skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This applies to knowledge and utility as well. Your immediate utility `y` is an integral. It's the aggregation of your accumulated knowledge. However the integral of this, `Y` is the total utility throughout your life. You may be more immediately useful with the steeper red slope later on but you get more total work done with the shallower blue slope.

Does this (from my reply to you) not cover that exact circumstance?

TFA mentions this as well:

For example I often hear conversations the first week of class where somebody will be bemoaning, "Oh so-and-so knows blah-blah-blah, how am I ever going to catch up to them?" Well, if you're one of the people who knows blah-blah-blah it's bad news for you because honestly everyone is going to catch up really quickly. Before you know it that advantage is going to be gone and if you aren't learning too you're going to be behind.

or

Another example is hiring. Before I came back to academia a couple of years ago I was out doing startups. What I noticed is that when people hire they are almost always hire based on experience. They're looking for somebody's resume trying to find the person who has already done the job they want them to do three times over. That's basically hiring based on Y-intercept.

These examples of the `y` are knowledge or immediate utility/skill. Integrate these and you get `Y` which can be viewed as the application of that knowledge or skill over a period of time. Aka total contributions over the span of your lifetime or over the span of your employment/involvement.

Point being that while TFA is right that "a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept", you can still have a smaller integral if the numbers don't happen to work out. TFA is an encouragement to try hard and push yourself to get ahead without being discouraged but it makes the assumption that someone with a steep learning/skill slope and low starting experience will eventually match the person with experience but a shallow skill slope. This works if you extrapolate out to infinity but if someone is only going to work for you for 2-5 years, you have to actually do the math to figure out which will likely perform the best.
Large enterprises don't recognize or even want "best talent"... they want replaceable resources that can be reorg'd with little thought.
My question about these policies is are they actually applying them to everyone in the org, or is there a political mess of exceptions and 'key people' who can muscle their way out of the requirement? It seems like a lot of the recent layoffs are intended to give an attitude check to those who think they are essential, but surely these businesses actually have essential teams and specific engineers that would harm the org if they left?
MacOS desktop client is terrible. Videoconference streams constantly flickering in and out.
For the many people who are criticizing the article for being pro-war: the article is simply claiming that the energy war between Russia and the West is increasing global prices for fossil fuels and is spurring concerns over energy security. Increased prices for fossil fuels makes green energy more cost competitive and concerns over energy security drive nations to find alternative energy sources. Increases in the cost competitiveness of green energy and the search of nations for new energy sources has increased private and public investment in green energy, speeding up the energy transition.

This simple chain of cause and effect is oversimplified, which is why there's a whole article written about it.

At no point does the article claim "war is good because it's spurring green energy spending", or "we should have more wars to spend more on green energy", or "war has downsides, but upsides like increased green energy spending are worth it".

If you think that any statements that address the positive externalities of war simply shouldn't be uttered (because they glorify war, or encourage war, or whatever), then you're an idiot who thinks everyone else is an idiot.
In comparison to Bing ChatGPT, it is very biased. I much prefer the original ChatGPT.
Seems?

Maybe because right wing media has constantly stated this opinion over years you think it's just a fact.
They tried to recruit me a few years ago. Good thing it didn't work out, I guess.
> the same factors pushed the shale revolution in oil extraction

The salient difference being the state intervention this time around. Fracking was largely private R&D.
Quoting from the article:

"...A delayed school start could also mean adults with inflexible work schedules are late for work."

In my view, the whole school system largely appears to be a way to safely contain our kids, while we're working hard in the offices or elsewhere. So traditional inflexibility of office working arrangements (opening times often tied to other points of economy, like store or market hours) reflects onto the school starting times. This is especially exacerbated by work commute times.

I was once shocked to learn that some suburbian colleagues had to wake up before 5am in order to be ready in the downtown office by 8am; yep, they would drop off their kids at school too before taking train to the city, that is the kids would start before 8am or at least go for an early drop-off, either way being already awake.

Perhaps the remote work could make this more bearable but most of working parents would rather keep the established school starting hours as being fitting "ok". As for the kids, they just learn to dread the start of another school day and clockwatching it till the end.
OK, we've waited...six days! and we have this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34775853
Sounds like maybe a microburst?
It's very strange that I can pass to the other side and even touch the ball. I expected that passing the middle would be a fault, or touching the ball in the wrong side would be a fault. (I don't remember the exact rules in volleyball now.)
Considering GitHub is the reason teams is so bad (electron) I say welcome your hens home to roost.
Remember if it isnt in writing it isn't real.
Because changing the display / brand name only requires you to adapt a single sentence now if needed, all others can stay the same because they use the placeholder variable. I don't think it is really meant to be secret.
This is what I intended "fairly old" to be. The framing of the article was about grade school kids, so I really just meant well above that age. :D
Yes of course it is wholly based in GitHub.
https://www.codingfont.com doesn't have 3270 (https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font), but programmingfonts does: https://www.programmingfonts.org/#font3270
> The first time I tried Indian food I was about 30 years old. I’ll never forget it. My mouth exploded with the flavor and a glow spread over me.

