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Hah, the first engineering job I had was on Ovation DCS doing power plant controls. That system traces the lineage to the WDPF systems.

Was the server you mention here the actual DCS? With the Motorola CPU's? Running vxworks? Pretty cool recognizing something niche that is still, vaguely familiar. :)

I think the point of OP is that while laptops are fine for business trips, tethered usage is superior. My setup is a laptop. Both at home and as work I have a solid desk with an ergonomic chair. On the desk are thunderbolt docks, the docks have hooked the keyboard I like, 2 monitors on mobile stands. And that's it. I have most the advantage of a desktop while using the same machine. One cable to unplug. Super nifty.

Talaas, from what I understand is building stuff just like that. The infra is the same and the weights layer is all you need to change. I guess you could half etch the chips and then finish them with the weights only. I think their turnaround is 6-8 Weeks. The size of the models fitting on the chips at the moment is llama 3 I think?

I would like for things to be so, but these platforms relief on you being on their platform, hooked on their algorithms, delivering them data. They need this in order to make money. HN is not monetized like this, so of course they're more lax. But I don't expect this to be possible for many other social media sites.

Because everyone keeps saying this so it must be true. Real "it is known" kind of vibe with these statements.

Can't vouch for all car architectures, but in most cases the head unit is QM and safety domains are usually segmented from each other. So even if the head unit talks CAN (it needs to get car data somehow) it will only communicate with the rest of the car through a gateway that will not allow it to take any dangerous actions.

I was born in a country while under the communist regime. My grandfather was killed by the communists. I, myself, did not live very much under the communist regime, but I vividly remember the 90's, which, while not politically oppressive in the way the communist regime was, were in some ways, much worse economically. What I did see is how people remember the communist regime and how they seem to have perceived it from within. Yes, they were afraid, but they did continue their lives and in some ways, quite happy lives.

I think I failed to convey some critical parts with my post. The _feeling_ I describe is the actual outlook that most people had during that time. I am not saying that the US is at that point yet, what I am trying to say is people don't usually wake up one morning and just say "Ah, ok, now I'm living under an oppressive regime" things just change and many times they will defend said regime. Just sample asking a bunch of Chinese people what they think about their current regime. I bet many of them will be quite happy with the arrangement and how things are going although they are clearly living under authoritarianism.

Yes, in many ways the US has many institutions that still work, but they have been eroding at an astonishing speed under the cheers of 1/3 of the population. If I use the same logic of projecting into the future the rate of change that... AI proponents use for example... How free do you think the US will be in 5, 10 years? You're not there yet, but factoring all the things going on, your country has done a capital mistake.

I personally am a bit frightened of what will happen in November since you have a president that has been consistently eroding the rule of law, put sycophants in positions of leadership, showed disdain for the rule of law, and elections and institutions, allies, general competency.

You might confuse my emotion with one of disdain or hatred for the US or, competitive aggression or impotent denial and projecting for dissatisfaction in my own country. ? But that's not it. My emotional state relative to the US is one of someone grieving after a personal hero I used to look up to who got brain damage and now goes down the street with a loaded gun yelling incoherent ramblings.

You, obviously, since you bother typing cheeky replies.

> I have exactly zero expectations of real consequences to Trump. He has far too much popular support for that to be realistic.

That's the problem. He has wide support despite gestures around. The thing a large part of the population supports _this_. It's not going away. This is the reason that people are bearish on US future.

> Trump Derangement Syndrome is real

If only I could convey how ridiculous this sounds looking from outside in.

Let me channel a person in the communist regime.

"Pshhhtt, the regime isn't oppresive. Sure, there is the securitate, but it's much better now, see, they released the political prisoners. Yes, some people got killed, but they were stirring waves, going around saying shit. You got to mind your business and go to work and not mind all the political stuff and you're fine. Ez-pz. Not sure what the fuss is about we are a great country, look how much stuff we make!"

It is mathematically impossible for this to happen.

When reading text like, this, I quickly start glazing over and my thoughts become cloudy. Really unsettling feeling, like I _actually_ become dumber after reading it.

And for certain text that seems to make sense, I am unsure if the text is just junk, or I am unbearably daft. Either way,, nasty feeling.

And if it comes, it comes. I have no doubt a model can be as good or better than humans. I don't think humans are the peak of possibly. I just don't think the current crop of models will get there. And I do not think fast takeoff will happen. In the meantime, I keel hearing psychotic chants of "don't even read the code anymore, bro!" While the code these things output is severely lacking. At this point, it _is_ cool-aid.

Hah, I realize I actually encountered this family in the form of a T-kernel offshoot that I evaluated for some automotive safety relevant application.

