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I hate to break this to you (large financial here, large COBOL installed base) but we're not just sitting around watching it run. We have hundreds of COBOL programmers, and they actually touch the code. I bet every day even. Crazy, right?

Just because some low-knowledge 'journalist' in a low-content rag decorates their ad-delivery with a low-effort 'you should have outrage about something' articles doesn't mean you should buy into it.
I think that's the issue. People use LTS distros running ancient software versions and declare Wayland sucks
Why are we in the area to begin with, inserting ourselves into these volatile conflict zones? We keep doing that and then acting surprised when we get caught in the crossfire =/
Those that write the checks are also a user, just with different expectations than the daily user. Management is also a user that differs between the check writers and actually end users.
Feels fishy and generated somehow. Quite sure there is no @pretty format in jaq or jq and the section about map function does not use map function.
I can add to this: there is an unsatisfied need of a headset with overear hooks, for sports (waterproof), without touch controls and with the connecting string (so, not separate per year).
The backbeat fit was this product, it's now dismissed and the replacement are all "true wireless" (which means one per ear, like airpods) and there are a whole bunch of reddit threads about it.

I had to give up and buy one of those true wireless, but of course the controls are touch which is terrible for many sports: I do shadow boxing and whenever I simulate dodges and cover my ear, the song gets paused. Lovely.

The overear hooks are a necessity or with some movements the headset gets shot out of the ear
I have never seen a serious case that ML is production-ready, not in the early 2000s and not now.

I do not mean this as some sort of major criticism or anything, just as a brute engineering fact. It's not like Haskell has a huge suite of programs I can point at that people use because they are legitimately useful and not because they are Haskell programmers (Pandoc, XMonad, and honestly I'm already coming up a bit dry here), but I can still point to more than I can ML, which is a flat zero.
I'm tired of these "saving the Linux Desktop" ideas. The Linux Desktop doesn't really need saving, it's doing fine. Sure, if you're coming from MacOS or Windows you'll need to adapt, just like when you switch to any other OS. But it works, it works well, it doesn't get in your way, and it really doesn't matter so much if you're using XOrg or Wayland, they're both fine.

This whole Wayland hate makes it seem like something is severely broken, where in fact it's more of a storm in a teacup.
I wasn't aware the Linux desktop needed saving. TIL
I’ve been using fans bigger than 80mm in desktop machines for a long time. Is there a reason to prefer 2U1N over the equally dense 4U2N shape? Obviously 2U is widely available and 4U dual node is exotic, but I imagine that Cloudflare has plenty of scale for a custom form factor if it would benefit them.
> European history, art, culture, colonialism, civilizational accomplishment etc. Everything that created the very art housed withing the museums.

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic here? Many museums are stuffed with objects taken from around the world, often forecfully. There was such pressure on other cultures to provide objects for Europe that there's even a display in Rotterdam's Wereldmuseum of fascinating objects from the Congo that were made with an intentionally brutal "primitive" aesthetic because that's what the Europeans wanted from them. They even went to the trouble of inventing rotuals associated with these objects.

I guess you could argue that those pieces were somehow created through European colonialism, but even then the designs and implementation were all Congolese.

I think the people who appreciate colonialism are indeed being denounced very intentionally by more and more of the world's cultural insitutions. It's very much intentional.
Have you forgotten about the US backed saudi bombings of yemen?

Maybe this is just their retaliation. This self rightousnes ... as if the us main land was bombed.
You can't support that inflation claim when supply chains were completely wrecked in an economy hyper-tuned for just-in-time production. Without the inflation claim, your comment is a nakedly political non sequitur.
How does a cable develop a kink while it's buried?
Yes, there's a lot of leeway on how to maximize the shareholder profit and on what timescale. But in any case the decisions can't be justified by e.g. morals, especially if it means monetary loss (unless no shareholder complains of course).
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Iran is in no state to launch a regional all out war. They barely have control of their millennial and genZ populace.
Margaret Hamilton,lead software engineer of Apollo Project,code wrote by hand
Like many of the other comments in this thread, you should know this is not uncommon at all, and there are some good ways to deal with it that will both (a) protect your happiness and physical health and (b) ensure you don't burn any bridges. Some notes:

1. You have discovered a somewhat hidden little secret: middle management (i.e. "line manager" up to senior director or so) generally pays considerably more than IC roles because the job sucks. It is a job where you have very little decision making ability, but you still have a ton of responsibility, and a lot of stuff is out of your control. It's also a job that is important but really hard: great managers are few and far between, but they can have a disproportionate impact on their team's success.

2. I very much was in your shoes about a decade or so ago. I knew I didn't really want to be a manager, but I kind of fell into it, like you (I was "promoted to my level of incompetence", so to speak). I didn't mind so much being an "in the trenches" manager (I like mentoring people, a lot), but when I got promoted to director I hated it. I spent sooo much of my time on logistics and the fire of the day, it was incredibly draining with very little reward.

