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The silver lining of LLMs impact on Stack Overflow may be that the platform focuses on facilitating the deeper type of problem solving you describe. My experience with Stack Overflow over the years has been mixed. Frequently users misunderstand the question, threads take weeks or months to resolve, users are called incompetent by frustrated experts, answers are indecipherable to a non expert, and sometimes toxic. ChatGPT frequently outperforms these weakpoints.

If they embrace a chatGPT interface as a first line of defense for users questions, it may improve the quality of real questions, reduce repetition, and filter through actually good and compelling questions. LLMs still need systems that encourage high quality data generation from humans to improve its model. I would like to imagine a world where there is a win-win for AI and the website we've relied on so much over the years.
If it's this common, it should be straight-forward to test as well, right? Allocate 1 gig of memory, do whatever mmap call you need to make sure it's not paged out, fill it with deterministically random stuff, then every hour check the contents and refill it. Keep running for a month.

Seems odd to me that we have rely on some paper from 2009...
I think you also need to set up an "adversarial" organization. Have a team responsible for reporting metrics that is distinct from the team that is responsible for software that drive the metrics. Classic Dev/QA partnership.
I agree that 'go' has to be the worst naming from an SEO perspective. Only ones worse a single letter names. And TBH, they might be _better_ simply because they aren't a common English language word.
I assume the author of the library works under a hard real-time constraint. Under such circumstances (an example would be low latency audio) you can not tolerate the latency impact of a sporadic syscall.
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One example of the chattiness is a flow where more than one person is following the same individual on another server. That person will have to push new messages to every single one of the people following them. This means that if 10 users are following me from the same server I will not have 1 push for that instance, I'll gave 10 pushes for the same single unchanged message. This is built into the protocol. That's a lot of throughput for something that could be much much less chatty.

Now on my single instance it's not too bad because 1. I follow maybe 40 people and 2. I have like max 10 followers. For an instance with people with high follower counts across multiple other instances it could get to be a problem fast.

Edit: my previous description used fetch when it should have used push.
You still don’t get it. There are thousands like Epic. They’ve shown (the FTC’s opinion, not just mine) that they will stoop low to make an extra buck and the only thing stopping them on iOS are Apple’s rules. You wanting app stores to not be monopolies means billions of people will be directly subject to unethical companies like Epic. As a consumer, I say fuck that.
Sure if they worked with something important like plumbing, teaching, etc.. But anyone drawing money out of Amazon while (presumably) lowering productivity is doing work that is objectively leaving the world better off.
That's whataboutism, though. Why should I focus on some other problem when we are talking about this problem now.
One issue is that the meaning of author order differs depending on field. In some fields the order is already meaningless and authors are just listed alphabetically. In other fields the order is decreasing from most important contributor to least. And in yet other fields there is a system where both ends of the list are important where junior authors (like grad students) are at the start and senior scientists who mentored them at the end. But people who have only worked in one field often think that the rules of authorship in their field are universal when they aren't.
Well, it hasn't. Because humans aren't capable of true Marxism.

(This is not a suggestion to try anyway, nor a suggestion to eliminate humans in order to further any kind of Marxist "ideal")
Your rules are too subjective and loosely defined for me to understand what is and is not "flamewar style". Could you work on updating these to be more decisive and objective? I have no clue what I did wrong based on that link, other than you just didn't care for it personally.

Asking someone to explain themselves and telling them why they should does not appear to be "flamewar" material imo.
With images often in the megabytes range, and videos an order of magnitude higher, this could be anywhere between 5MB and 100GB.
This demo does consumers a disservice by downplaying the relationship between Galaxy and Android, I'd argue. If this neat demo is effective, it's not a clear story for a novice end-user (so non-HN readers) that asking for a non-iPhone at the Verizon store /may/ have this experience, but may not. They sort of address what device and experience this would provide, but the text is small, doesn't meet contrast suggestions, and only seems to appear on the desktop, which actually makes me think my statement is more true in that just asking for a Galaxy phone may not match this experience.
A prime example from the Systems Thinking post. Errors of commission are the only thing that matters for your company and it is allergic to change/disruption from top to bottom.
People very often argue that "it's hard to run large distributed systems" and also that "It's better to use SaaS as getting five-nines is really hard."

I agree, but I'm going to repeat the same thing I said yesterday:

It really doesn't matter if your uptime is 80% as long as that 20% of downtime is happening when nobody is working.

An 80% uptime architecture is hopelessly simple to maintain (and restore and so on).

Complexity increases exponentially the more 9's you add, and those complexities need more and more people to paper over, eventually you end up with a false dichotomy. If you have 99.9% uptime and it's down when you need it with no clear resolution possible then you're not winning by having availability when you never needed it.

