skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't claim to be knowledgeable. It's just a hypothetical question.

Surely, it depends on the nature of the emergency. As I understand it, in this Qantas example, the pilots did not need to fly the plane with real-time responses, just to make good decisions.

Let's not completely discount remote pilots, while recognising they are not a universal panacea.
https://www.nsl.com/k/tableaux/parse.k is pretty cool (APL-style notation for first-order logic)
Why would you need to have your PC you browse the web on for days? Why would you be bothered with restarting a browsers at least once every 24 hours. I also call this dubious at best, I NEVER had any stability issues with FX and I pretty much used it since day 1.

You probably one of those people who confuse tabs with bookmarks and think you should have 500 tabs open with only 4 gigs ram and having not shutting your PC or Browser down for weeks. It that causes issues I think Mozilla should have that on low priority.

I use Brave on Linux mainly because I cant justify testing my webdev stuff not con Chromium and I tend to use the same Browser for everything, its also faster.

Mozilla like so brag about speed but I think the lost objectively measured to Blink a looooong time ago. Servo was given to the Linux Foundation and is far from ready. When its ready it will probably be pretty fast.
It really blows my mind that the space shuttle was really so sound and safe even though I want to argue that it could have been far better. I mean this compared to SpaceX stuff blowing up a bunch before it gets the kinks worked out - I don't remember seeing or hearing about any prototype shuttles blowing up but it was before my time.
Do you do oat milk? Wondering if these devices avoid the gel-like consistency that forms when I make it in my blender.
Apple spends billions of dollars to get customers too.
Thanks to an increasing supply of jobs in India, salaries have been rising at the top end of the market. In another 5-10 years, it won't be much cheaper to hire in India as compared to the US.
It's not bad news for the consumer or for climate change. It's only bad news for legacy automakers.
Why? $7k for a Mac Studio isn't much if we consider the original IBM PC adjusted for inflation cost $6k.
Spark notes...

Scientists studied how sperm whales communicate underwater.

They found that whale clicks have similarities to human vowels and diphthongs.

An AI model helped by imitating whale sounds, providing useful information.

The researchers discovered specific patterns in whale vocalizations, like unique "coda vowels."

Whales seem to control the frequency of their calls, making their communication more complex than we thought.

No, we can't have a casual conversation with whales yet. Serious ones either.
First they suggest that most computer programmers are bureaucrats:

> Most “software engineers” dealing in protocols, technical debt, the JVM, operations …. are also bureaucrats.

Then they complain that Google is probably hiring bureaucrats, instead of real technical people:

> Do you think the extra 100,000 people Google hired over the last 5 years are actual engineers, or any kind of innovator? I’m willing to bet they’re all bureaucrats, and any of them would say “I work at a tech company doing tech things” and be indignant at being described as what they are: bureaucrats.

Well, if you re-define every job as "bureaucrat" then you automatically get the result that everyone you hire is a bureaucrat. The result is the consequence of how you've defined everything.
On other platforms people don't even try to support anything but one "distro".

You could make an AppImage or snap that would work across pretty much any mainstream non-hobbist-oriented distro, and Snap/AppImages is pretty much the Linux equivalent of EXE.

Raspberry Pi OS just moved to NetworkManager and they have PipeWire, which was the last reason I had to deal with less common software stacks, so it seems like stuff is getting more standardized.
I think many of us are so used to working with software, with its constant need for adaptation and modification in order to meet an ever growing list of integration requirements, that we forget the benefits of working with a finalized spec with known constants like melting points, air pressure, and gravity.
Still the potato-forestry-oil cartel as usual.
SQM (Smart Queue Management)
> screenshots

For browsers, there are extensions that can create SVG screenshots. They work by either copying or inlining CSS into the SVG. They don't work all the time, but worth giving a try first.

For Firefox, see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/svg-screensho..., it worked relatively well for me.
You are absolutely correct that Firefox is more customisable than Chrome, but my point wasn’t to compare the two on that front, but to make the point that the original comment - which spoke of FF’s ‘commitment’ to ‘customisability’ - is nonsensical. That commitment may have been a real thing a decade ago, but it hasn’t been around for awhile.
>The only entitlement I see here is the expectation by authors to have absolute control over their work

Well they are the author or funder of said art. They should feel entitled to how it's distributed. If they are working on a braille translation and someone else pops up, you can understand why they should have the power to make sure the latter can't make money off their IP, no?

But my point is that this is contrived because most people downloading a torrent are not doing transformative work. A few may make mods or fan translations or entire overhaul of the game, but well over 99.9% just want to consume as is. And well, those 0.1% can just buy the work?

>Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 27.

That article has 2 parts. The 2nd:

>Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Pretty much defends copyright, so the goal here isn't to turn all of media into a commons. They acknowledge that art and science is something society benefits from, but also that the authors of such culture have some protection against being leeches upon.

