skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it is that IaC is usually imposed on developers, injecting a forced learning curve. In this respect, IaC is a lot like JavaScript, and I suspect that, much like JavaScript, people are just mad about being forced to learn it and haven’t realized all the “good parts” yet.
This is a normative claim, which therefore cannot answer questions about what is, or what could be.
This won't be necessary in future AIs. As AIs will start aligning tokens from all the rich modalities of audio, video, 3D with text so that they can express complex ideas, they will bootstrap in proper language generation.

I don't think college essays, etc would contain anything novel. Future techniques could smoothly interpolate better creating ever-anew wordmud.
>Like when people were working in private equity, marketing, law, finance, etc before the machines took AG jobs?

We could do with fewer "marketing, law, finance, etc" jobs.
I am always surprised when I find others don't just assume that undersea mining is more impactful.

To me this fact feels like a given considering that is such a complex operation and the sea is such a delicate environment.

Of course its great to have data to back up what we know... but I'm always surprised that we have to go so far out of our way to back up what should be intuitive.
> If you cannot empathize you're unqualified to be a software engineer and should pack up your stuff.

I do mostly empathize with this person. I don't believe they are inherently lazy or malicious, and recognize that they're likely going through something in their personal life.

I used to just observe from afar making the mental note that this person was sort of clocked out, but I care much more now that they're in a leadership position that is directly correlated to my career's success.

Empathy in the inverse direction must also hold, people should feel bad about their own lack of output, creating a thankless burden of the rest of their team.
Thanks for reading.

'jail time' for AI could be removing access to the Internet, and restricting interactions with human users. That would put the AI behind other AIs that can stay current (through ongoing training with new data etc.), offer services to humans and gain market share. No pain for the convicted AI, but economic disadvantage that might be difficult to make up for upon release.

My lawyer friend says families of victims e.g. of murder, feel bad waking up in the morning knowing that the person who did the act is still out and about, and that it affects their productivity as they keep thinking about it. It helps when the perp is caught and sentenced.
Can consumer systems like the rtx3090 or 4X rtx3090 achieve something?

Have you seen benchmarks
Top multimodal models have about 200-1000 tokens per image, so the math works out.
Android and web only for now. I do agree that Google tv/chromecast is extremely important. ios/ipad/tvos is even harder since it's 100$ a year for a dev account to push it to the apple store and I don't own an apple device to write the app.

I want to focus on features before writing more clients, I hope to write Chromecast support in less than 6 mounts and google tv in less than a year.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130801113849/http://blog.guyka...
Including, unfortunately, the vast majority of employers and human resources people those children will encounter when attempting to get a job.
We are at peak college tuition. AI is coming for higher education. Not Ivy League at first, but starting with community colleges and working its way up.
This is normal for floats, because computers can't represent all possible numbers accurately.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/588004/is-floating-point...
> Energy usually comes from a difference between two things.

Exactly, and letting either of those two things to be 0 is effectively saying you’re measuring between one thing, which is a contradiction.
I think you are mostly right, I just think your timing is off. Those early 386 machines and Mac II systems were very expensive, at least 2 to 3x the cost of an Amiga. The average home user wasn't going to drop $8K on a PS/2 model 80 with a 386/16.

By the early 90's the Amiga just wasn't competitive. The chip set barely evolved since 1985. ECS barely added anything over the original chip set. By around 1992 or 1993, 386 systems with SVGA and Soundblaster cards were cheap. Amiga AGA was too little, too late. Also consider the low end AGA system (Amiga 1200) was totally crippled with only 2 megs of slow "chip" RAM.

I was an Amiga fan until 1993. Started with an A500, then A3000. Eventually I moved on to a 486 clone w/Linux. Later on I had a Sun SparcStation 10 at home, so I agree with you on Sun and SGI.
Just as much as by the equivalence of software developer and software engineer. Both are a misuse of the term "engineer". Maybe one more than the other, but still.
This view would certainly explain to people outside of Silicon Valley/ SF why the Bay Area has been so dominant in our industry for so many years.
Learning JWT security using KumuluzEE — The finances of a league of the environment
I'm sure hundreds of millions living in slums, with no jobs or prospects, but capable of plenty of spare labor, would be glad to hear about this new law of nature!
The last larger one in, iirc, 2011 I was. Same apt. Definitely stronger.
How did this happen? Subsidizing demand without addressing supply.
Well, if we suppose all the anti-matter is in those black holes, we kill two birds with one stone. It’s ridiculous, I know, but your remark made me realize that an anti-matter black hole is essentially indistinguishable from a ‘normal’ one.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160905134106/https://blog.long...
It's:

DROP or DUCK down to your hands and knees

Take COVER protecting your head/neck with an arm and crawl under a sturdy table/desk possible or to a nearby interior wall away from potential falling objects

HOLD ON to your shelter if you have it or head/neck with both hands if you don't

It's not as obvious as stop, drop and roll which is why drills are a thing in schools.

