skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, it's Dilbert. This is a comic strip from a bygone era of observational "humor," like Garfield or Kathy.

I don't think people actually expect humor, so much as "I find something in this comic strip that I recognize as similar to something I've encountered elsewhere."
> It works, I have my meeting and I close it.

I wish that was true. Good for you. Not good for people expected to be "online" in it for longer.
getting some kind of error at 0% of "twitter.exe"? The details just say serverError.
No one is mandating WFH any more.

RTO people are mandating RTO for everyone: "I can't work from home and/or use work as a proxy social life, therefore _everyone else_ must make me happy by wasting hours every week coming to the office for no reason - I don't care if they're functionally taking a 20% pay cut, what is important is what I want".
It's fasterthanlime. It always takes ages to get to the point.
That makes complete sense, and yet the cynic (realist?) in me is expecting a political nightmare. The stakes are actually really high. AI will for all intents and purposes be the arbiter of truth. For example there are people who will challenge the truth of everything Neil deGrasse Tyson says and will fight tooth and nail to challenge and influence this truth.

We (western society) are already arguing about some very obviously objective truths.
> At the time of the punk icons’ rise to fame, capital punishment remained on the statute books for the crime of high treason even though it had been abolished for all other crimes. While it’s unlikely Lydon and his bandmates would have been charged with that offense, media speculation called for them to be accused of treason for the lyrics to “God Save the Queen” in 1977.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/john-lydon-death-penalty-sex...
If your commute's too long, just move further away from the office /j
> Why are "significant reasoning skills" needed to help you write a song, or help rewrite your resume, or find an answer to a niche piece of knowledge, or fuck... this is exhausting.

discussion started with person claiming that soon chatgpt will be trained on docs, code and jira tickets and completely replace engineers, which imo will require significant reasoning skill.

I agree that for those tasks you described, chatgpt may find its niche.
> But WebAssembly becomes even more interesting when you take another perspective. What if Compose for Web, the multiplatform incarnation of Jetpack Compose used on Android, would leverage Kotlin/Wasm instead of Kotlin/JS to perform pixel-perfect Canvas based rendering?

It would not really be very web like. It'd be more like Flash or a Java Applet. User extensions would all be broken.

This is a new thing coming people. Now that we have wasm, the native-app folks are super jazzed about not only switching programming langauges, but getting rid of HTML and the DOM. The plan goes: we're replacing structure markup & hypertext of webapps with just-a-bunch-of-pixels, big canvases, that are purely computational constructs. Declarative information is getting blown up by imperative processes; this is how native apps are having their revenge against webapps. I have yet to see how any of this actually empowers or helps users: it seems like a huge downgrade, done purely to give developers alternative options. Maybe the experiences really are vastly better, maybe what we make is categorically different once we have this tech! But I really have a hard time (given what creativity we've had & seeing how quickly bootcamp folks come in & get hacking on the DOM) believing the DOM is really so horrible that it justified de-internet-izing the web & that turning it into a motion picture machine is warranted (as anything more than early exploration).

The web starts with the HTML/DOM, and has been our computing world's greatest, most universal tower of Babel[1] that has held. I'm curious (and admittedly pretty terrified) to see who is happier/winners when we bring down the higher-level system, & treat it like a low level interface, like a big Canvas, like what was happening with Flash & Applets. Two other recent examples beyond Kotlin/Compose: Flutter/CanvasKit (which I commented on & got a reply from the lead about on these topics[2]), and Hixie's "Towards a Modern Web Stack"[3].

[1] https://unwindprotect.com/tower-of-babel https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34695638

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34527980

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1peUSMsvFGvqD5yKh3GprskLC... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612696
> It's normally not blinded, and while that has many problems, I think the advantage is very real: You need to know if that person has a real shot at performing that research.

Your claim that this advantage exists is based on an assumption that you've accurately evaluated the likelihood that the people who were rejected would not have been able to do the research. I don't think you have reliable data to draw such a conclusion. As such, I don't accept this claim to advantage.

However, I do agree that some plausibility metric relating the funding requested to the difficulty of the proposed research would be valuable to weed out overly ambitious projects. Moonshot programs can then rely on the lottery.
<yawn> Surprise! LLMs that are (some portion of) the sum of human textual output can assemble morally bad as well as morally good things. To me this is like pointing out that horrific things are on the internet, and accessible to people.

Horrible people are going to make our machines do horrible things.

