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How on earth do “they” make more money that way? The support costs of different users on different window management solutions obliterates any small fraction of application sales they earn on the App Store.
> I teach the systems class at Montana State, where we go from transistors up to a real computing system, and I have students that don't understand what a file system really is when they start my class

Admittedly I am old grouch, but I stopped having any expectations of the current generation of "college kids".

Incidentally, I'm at Montana State getting a master's in IE, and I deal daily with this one PhD student who has demonstrated an inability to perform a simple partial derivative, which you'd think is a pretty useful skill given the subject matter. Hell, last semester in a 400-level math course, one of the students didn't understand how to add two matrices, I kid you not. It is odd that a senior in CS wouldn't know what a file system is, but that seems rather quaint compared to some of the wild bullshit I've encountered here.

My first stint in university in the 2000s felt a lot different than this, and it's a bit depressing. But man, I feel just great about my prospects in the job market next spring.
Do the Rust drivers provide significant benefits over C equivalents (or over typical C drivers), enough to make it worth switching?

Rust may have to really prove itself with results. And why shouldn't it?
My eye is twitching remembering a fiasco where someone ordered concrete assuming 1 cubic metre required 1 ton of concrete.

Ever since that I’ve assumed it’s about 2.5 tons per cubic metre. This works much better.
Actual old fashioned file systems aren’t really in use anymore, and the computerized versions hide the details, you don’t even get a command prompt on an iPad. I’m pretty sure my 8 year old has no clue what a file system is yet (I learned at about 7 when my dad brought home an Osborne with pre-DOS CPM to play around with). Computers don’t require you to know that stuff anymore just to use apps and save/get files.
Sorry for this. I would appreciate if you could email me david [at] telnyx with your username, so we can figure out how to improve our systems.
Sure, but most of the innovation was in private companies and in open source projects (which I should have included in the first place).

> Usenet

That is FOSS and P2P collaberative (at least on the server level). Is that somehow connected with government?
The wording of the title and first paragraph do imply that it is a series of models being announced. Not the concepts of a series of models
Very reasonable take. I feel the same. Any kind of real or perceived attack on Rust is heresy today.
As the article shows, these ridiculous claims are false.
I think this is a straw man personally.

Think about what happens when two people video call each other from opposite sides of the world. How many layers of hardware and software abstraction are they passing through, to have a reliable encrypted video conversation on a handheld computer where the majority of the lag is due to the speed of light? How much of that would you like to remove?

I would venture an alternative bogeyman - "move fast and break things" AKA the drive for profits. It's perfectly possible (as illustrated above) to reliably extract great performance from a tower of abstractions, while building those abstractions in a way that empowers developers; what's usually missing is the will to spend time and money doing it.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should in production.

If someone want to build horrific abominations in rheur spare time at home, I won't stop them. They might become better engineers through that experience. But don't come to me suggesting actually using one of these horrors.
I suspect it had a similar reputation as things like Fortran-- the principal use case defined it to such an extent that it prevents a breakout moment. An entire generation assumed "Ada is that weird bulletproof thing defense contractors and nobody else uses."

Languages like Rust have benefited from hobbyist showcases-- evangelists building familiar tools and demonstrating "it's more reliable and more understandable" but nobody was doing it for Ada.
What is your opinion on the cause and the solution?
You only have so many hours to teach in a course, the more kids come in with, the farther you can go. If kids have to be taught what were once taken for granted, something else has to give.
That depends on the application. If we are talking safety critical human space flight SLS would be preferable over SpaceX.
First learned about this from a Carl Hiaasen book, Razor Girl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_Girl)
I think Jared Isaacman's closeness to Musk gives him added motivation to award contracts to non-SpaceX vendors (once he's confirmed), because he'll seek to disprove claims he's biased in favor of SpaceX
Selection of experience for memory by hippocampal sharp wave ripples [pdf]
I don’t want to assign Safari to a space, I want each Safari window to stay where I put it. It makes no sense for Spaces to assume every window of an app is being used for the same task, especially a browser app.
Is Ailsa Craig "obscure"? Every Glaswegian, many Irish, aficionados of curling the world over would know of it. It's probably been passed by more people than most of the others.

Like Bass Rock on the east coast the temptation to use it as a prison was too much to resist.
u-config: a new, lean pkg-config clone (2023)
Looks like the typical EU wannabe competition to US Big Tech to me. Like Europe’s Google competitor, Europe’s cloud service, Europe’s operating system and so on.

Like these projects, OpenEuroLLM will go nowhere.

It is always the same approach that never works: First they assemble the usual mix of organisations from all sorts of countries, making sure all the major EU member nations are represented. Then they give the project some moronic goals (they state “compliance” as the #1 objective - wtf?).