I think Op did not claime that "programming is going back to what it was" because even the point we should be going back to is not agreed where it should be. It's a profession always in flux.

On the other hand, "you're a prompt engineer or you're fired" just reeks of psychosis. Things will change, they will never be the same, perhaps the profession will contract. But there sure as hell will still be people thinking deeply about their code and crafting it.

I don't see the conflict between the two. I think you can do both. But, yes, the quality of the teachers matters a whole lot. And, sometimes, how well they relate to the kids. Because I can imagine that some people just won't click well together. Thinking back on the poor professors, I kinds of am sorry for all the crap they had to put up with.

And I do believe the student has part of the blame here. Or at least, the culture the student is living in. Because if there is an air of "pff, school, who needs it?" it rubs on kids and they end up believing school is stupid, knowing things is dumb, and they just don't care about it. At least in my country, I just feel such an air of disdain for education, that, to me, just feels a problem of perception or cultural framing. Competency is cool. Knowing things is _actually_ cool.

Oh, such a day, a talk about Ion on HN.

I get your point, and the book does say that. It's just... For a teenager, it rarely lands. And connecting context is super important. I mean, sure Ion wanted land, but you really can't contextualize that kind of desire when your needs and desires are completely different.

Maybe you were more capable of empathy or better at contextualizing what you were reading. I sure as hell was not. And only now later in like I think I am able to read and understand books. And really get them at a much deeper level. I do wonder though if without going through the motions of reading stuff you contextualize poorly if you ever gain the capability to understand. Or if it just makes no sens to engage with certain material until mature enough, in the right frame of mind and, importantly, _interested in it_.

I'm... Actually fine with that. In one direction. I use AI to fill in forma and usually it has really good pointers. I do not trust it to do it itself, but it does simplify things quite a bit.

I think that Any Matuschak's article is much better than the posted one.. My main problem with this article is that it frames constructionism as _the fix_.I think constructionism has its own problems. I listened to the Chalk & Talk episode with John Sweller recently[1] and he had quite salient criticisms of some of the tenets of pedagogical constructionism.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPm3ls6y-GE

The article is quite weak, to be honest. Which is a shame, sillicon IP design is quite an interesting domain and it would deserve better coverage.

I was pleasantly surprised it's a startup done by two of my conationals.

The OG NFT.

> My observation. LLMs find reasoning about Agda as difficult as I find reasoning about C code.

A bit funny, because I thought... Hmm, so LLM's find Agda natural?

My point being... It's a matter oh habit. After writing C firmware for more than a decade, I can read C easily. I might have to think of some parts and trace the code. But I can grokk it and hold the thing in my head. With Rust on the other hand, I just don't feel it as well. I am afraid writing C gave me brain damage and restricted the lens I can see the world through.

Is... That slang a play on the death stranding beach? Because if yes, it's kind of funny.

Simultaneous connection sounds super cool. I use it in the same way and reconnecting is annoying. I thought of doing something similar with synergy/mouse without borders but not through the internet, through the keyboard/mouse itself, auto toggling on mouse to the edge of screen. Cool project.

I sense there is this air around of "demand our jobs keep being relevant" - I personally feel this kind of thing holds the world backwards if it works. I think if our jobs were to become obsolete, embracing it and re-orienting oneself is the one thing that is personally effective and is morally right. But what do I know, I'm just some doofus on the internet.

The irony is not lost on me on all those years where people were advised to "just learn to code, bro" in order to escape the personally threatening situation of obsolete jobs. Well, now people feel it's our turn so, "just learn to _something_ dudes"?

This is all, assuming of course, that the end is nigh and our profession really is close to extinction. I personally don't buy it, but if it is, so be it.

> The traditional, reliable cycle of a new wave of teenagers getting their driver’s licenses and buying cars is shrinking.

Are these teenagers buying new cars in the room with us now?

According to wikipedia, microscopic is considered up to 1 micron. [1] According to the Schwartzchild formula [2] r=(2Gm)/(c^2) so if I take the largest black hole the definition would allow, the mass would be about 10% of the moon. You'd feel 1G at about 60km distance because of it. But indeed, it would fall and take about 20 minutes to reach the core of the planet, while displacing a whooping 1gram of matter. Kind of funny how wierd this whole thing is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microscopic_scale

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius

Sure, but the mass is not specified so I just assumed the closest one to cosmic horror.

The amount of mass inside the universe has stayed the same, it just moved from the boat into the black hole.

You're really bored at work one day so to entertain yourself you create 1kg of antimatter along with 1kg of matter. Has the mass in the universe increased or stayed the same?