skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth taking into consideration the perspective of Natalie Wynn (of Contrapoints) who feels that this podcast is misrepresenting her and the topic -

https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/1626231558842765312

This article gives an overview of the controversy from the start to present -

https://www.glamour.com/story/a-complete-breakdown-of-the-jk...
honest answer: both my partner and I work, but she works four days per week to balance childcare. If I worked four days then we would have a whole day together to enjoy hanging out with our son.

My commute to the office is over an hour (London, England) from my home, so returning home for lunch is not an option.
A particular application of #2 which works well as an extension of #3 is to have your workers implement a lightweight backend-for-frontend layer in between your frontend and more traditional API

This approach works pretty well when you have a pre-existing API and need to, say, minimize # of round trips to fetch data without wanting to couple your frontend(s)<->backend too tightly.
Airbnb launches free currency trading
I made €86.4 trading currencies on Airbnb:

Made a booking priced in $ at $740 in November 2021. I am based in Europe, my bank account is in €. I was charged €648.5

I canceled the booking in July 2022. They refunded me the $740. It converted to €734.9

Made €86 :))
Because unless the kids were all off on the same day each week, which wouldn't work for their parents who have to fit in with their employers needs, then everyone would need even more babsitting cover than they already do.

If the kids were not all off on the same day, then teachers would struggle to get consistent teaching because 20% of the pupils would always be missing from a lesson.
No mention of insanely fast NVMe on M1?
Sure, but I don’t call it research.
Right, but if interest rates are high they can still go public at a large valuation...
I could not agree less.
> Why would you pay so much for mac OS and end up using free linux?

Because Apples MacBook Pro with M-Series Pro and Max chips are arguably the best allrounder laptops on the market right now
What are the benefits of using podman over docker desktop? I've just got my new M1 macbook and are tempting to try docker desktop alternatives..
Unix philosophy on software ? Let's be real here.

Command line Posix stuffgenerally works and Linux stuff works because Linus insists it should.

But what about the whole glibc debacle from about a decade ago? Entire distros broke compatibility.

And let's not get started with *nix GUI framewors and apps, those break compat more often than I change my socks :-)))
Surely this is a question of supply and demand and if a 4 day workweek is the legally cheap and good path supported by governments in the same way the 5 day workweek is, the competition for salaries will be nearly identical
Women are more likely to stay at home with kids. They need more flexibility. One of main arguments for four-day week.
> I find it hard to believe the medical staffs would have seriously considered "can we find a donor that matches AND will possibly cure the HIV".

According to a report of the Tagesschau (belonging to the German public television chanel ARD),[1] the patient had leukemia and the doctors were looking for a fitting donor who was also missing a so-called CCR5 co-receptor. According to the report, people having such a gene mutation can be found especially in Central and Northern Europe.

The patient had already been treated in 2018, but is only now considered cured because he has not experienced any HIV symptoms since then.

I do not know whether it was relevant in this case, but Germany has a Central Bone Marrow Donor Registry with currently almost 10 million people registered.[2]

[1] See https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/gesundheit/hiv-leukaemie-st... (in German)

[2] See https://www.zkrd.de/neue-spender-weiterhin-gesucht/ (in German)
I understand that, but it turns out you still need a place to live in beforehand, even in that narrative.

and of course it is possible to have a refuge while being in shared housing. Like big apartments do get built! Not for everyone and like you said people want a nice refuge. But it’s possible to build large apartments with good insulation where people have their privacy, while simultaneously offering (for example) huge shared parks and close access to commerce or schools. every shared housing thing doesn’t turn into Manhattan.
That's easy, obviously the patients will be moved to a 4-day-week as well, and adjust their recuperation accordingly.
Isn’t that only because they cheat and make fsync an noop though?
> I'd suspect the hiring committee found reason to suspect this person was laid off for performance / behavior. For example, perhaps their company has not conducted a large layoff, or is known for laying off based on performance.

Even if true, this is something the recruiter and/or some of the interviewers should also have been aware of. The candidate should not have to go through the entire interview loop (I would imagine at least 5 rounds) only to be rejected for this reason.
Ask HN: Jupyter Tutorials
I think jupyter notebooks are great to write tutorials. Do you know some ones?
I don't care about AMD vs Nvidia, I only care about reality. You seem to be overcompensating for some imagined bias. In the Witcher 3 the input lag increase is huge. The game is playable, but the difference between 90 fps with or without DLSS3 is very noticeable.
>That's dishonesty on your side

Oh no! Oh, the humanity!
Oh, there were colorful cloth wearers, they were mostly prostitutes.

