skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's a tool, as is all technology. But unlike woodshop or a metalwork class, there's no instructor. The other day I asked ChatGPT to give me a paragraph about hunting tech startups and I got back that it could not do so due to moral issues. While I get that some people have moral issues with hunting, I would venture to guess it's a small minority of people. It could easily give a statement without any big subjective bias, but it didn't do so. If it has issues with something fairly basic, how can we trust it to help senior citizens who are less tech savvy and go to it for simple unbiased medical advice?
The retaliation: Pranking my roommate with targeted Facebook ads (2014)
I have never seen a study that actually bears this out. If you've got citations I'm all ears.
Why is it not a great idea? It’s what every other platform has done for over a decade now and it’s working great. It’s absurd that I shouldn’t be able to send someone an image inline or make a call in a group chat.
What is Galactica?
I suspect controversy is one of the easier things for a big mathematical model of human communication to evaluate (plus of course, the instruction to "avoid being ... controversial" is a way the bot is discouraged from being controversial, not the only way: there's a lot of actual training that's gone into discouraging certain answers)
Given San Francisco politics it will take 20 years to get all the reviews and permits to make that happen, and that is contingent on all parties actually wanting it to happen (which they won't).
Even with pure Sky, a lot of people don't look up. I think its more a matter of education. We have to learn to young people to watch the Sky, and how to watch it (being able to identify stars, constellations, the ecliptic plane, ...).
Yes, the second graphical API that Linux supports in 30 years, definitely Linux's problem.
Well it's more people can now say: I can do my job without commuting, so requiring commuting is a corporate choice. Hence, commuting is work time.

Mandating RTO is therefore very clearly a 20-25% pay cut.
I personally find it funny at face-value but the joke does get ruined for me because, as you say, it's just a veil for certain beliefs. I used to enjoy a lot more of Aronson's work until I realized he was just strawmanning the views he disagreed with. I had previously thought it was just good-natured ribbing.

For an actual funny (and not so "blah blah SJWs ruining everything") version of this joke, the tv show Atlanta does a much more entertaining version of it, you can find it if you search "transracial".
It's from surveys, as far as I can tell, so attempts to compare results with anything except same results for previous years for the same sub-group needs a giant asterisk next to it (and even comparing across years is iffy, depending on what conclusions you're trying to draw).

Twice the rate of self-reported, when asked persistent sadness, as boys' also self-reported rate, then.

Hell, the article even kinda covers this, noting that boys' depression may not be experienced as persistent sadness. And that's before we consider biases in tendency to report such things to begin with, which may (to put it lightly) differ between the sexes.

(Nb. it may well in-fact be true that girls are experiencing depression at double the rate of boys—but a survey's not enough to determine that)

On another topic:

> On a handful of topics, the survey results suggested teenagers were doing better than in previous years. They reported lower rates of illicit drug use and bullying at school, for example. And teenagers are having less sex, with fewer sexual partners, than in previous years.

I mean... the jokes write themselves. "No wonder they're all sad!"
There was a paper about an agent simulation in Nature or Science about 20 years ago. A large number of agents are assigned random amounts of wealth. They interact randomly one-on-one. In the interaction, on average, the wealthier agent gets some of the wealth of the poorer one.

After a long simulation, all the wealth is concentrated to two agents, and after further simulation to one.

Couldn't find the paper anymore.
> When is the last time we gained two hours of free time

I'm searching for a job now, and one of the things I'm starting to see - and place value in - are 4 day work weeks. I'm willing to take the pay cut, I don't care what day a week is the free day (but friday is the best IMO).

My mother was a very successful engineer in the 90s but went to a 32hr work week to raise me (matched school hours). During the summers she would work 8x4 instead of 6x5 and take Fridays off. She said it hurt her career for the first few years, and she had to work extra hard to re-prove herself but once she established herself, she much preferred the reduced schedule, and continued it even after I moved out.
In Ryan's defense, the firm he hired wrote an even prettier and more expensive report supporting his decision.
There is definitely a problem with MBAs who come in to companies and obsess about one or two statistics or numbers and reorder the business to maximize/minimize some metric but it destroys the business in the process. Another example is the Sears CEO Eddie Lampert.

It's a shame because Morton Salt sounds like it was irreparably harmed which is a huge cost for a lot of people (jobs and profits lost) but the CEO at worst just loses their job after a couple years if they hadn't moved on already.
I also expect to get notified of incoming messages - it was not infrequent that I would restart Teams and get 3-5 notifications of messages all at once, timestamped over the previous several hours.

As best I could tell, my client would simply lose connection to the server entirely silently. Normally I would find out when trying to send a message to someone, and noticing the delivery animation/indicator was not appearing. Restart Teams and boom, here's a little pile of messages I'd missed.
I found this perspective on the Bob Lazar story to be extremely compelling:

https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strang...

