are marvelous.

Without it, we will be re-learning so many things that we should already know.
> The video should have been much clearer about what was actually tested and what was actually trained. To the average listener it may have sounded like the AI took the test cold, with a few sample items, like a human would, but that’s not actually what happened.

I have to agree with this. I haven't watched the video, but that's exactly what the hype surrounding it made me think up until I read this sentence. An AI system that can be fine-tuned to achieve human level performance on a variety of intellectual puzzles still sounds like an important advance, don't get me wrong, but being able to manufacture a model that does what you need is very different than having a model that's already capable of everyone's needs.
>Qualcomm was saying pretty strongly they didn't allow any direct Nuvia IP to be imported and to pollute the new design.

Which is the part that is questionable and I guess no way to prove unless we continue with the trial. The Nuvia core is said to be perfect on A0, and no one in the industry has ever done anything perfect on A0, especially with something as complex as modern CPU design.

One could argue all the previous Nuvia Design IP were in the Nuvia's team's head memorised. They are basically recreating the same work done in Nuvia at Qualcomm. And that is I guess grey areas.
Misleading title. This is true about 5-10% of the human life. For 90-95% of the human life, the exact opposite is happening.

More honest title : "The risk of Cancer Fades Over 80 Years Old, and We May Know Why."
Inside the Chaotic World of Kids Trying to Play Video Games on School Laptops
I mean more the gory parts. Blood, decomposed bodies everywhere etc.

And I wasn't talking about action hero movies.
There are some hits in this old phonebook [1], but one needs to pay to view the records. Maybe some one else can do this.

[1] https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/1025/?name=Jam...
You can have full security competence but be a rogue actor at the same time.
But it does look like there are some people who are tormented by mental issues and preoccupied with bizarre thoughts, occult imagery, and aggressive behaviors. And honestly, even though I've seen myself how meds work on my family member, it's so surreal to believe after seeing such manifestations, and demons would be the right term for the behaviors I've seen first hand, it also sounded like a living nightmare to the person experiencing it. The acceptance of these nonsensical ideas and going with the flow reminded me of how dreams work, but at least I'm not awake to live out the dream.
No, it compiles to Java bytecode that runs directly on the JVM.
Uhh no I'm not giving up my privacy because a few people want to misbehave. Screw that. My friends know who I am but the social media companies shouldn't have to.

Also, it'll make social media even more fake than it already is. Everyone trying to be as fake as possible. Just like LinkedIn is now. It's sickening, all these people toting the company line. Even though they do nothing but complain when you speak to them in person.

And I don't think it'll actually solve the problem. People find ways to get through the validation with fake IDs.
Lots of people here mentioning reasons to both use and avoid the cloud. I'll just chip in one more on the pro-cloud side: reliability at low scale.

To expand: At $dayjob we use AWS, and we have no plans to switch because we're tiny, like ~5000 DAU last I checked. Our AWS bill is <$600/mo. To get anything remotely resembling the reliability that AWS gives us we would need to spend tens of thousands up-front buying hardware, then something approximating our current AWS bill for colocation services. Or we could host fully on-prem, but then we're paying even more up-front for site-level stuff like backup generators and network multihoming.

Meanwhile, RDS (for example) has given us something like one unexplained 15-minute outage in the last six years.

Obviously every situation is unique, and what works for one won't work for another. We have no expectation of ever having to suddenly 10x our scale, for instance, because we our growth is limited by other factors. But at our scale, given our business realities, I'm convinced that the cloud is the best option.
I tend to agree with growth through realism, but people often have the means and ability to protect themselves from these horrors. Im not sure you can systemically prevent this without resorting to big brother shoving propaganda in front of people and forcing them to consume it.
I've also noticed that as screens got larger screen real estate got cheaper so UI design doesn't require as much effort and it shows.
>Nuclear waste is both solved and largely a non-problem

Is that burying it deep underground?

Safety? Three-mile island? Chernobyl? The one in Japan? Ok, earthquake zone so not a good idea anyway. I heard the French nuclear program has a 100% safety record. But that could be false to keep the public in board with it.

Wouldn't wind and solar be the way to go? U don't need a big centralised for profit energy source.
I don't feel like this is primarily promotion. Sure it is a bit of a content marketing article, but still offers some potentially valuable insight.
Chollet's shift in tone is interesting. As recently as 2022, he expressed strong skepticism about LLMs solving ARC-AGI within a decade. Now, he seems to suggest that significant progress on the challenge is possible within the next 1-2 years.

