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I take your point, statistically we're already there. Unless humanity was to bootstrap its own biological intelligence to be consistently higher, there's little point in any indivi…

That is a truly terrifying future to imagine. Fortunately I would hazard to guess the medical technology to accomplish something like this is very, very far away. Not only because …

Would you be able to recommend any articles or videos that do a deeper more honest analysis than the current media hype cycle?

Do you think this necessarily sends us as a society (as a species) towards a future where we eventually stop understanding technology and science itself? Like in Asimov's Foundatio…

The author of the article mainly talks about agentic programming, code generation, and reasoning. Ans very rightly identifies a big problem with agentic programming, in my experien…

You might find this interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636230

I've been using dual NVIDIA GPU's with Ollama. Even when I push to 30b models and more context window, Ollama manages RAM / VRAM very well. I never got OOM errors, just massive slo…

I have great interest in fine-tuning open models, and I'm looking for resources that HN folks can personally recommend. This article looks good and I've bookmarked it to read more …

Sure, most of the developed world is facing a demographic crisis. But will it trigger a meaningful reset of wealth distribution? Or be ineffective like the peasants revolt... The c…

I maintain some FPGA code in VHDL and also some C code for microcontroller. One thing I appreciate immensely about VHDL is how strict it is. You have no option but to think careful…

I understand Gates has also helped in reviving Nuclear power, from reading news on this site and others. Smaller, updated designs that don't face quite the same level of pressure f…

I used to be a believer in daily standup plus bi-weekly sprint planning, but lost faith with the (possibly cargo cult) methodology I was trying to follow. Adding 1:1 in with that w…

Very good explanation and interesting take on the 'humanity scale' or internet scale significance. I work on a phased array system so significance of white rabbit for me was always…

I have to admit, I feel the same envy about industry and economic growth. But there also seem to be many explanations of why Canada continually fails to attract large cap business …

The sane thing would be to ban Excel and promote SQLite. Excel is often used for tabulated text (issue tracking) not calculations. Perfect use case for a relational db

If you like sci-fi takes on software systems, check out Vernor Vinge "A Fire upon the deep" and sequels. I recall ship systems software is something like all the code humanity has …

Exactly, and how bright is your display compared to your surroundings at time of viewing?

I partially agree with this idea, but there will always be the Jeff Dean and Fabrice Bellard of the world... but 99% of companies won't ever get the chance to hire the top 1% of pr…

This article touches on an extreme case "what if all your Sr. Engineers are financially independent?" but I think could do more to explore real world examples and address the eleph…

"Mom can we get some RAM?" "No dear, we have RAM at home." RAM at home...

What do you think of the pace of hardware level freedoms? My context is also from Corey Doctorow: https://youtu.be/3C1Gnxhfok0?si=RjmADE5pQ3s7fBIk For me the freedom to own my comp…

The Sammy Jankis link was certainly interesting. Thanks for sharing. Whether or not AGI is imminent, and whether or not Sammy Jankis is or will be conscious... it's going to become…

After looking for a top level comment pointing to why instead of how , I logged in just for this as I could not find one. Extremely bullish on this move, let me try to explain. As …

If you are interested in UX a youtube series I found enjoyable and thought provoking is "liber indigo" (sorry, on mobile) What comes after the desktop metaphor and mobile? There is…