skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, the US strategic goal is to dominate the world militarily. It could achieve that with half its military spending, arguably even a third. And yes, lobbying can heavily skew what ends up being prioritized, to the point of inefficiency. This is not to say there are not other sources of inefficiency too - the items in which the US spent the most money in the past 20 years have been completely pointless wars that dragged on forever and ultimately achieved nothing. Feeding more money to this largely inefficient (and harmful) machine cannot be justified solely on the basis of increased competition from other countries.

Lobbying also works against efficiency by prioritizing older companies over newer, more innovative ones. Look at the progress of SpaceX vs the the ULA. Following your premise that heavy investment can create a scenario where competition will suddenly cease to exist, this type of thing should not be possible. Heck, until World War II the US was not even among the highest military spenders in the planet. It was the heavily militarized Europe that started a conflict and shot its advantages on the foot. So, your premise that you can just overspend your way into invincibility is not sound either, if anything the opposite might happen.
That figure doesn't even include our electricity usage, which is fairly conservative; we average about 12kWh/day when we're not using electric heating and we're working from home.
I think it's more likely that AI systems will act as a crutch, enabling even more overcomplicated procedures to grow and persist, until it's impossible for any mere human to understand.
Last time I was there, I actually couldn't get the login screen to appear. Clicking login grays the site out and draw 2 useless horizontal lines. Only clicking 'create account' and then switching to 'already have an account' gives me a login screen. As a bonus, mistranslations are so bad the text on the 'create account' and 'already have an account' are identical. You have to guess which dialog is which. All of this on firefox with ad blocker, maybe chrome is better.

Now that whole site has the weirdest bugs. When I go to the mailbox, the site switches to some eastern european language. The things we do for cheap electronic components ...
Hey, this bullshit machine will drive IT profits up - hardware, cloud, development. Imagine MSN news fully rewritten by ChatGPT with ChatGPT articles, chatGPT ads and ChatGPT support! Sll delivered on each Microsoft Windows installation all over the globe! Don’t you want join the train while it is not too late? You know, next .NET will heavy use ChatGPT and ChatGPT AI developers are hot now!
Seriously?? This is why I think layoffs in tech are needed. Spoilt brats. 8 weeks is a luxury no other industry offers. By law it's actually 1 week per year and this doesn't even have the WARN law behind it
> EU

In 2013 the government of Cyprus decided to seize money directly from people's bank accounts. I would not call that stable.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/everyth...

> China

In 2022, when some Chinese banks decided to freeze depositors accounts for shady reasons and debitors planned to protest the issue, authorities used Covid codes to block them from accessing the banks. That also does not seem stable to me.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-bank-protest-stopp...
This site looks to be run over people just wanting to rant at something no matter the topic. It happens in all other topics as well, Google, Apple, you name it.

It wouldn't be such a problem, but some posters have extremely poor relation with reality and truth.
Simpler only if you love yaml.

I find the two-level structure of a makefile easier to follow.
You should always be distrustful of doctors to some degree in my opinion. They are too often seen as unquestionable in our society
Sure, no problem. Just be aware that the power bill is part of the price too. I used to take the rough calculation; every Watt used 24/7 is 1 Euro per year. That wasn't even true 2 years ago, now it might even be going to 3 or 4 Euro. So a 50 Watt increase can cost up to 200 Euro per year when it is running 24/7. After 3 years, you could have bought quite a different class of CPU at 65 Watt TDP. If you don't run it 24/7, divide the cost by how much you do use it.
I agree. You buy high end parts either to enjoy it or because you truly need it.

You don't buy high end parts to be fiscally efficient, efficiency has always been the realm of mid to low end parts. This applies to nearly everything.
Isn't that actually a bad thing? Wouldn't I want the currency I use for finance and so on to be relatively stable? And money come from these activities and not the currency changing in value.
Querying SQLite Using Apache Arrow
We had Venetian blinds but they're inside the windows so all of the heat was already inside by the time it hits them, it didn't help much. We don't live there now so we have different problems.
If Google were to force every vendor to use their operating system, there'd be riots among manufacturers, and probably some antitrust lawsuits.

Google's Android is not Samsung's Android, nor is it OnePlus' Android. They are all forks of the "original" AOSP Android and should be treated as such. Google requires some compatibility for inclusion of their Play services and has used AOSP to build in the core to achieve this, but it includes only very specific parts of the operating system.

Google Play is an application package that's added to another operating system, and an optional one at that. Huawei is still selling phones without GPlay and people are still buying those, even outside China.

There are phones for which your arrangement actually works: the Android One programme has Google set up everything but the drivers and associated libraries for vendors, who can then push updates to end users almost directly from Google.

