skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can certainly understand the sentiment - most parts of most towns are like this.

But if you look, virtually every town of reasonable age has a walkable "downtown" area. Even in small Kansas towns - look at downtown Ottawa, Seneca, Lawrence, etc. Or, across the country - Rock Hill, Greenville, Savannah, Tampa, Orlando, San Diego... The only ones that lack walkable downtown areas are the most recently constructed communities (Nocatee, Florida comes to mind - recent construction, the "town center" is effectively a strip mall).
> 1. Global temperature is rising. Any water that used to be above 4°C (or the equivalent for salt water) now takes more volume. But what about water that's below 4°C? Wouldn't that water compress?

It might marginally, but the amount of water compressed will be a lot smaller than the amount of water "uncompressed", both due to the larger range of temperatures above 4°C (below is only a bit, and then ice) and due to the fact that the densest water is at the bottom, meaning that it's easier for everything else to heat up.

> 2. Global temperature is rising. Ice is melting into water. This is new mass entering the ocean. Why can't the sea bed, which is under more pressure due to extra mass, expand?

Expand where? It can't just rise since there is gravity, and the pressure above increases with more water. It can't go down because there is already other stuff there.
can you describe how there is no upper limit then? I guess I don't fully grok the embedding process. You have to fit the result of the transfer from words to numbers to embed within that 8000 no? Ohhh I think I see, you call open ai with 8000 and get the results of that and store it. Then do it again. And again... but then the final prompt that is searching all 100k words, that is just one call to open AI? How does all the locally stored embeds get sent to the open AI call?
No it's not dumb. It's perfectly normal and, especially in a non-remote situation and even more especially with relocation involved, pretty hard to do any other way. And it's not like you can't be laid off during a trial/probationary period with probably very little severance involved.

Sometimes stuff does happen and you can't protect 100% against every eventuality. And your current employer can lay you off too and then you are 100% certain of being unemployed. (Yes, there may be severance is that case but there is absolutely no guarantee that severance generally amounts to much.)
I don't understand so many upvotes, I would understand it a year ago or so but this post is more useless than a linkedin post.
Are there any policies that Democrats could enact that would make them lose support? The answer is clearly yes. Is taxing vehicles enough to pay the true cost of road maintenance such an issue? I don’t know but it may be one that Democrats don’t want to tangle with. Such taxes are done at the state and national level and I think this is an issue they don’t want to give Republicans a win on.

Edit: The nation as a whole has shifted very much rightward the last 50 years. Instead of saying Republicans I should maybe say “right leaning politics”.
are developers overvalued? or the rest of people undervalued? Like look at house prices, food prices, everything is much more expensive but wages are not adapted for this
A rule of thumb for dealing with the Home Office is that nothing is done out of kindness or common sense (or even legality). Everything is done with the aim of removing from or denying entry to as many people as possible. And even at this "job" it is mostly ineffective.
> Capitalism doesn't mean "do anything for money".

In the abstract, perhaps not. The way it exists in the US, though, it means exactly that.
What makes your experience more common or universal than theirs? Sounds like two sets of anecdata.
Modern HTML browsers have become Swiss Army Spaghetti. Perhaps we need to split the standard into smaller components so one size doesn't have to fit all. I suggest at least 3 sub-standards:

A) Document-oriented standard. Perhaps HTML standards are "good enough" for this?

B) Media/Art/Gaming.

C) Business & Data CRUD/GUI

(And don't link that XKCD cartoon about 15 standards. There are zero for these categories.)
The first open-source SDK to develop in 5G Core Network – Alpha release
Substack also removed the "Also publish to Twitter" checkbox from the settings screen before publishing each post.
It can be done. As in, the systems won't spontaneously combust if people try to do this.

But the number of people who can pull this off is unimaginably small. Even for highly desirable hires the immediate response is going to be "we don't do custom contracts, end of story."
You could be right but I've had the same VoIP numbers for decades so if the individual numbers were part of a blacklist that would imply I did something malicious which I know I have not. AFAIK they blacklist entire NPA/NSX ranges known to be VoIP.
If your example is "they don't value it as much" is based on a valuation over a year ago, it seems to be flawed. Could you raise at the same terms?

Those young whippersnappers wouldn't even buy your house in 2009 either!
I watched as a schizophrenic friend of mine was teased and provoked by the local police. To me, it's common sense and common decency that you don't provoke someone who's mentally ill, but the police just treated him like an ordinary criminal. It's almost like they wanted him to act out so they'd have an excuse to arrest him.

