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Chronos v15.0
Chronos v15.0: Optimized Performance & Upgraded UI/UX
Greetings, Fellow Hackers!

We're excited to announce that Chronos v15.0 is now available as of 2/14/2024. This release brings significant improvements in performance, a completely refreshed UI/UX, and enhanced code quality through a full TypeScript conversion. Here’s what’s new:

* Optimized Performance

New Build System:
We replaced the Babel loader and TS loader with the ES-builder, resulting in a remarkable reduction in load times—over 200% faster!

Improved Integration:
Our successful integration ensures that Eelectron now runs cohesively on your local machine, delivering a smoother experience.

Upgraded UI/UX

Modern, Visually Appealing Interface:
The updated UI/UX is designed to be intuitive and visually appealing. All key features are highlighted, providing a clearer understanding for both experienced and beginner developers.

Enhanced Navigation:
With the new design, finding and utilizing Chronos’s features is easier than ever.

TypeScript Conversion

Enhanced Code Quality:
Converting our JavaScript files into TypeScript has improved the code’s readability and maintainability.

Efficient Refactoring:
The in-editor error checking now enables better refactoring, enhancing overall development efficiency.

*Learn More:

Chronos is an open-source project developed under the tech accelerator Open Source Labs. For more details, please visit:

Website: chronoslany.com

GitHub: Chronos GitHub Page

*Meet the Team: Chronosnyla.com

We're truly excited about this release and can’t wait to hear your thoughts and feedback. Let’s work together to enhance monitoring and make Chronos even better!
Try Chronos v15.0 today—check out the GitHub repository and get started with the included README.md.
Happy hacking, and thank you for your continued support!
For reference GlobalFoundries (who AMD left because they weren't willing to adopt EUV which is needed for cutting edge geometries) goes up to 12nm, so that means there is still room for Pis to improve before hitting the expensive stuff.
How can this opion piece miss the big thing though? Even if it's an accurate prediction that will be someone else's problem. My last three companies have been Publicly traded, Private Equity, VC and PE. The timelines for decision makers in any of these scenarios maxes out around 4 years, and for some is less than a year. They're not shooting themselves in the foot, rather handicaping the business and moving on. The ones who time it right will have an extra-big payday, while the ones who do poorly will buy all these duds. Meanwhile the vast majority lose either way.
You only have to be burned by an NPM packaging dumpster fire so many times before you start appreciating hermetic builds.

Unfortunately, Nix and Guix are trying to work around the issue by warping the whole world around toolchains that were never built with reproducability in mind. So many tool chains just download executables and run them as part of the build process - NPM packages do this, Android app build process does this, Rust packages do this. Turing completeness is too good to give up and gives people the freedom to deploy sloppy solutions.
Is NVIDIA breaching any consumer safety laws by pumping twice the rated current through a 24ish gauge wire? Perhaps by violating their UL certification?
Hmm, I wish I knew. I don’t know why
Mind if I quote you on this in the post?
I’d settle for these things being able to do value comparison consistently well, play a game of tic tac toe more than once correctly or use a UI after an update and not fail horrendously to move the needle a little bit for me.
People claiming these things selectively reason while also not being able to explain why seems a lot like magical thinking to me rather than entertaining the possibility you might be projecting onto something that is really damn-well engineered to make your anthropomorphize it.
I want to know that the software I use was crafted with free-range, grass-fed Rust.
Your exact thoughts have already been put to paper by
L.P.Hammet, godfather of physical organic chemistry (exact description of chemical reactions):

one might “... overlook the great difference between exact theory and approximate theory. Again, let me emphasize my great respect for approximate theory. [...] if one starts looking for an effect predicted by this kind of theory to be impossible, the odds are against a favorable outcome. Fortunately, however, the community of scientists, like that of horseplayers, contains some people who prefer to bet against the odds as well as a great many who always bet on the favorite. In science we should, I think, do all we can to encourage the man who is willing to gamble against the odds of this sort.

