skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But he's not the only business leader using heavy-handed techniques to get workers back in the office. I think it's likely that he genuinely believes that working from the office is better - he's not playing 4d chess.

The morality argument is just him rationalizing what he already believes. This isn't the "first principles" thinking that he demands from others.
> It is not some extreme, radical position that shutting down your company by staging a strike because you _deserve_ to work from the comfort of your own home is morally tenuous.

Why? This is just a negotiation. Striking is one bargaining chip that labor has that they can play. Striking isn't morally tenuous.

> You can disagree, but acting like musk is a raving lunatic for sympathizing with minimum wage workers who bus to work is nothing short of supreme stupidity.

How is Musk sympathizing with minimum wage workers? Did the minimum wage workers ask for the "laptop class" to comeback to the office? Do they even care? What about people in other lines of work where remote isn't an option? Do they care? It seems more likely that Musk is just using this false comparison as a way to pit labor classes against each other.

> Honestly the anti musk sentiment around here is so braindead and reactionary its beginning to feel like an astroturfed psyop.

Come on...
Perhaps, but if we all queue up to clown on you others will take note and lay off the bullshit for a short while but LLMs will keep hallucinating in blissful ignorance.
>If its immoral to have more or different privileges than someone else, thats literally communism

This is not quite the Marxist definition of communism, but it is a lot closer than I would expect to find on HN. I am surprised.
Remember the phrase "developers spend 10% of the time writing code and 90% of the time debugging?"

Even if it isn't 90%, most developers like writing code more than debugging, so most would prefer to automate the latter.

AI translating natural language into code probably isn't as important as AI generating bug-free code and/or debugging its code. Even GPT-4 struggles with this: sometimes you point out a bug and it works, but sometimes it just can't find the issue and starts hallucinating even more as it gets confused.

Everyone's trying to train GPT models to write code, but maybe we should be training them how to use a debugger. Though its a lot harder to map text generation to debugging...

Also, it's a bit ironic how one way to prevent bugs is using stronger type systems and formal methods. But, AI is particularly bad at formal methods. But maybe with a system like MCTS combined with much faster generation...
Eh, the more mindshare these people think they have the more crazy they become. Pre-2018 Elon was more focused on the companies, although he still made mistakes (Taking TSLA private tweet, borderline self-dealing with the SolarCity acquisition). The cave rescue fiasco and how he was sleeping on the floor of the factory during the 2018 Model 3 Ramp[0] (which also supposedly had Tesla a month away from bankruptcy[0]) must have triggered something, perhaps he'd already done the hard work and wanted to celebrate by increasing his fame/clout and by eventually purchasing his favorite social media platform.

0: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/elon-musk-says-he-is-sleepin...

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/03/musk-tesla-was-about-a-month...
> is the war lasting longer because the EU and US sends arms to Ukraine?

The war is lasting longer because the Russians have decided that the number of dead Russians and recaptured positions that need to happen for the war to end is higher than what Ukraine has currently achieved.

This war could be over tomorrow if Russia decided to leave, if anything western weapons and aid are making the war end faster by speeding up Russias defeat.
The best defense against Alzheimer's is avoiding carbs and insulin resistance!
Fascinating. My condensed version:

1) the Russian air capacity worked well for the kind of work it was intended and trained for, but close air support of an offensive operation against a near-peer was not what it was designed or trained for. This means it could bomb the bejeesus out of Syria or Ukrainian infrastructure from a distance, but not support ground troops.

2) we should not assume that the Russian air power would be equally incompetent if, say, we were engaged in an attempt to gain air superiority over Russian troops in a NATO vs. Russia war. That is the scenario which their air force (and its policies and procedures) were designed for, and thus it could be expected to perform significantly better than it has in Ukraine (where it has failed to establish air superiority, but has quite effectively denied air superiority to Ukraine).
What’s your take on the Slaughterhouse obiter dicta on birthright citizenship?
The confusion is provided entirely by OpenAI, in my opinion.
I do too. One of the great things about Doris Day was that you knew that if she was involved it was going to be a fun to watch show, movie or interview. There was no gore, preaching or downer info. We don't need to be reminded of how nasty the real world can be all the time. We get enough of that already. I miss those days.
Not the author of the comment, but it is pretty clear to me that they are saying you can work from home and coast, or you can work from home and be productive, and they suggest that everyone who works from home should do the latter.

