skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Circa RDR2, it seems they had hours worked as a individual performance metric.

https://kotaku.com/inside-rockstar-games-culture-of-crunch-1...

https://kotaku.com/red-dead-redemption-2-developers-speak-ou...

But it still seems to be a mixed bag of experiences (with the expected "certain locations have shit management" and "QA always gets shit on"). And at least they shipped a finished product, that was arguably improved by crunch.

In contrast, there are a ton of games that don't measurably improve/ship and people are asked to crunch to cover management screw-ups.

I'm baselining at things like Star Citizen and Beyond Good and Evil 2, of the "How are these people even allowed to call themselves professional managers/directors?" level.
I don't think that's a fair reading. At most, the piece describes a common political rant, and then says "Phrased that way, it sounds almost fantastically unjust. And… it’s complicated."

Your comment, in contrast, strikes me as being much closer to a reflexive political rant than the essay.
Egypt determines it's own borders. Nobody is forcing Egypt to signs deals with Israel. Egypt does what it wants because Egypt is a sovereign state. The comment you're replying to has explained this very clearly and patiently.

> I'm afraid to say that I missed the latest Hasbara episodes so I guess you won't respond.

The sad thing is the parent got flagged and you're the one breaking the HN guidelines.
Not specifically President Gay, so this is somewhat off-topic, but:

I suspect that an awful lot of those people "calling for genocide of Jews" are also people who, a year or so ago, were saying that "speech is violence".

Back to on topic:

Personally, I think that if you're going to ask universities to allow speech that they don't agree with when it's conservatives, then you have to ask them to allow speech that they don't agree with when it's anti-Israel. Sauce for the goose, and all that. So I personally don't have a problem with President Gay's words in this case.

I hear things about Harvard allowing a history of intimidation against Jews, though, and while she's saying reasonable things here, I'm not sure that the reality on the ground matches her words. But I'm not at Harvard, nor watching it closely, so that could be an inaccurate summary of events.
Data point: it works well here (on a Plus subscription using GPT-4) with Python and JavaScript and Go.

I do use highly-tailored starting prompts saved in a GPTs.

It's definitely gotten a lot slower.
Quote came from a conference call.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5SfDmL0sv3w

At ~6:20.
Franchised businesses, are still local businesses. They're not advertising a service far away, or a hotel on the other side of the planet.
Practically everything you read on the western media about NK is completely made up. It's a country with a seemingly endless supply of fan fiction!

My favourite kind of fan fiction about NK is... let me think... ah yes, when Kim Jong Un has had some family member executed... only for them to reappear a few months later.
4090 -> 82 TFLOPS

M3 MAX GPU -> 10 TFLOPS

It is 8 times slower than 4090.

But yeah, you can claim that a bike has a faster acceleration than Ferrari, because it could reach the speed of 1km per hour faster...
Its tough. On one hand I feel for your condition and I can see how in your case the autopilot is a net benefit, but on the other hand this sort of sentiment is just reinforcing the "my car is driving, so it's ok that I switched my brain off" colloquialism.

Just in the past week I've encountered multiple Tesla's being driven by someone with no observable mental capacity: in one case, a Tesla floored its way into a left turn at a 4 way stop intersection while my and my friend were walking directly in its path on the crosswalk. Luckily, the Tesla eventually did slam its breaks in the middle of the intersection (blocking all other traffic), but the weirdest part for me was that when I looked at the driver and gave the universal "what gives" hand motion, which I'd usually expect to be met with the "my b" wave, she had a completely blank expression. It was as if she had no recognition of anything that was happening at that moment, much less the idea that accelerating into pedestrians at a crosswalk is dangerous and illegal.

In another, a Tesla was being driven at an impossibly slow rate on a main road (~10 mph on a 40 limit), and blocking tons of cars behind it. I honked at it for maybe 10 seconds before they finally pulled into the center divider and let people pass, then proceeded to merge back into the lane. I figured maybe they were trying to make it home on a dead battery or something - annoying but whatever. Fast forward like 10 minutes and I'm coming back the other way after dropping my friend off, and I see the same Tesla now going the other direction at ~10 mph, but this time swerving back and forth erratically. My suspicion is the "driver" was plastered drunk (it was ~1am) and tried to get autopilot to take them home, but for whatever reason it wasn't doing it so now the drunkard was (very slowly) careening through the streets.
I’ve been looking at this

https://freeling-user-manual.readthedocs.io/en/v4.2/modules/...

at the freeling library in general, also spaCy and NLTK. The chunking algorithms being used in the likes of LangChain are remarkably bad surprisingly.

There is also

https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured

But I don’t like it, can’t explain why yet.

My intuition is that 1st step is clean sentences and paragraphs and titles/labels/headers. Then probably an LLM can handle outlining and table of contents generation using a stripped down list of objects in the text.

