skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Customer support being a bad experience has always to do with the company policies or a general lack of training.

For company policies, an AI would be rigidly trained and limited to always minimize loses to the company, since you can game the AI if it's too lax by saying the exact prompts or keywords.

For companies that do not even provide basic training except for a FAQ sheet, I do not think replacing the human with an AI is going to improve customer experience, because, a human(IC or manager) might be driven by motivation of compensation or job security, to learn more than what is provided, to do their job well.
Many other countries already have excise taxes on things like gasoline though. Gasoline costs more per liter/gallon in Lithuania even though people earn 2-3x less money.

I think this is part of the reason why the EU economy is pretty stagnant, but it is livable. Unfortunately, it also shows that it doesn't make people cut back too much on gasoline use.
Laundry, stove, and ovens use 240V outlets (assuming no gas). It’s not very common but I know a few people with wood working tools who have installed 240v outlets. Wood framed houses make it easy to change wiring.

To change my gas stove/oven back to 240v induction would be a 15 foot run of romex, a new outlet, and probably an updated circuit breaker. Possible for a DIYer to do.
If only C# had a brother language that would expose a nice functional syntax while keeping full interop and the benefits on running on the CLR ;-)

Nice thought experiment though!
I just switched my banking from the largest national institution in Australia to a local credit union and another bank that has always had an online/phone only model and is good at it. I get the best combination of human customer service and good value accounts and leave behind the abysmal contempt for customer service demonstrated by the major, with all its infuriating new AI mediocrity. I can't be the only one?
I am not the OP you are referring to, but I am non-native and this is anecdotal but when I grew up and used the internet I learned how to spell way better because of the spell check in Firefox. I really doubt I would have been able to spell half as many words as I can correctly spell any other way. I have some random words still that I infrequently use that I always typo, but theres so many other words that I just know how to write out from muscle memory at this point. My only problem is I dont know how to pronounce all words, I sometimes find a word and get really confused, not too often, but often enough.

I think AI could help me if ChatGPT or whatever else had proper text to speech with a reasonably convincing accent, even if it sounds off, as long as the accents American I am good to go.

I am also a pessimist with AI but I still try it out and use it because I do see it being used more and more.
What are your favorite ebook readers on Android? I love [Moon+ Reader](https://ab1908.github.io/2022/02/05/moon-reader.html).
NodeJS was designed to run single-threaded. Sure, you can use cluster module to run it with multiple but there's memory overhead and the ergonomics of sharing state and message-passing is nowhere near GenServer. Not to mention all the other benefits of BEAM.

But about the specifics of implementing a web-crawler, a NodeJS way to implement it would be to parallelize using lambdas.
What part of the article was trying to make you feel guilty?
Just shows how a small technical change by humans can bring an apocalypse.
It's such a ridiculous statement that without context you'd have thought it was a parody of corp speak.
Maybe common in the US. Europe takes plug and outlet design more serious (as a consequence of 230V), and while the UK plug and continental Europe's Schuko plug are very different both make it basically impossible to accidentally shock yourself.
If both the plug and socket are correctly made, it's physically impossible - by the time the contacts on the plug are exposed, they've disconnected from the contacts in the socket. No matter how much you prod and poke, you should only ever come into contact with an insulated sleeve or a non-energised contact. Unfortunately there are a lot of non-compliant plugs being sold by disreputable online retailers.

It is possible to get a very mild shock from the plug contacts if the input capacitors of the appliance haven't fully discharged. This shouldn't happen with properly-designed appliances, but it's very unlikely to be dangerous if it does happen.
Or a virus. A lot of autoimmune diseases are thought to be triggered by a virus.
You're not seriously complaining about 2 extra lines of code in what would typically be a 100+ line file, are you?

Besides, the equivalent of Elixir's module (a struct with functions) is Python's class, not a plain file.
True, but C and Fortran have very different semantics that make them suitable for very different fields. In particular, C does not have great semantics for linear algebra. Also, C has many footguns due to its use of pointers, while Fortran has virtually none.

You still need to learn the tooling, but the tooling is actually pretty similar for Fortran/C/C++ (same compiler/linker toolchain). Libraries aren't that much of a thing in Fortran, but to the extent that they are, this again is similar to C/C++.
Thanks, I managed to convert what I had downloaded with the convert.py script in llama.cpp.
When you say "to compete with Hollywood" you either mean one of two things: on quality or on box office.

The latter is nothing to do with CGI or production budget: it's about marketing budget, in which AI has less to offer.