Which basically ment baby murdering and rotting from the inside out from sexually transmitted diseases. Its a good thing, todays civilized society left the moral compass from that era far behind. Can anyone even imagine somebody being so barbaric, as to be still stuck in the late middle ages, in a time of contraceptives and anti-biotics.
Very clever idea!

Students can't quite use AI to complete this assignment, they have to do it themselves.

Along the way they get some insights into the limitations of AI-based text generation.

And they also learn how to write a good essay, by touching up an AI-generated baseline. Which is a skill that might become quite relevant in the near future.

Some might think "that's cheating - you have to write the entire essay yourself!" - and that might be true for a school setting. But in the workplace, only the results count (and how quickly/efficiently you got those). Just like using an automatic translator and manually fixing up the results now outperforms translating the entire text by hand.
The case against AI in classrooms
> Nothing was ever created by two men

debatable.
>and that I should watch out because there are lots of lay offs happening.

Wow what a nice place, that's the mindset i want from my future employer. A truly nice place for builders i see... ;)
How about elaborating on what is wrong, instead of merely saying so?

Furthermore, are you claiming that a Bhattacharya or an Iyengar is not of an upper caste, or that their first/surnames are not explicitly Sanskrit in origin?

I don't claim to generalise—there are always exceptions to the rule.
Private equity firms seek piece of the impact investment action
> They said if I only care about money I’m not a good fit for their culture of builders

As a large corporation, do they care about something else other than money?
Well, type 2 is definitely curable and reversible. type 1 diabetes..... yea no.
It's not lying if you get a customer.
Employers don't actually use the 40 hours from knowledge workers. If managers planned they'd be able to get better productivity. But as we all know. Bubble in the pipeline cause stalls and then you get meetings and planning days and all staffs that are an hour long which could have been an email.

Hopefully they do same pay,
Less hours. It's a bit tough out there with inflation
This comment is very insightful on many levels. Do you happen to have a blog or something where you write about stuff?
People realise that their dead time at work is now removed due to the day off so they need to start working smarter. They are more energised, happier, get to do things in their extra day that would otherwise be preying on their minds until the weekend etc.

It also forces you to consider anything that stops you getting your work done quickly enough and have more reason to get rid of it.

Not sure how it works with a Fish and Chip shop but I suspect that even service organisations that need 24/7 cover could make up the shortfall by increased happiness and motivation.

For those of us who have a lot of work to do, I couldn't possibly do it in less days (although I guess I would have to drop stuff) but I guess at worst, I might get less interuptions from staff.
Because that's "just" unprofessional or what?
The tools we use are not responsible for the things we do with them. We are!
It’s lids all the way down. Still, quite an impressive number of them.
On the other hand, I also had to stop following him because he's in a middle of SOME social media drama pretty much constantly and not all of it is externally inflicted and not all of his rants/conflicts are the fault of kernel maintainers or other people.

It seriously reminds me of hackerspace/opensource drama we've been part of in my college years and by now I've kinda grown up enough to find it tiring and remember that you need two parties to cause it.
Simply: gap wasn't an option when this was initially conceived.

> The author's arguments against gap

I don't think it's a argument against gap. It's that this technique is advantageous in some situations. It is stated later on that grid is his choice for bespoke layouts.

> what a nightmare having to manage margin at an atomic component level for everything would be instead of just spelling out a few container components

This is the essence of the technique. Specifying `* + *` allows controlling the layout of adjacent elements, rather than an atomic element. I think this would all make more sense after reading some of the precedent material: https://alistapart.com/article/axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized.... (It's actually pretty succinct, so rehashing it here wouldn't add anything.)
SpaceX invites customers to try global roaming Starlink service
> "Is my work an original thought? Am I telling a story here, sending a message, engaging with an idea, being provocative, being honest, making my audience feel something, or is my work... mass-produced background mall muzak?"

One of your questions aligns with my personal definition of art. Art is 100% subjective i.e. personal. For me music needs to touch me emotionally, and since i love to dance it is a huge plus if it makes me move too. Visual art needs to astonish me, in one word: Wow!
Many places have decent sized parks that are maintained and safe, and offer bbq pits or the like.

Perhaps not the US or many parts of the world. But like… I dunno, I was in Brisbane the other day and they had huge places with more amenities my back yard will ever have. It’s not the same as the best yard, but it’s better than most peoples yards.
Many employers allow that already, i’d be surprised if all the companies that self selected into this experiment didn’t already have the facility for an employee to arrange this.

