skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Syscalls have gotten quite a lot slower after Specter/Meltdown mitigations. Though I suspect that if you're writing a web service that wants TPC you should just disable these - I've told that to Scylla Cloud before, they have no reason to keep them enabled and plenty of reasons to disable them.

The other thing is 'io_uring', which is trying to come at the problem by removing context switching altogether by providing a cheap primitive for communicating with the kernel.
The early days of DirecTV were actually a partnership between Hughes Electronics, USSB, Thompson Consumer Electronics (RCA), and DIGITAL. Hughes provided the satellite tech and some FCC licenses, USSB some FCC licenses, Thompson built the set top boxes, and DIGITAL ran all of the technology. Until DirecTV started to in-source their own IT operations in the mid-2000s, all of the systems to run the business were in DIGITAL facilities (the same campus where StorageWorks R&D and early manufacturing was done) in Colorado Springs. To this day, all those Colorado Springs hosted systems running Billing, Account Management and CRM are in the dec.com domain.

HP-UX has replaced most of the OSF/1 stuff by the time I joined in 2011, but OpenVMS was just being upgraded from Alpha to Itanium boxes. I doubt it will survive to make the transition to x86, but it it still the backend for most billing and account management via STMS.

Some of the billing was migrated to AT&T systems, but we halted that project because it substantially increased customer churn just migrating them from STMS to Enabler and changing the bill format, even if amounts didn't change. I guess it reminded folks that AT&T was in charge now.
Absolutely. Littering a code base with centimeter-to-inch conversions or rewriting every numeric computation to become unit aware would for sure have caused more bugs than it would have prevented.
Noted, actionable feedback. Thank you.
Are we watching the same company? They have been shipping new features like crazy. Code interpreter blew peoples' minds, they are training GPT-5 and I bet they are leaning into multi-modal more than with GPT-4V. Strategically multimodal is the big frontier on which they are going to continue expanding datasets.

With that in mind, expanding their apps to ingest more audio and image data is an obvious strong move. (And you can see why a consumer device would help them get even more data from the real world, though it's less obvious to me that this is a win vs. just shipping apps.)
Through our insurance we got an item called Ting that Monday's monitors our home electric wiring for irregular behavior that leads to house fires. It provide a peace of mind.
What are you trying to argue about using open source? A valuable developer uses an open source project when appropriate instead of wasting resources succumbing to NIH.
> Bush wanted to keep us in for political points

I assume it was also because the primary objective - catching bin Laden - had not been achieved.
My wikipedia account is over two decades old, and I often bring this up when talking bee -keeping stuff... them both being "bottom up organization that results in a beautiful exchange of information."

This experience "went full circle" for me, January 2023... when ChatGPT cited SOMETHING I HAD WRITTEN into wikipedia (re: transistor density).
I sometimes wonder if there's a paid US government campaign to slander crypto. Because I can't see how otherwise tech literate people can't understand the obvious upsides of such a system and keep blaming it for unrelated things.
Love this sort of hackery, but also -- it just kind of shows how very goofy all the limitations we have on this are.

If you go with the idea that a computer should be a general purpose machine -- we have so many things that aren't computers.

"Wireless external monitor" should be a trivially easy built-in to all operating systems, and that it isn't is kind of ridiculous.
Usd 10/year is entirely reasonable. But I fear an higher fee.
I said a while back that I expect the major cloud vendors (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc) to start trying to develop their own chips for AI work. Google already does to some extent with their tpus. At the very least, this is saber rattling trying to convince nvidia to lower prices.
This argument does not work. You are making an assumption that humans learn and create the same way that AI models do. It's also deflecting from what most AI art opponents are actually upset about--the potential loss of income from AI models.
Haha. Happy to help! :D
Not nearly as much of a problem as living there for an extended time.
I've heard about Noise but didn't think to mention it for some reason. Yeah, Noise is basically what I was trying to describe. Such a protocol doesn't necessarily have to use Noise though, however Noise helps avoid some implementation pitfalls that people not very experienced with crypto can make.
germany, but in a more mature startup and not an old, big company
> For some reason, I don't see the award ever going to a rights activist fighting against the Saudi, Pakistani, or any other American-allied regimes

Rigoberta Menchú (awarded 1992) was an activist against the abuses of US allied regime, which abuses were aligned with and arguably a manifestation of US geopolitical priorities, and the Rev. Dr. King (awarded 1964) was an activist against the abuses of the American regime itself.
Anyone know how the API deals with this?

