skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I totally understand how tough it is for a modern academic to maintain software, I gave some thought when I reached the Berkeley computational biologist who complained: Nelle Varoquaux says that, in her field of machine learning in biology, software tools quickly become obsolete because the size of the data sets is changing so rapidly

Let us consider another software project at Berkeley: BSD UNIX. BSD was a research project, a vehicle for groups to do operating system research, an environment for the development of modern relational databases, and the tools that it helped introduce have scaled through multiple orders of magnitude of data set size and through many different hardware architectures. It was done by a combination of professors who obtained funding and crazy grad students who lived and breathed UNIX.

Eventually, the primary funder felt the project had reached its impact limit and reduced funding https://www.tech-insider.org/unix/research/1992/0622.html but the reality is that all this open source stuff happened before and will happen again. The government funding agencies have a messed up incentive system that funds primarily the "sexy" stuff and only around the time when it's producing the "sexy" publications. For example, one of the most important things that kept BSD going was Ingres (oh look, berkeley CS still hosts a copy from 1989: http://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ingres/vax-bsd/)

The UNIX tools I've used for over 30 years have scaled to every IO system I've worked with until I hit multiple-terabytes and moved to parallel computing. Even today, you can pump terabytes through pipes and if you have enough space, you can sort enormous files.

Actually, some bio software also qualifies. AMBER has been around since the 70s and is still a competitive molecular dynamics code that runs on the largest supercomputers and fastest GPUs.

I've concluded that the best source for longterm funding is to convince some billionaire that bio software is important, and then get enough funding to fund an ongoing staff that maintains the software and supports the community, and spinning off a commercial company that handles the enterprise integrations.
Let’s not forgot the impact “SQL on Rails” had on the industry a few years back /s
https://youtu.be/0_PK1eDQyVg
> True. Growing food in a desert is generally a bad idea and extremely wasteful of water resources, for example in an area like the desert landscapes of central California.

But people supposed to get food, all ~40mlns of Californians!

Ok, lets stop doing it in the Central Valley. Where Cali food would come from?
Tracked 2000miles from Lakes region?
Content filters on ML feel so silly. I assume the goal is to avoid bad press? Because the... "attack" would be someone generating offensive material, which they could just write themselves, not to mention I have serious doubts that any filter is going to be a serious barrier.

For images/ video I can see merit, ex: using that nudity inference project on images of children, but text seems particularly pointless.
I'll one-up this a bit: a blind woman called Kristy Viers demonstrates on YouTube how she uses various things, among them iPhone with the onscreen six-finger Braille keyboard. But also she uses the ‘magnifier’ app to tell her what is there around her, i.e. what the camera sees: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8CAafjodkyE

(The videos are filmed by her boyfriend, in case someone has to wonder.)

I realize that the vid is not too informative to a blind person, other than a vague demo. IDK where to find more info on the setup, since I'm not a user of iPhones myself. Comments on YouTube say that the magnifier app is in the accessibility options, that it adds a home screen app when enabled, and that it works at least on iPhone 10 since that's what Kristy uses.

I would also guess that such usage requires persistent mobile connection and consumes considerable traffic and battery—but again, with modern tech magic I won't bet against it working locally on the phone.

On Android, the feature called ‘Lens’ in the Google's camera app can describe some things, more useful to seeing people IMO: e.g. the model of a car—basically the same as Google's image search does, these days. Also purportedly can read and translate text signs. But IDK how far that goes, never heard of it doing stuff like those descriptions by the iPhone magnifier.
If Doug, Karen, Susan, and Chad were all ever in the same room, the stereotype energy would be enough to make it spontaneously combust.
Is Kubernetes Adoption Slowing?
It’s so easy to be offended or outraged. Want a challenge? Practice not being offended or outraged… at exactly those things that presently offend you.
I can vouch for Fulcro. We're using it at my startup and it's been great so far, from standing up a prototype quickly to now a 1-year-old codebase with many paying customers. The data management stuff is pretty novel and comes with a learning curve, but is worth it in my opinion. As an enterprise app, we've been able to turn around features in days if not hours. Happy to answer any questions.
“Chilly” in Japanese
I can't wait to show you this [video]
Unfortunately, Kevlar is a carbon-based polymer, and carbon is in short supply on the Moon.
I remember one episode where George Jetson did something to make one of the robots mad and all of the robots in the show rebelled against him. For some reason my cynical adult brain misremembered it as an episode about the robots being unionized and going on strike and George crossing the line or something but I just rewatched it and there's no social or political commentary to be found, literally just some random robot gets him cancelled as revenge for getting him fired and now I'm kind of sad about it.

