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> We aren't seeing higher overall levels of productivity.

You can't measure productivity for shit, otherwise companies would look entirely differently. Starting from me not having to do my own finances or event planning or hundred other things that are not my job description, not my specialty, and which were done by dedicated staff just a few decades ago, before tech "improved office productivity".

> We aren't seeing the developers who start using copilot/gpt rush ahead of their peers.

That's because individual productivity is usually constrained by team productivity. Devs rushing ahead of their teammates makes the team dysfunctional.

> We aren't seeing any ability to cut back on developer spend.

Devs aren't stupid. They're not going to give you an opportunity if they can avoid it.

> We aren't seeing anything positive yet and many developers have been using copilot/gpt for >1 year.

My belief is that's because you aren't measuring the right things. But then, no one is. This is a problem well-known to be unsolved.
This is more a commentary on how bad things have gotten, but I’d say this is like a 3/10 on the Clickbait’o’meter.
>Every material interaction is simulated. If you believe that consciousness can't exist in the simulation, then you believe that consciousness is not a material interaction

I think that is missing the point. You are literally changing the material and medium by conducting a simulation.

Releasing simulated energy within a simulation is not identical to releasing real energy in the real world. The former is purely representational, and even a perfectly simulated object retains this property, and lack of equivalence.

a simulated atom is not a real atom, no mater their similarlity.
I know! It’s not like it’s an obscure location, either. I feel like my grandpa knew everything about Liverpool but “They proved why the universe is made of matter here.” never came up.
What a wonderfully composed article that balanced telling of the science involved within the social political and economic context (for this lay person at least). The transfer of technologies and academics further westward reminds me a bit of “How the Irish Saved Civilization’s” thesis regarding certain monasteries preservation of knowledge during the post-Roman period of Western Europe. A pity for Ireland that it wasn’t as able to capitalize on the role as the US after WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Irish_Saved_Civilizati...
Sedges have edges, rushes are round. Grasses are hollow and grow in the ground.
This is an extremely good insight and piece of advice. Already we're starting to see what looks very similar to a "frontend" and "backend" kind of development model similar to the previous tech generation.

While there are advantages to going "full-stack" in this analogy most people focus on one or another
I feel like the idea of understanding media has, for many of us, become a prison. The purest version of understanding is kind of a personal relationship to a piece of media. A relationship you form while engaging with it that enlivens your life and has the potential to broaden your horizons. But we live in a moment where it's very popular to talk about "the right understanding of media"[1] and therefor everyone begins to need to explain their relationship to every piece of media to their friends.

The bare experience of reading The Baroque Cycle completely stuffed full of historical references you don't understand is kind of its own immersive experience in a less media-rich climate. You kind of get a sense what it might be like to have no access to education and run into like, Leonardo da Vinci or whoever. But then it comes time to explain that experience to someone else and they might think you were silly for not just looking the names up.

I just think it's too bad. I once almost broke my wrist snow boarding, but my friend wanted to finish the day so I hung out in our car. The medics had given me a dose of percocet[2] for the pain and I had just started Neuromancer. Finishing that book in that hot car, slightly high, has both erased all of "what happens" from my mind and left me with this kind of indelliable feeling of what it was like to be reading the book. I didn't understand it and feel all the better for it.

[1] I think it's very easy to understand why people want to set others straight on points like this, even if I don't like the ecosystem it creates.

[2] I think it was percocet? Though it seems odd that I would be given a dose of narcotics for a bad sprain.
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There is a huge difference in being taxed to create and maintain infrastructure that you and your children will both use, and being taxed to fund future hypothetical infrastructure that you will never use.

I don't like that we as a country put off the costs of maintenance as long as possible thus creating debt for future generations, but asking the current generation to create a savings fund to pay the future generation's (non emergency) expenses is a bridge too far.
Because VPS is cheaper than any managed service offering out there when you start to add up the features. For example Azure App Services can host: .NET, PHP, Python, and Node WITHOUT a container, but the second you want a custom DNS name its incredibly expensive.

A $5 VPS + CapRover instantly gives you your own app host + CICD server which you fully own, none of your data is owned by AWS or Azure either.

Most people dont self host because they dont want to worry about updating the OS and Database servers and clustering and HA/DR. Which is far. But for the average dude like me spinning up fun side projects and random stuff, why wouldn't I self-host it for next to nothing?
Just like clockwork!

