skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never understood this. If you work from home you can also just... go walking outside? In fact you could even go walking for longer, since nobody is checking for your presence and you haven't wasted time commuting.

I'd rather walk to the lake and go for a swim during the afternoon, than walk to a train to walk to an office.
Waiting longer is ok, it is waiting a random time in a unplanned way with a missed date that is very annoying and becomes expensive, not keeping to schedule will make consumers look elsewhere.
It's not a serious question. Regardless, the answer is 'nil'.
Twitter seems like the worst medium for just about any message worth reading. What happened to people having websites for long-form content ?

So, I read the first tweet, and the headline, and I've had the same thought looking at the amazing pictures that cutting-edge image generation networks can compose, things that are not only way better than what I myself (not a digital artist by trade) can produce, but also with content and composition that fit the description it was given, better than I think I could have done.

The same is probably going to be true for many fields, and this is probably fine, if we can make the shift to future where the machines do the work and the humans do the enjoyable parts of living.. UBI and more is going to be needed, probably restructuring beyond what most people can even handle mentally. I know there are people so defined by their for-profit work (and even the profit in its own right) that they could probably never be made to understand a different kind of world.

> I don't understand this perspective - idk about you, but, to me, art is not just a means to an end

As a producer of art, I find the process of creation is the end goal in itself, it is why I do and enjoy it, I don't care about the end product very much, that's how it is with recreational activities.

As a consumer of art, I couldn't care less about anything _BUT_ the end product..
I wish them luck. I understand their need to have folks in the office, and this is one way to make that more attractive.

But it is only one factor. Good management, strong teams, and a whole lot of "soft" stuff is even more important than beanbag chairs and foozball tables. The "good management" part is where most companies go pear-shaped. I wouldn't want to go to Buckingham Palace every day, if I hated the people I worked with/for, and felt like my work was being treated badly[0].

Although I work exclusively at home, and have no desire to ever dress "business casual" again, I think that a good* office environment can be extremely conducive to great work.

* As in "not like 99% of today's offices."

[0] https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-06-02
I didn't say there is "no difference" between these machines, that's ridiculous. My point is that Apples system-on-a-chip architecture, while giving big performance and efficiency gains, comes with a trade-off. That trade off is availability and pricing of RAM configurations. That 8GB or 16 works for you is great, but it doesn't work for every use case.
That changes his whole argument to: "it's better for my kids if your kids don't learn math".
I assume security is a concern already. Privacy's just less well defined and a lot harder. Connection fingerprinting is hard and I don't really think it's worth trying to solve for HTTP because... they're not going to.

If you want anonymous browsing, use TOR. If you say "well TOR is too slow", welcome to the HTTP/3 party.
(Former PhD student in Particle Physics Pheno here, far from an expert)

Of course it was a significant discovery, but honestly it would have been a far more interesting if we detected literally nothing. It's kind of weird because it was marketted as a success story to the public (and don't get me wrong, it was) but theorists were very confident that it was there by 2012. Thus far, it behaves exactly as expected according to the standard model and that is very dull.

HEP would have been left in a very funny position if we didn't find it. No Higgs Boson would have been fascinating from a theory perspective, but good luck trying to get funding for a new collider when you found nothing with the old one.
Because your cloud data is secured by your email address in 99% of cases
Classical logic is related to boolean logic, and has its uses.

But a lot of real world "logic" (decision theory, etc) is statistical in nature, often with a big inductive component and often based on "axioms" that only approximate the real world.

In other words, the field of Analytic Philosophy, when not using the proper amount of math and statistics (especially Bayesian statistics) tend to either lead to doubting everything (if they know what things they do not know) or drawing bad conclusions (if treating their axiomatic assumptions as absolute truths)

They have similar problems with science, and maybe Physics in particular, because of the abstraction of modern physics. By interpreting statements made by some physicist too literally, they may (falsely) end up with conclusions that go way beyond the domain of validity of the original statement.

Imho, Philosophy is fine as a side-project for people in academia, but I think philosphers who do not study math, science, psychology, etc at a level comparable to their philosophy work are at risk of ending up in lala-land.

I would estimate that if someone studies only philosophy in college, they will reach a point after about 1 year where their knowledge of philosophy come to a point that requires more understanding of math, science etc than they had when they started. Kind of like a physicist that doesn't take college level math.
Not weird, or at least if you are I'm with you. OS; eh, ok, I'm used to it. Hardware, nope. I run my work Mac in clamshell and use none of it. Screen is fine I guess, but I'm old and most of it's lost on my shitty eyesight anyway.
Mercedes 'do not drive' brake recall expands to 1M vehicles
> and you get 2-6% productivity declines & some amount of increased supply-driven inflation unless you offset with new technology (eg. software, robotics) or techniques.

