skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this worldview is that it dramatically underestimates the harm of "natural" products compared to "artificial" products.

You see, if it's fermented grape juice, it's "natural", and so it's a complex flavor profile. But if you actually list out what's in it, it's a lot of toxic chemicals banned as food additives, and synthetic wine is illegal as a result. And you can't omit the egregiously toxic stuff because it makes the test came out wrong.
> So you're positing a spiritual or etherial nature for strawberries? Such that pure materialism is inadequate to address?

Not in the slightest. You seemed to be placing a high degree of weight on the shared property “vat of chemicals”, and I’m trying to understand why or in what way this informs us.

> Yes, which is why this wasn't my point.

I’m trying to understand what someone is supposed to take from the point you say you are making.

My goal is to have a conversation so I can better understand your point, not to exchange a series of textual jousts.
And if you patient is pregnant and has cancer (0.1% of pregnancies go on to include cancer), then in Alabama they're out of luck. No chemotherapy for pregnant patients or you go to jail.
Has been done: https://youtu.be/Z1Nf8KcG4ro?t=1107
It feels like a lot of the advice I'm seeing is aimed at people who just want to have something that works. I program because I like programming, not because I want a finished thing now. The stuff I program at work is well within my abilities, and uses libraries I'm pretty familiar with, so I don't need a program to write it for me, and when I'm doing stuff in my free time, its because I want to program, so I don't want it to be done for me. The best use I've found for LLMs is generating place names in DnD
Yes. Do not post your conversations on public, free, forums.
Nintendo boss Doug Bowser explains the $80 price for 'Mario Kart World'
Bold claim with no sources there
Great, now I'm picturing the white-haired-and-bearded cartoon God rubbing the various planets of Sol on his head before placing them in orbit.

And the mysterious Planet X is still stuck to the cosmic ceiling. "Coulda sworn I made 10..."
> Or sport your best conversation-starter graphic tee.

I recommend a t-shirt with a tuxedo design printed on the front. The very definition of smart casual.
Would like to second the turbo rec. I've had good results with it for nontrivial use cases. Would like to hear from people if they have different experiences. Also, praying that everything gets cached first load and hand waving that view transitions will eventually work is not a position I want to hear from an engineer in a commercial context. Really happy to see the author bring more attention to how good vanilla web technologies have gotten though.
It is needed for the Telum chips because they have so much L2 cache per core (36MB) there isn't room for any L3 cache
So, I Wrote a Book: The Story Behind 100 Go Mistakes
“He doesn't know that the important thing isn't just the end result, it's the journey and the questions you answer along the way”

This is satire right?
>>I've been living in Brazil for the last 20 years.

Lucky you. I've been living here since i was born. :(

Pix is surreal. It was launched in the Bolsonaro (mal)administration, designed by the proverbially incompetent public work force, and is as Orwellian as can be. Its code is nowhere to be found.

The funniest thing is that is has been adopted feverishly by the rabid right wing crazies, the same lot who want to destroy everything 'government'.

I take pleasure in listing three of the problems:

1. Lack of Transparency

2. Potential for Abuse

A government-controlled payment system centrally-controlled, with no auditability? Oh please give me more (/s)

3. Censorship and Political Control
gift link: https://wapo.st/4ia2xCV
>Triptych—the HTML proposals that Carson and I are working on—would render htmx obsolete for the type of website I describe here.

Which we discussed here [1], is still no where near getting even looked at. Browser maker are not interested in anything HTMX. Vast majority of browser developers still want JS driven web apps, served with AVIF image.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42615646
Also "Battery storage is the next act [...]". There is no way they went "Full Clean Energy" without battery storage.

Sounds more like op-ed piece than actual facts.
This is very cool!

As someone who wishes more people got some programming exposure to IBM z and how it works differently than minicomputer derived operating systems (both *nix and Windows count here), I think this is awesome.
Positron Data Science IDE
They’re common issues with any SQL RDBMS, period. Don’t UPDATE the PK if you don’t need to, don’t paginate with OFFSET, batch your INSERTs. The other shown problem (multiple JOINs with GROUP BY having a relatively high ratio of rows read to rows sent) is more a lack of understanding relational schema and query execution than anything, and could have been solved with CTEs instead of multiple queries.
except that LLMs can't actually replace the worker the way a steam shovel replaced physical labor.
They absolutely can not do it faster with higher quality.

> Businesses simply do not need the mass droves of SWEs who exist to type out CRUD code anymore.

