skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as we understand that "true bonding" is preciously close to "no true Scotsman galaxy" :-)

Let's stop pretending that remote work is new. I've worked remotely on and off from the beginning of my career. Majority of my mentors have been remote, at least two of whom I've never met "on real life" - one of whom shared tremendous technical experience over 18 months we worked together three provinces away, other who has taught me corporate life and consulting skills from four provinces away (I'm in Canada, think states:).

I've spent four years as ops manager recently on a troubled project and I agree thay extreme situations under shared duress can build a specific, very strong kind of bond (not the only kind, mind you!). It's just that physical presence is completely orthogonal to it.

I have a hard time believing all this concern is for "young generation and their social and mentoring opportunities". Young generation grew up with remote and social networking infused in their lives (for better or for worse, separate conversation :)! If a senior person doesn't know how to mentor or communicate remote, let's be upfront on that and discuss it openly and coach them. But let's not blame the "juniors" for that :-).
> The business problem OpenAI faces is that their systems aren't good enough that users can trust the results.

It depends what you're doing with it. Answering arbitrary questions is very different from document summarization or from mapping arbitrary questions onto a list of canned questions to then answer.

It also doesn't have to be perfect. Instead the cost of an overall system (AI + error reporting & handling) just has to be cheaper than that same overall system using whatever the AI is replacing.

If it makes errors 3% of the time, and people from Mechanical Turk make errors 2% of the time, its usefulness depends on whether or not those 50% more errors cost more than the cost savings from paying a model provider rather than paying humans.
Have you read the entire sentence that was from? It listed pretty much what you said as an option until more information is gathered. Sometimes even people's culture/principles keeps them from seeing the truth.

I honestly don't know what you mean here, I hope you can clarify.
A (buggy) Windows calculator is also used to demonstrate concepts in Dr. Miro Samek's Practical Statecharts in C/C++ (2002):

[pdf] https://www.state-machine.com/doc/PSiCC.pdf
https://github.com/lepisma/rogue
Agreed, waterfall fails right off the bat at "gather requirements."

If you ask the Air Force how fast a new proposed plane has to fly, they'll say "as fast as possible." Or maybe they'll say "fast enough to accomplish the mission and win wars." But neither of those would be accepted as requirements.

So in reality the Air Force will answer that question with another question: "well how fast can you make it fly?" Which of course depends on a lot of tradeoffs of performance, munitions, and cost. So in reality lots of design and technology tradeoffs go back and forth during the requirements phase, and at some point someone makes a rather arbitrary requirement like "The plane must be able to fly at Mach 2.5." That gets set in stone and drives the program forever after.

So the very notion of "requirements" is complete fiction. Perhaps the plane could have a top speed of Mach 2.2 and still achieve the mission, or go Mach 2.8 and fail to achieve the mission, depending on other aspects of the design.
What's even more interesting is now that certain politicians have repeated it, it is considered disinformation.

The exact same reports have been out for over a year. Ever since the young boy was killed in a school bus crash people have been showing up to the commission meetings and complaining. T

They have talked about the numerous car crashes and the incidents involving animals in public parks and missing pets. They have cited first hand experience as well as posts from the local Facebook groups.

So acting like this is some sort of inherently baseless claim IS the misinformation.

It's also not a secret or incorrect claim that Haitians practice santeria / voodoo. In many places it's become a major issue like in Atlanta where the amount of headless goat bodies found in the river is so massive it's a traceable source of contamination of the water.
The article was based on reviews by MKBHD and Dave2D. I wouldn’t say they are Apple fanboys, they call out the good and the bad in their reviews of Apple products.
Ironically, the last time I checked, the built in screencapture command-line program hadn’t been updated to use ScreenCaptureKit yet. The company I was contracting for ended up shelling out to it because its window picking UX was a lot better than ScreenCapureKit’s. (You can’t do this if you’re sandboxed, though, AFAIK).
A machine learning program walks into a bar. (loss .999)
A machine learning program walks into a bar. (loss .625)
A machine learning program ducks a bar. (loss .482)
> It works to an extent. True bonding comes from being shoulder to shoulder in extreme situations under shared duress.

