skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's less sustainable than renewables, but fills a practical requirement for peaker style powerplants (which fill sudden demand) without resorting to coal/oil/gas, which are considerably less sustainable. Drax already existed as a coal/gas facility, so transitioning it to a biomass-with-carbon-capture facility is a net benefit to the environment, even when considering the packaging and transportation of the wood, because those steps were required for its coal predecessor.
Bob Hoover rolled a plane while pouring a tea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9pvG_ZSnCc
The worst IT professionals, like bottom 10% (which seem to be in the top .01% for getting hired and holding a job, somehow), are about on par with AI in my experience. At least with Health care IT professionals, which might be a huge selection bias. I am just about as likely to see complete nonsense suggestions or a complete misunderstanding of the problem from either.
Relativity Space are also 3-D printing not just rocket engines, but entire rockets, and have had a successful first flight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz165f1g8-E
Not an actual pattern

AI cycle in 2012 started with alexnet

AI cycle in 2019 started with Stable Difffusion
Most companies "need" to grow, so if you did see 10% more productivity, you aren't going to lay off 10% of your workers--you're just going to enjoy hopefully 10% more profit (grossly simplified).

Not to mention that I'm so skeptical right now that I highly doubt these AI tools are helping IT workers be even 5% more productive.

Historically, every time a new web framework comes out that swears it'll make web devs so much more productive, it doesn't seem like that ever causes a noticeable change in the job market.
Why? What's the difference in the rice?
Trudeau’s government seems to be making all the wrong decisions, all of the time.

FTFY. And I am saying this as a lifelong Liberal.
Let's Encrypt

Google Trust Services

Disclaimer: I've worked in both of these :)
The government is among the worst of the culprits. “We’re being accused of doing a bad thing? I know! Arrest the speaker and erase it from our version of the Internet!”
So says ARM. Qualcom says otherwise.

We don't know who is right with only public info to go on. It all depends on what exactly Qualcoms contract says.

Obviously Qualcom has fully educated and competent lawyers who have read their own contracts in detail, and concluded they are good to go.

So it's not a given that ARMs assertion is the only valid and winning assertion. It's merely what they want. Maybe they have a right to what they want, maybe they don't.
The interview process in an average company started to change around mid 2010's, before that it was (mostly) just an hour interview with some FizzBuzz (even that was rare).
Learn to make your own fireworks. Much fun to be had there, nothing super daunting in terms of knowledge work, but a good excuse to do a lot of the basics.

Especially looking at old recipes will cross a number of disciplines, including maths, chemistry, linguistics and library science.
Haha… It is a a ‘Tera Flop’, as they are falling in the ground…
I too am doubtful. The market is littered with failed 3d printed products, all failed because the designers know nothing about real-life product design or because their deigns are too brittle or melt too easily in heat.
I didn't assume anything, you mentioned porn.
Infinite loss multiplied by small chance is still infinite risk
Never works this way. Efficiency gains will result in the expectation of doing more.

Maybe that “more” will be in other areas of the business or economy and thus lead to less headcount, but given how profitable tech is.. I’d assume they’d be redeployed to build more product
In the face of the Apple Intelligence macOS Sequoia announcement yesterday, anybody who is still trying to argue that moving the web request to a separate binary makes the product more secure or compliant is absolutely disingenuous and frankly malicious.
Luma AI Dream Machine
Adding delays to increase perceived value: does it work? (2010)
A lightweight tmux alternative? Tmux is already an incredibly lightweight C program in terms of binary size and resource usage.
Imagine reading an article about the achievements of an Indian startup, based in India, with Indians at the helm, and thinking "Ugh, they only achieve things because US companies grace them with jobs!"
generative AI is like velveeta
A business operating in a jurisdiction is a privilege. If you don’t like the rules, leave.
The average working class Canadian won't see that, and a PP gov't will just gut or turf those programmes immediately.

And people will either credit the Liberals, or just hate Singh for propping up the dreaded Trudeau. Every store or place I go to some baby boomer is ranting at me about Trudeau. Being associated with that gov't in any way is toxic.

