skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pretty much nobody at Deere thinks they're screwing anyone over.

Which doesn't actually mean they aren't screwing people over. Personally, I don't know if they are or not -- I'm not a farmer, and I don't know what all the issues specific to farmers are.

But the arguments that JD are making are ones that are bad for everyone outside of the farm equipment business. In that sense, they're helping to screw all of us over.
Making good (!perfect) software is a function of three constraints: knowledge, economic resources, and time.

You can mix those three together and produce a desired output, but don't expect perfection, perfect software only appears when the three variables tend to infinity
Great video, thanks for sharing that!
Posts from Ars say, pre-2018/2017 should be left alone. No need to remind ourselves about how far they've fallen.
I asked what's 2 + 2 and it said 4, giving a reference to a YouTube video saying it's a billion.
Just measure how time is consumed, ask people about what interrupts their work, what risks have to be mitigated and start from there.

Measure, prioritize then optimize.
Look, you might start getting the inequality concept.

Although the absolute wealth of poor might have improved since 1900, people can still be angry that someone is extracting disproportionate amount from the system while their situation is stagnating. See flatlined real wages since 1970s
How I just said this, as I transition to being a dev/engineer person… I find the lack frustrating at times.
We have APIs available that you can use to seed your db with data so that you don't have to hand write data for testing and demos!
I'm seriously impressed with Gitlab's issue system. I mean, it's apparent that they are great at git hosting and repository collaboration but the issue management system is really good. Epics, backlogs, stories, labels, tags, milestones, boards, roadmaps, it's all there.

I was just having a conversation with a coworker about Jira vs Gitlab and why it doesn't make sense for us to switch to Jira over using Gitlab issues. After test driving it for a few weeks and now with a little "nudge" of backing from Arch with this post about how they have migrated to it, I was able to convince my coworker that Gitlab issues is more than enough for what we do and that adding Atlassian on top of that would only add to costs. FWIW, I love Atlassian Jira+Confluence duo. I don't like Bitbucket at all. It feels very antiquated and Jenkins-like. The UI theme isn't the issue, it's the layout, the nav, the construction that just rubs me the "we don't care about your productivity" way.
What society needs is a mix of trade school a traditional university. If a university is not providing both they are failing everyone. (except the straw-man rich kid who will inherit a lot of money but not be expected to either also inherit/run a company or pass the money onto their kids - this is something that happens in story books but doesn't seem to be real world where the rich give their kids lots of advantages but eventually expect them to take over and run the family business)

A pure university education without considering is this degree useful in the real world is a disservice to education. However a pure trade school education that teaches how to do something without understanding is not useful (I don't think any trade school is that pure: they tell you to ignore hard stuff but generally give you deep understanding of some important things)
> Id like to see the flood gates really open up for gene editing for diseases, preventative treatments, and even cosmetic.

Me too, because it's fun to consider DNA as some code we can edit to get outcomes we want!

However, some people are ethically opposed to that - but piggybacking on the preference people have for having children should be able to move the Overton window!
No, but it would add to build time and cost. And generally be one more thing to think about for the designer/builder and we know how that goes.
It might be possible to design a good Unix shell based on objects, with the ability to "call back into" programs. But I haven't seen one yet that I'd prefer over Ruby or Python.

I do think objects make plenty of sense in languages like AppleScript, which essentially allowed users to script running GUI applications. And similarly, Powershell's objects might be right for Windows.

But nushell shows how far you can push "dumb" structured data. And it still feels "Unix-like", or at least "alternate universe Unix-like."

The other reason I'm suspicious of objects in shells is that shell pilelines are technically async coroutines operating over streams! That's already much further into the world of Haskell or async Rust than many people realize. And so allowing "downstream" portions of a pipeline to call back into "upstream" running programs and to randomly change things introduces all kinds of potential async bugs.

