skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heck, the airport was even renamed for him, as a special slap in the face to the air-traffic controllers.
Every engineering team I've worked with virtually every engineer complains about technical debt - regardless of how much time is allocated to manage it. I'm not suggesting it isn't important to take care of it, just that sometimes it comes across as the boy who cried wolf.
Whatever what some CS star uses is not what is going to pay for the bills of each one individually.

Use whatever you like.
I don't like this analysis because it equates purpose with having "a job".

Bunch of artist or creative people don't do it "because of the job", they do it for fun and reason that they like drawing, writing, programming etc. There is a lot of artist and writers who live in poverty all their lives. They could stick to their manual labor that provides food and get drunk, watch TV series in their free time but many people still go above and beyond that anyway.

There are of course many people who already have "why go to school, why even bother" attitude and somehow they are still alive waking up in the morning and going to work or whatever else they are busy with.
> "only eats meat he kills himself"

Not sure what you're trying to get at. He eats meat and wants to respect where it came from rather than grabbing a factory raised, killed, and processed McRib and not thinking about it.

That sounds like the right way to me if you're going to eat meat. Personally I think it's a bigger problem when someone doesn't know or care (especially if they don't want to know/care) how the meat ended up on their plate.

Do you truly believe that someone who would kill and butcher an animal is a threat to _you_?
This is gonna blow your mind, but most developers don't use React at all. Hell most developers don't rarely if ever do frontend web development.
No. CS has had serious problems for many years.
Got non-circumstantial evidence for that? I mean there certainly should be some for the seriousness of his pursuit.

I don't like the guy, but I also don't like arguments based on political narratives.

Is the evidence Assange released factual?
> The person you are replying to was onto something when he called your comment "heated"

I would probably say blunt, but I think you got the general tone correct.

> Your second post (one I am replying to) is more reasonable but if this is somehow what you originally meant that's not what came out..

Well, the original post had no proof and was making wild statements. It's fair game to meet it with a blunt assessment.

Do you spend time arguing with the wild-eyed guy on the street who is holding a sign that secret agencies are spying on you? Probably not. On the other hand, see that in a national paper with some references and statistics, and hey, you're actually sitting up and taking notice.

Your first comment was much more on the wild-eyed guy side of the scale, hence the (probably overly so, sorry!) blunt engagement.
> Nice try, but no.

I wasn't trying anything, except perhaps a joke.

But seriously, this may be why the EU hasn't prioritized the issue.
That's really lots of work from a one-man band. I can empathise as I am also developing https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol

Since you mentioned wasm, I think it would be great to have a REPL on the website in the future.
There are typos and inconsistencies in the text in the source screenshots (on Twitter) to the point that I think this is fake.

Any reason I should think this is real?
Hmm, can you 3D print _with_ super-glue?
Yep, and another frustration with Fedora in particular are the defaults for DNF. I don't get why the distro doesn't set `/etc/dnf/dnf.conf` with `max_parallel_downloads=10` and `fastestmirror=True`. sudo dnf update is so much faster with that (though you still need to keep away from the GNOME software app).
The Last One (Software)
Just because the guy said it doesn't make it true. "Emergent reasoning" is a great marketing hype-term that contains no technical specifications, like 'retina display'.
Acornsoft box screenshots, recreated by hand
Not more than one per half hour per person/couple/friend group I suppose.
> I'm sorry, but the landscape in then might be as alien to someone asking today, as todays would have been to someone asking 15 years ago (2008).

