skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's not really all that sinister. It's just you have a factory and you have workers and sometimes you need more work for them than your company can provide. Just because you can manufacture items for your competitor does not mean you are colluding.
I'll tell you more, a lot of competitors use the same suppliers, like for example Ford and GM, will use LG for a lot of components. LG then can't share any tech they developed for GM when working with Ford, but it's not like they get a lobotomy.

People who work at Apple use AWS and people at Amazon use MacBooks. It's all complicated, but not sinister.
That doesn't seem to be any more noteworthy than saying OpenAI knows what's in the corpus.
Not really...it depends on how it's implemented. I don't pay a minimum account fee because I have enough money. Who does? The poor. If they decide to increase credit card rates, I don't pay credit card interest. Who does? The poor. If they decide to reduce savings interest...I utilize a service called "Max My Interest" where my savings account money is rotated every month to a different bank depending on who has the high interest rate. If the bank tries to reduce interest payments...doesn't impact me. It impacts those who aren't financially savvy.
Regarding 2008 vs 2023… how to view it probably depends on where you were in your career in 2008. To me 2008 -> 2023 looks like mostly shifting details.

SPAs certainly were a thing back then, it was just called AJAX. (Not to mention the desktop apps that were, architecturally, almost the same thing.) jQuery was a response to the popularity of putting interactivity in the browser, not a precursor.

The questions remain the same, not just from 2008, but going back a long ways… Where does the code live? How is it transformed to execute, where does it execute and how it is moved there? Where does the data live, how is it transformed and moved to where it needs to be displayed, and how are changes moved back? When some of the answers shift, due to changing network capabilities, processing capabilities of nodes, or scaling needs, it’s doesn’t really change the overall picture.
That's not how that works.
That's not how any of that works.

Needs are food, housing, and safety. Anything beyond that is not a need, it is a want. We're not giving everyone everything they need, and an increasingly tiny number of people are grabbing anything and everything they want.

We're about to start discovering that in a dynamical system with lots of other intelligent agents, our need for "safety" at a certain point does depend on others need for food and housing.

Let's try to remember that as we are laying them all off to give their jobs to AI.
Why would that be a goal?

(On the off chance that this was oblique sarcasm, please don't)
Not that long ago, Kronos, another time management and payroll company, faced a ransomware issue that caused a complete payroll outage for a month at some of their companies.

The fact that a bank failed in 24 hours and Rippling made changes to the system to route around that bank and raised capital to front customer payrolls on behalf of their employees is incredible. The default action would be to wait it out.

You really should be able to show appreciation in a situation like this. This is not “normal course of business” stuff.
We Can Inspire More Children to Learn a Programming Language
I get at least 5h on a Thinkpad T14s (Ryzen 6850U), without tweaking, using "balanced" mode. I know some people think 5h is not enough, but it's plenty for a full day of work. If the System 76 system was Intel based, that might have been the problem, AMD has been way ahead of them for power usage in the last few years.
UBS Offers $1B to Buy Credit Suisse
Well, they interact (that's how you get the double-slit interference — or quantum computing) but probably in very limited ways.
And this continues to be why Linux suffers with the mass market.

I ran Linux solely from 1997 to 2004 on the desktop and switched back because it was such a pain in the ass to manage. Every time I go back, it just isn’t catching up to the mainstream OSs’ ability to manage without “futzing”.

My M2 currently lasts all day on the battery while spending half of it on conference calls and half of it writing code. Nothing can match that right now, but I am still hopeful for a Linux future.
Do you have evidence that foreign banks are fined more severely for the same behavior (in the infringement and after)?
UBS reportedly offers to buy Credit Suisse for up to $1B
Wait until you hear about designer handbags.
TikTok’s Chinese Parent Has Another Wildly Popular App in the U.S.
CS is already worthless, there s no upside for UBS at all, except to keep their swiss charter because the gov threaten them...
Some see it as a feature yes, but it's not sustainable.

