skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think this is horrific, then you apparently assume that it has "consciousness" rather than only simulating it. A true AGI might be intelligent but only simulate consciousness. And yes, it might be difficult to tell the difference.

This reminds me of Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment. In order to upgrade the Chinese Room to modern deep learning: suppose we run a brain image by instructing each human being on Earth to act as one neuron. Would "we" "feel" discomfort?
International remote work seems simple from the employee's perspective, but you must consider the company's perspective, which is much more complex:

- Labor/tax laws are different for every country. That is potentially 180X+ more work for HR/lawyers. Even adding just a single country potentially doubles the amount of work.

- Often the host country expects local tax payments for the portion of the revenue generated by the remote worker. This can be a pain to calculate/track.

- Legally, tourist visas usually do not allow work. So work visas need to be sponsored.

- In addition, countries also have export laws about data/technology.

So it is much simpler for most companies to just not allow international remote work. Bigger companies like Google that already have international offices are better prepared to support international remote work.

Perhaps in the future international labor law will catch up, but most treaties, laws, and policies were created when international remote work couldn't even be imagined.

Sources that helped me figure this out:

- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/remote-working-from-overseas-...

- https://home.kpmg/xx/en/home/insights/2021/04/remote-work-in...

- https://www.ecovis.com/global/cross-border-remote-work-consi...

- https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/international-remote-worki...
The numbers I find are that some 11,000 out of 25,000 U.S. banks failed between 1929 and 1933 - the key words to search for are “bank failure” and “Great Depression”
Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoff
Agreed. These platforms want you locked in. Having agnostic tools helps you sleep at night, and keep them more honest than they might be otherwise.
They would much rather miss out on potentially talented individuals than hire one sub-par person. They care much more about avoiding false positives than false negatives.

I also had someone candidly tell me that they deliberately select for candidates who have put extensive time into preparation because that correlates with effort and the willingness to work under crunch conditions in the job. Gross, but effective.
Built in mediawiki search is ... well it's already ok, especially if you practice a bit. And you are not constrained to plain search, there are a number of different systems you can use to organize and browse through your data.

Of course there are also a number of semi-external search engines you can add on if you want that can improve results for plain search.

Finally, mediawiki tends to be a fairly rich/high quality data source for general purpose search engines to ingest. If you have a reasonably sized intranet that also happens to have a mediawiki wiki on it, you might end up getting better results for everything, not just the wiki.
I know the answer but I don't like my own answer. When a company hosts it's own code, they are in control of how it and the infrastructure their code is running on are managed. They can keep everyone on the same version and ensure all the servers are managed following a specific process. If there is a critical bug they can patch it right away, sometimes without getting into details.

When people host a companies code, the vendor ends up with a lot more support cases due to externalities that the vendor does not control and the customers of the product will tweak and modify it in ways the vendor did not expect and does not support. The customer can see under the hood and find embarrassing mistakes. The customer may have network configurations and use cases that the vendor never expected their application to reside and function in.

There are pros and cons to each method and both the vendor and customer stand to benefit from one method over the other but ultimately the vendor has to decide if they are willing to take on the extra support load and extra time to work with the customer to ensure best practices are followed for the app, the servers, for backups, for disaster recovery procedures, etc... In most cases the vendor does not have the ability to debug a customer hosted instance directly and depend on working with intermediaries sometimes over video chat screen sharing sessions.
It is simple for most people. It can be automated, and then those who have complications can decide to file an amended return.

Surely, there can be a database at the IRS of everyone’s W-2 and 1099 income.
Then the same journalist writes the same article, only about Microsoft wasting money on booking Sting and then not even having him show up, a day before layoffs. Which because it's even more wasteful, maybe comes across even worse.

Journalists are always going to try to find/invent "optics" problems. But when companies aren't actually doing anything wrong, is it really worth their time to worry about "optics"?

I don't think this particular article or HN post is going to matter at all in the long run, or even in the short run.
Does it also work if the response code is changed to HTTP 204 No Content?
It's a different beast, for sure. My primary role is the resident Ansible/terraform guy. There's overlap but it's less about knowing the best algorithms and more about being able to piece together a broad swath of disparate parts. There's a significant amount of figure-it-out-make-it-happen, which I enjoy.

I knew the tools, because in the course of learning I had to build projects end to end and managing stuff manually while also working on the code was just not on.

While knowing both of those definitely made a lot of interviewers perk up a bit, I think what really lubricated the process was that I had focused really wide - I had entry -level competency in a ton of stuff so it was easier to find a good fit.

