skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a developer and I went from using a MBP to a 12th Gen Framework Laptop with Fedora 37. I like the laptop because it has a better keyboard and better battery life than my old MBP (the battery needs repair after 4 years). What I don't like is that it often freezes for 5-10 seconds because of a bug in Intel's i915 driver (GPU Hang). I'm also a bit unhappy about some Linux applications having bad support for fractional scaling. For some reason I can't see the speed of the CPU fan. Looks like there is no sensor for it. Also the display is a bit wobbly, but overall I'm really happy to leave OS X behind and found a way back to Linux. The touchpad isn't as good as the one I'm used to but I have seen worse ones. I hope that you can upgrade it in the future.

EDIT: Oh and the speakers are bad and the mic sometimes doesn't work after waking up from suspend but I read that there's a fix for it.
Aicommits – CLI that writes your Git commit messages for you with AI
> and gave k8s to the world and then what?

kubernetes came after the rise of aws, likely to keep google in the game

> Does the world really need fucsia? ChromeOS?

ChromeOS is an extremely popular OS, especially in education markets and there is definitely a need for such an OS. The majority of computers in the world are overkill for what the average end-user is trying to achieve and chromeOS fills that space very neetly.

Otherwise I agree with you that technology needs more than just technical vision to succeed, but my opinion is that AI isn't ready for the mainstage and maybe some people within google thought the same and chose to not rush anything. Then google made a massive blunder by going on the defense with their bard unveiling.
This looks very difficult to calculate unless you're already familiar with the dynamics at play. Here's an extremely relevant paper from 2019 on the topic:

https://www.consiltant.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/201909...

> the speed [of evaporation] is determined by, among other things, the pressure in the system, temperature of the substance, substance properties such as boiling point, vapor pressure, molecular weight and density and of course the size of the hole.

Trying to do napkin math of dividing 30,000 gallons into the volume of air over a city under a certain altitude seems like a pointless exercise given the very long list of parameters that would highly influence its dispersion.
wow, that would be great!
I think there are two separate questions:

1) is there other life in the universe?

2) is other life visiting Earth?

Considering the number of stars in the universe and the potential number of planets around those stars, IMO it is extremely unlikely that our particular star & planet are so special that we are the only life that exists and has ever existed.

If you believe that yes, we are that unique, then of course you cannot believe in anyone visiting Earth. If you do believe there is other life in the universe, it's reasonable to believe they travel around, just like we have traveled around.

But also, because of the vastness of the universe, if there is other life, IMO it's likely to be so far away that we will never cross paths. It's like 2 grains of sand on a beach getting next to each other.
its really a perfect continuation of the Mark Twain, “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

Really succinct fast code probably takes more time than verbose, slow code.
> AI has the potential to improve this situation in several ways.

In something of the caliber of TES they could just get a few hundred voice actors. It's something like 100m budget vs 1b in revenues.
Prerecording VA with AI is one thing (and is super cool and practical right now), generating it on the fly is a whole different can of worms.

Its gonna be a some time before the "baseline" console/PC is fast enough to run a game, language model and voice model all at the same time.

And it may take even longer for software support to be put in place and for devs to actually use it. Unity doesn't even natively support Opus right now, which would dramatically reduce VA filesizes
Homicide in Russia is weirdly undercounted too. (Though idk if that carries to Moscow specifically, or just the country as a whole)
And every developer without access to a secret, will complain about how all this unnecessary bureaucracy is getting in the way and preventing them from shipping faster.
Excellent point. The broader idea of how replacing workers with AI can have neutralizing effects in a democracy (where AI cant vote) was probably shoehorned in here too much.
That's not always an option on a router or appliance that comes with the software pre-installed.
In general, no environmental remediation is necessary because the chemical doesn't spill. If it spills, of course there should be disclosure. Parent appeared to be expressing surprise there was no disclosure until an incident occurred; of course there wasn't.

(Disclosure takes more time than we assume it should because freight is actually kinda disorganized relative to what most of us would expect given our information-saturated jobs; when a shipment leaves the depot and arrives, you can just check the contents of the train, but when it fails to arrive, you have to piece together the contents from multiple manifest sources and cross-check to make sure there weren't errors in that data).
She was a 2014 grad. But why would it be relevant? Because she wasn't that great of a student and unless something changed since 2018, she wasn't that bright either (hence the confusion following story lines and inability to calculate anything more than simple addition).

If colleges don't matter, I'm not sure why so many successful companies paid attention during their starts. Its a pretty good metric to estimate intelligence, not knowledge IMO.

I'm sure she's a great project manager though!