I agree with them. To me it isn't about the color of one's collar or the location they work from. It is about being productive. Productive workers should have flexibility, where possible. Unproductive ones shouldn't.
Yeah. The first time I saw Haskell written out, it felt like a blending of formal math and programming. I was really excited at how it looks like it could have come from my discrete math book. I don't think programming in english is a good idea, but like you said, we will probably get something that looks more like formal languages, because that's what we've always done.
> the checked in code is impossible to review

While there are valid arguments against vendoring dependencies, I’m not convinced this is one of them in the typical case. It’s exceptionally easy to ignore certain directories when reviewing PRs in GitHub (although I still wish this was available as a repo-level preference), and I’d hope at least this would be the same in Gitlab, BitBucket, etc. I don’t review vendored dependencies, and I wouldn’t expect anyone else to, although the utility of that is admittedly domain-dependent.

Go also has the benefit that its dependencies tend not to be in deep chains, so the level of repo bloat when vendoring is usually not too terrible, at least relatively speaking.
Isn't libarchive streaming only which would suck for exploring large zip/7z archives?
Vacuum Balloon—A 350-Year-Old Dream (2019)
Maybe. But regardless he’s a major songwriter and the drummer on “Master of Puppets” which is, to me, the finest metal album of all time and a top rock album as well. It’s perfect. But a lot of this goes to Cliff Burton as what was accomplished on this album was quickly lost. And his influence is obvious. Just beautiful bass and backend on these songs. Just magical.
I think it's mostly true. Yes, people have gotten used to the flexibility and maybe their very particular setups at home. But, if people could walk 10 minutes to their office and people they knew would be there I'm pretty sure you'd see a lot less pushback--especially for coming in a few days a week.
I'd much rather program with the help of ChatGPT 4, as it is right now, over programming with Excel (I've done both). And at least on a smaller scale, the code generated by ChatGPT hasn't been a mess at all.

Sometimes it's incorrect or insufficient and it can't handle the more complex solution I'm asking of it, but the code isn't messy and doesn't require me to rewrite it from scratch, just fix what's incorrect.
Anyone else notice Netlfix also being laggy and shows crashing consistently in these past few months? I've pretty much stopped watching it in favor of HBO's streaming platform.
Same here. I've quit coffee about 15 times in the last 10 years.

EVERY. SINGLE. TIME, the result is the same: high blood pressure, bad sleep, constant lethargy (which can only be fixed by consuming more coffee), frequent headaches... all goes away after one week of detox.
> But it's imaginable that these concerns

It's also imaginable that we can build an engine that runs on entropy. Doesn't mean it's possible.
The greatest intro to an investor email interested in REGENT that I have ever received:

"I would love to tell you that my first job was working under my Uncle Ros (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostislav_Alexeyev) as we meticulously broke down and redesigned his life's work from the ground up, but unfortunately that's not true" - Coby Fleener
I only hit the limit when I using some bots to interact with it. Never hit it after 2 months when normally using it.
Led lights, PIN numbers, and ATM Machines are all members of this phenomena, I wonder what it is called...
Sigh. It's an expression as old as time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and...
This is one reason Mikrotik products are so nice. At least, they have a pretty decent Web UI that you can use to configure stuff.
Container shipping has cratered, as ship owners try to avoid unprofitable trips
> Seagliders have 5ft wave tolerance on takeoff and landing

But do sea glider passengers have a 5ft wave tolerance? That sounds like a wild ride.

But this is exciting... as someone who remembers taking the Hoverspeed SR.N4 from Dover to Calais, I know fast coastal transport innovation can be a game changer.
3M makes a really good set of films to reduce both glare and solar gain — we had them put on some very large windows and it's definitely a difference. You have to go through a 3M contractor which is the only annoying aspect (although it's not a job I would have enjoyed doing so having a pro do it worked out in our case.)
By the time they start giving you attitude, they're well past the warranty period.
Going to Catalina on a train sounds like a lot of fun.
I've been fascinated by erkanoplans for a while! I bet we could even use them to travel over ice sheets in the Arctic and antarctic
Definitely considered. Swapping means specialized training, specialized equipment (these batteries are thousands of lbs), and mass storages of batteries to be on-hand at your docks. All drive the cost higher. So far our customers have not indicated that the charge times cause them problems, and the cost savings are significant in charge vs swap.

Plus, this way seagliders can potentially utilize the same charging infrastructure as electric aircraft, boats, and busses.
Not entirely the case. When the sun passes through and starts beaming into objects in your room, the floor, etc, those objects then radiate that heat throughout the day.
What's the legal authority permitting "seagliders" to carry passengers but escape aviation regulations? Or to use navigable waterways at high speed when other maritime users are severely restricted in speed? I doubt any historical exceptions would stand up to significant use.