>The right to participate in culture is infringed upon, for example, when essayists are unable to publish video essays about movies and illustrate their ideas with a few seconds from each movie, because they get caught in overzealous copyright protection.

I mean, they do? The overzealous one is YouTube in this case who has no legal incentive to push their luck, not the law which is why DMCA's aren't even more aggressive.

I get your point here, but that specific example is more a problem with the YouTube monopoly than the word of the law. I think we all agree that DMCA abusers should be punished, even if the question Of DMCA as a law us valid.
> Two, because a genome is > 700MB, so it won't fit on a single disc.

I would hope it compresses well (lots of repeating stuff), though I have no practical experience.
> keeping away from pests like mice and cockroaches.

Not so much:

Cockroaches will seek out cardboard as a form of shelter.

https://www.cockroachzone.com/why-are-cockroaches-attracted-...
I've noticed that performance of Firefox on Linux can vary quite a bit from distro to distro. Mozilla uses aggressive compile, link time, and profile guided optimizations in the default Firefox binary they distribute, whereas distributions like Debian compile with very safe options and little optimizations enabled. You can see these with about:buildconfig. It's such a big difference sometimes that it makes sense why they previously branded unofficial releases as Pale Moon.
People continued to drive.
Almost everything you're saying about them is pretty visibly applicable to your attitude towards them. I don't see much of a difference between a Palestinian or Muslim who isn't sorry Israelis were killed on Oct 7th or who believes that's a valid form of nationalist insurgency or retaliation, and a Jew or an Israeli who supports the IDF's current campaign.

I think most of us without direct skin in the game have the basic moral sense to fail to find the kind of incredibly biased take you're offering here particularly convincing, and to greet with skepticism the notion that the side which has had the upper hand for longer than most of us have been alive is purely a victim.

If a Palestinian person came on trying to say "well the people in Gaza are so oppressed, they had no choice..." I would roll my eyes at that too. That they would lash out violently is understandable, but it's not their only choice, and it doesn't make it morally acceptable. You guys are more alike than you realize, and I don't mean that in a "kumbaya brotherhood" good kind of way.

> I also want my family in Israel to be safe, I don't go marching in the streets calling for all Palestinians to be expelled from the region or killed.

You don't have to. It's been happening, and has just been accelerated.
I am maybe slightly more productive. The hard parts of the job are not solved by generated code.
Reminds me a bit of a game dev talk from a Valve employee. Having trouble finding the video, but one of the interesting things that stood out to me was all the challenges with sound effects in VR.
For a door, you can’t just have “door opens” being a simple creak. Because in VR the user physically drags the door open. They can drag it part way, they can open the door quickly, slowly, etc. What in other games was a simple audio file became very complex in VR.
It’s generally proper etiquette to discuss a contribution with repository maintainers within an Issue before writing the code. That’s just people putting themselves in awkward situations, in my opinion.

The more mature a product company gets the more strict they start getting, too, out of necessity, for code standards and styles. Enforcing styles on community contributions is often a difficult balance between keeping consistency and seeming like a jerk. Sadly, people aren’t always as thoughtful with their contributions as you’d sometimes like them to be.

Anyway, I’m sure I’ll get some flack for saying this, but I help maintain some popular repositories and this has just been some of my observations. Especially with people not checking with the maintainers in an Issue before writing the code.
Hope you’re right. You should be. But Congress can’t even pass a budget. It is my theory this will be solved in court.
Kind of like some generic gRPC interchange/CLI API with native OS support? Something like that could be neat. I conjecture the main problem with gRPC is that a lot of developers (myself included) find dealing with it a bit unwieldy compared to more native (by native I mean in-language) solutions.
And the oil companies
Hosting?
> There's the quote that implies that return to office is not the explanation for this productivity rebound. Work from home is still far higher than it was in 2019, and so is productivity.

...or maybe there's another factor, and this doesn't explain anything at all. Correlation does not imply causality.

We have LLMs now, we didn't have them in 2019, and productivity is up. Ergo, increased productivity must be caused by LLMs. Right?
I once interviewed with Nokia Bell labs for the robotics team and got pretty close to the offer stage. But I ended up withdrawing from the process since the interview process was ridiculously tedious. I went to an onsite with a couple of whiteboarding sessions (they made me program on the computer for one of them), I had to talk to the CEO (or president, I forget), and it literally took me 9-5 for it but felt worth it cause the hiring manager was impressed. Afterwards, they wanted me to do another remote coding interview with a fellow researcher as a follow up, and after that another interview with some senior researcher for another follow up. When they asked me to set up a time for the senior researcher, I just couldn’t do it anymore. I really hope things has changed since then.
true, the way I see it, we need libre software, hardware, data but IMHO we also need lots of people from diverse backgrounds (professional, cultural, you name it) to share these ideas into the public sphere.
Eggs stopped shooting up yes.

