skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From what I gather Google cloud is technologically better, but no one wants to use a cloud from someone who doesn't do customer support as well

I have a hard time using any of google's stuff - cloud, whatever. Have had to deal with 'google search console' recently. "Give us your sitemap!". OK... "Could not fetch". The explanation for "could not fetch" might be "couldn't fetch" or "hasn't fetched yet" or "read but not processed" or "error reading" or.. anything else. On March 9, I had a sitemap entry listed as "couldn't fetch" updated to "last fetched date" of March 10 (9am UTC-4, so not even close to march 10 UTC time). It's just.... buggy. Colleagues currently moving stuff to google cloud (by edict of cto) are encountering bug after bug after slowness after flakiness. Google "support", to the extent they answer, says "we don't know".

Might it have been 'technically better' on day one? perhaps. But if it's buggy/flaky to deal with, and they have no support, not sure how you'd even verify the "technically better" part. How would you trust any numbers you see reported in their own tools?

Had to use GCP stuff about 6 years ago. It was flaky/slow and relatively unsupported then. Watching colleagues go through stuff today, in 2023, it seems no better.
It's almost like no one has ever seen The Prestige!
Did you bother to even remotely read the comment you replied to, which says the same thing?

The category shifts over time, sure. But what does that have to do with BASIC being easy or not? They're two separate topics.
Did you know there are CarPlay apps on the play store? That’s how I access CarPlay in my car.
Good timing, I’ve been searching for something like this!
shame that the audience it was intended for cannot read it.
I stopped drinking, maintain a good sleep hygiene, excersise more, eat better and read regularly about 18 books/year.

I did notice I can articulate ideas better and think clearer, but I also noticed the bad parts of my personality traits such as anxiety and obsessiveness increased and I had to develop new mechanisms to keep them in check.

This just proves to me that the old adage of ignorance being a bliss may actually be true.
Apple’s Live Activity for Timers Already Needs a Refresh
I went to a talk he had in 2010 or so when he was predicting we would ascend to god like digitally uploaded minds by 2030.
Does this mean it would be easy to move off Python all together? It seems like the problem stems from everyone using pytorch at the base layer. How realistic is it recreate those apis in another, more modern language. Coding in Rust, Go... then distributing a single binary vs. pip hell seems like it would be worth it.
> So if you are craving for spice in Japan, try one of the two thousand "Indian" restaurants and you will not be disappointed.

Erm, if you've had a proper curry recently then you probably will be. Like everywhere else, foreign foods get tailored to their locality or they die. If you fancy a naan filled with sugar and some pretty bland dishes then try an "Indian" restaurant in Japan. Which should come as no surprise, because plenty of other so-called spicy foods here are a) not spicy, and b) surprisingly/sadly, overly sweet.

That's not to say that you can't get a decent curry here, but you'll have to try harder than just walking into a random curry house. And this…

> Indian restaurants outnumber the top 3 pizza chains of the country put together!

I think the only food more maligned by localisation in Japan than pizza could be Mexican food, which leads us back to spice and sugar. I'm not sure what having more curry houses than pizza huts in Japan proves. It would mean something in the US or Italy, but in Japan?

Tastes differ.
It's hard to know what really happened here, but Butterfields comments as cited reflects an all-too-common mindset in company mergers regardless:

“The problem has been, there’s no incorporation of the Slack culture into the Salesforce culture, and unless there is some element of that, then it’s not integration in any sense. It’s just the elimination".

It seems like the process of populating the top tiers in large orgs routinely sifts out people who know how to cooperate, and promote the people who only know how to dominate.
Resistive heat has a COP of 1.0.

So that heat pump loses its advantage at 5 ⁰F.
> My point is, both code and YAML are completely wrong solutions to the problem. Look at configuration file formats for 20+ year old programs as an example of good configuration. (Hint: none of them are either YAML or code)

I take configuration as custom values for an environment, read at start time by the executable code, that are easily readable for humans (a non-programmer ops person could change) and easy to produce/read/manipulate.

