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Adding a link to Klarna's announcement [0] from two days ago and quoting their summary:

- The AI assistant has had 2.3 million conversations, two-thirds of Klarna’s customer service chats

- It is doing the equivalent work of 700 full-time agents

- It is on par with human agents in regard to customer satisfaction score

- It is more accurate in errand resolution, leading to a 25% drop in repeat inquiries

- Customers now resolve their errands in less than 2 mins compared to 11 mins previously

- It’s available in 23 markets, 24/7 and communicates in more than 35 languages

- It’s estimated to drive a $40 million USD in profit improvement to Klarna in 2024

Apparently it affected a Call-Center's (Teleperformance) stock [1].

[0] https://www.klarna.com/international/press/klarna-ai-assista...

[1] https://live.euronext.com/en/product/equities/fr0000051807-x...
This exactly. It’s a blessing and a curse, because I’d love to move to a “better” language like Rust or even Zig. But with 20+ years of C++ experience I feel like I’d be throwing away too much to avoid C++ completely. Also agreed that modern C++ is pretty decent. Lamenting that I’m back in a codebase that started before C++11 vs my previous job that was greenfield C++14/17.
Guess Peripheral wasn't 'bad'.

Just falls prey to same problems of book-tv translation.
The book was a pretty high concept idea, and just didn't think it translated well.

So on a ranking of 'good->bad' ,'book->TV' translations, it actually wasn't at bottom. It was ok. Just middling.
Book was better. I'm being too judgmental.
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It many cases it's probably easier/better to build a new site nearby that is 250kw capable rather than simply upgrade an existing site; you get a second site and increased total capacity.
Yes, but "housing" can involve any number of different types of house. If everyone demanded spacious detached housing that had approximately four times the number of bedrooms per person, then there would be similar problems. That would be analogous to the typical car journey where there is space for four people and usually just one occupant.

Also, housing requires space for where the house is located, but cars will require space (parking) both at the main residence and also at every possible destination.
Curious why you ever use bing to begin with?
The answer for me is just that I'll buy one when it's better.

Particularly for larger vehicles such as vans it just doesn't make sense. It's more expensive both to buy and to run, the payload is reduced due to the additional weight, and the range is lower.

I imagine in 5-10 years that won't be the case, but for now, there's no point in me being an early adopter.
Yes, GPX based workouts. Did you look at FitoTrack?
lol. This is how you end up with that scene in idiocracy where you find out you get your college degrees at Costco.
>are we wayland yet?

No, No I am not, because things I care about are broken, and all of the supposed improvements wayland offers simply don't bother me. I've tried it, yes it feels a little snappier sometimes, but that's not a huge priority for me, personally.

X11 is fine.
Can't you just backdate some servers to confirm the fix?
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This looks super neat and would be very useful. What apps/devices do people use to collec the GPX information? I found a few in the Play Store but they don't look very privacy respecting...

Edit: Currently eyeing GPSLogger: https://gpslogger.app/
Yes, but the rest of the context of that statement is that earth was a hothouse with no ice, more deserts, and sea levels 550 feet higher than they are now.

Also global warming at natural rates would be less of a concern. This human caused global warming is happening more than 20X faster than natural rates of climate change. Not good if you like your ecosystems intact. Good if your favorite thing about dinosaurs was the mass extinction event.
You didn't imagine it, but he didn't draw all his references from the arabian peninsula and islamic culture is more than saudi arabia.
For what it’s worth, I have the same expectation and have been applying it to forms since IOS 3 or 4.

If we’re going to have a switch-looking thing, it’s because it brings some skeuomorphic affordance with it: I think “off/on with immediate effect” seems like exactly the thing it should bring to differentiate from a checkbox.
"Last updated: 31 October 2022"
It might be worth emailing the two groups of people and putting them in contact with each other. Nobody can know everything and be everywhere at once.
It's actually process substitution: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Process-S...

It's essentially running the process in another shell and sending its output to a tempfile. The name of that file is then substituted in the original command. So, in theory, equivalent to `inner > /tmp/file; outer /tmp/file`. This works with programs that don't read from stdin, or need two or more inputs, for example.
I think most people (including many working in AI!) would agree that AI is currently at the peak of the hype cycle and there will be a bloodletting at some point.

But I don't really understand how AI being hyped, and NVIDIA's stock being overvalued by extension, could result in a 2008-like market crash.
While I agreed with a lot in this post, I'm also pretty wary of the underlying, unstated idea that average investors can avoid bubbles popping while also somehow taking advantage when things go up - that is, he doesn't really say it in so many words, but he's essentially talking about timing the market.

