this is a pretty clean test of whether people were buying cursor or just using it for convenient access to whichever model was flavor of the week.
i work in qa so i'm naturlally wary of adding another critical dependency to a development workflow, if the model you actually want can just disappear because two vendor change ownership or start argueing then the rapper has to be really good on its own.
cursors harness and its own models may be good enough that users stay, and if they do cursor has a moat at least. if everyone follows the openai models out the door, it will just become a polished ui.
Those help but the main write speed gain is the WAL, that uses preallocated mmap segments to avoid a write(2) per durable mutation while preserving crash recovery.
AES hashing mainly helps Bloom filter point lookups and LZ4 mainly helps SSTable I/O. Scans benefit indirectly, but don’t yet use a custom SIMD merge loop.
> Why exactly can a CPU contain RAM electronic circuitry, but RAM can't contain CPU electronic circuitry, if both, at the lowest level, the level of the minaturized transistor, the minaturized electronic circuit, are created from the same substrate, the same basic building blocks?
There's different kinds of RAM. CPUs are using SRAM for their caches (which usually have ~6 transistors per bit cell, IIRC, although I'm not a hardware guy, so take this stuff with a grain of salt). Your RAM sticks are using DRAM, which are 1 transistor and one capacitor per bit cell.
Now, this is where my understanding of the actual physical issues really gets sketchy, but the processes that are good at making the CPUs just aren't good at making DRAM, and vice versa. (I would guess that it has specifically to do with the capacitor, but that's purely a guess.) SRAM isn't a problem for the CPU processes, because SRAM cells are closer to the other kind of logic you set up in CPUs.
> I was unaware of these side-loaded malicious apps until now. This is information consumers need to have.
I really want to ask, earnestly, how do we communicate these things earlier?
I don't think there's a shortage of HN users that one about this type of bullshit going on. I'm not going to tell you "I told you so", and I'll even attack those that do. But when people who are concerned with these types of issues talk out they get dismissed as being conspiracy theorists or simply too sensitive.
I'll admit that sometimes it can be hard to differentiate, but well respected experts in the tech field have discussed such issues for decades. So I really do want to understand, how do we reach you earlier? Before we get to this point. How do we not just come across as uppity tech nerds screaming "I use arch btw" in furry programmer socks?
I really do think we as a community need to figure out how to reach the public better. We're well past what was considered terrifying in 1984. We aren't a society where big brother could be listening to you at any time, we are living in a society where uncle Mark is watching you all the time. Where uncle Pichai knows who all your friends are. Where uncle Nadella knows when you're awake. They know whose been bad and good but they don't even have the decency to deliver gifts under the Christmas tree. Are we only fighting back because their actions have become so obvious? Or are we fighting is the principle enough?
But other people are giving you everything you want for free. Why do you need to afford it? What does it even mean to question whether you can afford something you already get unlimited amounts of for free?
Sure, what does "the Secure Enclave or TPM could theoretically do this" do for me, if I've got a a trio of desktop PCs running macOS/Linux/Windows with no Touch ID between any of them and I want to keep my passwords synced and reasonably accessible?
Marx was extremely simple minded when it came to human nature. That’s the problem with all utopian ideas and all idealistic philosophers and economists: the assumption is always that humans will behave in some idealised way. While in reality greed, cruelty, corruption, treating other humans as inhuman or slaves is part of human nature. Not the only part of course, but probably the most important part when looking at the very long list of disaster we call history.
But ActivityPub works a certain way and it's different from how ATProto works. You're saying HTTP should've been a layer on top of email - how would that ever work?
No big deal, I pay for zed plus/pro/max, whatever the subscription is called. I don’t miss any of the paid AI features when I switch laptops and can’t be bothered to login.
It’s a good editor, but the AI features are forgettable, and probably a distraction away from the core value proposition. They should sell commercial licenses like IntelliJ and be done with this AI monetization dilemma.
You have to take it seriously and act on its advice though. I read it at 18 or 19 but thought it was used car salesman stuff, so I never got any benefit from it.
This is DMCA. DMCA does not absolve hosts if they "receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing activity". So if google hosts an app and makes money off of that app, they can't claim safe harbor if that app is infringing. Hence, under the DMCA, they need to take down the app as soon as they have even a suggestion that it might infringe somebody's copyright, and not put it back up until they are certain it doesn't.
Only one of them fired the pandemic response team right before a global pandemic.
The pandemic did end, because it turned into an endemic, meaning it is now an endemic and not a pandemic, meaning the pandemic part of it went away. Endemic is another word for "like a pandemic, but never ends".
That would surprise me. I don't recall having to change my iPhone's region after moving to Japan. Transport IC cards in Apple Pay have "just worked".
I am vaguely aware that some phone manufacturers silently remove certain NFC hardware (or disable some driver) in order to avoid paying Sony patent fees. Apple doesn't seem to do that, though.
Stick one of those in a dependency of a dependency of a dependency of a popular NPM package and you can get access to developer laptops at every sector of the tech industry.
Super easy to avoid with almost no change to user experience, and yet no one did because "no one else does".
0.8% at the size of the EU economy is a huge win. It's slightly smaller than Denmark's fossil fuel emissions. Though, the savings are presumably calculated over several years while Denmark produces it every single year.
This brings to mind another study from the summer: “Slow breathing impacts inter-organ dynamics modulating brain function and risk behavior” (saw it on HN I think). Finding was that “prolonged exhalation increases risky decisions by increasing reward sensitivity”:
>By a strict definition of gambling, the stock market is gambling: It's a monetary wager placed on an unknown future event.
No, that is not a strict definition of gambling, that is your own loose, personal and casual definition. The strict definition of the gambling in question under Arizona law (the subject of this article) is I believe partly under 13-3301 [0] and has a number of criteria that clearly differentiate it from investment (whether it be stock, loan by a bank or any other entity/person, or whatever else). Other polities will have their own flavors, but all of them are aimed at a net negative, destructive social activity. That's the whole point of regulating it, it's not some metaphysical philosophy thing about life having uncertainty it's about long experienced concrete harm. Trying to argue that buying shares in a broad index fund is a "wager that a meteor will not hit the Earth" is uninteresting.
>Just because it (often) is positive sum doesn't mean it isn't an unknown that people are betting money on.
It does actually! Positive sum changes everything in terms of collective incentives, strategies available and how investors can hedge risk. You may not choose to make use of all the tools available, but that doesn't make investment the equivalent of gambling. Part of the whole point of markets is to manage changing risk and information discovery (including dead ends) such that we still continue to grow overall.
Shit, for most things, ive got a dev agent that reads change requests from a GDoc and communicates through email with me. I can develop in my mobile