skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
False. Many companies which offer WFH limit job applicants to US Citizens only because of the difficulties related to supporting international tax systems.
That medieval era technology can still be manufactured at an individual scale was not my point.

My point was that access to the technological advancement has not trickled down and that this creates an imbalance of power.

Compare how easy it is to get a custom textile (not a custom print) made to how easy it is to get a custom PCB made (it is reasonably easy to etch a double sided board and multi-layer and flexible ones can easily be ordered online). The situation with regards to knitting is somewhat better.

Saying that a "a basic loom isn't hard to make" in a world of high speed air jet digital looms is equivalent to saying that perf-board still exists in a world of SMD components.
We have chemical warfare treaties between humans. Why not extend it to other species?
Remote work is a double edged sword. If an American can do it from a cheaper place and a bigger home, the job will stay like that for a very short time before being shipped to Canada or Colombia for 1/3rd to 1/5th the cost. Why? Because execs and big shareholders always want greater returns for themselves and beyond a tiny fraction of truly high-skilled jobs, most of the jobs are pretty run-of-the-mill simple ones without many barriers.

I am seeing that play out first-hand at my workplace. During COVID, we went fully remote due to shutdowns. Then the leadership embraced it fully. Then all the systems were set up to onboard anyone working from anywhere smoothly. Phase two was multiple rounds of laying off American workforce over the last 12 months. And now phase three has started where all the engineering headcount is abroad (India, Eastern Europe, Latin America) in the name of cost cutting.

Please excuse my strong language but the American engineers clamoring for remote work are short-sighted idiots who are killing the goose laying golden eggs. Great for developers in the third world countries though.
Might as well just link to https://elonmusk.today/
> there are gains beyond 8k.

Sure if you had pinhole irises to look through instead of blobs of organic tissue.
Yes. I was just adding some detail. We don't know exactly when the court will decide, but the case has been heard.
Current problems in the production alerting space
It's not like rain on your wedding day.
Well a good start would be to cease logging of all redwoods, they take over a thousand years to reach steady state, and will continue sucking down carbon over that time(and the the larger the redwood the faster its absolute volume increases, so logging is idiotic). CA still has most of its redwood forests being actively logged, so much for faux environmentalism in liberal CA.
Uhhh, those tweets read like a mentally ill person descending into obsession over chatgpt spitting out general answers to leading questions about a fairly obvious technological leap which I'm sure many many people have thought of. The gist i can get is basically, nerves use electricity, people can manipulate electricity, therefore this person believes it's _currently possible_ for someone to have a device that can on the fly _discover and track the location of every neuron in your body_ (he literally says this but provides no proof), and then send specific impulses that can essentially control you like a walking puppet?

This is, obviously, fucking ridiculous. Like sure, it's theoretically possible but the single biggest difficulty is the one he devotes the least time explaining. How will the device discover the location of every neuron in your body. Does a model of the brain that allows full control of muscular and speech actions exist? Those things are like 100 years away. Have you looked at a brain scan? They're ridiculously below the resolution to pinpoint single neurons and those scans are the size of whole rooms!

You can't just justify any ridiculous bullshit by saying, "they're gonna tell you this is bullshit". Of course they're gonna tell you this is bullshit! Show me documents.

Elon musk can barely get a monkey to play a video game with an implant in its brain. To be able to remotely discover and control an entire human nervous system and brain with a consealable device is pure fun science fiction. That's nothing to say of the mans obvious illness. He's messaging the dallas fbi with this stuff! Telling people to "get access to this phone number and look at the texts from this other phone number, there you'll see what they don't want you to know". Or, "hack into my Gmail, look at me emails, they'll show you things you wish you didn't see". Clear mental illness. Sad that you're parading him around like this. Boy i hope this isn't you, because oh man, good luck.
Developing inside a container seems like a basic mitigation that a developer could use. Depends what you're developing though.
How are they doing self-criticism when the article doesn't even mention themselves? They mention Netflix and all the other companies as if their website wasn't an adfest that on top of that requires a subscription. There is nothing to applaud here.
> I'm not even trying to convince you that these programs are perfect, I'm just trying to make sure that you understand that these aren't categorical errors and the things you consider successes aren't even happening.

Yea, we're just talking past each other. I believe i understand what you're saying. I on the otherhand, am describing errors in UX.

