skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it isn't providing orders of magnitude more utility in exchange.

Compare what the latest greatest word processor does vs the equivalent from the 90s to what a computer game today does vs the equivelent from the 90s. The latter is what orders of magnitude of improvement looks like.
Yeah, I suspect tracking down "sexual deviants" is the true motivation behind laws like this. There will probably be state mandated "corrective procedures" in the future.
It is beefed up auto predict in the same way that brains are beefed up electrochemical integrators. While technically true, it is maximally uninsightful. We should be aiming for maximum insight, not the opposite.
The machine was "designed, built, and placed in operation in only two years"

... impressive!
Both. And again, the issue with a pressurized manufacturing facility is making seals.
The government doesn't generally know the list of chemicals, so it's not keeping people in the dark because it has no information to divulge.

We could certainly make it a rule that chemical manifests be lodged with such-and-such organization (the FRA, I'd assume), but we don't because that's not the history of how rail happened in this country. And in general, the US government tends to operate under a rule of "Ain't no problem, ain't no problem" regarding data collection, with rare exception (Americans get very jumpy about over-collection of data by the government, after all; "Why do you need to know how many firearms I own? It's my right to own them", etc.).

... I could certainly see an argument for changing this rule, but I can also see an argument for not; much as Americans are, broadly speaking, comfortable living in homes where lines of toxic volatile chemicals are plumbed directly into those homes (50,000 hospitalizations and 430 deaths due to CO poisoning annually; in 2020, 10 natural gas explosions and 0 train chemical spills) and comfortable operating private individual vehicles on roadways (38,000+ deaths in crashes in 2020) and comfortable with non-licensed ownership of firearms (carrying requires a license, ownership does not; 24,000+ suicides by gun in 2020), most people are most of the time comfortable with train loads of God-knows-what rattling down the old main street. And they're comfortable with it because accidents like this, while not nearly as rare as they should be, are far rarer than other risks Americans tolerate every single day. Risk-tolerance for convenience is just kind of an American tradition.

... like I said else-thread, I'm likelier to suffer from the lead in my pipes living in this part of the country than the train fire.
You’re betting other people’s money in the second case, and they have a say.
You should check out her own words on this from 2021. https://archive.ph/p4Nkz

> Shotwell: The way Elon and I share the load, he focuses on development. He's still very highly engaged in the day-to-day operations, but his focus is on development. He was the lead on Starlink, and I started shifting my focus to Starlink around late spring, early summer of last year. Elon’s focus in that time was moving to Starship, that is his primary focus at SpaceX. It doesn't mean he's not thinking about the company on a day-to-day basis, but his emphasis is to get the Starship program to orbit.

This of course is slightly old because Shotwell has done another shift and has taken (at least temporary) control of Starship.

Generally if it's something interacting with the US government, Shotwell handles it.
frozendict (PEP 416) isn’t in draft, it is rejected

frozenmap (PEP 603) is in draft.
I don’t know if HN does it automatically or if the OP did it manually.
Uber Eats seemed to be it's own thing, but now they seem to be tying them a bit more together. I've even seen the Uber app offering me the option to have food delivery setup while on my ride. Basically trying to give you the option to have food delivery arranged to show up to your destination around the same time you arrive.

But I believe you're right that initially they were more separate entities, but now it's kinda merged.
The tax software situation you're describing sounds totally reasonable, but it does seem indicative of a shortcoming in the market. Like, is there really a fundamental reason why the same feature set couldn't possibly be developed while also being faster for customers and not requiring more developer resources per feature?

In some cases I could see that being the case: if the core task fundamentally requires significant computing resources and margins are too thin to through more resources at it while remaining competitive. That's the "every grocery store has one cashier with a long line" story (except for stores that change the story, e.g. with self checkout or a pricing strategy that frees up some margin to spend on more staff). I wonder how much of the slow performance of tax software is attributable to this, and how much is attributable simply to accumulated bloat or other things that might fall under the vague label "technical debt."

