skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The next console generation (not the mid Gen refresh) might actually be a cloud only box

It would be a mistake to not research and ship a cheaper cloud-only option given the rent-seeking potential.

But unless we see a massive deployment of low-latency high-speed internet in most populated areas, I don't see it replacing offline compute boxes.
In some ways they really have: They're a cloud oriented, device agnostic platform company that's actually built a pretty nice and smooth ecosystem a la Apple. Others, well. See article. AI and the ad department want your data.
The speed wasn't mentioned as a profit per freight thing, more that moving at hull speed rather than slow steaming reduces all the non-fuel costs. If you make n times as many trips with the same salaries amd same capital expendature then paying times as much per unit time may (or may not) be a net positive.

Plus seeing as you brought it up there is probably a small niche for a premium of 2 weeks over 2 months (even if it's minor). It hasn't pencilled out in the past because fuel costs are quadratic, but might increase revenue per unit slightly if marginal fuel costs are reduced.

Still pretty sceptical on the niche being big enough to justify the R&D though.
I've been doing it on Monday and it works well. I just take the days off as unpaid days in the leave system so I can request a different day whenever I want or when Monday is a public holiday.
Well, if you have an MBA from San Jose State, you will be hired as a low level analyst at Apple/Google/Netapp. However, if you get an MBA from Stanford GSB/Harvard BS, you can join as an associate at McKinsey/Bain/BCG, then jump to Apple/Google/Netapp as a VP/Senior Director of Strategy, thereby putting you in the elite class.

That's the difference, that's why there is so much competition to get into top three business schools. If one want to be a top level exec, go to a top three b-school, then jump laterally to companies.
You got a response - that the problem that you have is the same underlying problem as "Unwrap inner type when enum variant is known" (and two other options).

Your edit suggests that it did solve the problem, though it didn't answer the "I don't understand" aspect of the question.

If the solutions given in the linked duplicates didn't work, then specifically applying and showing how they didn't work would be the next step.

> Edit: Based on @Lukas solution, the following seems to compile, but I don't yet know whether it is doing what I want.

Stack Overflow itself is poorly suited for the "explain" type questions - especially if it is going to involve back and forth. The comments are intentionally poorly designed for that. The thing that SO comments are trying to avoid is the forum like "the real answer is buried deeply on page 10 of 15 of 30 comments per page on a phpforum". If the understanding is only uncovered after 50 back and forth comments, then the question and answer themselves are a poor fit for SO.

If you are after that type of interaction and a "here is the answer" isn't going to suffice then other formats may be better for your question. The corresponding difficulty is that Stack Overflow's framework can't be made to handle everything well. It handles Q&A well and doesn't try to handle conversations well.

Your question was marked as a dup because the solution that you are after is in those other Q&A sets.

If you need back and forth of explaining the syntax then /r/rust may be better. Alternatively, if you have something that works, get it reviewed on https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rust or if you are after a more real time back and forth conversation, https://discord.gg/rust-lang

You will note that if you are trying to find an existing match to your problem, /r/rust and discord are poorly searchable and you might have to scroll through a bunch of comments to try to get the context around the problem... and that is what SO tries to solve.
The output of models like GPT-3 can generate unique works.
Interesting take, I think we argued the same before overthrowing governments in the Middle East and North Africa. We were wrong.
I can produce more articles, or legal filings, more SEO spam, faster. That seems like a productivity gain.
Misconceptions about ChatGPT and Writing
Do you consider a tomato to be a vegetable or a fruit?

Biologically, a tomato is a fruit. This is inarguable fact. If you are a biologist breeding new strains, you will conceptualize a tomato as a fruit. And yet culinarily a tomato is a vegetable. Put a tomato in a fruit salad and people are going to look at you funny. Note that a biologist who eats food can and will consider a tomato both a fruit and a vegetable depending on the context.

