skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of, yeah. I remember being a teenager in the 90's and it really felt like things were going to be radically different, and better. The cold war was over (well, we thought it was), anybody could talk to anybody else anywhere, anybody could publish anything, and surely this would mean regular people would be more empowered than ever before, right?

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

was not meant ironically.

It's hard to explain how _cool_ Google was circa 2000-2010 or so. How they genuinely seemed a bit cyberpunk and they had figured out how to do cool amazing things and make money and not be evil.

Sadly, it was not to be. But maybe I was just a naive teenager.
Front End for Wakapi
No Kent, really.
> we are unlikely to see personal flying cars

There's already a few being developed, but that's not going to be for the peons e.g. pal-v started taking orders for Liberty this year, and apparently the price tag is somewhere between half and a mil.
Ok, S3 is not a file system replacement. Trying to fit a square peg into a round hole and claiming there are “issues” with the peg is disingenuous.

S3 has and always will be object storage, that’s how it’s architected, and unless there’s a full rewrite, effectively making it something else, that’s not going to change.

Multipart upload is implemented as a grouping of a list of objects. This append operation is implemented the same way. It does share the name with the block storage append, but it’s a different use case.

Think of this as the objects being comprised as a list of sub objects, like a multipart upload. This feature allows you to add new sub-objects to the end of the list. Same rules continue to apply.

There are some cases where this is useful, like logs batched with Kinesis or any other batcher, live streaming, chunked video footage, etc. For those use cases it works fine. It’s not a file system.
I don't see the failure in Twitter. It's a platform capable of influencing elections, that's definitely worth more than people think.

It lost revenue since advertisers don't like the platform's freedom of speech, and Elon won't give them control of what's allowed on the platform. Advertisers want control, they don't want free speech. Why do you think You tube removed the downvote counter? Advertisers pay not just to how their stuff but to also be able to control the narrative. If crowds of people are allowed to freely light a brand on fire on Twitter, why would they pay to advertise there?

Meta paid like 22 Billion for WhatsApp which is hardly bringing in revenue.
The Violin
By your own statement, people said the same things about Tesla in the past which they do about Twitter today. That alone should be pretty strong evidence that it's too soon to tell if his approach with Twitter has failed. Maybe it will fail, maybe not, but either way I think it's too soon to call.
It's not just taxes, it's also important for your balance sheet. Which I imagine is important to a publicly listed company like Mercedes. If you pay someone $100.000 and they don't create anything, that's money you lost. But if you spend $100.000 on research or development (two subtly different things) there is the expectation that they created at least $100.000 of value that will be realized in future years. You didn't lose money, you converted it from cash to intangible assets, simply a different line on your balance sheet.

The tax benefits more or less derive from that, along with the general consensus that we should encourage companies to invest into the future.
What is..the new normal of using AI to do or help you get your job done and or quicker? Comment above shows it could be the new normal...
I agree. But I think the issue is that the FDIC is providing pass through insurance but also now clarifying in an unexpected way, that only failures of the underlying bank trigger insurance coverage. It may be technically right but it has many implications that are negative. To the everyday person it’s also perverse that highly connected rich people, like VCs tied to SVB, can get their money protected beyond any insurance limit based on their power, but poor individuals just have zero influence.
lol, “entitlement”? Do you believe companies pay over $200k out of charity? They pay what they have to pay, and that $200k is artificially lowered by illegal backroom deals by the FAANG cartel.

You sound like a bitter contractor. And even if you aren’t, support your fellow proles.
While I admire your optimism, this is not realistic. The earth is big and not all parts get the same amount or intensity of sunlight. Nordic countries cannot rely on Solar with batteries, for example.
Being a cat-and-mouse game, would the reaction from the app-owner be to shift the computation to methods that are not discernable by dissection of the app?

For example having the app be purely a data collection tool which then streams it to the server to do all computation?
> His parents sued. ...

