skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the economy hit is large enough, money or investments or both might drop to 0. These things happen when there are huge societal changes.
They’re opinionated too, though I’d say Windows to the least degree with its “anything goes” attitude it’s had since the mid-late 90s.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Max_Payne#Missing_audio
Except you run out of charge during said stop and go traffic. With a liquid fueled car you just add more.

I’m guessing that since you’re using km instead of mi you’re outside the US. Perhaps your experiences won’t translate over here? The US tends to be larger than most countries so the distance traveled to evacuate is longer.

We need to slow down and research newer technologies. A german company can create 1600 liters of carbon neutral fuel using 1 MW of power. This fuel can run on existing engines. Those 1600 liters can fill 40 average sized cars. Yet that same megawatt can only charge 3.7 ish Teslas.

Are you also aware that this is the second time EVs have been tried? They lost out to gasoline for all these same reasons.
"Even when I'm factually wrong, I'm right"
Cool idea. It seems like there is some intrinsic motivation when doing this at a workplace that would be missing with random strangers.
It goes beyond languages. Yesterday I was editing a markdown file that was to become a post on a static site with movies. After I entered the title of a Taiwanese movie from the eighties, I jumped to the frontmatter to add some metadata about it. It autocompleted the director even before I typed the first letter of his name.

It was so unexpected for me that I had to pause for a second to process what happened.
Just a thought that I have not fleshed out and can even see some problems with, but: will we arrive at a point or will it even be desirable to get to a point where the text in your source "code" just remains the instruction you've given to the AI? In other words, Amazon's example on the linked page is:

> /*Create a lambda function that stores the body of the SQS message into a hash key of a DynamoDB table.

Now, obviously that is not valid Java syntax and javac will fail on that, but could/would it be possible to just build an intermediate tool that'll expand this into Java (or whatever other language) so that you don't need to even see the expanded code in your editor, like the same way you don't need to see bytecode?

I get that practically, right now, that would be ill-advised since the AI may not be reliable enough and there are probably more cases than not where you need to tweak or add some logic specific to your domain, etc. But still, theoretically is that where we are heading, i.e. a world in which even what are now considered high level langs get shoved down further below and are considered internal/low level details?
I was just laughing about this position the other day: if the the stats confirm your position they’re accurate and can’t be ignored. If they’re not then the bookkeeping is wrong. A win/win situation!
> "Introversion is the state of primarily obtaining gratification from one's own mental life". There is a considerable popular literature on the benefits and drawbacks of being introverted.

This really got me thinking after recently coming across it:

"The mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled." ~ Plutarch
I somewhat agree with this, note that Janet is not very functional, when I briefly used it I never used a single recursive function. It's meant to be used more in an imperative way.
Your linked article and the OP indicate that this was a case of an assault leading to another more brutal assault.
The article says 1-in-1000-year rainfall in South Florida. Flooding of similar magnitude is more common due to storm surge (wind blowing the ocean ashore). The title should be corrected to reflect the difference.

More than a foot of rain fell in a day. For a sense of scale, that's more than half of the mean rainfall that San Francisco gets in a year.

For climate change projections I always suggest people check the website:

http://crt-climate-explorer.nemac.org/
I was surprised to see in the article that SF has only had 12 murders so far this year. My city is less than 1/3 the size and has 14 murders so far, and it doesn’t feel like a lawless hell hole to me. Every murder is tragic, but almost all of them involve parties known to each other.
What content on YT do you find to be valuable? Personally I find video to be a poor method of finding and sharing information, and anything that's not information is just a thinly veiled ad. Most "reviews" aren't, and most talking heads just spout shite.
> I've a feeling I should not rob off the creators

If you don't buy what they advertise the only person being robbed is you. They already got paid before even uploading the video
My wife asked me "how do we know the killer was a homeless guy?". I could only reply - "good point".

I think a part of it is people are fed up with how the city has deteriorated and no amount of gaslighting will change that fact. So, when he was killed it seemed like just another thing in the decline of the city.
It does not produce a usable simulation of baseball right out of the box. It'll give you skeleton code that you kinda have to then fill in yourself. But it's really good skeleton code. Like, the functions are used wrong, but it's the correct function. The explanation of the code that it give you is really spot on though. Like, yes, those are the correct steps a coder should implement.

It's easy enough to try it out for yourself too! Give yourself a challenge and see where it takes you.
Xbox Game pass is the only cloud gaming service that does this right. It's 15$ a month, and you get a few hundred games to chose from. You have the option to run the games locally via a PC or Xbox as well.

Games work best locally, but if your fine with streaming then you can try tons of different games instantly.