It's also not terribly far from duck and cover drills for nukes or tornadoes as I understand it. The hold on bit was added to keep people from tripping and breaking a leg while running around while the ground is shaking.
"Building experiences with real-time components was previously only accessible to multi-billion dollar companies"

... what a load of nonsense. I've built them in a few hours, spending £5 per month for a server.
Indeed. Let alone the energy needed to move machines to the deep and back with the extracted material.
Most people had to work as hard as they were able just to have enough to eat. When crops failed, the aristocrats forcibly took the food they needed (with the support of the legal system because they owned to land) with the result that some of the farmers starved.
Commodore's story is more about achieving the impossible with 1-2 engineers building each computer. Commodore was a company built around Jack Tramiel who wanted his widgets to ship in volumes to "the masses, not classes". When he left then it was a lifestyle sucking cash machine for Irving Gould who appointed incompetent CEO after incompetent CEO after Tramiel. The miracle is it staggered on ten years post-Jack.

But the reality is the Commodore 64 kept Commodore going during most of that period rather than Amiga sales. It's similar to Apple where the Apple 2 kept Apple afloat during the 80s and 90s until Steve returned.
Reduce the amount students can borrow for college, that’s it. If you give people ever increasing amounts of money to acquire something that society convinces them they need, the price will keep going up as the loan money available goes up.

It’s just being sucked into bullshit administration and infrastructure costs.

A university could be a few dozen professors, zero admin besides secretaries for the professors, and having the professors share whatever small organizational tasks are actually necessary.

Like think of how you would run a startup university. Do as little as possible outside of actual teaching and research, charge tuition to cover costs which would be much lower.

There’s not any competition though. So it’s not happening.
First time I see a .gov entity use metric system only (not even “x km (y miles)”.

> Since 1950, 40 other earthquakes of magnitude 3 and larger have occurred within 250 km of today’s earthquake
Yeah, what should be wild to them is that a CEO of a major company has washed their credibility so badly that their word isn't worth much more than a rumor is
Please explain the details of how wealth inequality causes extreme inflation in higher ed prices. I've yet to see wealth inequality fingered as the culprit.
Meanwhile they're still hiring contractors like mad.
SGI tried its hand at the PC video card business as early as 1990. I was at Autodesk at the time and got one of these to beta test on a DOS 486 running AutoCAD. It was an impressive product. But huge; it took up two full-length ISA slots. And the display drivers were a bit buggy.
Oops, i misread the word. I read it as “peeping” as in they were caught trying to see children as they dress or undress. But yeah reading the word correctly now what I wrote doesn’t make much sense.
Parent comment is probably not arguing in favor of overpriced college, just saying the situation won’t resolve naturally
replies like this generate no value. tell us what happened in 1971, don't make lazy, vague references to it. please provide a source, or at least some idea of what your point is.
This is my favorite write up of someone truly building a GPS receiver from scratch: http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm

A real tour de force of DSP - really cool stuff, and well-written
That's a nice post to read. Thanks for sharing.
I don't have kids, but I believe it. I have several close family members whose biggest regret is that they didn't go to college.
The surprising resilience of naive views
There's the "SGI Irix bloat" internal email that got posted to Usenet.

Took me awhile to find a copy on the net, https://www.seriss.com/people/erco/sgi-irix-bloat-document.t...

Here's a formatted-for-HTML version: http://www.art.net/%7Ehopkins/Don/unix-haters/tirix/embarras...
Related:

The Art of Authenticity: A Conversation with PostSecret’s Frank Warren - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9636568 - June 2015 (1 comment)

Can we learn from Post Secret's integrity? (largest non-ad blog in the world) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4119827 - June 2012 (2 comments)

PostSecret Pulls iOS App Over Abusive Submissions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3418172 - Jan 2012 (7 comments)

I am a PostSecret Addict, I built this to ease my Addition. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2190110 - Feb 2011 (1 comment)

Ten Questions with PostSecret's Frank Warren - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=65147 - Oct 2007 (1 comment)

(The last two threads had no comments but I added archive.org links so the articles would be readable)
"Your account is rate limited. We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars."

What part of this differs from how I described it, except I was more polite and didn't say you were posting low-quality comments, or doing a flame war?

