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After having played it ChatGPT for a bit, mostly asking computer questions, I've had mixed results. Some are amazing, others are gibberish.

But what struck me the other day is a couple of quotes from, of all things, Galaxy Quest which seem particularly apt.

"May I remind you that this man is wearing a costume, not a uniform."

and

"You know, with all that makeup and stuff, I actually thought you were SMART for a second."

As amazing as it is, as progressive as it is, it's still a magic trick.
It seems as though using an adblocker has become more important in terms of security posture than having an antivirus running, or keeping your system up to date.
Confused me too
Surely there is more farm land away from the sea than adjacent to it. How does for example fertilizer from here[1] or here[2] end up at sea?

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/Pm4JGesJZ9xELrBB8
[2] https://goo.gl/maps/rzGttw1gMchSWXREA
This is caused by hyperthreading. It's not an actual inefficiency, but an artifact of the way CPU time is counted.

The HT cores aren't real CPU cores. They're just an opportunistic reuse of hardware cores when another thread is waiting for RAM (RAM is relatively so slow that they're waiting a lot, for a long time).

So code on the HT "core" doesn't run all the time, only when other thread is blocked. But the time HT threads wait for their opportunity turn is included in wall-clock time, and makes them look slow.
That is not supposed to happen! You need to contact customer support, it's a bug.
>I doubt it. In as much as they are allowed to function, markets will reward people addressing the shortages with outsized profit.

Standing nuclear armies 600K+ soldiers strong enforcing blockades, embargoes, price caps, bans, sanctions etc are not the most shining indicator of a free market that will correct shortages to equilibrium...
It is time.
American citizens can now sponsor refugees. Here’s how it works
Playlist + some sort of auto-playing mechanic is coming!
Ahh, but those are not real VPs. Those are likely all AVPs ( less power, less money ) and not VPs or SVPs. Naturally, all the customer sees is a vice-president, but for HR purposes they are 'only' AVPs. I kinda hate it, because I have ridiculous title for HR purposes now myself and I am 'just' IC in real life.

edit: added quotation marks to just. I like being an IC.
They won't do a recall unless forced by regulators. The sheer number of cars without immobilizers and the amount of money/work that would go in to installing them in cars that didn't originally have them would be quite crazy.

I hate Korean cars but this really isn't on kia or Hyundai since the existing motor vehicle import laws in the usa do not require cars to have immobilizers installed. pretty much every other import and domestic car has been installing them by default for over 20 years.
I don't think that's different than what I said. Wages started increasing and the economy started to fall apart prompting the Fed to step in. That means that the system is broken. There is no way for the lower class to get ahead. If they make higher wages then prices will simply increase so that they aren't actually ahead.
Yeah right, just like the elite are the only ones that have access to the courses from all the top universities, every book ever digitized, and software and hardware that allow you to operate a business out of your home now.
I would not say it’s little known, but I did think the title originally referred to Las Angeles.
The ads used to be on the right bar, and selected by their site's relevance to your search.

They were incredibly useful.
That's not my experience with C++.
"VP" title is a regulatory requirement because only "bank officers" have legal authority to do certain actions.
If one party has decided to answer "wrong track" simply because they're not in power, then it's not going to be a very informative question one way or the other.

It's useful to know that they're unhappy. But the metric is not the target; the goal is not to get them to say "right track". The goal is to figure out how to find a political system in which we can all work together.

I believe that those answering "wrong track" automatically have not done a good job of finding ways to work together. But that hasn't really changed in a long time, so the poll doesn't really mean much, either.
The Adam optimizer is another possibility. It's unbelievably good and everyone uses it.
Microsoft 365 trial offer blocks access to Windows 10 desktops
Tangent: What's the cheapest way to backup a few TB of personal data these days, pricing based on the premise that I probably will never need to retrieve it (due to local backups as well), but I don't want to pay thousands if I do have to (hundreds would be okay). Glacier Deep Archive?
Thank you so much! With an improved model, things should get a lot better! :D
I contributed to Rome tools [1] and the build takes more than 1 min.
This makes write-build-test loop frustrating...
Such frustrating that I am hesitating to start a project in Rust...

My machine is 7yo. People tell me to buy a new one just for compiling a Rust project... That's ecologically questionable.

[1] https://rome.tools/
> in what world is introducing a complex, expensive machine to an already thin margin industry a practical solution

In the world where it is cheaper than the rising price of fertilizer.
I hope you mean you were offered money for fake reviews, but declined.
> https://www.inc.com/laura-montini/study-men-with-families-ma...

> "Flash forward two decades later, and the comparisons look similar. In 2010, men with children earned a median income of $40,947, and those without earned $29,904. Mothers earned a median income of $24,350, and those who didn't have children earned $24,244."

Now of course there are a lot of confounding factors here, but for an averaging of the median to a two-income household this means households with children earn "$65,297", while those without earn "$54,148".

