skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm getting more and more convinced that tech people are living in a dangerous bubble

You don't need the rest of this sentence. They are. Almost everyone I talk to in the Valley of Silicon speaks of broad trends in... I mean, anything really, in how people use technology, in what people need cars for, in what people eat, in what goods typically cost, genuinely any topic of sufficient breadth that escapes the technology itself, as though they have not been on planet earth since roughly 2009. It is astonishing how well insulated from common concerns tech workers are, which is probably how we got shit like Juicero, an incredibly overbuilt, over-spec, ludicrously designed wifi-connected machine to squeeze a fucking bag. And it explains a bunch of their other incredibly stupid ideas, like e-scooters.

This is why, I am sorry, but I simply do not put a lot of stock (literally, and metaphorically) into the opinions of SV's elites. That's like, a bubble in a damn bubble. That's a bubbled subset of people who haven't had a normal experience of being human for who knows how long, inside a bubble of people who largely do not share the same reality as me.

Bringing it back to what I was replying to: you are absolutely right about the common folk's experience with AI. It's an annoying thing being shoved into tons of products they use, that seemingly no one asked for, that doesn't work. And it's a massive, 400 foot tall neon sign, telling them that big tech doesn't give a fuck about them, what they want, or anything else besides sign up for the subscription dumbass.
In my part of Europe, half of the major retail chains have had this for quite a few years. I actually didn't realise what it was until one day I went in and it was broken, as all the price labels were flickering. The price displays use black and red eink displays in a plastic frame.
Airbnb isn’t a duopoly.
Banks and train companies don't try to run payment apps on them.

Even if technically they could, the fact that they don't is to me the crucial difference.
But the price doesn't change from the time between putting the ticket in your cart and checking out with your credit card. These articles are implying that this could happen in a grocery store. There's no way consumers would stand for it.
So if I'm reading this correctly, this works by knowing how often each symbol occurs ahead of time? (Since the table of frequencies is not counted in the compressed size but required for decompression)
that would encourage people to hoard/bank resources when prices are low. which could lead to more underground markets/resellers, which could be bad for quality control. seems fine for something like clothes, but not for food.
The article talks about CoW as feature of ReFS, while the linked PR in dotnet/runtime is about adjusting the way File API issues calls on macOS so they take advantage of APFS's CoW instead.
Oh like a PWA? That Apple can cripple and has crippled at a moment's notice?
You could have him find the roots of the tree it fell from (with multiplicities).
The archived questions and answers are still there.
That project is the LSD of coding.

- you get instant visual feedback

- the problem space is infinite and depends heavily on framing and psychology

- success is a moving target based on subjective goals

IMO, "build a system for X" is usually a trap. It's psychologically safer to "build a system for music videos" than to actually make a music video.
If it's hot outside shouldn't you also raise the price you pay for labor? If it's "harder" for you to deliver ice cream, then it's certainly "harder" for your workers to operate your store.

I'm sure that will all trickle down.
How do you see bootstrapping without leaving the day job until the project takes off?
Yeah, most browsers do have reader mode now. I honestly don't love them because they're typically not customizable, and are sometimes too narrow for my taste.

I wouldn't mind resizing the browser window except that with tabbed systems that means you're resizing all of the tabs at the same time.

I tend to think that if you make the width something in the neighborhood of what the NYT, Medium, or other well-known sites use, people won't complain. But I could be wrong!
Source? My understanding is that cross-architecture plugins are handled out of process over XPC.
Have worked with former PMs of Tiktok and the US employees are kept at arms' length from real decision makers and leaders in China. Why should the US gov trust that the "Dedicated Transparency Center" in Maryland even had access to the things that needed to be transparently shared?
> How many lines of code will your team write?

That's how you know the article is pure nonsense.
Forest management is full of counter-intuitive reasoning. I'm glad we're finally getting around to the of long term studies to see how different forest management plans have worked and we can quote some science.

> Oregon Wild forest program manager Lauren Anderson called the proposal a good first step.

Perfection is the enemy of progress. I too applaud the plan.

> For some forests, logging small-diameter trees ahead of prescribed burns is necessary, a consensus reached by many tribes and scientists.

> “Letting those forests continue to age and get older and more decadent,” Brown said. “That’s what the wildlife need them to do.”

#2 doesn't seem possible without #1 in most forests and species it would seem. You can either artificially thin and avoid fires, protecting old-growth, or you can let wildfires regularly take place and keep firewood thin. What we want to avoid is logging damage to old growth, or not taking care of the forests allowing massive fires to destroy everything.

