skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm - we can't go on dissecting polls each day, but here's one (dating from January) which measure sentiment across 10 countries and along several key questions:

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/how-strong-is-public-support-for-ukrai...

If the poll were taken today, the percentages would probably shift a bit on some of these questions. But what's more interesting is the spread across the 10 countries.

Notice that Italy and Hungary tend to sit more on the "doomer/skeptic" side (in accord with the poll you offered in regard to Italy's sentiment), while countries like the UK, Finalnd and the Baltics are more on the "there's still hope" side. And Germany seems to fight right in the middle.

Which suggests that no, the average European does not simply think Ukraine is a lost cause.

The average European believes that Ukraine cannot win the war (meaning getting back their 1991 territories), but that's also a reality and the opinion shared by analysts, and is honestly tired of it. ... It's hard to be a die hard supporter for Zelenskis official line.

Well that's obviously no longer Zelenskyy's position, right?

Also, you're setting up a false dichotomy here -- either the (now basically collapsed) "die-hard" position, or the "Ukraine is lost cause" position.

My observations indicate that the median sentiment falls somewhere between these extremes.
Out of our depth: speaking with whales
I worked for this company and they are a sponsor of NPR, but thanks for the link? Was the study conducted and audited by 3rd parties? I had to print from outside the office during PTO sometimes also.
Although it's great to see these advancements, I would like to see it integrated with the Google Weather results that show up in search and on Android devices before I get excited. Spinning up the model on my own hardware and feeding it data manually is a decent amount of work, and I'm too lazy to do that.
> numerical methods can be used to make n-body predictions to arbitrary precision

Arbitrary precision, not arbitrary length. Even "from [a] mathematical viewpoint, given an exact initial condition, we can gain mathematically reliable trajectories of chaotic dynamic systems" to only a "finite...interval" [1]. (This is due to "numerical noises, i.e. truncation and round-off error, where truncation error is determined by numerical algorithms and round-off error is due to the limited precision of numerical data, respectively.")

For a physical system like the weather, uncertainty "mainly comes from limited precision of measurement," though there is also the "inherently uncertain/random property of nature, caused by such as thermal fluctuation, wave-particle duality of de Broglie’s wave, and so on."

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10075...
My friend Colin Broughton completed the first full implementation of the Algo68 spec. Apparently there was some concern that it was not going to be implementable!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLACC
> For over a decade, my dopamine (from work) came from a very predictable place: shipping new things. As a manager, those direct rewards will simply disappear, leaving you feeling unfulfilled for weeks (months in my case).

Your job as a manager is still to ship things -- only now it's to ship more than you ever could alone. You get the privilege and responsibility to steward the skills of two or more engineers and shape the entire part of a business. The dopamine is harder won and often more rewarding. Management is difficult and exhausting but it's anything but unfulfilling. Let's not start new managers off telling them what they can't do but what they can do.

Ironically, as a manager of software engineers you should still be very engaged with the team's code. How else will you understand your capacity and understand what gaps you need to fill? Run the test suite, review designs, read PRs, ask questions, give praise for attention to detail. You will keep the bar high on the team and advocate for their work more effectively within the organization.
Wait did you just equate the Israelis to the Nazis??

Anyway this isn’t some vague “external threat.” They were attacked. They have the right to fight back.
Ruanda not yet. Still waiting. Their main war criminal there could leave and was never prosecuted. With some protection from very high.
Exponential growth means getting the timing, positioning and right amount of execution just right.

Also feels like chasing a lottery win. Some folks might be chasing a financial safety net first that is smaller, because the variables and formula of everyone's life in what they have to take care of is valid.

I'm very happy for people who are able to swing for the fences, and also happy for the people working on getting more hits to bigger hits to swing for the fench. I know the latter is a much more sure way to get an outcome to have time freedom to really swing fences.

Everyone does what they best can do, if there's not an option in front of them at work, some people have to try to create the option themselves if it's not geographically accessible.
I think they consult some arcane equation when they need to make a decision. Two of the most important variables are virality of the incident and whether or not anyone affected has an in at Google. Mercury in retrograde messes this equation up.
Russia is both a puny country with a GDP the size of Italy and a country that could invade all its neighboring countries if given the tiniest chance.[1] Both of these things are said here in the West.

[1] Of course GDP in terms of international purchasing power isn’t the be-all-end-all for supplying your own military domestically. But people say the part about GDP as if Russia is nothing.
Occam's razor here.. Polling failure and it's very clear from the actual amount of people voting for the guy. Yes you can make a conspiracy theory but it's a bit ridiculous.

