skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Treating performance and reliability (which is inescapably impacted upon by performance characteristics) as externalities is a great way to create perverse incentives for your engineering team.

Also this reads like a cry for help:

> Therefore, to keep our Kubernetes clusters optimized, it would necessitate mandating all teams to perpetually engage in complex manual optimization processes indefinitely, or until Mercari goes out of business.
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> The engines of capitalism only look 1 quarter ahead.

As opposed to what, something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign?
No shade to the creators as I'm sure the tool is great but if I didn't know better I'd say this seems like an astroturfed effort by WordPress to stay relevant.

Existing AI tools alongside other open-source builders (Puck for React, Primo for Svelte, etc.) equals all the good things about WordPress's "WYSIWYG-ness" minus all the unnecessary bloat that's piled up over the years.
Optimizing JavaScript for Fun and for Profit
This sounds more like a post by the Senior Dev that you don't want on your team. It's a commit message, use whatever is quickest/easiest for you...
>Being in a random coffee shop won't help.

It doesn't help you. Merely going to a coffee shop works for some people (me included). This is exactly what allowed me to finish my master's thesis two decades ago.

When discussing procrastination, it's important to remember that it's just a result of something else. Many things may cause procrastination, and everyone is different. It's like a headache. You might have the flu, a hangover, too high blood pressure, cancer, or be overly sensitive to external stimuli. You might also suffer from thousands of other causes. The result is that you have a headache, but there's no single cure for it.
These books, which are expensive because I don't think they're printed anymore, are going to be far more useful than GPT:

https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Finance-Investment-Busines...

And since the resale value is extremely high, so you can always resell if/when you don't need them anymore, possibly for a profit.
See [1]. The acronym for keyboard/video/mouse was first, though you may be familiar with IPMI. Saw a vid today of someone running PiKVM with HDMI hub. Then you can run it on multiple outputs (if HDMI). Pretty cool.

Right now I got the issue that I have USB-C/TB output on MBP but my hub is a Chinese one with output to HDMI and DP. Which both work, but... my monitors only have 1x HDMI, 1x DP and the DP are in use on desktop. So I'm going with a 8 USD reversible DP splitter from Ali. From what I understood it can do 4k 120 Hz so that should be DP 1.4.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM
> Do you really think there are tons of dodgy Chinese companies producing battery cells?

Are you serious? Yes, obviously. Spend 5 minutes on Alibaba looking at the panoply of companies selling cheap cells, and reading forum posts from people who build their own batteries unfortunate enough to buy those cells.
We’re pretty close. There’s TEM microscopy tech which basically tilts a sample to get a bunch of lines, which is then reconstructed as a 3d model.

It’s stupid expensive though, and you can only really identify whole proteins. But you can do that in context, which is massive
You're seriously driving around Amsterdam in a car? But why when a bicycle is 10x faster and easier?
> for emergency use

This is like putting a gas generator in the bed of an all-electric truck
>The tricky part is that the ongoing training of ever-more-interesting generative AI depends on the ongoing labor of artists.

I think there is an ongoing issue. Much like how the privatization of the public domain has led to an ongoing issue of a large percent of our culture being privately owned. I'm not sure the fix to this.

I am by no means happy with the current situation, but I do find the moral reasoning behind the outrage at AI questionable at best as it doesn't seem to be consistent and instead based on what is economically beneficial to those showing outrage. By that same standard, AI is great because it lets me create things at a much cheaper cost.

Artist creating art of popular characters and AI using publicly posted art both seem pretty acceptable to me. Then again I'm the weirdo who goes to conventions to buy originals, the ones actually painted on canvas and not just easily reproducible prints, even though that does mean paying far more than the prints cost.
Why does the Android app require access to my location? I wouldn't expect open source apps to spy on me.
Think the issue is what constitutes 'intelligence' at all. Forget computers.

