skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the fields that are a.regulated (medicine), or b.depend strongly on personal connections (sales) will be safe from some time. I don't see any AI replacing sales but once the AI reaches everywhere it is hard to know what careers would look like.
I do like it, but I like a lot of things I would consider niche and that dont have impacts on large markets. I was wondering what they meant about impact on the gaming market. It's not clear to me how many steam decks have been sold in comparison to say, the nintendo switch. Which is why when they talk about impact I'm just not sure what the impact is.
Report from Sweden, I'm receiving multiple spam calls per week from UK. WTF is up with this?
> Mozilla sacrificed a passionate director for someone who doesn't cause controversy on social networks

Mitchell Baker is certainly passionate about things, they're just not the things which push Mozilla forward in competing with the Google-Microsoft-Apple trifecta. She is compassionate about her own remuneration, having increased it manifold [1] over what Eich took while overseeing a decline in market share by 85%. She is compassionate about "social justice", using both Mozilla-the-organisation as well as funds from the Mozilla foundation to push "racial justice" [2], "diversity and inclusion" [3], "environmental and climate justice" [4], "alphabet justice" [5] and more - just do a search for "Mozilla foundation social justice" for more examples.

Baker is not as interested in developing a browser, that is comparatively boring and does not give you any virtue brownie points so it was not that hard a decision to fire 250 people [6] to become a 'more nimble organisation' which coincidentally left more money for those other purposes she wants to pursue. Who needs developers after all when you have an internet full of volunteers?

In short, Baker needs to be fired if Mozilla is to have a chance at rising again like the Fenix or Firebird it once tried to name their browser after but which names got shot down due to trademark conflicts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#Negative_salary...

[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozilla-racia...

[3] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/diversity/2021/what-we-build/

[4] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/intersections-of-digi...

[5] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-supports-lgbt-eq...

[6] https://www.techspot.com/news/86331-mozilla-laying-off-aroun...
But not if a support of Windows 7 in a CLI app is important.
It's really hit or miss.

I had one case where I needed state management in a really simple react app. It created an entire reducer for me, from scratch. Handled all the boilerplate cases, I'd expect.

I've also had cases where it struggles to built a from button.
> I'd like to see userland "environment" things like DEs get their own layer with a similar treatment as the root OS, so you could e.g. roll back GNOME or KDE independent of the rest of the system if you so desire. This would also make it very difficult to inadvertently put the system in an unusable state through things like dependency conflicts — if your DE fails to start it can simply fall back and start the last known good version.

Yes! I've been thinking about the same thing as an accessibility feature for disabled users, as well. I recently learned that I'm going blind, and so I've been thinking about how this kind of mechanism could be used to ensure that a system always has, e.g., a working screen reader and fullscreen magnification software. I'd like to add something like this to NixOS, which is my favorite distro and daily driver.
Have to reply a second time: It does serve a purpose. There is a purpose in fear and the purpose is to either get us moving if we are complacent or to prevent us from doing things that are not good for us. So the fear may be justified. Maybe.
> breaking no law in their country

Singaporean law forbids their citizens and residents from using drugs in other countries. So if a Singapore resident goes to Amsterdam or Portland and smokes a joint there, they are complying with local laws but still breaking Singaporean laws. Laws with this sort of extraterritorial jurisdiction aren't without precedent. Particularly, other countries, like the US, UK and many others, have similar laws concerning some forms of sex tourism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterritorial_jurisdiction

> Just because it might be a very pleasant place to live doesn't mean it isn't also totalitarian.

With that I agree, but I think a better word to describe Singapore is 'authoritarian.' Totalitarianism is an extreme form of authoritarianism, in which the government exercises a near total control over every aspect of your life. Singapore regulates many aspects of their citizens lives, as do all functional governments to at least some degree, but I think it falls short of totalitarianism.
The problem is that everything is technology. The wheel is technology.

But since there wasn't any good words to use to describe the practical application of computer science and other skills related to computers, we just used the term "information technology". Because, it's relatively descriptive. Computers are technology to leverage information. Everything related to getting computers to exchange information would be considered technology related to that.

But then it gets shortened to "IT" and just "tech". Networking is "tech", software is "tech", hardware is "tech".

I've come to disregard anything that bills itself as simply "tech". It's smoke and mirrors. You're looking to gussy up something that would otherwise be banal.
I skimmed the majority opinion and I don't see how I'm off here -

1. The case revolves around Gonzales arguing that police were legally compelled to attempt enforcement of the restraining order.