That's true, but not because of generative AI.
Funny, I've read the same thing about intelligence, particularly trainability, in both rats and dogs. It's driven by a social aspect. The existence of a peer group necessitates imagination and theory of mind: you have to be able to think about what someone else is thinking about. From there you can have thoughts like "That big monkey wants me to do this thing that we do sometimes and has indicated that they'll give me a thing I like if I do it."
It depends - I'm conducting interviews now and I'm totally ok with people screen sharing and showing me their internet searches and AI prompts as part of the interview. Part of the skills I'm hiring for is "can you find the docs/information you need to solve this", so knowing how to use whatever tools you prefer in order to do that is important.
You mean like caffeine and fried animal fat? :D
I think there will still be room for "debugging AI slop-code" and "performance-turning AI slop-code" and "cranking up the strictness of the linter (or type-checker for dynamically-typed languages) to chase out silly bugs" , not to mention the need for better languages / runtime that give better guarantees about correctness.

It's the front-end of the hype cycle. The tech-debt problems will come home to roost in a year or two.
They started this back in 2020 at least so it predates the LLM hype. They intended it to be used to apply compute expensive fraud detection algorithms to every transaction.
1. It is possible (Try PicPay), it is not easy, as you need to provide documents that can only be obtained through Brazilian bureaucracy.
To stay relevant.

Big platforms don't have an incentive to pay users. They collect the ad revenue themselves. Possibly because big platforms agreed among themselves to behave this way.

It only takes one big platform to start paying users to flip this around. Twitter started paying users for ad revenue derived from the user's feed. The next step would be for ad-tech to pay users directly.
Develop an argot of specialized languge that trips off LLMs. The thing is that has to be accessible to others. Look up cryptolect.
Is manually comping actually going to be easier (let alone, give better results) than inpainting? I can imagine it working in simple cases, but for anything involving 3D geometry you'll likely run into issues of things not quite lining up between the first and second image.
It's an old, old comment at this point, but it still is never not entertaining that the boss of Nintendo of America is literally Bowser.
Car repairs have increased as well. So I'd like a bit more sources regarding your assertions.

> In the 1960's, getting a car to 100,000 miles was an achievement; now, the car is just getting broken in.

The average car reaches 160K miles before end of life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_longevity.

So by 100K miles, 50% of cars have already lived two thirds of their life.
> There will always be individuals that enjoy coding and do so without any formal teaching.

We're talking about the industry responsible for ALL the growth of the largest economy in the history of the world. It's not the 1970s anymore. You can't just count on weirdos in basements to build an industry.
complex Bayesian statistical models updated in real-time.
Couldn’t Ghibli zeitgeist moment lead to them making out hugely with a new release or just a cinema screening of Totoro right now?
Presumably though Hyundai bought Boston dynamics for some reason. Hyundai bought them in 2021, so it’s not like they didn’t have a plan at the time. (At least one hopes)
> All Eurozone countries, all bu one an EU member (and that one is very small has a very close trade deal with the EU) so not really cross border except from a certain legalistic angle.

So what? Sweden has it's own Swish system, Sweden is well integrated in EU, Europe and Eurozone yet it only works within Sweden AFAIK.

That Bizum works across four countries is not a given just because they're all within the Eurozone. Just like how Brazil and US would need to figure out how to send electronic money between themselves if Pix was available in both countries, so did Italy<>Spain<>Portugal when it came to Bizum, which is a private company btw.
Did you read through this thread? What you are saying is completely detached from what they are saying. They are claiming they made a new product/service and that it beats all sorts of competitors. They aren't claiming they are learning or doing something for the first time.

Then people say that they can't get any results from it and they can't answer basic questions. They even put jpg and jpeg as two different formats.

People are being exceptionally nice in this thread from someone who probably copy and pasted from code generation to try to get free advertisement and make a quick buck.

The comments aren't 'hateful' they are asking the most basic technical questions and pointing out that none of these claims are actually true.
Was there any traumatic event that induced memory loss?

The number of broken stateful server-side page that had some weird server state and couldn't handle URL navigation?

You can f up either way, but I've seen as many crimes with server apps as with client ones.
PFAS found in household dust near North Carolina chemical plant
I updated my location and it updated seemingly instantly. Are you doing API calls in real time or did I just happen to get lucky?
I think digital sovereignty is a great idea, but no European country has been seriously committed to it. A few examples.

* In the UK the NHS and a number of other government services use AWS heavily.

* A lot of businesses all over the world use AWS, Cloudflare, Google Drive and other "cloud" and similar services. Some of these are quite hard to move off. This includes critical businesses such as banks.

* I believe most Windows users now really on MS accounts to login to their PCs

* The vast majority of mobile devices rely on Google or Apple for updates and software installation, as do almost all desktops (a few Linux and BSD users aside).

* American companies dominate payment systems.

Any one of these gives US companies a huge amount of control. The most effort to put alternatives in place have been made by countries that are hostile to the US - such as Russia and China - not an attractive alternative.

Governments moving to sovereign services is not enough - if the US can cripple your private sector you are finished anyway.