Most Romanians that work in IT(and post here) live in their own bubble (because they make 5-10x average Romanian salary) and are totally disconnected from the common folks and can't now believe that the person making less than minimum wage that is serving their 3 euros expresso is not loving it.

Those common folks are similar to the rest of Eastern Europe with strict religious beliefs and very conservative so it's not a surprise they vote for someone that they resonate with.

Similar stuff happened in Brussels where a radical islamist party won seats in the parliament by using TikTok tactics. He did not show up in the polls either.
The whole article seems like typical apologism to me.

If you look at that graph showing thee difference in price for various components, the difference in "distribution" and "body and chassis" (in absolute dollars) is greater than the battery.

Add to this China's ability to sell a car for $20K Australian, shows that it's not just the battery. And as noted in other comments, the US and Europe both also make a lot of batteries.

The biggest problem is that incumbent equity holders just want to keep making more money, while making the same product. The rest (including the tariffs) is just apologism, and a distraction from the core facts.

Of course everyone wants a car that's at least $80K! If GM shareholders aren't going to increase their returns, why would anyone even drive a car at all?!
But it's used widely in projects that are not the Linux kernel. So what should they do, fork Git and create a LITE version? :)
Wait did you just equate the Israelis to the Nazis??

No.

They have the right to fight back.

That's not the point.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Rake yet. Having the full capability of Ruby and whatever gem you want makes it a dream for these kind of tasks. Absolutely love it.
One reward you get for allowing yourself to become brainwashed by Bazel is you get a pretty nice task runner in every project that you've brought into the fold.
"That’s honestly how life is meant to be lived but it’s too bad we’re not at UBI levels in society yet"

This sounds great. My question is why should I have to work and pay for you to do what you want all day?
> it is "annoying" to get a C compiler (huge XCode thing IIRC)

FWIW, there is an apple.com .dmg "command line tools" that is much smaller than Xcode formal, but I actually came here to say that to the very best of my knowledge a $(ruby -e $(curl ...)) to brew install will then subsequently download pre-built binaries from GitHub's docker registry
Yes but it's in Java
I read moby dick for the first time last summer. That guy verbs nouns, adjects verbs and nouns adjects like he's building language from first principles. It takes a bit getting used to, but eventually it both speeds up and broadens language. Why use different roots for each category? And with each root connoting slightly different, why not use that and pick the exact root that means best?
This is one of the most horrifying articles I've read, and I somewhat wish I didn't read it.

I understand why it was posted here, and deserves upvotes.

There are bits I wanted to quote for comments but I genuinely believe it's better to read the article and let those parts meet you in the place and how the journalist wrote them.
Great overview. Worth adding some population genetics: Multicellular organisms typically have small effective population sizes and reproduce slowly in comparison to bacteria. Selection has a hard time “getting a grip” on variants with very weak effects on fitness. Drift becomes much more important.

Bacteria have high population sizes. Selection can be quick and brutal. Low levels of “code of unknown function” in bacteria is perhaps related to replicative efficiency. Fast DNA replication is highly advantageous in nutrient-rich environments. No space (or time) for junk DNA.
My comments are frustrated because I believe a response was already given to the question you asked. I'll be grateful if you at least don't misrepresent, even if it's difficult to find a common language. If you don't believe that I responded adequately then just ask a more detailed question.

But sure, here's one more reason for you, as said in a sibling subthread: I can have all my project's commands in one file.

Also it pays off to know what `just` does. As several other people were told (not only by me) in the bigger thread, it's an aggregating task runner, more or less. Not a dependency manager.
1. He is not hoarding it like Scrooge McDuck in a vault.

2. If the government squanders tax payer money all over the world, isn't it morally bad to give that money to the govt. when you can legally keep it?
Sounds like something GitHub should be easily able to detect too.

Hopefully that's an exploit path they'll close soon, if they've not done so already.
Malthus wrote about zoning?

>standards of living have increased since

Everywhere or just in some places? There are more slaves today than in malthuses time.

People usually cite the green revolution as the refutation of malthus. I see it as an engineering tradeoff. Every 2nd order effect was sacrificed for a single KPI. An economist would call them unpriced negative externalities.
We really need to collectively stop comparing the prices of new things to those of used things as if they are equivalent.

Doing so is absolutely disingenuous.
do you have a source saying that voters are more likely to vote for a candidate who polls higher?
Oh, the USDA publishes a rule! Surely everyone will follow that and the problem is solved.

Unfortunately we get the behavior that we let people get away with. Regulators are asleep, courts let companies weasel their way around everything, and reality doesn't care about published rules and standards.
Both of these things are said here in the West.

Except they're not. No one says Russia is a "puny country", or that it could "invade all its neighboring countries" (which would have to include, for example, China).

