skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At this point the user will discover that easy to type unambiguously encoded filenames have value, and may opt to save the Á's for when they actually are writing a letter to grandma.

The unambiguously encoded filenames wouldn't be in the natural language of the user, so you're asking the user to learn another language. Users shouldn't have to learn another language to use the computer.
Exactly. A few months (or was it a year?) ago they had a 0-day on iOS that was fixed and made a huge stink about it and it all just read like marketing for a Pixel. It's a wide net that I'm still glad they do...just weird.

IT does make me wonder...what...don't..they report? Why wouldn't they hold a few smaller items back, focus a little more on iOS exploits? It's just a "Be aware of the source" thought. Still a net positive.
Agreed. Reading this I thought "all of these things are superficial, who cares?"

Who cares if movie posters and book titles are converging towards something that markets well? The parts that matter (the content, themes, style, etc) are probably very different among all those books/movies.

IMO Fashion like this exists just so that salesmen can convince consumers that they can buy The Current Thing and earn respect from their peers. Chasing the latest furniture, latest clothes, latest cars, etc.. It's all a shallow, costly signal of wealth that excludes the not-wealthy and distracts the wealthy from more fulfilling/productive pursuits.

If this trend means that fashion is dying, good riddance.
I'm aware that I'm in the minority here, but I find that investing heavily in being able to type fast and handle the tools well actually changes what code I write and not just how quickly.

The faster I've gotten at moving code around, the more subconsciously willing I've been to try something with a modest probability of working out, and more importantly the easier it's gotten to throw away a draft that isn't working out and try again.

LLMs haven't made it into my coding workflow yet, but I can see how they could be useful and the trend seems to be that they'll be in most high-octane workflows at some point.
Please don’t buy any vehicle new or used from any manufacturer that locks your features behind a subscription.

We here get to choose the future we will all inhabit by choosing what we build and choosing what innovations we accept and which we reject.

Reject this one HARD.
nice. this is _exactly_ what I wanted to build when ChatGPT came out, but you actually went out and did it while I coded on passion toy apps that don't actually make me any money. Hope this is successful!
Is GCloud really less than 15% of revs? Also, I think GSuite, Google Maps (create custom maps by API), and other commercial subscription services must make good money. Even Google Play to stream films must make good money.
And I’d like world hunger to be ended. Frankly my wish seems more plausible.
Well police are generally also dumb, so it's far easier for them. It takes a lot of resources to get the ones who are better at hiding
The article is about the value the birds provide, and that they are getting used less and less, not that they are 100% obsolete and never used.

Seems like at least in 1999 they served a vital function that probably helped save bunch of people.

> the police pigeons of Odisha also proved to be the only dependable method of communication during devastating floods in 1982 and a 1999 super-cyclone that caused widespread destruction in the coastal state. Indeed, the handlers say pigeon post helped save many lives.
This is what LangChain is about right? I think these kind of things have to be open source and self hostable, maybe with a paid and hosted offering as a side. Of course until Apple will eventually integrate this.
I haven't been happy with my work Lenovo laptop. (New release in the last year or two) The fans sounds like a jet at takeoff thrust, thermals aren't great, and the dock glitches and disconnects monitors frequently. Mine had an an early-life screen failure too.
> also help and financial support from US and EU

Poland had and still having an huge financial support from UE as well.
Correct link to decision: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-582-python-local-packages-d...

And for quick reference, the abstract:

> This PEP proposes extending the existing mechanism for setting up sys.path to include a new __pypackages__ directory, in addition to the existing locations. The new directory will be added at the start of sys.path, after the current working directory and just before the system site-packages, to give packages installed there priority over other locations.

> This is similar to the existing mechanism of adding the current directory (or the directory the script is located in), but by using a subdirectory, additional libraries are kept separate from the user’s work.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0582/
In my younger years I subscribed to the New Yorker and the Economist. Both full of interesting stuff, but a torrent. I had to unsubscribe as I kept on thinking, I'll finish that one later, but never did before the next one arrived. Great magazines for a flight, where time seems boundless, and you were connection-less, before the internet found its way onto airplanes.