If you want to get quick updates from Google, vote with your wallet and buy an Android One phone. Most manufacturers prefer to have control over their own stack so they can add distinguishing features to their products, plus there are obviously fees for the OS involved, so the price may be higher for some Android One phones compared to the other products, but you do usually get the updates in the way you describe.

At the end of the day, though, the average end user doesn't care about Android One. The option is still out there if you care.
Yep. To put some numbers on this, transaction fees are currently about 1% of the block reward[1]. As of the next halving next year, transaction fees would have to grow by 50x to make up for the lower block reward.

Bitcoiners I talk to either haven’t gamed out the long term, plan to sell before then, or have some wishy-washy story about how Coinbase et al. will mine as a loss leader to keep the industry running.

1: https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/fee_to_reward-btc.html#...
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You may not remember 2008, but banks are absolutely, massively, a systematic risk to everyone, everywhere.
What this comes down to is simply economics and incentives, and how those economics and incentives are changed within and from outside by other forces. That is it.

even the concept of "Galapagos effect"is easily explained by government created market distortions.

1. Japan was a closed country for~250 years, until the US "Gunboats of democracy" opened up Japan under Commodore Perry threatening to flatten Japanese cities. Prior to that there was restricted trade/trading posts with the Dutch, Portuguese, and then Germans.

2. With the US military threats, Japan side the treaty with the US and realized pandora's box was open, they say the Western operations, war and colonies and said, time to get moving. Thus, German and Prussia in particular suited Japan well culturally and in many aspects - so this tight tie up, creating or promoting trading companies or families (Zaibatsu) & forming their own colonies, China, Taiwan, Korea, etc.

3. There are many other factors within the run up to WWII and after but Japan was a major innovator, especially after WWII as central control imploded - think Honda, Sony, etc. the issue is that as PCs came into play Japan was highly centralized again & there were numerous issues of lacking vc or risk capital, social risks, financial risk, labor mobility ,etc. And even today most software devs cannot hardcore sell - imagine 1970, 1980, 1990s.

4. The native ERP market was highly customized (mostly SAP) using SIer's and they wanted it specific to their unique workflows - the old 80% of what I want is not enough - funny enough that is a competitive advantage again.

5. At same time, most of foreign program work was either L10N or integration ,sintalls, support/maintenance for the foreign software vendor - Oracle, SAP, MSFT, etc.

6. Btw the time we got to 1990s, Japan had many innovations in software, BUT this ran into a wall - it had a horrible startup ecosystem and so it was occupied by ossified rent-seeking incumbents like Sony, who fought their own engineers. Sony was the original Apple, Akio Morita the original Steve Jobs, including taking the most important case, Sony vs Universal Studios to the US supreme court and winning. Ipod, imac, etc. are simply the 2.0 or 3.0 version of the sony innovation products. I have interviewed a dozen of these engineers and managers going back to 2006. And also other interviews state side of how products like Slingbox/Slingmedia were just sony products and so on.

7. At this point the social risk, the financial risk, the career risks and labor mobility of joining a startup or high grow firm in nascent industry are greatly reduced, more programming resources than ever, smart hard workers, it is just the opportunities -- opportunities that were artificially restricted by ossified rent seeking incumbents using regulator capture.
Generally, operating on raw numbers in a columnar layout is very very fast, even if you just write it as a straightforward loop.
I use twitter (https://twitter.com/strzibnyj) and I have a blog (https://nts.strzibny.name) but I don't think you have to market yourself this way per se at all. But it's 100% helpful.
Yet it's extremely useful in various usecases.

"Mutate this code so it adheres to XYZ pattern"

"Factor this code out into a React component and wire it up"

"Tell me what this code does, what do I need to change to make it do XZY"

"I need to programatically access AWS <service>, guide me through AWS console to set up the right IAM policies and generate those for me, then generate the correct boto3 code to call this service"

"Take this email, write a friendly and brief response and ask for setting up an appointment next week"

"Write me a bash script that uses imagemagick to perform a bunch of transformations on image files with the following filenames"

"Take this curl command, turn it into a Python function, add type annotations and comments where necessary"

And many, many more usecases. Does it bullshit? Absolutely, but that's just not always an issue. A lot of the bullshitting can be circumvented by prompting it in the right ways and having the right discourse with it.

It's a room full of employees, and you are the manager. Will you hear plenty of bullshit? Absolutely, but you will also get heaps of useful output that can solve your problem, make you think outside the box etc. It's all about how you interact with it.

It's a significantly more pleasant and productive interaction mode than using a search engine and sifting through the SEO spam. I still do that, if I need to verify something or validate if something I don't have enough domain knowledge of is bullshit or not, but more often than not I don't need to. and that's been incredibly liberating.
Why would you have to tell if they’re from one bot?
The study he links to is just a correlation study right? It proves nothing beyond the study author's ability to start with an assumption and then do maths.
There's a few things going on here though.

