skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no indication that Microsoft would do that.

Their entire MO this generation (and part of last) has been to try and offer GamePass games on as many places as possible. Their current strategy would be to push the subscription and cloud service onto the Switch (and PS4) but Nintendo has refused.

If anything, this would very much be a Sony move, where exclusives show up on PCs years later and never on other consoles.
CME has an (admittedly thinly traded) futures market for Miami real estate predictions

https://futures.tradingcharts.com/marketquotes/I5.html

5 years out it's expected to be 10% higher.

Why don't the people making these dire predictions about Miami dump their life savings into betting Miami real estate will tank in value?

(My prediction is that Miami Beach will end up building dykes like the Dutch btw, I believe in climate change but not doomsday prepping)
5K OLED VR Headset: Bigscreen Beyond Hands-On Impressions
> no-one with half a brain would consider a "fixed income" approach to retirement

what if self funded from extensive savings, which generate dividends, and of which enough exists for decades of fixed income?
It's being pretty actively done by politicians on one side. I've seen lots trying to somehow blame Biden for it for example even though it's completely irrelevant.
It will not end. If anything it'll get worse. It's become a tracking mechanism which management loves. There's also a gazillion agencies out there that will push for it as that daily meeting makes it look like there's constant progress, even if most people BS their way thru half the meetings.
Nobody is jumping from being an associate at MBB to being a VP at a top tech company.
Nothing. AFAIK these boilerplate agreements are just so you sign something and go away.
Bob Parsons, founder, loves to kill elephants.
They all had founders in their 20s (technically, Gates and Zuckerberg were 19).
my understanding is that the major public clouds operate Public Key Infrastructure on end users' behalf. It feels like magic because there are large teams of very smart and capable people making it feel like magic.
If not alerting the user was a primary goal, they done messed up using MutationObserver. It would absolutely halt the browser completely, especially running across multiple tabs.
I'd like to be proven wrong on this point, but it feels to me that this trend is two things, individuals and companies reaping the benefits of technological improvements towards efficiency, and _ALSO_ the revealing redundancy of more and more work.

It seems to me that the negotiating power of workers is largely connected to the dependency of the people that hired them to the output of those workers. As that dependency diminishes (ie. by realising technological advancement and thereby reducing work hours from 5 days to 4 days for example), it seems unlikely that these improved benefits will flow to the workers, as the required* negotiating power to get them is vanishing.

*required in the sense that going on strike becomes much less powerful, and with technological advancements in hiring/remote work, it increases the possibility of replacing the striking workers.

Also, this is largely going to affect the pyjama-laptop class, not anyone that actually needs to be somewhere, and perhaps is revealing that they have largely filled positions they could be significantly reduced.

I'm guessing the coming global recession(that the tech layoffs imply are coming to at least that sector) should be a way to see if these predictions are any where close to right, or just nonsense rambling.
For me the most absurd conversation around Fibonacci estimation is the burndown (etc) charts and group estimates.. you can't add non-linear values and expect the sum to mean anything!

I've had managers fight over how the upcoming sprint is doable because it has around as many total points as the last, ignoring that they've defined the individual five-pointers as being significantly more effort than five individual one-pointers. And they either fail to grasp the issue or deflect when it's pointed out.

Agile is a cudgel.
I’m using the term beneficiary to mean “someone who gets out of it more than they put into it”.

I’m talking about the same thing. If you’re a business owner, you’re getting far more out of infrastructure and stable government than an average person. Without all of that, you have no business at all!

I am also yet to meet even the hardest-core of libertarians who don’t believe the government has business funding roads. Anarcho-capitalism and libertarianism are separate things for a reason.

Of course not! Because anarcho-capitalists are principled in their stance. Libertarians just want to get rid of anything they, personally, don’t benefit from directly. In other words, they want to tear up the social contract. It’s not a valid philosophy at all, it’s just naked hypocrisy.
"Hasn't yet"? You do realize that things have completely dispersed at this point and the very transient burn was weeks ago right? The event is long over.
> Agile manifesto, 2nd point "Working software over comprehensive documentation".

Which is funny given that the father of TDD, Kent Beck, is one of the Agile Manifesto signatories. What does TDD give you before working software? Comprehensive documentation.
That might disturb the ocean ecosystem.
Yeah, my last gig had high turnover (not a coincidence with the dysfunction) and it made it particularly apparent that the estimates were a waste of time, but we kept on trucking.
I think it's relevant to specific social circles. If you're a huge fan of some media, any media, tumblr is probably a solid bet of engaging with fellow fans in ways reddit isn't as good at.
I have sixteen of the tumblr Verification checkmarks.

I bought some myself as a joke, and then folks gifted me more.

They are just the funniest possible UI choice—they look so broken, they become beautiful.
they wish to be seen as today's bell labs
> > My conclusions after observing a ton of people in technical and nontechnical jobs is that beyond working 20-25 hours a week, having people do more is useless...