The people arguing against self-hosting are so committed; I can't help but feel people know that it's a false economy but they're financially incentivised or they like having pretty green dots on a special website or something.

Rachel by the Bay is US based (I am EU based) but even she has something to say on the subject: "My Nines are not your Nines": https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/07/15/giant/
I think the GP meant RAM.
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Do we need more features that are generally ignored? What has robots.txt gotten us? What has Do Not Track gotten us?
Google did not do this out of the goodness of their heart. They did it to lock you in with Firebase, Maps, etc. And believe me, the moment they start charging you for it, you quickly realize why Google is not a company to give an ounce of trust to.
Is it still a startup after a decade? Isn’t it just a company at that point.
7-days in April there were outages.

3-days in May so far with outages.

GP point is, that's anything but "daily".

GP also depicts, it's not at the same time either.
I'm excited to see anything they actually launch for Bard/Workspace, less so about what they have planned. But still excited for it.
Grand Theft Auto isn't. Postal isn't. Doom isn't. Why would porn?
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This isn’t a problem. That’s the point.
> I don’t think movie tickets for $20 can compete with concerts ($20-infinity), major league sports ($15-200), plays, and other activities.

They don't always have to compete. I rarely go see concerts, and I never go see sports, plays, or anything else really. But I go see movies from time to time. In that case there is no competition, at least not in similar activities.
The golden rule with gilded edges
Kind of, but no. This explains the “needless” complexity well, but it is complex:

https://philosophynow.org/issues/125/The_Golden_Rule_Revisit...).
The Republican party depends on unification while the Democratic party depends on diversity.

There is no coherent Left in the US: instead we have one tent for every person who isn't conservative.
I'm confused, are you now arguing that it's difficult to work around Youtubes mitigations and that they have all kinds of checks to make sure an ad was viewed? That said I'm sure bot detection is more interesting for the adsense part of their business to catch malicious publishers and content creators not adblockers.

A simple check that the rest of the video is requested at least $now >= ($ad_request_time + $min_skip_or_view_time) will catch most adblockers while degrading none of the regular users. All done server-side, no need to complicate things. Sure the adblocker could play some elevator tunes and display a spinner while waiting, but what's even the point. Next step they require a hash of the ad in the next request as proof and on it goes.

See facebooks markup for the "Sponsored" string for a similar example in the wild. Last I checked ublock origin gave up.
AMC (one of the biggest theater chains in the USA) announced seat pricing model earlier this year.
PNAS Paper: fMRI shows brain is using the same algorithm as Transformers (2021)
Abstract
The neuroscience of perception has recently been revolutionized with an integrative modeling approach in which computation, brain function, and behavior are linked across many datasets and many computational models. By revealing trends across models, this approach yields novel insights into cognitive and neural mechanisms in the target domain. We here present a systematic study taking this approach to higher-level cognition: human language processing, our species’ signature cognitive skill. We find that the most powerful “transformer” models predict nearly 100% of explainable variance in neural responses to sentences and generalize across different datasets and imaging modalities (functional MRI and electrocorticography). Models’ neural fits (“brain score”) and fits to behavioral responses are both strongly correlated with model accuracy on the next-word prediction task (but not other language tasks). Model architecture appears to substantially contribute to neural fit. These results provide computationally explicit evidence that predictive processing fundamentally shapes the language comprehension mechanisms in the human brain.
I am considering beginning our migration to something self-hosted. I am doing it for my personal stuff, but this is getting out of hand.

edit: I know this is a bit circle jerky, but damn I am frustrated
There is a process I have that uses flock(1) with an exclusive read lock. The intent was other processes can read the data but not allow to change it.

It "works", but I noticed many newer utilities no longer checks for these locks. The original vi and nvi checks, so the file is opened read-only. But vim and surprisingly emacs do not check. That means people can change that file while the process is executing using vim/emacs.
Microsoft just made a far-from-certain bet on nuclear fusion
Google incorrectly translates "get well soon" as "eff you", but "effing" can actually heal some health problems, so it may as well mean "get well soon".
Why would we hope that?
This is a piece of art!