People say this, but "this is the kind of true bonding experiences with which I'm familiar" isn't the same as "this is the only way true bonding can occur." I'm certainly old enough to remember the dismissive scoffing in the '90s that true friendships are made only in person, not with people online.
How is any number 0-5 based on your preference not the best compromise in your opinion? Do you gain anything when someone who would choose not to be in the office ever is there?

All the people who want to socialize at work get the office, everyone who wants the flexibility of remote work get to enjoy that. From experience, making a remote-first team work in office is just working-remote but next to one another. Once you get used to all your processes being in-chat and having 5-10 async conversations going at once while working having to like stop and have only one stream of thought is like an adhd rug pull.
ARM would be a reasonable alternative. Unity/UE5 already support it due to mobile and Nintendo Switch, and consoles are usually more power/thermally constrained than desktops, so AMR in many ways would be a better alternative than x64.

Plus PlayStation is big enough that if they went ARM, game devs would have to follow.
unfortunate but inevitable. I'm sure I don't need to tell you how the mobile scene became in these past 15 years or so. When you have companies pouring tens of millions of dollars to advertise to a more casual audience who probably isn't looking for a professional review, where does a mobile journalist like TA come in? Meanwhile, the more console-esque audience left because less and less games out on mobile bothered appealing to them.

Not TA's fault, but they were pincered on both ends and couldn't do much as the medium they reviewed changed in real time.
No. It's that humans will sometimes do the same thing that we've decided to (mis-)label as hallucinating when an AI does it.
Not trying to excuse it at all. You're completely right. But at the time, it was normal. Few people could even conceive that working from home could possibly work. I just mean it as an example that whatever people do, it seems normal if that's what everyone does. You see your dad go to work every morning, it's normal. You go to school every day, it's normal. It's only when something shakes that up that you get the idea that it might not be ideal.

WFH did not seem normal to most employees or employers until they were forced into it, and forced to make it work. I can't think of any other way we'd even be talking about it if the pandemic lockdowns hadn't happened.
At this point people have loved the PS5 and Xbox Series for having full backwards compatibility. The Xbox goes even further through software. People liked the Wii’s backwards compatibility and the Wii U (for those who had it).

And Nintendo’s long chain of BC from the GB to the 3DS (though eventually dropping GB/GBC) was legendary.

The Switch was such a leap over the 3DS and WiiU Nintendo got away with it. It’s had such a long life having no BC could be a huge hit if the Switch 2 didn’t have it.

I think all three intended to try and keep it going forward at this point.
> Such games are “cheap trash” in the same sense as a vegas casino. Similarly the actual operating of them at scale becomes very sophisticated.

And finally, there's an initiative to outlaw many of the tactics that make it work so well!

https://www.beuc.eu/reports/game-over-consumers-fight-fairer...
Just so you know, the original people who reported these incidents are black residents of Springfield.
Honestly I find it a bit hilarious that you thought the iPhone mirroring feature was "the one" that would keep you on the platform.

The last thing I want to do is operate my phone with a trackpad/mouse and keyboard.
No, they're talking about the jump to 0 days where they can now live in a low-CoL area as far away from HQ as they'd like.
> Using complex language doesn't take you closer to that goal.

Complex language should not be used for its own sake, but it is often the most succinct and clearest way to express your points.

Communicating half of an idea to 1000 people can be worth less than exactly communicating an idea to 2 people.
Hey, can't be too careful -- COVID is still out there, right? Mask up, everybody!
Many things never need explicit support, because good HTTP citizens allow unknown HTTP methods (and treat them basically as POST). True for for example PHP and fetch().