But still, imagine living in a fully AI run world where you depend on automation for even basic needs and it can all just decide you don't exist one day, because everything around you is not only fully sentient, but also sometimes kind of an asshole.

Also UNIBLAB was scary. I really like the design now but geez that towering three-eyed monster was creepy when I was a kid.
Are you a very avid adopter of products from early stage startups? Forced updates tend to be more common with small companies that can't devote resources to maintaining backwards compatibility.
FWIW I don’t think that hi/hello have different connotations of formality. I use both interchangeably.
Yeah, the scope of things that an operating system needs to be able to do is basically, “all things that can be done on a computer”, so if you are trying to write full regression tests you are never going to hit all the possible combinations.
Been programming for 8 years and I have a really good understanding of Ruby, Rails, Hotwire, GraphQL, OOP concepts and building production quality web apps.

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- I'm currently working on my bootstrapped solo SAAS app that is used by ~375 businesses every month. Built with ROR and lots of Hotwire. Launched this in Jan.

- Before that, I was a senior developer at FORSBERG+two, a bootstrapped and profitable app development studio based in Copenhagen, Denmark, serving over 75,000+ businesses. My work mainly involved: 1) Building out a Rails engine that holds all the common features - setup, onboarding flow, subscriptions, views (Polaris), authentication etc - so that its easier to build new Shopify apps. 2) Adding tests (system, integration and unit tests) for the existing 4 Shopify apps.

- Before that I was a senior developer at Lummo, a Sequoia backed fintech app used by over 1 million small merchants and retailers. Was with them from the early start to around the 1 million users mark. There were two of us doing Rails over here, and I was the first hire.

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Is the WSJ Editorial Board also on the payroll of Intuit? Cause this terrible opinion piece seriously tries to make the argument that having an automatically computed tax bill and free e-file is a "bad idea".
The problem is that “paying your own way” is synonymous with “no one prevetted these ideas so publication will be harder”
I wonder if this might lead to them attempting to survey you more often as they change minor variables during your calls in what they think are efforts to improve.
I hope to god that one day we will all see this nonsense for what it is: absurdly hilarious.
I echo that sentiment regarding macros. Worthy of further exploration.
Back in the 90s, Joel Welling and Chris Nuuja at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at CMU developed a similar system called P3D.
It was really cool, and they had a bunch of backends to render on different high end graphic workstations. We even had a Pixar Renderman hooked up to a laser disk recorder. You could script a 3D scene with different light sources and cameras and over the course of a week, render some high quality NTSC video.

P3D: a Lisp-based format for representing general 3D models
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/110382.110608

P3D DESCRIPTION AND DEFINITIONS
http://netghost.narod.ru/gff/vendspec/p3d/p3d_desc.txt
If I had $1 for every time a technical conversation missed the high-level components...
I guess they’re trying to avoid the twitter AI bit incident.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...
I encountered this when writing some scripts for Latin-language text processing (which dealt with grammatical gender). Thankfully the Latin-native term 'genus' passed the Copilot smell-test and I could continue with my work. I found it pretty amusing.
> In an ideal scenario, we’d institute a carbon tax and subsidize EVs and clean electrical generation if US politics weren’t broken

US politics isn’t “broken” most voters just don’t care enough about climate change to actually do anything more than support mitigation efforts in the abstract as long as it doesn’t cost them anything.

My parents, for example, are core democrat voters: older minorities who vote straight ticket democrat not only in presidential elections, but random local ones. My parents didn’t even vote for Larry Hogan, who won our Biden-leaning county by 38 points.

And they don’t care at all about climate change! They have a car and aren’t going to buy an EV. Their biggest concern right now is inflation and gas prices. (My dad blames Biden for not strong arming Ukraine into quickly capitulating so the Russian gas can keep flowing.) If you polled them they would say that we should do something about climate change, because they know republicans are climate change deniers and don’t want to come across as being Republican, but it’s a purely symbolic belief that doesn’t affect their voting patterns at all.
I am surprised this hasn't happened a long time ago. It has felt for a while that Facebook has been almost entirely cannibalized by Instagram.

Also wonder how much of that is due to Tiktok being more expensive to produce and thus having a higher average price per influencer?
I don’t understand, there’s no news here.

It’s a comment from a third party speculating over what causes the crash.
They are both election denial, and it’s not a false equivalence because recognizing that both are under the rubric of “election denial” doesn’t imply an equivalence.
Where Are You Still Using Single-Ply?
It's not knowledge acquisition. It's a false sense of accomplishment. You feel like you've learnt something that will help you be more productive. So your mind justifies the time you've spent learning it by thinking you've paid it back.

