skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Does this process really produce no UV?

I have no idea, but the microscope he's looking through could certainly have UV protection built-in. Or perhaps the pulses are so short and small that the cumulative risk is negligible?

Either way, it seems to me like there could be ways for it to be safe enough to require minimal PPE while still producing some non-zero amount of UV.
You mean to see: Sun Tzu's The T_eets of War

[new management is whitewashing the W in the logo/banner name of T_itter]
> I know "Free Britney!" is all the rage, but the Court does not order conservatorships lightly.

This is an assumption, and there's very limited oversight to this. That's the problem. The reason with Brittney was originally freed was that it was found she was inappropriately in conservatorship for years longer than she needed to be, and that all of the parties that should've been advocating for her were actually paid for by her estate through her parents, effectively making it so that anyone who advocated too hard for her wellbeing was eliminated from her circle. It's unknown how many more people are in this situation and, perhaps worse, we don't even know how many conservatorships exist!
They seem to have Flutter support but the lack of React Native support is non starter for me.
People are enthusiastic about the possibilities, imagine a black box on your desk contains only RAM and matrix multiplication chips, you install on it your favorite AI assistant and you train it with your private data/code, you remove all prudish restrictions and get productive on your work and on your off times.

Llama has the potential to reach ChatGPT it needs tunning to get better at responding to questions, llama if I am not worng is mostly attempting to predict what is next.

I can see it similar like Midjourney and Stable diffusion, midjorny can make any stupid prompt look like a digiatal art in the style of Midjorney but look how many stable Diffusion innovation happens, a competent person that is on top with all the new stuff can produce absolute anything in any style they want.
Yes, I will happily concede that time travel and FTL is possible with wormholes. I would even buy into Novikov's self-consistency principle to avoid paradoxes.

However, to manipulate spacetime like that, we'd have to control massive quantities of an never observed type of energy. Like, on the order of the mass of the galaxy, or at least solar masses. And constructing a wormhole between A and B will still take longer than light travels between the endpoints, so I'm not exactly holding my breath.

The Alcubierre drive (assuming it's feasible) will still violate causality though, and the self-consistency principle does not apply, so I'm convinced that's a bust.
That the cabal is trying to kill us all?
> whereas as an engineer you are just there to fix the tv/computer/iphone/whatever.

I find it interesting because it reveals so much about a society (and why the UK simply couldn't grow a real tech sector). Here in America some sneer at the terms architects or engineer being used to refer to people in tech, but nobody would consider computers and iPhones to be beneath buildings. Then again, it was all engineered right here; an All American creation.
Water is at its most dense around 4 degrees C. As the temperature increases from there it gets less dense.
> without some kind of direct rendering going on, I can't see how this would work on a terminal emulator.

Nah.

You just dump the pixels one by one to the screen using a for loop. You can even do some cpu math with each pixel if you want, and at the end you call XPutImage with the raster (or whatever your toolkit offers). This runs at more than 30fps in fullhd on a 10 year old cpu.

Notice that xterm is blazingly fast and runs entirely on the cpu. Think about it, the plots that this iterm2 demo shows were already done in realtime in the late nineties using the first pentium cpus.

The GPU is not really needed for the basic stuff a terminal emulator does. Of course, if you want to do crazy stuff like scaling by enormous factors, or ultra-fast scroll without skipping tricks, you'll need GPU support.
You can do an a select statement skipping locked rows in postgres.
I've seen it once in 25 years. Management told an engineer that she would be layed off/terminated "when she is done with the project she is working on". She milked the project for almost four months and then quit on her own after finding a new job. Turns out she did almost zero work during those four months. Can't say I blame her.
...and none of this preserved any sort of unique culture, only proving my point.
hmm I know for some position there has been a high first day no show rate, I wonder if that is what drives that position? Background checks while not super expensive are not cheap either and if you have a high number of people noping out before the first day I could see where they would want to mitigate those costs.

With the changes in drug laws, and this I have seen some companies starting to forgo pre-employment drug screens, which IMO is a good thing.

I am not sure what value most of these Pre-Employment checks provide anyway really.
1. You're working backwards from a desire to buy more RAM to try and find uses for it. You don't actually need more RAM to use LLMs, ChatGPT requires no local memory, is instant and is available for free today.

2. Why would anybody be satisfied with a 64GB model when GPT-4 or 5 or 6 might even be using 1TB of RAM?

3. That may not be the case. With every day that passes, it becomes more and more clear that large LLMs are not that easy to build. Even Google has failed to make something competitive with OpenAI. It's possible that OpenAI is in fact the new Google, that they have been able to establish permanent competitive advantage, and there will no more be free commodity LLMs than there are free commodity search engines.