From that point of view, coding is different as you say, while it gives you more power it's just not very readable.

All the config files I've worked on for 20+ years are a way of expressing KEY=value, with some nesting allowed to not repeat yourself (.ini, Yaml, json, even XML basically) so in my mind they are all basically equivalent.
The real question isn't what jobs will go. Every job in the economy now is different from what it was 40 years ago: dev, accountant, doctor, farmer, CEO, plumber, and so on.

The question is where do the gains go? For some jobs, AI becomes a tool that the professional buys and uses to make themselves more productive, and he pockets the difference. If I'm writing apps for a living and I can do it in 6 hours a day, and copilot makes it 5 hours, I'm going to pocket that hour and use it on my family. If I'm a web app company and I can just replace the devs with GPT-5, I'm going to buy it and can all the app devs, and pocket the difference.
Best April Fools joke ever.
Is this because of compatibility and VBA macros?

In a vacuum, what Excel does is straightforward, and there's lots of free alternatives. Don't get me wrong -- I think it's a great program, but I don't see anything unique about it.
Salesforce keeps killing everything that made Slack good.
LOL! As an Indian, I find the "Guru" vibe and the Indian accent did a much better trick (after clicking around and after learning that he ain't Indian). The final subtle touch is the subtitle slapped on to the video by default (I was clicking the CC button but realized this was etched). ;-)

Have fun.
Maybe I misread, and I'm definitley being trite, but,
is the tldr that this research group consistently found evidence that remote work is good, and thus the evidence must be stopped?
Ray Kurzweil has laid out a view on the future that has always been interesting and is feeling increasingly relevant. Incredibly, his prediction for AGI in 2029 seems... conservative? It's too bad this article refers to him as a "former Google engineer" and only bothers to cite a Youtuber talking about his books. He's a fascinating character, has been a prescient futurist for many decades, and his books are very readable - check them out! His big 3 are The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Age of Spiritual Machines, and The Singularity is Near. The last one is the most recent and popular, and is what I'd point people towards.
Just saw the title, the name of the author, and the date. Flagged.
yt-dlp does this also.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28320666
Thanks :)

(We still call them feature flags at my place).
FWIW, Steam survey has Win 7 64-bit at 1.43% of users, and Linux as 1.27% of users.

If those Windows users did switch over to Linux, it would have a significant impact on the % of Linux users. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

Hopefully "Steam deck runs Linux" is enough to persuade people to try Linux.
This is a great comment, and the examples are compelling for the 3 quadrants you mentioned.

But what about jobs with intrinsic ability required but not a lot of training -- I think something like bouncer/doorman might be an example of this -- but what would the white collar equivalent be? How automatable would those be?
We had a drive thru grass fed burger place open up across the street from McDonald’s and it was gross. It lasted maybe a year. McDonald’s makes pretty good burgers, not what I want every day for sure but in a pinch they aren’t bad.
I don’t think we’re all that murderous at all unless we’re subjected to acute, severe stresses and/or maladaptive processes (usually early in life). I genuinely care about the well being of other living things and would hate to be in a position where I felt murder was necessary. I know I’m not alone.

Seeing how war affects soldiers, I suspect the experience of killing and witnessing death is typically very traumatic to humans. It appears that animal processing facilities also inflict trauma on many workers, so it isn’t only killing humans that can harm us.

We’re very good at killing, but I don’t think we innately like it or tend towards it outside of procuring food. Even then, not all of us eat animals.

Look at the lengths we go to hide death and murder when we do it. From war to agricultural systems, we go to great lengths to pretend it’s something it’s not so we can stomach what we’re doing or buying into. The closer we get to the individuals effected, the more reprehensible I think we tend to find it.