If you can understand this, you can understand that someone’s biological sex—primarily relevant to reproduction and healthcare—can differ from their psychological sex (i.e., their gender), which is more relevant to social contexts. Both can be true simultaneously, but unless you’re a doctor caring for a trans person or intending to perform reproductive acts with them, someone’s psychological sex is almost certainly more relevant to your relationship with them than which gamete they happen excrete.
Yes but putting a bunch of tungsten rods with basic guidance into orbit on a payload is cheaper then dealing with missile systems, and also allows you to have a first strike capability that will be not readily detected like a missile
I don't think that's true. The important issue isn't productivity but whether a technology is centralizing or decentralizing, whether it benefits or loses from scale.

The personal home computer, the early web etc were productivity boosts but moved power from incumbents to small players. AI as it currently stands almost achieves the exact opposite. A relatively straight forward heuristic to ask is, how much does an authoritarian power like the technology?
It's not even most people's home page - a truly depressing chunk of Internet use comes from the Google search bar on phone home screens.
I was thinking more of the algorithms that recommend unsolicited content, like on facebook, youtube, and twitter. Were you thinking more of search engine page rank?

I think that the user content recommendation algorithms might be (or could be!) easier to describe than search page-rank algorithms, not needing to worry about some of the things you mentioned like scraping (because content is posted by users). Other things you mentioned are still relevant, like blacklists and ignoring content, now that these are platforms are so influential, often being referred to as the new public square.

Why can't facebook let you see posts from your friends in chronological order, or geographically close, or some other set of understandable options? Why is facebook protected when they inject unsolicited posts about something outrageous happening, just to keep you online, even if it's something harmful? How does facebook choose which posts to put in front of you, contnent that you did not ask for? Why does youtube recommend flat earth videos so often? How many big override knobs does twitter have to decide what goes viral, and what does not? The same for tiktok. Who at facebook and youtube and twitter and tiktok gets to decide this stuff for the billions of us using their platforms?

I haven't thought as much about Section 230 as it applies more specifically to something like google search and page-rank. That is a related topic. But at least you have to ask for something on a search engine, it doesn't bait you with unrelated content like the recommendation engines on the platforms I mentioned. I do agree with you that this can get complicated.

These recommendation algorithms are very influential - this is the new media, much bigger than anything before. If they can't describe how or why they promoted a harmful piece of content in a trial, then perhaps they should not be promoting content? Otherwise we are being manipulated on an unprecedented scale by a few insiders with very little oversight.
Another one:

Deploy time: 2022-11-17 17:00

Deploy point: 47.548° N , 121.537° W

Floats all the way around the world before passing within a few hundred feet of the start point. I was quite surprised when the second launch I tried turned up an (almost) eigenfloater of the matrix.
Is SO really the best place for asking the most basic questions when it is covered in almost all basic documentation?

Searching "rust enum" gives me https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/custom_types/enum.... immediately.

Perhaps it is worth it to put it on SO, but it's akin to asking "how do I access the field of an object in JS".
Technology as a whole is more useful for people with more resources. When animal husbandry was invented, the shepherd with one sheep still had one sheep at the end of the season, while the shepherd with two sheep might have three at the end of the season.
This was the proposal to begin with. Nothing is being hidden. Or did you think that a 1-10kW/m^2 beam didn't involve a 1-10kW/m^2 beam for some reason?
YoBulk's scope is much much bigger than a standalone CSV importer.We want to complete automate the CSV import workflow with an AI firstapproach.https://www.yobulk.dev/blog/Building%20an%20In-house%20CSV%2... gives an idea about the collaboration and workflow scope of YoBulk.
Can’t make a sandwich though.
I'm really not convinced we're close to AGI, at least in the traditional sense of it that LessWrong / the rationalists seem to be so worried about. I'm not convinced that our current approaches will actually lead to AGI in that sense.

However, I am worried about where AI is taking us. Because what I think I see happening is that we don't _need_ AI takeoff for this to change society for the worse.