But it's also clear that there are technical decisions that can make the software slower for customers without making feature development easier or cheaper or faster.
Design Alternatives for Type-and-Resource Safe C++ [pdf]
> Another big question is how much mass needs to be shipped up from earth to manufacturer solar cells.

If you take the linked page at face value, it explicitly states:

> without special substances brought from Earth.

(I suspect, like most press releases, some important details aren't being provided. Maybe dopants aren't considered "special substances")
I think commenters here are missing the point. The issue is that between the layoffs and things like Musk's Twitter meltdown, there's a reevaluation of priorities by the folks entering the workplace. FAANG is no longer attractive by default because they're now perceived to be absuing their employees.
Have you tried to hire a plumber, electrician, GC lately? They are in extremely short supply and command premium rates. I doubt any of the ones I have worked for are pulling in less than six figures.
Also, keep in mind these jobs do not require a $320,000 piece of paper to qualify either. I would certainly had a better time in my 20’s making 60k with no student loans than what I actually ended up netting.

I will 100% encourage my child to gain some awareness of the trades and do a value analysis on post-secondary career paths.
That's great, be sure to post your story here on HN when you've finished the project!
I'll never know, because I'm afraid to click on a podcast in Spotify for fear it will shove more of them in my face.

Using Spotify in CarPlay, for several months it used up most of the screen real estate to promote podcasts. When I open Spotify it's for music discovery, and the number of podcasts I'm interested in listening to at that moment is zero.

edit: in case it's relevant, I pay for Spotify Premium. This isn't a complaint about ads in an ad-supported product.
If you want a crash course in the history of the previous Armored Core games, I suggest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPyVVtDYtsc
I made a similar write up on running mainline Linux on a similar device a few years ago. Interesting read though.

https://codedbearder.com/posts/mainline-linux-on-tx3-mini/
JS apps have bounded the crappiness at the bottom end of SW competence. For example MS Teams can now be run in a browser tab where the bad stuff it can do (on purpose or thru security holes) is bounded by the sandbox and it works on Linux, unlike predecessors.
Started playing Mass Effect with Knights of the Old Republic fresh in my mind back in the day. It was so jarring hearing the same voices with different characters.
Code-generating platform Magic challenges GitHub’s Copilot with $23M
I remember the time when modifying running programs were a big rage. Now seems many OSs are going in the opposite direction with OpenBSD leading the race.
Self crashing cars please.
I can tell you from personal experience my family farmed very sandy soil. They did strip farming. Very few do this anymore.

If you want efficiency, the common method is very wide, large areas of the same crop so you can use several very large machines to do all the work.
Ha, yes, Lisp is the strange attractor or gravity well I always flow back into after trying other PLs. Don't get me wrong, I like Zig (to replace my old C ways), SPARK2014 (which has achieved what Rust is evolving towards), and my other loves - J and APL. That is why April was a binary black hole - the joy of Lisp with a REPL, a lot of libraries and legacy, symbolic processing, and the ability to embed diamonds of APL in the parentheses for the mathy parts. I just have plain, old fun when I open up Lisp. Immediate evaluation and hotloading code with a great IDE/editor in emacs/sly. I am learning Xah's Fly keys[1] to bring it all together to satisfy my modal thirst from vim in emacs.

Clojure is a lot of fun too, and opens up a lot of libraries to use. Dragan Rocks[2] has some great libs for ML/DL

Mark Watson is the main culprit for writing his book and having the nerve to publish it: Common LISP Modules: Artificial Intelligence in the Era of Neural Networks and Chaos Theory[3]
I had been superficially studying AI then - GAs, ANNS, chaos and complexity - back in the late 80s, and this book introduced me to Lisp. Mark is sometimes on here, so Mark, thank you!

