skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. This attitude of being better than coworkers, coming in and saving the day. It had nothing to do with using AI. It’s about “I am better than you” instead of helping people out, or teaching them these things you know.

It’s just a passing internet comment missing all the context, so what do I know.
Man, I sure hope this project can get traction.

The Indigo Magic Desktop coupled with the 4DWM X window manager was among the top computing experiences I've had! At my peak, I was a sysadmin for our setup where I worked and as a reseller, was basically a remote sysadmin for a fair number of other installations.

Used to keep lists of Free Juno numbers while traveling just so I could get online in the days before fairly ubiquitous free or low cost wi-fi. Dial up on those was what? 2.5kbytes per sec, or thereabouts.

Plenty for that kind of support work, but I digress!

I loved it. The red pointer, which I continue to use to this day, crisp interactions, launch/event sounds, drop pads, and too many other niceties to list here, made for great experiences.

And IRIX itself was no joke. The scheduler is amazing! It remained responsive in almost all scenarios.

Once, for a training class, I had updated the software revision. But, on one machine I had left the app open with some action pending.

I saw one student appearing to run the old revision, which I thought impossible because those files were gone! Well, IRIX cached the whole damn thing. gr_osview showed a huge file cache, which I saw evaporate once the app was closed all the way.

Then things were just fine. Excellent!

And the tools. How many machines have you all used with a CD Player that had "Save Track As..." built in as a standard option.

Want to remote display a high end CAD package with 3D rendering and the works? 4DWM with the GLX extensions handled it nicely.

....

Anyhow, I hope this gets some momentum. I would love to run it and maybe show it off to some younger users in the building what computing was like.
>that worldview died with 9/11

I don't think it did. The utopian optimism of tech changing the world for the better epitomized much of the 2000s and 2010s. Neither did the author of the featured article, which is referring to the current day as the death of tech utopianism, even though I don't think they argued this point well, considering that they simply pointed towards a selection of high profile examples of right wing members in tech as evidence of the demise of utopian optimism overall.
> I'd be curious to see a multi threaded version

Some charts

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Some numbers -- Node.js versus Rust

(the underlines show links to program source code)

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
This is my sentiment too. It feels like the world is entering a dark period like it has many times before in history. I don't consider tech to be the cause, but it does seem to accelerate and amplify things.
Out of all the Chinese car companies, the one that owns Volvo and Lotus is probably not a bad choice. They also plan to produce the Smart electric vehicles as a part of a joint venture with Geely. The CLA is also supposed to get self driving tech from Chinese startup Momenta.
I’m not sure that positivity died with 9/11, but I can look back and recall a large number of people struggling after the 2008 crisis, and whole economies never entirely recovering, and so optimism had taken some hard knocks well before 2015/2016.

Remember how one of the early episodes of Portlandia around 2012 waxed nostalgic about the 1990s as a sunnier time?
Either you have light air raft, with everything involved in that. Or a drone with weight of at least a few hundred kilograms... Later of which I would not like too near me. I would even be slightly wary of kilograms of drone, not to talk about tens.

Light aircraft are somewhat efficient, but helicopters point out well the likely efficiency issues with flying cars. We are not getting magic anti-gravity anytime soon... Or jetpacks...
I whipped up this in raku:

use Physics::Measure :ALL;

sub infix:<·>(@x1, @x2) {
die "Incompatible dimensions."
unless @x1 == @x2[0] && @x1[0] == @x2;

[for ^@x1 -> $m {
[for ^@x1 -> $n {
[+] @x1[$m;*] >>*<< @x2[*;$n]
}]
}]
}

my @m = [[1m,2m],[3m,4m]];

say @m · [Z] @m; #[[5m^2 11m^2] [11m^2 25m^2]]

Since Physics::Measure is strong on illegal combinations and since there are not many realistic random combinations of Units (s^2 anyone) I have not gone random for my example.
When there aren't many problems people seem to invent them. I think people in the US don't realize how unbelievably lucky they are. No- we need a shakeup!
Why do you think the previous poster found that name notable? Just because it's inherently funny sounding or something?
What's stopping you from starting your own company to make whatever you think the world needs?