The former, in my view, will not be aided by AI. The "glorified stage plays" are (not always but on aggregate) of significantly higher quality than quite a lot of Hollywood output. AI won't change that in any positive way.
This is how I've done things in the past when working with VM's. It definitely works well with containers as well though. The really great benefit is you can check the new version is healthy before introducing it to public traffic, and then you can hold off as long as you want before pushing on with replacing the other nodes.

You also make sure you get a clean VM each time configured the way your IaC dictates. Obviously if your nodes hosting the application are not under IaC or for some reason you want them to be long lived, then this doesn't work as well and your model is going to the better way to go.
Yeah, it’s interesting that many US companies are still only willing to hire people in the US for remote positions when they could probably get more for less if they extended it for Europe.

> account for unexpected healthcare costs which are already accounted for in Europe.

If you’re a software engineering you’re likely to already have good enough insurance and can save at least 20-50k for any unexpected costs anyway.
Really all residential connections in the US are 220V split phase. The nice thing about split phase is that it is easy to well... split and run two linked 110V circuits, so most houses will have a few 220V items(ovens, airconditioner) and the rest wired half with phase A the other half with phase B. all of our consumer items expect this 110V

As to why split phase.... I am not really sure. Really, I wish a three phase residential had become normal instead. All the advantages of split phase but now your motors don't have to suck. I have heard a three phase residential connection is common in some parts of Germany, lucky bastards.

One interesting side note is how the US last mile distribution layout is different than germany. The US uses a lot more smaller transformers, really one per street. while germany uses fewer larger transformers, one per neighborhood. not sure which one is better I bet the german layout is more efficient. but I will note it is a lot easier to keep spares and change out a small transformer.
You're comparing the value of AI versus a human being with the knowledge and skill necessary to earn a medical degree to the value of hearing Mozart live or seeing the Mona Lisa in person to Youtube and JPEGs, as an argument in favor of AI?

>but I personally prefer something inferior than nothing.

Say that again when your AI physician prescribes you the wrong medication because it hallucinated your medical history.
Interesting to find out if there is a UK equivalent. We have a lot of historic airfields, partly as a legacy of the many that were constructed in WW2. Where these have been redeveloped for housing, a clue to the old purpose is often that many of new streets are named for old aircraft.

I used to work at a Plessey [0] site that was built on an old airfield near Christchurch UK, along with a housing state. Street names include Brabazon, Halifax, De Havilland, The Runway, Sunderland, Catalina and Comet. Amusingly, when Siemens acquired Plessey [1], a team of senior Germans visited the site. They presented the management with a book of WW2 Luftwaffe photo-reconnaissance imagery (!) on which the old airfield was featured, saying IIRC "We didn't get you then, but we've got you now!".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessey

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessey#GEC_Siemens_takeover
> What's the difference between a simulator and a virtual machine?

An exercise in frustration due entirely to our field sticking one name on two very different technologies.

A simulator (more often called an emulator but one battle at a time) is a piece of software that takes compiled binaries and runs them by implementing every opcode in software. A "Multics simulator" (really, an emulator for the DPS8 hardware running a Multics disk image) is, therefore, a pure software emulation of a mainframe computer, not relying on any special hardware features of the host.

A virtual machine is one of two things:

- A piece of software like the JVM, executing bytecode in a manner similar to (but, hopefully, less complicated than) a machine emulator of the type I outlined above.

- A hypervisor, software that leverages special hardware features of the host system to run a guest on the hardware in a privilege level that allows, for example, multiple operating systems to run on the same machine at the same time.

The fact VM can also mean "virtual memory" is also Very Mirthmaking and doesn't make me Violently Mumble not one little bit.
> The Microsoft version of OpenSSH ships an SSH agent that doesn't use Unix sockets, but uses a named pipe instead.

Looks like there is work on this at https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/pull/674 and eventually take advantage of https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-...
I just realized how much I'd like to see a website summarizing legislation for various countries in the world, and venues into purchasing land for the respective locations. I want a hometurf.eco :)
Haha, Hi Cory, I would really like if 5 years after that article and blog posts if you are still in the Elixir ecosystem?
1. Threads on HN aren't expected to remain on-topic, especially top-level comments (like the one you're replying to). HN's content guidelines place no restriction on comments to be on-topic, let alone decide what on-topic is.

2. I see no vitriol in your parent comment. Sarcasm yes, but employing sarcasm alone does not make speech vitriolic.

3. You commented _about_ your parent, rathering than responding to the content of it, adding nothing to the conversation it started.