Your argumentative confusing responses used to frustrate me but you're putting a smile on my face now. Idk what's going on over there, but I have a feeling you know you're doing it, you're enjoying it, and I'm genuinely happy to hear that. יברכך יהוה וישמרך
I used some SGIs in the mid-late nineties, and they did have cool 3D graphics capabilities. I found 4dwm to be kind of cool but mostly gimmicky and it was really slow on the Indy and O2. Windows 95/NT were much snappier on contemporary hardware.

By '97 or so SGI actually had essentially given up competing when they shut down the team that was developing the successor to InfiniteReality.

In a sense though, Silicon Graphics did become more standard, in that their original 3D framework was Iris GL, which then evolved into OpenGL, which became the main 3D graphics standard for many years.
Close, an interactive travel time map
#2 and #3 both have simple answers - "Nothing," and "Eliminate the free money buffet of federally guaranteed loans that can't be discharged by anything short of death."

"Eliminate 80% of administrators" would also help with #3 but there's no incentive to do that, especially without the more direct answer to #3 happening first.
Press releases have always sounded like that before ChatGPT.
You can put these options in a config file and they will become the default: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#configur...
> It was so ominous looking I turned around and went back home.

We have a word for that...smart.
Last year about 7.5 million people attended public 4 year institutions and about the same number attended public two year institutions. Around 5 million attended private institutions. Over the last 25 years there has a been a steady decline in the public funding of public higher education on a per student basis.

Higher education is a large market and there are many, many forces at play. Blaming a single item is too simplistic an analysis.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_303.70.a...
"How did this happen?" — because the market will bear it. High sticker price + financial aid for 65% of students just makes it easier for a college to price discriminate, which is overall a good thing. And as the article points out, most students don't pay anywhere near as much as a Vanderbilt full tuition, so in a sense it really doesn't matter. The article does a good job of explaining this.
We do get tornados in NJ. About 3 per year.
I refer to my vision as "no useful vision" I can see enough light to sometimes tell if the lights are left on in a room or if the son is out. I can not see color, it's either bright, neutral, or dark.
How did it happen? Education in the US works on a freemium model.

The pay-to-win aspect is more obvious at the university level, but it occurs at K-12 too: it's just that there the cost is not directly charged by a school district, but occurs via the premium for housing in that district.

(take a null hypothesis: a world where school districts all offer the same education. Even in this case, should parents somehow agree on which the "good" district were, it would have a premium reflecting how much parents who care about education are willing to pay to live somewhere where their children's likely friends' parents also care about education. "the mother of Mencius chose a neighbourhood")
Oh I totally missed they snuck that in as a line item. Still, they require you to call them so who knows what that could end up being.
I'm not sure I understood much except the photo of the cake
Sometimes I feel like college tuitions and need based aid programs are specifically calibrated to fuck over the "upper middle class." It's completely ridiculous that households making 300K or whatever (which is barely enough to support a family in many cities in the nation) are put into the same financial aid category as billionaires (that is to say, no financial aid at all). It's a hoop that you have to jump through so that the man can keep you tied to your desk working throughout your entire life.
Intel never pulled ahead until the Pentium but by then Motorola weren't interested in the 68K series.
Some people have several orders of magnitude more to spend giving their offspring an advantage. It’s worth it too, due to massive inequality in job market.
Sure but then a promise from Apple to never do mass layoffs (like the article mentions) is untenable.
Building Pantheon Desktop Environment [for AlmaLinux 9]
Andrew Holme's receiver was a crucial resource in my journey! There were times when a sentence or two from his post unlocked an insight for me.
That price is inclusive of room, board, and other expenses.
Just curious but what is keeping you from compiling x*3?
Presumably a reference to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

> On 15 August 1971, the United States "temporarily" suspended the convertibility of the US dollar to gold, effectively bringing the Bretton Woods system to an end and rendering the dollar a fiat currency.
It (still), mathematically is.

The return on the investment of a college degree is absolutely worth it.

What's becoming much less clearly worth it is the value add of going to an elite school over a state school.
Atari ST and Intel PC are not distant categories. Both are "'home computer microcomputer' systems". Not all home computer systems can win, just like not all browsers can win, not all spreadsheets can win, not all ways of hooking up keyboards and mice to computers can win, ...
Backdoor almost infected Linux everywhere: The XZ Utils close call
If it's necessary for the employee to do the work, then yes. However, there are cheaper alternatives to phones, for example we provide hardware tokens (they cost around $30-40, such as https://www.yubico.com/products/security-key/ ) for those who don't have a corporate smartphone and are unwilling to use their personal devices for 2FA.
That's what impostors are for.

In GTA V, each region has a custom-built low-rez model, and that's what you're seeing when you're more than about 200-300m away from it. Watch closely and see where the cars appear and disappear in the distance. That's the edge of the real rendering area.