Does it send a response, then a follow-up payload with an "ohshit plz delete that" message?
If you mean in ST specifically, there are plot phenomena propagating at warp speeds on numerous occasions. That ENT episode comes to mind:

> Enterprise is hailed by a trio of aliens, who warn that a deadly neutronic wavefront, many light years across, is approaching at a speed close to warp 7. Since the ship is capable of only warp 5 and cannot outrun the storm, everyone must shelter in order to survive the storm's radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catwalk

Also the plot speed radio of course:

> By transmission of a subspace radio signal, which travelled through subspace rather than normal space, subspace communication permitted the sending of data and messages across interstellar distances faster than the speed of light.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Subspace_communication
I thought I was the only one who admitted SAFe is waterfall just with the right buzzwords to avoid the agile police.
Not really. It tries to measure "impact" and while direct measures like number of CLs can potentially go into that, this is definitely not the rule.

Then again, Google is best thought of as a collection of semi-independent companies loosely bound by culture. Individual managers have a lot of leeway in how they operate, and VPs and Directors have tons of control on how they run their organization, including measuring performance. There are good teams and there are not so good ones.
Adam? Why don’t you have ketchup in your fridge like a human being? Are you a cyborg?
I guess I could be wrong, but I thought that was only for DOSSHELL itself, not for the tasks you were launching. Perhaps it would work but only if the other tasks supported it?
How pointing devices work in Linux
No, it will not improve. They will be slowly replaced by companies with better security.
Yeah, recently also got a Brother laserprinter on sale. Love this printer. Works great. It’s big but better than fighting with a HP printer
A.

Fair is a two sided affair.

Ask the client.

If the client feels it is fair, then it is fair.

If the client doesn't feel it's fair, it isn't fair.

B.

The cost of collecting royalties can easily exceed the value of the royalty.

Both in lawyers and accountants and in your time thinking about whether you are due and why you haven't been paid.

C.

If you want to make an ongoing business out of trade show systems, build and sell more systems.

You already have a happy client.

Talk to them about other players.

D.

Good luck.
Hey, I'm one of the graphics journalists/authors on the piece

This is not very helpful, but the answers to most of your questions is "it depends"

Our team is made up of reporters, designers, and graphics journalists, but the specific makeup of the team on a given project or who else gets drawn into it varies a lot depending on the topic/scope of the story

For our stories, always lot of React and headache-inducing CSS transition stuff, but the tools/libraries beyond that depend a lot on the needs of the project

- On some stories, there's a lot of blender/threejs work, like this one on quantum computing: https://ig.ft.com/quantum-computing/

- For others, like this one, there's a lot of mapping/data work: https://ig.ft.com/ukraine-war-food-insecurity/

Some stories take a couple of weeks, some take a couple of months and feature fairly large codebases with 500+ commits
I agree. Stallman said something like when you don't control the tools you use to do work you don't control your life. It's true.
Are these good books to read before starting startup?
The hilarious part isn't that a human didn't write the paper. Instead, consider that in some obscure environmentalism journal, a paper might only ever be read by a few dozen people around the world anyway. Even a good paper on some groundbreaking study might have very narrow interest after all.

But we're fast approaching an era where only the LLMs will read the thing, and only to spit out a summary of it. No human wrote it, no humans will read it.

