skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And any personal work you might have done using your work laptop now has a legal opening for your employer to claim ownership to, since you developed it using company assets.
if one includes the "/s" then they get a lot of people arguing that profit is why companies exist.
This assumes that RTO is a rational and economic decision.

From everything I've seen, at least 80% of the time it's almost entirely about emotion, and mostly control.

Managers who never learned how to actually manage in any way besides "if your butt's in the seat, I guess you're working, otherwise, you're slacking off and stealing from the company!" are desperate to get people back where they can act like they manage them.

Managers who (overlapping with the first) have bought fully into the narrative that the manager/subordinate relationship is an adversarial one, and believe that every employee is constantly going to be trying to find every way they can to avoid working, cannot imagine employees being more productive at home without draconian surveillance.

People at all levels who worked in offices all their lives, sacrificing so much that they could have had if remote work was an option, see others enjoying remote work now (even some just starting their careers!), and are resentful. "If I had to do it, you have to do it!" Or they just see it and genuinely don't believe it's possible to work properly anywhere but an office.

People are not fully rational creatures. If you look at the decisions managers and execs make and say, "But it's so clear that this is worse for the company; why would they do that?", or, worse, "They must know something I don't know, and this is actually better" (and I've seen many people express both sentiments about the RTO push), you're making the mistake of believing that everything they do is motivated by cold hard logic and numbers.
> Why is it so hard to hear this perspective? Like, genuinely curious.

Because people have different definition of what intelligence is. Recreating the human brain in a computer would definitely be neat and interesting but you don't need that nor AGI to be revolutionary.

LLMs, as perfect Chinese Rooms, lack a mind or human intelligence but demonstrate increasingly sophisticated behavior. If they can perform tasks better than humans, does their lack of "understanding" and "thinking" matter?

The goal is to create a different form of intelligence, superior in ways that benefit us. Planes (or rockets!) don't "fly" like birds do but for our human needs, they are effectively much better at flying that birds ever could be.
> and perhaps stymie the increasing desertification of thre Iberian peninsula

I think I get your point. I'm ready to take huge risks in order to support anything that may weaken the permanent African anticyclone.
Those are scare quotes around the word. It's not quoting the parent comment.
Accessibility makes life better for everybody. A lot of accessibility boils down to rethinking the obvious to enable _more_ use cases. "Things that might make your life better." Dig around in those settings and you might find your phone can do things you never thought of.
These kind of Mitochondrial Complex 1 inhibitor induced Parkinson's are like 1% of cases. Granted these cases are probably highly underdiagnosed, but even if they really make up 10% of cases that probably doesn't change your overall risk that much. C.f.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9496895/#:~:tex....

Alternatively, the idea that you can get actual Parkinson's (not PSP) from mitochondrial complex 1 inhibitors might be new and noteworthy on its own, because I'm not aware of other research showing this.
koetoe?
The proposal isn't a "new" algorithm, rather a rewrite (plus bug fixes) of the existing scipy implementation of "COBYLA" (which I don't think it tested in your linked comparison).
I just need a kitchen man
I wonder if I could use this to build a AI voice for my aging parents so I can hear their voices after they pass away?
wasn't this a problem for http? any private network could funnel traffic through a reverse proxy cache and you end up with (potential) issues. Seemed to work ok for HTTP in general?
I think most of the oceans are a barren wasteland.

That said, as a shallow and, at least at first, nutrient rich part of the ocean it could be a flourishing part of it. But if it’s filled via underground pipe, it’ll be isolated from sources of ocean life.
In addition to Google Workspace I believe Office 365 offers device management capabilities too. I know you said you’re on GW, and it’s basically the default choice for small companies at this point, but office 365 is worth a look especially if you’re hesitant about GW.

Since you’re using Macs (and presumably iPhones) then Apple Business Essentials[1] is worth a look. It’s device management specially targeted for small business, and seems pretty cheap. I think the max is 300 users but don’t quote me on that.

A step up from there is JAMF[2]. They’ve been doing Apple device management for years and companies both huge and small use them. They are probably more expensive than GW, O365, or apple business essentials though.

(No affiliation with any of the companies mentioned above.)

Good luck!

1 - https://www.apple.com/business/essentials/

2 - https://www.jamf.com/
I guess I'm happy about this... but I find it kinda sad too. Apple used to be the minimalist, clean, and champions of the "it just works". Now so many people are getting lost in the gestures, repaint/caching, warring apps and incompatible standards, that this pairing down is increasingly necessary.

