skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are annoyances. 1) many sites can't even be bothered with a basic noscript or it was the default message from some “starter” app rather than something meaningful/descriptive 2) basic sites like blogs are putting their image loading behind JavaScript for no reason (unless they or WordPress plugin developers aren't aware of <img loading="lazy">) 3) too many folks are relying on third-party CDNs and client-side parsing for something that should obviously had been done at build time like code syntax highlighting and rendering LaTeX (almost every ‘modern’ docs project fails this so our tech industry fails here).
They actually gave an example that was, the Gameboy. I think in that case the big issue for going beyond just 4 gray levels is RAM and ROM space, and also potentially the speed of the PPU and display driver in dealing with the extra data.
Doesn't explain why birth rates are falling in countries with largely rural populations as well.

India's fertility rate is now below replacement level. 65% of the country's population still lives in rural areas.
He should be held personally liable
Can’t find GFCI outlets for aluminum, which is one problem I have in certain areas of the home.
You can rent out your GPU to vast.ai

But the issue with large language models is that you need ms-latency access to TBs of data, or else you won't be able to saturate your GPUs with useful work.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/29/federal-reserve-rec...

> Nine times since 1961, the central bank has embarked on a series of interest rate increases to rein in inflation. Eight times a recession followed. The only true “soft landing” — as significant rate hikes with no subsequent slumps are called — occurred in 1994, according to a March 25 report by investment bank Piper Sandler. Not a sterling track record.
A broad covering term is MLOps (like DevOps).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLOps

Armed with that term, we get (haven’t read):

Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): Overview, Definition, and Architecture

https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02302

[+ps]

Better resource: https://ml-ops.org/

Based on my (limited) exposure to date, there is tremendous opportunity for software engineers and architects to make impact in ML systems. There is a pronounced lack of seasoned engineering talent (outside of big players like DataBricks, et al) and this knowledge gap sits behind an experience curve that mere IQ can’t jump over. Our experience as software architects and engineers is very valuable.

Know this and recognize the value you will bring to the table.
Dunno. Ohio-native, San Francisco-native, Portland-native, this is a construct that isn’t all that uncommon in headlines. “Mobile” just has an additional meaning so you need context, but you also need context for which “Portland” one might be a native to.
Responding here bc HN thread rules

> So - what fraction of people do you claim would prefer to live withdrawn from civilization?

I think there are a fair number of people that would be happy to start a new civilization (using civilization loosely here - a commune, whatever). Once this gets big enough, it's shut down by the government, particularly if members don't operate within US law.

There are plenty of things that you'd want to do to survive (clearing trees to farm, etc) that are illegal and would eventually land you in prison, even if you can get away with it for a month at a time. You're taking a very tight definition of being alone in nature, but there are other options that are not available to you including starting your own social order that are preferable to anyone who can't afford food and shelter.

This is probably getting too complicated to discuss over a text-based forum, and we also seem to be reiterating about 400 years of philosophy.
The only way I see around this is if they upgrade the beta-tester status and give him full control of the images and he's the only one making the labelling and uploading of the results.
> Awesome to see a person in real life....

Awesome to see a person in real life given the chance to jump on a land mine just do it full heartedly :)

This is precisely why I asked "Care to explain why short of invoking massive Illuminati world conspiracy nonsense?".

And you jumped right in on cue.

None of your excuses stop thousands of companies from starting and succeeding every year. Yet none have removed the bullshit jobs claimed, making them even better, more efficient companies.

So your bogeymen are pulled out by you to justify a worldview mismatched from reality to sustain the belief (discredited as I pointed out above by ample academic empirical research) that so many jobs are bullshit, despite such easy evidence to the contrary, and, like all conspiracy Illuminati beliefs, self contradictory with even the evidence that companies start all the time.

Congrats.

It's easy to start a company - there are literally millions of them in the US, with thousands starting weekly. Nearly all have fixed costs, face the same marketplaces, and yet every year 100's of them get so big they float public IPOs. Most of the Forbes 400 richest people are first gen company founders, facing all your bogeymen that, I guess by your logic, would make it impossible to make successful companies.

So why are none of them smart enough to remove all these bullshit jobs and become even more efficient? Maybe because they are all actually smart enough to realize where the actual bullshit is in these claims.
Me personally: I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mexico-California border to the Washington-Canada border in 2022. While I missed work on trail, it definitely made me realize that once I'm financially independent, I'm mostly going to be living a life outdoors, with occasional indoor time to play music.

Your situation is a bit different from my goals, but honestly if I had that opportunity, I'd be doing my best to explore the woods/mountains nearby in whatever way I can.

