skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In October 2021, a jury awarded him $137 million in damages in the case, but a federal judge threw out that award as excessive. US District Judge William Orrick offered Diaz $15 million in damages in the case instead, but Diaz rejected the offer, choosing instead to have a new trial.
We generate 3x our needs in summer; 1/3 of our needs in winter, when we are running electric air source heat pumps at 6000' in northern NM. If we had a passivhaus-level home, I think it could be possible to satisfy the winter heat requirements with the solar we have, but not with anything less (and even then, it would be challenging).
The Future of Applications
> If I said, "the moon is made of cheese. What type of cheese do you think it is?" most humans would automatically object, but with LLMs you can usually craft a prompt that would get it to answer such a silly question.

For some underspecified questions, the LLM also has no context. Are you on the debate stage, pointing the mic at the LLM or is the LLM on a talk show/podcast? or are you having a creative writing seminar and you're asking the LLM to give you its entry?

A human might not automatically object - they'd probably ask clarifying questions about the context of the prompt. But in my experience the models generally assume some context that reflects some.of their sources of training.
I'm guessing you are not familiar with the case and only read the CNN coverage.

Employers have responsibilities to maintain certain standards at a workplace. Tesla absolutely flaunted those standards to a ridiculous degree. The first jury on the case awarded over $100 million to the plaintiff.

Go look at the evidence presented in the trial. It's not one bad word being used once.
I have a 60% without arrow keys and I really miss them. I think in part because the built-in Fn arrow functionality on that keyboard is UJHK (Up-Down-Left-Right). If it's not vi's KJHL (Up-Down-Left-Right), I can never remember it. My daily driver is a 60% with arrow keys - The CoolerMaster SK622. I tried some larger Fekir ones wit arrow keys and function keys, but I find it better to have a smaller keyboard and a Stream Deck.

I moved down from a Logitech G19 to the current configuration. The ergonomics are much better with a smaller keyboard if your desk space is limited.
That is a much bigger pad than what I've used! Wow. That's amazing.

I've used a oversized body wrap pad (120V input) and a 24V pad with wall-wart designed for mini-green-house seed planters. The former was comfortable & wrapped in soft, but wasn't a great mousing surface. I do want to point out: in my experience, these are nice for the arm, but notably the keyboard and mouse never really warmed up very much, both remained a bit chill, back when I was in a fairly un-warm draft-y room. It was still really nice to have, but my hands could remain kind of chill, I'd still keep on my nice fingerless gloves. Still, a great addition.
I've watched plenty of combat footage on Reddit in Ukraine and noticed artillery shells make a high pitched doppler sounded before they impact, usually 1-2s before. You can always see soldiers hit the ground... even when the impact is really far away. Is this intentional?

Where basically you create suppressive fear over a large area but even if you hear it you rarely have any reasonable reaction time to do anything about it if it hits near you (unless you have a foxhole). But it still scares the shit out of everyone nearby?

Or is this just merely a side effect
of the munition traveling through the air at high speeds?
Why do stage musicians use wireless microphones? Is it because they have a hatred strictly for aesthetic reasons?

Nobody said you can’t use your damn wired mouse if it makes you happy - but latency is not an actual reason to prefer a wired mouse.

> Again, wireless can be superior, but only when you are deliberately cherry-picking the least efficient wired setup to compare to the most efficient wireless setup, just like your argument for mice.

But earlier I thought you said it was a law of physics that conductive mediums were always superior to air. Also that the speed of light in air is slower than a “conductive” medium.

You don’t seem well.
> The case was brought by Owen Diaz, who worked as an elevator operator at the plant. He reported he regularly heard racial slurs, including the N-word, on the Fremont factory floor, and saw racist graffiti in bathrooms and a racially insensitive cartoon.

Why misrepresent something when the truth is only a click away?

But besides that, everyone here knows that you know that the value isn't about damages suffered per se, it's about sending a message to racist people like you.
Hi, we made an autonomous sailboat in 2008 and have been making autonomous boats ever since. Want to collab?
Do you think racism in the work place is ok? How about sexism? Why not homophobia as well? Does smacking the butt of your female coworker really deserve compensation? Where do you draw the line or do you think it should all be ok in the workplace?
Because they are being deployed wrong.
We should be lining up our transition to post-work so we can spend as much time on art and science as we damn well please, and wholly ignore commercialized drudgery. Instead we are using it to commercialize art and science and turn it into drudgery which we already said we would automate.

Stupidity singularity achieved.
Yes, because they wanted $160 million which is what their lawyers wanted in the second trail.

