skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to channel "Her" and "the design is very human" at the same time...
> write a multithreaded sudoku solver in one shot

I did not say anything about threads but I did hint at the fact that coroutines can be used creatively to solve problems which require backtracking and constraint propagation. The fact that this is still controversial means a lot of people are unaware LLMs do not support backtracking, recursion, and constraint propagation. Sudoku is just an obvious example of a problem that is easy to solve if you know about these concepts and next to impossible if you don't. Such problems can also be expressed as integer programs but even fewer people know how to do that so I don't usually bring it up but it would be another good test for any software system that is claimed to be intelligent by the corporate marketing department.
Do you want to bet some money on that?
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Not to mention Tesla's fantastic quality control...

... where >70% of brand new Teslas require at least one service center visit in the first 30 days to correct a factory defect...
Maybe: lots of cameras around with evidence available to discovery, but held by relatively many parties (dashcams, private vehicles, business owners) and without automated aggregation and processing of personal information.
This reeks of vaporware. The press release says nothing about what's it's for. I'm rooting for them but confused about the use case.
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I'm pretty sure opensuse is upstream from sles and probably closer to fedora than centos stream.
> I suppose another way to look at it is this: how many businesses use robot cleaners to vacuum/mop their floors? Because as far as I can tell that is already solved (basically) but it isn't done because the cost/benefit/efficacy just doesn't add up.

At least in the US, the parasitic labor unions are explicitly fighting such automation:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/autom...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/american-workers-jobs-inequal...

Cleaning robots may not yet be cost-efficient everywhere, but they can't be far off.
> . Instead of needing to roll back a whole feature, you just roll back the commit which broke stuff.

What if it's the whole feature that broke stuff? What if we decide just before release that based on our release tests this particular feature isn't ready for production yet? Do you expect me to hunt through the entire commit log and identify and revert every single commit related to the feature?
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I read many positive posts written by users who went to the conference. I'd like to try it out but I also do not think I'm going to wear a headset a few hours everyday. I wonder if I can rent it for a few weeks from my company...
I don't yet feel comfortable calling myself an "experienced" Djangoist, and even less an experienced React writer, but it's heartening to open up WIH and see my exact chosen stack as the first result.
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How often do these narrow-lane scenarios require one of the cars to back up? And do any self-driving cars perform this back-up negotiation maneuver?

Here's an example of a non-autonomous car backing up for a FSD Tesla: (at 22:20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l6KLC3S5gc&t=22m14s
That is amazing, especially as RHEL has a critical CVE sitting there for months that will never be backported to 8, while plenty of enterprises are sitting on 7.9 still.

The auditors being happy is important, but part of what people pay for with RHEL is liability, and I can't imagine you get that with third party support.
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Spend time reviewing code generated by AI, not writing it
I glanced through the guide and it's Windows and Cisco (specifically IOS) heavy: mentions of the old Cisco architecture via Core/Access/Distribution, where larger DC networks have converged onto spine/spline setups, CDP/Cisco Discovery protocol whereas the open-source LLDP is more generic, even the nomenclature of 802.1q VLAN tags: access versus trunk. But I guess if you are starting to automate a legacy office network, it might be useful.

More recent non-IOS network OSes that lend themselves to automation, especially in the datacenter, the likes of Cumulus or SONiC are pure linux with some asic-vendor-specific bits and bobs, so I'm unsure of the applicability of this guide to larger, more modern networks. Tools like ansible could be a good fit here, but since they are 'just' linux, might as well use a dedicated config management tool like chef or puppet.

Otherwise I think it's well written for someone in a smaller shop wanting to get their feet wet with ansible and other tools but still stuck on IOS.
I may backtest this over the weekend just in case it has some alpha :)
Even more amazing, in the 80s they finally realized they should capitalize on all this technology, and allowed a bunch of entrepreneurial employees to use it (although they didn't invest $$$). Several of these (Spectra Diode Labs, Synoptics) could have made them a rival to Berkshire Hathaway.

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None of the suits cared about Linux in the early days when we sysadmins were extolling it's benefits. The idea that Linux could ever take on commercial Unix offerings from companies like IBM was laughable. It's so strange to me that the argument that suits don't care what geeks think is still being made. Current users will stick with Red Hat until they fear they won't be able to hire for it. But that's what happened to AIX and why IBM bought Red Hat in the first place.
The right audience is mandatory
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I am very pessimistic about the future of VR beyond it being super nice for niche cases. But I think there’s something fundamentally good about:

1) Apple taking a stab at it, because it’s the kind of thing where UX really matters and Apple does UX well.