It strikes me as something of a halfway point to a phone version of CarPlay. A safety feature that needs immediate investment. Car focus is overly prescriptive, and focus in general doesn't make my phone really safe in the car. And DO NOT start with me about Siri.

I could rant forever, so don't let that take away from the meat of this announcement.
No, sorry if my "'s made it appear I was quoting a literal text. What I mean is:

> The author seems to dismiss declarative UI without explaining why.

> From my perspective, declarative is the best way to describe UI.

I think it's pretty clear that the writer here believes that the OP is wrong about slint and declarative UIs.

My point is that OP is not wrong; declarative UI is not the best way of doing UI for all use cases.

It is simply one way of doing UI.
> The suffering of non-human animals holds zero moral weight.

That's just false. Do you think humans are some God chosen species which makes them magically matter while the rest (including aliens on other planets I suppose) lacks that godly spark?

> I am having trouble deciding if a conversation with you is possible, you do not seem to be a rational being. You use the word "bad" in a way that another person would if they were saying "this is either bad for me personally, for those I care about, or humanity in general".

Yeah, and any normal human would understand the sentences "my cat hurt its foot, I hope it doesn't suffer too much." and "If it suffers, that would be bad".

> Does that mean you'd include sea urchins and wombats in "humanity in general"? If it did, then you're mentally ill in a way I'm not qualified to treat.

Who said sea urchins are humans?

> When a lion eats a gazelle in Africa (or anywhere else, I suppose, if such events occur), it is nothing that I or other humans should care about. It does not matter that the lion eats it while it is alive instead of "slaughtering it humanely" (imagine how I have to word that idea, it's absurd).

Well, humans can do little about suffering of animals in the wild, but that doesn't mean their suffering doesn't matter. Your own pain doesn't matter less when it can't be treated.

> If I could push a button to increase the intensity of that "suffering" a thousandfold, or increase its quantity (or even both!), is there any reason not to push that button? If I didn't push the button, mind you, it would only be because the suffering of those gazelles matters not to me one way or the other. If I could decrease the intensity/quantity with a different button, I wouldn't push it either... and for the same reason.

This seriously sounds psychopathic.
I wouldn't call those tools for torture. Those are tools that may be used for torture. Now the supplier of the tools may or may not know who they are supplying and for what ends but I think there may be some ethics on the supply side of the equation too!
Interesting. Stealing a phone in the future will also steal their voice and therefore activities like bank authorization.
It's volatile enough that it won't be present in the final product.
We even use OOP in Javascript today, although capsulation is still a but sketchy and there is no support for interfaces and abstract classes. There is support for interfaces in Typescript, which was added because, well, it makes a lot of sense :)
Personal Voice is remarkable. Millions of people will be able to create a synthetic voice to help themselves communicate.

We live in the sci-fi future we always dreamed of. Sure, it's a dystopian future, what technology.
My old F150 isn’t very fuel efficient, but it’s used solely to haul things and use the pickup bed. I probably put less than 2000 miles on it a year, which is part of my consideration for tolerating its poor MPG. (18.3 MPG the last time I measured.) I think this is something that has to come into consideration as well. I bought a very old truck and use it sparingly. It uses far less gas than your average commuter car, solely due to how little it’s driven. Given that I bought the truck for $2500 dollars, there is zero chance these days that I could get a comparable vehicle for anywhere near the price. When it finally breaks down, I probably won’t try to buy something ancient again, but I probably also will have spend close to $30k.
Yeah, if you're salaried exempt (there are some salaried non-exempt jobs that can get OT) you can't even put in overtime and aren't entitled to it. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17a-overtime
The guy is still coding for money, right? So clearly he managed to absorb something that's still valuable.
Something to keep in mind too is that ChatGPT's model is from September of 2021, and so, as it will state quite clearly, it "has no knowledge of the world after that date."

I asked Bing's Search AI the same question and it claims that it updates itself every day to stay current on the latest news and happenings.

2 years is a LONG time in our current society, so keep that in mind when it provides answers.
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> For instance, if you can standardize on `make setup`, `make test`, `make docker`, etc. on all of your organization's code, it's very easy for a new develop on a project to start contributing quickly.

This is the real magic trick. In fact you can even go one step further and standardize on just one command: `make help`. Then you walk over to your QA lead and say "Clone the repo, type `make help` and if anything about setup, deployment etc. isn't clear or doesn't work, log a bug." Now your infrastructure is subject to your regular software development lifecycle. You have achieved "Infrastructure as code" with a tool that was authored in 1976.

Unreasonably effective.
> I do not thinks artist are "punished" more for making bad works, as much as they are loosing that extra "excess attention" that our media-high society gives them.

