skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Holy shit, I moved next to an airport and it's loud. How could I have known? Surely this is the airport's fault!"

I think it's slightly worse than that. People buy a property for cheap[er than elsewhere] because it's close to an airport and then complain that their house is impacted by the noise from the airport and want to close the airport.
Also, you become a better programmer if you write duplicate code and then learn how to abstract it for cases that make sense. I also don't believe that dupe code is always a bad thing. Like everything else in software engineering, IT DEPENDS.
This is much less common outside IT. My worry is that this kind of enhancement will normalize unacceptable requests because "just have AI do it and you just need to go over it" will become an expectation.
Pixel 1 was released in 2016, you have to root to upgrade OS, but not able to upgrade Android major versions.
> (...) and going back to plain old virtual servers

Some of us never left ;)
i refuse to believe this is a real question
I see your point. I too have been asked to do something unexpected around end of day that ends up taking the night. Over the years, I have learned to say no. It was difficult to learn, but now people understand how to work with me. You're right, inaccurate to say this is not common, I just don't like how the usecase is promoting the worst stereotypes about managers. There's a lot of positive stuff. Ex. you want down time to spend with your family. There are a few calls you think you can skip on. You can ask Duet AI to attend on your behalf and give you summaries at the end of the day, etc...

AI is here to help us work smarter. Hopefully this creates time to work on more interesting & impactful problems thereby improving productivity. The worst case scenario is if people just end up working more on meaningless tasks.

Remember the "let me google it for you" meme? Not very different if all the manager has to do is ask Duet AI to pull together this report instead of asking you.

I'm digressing. This use case really triggers me.
I'm not entirely sure what your point is. I didn't realize being in alpha had monetary or time limits.
I was just adding that in addition to the truth that normal Java could just do it. But if that is really not enough, then paying for a few Azul licenses is an addition can save you time and money.
Nothing like that happened where I live and we still got groceries and rent doubled so the direct link is uhhh a little uncertain I think.
Given the site's propensity for hoaxes I thought I had better check that the 1827 book cited there actually exists. ;)

And lo and behold:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hVm4lHMT3VwC&pg=PA18
It’s not true, this is a meme that started around 2020 and color suffers the more for it.

It’s funny, in a sad way, when you dig into it. The ‘scientific’ version is about 5 lightness points different from WCAG, on a scale of 100. That isn’t a coincidence. put somewhat more directly, it sure is funny these people made up contrast ratio out of thin air without evidence, and the answer that will save us has basically the same #s
Mine too but since they're black we just call that tuesday.
Embracing sabbaticals, sunsetting retirement age
Came across an article when looking into this issue, about HSY[1] from a Krita (image editor) dev, which is apparently part of Krita's advanced color selector and addresses the same issue by mapping perceived luminosity of colors.

[1] https://wolthera.info/2014/07/hsi-and-hsy-for-kritas-advance...
> With PostgreSQL 14 released just a few weeks ago...

Would benefit from putting "2021" in the title
"Gang of Four": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four_(software)
> When an abstraction evolves to a point where it needs to be split into two separate implementations to meet diverging needs…
you will need to replace that abstraction with duplication.

Hard disagree. When the formerly common parts of an abstraction evolve to no longer be common, then that duplication no longer exists. There now exists two abstractions, one for each of the diverging needs. There may be some leftover commonality that can be abstracted out, but it's no longer the original abstraction.
Understood, but the article specifically said: "anything stored in plastic bottles, plastic wrap, or cans/cartons lined with plastic".
So, having just read this about Oklch, it strikes me that I [as a designer] would want to alter the chroma according to the ability of the display -- which they show the possibility of at the end, using @media:

@media (color-gamut: p3){
.some-class {
color: oklch(70.9% 0.195 47.025);}}

Surely this is the only real option, otherwise you're risking distributing colours across a gamut that the display simply won't render? I'd assume that's going to result in non-linear fades, poor colour distinction, and such like?
Curious, not saying its your fault but did you have the game installed on Nvme/ssd? On a standard HDD even with high r/w speeds the game is borderline unplayable.

Also free fly weekends are when the game is at its worst, the servers are bought to its knees.

Again, no fault to the player and its completely on CIG but its a shame that a lot of players never get to see the game in its best light because free fly is a nightmare.
Only recently. mmap file and directly use in Metal kernels is actually not supported until iOS 16 / macOS 13. Also, there are limited optimization opportunities around that and the recommended way seems still to use the specific Metal APIs to stream load assets from disk.
Socialists really are a dreary miserable lot, aren’t they.
Do you know that first link's security certificate fails and the website is under construction. I'd love to visit the museum when I'm in Vienna. Not that it will happen in the very near future, but I plan on revisiting Vienna one day (to watch The Third Man in that old cinema again :).
I would suggest all this stuff will arise organically if you just hire the right people and give them some good principles of what good looks like. Like actually train people in leadership and other skills instead of just having a 'process'? I mean it when I say see what happens if you actually trust people and give them some freedom.
Well, I stayed put for 27 years. Raised a family and emptied the nest there. It made moving back to the midwest easier.