You have to filter. Music, youtube, book content is created faster than you can consume in your limited time on this planet. I read mainly for information, and try spend more time with friends/ hobbies. Still catch some TV, but I try to limit.
It's insane how long it takes them to fix bugs in their auto-update mechanism they've forced on everyone. Things like that were reported years and years ago. They fixed the data corruption issue with their auto-update mechanism, but that too existed for years.

They also still haven't fixed that disgusting ~/snap folder.

It's very obvious by now how little Canonical cares about their users.
This happened to me and since I had to immediately stop what I was doing, I used the opportunity to take snap off my system completely and reinstall Firefox properly.
Churning out boilerplate is a large part of the job. The quality of that boilerplate is part of what makes great engineers great engineers.

Knowing when and how to use dependency injection, making code testable, what to instrument with logs and stats, how and when to build extensible interfaces, avoiding common pitfalls like race conditions, bad time handling, when to add support for retries, speculative execution, etc. are part of parcel of what we do.

If ChatGPT can help raise the quality of work while also increasing its quantity, that'll be a huge leap in productivity.

It's not all there yet, but I've been using it to write some simple programs that I can hand out to ops / business people to help automate or validate some of their tasks to ensure the smooth rollout of a feature I've developed.

The resulting ChatGPT code--I chose Go because I can hand over a big fat self contained binary--avoids certain subtle pitfalls.

For example, the Go HTTP client requires that you call Close() on a response body, but only if there's no error.

The code it spat out does indeed do that correctly. And it's well documented.

It's far from perfect; I've seen a subtle mistake or two in my playing around with it.

I'm now no longer so much an author but an editor for basic stuff. I now have my own dedicated engineer with a quality level that oscillates wildly between fresh intern and grizzled veteran.

It'll only get better over time.
Yup: Privates talk skills, Sergeants talk tactics, captains talk strategy, but generals talk logistics.

Slinging code is skills & tactics at best. It can only have a small multiplier.
It's unfortunate that sources are not specified, but the methane emissions from rice paddies are well known, I believe. I didn't find absolute numbers, but OWID does list them as significant (though less than from animal): https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector#annual-ch4-em...

I did not hear about the rice-diabetes connection before, but "golden rice" was developed specifically to deal with the nutritional deficiencies caused by rice (over)consumption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice
The way I see it, the problem is the C in CSS. If you rely on `.author-bio > h2`, then every time you make a change to `.author-bio`, you have to consider all the contexts in which this class may be used globally in your site, and if you change the styles for `h2` even more so. Sure you can say you encapsulate every context with a globally unique id, but since you’re probably already using some kind of templating system for you HTML, it’s easier to specify the styles there. It’s basically the difference between having variables scoped global vs. local by default.
There is some truth to the idea and most skills have a hierarchy/normal distribution/metrics/quality ranking that reveals partial insight into one's output.

John Carmack is definitely 10x or 100x (or 1000x) compared to me on low-level graphics programming, just factually, not that it says much about either of us.

But the '10x programmer' idea is soaking up and refueling some fanaticism. Let's all double down on the concept of high performance, for no particular reason we can agree on.
NXP are open sourcing a lot of the support stack for the LA9310 to go along with this product release, but I'm afraid they consider the VSPA DSP to be highly proprietary, yes.

Example: https://github.com/nxp-qoriq?q=la93
I mean, you could always just do `sudo apt install flatpak`
> and the VR version costs a lot more to create.

Would it need to? It's a video game, right? Once you have the base elements, it could be pretty cheap.
I would argue that this is because you have the wrong people on the bus. I know that may not be your choice as a manager (you may be stuck with what you have), but make sure you are not misunderstanding the problem.

