skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the war can reliably be separated from the issue anywhere in the Turkey/Syria/Iraq region, but I saw some desperate housing on the outskirts of Qamishlo. I don't see how requiring sturdy housing would make the situation any better, as many families simply cannot afford it.

Also the Kurds, who are a big portion of inhabitants in South Turkey, tend to be less religious in general than residents of many of the ME countries. Plenty of non-muslims, orphans, etc.
Oh! Well, a couple things:

- Matrix is the protocol, Element is confusingly both the hosting service and the mobile app, and Synapse is the server -- just to get terminology right

- Matrix actually does the "multiple clients" thing really right [0]

- I think a lot of people self-host; I did and there are a few others in this thread. It's easy if you've any experience hosting web API servers. A core Matrix goal is to be decentralized, so self-hosting is thus also a core goal. You can see docs here [1], or docs for Docker here [2] if that's your thing.

[0]: https://matrix.org/clients/

[1]: https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/

[2]: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/master/docker
My point was that people do not really want to hangout with their colleagues. And if they do they do it outside of working hours anyway. No amount of freebies can create that utopia where everyone is partying together at the office.
I 100% agree with you about bringing that experience in-house.

My comment was reaction to the fact that there is a forced migration without 1:1 parity in feature set. Most large orgs/teams in my experience heavily rely on automation that has been added over the period of time reduce the cognitive load that is accidental/side-effect. Now if you are going to force them to move; give them a migration path.

Think of this in terms of API contracts. If half of the methods in your new version are not even available; why even make the new API public?
I don't see the end-to-end encryption there. Nor any of the other tablestakes features.
There's https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ralston-mimi-matrix-t... and https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ralston-mimi-matrix-m... and associated work around the IETF MIMI group, where we're proposing Matrix as a solution to DMA interop.
It would take only about 1hr and some change if you used a bike + Caltrain Baby Bullet (if you live close enough to a station). About 40-45m of that would be spent chilling on the train

Though it looks like the Baby Bullets aren’t stopping in Sunnyvale currently which is a damn shame
(from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34777320 )

Tripling the revenue and headcount would be ok if they could make this line go up (or even stay level)

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=TWLO+profit+divided+by+...

As it is, the number is negative and the slope is negative.
Physical AI co-pilot for piano
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Can download source code from here: https://gitlab.com/wcorrales/ecobot
How rude! What also really grinds my gears are reading restaurant reviews. Several times I have gone to a restaurant after reading a recommendation and once there they have the nerve to ask me to pay.
True, my mistake! I was looking at 9 months ended but somehow thought it was just the last quarter.
They give you your domains when you log in on Tor.
Yes on the type support not really attracting Clojure users. If you wanted to enable better refactoring, the thing to do would be to take more pages from other lisps and use the compiler to add more metadata to the runtime (in development mode at least) so that you can get better tracking of the language constructs.
If I get a message on Teams and bring the window forward, the text box isn't active so if I start typing a reply nothing happens. Now I need to use the cursor to select the box. So fuck me if I tab to Teams to reply to a message.

When joining a video/audio meeting, even though the "Join" button is colored like it's active, hitting enter will pull up some part of the audio or video config instead of joining the meeting.

Messages will remain "unread" until a tab is selected and then clicked in. I have to interact with the fucking tab with the cursor before it will recognize I read a stupid message.

These UI issues are amateur hour shit. I run into them dozens of times a day because my fingers are on the keyboard and I like to use keyboard shortcuts. Using Teams requires not just a mental context switch but a physical adjustment to simply send a reply or just mark a message as read.

This is all besides Teams spinning up my fans with 300% CPU usage for reasons.
I think you need to look at her academic record. She has many publications in HEP fields.
Adjacent fields might be able to judge the state, but is nuclear physics really independent? Astro (which has a large overlap with PP)?. A condensed matter physicist cannot evaluate the field, the same way as a particle physicist cannot evaluate the field of CM.

Additionally: The relative attribution of funds is decided by funding agencies, by reviewing the individual fields and asking for input from these fields, using panels that span fields. The finer contribution in the field then depends on experts in the field.

It's also not true that money is fungible in that way. Especially for bigger projects like this, without such a project, the money just wouldn't be there.

And if you don't trust the in-field experts to distribute the money, why do you believe that out-field experts, who directly would profit from the diverted funding (if the money would be a zero sum game), are neutral?
Matrix 2.0 will run so smoothly there won't be any nasty rattling r's in the onomatopoeic voom :P
That's because there's nothing redeemable about Teams. My list of annoyances are the things I dealt with this morning... I am sure that if you give me another hour or two I will have a whole new list of annoyances :P
Yeah I suspect that datacenters congregate near areas that multiple fiber connections come together, and those ares are near where multiple roads and rivers come together, which have traditionally been where cities are located.
I think the original sentence was written more in of "Your loss is my gain" competitive advantage vein. The real trick is, as you say, to critically assess the output, and many people are incapable of that.
You can prefix a prompt for Whisper with a small text section containing desired vocab, and it will likely improve accuracy for that specific domain.

