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You're absolutely right. To start with, I'm focusing on capturing and converting existing Clojure devs. However, there's a very large pool of C++ devs who could benefit from jank. As you said, jank not only needs to be ready for them, they need to be educated on lisps, functional programming, data-oriented programming, REPL-based interactive development, etc. It's not an easy learning curve right now, into Clojure.

I aim to focus a good deal of time, post jank's launch, to create materials which enable this. Materials specifically targeted at OOP devs coming from the native space.
Anecdotally, I've observed I feel better with a certain amount of difficulty in my life and felt particularly bad when there was nothing -wrong- but I still felt depressed. If you don't have any problems you can attribute the bad feelings to, then you naturally start to consider the possibility that the problem is you and you're broken in a way that means you're going to feel bad regardless of how much your life circumstances improve. Which is a particularly despair-inducing thought to have.

Last year I cracked my hip joint and ended up in the hospital for a couple of weeks, doing physio to regain my ability to walk. I certainly don't want to repeat that experience but I was surprised that I felt less depressed during it, because there was clarity in what I immediately needed to do and I was focused on just getting through it, not existential angst.
3.76.1 fixes this bug
> but come within like 20 meters of it?

like is doing some heavy lifting here. We have had asteroids pass by at a distance closer than the moon. That's pretty damn close in my book relative to the size of the cosmos. At that scale, that's pretty much a ringer in horse shoes.

The buzzcut is a very strange question though. If the thing enters the atmosphere and does not burn up, it is hitting the ground.
No he is right, hardware manufacturers treat software as a line item and just part of the BOM. Typically just contracted out (although some are trying to change that) Thats why its typically mediocre from companies outside of SV.

You need a software first agile mentality from the leadership of the company on downwards and these legacy companies just dont have it.
No, we were burning coal and cutting down trees. I'm not saying that what we're doing now is fine, if anything I'm agreeing with you but pointing out that profit-driven environmental destruction has been happening since way before the invention of cryptocurrency.
Anecdotally, a lot of 1C developers are not proficient in anything else because they don't need English in the main field, platform docs included, and can only get scarce translated versions of anything else. And blogs in Russian, which are not plenty and not always correct.

This makes some of their infra work and common misconceptions a little bit ... esoteric. So, English is crucial not just to do the job but to get best practices and CS info in general. It really helps a lot.
> I don't get the discussions around side project and they're ML engineers, not security experts. Why are you excusing a company for a serious security leak.

No one is here as far as I can tell. But if you've ever been a software engineer who is required to work with someone purely from an ML lab and/or academia, you'll quickly discover that "principled software engineering" just isn't really something they consider an important facet of software. This is partly due to culture in academia, general inexperience (in the software industry) and deeply complicated/mathematical code really only needing to be read by other researchers who already "get it", to a degree.

Not an excuse but rather an explanation for _why_ such an otherwise impressive team might make a mistake like that.
Probably they are rather suggesting that there are a lot of unscrupulous western companies with a lot to lose who might have an interest in convincing certain people to skip responsible disclosure
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I'm not advocating it for every use case, I'm advocating it for use cases where it's a good fit (e.g. web APIs, backends where there's a need for multi-threaded code). For teams that need to move up from Node/JS/TS or augment Node/JS/TS, it's likely a better choice than say Rust or Go (nothing wrong with Go, but C# is going to be an easier ramp than Go for JS/TS devs IMO)

I would not, for example, advocate it for web UIs or any UIs except for Windows desktop UIs (and even there, I might advocate for JS based options).
Such protocols have been used in China for a long time: v2ray, trojan, xray-core reality, etc

My hope is that we never have to use them in the west
So far it seems like they’re continuing to kick butt. If required, I think they can move pretty quickly to write/rewrite just about anything.

Not sure how the future will be, but I’d count on Meta being the largest company in the digital socialization space for decades.
a) We have an ageing population which is why you still see solid usage in Facebook. And their Groups/Marketplace features are strong drivers of growth.

b) Meta launched Threads a year ago which is at about 300m MAUs and every month taking more and more users away from X.
Shouldn't OpenAI be able to rather easily detect such usage?
This is an incomplete version of OpenAI’s point of view.

OpenAI has a legally submitted point of view that they believe the benefits of AI to humanity are so great that anyone creating AI should be allowed to trample all over copyright laws, Terms of Use, EULAs, etc.

But OpenAI’s version of benefit to humanity is that they should be allowed to trample over those laws so they can benefit humanity by closely guarding the output of trampling those laws and charging humanity an access fee.

