skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it initially came out I thought it's amazing. The idea of immersive computing actually is, more than amazing, natural. And I think we're actually on the path towards that, maybe just not through Dynamicland directly.

It seems a bit like Ted Nelson's Xanadu - a vision without the end-to-end capability to realize it. Most inventions had a visitonary that had the ability to realize them to some extent or catalyze the talent to supplement it.
Whether that's from being to early or not havign the right people around it, I can't brush of the exclusivist feeling that surrounds the project and last words on Bert Victor's note: "I'd appreciate if you don't as for my opinions on things". IMO you either build for yourself or for everyone else. Both are ok, but certain mixes of attitudes are incompatible.
>I planned on using plywood for the hull

Reminds me of the guys that entered a robot with MDF 'armour' for Robot Wars. You can imagine how well that went! ;0)

If you can't imagine it, see:
https://robotwars.fandom.com/wiki/Overdozer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=395VuP374HE
(BTW I wouldn't call them 'idiots'. Kudos to them for having a go.)
The issue I see here is more going in the direction, that everyone thinks they have to do something world changing.

My parents had "basic" jobs, my mum was a nurse, definitely something she can be proud of. My father - being a locksmith - could teach me a lot about craftmanship. But what they can be really proud of and what I love them for: They was great parents, that's what I as their kid wanted.

Other friends parents back in the past might had crazy jobs you could maybe showoff, but some of them was awful parents. I was very happy, not having their parents.
> I even got a message that chatGPT had guidelines regarding coding today and totally refused to output the usual code examples.

This also happened recently to me with Github copilot chat. This was the first time I have seen that. It was a follow up question on a python function I was using in the active file on vscode.
Aren't they in control of the capital and something like 80% of the population?
The point is that dynamic programming builds on various abstract concepts that many college students only understand to a level deep enough to pass exams. Making the connection with caching, which is a mostly-unrelated, and much more concrete concept, give them the basis to build a mental framework. Sure, they might do without, but why make it harder?
Also that's money mostly staying in your friend's pocket, since AI is a lot cheaper.
I watched the whole thing wondering when they would start talking about the new Apple VR/MR headset... Silly me...
> There's just no sense of "social contract" when interacting with a self-checkout. It's much easier to rationalize theft as merely striking back at a large, faceless corporation when you're interacting with a machine.

I wonder how much this rationalization is influenced by the growing public belief that corporations themselves have broken the social contract / have not bound themselves by any kind of social contract for a long time now
Data transfer costs are extremely easy to negotiate with Amazon.
The link I gave to https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-67373472 says "All but two of the 28 stores run by the company, which trades in northern England, will have staffed checkouts."

That article is dated 10 November 2023, while the relevant Wikipedia text was changed on 24 February 2021‎.
In some situations power delivery to the Pi is not the issue. It is power delivery from USB to the SSD. I ran into this myself and it was weird.

* When the Pi 4B first came out, I connected a cheap Inland (Microcenter house brand) SSD, booting from that, and it ran fine for a while. (Months?) "Better" SSDs like Crucial MX100 had problems under heavy load and I suspected that the instantaneous power demands of the SSD were not met by the USB port on the Pi. (The Pi 4B supports UAS and older Pis did not and the older ones never had problems with USB connected SSDs.)

* At some point it started to run into difficulties with the SSD disconnecting under heavy load, requiring a power cycle to restore operation. At that point I began using a powered USB hub to work around this.

* Recently a user on some forum (which I have forgotten) suggested that one particular SSD model from Kingston worked fine w/out the need for a powered hub. I acquired one and tested [1] and found this to be true. Just for grins, I also tested some other SSDs that had previously only worked with a powered hub and they worked fine when directly connected.

This leads me to believe that the RpiOS folk have been tweaking some settings in the "firmware" [2] that have modified the power delivery from the USB ports.

[1] Testing involved running several disk benchmarks as well as 'stress-ng' to load the storage as much as possible.

[2] I'm unclear what the Rpi folk mean by "firmware". As an embedded systems developer "firmware" is something written to non-volatile solid state storage like flash or eeprom but when I updated firmware on a Pi, it installed a new kernel too.
Journalism is in a very bad spot right now, and you would think the fear of AI would inspire better journalism.
That sounds basically like the thing they sold instructions for in Boy's Life magazine forever ago
Interesting, I have never really looked into this kind of calculation. Thanks for the links!
But Arch let's me make my system as complicated as I want after providing the minimalist base layer. It gives almost total freedom in that respect.

