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This is the utopia of the Culture from the Banks novels. Critically, it requires that the AI be of superior ethics.
I only wish I was there when that cocky "skilled dev" is laid off.
The human propensity to call out as "anthropomorphizing" the attributing of human-like behavior to programs built on a simplified version of brain neural networks, that train on a corpus of nearly everything humans expressed in writing, and that can pass the Turing test with flying colors, scares me.
That's exaxtly the kind of thing that makes absolute sense to anthropomorphize. We're not talking about Excel here.
Really? Simulating a transmission has been tried a few times over the last decade, but it's flopped repeatedly as just silly. It's not likely to impress Ferrari buyers.
The only successful vehicle which has that is a driver-training car built in China. It's electric, but has a clutch pedal and shifter which are inputs to the software. You can even "stall the engine".[1]
[1] https://www.jalopnik.com/this-chinese-electric-car-designed-...
Ferrari is actually using words instead of icons! Hooray!
(I knew they would eventually listen to me!)
As CERN Alumni, this isn't easy, the data is endless, processing it takes take, usually everything is new technology, and also needs to be validated before being put into use.
Thousands of people have worked on bringing LHC up during a few decades before, Higgs came to be, across all engineering branches.
This stuff is hard, and there is no roadmap on how to get there.
You only have to watch the WWDC videos from the designers regarding Liquid Glass, and appreciate how much "improved" the macOS with Tahoe experience feels like in practice.
Same applies to sessions on Fluent or Material designs, and how they end up on the respective OSes.
The emotions are in the envy of those that can't afford them. In that sense it is no different than your iPhone: people that have these always mention they have them. The difference with your iPhone is they rarely actually drive them.
Building an AArch64 code generator.
This is not nearly as profound as you make it out to be: a computer program also doesn't sense the hardware that it runs on, from its point of view it is invisible until it is made explicit: peripherals.
I like the term "asynchronous coding agent", which I define as the category of coding agent which runs in a container somewhere and files a PR when it's done.
OpenAI Codex Cloud, Claude Code for the web, Gemini Jules and I think Devin (which I've not tried) are four examples.
I like that "asynchronous coding agent" is more specific than "asynchronous agent" - I don't have a firm idea of what an "asynchronous agent" is.
One catch though is that the asynchronous coding agents are getting less asynchronous. Claude Code for the web lets you prompt it while it's running which makes it feel much more like regular Claude Code.
I tried the demo and it looks like you have to click Mic, then record your audio, then click "Stop and transcribe" in order to see the result.
Is it possible to rig this up so it really is realtime, displaying the transcription within a second or two of the user saying something out loud?
The Hugging Face server-side demo at https://huggingface.co/spaces/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-Realtim... manages that, but it's using a much larger (~8.5GB) server-side model running on GPUs.
Singapore has also somehow maintained a supermajority Chinese population consistently since the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Singapore (77% in 1970, 74.3% in 2020). That is even though the predominantly Muslim Malay population has had much higher total fertility than the Chinese population since 1980: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Total-Fertility-Rate-Per....
It seems like Singapore uses its immigration system in a deliberate way to maintain the political power of the dominant cultural group.
Up until the IBM PC, I knew how everything worked, down to the transistors. That's long gone!
Counterpoint: Tungsten is about $1100/ton, so if demand averages 10k tons/year the annual US spend is about $10-12 million. That's peanuts in economic terms. If relations with China deteriorate the US could just set up a front company in some third country, buy tungsten, and re-export it.
Old Tik Tok really had my number. Ironically since Trump took it over, New Tik Tok has been feeding me a bunch of Gen Z socialist stuff I have no interest in.
Most of the externalities are created when you burn the fossil fuels, or someone does so on your behalf, not when Exxon obtains and sells it to you. Why shouldn’t you be the one to pay the tax?
I literally can't tell what the author is arguing against or for.
All the example table images seem fine, and have no captions saying whether they're supposed to be examples of good usage or bad usage.
So either I have no idea what "bad" examples of icon usage are because the author doesn't show any, or the author thinks some or all of them are bad when, to me, the icon+text+color examples seem great (and one figure caption indicates icons+labels are best)?
Yet the author continues to argue against icons and to use text instead? But never says whether icons+labels are actually better than just text, so we should use them in combination?