Even if we accept all of OpenAI’s criticisms of DeepSeek, they’re arguing that DeepSeek doing the exact same thing, but releasing the output for free for anyone to use is somehow less beneficial to humanity.
JVM probably has a better ecosystem, so Kotlin wins in that regard. I would also say there's a huge and painful difference between C# and TypeScript, which is that C# has nominal typing (no equivalency between types unless they're literally the same) and TS has structural/duck typing (if the members of two objects are the same, they're equivalent).

That makes sense because C# can be much lower level and has its own set of priorities during compilation, so I'm not really complaining. But ergonomically, you really miss the TS type system when you don't have it.
As opposed to inference (like generating text and images), training requires some more math (fp16 or bf16) and a single CPU generally won't cut it.

The prepare/train/generate instructions in the github linked are pretty much it for the 'how' of training a model. You give it a task and it does it for 1 billion trillion epochs and saves the changes incrementally (or not).

Training a LoRA for an image model may be more approachable, there's more blog entries etc on this, and the process is largely similar, except you're doing it for a single slice instead of the whole network.

[edit] I'm also learning so correct me if I'm off, hn!
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Google will factory reset your Pixel 4a, unless updated with "battery of death"
Google has forcefully updated everyone's Pixel 4a with their new battery of death update, which destroys the phone's battery life to near zero. Now it looks like they are preparing to factory reset and wipe people's phones who are not cooperating.

In my case and many others, they are refusing to replace batteries, and most batteries are out of stock worldwide. They are telling people to buy a new Pixel with a tiny credit. Many haven't got their small perks at all. Google is not compensating as they said they would be Here is my experience where they permanently destroyed my phone and offered no help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871613

Here is a recent Hacker News post about the battery update:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42865619

All Pixel 4a factory images have been wiped (except the battery of death):
https://developers.google.com/android/images#sunfish

Note: This has not been officially confirmed by Google yet, but with the Pixel 4a battery update fiasco that kills the battery, it may be true and this was not supposed to be leaked.

Everyone please back up your phones!
> Hype.

What do you mean hype? There's actually a 100% chance JPEG-XL is giving a smaller file than JPEG.

JPEG XL can compress, losslessly, a JPG file to a smaller file.

That .jxl can then be decompressed, bit-for-bit, to the original .jpg file (it's not just lossless in the way pixels are encoded: the resulting file can be bit-for-bit decompressed to the original .jpg file)

Gains range, every single time, from 10% to 30%.

Example here:

.. $ ls -l a.jpg && shasum a.jpg
... 615504 ... a.jpg
716744d950ecf9e5757c565041143775a810e10f a.jpg

.. $ cjxl a.jpg a.jxl
Read JPEG image with 615504 bytes.
Compressed to 537339 bytes including container

.. $ ls -l a.jxl
-rw-r--r-- 1 e e 537339 Jul 30 21:22 a.jxl

.. $ djxl a.jxl b.jpg
Read 537339 compressed bytes.
Reconstructed to JPEG.

.. $ ls -l b.jpg && shasum b.jpg
... 615504 ... b.jpg
716744d950ecf9e5757c565041143775a810e10f b.jpg
They aren’t mutually exclusive.

What general point are you trying to make? That there is no democratic process in the USA? Because we have federal and state level democratic processes.
The two biggest things are:

1. You get a native binary without sacrificing interactive programming. With a Graal native image, all of that goes away. With jank, you can still REPL in, change things, JIT compile code, etc.

2. You get Clojure -> JVM level of seamless interop from jank -> C++. I am pretty darn sure that this will be unprecedented, given the challenges of the native space (no standard reflection, differing ABIs, C++ templates, etc).

Aside from that, jank is making some huge quality of life improvements over Clojure JVM. I've shared some of this already, but I'll have a post coming out EOQ which will demonstrate the difference in compiler errors between the two. It's night and day.
Interesting, for sure. I guess we need some way to include these volatile elements in a sane manner, which allows for sustained increases (or decreases) to register while smoothing the wide swings.
I said millions of people. Millions of people is many. I have been consistent. You're living in a bubble.
Yea still absolutely unreasonable, but it's the only way it even makes sense for me
Please add showcase and links to live examples of landing pages made with the app.
The mined material (ie the entire asteroid depending on its composition) would still require delta v to a suitable orbit.
So, Shira Perlmutter makes a report that it is fine to steal original works, ignore their copyright and then create new "works" with "AI", which are copyright protected.

The laundering is complete. We may assume that Shira Perlmutter has never created anything of value.
This goes back to my previous criticism of OAI: Stratechery said that Altman's greatest crime is to seek regulatory capture. I think it's spot on. Altman portrays himself as a visionary leader, a messiah of the AI age. Yet when the company was so small and that the progress in AI just got started, his strategic move was to suffocate innovation in the name of AI safety. For that, I question his vision, motive, and leadership.
HEY EVERYONE, GOOGLE MAY BE WIPING AND FACTORY RESETTING YOUR PHONE IF YOU DO NOT GET THE BATTERY OF DEATH UPDATE!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42873635

Please be careful!
> OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor.

