skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually that's not quite true certain states don't have inspection requirements so they never check but any car that was built from the factory with the catalytic converter is required to have a catalytic converter to be a road. A catalytic converter contributes significantly to noise reduction. For most states that would be early '70s when the federal government mandated catalytic converters he same time they started phasing out leaded gasoline.

In California their emission requirements are much stricter and it doesn't matter if your car is classic or not all factory emission systems must be present. Now if you have a non-California version of a car that you bring into California it needs to comply to the emissions of wherever it was built but if you have a California version of a car that would have been stripped of its air pump and other things those need to be restored in order to get street legal in California.

Don't confuse the testing requirements with the requirements of the federal and state law.
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Ukrainians that died in holodomor caused by Stalin disagree
I've assumed reality where there's no "NATO expansionism" (as GP was complaining about US forging alliances), so Poland and entire post-Soviet block wouldn't be in the NATO at all and would be full-time enjoying "Ruski Mir".

Hard to find words to express how shitty that would be.
Even then, you can make some money by indirectly investing in China's tech infrastructure by buying shares in a company that will buy and use hardware made in China.
The constitution says that the US has to pay its debts, but it doesn't say that about its other expenses, so that isn't necessarily true.
> I wonder how we can accelerate contributions to OSS projects.

LLMs are impressive, but hacking on pre-existing complex codebases seems to be a current weakness.
Interesting, it looks like steam doesn't have any special handling for inserts/offsets and just handles 1MB blocks. The extra disk IO probably just comes from rewriting large files:

> Next - to update the pack file on a client device, SteamPipe builds the new version alongside the old version. When all new files are built, it then "commits" the update by deleting old files and moving the new files in. What this means is that to update a 25 GB pack file, SteamPipe will always build a new, 25GB file. If the update only requires 10 bytes of changes to that file, SteamPipe will need to copy almost the entire 25GB from the old file to the new file. Depending on the client storage hardware, this can be a very slow process.
I have a hard time imagining how such contractors would ever get a contract in the real world. I certainly wouldn't think of a contractor as highly skilled if they can't give an estimate.
It's entirely possible for nvidia to be sour and also correct. Crypto currencies have done nothing for society but to introduce scam and money laundering vectors.
The best manager I ever had used this process:

- Manager asks for programmer for time estimate

- Manager writes time estimate

- Manager gives time estimate to client.

It might seem easy but it had the consequence that the developer thought carefully the first time. There was zero pressure and things worked fine.
> forces anyone who needs to work in an economy to be accountable to an entity that can and will remove access

Federal IRS and county child support enforcement have ridiculous powers wrote in to State law. They can seize accounts with a letter. Good luck fighting their mistakes when they just seized all your accounts. Child support enforcement in counties are staffed with GED holders, and 'qualified immunity' typically prevents suing for damages.
Having one centralized account for seizure makes their jobs easy, and will suck for their victims.
The estimates are useful even if they're wrong. Not all managers realize that, so they ask the question badly. And they never teach it to programmers.

The estimates aggregate to a number more accurate than each individual. The manager cares more about the sum total than each individual one. Many can even slip without affecting the end date.

This isn't so hard, if management and developers didn't treat each other as enemies. Each can get wrapped around the axle concerning each deadline, rather than the real goal of allocating resources across the entire scope.
That would be 100% dependent on what the Taiwanese decide to do. If they decide to give in and absorb into the mainland, it could be over in a few days. If they decide to fight, it would be a second Ukraine.
An Ethical AI Never Says “I”
I don't think your intuition is ambitious enough. We have 12 year olds making roguelikes and platformers today, with templates and toolkits. Sure the initial LLM-made apps will suck, the initial everything sucks, but a couple years of progress on something this new will be considerable. We've barely started tuning LLMs for specific use cases!

> The hard part of defining requirements is being specific in them

True but I don't think you're accounting for iteration. You know the "idea guy" cliche? Today, if/when this "idea guy" hires a team of devs from India to make his million-dollar idea into reality, his inability to write good requirements will lead to a useless app, and the idea guy asking for changes (that are also poorly described) until he runs out of money, right?

Now imagine that his "dev team" works for free and can turn around each new set of requirements in minutes rather than months. How long will it take him to learn how to good acceptance criteria? A day? A week? It's hard but not that hard. And a million or two other "idea guys" are doing the same thing, and sharing notes with each other.
If you disagree that it costs nothing to show empathy, then we have nothing to discuss.

Keep being an antagonistic dick to your tools just because you feel they’re beneath you on the scale of emotional intelligence, and I’ll keep trying to be a good person even if the LLM doesn’t have feelings right now because, as I said, it literally costs me nothing to say “thank you”. It’s the most basic of human tendencies, but I guess those are too difficult to manifest or something.

