skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd imagine it simulated parameterizing itself; i.e., the actual temperature never changed, but it mimicked how it would respond at a lower one, presumably having been trained on texts about AI with low- and high-temperature samples.
I guess because they are just being called missiles. Modern missiles are surprisingly capable devices, being able to autonomously maneuver, follow waypoints, and loiter before striking
> I should be thankful they don’t make me pay a yearly developer fee for making python apps on my Macbook.

Apple exec scribbles furiously
> it’s more likely that a switch to sailing ships is accompanied by a decrease in cargo and passenger traffic, and this has everything to do with scale and speed. A lot of freight and passengers would not be travelling if it were not for the high speeds and low costs of today’s airplanes and container ships.

>It would make little sense to transport iPhones parts, Amazon wares, sweatshop clothes, or citytrippers with sailing ships. A sailing ship is more than a technical means of transportation: it implies another view on consumption, production, time, space, leisure, and travel.

Yes, of course they beat around the bush with weasel words like "another view on consumption".

Let's translate this for what it is: "poor people, you can no longer have luxury goods". The "rethinking" is always telling us that the wealth we've enjoyed as a high energy species should go, only to be given to our "betters" - because they can always afford it. But they rarely ever say this out loud because it's an impossible sell, so they use mealy mouthed euphemisms.

Fuck these people, honestly. I don't want to live in a world where, in the name of equality, we take progress from those who have it. Give it to more people.
I recently switched to that myself. Tired of Google not respecting our private lives and wanting to know every single action we take. Wish it worked on more phones than just the Pixel line so more people could use it
compel is the wrong word, i was trying not to use "force". guess "motivate" is all that's left
They are probably referring to the introduction of scoped threads last year.
> Flex and Flash meanwhile died slow deaths because Steve was a meanie

I realize the author is joking but a lot of people still think Flash died because of the iPhone or that thing Jobs wrote. I think that's wrong.

I was a Flash dev for years. Started using it doing website intros and CD-Roms in 98-99. The last full Flash website I worked on was in 2010 and then I kept using it until 2014 or so doing Adobe Air apps for museums and a couple of iPads apps.

IMO Apple didn't kill the Flash Player for the web. Improvements in browsers like HTML5 and CSS3 did. Maybe the iPhone accelerated that, but it always just a matter of time. A coworker of mine predicted it already back in 2007 or so, even when it really was at its peak.

As for Flash, the technology itself, Adobe killed it. Flash could have been the best way to build crossplatform apps, something like Flutter, but Adobe decided to remove funding from the project and it slowly died. It canceled Flash Next (as it was known back then) which the rumors said would have fixed a lot of issues with security and performance and brough a new major version of the ActionScript language.

For more details, I wrote this when I decided to stop working with Adobe Air back in late 2014:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190617070508/https://medium.co...
Explaining a riff that most haven't heard of a joke that isn't all that common actually seems extremely helpful.
>Following the prior example, the vast majority of people dug into the side they already supported and didn't really affect party choice.

In case you missed it there was a recent paper on this topic:

>Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency foreign influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US election and its relationship to attitudes and voting behavior

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35576-9

Summary thread: https://twitter.com/CSMaP_NYU/status/1612449687218397194
2 people in a shower doesn't effectively decrease water usage per person, and the logistics overhead would eat into the 4 minutes.
> I should be thankful they don’t make me pay a yearly developer fee for making python apps on my Macbook.

Don't give them ideas.
One cannot stress the significance of that. Our minds are not like mice. We understand dogs, but we don't get cats. Their mind works differently. Rodents differ at least as much as cats from us. Autism in mice, regardless of similarties in behavior or name, cannot be compared to autism in humans.
Huh? Hyundai has the fastest charging vehicles on the market thanks to the much higher battery pack voltage. Tesla's battery is starting to look behind the times.
very very hard to play
i like it :D
>Also the poverty line is a moving target. People with streaming TV and video game consoles are technically in poverty in the US

Yea, this is a tricky one. Is there something below poverty? Googling it says the poverty line is $35,801 for a family. I have relatives in a foreign country that would die for $35k (even all things relative). They have a TV but that's about it. No streaming, no reliable cell phones, etc. All through college and even a bit before, I would have lived in what was considered poverty... but to say "I lived in poverty" just sounds silly.
I am curious how many people are rethinking how aggressively to set up a JIT system in the wake of COVID and the supply chain issues, given it clearly cost many companies an astronomical amount of money in the end. Obviously you shouldn't build your entire company around rare, worst case scenarios, but there should probably be some consideration budgeted in for them IMO and it seems few companies were ready for rainy days.

