skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the trap Firefox fell into, I think. Relying so much on telemetry that only tells a very small part of the story. So they cut features that are useful, but people didn't even know they existed. It seems like this data-driven approach should go: Collect data, form conclusion, try to increase awareness of feature, collect more data, form new conclusion, cut if awareness didn't pan out.
It's like saying you own your ISP an opportunity because without the internet you can't do much work.
> Earlier in the pandemic, the leftist magazine The Drift mocked Fauci as “Doctor Do-Little,”

Some context to that link. The "leftist" magazine is suggesting that Trump killed hundreds of thousands of people with his shockingly poor handling of Covid, and that Fauci should have loudly stated that and gladly been fired for it rather than stay and try to do damage control.

Which is the exact opposite of the others listed as critics were saying.
It's still an economy of/by/for old people who are circumstantially required to work. So, I cannot feel the same emotion that your comment portrays.
Your device has to connect to the same wifi network as your Mac or Windows computer once a week to be automatically renewed for another week.
Fwiw the specific case which motivated that section in the post was a set of recursive functions we used to denormalise an irregular graph structure (so not suitable for CTE) into a single blob of JSON to be sent to another data store. 99% of the time there were no issues with this but at times of heavier load and on complex subgraphs, those recursive call stacks contributed to severe replication lag on the replicas they were running on.

Moving the traversal logic into the application and just sending SQL queries to Postgres (we don't use an ORM) eliminated the lag. RTT between the application and the db was a few ms and this wasn't user-facing logic anyway, so extra latency wasn't an issue in this case.

Probably the fundamental problem here was a sub-optimal schema, but sometimes you're just working with what you've got. Plus a commenter on Reddit pointed out that if we used pure SQL functions instead of PL/pgSQL, we'd also have seen better performance then.
As a consumer, I prefer Apple building all of that into the OS because I assume any other business will sell out at some point. I recall quite a bit of bad publicity when the menstruation trackers were found to be selling data.
I tried to find out whether that was the case, and it isn't clear. At least some have batteries, and the batteries can provide at least some of the required power, but the capacity of the battery at a particular location seems to be obscure.

I'd guess it depends very much on the power available to Tesla at the location. In some locations there will be plenty of power with little additional cost from the electricity company (e.g. near an industrial area), in others the opposite (isolated motorway rest area).
> there's a pretty famous meme about "so you participate in society? Curious!" that is relevant to your comment.

In that meme, the know-it-all says this in response to the other person saying (something like) "we should improve society somewhat", not "society is an irredeemable cancer".

That does change the context a bit.
Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that
for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I
probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. -- Office
Space, 1999.
I think a high IQ at a young age is indicative of raw processing power. They can keep things like shapes and numbers in their head and manipulate them correctly to pass the kind of spatial and mathematical questions you'll find on an IQ test.

It won't tell you much about motivation and grit, though a 6 year old focusing on a test and trying to get it right gives you hints as well.

Of course, from there, parenting, education, and especially the intrinsic processes of the individual themself will all influence what is done with that raw ability.
> Still, it would be nice if got permission or offered a way for artists to be excluded from the data set.

If artists don't want their work to impact the world, they're free to keep it to themselves.

This whole discussion that we should allow individual artists to opt out of AI art through contracts or some other legal vehicle is a non starter, because it'll be impossible to administrate and enforce at scale, and there's too much incentive and ability for big tech to just ignore them and steamroll artists. They aren't a unified bloc, and even if they were how would they ever compete against big tech?

So what to do? Looking at productivity gains over the decades, it's not clear why we are still working as hard as we are. It's long overdue that productivity gains should come back to the people. Maybe "artist" shouldn't be a job title associated with profit/income seeking. If you want to be an artist, maybe society can support that.

Maybe instead of using all those productivity gains to do more more more, we can just work less for the same. Because it seems to me the more we work, the more they get richer. What if instead, they didn't get so rich, and we gave that money to artists in the form of grants, like we do for scientists. You do some art, apply for some grants, and you get some money to do more art. It'll all be public domain, anyone can use it, and big business gets to make a profit on it just like with scientific advancements (I have issues about that, but at least there's precedent).
Haha. It used to be an insult to have one's writing abilities compared to that of a bot but since GPT4, I take that as a compliment.
Probably the car-dependent infrastructure of North America. You can’t get anywhere or do anything unless you can drive a vehicle.

My grandmother depends on her independent living facility’s bus shuttle to get anywhere. There is no public bus and no destinations reachable by walking or transit. Zero.

