skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those may be serious problems, but nothing about that says that "mass catastrophe" necessarily follows. Language like that is implying something approaching apocalyptic.

> All this info is freely available online.

Given that the internet is full of conflicting information, and that you seem to know far more about this issue than I do, perhaps you could share a link to some of this information from a source you find credible? I would like to trust you over whatever is at the top of search engine results.
learning to touch type on the ergodox-ez was a barrier for me. I went from 70wpm to like 20. I'm sure it would have came back up after some time, but I just went with a Cloud9 Split Mechanical because it is _just_ like using the microsoft ergo 4000. I had no drop in typing speed adopting it; if anything, my speed immediately improved.
Will have to try it. That --skip logic is pretty sick, nice creative solve.
> For anyone who has ever been on a bus, and who has the money to never get on a bus again, buses are a non-starter.

Feel free to elaborate, because that's not a universal position.
In one release, OpenAI made all the people at DeepMind feel forgotten about
Honestly that's pretty bad.
Both AP (usually--unless the following word starts with an s) and Chicago prefer s-apostrophe-s for singular nouns. Though, on their website, Chicago seems fairly ambivalent about it. The bottom line is that a copyeditor may correct you but it's pretty far away from grammatical faux pas territory. (Personally I go with just s-apostrophe.)
man is on drugs comment

I look forward to the time in the future when life is more than about living eg. going to work, paying bills, etc... the greater picture of what is out there and spreading ourselves out, in case we are the first which is hard to believe.

I'm sitting at a work cubicle now typing this, my mind is constrained to the system on Earth.

It is sad to think you're just a cause-effect driven machine eg. if happy/good = continue.
Much more money was spent, and mass to the lunar surface was far smaller than the Starship lander.
Let’s also ban infrastructure that forces people to own cars to participate in society.
Mass ecological devastation in the name of profit, complete with displacement of animals and the explicit suggestion that they might die as a result (The Lorax)

A sensitive individual takes seriously pleas for help from a vulnerable population at risk of being wiped out, while others mock the individual’s concerns as fake, and actively endanger the same population, echoing Western reactions to persecution of Jews and eventually the Holocaust in the lead-up to and during much of WWII (Horton Hears a Who)
Did they ever create the bridge from Wikipedia to Wikidata? I remember hearing talk about it as a way of helping the lack of data. The problem I had with Wikidata a couple years ago was that it was usually an incomplete subset of Wikipedia's infoboxes.

Checking again for m-xylene,
https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3234708

You get physical property data and citations.

Now compare that to the chem infobox in wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Xylene

You get a lot more useful data, like the dipole moment and solubility (kinda important for a solvent like Xylene), and tons of other properties that Wikidata just doesn't have. All in the infobox.

It's weird that they don't just copy the Wikipedia infobox for the chemicals in Wikidata. It's already there and organized. And frequently cited.

Maybe it's more useful for other fields, but I can't think of a good use I'd get from the chemical section of Wikidata over the databases it cites or Wikipedia itself...
I get that and agree. But why is the 'easy path' to leave the garbage even in conditions where there is a garbage can right there? Shame and motivation probably seem like the wrong tools here. It seems like something is lending it to us just not doing it the right way. It is like something in the architecture lends itself to people just ignoring the obvious way. My wife was telling me about a 'gum wall' at an amusement park. I immediately saw that as a way for the park to basically hack people to not throw their gum on the sidewalk. Basically a weird reward for keeping your gum and putting it on that wall. The architecture and mythos encouraged people to not do it.
There's no reason to speculate, much less pronounce the transition impossible. Smart people have down the math.

Transitioning the US to 100% clean power would cost - at most - $5.7 trillion.

We spent $8 trillion fucking up the middle east for oil.

Think about that - take all the time you need. Because if you still think this is about hydro access, and not leadership, you're holding up the change that is necessary.
> Start paying 250k a year for cobol developers and the problem fixes itself really fast.

