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I agree, totally. I'm not sure where I would draw a line.

Something nice, but at the moment totally unattainable with our current technologies, would be our own understanding of how a technology achieves ToM. If it has to be a blackbox, I'm too ape-like to trust it or believe there's an inner world beyond statistics within the machine.

Having said that, I do wonder quite often if our own consciousness is spurred from essentially the same thing. An LLM lacks much of the same capabilities that makes our inner world possible, yet if we really are driven by our own statistical engines, we'd be in no position to criticize algorithms for having the same disposition. It's very grey, right?

For now, good LLMs do an excellent job demonstrating ToM. That's inarguable. I suppose my hangup is that it's happening on metal rather than in meat, and in total isolation from many other mind-like qualities we like to associate with consciousness or sentience. So it seems wrong in a way. Again, that's probably the ape in me recoiling at something uncanny.
I love the ads between the content and the comments; and after them too, just in case you missed the first impress.
So? There is instrumentation for Async Rust being added. Just not in the Rust compiler and not in tokio. More in application level code. So as far as the user is concerned to "their" Rust run-time. A distinction that is mostly useless when programming lisp. Hence lisp.

Lisp is about solving your problem and getting the "language" out of the way. So you add what is missing. As long as it works it doesn’t even matter where it’s added.

Even C has a barebones runtime environment when compiled for a machine with an MMU and an OS, so not a microcontroller.
Thanks. Yes, I mixed up the acronyms.
My suspicion is that patent offices are accepting obvious invalid patents for money.
That article is 10-11 years old a lot has changed since then.
I have a script update my hosts file to route domains to 0.0.0.0 and ::0 . I get the domains from https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts.
(This is probably terribly obvious, but should be mentioned anyway: that's 1.4% Mac and 2.06% Linux users of Steam. Not users in general.)
Sony always made good headphones even before the 1990s. In fact, the company was one of the first to make a range of small and very light weight headphones that sounded really good (I still have several pairs and they still work well).

Yes, before that time there were some excellent headphones about but they were much bigger and bulkier, for example, Sennheiser's professional series—also they were much more expensive.

Clearly, there was an impetitive for Sony to develop them, as it needed a range of high quality headphones that had to be in keeping (both in style and performance) with its extremely popular miniaturized Walkman players. (In the 1980s Sony Walkman players were all the rage, they'd taken the world by storm.)

Essentially, by the time you'd bought yours Sony had long done most of its R&D. Little doubt the manufacturing infrastructure to make headphones was still in place from the 1980s.

Incidentally, when I was in Japan in the 1980s, I bought four Sony Walkmans in one hit. They were excellent machines.
Tell the people the government is inefficient and cannot work as intended. Defund said government so it doesn't work as intended. Privatize the work and profit. A playbook as old as time. Except they are doing it bigger and more brazenly than ever.
Using clients and groups works fine for me. I'm able to block youtube on my kids' devices, but allow it on others. I have pihole running in a container without being my dhcp server.
There is a certain amount of "who cares about the cost" when it comes to fusion power. Nations will want to build them to lower or eliminate reliance on foreign energy, to address climate change concerns, and as a backup for renewables, and for other non-economic reasons. Many things that governments will want to fund that have nothing to do with directly "how much does the electricity cost?" or "when can we expect a return on investment?"

And the first generation will be expensive. That's how all new technology is.
The world’s richest man is gutting the regulatory bodies which were designed to keep him in check, and you’re defending it. I’d say you’ve drank the Kool-aid.
This is pretty neat.

Github:https://github.com/ragavsachdeva/magi
Yes, running LLMs.
I run AdGuard Home on the same device as my router, so anything that would take it down would also take down the entire router anyway.
I'm not. Source 2 is very modern even by caveman gamer standards.
It’s easier to remember it as a bit inverter, or as boolean “not equal”, IMO. And “exclusive or” pretty much already spells out what it does.

Regarding the first one I might be biased by learning XOR from https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/xor/#..., however.
They charge on ticket-basis even if it is their fault?
In Defense of AI Slop
First, I know different people have different triggers from me. I used to have migraines every few days to every few months from age 13 to 23. These would incapacitate me. I would get the aura and be almost blind for an hour, then throw up a couple times, and have a bad headache for 2-4 hours, then I could function again but still felt crummy for the next 24 hours. I noticed that pickles were a trigger, and I thought "pickles have a lot of sodium". So, out of desperation as something to try, I read the labels of everything I was eating and cut out everything that had more than a little sodium: frozen pizza, frozen dinners, deli meats, etc. At the time I was having migraines every few days, and then I didn't have another migraine for years. I was so glad they stopped. I now doubt it was the sodium. In cutting out sodium, I happen to cut out processed foods, which includes lots of suspicious ingredients. I suspect Tyramine was the main culprit. There's a diet called The Headache Diet that is focused on minimizing Tyramine. Guess what else pickles have a lot of? For last last 30 years, here are all the things that have caused my migraines: Lithium Carbonate (Orotate is OK), Pickled Herring (Tyramine), Soy Sauce (Tyramine), Hyaluronic Acid (synthetic, Mobilee is OK), Tianeptine, Sulbutiamine, and a strobe light. Every migraine I have had in the last 30 years can be explained by those - only 8-12 migraines total. I still precisely control my sodium and eat no processed foods.
There's just no economic case for fusion. It's useful research, but current fission does the job better, and we already have decades of proven reserves, centuries likely if we kept looking for new reserves ... and then thousands of years from sea water extraction.

