AceJohnny2

no no don't worry! They have courts! They're following due process, you see!

24 years of the Patriot Act, and counting...

Translation is a form of AI-edition.

Language translation is the origin of (the current wave of) AI and its killer app. English is not the main language of the world, and translation opens us up to a huge pool of interesting thinkers.

I'm a native speaker in a foreign language, but out of practice except of a weekly family call. I recently had to write a somewhat technical email to my family, and found it easier to write it in (my more practiced) english and have AI translate it, than write it in the target language myself. Of course, in my case I was able to verify that the output conveyed the meaning I intended, because I am fluent in the target language.

As with the rise of GenAI, I've also noticed a rise of translated messages. It's usually hard to tell the difference, except by looking at the commenter's history (on other subreddits, impossible on HN).

I understand the original frustration with GenAI comments and reactionary response. I'm sorry that we're excluding what could be a large pool of interesting people because we can't tell the difference.

There was a Mastodon post some time back (~1y?) where someone realized that the fastest RISC-V hardware they could get was still slower than running it on QEMU.

That's not how it usually works :\

RISC-V is certainly spreading across niches, but performant computing is not one of them.

Edit: lol the author mentions the same! Perhaps they were the source of the original Mastodon post I'm thinking of.

yes, and if I had a unicorn I would be happy.

> Now if most of their customers did that

If most customers did anything active we'd have a radically different society. The difficulty is getting people engaged to fight back against the system (I'm not absolving myself from being part of those people)

Is this because of the CA Age-verification law (AB 1043)?

https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab...

For your entertainment, look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Arizona#Daylight_savin...

Arizona, unlike the rest of the US, does not observe Daylight Savings Time (good!). However the Navajo Nation, whose territory is largely in Arizona, does. However the Hopi Reservation, which is inside the Navajo Nation territory inside Arizona, does not.

Let me rephrase that:

- The USA does DST

- Arizona (in the USA) does not do DST

- Navajo Nation (in Arizona) does do DST

- Hopi Reservation (in Navajo Nation) does not do DST

> That said, there are a number of Ars Technica contributors that are among the best in their fields

I miss Maggie Koerth & Jon Stokes

there's an apocryphal story that when one of Apple's chips was nearing 10B transistors, marketing asked the chip folks if they could round it up to 10B for their copy. The chip folks were confounded, and said no they didn't have any uncounted transistors to round it up, and they didn't approve of claiming 10B transistors when it wasn't.

(This was a while ago. I see the M4 is at 28 B)

Which is why I'm all the more surprised that Apple would claim 2x more ANE TOPS than it can really does.

But not 38 TOPS that Apple claims, with the weak explanation of

> Apple’s “38 TOPS INT8” is computed as 19 TFLOPS FP16 × 2, following the industry convention of counting INT8 operations as 2× the FP16 rate. But the hardware doesn’t actually execute INT8 operations twice as fast.

Why would Apple follow that convention when the hardware explicitly doesn't seems like a more straight-faced lie that I expect from Apple

(I am not a mechanical engineer) Are capstan drives a solution to some of these gearing problems?

"Our glorious oversight vs their barbaric surveillance"

(I kid, mostly. While the US certainly isn't pure, its scale of surveillance intrusion is light compared to China)

> There's an obvious theme with lawmakers in California

You can remove the in California

I wonder how he figures that. I'm well paid and my CA taxes are 1/3 as much as my Federal taxes. Especially in the current regime, CA taxes are not first my point of complaint.

This just reinforces my opinion that we shouldn't listen to billionaires about anything.

I'm kinda shocked to see MicroCenter surge again. The one on Steven's Creek feels like a mini, less seedy, Fry's (I may be biased from Fry's terminal years).

Nevertheless, it still took me 10 minutes to get the attention of the otherwise omnipresent salespeople to let me pick up a UCG, and I ended up getting the rest of my setup at Central Computers.

Edit: I'm ragging too hard. I'm glad MicroCenter exists and the in-person selection they offer.

