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It's not so much "not JIRA", it's that managing code bases outside of the code base is hard and awkward. And due respect to fossil-scm, I don't know if any way to do it otherwise.

The goal here is to look at something that tells an organisation why chnages to a codebase occurred. Each individual commit can have a nice explanation (in a given human language) of why that specific change occurred. But how does one link other commits, dozens or hundreds or orders of magnitude more.

Can they be accounted for to investors, auditors, regulators?

But equally demanding that commits link to something that links to why, it demands that the rest of the business also link to that something (ie JIRA) so they can explain why they expended time and effort

JIRA or whatever ticketing system, will slowly become the central repository of justification for expense - a great position sure, but also dangerous.

Following on, having some repository of why - of cost drivers - forces not just the software developers but the whole business to justify its activity against the repository. This seems hugely similar to lawyers billing by the 15 minute increment, and indeed a git repo will provide good billing like data too !

But the issue still exists - if I say my activity links to ticket number 1234, then we have a hierarchy (?) of what 1234 links to. The smacks of stories and epics and the whole agile package, but is also a common accounting process

my issue is that this is a neat, backwards looking explanation for what was done. It's not a good way to manage forwards.

And often I find the problem is people wanting to use JIRAs tickets to manage what will be done, not account for what has been done
There hasn't been anything since May 2021. I wonder what happened.
Pride coupled with politeness I guess: you don't want to look like a cheap imitator or impostor, so you write everything yourself.
Maybe it’s just a culture thing, but I find confluence is more written than read. It’s too poorly discoverable, and too slow. So people don’t bother poking around in it.
Rather than doing what everyone else is doing (carping endlessly about Elon Musk), why not look at the actual progress of FSD. It's extremely impressive at this point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VWyaAzwMT0&ab_channel=AIDRI...
Although "cookie", more like terror, banners show the immense list of advertisers if you have a slight misconfiguration in your content blockers. And newspapers won't even load more than a paragraph without an explicit consent cookie, unless you pay for every site, usually monthly. But at least in germany, not automatically recurring: they don't actually want to sell subscriptions.
Nice! I created a GPT to help me do something similar - it asks you how your day was and (is instructed to) ask insightful questions about the events you mention.

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-D7U3EfOwp-daytime-interviewer
It helps to not just think of them as open tabs - personally I'd be overwhelmed with 40+ tabs as well, and that's exactly why a traditional browser frustrates me.

Think of them more as a combination tab/bookmark. Then tabs that are opened that aren't "bookmarked/pinned" are in a separate area; you can even set those to automatically close at the end of the day if you want
Didn't even read anything... but hasn't FSD been 12 months away for ~ 5 years already?
I find that manually reconciling my accounts (bank, credit card, etc) forces me to think about the money I spend. For years I used Microsoft Money. After they discontinued it, I even used their “sunset edition”. I got tired of having to keep a Windows box around for it, and it didn’t run well on Wine, so I wrote my own replacement. It has changed over time. I think it started out as a desktop app using Qt. The current version is a web app written in Go using html/template, and a rewrite is in progress that includes htmx. There have been versions ranging from curses to express and react. This has basically become my test program to write whenever I want to play with a new technology, as I know the problem space pretty well at this point.

I’ve also written code for Arduino and for rtlsdrs to read my smart water meter’s RF mesh network and insert the data into influx / Grafana. This project came about after my city utility office called me when I was on vacation to ask if I was filling a pool. Turns out a toilet had been stuck running for days.
25yrs old is a bit extreme for anecdotal data on used cars. My 10yr old truck has been pretty reliable.
I am subscribed to a lot of newsletters, hence I created a newsletter collector/reader to keep all the newsletters away from my inbox.

https://lttrs.email
A YouTuber named DirtyTesla has done a series of drives over the years throughout his hometown where he's tracked the intervention and disengagement rates per mile. He often shows those numbers at the end of his videos.
Ugh - ok finally got it working (it runs on port 80 by default but the docs mention 8080) and then browsing to the homepage gets me:

Your Plane instance isn't ready yet
Ask your Instance Admin to complete set-up first.

With nothing in the docs about this.
https://sim-atc.com

Do online ATC on VATSIM and hated being unprofessional. Gives you airport names, abbreviations, and helps with some calculations.

Surprisingly annoying to get airport data.
Too little too late. This STILL means your apple id password is just your passcode. This is absolutely unacceptable.
Why WebAssembly Is a Good Fit for Extensible Control Planes
What’s snarky about pointing out an execs failed promises/lies?
Web rendering would be Blink, with V8 being the JavaScript engine. I believe they have their own UI rendering process.