Why Are Alaska's Rivers Turning Orange? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38757610

Alaska’s Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34209889

Alaska's rusting waters: Pristine rivers and streams turning orange https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432495

Alaska’s Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34268143

Why are Alaska's rivers turning orange? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39123276 (5 months ago)

Alaska's Pristine Waterways Are Turning Orange https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40488187 (37 days ago)

Alaska Rivers Are Turning an Eerie Orange https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40829465 (4 days ago)
Store a single .DS_Store in the root of the disk that stores either the reference or all of the data for that filesystem?
The colors in the rivers are indications of sulfide mineral deposits that previously didn't have water flowing through them. The kinds of deposits where many of our metals come from.
All I said is you identify the major factor first and fix it, and keep doing that. What you're saying now is basically what I started with, except applying a recursive step of "keep identifying new bottlenecks". But the algorithm should always be "Look at the biggest factor and nothing else", of course you should check if the biggest factor stays the same over time
> this didn’t really happen the way you want it to. Fortune 50 companies never spent billions of dollars on crypto or NFTs like they are doing for AI.

Got to imagine that IBM’s spending on their weird blockchain hobby was at least in the hundreds of millions.

And Facebook spent tens of billions of dollars on metaverse stuff, of course.
Does Raspberry Pi fit your definition/mental model of a straggler? It doesn’t have mainline support either!
Windows is polite enough to not write them on network shares, unlike .DS_Store.
PDF and Epub support a featureset that far exceeds Markdown in it's basic specification. Translating from one to the other would be pretty lossy, but possible.

You could probably use Pandoc to do this yourself, but again I'd stress that Markdown is really not meant for rendering PDF or Epub content: https://pandoc.org/
Without data, we're trading anecdotes. Your circle is in the bubble, mine isn't. This user[1] shared a Pew survey, which looks like the best we're going to get. The survey asked what % of people ever used ChatGPT, which I'd interpret as "at least one time ever" and the number is less than 1 in 4. I'd love to see actual data on what percentage of people use it at least once daily, which is the bar I'd accept for "integrated with their daily lives."

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40870205
I'm intrigued by the mention of a banana. Is there something specific about banana fiber you are referencing?
The term user-agent being redefined but still kind of close to the original term is kind of confusing. Like a half pun
Its because it has to. We're so far behind the 8 ball at this point if it doesn't work we are all screwed.

All of society is so freaking leveraged at this point, something has to give.
> Follow the prompts to set up automatic backups.

> Options include keeping your data for three, 18, or 36 months, or indefinitely until you manually delete it.

So, if we Takeout our current data, we can squirrel that away on our own computer.

Also navigate the transition process perfectly, including the above settings, so history -- new history anyway -- will be preserved on Google servers. Will it then be available for decryptable download to the user's computer via Takeout? Or only to a replacement phone?
A Fancy Card Is Becoming the Only Way to Get a Restaurant Reservation
Thank you! There are some excellent things out there- curation is the challenge.
For this problem specifically, I have found that turning off auto mic volume helps to eliminate the "mute for first x secs if speaking".
> TikTok is banned in China.

ByteDance made Douyin for inside China and TikTok for outside China.
A Netflix documentary about it is coming out in the fall
Not quite right: never be in a position where there is no easy migration off any platform you use.

Use a custom domain with ProtonMail or any other provider.

Frequently download email, calendar, etc. from Proton, Google, etc.

There are a lot of good comments in this whole conversation about nice to have Proton improvements, but I suggest we not lose sight of the benefits of not having personal and company data in the hands of Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc.

Companies and individuals who aren’t worried about the costs and risks of the lack of privacy should not use Proton.
Margins are high. 30-80%

Source: I run a cloud company and have plenty of friends in the space.
I also use the table of contents.
I think it's likely that there is a reasonably stable path for any kind of mount, but I don't know a ton about networks so I'll leave it to someone else to weigh in.

But the stakes are very low here, so settings can be invalidated and discarded if they can't be resolved or they age out of the local cache. And if the mount is of a type that can't be reliably identified later, the default should have been to do nothing. Spewing junk all over every computer visited, especially junk that won't even survive the next Mac user's visit... is amateur-hour and obnoxious at best.
> Just buy it and be done with it

Or buy a QNAP and watch it brick itself when you most need it.
Don’t assume “widespread deployment of the same”. Think about next-gen models running faster and at a low cost.

They already understand spoken English and can respond in kind.

This is Siri or Alexa on steroids. Just that alone is a “killer app” for everyone with a mobile phone or a home assistant device!

What’s the addressable market for that right now? Five billion customers? Six or seven maybe?

Computer RPG games are about to become completely different. You’ll be able to actually converse with characters.

Etc…

I’m a short-term pessimist but a long-term optimist.