You're definitely making some weird exaggerations here.
yep i switched to taza
Physical infrastructure has expected lifetimes measured in years/decades. The half-life for a line of code could be as little as a year. I think being conservative in adopting new technology for something concrete is a sensible choice.
Upvoted not for the article but for attention on the issue: SEO for AIs.

There is nothing that people seeking clicks won't ruin.
Why is there such a difference between men and women on this? I literally lived in a closet as a student. I'm quite content as long as I have a nice desk and chair, good internet, access to a gym and perhaps afford to eat out.
~210 calories
I left NVidia because I retired, not because I was unhappy with the managers or my coworkers. They were exceptionally good.

You do realize there are all sorts of reasons why people leave a job, right? I left Qualcomm perfectly satisfied with my managers and coworkers, too.

If somebody always leaves because of being unhappy with their coworkers, they may want to do some introspection to find out what those disagreements have in common.
Of course the children getting their brains blown out market should not be subject to big government overreach!
>And that casts shade

I was just being clear from my knowledge was secondhand.

I hadn't heard about a smalltalk transaction log.

That's a great link. I'll grab a local copy and read through it later. I love tech history.

Thanks.
Fflat does not work on macOS and does not support .NET 9. Unfortunately, I had issues with making it work on Windows and Linux too.

This one works like a charm.
"I'm calling from a jail in Mexico, they took away my phone"
> but there's a ton of really local, mom 'n pop places, with absolutely incredibly prices, and they're incredibly appreciative of your business

Yep, I was in Portugal back in June and was blown away by how nice it was. City life, the beach towns and overall prices of things. That was my first time going to the EU from the US.

I was on vacation so I ate out every day for all meals but I don't think I paid more than $5 for breakfasts and most sit down dinners were $12-15 all-in. I splurged one night in Lisbon and had the craziest plate of sushi I've ever seen and it was $18. That was from a 4.9 rated sushi bar with ~800 reviews.

My total food bill for 14 days of solo traveling was ~$475 and I wasn't purposely trying to budget. That includes randomly trying a lot of things that I normally wouldn't do like getting a fresh smoothie while walking around because why not. That food bill also includes 3 days in south western Spain because I moved around to a few cities (Seville, Spain -> Lagos, Portugal -> Lisbon, Portugal was the loop I took with day trips to a couple of places).
The Heartbeat Framework
Could IEEE or another group put together standards for generic print heads and ink?i'd love to buy a generic printer.
> something other than query or quertz. Even Japan and China use an extended querty

qwerty
> There's already an easy way to solve this: $PATH.

I have 10 projects. Each with their own set of shell scripts. You want me (and all other developers) to pollute the $PATH with 10 directories?

And then you have a namespace problem. I usually have a "test" recipe in my justfiles. The analog would be a test.sh file. But with your solution, it will have to be projA-test.sh and projB-test.sh.

And if I dump them all into the $PATH, how do I quickly see the scripts relevant to a particular project?
What a disgrace that Canada, richer in Natural Resources, has failed to create a wealth fund. All the wealth has been siphoned off to make everyone but Canadians better off. What a disgusting gov we have.

Congrats to the Norwegians, they did it right.
I am sure it can be even worse than what you describe. I, however, do not aspire to taste it.

The question is not what "inconvenience looks like", but rather, what is "enough security with the least inconvenience?"

The alternative is in the answer to that question: if your "measure" is likely to be "bypassed", it is worse than not having it in the first place (because bypassing usually puts sensitive data on even worse medium like flash devices, public cloud, external servers etc).

If your security policy was simply "Do not keep sensitive work data on unencrypted storage" and had informed your employees they are legally liable to adhere to this, they would either choose to not use personal devices or understand the risks if they do.

So like always, getting to that point requires "simply" being reasonable and smart ("common sense" which is, unfortunately, "not that common").
Agreed. YOLO, the midel name, was essentially hijacked.
No need to apologise or change your article or anything. I think it’s great! It’s true that I haven’t written any articles or blog posts about this problem. People absolutely will appreciate more discussion and awareness of this problem, and I’m delighted you’re getting people talking about it.

I’m motivated by wanting the problem solved, not getting the most praise by random people on the internet. If today that means being cast in the role of “the old guard who’s missing something important” then so be it. What fun.
Not really. There are millions of perfectly believable scenarios in which a loved one wouldn't have access to whatever cryptographic key you're imagining, but needs your assistance nonetheless.

