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> I just feel like I read a lot of "Rust is the only worthwhile language our there"

Pay no attention to zealots. Every community has them. I love Rust beyond what's rational and I still am sensible enough to reject it for projects where it would only prolong development time for not much gain (the projects in question do not need the super-duper speed or to use much less memory than you would get with my favorite Elixir, for example). And for a lot of script-ish / one-off / I-want-to-finish-it-quickly projects I just opt for Golang.

IMO projects like rewriting the UNIX userland utilities in Rust makes perfect sense; the originals are super old and nobody wants to seriously find security bugs in them and since they are written in C you can bet your neck they absolutely do have buffer over-/under-flow bugs that can likely lead to escalation of privileges. Is anybody fuzzing those tools 24/7 for years? They are the buildings blocks of at least 90% of all servers out there!

Rust makes sense in embedded as well, in financial trading, or in any system that has to squeeze every last drop of its hardware in general.

But web applications / API endpoints / API gateways and such? Meh, a compiled language in a VM like Elixir is plenty enough and always will be.

"Right tool for the job" should be the first catechism of the future Tech Priests and their cult to the Omnissiah (insert "Warhammer 40,0000" reference here ㋡).
Impact of Gen AI on Critical Thinking: Reduction in Cognitive Effort, Confidence [pdf]
MOOs (based on LambdaMOO at least) had various write permission levels, including builder (you can make new instances of existing things like rooms or objects and give them descriptions) and programmer (you can make new programs, written in a neat prototype-based language). Wizards could set these bits on other users and ignore permission checks on other users' objects.

One of the weirdest features of the language in retrospect was that iirc you could use object reference literals in your code, since every object instance had an id in the database (eg #1234). This eventually necessitated a special recycler, implemented inside the MOO, to make sure that IDs got reused when objects were deleted.
I definitely used his copy over snippet when implementing it.
I have had some back-and-forth with some rustaceans here on HN and most seem to be cargo culting. I am all for enthusiasm/evangelism when there really is something noteworthy but not blind religious fervour. Graydon Hoare/Manish Goregaokar are on record saying they took good ideas from old (and lesser known) languages and putting them together in Rust based on their view of how a modern language should be like. Obviously this is not a bad thing but folks need to be aware of history and how they got to where they are now.

Rustaceans would do well to read something like Raphael Finkel's book Advanced Programming Language Design where a whole bunch of languages and their unique features are shown/compared.
In a homelab scenario, having your own AI assistant not ran by someone else, that is not an issue. If you want to tinker/learn AI it's definitely an issue.
Doesn't every language with break-to-label (i.e. break out of multiple nested loops) effectively have goto, from an implementation standpoint?
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Lets make up our own numbers... "*All values based on X.com/DOGE data. Not official data (yet)."
"[...] key irony of automation is that by mechanising routine tasks and leaving exception-handling to the human user, you deprive the user of the routine opportunities to practice their judgement and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving them atrophied and unprepared when the exceptions do arise"
Dare I say it but perhaps some sort of natural language input would be interesting here.

If the software was primarily driven by a command list back-end, had a bunch of semi-preset solutions to common problems, and also could be "spoken to" - would that feel more comfortable for our musician user?
Again, I have Ableton. It's great software (for audio-engineer-inclined people).

Whether the people that made Ableton are musicians or not, or whether you're a musician, or not, is all irrelevant. They made software that is a thin layer over the literal functions of the machine because that's how all DAWs are made. "Don't fix what ain't broke." It's a great way to run a business. You learned their way of working, either from the software itself, or from other DAWs, and you like it. Great! Literally every musician for the past 2 decades has come to work with these DAWs, so it's not like working in a format for audio engineers is incompatible with being a musician. I'm quite certain it helps, actually.

But, again, none of that speaks to the complexity of using the software as someone who doesn't know anything about DAWs or modern audio software. I know a guy who can play the guitar beautifully; yet he can't figure out Ableton. I've sat him down multiple times and showed him some really cool stuff that he really liked, but he has never once not called me when he tried to use the software. Some people just aren't built like that. He is thinking about music in one form, and the computer wants him to formalize it in some different form. And he just can't or won't make the bridge.

And you may say: "well, fuck him; he should learn Ableton or be doomed to live without its benefits". More power to you. But I just wish there were something ELSE that would speak to him in his language.
Microsoft silently hates NoSql document data storage.

The complexity of maintaining a relational database is at the core of their proprietary business model.

For operational systems, documents are just better in every way.

Leave the rdbms for analytics and reporting.
> plainly obvious to middle school students

What are those? ELI13.
I have a similar setup running at about 1.5 tokens/second, and it's perfectly usable for the sorts of difficult tasks one needs a frontier model like this for - give it a prompt and come back an hour or two later. You interact with it like e-mailing a coworker. If I need an answer back in seconds, it's probably not a very complicated question, and a much smaller model will do.
It's a shame this company didn't survive.
That was a lovely short read. I didn't play muds much, I didn't get an internet connection until they were starting to look old hat, but I did play a Discworld one for a while at uni.

