skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What country they are talking about? UK, US? I'm not sure that it does apply to other countries - looks to work well by my observations.
I think it's just elaborated PR. Bill is getting old and thinks more and more about his 'legacy' and how he will be remembered.
The "exploiting edges on your own" thing is a great point and I like it a lot, but there's also something to be said for always trying to have one "tentpole" element in your life which is a reliable bright spot, even if other elements of your life are chaotic/problematic/in flux etc.

This could be different elements at different times, e.g. you could lean really heavily on a friend group for a couple years, then later become religious and let your Church be your life's Northstar for a while as the friend group organically scatters, then later go deep with your family, or a sport, or travel, or whatever.

Right now it seems like your job is probably filling that "reliable bright spot" role in your life, and imho it's not worth discarding that until another independent element is clearly ready to fill that "bright spot" role.
Many people live in California due to enjoying the outdoors and weather.

Then there is the right to health care which Texas does not respect.

Then there is a thousand other issues and lifestyle matters one could care about.
I've had a personal Google e-mail account for decades.

I never worried about losing access to it.

Until the day I enabled 2FA on it.

You can't get my personal e-mail password out of my mind but you can get my smart phone out of my hand.

I've used half my backup codes by now.
Googles search engine is not selling derivative works.

If you search for a Disney movie on Google search, it does not try to sell you a film derived from the movie.
You've gotta get a hobby or multiple hobbies. Also, you chose a family/kids. That's your hobby/direction. This is all normal for your age/choices. Weird that you don't think it is?
I planted some turnips as a cover crop a couple years ago, and one morning we looked out to find an Asian lady with her kid out there just nonchalantly cutting leaves along the sidewalk.

Which is how I learned that big chunks of the south and of Asia eat turnip greens.

(also you forgot collard, and brussel sprouts, but I'll give you a pass on the latter)
re: GPU, mesa3d side (vulkan driver) is merged upstream. OpenGL/CL/GLES are via Zink.

powervr is working into getting the drm side merged to the kernel, too.
> with the potential to surpass

I think AI art will by definition never surpass human art. Humans can be inspired by things other than the art of others.
This is just gatekeeping. Art is not better because it was made by hand as opposed to with technology. If I use a generative model to make art then I’m an artist.
As a Canadian, block heaters were common decades ago with carbureted vehicles but modern ones have fuel injection and start easier so not many have a block heater today.
This list of requirements to save 3 percentage points is absurd. Approximately no one is going to use this. Which I'm sure is the point.
Spam and seo ruins these things
> could greatly expand the bench (aka have more judges) so cases get heard faster

For what it's worth, we have 62 judicial vacancies with 25 nominees pending [1]. Bugging your Senator about this from time to time isn't a bad idea, since most electeds are convinced their voters don't care about judges.

[1] https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancie...
I have. Working in legacy code of a language I'm not familiar with (pascal) writing installer scripts with inno setup (pascal, again). "Write me a function to find the installer subkeys for an application by DisplayName and Product name for both 64bit and 32bit applications in pascal." Done.

Not something I relished spending days on. Instead I spent thirty seconds and our customers are getting a major update shipped a hell of a lot faster and I can get back to bigger things.

I had it write me a handful of sticky functions. The thought of using a search engine for all of that brought tears to my eyes.

Just searching simple things anymore is gut wrenching.
Sorry about my choice of rhetoric. I’ll try to improve.

I want to note that Israel does indeed have special obligation coferred by statehood. Formally those are all the international agreements it has signed and promised to uphold. Relevant here are, among others, the Geneva convention, the Genocide convention, Convention on the Rights of the Child, etc. I’ll give special mention to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons which Israel hasn’t signed, thus making it scary as North Korea.

When a state signs these obligations but then fails to follow them, they have in fact failed humanity on a moral level. When these failures result in countless deaths and horrors, they are especially bad. To me this is what makes Israel worse then Hamas. You don’t have to agree with me, but I hope you understand where I’m coming from.
https://www.desmog.com/jordan-peterson/

had a collection of his crazy quotes on the topic.
Gotta love asus and how much they innovate
I've read these as a kid and they were some of the books I made sure I had in our house to read to my children. It seems like these would make a great TV series.

Brinley also wrote a book about creating model rockets that I read as a kid. I didn't realize he was the author of the Mad Scientist Club books until I was an adult. https://archive.org/details/RocketManualForAmateursByCapt.Be...
Once again, George was right. Self driving will be solved with vision alone, or it will never be solved. And solving for vision means solving for AGI.
Over time, I've found the answer to be seasonal or at least heavily dependent on cycles of context and mood.

In vague terms, the best work days are when I start, build, and complete something for myself. It could be a prototype, a one-off program, or a feature on an existing application. It's a milestone of encapsulated accomplishment. This is especially nice when it has a visual component I can point to and share with someone. If it's for my employer, that's ok too, but not as fulfilling.

