skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worrying to read such anxiety, but take heart that
your premises are wrong.

LLMs are not "taking over". We're in another technology hype cycle.
Unlike block-chains this one is more understandable by the masses, and
more worrying to media types who always breathlessly trumpet
everything. They now feel their jobs threatened (even more) by the
race to the bottom of low quality crap that global corporatism
ultimately produces.

If you go outside, take your head out of your phone, and walk around,
in a few hours you will see no evidence whatsoever that "everything is
artificially generated".

There is no "new world" afoot, no more than there was new world when
the printing press, steam engine or microprocessor arrived. It will
be the same old world with some people trying to make benevolent use
of technology, some cynically exploiting it for nothing but money, and
the vast majority bumbling cluelessly along without care for the
consequences one way or another.

> where i see there isn't anything as truth. nothing has come from
human experience, suffering, it just simply is created by AI. I
can't wrap my head around this. how to make sense of it.

Truth was always hard to find. There will be less "easy and
convenient truth". And all that generative AI does is regurgitate
reconfigurations of all the human experience it has been fed with.

I think what you, and many others are feeling and fearing is not
existential or epistemological crisis, but a massive rejection of all
the derelict values that brought us to this shallow, empty juncture.
It's probably good that dies. We simply do not value truth any more
anyway. It's good that you're questioning that.
There's a big difference between failing to maximize returns and missing out on an 80-90% upside (so far). Selling at $450 was a pretty bad call
The sauna design rabbit hole is a very deep one.

If anyone is interested in more information about sauna design in general, Trumpkin's Notes are by far the most referred to guide out there. [1]

There are also new products [2] which help improve saunas which are not ideally designed or where there are constraints (ceiling height mostly) to deal with.

1: https://localmile.org/trumpkins-notes-on-building-a-sauna/
2: https://saunum.com/en/
> Context updates all components.

All the components that consume it. Not the whole tree under the provider.
CoreDNS is going to fail you scale K8s
Same company that ran it's 'container services' on an ancient version of kubernetes with broken isolation
The support varies by CNI so I wouldn't call it "built-in".

But yeah I forgot this existed.
These kinds of scammers have tried to substitute hard work with literally anything they can get their hands on for their entire lives and never learn. They'll keep trying with whatever they can get their hands on.
My approach to what they are doing in my last job was to augment our models with more fine-grained information than what the database schema held, as well as with metadata about which views made sense or were needed, and then output schema information in our API. The raw base case was generated directly from the live database schema, so even without a line of code you had something once you'd enabled it (default off for anyone but people with devops level admin rights because giving a default on view of a raw table is a recipe for leaking data), and most of what the models provided were just more structured forms of what the models already needed, such as validations.

Then we built a set of generic frontend components for that in React once.

And we then had an instant UI for 50+ models, but the frontend devs could trivially selectively override both the whole page for models where the default was too simplistic, or how to render specific types of fields or for specific fields of specific models.

The "instant UI" was flexible enough that for most "backend" views we never customised it on the frontend. But being able to have the frontend devs customise the user visible things was essential, and thanks to having the ability to replace things bit by bit they could focus on the things that didn't look or work right, instead of "everything". And a lot of their work then made it back into augmenting the backend with info to let the generic frontend apply those improved views elsewhere as well.

I have only had a cursory look at FastUI. If they do something similar to that, then great. If they actually try to have the backend generate all or most of the UI and serve that up instead of serving up metadata, then I fully agree with your issues.
I agree, I was just making a point that different teams have different priorities and thus different scope. Saying "PodA can only talk to PodB over mTLS" is very different to "Users need to login using oauth". Who is going to build the product if product team is working on the service mesh?
> one of mankind's greatest achievements.

Well, for a few decades there it probably was a great achievement for a few people at the very top. ;)

For the rank and file though... not so much. :(
Or there is a company mandate to encrypt everything due to the customer and legal needs. Then instead of rolling your own solutions you use an established mesh and move to other problems. The complexity is not there but your lack of understanding why someone may need a mesh. The last sentence is because you pre-judge the need and the platform it needs.

Yes I do this for living snd know what I'm talking about.
It's actually not that simple -https://youtu.be/jPuLfomqS1Q?si=PBNH7YX1J3im74XS
Which one are you calling text and which one terminal?
It sounds like you want... folders. Genuinely. Or a tag system. Or some other metadata.

Like, take this query for example: show me the folder(s), where my old University projects are stored. How would an AI, however powerful, know what are "university projects" if they aren't tagged as such? And if they were, why is the AI necessary?

One approach I've tried before is: if you have a folder /projects/ with so many project folders in it that you don't even know anymore what is what anymore, you just create a text file called /projects/index.txt and write the name of each folder in there and what it's for, so you don't forget later.
no, takeout gives you the full quality. All other ways of accessing your photos from the api (there is some github projects) don't give you the full quality images though.