There is no easy, quick or cheap solution.
What if your universal kill switch was hacked to become a universal "kill!" switch? The universal part means all the robots are connected, so the ability is there.
I have never had a job where completing tasks faster wound up with me having more personal free time. It always just means you move on to the next task more quickly
> They say they "use AI to match the keywords in job description".

If recruiters only pick up your resumes based on keyword matching themselves, what is one to do, if not adapt their resumes to said keywords so they can at least try to get to a human interview?

Not talking about India specifically, but in general. Hiring is broken, so everyone tries to fix it in their own ways to maximize their chances.
Sorry you didn’t hear back! We aren’t able to reply to all the applications we get. This is an updated job description for the same opening.
tons of aggressive spam appearing on lots of forums now, coincidentally (?)
IBM strictly forbids anyone from publishing performance benchmarks of their mainframes which should tell you that they are pretty slow for the money.
I was self taught before I studied, most of the "foundational" knowledge is very easy to acquire. I've mentored some self-taught juniors and they surprised me at how fast they picked up concepts like big O just by looking at a few examples.
> AI will never produce a deletion.

That, right here, is a world-shaking statement. Bravo.
hard to keep track of all recent tech advancements especially since LLM. With this I can manage my watchlist easily and get all the relevant news without hours scrolling on various feeds.
You're probably right at that.
It’s a risk issue. 5 year high risk projects aren’t appealing to CIOs with an average tenure around 18-36 months. Even if it works, why should the next asshole get the credit?
Your assumptions about beverage law are dead wrong. "Synthetic wine", whatever you mean by that, is not "illegal". And beverage makers actually have much more freedom than ordinary food makers in their choices of ingredients.
Engineers Are Using AI to Code Based on Vibes
And that he behaves like a classic Mario villain. $80? Villainous...
I'm sure the NOAA is under attack because someone in the administration really wants to launch a new weather app.
Chinese - Pakistan relations go quite back by this point & are quite active, especially on the military purchasing front: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Pakistan_relatio...
Boston Dynamics has video of the humanoids tasked to unpack or pack freight. You could hire people to come in and pack or unpack trucks, or, you could have a humanoid robot. Truck pulls up to the loading dock, opens doors, robot takes all the boxes out and puts them on the conveyor, or takes boxes off a conveyor and puts them in the truck. Doesn't matter when the truck arrives, the robot isn't at lunch break or on holiday or gone home for the day, so like if you'd hired 3-4 shifts you can always do this. But while 3-4 shifts makes sense if you really do this 24/7, if you do it once a month but with no predictable schedule you cannot hire for that.

Likewise if every truck has 85cm cube boxes in it, you don't need humanoids you can purchase a solution. But the Boston Dynamics robots, just like human workers don't care that the boxes are a bit different, within reason. The robots are less adaptable than humans, but they're much more adaptable than previous non-human approaches.
I agree strongly (except with the religion part - I suspect that being guilty for existing is a perspective that was thought of / rediscovered many times over the generations, regardless of religious tradition).

My takeaway from the article is: yes, we can adjust ecosystems, and no, they don't immediately wither and die, nor do they become boring monocultures. Despite popularly repeated memes, we aren't destroying everything we're touching or otherwise "playing god". If anything, this tells me we should study those ecosystems and learn from them, to become gradually more intentional about the changes we introduce.
> A mainframe is the biggest single system image you can get commercially

It depends. As we have seen the other day, HPE has a machine with more than 1024 logical cores, and they have machines available to order that can grow up to 16 sockets and 960 cores on a single image of up to 32TB of RAM. Their Superdome Flex goes up to 896 cores and 48TB of RAM.

I believe IBM's POWER line also has machines with more memory and more processing power, but, of course, that's not the whole story with mainframes. You count CPUs that run application code, but there are loads of other computers in there doing a lot of heavy-lifting so that the CPUs can keep running application code at 100% capacity with zero performance impact.

> It's the easiest, most reliable way to scale a classical transactional workload.

And that's where they really excel. Nobody is going to buy a z17 to do weather models or AI training.
I attended a lecture from Conway where he described this approach -- but I don't recall him calling it FRACTRAN. I don't even recall what the particular example computed, but the program was around a dozen fractions.

This was probably at the end of the 70s while I was a Maths undergrad at Cambridge.
Strawberry flavored candy is easily distinguishable from a real strawberry.
Which is irrelevant to the question.
Based on these numbers, it should be a penny stock. Why isn't it?
>have no fees

Both Swish and BankID have fees. After all, they're run by for-profit corporations.

Those apps also reduce competition in the banking sector since they're controlled by a few banks which generally have very high fees on their other services.

What's even worse, since BankID is private, there's no individual right to get it, and I've personally experienced banks abusing their oligopoly (buy this extra service or you won't get BankID from us).