If you're going to have a async coroutines operating on streams, then having immutable data is often a good choice. Traditional Unix shells do exactly this. Nushell does it, too, but it replaces plain text with structured data.
That is not great. Currently this makes the barrier of entry for new people to contribute to projects using gitlab quite a lot higher.

There is also a huge volunteer cost here where we have to manually make accounts.
Arstechnica hasn't been all that great for a long time now, largely since Conde Nast bought it over. In my opinion anyway its glory days are long behind it now. I dropped it from my reading list several years ago. This article is especially egregious.

The era of writers like co-founder Jon Stokes on the site is long gone; his last contribution was in 2011, No more Siracusa articles since 2014, etc etc.

> https://www.condenast.com/brands/ars-technica
We voluntarily did DNA tests on both of us to rule out any parental defects, as well as tests in utero to see if there were issues. Luckily there were none, but we had some discussions on what we might do. It seems reasonable and responsible to perform these tests to be informed on your major life choices.
Any new product is going to start out as expensive and this likely isnt a market realized price. This is the first of its kind. It probably still wont be cheap but its not going to be this absurdly priced in the future considering even the insurance companies likely wont pay for this.
I don't think I've ever seen such a concentration of untreated anxiety disorders in one place as that subreddit before. Those people desperately need help, and to leave the space that's preventing them from healing.
Why the fuck isn’t this sub shutting down? We should all unsub and boycott it if they don’t
If you had enough recordings, you could (I think) build weights based _solely_ on whale speech. Humans wouldn't be able to understand the weights, and the word vectors in that model wouldn't match the word vectors in an English model, but I suppose there's a chance that vectors might be similar? I don't know. I think you'd have to be very good at both linguistics and also AI to know.
Civitai founder champions open source, downplays AI deepfake porn
All of these super heavy elements are radioactive with short half lives, so they wouldn't be accessible as ores even on planets that formed close to these stars. The article refers to elements with atomic weights higher than 260, which would mean elements like lawrencium and rutherfordium; they all have half lives of less than a day.

I have had a related thought about uranium, though. The fissile isotope that's useful for power generation and bombs, uranium 235, is only about 0.7% of uranium that's found on Earth. When uranium is formed in a supernova, there's actually more uranium 235 produced than uranium 238; this freshly produced uranium is about 62% U-235 [1]. The reason that U-235 is so rare on Earth is that U-235 decays faster than U-238 and our uranium is billions of years old. But if it's possible for a technological civilization to develop on a planet with much fresher uranium content, natural uranium there could contain a double-digit percentage of U-235. Under those conditions it would be easy to accidentally discover nuclear fission and naturally occurring reactors like Oklo [2] would be common.

[1] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...

[2] https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-tw...
This is moving the previous flyspray issue tracker to gitlab. It's not like they were on github before.
It sounds like there needs to be a monolithic solution built from the ground up for interoperation.

Updating coreutils is a losing game at this point. Of course people will get angry when a well designed solution gradually takes over simply, because it is better.
No amount of investment matters if trains can’t run on time. My experience with Amtrak has been that unless you are starting at a hub (e.g. Chicago/Seattle) there is almost a zero percent chance your train will be on time. Even worse, the discrepancy isn’t a matter of minutes but hours.

My latest - and last - attempt at taking the train from St. Paul to Columbus, WI (nearest stop to Madison) was scheduled to leave at 8 am. At 8:30, we were told by Amtrak staff they “expect the train within the half-hour”. They kept saying this until 1pm. I could have driven the route in less time than I spent waiting fruitlessly for the train to arrive.
In the UK the distinction is not really made. All the main broadsheet newspaper crosswords are set with cryptic clues (often with an alternative solve for the grid based on a separate set of ‘quick clues’).
There are a lot of patterns you have to recognize to get answers in cryptics and if you try to solve them without knowing how the clues work it's just nonsense. Especially if you assume they work at all like a normal crossword. I don't enjoy them, but I get it.