This does not mean that we should encourage the fool or the ignoramus who wants to play against suicidal odds, the man who wants to spend his time and usually someone else’s money looking for an effect incompatible with, let us say one of the conclusions reached by Willard Gibbs. Gibbs started from thoroughly proven generalizations, the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and reasoned from them by exact mathematical procedures, and his conclusions are the best example I know of exact theory, theory against which it is futile to struggle.”
I wish there was a way to underspin (RPM) some of these drives to lower noise for non-datacenter use - the quest for the Largest "Quiet" drive - is a hard one. It would be cool if these could downshift into <5000RPM mode and run much quieter.
> Why is software any different?

Because software is living, often online, has various types of your and others' personal data, and usually runs on devices that you use for other things as well. The attack surface is massive, and more often than not, accessible. (Your drill might have a way to override the safety switch by soldering stuff to it, but you need physical access for that, and the reward is minimal; if you get into Equifax' publicly accessible servers, you get lots of important and lucrative data).

You might not care that your bank's website uses some obsolete Java framework with security holes, but you will care if they use it to drain your bank account. You might not care that your recipe generator app uses an old version of Jenkins for releases and doesn't do code signing, but you will if someone hacks them and releases a fake version that installs a keylogger on your machine, or exploits a bug in their backend to ship you malware that scrapes your Pictures folder with your nudes and important documents.

And on and on and on. A piece of software not updated for years, or a phone with no security updates, or with horrible legacy like Jenkins, is a security risk you as a user have to take at least some interest in. Yeah, you won't pick your bank by their tech stack, but when you see an atrocious website with UX out of the 1950s, absurd password length restrictions, broken domains/certificates/etc., you can be pretty sure their tech stack is a disaster, and maybe, you can try to avoid them.
> as far as I can see it's the amount and quality of training data that counts

Well there's your reason. OS code is not as in demand or prevalent as crud web app code, so there's less relevant data to train your models on.
> I think we're gonna need more SW devs, not fewer

Code is a liability. What we really care about is the outcome, not the code. These AI tools are great at generating code, but are they good at maintaining the generated code? Not from what I've seen.

So there's a good chance we'll see people using tools to generate a ton of instant legacy code (because nobody in house has ever understood it) which, if it hits production, will require skilled people to figure out how to support it.
Just pick a static site generator and start writing
Yeah, but we also have reliable mature connectors for decades, and they try to make new connectors and it’s not rocket science to transfer that kind of load.
The main point from the regulatory perspective is this: "Tokens like USDT cannot be restricted from self-custody", and that includes MPC (multi-party computation) for distributing keys and use them for signing based on an m-n threshold.
You have a point, all people do like to think they're more irreplaceable than they are, but the last round of offshoring of programmers did in fact end up with the companies trying to reverse course a few years later. GM was the most well-known example of this, but I worked at several organizations that found that getting software done on the other side of the planet was a bad idea, and ended up having to reverse course.

The core issue is that the bottleneck step in software development isn't actually the ability to program a specific thing, it's the process of discovering what it is we actually want the program to do. Having your programmers AT THE OFFICE and in close communication with the people who need the software, is the best way to get that done. Having them on the other side of the planet turned out to be the worse way.

This is unintuitive (to programmers as well as the organizations that might employ them), and therefore they have to discover it the hard way. I don't think this is something LLMs will be good at, now or ever. There may come a day when neural networks (or some other ML) will be able to do that, but that day is not near.
Yes, but we don't have enough people doing that to get quality data. Not many people are building this kind of setup, and even less are publishing their results. Additionally, if I just run a test a couple of time and then average the results, this is still far from a solid measurement.
Megacaps plan to spend more than $300B in 2025 as AI race intensifies
As a practical matter, the CPU has to deal with IO as well, I don't believe any 486 systems could handle this.