Besides excuses.
WinG – Writing Hot Games for Microsoft Windows [pdf]
> “ The companies themselves and the VC’s they take money from are supporting values and governments that do not act in your best interest and do not even align with their marketing image.”

Anyone who thinks ANY publicly traded company acts in YOUR best interest (unless YOU are serious shareholder) is in the words of my 11-year old kid - delulu :)
I think what you are saying is orthogonal to what they are saying.

You can be positive and optimistic about big scale societal changes that throw out all the established notions. Likewise, you can also be cynical and jaded about small scale changes that just aim to incrementally improve things.

Aiming for big changes doesn't necessarily imply you have to be cynical. In fact I think you're more likely to be able to achieve big changes if you're optimistic about them.
Mercedes’ cheapest cars are about the same as a Camry but when you spend more you really do see this r&d spending in the product. I’ve owned 4 - expensive to maintain but wonderful to drive.

I would say, you really only notice it when you leave your Mercedes behind and rent a Kia/Jeep/etc.

I would like a touchscreen though - in addition to the buttons.
Calling to make research more accessible and help it get implemented
Working on an opensource platform for making discovering and implementing research, that has a potential to transform the industry, more accessible to business proffesionals, so academia work can actually breakthrough and get implemented. You can drop a star and contribute if you like it, or just create an issue!
Probably most would be, but there are a lot of microorganisms and only a few need to get lucky.
Pretty sure that app ended up in IRIX 5.3.
In retrospect it was extremely arrogant of us 90's nerds to think that the bullies and autocrats and sleazebags of the world were too stupid to figure out how to use the Internet to their own ends, and overwhelm the incumbent minority. Once you could use a sleek, trendy iPhone instead of a clunky desktop computer to get online, the writing was on the wall.

Technology changes, people don't.
Seems it is easy to confuse humanity with few corpos and their productive bees.
The most beautiful flying creature imo, they fly almost effortlessly.
I often work remotely in the nature, standing hours in front of my laptop, and sometimes a butterfly or a dragonfly lands on my arm or shoulder, and stays a while. When you think about it, it's probably the safest place for them, since their predators (lizards, ..) don't come close to humans
Thank you for the reply and links. Good stuff.
I've gotten into arguments that were even more heated with maintainers who introduced data corruption bugs into code I wrote in the core block layer, without CCing me, which then hit users I support, and then had to track down, and then had them put up ridiculous fights over getting the bugs fixed.

Context matters, and also, if we're going to have standards for professional conduct they do need to be about more than just language.

We shouldn't be punching down, but we shouldn't be insulating maintainers from criticism when they're being incompetent, either.
FWIW one can front-end OpenLDAP or AD with Radius. Once the translation layer is in place then it's more about teaching IT how to manage particular fields in LDAP/AD.
Also, browsing through the rest of the blog, the author seems to be deep in the "incel" social darwinism rabbit hole, which explains why they have so much difficulty to shoe-horn everything into their world view to the point of contradicting themselves within the same sentence. The entire article (or entire blog even) could be used as a case study of severe cognitive dissonance due being trapped by one's own dogmatic ideology.
How do you propose those "BS artists" feed their families in an alternate reality tech industry where only the roles that add value are deemed worthy of food and shelter coupons?
I mean, we did read Snow Crash and other near-future tech dystopias, but we still thought it was cool.
The compromise is ofcourse that you're working the majority of the time remote and can reasonably accommodate one of these trips if the date is known in advance. I had a similar experience at a workplace I've had with known "onsites" that facilitated several of the business units at the same time, holding meetings and small get togethers to allow some face to face time. Afterward, optional events were suggested to spend time with teams if you had the flexibility, like meeting for a bigger group dinner or doing a meeting specifically with your team.