The EU commission will pour millions in taxpayer money into this, which is nevertheless not remotely enough to match with the funds raised by US AI companies. And half the money for OpenEuroLLM will be spent on extensive bureaucracy where they have to write lengthy progress reports, pass audits by EU bureaucrats, etc. Not to mention the sizeable travel budget for the people involved. And finally, they may end up with prototypes that (1) nobody asked for and for which there is no market, (2) which do not work well/at all and (3) which are abandoned once the project ends.
My bad - only 3 years. The fastest Samsung is around iPhone 12 and iPhone 13.

https://browser.geekbench.com/mobile-benchmarks

MediaTek is definitely not releasing high end chips. For desktop ARM, the only ones that come close are Qualcomm’s chip
Another very interesting one, the only Hawaiian island no one can visit. Barely inhabited, funded by a wealthy family, with weird military connections. Also had a weird WW2 death https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau
Check out this cool project https://github.com/Ironclad-Project/Gloire
The motive is Boeing didnt deliver, doesnt deliver, and cannot deliver.
yes, and you will tell me exactly what subset and coding convention "makes sense" for this domain, and you will give your reasoning too. And I will give my arguments, and on and on it goes. teams have broken up over this.

A well-designed language is one in which there are very few different ways of doing the same thing. And C++ is definitely not that.
SLS is super heavy class like Starship. It deploys about 100 tons to orbit in Block 1 configuration.

New Glenn deploys half that. Closer to a Falcon Heavy.

You can't really do a moon program without a super heavy rocket.
....because there's tons of precedent for the Trump Administration, GOP courts, or voters to punish in any way raw corruption or profiteering?
And often it doesn’t need to be optimal. If the functional process takes 5 minutes and you do it once a month then you can’t spend more than 5 hours optimizing it before you’re going backwards.

https://xkcd.com/1205/
Related:

Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36155204 - June 2023 (332 comments)

https://www.openculture.com/2023/10/how-the-cia-secretly-use...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10462602
Difficult to read, loaded with surprises.
This depends on the specialization. Computer science vs. computer or electronics engineering, for example.

Computer science, despite the misnomer, is not about computers, even if computers are an indispensable tool in the field. Computer science is all about abstraction and language modeling of a domain and their application; the computing technology of the tool, however important practically, is an implementation detail. Just as it pays for the astronomer to understand how to operate his telescope in due proportion to his needs as an astronomer, it pays for the computer science person to understand how to operate his computer to the degree that he needs to. But it is a total mistake to place the computer at the center of the universe and treat it as the point of departure for what computer science is really about. This muddles things and is a source of much historical confusion in the field, and in fact, this discussion.

In fact, even the language of "low-level" programming or whatever is abstraction and language. It is simply the language of the computing device that must be used to simulate the abstractions of the domain of discourse.
I'm responding to the implication that "mechanical shit" is local and thus less damaging.

Since they mentioned nukes it seemed like an obvious example where local things can be catastrophic.

The theoretical risk of electronic things malfunctioning in some global way that they mentioned has never resulted in any nuclear weapons being deployed, but we've actually seen the local mechanical approach they disregard be devastating.
We are destroying humanity trough software.
Someone driven by greed and social validation needs.
Someone by technocratic dreams of transhumanism.
The cult of acceleration brings inherited error.
False productivity and systems for control of thinking and behavioral patterns. In a normal and truly rational world, software is a tool for intent and operation.

In a world of mass hallucination (psychosis), doom-scrolling and international capital, software decay is a logical process. Your Leaders have no incentive to think systemically when they have guaranteed immunity.

A good software is a result of meritocratic system with accountability and transparency.

Just take a statistical view on investment in education vs investment in AI infrastructure and the picture becomes clear.

The designer fallacy. Techno-optimism. Detachment from the real problems of humanity. Desensitized obedience for career growth or social benefits.

We build software on the shoulders of giants with a sense of reality and human connection. We lost this skill.

You cannot abstract to infinity. You cannot complicate things just because and expect quality and maintainability to emerge from the ether.
I like digital board games for quick setup and cleanup too. It lets us play more games in a session.
I've forgotten the name, but I once watched a documentary on illegal gold mining in Brazil. One of the most successful of them was a German (illegal immigrant?
not enforced in brazil anyway) , who was attracted by the wild west aspect.

There definitely does seem to be a breed of people like this, and Latin America or Africa can present some interesting opportunities (see alo cowboy capitalists by vice).
This app is as interesting as Pollocks's art. A few moments of "interesting" then you close the browser and move on.
The short version is:

- Distributing patches via email is more scalable than web hosting. Even GitHub could not host the level of activity happening on the LKML mailing list

- Web hosting has a variety of access and legal problems when working with international teams; email crosses borders more easily

- Email is a decentralized and distributed system that prevents any single company from controlling a project's development infrastructure (release infrastructure is another story, but multiple companies will generally manage their own release process anyway)
You can put the a regular SSH public key in LDAP, that’s pretty widely supported.
I think the takeaway is we have our answer, this isn't the site for the kind of open bay area adjacent discussion you/others assumed it was. It has been clearly pointed out it has always been a very curated discussion, we just didn't notice/understand. This is how flagging works here (you/me wrongly assumed flagging was required to meet your/our definition of good faith).
> Humans are physiologically incapable of doing or understanding anything significant.

