skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want my opinion, far from one another. It's an accident of history that
logic, a branch of mathematics, was lumped together with the fuzzy, hardly
scientific goals of the AI project. It's all the fault of McCarthy, of course.

Oh, sure, McCarthy is one of my science heroes. But it is because of him that
reserach that firmly belonged to mathematics and computer science in the broad
sense, particularly the research on automated theorem proving, the natural
continuation of the work of Gödel, Church and Turing, was lumbered with the goal
of somehow showing that it can compute intelligence.

I mean, why is the ability to prove sentences in a formal languages a necessary
requirement for intelligence? As far as I can tell, most humans do fine without
it and so do basically all non-human animals that have anything remotely
recognisable as intelligence.

Why is the ability to play chess a prerequisite of intelligence, for that
matter, or the ability to predict protein structure? All those are typical tasks
of AI as a field of research, because they happen to be "things that one can do
with computers", i.e. computable computations. But what do they have to do with
intelligence? What the hell even is intelligence? Turing gave us a model of
computing machines and if one assumes that intelligence is a computable
function, then it makes sense to try and compute it with a machine, but isn't
that assumption the first thing we should test, before jumping right in and
doing all the things we'd do if we knew it for sure to be true? And if it was
true, wouldn't we have seen some progress towards that goal, after 70 years of
study?

I'm speaking in this as someone who entered AI research because of my interest
in logic programming and automated theorem proving, and mathematical logic in
general. I am not interested in creating "AIs" one bit and yet, here I am,
studying for a PhD in what is traditionally an AI subject. That's just dumb.
Logic should have stayed where it belongs, in mathematics.

But... McCarthy was Church's student, so it was natural for him to set down the
foundations of the field to the seminal work of his advisor, and others like
him. Kind of like he was so keen on chess as an AI task- because he liked to
play chess.

At least McCarthy's personal preferences did help to build a foundation of AI on
theory, like I say in my comment above, so, for a while at least, it could have
been less fuzzy and throw-stuff-at-the-wall-to-see-what-sticks-y than (most of)
it is currently.
> In general, subsistence level tribes are just surviving

That’s the definition of “subsistence-level”, yes.
See also the AY-3-8910 if you cannot find a SID
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Instrument_AY-3-8910
The first and only time I've ever had to swipe and sign was on an AirAsia flight a few years ago.

I had never actually bothered to sign my car, which was apparently a problem for the flight attendants, even though my passport (with a matching signature) had the same name, and obviously did my ticket. But by whatever logic, they were happy with me signing the card there and then.

It amazes me that swipe and sign was ever considered vaguely secure. Most teenagers learn how to forge their parents signature during their high school years.
Price is a function of supply and demand.

I used to think programming was of exceptionally high value, like intelligence or life itself, because it could augment your intelligence, by making tools and components. But getting the right concept, ui, design, implementation, debugging and documentation is so much work that it's not worth it unless for a whole commununity, open-source, commercial or internal.

I speak as having made a commercially successful tool (and many small personal tools and components).

Perhaps all makers - from knappers to geometricians - have had this realization.
I couldnt ge knative to work nicely with gitops tools, and found some of the abstractions confusing and didn't really simplify anything, won't be using it again probably
No, the conversion rate is the fraction of companies who sign up which eventually hire someone.
Thought this was gonna be about 4k TVs and anti aliasing.
They uniformly underestimate big tech compensation by 50%+, because they've never clearly delineated salary from total compensation (and stock grants are a majority of comp for a lot of senior FAANG employees).

Luckily levels.fyi has fairly accurate data for those same companies.
But there will be 75% of them. So in effect you are getting a tax cut
I'm using it since their beta release in Google Play (in March?).
It works very well for me, I like it much more than OSMAnd (which is slow and too complicated).
I used MAPS.ME for a while but sponsored POIs, banking ads, tracking etc. was too much for me. Fortunately it's all gone in Organic Maps fork :)
I think you are misunderstanding 'To sit up late...'. This doesn't mean literally to sit, it means to stay up late, regardless of the position in which you do this. Very few revels(parties) would include sitting as the main attraction. So in this case the stay woke ball, being held overnight would indeed mean stay awake for the night, when you would otherwise be sleeping.
We've used the document-driven approach effectively at our company retreats (https://innolitics.com). We plan to use it more frequently as we grow (we have 12 engineers and are hoping to hire a couple more this month).
Many predators look cool too. I find it unlikely that we killed all of ugly lions and wolves just because you know, fashion.

My blind guess is fur. We mostly like fur and there is no fur in water.
The New York Times won’t use identity tech
This is a good thing to do ("ask people for opinions before you start"), it just solves a different problem.