People worked 40 hours a decade or two ago as well, and since then there's been enormous technical improvements. Why not use that improvement to work less and enjoy life, instead of chasing higher throughput in various industries?
> It's 100% artificial.

That was my point when I said "bullshit reasons".
Snowmass Process, US high energy physics community 10 years plan
Hoping for Asahi Linux soon!
Given the availability of Facebook, Netflix and the rest, one might think that Google is on to something there.
Yes, CC0 is what we're aiming for. I'll update the title. Thanks for the comment.
My take - Russians who feels attacked by people expressing support for Ukraine are the same ones that kinda like it.
No more innovation: USB-C or else.
While I'm not against eliminating toil, this article does not seem to consider the negative aspects of automation, such as the deskilling that happens naturally.

"This plant basically runs itself, but we do have a human present for if something goes wrong".. 50 years down the line, something goes wrong and nobody has the kind of insight and familiarity with the system that they'd have had it had been manually operated.
Pretty cool that this started a discussion on ownership. SEP has great articles on this by the way [1]

1. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/property/
If as you say we are not special then it is likely that some other sentient beings have progressed faster than us and have already done this. Not sure how we should respond to that.
They literally have a demonstration of the tool being used to evade an intrusive "send us a video of your face, turn your head both ways, blink".

That isn't a defensive use!?
Which is why Metasploit triggered the same discussion.
I had never heard that expression before [1]. Is 'TOIL' cultural, or is it just that I am inexperienced having never been an employee?

[1] https://factorialhr.com/blog/time-in-lieu-explained/
The reason to wave inspection is not to save money, but because the seller will refuse to sell to you if you don't. My father in law was offering to pay $5-10k over the next highest bid on a house he wanted to buy, but didn't get it because it he refused to wave his right to inspection.
And also active safety driver aids which prevent accidents in the first place. If you can afford a new car, by all means you should.
Is there any way to capture or view Rosetta's output, i.e. to use Rosetta as a tool for porting x86 code to the M1?
They already use USB-C in the iPad line. What I imagine as the most likely outcome is keeping USB-C as an option for charging (as it already is - you don't need to use MagSafe for charging any supported) and offering USB-C and/or wireless-only charging on phones. Being wireless-only on phones makes a lot of sense for ruggedness - a completely sealed iPhone could be easily used underwater.
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Thank you for sharing this. I had not realized the domain of colors were so magical and esoteric
Huh, seems interesting. Altough, having to have an email server is kinda concerning, but I do get where they come from.
According to the article:

> The Dark Sky API and website will continue to function until March 31st, 2023.

So your app has that long.
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I wonder if this will ruin him financially, and then we’ll stop hearing from him.
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Yeah, this is why I sold my last iPad Pro, after owning iPPs for about 4 years. It's such an incredible device crippled in the most brutal way by this overly restrictive mobile OS (let's be real, iPadOS is just an iOS skin and changed nothing). Doesn't seem like Apple has any interest in ever changing this, so I doubt I'll buy an ipp again.
Management is fishing; mentorship is teaching people to fish
Just realized this. Not everything deserves a blogpost.

thoughts?
Building some excitement may well increase the impact of any release, as does releasing it in installments. It may also lead to people coming clean in anticipation of being exposed, even if it ultimately doesn’t happen.

Note how even Wikileaks partnered with traditional media, used teasers and split up large stories to maximize their impact.
Humans can fail, but humans can also succeed, in applying logical reasoning- not only to common situations, but also to scientific inquiry. That's how we have science, today.

If we were only bumbling fools that stumble in the dark we'd still be stuck in dark caves without fire. But we can be -and we often are- much more than that.

But not our machine learning systems. Those are stuck in making stupid mistakes and not being able to generalise away from them. For the time being.

You can ask GPT-3 a question and it may come up with a smart answer or a dumb answer, and it won't know which is which. But we will.

Because, yes, we can make dumb mistakes but we can also understand that they are mistakes, and that they are dumb, and why they are mistakes and dumb, and we can recover from them and stop ourselves from making the same mistakes. We have blind spots, sure, but we can see through them, eventually, with hard work, after a very long time, very haphazardly.

But not our machine learning systems. For our machine learning systems the entire world is one big blind spot.

That is how humans are different to machine learning systems.
If you can have durable quality of life in exchange for GDP there is nothing to discuss.

If people are less productive things get more expensive which is good for GDP. GDP hates all of us.
No more e-waste as well. And, as the regulation moved from micro USB to USB-C, it's clear that innovation is still possible, within regulations. That's also why you can't have jet-engine powered cars on the streets.
CBI names 10 NGOs including Omidyar in FCRA bribe case
It's definitely common in the UK.
Or phone. How does a blockchain change this?
As an European, I’m so mad at this law.
Oh no! We didn't remind our users to be kind to each other!

We're software developers, not kindergarten teachers.