I started my tech career around the turn of the century, and made the mistake of putting a ton of money (at least for me, at the time) into Global Crossing. My thought was that while there were all these "fluffy" doomed dot coms at the time, Global Crossing had billions in real, physical infrastructure they built. Obviously I didn't quite understand debt at the time, never mind the actual fraud that Global Crossing committed (I remember thinking "Wow, stocks really can go to zero and never come back.")

Sure, you could argue I made every newbie investor mistake in the book, but the worse consequence for me was that it "spooked" me early in my investing career, such that I became very reticent to want to invest in things when I felt they were overvalued. E.g. I was one of those people who thought there was a giant tech bubble when Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars - in 2012...

So sure, you may think I'm an idiot, but I can quite guarantee I was far from alone. It was only at the point where I really, truly believed "I'm definitely not smarter than anyone else in the market" (and hardly anyone is) that I just put my money in index funds, did regular rebalancing, and otherwise forgot about it.

We may be in an AI bubble, we may not, but I've seen way too many "vastly overvalued" companies continue to be "vastly overvalued" for over a decade (and then only briefly coming down before shooting back up again) to think that Tim Bray has any special insight here.
You should rethink this policy. Someone could panic and do something unthinkable, then you'd wish bad press was the only thing on your conscious.
Do you mean some kind of "share with Social" button? Or do you mean anonymous access to your recent activities?
Yeah, exactly that, but with kinesin instead of dynein (everybody started with myosin, but loss interest, and moved to kinesin and then dynein) and about 10 years earlier.

Those little blobs moving along the filaments are ~10-100 nanometers, you wouldn't normally be able to see them, but they managed to tether fluorescent (glowing) molecules to them and those act like point sources of light, which allows for precise localization because the PSF of a point is approximately gaussian and finding the centroid of a gaussian is trivial.
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It is a lot easier to restrict charging because of how payments work.
The Fremen jihad isn't exotic unfamiliar flavor. It's jihad.
I think it’s more a common tourism problem, which is thinking what the experience will be like is quite different than actually experiencing it.

or as the highly experienced Mr. Tyson put a not too dissimilar situation so eloquently - “everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face”
Agreed. Not to mention that a pussies routinely squeeze out whole human beings. That is how badass they are.

You know what is useless and complains loudly at the first sign of damage? Testicles.

"Are you scared of that, you massive testicle?"
Let me guess, Nigeria? I can understand them asking for all that, higher risk
What did I post in this thread, about people experiencing error messages and asking about HN being down, that is "off-topic meta drama"?

> as well as breaking the site guidelines in lots of other ways

In what ways am I breaking the site guidelines?
KDE/Wayland/Nvidia->random bugs
KDE/X11/Nvidia->No random bugs

It is a show stopper when the alternative is more reliable.
If I'm playing around, ie, not doing actual work, sure, wayland is cool, and fine. I get the draw. When I'm trying to get something done, I'd much rather use X11 for now.
The ads will come once (if) Tesla matures. Mass adoption comes first.
Sir, sir!

Logic and reason have no place in a discussion that still needs to find reasons to hate the F150. ;)
Players wouldn't have the ability nor incentives to play the game if the gamemakers didn't create the conditions for it.

Can we agree to hate the gamemakers and not the players? Incentive structures are always more powerful than individuals' choices.
No, the reference to Arabic oil is heavy-handed at least, but Frank Herbert has denied this was intentionally just that, without denying there were obvious elements. He’s claimed they represent a wider yearning for freedom.
> As I said elsewhere, your thought process is all over the place.

No, my thought process has been in exactly the same place the entire time.

> If you meant that firstborn children don't have _older_ siblings then you chose a poor way of communicating that.

My HN comments are not perfect prose, nor are they intended to be. Nonetheless, you can and in fact should assume that I'm not insane. What I meant was that firstborn have no siblings when they're born, and older siblings are the only relevant siblings as far as "watching over" is concerned.

> But to rebut your statement, as someone else pointed out, firstborn children would often have cousins and neighborhood kids watch them.

I've already addressed this in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39553084

To me it gives the impression of a semi-mythical tale. Other than for occasional, specific babysitting gigs (usually paid), I've personally never "watched over" other children, whether a younger sibling, a neighborhood kid, or a cousin (all of whom lived at least hundreds of miles away). It's not something that happened in general. Kids are generally busy being kids themselves, doing their own things, and playing with their own friends. Perhaps in the distant past there was little in life except one's own extended family, but that past is long gone.
Maybe less fun than others, but actually not so bad: leetcode [0]

Otherwise, in the same vein as the SQL murder mystery, you can try the Hanukkah of Data [1].