How much is likely something we can do with computer simulations, and verify them with experiments. We need to thin the forests to avoid fire, but occasionally allow young trees to make it past the young generation. If any giant company with super computing resources wants to use that "AI" for something that would actually benefit the world, this would be a worthy use of time and energy.

On the issue of BLM lands: If we have strategically important, or exceptionally rare forests on BLM land, it's probably time to declare some new national forests and get them under management. I don't really see BLM being equipped to handle forest management. Maybe a temporary 12 year protection of old growth trees in BLM land would be a good compromise, giving time for study and congress time to act.
Nigerian Forces Rescue over 300 Captive Women and Children from Boko Haram
Painted as not only stupid but disingenuous.
I think modular reactors certainly could be build with some investment and in a different world it might make sense to build lots of them (and if possible underground, to contain the worst in the worst case).

But the required security alone, to prevent the spread of material to all kind of terrorist organisations or rougue states, will likely not make them a economical alternative.
This is correct, sadly.

I've done some work with the public data from the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA does a great job of making detailed data on inspections and accidents public. If memory serves me correctly, it turns out there are about two deaths per day from work-related causes in the US...
I’ve been a programmer for 40 years. Many of my friends have been programming and doing R&D for decades.

We’ve been aggressively using the latest AIs as they come out, stretching their limits.

Not one of us is worried about losing anything, and are more excited than ever about the future of programming.

Less nigly work and putzing around, more architecting interesting and novel large-scale systems. We now have a team of decently competent very focused robots buzzing around cleaning up boring tasks, while we work on higher level more interesting stuff.

Today, anyone can get focussed tutoring 24/7 from an AI to quickly move them up the value stack.

How is this bad?
I was incessantly mobbed, physically and psychologically, throughout early school with no escape and all cries for rescue rendered impotent... and all I got was this lousy +4 z-score IQ!

I didn't choose the genius life, the genius life chose me. *sob*
Theory: A large proportion of adult mental illness is caused by an environment mismatch between adulthood and childhood. Fairy tales with disturbing themes were a good way to safely introduce the real world to children. Insulating children from reality leads to them learning the wrong things about the world both on a conscious intellectual level and a very low level as in cortisol response to stress. You grow up and then have to live in a world that is completely alien compared to your childhood and your brain just doesn't work right because it wasn't trained to handle things while it was malleable enough to learn them.
Maybe quoting the person which had to be forcefully retired to stop them from holding back development of nuclear navy (not to mention his tendency to settle political scores by holding back certifications) after 1970 isn't the best in given context.
Airline booking sites enforce the same by holding your cart for 30 min/1 hour or so. After that you are required to repick your tickets with possibly higher prices.
Seems like a different problem.
there is no reality where the chinese government doesn't have whatever access it wants to this data. lets be real here people. thats just how they roll
That fits with my non expert intuition.

If you don't get the basics of arithmetic it is incredibly hard to grasp the idea of "equals" as a pivot point. Division by hand helps to give us a hint that numbers can be broken up into constituents and still be the same.

You internalise a whole set of behaviours, typically via repetition, and it unlocks understanding beyond itself imo
I do not think I have seen a better example of a post being so drunk on the LLM kool-aid.
Many people do that: “Literate configuration” is quite popular in the Emacs world, where you basically write your config as a “document with code blocks” instead of a “code file with comment blocks”. For a well-crafted example, see e.g. [tecosaur’s config](https://tecosaur.github.io/emacs-config/).

Part of the problem is that Emacs configs have traditionally grown much larger than the typical Vim/Neovim config :)
Are you arguing against my point or for it? :D
Precisely. It is critically important to develop the correct cognitive abstractions.
These conspiracy theories are really annoying.

There is no "hidden true cost", lifecycle cost analysis has been done including research and public financing. The data is public, everyone can check it.
I guess my dozens of followed authors and infinitely expanding TBR list on goodreads that I regularly buy books and 15+ years of purchase history and ratings just can't be used as a signal, because my reccs are full of this nonsense too.

Lately I've noticed that in self pub pulp land authors are trading shoutouts with each other without curation or discretion, but even those are self selecting to a higher degree of 'gives a shit' than what the algo reccs have been offering. I think it has been over a year since I found something off of the 'if you liked X' carousel and that used to be extremely reliable for me.