If there are people who can't run a mile and those who can run over 100, what makes you think everyone universally can sustain 20-25 hours of focussed work per week?
Whatever the reason, this is not a good sign for the US economy. In a growing country, more people should be able to shop on more upscale stores compared to the past. In the US people are now moving to lower and lower scale stores, initially to WallMart and now to dollar stores. It tells that the US consumer is now moving to the lower spectrum of purchasing power.
SCTP, from the parent's list, is a "over IP" protocol, not over TCP.

(Though it can be tunneled through UDP, to get around Internet ossification.)
+1

I went all the way from Agile maximalist to common sense-ist.

For me agile these days is simply:

- talk to your team to sync often but short

- seek feedback (from stakeholders, ideally users)

- allocate time to work on your backlog so it nice and tidy

and technical stuff:

- release early, release often (i.e. CI/CD/devops stuff)

- automated testing, regular code reviews

- refactoring, working with small commits/PRs

More a common sense, than a "process" or "ideology".
When I’ve experienced this, I’ve availed myself of my personal favorite cargo cult rule: if you’re not getting value out of a meeting, you can leave.

Cargo culted from Urban Airship, and almost all of their meeting rules have been well received several places I’ve introduced them. Although admittedly in my experience this particular rule is best invoked with some extra social subtlety.
It’s not a Markov model, but it is autorrgressive.
> I would really like to know how it is possible to produce sperm not being male

Here is somebody who wasn't male according to your original definition producing sperm after surgery. https://www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/09/testicle-transplant-s...

> If someone believes for example, they are Apache Helicopter, good for them.

Certainly. That's no skin off my back, just like people believing in magical invisible beings and praying to them doesn't affect anybody else. Both groups can believe what they like.

Legislating who gets to identify as what when it's not hurting anybody does make society worse, just like the people who believe in magical invisible beings legislating what everyone else can do based on the voices they hear in their heads also make society worse. That is a problem worth fighting against.
You should add an "ask chatgpt" step. Sometimes it gets it right. More often it gets you close enough to be able to Google the rest of the way.

And sometimes it just makes stuff up out of thin air...

At least it is easy for you to check that the code it gave doesn't work.
None of these really contradict your point… but they have some ongoing shots, some near hits and some successful non-monetized products:

>Ongoing

It’s not a successful product yet, but there’s a good case that they’ve got a strong lead in self-driving cars.

Same with AI broadly, super recent sentiment notwithstanding… ongoing shot.

>Near hits

Stadia was a huge product marketing failure that proved the (very slowly) growing and succeeding cloud gaming model.

>Non-monetized

Go lang isn’t a “product” in the same sense, but it seems pretty successful.

Similar deal with Kubernetes.

Point is… productization + adoption from incubation is hard and they aren’t just totally flopping every time. Not sure any other big tech is doing way better?
Excellent rebuttal of those calling for the end of Agile whilst simultaneously not know what Agile even is.

My addition-- If we're going to end cargo culting, we should also end all the cargo cults of Silicon valley style startups.

1. Stop the cult of "Grind". Working more hours is not more productive for most people

2. Stop the cult of "build faster with tech debt" -- internal quality matters and costs you velocity. Those 10x engineers are 0.1x when you consider their externalities

3. Stop the lie that you'll get rich off startup options. Statistically improbable and options which expire 90 days after your employment ends are not equity or property as most people understand it. They expire/evaporate unless you shell out the exercise price, and the tax money on the gains... -- RSUs or extended exercise windows are though.

4. "We can fix it later with an order of magnitude more VC money" -- Similar to the tech debt item, a company w/ a game plan of "more VC money" is outdated and missing the change in environment, instead be profitable from very early.. ideally from your first customer.

5. "We need bespoke software because our Product is so unique." -- Nope -- use all the tools you can until you have scale, then start to build whatever is least economical to buy.

6. Doing it like Google (or other respected company). You're not google. Oh and if you survey for "Best practices" -- it's not best, it's average. Average isn't going to cut it anymore.

What'd I miss from the list?
Always pisses me of when normal citizens with jobs can't make ends meet.
We're going back to the 19th century. Time to dust of Das Kapital.
>Inflation is always a monetary phenomenon, where the money supply increases faster than the value in the economy.

This feels trivial to disprove. For instance: 1973 oil shocks causes prices of oil to go to the moon. Inflation occurs, because prices are driven up by the price of oil. No money printing has occurred.
they're currently under the stewardship of the company that makes WordPress. I'd say it's in good hands today.
Thank you for sharing this. It was a wonderful read. I truly hope one day LLMs (or something else) can write something with this much heart. That would be a day I'd like to see.