In fact I would say that we are already behind the hay day of wild west crypto and are entering the phase of regulated fiance. Investors are already discovering why some of those regulations exist in the first place (latest example FTX) and governments are done standing at the sidelines.
Never had a problem here. Make sure you're using Raspbian and getting hardware accelerated video.
To be clear, I don't see these tools as being the equivalent of junior staff, I think they fulfil a different role. When I say "expert" I don't mean senior, I mean someone with domain skills.

I think these tools will be usable by people of any skill level, and the result will be commensurate with the user's skill level. You'll still be able to hire junior illustrators, they'll use the tools, and they'll produce better results than if they didn't have the tools, but not as good as a senior person with the tools.
> UBS has offered to buy Credit Suisse for up to $1bn, with Swiss authorities planning to change the country’s laws to bypass a shareholder vote on the transaction as they rush to finalise a deal before Monday.

They don't get to say no
I am not an entrepreneur (yet) but I still want to share a few titles with you:

- "Maverick or The seven day weekend" by Ricardo Semler

- "Rework" by Jason Fried and David Hansson

- "Startup - an insider's guide to launching and running a business" by Kevin Ready

- "Bookkeeping and Cost Accounting for Factories" by William Kent (1918)

- "Practice what you preach" by David Maister

- "Don't oil the squeaky wheel" by Wolf Rinke

- "Selling The Wheel: Choosing The Best Way To Sell For You Your Company Your Customers" by Jeff Cox

- "The power of stupidity" by Giancarlo Livraghi

- "How to write a good advertisement" by Victor Schwab

- "How to Make Money Out of Thin Air" by Brian Sher

- "Good manners and business etiquette. Illustrated Guide" by Elena Ber

- "Don't just roll the dice: A usefully short guide to software pricing" by Neil Davidson

- "Message to Garcia" by Elbert Hubbard

- the TopLeaf course of 36 video lectures on management by dr. Izhak Adizes can be purchased on https://vimeo.com/ondemand/topleaf or found on ru tracker (if you have access)
Writing functions in elisp is much easier than having to write JS for electron-based editors, and the elisp you write will usually work for a long time without being modified. Emacs is geared towards people that use it regularly, and its defaults hardly ever change.
But can it attach underwater, with all the water between the two surfaces?
A New Look at Immigrants’ Outsize Contribution to Innovation in the U.S.
That's not why. I did run an online business many years ago and disregarded laws in other countries. Not my country, not my problem.
China’s M&A Star Fan Bao Told His Employees to Be Bold–Then He Disappeared
What are you saying exactly? That UBS should just refuse ?
Automating Your CV
Error is quite an understatement
Intra-region markup just isn't that much anyway. It's typically $0.01 per GB across AZs. [0] If you ingest 1 TB of data (a lot of data) into a MySQL instance and replicate it to a replica in another AZ, that will run you $10.24 per month.

That's why a lot of services don't call it out.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/#Data_Transfer_...
"A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing." –Laura Ingalls Wilder
Yeah it sucks and borderline scammy.
I think the claim is correct, but not total: As in, "AI will make most CS jobs obsolete", but not "AI will make all CS jobs obsolete". Most, both in quantity and kind. You probably should be thinking hard in the next few months if 1) KIND: what you do will be needed and 2) QUANTITY: even if it is whether you're good enough at it to not be replaced by someone who is better than you (for some metric of better -- could be a social metric) and who is now empowered to be 2-5x more productive thus obviating the need for you.
Ooof, i've lost a considerable amount of money lol
Microsoft’s new Power Platform AI Copilot will build your apps for you
I assume that humans will still play a role for a while - but it still seems as if going to cause massive changes to society.
It doesn't seem so to me. With LSP, those editors, including Vim, can be very large and featureful.

A modern (or any) IDE, in my opinion, can debug your code, push parts of the editor into REPL (with debugging), understand code for things like autocomplete, linting, quick navigation and usage search. And yes, Vim can serve as a modern IDE if you spend enough time with it.
Podcast Finder web app written entirely by GPT-4
Because not all SD cards are the same and I have more large SSD drives sitting around than SD cards. Why do you think results for one SD card map to all of them?

