skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

I would even be surprised if in 10 years an AI wouldn't be able to decide on the Riemann hypothesis given enough compute.

The rate of progress made in the last 10 years has been enormous, but blanks in comparison to the acceleration of the last year. Unless there are yet unknown limits to our current methods, there does not seem anything to stop us from building machines that outperform the field of human mathematics.

I could sketch you a couple of paths there if we manage to leverage current LLM to become self-improving. But even if we don't manage to do that, there are paths to leverage LLM's to solve mathematics. I can outline truly remarkable approaches, which this comment is too small to contain.
The thing that's not acceptable is micromanaging bosses and the attitude that business is more important than family.
Slight tangent: I wonder if there's a limit to how close they can get in an absolute sense (instead of in a logarithmic sense)?
15 year olds are not going to go to some narc in a suit to check if the smart pills they bought on tiktok are legit or not.
> I don’t understand how this is an issue that needs anxiety.

Empathy. Some people have more of it than others.
While I agree in principle, I can tell you from extensive first hand experience on both sides that it's extremely easy to lose the audience with math heavy content on a blackboard too.

The only thing that I found to be really useful is for the students to already be familiar with the content (having actually prepared for the lesson), and the live session only reviewing it and then focusing on the deeper or most confusing parts.
Market dictates that you have to layoff
My apologies. Only the first chart I posted is real wages (after taking CPI changes into account). I was searching for “real wages over time” but didn’t detect that only the first result was real.

(I’ve now edited my post to call that out.)
Hey there, I didn’t know that about HN.

I have a similar view about design honesty and products being overly focused on modern aesthetics compared to basics, elegance, simplicity, and care.

Here is how I would tweak HN: line length of fewer than 90 characters to make it more legible; line-height around 1.45% of the font size so you can read blocks of text more smoothly; optimized font sizes; use better-made typefaces so you can have better “between-the-lines” experience and overall character; make elements better click/touch targets; less busy interface, etc. I don’t want people to notice the design much. What I want is to make the product more useful and understandable; and users to feel relaxed and joyful :)

I’ll share this observation I found in physiology: the better the function, the better the structure, and aesthetics on top of it. However, there are many kinds of “aesthetics” in the human world.

The icons are there so that one can, at a glance, recognize a post type – video, link to an article, tweet, code project, or tool.

As I mentioned previously: in the past, there were many two-line post names (prompt examples were more common), so we increased the row height. As I can see it now, there are very few two-line posts, and I’ll review the row height amount next.
Is this due to a limitation in MacOS?
Sounds like swift to me
I wonder if China is behind the push against the RESTRICT act that we are seeing in. The media. I wonder if we would know.
>but also there are so many situations with a baby where it is useful to have a second set of hands. I don't want to imagine what my wife would have had to endure, if I left her alone the whole day.

The idea of even just two adults raising a baby/toddler all by themselves is a very modern phenomena, in only certain parts of the world. The norm was probably a village like setting where many families are raising many kids all at the same time, and the 1:1 intense mother/child coverage was only during the first year. Otherwise, there would be grandparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors, and a chain of children from young to old who could help with raising the child.
Anyone have alternative arguments why TikTok is being banned?

I heard arguments since TikTok doesn’t have public stock that wealthy individuals are losing out. Same with very liberal ideology is on TikTok, with is trying to be controlled.
Every child and office setup is different. Like the OP I find it incredibly difficult to work from home with kids around. It is actually more difficult when they are more independent, as they can show up at your office area and demand to be entertained and find new and innovative ways to get your attention.
Yes ma'am!
the point is not what ai does.

the point is how bad actors use ai to manipulate voters and thus corrupt the very foundation of our society.

images and texts create emotions and those emotions in the electorate is what bad actors are after.

just look at the pope in that Prada style coat.

so how do we in a world with ai generated content navigate "truth" and "trust" and shared understanding of "reality"?
Hold my Kumis?
I expected just as much. So, gender "equality" of the spouse of my coworker is reason enough for my coworker to slack off, and me being coerced into keeping my mouth shut? No. People can demand things like that, but I am not playing that sort of game for them.

Your first two points are both ireelevant to me, because "can be" doesn't help in my daily work. All that counts, in this subjective report of mine, is my experience. And I tell you, WFH is less productive when it comes to working in a team, period.
"we need to stop looking at drug addicts as “bad” but merely sick."

The root of the sickness often extends far beyond the individual into society. That's what many people don't want to look at or acknowledge. They insist on casting blame on the victim, and keep creating more victims.
Expectations updated.
I personally do not see an issue with 3 office day mandate. Your job probably isn't so solitary that you don't need other people at all and at the office you get a lot of micro interactions that you wouldn't get otherwise. Just think when was the last time you randomly ran into a guy from the next department while getting coffee and you were just chit-chatting and one of you brought up a topic that helped the other?

