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So, you think you know better how your friend should live his/her life?

How would you feel if the tables were reversed and you were being pushed into tripping instead of therapy?

These are the kinds of choices that we have to learn to respect, for all of us, which means less judging.

There may be other ways to help if that's really what you want to do.
Yeah, no. If my 5 year old can look at it without worry, so can random airport guy number 34.
It should be noted that even though McDonald’s began allowing franchisees to use another brand years ago, most still do not.
Why should OpenFreeMapbuild, a free public service with no SLAs, build their solutions based on what's optimal for an e-commerce site to retain customer instead of what's optimal for their project's needs? Some clients can afford to lose connectivity during an active outage, not everyone is the worst case. My web service using round-robin DNS is not an ecommerce site either, the users have already paid by the time they are using it and none have ever filed a ticket or noted a complaint in the service review about the failover being slow or unreliable so why should I build it different just because some other use case could theoretically be losing a customer during an active outage?

Running load balancers does have a downside, every single design choice other than "don't do anything" is another point of configuration and cost. Round-robin based DNS solutions often require nothing more than adding a second A record and are possible the simplest solution to many problems for that reason. Many cloud DNS systems offer automatic pullout functionality if that's even a need, keeping cases where pullout is a must still not needing to move to more complex answers.

Solutions only make sense in context of what service one is delivering, not in what thinks sounds sexiest, what is the absolute best, or what could be a possible problem in some other use case. That you can think of a case it could possibly not work out is not the same thing as an example of why it's a bad design for everyone - or even that scenario. If you can't gather data the answer is to find a way to do so and make a data driven decision, not swag based on personal opinion. Not every app is only correctly scoped when resources are put in to make it a fluid 144 FPS native experience in <1 MB package, not every DC needs 2n redundancy to be up enough for its customers, not every database needs to be designed to scale to a billion users, and not every web service needs a load balancer to be reliable enough for the use case.
The immediate counterargument is that we already tried pumping water into a desert basin so we know perfectly well what will happen. You end up with the Salton Sea. A notoriously toxic and unpleasant body of water. Irrigating water across a small area is one thing, what this article proposes is a whole other thing.

Lakes that have no outflow, like the Salton Sea, and the Great Salt Lake, end up being collectors for pollutants.They also aren't exactly major attractants for population. Most of the great salt lake shoreline is uninhabited, and most of the development on the East side hugs the mountains rather than the lake. Both lakes have pretty serious issues regarding pollution that will need to be solved. I'm not sure why we would ever want to make another one of those.

There are plenty of places in North America that have plenty of room and resources for people. Coastal sections of the Pacific Northwest are pretty empty still despite ideal climate, water, arable land, etc...
Oh no, how could we ever manage the impossible technique of dissolving minerals back into water?? Truly, this technology is doomed.
I _once_ worked in a place where Jira was without question "a great thing that improved productivity'.

They had a person who'd been trained by Atlassian and worked full time on configuring Jira (and Confluence) - in a workforce of maybe 25 developers 5 designers and 4 QA/testers. (out of around 100 people, the rest heavily top loaded on project management and $1000 haircut account managers)

She was _so_ good at setting up Jira so that it worked super well for the developers, and enforced decent requirements and requirement change management on account managers and project managers. The dev and QA all loved her.

Senior management flew that company into the ground about 8 months after she started, leaving 100+ people unpaid for their final month, and stiffed everybody on outstanding leave and 3 months of superannuation (retirement).

She did get 3 of my best devs work at Atlassian within days. She is very very near the top of the list of "people I'd go and poach from whatever they're doing if I landed the right project that needed and was prepared to pay highly for their skillset.
Or, just use notion and publish the writings ?
Is there anything like a "space nuclear fission reactor" in the first place? My understanding was that all the so called "nuclear reactors" in space where jus powered by radioactive decay of short-lived material, not by fission.
There is an art to writing tests especially getting absraction levels right. For example do you integration test hitting the password field with 1000 cases or do that as a unit test, and does doing it as a unit test sufficiently cover this.

AI could do all this thinking in the future but not yet I believe!

Let alone the codebase is likely a mess of bad practice already (never seen one that isn't! That is life) so often part of the job is leaving the campground a bit better than how you found it.

LLMs can help now on last mile stuff. Fill in this one test. Generate data for 100 test cases. Etc.
I have found Gemini pro to be excellent for RAG application. Most of my java projects with less than 500k lines of code can fit entirely in its context window so I don't have to mess with chunking.

