skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not too surprised the trend persists, if I just follow the money. People like to bet on new(-ish) technologies and hypes, hoping to be the first in some brave new world - like with personal computers, the internet and mobile.

Didn't quite work for crypto or VR. I think that's partly because the economy changed: I don't remember such an insane amount of companies chase money so quickly with those earlier examples. For a long time there were lots of people just playing and tinkering with the new thing for fun, not immediately trying to get rich (even mobile, I fondly remember having PDAs long before there was an iPhone, tinkering with them and hanging out on XDA developers). If everyone is primarily trying to make money off something right from the get go instead of primarily trying to build something useful, I can see how adoption suffers. Bit of a catch 22.
I have no doubt that companies perceive a benefit to RTO. It may even exist! I'd just like to see the data. What are these productivity metrics? How do I get access to them to optimize my own productivity? I have never seen any hard data on this. My performance has always been measured in soft terms, even when it uses "data". It is all perception.
> Er, a much better approach is to allow unnormalized Unicode in source code and use form-insensitive matching of symbol names so that all forms of a symbol are equivalent.

Linkers will often be blissfully unaware of Unicode or any form of localization. This was the impetus for UTF-8, so that the bulk of software which is 8-bit clean or which operates on opaque, NUL-terminated strings can continue working as-is. This can't be changed without breaking backwards ABI compatibility; therefore, it's very unlikely to change.

There are countless half-measures that could be taken, but few if any are suitable for standardization. If the history of software localization is any guide, in the face of strict, forward-looking specifications various vendors and ecosystems will likely go there own way, with the one sure thing being a failure to fully adopt or properly implement the specification.
The argument goes:

Premise 1) Person came up with Idea.

Premise 2) I do not like Person.

Conclusion) I do not like Idea.

It's not actually a good argument against Idea, it's just a preference.
I'm working on my Ahnold accent. Too dah choppah!
That moment when you’re nodding off is a sweet spot for creativity
Evaluating Verifiability in Generative Search Engines
Anything a SaaS platform provides can be replicated in-house. The same can't be said for a bleeding-edge 10 billion dimensional model.
Cool. How does the current system solve this?

Why can’t the IRS just tell me what they think I own by April 15th, and then i can add things to it.

My taxes are really simple. I still don’t understand why I have to spend at least 40 minutes every year giving the IRS the information that they already have.
How is your partner/kids?
Patience sort and the longest increasing subsequence
To understand AI’s problems look at the shortcuts taken to create it
The people should definitely be reminded of how much they spend for how little value they get.

That said, I'd be more than happy to see HR Block go bankrupt.
It honestly seems like the revenue lost to this would be trivial against the cost savings of not having to play the weird game that we play.
Monty Python had this effect a couple generations ago.
Another asymmetry: Winnings are always included while losses are itemized. Which means if you take the standard deduction you cannot write off the loses, but still have to include the gains.
> Worrying about a super-AI that does not exist

But it makes a great trojan horse if you actually have a hidden agenda you want to push.
> ...anyone who isn't an ice-cold sociopath? Your job is often a big part of your identity, particularly in the games biz which is so passion driven.

I'd argue this is unhealthy and a recipe for disaster. But different things work for different folks.

> Leaving behind a project you grew, kickass tech you had a hand in, and friends you made is a major life trauma, even if you're doing it voluntarily to chase something new.

There's kickass people at most good companies. The idea you can't make work friends & work on cool stuff unless at your current job in your current role seems limiting.
Also, management can't legally unionize, at least in the US. Even middle management, who are affected by this policy change.
How could we have less privacy than we do now?

When did real Authentication of people go from being a "hard problem" to ideologically forbidden?
The man behind ChatGPT (Sam Altman) is about to have his moment on Capital Hill
ChainGPT: A decentralized and verifiable blockchain based chat AI
If you don't want to change anything you can just submit it with one click.
Yeah the American system absurd. “We have all the data but you still need to figure it out yourself and if you get it wrong you’ll get in trouble”. The Australian system has improved a lot over the past few years - PAYG (employment), bank interest, and dividends are all pre-filled on your tax return. So all you need to figure out is deductions and other income. I’d still like to see it taken a step further like in the UK where you don’t even need to file a tax return unless you have income the HMRC doesn’t know about.
Monitoring an active riot seems pretty much what I’d expect the FBI to do.

It doesn’t seem that there was any intimidation of peaceful protesters, which obviously would be concerning.
Your viewpoint, as good as it is, is not appropriate here imo. It's a human need being discussed, not an ecosystem one. If you breed the best ecosystem the people will not get tangible benefits, maybe some increase in soil quality, plants resistance, nutrients but is it enough to improve their production and finances ?