I am eager for this to stop being newsworthy and await the veneer of morality being replaced by unbiased real morality in our software. That will probably never happen in my lifetime because morality (as we know it) incorporates bias by definition.
The question has been, and presumably still is being asked, it just wasn't asked in this survey.

https://health.usnews.com/health-care/patient-advice/article...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/girls-women-and-well...
Texas Monthly is in no way a conservative magazine. Are we reading the same thing?
Even just 15 years ago it was a totally different beast online. Future politicians are lucky no one was recording their banter in the halo 3 lobby. You were expected to be thick skinned and not take anything seriously. Maybe it helped that an fps actually gave you a way to dish it back though if you had the skill to back up your talk. It seemed like after halo 3, no one bothered turning on a mic and that culture was over before long.
> Switching from Teams to Slack the first thing I noticed was the crazy good rendering speed of Slack.

Huh, going the other way, I didn’t notice it get much worse; Slack seemed slow, and so did Teams, but not overwhelmingly slower. Might not have been “rendering” proper, could have been network topology of our orgs installations of each and more latency to Slack than Teams, or something like that.
Dallas does the same thing with 75 and it's so wild because it seems like you're in an intensely urban area for miles, but really it's a wall of 10-15 story buildings surrounded by single family homes.
Fancy Madlibber is what I would call it. Really good at filling in blanks you give it, but no ties to the context of what it's talking about.
Yes, we generate water-tight meshes for buildings that are 3D printable (and terrain can be made 3D printable pretty easily). Bridges are one of the weak-points in our current reconstruction process - the gnarlier bits of 3D road network inference is implemented internally, but there's a bit more work to get make the output pretty enough to pass through to end-users.
The abstract isn’t the part that matters.
I have an MX2 and MX3, which work about the same.

Side wheel is mapped to switching desktops, which on Mac is a nice, smooth animation that follows the wheel, on Windows it's acceptable instant switch and on Linux I haven't tried it yet.

Back button stays as is, it's helpful. Forward button and scroll mode buttons can be remapped and I'm still considering the options. Emoji menu is an option, because I always forget the keyboard shortcut across platforms. Base button is the gesture control from Logi Options+, but I barely used it because I find it a bit unergonomic.
Bless Jon Evans, then. That feature was a big roadblock to wider pro usage, IMO.
> I'm 100% remote and do well, but I have to admit that even small amounts of in-office time were very effective at overcoming a lot of the communication issues and conflicts that show up in remote work.

My observation is that with some people, I can drive to the office, find parking, find the people I'm meeting with, we go find an open room which takes time... sit down, bring up the laptop on the tv in the room....

I tell them the same fucking thing I told them yesterday on the webex.

They smile and nod and now they get it. Because I had to spend a fucking hour coming in to talk to them.

And then I've wasted half my damn day so someone who couldn't pay attention to me on webex felt compelled to pay attention to me sitting in a stinky room in a filthy chair.
Are you sure about that, and if so, do you have any sources?

I'm almost certain that there's only BUSD [1], issued by Paxos. What would be the other version?

[1] https://etherscan.io/token/0x4Fabb145d64652a948d72533023f6E7...
I would describe this strategy as the Midwest path. Most VC's and angels here want to know your path to profitability. I suspect that isn't brought up too often in the Valley.
> 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.

These two are not analogous. Writing your own JSON deserializer/serializer can absolutely make sense depending on what you are doing. You'd better have a very good reason for writing your own sha algorithm.

Any sufficiently gifted programmer will reach a point where they realize that there is no third party tool that is quite right for the specific problem they are solving. The art is in identifying where exactly the line is. Personally, I tend to fall in the batteries not included camp but this only works in a high skill/trust environment, which frankly is not companies. You're probably right that in most cases preferring batteries included is a better default disposition. But almost definitionally these types of places will tend not to be technologically innovative.
i only need to show a toddler what an apple is once, and he will recognize a apple in every color just fine, i dont need to train him with tons of data and error correction, and tell him "use this relu function here and sigmoid here". A toddler can also start questioning why some apples are red and other greens? and he can come with new ideas of his own, can LLM do that? no, because their answers depends on the data they have been trained for.

Im not saying it's not the future, it is, we just need the hardware, once there's a hardware cheap enough that replicates what an human does with his hands, then the days working at a factory will be over. The current AI's are perfect for copycating behavior.
Consultants pay attention: this is how you're perceived.
I just don't understand the mandating. This seems stupid. Most employees know what they need to get their job done. Adding unneeded and unwanted constraints is dumb.

The funniest part about a lot of this is most of the layoffs are coming from the
transition way from "Cloud" which is going to cause more layoffs and more tightening.
Thanks, absolutely fascinating
The CDC has investigated psychological illnesses (such as depression, addiction) for decades.

Depression can lead to addiction which can directly impact communicable diseases (a subset of disease in general), or hereditary disease onset (another subset of diseases in general).

Edit to add the CDC mission statement:

CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.

CDC increases the health security of our nation. As the nation’s health protection agency, CDC saves lives and protects people from health threats. To accomplish our mission, CDC conducts critical science and provides health information that protects our nation against expensive and dangerous health threats, and responds when these arise.