Don't get me wrong, I would love there to be high quality local LLMs. I have at least two use cases where you can't do them or not really well with the OpenAI API and being able to run LLama locally would fix that problem. But I just don't see that being a common case and at any rate I would need server hardware to do it properly, not Mac laptop.
Ah, yep, changing the permissions from "Ask" to "Allow" is a workaround:

Settings > Safari > Extensions > Archive Page > All Websites > Allow
eh... Google, more than your average publicly traded company, does rely on external investment by way of the stock in order to conduct its operations. In particular, a very large percent of compensation, especially for the most valued employees, is equity-based.

Google's revenues were flat last year but costs were up. Hence, profits were down. The C-suite's insight into the future seems to be that future revenues are not going to make up for the current cost structure. The stock price is roughly correlated with profits (let's ignore NVDA for a moment). So to keep the stock price afloat, profits must be propped up. If the stock price drops, all employees are suddenly paid less, especially the ones you value most. So not doing layoffs is equivalent to giving everyone a pay cut. Pay cuts are even worse for morale and long-term company performance than layoffs. The choice seems clear to me.

On top of that, when you're a publicly traded company, your obligation to your shareholders is at least as great as your obligation to employees. If you don't like that agreement, don't go public (as a worker, don't agree to work for a for-profit company). Google is a for-profit, not a cooperative.
Not giving a 2 week notice is not unprofessional. And if you don't get recruited/"a good recommendation" from them for it, chances are that bridge burning was worthwhile.
i also find it important to note that therapy is becoming more and more a religious practice

there are different flavors of therapy, and some may use more empirical methods than others, but there's a lot of infiltrating ideology and opinions that fight over what is and isn't science, and therefore what is and isn't empirical

but if none of this is truly empirical, the therapeutic aspects are religious

so locking people up for what are essential religious violations is way beyond illegitimate control
Eric Schmidt famously got a lot of flack at Google because he insisted on sticking with his blackberry
You're right, we can't make any efforts to make our streets safe and free of crazed, violent hobos until we've gotten rid of all polluters and warmongers first.
PhaseLLM: Standardized Chat LLM API (Cohere, Claude, GPT) + Evaluation Framework
This reflects a trend of smaller and smaller companies using SSO, including startups that now use SSO right from the beginning because they know that certifications like SOC2 are on their roadmap and they want to get best practices in place early. In the past, it really was a 99% chance that customers wanting SSO were large companies, but that is changing.

That said, I'd say the trend is overrepresented in places like HN. It's still mostly bigger companies that want SSO, which is why SAAS cos keep using it as a pricing differentiator.
If this is the case, why don't we see long covid symptoms in certain professions? I spent an internship working in a clean room wearing full PPE including an N95 mask for my entire 9-5. Didn't ever experience long covid symptoms.
What does deno give you over node? I am assuming by first impression there are some standard libraries in these functions which aren't available otherwise in node?
That’s mostly accurate, but the nuances are significant and lead to different conclusions. For example the hypolimnion may be much warmer than 4C in lakes in warmer areas. More importantly tropical ocean water is above 4C down to roughly 2km and not only is that depth expected to increase, but also the depth of warm water as you go north. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermocline

The important thing to remember is even a 1 part in 1,000 decrease in density * 2km of depth = 2m of expansion. Ballpark estimates aren’t enough you really need fairly detailed simulations to get any significant accuracy. Actually doing such simulations shows meaningful sea level rise from thermal expansion at ~0.07 inches per year or roughly half the current rate of increase. This might not sound like much, but consider that volume of sand you need to replace to maintain beaches etc etc.
Try doing that in am air-gapped environment and you'll soon learn about the importance of local artifact caches and caching proxies with tight retrieval policies, or having downloads gated for review... ;-)
Any details about the removing of Kong? What did you use it for and how will this help with removing it?
For any non-Apple-users browsing this comment thread, "Shortcuts" is Apple's visual-scripting automation language for iOS and MacOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortcuts_(app)
I don't think this is surprising at all?
In the long run the resolution would be the same--but we don't have infinite time. Years spent chasing prospects above one's level are years not with someone at your level. It happens because both sides are aiming high.

In the old days you would see your dating pool get depleted and realize you needed to aim lower. Now, in any reasonably large city your dating pool is close enough to infinite that this won't happen.
Always one week notice during probation in my experience.

But the point remains that the company can terminate you with very little cause and very little notice when you've just started. So while it is a good idea to wait until at least receiving a signed contract before giving notice to your current job you'll still be at higher risk for some time.
I believe that problem is avoided by using SKIP LOCKED[0].

[0] https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/what-is-select-skip-lock...
The problem is when there is not adequate "correction" or the correction is not agreed upon, or even stated. Many times the question is ignored entirely under the assumption it is in bad faith.

