skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to say. It might be, but I did notice some not so subtle memes posted on LinkedIn about "dont wanna come to office? lemme get someone from India; you want donuts tomorrow boss?". I am oddly inspired that the old country is getting slowly recognized as a place to pick up developers though ( it makes sense, big English speaking population, similar values ).
There's a little Egdod in all of us ;)
It’s debilitating and I’ve resorted to writing down on a paper notebook what I need to get done so I can re-engage after one of those endless pre-work interruptions.
Spot on. AI is extremely centralizing and extremely powerful. I'm a big Bitcoiner and definitely against big government. But I fail to see what feasible counter there is except for something as totalitarian and powerful as the government, whether it be to enforce copyright of training data, UBI, or even forceful limitation of AI research (latter prob won't work. And AI research will simply move to more lax jurisdictions).

Even Bitcoin is not going to fix any of this.
Vietnam.

The hiring market for programmers isn't as hot as it was say, a year ago. However, none of my colleagues have lot their job and the overall sentiment from people I know is that it's business as usual.
> An egregious and nearly unbelievable oversight on Google's part.

This describes Google's entire approach to browser extensions. It's so cosmically and hilariously bad, and because extensions grant post-decryption access, renders basically every other security and privacy effort they've ever done with web standards completely pointless.

All that garbage about encrypting everything in transit is entirely irrelevant when the endpoint is a masterpiece of bad security design.
So the question is why hasn't an optimized RPC implementation emerged for the data center that avoids the headaches that come with layering over TCP.

Turns out integrating with the control plane is hard at data center scale.

When everything is working, an optimized protocol stack is great and everyone is happy.

When congestion happens (fabric, kernel, memory bus, cache footprint, etc), and your optimized app causes a legacy production app to behave strangely, all hell breaks loose.

For example, a distributed file system SRE sees some strange tail latency effects and doesn't know that a cluster is shared with a non-TCP app and of course the optimized stack doesn't respond to congestion the way TCP would.

Worst case, the SREs notice this just after an update is pushed in their app, and they spend a random amount of time trying to figure out if the update is what changed the behavior.

Best case, they know there are non-TCP apps in the area, and they ping the SRE for that stack and say "my app is behaving strange, please hit your big red off button so I can see if that fixes the problem."

Someplace in between those options, the SRE is using TCP aware network debugging tools to try to figure out why this day is different from yesterday, or this cluster is different from the one where everything is working fine.

Regardless, you get an unhappy SRE. But of course you never get just one unhappy SRE.

So you need to generate a lot of value got justify their pain.
The biggest Communist ('socialist' is not well defined at all and shouldn't really be used in a serious discussion) enterprise, the USSR, failed on its own merits (or lack thereof). It was in no way strangled by the US. A major reason was that central planning doesn't work that well and you need a market economy - strongly associated with Capitalism - to actually achieve success. Perhaps in some AI-driven future a planned economy etc. could work well, but that certainly hasn't been the case so far. China famously realised this in the late 80's.
> But having your car tell you, unprompted, not to go to this candy store, but rather to the one owned by the car brand

Because that's just an ad, literally the same as any other ad we've been conditioned to put up with for our entire lives. Drawing the line here but not "$company's thing advertising it's unrelated product with 1st party ad space" is silly. Every company shamelessly does this, you're just used to it. This the 1st party equivalent of your competitor buying an ad for your company's name on Google because they're an alternative, the whole industry spies everything I do online chasing this kind of ad targeting.

Everyone in this thread is made really uncomfortable because of the stupid digital fiefdoms we've created and complete lack of user protection we have and are now realizing how little control we have over the previously somewhat neutral staple apps we've grown to rely on. But there's nothing different about this, or your car for that matter. This is the conclusion of "it's their platform blah blah."
I mean, the article is published in ‘The Economist’.
TIL! I didn’t know registration was required in order to seek damages. That sounds suspiciously like a loophole that means the US doesn’t quite meet the Berne convention, no? Or we adhere to the letter of the convention but not the spirit? Looking around, I like how a lot of countries have no voluntary procedure for registering copyright, that seems more in line with the intent behind Berne.
Counting the breaths (usually up, not down) is the standard starting practice in zazen, Zen meditation. When you lose track you bring your mind back to counting again at 1, so it's more like "1.. 2.. shit. 1.. ugh. 1.. 2.. 3.." than anything actually involving 10.
I didn’t miss your point - your point is wrong. You clearly don't have any subject matter expertise in this if you're equating it to swimming and weights.
https://github.com/aqualxx/stable-horde-notebook

My only problem with stable horde is that their anti-cp measure involves checking the prompt for words like small, meaning I can't use a nsfw-capable model with certain prompts (holding a very small bag, etc). That, and seeing great things in the image rating and being unable to reproduce because it doesn't provide the prompt.
my dad's a machinist; I am from exposure. Every time I express anything technical to him there is a translation that has to take where we stumble around until we convert what i'm saying (metric) into thou.

i've been doing it for years and i'm still shite at it.
My Firefox add-on has "<all_urls>" permission and gets rubber-stamped.
> It is parroted practically every time people get offended that others aren't convinced by their arguments.