There's also many paths to improved fission. Fast neutron reactors, thorium, small fast neutron reactors for industrial heat, thorium reactors, accelerator-driven subcritical reactors ... Millions of years of fuel available and new ways to use the output beyond boiling water for electricity.

Note that I'm not mentioning slow neutron SMR, they're mostly pointless and just an excuse not to build current and perfectly fine PWR/BWR/heavy water reactors.
Chaotic springs, long summers mean uncertainty for NY grape growers
People won't be afraid of fusion, fusion plants can't be used to make bombs, fusion plants could maybe explode, but they won't poison the nearby land (or the whole planet) for decades-eons.
If so, he is utterly unqualified to participate in hiring or firing.
It's been a while since I used AWS, is premium documentation a thing now? Monetizing documentation just seens so sleazy.
They charge a percentage of your spend for access to this support, starting at 10%. Yes, that is both smart and gross.
Reality Labs is much much bigger than this product. It's unreasonable to point to their aggregate losses here unless you have some indication that those losses are due to this product.
Still no wildcard domain support for local DNS.
Not really since both give you wrong output that you need to design a system to account for(or deal with). The only percentage that would change the utility would be 100% accurate.
I'm what you described 100%. I wonder if there's a different type of multitasking term that describes this because I swear it's a thing

Multitasking two coding problems at once completely doesn't work for me but what you described works and I do that all the time.

There seems to be a language disconnect for the type of multitasking that works vs. doesn't work.
I think LLM codegen still requires a mental model of the problem domain. I wonder how many upcoming devs will simply never develop one. Calculators are tools for engineers /and/ way too many people can't even do basic receipt math.
I'd guess that's to distinguish it from the official TF2 if you build and install the code without changing the name.
Haven't tried Windsurf yet.

Chat function is just chat; it can't edit your files.

Composer probably relies on prompt engineering to do editor-architecture, as it reads and writes to your codebase. But it's heavily heavily to Sonnet 3.5 and tool-calling.

For architecture-type stuff, I prefer DeepSeek R1 as reasoning models do better on high level design. Which is why I will copy and paste in and out of compsoer.
I'm swimming in taxes and treading water is hard enough already.

Maybe if they taxed me less, I donate more to 501c's that do more per dollar than the government does.
> Is there an equivalent of DDWRT/OpenWRT but for TVs?

Get a used mini-pc, install Linux on it, and don't allow the TV to connect to any networks. This is a 50-75 dollar solution. Good if you are on a budget and are not interested in any wiz-bang features like HDR.

There are a few TV-dedicated Linux systems out there, like libreElEC.

Or get a more powerful system with a AMD GPU and install Bazzite on it. That way you get something like "SteamOS for your TV". Pairs nicely with controllers like 8BitDo.

It would be nice to have TVs as open as PCs, but the manufacturers and media companies are ran by dirtbags and would rather have victims then customers.
Finally a REST API!

I've been waiting for this - I wanted to play around with blocking distractions on various rules, but controlling pi-hole remotely was a huge pain and often didn't work until now.
From my view, the specific article is not the issue
A huge amount of words, a lot which validate the perspective of the people it is directed against.

I was involved in the development of a multiplayer mod for GTA5 nearly 10 years ago. I couldn't understand the technical direction of FiveM at the time because it was based on the existing peer-to-peer, client-authoritative architecture of GTA Online that caused countless problems with cheats/hacks. All it did was provide a way for Lua scripts to call the game's native script functions.

This is in contrast to other mods, such as Alt:V which is the target of much of this tirade. These other mods were inspired by MTA/SA:MP and provided a complete reimplantation of multiplayer in the game where the server is the ultimate authority. Much like any MMO or competitive FPS.
An important point that people are missing is that W/D units are commonly bought to fit a specific space and house. For example some dryers are gas, and some are not. That is house dependent.
> Multi-junction PV cells are not limited by the Shockley–Queisser limit, but are limited by current production methods.

Such as multilayer nanolithography, which nanoimprint lithography 10Xs;
https://arstechnica.com/reviews/2024/01/canon-plans-to-disru...