I'm baffled. For an article arguing for greater clarity, the article itself couldn't be less clear.
I don't think you're understanding. The point is that 20 people in a row will take advantage of your buffer to slow you down again and again and again, which makes you get to your destination later... because they're being selfish to get somewhere faster, and you're not so you get to where you're going slower.
We're not talking about where they're changing lanes to take the next exit. We're talking about where your lane happens to be moving faster, so they merge in front of you in an unsafe way to take advantage of that and just stay there. Why should you be expected to give them space, as you suggest? How is that fair, that they should get to their destination faster instead of you? Do you not see how that's going to rightfully make someone angry? When they should be waiting for a safe space to open up, rather than forcing you to slow down to create one?
Full pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18919
Continually pandering to "humane" bullshit is why the country has become the way it is.
Huh, I have the opposite experience, I love Zulip's UX. The fact that everything is a thread in a channel means I can quickly skip the threads I don't want, and I don't have to mark things as read in an all-or-nothing fashion. Slack doesn't let you do this, if you read a channel, it's now read, and you can't say "actually, keep this thread unread for later".
> you have to accept there will eventually be (hopefully simple) coincidences between certain fundamental values, no?
No. It’s almost certainly not a coïncidence that these charges are symmetric like that (in stable particles that like to hang out together).
> ICE should never have been created (more of the fallout of the Americans surrendering so much of their civil liberties while panicked about 9/11)
ICE was created by stripping some non-enforcement functions out of INS (those became functions of Citizenship and Immigration Services), all of the lack of civil liberties that was found in ICE when it got that name and was put under DHS were already present when it was INS.
The idea that the name change was the point of origin of the problem is a story created in the last couple years by peopel who never paid attention to immigration policy before Trump's first term looking for a convenient excuse that is both systemic (rather than tied to a particular recent administration) and old enough to provide an excuse to make it unnecessary to discuss why certain problems persisted during the Biden Administration between the two Trump terms, but also recent enough to support a narrative that despite being systemic, it is a fairly new systemic change and reverting returns to a known good state that is recent enough that it is not out of touch with modern needs.
The problem is that, if you've paid any attention to immigration policy prior to Trump's first term (especially if it was both before and after the creation of ICE), its pretty hard to either consider the creation of ICE a significant sea change or the prior state a known good state.
The real sea change in the style of enforcement was Trump 1, and it was only partially unwound under Biden as a political decision that preserving a tough border image would avoid an electoral cost by appealing to swing voters with whom Trump's demagoguery on immigration had resonance but who were skeptical of some of his other policies, not because of some inherent structural change created when INS was reorganized into ICE that made ICE inherently and uniquely and incurably bad. But though the sea change was later than the "ICE is only 23 years old, and we can just go back" narrative suggests, the state before the sea change, much further back than the creation of ICE, also wasn't great.
Note that I support disbanding ICE and radically restructuring immigration enforcement alongside restructuring the immigration laws; but not because ICE was only created in 2003 and we had something workable before that, but because the system was broken well before 2003, and only avoided becoming a total shitshow up until Trump 1 because of how prior Administrations used (and in some cases exceeded) the broad discretion given them within the system to prevent that, not because the system was well-designed, well-structured, or resilient. And even then, it worked pretty badly, but in ways that the people not intended to be subject to it could (and did!) mostly ignore.
If it wasn't the case then matter wouldn't be stable.
Indeed. What advertisers want is chatbot that works as a sales rep, and this is the sort of thing LLMs can be really really good at. Money talks.
Ahh, the old "I want to own this because you know you can't".
Veblen goods are status symbols, and something can't confer status if nobody else knows they're supposed to be awed by how expensive it is.
Not to be all captain hindsight, but I was puzzled as I was skimming the post, as this seemed obvious to me:
Something is async when it takes longer than you're willing to wait without going off to do something else.
The sun's spectrum doesn't have the most energy in the visible light band, though it's close. Most of the energy is in the infrared band:
https://sunwindsolar.com/blog/solar-radiation-spectrum/?v=0b...
Both the "because that's what the sun emits" and "because we are mostly water" explanations are incomplete. There are plenty of other animals [1] that can "see" infrared.
