skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be the annoying naysayer, but more as a thought experiment: many jobs benefit from increased focus. And like.. yeah, unnecessary notifications are unnecessary! Tautological.

But in context: a coworker needs a piece of information. You are there. You have the information. Asking you saves them 30 minutes. Should they interrupt you?

What if it's 5 minutes? What if it's 15? What is the level of urgency on their end? Is there pedagogical value in them figuring this out without you?

Ultimately interruptions have varying degrees of necessity, and we should be evaluating a team's interruptions as a whole. "Turn off all notifications" might indeed be the proper baseline, but at the end of the day the real thing is team interaction. Is the problem interruptions? Or is it role distribution? Is it knowledge sharing?

It's very easy in a context free situation to apply blanket statements but there's so much nuance to these interactions that I have a hard time establishing any sort of blanket rule. But at the end of the day, people's norms are different, so something needs to be said. "Don't talk to your coworkers" just rubs me the wrong way. It is definitely what is said to many teams who interact with programmers, though.
Only because of a small niche that enjoys hot hatchs. Regular people in the US are not interested in these vehicles.
I just sounds like the commenter doesn't have a good concept of "why". They are going through the motions, booking meetings etc. but are not really leading anything, just doing stuff.
There are enough extensions to do whatever you want. My Gnome desktop has no top bar. Activities are totally hidden: I don't have any mouse or keyboard event that shows them. I use 5 virtual desktops and switch between them with hotkeys. I have a bottom bar with status icons, task bar, application menu, a menu of bookmarked directories, a menu of the last notifications, a menu of recent files. Notifications popup from the bottom. I alt tab between windows on the current desktop. Possibly other stuff but that's the most I can remember.

If I remember well I stayed with Gnome Fallback until there were enough of those extensions to rebuild my desktop with Gnome shell. That was about at the time of Ubuntu 20.04.
If anyone wants to read a history of the widespread influence of ideas of Neoplatonism, I would suggest reading The Great Chain of Being by Arthur Lovejoy.
For what it's worth, I like the on screen keyboards.

I use four languages on a daily basis (English, German, Spanish and Hungarian), and SwiftKey helps me with that without having to worry about changing layouts.

It gets better over time and after I fed it my emails (yay privacy), I barely find cases where it doesn't know a word I want to use. I can also type with a swipe which works pretty well and lets me type relatively fast.
Whither Aerion?
The original title by Kevin Drum is "How much is a dollar worth to you?", but the given title more accurately describes the potential significance of this "obscure technical change".
Reminds me of "Rainbows End". In that book, book scanning was done by throwing books into wood chippers and blowing the fragments through ducts filled with cameras. All the fragments were then reconstructed automatically.
Yes, because people are like chess pieces. /s
Very much so! I’ve been going through the rest of the SandPond videos, they’re great.
Either you are grossly exaggerating this phenomenon, or this is some cultural outcome that no one downstream seems to understand where it's from, regardless of university.

The OP at first glance seems to be pushing an incorrect assertion ("standing ovation common at end of quarter unless professor was terrible"). I am slightly amused that over half the current set of comments to this entire article is bewilderment and confusion caused by taking the OP seriously.
"Arguing on Hacker News isn't real arguing. Prove me wrong." (sips coffee cup)
Only commenting on a small part, but it really grates me when companies try to define 'fun' for me. No, having lunch with my coworkers every day is not fun for me -- I like taking lunch to have some time for myself, maybe take a walk or something. No I don't want to play games after work with my coworkers -- I want to go home, work out, make dinner, play my instruments..etc. No I don't want to get a beer with my coworkers on Fridays -- I want to go see all my other friends who have M-F jobs and are similarly busy during the workweek.

These are absolutely all things that can be perks for some people, but I don't like it when social interaction is the proscribed 'fun'. For some of us, the job is a job, not our life, and we have other things we want to spend our time on besides work.
You don't think this is factored in when they ask you what make and model car you are insuring? They ask because they know what they will likely be paying out, which captures this and many other characteristics.
Who's decision was it to call the website a "university"? Was that my decision, or his? The decision to call it a "university" is what makes me want to clarify what peer-perceived credentials he might have to that extent.

If you were considering enrolling in a university, would you look into the reputation of that university? I'll bet you would. You'd want to know what it's reputation is like. Well, I'm offering insights into that, and yes his seniority got pulled into that description. He's quite a junior monk to be running his own website. In the Theravada world, this would be almost universally discouraged (it isn't just me who feels this way): trying to run a website while still quite a junior monk. There's no way my own teacher would have approved of it. Theravada culture is conservative - guilty as charged there.

