skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked ChatGPT to be my dungeon master for a tiny text-based dungeons&dragons game. It took a bit of prompt engineering (it would initially believe me if I unilaterally said I won dice rolls and even the whole game). The result was pretty astonishingly good.
I agree that it's too soon for a CPU refresh for the Steam Deck, but I disagree with the idea of thinking of it as a console. It's a PC, and PC game developers are already required to support a vast, unfathomable array of configurations far beyond what an upgraded Steam Deck would require.
Again, nothing like this is aimed to prevent 100% of anything.

The tracking dots stop a huge portion of the low hanging fruit, identity thefts, fake money scams etc. Of course they do nothing to people who know how to hack the printer driver and/or firmware to remove tracking, but they aren't the ones being targeted.

Having trackable data in the biggest AI-generators would again stop a metric fuckton of casually made revenge porn and fake news. It won't stop actual professionals from training their own GPT-3 to do the same thing.
If you can’t tell who is and is not performing to expectation then does it really matter? They’ll be on Reddit in the office anyway.
Simpler Math Predicts How Close Ecosystems Are to Collapse
Yes, I also saw the connection to Jarrett.

I don't know what is being used for sound generation. I don't know Max all that well, but blowing the video up to full screen, it looked to me as if it only generates MIDI. If that's correct, then I suspect either one of the modern sample-based pianos or pianoteq.
If that isn't just a rhetorical question, you can see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
"Would 50% of avocados be unaffordable to the median buyer?"

Avocados are homogenous. One is generally as good as another. It's hard to convince someone to pay significantly more for an identical product (although- it's possible through marketing and there are boutique produce suppliers with wildly unaffordable prices. Specially imported/handled fruits and the like which aren't found in grocery stores)

Homes are not homogenous. Real estate values vary wildly in value based on location, size, and other characteristics. This will always be true because real estate is inherently a zero-sum system. A skyscraper will have drastically different prices for units along the side of the building with the best view - or near the top, etc.

The product is inherently unequal with large differences in demand between each type of unit, so prices will always be unequal as a result. People with more money will always be able to bid higher than people without. This dynamic exists no matter how many homes are built.
The perks workers want also make them more productive
Generally, commercial code is stricter than residential code, in everything from plumbing to electrical. I think the idea is that heavier use and providing service to others make the tougher scrutiny worthwhile.

Apartments are generally bigger than hotel rooms -> there's more people in an equivalent size building that is a hotel -> need better fire exits.
People draw an arbitrary line of difference in the way we treat AI programs and human outputs.

A human imagining orcs and one horned horses has 'fantastical, larger than life' imagination but AI generation drawing people with strange hands is 'incorrect'.

These are not one to one examples but the point stands that with enough suspension of belief, people are more likely to take on human creations at face value than AI when they know the source.
Why the world needs Ukrainian victory
It takes too long to go to these places. We need some sort of thrusters with which we can reach these places in months.
Bet they are using the IO, since he mentioned tracking bolt torque during manufacturing.
My guess is that real drive for RTO is from commercial real estate investors who are losing money. Some of those investors hold high ranking positions at Amazon. I imagine there is also pressure from the Seattle government who have had quite the crime issue on their hands ever since covid started.
"One person wrote that their new car had a mile limit of 16,000 a year; they leased it considering a lack of commute."

It seems to me that the amount of pampering expected by these employees is going a bit too far.

It's a job, the employer defines their policies (EDIT: abiding by the local laws) and you decide if you want to continue working there or go and find a new job. That's it, that's how it works in a free society.
> “Maybe later” or “Not now” can be useful to indicate that this isn’t a permanent decision.

Useful for who? When was the last time you hit "Maybe Later" and meant it? To a consumer, that message just means "this annoying popup will be back later".
it's funny because in like 2004 when I worked in an office, I'd rather send someone a message on something like IRC then go over and talk to them in person.
I’m not sure it’s feasible to stop things like this.

You can try to implement global prohibitions, but our species has a pretty bad track record at that unless the thing we are prohibiting is a stable equilibrium in game theory (anybody who can pay to play wants to stay in the equilibrium).

AI is still expensive, but it’s not so expensive that only megacorps and nation states can pay-to-play. To fully stop this kind of development, you’ll need to convince everyone with the means in every society to stop tinkering with this stuff.

I personally think we’ve crossed the threshold where inspired hackers in their basements can build nifty things with this with or without your sanction. You might be able to slow progress, but there will still be a black market of knowledge and implementations that continues pushing this forward. Not just because it’s profitable, but because it’s fascinating too.
along with pen island
Yes, naturally. Do you really think in-office is about the walls, and the furniture, and the coffee machine? That's absurd.