In these photos I see a country where infrastructure is so good that the elderly manage to run full blown businesses, and where elderly live healthy longer since they aren’t living their lives sitting on couches on wheels in the McDonald’s drive thru.
debian stable
All those astronauts had to pass some kind uniform skill test by NASA. There is no uniform skill tests for all the Devs.
Why wouldn't you finish cutting through to make a slot? The slot has the advantage that using the axe fixes the axe head more firmly into the slot by wedging itself. Even if you wedged the stone in the pocket, the pocket will loosen and the stone will eventually bottom out and won't be wedged anymore.
You'd think it would be a no-brainer to improve the checkout process like this, but perhaps Apple's terms are unfavorable to the stores.
My understanding that the yearly membership packages aren't the sum total of what they do. I suspect those packages are ways to support the business, rather than provide a free/cheap service. According to the article, customers pay for parts at cost, and then there is a scale, based on income, for paying labor charges.

Also, note that "Toyota Dealer Maintenance Packages" are generally offered to people who have purchased their vehicle at the dealer, new (or slightly used). That's not the target market here, and compared to having those services performed at an independent shop (or at a dealer without such a package), that monthly charge is quite affordable.
In Canada, yes. But Canada does have a massive advantage that there are only five major banks who already cooperate over a shared debit infrastructure called Interac, so when email transfers (initially “certapay”) were introduced, there was already a logical body to do the coordinating.

Smaller banks and credit unions have zero incentive not to participate in anything the big banks do since it will immediately put them behind 99% of Canadians.
They say "thank you consultancy for sending us an experienced consultant"?
Having to work at 80 is not a good thing
I am using https://explain.dalibo.com/ for that exact purpose and it does a great job highlighting the perfs issues.
Wouldn't you lose capacity though? It's not like they intentionally run power plants with a surplus on the grid.
Yes and that is my point: most organizations will pretend they are human centered, because it is good PR. Hence my surprised reaction to GGP.
> - Typed. Over time I ended up hating languages like Python and JavaScript because of the lack of typing. Typed languages let me catch a large amount of errors at compile-time, and it also serves as documentation.

Funny, I actually think golang typing to be extremely weak and hard to use, especially with all the pointers vs non-pointer values. Typescript is by far the best type system I ever used, but even compared to Java/C#/C++ the golang types are archaic and basic, more akin to ANSI C in power

Yes the types are better than dynamic languages, but compared to modern type systems it is not very good
Only true if you label all the visual, video and sensor evidence as being "unscientific" or "non credible".
Any race to colonize Mars is a delusion.

Mars is an unbelievably hostile environment. People can’t live on Mars. And why would you even want to? Compared to earth it’s a dusty hell.

Do some research on how livable Mars is. It really isn’t.

Humans will never travel to the stars - that’s a hundred billion times less likely than traveling to Mars. Actually not even that…. interstellar travel is impossible.

I loved the science fiction of traveling to the stars until I understood that the nearest star is so far it would take hundreds of thousands of years to get there using technology even vaguely within our grasp - and really there’s no such technology.

If mega wealthy man boys like Musk want to waste money in boys own adventure science fiction instead of making real change here in earth well that’s their decision.
Based on the way IPv6 is currently allocated we only leverage about 56 bits of usable address space but IPv4 with NAT gives us a max of 96 bits of address space

Edit: don't know why I'm being downvoted, I guess the network gurus here don't research

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2017-09/natdefence.html
I'm in my late twenties. Not extremely wealthy, but wealthy enough that I do not work or ever need to worry about money. I think a part of the messiah complex comes from guilt. The guilt and feelings of responsibility that "I'm very fortunate so I need to do more for the world (and only I can do it!)". It starts out innocuous but it can become toxic very quickly, especially when combined with some ideological or political component as you stop viewing people as people and it just becomes about maximizing some metric.

Your point about day-to-day "ordinary people" interactions helping to align behavior is crucial. Besides a few close friends, most of my friends do not know of my financial situation. For work, I just say I do freelance consulting since that explains no employer and flexible hours. This does make me feel dishonest and disconnected from them, though. The only thing keeping me anchored to reality is keeping to a "normal" life as that's the only constraint to me going haywire like Tony did. Having regular friends is the only reference point to reality I have.
If a court ruled in favor of Epic, wouldn't that set up the case for the same thing happening on, e.g. video game consoles?
New bill to stop unfair practices and promote competition in digital markets
Yes! But! There is a sweet spot where providing some level of rigor is a way for people to autonomously move in the right direction without anyone having to micro-manage (which I feel is less nice to work), the key is allowing room for autonomy - and also remembering that everyone you work with/for/etc are people with entire lives going on outside of work.
Having to retire isn't particularly nice, either
"Greed is eternal." - The 10th rule of acquisition.
Disney animators are treated well even as they’re worked to the bone because they can’t get away with actually mistreating them.