I don't think it's nearly as 'tech startup burnout' culture as you're envisioning here, people travel for work functions regularly in other sectors of work. Nearly all my aforementioned coworkers on my team had children and lives that they were able to allow their temporary separation from. I dont think it's anyone else's responsibility to fix but your own if making accommodations and planning to meet other people makes you stressed.
Weirdly aggressive.
Can't we just rewrite all clickbait titles with LLMs on the fly?
Ask HN: Are there any LLM summary features that don't suck?
Every tech company and their uncle seems to be rolling out AI features these days, especially ones that promise to summarize all the stuff you’ve got stored in their platforms. From Gmail and Slack to smaller players like Gitbook, everyone’s jumping on the bandwagon—usually behind a shiny premium paywall, of course.

Since we rely on a mix of these big and small tools, we decided to put their new AI toys to the test. We asked them to summarize emails, messages, posts—you name it. The verdict? Meh.

The summaries they spit out are all over the place. They either miss the key points entirely or focus on the most random, irrelevant details. It’s like asking someone for a quick recap of a meeting, and they tell you what snacks were on the table.

So now I’m left wondering: is it just me? Or is Google, Slack, and the rest of the AI crew genuinely struggling to make these features work the way they’re hyped up to?
In the year 2000, Google was fresh, the Internet was becoming a normal thing for people to use and it was supposed to get rid of the old power structures and bring about a new age of egalitarianism and meritocracy. Plus I was younger and much more idealistic. And to be fair, it has caused revolutions and caused new power structures to be established, and torn down old ones. But as the old adage goes, it turns out that power corrupts. So meet the new boss, same as the old boss. I'd like to pretend I'd do better with my money if I'd invented PageRank back in the 90's, but having seen how money corrupts people, I'm not convinced that I would.
I read those stories quite a bit. In serious journalism, they are corroborated with other evidence and usually turn out to be accurate. I saw a NY Times story based on interviews with ~80 people and confidential documents; these journalists aren't kidding around. The reputations and careers (and liability) of serious journalists rest on uncovering important stories and getting it right, not on the number of clicks.

Contrast that with social media.
That's totally a human thing. Digital window dressing (or in this case, defensive tribalistic behavior) is just another projection of how human beings do social things.

Generally speaking, if you place anything under close scrutiny, you will catch yourself (assuming you're human) like the ouroboros - the serpent consuming its own tail. You can't escape the flaws of your own perception and your nature.

All other things, including praising technology and envisioning a better future, are just the tip of the iceberg. People will never find solace outwards unless they turn their focus in the opposite direction. Unfortunately, this is impossible for society in our capitalist, highly materialistic world.
What is unauthorized use of technology? Is the light I need to read not technology? Is using the internet to find more about a topic not technology? Where is the line that makes AI forbidden?
Personal financial payments to physicians are a common marketing strategy used by the pharmaceutical industry. These payments include both cash (typically for consulting services or invited lectures) and in-kind gifts such as meals.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8315858/#:~:text=Pe....

The pharma and medical device companies sponsor the conferences that all our doctors attend every year.
> US government doesn’t have skin in the game here

It absolutely does, just in the opposite direction from OP’s hypothesis. Washington likes cheap oil. It wants high production levels from its producers to keep prices low; producers want high and stable prices.
Yes, though I'd characterize it as more naive than arrogant.
CISOs can now obtain professional liability insurance
Our actions certainly are, and if we think we have free will, we ought to be able to control those. And I think it is possible for us to do so.

But on the other hand, this isn't about me trying to persuade you, or you trying to persuade me. This is about a corporation (pick one) with a revenue base that matches many countries, spending a good chunk of that revenue on the best persuasive techniques and technologies the human race can produce, microtargeting each one of us to click the link, and draw from our eyeballs seconds of our time. The cost to us is small, that the side-effect is warping our perceptions of the world is something the corporation doesn't care about.