I’m pretty sure one approach is going to go further in the long run, but go off sis, get your rocks off on belittling a LLM.
The problem is that the ad inventory doesn't match people needs. So they try to shove things we don't need on our throats. If they sold what people needed to buy, there would be a better return on ads. But those products are probably not as profitable.

I have nothing against LLMs in commerce if they don't try to trick me, make me overspend, or use dark patterns on me. My bet is that we'll filter every communication through a local LM to eliminate the bias in sources, you need protection when you get out there. Like "my lawyer will be talking to your lawyer", but with AIs.
> With the right hardware choices and some thoughtful setup, it can be remarkably stable.

That is one of the issues Apple has been solving at least since 20 years ago when I started using mac books. You don't have to think anything, plug and work.

I am not an apple fan boy and I wish I had an alternative (which I tried during these 20 years) but mac books has been the only solution that has worked so far for me.
No. In tech when the creator quits or dies they’re replaced by MBAs that squeeze every penny out of the creation. (Like authors whose grandchildren direct the trusts which own the copyright a century after the work was written)

New creations in tech have to wait for patents to expire and the incumbents to crumble to the point where they don’t have the cash to buy out the competition any more.
As if Canada will not be pulled into such a war... China invading Taiwan won't be the same as the Vietnam war. Better to send your kids to Switzerland or Central/South America
>"China will be more than happy to sell us chips from its conquered TSMC labs"

I've heard that in case of invasion TSMC labs would be rendered useless. Suppliers like ASML will stop support and selling new goodies as well. China has only one real option: keep improving what they already have and hope to match competitors. The way things going they have a chance.
In Sheena Calvert's Graphic Design School: The Principles and Practices of Graphic Design, designers keep a notebook for each project, saving clippings, prototypes, and the like as they converge on the final design.

That's per client, and I'm not sure it's all necessarily shared. For web designs, I wonder if inspiration is kept in a Powerpoint of screenshots, for example--or a folder with files.

For the latter approach, Mac OS Finder supports file preview to flip through ideas.
It’s monumentally frustrating to be forced to give estimates too soon in the planning process. The compromise, I hope, is to end up in a place where most of the problem is known and some is unknown, and you get there by breaking down the original problem. Leave it up to the “buyer” to digest your best estimate into their planning process.
You're restating parent's point, which is that China invests in cheaper regional objectives.
Pure blogspam.

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The police are like any agency when you make enough noise they will do it. Maybe that noise means you need to get the local media involved and other places but that's just it you got to make noise to get heard. That's what this douchebag is doing with his car So normal people need to make noise up through their city council and their police.
The SO question addresses this, though: after giving an estimate with a range, the developer is pressured to narrow that range, mainly by pulling in the farther-out date in the range, and then the developer is blamed when the project inevitably comes in late because of that.

Maybe the solution here is "stick to your guns", but that can have negative career implications.
> 10.5 Leper

Heh
and if meth users randomly digging swimming pools used more energy than Norway (1-2% of total electricity usage) then he'd have a point!

Like if industrious meth users were buying up all the bulldozers so nobody else could get their socially-productive stuff built, and measurably increasing the national consumption of fuel, then yeah, probably something would be done about that after like, the third or fourth multi-year meth-construction wave.

"oh but it's renewable" yeah not always, like that investment group that bought a shuttered coal-fired power plant in new york (Greenidge) and brought it back online to use it to mine crypto. After their permits were denied, another group went and tried to buy an operating powerplant (Fortistar).

https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2023/01/uncertain-fate...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23558705/new-york-crypto-...

And even if it's renewable that energy could be offsetting carbon somewhere else on the grid, or stored, or doing literally anything productive (aluminum manufacturing, etc) instead of just generating random nonces and seeing whether they'll validate.

Even in best-case scenario, where the energy is literally going unused: why would we want to build a crypto farm to soak up excess hydro energy or whatever instead of an aluminum plant? it's socially maladaptive behavior brought on by speculative fervor and socially irresponsible misallocation/incentives/lack of regulation.

Building a Pollution Machine that turns coal into random numbers you sell for money is a Captain Planet villain plot.
Why does Alex Hern at the Guardian believe Michael Kagan is an expert on what is best for society?
> Even the fate of the smallest business like a bakery or shoe store will be determined by whether they can create some form of moat.

This is the main reason I'm terrified of AI: near as I can tell, it's a 'moatpocalypse.' ('Moaterdammerung'?)

I keep seeing posts voicing self-reassuring thoughts like "if you're not a low performer you're not at risk."