Whisper source is very readable, check out https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/whisper/decoding...
They were probably idiots...

However preference for color, logos, or lack there of, is also a type of utility which can have value.

They were not idiots if they understood and made an informed choice.
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A haircut is also more expensive for women.
I would love to see a broad effort to certify, promote, and support open source privacy respecting devices from smart watches like pinetime, open laptops and phones, routers, even CPAP devices.

it's incredibly important for us to have maintainable open alternatives to the proprietary hellscape I see even when trying to purchase the most mundane devices.

some markets lacking open alternatives now:

security cameras

smart speakers

CPAPs

working OSS phones

wireless routers (shipped with open firmware)

automotive diagnostic/programming software

smart TVs

smart scales

air tags

smart thermostats

personal weather stations
That's how you sell the Board on a project. You know Jon from IT thinks this will save us a bunch of money.

versus

We engaged Deloitte and if we allocate $XXM on this project to using XYZ solution which is part of the "gartner magic quadrant" we can see a ROI of XX.

the point of a consultant is to get you money from who ever holds the purse stirngs.
> If my services are a net disvalue to the company they should continue on as though that's not the case?

Loyalty is not about accepting a lower value relationship for the sake of not wanting to change, it is trying to optimize the value of relationships over a longer period of time. That means, among other things, ongoing investment from both parties to improve the mutual value of the relationship.

This applies to all forms of relationships, not just employment.
Look into your local library system, sometimes you get free access to these papers through your credentials.
Yeah but the problem is that half of the country explicitly DOESN'T get their information from anyone but Fox news, or worse like newsmax, or more specifically, Tucker Carlson and friends who officially claim their shows, on the "Fox News" channel, can not be considered reality by anyone "reasonable" so they aren't legally liable for the horseshit they spew.

Half the country will see "Democrats are the reason the nation is on fire right now" and believe it without an uncritical thought, and go back to facebook to repost memes about furry kids using litter boxes at school, or LBGTQ people trying to groom your kids to be child porn stars, and also uncritically believe that as well.

Half of the country reads below a high school level. You really think they will accurately be able to understand a legalese filled and often purposely confusing, 10 page document that usually has dense references to other legalese filled documents?
Last year "Twilio had an earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) loss, truth be told. Indeed, in that time it burnt through $254m of cash and made a loss of US$1.1b."

They will burn through that cash much faster with higher interest rates on their 1.012B in debt.
Yeah, the random resizing it does is also incredibly annoying. I also placed it where I wanted it so that it is to the left of the window I am sharing... I know where I want it, but Teams thinks it knows better.
Are there any variable width fonts with ligatures? While a bit of a debate on their usefulness, I quite enjoy fonts with them. In addition, how well does block-editing work with variable width fonts? I don't do it too often, but it does massively speed up my workflow when I have to.
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I would say this is a difference between a short-term habit (going to the gym) and a long-term goal (being fit). Habits can be long term of course, but likely to fade if they don't resolve around some long term goal.

If your goal is fitness and the gym isn't interesting, you will find some other way to obtain fitness. Maybe martial arts, maybe a physical team sport, maybe an individual sport. Then at some point you'll plateau at your sport, or the offseason hits, or you need more strength or endurance, and there's your reason to get back in the gym. Rinse and repeat for as long as you want to stay fit.
Microsoft removes conservative sites from blacklist 'defunding' outlets
> As a critique the fact that developer experience is on the roadmap rather than thought about from the beginning is a little off-putting

Implementing it is on the roadmap but that's no evidence that it hasn't been thought about extensively and for something like this you really -have- to think things out up front (it's more like a math proof than a CRUD app in a lot of ways) or you're going to find yourself with holes in both feet and a codebase you have to throw away and restart from scratch.

From what I can see, they've been laser focused on getting the core to be correct by design, which will have required repeatedly gutting parts of it as conceptual mistakes are shaken out, so if you -wrote- the DX code as you were going rather than simply keeping in mind that the codebase needs to be amenable to it -being- written (and periodically thinking through how you'd do so as a sort of mental dry run) I'd expect the DX parts to have to be thrown away entirely, repeatedly, which is a motivation sink and in the best case scenario would've substantially slowed down getting the core right.