Spoiler: he's basically full of crap. And the "UFOs" were particle beams meant to spoof radar systems.
It's unlikely that they won't use it for more eventually if this works. They're probably playing it safe by mentioning only video conferencing.

As an example, if meetings are made in teams and people comment during the meetings, their input will be in teams. Further communication around the meetings is likely to stay in teams. They're making it inconvenient to use slack or other means.
As someone who has learned several languages but who has never been able to draw, I don’t think it’s that simple.

Even among children, where the difference in experience is negligible, some people are able to analyze the input they receive from their eyes or ears in a way that others can’t. My friends who are artists amaze me by reducing a 3D object to a series of deformed polygons, or drawing a perfectly straight line with a pencil, and I amaze them by mimicking accents or memorizing song lyrics on one listen. For both of us, these are things that we’ve always been able to do.

I don’t propose that this barrier is insuperable, but there’s only so many hours in the day. There is also likely to be a hard limit on how good I can get compared to someone with natural ability. Spending 10 years going from 0/10 to 7/10 is a particular kind of commitment to make.
Oh man this is a classic. Ive read this 3 teams (and watched office e2e after each reading) and new ah-ha moments come up from this to me!
Well if AI ever became intelligent or sentient we could drop the A. Do you think St. Ignucius, divine programmer, considers humanity AI simply because he created us?

The moment we achieve real intelligence we open a much bigger can of worms -- "a tool which is close enough to real intelligence that it can do work that previously required a human" is, to me, the more useful thing.
The leaders of some local governments in recent years are especially cruel terrible people. Imagine if your representative was Matt Gaetz with sex trafficking allegations and trying to feel good about the direction your state is headed. Imagine if your neighbors were throwing his campaign signs in their lawn; is this a community you want to be a part of long term? Do they even value women such as yourself?
Those were EOLed last year. Microsoft's current guidance is to use the PWA in Chrome or Edge.

https://office365itpros.com/2022/09/19/teams-pwa-linux-clien...

It's easy to miss, because it was only posted to the Office365 Message Center, and not announced anywhere else. Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32678839
I had a similar experience working for a company that had, essentially, developed their own in-house web templating language and programming system. They'd started before PHP or any of the other server-side programming languages had caught on, and while a decision to use a homebrew system may have been justifiable in the '90s, when the only real alternative was Perl/Mason, by the time I joined (2009), it was long overdue for them to have moved on to an industry-standard solution. PHP. Python/Django. Ruby/Rails. Even classic ASP would have been preferable to the mess of C++ and XML they were using.

Frankly, I think the article, like a lot of Joel Spolsky's writing, has aged like milk. For example:

If you’re developing a computer game where the plot is your competitive
advantage, it’s OK to use a third party 3D library. But if cool 3D effects
are going to be your distinguishing feature, you had better roll your own.

Except, if you look at modern games, even ones with very high performance effects, that's not what they do. They use one of a rather small number of 3D engines, like Unreal or Frostbite. It turns out that developing cool 3D effects is far easier if you have a battle-tested performance optimized framework helping you. CD Projeckt Red abandoned its own in-house engine (REDengine) in favor Unreal 5 for future development, in no small part due to the issues that they ran into trying to extend that engine for a massive open-world game like Cyberpunk 2077.
As someone who's used tiling WM's for years this confuses me. How I use my trackball? I don't outside of having to access something in Firefox that vimium isn't allowed to touch.
I'd suggest requesting that the candidate limits the time they spend on it to three hours, but give them a 24 hour window to submit. Some will need more, some less, however having that limit in place will constrain things sufficiently, I think. At least, that's how we do it over here.

As far as the coding test goes, I can say with utter certainty that its important that candidates are required to build something, even if its simple. We've had trouble in the past around this; meaning, candidates who could mainly only _read_ code and copy / paste were able to get through the filter. As soon as we introduced a code test instantly we had a baseline, where the candidates who couldn't successfully code something from scratch were filtered out, and the ones who's submissions looked crazy or didn't seem to follow best practices were immediately identifiable.

From there -- and this is key -- we used other aspects of the interview process to determine best fit, independent of actual code, and this combination has proven quite successful.

The most important thing the coding test does is filter out people who simply can't code. There are a LOT of folks like this, and in particular boot camp graduates. (There are also a lot of talented boot camp graduates, don't get me wrong, but we've consistently noted a problem with this model as applied to real-world working conditions.) Once you've determined that the candidate can code, really dig into everything else and try to surface their passion for the subject; because if there's that, then they'll be able to learn and grow.
Exempting air conditioners was not necessarily bad regulation for a residential area.

