skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This “Shipt,” though, involves an opportunity for some degree of relationship to make a difference, right? Your mail carrier must deliver your package, the package is the package, it’s either delivered or not. Maybe there’s a small margin around the edge where one carrier is nice to the cats and the other isn’t.

These Shipt people, though, have to interpret your preferences and essentially act as your agent as they decide what to pick from the store shelves on your behalf. Sometimes they make decisions that you probably would have made, sometimes less so; sometimes they’re confident that you understand each other, sometimes they’re nervous and want to hassle you about each of 10 different little decision points. When you find somebody I work well with, isn’t it a positive that you get to try to keep that relationship for future transactions? Isn’t this the same dynamic underpinning virtually every in-person service, from your hair cutting human to the tradies who do work on your house to the dry cleaner?

For that matter, doesn’t it create a perverse incentive if worker doesn’t believe that trying to understand my preferences will ever pay off? That it’s a one-off game rather than an iterated series of games, and effort to excel and bring human judgment to bear is wasted because there’s no way to reward it?

Doesn’t the enshittification tend to require as a prerequisite that a platform is successful at alienating service providers from service recipients (and from each other) like that?
Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms
Our EL provider in SE Finland is installing (without charge) a new P1 meter next spring. It will be bidirectional, i.e. ready for solar-to-grid.

This is far from any metro area, so it might be a countrywide rollout.
What makes this an "AI network" or an "AI Superplatform"?
Looks like an average Chatgpt UI clone to me.
I mean, it wasn't "a clear case of wage theft" as these weren't wage workers; and in any case it's not like they weren't told ahead of time how much the order would pay.
It may also mean humanity is less likely to die a horrible death from aliens, so that's good
> I can’t remember the last time I talked on the traditional phone network or received a legitimate call

Doctors and dentists.

Most of the calls I get are spam, but then the MOST important calls I get are from doctors, labs, and dentists. I do as much as possible online of course, but not all of these professionals have good online systems and phone calls are often required.

Sometimes you know what number they're going to be calling from ahead of time, but often you don't... especially if you're in a large medical network that has different offices for different specialists, etc. It's a really sad situation if you get sick and you're trying not to miss these important calls, especially when it's a long wait for a specialist and then you miss their call when they get to your name on the waiting list.

This will literally cost some people their lives and legislators need to act on making spoof calls impossible -- there's no reason why anyone should be allowed to spoof a number that they can't receive calls at.
> This was 50,000 years ago, they were Homo Sapiens, we are 200,000 years old.

I don’t know enough about the migration of human species and subspecies. Was this concluded in the article that they were Home Sapiens and not Neanderthals or Denisovans (or interbred between these and Homo Sapiens)? The latter two were around 50,000 years ago.
That vicious cycle is a problem ever more expensive electrical grids will need to contend with over the next couple of decades.

The variable per Kwh costs are historically generally pretty low relative to the fixed capex and opex (eg. maintenance, idle runtime) costs.

Mostly this has been made palatable for residential use by hiding these fixed costs in a higher per-Kwh rate. This works great as long as consumption is high and growing. If consumption trends reverse, then self-generation becomes a real possibility for the heavy consumers leaving fewer total Kwh to spread the fixed costs over.

Left unimpeded this leaves the poorest with very high energy bills when everybody else has shifted to a private, cheaper, micro-grid.
Besides the whole interesting story background, yet another confirmation of the anti-.NET bias by WinDev during the Longhorn efforts.

Instead of uniting and having everyone collaborating into a common like Google with Android making it happen no matter what, or how Bell Labs tried with Inferno / Limbo, the active fight against .NET, and anything related.

To what ended up being the WinRT failure.

Ironically, WinDev is now shipping JavaScript and Webview2 all over the place on Windows 11.
That too, but taxi drivers are indeed among the most notorious for scams.
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RIP ICQ. I met met quite a few long distance chat friends on there. Never met anyone in person from there, though.

In my area, we had the Cleveland Freenet with an IRC server. Met a lot of friends in real life from there—I believe they also had periodic picnic meetups but I never went to one of those. Briefly dated someone in HS after we met in an IRC channel, and one of my real life friends met his future wife on a freenet in neighboring state that we could access.