This article breaks down how the cell behaves down the the molecules. Once each part is pulled apart and examined, where did the 'intelligence' go.

The single cell, looks 'intelligent'. But, when it is all pulled apart we don't find it. It is just chemicals, reactions, physics.

Then, scale that up to multi-cellular organism, then human, its all just mechanistic, chemicals, physics. So where did the intelligence come from? Humans are also just twitching flagella.

This article just makes it a more stark idea, because a single cell appears 'intelligent', but we can pull it apart and examine the constitutive parts, the chemical, molecules.

So there is not much wiggle room for philosophy or souls. It looks intelligent, but look, we can peer under a microscope and don't see the intelligence.
Plastic bags, straws, etc

Those are the least likely to degrade into microplastics anyway, unlike clothing fibers and the like, and that is already assuming you believe that microplastics have any actual effects.

nobody is trying to replace your iPad with a compostable version that disolves in humidity.

The article talks about phone cases and clothing.
The full site editing thing really changes the wordpress paradigm. It's a different mental model. I've had people reach out for help because it ends up being a wall for them. The communication/education aspect of it needs work.
What he's calling "spaced repetition" (a strategy for learning) [1] is probably better cast as "exponential backoff" [2]. Related, but somehow different.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_backoff
(I work at CF)

The dashboard team had a bug that caused too-large cookies to be returned to some users.

They’ve rolled out a fix but you can also clear cookies to remedy.
It's crazy to Americans too.
People bought plenty of gas from Enron. I'm not sure this is a relevant signal for company mismanagement.
What is a pig butchering scam? (2023)
The way concurrency works is pretty unique amongst mainstream languages.

Java has just copied some parts of how concurrency works in Go, but that's nearly 20 years after Go was released.

It's extremely easy to start up code concurrently with "go foo()". You can start up lots of such functions concurrently, as it works in userspace. Like async code, but no "colored functions" problem.
Have been using linux since 6-8 years now. It's not perfect but it's really friendly for the major distributions (ubuntu,mint, mainly), more than when I started. Today most of the people do two things: browser and mails/chat. People who want more will chose the OS depending of the software they want to use. Or the one they're used to.
I mean .. if you want to waste a bunch of money and prepare for an unlikely war then it still doesn't make sense to worry about chips. You probably should build fallout shelters and secure things like domestic fertilizer production and the make sure agricultural equipment can be entirely made domestically

Even in the most benign case, if China is for whatever reason peacefully cut off from the global economy and we haven't been nukes into the stone age - having to move back to 22nm chips is going to be the least of our problems. To put it in perspective.. this is going to be a world where we no longer have cellphones and toiletpaper (b/c those are all made in China) and most equipment/machinery/refrigerators/washing-machines/cars/trains will overnight become at least in part unrepairable. Basically ever sector of the economy depends at least in some small part on the Chinese supply chain.
So that was the only argument. Wow, I'm glad I finally got to it, but I'm not amazed. All it took is making it up myself.

I don't use AWS so ok thanks. And if I did, I would use their ingress/gateway solutions, which totally circumvent this problem (while being quite expensive anyway).
And what exactly are you going to sue them for?
> Let’s assume that you are being paid $100,000 a year after taxes and you spend $50,000 of it. Well, if inflation hits 10% over the next year, your basket of goods will now cost $55,000 (i.e. $5,000 more) to purchase. How much does your $100,000 salary have to go up to offset this? 10%? Nope. It only takes 5% (i.e. $5,000) for you to break even. This is half the rate of inflation.

That's still not good enough, because even though a raise of 5% would allow one to save the same amount of money, under inflation the money saved is worth less. In fact, to preserve the same purchasing power both in the present and in the future, salaries should be raised exactly as much as inflation.
> GPT4 does inference at 560 teraflops. Human brain goes 10,000 teraflops

AFAICT, both are guesses. The low-end estimate I've seen for human brains are ~ 162 GFLOPS[0] to 10^28 FLOPS[1]; even just the model size for GPT-4 isn't confirmed, merely a combination of human inference of public information with a rumour widely described as a "leak", likewise the compute requirements.