Good, 10x people don’t need pressure to perform. They are self-driven. Unfortunately, most places don’t optimize for the right people on the bus, only someone that can do what they are told. A team or organization populated with self-driven people with good judgement is a force to be reckoned with. A team without these types of people needs to be managed.

How do you find 10x people? Optimize for attitude, not skill set or intelligence.
So ‘people who depend on the perception that an obsolete tech isn’t obsolete say tech is not obsolete’?
Meta hired a firm last year (Targeted Victory) to malign TikTok: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/meta-cant-buy-ti...
JEP 444: Final one for Virtual Threads
Can you please explain this to the lions of the sahara? They relish the suffering of other species for the joy of things that taste nice.
Developing games with ChatGPT. Creating math/physics code is a breeze, just yesterday made a custom procedural maze of irregular 3D corridors. But building a draft for the story and dialogs is the best advantage.
Yes, NIMBYs are populists as well. Populism doesn't have a favored side of the spectrum.
Plenty of people work as contractors/consultants where payroll pays them as a separate company. In fact you are probably much more likely to have something closer to a FAANG income working as contractor rather than as an employee.
Many socialist states were put down by capitalist democratic ones on purpose before they could even take off.

For example, Chile. The US backed a fascist general in a coup to overthrow a democratically elected socialist. The US didn't back this violent coup because the fledgling socialist state was harming anyone and failing or because this was an authoritarian leader forcing the people to live in a dystopian communist state. The US companies were afraid they would lose their investments in Chile and the profits they gained from them.

Human nature is not a fundamental law of the universe like the speed of light or entropy. Such myths that humans are inherently greedy and self-interested are used to ensure that people can't imagine a system outside of capitalism. After all, if greed is as inevitable as entropy then we can't escape it and any system not built around greed will fail!

Except studies by sociologists and anthropologists disagree that there is such a thing as fundamental human nature. If anything we tend towards altruism. People that share resources and work together have a better chance at surviving and improving their condition than those who hoard resources and act for their own self interest. We'd be very different as a species without our ability to socialize and work together towards our mutual survival.

Capitalism is merely one system. And with the current prospects of this tech displacing thousands of jobs and no other jobs to replace them enough of the current capitalist system won't be sufficient for supporting us in the future. We need to change parts of the system or replace it entirely with something better.
When the user visits `/settings` I fetch all the lists from twitter and BatchWrite them into DynamoDB. Turns out you have way more than 25 lists, and the BatchWrite fails. Let me see if I can quickly give a fix. Thanks for reporting this :)
Brown rice might not cause diabetes (if other rice does at all), but the methane from production will be the same.
Thats too casual about melatonin IMO. Seems 300 mcg is the sane dose and I take a fraction of a 5 mg (5000 mcg) dose (4 sprays make a dose) and try to taper off. Or I feel unable to be sleep without melatonin or feel a full dose to be the baseline. So much for "non habit forming".
If you ever get a chance to go to a really nice steakhouse, and eat a 45-day or 60-day dry aged steak, do so. It’s one of the funkiest most delicious things I’ve ever eaten, like a combo of the best blue cheese and the best steak I’ve ever had.
Thanks, hope that the book serves you well!
How is allowing it, forcing you?
The naming of every little thing in CSS is what I call a "pseudo-problem" in the original post.

You don't have to name classes for everything inside a component. You only have to name the component, as in Tailwind. Afterwards, tag selection is totally fine. And with all the new CSS pseudo-selectors it is now easier than ever to be styling with low specifity while including markup options.
By "in a way" I've meant the encroachment of the default namespace. Much less smaller sin than snap's, but then docker is much bigger.
Google Cloud gets a lot of heat because of Google's legacy of killing things off (the exact opposite of what enterprise decision makers want when selecting a cloud platform).