A very very tiny (maybe not even applicable) example is how I always keep a camera or two when I buy new ones and don't sell them all off. You never know when your workhorse is going to breakdown. Just something I'm mulling over I guess!
(Heh, a taste of fooBBQ.) Thank you for sharing. While we're here and discussing the documentaries: care to share a highlight anecdote of your time there?
Goddamnit, it needs to be all equipment! Not just farm equipment! Otherwise you're just going to see inventive reclassification to get around right to repair legislation!
Google Lets Anyone See Original Uncropped Images – Proof of Concept
Voidpet
I'm pretty sure both Mastodon and Pleroma can be set to only relay images instead of cacheing them, ones posted by local users are ofc hosted.

I think its a good idea to build a fediverse server that doesn't host media at all.
Why purchase a tool for the benefit of your job which your employer will not pay for? If I am less efficient at my job because they won't purchase it, then that is their decision. Less efficient it is.
Thanks for the links.

I looked at the first two and neither had a hit for the word "acid". The first seemed to shift the issues onto a chance to rip into the GOP. Dig into the blame part after everyones safe, surely? The second had this:

"There has been no evidence of non-aquatic species suffering from the derailment, she said, and they haven’t had any concerns about that."

This is exactly opposite to many claims made by people actually there.

In all these articles seem to misrepresent/minimise versus reports on the ground, exactly as I stated.

I didn't have time to watch the Fox News videos, maybe they're different?
Further, I’m amazed at the level of irrelevancy of their ads. I can’t think of a single purchase I’ve made or will make that corresponds to an ad I’ve seen on YouTube.
> I would have thought that givig the audio process full priority would have the greatest benefit.

I think you're conflating two separate things. Giving full priority to an audio processing thread will ensure it will be scheduled as much as possible which increases throughput. This is crucial for things like rendering (audio or video) where the process takes in the order of minutes or hours and needs to be completed as fast possible.

In the other application, such as synthesizers, virtual instruments (MIDI keyboard -> MIDI signal -> DAW -> sound wave), music notation etc you care only about latency. Human brain is hard-wired to observe even the minutest latency in music, especially in bass register, any millisecond delay will be perceptible to highly trained professional musicians. To fix this, you need to tell kernel, when it receives a signal, the thread cannot be scheduled out. Here, you don't care about throughput, but have extreme latency requirements.

I, as a hobbyist composer, personally use a traditional archlinux setup for my studio. It's not real time at all. It honestly sucks, the latency is extremely noticable, which makes some applications, such as playing on my keyboard and hearing soundfonts through DAW impossible; as the latency makes me confused and prevents me from playing the keyboard properly. This is ok for me, as it doesn't distrupt my personal workflow (I have a very slow, calculated approach to composing, and when I need to improvise, I do it on my piano) so I didn't care about optimizing it. But if you're a professional musician and need good latency, something like this is can be crucial.
If you like you can rephrase like 'Many people are not grateful their parents for their existence'
Bing Just Made Search Interesting Again
I don't really get the motivation for this beyond personal greed on behalf of executives that are only seeking to prop up the share price in the short term.

The market forces at work will force all technology companies down in valuation pretty much regardless, what is the difference of a few extra million market cap to handicap your ability to grow during the next expansion phase?

I can understand it if you have brought on a lot of fat and you want to lean out your team and need an excuse but outside of that rather narrow situation I really don't understand cutting stuff like technical writers etc during these periods.

Why handicap yourself in the future just to make one quarter look better? Surely if you have faith your stock options will be worth more if you play the longer game?
So yeah it's the duopoly from my previous comment. When you buy a bloody apple in your nearby shop and pay with it, Americans are salivating.
Meh. Potato potato. Engineering titles usually means having an engineering degree, at leat in my part of Europe, which usually means having graduated from a technician university.

Just because your job description calls you a software engineer instead of software developer doesn't make you an engineer in the traditional sense. It's as much value as your job calling you a "senior" after 3 years of experience just to pay you less. As long as your titles aren't transferable between jobs, then they're not real titles.

So I don't get why people argue about these titles. Software engineering is often just overrated digital plumbing work anyway.

To me engineering means doing more safety critical work, similar to designing and building bridges, where people's lives are also on the line, so valid credentials and titles from accredited bodies matter.

What do you think is the difference between dev and engineer then?

I personally don't care about titles or credentials in this racket. Call me a dev, call me an engineer, you can even call ma a clown, i don't care as long as you pay me what I ask.
and if the government every truly defaults, you are pretty much screwed no matter what you own.
Cars should last more than 20 years. It's only recently with planned obsolescence that the manufacturers have gotten that number down.
One of Tesla‘s biggest market advantages is the quality and ubiquity of their charging network. There’s no other charging network that you can just drive up to, be 95% certain that it’s going to work, plug in, and start charging without having to download an app. Blink at least allows for contactless payments now, but their chargers are still all slow chargers, I believe.

