skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gilbert and Sullivan's "Ruddigore" (first performed in 1887) features a chorus of "professional bridesmaids" who are experiencing a bit of a lull in business:

Hannah: Nay, gentle maidens, you sing well but vainly, for Rose is still heart-free, and looks but coldly upon her many suitors.

Zorah: It's very disappointing. Every young man in the village is in love with her, but they are appalled by her beauty and modesty, and won't declare themselves; so, until she makes her own choice, there's no chance for anybody else.

Ruth: This is, perhaps, the only village in the world that possesses an endowed corps of professional bridesmaids who are bound to be on duty every day from ten to four--and it is at least six months since our services were required. The pious charity by which we exist is practically wasted!
“AI coming for white collar jobs” is a sexy claim, but it’s got some truth to it.

Using your examples of call centers, back office and fraud detection as examples:
- what happens when five humans can do the work of seven, because there is less shuffling paper and more automation in the call center?

Companies will staff for those five people, two folks will be out on their can.

The economy may or may not make more jobs to replace them, though we hope they do, there is no guarantee that that back office person will find similar employment. Over time, more and more of what is done will be automated away. Death by a thousand cuts.

On the other hand, this idea is in the collective zeitgeist. Its the duty of respectable newspapers to share stories that are on people’s minds. People on the margins always have concerns about losing their job, or affording rent next month. This feels like a worthwhile article to me
It's not me, I'm talking about average for Polish houselhold
I've run around 20 Zigbee and an equal number of Zwave devices for several years. Zigbee is great. Zwave is terrible: despite operating at a better frequency for a home environment (lots of walls,) in my experience is has worse propagation, higher latency, and an unreliable mesh topology that randomly breaks and has to be manually repaired.
haha, nope unfortunately. But I also use an odd method of keeping my terraform code dry via Hiera (yes, the Puppet thing). If you're interested I can find out if it's ok to open source it.
Why do you think running after nVidia for this submarket is a good idea for them? The AMD GPU team isn't especially big and the development investment is massive.
Moreover, they'll have the opportunity cost for projects they're now dominating in (all game consoles for example).

Do you expect them to be able to capitalize on the AI fad so much (and quickly enough!) that it's worth dropping the ball on projects they're now doing well in? Or perhaps continue investing into the part of the market where they're doing much better than nVidia?
that's what i thought. if he actually needed help he would have been able to call.

but the real failure here is that phone technology is still so bad that it is not possible to reliably identify callers. caller-id exists, but feels like a hack, is not working relibaly, and is spoofable.

is there no way to have a trustable registry of numbers (not all of them but say any service that legitimately needs to be able to cold-call people) that can be built into every phone? a whitelist of known numbers?
$20 for what should have been the workaround from Apple for their design decision. I mean really, too many icons - have a widget to display the rest on click - the number of times I have to kill Alfred to get to Docker Desktop is more than I can count on one hand.
Yes, the recycling aspect really helps with how viable it is to not get attached to a piece till it's done.
Could be that the CUDA backend has seen far more specialization optimizations whereas the seeingly fairly fresh HIP backend hasn't had as many developers looking at it, in the end a few more control instructions on the CPU side to go through the ZLUDA wrapper will be insignificant compared to all the time spent inside better optimized GPU kernels.
I've been using Bartender since before the notch because often the space isn't enough.

This is something macOS needs to handle better. The notch itself only removed some space, but the problem was already there.
Pretty sure this was developed in private, but because AMD cancelled the contract he has been allowed to open source the code, and this is the "throw it over the fence" code dump.
"It baffles me."

It shouldn't. Life is pretty miserable for most people. Everyone is too busy to hang out and be relaxed. Having kids makes it even more so. Why do we want our kis to grow up like that too?
Well… no I would disagree. I am a data engineer who relentlessly pushes for more classic SWE best practices in our engineering teams, but there are some fundamental differences you cannot ignore the data engineering that are not present in standard software engineering.

The most significant of these is that version control is not guaranteed to be the primary gate to changes to your system’s state. The size, shape, volume, skew of your data can change independently of any code. You can have the best unit/integration tests and airtight CI/CD but it doesn’t matter if your date source suddenly starts populating a column you were not expecting, or the kurtosis of your data changes and now your once performant jobs are timing out.

Compounding this, there is no one answer for how to handle data changes. Sure you can monitor your schema and grind everything to a halt the second something is different in your source, but then you’re likely running a high false positive rate, and causing backup or data loss issues for downstream consumers.

The truth is change management and scaling is more or less a predictable and solved problem in traditional SWE. But the same principles can’t be applied with the same effectiveness to DE. I have seen a number of SWE-turned-DE struggle precisely because they do not believe there to be any difference between the two. It would be nice if it were so simple.
> [2021] After some deliberation, Intel decided that there is no business case for running CUDA applications on Intel GPUs.

oof
> There has to be a catch.