> He even ended up texting asking me for past essays I wrote to turn in as his own ...

> he then transferred to one of the prestigious military academies
...

>> There is almost zero downside for suing even if it gets you tons of negative publicity.

Sounds like the caveat here should be, "when your parents/family is connected".
Anyone younger than a boomer knows how to make friends, they don’t need office hostages for that.
Comparing the current use of aluminium in wide range of products. Compared to current and even some future uses of AI. It is in general very useful material. And somewhat even one of the enablers for this level of AI as lot of power transmission cables are made out of it. It is better for purpose as even if the cables are thicker they weigh less for same power capacity.
> - win, and increase college admissions odds

Will it, though? Like if the college happens to know about this incident?
> This reminds me of my mom in medical school who became disillusioned when she experienced the corruption of the pharmaceutical industry and it's influence of the entire industry for it's own profit, not always in the interest of the patient.

That sounds like a story of its own. Would you care to share the story about the corruption she saw? We so often hear the stories about companies hiking prices for lifesaving medicine fo no apparent reason other than profit, but it would be interesting to hear what she saw from the inside?
Any data, bro? Or should we just take your word
A 'potato cartel' conspired to make your frozen fries 47% more expensive
You expect to not be responsible for what happens to the software you put into production?

(… and I'd like to avoid distracting arguments that amount to "my company does on-call badly" — yeah, those problems do exist and we should strive to fix them. But if I'm to not categorize the argument here as the baby with the bathwater, then we need something to replace on-call with. Prod goes down on a Saturday afternoon; are you going to tell management "tough cookies" until Monday?)
Disgusting, infantilizing worldview. Fix the culture instead of chasing it. These imbecilic "behavioral economists" can't wait to live in a world where you get a Free* Grimace Shake with every root canal at participating McDonalds(R) McDentists™.
The definition of “software engineer” is SO broad though. If you’re maintaining a database/flight controller/cloud service, etc, you probably need real comp sci knowledge.

Hacking together an internal tool with laravel? Doing vanilla CRUD for a client’s web app? Probably not! No amount of comp sci knowledge will help you configure the millionth nested layer of Wordpress plugins.

So much “software engineering” is just plumbing. Connecting things to other things with a little bit of business logic in between. Honestly my job is plumbing, most of the time.
It strikes me that this is a foolish take to adopt.

I saw lots of students acting a bit like this but I was grateful that I could dedicate myself primarily to my schooling and took as much advantage as I could to learn as much as I could.

The credential gets used as a heuristic for the learning you do but if you show up and don't have and knowledge, then everything is harder and your labor more fruitless.

I know some people don't care and that there are degenerate workplaces but you'll still be left with having been a lot less useful in your life than you were capable of being.
"Doe" is actually a real surname, with a few thousand of them in the US. I'd guess that there probably have been people actually named "Jane Doe". I wonder if that causes many problems for them?
If it’s made of the same stuff as comets, there would be some value to blowing it up, since more parts would then evaporate before impact. Right?
> it's not relevant to the climate crisis... the already existing technologies have that covered, we only need to deploy them faster

Going all in on solar and batteries either requires nuclear energy, thereby raising power costs, or natural gas, which means we can’t make our 2050 goals. We simply can’t manufacture the panels and batteries fast enough, the latter especially if we also want to decarbonise transportation.

Fusion won’t come fast enough for the climate crisis. But it may be relevant for complete decarbonisation, e.g. replacing the natural gas plants we’re spinning up as quickly as we’re deploying solar.
Nah man. That kind of pervasive optimism truly was part of the zeitgeist. Adults felt it as well.