Your point seems pedantic, tbh. Hopefully by now i've expressed something in the way of convincing you that: for the little i do "know" about these, admittedly not much, it is that they're nothing but pattern predictors. Token outputs based on token inputs. No intelligence. Yet you spend repeated replies which sound effectively like "Stop calling them errors!" when they are very clearly errors in the context of UX.

Your argument, if i understand correctly, is pointless because the goal of the app is to have the LLM prediction be aligned with a human-centric world view. Up is not down, and the LLM should not predict tokens that espouses that. In that context, the LLM replying "Up is indeed down" would be an error. Yet repeatedly you argue that it's not an error.

In my view your argument would be better spent saying "The LLM application as we strive for today is impossible. It will never be. It's snake oil. LLMs will never be reasonably and consistently correct by human interpretation"

I don't know if that's your view or not. But it's at least not talking past me, about a point i'm not even talking about. My frame for this conversation was if we can make token prediction aligned with human goals of accuracy. You saying inaccuracies are not errors "categorically" isn't in line with my original question as i see at least. It's apples and oranges.
The autotools deserve their share of criticism here. They should be solving the portability problems of the present day, but they are still stuck in the past solving the portability problems of the 1990s.

Still catering for pre-C89 compilers in 2003 was questionable. Doing it 20 years later in 2023 is beyond questionable. It's not a portability problem any one of us has had to care about in decades. And it's now a source of problems because it's breaking with current tools. That defect is squarely upon them.

Portability problems are of their time, and old workarounds can be dropped once they are no longer required. Many of the Autotools checks and workarounds are for platforms which were retired decades ago. The whole lot could be deleted. When you look at the cost:benefit of them, they are utterly niche and are largely untested by anyone. When you actually look at which tools are portable in practice, the autotools are usually worse than the alternatives like CMake, because they ceased to keep up-to-date with contemporary systems.

As the other poster mentioned, the fact that the generated code is embedded in thousands of projects, all of which need independently updating is another aspect of its design which should also have been retired once the tools reached maturity. There is zero need for this, just require them to be installed like any other build dependency.
It's even illegal in China...
What makes you think anyone understood it before the layoffs? It sounds like lots of different people had been caking on layer after layer over the years to push things in whatever direction they wanted. Much of the code likely was put there by people who left the company long before Musk bought it.
I agree with you and I'm not sure why you're being downvoted.

That being said, it's nice to be able to have guarantees about your build without having to look at the transitive closure of dependencies in your project. It'd be nice if crates could be marked as "hygienic build" or something, and a hygienic crate can only depend on other hygienic crates. And then something like `cargo check-hygienic` which fails if any dependencies are non-hygienic.
That's nice, but it's no justification for that earlier poster lying about the number of people killed by Chernobyl. There's very good reason to think the number is much larger than 100.

Fossil fuels being bad is an argument for getting off fossil fuels, not an argument for nuclear in particular.
If students are more likely to apply to multiple schools than before (I believe that to be the case as competition has increased. I also have multiple cousins currently applying to UCs, anecdotal) than the total number of applications would appear to increase while total unique applicants may be steady or reduced.
Unfortunately, Its almost a certainty that you're wrong about this.

They realize #3 has subsumed both #1 and #2 with the added twist of inescapable debt slavery with no deterministic way to complete those degrees. Education is no longer an investment, its a casino with the house winning 80% of the distribution.

I'm sure you've heard about weed-out classes where people fail not because of lack of knowledge, but from structure.

Apprenticeships are the only alternative to Professional certifications or educational degrees as job qualifiers.

The latter two options both have subsumed their original primary purpose and have exchanged those purposes for an overarching profit motive instead while stripping due process and agency.

If you know the material you should be able to pass no problem which is what people pay for when they go to college, but instead they are basically bait and switched which is a form of fraud, with no legal recourse in this case.

I'm sure some may argue that you can always sue, but look at ITT tech. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardconroy/2022/02/24/report-...).

I know people who have repeatedly failed Mechanics (Physics), while acing multiple heavy math courses above multivariate calculus.

Their biggest complaints were non-deterministic questions being asked on those tests, and structural course elements that induce causality spirals.