As to his wisdom: I've never actually lived with him, so I can't comment on what he's like. He seems astute enough from my dealings with him. No complaints from me, other than that choice of the word "university". These sorts of things - someone's wisdom - can only be seen with time. As to his choices of what he curates on his website: I agree there's a lot of great resources listed there. My tastes and his are a little different - which is to be expected - and I wouldn't say there are any "red flags" to speak of. It's a solid website. Please don't be discouraged from checking it out. I'm not trying to stop anyone from going explore it. Thanks for taking the time to check out Theravada Buddhism. :)

PS: I have a personal little indie website here:
https://bhikkhu.ca/
...but I don't go so far as to call it a "university". It's a personal website, which doesn't make itself out to be anything more than that.
obligatory: https://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/dither/jy/
While not the case today, LLMs will improve and eventually be able to generate stories indistinguishable from those written by humans.
LLMs could create genre-specific stories tailored to individual preferences. Books could even adapt to the reader's mood or level of attention, providing different content based on their preferences.
My claim is that you _don't_ need to be an asshole to get your point across. It sounds like your goal is to change how PyPA works/what it does. That's great! I think you will be less effective in your goals by personally insulting the individuals behind the group; regardless of whether you think that this _ought_ to be the case.

> They should be called what they are, without hesitation and euphemisms.

You disagree with decisions made by the people at PyPA. I don't think you presented any reason to believe that these people were dumb? Or that they had a low IQ? Or anything else to that extent?

You disagree with decisions, and then concluded that this _must_ make them dumb. Is it possible that they are simply making different trade-offs from you? Or that there's some (possibly mutual) misunderstanding of the problem? As another commenter has pointed out, some of your claims about the state of PyPA tooling were spurious, yet nobody would say that "you're not the brightest" because of it!

You seem like a passionate person, and I genuinely hope that you come to the conclusion that empathy (especially in technical contexts) is a better route than hurling insults. I hope that you can direct your passion to making the world a better place, rather than putting people down. The world could certainly use the help.
The authors should have referred to this Allen Institute paper in Nature back in 2021 which got good results with just one bit neurons! They also published earlier work in this area going back to 2016 or 2017 but this more recent, refereed paper was what I quickly found in a web search: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03705-x

Also if you wanted you could get more resolution by just using the mantissa, not that any hardware supports that these days. I love the 1-bit work but I suspect the future is four or 8 bit mantissa between 0 and 1. Not sure you’d even need a GPU at that point, just a vector machine with a small lookup table in L1 cache.
It doesn't really matter though. You can't 'change your mind' on stuff like this on a whim, you entered into an agreement and set expectations. Maybe you'll change your mind again tomorrow. You can't toss your employees around like so many beans in a tin can because you had a good idea under the shower.
Same here ! Also, why should I speak like a ruffian just because I happen to talk to a machine ?
Why would one use ChatGPT anyways? ChatGPT has no new knowledge since 2021, it is a security risk and it frequently reports false information.
Thank you, ChatGPT.
Almost no subs used to be banned
Even those with depraved stuff like subs dedicated to racism (not just allowing it) were simply quarantined.
FWIW, here's another post/memo from the same person. He's laser-focused on developing a competitive advantage and severely discounts the value of employee experience. If you don't share the same priors, you might find his arguments less convincing.

https://flocrivello.com/ux-ex-the-painful-truth-about-custom...

Even more context is that his previous startup focuses on creating software for remote sales teams - so this guy should know more about how remote teams work than many.

Personally, as someone who's part of a remote pre-PMF team, I feel that remote work makes it somewhat harder for us all to be in sync, build together, and feel a sense of focus. That said, I assign a non-zero value on not having to sell my stuff, leave my friends and family, and move to the other side of the country.
> It’s harder to get a hold of each other, as we’re not online at the same time. “I’ll talk about it when I see him tomorrow” — these delays compound in a huge way.

Remote does not inherently mean "everybody gets to come and go online whenever they want". It's perfectly reasonable to require people to be online during the same hours that you'd require non-remote people to be in the office.
Great game, still remember spending countless hours on SimCity1. Shout out to SimAnt and all the other Sim-inspired games that followed.
My very first programming job was like this. The simple method is this:

Leave the code as is because if it ain't broken, don't fix it.

However, once you have to go into code and fix it, this is where you can re-write it, leave comments, maybe even put the old code at the bottom in a comment.

It'd be too much time and possible errors to fix everything, but if you can go in there and re-write some, maybe even make it more efficient, than you might be able to do it.
Crash worthiness actually increases weight. If you want safe cars, they'll be heavy.
Politicians are just ambitious people, sharing full spectrum of other traits. Most people would become equally corrupt if presented the opportunity. Being ambitious just amplifies the temptation.
I feel uneasy in and an open state if I don't say thank you to chatGPT and close the matter. It is not good to have compulsory behaviours/rituals, so I have to work on the opposite of it, I guess? But I don't think it really matters.
This looks pretty good, when did you begin development of this?
I remember as a kid hearing sonic booms and thinking it was so cool. I guess it was military planes in my area. I wonder how many people now even knows what it sounds like.

