skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you manage to install this Windows release in a VM in Ubuntu is certainly is:

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No key person risk management -> no risk register -> no management. Your friends company will fail regardless of poor sysadmin decision making or not. They need to hire competent management ASAP.
https://aws.amazon.com/snowcone/
Drop the bullshit smear. I was around and voting in that era, and I understand it well.

I question whether you were, though.
Lower 48 has vast deserts, mountain ranges, large national parks. There is loads of inaccessible wilderness in the lower 48, especially when compared to Germany.
> What if we made it possible for them to post uncensored, subscriber only videos

They do make that possible (Channel Memberships, https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7544492).

As far as I can tell the reason creators put extended videos on alternative sites (not sure why you're being so coy about what service you're talking about) isn't that they make more money there, but as an insurance policy since YouTube is a single point of failure for them. Making subscriber-only videos on YT doesn't help with that at all.
Largely because most modern capitalist societies have at least half-implemented many of things Marx proposed. We don't live in a world where we can know whether Western European capitalism of the industrial revolution proceeded monotonically and so have not basis for objectivity for a conclusion that Marx was wrong.
Your kids will remember whether you were a good, supportive parent or not.

They may reflect on your career as adults, but that's a fleeting thought and you'll already be very old by then.
IME, Intel’s Clear Linux is unbelievably good. Most people never give it a chance, but it runs great on core i3 from 2017 with just 8GB of RAM… and this is an OS that uses containers for almost everything. Just wonderful work by Intel’s team and contributors.
Proxmox is quite good, it's not VMWare, but hey, it's not VMWare ;-)
Doing your job well and having the respect of your colleagues is good enough.

Did you play with your kids while they were young, provide for them, be attentive around them? I'm certainly not perfect but these are what I'm striving for.
The C-Suite and board members need to end up bankrupt and imprisoned.

We need to send a strong message - if you do this you will end up impoverished and in prison.

It isn’t because they didn’t know how to do proper inspections but because they thought it would be worth it to cut corners.
Hard to say...

Mostly when we talk about housing, we are talking about cities, since that is where economic opportunity is. So studying Singapore and Vienna makes sense and are models to look at replicating in other cities.

No reason to ignore a possible solution because a city level solution doesn't work in rural Austria... or even "less dense urban austria".

I am not an expert, but it is clear Vienna and Singapore have some models that are working when the rest of the cities in the developed world are struggling.
This is my reaction exactly—i can’t believe anybody is replacing humans with AI, given the current state of development of AI.
But what let to a situation where someone isn't tightening bolts? Is that pervasive? Is management setting up timelines that cause steps to be skipped?

Fire the wrench holder and declare it fixed?
been using the self checkout at Uniqlo recently. works beautifully
I wonder if a plane flight, and a parachute drop into unfamiliar territory is stressful at all.
Ahh. I see, the person who didn’t tighten the bolts and person who didn’t inspect them just need more empowering training.

I’ve got a feeling that would not have been the approach when Boeing was at its best. Heads would have rolled.
> Considering bicycles exist, scooters are completely senseless and should probably be banned outright.

Scooters can be quite convenient due to smaller size.

In general, banning things that are too risky for an individual's taste seems wrong. Individuals should be allowed to take risks with their own bodies as long as they are fully informed of those risks. Skiing or having children might be too risky for me but imposing that preference on others isn't showing empathy.
I haven't seen any decrease of their usage in the US, only a steady increase. I think the article is wrong, or my region is unusual. And my region is not unusual.
You are certainly risk-averse compared to the Icelandic people, who have lived there for 1200 years now, long before geology was a thing. Hence, culturally, the Icelandic people are seemingly content to live under the threat of volcanoes even with no ability to predict where and when they'll happen.

The current situation is practically luxury in comparison.
This.

I've wrote plenty of (very) high performance code using a Javascript/WebGL combo.

Most people bitching about JS are not even good coders to start with.
It's never been easier then now.
For example, if you want to learn how to make games...

There's a guy on youtube called clearcode. He will teach you how to make games, in a Bob Ross voice...pretty much from scratch. You can also use ChatGPT to help you out.

The resources for learning are so much better. Socratic method of just asking questions is now possible with AI.

I think Sam Altman said that he is seeing x3 productivity increase from AI helping out programmers.
Which is interesting, since it’s the BBC…
Sodium boosting Lithium battery isn’t novel at all. There’s a lot of SEO crum but here’s a two-year-old mention, for example: https://cnevpost.com/2022/11/29/sodium-ion-batteries-evs-ran...
M&S colossally fucked up with their contract. It has an unbelievably frustrating amount of scan lag. An absolute classic example of one person buying a product on behalf of the end user and completely screwing up. I really hope someone got fired for that one.