It’s not the same thing though. It’s avoiding the pressure to crush wasteful time in the working day (think 30 person zoom meetings that consist of 2 people talking and 28 people quietly doing emails). This pressure is unavoidable with the typical “100 per cent pay, for 80 per cent of the time, while maintaining 100 per cent productivity” 4 day approach.
Apple is kind of in their own price-point which is (potentially) justified by their quality. The main alternative is "buy something cheaper".
> upgrades will cost you around $150 total on AliExpress

I'm upgrading a thinkpad (x220) with new monitor and battery and a few more upgrades, so I have an idea of the cost of upgrading

I'm sorry but the price of the upgrades is not that low, how do you get to that total upgrading:

- monitor

- wifi card

- trackpad

- battery

that does not add up

that said, I like the end result, and I'm really curious about the trackpad
Will hiring liars not eventually accomplish them same thing?
My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown (2021)
Once the aforementioned AI's output can be trusted, I think it definitely has a place in learning (for the disciplined student).

For example, I hated not having answers to maths some problems. I'd spend hours on problems and I just wanted to know if my solution was correct.

People have a tendency to give up when they get stuck. But it's a tricky best, as it's also often a moment when you learn new (end even unrelated) things. Wonderful feeling afterwards, but frustration during the process.

I think that a AI (that can be trusted) definitely has a place in giving you hints and helpful information. But hard problem solving is something you need to do.

I think what will happen is that homework will be reduced to 0% of your final grade. There will be in person, offline exams. That'll weed out all those who can't solve the problems themselves.
How did you know their ranking? Smells of circularity.
Buses do come in threes, at least according to Transit vehicles’ headway distribution and service irregularity[1] as cited in [2]

1: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12469-010-0024-7

2: https://theconversation.com/transport-experts-explain-why-bu...
I love thinkpads but the T480 is basically objectively worse in every single aspect except price and repairability. I don’t think I can go back from all day battery and quiet CPU during high loads.

I could definitely use my T450 for however long I need and know I can replace parts, but I’d rather have macs for 5 years and upgrade for another performance bump. Some things are just nicer
The human mind doesn't really grok exponential curves very well. We tend to perceive them more as flat and then suddenly they go vertical.

In that regard, society's response to recent progress in AI appears clumsy and ineffective to me. Surely people don't think banning generated essays or art is going to fix whatever problem they perceive? This stuff is improving quicker than we can adapt, and any response that attempts to halt, delay, or ignore this progress is destined to fail.

There are a lot of things we need to be prepared for, and since our current approach is reactive rather than proactive, I'm worried AI is going to arrive more like an earthquake than a smooth transition into what could potentially be a utopia for humanity. For instance, if we don't acknowledge that many types of jobs are going to be eliminated within a timespan of a few years (as opposed to the multigenerational timescale of the industrial revolution), then we are essentially condemning a large number of people to a sudden loss of income that is likely to be irreversible for those who are unable to retrain into a different profession quickly enough. Regardless of one's philosophy on universal basic income, I think most of us can agree that a society that stands by silently as millions of people who are willing to work lose their livelihood is not a moral society. To prevent this outcome requires a significant deal of foresight and proactivity that we don't currently seem to have.

The other major problem I see (and one that is quite prevalent on HN) is an inappropriately symmetrical "penalty function" for forecasts in AI development—i.e., one that gives equal weight to the predictions "AI is arriving soon; the singularity is near" and "we're nowhere close to AGI; LLMs are just fancy high-dimensional interpolators and we may never reach true intelligence". The cost of erroneously preparing for the former outcome is mild: we wasted time on another AI winter, some unnecessary policies were created, and there was an annoying media hype cycle. But the consequences of a type II error are massive: most people cannot provide a meaningful contribution to the economy so all wealth rapidly funnels to a few people, the general population loses the ability to discern truth (well... beyond the extent to which this has occurred already), rapid existential change destabilizes the human psyche, and so on... not to mention any risk posed by AI directly (e.g., war, hacking, manipulation).
The newer models are called the Thinkpad T14, I believe. The T14 gen 3 has moved to 1920x1200 resolution, 16:10 ratio. One sodimm is soldered though, with one slot for memory upgrades.
Allowing sufficient rest. Guessing you are anti WFH too?
Please don't spoil the fun. Let people find out on their own.
The T480 I got came with a Samsung NVMe w/ 256GB capacity - I don't write enough to disk to notice the difference relative to my MacBook Air M1.
In the company I'm currently working with, 60% of employees are contractors/consultants. On average they make 30% more than fulltime employees (but they don't have benefits so it washes out).

Myself, I've been either an entrepreneur (had a company with up to 12 employees for a few years) or doing consulting pretty much exclusively in the last 16 years.

So no consulting/contracting doesn't mean unemployed.
> How did he destroy billions in value?

He turned around $25bn in cash into a company worth about $4bn, how else would you describe this?
Slightly OT but related to your links, can you say that the FT has maintained its "impartiality" (for lack of a better word) in its finance and economics section?