If you're buying a PS3 bundle you probably don't already own a PS3. So you probably don't know what storage you will actually need.

The games may be worthless to you, but if you wanted to actually buy it, it's going to cost something even if it's to cover the postage.

3rd party controllers. If you know they're going to be used regularly then 1st party is the way to go, but a second controller for me has always been a little used just in case thing.

And this is all assuming it isn't a parent buying it for child, that has no idea what they're after, and a buying a bundle so they know it will all work together.

I think you're also underestimating the value add. If I buy an AliExpress memory card, I have to work out if it's going to work as advertised etc, if it doesn't I then have the pain of getting my money back and waiting for a replacement. If I buy from you as part of a bigger purchase I have an expectation that you've found a card that works, and presumably don't want to torpedo a $100+ sale over a $2 memory card.

If I were to buy a PS3 now, I would need at least a subset of these things, I would have to work out compatibility, wait for everything to arrive, and if it doesn't all work, I have to work out what the issue is an sort a replacement. All in all, if you sell me all the elements, if it doesn't work, I get some come back, even that copy of assassin's creed. I may never play it, but if it doesn't work, it stops me being in a situation where game seller says the games are ok, you need to clean the optical drive, and the console seller saying the games are scratched.
> Humanity isn’t ready because we can’t build perfect code yet.

Let me rephrase that:

[Nobody] is ready because we can't build perfect [anything], [ever].
Enjoy that price while it lasts and get ready to haggle; the non-promotional rate (found on the "Rate Cards" page linked at the bottom of Astound's website) for your speed tier is $161.99 per month in addition to the Network Access and Maintenance Fee.

At least in former RCN areas, there's usually at least a semi-viable competitor, and after being away for 2 months, you generally become eligible for the new customer promotions again.
Was that sarcasm or genuine preference? Either way I'd love to know what drives your opinion in Python vs. Perl!
Even then, it didn't take the actual great circle route because Russia.

The Japan to Europe flights are even worse. The great circle route cuts west, straight across Russia [0]. These days, they fly east to the Bering Strait then more or less directly over the north pole [1] (though probably easier to see on great-circle: [2])

[0] http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=HND-FRA

[1] https://flightaware.com/live/flight/DLH717/history/20230109/...

[2] http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=HND-NUZAN-KUTAL-FRA
Some work a lawyer does is menial word churning. Some work a lawyer does requires much more mental effort.

If I could feed thousands of documents to an algorithm and then ask him stuff like "in which pages the tax returns of the defendant are discussed?" or "how many times is the defendant's wife talked about in a negative connotation?" it would make work much easier.
Do you see a difference between ants and humans ?

We're just groups of tubes, you put food in one end and it shits it on the other end, in between these events we mostly run around and do meaningless things, from time to time we find more food to put in our tubes.
We Have a Tripledemic. Not of Disease, but of Fear
Of course that is because Matz is nice.
There is already a couple of options

https://github.com/multycloud/multy

But a multicloud wrapper creates a lot of abstractions.
After 2022, you still think that these countries (EU, UK, etc.) have a stabile currency? Well, that's some serious positive thinking. I'm still curious to see how people will react when we get a real crash within the next few years.
"I was apprehended under a level three predictive crime directive. My AI lawyer failed to cite the relevant statutes. Now I've been remanded to a medium security behavioral modification center. After incorrectly answering the AI managed multiple choice psychological evaluation questionnaire, I was denied parole. When released I'll have to start all over again with a social credit score of zero. My mother always said I would run afoul of the algorithm. If only I had listened..."
Which is a good thing, as it supports a use case that Make wasn't made for.
India, China, the countries of the EU, the USA, Japan, Indonesia - these countries all have a stable currency and access to modern financial services, and together make up a majority of the world's population, or close to it - and there are many others fitting this bill. This "small minority" idea is ludicrous.
I'm not on Twitter/LinkedIn and have basically nothing on public on Github. Hasn't been an issue for me somehow.

I just say I don't have any social media accounts and that I'm a private person. I've not felt pressured to post something, but if I was, I'd just refuse. I guess in the worst case they fire me, but I'd just find a job somewhere somewhere else.

I guess my advice is just keep ignoring the bullshit as long as the consequences aren't something you can't handle. Obviously if you're the single earner in your family and barely making ends meat, you might have to suck it up.
If a government decides you'll get a haircut, you'll get one, even if they have to take out the sheep shears to do it.
You forgot the truckers in Canada last year
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You need to do it anyway if your names are too descriptive*

"video-encoder is not working"

"oh, you mean ffmpeg"

"no, our microservice is called video encoder"

Also they are not neccesarily one or the other, you can name something that hints at its function but it is not straight dictionary description of it.
i was having a conversation about this with my friend the other day, his theory is that technology used to required you to exercise your brain a wee bit, that it enhanced your thinking. But now the focus is on making it as slimmed down, "easy" as possible, brainless as possible, unfunctional as possible.

