skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rental agencies don't actually "rent specific cars" - they sell rentals at specific price points and fill those obligations with whatever they have laying around at the time.

Which is why it's almost best to just rent the lowest, cheapest thing, because they'll give you whatever they have.

This stops working when you need a particular aspect of whatever it is, especially if it's an aspect nobody really "cares" about - like whether it is EV.

Most people care it has enough seats, and enough luggage room. So a larger SUV works as well as a car for them.
Analytics engineers can unlock practical ML to drive business value
> my team's contract just ended unexpectedly.

Is it really a contract if it can end unexpectedly? I know it is, but really the original purpose of a contract is to set the terms and conditions, so nothing was surprise when it happened.

We really need a better term for these one sided work agreements.
They worry that if they consider themselves to be publishers of content, they will become liable for the substance of that content (e.g: calls to violence on their platforms). Thus, they go out of their way to specifically deny that they are a publisher.

> The oft-cited Section 230(c)(1) states, “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”3 In practice, this means online services are not liable for defamatory or otherwise unlawful content their users post. Section 230(c)(2) elaborates, stating that online services are not liable for “any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of [objectionable content.]”4 This second provision protects online services from liability for engaging in content moderation and enforcing their community standards.

https://itif.org/publications/2021/02/22/overview-section-23...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/02/facebook-...
OP has a point.. Like-and-subscribe nonsense started the job of ruining the internet, even if it will be llms that finish the job. It's a bit odd if proponents of the first want to hate the second, because being involved in either approach signals that content itself is at best an ancillary goal and the primary goal is traffic/audience/influence.
Also it’s easy enough to pass objects with named properties and destructure the object in the function parameters. So there’s no real need for named parameters anymore and it would just add another duplicative way of writing the same code.
What? Hasn’t Nadella been, like, a complete turnaround from the Ballmer years? Did you think Ballmer was onto something with Windows Mobile and not releasing Office apps for the web/iOS/android?
Silly prediction: the only way to get guaranteed non-ai generated content will be to go to live performances of expert speakers. Kind of like going to the theater vs. TV and cinema or attending a live concert vs. listening to Spotify.
I wasn't surprised, but that is not what I would expect if I were to see that expression. Two reasons for that: even though there is a decimal, I still mentally parsed it as an integer, and I wouldn't be thnking of the precision of the value.

(That said, I would never enter an integer with a decimal, and I would think of precision if it was a float. That said that said, there are other ways to bump into that problem which wouldn't make it so obvious - such as dealing with inputs from a user.)
I agree that Bitcoin is that perfect storm of technological and financial obfuscation that's made the ideal air cover for charlatans.

However, organizations contributing to this space are trying to extend the functionality and utility of these technologies. For example, check out Chainlink https://chainlinklabs.com/research,

But if you would like a less self-serving narrative, check out what the WEF https://www.weforum.org/organizations/chainlink/ & SWIFT https://www.swift.com/news-events/press-releases/swift-unloc... think about their decentralized tech.

Other forms of interesting decentralization applications look no further than IPFS & Filecoin. https://protocol.ai/

You're not wrong; there are scams and a lot of snake oil, but don't let that deafen you to what direction thoughtful applied use of the technology can produce.
Arm's "Blackhawk" CPU Is a Plan to Have the Best Smartphone CPU Core
That’s a good height for a desk or dining table. Coffee tables, end tables, and side tables are commonly much lower. Very low coffee tables are less than one foot. Most of my living room is 15-17” for comparison.
> Bash is also an environment, but nobody calls it an editor.

Well bash has Emacs mode, so…
Give Indians US salaries and see if they're "difficult to work with".
Nim gives the wrong answer (2.0). I've posted this to the Nim forum: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/10866#72441
That'd be awesome! I'll shoot you an email
Fair on it being "meta-meta." My point is you can always stop the search for the best system, though? Just because you can change or optimize, doesn't mean you have to.

Consider if you are doing written notes, have you learned a comprehensive shorthand system? Why not? Do you stick with only lined paper? Dotted paper or grid for some things? Is there an optimal sized sheet of paper for you? (Point being you can meta-meta work in most any setting. Nothing about Emacs requires that you do so.)
A plug in is cheaper than a gas tank of fuel, and a rental car company is insulated from that fact until they get handed a car on empty.
I agree there is a lot of dogshit out there.

In 2006 a fellow developer showed me a bot he had coded to write blog posts that just "spun" existing articles it scraped from other sites. He was making a fortune from fake blogs full of thousands of reworked articles, so this dogshit has been steaming for a long time.

I use GPT4 and Claude to write drafts of blog posts and wiki articles, often starting by having them summarize 250 page documents. The output is very high quality, adds a lot of value (because many of the original documents cannot be shared) and completes a task that no human could easily do (read thousands of long documents in hours).

