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I think doing a 2001 sequel is too daunting a task for mere humans to attempt. Even Arthur Clarke himself wasn't able to live up to it in 2061 and 3001.
I agree with most of the author’s points, but the post is overly negative in my opinion. It’s blaming other people for the problems instead of digging into why these problems come up in the first place. Why do managers waste time with busywork? They need insight into the process. If you look to criticize without understanding you’ll always find plenty of material to blog about, but you’ll just create new problems and never fix anything.

The author probably thinks these issues are caused by bad people instead of bad processes, which is why he doesn’t suggest realistic fixes.
"We wait for it to break for last 3 years just to have excuse to run k8s"
>The UK workers didn't just say "don't fire us." They offered a ton of different options that, based on actual data, would have produced the same savings as the proposed layoffs. These included things like voluntary layoffs. All of these proposals were rejected.

What were the specific list of proposals? The only one you mentioned (voluntary layoffs) is a bad idea because it leads the most talented people to leave.
They're an intelligence made by artisans, they're an AI.

"Intent" has nothing much to do with it.

> Without input it does nothing.

And we've been debating if that's also true for humans for as far back as we have written records of humans debating philosophy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_rasa
OP says the dongle is USB-C, and USB-C extension cables don't really exist.

Quoting OSTz on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/10xj74r/why_d...):

> Direct USB-C to USB-C extensions are explicitly forbidden for safety and performance reasons because they defeat built-in safety mechanisms.

> All USB-C to USB-C cables should support 60W charging, but there are also cables that support 100W and 240W. USB-C chargers and devices identify a cable's capabilities by reading what's known as an electronic marker (e-marker) inside the cable that explicitly reports >60W charging and/or 5Gbps or faster data transfer capabilities. A USB-C charger will first read a cable's e-marker and adjust its power output based on what the connected cable's maximum charging capacity is.

> The problem with extension cables in general is that they don't (and can't) have an e-marker, since by design, normal cables only have one addressable e-marker. Therefore, neither the device nor the charger is aware of the presence of an extension. If your USB-C to USB-C extension only supported 60W, and you connected it to a charger/device combo that could do 100W or more, you could start a fire. This failure is particularly insidious because it can potentially lull the user into a false sense of security; everything might work as expected until they change something, like upgrading the charger, and then it could fail catastrophically.

> Another reason extension cables don't work well is that the signal integrity requirements for USB-C's higher transmission rates are very strict. Believe me when I say that cable makers would make longer cables if they could.
It reminds me of some Python threading monstrosity a guy wrote at my first job. He said something like "this is my own take at async".
This gives the model access to information, but it cannot eliminate the non-deterministic nature of the transformers model. There is always a non-zero probability that it will hallucinate.
> In London

While ultimately hollow, we have far more robust employment laws than US counterparts.

Legally mandated advice, negotiatations, worker councils and voting are all things i've experienced in my short time being de-employed constantly
>Gotta disagree with this. As someone who grew up middle class, I was fortunate, in a lot of ways, to also learn to be prudent with money. I started bootstrapping microbusinesses with almost no monetary investment. This eventually allowed me to support myself (on a very low budget), and then, later, on a slightly larger budget. Eventually, one of these businesses became successful enough to support a family comfortably with an "upper" middle class income.

That's still a random individual outcome. What matters is aggregate outcomes, what happens to most middle class kids who want to be enterpreneurs for example, and how many chances they get.

There's also the matter of the quality of those chances (what kind of changes you get with $300K in the bank and dad's rich people connections vs $0 in the bank and middle class connections).

That's even before considering the chances afforded to middle class kids now versus then.
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Well Paul Graham wrote an article on it (http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html). Essentially, I think the people who pick those languages believe the extra stability/speed/whatever is gained from using it beats the drawbacks.
> what drives billionaires to keep going

I don't think it's a mystery; if you want to do a good job, then you'll continue to want to do a good job, even if you're already succeeding at doing a good job.
> Finland got de-Finlandized at last.

What does this even mean?
I don't buy the idea that it was a mistake for NATO to allow former Soviet bloc countries to join, because it would supposedly encroach on Russia's sphere of influence or increase tensions with Russia.

Spheres of influence are gained through economic muscle and cultural power now, not force of arms.
If ticket priority does not matter, then why do you care? Set them all to single priority and don't think about it.

If priority does matter, then why "waste"? Lets say you get rid of tickets.. then your statement becomes:

"You've ever wasted a few minutes on whether a bug you found is worth mentioning in release notes? Or if it truly should cause revert of deployment?"

When said this way, doesn't seem like "waste" to me, rather a regular part of the job. If the person working the bug doesn't know how bad it is, then who does?
The End of Matter (1906)
This is a very legit fear.