Example of the first being material the material taught is different from what was being tested with no adequate preparation, or in the case of inference there being multiple correct answers without enough information provided to deterministically come to a single correct answer, or in the case of heuristics where you build a context (or initial set of conditions) and that context should only lead to one answer but has multiple correct answers (with some uncommunicated assumption). They were all extremely upset because the tests amount to guesses, and some have repeated the same course every semester with different professors (same structural elements) over 3-5 years, even going so far as to take the course at different district colleges (same structural issues) before dropping out entirely due to the additional financial burden with no path forward.

Examples of the latter being, the answer of the second problem is dependent on the correct answer to the first, the answer of the third problem is dependent on the correct answer to the second. An arbitrarily uncommunicated rounding scheme guarantees most fail.

It might seem from the way I've said this that they just gave up, but it wasn't from lack of trying. Some escalated this from the Chairperson, to the Dean, to the Board of Directors over several years. Ultimately, no corrective action was taken, and its not a new story.

This is why people are generally not going to college and opting for other consistent options.
Because Republicans are not at all interested in the failings of their leaders.
>As I shared in the comment above, HDIs of all 50 states in the US are comparable to Western Europe. The worst state, Mississippi, is comparable to Portugal, and the US average is comparable to the UK, Luxembourg, and Slovenia and well above France.

Which goes to show how official indexes can be worth nothing!

Anybody who has been to both Mississippi and Portugal can attest to that...
> This is the primary reason the United States has a long tradition of not prosecuting former Presidents, even ones that were provably guilty of crimes.

There is no such tradition. In 222 years no former U.S. President has committed any crimes.
I strongly disagree. When people link to twitter they're basically forcing the running of a corporation's client side application (computational paywall). Nitter mirror's client side experience is just HTML with real text and is much more accessible for things like screen readers. The web as an application movement has been a disaster for accessibility.
Duke Nukem Forever was good news until it actually shipped
The fact that I have to pay for news is not what this article is about. It's about getting hammered with subscriptions left and right, while getting subsciption popups on the same page at the same time.

I find that amusing.
> other useful digital services could have run there instead.

that's not really true. unless you have a specific example.

there are gigawatt hours of energy already being expelled and wasted with no purpose, and this has continued for decades now.

other "useful digital services" typically need high bandwidth internet infrastructure, or all energy use gains are lost by the physical movement of the data they are processing. in the middle of nowhere where these energy sources are, this becomes more obvious. crypto mining did not need good internet infrastructure, it is low bandwidth and can operate in fairly high latency (ie. in ethereum, valid blocks are found at a target of every 15 seconds, which means you have on average 15,000ms for the majority of the network to accept your block. satellite is okay enough for that).

but ultimately this isn't to change your mind with new information, here is where we are, if you really think you have a solution that nobody else noticed, then you should thank cryptocurrency for pointing it out to you (or pissing you off enough) because you're going to save us all with your amazing observations about wasted energy being expelled for decades.

otherwise, there were some large scale crypto operations that was not removing energy from any other purpose, were not polluting in the process when using clean energy, were reducing pollution when repurposing flared energy, and simply expanded a market for energy.
Kenji is awesome. I learned much of what I know about cooking from his site (Serious Eats).
I think the main problem the OP has is:

> When the do_not_compile_this_code is opened in VS Code with the rust-analyzer plugin, the editor expands the some_macro!() macro. This macro reads then content of ~/.ssh/id_rsa_do_not_try_this_at_home and deletes the file.

The rust-analyzer plugin seems to be the problem. It tries to compile the code when all you might want to do is read it. Like auto-executing Office macros.

Reading code should be a safe action. If just opening and displaying code can cause your editor/IDE to perform ACE, that's a problem.

> This behavior also occurs when cargo build is run or when the application is run.

This seems like more of an afterthought. Yes, when the application is run, whatever code is in the application is run. That's kind of the point.

And yes, you could always put arbitrary commands in your `configure` script or your `makefile`. But those commands shouldn't be run when all you did is open the file in vi(m)/emacs.

Note that vi(m), emacs, and other editors do allow files to modify the editor's environment, e.g. with modelines, or some other more advanced systems (ctags?). But they're very careful to limit the scope of what the files can do - and haven't always got it correct and the rules have needed to be tightened a few times IIRC.

So, yeah, I think this is a real issue that probably needs addressing.
how is this different than Todoist or Things3?
I believe it’s a good thing this shift towards apprenticeships, we don’t really need so many university graduates (I’m talking from an Spanish point of view).

