skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a downvote button once you pass a certain number of karma points you can take your reactionary opinion and downvote people without consideration to nuance. I prefer a comment like this so I can explain myself.

I'm not referring to smart phone photos and Instagram feeds. This post more pertains to "professional" photography albums on people's blogs where the photo was taken by a mirrorless or DSLR camera with interchangeable lenses. A lot of software engineers have this "photography" hobby but the thing is their photography always has a particular style of being devoid of people.

Check it out, every once in a while you may encounter such a profile or blog of an engineer. Just look at his photography albums on his personal website. No people, usually.
> Most notably, I can't find an example in the NOAA data of the rate of sea level rise increasing due to industrialization. Anybody?

You can look at the graph on the NOAA site here and see the acceleration visually:
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

The notes to the left of the table say 1.4mm/yr for much of 20th Century to 3.6mm/yr now.

There is also evidence of acceleration of sea level rise just from satellite data, 0.08mm/y^2:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180212150739.h...
I've got an iPhone app in testflight beta that has speech to text and text to speech. Basically a nicer iPhone app for GPT-4, I tried most of the existing ones and none were particularly nice UX.

Pricing model for now is you just pay exactly what we pay (we just pass on the API costs plus Apple's 30%, no markup). We could add a use your own API key thing too to avoid Apple's 30%.

If you'd like access, email in profile
Well fuck your laws if they will discriminate me based on whereever seas I come from or whatever.

So much for the land of the free, supposing these people have their visas and shit in order, I don't see why the law shouldn't protect them too
Then there's the story about the man who drowned in a stream with an average depth of six inches.

-- in R. Jain, "The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis: Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation, and Modeling," Wiley- Interscience, New York, NY, April 1991, ISBN:0471503361.
Tackling programs from mathematical perspective to verify their correctness
No, they won't. This will turn out like every other attempt to create "NFTs for X" or "Y but on the blockchain".

Oxhead Alpha will milk the DMV until the project's funding runs out, and then it will be quietly killed. I wouldn't be surprised if the DMV's chief digital officer gets a kickback, or if they have a bunch of crypto holdings in that particular blockchain.
SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
Not sure how putting my point aside to enumerate some unrelated facts about doctors supports your position. I'm just explaining why we have different words for "engineer" and "coder", it's fine if the distinction isn't useful for you.
That’s not true. Correspondence therapy is a thing. Plenty of research exists in the area of delivering therapy and the effectiveness of different kinds.
This law will literally freeze software development in place, much like the US FAA did with civil aviation in the 1970s. Suddenly going from 100% disclaimed away warranty to a statutory warranty doesn't work. This may even be less intelligent than my home state's attempt to legislate that pi=3.15.
Yes, I agree...that's deeper into my feelings about it. By "misdiagnose", I mean there's quite a lot of slapping labels onto people and handing out the drugs that go with the label. And all done with "high confidence" language to the patient. There's sometimes the missing honesty about what an imperfect world it is.
very well said. without saying much at all :)
Nothing that TNT or RDX can't fix in a hurry
Well, Bitcoin ASICs are still the beast when it comes to Bitcoin mining. Some other cryptocurrencies use other methods for mining, so those ASICs won't work for that, but who's to say what's the better tech in the cryptocurrency space :shrug:
No. Most human beings are aware of immediate context, and are more focused on mutual collaboration than nitpicking linguistics.

An "I doctored my fries" post on a medical discussion site would at best be a mild chuckle, and everybody would move on.

They'd especially move on if most of the people on the page weren't actual doctors, they just called themselves that.
>as understood in the "crypto" sense

The two only share some characteristics.

It's sort of unfortunate that blockchain was ever used as a term for business distributed ledgers. The Hyperledger Foundation has a ton of material online. (As do many others.) Proof of work is not used. The ledger is typically not open to the public or only to a limited degree. There are various other consensus mechanisms depending upon the requirements.
The Effect of that kind of policy was already tried in Italy to a certain extent.
The result was that For every new "Temporary Investment" (meaning a project that needed 1-3 years of pushing) Noone was hiring and everyone, no exceptions was "renting" bodies from "consultancy firms". The result was distatrous for the companies that needed to pay Consultancy prices because they could not afford to hire without being able to downsize after 1-3 years and the employees who ended up in the consultancy sweat shops because they were pratically the only ones who would offer to hire. The salaries stagnated because the market stagnated (and still Italian Salaries in Tech are among the lowest in all EU). The only ones who profited from this were the middle men.
Many still see this kind of a policy as something to be admired but I would rather have a vibrating market and change jobs every 2-3 years rather than "settling for life" like the proponents of this system predicate at a sweat shop.
That is a social problem you solve with social solutions - progressive taxes, UBI, comprehensive safety nets, etc.

