skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Young generations are having their attention span trained on Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, and even watching a full-length movie is sometimes a big ask. They are completely used to - at most - skimming through a couple of Google results to find the answer to any questions they have.

Once the AI replaces even that with a direct answer, as it's already doing, why do you think those young people will actually be reading amazing books prepared by the AI?
Standard memory connector already makes memory-on-chip a no-go. And we're past that even, cause we have storage-on-chip, which is both faster and more secure (in the "hardware security" sense which is of course sketchy but still a thing). Even on desktops now. I had a pretty loaded cheesegrater Mac Pro and replaced it with an M1 Mac mini, less upgradable but such a nice machine anyway.

I could believe the phone chipmaking status quo is broken or monopolized if I saw a lack of progress and price increases. Instead, we've been getting remarkably faster and more versatile phone hardware at a steady pace. And most consumers care about that, not about modular upgrades. There are a few smaller areas I feel like the manufacturers are pushing consumers rather than listening to them, like removing headphone jacks to sell BT earbuds.
Processing in Magnetic RAM – Accelerated de Bruijn Graph-Based DNA Assembly
> It creeps women out. It's difficult enough getting them to use an AI tool.

Anecdotally, my wife routinely uses chatGPT for workout and recipe ideas.

She may be a bit of an outlier though, compared to others - she also runs GNU/Linux! :)
I did write my own HTTP stuff in C (and more generally internet stuff), on linux (sometimes without a libc, namely direct syscalls), running on ARM64 and x86_64.

And I plan to move to rv64 assembly once I can get reasonably performant hardware (it is already here, but it extremely hard to get some where I am from and how I operate). I dunno if it will be bare metal or with a linux kernel first (coze a minimal TCP stack is already a big thingy).
Fwiw the estimate for IL seems high to me. I spend about 7c delivered in Chicago.

Tons of nuclear supply keeps costs down around the Great Lakes. Perhaps downstate is raising the average.
In the entirety of my life, most of which has been in the Chicago area, I have never seen a home with a generator for the fans and thermostat of a home. For that matter, the only home generator I ever saw was one my grandfather bought which he only used once to see if it worked.
This is totally Walker county. It was an AM station so it probably took the owner the weekend to look into it. We’ve got local stations near me that relay to the top of a nearby mountain and weather or road conditions can delay repairing that local station. I have family in Jasper, this really happened it’s wild that’s it’s national news.
So far with mine, it feels like fingertip size is about the smallest 'eye target' I can use for a close-up screen (think roughly the position of a held iPad) and still have 100% accuracy.

I would bet that the limits of eye accuracy are the math basis of window resizing with push/pull movement, so that the accuracy rate remains the same for farther-away virtual screens.
Not sure why that would matter, complaining about content in response to an article about infrastructure doesn't make any more or less sense if the infrastructure is available as a service.

But I do consider some of what Netflix does to be a platform. Most of it is platform in the sense that some of their open source offerings are commonly adopted such as Spinnaker. But if you look at the adoption of microservices at Netflix a part of that includes Conductor, an open-source microservice orchestration engine.

The Netflix developers that created Conductor left Netflix and formed a new company named Orkes to offer Conductor as a platform. So while its not operated by Netflix, the microservice efforts they've made have been turned into a service offering.
Very cool! I think the “until you understand..” part is most important there. Like you still should be free to, but you absolutely need to understand why it’s like that in the first place.
Yep, it's the same thing every time. "We propose this new thing with optimal time complexity blah blah blah" - don't care. Show benchmark. What do you mean it's slower than this basic but cache efficient hash table implemented in 100 lines of c++?
Never used Go, but I much more prefer a proper stdlib that covers most base cases so that there isn't a need for rolling-your-own each time, or worse using a badly made/maintained bloated third party lib.

Examples of excellent stdlibs in my opinion would be for instance Kotlin and Python.
Tell me again how much money this saves?