Do you think they aren't? I don't know any now, but the last one I did was making more than that 15 years ago.

Old crufty legacy systems in a big bureaucracy are many peoples idea of hell. Empirically speaking, good pay and job security aren't enough to have people knocking down your door for that kind of work if they have other decent options.
> But since there could be multiple sets of destinations that single entities provided all passenger services for, then there would be multiple monopolies.

Which is precisely the point. Take as "destinations" the two parties to any given transaction, i.e. a particular software developer and a particular user. If the user has an iPhone, they can't use the Play Store, or Samsung or Amazon or anyone but Apple. The developer has no choice in this, even though they're the one paying the fee and being subjected to opaque and arbitrary rules.
Didn't courts already rule that AI art is not infringing on the original works that it was trained on.

I doubt that people are gonna be satisfied with the same voices, instead you will end up with David Attenborough mixed with Morgan Freeman and Patrick Steward.

I can't wait to hear the new compelling ads using this technology and I anticipate the scandal when people realize that one of the very charismatic voices belongs to an Austrian who was born in 1933 because I guarantee that his voice will end up in the training data.

Here is an idea for someone who like playing with this stuff, personalized entertainment. Pop songs sung by a voice that is a mix of Shakira, Brittany Spears and Lady Gaga, written by Chat GPT-4.
Sickos. Too bad sympathy strikes are illegal in the US.
I wonder, is it science that limits our payload sizes or is this just modern bureaucracy that forces so many launches. My money is on bureaucracy.
The unions protect the owners from the executives to some degree.
With the exception of unsafe conditions, riding in all weather is a blast. Though I don't know if I'd think so, if the weather included 100+ degree heat. And I'm fortunate to have terraformed my riding conditions through years of refining my route. I'm of the opinion that route choice is the #1 safety factor for cycling.

Granted it's not for everybody, but the extremes and unpredictability are actually part of why I love the great outdoors.
Yes, that is funny to read. European cities with population less than 100k could have public transport and bicycle infrastructure while much bigger American city could not.
Good thing Musk invented TeslaBot. I saw it at a showroom, so I assume it is totally real and totally cool.

More seriously, seeing labor in other countries is waking me up to the need for NLRA reform in the US. It was great in 1935, but we can do better.
Because the barrier to entry for this specific product (smartphone) is incredibly high. Kind of like, if you want to buy a passenger plane, you have to go to Boeing or Airbus.
Maybe. The challenge with E2EE is how to resolve an email address or phone number to the authoritative public key and networking route, securely. If we wind up with multiple authoritative sources of that mapping, each one has the potential to lie and become an avenue for surveillance. Thats ignoring for the moment lesser issues, such as privacy issues with leaked metadata in querying these sources.

Things like Key Transparency in the IETF are tackling some of this, in the sense that they'll provide public evidence of tampering.

I don't suspect what Google has implemented for their own client/server setup gets us close to a multi-party solution within RCS Universal profile.
Depends on where you live. An “experienced engineer” is going to make a lot less if they live in Mississippi than if they were in California. 250k for the former is likely “top dollar”.
Why do they have to benefit the employer?
> Suburbs/Exurbs as practiced in US today aren't some kind of quality of life maximizing end game

Notwithstanding that the middle-class overwhelmingly prefers living in the suburbs. "quiet", "safe", etc.

> I think that it lacks imagination to think that we can't structure things differently and have equivalent or better quality of life overall.

No one's saying that. I fully support zoning reform. If one's imagination leads to such bright ideas as "ban cars" however, it will have more detractors.

> if we stop basing policy at multiple levels centered around them, and stop subsidizing car-centered living, I suspect we'll collectively do a lot less driving

That is possible and I support it also.
and if that future revenue is N times greater than you would otherwise get without debt, then it's still better to take on debt.

Would you rather have 90% of $1M or 100% of $800k?
To me this situation has always seemed backwards.