I'm looking at doing this for a metaverse. In the GTA V era, those impostors were a manual job done by game devs. That needs to be automated.
Rather than doing mesh reduction on large areas, I want to take pictures of each area at high resolution from multiple angles, and feed the pictures through Open Drone Map to get a 3D mesh. The result looks like this.[1] For even more distant areas, those meshes can be consolidated into larger and lower-rez mesh tiles. It's the 3D equivalent of a slippy map. The amount of data you need to send is finite regardless of the world size, because the far-away stuff has lower resolution. The sum of that series is finite. This is similar to how Google Earth works when you get close enough to see 3D.

Handling a metaverse with user-created content is a big data-wrangling problem, but the compute and network loads are finite.

[1] https://content.invisioncic.com/Mseclife/monthly_2023_12/bas...
People are always passionate about various UNIX systems and their derivatives like Linux. Windows is so utilitarian.
Posing this question almost feels insulting. How did this happen? As with so many (not all) things that government gets involved with, Uncle Sam did it.

Why on God's green earth would colleges lower their prices when they have guaranteed funding via guaranteed student loans? If anyone could get a loan for a house, the same thing would happen to the housing market. Cough Cough...2008. Government placed quotas on the industry to make the "American Dream" a reality for everyone.

I get it. Government-backed student loans does indeed give opportunities for many less fortunate people. But does giving opportunities to the less fortunate, which is a much, much smaller percentage than those who are not in that category, justify making college unaffordable for the entire country? Keep in mind that most people fall into a middle category where they are not poor but still don't have enough for college and have to find a way.

And sure, call me a conspiracy theorist, but at the end of the day, the Government doesn't back student loans because they want to help. They do it because it serves their special interest groups.
"Its not about what you can afford, its about what you can borrow"
It's not just that. It's that you can also add `#![forbid(unsafe_code)]` to your crate. Now you know there's 0 potential memory safety issues of any kind.

Keep in mind that failed bounds checks are only 1 memory safety possibility for C++. Another common one is UB behavior which abounds all over the place in C++.

The only language security issue you have to worry about with safe Rust is that integers overflow by default in release mode which means you need to explicitly annotate summations that could cause a security exploit with `saturating_X`, `checked_add`, or `wrapping_add` depending on what behavior you want when you exceed the integer range bounds. In cases where security by default is more important, setting `overflow-checks` to `true` in the Cargo profile is better - that way you have to explicitly opt-in to wrapping behavior if you want more performance in the hot path.
It's a reference to a website[1] which talks about the divorcing of the USD from the gold standard.

[1]https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
You can also use SideStore which can do the same without a server.
I am really glad to hear that there's interest, and hopefully I will have a 3-part series to share on this some time soon! Similar to Andrew's project linked down below, this is a 'true' home-brew receiver. I didn't know anything about DSP, etc, when I started out, so I learned a lot about signal processing (and the incredible techniques that make GPS work), and really hope I'll be able to publish it all soon!
> I don't think [things created by humans] would contain anything novel.

That's quite a proposition.
Ha! I take your point.
Funny enough this is exactly how vendor engagement goes when you are publicly traded. They can see your books more or less and charge wildly different numbers to different companies. It has nothing to do with how much you use the product or the resources you'll use and everything to do with what they think you are worth. We've had so many calls where we're like "brand new product with team of 10 wants your thing" and they come back with a high 6 figure saas contract. It's so fucking annoying that they don't have to show their prices online and can make all their customers sign pricing NDAs
Infuse implemented code specifically for jellyfin and it uses jellyfin's own API. The only common protocol is dlna, but it's pretty limited and only really used on local networks.
Every time someone mentions prices going up even slightly there's at least one person who is convinced it's because of Nixon, or the gold standard, or too much cryptocurrency, or not enough cryptocurrency, or something else vaguely related to those.
Very few students will pay that price. Even those above financial aid thresholds will typically be offered a ~~sale price~~ merit scholarship. Also, if they have other offers they can try and price match. The sticker price is so high because it feels nice to get something for 50% off. Much more so if it was due to your "merit" rather than your coupon clipping prowess.

College tuition is expensive, much more than it should be, but the obsession over a sticker price that is almost never relevant is silly. People should be more concerned about the actual cost of attendance.
Website that summarises the most important news
Microsoft has done a lot of good work with VSCode for blind developers. I'm totally blind and used Eclipse for many years. I started using VSCode when I was learning Go. I watched audio queue's be added and thought it was a thing I'd never use because I am set in my ways. Now that I'm using VSCode to do Go programming professionally I'm glad they exist. It's not a game change but it is a nice quality of life improvement.
Can you just use the browser text-to-speech API?