Before this came along, we had tried different tools and RAG applications and nothing compares to what Gemeni delivers. And the cost is nearly nothing compared to gains.
I was diagnosed with ADHD but I still think of myself as a lazy cunt. That probably doesn't help reputation either, I'm sure I project this belief outwards, even unintentionally. Other ADHD-afflicted individuals I've talked to about this report similar.
> It's not that the smooth path you can get via nepotism is the base way things work

Well, obviously it isn't if you're not in the 1%. If you're in the 1% then that's the way the world has always worked and you don't know anything differently.
https://www.paranormalcatalog.net/ghosts/the-ghosts-of-fligh...

https://annas-archive.org/md5/16e94bf84b997f0233166c401ff047...
It is wrong - plain and simple.
It is no different to racism.
As for Linus comments,
it is really surprising how many proper idiots working in IT industry.
It was not like that before..
Not long ago, simply reading Linux magazine was considered a terrorism.
You’re confused about the direction for the burden of proof here. I want infrastructure investment, and already mentioned that it really doesn’t matter if it’s desalination specifically. This creates jobs and general prosperity while it increases possibilities and capabilities historically, and has essentially already created everything you know and love about modern life.

If your position is that it’s better to do absolutely nothing, then it’s on you to show that railroads, dams, and interstates are useless and that the New Deal, the Hoover dam, the Ccc, etc were a net negative for society. Maybe you know of countries that were destroyed by good employment numbers or infrastructure investment?

Eagerly awaiting your own proofs and analysis.
Clearly you miss the point or don't understand politics, if you think the matter or comparison I made has anything to do with finitism. Politics has everything to do with conflicts in wants. For example, some people want free speech, and other people don't want other people to be able to spread lies or what they perceive as lies. Do you see how these wants are at odds with each other, or that two people can have opposing wants? Such conflicts can arise wherever humans interact with each other, and the internet isn't different somehow because it is less finite. I mean, do you think there aren't people out there who don't want to police the internet?

Simply, put, politics is not limited to matters of finitism. And the example I gave, is a perfectly fitting example of where politics is evident.
Both of those sites work fine for me on an iPad, in both portrait and landscape mode. iOS/iPadOS let you choose to view the desktop site (the browser lies about the user agent), but even in mobile mode those sites work fine. I rarely encounter web sites that don't work on mobile -- for some time now "mobile first" represents the best practice for web site design, because of smartphones.

Maybe something wonky in your setup, I don't know, but as a full-time tablet user I don't see the issue you report.
Fascinating to hear these details. Thanks.
Take us -to- it, or take us past it? It’s one thing to go zooming past a point and another thing to get halfway there then turn around and slow down and park there. A telescope would almost certainly want to park there.
That's my "secret weapon" when flying.

Foam earplugs inside noise cancelling headphones.

Even on short 1hr flights, it's amazing how much less stressed and more relaxed I find myself after disembarking. I can get 8 or more hours sleep on a 14 hour flight that way.
The accountants are part of the engineering on large engineering projects.

> instead of letting the engineers do their job

This is your central point - that you imply engineers are infalliable and therefore it most be someone else's fault.

A problem due to systematic effects. As you point out the mistakes have obvious fixes if you have perfect 20/20 hindsight.
That is obviously what the headline is saying. Don't know if comment guidelines apply to when one responds to a headline rather than a person in the thread, but per "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) it seems like an easy critique to point out what the headline says rather than critiquing the person's actual argument or the article's contents
I investigated using JPEG XL for high speed applications but encoding time was much slower than JPEG with libturbojpeg even if you reduce encoder complexity to a minimum
Their CEO seems to be reacting to a perception that Chevy is “behind” and trying to get ahead of the market on EVs. If they were smart they’d still be making the Volt, since it’s an extremely reasonable PHEV that many people with garages in the US would appreciate. It would increase the number of electric miles driven.
Podcast conversations with people about what they're enthusiastic about
I agree with you. For business applications, context window is more important than any extra reasoning ability. I can load up nearly all business documents, regulations and rules and ask it questions and the responses are accurate and better that models with small context window.
Sex scenes in movies are just soft core porn. Would find it awkward to watch hardcore porn with your family and friends? I would. But if you wouldn't find that awkward, I think that's a cultural divide that's just too big to explain.
"I took down prod and accidentally dropped the entire db table of real customer transaction data. But I've got a date tonight with that new hottie from the gym." = Good day.
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train wreck? i’m in the top 10% household income bracket in the country and life is better than ever.
My neurologist has a LOTS of patients.
All of those with either Autism or ADHD / similar symptoms claim that they feel they don't get enough work done.

