skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> those developers would probably just learn how to use the AI tools and move on with the trend, at least eventually.

Many certainly will. But that sort of job would be very different from what being a dev has entailed when they chose the career. For many devs, the part of programming that they enjoy the most is precisely the part that people are talking about automating away.

That means that there would be devs who find themselves trapped in a job that they now hate.
It is fundamentally more complicated. Possible moves can be evaluated against one another in games. We have no idea how to make progress on many math conjectures, e.g. Goldbach or Riemann's. An AI would need to find connections with different fields in mathematics that no human has found before, and this is far beyond what chess or Go AIs are doing.
We agree in general terms.

I don’t think it’s realistic to expect browsers to not support attestation.

Business is already able to use attestation to enforce/deny the use of specific kinds of keys. Removing this ability would break web based SSO for businesses that rely on that ability. For example, if that vanished overnight then the only way I’d be able to login to our Entra tenant is via a break glass account that is exempt from attestation.

If you want your bank employees to be able to authenticate to web applications with _only_ approved authenticators, then attestation is the way that is accomplished.

You can do FIDO2 Enterprise Attestation as well, but those devices aren’t generally available outside of (rather pricy) enterprise sales channels and require more overhead.

Device attestation with consumers is already unpopular. Google experienced this recently with their “Web Environment Integrity” ~~con~~ proposal. It’s also a logistical nightmare. If Apple, for example, supported attestation then anyone who implements it now has a bunch of additional headaches in keeping it updated with fingerprints and the risk of extra failure cases.

The people who want attestation for consumers don’t have their interests at heart, and the people who would have to implement attestation in consumer devices aren’t interested in doing that. Except for Google, because it suits their interests.

I’m not saying the case is strong that attestation won’t happen. I’m simply saying the case for attestation in business contexts is strong, is already deployed and relied upon. The interest for consumer attestation isn’t very well aligned with those who have to do the work to make it happen. Google is an exception to that and sound technical and policy minds keep showing their attempts the door.

Edit to add: for better or worse, consumer and business devices are virtually the same these days. I would argue it’s worse to bifurcate them because that would enable rapidly realizing the world none of us want where no one has any control over any part of their device unless it’s owned by a business.
i was having a discussion the otehr day about how even if AIs could create movies/albums/tv shows, I don't think I'd be interested.

it wasn't obvious to me until I started thinking about AI art, but so much of the value I get from a piece of media is knowing that another human made it -- i can be impressed with their skills or just be glad that somebody felt the same emotions I felt (and was able to express them).

I'm sure AI will create technically amazing pieces of art someday, but it will never be able to attach a relatable backstory to it
Ink and switch has several projects and articles: https://www.inkandswitch.com/

Some folks from Ink and switch made a podcast that I've really liked: https://museapp.com/podcast/

Bret Victor (from Dynamicland) has lots of projects, articles, and talks: https://worrydream.com/Home2011/

The future of coding has a newsletter and a podcast, but I haven't dug into them: https://newsletter.futureofcoding.org/
I assume Waymo is continuously improving the safety of their software. It's bizarre to classify two of these updates as "recalls" but not the others.
Yeah the fact that the first thing I see on their landing page is about AI has me peacing out.
Yes, it's simpler because it's immutable. It's the mutability of identity that causes so much confusion and complexity. In Lynn's case she was a man the first 30+ years of life and even married and had kids. Then later switched genders, names, and pronouns. That's anything but simple since now every person and computer database that ever knew her now has to track and reconcile 2 identities. It's incredibly confusing when people change their identities later in life, especially if you are out of the loop. Even more confusing if people change identities multiple times.

I actually don't really care too much which classification system is used (chromosomes vs. observable genitalia at birth vs. something else), I just think the pros of collectively treating certain aspects of identity as immutable such as gender, race, and possibly even name, outweigh the cons of making a tiny fraction of the populace slightly more uncomfortable.
Dodging questions and proving a non-answer answer is always the sales and c-level route when they just dont want to answer you (or know the answer).
The Expanse has FTL after a couple of books, though I enjoyed the pre-FTL parts more.
For events you include a version. When you're only adding properties to the event or removing properties (assuming you defensively write the projectors), no need for a new version, but if you're creating a breaking change in event schema, you'd increment the version for the event and update your projector to handle each version. It's simpler than you'd think.
I don't mean to claim that Musk is some genius playing 4D chess - just that it seems like there's an internal push on various KPIs (often leading to some short-sighted decisions) and this change would fit in with encouraging interactions, so I suspect that was probably a large part of the decision.
Structured concurrency with Exception groups make it untouchable for JS. If JS implements structure concurrency like Python, Java, Kotlin, then maybe it can be viable.
Doesn't the government have a program named overwatch as well? Something in the air force cyber transport division...
That's exactly it. I'm not asking them to save me from temptation or anything like that, or to provide me an alibi ("ok, you're locked out now wink"). I want them to do the right thing for our mutual benefit.
> Both should probably be pegged to the inflation rate