Gas is not really down though. It just stopped shooting up (which was my original point).

Take a look:
https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_gas_price

December 2019 - 2.67 12/2019
This time last year (12/2022) 3.20 (+20%)
Today (12/2023) 3.36 (+5%)
On macOS iMessage is scriptable in various ways (both officially supported and unsupported), so the security argument doesn't hold water to me. It's a business decision.
you mean ability to translate PDFs into english?
Yeah, if they just specify a WebP or AVIF version.
Interesting article.

Also available on MSN (no paywall)

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/nutrition/you-say-potato-i-...
Responding to RFPs springs to mine. Knowing you have already answered the question on some previous response but a nightmare to lay your hands on it.
As others mention, there are a range of reasons why Joe Coder keeps his job. Realistically, one of those reasons (like it or not) is that management can see him every day and can go to his cube for face-to-face meetings. They never could do that with Jorge Coder (who is in the same timezone by the way). Well, now it doesn't matter.
The only thing that keeps getting faster is the abandonment of Firefox. It doesn't matter how fast Firefox is, or how private it is, or any of the other garbage the Mozilla foundation has been wasting their time on. If Firefox continues to slip in usage, and eventually into obscurity, it is all for nothing.

A technically superior, or safer, or more private, or whatever the current line of argumentation and marketing is, does not matter. Mozilla VPN does not matter.
> In fact you could train them on logically inconsistent text like "A is the mother of B" and "B is not the child of A" and they would happily spit out nonsense.

That is where LLMs are today, and why we can't solve the hallucination problem.
> the usual pass-ag nerd habit of mistaking personal preference for absolute objective truth.

Gospel
I run https://Docalysis.com/ and there’s a few use cases. The first is getting information out of various reports and papers by chatting with it, which is faster than reading an entire document. Another is automating data extraction out of files, which is part of many business processes.
Yep. And in their minds the person is guilty (and sometimes really is) and the Constitution is preventing them from a conviction. It makes intuitive sense because the system was built on Blackstone's Ratio, so it's designed to let guilty people go free sometimes to avoid convicting an innocent. To law enforcement people, this would be massively annoying.
I'm not making the argument that "they are just like humans", though. I'm merely making the argument that I don't know that they don't understand.

Someone who was shown a sample of these mistakes would maybe say that the word "understanding" is more misleading than not. I could make the converse argument for someone shown a sample of the successes, though. It seems unfair to judge "understanding" just by what the system can't do, and not by what it can do, while not really applying the same rigor to human babies.

This doesn't scream "not understanding" to me:

> If I'm holding three ice cubes, and I give one to a friend twenty minutes later, how many ice cubes do I have now?"

[... a bunch of correct text elided ...]

> In a practical sense, after twenty minutes at room temperature or in your hand, it's realistic to say that you might have no ice cubes left or just a very small amount of ice/water left from the melted ice cubes.
People sharing or even stealing other people's intellectual property rights has been an even bigger driving force of human progress.

It's why places like San Francisco are the tech center of the world.

The reason being, that all of the tech employees will often get all this great knowledge and then leave and start their own company, or at a minimum transfer that knowledge to other companies.

The fact that California doesn't allow most non competes is an amazing example of how sharing knowledge has created amazing progress.
> I don't know what the fix is but that's impossible. Israel has to stay a relatively united nation with a powerful military and nuclear power status or the Arab nations will immediately bulldoze it.

Under the "canton" proposal, there would still be a national government in charge of the military, intelligence agencies, diplomacy, foreign trade, the currency, the banking system, etc. The "cantons" would primarily control local matters, schools, housing, family law, religious affairs, etc. So I don't think it would make much difference to military.

It would basically be transforming Israel from a unitary state (like New Zealand) to a federal state (like the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, Switzerland) - however, with the added factor that the top-level national subdivisions would be based on cultural factors rather than purely geographical ones – which would be a system more like that of Belgium.
Cramming a tiny program into a tiny ELF file
You are probably not in web or AI industry?
Declining religious tolerance was another effect - though what the practical effect of that was? hard to say.
I now routinely reboot my Mac once in a while after I discovered a “helper” daemon from Zoom desperately pinging its mothership one year after uninstallation.
like, for example: car seats
Mila has it built in and the added benefit of being an air filter. Works with Homekit and can alert you.
A few years before 1998, one hacker in Argentina called a popular radio show to give instructions about how to make your computer faster. He told the audience to run debug in DOS [1] and clear the boot sector (if I remember well). I think it is the 'w' command.

You can read more from the following book (in Spanish) [2].

[1] https://montcs.bloomu.edu/Information/LowLevel/DOS-Debug.htm...

