The idea of HN being dismissive of impactful technology is as old as HN. And indeed, the crowd often appears stuck in the past with hindsight. That said, HN discussions aren't homogeneous, and as demonstrated by Karpathy in his recent blogpost "Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News", at least some commenters have impressive foresight: https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/

So exactly 10 years ago a lot of people believed that the game Go would not be “conquered” by AI, but after just a few months it was. People will always be skeptical of new things, even people who are in tech, because many hyped things indeed go nowhere… while it may look obvious in hindsight, it’s really hard to predict what will and what won’t be successful. On the LLM front I personally think it’s extremely foolish to still consider LLMs as going nowhere. There’s a lot more evidence today of the usefulness of LLMs than there was of DeepMind being able to beat top human players in Go 10 years ago.

In May this year, the 2x48GB Crucial SODIMM kit sold for £180. Today, the same kit is £275 in the Crucial Amazon store, and sales are limited to one unit per customer. The free market price seems to be over £500. Not a good time to be building a Mini PC or DIY laptop.

Impressive feat by Waymo, though it could have been 100-200ms faster had it noticed not only the change in trajectory, but also the jerky motion that destabilized the scooter.

For a truly superhuman performance, it might even register the brick and anticipate the scooter's accident.

Does this mean that Minimum TDP = maximum power consumption* at the CPU's lowest power configuration?

* Averaged over some time window relevant for cooling

Yes, that's correct as long as you don't worry about transient boosts like PL1/2!

Hey, thanks again for the talk and for answering my fork bomb question with a live demo!

Thanks for your question and glad that you enjoyed it!

I thought you handled the question really well. To be honest the whole talk was excellent. I'm gutted I missed it in person.

There were a lot of aspects of this talk that I thought were really great. The willingness to try something unscripted, diving into the code repo live (e.g. to show where fuzzing is used), and the discussions of the reasoning behind the design choices. Great job @xiaq. This really makes me want to try elvish out, and I usually am quite skeptical of new shells.

Thanks! Glad that the talk is working as a marketing pitch for Elvish :)

Thanks! Murex talk when??? :)

haha I can't present nearly as well as yourself but maybe one day.

It's not easy to present though. I know on HN we see a lot of very clever people give some well executed presentations and it's sometimes easy to forget how much preparation and courage it takes to perform like that. And it's great to see how engaged people were with the content too.

Sorry, this is less of a question and more just comment of appreciation.

Thanks, I appreciate the comment the appreciation :)

The word `official` was added by OP to hint at the fact that zx2c4 is the kernel contributor who created WireGuard.

It isn't clear whether it was the milking robot or the farmer's computer that was compromised.

A more measured take on the relationship between science and religion: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/29763

Haha, I've always enjoyed being at the end getting less attention from teachers. If the data merely shows a correlation, it may as well be explained by us at the end being under less pressure.

Most useful is relative. The book dealers who gave me my first ever contract for an automated leaflet generator that generated customized leaflets for each dealer would consider that the most useful. It's been over a decade and they still use it every day. Some other projects that come to my mind:

- an open source OIDC authorization and identity server (Ory Hydra and Ory Kratos)

- a system that uses computer vision to track food waste in industrial kitchens, helping them understand and minimize food waste

- a live milk quality estimator for a milking robot

- a browser extension called memorize. I wrote this reusing code from another contract I did while still in secondary school, and I'm mentioning it thanks to a user named lush berry who wrote "literally the most helpful thing i ever found on the internet. it helps me memorize stuff even when i'm procrastinating which is amazing. however, i have a lot of suggestions, does anyone know how i can contact the makers of this extension?". I wish I had the time to listen to these users and make the changes they want.