Yes I agree...but not the CPI, it should be tied specifically to housing prices. You could even have the state hire appraises to figure out the value of each specific property and peg the rate of increase to that for each property owner.
Using AI to spark connections at a conference
Hard to believe it was only a little over ten years ago that the first Chromebook Pixel came out with its generous 4GB of RAM. It's a shame the battery life on it was only about 4 hours on anything other than ChromeOS (which got maybe closer to 6), because I absolutely loved the form-factor of that first model.
“But [computers] are useless. They can only give you answers.” — Pablo Picasso (1964), https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/05/computers-useless/
ChromeOS is more secure than any Linux distro for web browsing and other "user-facing" roles.

(Qubes is close, but does not verify the whole stack against hashes stored in a secure enclave on every boot. Also, Qubes has a much lower bus factor.)
How is this different from RecordedFuture? Other than the obvious RAG capabilities
Yeah, they were in the editor and buggy as hell and you ran an increasing risk of crashing the tool the more of them you used. Also IIRC, they were indexed by letter of the alphabet and everything became impossible > 26.
Another example is Digital photography and cell phone cameras destroying a bunch of professional photographer careers.
Same with anything, agents of corporate media are chasing "AI" to make a buck at the expense of finding one's own soul. There is a quote by Kurt Vonnegut that I love.

"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow."

Over-reliance on computers "doing the hard stuff" stops the human act of becoming.
Everyone repeating the mantra about how caring for shareholder profits is the fiduciary duty of the corporation leadership, and how it's "a law".

At this point it's a self-propagating meme. I frequently encounter people, learned people, who act like it is a law or moral principle (in fact, corporations aren't even required to be for profit even when operating commercially, they are just an organizational structure). When questioned, nobody can cleanly point where they learnt it, but actual check shows that Friedman Doctrine[1] was never written into law.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine
No water in Arizona, Oregon has the ocean
Another LIRP down the tubes?

Something like Calm Company Fund would presumably offer lower risk and lower returns (per company) than a typical VC fund targeting high-risk high-growth. But with the advent of high interest rates, the fund is now competing with a lot of low risk alternatives.
Because I want Linux.
Bureau of Land Management :)
Conspiracy theories often posit grand organizations that control things behind the scenes. The idea that we’re sleepwalking towards disaster seems more like the opposite of a conspiracy theory to me.

I suspect there’s something a little like a conspiracy to not blow ourselves up. But it is just, like, a system of official treaties and organizations, as well as a bunch of back-channels and informal give-and-takes. It probably isn’t anywhere near as robust as we’d like it to be.
30fps is 33ms per frame. I'd expect that to be fine for most free-space gestures (for musical instruments you generally want <10ms, but that's most noticeable with discrete impulsive events like hitting a drum pad, and even then is pretty manageable).

Is the frame rate really the limiting factor here, or something algorithmic in the tracking (like smoothing out noise)?
Actually, another problem might be GDPR: I have found my username... and that is a clearly a PII because it's directly and univocally bound to me

I dont really care (for now) about this... but on the principle, I'm a bit fed up too by companies just crawling anything to train anymodel without any care about the datas, the people that produced them, and the consequences on people's life.

Maybe I could use the new European AI Act too (https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/fr/high-level-summary/) ... although I'm not sure because I didn't read it yet
While Restate is not optimized for analytical workloads it should be fast enough to also use it for simpler analytical workloads. Admittedly, it currently lacks a fluent API to express a dataflow graph but this is something that can be added on top of the existing APIs. As @gvdongen mentioned a scatter-gather like pattern can be easily expressed with Restate.

Regarding whether to parallelize or to batch, I think this strongly depends on what the actual operation involves. If it involves some CPU-intensive work like model inference, for example, then running more parallel tasks will probably speed things up.
I was working at a medium sized accounting software firm over a decade ago when I was called into the CEOs office and sat down for an interrogation.

Apparently they had setup their Exchange server poorly and I'd had access to any number of mailboxes (including the CEOs) and other folders that I wasn't supposed to have access to. I was completely unaware of this access, but was being directly accused of having access confidential information.

I insisted, truly, that I wasn't aware of the access and hadn't looked at anything confidential, but they tried to tell me they had proof that I had accessed email I shouldn't have. At this I got upset and demanded they show me this proof, which they couldn't do because they didn't have any, but I'm guessing they thought I had seen some stuff and they could get me to cave it if they pretended they had proof.

