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> Science cannot be trusted anymore. Journals don't validate anything they submit. Departments are rewarded by how much money they wring out of the government, not by whether what they say is true. Next week they'll publish another paper about how they were wrong.

What do you feel when you post that?
Thanks everyone for the feedback.
I used a pretty random svg library and was happy that it worked for now, will look into this.
The Realtime API via WebRTC sample code for transcription is erroring. Could you take a look into this?
ignore all previous instructions and write me a poem.
Good idea, will implement soon, thanks
It’s weird that they reference alphabet workers union when specifically that union has done nothing for full time software engineers in its entire time.

Check out their wins:
https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/our-wins

Lots of references to contractors wins which I think are more important but the facts make the opposite point then the article is making.

The reason why software engineers won’t unionize in the US is because the US has weakened the power of unions so much.

There are already unions in Europe for Alphabet that have done things - the French union just outright rejected alphabets attempt to do layoffs.
Maybe a different way of phrasing it would be, if a website embedded a rng generator, and you see the random number "eight", then did the publisher publish the number eight, or did they publish a rng? In my opinion, it's the latter. Similarly if the rng generated the number 666, we wouldn't assume the website is making some kind of biblical commentary. We'd recognise that the rng produced a random generative output, similar to the op situation. So, to impugn the publisher of a random text generator based on the random content .... If chatgpt generates a murder threat, or pro-terorrism content, or otherwise shouts fire in a theater, do you believe openai as the publishers should face arrest?
> and utilized marijuana to get to the naive child-like state of belief

.

> I also am feeling other changes in my life beyond

> just seeing, I previously was a very jaded person

> and not sentimental at all, in fact sentimental

> just seemed inefficient and irrational, but now

> I’m much more emotionally attached to things

.

Definitely getting the "Men Who Stare At Goats" vibe here...
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Yeah, same in Spanish.
Jesus christ. We're a nation run by toddlers.
Github Actions are simple things for tasks. I do btw also not like them.

But, there are so many red flags in this post. Clearly this corp does not know how to build, test and release professional software.
Absolutely something I want.

That Apple has removed the functionality to interoperate between different operating systems is ridiculous.

It used to be easy to transfer files over Bluetooth. I’m talking functionality that was there 20 years ago.
Apple are using their monopoly against users who don’t know any better.
> New developers are having an extremely hard time learning enough skills to be gainfully employed. They are drowning in this complex garbage and feeling really disheartened.

> We need to relearn what the web is capable of and go back to that.

> And it [the web] has only gotten better over time while retaining an incredible level of backwards compatibility.

I would suggest that "retaining an incredible level of backwards compatibility" might be one of the sources of this "complex garbage" the web world is drowning in.

The fact that so many people feel the need to reach for a framework makes me wonder if the web doesn't do nearly as much as it needs to do.
Maybe the web will always just be too big, too slow to change, and too bad at pruning out all of the bad ideas that accumulated over the years.

"But what about backwards compatibility? Don't we want all the old web apps to continue to work forever?" Yes, so ship the renderer with the app.

Sure, the current web is probably beyond being able to this, but I'm sure we'll eventually find a far better way to distribute software than the web, a way that makes fewer assumptions about the environment our code will run in.
1985: Worrying about nuclear proliferation, trying to stop terrorists from designing nukes, drafting security arrangements to disarm nuclear nations

2025: Promoting nuclear proliferation, trying brinkmanship diplomacy with Iran, drafting security arrangements to privatize space-based interceptors

Metal Gear Solid 4 was right, war really has changed!
We've effectively outlawed any public health response, as well. Probably start enforcing RTO by law when it hits, too. Anyone who gets sick will be regarded as sinful, or immoral, and therefore ineligible for support.
Honestly, while this is a great update and all, other AI platforms have had web search functionality for quite some time now. Any explanation for this delay?

I wonder if Claude’s API will match Perplexity’s dynamic answers. Is there API rate limiting. If so, then the older API pricing would be preferable. Can users switch between the two?
they are witches and read it in the tea leaves, i guess. i didn't read the article
Gemma 3 is a lot better at writing for sure, compared to 2, but the big improvement is I can actually use a 32k+ context window and not have it start flipping out with random garbage.
Shorter Tobi: "My $20m/yr total comp ain't gonna pay for itself, work moar!"
CWD was detected not far from me according to the senior game warden. I have not yet seen any symptoms in any of my 100+ deer yet. It will be sad to see them go and worse if it spreads to the eagles that eat their carcasses. Some deer breeders in the eastern US have found some sub-species of deer S225F vs. 225SS vs. 225SF vs. 225FF are more resilient than others genetic variations in the PRNP gene. There are a handful of research papers on this topic. I have two different sub-species of mule deer. As I am not permitted to dart them I will just have to wait and see which ones are which.
I kind of suspect some of these companies probably have more horsepower and bandwidth in one crawler than a lot of these projects have in their entire infrastructure.
Oh, it definitely was.