Hahahah. Yes. Who could have foreseen the trailblazing advances in the tech industry such as "television, but over the internet", "booking rooms, but via a website" or "posting messages on a forum"

Don't forget the stuff powering it: "RPC, but over HTTP", "scripting languages, but compiled", or "Key-value stores"

If only I had dared to dream.
They did thing an and thing a was considered to be okay when one political party benefitted from a. The exact same thing a was then considered to be bad when it didn't benefit that party anymore. It's quite simple. If you didn't criticize me when he first started doing a and even cheered him on and then turn around when the exact same things don't benefit you anymore, don't claim that you were ever cheering him on for the action itself.
If 2 of the largest bank failures in history occur within a one week time period
Right? It’s a middle finger to mac users with an external screen. It was too hard to make it scale horizontally, or even prefetch the settings in the background and not have a lag between clicks. Not the end of the world, but backwards
I don't think anyone is faulting Zuckerberg for the November layoffs - things were looking pretty dire at that time and the stock dropped all the way under $90.

However what people are upset about now is that is another huge layoff was announced only a few months later. The first one was supposed to be "deep" enough.
Can't say much about PyTorch, but I see React as a detriment to the web and the world, like most things this blue company touches on.
Someone should write a GPT-3 based technical debt detector.
Kids these days.

Developing for the web was far from hell before React…
Here's what I tried with Tic Tac Toe. There's one error in its first response but otherwise it follows along seamlessly. I was really surprised. I'm interested if you can get the same results.

https://pastebin.com/c833TSV2

(It leaves out the first row of the game in its first response, but I was able to interpret the board state since it played on the second row. When I gave it the full board again in my answer it picked it right up.)
I agree but you’re on HN so you should hate facebook and think Zuck is evil.
NHS hospitals told to share patient data with US ‘spy-tech’ firm
I'm keeping a list of "amazing-ai-understanding" in this sub-rr:

https://remoterenters.com/rr/amazing-ai-understanding/
I’m talking about “left” because how to define that term is the topic of conversation. And I don’t see how could can define “left” without defining “right” - the two terms have always existed as a pair.
Where's the full conversation?

The thread shows one response, teasing that now it "gets very interesting", then... nothing?
Is this a pipe to mermaid.js [0]? The syntax is pretty easy and there is also a live editor [1]; what's the value-add to justify $20?

[0] https://mermaid.js.org/intro/
[1] https://mermaid.live
I see people opine that Musk needs to get back to Tesla and find a Twitter CEO. really the opposite is more like what is needed, and what is possible.

Only an idiot would take the CEO job at Twitter, even if Musk can show a break-even quarter by not paying rent and cleaners. Musk is stuck with that job and that's better for Tesla. And for SpaceX.

Musk's "contribution" to those two companies is to fraudulently promise FSD and robotaxi income to his customers while telling his engineers they only need cameras, and to create a "space Spruce Goose" in the form of Starship.

Everyone except Twitter employees is better off with him lashed to the mast at Twitter.
Perhaps you're thinking of Rob Pike?
I mean, you can disable both of these.
the model does not extract knowledge. an external algorithm trains the models parameters and then the model is fed a string that is also evaluated externally based on the models configuration.
You're right of course. Bad choice of words. I was meaning the the moon's "Permanently Shadowed Regions" [1]

[1] https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/97/the-moons-permanently-sha...
Here we are again, locking useful features behind HTTPS :)

Background: I have been working on a software that creates and streams extra virtual displays via the local network (like Duet Display or Apple's sidecar), and the easiest way to get started for everyone is to stream to a web browser.

WebRTC is kinda easy to implement thanks to webrtc-rs, but has unacceptable latency as I do not have control over whether or when exactly a frame is rendered (I need to be able to drop outdated frames). This API has the potential to do exactly what I want, but:

* It is not possible to connect to a local server if the viewer page is served via HTTPS, as the local server won't have HTTPS.

* It is possible to generate CAs and certificates locally and instruct users to install them, but I don't think that anyone out there will like this solution.

* We have WebTransport that might be able to do this, but it is an overly complex technology that uses HTTP/3 (plus no support on anything but Chromium), and tools like localtls[1] that requires internet connection and my own domain (I would really want this tool to be able to run completely offline).

Modern web APIs are kinda useless when you don't have internet, but the ship has sailed.