2) Apple not being trapped in the “if we can’t sell a billion of them then why even bother?” mindset that so many other companies get trapped in, often because they’re not bursting at the seams with cash, talent, and runway.
Maybe wouldn’t need to reproduce this text here if this was the link on the story in the first place.
They've blocked it, apparently ...
There is just this message now : "Nothing to see here - yet"
> classically Apple strategy of 'let's just take the Next Gen technology, integrate it well, and beat everyone else to market.'

If that were true, they’d long have an iPhone with a foldable screen, and would have shipped AR/VR glasses years ago.

I don’t think that ever was their strategy. IMO, they figure out what a good product needs and build it as soon as technology allows.

That always requires integrating technology well, and often also requires using new tech, but that’s just a consequence of wanting to build the best possible.

Beating everyone else to market certainly isn’t (high) on their list (“less space then a nomad”, “my Nokia could do that years before iPhone”, etc)
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Just a couple. They have to do with sets and set operations.
That was a nice, clear explanation that even I could understand. One thing I wasn't sure about, though.

var arr = [_]u32{ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 }; // 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
const slice1 = arr[1..5]; // 2, 3, 4, 5
const slice2 = slice1[1..3];

If I were to use indices out of range, presumably that would that give me a compile time error? Could I use variables as the indices and, if so, could I get a seg fault at runtime or are there some sort of guards on there?
They can't generate enough electricity because of corruption. When you have people actively sabotaging power generation, there are bigger concerns than the transition to EVs. If you attempt to transition the country to renewables, then you'll be killed.
The only problem is that an array of FPGAs would make an Nvidia GPU look cheap. And easy to get.
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I don't see how a choice between A or B, both neoliberals, can possibly best represent the opinions of 350 million. Thats basically our two party system though. You might be forgetting things like COINTELPRO.
> The plaid has upgraded brakes, and they work just fine. What’s not safe about them?

Well, hopefully they actually remember to install all of them at the factory...

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/another-tesla-is-delivere...

https://driveteslacanada.ca/model-3/the-saga-of-a-tesla-mode...

> Also, if you had fit issues (honestly more rare the past few years) you should have reported this at delivery

Many do. Tesla leads the market in that over 70% of new deliveries require at least one service center visit in the first 30 days of ownership to correct a factory/delivery defect.
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AI affects both human interfaces (text, speech, sound, images) and the ability to interpret and create data by/for humans. That's effectively the entire interface space between machine and the human-experienced world. Can you think of an area of technology that won't be affected by AI? Even unrelated technologies are going to get affected in their interfaces and tooling.

As for the rest of your comment... please don't hijack other conversations for soapboxing on the industry as a whole. Instead, submit your post and open a real conversation.
Those are not this.
Silicon Valley is facing a Darwinian moment for startups
As opposed to killing a writer
I can't remember having any issues with using hash maps in Zig when I tried it out during Advent of Code. They were almost as easy to use in Zig as in Rust. Only extra complication was returning error on failed allocation rather than panicking.
Interesting analysis of the data showing how a drought in VC funding is going to lead to more startups folding over the next few quarters. Must read for people at startups rn imho.
> do you really think that 1000 years from now, cars won't be able to fully drive themselves under all conditions better than humans?

Ignoring the questions of if there will even be people -- let alone cars as we known them -- in 1,000 years, my answer to this is:

I have no idea. I don't see any special reason to suspect that such cars will exist in 1,000 years. I also see no special reason to suspect that they won't.

> If you can agree that in 1000 years

We don't agree on this.
If there was ever a reliable sign that we are approaching the "top" of the hype cycle for a tech idea, it is that Masayoshi Son is gushing in public about it.
The amount you are paid is unrelated to the amount of value you provide, other than it being a lower bound on what a well run organization can afford. It is solely determined by what you can negotiate. Someone being willing to work for less than you absolutely is not exploitation in and of itself.

If you think waiters at fancy steakhouses and cafes do the same thing, you either haven't been to a fancy steakhouse, or to a cafe
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It's a regional variation.

Super common in some areas to see handbrakes used all the time (ex: Atlanta, very hilly, lots of names like "Druid hills" and "piedmont").

