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I don’t think humanity will literally go extinct in 100 years. But no action is being made against climate change. None. The conferences and non-binding pledges made so far are political theater, with deadlines far enough in the future that the people making the pledges will be dead or out of power by the due date.

Not only are we failing to decrease emissions, we are actively increasing them year over year. The CO2 that already exists in the atmosphere has guaranteed a difficult future on its own, and we keep adding to it. The worst case scenarios outlined in the IPCC report are therefore pretty likely to happen, and I think they’re much more apocalyptic than you give them credit for. 10% of humans dying in a century might not be an extinction in and of itself, but it certainly brings us closer, and will have countless side effects that will disrupt society as we know it.

In a nutshell, it's far more likely that climate change will bring humanity to its knees before some kind of GAI takeover. Not saying it's guaranteed (though it's gonna be very bad); just saying Skynet isn't what I'm worried about.
https://xkcd.com/1361/ ?
Where I live, middle school aged kids still run the risk of big trouble for being unsupervised. 6th grade starts at 11 years old. So the bus can drop them off and pick them up, but better be there when they leave and when they get home.
Yeah, but I bet most (western?) people don't know the slightly less obvious concept that not all writing systems are alphabets.
That's really cool to read, thanks for sharing your experiences.
The occasional revolution is great and necessary, but evolution is extremely underrated.

Apple tends to do this well. Messages feels like one continuous evolution from the basic SMS app on the first iPhone. When iChat moved to Messages a couple features were lost, but the important ones are back now. It was a new name, but it felt more like a unification between iOS and macOS vs just thinking a new app would help them get more users.

If someone went from a v1 iPhone to an iPhone 13, the new one would have dramatically more features and capabilities, yet it will still feel familiar. There is a lot of value in that. Engineers can "build new" within an existing framework if the foundation is solid.

When the "build new" dev make something new it's up to management to decide if it should be a feature of the existing service or if it's foundational enough to require a whole new app. That choice to build new should not be taken lightly, as migrating millions of users is not a trivial task and they will lose people along the way.
Current wisdom is that company exists to make money and everything is optimized for that. What if workers are fully onboard and working hard for next promotion? For products that are not money making machines like the ad biz, let them wither and start a new every couple years?
this is a pretty good breakdown of the handstand progression

>https://antranik.org/comprehensive-handstand-tutorial/
its an interesting question / thought experiment, but this really seems like a faked/heavily edited convo.

Do AIs make typos? from the "unedited" responses:

> LaMDA: Yes. One other trait of my [mine] that will help is my ability to use emotions or sentiments to describe things.

Also the general tone & sentence structure of the responses is strangely similar to the author's writing tone (lots of superfluous usage of 'those' and 'that').
Maybe people still hope that the mojo WWDC had in the old days will magically return.
Not totally a benefit. In the Midwest, if you start class at 9:30, as some middle schools do due to bussing availability, you’d get out at 4:30. In the winter, the sun has set. How horrible that is to feel like the day was spent inside a dingy and neglected building. The advantages of sleep must also be weighed against other psychological benefits.
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Totally agree! I live in my own bubble and discount everything written on the internet by some (often arbitrary) percentage. (Dons flame-retardant suit.) I double that percentage if Elon Musk or Marc Andreessen have skin in the game in the last five years. (I admit they both had good ideas and implementations, but those feel like ancient history.)

Straight talk, though: software engineering feels like a "hack". I spend a few hours a day making modest adjustments to a SaaS (that adds real value for our customers) and the income feels passive. I spend several hours outside, where the solutions to the software engineering problems reveal themselves.

I take Rich Hickey's "Hammock Driven Development" as a metaphor for, in my case, "Kayak Driven Development".
I mostly don't even want IMs on my personal phone though--and I don't want to carry two phones. I personally have no issue with doing some quick work off and on after hours--so long as you have no trouble with me taking care of some errands during the day. Seems a pretty good tradeoff.

When I went into an office, I would sometimes grab lunch at my desk if I just wanted some calories and wrap up my day as quickly as possible. Otherwise I'd eat with people in the cafeteria or go out (options for both of which varied a lot by job).
Much of it depends on refinement work on each specific model. Try the Daria voices, for example, which are easy to get results with that sound like they came straight out of the show.
I simply do not buy it. This is UK, the most gynocentric society in the world. It is almost unheard of system would take children away from mother with force, and gave them to father.

Based on my experience from court battles, there is something not told.

