skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so sure, experienced tech managers are also very wary of vendor lock-in and tech debt which mainframes give you in spades.
Related, this is a super useful end user app that summarises videos using an LLM:

https://www.summarize.tech/
Right, sorry, I tend to get these people mixed up. It does explain the motivation better though.
>> What I'm interpreting your comments as, is that people should just "stay in their lane"/ caste/ station at birth and not cause trouble/ accept their rung of society

If ypu read my other comments on caste systeks and discrimination, it becomes clear that is the exact opposite of what I mean.

The solution is not for everyone else to adapt around the greavances of frustrated individuals and groups that cannot adapt to change. The task is on those frustrated individuals to find ways to adapt whatever they have adapting to in a changinf society, because the only these large changes can be surpressed is by oppressing others. We all know where that ends.

Those frustrated young men (and it is mostly men) so, they are actually in a pretty bad spot. Those that actually act on those feelings are just plain pathetic so, the others, well, society owes them some form of support. Just don't ask me what kind of support so.

The much much worse proboem so is the people in power, read populist and nationalist movement and political leader along with their religious counterparts, that use those men to further their own goals of power. More often than not, that use ends in violence and death. No idea what can be done about that neither, other than voting for parties that are not like that and keep tbose radicals out of government and power as much as possible. And that approach doesn't always work neither, nor is it even possible in a lot of places.

And no, I wont stay in a lane someone else put me in just because it would hurt that other persons feelings. And neither should anyone else, ever.
I'm not sure if you can use f..oo@gmail.com but if your email address is longer than a few characters then there are definitely a large number of combinations you can use if you want to register multiple accounts at one service, foo@, f.oo@, fo.o@, f.o.o@ etc.

You can also use foo+extra@gmail.com and the +extra will be ignored, so you can give each service a separate email address like foo+hn@gmail.com.

Beware, as I found out the hard way, this makes account recovery more difficult. To reset your password you need to enter your email address usually. But if you used +foo stuff then you might not be able to remember what email address you used.
> I don't understand your overall point about "data" though.

Data about you is your data. The GDPR defines it as such. As long as data can be traced back to you, even through pseudonymization, it remains your data. This includes anything from IP logs to what you did in the app. If it's tracked, that generates data, the data is tied to you, so it's your data. Given that the app invites you to upload pictures, which themselves could be other people's data, it's very relevant to know who is storing, transferring and processing it and for what purposes.

> Germany is definitely incredibly pro copyright though so that probably plays a role.

Sure, to some degree. I'd also like to believe that we have a heightened cultural awareness of the dangers of governments and corporations having access to personal information when things go south. The biggest civil control mechanism of the East German government was what at the time would have been considered an excessive amount of data collection about anyone even remotely suspicious of being critical of the state (and anyone affiliated with them). And prior to that the NSDAP used intricate record keeping to identify "Jews" and suspected enemies of the state. It doesn't matter if it's a corporation that has the data or the government because fascism doesn't make this distinction. So the only way to protect data is to have full transparency over who has it and why.
I think you just chose an insufficiently unique email address.

I never get any of these problems.
> Does Microsoft Middle Manager 2.0 stop working in the presence of traffic cones?

That could be a benefit. Imagine being able to go dev shields up with just cones around your desk.

When it is time to innovate, surround yourself with cones.

"You haven't checked on your 'resources' in an hour, how is resource #4233 (Johnson) doing on that new feature?" -- funding borg consultcult front man

"I don't know, his cone shields are up, we can't get our needed hourly metrics" -- Microsoft Middle Manager 2.0
Spanner does over 1B queries per SECOND (but your other point still stands of course)
Having mentored a dozen of developers over the years, I've arrived at a strong bias toward hiring intrinsically motivated individuals. It's much easier to grow skills given someone is motivated than vice versa. KPIs (or "SMART" objectives) are mostly managerial toys that seldom improve work ethos.

Happiness in the workplace is more often than not related to other aspects than the primary process of developing software. If the subject matter itself (as in: "I earn a living while hating the building websites in PHP") is the root cause of unhappiness, no recovery plan, KPI or reward can fix this. Best find another job.
Yes, python with import decimal can be used, as well as Linux bc, but the question was what you need so much precision for.
Do please remember that amongst the reasons nuclear is expensive and slow is the weight of legal peril and delay intruded by .. the anti nuclear movement.

Not all, by any means but in the "it takes too long" side of things, there's a reason.
CYMK and ICC profiles are irrelevant in gamedev and vfx industries though.
What does it actually mean when the 5G chip comes from a 7nm fab instead of a 5nm or 3nm? Does the battery have to weigh 1g more to supply the chip with the extra power and the phone have to be 1mm³ bigger to accommodate the bigger chip and battery, or will the numbers have be bigger?

I opened an old phone when I replaced it a few years ago, and described each part to my children. The chips didn't account for much of the volume.