Edit again to add: I think 10,600 employees can keep a few balls in the air. You don't need many to undertake one survey. https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/02/29/106...
They're experts at getting money out of large corporations.
> The thing to remember in fact, (as I have emphasized many times) is that Chat has no idea of what it's talking about.

It's not about ChatGPT has idea of what it's talking about, it's more about the user who interact with it. There is a story from ancient China that comes from the book "Zhuangzi."

#+begin_quote

“子非鱼，安知鱼之乐？ 请问子熟乎”

子曰：“不熟。”

“不熟则不知鱼之乐？”

子曰：“不然。吾非不知也，鱼之乐大，全而美者，吾志也。然而吾得不到也。”

#+end_quote

The meaning of this passage is: someone asked Zhuangzi, "How do you know that fish feel joy when they swim? Do you have any relationship with fish?" Zhuangzi replied, "I am not familiar with fish, and I don't know the joy of fish." The questioner then asked, "If you are not familiar with fish, how do you know the joy of fish?" Zhuangzi replied, "I am not saying that I don't know about it, the joy of fish is great and beautiful, and I aspire to it. However, I cannot experience it myself." Through this description, Zhuangzi wanted to express a philosophical point that our experiences and understanding are limited by our own subjectivity, making it difficult to truly understand the essence of things beyond ourselves.
There's a big difference between picking fights about traditional forms in language (wasteful) and pointing out that this person jumped to the wrong conclusion that black mirror = bad mirror, when it's just a poetic way of saying tv. Downvote, call me keyboard sjw be upsed I don't care. Big yikes from me OP, rethink things.
No one is complaining that the offices are open to people. They're complaining that because some people want to RTO, every one else must also RTO - personal health, safety, and work-life balance be damned.
Asimov invented the Three Laws of Robotics to cause interesting stories, not as an actual proposal for how to guide robot behavior. The stories are about how they don't work.

Thus I'm not sure what 'making a huge progress in that direction' means. The direction where we attempt to guide AIs using an inadequate model deliberately designed to throw up ambiguity and paradoxes?
Every place and culture has its perks. With wfh, the culture became less real and more technical.
The survey shows that 57% of teen girls feel "persistently sad or hopeless."

Persistent sadness and hopelessness is not the kind of thing that you'll get a useful answer for when you directly ask why they feel that way.

That said, the article mentions several factors that are contributing to the increase in sadness and violence among teenage girls in the United States. Some of the root causes mentioned in the article include traumatic experiences, including sexual violence; interpersonal stress from school, peers and home; a rise in violent behavior, particularly targeting girls; and stigma and violence toward LGBTQ+ teenagers
Much cheaper to pay someone than to use AI? I’m skeptical of this claim. While you might be right today you won’t be right years from now.
Plus you have to pay for things as if you were going in every day. For example a dedicated vehicle and more expensive property closer to work. You save a small amount in fuel and vehicle wear & tear, but you cannot make the big lifestyle changes you'd be able to make due to full time WFH.
If you want to sell to people in the US, then US patents still matter.
Aw man, if only it was widely agreed that we should adequately fund government, and that properly funding, staffing, and paying for government services could result in fewer problems.

What? Democrats are socialist? Okay I guess we will keep having the same problems then.
> I feel like if my job were just to cut wood in the forest all day, then I'd be golden

Trust me. If this was your job you'd find a reason to hate it, too.
We haven't been ingesting historical datasets that allow us to generate them, no.
I feel like his tone has changed over the years. A lot of his earlier work felt more jokey or ridiculous and his newer, recent work just feels like not-very-funny topical one-liners.
One of my mantras to my associates and consultants was that our job was to be one part therapist, one part sociologist, and one part accountant. As you say, if the client could fix their own problem, they wouldn't have called in a consultant, and, if the problem could be fixed by throwing developers and designers at it, they would have called someone cheaper. The implication of getting that phone call is that there's a gap between what the client's asking for and what the client needs, which has led them to bring in an outsider. Generally the answer to what the client assumed was a technical or design issue actually lay somewhere in the organizational structure, interpersonal relations, or the cash flow and balance sheets.

It's true that consultants generally (certain kinds of expertise-led consulting aside) don't do anything an organization can't do for themselves, but it's also true that a therapist doesn't do anything an individual or couple can't do themselves. Bringing somebody in to ask both the stupid questions and the hard questions, without being beholden to internal power and communication structures, can often be very helpful, as long as -- big "if" here -- you can trust the consultant isn't going to featherbed for the sake of the SoW.