Which side is not listening to other's arguments? I don't see any argument against crypto in general, except "I don't believe" or "I don't think it solves something I know of". These are not arguments, these are also not refutable.

As a practitioner of finance for 15 years, from front to back, vanilla to exotic, tech to investment, I've spent hours on HN to explain that yes, there are tremendous advantages to blockchain in finance.

Yet by the very definition of 1 user = 1 vote, it just takes a 22yo web developer to think "meh, no, it's just scams".

HN is good for a lot of stuff, but when it comes to something that is beyond the understanding of the average developer, there is not point for a few specialists trying to convince a mass of nay sayers.
Be careful what you wish for; you might just get "artisanal handcrafted certified cruelty-free prompts" instead.
I have had this experience with incurious human doctors as well. We do not need mechanical diagnosticians. We need minds that can think through problems using a mix of logic and intuition built through intensive study and experience.
imagine how one of their s3 in a box for copying digitized data from tapes would be if harbor freight got their hands on it. $100 and it makes that sound that failing hard drives did in the 90s
You should read any one of Mark Russinovich's amusing novels on viruses destroying the world. You might be convinced we should stop using any software.
When doing PCB layout, you're basically forced to think in thousandths, but work in millimeters... You end up memorizing multiples of 2.54mm (0.100in)
Sure, but developers continued to use tables long after there were alternatives.

The first edition of Zeldman’s seminal book Designing with Web Standards [1] was released in 2003; two additional editions were released in 2007 and 2009.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designing_with_Web_Standards
Your conclusions don’t follow. Most people are not doing exclusively mentally demanding technical work, which you admit, so why would you limit the work week based on that? And non strenuous work takes a nontrivial amount of time? I’m regularly solidly productive for 30-40 hours a week (tracked with RescueTime app).

Today I did around a dozen PRs (among other things like design reviews) that were tiny changes (cleanup, or migration config flags over various repos). It wasn’t hard work, but it’s important work that has to get done. Shortening the week doesn’t magically get this done faster.
Yeah, but we already did it with software engineering.
Why does Pikkety think that capitalism is not the major engine that has been increasing the standard of living for people worldwide? Does he think something else has been the essential motor behind that improvement in the material condition of humans around the world?
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Can you explain how empty grocery stores in USSR is somehow the US's fault?

http://beelineblogger.blogspot.com/2016/01/how-supermarket-v...
Why is that? Common components use thous but tooling moved to mils?
That's the exact problem. AI is centralizing. So is empowering the government. Not to mention if AI development is heavily red-taped in one jurisdiction, its development will simply move to a more lax jurisdiction. It makes things even worse.

No matter how you slice it, the rich gets richer, those in power centres in government gets more power, and the majority in the lower middle class loses the most.
I think this idea of having formal methods integrated with AI code gen will be really powerful. If we can write verifiable specs, or even a way to automate approximate verification, then it can be used a s a scoring function to train an machine learning algorithm that performs codegen.
> There are real world use cases for blockchains, including stablecoin, trading, etc. though this has progressed much slower than expected

Speculation is not a use case. The normal argument is that trading helps create liquidity, but liquidity for what?
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Uruguay has to be the least interesting country to be a Spy Balloon operator.

Anything you launch come back to you only traveling across the sea and some farms in New Zeland xD
We talk for a full hour every day, but there are only usually 5 or 6 of us, and we are all invested in every feature, so the meetings end up being a fairly detailed review and feedback on everybody work.
I also used this with anki, but i wanted some interactivity and practice actually physically writing stuff out combined with spaced rep.

Resulted in some pretty gnarly code using kanjivg, pygame and ankiconnect:
https://github.com/eshrh/anki-kunren
> The law is simple... You have to have a license to the data to train a model with that data. If you don't... Get ready to be sued.

This won't be the case everywhere. UK has actually already explicitly ruled the opposite
I am assuming you are sarcastic instead of extremely ignorant.
Today's peasants live far better lives than yesterday's kings and emperors.
Is Google (trillion dollar company) really a "soft target"?
I would expect them to use small sizes for almost all the testing.
I’m pretty familiar with the area- one of the more unique parts of the city is the “red zone”, a recovered area which became uninsurable due to the changes in the assessment of land risks post quake.