2. The opinion says nothing about the ability of Castle Rock to fire the involved officers for being derelict in their employment duties (like any other employee).
I think the data collection part is a surmise from the author.
I don't have the code at hand to show you, nor do I have any links similar trig stuff as I wrote everything from scratch, first in Matlab to prover the concept, then in C, as there wasn't anything similar online at the time, but I used the principles of fixed point fractional math of representing floating point numbers as scaled integers in the Q notation, which is well documented for use in microcontrollers and DSPs of the era (early to late '00s)

Here's the wiki gist with some C code snippet examples [1]. Here's a more detailed math paper that goes in the weeds[2]. Here's a nice presentation from Motorola-Freescale-NXP I just found which I wish I had back then as this is awesome and explains the basics for everyone to understand, and seeing those Motorola Windows 95 GUI tools brings a nostalgic smile on my face.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(number_format)

[2] http://darcy.rsgc.on.ca/ACES/ICE4M/FixedPoint/FixedPointRepr...

[3] https://www.nxp.com/files-static/training_presentation/TP_CO...
It was a good story back in 2013, but I just can't fathom why anyone would buy it like three times.
the NRO is the craziest US government agency. iirc all their workers are contracted and all their expenses are highly classified. About the KH-11, trump accidentally tweeted an image from one of them (see https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanocallaghan/2019/09/01/t...) and its resolution was an international incident. This technology was developed in the 70s. The NRO has sci-fi technology.
Why would that be relevant? People stick with those old Windows versions because of an aversion to Windows 10 and 11, not because they are doing some kind of period re-enactment.

A more relevant question would be if modern Linux distros support the hardware of back then (they tend to).
Not at all. They're saying the current probability is high enough to warrant a cease research agreement because the risks outweigh the rewards.
So you provide a source that is 2x larger than the estimate from the other guy but over 10x smaller than yours, and you accuse him of lying with numbers?

The fact that they spent a lot of money to clean the area just proves they thought this level of investment was needed, not that it actually was. If in fact they overspent, as I believe they did, this is consistent with the idea from the article, that there is overspending on misguided levels of safety when it comes to nuclear.
The WebGPU demo mentioned in this post is insane. Blows any WASM approach out of the water. Unfortunately that performance is not supported anywhere but chrome canary (behind a flag)
That's a damn shame.

We definitely need more rather than less competition in 'new space'.
Our brain only gets smarter by pursuing a goal. And "get smarter" is the worst goal to have.

In you 30s you're not a child, your biology tells you - now pick the target, we can't afford to be smart everywhere anymore.

So either you get very smart at something specific by focusing on it (or few specific areas if you have enough capacity) or not smart at all.

Another alternative is to keep soothing yourself with those silly "improve your diet, read books and stop drinking" kind of advice you find all over the internet.
I didn't call apple risk-averse. Maybe you were tired. I called the designers of phones at companies like say Oppo, Xiaomi or Asus to be risk averse. This creates a monoculture because they heed to the Apple design patterns as a defensible position to their bosses and superiors. So if the product doesn't sell well they can point the finger at "well we cloned apple" as opposed to "well I insisted on this novel design" which would be a bad move.

It's the antithesis lesson of the Edsel. It made (at that time) the big 4 recalcitrant, overly conservative, and weary of change. Everything that GM acquired ended up looking like a giant amorphous indistinguishable blob.

People just want to do well and they get spooked by failures so patterns and histories create cultures of design. Nobody knows truly what the future is so they end up doing "best practice" which is a euphemism for cultural conformity.

Apple was not this under Steve. He was pattern breaking change in both Steve I and Steve II incarnations. And he had a superhero batting average. Why that is is a huge conversation outside the scope here but yeah I agree with you.

Please reread my comment. Thanks
Sounds like as well as mandating limited on-duty time government needs to mandate pay for waiting time is same as pay for driving. This would reduce the incentive for drivers to drive more hours.

This is not so straightforward when drivers are paid by the kilometer. In such cases government could mandate minimum waiting pay rate is average equivalent hourly pay rate of driving hours from same shift, or such like.
If the litmus test for intelligence is the ability to “create new math” most people on earth wouldn’t be considered intelligent
Yes yes fellow scientists, we should close down all of google's competition for 6 months. It is essential for safety! Evil bad!

Give google 6 months, it's the right thing to do. The only way to stop evil is to shut down the competitors for 6 months so that all the evil can be stopped.
Everything you guys say rings true to me. It ended up not adding a great amount of value for either businesses or consumers, and without true added value there's no revenue bite for Groupon.

The stigma of using a coupon didn't bother me so much, most restaurant servers were always cool about redeeming them (and of course I always tipped on the pre-Groupon bill.) But I would sometimes get an (unintentional) negative vibe from higher ups, like great another money-losing customer that I'll never see again. That reaction is what discouraged me from using Groupon, if it just ends up generally being a bad proposition for businesses I'd rather just avoid the whole thing.

