skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the subtler points Eli Goldratt makes indirectly is essentially that, "this type of culture is established" as you put it, in situations of abundance.

So Goldratt's description of "crunch time" is a company which starts out every quarter doing things in the (as they see it) "right way," then they close out every quarter doing everything in the "wrong way" or taking shortcuts or spending considerable costs to finish projects to make their revenue come in.

The spin I'm offering is: when you have a season of abundance, you do not have to face crunch time, and you get, as you put it, "predictable bullshit and they don't feel responsible for it." But effecting change during crunch time, by contrast, seems much easier. As long as you can keep your head straight. Goldratt's starting point begins, "maybe these 'shorctuts' we take under pressure are not the 'wrong way' per se."

I personally hate learning abstractions without examples, so let's get concrete. Your software project gets overdue and you and your peers start approving each others' merge-requests after only skimming them for flagrantly bad code, rather than "is this method in the right class?" and "does this have adequate test coverage?" you are now instead looking for "okay that's a raw SQL query, could that accidentally drop the whole database? no? approved! anything else we can add tests and refactor in a month." That attitude, right?

Goldratt says, "no, pay attention to that!" ... you say "but that's not how it should be done, we must review code as we go, tests are good to have" and my-imaginary-version-of-him replies, "sure I understand that you have a need for code safety, I am not saying that you don't. But the fact remains, you accepted the bypassing of this process when crunch-time came, which means that it constrained the team in unacceptable ways overall. So if we believe in working smarter-not-harder, we need to get imaginative now, because the 'logical place' for code safety measures to get injected, is too slow. And there are lots of imaginative solutions. We could hire someone whose only job will be code review, they could start reviewing your code before you're even done writing it. Or we could mandate that everyone must commit their code to the main branch every single day with only pro-forma code review, this will force us to adopt out-of-band practices to make things safe. Other things like that."

So what does effecting change look like in a system that does not have the luxury of abundance? It looks like a "crunch time" that never "ends", but does "get better." Goldratt's point is essentially that you don't want to meet this punch with a counterforce, as that will hurt: you instead want to yield with it and let its own momentum carry the both of you to a better solution.

I have a theory about how this works on software projects but I didn't quite get the chance to run the experiment at my last job, so if this intrigues you and you have the headcount to hire me... :)
A look inside the lab building mushroom computers
:( Thanks for trying. The only thing I can think is perhaps a version conflict (requires 0.70) but I would have expected it to say, rather than freeze. I will try to recreate the problem. Thanks.
This only works if execs have the company's best interests at heart, which they don't. They reap the benefits when things go well but jump ship as the company files bankruptcy when things go south.

You need Unions. Blue collar workers care about safety and can pressure execs into doing the safe thing when the incentives aren't there higher up.
not really. we used to sell them, but its a bit fussy. people had quite legitimate concerns about what to do when the modules went. margins are good, but not as high as fine art, and the labor is about the same for us.

since our primary activity is metal sculpture....we really don't have to deal with cooling issues. 10-20 pounds of metal, even steel, makes a _really good_ heat sink, even if it is isn't optimized for maximum convection. and now your light elements are little 3cm circles a couple mm high, and you can tuck them wherever you want.

it wouldn't be too hard to make you own standard. the constant current drivers often have pretty wide input ranges, especially if you can stick with simple bucks. the part where I really kinda fell down was connectors oddly enough. 3 pins, moderate current, few cycles, low cost, high contact reliabilty. anyone with better connector-fu than me have a suggestion?
> I would guess the one big difference is respect. For some reason, there is no respect for tech workers.

Perhaps OP meant as a trend over time? That has truth to it if you compare going back to the early 90s (my frame of reference).

In the 90s programming was not that well-paid, but was a very respected role in the companies I and my circle of programmer friends inhabited. A programmer/sysadmin was a wizard and treated as such. It was a vastly more fun industry to be in even if salaries were just regular white-collar professional level.

Slowly in the 00s after the dot com crash that seems to have vanished even as salaries started to climb. An in the 2010s programming became a low-level job where all the decision making power was removed from programmers and handed over to PMs. Now programmers are seens as replaceable worker units to be micromanaged to death via agile and daily status reports. In other words, not respected professionals anymore. The insane salaries kind of make up for the loss of respect, but not fully.

For the first couple decades of my career I always felt this was the best field of work ever, and it was. These days though, as I look at my high school peers who went into medicine, law, accounting I have to wonder. They all get ever more respected in their fields as they gain more experience, very much not the case in software anymore.
is there an ai to fuzz 'alien' models and map their 'reactions' yet?
This is pretty interesting finding. I think the idea that the body itself can produce emotions has been around for a while. I remember an essay by William James about this.[0]

[0]: https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/01/11/what-is-an-emotion...
This argument has been made since at least the start of written records:

> And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only the semblance of wisdom, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much while for the most part they know nothing. And as men filled not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom they will be a burden to their fellows.
- Plato, in Phaedrus, ca. 370 BC

While our replacements for parts of ourselves have gotten far more advanced, the fact of the matter is that we haven't stopped being human simply because we can make tools that remember things for us, build things for us, or let us change parts of ourselves more easily.

