skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI is very legitimately a large scale disruptive force, but its speed of adoption and true value creation will vary greatly industry by industry and application by application.

In some cases it helps the long tail of the market: DALL-E and Sora can probably wipe out most of the small business segment of users for stock photos and images, but not replace it for larger companies. Copywriting AI can help independent bloggers but not replace actual journalism.

In others it only helps the larger players (using AI for fraud detection, algo investing, medical diagnostics)

And then it's also about to become a bigger factor in defense/military.

Definitely not a hype or fad
I left Russia with my parents when I was 6 years old over 25 years ago. There is a huge Russian diaspora all over the world, so you won't be alone. The US, where I live, has a lot of Russian speakers that have been moving here from all parts of the former USSR since its dissolution.

Personally I take the fatalistic approach that there's nothing you, as an average individual, can do to alter the fate of history. There's a handful of people that do, and most of us aren't that person. What you can do is be a better human being to your friends, family, and neighbors, and you can do that anywhere in the world. So from an ethical perspective, I don't think it makes a difference.

From a personal perspective - be selfish. If you even get a hint that you may have to get drafted, get out. If you think you will have more opportunities for your ambitions elsewhere (the US is still a great place for ambitious, intelligent, hardworking people), try to get out. But I will say that as a programmer in Moscow, you will have a very similar quality of life anywhere else in the world.
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open the console and count the errors for yourself
> dollar is a debt instrument, there is always more owed than there are dollars in existence

This is wrong.

Debt is regularly asymmetrically destroyed, we call it restructuring. And when a debt is destroyed we don’t destroy the correspondingly-created money. (Money is destroyed via separate mechanisms.)

That said, I suppose it’s neat seeing the gold bugs coming back on the crypto promoters [1].

[1] https://goldsilver.com/about-mike-maloney/
This is basically what Rupert Murdoch did throughout the late 90’s and into the 00’s, minus the message changes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacki...
What's the "false reassurance" in this? It isn't the SDI, and plus, times have changed since then, launching and maintaining a constellation of a few hundred satellites communicating over radio and inter-satellite lasers is realistic now, that part is already in commercial use. They also aren't talking about space based interceptors.

Tracking hypersonics from orbit is relatively straightforward, they get hot enough to produce plasma, and thus will be very obvious in infrared. The challenge isn't tracking, it's reacting fast enough to the information.
See: System Settings

System Preferences I could pretty intuitively find anything I was looking for. The newer System Settings is basically unusable outside of search
Pip-run – dynamic dependency loader for Python
Why? What inherent advantage do those languages have with financial logic?
"The MacOS security model has not suffered as Apple asserts." What does this mean? macOS security has radically changed on a number of fronts since the introduction of the iPhone. E.g., sandboxing, notarization, script execution/Apple Events, file-system access, microphone access, video access. I have no idea what your statement means.
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The way the shell works is an essential part of Unix design, and the fork/exec pair suits it very well. In the forked child process before the exec, the shell can execute arbitrary code that inherits all file descriptors and manipulates/redirects them in a certain way.
Why would the business side ever care about technical details? It's like asking the business what days the dumpsters get emptied. Nobody gives a fuck; they just care that it gets done and gets done quickly, correctly, and safely.
Where does the "idling python code" come from? If it blocks, it blocks, that's not "idling". And I doubt they are running a process per core.
I didn't got the impression your 2023 crisis got anything near that bad.

Weren't those banks just sold without the government stepping in?
Some libraries loan out books for free. That's how a lot of people learn. It's fine.
It depends on whether or not the book's text was accessed illegally.
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If you pay European (German) energy prices, this very well may be the case, in my experience.

For some Hetzner servers (especially from their "Server Auctions"), for domestic customers the cost of electricity alone, disregarding the hardware cost, would sometimes be higher than the rent Hetzner wants.
I was recently reminded about an urban environment that I have known for more than twenty years — that cities are living and evolving organisms. Neighborhoods change composition as children grow up and adults change jobs or retire. Bars, restaurants, shops, and hangouts come and go. Immigrants and transplants pick new and upcoming areas. It’s part of a constant cycle of change and renewal. It’s sad sometimes to consider the cultural losses along the way. But, at the high level, it’s a critical part of how cities avoid ossification and retain authenticity.
I am very glad of the architecture we use at my current company.
This is a monolith, BUT with the capacity to be deployed as microservices if needed.

The code is structured in such a way that you only start the sub services you need. We have node that launch almost all services, some only a few.

If we need to scale just a particular part of the system we can easily just scale the same node but configuring it just for the sub services we need.
Microservices aren't just about breaking apps into pieces; they're about making each piece independently scalable, deployable, and manageable, which is huge for continuous deployment and integration. Sure, they add complexity, but for big, dynamic projects, that trade-off is worth it.
"Polio still persists in Taliban-controlled regions, after the CIA ran a fake vaccination campaign to try to catch Osama bin Laden. Vaccination workers are now killed as potential spies."