Perhaps multilayer junction PV and TPV cells could be cost-effectively manufactured with nanoimprint lithography.
> The NSA's mission is to spy on foreigners and not Americans.

Snowden proved the opposite.
Sorry but in what universe is xor too advanced for a programmer (someone who works with computers and numbers for a living) to understand? 99% of the article is just fun trivia anyway.

If a deep dive like this scares you, then the + operator should leave you absolutely terrified, just look at the length of this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addition
I wouldn’t bet on a sane response to it. People are afraid of 5G, vaccines, and even masks.
One of my favorite XOR stories is from Bryan Cantrill (of Oxide, Joyent, and Sun) in this presentation [0] and this video [1].

To avoid clicking a link: When he was at Sun, he was chatting with a coworker (Roger Faulkner) about the lack of logical XOR in C. Faulkner said it was because you couldn't short circuit it, and Brian thought that was wild. Then Roger emailed Dennis Ritchie to ask and he confirmed it was what Faulkner had said.

That stories gets me every time! First of all, it's very funny and well delivered by Cantrill, but it's also just so incredible that they could ask the man himself.

[0] https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/oral-tradition-in-software...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaWFYm0kEw
The non-national-state investors care about the cost and roi.
If it's already end of life you can fork it and upgrade the dependency. You'll miss nothing. This is only difficult if you need to maintain changes upstream, but that's not the case here.

Security support lifetimes make sense for a widely used language or runtime, but not really a frontend web framework on the most backwards compatible language you can have.
Well, now this makes me feel old that I thought TFC was the bee's knees and felt TF2 was too new fangled and fancy so I never got into it.
Workers, infrastructure, taxes…
Correct. Just the EU app store.

Sold my company more than two years ago, and they failed to transition any of the information to their company account and/or address.

It's been like pulling teeth trying to get Apple to update our information because of the specific documentation that they want and the layers of ownership.
> A lot of people in this thread have an extremely facile understanding of art,

I don't think anyone would deny Lynch had his own, distinct Lynch-ian stye. A lot of people probably can't describe it clearly in words but they'll recognize when they see it. So I think it's plausible LLMs "getting the gist" of the style and asking them to generate something "Lynch-ian" might just work.

I propose a Turing test for it. Show a bunch of people unfamiliar with most of his work some of his works mixed in with some generated, and see if they could tell which is which. It will fail today, but I think in 10 years we'll get there, even if not sooner.
Right, but that has nothing to do with your compensation during work hours. I was specifically objecting to OP's:

> If you're in tech, the value of the time you spend driving to the store will probably be higher than all the tools you'll buy while you're there.

Implying that if you're not in tech (read: don't have a high salary) then your free time is not worth as much. I think most people value their free time like you described, not measured in terms of dollars, and certainly not proportional to how much they make in their day jobs.
EU regulation are hit and miss. USB C and Opening up apple store are hits. AI regulation and cookie banners and idiotic bottle caps are miss.
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In general the last author (in CS) is the one managing. I'm sure many a PhD student can tell you that their advisors, who are on every paper they write, have at times provided little to no input (potentially providing negative value, at least with respect to the research topic at hand).
Has anyone who evolved from a baseline of just using Cursor chat and freestyling to a proper workflow like this got any anecdata to share on noticeable improvements?

Does the time invested into the planning benefit you? Have you noticed less hallucinations? Have you saved time overall?

I’d be curious to hear because my current workflow is basically

1. Have idea

2. create-next-app + ShadCN + TailwindUI boilerplate

3. Cursor Composer on agent mode with Superwispr voice transcription

I’m gonna try the author’s workflow regardless, but would love to hear others opinions.
Please cite a passage from the story which is difficult to read.
Generative AI reviving more presidents to train employees (2024)
Very confused by this, is there something currently happening in China that warrants massive layoffs in tech?

As the article mentioned the game is just launching its Season 2 and is still receiving updates and new characters.
And yet Scala did it next. And both were dramatically worse than what is happening here. Just frontend FUD
Full 420 minutes.
So the difference is the kind of insult?
It wasn't obvious at the time YouTube would have a network effect though. It was very dependent on coming up with a great recommendation algorithm, along with monetization and revenue sharing. At the time, YouTube didn't have anything like that, iirc.
Noted, won’t do it again :)
I have a used workstation I got for $2k (with 768GB of RAM) - using the Q4 model, I can get about 1.5 tokens/sec and use very large contexts. It's pretty awesome to be able to run it at home.
I’m curious, is adding “do not hallucinate” to prompts effective in preventing hallucinations? The author does this.
They are doing it. At some point we have to agree that Brussels are idiots and rarely savants.
My eyes were opened when a field called gamification appeared in the early 2010s. In a few years many gamification researchers had tens of thousands of citations, h-indexes nearing hundred. Well, if you think about it they’re gamers, they’ve been grinding their RPG characters, sniping skills and whatnot for thousands of hours. It’s only natural that these guys and girls figure out how to reach the maximum scientific high score.

