skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I understand this point but there is no way to make people like you happy without forcing the majority to come.

I think the solution will come in sorting companies into remote or in-person, rather than having every company be a mix of both.
> It's a mystery why Microsoft is going full speed ahead with this.

Maybe they had some idle GPU capacity in some DC or they needed to cross-subsidize Azure to massage the stock market multipliers, or something.
One nice thing about getting over the hump in guitar is, once you can manage a few shapes (barre chords in particular), you can play thousands of new songs without having to learn any additional technical skills.
Could you describe some points where you agree with article mentioned in the tweet?

Article:
https://erininthemorn.substack.com/p/missouri-anti-trans-whi...

> She is not a doctor, a psychologist, a psychiatrist, and does not have direct medical diagnostic experience with patients.

Author of "debunction" is "Trans queer news and history content creator". Author is not a doctor, not a psychologist, not a psychiatrist too..
Yeah, that was interesting. I wonder if Teams have acquired the feature that Google Meet have to extremely simply setup a meeting and just do it all in the browser. The quality of the video and audio is fine in Teams, it's all the surrounding stuff that's wonky.

So it they can easily create a meeting without using the Teams client, then it might be just fine.
I feel like you can cheat really hard with modern frameworks. Take something like .NET7 for example. You can get very far into some product before you need a piece of functionality that is simply not available in the first-party tool set.

If we wanted to NIH all the things, we'd have to start doing crazy shit like implementing our own JSON serializers or hand-rolling artisanal CSPRNG/SHA algorithms. We'd almost have to want to make our lives harder on purpose. There's no way we could make it look like it was in pursuit of a grander product outcome when the obvious answer is already being pushed on us by intellisense. We could try to lie to ourselves about all of this or paint various vendors in pale hues of evil, but none of this is fun or feels like much progress.

Starting with something that includes nearly 100% of the batteries takes a lot of the temptation out of the way. You won't even begin the dangerous "should I write it or vendor it" adventure because you will be so distracted with all of the features you are shipping.
Over the last few years Twilio’s CEO wrote a navel gazing book and hosted some conferences about social justice, but didn’t improve the core product. I bet this made him popular with employees, though I suspect it would have made him less popular if they saw these layoffs coming.
Ehh, why, in the 80s and 90s, should anyone have assumed that an economically advancing China would continue to be authoritarian and illiberal? Genuine question. It's easy to say globalization and free trade didn't deliver on the democracy and international norms promise in hindsight, but was there much reason to doubt that idea before it was too late?
Streamers game algorithms that reward proximity to wealthy neighborhoods
>They get you started quickly but then you spend enormous amounts of time and energy customizing it to achieve the last few percent of functionality.

This is a good time to push back on requirements unless there's real money waiting to pay for that feature.

Usually things are not completely established up front, so you never have a good picture of things you're going to have to build with some dependency. In these situations, your choice of software and how well it supports future features may as well be a dice roll.
Some interesting quotes show how someone as brilliant as Knuth has enough self-understanding to adopt profound humility:

"[when asked the meaning of life] I personally think of my belief that God exists, although I have no idea what that means [...] I try to imagine that I’m following somebody’s wishes.

Lex: Even though you’re not smart enough to…

Knuth: …to know what they are."

Later: "it struck me that if I were in a position of responsibility for people’s lives, in most cases I wouldn’t have any confidence that any of my decisions were good — that these questions are too hard, probably, for any human being, but certainly for me…"

It reminds me of the first two commandments:

1. Put no other gods before me

2. Do not take my name in vain, i.e., in vanity as yours

i.e.,

1. You're not expected to believe is something greater, but if you do, don't just project your wishes for a good harvest

2. Don't use any belief as a source of personal pride

Doctor, heal thyself! Programmer, program yourself!
>For all its other downsides, a strong culture of xenophobia seems to be the only way to resist this aspect of globalization—even top-down heavy-handed laws don't work, historically speaking, even before the Internet. A genuine (if somewhat cultivated) culture of reflexively dismissing the foreign seems to work, and not much else.

I don't think it's a good thing overall, though. They get to maintain a very strong national identity, but when they do end up interacting with people from other places they appear disconnected. For example, if you've ever tried to interoperate with Japanese software, it's like going back to the '90s. They just do their own thing over there.
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> it is incomprehensible that Microsoft would ship something so utterly broken

Is it though? Heck Microsoft shipping a high quality product is the exception. The entire company runs on half-assed software being pushed by sales teams to CIOs and others high up on the corporate ladder who evaluate it on the basis of dollar amounts, kickbacks and marking checkboxes and not factors like usability and user experience.
I didn't realize how nice I had it with Clojure until I went full-time Java.
The whole point of matrix, though, is that it’s an open protocol. If Element were proprietary, that wouldn’t be the same sort of problem as we have with discord/slack because anyone could just implement the protocol according to the specs and be an equal participant at the table.
Look I know that "user is holding it wrong" is a meme but this is a case where it's true. The fact that LLMs contain any factual knowledge is a side-effect. While it's fun to play with and see what it "knows" (and can actually be useful as a weird kind of search engine if you keep in mind it will just make stuff up) you don't build an AI search engine by just letting users query the model directly and call it a day.