This all reminds me of 3D graphics a in the early 1990s. The nerds were impressed but nobody else thought it was interesting. Now we have Pixar and a computer games industry bigger than Hollywood.
And we seem to be in an exponential upswing of hardware capacity, so we expect extreme improvements from an already impressive base. >90% of the compute that can be used to train models doesn't exist yet.
Oh sure. Hadn't thought about them in a long time. But yes I'd say Babagge was quite well known due to that. With Ada, I was a little older before I'd heard of her, but I definitely had heard about her even before studying computer science.
I hand-wrote perhaps 10-20 lines of this project:

https://github.com/williamcotton/guish

The rest is Claude 3.5 (with a dash of GPT-4o) with a LOT of supervision!

I'd say I'm about 8 hours deep and that this would have taken me at least 30+ hours to get it to the current state of polish.

I used it to make some graphs at work today!
You said:

> Everything outside of notepad already supports it—that was the point, dumbass.

As a response to me pointing out that it's not supported in the GitHub diff view. That response is nonsensical unless you meant to say that it's supported in the GitHub diff view.
EVE Online won't last another 20 years, unfortunately. At this point it's only surviving on the inertia it built up during the first 15 or so years. Open sourcing the engine can't solve the studios' incompetence.
Exactly. And if the same machine used two URIs, there'd simply be two entries for settings. And the settings cache could flush old entries periodically.
> It's the most complete history of git that I know now.

I wasn't going to read the story until I read your comment. I knew the summary of BitKeeper and the fallout, but wow this was so detailed. Thanks!
Doubtful. Containerization has eaten away at pure virtual marketshare — k8s is more popular now than VMWare. There’s not a chance in this world that the hyperscalers are going to go back to single-purpose machines. KVM is also perfectly capable, as is Hyper-V, for the small workloads described here. VMware is the best, but if the best is too expensive, second-best does the job just fine.

However, this piece also serves as an intro to the software of a modern datacenter. The author seems to have had a bunch of concepts thrown at them and had only a few sentences to explain each; actually looking at the techs involved will give you a better overview of what’s possible with only a physical machine or two!
It's almost like you can't actually control the demand side.
Except I see no grift or FOMO. You don’t need to put your money into it. All you need now is instinct and creativity. The FOMO to raise money or be nobody goes away instead. The FOMO in giants to appear like they are riding the AI horse is real. Evidence is in the productivity of each individual and how many would consult with experts or expert friends vs just using AI.
It’s not the fact they have 5 times the employees that surprises me, it’s how little they accomplish.

SpaceX is launching multiple rocket ships into orbit every week. Google is.. releasing webpage CSS tweaks like “New Google Sign In Page” and a couple second rate AI products no one asked for when they get caught with their pants down.
Yeah one things that bothered me about artist complaints is the idea that anybody was ever going to pay them.

The people expressing themselves with image AI would never have gone to fiverr or upwork to begin with.

And only some of the existing clientele would change their behaviors too.

Additionally, I know artists that always wanted to express themselves differently than what they became known for, and actually create and sell AI generated work to their clientbase now.
Fair enough. My circle may be in a bubble, and come to think of it, selection bias is a factor - I can think of all the people close to me who use it, but there's more equivalently close friends and relatives who (as far as I know) don't. I do think the survey is giving quite a big results, given we're barely a year into the whole ChatGPT craze - but we can revisit this topic when more data becomes available. I'm sure it'll come up again :).
Thats about 25 times slower than other sfu's we've evaulated. Not really very performant. In fact, bottom of the list.
If you write a spaghetti system where collecting the context for the AI is a big time sink, and there are so many service/language barriers that AI get confused, of course AI is going to suck. Of course, if you give your programmers a game pad and tell them to use it to program with a virtual keyboard, they're gonna suck ass too, so you should consider where the fault really lies.
"I am not sure why I am continually fascinated by this place."

If you're into technology - like anyone on Hacker News - you're probably fascinated by seeing high complexity in a small space. That's one of the things about tech that makes it exciting to me. Look at my smartwatch - so much complexity crammed into something so small. Such high entropy. It's just fundamentally interesting because there's so much there.

I know it was no treat for the people that lived there, tho. Conditions sucked.

(Bit of a tangent, but I also wonder if there's a link between this and my (very bad) social media addiction. There's just so much stuff to look at on a place like reddit or tiktok. Such high information density.)

This diagram sort of reminds me of playing Sim Tower, or those books of cross sections of things that were popular entertainment when I was a kid. I guess they hit the same part of the brain.
> when you look at these auth solutions they typically will handle three things

> 1. handshakes with third party IDPs (login with google, etc)

> 2. session management

> 3. user storage

> 1+2 are boring and i’m 100% down to offload it to someone else

> the problem is #3

I think you are assuming you do #3 (user storage) yourself in your own database, which is possible.