Btw I did something similar to the certainty score thing. We had a table with technical decisions ("let's refactor X in a certain way", "let's choose Y as the config format") and made predictions before implementing the decision. For example, "this will turn out to be shit, here's why" or "this is great and will work exactly as expected". The table was short-lived but pretty effective at teaching me that my technical decisions can be surprisingly bad.
I didn't wrote this blogpost but I work on eesel myself. I think it's a bit harsh to say that this post is just poorly disguised marketing. Obviously having a blog is a way to help us getting more exposition for eesel, but we're trying to share genuine learnings on every post. I'm definitely with you, I'm also tired of marketing disguised as empty content, but I know that wasn't the intention there and I'm sorry if the post made you feel this way.
I think the honest, uncomfortable way of dealing with the Stallman and Felleisen fallout would be to ask "what can be done to offer non neurotypical persons an alternative career path that does not involve creating a living hell for other people by becoming managers" (saying this as someone who probably is in this category as well).

As long as there is no non managerial career (which is the case in all of academia), people will have to fake being a manager.
I look forward that when I am forced to actually deal with Kubernetes, solutions like Dapr are already considered best practice.
Does that encourage effort or mediocrity though?

As if my additional efforts are not going to move the needle much and there is nothing individually for me to win, why not just enjoy the ride?
> The car is stated to do 0-60 in 1.99 seconds. Does it do that? No, not even close.

The MotorTrend article suggest that it is actually quite close.
Is it better to leave windows open so flies can escape or closed so they never come in?
They had an outage which caused them to optimize the time to recover. However, this article didn't make any mention of regular testing of the new failover. If I'm reading it right, they designed their backup to not report on its health at all, and they instead have to just hope it works when they need it.

Was this not the completely wrong lesson to learn?

>Since our capacity injection is swift, we don't have to cautiously move the traffic by proxying to allow scaling policies to react. We can simply switch the DNS and open the floodgates, thus shaving even more precious minutes during an outage.

>We added filters in the shadow cluster to prevent the dark instances from reporting metrics. Otherwise, they will pollute the metric space and confuse the normal operating behavior.

>We also stopped the instances in the shadow clusters from registering themselves UP in discovery by modifying our discovery client. These instances will continue to remain in the dark (pun fully intended) until we trigger a failover.
With this, and the dual-SID add-on boards for real Commodore 64s there are not enough original SID chips to go around. Already hawkers on eBay rip them out of working C64s and sell them separately at jacked-up prices, to people who have managed to buy C64 motherboards at a lower price because they are missing their SID chips, probably in fact the very same SID chip they are now paying over the odds for separately.

There are a few pseudo-SID hardware projects[1,2,3] that can produce 'good enough' SID-like sounds, maybe the more honourable thing is to rework this project into something that uses those ?

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[1] https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/SwinSID

[2] https://github.com/Sgw32/UltiSID/tree/hal_usid

[3] https://www.retrocomp.cz/produkt?id=2
Waiter: Enjoy your meal.

Me: You too.
I think OneCoin would be classified as a Pyramid rather than "just" a ponzi - a lot of shady MLM promoters got very rich through the recruitment incentives
But, they don’t say that. So that’s the false advertising claim dead.

And it’s .2 seconds, so is 2.2 seconds make all those Tesla buyers idiots? What’s the nearest competitor at?
What nonsense are you spouting?
How to create profitable trading robots in Binance?
2 Years of development before open source in one blog post.
Who produces those other things in aggregate and why should they do that for somebody who doesn’t produce when the only thing they can buy with it are things they have to make anyway.

The capitalism and the dollars are laundering the production process and clouding the issue.

A better way of looking at it is that I produce a surplus I’m not permitted to consume to feed my retired parents and grandparents and those people who couldn’t have children. Who is going to do that for me in the future if I don’t replace my effort? Why should they put up with that? Why won’t they change the system so they don’t have to?
Only if more pay follows teamwork and constructive work. In many places it does not.

For example, say that there is one team lead position available. It probably pays more. My incentive as an employee is do what it takes to get that position even if it damages my company.
It turns out, people generally don’t change the terms of address they use for you unless you ask them to!
For hiking nothing really beats paper maps. It's so much faster to navigate by when you're used to it, since you don't end up in this constant loop of checking your phone, quickly losing awareness. I guess most people have experienced this when using their car GPS. Another thing I've seen happen quite frequently is that people under-/overestimate how far away something is because they're changing the map resolution back and forth.

I also suggest people look up local alternatives. A good example of excellent digital offline maps for Norway is ut.no or norgeskart.no, with their respective apps.
I've been keeping one eye on EdgeDB [0], which I believe could remove a lot of the desire for ORMs. In my experience a lot of the drive behind ORM use is that SQL kinda sucks at returning anything that looks vaguely like a tree.

