skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not think it's ever going to become that we code with AI. I just don't see how using black box to produce code is ever going to work out well, and in fact it would be pretty dangerous as you would let essentially the biggest companies that have the cash to actually train the big models to control what goes in your code. And if we think of the future where we want kids to only learn AI programming, they won't actually know what the resulting code does.
As long as it's cheaper to just get some huge room and push a bunch of desks together over a few days, "open office", is going to be the choice of managers.

For every person who says, "I don't mind open offices", I meet ten more who hate them. I know, statistics like this are just made up, but everyone I know would rather work in a closed office.
Obviously having a drink with the colleagues has nothing to do with alcoholism.

I was responding to the comment that 'in the extreme, alcohol is a truth serum'. It isn't.
That’s true, but the US and Europe also haven’t structured their modern capabilities around artillery. It’s a component of their doctrines, but wasn’t expected to be required in such large quantities as Ukraine has required.

They have astronomical stockpiles of other weapons like JDAMs able to be delivered by F-35, etc.

I think Ukraine is just in a weird situation, because they are fighting WWI-style. NATO has strongly aligned their doctrines with total air superiority, and Ukraine hasn’t been able to take advantage much in that area.
My experience with EEs is that they understand programming languages, but typically don’t understand software engineering (creating and maintaining complex systems involving dozens or hundreds of developers). This leads to them to underestimate the skills required.
That’s nice for you.

We can’t afford to move to an apartment with two extra rooms, so wfh full time would require a raise for both of us.
This brings me back to when I did a gig typesetting a Japanese language book (short, maybe couple dozens of pages) once. I don’t even speak Japanese all that well, the guy basically looked for someone with IDJ (which I had coincidentally) and basic skill to operate it. The software handles most of the magic. As a designer, I won’t pretend I didn’t feel a little used.
The first and last sentence here seem to be at odds. Am I missing something? GSUs?
My guess is most of them, like Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton in the US, had math or physics backgrounds. Even assembly is comparatively easier than, say, formal logic or partial differential equations.
AI will probably just delete it.

Worked at a few of these dog shite companies and the amount of low quality shit driven by half baked initiatives from the C-level suite (ie, “we are microservice oriented now, do that”) is astounding.
kill-the-newsletter.com is a godsend for stuff like this.
We'll have to see what Google's most advanced model with the ridiculously larger context window can do, once it's fully released into the wild. Refactoring an entire code base is presumably asking too much, but it'll be able to do small refactoring since the released model can do that, so we'll have to see where its upper limits are.

Of course, to get it better at refactoring, everyone has to write blog posts on refactoring to feed the machine.
I'm so tired of hype cycles in tech, man. LLMs are articulate and knowledgeable but not particularly smart. They can regurgitate Stack Overflow snippets in a context-aware way, and sure, that can be handy in a "code assistant," but it's not enough to build anything on its own. Nothing I've seen suggests real autonomy is anywhere on the horizon. Exponential advancement is always just around the corner, but it never materializes. Little grows exponentially in practice.

"AI is the future" isn't a sincere prediction, coming from the mouth of an industry stakeholder. They're just breathlessly hyping their own product.
dupe (12 hours ago, 41 points, 62 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39581831
So less Theranos and more Juicero it seems

Still 100% ZIRP delusions
You do know that this guy built up NVIDIA from scratch right? Before that, there was some action from 3DFX, but they fizzled and NVIDIA basically invented the modern GPU. He has at least a right to be a bit outlandish in his claims (a real founder CEO vs someone just hired to be CEO after the company was successful), and at least he isn’t Musk.
https://wapo.st/3V1cfiQ
They've said that every single year since 1950. (So far, the only lasting result is COBOL.)

"AI" doesn't actually code, it compiles code snippets downloaded from the Internet. (Basically, it's just Stackoverflow with extra steps.)
There are a number of reasons why a job in the hand might be worth two in the bush. Each situation is different though so ymmv.