There are other seasons when success is just attending work, making a small step of progress, and not quitting.
>If you have evidence of Apple or Google cutting a cheque to any lawmaker, personally, I'll commit here and now to paying you six figures for it, because it's worth ten times that much in the open.

https://www.opensecrets.org/search?order=desc&q=apple&sort=A...

$140,000 to a John Harris Whitmire. Apparently he's "an American attorney and politician who is the 63rd mayor of Houston, Texas" according to Wikipedia.
It would be a nightmare to lose self checkout at Target. It would be a blessing to lose it at CVS. It can be done very well or very poorly.
This was around 2004, but I should have said "paid for". Also the Diakonie came by twice a day to change her dressings, make sure she was fed, etc. SHe didn't have two pfennigs to rub together and the system made things go about as well as they could. Here in the US it seems barbaric by comparison.
By "Scot Hacker" :)
With fewer pollinators, plants are cutting back on nectar production
https://archive.ph/6Zjz3
This is more of a self-hosted collaborative alternative to Notion than a personal note taking tool like Obsidian.
Your last paragraph and comment down-thread I think discounts both the many ways the legal system and drug use are entangled, and the reality of how job hiring works.

It has been my anecdotal observation that it is more common for small, local businesses to "look past" prior convictions when hiring and be more willing to take chances on their neighbors.

Large corporations with big HR and legal departments typically have a dimmer view of things however.

Right or wrong, it is harder to get a job with a past conviction. Without a job, it is difficult to earn a living, feed and house yourself and your family. When people are desperate and unable to survive through legal means, they resort to whatever it takes to survival. It's human nature.
The root cause here seems to be fairly clear: (Excessive) vertical integration of platforms (or rather their owners) across domains.

The duopoly of mobile app stores would not be nearly as problematic if it wasn’t also tied to a duopoly in phone OS vendors, one of which also tied to a monopoly in phone vendors, which is tied to a monopoly (quasi-monopoly? not sure what to call iMessage in the US) in instant messaging platforms etc.
And do you really think that would have been different at a full service check out? It’s the same person who still wouldn’t care.
There's a book called The Devouring Fungus: Tales of the Computer Age [1] that features a story like this, was that the book?

Apparently there are tons of these stories [2] [3], many of them probably urban legends.

But there was one last year that was definitely real [4], when a cleaner removed power to a freezer holding decades of samples, apparently because they were annoyed by an alarm sound it was making.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3227607-the-devouring-fu...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/5yrs1...

[3] https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-techn...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/cleaner-coll...
I've been an engineer at FAANG. I think the problems consultants face are simpler than the ones confronting engineers who need to become expert at million line code bases. There are coding standards, styles, security practices. I think AI would help when boiler plate is needed but otherwise it would be a dicier proposition.
But there is another issue that I think is long term. The apprenticeship of a top engineer is difficult. If the result of "AI shortcuts" is a less skilled engineer profession there will be considerable downsides in the future.
I have read that the ability of people to navigate is negatively impacted by a reliance on google maps.
> For everyone complaining about the security issues, there is nothing that stops Apple from throwing up a ton of warnings for apps that didn't come from their App Store.

Also, those issues never came to pass on Android which has this feature since the beginning.

In fact I would trust apps from F-Droid a whole lot more than those "reviewed" by Google on the play store.
I should have put my email in my profile before posting, I just sent you an email :)
Please telling me your not doing this for free in your spare time
You should read the response more carefully. Generative models are just tools. If I use one to write a story it’s no less a story that I wrote than if I’d chiseled it into a Persian mountainside.
I can buy a cutting board on Amazon for $20 or I can spend thousands on woodworking equipment to make my own. I choose to do the latter because it's fun.
I studied microbiology at Trinity College in Dublin, and it always amused me that one of the most visible career paths to students in that program was to go work for Guinness.
> This is me. At a Walmart this weekend the machine booped instead of beeped, and I didn't get that meant it didn't scan,

I routinely forget to scan whatever is on the bottom of the cart. Usually cases of water but a few times it was the box of 32 hamburgers. I never had a cashier catch it - and they're invariably surprised when I come back into pay.
Kudos for being so open -- after seeing numerous "incidents" at AWS and GCE I can say that two rules always hold with respect to observability:

- You don't have enough.

- You have too much.

Usually either something will be missing or some red herring will cost you valuable time. You're already doing much better than most people by taking it seriously :)
Subtitle: what they reveal is more Dad’s Army than deep state

Impression after skimming article - sounds like a few "really old Cambridge kids" - aged 73 & up, and with some badly-dated worldviews - were quite clumsily conspiring to (try to) influence UK government policy.