Of course, he strives to maintain a consistent public persona, but this shift strongly implies that o3's performance has significantly altered his views.

This field, much like economics, is full of experts who can convincingly explain why there were wrong :)

PS: ARC-AGI is a very well-though-out/interesting/useful test.
That's not true at all. All the people I speak of are here in Spain. They're generally just young people starting a career. Many of them end up in the fringes of cybersecurity work (user education etc) actually because they've seen so many scams. So it's the start of a good career.

Sure some companies would outsource also to africa but it doesn't mean this work is only available to third-world countries. And there's not that many jobs in it. It's more than possible to be able to find enough people that can stomach it.

There was another article a few years back about the poor state of mental health of Facebook moderators in Berlin. This is not exclusively a poor people problem. More of a wrong people for the job problem.

And of course we should look more at why this is the only form of social mobility for them if it's really the case.
> 3 day turnaround process to get any resources provisioned

Now imagine having to deal with procurement to purchase hardware for your needs. 6 months later you have a server. Oh you need a SAN for object storage? There goes another 6 months.
One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch
> I guess the question is whether it’s better to spread objectively and demonstrably false info today (as you are with the completely bogus Matrix 2.0 critique), versus me putting subjective info into a FAQ 10 years ago ;)

Outright denying people's bad experience with Matrix has also been a sad part in Matrix marketing for so long. Unfortunately, I don't have experience with Element X, since my provider doesn't support it yet, so I can't confirm or deny that testimonial, but my exceptations are not high.

> It might be worth considering that whining about Matrix is misdirected anger - it may be better off pointed at the proprietary centralised surveillance capitalism alternatives rather than us…

It's not either or. People are frustrated on the other hand because of the annoying proprietary platforms, but also because there are currently no alternatives to them that one could whole-heartedly recommend as a replacement.
I have a modern Canon laser printer that does not properly implement ligatures because of obscure driver issues. What I see on the screen is not what is printed.
Erm, 99%'s clearly wrong and I think you know it, even if you are falling into the typical trap of "only Americans matter"...

As someone in New Zealand, latency does really matter sometimes, and is painfully obvious at times.

HN's ping for me is around: 330 ms.

Anyway, ping doesn't really describe the latency of the full DNS lookup propogation, TCP connection establishment and TLS handshake: full responses for HN are around 900 ms for me till last byte.
Young Lust is the song where this operator is heard.

Not being an audiophile, it took me some time to figure out the specific song. My brother had The Wall album, and I enjoyed it, but I never listened to it on my own. I went back and listened to it again for the context.

I really enjoy music but I don't listen to it as often I'd like. I think part of the reason is that I have difficulty concentrating when there is audio in the background. Some of my software engineer co-workers can turn on music or a video while they work, but I'm more productive in silence.
Doctors, cops, first responders, prison guards, soldiers etc also just so happen to be the most likely groups of people to develop PTSD.
I've noticed from my family member that their brain seems to connect more dots, things are more abstract for them. So basically very good for creative work, they are good with words and novel ideas, but also sucks when you attribute behaviors and intentions when they are not there.
Bogotá’s open streets program is the oldest and most successful
Musicians still release samples without clearing them
To be blunt, the way you express yourself on this topic comes off as very "enlightened intellectual." It's clear that you think that your views/assumptions are the correct view and any other view is one held by the "commons"; one which you can change simply by providing the poor stupid commons with your enlightened knowledge.

Recall that this whole thread started with your proposition that seeing live fish prepared in front of someone "will likely leave most westerners squeamish or perhaps even gag simply because the west goes out of its way to hide where food comes from, even though that simply is the reality we all live in." You had no basis for this as far as I can tell, it's just a random musing by you. A number of folks responded disagreeing with you, but you dismissed their anecdotal comments as being wrong because it doesn't comport with your view of the unwashed masses who are, obviously, feeble minded sheep who couldn't possibly cope with the realities of modern food production in an enlightened way like you have whereby you "enjoy meats respecting and appreciating the fact that the steak or sashimi or whatever in front of me was a live animal at one point just like me." How noble of you. Nobody (and I mean this in the figurative sense not the literal sense) is confused that the slab of meat in front of them was at one point alive.

Then you have the audacity to accuse someone of coming up with "zany" situations? You're the one that started the whole zany discussion in the first place with your own zany musings about how "western" "commons" think!
Fascinating idea. Have you tried open-mic storytelling?

The Moth[1] have storytelling events in various locations and I recently signed up to do just that. I've also tried to add a voice over for some of my more poetic posts and I already feel re-writing after that alone.