I realise that a 3nm chip uses less power for the same processing than a 7nm chip does. Phones are mostly idle, though. Can receive/transmit 100Mbps or whatever, do receive/transmit very, very much less. I'd be thankful if someone who really knows about phone geometry/power could explain.
Giving an addictive stimulant to food addicts

That'll work greeeeat.

Then again if I remember correctly, Vyvanse isn't something you can get a continual high from like traditional amphetamines. : I may be completely mis-renembering that.
>It may take a while to get from GPT-3 to Microsoft Middle Manager 2.0. But the path is clear now.

I was intrigued by the announced Business Chat feature for Microsoft Teams <https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/11swyeu/introd...>, but learned that it is just summaries of conversations. That's not quite what I'd imagined, which is something like this:

----

A: ... and that is why I think we should go with option 1.

B: No, the points you mentioned support my case for option 2.

C: Nothing you guys have said changes my mind about option 3 being best.

D: Business Chat, what do you think?

BC: Based on this discussion, and my research, option 1 seems more realistic but option 2 would be more profitable if possible. My reasons are ...

C: Business Chat and you guys all don't understand point N, which is the main reason why option 3 is best.

B: Higher profit is exactly why I think option 2 is the way to go.

A: No, our rival is going to hit the market next month. We need to get something out there ASAP. Option 1 can do this.

D: You've all given me things to think about. Thank you for coming. Business Chat, email me a summary of the meeting, and set up a followup meeting for Tuesday 3pm.

----

That is, AI used as a colleague/assistant, not necessarily subordinate but not seen as omniscient, either; another viewpoint to consider. Like you said, Middle Manager 2.0. When do you think the above will be feasible? This year? Five years?
I know that some of them tried to rewrite large systems but failed. You are right that it is not just a money issue since they could spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the rewrite and then basically scrapping it.

It shows that they did want to switch but it was harder than they thought.
As if that's a bad thing.
Perhaps it wants to rage-bait you into watching and commenting on the video.

After you’ve seen the two 15s ads, of course!
https://hidden-3d.com/stereogram_theory.php

Either can look in front or behind.
The vendor lock-in is a feature to them. They're not a tech company. They're banks. They're insurances. Lock-in means they can send a lot of cash to someone and the problem gets fixed, which is the only thing they care about. And in good news, cash is also a thing they have a lot of. The cost of their tech infrastructure is a blip on the radar compared to payroll, to the cost of their physical spaces.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37330318, which was posted a bit earlier.
I have a big problem because this, my account is créate in closed beta period, in this stage this feature does exist.

My email: name.alias@gmail, because already exists namealias@gmail. Ok the email Work fine for 4y before this feature exists, after if email send exacly works but the problem i am started reciving email for the other user and this is e-mail is not cool.

After 10y i give up of gmail and moved to my domain
No you don't, not even close.
You might be interested in sites like https://explain.dalibo.com/ which make the output a bit nicer to read. I use these quite often to quickly identify bottlenecks.
Yeah, but they open themselves up to myocarditis so the risk far outweighs the benefit.
One way to address the issue with gendered grammar would be to ask the user to chose between which of ‘benvenuto’ and ‘benvenuta’ should be used when corresponding with them.

That way, you don’t strictly know their gender, you don’t have to ask for it, just what grammar construct they prefer you use.
Honestly I agree with this.

When I was more junior, or not doing programming as a full time job, I was more motivated to work on personal projects. Now I am more senior and programming/managing people full time, I can't get motivated to work on code-related projects in my downtime. It sucks :/
I'd just like to put an opposite vote on the scale and say that SQLite is such an excellent default choice for this and you were right to do it this way. I can't really see why people argue for databases which have the "relationality" feature deliberately removed.
How to host an unpopular forum:

1. Run your own server, because you've been pressured out existing sites.
2. Run your own data center, because you've been pressured out of existing data centers.
3. Run your own ISP, because that's the only way you can get connectivity.
4. Run your own payment processor, because you can't get a bank to serve you.
5. Run your own government, because you can't just start up your own bank.
6. ???
7. Profit? Wait, I think that started when you took control of the government.

If you run infrastructure, not a destination, then you should be a common carrier. Because freedom of speech is more than just the First Amendment. It's not just the government can't tell you what not to say (that's just the 1A). It's not just the ability to speak, but also the ability to be heard. Because for infrastructure, only loons would believe that you actually are responsible for the speech that you care across your lines.
There are multiple behaviour-based tools to use for spotting and terminating this sort of activities. I do agree however, it's a very tedious semi-automated task of monitoring logs, which many business wouldn't bother to have.
With a desktop env? I have only been able to get terminal environments working on my M1 MBP
I don't think that's true?