Stadia's issue was you needed to subscribe and pay for games separately. It even shipped with a bizarre controller that didn't work with anything else. If anything Google got out competed, plus Gamepass is baked into Xbox Live so you had an existing customer base.
So what you're saying is your feelings don't care about the facts?
I didn't propose jailing anyone, I am an abolitionist. I asked why the conversation, already about jailing someone, is only about jailing that person. The other ones you pose are also reasonable questions with less clear answers but revealing to think about in a way. Except the teacher I just don't get that.

Calling me a commie is silly. I am a socialist come on. Y'all act like god revealed capitalism as his chosen economic system in 1991.
Dril Is Everyone. More Specifically, He’s a Guy Named Paul
The new normal is that 1-in-1000 year extreme weather events seem to be happening every few years.
I would like them to publish the designs and allow others to use these machines, materials, and tech. It’s not really an improvement until the tech is available to all product producers.
The story contradicts what so many here took as a given, that Lee was a victim of stochastic violence in SF. The highlighting is in revealing that so many were wrong in applying their biases to the original news, and then using that to leverage into e.g. condemnations of the city in general.
https://archive.ph/hFYy6
I don’t know when you last travelled, but many airports are quite big and have more than one shop.

It also might shock you to hear that other countries also have airports.

People might also have bought phones in the past, so they might not be considered top-of-the-line any more.
That's exactly what it is. White collar upper middle class types are more exposed to it relatively (not necessarily absolutely) in SF than in other cities. Even if the actual odds of being victim of a violent crime are lower overall they're still higher per crime and people still feel more exposed because the market shares of the various things that make up the crime pie are very different in SF than in other cities.

In Chicago, Baltimore, all those other cities techies turn up their nose at for their crime rates you might get shot in a convenience store robbery, you might get knifed by a mugger but the overwhelming majority of the violence is drug dealers and users and distributors settling scores amongst themselves (because they can't use the courts to do it for them).

Contrast with SF where the overall amount (overall or per capita) of violent crime is lower but it is much, much more concentrated toward the randomly targeted crime affecting people not already involved in activity beyond the law types of creimes meaning that your odds of getting shot in a convenience store robbery or knifed by a mugger are higher in SF than a city of equivalent violent crime rates per capita that has a more normal looking crime pie chart.
No. That link is not Google announcing what you claim they did. It's some anonymous person - not Google - claiming they saw some confidential slides to that effect, which Google then denied.
Performance Evaluation of C, C++, MicroPython, Rust and TinyGo on ESP32
There is also an issue in many Standard Diffusion model files that makes them quite chaotic with short prompts. With some of those, I've found I get much better results by simply copy-paste-paste-paste-paste-paste-pasting a short positive and negative prompt even though in theory that should have negligible effect. Not all model files suffer from this, but it leads to superstition.

Then there's the whole "+masterpiece, +best quality, -bad hands, -extra limbs" superstition that comes from Danbooru-based models, but people coming on board just assume it's necessary everywhere.
> objectively one of the most violent cities in the country

The news article (and many comments in this thread) says the exact opposite:

> San Francisco is home to much in the way of visible public misery, unnerving street behavior and overt drug-use. Its property crime rate has long been high, and the police clearance rate for property crimes has long been minimal. But the city’s violent crime rate is at a near-historic low and is lower than that in most mid-to-large-sized cities.

Property crime is sky-high, sure. Violent crime is a totally different category. It is important not to mix them up.

2021 homicide rate across comparable cities:

St Louis 66.5
Detroit 47.9
Phila 34.8
Milwaukee 33.9
...
Austin 8.2
SF 6.9
...
NY 5.5

https://abc7news.com/amp/san-francisco-crime-rate-bob-lee-sf...

We can talk about other types of violent crime (maybe the other ones are higher, I haven't looked into them recently) but let's at least stick to the well-defined categories and since you said it's "objectively one of the most violent" then we should be able to back that up with stats in each category: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
doubtful, it's Google after all
NSF research from 2.5 years ago agrees that 1-in-X year flooding is becoming more frequent: https://beta.nsf.gov/news/once-lifetime-floods-become-regula...
Thanks for that. I admit to buying the narrative. Part of that is because my nearest city of any substance is Portland, and it's not especially violent. SF does look more violent compared to Portland, but objectively SF is actually just average or less. Lots of big cities are more violent[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
If you are a Luddite like me, an old-school Speed Queen (yeah, same brand as in the laundromat) with mechanical switches will almost never break.
No, because a programmer's job is to build stuff to spec, and "just do what I really mean" is the opposite of that.
Isn't it this way in almost every major urban US area? I was in St. Louis for a conference and got robbed, after I reported it to police and told them I had the current location of the suspects because they stole my phone and location services was still on, the police laughed at me and told me "what do you want us to do, go bust some doors down?", then instructed me to file a report but explained it might not be worth it to even bother doing so because there was almost a 0% chance of my stolen goods being returned.
Ya I think you're right. I regret not trying Heroku first.