You shove the most relevant results form your search index into the model as context and then ask it to answer questions from only the provided context.

Can you actually guarantee the model won't make stuff up even with that? Hell no but you'll do a lot better. And the game now becomes figuring out better context and validating that the response can be traced back to the source material.
that could also be a similar story- device proximity and contacts being used to infer common interests between two people. If someone's talking about a topic (even if it's a long-standing interest) it's highly likely they've searched for something related to it recently.
If pausing our rail network for a few days results in such serious consequences, then we should probably be treating these workers as essential, with significant training, requirements for them to have adequate time off, and basically any other benefit we can. Their jobs should be so well compensated, with such cushiness, that they are never stressed on normal days, have the opportunity to pay ample attention and time to anything that needs to be paid attention to, and everyone in the country should be trying to get one of these jobs. If railroads are that essential to the country, they should be nationalized completely, and the workers treated like rockstars.
Ah yes, imprecision in specification. Having worked with some Avalanche folks, they would speak of weather observations and weather forecasts. One of the interesting things about natural language is that we can be imprecise until it matters. The key is recognizing when it matters.
I mean, sure - if I want to make sure my staff have a word processor and a spreadsheet, I'm going to buy Microsoft Office rather than writing it for myself.

On the other hand, for enterprise software, there's usually some seriously non-trivial integration cost - particularly if you're not starting from a green field. So the problem is "you can't buy a solution - you just need to decide how much of it you're going to build yourself according to your needs, and how much you're going to buy and tailor/integrate."
Isn’t depression period at an all time high? When ever depression is explored or written about it’s always in the context of females and not males. At least from what I see. Everyone knows boys and men have a really hard time with mental health but nothing is really done about it. Man up as they say. I wish the conversation was evenly distributed.
Coinductive guide to inductive transformer heads
No RSS for Mastodon yet on IFTTT, theres some Mastodon apps on there, mostly Twitter to Mastodon, and Mastodon to discord.
I don't think the API is that bad, just that writing "point free" in any language with loose typing is dangerous.
How to implement letterbox scaling in PixiJS
reality has a well known left wing bias
Boy you people really love banning things don't you. Why on earth would you _outlaw_ people from being able to see their private, for-profit family doctor.
Really?

I think that the first example one of the funniest things I've read today.

The second example, getting caught in a predictive loop, is also pretty funny considering it's supposed to be proving it's conscious (eg. not an LLM, prone to looping like that lol).

The last one, littered with emojis and repeating itself like a deranged ex is just chefs kiss.

Thanks for that.
40 miles is pretty far. That's pretty easily an hour long commute, and maybe one you weren't planning on making.
Robert Miles recently did a video on this and even that may not be enough. This appears to be a really hard problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w65p_IIp6JY
I worked previously at one of these places. It's quite interesting, they create solutions that are really only 'happy path' solutions that work in a perfect world and it's honestly kind of expected.

You pay $100k a week for a bunch of ivy league/top uni graduates who are very intelligent but lack any real world experience who ultimately only deliver a slide deck and some recommendations so they don't have any real liability, a 21 year old grad can't navigate a lay off round properly and can only provide these 'happy path' recommendations, similar to how a lottery winner won't make good business owner, they have all the money but not the knowledge, the Mckinsey junior has all the knowledge but no experience. Execs hire them because they don't want to be the decision maker only the proxy decision maker and can say 'McKinsey advised this was the only solution to do layoffs/restructure/unpopular thing and they're the ones that know' when in reality all the exec needed was a short stop to back them up.

Obviously this only relates to their management consulting/advisory arms
It works if you can track down and wrench a tiny % of them, causing the rest to wonder if they're next.

See: Belarus, 2020 or Iran, 2022 for recent examples
How do wrestlers fare at BJJ? Do they throw you for a loop so to speak because their moves are so unpredictable and they have advanced grapple reflexes?
What about alignment? The space character is much narrower in most fonts, making code have a terrible rythm.
10,000% true which is why AI can't replace a search engine, only compliment it. If you can't surface the documents that contain the answer then you'll only get garbage.
40 miles in silicon valley is a 90+ minute commute each way.
For me I think we should think about stopping or reversing some aspects of this toxic work environment transformation, it's about proper regulation against monopolies.