Node.js needs explicit support, this got added a few months ago. There's a good chance that as long as your server supports it, you can start using it today.
To be clear I think the tweet is a bit exaggerated (and the word ‘performance’ there doesn’t take into account efficiency, for example) but I don’t have the time to read the full paper (just skimmed the abstract and conclusion). I quoted the tweet by an author for people to discuss since it’s still a fairly remarkable result.
For general purpose systems it doesn't make much sense to lag a release, the amount of breaking change is pretty minimal in FreeBSD these days and it is fairly common to run -CURRENT (main) in production so there aren't a lot of hidden dangers in a .0

Old school appliance vendors appreciate the old stable branches where they carry a lot of local changes.
It's really only meaningfully used as the first thing by virtually anyone.

Arch's whole identity as a distro is that of a coworker who is capable and competent at all the most useful aspects of his job whilst being completely useless at things which ultimately don't matter so you ignore his body odor, taste in music, and mismatched socks.

Nobody obtains security by watching the package script flash through their terminal just like nobody gains anything useful by doing a manual install at the terminal. These don't matter because you can use a script to install arch and use a helper script the same way you use apt.
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:

Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

- W.H. Auden
As someone who has had the dubious honor of bidding to supply Amazon, they love dual sourcing to squeeze their suppliers, or just straight up using your bid to negotiate with their preferred supplier
I think very relevant is this broader analysis:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41562321

YC isn’t to blame here. It’s a microcosm of the incentives that have been set up. Unfortunately most of the game-changing tech isn’t going to be low capex moving forward. We are moving past the “Airbnb for dogs” era and into the “build a better quantum computer” era.
Brex vs. Mercury – how do they compare?
Brex has a comparison page where they claim superiority in every category, but it's clearly one-sided. I wish Mercury provided a similar page, but they don't. As of September 2024, how do these two actually stack up?

For context, we're a funded startup with $300k in cash—below Mercury's $500k threshold for treasury services but acceptable for Brex. Other than that, I love Mercury's UI and automations, at least based on their landing page.
At most firms the money was never earmarked for saving lives and there's no expectation it ever would have.

By not earning the money (or losing it), you're not actually impacting anyone's life.
It does make it net-bad because the educational content should exist without the trash, which is far more prevalent. It forces the positive stuff to comply with the trash algorithms that make them worse and also forces them to comply with the monopoly of one of the largest, most monolithic corporations in the world that can do whatever the fuck they want with the content. Of course it's not surprising! It's just shitty and needs to be different.
The neighborhood liquor store, or the grey market handyman. That's the remaining low cap fronts.

Im actually bullish on these types. I think the next wave of useful apps for people like them will be built BY them using increasingly available tools and platforms. Instead of Stanford kid making another "uber for finding plumbers" without meeting plumbers or working with them to understand their needs, some plumber with tech moderate tech skills(maybe he made wordpress sites as a kid) can hack together an AI wrapper that can tell him if everything looks up to (building) code when he uploads a video walkthrough of his work. Maybe an electrician can upload the blueprints and have AR mark every wiring run. I guess these aren't trillion dollar ideas but could still make many more millionaires.
For some reason, I find it kinda funny you don't just ask the LLM to extract the values for you. Practically, your solution makes a lot of sense -- way fewer tokens, less likely to make weird one-off errors, can verify the response makes basic sense or re-use the code off-line or with sensitive data...

But if I were watching Star Trek, they would definitely just ask the computer to grab the fields and it would be a done deal!
It’s already happening. Ai is being used today to review police cam footage. Not in real time but that’s also not a huge barrier.
You can deduct your home office if you use it only as an office for work. If it's also your bedroom, you can't.
Yes.

You say that, but you can absolutely notice. Motion is smoother, the picture is clearer (higher temporal resolution), and input latency is half what it is at 60.

Does every game need it? Absolutely not. But high-speed action games and driving games can definitely benefit. Maybe others. There’s a reason the PC world has been going nuts with frame rates for years.

