skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My son's US-based employer does this as well. Employees have to take 1-week per quarter and they're removed from Slack/Outlook for that period. I hadn't heard of anybody else doing this until now.

That said, I've been at my employer 20+ years now and I've been contacted on vacation maybe 3 times and none required me to work beyond a 5 min phone call (none required logging into any systems remotely). Obv I'd prefer this didn't happen, but int the overall scheme of things, not bad.
Ah interesting. So I guess if they validate the thesis we could see a number of these right? Maybe co-op style, because you'd want some level of governance, not just, oh here's the cash and let's go run it, or oh hey let's bittorrent style do it but without vetting what stuff it's being used for e.g I don't want models being built for nefarious stuff on my computer.
Neither of my ACC cars have this behavior! I agree that it would be safer to do it this way.
Por eso "noduermes" LOL
Companies right now doesn't have a good and easy way to track how data is flowing through their system. Yes, iRobot can say that it was collecting the data for improvement purposes and the data ends up in a database meant only for improvement purposes, but no tech company today can guarantee that no other processes/services are also reading/utilizing this data. All it takes is a dev from another team doing a text search for data variable names and adding that data to their db/data pipeline.
I will need to try those yellowed glasses (as clip on of course).

Wonder if this is why several countries in Europe have yellow head lights on their cars.
Developer Created Virtual AI Wife Using ChatGPT
It's not the lack of milk that's the problem. It's the getting rid of the milk.
Rocking the Web Bloat: Modern Gopher, Gemini and the Small Internet 2022 [video]
You can recover from a panic though, so if you are implementing something that may panic you should have some sensible defer/recover in there if you can't afford to have your process crash.
I like WYSIWYG tools for a static system. However since I'm documenting a dynamic system that is changing all the time the tool needs to reflect the actual state of the system as it is now, not how is was 2 weeks ago.

20+ years ago I worked with a UML code generation system, so our diagrams reflected reality: you couldn't change the code layout except by using the WSIWYG tool. As such we always had correct up to date diagrams. It was great, every Monday the first thing I did was print the current diagram out and pasted it to my wall, then the rest of the week I'd refer to that all the time, but by Friday there were noticeable differences. Unfortunately such tools never caught on - in part because they have other limitations - but the diagrams were something I still miss.
Sadly I have not. I've been on the lookout though. I've also considered adding annotations for ebpf hooks to this one, but that turns out to be rather difficult to keep up with too.
Can a gravity wave be (in theory) directionally focused ?
You always did have to work it out with your manager; that's not new.

What is new, and better for me, is that vacation time no longer feels like a scarce, nonrenewable resource, so I no longer feel compelled to hoard it.

Instead of deciding whether some camping trip or festival or ski weekend is special enough to justify burning a few of those precious vacation days, often choosing instead to save them up in case of a more important occasion later in the year, I can just... go do the fun thing. No bookkeeping, no worries.

I've had jobs with "unlimited vacation" policies for quite a few years now and I still do prefer it.
I was hoping for something like rootless systemd-nspawn.
This tool looks sharp, but why do you say "HardeningKitty is a good start." It seems to be an all-in-one solution to harden your system, and not an introduction, like my guide.
Karatsuba Long Multiplication Algorithm
>However, supporters of the amendment, including child protection charities, argue that only personal liability for company bosses will ensure the child safety provisions are effective.

The idea of social media execs serving prison sentences appeals to me. How would this work in practice if Meta/Byte Dance relocated their UK based staff out of the country?
For a more detailed explanation of unstructured vs. structured data, see: https://airbyte.com/blog/analyze-unstructured-data
I just found it, this is created by Dave Stearns.
It's absolutely not nonsense, I suggest taking some basic high-school physics.
Reaction time is the time for the vehicle to come to a stop, not for the driver to first notice an issue.

At 60 mph it will take many meters and seconds to deaccelerate, assuming the driver can take exactly the correct action:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=time+to+brake+at+70+met...