[1] https://github.com/Corollarium/localtls
Jet printing with superglue on fine powdered baking soda where a printerhead with hundreds of small holes moves right after the comb that smoothes the powder.
Putin will get arrested if he comes to Germany
I've read the whole thing. Frankly, this was quite a depressing. Something about this Economic Reductionistic way of thinking puts me off. Even tough I agree with a lot of his points — for example, the importance of communication over anything else — it just seems like a very one-sided worldview.
For example, he constantly outlines aspects 'business value', but not one sentence on the inherent, intrinsic joy of creating and building something (software in this case).
And I think you can't just ignore that part.

As someone in this post has put it quite beautifully:
> It's like telling a musician to become a DJ because the point of performing is to entertain people.
Two points:

1. Being angry at an action doesn’t make someone an ingrate. You can both be grateful and angry; I’d say it’s even common to be both.

2. Meta has had no meaningful impact on my software niche, or many others’. Their only real impact on me has been radicalizing my older family members and firing a few of my friends. They aren’t entitled to any particular gratitude for that.
Right now AI can randomly generate images or text that are similar to what we describe, but every time you run it you get a different randomly-generated image. If I were to tell a client that I was going to randomly generate a financial transaction that "looked similar to" the one they entered, they would destroy me!

While absolute rigor in programming is a hard thing to find in reality, I don't think people understand the difference at all.
> How people ought to live, is commonly built up from principles and axioms inspired by natural law.

You have it backwards. Belief in natural laws is an axiom.

Hardly anyone actually chooses their axioms. They're either handed to us, or expressions of innate personality in most cases.

People generally decide what they think feels right, then reason backwards from there to conjure up a set of principles that they claim to live by.
So much this.

We, as software engineers, build software to deliver values, to accomplish certain goals.

It doesn’t reside in typing the code out.

Be the devil’s advocate, that part of the job is boring.

AI tools will come in and take over whatever they could take over from this moment forward.
A memory mapped API isn't inherently more (or less) subject to compatibility issues and versions than any other kind of API. With the C-64 it was hard-wired but that's not any more necessary than burning the OS on to ROM. (Which is to say: totally necessary at the time, for a machine of that capability and cost, but not at all necessary for systems that have the APIs we're comparing it to.
People in my hotel always break smoke detector in the room. They take it out to smoke in the room, and try to put it back and break the tabs that holds to the ceiling.

We use super glue to attach the plastic tabs otherwise it will cost me 300 dollars a month.
I think retro-causality explains QM better.
Graphite Pellicle: Physical Shield for Next-Generation EUV
I don't know enough about the AI/ML space in terms of competitive business advantage, so I can't really speak to that.

I don't think he lacks vision; I think it's pretty hard to go from $0-500,000,000,000 in value without vision, frankly.

People like to shit on Zuckerberg, but the truth is he built a global company that something like 1 in 3 people use. Nobody has ever done that before, and it's an incredible achievement. His vision might not be your vision, but I don't think you do something like that without a perspective on the future and how to grasp it.
Life Isn’t Fair. He Didn’t Want This Race to Be, Either
Can’t recommend more to read his post here: https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/i-just-shared-this-update-o...

Imo it’s great and reflects what I saw from him when I used to work there.
FDM? In theory, yes, but it cures pretty slowly, and you’d want it to set by the time you get to the next layer.

Also, it’s relatively brittle, not a great choice.
> Here's the thing, though, Assange and WikiLeaks are complicated figures who have done good and evil things

What evil things, specifically?
I wonder what he would think of Asahi Linux for Apple silicon Macs.
I suspect that wouldn't even be a financially positive decision for universities.
I heard Robert Wright talking about this sort of idea, I think he was inspired by Smolin.