[1] https://themoth.org
Yup, I was referring to, I guess, one of these,

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29473630: (2021-12-07) AWS us-east-1 outage

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29648286: (2021-12-22) Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

Maybe things are better now, but it became apparent that people might be misusing cloud providers or betting that things work flawlessly even if they completely ignore AZs.
The complexity of scaling out an application to be closer to the users has never been about getting the hardware closer. It's always about how do you get the data there and dealing with the CAP theorem, which requires hard tradeoffs to be decided on when designing the application and can't be just tacked on - there is no magic button to do this, in the AWS console or otherwise.

Getting the hardware closer to the users has always been trivial - call up any of the many hosting providers out there and get a dedicated server, or a colo and ship them some hardware (directly from the vendor if needed).
capex vs opex
The Riddle of Luigi Mangione
That’s not something that I have control over or influence over.
Thanks, and you can make money with this? Sorry I'm a total noob in this area.
Can Lean can do what TLA+ does - model check thorny concurrency problems ?
https://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/gi...
Thanks for the feedback. I don't know why I settled on that. It could be because of LinkedIn and in general, what I read online: other substacks, medium posts etc.
>> What’s holding us back?

Inertia.

It takes a lot of time, effort, money, and consensus to replace the current status quo with something else.

Unless there is a significant motivation to change things will stay the same or slowly evolve as all things do in tech.

Similar examples that are somewhat debatable are:

Arm-based processors over x86-based processors

Rust over C / C++

Electric vehicles over internal combustion vehicles

Et cetera . . .

The existence of alternatives is not enough to displace the status quo.

What alternative to the current web ecosystem are you envisioning? Pure WASM? Something else?
> I'd like to move the cursor backwards and forwards in long commands easier

I believe basic gnu readline semantics are followed here, and most text editing fields elsewhere, with emacs keybindings - ctl-a for start of line, ctl-e for end, esc f for forward word, etc. “esc e” to open $EDITOR with the command line in a tmp file.
My friends who are paramedics have seen some horrific scenes. They have also been shot, stabbed, and suffered lifelong injuries.

They are obviously not identical scenarios. They have similarities and they also have differences.
Any ideas how they manage the ZFS encryption key? I've always wondered what you'd do in an enterprise production setting. Typing the password in at a prompt as any seem scalable (but maybe they have few enough servers that it's manageable) and keeping it in a file on disk or on removable storage would seem to defeat the purpose...
Don't the asylum laws date back to when Jewish refugees were refused entry fleeing just before WW2? They changed them after that. And the legitimacy of economic refugees? Well, hey we need cheap labour, er um, we have population decline. Yeah that's it, we gotta fix the demographic problem.
That is how it is implemented, but the core idea is that a lot of problems can be broken down into subproblems that require shared, repetitive computations to solve, and the table is a way to cache/share those results for each subproblem.
The comic isn't saying this is the main point of religions, it's only saying it's one thing that happens within religions. For example, religious communities have their own social norms that are fundamental to the religion, and allow for coordinated actions you don't see elsewhere, like an Amish barn raising.

I take a Jungian view that a major useful thing religions offer is a framework for relating to the unconscious. One key part of that is to have a clear sense of ethics, and to align ones actions with it, which is generally good for your mental health.
I’ve heard that hair going grey is a cancer mitigation strategy.
At a previous job we had some decent on prem resources for internal services. The SRE guys had a bunch of extra compute and you would put in a ticket for a certain amount of resources (2 cpu, SSD, 8GB memory x2 on different hosts). There wasn’t a massive amount of variability between the hardware, and you just requested resources to be allocated from a bunch of hypervisors. Turnaround time was about 3 days too. Except, you were t required to be self sufficient in AWS terminology to request exactly what you needed .
Out of curiosity, how did you get your old phone online? Did it have wifi, or were you able to get it on an actual mobile network? I thought I heard the 2g/3g networks have mostly shut down, at least in the US
> Looks like you are having snippets of ideas.

Been thinking this. I try to complete whatever random thought I have in a day but that doesn't leave me with much time to really ponder or be profound.

Partly because I've found my attention span has really deteriorated over the last few years and I struggle to sit, read and think. I'm gradually spending more time thinking but I could do more.
It's like asking me to work more to pay for a thing that let's me work more.

I'd rather see a robot that takes the trash out, or goes to work for me.
I’ll never use ZFS in production after I was on a team that used it at petabyte scale. It’s too complex and tries to solve problems that should be solved at higher layers.
Sour Prospects for Florida and Oranges
Java did improve over the years. But it still defaults to doing basically everything wrong by default. Parameters are non final, classes are open, things are mutable, etc. It's unsafe by default. And it's hard to fix because it breaks backwards compatibility. Kotlin doesn't have that problem and it has been doing the right thing by default for a long time. It's still getting better.