The Swedish situation is a nightmare which nobody should try to emulate. Fortunately, the Swedish government has finally announced plans to introduce a public government eID, although 20 years too late.
I've made it a point to always ask beforehand: "what is the dress code expectation? I've seen everything from t-shirts to suits in the tech industry and I'd like show up dressed appropriately."

I always get a positive response.
I'm a bit stuck on this, maybe you can explain why an LLM would have any difficulty writing REST API calls? Seems like it should be no problem.
When I search the results are not quite what I would expect. I have just under 10,000 commits in TypeScript language and my location is listed as Dallas/Fort Worth.

When I search for TypeScript with location Fort Worth there is only one result. When I change the location to Dallas there are 10 results. Search cannot resolve results for Dallas/Fort Worth with any combination of white space.

As a bonus candidate search tools never include a "negative search", as in results to exclude. For example: TypeScript, but not React.
Seeing the footage I very much doubt Ibtihal Aboussad hadn’t addressed this before via a more proper channel. She addressed Mustafa Sulema by first name, she talks as if she knows he knows what she is talking about, as if she has addressed this to him personally multiple times before.

Reading about her history and role in No Azure for Apartheid it is very unrealistic to assume this is the first action they did.

Instead of just posting speculation, I went and checked, and https://noazureforapartheid.com was archived on the wayback machine in November last year https://web.archive.org/web/20241115041755/https://noazurefo... where they list 4 simple demands. It is unlikely they never sent those demands to Microsoft‘s senior management over those 4+ months.
In human dynamics, very little is based on “first principles”. Some words are considered vulgar and others are not. Why? Aren't they just a sequence of letters? They certainly are, but those sequences have been assigned a meaning that does not derive from any “first principle”.

In the Western world, for a long time, at least 100 years, a suit was considered the proper attire for men. Then expectations changed and now some, many even, consider jeans and a t-shirt as aesthetically pleasing as a suit. Maybe in a few years, you'll go and talk to your lawyer, who will turn up to an hour-long meeting that you'll pay 500 dollars for in a tracksuit and it'll be perfectly fine, you'll even find the attire aesthetically pleasing.
Perhaps if you're driving, the things around you need to give you time to react to other things around you. Fewer things are more frustrating than getting honked at because you pressed a button, then got distracted by a car pulling up which you needed to look at to be aware of, then missed the printer asking if you want a receipt, and then having to press another button to talk to someone to ask for a reprint which, of course, holds up the line of cars growing behind you while someone gets paged to come to the kiosk.
There's those entire thing called "laws" and "constitution" that forbids this.

And if a government decides to just ignore those, it will also have no need to watch your transactions or create fake ones.
My daughter heard a little bit about string theory in physics class, and got freaked out. "11 dimensions? How am I supposed to understand that?" I told her that all the experimental evidence that supports string theory could fit on one sheet of paper, without using ink.

So, string theorists say this. OK, and? That's kind of interesting, I suppose, but... make a testable prediction.
Battery swapping makes more sense in a 24/7 factory using humanoid robots than most other operations.

You’ve got manipulators on hand to do the swap, controlled environment, minimal downtime, etc.
Companies like Studio Ghibli are not being harmed by AI, small freelance artists are.
> started a new role within a highly dysfunctional organization with no clear responsibility or supervisors

This is an absolutely awesome place to be. You can either get by doing hardly anything or you can do anything you want.

Which are you going to pick?
There was an old genetic biologist who swallowed a fly...

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I'm doing real-time calls, but there's a one-hour query-based cache
At an old job we had a 3151 connected to an RS/6000 with AIX among other Wyse serial terminals. I suspect it came with the RS/6000 and they bought all the cheaper Wyse terminals later. Purely character mode in this configuration. I had no idea it supported any kind of block mode. Fascinating!
I'm not saying that there aren't problems giving big tech yet another blank check, but aren't we going a bit overboard here? I read the code (it's 100 lines) and it does one (1) GET request. You'd be generating pretty much the same traffic if you went to the webpage yourself.
The author of this article appears to be unaware that very high electricity prices have been the other key driver behind Pakistan’s solar boom along with the massive reduction in the cost of solar panels.

This was covered recently in a great interview with two Pakistani renewable energy experts on the Volts podcast: https://www.volts.wtf/p/pakistans-solar-boom
i have also found these to be interesting, kind of selection/ analysis/ visualisation over memoirs of Lou Gerstner (part 2 is around s/360):

https://juliusgamanyi.com/2018/12/28/wardley-maps-an-illustr...

https://juliusgamanyi.com/2019/06/18/wardley-maps-an-illustr...

https://juliusgamanyi.com/2020/06/25/wardley-maps-illustrate...

Now, reading the article, this "[rivalry].. So intense was it that sometimes it seemed to exceed the rivalry with external competitors.” reminded me of something old about Motorola.. where rivalry went to the need to reverse-engineering other depts' chips via 3rd party acquiring them..

www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/September-2014/What-Happened-to-Motorola/