Absolutely terrible take -- strong subjectivity and defeatist sentiment.

> While in actuality reality can and will go on without humanity.

Sure but in that case you won't be here to consider it. There's no considering such a situation, so there's no use considering such a situation. Push onwards!

> As if the constant string of inconsistencies in quantum physics wasn't proof enough of the ineffectiveness of mathematics as well as science in achieving knowledge.

We're never going to understand everything about everything. That is half the fun! How you got from there to "Humans are physiologically incapable of doing or understanding anything significant" is beyond me.

Stop paying attention to quantum mechanics, and start paying attention to what's important to you. The kinds of things that made you truly happy as a child. Make model train sets or 7 day roguelikes. Make box fortresses for your cats. Make your neighbors lives a little bit better. Talk to a neighbor you've never talked to about the weather or something.
These studies get tedious with their variable, often contradictory and frequently poorly-structured methodologies.

One sees some that claim night owls as abnormally intelligent and creative people, and then others claiming the above as this title does. All possibly failing to take into account that a whole pile of coinciding factors in certain people who stay up late may be responsible for poor mental health, while not necessarily being related to the hours in which one sleeps.
Why are they hiring the candidate to begin with? This entire "justify your existence every quarter" is one of the bigger downsides of how the economy works, because it allows people to be exploited. it's the metaphorical writing of the blank check. There are no real boundaries of when work starts and stops or when your responsibilities end because the task is to increase business value and that is technically endless. The company keeps piling more and more work, keeps growing and growing, meanwhile they reward you with a small fraction of the total profit that you contributed.

I keep hearing how 10x engineers make their companies millions upon millions but they only get paid a fraction of that. How does that even make sense as a fair exchange? Not to mention is completely unfeasible for most people to have this kind of impact... it is only possible for those in key positions, yet every engineer is tasked with this same objective to increase company value as much as possible. There's just something very wrong with that.
Ukraine Announces Successful Use of First Laser Weapon on Battlefield
People are a protected species. Everyone has limitations in solving every problem in the universe that lands in their lap. And those limited ways of solving problems tend to create new problems. Therefore people are constantly protected like a cattle herd whether they realize it or not.

How protected you will only begin to understand if you study the history of Institutions.

Pick any Institution (Central Bank, FDIC, EPA, FDA, NTSB, FEC etc etc) and specifically look at what triggers prompted their emergence in history.
I do not consider Android synonymous with Linux. YMMV.
didn't know that, but, useful thing to know indeed.
I went with Bazzite and after a hiccup (installed Nvidia-open when I needed just Nvidia) it is working great! Was able to install and play a few games already! Thanks for the recommendation, hoping it will carry on as well as it did today.
Because Pollock would smash it with a masterpiece right out of his cellphone? This is cute but not a great device to reveal the truth to the uneducated
Sure, I'm not arguing that it doesn't use power, I'm arguing that it is ridiculous to believe that sending an email with an attachment is somehow a very intensive prospect (or that sending an email can really be measured in grams of CO2). I can do it in my house, using extremely inneficient machines for 1/1000 the carbon emisions being claimed.

To put it into context, 50g of carbon is more than all of the carbon that will be emitted by a disposable lighter if you burn it until the butane is gone. That is an incredible amount of energy to claim that sending an email costs. Especially when you consider that in the same breath they claim that sending an email without an attached e-ticket uses 1/250th the energy.

I just refuse to believe that sending a QR code in a PDF is somehow polluting more than burning all of the butane in a light.

of course the real answer is that power isn't free, and emitting carbon costs power. If sending an email cost that much power, each email would cost more than $.01 to send in energy costs. Given the number of emails I can arbitrarily send and receive I wouldn't expect email sending to be so cheap, and I would expect large attachments to be extra.
How do we know the AI output is accurate? What observable evidence is there? From the article:

> Inside this huge machine, which is called a synchrotron, electrons are accelerated to almost the speed of light to produce a powerful X-ray beam that can probe the scroll without damaging it. ...

> The scan is used to create a 3D reconstruction, then the layers inside the scroll - it contains about 10m of papyrus - have to be identified. ...

> After that artificial intelligence is used to detect the ink. It's easier said than done - both the papyrus and ink are made from carbon and they're almost indistinguishable from each other.