It might be partially about attention, but the problem with fine art is probably that it needs to be something novel or reach beyond the mundane somehow. Most people can keep doing more or less the same mundane work with mundane results every day and it's still passable or even completely fulfills expectations. You can't really do that when the work kind of by definition is expected to spark something or speak to its audience.
Totally depends on circumstance. Senior government officials should almost certainly maintain clear separation. Highly regulated industries that are logging everything as in the current example. But a dogmatic position that no employee should ever intermix personal and work presences just isn't universally the case.
Love the timing of this.

"AI is gonna destroy jobs" vs. "Secure on-device AI can improve your quality of life."

Narratives matter.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/25/consequentialism/#dotards...

> For many Constitutional law scholars, last years' Dobbs decision on abortion rights at the Supreme Court came as a dismaying shock, because it showed conclusively that conlaw wasn't a realm of ideologically consistent intellectual foment, but rather, a matter of politics.

> Writing for Credit Slips, the finance law scholar Adam Levitin admits to feeling a bit of schadenfreude in that moment. The "blue collar" law scholars in "grubby" banking and money fields have always treated the conlaw set as "slightly clueless toffs"
Worked at AAA game developer. They had shit ton of custom workflows build on top of JIRA.

Imagine you want to add a weapon to the game. With one click you could generate 100s of tasks for all the related stuff. It touches pretty much all the game. This is very very incomplete list for what Jira created tasks:

- concept, 2d, 3d art

- sounds, and there's quite a bit of them: just gun sound, reloads, impact on different surfaces etc

- animations - this is a large one

- writing: for example, background info on the weapon

- gameplay design: how the gun fits into the game

- world design: where the gun can be found, who (some fraction?) uses it

- quest design: maybe the gun is a reward in some quest, or is used in a particular way

- balance

- obviously, programming for all the above

- and even more obviously, testing all of the parts.

And that's one workflow. You had those for many parts of the game.
There’s certainly a lot of that but it’s still a version of music being part of our lives, even if the people trying to participate in musical “me too” experiences aren’t creating what we’d all consider art. These things have always existed, they are many people’s way of engaging with the things they love. What’s new is our ability to share it and see others do it.

Besides, popular music has existed in a “perfect performance” place for, what, two decades now? The virtues of imperfect performances are lost on most people. Speaking as a performer and occasional producer, I simultaneously enjoy the imperfections in my favorite albums and invest serious energy to purge them from my own releases, so I get it.

None of this changes the fact that DIY music scenes are thriving. Physical album sales are healthier than they have been in years. Playing guitar seems… cool again???? None of these are bad things, even if there’s one too many videos 14-year olds playing perfect Dimebag Darrell solos on YouTube.
Now you can steal someone's fingerprints, DNA, phone, and voice all at the same time. Efficiency!
I agree that apple prompts for iCloud passwords way too frequently and doesn’t have the ability to authorize with another device (despite the fact that you could reset your password from another device).

“Type your password to buy this item on the App Store”. Why?
My hope for the surprise is an almost order of magnitude increase in memory on these chips. That wold be transformative for local AI.
Conservation of nature is something I care a lot about.

But isn’t this the natural process playing out? A plant is evolutionarily fit to survive this desert. It is introduced randomly by an animal. It prospers and colonized the otherwise inhabitable area.

In the process, moisture is retained in soil (sand), nitrogen fixing bacteria enter, and the next most fit species also is able to enter.

This repeats a few thousand times and the desert starts to bloom.

At what point is conservation of the environmental process the better option compared to conservation of the environment in a human powered stasis?
And this is why I always hate how computer parts are named with biological terms.... a neural network's neuron doesn't share much with a human brain's neuron

Just like a CPU isn't "like your brain" and HDD "like your memories"

Absolutely nothing says our current approach is the right one to mimic a human brain
a webcam cover or a simple sticky note should work well when not in use. why risk assuming all who has access to your data are ethical?
China has been an incredibly reliable partner to Apple.

They were looking to expand that relationship before the US government shut it down. They wouldn't have been planning that if it was going poorly.

Companies are relocating out of China for cost and for political risk of further US decoupling. China itself (apart from rising costs) isn't really the entity causing this despite what the narrative may sound from US media.

I'm located in Thailand and my friends are running companies that are on the beneficial end of this migration. It's actually been tough going because atleast for manufacturing the infrastructure isn't really here outside of the auto industry (which is dominated by local factories of Japanese brands).