But with takeout the problem is that all dates and metadata gets messed up. I had to learn this the hard way. There is some tools that somehow correct the dates. But it's not perfect and I wouldn't really want my photos to be locked up like that. What if google decides to discontinue Google Takeout? Or just give you lower quality pictures after some point? You really are not safe.

Since that experience I moved to onedrive temporarily because it's a bit safer solution for now until all of these new services get stable (immich, ente, etc). Onedrive let's you access you photos like normal Onedrive files so that's really good. I know microsoft will have my data now and sync is also not perfect. So it's definitely not perfect. But I had to move to something else before the better solutions emerge.
There are plenty available for mobile now, which ones are you still missing?
Isn't that why government labour boards exist, so the company just saying 'no' forever isn't an option?
Maybe. I’m operating a non profit engineering project. I have no expectation that the non profit will make me money, but we do plan eventually to spin off the project in to a for-profit partner that takes the open source and adds value-add fleet management systems (it’s a farming robot) and service contracts. We are modeling this after the successful implementation of this method by the Ardupilot drone software founders.

So while the non profit is a specific legal entity that has a certain clear function, one may still want to use this public benefit open source project for for-profit means.

However this doesn’t really apply to OpenAI, because their system is not open source and also because strangely, their non profit owns the for-profit. Non-profit founders could theoretically be fine desiring profit, but the way OpenAI has done it seems particularly strange.
The people who bought tickets weren't gullible or stupid

Look at the marketing material on their website and ask yourself who wouldn't be suspicious upon seeing multiple nonsensical words:

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/764/707/40b
This confirms what I’ve heard repeated before: it’s easier to teach programming to an accountant than accounting to a programmer.
Developing countries receive aid for geopolitical reasons, not to actually help them out.

The IMF gives contradictory advice that doesn't help. China, Korea, Japan etc all ignored IMF advice and see where that got them.

>In other words, solutions to the scarcity problems you describe in less developed countries appear to me to be primarily political, not economic.

Uhm, that was the entire point of the paper. There is material abundance but no access. Also, you can project the hoarding behaviour onto the corrupt cronies so that objection doesn't go against the paper but is in support of it.
Internal tooling
Do you know what the definition of the word "conspiracy" is?
I absolutely agree with the point being made here, but I don’t think you’ll get much gratitude from the industry as it exists today.

This is a move-fast-and-screw-the-next-person industry. Usually that’s because of non-technical decision makers who believe if their boxes are ticked then all other things are equal.

Sometimes the other things don’t matter - some work has a very short intended lifespan - but for anything long lived there’s a reason why you’ll see the same mess everywhere.

I worked a gig a while back where a monolith was being replaced with a lot of really granular micro-services. The relatively young developers did so much bitching about the monolith before I got to look at it that I thought it would have been a disaster. It had transactions for everything, comments, levelled logging and really strong unit test coverage. The new system was already a tangled mess of unversioned javascript with no documentation at all and it hadn’t even shipped yet. The single source of truth for a single component was, without exaggeration, whatever the last person to work on it said it was.

Great might be the enemy of good enough, but inadequate houses of cards seem to be what the industry keeps voting for with their wallets.
We didn't use GraphQL, but in my last company that was essentially what we did - every API call returned schema information about the parts of the model the current user had access to, with detailed type information and which validations to apply, and metadata that affected presentation, and the frontend built a UI from that.

We then let designers/frontend devs override that on a case by case basis instead of building from scratch, and where possible tried to roll that into the generic UI as components triggered by specific metadata from the backend. It was not entirely agnostic, but it was largely driven by metadata from the backend, so e.g. schema changes rarely needed much, if any, UI work unless they fundamentally changed how the page worked.
The solution _is_ running HTTPS internally. But as an application developer, do you want to manage certificates? Do you want to make sure you're using the "correct" TLS versions and that your app can talk to other TLS versions? What happens when team Z deploys their legacy Java app that doesn't? Where are you getting your certificates from?

All of these go away with a service mesh and sidecar model where the everything is encrypted for you and certificates are completely managed by the service mesh. No need to roll your own PKI. Your app only needs to speak plain HTTP and from it's perspective every other app is also just speaking plain HTTP, no TLS in sight. It makes developers' jobs a lot easier, only concentrating on shipping features vs. wrangling with TLS.

Saying all of that, you could just roll your own fine. Depending on the competency of your company.
If serving up metadata about what the site already makes accessible via the API will get their data stolen, then the actual problem is they're not applying access controls to the data, not the introspection.
Such mosaics were very popular in ex-USSR. Many of these are lost or degraded now, but some remain in good shape and preserved.
> The less time the society requires to produce wheat, cattle etc., the more time it wins for other production, material or mental. Economy of time, to this all economy ultimately reduces itself.