But I have to applaud Google for the excellent first party emulators and local tooling that they provide (Alloy Omni doesn't seem like an emulator on first readthrough, but enabling fast local iteration has the same effect). The Firebase emulator suite makes development soooo fast because it cuts out a deployment step to a shared resource that has to be coordinated.

Meanwhile, Microsoft as been dragging their feet on supporting CosmosDB emulation on Arm hardware [0]. I was a big fan of CosmosDB, but kind of gave up on it after switching to an M1 MBP because it was unwieldy to work with without a local emulator.

[0] https://github.com/Azure/azure-cosmos-db-emulator-docker/iss...
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

~ Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The NHS also runs public propaganda campaigns.
Yep other than a couple notable exceptions like salmonella, this is the norm for food poisoning. It's intoxication from metabolic byproducts, not infection. Remains one of the biggest lay misunderstandings of food safety though.

"Just cook it out" plus "your nose can tell" (it can't, spoilage microbes aren't usually illness microbes) are false beliefs that still get people killed.
In practice it works because GP is exaggerating. Arch does hold back library and/or program updates until they work together, or simply ships multiple major releases of libraries, and have a separate testing branch.

Right now e.g. there's openssl (still at version 3.0.x, because nobody supports 3.1.x yet) and openssl-1.1 (1.1.x-y) to handle the rather slow migration of upstreams to the new major release.
The NHS also does the same things.
> Dogs don't seem to mind [spoiled meat]

I've recently seen proof of that. A dead horse was left on a trail I frequently hike, and I saw dogs eating it a week later.

I don't even want to imagine how awful that meat was after sitting in the sun for a week.
Qwik on Cloud Run
I have this laptop. The connection between the charger and the battery died, roughly 13 months in.

I met another tech worker who had this laptop. Also ran Linux on it, like me. They complained that the connection between the charger and the battery failed and the laptop is now bricked.

The laptop was a dream before that. But the battery->charger connection (which is just USB3) is painfully unreliable - buyer beware.
> I want a range the same as petrol car, with a recharging time the same as it takes me to pump gasoline into the tank.

The "recharging time" part is easily achievable with battery swapping, which is already big in China. The luxury car maker Nio is introducing it to Europe, Norway first.

Battery swapping also reduces the sticker price of cars. You don't pay for the battery up front; you pay for it over the lifetime of the car in swap fees. The advantage is if you don't need much range for the next week or so, you can choose an old partly used-up battery pack for a lower price than a brand new one.

Range is more difficult, but there are grounds for optimism that this won't be so much of a problem in 2035.

1. https://www.nio.com/blog/power-swapping-europe

Edit: Ample[2] is working with manufacturers in the west to try to create a "gas station" industry model for battery swapping, where any manufacturer's batteries work with any manufacturer's cars.

2. https://ample.com/
It would need to be a different design entirely.
One other thought I had, was did anyone fact-check the training corpus. It is probable it contained factual errors, which would mean that the trained model would propagate errors some how.
> This is a total false equivalence. Crossing two apples falls within the same neighborhood. Crisper blasts it to another continent.

Of course it doesn't. There's a reason I picked corn specifically. Because it's such a mutant, scientists still struggle to unravel all the mixed stff that eneded up there.

And, of course, none of the stuff you eat would ever evolve naturally in nature.

> As for GMO’s letting us forgo pesticides? When is that going to happen?

I didn't said forego entirely.

Some studies suggest that even with the very few crops that are allowed to be modified, farmers already use less pesticides: https://allianceforscience.org/blog/2020/07/new-study-gmo-cr...
One SD card seems to weight about 2G. Considering the pigeon could carry 30-50G (depending on source), it seems they could carry about 15TB - 25TB in one go, flying up to ~100km/hour. Not sure how that would compare to a fiber-optic connection though. But for short distances it must surely have a higher bandwidth.
Oh they are, but they're intentionally ignoring the feedback. Instead of listening to hundreds of users (a ridiculously high amount for a bug report) they've said (paraphrasing) that they have "many more users to cater to".
Because you can ship in a few days instead of wasting weeks trying to bike shed through something as basic as css.