[0]: https://leetcode.com/problem-list/leetcode-curated-sql-70/

[1]: https://hanukkah.bluebird.sh
I hope in both instances the author at least held out the extra couple of weeks until earnings day.
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Is it? Atreides is not a made up word, it directly references the descendants of Atreus from the greek myths -- Agamemnon himself (well, his voice) makes an appearance! "Reverend mother" is a (catholic) religious term. So these particular terms survived, but jihad didn't? Arabic, like op said, didn't? OP made a good point.
And the PRs are ignored unfortunately.
I have a medium sized project with it and the initial compile can be slow, however every recompile usually has the page updated as I switch from my editor to it. Not as fast as TS, but worth it for the much better programming language. Tyrian also makes it trivial to set up hot-reload with preserved state.
Yes, if it's not out already. I'm not currently on Tumbleweed for reasons, but I do love that distro.
Any real, production ready ring buffer should be using unsafe. I would consider anything that doesn't to be a toy.

In Rust it's basically impossible to do this without MaybeUninit. You could use Option, but then you're paying a massive cost for a very easy to write and audit chunk of unsafe code.
We had test failing that had to be skipped and worked out in the background.
One cleanup script broke because Python doesn’t have a clean way to subtract a year, and if you do now.replace(year=now.year-1), you get a ValueError when now is 2/29.

It’s easy enough to address. There are various StackOverflow posts on such things. Here is one: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54394327/using-datetime-...
I had the exact same experience with Bitcoin back around 2014. Only now just getting back into investing as I realise it's an important thing to do for wealth preservation.

I suppose it's not uncommon for people to have this kind of experience, so I'm just glad I had it young.
> Produce plausible output

That's basically art. So AI's only really good at producing art. So we're safe... but now I feel bad for the artists.
One of my previous work places with an auditing data set company.

We'd collect data sets from various sources (like public filings from the SEC) and the we'd send them over to different research teams to enrich the data in various ways.

That company was very Excel heavy - which made sense, we had data entry, accountants, and other people who worked in finance.

My CTO told me a story about how one day a member of a research team asked for a new computer. The old computer worked fine, but the employee wrote a VBA script in Excel that would crunch data... and wouldn't finish until 3 days later.

This employee wanted a new computer so that he had one to use while the other one was crunching data.

We ended up taking his VBA script and putting it into our codebase.
For lifting, check out Gymstro. Free and very good. I recently switched over from FitNotes (also free and good, but quirky).
You can probably claim they are not answering their phones, but what would that do in small claims court? Do they have some legal duty to answer phones at all, ever? Can't they just say - "oh, if we see that Lio is calling, we would never answer them as a matter of policy, and it's fully within our rights to do so!" ?

They might be required to have a legal address and be reachable by certified mail, but IMHO there's nothing wrong with a business (no matter how large) simply having no phones at all.
If you want to do your own ASCII video via telnet, I did it in Go a few years back: https://github.com/bfontaine/RickASCIIRoll

It’s actually quite simple; the hardest part is to generate the frames but that can be done with ffmpeg+img2txt.py: https://github.com/bfontaine/RickASCIIRoll/tree/master/movie....
Whoosh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...
Check out FitoTrack
So much for deep and thoughtful adoption of AI. We're just gonna go full-speed ahead and damn the consequences.
Gas filler ports is actually an advantage being a free-for-all, because it means that roughly half are on one side, and half the other, which fits pumps quite nicely.

The problem is when 80% or more are on one side (like Teslas are all on the same side now) and the rest are not.
Nothing in particular. I'd have been happy with anything that has a real open source community around it, which VBA doesn't. For data tasks, Python's a natural choice. We've also had requests for R, which is on our roadmap.
The power of excel is that everyone has it and most people have a ton of familiarity with it and there’s a million results for anything you search Google that you don’t know how to do. Basically, all the network effects, bec you’re right if excel were a new product today it would lose to every single competitor that does it much better.

Are you compatible with excel functions?
Thank you! I've been trying to find [1] again, which I encountered ages ago, and this Wikipedia page got me back there.

[1] https://www.eca.europa.eu/Other%20publications/EN_TERMINOLOG...
That sounds pretty uncommon.
Bingo, and that's the part of AI that I think is overlooked. It might kill some jobs, but it'll never kill an entire sector like the web killed travel agencies.

And the thing is, the more the risk the less likely an LLM is going to be trusted to just make a decision.

For example, do you think an insurance agency would want an LLM to decide, on it's own, claim approvals? Can you imagine the headache for the insurance agency if the LLM approves the wrong claims or denies the wrong claims?

Or for a doctors office, Imagine AI diagnostics without a human. Can you imagine the headache for a hospital when an AI misses cancer? Or diagnoses a false cancer? It's bad enough when humans get that wrong, but now you have to explain to your legal team "We just left up the practice to the stats gods!"
True, but the light reflects less and less each time and in the end the reflection stops.
> The only thing I've seen that even gets close to working is physically going to the office in person but hell finding what or where that is.