So, I can't write AI off -- it is a tool that can be used for good or bad.
> Poor spelling and grammar used to be a signal used to quickly filter out worthless posts.

Timee to stert misspelling and using poorr grammar again.
This way know we LLM didn't write it.
Unlearn we what learned!
The SEO that killed the web, the productivity hacking that burns us down, UX to increase sales and subscriptions, the atention harvesting of social networks.

We're optimizing ourselves to death.
It might be fun to do a choose-your-own-adventure (CYOA) style of story. Those were never high literature to begin with and most of the fun was seeing where new paths went. An AI-based CYOA could be much more dynamic.
> why make people take exams for what is basically now common knowledge?

The only thing that has changed is the speed of access. Before LLMs went mainstream, you could buy whatever book you wanted and read it. No one would stop you from it.

You still should have a professional look over the work and analyze that it is correct. The output is only as good as the input on both sides (both from the training data and the user's prompt)
> FDA sucks so badly at their job

The job is impossible with our current sciencey abilities and our current systems.

I'm in the future already: where's my freaking flying car!
Not just more expensive, but much slower (ages to get parts). Every day not rented out is lost money.
Wish my VRML Spirograph still worked. :)
https://web.archive.org/web/19970617133952fw_/http://reality... [1997]
GPT4 is able to look terms up on the Internet if you ask, and will give you a list of specs on it, with a cite so you know it's not hallucinating them.

"4070 Super": https://chat.openai.com/share/0aac7d90-de65-41d0-9567-8e56a0...

"Mixtral-8x7": https://chat.openai.com/share/8091ac61-d602-414c-bdce-41b49e...
I think that the main (human) error is to assign the same level of importance to very different computer systems and their deficiencies and defects.

In some industries, like aviation (at least in EU) it appears to be more understood, but in general it doesn't.
"I believe there is very little reason to assume the numbers are not accurate."

How are the numbers generated?
> would put these projections as a bare minimum floor on how much solar will get installed

Is there evidence they haven't fixed this bias? The EIA and IEA are in general credible forecasters. Assuming past errors will persist doesn't sound like a good strategy unless you have methodological clues that they haven't made adjustments.
I’ve thought about that a lot - a while back I heard about problems with a contract team supplying people who didn’t have the skills requested. The thing which are it easiest to break the deal was that they plagiarized a lot of technical documentation and code and continued after being warned, which removed most of the possible nuance. Lawyers might not fully understand code but they certainly know what it means when the level of language proficiency and style changes significantly in the middle of what’s supposed to be original work, exactly matching someone else’s published work, or code which is supposedly your property matches a file on GitHub.

An LLM wouldn’t have made them capable of doing the job but the degree to which it could have made that harder to convincingly demonstrate made me wonder how much longer something like that could now be drawn out, especially if there was enough background politics to exploit ambiguity about intent or the details. Someone must already have tried to argue that they didn’t break a license, Copilot ChatGPT must have emitted that open source code and oh yes I’ll be much more careful about using them in the future!
That's a point, and I let them expand their definition of causality to include a chain of events flowing in a reversed arrow of time. I think they hand-wave away all those worms with the precept that any attempt to cause a paradox or other inconsistency would fail in practice. But I'd love to hear some examples that come to mind of problems that crutch doesn't fix.
Nearly all these comments are about tech meetups. My first introduction to Meetup, though, was a long time ago for non-work groups: hiking, movies, dinners, cooking, dogs. I still go to my movie meetups sometimes. There still are hiking events. I thought of Meetup as something that ought to be a 501(c)(3).

I have to say that the tech meetups I belong to have about 10x the number of signups.
Barcelona (and Catalonia in general) is getting more expensive and crime is rising. There are scary junkies on the streets downtown. A lot of expats are leaving. But it is still fun if you like to party. I guess it's good if you are in your 20s and have good income.
System admin can get direct support from Apple's iCloud Mail postmaster team at icloudadmin@apple.com. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102322 has a list of the information they want in order to diagnose and address delivery issues.
I have heard so much about HTMX but never really “got” the essence of it. This finally brought me a bit closer, thanks!
The lack of an easily accessible search function/option to select a city (Seattle) other than SF/NYC/London/Paris/Dubai was a little annoying to me, and then the login gate when I try to click explore again was a little frustrating.
We can make jokes and theorize all we like but https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Cut-Me-Own-Throat_Dibbler continues to enjoy his permanent residency in our supply chains.

Maybe evicting him won't solve all the issues but, given past outcomes, we may be surprised just how many it does?

…and maybe, we're getting tired of occupying a position where we need to exhaustively refute Dibbler every time he makes a claim about the crap he's selling?
> Astonishingly, more than 700 postmasters were prosecuted without any executive, manager, or statistician recognizing this glaring anomaly.