3. I think the way I got out of the situation in a "good state" all around was that I just told my boss that I wanted to go back to being an IC, but that I would help find a replacement. It took nearly 10 months to get a replacement, and during that time I worked a ton and was stressed, but my boss was incredibly grateful I didn't leave him in a lurch.

In retrospect, I gave much too much leeway. It would have been bad if I "peaced out" immediately, but it also would have been totally reasonable to just say I'd help find a replacement, but after a couple months or so I'm out. That time pressure can even be a bit of a good thing.

Point being, as long as you give your superiors a clear understanding of your wishes and work hard to help your team transition to a new manager, reasonable people will be fine with that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_en...
This is hilarious to watch
I don’t know about NASA, but in my few encounters with stuff at the federal level the people involved seemed way more concerned with interagency battles than anything related to the mission. To the point where it the top priority was to fuck over Bob from the Department of Whatever by scuttling his project before the next Big Meeting. I guess fighting the same battles for forty+ years could lead to a form of org debt.
The database I work on (ClickHouse) tries hard to stay compatible with really old hardware. The standard ARM binaries require Armv8.2 from 2016 (available in Raspberry Pi 2 >=2) and x86 binaries run on hardware from around 2010 (SSE4.2 + pclmul* instructions for fast CRC). We also build (but don't test using CI) binaries for Armv8.0 and SSE2-only systems. A quick install script downloads and unpacks the right binary for the target host.

I find it generally hard to strike a good balance between backwards compatibility and usage of modern CPU features in newer AArch64 generations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AArch64). We found that there are surprisingly many institutions on a shoestring budget (universities in emerging countries) or hobbyists that can't afford to upgrade their hardware.

On a technical note, what I found quite cumbersome is that the cpu flags in /proc/cpuinfo don't always correspond with the flags passed as -march= to the compiler, e.g. "lrcpc" vs "rcpc". To make all of this work, one really needs to maintain two sets of flags.
Oh, I'm sure writing those apps was an effort. But I was asking about something quite different - the cost of maintaining them. You do need time or money or people to keep an Open Source project alive; but you don't need to pay the authors for the work they've done previously.

As for the problem with a paid version - it's because when it happens, shortly afterwards the free version starts to rot. Monetisation might be good for the owner, but it's almost always terrible to user experience.
The article title is clickbaity, but the actual point is the proposal of using LLMs to translate large amounts of legacy COBOL systems to more modern languages like Java. Doesn't seem terribly useful to me. I expect you could get a 90% solution faster, but the whole challenge with these projects is how to get that last bit of correctness, and how to be confident enough in the correctness of it to actually use it in Production.

But then all of this has been known for decades. There are plenty of well-known techniques for how to do all that. If they haven't actually done it by now, it's a management problem, and no AI tech is going to fix that.
Believe it or not, the US has no pedestrian impact regulations
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Some form of internal representation is crucial. Translation is a n^2 problem where some nodes like Chinese, English and Spanish have much thicker arrows, which makes traditional approaches awful for less common languages-pairs.

Aside from the lack of training data in many languages, I get the impression that tech companies like Google have been anglocentric in their approach, resulting in ok results only if at least one of the languages are “big”. That’s one thing that’s amazing about ChatGPT, it doesn’t discriminate between languages much, or, at least it seems like it’s able to transfer knowledge really well between languages. It seems it finds the higher level patterns of human knowledge to the point where language or even style is basically just a frontend.

Ironically, it seems the less you bother to teach computers about linguistics, the better they perform at language.
No this is less important than ease of use and the feeling of using a good premium product. Apple has demonstrated this in spades. What you present here is a personal opinion, but consumers in general want premium tools that work. All the side stuff like telemetry and morality are orthogonal to that goal.
Lobsters has a simple but effective and fairly strongly enforced tag system that makes it far easier to curate your feed than HN. Despite what others have said here, it is not a ghost town at all, it's intentionally lower noise and they'd like to keep it that way.
Except if you’re an nVidia user which I’m guessing you’re not. Multiple monitors (even single monitor) and graphical glitches and tearing all over the place.
The point of a UBI is not to redistribute wealth. It's to provide a minimum standard of living for everyone more efficiently than means-tested programs do.

If you're going to provide a minimum standard of living to everyone, a UBI does this with minimal distortion of incentives.
I assume by providing a better user experience compared to X11. I've not yet used Wayland so I can't comment about if it does.
This is fundamentally an interface problem. As you called out Env vars are a pretty common and well supported interface, across multiple platforms.

Do you have a better option to suggest?
Small crew of very high quality *paid* moderators. I don't know how many other hats Daniel wears in YC, but based on the times he's active here, he's spending _a lot_ of time doing moderation work.