I also had a personal site that a random girl my age a few states over found. She emailed me and we started corresponding for years over email, AOL/AIM and hand written letters. We still do on occasion. We met in person about 13 years after we first emailed.
In the late 90s my brother and I drove our Volvos 3 states away(yes separately, with handheld radios and a gazetteer) to a Volvo only meetup and track day that we found online, really just to put faces to usernames. It was awesome. #turbobricks
After I learned backgammon from my parents, I also wonder why almost no one plays it in the US compared to chess. Seems mostly European and Middle Eastern folks play it (my parents are from Romania).

I like it because it's not as serious as chess, at least when it's not played for money. Just roll and go. I always carry a portable set with me, made by sondergut.
Yeah price is flying through the roof until it isn’t and reality slaps insane expectations in the face. FOMO is going to wreck a lot of retail investors.
If you want to write fast stuff that takes advantage of SIMD, you want to use ISPC, which is made for high performance SIMD. Using haskell for this would be like doing surgery with a dull rock, you will never get what you want.
I chose NextJS because it's better than the alternatives, having tried them. I would disagree that it's manufactured popularity

It's a layer on React and you can keep things simple from the server actions point of view (they are still pretty new in React proper too)

Docs... It's react, they don't need to write that documentation, just the nextjs parts. I have had no major issues with their docs, not sure what you mean by moderately complex thing
Exactly. The car sees the rule "don't cross the double yellow". The human sees the more general "double yellow means there is insufficient visibility for a pass". You must not put yourself in a position of having to be across it, but that doesn't mean you can't be nice to a bike in the bike lane if visibility and traffic permit.
Character.ai shows how to reduce LLM costs by 13 times
And you could also sail for 30k miles in a 10 mile circle and it wouldn't be called circumnavigating anything. It's not about the distance, it's about the places.
Personally, I’ve never seen good developers who cared at all about profitability. All of them cared about the products and customers, but no one was driven by profit at all. Whom I met and cared about profit, they were mediocre the best.
I imagine if someone over qualified came along they could underpay, they would probably hire them. That’s what I assume a lot of job listings are.
good idea, here's mine:

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Early Facebook was written in PHP, and regardless of what you think of them as a company, just look at their market cap. WordPress has a huge userbase these days and had similar roots.
> The crux of the problem, where all the examples above share in common, is that C++ does not have a type for overload sets.

>There is a recent proposal that aims to address this exact issue: P3312 - Overload Set Types.

Painfully common story.
Prisoners have the "same" free-speech rights as free men, why would parole reduce them?
Email is easier to mitigate spam with. The whole body of the message is given upfront.
You are saying "impossible" because someone made a great website going over what is known and what is postulated. One I argue misinterprets two truths.

First, your argument on the energy in the gama is wildly wrong and shows you do not understand what you are reading (I know -$k). That one fuel source has excessive neutron bombardment is not the argument against the gama being the Grail of fusion. We could jump on redit and state that GIVEN MAN'S PRESENT KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY we should move up the food chain to find the safest way just to release the damn thing. Nickel? Etc.

Secondly, the conventional intellectual mind breaks on the correlation between speed (toward light), time dilation, and potential. The physics twerk being described is your friend, if you can pay for it (energetically.) from the outside of acceleration, do not get lost on time, rather mass gain. Standing waves and constructive and destructive interference, and pulse modulations later, can a self contained counter weight be accelerated toward light in the controlled arbitrary displacement of mass (in this case the craft's center of gravity.)

Yes.
With the gama harvesting true fusion offers, the superior propulsion of mass acceleration toward light speed would change our everythings.
Is it the Honda hybrid sound? I owned two hybrid CR-Vs (loved those cars, but got into an accident one year ago today that totaled a three month-old CR-V hybrid and car prices went up so fast we had to downgrade). We always called it "Hell Choir". It makes for an amusing contrast to the horn, which sounds like a clown car.

https://youtu.be/K_7Hd3M2qrc
Semantics aside, if an incident/outage/<other term> affects devs/users in any way, it really should be on the status page.

I found it impossible to distinguish between user error and platform outage. Too often it was a problem on fly's end yet the status page gave nothing (perplexed, I'd rerun the deploy a few hours later and it would work).