They were fully aware of the problems and deliberately not acknowledging them.

e.g. the ongoing inquiry has just been shown a document showing the Post Office indicated that it would accept a guilty plea on a less serious charge provided the defendant agreed to accept that there was “nothing wrong with Horizon”.
The years of these vehicles (2021) is about the same as all the other vehicles they're selling (though there are some older ones which I suspect might be trade ins?).

The only thing really of note is that they're not buying more of them, selling off cars that are 2 years (or about 30k miles) or so old is standard rental car policy. Sell it whilst they can recover much of the capital outlay.
Electron apps work with screen readers and os accessibility feature.

Unless accessibility becomes a first class concern, game engines are not going to be good choices for desktop applications.
Edge-triggered requires an extra read/write on every epoll relative to level-triggered though because you must exactly trigger reading the error state (EAGAIN), so it actually can be much slower (libuv considered switching at one point, but wasn’t clear the extra syscalls required by edge triggering were worth while)
Cloud in general is just "mainframe 2.0."
Bloomberg has the same story and cites high repair costs as one of the reasons, so you may be onto something.
I've pretty much just seen evidence that this segment keeps growing, and is now much MUCH larger than the Internet in The Good Old Days.

Discovering them is indeed hard, but it has always been hard - that's why search engines were such a gigantic improvement initially, they found more than the zero that most people had seen. But searches only ever skimmed the surface, and there's almost certainly no mechanical way to accurately identify the hidden gems - it's just straight chaos, there's a lot of good and bad and insane.

Find a small site or two, and explore their webring links, like The Good Old Days. They're still alive and healthy because it keeps getting easier to create and host them.
i think there's a lot of variability in the cost a car. For example, a 2024 Toyota Corolla (decent car with decent reputation) starts at $22k. That's less than half the average you mentioned.
> SWEs in particularly no longer live in a world where you can expect to have a rewarding career working for >=5 years at any given firm

"no longer" -> this might be the time to seriously talk about unionization. Programmers used to have a huge advantage at the bargaining table, going in as an individual. If parent is correct (I tend to agree) these days are over and they're not coming back. In that case, collective bargaining promises better results.

I see a lot more unionization efforts in software lately. Maybe it's just my own confirmation bias but maybe it's just that others are coming to the same conclusions.
I don't think it's "new" at all, but it is getting renewed focus, but also as it ties into the OS side of the house overall.

They want to basically make windows machines, telemetry kiosks for every bit of data they can extract.
That's like saying America isn't a liberal democratic state because of Trump and the republican party. Israel is a liberal democracy, far more liberal than America, and there were hundreds of thousands of people who marched against Netanyahu.
The Deutsch Files
They find a way to validate the utility of the information instead of the source.

It doesn't matter if the training data is AI generated or not, if it is useful.
Bing is right https://www.bing.com/search?q=9999999999999999.0+-+999999999...
This is interesting. Last summer my family had a trip to LA and rented a car through Hertz.

I'm a Gold member through Delta status (which is 1000% better than trying to use Hertz without the status), so they had an upgrade for me - a Tesla Model 3, which was by far the cheapest option.

I live in Utah, drive a (hybrid) F-150, and had never driven a Tesla. It was fun and novel but a PITA to figure out charging (at Disneyland no less).

When returning the car I was a little surprised to see what seemed like hundreds of Teslas on the lot.

We have another SoCal vacation this summer, and I expected to see a Tesla at the top of the list again, but I was surprised to see that it wasn't even an option, and the other EV (I think a Bolt) was 50% more to rent than the standard Jetta. So we got the Jetta /shrug
Scratching an itch does make it worse, and now we know why (2014)
The low-rank hypothesis of complex systems
The article explains why that's important in the way the author defined the difference between framework and library.

In a nutshell, as defined by the author, a library is a cog which is included by your application and can easily be replaced if it's not being maintained anymore, whereas a framework is the system within which you create your application and switching to a new framework would require essentially rewriting the system (and throwing away what you learnt about how you developed your current app and having to learn the way to develop with the new framework).

Whether you agree with the author's definitions or not is irrelevant to the piece. What is relevant, however, is that one can be far less judicious when including a library, because you can simply replace it in the future, whereas you need to be far more careful when switching to a new framework because it's not as easy to replace.
Let’s try generate your unique and beautiful icon by using ai.
Am I missing something or is there more than this single tweet that is essentially identical to the title?
Actually if AIs become good at reasoning, composition, logic better than humans, AI content will be sought-after and more trusted than human content for the sheer ability of AIs to better at those tasks than humans. Of course there will be need for human bubbles for "authentic" experiences but for most of technical content AI will be preferred for its ability to tailor it (for brevity, style, recipient's technical know-how, language, context).
Doesn't help that Google search is increasingly useless, across the board. Text Search sucks (yeah sure, you only got 8 results, I don't believe you stop lying to me Google), Image Search sucks, Maps Search even sucks now it refuses to find a direct ask I know is on the street I'm focused on and instead zoom out to highlight something 10 miles+ away on the other side of the city. YouTube search sucks shows like 3 results then starts showing things you've already watched or are just 8+ million views unrelated viral or gross out videos.