Just look at the Microsoft OpenAI stuff for example. We don't need the AI to prevent its shutdown with grey goo and nanobots. The incentive structure around this whole thing means that even as stupid and sociopathic as Sydney is, they _won't_ shut it off. It doesn't matter that they _could_.

On the topic of alignment, the whole idea that _Microsoft_ of all companies thought that they could just feed GPT a good prompt and get the behavior they wanted is hilarious. We clearly have no idea how to get AIs to do what we want. It would be so funny that this was the approach of the absolute mind-boggling stupidity of it wasn't so horrifying.

I'm not worried about the AIs manufacturing a plague, or turning us all into paperclips. I'm worried that our systems of government and business will have no ability whatsoever to deal with the effects of these systems in a way that doesn't result in harm. And I don't even mean direct harm, from people losing their jobs (although that certainly seems like it's on the horizon). I just mean the same enshittification of everything that we've been experiencing for the last 10 or 20 years, at rapidly accelerating paces, further increasing the wealth gap and leading us towards a shitty, boring, unfulfilling dystopia.

It's not AI alignment I'm worried about, but human alignment. Looking back, it's miraculous that we somehow managed to dodge the bullet of nuclear MAD. Imagining the same thing playing out like that today is laughable.

I've been relatively positive about AI until the last few weeks, but watching the absolute shitshow with Microsoft has really made me cynical about the whole project.
Agile is a form of babysitting
The retail giant forecasts weaker sales

And yet the stock has been totally crushing it. Like a perfectly smooth chart, hardly a hiccup ever even for 2022. Walmart does well no matter what: high inflation due to strong economy means higher prices. Economic weakness means people shop at Walmart to save money.
I still argue against this for all knowledge work. I keep seeing this term “bullshit jobs” and need to probably look more into it, but it seems to refer to office jobs where huge amounts of time are wasted on unproductive work. I’ve had this kind of work in the past. But not all knowledge work is like this.

I’m a software engineer, and on some of the big projects I’ve been on I have squeezed massive amounts of real productivity out of long long hours. I know managers, bankers, real estate agents, and lawyers who also work long hours and get significantly more done for it. They take an hour less of work per day and start to legitimately fall behind (maybe that’s a good litmus test for how “bullshit” job is? How much time can you take off before it becomes noticeable?). The reality is a spectrum and we shouldn’t bring down some subset in favor of another.
Spam is cancer.

Spam has always been cancer. It pretty much destroyed Usenet (I know, it still exists, but spam broke the trust network it relied upon), and it wrecks everything it touches.

Fundamentally the problem is that spammers see nothing wrong with lying and information pollution as long as they make some money out of it. To some this is merely a cultural more about trying your luck, being persistent, taking advantage of obvious opportunities etc, to others it's a grave moral affront. It's partly due to phenomena like this that we've seen the move to ward a 'zero trust society' with endless security arms races.

It's hard to even adequately describe the problem. Large tech firms say they're doing a lot of fight spam on their platforms but basically just put out reports that make themselves look good, rather than being audited to any objective standard. The last economic study I've seen on the market for spam was a decade ago. I don't think we have good data on what % of internet content/traffic is real vs garbage.

To my mind, a big part of the problem is that we just try to filter it away and pretend it doesn't exist, while we constantly get more of it. Perhaps we should track it better, and more aggressively target the sources. Even just looking at the HN submission page, I'm struck by how every day around the same time new accounts show up to promote keto or CBD gummies - I presume that's because it's midnight or morning in a timezone and either a script or some slave laborer is tasked with putting out that day's wave of spam across tens of thousands of submission forms. Thanks to VPNs etc we have no idea where, and even though there's more hacking/security talent clustered here than most of the internet, as a community nobody can do anything about it. Most of these submissions are auto-deleted, making it hard to even identify their origin point in order to counter-target it.