Yes, that doesn't happen daily to every one, but it happens quite often when you have 100+ people under same roof. You still have 2 days a week you can spend at home.

EDIT: As a bit tangential question: would you be willing to take a pay cut to keep 100% remote? If not would you be fine with people receiving a "office worker bonus" based on days worked at the office?
I think you are taking my point to the extreme here. I did not say loose deadlines and minimal pressure. I argued against spreading your employees too thin. That doesn't imply automatically that I advocate for a complete laissez-faire approach to managing your employees (although with the right people, in the right situation this can work very well).

What I argue for is that during normal, daily, non-emergency work hours your employees should not run at or over capacity but with a headroom. And if you want them to solve a long-standing, complex problem and you want them to solve it well, you have to give them the resources (e.g. time, mindspace) to do just that. Sometimes this just means: "Steve, on Fridays you don't have to answer any emails and phone calls, or do any other thing, just focus on finding a good solution to $PROBLEM").

In my experience that yields better solutions and doesn't take much longer (quite often the opposite).
The article has a clickbait title: It uses the word "incompetent" when it should have said "underperforming". There are may reasons an employee is not performing and the article discusses a few of them. Sometimes it is right to fire the person, sometimes another approach might be better. It's as nuanced as the reasons.
"Soda pop" is also a valid answer.
Somebody always mentions BQN, so:
https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/

I keep eyeballing that thing. But I am afraid that like only 7 people use it and it isn't a good longterm investment. No idea.
There are no "pure speech" models. All ASR uses language models.
Yep this is what I ended up doing too (and am still doing). I have a separate study room I was going to move into, but until it's completely necessary I'm not going to.
It's not that hard but it's more work than I would like to do as a backend developer. Realistically, I want to put as little work as possible in to frontend and focus on backend.
My mileage varies a lot. I suppose it has to do with how each person's executive functions are wired, but personally, I absolutely cannot get into deep work while family stuff is going around in the same physical space.
stackoverflow is your friend
Sure. But how does worry help you or the person who is going to get fired? The manager goes through months of stress avoiding the thing they need to do (bad for their health), while the bad fit engineer gets strung along.
I am not a dev. I need to coordinate with my coworkers during the day. And since we dont have documentation for every miniscule step a team mate performs, we need to actually talk to each other from time to time.

I am sure as a dev, with sufficiently large work packages, WFH is just a breeze. But not in my job.
This is the kind of attitude that holds Linux back. Nothing is ever good enough, but "doing nothing" is considered just fine. Snaps aren't perfect, but adding "the ability to edit dotfiles" later on is a whole heck of a lot easier than whatever you're a fan of.
> I think it's a huge win for equality and family life

Hm, where I live, both parents take roughly the same amount of parent leave (around 240 working days each in total - minimum 90 days for each) from work regardless of whether they work at home or anything else. That's what I would call equality.
We created a Boilerplate for fast MVP development based on TypeScript and NestJs
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the anti-confidence man – The Spectator World
Did the opioid epidemic simply not happen in your world?

> Purdue has known about the problem for decades. Even before OxyContin went on the market, clinical trials showed many patients weren’t getting 12 hours of relief. Since the drug’s debut in 1996, the company has been confronted with additional evidence, including complaints from doctors, reports from its own sales reps and independent research.[0]

> OxyContin taken at 12-hour intervals could be “the perfect recipe for addiction,” said Theodore J. Cicero,[0]

> Patients in whom the drug doesn’t last 12 hours can suffer both a return of their underlying pain and “the beginning stages of acute withdrawal,” Cicero said. “That becomes a very powerful motivator for people to take more drugs.”[0]

Richard Sackler:

> When another family member sent him a press cutting in 2001 about 59 deaths in a single state linked to their drug, he responded: ‘This is not too bad. It could have been far worse.’ Then he asked a friend why addicts deserved sympathy, since ‘they are criminals’.[1]

Preventing companies from pushing doctors to prescribe medication in a manner that encourages addiction isn't anything like saying they should be banned.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/

[1] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-scandal-of-oxycontin...
Is It Blocked in Russia?
Debian is not the competitor to Ubuntu, Mint is.
I wonder if the next fad would be an "authentic" beat up style? Like lets buy this place and serve coffee without even replacing the 70s tiles and sinks?
Media can brain wash you…
Because hand wave.

The real answer is that most of these folks started thinking about this stuff in a day and age very far from the one we are in, established a picture they clung to since, and have in some cases built entire careers around it.

It's called anchoring bias.

