skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. And now we contrast this with the additional pollution deaths the increased energy and resource consumption will lead to. 1.3 million people isn't very many.

Currently we're in a paradoxical situation where there are two very contrasting mantras in society: 1. We need to reduce our carbon emissions, cut down on resource consumption and move to only producing energy from renewable sources. And 2. We should have more automation, more AI, more data, more computation in general.

Both directly contradict each other, anyone who's looked into the state of batteries and renewable energy knows we simply don't have a way for both to be true. In fact, we drastically have to reduce energy consumption if we want to make that green dream work, there's no practical way as of today to store all the solar and wind energy that would be needed for it.
Who’s getting pensions these days? I doubt anyone under 50 right now will have much of a retirement to look forward to.
Some info here: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Googles-Boq-Wiz-Soy-framework...
If a car company needs to cut costs they've got a variety of options.

They can trim the product line-up - Wikipedia tells me Chevrolet alone has a product lineup of 10 cars, 12 crossovers/SUVs, 5 vans, 5 trucks, and 3 commercial trucks.

Or they can reduce the number of marques they operate (Chevrolet is just one of seven brands)

Or they can stretch out product refreshes. Maybe SUV #8 only needs a 'facelift', rather than a new 'generation'

They can also cut long-term investment in products they think don't have a long-term future. Would you invest in a new factory for casting engine blocks, when everyone knows EVs are the future? If you're flush with cash you might bet on both horses, but if you need to tighten your belt you might not.

I'd wager that, while the 'majority' of employees are offered the buyout, the EV folks probably aren't among them.
You can try these tweaks to speed the animations up:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/253800
Isn’t that the whole point of a low-level language? No sane person would be writing CRUD apps in Zig, the same way no one does it in C.

Your video card driver on the other hand doesn’t have too much “business logic”, but really cares about all those pesky details.
> That's approximately nothing for a 2t car

That’s another problem with modern cars: moving two tons of metal and plastic to, oftentimes, move a single human around is a tremendous waste of energy.

That an increase in energy usage is relatively small compared to an already huge waste of energy isn’t a strong argument to declare it insignificant.
This is different, because we don't have lasting evidence (yet). If circumvent a B-Ray's copy protection some person knowing I ripped them could still report me years after.
Not only the parallels between Einstein's and Chomsky's objections, but the "shut up and calculate" historical camp in quantum mechanics bears some resemblance to perhaps Norvig's arguments for statistical, neural network-based models of computation.
Same effect happens with newspapers. Check your sources.
Stop spreading FUD.

> Is it even a war
Even Russian state-sponsored media/propaganda calls it a war these days. Denying the "Special Military Operation", as Putin wants it called, its approriate label of "war" only acts to support Russian propaganda and lies. Call it a war, because that's what it is. The 380th day of war of Putin's 3-day spec^Wwar.

> [USA] eventually destroying [Nord Stream]
Who the actor for the destruction of Nord Stream was is still unknown, there have been multiple different stories about it now, all of them with some plausible and inplausible parts about them.

> Russia always wanted to be a friend with Germany
Russia doesn't want to be friends with anyone. They (Putin and his mistresses) only strive to become a political, military and geographical superpower again using the same tactics other tyrants like Kim Jong-un are using.
Depends. What are you referring to? "Dicots" is not a category with any significance.

Grass is mostly characterized by having blades instead of leaves. Other plants would be called... whatever they're called. If you want a generic term, it's "plants".

If you want a term that refers to the specific function of covering what would otherwise be bare earth, that term is "ground cover", but ground cover is not restricted to plants. It applies just as well to gravel.
Google Map 10X their price on a single price change.

Never trust Google Cloud or run any production servers with them. They have zero empathy for you.

Just today, we got screwed by Google Cloud (as a 4 yrs customer) when they abruptly shutdown our production servers just because we didn't fill up a form on-time.