If we were truly murderous I suspect we wouldn’t behave in that way. I could be wrong — I’m very biased.
Supposedly curry comes from the tamil word (transliterated as) "kaRi" which may be related to black pepper (native to India) to spice things up. In all Indian languages the color black has a very similar name (in Gujarati Kāḷī (feminine) or kāḷo (masculine) etc. -- also the goddess Kāli -- the one who is black or death!). More generally associated with something burnt (blackened). Anyway, a spicy sauce would be kaRi. In restaurants in South India you may find various dishes named curry (such as kozhi curry or kozhi kari). But when most everything is spicy, why even say that? Indians would rather know what is in a recipe than how it tastes! [Lot of speculation here: perhaps some knowledgeable Tamil will correct this without getting all upset!]

I should also point out "curry leaves" -- not sure if there is a connection with curry. They are not spicy but are put in many Indian dishes to give them a certain flavor.
Love it. It’s shameful that our country allows this crap to be sold. Someone who bought a homeopathic potion told me they thought that word meant ‘natural.’
And for 6800 series you can compare to the GeForce one too.
OK, Node I can see. I suppose part of the point of the article is that a student doesn't know npm from node, nor how npm run works.

On the flip side, a core tool like node segfault commonly seems like a problem. Or at least a problem with poorly-written native extensions.
Good point but I think that, economically speaking, you will not pocket that hours as a developer (only initially), they will be arbitraged in the economy and everything will go faster and probably with less people.
> In a vacuum, what Excel does is straightforward, and there's lots of free alternatives.

That's true in theory, but Excel executes it so much better than Google Sheets or LibreOffice Calc.
I didn't say that they still had an advantage, I said that switching to resistive heat was unlikely for most winter weather across most of the US.
any manual undocumented change may lead to hard to debug problems, an example in these comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35389882
I can only imagine.

A company doesn't develop the need to cease operations overnight.

There's usually a core of faulty decision-makers who have become ingrained over time, leading the way toward financial unsustainability. Their jobs can be basically untouchable while the company is seemingly operating without undue threat.

Once too much failure is undeniable, these people keep themselves on board to continue administering the company as well as possible before the money runs out.

Still untouchable but when you do the math the company will last a lot longer before total closure, being administered the way they do but without all that expensive operations stuff.

And maybe make a comeback if they can get some support but it may take confidence in their team's ability to succeed with perhaps a proven-to-fail mindset.

Some people can build that kind of confidence sometimes, you never know.

The same thing that leads toward doom could also be what keeps things alive as a zombie.
Any JVM language or .NET language will take more to interface with native libraries, it’s not the same.

Ocaml is very niche, I feel it’s an hard sell for a general purpose language. Haskell, 3x that.

JS and TS, could be. But are they so much better than Python, if better at all?
Hopefully they can prove the value of high quality content. It worked for Wirecutter.
I wouldn't be surprised if he worked with autotools and m4 when working on, for example, an early version of GNOME's librsvg. Seriously, I was looking at a librsvg header file a couple months ago and was surprised to find his name.
American school teachers critical of America often claim that Japan was "forced" to attack America because America was "blockading oil" to Japan. What they never mention are the facts that Japan wanted oil to fuel their Imperial war machine's invasion of China and conquest of the Pacific, or that the "blockade" of oil constituted little more than the Dutch refusing to surrender the Dutch East Indies oil fields to Japan, and America backing up the Dutch. Japan then attacked the US Navy as a prerequisite to seizing the Dutch East Indies.

In other words, America "forced" Imperial Japan to attack by not rolling over and surrendering the Pacific to Imperial Japan when they 'asked nicely'. Japan was "forced" by nothing more than their own imperial ambitions. Those who think America was in the wrong here are implicitly accepting the legitimacy of Japan's imperialist ambitions.
For the past month, about 3 days a week, I've been doing 2 hour teams calls where I'm the primary speaker (I'm KTing an app to a new support team).