[1] https://github.com/xahlee/xah-fly-keys

[2] https://dragan.rocks/

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Common-LISP-Modules-Artificial-Intell...
Even “plain text” includes hidden metadata

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
Hey - this is excellent feedback, thanks. I'll submit again!
likely too long, so they removed a word.
Do you have any examples of violations that pylint catches that Ruff doesn’t catch? Genuinely curious.
At the beginning of the pandemic, I read about UVC light and purchased a UVC light bulb before they ran out online. I used it to sterilize my N95 masks which were impossible to find, and all the research I did showed that you could do this 20+ times without affecting air flow or filtration of the mask. I even found studies that talked about how to use it to disinfect flu virus so I used those as a guideline as to how long I should expose the masks. I even went so far as to buy ajar and tested that the UVC light at least killed bacteria as advertised. I know viruses are much tinier and there's no way to test for the virus but at least I knew it was working as advertised for bacteria.

Of course all this ended up being useless, but it was a fun project during the pandemic.
How is that possible? Google has the research power, the TPUs, the data, everything. But Translate is not as good as a tool made by a much smaller company.

This is also a pattern. Their voices are not better than some paid services (NaturalReader for example). Their OCR and document understanding is inferior to Amazon Textract. Even in speech recognition there is the excellent Whisper from OpenAI doing just as good or better. Google's generative image models are not the best, and locked away for good measure. I think SD and MJ rule.

Google's AI was cool in 2000 for search and in 2016 for games. But now the best people are leaving them - almost the whole team who invented transformers has their own startups.

I also think maybe, just maybe, their TPUs are bad and they can't scale high quality models to the public. Maybe they lost the race because GPUs were better in the end. Maybe it's stupid, but how can we explain the lack of advanced AI? The other explanation is they won't mess with something that makes them so much money (current search/ad model).
> If you started your career 2012, for the last 10 years, Tech has always been going up and up, (compensation, job opportunities), etc.... this is the first time many have seen a true tech downturn.

Agreed. The job market was growing remarkably since 2012, especially in tech.

> And this is a serious one. It is starting to look a bit worse than 2008-2009 slowdown

Not sure if I agree with you there... at least not yet.
Well, if we talk about goverbment whistleblower programs I assume using a fax from a random location while travelling would be good enough to not be identified by your employer (or whom ever you blow whistle on).

If you do blow the whistel on the government, well, you better trust your journalist partner a lot. Or use a trustworthy lawyer as a go between.

But hey, one could send the fax back and forth, cut of the fax numbers and physically mail it from a very busy train station! And have a someone put the letter into the letterbox for you, someone you pay out of view of any CCTV cameras!
Let's ask ChatGPT what Pichai should do.

"When an error is made by their AI during a demo, Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, should take the following steps to address the situation:

Acknowledge the error: The first step is to acknowledge the mistake and apologize for any inconvenience or confusion it may have caused. This helps to build trust with the audience and demonstrates that the company takes responsibility for their technology's shortcomings.

Explain the cause of the error: Pichai should explain the technical details of what went wrong and how the error occurred. This helps to demonstrate transparency and honesty and can help to build credibility with the audience.

Demonstrate the progress made in AI development: Despite the error, Pichai should showcase the progress made in AI development and highlight other successful demonstrations that have taken place. This helps to reassure the audience that the technology is making progress and that the company is committed to innovation and improvement.

Outline the steps being taken to prevent future errors: Pichai should outline the steps that are being taken to prevent similar errors from occurring in the future. This can include a discussion of the company's testing and development processes and any additional measures being put in place to improve the reliability of their AI systems.

By taking these steps, Pichai can demonstrate a commitment to transparency, innovation, and the improvement of their technology while also acknowledging the limitations and challenges of AI."

