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The fact that Hollywood was releasing more original films several decades ago is not an opinion, it's fact.

As to whether there's a corresponding decrease in quality, that's definitely an opinion, but it's not exactly a controversial one. Just google it and you'll find no shortage of articles talking about Hollywood's creative decline. Or just look at the comments in this thread.

It's also not a complaint limited to older people — actually, older people (older millenials, gen Xers, and boomers) seem to be more content with the state of movies these days than the younger crowd, who IME seem more likely to recognize them for the bland corporate moneygrabs they are.

To respond more directly to your obnoxiously-stated point: I was not alive when Hollywood was at what's generally considered it's "peak" (say, 70s through 90s). But to anyone, of any age, comparing the top movies from 1984[0] to the top movies from 2022[1], the difference in quality and originality should be obvious. One striking point: not a single top 10 movie in 2022 is an original IP, compared to 8/10 being original in 1984.

0: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1984/
1: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2022/
Hey, I'm looking for remote work. Lets talk? Email in the profile.
Why not? Hypervisor type 1 has less overhead, but it's still not quite the same as running directly on the box. I don't think micro kernels would replace those anyway. To be honest, I don't even really see the connection between running most of the kernel in user space and allowing concurrent systems to run in the same hardware.
As I understand it, it's more of a region around that point in space that spacecraft try to stay close to/within
Based on what has been shown so far, they should have just called it Google A/I.
What to know about the PaLM 2 large language model
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Dividends should be a sign that a company has excess cash and can't find a good place to invest it. Paying a dividend while asking workers to take a pay freeze signals they don't believe the workers are returning enough value to justify paying them more.
Loophole-free Bell inequality violation with superconducting circuits
> It is the radiation of course

It's not _just_ the radiation; it's also pretty toxic, and, like a lot of heavy metals, the body struggles to get rid of it.
Bell Correlations Outside Physics
It would be nice if there was an option to give the same key-bindings as VS Code uses. I can't count the number of times I've hit Ctrl+W expecting the current code talb to close only to curse under my breath and remind myself I'm not in VS Code...
Update from the future: we're almost an hour in and ML is pretty much the only thing they've talked about.
Web app links GitHub repos to ChatGPT and improves its own code
I developed a web app that can connect Github repos to ChatGPT, and I connected it to its own code to improve itself! gitgab.ai
BBC BASIC is still available and maintained by one of its original developers, an astonishing record.

https://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/index.html

The Windows version is a £25 purchase, but the SDL and command-line versions are gratis. It's a great language for hacking around on a Raspberry Pi.
Somehow that has been my experience as well. I used to love HN for the rational and mature comments. Now, I find more of the comments to be idealistic and biased. More of the comments are from people who don't seem to have read the linked post.
Transactional. Monthly statements.
As you wrote this, they announced PaLM 2.
I'd like [my last name].com but a domain squatter has it and wanted over $10,000.
I put in a low ball offer and they wouldn't budge. I told them they were crazy. I have an uncommon name that very few people would want so I may try your tactic.
I also doomscroll on a laptop. +1 for a MacOS version someday.
And then you factor in the occurrence of different systems running at different clock speeds having to interchange across several interfaces in a way that the entire communication somehow stays afloat and even produces feedback.
What you're describing is parasocial interaction, not social interaction.
This makes about as much sense to me as the old “keywords” HTML meta tag.

It will be gamed.
The more interesting ways that a headset could be incorporated into a workflow don't exist yet. Before that can happen, we need a baseline of hardware utility. I think my index is very close, but text needs to be comfortable.
Signed up right away. How does it work?
Mutation testing: auto test your tests
The difference is that GPT won’t steal plumber’s job.
This may help explain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_wages
I think it's really cool that folk are using this as an opportunity to explore beyond the boundaries of what they think they're capable of.
Yeah, but compare that to, for example, our other neighbor Canada: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...
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I very much enjoy dive[1] for this purpose, though it doesn't seem to be maintained anymore...

[1] https://github.com/wagoodman/dive
Depends on the number of engineers available to do the work.
Technically suicide is a crime

No it isn't, not in any of the 50 states is it a crime.
Bard now open to use
> Is it not better/preferable to freeze salaries than to cut more staff?

Hint: Neither is needed for most of these big tech companies.
Yes, maybe it's easier to understand what's going on once you understand the strategy in terms of a conversation. Suppose I'm Alice and I want to securely talk to Bob with TLS 1.3

The key exchange (KEX) allows me to agree a secret S with somebody I'm talking to over the network. I don't know if they're Bob, but whoever they are, eavesdroppers can't discover this secret.