Again, it doesn't matter. Real people in the real world aren't performance tweakers.

Oh no! Someone on the internet suggested someone do something that isn't optimal to performance! Wow better go on a multi reply freak out about it!
Is or was, i.e., is there a market today beyond UBS' offer?
https://nonzero.substack.com/p/ok-its-time-to-freak-out-abou...
It's not that simple.

Two of my last five laptops were macs, three linux boxes, if you consider corporate laptops as "mine". One of the three linux laptops just worked beautifully (wrt. battery and other driver issues), one didn't at all, and one worked poorly until I installed some software that shouldn't matter for battery lifetime, and since then it's had excellent battery management. There was a long list of dependencies, so I suspect that the software I installed depended on a package that solved whatever the problem was.

You may chance to buy hardware where someone really has tested and fixed linux. Or you may get something else.

FYI: The two good ones are some Huawei thing that weighs 1.3kg and a GPD P2 Max, a tiny toy, really portable, https://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/hardware/attovax
The gov doesnt want foreigners, and UBS is the only bigger bank there. And CS is worthless anyway, the brand is just toxic, so the price will never be higher. They lost last year the same as what UBS made. If they merge and nothing changes, you have 130 000 employees working towards making 0 profit.
I’ve used no code tools since the 90s and it just has a fatal flaw. For simple demo use cases it looks simple and cool. Then when you go to the real world and start getting pivots and edge cases you have to fix in the interface then it becomes a 4D nightmare and essentially a very bad programming language
Basically all KYC and bank surveillance laws should be repealed. People deserve privacy.
This is pretty much the ER / urgent care does when you go in to glue a cut, but sanitary and performed by people who aren't themselves suffering from an open would on their hands or bodies.
Carmack is, of course, 100% correct. But so is the student.

As someone obsessed with nuts and bolts coding, grinding on technical problems and cleverly eeking out performance, that type of career is sunsetting.

The role Carmack describes is one he is comfortable with because he has always been a product lead, even when he was a full-time coder. But in most organizations, that person is a product manager with social and personal skills, organization, and business sense.

For the best part of my career I was able to circumvent these social aspects of work for which my personality does not suit, and my philosophical perspectives on things like "business value" could be brushed aside as I dug into technical weeds.

Not just because of AI, but because of the power of computing, one-size-fits-all cloud pricing, and the perceived value of organizational understanding over that of raw performance, there is little room left for 'this type' of programmer. And the remaining space is ripe for people whose personality are suited to project manager roles to become the 'coders' Carmack references, not people like me.
I was hoping to see some sparring with Zuckerberg.
> like flooding or wildfires

most people in the UK don't suffer from these, and there are good models to predict and assess the damage of those that do (i worked for a bit on one of the flooding models). to spam everyone from scotland to cornwall is simply daft.
> Your talents, whatever they are, will become meaningless. No point in learning to play the piano, or draw, or code.

That is assuming this is purely about economics. It may well not be; for example, if art is humanity’s version of peacock tails, then the effort is the point, and if so, then even an uploaded brain of some famous and well-regarded artist will be dismissed as “not capable of real art”[0].

Hobbies for social experience can certainly still be a thing, as evidenced by the fact that art clubs and music clubs survived the invention of recorded music and photography respectively.

Even code has forms of this: challenge devs to write games in 1k, or on old hardware, or code golf.

[0] https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2022/10/09/an-end-to-c...
> not sure how crypto money in browser would be a net benefit for anyone except speculators and crypto exchanges.