That's when I started to realize that crime, drug use and mental illness are closely connected.
I'm sure the parent poster recognizes this is good advice in retrospect. It's a good lesson for others to learn vicariously, though.
A new browser does have some benefit of hindsight, but if I had to look at the Firefox source for it, I'm not even sure where I'd begin.

> browsers were only topped by a few things like major operating systems

And they're even closer once you subtract out things like device drivers.
Then you give -10 days notice. 2 weeks is a nicety and not legally required in the USA. Probably not required in many other places as well. It's unfortunate but I've never had a manager get too upset about it.
I wrote a similar blog post in Nov 22: https://fleetwood.dev/posts/a-case-for-client-side-machine-l...
That's true and was the industry standard at the time, but I think Rubber Soul was the first successful album released where every track was penned by the performing artists.
> Going forward I will absolutely wait until my first day on the new job to give notice to the old one.

So... you'll give -1 days notice? "Hey old boss, you may have noticed I didn't come in today..."
I can't wait to watch the FitMC video on this.
Things are moving so fast in this space I felt like I needed a [March] in the title on this one :)
Can you imagine some situations where this strategy would have positive value?
2023 and it feels like it's only gotten worse.
Wuhan Market Samples Contained Covid and Animal Mixtures, Report Says
Hmmm... I find your comment thought-provoking. I'm not as confident as you that the restructuring you talk about will occur so quickly, mainly because big things always take a lot longer than we expect in the short to medium term. I mean, it could be a decade or longer before everyday use of self-driving, EVs, generative AI, crypto-assets, etc. reach mass adoption. But long-term, I think you're unto something. You're making me rethink my assumptions :-)
OK, I didn't read the whole draft, just the example used in cft's post, which didn't seem like a big deal. But the other stuff is beyond stupid.
> Simply walking in the door on your first day increases the amount of paperwork they have to file to get rid of you.

How? I have fired an employee for walking in on their first day smelling like cannabis and being high as a kite and it did not it change any “paperwork” I had to do. Everywhere in the US has at will employment, so barring a union agreement, all the employer has to do is document that they no longer want to employ the person anymore.
The first thing I saw was no protective gear. Does this process really produce no UV?
So I checked the T41, and it was just a dead power adapter. After making a new one from a spare DC-DC converter, the laptop itself still seems to work. Cleaning it up might be a next step. :)
> I don't see what one has to do with the other.

It is incredibly connected. There is business risk introduced for making an offer. Increasing that risk means that the vetting process can be increased to make up for that extra risk incurred. If companies feel they need 4 or 5 rounds of interviews today before making an offer and you all of a sudden mandate that there's more of a risk for making an offer, they might decide on an extra round or two of interviews to try and be even more certain about their decision.

Personally I think a lot of the issues around hiring could be solved by making firing much more trivial and less risky for businesses: this would make a lot of the process around hiring and the many extra rounds of interviews less important. Companies would be a lot more incentivized to give people they like a shot and see if they can hack it in a role or not. This would IMO be a big improvement for say self-taught developers or those with non-traditional backgrounds who can get easily dismissed because they present more of a risk than somebody who went to X good school and worked at big corporation for Y years.
The article refers to it as a "Lampert PUK04" - a search turned up this link: https://www.lampertusa.com/products/puk04-with-microscope-sm...

I suspect that it has since been superseded by the current PUK6 model (and previously the PUK 5, judging by search results)
To each their own I guess. I listened to it with headphones, and it was very soothing.
The point is that they would owe you this even if they let you go immediately. Obviously they implement it in a way that’s easier on their payroll system.
You push back the start date until they've finished that process. It's a common request, I've made it several times, my wife has made it several times and it's always been granted in my experience.
I don't think it qualifies as a podcast. It has no host, it contains no discussion, it adds nothing to the articles being summarized, it does no journalism and adds no benefit except, as you said, shifts the summaries to an audio format. So there are some people who don't want to read and would rather just have things read to them.

Is that a podcast? I don't think so. Is it authentic? Probably not but its not claiming to be anything but an ai tool, at least, but the whole thing you're doing is that your voice sounds more human than other ai voices.