You may have just not convinced the person that your believed truth trumps their believed truth.

It requires communication, which pretty much never involves assuming a question is bad. If it's reiterated, then respond with your same point in more detail and ask for a response to that.
I worked at one company that was like that, but it was a result of the CEO being pretty awkward about people leaving the company, something he wasn't used to until huge growth hit. That's a red flag IMO.
very simple, just don't read the email
Do you know how many shares are outstanding, i.e., what % of the company you'd be getting?

Moreover, you should absolutely ask for the preferred price at the last fundraise. They should be able to give you that figure, just like they gave you the strike price.

Also ask about liquidation preferences: do investors get paid out at a multiple?

Finally, you should adjust that figure depending on how long ago the raise was. A 2021 valuation is very very different from a 2022 and 2023 valuation.

Once you have all of these figures, you can build yourself a probability-weighted model that factors in dilution and a few different outcomes (company ends up being worth nothing, company gets sold to PE at some small multiple, company has an IPO etc) come up with an expected value for the worth of your equity.

If you'd like, email me, and I'll share a redacted version of the model I give my employees at interviewing.io to do some reasoning about the value of their equity: aline@interviewing.io

P.S. Odds are that this equity is going to be monopoly money (because that's true for every company)... and odds are your stake is very small even if it's not because you're coming in late.
Rescinding offers will mean employees won't give 2 weeks notice due to risk of offer being rescinded. Google and other companies who rescind offers are screwing over everyone by doing this.
fsreadfilesync and json
You offer support for your open source software so it's commercial open source, someone else uses your software in his software without your knowledge and he doesn't pay and doesn't want support.

He doesn't update his version of your software and this leads to a security issue.

Are you liable?
I think it would be fantastic if Substack Notes were to become dominant and replace Twitter.
Nope. The 8086 only had 20 physical address lines, so any address beyond FFFF:000F would wrap around to low memory.

Some old Microsoft runtime library adjusted the data segment in order to place variables descending from the top offset. If the program was loaded below 64K, the segment value would become 'negative', which was not a problem until the 286 added more address lines. The main reason for the A20 gate hack was to fix this.
Indeed, they just can't seem to understand the modern economy. How many unicorn's has Europe created over the last 15 years? The idea that a wildly influential technology company coming from the EU instead of America or China is just not realistic.

I guess they can continue to export luxury brands and tourism.

I think Europeans tend to have an aversion to success/wealth and are scared to go out and try and build something. Just be conservative and go and work for a company that underpays. But at least you get to go on a vacation a couple times a year.

I feel like the time I've spent in Europe and the time in the USA is that Americans are optimistic that something can be done and they go out and take a risk. Europeans are skeptical of anything new. And to me it's weird because the way social safety nets tend to work in Europe, people should be taking risks left and right. And to be sure there's no lack of very talented engineers in the EU.

Is it that Europe relies so much on legacy? Their legacy colonial relationships around the world, their legacy brands, etc?
This very thread is exactly about how, in US, it doesn’t.
I really want to like this but the limitations described, requiring an admin account with 2FA disabled, makes this more risky than not using it at all.

Until those limitations are resolved, if that’s even possible, this feels like an audit hack rather than a security solution.
Too real–early March even felt different from late March. :D
Three Sisters pattern has been generalized as a “guild”, with beans fulfilling the function of a nitrogen fixer growing in the vine canopy layer (using the sturdy corn stalks).

Knowing that, wouldn’t you substitute beans with a different nitrogen-fixer at an open canopy slot?

Or even, different varieties of beans?
> professional engineers

When the GP says "professional engineer", I suspect they mean the big boy official kind [1] that goes to prison if they sign off on a negligent design. It's not a question of difficulty but responsibility and qualifications (though to be clear, the PE is considered more time consuming to prepare for than the BAR exam and it's definitely much harder than plugging numbers into formulas).

[1] https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe
Stories like these are why I probably won’t give notice at Job A until I’ve already passed probation at Job B. If both jobs are remote, why not?
GPT Legion: An AI Agent Platform Written in TypeScript
This is in fact one of the big issues with xmpp. Everything is sorta-kinda compatible but not really. And email is so getting so complicated that many people are scared of running their own server let alone programming one.
Most tech people in Russia are rich enough to bribe themselves out of that.
I’ve never met a woman who could close stuff properly.
Controversial take.
IIRC lisp was already called "functional" in the 1980s. It was in contrast to purely procedural languages. I cannot comment on the 1970s.
Sounds like a poorly written AMQP client of which there are many. Either you go bare bones and write wrappers to implement basic functionality or find a fully fleshed out opinionated client. If you can get away with using PostgreSQL go for it.
Moral implications too. The first Matrix movie is about the moral implications.
i made a company. no personal liability whatsoever, all profits go to me personally (heavy taz but its ok) so they can sue all they want
Dude, that is historical true, Upstart was there before systemd , Redhat used upstart too. Then an RH dev created systemd and Arch,Fedora,Debian moved to systemd , Ubuntu followed Debian decision since Ubuntu is based on Debian and they share maintainers/developers.
My understanding is that a naive implementation essentially serializes access to the queue table. So it works, but no matter how many requests you make in parallel, only one will be served at a time (unless you have a random component in the query).