> Smolin thinks our universe may itself be a product of a kind of evolution: maybe universes can replicate themselves via black holes, so over time — over a lot of time — you get universes whose physical laws are more and more conducive to replication.

from here: https://evolutionnews.org/2017/01/robert_wright_a/

A wikipedia article describes Smolin's "Cosmological natural selection" as an alternative to the anthropic principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selection
I think of AI as simply a productivity tool, and it is here to make everyone more productive, like Google did 25ish years ago. Google may have put some out of a job, but it made everyone much more efficient. This is a good thing. Work weeks are shortening around the world and this will help us maintain productivity as we work less. (Fingers crossed)

https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours
What’s the upside? CS managers get a reputation for being emotional toddlers who can’t be trusted near anyone’s money ever again?

Intentionally producing a worse outcome for your own shareholders in the hopes you can blame someone else just doesn’t seem like a very sane thing to do.
Is this an attempt to conflate... Negative AI speculation with racism and misogyny? Yes this technology could be used to reduce the need for human labor. Technology usually isn't actually used in that way and instead just used to concentrate wealth. That's what's being discussed here.

The issues you are bringing up have much more to do with the discriminatory practice of forcing particular demographics to do the menial labor and what conditions they are made to work in. Also an important discussion, but mostly orthogonal to the topic of AI making software devs more efficient.
At one point, I even went back to Win10. But it's become so bad. Now I find myself a happy mate desktop user.
Latest news indicates that CS has rejected the deal.

At this point if there is no deal by the end of the day the government is considering taking parts or the entire bank[1]. Although this would be a huge hit for the tax payer, at this point I think it would be much better. The Swiss government can also push back harder on any future liabilities that come at the bank from old dealings. By nationalizing the bank they will effectively prevent a global financial crisis.

If UBS acquires this bank a lot of jobs are redundant and there is effectively only one large bank left.

The Bundesrat[2] is expected give a media conference later today.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-19/switzerla...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@gov-ch/streams
10 seconds? Heh.

I measured apt upgrades in multiple minutes on the Pi 3B. And forget about doing anything else; the system would hang hard until I/O was cleared.

By contrast, upgrading my desktop tower from HDD to SSD was an incredible, dramatic speedup in terms of booting and especially apt upgrades. The latter became nearly instantaneous. Blink and you miss them.

Now, on the Pi I use only the heavy-duty brand-name sdcards. I have found that the weak ones tend to suffer badly from ESD. I am not sure how much lower performance is from the heavy-duty cards, but I doubt it is much slower than the fragile ones.
Given that it should be difficult, if not impossible, for random applications to listen in on user actions, is there a better way Apple could have done this?

(Disclaimer: Apple fan/user since 1985.)
I live in Phoenix.

Agriculture is big business's boogeyman.

Golf course, swimming pools, lawns and poorly managed landscaping use water like its a cheap date.

Farmers in suburbs have been GIVING UP their water rights for the greater good.

Land investors have been buying farmland to usurp the water rights.

Bloomberg is a mouthpiece for governance in Arizona that wants to keep building water guzzling semiconductor fabs.
It's all just Whig History.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history
He should have written his LICENSE.txt more carefully ...
There are some samples. But yes this is a good idea.
Maybe when scarcity isn’t a thing working won’t be a moral imperative? Work is only moral because of scarcity. Maybe being someone’s slave for your food and shelter isn’t a writ from god.
+1 for the New York tech scene. I spent a few months going to Meetup events around Manhattan and Brooklyn and the people were so friendly and full of ideas. Really great environment.
This is precisely it.

My pet theory is that the true effect of "cancel culture" isn't really on rich/popular people. But the public cancelling means on an individual level social groups eventually become homogeneous in their views.

The result is you must eject any idea, person or news source which doesn't 100% align with the current group values.

The outcome is that entities which don't take sides are the real victims of cancel culture. Why is does CNN always come to the same conclusions and cover the same things? Why does Fox? It's because if they stray they are goners.

WikiLeaks was truly neutral dumping all info it got. That was in no one's interest other than the diminishing open minded groups.
$8B. This is like, a couple days of Pentagon spending?