I'm glad to have learned AWS, although I don't know that I'll build another cloud server. I think the biggest problem I found is that services tend to require each other. So I ended up needing an IAM for everything, a security group for everything, a network setting for everything.. you get the idea. A la carte ends up being a fantasy. Because of that interdependency, I don't see how it would be possible to maintain a cloud server without Terraform. And if that's the case, then the services just becomes modules in a larger monolith. Which to me, looks like cloud servers are focusing on the wrong level of abstraction. Which is why preconfigured servers like Heroku exist, it sounds like.

An open source implementation of Heroku running on Terraform on AWS/GCP could be compelling. Also a server that emulates AWS/GCP services so that an existing Terraform setup could be ported straight to something like Hetzner or Linode with little modification. With a migration path to start dropping services, perhaps by running under a single identity with web server permissions (instead of superuser). And no security groups or network settings, just key-based authentication like how the web works. More like Tailscale, so remote services would appear local with little or no configuration.

Also this is a little off-topic, but I'd get rid of regions and have the hosting provider maintain edge servers internally using something like RAFT combined with an old-school cache like Varnish to emulate a CDN. The customer should be free from worrying about all static files, and only have to pay a little extra for ingress for the upload portion of HTTP requests for POST/PUT/PATCH and request headers and payloads.

Oh and the database should be self-scaling, as long as the customer uses deterministic columns, so no NOW() or RAND(), although it should still handle CURRENT_TIMESTAMP for created_at and updated_at columns so that Laravel/Rails work out of the box. So at least as good as rqlite, if we're dreaming!

Edit: I don't mean to be so hard on AWS here. I think the concept of sharing datacenter resources is absolutely brilliant. I just wish they offered a ~$30/mo server preconfigured with whatever's needed to run a basic WordPress site, for example.
> we really start feeling the crunch of nonrenewable resources

This really just feels Malthusian. Many of the elements that are currently 'scarce' are not actually scarce, just not found in extremely high concentrations elsewhere. There's essentially a maximum price that these resources will reach (often not much higher than they currently are), before other methods/locations of extraction become viable. To suggest we'll revert to preindustrial squalor is absurd.
The problem is not technical, FB could write anything, the security of the system is as weak as its weakest link.

The problem here is way way behind the computer.

https://xkcd.com/538/

The weakest link here, is that Facebook has to respect US laws.

They don't have a choice there.

So, if US law permits or requests in some way interception of communications, or that operators have to report certain activities, then your right to secrecy is done.

Of course, a random user won't have its dog food or gardening communications intercepted, but once you trigger certain patterns, welcome to the new "user trials / feature flags / beta".

Not saying it specifically for WhatsApp, it's valid for any US-based app

-> and broadly any app where the founders may eventually be arrested by the US (as the US has a lot of extra-jurisdiction power).

(think about it, how easy it would be to decrypt Mega.nz file, for example in a real-life scenario. One push of code on one URL to send back the part about the # sign, and done, or to activate new trials in Google Chrome, or to push a Play Store update to single users, etc...).

I'd be really surprised that Zuck takes responsibility and ends up in jail because he refuses to execute a legal request regarding imminent terrorism attack (risking penal risk and being charged as helping the criminals, well, there's a plus; that's more time to spend in the Metaverse).

The most likely scenario, is that the US-gov is very powerful and capable to enforce laws in their own country and that you have to respect the laws if you want you company to continue.

Same with China.
It’s configurable yes, but it has plenty of quirks and bits of design that can’t be changed without getting one’s hands dirty and forking. Those are what people will likely find disagreeable, more than anything that can be changed.
IIRC google has purposely kept assistant stunted and lifeless. Remember how originally it was the inhuman "Okay Google" key phrase? They did explicitly to keep people from humanizing it. Also its the only assistant with no name, its just called "assistant"

It wasn't until Alexa and Siri gained traction that they let "Hey google" slip in.
> will we arrive at a point or will it even be desirable to get to a point where the text in your source "code" just remains the instruction you've given to the AI

These systems are non-deterministic by nature, so I doubt it unless something fundamentally changes. Moreover you'd have to be super specific to capture the business logic to the point that you're basically writing code in a high level dynamic language anyway.
>The numbers reflect nothing in SF and residents know it.

Former, recent resident with a penchant for late-night dancing (read: frequently ended up in "seedy" areas in the middle of the night) chiming in. Never felt as though I was in danger while out and about, day or night, and never felt that SF was a more violent city than others.

But thank you for speaking for everyone.
Tech bros don't have political power, they're too busy working. California political power is held by rich retired people, children of upper class families, and landlords.
Not in the budget right now, but damned if you didn't just sell me a motorcycle
You probably need a no phones rule.
> Apple offers a financial incentive to trade in your old iPhone. That is the pure reason.