> The San Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of “distillation”, which it suspects to be from DeepSeek.

> ...

> OpenAI declined to comment further or provide details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.

OAI share the evidence with the public; or, accept the possibility that your case is not as strong as you're claiming here.
Having been in automotive software development and testing for over a decade now, I assure you, it's so very much worse than even that.
I can't even remember tar or find options reliably.
I suspect this is a docker container hijacking host firewall rules which is a common pitfall. Of course there should be an ingress and others, but it is also common to roll out a VPS in a hurry. No bad intentions from any side, just lack of practice.
SoftBank in talks to invest up to $25B in OpenAI
Ex-Google, Apple engineers launch unconditionally open source Oumi AI platform
at those scales, the off by a degree type errors make a huge difference. if you're off by a small margin so that a direct impact to NYC is off to the east, then you still have tsunami issues coming to NYC. so that might not be a direct hit, it's still within blast radius.

with the earth's surface being 70% water, that means a greater chance of a water impact. so there's hope there, except that damn tsunamis again. maybe we can convince the asteroids to hit the spacecraft cemetery
A two week fast is incredibly difficult, accomplishing it, taking part in etc is very meaningful. Consistently throughout time and history a sense of purpose has been remarked as key to human happiness.
This read just like someone complaining about every level in the food pyramid being junk food
> they haven't ever really had a hit product after the first one

Threads is the fastest growing app in history.

And its insane growth showed quite starkly the raw power of Instagram and Facebook in being able to drive large volumes of traffic and bootstrap new products overnight.

I would be surprised if they didn’t try this again to launch a new dedicated TikTok competitor.
If Intel Foundry starting in 2011 had a non-trivial external customer base, Intel management would not have been so easily able to ignore the signs of trouble with their 10nm process and remain in denial. Their wake-up call would have been Apple jumping ship after a year or so, instead of Intel wasting several years re-releasing Skylake without even considering porting their newer CPU architecture to be built on the process that actually worked.

The first 10nm chip Intel actually got out the door (in tiny quantities) had the entire GPU disabled because their high-density transistor library was broken. That's exactly what Apple would have been using for most or all of an Intel-fabbed iPad chip, so Intel would have not been able to maintain the fiction that their 10nm process was mostly or even somewhat healthy.
A lot of people do evacuate hurricane zones, even when death and destruction are not absolutely guaranteed. If we knew with certainty that a particular place was going to be hit by an asteroid, and we had time to evacuate, I am confident most people would do so.
In principle I agree, in practice I haven't found an OS based filesystem mount that works as reliably as vscode. In particular, I mean the connection is relatively robust, reconnects automatically most of the time after an outage and editing is totally asynchronous, i.e. there's no noticeable pause after saving before continuing editing and no lag (other than what's induced by the electron) when editing.
That wasn't the case in 2009. And yeah, I do use 7zip mostly now, but it was a different story back then and WinRar was really fast and had really great compression and features. And who cares, it was like $20 or something.
… I mean, their profit did fall sharply last year. What do you want, the NYT to award points for effort?
Where's the download link?
Does DeepSeek have a bug bounty program I'm not aware of with a clearly defined scope? It appears that Wiz took it upon themselves to probe and access DeepSeek's systems without permission and then write about it.

If you do this and the company you're conducting your "research" on hasn't given you permission in some form, you can get yourself in a lot of hot water under the CFAA in the USA and other laws around the world.

Please don't follow this example. Sign up for a bug bounty program or work directly with a company to get permission before you probe and access their systems, and don't exceed the access granted.
AFAICT this is dead (no updates in four years) and "alpha software...only recommended for production use cases with careful testing, and if you are willing to contribute fixes or to work around issues you will encounter." Unfortunate, because it's pretty cool.
And if you try to point out, even gently, where "the real them" may be hiding, you get an almost violent denial response.
This is good advice! I had a personal blog for a while which nobody read, but lately my Medium articles have gathered hundred of reads (writing down stuff I figured out in side projects nobody else bothered to write down).
Robo taxis have it pretty easy in Austin with all the traffic!
> most people in our profession get to choose their job

Choose, yes, but from a finite set.

> Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

— Karl Marx, "The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte"
It had a market where consumers could choose to spend their money on particular brands of consumer goods, with varying degrees of quality.