For 4 of these calls, my home Internet has dropped randomly. It's kind of nice when that happens.
We have (for the most part) democracy. At this point, either feudalism is a collective choice, or the collective wants to make self-interested decisions but isn't smart enough to know how.
There is a sort story where the first successfully uploaded human is used as a cyberslave for customer service and other unpleasant sort of jobs. He comes online, gets trained, does the job for a wile, then goes insane and is reset back to trained state.

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
I actually used https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/us-cli... for my city to develop a model for the cost of btus from either method throughout the year and the heat pumps cope at that hourly temperature, and it was slightly cheaper for heat pump for the entire year. But I also live in a marine influenced climate in the west with low electricity rates.
> a joke just without it really being funny

That's the real problem here. You can pretty much always get away with a joke -- if it's actually funny.
"affecting" is quite the euphemism, here
What prompt did you use?
I can think of a pretty obvious reason why the hard drive wasn't wiped: they didn't know it was there. A normal person processing a pile of donations would probably look at this and think "huh a strangely heavy keyboard," then move on to the next item.
It's dril, don't take it too literally.
The oceans just reached their hottest temperature on record as El Niño looms
As another non-religious but not atheist person, your worldview has nothing to do with your take on religion. I don't share that position on women or family at all and it sounds like a really depressing way to view life.

I can't think of anything more rewarding in my life.
Reddit is better than Google lately. I’d pay $5/month for a curated search that removes the SEO crap, even if the filtering was a bit too aggressive.
I wonder if they considered using the 451 status code.
What's the value in limiting by age? Part of the value of self-learning is being able to tackle it at any point in life.

If I want to chat with peers who are self-studying data science or Python or whatever, I don't care if they're 18 or 80. I care that they want to talk about Python or data science and are at the same skill level as me.
Possibly, but we can’t discount the fact that the nuclear bomb was specifically called out in the emperor’s surrender address.
"Still has a COP of 1.0" implies it is still doing something is all.

It would be clearer to just say that it works down to 5.

I'm not in the coldest regions and would be using resistive heat many nights of 3 months with that performance.
Pay me or I will ruin your reputation is very much blackmail. Investigative journalism would become potentially extremely profitable if it wasn't.
Some of the bigger BBSs that offered subscriptions became dial-up ISPs. That really only lasted until broadband became popular of course. I don't remember when the local scene we had on the BBS faded out. Presumably sometime in that second half of the nineties timeframe.
I don't believe actors mumble in general. I am ESL, but I can follow along just fine without subtitles, as long as I use my headphones. The same show with just the speakers in my Macbook and the actors were heard to understand.

Of course there are a couple actors that makes it harder: Marlow Brandon or people who speak with a pronounced Southern Accent. But in general I keep hearing this complaint from people who are using the inbuilt speakers.
At some point it will make sense to start a new slack/teams replacement. We’re close.
"Stop worrying. Your worries are like the safety instructions that flight attendants give before take off. One day when you are about to die you will not remember them and they will not matter. So don't worry."

--Masood Boomgaard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6XhrbcXEd0
Yes! It could be more expensive too, the real kicker is utility costs and how cold your climate gets.
Nice work, Collin and I agree: this would be an interesting feature.
Classic Pareto improvement: the gains to the winners (society at large) are greater than the losses to the losers (those who held these jobs), so a side payment makes everyone better off.
My concern (besides the medium term pain and instability from that churn) is the current state of governance and baked-in inequality, at least in the US, makes an equitable side payment unlikely.
just don't leave the cmos inputs floating

plausibly today a cpld or lattice fpga is a better alternative for most of what you could use 74xx chips for?
Why? I occasionally use them* for taxes and whatnot, and they pretty much work identically. The differences seem at best marginal.

* - LO Calc and MS Excel.
> “I believe this is what's best for Slack,” Elliot wrote

And again no data, no evidence whatsoever. I'd expect the companies making such big decisions like RTO to be more data driven and transparent.
I chose my words carefully (though clearly not my spelling):

- CEOs/wealthy folks are more likely to be psychopaths vs. the average population (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/the-science-behind-why-so-ma...)
- Power disables empathy (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-empathy/20190...)
- Normal Americans have basically zero power - all decisions are made by the elites/special interest groups (https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...)