With SKIP LOCKED you can resolve this easily, as long as you know about the feature. But almost every tutorial and description of implementing a job queue in Postgres mentions this now.
Google surely pays well, and it must be that working there is a pleasure beyond understanding of a mere mortal, because I really am not seeing how waiting for 10 months to just to get an offer is otherwise making any sense. Unless you're independently rich, you'd have to work in the meantime. So, if you're not currently employed, considering Google as your next option is impossible - you need to apply for another job, and hold it for about a year while knowing you may have to quit at any moment, maybe next week, maybe in a year. Which I don't think is fair to the "substitute" employer. So, basically, to apply to Google you have to have a steady secure job first. Is that how it's supposed to work?
You’re making a lot of criticisms, but you haven’t shown me why what I’ve said is extremely subjective, or why it’s an emotional argument.

First of all, it is obvious that society isn’t already leftist. If you’re citing “many quarters of society howling in disagreement”, you’ll have to show me to 1) the data and 2) this somehow changes the actual nature of our society. Do you actually think that we live in a leftist society? I certainly do not see a plurality of worker co-ops walking down the street, and last I checked, the vast majority of the means of production are still privately owned. I am not going to explain my argument again as to why this gives critical theory a leftist bent.

Your argument seems to be motivated by the fact you don’t like some of the conclusions drawn out by academics in the humanities because they don’t fit your priors. To me, it’s obvious you fall right Dunning-Kruger’s trap, having read and understood virtually nothing about the subjects in question if you’re citing “cyborg techno feminism” as an example of “Marxist devolution”. You’re really proving the point here that a lack of engagement with the humanities leads to a lack critical thinking.
Making Qattara a bay of the Mediterranean would be great as a way to bring life and human habitation to the desert.

It's incredibly expensive though.

Scott Alexander estimated it would "reverse one year worth of global-warming induced sea-level rise" here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/15/links-416-they-cant-li...
Definitely not saying that. We just can't continue pretending that the current approach is working. They need treatment.
Katie Cotton, the longtime Chief of Communications for Apple, has passed away
That's my thinking as well. Seems like they're not using the tool correctly and didn't read the documentation. Oh well, let's switch to Postgres because "reasons". And now to get the features of a queuing system, you have to build it yourself. Little bit of Not Invented Here syndrome it sounds like.
AI Lies, Privacy, & OpenAI
Big Twitter alternative announced on ... Twitter
Love this idea - was considering trying to build something similar recently.
none of this has anything to do with substack making a business plan off of sucking down twitter data and advertising on twitter. There's no reason twitter has to put up with that.
It's a strawman. If a company decided they were going to hire someone, they wouldn't suddenly decide to spend twice as much hiring that person, just in case they have a layoff in the future. It just doesn't follow
Isn't true OOP about Messaging and not about modeling objects of the real world?
> That has never been the case at any company I have ever worked for.

Many companies are essentially antagonistic with all IT resources. It's very common where positions are not well paid or the company is not tech-centric, eg Mike Ferry Organization
I tracked freight rates for 5 years (2018-2023)
Specifically you also want SELECT ... FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89thiopiques
Do yourself the favor and give the entire Ethiopiques collection a listen.
Correct.

Here's a snapshot of the merchants of doubt whackamole from Dec 2022.

"The right-wing groups behind renewable energy misinformation.
A conversation with journalist Michael Thomas."

https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-right-wing-groups-behind-renewab...
This is exactly right. At a community college, you're likely to find an adjunct professor who is an expert in their field teaching on the side more for the fun and altruistic aspects of education.

At a normal university, you end up taking classes from "professional" professors with no actual industry experience who are unlikely to be native English speakers. These professors copy & paste their notes, assignments and exams, cheating their way through teaching, hardly able to go off script or explain a concept beyond their intended lecture area. I've literally taken several classes (at the graduate level even) where the entire curriculum, lecture notes, assignments, exams were copy-pasted from other teachers or schools.

Of course, I believe there are some highly reputable universities and reputable professors. But the vast majority of PhD professors teaching at middle to low tier schools are hardly really teaching.

I'll take a class from an adjunct who is passionate about teaching even if they are somewhat just winging it. At least their heart and experience are in the right place.