On the other hand: would you go to the office if it looked like your home?
No, it's not about the physical place. It's about the interaction with your team and colleagues.
Rust's handling of numeric conversions is broken IMO. Implicit conversions to wider types that never overflow should be allowed, and the "as" operator shouldn't silently ignore overflow. I should also be allowed assume that usize is at least 32-bit, instead of requiring a fallible conversion. I really doubt pervasive support for 16-bit architectures is important enough to justify inconveniencing everyone else.
You may be splitting the wrong hair here.

However it generates a text, that text may describe what for practical purposes is a new invention.
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Because it's not that the sites it finds just has a bad or wrong opinion. Instead the whole site itself is usually a complete fraud or generated nonsense and it should be Googles job to kinda filter those out or rank them down. It would even help a lot if they just added a button to allow me to ban certain domains from my results.
This PR is just one part of item MAS-86 on our public roadmap [1] "Markdown formatting for posts" which is meant to enable users to use code spans/blocks and bold and italic text as championed by the Elk third-party app [2]. I believe "rich text" in the PR title is a little not nuanced enough because like before I'm of the position that Mastodon is the wrong medium for long-form articles and the various block-level formatting structures that come with it, but allowing users to use bold text without resorting to mathematical Unicode characters is a win for accessibility.

[1]: https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap
[2]: https://elk.zone
What seems absurd to me is people thinking they have control over what their employer wants them to do. Especially when you aren’t unionized. You do what the employer wants or you get a different job. Or you unionize so you have some actual bargaining power.
Strong disagree here. Unless you and all of the occupants of your domicile are still maintaining strict isolation protocols, office work is no more of a risk factor for COVID than going grocery shopping, visiting family, or your children going to school or playing with their friends. No one is stopping you from wearing a mask at work and frequently sanitizing everything.
There are already NN based shaders you can use to upscale video locally such as in madVR and with mpv and FSRCNXX. I'm not sure how that 'AI upscaling' is related to the algorithms used for this.
Ah, thanks, that is insightful. Not to hate on the brick test, that is a useful exercise. But I would have been on top of that class, too, I was an excellent bullshitter in school :D
My position is that it’s an injustice if an Ivy-caliber student from a lower-middle class background is denied top educational opportunities because they don’t have the family pedigree of wealthier, more middling students. We would expect upward mobility here, we shouldn’t content ourselves with “at least they’re not getting poorer than their parents”.
You should look up portable monitors. They are crazy small, cheap and good nowadays.

You can get a 15-16" OLED external display with a battery for around 300 western monetary units. Half that if you stick to IPS panels[0]. You can shove one of those in a backpack easily.

[0] https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Portable-Monitor-Connection-Raspb...
What does “social capital” mean in this context?
They're fighting on here, too, just like they used to fight about how great open offices were before we all started working from home.
Well done, you might want to know that on mobile it breaks somewhat because images are too wide and break out of the container. Tested on Firefox iOS.
For those new to Nix and flakes, I created a small OCaml development shell demo based on the blog post. MyNixOS lets you create flakes using a graphical editor and generates a reproducible flake with corresponding Nix code and lockfile.

https://mynixos.com/pveierland/demo-ocaml/outputs

Run using:

nix develop https://api.mynixos.com/pveierland/demo-ocaml/archive/latest.tar.gz
I despise Team's "emoji first" design

When you hover over a message, the immediate options are emojis. Not reply, copy, but goddamn emojis.
AirBnb is really great for families, in theory. I’ve had many great experiences with it.

The problem is it is now polluted with grifters, and you don’t want to take a 15% chance that your place will have cockroaches, require digging through 8’ of snow to get to the front door, or have frozen pipes (all these have happened to me with Airbnb).

Even worse, I feel that it went from a 5% bad rate to more like 35%.
Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business
Interrupted updates don't do that. In single-user mode you could maybe ctrl-c it during the final activation phase, but that's a small fraction of a second -- it's just replacing a few symlinks.

In the default multi-user mode, you can't even do that.
Thanks for the additional info
No, it is not possible.

All demand is derived from households living in homes, regardless of whether the households are purchasing them directly or renting through an intermediary (long or short term).

There are no other uses for a home. No other source of demand across the market.
Requiem for a dream
> Resumed spending or resumed spending at Twitter?

Given the context, almost certainly "resumed spending at Twitter."
I'm tickled to that you're interested. "I have this cool idea involving algorithms on strings" isn't exactly everybody's favorite conversation.