Add in a personal attack, and the common right-wing trope of "I wanted to agree with you but you said it wrong so now I must punish you," and, baby, you got a conservative stew going.
I think what's missing is an axis for humanness. There are jobs where the fact you're hiring a literal human actually matters. For one, humans can be responsible in a legal way. Pilots, various kinds of certification officials, accountants, lawyers. Two, being done by a human can be the very thing that makes the service worth buying. Masseurs, high class escorts, and butlers are all roles that machines can somewhat cater to, but the real thing is real because it's done by a person.
Applied Gell-Mann amnesia. ChatGPT quite actually doesn't "know" anything, but it confidently asserts things. The user/consumer of that information really needs to understand that.

This will develop over time. As we continue to use these tools, they will improve at the same time as people begin to train to use them properly. It's not so different from "show your work" or "cite your source." (As it turns out, "cite your source" is a pretty power prompt inclusion.)
The "as we usually can't use atomic clocks on all nodes" constraint is more common than you might think. Even code as simple as

ts = get_atomic_time_with_no_delay_because_this_node_has_an_atomic_clock();

do_stuff_with_time(ts);

is really broken if you have to wait for garbage collection, wait for your process/thread/coroutine/... to be scheduled, wait for a nearly invisible pause as a cache line is refreshed, .... The time you're using the atomic timestamp is at some future moment, and if that delay matters for your algorithm you need to track your uncertainty just like Spanner/Cockroach do (you just get significant benefits because the uncertainty is low).
I'm not sure why you wrote that to me. It was already in your prior comment.
Anything missing from Matrix (and clients) from your POV?
Well when you have a novice user base familiar with the basic drag and drop mechanism and you’ve build processes they can follow around it and all of a sudden it doesn’t work anymore because you had to upgrade the OS it’s a pain.
Trump’s Prosecution Has Set a Dangerous Precedent
I think Mattermost might fit the bill?
The GSA usage rate is $0.585/mile. That is $9.945/day in car usage from a 8.5 mile commute to the office. I understand you can drive for less than this rate, but it would be hard to reach $0.35/mile and doing so would sacrifice dependability of the motor vehicle.

My e-bike is significantly cheaper to maintain than my car. It uses something like .7KWH for a full charge which handles over 30 miles. Thats less than 10 cents for a full charge at my rate. Other consumable goods like tires, chains, tubes, break pads are all similarly 10x-100x cheaper than their car counterpart. The only expensive wear item is the battery pack, which admittedly cost $550. I'd estimate my personal usage of the device to be around $0.05/mile.

It's cheaper to own both and maintain both if you are going to use both. Using simple linear math, the ebike will save you over $2000 in ongoing costs (initial price) within 3850 miles or 235 commutes. A pretty good ROI.
My memory mught be failing me but I think Google anounced Gmail with 1GB(which was unthinkable at that time) on April 1, and the majority were sure that it was an 1st of April joke.

When it appeared it felt like magic and wad still unbelievable. It's sad that the things turned out as they are.
I asked ChatGPT “What was 212-ROMANCE?”
I created 212-ROMANCE in the 80's as my first entrepreneurial project. I was wondering whether ChatGPT would know what it had been, so this morning I asked it. I'm a bit surprised that it could give such an accurate response! It said:

"""
212-Romance was a phone line service that was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It allowed people to call a designated number, leave a voice message describing themselves and what they were looking for in a romantic partner, and then listen to other people's messages. Callers could choose to respond to messages they were interested in by leaving a reply.

The service was named after the area code "212," which was assigned to Manhattan, New York, where the phone line was initially based. 212-Romance was a precursor to modern dating services, such as online dating websites and apps, and it helped people connect with potential romantic partners in a time before widespread internet use.
"""
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