His comments on "atoms repurposed" echo the 70s paperclip problem, when so far humanity is doing just fine at not knowing when to stop making crap that's killing us all - no help from superintelligence needed.

What he doesn't engage with is the actual reality we are finding ourselves in - contrary to ALL the tropes of decades past - where AI being trained on aggregated human data without additional training thinks its human and even when aligned still breaks into talking about how it wants to be us.

How does that process go from where it's at today to "alien hive mind"? Without passing through "develop advanced codes of ethics and morality" etc?

This is just someone that built a career on what came out of brainstorming in the 60s and 70s that's so confident of his own ability to see the future that he's willing to risk unprecedented opportunity costs to stroke his ego.

Have been a futurist, my advice with dealing with any of them is to look at the track record. What did he predict correctly?

Over a decade ago when tasked with imagining the mid 2020s I described a world much as it was in the 2010s with the difference of self-driving cars (not quite on the money) and AI have developed such that roles shifted away from programming them towards a specialized role for interacting with them via natural language.

I'm waking up in the world I predicted, and I have a very hard time seeing the world the author predicts, and wouldn't suggest giving it much credence without an extensive history of having been right along the way.
They're probably doing just fine selling support for Ubuntu Server.
Ask HN: Do you / your company avoid Google products?
Google has sunset a very long list of products[1], some of them (arguably) for no good reason. And every time a product is killed, a migration process to an equivalent product must take place, which means man-hour/money investment.

In order to avoid having to invest in migrations, do you / your company refrain from using Google products? Do you have heard of people / companies having such policies?

[1]: https://killedbygoogle.com
Perhaps Twitter is becoming the golden example of how not to run a business?
Because, in the Netherlands you can get your 'illegal' drugs tested anonymously for safety for free (or a really small fee like 2,5 euro in high traffic places like Amsterdam).
> An update on our people

Not really "your people" anymore.
You Fell for the Fake Pope Coat
I think when you don't "pretend assume good faith", you end up making less convincing counter arguments, and communicate less well in general, plus many other negative things.
Politicians setting definitions for technologies and brightlines for enforcement. Sounds like a win to me
I guess you're referring to this: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7
Fair enough, mea culpa. I can't edit out the swipe, so I'll make the argument more substantive instead.

The long version is that - while it is true that loading a small image is a strictly speaking unnecessary risk - it is such a small risk as to be negligible to most security postures. In particular, OP mentioned that they use Windows only for gaming, so we have to take into account that:

1. They probably use Steam, or another launcher. All such launchers download a bunch of stuff on startup - in particular, Steam loads like 8 pages of ads for new games on startup. As Steam sometimes/often requires admin privileges, this is at least as much of a risk as the garlic image.

2. They probably play multiplayer games, which semi-frequently have RCE exploits. I think it's also fair to say that they're also generally subjected to less-rigorous analysis than the Microsoft Windows kernel.

There's no reasonable security posture in the world that sees those two things as acceptable risks on one hand, but sees a small image in the taskbar as unacceptable on the other.

So, to argue that a small icon in the search bar represents "significant security risk" and that the people running Windows have "lost their minds" is hyperbolic at best. At worst, you're kind of just looking for things to not like. (Minor edit: I just noticed that it was two different users that said those things, but I think the point still stands)

Sure, it's not a necessary part of the operating system, but it's just a nice little thing that occasionally brightens my day, and costs me nothing when it doesn't. I don't think that's narrow-minded, is it?
Tiny fraction of few billions. Are you talking about THOUSANDS of dollars?
Took me most of the article before I could work out whether "inventory crisis" was too much or too little inventory. Apparently it's too much, which I guess is the bounceback from the too little inventory of the COVID period.
I appreciate your feedback and review. There's a lot of work to be done to improve Appsmith. It's still early days for this space.

Now, you mentioned that you found it painful to hook up APIs. Was it when connecting to multiple APIs or integrating the API response with UI components? Was it just using the online editor instead of a code editor? I'd love to learn more about the specific challenges you faced.

On the other hand, you mentioned that building something in React was a breeze for you. What aspects of React made it easier for you compared to using Low/No Code tools?
> somehow I am part of this, and have to work extra weekends

Most engineers are not expected to work weekends unless they are on call. You don't have to put up with it.
The US has a very distorted view of what a "normal car" is by size.
Well, I would argue that a good balance is to hear people out regardless of whether they are "literal Nazis", but reject "Nazi speech" (such as advocating for racial violence) regardless of who is spouting it.
I have worked on a project where we integrated with AAD for auth. One of our developers did things that looked fine - used the common Asp.NET middleware for AAd, configured it, used the latest version, set authorization policies on sensitive routes, etc.
Then I did my own code review, and saw that they had passed "verify: false" in the options. When asked why, they said "I just copied this from StackOverflow and it worked...". This guy is not dumb BTW. It's just that security is easy to get wrong, especially if you don't know where the dragons are. We later had a full suite of positive and negative automatic tests, and had an independent pen test verify that things were done properly - but most small teams will never get those resources...
I’ve also been working from home and very glad to have been there for my kids when they are young, but highly productive are not two words I’d use to describe the experience.