She was a scrum master for 3 years at another company. One day I asked her what the term scrum stood for? I wasn't in the field at all so I had no idea. But it was an obvious question IMO. She didn't know. Next day I looked it up and learned it's just a rugby term. It came up a month later, and she still didn't know. I cared enough to look it up. She didn't. And it's her job. Now she's at Google. If you think that's not a bad sign, you might work at Google too.
Should be a doubling every decade, not every year. (I’m unable to edit.)
The widespread availability of high-bandwidth and low-latency Internet access is what's been bailing out the latest generation of software bloat, not individual CPU performance.
How is being right about wanting to make a change a refutation of the idea that knowing why people made a decision in the past is an excellent idea? Nothing about Chesterton's Fence asserts that people in the past always made good decisions, nor does it assert that perhaps what was a good decision then is a bad decision today.

It simply asserts that understanding why a thing is the way it is is valuable when making a decision to change it.

That understanding could be as simple as--to take a real world example that most readers here will remember--"They chose to install a hidden web server on the user's system, because they felt it was the best way to deliver user convenience given the resources and time the team had available."

We can still say it was a bone-headed choice to do that because it opened a massive back door to every user's system. And? What is the problem with looking into why they made that choice before arguing that the choice should be reversed with maximum prejudice?

Chesterton's Fence isn't a suggestion that no changes should be proposed, or that if you look into the original motivations you will change your proposal. Think of it as insurance against the possibility that every once in a while, you will discover a requirement that needs to be addressed with your suggested change.

I don't see where you're coming from that quoting Chesterton's Fence is even "criticism." It's a suggestion to take out a little insurance by doing a little homework.
> One can write code for almost

any

use case (except perhaps embedded) with .NET.

How so? Do you mean it doesn't support ephemeral ftrace-based tracing or something? That seems unlikely to be true given core CLR features like reflection as well as Microsoft's extensive history of embedding .NET into services and devices.
I hope you're not trying to run VoIP phones via vxlan over wireguard because you don't want to setup a local DHCP server
I am not sure about the future of manufacturing.

Moore's Law has died a slow death, first they stopped increasing the clock rate, then Intel went 5 years without a new process (but was more profitable than ever), now we are reaching the point where the cost/transistor will increase and that's basically the end because customers won't want to pay for it. I'm a little afraid that newer process chips like the Zen 4 CPU and 4080 GPU I installed might also have a shorter lifespan than earlier generation chips.

If processes are going to hit the wall it might not matter so much if you've got the latest process.

Second I think ARM chasing has been very bad for Intel, they have made a lot of awful chips that they only sold in China. On a bad day it seems Intel won't be done until they've degraded the performance of laptops to the phonish range. There used to be the fear that legacy companies would get "disrupted" because they did not keep up with cheap and cheerful new competitors but now we are seeing customers disrupt themselves by throwing existing customers because they don't want to be a case study for a Clayton Christiensen book but they are going to wind up being a case study in a new book instead.
> Annoyance: they were in charge of acquiring and rolling out the software the factories used! Why were the floor managers demanding that they integrate our software? What do they know about software, enterprise contract negotiation, etc!? How dare they!

Ok, so this one I actually kind of agree with. Too many times I was in a position where a bunch of decisions were made about software or hardware, and then IT was brought in at the last minute to try and get it all to work in an unreasonable time frame. And then IT was asked it integrate it in impossible ways.

If another department brings IT in early, different story. I got in to IT to use technology to make people's lives easier, not to play with whatever the latest fad bullshit is or develop an inflated sense of self-worth. If some random nobody's software is going to do that at the cost of a minor annoyance to me, that's fine.
People don't directly care about performance and reliability, but it does affect their behavior.

Back in the day at reddit, for example, we could see an uplift in usage when we made the pages faster, there was nearly a direct correlation.

At Netflix we spent a lot of effort on reliability because every time we had a major outage, there was a dropoff in subscriptions with the cohort that had been affected.

And I've heard similar from other people in the reliability space -- that there is no direct impact on retention from availability issues, but you can see an effect in the long term.
The fact that people think we could easily shoot down alien craft is slightly concerning.

But the more concerning aspect for the US government is that foreign spies see UFO believers as easily exploitable marks. Thus the justification is counterintelligence people must sometimes lie to organize the security threats in an open network. This combined with an occasional Air Force psyop explains 99.99% of UFO sightings.