And those increased incomes means a larger social security check to spend in their old age.
Money is not free, the cost of money has gone up considerably in the past 6 months. I haven't seen any indications that money will be cheaper anytime soon.

All "VC funded" "free tier" and the like will be put on the back-burner. If you know anyone with a small datacenter and a decent peering agreement (3 lines of at least gbit) now would be the time to kick money their way, and tell everyone else to.

It was tough times for small companies these past several years. Imagine trying to compete with netflix when their price was "all you (and everyone you know) can eat MP4s for $8". I actually cancelled my netflix subscription as we weren't using it anymore and the price was creeping up faster than siriusXM subscriptions.

I know this is edgelord to post on a VC forum, but I haven't seen any indication i am wrong yet. Big news is 80,000-120,000 tech workers being laid off by the big 10, but what about all of the layoffs at smaller companies that are VC funded? What's that number look like?
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Here, here.

I haven't studied it formally and I'm being asked to support techno utopia also. So it feels pretty shaky to me.

Certainly my livelihood is based on the premise of it and my dreams which fuel my workplace motivation serve as foundation to you know what I do with 50% of my life, work on technology. So I am biased.

Some utopian dystopia discussions here on hacker news sort of boil down to the chaos theory level of assumptions, where you can see people exercising their own defensiveness when they snipe on a naysayer, sniping on their grammatical concerns, but not actually engaging in value-based discussions into the hacker news thread. It's like they're not human, they're only practicing it being devil's advocate technicians.

Useful idiots is kind of what I think. We need to have more values discussions, ethics too.
Wtfdoesthiscompanydo.vercel.app
I just tried to search API7.ai and here are the reply:

API7.ai is a company that provides API Management solutions for modern architectures. It has products like API7 Cloud and API7 Enterprise. They also contribute to open source software like Apache APISIX, K8s Ingress Controller, wasm-nginx-module and Contributor Graph. They have been used by companies like Airwallex, Lotus, NASA, OPPO, XPENG, Tencent and vivo. They provide solutions for unified management, proxy, parse, and transcode, authentication, security, observability, serverless, canary release, blue-green deployment, service circuit breaking, rate limiting, health check, traffic splitting, GitOps and development tools and xDS. They have case studies, resources and blogs to help people understand more about their products and services.
I too miss the fail whale.
I do wonder what happens the day that A.I. becomes smarter than HR.

I don't think HR is dumb, per se, but that large, publicly traded corporations tend to focus on short term gains rather than what an AI might consider more reasonable long term gains. Such companies are also not above doing questionably legal things for this purpose - there's a lawsuit against Twitter for violating the US WARN act.
Sure, but it certainly counts as a close call, and if you are serious about preventing failures, you should be alerting on and tracking close calls, not only actual failures.

E.g., factories used to have big signs about "XX Days Since A Time Lost Accident". I've seen more advance factories now posting "XX Days Since A Close Call". Important distinction because studying the close calls and taking action will prevent accidents better than waiting for an actual accident. Same for security failures.
UBI isn't going to pay for people to go on tropical vacations, people will still work, just less to survive.

And the rich? The rich are going to replace the average person's job with a robot/software anyway. What's the point of all this automation if not to work less? I didn't realize The Jetsons was such a dystopian vision of the future. Well, as long as we're the Haves it's not our problem.
What are embeddings?
Don’t be afraid of ChatGPT but don’t underestimate what it and others like it will be capable of as it is iterated on. You found one category of prompt that needs some iteration. Good job, if the team wasn’t aware of this already, hopefully you helped point it out.

It’s not that the technology isn’t capable of what you’re asking, it just needs better training for this class of question.

There are other things like generating and translating code that it excels on. I imagine that would be much harder. But we have great data to train for that and the engineers know enough to dogfood that properly.
> (Silicon and derived semiconductors)

who is afraid of monolith monsters? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monolith_Monsters
I disagree. The other one was a clear case of someone knowingly breaking the TOS (same non-HTML content but in that case they were hosting a service which almost exclusively returns non-HTML content). The OP even admitted in the comments that they knew very well they were breaking the TOS but wanted some notice.

I don’t really feel any sympathy for that poster. They knowingly broke the rules, they had to have known that CF could come and shut them down at any time, and they still went ahead and threw the pity party knowing that they are pretty much entirely in the wrong. It’s very much a “play dumb games, win dumb prizes”.

Would it be nice for CF to give a heads up? Sure. But I don’t think it’s required, and especially not in an egregious case like that one.
They don't even have to remove them. Just move them to a separate marketplace under the Amazon umbrella.
> The problem with MQTT is that most of the use cases I’m interested in involve a web browser as at least one party of the connection, and the browser doesn’t support MQTT. I could wrap MQTT in a WebSocket, but then I’d lose the advantages of MQTT’s compactness and interoperability (unless MQTT-over-WebSocket is a thing?)