How do you feel about Sqlite's code of conduct? Because if you don't like that, then you shouldn't be making moral statements in your own repositories.
Lexing is more-or-less regular expression searching. Most regex engines are a mix of CPU- and memory-bound when searching for complicated REs (as one would have with a lexer; lex just combines patterns into a giant hardcoded DFA).

So, there’s room on the CPU for multithreading to improve performance, but it must be done carefully to minimize both contention and cache evictions.
I’ve heard Jamie Dimon brag on more than one occasion that JP Morgan employs “more programmers than Microsoft.”
>>> That sounds like a strange setup for C# unless I'm missing something.

I remote into a full Windows VM, we use VS 2019.

>>> Also what's stopping you from charging form USB-C monitor and using it as a hub ?

My USB-C monitor can't charge for some reason. It's one of the first 43 inch USB-C supporting monitors.
On the other hand, it is very good that the plant operated flawlessly for 50 years.
The problem with USB-C is that you can't just pick up a device cable and power brick and expect them to work together. As an example, my Apple 96W USB-C charger doesn't charge my nintendo switch. The cable that came with my phone doesn't charge said fully Mac when used with the 96w charger. There is no indication of incompatibility between these devices until you realise they don't work. This is going back to the dc jack era where you end up with these [0] guys with various tips and dials that all meet the USB-C "standard" for a connector but don't work.

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/EFISH-Multifunctional-Transformer-2...
Hmm. It is a tough one.

I am closer to your line of thinking than not, but, at the same time, from where I sit, it seems that data monitoring went too far already and regular user has to have a way to circumvent it.

For that reason alone, this tool, even if it will result in some abuse, it just evens out the playing field.
As somebody who did oversee illustration, mostly for advertising. No, no way.
You should see how often these illustrations go back and forth, with little fixes here and there. Ai can't do that (yet)?

I can see it becoming big for Stock footage and layout purposes.

It may even curb demand for illustrations, because now some Manager / Art Director made a layout with an Ai. And they need it like that, but with friendlier character / more headspace / bigger eyes / the Logo incorporated / different color etc etc.

Also illustrators will want to use it, to get a first couple of layouts to the client.
In quite a few countries the 32 hour workweek is already very normal, it creates a bit of extra scheduling work but nothing you can't handle in a larger organization. For smaller companies this is a bigger problem because they don't usually have the headcount to fill the resulting gaps and things tend to rely more on personal relationships.
I usually work 7 days a week, but very casually. Basically work takes a back seat to most other things (hanging out with my kids, gym, etc.). I get to hang out with my kids a solid amount every single day (not just weekends), which I love. It's totally worth giving up large blocks of non-work (weekends) for me.

It all just depends on what works for you, your employer / client(s), and even then it varies over time. Some time soon my kids may not want to hang out with me as much, and I'll tweak my schedule.

It feels sort of like being retired, but I'm still putting in close to a full work week of hours (and those are productive hours generally).
Except for the millions of lightning cable already in prod?
This article was nice. I wonder if it can be generalized to careers in general ?

Long, satisfying careers often involve proactive, design-oriented approach rather than purely reactive.

The only way to make grunge work an entire career would be if you’re constantly doing something for the first or second time, eg artists, novelists.

Even scientists, they can initially discover something significant, but they keep repeating the work on the same topic without more depth or breadth, the work will become tool.
Europol and CIA engage in data mining in the SWIFT system [DE]
I would claim finding it was equally significant. Theory is not reality but just a model until verified. I know there is a trend in physics where computing is supposed to suffice without actually verifying anything but that is just wrong - I presume this notion is driven by the incentives to focus on publishing more than tedious collaboration.
Why would someone buy a Mercedes SUV? Reminds me of when a BMW owner I met at a picnic made fun of the "touring model" they made. (It was a station wagon, if I recall correctly.)

Jokes aside, this is a really serious issue, and "brake boosters that can become corroded after prolonged exposure to moisture" sounds like something you should plan for.

(It rains outside.)
> But I think it’s well established that most people’s reaction to modals is to close them and get back to what they are doing rather than read and consider them.

And this is why I consider modals "out of nowhere" to be the worst UX sin out there. And iOS is chock-full of these things. Low battery? In-your-face alert. System update? In-your-face alert, and then sneaky "enter passcode to install overnight" crap. Something about your Apple ID that you couldn't care less about? In-your-face alert. Plugged something in? In-your-face alert. No SIM card? In-your-face alert. An app failed to download? In-your-face alert.

It would've been much better if it was a notification. You'd only look for it if you know it should be there, for example when your computer doesn't see your phone.
Google translation: https://fm4-orf-at.translate.goog/stories/3024924/?_x_tr_sl=...
That his staff couldn't get him to do the sensible thing so had to deepfake his press conference.
> Alaska Native communities have long had some of the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates in Alaska and in the U.S.

