wyldfire

Modern semiconductor fabrication is a very narrow field.

As far as monopolies go I don't think it's our biggest concern, like you say.

If we want to continue to wage wars and seek conquest, it's not great to have it located in one/few countries. But instead if we want to work towards peace, we should continue breaking down barriers to trade (while maintaining protections for labor).

The same self-centeredness that drove man to think that Earth was the center of its Universe.

See also: bean soup / "what about me?*

> the world has changed.

It's the effect of a cult of personality. People don't feel like they want or need this. But they're on board with the cult.

There's a stark difference between de jure and de facto here. Executive orders will brazen, tyrannical effects and are often reined in late or never.

"I expected an automaton to be a good source of entropy and it turns out it is not."

BTW LLM here is doing a great job of emulating humans. They are not good at this task either.

> Nine parameter combinations produced zero entropy — perfectly deterministic output

They'd need some kind of special training to go request entropy from a system entropy device. Behaving deterministically is a feature, not a bug.

> how incredible the human brain is compared to computers.

It is pretty incredible but people will (rightly so?) hold automated drivers to an ultra high standard. If automated driving systems cause accidents at anywhere near the human rate, it'll be outlawed pretty quickly.

A length could refer to lots of different units - elements, pages, sectors, blocks, N-aligned bytes, kbytes, characters, etc.

Always good to qualify your identifiers with units IMO (or types that reflect units).

You need to annotate your program with indications of what variable tracks the size of the allocation. So, sure, but first work on the packages in the distro.

Note that corresponding checks for C++ library containers can be enabled without modifying the source. Google measured some very small overhead (< 0.5% IIRC) so they turned it on in production. But I'd expect an OS distro to be mostly C.

[1] https://libcxx.llvm.org/Hardening.html

Maybe they're greedy or maybe they see the long game is that their architecture licensing business is in serious jeopardy from RISCV. So, if you can't beat em, join em.

Maybe they'll eventually make their own RV core designs too.

Qualcomm acquired talented designers and put them to work, not their existing (further encumbered) designs.

More robust in that it tolerates individualistic workers? Interesting.

"How many of those did we order? Let's get some more. Super-size me!"

> Who is the buyer?

Who do you know who is currently sitting in a seat of massive power in the US Government, watches TV and says things like, "I need to have that! Why do we not have that already? It will project strength, and all the best governments project strength at every opportunity!"

Any way you slice it: LLMs provide real utility today, right now. Even yesterday, before Opus/Codex were updated. So the money was not all for naught. It seems very plausible given the progress made so far that this new industry will continue to deliver significant productivity gains.

If you want to worry about something, let's worry about what happens to humanity when the world we've become accustomed to is yanked out from underneath us in a span of 10-20 years.

Would it be any more comforting from a privacy standpoint to have the models capable of doing this running on the device itself instead of the cloud?

The fact that you used the term "enforcement" here makes me presume you are thinking of criminal consequences. But the grandparent comment talks about civil liability. Certainly if there were injuries at this intersection and they knew who had altered the signage, attorneys would argue liability on the part of the vandal. They'd get settlements if not win cases this way.

In addition, if there were serious injuries here you should also expect some criminal consequences. But if your point was to suggest that they won't hunt you down just because someone said there was mischief here, I tend to agree.

I feel like if those are the stakes I'd be better off leaving it behind.

Stupid question: can't you just turn it off? Does it emit signals / identifying information while it's off?

Here's an article that talks about Dual-energy CT [1]. And another one talking about material discrimination using DECT [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_imaging_(radiography)

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2719491/

One thing that might be effective at limited-interaction recovery-from-ignoring-CLAUDE.md is the code-review plugin [1], which spawns agents who check that the changes conform to rules specified in CLAUDE.md.

[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...

By the time they release something that outperforms Opus 4.5, Opus 5.2 will have been released which will probably be the new state-of-the-art.

But these open weight models are tremendously valuable contributions regardless.

The agent who opened fire [1] clearly put other agents' lives in danger. To say nothing of shooting a just-disarmed man in the back while he was being handily subdued by several agents.

It always seemed laughable to me when people on the internet would talk about another US Civil War. I think it's still unlikely but it's definitely not laughable anymore. The President is not looking for undocumented migrants, because if he were he would look in the states where they live in vast numbers, not Minnesota where a political opponent governs.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1qm2vi0/heres_your_pro...

Ka-boom!

> compiler may emit function calls to stubs for the intrinsic.

I guess the compiler itself might not know how those calls get resolved but the linker or cargo or some other mechanism might decide to include a library that provides stubs.

Why would anyone ever want that behavior? nop stubs could conceivably be used in some compiler isolated (no-execution) testing scenario but I'd expect it to be opt-in.

Does Rust provide architecture-specific intrinsics like C/C++ toolchains usually do? That's a popular way to do SIMD.

> both of them are inappropriate for file checksums

CRCs like CRC32 were born for this kind of work. CRCs detect corruption when transmitting/storing data. What do you mean when you say that it's inappropriate for file checksums? It's ideal for file checksums.

I think this comment denies the reality that we see in Minneapolis. It's not merely some corporate boss who says "yes I know there's a court order but we are making tons of dough here!" It's the individuals themselves who opted to work for ICE who believe that their mission supersedes justice as meted by courts.

They see the former world order as not equipped to handle the "reality" of a "legalized invasion." So they think they are just in restoring hierarchy between Whites and Others. They are whipped up by a cult of personality and the leadership within the administration is just like them.

If you like Claude Code, then Gas Town (recent discussion [1]) will probably blow your mind. I'm just trying to get a grip on it myself. But it sounds incredible.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458936

I found that when I used ChatGPT's web chat, I frequently went back and forth, shuttling its output to an editor or IDE and then coming back to ChatGPT with "oh, now it fails like this: ...". It made me feel like I was the automaton now.

Claude Code was transformative and it made me realize that something very incredibly significant had occurred. Letting the LLM "drive" like this was inevitable. Now I see just exactly how this will transform our industry. I'm a little scared about how it will end for me/us, but excited for now.