For example, with SQL if you wanna load all a list of Users, and all those User's Posts, and the Thread that post was made in, you're either doing joins and some awkward transposition of the flat data into a tree, or you're doing three queries and looping through the data sets to join everything up by hand. When you have an ORM that lets you do `User::with('posts.thread')->get()`, it's easy to become reliant on it and never really dig into what's happening.

With EdgeDB, everything is a set. Retrieving a set of Users where each has a set of Posts where each has a set (of one) Threads becomes something where the database layer is pretty much a 1:1 mapping to your program's data structures, but with all the benefits of an RDBMS.

Considering insertions and updates also use sets, I could envision replacing an ORM with an ultra-thin layer that essentially just converts back and forth between trees of records and EdgeQL sets. As you might imagine this is very nice for GraphQL too.

Take this with a pinch of salt as I've only done the most basic playing around with it, but it certainly seems like an interesting idea.

[0] https://www.edgedb.com/docs/tutorial/queries
That sounds relevant for an SRE/DevOps position, but less relevant for many SWE's. If I'm an Android dev, "oncall" just doesn't have much meaning.
English commentators have been extremely exercised about 'wokeness' recently, to the extent of setting up a news TV channel to push back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB_News

Although positioned as a recent development, in reality this is absolutely nothing remotely new. The same class of commentators have been railing against 'PC gone mad' for decades. It's the same mix of fear of change and chinese-whispered 'you couldn't make it up' urban legends e.g. Baa Baa Green Sheep and Banning Christmas.
Open windows for air, but have a finely masked net covering the opening so insects don’t get in.
Cacao: Building macOS (and iOS) Apps in Rust
Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Existence and Leak in DMCA Complaint
What I've read before is that the most predictive measures were an IQ test and a work sample test.
Native New Zealand animals are still going extinct, because of pressure from imported animals. Not just predation, also competing, and disrupting food chains.

There is also a https://xkcd.com/552/ common cause of climate change at the time.
>M1 held on its promises

Yes, agree. It is an impressive machine. M2 will be just awesome.
Not sure that answered the question properly
Musk is really an engineer, and I mean a social engineer.

Going back to the early days of business, the owner of the company would try and sell people products and services directly.

Then it became lame and seen as a signal of a scam and "trying too hard".

Now fast forward nobody does it. But they don't understand that it's only lame and trying too hard when everybody does it.

If few people do it , then those people will be admired and elevated, bringing incredible advantages to the company and themselves.

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Mike Lindell...they somehow managed understand this (whether reasoning about it or subconsciously) and they are reaping the rewards.
Just for your reference none of the major auto companies do mid-range vehicle ADAS in-house (Higher-end vehicles and Halo product vehicles maybe sometimes).

There is no Peugeot LDW, there is just a bunch of OEM suppliers (Bosch, TRW, Mobileye, Continental, etc.) who do that for auto companies.

So raining on Peugeot because it is somehow second tier is misleading and misinformed because the electronics you find in a Peugeot ADAS sys, you will equally find in all other mid-range vehicles in the market.

So one of those failing would be a pretty big deal because it would apply to many models across many auto brands.

Tesla had something like 31 Billion in revenue in 2020 and as an example Bosch had about 71 Billion in revenue for the same period. If there was a case to sue lawyers would be jumping on it.
Exactly. The fanatics are still in denial and continue to defend Tesla's FSD lies. Was supposed to be due last year and it is still admittedly 'Level 2'. They should at least called Tesla out for repeatedly misleading their customers (again), but won't because they are too busy worshipping Musk.

If it was anyone else, they would be immediately destroyed (or sued to hell).

> And I do of course think Elon knows more, but he chooses to trick people to buy Tesla.

They are sure clever at this marketing scam and they know it. Now they moved on to manipulate the cryptocurrency market.
Context. Which place (outdoors or indoors) is more attractive to the flies/insects? Temperature, Humidity, other attracting factors - depending on region and other related params, this may change with time of day etc
What are the new rules around Bitcoin discussions?
Exactly. Additionally, liquidity would probably also imply that if you had a skill associated with an illiquid market, you'd earn a premium for that (b/c hard to find a replacement). This condition doesn't seem to be met by the definition in the article.
Most of our Kubernetes-based services communicate with Kafka.

Istio adds basically no value into Kafka-based clusters as it doesn't offer a full abstraction over Kafka (and basically can't as clients as broker-aware etc.).

KNative was basically DOA for us because it required Istio.

It's not so much that KNative was marketed wrong so much as being too opinionated about the "cluster-admin"-level components. If they were part of your stack already, cool, it was easy to get going. If they weren't, then trying to adopt KNative was like trying to force a square peg into a round hole.
You cannot live forever: Ageing is unstoppable
This is a great frickin story. I have pretty severe OCD and I treat myself this way. You basically can't have mercy with your own stupid terrors about objects if you have OCD. Taking the hair drier with you is brilliant.