So mentally, you don't feel like your wasting time. Thus you consume more and more. Which for some, can create an addictive feedback loop similar but exaggerated as porn. Which ironically is wasting time.

Everything in life is in balance.
The only reasonable content filters on these sort of models would be something that could have legal repercussions.

This is absolutely silly. Solid work GitHub team!
it’s an intriguing guess that is at least plausible and hits a bunch of zeitgeist levers too.
You could try to cut local farming, but there is a catch - you have to truck food from somewhere for all ~40mln Californians.
"Productivity porn is anything that after having been consumed makes you feel like you were productive when in reality you didn’t actually do anything." - Interesting definition.
As long as miners ramp when ERCOT would've otherwise curtailed renewables (throwing that power away), I see no problem with their consumption. Using EIA generation mix data (which sites like electricitymap.org consume), it's straightforward to determine the carbon intensity of your current and forward looking electrical consumption and modify your operations accordingly (Google does this for datacenter workloads using electricitymap.org, for example).

https://btuanalytics.com/power-and-renewables/wind-and-solar...

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-TEX-ERCO?wind=false&...
Damn. Why so harsh?

Does the Internet need to be regulated like industrial control devices? Should we get permission from AT&T to certify what we can connect to the network?

The Internet is a tool for everyone, not just gray-beard, elitist gate-keepers. There is room to experiment, make mistakes, and even harmless fun.

Keep in mind Firefox is the least corporate of all major browsers--recent CEO shenanigans not withstanding.

EDIT:
> You were 12 using the hard work of a generation of engineers to surf geocities without knowing it.

Um, so? Thousands of generations of inventors toiled away for you to even touch a computing device (fire, argiculture, rule of law, professional armies, enlightenment, vacuum tubes etc.)
When I moved out of my parent's home I of course left a bunch of random stuff behind including a few boxes of books that I didn't want to haul. Left them in the garage and forgot about them. A few years later my dad was cleaning up the darker corners of the garage and called me up, 'Hey there are some boxes of books in the garage, do you want them or can I just take them to goodwill.' I didn't want them at the time, I hadn't wanted them for years and I couldn't be bothered, so he ended up donating them.

A few years later I got a hankering to read the Dune series again and realized that they had been in one of those boxes. So I went to a used bookstore and found all the original dune books but god emperor. A few weeks later in another used bookstore I found a copy of god emperor. A beat up paperback, beat up in a very particular way. I flipped to the inner back cover where I found my initials. Apparently somehow my copy of god emperor donated out on the kitsap peninsula years before made it's way into a second hand book shop in seattle where I repurchased it.
Intel tried to make Arm SoCs. But their customer management sucked, so in the end they only manufactured the SoCs that they designed, and didn't sell enough of them to be sustainable.
Except Japanese, where unicode is a big regression.
It is quite tough. What are your thoughts on if it is worth it?
But they could have just said church. I think it's odd that OP specified which religion many religions have the features OP mentions.
which would be a bit excessive for a 10 person base, yes?
It seems pretty reproducible. I can’t use copilot but if anyone can reproduce it here that’d be cool. Anyhow, assuming this is reproducible and they do have filters to stop certain words giving predictions it leads that they’re trying to avoid the racist Twitter AI incident happening to them. I find that pretty funny :)
the smugness
An automatically computed tax bill is probably a bad idea, but not because you need Intuit or any other software. It’s because accountant can find you all kinds of loopholes.
Why am I not able to just give you $250 for a single test that has all the Premium data attached to it? If I see the information is useful, up sell me to multiple tests per year after that.

Right now you want me to pay $1308 (!!!) just to see if your "action plans" are any good. Since literally every other personalized health action plan I have ever seen has been useless, I am not inclined to dump $1308 to find out if you are telling the truth or not.

I would maybe be willing to pay $250 for a single premium result, but I am not going to risk paying $1.3k and end up disappointed.
Can we get a source for that? Because at the moment, it's just a comment made by a person on the internet with nothing backing it up...
Another lede is being buried here; cutesy error messages are a pernicious form of escaping responsibility and liability. Which is to say, when you see this sort of thing as a user -- understand that in some form, whoever or whatever entity created the thing you're using doesn't care about you -- or more specifically, has no reason or incentive to treat you respectfully enough to be clear about the error.
I found a $100 treasury bill in a Goodwill book a few years ago. It had some lady’s SS number and address on it. Date was 1973, so $100 was not a small deal.

Hand writing in books is super underrated. Underlining, summarizations, etc. are all really useful. I love when I have an old technical book that has a passage I can’t understand and then some stranger from years ago who did figure out what the author was conveying explains it in their own words in the margin.