That's funny, I grew up eating very spicy Indian food, and I had the same experience the first time I ate lox ;)
uBlock doesn't do anything without a rules list. It has a set of filters it ships with, but if gorhill didn't load those by default, the extension isn't in violation of anything.
That part about child pornography was a bit...weird. Am I misreading it or is the author suggesting children can consent?
You could keep the metadata DB in IPFS too, along with the books. The only thing that needs to be regularly republished is the CID of the metadata DB, which fits in a tweet.

In fact, it fits in a tweet with enough room for steganographic deniability hijinks. You could publish a browser plugin which transforms tweets into IPFS CIDs according to a non-cryptographic hash algorithm. That way the cleartext of your tweet is not takedown-worthy, nor is the plugin, but the two together let users transform the seemingly innocuous tweet into the metadata DB update they need.
I hope it's something like that and not an unexplained mechanical or software issue. I'd have expected after an incident like that so close to the departure airport, you'd turn around and get everybody on a different flight.
You're missing two things, one for each age group:

For the younger kids, each hour earlier they start is an hour earlier they finish, which means parents need to either finish work earlier (not possible for most people), or pay for an additional hour of after-school child care (expensive). Having free child care to cover the gap between school finishing and work finishing is extremely rare, and the acceptable age to leave your child unattended after school is going up due to over protective parenting (for example, I was a latchkey kid starting in the 3rd grade, but nowadays that seems almost unheard of until middle school).

For the older kids, starting later means sports / extracurriculars finish later, potentially after dark or after the parents are done working and expect kids to be coming home.
'Yet the reality is that the return of brown fuels is a subplot in a much grander story. By making coal, gas and oil scarcer and dearer—prices remain well above long-run averages, despite recent falls—Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has given renewable power, which is mostly generated domestically, a significant strategic and economic edge.'

Classic Rothchild/Agnelli Economist - never mind the 'heat or eat' struggling humans, this is really helping the 'renewable power' industrialists...
Nope, and it's pretty clear this is being designed in a way to ultimately prevent users from running applications on non-WSL Linux systems, Microsoft isn't even hiding that at all as they even list it as a specific goal of the directx related changes being pushed to mesa:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/in-the-works-opencl-a...

> Make it easier for developers to port their apps to D3D12. For developers looking to move from older OpenCL and OpenGL API versions to D3D12,
With the Boeing engineers the outsourcing wasn't obviously an issue to individuals outside the system until the 737 MAX was grounded and 346 people were dead. Requiring such a sentinel event before the value of US engineering was known to the public suggests to me that it was not trivial for the Boeing engineers to prove their value.

Doctors are at a greater disadvantage as there is not likely to be a sentinel event that kills 189 people at once. Nothing about the US medical system is trivial.

Consider the private equity run emergency department in the article, I am sure that they could make more profit off of NPs and that doctors wouldn't save private equity costs. The article suggests that NPs are saving private equity money while costing patients and taxpayers more. Speaking of quality, why should private equity care about quality if it doesn't effect their bottom line?
A look at Internet traffic trends during Super Bowl LVII
I expect we'll see a bifurcation between companies that were supposedly WFH/remote-friendly/tolerant and become increasingly less so. And a much smaller number that actually are supportive of remote work as the default. Of course, there's no guarantee that the latter will offer pay scales similar to the former.
I dunno. As another person who's also used tiling WMs for years, I find the mouse to operate in a different model, and I wish it was played with more. Like how in Acme you could select arbitary text, press the middle mouse button and it'd be sent off to the appropriate handler.

Keyboard UI tends to be verb first. E.g in Vimium if you want to open a link in a new tab you press F to start the "Open in new tab" command. Then it lists the links you can open in a new tab for you to select from.

Whereas mouse UI tends to be noun first. E.g you see a link, and right click it to list the commands. You then select the "Open in new tab" command.

I think the reason for the difference is that the mouse can reach an arbitrary location easier than a keyboard, but once it's there it has much less options to continue.

For me, this means that the mouse is more exploratory, and the keyboard is more task oriented. If I'm toying around with ideas the mouse works better, but if I have something specific I want to do you can't beat the keyboard.