This is because what makes something human is not our body--an argument that Diogenes famously refuted in about the same era--nor is it merely our minds, though our minds are pretty impressive. What makes us human--what makes us alive, in a sense beyond merely being an animal that isn't dead yet--is what we do with those things. I could grow fox ears and a fluffy tail in the world of tomorrow; I could use an AI to remind myself to self-care; today I already benefit from a thousand different kinds of mass-produced products. But none of that makes me a different person, because I'll still be doing things with my life that meant something to me yesterday--because those things will continue meaning something to me tomorrow.
I've had the same experience with EndeavourOS (more user-friendly Arch). It's running on an old OptiPlex desktop with an added GTX1650 GPU. I've had basically no issues for the last 8 months, with my dual monitor set-up working out of the box. I've used Arch prior to this for about 2 years but I wouldn't say that stopped me from making some mistakes. Nothing that broke the install for me though.
I didn't do the upgrade, I'm not a postgres MySQL person, but the best they could do was a third party tool that dropped it to a couple minutes.
Not sure what to tell you, if you want to take companies at their word and believe them, you do you.
I can't read the article again due to paywall but when I read it the first time, the idea I got is not that they were "told to skip inspect" but a disagreement between employees and management on the level of oil seepage that was required in order to consider the train car in need of repair.
The software in my '21 F150 is flakey. Every time they push an OTH update, they fix one bug whilst breaking 2 other features. I don't trust any vehicle with this feature not to erroneously leave me stranded on the side of the road.
I always wonder what will come first: laws to jail negligent execs for the next disaster, or an ambitious legislator with a magic solution to jail negligent execs for the current disaster.
Writeup of Some Draw.io CVEs
To be honest, if you have hard time companies to talk to you as an established org. You will have a hard time selling too.

When you are creating something like this from scratch, then you have to do outbound just like a sales guys.
Oxidizing bmap-tools: rewriting a Python project in Rust
> cheaper, more available, and suitable

Indeed, but automotive wiring is subject to intense and persistent vibration and heat cycles. so all those ties become stress points for fatigue to cluster around.

I'm not saying its never a good idea to use an aluminium wire loom, but I'm struggling to find a situation where its required
I use Fedora and everything works out of the box- even Steam, Nvidia drivers from the package manager, and games. This is about Silverblue, a bespoke and immutable variant of Fedora Workstation.
That's a wild package. You are dealing with a lot. I hope you are able to step back and give yourself credit once in a while for dealing with so much. The world is full of secret superheroes, mustering up a lot of strength and ingenuity to get through their days. You are one of them.

No bipolar here but for years I struggled with asthma for years. It is quite the addition to the whole anxiety mix. It definitely took me quite a while to figure out I was dealing with a heart issue, because the symptoms were really similar to asthma.
> ActivityPub has the advantage of being a de facto standard and not being owned by a private company.

It should be clear by this point that "being owned by a private company" is not a disadvantage. If the Bluesky team nails the onboarding experience, then Mastodon/ActivityPub will remain a niche service.
Quadruple buckies that require actually hitting one of the keys with your nose are fun.
Any chance to open-source some of those lighter-weight components? I feel like there are lot of things out there that are just fat and cumbersome.
Has anybody seen a good guide like the "engineered" application mentioned above?
I'm definitely not an expert in this subject, but even if the model is overfitted, doesn't the fact that it can pull out the similar images at all give credit to the idea that a larger, non-overfitted model could actually work as the paper describes? It means that there does exist some correlation between the shown subject, the captured fMRI data, and the resulting location in latent space.
You can call it a fallacy, but it's scientifically proven to work (see the reference in the parent comment).
PS. It is airbyte the OP talks about
> I've never thought of retarded as a putdown

You may be one of the few, in that case. Good! Other people might not understand that about you if you used that word around them.
I've primarily seen driver failures. from some vendors, really quite smelly and spectacular ones. but it does seem to correlate pretty strongly with particular vendors or designs.
> must be replaced with a new system that is custom engineered [for] San Francisco Bay.

Other major port-cities around the world, with comparable climate conditions, have presumably transitioned to LED lighting over the past decade - why can't they save taxpayer's money by simply buying-up whatever Valencia or Singapore is using instead of having their own NIH Syndrome and insisting an entirely bespoke system just-for-them be used?
The CEO comes from the world of supply chain management, and a large part of Apple's success as a company comes from their ridiculously-well-managed supply chain.