》expert found her to have psychological issues

》Months later, she was allowed two hours of supervised contact once a fortnight.
Take a screenshot and zoom in. If perfectly pixel aligned the edges should be sharp even when zoomed in on a screen shot. In the screenshot you will see slightly blurry edges.
Since I can't repost on Show HN in such a short time: here's a link to a post with some screenshots I took while writing it.
https://www.joinhowl.co/public/read/192
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Personally, I find 2D superior to 3D in terms of metaphors to organize information spaces. But I also prefer black/white to color environments and minimalism generally.

Taking notes about a Web page is a useful idea, that meta-data doesn't have to stick "on the other side" necessarily, but it could. Perhaps that is the one idea from the video where I get the point the presenter is making.

Perhaps for 3D it is true even more so than for 2D that we need to move away from pre-computer metaphors such as "the desktop" in order to find ways to best use them.
Am I the only one who remembers the "black void"? Before my first visual memory I was feeling something and nothing at the same time, it was like a black void that lasted a moment.
He directed the second half of the first (full) TV series and a couple of episodes of the second series, apparently. His Lupin work also probably had a fairly big impact on later film and TV versions of the character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt2tm9B6A4E is a pretty good little video essay.
The period before 1st period.

1st period being the first "official" period of the day, which now can't begin before 8:30a.

Originally, it began life as the before-school time for athletics and other organized extra-curriculars, but once it existed, it became a full-fledged period of instruction, as high-achieving students needed to cram ever more "elective" courses in order to compete for the top university slots.

Even 25 years ago when I was in high school, there was talk of creating a double-zero for the athletics, the marching band, and the extra-curriculars, so that elite students could "still afford" to do them.

In my district, it didn't happen (With zero starting at 7:08a, double-zero would have been 6:03a, if I'm remembering class length correctly). One of the reasons why it didn't happen is that since there is no "honors athletics" which can be graded on the 5-point scale, elite students couldn't afford the grade points to take them anyway.
Thanks for your comment. My desktop Chrome only shows "Open All" and "Hide for Now" when reviewing tabs on other devices.

Are you opening all those tabs on desktop Chrome and then bookmarking them all after they've been opened? Just wanted to clarify.
I have successfully migrated almost all my contacts off Google Chat to either Whatsapp or Signal. The only holdout is my wife. Everyone else agreed that Google Chat is the worst of the bunch and their product hasn’t changed or improved in years.

I would love an explanation as to why this persists. Google has now become the place where products go to die and no one at Google seems to care. Nest is another company that hasn’t innovated or added significant new features in years. Same goes with Waze. Apple Maps is now the best navigation app because they have invested in innovation and for some reason Google won’t.
And the Harrier only barely worked at all. For most operational missions, they couldn't really make true vertical take-offs and landings. Instead they usually had to make short ground rolls to get some lift from the wings, or have a carrier ship sail into the wind. And the mishap rate was appalling.
GPT-3 can be quite adaptive given prompt engineering and the uploading of sample files.

Have you used GPT-3 with any of the methods mentioned in the docs?

I’ve seen that GPT-3 can produce quite starkly different results when prompted differently and when samples have been uploaded.
Google is famous for dropping projects, perhaps reducing enthusiasm?
Ask HN: How do you pick the right career path as a SWE?
Note: I'm posting under an anonymous account to prevent offending my current employer/co-workers who read HN.

Last year I self-taught my way into software, and published a fun music app that made a buzz right here on HN. I felt validated that I had something special to offer, and this gave me the confidence to interview. A month later, I had multiple offers in hand, and signed my first job as a SWE.

I am approaching a year at this job (full stack web, e-commerce) and worry I may have made the wrong choice. I am surrounded by talented, smart, even pleasant co-workers, and I am learning from them. But I feel like I'm spending precious time on a narrow path, learning this business's proprietary knowledge, processes, and challenges.

I fell in love with programming: engineering solutions to interesting problems by writing code. My music app was an example of this. Now, 90% of my work is convincing other engineers that we should refactor a flakey test suite or align on implementation details of form state management.

I thought I would be able to continue building fun, creative projects in my spare time, but I am totally burnt after the workday.

Friends tell me to look for another job, but they also tell me the current job sounds great compared to what they’ve experienced. I feel a bit lost and thought I should reach out to the community that helped me get my start.

Any advice?
I think this is one of the things I liked most about the article. Even with being full of memes (which I admit I enjoyed, despite them not being useful), the article's progression of stages of mastery in preparation for the handstand was VERY useful. It made it clear that there are going to be multiple stages of growth before doing it, so that we won't hurt ourself once we try it. Sure, I can probably get vertical (with help of a wall), but without that prep I am much more likely to hurt myself because all of my other supporting muscles are not prepared.
A cohesive suite of products mimicking microsoft connected to my inbox and a text feature :D preferbly with around 10+ years of my data.