And like I said, I'm reading pulp. I'm the kind of person who will see 'this is my first ever written work please be nice' as a synopsis and will read the first ten chapters just to see. There's plenty of decent trash around if I look for it but the robots only want me to have the soup at the bottom.
Perplexity is one of the only tools that I think takes great advantage of LLMs strengths (pattern matching, interpolation) while also making up for its weaknesses (hallucinations, lack of ability for novel contribution/thought) by using it for summarisation with search.
> PizzaNet customers need to do more than just log on. To participate in the pilot, hungry Santa Cruzers need computers with Internet access and a version of an Internet interface program called Mosaic.

"Internet interface program" ...

... how quaint! :)

> Mosaic.

(Sigh)
> Rosy retrospection of what? I think you're just repeatedly invoking the term inappropriately.

don't be daft.

> Is the fact that suicide rates in the US have been rising steadily over the last two decades and are now at the highest point in the last 80 years also rosy retrospection?

i'll attempt to make my position clear one final time: i don't accept any of your premises as fact. not about the reason/s behind rates of suicide (who that's actually committed suicide can tell us why they did?), nor the statistical measurement thereof for that matter. not about rates of homework assignment nor "home range" nor "relative freedom of movement" nor the degree of parenting... intensity? none of it.

again, these 'phenomena', let's call them for the sake of argument, in my opinion, are not convincingly nor reliably quantifiable. you are also entitled to your own opinion, whether based on the opinions of others or conceived of yourself. but we should be careful when branding something as fact just because someone else has assigned some contrived numbers to their own unprovable opinion.
>The majority of older people own nothing and had no say in the running of the world.

What's sad is many of those that got shafted will still defend what's happened.
Apologies, I didn't mean we should silence sleep-deprived mothers. At best, inartful, on my part that it came across that way. I don't think I've ever consciously used pregnancy status/post-partum status, or sleep deprivation, as a prism for analyzing - to my knowledge, I've never used it unconciously either, but I'm faced with the distinct possibility I have, given thats how it came across here.

It just sort of ripped me out of smiling and enjoying the article the reading to hear blonde hair and blue eyes = Nazi propaganda: I have the same (though, little hair left :P ), and little kids in the family who are.

After the virgin reference I scrolled around to check if there was a layer joke where the article was written/edited by AI, thus demonstrating another layer of inappropriate references beyond the "bedtime story for kids and adults"

Then you start thinking "gee...AI art and 'bedtime story for kids and adults' SEO ads...Then my mind starts whirring on "maybe this is good because GenAI makes the monopoly incumbents look horribly bad, mindlessly selling programmatic content to me with programmatic ads on hardware I paid for" - and then I realized that's probably not what the author intended a reader to start thinking, so there's probably another way to poke at this
> Yes, how dangerous is it?

Lethality dangerous
> why do we need engineers

To design stuff. That's what engineers do (on the case of software, designing is also called "building" and "developing").

Engineers do not fix the problems of your organization. At least not while wearing an "engineer" hat.

> MBAs and project managers

Non-technical MBAs and project managers are patently unable to solve a lot of the organizational problems of engineering organizations. But well, usually yes, the MBAs are the ones tasked into solving them. I dunno why you included project managers.
Oh yeah, I'm definitely an archivist. I'm between RSs readers right now, trying to find a screen reader accessible web-based one. I'll have to give this a try when I do. The feed says it isn't valid though, can you fix that?
You can always just put in (your area code) 867-5309. There’s always a Jenny.
because the average person relies so heavily on visualization in their day to day life, people that claim they dont have this ability but also seem to have no discernable difference in the way they interact with the world is what is confusing. everyone understands that deaf people exist because its really fucking obvious when someone is deaf. they interact with the world differently.

its really weird to me, and most everyone that you could be looking at a cup and trying to commit its visual properties to memory, and then close your eyes and be complete incapable of re-constructing even a vague visual representation of it.
People can swim in bodies of water without fierce currents.
I love this trend, every time they fail, it costs them a lot of money, and then I make bank after a few years of destruction because they look for a safe bet.

Then the cycle restarts.
There is no compiler in Picolisp, only a very simple interpreter.

The only bookkeeping problem I've encountered in practice is littering the runtime with symbols. As far as I know there's no way to make it forget about symbols it has encountered, and they are interned as soon as they are encountered. I think the namespacing is supposed to counter this, but I've never learnt it properly.

I'm not sure in what situation the scoping would be a problem. The way I usually go about picolisping is using maybe a few globals (could be options, credentials, global stacks, something like that), conventionally marked with an asterisk, like *Global, and then everything else is functions that typically take one parameter, or perhaps a data parameter and a numeric limit for an iterator. Besides let-assignment inside functions variables rarely seem to be the right tool for me.