At least that's how I see it with my limited information.
> "I don't get the play here. What's the outlook on the next release cycle without talent?"

Devil's advocate: maybe it's a low-cost way to avoid layoffs? As in "we'd like to reduce headcount, but layoffs are expensive and look bad. If we enforce RTO, a certain percentage of our less-dedicated employees will quit and we won't have to pay out severance etc..."
Health care advantage helps keep Canadian tech competitive
In countries that don't force every citizen to file, you still can report things they aren't aware of and still can do your taxes manually if you choose.

The majority of the population doesn't know anything about their taxes that the IRS doesn't. Why force everybody through a song and dance that only is of service to the exceptions (and a couple very large tax filing corporations who lobby hard against automatic taxes)?
in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35951674 you can see that with yeso i've reduced the hassle of viewing a png in x-windows to ten lines of c, and you don't have to worry about terminal emulator incompatibility, interleaved background-process output, error recovery, or dithering

(you do have to worry about bugs in yeso, of which there are several)

if you don't like c, in cpython it's four lines of code with yeso

from yeso import *
w = Window('hello, world', (406, 220))
w.frame().copy(read_png('admu_shell.png'))
while True: w.wait()

this requires a little bit of tweaking to work in pypy

also it works on the linux framebuffer as well as in x-windows

not being inline is a harder problem to solve
It's not that the sides no longer agree that these things are important. They do. The problem is they don't believe they agree that they're important. They believe the other side has abandoned the constitution, and they know that puts their own side at a disadvantage if they stay with it.

The two sides are so frightened of each other at this point that all assumptions of good faith are off the table. So, note for next version of the constitution: Make sure the first amendment establishes strict separation of speech and money.
You are absolutely right, even though you were downvoted at least three times in under a minute for some reason.
Realistically what penalty do you think GP would face if they had failed to report those $15 in capital gains.
An Unsupervised Framework Integrating Symbol Similarities for Entity Alignment
I don't know. Why don't companies do this?
I love this a lot.
I just don't see how people can be more productive at home, maybe if they work in isolation. But my experience is that a culture of very interactive programming with team members solves problems fast and you can make light year jumps. Taking a project from a week into a day with two hands on it. That kind of thing works great in person. And it doesn't just benefit junior devs, but also srs who collaborate better.

I think people are afraid of pair programming and it's very weird, as I love it. I do it a lot on zoom but it's not as good as in person.
I've found for my use case that both claude-instant-* and claude-* are roughly on par with each other and gpt-3.5. claude-* seems to be the least inaccurate, but we also haven't put it into production like gpt-3.5, so it's hard to say for sure.

In either case, the claude models are very good. I think they'd do fine in a real product. But there's definitely issues that they all have (or that my prompt engineering has).
What if any other RISC-V systems are UEFI capable? Major boon to usability.
Also so telling that every Bard comparison is to ChatGPT, when the correct comparison would be with Bing.
$20M for a seed round? What’s their moat? How will they earn money?
I think the question is too unconstrained. In the abstract, I don't think that one makes programmers more productive than the other. The very fact that this is a source of ongoing debate, with both sides able to make very good cases, indicates to me that the overall difference is negligible.

However, it seems likely to me that one or the other can offer a productivity advantage in certain very specific problem spaces, though.

Also, what counts as "more productive"? It sounds like a silly question, but when you start to drill down into what "productive" really means, there are all sorts of different valid answers to that.
i haven't done anything on it in years but this discussion is stimulating

was it you that linked me to arcan the other day? i've been studying it. i think it's interesting
OPA allows you to make API calls from it. This doesn't. This makes the latency more deterministic.
you're right, i should have written the definitive and complete 10,000 word treatise on nutrition here. to make sure nothing is missed. in the meantime, i recommend the Sports Nutrition Guidebook by Nancy Clark.
What sometimes is forgotten is that when someone says "power to the people", they actually just mean, "power to this other person", because end of the day, not all workers are walking into a room and shouting, so your biggest power as an individual is always going to be who you choose to work for and what crap you choose to take before you walk out.
ethbr0 is referring to monopolies enforced by law for private companies; they're not trying to point out the government itself is a monopoly.
> They aren't nonexistent, although that's frequently assumed on this site.

It seems to me that those who want to return to offices are a bit like the target market for the iPhone Mini: a very vocal minority.

And they are a minority indeed [0]. In fact, if the average HN poster was a white male, the RTO crowd would be overrepresented and thus it would explain that, in each one of these debates, there is always a good bunch claiming that in person office work is great.