I’m guessing that’s about to change with all the generative models being developed.
I believe this is why ycombinator does not recommend building a business on top of another company's platform. I suspect OpenAI based businesses will eventually learn this lesson.
The proprietary AMD driver (AMDGPU-PRO) is only needed (or even an improvement over the open source version) in a few niche use cases. The majority of users are better off using the open source driver.

> These days our packaged drivers are mostly intended for:

> - customers using slower moving enterprise/LTS distros which do not automatically pick up the latest graphics drivers - we offer them both open source and proprietary/workstation options

> - customers using workstation apps who need the extra performance/certification from a workstation-oriented driver (although Marek has done a lot of great work over the last year to improve Mesa performance on workstation apps)

> The third target audience is customers looking for ready-to-go OpenCL, either for use with the packaged open/closed drivers or with the upstream-based stack in a recent distro.

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d...
I mean GPT4 was trained on hella patents, Wikipedia, StackOverflow, OSS, etc. etc. I also don't see the insult here heh
Yes that's her, thank you.
> The rest of the world has had contactless payment for at least a decade.

Perhaps it's better to specify which parts of the world, I'm assuming you mean US and Canada versus Europe and China.

Meanwhile, most developing nations (which make up a majority of the countries in the world) still operate primarily on cash.
Watching them work at that age made me super sad.
You can read the new "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill" here: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-03/0294...

The Guardian have a summery here: https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/25/major-tec...
And the consensus was that Twitter wouldn't survive the next weekend.
Isn't this true any time you build a business adding a small bit of value to a larger platform?

The aftermarket showed carmakers demand for superchargers, cup holders, and bigger wheels.

Third parties, including Microsoft, showed Google the demand for Gmail.

And on and on. I am forever at a loss at people's surprise and dismay that a large platform maker will seek to improve their platform by incorporating features that their users are signaling are missing by acquiring from third parties.
So everybody should develop their own OS and their own iDevice?

That would be great for the planet ...
> They didn't build an ecosystem more than others, they just made sure to kill any potential competitive ecosystem on the same hardware.

That's how ecosystems work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juglone
I already said there is a difference between testing and assessment and lots of pitfalls with such.
Can't you get them to sign a contract before the brain rape starts that they pay close to acquisition sum when features resembling yours based on similar decisions end up in their portfolio?
yes, but you can concentrate the beam more than sunlight so that there's less atmosphere involved. You can also choose a beam technology (wavelength etc) based on it going through the atmosphere well, rather than having to stick with sunlight's properties.
The main branch history looks reasonably clean. Looks like they generally squash-on-merge (and probably delete the branch on merge), in that case the detailed commit messages are lost anyway.

Completely valid commit strategy if you ask me (even though I bet some might beg to differ).
They will be richer doesn't really matter if we get to mars or it's useful or not.

The man knows how to sell, sadly.

I don't get it either

Maybe it's all just bullshit to cover for some high grade military space program, like space is the next frontier, and the US wants to rule there too.
> https://imgur.com/a/ZSEl44o

I was around for the last 13 years, and I'm pretty certain that it was *self-identified left-leaning journalists* who told coal-miners "LearnToCode" and then got all huffy when they got told "#learntocode".

Developers weren't taking part in this mess.
Seems like they've been deliberately vague.

"Chrome will stop supporting Manifest V2" -- ok what about other browsers?

"The 1password classic extension ... will no longer be supported" -- what do you mean supported? You mean you will pull it from the app stores, or just that you won't fix bugs anymore?

I use Firefox and 1Password 6 and I have no idea where I stand, and I'm pretty sure that's their intention.

Fuck you 1Password. I paid for a lifetime license remember? I don't appreciate the switcharoo, but what I really despise is the gaslighting.
I wouldn't rely on the information being useful or accurate. It's mostly bollox.
> If mega wealthy man boys like Musk want to waste money in boys own adventure science fiction instead of making real change here in earth well that’s their decision.

If the really big problems here on Earth could be fixed by throwing a few tens of billions at them, they'd have been fixed already by governments.
If you are using NOTIFY/LISTEN, keep track to check if your database does not have any long running queries. If you end up getting PostgreSQL to vacuum freeze your tables while the long running query is active, PostgreSQL will delete files from the pg_xact folder and that will bork out any LISTEN query, until you fully restart the database.
wondering how is it different from `kill -9 $(lsof -t -i:4000 -i:8081)` ?
While certainly not specific to Communism, the desire to find the best way forward has often been used throughout history to justify genocide and lots of other horrible actions. Merely having a utopian vision doesn't make a person good or preclude them from using evil means to achieve their vision.
I'm a blue collar IBEW electrician that inevitably injured myself working in confined spaces. Summer 2022, I set out on my quest to become a technical writer, but by Holidays 2022 I was generating images and tip-toe-ing into the emerging ChatGPT stuff.