My story:
https://twitter.com/Ryan_Liao/status/1634103410525077504 (happens today) [Link Updated]
Banks are required to keep 0% in reserves as of March 26, 2020.
On the subject of TDD, the way I've done TDD has been very similar to the technique described in the article. Work in very small increments, try to get a very thin vertical slice of functionality working through the system as soon as possible and, whatever you build, try to get it working end-to-end as soon as you can. Of course, I use tests to drive the work but I find it very helpful to use tests to drive those thin vertical slices of functionality.

The book that really helped me to start working in this way is Growing Object Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce [0]. The book has been around for a few years at this point and tech has moved on since then, as have some of the techniques, but it's still a very interesting read. (Disclosure: I was lucky enough to briefly work with one of the authors a few years ago but I was a fan of the book long before then.)

[0] http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com/
I think this comes down to the issues of transition animations or badly implemented ones.

Animated transitions can and do add value where there is a contextual reason for them. You have animations on objects appearing, disappearing or moving, all are different.

- Appearing objects: If you have just clicked or taped something you already know where it is coming from, a very quick animation is what you want at most. Get it on screen quickly.

- Disappearing objects: Again get it off screen quickly, thats what I asked for. However, if for example its "just of the side" (like minimising a window to the Mac Dock) then an animation gives you contextual information of where it is now, so you can bring it back.

- Moving objects: This is where there is the most value in my opinion. It gives you the context of where something has moved to. On iOS safari for example when you tap the bottom right show tabs button, the animation indicates where the previously open tab in in the list, but there isn't an animation for the other tabs appearing, you see them instantly. It's subtle but very effective.

I think a good general rule of thumb is to get new stuff on screen quickly, if I clicked it I know where it's coming from so it really doesn't need a "slow" animation. Moving stuff, show me where it's moved to, thats a good place for an "contextual" animation.
Seems like a problem of hierarchy

Maybe managers should be democratically elected
I always wonder how these sorts of things happen.

MBA: "we have a new technique, you'll love it, it's called a 'steel thread'"

"So like, on a bolt?"

"..."

"Or do you mean more like,,, a wire?"

"...Steel. Thread."

"Excellent sir. I shall be adding the term 'steel thread' to my next quarterly report. Give my best to the missus."
PMTiles looks excellent, I think the range request idea will go far.
Just wanted to let you know that the "Live Example Page" link on the page seems to 404.
Go is a worse Java 1.1. The only remotely interesting part is virtual threads.
Either you pay on the tax bill or electricity bill. France chose tax bill.
that sound is in Gilbarco registers commonly found in gas stations
I think if you were a valuable employee and didn't get a buyout offer but were hoping to leave this would be a major downer.
If there's one thing the US has enough of, it's space. For Europe, that's going to be much harder. But the US has ample space to not only satisfy their own demand with renewables, but also export it in one form or another.
2% is basically the safe spot to prevent deflation

If you target 1% and you screw up your policy you might go below 0%, which is a big no-no according to modern economics and CB policy.

The actual big question which none of the CBs want to answer is whether deflation would necessarily be bad today. Modern CB discussion on deflation is basically "Great Depression bad" and "Look at Japan".
This is possible with PGP Keys stored on the Yubikey and used as the SSH keys. Check the Repo of drduh as a starting point

https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide#ssh
Yes but they are only thinking about cutting costs. If company know how is cut as collateral damage, they couldn't care less.

It's another round of Finance vs Industry.
When I was 8 I wrote a graphic novel. My mum kept it so you can enjoy it
Show HN: Discontent – Extension to fight garbage content on the web
Creator here, I made this out of mild frustration with the current state of search engine results. Let me know what you think.
Yes we we're caught by this some years ago and switched to Stadia Maps (very happy).
> Man, Microsoft is kicking ass at AI. Maybe the others have great AI models too but haven’t seen any large company release product after product with AI.