Oh man, this reminds me I still have a much of credit at Restaurant.com, which I stopped using a few years ago too...
Oh, that must be the misunderstanding; I wasn't complaining about your article, and I'm sorry if my comment came across that way. By "dismissing" I meant the Lenovo device, not the reporting upon it

Although I will say it's super weird to have you defending the screen size of a vendor's laptop in a technology forum, but, hey, I think such passion about technology is great. Maybe one day Lenovo will acquire such passion, too
Understanding Stein's Paradox (2021)
The Liberalised Remittance Scheme is applicable to Indian residents and not Indian expats whereas Inri is an investment product for Indian expats remitting to India from a foreign country. https://m.rbi.org.in/scripts/FAQView.aspx?Id=115
We might be unique, but here's no situation we're using Kafka where someone unfamiliar with it would be able to design and support production level systems to the standards we do after a couple hours. That would result in a time bomb for someone else to clean up later when all the stuff you weren't aware you didn't know becomes a problem. These skills are common, some would say table stakes, so it's not hard finding them as long as you look outside the proprietary tech shops like FAANG, which is why I have no reason to prefer people that don't already have them.
Wikipedia links a page from "Springer Handbook of Glass" [0], which shows a diagram of the typical construction of a CRT tube. The lead glass is only used for the sides and back, with barium+strontium glass used for the front. It looks like use of lead glass is only a cost optimization, and the whole thing could be made from barium+strontium glass. As there is no other technology that matches CRT latency and motion quality when used with fixed 60Hz content (e.g. most console/arcade games), it should be possible to sell new CRTs at high enough price to make this viable.

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=-ka9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1367
> I've been hearing that the death of the planet has been 10-30 years away . We're still here.

That argument is solely based on survivor bias.

Also, critical systems are now in such a state of brittle disrepair that it wouldn't take much for everything to break down unexpectedly.

Currency (store of value), Fuel/Energy, Logistics (trains/ cheap shipping), and Food (farms), take your pick.

Any single one of those areas can lead to a cascading failure.

Most people also don't realize as the world heats up you have to suddenly start dealing with problems only commonly found in the tropics but now at the northern latitudes.

If you've read the Wealth and Poverty of Nations, you'd know why the northern latitude countries were able to develop rapidly whereas the tropical latitudes were averse to human life and husbandry.

There are parts of Africa where microscopic parasites live in the water, and animal husbandry in those areas is impossible. The higher environmental temperatures allow these organisms to thrive. If you eat the meat of contaminated animals, you get sick and die.

There are many reasons why you are asked if you have traveled outside the country recently when you visit the doctor.
> My friends at Replicate told me that a simple rule of thumb for A100 cloud costs is $1/hour.

AWS charges $32/hr for an 8xA100s (p4d.24xlarge) which comes out to $4/hour/gpu. Yes you can get lower pricing with a 3 year reservation but thats not what this question is asking.

You also need 256 nodes to be colocated on the same fabric -- which AWS will do for you but only if you reserve for years.
The short-sightedness is Remarkable.

Unless the entire world and every classroom hold to such a standard, than this simply widens an already uncomfortably wide Multi-Modal Distribution.

We live in a global economy and compete in one. Artificially holding your community back just takes away opportunities from them and gives them to another group.

Do you think the affluent families of the world are gonna stop teaching their kids math from a young age?

Equity at any cost is a remarkably dumb idea. And it has an obvious trivial solution. All people live in abject poverty, despair, disease.. equally. Only a sociopath would consider that a viable solution.

This reminds me of “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them”
“I learned two things from the experience: not to invest when you can’t afford to, and not to invest when you can.”

this is the best :)
Fun Janet feature that I don't see in many languages: you can pause a fiber (coroutine), serialise it, deserialise it somewhere else and resume it again.

A bunch of caveats to using it in practise, but it's still a little bit magical.
GM will absolutely lose this battle.

They will, but not by standing firm. No, first will come the backlash, then GM will "listen to its customers" and backtrack on this.

The problem is, I've already as of this morning stopped listening to GM. I sent the link to my wife, and now we're planning which Hyundai/Kia dealer to go to first to look at Ioniq 5s and $(whatever the equivalent Kia is called). Doug in Edmonds says he has 65 of the l'il buggers. We might just drive one home this weekend, at which point GM has not only lost a sale but further convinced me to stay away from GM.

Did I mention that my father worked for GM all his career, and already pre-ordered an EV Blazer, which we said we'd take if he didn't want it at delivery? Yeah, I need to send Dad quick email about that...
I believe you will quickly run into a barrier due to the small size of the context window. And increasing the context window gets harder and harder the larger it is.

There's a sibling talking about internal memory. That's how our brains solve the issue. AFAIK, nobody knows how to train something like it.
Inflation adjusted NIFTY for 31. March 2023: https://www.tradingview.com/chart/NIFTY/p30N39p6-NIFTY-Infla...
Putting the Human Touch on LLMs
FWIW I'm not suggesting that the Fed should or will continue to hike rates. I think they are going to pause rate hikes in the near term and wait for more data to ensure inflation does not become entrenched. The parent comment I replied to said "the Fed is not going to cut rates" which I agree with - but I also don't think they are going to hike rates either.
Owning production buys you a lot of weapons with which you can enforce your property ownership on others.