More and more the university is degrading its own nature, focusing on preparing “workers” instead of cultivating the arts of knowledge: research, philosophy, history…

It is good that people from university goes to the private sectors, but we are doing it the wrong way, we do not need CS to go develop for Funny Startup, we need developers (technical apprentships) and probably some software architects (CS) that focus on how it should be done.

Private sector is pushing universities toward work training and we are falling back in advances and knowledge. The fine art of learn to learn, the place where people that love the field go instead than the people that searches for a job and money.
Fintech here. Also large. We have no Macs. We will probably never have any. We have a lot of software which will most likely never work on them. None of our clients have them as well.

Also another company we are related to tried a roll out and found they couldn't get Apple to deliver anything other than crap off the shelf configs in any quantity. Dell could. So the trial was ended.
Such a safe language, better than everything else so much so that what amounts to a linter does compiles
I dont think you're looking at the crux of the problem. The real question is, how many people are hoping they're kids pay 40k/year for a humanities degree?

Of course college isnt devoid of all value and people want the best for their kids. Of course.
There don't seem to be many examples of a once-proprietary tool improving after going open source. Blender is the one that comes to mind, but that's driven by a dedicated user base full of working professionals looking to get away from expensive proprietary 3D suites. Anyone who can really understand this algorithm is highly incentivized to use it to their advantage rather than improve it.
> Why all the focus seems to be on the latter?

Because the later has been tried and tested for thousands of years of human history - young caring for the old. This "change the system" option would be worthy of exploring if there was a fleshed out proposal on the table.
> JPEG XL could be twice as efficient as AVIF everywhere…

This isn't true if you're talking about encoding size efficiency. See the "Quality" chart at https://storage.googleapis.com/avif-comparison/index.html

Even JPEG XL cheerleader Cloudinary says, "JPEG XL can obtain 10 to 15% better compression than AVIF" overall, which isn't a sufficient incremental benefit. https://cloudinary.com/blog/the-case-for-jpeg-xl
The Death of Software Engineering
Not to mention that one might have to log in to see the tweet on the Twitter.
ThreadPoolExecutor if IO-bound

ProcessPoolExecutor if CPU-bound

for example

with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=4) as e:
e.submit(shutil.copy, 'src1.txt', 'dest1.txt')
e.submit(shutil.copy, 'src2.txt', 'dest2.txt')

but yeah if you're truly CPU bound then move to something lower level like C or Rust
Don't think in terms of bottlenecks but rather in terms of missed opportunities.

Although already a power Emacs user, it was a significant step up when I started memorizing keystone for various modes via spaced repetition.
I mean, I don't think this is true about duolingo. I used it for language I knew zero about and for one I used to know. And I did learned foreign languages before duolingo existed.

With nothing but duolingo and occasion "let's try to read or watch movie", my ability to read or understand went high in a way that would not happened without it at all.
Thanks for sharing this , so comprehensive! This info is still relevant. Why? Because real-time video processing with WebCodecs and Streams still enables surprisingly low-latency, customizable, high-performance, and accessible video processing on the web.

Low Latency: WebCodecs and Streams enable real-time video processing with low latency, which is essential for applications like video conferencing, gaming, and live streaming. With low latency, users can experience a smooth and responsive interaction with the video content.

Customization: Real-time video processing with WebCodecs and Streams allows for customization of the video processing pipeline. Developers can modify and optimize the processing steps to fit the specific needs of their application, such as reducing bandwidth usage or improving video quality.

Performance: WebCodecs and Streams leverage hardware acceleration to achieve better performance than traditional software-based processing. This means that real-time video processing can be done more efficiently and with lower CPU usage, resulting in a smoother and more responsive experience for users.

Accessibility: WebCodecs and Streams are built on top of web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, making them accessible to a wide range of developers. This opens up new possibilities for developers who may not have expertise in traditional video processing techniques.

Thanks for the share!
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Lord of the Rings – Audiobook Soundscape by Phil Dragash
This audio version of Lord of The Rings is absolutely a piece of art.
There's also clickhouse/clickhouse local - eg:

https://clickhouse.com/blog/worlds-fastest-json-querying-too...

https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/operations/utilities/clickhou...

https://clickhouse.com/blog/getting-data-into-clickhouse-par...
A 7400 NAND gate has no state, but it has inputs and outputs and consumes electricity to do useful work. Using lots of them you can build quite non-trivial systems.
I don’t think you understand what any of those terms mean.