Unsurprising that it's a stressful job — but I'm sure it's also the best training in the world for how to manage a supply chain.
just nationalize it
Muscle memory. Thank you, fixed.
So they're pimps, essentially.
relevant...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4hDGJ2FwDI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohXYR69UhxI
Also labour protections when reasonable action is taken to stop unsafe acts. If someone got fired for stopping unsafe thing they should get big enough payout. Probably years worth of wages.
IceCubesApp and Ivory, both on iOS, handle external follows seamlessly.
Chrome one-click access to ChatGPT on any page
What are your favorite books on Audible?
My daughter somehow activated an Audible Plus account for us, and we didn't notice until my wife got an offer for a free book yesterday. Since we never buy audiobooks we never checked that section of the "your purchases".

So, before I cancel the subscription that no one uses, I have to burn through the 12 credits that I have.

Anyone have a favorite audiobook they suggest?
As people and groups increasingly move this direction do we think about vectors for abuse in 10, 20 or 50+ years?

The human mind is considered the only place where we have true privacy. All these efforts are taking that away.

At this rate all notions of privacy will soon be dead.
If your foot would tire, that's a sign that you were running _in front of_ the car. When you run behind the car, your foot will be exhausted.
Subject 4 in the first line also looks very different from the ground truth, but clearly an airliner. I'm curious if there is also a closer match to that one in the set.
Nothing stops this train.

Nothing.
I think that as long as people can run their AI girlfriends on their own computers without having a corporation acting as an intermediary and thus a virtual "pimp" [for lack of a better word] in the relationship, I think it's fine. The problems come when people have to pay monthly to talk to their AI girlfriends and get charged extra if they want them to act a certain way or do certain things.
I'm unsure if true but I remember hearing in this video that the King of Dubai funded the development of these bulbs and has them under contract.
Consider that the only thing stopping us from building the teddy bear in Spielberg's AI is a suitable power source.
The Chinese Market Is Crazy About ChatGPT. But the Government, Not So Much
Yes. I agree with that.

I'm not a huge fan of atmospheric manipulation vs. orbital engineering. I think there's a weird mental block for many people where a massive earth-based project seems more feasible than doing something that is probably no more resource intensive off-planet.

Space-based solar is probably still years away because we would need to assemble in-situ on Earth trojans or other asteroids, and then propel the materials to the lagrange point. But backing off the global temperature ten to twenty years from now and gaining control over solar input to our planet seems like a better idea than messing with the atmosphere.
It is interesting that we can use RICO go to after mob bosses even when they have layers and layers of indirection to protect them.

But with CEOs it seems RICO doesn't apply.
Note that there are maintenance fees for patents, which are non-trivial.

they're every 4 years, though.
I don't think so, they require you to also tell the author as soon as possible, if not before.

I'd think notifying them as soon as possible and asking them for permission for publicly disclosing would let them protect you more efficiently.
Yeah, that's just what we need: brain scanners purported to "expose the unethical". Nothing could go wrong with that.

I find it extremely silly when people argue a technology is value neutral and humans are the problem so we shouldn't "judge" or critique the tech. Who do they think is going to use the technology?
From the article I got the sense that the disagreement is about "how many eyes" are watching out over the trains.

As a layman it seems like "the more the better" but there's gotta be a balance. Obviously the union is going to argue for having 100 people per train if they could (because that's directly connected to the unions power and money) while the train company is going to try to automate it down to 0.

So just because the union doesn't think it's enough isn't a meaningful indicator.
Thank you. That gives me a red underline under ContactId and Email now. I think because input.Contact__c and input.ContactEmail__c are unknown. I think this is the right direction. What is my next step?

const myOutput: Output = {
ContactId: input.Contact__c,
Email: input.ContactEmail__c,
IsInternalUpdate: true,
Preferences: mypreferences
}

(property) Output.ContactId: string Type 'unknown' is not assignable to type 'string'.ts(2322) Output.ts(4, 5): The expected type comes from property 'ContactId' which is declared here on type 'Output'
I think Canada is the 'canary in the coal mine' for some US companies.
Struggling here foreshadows future struggles on home turf.
Quora publicly launched Poe, an AI assistant chat powered by ChatGPT and Claude
Hmm, I think the logic is quite fuzzy about that.
You’re confusing reality in the US with reality in general.

The obesity epidemic (Gluttony ) is extreme in the US but not in other just as rich countries.