I guess the takeaway is to learn a little bit of a lot rather than a lot of a few things. That will also be helpful after you specialize, because it's never a bad thing to know how your systems interconnect.
Let's make up someone and call them Wolf Gupta.
Google proved they could pump out new business after new business. They just kept shutting them down because they weren't as profitable as search ads. None of the things they tried ever had a chance to refine or pivot like any business in the real world. They expect immediate world domination.

Big companies try to incubate startups but just can't leave shit alone. They have to micromanage everything under the terms of the core business. Startups get lucky from trying hair-brained ideas and being scrappy--not being micromanaged.

I'm working in a startup right now, building a new product that complements the core business. The new product is highly suspect, and on paper seems like it could be a real mess (handling real peoples' money). I'm interested to see how it adapts or pivots after meeting the customer, and I'm not willing to write it off because I cannot predict what it will develop into even if the original idea fails. It could all be a waste of time and money. It could also reveal another market. The original idea doesn't have to work out for the venture to be successful.
> A cycle on a pair
(X,A)
is a chain on
X
whose boundary is a chain on
A
.

is this roughly saying that a cycle on (X,A) is a chain on X that would be a cycle on the quotient X/A?
Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I just bring old clothing that I liked to my local tailor and he'll make me brand new replacements that last for years and fit perfectly. Plus his prices are reliably less than 2x of a similar off-the-shelf item, which is a premium I'm happy to pay for handmade quality.
One of these days, I want to make a terminal "optimized" for eink - as in, compute which parts of the screen receive the new characters, to invalidate them and do a quick refresh (leaving eink ghosting) on these leaving the rest of the screen pristine, then later do at an opportunistic time a better refresh (leaving no ghosting) on these to have no ghosting at all instead of leaving the selection of that time to the eink driver.

Eink refresh is slow-ish, but only because if say scrolling a bunch of pixels, you need to invalidate and redraw the whole screen.

The advantage of terminals is that you can easily keep a matrix of squares, and by looking at the flux of information, you can pick the opportunistic times for refreshes.

With characters, there should be more recouping. (a B and a P overlap except in the bottom right)

With line editing, the problem should be limited to the line

All these small gains should add up to provide an excellent terminal experience.
Can't speak for Japan, but recently in france I had to renew a document and was astonished when the relevant administration didn't live-up to its atrocious reputation and provided a smooth process. I'm sure it was a outlier and I was lucky.
Information can be beautiful on its own, if you follow some common patterns about contrast, clustering and hierarchy. These are based on the principles of Gestalt [1] which engineers can learn without having artsy skills by watching books and courses specific for us, e.g. [2].

Do you know about Edward Tufte? His work doesn't revolves specifically about software, but his principles show how to present technical information in the clearest way, and his books [3] are beautiful examples on how to put a technical topic in book form with clean and beautiful layouts.

[1] https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/gestalt...

[2] https://medium.com/bigcommerce-developer-blog/design-for-dev...

[3] https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
This isn’t a great idea if OP’s employer does geolocation via IP address. They may not find out about this monitoring until they are on the ground in Foreignlandia and are unable to access the corporate network. At that point, they may be terminated for cause and will be expected to return a now bricked computer within 48-hours or face having its cost deducted from their final paycheck.
>by definition an atheist is an individualist.

No? By definition an atheist doesn't believe in the supernatural or divinity. Nothing about that proscribes individualism, nor does community presuppose religion or "softening one's views" on the existence of the supernatural, as you have. Plenty of atheists are also social people who enjoy the benefits of community, while remaining perfectly comfortable in their skin.
This isn't too different from how I felt at Google.

Maybe it was the wrong team for me, but it got to a point where I struggled to put in the work whilst in the office AND struggled to have a life outside of work because I hated the work so much.

My wife dealt with a lot of bullshit from me that year. She's amazing.

If you hate your job, LEAVE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_an...
Tests tend to exist so that you can be rejected. Let's not kid ourselves - most of the time people hire based on feelings; and not only about you but also about how they feel at that specific moment.
Wasn't it kind of obvious that a virtualized hardware layer is to be preferred over heterogeneous hardware?

Granted, it is surprising that browsers are increasingly taking this role rather than operating systems. But this module runs in the kernel.
Opened edge for the second time since I setup this machine just to test it. Surprisingly good.
Can confirm, i've been using iOS since iPhoneOS 2.0 and it was always a requirement. Using saved passwords and Touch ID/Face ID actually makes buying stuff on the App Store less annoying than how it was before.
People like apocryphal stories about successful people. Celebrities, billionaires, professors. imo the story serves as a way to connect the reader to the article. The HN crowd tends to care less about these kinds of things, which is fine, but the audience is much broader.

See for example:
http://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-bg.htm
or the umpteen versions of
http://math.bme.hu/~petz/vnsumming.html
GDPR to the rescue! /s
Tell me you’ve never been beaten up on a schoolyard for admitting to being an atheist, without telling me…

Does that sound like religion has helped these people “improve their daily actions”?

