skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a post here on Hacker News many years ago about a software developer who became a bicycle messenger.

One point from that post related to this discussion:

"Once I became a bike messenger, I slept like a log for 8 hours every night."

In my own life, having worked both manual, physical labor and been a tech worker, I noticed the following:

- When I worked construction, my body would be exhausted but my mind would be very active when I tried to go to sleep.

- In tech work, it's my mind that is exhausted but my body still has energy

- I've also worked jobs that required a high amount of both physical and mental focus and that's when I usually sleep the deepest.
> There will always be angry customers.

There will always be companies that make their customers angry. You're really going against people seeking solutions from companies they pay?

I'm amazed anyone would downvote this - how am I disillusion here?
People skills are the simplest thing that might work. They also have application outside tech and beyond employment in general. A professional network is the most reliable stack. Good luck.
I heartily second this recommendation.
It really depends on your definition of "natural". But in the 13th century, all of European land had been managed by humans for millenia [1]. To consider rural England from the 13th century more natural, you would rely on a definition unrelated to untouched land, but that distinguishes "natural" human activity, and, I guess, "modern" activity ?

Anthropic reach extended since then (e.g. compounds tiny enough to get in blood, or scale of activity creating global impact), but when it comes to landscape, we have been the shaping factor for a very long time.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236630316_Open_wood...
Yeah. And Otel has actually pretty nice debugging. You just need to set the right environment variable. But on prod it will blow up your logs
Creativity and problem solving. I think those get someone really far (and way further than others), no matter what stack or other "specific" skills.
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so don't.
Decisive Team (open software for fast decision making)
Yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2024_solar_storms and https://xkcd.com/2930/
I kinda like it, not a big deal and filters out most lazy applicants
>but actually automatically enforces them?

[strike]Democracy[/strike]Moderation is non-negotiable.
There's also good angry, where you can tell the person is angry, but not at the call center person.

I personally take care in this, saying things to reassure, such as indicating that I know it's the company's fault, not the rep's. This vecomes more of a "bartender" situation, where the anger is clearly at the situation, not the rep, and can create a more engaged, helpful response even.

I think one could sue for purposefully changing a person's appearance or voice, without their consent. And no, calling a help line can never ever have a tos enforced, as often the entity is required by law to deal with warranty or other issues. No tos applies.

Back to changing the voice, as others have mentioned, tenor, tone, etc all are part of speaking. They cannot be separated.

Tone is often, for example, brought up in testimony as it conveys something. It has as much meaning as the words.

I would be astonished if this isn't challenged soon.
I admit I should have searched more before asking about "A&E", but what does that line in my bio have to do with anything?
The fact that both offer a subscription is not ironic - it simply highlights the central point. In the end, those paying a subscription for thebaffler.com or for salesforce.com are paying for something very similar: they are paying for words and ideas.

People think that building a software program is like building a house. And, I grant, in some ways it is. But in the end, the customer is not paying for anything tangible. He's paying for words and ideas.
The article addresses this:

…if an operator cannot tell if a customer is angry, the operator may not be able to react properly, which could just upset the customer further.

Therefore, the developers made sure that a slight element of anger remains audible.
What is it with SWE's and binary thinking? No, titanium and any metal alloy is a huge spectrum of materials. There are thousands of steels, aluminums and so on.
I.e. where one would make a bookmark, you make a copy? That's interesting. Videos and all?
Oh, I didn't realize that it was a standard term. I'm sure there's a good motivation then, it doesn't seem so bad.
In case someone wanted to quote text for discussion, now they know to turn off JS.
Why be antagonistic in this curt kind of way? I don't want to see this on HN. It's (quite literally) the only place left on the internet I engage with. You may disagree with me - you may even disagree strongly! But do so (or just ignore me), rather than resorting to the kind of low-quality quips typical to the broader internet.
Wow, pretty amazing. I remember playing this game after somebody ported it to Wang 2200 BASIC sometime in the mid 1970s. I didn't figure out how to land it myself, but I remember being shown the technique of coasting for the first several turns before applying maximum thrust. I don't recall the term "suicide burn" though. (Or maybe that term came in later when the Kerbal Space Program became popular.)

I also remember this lunar lander game running on a couple terminals at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, California, also in the mid 1970s. I don't know what computer it was running on though.

I never looked at the source code for this program. I had no idea how sophisticated the math was. I wouldn't have understood it anyway, as I was too young in the mid 1970s. Then again, I'm not sure I'd be able to understand it now....
Oh wow, I didn't know that. I am pretty sure I had a sh trip up on it just recently, so I thought it still was bash only. Yes, use it everywhere possible.
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I don't know what 'even typescript' is supposed to mean. Are you saying that typescript is the natural bar for comparison here? That doesn't seem correct, isn't typescript a project that tries to correct javascript's lack of typing?