But lots of auth providers want to store the users for you and make it look appealing (user dashboard already made, don't have to store PII, SSO: can share single account across multiple services, etc)

That is exactly what one of my clients decided after I introduced them to UserFront. But then ran into problems just rendering a list of items in the app because only the UserFront id was stored in the local DB. User names, email addresses, were all stored in UserFront.

You can choose to store username, email addresses, etc in your own database, but then you have to be careful about syncing at least the user id + email address(es) between the auth service and your own DB.
I agree, the theory isn't nearly as difficult as the reductions. Dennis Yurichev's "SAT/SMT by Example" (https://smt.st/) is a great resource on this topic, although pretty intimidating.
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I think you are making an error here. The article says there was much talk about invisible stars. There are many reasons that a star could be invisible. So it's not the same as saying there was much talk about stars that were so massive that their own light was swallowed back up.
I used samba, it's supported everywhere. I also served files with HTTP server which might be convenient way for some use-cases. I also generated simple HTML-s with <video> which allowed me to easily view movies on my TV without all that nonsense.

My router has public IP so I didn't have any problems reaching it from the outside, so any VPN could work. Another approach is to rent some cheap VPS and use it as a bastion VPN server, connecting both home network and roadwarrior laptop.

No idea about any "integrated" solutions, I prefer simple solutions, so I just used ordinary RHEL with ordinary apache, etc.
The other big thing in the resource fork was the executable code segments that made up the application. In fact applications typically had nothing but the data fork at all. It was all in the resource fork.
Do you plan to introduce the workflow of GraphRAG into txtai?
Between oblique references on HN and my collection of online libraries I believe I need one.

Also, if you have a Lua jit in the client and another on the server [0] who knows how far you can go? (Just need a wasm compiler I guess)

0. https://openresty.org/en/
Fun read.

The licensing of bitkeeper was a real thing. Although I don't follow the kernel mailing list at all nowadays, I remember Alan Cox calling it out as buttkeeper. Good Times.
Developing 'Hi-Fi Rush' Backwards and Finding Our Positive Gameplay Loop [video]
There was a PR to change references of he to they, or similar thinking the writing was by a non-native English speaker. The PR was aimed at inclusivity. The response was that politics are not welcome there.

A legit seeming concern is that anything can be political in the eyes of the lead dev. Is support for screen readers part of a political agenda?

In an effort to avoid drama, drama was invited. This doesn’t seem likely to be a welcoming place for some that would otherwise contribute.
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Chargebacks are a big permanent mark on a company's credit card processing. Porkbun has clearly told you what needs to happen:

"have them decide the dispute review in our favor"

Short of you getting all three of these removed from their record you are hit.

This happens with all kinds of accounts. If you chargeback against a company that company is done doing business with you. 'Paying' for what you already paid them for once isn't going to undo the damage that chargebacks do. They want the chargebacks gone. It's not just a bounced check, it's a bounced check that adds to their 'permanent record' 'and Porkbun allowed a fraudulent transaction, lower your trust of future transactions from Porkbun." Which results in things like the companies credit card funds being held longer (to allow for chargebacks to come out). Imagine if a random person resulted in your ecommerce site's payout being permanently a month or three later.

You have already burned through a pretty high multiple of whatever margin they make from $10 domains so the fact they're pretty civil says a lot about the company and their approach to customer service. Get that last dispute resolved in their favor or give up on the business relationship.
My pet theory is that the only major change is that there’s now much less of a filter over the information that reaches the populace. The regime can’t quite figure out yet how to deal with this without undermining its own legitimacy, flimsy as it may be. It used to be you had to go through the newspapers or tv to get anything out, and both are controlled by a very small group of people. To the extent that there was diversity of opinion it was because the two wings of the uniparty disagreed with one another. Nowadays trust in the press is at historic lows and actually reading it makes one _less_ informed than not reading anything at all. So people turn to social media and personalities they trust there. End result: an actual democracy could break out for the first time since Ancient Greece. The Uniparty can’t tolerate risking tens of trillions in money flows on some highfalutin’ bullshit like that.
> things that on the surface seem very plausible but are complete fabrications

LLMs are language model, it's crazy people expect them to be correct in anything beyond surface level language.
Why inject "eerie" into it? I don't find orange eerie, no matter how hard I try.
This happens so often. A developer could just read a man page or learn something deeply by example, but they don't. Instead they struggle for the rest of their lives in ignorance, even going so far as to adopt a hack to avoid having to learn a new thing. They will go far out their way to not learn a new thing, and over time, cause themselves untold misery.
If the existence of this effect has been debated for decades and studies haven't shown a clear, repeatable effect, then it probably doesn't exist.