How about the people who want to, you know buy stuff with crypto? Metamask has 10m+ downloads on the chrome store
Flag clickbait titles.
Social Free Will (2007)
Let's just have one bank and be done with it.
indeed. but reality sucks.
Your can run DietPi[0], which is a minimal image based on Raspbian, on an x86_64 PC if you want

[0]: https://dietpi.com/
Hi! Thanks for sharing. I am the OP, we wanted to post this tomorrow. But I think that's now not needed anymore. If someone has questions, i try to answer here too.
Similar experience over here on one of the earlier 11th gen models and recently on a new 12th gen model as well (build quality feels a lot improved vs the early stuff too, fyi). People are still right to call BS on having to run any of this to get decent battery performance but it is possible to get if you jump through a few hoops. Next step for distros should really be sane defaults for this stuff and/or an option to tell the installer it's going on a laptop/non workstation desktop so that it gets sane defaults for the laptop based on efficiency per watt rather then the sane defaults for a server/workstation (max performance).
I suspect the problem is they don't actually know what they are buying. Not every financial institution has reporting systems that are, how should we say it, modern.

When I worked with CS they had a mountain of corporate entities. Just dozens of businesses that were pretty hard to do paperwork for, and even as a going concern it was confusing. Now with bankruptcy eminent, it is not any easier to know what is where.

I get this feeling they actually have no idea what CS has in terms of assets and liabilities. This is why UBS has that clause about the CDS, if they buy the bag of junk there could be some bomb inside it.
Raw battery life aside, I think one big advantage macOS still has is that its power management isn't modal. There is a low power mode like iOS if you really want to eek out as much runtime as possible, but I've never once hit a need to use it.

Outside of that, you lose no performance when running on battery, you get full performance when you need it, and high efficiency when you don't. Needing to manually choose a power/performance profile feels incredibly archaic to me, though I appreciate that some folks may want that level of manual control.
I saw that Mr. Z. was getting into MMA in his free time, but this is taking it a bit too far isn't it?
"..what Apple is doing to something which should allow you to work is just atrocious.."

Anyone know what his specific issues are?
The discussion here has me wondering whether code produced by an advanced AI would need to use the same coding patterns / abstractions that we've come up with over the past several decades.

If a human won't be maintaining the code and a v2 could literally be rewritten from scratch, would we end up with giant balls of spaghetti code that only the AI could truly understand? At some point will we treat this code like a closed source library that exposes the API we want but whose implementation is unknown to us?
I know they'll survive in some form, but companies doing multiple rounds of layoffs feel like they are in a death spiral, most especially for culture and employee trust. And fear only motivates for a short time.

If this is some attempt to squeeze people back to to office, well they can forget about it. I'd leave tech before I move my family for a company that has a record of cutting people.
Russia may take over Toyota plant in St Petersburg: State media
Ever read The Veldt? Buckle your seatbelts!
... that was "endorsed" by alleged telepathy with someone who has since died!
I was at the talk, and it's strange this what people take from it. You should watch the whole thing and see what he built over years.

I was a bit disappointed that most of the questions ignored his talk about a very cool jukebox he built and focused on OS drama.

He built a jukebox with all hit songs he could find in it 1900-2000 and for prerecorded music, got a player piano and sheet music and midi and integrated the whole thing. Touch screens, voice activation and so on. Hardware and software and data hoarding project.

He said he has massive cabinets of CDs, all the music he ripped and tested audio encoders with his own ears.

Ken is 80, and still building cool side projects and scratching his own itch! That's the story.

Be like Ken by building something cool, not by using whatever OS.
4K might cause some problems in my experience, but 1080p should be totally fine.

(in my memory the problem was more with running the display itself in 4k and trying to get a full frame rate out of it, but I think the advice still holds - 1080p videos on a 1080p or 2K display shouldn't be any sort of major challenge)
You already give them a photo id when you go through the security line. This can already be correlated with the numerous cameras filming you go through the line. This privacy train left the station long ago. If TSA wants their own pic to feel important then whatever.
> how many sitcom plots do we really need?

Current non-AI plots don't seem to be especially innovative, so apparently that isn't a major concern of the market.

The idea of a human actors acting out an AI-generated story certainly does have a certain Black Mirror quality to it.
The hairdressers are complaining the tax payer had to front them in the first place.

The Fed's got our back, lets try crypto and see how that goes.