Firstly there's more to a job than just pay. Some places are better to work at than others. Perhaps it's team dynamics, geographic location, remote or office, good or bad office etc.

Some financial perks improve with length of tenure.

Long-termers tend to have more job security than newbies. First in, first out when positions are cut.

Fewer, or more, responsibilities. Things like being on-call over weekends.

Seniority often comes with non-financial perks that aren't monetary, but make life better. More flexible working conditions. Better parking. Work from home, and so on.

None of which stops people discussing pay with their manager. Which is a Lot easier to do than switching jobs.
Aren't kernel modules signed?
like a dao?
Very cool. I'd been a tad disappointed by the limited open hours of coworking spaces (although I completely understand if the owner wants to be there then it can't open more than about 9 hours/day).

Many evenings and weekends, and especially around public holidays, it can sometimes feel like you're the only one who wants to get stuff done. Finding a similarly minded community is very cool. Maybe you could make it into a global 'nightowls' facebook group or something (similar to how there are similar groups for nomads).
We already have that it's called credit cards and the majority of currency is already "virtual" and not cash.
It's pretty frustrating in OM too, especially since the download usually fails after some time (my guess is phone goes into some power saving mode and kills the app, which it shouldn't do, but still).

I think closer to the end of last year they have released map updates roughly weekly or bi-weekly. Well, took me roughly that amount of time to update the map, so it would be downloading basically all the time, and the solution was to go to my friend's place, who actually has decent internet connection, and even then, I would have to restart the download 2-3 times.

Oh, and if the download fails and you don't push the "retry all" button, or something, you have to __manually__ tap all the tens or maybe hundreds of sub-regions which have failed, since you can't download all of them for a country with one button press after at least one succeeds.

Also, OSM uses git-like system under the hood, I guess, it's not possible to incrementally update the map since they re-package it as some kind of binary blob of sorts, but still, incremental updates would be nice.

Overall, not sure if Google maps is better or worse for this, but this is frustrating enough IMO.
"can be" implies that sometimes a neutron is is measured and sometimes it's not measured, but I don't think that is something the paper is trying to say.
> had never even heard of someone seeing one, let alone own one.

Are you in the US maybe? Most of the Amiga market was in Europe (though here too it varied greatly by country). In my school classes alone there were several Amiga owners.

In the US Tramiel managed to burn Commodore's computer shop dealer network to the ground with his pricing shenanigans and deal with Kmart to bypass computer stores for the Commodore 64. As a result, when the Amiga was too expensive to sell well in budget outlets, Commodore US basically had to rebuild their dealer network from the ashes that Tramiel left on the way to buy Atari.

Meanwhile, in Europe, most Commodore subsidiaries grasped the opportunity to push the Amiga as a games machine starting with the Amiga 500, while Commodore US kept pushing it as a professional machine.

You see this difference very clearly in the computer press - where the US Amiga magazines are all serious, while e.g. in the UK the most famous Amiga tie-in was a package with game for the 1989 Batman movie[1]. While many of us also used it for non-gaming stuff, it was games that sustained the bulk of Amiga sales, to the point of e.g. putting Commodore UK in a position where they considered a management buyout of Commodore International when their parent company went bankrupt...

[1] https://amigaposters.github.io/amiga%20500/original%20commod...
> chickens are omnivores and opportunistic predators

Boy are they. Once I got a squirrel to let go of a baby cardinal, only for it to drop to the ground where my chickens fell upon it like velociraptors.
I came here to say precisely the same thing. The theranos comparison seems unfair to smashmellows, but tanis did exactly what theranos did when it said blood chemistry reports were generated by its machines when in fact it was being run through conventional machines.
Maybe it's conditioning or whatever, but I find butterflies more beautiful when dead.

Maybe it's about more symmetry and balance so not just conditioning.
That’s ready player one for you.
> especially on smaller teams.