Since this is -I guess- a project made for fun, it would nice to open source it, so we can learn from it. Maybe then, we can make the opposite project, TryiOS.com
Representative of the shift from creation to extraction.
There's also the cost of heating in the winter. People budget monthly and housing prices tend to rise to consume surplus income (at least over the past few decades of ZIRP). So rather than dreading your heating bills in the winter, you should appreciate that it's a bill you don't have to pay in the summer. Whereas warmer climates end up paying a higher mortgage year round.
Engaging with the scammers will disrupt the existing spam filters' heuristics. The long chain of replies will make it harder to eliminate them from inboxes with existing anti-spam filters.
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Your example also suggests another factor: downtime overnight might be less consequential than shorter outages that occur during working hours.
It’s not about impacting the CEO’s pay, it’s about exceeding maximum value from a job that is exploiting you in order for them to get that pay and benefit shareholders. Other than a few SMEs run by genuinely good people, capitalism puts us in adversarial position because if we don’t take one we’ll be hugely taken advantage of.
You often can tolerate the latency. The problem of locks is they are potentially unbounded and you can miss a deadline.

It's not about performance so much as determinism.
Sure, and then you explore that further. If it's genetic, look at first generation immigrants that moved from places with low gender equality to places with high gender equality. If it's something in the environment, research what it could be. Slowly data accumulates and someone can try to show causality, and that's science in a nutshell (as I understand it).

Alternatively, we get really good human models and simulate everything, sci-fi style.
American Football only exists in the US.....
Started an autorefresher for few hours, let's see how it survives this.
To add to others' comments, having animals increases a farm's productivity, since a lot of plant material is indigestible for humans. So they wouldn't have been vegan.
Chickens and pigs are omnivourous and will eat all sorts. Ruminants such as cows or goats can convert inedible grass and other cellulose-rich material into milk and meat.
Socialist and communist regimes are legendary around the world for lying to supervisors syndrome. The politburo always gets the numbers it wants.
This is nothing but an opinion. Most people who are pro this law think the same thing of vanilla porn that you think about bdsm and fisting. And for the extreme case, some of them think the same about basic nudity even when not sexual. And worse, the most extreme think that women should not even show their face in public. It's just a degree of rejection of the sexuality of the human as a taboo, which seems to me nothing but cultural.

I'm yet to see a compelling argument that "children shouldn't have access to porn". Not that i particularly think they should have access and I'm actually fine with the 'not under 18' rule for the sake of the "Chesterton Fence" argument, but I'm yet to see an explanation that make a vague sense to me.
China has been buying gold. They have been preparing for the collapse of the dollar for years. There are some claims that the collapse of the dollar is China's goal.
In my case it was easy to setup, but I didn't figured out how to change from using my iGPU to the GPU. Unfortunetly on the iGPU it is pretty slow.
Mexico is going to need to change their labor laws if they want a big piece of this pie.

I’ve had a nearshore team in Mexico for four years the people are great for all the reasons mentioned.

The gap, however is costs. We’re used to “at-will” employment in the states are used to a “Hire slow, fire fast” paradigm. In MX the cost to fire a full time employee is 3 months severance (regardless of seniority) plus 20 days for each year worked (labor calculations in MX are done in day rates), plus all accrued vacation and pro-rated Christmas bonus (a requisite MX bonus). Firing someone with 3-4 years tenure can cost 3-6 months of salary.

The labor “board” in MX is not a neutral arbiter. They represent the employee in the case of a labor claim.

You can skirt this a bit with contractors but that only works for a limited time (contract to hire is common and advisable)

Mexico has been a pain point for me. I’ve done everything aboveboard and legally but after having been down the rabbit hole a bit I feel there’s a lot of gray between what’s legal and what’s done in practice and I didn’t have anyone who could help me navigate those waters.

There’s big shops opening up in Guadalajara and some other areas and larger companies can weather these issues better then I could with a small team of about 10. But if you’re a smaller startup or services provider I’d be very wary of getting in too deep in Mexico at this point.

The one big loophole is to basically hire an agency in MX and pay a premium for devs but don’t take on any of the labor risk.
You are expecting it to replace a senior+ dev; that is not yet reasonable.
To add one more data point to the general sentiment in the comments: in 2011 I was so bummed that I couldn’t get a ticket to I/O that year, I wanted to start an alternate conference called I/O Error “for the rest of us” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2192827 !

Ahh, the naïveté of the young age (I was in my early forties at that time, mind you). I was in technology development then, now moved to PdM side. Google products no longer interest me from either the tech or biz side.
At one place our CFO string armed the devs to use AWS status as our own. Logic was we use them, therefore we're justified. Everytime a client reported an outage he'd gleefully share the status page and say "must be on your end". It was almost always on our end. Dude was a lawyer too
I'm probably going to get roasted for saying this, but this is completely unsurprising to me. When I was in college, folks from India and other low trust societies would mercilessly cheat on their projects and exams, blatantly helping one another on individual works, and the college knew about it and didn't care. When I had brought this up at one point, I was told by a professor that it was a cultural difference that had to be respected and that it wouldn't matter anyway because in the workforce I'd excel and they would not, so why did I care? After entering the workforce I encountered many many resumes, especially from contract houses / body shops, that were obviously lies, and have interviewed thousands of candidates across my career that clearly lied on their resume.