It was a pain, but it is part of my retirement strategy — downsize periodically. (Obviously moving from California to Nebraska was the biggest gain in that regard.)
The rule of law is in more trouble than democracy
Restarted the Apple TV and HomePods, no difference. IMO this reads like a Siri change on the backend since everything is already up-to-date, maybe the result of some kind of hidden fallout between Apple and Spotify.

I get that Spotify directly competes with Apple Music, but for the sake of the consumers IMO they should suck it up and interoperate.
Because, Freedom. And, because America. **===

Now, I'm going to go talk to My Fellow 'Mericans about continuing to not use the metric system.
But I use DOS...
"Gang of Four", references https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns.
If you mean the table under "For comparison, space and time required to build each compiler", I think, that it is about what each compiler took in time and disk space to compile itself, on the same hardware, so it is about P compiling P sources.

V can not compile C or Go, Go can not compile C, and C compilers can not compile V or Go, so it can not be otherwise.
The research is dishonest, they know they arent showing the full picture
Shout out to my local story in Grass Valley, CA: http://www.airfields-freeman.com/ca/Airfields_CA_NE.htm#gras...

It has a credible claim to operating since around 1900, which makes it very old for a California airport. The owner (Lyman Gilmore) has a less-than-credible claim to flying an airplane in 1902, a year before the Wright Bros. It's a good story even if it's perhaps not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_Gilmore

The local school built near the old airfield has a windsock as a commemoration.
> Taking GPT out of the equations reduces my velocity by magnitudes.

But you should still know how to do it regardless. Because of situations like this. That is the point of my comment. If you can't do your job without ChatGPT, you don't have any business working in your field to begin with. Even if it's at a reduced speed, you still need to know how to do your job.

>It's a nice thought, but I can apply this chain of reasoning to no end of technologies without which scientific progress in a given domain would entirely halt.

Not really. To do advanced stuff you have to understand the basics. This goes for almost every field. You can't build the next-level Javascript app without knowing what an if-else does. You can't be a doctor without knowing a little chemistry and biology. Even in a job like construction, you need to be able to do simple math to make sure your measurements are correct.

Saying that advanced tools should be used for things like programming without understanding the basics is a logical fallacy. It's the same argument that managers sometimes use. You know, the "programmers only copy and paste from stack overflow. Why do we pay you so much?" Asking chatGPT for code means nothing if you don't know how to apply it and search for bugs. And to use code from ChatGPT, you need to know how to do your job without it. Otherwise, you will only produce code that, at best, sucks and, at worst, doesn't work.
I don’t see how an ebook reader can look “dated”. It’s literally displaying your text, with your chosen font in a frame.
The tradition answer to this question is surely this wonderful Tom Scott video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q.
I think it's about more than crypto. 'Enshittification' as described here has created a lot of distrust: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/11/users-...
It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine. We've been standardized on 240/120 since 1967, and still many people insist on saying 110 and 220. It hasn't been 110V since well before 1967, either -- it was increasing over time before they locked it at 120.
> Has anyone yet figured out why so many humans suffer from an allergy to many natural plants which we have lived around for millions of years?

For those of us in the Americas most of us aren't living in the same places our ancestors lived for millions of years and so are living around a different set of plants than humans evolved with.

For example I've lived all my life in the western United States, about 30 years in California and 30 years in Washington.

According to DNA testing I have very little Native American ancestry, so it is very likely that almost all of my ancestors from more than around 300 years ago were not from here. The DNA tests say my ancestors were almost all British and German, so almost all of my ancestors from 600 or more years age weren't even on the same continent that I am.

How many generations does a population have to live in a new area before they adapt sufficiently so that the native plants don't give them allergic rhinitis?
There will be news about it next month during the annual citizencon. Whether its good news I cannot say though.
ChatGPT is great, but could become what Slack is to Teams. Proximity to the users tend to win out.
Because it's a power law distribution and because wealth inequality is getting even worse over time.
Water consumption can be taxed/priced progressively at the source to address that concern.

i.e. The more you consume, the higher you pay per gallon.
I'd do it for 1.5X, but that's not what they offered.
> a fleet of single core low, extremely powered machines.

what are "extremely powered machines"?