[2] https://www.iberlibro.com/primera-edicion/Llaneros-solitario...
I’m not an “AI” booster, but - you’re right, but also the hard parts of the job aren’t actually the majority of the job, and the new tools are definitely making a bunch of the other stuff take less of my time. They don’t do the job for you, but they’re pretty good leverage if you use them right.

(Although I’ll say I’m also a bit lazier - I’ve accepted some autocomplete suggestions that are definitely worse than what I’d write myself, but they’re a whole lot faster than my version.)
LLMs have only been in use for 1 year and mostly in software, WFH has been widespread for almost 4 years
Kudos for saying no. I can't believe we're living in an age where open source developers are being asked openly to leak the private conversations of their users to the public.
That's the default install method for Firefox on Ubuntu, last I checked. I think they only recently had an apt repo too. I don't think it's specifically an issue with Snap either, nor do I think Snap is a terrible tool besides it being a centralized package store that you can't create 3rd party repositories for, though I understand people also complain about the block devices Snap packages add to your system.

Anyway, the intent of my original comment was just to say that they should do some more investigating on their issue because it's not as simple as Firefox in a Snap package on any Ubuntu installation.
IMO, there needs to be some kind of compensation for folks who have to go into office. Not all jobs can be WFH. At a minimum, if you have to travel in to work, that time should be paid/count towards 40.

EDIT: On average, WFH folks save 5 hours a week by not having commute. That means folks going into a workplace work 5 hours more. That's not even including all of the other perks/flexibility/cost savings WFH provides.
I haven't found an OCR tool reliable enough when it comes to scanned PDFs containing financial data where accuracy of amounts in the document is very important.
The module ABI is not stable, but that's not the ABI typically referred to when someone says "Linux ABI". That would be the userland ABI, which is stable.
I'm concerned about the same mechanism that causes permanent loss of taste with zinc lozenges, and if it applies here. I don't want to poison the nerves in my genitals. It isn't a common or widespread effect, but it is severe.
They needed to make a lot of real-time responses when coming in to land, as they had a very narrow window of viable speeds and limited control.
> As for Qantas, near the end it mentions the plane was repaired at great cost

Indeed. Qantas has been ranked the safest airline int he world almost every year since forever [1]

I clearly remember when QF32 happened and everyone was utterly shocked. That simply DOES NOT happen to Qantas.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2023/01/03/ran...
Atleast Qatar has balls to stand for truth unlike SA.
Personally owned large vehicles are obviously not sustainable, environmentally or geometrically
"Under Serbia", oh my. I'm sorry you have to comment on things you know nothing about. They're not ethnic but religious tensions.
There's a weird standard established in this post: you're either a bureaucrat or an "innovator," with the implication being that only innovators do "real" engineering.

I don't know of any engineering profession in the real world that adheres to this standard: the gold standard for actual engineering is consistency within operational margins: building the cheapest and strongest bridge that doesn't collapse given the traffic allowed to go over it, airplanes that don't fall out of the sky, software systems that can reproduce their results, &c.
GIF uses LZW compression which was patented by Unisys.
Outside of manufacturing widgets/hour, it feels incredibly difficult to even pin down productivity.

Day to day, I bang out some code. Am I doing it better or worse than last week? No idea. WFH, definitely leaves me less drained from commuting, but I cannot point to any hard metrics one way or the other.
Chomsky called it. Then again he stated that none of it is hidden. Those ideas were floated in the open, but not covered in US at all.
Salesforce Jobs Become Less About Perks After Layoffs
I don't remember anyone "clutching pearls" over https by default? Do you have any suggested references where I can find those? I do recall people really complaining that anything at all was allowed to be http, even sites that most people would consider "unimportant".
Just a personal anecdote: I got covid a total of four times (tested for and verified insofar as such tests are reliable) Two of these were post-vaccination with Pfizer. Each time was lighter than the previous occasion. The first time felt like a nasty but short case of the flu, the second one like a moderate cold with very low fever, and the latter two times like minor head colds basically with no fever at all. In my case I only lost my sense of smell and taste the first time, but only for a few days, similar to how the flu can sometimes do as well. Never got so-called long-COVID, which seems to be rather ambiguous as a clinical condition (not arguing it doesn't exist, but there's lots left to investigate and much self-reported diagnosis that I frankly don't trust around many reports of it)

Some people get it differently from others and even now it can hit certain individuals ferociously, but it always was absurd to think that this virus would simply go away, as some people argued. That it should evolve into a milder variant like many other seasonal cold-like viruses made sense given the vast number of people it infected, allowing it to keep evolving dynamically. Some widespread viruses don't do this quite so much of course. Smallpox being an infamous example that never stopped being extremely deadly until it was eradicated, but that doesn't mean it can't reliably happen to other types of viral infections in certain biological categories.