skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you can have exponential growth in human energy consumption without exponentially heating the Earth by having the growth take place off-planet

No. It doesn't matter, unless you postulate that the people left behind have zero population growth and constant energy dissipation, which seems unrealistic?

In any event exponential growth in human energy consumption is physically unrealizable. Eventually the whole solar system resembles a red giant star, and sooner than you might think.

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The point is that anyone who good enough at physics to invent a free energy generator also understands why it must be kept secret. Some secrets keep themselves. That's why you can't buy one even though there are videos on the YT showing how to make them. Like the Philosophers' Stone the point of the technology is the internal transformation it engenders when you actually confront the thing itself.
That is interesting.

If I had my way each engineering-level employee would be the ongoing key to about $1M/year of income.

So regardless of any tax incentives, if I lost 100 top producers I fail to break even because there is no upside to paying the tax compared to paying employees.

Unless of course the executives are not very good at making money from employees having mad technical skills, compared to how easy it is for gov't money to roll in.
LLMs are not intellence. They are not AGI. They do not have the reasoning skills of a baby. This is not something they will "grow into". No amount of additional training data in the world will turn LLMs into AGI. Any argument to the contrary is pure, 100% copium to justify the hundreds of billions of dollars industry has poured into this technology.
"Netflix and chill" is surely a different take on "population control".
How about just raising prices and using extra revenue to expand production? This is what any business would do.
Flags and "native" speakers. Is that how we want to talk about things? [video]
I teach math to smart nerdy high schoolers. I do this. It's great! Fun for everyone :)
Just pointing out Delta Lake and Iceberg are based on columnar Parquet format and are designed for OLAP / data warehousing workloads.

So managing write concurrency is definitely a secondary priority since it's not the norm to have multiple writers.
Depends on how many mistakes they make each lecture. I had one math teacher in high school that our whole class basically gave up on because he was useless. The only way for us to actually get at the material was read the textbook outside of class and explain it to each other.
I feel like multi-billion dollar companies are the only ones who can really afford to treat their employees like trash.

For every person willing to leave, I'm betting they can find 10 others who are as qualified just because they can have crazy pay scales.
I’m taking a crack at ARC-AGI. Very curious to see where I land.
A framework/library/layer/whatever for Godot: https://github.com/InvadingOctopus/comedot

Still quite a bit of work to do but I wanted something that could be a one-stop shop for all kinds of 2D games. So you could use it to make something as varied as say UFO 50 [0] or any of the arcade games from the 1980s-90s.

I've always thought there should be more genre-specific "editors" instead of just "engines". Because even with the most powerful engines you still need a TON of boilerplate and Google-fu to make all the basic mid-layer stuff that’s necessary in almost all games.

The editors and toolkits that came with StarCraft, Warcraft 3 etc. enabled solitary creators to make some of the most popular games in the world like DotA, CounterStrike, even spawning entire new genres..

And I’ve always loved the “composition” paradigm: A workflow where you’d think about the basic behaviors that your in-game objects and characters will have, write them once, and then wire them together in many different ways.

And Godot has been the perfect starting place for that! Its editor is good enough and customizable, and its node hierarchy system fits perfectly with the idea of Lego-like components. I wanted to make something like Godot Nodes but for gameplay.

Hopefully soon I will have my ideal engine to actually make my actual game… :’)

[0]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/UFO_50/
It's controversial because not all workers want to return to office.

If the only reason they are returning to office is for tax cuts to Amazon corp, that's perverse. Not unprecedented, probably the norm prior 2019. But perverse anyway.

In a scenario not perverted by tax incentives, you would do what's best for individual worker's happiness and productivity. Some would stay WFH, some would return to office, probably a lot of hybrid situations. But very unlikely would it be mass return to office.
Only some of the sample images are vignetted; so it appears to be related to post-processing.
Yes it’s integrated with Google drive and allows external uploads too.

This is more seamless than uploading files.
I’m not suggesting that we should “pull back” from the things we love for fear of the potential pain of losing them. What I am suggesting is that the worth of a person is not in what they can do. Their identity should be more than the things they enjoy or are good at.

My grandmother is 100 years old. She has led an incredible life filled with all kinds of achievements. Her passion for reading, learning, languages and art, have all shaped me. She’s blind now, and basically deaf. She can no longer read, which is very painful for her (I can read to her when I visit). How much value does she still have? To me, as much value as she ever did.

What is her identity?
Which liner aligns the same as elastic tabstops in real time without polluting your diff??
good title!
wow, thanks for posting this.

in a few tiny comments it demonstrates precisely the problem the larger ecosystem is facing and will almost certainly get much much worse sooner than we think.
It means their culture is user-first, advertising a distant afterthought. It’s not even in their top ten categories and isn’t broken out into its own reporting category. It tells you that they don’t care about advertising.