4. That you interpreted your parent's sarcasm much more strongly — as, instead, vitriolic — perhaps voices one of "your own little issues".
2200 Watts.
Also vulture were probably consuming other mammals before human replace most of them with livestock.

https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammal-decline
What internal (expectations to yourself) and external (what others/your boss expects) expectation from your last job did lead to the burn out?
This is an argument in favor of more human doctors and teachers, not replacing doctors and teachers with software.
You are correct to worry imo. The entertainment streaming product is strictly optimized towards extracting that subscription fee in return for showing you the things that will make you continue with subscription. The entire UX is geared towards promoting whatever is in vogue. After all, when they have 15% of internet traffic, it's probably cheaper to have you streaming the same show as your neighbor, not calling up some obscure 60's title from deep storage.

I started focusing my library on obscure titles and I make sure to keep my client going at all times. I've noticed my ratio jumping for the weird stuff lately. And there are also titles that I simply can't track down anymore because their seeders have all died.
Yes, sorry for being unclear. I hope people who use shells will notice.

Shameless plug: https://github.com/jankovicsandras/ml <- here are some minimal Colab / Jupyter notebooks for absolute beginners.

I just find it amazing how little effort it takes to run an LLM nowdays.
Those naive sequential services don't really exist in prod though.

It would be a dark day to discover my AWS t1.337metal was blocking 63 cores on I/O when nearly every modern lang has a wealth of async functionalities just awaiting to be exploited.
You seem to be wrong, at least based on the quote you chose to use here, as Steve doesn't even mention anything related to functional programming?
> Less discussed examples include Sam Altman taking over OpenAI,

Sam Altman seems like an example of pursuing bad quests. For example WorldCoin, or else trying to being heavy regulation to AI to kill open source competitors by hyping how AI is too dangerous to let individuals have control as opposed to highly regulated big companies.
I was going to reply "well, in the US this is law..."

The I stumbled onto this article[1] while looking for evidence to cite. It appears that I've been grossly mistaken.

[1] https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/mayjune-2000/one-mile-...
Related to this, I am a Volunteer Curator at the Retro Gaming Museum, here in Vienna [1] - and we recently added a Retro 8-bit section, with Oric Atmos, Amstrad CPC6128 and ZX Spectrum 128+ machines for folks to play with, interact with, etc.

The machines are there to showcase the 10-LINE BASIC Competition [2], which is one of the most entertaining things around, if you're a programmer .. basically the challenge is to write the best game you can, in only 10 lines of BASIC. Astonishingly, some of the entries that have won in the last few years are extraordinarily complete - a Lunar Lander clone, Pacman, etc. (The fact that my personal favourite machine, the Atmos, has won it over all the other machines in the past few years in a row is also quite a tickle. Makes one wonder, what would have happened if the Oric had gotten the attention it deserved back in the day..)

We can't write software like this on modern platforms, folks. Something went wrong! (OS vendors removing compilers, grr..)

All of these machines have modern USB storage now! This means that a machine, in the case of the Atmos, with 48K RAM - has a couple GIGS of storage! Every bit of software ever released for the thing, and still gigs and gigs of space left. :) This is kind of hilarious.

I also have an 8-bit Retro Hub [3], which I will set up some time soon with all the variety of machines it supports - a multiplayer networking platform with full compatability for C64/Atari/Atmos/AppleII machines to use in pitched battle!

The exhibit has been very fruitful - I watched some kids come into the room over the weekend, express disdain for the 'oldness' of the machines, but .. a few hours later .. they were still there, laughing and engaged and just as interested as ever. Took me way back, 40 years, to my first days doing pretty much the same thing, only it was a Computer Age store, and the machines were new. Its very fun to CTRL-C into BASIC and show the kids the code .. I dare say some minds were blown.

If you're in Vienna, stop by and check it out - would love to hear from other HN'ers ..

[1] - https://computermuseum.at/

[2] - https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium

[3] - https://8bit-unity.com/?page_id=551
> Unfortunately, I suspect we will get a two-tiered system, where the "middle class" (whether that's disappearing is another question) can afford human content/human support/etc, and the working class are forced to endure poor experiences with AI generated content and so on

I’m imagining world where companies like Netflix and Spotify introduce dirt-cheap subscription tiers that are populate with AI generated content, while they raise the prices on their existing offerings that have stuff made by humans.