Most of the time your air conditioner is not going to bother your neighbors despite being louder than what is normally allowed because most of the time when you need your air condition the neighbors won't hear it because they are also using their air conditioners.

What they missed was that business air conditioning needs are different and they might run air conditioners at times when no residents would be doing so and that businesses might a lot of air conditioners.
Well, I'm also running a small company (software house) and we're also using Element for it, but it's self-hosted, managed via https://etke.cc/. I believe migration to element.io or from element.io would be rather seamless.
> To the uninformed what your are doing looks insane. I think people project their fear of the "black box" that is "libraries" and forget that mere mortals like themselves wrote these tools to begin with.

This is what expertise looks like: it isn't Googlable, nor is it ChatGPTable.

You can get a rough idea of the quality of most libraries in about 10-20m typically, usually by playing with the library or browsing the code. Some red flags I look for: lack of tests, excessive number of commits, excessive number of dependencies, lack of focus in scope, etc.

One alternative I use frequently: lock dependencies up in a module, and write some glue code intended to act as the interface to that dependency. It is sometimes the case in which you have to use a library but it is not very good, or it has a horrible bug you can correct by exerting more precise control over how the library is called.
Have you read the article? You'd have to have 100% faith in the tech to allow it to side-step an actual person. Unless your site is purely a click-farm, you're still probably hiring someone to check it--so what's the point of having it?
The difference is that pro-RTO people want to force RTO on everyone, whereas pro-WFH are not.
I've gotta ask: is this really such a big problem in other countries? If not, are they starting school later? How are the successful ones dealing with it if not that way?
I hate to say it, but, my experience with Google chat was better. It was around 2016 so maybe they haven 't implemented web 3.0 stuff yet.
Meta's AI that was taken offline last year after only 3 days.
That campaign is an initiative from the FSF, by the way, though it's not surprising the EFF may also be promoting it.
> It has good outlook calendar integration;

It has enforced outlook calendar integration; by default you create a Teams meeting whenever you create a meeting, choosing to implement the meeting in a competing product is annoying at best.
The lack of consistency is a big issue. It may well be able to organize your trip to mexico, but then it tells me that "the product of two primes must be prime because each factor is prime" ... how will one ever trust it? Moreover, how to use it?

If a Tesla can get you there with 1% human intervention, but that happens to be the 1% that would have killed you had you not intervened ... how do we interface with such systems?
The results were so mixed, but it also occurred during a global pandemic with massive child caretaking and education disruption so YMMV. All it shows is that people will [ab]use data to prove whatever point they set out to prove.

Ultimately WFH is more economically efficient for worker and employer, so it is up to the employer to prove to shareholders why they should be spending tons of money on in-office aside from "because this is how we've always done it."
> This meant that this feature was not available when JavaScript is disabled such as in email clients

This reason to be add it seems, really out of touch with reality.

I mean, most of html is not available, or horrendously borked in email clients. Hence the continuation of table within table within table to make anything other than plain text.
I’m okay at barre chords. I can barre the Emajor, Eminor, Amajor, and Aminor shapes and move them around decently. Power chords as well. I know lots of major, minor, and 7th chords on open strings.

It’s hard for me to describe, but I can do one thing at a time pretty well. I can tap my foot to a metronome. I can strum muted strings (so it’s just a percussive sound) in time to a metronome. But I struggle with tapping my foot and strumming in time to a metronome even when all I’m doing with my fretting hand is muting the strings.

I can play parts of some songs and some riffs but if I try to play it along with the original track, I lose the rhythm after a bar or two. I don’t seem to be able to extend that length. I end up strumming with the rhythm of the lyrics (syllables) rather than the drum beat.

Right now, I’m mostly working on trying to establish some sense of rhythm. The Justin Sandercoe’s course on this is probably the best resource I’ve found. He has some exercises that are almost meditative.
Remember Tay? I'm not saying it's right, but it's the inevitable outcome. Not everyone's ready for that.
very cool, social media, thank you
On the one hand, it's just a simple word prediction model that is stringing sentences together without any understanding, let alone judgement.

On the other hand, the system is ostensibly so complex that we "are kidding ourselves if we think we will ever fully understand these systems, and kidding ourselves if we think we are going to 'align' them with ourselves with finite amounts of data."