I'm asking because I used to read the FT on and off for 15 years going on 20 now, but the last couple of years have been really dire in terms of their biases and their lack of impartiality (especially in the politics and the international sections). At the same time your links made me miss their finance pieces, which I agree most of the times might have looked very "dry" but for a person outside finance (like I am) they were illuminating nonetheless. I'd go back to reading the FT again just for those.
Money :-)

And probably a large population of immigrants so that people don't feel so out of place.

And we can ignore that part and still call out stupidity and evil.
We used the C++ version of uWebSockets to replace a legacy node app. We went from four fully loaded cores to about 20% of a single core and a fraction of the memory usage. It's a great library.
"We are hardwired for scarcity and capitalism itself thrives on it to create value."

"There is something awesome about the end of shortage."

So you understand that we, as humans, part of nature, have lived a certain way for nearly 7 million years, then lived another certain way starting 10,000 years ago with agriculture, and basically yesterday have started living in the modern world. And you expect us, as humans, to fully cope with this concept, to the point that it is awesome?

What we need to rethink is what it means to be human and our relationship with technology. We surely didn't evolve for millions of years to have all our needs met by machines and sit around without any purpose, forever being out-competed by said machines.
Microsoft signs 10-year deal to bring Xbox games (including CoD) to Nintendo
Lenovo warranty is fantastic.
Be careful grabbing it by the corner like in the picture, it can flex the motherboard and cause the RAM to unseat https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/mh974q/for_everyo...
"type" is a very common and overloaded word. Consider its meaning for designers, programmers, taxonomy, keyboard enthusiasts, diabetics, Pokemon fans, and so on.

The website being called "typenetwork" doesn't clarify much to me.

If I had to pick a topic to associate "type 1" with, it would be diabetes, personally.

You're absolutely right that it's not clickbait, but it is confusing, considering we're not on a website focused on typography or graphic design.
Why not move schools to a four-day week, too?

Because the unspoken advantage of a four-day week is you get an entire day to yourself without your kids.
I am using an existing database.
My thoughts went; diabetes.. network provider. I have worked extensively with PS Type 1 fonts. The title is unnecessary short, even if this was a PostScript working group.
I have a similar toolchain, fully using native system packages, built around Holo [1] as a config management tool and holo-build [2] as a distro-independent package building tool. In the intended state, the root configuration package (e.g. [3] for my desktop PC) is the only explicitly installed package on the system.

[1] https://holocm.org
[2] https://github.com/holocm/holo-build
[3] https://github.com/majewsky/system-configuration/blob/master...
> So every other animal on earth falls into a rythmic cycle but we don't ?

Human brains, lifespans and experiences are mind bogglingly more sophisticated than the next animal on the list. There is nothing in the animal kingdom remotely as complex as our civilization on this planet, why would you generalise like this?
Perhaps instead we should hold people to a higher standard rather than tolerating bullshit and nonsense. Using AI as a tool for identifying and explaining logical fallacies (among other things) could be very valuable. In the same way that ChatGPT can explain code and identify bugs.

If it were well-used, then it would have the effect of making individuals less vulnerable to professional bullshitters and the armies of bots that already pervade online discourse. It could even be integrated into moderation tools (and browsers) to reduce the tide of nonsense spewed by AI and humans alike.

If bullshit generators are such a threat, then perhaps we should seek to make them less effective.
There's also Azure's.

That's if you manage to signup and are allowed to even apply for access to their OpenAI services.
apple has private relais too
A few points:

- Culture is already stagnant. In the last 10 years I can't think of a single movement or trend that isn't about politics, and certainly nothing "refreshing". More than that, we have a calcified hubris towards new technology that means we don't even bother figuring out how it might impact us, nor how to use it properly.

- We will get swamped with garbage content, and we will personalize all content (like generated music streams). We will stop hiring models, photographers, concept artists, musicians, writers, domain expert consultants, actors, etc.

- This will trigger an existential crisis for many people (I know, do we really need more of that?). I don't want to be snarky or mean, but I also think putting it this way might get the point across as a proverb: "Artists" who thought they could get away with drawing anime waifus and uploading them to DeviantArt or social media for likes and commissions will have to face the fact that they're not wanted or needed. That goes for almost the entire creator and influencer economy. That brand of narcissism and delusion will get punched in the face repeatedly by AI, because everyone will be generating their own special waifus without them.

Artists who want to create something new will be able to use AI to find the negative space where they can differentiate themselves. This dynamic of despair and searching might lead to a kind of renaissance.

The potential for renaissance is there, but it'll probably be very painful, and I don't think anyone currently even knows what it would look like.