Can't stress it enough: if fly's services aren't working for any reason, big or small, put it on the status page. Devs need to know when something's not in their control so they can inform their team and customers and go to bed or take a coffee break. They shouldn't be up till 5am thinking they borked something when the problem is 100% on fly's end.
You assume that profit maximizers are somehow less harmful.
That makes sense. In case it helps others... when they announced end of life of the mac app, that was because Apple Silicon macs can run the iOS version of Authy. So, if you have an M series mac then you can still use and get updates to authy.
So you don't have a point, because the only "claim" I had was - agreeing with the grandparent comment, because:

there is always some drift between the suns position and midday

Your point is about as coherent as saying CO2 levels in the air aren't going higher, because the sea is blue
https://fridge0.branchable.com/thermal_mass/
Article title: Optimizing AI Inference

Discussion (63 points, 14 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40739225
It's not that you can't play chess in cafes (I've also done that), but chess is more complex and is -perceived- to be much more complex and serious.

Backgammon has dice rolls and less complex strategy, so it's nicer to play over coffee and chatting. Rolling doubles also gives potential for comeback swings so it can be fun for spectators too.
Apart from the workers and the company there is another important actor here - the clients. I think the point of the algo change was to better serve clients with smaller orders.
Consider CS areas of interest & how non-degree course requirements align with CS area of interest(s). aka linguistics / AI / neural networks; database / web development / business courses.

Research/talk to professors with research areas of interest / look at ideas for independent study / internships for senior year. aka elective courses / skills that would be helpful.

Inbetween semesters, look at things to further skills learned in prior semesters; make connections with others in field/area of interest; find something of interest. aka google summer of code, things the cs related club does inbetween semesters, open source coding projects, etc.

Consider CS professional organizations with student memberships. aka ieee, acm, aitp, etc.
Dumb question; what are far centre politics? Surely by definition centrist politics can't be far - far just puts them as left or right.
I don't know why but I was expecting an actual cookbook.
Rust has had native generator syntax for a few years FYI. It's what async-await is built on. It's just gated behind a nightly feature.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/ops/trait.Coroutine.htm... and the syntax you're looking for for resuming with a value is `let res = yield ...`

Alternatively there is a proc macro crate that transforms generator blocks into async blocks so that they work on stable, which is of course a round-about way of doing it, but it certainly works.
I now realize how far I am from amateur knowledge, I don't understand any of this.

But always interesting to discover an avenue I haven't explored before :)
The tidy round numbers come from the uncertainty of the datation method. It makes no sense to say, e.g. that they are 32049 years old when the dates are accurate to, say, 2000 years. The fact that uncertainty is usually not properly reported is a tragedy in the scientific literature, and unfortunate in vulgarisation.
We're sorry. I hope we're clearly expressing what's happening here: either we do flat pricing globally, so that people deploying in cheaper regions subsidize those deploying in more expensive ones, or we reflect our cost basis in our prices and let our customers (and prospective customers, like you) make their own choices.

In your specific situation: it really just is the case that Brazil soaks us on import fees. Getting machines in racks in Brazil is just crazy expensive. We're going to keep doing it! Brazil has too many good sandwiches. But the idea behind building a new public cloud on our own hardware is for us to be around for the long haul, and flat low global pricing is not a "long haul" decision.

(It wasn't a long haul decision last year, either, but building a billing system capable of expressing this stuff is a nightmare from which we have not yet fully awoken. It turned out to be a shockingly hard problem.)

There are going to be cases where places like Hetzner make a lot sense compared to us. We hope you get your thing launched and find success wherever you end up. Some of our stuff, like LiteFS, you can take with you! :)
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Hey guys, Lakshya from Jupitrr AI’s growth team here. We have made Jupitrr AI with a lot of efforts. And we are still working hard to make it better everyday. We are eager to know what yoi think about it.
The example on their page [0] says: "Baby, Don't Hurt Me" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter and actress Patrice Rushen. I1 was released as the title track from her 1984 album of the same name.

This song was by Haddaway

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Can I talk to your manager, please?
In my mind, the smart grid would be most useful for distributed storage. Like if your car charger has a battery pack in it to quick charge your car. Or just a battery that could charge on off-hours to lessen peak load.
I recently setup a focus profile on my iPhone that only lets calls ring through from knowns contacts. There is going to be an adjustment period as I discover people and companies (such as doctors/hospitals) that I want to allow calls from and add them to the whitelist. But otherwise, it has been really nice to cut down on all of the interruptions.
I'm trying to imagine an incident probably 30 years ago. Pouring rain, I can see that up ahead everyone is sharply veering right, but I can't see what is prompting that behavior. I know *something's* up, but not what.