But this seems to miss the basic point. Let's say that AI never replaces humans and always augments them. (A wildly optimistic view, but I have to start somewhere.)

In this case, me+AI is now competing in a job market against Bob-who-learned-to-code-last-week+AI. That's twenty-plus years of experience that, up until this year, was a deep fscking moat (who else can recite iptables lore, write a safe bash script, and work in perl, python, C, C++, Typescript, etc?)

Today the answer to that question is "virtually anyone."

This means that my employment will hinge on questions of "cultural fit" rather than talent, which, yes, means that in general, there will be less tolerance for asshole behaviour (probably a net good.) So, no new Torvalds or Stallmans (Stallmen?) will be spawned. *But it also means* that mean-girls psychology is going to triumph. Employment will literally be a popularity-contest _Survivor_, as anyone can be replaced at any time, and their replacement will be good enough.

The brunt of this impact will be felt by those of us who are "diverse hires" --- why would you hire Susan, who is brilliant but no fun at parties, when you could hire Hank, who looks, sounds, and talks exactly like you, was best man at your wedding, and holds those wild keggers? Sure, Hank only knows rudimentary Python, but who the hell cares about that now?

ChatGPT implies the Triumph of the Bro.
it's not like "all jobs" will be taken by Robots and AI. That will be of little consolation though to modern-day buggy-whip-makers.

Jobs are a way of "adding value" to society. But over the last 120 years we've figured out how to add a Lot of value with minimal people. 95% of people used to grow food. Now it's like 2%.

People moved to factories, where today robots and automation rule. People moved to hi-tech, and leveraged that tech. Now AI is moving into that space.

In truth, we now create way, way, more value than we need. We need to figure out how to distribute the value created. Somehow I doubt that the US will be the leader here; things like UBI are too far against the "American Way".

When we see UBI emerge, in whatever form that takes (basically basic human needs met) it'll likely come from places that value community over individuality. Places that rate their success by their poor, not their rich. Places that celebrate achievements which don't require the exploitation of others.
Yes, US companies will have the incentive to innovate and better themselves. But my question is just about the material outcomes: how will the shares of US and China based companies be affected.
i made an automated news site that keeps an eye out for "happenings". it starts by showing the last 6 links found and automatically adds to the list if something new is found.

https://news.coffee
I love RMS's daily news, his PoV is very close to my one so the link [1] is a great source of political news.

[1] https://www.stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html
I'm not sure how under your view you could ever disagree with anyone at all then. To not fall into the same trap you articulate, could you explain what holding a viewpoint against another where you disagree with it for good reasons looks like? Maybe with an example that works here?
While true, I suppose conformity as a justification could apply to any distro choice. It doesn't justify OpenSUSE specifically in itself.

See a cousin comment from me with a bit more detail... I've probably already said too much.
Because Software Engineering is much more than blindly typing code.

Yes, business and domain knowledge is part of the job.

The only developers I don't expect estimations from, are juniors and trainees.
We're making tools that use tools to make tools to eventually replace us with tools.

It's tools all the way down.
Oh interesting! I have misophonia and am HSP. But for whatever reason, I never made the connection between the two. It absolutely makes sense now.
No disagreement there.

But since we agree they're just serving a need, maybe let's not pretend that this automatically gives them the God-given right to destroy the planet[0], and that the regulators are being unfair by taking it away?

You might re-read my post above. I cleaned it up a bit, so maybe my intent is more clear now.

[0] if it helps, substitute the phrase "other people's property" here
Convenient of them to pronounce it now as the world has moved on to AI bandwagon which suits Nvidia just fine. I wonder where was this enlightenment couple of years ago when the demand for GPUs was through the roof.
This is something I struggle with, and it gets worse in an open concept home when noises transfer easily. For me personally getting out of the house for a couple hours a day helps, versus feeling helpless and stuck.
I grew up in-town in a city, and I actually like to hear a little city activity in the background. Living out in farm country might drive me crazy.

What baffles me about the in-town residential neighborhood where I now live -- where kinda-rotting old houses sell for a few million dollars, and apartments that would never pass regulations rent for thousands of dollars -- is that people put up with gratuitous racket:

* So many various trucks (e.g., even maintenance worker pickups) with ear-piercing backup beeps. Sometimes I log these, and it can be every few minutes. I'm skeptical that they save anyone -- I'd think more likely they they wake people up and cause fatigue/grogginess accidents that way, cause stress and lost productivity for WFH, and damage hearing of those around them.

* Almost daily early-morning Dumpster trucks working outside my window, making more racket than you'd imagine, when there's a few ways it could be improved dramatically, but regulation enforcement can't even get them to stop breaking the law about how early they wake up people.