Writing this I've realised that I could repurpose the underutilised side buttons on my mouse as modifiers :p Hold top thumb button: press left click to go previous window, right to go next; hold bottom thumb: press left to go to previous workspace, right to go to next. Could have top thumb + mouse wheel for volume (and middle click for mute). I guess bottom middle could open a radial menu of commonly used apps/commands :)
Because internal promotions are so rare these days in tech. You have a much better chance at getting a promotion by getting another offer from a different company.
C++23 “Pandemic Edition” Is Complete – Herb Sutter
For reference purposes, 775 feet is 236 meters, or three Boeing 777's, two football fields held vertically, 1240 bananas, or two thirds of the Empire State Building.
I wish more concrete data were shared. Having half the US affected is a big deal.
There are quite a few non-"shitty" companies mandating RTO for those not hired as remote workers. Classifying good companies as "shitty" because one doesn't like the original terms of employment agreed to by both parties is hyperbola. Sure, it's not your preference, but it does not make it a "shitty" company.
They have limited resources, better to go after the one getting 99% of the traffic.
If you plan on being a Walmart lifer, sure. But what about your next job if that isn’t true?

Better to be central to where the majority of companies and candidates are, where your ex-colleagues, parents of your children’s friends, and casual acquaintances (proverbial bowling league) all are part of a broader and accessible network for future job prospects.

It also keeps you culturally (professionally) more similar to your next job’s culture.
Are there any limiting principles to your perspective? Do you feel it would be acceptable for your municipality to tax your disuse of expensive guitars, riding mowers, boats, or graphics cards you don't actually employ to their satisfaction?
Coming from infra / system, most people I work with are the kind that use Linux both at work and at home. Of course, my selection is biased... but, those Linux users I met don't like fancy DEs. The less functionality a DE has -- the better. And, frankly, if Web wasn't so unnecessarily complex and so tied to just two programs that only come in GUI, I wouldn't even run a DE. And so would a lot of people I know.

Also seeing how every bit of Linux configuration sucks, has layers of nonsense and brokenness... I just don't want another utility that screws up with my input devices. It's painful already as it is.
This is true, but when you see correlation it is a great signal to look for causation.

But my question to you, in the event of a positive correlation and not having good causation data in either direction, a reasonable person may start to act on the correlation for qualitative reasons.

For example if an initial study of the past finds cigarette smoking correlated with lung cancer, a reasonable person might qualitatively know that smoke goes into the lungs so a lung cancer cause is reasonable and use that as enough reason to stop smoking. It would be unreasonable,IMO, to say “correlation != causation” and keep smoking.
fwiw I have Stable Diffusion working in WSL2 on Windows 10
Google meet is the best experience in Linux as well. Joining a call through firefox or chrome on linux works flawlessly.
it would be funny if in this case the sales call happened and at the end you were like “alright, can i hear a demo” and they go “this WAS the demo”
How to find the right startup idea for you
Most people fail with their first startups because they get involved in ideas and projects that don't suit them. It's a common mistake for beginners.
My biggest gripes with Teams are the following:

- Teams essentially requires a GPU for good performance, we don't have dedicated GPUs on our machines, so sharing your screen brings the machine to a crawl. Exactly what you don't want when demonstrating anything.

- All communication is at the same level, so you can't reply to a single comment, without disrupting the flow of conversation. (It'd be nice to have thread replies like on Hacker News)

- Tabbed conversations are missing, MSN messenger had it, Lync and Skype for Business had it. It was one of the most efficient ways of maintaining conversations between frequent contacts.

I really hope that Github being forced to used Teams results in things in things like performance being finally addressed.
Personally being a teen with adhd pornography took away my high school life, made me socially awkward and dependent on the dopamine.I had no motivation for anything, not even adderall would help. Instead I would combine porn and adderall. To this day I don’t talk about the addiction.
I never really understood the reasoning behind mandating a particular communication platform for everyone. Why not just rely on email for communication between groups and let individual groups decide what communication platforms they use within the group. As long as the platform is hosted on-premise, I don't really see the issue.
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This wouldn't affect those who live in their homes, or even those who have a property with less than three units.
At a previous job, we seemed to have had a "don't ask, don't tell" policy when it came to remote workers logging in from outside of their home country. Then we had a member of the infosec team start logging in from a war zone and the policy suddenly because crystal clear that logins would only be accepted from the employee's home country unless permission was granted ahead of time and programmed into the VPN.
What is a microbust?
They abandoned it after submitting a v3 series looks like: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1646161341.git.iourit@linu...
Yes, I don’t want to force anybody to come to the office, and it obviously doesn’t make sense for those 800km away.

To echo the sibling comment, long term, I think it would be good for teams to be separated based on office policy. One team for pure WFH, one for hybrid (which can mean many different things), one for mainly going to the office, etc.