Like I said ... tactical move but bad strategically.
EDIT: OK I got educated here. Must drink my coffee before posting next time.
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seriously. Look at the Kardashians. They turned every embarrassing event into a money making opportunity.
There's a crisis in local news. It's an essential service that the free market has largely stopped providing -- the number of journalists following local politics has been decimated, and sometimes in a literal sense. Without someone with the time to follow that stuff corruption flourishes, and getting rid of local government is not an option. We need some sort of fix so it's nice to see someone trying.
> Who cares if someone can get AI to say awful things?

I imagine the legal department of Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google care a great deal, and they don't want to be liable for anything remotely resembling a lawsuit opportunity.
Fed chairmen don’t tell stories. They are terse. Thats a lot for a fed chairman to claim that government overstated stats.
WinUI essentially webpage
We'd be happy to provide access to MI300X at TensorWave so you can validate our results! Just shoot us an email or fill out the form on our website
> LLVM IR to machine code is not the part that AMD has traditionally struggled with.

alright fine it's the codegen and the runtime and the driver and the library ecosystem...

> If everyone started emitting IR and didn't rely on NVidia-owned libs then the space would become unrecognizable.

I have no clue what this means - which libs are you talking about here? the libs that contain the implementations of their runtime? or the libs that contain the user space components of their driver? or the libs that contain their driver and firmware code? And exactly which of these will "everyone emitting IR" save us from?
They drafted everyone over 25. The only thing left is the 16-24 group and due to demographic it’s a sizable by smaller chunk
I worked on, then eventually lead IMVU’s Product Design team.

Now I work as a producer for a creative agency where we make Roblox games for brand clients, including Roblox.
IT market is weird right now.

Skilled talent with a good network can find a job fast. I know multiple people who have gotten new jobs within weeks of getting laid off this year.

But I also know people who are absolutely struggling to get a job despite being quite good and putting out lots and lots of applications.
So what you are saying is that we shouldn't fly the 737-8 MAX?
this is a jupyter notebook. so you'll need to download that.
Better known colloquially as software bloat!
Hi José, thank you for the reply. I hope I didn't come across as critical of the incredible work the elixir (and LV) teams have done. You are all absolute treasures to the programming ecosystem.

I think you'll find that my argument ("LiveView shouldn't be the default way of doing things") is fairly common.

It's not necessarily about the footguns (or lack thereof), or improving the docs: it's about there being a shared vocabulary among people that do web development that LiveView is alien to.

Web frameworks have historically been great tools to drive adoption of programming languages (Ruby/Rails, react/ts). The same could be true of Elixir.

However, in order for that to obtain, the learning curve can't be too steep, at least in the initial portions of it. I think you'll find that with LV the learning curve looks like a step, and imho that step is a bit too high.

Of course, all these arguments apply both at the individual level and the company/org level. Think about a new hire's time-to-productivity if they first have to learn elixir, then phoenix + liveview vs just elixir & MVC phoenix.

If there's a way I could contribute to an effort that helps people learn elixir sans lv--perhaps writing, sketching, or even reading a guide/documentation--I'd be happy to give it a crack.
Jacking up immigration without any infrastructure planning to support it?

Keeping medical school residencies small - zero growth! - while in a crisis of lack of primary care physicians?

In the midst of record inflation, choosing $40b deficit spending that any economist will tell you is inflationary?

In the midst of record low - and dropping! - productivity, increasing taxes on capital to disincentivize investment in this country?
Execs should absolutely be held responsible, but the human factor is always there. Many times people will take the easy route and get worn down by security practices or roadblocks.

I think it's too easy to go "alright focus on security" and then expect it trickle down and figure itself out.
I've made it a bit of a project lately to understand Uncle Bob and his effect on our profession, so I took your recommendation seriously and watched the first video you linked. I'll start with the bit I agree with. Uncle Bob is right that you want to be able to test your core logic without depending on a database and a webserver. I also found his statement at the beginning that your folder organization should reflect the purpose of the application appealing, but I'm not sure it's actionable. He also spends some time kicking RUP while it's down, before turning around and saying "actually, those guys had a point." A strange rhetorical tactic, and probably some ancient score-settling was involved, but it's a fair point. I can't fault him for saying "Ruby is about to get really big" in 2013, but he timed that trend just about exactly wrong.