Since it isn't an error to have a nillable type, and it isn't an error to access a field, it makes sense that the compiler doesn't error when you do that thing. If you want a warning when doing something silly then you can setup a linter.

If your first thought is that is not very beginner friendly then I agree with you - I edited my original response. But otherwise there are solutions to these problems.

If that doesn't suit you and Go isn't sweet enough for you, well, fair. Its rather austere. I don't think it is a categorical error for the project (though there are features I would also like for asking).
I hadn't heard anyone use the word "guy" like that before now, and didn't know the word was used like that, so I wasn't thinking of those cases. If you said "I've got a guy" or "software guy" I'd assume you meant you had someone in mind who's a guy, i.e., male. I believe you, though. This might be something that differs regionally.
Research seems to suggest we need exponential training data volume increases to see meaningful performance gains: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125

Personally I think we've already hit a ceiling.
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I mean, have you ever called Comcast?
> such as rolling an orange on a keyboard in a cubicle

What's the reference here?
You can see the sunspot cycle progression here, looks like solar maximum will last a year or two:

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression
To belabor the point and repeat a bit from Wikipedia, this was bar-none the absolute perfect flight crew possible. A flight crew with over 65000 hours experience and, riding as a passenger, a training pilot with a further 23000 who had specifically practiced this exact failure (total loss of hydraulics) after a lost craft four years prior.

For further reading, https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/fields-of-fortune-the-cr...
You put the breakpoint where you run it with Effect.runX then.
I clicked around in the southern appalachians on this map, and there are a few nighttime recordings from there. The night ones are very loud with frogs and insects, in contrast with the daytime ones that are mostly birds.

Maybe as they get more data that'll be something you can filter on.
The customer limitation described in the EULA is exactly this:

> No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.

- https://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownloads/licence.php?l...

There's no further elaboration on what "datacenter" means here, and it's a fair argument to say that a closet with one consumer-GPU-enriched PC is not a "datacenter deployment". The odds that Nvidia would pursue a claim against an individual or small business who used it that way is infinitesimal.

So both the ethical issue (it's a fair-if-debatable read of the clause) and the practical legal issue (Nvidia wouldn't bother to argue either way) seem to say one needn't worry about.

The clause is there to deter at-scale commercial service providers from buying up the consumer card market.
First statement maybe yes. Hard to find any software used in so many places with so much money / importance etc.

Second statement hard no. It is a good balance of ease of use, familarity and power but for sure not even close to being the most powerful tool to crunch numbers on scale.
I imagine this correlates somewhat with having children.

It's both a "traumatic" single event (especially for the mother) and also traumatic over time in that your sleep schedule is affected, big changes to your life etc.

People joke that evolution made it so we don't remember how hard it is to have small children but maybe there is some truth to that statement.
True, although it's unusual to see it for copyright not patents.

That said, the far bigger issue is the end of the same clause 2.1:

> NVIDIA may update this Agreement to comply with legal and regulatory requirements at any time and You agree to either comply with any updated license or cease Your copying, use, and distribution of the Model and any Derivative Model
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Infosec can be a good grift.
I guess they’re facing severe financial strain
Judge approves liquidation of Jones' assets to pay Sandy Hook victims' families
Related:

H.264 is Magic (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30710574 - March 2022 (219 comments)

H.264 is magic (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19997813 - May 2019 (180 comments)

H.264 is Magic – a technical walkthrough - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17101627 - May 2018 (1 comment)

H.264 is Magic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12871403 - Nov 2016 (219 comments)
> having a whole telephone conversation where neither of you hears the other's real voice

This is actually not the worst-case outcome, in my view. The silver lining on the horizon is that hopefully there will also be a consumer-side model counterpart to these things:

I'd love to be able to just write an email. If the company is smart and offers a support email address, they can just get the text directly; if they insist on wasting my time by having only a number to call, their bot (or employee, but I suspect this will become increasingly rare soon) can argue with my bot.
Kind of a ridiculous approach, especially for this model. Use together.ai, fireworks.ai, RunPod serverless, any serverless. Or use ollama with the default quantization, will work on many home computers, including my gaming laptop which is about 5 years old.
Someone once told there's only two times to join a startup: as a founder, or the year before they go public.
I can only imagine that using std::string_view in a massive, complex application would be horrifying.