Not if, but when, we get around to AI law enforcement with lethal weapons, it's over. There's no going back from that.
I've worked with some businesses who heavily used Groupon.

Groupon basically resorted to being a payday loan operator - but for businesses. They would give you some cash up front, but you bit the curb on the backend. So I witnessed at least one business death spiral - constantly going back to Groupon because they needed the money so bad.

Any "promotional value" you got out of being on Groupon has long since been gone. If anything, you suffer the "Groupon effect" - you get the worst, most entitled customer and you have to provide them service while losing money on them.
Feel free to do so, we need something to replace crypto after all.

And also, sometime I wonder how many people hold those kind of opinions on AGI(imminent, doable, worthy of being discussed) because they sincerely believe in some nonsense like the basilisk thing for example.
Typically with NixOS, you'll have systemd or a wrapper script read the secret from a file into an environment variable for the service that needs the secret. This secret file would be stored in `/var/lib` or similar, outside the Nix store. There isn't really a "Nix" way, just a pattern used in various places in NixOS.
If it’s anything like what podcasts lately have become. Yes.

If I hear one more local auto dealer commercial ripped directly from the tv version and spliced directly into my podcast when downloaded… I guess I just have to take it.
Why would veto power matter in a scenario where they've gone rogue?
The basic thesis, "More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services" does still seem to be directionally correct. It isn't the full story, atoms still matter, but the big change was that that many non-tech incumbents finally woke-up to the need to improve their technology game.
I think people who have played sports can attest to how much easier (and less physically demanding it is) to play defense in sports like basketball/soccer when you are able to see where the play is developing.
Postgres has commands to easily list conventional tables nicely. While I can see this would work, there are no native Postgres commands to list the graph.
Fair Use is a US-specific notion and doesn’t exist in that form in most other countries.
ChatGPT is a threat to bureaucracy, it has the capacity to untangle all that human mind cannot hence the threat.
In this case was also subsidized by the companies offering the deals.
And I guess they had less money to waste than VCs...
Thanks. I was wondering whether there were other ideological motives behind the ban other than the official "privacy protection," as Italy is governed by the right. They just banned artificial meat for what seems to be a host of ideological grounds typical of the right.
Piggybacking on your Neo4J reference....can anyone suggest any resources that would be good for someone from the SQL world who is very uninformed on graph databases to quickly get their head around the key ideas, but even more importantly, how to choose a platform among the offerings (licensing being I think a key issue, I've heard Neo4J can get expensive)...assume a large, "social media" scale system, to be safe.
Probably just the business card.
That seems like something GoG[0] might do, with its semi-focus on making old games playable on modern systems.

While their launcher also uses Electron, users aren't obligated to use it. Games are DRM-free and can be downloaded through a regular browser.

[0]: https://www.gog.com/
> …had no drive time left on his clock and only 12 hours remaining on his 70-hour cycle before he was required by federal law to take a 34-hour reset.

Umm, no.

They just had to take a 10 hour break and/or wait until midnight to get more driving hours.

The only time you have to take a 34 hour break is if you burn out your hours because you either know you’re going to take a break (like going home) or you’re really bad at time management. You can run indefinitely if you manage your hours properly.

A couple times I had to perfectly time my start time so I would both run out of hours and get hours back at midnight to make it to the receiver 15 minutes late. Fun all around.

—edit—

Downvoters, tell me how I’m wrong.
What would they care? 6 billion people is probably too many for the planet anyway.

Also they dont need to raise and feed an army if AI powered drones are able to do the same job. When AI is able to replace jobs en masse its pretty transparent to expect AI armies to be built en masse as well.
How often will you fully cycle a home battery? At 100 cycles a year it would take 50 years to deplete a 5,000 cycle battery down to 80%. Another 50 years before it was 50%. There is no way the casing would be fully intact and the electronics even be functioning after that long.

Current LFP batteries should last multiple decades as a home battery. The already have low flammability. The price is getting more affordable. They could just be part standard of a home electric system in a decade or two, like a whole-home surge protector.
What is the qualification for using StackOverflow or a library book? What's the qualification for the keyboard that might introduce errors (hello, MacBook) or the monitor that might render improperly?
Agree - "only two games in town".

Tell us more - what specifically is better value and by how much?
banks do not want to own commercial property. The only time I saw this up close was a business I knew in detail, got foreclosed. The attorneys involved sought, confirmed and signed the new owners, all before they started the foreclosure. No one wanted to hold the empty commercial property for even a week.