Are you suggesting the author of the article failed to distribute the time to scan/read it in a purposeful way, and hence endangers our society's ability to
achieve a production adequate to its overall needs?
> I think she needs some training on how to speak neutral without much of an accent

This is an absurd expectation. I've watched plenty of videos by people with an accent. That's just how the world is and doesn't reflect on her negatively in any way.

> I'm positive the emojis all over the GitHub page would drive older folks crazy

I've seen a bunch of repos with emojis like this and I'm not a fan. I've also seen repos that are a lot worse, where the emojis can be quite distracting. That said, it's way down near the bottom on my list of things that bother me. If the documentation is otherwise useful and has all the substance I need or expect, I ignore the fluff around it.
I wonder if there's even a point in learning game programming today, when the whole industry is about to be changed.

Why bother with laborious programming and traditional modeling and rendering techniques, when AI can generate playable photo realistic worlds in seconds based on prompts by the player itself?

Tech like Google's Genie is still primitive in comparison, but we're a few short generations away from surpassing what can be done with traditional game programming.

Personalized media and interactive experiences are just around the corner, which is both scary and exciting.
Uh, is there an explanation of what this is supposed to be?
gpt 4, a closed model that exhist only as an api, is ahead of stable diffusion 2, a model with the traning code, dataset and weights downloadable, ok.

I understand there are some other metrics in the mix, but the flat average makes absolutely no sense here.
Exactly if you don't need the functionality provided don't use a mesh, but consequently if you then use it. Honestly not very complicated, but mTLS is very complicated done correctly.
I have many pages of good things to say about X-2. I love it very much. It's not as good as the masterpiece that was X, but it didn't need to be either. Defending X-2 as a great game is a hill I die on from time to time. Dress spheres were cool, revisiting the world and what fresh problems it has in the wake of newly found freedom, how they wrestle with the the realization that their religion was both corrupt and a sham, getting more insight into the Zanarkand-Bevelle war, and seeing the characters, especially Yuna, grow into her own person while dealing with the double whammy of her saviorhood and being given a lease on life she didn't expect to have.

btw Dark Souls 2 is the best in the trilogy, don't @ me
Jobs already worked on this during his time at Pixar:

https://cdn.webshopapp.com/shops/70489/files/113563271/600x6...
On a related note, I wish more ecommerce apps would do english text dumps, rather than fancy 2 dimensional multi-coloured UIs where I need to remember where the date, order number, etc. are. E.g.

You ordered a Pepperoni Pizza from Pizza Place for $14.99.
Joseph has picked it up.
It is due to arrive at your Home (5th Street) at 7.45pm.
[Call] or [Message] Joseph.

Instead, I get Mission Control.
next project: use sed (or your favourite shell/scripting language) as a filter in front of ponysay, to rewrite "anybody"->"anypony", "somebody"->"somepony", etc.
Location: Egypt
Remote: YES
Willing to relocate: Never mind
Technologies: Swift - DSL - ARC - Concurrency - Combine | MVC - MVVM - RemoteProxy - Command - Facade - Factory - Coordinator | UIKit - SwiftUI | CoreAnimation | GoogleMaps - MapBox - MapKit | Bluetooth - Glucometer | Social Login (Google, Facebook, Apple) | Git - Github (CLI) - Gitlab CI | Firebase (Firestore, Crashlytics, Analytics) - AWS |Linux - Bash - jqlang - Lottie | Adobe XD - Figma
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better how? I could never use this without being able to import my apkg.
I don't really see how what is described is "scalable".

With hundred thousandth of transactions, performing the sums will be expensive.

And nothing ensure the safeness of the order of entries...
Yes, it does.
You can also search for terms like "pizza" or "beach with palms"
I do want to encourage people to use Facebook/Twitter via their mobile browsers instead of through the native apps. I worry a little bit re-reading this that it sounds like I'm saying they're unusable, and no, they're not, and you should use them on the web.

Yes, you'll miss out on features like reliable message notifications, but it's mostly fine. Do not install Facebook on your phone.
TextAdept
KDE Plasma 6 has HDR support.

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2023/12/18/update-on-hdr...
What exactly was the exhibition at London’s millennium dome that you remember being so good? Or are you simply talking about the millennium dome itself, which ultimately became a bit of a national joke here in the UK, as nobody really knew what to do with it for a few years after the millennium. In the end, it got rebranded as the O2 Arena, and now it does fairly well for itself as a place to host, concerts and live shows etc.
25 yoe slacker here. Before now, I've interviewed about 10 times in my career. The last time I interviewed was about 12 years ago. Man, what a difference does 12 years make. I remember the days when you'd give a resume, get an interview, go into a short interview and have an offer in a few days.