We have 120 fps on consoles today on a few games. They either have to significantly cut back (detail, down to 1080p, etc) or are simpler to begin with (Ori, Prince of Persia). But it’s a great experience.
> Sony and Nintendo would be fools to give up backwards compatibility just for savings on chips.

But would they really?

Staying on x86-64 would take care of CPU compatibility (unless there's some exotic AMD-only instruction set extension heavily used by PS4/5 games), and a GPU emulation stack seems at least somewhat plausible.

Sony has pulled this off multiple times before with seemingly completely incompatible architectures:

The PS2 came with the PS1 CPU (repurposed as an IO controller, but fully available for previous-gen games) and emulated the GPU on its own. The PS3 did the reverse in its second iteration (i.e. it included the PS2's GPU and emulated the CPU). The PS Vita's SoC had the PSP MIPS CPU included on-die, which in turn is similar enough to the PS1's to allow running those games too.
in some ways, this is on consumer choice as well. I'm sure people like you were more console oriented, but the MTX era meant they could appeal to a casual audience who would slowly drop money here and there, for games that are simpler to iterate on compared to something like Infinity Blade or Chaos Rings. Or watch ads in-between their 30-60 second level-based games.

Or in the opposite way, the ruthless Korean MMO model matched very well in mobile and you have that same hyper-hardcore audience dropping thousands for a new character in a gacha. You don't need 99% of that console audience paying $10 when that whale is spending $100k/month, consistently.

So it makes sense that the console players, no longer appealed to, left while the newer models found other audiences.
Would you mind explaining what these commercial real estate interests are? How does a company or the government benefit from having "butts in seats", all else e.g. productivity, equal?
Oracle sells to entities who want the processing capabilities and OLTP. Ellison is a dinosoar survivor of another era. Not every play he makes is awesome but he is a survivor. If he says this, there will be a reason behind it which goes to Oracle's bottom line.

Not the politics, not what he really thinks: A reason which matches a market opportunity he thinks Oracle can seize.
Those aren’t low capex at all. They require integrating with a global supply chain at competitive prices. You’ll have to work international markets and potentially domestic politics to make it work. Just standing up a factory is extremely hard in the US.
I remember the hype around cell processors being so high around the release of the PlayStation 3. It was novel for the application, but still fizzled out even with the backing it had.
Personally if I'm going Linux, I'm out on Mac hardware.

Don't get me wrong, Mac hardware is nice hardware. But there's no reason to own it if you're using alternative operating systems.

The bang for your buck on computing is wildly better on something like a Beelink mini PC than a Mac Mini. Windows laptop hardware has also most definitely caught up to the M1.

And I think we all know you listed off everything that's gonna be broken with Asahi Linux like Bluetooth and microphone as something you "don't use" just because you know it's broken.
I do

`stupidlylongrunningcommand | say 'stupdily long running command complete'` a lot.
> There are massive (many trillion) commercial real estate interests at play here that t

That theory is bullshit though. Yes, there are companies that stand to lose if office buildings clear out. But they're not the same companies that make the RTO decisions. The companies making those decisions could actually gain if they ditched the office buildings... facility cost is some absurdly large line item on the ledger for most businesses.

Without a clear connection between the two, I have to chalk this up to irrationality. Companies are still run by humans, and humans are irrational more often than rational. Especially with something like this, where there's no clear precedent to steer by.
Legends of magic rings (and crystal balls) that have malign influence are much older than Tolkien.
Life without jQuery was never as hard as you claim. jQuery broke in IE9 more than it helped, but it was also a cult and many developers were entirely unemployable without it.
I would ask that you reconsider using "adhd" as a derogatory manner in your future posts, it is quite ostracizing for people with actual ADHD to encounter such language. ADHD does not mean "can't pay attention to something longer than a few words". Please at least educate yourself on the disorder before using it as an insult.