We will see though, I anticipate that much of this will blow over in time, a new status quo will be reached with China that might see their share of exports to the US decline somewhat but total decoupling is unlikely as it would split the world in half.
The whole story of OpenAI is really slimy too. It was created as a non-profit, then it was handed somehow to Sam who took it closed and for-profit (using AI fear mongering as an excuse) and is now seeking to leverage government to lock it into a position of market dominance.

The whole saga makes Altman look really, really terrible.

If AI really is this dangerous then we definitely don't need people like this in control of it.
Halogenated solvents should definitely be avoided at all costs but I'm generally not too concerned about how hexanes are used to extract cooking oil, for example.
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Biological evolution doesn’t do any special testing except reward whatever survives. And it works fine. Marketplaces implement the same algorithm faster and effectively.

There are many ways to find truth besides math and science.

Obviously, those two are the gold standard for difficult questions.

But when time is short (competitors at your heels), rewards are fast (lots of hype fueling prospective customers), and the tech isn’t even that hard (deep learning isn’t rocket science, lots of good ideas are panning out), then any organization that needs to acquire its own resources to survive should operate on a try-evaluate-ship loop as fast as they can.

Occasional missteps won’t be nearly as fatal as being slow and irrelevant.
I think it’s time to bring back the term “databank”.
I wonder if introduction of some goats there would change something
This is problematic because it competes with audiobooks. Presumably Apple wants to sell audiobooks and also doesn’t want to piss off publishers. Kindle provides a (mediocre) text-to-speech feature, but only for books where publisher have consented to it. Apple’s strategy seems to be to have publishers (rather than readers) use their AI-powered digital narration service: https://authors.apple.com/support/4519-digital-narration-aud...
If that is a worry then you really don't want to get on the wrong side of the Culture GCU Grey Area.
This is already available with Rewind.ai + their GPT plugin and I've already asked such questions and got good answers.
I'm aware of the negative impacts, but it could have some positive effects due to:

- improvement of barren soil with organic matter

- soil coverage and microclimate regulation

- stabilization and erosion prevention

- facilitation of other plant species' establishment

One could even speculate that this infestation resembles a form of ecological succession.
I wonder, would the ESP-S3-KORVO also work?

That might be a really nice option with more mics and a light ring.

https://es.aliexpress.com/item/1005003980436945.html

PS: It seems to have 3 mics but has solder pads for 6.. Weird
The problem is that you have to bring proofs

Who's to say we're not in a simulation ? Who's to say god doesn't exist ?
This has been coming to my mind in the context of fiction writing.

Today, the writer's gold standard is publication. In fact, many readers say they won't read anything that hasn't been "published" by a publisher.

But the incentive of a publisher is money and sales, which means they will search for things that sell in volume, or handicap the writer's work so that "it sells." And how the publisher guesses if something will sell? They will look for things that have sold in the past, they have no other way. And they will do it even if it crushes the bibliophile's soul of everybody at the editorial, because they got bills to pay. And it results in...more of the same. It's not art anymore, it's commercial fulfillment, and it's not enjoyed to the point of being remembered.

There is one good thing about fiction writing though, it's called beta-reading. It's a thing authors do, but it's also a great opportunity for readers to contribute to a story, to make it more to their liking. If you ever are feeling hyper-critic of a piece of contemporary fiction, as an alternative to cancel-bombing the author because they produce "bad work" and have the daring of publishing it on their own, consider doing some beta-reading.

Remember, Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown was traditionally published and an amazing commercial success[^1].

[^1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX5IV9n223M
When people dismiss the alignment problem by anthropomorphising AI, my go-to meme is:

Owing to the fact we have no idea what we're doing, the first human-like AI is likely to have literally every mental illness, mixing Alzheimer's paranoid schizophrenia, grandiose narcissism, manic depression, and unconstrained hallucinations.

So yes, we'll need digital neuroleptics, amongst other things.
What makes you think TSMC management would blow their own facilities? It's one of the main bargaining chips they have to keep the US at the table to intervene with their military.
Show HN: Free startup finance tools – SAFE conversion impact
Free tool showing the effects of YC’s SAFE on your ownership % & cap table.

After many conversations with startup founders, I realized most struggle to understand equity and fundraising implications.

Other free tools (in the same spot):

- SaaS financial projections tool
- Founder dilution & exit calculator
- Liquidation preference calculator
- Break-even analysis
- Employee vs contractor calculator
- 401k provider comparison
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I’m the founder of FlowCog (the company hosting these tools), a dev, and a CPA. I built these tools myself, happy to talk to about them and answer any questions. Written in Typescript & Next.js.

disclaimer: none of this is financial, tax, investment, legal, health, or spiritual advice
According to Bing Chat they stopped using TCE for decaf back in the 70s, at least in the US.
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