There you go - problem solved.
Used it for years but Pocket Casts beats it in all aspects.
What about lying and fabricating facts about the Israel and Palestinian conflict?

https://twitter.com/IsraelBitton/status/1624744618012160000
I signed up (again) on Spotify for Rogan... of course, I was mostly watching on YouTube via an NVidia ShieldTV box, and Spotify didn't have video support for a long while, and even later it was just not a good app/experience for me... so when I dropped PayPal, I cancelled Spotify at the same time. I still catch clips from his JREClips channel on YouTube. It's pretty bad when Rumble has a better (not by much) AndroidTV app than Spotify, with a fraction of the revenue.
I was told by my art teacher in high school that they intentionally didn't go for total realism as that was imitating God's work or some religious reasoning (they cared more about the story/theme than the execution). I never really bought into that reasoning 100% as they seem to get really detailed with the furniture and clothing for instance, but then fall flat with the perspective/shadows.
I've used Copilot for VSCode for a little over a week now and I can't say that it's "horribly broken" at all. I've had issues getting it activated but after that, it just works for me. I'd make sure you use the latest of both, VSCode and Copilot extension.
> by pointing out isolated incidents of corruption or police violence in Europe and thereby implying that we shouldn't be looking too harshly on other countries

I don't think they said this. Certainly if they made this argument it would be whataboutism.
Sheep, like cows, are ruminants and ruminants burp methane, which is a greenhouse gas. Per unit of lamb or beef, about two-three times[1] as much of greenhouse units ("CO₂ - equivalents") is produced than for pork. Chicken has an even lower carbon footprint.

I think it is evident that many in the Western world eat more meat than they need to to stay healthy. The best for your health and the environment is probably to eat an as varied diet as possible, with lots of vegetables to complement your meat/protein intake.

[1] numbers differ depending on who you ask, and on which farms were measured.
> now Tesla makes it own batteries, based on its own chemistries in its own battery factory that is run with its in-house designed and manufacturing machines

It's entirely unclear to me whether or not Tesla's battery manufacturing is bearing any fruit in practice. Here's the most recent article I found, from September: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/inside...

The sources predict that Tesla will find it difficult to fully implement the new dry-coating manufacturing process before the end of this year, and perhaps not until 2023. Stan Whittingham, a co-inventor of lithium-ion batteries and a 2019 Nobel laureate, believes Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has been overly optimistic on the time frame for commercializing the new technique.

[...]

Tesla acquired the know-how in 2019 when it paid over $200 million for Maxwell Technologies, a company in San Diego making ultracapacitors, which store energy for devices that need quick bursts of electricity, such as camera flashes.

[...]

"They can produce in small volume, but when they started big volume production, Tesla ended up with many rejects, too many," one of the sources with ties to Tesla told Reuters. Production yields were so low that all the anticipated cost savings from the new process were lost, the source said.

This sounds exactly like Elon Musk's usual MO: 1) acquire a company and then take credit for their inventions in order to paint himself as a visionary, 2) overpromise and underdeliver, counting on his legions of blind faithful to keep stock prices irrationally high in the process, and 3) base all profitability on the availability of government handouts, in this case the tax incentives for US-sourced batteries.
Both sides in Ukraine are using a ton of land mines both antipersonnel and antitank. When push comes to shove if the weapon achieves some well identified goal well it will be used.
> Probably a controversial opinion, but I would like `self` removed, and have the class body be an init function.

That would be weird in classes that override the constructor (__new__), which is what is actually called (not __init__, except contingent on the result of the constructor) when the class is used as a callable.

Not to mention the need to define methods in the class body, and be able to distinguish them from local functions in the constructor/initializer, which is a pretty good argument against the class body being the constructor or initializer.
I consider Grant the ultimate when the rubber hits the road guy. In his interbellum years he was kind of an aimless loser but when the stakes could not be higher, he stepped up and lead the union to victory.
I didn't want to get involved in what "meaningful marketshare" means with respect to Perl. In the same vein, AOLServer (ca. 1995) used multithreaded Tcl, and Tcl is also still around.
The wand will be useless unless they hold it above the area for 30+ seconds, which probably won't happen. Or unless the light is extremely intense which sounds dangerous.
> A whole bunch of folks graduating in 2007-09 walked into a massive dumpster fire of an economy that makes the current scenario look like nothing.