Is that… a bad thing?
Short answer: Yes.

However, Ambry doesn't use byte-ranges for the upload. Each chunk can be uploaded separately and the client then requests a _stitch_ operation[1]. In that operation, the client specifies the list of blob IDs for each chunk (in order) and asks Ambry to create a metadata blob listing those IDs. Ambry then returns the blob ID for the metadata blob.

[1]: https://github.com/linkedin/ambry/blob/9b7a49ac79b1678fd7fd7...
Just because a Chinese company owns the brand? Because the company still operates mostly independently in Sweden, design is still in-house coming from Sweden...
It's because Google actively celebrates and encourages failure - if the evidence is there, they will kill it and actively reward this behaviour. At Google, this is how you get promoted and bonused.
It's certainly true that people should never jump on a story to promote their own ideological concerns (e.g. San Francisco is pretty unsafe at night in many places), when the details of the story are unknown.

However, homicide stats don't tell the whole story about a city. There are many areas in SF where a resident would never go at night (or often during the day) because of the large numbers of drug addicts and homeless people. This means businesses in those areas have a hard time surviving. In terms of property crimes (in which violent assault is not involved) SF is leading the pack, at least in the top five. The lower rate of homicide is probably also linked to California's stricter gun laws compared to Texas and Florida, and also, many homicide victims are homeless, see LA:

https://xtown.la/2022/06/08/murders-people-experiencing-home...

The only plausible long-term solution is improved housing, more jobs, public health care, better education etc. This would require expenditure of public funds on a national scale (you can't fix this city by city, or state by state, because people migrate), i.e. increased taxes on the wealthy and a redistribution of military-industrial spending to domestic infrastructure of various sorts.
Yes, that's was the original promise of compilers.

COBOL was designed for normal business people use, remember?

You'll just have to program in AI understandable language, I'm sure there are going to be lots of quirks and tricks similar to the languages today.
In Pittsburgh, where I believe there are more Carnegie-funded buildings than in most cities, the libraries are often the nicest and most durable structures in each neighborhood. The Braddock Carnegie library for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Free_Library_of_Bradd...
This release note reminds me of my wife. She skips any context and starts a story in the middle, leaving me to do the detective work of figuring out what on earth we're even talking about.
If you do desire "external keyboards, more than one, slightly different configurations for each one", ... then at that point I think it would be worth considering the benefits of a keyboard where the keyboard firmware itself can be customised.

With the customisable keyboard firmware, your tweaks would remain on the keyboard, & wouldn't need any setup on the OS.
On a log scale, increase frequency by one. No idea if log base 10 or base e, though, but seems to be 10 for infrequent things, e for things that happen often.
It's been years now that AI can write books. Writing a book nowadays doesn't mean anything.
"Doing your own research" is laughed at now, but this is actually used to be the job of journalists to do that.
That doesn't mean not using experts to help understand complex subjects.
But what journos like the NYT is fishing experts and using them as a "proof" is simply arguing from a conclusion.
As a rubyist who loves ruby but isn't afraid to admit I see it declining in popularity... I can't help but notice there seems to be no ruby on the list. Plenty of python.
I grew up in the same 80's, 70s and 80s actually (born in 70), in a few different locations without this overall memory.

I had other kids, yards, woods sometimes, city blocks other times. Tonka trucks in particular were never my most favorite thing although I did have them. But I had, did, and loved all manner of other equivalent outdoor and slightly dangerous things.

There was nothing intrinsically terrible about the 80's as a kid as far as I would say. Economic problems were the parents problems, even though that means you don't get to have the flashy stuff from the Sears catalog, it didn't actually matter. And I was a geek that didn't easily make friends with the normies, especially later in high school when I really started to have my own firm (and differrnt) personality. I too found my true community on bbs's.

If you grew up in a kid-desert, and you were not good at amusing yourself, neither of those problems are "the 80's".

I spent countless hours amusing myself alone working on random nothing projects with nothing but some pieces of wood in the yard or something. A kid doesn't really care what there is to play with, they will play with it. In the country it was everything found in the woods, or fishing, or working on minibikes that spent 500 hours apart for every hour running, in the dreary city with no yard then it was busted appliances from the curb etc. I lived in both worlds, and both under and over 10 yrs, and so you can't say I just was lucky to live anywhere especially good by chance. We moved a lot and some places were shitty little apartments in a city, and some were single family houses not very near any other houses let alone ones with kuds let alone ones with kids that liked me.

One absolute change from the 80's is in the 80's, and this is in the city too not just the country, I could bike myself all over the place. I don't know but I just assume that today parents either don't allow that, or the rest of society doesn't allow it even if a parent wanted to. Which is a shame.