Additionally, you are using "libertarian" in an incorrect manner. A libertarian is someone who believes in minimal state intervention in personal affairs, which is at odds with a desire for total state surveillance.
I'd rather see more forced RTO than more off/near-shoring at this point as sad as that is to say.
I use s6 in my product. It’s the standard for every app deployed using our platform.

Couldn’t be happier with the decision.

You can see how we provision s6 files here https://github.com/upmaru/pakman
Constant depth circuits can solve everything? I feel like I missed some important part of circuit complexity. Or this is BS.
Given the size of such a contract, wouldn't it be reasonable for Sony to just request equal or better instruction latency for everything relevant from the old CPU?
> Apple designs their own cores and Qualcomm is starting to.

Qualcomm already did for many years! The Snapdragon line from 2008-2016 used custom Scorpion/Krait/Kryo cores before they went to Cortex A73 cores in the Snapdragon 835.
They have 120 today, it’s just not used much.

Even if people stick to 4K 60, which I suspect they will, the additional power means higher detail and more enemies on screen and better ray tracing.

I think of the difference between the PlayStation three games that could run at 1080 and PS4 games at 1080. Or PS4 Pro and PS5 at 4k or even 1440p.
Funny how that works huh? Only when it affects you, thats when you start paying attention.
Here's my very simple solution

Add this to your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc

alias alertme='printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a'

I add this after longish tasks - eg:

python longtest.py; alertme

seeddb; alertme
sites specialized around gacha are probably not just western. I imagine sustaining a few korean or japanese site managers is cheaper than in the US.

There's a few english-first sites talking about gacha, but they are much smaller endeavors. Not much different from a blog managed by 1-2 people that just need a few hundred dollars (if that) to pay for servers.
Okay so, seeing as this is me running this command on my computer...I'd notice I deleted something accidentally.
> You can say the same thing about humans, provided they are allowed to think across as many years/generations as needed.

Isn’t this a good thing since compute can be scaled so that the LLM can do generations of human thinking in a much shorter amount of time?

Say humans can solve quantum gravity in 100 years of thinking by 10,000 really smart people. If one AGI is equal to 1 really smart person. Scale enough compute for 1 million AGI and we can solve quantum gravity in a year.

The major assumption here is that transformers can indeed solve every problem humans can.
But, how does it taste?
Mostly just repeated observations of my peers. It's kind of hard to articulate an exact experience other than general rudeness and sneering but I'll give it a shot.

Recently, a colleague of mine was presenting their work. Another colleague with CSPD (comp. sci. personality disorder) interrupted the presentation to say "this all seems very obvious." The remark was self-aggrandizing and completely dismissive of my colleague's hard work.

Witnessing this made me realize just how toxic our community can be to one another.
You're approaching this from the idea that the impenetrability by third-parties is the primary security feature.

If this is true, then my worry isn't even about malicious attackers, it's my neighbor (with a real Mac) being able to (accidentally!) eavesdrop on my phone screen (since according to you this is the primary security measure).

It's obviously ridiculous, and the primary security measure is that there must be a prior key exchange and consent step. If that part is secure, then it would be secure against a third-party.

If that part is not secure, then no Secure Enclave-ing will help you, because worst case scenario, the attacker can just use a real Mac as part of his attack to pass the secure-enclave-protected authentication step, or just exploit the good old "analog hole" by using the real Mac as the main attack vector (and then just capture its HDMI output and feed in inputs via a USB-capable microcontroller simulating a keyboard).
> Alternatively, if the geographic constraints are a showstopper for you, please let us know.

It's not even that they are a showstopper (even though they are obviously against the interests of anyone who likes the very idea of Matrix), they just seem to be completely pointless, which even a malevolent party (Meta) must admit. I mean, I am no expert in how to deal with passive-agressive bureaucrats, but you must admit they are extremely easy to bypass. Just enable a VPN and poof, you are in Europe, as far as Matrix server is concerned. So why force users to jump over these hoops, if you know they won't really stop anybody? I do get they don't want it to be convenient, but they can't deny it's pointless.