Estimate here is about 4 seconds, under perfect conditions. 5 seconds is more than reasonable, considering you also need to realize the other driver is acting erroneously.
macOS and iOS not so much. Which is probably one of the reasons why apps for these platforms are often much better (or at least more polished) than say Windows apps.
Learning to Be, so that I'm not “in my head” or stuck in thoughts - a much better place to live from
I don’t think I’ve ever seen HN react so negatively to a project, but I think that has to do with the image people have of what a “browser” is.

Kristall isn’t very useful for HTTP even though it supports the protocol. That said its goal is the “small internet” and very basic sites on HTTP will work, which is is inline with that goal. Some have complained even Google search doesn’t work, but Google search doesn’t fall under the umbrella of “small internet”.

When it comes to Gopher and Gemini it’s far more useful, but only a small community of people use either in 2023 so that’s not going to appeal to most people here, even though that’s the primary use case of the project.
Why does the camera need to look that high up? I see example pictures of tops of cabinets and shelves. Why does a vacuum cleaner need to see that?
Not sure I agree with this. Lower cost of care via single-payer would seem to create more jobs not less. Would be nice to find out though.
Respectfully, you don't appear to understand the topic and you are heavily editorializing. I flagged your comment because it strikes me as hateful.
Are you my manager? Haha
I think you're misunderstanding what the "backup" was in this context (in particular as the article is unhelpful by calling it a backup file, which isn't accurate).

In this case it is two PRODUCTION systems running concurrently. The primary and the secondary (article calls the "backup"). Primary went down due to corruption, but the identical secondary system couldn't be switched to because the corruption also occurred there.
Never used Mapster myself, but as far as I can see, Mapster does not provide a Roslyn based source generator. By default, it seems to create mappings at runtime (if not using the Mapster Tool to create mappings at build time).
A theory going around a few weeks ago about his apparent inability to STFU is that his defence will be that he was affected by ADHD meds that impaired his judgement and made him impulsive, and have continued to do so even post collapse. I doubt lawyers could come up with anything better than this, really.
Someone archive it, quick.
You advise to be human and kind but automatically categorize "difficult people" as being on the spectrum? And no worry, some engineers don't need to be on the spectrum to be difficult. Conversely, people on the spectrum are not inherently difficult either.

But I do agree: communication is key. Craftpeople can have trouble taking the team or the business priorities into account. Being the manager, you have to take the other parties' side and talk about the non-technical problems: time to implement (= money and unavailability of the engineer), additional complexity, fragility, making changes more difficult... Convincing is always better but if you argued to no avail, you have to impose your decision – being careful not to be the asshat in the mix.
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Write Code and Tests in Tandem
This deposit has been known for a long time. The news is that they have a better estimate how much rare earths are actually in there now. You don't just stumble upon something like this right next to one of the most important iron mines in Europe.
Friends don't let friends blog post on stimulants. Especially while under house arrest.
haha nice little skit, i wonder if this could work as a youtube short as well. the famous SethRosen tweet in TFA is basically the start of a long conversation about what we want from data vs the work that it takes to get it
It is building a map, and knowing when you place it in a random room what room it is (even if you like, buy a new rug). I don't think you can just stare straight down and build a good 3d map of a building?
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Mr Sgt.

I can't imagine anyone doing that to me. Seriously, WTF.
A model is a function F that minimizes error in y_i = F(X_i) + error. Inserting a label simply means a function F(X_i,y_j). Then you optimize it in some way to separate true labels from false label, e.g. F(X_i, y_j) = (y_i==y_j)-(y_i!=y_j) + error.
Because he will get a fat book and movie deal.
> There's only one equation

Not accurate for the version another commenter linked: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/FFA13.pdf

I see four equations.
blocks them from being manipulated, but does not mean you can't draw them.
I have never used IMP caching, and don't think the average developer uses this (aside from indirect use of Apple's frameworks). Otherwise:

> A normal Objective-C message send is a bit slower, as we'd expect. Still, the speed of objc_msgSend continues to astound me. Considering that it performs a full hash table lookup followed by an indirect jump to the result, the fact that it runs in 2.6 nanoseconds is amazing. That's about 9 CPU cycles. In the 10.5 days it was a dozen or more, so we've seen a nice improvement. To turn this number upside down, if you did nothing but Objective-C message sends, you could do about 400 million of them per second on this computer.