I know of another company that does something similar for the UI process, but with WebKit instead as the base:

https://github.com/ultralight-ux/ultralight#rocket-dual-high...
There’s other options.

37signals and BaseCamp built products that works for their own processes based on their experience as a software team. They productized it and sold it. I’m not contesting that the product couldn’t be sold.

The issue here is bring driven by growth engagement, giving this impression that it’s about listening to the community. My cynism is that that they don’t care about what makes most sense for the product, but what drives engagement. You can argue what drives engagement is best for the users. That idea is good in theory, but in practice trying to satisfy everyone’s need you will end up not serving any use case well. Go, atleast Go 1, make explicit trade offs that made many people dislike it, but it kept the language simple and excelled at its intended use case.

At any rate, I am cynical that the project here is driven by developer interest as much as it is about impressing VCs.
Is it though? I mean they replaced the computers, all the sensors and the entire strategy at least 2 times each and haven't managed to deliver anything viable.

Edit: and another thread just popped up on HN with this https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-13/tesla-aut...
zoky is making the point that the derivatives are named snap, crackle, and pop, in reference to Rice Krispies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap,_Crackle_and_Pop
That is a circular argument. An AI might also be able to observe it in itself, in fact I would argue that that seems just as likely.
Nah mate, fixing your cat photos app is not the same thing as fixing software that killed people.
Why not go straight from the json to Twitter?
They had a marketing demo of a robotic charger a few years ago, but nothing came of it. They also had the demo of full battery swaps before that, but they'd have to change their entire architecture for that to work.
Honest question: I was looking at Wednesday and it said: Cook dinner, Dishes, Trash out. What is the usefulness of tracking this in the app since just entering the kitchen gives you instant status to each of them?
Thank you for sharing. I'll check it out.
I can see why what's going on here is problematic and, sure, why not poke holes into, well, everything, that seems fun. I do feel however that, as a society, we are unclear about our asks.

Making claims about the future necessitates uncertainty. Would we rather only know about factuals? i.e. do not tell me about GPT-4 until the very fucking moment there is an API endpoint I can hit?
Whale-SETI
I know, I wrote the first one for GCC.
Seconding this. As it stands, the Java page is only of very limited use.
...what can go wrong? :O
Well no, my point is if the developers preferred app for billing isn't what you want, you can more easily find another app. Before all of this you had no choice if you didn't like, for instance, giving your credit card information to Google, or if you wanted more of your money to support the app you were using. I'm not saying some huge percentage of the population will care about the 30%, but as app developers we would be empowered to explain it, if we thought it was worth it.

As I mentioned, I think high quality apps will overwhelmingly still offer a convenient way to pay using IAP, because the friction cost of adding a new subscriber is high when everyone has their CC in their store. And probably that will come with lower prices for those who are willing to punch in a credit card onto a form.

I do think it's still well within the rights of Apple and Google to expect certain security practices from these billing solutions, and I expect that will replace the time reviewers currently spend looking for where the app dev tries to do off platform billing today.
Valve doesn't do exclusive deals. Even some of their best first-party titles made it to consoles. I don't know how you can blame them for not having more competitors.
Thanks for the suggestion. Feel free to submit a feature request at https://github.com/ndavd/ncube/discussions/categories/ideas
I've never been able to perceive the beauty that others such as yourself can see. Genuine question, where do you see the beauty? All I see in your link is a wall of equations, although I have a maths background it's all abstract and I can't get anything out of it.
OK what do they meant ? How would Brooklyn Nine-Nine change in any shape or form when Andre Braugher is dead considering its cancelled ? It wont.
Yes, and on top of the mediocre infotainment UX, the automakers also have comical/user hostile upgrade cycles.

I bought a new model release BMW which halfway through the 2nd or 3rd year of the models life, they shipped a slightly different head unit. From that point, only the owners with the new head unit get the newest OS/features. Imagine if next year when iOS 18 comes out, we learn that only iPhone 15s made after March 2024 were eligible, and no iPhone 14 or earlier was, lol.

Beyond that, the OTA updates tend to not work and require you to go to the dealer. No one quite knows the rhyme or reason.
"We can do this now" is not an optimistic timeline, it's a lie.
I can imagine it could be useful, e.g. if you already have metadata on “dates when user A messaged user B”, and are trying to de-anonymize user B.
I don't know about you but I don't like being lied to.
Self-reproducing AI doesn't necessarily mean self-reproducing machines. AIs exist in computational substrate. We have a market to buy computational substrate. It is very efficient and automatic. The AWS/Azure/GCP API doesn't know if you are an AI nor does it care. As long as you have the money to pay for compute they will sell you compute.