Silicon valley has this perverted obsession with applying technological solutions to societal issues. They have phenomenal hammers, but not everything is a nail.
Looks amazing. Thanks!

When I write the Getting Started for my (FOSS) library, I'll definitely make a JBang variant. (Gitpod and SDKMAN also look interesting.)

The use of Groovy's @Grab et al is also interesting. I'm eager to see how the dependency, imports, modules, local repo cache story, etc story plays out.

Even after all this time, the Java stack still hasn't found its sweet spot. Though I confess I don't know what that'd look like.
We are planning to focus on the Deno and WASM ecosystem. If C# complies to WASM, we would be able to run it, but have a lot of work to do to make this seamless.
Thank you. Hobbies are a wonderful expression of wealth, time management, and initiative.

As a parent the time for hobbies has morphed into intentional activities that help my children and when possible that I also enjoy.
it does say that?
> I would expect you can only be held reponsible for a product if you say it fits a particular purpose.

That is an incorrect expectation. Even in the American legal system "I said don't do that" is not a shield against liability. In the EU framework a new law can pretty much create any new liability they want, so a disclaimer absolutely could be rendered meaningless.
I struggle to find examples that "require" decentralized workflows. Money seems like the most successful example, although cryptocurrecy works worse than fiat in practice for most use cases.

CA DMV records? Loyalty programs? What's wrong with a database? What's the requirement for decentralized workflows?
I've seen tons of articles about impacts of fossil fuel production on land.

I just don't see why one mineral being pulled out of the ground seems taboo to talk about because it's potential propaganda, could it not go the other way as well with that logic?

I mean, if we scaled any higher and did replace fossil fuels, would mining lithium/rare metals and the lifespan of batteries/PV panels be worse than mining nat. gas?

These are serious questions that would benefit from a serious calculation.
Imo it can be useful for authenticating records, especially in a global context where you might not have access to any local authentication routes.

Like if you’re hiring a remote worker who went to college in some small Bangladeshi university, it’s not straightforward to authenticate their degrees. If the record was somehow on the blockchain, you could authenticate it even if there was no local infrastructure in Bangladesh to route your authentication demands.
Absolutely. That is what extreme organizations do. I monitor some extreme environmental groups who mostly are crying wolf about every little thing on the planet. But occasionally they twig to something real, and the more conservative orgs start catching on and taking up the call.

FSF is constantly telling us the sky is falling. It isn’t, and your point about GNU/Linux is a good example. The FSF is still valuable in those rare cases where they find serious issues. I just learn to ignore them on the nonsense side.
Unrelated but, does anyone noticed that Substack hangs on Firefox on iOS?
The past 30 years have resulted in an erosion of in-person experiences. People used to be social: clubs, bowling, movies, whatever. Now people even work from home.

People prefer to be in their houses on their computers and to interact with “others” (people, bots, videos of people doing things) from their favorite chair.

I don’t think in-person experiences are coming back any time soon unless there is some sort of major cultural shift that nobody could predict. A lot has been written about this trend.
He was at Yandex.
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It provides a framework to reduce decision anxiety, get more insights and help individuals as well as teams and organizations make a decision backed by science and intelligence.

With DecisionMentor, individuals can learn from others’ decisions from our public decision feed and get support during the research phase through AI.

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A one of it's kind MCDM tool which uses AHP.
No, what I meant was that "garage sale" is actually a hyperlink that leads to a Russian website. Sorry for any confusion caused by my bad wording.
All political campaigns against population work this way: censorship, privacy, four horsemen, gun control.
That’s…not a solution. That’s a goal.
It’s the new atheist religion:
- human are bad, there are too many, we are a cancer on the pristine planet, it would better if we disappear (original sin)

I think:
- We live in the most abundant and easy time ever in the history of mankind.
- The news, media and education have completely demoralised people, we are either victim or oppressor, no longer the hero of our lives
- Our religious traditions was the backbone of our society and sanity, as we cast it away everything break down.
I respectfully disagree, engineering is about making something useful first and foremost, with just enough precision and reliability to serve the intended purpose.
intimidation and harrasment is a crime in many jurisdictions.

the only unique thing here is that we are talking about a state actor vs the traditional style organized mafia intimidation, vito corleone style.
there's no upper limit in theory. App cuts the pdf in chunks and batches ~ 8000 tokens on every call for embedding from open ai, and stores the vector values locally.

It takes quite abit of time to finish embedding 100k words, thats the most i've tried so far.
The headline really ought to read, "heavy cars can break bad structures". The EV-ness or not is irrelevant.