I think it's more like a Lisp than Go.
For me YouTube is unusable without Premium. But they keep raising the price, and at some point I'll balk.
https://archive.is/AUIjR
clicks skepticATX, clicks.
Here's the remainder of that headline:

>> TORONTO, Feb. 16, 2023 /CNW/ - 407 International Inc. (the "Company") announced today revenues of $1,327.2 million for 2022, compared to $1,023.1 million for 2021. The Company reported net income of $435.3 million for 2022, compared to a net income of $212.4 million for 2021. Earnings before interest and other, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA"1) totalled $1,138.8 million for 2022 compared to $859.0 million for 2021.

Per https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/related/inflation-calculat..., $3.1 billion in 1999 is about $5.26 billion today. So, in 2022 the consortium had an income of about 8.5% of what they paid. Not nearly as good as your numbers imply. The consortium is making back what they paid every 10-15 years, so over a 99 year lease they'll make something like a 600%-700% return on their investment. That's not great. And they shoulder the risk of collapsing toll revenue.
Why would the "No farmer no future" sign be written in English?

I'd think this is a purely internal German matter.

(Sorry if the story answers this later on; I don't have access to the full text.)
Huh. My first question is whether it was the tap water that killed them? Fentanyl is pain medication right. You'd think people would notice something was up before they _die_...

EDIT: nvm, says infections.
As former windows Dev, I remember getting supper frustrated with their Windows upgrade. You could no longer reliably write to your install folder. They started forcing you to write to the registry, then to data folder, then other places. So you had to split up the install "ten ways" how and where you kept your data. HKEY local machine, HKEY_Current_User, and so on .. then ask for elevation to install.
I vaguely remember debugging a bug where I would delete a file in my install folder. But then found out windows was restoring an older version of it in the background. c:\program files was virtualized, and not really a directory anymore.
These are far too generic. The variance from state to state, or even parts of the same US state is humongous. Same for different European countries.

Traveling in Europe for a South Asian also isn't necessarily easy either. The wait times for getting a Schengen visa are pretty ridiculous right now. They are also much stricter about granting the visas these days than they used to (source: colleagues who've had months-long waiting times for visa appointments, and getting denied multiple times).
There are tons of these tricks you can use to cut costs and get resources for free. It's smart, but not reliable. It's the same type of hacking that leads to crypto mining on github actions via OSS repos.

Treat this as an interesting hacking exercise, but do not deploy a solution like this to production (or at least get your account managers blessing first), lest you risk waking up to a terminated AWS account.
US-owned and -operated, but not US-flagged:

> The M/V Gibraltar Eagle, a Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier owned and operated by US-based Eagle Bulk, sustained minor damage and did not report any injuries on board, Central Command said.

I say let the Marshall Islands worry about it, and if they want US protection they can fly the US flag.
I wonder how much of the suckiness is because of scrum, or because of the company that's adopting scrum's existing culture.

I'm not defending some of the ridiculousness of these ceremonies etc. but they're really a symptom of the problem.
There's an official power supply, there are Indian suppliers listed: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/27w-power-supply/

Or you can google "raspberry Pi 5 power supply".
Beside what other commenters mentioned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_accelerationism

Not sure I agree with that philosophy. But it is a valid viewpoint.

I'm more in the camp of "AGI will bring some good, some bad, and some ugly. One step @ a time, please". As if anyone in a leading AI company would care...
interesting, i didn't check other sites to kudos to showing this. So seems they didn't refresh every page at once.
I think Dawkins' model of memes is helpful.

I'm going to use freighted language and examples for brevity. Readers, please be generous; I'm doing conservatism because it's the topic on hand, but this applies equally to progressivism.

A meme is the fundamental unit of transmissible culture - a catchy tune, laying napkins on the lunch table, the concept of punishment for wrongdoers. Memes are hosted in sentient minds.

A baby's first memes come from its parents. Subsequently, from family, babysitters, toys, telly, other children, books.

Memes are virulent to different degrees. An earworm is very infectious, but greeting people with "howdie doodie" is not particularly so.

A meme may fade away from a host in time, or be displaced by another meme, or last a long time in the host's mind.

Individuals are more or less susceptible to any given meme. This is influenced by the memes they have already. Some memes reinforce each other, and are often found together and transmitted together - for example, the meme for belief in god tends to cohabit with the meme for prayer, and we observe them being transmitted together.

The belief in a holy text tends to confer resistance to displacement on proximate memes such as the belief in a personal deity, and also tends to cause the host to expend effort on transmitting the meme complex. These meme complexes are self-sustaining.

We might expect meme complexes that include dogma to confer great tenacity on accompanying memes. Good luck convincing a fundie that the earth is old; their memes inoculate them against arguments.

So we have the fox news complex: initial infection is through mild right-wing memes, affect the host's behaviour, and increase susceptibility to secondary infections such as "election was stolen" or "9/11 was an inside job".

Someone with a very strong base set of memes, such as critical thinking or compassion, is much less susceptible to all the constituent memes of the fox complex. But someone with a weak base meme type - say, consumerism and apathy to books - is more easily infected.