The article mentions commercial air flights taking half the time, but I wonder who needs that kind of speed when I see this-

“According to ICCT, supersonic flights would burn up to 9x more fuel per passenger per kilometer than their subsonic flying buddies.“
Name the brand and model of your amazing 5 dollar slow cooker and give us some recipes to use in it.

Or people could just read dozens of reviews of a hundred year cooking vessel where they always complain about the price but reluctantly admit its better. Spending lots of money on cooking supplies as a novice is fraught with landmines of people wasting money, but out right dismissals of spending any money is also usually a red flag of someone just discovering cooking. A college sophomore in their first apartment probably doesn't need a $300 dollar knife, but an adult with a job that spends the money on something nice will get years if not decades on a much safer and more efficient knife they will get used to with occasional whetstone sharpening.
Quite so. Much in the same way ChatGPT or other LLMs won’t stop me writing for pleasure, entertainment or otherwise, no model will likely ever make me not want to pick up my guitar or fire up my DAW.
If the boss is coordinating beers on Friday nights, it's pretty hard not to feel like your career will suffer if you don't participate.

This is something bosses need to understand in general—something that you mean to be low-pressure and optional is not going to come across that way to the people whose paycheck depends on your goodwill.
Because useful information two years ago is often still useful.
PDFs are pretty shite on mobile.

Interesting that there isn’t a common solution for this. I guess it’s rather niche?
Use the A100 as a base reference and work your way down from there.
Sydney demonstrated that it can assign an opinion about an individual and persist that opinion and make positive and negative consequences outside of its user session, or at least threaten to.

We dont need a specific word for that to recognize that and act accordingly, many humans are more so afraid of the word “life” “sentience” “anthropomorphizing” than the real world reality and consequences right now.

I think your approach is closer to accurate than trying to turn our brain off to that possibility just because we dont like it and haven't quantified it completely.
I'm curious to see the fuel efficiency. Wind resistance has to be way way higher at these speeds, but it also appears to be flying at much higher elevation so they may cancel out to a certain degree.
Nvidia AI GPU Chip Prices Increase by 40%, Shortages Expected To Dec
Absolutely, I’ve seen teams of traders work over the pandemic, they worked remotely but they had a zoom call open and from market open to market close they were on that call the entire time. Their working conditions were almost entirely unchanged between remote and the office.
> Ubuntu provides a modified version of the GNOME desktop, which does not match how GNOME envisions its desktop

At one point I didn't understood what the deal is with default WM being Gnome.

I was happily using compton+i3 on Ubuntu Server customized for lightweight workstation. That's until Fortinet VPN Client or similar crap didn't refused to work w/o some Gnome libs.

Weirdly, installing Gnome from apt (or the snap garbage, don't remember) was not a clean solution and this software would not work on Ubuntu Server + Gnome while running with no issues on Ubuntu (Desktop) shipped with Gnome.

I'm happily Ubuntu-free now (went with Debian) and impatiently waiting for increasingly commercial Ubuntu to lose its popularity as it clearly makes some developers lazy.
It can't address that when it's disabled, and since it's not a good tool of addressing the issue, it stays disabled
> but there's only a limited amount of material it can touch within a given time and the Universe is not infinitely old

Okay, to be precise something like that can't have existed in the observable universe (at the time we observe), but could exist in a distant bubble that's expanding at the speed of light.
I always found there to be much less overhead and dead-time for remote meetings. Mainly due to the fact that you don't have to find a free meeting room, and then having to move between them.

I and the people I work with also like to organise meetings back to back. We spend our mornings getting through all our meetings by 11am, and then we've got the whole day to get work done without any interruptions.
And it downloads AND installs in less time than it would take to insert the CD into the drive, not to mention finding the thing... Modern wonders :-) Gonna play some tonight!
I spent a good deal of time trying to convince it that there's a real category of law known as "praiseworthy homicide".
A sub dedicated to the candidate who won the election and a plurality of votes in the US is just about as mainstream as it can get.
Complications = paying
In the shower today I was thinking about Jungian archetypes as a visual programming language for the subconscious.

For example, if someone says, "I should be a better mother", and hold this impression in their mind over time, the associations their brain makes with that image and various behaviors can be used as a guiding force during the physical reorganization which occurs when one creates a new habit, or adjusts a behavior or muscle memory.