Use tailwind as a tool, have a component library that can be put together in a couple days max, and now you have ubiquitous styling language and don’t need to waste hours on css of all things.

There are bigger fish to fry.
Define winner in this context.

Making friends with a super intelligent AI that will help you out doesn't count.
Yep, but it's all I got
Yes, I would - these tools are massive time savers, and if I suspect it'll soon become a situation where if you don't use these tools, you're going to get left behind.

If my org wouldn't pay for them, I would start looking for other jobs (unless your in an industry that can't use them like national security, etc), but I'm not going to let $30/mo stop me from using a tool that significantly improves my work just because of a middle manager.

Also, many programmers I know bring their own keyboards.. Chefs often bring their own knives, or mechanics with their own tool chests. Ownership of your own tools is powerful.
Thanks, messed up the copy/paste somehow.
There's a section of that page dedicated to non-fallacious usage. If a decision makes a subsequent decision more likely, the former is a slippery slope to the latter.

There is very little risk that I hurt myself doing cocaine responsibly once. The risk in doing cocaine is that if I do it once, I will be inclined to do it again and so on until I'm a broke addict. If slippery slopes were a mythical problem, I could just commit to doing cocaine only once.

If you ban alcohol, private citizens will be more likely to decide to start a criminal enterprise to supply it outside of the law. If someone is running a profitable criminal enterprise, they'll be less concerned about breaking the law in general and more likely to branch out to violent crimes. If slippery slopes were a myth, we could institute prohibition without risking a massive expansion of the criminal underworld.

I can't find it now, but I saw a comment on HN the other day where a UK citizen expressed how foolish Americans were for disliking their knife laws. Of course they should ban knives in public- knives account for the majority of homicides in their country. No one in the US could be convinced by that argument until effective gun control made it true. Instituting gun control makes it more likely for citizens and politicians to support knife control. (Whether this is worth it is another matter.)

Independent decisions are a myth; every decision is made in the context of the ones that came before.
Remote fast webpage rendering as a service is what i'm looking for.
Interesting! An artist creating, minting, and selling an NFT is a pretty solid point against the accusation made.

A Ponzi scheme has a specific definition. Despite what HN seems to think, it is not shorthand for "crypto thing I don't like/understand".
The government isn't going to come after you. You can stop living your weird libertarian fever dream. That's not a thing that happens. The government is not just going to randomly pick out epups and then do something nefarious with the data.
https://fosstodon.org/@wimpy/109908489437633387

@bluesabre@floss.social "[…] Ultimately, each of the current flavor leads agreed to the change. […]"

@wimpy@fosstodon.org "@bluesabre Did we agree? I think we complied with the requested change. You and I both played our part in ensuring this was clearly and openly communicated."

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https://nelsonaloysio.medium.com/installing-ubuntus-snap-on-...

> […] As Ubuntu’s snap requires access to the root file system in order to create a symlink in /snap to /var/lib/snapd/snap, successfully installing it requires a few extra steps. Besides, $HOME directory in Silverblue defaults to the more traditional path /var/home/$USER, and since snap expects it to be on its modern location /home/$USER, this must be worked around as well. […]
Information America 1995
That’s incredible. I wasn’t expecting them to allow you to run AlloyDB on premise but this is a potential game changer for on-prem Postgres instances, especially if you are doing analytical queries on the same data set.
I understand what you’re trying to do with this comment, but arguably the river in this case is HN.

The paragraph you mention is the tangible advice, but articulating the problem is in my mind even more important than the advice itself.

Advice is just advice. Maybe it applies to you, maybe it doesn’t. The problem is what remains. The problem if well articulated either validates the advice, or gives the reader information to process for themselves and from which personal insight can be reached.

The advice without the problem is just some guy on the Internet telling you what to do, and that, to me, is rather uninteresting.