I'm not aware of any research in this field. Do please improve my understanding!
Sounds cool. Where was that?
Truth to be told, there's a lot of terrible js out there, and some of it is mine.
Maybe the wording is deliberately vague
Doesn't "X is rich but people from X are poor and angry" apply to other countries, like the US for example?

But more importantly the lede to this article is "Germany’s grossly unequal distribution of wealth is contributing to the country’s malaise." but Bloomberg is a journal that aggressively argues for and supports this exact situation in the US?

That's some awe inspiring hypocrisy.
Well yeah, this is at least as much a side effect of people not using open source solutions in the first place as it is the reason that people don't use open source VM solutions.

If more people had used open source solutions in the first place then they wouldn't be in this situation that they find themselves in now.
Very well it seems? They cut the cord and have moved to pay for VoD services.
I got one for Azure, where it would be nearly free to egress data from Azure to any other cloud provider or the internet.

It works, but i have no use case for it. 100TB egress to the internet costs about 7000$ ... i think, i could do it for 20$-50$.
When all my VMs and containers are hosted in AWS, and S3 has rock solid support no matter what language, framework, setup I use, it becomes really tough to ask the team to use another vendor for object storage. If something goes wrong with R2 (data loss, slow transfer, etc.) I will get blamed (or at least asked for help). If S3 loses data or performs slowly in some case, people will just figure we're somehow using it wrong. And they will figure out how to make it better. Nobody gets blamed. And to be honest, data transfer fees is negligible if your business is creating any sort of value. You don't need to optimise it.
> They expect backlash and thinks it’s worth the cost, because they plan on milking the remaining customers asap.

Why would they think that after that disaster said customers will still be with them? I no longer have the displeasure of being a VMware customer, but if I saw what they're currently doing while jacking up prices and trimming support, what possible reason would there be to remain as a customer? Inertia? At some point you know the bill will be too high, so might as well move before it gets too bad.

VMware will end up like Symantec or similar, a shell of a company that people know of, but nobody actually uses on purpose.
What's YouTube monopoly of?
But is it stable? I've seen a video on YouTube [0] where someone was showing LLM inferencing on a MacBook compared to an NVIDIA card, and it was really good, but before the video was over, everything on the Mac stopped working (he was also recording via OBS I think and it went to a halt).

This was a MacBook, but since you're just saying "Mac", I don't know what you're referring to.

I think that the MacBook couldn't cope with the heat generated so it went to its knees. I've read about it on Reddit as well.

[0] https://youtu.be/jaM02mb6JFM?t=411
I meant as an DSP core inside some larger chip, not as free standing DSP. It does not make much sense to design a chip that just contains a Tensillica core and nothing else because you lose all of the customizability and the market for such a thing probably is not big enough to offset the NRE and licensing costs (obviously, with Espressif stuff being the exception, but the RF part in there is pretty significant part of the design).
What language are we discussing this topic with?
> He talks about how a lot of the British music scene of the 60's and 70's was basically funded by social welfare programs. Broke kids having time to hone their craft.

Just because somenthing happened organically/by chance in the past, doesn't automatically mean you can just replicate the same result today by forcing thse same policies from the 60's in the world of today. You might definitely get a completely different outcome.

We had something like that during the pandemic. Kids, or young adults, were blowing it all their easy money on crypto and $GME stonks which led to tonnes of get-rich-quick scammers and pyramid schemes, not making new music or art at home.

Also, the generation of The Baatles didn't have their brains fried by endless doom scroling on tiktok, social media and Fortnite. If they were bored at home with no job, they had little escapism so listening to other artists and creating their own competing content was the go-to, while today if you've got no job and are sitting bored at home there's million other hedonistic avenues of keeping yourself entertained that are much easier than having to pick up a guitar, learn to play it well and come up with meaningful lyrics.

Passionate artists and musicians will always find a way to create content they enjoy even if they'll still be broke as every generation before them. The Beatles of today are on twitch or youtube, creating content about the stuff their passionate about and getting funded via Patreon or other donations.

I have another anecdote to bring to the table. I'm from Eastern Europe and the best music, especailly hip-hop, that came out of my post-communist hellhole country was in the 90's when we had the worst possible economy, rampant inflation and crime, no jobs, no welfare, no money, no opportunities, nothing. But those times produced the best artists and football players(soccer for you guys). Now the economy and welfare is 100x better than back then, but the quality of art and music has gone down the toilet. Why is that? I think the new found prosperty brought with it a career focused culture and because now there's more and better things to do for money and entertainment than struggling with creating good music in a garage while broke.