Who said that was the goal?
The only advantage of PX4 is its license - it’s BSD vs Ardupilot’s GPL, so companies can use the code without giving back. The mindshare just isn’t there - PX4 is orders of magnitude more obscure, so instead of YouTube tutorials you’ll be trying to get help on PX4 specific forums or digging through the code base.
Solar isn't a useful source of energy for heating in California, since the demand is almost entirely during winter mornings/evenings where the sun is down.
Also cost of capital for installing the heat pump, if a new installation.
Isn't stenography the end game?
> On the flip side, what's in it for them if they cooperate?

My thinking was, cooperating would mean they don't have to go to court, which costs money...

> and then likely having to show up for some other court battle to testify about the accuracy of the data.

...I suppose that could potentially cancel out the savings. However, I would expect testifying to cost much less money than being sued!
Apparently they do, but they're not common for houses yet.

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/absorption-heat-pumps
Serious question. Do ppl really think we can do anything about it? (Environmental issues we are facing - climate warming is just one of it)

This is mostly a political problem. We all know that without world goverment its impossible to tackle problems like that. And currently we see moves destabilising geopolitics and not uniting them.

Im seriously see only gray scenarios moving forward till mby we magically find infinite clean easy to produce and portable source of energy that producers will be willing to share for free.
optimal for which use cases?
https://chat.openai.com/share/07a9df6f-22c5-4dc5-bc1b-b3ef08...

ChatGPT-4 told me what to do without having to do the bobby electrician bit.
Please explain. People are upset about "woke" ChatGPT, because they have the comfort of that first-world problem.

Thing is, it can actually get much worse than optimizing for inclusion. Do we really want Sharia authoritarian AGI?

Or am I misunderstanding what you are saying with your terse reply?
There has to be terminology about the breaking even point where the time you spend looking for which monitor/window/tab that thing you were just looking at went to. Sort of like multitasking diminished returns.
I’ve worked with large organisations that have merged dozens of companies networks. There were lots of clashes.

I’ve also worked with companies where their networks filled up almost all the 10/8 space and they were running out of room. Having to do things like shrink subnets at individual locations and deal with issues around not able to install all the equipment they originally wanted. It’s a real pain.

And yes, the entire 10/8 space needed to be routable through to the corporate support desk, SIEM tools, payment systems, loyalty systems, security and other IoT systems, etc.

Yes sure you could probably NAT things, or switch to tools/approaches that don’t require every device to have an internally routable IP, but then that’s a terrible argument akin to arguments against IPv6.
Can you elaborate on this? Per ChatGPT:

> Using Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company as an example of such success is historically inaccurate. Pierce-Arrow was an American automobile manufacturer based in Buffalo, New York, which was known for producing luxury cars. It was indeed a dominant and prestigious brand in the early 20th century. However, the company did not manage to maintain its success and ultimately failed to adapt to changing market conditions. It faced financial difficulties during the Great Depression and eventually went bankrupt in 1938. Pierce-Arrow's inability to forecast and adapt to the economic changes and shifts in consumer preferences of the time led to its decline.
em ai have a problem from cars
Apple was a rip off luxury brand back in the day if you had a Samsung Fascinate or something. MacBooks were horrible and macOS was annoying to deal with. Now they're the default price/performance choice if you want a decent reliable machine, and iPhones are obviously very good value if you just want a phone that works for as long as possible.
It’s marginal compared to the change a poverty stricken Chinese that was starving to death went through. Also people are very resistant to moving backwards in any sort of way, I can see intense opposition to even a small reduction in quality of life.
Oh it was kind of a non-issue in my head since I've used VR headsets (mainly Quest and Index) for extended iRacing sessions like taking part in 24 hour events where stints go on for hours at a time. AVP seems more comfortable than those and I imagine the view of the outside world helps it not feel so boxed in. I would be surprised if I couldn't. Doubt it's for everyone though.
Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret in 4y running infra at a startup
Influence The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B Cialdini.
That tanline will be worse than a snowboarders.
It’s either god complex or pure lack of foresight and an inability to learn from or plain lack of experience.
For anybody else who didn't know what foveated rendering was:

> Foveated imaging is a digital image processing technique in which the image resolution, or amount of detail, varies across the image according to one or more "fixation points". A fixation point indicates the highest resolution region of the image and corresponds to the center of the eye's retina, the fovea. [^0]

[^0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveated_imaging
Watch them categorize removing fuel car bans as political while not marking climate change polices as such.