It’s no surprise that he is resistant.

It needs to happen, though. Like you I’m glad and incentives are being provided.
>It's the loss of an entire ecosystem worth of apps.

He literally just said that he used the Aurora store as an alternative. If you don't know what that is, it is basically an anonymous version of the Play Store. Highly recommended
>Musk did it for a day

It's deeply sad and funny that he's gutted Twitter so badly that, instead of having a team that could investigate these user complaints and determine whether they have merit and what the cause is, the CEO of a major tech platform resorted to "Huh, weird, let me try. LOL that's crazy."
https://archive.ph/LwyTj
Moving to a fully transactional model for filesystems sounds like it will create more pain than help, especially given the historical tendency of filesystem implementations to cheat on semantics every opportunity they get.

> - fopen(..., 'r') could, by default, operate on a COW snapshot of a file rather than on the raw file on the filesystems. No more having to worry about races with other processes.

You can go a few steps further. If you have some sort of O_ATOMIC mode on creating a file descriptor, that operates on a separate snapshot in both read and write mode (and in the case of open for write, will atomically replace the existing file with the newly written copy on close), that would have more correct semantics than existing POSIX I/O for most applications. You can't make it default at the syscall level, but most language I/O abstractions could probably make it default. Notably, this can be implemented in the OS kernel without actually touching filesystem implementations themselves, just the way the kernel arbitrates between userspace and the filesystem.

Another interesting file mode that fixes many use cases is having some sort of "atomic append" for files that handles the use case of simultaneous readers and writers of log files. Set up the API so that you can guarantee that multiple writers each get to add their own atomic log message (without other synchronization), and that readers can never see just part of a log message.

The difficult part of the filesystem to reason about is the file metadata and directory listings. I've seen suggestions in the past to use file descriptors instead of strings as the basis for handling directory queries in language implementations. If you don't do at least that much, it's basically impossible to solve TOCTOU issues, but I'm not sure there's a lot you can do with COW snapshotting of directories that still manage to be acceptable in performance.

> Temp files, like database temp tables, could by default only be visible to the current process (and optionally its children) or even the current thread. No more having to worry about temp file races and related issues.

Creating unnamed temporary files is a solved problem. Named temporary files is more difficult, but create-only-if-doesn't-exist exists on all platforms, and most language APIs have some way of getting to that (it's "x" flag in C11's fopen).
From this point of view, can the entire freedom of speech in the US be solved if a company simply moves the headquarters to the EU because at that point US laws no longer apply?

> Being accessible from the EU doesn't make your business subject to EU law. The EU doesn't claim universal jurisdiction.

Collecting data related to EU individuals does make you subject to the specific GDPR law though, unless I'm mistaken.
Why DDR5 Is Absolutely Necessary in Modern Servers
WD announces 44TB external drive enclosure
Contains two 22TB hard disk drives.
You know, there are considerations far more important than money that might want someone to have an offline version.

I'd gladly pay $0.02 cents/api call if I could be absolutely certain my queries weren't be used for evil.

Sadly, that's not possible.
My point isn't that the Super Mario Maker players weren't having fun flexing their game design muscles. My point is that a million makers on a million joycons couldn't generate enough commercially viable content for a single game. So what hope does GPT have? Both situations have similar design constraints, which I'm arguing is missing the critical design component necessary to make commercially viable platformers.

The reason why commercial viability is of interest is because the article claims this tool will be valuable to game developers and I don't think it will be because it doesn't solve for any problems in the business of making games. Nobody is stuck deciding where the pipes and bricks go.

To end on a positive note, lots of open world games use terrain generators as a first pass. AI might have better luck in that domain.
Probably the addition of `thread::scope`.
WebAuthn (or the new iOS "Passkeys" feature which is based on WebAuthn under the hood) does this.
> And then how the hell are you supposed to use any code sanely when the entire community is using different async runtimes

It's not that big of a deal in practice. You pick a runtime. Most of the library ecosystem doesn't care about the async runtime used, and that which does uses tokio.

> Why can’t the runtime be part of the core language with hooks into parts that might need to be customized in hyper special cases?

Because Rust ships a minimal runtime.

> Async traits still aren't a thing and it’s been years.

They were blocked on generic associated types which landed recently, and will land in stable in the near future. For everything else there's `#[async_trait]`.