The real reason is simply because that's how we evolved. That's how the "because those are the frequencies that pass through water" explanation comes into play: vision first evolved in aquatic animals, so frequencies that don't penetrate water wouldn't have been all that helpful to their survival and reproductive success, and so wouldn't be selected for. But that's incomplete too: salmon are one of the top IR-sensing animals and they live in water, so when there's an evolutionary need to select for IR vision, it happens. The reason we "see" in the visible light range is simply that that's how we've defined "visible".
There are some physics reasons as well, notably that most mammalian body structures emit heat, which would blind an animal that relies on infrared to see (notice how most of the animals that can see infrared are cold-blooded reptiles, fish, and insects), and that most of the high-resolution biochemical mechanisms that can convert electromagnetic waves to electrochemical nerve impulses operate in the visible light range. Structures that convert infrared radiation to nerve impulses are more complex and more costly to support, so unless there's a clear survival benefit for the species, they tend to get selected away.
[1] https://a-z-animals.com/animals/lists/animals-that-can-see-i...
The artifacts weren't a conscious design decision, they were a constraint. We don't know whether the designers would have chosen to keep them or not, if they had the choice.
There are at least three US tungsten mining startups.[1][2][3] It looks like the product is the stock, not the mineral. They're all in the money-acquisition stage. Two have animated American flags on their sites. The third is Canadian-owned.
It's worse than the wannabe rare earth mining companies.
[1] https://www.unitedstatestungsten.com/
[2] https://investornews.com/critical-minerals-rare-earths/ameri...
"Background job"?
The real question is what happens when the background job wants attention. Does that only happen when it's done? Does it send notifications? Does it talk to a supervising LLM. The author is correct that it's the behavior of the invoking task that matters, not the invoked task.
(I still think that guy with "Gas Town" is on to something, trying to figure out connect up LLMs as a sort of society.)
Right. WWVB clocks running off the 60KHz pretty much solve the clock problem in the US. All my clocks at home are basic LaCrosse analog clocks. They have the internal sensors needed to tell when each hand is straight up, so they can set themselves without user input. On power up, they step until the hands are straight up, then sync when they get an update. You have to set the time zone with a switch when installing. Only the four US time zones are available. Battery life is 1-2 years, which is pretty good for a device with a radio.
There are UK and Japan clocks that work similarly, but use national time sources. There are G-Shock watches which synchronize from multiple sources. While running on solar power. Those keep accurate time with no maintenance. That's an impressive achievement.
Here's the official announcement about the move to neal.fun:
https://sandboxels.r74n.com/new-home
It doesn't explain why though, which is the most obvious question.
Now that I look at it that article has AI tells like:
In 2026, we are seeing a rising trend of "insulation fatigue."
There are separate columns for 2 ADULTS (1 WORKING) and 2 ADULTS (BOTH WORKING). I think you are mixing up the two.
And the non-working adult is taking care of children, so reducing childcare expenses.
Free tiers for Claude and Gemini will also have ads soon. It's a matter of when, not if.
What UI framework are you using?
> not of minors, right?
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1180481...
"The victims described herein were as young as 14 years old at the time they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein... Epstein intentionally sought out minors and knew that many of his victims were in fact under the age of 18, including because, in some instances, minor victims expressly told him their age."
> why do we assume that the people he was hanging out with knew the details of what he did wrong?
Some of them were emailing long, long after his conviction.
Great, yet another reason not to use it.
Pretty awesome. The only thing I would change is to put a USB battery between the usb wall power and the D1 mini. That way for power outages of < a couple of days or so you're clock will be fine.
Okay I'm thinking of a very Shenzen kind of gizmo for your car that projects a bright red laser "keep out" box on the road in front of your car which is adjusted in size for your current speed.
Very few newspapers today have many reporters. This shows. Look at the front page of most newspapers, and ask, did this story start as an official announcement or press release? The answer is usually yes. There's not enough info coming in.
The strongest effect of this is invisible - if nobody well-known is talking about it, it disappears from the mainstream news. Note how little is appearing about the war in Ukraine. (Peace talks going nowhere, but there was a prisoner swap.) Or the aftermath of the big ice storm that just passed through the southeastern US. (Texas avoided large power outages. "The biggest difference between 2021 and the last freeze is the amount of battery storage we have available.") Or what ICE is up to outside Minnesota. (73,000 people detained, plans to convert warehouses to detention center.) Or what's going on in Gaza. (556 Gaza residents killed since the cease-fire.) None of those stories are on the WP front page. Washington Post's Trending: Bad Bunny, Super Bowl commercials, Seahawks defense, Exercise and weight loss, Olympic ice dance, Ghislaine Maxwell. None of those are hard news.