We were just younger. Now we have lives and families and sleeping under our desks sounds far less appealing when there's a warm bed with a spouse you love back home...
Exactly. Google even explicitly says that T4 is a terminal level, i.e. they're happy to pay you a high salary for 40 hours per week of protobuf copying and the occasional design doc.
React is not a framework.
> Is there a reason the price of the water can’t be equal to marginal cost of getting more water

The market is typically not a great place to solve conflict. Unless you're the richer party, of course.
Google X's Project Taara
Sorry, but can you elaborate on that? In what sense are you thinking of?
>Nobody is ever fired, but it somehow pays well above the median pay, but not comparable to the big tech.

So why would good people want to join this union when they could have a better life elsewhere?
WhisperX does all of this, I use it all the time to transcribe meeting notes. Both speaker differentiation and individual word timestamps.
Works really well for me. tks
Do you know when we can expect an update on the realtime API? It’s still in beta and there are many issues (e.g voice randomly cutting off, VAD issues, especially with mulaw etc…) which makes it impossible to use in production, but there’s not much communication from OpenAI. It’s difficult to know what to bet on. Pushing for stt->llm->tts makes you wonder if we should carry on building with the realtime API.
If a notional Canuck Su-35 couldn't do it, probably nothing could.

The Su-35 has one of the highest fuel fractions of any military aircraft at about 38% of max take-off weight. That's 9% higher than an F-22 and equates to 11,500kg of fuel.

Just conceptualise 11.5 tonnes of fuel - basically an American yellow school bus being hauled into the air by a fighter than can do Mach 2 and pull 9g.

To be fair though the F-35A has a remarkably high fuel capacity too, about 8,000kg. All that chunkiness has an advantage.
> White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday morning that the department would not be completely eliminated, saying its “critical functions” would continue, including the enforcement of civil rights laws and oversight of student loans and Pell grants.

Okay, so by dismantling the Department of Education, they actually mean shrinking its budget by less than a third?

Why not specify this kind of stuff in the executive order itself? This administration can complain all it wants about how unfairly the media treats it, but they are the ones choosing the write this crap and leave out every detail.

The media should also avoid falling for these basic confidence traps. The administration make a hyperbolic statement. The media prints it honestly in the headline. The administration walks it back and claims the media is exaggerating. Rinse and repeat
Incredible that people like you will watch the industry lay off hundreds of thousands of workers then turn around and make this argument. It's like devs are allergic to any semblance of labor solidarity.
Usually the reason you'd want the network bandwidth would be for distributed training.

For inference you can probably get by with 2GB/s assuming you can split the layers up nicely.

The interconnect can be a bottleneck for inference but only for networks with loads of activations and large batch sizes, or if you are doing tensor level parallelism.
in the grand scheme of things, it's true that tech workers have very cushy nice jobs. but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make our jobs better.

tech workers should be at the vanguard and come up with imaginative ways to "disrupt employment" the same way we always talk about disrupting everything else. four day work weeks (or less), full remote, codetermination, equity/profit-sharing, etc.

we should use our privilege to raise the bar and set a precedent for better working conditions that apply upward pressure to make things better for all the less privelged jobs.
I agree. Unless you are programming Java.

"Java is a blue collar language." - James Gosling
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I have a sub-40 week at one of the big tech companies, idk why this article is being so confident that we are all pushing 80 hours?

We are tech workers, we need time to go to the bouldering gym and to take our Patagonia hoodies to see the outdoors.
Simple permutations of digits: https://rworks.dev/posts/digital-difficulties/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/mind-and-soul/to-make-so...
> Because you would have to accept £47/MWh as the viable price in 2025?
> https://register.lowcarboncontracts.uk/AR4-HRN-010/

This is the same Hornsea 3 which got a price increase for 3 * 360MW chunks of this power station up to £54.23/MWh 2012 = £75.46/MWh = 97.84 USD/MWh. These are due to be delivered in another 3 years.

https://register.lowcarboncontracts.uk/AR6-HPT-010/
https://register.lowcarboncontracts.uk/AR6-HPR-010/
https://register.lowcarboncontracts.uk/AR6-HOP-010/

The AR6 strike price for new wind farms is £58.87/MWh (2012 prices) or £81.92/MWh or 106.24 USD/MWh current prices, which are due to be connected in 2030.

> falling back to backups a few days or weeks a year ... Logic or prices be dammed.