Information pollution is a real and increasingly critical problem, and I think the passive acceptance of spam and unwillingness to engage with it in favor of mediocre technical workarounds is doing real damage to internet society.
My library charges per page. I don't think they'd mind.
I actually tried this with someone who is currently attending med school and got him to quiz ChatGPT on diagnosing common and esoteric ailments. According to him, ChatGPT assumed to know the answer when in most cases a good doctor would have asked questions to clarify or be specific to make an accurate diagnosis. In a few of those instances, it misdiagnosed when it could have easily gotten it right just by asking one or two simple follow up questions.
The vacant office spaces will be converted to data centers. What was once a sea of beige cubicles and coffee stained grey carpet, and human occupants, will be replaced with racks of glimmering LEDs and GPUs running AI models that will have replaced many of the same humans' jobs. One day what is YOUR cubicle might be occupied by a GPU cluster running a GPT 5.0 model fine-tuned to do YOUR job. What role most humans will play in that world, if any, remains ambiguous and the standard of their living accommodations is mostly certainly up in the air. Maybe GPT 5.0 will decide that the best use of some office towers is conversion to "windowless SRO rooms," in order to herd all the unemployed humans into an AI robot controlled "New Kowloon Walled City." Of course not all of of the floor plans in "New Kowloon" will repurposed only into "residential" spaces. Some sections will need to house automated logistical warehouses, in order to deliver Amazon packages and groceries to the human "residents." It's even possible that GPT 5.0 will decide that it makes sense to repurpose some of the offices into small, automated factories, like the noodle factories in Kowloon. Let's hope we can reach this utopia before a crash in the commercial office market brings down the whole house cards for real this time around.
Reminds me a bit of https://breckyunits.com/ but with more retro chrome for the tiled layout of text.
This doesn't work for editors who want to avoid excluding new voices from marginalized communities. Also, it incentivizes magazines to accept more submissions than they can responsibly read because it becomes a source of income.
https://archive.is/hKn7G
It's not a question of having enough resources. $GOOG can't do it because anyone who isn't building a promo packet by launching new services is on the way out.
I somewhat agree with the rest but:

> In contrast, Apple competing with USB with their own connectivity standard has a negative impact on basically everyone.

Does it? I haven't ever been negatively affected or even affected at all as far as I can tell, I happen not to use Apple products or interact with the Apple ecosystem much.

What would these effects be?
Browser JS definitely never had the ability to unmount storage volumes before Chromebooks existed.
Another study released today showing drinking cola increases testosterone. Time to throw out the baby me thinks.

And to top it off, the very first thing in this article is a picture of a politician.
> What does that look like?

The D Language Foundation operates that way, for a real world example. The bug list is open, anyone can /view/comment on/submit a fix/ for any bug.

> Fixing such an issue is a competitive disadvantage.

Fixing problems is an advantage, not a disadvantage.
If you want to watch Outsterhout in talk form:

Netdev 0x16 - Keynote: It's time to replace TCP in the datacenter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2HBHckrdQc

Netdev is an amazing conference btw, it is insane that we get access to the trailblazing being shown off at conferences for free on places like YT.
> My secret trick: use the browser

> Whenever you run tests, you need to run code – and browsers are very good at running JavaScript!

Such a novel insight. Much wow.

Don't let the NPM/NodeJS camp find out—they're so invested in their tooling that if you told them that the browser turns out to already be as good as or better than their preferred approach for the two things that they live and die by—downloading JS from the Internet and running it—then they might actually do that: die (from maxed out Surprised Pikachu shock levels, presumably). It turns out the browser is a lot better at stability across versions and sandboxing (i.e. not granting an arbitrary tool total access to your local workstation...), too.

Related/previously:

> > avoid Node.js based applications altogether.