Compare this to Google or Facebook, both of which derive about 80-90% of their revenue from advertising, with all other services and products barely an afterthought.

Money, more than anything, drives corporate priorities, culture, and attitudes.

“Don’t tell me what your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.” — James W Frick
Indeed, according to the article the stage misfired 30 minutes after releasing the crewed Dragon capsule. This is pretty serious and could have had disastrous consequences had it malfunctioned earlier.

Clipper is set to release at the "fastest speed ever achieved by a Falcon upper stage", so they really need the rocket functioning flawlessly to avoid jeopardizing the $5B mission.
Waterfall has time to bury the debt and let the grass grow over the crime scene before people come asking questions.

This is dev culture not agile culture.
you need a smart PM who works closely with the CTO to craft the narrative to sales, that the next critical feature milestone is gated behind fixing said tech debt...
Roger Pielke Jnr has coined "Pielke's Iron Law" .

It is :

"If there is an iron law of climate policy, it is that when policies focused on economic growth confront policies focused on emissions reductions, it is economic growth that will win out every time."

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-iron-law-of-climate...

It looks like a pretty good rule of thumb.
very odd that this short news article does not mention "automation" of existing human roles at all. Yet this is central to the contested negotiations

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/port-worker-...
$100M isn't even a rounding error to Amazon.
GNU.org was down
They still don't have cryptographic signatures widely signing gems despite deploying optional infrastructure to do it. What a waste and sad.
Having lived in a country where only lucky few had personal cars, I would not agree at all. Social fabric of a society where people can expect some privacy and personal autonomy in their commute is certainly a better one.
Can someone make the case for why we should support the port workers in this situation? My intuition is that while they are probably competent at what they do, there are likely many people who would be eagerly and immediately replace each of them if offered the opportunity to do the same work for the same wage. And increased automation and efficiency at the ports seems like it would have significant benefit for rest of the nation.
I and one, maybe two other coworkers will fix some of the tech debt while everyone else tries to avoid making eye contact, and we fantasize about a world where voodoo dolls actually work.
Does anyone who has successfully followed their passion project and has been financially successful as well provide some comments on this article? Is it just PG's way of luring in wannabe-enterpreneurs with words or does it hold some value? I am in no position to judge this since I am still working a day job.
I’m working on a state library for JS/React very similar to Recoil and Jotai. Have been using both but struggled with different performance issues that I was able to overcome seeing 10x to 100x improvements in some cases. I’m working on documentation at the moment and plan to open source soon
Citing "primary" energy is a great way to be off by several factors on any estimate.

Electrification results in 2x-5x less energy use for nearly every large energy application. Take, for example, heat humps. Fossil fuels are only something like 95% efficient, whereas heat pumps product 200%-500% efficient. Same goes for EVs over fuel engines, etc.

Old sources of energy get replaced all the time. Not sure why you think that's not the case...
Or data centers around the world used for training
It is a fact that the majority didn't consent to this, not an opinion. The foundation of these tools is, in my opinion, copyright violation. Building a product by transforming a collection of works cannot be fair use by any stretch of the imagination. The artists aren't being compensated because it would cause the business model to collapse.

This isn't ludditism. Ethical ML artistic tools do exist but none of these prompt-based generators fall into that category. None of the tools you mentioned are directly equivalent because they don't depend on a collection of existing work to produce derivatives.

All I will say about the climate is that emissions have to peak next year, and be halved by 2030 to meet the Paris Agreement goal. I have to assume from your casual dismissal that you're not aware of the consequences of missing it.
How so? Nuclear power is the most expensive mainstream form of power by a significant margin.
Who cares about the optimal climate, we just need the rate of change to remain at a low enough level that nature (including humans) can adapt. We seem to be on the edge of that limit already.
His pedigree as a Rhodes scholar always fascinated me. Not many land a helicopter on Johnny Cash's lawn.
That just lets the lazy devs scapegoat the PM for “not letting the “ work on the tech debt.

Most people don’t want to work on it. That’s why there is so much. Generating it is like eating candy. It’s unhealthy but you just want to have something sweet right now and the bowl is in reach…
I haven't had much time, but I've been hacking on a CLI based blogging framework called rot.

I want it to be fully piloted via CLI for setup, deploys, and common actions like creating new posts. Bonus features would be random post, analytics, and view count routes built in.

Just having fun with it. I'm not sure if people beyond myself will want it.
We recently soft launched the new https://feetr.io website as well as our stock market AI, and are knocking our pan in to fix the little bugs that have been uncovered in addition to migrating more of our existing code to the new system.

Over the weekend, we trialled the AI on Reddit[0] and got 300 comments more than expected, so we're doing the above while there are a lot more eyeballs on us.