It made me think about my understanding of the old GNU folks, that software should be free to modify, because everyone should be poking around in the software on their systems on their own. An ambitious dream probably, but I don't really hear about ideas like that in my day to day work anymore.
not sure yet how to evaluate this versus using css clamp to dynamically set font size - will have to do some tests I suppose to wrap my head around it.
Grafana is a fork of Kibana is the open source viable alternative to Kibana.
The Japan method of working is also light and fast. It depends on industries and also particular companies.

Japanese love kata - kata is pattern so there is no reason they cannot use state of art of select from a variety of design or development patterns.

And they do.
Game dev is highly iterative. Chances are the code you wrote will get deleted or rewritten anyway so forcing you to handle potential edge cases means forcing you to waste time.

I think Rust can play a similar role as C++ in driving the actual game engine code which is more static but I don't think writing the actual game logic in it plays to its strength. For that more dynamic languages with faster iteration times shine.

As for crunch time, that is a organizational problem, there will be not technical fix for that.
Do you complain that any Google search returns lot of bullshit as well?

ChatGPT is only a tool, yet a powerful one. There are many uses that are quite reliable and producing no bullshit. If you don't see them, too bad for you.

How should we call the rejection of AI? Intelligism? Artificialism?
I did this for passing parameter to a twitter card generator php script :joy:
As in, "give way to aircraft from above" :D
Officially ETOPS stands for "Engines Turn or Passengers Swim"
If the major currencies fail/drop 50%+ per year in N years, crypto value will be screwed too, even more.

Because all those major currencies are backed by huge economies and militaries and whatever's needed to prevent those people from starving.

As usual, it's great to have diversified assets, but that's not really a viable option for the average person that can barely pay their rent.
Providing banking services to people who are unbanked for political reasons is one of the main advantages of crypto imho. This is something you can get hit by in so called democratic countries as Canada demonstrated last year. https://www.businessinsider.com/trudeau-canada-freeze-bank-a...
I think is time to get a different class of this kind of devices. In the software world we have packages/libraries for pretty much everything. In the hardware world, in the hobby prototyping part, we have these "monstrosities" that can do everything, but not that great. I want a barebone arduino: a connector for power (let me deal with providing clean 5v), a connector for programming the mcu, a connector for external clock and a built in resonator/quartz. Make this in a easily breadbord-able package and off I go.

Obviously I could "build" the barebone arduino on a breadboard, but that means I have to redo the same thing every time I need to add a new mcu to my prototype. Or I could design and build the thing myself. I did this in the past, I've spent quite a few evening designing the thing, then ordered parts from China, then spent even more time soldering the things together. Just to piss off my cat that took a very long wee in the box I was storing the boards.
Not to do a console war but the "pitch" of a console to me had always been "it just works." You don't know about computers, you don't wanna know about computers, you just wanna buy the disc, come home, put it in, pick up your controller, and play. The hardest part about the experience is supposed to be plugging the correct cords in between the console and your TV.

Nowadays you might as well just game on a PC because it's just as much work apparently, especially to play online.
For the shiny shiny "AAA" releases, sure.

There's plenty of 4X / RTS / Simulation games where the CPU will be the bottleneck.
You can try the examples or datafusion with flight. I have been able to process data with that setup in Rust under milliseconds that usually takes tens of seconds with a distributed query engine. I think Rust combined with Arrow, Flight, Parquet can be a game changer for analytics after a decade of Java with Hadoop & co.
You're speaking as if the second largest crypto exchange hasn't just collapsed, and had turned out to be stealing all of its customers' money.
What is a good office chair worth?
I don’t quite understand the prices sometimes. It’s a bit like with mattresses. Some cost 1000 USD for no apparent reason.

What’s your take on it? Are there "fair chairs"?
I think the time of "blindly trusting science" is actually over. Also, invoking science and the statistical benefits of a effectively-forced medical intervention isn't really helping to rebuild trust. Dont get me wrong, I love science. Science alone. Without the media, uninformed journalists, and all the yada yada. I dont trust these people anymore to communicate facts without distoring them. Also, I work at a university, so I actually know that not every scientist is actually a genius. So, knowing that media distort information, and knowing that scientists have to publish, no matter what, does not help build trust in scientific data used to pressure people into compliance.

IOW, there are two kind of science. There is the science we have learnt to depend on. And then there is reality, liars and media.