It’s a weird place as the roads are still there and the trees are still along the edges of the former gardens but all the houses are gone and the sites reverted to grass. Many of the fruit trees on this map are from those gardens.

You can get a good idea from google maps: Avonside Red Zone
https://maps.app.goo.gl/bXcnExMeur9oNovp6?g_st=ic

You have to be quick to get the fruit there though ;)
At the office we maintain a policy which restricts any extension installs but ones explicitly vetted by IT. I would go so far as to suggest any company that doesn't do this is negligently irresponsible with computer security at this point.
I keep wondering if we're in the midst of Xerox PARC 2.0, but instead of Xerox, it's Googl. Amazing products and ahead of its time, but can't / won't execute.
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Another really common one is plastic sheeting. That's probably the item I most often personally come into contact with that is measured in mils. (that is, things I need to know the thickness of, which excludes the paint all around me)
except for the part about having power.
+1 the problem is the management’s desire for modern day taylorism. Once that line of thinking sets in it really doesn’t matter which process you pick it’s still going to suck
Several companies did layoffs here. Australia is not immune.

Some American companies like Google and twitter layed off etc.
"Mark43, a US company that builds online platforms for public safety organisations like police, fire or other emergency services, made its entire Australian office redundant at the end of June. Former staff member Gary* estimates around 70 people were laid off, with most of them based in Sydney."

but also local companies

https://itbrief.com.au/story/one-in-five-young-aussies-in-te...

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/finder-staff-sh...

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/sydney-technolo...

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/other-industries/me...
Feature Request:

Missile command mini game where one county launches a barrage of them at your country and you have to shoot them down over ocean.
Essentially, yes. Older components tend to have imperial footprints, newer ones metric.
Maybe Rackspace could install the patches Microsoft shipped? They got rooted on December 2.

> CrowdStrike researchers replicated the exploit method attack on Exchange systems that had not received the November 8, 2022 patch KB5019758, but could not replicate the attack on systems that had received that patch
Given Project Starline, this seems pretty accurate.
Definitely not in defence of free market capitalism. In defence of an oligarchy more like.
Because they cover the US and people who shop there only shop there and will always shop there.
Japan. No significant layoffs in tech afaict. The large companies are being urged by the govt. to raise salaries (as historically they base salaries are low in comparison to peers in other G7-G8 nations in similar roles).
The Economist is a well known inverse indicator, so take this with a grain of salt
I agree with the 20 - 25 hours of productive mental work per week.
So much of my day is wasted with meetings that could be an email. The worst are recurring weekly meetings. Why?

Tomorrow I have meeting starting from 9am. From 9-5 I only have 1.5 hours that are not meetings and they are not concurrent, they are 3 30 minute blocks between meetings. I have an insane deadline I am trying to make in 2 weeks. How am I supposed to get any work done if I am constantly in meetings? I feel like companies should designate at most 2 hours a day as meeting hours, after that let tech workers build tech, its not right to fill days with meetings and then expect us to produce at night.

My last job had almost no meetings it was awesome. I really only worked maybe 20 hours a week but it was solid deep work. Its been a year and the company CTO still reaches out occasionally to see if I want a position for various projects they have coming up.

If you let developers just work when they are in work mode you will get solid results.
These days most americans type like AI bots parroting the propaganda they absorbed from the media. It's the perfect system, populated by serfs toiling for their slavemasters, while blinded by ideologies, forgetting how miserable the typical american life is.

Barely 10 days holiday per year, no universal healthcare, car-infested cities, unsafe cities filled by homelessness, racial tension all over the country, drug addiction, and many more. The US is a living nightmare yet people like you are blinded to think you're still the best in the world. Pity.
TIL: The Lizardman’s Constant is 4%, supposedly how many poll takers will purposely choose a joke or bogus answer. 4% is how many of Americans believe lizardmen are running the Earth.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
You can do it on common equipment but I dunno if I’d call it “easy.” There’s a reason that +/- 0.05mm costs a lot less than 0.02mm.
I don't know how podman machine compares, but I've found colima [0] to be a much better experience to Docker Desktop on Apple Silicon Macs.

[0] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
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Higher prices doesnt mean higher margin. But they can benefit from own brands.
Or as a machinist might say, a few tenths.
Wouldn't an all white coat be even better?
There's something even worse... 0201, 0402, 0603 are all codes for SMT component sizes... and they mean something different depending on whether they are metric or imperial. 0201 imperial is 0603 metric.

Most parts were imperial IIRC until at some point they started selling parts that were too small (smaller than 0201) and switched to metric. I can understand wanting to switch to metric, but reusing the same goddamn size codes is too chaotic for my taste. Come up with different numbers.