My basic take is that low trust societies encourage cheating and dishonesty and think if you're honest and honorable that you're a naive rube asking to be taken advantage of. For my part, I've never cheated in any interview, in anything at school, and never lied on my resume, yet being in tech which is dominated by people who originate in low trust societies, I see how it becomes something insidious that creates extremely negative behavioral norms in corporate politics, where it's now acceptable for people to bald-face lie about project status, receipt of information, or the severity of an issue if it gets them ahead or makes someone else look bad and deflects the blame.

Luckily, my professor was right though, despite exposure to a lot of negative behaviors I don't like, don't respect, and don't endorse, I did excel and I continue to excel above my peers, especially those who cheated. Cheating ultimately cheats oneself, but it's very galling that it's now becoming accepted as okay behavior in American society due to cultural shifts aligned to low trust societies we do business with. The Blind app demographics make it unsurprising to see this there or that it's essentially universally supported in the comments there. I am honestly unsurprised that most of the comments on HN support it. There's absolutely an attitude of "lie now, and figure out how to make it not a lie before investors or customers notice" in the startup world as well. Frankly, it disappoints me deeply that so much our society has become one big grift, especially as someone who entered the tech industry when it was still dominated by honest nerds doing cool stuff.
Revealing my non-nerd credentials: when I click "Get this page, byte by byte" I just see:

> We begin the TLS handshake by sending a client hello message (source):

and nothing else seems to happen, no matter how long I wait. I thought I might have to click the button again, but it just seems to display the same message, no matter how often I click it. What else should I be doing?
It would be interesting what Marx would say with the hindsight of observing Soviet capitalism, and how it fundamentally failed to solve the class struggle.
US society is based on merit, but not just merit, also on trust.

Once this behavior is normalized, the trust aspect will start eroding.
Many reactivity frameworks (e.g. observablehq, shiny) recompute intelligently - they're aware of what parts of the calculation has changed and needs recomputing. Haven't checked with ipyflow, but this idea would help mitigate some of your concerns
If people can do there job well enough to get promoted, that does tell you that the interview process is broken and not indicative of how well someone can perform on the job.
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/05/about-as-cold-as-it-gets-the...

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Came for the comments, comments didn't disappoint!
While I migrated my personal repos over to Codeberg, I do still submit PR's to repos on GitHub. Today I just submitted a trivial PR, and I'm now watching the poor repo owner repeatedly re-running the failed CI job that keeps saying "GitHub Actions has encountered an internal error when running your job".
Exactly. These 'ports' are more intellectually exciting than the are pragmatically useful, but they definitely can be useful, it's a matter of having the right product parameters around what they are good for and what not.

This is really an exercise in engineering thinking vs. product or 'solution oriented' thinking. You can usually tell where people's heads are at by how they react to these kinds of things.

Should note that 'people doing stuff because' is a core part of organic development, most things would not exist without that ethos floating around.
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>what he needs to do to survive

Robbing a loaf of bread so your children can eat is very different from cheating on a test/interview for a job with a kingly salary. One is doing what one needs to do to survive, and morally justifiable. The other is pathetic and craven.
> > In business there is no cheating, there is only making money and not making money.

This is the attitude that turns business from being something that is for the greater benefit of all into something that more like a cancer, harmful to all.
I'm not sure; that could be a reason for this. I've got a personal company so I can be paid B2B, which is very simple, but probably this could create some uncertainty and doubt, and could be a good reason not to take risks.
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>"The state owns all the things under Communism."

The state owns nothing under Communism as Communism assumes no state, social classes, private property and money. I do not think Communism can be achieved though, maybe in prehistoric society of docile gatherers of which we are not.
Depends on your personality. Some excel with remote, some prefer hybrid or in office 100%. I would agree that if you have the option to come in, try it and see if that resolves the issue. I work hybrid and, oddly enough, am happy when I'm in the office. It also makes we enjoy when I work from home more.
The poster wants the opposite - a way of explicitly helping AI systems/etc to use their site. If people ignore it, they're just giving up a bit of help.
I find it interesting the sentiment in the comments... Yesterday we had an Apple post where everyone was losing their minds all day about Final Cut Pro on iPad (which in my opinion as a Software Engineer is the most boring thing I’ve had to read all week). Today we have probably a massive lineup of a bunch of new AI features to be announced for products most of us use on the regular, or could use as devs, and 90% of the comments are about how boring it will be.

Not sure what to make of it but you would think the HN crowd would be slightly more interested.