Now, we (Alice, and the maybe Bob) can communicate securely with our secret S, nobody can MITM this conversation, they don't know S.

Bob sends public documents (a certificate) which say Bob knows some Private Key such that I can verify it with a published Public Key mentioned in the certificate. That's no big deal, they're public documents, anybody could have those but then...

Bob also sends a transcript. The transcript is of our KEX earlier, and it's signed using Bob's private key, which means I, Alice, can verify this is a signed transcript of our conversation. I was in the conversation, so I can confirm it's identical.

Having verified this signed transcript, I know that Bob was in the conversation I had earlier, with the unknown maybe-Bob, and it stands to reason that's because this is Bob.

Notice that if Mallory, a hypothetical MITM, tried to attack us, this won't work. The conversation between me (Alice) and Mallory must involve parameters that Mallory chose, if Mallory just forwards Bob's parameters to Alice and vice versa, Mallory doesn't learn S and so is cut out of the picture. But, if Mallory changes the parameters Alice and Bob see, then the transcript that Bob signed won't match the KEX that Alice experienced, so the connection is aborted.
Stack Overflow CEO announces 10% reduction in force (58 employees)
It's always been a sensitive topic. Reminds me of the 5000 dollars punch fix story.
Caretta – eBPF L4 observability in a standalone OSS tool
every liar justifies it to themselves somehow. committing to dealing honestly with other people is a very serious undertaking, it's a struggle against nurture and nature that lasts a lifetime. some people don't see the value of it - some people see the value, but don't think it's worth the risk.
This is something I planned (2015) on sharing at some point but then years flew by and here we are .. :}

It is a cacheline sized 'container' (CLC) of machine-word length records, with one record used to store the record order and remaining bits for metadata. So you can project different kinds of container semantics, such as FIFO or LRU -- any ordered set semantics -- on this meta record. Using arrays of CLCs you can create e.g. a segmented LRU, where the overhead per item is substantially less than a conventional pointer-based datastructure, and, is naturally suited for concurrent operations (for example by assigning a range to distinct worker threads), and ops require a few or couple of lines to be touched. The LRU (or whatever) semantics in aggregate will be probabilistic, as the LRU order is deterministic per unit container only. It is very fast :)

https://github.com/alphazero/libclc/blob/master/include/libc...

https://github.com/alphazero/libclc/blob/master/include/libc...

As for the non-deterministic aspects: Since container semantics e.g. LRU order is only applied at unit level, the overall cache is ~LRU. We can strictly quantify the 'ordering error' by observing the age of items in FIFO mode as they are removed: for a deterministic container the age of the item is equal to the total capacity of the queue, for a segmented (array) composed of FIFO queues, the age will have a effectively gaussian distribution around the capacity (number of units x unit capacity). But since these containers can use as few as 9 bits per entry vs 24 or more bytes for pointer based solutions (which use linked-lists), for the same allocation of memory, the capacity of the array of CLCs will be much greater, so, the distribution tail of 'short-lived' items will actually be longer lived than items in a strict queue for the same exact memory. Additional techniques, such as n-array hashing, and low order 'clock' bits at container level, can tighten this distribution significantly (i.e. ~LRU -> LRU) via better loading factors.
> Combining two decimal numbers with non-division arithmetic never leads to that case.

Most types are subject to overflow that has similar effects. Most of the FP error people encounter is actually division error. For example, the constant 0.1 contains an implicit division. The "tenths" place is defined by division by 10. I think that almost all perceptions of floating point lossiness come from this fact.
Plus, to make it fully static, you need to ensure that all code paths are being hit.
Imagine a world without words. No need to imagine really. It exists. It’s everywhere. It’s the core. It’s what words represent, but words can only represent it to an entity that has experienced it to some degree. ChatGPT “knows” nothing about it. You do. Whether you recognize it or not.

ChatGPT is a machine, an algorithm, a recombinator of symbols. It doesn’t know what the symbols refer to because each symbol necessarily refers to another symbol until
you finally reach a symbol that refers to a shared, real experience…perhaps (Hello Wittgenstein!). And ChatGPT has no experience. Just symbols. It can’t intuit anything. It can’t feel anything. Even if you put quotes around “feel”, what does that even mean for a software algorithm running on hardware that does not feed continuous, variable electrical
sensations to the algorithm? It only feeds discrete symbols. Do you feel the number 739? Or do you “feel” it? Um what? Whatever inner experience 739 happens to produce in you is grounded in some real experiences in the past. Likewise any fake memories you have that somehow seem real, those are still grounded in a real feelings at some point. You could do this ad infinitum. If you are alive, you have experience. But ChatGPT has no experience, no grounding.