Part 2 of the above story by Suzanne Palmer - https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/palmer_06_21/
Agile, and especially SCUM, are a scam. Well intentioned, yes, but mostly serve to create an industry around a problem that often doesn't exist at all.

That's not even my main objection to Agile.

The worst part of these methodologies is that there's no evidence that they work. It doesn't matter whether an individual team thinks it works. Does it work for many teams? What about most teams? What for what kinds of teams does it work best? What kinds of teams does it have no impact on or a negative impact for? Nobody actually knows, and seemingly nobody is interested in studying it. Even companies themselves aren't honest about whether Agile is working for them. Burndown charts and the overall number of tickets being closed is about as far as it gets, except management inevitably gets their hands on these things and uses them as a means to extract more work from their employees. What suffers? Quality. Agile doesn't care about quality.
Energy efficiency and improved packaging are things I can readily agree with. The last thing though - “hybrid algorithms leveraging AI efficiency” sounds an awful lot like a buzzword sales pitch.

This article reminds of this other one [1] posted about 1 month ago.

It’s an interview with some guys that just got done building an exascale supercomputer, in which it was originally estimated to need 1000 megawatts but ultimately only needs 60. The reporter asks about zettascale and the power requirements; they wave it off and say that the big question about whether it will even be possible in the next 10 years is getting the chip lithography small enough so that you can physically build a working zettascale supercomputer.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34604319
Not exactly a class, but there are runtimes of concrete programs written in SBCL and C++ here:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

No direct Rust SBCL comparisons, but generally Rust and C++ perform similarly.

There's some discussion on the limitations of SBCL's GC in this thread:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Common_Lisp/comments/j8z1j7/how_doe...
I want high savagery and lots of giant animals, so I don't have to rely on elves.
It’s in defense of capitalism. Most coups are against what leftists want — socialism. Otherwise why would the US do things like get a million plus Indonesian Muslim communist sympathizers murdered by right wingers in 65? America has gone after every non capitalist country and does agitprop for places like Tibet or Taiwan and capitalists as a whole while vilifying and trying to overthrow Cuba.
Because of how GPT works, the resources needed for good inference (generating output) grow nonlinearly with respect to tokens involved (more tokens require much more resources) and so there’s a practical wall before you just run out of resources to apply.

It’s not very efficient. It’s like if your calculator could use a little solar power thingie for numbers that were only a few digits, but needed a diesel generator to crunch on 8 digit numbers, and a nuclear plant to crunch on 12 digit ones. Practically, you’d have no choice but to limit yourself to something manageable.

Future models may be more efficient, and future hardware solutions may be more efficient, but those things don’t get sorted out overnight any more than fusion power.

Beyond that, I think it’s important that you understand that Bing Assistant doesn’t express desires. It picks common sequences words based on its training data. It doesn’t know what nuclear codes are. It just knows what it looks like for a message about wanting nuclear codes to follow some other message in a dialog (probably a pattern it picked up on a forum like Reddit) and so it dutifully put that text after the prompt it had been given. There’s no will or consistency to it.

With enough resources, you could drive it through a feedback loop where it kept prompting itself and see what happens, but the feedback loop would just produce noise like any other simple feedback loop because it would just keep either honing in on the most boring and common continuation to the last thing it gave itself or it would start diverging off into nonsense. Because it’s sooooo inefficient, you can’t give it enough resources for it to be stable and interesting for very long.
I'd be interested to know more about the carbon cost of production for the powdered iron. I assume you could use scrap metal for this purpose, but scrap metal is already pretty recyclable as I understand it.
there is also talk of Tumblr (and unrelated gossip, Flickr) considering to adopt the ActivityPub protocol.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/28/flickr-weighs-support-for-...
Would that effectively kill adblockers legally, at least those which do cosmetic changes?
> CORBA - you define interfaces in a special language and compile them. Data is not self-describing.

OMG the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (which coincidentally was created by OMG). I never thought I'd see that acronym again, and all these years later, I still don't understand what it is.
Google self driving car : Tesla self driving :: Google AI : OpenAI AI.

Google is taking a very conservative approach, but their work is years ahead of groups getting far more press.
> Pay-to-submit sacrifices too many legit authors.

It's still probably the most pragmatic solution. And really, if you've sweated a week writing a story, surely you can come up with $10 to submit it.

After all, email spam and phone spam is entirely enabled by being free for the spammers.
Can confirm for Cisco India.
I love this feature, scroll bars are mostly useless, the position indicator should be decoupled and doesn't need to have extra width (can be a mark on the window border), and the security issues are solved by a summary at the top of the list, not a generic scrollbar
It doesn't do anything because courts aren't retarded.