"News is what someone doesn't want published. All else is publicity". Hard news stories require reporters out there digging, and those reporters are gone from the big papers. Local sources, the Associated Press, and the BBC provide some coverage. Far less than a decade or two ago.
So few people know what's really going on. You have to read about ten news sources and dig to get a picture. This is too time-consuming. And most of them are paywalled now.
The thing is that real security isn't something that a checklist can guarantee. You have to build it into the product architecture and mindset of every engineer that works on the project. At every single stage, you have to be thinking "How do I minimize this attack surface? What inputs might come in that I don't expect? What are the ways that this code might be exploited that I haven't thought about? What privileges does it have that it doesn't need?"
I can almost guarantee you that your ordinary feature developer working on a deadline is not thinking about that. They're thinking about how they can ship on time with the features that the salesguy has promised the client. Inverting that - and thinking about what "features" you're shipping that you haven't promised the client - costs a lot of money that isn't necessary for making the sale.
So when the reinsurance company mandates a checklist, they get a checklist, with all the boxes dutifully checked off. Any suitably diligent attacker will still be able to get in, but now there's a very strong incentive to not report data breaches and have your insurance premiums go up or government regulation come down. The ecosystem settles into an equilibrium of parasites (hackers, who have silently pwned a wide variety of computer systems and can use that to setup systems for their advantage) and blowhards (executives who claim their software has security guarantees that it doesn't really).
WTF Happened in 2012? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796039 - January 2026
This guy admits he entered under the Visa Waiver Program in 2009, then remained in the country illegally: https://www.universalhub.com/files/attachments/2026/culleton... ("Culleton concedes he is removable under the VWP. Reply 10.").
If he wants to go home, he can just go home under the DOJ's Voluntary Departure Program: https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/1480811/dl
didn’t cv raman prove just that via his raman-effect for which he got the noble prize ?
And we all know ed is the standard Unix text editor. If you want vim you should be able to install it.
NeXT added a Java variant to WebObjects and it was for several years the main server side infrastructure, after being acquired by Apple.
Nowadays you can usually still find Java and JVM languages like Clojure (Apple Maps), on Apple's job ads.
How much of it is still Java based, no idea.
I imagine XCode Cloud has nothing to with it for example.
I've thought of doing that, but it's too much fun writing an optimizer and code generator!
(My experience with "compile to C" is with cfront, the original C++ implementation that compiled to C. The generated code was just terrible to read.)
What about AWSALB? Google Analytics? I'll agree I don't like the "third-party" aspect of GA but users of the most rudimentary product of that sort want to know how many unique visitors that got in various time intervals.
If you're looking for something low brightness, I made one: https://www.stavros.io/posts/i-made-another-little-bedside-c...
Can we get a bloody better sound driver, protection from ANC feedback shriek, one or two physical buttons (or at least a raised haptic buttons, not just a touch sensitive stem area), and battery level on the case?
We don't want no fucking infra cameras for "better hand gestures and enhanced spatial audio experience".
I think the real problem is that the car industry is refusing to make affordable vehicles and a big part of that is size. Americans might want huge vehicles but they can't all afford them. Chinese manufacturers, alone, are pursuing the affordable EV market, the same way that Chinese manufacturers, alone, are pursing the affordable drone market.
> Which ratified treaty did the US's operation in Venezuela violate?
Even if it hadn't violated a ratified treaty (it did violate several, starting with the UN Charter and OAS Charter), it would still violate international law; the US has recognized (among other places, in the London Charter of 1945 establishing the International Military Tribunal) that the crime of aggressive war exists independently of the crime of waging war in violation of international treaties.
>the only person to suffer had been one of the top-10 worst alive humans in the world
That's just what they told you to justify taking their oil
I wonder what this would do to battery life -- continuously-on IR cameras are going to be a significant power draw. And then there's the question of whether the video processing is done on the earbuds, or how much Bluetooth bandwidth is used sending the video stream to your phone for processing.