I think on Android the choices are either to start from scratch or to migrate to Kotlin for Facebook. Sticking with Java on Android just makes everything harder. All the new frameworks are Kotlin centric. Most Android developers they'd be hiring would have been using Kotlin for years. Etc. So, I can see why Facebook is making the effort to keep their code base alive and future proof. Android is more Kotlin focused and has been for years. And that's only going to be more the case now that compose multi platform is a thing.

Btw, most of the stuff you mention is probably more applicable to server side Java and less to Android. IMHO, Spring + Kotlin is a very nice combo on servers. Very well supported by Spring and they bundle a lot of convenient things for Kotlin. And I don't need any of the tools you mention because it does the right thing by default.
> there is no accepted canonical theoretical computation language that is fundamentally imperative in character.

Brainfuck comes pretty close though, as a programming language modeled directly after Turing Machine behaviour.
Conversely, those who are subjected to harsh conditions often develop a cynical view of humanity, one lacking empathy, which also perpetuates the same harsh conditions. It's almost like protection and subjection aren't the salient dimensions, but rather there is some other perspective that better explains the phenomenon.
My wish is for math to remove all the gatekeeping layers and one day, everyone can do maths, just like with programming.
As a German: the answer is IMHO in the pub culture you can find in UK and Ireland.

A socially accepted central meeting place where people can go and talk to each other. Of course also to eat and drink.

It's the social glue there and has a very very old history there.
Roughly ten years ago, I started Gazette [0]. Gazette is in an architectural middle-ground between Kafka and WarpStream (and S2). It offers unbounded byte-oriented log streams which are backed by S3, but brokers use local scratch disks for initial replication / durability guarantees and to lower latency for appends and reads (p99 <5ms as opposed to >500ms), while guaranteeing all files make it to S3 with niceties like configurable target sizes / compression / latency bounds. Clients doing historical reads pull content directly from S3, and then switch to live tailing of very recent appends.

Gazette started as an internal tool in my previous startup (AdTech related). When forming our current business, we very briefly considered offering it as a raw service [1] before moving on to a holistic data movement platform that uses Gazette as an internal detail [2].

My feedback is: the market positioning for a service like this is extremely narrow. You basically have to make it API compatible with a thing that your target customer is already using so that trying it is zero friction (WarpStream nailed this), or you have to move further up to the application stack and more-directly address the problems your target customers are trying to solve (as we have). Good luck!

[0]: https://gazette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21464300
[2]: https://estuary.dev
> pixelation is destructive

Yes, but JPEG compression is destructive too yet you can (well, most of the time) see what it's in the picture.

With pixelation you are essentially replace a clearly readable character with some yet unknown 'pixel character'. It's even more pronounced on a fixed-width fonts.

Just try it yourself on the clear shot (not a JPEGed to death one) first.
People who know how to absorbed and redirect a blow minimize how much their brain gets tossed about, but measuring peak acceleration of the skill is going to show how much someone’s brain got rattled. It’s a solid structure and your brain is inside

Also a you don’t see 90 year old grandmother’s in the ring. So it’s true someone with a larger head has an advantage here, but mechanical properties of tissues should be fairly similar between fighters and acceleration accounts for the mass of the head.
Keep reading (or dont its simple trash blog spam) but at the end a few words say "we switched to different hardware and bluetooth entirely"

So the title is wrong/clickbait, the contents smell like AI generated garbage (although shorter than I would assume) and it means very little to anyone
Rubbish. The reason Facebook doesn't want to demand ID for most users is that it adds friction to using their product, which means fewer users and less profit.
A bunch of documentation was posted here, although I’m not sure the links still work (might need to go through archive.org)

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=211
In what context?

You are assuming the poster is doing something like your typical IO-bound backend, and not, say, a High Performance Computing simulation on a compute cluster.

I have done this kind of optimization to go from 24 hour compute time to 6 hour compute time instead for instance -- per simulation run.

How can you say "a few milliseconds" when you know absolutely nothing about the context?

I do not consider your advice any better at all; you assume all computer code is in the same context -- it really is not. Not all code is written as backend to websites.

You could have said "keep in mind that if you service is IO-bound, these kinds of optimizations are likely a waste" or similar to make the context clear.
Yeah I think it would be interesting to know how far over the line we are.