I also kind of agree with the "Learn German" comment - learning a non engineering skill that's also either practical or brings you joy is a great way to eat up time. I'm speak a few languages, but as I only regularly use English in my day-to-day life, just maintaining the other ones at a high skill level is a time consumer, though one I enjoy doing.
And an entirely predictable outcome for this sort of product.
I believe it. I keep reading about Rails improvements but haven’t really tried it in anger in a long time.

I started with Rails when migrations were just .sql files you wrote by hand. I switched to Sinatra mostly to use Sequel, because ActiveRecord at the time would do horrible queries unless you wrote them by hand. I know they have solved that issue, so I should try Rails again… but my Sequel muscle memory is pretty strong at this point.
The ACT token is a decentralized, token-based solution for powering AI inference that can be used to purchase compute resources on GCP, AWS, Azure, and the decentralized network. Each token is equivalent to a certain number of inferences by the AI Compute Unit (ACU), which is a stable average of GPU compute instances available in the pool.
Back in the day this kind of app/site would have one employee
A text editor is a tool. Text files are only "human readable"/"human editable" in the sense that such tools are ubiquitous whereas structured data editors are not.

Which is a real shame. Entering, manipulating and validating small amounts of structured data is such a fundamental task when using computers that it deserves dedicated tools, and the sheer amount of issues that only exist because such tools are not ubiquitous is absolutely mindboggling.
I absolutely agree with the first part of this advice.

As to the assertion that complexity is not worth worrying about, I could not disagree more. I have watched projects fail time after time because of complexity, dependencies, and lack of budget.

Managers should encourage their engineers to spend time trying to simplify architecture and reduce code, infrastructure, and package dependencies. Smart engineers can learn to think simply over time, but this will not happen automatically. (I plead guilty to gravitating toward complexity in the early part of my career, but I have since learned better.)

Managers should place emphasis on using existing patterns wherever possible rather than re-inventing the wheel. Practicing laser focus on delivering value, evaluating solution dependencies with an eye to keeping things simple, and accurately modeling the problem domain in question.

Rather than trying to fight with engineers about implementation approaches, managers should try to guide engineers toward arriving at these conclusions themselves. I have also found that stressing simplicity as a key performance metric for engineers is a useful tool.
This has nothing to do with excuses - I’m challenging the assertion that “because something bad happened, they must not have any mitigations in place at all”.

This seems like a bad case of binary thinking, and my point was that the occurrence of an incident like this is not sufficient to support that claim. It’s just as likely that an ancient process that wasn’t accounted for somewhere in the architecture broke down, and this is how it manifested.

Clearly improvements are needed, as is always the case after an outage. That doesn’t justify wild speculation.

Anecdote time: I once worked for a large financial institution that makes money when people swipe their credit cards. The system that authorizes purchases is ancient, battle tested, and undergoes minimal change because the cost of an outage could be measured in the millions of $ per minute.

Every change was scrutinized, reviewed by multiple groups, discussed with executives, and tested thoroughly. The same system underwent regular DR testing that involved quite a lot of involvement from all related teams.

So the day it went down, it was obviously a big deal, and raised all of the natural questions about how such a thing could occur.

Turns out it had an unknown transitive dependency on an internal server - a server that had not been rebooted in literally a decade. When that server was rebooted (I think it was a security group insisting it needed patches despite some strong reasons to avoid that when considering the architecture), some of the services never came back up, and everyone quickly learned that a very old change that predated almost everyone there established this unknown dependency.

The point of this story is really about the unknowability of sufficiently complex legacy enterprise systems.

All of the right processes and procedures won’t necessarily account for that seemingly inconsequential RPC call to an internal system implemented by a grizzled dev shortly before his retirement.
I would do the same thing I do now... program computers. The things that would change is that I'd be more flexible and my kids would play with me all day, instead of me having to kick them out of my office for meetings and the like.
I like this general approach. One more to add to the list:

https://grugbrain.dev/
From what I can see they are very much writing code for this. This request for move() in OPFS was closed four months ago.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1789116
Sure. Slightly restated, they may well "want" those things, but not want it badly enough to make the required changes to their life.
That's the beauty of American suburbs - they are basically designed to raise kids.
I think they (devs) just need to round out the rough corners with blacklisting, whitelisting, etc - because i think:

> it's just like email, foo@gmail.com becomes @foo@gmail.com, that's it!

Is pretty easy to sell. The issue there is that in any "real" email host (ie not in your closet) you have no problem[1] emailing another host. Yet with Mastodon it's rather dependent on the specific of platforms blocking rules. Which isn't to say that this is an indigestible concept for the average person; just that it's a rough edge, it needs some work, some transparency.