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-post-pandemic-offic...
Looks super cool. I am working on something similar.
This assumes RTO is a top motivator for the best.

I’ve seen no data to support that.
ah okay, I wasn't responding to show catfishing occurring, and I was responding on the subject of a non-human adult content creator making money by entertaining humans.

It wasn't clear to me that was your goal post as "fake" can be brevity and hyperbolic just as much as it can be about catfishing, and it also wasn't clear to me that the person you responded to was even pointing out anything relevant to this thread which was "casually talking in person with someone whose occupation is also sex work" being followed with "hey we have a guy at the office that thinks they're talking to sex workers! this person on hackernews must be a guy and just like him!"

so at this point, I would say we're too far down to really be invested in these nuances, but I hope you find what you're looking for
I would envision something like this being used with an older phone permanently connected to a charger and Wi-Fi or possibly a USB docking station with Ethernet, not running on your personal phone over mobile data. The latter would be terrible for battery life.
I’m not sure you’re talking about the type of procrastination people complain about.

It seems more like you’re saying ‘you don’t need to be working on that second side gig’. Which, sure (Assuming someone isn’t on the edge of insolvency due to lack of income, anyway and has tried cutting back on expenses.).

But what typically causes people to complain are things like - procrastinating looking for a job because the market is tight and scary. Or procrastinating on doing the taxes because ugh, or procrastinating on finding that weird production data corruption bug that is going to suck.

Which have consequences, and cause a lot of stress avoiding them, and realistically aren’t actually optional.

Like ADHD meds, the tools can help someone go in the wrong direction ‘harder’ if used without thinking about it or if someone has a bad plan.

A shitty environment and unrealistic workload isn’t going to NOT result in burnout if it doesn’t get better, no matter how much Adderall someone takes, or how good they get at tackling procrastination.

But if taking care of something (like looking for a better job!) will produce a better outcome, but someone is procrastinating, then the tools can help.
My interpretation is that there are no great tools, otherwise there would exist goto answers. It's been out so many months that there at least should be a handfull of them if they actually were great.
Could this be used to show that two programs (with only instructions from the covered subset) are equivalent?
Well, Moscow had signal carrying cables in the metro for years. Full coverage since 2018: https://www.expresstorussia.com/news/the-moscow-metro-now-ha...

I have always been confused how some countries have such bad coverage. Before Wi-Fi Calling, it was a nightmare to be inside any apartment building I've been to.
I'm fully with you.

When I mean that it's not a serious component of someone's diet, I don't mean that it's not significant.

I mean that if you're drinking soda anything more than occasionally, you're probably not actually trying to lose weight, you're just enjoying life.
The address is still 3 which has valid applications. C is permissive enough to run on platforms that don't use address 0 for NULL. With pointer operations the compiler will change the encoding from 0 to that platform's NULL address.

int *p = 0;
intptr_t i = (intptr_t)p;

if(i == 0) ... // Isn't always true
The heritability of human traits based on 50 years of twin studies
It makes a difference because policy changes don’t happen instantly.

Something we can do differently that seems obvious today could have been a disastrous policy just a few years ago.

The optics of the IRS sending out bills for thousands of dollars more than people rightfully owe are bad, to say the least.
Did Larry Page sleep with kids? Probably not. Did Larry Page know that Jeffrey Epstein is involved in shady stuff? Probably yes.
This looks like a good overview of the subject. https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~salehi/files/asee13_lte.pdf
Are you suggesting turning in family is never the right thing to do? What act would you draw the line at?
> How is your partner/kids?

Great, but it's a pretty isolating idea that you should spend all your time with the same few people. It's nice and healthy to context-switch and spend some time around different people.
Yep.[1]

And earlier builds had the way cooler Watercolor theme[2] (IMHO) than the final Fisher-Price-looking theme.

1. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Whistler

2. https://betawiki.net/wiki/Watercolor
Then enable fsync. I don't really see a way around requiring synchronization to persistent disk if you want persistence cross power outages, right?
Meh. It's obvious Confluent exploited the status of being an Apache open source project in order to say they were open-source. But look at the make up of the PMC of Kafka and it's completely dominated by Confluent employees or former employees. Nothing gets done without Confluent's approval or best interest at heart.
Personally I consider what The Cybernetics Society pulled with regards to their new homepage / the botched (in numerous ways) move of their old homepage to https://archive.cybsoc.org/ far more atrocious, because with Microsoft and VMware it feels less tragic
Okay but then I really don't know what point you're trying to make. Either an infinite timeout, or non-absolute mutual exclusion guarantee: we have to pick either one. The right choice depends on the workload. There is no perfect solution that lets you have your cake and eat it too.
Airbag Company Opts Not to Recall 67M Inflators That Could Spew Shrapnel
WFH also had their first delayed expansion (understandable since Covid) and easily the worst content patch cycle it's ever seen.
Is durability preserved when you lose replica connectivity around the same time as power to your CPU? As tends to happen.
details from the mycroft forums:

https://community.mycroft.ai/t/faq-ovos-neon-and-the-future-...

