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Is anything broken on the pure Git side of Github? From this, it's clear that actions and runners are becoming unusable. But are repositories still safe?
In the meantime, I am still looking for better runtime support regarding Go and Rust, which seems frozen in time, perpetual beta (Go) and community (Rust), surprising given how much Go and Rust Vercel is supposed to use, and mentioned in blog posts regarding infrastructure improvements,
https://vercel.com/docs/functions/runtimes
All the best to Python folks I guess.
They are still cheaper than flash for cold data, but that’s not going to hold for long. Flash is so much denser the acquisition cost difference for a multi-petabyte store becomes small next to the datacenter space and power needed by HDDs. HDDs require research for increasing density while flash can rely on silicon manufacturing advances for that - not that it doesn’t require specific research, but being able to apply the IP across a vast space makes better economical sense.
> For example, a Mercedes Sprinter in the standard long box configuration (as is used by local grocery delivery services, plumbers and the likes where I live) is 7.4 meters long , way longer than even the longest American pickup trucks (for some of them, several meters longer!), and is just as wide as them.
Seems correct on relative length but not width; the F-450 Super Duty body is a bit wider without mirrors than a Sprinter with mirrors;
> The US is orders of magnitude stronger than the Roman Empire
This would be trivially true even if the US was currently in its death throes (which there is plenty of evidence that the US-as-empire might be, even if the US-as-polity is not), as the Roman Empire fell quite a while ago.
In the meantime, I am still looking for better runtime support regarding Go and Rust, which seems frozen in time, perpetual beta (Go) and community (Rust), surprising given how much Go and Rust Vercel is supposed to use, and mentioned in blog posts regarding infrastructure improvements,
https://vercel.com/docs/functions/runtimes
All the best to Python folks I guess.
Google workspace will have me do the same. No, I don't want to 'generate an image' I just want to use my own, thank you. They give their AI prime billing everywhere to the detriment of the products and the users.
Maybe for English, for the other human languages I use, it is still kind of hit and miss, just like speaking recognition, even with English it suffices to have an accent that is off the standard TV one.
Agreed, the clear was very clear for me too. I wonder what the microbe eats, and if we can supply that in enough volumes to make a dent to Mars' atmosphere.
Usually programming languages need that killer project to sell themselves, instead of being something only language nerds play with, Bun was one of such projects.
What idiot would drive one of these in Amsterdam to begin with? It just doesn't fit the way traffic is organized there.
this is just _excellent_
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I would conjecture that this is another manifestation of the
NP-completeness wall that slammed symbolic AI, causing the
first AI winter. It's always possible to turn an NP-complete
algorithm into one that runs quickly, if you don't mind that it
fails to generate any output if you hit a timeout. The
transformer equivalent of this is generating plausible, wrong,
hallucinated output in cases where it can't pattern match a
good result based on its training. The problem, though, is that
with traditional AI algorithms you typically know if you've hit
a timeout, or if none of your knowledge rules match. With
transformers, generating wrong output looks exactly like
generating correct output, and there is no way to know which is
which.
First they have to fit on our roads, and medieval streets, where even "tiny" European cars can be a challege do drive.
Very true, and it's done under the guise of safety, when it's actually just a war on general computing.
The bigger problem with the H1B system is family reunification. 65,000 H1B visas a year is not that many. But because H1B is a path to citizenship in practice, just one skilled worker eventually will bring in many more family members who aren’t filtered for skills.
When we came to the U.S. in 1989–on my dad’s H1 visa—there were under 10,000 Bangladeshis in the country. Today, there are 270,000. Those aren’t 270,000 highly skilled and highly motivated workers. They’re here based on chain migration from handful of original skilled workers.
I keep hearing this non sequitur argument a lot. It's like saying "humans just pick the next work to string together into a sentence, they're not actually dutiful agents". The non sequitur is in assuming that somehow the mechanism of operation dictates the output, which isn't necessarily true.