Sure there’s something *else* going on too, evident by the elasticity of true love, psychedelics and the general mystery of life’s existence. But for now, reality seems hard coded to prevent the explanation.
Now for power storage. Sure, you can set up on the poles and get continual sunshine, but other places it's a bit more challenging. Kinetic Energy Storage Systems (KESS) perhaps? Of course making batteries from regolith would be a rather holistic regolithic solution.
Oh you just need to support this XYZ new database, our app doesn't have a way deploy with your deploy tools, doesn't have granular permissions levels (in a factory environment), etc. Why do you not want our tool? Also, we will silo away a bunch of data needed for an MRP/ERP system to be effective to our system outside the MRP/ERP system. Silly IT people, not understanding our work environment (even though you support every person on the factory floor and have to understand their job and workflow to do that, to the point your techs are better manufacturing engineers than our actual MEs).
This is a really glaring example of mismanagement on the federal government's part. Apparently the number of staff who maintain the rails was cut some time before the incident, and this is the main reason the rails were not properly maintained and this accident was allowed to happen.

Meanwhile the transportation department is still celebrating their accomplishments and acting like we don't have a huge disaster on our hands https://www.newsweek.com/pete-buttigieg-ignores-ohio-train-d...
> If we don't know what an object is, then we don't know what it isn't either.

Logic doesn't work that way.

We don't know all of the things it isn't. We can know many individual things it's not. I know that none of the UFOs in the news are my left shoe.
Maybe he needed to trust his left right hand man to relay him accurate info but acted on a probability
How behavioral interviews are evaluated at Meta (from a former Meta eng mgr)
I remember using Corel 8 on a 486 with 8MB of memory. I would write the text in notepad and paste it into Corel, otherwise it would take 2s for each letter to appear.

I still find it amaizing that it worked. A 486 is something like half the speed of a single core ESP32 today...
I've always felt that Jira's (and similarly Wordpress's) biggest pro is its biggest con.

It will let you do whatever you want.
Sounds like goog employees spending too much time staring at the stock price.
I agree with you. The sentence "And now we know this kind of architecture can lead to problems related to performance, scale, and vendor lock-in." isn't valid or even wrong in all situations. It's always a matter of tradeoffs :)
I can't think of any "product" that would use models like ChatGPT, maybe search? Except that ChatGPT lies to your face, so it's not even a reliable knowledge base. Maybe a "spitballing" type of app where you ideate/brainstorm? Though a writers' room is probably cheaper over the long run.

It's a cool demo, albeit most people try to prompt hack it or try to get it to use profanity for the lulz. But is there any end-game product vision here? I don't really see it.
I still have this total distrust about closing Google documents without any sort of save operation.
The reason nukes aren't used has more to do with mutually assured destruction (MAD) and less to do with diplomacy. What happens when a technological advance gives a nation a big enough advantage such that mutual destruction is no longer assured?
You say that like I don't live in sight of the plume, friend. I've been volunteered. ;)

I have more concern living in this part of the country about the lead in my pipes than the contents of that cloud.
I think they're pointing out, that doesn't mean he doesn't know what he is doing. Just that he LOOKED like he didn't.

As an adult, especially with his background, it's hard to believe he doesn't actually know.
* shrug *

If the employees are happy and customers are happy, they don't need a new CEO. CEOs of companies at that scale are largely just PR puppets anyway, it's the ten thousand other engineers who do the real work. If you want to revolutionize the company, you need to swap out the army of ten thousand people, not the puppet.

They shouldn't give a damn about what some armchair critics say about an AI boo-boo. Ask those critics to code something better, if they can push some code commits, then they have a right to criticize, if not, shut up.

Yeah, we as a society need innovation, but it doesn't have to happen within Google, new companies can be established for that. We need a new Google, not a new Google CEO.
Waymo is usable if you live in the right parts of the USA, right?
The way I interpret that link to Octopus' website is simply that they over an off peak tariff to charge your EV at the best times for them, probably whenever there is excess electricity available. It does not say anything about using the EVs as storage. The "virtual powerplant" seems to be just a PR gimmick, which Octopus is very good at.

In amy case, that does not solve the issue of overall production or grid capacity.
Cut DEI and the company's dead.
> It seems to constantly follow the pattern of people saying "It's not that bad" and then only years later do we actually see the horrific health and environmental effects of these sorts of things play out when it's too late for the folks that have been impacted.

I recently learned that smaller versions of this even happen in the Lasalle/Peru area in Illinois with some regularity. It makes the local news, and maybe some Chicago news, but hardly a blip on national news.

And this is people telling me they live miles away from the incident, and are experiencing fuzzy orange snow. It's curious, because this is getting more press coverage, and at the same time the conspiracy wingnuts are claiming the press is covering it up.
I agree, actually. Bitterness doesn't solve anything. Dysfunctional orgs are usually beyond salvation.

For me, the question is: can I say the deadline is unrealistic and off by 2x as a matter of fact and can we discuss how to deal with that, as a matter of fact, not blaming anyone? Just the facts.