So this is despite being vaccinated more. Lede buried.
Common in countries in SEA like the Philippines
Either:

1) So that there can be co-ordinated coverage of it in the media / social media, and it doesn't just become a thing that's "in the public domain" but isn't news;

2) Because it's FUD. Confidently declaring that things are going to happen on certain dates is a really powerful thing (cf. millenarianism)

I don't know which it is in this case.
Thank you for the perspective. Perhaps because I occasionally, but not obsessively, review the material it stick better for me.
Or just learn what a color wheel is and own that perception of art is ultimately subjective :-)
I don't think this is the right take.

- We already have reliable rumors that next-next iPhone (not this Sept, but next) will have USB-C port.

- Qi is not a standard they control like Lightning either way.

- Portless phone would be very unpopular (no fast charging), USB-C would be very popular. Apple would not choose to be unpopular just to watch the world hate them.
They've been putting in "bike lanes" on new highways around here for a while; the put some paint on what would've been the road shoulder otherwise and apparently get money from the feds for it. I'd rather ride a bike in the real lane, it'd be safer.
If you buy a M8 Bolt or a pair of plain black socks, you are free to do whatever you want with it, sell photos of it, make copies etc. The same can’t exactly be said about the book you purchased (in most legislations where the concept of intellectual property exist).

Does that mean that you don’t own the book?

Ownership is not so clear cut.
So what happens when Microsoft disagrees that I own Microsoft.block?

E: Honest question, comes off as snark a little - would they be able to just take it somehow or would they need to use jailtime and or broken kneecaps to get it off you? Either way the blockchain's concept of ownership seems like it would be broken easily by law and companies with lots of money
It's inevitable. Just because it takes a long time doesn't mean it won't happen.

Higher level abstractions = less labor required (e.g. serverless), plus additional supply of labor = lower costs.

Wages are always defined by the equilibrium point between supply and demand of labor, never by the value add of the job.

Simple thought experiment, say you have a button that makes you $1m dollars every time it's pressed and it can be pressed only 100 times per day.

How much do you have to pay somebody to convince them to press it each day?

Now say you have the same button but only 1 person in the world can activate it. How much do you have to pay them to convince them to do it?

The answer to these demonstrates the principle in quite an obvious way.
> but a lot of their peers would have had the privilege of studying with them

If you need other students to successfully study, that's either yours or the educational system's failure; but other children shouldn't be dragged down for it.
Because capitalism.
Indeed. I've been doing similar research myself and was surprised at how highway driving can disadvantage EVs. They'll never be as expensive per mile as an ICE vehicle but I found the fact I spend most of my commute at 80mph significantly decreased the savings.
That's crazy. My "commute" is 30 minutes of walking each way. Could do it in 10 if I took the bus but I like the workout.
> Math is the ultimate get-to-the-bottom-of-things subject.

I love math and am decently good at it.

But I don't agree with this statement. I don't think math is the ultimate get-to-the-bottom-of-things subject, I think it's an ultimate get-to-the-bottom-of-things subject. And I think that makes a big difference.

It's easy to set up a filter which only very intelligent/whatever people pass, and say "yep, this is the correct filter, everyone passing this filter is intelligent". But we might be missing a lot of people we'd get otherwise! What if someone is totally uninterested in math, but she happens to love biology, and spent her whole life "getting-to-the-bottom-of" how bodies work? Or substitute in chemistry, exercise science, psychology, or any other field. People can be totally uninterested in and bad at math, but still geniuses of their respective fields.

Note: I'm not sure you disagree with what I wrote, you yourself wrote " math is a sort of flag that suggests you can get to the bottom of whatever problem you're faced with."
Pike’s talks emphasize that concurrency is not the same as parallelism. Unfortunately for Go, CPUs are designed to exploit parallelism — in so many ways, that stack — so CSP-style concurrency comes with massive overhead when used on fine-grained problems like this.

If you want performance, find parallelism and exploit it.
I'm glad they released this.

I'm sick snd tired of seeing big companies and orgs (Google is the most recent) publish an amazing application of ML but refuse to release the trained model because the model is biased and may be used in a bad way.
The PR folks get bonuses and better prospects for their next jobs: this story got as much free carriage as an Elon Musk fart.
The issue with the Nintendo Switch is that Nintendo designed their own faulty USB-C charging implementation rather than merely using the reference design. It's not a failure of the spec, it's a failure to adhere to the spec.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16706803
Awesome! I recently put off buying an adapter I lost for one device, and just started using an old USB battery with the correct connector to charge it up outside my home instead, I was THAT annoyed with the fact I need to hurt my back and stress my mind dealing with all these... ports.

This is a positive example of the EU influencing American technology companies.

(I say that as someone considering getting an EU passport though, so I might be biased.)