Some of the gamification researchers are near the top 500 of that 2% list. Now ask yourself, is gamification something that should make you one of the top 500 scientist in the world? I doubt it, but modern science is a citation game. Nothing else.
You already posted this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43082284
I'd assume FooBarBizBazz meant my aside about the rise of the (once also fairly rare, if not so rare as second) first person narrative perspective in fiction, and increasing discomfort and difficulty with the 3rd person among younger readers. I'm not sure I'd assume this coincides with a decline in empathy, but do think it's worrisome that a huge body of literature, even recent literature, is harder for these folks to access than it was for those who grew up with 3rd person as the default and anything else being a notable stylistic choice.
The first patent you found is Danish - though is issued in several jurisdictions simultaneously via the EPO.

And yes, it is carefully written to not imply it's patenting a computer program, and yet try to get the maximum "I'll sneak this past the examiners because I really want to patent computer programs" without actually breaching their direct rules about what are and aren't computer programs (and what is and isn't a technical solution, and what is and isn't novel).

So if you want to say "looks like a software patent", the EPO would disagree directly with you, as they literally followed their rules saying don't do that - but the adversary is also trying their best to get software-implementation-fucking patent claims despite those rules. I'd like the EPO to be even stricter, and reject even more claims.
They do, but "LAN" has become a bit of a misnomer since few games actually have real LAN play options anymore. If you're playing modern titles then you end up with a bunch of PCs or consoles in the same room all connecting to a remote server over the internet. Internet connections are a lot better than they were back in the day at least.
If there is a 25% tax on the unrealized gain, the owner loses 12.5% of the company every year compounding which means before ten years they no longer control the company. Therefore every large company ends up being controlled by Wall St. or foreign investors. That seems like a bad outcome.

Yes, if you pick silly numbers any policy can be made to look silly. A wealth tax would never use a 25% rate because that would eliminate most of the wealth in a few years. Wealth taxes are always very low rates, i.e., 0.15% in Belgium, 0.5% to 1.5% in France (note: France did see a temporary outflow of billionaires when they first introduced this tax, but as the tax is on global worth, only complete expatriation would eliminate the liability); Italy has a wealth tax on non-Italian wealth of about 0.75%.

Corporate ownership moves from domestic individual founders to corporate investment firms and foreign nationals.

No, the opposite is true, since wealth taxes would penalize ownership through holding companies (greater wealth), and a wealth tax would also apply to foreign nationals owning U.S. assets. The most likely implementation of a wealth tax would be progressive (like it is in France), which would harm greater accumulations of wealth, i.e., corporate holding companies.

The people making tax laws mostly understand this, which is why proposals like that haven't gone anywhere and hopefully won't.

America already has wealth taxes. In many U.S. states (and especially a number of so-called "business friendly" red states), businesses already pay the equivalent of a wealth tax on top of their property taxes (the name varies from state to state; in some states they are called franchise taxes, in others "business privilege taxes", some call them "fees"). The rates are all far below 1%.
Ha, I might also be weird. But yes it just opens PRs for doc updates, which still need to be reviewed. Maybe eventually people will want Promptless to be committing doc updates directly, but I still think human oversight is important for high-quality docs, both to prevent untruths but also to guide good information architecture.
The only "crisis" in US spending is that each party keeps shutting down the government when they don't like what the other one is doing. That's not going to go away with balanced books, but it sure is a recipe for disaster. It stops being a democracy when the decision making process stops being about majorities and starts being a game of "whoever doesn't blink sets the rules".

The country prints its own money; and right now it's the world reserve currency, giving the US a huge advantage when it comes to borrowing whatever it wants — the biggest threat to continuing to be the world reserve currency right now, is that the scale of cuts being talked about can only be met by cutting at least one of interest payments on government loans or things the US government considers to be "mandatory" such as pensions, social security, etc.
IDK about Wicked, but with certain non-photorealism styles you can easily make well performing 3D game on Godot. You can check their showreel and there are plenty 3D games in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Lon_Q2T18
Right and Lit is that exact framework and it’s amazing.
The thesis I'll try to state again more clearly is that bigger parts at lower frequencies can trump smaller parts at higher frequencies.

Efficiencies increase significantly as you downclock. Sure, a mobile part runs 15w. But it's relatively inefficient at doing so. If you want to drop it to 7w, now you're pretty efficient (Steam Deck lets you TDP down 15 -> 3w!!). But you are too slow for most games.

Starting with a big APU with gobs of ram bandwidth and downclocking that system is going to get you much better results from that 15w than using the small part at 15w.