Whatever it is, its not a podcast. It's ai generated summaries being read by an ai voice.
Sure. There is risk in any job change. The point here is leaving a job and being boned by the company you are joining because of their own internal fuck up.
The lightest model 3 is up to 4,000lbs or so since the switch to LFP batteries on the standard range model 3
Is Scalable OLTP in the Cloud a Solved Problem? (CIDR 23) [pdf]
This is possible, and I don't have any deeper knowledge of cryptocurrencies / Blockchain. But payment systems don't seem to have a necessary connection to speculation and the high volatility which comes with holding a cryptocurrency. Maybe I overestimate the amount of problems those payment systems can solve.
Dense crowds can form surprisingly orderly lines. Math explains why
As a rule of thumb, whenever anyone says "the choice is obvious", the choice they're talking about is usually far from obvious.
I'd guess that the idea is that left wing politics in a lot of places has gotten bogged down in ridiculous notions of "just do whatever you want, everyone has kindness within them" and lets that override the normal concerns about cohesion and wellbeing in society.

You can have socialism, redistribution, a progressive society etc., whilst also recognising that no, you can't just park your tent wherever you want and bother people.

You can support the fact that people might have unorthodox sex lives in private whilst also believing that people who parade the fact that they "have multiple genders" are attention seekers.

The best way that I can describe the feeling I have is that effectively, there's no "upper bound" for compassion/empathy in the modern left-wing framework and that crashes and burns when it hits the real world.
That's what we try to simplify at Resmo. We integrate with 80+ most popular tools a company might be using. Of course there are some we don't cover yet. Only 3 tools requires paid-tier for API access. Also, we list access Login with Google data from your workspace. We gave a central place for you to list the users and their permissions.

https://resmo.com/saas-discovery

Then you can do `SELECT * FROM users WHERE mail = 'mustafa@resmo.com'`
You’re right that they don’t compare to people at all, and the benchmarks don’t show performance on a practical application. And I agree that the last sentence isn’t great, but I don’t think it’s that important. I guess they were hoping it would do better on the benchmarks? It’s not an objective statement.

You don’t read a paper for its conclusion. A good question to ask about a scientific paper is “what did they actually do?” In this case, they asked ChatGPT (presumably GPT3.5) and GPT4 a bunch of logical reasoning questions from some benchmarks and compared the benchmark scores to RoBERTa. That’s it. Running benchmarks can be useful, but how much you care about the benchmarks is up to you.

Higher scores are better, so it does seem promising that GPT4 got more questions right. The scores aren’t that meaningful me, but it seems like it’s objective confirmation that GPT4 is better than previous systems on logical reasoning?

Maybe the benchmark scores are more meaningful to someone else? What else have these benchmarks been used for?
Dynobase AI
On the plus side, less likely to get stabbed.

Muricans use guns.
Using a rare word with a marginally different meaning to convey an idea more precisely and concisely depends on the person on the other end of the conversation knowing that word and the marginal difference in meaning it conveys. The moment you can't trust people to distinguish between two synonyms, one of them becomes useless. As we communicate with wider groups whom we have less familiarity with, the amount you can trust nuance to be conveyed decreases. And logically as already rare words become more rarely used, the likelihood that your audience is familiar with them further decreases.

Someone who focuses on clearly explaining thoughts using small numbers of commonly understood words will be much better at forming coherent and compelling arguments than someone who instead invests the same resources in learning a vast but useless vocabulary.
> obviously I’m mildly suicidal like almost everyone else

I think you need more help than you realize.
Is there a "getting started" guide you'd recommend to a newbie to the space?
I was at a dinner party and asked someone what they do. They ran a research lab, and I was really interested, and asked questions. He was surprised I actually liked chemistry and was interested in his research. He said normally people just joke about how they hated chemistry in high school, so he normally avoided talking about it. He said people don't realize it's really rude to basically tell someone that their life's work is boring and they hated it when they were 16. I'm now much more careful about how I respond to what people do for a living, even if it's not something that I'm interested in.
There seems to be a limit to the size of model you can load before CoreML decides it has to run on CPU instead (see the second link in my previous comment)

If it could use the full 'unified' memory that would be a big step towards getting these models running on it

I'm unsure how the performance compares to a beefy Intel CPU, but there's some numbers here [1] for running a variant of the small distilbert-base model on the Neural Engine... it's ~10x faster than running on the M1 CPU

[1] https://github.com/anentropic/experiments-coreml-ane-distilb...
See this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/12gjp5b/ultimate_g...
It's all correct, though they do pay good money. Otherwise it's just a large, messy organisation where blame deflection is everyone's basic survival strategy. This is for example why he got such cryptic messages all the way through, nobody wanted to tell him that things are actually shit and unlikely to result in an employment before their boss' boss' boss announces that this is the case.
What happens in the case of fraud or illegal activity where someone steals someone else's wallet/keys and is able to transfer the "title"?