Using this to detect gestures does seem very cool, however. Seems like a fascinating engineering challenge.
Microsoft Copilot can certainly talk a good game about the structure of romance literature even though it's never felt a thing. If any kind of literature can be made up out of bits and pieces of other literature in the genre... it's that.
My biggest concern is the apparent lack of testing and validation. After the Apollo 1 accident uncrewed flight of Apollo, we had half-a-dozen flights, 3 of which uncrewed, before they did an end-to-end validation on Apollo 10, to finally land with Apollo 11. Is NASA that confident SLS and Orion will perform adequately that they will add astronauts to SLS's second (and Orion 3rd) flight?
I feel like we have had discussions on HN about very serious legal problems associated with previous “maarketplaces” using exactly this model.
The lifetimes argument is extremely sound: this is information which you need from the developer, and not something that is easy to get when generating from a language which does not itself have lifetimes. It's an especially bad fit for the GC case he describes.
Welcome to the real world. The UK is obviously in no position to challenge China. And with the US invading and threatening to take over other sovereign nations solely because "it's in our national interest", we're certainly not one to talk.
Every other advancement in office productivity and software has intensified work. AI will too. It will also further commodify it.
If AI was indeed replacing human labor I would expect HBR to be among the first publications to cover it.
Oh yay, the company that told me to "just use your wife's phone" when I couldn't verify my own phone number, instead of even trying to fix the problem, now wants a copy of my face?
Pardon me if I don't have a lot of trust in their ability to keep it safe.
"This took longer than doing it manually."
This is so clever and interesting. Congratulations!
But... I want to see a photo! Or at least what it looks like in Google Earth, with a red arrow marking the furthest point.
It feels like the site is setting you up for the big suspense of the longest line of sight... and then it's just a line on a 2D map.
I think it would also really help if the maps themselves were at an angle in 3D with an exaggerated relief, with the line drawn in 3D, so you can get a sense of how it travels between two peaks.
It seems like you've put a ton of effort into this project. I think with just a tiny bit more work on the page, you could really put the "cherry on top".
And with those visualizations, get it picked up by a lot of major news outlets. This is a really fun story, the kind of stuff newspapers and magazines love to run. It's easily understandable, it's a cool new "record", it's a story of someone's perseverance paying off, and then you show a Google Earth image simulating the view as the payoff. (And from slightly above, if necessary, to take account for refraction.)
EDIT: Here, I used Google Earth to show the two points. Unfortunately it's from high above, since otherwise Earth wouldn't show the pin for Pik Dankova, but it at least gives a general idea of the area:
https://imgur.com/hindu-kush-to-pik-dankova-530km-adbVFwb
And here is the Google Earth link for the view, but it doesn't contain the pins:
https://earth.google.com/web/search/41.0181,77.6708/@36.6644...
(1) I've somewhat stumbled on a persona as a Fox-photographer who strongly communicates that he is a public affordance which (a) helps me get better photos of people, (b) gets me flagged down by people telling me about interesting things going on like
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/116021033821248982
and (c) results in handing out several business cards a day
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/115901190470904729
and I'm within sight of having to reorder cards. I just finished a landing page for the cards (before they went to one of my socials)
but having to reorder the cards I am planning on making a next generation card which has a unique chibi and unique QR code that will let me personalize the landing page for cards, particularly I will be able to share a photo just with the person who has the card.
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(2) I've been doing heart rate variability biofeedback experiments and I have this demo
https://gen5.info/demo/biofeedback/
which is still not quite done but has source code at
https://github.com/paulhoule/VulpesVision
It works with most heart rate monitors that support the standard BTLE API not just the H10. I run it on the Windows desktop with Chrome and with Bluefy on iPad. Once it displays the instantaneous heart rate I can control
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer_waves
by following the slope of the instantaneous heart rate, breathing out when it is slowing down and breathing in when it is speeding up. This greatly intensifies the Mayer_wave and increases the SD1 metric. I think this drops my blood pressure significantly when I'm doing it. This needs better instructions and some kind of auditory cue so I can entrain my breathing when I am looking at something else. Longer term I am interested in incorporating some other biofeedback gadgets I have like a respiration monitor (got an abdomen band and a radar which could probably even read HRV if I had the right software for it) and a GSR sensor, and EMG sensor, etc.
