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I don’t understand the comments here. They say in the last paragraph:

> A scanning-probe prototype already constitutes a functional non-volatile memory device with areal density exceeding all existing technologies by more than five orders of magnitude.

Are we supposed to read all these stories as lies?

Now it doesn’t say that this is easy to produce, but if those claims are true, it doesn’t really matter if it is very expensive.

It doesn’t say either if the stuff can withstand live conditions.

It’s annoying not to be able to trust whether solutions like these are viable or not.

See structured procrastination for a slightly different approach.

https://structuredprocrastination.com/

Was the New Yorker article that incendiary? It didn’t paint a good picture for most but I recall someone posting here that they had a better view of Altman after reading it. And the whole thing was quite nuanced IMO.

Plus I doubt that someone who would read a 30min New Yorker article is the kind of person who would throw a molotov cocktail at someone’s home.

It’s a shitty move to try and make a causal connection between the New Yorker article and this act of terrorism. He’s trying to blame the author and discredit the article.

It’s a “I’m trying to be the good guy but they’re trying to stop me” situation. This is not a message addressed to us, it’s a message addressed to his employees and his followers. This is the kind of tactics people use when they want to establish a cult. Sam Altman again is showing how manipulative he is. And as any good guru he probably believes everything he says.

aksherlee <= nice one

doesn’t surprise me, network drive is the typical example of something that doesn’t “just work”.

oh and the parent folder is on a shared NAS with some caching.

I'm French too :-)

I get why people use French words to name products in english, but une charcuterie, it's somewhat gross and messy. It's Gaulois in a sense. To me it clashes a lot with the look of the website which is more like Tron-ish.

You wouldn't see a charcutier in Tron, would you?

The name sounds really bad in French. Charcuterie is a pig butchering shop, usually associated with messy bloody stuff. The verb “charcuter” also refers to surgery done poorly.

But yeah I guess the pun makes it work in english

Personally, I am over side projects.

Did them, the games, the websites, the failed startup thing.

I just do other things now.

Building finance stuff during the day, doing little computer outside work (a bit of 3D printing here and there).

It’s fine. My career’s fine. The work doesn’t suffer from it.

Do I have the spark? Idk, I feel I am too old for that spark shit. There is work to do, I do it. If it’s tedious, I’ll drag me feet a while, but eventually it’ll be done. It’s just work.

Reminded me of that scene in “le peril jeune”, a french movie about kids growing up in the 70s

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1hnc5

Yay! More tools for faking stuff!

> WPF shipped in late 2006. It was remarkable – XAML, hardware-accelerated rendering, real data binding. If Microsoft had made it the definitive answer and invested relentlessly, the story might have ended differently.

Er… The author perhaps never used it? WPF was the worst framework I ever used. It was unbearably verbose, brutally unforgiving, used 2-way bindings that created updating nightmares, ans not the least it was incredibly slow.

WinForms was not the best for sure, but at least you can get stuff done. It was for a long time the right answer to the question the author asked. .Net + WinForms worked well.

When WPF shipped was when the shit hit the fan.

I personally don't like superpowers very much. My boss does. I think Claude makes more mistakes when using superpowers than when not.

but maybe it's my fault.

I recommend trying. it doesn't hurt. Just don't believe it's a silver bullet. It's still the same Claude.

The way I use Claude is quite similar to what super powers does under the hood anyways. Like I always ask things like this: "if I want to do X, what questions do you need to ask me to have all the information you need to make it happen"

How much of this is Trump trying to look good by rushing the program asap?

I think this is right.

I was going to suggest the same game, guess the number. But instead of doing it in CLI, do it on her class calculator. If she's 11, she may already have something like a TI 82. These come with some form of BASIC (at least it had 30 years ago).

I remember that I did that about 30 years ago, and then because I had done it, I spent hours playing it.

Then if she likes that, you can make a 2 player tic-tac-toe, or a play-against-the-computer paper-rock-scissors. The fun is to start simple and then modify the game slowly. For example, in the guess a number, you could have funny answers for special numbers.

or a tame-the-unicorn game that's a bit like a tamagotchi, you can feed her, play with her, let her sleep, that kind of stuff, with very simple counters. In the end you can to ride on her back and be her best friend forever.

Anything that's turn-based, where you have very simple inputs that go in variables, check the variable against the game state, and then change the state in a basic fashion, and output something as text, and repeat.

Anything with a graphical game loop is going to be too much imo.

It is an issue because bitcoin is highly unpredictable.

These tools are good at predicting timeseries that are in fact quite predictable. Like insurances will use this to estimate the number of people who will die from cancer in the next year, the year after that, and so on up to 50 years in the future. The model will extrapolate the progresses made in cancer treatment from the current trend, etc. It is a prediction, cause it's still possible that a breakthrough comes in and suddenly people don't die from a certain form of cancer, but generally it should be roughly correct.

Bitcoin prices are a lot more chaotic, influenced by a ton of unrelated events that shape its path a certain way. There is absolutely no certainty that studying the shape of its past evolution will help in any way understand its future evolution.

Of course here I mean by studying its price alone. If you add more information, like who's behind each trend and why, you have a much better sense of what could happen next.

The main issue is that people do use them to predict bitcoin prices intraday and that sort of things.

The title is completely opposite to the content of the article.

Who's falling behind? What does falling behind even mean if the OP doesn't care about numbers and really doesn't want to play the social media game?

Social media as it existed is gone, because people got tired of it, just as they got tired of geocities and myspace before that.

The new iteration is really bad, and there's a good chance people will get tired of it just as quickly as they got over the older ones.

Meanwhile, let's try to ignore stupid people doing stupid things with AI as much as we can.

They make it sound like it’s a bad thing.

Oh I didn’t realize these only existed in France!

These are cool indeed.

I think their placement is weird though. They really don’t tell you how to get there. Sometimes they are very far from the thing they advertise. And you really shouldn’t go off the motorway when you see the sign. It could be quite confusing when you actually are planning to go to that place.

Also a bunch of places that are shown in the sign are privately owned like zoos and recreation parks. These tend to be iconic ones but it still feels a little off.

I think French laws have been on website that’s like that for a while

Ha, I am very proud that I made that discovery independently as well. In the Light vs Dark theme, I settled on a light greyish green that is somewhat close to the one described here. It really does reduce eye fatigue.

Every time I read one of these, I am amazed by how much stuff superconductivity allows, and how limited we are because it needs ultra low temperatures.

Elon must be running the military now

Right, but that was before older people found out about Tai Chi! Youtube keeps telling me it’s a great way get ripped at 50! /s

Are they taking 30% of the payments?

As infuriating as it may be, it's a good occasion to learn to let go.

Rationally, you're paying way more than the liquid in the glass, so just mentally tell yourself that the haircut is included in the price, and that's fine. If you can't stand the price anyway, change bar.

You're there to chill. Just chill.

Definitely better products.

The main effect is that you build things a lot faster.

The secondary effect is that, since you can code a lot faster, you are no longer scared of large refactors, ports to other languages, and all that kind of tedious stuff.

That means that if you design something, ship it, and realize it's bad, you can completely change it.

The "oh we should have done it differently, but now it would take years to change, so we have to deal with legacy garbage" argument does really make sense anymore.

Like if HN had LLM agents, we wouldn't have had to wait for years for them to solve the "click here for more comments" problem. And iterating with users is a lot faster.

That's definitely it.

This probably means that OpenAI et al are fine-tuning salesman-like LLMs to "fix" that problem.

Can't wait for the future.

Thanks for the kind words :-)