They invested in OpenAI, which was a smart move.
Does Zig still have that insane compiler enforced no unused variables policy? Honestly, that is such a stupid thing that it literally kept me away from the language, which I otherwise find interesting for its niche.
No. They had a liquidity problem and sold bonds at a huge loss to shore up liquidity. There is a real problem here.
Doesn't matter much if the output is also a source, you can't avoid lexing and parsing, so the best thing to get started seems to be... the Dragon Book, right?
Parent was indeed slightly incorrect. Up until maybe 2-3yrs they are little angels. Then everything changes. I would take 8 hours at the office over 8 hours with a high energy 4 year old. It would be way less exhausting.
I'm Java fanboy, but I look at other languages.
Python is nice, Scala is great. But JS (and TS as a result) are amalgamation of different features pushed together by different browser vendors. The resulting code is unreadable gibberish, and support in any IDE is almost non-existent because of the dynamic nature of that language (similar to python) and finding usages almost always needs to be done using string search.

I would understand any other language to be better than Java, but Javascript is in same line as PHP of bad.
From where I’m sitting, ChatGPT in its current nascent state is absolutely changing the world. It’s not only showing what’s possible but also making a powerful and highly disruptive tech available to the masses to hack and extend.

Of course, we won’t stop here, but as one of the seeds from which AGI will spring, I truly believe it will be seen as a historical innovation in the same league as early search engines, crypto (yes, unironically), or even the internet itself.
> iterators typically don't let you break out of the iteration. Zig is the only contender I've seen where the for loop looks iterator-like, but also supports break/continue.

I'm curious as to which language you worked with that didn't allow this.
Yes, and I am fascinated to see what happens in this space as we go.

Terminal based applications have always had the advantage of playing nice with eachother. That's at play here. Produces an easy way to have multiple models interact.

Btw... Now that everyone is monkey typing prompts at got all day, is got going to start emulating a gpt user... autocompleting and auto generating prompt sequences?
Whoops, i broke the link in the GitHub repo; but I just fixed it on my phone! Thanks for the heads up.
very similar to https://www.gymlibrary.dev/environments/box2d/lunar_lander/
I’m in this story and I don’t like it.

I’m currently in a similar situation, and am desperately looking to move on. The market is not kind right now.

We have a properly dilbert-esque management layer of PHBs with meaningless titles running around demanding that all technical aspects of the project are explained to them in detail, several times, blame their frustration of not understanding on our inability to explain properly, and then overrule every recommendation and design decision.

Most of my emails are more disclaimers then content and everything is BCCed to my private email, because disasters are waiting to happen and this is an industry where “disaster” is weeks in the global news cycles.

It’s incredibly exhausting.
But art's the easy part, I wonder if that's why it's fun...
Just fwiw, some offices like mine do have beanbags and couches, and I’ve had lots of great discussions and working sessions in them. Unless it’d be totally out of place (e.g. Telemarketing cube farm or something) try talking to bosses / facilities about making some space for that? A lot of more modern offices have a decent amount of lounge space and different types of working environments like lunch rooms, individual tables, tables and chairs off to the side, benches, lounge chairs, chaise lounges, outdoor cabanas (my personal fav), grassy spots under trees, etc etc.
I'm waiting for the first fork that will do away with that "feature".
I'm sure it was worth it
No, let's go right back to the start. A person had their footage subpoenaed because of an investigation into a neighbor, and because it was on the cloud they had no knowledge or option to do anything until they found out it was already handed over.

A comment said that if it was not stored on the cloud, he would still be required to hand it over. You then said it would become some huge problem and no easy way to get out of.

The reality is actually if the police somehow did find out you had non-internet video cameras and served you with a subpoena before you realized what they wanted and had time to take prior action, you could dispose of the recordings and respond that you don't have anything. If they wanted to haul you before a court, "I don't recall where the sd card is", "I don't recall when I last recorded something", etc is going to be the end of it. So there absolutely are neat tricks. There's no word twisting and elaborate confabulation of lies to get caught out with, it's not like an episode of law and order. You just say that you don't recall.