It's stuck me recently how much I miss that kind of programming. Everything I do now is hidden behind so many layers of abstractions, toolkits, libraries and environments that it all feels a bit divorced from what's actually going on. I need to come up with an excuse to do a bit of low-level coding again.
Not to mention even simpler things, like wanting to tag all of your local notes based on the content, basically a bash loop you can run indefinitely and speed doesn't matter much, as long as it eventually finishes
One reason to bother with private AI: cloud AI ToS for consumers may have legal clauses about usage of prompt and context data, e.g. data that is not already on the Internet. Enterprise customers can exclude their data from future training.

https://stratechery.com/2025/deep-research-and-knowledge-val...

> Unless, of course, the information that matters is not on the Internet. This is why I am not sharing the Deep Research report that provoked this insight: I happen to know some things about the industry in question — which is not related to tech, to be clear — because I have a friend who works in it, and it is suddenly clear to me how much future economic value is wrapped up in information not being public. In this case the entity in question is privately held, so there aren’t stock market filings, public reports, barely even a webpage! And so AI is blind.

(edited for clarity)
> Personally, I applaud any effort that doesn't use React.

Why?
Ah yes, altruism, the well known root of all evil.
At least they commented it XD.

Selectivity is pretty hard to get right though so I can see why they stubbed it out and will deal with an actual implementation later.
If I remember correctly the US system doesn’t really take parties into consideration because parties were an afterthought and not really supposed to be a thing.
It is just easier to think out of the box when you do not have your mind "polluted" with previous ideas and from time to time someone appears that was thinking just in another way, probably the most obvious to them without knowing about the orthodox thinking in the subject.

This is valuable.
It was the same then as it is now. Chatbot providers had bots to sell, now autocomplete providers have autocomplete to sell. Marketing people just say what they get paid to say.
For most people, reducing the pre-checking time would require full refunds if they can't make it in time for some reason. This is especially true if the airport isn't even in the same city.
Why did it get the works, anyway?
No, you need to have extra space for the context (which requires more space the larger the model is).

But it should be said that basing model quality on its size in GB is like qualifying a video based on its size in GB. You can have the same video be small or huge with anywhere from negligible to huge differences in quality between the two.

You will be running quantizied model weights, which can range in precision from 1 to 16 bits per parameter (the B for billion in the model name). Model weights at Q8 are generally their parameter size without the B in GB (Llama 3 8B at Q8 would be ~8GB). There are many different strategies for quantizing as well, so this is just a rough guide.

So basically if you can't fit the 48GB model into your 48GB of VRAM, just download a lower precision quant.
I visited HP at Apollo drive in Chelmsford as an intern in college.

Then I later worked in the building when Cisco took over that building/park.
If your main complaint is product bad, yet you personally buy products you have no real need for, the meme is true. Stop telling everyone else how making unnecessary things is evil if you are the person buying them. Its like complaining about consumerism next to your funko-pop wall.
I wonder if the author could enlighten us on a more successful system? Do they envision a world where...no one works or produces value? Is the author against the mutual and willing trade of goods between free individuals?

If they can't understand the difference between Capitalism and corporatism then I can't take their case seriously. If they can't cite an alternative to a system driven by the reality of the human incentive engine then I can't take their case seriously.
This is a nice interpretation of it, and maybe if this sticks we can reinterpret it that way, but this is coming from the guy who coined MAGA, the title of the order is "RESTORING NAMES THAT HONOR AMERICAN GREATNESS", and the text makes it very clear that it's about the US:

> It is in the national interest to promote the extraordinary heritage of our Nation and ensure future generations of American citizens celebrate the legacy of our American heroes. ... in recognition of this flourishing economic resource and its critical importance to our Nation’s economy and its people, I am directing that it officially be renamed the Gulf of America.
When Democracy Runs on Code, Autocrats Don't Need Armies
If it's not satire, it's really, really bad.
Or just don't have enemies? You can dislike someone as a person but framing them in your mind as an enemy is childish and gives them power over you. Or as the kids say these days "you're letting them live rent free in your head".
> Taking a look at a sample file listing shows a number of books which appear to be commercially sold rather than being released for free.