Bigtable: https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/replication-overview

> When using replication, reads and writes to the same cluster are consistent, and between different clusters, reads and writes are eventually consistent. If an instance does not use replication, Bigtable provides strong consistency, because all reads and writes are sent to the same cluster.

DynamoDB: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg...

> Both tables and LSIs provide two read consistency options: eventually consistent (default) and strongly consistent reads
> Eventually consistent reads are half the cost of strongly consistent reads
in the case of mainframes the main reason would be that nobody wants to learn cobol anymore and maintainers of legacy code are litarally dying out.
Amazing!
What is the logic behind doing this with firecrackers vs other solutions?
From what I understood, it is especially helpful for the use-case of coding agents, as firecrackers are good fit for running untrusted code.
But how exactly that works and are there any alternatives that you considered?
Interesting. I think that's tied to the degrees of freedom linked to bigger boards with fewer obstacles. Coincidentally, the EDA section of the post finds similar indications for the 1,000s of procedurally generated levels segmented by board size and obstacles ratio.
I’m assuming you mean circadian rhythm, rather than cardiac rhythm.

Yes going for a walk in the morning can help you get your circadian rhythm back on track. One of the reasons that is a good suggestion is that getting exposure to the sunlight early in the day signals to your brain to make melatonin which you need to sleep.
I'd expect to have some mobile data connection at most parts of the US (through Europe that would not be an issue the slightest). The data transfer needed is really low. There is a need only for a single point with inet connectivity. The wifi part costs as little as a couple of dollars.

The entire thing can be trivially built by off-the-shelf components and it won't 'hard' to scale at any rate. For example a triac 600V/40A is less than $5 - that's the power control (need 3 for 3-phase).
Most of autostereograms are meant to be seen wall-eyed, instead of cross-eyed [0].
With wall-eye, you shift the convergent point being what you're seeing, while with cross-eye you shift it before.

So it creates the exact opposite 3d. Watching a stereogram meant to be seeing wall-eyed, cross-eyeing you'll see an upside down 3d. Some stereogram are mean to be seen cross-eyed though, which is considered easier to see.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereogram
It's common to project resentment towards individuals onto someone who expresses dissatisfaction with systemic issues. We want to think on our small human scale, but our societies got so big that we can't make sense of them in those terms anymore.
> what about internationally accepted kid’s medicated cough syrup

I'm not a parent, but I'd very likely absolutely hate to have to give some random concoction to drug my kids.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37313733, which was posted earlier.
It’s something I’ve been thinking to do for a while now. I’ll get on it asap, just for you
When my parents moved to a different part of the UK, where the water was calcium rich (very hard water) and we'd previously lived in a soft water location, so around the age of 13. Been downhill ever since.

I've had good results with choline for tackling brain fog.

I've tried choline bitartrate, which is ok short term in not high doses maybe a couple of grams per day at best, but now it just causes bone aches.

AlphaGPC, also ok, but the high phosphate content does you bones no good, kept me very wired and if you want to reduce the time to a heart attack take loads of this.

Lecithin, which is a food ingredient, found in chocolate, seeds like sunflower, and egg yolk.

Its a nice form of the supplement, but again cant take too much of it for too long as a supplement.

Currently looking at Choline Chloride. The chlorides (negatively charged chlorine) seem to be quite useful in the body, so I'm probably going to give that a go at some point.

Obviously egg yolks are good for choline, so plenty of eggs.

Avoid stress in all forms at all costs. If its not right and cant be fixed soon, just walk away from it.

Stress is a massive killer.

I dont have a problem keeping myself occupied, avid reader.

I also had some Testogel during mid 30's, used to slappo a couple doses on the shoulder for recreational purposes when going out on friday nights, not a fan of Bolivian marching powder, and I found testogel to be much better for making me feel good, than anything Columbia can export!

It does wonders for your mental health, but come to think of it, it does help a bit with mental acuity, so that might be something to look at. Here in the UK, the NHS is all messed up, so you'll only get it on private prescription.

I'd recommend Testogel to any bloke over Columbian exports, and it doesnt make you angry either, I think the roid rage is lack of manganese and short intense diabetes which is probably waiting to be discovered by the so called medical experts.
Nutshell requires me to write `| save --raw --append <path> ` instead of `>> <path>`. I don't have the nerves for this type of inefficiency so I'll stick to zsh.
The word mainframe is often used ambiguously. In my experience it could mean:

System Z - as I understand it, this is descendant from IBMs earliest computers like System 360. Typically apps are written in COBOL, PL1, tied together with JCL. “Newer” apps use DB2, but there are older non-relational databases as well.

System P - an IBM alternative server architecture based on the Power chipset. I think these mostly run UNIX, but I’ve never been hands on.

AS400 - technically an IBM minicomputer, but similarly esoteric with a bespoke OS and some nifty functionality for business apps (very SQL centric).

HP Tandem - traditionally used in high availability transaction processing applications.