Where I disagree with Uncle Bob is in his proposed solution. Define a plugin interface for every side-effecting part of your code, and pass in safe plugins when you want to test it. He's explicit about his preferences: the core of your application should be pure objects, exposing only methods and no data. And since you want those to be encapsulated, you can't let them leak out, you have to pass the actions in, so that you can do them in your core. This is a bonkers, topsy-turvy world where you can't just have a pure data processing routine. If you could, you would just write it, test it, use it in your side-effecting procedures, and go about your day. No plugin architecture required. Infinitely more testable, because your data processing routines don't have side effects. Uncle Bob's design forces you to deal with what happens when your side-effects go wrong somewhere in your core logic. This kind of thing is the reason we have a "law of leaky abstractions." Side effects can't be encapsulated. We try anyway, and they leak across the barrier.

I also went and looked at some of his blog posts about functional programming, and as far as I can tell, he's mostly repackaged his traditional advice for Clojure. I think a much better source there would be Eric Normand.
I’ve been wondering why I can’t get something in a NUC like form factor with some legit cores and memory for a decent price. The x4 is launched, I’d totally settle for like 4 x1 cores, 4 or 8 x3 or x4 cores would be ideal, something that can out perform an intel nuc. Pi’s are cool, but I need some compute. I think I’m starting to get it with this wacky licensing stuff.

I’ve had some doubts the last few years but I have never really bet against intel. They have been shockingly good for a very very long time. A wave of elite x like parts on the desktop, at good prices, would hurt them, badly as the ecosystem spins up. AMD jumping in would also hurt them. The more ARM wastes this window of time, the more likely intel will get their process sorted and push out an aggressive microarchitecture on “x86s” and have ARM64 like qualities with some backwards compatibility
> This is different than the aircraft just being batted around by turbulence.

Does it actually look different or is it just a different cause for similar movement patterns?
Great job on Pathway. It's impressive to see a Python tool for ETL and RAG tasks with such strong features. The Python API and Rust runtime for quick updates look interesting. Focusing on security and performance, especially with self-hosted RAG pipelines, is fantastic. Excited to see how this OSS repo grows.
Pretty bad benchmarks to the point of being deliberately misleading. They benchmarked vllm which is less than half the speed of the inference leader lmdeploy: https://bentoml.com/blog/benchmarking-llm-inference-backends

They also used Flywheel for AMD while not bothering to turn on Flywheel for Nvidia, which is crazy since Flywheel improves Nvidia performance by 70%. https://mk1.ai/blog/flywheel-launch

In this context the 33% performance lead by AMD looks terrible, and straight up looks slower.
The last 3 seconds of your life as the copilot must have been some revolting emotion knowing that the overconfident asshole in the seat next to you just killed you.
I don't think they're going to let you claim a donation to an open source developer as some sort of charitable donation, which means the tax write off would be no different here from any other business expense.
Yes I think you have it right. Westerners are much more obsessed with their individual / nuclear family status and don't share. This has some perks, but when your competition is much more collectivist and socially cohesive, it can be a disadvantage.
I really don’t need Apple or Google protecting me, but thanks.
Might as well pick a name from a hat and hire someone out of those 30 people, and just tell no one that's how you picked them. At least then you wouldn't be wasting their precious time they could be looking at other jobs for.
In contrast, a guy in my neighborhood is a head of some local police task force. He says they have open positions that pay 80-90k a year, and they can't fill them. There are people straight out of the police academy (a couple month process) that are demanding over 100k / year. But, that messes with their overall pay structure because there are officers with 10 years of experience that aren't getting paid that much.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40657890
For those of you that are more visual, here is a terrifying YouTube video of what Dutch Roll looks like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tgfkGiHhxs
My god, has that subreddit has ever gone downhill (and it was never particularly on a high one).
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE

SE job listings have returned to the levels they were at before the huge ramp up in hype a few years ago. Unfortunately FRED data only goes out a few years here.
A barrel roll or an aileron roll? Most people call an aileron roll a barrel roll (no thanks to Star Fox)
Your core rest api page link is broken: https://twenty.com/developers/section/rest-apis/rest-api/cor...
Has this rumour finally gone mainstream?
Tex flew in cowboy boots and, well, was named Tex. I don’t know what they thought would happen.
So the Hearthians' timber ships made sense after all
The headline implies that "requires opt-in" is new to 3.5.1. that's not the case. The OpenAI integration always required opt in and an API token to function.