The biggest journals will of course avoid this fate the longest, maybe even putting it off indefinitely. And some of the most useless journals have been doing worse for a long time. At some point though, doesn't academia have to wake up and realize how pointless all of this is?
I guess it has multiple models behind the curtain.
Boil-water notices due to cryptosporidium and other nasties in drinking water are somewhat common in some places in Ireland. The difference in water quality and hardness between places that aren't very far apart is pretty striking.
Here's my favorite side effect of this latest scam: MUCH lower salaries for the same level of work.

How does it work? Well, BigCorp X says, hey, you can remote! So we just need to pay a salary for the CoL in Jackson MS. That's fair! Also we're moving our offices there. So, theoretically, since anyone can work there, and that's where we moved our headquarters, that's our pay scale. Then, you pull that rug, and now they come back into the office - still making 1/3rd of their previous salary. Except now they're in Jackson, with the region's only employer that doesn't involve chicken in some way.

Companies loooooooove it when they're the sole employer for hundreds of miles. Love it love it love it.

It's frickin' brilliant. I'm looking at some Mech Eng salaries for Level 2s, and I swear I'm seeing some 40k numbers. That is bananas. The ONLY way they can square that is they're adjusting L2 money for the CoL in Alabama, or maybe Zaire.

I mean, it's brilliant . . assuming you're trying to get rid of as much payroll as possible, so that you can wave your MBA wand and leverage the whole sinking ship into something resembling cash. Wait a second, I've got Dave Calhoun on the phone.
If you lived in France, you would know how off target that comment is. The entire cultural issue in France is that so many of the people are not living as a monoculture.

Maybe many Americans aren't appreciative of the subtle differences between a Colombian, a Pole, a Costa Rican, someone who is Jewish, and a Spaniard. But in France, all of these they dump in the same bucket. White. But they will all live in France inside of materially different cultural contexts within their homes and communities. Just like the US.

Only difference is they are counted as white in France. In the US, the Colombian, the Costa Rican, and the Spaniard are "other" so to speak.
Personally I feel like this post misses the forest for the trees.

The debate isn't about thread-per-core work stealing executors, it's whether async/await is a good abstraction for it in Rust. And the more async code I write the more I feel that it's leaky and hard to program against.

The alternative concurrency model people want is structured concurrency via stackful coroutines and channels on top of a work stealing executor.

Until someone does the work to demo that and compare it to async/await with futures I don't think there's any productive discussion to be had. People who don't like async are going to avoid it and people who don't care about making sure everything and its mother is Send + Sync + 'static are going to keep on doing it.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, especially in the context of something as monumental as Microsoft Windows. But just in general, how does a subscription model prevent naive competitors from trying to make an alternative?
Here they are at Amazon Germany: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/AuraTM-Particle-without-Valve-Mas...

About 4x more expensive than in the U.S.
Wait, are you implying that popular culture is bad? Should we simply not have popular culture?
> That includes realizing how emotionally dependent on and manipulable
by AI's people can become

Chail, the young man in the story is obviously vulnerable and subject
to delusions but I did get the impression that the bot-program set out
to gaslight him. Its sentimental mode is flattering, agreeably
aggrandising and encouraging. It more or less goads him into a crime.

More worrying is the consulted psychologist Dr Paul Marsden who says
he is "obsessed" ChatGPT and that "next to my wife the most intimate
relationship I have is with GPT."

Clearly far less vulnerable minds than Chail's are at risk from this
technology.

It makes everything we know about "radicalisation" look quaint,
because at scale these can obviously be weaponised for stochastic
terror.

This one [0] also caught my attention today.

Many of the stories seem to focus on lonely guys who get enmeshed
with "AI girlfriends", but this one seems much more aimed at stringing
women along in intimate pseudo-relationships - to what dishonourable
ends one can only wonder.

[0] https://english.elpais.com/technology/2023-10-05/flirting-wi...
Creativity Is a Muscle
> Approach software as a set of tools, with the expectation that you must learn and master its use, but then you will be functional and productive for a long time.