What's the real benefit? Actual ground effect is strong but very, very limited - to about the width of the wing. The (wallowing) demo flight is well above ground effect. Also, the demo's downswept wingtips provide a lot of the "ground effect" benefit.

Most importantly, all of this could be done more cheaply and reliably with internal combustion engines. Why hasn't it already been done, if the demand is so strong?

Sorry, but the technical and legal loopholes seem way too small to thread.
Huh? Is this a "Jipi and the Paranoid Chip" reference, or something else?
Pulp: Open hardware platform behind open source 64-bit RISC-V vector processor
Parent is what might be called "well socialized".
So I guess they bought out Mr. Winrar?
With today's tech you're spot on. As batteries advance though, we expect ranges closer to 500 miles by the end of the decade, which would indeed enable SF<>LA!
Those huge engine nacelles seem like a pretty real limit on mounting points.

I wonder if these are retired b1's or active duty ones? Probably active? We just retired 17 relatively recently. 45 left in service:

> These [17] divestments mean that the Air Force now has 45 of these aircraft in service, down from 62 at the beginning of the [2021] year. The service, which received a total of 100 B-1Bs in the 1980s, had previously retired 33 of them as part of an earlier consolidation effort between 2002 and 2003, and has lost others to accidents over the years. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42508/the-last-of-the-...

Payload for the new mount points is 7500 lbs. That seems a little low for a hypersonic missile? Maybe?
Everyday Reality of Service Robots
If they're ever in a position to replace me with AI, they'll do it regardless of where I'm working from. Might as well enjoy WFH while I can.
That's a good one. I remember lots of shenanigans about putting pins next to airports & then contacting the driver to get picked up at the airport on early Uber.

Not sure this particular one would affect Waymo if they were going it alone, since their rollout to each service area would involve designation of pickup & drop off points at airports and collaboration with airports, which they'll have to do either way, but it's definitely a significant difference between Uber 2010 & 2023.
Eh, I was using it to help generate animated backgrounds with various custom geometry and animations tonight for a game of mine, and it performed admirably but it was struggling a bit.

I wouldn't mind if it had a bit more formalization to the point of math to it for those bits. Was still good enough that I got some usable options from it, though.
Life expectancy is pretty low in the US though. Seems all in all the system doesn’t work well.
This is a decent article but the author unfortunately has no understanding of what is known as a "spiritual emergence", which PKD very clearly went through and is critical to understanding his life and legacy. One of the first phases of this process is "anamnesis", in which you recall information from what is thought to be past lives. Laugh all you want, until this has happened to you, you can't even imagine what it is like, but PKDs entire experience with the fish symbol was a clear example of this. There are many other signs, his precognition, the "AI voice", etc., all of which are common.

These events can mimic psychosis and other mental illnesses, but they are anything but. They signal the start of an inner metamorphosis, likely biochemically driven, though we don't yet know the biomarkers. It's like a second puberty, you have all these weird urges to meditate and whatnot, and if you do it right you grow and come out the other side a different person with a different experience of the world than the pre-pubescent .

Because of the general cultural lack of understanding and guidance, PKD, while brilliant, could only guess as to what was happening to him and had no idea what to do about it. In other times and other cultures, perhaps he could have been guided through the process, just as parents guide their children through puberty. It can take years to unfold and can easily go off the rails, see: Gopi Krishna, Living With Kundalini.

Unfortunately substances are one of the things that can make it go off the rails, and his propensity for them may have contributed to his untimely death instead of the preferred outcome of an "enlightened" individual. Again laugh all you want, until we figure out consciousness we have no basis to assume the non-existence of higher consciousness. But granted this whole space is polluted with new age crap, so unless you've had this happen to you it's understandable to paint it all with the same brush.

His Exegesis is a wonderful work, one of his best. Highly recommend reading.
> Finally, as a report which is not really in-depth, not really independant of the organizations it is advocating for, provides little in the way of citations and data, I am somewhat dubious of its value being posted to HN at all, other than to act as a punching bag around which everyone can throw the usual jabs at the US healthcare system as a whole.

Nowadays a large fraction of upvoted HN posts don't contain much genuinely substantive discussion at all. The farther away the post is from a purely technical topic, the higher the likelihood of this.