Waitrose on the other hand did away with any kind of weighing device. Can’t have an unexpected item in bagging area if the bagging area isn’t expecting anything at all!
Thanks for the reassuring words. Can you point to an explanation you find convincing?
But Valve contributes directly to AMD drivers, they employ people working on both on Mesa and DX => vk layers. And kernel. It's very neatly integrated system.
> People can even practice programming on their phone with termux. Anyone can program anytime instead of having to wait to use the family computer for just an hour like back in the day. It's so easy to get mileage in.

It may be like that for some, but generally in the 90s computers were widely available and those interested were usually allowed by their family to use them as needed.

There were tutorials. There were digital manuals. It was not that different.
Whenever I see the word "cloud" thrown out as a buzzword I mentally substitute that with "rental computers".
This doesn't seem to cover a single point in the comment you're replying to.
A contract has to be signed by both sides. Whenever this comes up I'm astonished how people think the "money class" has ever even recognized the existence of such a contract.
My Psychology of Business 101 professor told this anecdote in the 80's:

IBM decided to use a Japanese subcontractor to make chips for the first time. Since they didn't know what to expect, they put a clause in the contract stipulating "3 defects per 100,000." When they got the shipment, they also received a package with a letter: "We do not understand American business practices. Enclosed are your 3 defects."

Quality is a cultural value that's built into the system and Boeings culture seems to be garbage.

This is exactly what I thought of, when I head they were moving manufacturing to South Carolina. (I lived there while in grad school.)
I added up all of the time we were spending in Scrum-related activities at a recent job. The company hired a lot of project and program managers who were pulling everyone into everyone meeting.

I presented the number of hours (meetings multiplied by engineering participants) to our VP and he insisted I must be wrong. He insisted there was no possible way we could be spending that much time doing Scrum things and that I must be exaggerating or lying. He then fell back to a lecture about how Scrum is an industry standard and how it's more efficient than alternatives.

Really opened my eyes to the disconnect between Scrum mythology and Scrum in practice. The amount of time lost to doing Scrum things was so out of control that some people had fewer than 3-4 hours per day to actually work.

Of course, the Scrum proponents will rush in and tell me that we were doing it wrong or that it's not truly Scrum if it's helping more than hurting, but these people were highly trained in the ways of Scrum and Agile and pointed to various Scrum and Agile books and certifications to defend their ways.

OTOH, I have been on very small teams where Scrum was implemented with low overhead, but those teams were filled with efficient people who would have been productive without formal methodologies either way.
>Unions are also the way.

Unions derive power from their ability to withhold labor. What's their leverage when their labor isn't needed anymore because of AI?
https://m.youtube.com/@mzikmund

This creator has some excellent videos of chat GPT attempting advent of code.

He uses it in a more generous format where he is often giving it multiple attempts and trying to coax the correct answer out of it. He definitely has more success with it than the article, but it is hard to tell how much of that success is due generous assistance and prompting, and so it is hard to know how much the model has actually improved year over year.
En vino veritas
Scrum is a decent framework for teaching business stakeholders how to work in an agile fashion, and to force some developers to always have releasable software.

But at a certain point people get so attached to the process (or teaching process) that they get scared to take the training wheels off. So yes, Scrum sucks.
Which doesn't really have anything to do with GP's incorrect assertion that C# is somehow safer than Rust.
Indeed. This is the hangover from the era of cheap money and private equity gone wild. It’s a healthy adjustment for the industry that puts great people back in circulation, to be picked up by healthier companies that didn’t blow their brains out on cheap capital. It also frees people up to start new companies because suddenly just working for FAANG doesn’t make you rich anymore.

When I looked for people a year ago, the market was still tight and frankly things seemed hopeless. We struggled along with an undersized team. I now have really good people walking up unsolicited. That hasn’t happened for many years. It’s a welcome change.
Thanks for the offer, but I decided to keep this a closed source one man project for the time being. This way I can go at my own speed.
It’s not an absolute thing. If you have someone staffing 6 of them to assist with errors and prevent theft, then it can speed up people trying to get in-and-out. If you have a giant cart of groceries, then someone who’s an expert at scanning and bagging will make everything go much faster.