Unfortunately, that worldview died with 9/11.
Sadly there is an element of mass advantage in any commercial entity. Think of GE in the 1980's and 1990's. This is the effect of a less than perfect capitalism, but it is what we have and requires huge investment to solve humanities problems - who else can do that? Today's armchair philosophers, especially those on LinkedIn and Twitter who spout doom about techno-optimism without looking at the evidence around them?
This is not a new thing. Patrick Lencioni made a very good job in his "Five Dysfunctions of a Team" (2002), where he explained clearly why the "star developer" sometimes needs to be fired to boost net team productivity as a whole.

What's new here is the benchmark for "what counts as an asshole". If you need to watch every single word in fear of giving anyone the opportunity to cry 'offense' and invoke a CoC panel on you, that's when all trust in the room goes out the window, and when you really start flushing productivity down the drain.

So, not a net positive in my view.
Exact Quantum Electrodynamics of Radiative Photonic Environments
I'm sure this'll help provide them with a positive view on remote positions.
https://www.pal-v.com/en/
Asking Someone How to Give First to Them Undermines #GiveFirst (2018)
No, b/c we really need it as a weapon. Fusion lasers will finally provide the death ray of sci-fi. If you think "practical energy source" is what fusion research is really about then you've been bamboozled.
> Being jaded and cynical will not help in the long run.

This sounds like it's better to work within the system rather than try to overthrow it. You need more than a little angst to completely reset cultural norms. Maybe you're optimizing for a local maxima instead of realizing the true potential of saying "fuck everything" and replacing it.

I'm mostly playing devil's advocate, not saying the correct response to all adversity is to plot a revolution. But my point is sincere - sometimes it is the best thing to burn it to the ground and start over. Private healthcare seems like a pretty good example of a system that should be abolished rather than massaged (assuming your goal is better healthcare at a more affordable price) and we have decades of data from our own country and others to corroborate that.
Same in German, die Fledermaus. In fact, in English, the word "flittermouse" also means bat [1], although that word is rarely used now.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flittermouse
Steam is uneconomical versus solar power. If all the fusion is doing is heating water it will always lose on cost even if the fusion was free.

c.f. coal. The bulk of the cost of a coal power plant is the steam turbine etc. And coal is not economical.
Thing about flying cars is that you can either have a good car or a good aircraft. Having both combined is worse at both and more expensive at both. Not to mention the headache of dealing with the FAA and whoever does vehicles to get it air and road worthy.

In any case, we have helicopters which embodies the spirit of a flying car
Relaxed Boundary: A Simple Approach to Differentiable Rendering of SDFs
This seems very negative and pessimistic to me. My tech utopia fantasies are alive and well.

One key mistake the author makes is misjudging the average person

>They are people who need to game the attention economy by increasingly disrespectful and shocking content, gore, rage bait, dehumanizing pranks17, extreme consumerism like huge shopping hauls, sloppy large mukbangs, shredding lamborghinis18, gambling streams and websites19, game shows20 and more

If your tastes are more sophisticated, you may see the profusion of relatively puerile content on the internet as "gaming the attention economy" - but how do you know the average person doesn't just like watching mukbangs? And why shouldn't they?

In my view - you should get comfortable with the fact that people have different preferences to yours and judge based on outcomes rather than aesthetics.

The author complains about racism. Maybe it's easier to be racist nowadays. On the other hand, in the decades before the internet we had more race related shootings, bombings, etc. Maybe, net net, it's a good thing if the people who would've been forming a militia in the woods 30 years ago are instead posting racist memes on X.

Likewise it's harder to make a blog or your own website today. But, much easier to blow up on X, TikTok, YouTube etc. I just don't see the issue here. We have far more content creators and similar now than in the past.

None of the complaints seem that meaningful to me. Technology improves. Things aren't perfect (yet) - but they might be in the future. We have greater access to information, communication, and intelligence every year. If these trends persist we will use the improvements to enhance all other aspects of life (as we are already doing). The future where power comes from solar, nuclear, or fusion, physical labor comes from machines, cognitive labor comes from AI, material comes from space travel, advances in biology/physics/chemistry radically extend our life and health spans is not only possible, it is visibly approaching.
There is a singularity in our past. Are we in a white hole?
> How do I square this with claims that the US heavily subsidizes fossil fuels?