The article mentions "Spooner" in a clue being a dead giveaway there's a Spoonerism, but there's a lot of similar things to look for. There's usually a hint that there's an anagram, put one word inside another, combine two words and find a new word inside them, etc. The clue almost always has a synonym for the answer as part of it, so the "I = say + nothing" actually is how it's intended to be read, e.g. "saw = dog wearing lead".
These are my favorites for this year.

Fiction:

"Wool" and "Shift" (by Hugh Howey) - Fell in love with this series when the TV show debuted on Apple TV. I just had to read the book to find out what happens next. Still need to read the third book in the series.

Non-Fiction:

Algorithms to Live By (Brian Christian and Tom Griffith) - An interesting take on how to apply algorithms to regular day-to-day living.

Crucial Conversations (Kerry Patterson et. al) - A good primer on how to have difficult conversations

The Effective Engineer (Edmond Lau) - This book provided me a good framework on how to be more effective at prioritizing my work.

Programming Phoenix LiveView (Bruce A. Tate and Sophie DeBenedetto) - I found this very helpful for getting acquainted with Phoenix and LiveView.
Ava PLS: open-source application for running language models locally
What does it matter if they’re conscious if they’re dumb?

Just because a consciousness exists staring out of a pair of eyes doesn’t change any ethics if that consciousness is exceptionally limited.
Sound proofing can totally work, and I actually think all apartments in an apartment building or maybe just all dwelling structures should have an average, min and max noise level in decibels with the windows open.

It is really nice, and sometimes important to be able to get outside air into the home. Noise proofing only works (and it does work with the right windows, doors, floors, ceilings) if the windows and doors are closed. Once you open one even a crack, the noise comes pouring in like high pressure water.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they have several layers of location checks and if any of them fail they bail. Typically with geolocation on projects I’ve done we will rely on the best available info - location permission, IP geolocation, or the user telling us where they are via form.
I dunno, for some reason I found the first 30 minutes or so excruciatingly dull and just didn’t care about where it was going. I really enjoyed Nanook, so was surprised. Possibly I just wasn’t in the right mood for it.

[edit] and The Last Laugh, and Sunrise, though I was less enamored of Nosferatu than I expected to be. Enjoyed those too, to connect it to Murnau as well as Flaherty.
And it has huge problems with reselling accounts, attacks to randomly guess the username which gives full access to the account, they had to disable port forwarding due to abuse via anonymity, and they enforce a device limit per account due to the above. It does work for them, but at a cost.

Kagi is "a company created with the mission to humanize the web. Our goal is to amplify the web of human knowledge, creativity, and self-expression." Their goal is a search engine above all.

Mullvad's tagline right now is "A free and open society is a society where people have the right to privacy." Their goal is privacy exclusively in a VPN.
I agree.

Also, that "unnecessary optimization" thing, can be a form of "bikeshedding."

Maybe the app is too slow, and the junior engineer knows Swift, so they spend a bunch of time, doing fairly worthless UI optimization, when they should have just gone to their manager, and said "The profiler shore do spend a mite of time in the engine. Maybe you should ask C++ Bob, if he can figure out how to speed it up."
Yes, the person lying to create a rumor doesn't think it's true, but the people who believe the lie do. They treat it as credible, just as you suggested.

Who wouldn't be interested in a giraffe that can type? You deserve your fame.
> Is JD being evil or are they just bowing to competitive pressure?

That's not an either-or kind of thing.
Surprised that the article doesn't mention between summer and winter gasoline blend (https://living.acg.aaa.com/auto/what-to-know-about-gasoline-...) and the difference in milage.
Indeed I am. I grew up on the cutting edge of tech for sure thanks to my dad. I don't remember a time without internet nor (relatively) fast internet. When I got into a serious relationship, it was a culture shock to find out how others lived tech-wise growing up.

I embarassed myself accidentally in my first apartment when I was mistook an RJ11 for an RJ45 from a distance when I commented to the agent about it having ethernet. I knew what RJ11 were, I just forgot that ethernet wasn't a normal thing to have.