[0] https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2022/02/17/brai...

[1] https://aiimpacts.org/brain-performance-in-flops/
Wait do people write all their commit messages with `-m`? No wonder they're always so bad.

I use an editor to write commit messages because it lets me take my time, to format them, to edit them after the initial draft.

If I know the message will be under 50 characters, I might use `-m`, but the rest of the time I want an editor.

Always relevant: https://cbea.ms/git-commit/
If you actually think commercially available battery packs are being produced in super high tech, super safe, quality-controlled factories by experts, you should try disassembling one.

You do not need millions of dollars of equipment to solder battery cells together. You probably need “expert” training, meaning, like, watching a YouTube video. This stuff is not complicated.
Sounds like Elden Ring. I started playing it recently and got annoyed at how often I died. But I realized that's part of the learning process. It's still annoying but at least I can see it for what it is.
Did you miss that we're talking about humans, not purpose-built robots? If you, a human, can handle building houses, you can handle doing anything. We're quite an adaptable species.
... I haven't been thinking about inflation

...

But less jokingly, "you're wrong about X"/"you're doing X wrong" is quite clickbaity
The people who flagged this comment must believe that someone working at McDonald's for low wages is the same as someone being held as property, their family members terrorized, raped, beaten, whipped, murdered, etc. at the whim of their legal owners.
I do not agree with the ban, but I would like to provide some context as a Flipper Zero (F0) owner and someone who is in several F0 communities and have used a few different firmware besides the official one.

There are a lot of younger kids in the community who have the F0 and are just looking to cause havoc. Joining these communities and looking for the jamming files and want to open every Tesla charging port they come across. Or when the device gained the Bluetooth spamming capability, people wanted to use that everywhere.

Normally these people are promptly dismissed or kicked from the server, but it is a constant influx of these people.

There are plenty of people who use the F0 properly either for work and just learning about signals, or a multitool making their day a little easier. And plenty of new features are coming out every few weeks from the amazing unofficial firmware developers.

I think the question, instead of banning devices, should be to make sure we are teaching people strong morals and that there are possible consequences to their actions.
Those best brains did produce lots of interesting things, back in the day (not recently). The Google search algorithm, the ads auctioning system, Gmail, Golang, certain parts of Google Cloud like BigQuery (create relational tables, just stuff data in there, just scales by itself without "provisioning", write SQL queries including joins e.g. over hundreds of billions of rows...)
That was a rollercoaster. They make a good argument for why official stats are too high, and why the CDC's method is likely bad. Their alternative method shows that maternal death rate is likely around 10.4 per 100K (similar to other Western-style nations).

But then end with this nugget, using their alternative method:

> while Black women had the highest, 23.8 per 100,000 live births in 2018-2021

So more than double the national average.
I wonder if they'll start maintaining decent developer documentation again someday.
> [Crookes] was weighing samples in a partially evacuated chamber to reduce the effect of air currents, and noticed the weighings were disturbed when sunlight shone on the balance. Investigating this effect, he created the device named after him.

Whenever I read about little discoveries like this, I get a smile. Same thing with the guy that had the candy bar in his pocket and discovered microwave energy could be used to heat stuff up...must have been an exciting day!
The problem is that right now the pathways to quickly bootstrap a WordPress site with a good enough, customized theme are hidden under SaaS providers, like hosting companies. Use InstaWP or ZipWP, for example, and you can start in just minutes.
There's a certain irony in the point being made by that person because they think it means organized labor is good, and lack of it is cheap and bad.

Those workers could get the job done just the same without the overhead of labor unions, and this person still thinks that the 'cheapness' means that organized labor is magically better.