> I ran into this recently. Firefox has a "packager" for putting together add-ons. It uses "node.js". All it really does is apply "zip" to some files. I tried to install the "packager" on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It had several hundred dependencies, and wouldn't run because of some version dependency in node.js for something totally irrelevant to the task at hand. Mozilla support suggested upgrading the operating system on the development machine.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24495646>

Moar: How to displace JS <https://www.colbyrussell.com/2019/03/06/how-to-displace-java...>

(Spoiler alert: it's by upgrading from JS to... JS: <https://kosmos.social/@colby/107383819674336646>).
It’s time and a half and a day in lieu for working a stat where I am. If you work it much outside 8.30-5 penal rates rise, but that part is employer specific rather than legislated.
> nearly unbelievable

I don't get why people say something like this, especially on HN where lots of people are SDE themselves.

Every single feature is hand-crafted by a/some real person(s), and is usually only reviewed by a handful people. It only makes sense sometimes it has serious oversight.
We've had to explicitly tell just-out-of-college new hires to stop at the end of the workday. The reasons are different for each but a lot of them have gone home and kept working without being asked or expected to.
> I can definitely see a point to making it Wednesday

You probably agree a lot with CGP Grey on this video[1]

I really liked when Cloudera did "unplug days" which basically threw in an extra day off every 3 weeks and a double extra off every 3 months, but it was a Friday so there was always the temptation to drive out somewhere or go do something for 3 days.

If it had been Wednesdays, we'd have just slept and relaxed instead.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALaTm6VzTBw
> The "end" of the chain is things like ransomware, identity theft, cc fraud, etc.

Nah. The "end" of the chain is espionage, industrial or otherwise.
I've always found that saying disrespectful because it treats teaching like everyone's second choice. Many that "can" choose to teach. Currently licensed and practicing surgeons are the primary way that medical residents learn how to become effective surgeons. I would never trust somebody incapable of surgery with the education of a surgeon.
Instead of just bitching and moaning somebody senior on the team needs to aggressively push back with productive feedback and compromise. You can't just say stop all of the process. You are invalidating the Scrum Master/TPM's existent and will just meet fierce resistance.

Ask them to let you run the the standup the way you want to run it one day as an experiment. Ask them what metrics and reports are being shared so you understand why this is a hill they will die on. Ask them to participate as peers during the ceremonies so they understand where you're coming from.

Ask why and explain why.
All the reasons they gave are warnings we already know - fed tightening, auto delinquencies, and a declining savings rate. All general warnings but nothing specific about what they are seeing.

I wonder if all of management got new restricted share grants based on revenue growth and aiming for that
I think 99% of these became worthless , not even exaggerating. Talk about a wealth transfer scheme. worse than even the 90s tech bubble.
Sure, in principle, compilers can combine certain repeated atomic accesses. But in practice, compilers respect the fact that intervening code takes a nonzero amount of time to run, and always try to load the latest value of the variable. (I am entirely unable to coerce a compiler into combining atomic accesses, even with memory_order_relaxed where it would theoretically be permissible.) Volatile accesses are the same in the sense that the compiler can move the rest of the code around it (and are known to have done so in practice): the only difference is that repeated volatile accesses can't be combined even in theory, and they can't be omitted even if the result is discarded.

What use case do you have in mind where this theoretical possibility would cause issues?
quirky metaphors and swearing are about top answers I've crafted to existing questions that editors are slowly blandifying until its no longer my contribution anymore. The English is about people phrasing questions poorly and the mods immediately closing them, while muggins here has crafted a detailed three paragraph answer that now has nowhere to go.

> but generally pushing a consistent, impersonal scientific writing style does help a lot to make SO more accessible.

I mean you can argue that, but I think you can also argue that the dictionary is a difficult read sometimes, in spite of its existing style.

Point is the founders made a choice and it was a choice that pissed some people off, so I'm answering the "I don't have a problem with SO" comment to point out that I did because their choices made me dislike contributing.
jxl so the requests can be lossless, transparent, and multi-channeled