Having a few people from a smaller team in the same room is certainly not what people mean when they say open office. IMHO If you only had to share it with your team it wouldn’t be half as bad
Adding to everyone else, but local climate makes a big difference. This isn't very useful unless you have dry still air, and it works best at night, but could maybe work during the day if you have a good view of the sky but have blocked the sun.

Most places with dry still air don't need specific cooling at night, because "everything" already cools due to this effect, and it doesn't stay hot for long after the sun goes down. Areas that need a lot of cooling overnight tend to be humid, which disrupts radiative cooling. Also, it doesn't take much airflow for convection to transfer more heat than radiation, and most places have variable wind... so you can't really count on it.
But the agreement was to develop a brand-new, custom factory line just for Smashmallow: it was clear to both sides that the necessary tooling didn't actually exist yet.
Or imagine trying to provision a data layer that supports a distributed backend. Good luck basing your cloud costs on a word calculator.
Wow, the live comparison demo is wild. When I was following along up to that point, I felt like I "got it" on an intellectual level, but it wasn't until I could toggle the motion blur on/off that the difference was really apparent!
/*____________________________________

Location: Santiago, Chile

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, with Visa sponsor

Technologies:

- Android (Kotlin and Java), Swift, SwiftUI
- Ionic, Flutter, SDK development (for Ionic, Flutter and native)
- Typescript, Angular, React, Node, Python, Vue.js
- GCP, SQL, Firebase, Git, Github Actions (CI/CD)

Experience:

- 4+ years as Mobile Software Engineer
- 1+ year as Tech Lead in the same company.
- I've been building software at several levels of a startup (from backend to frontend and from automatization to developing new solutions for complex problems)

Résumé/CV:

- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rVp8Dsr47LEShCa-jv2uYMRdTuVN3myA/view?usp=sharing
- https://github.com/luch1u
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-becerra-uribe-a65851161/

Email: lb.becerra.1995 [at] gmail.com

____________________________________*/
I currently work from home, but with occasional (completely unforced) days in the (open plan) office.

I’ve found I detest the noise of the open plan office so much that I end up using one of the spare meeting rooms instead because it’s quieter.
They understand what a Moat is.
Mac app that transcribes meetings, YouTube videos to Notion
I use it for transcribing meetings, youtube videos and then dump the transcription to ChatGPT for summarizes. Recently Notion launched Q&A feature, so searching for answers in my past meetings and TLDW youtube videos is just easy.
> MS Word. Or Spotify. Or Google Maps

It can't be a coincidence that the three apps you mention are all closed source, while both Firefox and Chromium are (at least nominally) open source.

I'd go further than that and say that it's not just not a coincidence, but that I've had the opposite experience in that the vast majority of user-facing programs I've reported bugs against have gotten better responses than anything I've ever submitted to Firefox. The difference is, of course, that every single program on the computer I'm typing this from right now is libre / open source software.
I get what you mean, and I would have probably agreed a few years back, but I believe the matter is slightly more complex than that.

First, even with your book example, which I do agree is cheesy, still—this is part of the message. I’d not be surprised if such an ebook existed, though it definitely wouldn’t be for me (even if I liked the genre).

Second, part of my point was that simulating technological limitations has its uses. If you want to convey a mood, obscure unnecessary detail, etc., you have such tools at your disposal that will not look weird to the audience[0] and that resonate with the larger cultural context—which none of us exist outside of.

[0] Unless someone else like yourself is in said audience, I suppose :)
This gets past trying to simulate a film camera and tries to simulate the human visual system. That's useful. Another step towards reality and away from simulating obsolete technology. Shutter-type motion blur may go the way of sepia-toned prints, 16 FPS black and white movies, and elliptical wheels from mechanical shutters.
An LLM is only an Internet search engine with a fancier interface, it doesn't actually reason about anything. There is no "semantic" anything about an LLM's output.
man I’m curious what state or country this suburb is in? The suburb I grew up in was nothing like that. If anything you’re describing something more on the rural side of things.
I saw this video and was amazed. If it is real, that snake is absolutely massive. It seems almost too big to be viable. I am curious what it eats, as it seems it would be too large to be quick enough to eat most mammals. I'd have to guess these snakes are mainly ambush predators, and it does seem a quick search verifies that.