Here's the old version, hardly even proves the concept:
https://github.com/MatrixManAtYrService/gnize

Python was giving me trouble though, so I'm switching to Nim for performance reasons, and also because I can compile it to C, objective-C, and JavaScript for use by a wider variety of clients. It's just an empty shell right now but that project will end up here: https://github.com/gnize and hopefully soon.
SimCity 2013 is missing in the title, otherwise it makes little sense.
What number of those 1.5 million are white collar employees? I would assume the lion's share of Amazon's total employee headcount are warehouse workers and delivery drivers, jobs where the WFH vs. return to office debate isn't even a thing.
But aren’t those who perform poorly easy to spot? I doubt they will perform better just going to the office.
Why are you comparing a career to entertainment?
Okay, thanks! But doesn't this still mean you have to compile ocaml (with flambda) yourself?
> I just don't understand why they (and the company) want to force this on everybody else too, regardless of whether it makes sense for them personally or not?

While some of these people are interested in forming interpersonal relationships with anyone in-office, the main benefit to in-office work is actually meeting with your team to work on problems and have the freedom to ask offhand questions.
I love mine too, but what really transformed everything was converting it to an electric bike (via the expensive-but-effective Swytch pack). Now I can easily go to-and-from work, or up a bigass hill, with zero sweat.

It's wonderful.
Late Pleistocene lasted from 129,000 to 11,700 BC. Younger Dryas happened like 12k years bc. That's not a very long period of time to me. How long did humans and mammoths co-exist? I've no idea but I've always assumed for tens of thousands of years at least. I'm sure humans hunting mammoths didn't help their population to survive but I think it's a bit harsh to blame humanity for wiping out mammoths when there was a huge extinction event happening 12k BC that almost wiped out humans too along with the megafauna.

Meanwhile africa didn't have this extinction event and their megafauna is still intact regardless of humans. Well, now with gunpowder and whatnot they're threatened but it's not like stone age hunter gatherers had guns to shoot mammoths with.
If something goes from higher ups it is constrain, team can try to squeeze into constrains, some people will be unhappy but this is something over theirs heads so they will be able to live with it (especially people who joined company before COVID). If this will be left to teams in many cases there will be peer pressure, some kind of blackmail and similar, latter this will result in a lot of passive aggressive comments and behaviors.
> Why not accommodate both groups?

The same reason they could never accommodate the two groups of people who respectively loved and hated open offices - the people who love it only love it because everybody is forced to participate. If it doesn't include everybody, it's not what they're looking for.
US Banks Are Finally Being Forced to Raise Rates on Deposits
We’re not talking about settling in NYC or Cali, we’re talking about the opportunity to compete with rich coastal kids for positions in top schools.
What about the people who hide their poor performance by being in the office? You can easily do 'water cooler conversation' for 6 hours a day if you can't be bothered to work, which doesn't fly when you work from home. An hours worth of coffee before starting the workday was the norm at my last job.
I quit my full time job a year and a half ago, so my wife could pursue her dream career, I could spend more time with the family, take care of the house, be there for the kids when they get home from school, do some hobby projects for myself, have dinner ready when my wife comes home from work etc etc. Everyone is happier. If anything, I feel we're _less_ likely to divorce thanks to this change.
The title makes it sound like the SimCity franchise, which started in what, 1989?
What a bizarre title. Obviously, SimCity has been around for a lot longer than a decade. The original Maxis SimCity launched in 1989.
Right, but that means it has to be implemented by someone. It could be a language builtin, but almost nobody is going to switch languages for such a feature (if it could even exist as a language feature anyway). Or it could be a library, in which case the question of better languages is again moot.

The idea that the compiler could somehow pick "the right" implementation of a sparse unordered map based on a list of constraints that combine to create potentially dozens of versions strikes me as far-fetched. Even specifying "lock-free" for example is very, very far from providing enough detail about what is actually required. Wait-free? Readers-not-blocked-by-writers? Writers-not-blocked-by-readers? etc. etc.

I don't dream of a future when compilers (or something) can somehow do all this, and I'm not convinced it will arrive. But I've been (very) wrong before.
I'm both a slow thinker like this, as well as a fast thinker who will spew out the first intuitive thing that pops into my head. I will usually follow up with either amendments or contradictions to what I've said shortly after or the next day/week. On the other extreme, I used to pause and think to assess and accurately answer "How are you doing?" greetings, before realizing that it just means hello.

The short of it is, if people want quick answers I'll give them but will often change my opinion when new information from even my own noggin changes it. It's also good to pause to give less senior folks have a crack at it and refine those. Sometimes surprising/better lines of reasoning can arise.
> Afaik, America has currently low movement between social classes - rich people are the ones who had rich parents and poor people had poor parents. The issue with landed gentry was not that they inherited stuff, it was disproportional power these people had combined with fixed social classes where your fait was pre-determined.