Can we fix the headline?
Aren't the plasticizing chemicals also more of a problem than the base material?
Lol, stay in your echo chamber. They caught the discrepancy in job stats a year ago.
Manufactured outrage.
I'm really interested, do you have a source for those percentages ?

I tried to look for some service provider to publish this kind of metrics, but haven't found any.
100%. As a lifelong Liberal, I cannot believe the policies we have seen over the last few years and cannot fathom voting Liberal again.

I just wish the conservatives would show some interest in protecting the environment.
What really blows my mind in the number of near-misses on active runways (at least within the US). I don't know if the trend is up, as I don't have historic data, but certainly looking at Youtube (VASAviation, etc), there are a scary number of them (2 within the last 45 days at one of my local airports).
This is hilarious:

Recent years have seen increasing public attention and indeed concern regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). Hypotheses for such phenomena tend to fall into two classes: a conventional terrestrial explanation (e.g., human-made technology), or an extraterrestrial explanation (i.e., advanced civilizations from elsewhere in the cosmos). However, there is also a third minority class of hypothesis: an unconventional terrestrial explanation, outside the prevailing consensus view of the universe. This is the ultraterrestrial hypothesis, which includes as a subset the "cryptoterrestrial" hypothesis, namely the notion that UAP may reflect activities of intelligent beings concealed in stealth here on Earth (e.g., underground), and/or its near environs (e.g., the moon), and/or even "walking among us" (e.g., passing as humans). Although this idea is likely to be regarded sceptically by most scientists, such are the nature of some UAP that we argue this possibility should not be summarily dismissed, and instead deserves genuine consideration in a spirit of epistemic humility and openness.

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UAP may reflect activities of intelligent beings concealed in stealth here on Earth (e.g., underground), and/or its near environs (e.g., the moon), and/or even "walking among us" (e.g., passing as humans)—I knew it, reptilians, they're reptilians after all XD

[the idea] deserves genuine consideration in a spirit of epistemic humility and openness—OK I'll give you that, good luck
The market (and selling price) is reflecting the perceived value of nvidia's solution vs AMDs - comprehensively including tooling, software, TCO and managability.

Also curious how many companies are dropping that much money on those kind of accelerators just to run 8x 7B param models in parallel... You're also talking about being able to train a 14B model on a single accelerator. I'd be curious to see how "full-accelerator train and inferrence" workloads would look ie: Training a 14B param model then inferrence throughput on a 4x14B workload.

AMD (and almost every other inferrence claim maker so far... intel and apple specifically) have consistently cherry picked the benchmarks to claim a win over, and ignored the remainder which all show nvidia in the lead - and they've used mid-gen comparison models as many commenters here pointed out in this article.
Being antagonistic on purpose is sort of the SystemD crowd's thing.
I don't think the solution is to subsidize it, though. It'll ultimately end up flowing back to Bell/Rogers.
Oh boi let me tell you a fresh anecdata from right this Monday:

> I receive screening call in a bad moment.

> Me: "Right now it's a bit difficult for me. Can we do this at another time, like maybe in 30 minutes?"

> Them: "Sorry, I have another interview at that moment. We'll call you tomorrow."

Of course "tomorrow" is euphemism for "never", and I knew it, so I wasn't even disappointed when I didn't get the call next day.

So yeah my guess is that with so many applicants, interviewers are looking for the absolute tiniest reason to reject anyone.

Maybe it got even more worse in these last few months compared to the beginning of the year, or maybe it's specific to the company, or maybe both.

Because earlier this year I got a call early while I was still sleeping (went to sleep late the previous day) but they were chill and even laughed, saying "no worries, is it fine at [some hour]?".
Has anyone else noticed downtime between ChatGPT and Claude?
Hey there,

does anyone else find that when ChatGPT has a bump, Claude also isn't available? just wondering if it's a coincidence or there's some shared reason.
Unfortunately, quite possibly. Bio-based plastics are not necessarily any more biodegradable than their fossil fuel based counterparts.
No mention of screen?
I'm too old.
Recently learned about Zellij and it replaced my tmux usage.
It may be a bit naive, but a friend of mine just started what we hope will be a movement for a better tone online: https://hemlocks.me

Perhaps we can start by signaling that we personally care about how we behave online.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40657933