Super common in some areas to see handbrake usage discouraged entirely (ex: Northern states, where the concern is that it'll freeze up)

Super common in some areas to see no one care at all because it's just flat everywhere (ex: texas)
Bingo. Getting it into production is a non-concern for non-entities with no reputation, but Google has a lot more to lose. The big guys watch and wait, and use their sizeable wallets when the time comes. I have no doubts that Apple is going to eat Meta's lunch soon, for example — a lunch Meta didn't even realize was there, for all their innovation and go-to-market.
I think 3rd party developers are largely irrelevant for it’s initial success. It’s like the original iPhone, if the hardware and built in apps are compelling then people will buy it which will eventually create an ecosystem.

That’s IMO why VR has largely failed, out of the box there hasn’t been a compelling reason to get one and there isn’t enough software to keep people interested.
I don't think the RTS genre died; I think it evolved. Two of the most popular games in the world, League of Legends and DotA2, are RTS games. The Total War franchise keeps on kicking. Auto-battlers like Teamfight Tactics and Mechabellum mix real-time analysis with turn-based decision making.

It's the old school style of RTS that's dying; harvest resources to build units and beat your opponent. But that style of game was perfected with the release of Brood War, and the core mechanics haven't been improved on since.
Apple has been smart to present it as a desktop replacement (as opposed to some ar/vr/metaverse device), which is something they can deliver that will let users bring their existing apps to the new medium without adaption.

Ideally yes apps should update themselves, tailor the experience. But the main focus so far has been pretty conventional app like experiences, which happen to be hovering in space. Where-as most headsets have tried to create entirely new ecosystems from nothing, and that would have been a huge mountain to climb.
>It's visualizing concepts internally and then using a grammar model to turn those into speech.

First off, not everyone "visualizes" thought. Second, what do you think "using a grammar model to turn those into speech" actually consists of? Grammar is the set of rules by which sequences of words are mapped to meaning and vice-versa. But this is implemented mechanistically in terms of higher activation for some words and lower activation for other words. One such mechanism is scoring each word explicitly. Brains may avoid explicitly scoring irrelevant words, but that's just an implementation detail. All such mechanisms are computationally equivalent.
I don't even want to think about an HP ticketing system.
also here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36565865
Highest quality !== great quality

Wikipedia suffers from massive bias and subjectivity issues, and also from accuracy problems. Yet, all the attempts to do better fizzled out so far, and most non-niche knowledge and information repositories have the same or worse issues.
More granular prompting like this is a huge deal... If they ever release the code for it. Even if its cherry picked, the effect on that "Dragon flying over France" prompt example is huge.

Also, I noticed Stability and Coreweave provided funding for the compute. That actually makes me kinda suspicious, like they are going to keep the implementation to themself.
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Roadmap:

- whitepaper

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...

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Still no remote :(
Not a lawyer, but doesn't linking to Wikipedia indirectly link to a copy of the license?
Yep. CoPilot for example is great for making grunt code, filling in the blanks. But it's really crappy at anything that requires reasoning through a problem.

It is our responsibility as tech professionals to recognize this and explain it to laymen otherwise we're in trouble.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: It's really really bad that these systems are made to speak in first person, that they're often given "names", that they use human voices, and that they present authority. This is irresponsible engineering from a social and ethics POV, and our "profession" such as it is, should be held to task for it.
Humans are likely to share when they don't know something or to express concern when they aren't positive what they're is correct. LLMs are confident 100% of the time and don't understand when they're wrong. I get what you're trying to say but I don't think this is an instructive example.
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I don't think I fully understand the analogy.

Typescript has almost identical semantics to Javascript but adds typing syntax to improve developer experience and make it easier to manage a large-scale JS codebase.

Zig is a fundamentally different language than C that has a lot of new features. Two great examples are comptime and allocators which have complements in C, but are really very different from what C provides.

If you're suggesting that zig is aiming to provide a C alternative with better ergonomics, then I agree; but zig and C have a lot more differences than Typescript and Javascript.
> At the end of the day I don’t think the justification or excuse is important. It’s a “vote with your feet” scenario.

I agree with this entirely.

A business like Microsoft's is always a money-grab competition between shareholders, customers, non-executive employees, and executives.

I can't recall a single occurrence (in my experience) that management's rhetoric to employees was a substitute for cash, stock, and/or a contract.

In fact, that rhetoric would just sour me on management, because I take it as evidence that they're playing employees for fools. If you want employees to invest in the company's future, offer stock, not platitudes.
EVs can be charged at home. Electricity is a commodity and will continue to be. I'm skeptical of the commercial value of their network long term.
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