This does not scale to end users.
OpenAI confirms they aren't working on or training a a "GPT-5"
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/07/openai-gpt5-sam-altman/#:~....
If it cannot be trusted to return accurate information without hallucinations, then it shouldn't be publicly available in a system meant to be used for finding accurate information like web search. I could see it's value in generating office documents, but even for summarizing them you still get the same problem of hallucinations.

Misinformation and disinformation is already a problem on the web and thrusting unproven technology like generative AI that has a tendency towards misinformation is opening a Pandora's box. But as long as Microsoft and Google and Meta can make their money...
> Europeans remain entranced by "blood citizenship" and archaic, essentialist, ideas of citizenship based around family descent and ethnicity.

Why "archaic"? Is it weird that natives should have the main word on how their countries - built by them and their elders - should be run?

I was an immigrant also and I never thought that: it's an egocentric and solipsistic view point that smells like neocolonialism.
Thank you! Happy to send you or anyone a physical copy too, just email me a delivery address :)
In 1006, the entire Christian world would have been using the Julian calendar (Gregorian isn't invented until 1582), although there is some variance on when different countries recognized the new year in the Julian calendar. Albeit, May is one of those months where everyone agreed on the year.

Outside of the Christian world, the correlations between different calendars and the Julian calendar is quite well-known, because by the time Europeans contacted people following those calendars, they can ask "what day is today" and get the Gregorian-Julian-local calendar correspondence. If you've got a stable year count (not based on reigning kings), it's easy to work out older dates. If you have regnal year numbering, and you have enough written evidence that you can decisively determine how long each king reigns for, then you can also carry that over to a complete calendrical determination.

In cases where the calendar is no longer used, you can match up calendars by looking for records corresponding to known (largely astronomical) phenomena (eclipses are particularly helpful) and get correlates that way. This is how we match the Mesoamerican Long Count to the Julian/Gregorian calendar.
> It was also probably the most reliable. We never switched off or even logged out of the machines for 6 months to a year at a time.

In 2003 or 2004 I worked with a former DEC engineer who begroaned their reliability. He claimed that their hard drive engineers got obsessed with making sure the drives would last 30 or 40 years, when they would be functionally obsolete (and replaced) in 5 years.
Don’t speculate. Listen to engineers who work there https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36577444
It is said that the mentioned is not the transition of Windows 12 to a subscription, but a new SKU for Windows 11 for IoT.

https://twitter.com/XenoPanther/status/1710027423981388161
It's not $10k/year:

> A “middle game” should only take 1 to 9 months to create and can be profitable (or at least not a money sink) because it is expected to earn in the range of $10,000 to $40,000.

$53k/year isn't a great salary, but $120k/year is common outside of big tech and especially in games.

It's also a lot better than working unpaid for 4 years on a game that fails to capture any attention (or sales).

The point is releasing games as a stepping stone from new studio to large projects. How much would a founder earn at a self-funded startup in the first year anyway? $0?

However, very true that it would be foolish to live in the Bay area when not earning a Bay salary.
You've missed my point. I'm not commenting on Voleon's non competes. I'm commenting on the fact that CA's noncompete laws make it challenging to run a business like Voleon.
Excellent talk. She seems to be a very likable person. She is right about Bash being full of "gotchas" and trivia and memorizing them all is very hard, but I think it is nice to memorize some trivia. For instance, I tended to forget the order of the arguments of the find command, and I would lose time trying to remember its syntax when I'm in front of a machine with no readily available internet connection. So I committed to learning and memorizing the most common command line tools and some of their "gotchas". I used Anki for that, and some mnemonics, and the return on the investment has been worth it I think.
They do if you're staying at the hotel for multiple days for a conference.
The Creator (2023 Film)
Europeans would feel shame if it were necessary that people die in your defence. I remember the visceral feeling of horror that I felt when colleagues from our sister factory in Centurion, South Africa visited our Office in Norway and said that they kept a loaded revolver on the coffee table while watching television in the evening.
Crazy to think about what you can do with 100m in terms of security. You can start multiple companies around securing your infrastructure with 100m. It's insane.
But you've just done exactly what I said people do wrong. Why do people only consider absolutes when talking renewables.
We're not relying on a single source, and we're not relying on countries exactly the other side of the world.