> It's like getting AWS-level functionality without the steep bill

which part of AWS functionality? load-balancing Beanstalk-style is free. AWS compute is not free, but neither is compute free with Elixir or whatever stack you run.
"What every programmer should know about memory" needs an update.

https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf
Python is clearly the current winner. Not sure being pedantic about what it means to be a winner adds anything
>The conversation is dominated by conspiracy theories about real estate investments and 'CEO vibes', it feels untethered and fact-free.

One might think the fact that they don’t readily offer concrete evidence to support their actions is itself evidence that these “conspiracy theories” are on the right track.

The conversation is dominated by such talk because, as you said, no evidence otherwise has been offered to explain the fervent desire of those at the top for returning to the office.
Orion Browser works pretty well for SSBs. But I can’t wait for native support.
I have no doubt that I wouldn't be able to work well under those conditions. As I learned with noise-cancelling headphones -- which I cannot tolerate -- a separation between me and my physical environment induces a large amount of stress in me and renders me unable to work.

Even ignoring the (very legitimate) concerns about tracking and such, I would reject any job that required the use of these things.
Something about this reminds me of the idea of lists of reputable or renowned books in fields of study. For example, the “Chicago undergraduate mathematics bibliography” which gives some useful titles, but then also has an entry for the “worst calculus book ever written”. It makes me think there should be some similar list for people who are getting into the potentially dangerous activity of gathering mushrooms.
Is that really the case? The article says "Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan are in order the top four most polluted countries". While there are certainly "0.1%" people in those countries, I highly doubt they're responsible for a meaningful amount of the pollution. For one, rich people use far less polluting technologies. Cooking and heating with electricity causes far less pollution than the poor burning biomass or coal. Furthermore, their population is small by definition, so even if they somehow pollute 10x more than average, their contribution is only 1%.
Every time you create an abstraction to remove duplication, you're tying two pieces of code together and creating a common dependency. The more dependencies you have, the harder it is to change code, because a change in one place reverberates in many places.

To me, that's the cost. You gain a decrease in code size and verbosity at a cost of making localized changes more difficult.
That is not the only time you use passwords over ssh, e.g. I don't use a password to remote into my desktop from my laptop, but I do use one when using sudo on the desktop.
I don’t know how they’re adjusting for cost of living, but that’s not even a good definition of “ordinary poverty.” As of 2011, Pew defined $10 PPP dollars as the middle income threshold. 10-15% of Bangladeshis have a car—but according to the chart, 99.5% are in poverty.
LLMs come with a higher cost per transaction compared to dedicated models.

imo the industry will consolidate around LLMs for early prototypes and as part of the workflow for building a corpus to train domain-specific models.

Source: team went through this process. LLM cost ~1% unskilled human labelers, then we finetuned BERT to bring the cost down to < 0.001% (savings $120k/y compared to just using the LLM)
Y'all lazy bums are not needed anymore they have migrant workers.
;)
Compiling Golang to WASM: Writing UDFs for Seafowl
> has nothing to do with the Scottish, it seems

Unlicensed Internet detective here, this suggests scot descends from scratch and Macbeth.

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-27...
We should just normalize stay at home spouses, no need for it to specifically be moms. Also we need to bump wages enough for that to make sense for most people.
Because the 0.1% all live in Dhaka, Bangladesh[1].

[1] https://www.iqair.com/world-air-quality-ranking
As a high-performance computing person, I'm usually I/O bound, not compute bound. I wish someone would come up with a 10x speed up for disk and network I/O.
I have a math PhD, and have done research in modern math with several published papers. So, I am speaking from that perspective, not of one of an undergrad.
I use HSL to set the color of my keyboard leds during the day. For that purpose it's really great because it gives nice bright colors contrary to cielab which give many dull colors (like visible in the blog post).
Has anyone ever made a battery-powered kettle with significantly higher power than can be pulled from a wall outlet? Modern lithium batteries can deliver many kilowatts of power, and given that the total energy needed to boil the water is basically fixed, the battery size requirements might be pretty reasonable. I wouldn't be surprised if boiling water in 15s is possible even on a 120v American outlet.
The last transformer between houses and the grid is 440v three phase. As I understand it the distribution networks all look pretty much the same, it’s only the last mile that differs. And thus consumer electronics.

If you want to run a machine shop, it’s a pain but not impossible to get 440 three phase wired straight through to your business. But consumer “heavy” motors and induction stoves run on two phase 230V.
Nonstop podcast listeners are on to something
Looks like its building on the same concepts as stable video.

https://github.com/rese1f/StableVideo
Surely then you're just in a game of bluff with a Sicilian ... ie then you just feel your partner to do the opposite and make sure it's caught, resulting in them taking the action you intended?

IANABridgePlayer, clearly.
New WhatsApp App for Mac
https://archive.ph/55Uzt
If man-made electromagnetic radiation is counted as air-pollution, then yes, its a grave threat.
It's just one tap at that sink, clearly identified, in addition to the regular hot & cold water taps. I don't run my main hot water tank at 195F, that would be dumb.
How would you log in for the first time into a headless device?
Yeah, making water sources private property might not turn out well.