It's like saying "humans can't be thinking, their brains are just cells that transmit electric impulses". Maybe it's accidentally true that they can't think, but the premise doesn't necessarily logically lead to truth
Indeed, I was part of this generation, the first real computer I got, by opposition to build your own kits from electronic stores, was the Timex 2068 from that same factory.
Only recently I got to understand Timex spotlight in USA was long gone, while in the Iberian Penisula it was still all over the place, alongside ZX Spectrums and some MSX models.
I never knew anyone with a C64 back then.
Then the next computing wave was mostly Amiga, there were some people with Sam Coupe, until Windows 3.1 came to be, which is when I left my dear Timex 2068 into PC land, buying on credit, hardly anyone could afford paying on the spot.
Steve Jobs, the guy that got booted out of his own company and that required a lifeline from his arch nemesis to survive?
This is all true, but it was only true in hindsight and as such does not carry much value.
It's possible that you are right and AI is 'the future' but with the present day AI offering I'm skeptical as well. It isn't at a level where you don't have to be constantly on guard against bs and in that sense it's very different from computing so far, where reproducibility and accuracy of the results were important, not the language that they are cast in.
AI has killed the NLP field and it probably will kill quite a few others, but for the moment I don't see it as the replacement of general computing that the proponents say that it is. Some qualitative change is still required before I'm willing to check off that box.
In other news: Kodak declares digital cameras a fad, and Microsoft saw the potential of the mp3 format and created a killer device called the M-Pod.
Extensions to Khronos standards are hardly that greatly documented.
A TXT dump of the proposal, with luck a sample from the GPU vendor, and that is all.
Vulkan was famously badly documented, one only has to go to LunarG yearly reports regarding community feedback on Vulkan, and related action points.
OpenGL 4.6 never has had a red book editon, Vulkan only had a red book for 1.0, OpenCL and SYSCL just have the PDF reference, not all Khronos APIs have a cheatsheeet PDF on Khronos site.
> AI means that those 'easy' tasks can be automated away, so there's less immediate value in hiring a new grad
Plenty of skilled work requires a master’s or PhD. CS, for those who want a safe, secure job, looks like it’s going that way.
Liberated by Reclaim the Records: https://mailchi.mp/reclaimtherecords/for-giving-tuesday-you-...
31 also enables vouch if it hasn’t been explicitly inhibited on your account.
Related:
Navy Could Sideline 17 Support Ships Due to Manpower Issues - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41331066 - August 2024 (15 comments)
This seems like pure pr given the physical constraints. Throw a TPU into space in 2027, 'learn things' for 3 years, by 2030 launch the equivalent of a single rack server run at something less than full capacity. They can do this for 10-20 years at a massive environmental net negative before the auditing catches up with them.
Such as? I'm curious because I know a bunch of people who did a lot of Watson-related work and it was all a dead end, but that was 2020-ish timeframe.
Huh, TIL: https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf
> Copyright law does not protect typeface or mere variations of typographical ornamentation or lettering. A typeface is a set of letters, numbers, or other characters with repeating design elements that is intended to be used in composing text or other combinations of characters, including calligraphy. Generally, typeface, fonts, and lettering are building blocks of expression that are used to create works of authorship. The Office cannot register a claim to copyright in typeface or mere variations of typographic ornamentation or lettering, regardless of whether the typeface is commonly used or unique.
Given the incredible amount of work that goes into designing a typeface I find that really surprising.
Wikipedia has some good coverage on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...
Apparently you CAN protect the implementation of a typeface, e.g. the font file itself. Wikipedia says:
> Typefaces and their letter forms are considered utilitarian objects whose public utility outweighs any private interest in protecting their creative elements under US law, but the computer program that is used to display a typeface, a font file[a] of computer instructions in a domain-specific programming language may be protectable by copyright. In 1992, the US Copyright Office determined that digital outline fonts had elements that could be protected as software[13] if the source code of the font file "contains a sufficient amount of original authorship".