And these associations depend upon observations made by the individual, which they have either been taught or innately know can be categorized as mother-like. The brain is typically trained to make this association in the case of the mother by mirroring and attaching to the first female who exhibits nursing behavior. These archetypes are a visual representation of deeper mental models which we are primed to carry on between generations.

And then I wondered how this might apply to neural models, if some system of archetypes naturally emerges, if they're useful for programming or memorization/compression, or how we might explore imbuing existing models with an archetypical system.
This comment is 3 minutes old, why should I listen to it?
I did the same with Streets of SimCity.
Which American university is it normal for students, as a group, to stand up and applaud the professor in a standing ovation at the end of each quarter unless the professor was absolutely terrible?
> So take his authority to run a "university" with a huge grain of salt.

What does "authority" mean in a Buddhist context? From what little I know about it, Buddhism isn't like the Catholic church, where everything is a hierarchical pyramid with a single individual at the top, through which authoritative declarations can be made. Plus, schools like Theravada and Zen seem to differ quite significantly from each other, so an authority according to one might be a heretic according to the other. So how is authority assigned in practice, and is it universally recognized among all people who call themselves "Buddhists"?
> Unless the sphere were infinitely far away, only the center point would be in balance

This is false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergence_theorem
When you do the math for gravity inside a shell of material, the quadratic falloff exactly counteracts the distances and the total pull is exactly zero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem
The URL is broken. Can you correct please?
When these games came out, the PC game market was smaller with less competition. Programmers and game makers drew from what they grew up with which was table top board games. That's why the instruction manuals were thick (like a DnD manual), the rules were incredibly complex, and the learning curves were steep.

These games were a product of their time and you definitely do have an age based selection bias!
Some Intuition on Attention and the Transformer
And a seed stage / pre-seed startup is not for you, that's ok! The same kind of people that want to play in the NFL or play at the top orchestra are the types of people who would gravitate towards these kinds of environments. Those people too don't care much for work life balance and having a 9-5 job.
Take that one step further. Start with a virgin earth. With sufficient, but finite, number of players, and a modelled global population, you build cities that effectively compete with each other for population.

In other words an alternate history of population and human development.

A multi-player Sim Earth.
There’s also Roko's basilisk to consider. I mean… I’m gonna be polite. Just in case.
Dun we all wish this wasn’t the case?

Where we have more OSS models to choose from without weird rule lawyering gotchas. Or needing to be from a research institute / a license to download the weights
And over $120K, so parking fees are just a blip for it. When you price it in $/lb, it's not too bad.
The supposed benefits you mention are not worth the headache for most of the things that are written in JavaScript.

For project that will be maintained for ten or twenty years? Maybe Rescript _or some other language with similar promises_. For projects with a six months shelf life or projects that will be rewritten in two years? No, thanks. And frankly, even TypeScript is too much for most of it.
It's Type 10 of https://xkcd.com/2456/.
You haven’t used it have you? Or maybe not for its strong points.

English is not my native language and ChatGPT will rewrite my texts to contain the same info in half the amount of words and in perfect English. For me, that’s where it shines: “Can you please make this more concise?”
When I was a kid, my dad was a naval officer stationed on an aircraft carrier and I got to go on something called the “Dependent’s Day Cruise” where we sailed out offshore and got tours of the ship and they did a full-on airshow for us. Because we were out at sea, they could break the sound barrier with impunity, and it was mind-blowingly cool to have fighter jets flying over low enough that we could see the pilots, absolutely silently until that massive shockwave hit your chest. It’s surreal.
But the fact that they move away from nuclear rather than coal is the big problem. More renewables is great of course, but it's useless if it's done to replace only nuclear and not oil and coal.

Last winter's reduced gas useage was a big positive, though. We really need to build on that.
As much as they would like you to believe there is no licensing authority that allows you to be a country. It's maintained through will and force.
ChatGPT has around 100 million regular users. Presumably they find some usefulness out of it?
> You can often email a researcher and they will sometimes send a pre-print version of the article if you don't have access.

Most of us would send the final published version with proper formatting. It’s not even subversive, it’s something included in the non-commercial uses of the license agreements. Here’s Elsevier, but the others are similar: https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/copyright .

TL;DR: sending pdfs is perfectly ok; what they don’t want is uploading them to servers (which is perfectly ok morally but not so legally (yet)).
Why No Easter Eggs?
It's interesting to see what people come up with in the chat, other than the typical Shrek meme prompts and the like. How do people even come to think of stuff like "demon core party prank"? Wild.
Now thanks to Brexit they're all playing 'chicken' in actually leaving. Because they like the money better. (though I'm not betting on Hungary much)

Leaving was their 'controversy of the day', there are other ones they can use to pent up dissent.