In the first suit jury awarded $137 million, judge lowered that to $15 and they had an option to get that or have a new trial.

They went with a new trial.

So yeah, it was all about the money.
Thanks for the link. That was very helpful. I'll provide a short summary of what I read (not full article) since it's a big article. Lots of people are doing the suing:

- People used racist language and wrote that stuff places

- Immediate action was taken but then effectively rescinded (a guy was fired for being racist but brought back in a non-supervisory role)

- 'Soft' retaliation occurred: they were forgiving of people making errors but if you had previously complained, then one mistake would end up with you being fired

- Race-based task discrimination is claimed: Black employees cleaned while White and Hispanic employees took a rest break

At that point I stopped reading, since that was good enough for me to know that it is definitely more than I initially thought.
I understand your point, but Gitlab is a productivity company. They increase peoples' lifetime earnings by making them more productive, allowing them to increase their economic output and demand more compensation for their labor. Laying off people is an admission that Gitlab isn't able to deploy additional capital towards making people more productive anymore. So to then announce that Gitlab is establishing this foundation just seems like delusional management.
That actually works, at least in Windows. I haven't tried it on Linux or BSD.
A couple years ago I was trying to extract and interpret information from a NAND flash chip. I was able to get a dump of the bytes, and identified the pages and their spare areas. But I never was able to figure out the logical ordering of the pages. What all the bits in the spare areas meant, which pages were bad, etc. So I never was able to reconstruct a logical view of the disk.

I tried reading datasheets, but they didn't seem to have the full picture. Had I know about this document then I might have had a chance at figuring it out.
If you've reviewed the facts in this case, and that's what you took from it, then I seriously question your reading comprehension ability.
Two year olds learn a lot more language in a year than chimps can. Can't have a sentence like "dog bites man" without word order even if it's made of logograms.
Why is $3 million in damages in this case ridiculous?
Import Alignment: A Library-Based Approach to AI Alignment, by Daniel MIESSLER
This is not an real library now. Daniel Miessler has proposed a methodology to communicate amicably with a significant proportion of prospective new AGI entities.
This is a comical exaggeration of the coverage in NZ. Almost the entire drive from Welly to Auckland is covered, with a large proportion in 4g. Anyone can trivially look up a coverage map to confirm this, and I'm telling you as a Kiwi that the above comment is almost entirely fictional. I don't know of anywhere in Wellington city without coverage, maybe some random blackspot between buildings?
> Let's be honest here, you're either prejudiced against cables or you don't really care about performance.

Let's be honest here, you clearly have never used a decent or good wireless mouse, and have little or no knowledge of the marketplace (and oddly have a lot of opinions about them...)

> Having to change batteries several times a year is objectively more expensive, wasteful, worse for the environment, and burdensome than never having to change batteries.

Rechargeable batteries (either built-in li-ion or nimh AAA/AA) exist. Before you start going on about the inconvenience of charging: when I see my mouse dock's LED ring glowing orange as opposed to a more greenish color, I know I've got a couple of hours before I should go through the incredibly arduous process of...placing it on the dock for a bit.

> Wired is ALWAYS the objectively superior option in all metrics except for superficial & subjective "aesthetics", all else equal.

Not having a cord is substantially nicer from a usability and feel standpoint, and not just for gaming.

> "Essentially no lag" is objectively not the same as "no lag".

Go look at rtings or any other site that reviews mice, and you'll see that just like wired mice, wireless mice can vary in latency, but there are plenty of mice (even non-gaming ones) with latency matching or so close to wired mice it's within the realm of measurement error and the difference could not possibly matter even in competitive gaming.

You have a lot of opinions about wireless mice for someone who clearly has never used one.
One of the apps I worked on ended up switching away from Django because of all the magic in the ORM slowing things down significantly for us. Same DB and API, just written in FastAPI was a 4x speedup. That was 2+ years ago though, so cannot say where things currently are. And now anything new I do is FastAPI, and only deal with Django for existing apps. Yes there are annoyances with not having that ORM, but worth it for what I have been working on at least.
I went with one ultrawide external monitor that I use in “clamshell mode.”
You ask "WWYD?". I would secure the funding and then leave immediately.