Lobste.rs, as far as I know, works only with volunteers which probably are an incohesive group of random people with random thresholds for how they moderate. It's entirely reasonable for such a community to build redundancies in the methods for lowering unwanted content.
> People who have had to deal with processes that rebuilt images for each environment, can you tell me what was different in each image?

Tensorflow used to generate multiple images for different use cases: cpu only, GPU, cpu with Jupyterhub, GPU with Jupyterhub.

So each release would generate minimum 4x container builds.

CPU only images were useful for local testing of ml code at CLI (does it run) when a GPU might no be available.

Jupyterhub variants for simple GUI for development work.

GPU for obvious reasons (run the damn thing).

I can’t remember if they used to do builds for their release against multiple CUDA / CuDNN versions… that might have been PyTorch.
US and Europe are already very much in the process of detaching from China. We as conscientious consumer just have to help speed it up. China is also already retreating into itself. China won't matter in 20 years.
My TLDW:
He's (not so) indirectly critical of Space X's Starship program and tribal groupthink. He may be "scared" of NASA because he's calling out one of their giant Artemis contracts.

Some longer takeaways:

- Simplify. We went to the moon 50+ years ago, but we are reinventing the wheel in some significant ways in Artemis. Why? We are supposedly going to the moon in two years, but we have never attempted a cryogenic refuel in orbit (this seems like a biggie).

- Communicate a lot. Why aren't people talking about the seemingly giant increase in complexity to accomplish the same mission we had in the 60s (land on the moon)? People need to have safe/comfortable way to raise questions and concerns.

- Have many layers of redundancy. Apollo had 6-7 backup procedures for what to do if they couldn't launch the lander off the moon.

- Test. small tests, big tests, real tests, skin-in-the-game tests. Some tests can be eliminated by simplifying or, in the case of big systems/tests, doing small tests on the riskiest components.

- Humans have ingrained biases. Will be situations astronauts haven't experienced where their instincts may be wrong.
> 13 hours to generate one sentence

This is hysterical, they're literally swapping from VRAM to RAM and certainly to disk as well since a 70B GGUF is at least 30-40 GB in total.

I suppose it's slightly better than not being able to to it at all, but jesus christ this is just hilariously bad.
For CPU inference, performance is generally memory bandwidth limited. A modern cpu can do the matmuls (all of which are matrix-vector) faster than the data can be loaded in from memory.

If the model is all in RAM and being moved one layer at a time to a GPU, would that be faster than getting it to the CPU? What about if the model is on an SSD. The point being, compute is not the bottleneck so I wonder if this provides speedup compared to an optimized model run on a CPU?
Why would a fuse box / circuit breaker panel on its own stop radio frequencies from traveling down the wires in all directions? Filters would be required for that.
Thanks! My team and I made that and it was a lot of fun :)
One can extend the SAF from biomass by hydrodeoxygenation, using green hydrogen as an additional input. This is Virent's approach, and it potentially delivers every carbon atom in the biomass into the fuel. They claim to get a SAF that is a drop-in replacement for existing jet fuel, not requiring a 50% blend with petroleum-derived components.
Was the email really from Wise?
Aside from the argument for/against lobste.rs, is there anything in the codebase that is worthwhile? Any feature/functionality that could be implemented in Lemmy, for example?
>No high speed data communications should be done through power wiring.

It bears considering that "compromise" technologies like powerline ethernet aren't because we should, it's because we can.

There's nothing technically appealing about powerline ethernet, it's always going to be inferior to simple ethernet cabling and at best a sidegrade to wireless ethernet or repurposing coax cabling or telephone wiring.

Its practical appeal is the convenience of not having to run new ethernet cabling in an environment where wireless ethernet or reusing other kinds of existing wiring also aren't an option. Running new ethernet cabling can be an arduous task, especially if you want to do it nicely, and sometimes practical convenience trumps objective superiority.
I work for a company that develops and maintains code that "no one knows anymore" which helps run the US banking system. This article is ill informed fear mongering and the proposed "solution" is a joke.
I don't love the headline, but the technical criticisms are really good.
ERs are now swamped with seriously ill patients (2021)
That’s their point. It doesn’t.
https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...

>> "The first sale doctrine, codified at 17 U.S.C. § 109, provides that an individual who knowingly purchases a copy of a copyrighted work from the copyright holder receives the right to sell, display or otherwise dispose of that particular copy, notwithstanding the interests of the copyright owner. The right to distribute ends, however, once the owner has sold that particular copy. See 17 U.S.C. § 109(a) & (c). Since the first sale doctrine never protects a defendant who makes unauthorized reproductions of a copyrighted work, the first sale doctrine cannot be a successful defense in cases that allege infringing reproduction."
They've already shot down multiple ballistic missiles / drones targeting Israel and is a counter balance so Hezbollah and Syrian militias don't get involved which will create a situation where a much bigger US response will be needed. Deterrence usually reduces conflict more than instigates it.