If you’re poor you watch shitty, AI-generated movies on Netflix for $1.50/mo.
And imagine what future you from 2060 could show you today.
I haven't lived in Italy for 10+ years, so I don't know if anything has changed since, but that was the limit for all houses I've lived in, and from a quick Google search, it depends on your contract — the lowest is a 2 kW limit, 3.3 kW is the most common, and you can ask for an increase for an additional monthly fee. Heating and stoves are usually gas-powered, we don't do electric except for water boilers.

I have always wondered if those limits and the high electricity costs are because Italy abolished nuclear energy post-Chernobyl, doesn't have a massive oil and gas operation, so most of it is imported at a premium.
Imagine if they said that about street view? At this point, with so much capital at google, it probably makes sense to just have measuring equipment shipped, installed and have hosted/maintained at these locations. At the very least, snap some kalmann filters together with these "models" and adjust your model predictions with real-time actual values.
Actually, no, if everything is minimalistic, everything is. It's not a relative term, it's more of a specific quality and philosophy.

Same way if every new paiting for some reason starts being pointilistic, they don't cease to be pointilistic just because its the absolute norm.

(And even if it was a relative term, we do have experiece with non minimalistic software from the past, so we can still considered a current crop of software were everything is much more sparse and streamlined as "minimalistic" compared to that).

In any case, we're not talking about everything, just these two and any other that fits the description.
Not everyone has the grit to hold up to the customer retention tactics that companies use once they learn you’re leaving. Offering a short term discount or a last-ditch attempt to look into the customer’s otherwise long neglected issue costs much less and retains most customers out there.
I’ve been on laughable garbage from day 1. Drew is spot on here.
I understood the "for free" as "with very low marginal cost"-- and no matter how you socialize healthcare/education, that's not something that humans can match.
I'm 28 and the future is looking grim for my and all future generations. Any advice on how to cope with that?
I wonder what would happen if you tried asking for a list of which information it is possible to opt out of while still using WhatsApp. To force them to reveal what they can function without, or how much they are pretending to need, instead of keeping users in the dark. I suspect they don't offer such a list because they want to claim they need everything.
> The big one however is going from 200 Python servers to 4 Erlang ones

If your rewrite or refactor gives you a 10X in performance, that's not an optimization, but a bugfix. Unless you are a researcher who have just found a revolutionary algorithm.
Kind of, but the recent switch to the mupdf engine sacrificed what little layout customization it had for epubs. Now you can't even change the font anymore.
My understanding is that this choice is a balancing act between having good efficiency for long distances transmissions (230v) and having a lower peak load in the grid (110v) for desely populated areas. But I'm no expert in this matter.

Where I live (Brazil) is commom to have both. In the big cities you will find 110v and outside that you are more likely to find 220v. And yes, it is a pain if you move from a 220v city to a 110v one. But besides that most people don't care about having 2 standards.

For anyone interested there is a semi-relevant TechnologyConnections video[0] where he discusses the popularity of kettles as way to heat water in the US.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMMTVVJI4c
I don’t fully get this meme. AI isn’t dangerous because (litany of terrible effects goes here). This is the tech equivalent of “ignore global warming; bad weather is dangerous now”. Every problem in scope now was science fiction three years ago. To say confidently that an intelligent computer virus is off the table is already presumptuous but to offer a litany of other AI dangers as your evidence is just weird.
79% of statistics are made up.

Yes it's a joke... just like Google's results in 2023.
The fuse in the plug is necessary to protect the wiring on ring circuits.
> I have to say though, most compilers courses I've seen have an inordinate emphasis on parsing and little else.

Which is sad, because parsing is simpler than the theory-heavy books make it out to be and understanding optimization is probably more practically important for programmers.
Both landfills and incinerators are good places for waste as long as they're not next to water bodies.

They don't contribute to the waste in oceans that this sub-thread seemed to be about.
Actually, you get the speed increase if using threads on python with numpy because numpy will release the GIL internally, so, operations using numpy will actually run in parallel (i.e.: c libraries can release the GIL and do get the performance benefits when using multiple processors -- although yes, when you get back to running python code that won't be parallel due to the GIL).
BYD’s first-half profits surge despite price war in Chinese car market
So it's clearly not horizontal, right, and your argument is that there is a vertical common enterprise?

I don't think it's all that poorly defined, but either way, for a vertical the 11th circuit required that you must "show that the investors are dependent upon the expertise or efforts of the investment promoter for their returns."

That's just not the case here. The show could end completely and "investors" (I don't think they are investors, either, but I'll go with you on this) continue to see returns.

You've also got issues of control over the cards and the fact that people purchase them without intending to profit from them, both of which strike against you.
Toilet-cleaning AI robot
You would be shocked if you opened perf and built a statemap. It probably is.