In my case I see it as a prisoners dilemma kind of thing. I’m officially 3/2 hybrid with unenforced 3 day attendance, along with 80% of my team. I like that I can still choose to WFH on those 3 days and my team can do the same. But we have reached an equilibrium where there’s basically no point to go to the office on those days because nobody else would be there, even though we all had the option to go officially remote (so we were all ok with going to the office). I think in that case, for example, we need at least one “actually everybody should go to the office” day for the 80% that aren’t remote
Why speculate when the article itself is quite clear on the cause?

„(…) a formal internal safety report was filed by the pilots and the aircraft was inspected before its next flight. “ United then closely coordinated with the FAA and ALPA on an investigation that ultimately resulted in the pilots receiving additional training.”
Taxing externalities differently than other things is common. Taking up land is not the same as owning other things.
This isn't about NATO.

It's about gas found in Crimea in 2008 that could replace Russian gas ( and it's failed sphere of influence)

Do your research.
Yes, high-achieving teenagers are mostly tired all the time
Telling tech workers like that to return to office as a mandate is just another way of executing a massive layoff.

They have to know that a huge percentage of people will resign (or wait to be dismissed from their position for refusing) rather than uproot themselves and move their whole family to go work in a cubicle farm for Walmart.

The people who will be left afterwards that happily do want to go live in Bentonville, AR and report to office 5 days a week will be the ones who have drunk the Walmart koolaid.

That's my own idea of a personal hell.
'oh, no, those accidents don't count'
Beyond AI's Boom-Bust Cycle
I feel like it's telling that you need a break from the internet if someone being optimistic that progress is being made on addressing climate change at all is problematic to you.

You point to Kurzgesagt, and while I'm not much of a fan of them, their most recent video on climate change presents a view that the situation is dire but not hopeless, which is a healthy view to present if you're aiming to convince people to care.
You've never been to Arkansas... There is much more to factor in. If you have a family, it's literally one of the worst places to live/work. The median pay is under 30K, and it's almost dead last in health care and education. There are about 45 other states where you would be better off.
There are so many motherboards that fit exactly what your ideal state describes. They just start to get expensive.

As an example, I'm currently running 2 3090ti's on a MSI board in addition to 2 10GB PCI-Express cards, + 3x m.2 SSD's and I am not even close to fully utilizing the lanes OR other premium slots (like SATA)

If room is an issue, get a larger case or there are also offset/vertical mount options for things like GPU's.
True. There's a theory that says that intelligence evolved as a tool to outsmart your pray. So top level predators will always have to be smarter than their pray.
Therefore, survival needs intelligence.

Personally, I think we are going to hit a hard stop on our current path to AGI. We are looking at intelligence from the top level hoping to somehow duplicate it. What we are getting is a dumb mimic with zero intelligence. We need to start at the bottom and build our way up. So, pick a low intelligence animal and figure out how they perceive the world and survive in the world. Trying to mimic intelligence won't get us to AGI.
> voters love to tax anything no matter what the harmful effects are

I broadly share your view of San Francisco's civic culture. But what are the unexpected consequences of a vacancy tax? Practically every problem I think of, e.g. developers getting hit when the market goes down being forced to fire sell, has a simple solution (renting on short-term leases). The only failure mode is market breakdown, i.e. where homeowners trying to rent cannot find tenants at any price.
Are you referring to Microsoft Editor (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-edit...)? It appears to be an interesting tool - includes tone, spelling, and grammar suggestions. I have yet to try it myself.
At first read this sounded like maybe a wind shear, but very curious that nothing was picked up by ATC about this, nor did the pilots say anything. Quite odd.
I've been working on something like this for fun. I know its not grownbreakimg, but it's an interesting problem.
>On the other hand, they can't handle actual logic, reasoning, etc.

what is "actual reasoning"?

Another HN user posted this (https://imgur.com/HOEnxYb) response to the prompt: "is throwing a rubber duck into the ocean a effective way to communicate with my brother who is on a pirate ship"

If you weren't told that this was "just" the result of a LLM plugged into a chat bot then surely you'd conclude that, especially given the short prompt, who/whatever generated the response demonstrated some type of logic or reasoning, right?

I get the impression that this tech is more than the sum of its parts.
https://archive.is/xNVIa
I'm not advocating censorship, but in today's world where YouTube and TikTok are the babysitter, porn sites are two clicks away. I was 8 years old scoffing at the "are you 18+" button. You asked, what issues are new? I would say, children watching porn is in itself a big, growing issue. This stuff isn't softcore, it's also rapeplay, incest, zoo, dark stuff. Is it confusing for you why we would want to shield children from that stuff?
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That’s not clear at all to me. Can you clarify?