DSP based systems struggled a lot with IO in the late 90s until faster SATA drives became ubiquitous. Lots of them used SCSI or exotic hardware cards to deal with large track counts.
Parent asked why it's not a good proxy measure for reliability. You admit that it isn't.

> Yes, TÜV does not assess reliability of a car, but road-worthiness

So, great - that's all I tried to say to start with.

Now enjoy your smear campaign!
> a complex UI that TypeScript/React didn't scale well for

You can go a long way with render optimizing on the web. Even some basic virtualization should allow for showing millions of log entries. Or, you could still use web technologies (OffscreenCanvas), a bit weird to go directly with WebAssembly.
Missing context unfortunately, sorry!

This was about hunter-gatherers, neolithic levels of tech. So nomadic lifestyle, only as many possessions as can be worn/carried, and everything made of readily available materials.

So yes, mending the baskets and stitching the clothes - was it "work" vs "was it hobby" may forever be open to interpretation, but I believe the main point is that there was no external/personal pressure. You mend the basket so your (or other tribal member) work is easier, and if you enjoy stitching more than weaving I'm sure you could find someone with reverse liking and switch "work" with them.

And an interesting side point to this vs modern times is that everyone had to be a generalist (up to even the iron age). So everyone could do every job, but they were humans just like us - each had individual talents and preferences. So you would naturally really on John to cut trees down and Mark to hunt small game, but should John fell ill Mark will get you wood too.

And then even the notion of possession is highly unlikely to resemble modern sensibilities. Sure John had John's pants, but the baskets and hatchets were... tools, our tribe's tools, current tools. And so on and on...
For others like me, very confused about why pinball was illegal in New York.

https://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2015/05/29/pinball...
> I think the deeper process here is this: if you're a musician and you start using a DAW, pretty soon you'll be an engineer, whether you intended to be or not.

There's a bunch of stuff like that happening in that industry as the equipment evolves. I've been doing software/networking/hardware for coming up on 30 years now. My wife's been doing mostly live audio/production with some recording for about the same amount of time. Starting about 10 years ago she had to start learning about networking. It started simple with things like setting up routers/WiFi access points for controlling consoles with iPads. Now with AES-67 she's had to learn a whole bunch about RTP, PTP, QoS, VLANs, DHCP, subnetting, etc. It's working out well for her, she's incredibly sharp and many of her peers come to her for advice/consultation when things aren't working right, but it was definitely not something she expected to need to learn. When everyone's stumped they give me a call... I don't know much at all about the audio side of it but a little bit of Wireshark can usually explain what's broken in their systems.
I'm not arguing about page weight per se. The more code you have to download, parse, and run, the more CPU and memory and battery you'll be using.

WASM enables certain use cases like using FFMPEG in the a browser or game engines running on canvas which are super cool. But for 99.99% of DOM related functionality, JS is really the way to go.

Edit:

Here's another example. Loads and executes like 10MB of WASM code for something that could be done in 100kB of JavaScript.

https://stalcrafthq.com/
I just read that article and it doesn't appear to agree with your conclusion. That was just a single quote from a a pest control guy who works for Orkin.

The article does say that car owners and mechanics have noted a large increase in rodent damage to car wiring with the new soy-based insulation while manufacturers have denied any connection. Likely because they are fighting several class-action lawsuits over it.
I don't know if "putting lesser languages to shame", but https://hubris.oxide.computer/ is professional grade, built in just a few years.

But I absolutely take umbrage at the idea that "build a modern production OS" is the bar to clear for any new language to prove themselves because modern OSes are rare regardless of language of implementation. How many "professional grade OSes" have even been released in the last 10 years?
Of course they don’t. All of the Republicans with back bone either retired or were voted out
"The standard does not attempt to specify areas where current implementations differ in significant ways. In particular, as the goal statement implies, we did not include graphics, user interface, or database accessing objects in the library."