I'm reminded of the viral comic "I'm stupid faster" (2019?) by Shen

https://imgur.com/gallery/i-m-stupid-faster-u8crXcq

(sorry for Imgur link, but Shen's web presence is a mess and it's hard to find a canonical source)

I'm not saying this is completely the case for AI coding agents, whose capabilities and trustworthiness have seen a meteoric rise in the past year.

Offtopic:

> "Click here to load ~19mb"

Oh, how sweet...

The front page of reddit (not logged in) is 11 MB, logged in it is 17 MB for me (variable based on media-heavy subreddits and ads). Facebook's login page is 8 MB. Hell, Google's front, once a bastion of efficiency (long since fallen), is 9 MB.

It's sad how 19 MB now doesn't even register for me in today's bloated web.

sure, but now it's giving me days old crappy posts with 3 votes from those subs as it leans wholeheartedly in the Dark Pattern of always feeding me something so I keep reflexively coming back for more.

This is not true for the major social media sites that control the algorithmic feeds. (Facebook, Xitter, Reddit, YouTube...)

While you may be able to add a small bend to the feed, it's really 90% in their power, not yours.

I'm looking at Facebook "Home" feed. Funny how they added a separate "Friends" feed, the original purpose of the site, that's not the default.

FWIW, LWN.net has a form of this, where a subscriber can share a "guest" link for a subscriber-only article (All such articles become open a week later anyhow).

It's bad form to share guest links on aggregators like HN, I don't think LWN has a quota on the number of accesses on Guest links. On the other hand, the occasional widely-shared guest link may bring a few more subscribers, but I doubt this scales.

This, by the way, is why Signal isn't federated. Moxie Marlinspike made the same argument.

https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

I'm looking to use TCL for an embedded platform, as the scripting shell. Its simplicity and small size is key, as is its easy integration with C.

> Good is really good at engineering great software

was

While they sucked at bringing products to market and sustaining them, they indeed used to have a good reputation at software engineering. However they are burning that up in the AI pivot, though it's not yet very visible externally.

While the current incarnation of Google Chat has indeed been steadily improving, Google has a lot, and I mean a lot, to make up for:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-... (2021, as the URL says)

And it's not just messaging. Google has a decades-long history of abandoning apps that don't make them billions, which means no-one with memory trusts them. Especially in their current "AI-everything or bust!" incarnation.

I agree with the post. As someone with... attention issues and a deeply cluttered space due to decision fatigue and "I'll just get to it later", having a blank slate is very useful for regaining focus. Otherwise, it's just a constant mental pressure to decide which of the unfinished tasks to focus on, and that never helps.

As one step, I've taken to just nuking my browser sessions at the start of the week. If it was really important to keep, I would've bookmarked it. If it's important, it'll come up again.

Sure, sometimes I lose of forget something useful or important. But the key part is that I'm making a choice between a 20%-100% constant loss of focus, and the occasional missed item I should've kept.

By regularly nuking context, I've also trained myself to better note down those things I do want to track (I've been bouncing between Reminders.app and Emacs Org-Mode) (I am not asking for task tracker advice)

> Claude Code doesn't notify you when it finishes or needs permission. You tab away, lose focus, and waste 15 minutes getting back into flow.

On macOS, in iTerm2, Claude will trigger notifications. I was impressed!

(and also annoyed: I don't like notifications. Then again, I don't have Claude do long things where I can go get a coffee)

> Downvoted within 1 minute. This website is a trash fire.

because your comment was completely offtopic.

argh, don't remind me.

Certainly we have lots of horrible inefficiencies in my team, but stringing along hiring was not one of them. I understand this is not universal even at our company.

that's taking yak shaving to another level!

I don't buy it. Seems like a waste of everyone's time. Even if you don't respect the candidate's time, it's still a waste of the employee's time, which is valuable to the company.

How is that image 670 KB!? Definitely some optimization low-hanging fruit there.

Edit: dang, even pngcrush can't get it below 580 KB. Disappointing performance on PNG's part.