BRIO/BERT summarization could also have a role of some type.

Those are my ideas so far.
Seriously, why can't the headline just say "Tesla to issue Autopilot software update for 2M vehicles"?

As if the purpose of the headline is just to make people think this is a massive product recall.
In what way does practical reality support the argument? This is the real world and the real world has real consequences. In the real world practical realities are all that matter.

Putin thinks Ukraine "is an inalienable part of our own history, culture, and spiritual space."

Putin thinks "Ukraine's ruling circles decided to justify their country's independence through the denial of its past, however, except for border issues. They began to mythologize and rewrite history, edit out everything that united us, and refer to the period when Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as an occupation."

Putin thinks "Ukraine has never had its own authentic statehood. There has never been a sustainable statehood in Ukraine."

Putin thinks "that true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia."

Putin thinks Ukrainians and Russians "are one people"

But, to Putin's bafflement, somehow, mysteriously, Ukrainians don't seem to understand that.

Putin's advisors advise “forcing coercion into fraternal relations is the only method that has historically proven effective towards Ukraine.”

So Putin's trying that. It's not going very well.

Many Russians are dying for Putin's vanity:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/12/politics/russia-troop-losses-...
Buried fiber is never going to happen for the rural folks serviced by Starlink. It's hard to get companies to put fiber down in well populated suburbs, getting them out into the country is pure wishful thinking, especially if you're only talking about a billion dollars.
Government isn't sand, I don't think it's productive to talk about "more" or "less" of it. I think it's more appropriate to talk about the expense/benefit ratio of tax dollars which in the US is clearly not great. Correction to that ratio seems like it could come from lots of directions, but I don't think just cutting services and trying to prevent market monopolization is going to get you all the way there, or even kind of close. Producing "affordability" is going to require ensuring that people have access to cheap healthcare, cheap transit, cheap power, cheap delivery networks, etc. All of these are things which benefit greatly from economies of scale, and which a state can effectively (and prudently) provide. There's plenty of examples worldwide, the US is just in a Reaganite hangover.
On top of that, devops typically requires understanding the system and complex interactions at large, another thing LLMs are far from obtaining any semblance of competence in

The best use for them in devops currently is as a second pair of eyes looking out for mistakes. They should not be used as the primary author of IaC
I expect this to go down the same way as with the internet in 1990s and 2000s. Lots of potential followed by hype, big bubble with lots of bad ideas, crash, good ideas survive, wide adoption and then AI will be part of everybody's life.
I naively thought that mass spectrometry would make it easy to know what's in a secret formula.

I wonder why that's not the case.
I have 4 Q2s (for the fam). The Q3 is better but not enough better. I tried the Vision Pro, and it’s not even close. Someone who actually really cares about this stuff will buy the Vision.

I mention that only because the increase in quality really needs to be able to be perceived to justify the increase in price. Honestly think the Vision Pro visual fidelity and UX is 10X.

I’m curious how the Q2+Q3 compares with the Vision Pro once out.
I'm comparing HN attitudes. People dismiss AI as if it were crypto.

> that led to absolutely nothing.

This is the part most of you are completely blind to. It's astonishing to me that you don't see the step function changes happening. I guess that means less competition, though.

By the end of the year, anyone will be able to make brand new Taylor Swift music that sounds good. The average child will be able to animate short films.

This is insane. Both the fact that sci-fi possibilities are tangibly right ahead of us, and the fact that so many people are dismissing it outright.
Isn't "half assed" a fairly accurate description of basically every google product since gmail and Android (and arguably that's been a rolling dumpster fire)

Even calendaring was something that took ages for them to get right. For something like a decade you couldn't move an event from one calendar to another on Android - only via the destop web view.

Google went from being an innovative company to a web version of IBM...a giant lumbering dinosaur that can't get out of its own way, and everyone kinda needs but also deeply loathes
It's interesting to see this discussion about speeding up check processing, because it seems that a lot of people use checks to slow payments down. It's a convenient way to make it inconvenient for the receiving party!

It works like this: receive invoice, wait until due date, write a check dated for the due date, wait a few days, send it through regular mail, and complain about the past due notices because "I've already sent the payment!! Did you lose it or something?" Applying late fees doesn't work either, they'll just send a late payment again without the late fee included.

At first, I genuinely thought it was because they preferred checks for record keeping purposes, but when I set up echeck and told them how they just need to call us and give us the check number to pay. Or they can just enter their information at our payment processor's portal. Nope! It's "insecure" (Sir/Madam, you're sending me a piece of paper with your bank account and routing number and it's going through the mailing system where mail gets lost...). For that same reason, they don't want to pay with a card either.