* Announcements of the frequent street cleaning here start at 7am, and go for hours. They involve a truck driving through the streets, blaring on a loudspeaker so people can hear inside their homes: "Street cleaning! Cars on the {even|odd} side of the street will be tagged and towed! Street cleaning!" And repeat intermittently for hours. The loudspeaker trucks are a bit like we've been invaded, and are ordered that curfew is in effect. Also note that we're supposed to be walking-friendly, and a lot of residents don't even own cars, so there's also some pandering-to-car-owners resentment on top of the agitation and lost sleep.

* Car horns that honk as people get in and out. My building alone has about 100 people in it, and other apartment buildings and houses surround our parking lot. These frequent car honks wake up people, interrupt and I'd guess background-stress people in their homes, and desensitize people to the car horn sound as an emergency alert that should grab your attention because something life-threatening might need your decision and action in a fraction of a second.

* Leafblowers. So much leafblowers.

I've started to make some effort on these, but with all the crazy-expensive real estate here, and a city government that in some ways is very progressive and very well funded, I can only guess why these problems haven't been solved already. I speculate that part of it might be heavy real estate ownership by investors, serving a market of transient captive university students. For the non-transient residents, like myself, one of the barriers to getting involved is that these aren't the only, nor most important/urgent, problems demanding our time.
> I'm not sure if Burton was a Luddite who didn't believe in statistics or the scientific method, or if he didn't care about learning from his tests and just wanted to blow up as many Bradleys as possible in order to create a hoopla to get the program cancelled.

Burton and the rest of the "Reformers" all had pet projects they were pushing. IIRC Burton's was an armored airplane that acted as an unguided rocket truck. Burton didn't want radar, EO, or FLIR systems. Just iron sights and shitloads of unguided rockets.

All the "Reformers" were hucksters advertising themselves as fighting "the man" and systemic corruption. The Pentagon has many problems with its procurement processes but none of the crap Burton actually addressed those problems.
Try taking ChatGpt, and teaching it on a new language that wasn't in it's training data. It will probably learn it faster than any 4 year old.

You might say that's not fair because we are comparing a pre-trained LLM with a blank slate newborn. But human hardware is also pre-trained by billions of years of evolution. We are hardwired to understand language and certain world concepts. It is not fair to compare hardware that is designed for language and reasoning to the hardware used for ChatGpt.

Another line of thinking: why does the amount of training matter? LLM and humans are completely different implementations.
You're kinda right but it's also kinda right that after a decade+ crypto found like 1.5 useful applications and generative AI is finding some mind blowing product launch or demo something like once every 8 hours.
Aha checked your comments and you are clearly a russian. Half your comments are about defending russia. The other half is about "NATO is bad".
> Startup valuations had gotten too rich.

What possible value is there for entrepreneurs of a secular reduction in valuations?

Currently those of us in tech are suffering due to the absurdities of the SaaS obsession.

Edit: I mean developing technology, what has to be called “deep tech” these days.
If that were the case, the business would know this and wouldn’t be asking you for estimates to return back to the client.
where does that setting live? didn't see it, searches don't find it?
It's a correlation. Also a big part of the inversion is the fact the market expects the Fed to start cutting rates in 3-6 months. Of course historically this tends to happen at the beginning of recessions...
Utility is perceived by those that find something useful. I’m not a crypto user, but enough people find it useful that I don’t deny it’s utility to someone else. It requires a special kind of arrogance to deny the utility someone else perceives, and those arrogant folks are usually blindsided when that utility becomes broadly perceived.
Oh I would not have left that go I had to put that interaction up on YouTube send it to all the news media in City council meetings. Certain sports cars are loud and it's just how they are because at high performance engine will be louder than a Honda Civic with its tiny engine when it's stock.

The problem is the modification of adding aftermarket off-road use only emissions equipment. Especially if it's obnoxious to the neighbors.
If such a war happened... and pray that it doesn't... as a Canadian, I have to say I doubt your kids would be safe in Canada.

a) Canada would probably be involved. Just like it was with 1st gulf war, and Afghanistan, and Kosovo, and pretty much most other things other than the Iraq war. (And while we didn't send troops, there was still all sorts of backchannel support)

b) This ain't the 60s. Unless your kids are Canadian citizens our gov't would just deport them back.
The covid jab is not the only "vaccine" that exists. This is why that term is misleading. It lumps people skeptical about one vaccine into the same category as those who are against all vaccines (which is an absurd position)
The problem is the writer of the question is conflating two things. Their quote: "A. Give a very wide estimate with a lot of padding. B. Get pressured to be more accurate and to bring the estimate down..." The real problem seems to be getting pressured to reduce their estimate, they only summarize things as the problem being that they're asked for an estimate at all.