We support MQTT over WS (or JSON over WS, or just HTTP) in Cloudflare Pub/Sub, FWIW - https://developers.cloudflare.com/pub-sub/learning/websocket...

I also agree with the comments re: MQTT being well suited to a lot of these "broadcast" use-case, but that the IoT roots seem to hold it back. MQTT 5.0 is just a great protocol — clear spec, explicit about errors, flexible payloads — that make it well suited to these broadcast/fan-in/real-time workloads. The traditional cloud providers do MQTT (3.1.1) in their respective IoT platforms but never grew it beyond that.
Mmm eggs :) Love those on my steak.
"There are possible improvements still to be made on bigger buffers for example, where we could make better use of SIMD, but at the moment rustc still targets baseline x86-64 CPUs (SSE2) so that's a work item left for the future."

I don't understand this. The vast majority (I would guess 95%+) of people using Rust have CPUs with AVX2 or NEON. Why is that a good reason? Why can't there be a fast path and slow path as a failover?
1. I’m not permitted to do so in my current housing situation (a temporary thing).

2. I would still occasionally need to use public toilets with separate taps.

I realise I phrased this as an issue with my specific sink, but I meant more broadly the situation in less-recently renovated buildings in the UK.
I'm guess I'm learning talking isn't as amazing as I thought... If you spend time around demented, or similarly mentally disabled people, you can pick up on how well they're able to make talking sounds and form sentences. They typically relate their needs/desires/complaints/observations pretty well, even with next to no cognitive ability! Speech appears to be a totally different 'function' from intelligence! hmm wow.
I have a degree in computer science and worked in a technical field for over 20 years.
I don't call myself "rational and scientific", though I do think that the Scientific Method is a great way of creating useful models of the world. But those models - like all models - are wrong. Maybe it's just semantics, but one of my points is exactly that some people believe that they are "rational and scientific" and ignore that we are not just computers; experience, emotions and unconscious bias plays an important role in our decisions. Thinking that the whole world (and themselves) can be perfectly rationalized, makes them miss the point that there are non-rational reasons for them to think the way they do. That's why I refer to when I talk about dogmatism.

I suggest everyone (who wants to hear me) to read Joseph Weizenbaum's "Computer Power and Human Reason"; he does a much better job than me at raising similar arguments to mine. Also, Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow", for the ways in which we _all_ are so _not_ 100% rational in our everyday decisions.
I found that "screens after N pm" worked well for us. It created a zone where there was no consideration, expectation, or backsliding onto screens. We also kept a VERY consistent bedtime, so that "N pm" to just before bedtime rituals timeblocked screens.

If you get on a screen at 4pm it can be hard to suggest putting the screen down to go outside or do something else.
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Yes. Thank you for the answer. Sorry for my curiosity. It was off topic.
Why do they rank reddit so low be default? Does reddit not run stuff from their ad networks?
It’s strange that the article you linked doesn’t mention no-till farming. Farmers replace the plows on their tractors (which turn over the soil) with knives that have fertilizer injectors on the tips. Rather than plow, then spray fertilizer on to the surface, they inject fertilizer into the ground. After a few years, earthworms reestablish themselves and naturally aerate the soil.

This can be combined with other (well established, commercially available) precision agriculture techniques to minimize irrigation and fertilizer waste.

The big problem is the up front cost of replacing tractor implements, and training labor.

Anyway, this is much easier than agroforestry, building glass hydroponics towers, etc.
Robotics still has a way to go.
This was an undergraduate course at a state school. There was no appeals process. When I asked, the remedy was "oh, you can re-take the course from another instructor next semester." But the course wasn't offered again until a year later and the same prof had taught it for the previous five years; there was no indication he wasn't going to teaching it the next year.
I mean, fair enough man.
Small tip: You should let it autoplay. Some recs are better than others and if I let it play in the background a good song will catch my attention.
I would wage a hefty sum the vast majority (>90%) are beyond thrilled to be coming to the US. They are willing and WANT to come. You make it sounds like they are being captured and transported on slave ships.
The only language the state speaks is violence. Until you meet them where they are, your people cannot effect change.
When is Kubernetes getting HTTP/3?
I think "screen time" is this generation's "Dungeons and Dragons" boogeyman. Everyone feels like it's turning kids into zombies or hurting them in some way, but people really aren't articulating how. What's the mechanism, and how did it differ from similar kids entertainment of the past? Is "Algorithmically Generated Spiderman/Frozen Mashup #45501" or "Streamer babbling on about nothing" really that much worse for an 8 year old than the crappy cartoons I grew up on in the '80s?