In retrospect it'll be obvious why Google wont be relevant at all in 15 years.
Nick (and two former subpostmasters) gave a talk to the University of Manchester a couple of years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpkSIGd7Z68
neither of those things use IRC. unless you're just referring to channel-based instant messaging.
You'd need to keep an older client to keep around for old devices. Sort of like that VM with WinXP and IE6, the one that's only kept because it has a semi-working ActiveX that some ancient device only interfaces with... shudder
Interview with a Senior Dev from Aon, Google, Dreamworks, and Sony
There are a handful of platforms you might want to look at for mobile:

* Datadog has a mobile option: https://www.datadoghq.com/monitoring/mobile-application-moni...

* New Relic does too: https://newrelic.com/platform/mobile-monitoring

* Embrace is Mobile only: https://embrace.io/

Full disclosure, I work for one of these companies
I, for one, am glad that you didn't release a self-harm framework ;)
There are people who've flown on a recent Alaska Airlines flight that would disagree with the distinction.
There is no need to discuss "breeding" in this context at all. The study is over 25 years, a single generation. The germline of any species does not change that quickly.

Lots of things in the environment have changed in the last 25 years, though, correlated with any number of things (e.g. obesity.) It will take a while to establish the cause. All the glib hot-takes on HN about "chemicals" and "plastics" might turn out to be a part of the cause, but we will see.
This reminds me of a time circa 2005 where "Sub OSes" were somewhat popular in the GameMaker community. Seems that given enough time someone will try to make an OS-like interface in a given game engine.

It was a great way to understand UI and usability paradigms beyond building game mechanics.

This definitely triggered some pleasant nostalgia for me.
That coupled with customer complaints and annoyance could definitely sour the company on it.
Are you running a 15 year old netbook or something? I've never noticed any input lag in VSCode or Slack (or any other Electron apps I can think of)
Remain the same value or price?

If it remains the same value its USD price will increase at the rate of devaluation of the dollar which is 7% on average (value halves every decade)

If I wanted to make my bitcoin "productive", I could lend it to businesses and then receive interest on top - so bitcoin would go up in price at 7% and then I'd also receive back 5 to 10% more bitcoin per year.

No other asset will ever come close to this, without taking on risk or extra work. Which is why bitcoin will very likely also go up 2000% in value over the next decade.
Twitter itself got deleted.
When Ford makes a new car they write a large book on how to repair every body panel on it. For hidden parts how much damage was acceptable before you had to do something. All dealer body shops are required to have book before the dealer can on sell the fist car (along with books and training on other repairs). I believe most body shops don't buy this book, but at the time I worked for a company that made tools and those books were used to decide what special tools we needed to design/make next. I left before Tesla was a thing (2 years before the roadster), so I don't know what Tesla does, but I suspect this is one of those details they didn't realize was important.
My favorite rental car in recent history was a Fiat 500 we nicknamed "The Little Brown Toot" [1]. A 2 door with 4 seats, but we had to fold down the back seats in order to fit our suitcases. For my wife and I having a long weekend in upstate Mass for a friends wedding? It was perfect, we didn't need anything else. And it was a hell of a lot less stressful to get around and find parking in Boston at the end of our trip.

I don't think I've ever rented an SUV in my adult life. Other than the one time I needed a vehicle to go to the snow (and in that case, we ended up with an AWD equipped minivan anyways).

I would much prefer a Tesla Model 3 to most SUV options. Granted I have an EV so it doesn't scare me, but that's not everyone. A rental fleet should be diverse. Just because I don't want an SUV doesn't mean others don't. Different people, different wants and needs.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/khw5Lx5
> Most people want whatever is the current fad, and small cars are out. I do not know how to change this.

The only thing I can think of is to emphasize their superior fuel economy and get people to appreciate the superior handling.

Make people drive an obstacle avoidance course in both a small car and a huge SUV. Maybe some people would accept that the safer car doesn't have to be the bigger car, but the one with enough agility and stability to avoid it completely.
The approach the author describes is batch processing, not time sharing. The whole point of time sharing was to allow users to work with the computer interactively rather than having to submit a job and wait for results.
It just seems like a stupid move this late in the ad game when people are starting to figure out they hate it a lot. I've never heard more techno-laymen talking about privacy and advertising than now and MS is just hopping on the train.

It's like they're drug dealers adding fentanyl as if it's a sales perk after everyone's learned about it killing the users.