Then again, I see that the Drive article is sourced from the UK Telegraph, which is generally very conservative and not accepting of the EV transition. So I would be very skeptical of the messaging here.

Again: if your parking garage is well looked after, and designed for the vehicles in your community, there is no problem, whether its a rack of gas F-150s in a lot in Dallas or a bevy of Teslas in San Jose.
You don't own ChatGPT output -- you can't legally sell it to others.

You also, by the services terms of use, have to source when something is partially or fully written by ChatGPT.
Why would you even... I mean, WGASA? (Obviously I do, but, c'mon)
Hence the race to an AI smart enough to figure out a way to keep the money.
San Francisco would be a lot better if they just made crime illegal.
Even with smaller models & more optimized hardware, I think edge compute is going to be power-limited first. Batteries today just won’t support constantly running LLMs. But I joked recently that as long as they prove useful then consumers would be willing to swap their iPhone for the old car battery with a phone handle attached.
Wouldn’t it be simpler to just ask for a signing bonus?
YouTube Premium just became much better value for iOS subscribers
Permissive license open source is going to be fine, for now anyway. The problem is that the arguments cited in the OP also apply to small devs who can't afford an army of lawyers. Such regulation will spell doom for software start-ups and small shops.

It's a pattern of EU law makers going after the little guy: VAT MOSS, GDPR, now this. Not much of a problem if you have an accounting department next to legal department on the same floor of your corporate building. A huge burden for a small guy who only have limited number of man hours to distribute between paperwork and actual work.
>We live in a society where those who follow the laws are constantly punished for minor infractions like parking tickets and zoning violations, while people who do not participate in society AND completely flout the laws in every way are not only allowed to do so, there is a huge section of our population that encourages and protects their right to do so.

At the end of the day it's inconvenient to punish homeless for crimes. They have no money, they're often infected with disease, and they are often unpleasant to deal with. Meanwhile when I did absolutely nothing wrong, federal officers bragged to me what a great vacation it was to drag me to the hospital for the better part of a day on a fraudulent and fabricated search for "drugs" because they said it was better than doing their normal beat, and it paid great overtime. People say you should be polite to law enforcement, but the fact is being unpleasant/unpolite/filthy works.

Like most humans, a frightening amount of law enforcement boils down to they did it because it was easiest. Dealing with mentally ill people at their worst moments is not easy, extorting a well to do professional for going 5 over the limit is much easier.
You've not been paying much attention then... AI is doing a huge amount of classification on it's own these days.
From my experience with llama.cpp and oobaboogas webui I can say they are amazing, at least on my gaming pc. I’m absolutely astonished at the speed and quality of llama, alpaca, galactica and vicuna (the >10B parameters ones).

Make no mistake, it’s for tinkerers that do not expect each prompt to be answered human like.

I see them as creativity and thought testing tools, also knowledge exploratory.
Ladybird is a browser based on SerenityOS technologies that uses Qt as the GUI framework. In SerenityOS, they have their own browser using the same underlying technologies, but a different in-house GUI framework.

WebKit and Blink are similar in how they have their different counterparts like QtWebEngine or WebKitGTK. The equivalent to WebKit and Blink in SerenityOS is called LibWeb.
I read somewhere that we modern people DO have much more leisure time -- we just decide to take it all in a block at the end of our lives.

(In other words, instead of retiring at 65 and dying at 68, like someone might have in 1930, we're more likely to retire at 65 and die at 78.)
Don't Underestimate Stupid
Have you... talked to engineers? It's not about "precision and reliability". It's about acknowledging margins of error in contexts of varying precision, and how to achieve reliability in the face of uncertainty implied by those margins.

A tool with wide margins for error is still a useful tool.
The candidate can also accept the offer and then take a job somewhere else without penalty, so it is at least symmetric.
Sapience
Google is a bit notorious for taking extremely long from the candidate's perspective, even among the tech giants.
I find it much harder to do any type of photography in the USA where it's hard to find places to walk around. And if you do find a place to walk you'll end up in strip mall, a parking lot, a multistate chain.
My general advice to new folks entering the workforce for the first time is that they remember "the company" (especially big public cooperations) does not care about them. The company's only real priority is to provide value to its shareholders and the best case scenario for employees is that management sees an alignment between treating employees well and increasing the stock price. As such, the company does not deserve any more from you than you are contractually obligated to provide.

That being said, for many roles a lack of notice for your resignation is going to have the most significant negative impact on your immediate team, manager, and coworkers. HR and the CTO will not care, but the engineers you have been sitting next to for the last few years could be put in a tight spot.
Having just short of 15 years of personal experience with this I can say with certainty, the issue is accountability.