If they don't start on ads and shopping, they're going to go out of business.
I'd rather a product that exists with ads, over one that's disappeared.
The fact is, personal subscriptions don't cover the bills if you're going to keep a free tier. Ads do. I don't like it any more than you do, but I'm a realist about it.
How did you jump from that comment to 'abolition of private property'?
I've had dogs for the better part of my life and not a single time was a 'foxtail' an issue, whereas grasses that grow these kind of constructs are pretty common around here. Did I (and my dogs!) get lucky? How common are these issues?
I am not going to continue this conversation, I hope you understand.
If you're making money with it, support OSS and buy a support contract!
Indeed. That's why the MAX232 is such an impressive little chip, it was the first time I found an on-chip charge pump in the wild. One of the more interesting uses for charge pumps is loss-free balancing of battery cells. I really like it because contrary to resistive balancing it works with the charge already in the cells by redistributing it.
Jury trials are an ancient Germanic tradition without cultural precedent in most countries. Lee Kuan Yew eliminated jury trials in Singapore because he didn’t believe they were viable in a multi-cultural country: https://www.postcolonialweb.org/Singapore/government/leekuan...
But hey they dumped $6.4 billion on Jony Ive. Surely he'll solve all their problems.
The lack of control and cohort following are legitimate criticisms. The effect size is not. Even a single-digit percentage increase over a single year from policy treatment is incredibly impressive when we open the door to cumulative effects.
> Yet the data fits people's biases
It does. But it also fits priors, particularly those we've seen documented when it comes to teens and social media.
What’s the license of the output?
https://internetfreedom.in/iffs-statement-against-dots-direc...
Clause 7(b).. requires that the pre-installed Sanchar Saathi application be “readily visible” and that, “its functionalities are not disabled or restricted.” In plain terms, this converts every smartphone sold in India into a vessel for state mandated software that the user cannot meaningfully refuse, control, or remove. For this to work in practice, the app will almost certainly need system level or root level access, similar to carrier or OEM system apps, so that it cannot be disabled. That design choice erodes the protections that normally prevent one app from peering into the data of others, and turns Sanchar Saathi into a permanent, non-consensual point of access sitting inside the operating system of every Indian smartphone user.He can. He's selling dollars. He's a person who sells dollars for fewer dollars. You'd get dollars.
Confession: I did not read the interview before I posted it. You are totally right that the content reveals a lack of understanding on both sides — or the interviewer got a lot of things wrong and published without clarifying first.
> Google will do just what Microsoft did with Internet Explorer and bundle Gemini in for 'Free' with their already other profitable products and established ad-funded revenue streams.
“will do”? Is there any Google product they haven't done that with already?
No mention of flash LIDAR, which really ought to be seen more for the short-range units for side and rear views.
Interference between LIDARs can be a problem, mostly with the continuous-wave emitters. Pulsed emitters are unlikely to collide in time, especially if you put some random jitter in the pulse timing to prevent it. The radar people figured this out decades ago.
I mean, cool story bro.
So you experienced a bug, which happens on software. I've traveled a lot and have never had an issue with my ChatGPT subscription. I'm not doubting you, but I don't think your anecdote adds much to the conversation of OpenAI vs Google.
I see no problem with this, considering who holds most wealth through securities.
Article buries the lede a little:
> Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Mr. Musk himself.
> The Musk Foundation gave away that remainder in 2024, largely by shifting money to the other nonprofits in his orbit. But it still fell $393 million short of the minimum required giving for 2024 itself. This pattern can repeat indefinitely: Mr. Musk’s foundation now has until the end of 2025 to give away the donations it failed to give in 2024.
And the usual Musk honesty:
> In the same interview, Mr. Musk said, “I have a large foundation, but I don’t put my name on it.” Mr. Musk’s charitable foundation has been called the Musk Foundation since he founded it with his younger brother, Kimbal, in 2001.