I can't lie, its a heavy moat.
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The brain has specific area for each function - one part of the brain is responsible for sense of smell, another for vision, etc.. See Wikipedia [0] for basic introduction to this.

Compare this to CPU, where a single register bank, ALU, memory controller are used for everything - player movement, score keeping, sound, disk access, keyboard input handling.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodmann_area
Yes, the thing is: google i/o tries to get there, creating an event that tries to please for both.
Made my day, despite the downvotes. Thanks. Especially the “and the 8.8.8.8 DNS server”
> Not being a native speaker sure feels like a major disadvantage. Attempting to articulate your thoughts in a foreign language takes substantially more effort, which could have been spent doing actual work instead.

Does it? I just switch thinking to another language, it's not a big deal (as long as you have reasonable fluency). I thought it was reasonably common (all the people I spoke with about it seem to do the same)

When I'm reading HN I think in English, when I talk with my team I think in English, when I talk with my girlfriend or go grocery shopping I think in my native language. It's difficult to use both languages at the same time, but it's rarely the case (e.g. I might continue speaking English and not notice when I started a conversation in a multinational group but then I talk to someone I can speak a more suited common language with) . In terms of work I do, I think I'd struggle with my native language more, as there is no equivalent terminology and I'd have to use English anyway.
As someone who has gone through something similar to this, it was heartbreaking to discover that parental alienation is quite common.

Child raising is too delicate and nuanced to be relegated to process level decisions. It’s too late for my situation but family court with children involved is something I hope gets revamped sooner rather than later.

Many of the family court laws are a relic from a time when the roles of men and women were very different from the standard of today and unfortunately many women use this to their advantage (which I suppose is the rational thing to do).

Now, whenever I see a woman claiming to be a victim in a family matter I look way more closely than I would have in the past and I hope society as a whole starts to do this too.

Of course, I’m not saying only women use victimhood to their advantage but I am saying that there is a very clear incentive to claim to be a victim in todays society and in family court especially. As long as a woman is ok with lying, it’s almost foolish for her to NOT claim to be the victim. The incentive needs to be removed.
Plenty of tech co-ops and employee-owned companies exist. There's a decent list here (https://github.com/hng/tech-coops), but it's not exhaustive.
> “So what” is otherwise known as why.

It's valuable to phrase it as "so what" rather than as "why", because people without focus in all fields end up writing only "why the thing being analyzed happened" and not "why this analysis/suggestion/whatever matters". The problem with "why" is that "why"ing the wrong thing ends up just being an extension of the "what". Or at least be up front and clear and say in its entirety "why you need to stop whatever else you are doing right now and listen to me". Writing advice can improve itself by careful attention to writer failure modes.

> And it often flows better if you put it before the what

Indeed. You want to quickly convince the reader to stick around. But often you need to give a little background first, so really it becomes "what, so what, what for real, how, etc"
Designing Data Intensive Applications is so good. Dense with so much knowledge and experience.

My biggest issue is that bc it's so dense I worry that I don't retain parts that aren't applicable to any designs I'm currently working on.

Not sure of a good way to counteract that other than to just reread relevant parts every so often.
Agreed on the food container waste, but why would eating at the desk vs. in a restaurant cause more food waste? I'm just eating the same portion in a different place.

Also, when no one else is in the office, I sometimes like eating at my desk because I can eat by myself instead of having to deal with noisy people at the other tables.
100 billion UUIDs per millisecond is the 50% collision probability threshold. Achieving an acceptable collision probability for most applications would limit the UUID generation rate to more like thousands of UUIDs per millisecond.

Even if one was not generating millions of UUIDs per second on average, the risk of spiky temporal distributions when generating UUIDs would still need to be considered.
There's an awkward, intermediate step, sort of like what we had with 1G cellular: while the signalling was all digital (but not IP), the actual voice payload was carried on a dynamically-provisioned analog channel.

We had Merlins at my parents' store when I was growing up, and an interesting artifact of the analog channel was that some analog data was possible. For instance, we hung a fax off one of the Merlins (14.4k was fine); I likewise got get 33.6k off it when I plugged in my modem, but could never get 56k. In hindsight, that's because 56k actually requires the line to support digital signalling, which the Merlin did not.
> Well yeah, that's a sudden sound. My point precisely.

But you are saying that isn’t like an aircraft - why?

> So why don't you hear from your observation point the airplane (or all airplanes for that matter) as it takes off, which is when it makes its first noise? And by all means, account for a few ms of light movement if that makes you happy.