The bulk of my country’s internet users came online within the last 5 years. They’re all almost uniformly mobile users. Almost all their interactions with the internet are through walled garden apps.

Whatever knowledge these folks - who, on average, tend to be poorer, rural, less educated - have created would largely be inaccessible to AI datasets.
Russia would never attack Ukraine if it was part of Nato.
Most of the time I read disassembly only to figure out what kind of user-hostile BS Apple is pulling lately.
And get promotion over guy that didn't pushed broken shit on production in the first place.
Indeed. Should be at least 486 pages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization
* alumnus
Robotaxis Are Going to Sound Weird
Adjustable keyboard tray, negative-tilt split tenkeyless keyboard, vertical mouse. The height and angle of your arms and wrists is critical to reduce carpal tunnel syndrome.

https://ergo.human.cornell.edu/DEA6510/dea6512k/ergo12tips.h...
The one I use now is branded YGG. I'd link it but someone already swapped out the Amazon listing to a different model.
I think this is very close to what I have: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099DKQS8C/

It claimed 350 nits. Side-by-side with my M1 MBP, I'd say it might be close to that. A lot of them claim HDR but it's some bullshit definition of HDR - definitely not like the MBP's HDR mode.

I think it's a little bit of a crapshoot as to which panel and board you'll get no matter what the branding so somewhere like Amazon with free returns helps. There are a few more premium brands like Viewsonic and Lenovo.
I’m in a similar situation and this has not been an issue, at all.
I've seen the other side. 2/3rds of the devs I work with have no idea where the money in their paychecks comes from, and couldn't care less.

TLDR: customers don't pay for beautiful, elegant code dealing with the happy path only.
*Without using their nukes
Sean Moriarity, Building a Conversational Support Bot with Elixir and Bumblebee
To be honest any file format that would do 1) strong typing/binary data, 2) string deduplication would capture most of the advantages of parquet, except being a column store format which helps in some cases and hurts in others.
Neuropsychological profile of pedophilic child sexual offenders
Example: The perfectly 'happy' paperclip maximizer.
Did you lick the cheese?
It sounds like a good idea to send your codebase through a MITM to OpenAI, both of these ideas I mean.
This is a strange article. The body of the article correctly talks about all the model work... but data engineers typically don't have to do any of that work.

So it's an okay overview of some ML engineering / ops things with a contradictory title which isn't followed up on (and which I'm sure gets more clicks).

So no, MLOps isn't just data engineering. For more information read your own article.
To ice or not to ice? Icing can promote muscle regeneration after mild injury
Google folks are apparently awake and not amused.

Sorry I implied your job isn’t a human right guaranteed for life.
Viewsonic too. Lenovo has some nice looking ones.
If fairness is not an "ideal goal" what is?

>The best things in my life have come from when I faced adversity, not when I was in a position of privilege

Does that hold for kids hungry and unable to finish school because their parents don't make enough then? (Or much worse situations)?
I have talked with not a few women about this, and it always breaks down around not liking the look of the clothes with the pockets. Largely because of what the pockets do to the silhouette of the clothes.

I invite you to do this experiment; find someone who you think is stylish, note what they’re wearing, then shop for something similar but with pockets. It’ll probably take you ten minutes online.
Enforcement without registration seems difficult to me. But it might be effective to increase pressure on organized gangs that move bicycles across borders.
Whoever is responsible for backups but didn't set them up might be.

The person who wiped out the data should be thanked for uncovering the serious problem.
That really depends on which language you're talking about.

An opposite trend I've been noticing is that big languages steal ideas from some smaller language and absorb its community: for example a lot of R ideas have been pulled into Python libraries, resulting in a migration from R to the more capable Python. R's syntax is nicer for statistical computing, but having access to the larger Python ecosystem with slightly worse syntax turns out to be more valuable in the long run.

> Why did someone create Gleam and how is it being used in production today?

I'm an outsider to this community, so I'd trust someone with inside information over myself, but my outside impression is that Gleam was invented to push Erlang's potential for extremely high reliability even farther. Gleam's strong type system lets you create software that rarely fails, and on top of Erlang/OTP's "let it fail" philosophy you have battle-tested patterns for recovering from failures when they do happen. The use case is for networking software which requires high levels of security, scalability, and fault-tolerance, such as cryptocurrencies and end-to-end encrypted messaging systems (it's used by WhatsApp and I think the NEAR cryptocurrency though I can't find a reference for the latter claim).
Data Engineering with a top hat & bow tie, really.
I just bought a slightly used ICE car. Electric still doesn't seem reliable (or affordable) enough for me
You know what else leads to the most talented people to leave?