People like speaking and projecting in absolutes, but the truth is mixed.
A nurse in Oregon was stealing Fentanyl IV drips, replacing them with tap water. Killed ten people.

https://www.columbian.com/news/2024/jan/03/up-to-10-people-d...
the one time i went out on an open wheel shifter kart i recall bump starting it and power shifting, but indeed no clutch.
Nationalizing our power grid management would not solve these problems. Keep in mind the US power grid is more than 10 times the size of all of Canada in terms of production, and of course far far larger than in terms of distribution endpoints. The investment needed to do things like bury power lines would be hundreds of billions of dollar. The dollars could be spent without nationalizing the grid, but the problem is the money will not get spent. If we did nationalize, it would add another level of government spending and waste that would still not have the funds needed to actual fix anything.

Perhaps if we did less of the world's policing we could spend some of that money on infrastructure.
For what it is worth I get a lot of use out of VirtualBox and I've never seen much point in installing the extension pack.
Yeah, it sucks just like democracy does... Pity we don't have anything better.
Did your peers in the bootcamp have a similar experience?
One comment - the article mentions that Waterfall was basically the only approach used prior to agile. This is false. In some industries waterfall was used, but in others software was designed and driven incrementally just as with core agile. The work I did in fixed income brokerages in the early 90s was largely ad hoc agile.
If you tell me what + should do then maybe I can help. Does it broadcast to the higher-dimensional of the two arguments?
The only part of Iceland that's truly safe from volcanic activity is the westfjords, which are remote and isolated even by Icelandic standards. Vulcanism is simply a fact of life for anyone living in the country, just like earthquakes in California, or hurricanes on the Gulf Coast.
> Some retailers cite theft as a motivator for ditching the unstaffed tills. Customers may be more willing to simply swipe merchandise when using a self-service kiosk than they are when face-to-face with a human cashier. Some data shows retailers utilising self-checkout technology have loss rates more than twice the industry average.

This is hardly surprising and stores that sell high-value goods seem to just move checkout employees from the traditional checkout to a monitoring role at the self-checkout area. Home Depot now has self-checkouts where I live (usually a block of 4 per store), but there's always a few employees milling around the self-checkout area helping customers and probably keeping an eye out for theft.

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.
> AI can't replace a decent newgrad. It literally can't find a React import and cannot be relied on for anything without a human double checking it, which takes as long as writing it yourself, when it comes to line-of-business applications.

This is little-picture, short-sighted thinking. A one-for-one replacement of a specific kind of employee is not a requirement to statistically displace employees across a workforce. AI tooling can augment the productivity of existing employees, which results in a lessened need for human labour. And you're making the baseless assumption that we have achieved the pinnacle of AI development. This problem will only get worse as AI tooling improves.
I would agree with that. Maybe walking is key. After visiting Paris, and seeing lots fit people despite a diet of croissants, baguette, butter and cheese. But they also walk so much...
I'm building a tool to monitor and promote Ethereum robustness. I believe Ethereum will play a large part in our future as a global coordination layer, but that's only feasible if it remains resilient. It's nice to look back at improvements that have been made due to initiatives I've lead.
X-59: NASA's 'quiet' supersonic plane revealed
Last time i used YouTube without an ad blocker I had 1 minute of ads every 5 minutes. I'm not sure that's even legal where I am. At least for regular TV.

Unfortunately for them, I don't watch talking heads or other kinds of "influencers". My main use was background music.

I am now a happy subscriber to ... Spotify :)
Just adding to your reply for anyone who is curious. The reason these volcanoes are not explosive is because the magma has low silica content, this makes it less viscous and more runny so it doesn't build up explosive pressure the same way. In the case of Hawaii and Iceland this is because it comes directly from a mantle hot spot up through thin oceanic crust. Silica is mostly found in the crust so magma like in the Cascades that melts through thicker continental plate has a lot more of it and results in Mt. St Helens style eruptions.
I think the question you're asking (if it's anything like the question I'm asking myself) is, what will you have used technology/the technical abilities you have to do--to make the world better for people in general? Or something else?

I agree with you--your kids (and people in general) will care so much more about what you make possible through database optimizations, etc. They won't care about the bits, they'll care about the end result that actually means something to them.

Is your database optimization making it easier for people to coordinate, find food and shelter when they need it? Or is it helping police to more easily use facial tracking to find "the perp" (i.e. someone who looks enough like them) and prosecute them?