Problem here might be that we are trying to use words and logic to describe something that cannot be described by either.

This is why the gong is struck.
Just because

> ¬A (not profitable) => B (startup)

> does not imply

> A (profitable) => ¬B (not a startup)

does not imply that ¬A => B. In other words, the logical structure can be correct, but that does not mean the premises are themselves true. This is the difference between validity and soundness in formal logic [0].

[0] https://iep.utm.edu/val-snd/
I often daydream about this one and wonder if there is continuous asphalt from me (Sweden) down to South East Asia or if there are any breaks.

When I search for answers right now, AH1 looks like a candidate, but no confirmation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH1
Slightly off-topic, but: Gandi was my registrar of choice, but I read some months ago that they've sold out. Who do people go to these days for registering domain names?
Very cool, thanks. Hakai does some great work in presenting the sorts of science they do, making it approachable for the layman.
The precedent for the illegality of IQ tests for employment is Griggs v Duke Power Co. [1] if I'm not mistaken. The court ruled:

> The Act proscribes not only overt discrimination, but also practices that are
> fair in form, but discriminatory in operation. The touchstone is business
> necessity. If an employment practice which operates to exclude Negroes cannot
> be shown to be related to job performance, the practice is prohibited.

(apologies for the dated and offensive language, starring it out seemed like it would imply a different and more offensive term so I left it as is)

My reading of it is that IQ tests aren't broadly illegal, but the employer would have to demonstrate that it's somehow related to job performance. E.g. one employer refused to hire people with too high of an IQ, and the courts ruled that was a reasonable (if unwise) justification [2].

I'm doubtful any case challenging LeetCode tests on the same grounds would succeed. I think it would be exceptionally difficult to convince a court that solving coding problems is unrelated to a programmer's job performance.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.

2: https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...
> So overhiring in some light does look bad, on the other hand it gives some people the necessary experience for their next step in their carrers.

Not if they were let go before their first year, which has been the case at a lot of tech companies recently.

New hires, juniors especially, need a lot of time to onboard. Lessons in the first weeks and months of a new job will be more about company-specific tooling and minutiae, not engineering in the broader scope. Portable lessons come later, usually after you've found your legs.
Everyone is worth less when the pandemic and war disrupted so many things.
Google launches new AI PaLM 2 in attempt to regain leadership of the pack
Maia also has enough going on with lawsuits from being honest in the past. Not taking credit for this one might be for the better...
Because HN is increasingly realizing they're actually a part of the working class.
Do not have mercy for a faceless corporation continually posting profits that grow quarter over quarter. They are rolling in money and could cut executive comp or something else, but choose not to.
YC news is still weird for praising Apple
> > Personal politics, IMO, is not a good reason to avoid living in certain areas.

> Policy climate can br a very good reason to avoid living in certain areas.

While there's clearly substantial overlap, I think there can be an important difference between choosing not to live somewhere because your personal politics disagree with the norm there, and choosing not to live somewhere because of the actual impact of the policies that are or may be implemented there.
I have dreamed of ditching the phone but haven't because so many sites that require a phone number to make an account, and some that use that number to validate your identity. How do you get around this?
92% of China's top 500 companies have major CCP board ownership.

https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/expressions/influence-w...
Yes a lot of companies hired a lot more. A lot of money also got distributed in this process which otherwise wouldn't have. Laid off employees got some work experience out of it. Better than nothing.

I don't get this stuck up argument again and again Why did they hire before? As if there is some really great answer that can reveal itself by repeatedly asking this question.

> Cutting would be better than freezing salaries.

Many would like same or lower salary than being laid off. Those who looking for higher salaries can move on just like they always have.
> I actually would prefer it over Python for small scripts, but the compilation overhead is too long

Looks like this release reduces that by a lot, see the first section in the OP on caching native code, modulo adoption of good precompilation habits by the various packages.
I'm saying that's how things have been, are, and will continue to be.

Any policy, technology, process, etc must take that into account.

I definitely wish that's not how it was, and I don't think that's how it should be, but we have to work with what we have to work with.

There are plenty of ways to get people to rise to their best selves, rather than sink to their worst selves, as they are in this context while competing for high paying jobs, and we should always try to induce the best outcomes possible.

I think this what you're getting at by suggesting we don't just give up, despite knowing what we know about human nature. But we also shouldn't deny the hard truth that humans won't anyways behave the way we wish they did.
https://archive.ph/ApDqq
If all large tech employers play follow the leader then it's not natural reversion, it's a textbook example of tacit oligopoly coordination.
I'm starting to notice a trend of mentioning AI in these layoff notices.
How is cheating risky? You get caught, you don't get the job. End of story.