Super stressful but we're getting there.

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/Shortsqueeze/comments/1fr9ae1/give_...
I remember the weird ‘paid to surf’ things. Hilarious what wildly silly business ideas pop up when money is cheap and people are exuberant.
Nothing should be built with a Microsoft product as its foundation. It's not even a mystery how such endeavours end.
which terminal emulator are you using? most don't seem to have an option for margins

as for elastic tabstops, i want to make three changes. gravgaard proposes a minimum column separation of one space, which i think is a mistake; i want rowspan and colspan; and most radically i want to be able to nest a whole document inside a grid cell with ^k and ^l as delimiters. that would give you fully freeform nested tables
are you saying that $1.97T is not made up of multi-billions?
I'm gonna buck the trend a bit:

I'm not working on anything. I'm resting.

I'll resume my previous projects in due time, but for the next few days, I only have my employer's problems to deal with, and have none of my own.
Both of those mean "hiring based on identity politics instead of ability to do the job" (though different sub-groups, the first being activists and the second being the groups the activists focus on). It's not a simplistic "not good".
Eli Yablonovitch has been working on this for a while. I thought it was assumed that only the lignin would stay sequestered but I'm not finding those details.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2217695120
Put yourself in their shoes before leaping to hand waiving how it would be "better for everyone else." 100% automation of cranes means lost jobs.
sounds great. is this data easy to come by?
OneJS, JavaScript for Unity. Currently working on bringing "Jupyter Notebook" directly into the Unity Editor.

https://onejs.com
Worth noting S3 recently added conditional writes:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/amazon-s3...
> “This will take 3 weeks because of tech debt items A, B, C. We can fix those in 1 week and then take 1 week to implement this. How would you like to proceed?”

I've experienced something like this, but only on a project that mostly had the original team that built it (including me) still working on it. We were able to keep things in check, and in the above case would just do it that way without really asking.

On many other projects I've been involved in, there's years of tech debt that has accumulated: the typical retrospectively incorrect design decision, followed by layers and layers of band-aids, each time making the real fix more complicated and a bigger scope.

These things undoubtedly increase the cost of everything else, but it's really hard to articulate. The fixes take weeks, the break-even won't come until months later, the long-term team members are a mix of skeptical and defensive of their work (eg: don't want to do the real fix). In some cases, there's a war story "we heard that about x, but that caused so many bugs we had to revert and abandon it, why is this going to be different?"

Any tips for anyone working in this environment?
Fair.

Can I ask why exactly you think my take is "very weird"?

Your original post was exceptionally dismissive, without explanation, and your comment on FOI was said so confidently probabilistic that it struck me that you misunderstood what I was suggesting. pardon my aggressive response. I get a lot of similar dismissiveness whenever I interact with government agencies, often where I'm told that something doesn't exist, or "Just look at the data portal", while the data portal is intentionally missing the information I look for. I don't expect you to answer my question, but I hope you can try to understand where I'm coming from in my thoughts and opinions on open data. My intent was only to get you to share your thoughts further.
I think the level of alarmism is way overblown especially from the author’s perspective coming from Gitpod.

There’s so much focus on how Microsoft has this huge advantage with VSCode and GitHub Codespaces as a cohesive product.

But I think that this entire cloud coding workstation space is rather niche in itself.

I think the average user of VSCode, VSCodium, or whatever other fork has full flexibility to not use Microsoft’s preferred extensions and solutions and customize their environment.

All this stuff about fracturing an ecosystem basically amounts to picking default extensions and I just don’t know if this is one of those “abuse of market power” things yet.

I mean, sure, it can be said that it’s bad how Microsoft is so large that it can single-handedly steer the course of a lot of development trends.

At the same time, I don’t think VSCode being such a good product was something that came out of Microsoft’s dominance. They had a lot of luck with that one, they had the right idea, people, and management at the right time. Microsoft makes plenty of software where their big company big dollar investment hasn’t made them a market leader and they have a laundry list of failures and technologies that are trending downward to show for it.

I would agree with another comment on this thread: it really does seem like a bunch of complaining from some cloud workspace competitors who want to get a free IDE for themselves that works perfectly.
Agreed. Plenty of similar companies are making the same type of mandate despite having no tax incentives.

Quite clearly, execs at these companies believe they get stronger productivity from people working at the office, and this would outweigh any attrition from people leaving from RTO mandates. I don't care how many people scream about how that's false -- what matters is that the people making these decisions _do_ believe it.

Maybe the tax incentives are a nice bonus, but there's no way it's the entire picture.
Sometimes insufficient capacity and long wait times can be the result of a government's agenda.