By noting it’s irrelevant. Solar production isn’t capital constrained. Certainly not in the West.
Strategic paranoia: When irrational fears serve rational ends
Something to be said for those 70-80% marginal tax rates
Apart from the sinister assumptions one could make about the spending, I assume that Mercedes is obviously waisting a whole lot of money on this. Why? Because trying to merge electrical technology with mechanical technology in a highly safety-demanding environment means rigorous testing before 5 year old tech makes its way into the market only to be superseded by newer technologies that can be installed separately.

The culture of invent and fail fast just doesn’t work here.
Paraphrased: it used to be easier for boomers to get into say the top 2%? I can only guess that the meaning of elite has changed.

Aside: a comment with the word "boomer" in it is usually offensive in my experience. But doing worry, you'll get a different word applied to you when you reach the same age cohort. Disclosure: not a boomer.

There are two types of people in the world: those that split the world into two groups, and those that don't.
Volkswagen has low-cost brands like Seat, which so quite well. I think they are included in the revenue.

If Habeck implements a belated and voluntary Morgenthau plan by de-industrializing Germany, applauding the destruction of its energy infrastructure and by being basically only concerned about increasing Rheinmetall's profits, the German economy will and does collapse.

Habeck runs a tight censorship regime as well:

https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/german-pension...

The Green Party is now both economically incompetent and a warmongering party. It has become the worst of both worlds.
How do you get students to engage in creative writing assignments in age of AI?

How do you get them to dive into a subject and actually learn about it?
https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767...
I kinda miss when the internet was a small part of my life and felt big, instead of being a big part of my life and feeling small.
Compiling with Classical Connectives (2020) [pdf]
Do you know why we do not put much solar panels in the desert ?

Because we do not live in the desert, and moving electricity is terrible (loss is insane)
> We're showing you actual numbers that colleges/universities are 60-80% female, and your response is that male victimhood is some conspiracy.

You’re literally making those numbers up, they are not referenced in the linked article and you provide no proof. You may want to take a step back and ask yourself if it is you who is brainwashed.
> The historical trend is for improvements followed by lulls

And regressions to the mean. Wealth inequality and fascism come to mind.
Using metrics from OTEL collector for scaling
This is kind of crazy, Tesla at peak spent 4 billion $. And they used spend less then 2 billion $. And remember, Tesla is far more vertically integrated. Tesla has large spend in research for their battery and battery materials manufacturing. The make all their own chips, including even some on the data center. They also build robots. And do much of their own AI work.

I must be that Tesla prefers to have some research simply be considered as part of product development. While Mercedes does the opposite.
I wasn't disagreeing with you. My comment was implying that cargo (and arguably rust itself to some extent) was kind of a knee-jerk response to the insane parts of C/C++, for better and also for worse.
efficient - achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense

you can effectively build a house (desired and intended result) on a beach in Florida 2 days before it is destroyed by the hurricane.

no adjective works if you are in a wrong place at a wrong time…
How so and or AI is changing the rules everywhere no? Today it seems not good yet tomorrow it's how things are...
Navigating the Politics of Product Transformation
Those pseudo-jobs are a necessary evil in lieu of some sort of UBI imo.

Plus they're useful for sabotaging your competitors' TTM.
I agree, to an extent. But when articles twist words and uses stats in places that are lies, I have issues with it as well. There's no reason to embellish this data.

How many traffic fatalities is too many? If we lowered the maximum speed of cars to 20 mph, and that reduced fatalities by 90%, would that be worth it?

All things in life have a trade-off.
> Unfortunately, that worldview died with 9/11.