I remember finally getting permission to touch the home server rack in my sophomore year of my CS degree. That was a milestone.
This is a function of the market for a particular skill, not the skill distribution within that market.

The skill distribution for surgeons is ~the same as the skill distribution for baseball. The reason surgeons get paid to work as professionals is because there is demand for people who can perform surgery.
What genes do you think we should be testing for and which ones do you think are severe enough that you parents with those genes shouldn't have children?

Almost everyone has some sort of gene that isn't great. They might have a family history of Alzheimer's, maybe a family history or some sort of cancer, or bipolar disorder, or any other of 100 different serious illnesses. Humans would go extinct if we only allowed those with perfect genes to reproduce.

Oh, and with sickle cell, you're going to be in particularly hot water with suggestions like that given the fact it's mostly African Americans who have the gene.
It's almost like you found a lossy encoding for discussing governance.

For example, both the NYC taxi medallion system and warlords controlling a city in a failed state would get input as "lawlessness" in your encoding.

But then if I ask what is the quality of life in each instance, I can't get that answer because there aren't bits in your encoding for that.
I haven't used this workflow but I imagine your concerns could be addressed.

> addressing merge conflicts

I actually think, from the pov of the change author, this workflow is better at this. Other code changes have to resolve conflicts with yours, not the other way around. The followup changes from review feedback can begin with conflicts addressed for you.

> tooling

I don't know how other platforms handle this, but on GitHub at least there is nothing stopping you from reviewing a merged PR. You can prevent pushing straight to the trunk while still allowing authors to merge their own PRs at will.

I do think your other points are clear drawbacks but on its face the practice doesn't seem without merit. Seems like the "show" point on the ship/show/ask spectrum.
Yes, absolutely. I was just preaching this.

But its not totally irrelevant. They are still a datapoint to consider with some performance correlation. YMMV, but these models actually seem to be quite good for the size in my initial testing.
It's hard to avoid thinking of the definition of "accelerationism" I was already familiar with:

https://www.fpri.org/article/2020/04/the-growing-threat-pose...

In that context, it refers to white supremacists using violence, politics, and propaganda to "accelerate" an inevitable race war.
I've been reading Ars for the better part of a decade now. Always a lurker, but I contemplated creating an account just to complain about how bad that article is.

In Canada, EV owners experience a very real 30 to 50% drop in range in winter. You see Teslas driving around with the windows all frosted from the inside because they don't want to use the heaters.

I'm very much pro EV, but it would be lying to pretend they don't have their flaws.
Even if this teaching quality thing existed, everyone would still argue about it.
Felicetaceans!
I actually live in one of the more expensive "luxury" apartments in the area, is has an amazing view too. This really doesn't have anything to do with being poor. There are million dollar apartments in NYC that have this same issue. Are they poor?
If nothing else it has a fantastic name
the overarching point behind the article hits but the specific example the author used is something i'm personally jealous of. ethernet going into every room? please i am stuck setting up runners along baseboards and drilling through concrete to run ethernet between floors...
I asked about that and never got a response. My thought would be some sort of side/end fed cooling fan instead of one that exhausts out the top.
LICENSE - MIT

https://github.com/cztomsik/ava/blob/main/LICENSE.md
FYI: Median personal income in the US in 2022 was about $40,000.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA646N
I'm not from the US. I don't know much about their politics. Still I would be very surprised for the republican party to want to go back 70 years in cultural terms.
Because frankly, too much quality is not necessary, in many many cases. To know when you should or should not emphasize quality over quantity and speed, to meet a certain financial objective, is actually harder than writing quality software in the first place, I think.
I'm legitimately confused. Why did you buy a turn based game if you don't like turn based gameplay?
Google admits that for its video titled "Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI," not only was it edited to speed up the outputs (which was declared in the video description), but the implied voice interaction between the human user and the AI was actually non-existent.