I start to believe that we are overly self-critical, and that the actual workers are having better ways of hiding their incompetence :D
> Some would say "gay people should be able to do what they want and form 'civil unions' with all the tax and contractual benefits and requirements of marriage, but they shouldn't be able to get 'married'".

> Other people opposed gay marriage because it went against their values.

This difference does not matter - the outcome was the same. Stop treating bigots with kid gloves.
I would call what they did “shifting left” in some sense. [0] They are catching and preventing the issues much earlier in the process.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift-left_testing
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> You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Meta Llama 3 or derivative works thereof).

How exactly would they know if I do?

Also, it doesn't make any
sense that they trained this model using whatever stuff they could download from the Internet but we somehow could bot do the same with their models.
Ah, that's interesting and makes sense. Thank you!
"It's old, so we must change it" is a mindset that lacks something. Specifically, it lacks "because we have better ideas now and the old version has become inadequate for practical tasks". I wish designers would stop putting me through experiences.

At the foot of the page is a link to "The new Wikipedia appearance that took the whole village", with a boast about "We worked effectively with our editing community". Well, the technical improvements are fine, nobody minds if search works better. But regarding the look and feel of the skin, the way I remember it is, they did a trial rollout and consulted the unwashed masses of editors on lengthy talk page threads, and about half of us outright hated it, and they ignored us and only "worked with" positive people suggesting minor tweaks, because at that point it was a fait accompli and WMF was paying them to design stuff and they were damn well going to, whether we didn't like it.
Currently I’m seeing $120 for n100/16gb/512 on both eBay/aliexpress but I’ve seen it get cheaper.
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Intel would barely survive, possibly even declaring bankruptcy, if it weren't for all the subsidies they receive from the US Government.
>You are the one claiming that LLMs are conscious, so it falls to you to prove it.

If a machine is doing things previously before ascribed to "conscious beings" then it's on you to tell me why the machine is not conscious. Hopefully something other than the circular - "It cannot be conscious so it is not conscious".

But whatever. I hadn't quite realized this had devolved into a debate on consciousness. I think that's on me but I have no interest in a back and forth on such an ill-defined, ill-understood concept.

You don't know what consciousness is, what is required of it or what makes it tick in you, you have no way of proving one way or another anybody else has it. It's extremely silly then don't you think to make such bold declarations on what doesn't have it ? especially with circular arguments.

What difference does it make if you won't call it conscious if it does anything a conscious being does ? That's just semantics.
California has already banned the sale, but not the use of a gas-powered engines with under 25 horsepower.
I think what GP is arguing here, and that's something I agree with, is that this wouldn't be an issue if Google shopping was available from the start.

If Google launched Shopping on the same day they launched search, they could have continued the product and it wouldn't have been an antitrust violation. However, because they changed the product and introduced Shopping when they were already large, they're being treated differently.

This approach essentially forces large companies to "calcify", because any improvement to their popular product might be seen as an antitrust violation. It also discourages an MVP approach because if you get too popular too quickly, you're limited in how your MVP can grow.
Have you been to US lately?

This is not a rhetorical point. If you typed those words and I am expected to take those at face value, I have to assume that you have not seen the rabid mobs calling for not allowing X to speak/present/or even be vaguely associated with a given group ( X to avoid adding a political spin to it ).

Any other day, yeah, I agree.. that is absolutely how things SHOULD work. But then, we are here. It is what you get for not protecting freedom of speech enough and excusing attempts at restricting it further ( if you actually tried to stop it, you can ignore that sentence ).

That said, I have a suspicion that you have been to US and know exactly what I am talking about, which means several different things ( among other that I can't really trust those tears of 'nonpartisan lecture' ), but I will let you respond first.
> I'm really unimpressed by the velocity of feature development from these AI orgs, I don't expect them to have complete feature parity any time soon if at all.

I feel two ways about this: one is that there's a lot of opportunity for fast moving startups. But two: how does a startup remain defensible with the giant comes along?

The example is copilot: Microsoft announced it 19 months ago and still very rough around the edges and many opensource projects are doing a fairly decent job of filling in the gap in the meanwhile.
I expected at least a little bit more substance and insight, but the whole article basically boils down to, “if Intel’s fab splits off, they risk becoming another GlobalFoundaries.”

Which, yeah, I don’t think that’s much of a revelation to anyone discussing Intel’s future. There’s no argument put forward that it’s not still the best path for Intel.
Bullshit. The reason that psychedelics are under-researched is that the corrupt medico-governmental chimera has a vested interest in blocking the substances and preventing the research that should have taken place decades ago.