We have to admit that the current climate of "struggle until you go viral for 5 seconds" is going to devastate the world and only serve to enrich the already wealthy people that own and run tech platforms.

Trust fund babies are able to thrive and become leaders in this type of model because wealth hoarders can easily buy themselves past the threshold of visibility and profit... Right now, the people we are seeing most are people that spend a lot of money on ads and marketing to boost their visibility.. Organic visibility is a dead wish, perpetuated by social and other platforms to keep people struggling towards success without hope.

In order to start a business or other venture from scratch, the organization needs to have lots of capital for marketing alone over product development and overhead costs, that makes upward mobility for anyone middle class or below damn near impossible.

This is a plague on the entire world right now, as disadvantaged people resort to crime or other negative schemes to fund their goals in legitimate business. The entry bar is set abnormally high, and talent no longer is a measure of success, it simply becomes who had money to rise.

This type of controlled opportunity environment breeds negative predatory behaviors all around, wealth hoarding, mediocrity, more monopolies, and inherent unfairness that will eventually keep everyone unemployed and underemployed while creating even more powerful meritocracies and lobbies that impact everything form real estate to politics.

This is a very serious issue, and a deep threat towards world economic stability in my opinion.
That's my point - I would replace GSuite and Slack for O365 if the later wasn't so bad. I have the office 2019 package when I need to use office apps.
Unemployment spiked early in the pandemic, aggressively lowered back to pre-pandemic levels, and then stabilized slightly lower, at least until mid-2022.

Putting it in context: the US has about 160 million people in the labor force. It's shocking when we see companies laying off 10,000 people, but in the grand scheme of things this is really quite a small drop in the bucket. In all of 2022, tech saw ~150k layoffs, or about 0.1% of the labor force.
What do you mean?

MS puts out debs and rpms for teams: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/download-app
They have no predators in the wild so why isn’t their population exploding?

If a geographic region was devoid of predators but not bunnies, you would see bunnies everywhere. As you state they have a short gestation period. People that raise rabbits have to keep the males and females separated until it is time to breed them.

Cities and suburban areas have stray cats and dogs as predators. Rural areas have a wide assortment of predators depending on geographic region.
It's often more to provide backup and justification for a decision. Even if it then goes wrong you can say "Deloitte told me to do it".

While this may be true, it still doesn't take away two strengths consultants can bring:
- never underestimate the value an independent view can bring, especially to a big company suffering from group think
- secondly, a common consulting practice is to re-sell successful projects to other clients. Obviously not the exact IP, but the experience and general approach. This can be invaluable.
According to [1] Phil Lewis on Twitter...

"Norfolk Southern, the railway company responsible for an apocalyptic plume of gas rose over East Palestine, Ohio, has offered a $25,000 donation to assist the area’s nearly 5,000 residents who were ordered to evacuate their homes, or face death"

Personally, I think $25,000 per person displaced would be a good start to making restitution. Anyone forced to move should receive at least triple the market rate price of their home/farm/etc. before the accident.

Serious financial implications are the only thing that will cause behavior shift in large organizations.

[1] https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1624749208174567424
No, as it clearly says in the article, there is a difference in tariff rate. If you dig down to the actual tariff schedules, you will see that women pay a higher tariff rate for underwear even when it is made of the exact same material category as men's underwear. There are literally seperate Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes for men and women's underwear (same thing applies for many other types of clothing, e.g. coats).
The only reasonable use case for ChatGPT now is if you already know what the output should be (e.g. you are in a position to judge correctness).
The Heart of ChatGPT's Darkness
Here's a few ideas... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator
I feel like a lot of it comes down to which system & client people use. If you're on PC or macOS and using the desktop client, you're probably having a good experience (as long as you only have one account). If you're on Linux or use the web version, you're probably going to have a bad time.
Me too. My outbound video always looks like crap, even with hardware acceleration on and nothing else open.
Is there a nonproprietary way to save articles with apple news? What sucks with these "news apps" is you have no way to organize your research material how you'd like e.g. with a more powerful reference manager. Maybe they should release a research product like how google has scholar.google.com
It seems to be an issue when something covers part of the Teams window. I have the same issue as the parent poster.

If a window is placed over top of the Teams window with all the floating faces, it minimizes itself into that small window...
the "MBA Playbook". You would think those MBA courses that instruct on how to do this would also include the downside.

Maybe they do and people make the moral choice not to care as they plan on being long gone before the failures?

Maybe they teach that bit too?