We're living in that shadow of H.P. Lovecraft's Great Old Ones - vast, inhuman things that reshape us and our world without any care or understanding.
>They were at the top in F1 until 2021.

Mercedes F1 team has nothing to do with Mercedes car company other than sharing the same name. Different factories, different management, different workers, different technologies.

It's a marketing exercise designed to sell more road cars ("Win on Sunday, sell on Monday"), that shares nothing with the road cars division.

They can very well sell the F1 team if they deiced it's not profitable anymore.
Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment [video]
Unfortunately I don't really understand the various protocols OMR supports, so my experience comes from measuring aggregated speed/latency and stability. XRay worked best for me and also supported QUIC if enabling proxy UDP over XRay/V2Ray. However, due to the omr-bypass issue, I've disabled that option and QUIC (which is the default setting).
But it's active in standardization in a way that helps Google's business specifically, not the market as a whole.
My comments are to be controversial… To get people to think… What is the future with AI and using it as such… If I told my coworkers how I achieved it would they not think less present day… What about in a few years or more it's the norm and mine and everyone's HML, CSS, JavaScript skills are less valuable,… this example shows that AI will definitely take peoples jobs, including my own if I do not ramp up my skills
I agree with your general point about the effects of such rudeness, but I also think the solution is to actually "just" write to these people (in broad cc) and say "Please consider that, although [you] devs were right, [you] could have expressed [your]selves more cordially. I don't think being that rude improves anything, [and] this behaviour has affected my willing to contribute with the project.". Even if your own email falls on deaf ears, the second or third will trigger reflection. And the 10th will trigger some sort of review by colleagues. After all, at the end of the day, it's a team of adults who are all in it for the same goal, and they should be trusted to be able to handle it like adults when concerns have been expressed in the appropriate manner.

Whereas CoC-driven development risks leading to a chilling effect where you no longer constructively argue about stuff, let alone in a passionate manner (that, admittedly, risks going the wrong side of the fence on occasion), and just let shit pile up because it's not your business to be getting the snake out of the hole and messing with a CoC Panel for it.

And this is even in the 'ideal' case where the CoC Panel has no 'political' ulterior motives. God forbid when this is not the case.

Basically, careful what you wish for.
You are straw-manning by quoting half of my post though.

On the team, "people without children" are the minority. We do have member s on the team with disabled elders, elders requiring care, disabled children. Lifestock even. We do have people with all manner of volunteer responsibilities too.

We have discussed this extensively internally. To all of these people, it is massively easier to clear up 1 full week with 3-4 months of lead time, than to free up 2-3 days per week permanently. That's why whe chose this mode.
I was expecting this to say “S3 append is buggy” or something. But really it just is saying “my specific application cannot replace making new files with append for a very specific reason”

The issue cited is that using append instead of writing a new file means losing put-if-absent consistency guarantee.

So… just don’t do that? Make the rule that a leader can append to a file it already wrote, but new process or newly elected leader must always start the next file in the sequence, and don’t design your system so that the append use-case needs at-most-once delivery or something. You can put a causal clock in each append chunk header or something if you want to stay as close as possible to the original system design.

Like, I will happily write pages of a WAL using append with no issues as long as my system isn’t multi-leader. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Everyone's different but I think I felt like the increasing polish and commercialization of the web killed it slowly. And that makes sense to an extent, as there was money to be made people would invest more (and have entire teams) in making ad-optimised content instead of just having one person cranking out homestarrunner or thebestpageintheuniverse or what have you.

Also, the closing of open systems. This whole idea of "whatsapp me or slack me or discord me" - that's ridiculous! It's _obvious_ that I should be able to use whatever client I like to talk to people, just like I did with gaim and AIM and MSN messenger and ICQ etc. etc. Now we're perilously close to the point where websites will just block you if you're not logged in (conveniently via Google using their browser, of course! Firefox users can get lost.) I can even get the need for it as AI makes bots increasingly good, but it sucks.