It's not exactly a counter point, but there have been lots of new millionaires lately:

> People got richer last year, with Americans making up nearly half of the new millionaires across the globe. According to Credit Suisse's annual wealth report, as many as 5.2 million people became millionaires in 2021; 2.5 million of those people were in the U.S.

> "This is the largest increase in millionaire numbers recorded for any country in any year this century and reinforces the rapid rise in millionaire numbers seen in the United States since 2016," the report stated.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/us-gains-25-milli...
see the current EU draft which consists of some hundred pages of forbidding this or that under the guise of ethics and whatnot, after which comes a paragraph of "the above doesn't apply to law enforcement or military entities"

That's not true though, is it? The section called 'TITLE II - PROHIBITED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PRACTICES' is two pages long (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_instituti... page 44), and usage by law enforcement is under the condition that a judicial authority has to grant an exemption on an individual basis.
I don't like being asked something if the question/answer does clearly communicate what the consequences are.

Either the broad question is patronizing, suggesting the program makes decisions over my head without even informing me what about, or it is superfluous since the explanation+action is all I want or need.

I really do not enjoy programs behaving like they have intelligence by being vague or leading, but really never are, since their logic only covers the common case.
Raspberry Pis are awesome. I would buy 5 for various personal projects right now, if they were in stock. It's not just post-COVID supply chain issues either. They have had several big gaps where they were basically unavailable, starting with the very first Pi 1. I would be very hesitant to build a business solution on them today given that I don't know where I would get more in the future.
That... sounds like a very well deserved ban considering the topic, the reddit and everything that was happening around it.

As a moderator of online communities I'd do the same in a heartbeat. Take that to Twitter or somewhere.
This reasoning is quickly falling apart in a hybrid model. Once a single person is not on-site, you will need to work as if everybody were remote. According to the article, Amazon is apparently is currently targeting said hybrid model.
As much hand-wringing is being done here, this ship has sailed. Remote work is a magnitude better than butt-in-seat-teams-calls-remotely any day.

And by having people spread out is also like load balancing your workforce in case of geographic badness.

But in my experiences, the ones who suffer the worst are the extroverts who crave human attention at a workplace. And these also tend to be upper management.

But being able to close those stupidly expensive skyscraper rentals is also amazing. Might actually free that space up for living, and better rates!
depends on the show
We’ve started using gathertown where I work and it gives you a bit of the best of both worlds (minus the nice in person social lunch type of thing). We’re fully distributed/remote.

With gathertown or something like it I think you can get close to in office collaborative productivity, but without it I don’t think you do on net.

In person people more naturally collaborate and discuss problems, cycle times are faster (IME). Remote could be great if people were good at pushing async comms and were easily available during working hours, but that’s rarely the case imo. People seem more reticent to jump into a call when remote than to talk in person (among peers).

I predict remote companies to be less competitive on net. It’s possible the hiring advantages could overcome that, but I’m skeptical.
It depends on the type of linting being done.

For linters that perform type inference, fanout means having to relint files that might not have changed. But many linters don’t need the full graph — for example, file formatting problems aren’t subject to fanout.
What is the advantage of using your service vs coming up with the prompt template myself, which shouldn't be too hard to do tbh.
I agree the parent comment is making a great point, but I disagree with its conclusion that "curating the past is wasted effort", because it is tremendously useful if done right, whereas thinking that way creates the problem --a bad history is useless. You can argue the same about documentation, bad documentation is not read, so it is useless to write it (well, in fact you have to write it properly).

The definition of curate is 'to apply selectivity and taste to' a collection, so I'd say it does mean both.
I have not built a theory of what is the most useful, but let's take the two extremes. On the one end you have "push only development", that commit bad program states and all their fixes. It's bad because it adds way to much noise to the history. On the other end, you have 'squash only' development, where one polished feature is pushed in one commit. It's a huge diff that carry little more information than the code itself, and loses all subfeatures milestones and discussions, therefore it is mostly useless.

In a way, imagine you have to teach something by demonstration.
You don't want the student to get lost by you screwing up the details.
You also need to chunk that information into a set of simpler and well-articulated parts.
If done well, your git history carries the information of your process in a very similar way.

You have to be somewhere in the middle, so I'd say to do a semantic rebase at last step before merge. A fantastic tool that is not so well-known is git-absorb, which helps a lot doing that cleanly and automatically.

https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb
I'm all in to blame corporate any time, but the narrative here is a bit too much on a "good people, bad corp" slope, even for me.
Using Metrics to Measure Individual Developer Performance
I don’t think it’s necessary to inform the user about the exact technical means. The law doesn’t care about cookies as a technical mechanism. “Remember me in this browser” may be more adequate to indicate the scope of what is stored.
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The name of the game was SimCity.
Nothing really new in this piece of “news” then.