They do try to discourage it sometimes. The local passport office has a sign on the door that says "by appointment only." The first thing you hear upon walking in is "if you don't have an appointment get into line B." If you have an urgent mater they will take care of it without an appointment. I wonder how many people turned around upon seeing that sign on the door. Dark patterns left and right to make it harder to get anywhere.
As a user of stripped-down XFCE and being a Wayland virgin, interested to know what problems there are with 'no-bloat' WMs on Wayland?
> your last statement is only true if you believe in a binary world.

That's basically a nonsensical reply.

> In truth, a child can grab a can of soda out of the fridge without it being a safety concern.

Nobody is talking about children grabbing cans of soda. That's a non sequitur. The submitted article: "Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play".
> Not sure why you are bringing politics up. This has nothing to do with it.

Politics is the struggle to gain, retain, and use power. The use of plastics creates a huge amount of wealth and power for many, by definition anything that could affect this is political.
If I wanted to win popularity contests I'd be using Windows.
Wayland feels like a different operating system to Linux. Linuw?

I can't do this in linuw: https://twitter.com/xundecidability/status/17632190171608678...
Still being worked on. It is a potentially higher-performing system than this one, but also dramatically more complex and expensive.

This hybrid engine is interesting in how fundamentally simple and easy to build it is.
The way this is implemented, it’s polish over a checkbox, with a fallback to the checkbox where it’s not supported. The semantics has therefore got to be the same as a checkbox - that is, no (native) submission of “off” switches.
Sorry, was speaking from a USA context. Yes, you are correct.
> I've basically completely replaced Google in my day-to-day (for GPT4)

That's ...not good.

GPTx gets alot of surface topics right but when you delve into gritty specific details it will just start rambling like a straight jacket lunatic with the confidence of a used car salesman. The rubber meets the road when i try to compile code that uses libraries or functions that don't exist or it leads me to hallucinated imaginary github repos. I worry that this use of GPTx would be like getting water from lead pipes: it would seem fine on the day-to-day while my mind is slowly poisoned with nonsense and insanity.

Google has certainly taken a nosedive in result quality for sure the last few years but Kagi has been amazing for me lately.
Supposed to can mean “expected to”. In fact, that is more so the original meaning.
It was only at the point where I really, truly believed "I'm definitely not smarter than anyone else in the market" (and hardly anyone is) that I just put my money in index funds, did regular rebalancing, and otherwise forgot about it.

This is the way.
I think those signs are hilariously ineffective. "Don't run over kids." Oh shit I hadn't been watching for pedestrians until now!

They don't do anything, it just increases alert fatigue.
If I record correctly, Mozilla has said that like 97% of all problems people has is with problems is due to extensions, not Firefox. '

When you have a site not working as expected, start Firefox in "Troubleshoot Mode" (alt-key then in the menu at the top Help > Troubleshot mode) that starts Firefox with addons turn off. If the site works, restart and turn of addons one by one to you see which one creates the problem.
> a moments consideration would show that spending must preceed taxation, which is true as a matter of accounting.

Can you elaborate on that? I can think of numerous examples from history for how governments bootstrap themselves. If your point is as simple as who pays the tax collector, the tax collector can be paid on commission, debt, or with plunder.
Apparently, Nvidia drivers? The page says the proprietary driver (which I need for reasonable performance and battery life) only works "with limitations" in Gnome and KDE, which are both too terrible to even consider using.
For people living in apartments, with the building providing no way to charge your vehicle, especially when parked outside, the value proposition is a lot less tempting.

Takes 5 minutes to get gas, gas stations are everywhere, but having to find a charging station for your EV and having to sit there for an hour or longer is just not appealing if the tradeoff is the good feelings of one's microscopic contribution to saving the planet. You want me to pay more for extra inconvenience.

I'm sure that will change eventually, but at this point it works best for home owners with garages, which isn't everybody.
What a bunch of A-list celebs taught me about how to use my phone
> I think Apple just wanted their own Game of Thrones flagship

Dune makes the most sense for TV and not the movies. A lot of the political subtlety is lost in the movies
I assumed some of that was because they kept, and highlighted really, the fact that their religion was the result of deliberate manipulation by the Bene Gesserit. I can’t remember if they explicitly say “planted prophets,” but it felt more plain than in the book; I can see how making that statement when the culture is explicitly Arabic and the religion Islam would be more incendiary than science fiction is usually trying to be.
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> I'm pretty sure the OP is intentionally not doing this because piping commands/things-from-the-internet into "bash" (or anything else) is generally considered bad practice.

It’s generally considered bad practice only for bash and similar commands that execute their input. It’s not a bad practice at all for commands that just display or transform their input, like `man`, `less`, `ffmpeg`, etc.