Our household has pretty simple rules. Keep your grades high (straight A's, one B allowed) and kid can have as much screen time as she wants. Grades drop, and entertainment (including the dreaded screens) proportionately goes away until they come back up. That's it. We've had to limit her once, and she got the message and course corrected.
Oh, you're absolutely right about phone numbers. I know my GF's probably mostly because I've written it in enough times as an emergency contact. But no idea of my brother's or dad's.

You come to rely on a phone, a credit card that works, etc. At least when traveling I've learned to take steps to mitigate the risk when those assumptions fail. But the assumptions sometimes break down in the worst possible way.
TOTP is phishable. Don't use that.
There is an example slide on page 63 of DOJ lawsuit. It shows example two top GDN bids, $1.00 and $0.96, and example two Bernake AdX bids $1.20 and $0.48. Suppose that another ad exchange bids $0.98 and Google wins the auction. What the GDN advertiser pays, $1.00, $0.98, $0.96?
Chat Control: EU Plans End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence
Maybe I missed the memo but why isn't anyone impressed that a computer can generate well formed prose in response to arbitrary questions? It seems like we've completely leaped over that as an achievement and are now arguing over how it's confidently wrong or how there are emergent patterns in what it has to say. No one is claiming it's a general intelligence but it's still amazingly impressive.
I’m extremely surprised the forecast didn’t take demographics into account? What is going on? Is this just some excel that extrapolates a random change from the last reported number ?
The original versions of the films have Japanese audio, and you're missing out on that if you watch them in english.
EVE Online introduces an Excel plugin for player data mining
It seems that it’s searching the home page and search engine??
Ah yes let's anthropomorphize a bunch of numbers, then name him a con artist. This is going to be a thoughtful article
Thanks! My colleagues gave a talk last week on streaming data visualization that you might like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WyeZ9lKdSU
Yes, but fast and cheap is temporary (and the end result is a lot of pain).

This is a problem that requires structural investment from government (the populace) but once done, the return on investment seems very high.

How do you think the Netherlands are the second leading agricultural exporter in the world right now? Short answer - very efficient greenhouses.

To get an idea of just how efficient - they use ~4 to 9 liters of water per pound of tomatoes produced. The world average is 60 liters per pound of tomatoes. Not the high end - the AVERAGE.
How is my thinking dangerous? Not allowing profit is dangerous, because it won't attract suppliers.

High prices might prompt some people elsewhere to reduce their consumption, in favor of ones more in need.

You can address some of the future price uncertainties with a futures market. That way, you can see what the price you'll get in 7 months' time, and decide what you should plant.

But if a place has no means of growing food and no money, why stay there?
Is this still pretty much the case or are you aware of changes? My wife went to a boarding school for the last 3 years of high school (late 90's) and it was an overwhelmingly positive experience for her.

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I went to college at a military-style school and I recall that there was an explicit prohibition against Personal Servitude. We always wondered what happened in the past to make that a rule that everyone knew about.
as an American I have no idea what is going on but I am playing a round lol
He’s not obligated to tell us if he knows it’s an edge he wants to keep
>My argument is that since those buttons are rarely used, they should be unobtrusive.

Why the half measure? If they are rarely used remove them. If they are used enough to leave them on the UI make them big enough and labeled well enough that I don't need a decoder ring and magnifying glass. Making them small and unintelligible is probably the best way to make them rarely used.
Maybe this becomes a door into forcing EVs: insurance companies refusing to cover any car with a catalytic converter, due to theft.
Was there ever a class action started against the manufacturers of these vehicles for the never recalled/fixed "easy to steal" thing? I haven't been keeping up with the history.
I never got into the "game" aspect on Stack Overflow, that is, to fully participate you have to get a certain number of points and I've never been motivated to play along.

Sites like SO are bad at recognizing the kind of knowledge you got because you spent three years training in the mountains, which I've got some of (as well as opinions about as well founded as those of David Brooks or Jim Cramer)

There was a trade publication that licensed the SO software and I made myself the #2 user on their instance by simply asking a large number of good questions. I could have dethroned the #1 user but didn't want to because he was a knowledgeable guy who wrote great answers. I went looking at SO to see if anyone had gotten to the top of the leaderboard by this strategy and didn't find any so they've got to have some different mechanisms that make this hard.
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All of these reports are based on a single junk survey by Lending Club which is sort of a cut rate online lender. It just doesn't pass the smell test, the median savings account balance is around $6k and the average is around 7x that. Since there's no good reason to have super large balances in a savings account, this is telling. The median 401k balance across all age groups is $33K, which also shows us that a lot of workers are putting some money into their 401k. Both of these things point to most Americans not living pay check to pay check, which generally means one is not saving any money but it's a really squishy term.
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probably not for the current version, but I think the next gen version or version trained for programming will finally break me (or my wallet)
Putin's motivations predate the war, too; the invasion of Crimea was in 2014, and before that was Georgia in 2008.
How do they know it's Chinese? Does it say in large letters "Made in China" ?