So to me, it seems the most depressive economic periods produce the best art and music, and the abundant "easy times" produce the worst and least inspiring. It was similar to 50 Cent's "Get rich or die trying" or Eminem's "8 Mile", all these artist came from suffering of economic harship, not economic prosperity, but nobody sane in the head wants to bring back the hard times just so we could get better hip-hop and music.
Every time I'm speed running a self checkout I day dream about a world where the price of my groceries is modified significantly lower based on my leader board rank for that day, and that the slow person in front of me is being penalized for being outside the top 100.
That’s very unusual, I think. Transfer cost seem to be something most people can negotiate.
SQLite Release 3.45.0
I am suspicious that they even thought about it that far. There's no way it's cheaper to let the active customers sue them rather than just leave the license activation servers up
Sad to read of a relocation (Phoenix to Austin) breaking up the band, so to speak. But glad the result could be more competition. Curious if any more has been published with Motorola management's rationale for the move.

None of the states involved (Arizona, Texas, Pennsylvania) are California, but noncompete enforcement isn't mentioned. Curious if that played any role in the Motorola/MOS Technology dispute; naive searching not turning up.
I wouldn't be surprised if is partly due to AI, but not because of the tech itself, but because of the additional compensation for talent and infrastructure spending it currently brings.
It may simply have been a design oversight at the time. However, the page notes the following difference of WAL2 from WAL, which could be an issue in some cases:

> In wal mode, a checkpoint may be attempted at any time. In wal2 mode, the checkpointer has to wait until writers have switched to the "other" wal file before a checkpoint can take place.
The article implies there never were audiences as estimated, due to faulty mechanism.
It's an alliteration that's understood by most Germans.
Wacat – Tests your web application against cat chaos
I stopped my ChatGPT Plus subscription and replaced it with pure GPT-4 API calls because the "product" built around the API just got dumber and dumber over time.

- ChatGPT pros:

Has some bells and whistles like code interpreter (which I can easily get via Open Interpreter).

Has plugins (although I found web browsing to be inferior compared to Poe/Perplexity).

- Pure GPT-4 API pros:

Is not dumbed down or forced to "forget" things or be lazy in coding.

I use the API either programmatically or through Poe.
Lucide
Because people protesting are aware the protest will also be reported and discussed abroad.
My point is that, like the iPhone 15 Pro Max, they should increase the minimum storage option. The base spec is insulting for someone who pays for a "Pro" tier phone.
Thanks! If I understand correctly, you would use that method, while substituting tail recursion in place of the look. However, I feel there is a lot of magic in https://gist.github.com/tmoertel/5798134#file-gistfile1-py-L....
How is it dishonest to present where major companies are cost-cutting and where they are investing, then highlighting the obvious connection across these companies?

Sounds reasonable to me.
This is true, but I think it's better put this way: The key is making it a hobby.

Expertise comes with experience and experience will only come if you keep coming back. Some people can force themselves to toil endlessly, but here's some wisdom for mere mortals: start by searching for a part of software that you can truly love, then cultivate it.
Everyone in that thread says it's not the cables.
No True Scrum Master... should get its own Wikipedia entry at last.

(Ah, too late. Guess I should have refreshed)
The US will do anything to intensify their military industrial complex. I don't believe this like I didn't believe their lies in Iraq. They saw that there's no money in Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, but there is in Ukraine and now in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
There is probably more demand than ever before for these types of ecological support operations. Beavers are insanely valuable to local river ecosystems. When they dam up rivers, they incur a whole host of positive effects for that river, including but not limited to erosion mitigation, temperature drops, vegetation increases, etc...
It applies to varying degrees. For example, Brazil is one of the strongest examples of this, with one of the highest rich country to poor ratios.
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I’ve seen “scrum” work. The single most important thing we did was the retro always happened. In the retro we somehow managed to create a safe space where we could honestly discuss ways to improve. This may never be repeatable depending on the culture of the company, but the goal of a retro is to be a safe space where honesty is possible. Without honesty there can be no improvement to the process. Is some ceremony providing no value? That should come up in the retro. Proposed fixes should surface in the retro. Maybe you dump the ceremony, or do it less often. Ceremony is sort of stupid in general, but it’s often there because historically for some large percent of teams it was useful occassionally. It may not be useful for your team.

Retros are hard. Managers will try to run them. People can’t be honest with managers present. At least half an hour of the retro should be without the manager present. Retros should should also be long enough they feel slightly painful. There are people who have a hard time finding their voice in a group setting, especially with difficult topics. Giving them time and opportunity to speak is essential.
Can you please link the cables you purchased?
Please edit the title to add 'Ever' as in the article.
What do you have to say about earthquake prone zones, hurricane prone zones, flooding prone zones and so on? A pretty large chunk of the global population lives in some sort of disaster prone area, and volcanoes, outside of fictional depictions, are not that different from all those other disasters in terms of impact.
This could theoretically mean we are going to see phones with Nokia as Brand from a different company.
Mass layoffs going into an election year. Penny wise, pound foolish.