Also, "fearless concurrency" is a lower level kind of "fearless" than "how do I use an async API." It's about memory safety and program soundness in the presence of concurrent execution. The fact that the only fears we have are about the ecosystem and APIs is a testament to how Rust eliminated the deep fear of concurrent execution.

And if we're going to take a shot at async, let's take a shot at how fucking hard it is to implement a correct async executor and how bad the docs are. std Rust does next to nothing to abstract or make your life easier.
Good content was always a marketing strategy. For a while DO's content ranked high for a lot of tech searches. Rightfully so too, it is high quality.

Then another Google algo change pushed high quality content, like DO's tutorials, down in ranking. No need to spend money on something that isn't having the intended effect.

I worded this a bit tongue in cheek but seriously, search results have gotten really terrible in the past few years. At least DO's stuff was helpful. Now the first page is full of spun garbage just because it follows the new outline format that Google loves.
Perhaps “incentivize” would be more accurate.
The Helpdesk didn't know until after the RIF happened as some of them lost their jobs too. But every fired employee will get some return-labeled boxes shipped over to them, and are asked to pack up their equipment & send them back. Most companies who do these layoffs still count you as an employee for the duration of your severance, and your only real job requirement is to pack up your equipment and drive it to the UPS store.

Towards the end of their severance time, Infosec will run a remote wipe so if their endpoint ever connects to Wifi it'll get nuked. They tend to wait a bit to ensure there's not something on the laptop that needs to be recovered for the company – or the employee says they had some critical personal things on it. Either way the only way they get it back is by sending it back and letting the Helpdesk pull the data.

Worst case, an employee doesn't send stuff back and we write it off. It's really not a big deal. Mandatory FDE + device wipes when a laptop comes online means any data is protected, which is 100% of what we're concerned about. No one cares if an employee gets a "free" MacBook that's a few years old.
Some companies let you keep it, some companies want you to mail it back so they can pay for it to be recycled properly or stored in a closet.
They send you a box and you send it back basically. Though, the last company I left they made me pay for box and shipping (fine) but are refusing to reimburse me for the ~$200 shipping (no so fine)
How will we ever deliver 240VAC electricity to locations that are directly adjacent to urban city streets. Seems like an intractable problem. /s
What data have you asked to be removed?

If it is PII then EU laws like GDPR apply, but if it is posts more generally then they are not covered, and it would be unfair to people who have responded to them and those reading those responses later (sans context, if your post were removed). The right to be forgotten covers information about you, not information by you (with an edge-case that if somehow your words in a post unambiguously identify you, that post falls into the first category as well as the second so is covered).
It would be fun to build a TUI Fediverse app using Textual[0] or something

[0] https://github.com/Textualize/textual
The White House is doing PR for itself first and foremost here. Tesla did a good thing as a result of laws that have been recently passed that incentivize it, and the White House wants to make sure people know it.
Full PWA support can't come soon enough!
> Tesla offered wayyyy back to make their charging system the industry standard

You neglected to mention the conditions. Tesla did not make any kind of serious offer, and as a result no manufacturers took them up on it, because it would have been a terrible business decision.
Clickable links: https://terminusdb.com/ https://github.com/GavinMendelGleason/blog/blob/main/entries...
> You're saying the game isn't playable because it was too different to real life? Did you notice the Superhero who arrives to fight natural disasters or the giant aliens who can invade?

So, all bets are off when a fantastical element is introduced? We should no longer expect any internal consistency, and the work is entirely above critique?

Why didn't Frodo take down Sauron in his X-wing?? I saw the walking trees, so I know that anything is possible.

The answer is because we expect internal consistency. Ok, so there's a superhero in this game system. Doesn't change the fact that it's supposed to simulate traffic, and that this is one of the fundamental systems the game is built upon. Oh, it doesn't actually simulate traffic? Yes, this is a problem: it's a traffic simulation with superheros.
First randomly picked "fact" from that:

> Taylor Swift ... attended ... Belmont University in Tennessee for a short period of time.

I can't find any source for that so it's likely to be made up. The fact that I also can't quickly prove it's not true illustrates a major problem with the idea that "ChatGPT is great as long as you fact check it". Most questionable statements I've seen it produce can't be fact checked easily/quickly. The old problem of negative existentials.

There was something that happened once involving Taylor Swift and some Belmont University students [1] so maybe that's where ChatGPT picked up some link between her and Belmont.

I can't be bothered to check any more.

[1] https://news.belmont.edu/taylor-swift-obsessed-with-belmont-...
> No, I don’t wanna see a Hyundai next to me at a supercharger station.

Ma, look, a segregationist.
https://git.sr.ht/~mariusor/fedbox seems to be trying to do that.