Although MycroftAI, Inc. has ceased development, the Assistant survives.

A few years ago, some of MycroftAI’s partners started using @JarbasAl ‘s code (more information below) which eventually became a fork of the assistant. Now that MycroftAI is unable to continue development, the fork’s devs - The OVOS Foundation - have decided to take up leadership of the Assistant’s development and its open source ecosystem.

MycroftAI has signed over Mark II software support, as well as these forums, to one of those partners, a company called NeonAI. Between the OVOS Foundation and NeonAI, the voice assistant and the smart speaker project are getting a new lease on life.

The OVOS Assistant - it’ll get a better name soon, we promise - started out as a drop-in replacement for Mycroft. It should be compatible with all your classic Mycroft skills. It will even accept existing configuration files! Because we have been operating at a much smaller scale for the past three years, things will seem rough around the edges for a little while. However, we are scaling up. Read on.
Just reminding you that the commenter asked for others to offer their take on whether or not the request was perceived to be creepy. I didn't go out of my way to offer unsolicited commentary on this.

If you don't want to hear that you are wearing an ugly shirt, don't ask an entire room full of people if your shirt is ugly.
I'm curious what mistake happened that you overpaid so much and the government caught it? I always assumed that the IRS relies on the tax return unless it explicitly audits you, but I think my assumption is now out of date.
Examples of parser generators or compiler-compilers in Prolog?
It is not a benefit to everyone. I enjoy face-to-face interaction with colleagues, while I dislike any form of online communication, as it drains my energy.
Let's not let perfect be the enemy of the good here. Per the IRS's stats, 89% of people take the standard deduction.

For those who itemize, the government usually knows about most the things you're itemizing. I'm itemizing this year because of 3 things: taxes paid, mortgage interest, and charitable donations. The government already knows about 2 of those, so they could send me prefilled forms that are 95% complete (W-2, investment 1099, mortgage 1098, mortgage 1099 and other bank account 1099-ints, my form 5498 for my IRA, property taxes, etc). I'd much prefer only having to fill in my charitable donations. It would change a job that takes a couple hours into one that takes maybe 15 minutes.
As a (former) mall rat in the lovely upstate NY, malls are great. You could go there and hang out with friends, maybe shop but usually not, socialize, people-watch, get a bite to eat. They are basically the "walkable town center" that suburban USA sorely lacks, and in the dead winter or scorching summer, are pretty awesome.
No, because the company is requiring the employee to do something. The employee refusing to return to the office is not mandating action from anyone else. The company requiring RTO is requiring a specific action. The company is asserting control over the employee.

Control in and of itself is not a bad thing, the employer/employee relationship is about exchanging money for control of ones time, but it's still control.

But refusing to return to the office because your co-worker prefers to work in a full office? That's only control in the same sense that my refusing to let someone stab me in the chest is a limitation of their freedom of movement. Sure, if you want to really twist your perspective you can get there, but it's not a useful definition.
> I wonder where we’d be if the idea of CPU-independent bytecode had ever really taken off [...] convert it to the actual machine code, about which the OS might know nothing, and could vary incompatibly from CPU to CPU, even among different CPU models in the same family

There are various examples I can think of.

Nvidia's CUDA platform compiles C++-like source code to PTX binary code which is GPU-independent. At run time, PTX is compiled and specialized for the specific GPU model you are running on. I can imagine that PTX is compiled differently depending on the number of registers in the GPU as well as its instruction set capabilities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Thread_Execution

Mainstream virtual machine languages like Java, .NET, and JavaScript are obvious examples.
We updated the text. https://www.blog.justpaid.io
Specifying technical books is interesting - my first book was fairly technical (though the spiritual theme which probably reduced the target market significantly) but my most successful books monetarily were far and away the erotica I wrote primarily for my own gratification. I know erotica's an active genre, but it's still a source of consternation that I get so much more reader interest for something so much easier and less meaningful.
The key phrase is rentier capital vs active types of capital.

Rentier capitalists are parasites. Unlike say industrial capitalists they don't work.
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Can't you just not use the bio-metrics option for andOTP? Honest question. I tried Aegis, but still prefer andOTP.