Love this, great idea. Automating this with an open version of Calendly comes to mind.
Look what happened in Austin, TX, which has much less housing regulation tamping down construction than CA (despite a good deal of local NIMBYism).
Prices spiked during the pandemic, and in response a shit ton of housing was built, much of it multifamily residential. Rents went down significantly and home prices are down 20% since the peak.
> advertising, AI agents for health and shopping,
Um.
- Advertising. "We'll get back to working on your problem in a moment, but first, a word from our sponsor, NordVPN." It's not a good fit.
- Health. Sounds like unlicensed medical practice. That will require a big bribe to Trump.
- Shopping. Can pretty much do that now, in that ChatGPT can call Google. Will Google let OpenAI call Google Search?
It's not part of the system prompt.
> Long-term safety for free people entails military use of new technologies.
Long-term safety also entails restraining the military-industrial complex from the excesses it's always prone to.
Remember, Teller wanted to make a 10 gigaton nuke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial_(weapon)
As a comment mentions, the devil is in the rate of return details. Forward looking growth will not be what historical growth was.
> "At a historically reasonable 7% rate of return"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/goldman-strategists-see-us-st...
https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/markets-and-economy/top-ma...
I misinterpreted that first comment too. To clarify:
1. User krig reports an issue against the Bun repo: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/24548
2. Bun's own automated "bunbot" filed a PR with a potential fix: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/24578
3. taylordotfish (not an employee of Bun as far as I can tell, but quite an active contributor to their repo) left a code review pointing out many flaws: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/24578#pullrequestreview-...
> their investors might still take a bath if the very-ambitious aspect of their operations do not bear fruit
Not really. If the technology stalls where it is, AI still have a sizable chunk of the dollars previously paid to coders, transcribers, translators and the like.
How much has actually been spent on AI data centers vs. amounts committed or talked about? That is, if construction slows down sharply, what's total spend?
I've been saying this for years, since the first AI coding models came out. Where do the juniors go to learn? I'm a senior engineer because I got to do a bunch of annoying tasks and innovate just slightly to make them better.
That opportunity is now lost. In a few years we will lack senior engineers because right now we lack junior engineers.
All is not lost however. Some companies are hiring junior engineers and giving them AI, and telling them to learn how to use AI to do their job. These will be our seniors of the future.
But my bigger concern is that every year the AI models become more capable, so as the "lost ladder" moves up, the AI models will keep filling in the gaps, until they can do the work of a Senior supervised by a Staff, then the work of a Staff supervised by a Principal, and so on.
The good news is that this is a good antidote to the other problem in our industry -- a lot of people got into software engineering for the money in the last few decades, not for the joy of programming. These are the folks that will be replaced first, leaving only those who truly love solving the hardest problems.
Never used any of their tools.
Python is doing great, other than still doing baby steps into having a JIT in CPython.
> and people with too much money?
No. VC’s historical capital has come from institutional investors. Pensions. Endowments. Foundations.
Maybe, Bending Spoons is software targeted private equity buying up poorly run businesses to optimize.
Monthly sales of NEVs (battery electric and plug in hybrids) in China had already surpassed 50% while exporting ~6M/units/year, good sign the market for combustion vehicles is compressing.
Over the timeline in this post, ZIRP and the pandemic seem like equally important factors to LLMs in explaining hiring trends.
> What he did was not a Nazi salute and everyone knows it.
Correct. It wasn't a Nazi salute. It was multiple, and everyone knows it.
We've plenty of actual Hitler footage to compare against; https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/1i6par1/elon_musk_vs_...
> I'm a BIG critic of Musk
Your entire comments history here spans two pages; you've made about 20 comments. About a quarter of them are defending Musk or his companies. None critique him.
> If I were to graduate today, I'd be royally screwed.
I feel that too. I am a self-taught dev. Got a degree, but not in CS. I don't know if I could get hired today.