So it's 9 cycles vs what, one?
SBF also linked to this blog post from https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX, so it appears to be actually him.
In 3 months, libsql released WASM functions, S3 WAL and network database sqld
The author's gripe with using Tailwind with components is more concretely expressed in this follow up thread: https://twitter.com/davesnx/status/1329392089189265408?s=20&...

For reference, this is how Tailwind suggests using it with components (aka. "component-driven" as it says, which the author takes issue with): https://tailwindcss.com/#component-driven

I think the gripes come from trying to combine the bottom-up approach of Tailwind with the top-down approach of props based styling that JS component libraries typically allows. His point being that Tailwind does not work too well with such solutions for dynamism / contextual style overrides. You could solve it with using clsx or cva though, as seen in this video:

"Tru Narla: Building a design system in Next.js with Tailwind" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Zv73yZ_QI

The best way seems to be making styling a completely internal component concern, and not take in style props but simply semantic props like isActive=true and then have the component itself apply styles based on that, like NavItem.js on the Tailwind home page suggests: https://tailwindcss.com/#component-driven

This practise is elaborated in this example, that has the same button styled differently by passing in different semantic props: https://youtu.be/T-Zv73yZ_QI?t=570
What about Irish Pubs or every single Pizza shop not operated by an Italian?
> There are huge (truly gigantic) areas of the outback where pollution would not bother anyone.

That's exactly what the British colonisers said when they engaged in a bit of atomic testing at Maralinga, leaving Aboriginal people blinded, affected by radiation poisoning and left with an ongoing legacy of radiation-related health problems.

I expect we're less in favour of a repeat of that kind of dumping of the side effects of first world problems on indigenous people than you seem to be.

Or .. you reckon we should agree to be rounded up and shipped off to the reservation again?

[1] https://genius.com/Paul-kelly-and-the-messengers-maralinga-r...
I agree that the problem is that the company doesn't seem to use requirements to guide the daily work. It should be easy to decide whether certain work is necessary - either you have a requirement or you don't.

Without requirements, people will always leave a trail of chaos in their wake as they do whatever is fun or good for their career and resume. The only advice I have for OP is to not be the sucker who acts as janitor for the messes they leave behind.
If a wheel falls off, the driver doesn't have to apply the brakes... A quarter of the car is digging in and melding itself to the asphalt.

If the differential fails catastrophically, it applies more braking force than the brakes do, so you'll have brief period of being airborne and then at least 1 rear wheel will sheer off (seen it).

If the driveshaft or trailing arms fail the wrong way, they result in a steel shaft digging into the roadway at a downward angle in front of the wheels and the driveshaft will stop the differential as above, until it sheers off.
chatGPT works surprisingly well for python (and am sure other popular languages too). I can dump a code bit and tell it to write the tests + fixtures for me. The tests it wrote actually showed it "understood" (or recognized the pattern of) the code too.
For example part of the code renamed some columns for a data frame that was loaded from a csv. The fixture it created for the csv had the correct column names the code was renaming.

Unless you're doing TDD or chatGPT is too busy, there's almost no excuse now to not write some unit tests ;)
Funny, I was asking myself the same question this morning, I was wondering if there was the equivalent of SETI@Home but to pool resources for model training.
> Now... would a unit test have found that? You have to know exactly what you'd be looking for first. The test would have to be smarter than the person writing the code.