Not sure how your second statement follows the first... Agreed this isn't a technical problem per se.
Lots of recombinations within “genes”—-however you define a gene.
It has nothing to do with phone numbers. If your child or spouse or parent called you in distress from a random phone number, there are countless believable reasons they could offer for it being from a random phone number, and no you're almost certainly not going to say "ya sorry not talking to you [child/spouse/parent] unless you call me back from the phone number you claim to have lost/broke/had seized."
Ultralytics also had, for at least ~a year, a language model replying to GitHub issues using their CEO's account (without any kind of disclosure). It was frequently confidently incorrect and probably wasted thousands of developer hours (because when the CEO replies to your issue with advice why wouldn't you take it at face value?!)

Looks like they've since given the bot its own account but that experience definitely soured me on the company.

(Also, there's an MIT licensed implementation of "yolov9" here: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/YOLO . Affiliated with neither Redmond nor Ultralytics as far as I know.)
Bluesky seems to be working on a subscription plan
It is not meant for non credentialed individuals?
Yes. From my experience cities are and will be in high demand due to how much there is to do vs a suburb or rural areas. The limiting factor from what I've seen to expanding the city is zoning (allowing for higher density in current homes) and transportation. If the city expands to the edges but there are no light rails or the highway isn't adjusted then the pressure remains high on the houses where commutes are non outrageous.
Not nonsense at all.

If he loses that base, he'll start to look bad and his legitimacy within the security forces will be called even further into question.
"The existence of the theory implies that the “composed” design somehow arises, naively(?) or naturally."

Given how many first timers come up with really weird schema designs, I'm not necessarily surprised, although I agree presenting it as perhaps a default-but-wrong approach doesn't help much.
Why writing correct software is hard
Insects rely on sounds made by distressed vegetation to guide reproduction
I've really tried to understand your judgement but I'm not able to yet. You're bringing up sms, but what does that have to do with voice cloning?

Read all your comments in this thread, and you're still not making sense to me.
I think the difference in available social services here is also necessary to take into account. Someone laid off in, say, Spain, already has full healthcare provided by the state, and qualifies for an unemployment benefit based on their most recent salary for up to 3 years - this makes for a significantly less precarious position than that same person recently laid off in the US.
My mom discovered Champlain Valley about 10 years ago, so now every time she visits (we’re in VA, she’s from CA), she sends an order with a two pound jar ahead so she has a honey she likes in our pantry. I don’t complain at all, because it means we have excellent honey to consume once she leaves :)
Maybe Amazon would benefit from open-sourcing the designs for consumables for their products?
I'd like to see something like this in schools too - but instead the sticker goes over the screen!
Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn't Know You Had (2023)
The nice thing about hardware attestation is that the app might be compromised, but only for a few versions. That's enough to pop your private key stored on disc, and to impersonate you for a short while, but then control is returned to you. You might not even notice, if it's detected by the apps security managers at all.

On the flip side, the most common form of a compromise is going to be untrustworthy apps, because for some reason people still use WhatsApp
I’ll learn to not mix those two sometime in the next decade. Pinky promise
> with "fallback" just will search up the folder tree to find the just command

So don't have just-files in your home directory?
Not enough variation.
Following up here - Moonlight/Sunshine is the best remoting experience by far on a local network. Windows to Windows is virtually transparent, supported via almost all GPUs, and lagless. Linux to Windows is slightly harder to set up (The NVidia host has been the lowest-latency for me, but you really do need the NVidia driver patches).

Highly recommended.
Make solves that problem. The problem that I have is that all of the tools I use day to day do their own dependency tracking and re-run tracking. Say I want to deploy a dotnet app to a k8s cluster - none of helm, docker, dotnet build, dotnet test expose their dependency tracking in a way that is straightforward to use with make. The most straightforward way to do it is to just run the commands anyway, IME.
Reliance over a Posix shell basically prevents me from using Just. Using bash from Git on Windows is a very weird choice.
I don't really see that myself. The exponential growth in computing will continue and while AGI is not very defined, people mostly think of it as human like or better intelligence, and it'll probably happen regardless of the startups. Though maybe spread over a period of time, for different abilities.
"When did defense work stop being taboo" etc.

There's a good quote in the Economist story on autonomous drones that's also linked from the front page [1]. The idea that you can ethically shun defense work is itself a privilege and a luxury that many people throughout the world don't enjoy.

“It’s the best feeling to see your drone enter a tiny opening in an enemy trench,” says Denys, an engineer at The Fourth Law, the Ukrainian firm which makes these autonomous drones. “I used to be a pacifist, but Russia’s war has stripped me of that privilege.”

As long as there are countries like Russia, there will have to be a strong defense industry. The leaders of such countries understand nothing but violence, so unfortunately, violence it is.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352871
So I’ve never had real honey? Why doesn’t someone just sell the stuff the small dude sells in a store?
You always compare some projections, turns out people are similar (or not) when dimensionally reduced.
Also, do you have examples of niche situations?