Not sure how to fix it; feels like the entire industry is eating the seed corn.
"Native typescript execution" can mean two different things:
1. Chrome/v8 takes TS code, compiles it down to JS internally, erases types, and then runs it like normal. This isn't going to be too hard to do, but also isn't going to be very meaningful. Compiling is a one-step process in any case, and plenty of tooling exists to make it seamless.
2. Chrome/v8 actually understands TS types at runtime, and throws exceptions for mismatches. This isn't going to be possible without a major rewrite of the v8 engine and the ECMAScript spec itself.
And a big challenge for both of these is that TypeScript is iterating at too fast a pace for something like Chrome to keep up. It's best to just leave versioning and compilation for the developer to manage and give end users a consistent JavaScript experience.
What can you do in more easily in pandas than polars?
For noncoding tasks, Gemini atleast allows for easier grounding with Google Search.
> Sanders and Mamdani are about as far left of center as one can get at the moment
No, they aren’t. They are about as far left of center as you can get and be competitive in US elections, maybe, but that’s a very different thing. There’s a lot to their left (as you an see from the by the opposition from leftist as sellouts to capitalist/imperialist/etc. institutions both have.)
> Racists deserve free speech, and our society is better for it.
To the extent that our society is better for extending free speech to racists it has nothing to do with them deserving anything, but with the costs of empowering any fallible human institution to deny anyone things that that particular group of people do not deserve, and the cost of failing to make that distinction is being susceptible to being convinced that some other group truly does not deserve it and therefore some institution should be empowered to identify members of that group and deny it to them.
You would have someone like Code for America build a minimum viable open source super app that cities could have customized for their needs.
The strategic thinking revolves around "how do we put ads in without everyone getting massively pissed?" sort of questions.
> is better solved by improved education
From the article, this has nothing to do with education. It's:
> The app is mainly designed to help users block and track lost or stolen smartphones across all telecom networks, using a central registry. It also lets them identify, and disconnect, fraudulent mobile connections.
If your phone gets stolen, you can disable it.
I'm not saying that a government app is necessarily the right or best way to go about this, but to suggest that this can be solved with education misses the point entirely. No amount of education is going to prevent someone on a bike swiping my phone from my hand and cycling off with it.
And as long as the app isn't otherwise spying on you (and there's no mention of that), I don't see much of what this has to do with freedom either. The freedom to steal someone's phone and use it without being blocked? There are already a bunch of apps on my phone I can't uninstall, so that's not new.
Wrapping every IO operation into a channel operation is fairly expensive. You can get an idea of how fast it would work now by just doing it, using a goroutine to feed a series of IO operations to some other goroutine.
It wouldn't be quite as bad as the perennial "I thought Go is fast why is it slow when I spawn a full goroutine and multiple channel operations to add two integers together a hundred million times" question, but it would still be a fairly expensive operation. See also the fact that Go had fairly sensible iteration semantics before the recent iteration support was added by doing a range across a channel... as long as you don't mind running a full channel operation and internal context switch for every single thing being iterated, which in fact quite a lot of us do mind.
(To optimize pure Python, one of the tricks is to ensure that you get the maximum value out of all of the relatively expensive individual operations Python does. For example, it's already handling exceptions on every opcode, so you could win in some cases by using exceptions cleverly to skip running some code selectively. Go channels are similar; they're relatively expensive, on the order of dozens of cycles, so you want to make sure you're getting sufficient value for that. You don't have to go super crazy, they're not like a millisecond per operation or something, but you do want to get value for the cost, by either moving non-trivial amount of work through them or by taking strong advantage of their many-to-many coordination capability. IO often involves moving around small byte slices, even perhaps one byte, and that's not good value for the cost. Moving kilobytes at a time through them is generally pretty decent value but not all IO looks like that and you don't want to write that into the IO spec directly.)
> Christians don't drink or use contraceptives?