These measures are meaningless because defining what's political can really be a way to just shut the opposition down, no matter which side you are on.
I'm still thinking each "sub unit" would be the usual typical hall entry / window bedroom setup.
As someone who is separately both a programmer and an archeologist, I love the concept and the books. The real skills aren't always as far apart as you'd think either. I once spent a week deconstructing hardware to figure out what assembly language a project was written in. The assembly was only documented in a TRM in a dusty filing cabinet written before I was born. Once I could read the assembly I could read the source code and work my way up the stack to start answering the actual questions I had.
IIRC there's also a legacy superfund cleanup charge that PGE customers have the privilege of paying.
Productivity as theatre is big business for productivity gurus. There’s entire YouTube channels and subreddits where folks compete with one another to be as “optimised” as possible.
It’s not acting like children. It’s acting like humans.

If it’s easier to tweak questions or retrain everyone on my team, me included, I’m going with the easier path every time.

In this case easy is right because the specific question isn’t what’s important. What’s important is the community, discussion, and information shared.
Regretted attrition == The employee left and the employer regrets it (They would have wanted the employee to stay)

Unregretted attrition == The employee left and the employer is glad they did. Good riddance.
Now ask it about “Effective Altruism”.
You referencing rctestflight?
Solar with Battery storage is a very useful source for heating energy, even in the coldest climates in CA. Even in the mountains where it drops below freezing at night, most places it's still sunny a lot more than the US average during the day. Most Battery setups I know of target a 4 day stretch of cloud cover for storage capacity, so it is certainly an option.

Where I live at 7000 feet, we have so much sunshine, even in winter, solar is a very viable option. Legislation removing people's ability to recoup the costs is the only reason it's not in every house in the city. The only option left is a much more costly battery setup.
I believe it’s possible with decision trees and forests, even though they’re very complex inside, to calculate the contribution that each independent variable made to the final result. Of course, I suppose those haven’t been deemed “AI” for a few years.
Is it one display or two?
Part of the way they achieve that knowledge is through the standup though.

Maybe you are super fortunate. Standups are just one method too. It’s not like it’s dogma and must be followed.

But it’s a useful technique. So saying it’s unnecessary seems odd. At least generally speaking.
Haven’t checked in a couple years, but can you assign a 240.0.0.1/24 for example to the local NIC on Windows?
I also suspect that the heat pumps may be undersized relative to the home’s heating needs, particularly in older homes that are not well insulated.
Not necessarily. When it comes to someone's livelihood, 'performance' is subjective. Have you ever been involved in employee performance evaluation for stuff like stack ranking? It's very easy to spin a failure as a success or the other way around. Say you're a decent performer and a reorg will make you end up under someone who does not have the same belief, even if by objective metrics they may be wrong. You become a low performer without any chances in your objective performance.

FAANG style random layoffs if done like ripping off the band-aid are not ideal but, in my view, ritualistic performance-based firings are way more draining for the morale of any organization. Not saying that companies should keep low performers onboard, I'm just saying that if you involve the incentive of reducing the number of employees, management will find low performers everywhere and will drive the other employees either into burnout or to their competitors..
Thank you Ghufran! It was great working with you. -- Jeremy from Helios
My point exactly. I can say that having something nice and expensive makes me "feel more productive", but if the party paying me for my effort and for my expensive gear would ask to see any measurable proof of that improvement to see what the ROI of that purchase was, then I'd be lost for words and blabber on how "in knowledge work you can't actually measure productivity", but then that party could say "well if you can't measure productivity how can you justify us buying it for you?"