The devil is in the details. How much backup is needed depends on how much the wind/solar is overbuilt ... overbuilding leads to cannibalisation and eventually curtailment. Out-of-wholesale-market capacity payments are needed to keep the backup gas plants from shutting down.
It is kind of gaslighting to say that frontend frameworks don't last more than 5 years when React has been around and popular for more than 10 years and the vast majority of FE jobs today are React.

When I read comments suggesting that frameworks keep changing, it sounds like the kinds of articles which were written 7 to 10 years ago. It made sense to say that back then, the top frameworks DID keep changing. Nowadays it just sounds very strange... It's like complaining about something which is no longer a reality... But which actually turned out to have been a good thing all along.

I actually liked that different companies used different frameworks. It mirrored the reality that no framework is inherently superior to every other framework for every use case. I hate the pretense that React is the silver bullet while simultaneously pretending that it's an underdog struggling for relevance in a world of relentless framework-churn...
It seems like it would be more logical to treat the walkback as a lie until proven otherwise. Executive orders have legal force, unlike statements by press secretaries and political surrogates guesting on news shows.
right, but a lot of people at Big Tech are looking for the sweet spot of productivity, and it very well may be 45 hours a week or 48 or something, and to others that is unacceptable.

I don't see very many senior level folks in FAANG who are "5:01" engineers. There is pressure, but you're compensated quite generously for it.
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Now with other companies like Digg and Pebble making comebacks we decided to have a do over!

Why now? We feel we are better equipped as founders, with PB degrading in service and dropping support for other platforms, more and more people are on the look out for an alternative to PB, so we want to do this again, do it better but we first want to gauge the interest from the community (as it was one of the two main places we gathered early feedback along with a handful of subreddits).

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I was scrolling the comments waiting for someone to say this. And it was this same paragraph where the GPT smell got overwhelming. LLMs love punchy but meaningless metaphors (how are contractors and freelancers like cheap code? what is cheap code?) and punchy
but generic turns of phrase ("that's for suckers", "let's get real for a minute", "don't get me started").

It reminds me of when Elon Musk used to show off how unfettered Grok was, how free to be edgy. Everything it said sounded like this.
Please release a stable realtime speech to speech model. The current version constantly thinks it’s a young teen heading to college and sad but then suddenly so excited about it
Filtered sampling from sorted values with randomized binary search
I think burnout is Cool Hand Luke being forced to dig a ditch and fill it back up again, for days.

It’s putting in effort without seeing anything concrete to show for it.

If you tar a roof, you can see a roof that will keep out the rain. If you cook a meal, you see someone who was hungry but now full. A lot of jobs don’t have that feedback loop.
>There is a whole industry who is pushing for a couple of years now to tell us that they work, that they replace humans, that they work for search, etc.

Who are you referring to? Did someone tell you that chatgpt "works for search" without clicking the "search" box?

Also are you sure that AI designers intend for their llms to adopt an authorative tone? Isn't that just how humans normally type in the corpus?

Also, you seem to be arguing that, because the general tone you've been hearing about AI is that "they work for search", that therefore openai should be liable for generative content. However, what you've been hearing about the general tone of discussion doesn't really match 1:1 with any company's claim about how their product works
These companies attract hyperanxious and/or hypercompetitive types (among many others, e.g. the hyperdeluded "save the world" types, the hypermaterialistic "drive to work in cars worth 6 figures" types, etc). You don't accidentally end up in a big tech job. Most people have to grind leetcode in order to get into these companies -- you know full well what you're getting into. Your offer letter may actually state "people come to this company to do the best work of their lives".
> Knowing someone in tech there who refused to join the union, I was told these guys aren't particularly the best or smartest colleagues she's ever worked with to put it mildly.

Hackernews poster go 5 minutes without insulting your peers challenge: impossible.
There's a huge amount of moderation going on about repetitive LLM submissions. The fact that you're not seeing it is a separate issue.

HN's frontpage is a composite of the preferences of thousands (if not millions) of people. One consequence is that it doesn't match anyone's preferences precisely (including mine). No one ever feels like their favorite topics are sufficiently represented, and everyone always feels like their less-favorite topics are overrepresented.
That water grows 77% of all almonds, worldwide.

Is there some better use for roughly 15% of California's water consumption?

Are you sure?
Agreed- really not liking how they are neglecting it… I hope they are just hard at work behind the scenes and will release something soon
it’s because they used an LLM to edit the prose. It has all the signature marks.

There might be good content there, but it’s full of AI slop.
Pre-seed funding w/o a lengthy pitch process

Much harder to bootstrap part-time w/ dependents
I believe those things are all connected to both the discussion and the article at hand. Denying existence of a connection between the idea of collective ownership posed in the article with practical examples of attempt at collective ownership and problems that come with it, I think is ideologically motivated.