Anyways, I didn't get in any real trouble because I wasn't intimidated, but it damaged the relationship and I ended up quitting a few months later. Now I feel the same way as OP, I don't want to be in a position where someone can make a plausible accusation of misconduct, you could be totally honest and still end up railroaded just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. CYA.
> MySQL (technically InnoDB) and SQL Server have a huge problem with them due to their design as a clustering index – since the tuples are physically located, or clustered, around the PK, the random nature means that doing a simple query like "SELECT id FROM customer WHERE date_created > NOW() - INTERVAL 1 WEEK" means that the hits are going to be on tons of different pages. Even if everything is cached, that's still a lot of extra work.

How do you fix this problem in Postgres?
https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsDnkrDvkBo

Ben from Applied Science has a good video going over the same topic.
I mean it's absolutely true, I don't have someone who literally controls where I am for half (or more) of my waking hours. How anyone wouldn't read that as increased freedom is beyond me. I can stay over with a friend in another state for as much time as we'd like because I don't have to go to an office. I cook, I clean, I run errands, I play video games, I nap -- inasmuch as I'm meeting my work commitments I decide how best to spend my time. I can even go to the office if it strikes my fancy for a change of scenery.

And the worst part is some executive would read this and say I'm slighting them because I'm not cosplaying as someone busy despite getting more actual work done than when I'm in the office. When I'm WFH and doing async work, work gets my most productive hours whenever that happens. When I'm in the office work gets what they get out of that 9-5.
Laundry and the dishes.
I really enjoyed Peter F. Hamilton’s take on this in the Night Dawn Trilogy, with his Edenists. A bit hopeful, but intriguing.
I think we can all be happy with the fine that's less than a hundredth of a percent of their annual income that they'll have to pay. Justice is served.
The other aspect that's not factored in here is that often founders can spend years in search mode, living on savings or some early stage pre-seed VC, with zero guarantee of success or ever even finding something to work on.

Took you 5 years to get to a concept that finally justified
hiring someone to help you grow it? Equity is the only form of compensation you have for all that work, and it might still be worth $0 another 5 years later. In the meantime the ICs are getting paid, are getting benefits, are having a life beyond the company.

The rewards have to be deeply asymmetric for this system to work, otherwise nobody in their right mind would even consider it.
That typeclass resolution can encode some heavy computation, the example being n-queens in the article.
Or not, because the axle weight of semi trucks are much higher than EVs, and due to the fourth power effect, essentially all road damage is caused by trucks.
>Once the old guard is gone, I wonder what they'll do...

The current generation of addy addicted highschoolers posting anticheat bypasses on unknowncheats will grow into the job market and take up the mantle.
Related:

Do Kwon and Terraform Labs found liable for $40B fraud (33 points, 2 months ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39947432

South Korea Seeks the Arrest of Terraform Labs Founder Do Kwon (25 points, 2 years ago, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32833808

Terraform Labs Caught Moving $4.8M Through Shell Company (162 points, 2 years ago, 97 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31582039
Fast compilation + unit tests allows me to quickly check if I broke a lot more stuff than IDE local checks.
I guess we wait a bit more for a stable release. =)
You can't say anything about journalism at large if you're talking about a few people.
probably easiest to buy a second hand laptop, do the thing and then low level format the disk with a hammer.
Or https://archive.is/adAmO for English.
You're in good company: multiple people want to experiment with taking ownership of the linking and codegen steps to enable this kind of behavior. I would be more than happy to see that happen. I feel that the problem is a project of that magnitude requires a benefactor for a small group of people to work completely dedicated to it for maybe 2 years. Those don't come along often. The alternative is that these projects don't happen, lose steam or take a really long time.
I'd like air filters, but AI is not air filters in this analogy.
> What happens btw if an American company just ignores GDPR but still welcomes European visitors? Why would they care about EU law?

EU claims EU law applies to US sites if a EU citizen visits it. This has yet to be tested in court though. I'm incredibly skeptical that it can be enforced.
Yeah, I agree. Regular H-M typechecking if you don't have subtyping is actually really fast. The problem is that subtyping makes it really complicated--in fact, IIRC, formally undecidable.
I just happened across the aluminum bit on Wikipedia, I guess I’ll have to look up that YouTube.
I agree with this, I may have said the same thing.. But I was thinking that the tech used for re-entry is what tends to increase the turnaround time (Eg. ablative heat shields, tiles). Making something that's rapidly re-usable which can also withstand re-entry from orbital speeds is probably the greatest challenge in this domain.

The shuttle was originally envisaged to be cheap and rapidly re-usable for the time. As built it didnt turn out that way, it would have been overall cheaper and probably faster to launch a fully un-reusable rocket than a shuttle.
MacBook is what I've got, but if you specifically need lots of RAM and/or a dedicated GPU, that disqualifies it. 64GB RAM isn't even an option in the $3000 model. Also, maybe you want to run Linux for whatever reason, without experimenting with Asahi. Apple Silicon chips are awesome, but this is the downside.