1997 DRAFT ANSI Smalltalk Standard

https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/uploads/172/standard_v1_9-ind...
In my case, I was told it was because the rubber was made using peanut oil. I had a squirrel chew through one of the O2 sensors on my car.
Probably similar given the same yield unless the bomber has some way to utilize the kinetic energy of the orbit.

The difference though is that a nuking from orbit has less chance of retaliation since the aggressor is no longer on the same planet (unless the victim has ASAT weapons).
Somewhat related is a recently discovered bug in the qBittorrent client where SSL checks had been disabled for a long time before someone noticed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42004219
People are acting like this is some long-term position. There's no evidence of that. AMD didn't give up on the high end permanently after the RX 480 / 580 generation.

What AMD does need right now is:

* Don't cannibalize advanced packaging (which big RDNA4 required) from high-margin and high-growth AI chips

* Focus on software features like upscaling tech (which is a big multiplier and allows midrange GPUs to punch far above their weight) and compute drivers (which they badly need to improve to have a real shot at taking AI chip marketshare)

* Focus on a few SKUs and execute as well as possible to build mindshare and a reputation for quality

"Big" consumer GPUs are increasingly pointless. The better upscaling gets, the less raw power you need, and 4K gaming is already passable (1440p gaming very good) on the current gen with no obvious market for going beyond that. Both Intel and Nvidia are independently suffering from this masturbatory obsession with "moar power" causing downstream issues. I'm glad AMD didn't go down that road personally.

If "midrange" RDNA4 is around the same strength as "high-end" RDNA3, but $300 cheaper and with much better ray tracing and an upscaling solution at least on par with DLSS 3, then that's a solid card that should sell well. Especially given how dumb the RTX 5080 looks from a value perspective.
https://www.man.com/technology/single-core-stagnation-and-th...

Yes you are right, but the curve is flattening.
Sorry, the reviews are actually on the Scotch site itself: https://www.scotchbrand.com/3M/en_US/p/d/cbgnhw011057/
The core Facebook product? Yeah.

Across all products, maybe not - Instagram appeals to a younger demographic, especially since they turned it into a TikTok clone. And WhatsApp is pretty ubiquitous outside of the US (even if it is more used as a free SMS replacement than an actual social network).
The reviews are on the Scotch site itself, not on Amazon: https://www.scotchbrand.com/3M/en_US/p/d/cbgnhw011057/
It's naive to think this came as suddenly as an axe.
I have not yet fallen out of love for computing. Recently I had a "microsecond" moment where I thought "this is bullshit".

I have recently came back to the topic of software engineering always "having" to keep up.

At the end of the day what keeps me going is the creative opportunity (specifically trimming out the block and carving out a statue) and the fact that this is the closest I will ever be to be a wizard.
When I see stuff like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42994610 (continued in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996895), I think the field still has fundamental hurdles to overcome.
I agree with your sentiment, but according to another comment in this thread, the treasury secretary has congressionally approved latitude to adjust how many coins are minted.
There is a lot of superficial and structural burn damage to the desk there. (Not that I believe the mouse story is true.)
While I was at FB (it wasn't Meta then), I saw what a superpower the infrastructure is there. Product engineers build things of a scale in days. While I was there, I got to be tech lead for several different teams (2x distributed dbs, 1x Dev Efficiency, 1x Ads), some of which are called out by name here.

Shout out to the HBase and ZippyDB teams! This is the first public acknowledgment that ZippyDB was converged upon.

It's also super cool to see the Developer Efficiency pushes called out. 10,000 Services pushed daily, or every commit is so impressive.

When I left FB, I couldn't find anything close. So, I'm building the infra that I was missing as a startup. Batteries Included. https://www.batteriesincl.com/ https://github.com/batteries-included/batteries-included/
They're just aligning with the current regime ruling Amerika, who also espouses the prosperity gospel. In other words, the exact opposite of what Jesus taught. They call themselves Christians, but they're not. Heck, things have gotten so bad when preachers go preaching the Beatitudes their congregants complain about their preaching that woke liberal nonsense. They're actually complaining about the words attributed to Jesus as being "woke liberal nonsense."