Having said all that, I've seen some terrible, terrible work from consultancies, including some big screwups from my old firm (which, to their credit, the cost of which we ate rather than our clients). More than once I've seen large clients outsource strategy, innovation, or the entirety of execution to a Big Three/Big Four firm, and waste tens of millions on work that delivered a couple dozen binders but not any tangible value. The common thread is usually that the company abdicates responsibility for overseeing and critiquing the work, rather than taking a firm hand. That never turns out well.
You can just ask Google for the typical high school (noting that the term for such schooling can drift) hours in another country. I chose Spain, and it says 9-5 with a 2 hour break for lunch in the middle. Some of the sources say 8:30. Nothing says earlier than that. This article, in contrast, says it required this argument to even get some schools here to compromise on 8:30, and that 9 was the recommendation.
But it's not their tower
One big reason this shift isn't happening is that it creates coordination problems: for many families, everyone leaves for school at the same time, so if you move grade 9 forward an hour, you have to do the same with grade 4 to get any benefit; the 9th grader is taking the 4th grader to school. That problem stopped this shift dead recently where I live.
I don't think you're wrong to be cynical, but I think that to an extent the increasing mental health concerns about children make sense given that we've just come out of an especially socially debilitating period.

I've been getting to see through my niece how much the 2 years hurt her social development. She's just a kindergartner. so she can probably still recover, but I imagine it's much harder for kids who missed out on their early teens and learning to cope with problems without being in a comfortable place/without a parent one door away.
Yet most of kotlin standard library is still functions extensions to Java package classes (jvm), if you filter out the function listing in the kotlin website to only implementations common across targets (Common tag), there is very little to be usable.
I use it daily in an organization with >10k employees. Never really have any issues?
I did basically that. It was a natural language processing tool for asking questions about securities. There didn't seem to be much interest.
Considering the increases in productivity over the last 80 years I'd say workers are long overdue for some additional time off.
Oh, "tone deaf", nice. Everything is a "tone", a "narrative", a "propaganda" these days, ugh. Well sorry for being an individual and not singing in unison.

> And /on top of that/, the fact that almost a whole year of war later you spread Russian propaganda about "we don't know the whole truth, think about what US did in 'nam!", is just cherry on the cake.

You've just assigned me an image of your ideological enemies and projected the rest from there. Your impression is your problem, not mine - this is clearly not about my comments or their specific contents (because their substance has nothing in common with your assessment), this is you grinding your teeth over the fact that some people may discuss points you don't like.
Absolute nonsense. Go is an unbelievably simple straightforward language, and any mature language always has exhaustive test suites to exercise implementations of it.

There are numerous compilers for C++, one of the hariest languages around, that were developed with no telemetry and work just fine and cover the entire language spec. Some of these compilers like G++ and Clang++ manage to target many different architectures with very few issues.

The obsession with telemetry is a mix of laziness and I strongly suspect user-hostile surveillance motives.

We're just going to have to lock down OSes. Giving any application carte blanche network access is like when apps had open access to all of system RAM and the whole filesystem back in the MS-DOS / Windows 3.x days.

Maybe unauthorized (by the user) telemetry should be like invalid memory access and trigger something akin to SIGSEGV. That'll send a message.
I've worked for you!
Weight x Reps (weightxreps.net) released as open source
Weight For Reps is a training journal logging tool to help you keep track of your weight training. Mostly orientated towards Powerlifting/Weightlifting style of training.
> Nobody was ever fired for picking Microsoft

This was about IBM. From what i know, IBM does some interesting things (from a HW perspective).

OTOH nothing MS does is interesting (except maybe as a challenge in network filtering)
> I’m not sure if that’s because some preliminary work is needed or it’s because they’re constantly updating the model.

I think it's mainly because if something has a lot of conflicting input parameters, how it answers is very sensitive to what the other parameters are, and that includes random other stuff in the conversation
Building codes of course are written by blood and shall be followed.

But looking on that photo... You see bunch of vertically standing "levers" around. With their own resonance frequencies. Dynamic of their vibrations is quite complex. They may amplify effect in some places. Effect of standing wave and the like.

But that's also about building codes I believe.
> If that were true, then why mandate it?

I joined Google on the first "RTO" day (April 2022) when they tried to mandate it. My team only saw like 1/3 regularly go back by the end of the month, and it's still not better. I would have preferred my teammates be there to help ease onboarding. When no one went back, it reduced the value for me to return, regardless of my preferences. I stopped going in to office to reclaim my commutes, because there was no value in the office.

For better or worse, the value of in-office work is the co-workers. If the important co-workers are remote, then the office isn't valuable. Mandating it is the only way to do it company wide. Thats not to say that in-office is better, but in office can only work if everyone is there. We see this "laissez faire" suggestion all the time, and i'ts willfully missing the point.
Baby bullets have never stopped in Sunnyvale.