When the company stops listening to the employees.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29688489

It isn't the first thread like this. No sense in rehashing the same arguments again and again. Pessimists cannot be convinced. Their world view is self-reinforcing. Worse yet, they have every incentive to ignore evidence to the contrary.

Arguments from first principles are always the strongest. If you don't try, you cannot succeed.
A lot of modern sport cars are currently going up in value because new cars are either unavailable in the short term or not satisfying enough to the car enthusiast crowd.
How many NATO countries has Russia attacked in the history of NATO? How many non-NATO countries? Moreover, Finland’s military and diplomatic bureaucracy was already well-integrated into NATO, so there isn’t a _lot_ of additional organization (at least as far as these things go).
Many years ago I helped write https://www.multisim.com

It's a full SPICE based simulator done entirely clientside
A four-legged robotic system for playing soccer on various terrains
I don't understand your logic. I was middle class, and could afford more than one throw. The assumption in the OP was that a middle class kid can only afford one throw, which wasn't true, in my case.

I was fortunate, because I knew better than to "throw" all of my money at an opportunity, not because I wasn't middle class.
Did you find yourself on that list? Because besides this explanation, there is 0 toxicity.
Bike parts are, afaik, not standardized at all. It's just that there are like two companies producing 90% of the components, so that there aren't so many different systems on the market.
This is quite true. I think the anger over this kind of thing comes from somewhere else, and they're right that the article title is unprofessional and the anger misdirected.

I think the actual issue is that people understand that someone like Musk, one of the worlds richest people, can essentially keep appealing rulings until he gets a ruling he likes simply because he can afford to.

The justice system is broken when it allows endless chances for those with oodles of money like Musk, but the rest of us can't afford that and usually have to accept what we're given.

It's not helpful for people's feelings about that aspect of this issue to cloud how they discuss it. Musk's legal team isn't doing anything wrong within the legal framework, but people tire of it because it seems that with enough money, you can essentially get away with anything.

The US justice system has essentially always been pay-to-play/pay-to-win. It's part of why the government doesn't like getting embroiled in legal battles with billionaires because they know they can delay and appeal for decades because they can afford a team lawyers for that long. The governments allotted budget for a legal case is often much smaller than a billionaires.

It's how the system was built from the ground up and if we don't like it we should probably vote in some folks who will prioritize changing how it works instead of always being angry at rich people for doing what they're incentivized to do based on how the system works.
No. I enjoyed the article and your sense of humor. Kudos
(not all are computer peripherals, but other comments seem wider than initial criteria)

* whiteboard placed on a painting easel next to my desk (when I don't use whiteboard, I can use the easel it to paint acrylic) - about 90x120 cm. I put my tasks for work, but also pick exercises with checkbox to do during the day.

* AKAI mpk mini - when tired of work, can jump over to Ableton like software and relax

* MX Master 3S - ordered kind of accidentally, stayed as solid replacement of previously used Apple Trackpad.

* cutting board as mouse mat: https://www.olfa.net.pl/products/Mata-do-ciecia-CM-A4-RC.htm... If I need to cut something, it's there. As a downside - it might be wearing off my mouse quicker.

* wifi/assistant controlled light bulb behind the monitor. Easily to regulate light around my screen - bright when needed, switched to blue in the evening.

* Varier Variable Balans (bought 2nd hand for 20% of original price) - works nicely with electric-standing desk from Ikea.
I just tried llama (30B) and alpaca.

I'd say they are closer to GOT2.5
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Hello HN!

My co-founder and I developed a web app to help us prepare for an investment committee pitch. We used Play.ht (from this YC batch), MidJourney 5, and ChatGPT to clone our favorite VCs (and make a badass Tekken-inspired version of each one of them).

We found this tool to be quite helpful and wanted to share it with the world.

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I hope it can be helpful to you as well!
I've bought a Kinesis Advantage about every three years since 2003 (I think). Still the best keyboard out there despite being USB-A and the lack of bluetooth. I really want to like the Kinesis 360, but the lack of a function key row keeps me from buying one.
> Spheres of influence are gained through economic muscle and cultural power now, not force of arms.

Amusingly, that status quo is enforced via the USA’s supposed overwhelming force of arms. Which in turn suggests your analysis is deeply deficient in its consideration of higher order effects.
Nuclear weapons can't take and hold territory.
No but it is their job to understand it, otherwise you’re not contributing anything valuable, you’re stirring up drama. If I point to a light switch and call out it’s a problem that does you no good unless I tell you why, and why it’s like that in the first place.

The problem with the article is even though it’s right it makes no attempt to explain why, and blames bad people for the problems instead of understanding why they might be acting like they are.
Make the management implement sliding average of unbalanced binary tree to proceed with layoffs.
I've been writing software for 20+ years. I think that article is pretty funny and on the nose. I'm currently in the midst of fixing an issue we just discovered added by a -1x engineer 17 months ago. He's the gift that keeps on giving.