For many of us “crapping” on religion is not some metaphorical concept, but a direct reaction to bullying, harassment, and otherwise disdainful treatment at the hands of the devout.
Related: Better to Never Have Been by David Benatar

It's a position of antinatalism. Antinatalist philosophy roughly claims that sentient beings are harmed when they are brought into existence, and it is therefore wrong to procreate.

I think everyone ought to consider this philosophy / argument before having children - as to recognize the severity of the act. At the very least, not having children should be the default, and to have a child one needs to think thoroughly and clearly, and to have a clear reason in mind when saying "yes", as it's one of the most important decisions in one's life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Never_to_Have_Been
View it as a merger with Elon Inc. Decimations after M&A are typical.
First thought was how a big movie studio could be duped by that, especially for such a large project.

> We are the exclusive rights owner of the registered emoji® trademark

”We own the word and they used it!”

Playground logic from adults. Of course there are legitimate use-cases for a trademark but this is pretty plainly not one of those.
It's OK, the AI court is biased in favour of the AI, so the other company doesn't stand a chance :)
Wind Waker is nice, but it has a lot of sailing. Breath of the Wild would be a better game if you prefer walking/horse riding.
This article is insane fear mongering over nothing.
>I wonder to what extent that was what Apple meant to do,

May be I am missing some context, what has slowed down of iPhone manufacturing or hardware capacity constrain got to do with "over hiring"? Especially in the Software department side of things?
Is this submitted by a bot?
Because it was not clear, from the beginning, who shot the plane.
It seems to be under Apache license, going by some headers, but it's unclear what the whole project license is.

It would help to have a LICENSE file in the root. Github does also recognize licenses, and displays them on the sidebar.
More likely it just means they have an old account from when they weren’t as hung ho about it all and now they don’t delete it on a whim because it’s longstanding without issue. Same thing with mine, beyond it’s desperate for that phone number for things lately.
Stealthing is not a thing. Everyone just points and says "oh look, there's someone trying to stealth camp."
I had a chance to reflect on this overnight. I apologize that the initial rant was not written very well. I had to get it out and off my chest but was multitasking to hit a parallel real life deadline elsewhere.

My personal answer to all of this is that YouTube is a failed product for me. It may serve some general consumption/ad revenue production use case but it is a terrible product for a self-directed “power user.” I see the situation analogous to Twitter. The benefits of the platform are too powerful to entirely leave behind but horribly deficient to what they could be and there is no real alternative because of monopoly. YouTube in my view long ago stopped focusing on providing more value in a two sided market between content consumers/creators and shifted to pure monopoly resource extraction. I’m sure there are alternative emerging platforms but the logic of natural monopolies in two sided markets makes it brutally hard for any of them to reach critical useful scale.

But I realize I’ve gotten very lazy over the past decades and outsourced far too much power to the platform companies. Business is always some combination of providing value to your customers and extracting value for yourself but too many of these platforms have lost the balance. I’m tired of being the product even when I try to provide an alternative paid revenue stream to opt out of that deal.

Annoying and painful as it will be (I’m at a point in life where I no longer have bandwidth to self-hack every thing) I am going to have to reclaim big chunks of my digital autonomy. Thanks all for the great discussion here.
The Register is a British tech site that's known for its sarcastic, often informal manner of writing. They're probably including all that specifically because it's so weird that Microsoft even said that.

It would be a bit like a man with a Russian accent offering you tea and finishing with, "and there's no polonium in it."
Believing that too many people go to jail for minor offenses or those which don’t endanger others isn’t incompatible with believing major crimes should still have jail time.

What’s especially worth considering here is what Holmes did: most people expect high standards for medical ethics since lying as she did could have irreversible impacts on people’s lives. Her fraud involved inaccurately telling people that they had cancer, or giving values which lead to changes in medication or other treatments. That isn’t as bad as it could have been – I don’t believe anyone was given a false negative on cancer, for example - but it’s absolutely toxic for trust in the medical system if it’s not strictly punished.

Similarly, as a corporate officer she lied repeatedly to investors, regulators, and the public.

What both of those have in common is that they’re positions of trust where fraud is relatively hard to catch. Millions of people are in positions where they could on a daily basis abuse their customers’ trust and potentially never be caught, and so we have to consider the deterrent effect as well. Doctors, bankers, CEOs, etc. are highly paid so a financial deterrent isn’t nearly as effective at preventing lapses as the possibility of jail time - your family trust can’t serve it for you - and those consequences also mean that the people around you aren’t going to help cover it up the way they might if it was profitable enough to look the other way.
> if you attempted to automatically convert the model to code and back again, the output would mismatch.