This is a textbook example of something that property based testing can catch. Yes, the tests are smarter than the person that wrote the code. At least, smarter in a different way or maybe it’s that the people who wrote the property based testing framework are super smart.

Look up QuickCheck for the OG or property based testing + your language.

I don’t exactly understand your bug, but the way it would work is something like you’d make some generators that create night stays and rates and put those together into a bill. Then you test the property that the number of line items on the bill is the number of nights + number of discounts (or whatever is right). It will search to break this property and if it breaks it, find a minimal case. Seriously check it out, it’s perfect for this sort of thing.
>A theory going around a few weeks ago about his apparent "inability" to STFU is that his defence will be that he was affected by ADHD meds that impaired his judgement and made him impulsive, and have continued to do so even post collapse. I doubt lawyers could come up with anything better than this, really.

Doesn't seem far fetched honestly. He really reminds me people who took one too many adderall doses and suddenly think everything is a great idea.
I remember there was an ascii-only browser called Lynx (I think?). What happened to that?
There's no privacy, in terms of sensors that send data to other people. Well, correction: There can be privacy between you and those other people.

Who wants a camera, roaming their house, constantly sending photos to another person?

Quite a few people, apparently!

Most people rationalize this, because they don't think about the other people at all. They're not visible, so they don't exist. This isn't the "panopticon" because we don't see our watchers ever appear, even when those watchers are posting our intimate photos on social media.

So many "smart" devices needlessly send data to the companies that produce the product. Society has built the technology to keep data on the devices, yet that's not how things have worked out.

Another point: a huge percentage of these devices are produced by Chinese companies. The Chinese government effectively has an ownership stake in all of these companies. However, we too, can rationalize this, because it's so abstract. The consequences aren't visible to us right now, so we can go ahead and ignore them. Right?

Amazon is buying Roomba. Same thing. We can ignore the consequences. It's easy!
Pretty clear evidence of a lack of remorse (well he has remorse he lost the bet but not for being a fraud) and acceptance of his crimes even during the judicial process. He's gonna go away for a long time.
Someone needs to write

YAML: The Good Parts

If you're strict about how you use it, it's more than workable. And, yes, the Norway problem is insane.
Umm, no.
Why does it need to know anything in the Z dimension higher than 6"?
As you say this, I realize I can't find anywhere that it does.

I do not know why I thought it did. Possibly as U74-MC[0] supports that option.

Interestingly, I also took a look at RVA22[1], and found it requires Zbb but not the whole B.

Your /proc/cpuinfo isn't listing Z* extensions. Maybe lscpu output would be more detailed?

0. https://www.sifive.com/cores/u74-mc

1. https://github.com/riscv/riscv-profiles/blob/main/profiles.a...
I find it incredibly confusing and pointless when I'm alt-tabbing to an application, but then "nothing happens" (e.g. only the menu bar changes but the app has no windows open - I really can't understand why such ancient "MacOS-isms" are still carried along - like, what's the point of a UI application lingering around when there's no UI?)

Disclaimer: Mac is my main platform since around 2010, before that Windows, and before that Amiga - one would think that more than a decade would be enough to acclimate, but the whole application model on Mac still feels weird :)
Are there any communities working on PC builds for AI work?
Curious if how there are gamer communities focusing on best framerates in their desktop PC, are there communities or authors publishing their home builds for their AI stuff?
My boss won't even consider calling anyone after a certain hour each day, exceptions are very rare. I haven't worked here long enough to have been on vacation yet but I would be surprised if anyone contacted me during that time.
He's trying to influence the jury pool.
Didn't you just describe a 10x developer?
Will Floating Point 8 Solve AI/ML Overhead?
So the backup system failed
The other thing I've run into in a similar context is perfectly performed manual work ("you didn't know about the merge function, so you manually typed the 15,000 rows of data into Excel?" And invariably, after coding it up, no errors found) or reimplementing things you could easily find in open source ("you didn't know about the merge function, so you found a textbook on relational algebra and implemented your own RDBMS in VB macros?" Again, a bug free toy database).