That's why the cost of paying the transaction fees for card processing is so worth it to me. I got the check scanner years before the COVID lockdowns to speed things up, but nothing beats the sometimes instant card settlement deposits. I still accept checks from responsible, timely payors, but stop doing business with anyone who has a pattern of paying late with checks. It's not worth the additional work to get them to pay (there's truly no way to know what their intent is - are their lateness predictable or is this the month they're going to wait 45 days to pay?). I'm fine with letting someone else wait for them to pay late.

One thing that still seems to be missing from bank cards is the lack of ability to add your own identifier (namely the check number) to the transaction at time of payment. I understand that, for responsible payors, this is why they might prefer paying with checks - you not only get a reference number, a memo line, and a date that makes sense for your own internal system. Even with bank cards, the date of the transaction is sometimes not the date that it actually happened, which can be confusing for record association. Zelle has a memo entry, but the reference identifiers are letters and numbers, ew. An internal auto incrementing number to identify transactions would be really useful.

Anyway, hopefully paper checks will be phased out. Although I do still find them useful for interbank account transfers - the Zelle multi-account trick still makes me kind of queasy.
You can also get inside the bookcase for the ultimate Matthew McConaughey experience.
the AR on the quest3 so far for me has been a convenient way for me to check my surroundings or do some little tasks without having to remove the headset, put it back again and re-adjust it. I don't have a quest 2 to compare with but this small gimmick seems like a small but important win to me.
Hard to disagree. Am curious to see what they found. I imagine most powerful/manipulative peoples brains are shaped differently and excel in ways we mere mortals don’t necessarily consider.
Even if they did cut on site, is that any worse than cutting natural stone?
I've had weird good luck with concrete, it was poured thick enough that the weight was causing the kitchen to sag.

The house was being sold by flippers trying to dress up a kitchen with structural mold issues, they thought concrete would be a cheap way to hide the damage.
Installers and the folks back in the shops that cut the slabs for a particular job. Many are young, hardworking trades with limited English trying to give their young families a better life. Very sad. They didn’t know how bad it is, and I bet the contractor that owns the shop didn’t know until recently either.
AR could be the kill feature that sells more quests than meta ever hoped for. IMO it's too early to predict what ideas people might have for it.
I got the Amiga 1000 in 1985. I never did get into the Atari ST but I had friends who did. The next computer after the Amiga was a 386DX PC clone with VGA and a sound card.
They will never put "software update" and "recall" in the same headline. That will defeat the purpose of their headline, which is to make Tesla look bad.
> PPE is the wrong solution here. Tools that don’t produce dust are the right solution.

"Essentially no dust" is not "no dust". There are no safe levels of silica that can be introduced to your lungs.

> And one really can work all day in a pouch-style N95 mask

N95 is basically the bare minimum in terms of filters. In my shop I have a shop vac with a tornado tumbler that attaches to tools for fine wood dust and a full face P-100 mask.

This is the one: https://parcilsafety.com/products/pd100-full-face-respirator

Here's the full filter list: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0128/4037/0235/files/Full_...
Blindsight by Peter Watts (full novel)
we will have to agree to disagree - perhaps distasteful, but a generation may need to be sacrificed in order to get lasting peace - just like was done in germany and japan during ww2.

Did lots of non-combatants die? without a doubt. Is it sad? also without a doubt.

Were all the generations after that allowed to grow up and live in relative peace and prosperity because of that? Yes they were.

The reason things keep getting worse for the Palestinian's is because they insist on squandering any aid they get on buying more and more weapons - very little of that makes it to the 'women and children'. Until that cycle is stopped, nothing will change.

Hamas is perfectly willing to use their own women and children as human shields - those terrorists need to be killed with extreme prejudice, which will include a lot of collateral damage - until that happens, there will be no peace for anyone.
> Electrochemical, magnetohydrodynamic and various other systems are not properly characterized by the Carnot limit and can approach much higher efficiency limits.

That usually is a distinction without difference. Other effects limit the efficiency at far lower levels than pure Carnot.

This can be intuitively understood like this: Carnot limits apply to gases, that are the simplest interacting systems. You can realistically model them as just a collection of individual independent particles interacting only via simple collisions.

Anything more complicated like electrons in semiconductors, and you have way more interactions and way more possibilities for your system to have inefficiencies.

Take, for example, solar panels. Sunlight has the optical temperature of around 6000K, so a Carnot engine that uses 6000K hot part and 300K cold part will theoretically have a 95% efficiency. And an infinite stack of solar panels with each layer tuned for a specific wavelength has the theoretically maximum 87% efficiency.
Naming things is very hard. As hard as it is to make good names for functions, variables, etc., it's even harder for products.

There is a great deal of literature out there on product naming, but I think that it's all very squishy and it's easy to overthink the whole deal.

What I do with my products is to avoid getting too imaginative or fancy. I name my products in a straightforward way such that you know what the product fundamentally does by the name alone. For example, instead of naming a shopping list program "The Shopinator" or something, I'd be more likely to name it something like "<DBA> Shopping List Manager". Doing that also helps to keep you from accidentally stomping on someone's trademark.