Hopefully the victim's mental facilities were in better shape back when he was chief of MI6 (1999-2004)...but given the el-crapo intel on Iraqi WMD's that he was signing off on back then, they probably were not.
Everything is a:

- broccoli
- pea
- rose
- asparagus
- crab
Seriously, if you have no problem doing this in your spare time for free, then your time isn’t really that valuable.
I'll also add to @danilafe's reply that we have a GpuDiagnostics module which would count kernel launches or report them as they occur in a section of code. Something like that can be used to debug parts of your code where you do or don't expect kernel launches to occur. See https://chapel-lang.org/docs/main/modules/standard/GpuDiagno...
It could have been true the whole time. Perhaps software has been getting slower, and it's gotten so much slower and more bloated that 1995 software seems lean and fast by our modern standards, when by 1980s Wirthian standards, it wasn't.
I just wish it would remember my place in a set.
That's a campaign donation. (Mayors in mayor-council governments aren't technically lawmakers, though Houston has a strong enough mayor that it's semantic at best.) You can't--legally--spend campaign donations on personal expenses. It's the difference between investing in someone's start-up (or more accurately, donating to their non-profit) and giving them money personally.

I'm not arguing it doesn't buy influence. It does, though not in the form popularly conceived. But it's not bribery. Cheapening bribery by conflating it with campaign finance, or worse, lobbying in general isn't intellectually honest.
> I'm 33 and I am becoming terminally boring.

Are you boring or bored? Big difference.

One thing I've heard from many retired people is that they're bored. And I was always like...how can you be bored?! You have all the time in the world to do all the things you want but never had time for because of work! What did you do all day with your time off before retirement?

I read your post and wonder if you're going to end up one of those people.

> Outside of reading I have no hobbies, I am not part of any groups, I don't have any ambitions outside of home & work, and I don't drink or play video games or watch very much TV/movies. [...] Should I try to cultivate new interests? How do I find the time?

You absolutely should try to cultivate new interests.

I'm a big PC gamer, playing things from all genres. FPS, turn-based strategy, real-time strategy, factory building, city building, colony sim, puzzle, RPG (action, MMO, and single-player), racing...I play so many games that when people ask me "What do you play?", I never know how to answer! Though my favorites are typically the city builders, colony sims, and factory builders.

But I recently got into RC cars after digging out the ones I inherited from my dad. He had some stuff from the late 80s, like a Traxxas Bullet and a Kyosho Optima Mid. I upgraded the motors and electronics, but eventually decided to get myself a modern Traxxas Rustler 4x4 VXL. Out of the box, it'll go 45 mph, and if I swap the pinion gear out on the motor, it'll go ~70 mph (at the expensive of some acceleration).

There are so many hobbies and interests to get into. You just gotta find what you like to do! Just don't let anyone tell you that any hobby that doesn't lead to something useful is a waste of time. There are some poor souls, even here on HN, that think anything that doesn't produce value beyond just being entertaining is a waste of time. Fuck 'em. They're going to be on their death beds wishing that they had allowed themselves to have more fun.

Finding time...I don't really know how to answer that one, since I'm not a parent, though I am married, but my wife is a PC gamer as well, so I have plenty of free time outside of work.
Yes, this was it!

...dear God, what is wrong with this industry...
I am 23, just getting started with the corporate/working world. The way you describe yourself sounds a bit like my Dad. He was a software engineer. So am I. I remember growing up and occasionally getting frustrated with his lack of interests and hobbies (past a certain point), especially when he started developing major chronic illnesses and we stopped going on as many weekend trips.

I lost him 2 years ago.

This comment is the first time I've even remembered that old frustration in many, many years. The moments I think about, and the types of conversations I wish I could still have, have nothing to do with "interesting" hobbies or being "cool".

He passed on his love of reading and we would frequently discuss ideas from his favorite authors. He loved the scorpions and many similar classic rock bands. Some of my favorite memories are us just chatting about those subjects, or things that were important in my life at the time, or current events, or about nothing at all, while doing something else. I wouldn't trade a single one of those for having a "cooler" or more interesting Dad. Now that I am also in the software industry, I wish we could complain (or celebrate the good) about work together. If anything, I wish he was more open about the boring things that went on in his day to day.

If pushing yourself to try new things is a journey you want to go on for yourself, by all means, do so. Your kids would probably find that interesting in and of itself. But don't do it just to "have something to talk about." They will love you for who you are (...eventually, if not now), and be much more interested in what's in your head and what you care about, than seeing that you check off some amorphous checkbook of "still having cool hobbies." If anything, it will probably be more rewarding for them as they grow up to know more and have more access to the person you already are and the things you already care about. You can buy travel and lessons and "interestingness" or get those things from someone else-- but once you're gone, you're gone forever.