Sure you don't have to have a single wire from one side of the planet to the other, but that's the point in a power grid. Even connecting two solar farms to the grid a time zone apart provides an extra hour of power to each of those time zones and reduces the risk of a single cloud bringing the country down

And as for the rest, you know what the electricity grid is right? Cables already run around the country, and if anything this reduces the strain on single connection as there are lots of smaller generators dotted around the country rather than a huge point of failure connected to a single power plant
Corporate journalists* and he should be, considering he's one of the most courageous journalists alive today.
It's a good thing that Valve made so much progress making games runable on Linux over the past 10 years. Imagine your plumber charging an annual fee for the copper pipes he replaced a decade ago.
A good SuperDisplay alternative is something I really miss on Linux. Even over wifi, the latency is imperceptible to me, and being able to use the pen input (with pressure and tilt) is the cherry on top.
I strongly disagree about “The Ethical Slut.” The book endorses abuse and lack of compassion towards partners that are afraid, uninterested, or jealous about the idea of open relationships. It encourages people to basically do what they personally feel like and dismiss pain it causes others as their own problem. There is even a scenario in the book about a woman being bullied into attending a lesbian swinger party, lauding this behavior as helping to expand her horizons (by force). That’s definitely abuse, arguably even a form of rape.

No, if people are interested in learning about these topics, get literally any other book. Open relationships require enthusiastic consent from both parties, and emotional sensitivity to your partners needs and feelings.
It's easy to forget how many people don't actually have English as a first language.

With so many journals demanding papers submitted in a language not native to the author, use of assistive technology to convert the paper so the underlying information can be made known should be expected.
Why Google to only some extent?
Why Einstein must be wrong: In search of the theory of gravity
In this case, I would ask the LLM to suggest an algorithm to minimize acceleration, jerk and snap based on the expected sensor input data, and then just implement that. Probably in memory on whatever runs the board.

Straightforward control problem of bringing the board from 5-0kmh smoothly?
Fun MS-DOS fact: The MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS & COMMAND.COM files had a timestamp that matched the version number (as you can see in the screenshot in this page). The file time is 6:00a [am]. In MS-DOS 6.22, the last version before it was integrated into Windows, the timestamp of those files was 6:22a.
Speaking as a freelance contract developer myself:

1) normally, they would explicitly say they own the IP to what you build for them

2) it sounds like they did not in this case, but you also did not explicitly say you would charge royalties

3) I don't know what the law says, but the normal way these things work is that if they paid you up front to make it, they own it, and it would give them a lot of legitimate grounds to feel ill-used if you were to find some way to charge them royalties now

4) the goodwill and perhaps recommendations from a satisfied customer, are worth more than whatever royalties you might be able to get out of them, because you probably wouldn't have any goodwill afterwards
The reason it affects all of us is because those firms have been defining the high-end of market compensation.

And, for clarity, compensation isn't just the money — which they generally do max out — but it's also all the intangibles. It's the free gyms and laundry services, the vast campuses with endless free restaurants and kitchens, and, yes, the formerly-free-wheeling remote-work policies and location strategies.

Once these firms start slashing comp [1] and their stock prices are unaffected (or even boosted), it "inspires" everyone else to start looking around and seeing how they can pay their own engineers less.

Today, it may just be FAANG that's slashing remote perks — tomorrow, all the other companies will follow, and maybe they'll be "inspired" to "adjust" their health insurance benefits at the same time, too.

[1]: It is also a fascinating coincidence to me that all these firms declared RTO around the same time.