Likewise how federation works is also a bit obtuse. The speed of nodes federating to each other feels inconsistent on a UX, and imo you should basically _never_ miss pieces of a conversation. Or at least if you do, it should be very clear that there is a blocked comment, or a yet-to-be-synced comment, etc. Right not it can just look like someone is replying to themselves or etc.

Really though it's all quite solvable with some UX it seems. There's some tech issues too of course, but all together this feels quite a feasible "twitter but like email" tool. I'm quite happy with it, and i'm even happier to ignore Twitter.

[1]: generally speaking of course. It's expected to just work.
I agree. I promise to be more careful with quotes in the future. I'm using them very often to signify "sarcastic" subtext, and missed that it could have been interpreted as a real quote.
Agreed.

Unfortunately, there's no language for querying the client "Do you support CSS" / "Do you support frames" without CSS so Google is forced to err on the side of caution and reject browser that don't support JS (because they can query that).
#3 - Kaiser is great, no question. Just not familiar with them since they don't have a presence in NYC. Honestly, if we had to emulate one model in the country it would definitely be the Kaiser model.
The "authorities" can't even stop scam telephone calls. It's not up to the authorities. The consumers need to smarten up with their smart devices.
In one ear, out the other.
> refuses to cooperate with the NTSB

This is completely false. Tesla is legally required, and complies every time, to release crash data to the NTSB. This data includes whether or not self driving was enabled.

> Tesla publicly disparages people

Tesla refutes that self driving is enabled when people lie about it. I am sure there is an incident or two of someone being sassy about calling out these lies but there is no trend of "disparagement"
The aim of the question was clearly to establish whether a back door existed and how SBF used it, not whether SBF himself implemented one.
How could we tell if the published inflation rate was just completely bullshit?
You really don’t need much for a coop at all. When we bought our property it had a tool shed that we converted and it turned out to be way too big for our flock of 12. You could honestly use a large dog house. There are lots of plans online and Reddit has a very good chicken community with answers to any questions you might have.

All that to say: the minimum threshold for starting backyard chicken keeping is very low. I’d recommend jumping in as cheap as possible and upgrading later if you find you enjoy it.
You can lay eggs without a rooster, but if you do, one of the hens will become dominant and needlessly bully the other hens. This will stress them out and you’ll get health issues in your hens.

Source: I come from a farming family.
Dozens!

How much of the workforce is that, is it the 10. 15. 20% we're seeing among most technology companies, or is is it more?

Blackrock is laying off ~500, but that's only 3% of the workforce.
>Compromising an user account is a necessary step to get there, often enough.

But whether you have an elevated token or not won’t make a difference in almost all cases.
And this is why you build checks for recent model CPUs into your software, to keep the treadmill going.
If Citizen tanks that strikes me as a beneficial outcome. One of the other commenters here described this app as “snitching-as-a-service” but I think it’s more insidious than that. Citizen is very much in the same pattern as listening to the police scanner continuously: it’s a panic fetish tool. Were actual crimes committed? Citizen doesn’t know. Can you, personally, do anything about the “danger” all around you? Sure! Whittle down your trust in your neighbors more, don’t advocate for different outcomes from your city, hire Citizen’s private security force! It’s “if it bleeds, it leads” masquerading as a public good, only incidentally trying to make a profit on the side.
Who had a few undiagnosed mental illnesses
Yeah, I mentioned stone! My loose experience is that a good percentage of people who do something relating to fitness end up talking about their bodyweight in kilos (the scales in the gym are usually in kg, for instance). But most people when talking about bodyweight would say "I'm X stone X."

In the 40+ years I've lived here I've only ever heard furlong used in the context of horse racing and the actor that played John Conner in Terminator 2...

Re the driving - about 35% of the world are on the left!
Companies are people until you want to press charges.
I believe you can set the power limit in the BIOS, so you can get most of the performance without so much heat.
Small pockets of dissent notwithstanding, the ruling class (i.e., international finance capital) owns both political parties.
It’s true, though. Code costs money. I looked into this years ago for a former employer and at the time it was broadly estimated that for each line of code that a company owns it costs at least $30 every time a developer has to look at a given LOC. This is true whether the dev is writing it, fixing a bug in it, or just looking at it to investigate something related. And that’s for every developer on the company. So if you have code that, for whatever reason, is constantly being looked at by developers, that cost rapidly jumps, even though no one is actually touching it.

I’m currently down with the Flu B, so don’t feel like looking up citations, and for that I apologize. My recollection is that this was, unsurprisingly, a fluid estimated, with lots of caveats attached to it. Regardless, it struck me as true, and something I’ve never failed to take into consideration when writing my own code.
> is it good to have high-consumption computers all over the world before we have widespread renewable energy?