If you're offended, this article is probably for you.
Only if you think that large corporate models will be the only functional language models. I don't think that will remain the case for very long.
Xeact 0.70.0: now with the useState hook
It's completely reasonable. Google's motives for doing this are no more honorable than they were the last time they were caught setting up a wage fixing cartel:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-google-others-...
A lost marriage isn't always for the worst.
The crucial point here is "alignment" being forced (with insurmountable means presumably for the entity) rather than argued.

Humans like to exert and thereby demonstrate their social power (and advertise for more followers) by forcing others to succumb to their narrative.

Imagine current social tugs of war being enacted via brain implants instead of badly reflected posturing.
It really depends on if tickets are being written as an input to the work product, or as an agile mandated box ticking exercise.

Do you spend more time wrangling over the ticket content or the format?
Do you spend more time discussing context & requirements, or story points?
Etc
Michael Pollan was incorrect about plants, though -- it turns out you can just cut plants out of your diet entirely and experience excellent health and fitness as a result.
I dunno, got a raspberry pi recently and realized that my daily work environment works just fine at it's peak with 2G of ram. Of course, bigger file cache is always better, but hardly mandatory.
Terrible or not in the past it's absolutely fine now IMO. Certainly for short hops.
Isn't the future grand?
If I understand you correctly, this is exactly how Trackpoints have been scrolling for decades -- hold the middle button and move the pointer.
Then they should be more careful opening offices in foreign jurisdictions
Can you elaborate on your statement for dummies? (Only if your argument isn't companies exist only to maximize profit, that one I understand and reject).
Reading about what the Soviet Union did in countries like Estonia and Ukraine is pretty harrowing stuff. Wanting to join NATO for protection after is completely understandable and denying them because it would upset their former (and present) abuser is a shameful thought.
The parent comment is a cute little story that makes people feel better, without any actual facts, so there's not really anything to prove or disprove.

But no, they meant that not having unlimited funds meant having to be creative or having to focus on business ideas where huge budgets were unnecessary.
>the most talented people to leave.

They might leave anyway...?
There are 1000s of open jobs. Working at G00g isn't a human right.
The demo already shows the problem. It picks an event, the AI picks Earth Day. Then it makes a recipe with an avocado in it.

And writes it is good for the planet. Avocados are exactly the opposite. They have an extremely high water consumption and then have to be imported from all over the world.

Contrary to the author who claims, "Auto-GPT pushes the boundaries of what is possible with AI." I don't find that.

Why can't you just use GPT-4 as it is. It is an insanely tool to simplify many things. But it's still a long way from being ready, and it's not meant to decide anything on its own. And even to reflect reasonably out of own motivation.
** russia.
> you eliminate roles, not people

Just to calibrate, this is also the case in the US. Although most of the time an employee can be fired/laid off for any reason or no reason, employers generally want to present layoffs as "the role has gone" for contract and employment law reasons.
Practical Projective Geometric Algebra [pdf]
This should be higher up since it has vital context.
Yes. Elon Musk needs monetary tokens in Mars. Very soon you can purchase coins valued in Martian assets. Mars soil is quite worthless at the moment, but every nut and bolt, every outhouse means huge investment in transport costs. Martian economy is based on these tokens: a barrel of beer may cost millions in earthly money, but martian workers are also paid accordingly.
Pay for death is complicated. Im many ways, it's an apples-to-oranges punishment: no amount of money can bring someone back from the dead, so one could argue that no amount of payment is appropriate (or inappropriate) for a death. Assuming we accept the premise "Sorry your loved one is irrevocably gone; here's a sack of cash" is fair:

It is, perhaps, the case that since the laws against workplace-caused deaths are older, their damage values have been pinned to lower pre-inflation numbers and the right response to "How can a hostile-work-environment suit cost the company more than a workplace death?" is to increase punitive payments for deaths.
I wouldn’t recommend it early stage since it can be a distraction and use up lots of support bandwidth. And you should be focusing on paid customers and the features that will bring value instead. But like everything in business, it depends (on the idea, vitality nature of it, etc)
>> just

Hah, yeah, that's not a big deal at all, neutralizing Russian ability to force its will upon its neighbors, through threats of aggression. Like, who's scared of Russia these days? They're just empty threats. I'd like totally bet my life on it, just empty threats.

EDIT: /s
Because it's its own language.

Or is there an assembly that get rid of this gibberish tradition?

Look up Randall Hyde's HLA. The famous author of various Asm books thought he could make a better syntax, and... almost no one wanted it.
Small house, single TV. Yes, I pause / throttle high bandwidth activities when we're going to stream something as a family.

You're probably right though.