You won't get an earnest answer though. Perhaps some nonsense about how these workers would be even better off with organized labor (until their jobs move to the next, cheaper bidder, of course).
The math here only works if you ignore the reduction in savings due to spending more, and the reduction of the value of your savings.
How does it compare to They Are Billions [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Are_Billions
On the third hand strings are of course a special case because you always have special characters and whatnot which makes raw strings useful. :) Not just doing `"` and stuff.
Thanks for the tip on OrbStack. Looks great.
The goal of a public company is to increase shareholder value. Hard to argue that Sundar hasn’t done that. Revenue has increased 5 years straight. Market cap with the exception of a dip during Covid is strong and is approaching its all time high.

As a Goolgle user and long time admirer, there have certainly been some disappointments and mistakes over the years. But there’s also been some major accomplishments which people sometimes overlook.

While still early, Waymo seems to be on the right trajectory and may be a key player in autonomous vehicles. Let’s not forget Googles work on transformers, which is heavily responsible for the current AI boom. That’s just two that come to mind, I’m sure there are others. Maybe these were started before Sundar, but he’s been CEO for almost 9 years now. So he gets credit.

Google may have some culture challenges to work through, brain drain, and identity issues. But I don’t think their story is written just yet. With a giant stock pile of cash they have plenty of time and resources to buy or figure their way out of any perceived issues (if that’s even what they need to do).

Microsoft did it. And if you really want to have your mind blown, go take a look at IBMs stock chart. I didn’t expect to see it approaching an all time high.
> JetBrains uses Swing, which is... still not really the best, but IIRC they've done a lot of work to write their own abstractions and helpers and whatnot on top of it to make it more bearable.

Swing feels pretty okay to me, at least in the times I've used it, especially when IDEs have GUI builders when you just want to do RAD.

I do wonder whatever happened to JavaFX, there was some hype around it years back but it doesn't seem like it got super widespread adoption: https://openjfx.io/
SimilarWeb's traffic estimates (Feb 2024), for context:

twitter.com - Total Visits 5.8B

https://www.similarweb.com/website/twitter.com/#overview

truthsocial.com - Total Visits 5M

https://www.similarweb.com/website/truthsocial.com/#overview
The macOS Sonoma manual seems poorly organized and incomplete. Why is it so hard to find comprehensive documentation for the Finder, for example? Why are basics like the clipboard (cut/copy/paste, standard data types, clippings, drag and drop, show clipboard, etc.) not explained properly?

I am happy to see some documentation for included apps like Garageband, but it seems incomplete and the web reading experience is also clunky.

Important low-level details seem to be omitted, and at the same time the high-level vision and rationale (if any) are also omitted.

Perhaps these things are all included somewhere in the macOS manual, but if so they seem to be hard to find.
Seems more like the opinions of a beginner who’s just recently discovered the joy of the terminal, and is in the zealous honeymoon phase, to me.
Uh-huh. And what would you have understood from that summary?
I'm not getting past the second or third room in most cases, so I don't even have an opportunity to hoard items
The point is to deliver value to Redis' investors by taking advantage of customers' sclerotic executives and managers whose lack of code-level knowledge of their products means these people will pay a license fee instead of letting the engineers replace it with a FOSS alternative.
So much boilerplate and unnecessary keywords...

Frontends do not need boilerplate, they need a simple, efficient and maintainable way of interacting with data and managing mutations.
I went to Big W website and the first bike I clicked on with the default sorting order has a steel frame.

https://www.bigw.com.au/product/repco-blade-26-mens-mountain...
TLDR, maternal morbidity in US sources often widens the net to include things like drug overdoses. Whereas other sources do not, and that can explain the discrepancy between US and other nation maternal mortality rates.