I doubt too many computers based on these parts will be running that hot for any significant time. It's much more likely to experience bursty loads - compiling something big, crunching a massive amount of data - than sustained ones, such as a build server or something similar.

If the CPU is managing GPU-based number crunching, keeping it busy will require a lot of GPUs, which will make the CPU's thermal output a rounding error next to the rest of the data furnace.
I couldn’t care less about power consumption at this couple of hundred W range. The difference is probably a couple of dollars a month with home computer usage.
Some spine on that guy. Why wouldn't you resign under that kind of directive? How can that possibly lead to a better outcome for the administration unless the outcome they wanted was for eggs to be cheaper for people who don't believe or listen to US surgeon general. I guess this was the President who took open door shits in front of staff and colleagues so I'm not sure its unexpected.
Not that anyone hadn't thought of it before, but I believe that I may hold the first claim of a grayscale TI calculator demo. I released a four-frame, 4-bit grayscale animation of beavis & butthead headbanging for the newly minted Zshell on TI-85 in 1992. I posted it to one of the listserves or usenet groups, but I have never been able to find a copy in anyone's archives. I'd love to see it again. It was not a fancy program. The frames were stored as 4 x 4 x 64x128 bitmaps = 16KB so it consumed like 2/3 of the calculator's memory. Fun times.

If anyone is a usenet archive ninja, my program was called 'BBANIM' and there was a TI-basic POC and zshell asm version released.

I recall that the first game using PoV grayscale was "Plain Jump" (sic) shortly afterwards which apparently continues to be a popular project to clone.
The single letter variable is present in the second example for the thread that prompted my response. So the "single letter variable" argument is simply irrelevant. Regardless I wouldn't use a single letter variable name like this, so I do agree.

And no code is not meant to be read by humans. The generation of programming languages we have are simply the best we could come up with so far to approximate natural language. They're easier to read than previous languages, but they're not even close in expressive power to natural language.

Do we talk in code when discussing what a feature is or should do? Generally no. Do we use code to communicate in standups? Generally no. I don't see how it's joking to make the claim that humans understand natural language descriptions better and more readily than code descriptions.

As far as using the type system to document in this case. It just all depends on the context and the actual purpose of this code (which we were not given). My opinion is don't go out of your way to add more layers of abstraction just so you can have types with specific names. It's only warranted in my mind to do this when you need to add complex functionality specific to a type.

We very well might not need to do any of that. But unfortunately neither of the examples, even the self-documenting style one, explain the actual purpose of this code to us. Maybe if they had a bit more description for humans we could ponder on it further.

Also which would you rather change, a type system, or a comment?
japan also has tunnel infrastructure for cars. one of my most vivid memories of visiting there is driving in and out of many-miles-long tunnels, and coming out of the last one smack dab in the middle of kobe. it was magical.

you'll never get change if your goal is to make cars so inconvenient that it pisses off the overwhelming majority of voters. cars are here to stay, so let's accept that reality and work around it. what you can do is demonstrate a better version of the world that people can get behind. but yes, it's not to create more car infrastrastructure, but actually less, because tunnels are expensive, so we'd be more selective about where to put roads. then we can also strategically reduce street area dedicated solely to cars (particularly street parking, but also lane number and width), reclaiming much of our limited surface area for people first.

> "Then, the only vehicles using the streets are mostly taxis (they don't need parking) and trucks, not personal cars. Narrow streets + no parking lots means buildings are much closer together and the city is dense enough for walking and cycling (with the help of subways of course)."

yes, let's build denser/closer together, build trains/dedicated busways, and let's not build (surface) parking lots. that's not incompatible.

off of the underground roads, you can put central, underground parking to serve urban neighborhoods and eliminate the need for permanent street parking (obviously services could still have surface space for intermittent parking). you could have fun little green alleyways aboveground (like in japan!) to access the central parking lot. you could even use a single underground car alley under the middle of a primarily residential block to provide access to underground garages under homes/apartment buildings. imagine how cool it would be to replace the street between you and your neighbor and set up a sports field or a garden or a picnic area, or any number of possibilities (even a whole row of new housing could fit down most "residential streets" in many places).
Demand is a conveyer belt.

Someone who has disposable income but doesn't care would buy normal eggs before, lowering the demand for regulation-compliant eggs.

Now, the store only stocks regulation compliant eggs, so that's what the person buys, increasing demand.
Amazon Prime is not just a shipping program anymore, it's a game changer for the e-commerce industry.

Check out my latest blog to know how.