> So the AI hunts for the tiniest signals that ink might be there, then this ink is painted on digitally, bringing the letters to light.
Is this what's required to keep the lights on now that the consumer surveillance industry has taken over the government?
If it's not innovative, then you're reinventing the wheel and would be better off using someone else's good design.
I think it's like asking why poverty exists. There's no one, easy answer. We have a lot of difference forces, many of them market or demand or incentives that cause software to be slow. Fixing this will require concerted effort, rewards for making things that are fast, and some sort of accounting for the externalities. Same as any other complex problem.
Wirth's law doesn't bolster your point. He observed software is getting slower at a more rapid rate than computers are getting faster. Which is the whole point. We write increasingly slow, increasingly shitty code each year. I read and hear this attitude all the time that is basically "if you optimize something, you're bad at your job, only juniors try to do that". That's a culture problem.

It's frankly insulting you think Casey brainwashed me into this stance, when it's been obvious to me since long before I'd ever heard of him. IDGAF if code is clean or not. I care that Jira can display a new ticket in less than 15 seconds. I care that vscode actually keeps up with the characters I type. None of this software is remotely close to "runs good enough".
The free market is preventing technical solutions. People generally buy based on features first and everything else second. This allows for a precarious situation in software market: the company producing the most bloat the fastest wins the biggest market share and sees no need to invest in proper fixes. Everyone that cares about software quality too much gets outcompeted almost immediately.

And since software can be rebuilt and replicated with virtually zero cost, there is no intrinsic pressure to keep unit costs down as it happens in industry, where it tends to keeps physical products simple.
But now instead of a human going "yes yes after a few hours of work i have chosen the target" they can go "we did more processing on who to best blow away, and it chose 100 more names than any human ever could! efficiency!"
It's not a gotcha to give it the data points and ask it to analyze. Uploading this data in image form is effectively a leading question tuned to the specific data, and an analysis tool that needs that kind of leading question is not good at its job.
Don't forget that the piece of paper get used for 5 minutes while you walk to the ticket checker, at which point, the entire process is reversed with a janitor, garbage truck, dump/recycling process.
Minitel is just one project, a successful one but eclipsed by the rest of the IT world. Does that mean the French government could have done what SV did? Why didn't they?
That is exactly what is going to happen. Again.
Since we're over-engineering here, one more optimization is to skip all potential GCDs that are divisible by 2 or 5.

Suppose the GCD was divisible by 2, then all rows would be even. Since the last digit of an even integer is in {0,2,4,6,8} and we need 9 unique numbers in the final column, we know that 4 or 5 of the row numbers must be odd. So the GCD can't be even.

Similarly, the GCD can't be divisible by 5. If it were, all rows numbers would need a 0 or 5 in the final digit.
Or it's better to have other languages besides from C++ for that.
I do not think we need to resort to calling it a marketing stunt. It is for developers and early adopters. This will make a nice device for that. Being able to reuse the rest of the platform is pretty great.
Brilliant clip. :) I'm sure we've all had dreams that feel like that. If I had to put a point on it for this one, the "self-play" game happening here is your brain serving up instantaneous new plausible and unanticipated excuses for why you can't see the object that you're struggling to get a glimpse of!
DHL shipments seems to still be moving OK

2025-02-08 23:00:00Processed at FRANKLIN PARK - USA,FRANKLIN PARK - Illinois - USA
2025-02-08 22:51:00Clearance processing complete at FRANKLIN PARK - USA,FRANKLIN PARK - Illinois - USA
East coast is struggling the same. Not as crazy yet but Coned in NY is now over 31c
the blog is still going strong!

https://blog.adacore.com/
To be fair, if someone gave me a bunch of raw data points and not the png I wouldn't see the monkey either
No, I mean he isn't under the same corporate surveillance the rest of "alexa" users are. He has actual humans named Alexa ready to take any order he gives them.

I'm being facetious of course, but that's probably what I would do if I were a tech mogul with billions and billions of dollars.
Again, I don’t think that’s a fundamental x86 vs ARM issue. That’s more of a “Intel mobile chipsets from 2019 were terrible” issue.

There’s like 3 big factors at play.

1. x86 vs ARM
2. Apple Silicon Engineers vs others
3. Apple’s TSMC node advantage

I think the x86 vs ARM issue is a relatively small one. At least fundamentally.
Nice project, unfortunately when I run the executable it throws the error: "failed to run lua code: /index.lua:3: module 'utils' not found:".
I mean one is actually flying right now and one ain't
Something more specific ? Couldn't find anything directly saying what you're claiming here.

I was interested if my info was out of date so I found this https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188692... which basically again confirms genetic IQ factor in adults is major. Separated twins correlate, siblings corelate less and virtual twins (same age unrelated siblings) corelate way less.

Anyway I'm no expert on this, but I've heard this view from multiple credible sources and the more I dig in the more it seems supported.
How does it have no practical purpose? It is a RISC-V developer platform. It allows you to develop and test on RISC-V.