Sorry for more questions and answers as I have NOT done an MBA myself.
Building companies are close to the government everywhere. Try getting permits without access to the city council or mayor. Turkey is a major faultline (and most of the northern Mediterranean) and seems to constantly have earthquakes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Turkey

In the same area of the earthquakes now (the size of the UK) there was an earthquake in 115 AD that killed 260 thousand people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/115_Antioch_earthquake
> Nah I have the same regularly when I only talk about things with a friend.

Sure, but did your friend google those things at any point (before or after your conversation)? Do you ever connect to the same wifi access points? Are your phones ever in physical proximity?

Almost certainly your answer would be "yes" to most of those questions, which also explains how you get the suggestions about things you "only talked about" with your friend.

I agree that this is not a coincidence, but the explanation is rather simple, really. If there is a user A who googles topic X, and there is another user B who appears to be their "social link" (via device proximity, occasionally utilizing same wifi access points, sending emails to each other, etc), it makes sense to suggest topic X to user B.
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Looks like a "a four-week paid sabbatical that employees would get every three years" (source: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/13/twilio-cuts-17-of-its-work...)
The world has also moved beyond just text 20 years ago and we were all supposed to switch to Jabber/XMPP. And yet here I am using IRC as much as ever. If I end up using Matrix it will probably be from my favorite IRC client through some kind of gateway, just like all the IM protocols that have come and gone over the decades.
Google lowering promised severance in layoffs
Teams is dogshit in general, but the unforgivable part is that sometimes messages just don't show up until you restart the client.

It's hard to know when this is happening, unless someone follows up on or refers to the missing message(s), but once you catch it a couple times it's hard to have any faith in the software at all.

We've been told that this has been fixed, and it does seem more rare now, but I still end up restarting the app regularly out of caution. Which is a pretty pathetic thing for an enterprise tool from a company like ms.
Yes, Apple is forcing that now, employees are given verbal notices for not adhering to 3 day RTO, based on the scoop.
Interesting. I usually bag my own if I can, in order to keep the rotisserie chicken from being packed with the frozen peas. Most baggers don't care enough about this kind of thing in my experience.
No I think the internet is unequipped for what we need from it. It runs off ads and shovels enraging content at people. It allows hostile behavior to have no consequences. It’s anonymous except nothing you do is private. There is no dispute resolution, mods have absolute power, and you can’t ever talk to customer support because you aren’t the customer, the advertisers are.
The very act of collecting information without consent is the act of hostility.

The rest of the technicalities are irrelevant, because none of them have anything to do with consent. There is no class of data whatsoever that is okay to collect without users' consent.
People are already misusing statistical models, in ways that are already causing harm to people.

See this HN thread from 2016[0], which also points to [1](a book) and [2](PDF).

I definitely agree with you that it's going to get a lot worse with AI, since it makes it harder to see that it is a statistical model.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12642432
[1]https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Math-Destruction-Increases-In...
[2]https://nissenbaum.tech.cornell.edu/papers/biasincomputers.p...
I wish the article mentioned Fira Mono, which is the same as Fira Code but without the ligatures.
A fine that doesn't go above and beyond the extraProfitFromBad / probabilityOfGettingFined by a large margin isn't a fine, it's a tax.
A buddy of mine uses Lucida Grande as his programming font and it makes me cry every time I see it.
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I don't always code as much as I'd like to in my job, and following some advice here, I've started coding an hour every morning, first thing in the morning, since Jan 1st. I've only missed one day, which reminds me of my own falibility, but the habit has otherwise been transformative and liberating.

I'll be writing a post about it once I hit the two or three-month mark for a little bit more of street cred when talking about the experience, but if anyone's interested I can give you a few preview points here.
Dioxin is an example of why saying "10 train cars is fine" is an oversimplification, 10 train cars of dioxin is a problem even if it's spread out over a couple square miles.

Maybe 10 train cars of formaldehyde is fine, maybe not, but, this is something that should be assessed and not dismissed out of hand, even during discourse. Random internet commentators probably don't really know if it's fine. And despite the people on-site saying measurements are fine... animals are getting sick, which is the classic warning sign with chemical spills that things are not fine.

Although there is indeed dioxin formed during the combustion apparently. Bear in mind too that this isn't a controlled incinerator, there could be various things produced at different temps etc.
My take: Because GPT is just stochasticly stringing words after each other, it is remarkedly good at producing text on par with other text available on the internet. So it can produce plans, strategies, itineraries and so on. The more abstract the better. The 8 point plan is likely great.

It will much more likely fail on anything which involves precision/computation/logic. That's why it can come up with an generic strategy but fail to repeat unadjusted GAAP earnings.
Looks similar to Monaco (Mac OS’s default for monospace). The slight irregularities make it more comfortable to read vs more geometrical shapes.