Did it? I personally feel the pervasive optimism lived on in the zeitgeist until about 2015 or 2016. And to be clear, I'm not saying that Trump being elected is what ended it; rather, I believe it was the hyper-polarization (already being talked about by then) of that election that really quashed it.
How to give a senior leader feedback without getting fired
Neuralink gets approval to start human trials in Canada
Even if memorization is not required, you still need to map every move on the board one by one under time pressure, an advance amateur would still make illegal moves.
I hate on-call shifts, but if they must exist, I like the way my team handles them. We have split day and night shifts. 7-18 day shift, and 18-07 night shift.
All non-work hours compensated with standby at 10% of hourly pay. Any pages outside of work hours earn you an additional 150% in base pay. Each page guarantees a minimum of 3 hours of pay even if you spent only 5 mins on it.

And since in my country, you must gave at least 11 hours between shifts, if you get paged at night, you get PTO for the next 11 hours on top.
Naive twenty something (back then) here. The latter half of the 1900s changed so drastically that yeah... a Star Trek like utopia seemed plausible, if not inevitable.

It wasn't until the post-9/11 mobile revolution and normies embracing the internet (late 2000s) that things took a hard turn for the worse. I was honestly surprised (shouldn't have been), and now sorry I didn't do anything to reverse the trend.

We need a well-capitalized organization to keep general-purpose computing alive, along with privacy, security, and autonomy. There are lots of little organizations of course, but they are unfocused and operate like ants in a realm dominated by BigTech giants.

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Right. Unfortunately I don't have the capital, but would love to work on the problem... even for free/cheap in my spare time. And will.

For example, been testing the new Starlite tablet with Phosh... and it is soooo close! I'm about to start learning how to develop for it. But it would go faster if say... starlabs, purism, system76, pine, riscv companies, FLOSS peeps would collaborate more effectively. They do to some extent, but don't often push in the same direction.

One major problem is the quality of documentation of interfaces. One of those boring things most don't want to do without a paycheck. Despite decades of experience with Linux I don't (yet) know where to start with wayland, dbus, gstreamer, gtk, etc. A book that pulled all this together for developers would be a big enabler. Think it would need to be sponsored as it won't be sustainable on its own.
Why? How would knowledge benefit, either directly or indirectly?

I sometimes wonder if we should have probes orbiting each planet and the sun, with the most generically useful sensors, for research that isn't planned decades in advance. But I really don't know if that would be a good investment of scarce scientific resources.
I'd argue it has less to do with the "capitalist systems" and more to do with how obnoxious "slugging" sounds. Commuting in your own car guarantees (a) you have a ride and (b) you have flexibility. You can change you plans, stop by the store, run errands, anything your heart desires (plus, not deal with strangers everyday. Ugh.)

This isn't a pro-car thing. I've haven't driven a car to work in 8 years (I pay out the ass to live downtown so that I'm close enough to walk / bike). It just seems like "Well, that sounds like a pain in the ass" is a simpler possible explanation to why slugging isn't popular in the US compared to Big Business not wanting it to be.
> Fusion lasers will finally provide the death ray of sci-fi

…why? If you want massive lasers you use a nuke to power it [1][2].

> If you think "practical energy source" is what fusion research is really about

Outside the NIF, which is openly about stockpile stewardship, yeah. That’s what it’s about. Tokomaks aren’t militarily useful.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pumped_laser

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excalibur
I think they could be cooked by thermal radiation as the ejecta expands.
>It’s also a result of German unions.

I expect German politicians to defang the unions soon, similar to what they did with Agenda 2010 [1]. Yeah there will be some strikes and riots, but if the unions are causing an industry to be uncompetitive they're causing more harm than good.

It's a shame because while unions are good on paper, over time they seem to default to protecting themselves at the expense of the industry. Similar to communist parties.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_2010
For that matter C# has Task.WaitAsync, so waited task continues to the waiter task, and your code subscribes to the waiter task, which unregisters your listener after firing it, so memory leak is limited to the small waiter task that doesn't refer anything after timeout.