I get to the spot where everyone veers right--and see a double yellow. On my *right*. We were going straight, the road zigged (45 mph road, at the time they were only widening it from two lanes to 4 when the property was developed. While the road was "straight" it zigged back and forth because of the patchwork development), the rain was so hard we couldn't see the lane markings.
I like modified Kanban boards, both when startup is in reactive mode, and as an alternate view of a really good Gantt model when I'm doing serious planning for less-reactive hitting of deadlines and synchronization points.

But if I were an agency doing hourly billing of clients who didn't know what they wanted, I would like Scrum. "C'mon, give us a straight answer to our questions, we're locking you into that for another 300 billable hours. Then you can pull other answers out of your behind in a week. We'll call it participatory design, or interactive, or something, and pretend it's that it's because this is the most efficient way to solve hard problems, or to be flexible at the superfast speed of business. But really it's because you are bad at what you do, and just pretending, so we decided you'll pay my firm 300 uninterrupted billable hours per week as your penance. I'm thinking of scaling up my team, so that we can bill-- uh, execute, faster."
Is it common to work in a runtime that lets the test harness control the order in which threads race to access mutable state? I wouldn't be surprised if Haskell could do it, but I think I'd have to write a custom interpreter of .NET or JVM bytecode, for example.
So is the review any good, "delves" notwithstanding?
See also this discussion from a few months ago about sans-io in Rust: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39957617
I also gave up on the "air mouse" things as too jiggly and random, and got a mini thumb keyboard with a touchpad on it. I ended up with an older & cheaper version of this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GCPVZDW
... because this is by the market leader in AI speech synthesis?
I have used it for nontrivial stuff. The idea of streaming objects has a lot of potential, but I think the "enterprise crowd" had a really good crack at it - especially the syntax. Not having to resort to grep, jq, cut, and the host of tools required to (often fragile) parse out whatever specific format the tool you are calling is giving you.

Put another way, you could feel free to parse the output of ls in powershell - because it's already been done for you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthashastra
With heat pumps (like AC) and condensing boilers, it is often more efficient to run for longer and slower as long as that makes your appliance run more efficiently (lower flow temperatures for heating, higher for cooling). Requires the system to support modulation though.
fuzzing is clearly not a replacement for tests?
Typically a desire to have tests that are somewhat realistic.
If workers are low-skilled, easily replaceable and practically fungible then realistically speaking why would their employer pay them based on value-added?
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I like this, and it seems a lot of people are thinking this way lately

A common theme is that optimization usually does mostly bad things, while maybe arguably from someone's perspective doing one thing really well. I particularly like the example of the threshold cost to get something done versus the optimizer trying to lower costs. Both stakeholders in that example in actuality care about not going below the threshold, but the one drunk on optimization is incentivized to be at odds with keeping that cost center above it, let alone providing any cushion

The model many people here likely have for optimization is compile-time optimizations, but that's actually a weird class of special cases where you actually can prove you're not breaking anything by doing so. Most optimization looks more like strip-mining. It leaves the structures it touches barren and brittle

Most extant institutions have a desperate need to build better resistance to optimization-like objectives
I think electric cars could change this equation. The savings are high enough and the inconvenience low enough.
Ultimate Vocal Remover 5 is free, though.
I think the one liner was supposed to show how short and simple programming can be, but I think it ultimately has the opposite effect.

It's basically a showcase of terrible programming idioms that you should never use.
I think it depends on what you want to do. Nushell's never going to surpass PowerShell for Windows infrastructure automation.

But if you want a shell that makes it easy+quick to work with data in all kinds of formats, Nushell wins IMO.
I loved the phrase “modularity is inversely correlated with expressiveness.”

I don’t think it’s reductive, just incomplete. It’s missing a third dimension of “complexity.” You can increase expressiveness, but only by adding complexity. But even then, you’re just fractalizing into 500 more maps; the complexity is comprised of layers of modularity, each with its own degree of expressiveness.

For example, you could mimic HTML by giving each map maker some standard components for expressing and classifying buildings and their relationships (“church,” “road,” etc). And sure, now you’ve increased expressiveness. But you’ve also added a new layer of modularity. So you’re right back at where you started. The maxim holds.
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I imagine many companies do it on many websites. They can use it to falsely signal to their VCs that they're trying to hire when they're actually not.
Eh, I find PowerShell nicer than bash. And having a way to use .NET/COM stuff ad-hoc can be useful in scripts. For example, to talk to Windows Installer with reasonable performance over COM. Or to launch the best browser:

(New-Object -ComObject InternetExplorer.Application).Visible = $true