Write notes in the books you own and buy books that have notes in them.
the goal of an interview, apparently, is to see to what extent the applicant was willing to repeatedly grind the same leetcode problems over and over again and memorize their solutions
> Updating an element in a mutable array is O(1).

Yes. Yes it is. The structures have different performance characteristics for different operations.
I'll definitely do that, thanks for the tip!
Imagine that you had a co-worker who seemed totally normal 90% of the time... But about once a week, someone would bring up a topic that made them go full nazi or attempt to seduce their coworker. That's where we are with LLM-based generative text. It's not (just) about PR, it's about putting guardrails around the many many many circumstances the tech can do harm or just seem ignorant.
> Copilot crash because the word “gender”

A metaphor for our times.
you can do that same thing without the bitcoin mining.

the fact they got better returns on the energy market , they should have skipped the bitcoin part and used the extra capital they wasted on bitcoin miners to buy even more advance baseline generation to resell on the spot markets
That's a real shame. Ideally we'd bundle together a bunch of things like this into a torrent so that the people using them paid the bandwidth costs, but 70% of people are using hand computers that have been deliberately crippled to make this impossible.
Thanks for sharing~~
Indeed, your entire comment is accurate, in broad strokes, across the electorate. Luckily, adoption is ramping quickly enough that we're already passed an inflection point in the US (per Bloomberg): https://archive.ph/wPQ9B

I still argue politics is broken if people don't care about climate change; that apathy flows to their representatives. C'est la vie, we'll clean it up on the backend with tech and clean energy's version of Moore's Law.
Is it just me or is Liz Truss the stereotypical "Dumb Blonde"?

Let's just say that if Liz Truss gets to be elected Prime Minister of Britain, that the British have learned nothing from the Johnson debacle.
What if I had only a few years left anyway. I think many mobility problems of elderly people boil down to not being strong enough to properly lift and carry around your own weight anymore. Perhaps the moon could be the ultimate retirement home, where people choose to spend their final years enjoying more mobility with reduced risk from falls in lower g.
I'd like to see stats on that.

Keep in mind as well:

- Streetcar suburbs were the exception. Most people either lived in the country --- in farmland --- or in cities.

- Household sizes were considerably larger, perhaps by a factor of 2--6: many more children, possibly grandparent(s), grown children, and live-in household staff. Where a typical present household is 3--4 members, you might find 8--12 within a "streetcar suburb".

The average size across all US households is about 2.54 presently, and was 4.11 in 1940. Again, wealthier residents of suburban regions could quite possibly have been considerably above this.
QR code in a kids book that redirected to a porn site...
I think squash is what most workflows and teams actually want. Rebase doesn’t scale well with the team size and merge makes rollbacks somewhat unwieldy and history messy.
> What causes you to assume that?

Companies have been filling their stockpiling, and anticipating years of demand so they have a safety buffer for many months already. It's natural that this is followed by low demand.

At the same time, the world seems to be entering a recession.
I always do a double-take at the "something went wrong" messages from MS and the dinosaur browser errors in Chrome, because they trip the same part of my brain that's been trained to notice phishing emails.
One Rhonda Sollberger is fairly easily found on Facebook via Google (different last name currently). The others are trickier.
3* Water also appears to be present on the moon[0]

4* Is that enough? We don't know, we've yet to do any centrifuge habitat experiments with small mammals

5* oxygen is so common, CO2 has the advantage of being gasseous, but silicates, aluminum and iron ores are the rocks you can't throw a rock without hitting and has the advantage that you only need to process a millionth the volume to get an equivalent number of moles to martian CO2.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_water
I also think it's unpaid, because the consequences are too significant if it's leaked that there was collusion for Wired to publish a puff piece in exchange for money from Microsoft, and Wired didn't mark it as "sponsored content" or similar.

It's bad for the writer because it shows the writer can be bought, reducing the credibility of previous and future work (though this does happen). It's also bad for Wired as it will be seen as biased for future reports on Microsoft. And it's bad for Microsoft because unpaid positive articles are worth more than positive articles that are suspected to be paid for.

At the most cynical, it's possible the writer wrote this in exchange for building relationships with the sources for future interviews and getting scoops (payment in a different way). More optimistically, the writer was naively passionate as you rote. Still, in any case, the writer could've asked at least some hardball or technically interesting questions for the report.
Statically-linked dash binary on Void Linux with musl is 456K.

By comparison, dynamically-linked bash on same system is 1.3M. Over twice the size.

Dash is both smaller and faster.
Crash the cistem!
Where do you live that gas was 1.80?
It’s interesting how unsubstantiated allegations are getting so much attention, especially on a site with such high quality discussion.