The borrow checker is one of the benefits of Rust in that case, simply because you can avoid copies while actually being able to trust that you're not opening the door to security & maintenance hell in the process.
Yeah, and then it won't step you through your code but through unintelligible abstractions and Effect internals. Good luck debugging.
Agreed with the sentiments here that this article gets a lot of the facts wrong, and I'll add one: the cost for electricity when self-hosting is dramatically lower than the article says. The math assumes that each of the Tesla T4s will be using their full TDP (70W each) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In reality, GPUs throttle down to a low power state when not in use. So unless you're conversing with your LLM literally 24 hours a day, it will be using dramatically less power. Even when actively doing inference, my GPU doesn't quite max out its power usage.

Your self-hosted LLM box is going to use maybe 20-30% of the power this article suggests it will.

Source: I run LLMs at home on a machine I built myself.
Hi,

I'd love to read your paper when it's ready.
Same here, on all accounts.-

(Thinking, on some accounts there are parallels with the "transition" from handwriting to typing in education ...

... and the transition to AI).-
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It says "NVIDIA encourages You to..."

Which, in terms of a contract, means absolutely nothing at all.
We're giving free access to a model that other people trained on other people's data. The code for all improvements or tweaks is accessible in public repositories. From a copyright perspective, I think one can make a fair use argument.

Nevertheless, it would be great to credit artists and designers whose work was used for training. Practically, it's not easy because I think one would have to credit humanity.

Every image in the training data influenced the model's output to a certain degree, so one would have to credit every person who uploaded an image to a public place.

One could argue that a model should not be trained on public data in the first place because we can't fairly credit all individuals who contributed to it.
Shipping Rates Jump 2x Year over Year to Most of America
Looking at financial markets and noticed shipping container rates were soaring.

CNBC had some of the best coverage with interviews. Others:

https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3265305...

https://www.xeneta.com/blog/what-is-behind-the-sudden-and-dr...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1440707/global-container...

Relevance - almost everything in tech is made overseas and shipping rates affect the viability of many startups based on manufacturing. Might be heading back to the automobile microprocessor delivery gridlock and/or similar.
> I think they’re really annoyed by the Facebooks and Spotify’s of the world that make a fortune from the iPhone and pay nothing.

And not the Mac?

It seems pretty obvious that it's not even an ideological thing, Apple is fine with some users not being forced through their ecosystem. They know that the iPhone specifically is most lucrative and are trying to arbitrarily distinguish it from their other products. It frankly doesn't matter how Apple feels about it at the end of the day, there's only compliance and noncompliance.
In today's interconnected world, digital media plays an undeniable role in shaping and defining modern relationships. From the initial stages of courtship to maintaining long-term connections, the influence of technology permeates every aspect of our romantic lives. Let's delve deeper into the multifaceted roles digital media plays in modern relationships:
Yeah. 30% was a good deal at the start compared to having to negotiate with carriers. But they kind of changed the world.

If they want 30%, ok. But they are not earning anywhere close to 30%. Make it worth it.
You can acknowledge how customers feel while shielding your customer facing staff from verbal abuse. If you've ever worked a customer facing job you'll understand.
I am not going to speak for others, but one can argue for LVT as a more functional system

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-is-land-...
Why do trucks/lorries hit bridges?
Elon Musk says Tesla robots will power the company to a $30T market cap
Boeing and Airbus may have used 'counterfeit' titanium in planes, FAA says
Nothing. It just amused me.
>This is a step backwards for European innovation, competition in AI development and further delays bringing the benefits of AI to people in Europe

How would be using European users' data to train an AI a step forward for European innovation in AI when we're talking about Meta, which is an american company? Also I don't think that europeans are mad that they don't get these AI "features" that Meta tries to push, they only push to the degrading quality of facebook/instagram that were already pretty much dead.
Your question is wrong. Your goal should not to be employable, 'get gigs'. We live in a time where the job market is shrinking, jobs are fewer, more applicants, lower wages, etc.

If you rely on employers for your livelihood you are buying a lottery ticket where the payout is smaller and less frequent. If you are a "follower" you have no choice. But if you can think your way out of a paper bag use that skill and start doing it.

Companies are in no-risk mode to a very large extent. They are very safety oriented. Perhaps Dinosaur Mode is the correct term. They hire followers, they are run by followers. So start finding obvious stupidities and fix them. We are so used to doing things the normal way that we no longer even pay attention to what we are doing.

I'm not saying quit your day job (if you have one) I am saying start a side gig. Start your side gig.
And a hint if you need one - There are two very very big things missing from the internet. One is trust. The other is the ability for common people to form communities. Not follow people, but collectively think and work together. Read all the comment about why we don't and can't have these. Then go the other direction. :-)

So specific advice. Focus on you ability to be effective at accomplishing things. Any technology that lets you build your side gig. And if you can't find the technology to do that, then maybe that is your side gig.
Which Security Cameras?
Trying to get away from the Google Nest IQ camera and find something similar in features (eg: People talking, dog barking detection, etc). The video quality of the IQ is poor during night mode.