On the other hand, not cheating means it will be harder to get the job. This seems to be the riskier strategy (but, I'd argue, has the greater reward.)
Ummm, that's not the definition of a militia.

The definition of a militia is a body of non-professional (ordinary citizen) soldiers not part of the regular army, who stand ready to be called up in an emergency.

Notice the being called up part - the militia is to be SERVING IN and to be UNDER THE COMMAND of the ordinary military hierarchy.

A militia is NOT as you are implying, some kind of batch of citizens ready to raise an insurrection to fight against the army. That is the exact opposite of "being necessary to the security of a free State".

While I'm not for bureaucracy, even the Army has qualification standards of who can join. While militia standards should be lower, we cannot argue that they should be zero, enshrining some "right" for any mentally-incompetent and/or skilled-incompetent person to buy any armament and carry it in any situation.

If you are a sane, competent, and responsible citizen, no one is even proposing a law infringing your right.

(and FTR, I used to argue a "gun control is using two hands" approach. But accumulation of facts and a bit of thinking has changed my mind.)
> Algos to solve those both exact methods and heuristics are super useful in real world applications, and very underappreciated by the HN crowd IMO.

There just aren't many situations where they're useful. Time scheduling, logistics, operations, there are only a handful of places where these problems are so important that they need to be solved optimally or nearly optimally.
> This gross generalization of other people's views on important issues is really offensive.

The "we" that has been calling for shorter terms is no more a gross generalization than the "we" that is calling for more protection against AI use of stuff.

The world outside of HN-and-similar has been much less anti-copyright than the world in here. More "neutral" seems to be dominant - we're not extending it anymore; we're not shrinking it either. And currently generally more panicked about AI taking away their jobs and rendering their skills and creativity useless.

The original post was a very fair summary of how there are now two ground-level movements competing that there weren't two years ago.
Difference is, I’ve actually been to war as an active combatant

Also you assume too much about what I would and would not agree with

I’m all for Revolution, but yours is incoherent and disorganized
Dell is peak asshole design. They also blast fans as full speed if you install GPUs that you don't buy from them. Fuck them.
Makes me wonder if VPN providers could be liable under Utah law for allowing a user to avoid legal requirements of Utah by having an exit-point in another state/country. It's a theoretical question... I don't see Utah going after VPN companies.
Sure. But it is equally possible to reword things to clarify. There are plenty of languages out there that never made the he/she/they distinction in the first place, and plenty of pro-drop languages where you would normally omit the subject of a sentence entirely, if you expect that the listener/reader can infer the subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-drop_language

It is hard to make the argument that singular “they” is somehow an inherently confusing construct, especially given how prevalent it is in English, and how prevalent it has been for centuries.
> I care what my options are in the end, a lot more than ideology or something, and Apple worsened my options compared to before.

How did AirPods existing ruin your options? You can choose to not buy them, I don't, I like conductive head phones better anyways (non-Apple, before the AirPods came out, and they don't suck, so I don't get what you mean by apple producing the only BT headphones that don't suck?). Or do you mean you want to buy AirPods but you don't want to use an iPhone, or you want to use wired headphones only and don't care for dongles?

> The end result is I don't listen to music from my phone anymore.

Seriously, this is the mental gymnastics I'm talking about. None of this is really stopping you from listening to music on your phone.
Mobile Is Pretty Hard
A pertinent question indeed - the OP was entirely devoid of detail!

/s
I've been to https://www.butchartgardens.com/. It is admittedly a highly artificial example, but it is an extremely pretty reclaimed coal mine that is reasonably large, and with good plant diversity. They don't use herbicides or pesticides, but instead rely on released insects to protect the plants. (Unfortunately they have not found an alternative to fungicides to protect the roses.) This suggests at least some insect diversity.
FWIW while existing graph algorithms can't solve it optimally, but they do approach it quite closely using heuristics. It's unclear how much benefit something like this would have for online (i.e. latency-sensitive) applications such as internet routing if the time-constant to setup the QC + execute + get the result is higher compared to a heuristic approach. My hunch is that it won't be useful there for a long time if ever.

That being said, for FPGA/ASIC layout & similar problems, it's possible that QC is worth it as an extra optimization level even if slower to get a result in absolute terms to eek out that last bit of optimality (e.g. LTO equivalent). It may also be useful as a way to evaluate how good existing heuristics perform against the true optimal route to see if there's any improvements that can be made to the heuristic algorithms or the heuristics being used themselves.
I don't think Joe The Plumber got that memo.