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C is great for a course on computer architecture. C helps you understand how variables and procedures map to stack frames, how segments map to local and global variables, and how it's all data (i.e., machine code). But it's decidedly not a great first language. Learning linked lists, sort algorithms, memory allocation, etc. in C is for many students a traumatic experience. Far better to introduce these concepts in Python, JavaScript, or C# and then lower them to C.

You think it is obtuse because your lies are being called out.

FotE was founded by David Brower, Donald Aitken, and Gary Soucie as its Wikipedia page and multiple other sources corroborate. Emphatically, it was not "entirely formed by fossil fuel interests". Hence, your claim is a lie.

Moreover, Robert O. Anderson donated a large portion of his fortune to philanthropic causes. Among them, an art museum and a literary magazine. $200k was chump change to him. Anderson's philanthropy was his own personal interest and had nothing to do with the "fossil fuel" industry.

So unless you want to make the rather dubious claim that Harper's Magazine was bankrolled by the fossil fuel industry, you have nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_the_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Orville_Anderson

Holy fuck, Batman. No one's interested in that LLM verbiage. You made specific claims. Claim A:

"Environmentalist groups were in some cases entirely formed by fossil fuel interests."

It's clear from context that you're talking about genuine organizations and not astroturfing. So far you've not named a single one that was "entirely formed by fossil fuel interests."

Hence, pure fiction.

That's pure fiction. Cite your sources.

> I'm not sure if Clarkson's farm has much of a following outside of the UK. Last year they had several crops fail due to the drought over summer and honestly this year was far worse.

The Clarkson who ran a popular car show and for years mocked Greta Thunberg and called her an "idiot" that deserved a "smacked bottom" for raising the alarm on global warming?

Oh, noe, I feel so sorry for him. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!

> They still do that — welcome to the wonderful world of “proxy SDK monetization.” It's big business, and your TV is probably doing it.

I must be missing something. How can using peoples' TVs as bot farms be even remotely legal? Especially when the purpose is to avoid IP blocks?

I'm uninterested in bot answers. You claimed label X applies so consequence Y applies.

Useless.

Why is providing people with the means to express themselves to an audience wrong? Please think for yourself; don't resort to labels.

Are we going after free speech now?

Right, the argument is "He is a socialist so when he gets power he will do X which I dislike". But now he is in power so the argument is moot. Instead, you have to list actions by him you dislike.

For me, discovering new cool Python APIs gives me the same rush as learning C++ and AJAX did many decades ago. If it doesn't for you then maybe you should get out. Memorizing Latin names of bones, dealing with death, and having direct responsibility for other people's health is not for me, but if it is for you, go for it.

> Alt account for obvious reasons. [...] I have to be realistic about my age, [...] For the sake of my privacy and well-being,

These comments give room for pause. It's not obvious why you need to safeguard your privacy. They suggest that you may be dealing with feelings of shame or even guilt. You will be the oldest guy (or girl) in the class, your colleagues will be younger than you, and people will question your choices. Can you deal with it or is it too shameful? Only you can answer this question.

Very nice font! However, I wish the default line height would have been a little bigger. It's a bit too dense for long paragraphs.

I refuse to believe that people throwing paint on factory windows are terrorists.

I think you are completely right. Of course, typing "Write a Tetris clone in Javascript" and having the bot generate a clone is quicker than coding it yourself. But that assumes you don't care about the details. If you do, you need to specify that: levels, background music, sound effects, bonus multipliers, color schemes, etc. For the stuff I've vibe coded, I needed approximately 200-lines-long prompts to generate 1 000 lines of Javascript. Coding it myself would have been way more efficient.

Tl;dr: You've become a bot. :)

It's very common in the industry today. They let some journos be the first to break the news. In return the journos write a glowing review. A symbiotic relationship.

Then the article contradicts the slides because it states that OpenAI choose not to disaggregate prefill and decode. Idk you men with "predict"---conventional LLM serving comprises only two phases.

The article is a bit naive:

> However, as previously mentioned, Jalapeño’s results are obtained without speculative decoding and Vera Rubin’s results use speculative decoding. Speculative decoding leads to a ~3-5x reduction in cost per token. When speculative decoding is implemented on Jalapeño, this will enable Jalapeño to serve tokens even more cost effectively.

How much speculative decoding improves throughput is workload-dependent. Yes, it can improve performance by 5x, but it can also slow down performance by 2x. It also requires a vastly more complex decode loop than the standard token-by-token decode. The tech journos didn't ask themselves if speculative decoding improves perf so much why wasn't it on by default? Perhaps, because speculative decoding is not optimal for OpenAI's ASIC? Perhaps that is also why they were only able to benchmark the not-very-representative single-user-decode case?

You recall wrong. :) The evidence that tipping is inherently unjust is overwhelming: https://freakonomics.com/2008/03/the-racial-tipping-point/ The post about race but the results very obviously apply to other characteristics too. Though I very well understand that most people don't care much for evidence when it contradicts their anecdata.

How long will a business employ a waiter that is tipped so badly?

Also, many Europeans have the "equal work, equal pay" mantra drilled into them. Tip-based salaries are the complete anti-thesis to that. It is obvious that better-looking younger women get more tips than those without those characteristics. It rubs me and many others the wrong way; hence, I never tip because that is always fair. As a customer I 100% prefer "worse" service over having to deal with the tipping BS. Americans don't care and don't think about fairness at all in the same way.

So either they care about the safety of women and children, or they want to have some brown skinned and "weird" people to heave their hate on. I know which possibility I think is most likely...

I had the same feeling. The terrible metaphors smells like Claude.

IKEA's naming is pure genius. I bought a few NÄMMARÖ garden chairs for my garden a few weeks ago. And the chairs really feel like the furniture the people on NÄMMARÖ - an island somewhere in the Bohuslän archipelago - have used for ages. But NÄMMARÖ doesn't exist and the chairs were made in Vietnam. Good quality though, and not too difficult to assemble.

I use LLMs to criticize my writing. Whereas Grok is absolutely useless at it, I can actually get Claude and ChatGPT to give me reasonable feedback. They point out when I've forgotten an "s" after the verb, when "which" may be preferable to "that", and so on. However, I'm completely incapable of getting the bots to generate even half-decent code:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637538

Maybe it's a skill issue and my prompting is too weak. But this is HN so I will conclude that my coding skills are much superior to everyone else's, so while bots can code for you plebs, their coding is of little use to me.

You would also do what you could to break out of a concentration camp.

For your sick whataboutism to make sense you have to tell us what they say.

Why defend a Nazi?

I'm assuming nothing -- the party that burns 12B of taxpayer money on subsidies should show that it works. It is plausible that there are no new potential market participants as building power plants is expensive and the entrenched players don't want to compete with themselves.

What's to say that encouragement works? Does the 12B subsidy stipulate that more plants must be built? If not, keeping supply limited and price per Watt high may be more profitable.