If it was you under investigation and particularly if it was a very serious crime then sure they're going to try harder, that wasn't the situation we were discussing though (and in that case depending on what's on the tapes it's still not necessarily the case you'd be better off to be honest).
is it open source? sounds very interesting!
Thanks, should be fixed now!
> It would have been much more efficient if the government had designated a single workstation vendor from the beginning, and denied CPU purchasing licenses to anyone who wanted to compete with them.

How would it be more efficient without a way to know if the end result is any good?
Great, modern guide. Thanks!

While I have a few Yubikeys in a drawer somewhere, for years I've preferred to use an actual smartcard to store my keys. Sure, it only offers a subset of the features of a USB key, but I've found that I really only need to sign, auth and decrypt data. All the other fancy things like OTP, FIDO, etc., either have alternatives (e.g. pass-otp), or are just not used often enough. I haven't been in a situation yet where I _need_ to use a USB key.

Besides, the experience of using Yubikeys always annoyed me. The touch functionality was way too sensitive, causing many unwanted triggers. Having it always stick out made me nervous it was going to break. And the small USB-C version was often difficult to remove, while also taking up a USB slot.

Smartcards are nice since they're compact and stay neatly inside a laptop, and they use a separate interface for that purpose, instead of the generic USB. I wish more laptops had readers for them.
Two points after reading both the comments in this thread and the article itself:

First, it's amazing how many people on this site have no bloody notion of what the artistic, compositional and qualitative side of real photography means. Their idea of this AI-rendered, prompt-generated stuff being the same as going out and taking real portraits while collecting their human stories is so absurdly, stupidly, blandly utilitarian that it just leaves a bad taste about the general emotional vacuity of tech types.

Secondly, the creator of this IG feed was blatantly dishonest and then later fessed up about it. If there's anything creative about that it's in the area of creative mendacity, a thing that any common grifter or crypto-bro can pull off. It hardly demonstrates much artistic talent or nobility.

With that said, it's interesting how many here defend this kind of dishonesty in this context, though they'd happily throw all kinds of shit on someone being equally dishonest in another tech context, such as in crypto or NFTs. emotional bias very visible.
Thanks for the sharing and your comments
You can view interface of the software with the youtube channel
I've updated the license with your comments and also the linux logo :)
Nobody uses SD base models any more. There are thousands of custom models available now and each of them can be extended even further using LORAs, text inversion, hypernetworks, ControlNet and so on.
Your imagination (and your VRAM) is the limit.
My office used to have fresh food made locally. I also don't want to frequent restaurants. As I said in my comment, but I guess we aren't reading comments fully anymore.

I am not a coffee snob and this is by intention. I like the caffeine - it is a wonderful drug and I can enjoy a well made cup of coffee, but I want to be able to have coffee anywhere I feel the need without having to look for something specific or being disappointed in the taste. Filter is fine. Instant is fine. I do have couple coffee bean grinders and couple fancier brewers, but it is a rare day I care to use them.

Again depends where you live. Where I live when I go to the gym between 5 and 6 there are usually no one there. I can lift in peace. I would love to have room for my own gym, but I would have to move. And if it wasn't for the snow I probably would go to the gym and I probably will start when the snow melts.

I bought my apartment before Covid, so I didn't prioritize having home office since back then only reason to have remote day was if I had a package coming in that was too large to bring home from office. So I'm working from my living room which is not ideal. Yes, I could make the sacrifice and take a loan, put my current apartment up for sale and move to something that has dedicated office, but I don't see the point. My office is being renovated and by the end of the year (assuming the schedule holds) I can start going to the office again every day.

I think this is where we have a language break down. By shirt I mean just like a t-shirt or hoodie. The confusion was mine since I did change "pants" to "trousers", but didn't think far enough.
Woodstock of Physics
> I also have a different definition of shady than he's using. A setting clearly and prominently described on the options is not shady in by book, regardless of the default.