Sometimes politics just make no sense whatsoever.
By "spar" they mean "ask questions at the first all-hands since the 2nd round of layoffs were announced." Which, sure? But there's not a lot of additional detail in this story.
Trust in mgmt was the highest metric at fb when I used to work there two years ago. Whatever you see outside is BS. Read his latest post to get some idea of how he communicates internally: https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/i-just-shared-this-update-o...

Also I’ll eat my hat if his bet on VR/AR is not going to pay put eventually.
React is a web framework. Like everything else it has some good points (popularity) and bad points (performance, support cost).

When you get more experience, one thing you’ll learn is that when “literal hell” isn’t entirely untrue it’s a social problem. If your organization isn’t good at maintaining a large application, a tool won’t save you. It’s very common for people to look at problems and blame the current tools because that’s where the symptoms are and, critically, it doesn’t require saying anyone needs to be doing a better job managing the project.
Maybe so but in the United States athletics have been a big part of universities for a long time; it is a relatively recent phenomenon that they have been surpassed by professional leagues. I don't think I even agree that there's no benefit to students from having them.
And both sides have 14 day long days, and 14 day long nights. Only at the poles is there access to solar power all cycle long. Hence, reactors.
I think that the true nature of what Carmack is alluding to here is that true Value, even in the domain of software engineering, is usually attained by the application of critical thinking. The notion that a person who knows how to form correct syntax is equally as productive as someone who understands the problem a business or user faces and can come up with a working technical solution to that problem does not stand up to scrutiny. Its like saying someone who knows how to wield a pencil is equally as capable as Tolstoy in the discipline of writing. An LLM that can code is the same but the pencil wielder will be exposed as one who adds no value and Tolstoy will become even more powerful.

I predict that the real and more radical problem than some Stack Overflow Copiers losing some marketability is when Product and Management start buying the idea that the technical domain is something that doesn't need to be well understood anymore because we have an LLM that keeps coming up with plausible answers. I work in mortgage technology where there is a great deal of thought and discipline that needs to go into the technical modeling of who gets underwritten for a mortgage. Imaging a mortgage company that built its underwriting rules and models using an LLM with you as the head LLM seance holder.
All of the sudden a mass of customers got denied mortgages for some unknown reason and Management comes to you to ask what happened.

Would you know what happened? Could anyone even know what happened?

"Sorry, Customer! We actually don't know anything about what we built or how it works."

LLMs may eventually eliminate the act of typing code but the real question is will they eliminate the need for critical thought.
My own project has a number of TODO: comments in it. Some of them could be accurately described as unfixed bugs. Others are more like 'feature requests'.

When I am in 'bug fix' mode, I will try to locate and fix a few of them. I try to allocate a day now and then to focus on cleaning them up.

When you are in startup mode, trying to find the right product-market fit you cannot afford to make the code perfect. You have to get it to the point where potential customers find real value in what it can currently do. Shortcuts are a byproduct of that process.

Even if you can't get to it right away, a quick note of the issue in the code itself can make it easier to address it later when the problem is not fresh in your mind (or if someone else is tasked with doing it).
I think permission systems are bound to wind up in all desktop operating systems, eventually. They’re already on Linux for those using Flatpak. Trusting random third party binaries with access to everything is increasingly too much of a gamble, even for more technical users.

That said, I agree that the macOS implementation has issues. It’s tricky though, because if they make it as simple as confirm/deny dialogs, you’ve set users up to quickly succumb to “yes-click syndrome” which is likely why Apple went with the “flip a switch in a preference pane” design for some permissions instead.
i guess at the end of the day, people just want you to play the hits
But if ou bought a Linux laptop, it should come preconfigured with the optimal settings, with at least one or two distros like Ubuntu and Fedora, plus the settings described in a manual.
Looks like they paid about $1.5 billion for that stake last year if anyone's interested! https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/31/credit-suisse-shares-are-a-s...