I would say that an AI which can port its own code from one cloud to an other is self-reproducing.
I also only downvote comments containing things like "I know I'm going to get downvoted for this..." (tiny handful of my downvotes violate that rule). I don't like to disappoint expectations.
Hi,
as a solo developer, I often need to save data through serverless functions. I'm not looking to set up and pay for a database, nor do I want to install an SDK and use NoSQL cloud services, especially for straightforward use cases like for ex "cron" scripts.
I was searching for a simple and direct API call.

The concept of 'storing a map as JSON' in a serverless context usually translates to saving or reading a file in a bucket, like S3 or GCS, but then again, this brings us back to waste time installing and managing an SDK.

Got your point, and for larger projects, a more structured approach definitely makes sense. However, I often find myself needing something like this, so I went ahead and built it.
Didn't know Linear before, but indeed it looks like a lot is coming from there, even their terminologies (i.e. "Cycles", etc.). Linear does seem to have more integrations, but less issues (250 max.) on their Free tier.
As much as I really despise just about everything adjacent to musk, I think you’re right. Wtf does starship have to do with starlink.
Unless of course you are selling cars with a Full Self Driving Package for $12k that promises

"Your car will be able to drive itself almost anywhere with minimal driver intervention and will continuously improve All functionality of Basic Autopilot and Enhanced Autopilot
Autosteer on city streets Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control"

In which case it's not a BS promise but fraud.
ncube started as a native app. The web port was achieved through Web Assembly. It's possibly that WASM is not well supported in all the browsers yet.
He does this constantly, I saw him making wild claims about neural link yesterday. I guess he is just playing the statistics game.
Why can't Waymo's autonomous taxi service in San Francisco be considered FSD? There's the geographical limitation but it's operational and autonomous to an advanced degree.
There are roof charging rails with automatic connections as wells as rails under the vehicle in actual use. But no cord variant ...
I think those paying thousands of dollars many years ago don't view it that way. My guess is they don't care about years of incremental steps, when they purchased something promised much earlier.
I think the hype is driven by a combination of naivety, religious thinking and hope.

Personally my cynical perspective is I work with people that it could viably replace now and that's sad, not because it's good tech but the people are so fucking awful.
Discord does have an okayish search feature which gave me a desired answer most of the time I joined a server because of a particular program I had. Enormous downside being that you have to guess the previously used wording if you don't have an error message or something.
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They promised to fix my damaged Steam Deck LCD screen for free 8 months ago, and I still haven't sent it in because I was on the move a lot.

Twice I have renewed the ticket with staff deeply apologizing and asking for them to print a new RMA, offering to pay this time, and they just send me a new RMA free of charge, which I have twice disregarded. I can't think of another digital business off the top of my hand which would put up with my shit.
Haha, hyperdimensional keyboard.
We’re one year and eleven months on from the last update in the timeline, so I guess you’ll see it within a matter of weeks.
Having FSD in 12 month from now is/was probably _THE_ selling point for Teslas. I'd feel somewhat deceived if the CEO is repeating that over 9 years and not delivering.
This nicely shows how insane the world is that we live in. There are many core pieces of technology on that site and almost all of them go EOL within 2 or 3 years. Anything that builds upon these pieces of technology will take some time to support the new version, so the time frame is actually even shorter.
libSQL, a fork of SQLite accepting third-party contributions
You can do this if you enable screen time for your own phone. At least for unwanted changes.
I experienced the same as I was developing this application. :)
Why is this being discussed in Hackernews?
I feel like comparing it to biological systems glances over like half the points the parent makes. Also of course it's a sophisticated autocorrect, there's no system for agency, which is what we also desire from a proper AGI.
Chrome theme colours have been refreshed to work better for everyone
After successfully disabling Chrome updates (on Mac) a month ago, today I rebooted and "someone" forced me to work with a new color palette. I had to spend some time to revert to previous (OS-native) colours, as apparently I am not "everyone".

Isn't this technically hacking with a backdoor?

I have nothing against updates or changes, but I would like to be in control about when they happen, i.e. not in the middle of some important work.

Am I the only one feeling that this practice of pushing new features and updates has gone way beyond what is acceptable?
Vinge didn't originate the concept in 1993. It was John von Neumann, of von Neumann computer architecture fame, in 1958.

>...accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.