If there isn't a really good answer to this question, then how can you seriously say that using blockchain could be a good use case?
I think the standard experience is “this hiring rep is barely competent enough to call me back, why the hell would they have the pull to change a contract?”
Hey, could you please edit out the swipes in your comments? You've got some great points here and you obviously know what you're talking about, but the first bit and last bit really acidify what you're saying.

(To be clear: I'm not talking about the "SaaS vampires" bit - it's colorful language that's not targeting anyone in particular; it's flamebait, but not so bad that we'd post a scolding. It's the personal swipes in the first and last sentences that are the problem.)

If you could make your substantive points within the site guidelines, that would be the sweet spot. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
piggybacking off of this, I categorically do not allow this company to use any of posts for their commercial purposes, period.
Solar-to-Hydrogen Pilot Plant Reaches Kilowatt Scale
This is the purpose of a signing + relocation bonus. And if the contract is well written it will be yours regardless if you start, and also if the company chooses to terminate you before 1yr. Unfortunately it's hard to negotiate with $BIGTECH .
Give away the milk, not the cow. Package the writing into a proper ebook, and offer that for sale. Use your blog to discuss highlights, or use cases for the book.

Most bloggers with specialized knowledge do not write everything on the blog. The blog can be a summary or highlights of something bigger, like a research paper or a book.

Most "knowledge workers" are not making their income by writing online. They are parlaying that into consulting projects or speaking gigs, things an LLM can't replace.
Sue them for promissory estoppel.
> Shor's algorithm requires not only the logical qubit to be stable (the superposition of 1 and 0, but also the phase [..] to be noise free to an extraordinary degree. There are rotations in very small angles many, many times in the computation.

This is wrong. Those rotations are not the hard part.

When Shor's algorithm is compiled using qubit recycling [0], factoring an n bit number uses 2n rotations that aren't a multiple of 45 degrees. For relevant number-to-factor sizes like 2048 bits, performing these rotations to a precision of ±0.0000000001° is more than sufficient. Rotations smaller than the required precision can simply be skipped. If you're asked to rotate by 0.00000000000000000001° ± 0.0000000001°, not rotating at all is within tolerance.

±0.0000000001° is more precise than would be reasonable with physical qubits, but it's achievable with logical qubits that can do 45 degree rotations. You decompose the arbitrary rotation into a sequence of a ~hundred 45 degree rotations that approximate the desired rotation [1].

It's also possible to replace all rotations by additions into a special re-usable "phase gradient state" [2][3]. When factoring a 2048 bit number, preparing a phase gradient state of sufficient quality only requires around a hundred non-multiple-of-45-degree-with-precision-±0.0000000001° rotations, instead of thousands.

If you count it all up, the precise rotations account for maybe a hundred thousand error corrected gates. The algorithm as a whole uses a billion to a trillion error corrected gates, depending on exactly which gates you count. The precise rotations are a negligible part of the difficulty; they make up less than 0.01% of the required work. From the perspective of superconducting qubits, the hard part is actually just idling a surface code qubit! All the operations are implemented using variations on idling.

0: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0001066

1: https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/newsynth/

2: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06648

3: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04933
Also jobs often/usually fire people with 0 day notice and no severance. I don't know why it's an expectation that employees would give notice without any reciprocation.
The difference is the company knew they didn't want them. It's awful
“If it breaks, throwing it out and buying a new one is cheaper than getting it repaired” has been true of many physical items for decades already - that part isn’t even a future prediction. Doing that on the scale of a whole house is a leap, but if you want an example from the world of hammers and nails, how many people are paying the $100 call-out fee for a tradesperson to come and fix an issue with their $50 IKEA shelves?
Straw men?
I believe the point they're making is that while you could expect liability, I couldn't if I'm not buying support services but run it myself. As in "offering the support services to anyone" would assume global liability.
In a non-technical piece like this, it’s not the precision, it’s the consistency.
If you measure things in sweetener packets, everything is in sweetener packets.
I don't know -- would anyone even know those names if they hadn't been?
> I'm not sure which part of the world you are in

Most likely the US, where at-will employment is the norm. Companies can let you go immediately but you're "obligated" to provide an at-minimum 2 week notice.

OP is stating they don't have to give such notices, so we should change the narrative and treat them the same way we get treated.

I agree wholeheartedly with this.