I'd wonder how long it'll last; it's a very harsh environment.

That said, there's a lot of energy available.

It may be that lots of small units like this will be more practical than one big one.
I believe Apple said it was more about using that space for other uses, not making the device thinner.

Almost every iPhone since then has gotten thicker with a larger battery.
Property crimes are rarely enforced against the ownership class. Law enforcement in the US exists to enforce the social order and class structure; they have no legal obligation to investigate or prosecute crimes.

The system is working as intended.
Home Assistant (or, really, any local HA controller) plus a VPN will allow you to control them from anywhere you have Internet connectivity without exposing anything to a cloud-based service.
I really hope its not a chronic disease :(

I'm tired of fighting against this :(
I'm talking about people who don't currently own a home. Yeah, people who bought a house 5+ years ago are doing fucking amazing because it's doubled in value.
They've been at mercy of Intel x86 APIs for a long time. Didn't kill them.

What happens here is that the original vendor loses control of the API once there are multiple implementations. That's the best possible outcome for AMD.

In either case, they have a limited window to be adopted, and that's more important. The abstraction layer here helps too. AMD code is !@#$%. If this were adopted, it makes it easier to fix things underneath. All that is a lot more important than a dream of disrupting CUDA.
I didn't suggest that more inclusive language is the majority preference. I questioned the claim that the majority find it actively off-putting.

Personally I don't see that the more inclusive terms harm anybody and I doubt it would make a difference for most people.

I also want to say that I find the tone of your response to be quite rude, especially when you're misrepresenting my argument.
> not only would they fire you

If they did so could you not bring up the suspicious timing with the labour board?
Headphone jack represents an opportunity cost - including it means you can't use the volume for e. g. baterry, camera or simply nothing (making the phone smaller).
I miss when my bookmarks folder had a hundred entries in it instead of not needing bookmarks because there are only five websites.

One out of a dozen people is capable of producing something interesting on a consistent basis, yet we've become convinced that each of us is somehow deficient if we aren't capable of convincing a mass of strangers to engage with our thoughts and opinions. The dung beetle internet is just a bunch of people pushing bullshit around a table as if them touching the bullshit makes it more interesting for the next person who touches the bullshit.
In reality....

If you steal $100 worth of food from a store, they'll call the cops and arrest you.

If the store steals wages from you in the tune of $1000+, <POOF> its a.... CIVIL MATTER (waves hands).
Not only in the US, I would say - in general - wage-theft is indeed the actual business model of most outsourcing/"consulting" businesses.

Seek a rent, sweat the asset: more and more business-as-usual today.
> All of these were well covered by state estimation research from 80s to now, but again, the textbooks seem to be written in stone in 1972.

Do you have any good resources (online or textbook) you could recommend, as an introduction to these concepts, that is more modern / up-to-date?
$10/week/employee adds up over decades.
> What's wrong with Ansible?

The abomination built upon YAML and Jinja because they wanted a declarative system (programming is scary!), and later tried to make it Turing-complete.

Jinja filters for variable means you need to learn a third language: not only you need to know YAML and Python, now you need to learn all the idiosyncrasies of Jinja's syntax and filters. Add that with the terrible documentation, which explains everything by example, but there is no single, for example, reference page that lists all supported filters and functions.
Is AMD just a puppet org to placate antitrust fears? Why are they like this?
I love arguments like this.

How did the federal government end up nationally banning all fun drugs aside from nicotine and alcohol? (it just did it, and even when states legalise e.g. weed, weed vendors are locked out of the proper banking system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Drug_Abuse_Preve...).

How did the federal government make ~every state have the same (mad) drinking age of 21? (federal highway funding blackmail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_...).

the constitution is not an actual barrier to the federal government doing things over the heads of states.
It adds up. Multiply by the number of employees by the number of weeks in a year by the number of restaurants owned by the total number of ways in which the employees are deprived of small amounts at a time.
You can drop costs by having a parent stay home in the early years (math only works out if that parent earned very low wages and you have at least two kids in quick succession—then, yes, it saves money).

More efficient may be living near non-working family and having them take care of the kids, but that can mean compromising on school quality (unless you move again) and probably salary. Plus it requires a kind of capital that not everyone has.

You can drop costs by skipping medical check-ups and care. Not uncommon.

It can be done cheaper if the circumstances are right and you’re ok with some compromises that most people can’t stomach unless they absolutely cannot afford it.
I've been using a M1 for well over a year, and until about two weeks ago I didn't know it had a notch.

I don't follow the tech press, who I'm sure discussed it a great length when it was released.
And I'm not personally invested in the Mac, it's owned by my employer.