Can confirm. I was putting myself through school and when my programming job went away it was a complete life reset. I didn't get back on track with my peers until about a decade later. It's also had the added effect that I'm very risk conscious and save aggressively. I am always looking for the next down market.

> Some folks are in a bad spot at a bad time, and it’s a good reminder too that others are in a good spot at a good time and their “success” may have been more luck than skill

After saying all that, I'm not a fan of this saying at all. There is something to being in the right place at the right time, but it's very difficult to luck yourself into top tech jobs. You do need to work very hard both for interviews and on-going work. You'll inevitably do some soul sacrificing whether you realize it or not.

All that to say, it's a bit of luck and a lot of hard work, but the luck isn't to be forgotten.
I'm a bit torn on this one because the immediate symptoms are the ones that might indicate exposure and prompt someone to get medical treatment. If you're reading a newspaper or watching mainstream reporting then that's easily the most critical information to have communicated to you.

Once you've got a medical record of exposure that also makes it possible to go after these companies for the long term effects, which should be communicated to you by medical professionals based on your exposure time and estimated dosage. I don't like that that's the requirement for our legal system, but it's the reality.
> yes, I know about Hyper-V and I know that WSL is virtualized, but a standalone Linux VM is just Linux. It isn't WSL. WSL isn't just a name, it's the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" which is worded weird, but it's an NT Kernel subsystem which provides Linux compatibility. WSL v1 used syscall translation from Linux to Windows, meaning it was not a VM, and WSL 2 uses a Hyper-V virtual machine (two, actually) along with some glue to pull it together into a nice feature for Windows.

I'm probably not being that clear with the terminology, I'm referring to WSL2(WSL v1 is the legacy translation layer that isn't important here, I was always referring to WSL2).

> If you remove Windows, it's just a Linux VM. Just Linux. Azure already offer this as do all other cloud providers.

Different VM hypervisors have the ability to expose additional features to guest operating systems, in this case a Hyper-V/WSL2 host like Azure can provide critical functionality to the guest Linux VM that other hypervisors are not able to provide.

If you remove the Hyper-V/WSL2 host you lose the ability for the Linux guest userspace applications to make use of libraries like libd3d12.so and libdirectml.so.

The fundamental issue is that the WSL2 Linux userspace(which is basically a port of a number of Windows userspace components to Linux) has closed source libraries like libd3d12.so and libdirectml.so which have a hard requirement on dxgkrnl and a compatible Hyper-V hypervisor/Windows based VM host. If Linux applications are developed targeting these closed source libraries they will not function on normal non-WSL2/Hyper-V VM's.

See the diagrams/details here:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/

> Over the last few Windows releases, we have been busy developing client GPU virtualization technology. This technology is integrated into WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) and all WDDMv2.5 or later drivers have native support for GPU virtualization. This technology is referred to as WDDM GPU Paravirtualization, or GPU-PV for short. GPU-PV is now a foundational part of Windows and is used in scenarios like Windows Defender Application Guard, the Windows Sandbox or the Hololens 2 emulator. Today this technology is limited to Windows guests, i.e. Windows running inside of a VM or container.

> To bring support for GPU acceleration to WSL 2, WDDMv2.9 will expand the reach of GPU-PV to Linux guests. This is achieved through a new Linux kernel driver that leverages the GPU-PV protocol to expose a GPU to user mode Linux. The projected abstraction of the GPU follows closely the WDDM GPU abstraction model, allowing API and drivers built against that abstraction to be easily ported for use in a Linux environment.

> Projecting a WDDM compatible abstraction for the GPU inside of Linux allowed us to recompile and bring our premiere graphics API to Linux when running in WSL.

> This is the real and full D3D12 API, no imitations, pretender or reimplementation here… this is the real deal. libd3d12.so is compiled from the same source code as d3d12.dll on Windows but for a Linux target.