Some people are just smarter/faster/better than the rest of us, but they're no better at reading programming language documentation.
Classic 1970s text adventure now has Google AI graphics
> they also have a rich history of conquest and slavery.

Slavery? Whom did indians enslave?
My uncle, grandma, etc aint reading this.
Is he still not explaining why alameda's poor hedging would impact client funds on FTX? Because that is where the criminal act happened...
Regular Expressions and System.Json support using source generation for performance gains.
This actually looks like a lawyer wrote it. It’s very calibrated.
I travelled to a country that has them everywhere and they were all either broken or completely ineffectual (Argentina).

I am yet to be convinced.
The way to solve YAML issues is to invent some widely used yaml pretty printer and shout at everyone not using it.

There's `yq -P` but it does not implement proper normalization for plenty of mentioned issues which is a shame, really.

As I see it, everyone can just start with JSON (as JSON is a subset of YAML) and pretty-print it and use the result whenever it's supposed to be used.

In other words use safe subset of YAML. May be it'll be formalized some day. Yamlite.
Yes but the parliament can change the law however they see fit, to exempt this mine from environmental law. This has already happened twice in the last few years (cement production and hydro power).
Name Server Sets
What it means is different for each person that has inherited different traits but there are some interesting ones that have been identified: https://www.science.org/content/article/our-hidden-neanderta...

Edit: The method they use only allows them to discover negative things. Many of these same traits probably offer some advantages as well, but they only have quantitative data on disease.
https://archive.ph/CDbRf
Ask HN: Tips for modern Java Swing development?
I'm writing some utilities with Java Swing (I'm a Java dev working in a Java shop). Been away from it a while - what is the best app framework? I have settled on flat laf (https://www.formdev.com/flatlaf) but what about MVC/app support? I found Griffon. Anything else?
See the video here for a demo of Zork with graphics & UI generated by Imagen + LaMDA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpCrBBj6AWE
I managed to get past 43 but it was a single box after that... I guessed wrong.
It’s interesting that you keep referring to this hypothetical person as “the resource”…

I’ve managed people similar to the ones you describe, and enjoyed it. But they do live in another value system. One where “resource” is a dirty word. One in which teamwork has no intrinsic value (beyond the additional economic value it creates).

I could write a whole book on this, but to sum it up I think its mostly just a mismatch between team/management and employee. The former often think of themselves as having the company’s best interests at heart, but when I listen to stories from “the other side” (the “smart” engineer that’s been marginalized / pushed out) it’s not hard to see the defense mechanisms and political behavior on their side.
I'd go one further. Consent is an intellectually lazy framework. For many things that operate under consent, it should be pretty clear whether or not it's OK to do something.
> Three things combined together to cause the implosion: …

Shockingly this list doesn’t include misappropriating customer funds
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I see what you mean. Some actual reporting on this would be welcome. It is rare to get actual reporting these days, like looking into the overall shoplifting statistics in a serious way, instead of just printing what someone said in a press release or earnings call. Journalism is not what we'd like.

I still think it's news to report when a Walgreen's exec says in an earnings call "Yeah, maybe shoplifting wasn't actually that bad and we over-reacted", when the shoplifting issue, at Walgreen's specifically, has become such a talking point to represent the overall situation. Even just on it's own, I think it's news, and don't think it's just propaganda to report it in the way NYT did.

But I get what you mean, I agree that I wish more people more often were interested in getting to what's really going on, instead of just finding talking points to support whatever they believe or find convenient for their agenda.

I think "Oh, that Walgreens situation was not, according to Walgreens, what people are saying it was" is one point that is not irrelevant in doing that though. But yeah, it's not the full picture, it's just one data point (or, anyway, removing one data point from the previous picture).