I'm dropping it because of the cloud-only option, the subscription service, poor quality, etc.

I've been looking around and can't seem to find something similar in features.
it does feel good to write, especially given i spend most of my time in front of a screen (laptop, phone, tv)... i just wish i had more reasons to handwrite things.
a lot of the copies might be bits of code defensively copying the string because they don't want to deal with working out lifetime safety.
> This is the first time I've encountered anybody else who has figured [taxes keep currency value up] out and says it openly.

Wut? This is one of the basic principles of Modern Monetary Theory, and reams upon reams have been written on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_monetary_theory
All of the Eastern European IT diaspora folks in recent years are hardcore Java guys, I find.

The Western world should have no shortage of Java experts for the foreseeable future.
Unraveling the physics of knitting
Fixed! Didn’t know we couple update posts after 24 hours

PS thanks ;)
https://archive.ph/KuWcc
That’s interesting. The thing is, the Baffler continues to create new words and ideas, and I pay for those new words and ideas every month if I subscribe.

No new words or ideas show up next month on your software, so why should I keep paying you? I know you’ll say maintenance and updates, but from the user’s perspective there is quite the difference.
Wildfires are raging in Nepal – climate change isn't the only culprit
It's CloudKitchens that was last tagged at $15 billion. Uber's valuation was much higher.
Screen vertical split works fine.
It is against the rules here to comment on the form of the website itself. Remain focussed on the content
Then it may be wise to comply with their ruling.
> IMO this boils down how one gets paid to understand or misunderstand something.

I completely agree. The most charitable interpretation of this blog post is that the blogger genuinely fails go understand the basics of the problem domain, or worst case scenario they are trying to shitpost away the need for features that are well supported by a community-driven standard like OpenTelemetry.
Young was not a fan of meritocracy though:

"meritocracy (n.)

coined 1958 by British sociologist Michael Young (1915-2002) and used in title of his book, "The Rise of the Meritocracy"; from merit (n.) + -cracy. Related: Meritocratic.

[Young's book] imagined an elite that got its position not from ancestry, but from test scores and effort. For him, meritocracy was a negative term; his spoof was a warning about the negative consequences of assigning social status based on formal educational qualifications, and showed how excluding from leadership anyone who couldn't jump through the educational hoops would create a new form of discrimination. And that's exactly what has happened. [Lani Guinier, interview, New York Times, Feb. 7, 2015] "

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=meritocracy
No one wants dark/cloud kitchens, and I don’t think anyone wants dark software either.

It’s extremely hard to do many things well. If a restaurant specializes in pizza, they’re going to get good at doing that — their employees will know the best way to cook them, their recipes will slowly evolve over time, etc. If a restaurant rarely cooks a pizza, none of that experience and refinement is there.

Not to mention, DoorDash doesn’t have any obvious health ratings visible for restaurants in NYC. I’ll happily order from somewhere I know, but not some unknown restaurant. And what’s to stop a poorly rated dark kitchen from closing shop and reopening the next day under new branding?

The whole model feels gross. It’s centered around profit and questionable tactics, rather than making a genuinely good product that people come back for.
I'll never watch Netflix without ChatGPT by my side again
Snapdragon X Elite: Intel Meteor Lake rivalling 1080p gaming performance
Flpc: a Rust-based regex port for Python3 to get faster performance
YouTube embeds ads into videos to beat ad blockers
>lead in gasoline was used for motor longetivity

Nope. Tetra-Ethyl lead as a fuel additive, primarily for octane boosting, was invented as a "cheaper alternative" to what would normally be used to boost octane: Ethanol. Surely for only coincidental reasons, having a chemical product that they could patent and prevent anyone else from manufacturing made them a whole lot more money than using Ethanol which anyone could make and market and compete.

Leaded gas was a fucking profit motivated thing.

The point of us putting ethanol in gas is multifaceted, but not even remotely about climate change: The octane booster we used after we removed was MTBE. MTBE had a problem where it would constantly leak out of fuel storage and poison families, cause birth defects, you know, toxic shit. So we FINALLY just said fuck it, put ethanol in gas like we should have been doing since the 20s.

Other effects it had: Immediately reduce US gasoline usage by 10%. Subsidy to farmers.
Based on how poorly gpt-4 understands rust borrowing rules, I’d say Rust.

(This is a joke)
honestly breadboards with a power supply built in is genius. Usb hub would be good too