You'll still use metric, but you'll just end up seeing lots of 2.54 or 0.254 everywhere.
I think it was all over once America started using ounces to measure volume.
How is the CO2 sequestered? That is conspicuously missing from that marketing blog post.
Conversely, I did a project once where we had not a single stand-up in 9 months. CEO would come up with some designs, I'd asynchronously comment on them with questions or concerns, then slice the designs into tickets that'd I'd pump good amounts of context and detail into, estimate and prioritize, then chuck my engineering team at them. We'd all asynchronously work on them. If they had questions, they'd slack me. This across five timezones.

Once or twice we'd have a miss on a ticket probably because I didn't define it well enough, but I'd just point out the issues in code review and they'd rewrite as needed. Oh well.

Meanwhile we all have a phenomenal quality of life because our entire day schedule is set on our terms. And we delivered a whole ass SaaS product from scratch in like 9 months for around 2,500 engineering hours if my brief math is right so the founders were happy.
I think the "until it needs to be maintained" is an oft-quoted excuse that is either 1) unavoidable, no matter how elegant the code, or 2) way overstated.
Note that disparagement extends to factual statements too.

https://www.g-s-law.com/blog/disparagement-and-defamation-1-...

> Disparagement means anything negative statement about someone or something. So the non-disparagement provision in your employment agreement or severance agreement applies to any and every negative statement. It does not matter if the statement is true or not, opinion or fact. If your statement makes your employer look bad, it is disparagement.

If you have signed a non-disparagement agreement, the best advice is likely "decline to say anything about the subject."
I’ve been thinking along the same lines as what you seem to have done. I looked into the CommonCrawl data and also the Pile and I’m not sure they are as large as people think. We also manage some of our own hardware including GPUs. It looked to me that with maybe .5 PB decent storage and 8 high end gpus it could be possible to train a decent LLM in a few months, how does that estimate compare to your experience?
Curious why we jump from 16ths or 32ths to thous rather than 64ths, 128ths, 256ths, 512ths and 1024ths

I guess they are a mouthful without good abbreviations and there was a tech jump between woodworking and machining so in betweens aren't used
Yea, I'm always blown away by the old master machinists I've worked with when they talk about getting to "50 millionths" (ie half a tenth of a thou) on manual lathe and measurable with a bench micrometer [1].

Also the auto body guys whose hands are like profilometers [2] and can just feel various surface quality [3]. This is actually where precision originally came from with the 3 plate lap where you're just using fingers and candle soot to create crazy high surface flatness [4].

[1] https://willrich.com/product/starrett-direct-reading-bench-m...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profilometer

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_roughness

[4] https://ericweinhoffer.com/blog/2017/7/30/the-whitworth-thre...
Thanks so much for this. I was also beating my head against the wall over-nerding the correct idea. This gave me what I needed and didn't really add any spoilers beyond the ones contained in the post above.
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The EV revolution is about saving the car industry from climate change, not saving the planet, but every little thing adds up when it comes to these technologies.

The charge and range anxiety problems are basically early-adopter problems, because it takes way more effort to run a gas station than a charger stop. Gas has a giant supply chain which needs to be kept moving to feed the cars (& predict usage/refills), while the electricity is just run a wire (sure, it's not that easy, but no humans need to carry it around in trucks) and use as much as you want.

Hell, you don't even always have to run a wire to the place.

At least one person said they saw an EV used off-grid in an Alaska cabin. And it had a Polaris EV all-terrain thingy and it was much easier to maintain than a gas vehicle, because there were hardly any consumables which needed to be shipped in or put into the vehicle periodically - no gas, no engine oil, no big radiator.

On the plus side, for a hunter, it was also entirely quiet while idling. I think it's called the Ranger EV.

Sure, it only charges slowly, which is the real cost of the range issue once there's charger in every Dennys and Waffle house out there. Time - the speed of charging when you are out there.

I think PHEVs are much more likely than a pure BEV future while we work through the infrastructure, but as long as you can put 50+ usable miles into it every night off a 1KWH wall plug, that'll mostly never need gas.

But it suffers from the maintenance problems, same as a regular car, though not transmission or gearboxes. I think the new Ariel EV has a jet turbine range extender on it which revs at some insane speed & much lighter without a gearbox.
Just as an aside, Anderson's 'Tin Soldier' (of the 1838 publishing) was a generic popular Tin Soldier mass produced for 50+ years since 1775 using a variety of pewter, tin, lead, and other metals.

They were sold 'raw" (uncoloured), enameled, or hand painted.

These are classic examples of you can't trust the name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_soldier
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