Sometimes this is impossible because the mere mention of it makes me the pessimist and is putting everyone in a bad mood.
"The levels required for acute exposure risk ate very high" is factually quite different from "there is no risk from acute exposure."

Additionally, an hour is also several orders of magnitude shorter than a week.

I'm not saying that the residents are facing concerning exposure levels, however your attempts to dismiss that concern have been either incorrect or factually lacking. If you are trying to correct misinformation, you need to raise the bar.
That amount of freefall would absolutely register. Falling is one thing - being weightless for a few seconds is absolutely noticeable.
NASA used neural nets for learning flight control back in 2003, so this could potentially use neural nets as well. [1]

Maybe something like a Jetson for the ANN processor? [2] I'm sure NVidia could provide a milspec part for their use.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/research/IFCS/index.html
[2] https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/jetson-nano-ai-computing/
Is that how it got started in Germany? With homeschoolers? You sure about that bud?

BTW, since we went Godwin rest assured that sadly there is no shortage of those types of people across the pond.
This might be a spoiler.

There are some brilliant levels of sarcasm going on in this article. Sarcasm inside of sarcasm. An infinite recursion of sarcasm, an out-and-out brainfsck. All the while, with the question still lingering in your head, "This is all just hypothetical, right? RIGHT?"

NPM is a mess. And we haven't even discussed what's happening in all the other repositories like nuget, pypi, maven, docker hub, crates.io, gems, etc.
> There's often a wise tradeoff between criticizing systems you've just seen after being at the company 5 minutes and waiting 6 months to understand the context.

I know this is reasonable advice, but it makes me deeply cynical. After 6 months I will have learned to live in the shit (to use your term), and so it still seems like I have nothing to gain by speaking up or trying to fix things. A culture that accepts shitty code probably isn't supper demanding for an experienced developer who is accustom to the mess, so I'll just coast through my time and hop jobs after a few years.

If nobody wants to respectfully talk about my criticisms on day one, then they wont really want to at 6 months either. In the end I'm lead to believe I should have zero concern for code quality and only worry about my personal reputation.
.net and c# is real nice until you go outside microsoft,
its like swift. I really love swift until you go outside apple.

just gift me swift + vim + linux for webdev please! no xcode and no visual studio.
The main thing that undermined its credibility was weighing numbers from the Chinese Communist Republic equally with those from other countries.
It's a price premium, not a premium product. A premium product in this space would cost 10x as much and nobody would bat an eye.

It's a DIY-ish kit with a low-cost BOM, no doubt about it. The limited availability / exclusivity is why it costs more than the $20 hobby kits on Amazon.
I said it before and I'll say it again, take away the search monopoly and Google is the slowest moving and most dysfunctional company in tech. Sundar is doing his best Ballmer impression and what it is truly embarrassing is given Google's supposed "talent" especially in the AI space they are really doing nothing for the billions they are throwing at the problem. I mean just look at the insane amount of articles about one of their top AI engineers, Geoffrey Hinton, so alot of press all fluff so to speak.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/technology/artificial-int...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awa...

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33022768
That's extremely well known, which is why the remediation strategy was to intentionally set them on fire.
He's Russian. He returned home, where he was born, where he has friends, multiple generations of family, decades of memories, and could hope to find some support when shrinking his life to fit in a smaller income. Moreover, he has stated that he'll leave if he can, if that's what is required to work on open-source.

Jesus Christ.
This is great example of having your cake and eating it too.
Is Duckdb designed for multiple users? I always got the impression the default use-case is single-user.
On the video you sent Photoshop takes 6 seconds to start and it seems like it is stored on an external disk which could explain why it's slower.

I'll try to make a video on real hardware once I have time to show that I'm not exaggerating. And remember that the SE/30 is a computer from 89, so not even early 90s.
My daughter rides horses. Especially when schools were remote getting outside to the horse barn to ride 4 times a week was a godsend during COVID. Fresh air, exercise and being able to interact with other kids in person even if at a safe distance.
Microsoft learned from its mistakes as a monopoly trying to manage everything under one brand umbrella. Google is still acting like a monolithic enterprise which is holding them back from key acquisitions and taking risks.
>For some projects, like browsers, that's a big deal, for others, like games, not so much.

Cheating in games is a big problem, and lots of money is spent addressing it, not to mention techniques which are barely distinct from spyware which cause performance reductions on the side.

A lot of that cheating relies on bog standard memory bugs which game devs don't care about, apparently.
There's a small amount of phosgene, but mostly nothing worse than when they started (which are fairly nasty). Lot's of CO and CO2, but it's the liquid runoff that's more concerning. It'll be a haz-waste site for decades.