So I didn't notice the notch until my cursor disappeared while scrolling across the top of the screen.
AMD Zen 5 Compiler Support Posted for GCC – Confirms New AVX Features and More
My brother works in a machine shop and they get rush orders, there’s politics with the engineers providing the plans, and the boss fights any needed tools or upgrades.

I think once you transition into a production environment both jobs lose their lustre.
So, you're telling me yet another intervention, this time minimum wage fiat, doesn't work?

Who could have thought?
This is a really shitty take. I don't think you're a decent person if that's how you truly feel.
Unions Unions Unions
Cool URIs can be ugly (2023)
What type of mechanical wear are you thinking of?

I can think of a propeller and generator, but those are solved problems. This is just a boat with a propeller. Only instead of using the generator as an engine to spin the propeller, the tides spin the propeller which generates power in the generator.

Steering is also a solved boat problem.

Then there's the tether and anchor. This is the reason it swims in a figure 8, instead of it just being a propellar anchored straight to the seabed. So the "pulling" force is actually mostly to the sides instead of directly on the tether and anchor.
> Life is pretty miserable for most people.

this is objectively untrue with respect to almost every single piece of data we have on this subject. Just because youre a misanthrope doesnt mean everyone else is.
Any promises not made in writing and signed by both parties aren’t promises. None of these are theft, just poor business skills on the part of the employees.

Get it in writing so you can sue later, or don’t ever count on it. It’s basic business skills.
That's why I described it as a cultural, not a legal problem.
Everything is fun in the beginning. Then it gets commercialized and regulated and it's no longer fun.
Ok I'll bite, why stop at software?
Don't forget illegal collusion to lower wages, like the one top Silicon Valley firms carried out 10 year ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
My sister, in the Midwest, has 3 kids. I assume the family makes < $100k/year, I’d be shocked if they made more than that. Money seems tight, but they get by. They have a home on a couple acres of land (in the middle of nowhere).

I haven’t helped to provide any cousins, so they don’t have any. Money is not the constraint for me. I’d probably have a better chance of having kids if I had less money, as it would imply I focused on building relationships instead of a career.

Lots of people without a lot of money have kids. They value having a family over other things and make it work.
The promise of salary work in America is such one sided bullcrap. Get paid the same amount of to get your work done no matter the time it takes. if it takes 6 hours or 12 hours, you'll get the same amount. But if you don't work at least 40hrs a week on salary, we're docking your pay. Oh but also, you don't get paid for any hours over 8 in a day. Salary!
That's because it used to be young
That shouldn't be the bar. "Brutal but better than where you came from." Should still be unacceptable. Work should afford someone dignity and fair compensation, not simply be better than the worst conditions the worker has dealt with.
Which incident receives media coverage as it happens?
The December Atlantic article on this topic (recently discussed) says the presence of this effect does not correlate with class [0]:

> Although the average number of lateral relatives varies across race and class groups in the U.S., the cousin decline is either imminent or already happening across all of them.

My suspicion is that once the standard of living reaches a certain baseline level (which e.g. even many "poor" people in the US hit) reproduction takes a back seat. This is clearly in part due to an increased availability of birth control and the ability for women to enter the workforce and make these choices for themselves, which wasn't even an option under more patriarchal societies.

I think there's something more subtle there, too. There's so much more to do now for young people in developed countries, even those of relatively modest economic means. This might manifest as furthering one's career, or in pursuit of hobbies, or in travel, or in consumption of entertainment products, or in higher education... or any number of ways. Child rearing takes many of these options off the table, or it curtails and constrains them severely.

It seems like having fewer children is a pretty reasonable response in a world that is more enjoyable and potentially personally rewarding than any has ever been before.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/12/cousin-re...
A Cookbook for LLMs
A pretty cool guide on how to build LLMs. Open to community help
AMD's management seems to be only vaguely aware that GPU compute is a thing. All of their efforts in the field feel like afterthoughts. Or maybe they are all just hardware guys who think of software as just a cost center.
An interesting use-case could be localized haptic feedback on the screen. You could rotate a knob or push a button on the screen and get a localized sound and haptic feedback from the item on the screen.

You may even add haptic texture on the screen. close your eyes and scan the screen with your finger. It would feel like a series of mechanical switches and knobs. It would be useful for people who don't like using only the screen in their car because of lack of haptic feedback.
they have such little value its not worth the complication..
My thinking is that the dev _did_ work on it for X amount of time, but as part of their contract is not allowed to share the _actual_ history of the repo, thus the massive code dumped in their "Nobody expects the Red Team" commit?
> not only would they fire you but they'd call up all their industry buddies and you'd basically be on every other restaurants no-hire list.