I like this way of expressing it. My book chapter is a much more long-winded. The chapter explains why the round-trip loses info, which is interesting to some people, but this insight cuts right to why the gap is important. Thanks!
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jackson_Pollock#Commons_f... there were a couple that were linked, but the files were deleted for probably violating copyright.
Apple is also in a less speculative business (hardware), so their hiring practices are more conservative. While they started investing more into software and services recently, these departments are much smaller than something like Meta or Google.
Hollywood Cannot Survive Without Movie Theaters
I dunno if you have one, I have 2 A4-sized reader, a Sony and a Boox, and it's insane. I paid both around 700$ and I dont regret (the boox has backlight).

You cant always whip enough factory workers in vietnam to transform resources mined in Myanmar for 250$, and sometimes you have to pay a bit more. I suppose most of the money goes to R&D to finally find a way to get high refresh rates, anyway.

I think nobody's sleeping on high margin for these things, collecting massive mountain of cash to buy sport cars. It's a difficult concept to bring up, this doubly stable state display that require electricity only on change. It's really worth paying for it to evolve.
To quote John Gruber of Daring Fireball[1]:

> There’s only one big tech company that seemingly never played this hire-for-the-sake-of-hiring game, and thus hasn’t announced any layoffs at all, let alone a headcount that would fill a basketball arena. Just one. One company that has, at its best, always kept its cool in the face of economic swings both up and down.

Well, he doesn't call it an apple here, but I think his observation nontheless is sound, that most of these companies just hired for the sake of hiring the last years. Another observation I read yesterday (forgot where), MS laying of 10k isn't that much considering they hired 12k last year.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/01/20/google-layoffs
Perhaps we need a Rust-centric POSIX replacement?

Rust is making inroads in the Linux kernel which is good.

On HN I have seen links to many interesting blogs and articles about how painful interfacing Rust with the eccentricities of C / libc can be.

Unless there is a better replacement for POSIX (which as written requires C), then POSIX will remain along with all of its eccentricities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Poles and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._5,_1948 are paintings with image. Go ahead and edit the wiki page and insert those.
We do not, in fact, need to build storage now. What we need now is renewable generating capacity to displace fossil fuel burning.

At a time in the (not very distant) future, when we have enough of that above immediate needs to spare enough to charge storage, then we will start to need storage.

There is no point in even talking about building nukes. Nukes are dead, dead, dead. Not because of regulation, or hippies, but because no one with the money would waste it building one.
Office 2007 and 2010 are like an secret way to have Word open faster than notepad, or a full Outlook that takes less space than the individual Mail or Calendar files.

2007 is wonderful in 32 bit for Wine. 2010 is wonderful in 64 bit native on Windows 11. And you get a "forever" license for like $30 on ebay (the activation server may refuse activation right now, but it can be made to work for new computers, and it's not a problem if you have an already activated one)

They recently cut both from OWA connectivity to outlook.com, but google conveniently provides a pluging (Google WorkSpace Sync) to keep going with gmail.

I'll invest an insane amount of effort to keep them going, just because how how pleasant and reactive they are - and if that requires running in Wine from WSL, so be it.
Implementing the PostgreSQL server protocol for fun and profit
If you look at it from the perspective of “when will I be able to support 99% of users”, it will absolutely take a few years, but from the perspective of “when will a WebGPU game have distribution to more people than a Steam game”, it could be a lot sooner. Gamers generally aren't the same people stuck on enterprise-pinned old browser versions, so once Chrome + Firefox have support the chances of someone in the target audience for a 3D game having a WebGPU-supporting browser on their system are pretty high.

(I’m assuming you’re talking about distribution rather than tooling, but I acknowledge the tooling will take a few years to catch up.)
1) this is meta-anaylsis

2) "We found 24 eligible articles (median duration, 8 weeks)..."

3) "Total red meat consumption, for up to 16 weeks, does not affect changes in biomarkers of glycemic control or inflammation for adults free of, but at risk for, cardiometabolic disease..."

Median of 8 weeks, up to 16 weeks, even 16 weeks doesn't feel all that long. Isn't there a standard minimum length for dietary studies?

Otherwise, this feels like a conclusion the media and Big Ag will jump on, overlook the important details, and ultimately mislead the public (and likely plenty of dietary and medical professionals).

I wish the NIHs of the world were more aware how these things get manipulated once they're in the wild.
I'm surprised no one is mentioning eBPF. I know the goals are slightly different but there seems to be a lot of overlap, e.g. would we really want both runtimes in the kernel?
> popular with my ER colleagues.

In the western world, isn't it preferable if ultrasounds are left to specialists? I'm wondering if the use of cheap portable devices is part of a trend of improving healthcare, or just making it cheaper (or both).
Yes you do!!!