Putting your writing in version control turns out to buy you a lot of metadata for free. These days it's an Obsidian vault in git, but I used to just keep plain markdown files for notes/writing/etc
Money flowing from the rest of the economy means money no longer being spent on something else. Assuming for the moment it's not all a big circular inflationary scheme, what exactly is being cut back on to fund this infinite spend on AI inference?
Any one actor has finite cash flow (plus their cash-on-hand buffer). Directing cashflow towards inference necessarily directs it away from something else. Either these companies are spending less on something else, or they are returning less profit.
Token resellers don't change the equation, they are just adding a tax to the revenue stream, it still has to flow from an actual upstream source.
If your argument is that a bunch of consumer-facing companies are collectively suddenly making trillions more in revenue due to adopting AI... well, I have a pretty nice bridge for sale here
The Manhattan Project succeeded, so clearly some people are ok working on this sort of thing. And with similar justifications: if we don't build the potentially world-ending bomb, someone else might beat us to it.
That was openly a military project during wartime (and not being pitched as the solution to all problems at the same time so no cognitive dissonance required)
> We obviously have much better ways of doing such things today, but in 2005, with limited browser technology, those solutions seemed a little bit magical
Nah, this still seems like a pretty good way of doing things. Yes, we can probably run the image engraving on the client now, but to address a wide audience of older devices, we probably shouldn't change very much about this process.
Well for starters, any modern web browser with JS disabled is going to display the original page just fine, but will not be able to render a canvas-based solution. That may put the user outside your target demographic, which is fine, but it is worth being aware of.
Ignoring the use of JavaScript in the old demo, is there an individual on earth that uses a modern web browser with JavaScript disabled, wants to order a personalised Apple product, and can’t enable JavaScript back for previewing?
I've made a bunch of edits just through the website, because my rural village was not very accurately reflected on OSM. I've added all the missing footpaths, fixed a couple of intersections, and added building footprints for all the houses.
I'm not sure anyone but me cares, since most people use Google maps. But it's satisfying to have accurate maps for myself at any rate.
The part where I want wired ethernet to that SBC, not some funky proprietary wireless chip as in ESP32. I almost found a solution, but I've been unable to get my picoprobe to properly flash and reset the board for some reason, so I haven't been able to use it for development. I'll have to troubleshoot that again sometime if I enter another bout of caring.
Couldn't we say the exact same thing about any US service in this day and age?
Trade war with half the planet, hot war with Iran. Autocratic dictator as leader and complicit media. Well documented propaganda campaign and history of destabilising countries around the world. Known to compel tech companies to spy on foreign citizens...
The quintessential HN comment questioning the obvious.
Yandex does Putin's bidding much much further than any western search engine ever meddled with their results for political purposes. Yandex employees' lives would be actively at risk if they didn't.
Sometimes I really wish a hard reality check would meet the people making such comments from the comfort of their programming chair or from thousands of kilometers away.
> Yandex does Putin's bidding much much further than any western search engine ever meddled with their results for political purposes. Yandex employees' lives would be actively at risk if they didn't
Does media manipulation score higher/lower on your moral index than the widespread domestic spying the US has forced tech companies to be complicit in?
Not that media manipulation by the US government is exactly an unheard of event (at least as far back as the whole WMDs in Iraq scandal).
> Sometimes I really wish a hard reality check would meet the people making such comments from the comfort of their programming chair or from thousands of kilometers away
Look, I'm American myself, and have as keen a dislike of Russia's foreign and domestic policies as the next guy. But it is at best wildly hypocritical to suggest that US tech firms are not subject to government interference, in a manner that may be detrimental to their customers.
> But it is at best wildly hypocritical to suggest that US tech firms are not subject to government interference
It is very different degree of subjection where we talk about country that have laws, politics, сourts, journalism, all that stuff, and country, where if you dare even to complain about some wild highly illegal stuff that the kgb demands corporation that you working for to do, you end up getting 30 years in prison for treason, falling out of the window, getting poisoned by some chemical weapon, and even then you will be considering yourself a lucky man because nothing very, very bad had happened to your family.
> where we talk about country that have laws, politics, сourts, journalism, all that stuff
Post patriot act, we have none of those things in instances where the government invokes national security (for example, a national security letter can compel release of data without a court order, and comes with a pretty serious gag order)
I'm not American. You can say that Murica is up to no good, but RuZZia is definitely up to much much worse. It's way more oppressive and repressive by an order of magnitude. Employees at Yandex have to censor stuff about Putin and the war (see egorfine's screenshot) or they risk getting defenestrated, death by polonium, or death by torture. There is no "First Amendment". Putin's wishes are the law. He is trying very hard to destroy liberal democracies in Europe and around the world.
Of course Google is morally much better than Yandex. What sane mind would even question this? The fact that I'm getting downvoted just shows how out of touch this bubble is with real life.
Smarter IDE folding, in effect? I'm always wondering what higher-level views of program flow we could have. Various tools have experimented with generating graphs and flow charts from code, or visual programming systems with nodes, but I don't know of any that smoothly blend between those views in the IDE?
I'd bet that it needs a better abstraction like LSP. IDEs are super expensive to build, so an IDE company isn't going to try to abstract away their business, so it's a long time between LSP-like developments, and I can imagine something that would enable that sort of thing needing to be a couple major breaking versions of LSP away from where we are, at minimum, which would mean a decade or two from existing across the ecosystem, at the least.
Shades of the build.rs problem. We really need sandboxed builds in every language ecosystem at this point.
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