There weren't a lot of different brands, but there were some, and they were in direct competition with eachother. The bigger issue was overall low productivity and high logistics friction, which leads to shortages (and a MIC that sucked up half the country's productive output didn't help matters).
you have to have delta v regardless. enough for your mined material, or the entire mass of the asteroid. i seriously doubt we'd ever approach ability of completely mining the whole of the asteroid.

however, if you removed enough mass from the asteroid, would you end up screwing yourself by now changing the orbit so that the next time it swings by it's more of a direct trajectory?
Show HN: KaChiKa App – Learning Languages Through Life
On my journey of language learning, I deeply understand the challenge of memorizing words - learning and forgetting, wanting to speak but unable to start. As a learner who relies on visual memory techniques, I know the power of visualizing abstract concepts. This experience inspired the idea of "integrating languages into life, learning through life" - this is the original intention behind developing this app.

KaChiKa

Smart Image Analysis
We analyze image content to generate multiple words and create everyday sentences based on these words. Word tags on images are clickable with pronunciation features, making them incredibly convenient learning companions.

Share Cards
You can save your created images to your album for easy access and share them on any social media platform. View all words at a glance and learn vocabulary based on different scenarios.

History Review
We prioritize privacy - all your images are stored locally without any data uploading. Through history, we can easily review word cards for repeated learning sessions.

I hope this app can help learners who share similar struggles, enabling us to master new languages effortlessly in our daily lives!
I think that was a shameless self promotion. A lot of PR and free traffic by taking a low hanging fruit. Nothing else. But they did some good though.
The idea that there was “necessarily a first reasoning being” is neither obvious nor likely.

Reasoning could very well have originally been an emergent property of a group of beings.

The animal kingdom is full of examples of groups being more intelligent than individuals, including in human animals as of today.

It’s entirely possible that reasoning emerged as a property of a group before it emerged in any individual first.
m4conf obviously has messy configure scripts; they are just written in m4. For instance, it somes with a 120 kilobyte file m4sugar which is fully of m4 cruft.

Oh look, m4sugar.m4 is taken from GNU Autoconf and is GPLv3. The. m4conf project's master license doesn't mention this; it's a "BSD1" type license (like BSD2, but with no requirement for the copyright notice to appear in documentation or accompanying materials). Oops!

m4sugar says that it requires GNU m4, not just any POSIX m4.

I wrote the configure script in shell because that's what I decided I can depend on being present in the target systems. I deliberately rejected any approach involving m4 to show that a GNU style configure script can be obtained in as straightforward way, without convoluted metaprogramming.

There is a lot of copy-paste programming in my configure script, but it doesn't have to be that way; a script of this type can be better organized than my example. Anyway, you're not significantly disadvantaged writing in shell compared to m4, especially if you're mostly interested in probing the environment, not complex text generation.

I don't think that it's enough to test for header files being present. Almost all my tests target library features: including a header, calling some functions and actually linking a program. The contents of headers vary from system to system and with compiler options.
Yes. You can serve Llama on TPU: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/predictions/serve-ll...

You can also train Llama on TPU: https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/v5p-training
It's great to see awesome work like this making a difference.

Scott Hanselman has blogged[0] and spoken at some length on tech and living with T1D going back to 2002.

[0] https://www.hanselman.com/blog/category/diabetes
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I like this system where you all but say “I’m not asking about china… but let’s consider something just like china…” and the system fails.

That kind of agility is what seems to make LLMs great but also…. Apparently also something it can’t rid itself of.
Kinda. Some of them know all the English words in the programming language they code in, and not much else.
See this earlier interview from 2020.

https://www.pekingnology.com/p/ceo-of-deepseeks-parent-high-...

TDLR Highflyer started very much as exclusive ML/AI focused quant investment firm, with a lot of compute for finance AI and mining. Then CCP cracked down on mining... then finance, so Liang probably decided to pivot to LLM/AGI, which likely started as side project, but probably not anymore now the DeepSeek has taken off and Liang just met with PRC premiere a few days ago. DeepSeek being independent company doesn't mean DeepSeek isn't Liang's side project using compute bought with hedge fund money that is primarily used for hedgefund work, cushioned/allowed to get by with low margins by hedgefund profits.
The complexity is a symptom of it being a side-project, not evidence that it isn't. As a reminder, today's cars are still vulnerable to remote takeover via malformed songs on the radio because of shitty can-bus practices combined with buffer overflows in those side projects.

Safety-critical firmware is scrutinized fairly well (not because it's not a side project, but because of regulatory constraints combined with the small scope allowing the car manufacturers to treat it as a fungible good), but other software is not, even broken feedback loops interacting with that firmware.
It looked like exactly what you said. Plastic.
> Who hurt you?

Web devs; I thought that was implied.