It is shady because new settings appear with updates. Surely you don't expect users to trawl through all settings for each browser update to see if Mozilla didn't sneak anything in there that undoes part of their previous choices?
To be fair, Google copied this playbook whole-cloth from how Microsoft fought Netscape and survived its transition to the Internet - I was there when billg sent the famous memo. LLMs are obviously a sea-change and existential threat to search, and Google will be looking to survive the transition, even while its core ad serving/matching business has a moat, YouTube has a moat, Android and the App Store have moats, ...

disclaimer: I'm long GOOG after the selloff.

https://www.wired.com/2010/05/0526bill-gates-internet-memo/
"I want every product plan to try and go overboard on Internet features."
It's kind of absurd to conflate lockdown WFH of the COVID era with regular WFH. Folks who think they can do childcare and WFH are quickly disabused of the notion, unless they happen to have the most independent of children.
For delivery you're right but we could have this today already. There's no reason not to put minimum wage drivers in a car and have them do this today. We have computers and mapping already, self-driving isn't needed for this at all and paying someone 100 dollars a day or whatever is guaranteed to be much cheaper than the self delivering truck - at least for now and in the foreseeable future.

So why isn't it a thing? Clearly not for the lack of self-driving tech.
Looked at it at some point with hope that it'd provide easier user experience to use SSH with Yubikey PIV functionality on Mac. Unfortunately it doesn't support RSA keys we have to use for various reasons.

https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive/issues/10
Is wanting to drive 3-ton SUVs everywhere something inherent to those humans or do you think there are other circumstances encouraging that? And do you think those circumstances could be changed?

Sometimes I get the impression that despite all the futurism talk most tech people's solution to a trash fire is to say nothing can be done about it and just go back to the line of people throwing more trash into the fire.
Doesn't have a ToC sidebar, which I consider pretty much the absolute minimum of GUI necessary. You can use a keyboard-driven menu by pressing tab, but in my experience it just takes you to the last page of the pdf. Maybe there's a bug or maybe it's user error. Regardless, this isn't what I'm looking for.
"It's who you know"
This is a problem not solved by the market, for many reasons, but the most important one is that they all try to do this sooner or later. Shareholder value must increase and be found somewhere.

Only government regulations can keep capitalism in check, maybe an unpopular opinion on HN but it hurts startups too because the market is not penetrable for competition.
It does make DeepMind's achievements in AI gaming, while incredible, look a bit like a fanciful venture.
Fractional reserve banking isn't a thing anymore.
Oh! Hah. The exact opposite of what I thought you meant, then :)
91% of child sexual abusers known and trusted by the child or family members
"that could one day replace C"

I don't understand why would anybody say that, it's seems such a simple concept to me that nothing ever will replace C. Think about just the Linux kernel, nothing else. Nobody will and can rewrite every part of it that a C compiler will not be needed.
"This mess" being the greatest period of technology in history. Web browsers have become the most important and most empowering tools ever built. I'm really not convinced we should reverse that for some old man unix philosophy rant.
Yes https://www.teamblind.com
Now i haven't dug deep into hotwired. But isn't this how we used to do it before (insert your favourite javascript SPA framework here) was a thing?

Now it's certainly not a bad thing to reflect on whether it's the right solution to throw react, etc. after every problem you have. :)
Not rules as in "match this regular expression", rules as in "if I don't know you, you can't join", BBS-style. Which is a bit unfortunate but also definitely what's going to happen.

The masses are still on mainstream platforms, but more and more people are nauseated by the instagrams of this world.

Sooner or later some group will realize it becomes necessary to dissolve the bands which have connected them with another, and you'll have a formal split.
What makes you think they did it all at once?
> ... a Dilbert-level hapless manager was assigning me and a coworker to a fullstack project.

Oh so it was actually halfstack project.
Avoiding visible texture repetition (2015)