What the other shrinks should have noticed is that this is taking the power of agency away from the object and returning it to the owner. OCD people like me follow a certain thought process:

1. I need to do this [thing] or [something] bad will happen.
2. Nothing bad happened. I'm not wounded or dead. That was because I did [thing].
3. If I hadn't switched the blender on and off 14 times today before I walked out the house, I might have walked out 30 seconds earlier and been hit by a bus. Therefore even as irrational as it seems, the wasted time on the blender was enough to keep me in the right timeline where I'm still alive and breathing.
4. Therefore whenever I get an irrational impulse to do something that might delay me, I should do it, because that's what keeps me on the timeline where I'm not hit by a bus.

Just because none of this can be cured by someone speaking rationally to you and telling you you're insane, doesn't mean that it can or should be cured by mood-altering chemicals. The only answer for me has been demonstration to myself, i.e., I didn't slam the door six times but I didn't get cancer. etc. However, the biggest motivator was my ex-gf who used to wake up when I was folding my pants over and over, and go, WILL YOU FRIGGIN LAY DOWN?

Last thought here. Drawing connections between what happens and what happened prior is a fine art, and one that's richly rewarded in the right corners of hackerdom. There's no shortage of people who lack the ability to see the most basic cause/effect and are willing to pay you to tease those things out of the data, or out of your ass. I consider OCD to be an asset, not a fault, as long as it can be channeled properly. It may have saved my life. BUT yeah about stupid shit like hair driers, just show people the obvious. Being OCD doesn't mean you're an idiot, and if you swallow the pill that says "I won't die because X" you open more doors to other rational thoughts. OCD is just your brain stuck in an if/then pattern. Several elses may cure a big chunk of it.
Ah, this is fantastic! OsmAnd is a staple in the open source OpenStreetMap client ecosystem, but its UI is so dated and slow. MAPS.ME was a much better client, with faster and prettier UI until they started monetizing the app in the last year or so (?). Glad to see this new fork of MAPS.ME in the same privacy-first and open-source spirit of earlier clients.

Another OSM client that I've recently fallen in love with is StreetComplete. Its UI is fantastic, though it is geared towards gamification of map metadata enrichment. I wish they would do a full OSM client using whatever technology its uses in the future. It's so slick and fast even on my old phone!
I think most people actually don't care that much, and it's actually all driven by politicians because it's so easy to invoke emotions over it. It's effortless for any politition on either side to paint the whole topic as an emergency, easy way to stoke fear and reaction and get you some votes.

Similar dynamic for the media. The topic is like hot and cold running clicks and views on tap. They sensationalize everything they can, and this practically sensationalizes itself.

The numbers of actual deaths and injuries do not justify this much attention, but the things the numbers do suggest are the biggest problems are just not easy to sell or even explain, and more often than not they conflict with corporate greed and somewhere along the way to any honest assessment of problems and remedies.

Then there is also the effect of reaction.

I am a Bernie/Warren/AOC-loving leftie, and don't own a gun, and whenever I hear yet another attempt by the left to step all over peoples agency, it makes ME want to go out and buy a gun just out of reaction to protect a right that I consider as fundamental as any other. The different rights protect each other. The more the right tries to infringe on say the right to vote, the more important it is to try to get everyone to excercise that right. Same thing when the left tries to infringe on the right to be armed.

So you get a lot of people seemingly acting crazy like this is the most important thing in the world, when really I think it's more like, they just will not tolerate being stepped on on that.

There are all kinds of things that I don't go around talking about all day every day, but if one day you tried to say I couldn't do something that's none of anyone else's business, that thing would suddenly become the most important thing in the world.
By the same reason you know you're not going to get mugged by the cashier, because it's illegal.
So they should either:

1. Abolish income tax and increase consumption taxes; or

2. Encourage employers to locate in Colorado and encourage them to hire remote workers in other states.

Adding costs or regulations does not encourage (2).
Thanks for your insight. What happens to their existing applications, do they move them to serverless too? I am working on an enterprise software in the space. Would love you be in touch with you and get some insights.
Wow that looks great, thanks!
Agreed, how the redundancy is managed and clear reasons for it (time to market, risky bets etc) are key.
My experience with Knative was that it was an abstraction too far for the market. Even when I started to understand it, explaining to other engineers was really difficult.

As a colleague once said, 'The first rule of Knative club is that you can't explain what it is'
A racing game has clear criteria for who is better.

Software development does not even have clear criteria for when a project is done (for us, it's typically when the customer stops threatening legal action on a weekly basis).

Internal "competition" absolutely makes no sense for the 90% of SW shops that do not have infinite SV money.