Instead of charging per KW/hr, charge based on the actual costs to the electric provider. A fixed monthly cost representing the cost of upkeep and being connected to the grid, and a variable cost portion that actually reflects usage.

Yes, this doesn't encourage reducing electricity usage, which isn't as great for the environment.

But if solar is getting large enough that this is becoming a problem for the utilities, then the answer is to fix the pricing issue - not to stop putting up solar.
Containers are also an abstraction, adding complexity, where bugs lurk. Maybe the 'Perl script someone wrote in the early 00s' has been revised multiple times to address security concerns, and if it's not broken, don't try and fix it by architecting large abstractions.
I don't add the extra s, nor do I speak it aloud. Also American (western).
Generally there have been quite few major labor conflicts in Sweden because when you have signed a collective bargaining agreement the unions can only strike to enforce it.

Also turns out that an organized instead of vulnerable and exploited workforce is quite productive
It's like a list of almost everything that makes that industry evil.
I'm actually curious about how the union would benefit these mechanics. How is their current treatment by Tesla deemed inadequate?
People want suburbia because crime is often lower. Why won't we accept this reality. I don't understand why so called progressives don't just face this issue head on. Increasing incarceration rates makes cities safer. It's true that some small number of people will be jailed. It's also true that more people would move to cities.

And before someone throws out some nonsense politics. I live in the inner city (less than a mile to downtown) in a west coast major city. I can count several neighbors on my block, people who've lived here decades, who are leaving due to crime / rampant drug use.
Irrelevant! See vlmcsd on github.
Ask HN: Can we have advanced data structures and algorithms in standard library?
Fastest known algorithms are already there and still, everyone have to reimplement their own worse version.

How much actual productivity will be increased if people just provide everything on the textbook in a programming language out of the box?
Somehow most developed countries around the world have figured out how to design cities around walking, public transit and cycling, but it's an insurmountable problem in the US?

It's not magic, folks, just look at how it is done elsewhere. Yes, that includes places with "real winters".
CMG, or Cox Media Group, runs a fair amount of radio and TV stations across the country. It doesn't particularly surprise me that they seemingly didn't think through the legal or PR aspects of this. (Knowing the industry, I suspect there is some amount of "the nerds will figure this out for us.")

Initially I thought it was mostly about listening time metrics, as in how long someone is listening to a radio station (which is something they absolutely think about a lot) but the screenshots of the page are... specific.
Someone asking some of these questions in an interview would be a red flag for me.
I definitely clicked off for this reason, the vibe and lack of explanation. Was wondering if this is some kind of biometrics capture ploy.
More middlemen?

(pdf warning) https://media.defense.gov/2022/Feb/15/2002939087/-1/-1/1/STA...

> Since the 1990s, the defense sector has consolidated substantially, transitioning from 51 to 5 aerospace and defense prime contractors.

Also- if an entity is performing work under contract and gets paid for it how is that a handout?
> I think the only part that hasn't been "fixed" is that it sends frames.

And this is just terminology: An Ethernet protocol data unit is a frame because it's Ethernet and an IP protocol data unit is a packet because it's IP. You could switch the terms around and nothing would actually change.
This is what they’re doing (“incremental progress” as they say). The issue is the scale of the system.

With a big enough org, the ongoing deterioration occurs faster than you can actually root cause and fix the problems.

You divide the orgs, they divide the pillars, they divide the groups, they divide the pods, they divide the teams… all the sudden, a 4 week root cause exercise takes a year and a half. By the time you implement the solution, you’re 3 years out of date. Whoops - administration flipped. They don’t care anymore. “What do you mean accounting - why are we behind China in AI?!”
In the long term, unions (and pro-society policies in general) benefit the employer by ensuring a cybernetically stable supply of labor.

Most employers obviously aren't thinking that far ahead, though. They would rather cut corners (import cheap labor), and then be surprised when there are systemic failures in their labor supply.