It's one of those irregular nouns: _your_ thought terminating cliche, _my_ founding principle.
Although also a reasonable criticism of the far left. Orwell has a whole essay on this. "The fascist octopus has sung its swan song". It's especially annoying when it's a slogan that has been clumsily translated from German by Marxists or from Chinese by Maoists (although the rise of Chinese capitalism has rather cut of the supply of the latter).
It's a glib argument that "state capacity" is the problem here, and it is partially true, but it's also a reality that the moon is much further away in momentum than it in position, particularly if you are making a round trip.
If "state capacity" is the problem, it is manifesting as an inability to be honest about the challenge.
Warner von Braun considered hundreds of possible mission plans before arriving a the one that Apollo used and probably despaired of the possibility of realizing Kennedy's dream until he discovered the one that made it possible. Any other plan to return astronauts from the moon is much more difficult and expensive.
In particular, Starship won't save us at least not in a "return the whole vehicle" configuration. Assuming they get it to orbit and solve refueling, it is a huge vehicle that can return a tiny payload back from the moon. Sending a large number on a one-way trip and breaking them up to establish a base might work, and a similar vehicle using hydrogen-oxygen fuel might be refueled from the glaciers we believe exist at the poles, but any mission like that is difficult and expensive and not being talked about seriously.
>I will never use Homebrew again because I'm still sore that they dropped support for a Mac OS version that I was still using and couldn't upgrade because Apple didn't support my hardware anymore.
How old was it? With macOS "running an old version" is not really a viable or advisable path beyond a certain point. Might be something people want to do, might it a great option to have, but it's not very workable nor supported by Apple and the general ecosystem.
>Any decent project should have a way to install without Homebrew. It's really not necessary.
We don't install homebrew because it's necessary, but because it's convenient. No way in hell I'm gonna install 50+ programs I use one by one using the projects' own installers.
Besides, if "Homebrew dropped support" is an incovenience, "manually look for dozens of individual installers or binaries, make sure dependencies work well together, build when needed, and update all that yourself again manually" is even more of an inconvenience. Not to mention many projects on their own drop support for macOS versions all the time, or offer no binaries or installers.
tl;dr: automated/AI-driven accounting startup with ~$90M in funding, including a $42M round in 2021 [0], announces it will be shutting down
[0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/botkeeper-raises-42...
Public relations is an art in itself. That is, getting media to cover something is a specific talent.
> And a thinkpad running Linux is just not doing it for me. I want my power efficient mac hardware.
I'm using a decade old thinkpad running linux and it is definitely 'doing it for me'. And I'm not exactly a light user. Power efficient mac hardware should be weighed against convenience and price. The developer eco-system on Linux is lightyears ahead of the apple one, I don't understand why developers still use either Windows or the Mac because I always see them struggle with the simplest things that on Linux you don't even realize could be a problem.
Other OSs feel like you're always in some kind of jailbreak mode working around artificial restrictions. But sure, it looks snazzy, compared to my chipped battle ax.
More interesting: amazing sleuthing to figure out that that was the root cause.
This is bananas. Ten years ago I paid £5.5k for a whole 3.9kW installation, which has now more than paid for itself. I can see why everyone in the US is saying "get a trade job", you can rip off householders to a massive extent.
Regardless of how the copyright suits work out, AI absolutely does not help you evade patent law. However, it does make it possible to spit out sufficiently large amounts of code that it will only be enforced against high-profile cases.
Could someone who has access to a range of models please try prompting them for (a) libdvdcss, the content scrambling keys and (b) some working HDMI HDCP keys?
Yes? I'm not sure what the point is of re-litigating this now. The more recent conflict with Venezuela was even more explicitly oil focused.
Similarly, Iran is a traditional enemy of the US for decades, and a murderous regime that kills their own citizens in the streets; but when the US-Iran war is over, the US oil industry will be in control of the Iranian oil reserves.
> China has many faults. Invading other countries is not one of them
Literally have ongoing border disputes with practically all of their neighbors, a few of which they’ve been shooting at (India) and ramming at sea (the Philippines) in the last few years.
Maybe this is new in US, but paying recruiting agencies is nothing out of the ordinary in many European countries, at least if you actually want to have a recruiter that cares about where you land as position.