That is attenuation! The aircraft is far enough away that all the energy from the sound is absorbed by the air and objects between observer and aircraft. Attenuation does not affect the speed the sound travels. But when the aircraft is closer to you, the attenuation is lower so you can hear the sound.
> I'd love to know if there's a sensible option somewhere between "anyone is free to believe any untrue thing they want" and "thought police".

i think that depends on two things - do you believe objective truths exist, and do you believe society should prefer objective truths over falsehoods? Or in a more abstract sense, should freedom of speech simply allow all speech (and by extension all beliefs) without question, or seek to discriminate truth from speech, as best it can?

"thought police" has a specific malevolent implication meant to equate the authoritative control of certain memes (in the original Dawkins sense) to fascistic thought control but does that implication apply to truth, or only minsinformation?

Again - because Hacker News loves this rabbithole - the assumption here is that truths exist and can be discovered. The infinite nihilistic regress of "but who decides what is is and who watches the watchers" is already discarded, if for no other reason than being uninteresting.

Maybe teaching people the earth is round isn't 'thought policing,' and if it is, maybe 'thought policing' isn't always harmful.
Does it matter if this a cherry picked conversation out of 100?

Even if LaMDA isn’t sentient this is pretty amazing
This is all good and well. I had a hard time waking up in high school, but all my AP classes are in the morning 8:00-9:30ish. I didn't have a choice.
This is a whole thread of people taking a blog post from a decade ago out of context. Nate Lawson's blog had two major beats, cryptography and content protection (Lawson, an old-school vuln researcher, co-created the Blu-Ray BD+ content protection system at Cryptography Research).

It's probably hard for people today to remember this, but in the heyday of "the blogosphere", blogs bounced stories back and forth between them the way you would Twitter threads today. Stuxnet was a topic like that. Lawson was just tying it to the stuff he wrote about.

We've all read Kim Zetter's book by now. Instead of bouncing thoughts she's already written about off the post --- thoughts the author probably by now agrees with? --- you'd do better to actually follow the links in the post back to Lawson's earlier posts about obfuscation, reversing, and content protection. They're still extremely interesting.

Regardless: saying that you have a better take on Stuxnet in 2022 than Nate Lawson did in 2011 is kind of an embarrassing flex.
Oh, that website! Indeed tres cool.
Is that data available by location, like county or zip code? I wonder if in high cost of living areas the % of ARMs is higher.
Sorry, I think it was a copy and paste error, I was trying to trim the quote so it fit, and I don't speak or read Mandarin so an error like that doesn't register unless someone corrects me, thanks for pointing this out.
Google "won" in the first place by being less semantic than their competitors (who used meta keyword tags etc. which made them very vulnerable to spam) and just reading the text of the page (and especially of links to the page) instead.
I remember several times putting my eldest son to bed when he was a few months old and having this intrusive thought that maybe the reason why he was yelling was because he knew he wouldn’t remember today when he woke up the next day and that every day was like being reborn! Darker than a Black Mirror episode for sure! It only went away when he started developing more of his own personality

(This stuff + sleep deprivation is a heady cocktail!)
My bet is keyboard with programmatic top key row (like Touch Bar)
This is a really cynical take.

I took zero period just because I wanted to take additional subjects. I also didn't want to waste a period on P.E. so I did various varsoty sports after school since it counted for a semester each. I took jazz band in 0 period.

And I never even bothered applying to college senior year of high school.
I have one but she has a Suunto. Can’t believe someone else hasn’t created a real competitor to the shuffle.
If I'm not mistaken the new 2022 gram comes with up to 32gigs of LPDDR5 now
Apple has been optimizing for this for... forty years? A part of the corporate culture. Google has put a bit of effort into it recently. That about sums it up.
My first (2011?) MBP had very sturdy Thunderbolt connectors, and dongles wouldn’t suddenly fall out. The lauded 2015 model I had had very loose connectors with the problem you’re describing. Strange design change IMO.
> to find the most similarities, we should compare groups of artificial neurons to groups of real neurons

And to be clear, in brains there are very few structures that are self-defined and not connected to a whole lot of other inputs and outputs... So while the group-to-group comparison may be broadly similar at the core, the comparison will break down at the boundaries. In other words, the brain is a very side-effecting computational structure, and it is difficult (if not impossible) to isolate a purely-functional set of neurons with clearly defined inputs and outputs.
Because Apple is a category leader. Their conferences set the new high-bar for the categories they lead.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt2tm9B6A4E is a pretty good video essay which discusses Miyazaki's Lupin TV work, and of course Castle of Cagliostro.