There simply is none, and what's considered fraud in any other industry is just business as usual.
Google has always been notoriously slow unless you have competing offers, and even then is usually the offer you're waiting on.

I did my entire Stripe interview process in the time it took to go from HC-approved to offer letter at Google, and I was a rehire, and the SVP in question knew me by name (he was my former skip). Stripe launched the product I was applying for before I'd finished my Noogler ramp-up.
Getting shot is a cost, even if it isn't necessarily 'money'. Resistance fighters do go hungry. The resistance in the Warsaw ghetto had guns; they starved. On the Long March, Mao's men had guns, and they very much faced starvation. And ask the Confederates about the difficulty of feeding a rebel army. The idea that the answer to logistics issues is "moar guns" is comical and more than a little sad.
All the major US cities have this problem. San Diego has always been pretty bad because it’s warm year-round, but we were just in Texas and Austin, Dallas, and even Houston have the same problems. We actually got low-key chased by a drug zombie trying to walk around a recently-gentrified “nice” downtown area at night.
I mean nothing wrong with using a domain for routing, but I think most SaaSes would rather have a routing based on the email address.
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But it was still the model they were working from, the way of organizing state power that they understood and were familiar with. The three branches gov is in a lot of ways a secular and formalized form of the constraints religious and aristocratic political influence had on european monarchy in the era just preceding the revolution.

Plus what they say they wanted to achieve is not necessarily what they did achieve. That's not to say they failed and the president is a king, but the president is not entirely un-king-like either.
Cranwell College is the Royal Air Force college (for those like me who didn't know).

But, while Georgette Heyer invented the Regency romance, hers are not "bodice-rippers". They're far better than that.

"An Infamous Army" is kind of a strange book. It's half a romance, and half a war story, and it doesn't quite work as either one, but it works well as itself.
Making food from obviously rotten ingreedients is not akin to something that would fall under good samaritan laws. However I don't agree that you should be liable for providing food to those in need if you have made reasonable safety precautions. Restaurants throwing away their leftovers rather than be held liable is not a good thing for society. So no, I don't think software should have a special place here but rather that someone trying to "do good" should not be punished for it even if they mess up a bit.
This was factor in the crash of Air Midwest Flight 5481

> the plane was actually overloaded and out of balance due to the use of FAA-approved (but actually incorrect) passenger weight estimates. When checked, the NTSB found that the actual weight of an average passenger was more than 20 pounds (9 kg) greater than estimated. After checking the actual weight of baggage retrieved from the crash site and passengers (based on information from next-of-kin and the medical examiner), the aircraft was found to be actually 580 lb (264 kg) above its maximum allowable take-off weight, with its center of gravity 5% to the rear of the allowable limit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Midwest_Flight_5481
There is nothing surprising.
Russians watch lots of American movies/TV shows.
So many terms are being borrowed. This how the culture spreads.
Even though very few Russians would actually hold a sale in a garage due to the difference in housing between Russia and the US
Reading or watching the news, you're sold the narrative that the world is doomed and falling apart. Some people are not equipped to deal with such a reality. Most are powerless to change the reality but instead internalize the message. Everyday, Lester Holt talks about how many tens of millions of people are under some weather distress due to severe climate. This is just but a sliver, one of countless examples, that contributes to a persons misery. And with sufficient resentment and misery, you awake the daemon within.
Those are extreme solutions. You don't want to make it impossible to revoke offers or to fire people, but companies should be liable for actual costs.

In this case, Google should pay for:

1) The costs of replacing discarded items

2) Move-related costs (e.g. plane tickets, etc.)

3) Some reasonable period of unemployment

Those should not be offloaded onto candidate employees.
Literally they will if tech workers unionize, which has its own baggage and list of disadvantages for everyone but if tech companies get in a bad habit of treating employees poorly that’s exactly what will happen.
If it isn't landscapes, you are going to see a near literal sea of faces in the of portfolios of most professional photographers. Why attack the search for art, beauty or interest in what you might find mundane? Since you mentioned it again, is your prejudice against software engineers self-hate, or a more distant loathing?
Who convinced the developers to make a "big ball of mud" and ignore software development process advice ;-)

"At the outset of a project involving two or more programmers: Do assign a member of the team to be the version manager. … The responsibilities of the version manager consist of collecting and cataloging code files submitted by all members of the team, periodically building a new system image incorporating all submitted code files, and releasing the image for use by the team. The version manager stores the current release and all code files for that release in a central place, allowing team members read access, and disallowing write access for anyone except the version manager." (page 500)

1984 "Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment"

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/TheInteractivePr...
True, the UC system also has the issue where there are general transfer requirements (IGETC) but then each major has its own requirements on top of that.