They are also protecting commercial civilian ships being targeted. China has warships there too and they didn't bother.

Houthi are going after Israeli stuff anyway and only targeting the US because they completely neuter their capabilities. If the US isn't there missiles will still be flying over the Red Sea and civilian ships being hijacked.
Because in the 1970s, Saudi Arabia shut off oil exports to America, triggering waves of supply side inflation. This manifests both as increasing prices as well as economic stagnation, which mainstream economists thought wasn't possible. The prevailing interpretation was that this was caused by a "wage price spiral", i.e. that any wage gains by workers will trigger the inflation necessary to claw those gains back.

This is a valid assumption... in a perfectly closed economy where no new energy, material, or labor is available[0]. However, this is not actually the case for most economies - just the one where resource-cursed petrostates are deliberately conspiring to starve out democracy and we decide to let them do that. Energy literally falls on us from the sky[1], we can use it to recover disposed of material, and, if we need more than that, we've got an entire planet full of material to dig up.

In fact, states with lots of mineral or energy wealth already use UBI. Saudi Arabia and Wyoming basically have no income tax because oil and coal extraction pay for everything. Alaska goes one step further and gives state residents a dividend out of the state's permanent oil wealth fund. And, as far as I'm aware, none of these states have outsized inflation compared with the rest of the country / world.

tl;dr economists have a superstition about workers having money

[0] Not to be confused with degrowth, at least I think so?

[1] And when it isn't we have this metal called uranium that literally spews out heat from radioactive decay when you enrich it enough.
Western meddling in the ME is the cause of much/most of the instability there,
not least Britain's enabling of the settler colonisation of Palestine by European Jews.
Today America is supplying the munitions for Israel to indiscriminately bomb the people earlier displaced by that colonisation. Yes, thanks a bunch America.
Can you elaborate on this?

Currently I am reading the book Grit by Angela Duckworth. The author cites studies of grit and has done much research on the subject. Are you suggesting that that research does not replicate?

https://angeladuckworth.com/grit-book/
let me know if you try it out, and if you are looking for a dangerous mode checkout the python-execution branch, it adds a `/python` command to run the most recent code block in a python exec
Kinda like how reddit has "hot", "top", and "best"?
That’s just some bunk the agency makes up when selling the pre-made brand kit.
Having worked with a huge Jenkins deployment at a large company somewhat recently (>10,000 jobs), I found it worked okay enough that company leadership never felt it was worth the pain if switching. But all the friction points added up to a system that was rarely touched by anyone who hadn’t learned where all the bodies were buried. Over time that meant as an engineering org we were underinvesting in CI; there was a lot of quality-oriented stuff beyond unit testing that never got implemented in CI because the typical dev was unaware of how to change it or fearful about trying to change it. The relative accessibility of Github Actions (and other config as code alternatives) transforms the average dev’s relationship to CI from consumer to owner/developer/maintainer, and I think that is extremely worthwhile even if these tools bring some new problems of their own.
> Hyprland

https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland

I loved the Special Thanks section.
It’s not that great of a natural experiment given all the other dynamics of inflow/outflow from cities, money supply changes, and eviction moratoriums.

Rent is higher than pre-COVID basically everywhere and they continue to rise faster than inflation so I’m not sure what this “experiment” shows.
Wayland didn't save the Linux Desktop for me, but I'd say that dropping nvidia + Wayland in favour of amdgpu + Wayland did.

Wayland is simply unusable with Nvidia's junky blobs. It frustrated me to the point of selling my founders ed 3090 (that I got from a friend at Nvidia at launch) and replacing it with 7900xt. It was like night and day. Not a single dropped frame (at 120hz), no tearing, not a single crash in 12 months. Just some minor issues with Electron to do with variations in fractional scaling across monitors. My 7840u 90hz oled Thinkpad is the same - not a single crash, not a single dropped frame. An absolute joy to use.

Wayland isn't perfect, but it certainly isn't the problem. At least it wasn't for me.
people need to stop comparing everything to sports. in sports teams you shower with your team mates, you have much closer bonds, and it's only one game at a time. other endeavors don't work like that.
I highly recommend anyone using this to use a Durable Object https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/ for writes as this project doesn't seem to have consistency guarantees. If the Worker that writes to a collection happens to both do a write at the same time the data will be whatever the last Worker to write set it to.

Very cool library for read-centric use cases but I'd be very careful using this for use cases with frequent writes.
Lobste.rs definitely feels like less of an echo chamber: both Reddit and HN have a large "I don't agree with you, downvote" population - on HN this is officially endorsed as "correct" use too.