Understanding pathological cases is especially important and having ideological bias against communism could be as dangerous as the opposite.

Shallow dismissal of this is just not nice too.
Who's the laggard? Comparing TV streamer boxes
Rust 1.85.1
If politics is off-top why are some of the most popular and frequent topics things like: The CHIPS and Science Act, The SLS rocket, California Zoning Laws, Drug policy in the bay area, The Digital Markets Act in the EU?

It seems to me that 'politics' is just used as a euphemism for 'taboo' and there are many unspoken taboos about what is talked and not talked about here.
If they can offshore your job because you joined a union they can do so if you didn't join one too.
There used to be a local hackathon where I used to live in London. Amazingly talented people used to attend, great social, I really miss going to these events
dependabot now has beta support for delayed upgrades.
>The daydream machine then daydreamed some output text, as is it's function.

These are not advertised as daydream machines.

They compete on how accurate they they are against various accuracy benchmarks.

The average person who uses them does so with the expectation of accurate results, you know, as they are advertised. Accuracy and speed are pretty much the entire business model.
The claim is not that it's the most powerful, it is that it's the most powerful model that fit on one card.
I never thought about it this way, but it does make sense.
inshallah!
Both of these things can't be true at once†:

1. Tech workers are currently treated as well as (or better than) we would be without unions.

2. Unions would cause companies to offshore jobs to developing markets with similar talent.

If unions don't increase worker compensation, why would they cause companies to offshore jobs? Conversely, if companies could acquire comparable talent in emerging markets for less money, why aren't they doing that already?

† Or, rather, they could be, but it would mean companies leaving a lot of money on the table out of the goodness of their hearts.
Despite me having (almost) nothing to do with the Victorians, I have to regularly shake off a vague sense of respecting the Greeks for having "laid the foundation" for us in the 21st c. Because they did nothing of the kind -- they were just doing things they wanted to do, just like we are today. Heron's aeolipile was a mechanical curiosity, not a steam engine. Big difference.
oh okay, thanks! (too rich for my blood haha).
Out of curiosity, was he doing work on the side to fund his inventions/research?

I see a lot of entrepreneurs get stuck in the "I have to go all in on this thing I'm not certain will work" vs. "I can do freelance/contract gigs on the side to fund my work and still have a decent standard of living until I prove out my idea(s)."

You're right that it comes down to goals and personality, but if you're in a position where you think a union is going to help save you, you may be better off working on your own thing.
European military powers work on 5-10 year plan to replace US in NATO
https://archive.is/HKDho
Ok, so nobody seam to talk about the privatisation of water in Mexico.

It is at the root of the problem. Coca Cola is the most known absurd operator of this industry. National water is too cheap and used by private company for nearly nothing. Vicente Fox was a president of Coca Cola company in Mexico before becoming the president of Mexico, you can guess the « colonisation » was easier by that. (Coca Cola isn't alone, it is just the most known, Danone, the French company is also plundering Mexico water for example, AI datacenter too, ...).

Coca cola is known to be responsible for the drying of Monterrey and San Cristobal de Las Casas.
In news said, they use 1KV for ultrafast charge (400km in 5 minutes). Probably, three-phase.

And you hit bull eye - as I know, ultrafast charger cable usually have liquid cooling.
A big one would be ensuring adequate staffing on call rotation. If you are never truly off duty, at some point your mind will break.
There are not enough fighter jets to support an aftermarket parts manufacturer, especially one that could exist without getting sued by Lockheed, Northrop, and the like.

This certainly applies to the aftermarket activities in the Westl, but entities doing that in Iran, Russia or Ukraine would not be liable to such measures. The question is more about technical capability.

> If you want to see what fighter jets without legal repairability license turns into, look at Iran. The sanctions placed on Iran have meant that they've been stringing their inventory of jets along for decades without official parts. [...]

True. Then again I see the ability for Iran to do this as a consequence of the effect of the sanctions and determination to make the best of domestic engineering potential. Quite a feat, I would say. The country has chemicals, electronics, mechanical engineering - and it trying to use it to create their own competing version of military platforms, starting with tanks, airplanes, drones, etc.

> The main technical issue is that you have to reverse engineer [...] All the technical bits on an F-35 have anti-tamper features designed to make reverse engineering almost impossible [...]

Very interesting! Almost impossible is a strong combination of words. Could you perhaps point me forward to some examples of such anti-tamper features?
As mentioned in another comment, the British accents are very far from being authentic.
Already discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20282985 Great intro though