I know, from repeated personal experience, that psychedelics (or mushrooms at least) can be highly effective against even severe depression.

They have been the single most effective anti-depressant that I have ever taken.

Now, I haven't had the depression curing wonder of an experience that some people claim;

It never pulled me out right out of it - but it pulled me back from suicide (on multiple occasions) and a single (rather large) dose is effective for 3 or 4 months before I find myself spiraling back down.

And if we're gonna have a conversation about anti-depressants that are being used despite scant evidence in their favour, perhaps we should start with SSRIs - which not only made my depression worse, but also left me almost asexual for ~20 years.
> Barrett also said Washington must do its job to stay ahead of the semiconductor race. The U.S. has invested more in the semiconductor industry in the past year than in the last 28 years combined, but he says it should do even more, especially in academic research.

Oh. Okay. So why don't we split up Intel and then make this exact investment in the spun off divisions?
They Used to Be Ahead in the American Economy. Now They've Fallen Behind
But that can't really be true, according to HN your car is your whole identity or something like that. Totally "hinged" take for sure.
Kind of. They're what I would call a ute. They're still car based vehicles with beds. But that doesn't mean they can't do 90% of what the average person uses a truck for. They just aren't as stout as a body on frame truck and won't take as much abuse. But use them for their intended purpose and they'll do just fine.
Lots of comments on this thread in the vein of “I dislike this game because it’s not productive”. My honestly question is… why? Why is “being productive” this goal that has to consume your entire life?
Fortunate for the truckers..
This idea that we have to respect other people's decisions is so stupid. There is nothing in the world wrong with believing that someone else is making a mistake. We have brains so we can make these sorts of judgements.
They need a legal basis and they are required to cite that:

https://galballyparker.com.au/can-australian-border-force-se...

In my experience and by my reading of performance stats US Border force are far more intrusive and over bearing than Australian Border forces.
I think there may be a misunderstanding of my point.

The fact that GNOME works well on typical tablets isn't really relevant here. The PineNote is an E-ink device with very specific hardware constraints and use cases. It's primarily meant for reading and writing, and these tasks require software specifically optimized for E-ink displays and low-power operation.

I've personally experimented with desktop environments like XFCE and i3 on a reMarkable 2. While it was an interesting technical exercise, the experience wasn't practical for daily use. For comparison, look at the reMarkable's unofficial/hacked ecosystem (https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable) - it's full of applications and utilities specifically designed for E-ink displays and writing/reading workflows.

This is why I'm hesitant about the "community device" designation. Simply saying "it runs GNOME" doesn't tell us anything about the actual user experience for reading and writing on E-ink. To be clear, my concern isn't that it runs GNOME - it's that this seems to be the only information available about the software experience.
Newspapers are supposed to be about news, you can't trust someone who tries to tell you how to think about things. I just want news and I want to figure out how to think about it myself.
They qualify as Free Software simply because they meet (though do not protect like copyleft) all 4 freedoms. The relicensing is more of a secondary point.
> and the responses are accurate

If you knew this ahead of time then what value did it provide you? Put another way, once the counter party realizes that you've pushed this responsibility onto an LLM, aren't you worried that they could take advantage of this fact to produce intentionally misleading query results?

In an adversarial world what long term value could possibly exist here?
I have not been able to find an easy way to use Claude. While ChatGPT lets me use without even logging in (for free), the only way I could find for Claude was to add an email - approve it by clicking a link on it - and be presented with a mobile number verification.

But ChatGPT - hallucinates and flounders so much about almost anything worthwhile I ask that it is simply of no worth to me as far as trustworthiness is concerned. It tries to be flowery to give an impression of being "good". It is not. Is it decent fort writing quick office replies which you could quick-edit and sent. I would think so. Anything more "serious"? Nope!

Gemini (could use it via a non-Gmail throwaway email Google a/c) wasn't that verbose or going all over. It was more restrained and didn't try too hard about things it didn't know or couldn't do anything about.

I think a lot of the reason ChatGPT seems "better" is because it is easily accessible and the company/founder actually achieved the intended "viral marketing" it could including by that firing and re-hiring saga, ScaJo episode et al.
>as evangelists whose enthusiasm for the drugs compromised the integrity of their findings.

The integrity of most drug research is compromised by commercial incentive. Molecules like psilocybin, MDMA, and DMT can’t be patented. I am more skeptical of commercial evangelism than whatever is currently going on with psychedelic research.