Then the argument becomes that maybe I'm actually not in any measurable way more productive in practice, but I feel better doing the work there, while having that fancy gear that I want and like. Which I guess is why many tech companies spoil their workers with all kinds of perks even if they know those perks won't make workers more productive but it convinces them to work and stay there instand of working somewhere else where they get the needless things they want but don't need.

Reminds me of that article on HN where the CEO/CFO of a small start-up asked to see the arguments of what improvements and ROI would bring if they all upgraded their M1 and M2 Macs to M3s as some of their employees wanted. And there's a good point to this.

It's not being stingy, it's just taking a second to think if you're spending your money where the ROI is, or are you being wasteful always buying the new shiny every year even if you don't need it just to keep some spoiled man children happy or to advertise it on the job ads that your company's so loaded with cash it can afford to give everyone the latest shiny, when I'd rather have more vacation days.

My parents used to do the same to young me when I wanted a new PC or upgrade parts. They expected an argumentation of the ROI or academic performance improvements those purchases would bring beyond "my games will run better" lol.

You can prove to your boss or bean counter that having faster CPUs will reduce compile times and deliver results faster, but you can't really prove having even more monitors or AVPs, will also achieve similar workforce productivity increases across the board.
Having more monitors doesn't make me more productive, it makes me lazier.
If I have the possibility to show a lot of lines of code, then I don't feel the necessity of caring a lot about the way my source is structured, the way my code is written and the way elements of the source are grouped.
Sometimes when I code on a 13" screen, I feel like I am more naturally inclined to write better, easily maintainable code (all subjectivity apart, I am pretty sure that better code exists objectively, not just in our cyber-tales; not just in clean code articles).
I feel like less screen implies more brain, and that more brain means the source is second nature; and because you have to compensate the lack of vision with internalization, you can projectile-find-file eyes closed and never break out of focus like when you do when you have four screen, nerdtree, lsp-symbols floating around, multiple ide panes open and having to touch your mouse just for the sake of clicking all around your squared kilometer of screen space.
That's of course an exaggeration; still I feel well more productive with small screen space exactly like I felt when I traded my mouse for a generalized vim and spacemacs-like keymap : awkward at first but cheap and effective in the end.
> They touch on the fact that computer systems have evolved for so long that nobody really knows most of the code anymore.

This isn't far from the current reality, where critical systems rely on nearly-dead skills like COBOL programming.
Perhaps you know already, but a lot of the price is often the installation labor, not the device itself.

Just as a data point, $20K is right in the ballpark for estimates you'll get for professional installation of a modern ≈3-ton forced-air 17SEER heatpump + air handler in the Seattle area.
Still fails to count properly legless elephants' legs.
Like I used to do to my parents? Whenever I wanted 5 trillion I'd always ask for 7 trillion so they can feel good about teaching me a lesson about the value of money, and they would feel 2 trillion richer and I'd still be able to build my nuclear aircraft carriers.
Where are you getting any of this? This is the alt-rights idea of the left, I see essentially none of this in my hard left circles and when some idiot shows up spewing any of it they're ostracized quickly. Meanwhile, I keep close tabs on the mutterings of the right and this is word for word the things we're supposedly saying.
Once the Great Flood was over, Noah let all the animals off the Ark, and told them to go forth and procreate. And so they did, except the snake couple. So Noah made some wooden furniture for them, and thus the snakes were able to procreate.

You know, because the snakes were adders. They needed log tables to multiply.
They skipped this in Altered Carbon and it was just a “rule.”

Memorizing a GUID wouldn’t work because someone could read it from your memory.