But my opinion is irrelevant. What you should do depends on what's important to you. Money, health, family, career, status, mission etc. You have achieved something incredible and learned more than you can probably appreciate right now. I wish you well.
I've got a Yamaha RX-V863 running to some very nice custom built monitors I put together for the stereo channels, and just some yamaha 5.1 component speakers for the rest of my home office. Nothing sucks more than having to listen to crap music while you're working.
I'm not talking about cheating a metric. VO2 Max is correlated with longevity but it's likely just a proxy for several other factors. I'm sure I could boost my VO2 Max by a few points if I focused on training that but I'm skeptical whether that would make me healthier than maximizing performance over longer efforts. We just don't have clear data to say one way or the other.
Yeah, on the work laptop I've got...some sort of logitech thing. 2 AA batteries last over a year.
Here's a brief wsj video:

https://youtu.be/Bp9km7oRtmU

Some notes:

* That's mostly national team people in the video

* All of the yelling is after the action stops

* As you'll see, the primary reasons stated are to mess with the opponent's head, and the ref. And then stress relief, yea. You'll do other things like, uh... stabbing your own foot... for that purpose as well. (Sounds bad to say out loud but it doesn't hurt)

Akido (and kendo too) are a lot more stylized. Some yelling in there is for the same reasons, but a lot of it has been passed down in some almost mystical level. It's not a hyper optimized/gamified sport that cares only about results, so you get a lot more style points type things happening in aikido/kendo/etc.

gamified - as an example, there was a period of time from like late 90s to early 00s where foil fencing became dominated by an offensive strategy that involved literally bending the blade and hitting your opponent's back. It got so ridiculous that they messed with the weight/timing on the electronic equipment so it didn't work as well. And in the later 00s people started using plastic chest protectors because with the new timing, you'd get some attacks literally bouncing off your chest protector and not registering. Just kinda a ridiculous results-only-everything-else-be-damned situation lol.
I have a similar setup with QMK. Where holding down the space bar with my thumb switches to the NAV layer and hjkl become arrow keys and other keys functions change too, like m and n to PGDN and PGUP.

Agree it is difficult at first switching back to a "normal" keyboard.
> the epsilon prefix is part of a past tense conjugation (the aorist? I forget, it’s been a long time)

I thought the same thing (also been a long time), but looks like this is actually the present participle of ἐλελίζω.

nice tool if you're not already aware: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=elelizousi&la=g...
My understanding is that the patterns are similar (in that you're enabling an LLM to use external tools/information), and all those patterns would fall under the "agents" pattern.

But, I think the difference is that WebGPT was actually fine-tuned / retrained for its specific use case, while the agents in these libraries just use the generic model without fine-tuning. My guess (and I'm not an expert here) is that fine-tuning these models for specific agent uses cases would probably result in better outcomes... Though as the models get more powerful, they might just perform well enough out of the box. (Also, some of the most recent OpenAI models don't support fine-tuning, and even for the ones that do, you'd need to generate the data to fine tune).
Great video, and A+ branding on that instrument
Call me a monochromatic maximalist but 1 bit graphics is all we ever needed. What good has color done us? Smash the spectacle reject the hue!
I disagree with you about the SSRIs based on my (basic) research in general, but given you said it has that effect on you personally I accept that as a data point.

>However, I find that link is also full of things like "Bob was addicted to Adderal, and took 30mg everyday for 8 years". To me thats sounds like a successful therapeutic treatment without other supporting info like "Bob would use his monthly supply in a week". Few would consider "Bob took a normal dosage of an SSRI for 8 years" as an addiction.

Of course there are a mix of experiences described there. If someone decides they have a problem with a drug and are struggling to stop, can we decide if it's not true? I doubt it. I don't think people are LARPing as stim addicts, but also I'm sure there are some people who struggle more than others.

>To clarify, I'm sure some do get a mild high. Many don't. Maybe I'd get one on a higher dose, but I've got no desire to do so as I get much more enjoyment over just feeling awake and being able to focus. Though I definitely get a "mild high" if I accidentally take an extra dose of my SSRI.

I'm glad you are able to keep them in a healthy place in your life. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
Thank you for the lesson. Now I am completely convinced of your point of view. You are so completely right.
Wireless headphones. Because sometimes I really have to go and it's literally no problem to walk to the bathroom. Or to go make tea. Or to do whatever. Freedom to not be chained up is amazing. Try it.

I too don't feel like I've had to mess with audio settings. I have some SteelSeries Actis Pro's I bought a long time ago. They have bluetooth, but there's also a nice usb-based head-unit I use with higher quality, lower latency, and no pairing concerns. It shows present battery level quite clearly (which is highly enduring). The head unit also has a battery charger built in, and the headphones come with a secondary battery. I don't feel like I have to think about charging batteries either; if I have a slammed day of non-stop talking, it's easy to see at the end of the day I have half a battery left & I swap it (which takes <10s). People selling you Fear Uncertainty and Doubt about batteries seem misguided & silly to me. The freedom is amazing. Letting yourself get bothered & concerned enough to trap yourself into a narrow situation is dumb: be skeptical, at least.
Mine died in 6 months of light use, looking for a better one. They work well on the floor too if you have a basement.
Do you actually work in there? I have an Index but have never tried Virtual Desktop with it.
Would you say the same about autism? It’s amazing we’ve found an effective treatment for ADHD. Why is it good that patients are often unable to access it? Who benefits?
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka” but “That’s funny...”