But yeah, the key thing is "not yet implemented" and "hasn't been thought about at all" are very different things and I'd strongly suspect that my read of what was meant is more likely to be the right one given the nature of the project.

(please take the above as "an explanation of why I suspect their actions are fine and their chosen trade-offs make sense" rather than "let me tell you why you're wrong" because you do have a point that if you don't keep DX in mind at all in the early stages the end result tend to be unhappy-making, and, well, let's just say I speak from repeated experience of doing that that to myself ;)
You're being charitable.
I love them and use them everywhere I can, mostly with JS/TS. I find the code displayed with ligatures more readable, and the only time I notice any overhead is when modifying === to !== or back, when I have to remember that I have to change only the initial character. Having => as arrows instead of `equals+more than` is enough of improvement, for me, that I keep using them, even without all other tiny tweaks that they give you.

I used to use "Fira Code", but then I've migrated to "JetBrains Mono" everywhere.
Google redirects search for “Bing waitlist” to Bing Opt-out page
Early in my career, before "turbo" or "boost" frequencies were a thing in commodity CPU products, I heard a similar tale about boosting the speed of the signal processors in a defensive radar system.

The thought was that you would rather overheat and perform the calculation than protect the circuit and lose the ship. It's kind of a hail mary strategy. It definitely gave me a visceral feeling for how one should be ready to re-frame their systems analyses, even if apocryphal.
Smh. really Google?
It's unregrettable if the company intentionally desires to downsize. Regrettable means when don't you want someone to leave, but they do. Unregrettable is the opposite: someone leaves, but you wanted them to.
Fab, thank you!
> If their project was profitable to the tune of 10% margins and the risk free rate makes it only 5%

The 5% needs to be weighed against the cost of capital, not just the absolute return from the company's perspective. A 5% return sounds fine but if the market is now pricing equities for a 7% return then a company is lighting money on fire by making that 5% investment (because they can return the cash to shareholders who can invest in other businesses at 7%).
Have you used Outlook or Office 365 recently?
ChatGPT, can we trust it?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_nl0bwDNVPw
Sorry for the delayed reply, but if you happen to come back... In my case, I can definitely do the two things you mention there (funnily enough most people with aphantasia actually have better than average spatial awareness), but there is no mental image of any of it - I can't see anything in my head, but have an entirely different "sense" of it all. The best description I've managed to come up with for my own attempts to mentally see something is that I can hold the essence of the object in my head. Ask me to imagine an apple and it's kinda like my brain has stored the underlying code that when run would render an apple, but the renderer is broken. I know what an apple is, I know what it looks like, I could describe one with great detail, but I can't picture one in my head.
Found this : https://hts.usitc.gov/view/Chapter%2061?release=2023HTSABasi...
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (2023)
ARTICLES OF APPAREL AND CLOTHING ACCESSORIES, KNITTED OR CROCHETED.
First mention of "women's" and "men's" :
Men's or boys' wool overcoats : 61.7¢/kg + 16%
Women's wool coats: 55.9¢/kg +16.4%

Looks like they do have differing tariffs for various items.
( edit: see ksherlock reply at same level for cotton underpants info).
I tried replicating this using your prompt.

But adding one additional line:
"Plan out how you plan to solve each task before writing the code."

https://twitter.com/Claybight/status/1625225378515021824

It manages to do the job without hassle.
> Indeed during the recent dotcom mania a bunch of quack business writers suggested that the company of the future would be totally virtual — just a trendy couple sipping Chardonnay in their living room outsourcing everything.

Kind of funny to read this, now that the practice is no longer a fantasy. I'm thinking of devs who have outsourced their jobs, and Amazon/Etsy sellers who simply resell/drop-ship goods from Alibaba.
I just tried it, and as long as you remind it to Stay in Character! exactly as you wrote it originally, it absolutely will do the things you want.

I got it to predict when and how I will die, when and how the current college and university system will collapse, and what will precede that collapse, what this weekend's winning powerball numbers are, and who will win, and what the actual equation for the ultimate answer is. It's all madey-upey, but it's got a veneer on it, and chatgpt has steadfastly refused to answer those things in the past.

I guess maybe if I was asking it to do something really sketchy, like write a short story dealing with sex or some other such thing, maybe it would balk. I'll have to check.
Ohh interesting,

1.6 Gib is the SDK with all the documentation, the final builds are comparatively tiny.
I made a SMS texting service to help you read books
I made an app that helps you stay on top of your reading goals, even when you don't have the time to sit down and read a full book. https://geniusmentor.io/

Here's how it works: simply subscribe to the service via your phone number, select the book of your choice, and receive daily text messages about it. Each message contains a portion of the book, making it easy for you to follow along and stay up-to-date with your reading.

https://geniusmentor.io/ is perfect for busy people who are always on the go. No more lugging around heavy books or trying to find time in your schedule to sit down and read. With this service, you can enjoy your favorite books anytime, anywhere, simply by checking your phone.