That sounds like an effective tactic if your goal is to cause random wide scale death and misery. If it was actually only to catch one man, it would be just for the people responsible to become vaccine test subjects.
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A code formatter has no business having 1100 open issues (5k closed). It is not rocket science.

In my experience, the number of open issues not only correlates with popularity, but how crappy the language is. Javascript projects, with its myriad of dependencies and attracting junior, inexperienced devs, tend to accumulate a great number of bugs.

For reference, curl has 24 open issues (4k closed), it is a couple orders of magnitude more complex AND more used than prettier.
Related:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/sequoia-heritage-stripe-an...

https://tracxn.com/d/companies/wave-systems/__L_C8MtxI5h2ucL...

https://danluu.com/simple-architectures/
I lasted about a month working on a CF ecomm website many years ago. I've refused to even approach CF since then. More power to you. :)
You have no idea how many times I've heard that. And it's not far from my own story. The stonelifting community is fantastic.
Microservices can help with performance by splitting off performance critical pieces and allowing you to rewrite in a different stack or language (Rust or go instead of Ruby or Python)

But yeah, they also tend to explode complexity
NYC having the same housing stock as it did in 2000 despite having more than a million more people, is what killed anything.

Not gentrification which is at best a description of one of the many effects of high housing costs.
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> For example, at a recent generalist tech conference, there were six talks on how to build or deal with side effects of complex, microservice-based, architectures and zero on how one might build out a simple monolith.

Queue my favourite talk about microservices: David Schmitz - 10 Tips for failing badly at Microservices [1]

This guy has amazing delivery -- so dry and funny. He spends 45 minutes talking about all of his microservices mistakes!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8mtXJh3hzM
It pains to see the need for a microservice to even start thinking about system architecture. As if the additional database and additional set of classes could not be done on the same instance. And then everyone shrieks in pain when they see the monthly costs :)
Many people refer to Conway's law here, but I'd argue that this law is true only for the static organization design, where structure is rigid and never changes. This law and and the title of the link hide much more important dependency: organization is a function of business requirements. System design is a function of them too. It MAY happen that organization is designed first, but it is not necessarily the case. Organization changes happen all the time and systems tend to stay during those changes. Many companies have subdivisions organized around the customer journey or certain product topics, e.g. Acquisition tribe or B2B business unit. Those structures work very well and do not reflect the Conway's law (system architecture required in this case is often org-wide and modular, requiring all org units to follow the same design approach).
Arx, a new file archive format
Efficient and Fast, allow direct (random) access on the files in it. Can be mounted in a directory.
I think it has some minor tradeoffs, like the article mentions not all of the underlying files can be opened a second time so that makes them basically unusable in this form. If the `open()` call did a dup instead then you could read/write to it in the same way as the process can regardless of the type of underlying file.
> Federal Reserve is paying 5% interest on $7 trillion of reserves held by banks

This was sanctioned by the Congress in 2008. And the banks could earn more in the interbank market. That’s why the Fed pays that interest: to keep those excess reserves out of the market.
All distros MIGHT pass if they meet the qualifications but just because these two distros passed does NOT mean ALL Linux distros can pass and it doesn't mean any other distros can pass.
What, like, "Wow, really doubling down on the dickface eh?" Would that be a representative example?
Hi, can you explain this problem a bit more. I’m a new PhD student and love low-hanging fruit.
> Last years bank collapse has demonstrated that FDIC coverage is infinite so long as you have the right connections.

The intention behind that intervention was clearly to stave off a sector wide run. What held true then and there is by no means guaranteed or even likely to hold true in the event of an actual panic.
On my search, I trip over these situations very often: https://www.boligsiden.dk/adresse/sallingvej-62-2-th-2720-va...

in 2006 this was sold for 2.365.000, in 2015 for 2.195.000. Is, the apartment lost 130k (roughly 20k USD) in 9 years.

(In Denmark we can see previous prices all apartments was traded for back to 1992 online)
I might be fully past the idea that what makes the difference is the architecture rather than the team.

I am certainly past the idea that monoliths impose any kind of barrier to complexity. In many ways I find it to be precisely the converse.

Sure, there's nothing meaningful to choose between one giant plate of spaghetti versus a dozen small plates flying in loose formation. I'd still rather have lasagna than either.
https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/recoup_act_one-...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/219...
(1) Why assume Apple's browser is more secure than the likely alternatives, Chrome and Firefox?