By January 2023, I was already certain that professional writing would be increasingly-difficult to enter (as a career field) as a novice content creator: I was already able to generate extensive copy and then just act as copy-editor-"writer"

Thankfully a natural disaster (landslide creep) has forced me to re-prioritize my life, down to potentially building yet another house — I'm not sure at this point I have the physical energy, but I certainly know that my brainpower cannot keep up (competitively) in a paid-market content onslaught (which is inevitable).

Whatdo? My body was so excited to sit in a desk, just shy of 40... and now I just don't see a point competing with all the more-qualified laid-offs (redundant white collar worklings, some replaced by AGI-like services, competing against novices like me... which GPT certainly outperforms, at 1/100th the price).
There are men at the top. What is the demographic at the bottom (garbage workers, manual workers, farm labor). Which sex goes to prison more, commits more suicides, dies in war, and loses custody battles the vast majority of the time?

Have you heard of the term toxic masculinity, weaponized incompetence, patriarchal, misogyny used? Are women discussed the same way? Are women ever misandrist?
Pretty much this, there have been times in my career when I was prepared to do everything the right way, but deadlines and unrealistic expectations from people who don't even know what JavaScript is forced my hand, so the product was less pretty internally but still functioning.

For most people software engineering is about driving results, not making everything beautiful under the hood. Although it's nice to do that when you have time.
In Brazil transportation and food allowances are also pretty common benefits (at least for office workers). Back when I worked there it was transitioning from paper tickets to cards.

It's so common to the point where an employer not offering those are seen as extremely cheap ones that you should avoid.
Not sure why you're downvoted, because it looks exactly like that (all changes go into PRs, and PRs are then squashed on merge).
You are starting more companies that are US Gov contractors invest in SBOM generation and software provenance solutions due to https://www.nist.gov/itl/executive-order-14028-improving-nat...
I imagine many would like to be bought ASAP.
If you liked the photos here, be sure to check out his Instagram, lots of great shots with direct commentary.
Computation.
> Chip and PIN being brought out so many years because theft via magstripe was so common in some areas of the EU by organized crime isn't something I'd really brag about.

Ah, yes, "if it's NIH, it's probably because we're so honest we don't need it".
Exactly. These people keep working at 80 because their pensions are shit, not because they enjoy it. Well, some of them do enjoy it because they don't have any hobby and don't know how to enjoy their retirements, they just know how to work, which is equally depressing.
GPU drivers are notorious for being out of tree and even there most GPU drivers over the years have been upstream. Even if you limit to just GPUs AMD are not the same as Nvidia. The in-kernel AMD driver is the primary one these days and even Nvidia has finally relented and is finally helping move at least the kernel driver upstream. That Nvidia's closed-source driver has been a mess for all these years is just a further example of how the Linux model is much superior to the Windows one.
Also, the ability to "do" a hobby might vary over time, depending on many factors. Some are season-related, others might depend on personal life or even health. This might shift the hobby execution between the quadrants.
Bullet cluster came much later and indeed the mass/visible matter discrepancy was discovered specifically because they were looking for evidence for dark matter. It’s just one piece of additional evidence for the theory that dark matter is specifically matter.
Actually, the japanese do offer this jobs to their elderly, out of compassion and duty, not exploitation.

Being without work, and without family, means being nothing, means abandoning yourself and dying.

I remember reading how many offices and what not keep -easy- jobs for the elderly if they don't want to retire.

Here in the west they will put you in an old-person house hoping you die sooner so they can inherit the house or whatever.

WTF
I'member when "Learn to Code" was taken as SEXIST somehow?!

It's irrelevant now, it's more properly "Learn to prompt" [-engineer without tell anybody you have self-obsolesced your own career].
I don't think anyone wins in that argument.
Wait, are we talking about shareholders or employees?
Using Pulsar Functions in a Cloud-Native Way with Function Mesh
> the water used by Microsoft to cool its data centres in the United States for training GPT-3 could have been used to produce “370 BMW cars or 320 Tesla electric vehicles.”

Energy / resource consumption should still be improved on...but I'd say ChatGPT is providing much more utility than 320 Teslas
Kudos for matching the wit and puns of the original article!
That really is annoying. Apple has APIs for adding door keys / office passes to the NFC wallet. WeWork could fix this if they wanted to.
So WIMPS don't explain the pattern of lensing caused by one particular galaxy, if you assume a vanilla distribution of the WIMPS. But we already have situations (the Bullet Cluster, e.g.) where we don't assume that. So... I'm not sure that this is all that strong an argument?

And, they argue for axions, because it would be more normal for them to assume a more complicated distribution. But they can't predict which distribution they would assume. So this looks like "it must be A rather than B, if we assume the distribution of B, because we can't assume the distribution of A". That's not all that convincing.
Yes, it's about money too, obviously. But still, not quite the same.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/10/17/business/senior...