Others? I think most of the other surviving old stuff is basically UNIX

Typically people are thinking of System Z. I think both the inertia and scalable ACID explanations are relevant. That said, I’m not sure how DB2 on System Z compares to say Oracle RAC.
I assume from this comment that you've never worked in the enterprise.

Because (a) major decisions like choosing a mainframe are not made by tech managers and (b) every company is built around vendor lock-in.

Who do you think companies like Atlassian, Oracle, Salesforce etc sell to ?
If it is readonly shared-nothing queries, I am sure the hardware I have in my flat can do that as well..

The hard parts are updates in a shared system with a single consistent "view" requirement..
Someone else decided to write a follow-up with examples: https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers...
> But if you used +foo stuff then you might not be able to remember what email address you used.

I’ve sometimes resorted to finding a piece of email from them and looking at the “To” header.
For the case of Javascript, (I think) it followed "Worse is better" principle. It's been trying to be as practical as possible. And it's everywhere even though it was not really great (until new standards and Typescript come). So a new joiner would pick Javascript so he/she can have a wide choice of possibility later.

Same things are happening with Python. And if I have to be honest, if I come from a different profession and want to change my career, I would pick either Python or Javascript for my first step.
- So, how do you build ChatGPT with data compression?

ChatGPT is already built with data compression, the training loss is cross entropy which means the explicit goal of the training is to compress the training dataset to the fewest bits.
Which has a sedative effect on a dopamine-craving brain of a person with ADHD. ;)
yes, I'm confused... what's new or interesting in this post? People have been using UTM for years.
G6-cgm and Dana Diabecare-rs. We started with the Dana-i but it was glitchy and so we got the rs instead, which works a charm so far. We also use a setter device that talks to the Dana pump when you are filling it up and tells it how much insulin you are loading (this can be done manually also I think).

She has a samsung s-20 phone, previously we had a pixel 3 which bricked itself on Christmas Eve. I had a LG G7 which we tried to use, but although this is claimed to be compatible it turned out not to work. So we had injections over Christmas which was not great, but when the new phone turned up on 27th all was well again. Google replaced the Pixel, so I now have the replacement handset and it is ready to go as a fail over.
One small thing I'd like to add, I actually forgot about this.

> US induction cooktops/stoves are almost always 240V, unless you get a little countertop burner.

EU induction cooktops/stoves are actually 380/400V.

It doesn't change much, because the amperage might be lower, I don't know.

I just wanted to add that bit of trivia :-)
NeoPets - if that even counts as a video game??
You'll be happy to know it does work great.

Contrary to popular belief, giving stimulants significantly reduces the risks of addiction, alcoholism, substance abuse, etc.

You have to treat people, otherwise they try to get their dopamine sonewhere else. Whether that's binge eating, or worse.
I'd say it depends on the area and the type of business. In Lower Bavaria it's quite common to use informal language even with strangers. Any mechanic, plumber or other craftsmen will use "Du" the moment they see you. Formal language is usually used in a more formal environment, like banks or maybe some fancy restaurant or fancy shop.
I also had a hard time choosing between Python and Ruby for my goto scripting language. But given Python community is more active outside of webdev, I also chose to stick to be more professional on Python.
I was recently in India. When using Zomato to order a food delivery, I was confused why the address form was asking for a PIN code. It took a moment to realize that PIN code was referring to what I think of as a zip/postal code.
Windward Performance Perlan 2 – high altitude glider
> Does Microsoft Middle Manager 2.0 stop working in the presence of traffic cones?

I think if you put a traffic cone on my IRL managers head she’d stop working too. Maybe a bit different… but maybe not.

I don’t think the poster was saying we’re within arms reach of it, but that there’s a path that takes us from here to there. A MSFT AI manager obviously wouldn’t behave exactly like a real human, but a tool that aggregates and summarizes information from many reports for a high level manager, and helps negotiate priorities is something potentially doable with some prompt engineering and advancements in models.

I respect many of my past managers, and some of them were great mentors and materially improved my life but 50+% of the value managers provide to an organization can be done with a bit of glue between GPT-x and Jira. It’d free up a lot of their time for the remaining 50% too.
What could reason could there be not to steamroll them if he wished for it?
> If I have to search the internet for how to do x in nushell/fish/etc, I might as well stick to arcane bash - at least you know someone has had the same problem before.

I feel the opposite way: if I don't really know Bash, I'm not throwing away a bunch of my hard-earned knowledge and experience to start again from zero by switching to Fish. It's just a lateral move, and an obvious win if the shell it takes me to is simpler, smaller, or otherwise easier to learn.
That is a pretty mild form of collusion and is an outlier from an otherwise extremely competitive employer market where the hunt for talent pushed Silicon Valley engineer compensation to over $200,000 a year.
Logins are for wimps. init=/bin/sh or bust.