(2) Those high-ranking politicians almost certainly already make heavy use platforms that allow "side-loading" and alternative browsers. That means the attack surface doesn't change much from where it is right now.
> And instantly wondered how in a society that puts Truth on such a high pedestal, such companies still exist, are allowed to exist and are even praised.

That one is easy: If you're a society that really puts the ability to tell good lies on a pedestal, you can easily lie to yourself that you only value the truth.

And I do think some revelation of lies and liars is widespread, otherwise we wouldn't talk so positive about "hustle culture", "fake it till you make it" etc or idolise people like P.T.Barnum, Gordon Gekko or Donald Trump.

(Not that I think we're worse than other societies here)
atm mostly RAG setups for corporations, and a little bit in the compliance domain. not super exciting. last year at iccv paris, we did something correlated to HouseGAN and presented a new dataset to train such setups: https://data.4tu.nl/datasets/e1d89cb5-6872-48fc-be63-aadd687... and https://zenodo.org/records/7788422
Not passing judgement on this at all, but just giving you another data point.

Every so often, Hololive, a famous Virtual YouTuber agency, debuts a new set of talents by introducing their biographies and Twitter accounts. Because they're so popular, they get an influx of hundreds of thousands of new followers over the course of a day or two after only tweeting once. A large number of these new accounts get restricted because of automated systems assuming it's a bot, when actually it's legitimate excitement and/or network effects.
Trick is that in many places rental payments are way cheaper than a mortgage, plus you don't have to fork over a down payment.

Right now some places I look at would be ~5k + per month to purchase (factoring in taxes etc.), but rent for ~3.5k.
> Also FDIC limit is theoretically a lifetime limit per individual.

As far as I know that is not true. Why do you say that? FDIC limits are applied per bank, per individual, per account type, but there is no individual lifetime limit, and a common "cash management" account technique is to distribute your money to multiple banks so you can take advantage of each bank's limit.
Nah, easiest is changing the definition of "residential" from family to individual - the sector that the US lost in the 70s now known as long term hotels.

When you change this definition to

- communal kitchen

- communal bathrooms

- no window access

You solve many issues

- college costs (by bringing back dormitories instead of every college kid having an apartment)

- housing costs for early 20s that don't want to manage a whole apartment (and Uber eats 90% of meals)

- a small degree of homeless that are similar to the category above (especially the temporary homeless)

- baby boomer (now early gen x) "retirement" not quite to assisted living (yes, this group don't always need a private bathroom and kitchenette - when they have central dining halls)
Could something like that be why generated images tend to put people in a t-shirt that reads 'fooobar' or similar if you ask for say 'man in t-shirt fiddling with foobars'? Or is that expecting a far too tractable and deterministic link, considering understanding how the model actually works (I can't recall the name for it?) is a research area in its own right?
And if something goes wrong, is it simple to debug and understand? Can I reproduce issues locally? Happy path simplicity is easy.
The 32 bit RPis have this notice though

> Raspberry Pi Zero will remain in production until at least January 2026

Considering the roughly 2ish year release cycle of FreeBSD, it seems likely that 32bit RPIs will be eol'd before FreeBSD 16 is released.
I'd also add a "return None" at the end to be explicit. Implicit behaviors (like Python's implicit return None in functions) creates a tendency for human mistakes.
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He’s foisting himself into geopolitics and he’s going to be viewed through a lens of jingoism.

Do you also try to find context and understand the facets of every geopolitical player?

Do you figure the Russian federation needs to invade Ukraine because the western alliance against it has expanded along its border without buffer zones and competing client states?

Kim Jong Un has to be brutal because if he isn’t than he’ll lose the great game of palace politics and he and his family will be killed.

Israel has to destroy Hamas and Palestinian civilian collateral damage is inconsequential because 10 million people surrounded by hundreds of millions of people who despise them will end just like it did with Hadrian.

Hamas has to fight Israel with brutal tactics because the land its people were on is being reclaimed and soon they will all have no place to go but as a diaspora. And after that they will disappear into cultural homogeneity of where they immigrated.

You want to give Musk context? He’s a billionaire in the United States who has business ambitions in a major competing power (China). He can’t look too pro American so he supports Russia because his Chinese partners silently support Russia.

Musk is deeply interested in himself and acquiring more wealth. He’s not a good guy he just wants to be the world’s first trillionaire outside of the Saudi royalty. In short, he sucks and he’s a greedy ass.

Nuance? Context? Pick a side. You’re not a billionaire and you never will be. Musk doesn’t love you.
Difficult to imagine that anyone sane and senior in DC feels good about Mr. Musk's, ah, behavioral issues.