"a number of books which appear to be commercially sold" is a bit of an understatement. According to a quick search of the list, it contains the complete works of the likes of Stephen King, John Grisham, Michael Crichton, Dan Brown and J.R.R Martin. So not just a few less-known books included by mistake...
I think if you're bragging to your buddies you summited Denali it has a much more air of mystery than "I climbed McKinley".
Also:

https://xkcd.com/1425/
AFAIK this doesn't really work for interactive use, as LLMs process data serially. So your request needs to pass through all of the cards for each token, one at a time. Thus a lot of PCIe traffic and hence latency. Better than nothing, but only really useful if you can batch requests so you can keep each GPU working all the time, rather than just one at a time.
on what hardware (and how much did you spend on it)?
Most generative AI responses based on news content contain inaccuracies
So you can’t do it, you can do a different thing which (as I already answered in details elsewhere) still sucks but differently.

Great contribution, thanks for nothing.
I figure if that guy exists he's swimming in his money vault full of coins instead of reading things online.
Giving it two senators, and as many representatives as California, would be of massive concern to annexation-hawks - to the point that they have to not be thinking to even consider it.
Leading commas are the way!
What does "being the man in a relationship" mean to you?
Similarly, the fortran or algol team implemented a lot of optimization tricks on first try, things that are now considered advanced, without "knowing it".
> There is no first amendment right to be on Twitter (or any other privately owned service).

I agree with you on the "any other privately owned service". But since Musk is now a government official the head of "DOGE" and controls and might do some of his official communications through Twitter. Twitter might no longer fall into the privately owned service category any more.

Same goes for Truth Social. Since the president "owns it", it might not be "privately owned" anymore. At least as far as the first amendment might be concerned.

In general government officials can't block you from social media if their accounts are used in an official government capacity. It might follow that since now the government officials are running the social media that they are using in an official government capacity they must not be able to ban you from the entire platforms.

A case about truth social* went to court but was thrown out because when it reached the supreme court Trump was no longer president and the whole thing was moot. But now he is president again.

*correction: it was about him blocking people on his twitter account.
Eventually you cannot run high risks in unmanned. If a rocket fails getting a satellite to orbit just build a new one. However missions to the outer planets are often only possible once every several hundred years (when orbits line up) and so if you fail you can't retry. Mars you get a retry every year and a half (though you get about a month). If you want to hit 5 planets that is a several hundred year event. And the trip time means if you fail once you reach the outer planet all the engineers who knew how the system works have retired and so you start from scratch on the retry (assuming you even get the orbits to line up)
Thank you for growing up.

Not everyone does.
But the inference doesn't necessarily run at the quant precision.
If many of your wife’s friends hate you then it’s almost certainly just you.
ToS can change. Companies can (and do) act illegally. Data breaches happen. Insider threats happen.

Why trust the good will of a company, over a box that you built yourself, and have complete control over?
I could definitely see it! I would think that voice commands would be more for the musician side of it, such as "start", "stop", "cut", "redo", "alternate", stuff like that. Don't really need tensors for that. But yeah, once they have a question about "how do I...?", you can layer in some of the latest DeepSeek-style chain-of-thought stuff and probably get some actually useable results with it.

Still though, all of that is a layer AFTER that initial barrier to entry.
“Think about how many people enjoy gardening, fishing, carpentry, cooking, and even computer programming just for their own sake. What if that kind of activity could provide for all our needs?”

As someone who programs for fun, I think what everybody needs is a to-do list app, but better than the other ones
They'll create the most expensive PDFs and that's not even their final words.
If you're just picking up samples from Splice or whatever and arranging them, sure, latency means nothing, but it becomes pretty crucial when you're recording an instrument.
I use a similar keyboard layout, it took me a couple of weeks to get back to being able to competently type when I first started using it and now I wouldn't go back. It's not really any different to getting used to the fact that when you hold shift the 1 key inserts and exclamation mark instead, you probably don't consciously hold the shift key and then look around your keyboard trying to work out which key you need to hit.
If everyone you meet is an asshole...
I think you should apply this tactic in everyday life. Explain to people that they are being imprecise when they say 'light' and don't talk about lightweight at the same time as they are talking about brightness.

See how far you can take it.
https://bogleheads.org/index.php has given me a good amount of joy as well as https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/

"All the things personal finance" basically
I am a big believer in Literate Programming, and for a long while, the most expedient way for me to do it was to just use a .dtx (documented TeX file), since it allowed me to work with a straight-forward toolchain (a TeX editor/previewer such as TeXshop or TeXworks) --- adding Peter Wilson's docmfp package (https://ctan.org/pkg/docmfp) made it general-purpose enough for my needs, but I didn't like the sea of grey of the entire document being a comment in the editor.

I looked around and considered other tools, and Quarto was in the running, but it didn't seem straight-forward to get it to support multiple languages (my current project began in OpenSCAD, migrated to Python, and still maintains an OpenSCAD wrapper, as well as needing to write out G-code and DXFs).