It's worked well for me, but I have no idea if it would work well for anybody else.
For many years it was one of the entry-level jobs for pilots. "check runners" were essentially overnight couriers that would fly everywhere, even to rural areas, collect bags of checks and take them to major branches where they were cleared.

I remember an article, probably from 20 years ago, warning people that the check infrastructure was about to change and people who were "floating" checks for 2-3 days (relying on this behavior) weren't going to be able to rely on it any more. I think that was when they went to electronic scanning at the bank itself.
Iirc the slowness of CPython in all the above mentioned are artifacts of the implementation rather than the language itself.

The huge issue is that a big selling point for Python was the easy C-api integration providing lots of useful functionality via libraries now works as a chain that limits how many changes can be made (see any GIL-removal discussion).

The most sane way forward would be to mandate a conversion to a future-proof C-api (PyPy has already designed an initial one iirc that's tested and also has CPython support) that packages would convert to over time.

CPython will probably never go away due to many private users of the old api, but beginning the work towards implementation independancy in the package ecosystem at large could allow _language compatible_ runtimes with V8/JSCore/LuaJIT-like performance for most new projects.

It all depends on the entire community though and that in turn depends on the goodwill of the CPython team to support this.
In this case yes, but in this case we have to assume the research side has achieved it's goal (its proven a material exists with the desired properties), now it is a manufacturing problem. If the lab can't produce the material, the manufacturing lines have nothing to manufacture with. And that seems to be the case with FSD. CEOs make wild claims, but the tech isn't there. The material has not been proven to exist in a lab with the desired properties.

Like a CEO saying, I have a material that can protect wearers from nuclear fusion blasts and it will be on the market in 6 months, but the experts in the field have yet to actually prove that material exists and create it in a lab.
Pepsi doesn't taste the same, but it's a damn good recipe. They don't use coca leaves, right?
For those with either q2 or q3, what do you use it for? Can q3 be used for productivity purposes (e.g virtual office) or is the tech not there yet? I bought a quest 2 and tried boxing and beat saber (both impressive), but the novelty of VR wore off and I haven’t touched it since (i.e. in years). I think a lot of quest 2 owners were similar. Is quest 3 any different?
Inflation is irrelevant in hiring

Rate is what is relevant.

It is said to come down but haven't come down yet.
Why not let the upstream application developer decide, rather than choosing for them?

This is one of the downsides of using C/C++ rather than a modern programming language like Rust or Zig. In the former case, the system maintainers reach across the table and change the settings, despite what the actual application developer has chosen. In the latter, the upstream developers' choices are respected more, mainly because the tooling is less standardized.

Shoutouts to this NixOS bug which is still ongoing after causing much pain for many years: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/18995
Honestly, I just hate how insecure and legacy everything involving banking in this country is.

For example, payroll - there's literally no reason your employer needs to store your account and routing number as another piece of your personal info that they can lose when some hacker finds out their MySQL admin password is "admin"

Like, the system should be that you give your employer your banks name, plus a UUID associated with your account that allows entitys to deposit but not withdraw funds for you account. It would be trivial to implement and make things much more secure, but instead we're stuck with the account+routing number system that's basically paper checks but put on a computer.
The Chrysler Pacifica PHEV has a <40 mile electric range. But vehicles like the Mini Cooper SE, all of Hyundai/Kia's EVs, and Tesla's standard range Model 3 and Y are missing out on the subsidy while gas guzzling minivans rake in the dough.
It looks like you're missing the number one most important factor in cover design:

Embed in to the image a large NETFLIX logo and add some text "HEY THIS BOOK IS WHAT THAT SHOW IS BASED ON".

People love to reflect back on that, 10 years from now.
The first supercomputer capable of simulating the human brain in real time
> An alternative distribution is Pooka, which is available for download at SoulForge.net.

This is excellent. Thank you for linking this.
Yes they have a process for this and it's pretty decent.
I also just cancelled, I guess you and me cancelling at the same time was too much.

I was amazed by how bad their Web UI is. After I've watched a movie, if I want to remove it from "My List", I have to go to the list and find the movie in it (it's randomly re-ordered every day), before I can click the "remove from my list" button. Even Amazon Prime Video lets me remove a movie from my list right after I've finished watching it.

And I can't change the order of titles on my list. Why does it get randomly re-ordered repeatedly? And the thumbnails change occasionally, which makes it even harder to find what I'm looking at. What's the point, other than being gratuitously hostile to the user?

The other thing is that most of the content is just filler. Whenever a show or movie is marked with the red Netflix logo, to me it means "this probably sucks". Netflix probably thinks its something for their customers to get excited about "Ooh, produced by Netflix!" but it's the opposite.