That's not cool, Google...
When I first started in the 1990s I was told testing was 60% of the product budget and traditional writing code 20%. The remaining 20% was architecture and other design work. We didn't have unit test frameworks, but we did spend a lot of time writing throw away test fixtures (which was already generalizing into test frameworks by great developers and kicking off the unit test revolution)
Yes, know how to build quality software is the breed and butter of a software engineer, why sharing it ?

What you read on the internet is mostly ... bullshits.
For the ignorant, Wikipedia also says that Sickle Cell disproportionately affects Africans and people of African descent (75% of cases are in Africa).
Thanks for the tip. I'm on the M2 Air with 16 GB's of ram.

If anyone has faster than 12tkps on Air's let me know.

I'm using the LM Studio GUI over llama.cpp with the "Apple Metal GPU" option. Increasing CPU threads seemingly does nothing either without metal.

Ram usage hovers at 5.5GB with a q5_k_m of Mistral.
By using the phones camera app.
Nitpick: the assist must cut off at 25 km/h but you can pedal it faster if you are up to it. (unless it's a s-pedelec which is allowed to go 45 km/h but away from bike lanes).
Hidden Functions of Hacker News
Honestly, modern meshes are fine. I Have clients with large families, everyone streaming at Netflix O'Clock, and the three-pack of Eeros they picked up handle everything without a single hiccup. My last house, many years ago, I did wire up with CAT5e. If I build again in the future, I may not bother.
Maybe this helps (a bit) to convince you:

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html
"Speaking of comfort, why even wait to start your BEV to warm it up? If you charge at home, just tell it when you plan to leave and let it preheat the cabin for you, all while still plugged into the charger. You need not worry about tailpipe emissions poisoning you in your garage because there is no tailpipe."

If you need to warm your car, it's probably outside. If it's inside, it's probably warm. Obvious exception: unheated barn/garage.
The biggest problem with EVs in winter is if I'm traveling somewhere with poor charger access, like an AirBNB in Tahoe. Especially during extreme weather conditions, I'm not sure how easy it would be to get my vehicle charged. Whereas you can be pretty sure that society will reopen gas stations as soon as possible.
Calling it narcissism is uncharitable. This comment [1] goes a long way towards explaining the whole story. The comparison with electrical peak demand is apt.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38572228
What's insane is the fact that the issues you bring up could have and should have been hashed out via a whiteboard months or years before the first shovel hit the dirt. Figuring out how to solve fundamental architectural issues shouldn't be postponed until development has started, unless of course the real priority was getting dollars to the beneficiaries of taxpayer largesse — and looking good for the next election cycle.
One in six Swiss MPs is a farmer
Lots of AI content recently (and I am working on AI-adjacent stuff myself lol), but I am most excited for upcoming medical changes. Cure every disease, then let people have designer bodies if they like.
An infinite amount of time would not necessarily yield zero bugs.

But more importantly, once you've fixed the "show-stopping bugs," putting the software in front of customers is probably the best next step, as even if it's bug-free, that doesn't mean it solves the problem well.
This article is odd. It dismisses up to 30% range loss (250mi to 150mi) by hand-wavingly saying "well, ICEs run less efficiently" (which for modern vehicles means a drop of about 3mpg, so somewhere in the order of 10%).

And then comments that pre-warming requires the engine to idle (on my large SUV that means 0.3g/h, according to the computer) to get the cabin warm, ignoring that in the process of doing so, it warms the engine, thus negating a lot of the efficiency impact of the cold start.

One thing I like about my Audi in winter, if I'm going somewhere briefly? "Residual heat". Tap a button on the climate console, and it uses residual engine/coolant heat and a fan to keep warming the cabin for about 15 minutes with everything turned off, just a fan running (perhaps a small pump?).
Making owner-operated farms functionally impossible might have unforseen consequences.
I'm not saying its better than 70B, just that its very strong from what others are saying.

Actually I am testing the 34B myself (not the 7B), and it seems good.