They're talking about a very particular sort of pseudo-insurance plan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_sharing_ministry
They can and do exclude whole swaths of what normal health insurers have to cover. They don't even have a legal requirement to pay out at all.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/health-care-cost-...
> Beyond restricting maternity coverage, many groups’ policies state that they won’t reimburse for prescriptions, routine doctor’s visits, contraceptives or mental health or substance use services. Coverage for medical conditions that predate someone’s membership is often excluded, as well. And health care sharing ministries aren’t required by law to limit out-of-pocket costs or maintain large cash reserves to cover members’ bills the way insurance companies are.
Any sort of atrophy of anything is because you don't need the skill any more. If you need the skill, it won't atrophy. It doesn't matter if it's LLMs or calculators or what, atrophy is always a non-issue, provided the technology won't go away (you don't want to have forgotten how to forage for food if civilization collapses).
Ah yes, signal, the spice of life.
Yeah, I can confirm, before LLMs I definitely thought coding would be the last thing to go.
No, obviously it's all just Not Eating Healthy. Calories are irrelevant, because Body Is Magic and Not As Simple AS "calories in, calories out".
I guess it's very culture-dependent, we don't have many engineers in the office so I don't know.
> I could write a blog of interesting Pod behavior. I thought having one or a pair in each room would be nice. No, more of them is not nice. Constant bizarreness.
Oh my fucking god, thank you. I have one in my kitchen and one in the living room, and every few weeks they decide it would be the bees knees to have a 3AM conversation with one another.
> "VAE: WAN2.2-VAE" so it's just a Wan2.2 edit
No, using the WAN 2.2 VAE does not mean it is a WAN 2.2 edit.
> compressed to 7B.
No, if it was an edit of the WAN model that uses the 2.2 VAE, it would be expanded to 7B, not compressed (the 14B models of WAN 2.2 use the WAN 2.1 VAE, the WAN 2.2 VAE is used by the 5B WAN 2.2 model.)
True, I should have specified that the timing I was providing was the Western tradition; the Orthodox (both Eastern and Oriental, I believe) tradition has a 40-day Nativity Fast (in some, the name is different in others) mirroring the 40-day season of Lent, that is similar (in terms of being a preparatory season for the Feast of the Nativity) to the Western Advent.
This is interesting, but falls just short of explaining what's going on. Why does UDP work for ICMP? What does the final packet look like, and how is ICMP different from UDP? None of that is explained, it's just "do you want ICMP? Just use UDP" and that's it.
It would have been OK if it were posted as a short reference to something common people might wonder about, but I don't know how often people try to reimplement rootless ping.
I was eagerly waiting for the Larry and Curly models.
They're overstated. The median commute time in the USA is about 27 minutes each way. NYC is the highest at 33 min.
I think the $70k downpayment mentioned in the original comment is what changes the math from "impossible" to "25 years or so".
0 to 60mph in 6.8 seconds.
The 0-60mph time for a 2025 Ford F-150 pickup truck is 5.8 seconds. Today's "performance" cars are in the 2 to 3 second range.
It was a more leisurely time.
Best of luck to you! I spent many hours trying to understand and generate proper Dwarf tables.
> Once a contract is deployed on the blockchain, its source code is immutable.
Maybe. Some smart contracts have calls to other contracts that can be changed.[1] This turns out to have significant legal consequences.
[1] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/smart-contracts-ru...
Varies by country. [1] Europe, even within the Schengen zone, is split on this.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_identity_card...
It's been all downhill for Mozilla since Brendan Eich was fired.
Sounds great to me actually. I’m glad the states still have the leverage to do this.
I’m surprised folks aren’t already grinding against smart contract security in prod with gen AI and agents. If they are, I suppose they are not being conspicuous by design. Power and GPU time goes in, exploits and crypto comes out.
Real poverty is not in fact "closer to $140,000 than to $31,000" and economics people have been dunking on that claim for a week now on Twitter.
I don't think this is the case.
See https://archive.ph/7Zu6M