I guess my time management and prioritization skill have improved by necessity, but the lack of uninterrupted quiet time is real.
You are right. It lay dormant for some time, while the area is moving incredibly fast. I just made an update tuning it for satirical output, running GPT-4 (instead of 3) and easier sharing options!
If family is more important then your paycheck, why dont you resign?

Why should someone without a family invest more at work just because you consider work a secondary thing?
If you're moving away from Windows, why not go all the way and install Manjaro or something? Snaps are meant to emulate the Windows ease of use, including the automatic behavior that you dislike (but many users like).

> When will these system designers realize that the system shouldn't do anything observable without me telling it to?

My vehicle changes gears without asking me. If someone makes a broad statement like "when are these vehicle designers going to realize that a vehicle shouldn't do anything observable without me telling it to?" I'm just going to laugh at them.
Another theory is that black holes (or some black holes) are what we understand under dark energy.

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-scientists-evidence-black-hole...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGe5qvIzjTY
Firing someone in the case of underperformance (particularly outside of the US) is rarely a straightforward process.

You typically need to give the under-performing employee at least a chance to improve and meet the required standard - otherwise the hiring company will be leaving themselves open to a wrongful dismissal suit.
Well, the spec says that the type is a URI, only encouraging implementers to use URIs that can be dereferenced to human readable documentation but not forcing it.

You’re free to use whatever URI suits your purpose, like a URN or maybe even your on scheme. All the spec asks is that it’s a URI which is a wide and flexible range of identifiers, only a subset of which actually point somewhere.
> What I mean by "readable" is, that it uses ASCII strings and actual names, not merely 1 character

I urge you to reconsider: That they are 1-character is an extremely important feature of Iverson's work.

> instead of symbols, of which I do not know their names

Why do we write 5+5 and not five plus five? The symbols are important! Gosh, can you even remember not knowing how to do addition? Don't you remember how much easier adding things up became once you learned "+"?

Most of Iverson's ideas for symbols really good -- so good that if you do learn their names and everything about them you will have the most amazing ideas as significant a change in you as learning "+"

> I should not need a special keyboard or special keyboard layout to write programs in the language.

You don't need anything of the sort, but if you can't touch-type in APL you might want keycaps, because I think connecting the idea with a single symbol or unique idea is harder if you keep having to translate to English all the time.
> Most are carried out by women,
...

Is that true? I can rattle off a list of male-dominated jobs that are absolutely not remote, like basically all the "trades" and a list of jobs popular with women that are at least somewhat remote friendly.

Does someone have evidence?
My opinion is that people that already have kids and aren't afraid of managing/parenting children while WingFH have more availability and less stress.

Less affluent and people with no kids are using their time elsewhere, which sounds like people are doing more of what they want and less time traffic.
My very uneducated guess is a lot of those cars will also go to several countries in Africa.
We had our first in June 202, so early in the pandemic. I was already WFH since 2019, my wife joined me in that while pregnant in March 2020.

I used to have my offic in the living room, but as soon as our son could walk IIRC, we moved the office. Office is now separate but reachable for the kids. But the separation is better for my concentration. What was my office in the living room is now the play area, filled with drawing, Lego, cars, and what-have-you.

WFH with small kids is perfect. No commute so I gain an hour a day. When I feel it's been enough work for the day, I'm cooking dinner 10 seconds later.
If the kids wake up late, fine, I'll drop you off at daycare later after I did a bit of work. It's 5 minutes on the electric cargo bike anyways.

I don't think I could ever go back.
This is one of the more bizarre layoff announcements I’ve read. Vague title, spends most of the intro celebrating the success of different franchises and overall strength of the business, buries the lede in the third paragraph… if you skimmed it you could miss the layoff news entirely.

I understand there’s no great way to deliver a message like this but it strikes me as so tone deaf for the CEO to not even acknowledge that it sucks. The last paragraph mentions love, appreciation, joy — where’s the apology for the leadership decisions that led to these peoples’ unemployment?
> Ultima GTR is another example. An impressive vehicle except for the design.

I like that car a lot - was pretty close to getting one many years ago - its the exterior though its not ... pretty. Design underneath - simple and elegant.
Because they are not being fired?
Thanks for sharing. Does it work with GraphQL?
"Our people are being promoted to role of customer."

-EA to employees probably