But if they're bright enough to notice China's no-pretense-of-friendliness behavior, and leaps & bounds progress in space capabilities, over the past decade-ish...then they know they gotta have proven/available/scalable launch and orbital capabilities of their own. And swallow the necessary compromises for now.
> a nonsense headline

It’s a concise one, assuming the reader has a working knowledge of our monetary system. A welcome assumption given the FT’s readership.
Do we really want a boom in the field of half baked plastic trinkets made on a whim without much consideration put into them? I think something made on a whim is a lot more likely to be discarded. If somebody wants something made out of plastic, it should at least be something they're sure they want. Having some human time invest some time in designing it seems like a good thing.
I bought a HiSense 50" 4K TV at CostCo two years ago; I wanted a 43" but that was all that was available.

It does not allow you to view the HDMI ports until it is setup; setup requires an internet connection. I don't have it any more.
I wonder if a project could be started to 3D scan and precisely weigh traditional lifting stones as a backup if they are ever destroyed? Of course conservation is the most important part but it would be nice to have a fallback.
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"The person who introduced it was just wrong" is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting in your post. I've seen "this is just the only thing the programmer knows" many times, for instance, in which case one can argue whether an actual "decision" is being made. Certainly "this is the tech the engineer wants to learn" is a real problem in the world, in which case again it's rather debatable whether "necessity" ever crossed their mind as a concern. "I was taught in school this is the one and only way software is designed" is common with fresh grads and they aren't really making a decision because they don't see a decision to be made.

You seem to be implying that all complexity is the result of an informed decision made by someone but this does not match my experience in the field.
This should be a consumer protection issue across the board.

So, you're using a free or subscription service that's enshittifying. Bad enough, but okay just stop using it or unsubscribe.

But, the idea that you can outright buy a product then have it change in any way that materially impacts its usefulness or your satisfaction with it is customer hostile at a minimum; and straight-up fraud at worst.

Between everything-as-a-subscription, monopolies, the rise of the billionaire oligarchy, defanging of our regulatory apparatus, Citizens United, etc. we're becoming a society of semi-autonomous renters.

But, I guess we shouldn't worry too much. Soon enough, Zuck will bring us our VR utopia, and we'll all be eating steak in the matrix.
I don't think that's some big secret, but also irrelevant to the point I'm making. I said Apple believes that they're security model on the iPhone is important to it's popularity. Apple making a bunch of money on the App Store does not contribute to the iPhone's popularity, therefore it's not relevant to my original statement.

What you are really trying to say is that Apple doesn't actually believe the security model is important, instead it's just about collecting money from the App Store, that's a valid interpretation, I just believe that Apple values the iPhone's long-term popularity higher than it values the short-term profits from the App Store. The fact that they can have both is mighty convenient for Apple.
For baseload. Battery storage only came up in this branch of the thread because wind and solar don't cover baseload.
The CIA is one of the most wicked organizations I’ve ever heard of. And that’s just from the small amount of info we know about them.
Financial independence is the ultimate freedom; it's why everyone wants to be rich basically. Spouses can go either way on being dependents, children are more of the issue. Certainly equity in a house is a good thing, but getting onto the housing ladder gets ever harder and mortgage/taxes need to be continually serviced.
Get a Sceptre dumb TV. Oddly enough they're available online from Wal-Mart. We got a 55" one with really good picture quality and no smart features, it just dutifully shows whatever signal is on its HDMI connections. We expect it to last for years if not decades.
There’s no need for more regulation— this is working as intended. It will all be worked out by the checks and balances inherent to modern American capitalism. That is, when the banks’ balances are low, the government writes them huge checks to cover it. See? No need to panic: The market always does what’s right in the long run for bank shareholders and executives.
I dropped out of engineering after my first year because of the math. My high school had an experimental math program that was designed for people who wouldn’t need higher level math, which kind of screwed me. I was generally good at math and tests, so I placed into a higher level course than high school prepared me for. Because I did so well on the test, they wouldn’t allow me to take a lower level class. I tried. On the first day the teacher handed me a letter telling me I was departmentally dropped.

This didn’t lead me to fully dropping out of school. I pivoted over to CIS, graduated, and worked my way up to a principal software engineer.

Did these people you’re talking about totally quit, or did they find a solution to the problem? Employers are going to tend to like those who find alternative solutions.

IQ isn’t useless, it’s just not the only measure that matters. Conscientiousness, for example, probably played a role in those who quit or not.
This is 100% a data play Vizio TVs are the worst for data privacy, and brands are clawing for new data sources.

Beware these kinds of deals as the worst of all worlds
The non-existent money to pay the interest is cancelled out by bankruptcies.
Would you be able to buy say.. an LG C3 that has things like Dolby Vision/HDR10, VRR, 120hz?
I'm skeptical Dolby Vision would be present on a display not intended for movies given the licensing fees to Dolby. I'm a fan of dumb TVs in theory but I'd rather just airgap a smart TV and plug in an Apple TV than lose DV and the like.