Also, it's a bit sad you can commit unprovoked physical assault on national television and then get invited to voiceover a nature documentary for National Geographic and Disney.
The point is not (dis)approval for the activity, it's the effect on ticket sales at the margin.

If a tourist intends to sleep all the way to Thailand, it might not make much difference, and they may chose the lowest price. If a banker if flying business class London to Singapore, they will fly Emirates via Dubai instead.
I just filed https://chrome-please-fix-your-audio.xyz the other day for chrome bug #327472528 - apparently all audio output is noise-reduced from audio input in Chrome - even when using headphones and when explicitly disabling this feature in the Web Audio API. It basically means you can't make any music app where you sing along with a background track, among other obvious use cases for microphones.

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/327472528
Post it to GitHub :)

Open source ftw
I think the correct term is “outclasses”, not “outperforms”. Our performance is pretty bad, especially on average and compared to other species (when comparable).
I am disappointed you could not come up with a more concrete term for an improvement over a 'motherfucking miracle'. :)

But, yes, heat pumps are magic shite.
Seeking Developers for Person Tracking AI System
We're on the hunt for a camera/AI setup that's like a ninja tracking a person across different environments! Think facial recognition or some cool software syncing up multiple cameras to stalk... err, record a person or maybe a bunch of folks as they stroll.

We're itching to kick off a testing spree in a designated area to see how this baby handles all sorts of scenarios. Cameras snap, software swiftly stitches together all the footage for each person, and bam! We've got a final video ready to serve up to users through an app.

Any leads on who can develop this bad boy or where I should start asking around? Let's dive in!

Thank you all for your time and any support you can offer. I truly appreciate your assistance with this exciting project.
I find it tough to understand why anyone would listen to a CEO, at all. If they happened to be telling you something truth-adjacent, it would be only because it served them in some way. We need an 'ok, boomer'* but for business leaders.

* no hate to boomers; just referencing the sentiment
Ultimately, the sentiments offered by others are what drive this home. I have said it before and I'll be saying it on Hacker News again: I have become very accustomed to working from home, and very little will motivate me back into an office. Even a huge pay bump would make it a difficult decision. I like the coworkers I've had, but the distractions of an office are excessive. I can go anywhere I want with WFH, literally anywhere - and my employer supports it. No amount of pitiful pizza parties and stolen fridge food will make me want to go back.
Gotcha, no worries, I'm 100% going to migrate the database to a simple arbitrary folder with .md/.txt files. I also want that for myself. It will take a few months of work after the initial release, tho.
Interference of glitter with the photosynthetic rates of a submerged macrophyte
A few years back I was working in an open office setting at a games studio and I got in a discussion with the branch manager about it. He was convinced that open office was a productivity multiplier. I asked him who he thought the most productive developers were on the team. When he gave me names, I pointed out that every one of them were wearing big noise-canceling headphones to block out the collaboration he thought he was fostering. My solution was different, I usually got in at 6am when almost no one else came in before the 10am standup. I would get most of my work done by then and then circulate and help the kids as needed.

To be fair, it did seem like the artists did get some benefit, but it was definitely a net negative for most of the developers.

I’ve been in private offices, and cubes, and open office, and honestly the most productive environment was when I was in a set of cubicles that had sliding doors, around a bullpen with multiple tables. When you needed to go head-down to get some code down you could, but otherwise you hung out at the tables in the middle.
everybody has different model of pricing options, but because everyone knows BS model then the IV (implied vol) becomes as a quoting instrument.