Wound up asking how to do this w/ LuaLaTeX and got a very helpful answer:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/722886/how-to-write-...

which I used to create a package which suits my needs, despite some serious drawbacks/failings (the .sty file _and_ .tex file have to be edited when a new file is added (or an old one removed), line numbering has to be managed manually, and I haven't puzzled out a seamless way to manage the Markdown file for readme.md).

Curious what other folks use/how they approach this sort of thing, so glad of this thread.
I'm disappointed to see the responses here. Reflection in C++ has been a wiggly sack of cats for decades. Of course it has to be all conpile-time. If you want to reify it, this is the way you get to choose the runtime version you like.

And, being conpile-time, it ain't gonna be pretty. The new operator is nice. They found something that'll work compatibly with existing code. This is not easy stuff.
East Sea / Sea of Japan
That's... a wild take.

Your spouse is your partner. This is your primary relationship. If someone you know is treating them poorly, and you choose to retain that friendship because, you know "gee, they've always been cool to me," then you're being grievously disloyal to the person who should matter more than anyone else in your life.
Here's an example of Elon Musk agreeing with a man who repeated an antisemitic belief that the Jewish community is inviting immigrants to further racism against the white population (also alluding to the Great Replacement theory - and if you want to claim that it isn't explicitly being stated, implicit nods are inherent to most political statements)[0].

Elon Musk also endorsed and spoke at an AfD event[1], which comprises members that are 7.5X more likely to participate in Holocaust denialism: believing that the Holocaust is Allied propaganda[2]. Multiple former leaders (including a co-founder) of the AfD describe the party as extremely far-right and authoritarian[3][4]. Elected members of the AfD have been found on a Facebook group sharing memes about baking Anne Frank in a pizza oven and insulting interracial couples[5]. Maybe you could claim that these are past events, but the frequency of these issues are alarming. Even so, we have a more recent example: in 2024, a leading member of the AfD was fined for using a slogan that was used by the Nazi military[6].

At best, you could call Elon Musk an absolutely bone-headed moron who has no idea who he chooses to support or where he chooses to attend. With Occam's razor it seems like he has embraced a lot of hateful ideology.

Oh, and also, it was a Nazi salute.

[0] https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1724908287471272299
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/01/25/elon-musk...
[2] https://www.kiwi-verlag.de/buch/meron-mendel-ueber-israel-re...
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20230604004557/https://www.tages...
[4] https://www.fr.de/politik/lucke-verlaesst-seine-11155453.htm...
[5] https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.angst-vor-scha...
[6] https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/german...
Cost for one
I don't understand how everyone here can be missing the sarcasm literally dripping off of every word in this article.
Perhaps you think all PoW algorithms are still crackable by ASICs? A few years ago that was the case, but some years ago Monero developers made a breakthrough with RandomX. Now it is no longer true that a GPU or ASIC can outperform a typical consumer device to the extent that you seem to imagine. The Tor project uses a similar algorithm, i think with the same developer contributing to it as RandomX. It is nothing like bitcoin's SHA256 PoW - with that, the performance of an ASIC does indeed mean a consumer PC becomes completely useless at the algorithm
Tech journalists that hate tech
Options for full disk encryption on Linux
The wikipedia page on real-time seems to agree with OP that this would be a soft real-time system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

In particular

> Soft real-time systems are typically used to solve issues of concurrent access and the need to keep a number of connected systems up-to-date through changing situations

That's exactly what this post is about. "Real-time" on the web often just means an app that allows multiple users to concurrently make updates to some piece of state, and for the changes to that state to be broadcast to all users so that all clients are kept consistent within a reasonable time frame, preferably as quickly as possible.

While the deadlines aren't as hard as in e.g. audio programming, "real-time multiplayer" apps can be said to be broken if there is a very large noticeable delay between a user editing something and the other users seeing that edit reflected in their local client.
I dont think “but it hasn’t been outlayed yet” is an appropriate critique of something so fishy.

Whether the funds were used for condom balloons or lifesaving hospital deliveries of babies, the complaint from the masses should be “give us more information for exactly what this money is obligated to accomplish.”

Especially when the federal government is eager send me demands for additional backup and information on money I earned 3 years ago, after it had previously signed off on documentation presented.
I dunno, cliques can be nasty. It's hard to say without more perspective.
That's a good point. I checked the M2 Mac Studio and it's 400GB/s for the M2 Max and 800GB/s for the M2 Ultra so the M4 Ultra when we get it later this year should really be a beast.

Oh and the top end Macbook Pro 16 (the only current Mac with an M4 Max) has 410GB/s memory bandwidth.

Obviously the Mac Studio is at a much higher price point.

Still, you need to spend $1500+ to get an NVidia GPU with >12GB of RAM. Multiple of those starts adding up quick. Put multiple in the same box and you're talking more expensive case, PSU, mainboard, etc and cooling too.

Apple has a really interesting opportunity here with their unified memory architecture and power efficiency.