Luckily, I made enough in this industry that I can ride it out indefinitely. But, I currently fear that I won't work in this field anymore. I'm just not motivated to study for interviews.

Anyone else dropping out of this field? What are you going into next?
Boeing may reacquire Spirit at higher price despite hating optics
I feel like we're in the extremes in both cases, where general customer interfaces are all super information sparse, and terminals are heavy on text.

Having more visual terminals and more text UIs elsewhere would be best of both worlds.
Location: Egypt
Remote: YES
Willing to relocate: Never mind
Technologies: Swift - DSL - ARC - Concurrency - Combine | MVC - MVVM - RemoteProxy - Command - Facade - Factory - Coordinator | UIKit - SwiftUI | CoreAnimation | GoogleMaps - MapBox - MapKit | Bluetooth - Glucometer | Social Login (Google, Facebook, Apple) | Git - Github (CLI) - Gitlab CI | Firebase (Firestore, Crashlytics, Analytics) - AWS |Linux - Bash - jqlang - Lottie | Adobe XD - Figma
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_6l0EEE5YCKeWJkRENkNHBKdGc/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0--tTxgD18HDDKPopI2zXYCQ

I have 2 years of experience as iOS developer:
- Apps like Blood donation, Scooter Control, Diabetes Management, Entertainment.
- Several patterns like MVC, MVVM, Command, Proxy, etc.
- Worked with Bluetooth devices.
- Worked with different map sdks.
- Turn-by-turn navigation using Mapbox.
- etc.
Try to write a generic data and time formatting template in xslt to let you do basic arithmetic on timestamps of the type you might want in a view.

When you've stopped screaming in horror at what you've suffered, we can discuss whether you still think that's a good idea.

The overall concept is good, but sadly xslt is constrained enough to be massively painful for this kind of thing.
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>There are a lot of people that don't enjoy their jobs, but do the work because they're getting paid to do it.

How's that different from what I just said?
The paper mentions basic human needs like calories, potable water and shelter. What you are talking about goes way beyond biological needs.

This is the problem with partial abundance and the absolute definition of scarcity. Scarcity still exists even after you have a million yachts. You would have to be crazy to argue that scarcity doesn't exist, but absolute scarcity is meaningless in the face of humans with limited brain sizes.

We definitely have partial abundance. Please don't shut this discussion down because of imprecise language.
Hm, maybe I make too much photos/videos, but my current collection already has more than 2TB, and 20$/month/2TB seems a bit too high.

Btw, in contrast, Google has 100$/year/2TB, so a bit less. (https://one.google.com/about/plans)

However, I am lucky that almost all my photos/videos at Google Photos were either uploaded when it was still not counted towards the storage (and that did not change for the previously uploaded media) or made with some older Pixel phone, where photos/videos in high quality were also not counted, i.e. unlimited storage. My current phone is a Pixel 5, which still has this feature, but it's unfortunately the last Pixel phone where they had this, and support of this phone ended September 2023.

I'm not sure what to do when I cannot use this phone anymore. Change my habit to make less photos/videos? Or just self-host. I could maybe also filter the media a bit, but I'm somewhat too lazy to do that, and I hope that some AI could maybe anyway do this automatically for me, and I don't really like to delete things, even if they seem maybe not so great quality right now, but it seems like they still might have some value, and storage is cheap.
Two coredns pods was _never_ going to be enough for a cluster this size; a failure was always going to happen at some point. I've seen clusters less than half this size kill their coredns deployment with too many requests. With clusters this size you should really be running something like nodelocaldns to cut down on requests to coredns.
> A cheap SSD might reliably last five years, a nice one, about ten years, as far as I know.

Solution: a RAID system with 5 reliable disks and you replace 2 of them every 5th year, and the other 3 in the following 4 years.
I always google what
I need. I admit I haven’t gone deep into it. Just the basics for side projects.
> I needed to pin 10 dependency versions manually to make it run

um... You should have been pinning all your dependencies from the very start
It's worth noting the person working on this remake previously worked on an absolutely amazing Super Mario World hack called A Plumber For All Seasons:

https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=28856

And created enough resources for that game that they basically know the engine inside and out. They definitely have the knowledge to finish a remake like this, and it'll be interesting to see how it goes.

My one worry however is that remaking any sort of finished game as a fan project tends not to end too well. If there's one type of fan game that companies tend to shut down, its remakes, with ones that clone the original game 1:1 being the primary target (see the Link's Awakening DX PC port recently). So I'm also not sure how long this project will last.
This is your own interpretation you swapped "at least" into "at most" and are now arguing against the straw man you built.
perhaps the only good program ever written?