So yeah, Silicon Valley is Embracing "Christianity."
perhaps but I was not commenting on elon or his politics and repercussions from him going full-on insane, I was specifically commenting on because as soon as there’s a real market Tesla isn’t that attractive anymore outside of a brand loyal niche.
Yes, we do. It's called reinforcement learning and compute
I envy my European friends' 240v electric kettles
I believe you meant "pedantic" rather than "pandemic".
lmao I’m copy pasting this, could be writing for big bang theory
Prompting LLMs is not engineering
No, I was talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43005206, the ancestral comment containing the phrases I quoted from it, between quote marks.

The Rig Veda does provide important evidence of a migration, but not by narrating it. Rather, the vocabulary, grammar, and mythological content are so similar to the Avestan texts that a common linguistic origin seems inescapable. That of course doesn't demonstrate population replacement on its own, but lacking Starlink or even homing pigeons, some kind of migration was clearly involved.
Anything worth looking at in Florence and Prague turned into a theme park. There is no casual life happening there. Personally I feel I saturated for lifetime the urge to look at real estate of any kind and value, partially the worldwide real estate hysteria contributed to it. I only want convenient dwelling for myself and that's it.
A Krusty burger with cheese!
BuzzFeed seeks to counter right-wing vibe shift
Integrate MCP Tools into LlamaIndex
OT: I know people love to love the old Reddit, but the new UI moved away from React as is now a lot better for viewing galleries like this than the old one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/comments/1ilmshx/a_pair_o...
Why does anyone want to use to Angular - when Google itself doesn’t use it for serious projects?
The twitter files broke so many people's brains. They revealed essentially nothing of consequence, but it validates those who were already convinced that twitter was "silencing conservative voices".

Of course when we look at any sort of success metrics that actually matter to a twitter personality, the top spots are overwhelmingly conservative pundits, and essentially always have been.
Cool, consider me interested!
"you just have an elevator music generator"

No one argued that one isn't of higher or lower quality. They're both music, as is evident by your choice of words. Processed foods are foods, not great for you, but they're still foods.
they'd be just fine if they sell all the cars they currently have capacity to make with their current margins... not to satisfy the insane evaluation but in general :)
Show HN: Learn the basics for free,then learn the intermediate or adv in crypto
In my experience I had fewer problems with 0.x dependencies in Rust than with some mature 35.x dependencies in Java.
It's not a best practice, but the last 10 years I've run my home server with a smaller faster drive for the OS and a single larger disk for bulk storage that I choose using Backblaze Drive Stats. None of have failed yet (fingers-crossed). I really trust their methodology and it's an extremely valuable resource for me as a consumer.

My most recent drive is a WDC WUH722222ALE6L4 22TiB, and looking at the stats (albeit only a few months of data), and overall trend of WDC, in this report gives me peace of mind that it should be fine for the next few years until it's time for the cycle to repeat.
I’m curious what’s dangerous about it? How do your square the inability to play tic-tac toe or do value comparisons correctly with “we should compare this to a humans reasoning”
If it can’t do things like basic value comparison correctly what business do we have saying it “reasons like a human?”
Correct - the distinction makes no difference in this discussion. Call it would you will, you have to do things and not all will be pleasant.
> That said, Apple’s strict fascination with always jumping to the latest node, even when it seems premature, puzzles me from the outside.

As a user of M1, M2 and M4, that's why I've chose Apple.

I would have gladly jumped to any laptop that supports Linux with similar power and battery life and weight/build, unfortunately that computer does not exist.

Is it time to call on garmin to make a computer? They've beat apple on the watch. I have faith in them.
Are you doing AI risk assessments?