—Isaac Asimov
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There exists a world outside of programming. I've been using "AI" every day in my work for some time, and it's an essential tool by now. It's proven.
Ok, then the DEA should do something like go after pill mills and overprescribers or at the very least apply quotas based on time of starting treatment, ie limiting new diagnoses. The latter should be easy to do because of all the scheduled drug regulations and tracking they have already. Making it so everybody with a medication gets screwed is idiotic.

I don’t even think it’s worth stopping people from taking it personally, anybody willing to fake the medical system could just as easily take street meth instead, which will be a lot worse for society. Reminds me of when the heroin epidemic went into overdrive after the DEA cracked down on pain clinics, then leading to the fentanyl epidemic, and how many deaths? I’m sure it was worth it though
Mozilla tags some Firefox (and other Mozilla projects’) bug reports as “good first bug” and adds a mentor to the bug.

Volunteer contributors can search these bugs by programming language or product area on https://codetribute.mozilla.org

Some volunteer contributors have become Mozilla employees (myself included :)
This is great.

It should have an epilepsy warning for just the last part
Wherein people who only develop in Chrome cry about web standards
The empirical evidence of efficacy of corporal punishment is also mixed, so between the two, I think I'd recommend the strategy that minimizes violence.

> Physical discipline was widespread in the west during the very timeframe that contemporary civilizations developed.

I'd be real careful pushing that justification; it can be used to support all manner of unnecessary (and was-never-necessary) evil.
Textra – A CLI application to extract text from images, PDFs, and audio files
> He reported he regularly heard racial slurs

> and saw racist graffiti in bathrooms

> and a racially insensitive cartoon.

You're going to have to try a lot harder than call me an n-word once for the suit to stick.

And if you actually pull it off, it means that both your manager and HR are both asleep at the wheel.
Can you please reformat this comment it is really hard to read.
Man of Extremes: The return of James Cameron (2009)
Have used the TS3 in the past and have since upgraded to the TS4, and yeah it's solid. Much better than your average USB-C port expander thing. With an additional Thunderbolt cable serves nicely as a KVM-on-a-budget, which is what I've been doing since I've started working from home — swapping one cable switches my whole desk setup between my work/personal machines.
> A performer will usually prefer not to drag wires around a stage just from the sheer physical discomfort from the additional weight and the worry of a trip hazard on an already hazardous stage.

eh — this is not a “purely” aesthetic or superficial difference, which was the foolishness I was replying to: “Wired is ALWAYS the objectively superior option in all metrics except for superficial & subjective "aesthetics", all else equal.”
Interesting, I appreciate the information. What is the nominal capacity of your solar array?
They were looking for their angle and found it. Reading was not part of the process.
It's not clear what you are implying. Could you elaborate?
Not directly upwind. Sails can't do that without tacking.

But any airfoil will point beyond a reach. A ship has some lateral resistance even without having a separate part you specifically call a keel. The exact angle doesn't seem to be stated.
Hadn’t heard that one before but that seems like good advice.
I use a Kinesis advantage keyboard. It's expensive and ugly but comfortable. I would not go back to another keyboard ever again.

Have a look at this review https://www.anandtech.com/show/7125/kinesis-advantage-review...
> This might as be considered a law of physics - electromagnetic energy will always travel faster, more... through a conductive medium than through air.

it actually travels faster through air (no vacuum necessary) than through fiber or copper as those transmit information at 2/3rd of the speed of light while air transmits it at 99% [1].

which is why starlink could in theory achieve better latency than a straight run of fiber optic across the world [2].

this of course doesn't mean that it's better in a mouse because of the overhead of processing such a short distance.

[1] https://archive.is/c859M
[2] https://youtu.be/QEIUdMiColU?t=238
I did tons more work in 2021 when I was WFH the whole year. I built a shed and did several other large scale home improvement projects, mostly on my parents' properties. I liked to say that I was the highest paid day laborer in town. It helped keep me from going insane from being trapped at my desk at home for over a year. In early 2022 I found an in office job and it's been much better.
tesla broke california discrimination laws, it has nothing to do with being mean. don't do the crime, etc etc