Here in BC, we have (mandatory) auto insurance provided by a crown corporation with a monopoly. The neo-liberal government before the current more socialist leadership hated it and wanted desperately to privatize car insurance. The problem is that ICBC is dearly loved by most residents here. There is a playbook for this problem.

They appointed a fairly incompetent civil servant to run things, and also started raiding the fund, to the tune of billions of dollars.

After about a decade of this, the company was a mess and nearly broke. They were forced to raise rates. The premier characterized the situation as a "dumpster fire" and editorials started popping up arguing for privatization.

That government was defeated, and the new leadership sorted it all out. Within a couple of years, drivers in BC were getting cheques in the mail because ICBC was making too much profit.

There are powerful interests very interested in getting a piece of healthcare in Canada, and some of the shenanigans you see here smell a lot like a set-up to make things become broken enough that the voters will demand privatization.

Just for one example, in the last few years staffing agencies have been hiring away nurses by offering higher wages and then contracting them back to the health authorities at ~$130/hr. This has cost billions to taxpayers and lead to great resentment within the regular staff.

Some folks somewhere allowed this to happen. Why?
The interview is there to give both of them the benefit of the doubt over having said and done hurtful things to people.

I can understand why comments are mostly negative given recent events, but I don't think it's fair to cherry-pick bits and pieces from a 2-hour interview with the aim to portrait someone in a worse light than he had already done for himself.

I personally don't think what Matt did was fair and I still don't think that after watching the video, but the additional context he gave certainly makes me a lot more sympathetic towards the complexity behind the situation for what we only saw the outcomes for.

If you don't have time to watch the whole thing but going to do it anyway, I recommend starting from 1:51:51 to set the tone for yourself.
I've been thinking something like this is needed whenever I see a tree dropping fruit on the sidewalk.
I disagree; I think your overall point is correct, that people want high quality photos beyond what phone sensors and lenses can achieve, and they want the power of their phones software.

Thing is though, most camera makers are kind of crap at software in general, and their UX teams are nonexistent. So being able to delegate to your phone makes a fair bit of sense to the people who'd like that, even if you're not one of them.

It makes so much sense that there's even a second team taking a crack at it that I wasn't aware of: https://www.alice.camera/

That said, this is still a niche within a niche: I don't think either will be some mass market product. But being able to take my phone and a Alice or a SwitchLens to a concert in both pockets is pretty neat.

These will more replace the things like the Fujifilm X70, or a lot of what people use the X100(roman numeral) for, while getting the workflow benefits you're rightfully after.

I don't trust a camera manufacturer to keep their Android deployment up to date, or even to really fix that many bugs in it, and a whole Android OS is a lot more complex for them to manage than SwitchLens/Alice's apps and internal RTOS + comms layers.

Other alternative would be for one of the big players in the mirrorless space to open up their operating systems, but Fujifilm's X series communication app is bad that I simply don't see it as feasible: they really are terrible at software.
i did! thank you for explaining
I'm learning QOL hacks to live without a city water supply for 10 days! Should be interesting. Our town just lost its water supply after Hurricane Helene destroyed the water supply pumping station.

And working on a member-owned social network that runs from users countertops to foster dynamics that make for a better social user experience.
I've been writing Golang for years now, and I heavily endorse everything written here.

Only exception is you should use my migration library [0] instead of tern — you don't need down migrations, and you can stop worrying about migration number conflicts.

One other suggestion I'll make is you probably at some point should write a translation layer between your API endpoints and the http.Handler interface, so that your endpoints return `(result *T, error)` and your tests can avoid worrying about serde/typeasserting the results.

[0] https://github.com/peterldowns/pgmigrate
A chrome extension that lets you chat with any webpage using LLMS! helps avoid a bunch of copy-pasting into ChatGpt. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rocky-ai/fdjoklehji...

1. Summarize Articles – Get concise overviews of content from sources like HackerNews, Reddit, and more.
2. Quick Information Lookup – Effortlessly locate key details on pages such as developer documentation, car forums, and beyond.
3. Personalized LinkedIn Outreach – Craft customized outreach messages for your LinkedIn connections with ease.
4. Review Analysis – Analyze feedback and reviews from platforms like Airbnb, Amazon, and others for quick insights.
I'm currently finalising a Security Operations app that centralises triage for security alerts (North / https://north.sh) into an intuitive interface that better helps Security Operations teams, MSSPs & SOCs.

It tries to deal with alert fatigue via some nice de-duplication techniques (via customisable aggregation and correlation rules), manages and runs detection rules against different logging platforms (Elastic, Splunk and ALA/Azure) with Validation and Simulation testing, and will lower the time that it takes to determine malicious activity by presenting as much relevant information per security alert as possible.

Hopefully to launch sometime before end-of-year. If you're interested, I'm always free to talk via alex@sinn.io, or sign up to the newsletter.

https://north.sh/