Lush, if it's the Lisp-like shell thingie, seems like a rather different programming environment, what with the inline C and whatnot. Might try it out, seems it hasn't been updated in fifteen years or so, could be an adventure.
Genuine curiosity, are they actually cooled like that? Physically transferring the heat to the hull?
Alternately, it's parents who confuse comfort and security with love and do their best to shield the children from consequences of the children's actions.
I encourage everyone to read the original versions of the fairy tales, as told in the Grimms, Perrault, etc.

These stories sometimes read like something from another world. Like they are set in a world with hidden rules and assumptions, that we do not understand and seem alien to us.
>The end result is that exactly the same number of people can buy exactly the same products.

Right, but arguably with surge pricing it can put the limited supply into people who need it the most. Without price gouging laws/price controls, no matter how badly/ambivalent about buying the milk, you'll buy it. Upping the price forces everyone to weigh how badly they need the milk, and ensures that people who need it the most gets it. Of course, the usual caveat of "willingness/ability to pay =/= neediness" applies, but price is probably the best mechanism we have short of setting up a Bureau of Rationing and having everyone fill out a 10 page application justifying why they need milk.
Bandwidth Conservation Society
I don't see why arithmetic coding wouldn't match this if the probabilities are suitably updated after every symbol. If you encode 8 bits, 4:4 ratio, after the first bit is encoded, either 1 or 0 has a remaining count of 3, etc. And when the count of either 0 or 1 reaches 0, the rest of the bits are known.
What can't you do on a scrollbar today that you could 10/20/30 years ago?
Packet and tinned Minestrone in the UK have spaghetti hoops (as we call them). Maybe fancier brands use ditalini but I've never see it here.
Calculation requires practice which builds intuition. Moreover, it's just more time consuming to input things into a calculator. Its much faster to just have 8 / 4 = 2 in your head.
There's a highly dubious serial killer theory that exists simply because so many young college men drown while drunk:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_face_murder_theory
"Since they are innocently unaware of the real but hidden difficulties of their plans, they speak with great facility and confidence. Those involved with practical reactors, humbled by their experiences, speak less and worry more."

Replace 'reactors' with any sufficiently complex system and you'll find this resonates incredibly strongly even today.
Decoding golden paths: The highway for your developers
do you have any experience of feeling like youve been at a particular place before. if you dont remember seeing it, do you just remember the arangement of landmarks like dots on a grid?
I just left a comment on a different thread about detached from reality a lot of tech workers are, and then here I find a guy being like "but rugged calculators are a thing, why do you need to do math in your head?"

Tell me you have never built a thing[1] in your entire life that was more complex than an IKEA bookshelf without telling me that challenge: I do hobby projects all the time and I couldn't even tell you how many mental-math problems I do per hour while doing so. It's a LOT. Depending what I'm making I might well spend more time doing math in my head and on paper than I do actually putting tools to materials to build the thing.

[1]: by this I mean actually building. With your hands.
> And after a handful of years of hanging about with people more skilled than themselves, our babies—these tiny, soft-skulled creatures—can out-compete chimpanzees in all but close combat.

I don't even want to ask
Literally yes! We have education, signage, warnings, red flags, etc... and yet people still do dumb shit and get themselves killed. Swim at your own risk, as they say.
In my case it wasn't that: The dealer straight up imagined a sale they wanted to have, and were quite rude to me.

Me: "I want to buy one of the cars you advertised in the newspaper." (It was 2003)

Them: "We don't have those cars."

Me: "But you're advertising this sale."

Them: Poker face.

It wasn't like they said, "Oh, yeah, that was a popular sale and they sold out." It was very clear they advertised cars they didn't have so they could divert me to a more expensive model, and it wasn't like they offered to call another dealer to ask if they still had inventory.
That's when I get into the habit of photographing price labels while I put items in my cart, and upon finding a discrepancy, abandoning the entire cart full of goods for an employee to return. Make it costly for the company.
Parent is a propaganda account, comment history shows the account making the same duplicated pro car comments repeatedly in different threads.

This article is clearly on the money.
I still pay for my Typepad account but have only blogged sporadically for the last decade. I haven't particularly noticed any degredation of its capabilities but I haven't paid much attention to it either.

I did revise the template and looking at it now, it seems rather ugly :-)

https://rgable.typepad.com/aworks/
"Micro$oft amiright"
If the symbol frequency is known beforehand and fixed for all messages, it's not really i.i.d, as each distribution depends on the previous symbols.