Read this article the other day and has some breakdowns to show how many of those maternal deaths are for things not directly related to pregnancy issues (like embolism or eclampsia).

https://reviewtoaction.org/sites/default/files/2022-08/2014-...
Gonna guess "find me the next block for this file offset" is accidentally O(n²) in their implementation. Exfat is probably still list-based, like FAT32, and not extent-based, like any other file system from the last 40 years?
I winced at the tracking parameters when I pasted the link. I gave up trying to keep my privacy private, but I forgot that another reason to delete them is out of respect for whoever is clicking, not just me. Thanks for calling that out; I’ve edited them out.

And thanks for the data point about the mystery. It always bugged me that it wasn’t quite tracked down. Isn’t filesystem throttling a problem with the driver, though? Switching to a third party exFAT driver immediately fixed whatever was happening.
Imagine having the talent and money of Google and accomplishing essentially nothing in ten years, but collecting 200 million a year.
I'm rarely even getting to the end of the first level let alone leaving it unprepared!
I think most lego collectors have a variety of minifigs already. I have a small tupperware full of miscellaneous lego folks that I bought at various garage sales, and I might start using them for my game that demands that we use minis.
I am planning to use this for my homemade system-wide update scripts -- that updates via the OS package manager, Golang tools, Rust tools, OCaml tools, NPM-managed tools, editor configs (NeoVim headless updating of plugins as well), and others.

Seems like it has everything I need, the most crucial ones being separate queues / worker pools (f.ex. I only want the tasks that might involve source compilation to be executed one after another on a separate queue, never in parallel).

Anybody knows a good alternative to `multitail`? Still haven't found any other tool that can track the output of several commands at the same time on a screen that's automatically split -- and subsequently the finished tasks get removed from view until only the last one remains, taking the entire screen, and then it says "Done, press Q to quit".
>You clamor about the need for change in a society.... and yet you are a part of of one, how curious!

The town drunk telling you to hand the barkeep your keys does not detract from the validity of their point. Try to approach things from the strongest avenue possible, otherwise things devolve into guttersniping.

And the point is, at some point, you have to get it out there somewhere in order for it to have been said. The only concern I have with the points being made here; is the paradox of FLOSS. We must have a public, free and in the public trust corpus of software. Locking everything behind for profits just leads to computing definitely being inaccessible to most everyone. Yet look at all the value extraction bootstrapped on FLOSS stacks where companies get bootstrapped around the composition of a few primitives; but inevitably hooked by the caste of management/MBA types, or utilized as social engineering lever by governments. See social media, car manufacturers, IaaS now, finance companies, banks, etc ...

It is a most concerning trend.
In which case that's good feedback to give to management.

Unless they have very good reasons and offer an alternative ("I'm on deadline so can't talk now, but after this sprint I'll have time.") those individuals are actively sabotaging the team and should be dealt with accordingly.
I hope since its submitted by US, it won't be vetoed by US itself. But the wording of the draft still needs to be out, if it is to be called as acceptable.
Thank you for this ! Knowledge is primarly inspired by http://www.semanlink.net/sl/home
The way I think about this comes from reading John Holland's "Hidden Order". If you read that book not as a book but as a way to build a Complex Adaptive System, then it comes down to a few essentials. An environment, a bunch of entities, a read/write messaging bus so the entities can interact. The entities need a set of rules and sensors. Put it together and what have you got? Thinking. Or intelligence. Try building one. Is the RIP routing protocol a complex adaptive system?

Part of our problem is the way we think. I am a person. I am not a complex adaptive system. And yet I am. I am made of entities. There is a messaging bus, the entities sense, act and interact. But I don't think of myself as a CAS or talk about We. Wecellfs?

Perhaps this a Sapir-Whorf thing. Our language limits what we can think. What is the difference between a pile of ants and an ant colony? A colony is collection of entities, but what do we call the entity that is the colony? Are the ants smart or is the colony smart.
Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only lego pieces scattered over hardwood floors.
But I can save less, which is a way is money I spend on my future self.

And the value of that gets deprecated through inflation too.
The phone cases made by RhinoShield are the aftermarket kind that fit over the phone, not the integrated case.