We're gradually seeing that hit in America as the global USD goes under, the well-endowed Boomers retire, and USA is a less appealing immigration destination.
Outside of CA?
Ah brings back memories of Bob Metcalfe. Out of college I worked for him at 3Com. We were making about three million NIC's a month, and it was like a cash machine. One of my first projects to support was trying to develop WIFI. We failed at that. Then Intel integrated the NIC capability into their chipsets. Cisco made better switches and routers. We went from a high flying silicon valley company to nothing.
Sweden GDP is roughly equal to Tesla market cap. It's a fair fight.
I can build you a team using today's (quality: average B2B startup) programmers and today's methodologies that will write software for 40 years.

It will just cost twice as much as the team that iterates quickly. It will cost more because I will spend more money on business analysis up front. I will spend more money writing automated tests. Most importantly, I will maintain my own toolchain and libraries or pay someone to do so. Every piece of software deployed will have someone accountable to my business to maintain it.

It turns out that this is expensive. It's no more expensive than maintaining the COBOL code, mind you, and would likely give you better results than the equivalent COBOL code. Most companies will take their chances with less expensive software because that's what their competitors do.

About a decade ago, I saw one of the major systems you talk about up close. While they spent that amount of money for mission-critical systems, they didn't do nearly as good of a job on the average software in the system. I'm not convinced that any business is ready to go back to the battle hardened days.
Important context which I could not find mentioned in TFA: A key reason for the sympathy strikes is that Tesla brought in scabs which is a big no-no in Scandinavian labor markets.
That's not really how it works. They are more than happy to have "market forces" drive up the hourly rates, so long as they get to keep their overhead % fixed, and that's probably how the contract is structured. Win-win (and perhaps -lose for taxpayers).
so it's literally a staring contest. which is great. it would be better, though, as an eye contact contest. first to look away "loses" and then disconnected. also needs to be gamified. when you connect you first see the stats of the other party. so you know what you're up against and try to beat them.
I think this is worth talking about, but I have to flag the post because the title can be misinterpreted as a positive statement rather than a quote from some ad copy. It would be cool if people just wrote titles that didn't need to be rewritten by the moderator.
Before unions, people would drag a bad enough employer into the street and beat them to death.
Always bad to be jobless, but during this season is specially hard to get interviews, and offers usually don't come until next year.
Also, audits are not 100% about saving money. They're also there to enforce conformity to standard accounting practices and try to make sure the books aren't getting cooked. Even if the books aren't getting cooked the only way you can be sure of that is to go through the audit process.
I just wish that the message being linked to was also quoted in the description as well.
> That isn't physically possible, but it is what I want in the ideal world.

I think the same can be said (to a lesser degree maybe) about cars, which are very space inefficient. With enough sprawl and a certain density, e.g. in Toronto, it's just gonna be traffic for every one.
Finally? If I look at the last N mastodon.social links that have >= 15 points on HN besides this one, they are:

Porting games to Linux pays for itself
People go to Stack Overflow because the docs and error messages are garbage
Hallucineted CVE against Curl: someone asked Bard to find a vulnerability
Curl on track for non-experimental HTTP/3 support
Jeff Johnson: "Passkeys are a lie and contradiction."
Swift was not given the chance to prove itself as a language
The only planet where 100% of Linux systems have working audio is Mars
Bevy Needs Sponsorship

That's the entire first page of results. On page 2, we have:

Things that didn't age well
Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com
Google Search Is Over
Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio
A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team
One thing that has changed in the professional game industry is that
SunOS 4.1.4 says it can't possibly be the year 2023
Mozilla should call for the removal of Google from W3C because of WEI
How Stuff Works replaced writers with GPT-generated content and laid off editors
A fun new feature we are working on in systemd: userspace-only reboot
Mastodon's active user base has increased by 110K over the last day
Mastodon has reached 13M accounts

It looks like about 10% "not finally" content and 90% "finally" content. You can see the same thing by clicking "mastodon.social" at the top of this page.
Amazon has admitted they spent upwards of 10B a year on Alexa. Alexa is much more feature rich than Siri, so I sure hope Apple isn’t out spending them.