Option Traders can quote each other in IV without disclosing their asset pricing models and assumptions (trade secret tech).
First, no one can force you or anyone else to live in a dense urban area. In fact, the denser the urban core the more less dense options right outside the city core for people such as yourself. Second, you are in the minority. Dense cities are dense for a reason: far from being anxiety-provoking, many people find urban areas very desirable place to live.
I read through it and got the sense that it just jumped into one particularly odd special case bag of crazy after providing a clean explanation of motion blur as a function of shutter-angle (exposure window). I'm glad it wasn't just the glass of wine I finished.

I've played with motion blur as a function of projection of 4D extrusions a few times, but the practical context (video, textures) ends up leaving it an impractical approach when compared to sampling in hardware with caching. This write up leaves me thinking "maybe just one more time".
The tradeoff of rendering or filming motion blur at finite refresh rates is the audience can move their eyes to follow an object moving around the screen. In real life, that causes the object to become sharp. So, you either need to track eye motion and blur according to relative motion, or do no motion blur at an infinite refresh rate. Neither is practical with todays's technology, so it's always going to look wrong. A good director or game designer will choose shutter rate or render blur according to how they expect the audience eyes to be moving.
Ah yes, "if you want to be anonymous while doing X, you're probably a criminal". That's reductive.
I’ll never understand why people want to go back to the office.

Office has shit food. Shit coffee. In an open office, there’s a high risk of catching a virus from your co-worker. People love to tap your shoulder, interrupt your thought process (clearly I’m in the zone, asshole), and ask you mundane shit that could have been resolved over IM.

Even worse, the idiot asshole that can’t be bothered to read documentation and asks you to go over it with him/her in a 1:1 session. Fuck off.
Interesting! FYI, on iOS Safari, clicking the "Conditions" link just scrolls me to the top of the page.

I noticed this is getting downvoted; you might want to do a post specifically for this.
Well no, if that’s the question. It’s the IP of the company I work for.
Just having learned maths or physics doesn't magically make you able to code, let alone blindfold-code.
The factory was a bit of Theranos (machines that didn't do what they claimed). Juicero was different — their machines worked fine but were just unnecessarily expensive contraptions, when you could literally squeeze the stuff out by hand.

But the Smashmallow company wasn't a Theranos at all. And I'm not sure that they're a sign of ZIRP delusions either. The reason they failed is that their particular type of manufacturing process couldn't scale. They could have kept making the stuff by hand and built up a successful company that perhaps could have found a way to mechanize things later.
Renault CEO Calls for Airbus-Like EV Alliance
For the European and Asian friends, this is because Airports in the United States are almost all still owned and operated by local governments. For the vast majority of these governments, the Airport is easily the most significant slush fund they have to monkey with. For example, the City of Denver, “owns” Denver International Airport, which is in turn both the largest employer in the state of Colorado and the third busiest Airport in the world. Did I mention that it generates all of its own cash? No tax-payer money involved.

Which is why they are opening a center for Equity and Diversity in Aviation rather then fixing the escalators (which have their cult following simply because of often they are broken) or having a reasonable rental car facility, or simply renovating bathrooms in the concourses.
n8n
No system would be perfect, but by cutting out most of the administrative overhead more gets to be spent on actual care. And by having everyone getting the same or similar coverage decisions it could easier to sort out. Also another benefit of single payer is that all or at least most out outcomes can be collected and compared to the treatments. This should enable improved outcomes and cut through the B$ we have here where 70,000 people can die needless from Vioxx before it even got a review.
https://www.jci.org/articles/view/38430#:~:text=Some%20consi....
What will the startup do that's so much better than the existing shipbuilders? China has much cheaper labor, and produces a huge amount of steel domestically. They build big ships and smaller ships. What does your hypothetical startup do that will let it compete against existing incumbents that have established incumbents with much more experience?

With drug trafficking, it need for new manufacturing is because they had an illegal use case. And those subs usually don't last more than one journey. It's not really comparable to the shipping industry at large.
Oh I do.

See the Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink and Twitter crowd