But if the water sources are publicly managed and water consumption is priced progressively (and sustainably) at the source, I don't see what the problem is of letting markets do the rest.

Although water pollution should be addressed as well, but this is required regardless of the scenario.
"In some rare situations 220V might be more dangerous to touch."

Uh huh, here's an idea, go ahead and test that out for yourself!
> As an American, I have a faucet at my kitchen sink that will give me water at 195F.

The building code for the province of Ontario (Canada) states that delivered water cannot be higher than 49C (120F); §7.6.5.1. Maximum Temperature of Hot Water:

* https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/r04023

An exception is given for dish— and clothes washer outlets.
From my experience, these kinds of hybrid policies with mandatory "X days in office" are the worst of both worlds.

A mandatory "X days in office" means that during the office days everyone is running and on edge trying to do all their "office" things so you don't get all (or even most?) of the benefits of an entirely on-site company:

"Culture" and watercooler chat doesn't really happen if everyone's schedule is packed and they are on edge from having to commute, find a desk, etc. Those things only happen naturally if everyone is in a comfortable routine - it's not something you can force to happen and especially not by forcing people to go through a stressful and aggravating experience beforehand.

Equipment and desk space is a problem. You have to lug around equipment, which might be a problem if you rely on anything beyond a small laptop, and plug it in/set it up every time you arrive at the office and then do the same when back home. Hot desking is a bit of a pain as well if people don't even have permanently assigned desks. This ultimately means people may be constraining themselves and not operating at peak comfort/efficiency just to avoid having to also carry equipment (that would otherwise make them perform better).

Transport is also a problem - because you don't commute daily you end up paying full price for transport - most "season tickets" won't help as those only work out cheaper if you actually commute daily. It's also more stressful and disruptive to commute only some of the time as opposed to daily where you can fall into a routine and tune out some of the annoyances.

Even when it comes to the uncomfortable truth that some employees might be slacking off when remote, hybrid (as opposed to full on-site) doesn't address that either, since they can not only still slack off during the remote days, but the above annoyances would also eat into their productive output in the office days when they aren't slacking off. Furthermore, the above annoyances reduce the output of the non-slackers too, which outweighs whatever small productivity benefit they might gain from forcing the slackers to work during office days.

Pick full remote or full on-site (with reasonable exceptions - most jobs wouldn't care if you occasionally need to work remotely) and stick to it. Hybrid combines the worst of both worlds and is ultimately just there to introduce some "pain" back in the typical employee's life because it's uncomfortable to the higher ups that grunts got a significant boost in both quality of life and finances (as they no longer have to live near the office) and enjoy a perk that used to be exclusive to the elites.
I'd add to this, the damage an LLM could do is much less than a human could do in terms of individual production. A person can paint so many forgeries... A machine can create many, many more. The dilusion of value from a person learning is far different than machine learning. The value extracted and diluted is night and day in terms of scale.

Not to say what will/won't happen. In practice, what I've seen doesn't scare me much in terms of what LLMs produce vs. what a person has to clean up after it's produced.
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Satellite messaging could be coming to Android 14
Hate is a strong word, I wouldn't use it here. I like Elon for initializing SpaceX and Tesla, but I'm disappointed in the path he took with buying Twitter and taking a steep rightwards slant. Elon could have been the mogul we needed to significantly improve humankind's timeline, but his pandering made me lose interest.

His contributions are still significant, but a part of me will always wonder "what if" he had just stayed the course and been a technological tycoon without all the drama and politics.
> unless your implying retaliation in the form of harassment

I think they implied retaliation in the form of assassination.
That's sort of a chicken-and-egg problem. If residential three-phase electricity were commonplace, electricians would all happily handle it at their standard rates, your air conditioners and refrigerators would all be running on it.
Think all you want about me, I'm nobody. But it's clear that the same handful of V community members (including the lead dev) show up every single time V is mentioned. So if you feel their voices don't represent the V community, talk to them instead of telling me to (in so many words) STFU. Cause that aint happening. Because they're all I see of V.

Here's an example on how to properly evangelize on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37252231

Note they didn't call anyone "salty", "delusional", or accuse them of engaging in a vindictive campaign against them. Take notes. Have a great day.
OpenAI is probably laughing their asses off internally read all the “it’s equivalent to GPT4” results
My pov on this is, I say no to people I don't want to work with and don't like, and I say yes to bosses I respect and who I want to work with more.

That way, I earn the trust of the people I like and fall off the radar of the people I don't.
anyone know a similar resource for europe?

( i'd love to buy as much asphalt for as little as possible… )