I think most of the comments saying "your kids won't care" are misleading. They won't necessarily care about the technological details, but again, they WILL care about what that enables them to do, or others to do to them and those they care about.
I know many medical devices are very very insecure

The Gambro Phoenix Dialysis machine has an administrative password that's the same for all systems in the world, it lets you do whatever you want, including things that could harm the next patient.

This was common, until the FDA rules update a few months ago.
I failed to brute force day 4 part 2
What is with these articles that put layoff statistics next to discussions of AI, not directly making the claim that they are connected (because it is clearly baseless), but clearly leaving it for the reader to make the connection. I find this to be incredibly dishonest.
Kind of helps if you say who "WE" are -- had to look at the sidebar to see who you were.

Maybe a link to your careers, with a better understanding of an expectation of how to use GPT in an interview - like an example of a successful scenario?

Give a sample question, and say "Using any GPT of your choice - how would you leverage it to help you solve [this problem]...

Just saying that your interviews are GPT "op-en-book" is cool, but thats the same as saying "its ok to browse Stack Exchange or google answers to your interview questions"

-- but if you look at HOW they use the GPT tools at their disposal to solve whatever problem is more important.
This just seems a completely pointless exercise, you could make me wait 5 minutes and I'd either just wait or watch my videos elsewhere. I can't stand the ad format and find the ads on YouTube annoying and stressful.

But you know we can't be that huge of a % of your viewership so maybe just deal with the fact we're unprofitable and focus your engineering efforts on making your ad viewers more profitable and less time on doing things that might just push me away.

You think you're irreplaceable but TikTok will launch long form in the next 2-3 years and in 5 years from that you'll be Facebook. So like maybe just be happy you have my eyeballs at all.
we're talking about rapists now? why are you strawmanning my position?

Proof? Look at how right wing is winning elections across us and europe. A few years before they didn't win, then now they're winnin, then a few years in the future they will no longer win.

Why so? Because people change their minds!

What kind of people change their minds? Two kinds of people: a) people who have open minds and are presented with compelling evidence yadda yadda b) people who don't think much in the first place and just go with the tide.

You're holding me to unreasonable standards if you "require" of me that I present "evidence". I'm just a person sharing a personal opinion and you're tone is honestly a little rude. For some reason you decided that I really believe that I said that fascists shouldn't be blamed for being fascists and it's all fault of the left, just because I aired a personal opinion that if we don't want to see fascists win general elections we should be careful and not give those fuckers fuel to spend on undecided people. You're free to disagree but don't strawman my position.

Perhaps I'm wrong and perhaps there are indeed 51% of immovable fascists in my country who voted literal fascists who are literally doing nazi salute as of last week in a public square in the capital.

But, hey, I'm an optimist, I really hope they won the elections because they are tons of people who don't give a fuck and just got confused into voting these literal fascists. You can disagree about that!

Perhaps you can try to convince me that >51% percent of countrymen are literal fascists and there is just no hope talking to them and making a case that there are better ways to live on this planet. Or perhaps that's true in your country but not in mine? Who knows. I hope it's not the case though. Have a good day
My small business once spend 50k per month on AWS. We brought that back to 800 dollars for a similar setup at Hetzner. I find this a significant number.
From a more constructive "what is there besides scrum" I've been enjoying this persons blog and especially his book on software systems: https://softwarecrisis.baldurbjarnason.com/
background on this:

- over the weekend I made the htmx_org twitter account increasingly corporate

- started talking a lot about MSFT, implying they were interested in htmx

- someone asked if MSFT was going to buy htmx: https://fxtwitter.com/htmx_org/status/1746656784088228204

- i then put up a post about changing my license, implying i was going to restrict it due to MSFT interest: https://fxtwitter.com/htmx_org/status/1746736273728094323

- I then made is 0BSD instead of 2BSD: https://fxtwitter.com/htmx_org/status/1746880860723544211

- I then posted the "offer" i got from MSFT (some credit card thing) https://fxtwitter.com/htmx_org/status/1746895016256328079

- And explained how there were no lies involved in the ruse: https://fxtwitter.com/htmx_org/status/1746924827641102719

i did all this for the lols
Exceptions are by definition where some “unknown unknowns” are going to show up, so yes, it’s good to have simple code with as few assumptions as possible. At the extreme, you get Erlang-style supervision or “crash-first programming” where at the first sign of trouble you just immediately throw away all ephemeral state and start over.
Rather late for that!
Or we could have a generation of amazing musicians, programmers, painters and social workers.

Have you read David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs? 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.

It could be another renaissance
I think a lot of tech is resting on their moats right now. I don't have great data to support it, just a gut feeling.