If we cannot ever fully understand the system, how can we know there is not actually a sort of understanding inside it?
Yes, otherwise you're a bigot trying to erase queer people. /s
Because you can’t get a mainstream audience for a product that randomly responds “heil Hitler.”
Office-to-residential conversions often hinge on government cooperation
Specifically it was using GraalVM to interop Clojure on one side with React running on GraalJS on the other. It definitely pushed the limits of what is or even ought to be possible, but at the same time highlighted those very issues. I'll be the first to admit that this is an extreme edge case, but that doesn't take away from the fact that the case is still there.
Because other high-profile LLMs that were released without guardrails was a PR disaster when they were used to generate Nazi propaganda (Microsoft's Tay) or scientific misinformation (Meta's Galactica)
Mars Wrigley fined after two workers tumbled into chocolate tank last year
Same here. The hard line to walk is presenting a front to upper management so you dont across as a non-beleiver to them. Big companies have systems in place to catch the non-beleivers. Sometimes I do wonder if we are in the corporate version of the man from the high castle!
I see this most often with people who get all gung-ho about working out, they get themselves into these hours-long intense workout regimens and then either run out of steam or hurt themselves.

Rather just do a 30 min routine 3-4 days a week and look at yourself after 1/3/6 months.

You will have built a habit and achieved a lot more.
We are talking about waiting. The time between when you start and when you reach a level of useful proficiency is time you wait through. You don't wait doing nothing, but you certainly do wait. Yes, it's not a useful way to frame the situation, but that's what makes impatience a flaw. If an impatient person could distract themselves from how much longer the task will take and concentrate on actually performing the task they would not be impatient, they would be a normal person coping with the impatience everyone feels.
Path to Startup Profitability
Sorry for stealing part of the conversation, I released a new app just 2 weeks ago, would love to hear feedback if it solves a problem to anyone.

App is in Slack marketplace review, but is usable and can be integrated. Also app is free for now.

https://slack.com/apps/A04KSRC0606-work
Vultr suddenly suspended my 4-years-old account
Yesterday, at 3AM JST, I got an email from abuse@vultr.com which said that my account has been suspended due to violation of their TOS. (of course, all my servers are suspended, tens of running services are brought down)

3 hours after the suspense, I followed what they said in the email by immediately replying to the ticket. An automatic alert showed up saying that I have to wait until business hours (from 11AM JST) to get the response from the account management team.

It is now 6AM JST of the next day and I have not received any response in the ticket yet. This is absolutely unacceptable. Stay away from Vultr. Vultr is not safe!!
It's like Isaac Asimov's short story, "A Feeling of Power" about a far future where humanity had forgotten how to do math manually and relied entirely on expensive computers to do it. But then a technician discovered the rules of arithmetic on paper and the revolutionary new human powered "graphitics" allowed them to win "the war".
> Not everyone wants parental leave either or a good school district to live in, since they have no kids and it would be irrelevant to them.

Do very many people think that the quality of education in their area is irrelevant to them? You shouldn't need children to see the benefits of living in a community of well educated people.
Perfect is not the same as perfectionism
> 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.

One of the issues with being a middleman without a moat is that there's downward pressure on your margin over time until you are squeezed out of the market.

Given the amount of ads I get encouraging people to become a Amazon drop-shipper, I assume that making money doing that has got hard enough that selling shovels became more profitable.
Are people making money off of z-library, or is it being run purely out of principle/generosity, or what?
Rust to WebAssembly the Hard Way
> I also think MS is quite capable of and does produce good software be it their own OS, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Word, Excel, Flight Simulator etc. etc.

All i can say: good luck using it.

I did not have, any.
Ask HN: Does your disaster recovery strategy include cloud account cancellation?
Nicky Rodriguez, a life long wrestler was beating world class black belts in only a year of training. We had a D1 wrestler join our gym and after the first week was awarded a blue belt (usually takes 2-3 years).

They won’t know many submissions, and initially are more susceptible to exposing their back (in wrestling being on your back is the worst possible outcome where in jiu jitsu it’s an offensive position), but at the end of the day grappling is grappling.
4chan is a funny one. Apparently I had the IP of someone who posted "child models".

I'm pretty sure that wasn't me unless I have an alter ego called mister Hyde.
Sorry teens, school isn't about your wellbeing. It's about glorified childcare (if we let out later, who will watch the younger kids? Before it may have been a parent, but now both parents are away at work) and athletics (later start times means your kid will come back from sports practice when it's dark).
What do you mean by "on their own"? I would bet that the first human uttering that sentence had several observations of cats in the dark in their training set.
Next time just use Visual Studio Code for Rust development.
"Mitsubishi Hyper-Heat, which I believe is only installed as a mini-split"

It's not a mini-split.
If your editor doesn't allow you to override the font's default line height (to whatever you like), there's a nice little tool you can use to do this to the font file itself: https://github.com/source-foundry/font-line

This is also useful for mixing and matching fonts. Nicolas Rougier uses this in NANO Emacs to hack the Victor Mono italic to have the same line height as Roboto Mono.
Battlestar Galactica?

I suppose it’s true, only the rich and powerful get Peacock.
The scientific consensus is that children need more sleep than theyre getting, and that waking up later is healthier. I assume this problem is the same in most parts of the world.