It sounds like you're a caring father. You already got it, man. Just show them who you are.

Wishing you and your family well.
> Most people don't want to make their own clusters, or don't have enough data for it to be a good price.

Yeah, these people will pay for iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox... Or maybe if they are a bit more technical they will look into Backblaze B2.

> there's billions of dollars to make before we reach that point. It's not a reason to avoid the market.

I want to agree with you, but honestly this feels more like a situation where all the players will be investing a bunch of time and money in the hopes of becoming a winner and they will all end up finding an ever shrinking spread.

To illustrate the point, all these projects raised already billions of dollars, but there is a very low chance that any of them will ever recoup that money. It's not a problem for them because they are all playing with someone else's money, but globally this has been nothing but a waste of time and resources.
WTF? Do you have a link? I was not aware of this, it would be crazy if true.
The speed of the narration is intense. How it weaves one story to another, feels like you're going into a fractal.
A lot of this attitude is seething below the surface these days. It's like linkedin. You may not like the thought of it but you better get over it unless you want a lot of opportunity to whiff by you unnoticed. Senior devs have an attitude against using chat gpt for some reason. Luddites. Use it or lose it.
The important disctintion is that monopoly (the formal definition) is subtly different from monopoly (the legal definition). I don't think anyone would deny that Apple has a formal monopoly, but legally speaking they haven't done much to pressure nor push out competitors.

That said, the arguable App Store monopoly (legal) is being challenged in the EU and it sounds like Apple is getting ready to relinquish a bit of that stronghold (apparently by giving the EU a different model of software or something. Still have yet to read the rumors in detail).
It used to be a global setting with a bit of a lecture on the risks, nothing serious.

Now it's related to a permission per app, you need to give permission for each app to install others. Eg the browser with which you downloaded an APK. Or the files app you used to open it. Or F-Droid's store app. The lecture is gone through. But you still have to grant it explicitly.
Sorry for the late reply. Could you specify some page numbers as examples? (There's only one version of the book, so the pages are all the same.)
It actually was not meant to be an attack, although perhaps you are right that I am projecting my own insecurities in some way. If you care to say more about why you saw my message that way, you might help me with your feedback.

My honest motivation for writing the message was that I understood (maybe misunderstood) ath3nd to be saying that they had lost a job one year ago, and then I saw a very long list of political grievances. It matched a pattern I have observed in my career where a person on the team seems to have very strident political opinions, but when you talk to that person it becomes clear that the person is angry about something in their own life and is using political discourse as a way of being angry all the time without acknowledging to themselves the issue in their own lives.

I put these two things together and thought perhaps I could help a fellow engineer who may have fallen into a pit of despair. Based on ath3nd's response, it doesn't sound like that's their situation. Maybe my comment helped another person who was reading the thread. Maybe it helped no one. I'll never know.

I'm not going to going to offer counterarguments because it was never my intention to engage ath3nd on any political matters. I don't necessarily even disagree with the person, but I also don't think HN is at its best when people use it for political debates.

My comment was posted with a good heart on the theory that it might or might not help someone else. That does not preclude the possibility that my comment reflects my own insecurities or failings. I think almost anything you do or say is in some way a reflection of who you are, and like anyone else I surely do have various insecurities and flaws.
I've used a few libraries that work like that, probably going back 10 or more years now. I was a little incredulous the first time - "You mean I really just plonk down a pile of books and press 'loan'? No individually placing each one spine-first in a tag-deactivator?"

I guess until recently it was only practical to implement with tags that were going to be reused, but is now feasible with disposable ones
I don't share the feeling of being boring but then again I don't have kids.

That little jab aside, I recently bought a nice bike during autumn sales and equipped myself with a wahoo Kickr smart trainer and cycling shoes / bibs etc.

I didn't think that the gamified zwift interface could be this much fun but I'm addicted and never had better cardio than I do right now. I'm even skipping weightlifting workouts to bike more ..

So yeah get this as a new hobby and then once you figure out all the awesome stuff about it get the rest of your family into it. It's healthy af and there's a huge community of people.

I never really enjoyed running, rowing was much better but biking is on another level. What's awesome during winter is the smart trainer, once you test your fitness level the workouts are adapted to you perfectly.
I agree that it would be pretty easy to tell, but AFAIK, nobody has taken the approach that I mentioned above.

x80 and x86 have quite a lot in common. Did you look at the link of the SCP Z-80-to-8086 cross-assembler manual that I posted?
Self driving is going the way of fusion power. Always just a couple years away.

I still believe divided highway trucking between major cities with last mile handoff to humans has legs, but I wonder how much the Tesla claims have poisoned the proverbial well of a more constrained system for the foreseeable future.
This is not to be confused with Cruise the company.

Super cruise is a feature in GM cars.