I don’t know what you are referring to with the irresponsible Sloth indulging.
Are you in Uvita? Just how you say the tourist info center in town...sounds like me ;). Hit me up! Contact in bio
The Boolean one at least is pretty longstanding: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/16655

I imagine there are a lot of edge cases to wade through before mainlining.
Saudia Arabia liberal? The place where they execute reporters and punish homosexuality?
Incentives have always largely been performance-based, I believe, but the cases you really hear about are the ones where the jurisdictions are desperate for the investment, and that desperation may make them extremely willing to renegotiate incentives to keep the company from picking up and moving.

The most notable case in recent memory of outlandish incentives is the Foxconn plant in WI, where the original incentives were not paid out as Foxconn failed to meet even the lowest tranche of requisite investment. Wisconsin refused to pay, but this intersected with political sniping (as the Republicans, voted out of office, criticized the new Democratic administration for not paying up). The contract appears to have been renegotiated back to "normal" levels of incentives, which have been paid out as Foxconn has met those levels of investment.
You can also do this with the system's built-in mail program. I set this up for doing bulk emails a while ago and it has proved very useful and versatile.

(defun compose-mail-macos (&optional to subject body)
"Compose a message using macOS's default mail program."
(interactive)
(start-process "Open Mail Message" nil "open"
(concat "mailto:"
(when to to) "?"
(when subject (concat "&subject=" (url-hexify-string subject)))
(when body (concat "&body=" (url-hexify-string body))))))

(defun compose-mail-macos-multiple (list subject body)
"ADDRESSES should be a list of email addresses in the form of:
(setq mail-list '(\"Mail 1 <mail1@example.com>\"
\"Mail 2 <mail2@example.com>\"
\"Mail 3 <mail3@example.com>\"))"
(while list
(let ((to (car list)))
(compose-mail-macos to subject body)
(setq list (cdr list)))))
> Otherwise, e.g. is supermarket a platform that gives independent contractors the ability to work on the tills or stack shelves etc?

In this metaphor, i think the independent contractor would be the person who provides the produce. Which is how grocery stores generally work. (I.e. betterhelp sells therapy services, grocery stores sell groceries. The person working the till at the grocery store is more akin to the person working in the customer service dept at better help, not the person who provides the item for sale)

Professional people being independent contractors is hardly a new thing. Lawyers are usually hired as independent contractors. Its not like they are being taken advantage of.
Iraq is not Afghanistan, it had similar conditions to Iran and ended up a disaster. In fact, can you name even one thriving democracy in the Middle East? Except Israel of course, which has history and culture that is very different for that region.
Yes as you suggested you want expertise in sales. Sales is all about relationship building, meeting with clients, showing them what you have and discussing what their biggest pain points are.

If you want expertise in this you want expertise in sales. I co-founded a company years ago with myself as the tech lead and my partner in sales. The sales was what actually drove the founding "Hey i speak to so many companies that need tech expertise in Y".

What you're asking is the very basic element of the profession of sales and that's what you seek. Hire away!
If you keep the original bioware fully operational, it's more like an incremental fork running on an emulator. You can start having conversations with your approximated self.
iOS Continuity Camera only works in “magic pose”
ARM going public in New York
"shit period", pun intended?

Jokes aside, good luck, so far I've been really lucky and haven't had any major house issues, that's super tough.
Bring an experienced guide with you. [1] no bears were physically harmed, perhaps emotionally

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atZqRbpb5gg
The line noise complaint isn't without merit either.

One of the few programming language jokes I've liked enough to repeat is "Python in Perl for people who can't bring themselves to write Perl code"
Hacking the Nintendo DSi Browser
EA are leasing it, they didn't buy it.
Show HN: Zipslicer, a library for loading LLM checkpoints on consumer hardware
This is a low-level opensource library I developed for my own use and decided to share, as it makes it possible to process large checkpoints of neural networks without renting high-RAM instances, on a regular PC. It replaces torch.load() with a custom function that produces a dictionary that materializes tensors on the fly. Compared to other solutions it doesn't require sharding or re-encoding checkpoints and uses them completely as-is.

It is a foundation to make it possible to run inference and compress language models and other large models one layer at a time - in principle, even one tensor at a time.

I describe the rationale and technical details of the library's design in the blogpost: https://kir-gadjello.github.io/posts/zipslicer/
Reminds me of Homer Simpson with a monocle sitting in a car twisting the steering wheel..."How does this compare with a train, which I can also afford?"
If it is encrypted in browser. There is the encryption keys persisted with reference? Probably at your end? If it is in browser then $39/year is not justified. It should be free.
It's not evil but there is also a built in emulation for vi called viper.

I've never used it to emulate vi but I have used it to emulate ex, which is a part of vi. I don't know if anyone else feels this way but when I started with emacs a long time ago I thought that ex commands were much more productive for things like searching and replacing. For anyone who knows vi, that is for example :%s/regex/replacement/

So I just bound the ex prompt to C-c :

Maybe emacs does better for search/replace these days. What do others think?