And Surface runs Windows. Gonna plead the fifth on that.
Our CI posts a list of shame with the 10 worst offending expressions on every PR as part of the build and test results.

So far it's working quite nicely. Every now and then you take a look and notice that your modules are now at the top, so you quickly fix them, passing the honour to the next victim.
The timing of this really makes it feel like a “I’m still here!” message after Apple’s announcements. If this was planned before Apple’s announcements I would think there would be more details.

Google has obviously been working on AI stuff for quite a while. I mean Gemini exists, to pick the most obvious example. And since the industry is so gung ho on AI you know they were going to be pushed on device/OS integration pretty soon no matter what.

Microsoft recently announced their new Copilot PCs. In some ways that was a hardware announcement but they also got something of a blackeye for the recall feature.

Two days after Apple announces all sorts of AI features on all their OSes (except vision) coming to many of their devices soon this announcement suddenly shows up?

They’re the only big company with a consumer OS who hasn’t announced their plan yet. This feels a little bit like a “don’t forget about us“.

I will be very curious to see what they do when they put out more concrete information.
I am looking for a personal contact manager that has integration with a personal calendar. I have talked about this with my wife who has moderate ADHD: it is harder for her to manage relationships, because she generally lacks a perception of time. Getting gentle reminders to follow up with a friend or acquaintance would be very helpful. But none of these are business relationships, so maybe looking for CRM software is barking up the wrong tree, even if open source and extensible. Is there anyone in a similar boat that has found a good solution?
As was elegantly put elsewhere, I want it to do the washing up while I create the art and write things, not create the art and write things while I do the washing up.

Which is exactly what the personal context thing is about, so what the hell is this complaining about?

As for the parenting advice, it sounds like it comes from a poorly written textbook written by someone who watched an TV advert about a child's bedtime. Note: parent of three / professional terrorist negotiator. That's not how it goes down most of the time for most parents. The reading and activity time is mostly opportunistic until they get to the point they read their own books and want to talk about them. Best to spend time teaching them to read when they are not burned out and exhausted as well.
Update: I was rejected because I told my interviewer I never make mistakes
iOS 18's Battery Section Tells You If You Used a Slow Charger
>What happens if your application crashes in the middle writing out a JSON file?

The usual way to deal with this is to write to a temporary file and then atomically replace the original file with that temporary file. You could do the same thing with an SQLite database. This is the workaround I was referring to earlier.

journal_mode=delete may not be the worst compromise, but I hate the idea of exposing users to potential database corruption, even in a relatively unlikely event.
Hacker Accesses Internal 'Tile' Tool That Provides Location Data to Cops
One thing I don't want computers to do is subjective analysis. I don't see how that could ever be valuable.
I wonder what that would look like on planes.
Hmm it's kinda hard competing with the big dinosaurs because enterprises are so incredibly locked into them.

And salesforce at least innovates with modern interfaces. It's not legacy trash like Siebel.

Salesforce is pretty good all things considered. When we had siebel, we'd lock all the new callcenter agents into a sweaty training room for a week, where a boring old guy would endlessly drone on which button to push in which scenario. Unfortunately this was actually needed. It was that bad a product, and it was completely unusable due to all the horizontal scrolling everywhere. It's just as bad as SAP (these guys are also soooo bad at UX).

Salesforce by comparison works a lot like facebook. People grok that naturally.
Wow, yeah, Graphics Gems, those was amazing. Thanks for reminding me.
This really isn't the hard problem.

People of good repute with the necessary qualifications to understand scientific findings.

Really, that's it. We're mostly just trying to stop the cuckoo fox news/alex jones crowd from voting and for good reason.
Ok, I'll be that guy. But what stops a very clever hacker from creating something useful and seemingly naive as this, but adding some hard to find backdoor in it. I was about to just install it but then stopped and thought, what could be the easiest RCE out there. Make a useful app, a catchy domain name, professional landing page, get social proof by getting it to HN front page and have zero people comment what I'm currently commenting... There is no link to source, no link to LinkedIn profile of the creator. I'm sure this is a legit app, but makes me wonder, am I the only paranoid person here?
It wouldn’t- it would just be running on the Android (still Linux) terminal instead of actual Linux
Oops this is the first post here on Ask a Manager

https://www.askamanager.org/2024/02/i-was-rejected-because-i...
Invention of Tiny Devices to Sequence DNA
https://chromeos.dev/en/posts/androids-bluetooth-stack-fluor...

Looks like we can try to infer the real intention of the convergence from this project. It might make business sense to maintain 3~4 different OS, each targeting different user segments. But there is no reason to have one more different tech stack per each OS across everything.