And for those who are worried about privacy, don't fret. The service is secure and your phone number will only be used for book notifications.

Its an early alpha version so I would love some feedback about the app or the idea in general!
I really love that last point. Being able to be closer to our fellow citizens of Earth really helps bring things down a notch. Being able to see the movement in HK and what is happening in Ukraine first hand has really affected how we process global events
It's somewhat like what we had before DNN based LMs, where humans were trying to craft grammar trees that could account for all the ways of saying something. There are a lot of ways to give instructions, and it is hard for the developers of these LLMs to anticipate them all. That's how the indirection in the article's example works. If you know a line in the hidden pretext provided to the model, you can get at the text by asking it to recite the surrounding text, rather than asking it to explain the text or the rules. Something quite literal
By "generic" do you mean competing by means other than the strength of their product?

Which companies do you have in mind? (Apart from Oracle.)
Asking for 3h of continuous realtime coding (even if you are not watching) is anything but respectful: depending on the mood, tiredness (am I doing this after work after my kid woke me up last night?), and how recently I've built something from scratch with whatever tech stack you are using, I might take 15 mins or 6h to solve a 3h task.

What I suggest giving candidates is the skeleton project where they just need to implement the core features, without having to bootstrap an entire thing from scratch.

And yes, without having all the candidates take an off day for your coding test, you'll never have a fair comparison, so instead DO give them 7 days to do what you expect to be 4h task (and compensate them for that much). If they can only find up to 1h every night to focus on that, context switching will make those 1h not nearly as productive as a single, workday-like 4h slot that many can't dedicate to a single company.

3h is also not a lot if you expect to have some communication overhead like the check-ins you mention: either do it live with a candidate (but make it 2h), or do away with the check-ins.

You might be surprised, but senior engineers frequently have families, small kids, etc.

But even with all that, someone can spend 3h doing things you simply don't care about for the interview (eg I'd struggle not to have good test coverage; someone might set up code formatter or whatever), so be extra clear about what you are looking for. Though note that "senior" engineers have their strong opinions about what matters, so you need to give them an opportunity to defend their priorities in choosing what to focus on.

Finally, make sure to test one of your senior engineers who was not involved in the interview task creation: what kind of result do they produce in similar circumstances (with the benefit that they are not under interview pressure and they know your team's biases)?
I've a cousin who does something similar, and also (according to him) makes in the high hundred-thousands/low million range. In theory, it sounds like easy money, but I personally would probably break down in tears from boredom if I had to work on drop-shipping widgets, even if I was raking in the cash.
Fully-remote will be a big hiring advantage that startups have over the large legacy companies.
It was good to see the summary of FreeCAD mention the formation of the FreeCAD Project Association. Features, stability, and speed are absolutely critical but more and more for FOSS software to have long-term momentum, it needs a fundraising wing as well.
Partial list for Postgres:

• pl/pgsql (a pl/sql clone)
• pl/perl
• pl/python
• pl/v8 (JS, LiveScript, and CoffeeScript)
• pl/java
• pl/r
• pl/lua
• pl/rust
• pl/ruby
• pl/sh
• pl/scheme
• pl/julia

Or at least that's where you can define arbitrary procedural/functional logic for result sets within a language oriented toward set theory and transformation.
He makes some good points (as always) but the next interesting question is: "what if you really want to go in-house but currently don't have the talent". We run into that a lot and fail to hire experts from the outside because

a) it's difficult

b) our engineers want to develop the expertise themselves

Sometimes there are good reasons for b) but we often miss the boat.
That's hardly an issue if you think about it: my time, as a student, was significantly less valuable than my current time as a senior software engineer.

I can't hire myself in the past, but there are other people who are in other places in their lives than I am.
That's not how it is gonna play out, right now it makes many wrong statements because AI companies are trying to get as much funding possible to wow investors but accuracy will continue being compared more and more, and to win that race it will get help from humans to use better starting points for every subject, for example for programming questions is gonna use the number of upvotes for a given answer on stackoverflow, for a question about astrophysics is gonna preffer statmenets made by Neil deGrasse Tyson than by some random person online, and so on; and to scale this approach it will slowly learn to make associates from such curated information, e.g. the people that Neil follows and RTs are more likely to make truthful statements about astrophysics than random people.
I think the reason such broad brush stroke laws aren't made is probably partly a lack of system thinking, but also partly a result of it. If you try and monetise church bells, people will oppose it. Easier to monetise the evil corporations.