Just have to repeal that pesky Dodd-Frank thing, and it's back to the fuckery.
Still waiting to see a single lawful useful application of crypto that's better than any alternative.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...

Given his experience presumably killing a variety of animals, I wouldn't be too anxious to take him on.
Current Problems in the Alerting Space
I’ve not tried it but this Obsidian plugin does exactly this to your notes: https://github.com/exoascension/vault-chat/tree/main

I think it’s just a matter of time to scale it to something larger.
Zucks responses are incredibly out of touch, holy shit.

I can absolutely see why staffers are losing trust. Mark is treating this as if everyone already agrees with the idea.

Just, unbelievably callous.
AI tools for writing developer documentation
ChatGPT is better at that 90% than the 10%.
If Facebook's overall global influence wanes as part of this adjustment, but they remain the social network that people like to use to stay in touch with each other, I feel like this would be a net positive overall.
What Policymakers Need to Know About the First Amendment and Section 230
Aoi – Ghost in the Shell Powered by ChatGPT
Why Developer Relations Jobs at Startups Are Not Entry Level Positions
Software might just be a tool, but it’s a tool we fall in move with.

I loved coding as a kid. It was so much fun.

As a grownup, I loved learning Linux.

I tolerated containers, dreaded Kubernetes, and am indifferent to AWS.

But is that initial love that sucks you in.
> If they merge and nothing changes, you have 130 000 employees

It'll be curious what the Swiss government does about employee retention in the forced marriage.
Illustrator: SAAS company in question started with a collection of illustrations in their brand style, and no longer needs human services for incremental production. The lead designer/creative director has more than adequate evaluation skills to prompt for 10 variations and pick the one that looks the most reasonable, and even make some adjustments in photoshop.

Copywriter: e-commerce company that is constantly creating new SKUs. Managing a human copy-writing pipeline is annoying... many messages back and forth on slack/email between editor and copywriters to make adjustments. Much easier to chat with a computer and ask for more samples.

Ops analyst: different SAAS company main job description was to collate customer requests into a big spreadsheet and categorize, summarize, present to stakeholders. Difficulty comes with scale, breadth of product, communications overhead. Previous hiring plan was to bring on 1 analyst per product line, 1:1 PM:analyst ratio. New plan is PMs do it themselves with help of LLMs.
Thoughts on Leverage and Compound Growth
>The largest shareholder who owns 10% of the company was asked if he was going to put up more cash last week and he categorically said he won't. This arguably started/accelerated the fall, he probably regrets that now.

All-In Podcast said that a plausible reason for the Saudi Arabian investor capping at 9.9% was due to government regulations. Deep link :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYwfiqYocc0&t=11m20s

That said, I have no idea if the government rules about owning more than 10% is just a minor inconvenience or A Really Big Deal.
I feel the same way, but I know that moving to Linux isn't for me. My approach has been to run a Hackintosh, which provides excellent compatibility, reliability and parts availability, and resist upgrading macOS at every major update. I'm currently still on 10.14 and haven't been forced off it yet, and maybe never will. Generally, if something requires a more recent version, I just reject it. There tends to be a positive correlation between the quality of software and the age of minimum OS requirements anyway.

An interesting thing to note is that even with software that states support for an older version of the OS, it usually is more buggy, so there is a tendency for software to degrade over time as it gets updated.
I would posit the example of Carmack himself being unable (despite being IMO the greatest programmer of our generation and having all the resources and responsibility he wanted) at Meta, to make this kind of coding valuable for them.
Is anyone willing to hire a 10 year old with an iPad to DJ at their wedding?
React of course was free.
Would still having Sheryl Sandberg be around make things better or worse?

I’m thinking that as she went more and more into background, Facebook lost more and more focus. But maybe it’s just me.
Good description, this has been my experience using it. It generates a lot of mid to low quality content, with the occasional flash of something brilliant, rapidly which requires a lot of editing and work to turn it into something useable. To borrow from Steve Jobs, it is a bicycle for the mind. You still have to pedal.
Don't forget scammers and criminals