We still have https://search.marginalia.nu/ at least.

Edit: Also re: open systems - we went from default-open with desktop computers to default-closed on phones. Now you and your work exist at the pleasure of and for the purpose of enriching Apple and Google. Android SHOULD be something you can run and do with as you please, but of course you can't if you want to be able to do things like use your banking app.
At my previous job I worked in a room with ~6 people, now it's a small open plan office and I hate it. I just can't focus with all the talking, noise, meetings etc. it's awful, especially with the contrast of our 2 work-from-home days per week.

Funnily enough our team lead works in a 2 person office... hmm.
Someone who's in medical school (or finishes and goes into medicine) isn't really "inside" the pharmaceutical industry and typically has a very, very poor understanding of how pharmaceuticals are developed and brought to market.

The most substantial corruption in the health/life sciences/medicine world is simple profit motive at hospitals, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), and insurers, and especially when those three entities combine into mega "pay-vidors" like UHG.
I would imagine fewer and fewer manufacturers are wanting to invest in combustion engine development at this stage, but regulations are getting ever tighter in much of the world. Plus an increasing number of people just want a vehicle as an appliance; if it looks cool and it's nice inside, they don't care what's making it go as long as it's reasonably reliable and doesn't drink fuel.
I think the point of the article is that while tech may in theory enable all the good things we have dreamed about, in practice it mostly doesn’t.
> I distinctly remember this view that this would make society better, that it would be a big step forward for humankind.

Never had this. Maybe a little bit about GNU and Linux; that's about it. Good to see someone sobering up.
The both have their place. Print debugging is ineffective for complex problems. The full power of debuggers is overkill for simple problems. Neither option is more powerful than slowing down, observing the problem, and just thinking about it. When you throw rubber duck debugging into the mix, all three tend to be fairly evenly distributed in terms of how often they solve the problem, in my experience.
I wonder how much of it goes into "pension funds".

As long as Mercedes (and any other old car companies) as not cutting their staff and pipelines, they will never be competitive with Tesla or Chinese companies. They have a lot of inertia but their development processes are too outdated at this point.
Compared to other airliners those production number are small.
Is there demand for building custom AI agents as a freelancer?
I've built a few AI agents at this point at my job.

Is there demand for doing it full-time as a freelancer?
Indeed. I fear we may not make it to the second half of the book, but we gotta keep trying.
I think you're saying that a database can't be C10K. Why? You don't say but I imagine that you mean because it's I/O bound, not CPU bound. And that may be true, but it may also not be true. Consider an all in-memory database (no paging): it will not be I/O bound.

> Every time you introduce backpressure handling in C10K-ready app it's a red flag you should simply use threads.

That's an admission that threads are slower. I don't see why you wouldn't want ways to express backpressure. You need backpressure for when you have impedance mismatches in performance capabilities; making all parts of your system equally slow instead is not an option.
You are saying that the daughter's behavior exhibits characteristics of a female entering puberty? I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I read your statement to mean "the author is seeing common female behavior." (since all women enter puberty)

You mention someone with "actual diagnosed" disorder assigned by "actual professionals".

It seems like you think the daughter's behavior should be thought of as more characteristic of behavior of the female sex and less that of a woman expressing a diagnosed disorder. Can you clarify your thoughts?

I read the article and saw more narcissism and anger than autistic behavior, and I'm not too familiar with how much the "professionals" treat narcissism as a subset of autism.
Where do I sign up?
(Sadly I still need to be able to pay rent)
> No, they had the option of having a real conversation in private about what we could do to improve the overall situation.

Abusing others individually in public, but expecting a quiet word on the side about “the overall situation” when it comes to your own behavior. I hope you realize something from this.