biogene

Welcome to humanity - we use our feelings and emotions, often. We're not data ingesting algorithms looking to score a piece of text with an objective metric, and that's the way we like it :)

You might see it manifesting as extra attention towards topics such as minority rights, or injustices, or celebrities, or products from companies we like, or up-voting tiny open source projects that we nevertheless think are cool.

They didn't add a profit margin because its a government project.

The point was about we could be doing so much more with the resources we have. That is what I got out of it - and I agree.

Wow! I can't imagine how I would ever do justice to a 1.5TB collection. My own collection is only 100GB or so (I regularly prune).

>Pixel Binary Transparency responds to a new wave of attacks targeting the software supply chain—that is, attacks on software while in transit to users. These attacks are on the rise in recent years, likely in part because of the enormous impact they can have.

They say its "on the rise", but the linked report in the blog talks about transient OSS dependencies (among other related things), and not binary/firmware level tampering. Can someone explain how this would help avoid the Log4j vulnerability?

How many songs do you have in your collection?

True, but our IT only lets important/critical updates through, so its not really a big burden.

Whenever there are implications to people's lively hood, its always a serious matter - but I hope people are able to transition to other roles.

I think Gen AI will commoditize the mundane and "typical", and heavily push people into creating something extraordinarily unique. I think there is the same pressure even without AI, when as a creator you have to standout amongst the sea of people vying for people's attention.

I believe GenAI can be useful in a way too. For e.g. If I'm an artist looking for inspiration, I can have a GenAI tool create some "random" works that I can get inspired from.

They do, on the same workload. But if you look at the virtual memory breakdown, the vast majority of pages are non-executable data pages. Just did a rough check with Firefox and the executable pages are ~200MiB compared to ~2GiB of Private+Shared Pages. So its not so much the code, its all the data - the graphics, dictionaries, icons, fonts, textures, cached data, etc, etc.

Not seeing those boot times, but I rarely reboot. I usually reboot my W10 box once every few months or so. Our IT department commissions our Windows PCs in about an hour. Something seems very very wrong here, but I'm not an IT expert.

That's a nice way to put it!

"It wouldn't make a difference" - To whom? And how do you know? Even if a bot passes the Turing test, a community where there isn't any creativity or new information will die out. LLM is not the be all and end all of the human experience.

To take it further. even if we were all in the matrix, the statement "it wouldn't make a difference" is not true - philosophically speaking.

Also, humans have a circular reference with society at-large. Humans shape society, and society shapes humans. So something completely different might shape future societies, but I'd rather discuss the situation as it exists today, rather than an imagined future.

HN is a social community too. So are other online forums, discord chat groups, mailing lists, gaming communities, open source communities, etc. People are driven to social interaction, whether virtual or in-person. I don't know what is the big deal in acknowledging that.

It's a bit odd to make such a blanket statement for people living in rural areas all over the world. These are "my peeps" and we're not any of those things.

The point is that it was guaranteed behavior before the spec was changed. As an aside, I do find it amusing that the memo was co-authored by a Googler. Google has the best fingerprinting & tracking tech baked into their core products. I guess they don't want competition! :)

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-mathewson-no-gmtunixti...

> AMD Inception Mitigations Can Lower Performance of CPUs by Up to 54% - in a specific MariaDB based benchmark.

Yes, I agree - This remote-work push-pull will be continuous based on who has the leverage at any given time. I exited the industry many years back, but I would not want to be a remote-only worker in a high income country competing with the global talent pool.

>Somebody might interpret this statement as if nobody (in their context) should worry about writing good code.

The comment you quoted refers to great/eloquent code. But you took it to mean something different.

Given the rehashing of these same memes in dev communities since the dawn of programming, I don't believe there is a strong agreement on what "good code" even means practically speaking, even though we mostly agree on abstract principles.

IMHO, I think there is an understandable hesitation among developers to accepting that they're doing 'job for hire' work, instead aligning more with the idea that they're put in charge to produce something "beautiful".

Ultimately, it's all messy machine code with goto's and jumps everywhere and "elegant" data structures turning into bits mashed together in memory. The comments, naming conventions, coding formats, etc are all long gone.

This is in stark contrast when producing something physical where the finer engineering aspects shine through in the final product.

On a general note, this is a golden opportunity to snatch up all the talented people who want to WFH. But the WFH debate has shown that very few people want to put their money where their mouths are.

>A lot of other companies get into trouble trying to cargo-cult what Google does when they are operating in very different environments wherein those practices aren't optimal. E.g. different levels of scale.

Any prominent examples?