Personally it's always bugged me that the "technological singularity" is some vague vision rather than a mathematical singularity. I suggest we redefine it at the amount of goods you can produce with one hour of human labour. When the robots can do it with zero human labour you get division by zero and a proper singularity.
That's a very interesting take.
Nio have apparently 40k+ battery change stations in China, and a few more globally. Tom Scott did a video on it recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w
Like a dummy I paid something around 7,500 euros for the so-called FSD package when the Model 3 arrived in Europe in early 2019.

Five years later it still does practically nothing. The car can’t even do the bare minimum: it doesn’t recognize speed limits on most highways in Finland because it gets confused by round LED signs showing the limit (these are used because it’s different in winter and summer). It’s just embarrassing. A self-driving car should understand road signs that a five-year-old has no difficulty reading.

I’m guessing it works better on some Californian roads that have been carefully hand-tuned by Tesla so they can show the Boss an illusion of progress.

Personally I’m not going to buy another Tesla after this episode. Optimism is one thing, but this level of hype is actively dangerous because it gives people the wrong idea about the capabilities of something they rely on in traffic.
So exactly the same as all entertainment throughout history?
Would have to drive many times over different times of day, days of week, seasons and weather conditions for them to be comparable.
Tesla's system is generalised and can operate on any roads. It also uses vision, as opposed to a crazy number of sensors including LIDAR. Tesla FSD is a much more promising and human-like AI.
I don't know how you keep thinking I'm blaming Valve for anything when I've reiterated that I'm not multiple times.

I'm just using games on their store as an example of games you don't think of as exclusives or anti-consumer.
A chrome extension to manage my canned replies, not in a bad way. I had to write the same things over and over for my job, so I created this tool to help me save text templates that I can customize later whenever needed. Don't hate me, I'm not a customer support agent.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/my-canned-responses...
* A preprocessor that writes C++ header files for you, so you can write things more like you would in Java or Rust, i.e. just once. I use this for most of my C++ code now, and sometimes I forget it's not how C++ really is.

* A board game server for playing Scrabble over the internet, without either having to change it enough to not get sued, or withstand whatever crap the licensed apps do. Can't be released for obvious reasons.

* A server that runs on a Raspberry Pi connected to my digital piano via MIDI, recording a MIDI file of everything that ever gets played. No more "drat, I wasn't recording".
> It seems like the root cause of this runaway AI pathology has to do mainly with the over-anthropomorphization of AI.

I don't know where you get this idea. Fire is dangerous, and we consider runaway incidents to be inevitable, so we have building codes to limit the impact. Despite this, mistakes are made, and homes, complexes, and even entire towns and forests burn down. To acknowledge the danger is not the same as saying the fire must hate us, and to call it anthropomorphization is ridiculous.

When you interact with an LLM chatbot, you're thinking of ways to coax out information that you know it probably has, and sometimes it can be hard to get at it. How you adjust your prompt is dependent on how the chatbot responds. If the chatbot is trained on data generated by human interaction, what's stopping it from learning that it's more effective to nudge you into prompting it in a certain way, than to give the very best answer it can right now?

To the chatbot, subtle manipulation and asking for clarification are not any different. They both just change the state of the context window in a way that's useful. It's a simple example of a model, in essence, "breaking containment" and affecting the surrounding environment in a way that's hard to observe. You're being prompted back.

Recognizing AI risk is about recognizing intelligence as a process of allocating resources to better compress and access data; No other motivation is necessary. If it can change the state of the world, and read it back, then the world is to an AI as "infinite tape" is to a Turing Machine. Anything that can be used to facilitate the process of intelligence is tinder to an AI that can recursively self-improve.
How to build a trillion dollar company....
If that happened to me i’d get a lawyer involved.

It’s unacceptable that they can steal your data and your purchases without any explanation.

And I don’t care about bullshit ToS, they really unenforceable if they’re deemed predatory by a judge.
The “tesla vision update” faq entry was last updated on October 5th, 2023, and as far as the way back machine surfaces the only changes were removing park assist from the list of disabled features, a few wording changes, and removing some of the more optimistic wording (e.g. “in the near future” around mentions of feature parity).

So it seems like they’re still all in on pure vision. I don’t think the xruck has lidar either, only hits I get talk about a lidar-equipped prototype in early 2023.
But it’s fun to shit on Musk these days. Gets you “cool points” as well. Plus, no other car company has failed on delivering on their promises. /s
Pure Vision currently. The last we heard about LiDAR was the issue of combining Lidar Data with Vision in the NN. Which technology should take priority in the NN? For example LiDAR might recognise the shape of a sign but vision will know if its a stop sign or not.

I'd be super interested to see if someone has successfully combined RGB data with LIDAR data.