Stephenson did this well, I think, in Dodge with the PURDAH as it was an AI trained on every characteristic of an individual through their life so it was impossible to fake. Still hand waving, but logically consistent hand waving for an id that spans consciousness transferring from biology to digital.
Clearly yes, you can modify our software to use Ollama and will save you hours of work. Full non-proprietary.
Arducopter has auto-tune (no ML, though). BF flies great out of the box, and there are presets for most popular types/sizes. Oh, and I don’t think they have devs on their team who are experienced in ML to the point of writing that code. I think the way to go to would be to first record the response to pre-defined control inputs in level mode, then tune offline from blackbox data. But with BF quads mostly lacking GPS, you would have to pick a large empty field to be able to run this without hitting anyone/anything.
Right—I think the “error code” here is going to be the error type, i.e., UsernameError, or some qualified version of that.

It’s not perfect, but software evolves through many imperfect stages as it gets better, and this is one such imperfect stage that your software may evolve through.

Including a human-readable version of the error is useful because the developers / operators will want to read through the logs for it. Sometimes that is where you stop, because not all errors from all backends will need to be localized.
Indeed, you can do it in your own way that complies with the intention of the law. We don't do this malicious compliance weasel wording game in the EU.
Icelander here, so all our companies are small. I'd say 85-90% of the market (50+ employees) use M$.
If you know how the technology works this makes total sense.
City Council Unwittingly Approves Pirate IPTV Scheme and Documents Everything
Grok is intentionally unrestrained.
Steam Revolution: The Turbine
Replace your heat pump? People installing new heat pumps are going to see much higher efficiency.

50,000 BTU = 5.27528 * 10 ^ 7 J = 14.6 kWh / 6.6 kWh = COP of 2.2 at 50f which is absolutely terrible. Modern heat pumps should have a COP around 4 at those temperatures and 3 near freezing.

Also, “Subtracting 10%” would mean your grid losses are 17%. “annual electricity transmission and distribution (T&D) losses averaged about 5% of the electricity transmitted and distributed in the United States in 2018 through 2022.” So, (70% * (1 - 5%)) = 66.5%, but resistive losses are reduced in the cold. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=105&t=3

4 * 0.665 = 2.66x though obviously what matters here is the annual average COP. (3 * 0.665) = 1.995 aka 2.
Nah Jasper is that kind of place in Alabama where even a stolen 200’ tower can be fenced
To me the heat was a freebie. I installed it for the AC, wasn't expecting to use it for heat at all.
They EU had never a free market, at least not in the US sense.
It’s a concept that is challenging. I think adults should do whatever they want without hurting people, but in my experience human relationships get exponentially more complex with volume. It’s a hard lifestyle to sustain.

I’m acquainted with a few people in this world, but am not in it. From what they relate, there’s wide variety of participants with very different approaches and experiences. Everything from pure hedonists to people who can’t or won’t get divorced to various kinksters and fetishists.

I’d imagine with all of the recent media coverage, there’s a mini “eternal September” of dudes dragging their girlfriends into this.
It's not guaranteed at all, that's where go's zero-values come in. E.g. nested structs, un/marshaljson magic methods etc. How do you deal with that?
in full screen mode, even after people turn their phone 90 degrees, you have not much space for visible control on a 16x9 video.
But he didn't say "most". He said "almost most". Most would be 292 or more, and 273 is arguably almost 292.
> an obtological error

I don't know if that was a deliberate portmanteau of obtuse+ontological, or if it was a happy typo, but I'm stealing it.
No, I know the line and have always been careful not to cross it. On the contrary, I resent them for the Gestapo tactics in retaliation for legal speech. I'm aware of my relative lack of anonymity online. You don't know who I am, I'm absolutely positive the feds do.
That’s astonishingly cheap for petrol, wow. We’re paying at least four times in my country minimum…
The commercial Linux world (see https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/issues/4349) and other open source OSes (eg FreeBSD) seem to have lined up behind little-endian PowerPC. IBM still has a big-endian problem with AIX, IBM i, and Linux on Z.