Well, I remember watching Asteroids as a kid on the coffee place my parents used to hang around, latter replaced by Kung-Fu Master, and to see DYI build your own computer before the Speccy became widspread, guess how old I feel.
There are piezo buzzers and beepers, of course.
>I just don't think we agree on what "good enough" is, if current LLMs produce it with less effort than alternatives, and if most devs already believe the LLM generated code is good enough for that.
Don't need to consider what they think, one can just see their "revealed preferences", what they actually do. Which for the most part is adopting agents.
>I use LLMs for a lot of dev work but I haven't personally seen these things one- or even many- shot things to the level I'd feel comfortable being on call for.
That's true for many devs one might have working for their team as well. Or even one's self. So we review, we add tests, and so on. So we do that when the programming language is a "real" programming language too, doesn't have to change when it is natural language to an agent. What I'm getting at, is, that this is not a show stopper to the point of TFA.
The successor to SGI, after several acquisitions and bankruptcies, is Hewlett Packard Enterprise. There's a forum for abandoned HP products.[1] The SGI O2 has been mentioned, but not in recent years.
That was already the case when comparing the Borland compilers for MS-DOS, and Windows 3.x.
Hence why I eventually found refuge in XEmacs, and DDD, until IDEs like KDevelop and Sun Forte came to be.
Including the AI, which generated it once and forgot.
This is going to be a big problem. How do people using Claude-like code generation systems do this? What artifacts other than the generated code are left behind for reuse when modifications are needed? Comments in the code? The entire history of the inputs and outputs to the LLM? Is there any record of the design?
I never use it when I can have my way.
The UNIX in macOS is good enough for my needs, and I manually install anything extra that I might require.
From Apple's point of view it is perfectly fine for such purposes.
> From its earliest conception, Swift was built to be fast. Using the incredibly high-performance LLVM compiler technology, Swift code is transformed into optimized machine code that gets the most out of modern hardware. The syntax and standard library have also been tuned to make the most obvious way to write your code also perform the best whether it runs in the watch on your wrist or across a cluster of servers. And Swift is the best choice to succeed C++. It includes low-level primitives such as types, flow control, and operators, and provides object-oriented features such as classes, protocols, and generics.
> Swift is efficient enough to be used in constrained environments like embedded devices, and powerful enough to scale all the way up to servers and cloud infrastructure.
-- https://developer.apple.com/swift/
From my point of view, if Go does it, Swift is much better at the same game.
for me the main thing about Tauri is not that it is built with Rust (that's interesting as well though)
but that it uses the webview implementation of windows and macos instead of bundling its own browser
This is do-able on the moon without humans. Just keep sending teleoperated robots and parts. Tesla already has semi-teleoperated robots - balance and locomotion are automatic and onboard, manipulation is teleoperated remotely. Eventually build enough that humans can visit.
Which Apple products run arm32 XNU? Their first Apple Silicon CPUs were already arm64.
Electricity prices have gone up due to datacenters as well as neglected grid infrastructure needing investment. Natural gas prices are going up because of LNG export infrastructure causing US consumers to compete against global LNG consumers for fuel to heat, as well as domestic electrical generation demand. Pick your poison.
Electricity prices might come down over time (renewables push down generation costs), natural gas prices won’t due to global demand for it.
Has anyone ever paid you?
The technical side of this seems easy enough. The human side, that seems more complicated.
Like, if I were your doctor or contractor or kid's schoolteacher or whoever you hadn't happened to already whitelist, and had sent you something important for you, and got that back as a response... I'm sure as heck not paying when I'm trying to send you something for your benefit.
> Reading and understanding other people's code is much harder than writing code.
I keep seeing this sentiment repeated in discussions around LLM coding, and I'm baffled by it.
For the kind of function that takes me a morning to research and write, it takes me probably 10 or 15 minutes to read and review. It's obviously easier to verify something is correct than come up with the correct thing in the first place.
And obviously, if it took longer to read code than to write it, teams would be spending the majority of their time in code review, but they don't.
So where is this idea coming from?
> CAs want to sell certificates for everything under the sun
A serious problem with traditional CAs, which was partly solved by Let's Encrypt just giving them away. Everyone gradually realized that the "tying to real identity" function was both very expensive and of little value, compared to what people actually want which is "encryption, with reasonable certainty that it's not MITMd suddenly".