I don’t know if I agree that Amazon will be the long term winner either. I see your logic, but Apple also has a speaker and a phone. The HomePod doesn’t have the same market share, but it’s still a sizable market (>20%).

IMO Google should have been the clear winner, but they will probably be the loser. They had cheap and varied hardware, they had phones, they had APIs and features like Alexa. But Google can’t seem to stop being Google, and of course GAssistant leadership has absolutely no focus or consistency roadmap. Perhaps tellingly they’re giving up on cloud “skills” and focusing on android.

https://www.geekwire.com/2023/amazon-will-cut-several-hundre...

https://www.statista.com/chart/29167/smart-speaker-ownership...
> It's a minority of customers, but it turns out to be a very valuable minority.

I've been saying this for years. The Ubuntu vision here is appealing: storage and live migration as first class things, because many high value services are never going to be "cloud native," easily scheduled, stateless, ephemeral container apps: the stuff k8s et al. was designed for.

So they have the right model. Now it's down to execution.
The legacy system is the system. Amazon fired a bunch of people this time last year because it was supposed to have Titan. Titan is completely underwhelming, and so they had to wait. Hence the PR around "democratizing LLMs." Unless Amazon is using Llama2 (because Titan utterly failed), there is no alternative. GPT-3.5 (the free version) can easily out perform anything Amazon has, and anything Alexa can do.

An utter failure by Dave Limp and company.
That's like 30 bucks per flat! But given your original tires will certainly wear out, start researching puncture resistant tires now. And a patch kit. ;-)
Illegal or just fireable? It’s freedom of expression and gather. Also, can’t fire everyone if they all work together. The air traffic controllers where left put to dry by every other union and Regan had the military to fill in.
Sadly, HN isn't a place to ask questions about second-order effects in politics anymore. Unions are basically legal cartels / mafias, and people will honestly think there are no effects on labour markets, prices or employment and everything is pure upside, wealth generated out of thin air.
Some people really want to turn HN to be Reddit, don't they?
Amazon.com will be launching online vehicle sales in the U.S. next year
This is very interesting, do you have a source?

In eats, shoots and leaves I recall the claim being made that apostrophes can be used for plurality with borrowed words. A particular example would thus be the "potato". Therefore, a so-called grocer's apostrophe to pluralise potato would be ok, while to pluralise turnip it would not.

Similarly it was considered appropriate for pluralising numbers and days of the week. "There are fifty-two Wednesday's in a normal year." However, if the contraction argument were correct then "Tomes Pen" -> "Tom's Pen" could also allow "Potatoes" -> "Potato's"
My gut feeling is that GPT-5 will be delayed indefinitely because it has no chance to live up to the hype.
So you'd pronounce "I have James' pen" as "I have James pen"?
The workers want it. Their laws say they have a right to it.

There's no arguing past that.

Let me ask you a question: why do you deserve any respect ? I'm just curious.

I'm not seriously asking, just showing you how your question is bullshit.
In the UK a misplaced apostrophe (in a plural or in possessive its) is called a "greengrocers' apostrophe", presumably due to folks in that trade being particularly susceptible to errors in their signs, in turn partially due to the slightly unusual nature of the nouns they are pluralising; "bananas" is slightly teasing you to stick one in, but "mangos" more so as just looks like a Greek island otherwise, unless you opt for the -oes form.
Maybe this: https://interactjs.io/
Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner. This. I see issues at my small startup with not having clarity with certain billing items. This issue is not technical, it's the unknown requirements of why things were written in the way they current exist. I can't imagine what kind of bizatine rules they have in the Pentagon that were placed there decades ago, and no one can answer why. Codebase must be littered with Chesterton fences.
According to Hubermann, Modafinil will boost your dopamine. I suspect once you raised your baseline level enough, you end up lower