So like a much-dreaded union for employers except it’s underhanded and illegal.
Foldable screens, extra mini screens on the back of phones, wireless charging, little vibrators to simulate pushing physical keys, multiple cameras, accelerometers that track calories burned ... the modern cellphone is already well past The Homer.
Surely this can be attributed to Blender's HIP code just being suboptimal because nobody really cares about it. By extension nobody cares about it because performance is suboptimal.

It's AMDs job to break that circle.
> can't even get ChatGPT to find an import or sort a list without dropping items. Everything it does has to be triple-checked

Is this asking chatgpt to do the actual operation "in its head", or are you asking it to write python code that you then execute? Because my understanding is that it confabulates freely, but when its code that you can run and check, it tends to do better - you might have to pass back the error stack trace and run a second version.
What exactly is "open" about this?
Agda doesn't need that restriction, as far as I know. And neither does Dhall. See https://dhall-lang.org/

Neither language is Turing complete.
Later in the same thread:

> ROCm is a brand name for ROCm™ open software platform (for software) or the ROCm™ open platform ecosystem (includes hardware like FPGAs or other CPU architectures).

> Note, ROCm no longer functions as an acronym.
Free Software Negotiations (YC19)
I'm tired of people over-paying for software. When you want to buy new software, we will negotiate a lower price for you, for free.
That, and it only runs on a handful of their GPUs.
Milestones Are Meaningless for Fundraising
But is it worth the resentment from said employees? Having to deal with the revolving door of naive new staff that needs to be trained, get up to speed, then leaves again when they realize they're being stiffed or they can do better? It just doesn't feel sustainable.

Not to mention the chance that you'll be found out by the authorities; I want to believe the punishment for wage theft is much more than the savings. Of course, that depends on how many people report it and how much evidence can be retrieved I suppose.
You think the construction industry is illegal. Wait till you hear
about academia!! :)

This is the life today for zero-hours, at-will employment in the
university sector. As a visiting professor I've had universities ask
me to deliver a semester course a year in advance, and call the week
before to say they're not running it. At the very minimum a 12 week
course takes 40 hours of preparation even if you're just refreshing
the notes and practicals from last time.

I've had Russell group universities not pay me for two years. They've
flat out "lost" my invoices, three times! Two major league
universities tried to stiff me out of over £2000 and had to be
threatened with legal action. One London uni asked me to prepare a DSP
course, then instead of hiring me to deliver it plagiarised my slides,
took my name off them and got a junior lecturer to deliver the course
instead. The last university I worked at were so careless with my
payments that my accountant advised me to "extricate immediately"
because there so many "anomalies" she couldn't keep track of them all.

Universities are absolute f*king gangsters.
What zwave devices have you been using? I have only used zwave (leviton, ge) and have only had to restart a switch 2-3 times. My biggest gripe with zwave was when home assistant switched the supported plugin.
I've found that some people have great zigbee experiences and terrible z-wave and just as many are the opposite. I chalk it up to individual environments etc. Go with what works best from you.
In America, going to the police isn’t that easy. They will issue you a police report number for your insurance claim, but they are under zero obligation to investigate or prevent any crime.

They’ve been quiet quitting across
the country since the George Floyd protests and they are working less than ever. Police interventions have been going down, crime has been going up, but staffing and funding has been mostly flat. They’re just not doing their jobs because they know if they hold out, funding will increase.

Also sometimes they just kill you.

Even if I were a victim of a major crime I wouldn’t contact the police in the USA unless I needed a police report number for my insurance claim. They’re probably not going to do anything and they might make things a million times worse.
A language with your suggested restriction (and a few more) might be possible.

But it's not the only way to get a total language (that always halts), contrary to what your original comment claims.
I like the actuated edges idea. I'm imagining it using an edge to hook the top of a step, pull itself half way up with edge actuation, and then building up momentum and slamming a brake to kick itself onto the stair.
> It's unfair competition though, so it's really important that this doesn't happen. A restaurant that wants do to the right thing shouldn't have to worry about a few % worse competitiveness on wages because the asshat across the street has his staff work for free.

The true crime is as always the impact on businesses.
> Since the implementation of the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy in 2019 and Title 42 in 2020, asylum seekers sent to Mexico have experienced kidnapping, rape, extortion, and other abuses by organized crime and Mexican officials.

> When the United States sends migrants to Mexico, criminal cartels are enriched by kidnapping them and then extorting money from their US-based family members to secure their release.

Just to comment on what your "good option" means for many. Maybe you meant the option is good for the US and employers, rather than for the migrant worker
> Speaking as someone who was actually using Unix systems when this happened, the "ssh" command was replacing the rsh command,

A different data point: I was also a Unix sysadmin at the time (thought just out of school) and for me ssh replaced telnet and ftp. I never used rsh, rlogin, and rcp except when testing exploits.