Like how I could point a gun at you and say

>Hand over the money or I'll gloobensloobenKILLfleubenYOU

and they wouldn't go "oh no there's a syntax error release this man immediately, it clearly wasn't a robbery"
The capitalist defenders are in full force. They can’t imagine right wing ideals may not be the best.
“Good standup” also surfaces what people are working on because it might be important for the rest of the team to know for innumerable good reasons. It can serve as an opportunity for many-birds-one-stone, or even as an opportunity to interrupt work that doesn’t need to be done because it’s redundant to other efforts or because other efforts made it moot.

But yeah, you won’t get that from standups where people aren’t invested in what others say they’re working on. That’s just people blabbing for a (hopefully short) ritual time.
The most abhorrent thing for me is that the absolute SPECIFIC reason I chose DO was for their frankly astounding docs/guides/walkthroughs.

The fact they laid off the very team that were the reason I became a DO customer, and likely many others, just shows such short sighted ignorance that I'm happy for the time I was a DO customer, and I'm now happy for the time I'm not a DO customer.

I hope the talented writers and epic editorial team find much greener pastures. They simply deserved better.

I think CSS-Tricks was bought during the still rose-tinted view of DO being a top-tier docs company in addition to their infrasture/UI.
https://archive.ph/KsntF
Basic programming concepts using text-rewriting
The only SF-86s that should be outside of eQIP are hardcopies printed by investigators and copies saved by the submitters who emailed them to themselves for some reason.

Of course, this is the Pentagon so there's probably dozens of ancient generals who don't know how to use a mouse who had an aide fill it out and email it to another aide to be put into eQIP.

edit: lol nevermind it's SOCOM, those meatheads can't be trusted to not write a thousand books spilling the (mostly embellished) details of every little thing they did in the military as soon as they get out in the hopes that Tatum Channing will play them in a movie or amazon series so this isn't a surprise.
I was going to start this but the first few paragraphs already have tons of lies. Where are the non capitalists saying any of these things? The reason for the collapse of USSR is wrong in the first paragraph.

I bet this author thinks Russia isn’t where it is today because of capitalism and the US. Or Putin isn’t a result of US intervention of capitalism in Russia.
> Go on with your career ladder game, not everyone in humanity praise that as much as you. On the contrary, lots will see you as either naive or moronic.

We can critique how I choose to spend my time, but what about the alternatives? Play video games with strangers? Drink and dance? Play board games with friends? Go to church / mosque every day? Walk down paths to see pretty streams? Smoke pot and watch cartoons? Strum a guitar for hours in a subway?

In my book, it’s not my place to judge others, provided no one is harming me. I think anyone can do what ever they’d like — have at it. Society needs different kinds of people.

For me, it’s about family.

I work probably 40-50hrs a week coding/architecting and 10-20hrs a week managing a farm [cows, hay, honey] (plus 2-3 weeks out of the year doing 12 hr day harvesting).

The rest of the time I’m with my family. That’s 4-7hrs every morning and a couple hours every evening. I see my kids more than most. Importantly, I’m providing for my children — I teach them what I know, help them grow and provide for their needs.

My ancestors gave me what I have and I personally believe I have a duty to live up to all I can be. Yes; that means working hard, building a legacy and leaving our civilization (hopefully) better than we received it.

Working less wouldn’t aid in my objectives. I want to be the best in my field. It wouldn’t help my family to be less / worse. What most people should really ask themselves are what’s their purpose. With purpose you can orient yourself appropriately.
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Out of curiosity, what are the challenges in scaling algae bioreactors?
Not as fast. Also unemployment goes up, and if we're talking about the poor (which I am) there's a lot of unemployment.
> The worst part of these methodologies is that there's no evidence that they work.

What methodology do you find in Agile? It doesn't really say much. In fact, here is the Agile Manifesto in full:

--

* Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

* Working software over comprehensive documentation

* Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

* Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.

--

If anything, Agile promotes not getting hung up on methodology, to just use some common sense.
> and I know I'm going to be staying late until it's done.

I cant tell you how many times I spent long days, 16 hours at a time, sometimes over the weekend etc. Only to have the manager stroll in monday talking about how great their weekend was, and barely acknowledge the item was completed. And then I find out the customer that "needed this so bad" didn't touch it for the next month. Or were never told it was deployed etc.

So many deadlines are fake that it's hard to trust any deadline.
I'd say "citation needed" because OpenAI has A LOT of employees with Chinese last names. And they surely won't forget how stuff works the moment they change jobs. And surely a US employee non-compete won't be enforcable in Shenzhen.

"Why did Chinese citizens build ChatGPT in the US and let US companies pay for the computing power?" ;)
I wondered about this. I would sincerely hope that the permissions list is already priority-sorted somehow; otherwise, it’d be trivial to just list five innocuous permissions first and then put the dangerous ones later. Even with scrollbars, most users would just see the first few and likely not bother to scroll down at all. Note that in the author’s post, one of the dangerous permissions (read and modify data for all websites) is already listed in the box.