Instead they are often filled with what I call pseudo-substantive discussion, meaningful superficially, but that don't make much sense, or based on faulty assumptions, once anyone tries to investigate or question a bit.
The conservatives are actively trying to destroy it.
This is correct. The only reason these manufacturers are still standing is because they are propped by the government, eg bailouts is just one example.

The market has otherwise already decided their shitty approach didn’t work.
"This WWW page best viewed in Emacs 27.1." "Size your window to 80 x 24." "Under Construction" [animated GIF icon of road work signage]
I have experience in Germany and the US. I don’t think there is much difference in these aspects. As far as GP appointments go, here in new Mexico the wait time is measured in months and years.
Anecdotally, my experience has been okay... but not great -- you can end up with something Frankenstein would create

The versions often feel arbitrary and don't line up. For example... I've been watching this for years:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firewalld/+bug/183...

This is more on the edge case side of things, too. Not really security patch related -- but a consequence of picking/choosing component levels

With this the firewall can randomly just stop being effective

When things aren't exactly upstream, the knives you're juggling get a little bigger and more unbalanced.
or just, you know, bad with finance... which seems relevant for a job "dealing directly with finances"
Nintendo currently has a large devout fanbase that will defend the company till death, purely because of childhood nostalgia.

Until said fanbase is gone (which is almost never), Nintendo can effectively do whatever they want to modders & homebrewers, with the fanbase continuing to buy Nintendo's products without question.
Intelligence and Consciousness: What's the Difference?
SQLite Cloud: Cloud-share any SQLite database in no time
They may be 150, but they've been a staple for much less time. (Since the 1960's? My grandmother remembered a world in which they were strictly work clothing.)
The US is doing way worse than other countries as far as cost goes. And the bureaucracy is way worse.
So they are fine with worst in class vesting schedule, pressure cooker, stack ranking, PIP good engineers, disconnected middle managers culture. As long as they can do it from home
Or perhaps WinFS?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
You don't consider that a dishonesty conviction may speak to character? Are you really saying that this wouldn't even be a factor to you?
I agree, sometimes you need to carefully review the changes that GPT suggests.

My aider tool tries to make this easy by leveraging git. While it automatically commits the edits from GPT, it also provides in-chat commands like /diff and /undo. These commands let you quickly check exactly what edits GPT made, and undo them if they're not correct.

Aider will notify GPT if you /undo its changes, and GPT will probably ask why and then try again with your concerns in mind.

To manage a longer chat that includes a sequence of changes, you can also use your preferred standard git workflows like branches, PRs, etc.
Ahhh yep. I remember Uber 2010 unopinionatedly just setting the pin directly on whatever the reading was from GPS. Stale or inaccurate GPS readings led to so much confused communication between drivers & passengers.
Didn't even realize they were making cars without AM. How else am I supposed to listen to local sports and bluegrass? Tape a radio to my freaking dash? Some of yall sound like you've never met a rural person in your life. The BBC world service mirror in my city is on AM for pete sake.
Meta Mess: EU Privacy Enforcement Causes Chaos
Dear CEPA, you are on a fast-track in losing your credibility.

"The ruling created a mess. It didn’t take into account that European spy agencies do as much or even more spying on their own populations the US does, and that in the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations, the US has enacted reforms of its intelligence gathering."

The good 'ol spying game whataboutism argument.

"To their credit, the Biden Administration and the European Commission recognize the danger and have agreed on a new transatlantic data deal. It would establish a new US Data Protection Review Court that would allow European citizens to file claims if they believe their data was collected in violation of GDPR rules."

It is almost certain that also the new pact will be struck down, as no real reforms have been done in the US. The recent revelations show that you have also some big domestic issues with FISA and other laws.

"Upset about the GDPR enforcement mess, the EU seems to be learning. For the new Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts, the Brussels-based European Commission will take the lead, although national regulators continue to play a potentially divisive role."

This I can agree with.

"This will be costly -- and threatens the viability of a global democratic Internet, divorcing the European Internet from the US Internet."

And you conclude with the usual pitch about the global Internet. How is the TikTok case proceeding?
Pretty much, once you're a hundred meters or so off the coast. Of course, not inside the coastal bays.

You have to take it into account if you want to kayak to Channel Islands.
Khan Academy is using ChatGPT to bring one-on-one teaching to scale
>AI should be used to support users, not replace them

Doesn't square. AI doesn't replace your users? it threatens to replace your content creators. You treat users as smart enough to assess every webpage you send them to but too dumb to assess the outputs of emergent LLMs. Both are text on a screen.

Refusing to serve juicy steak because babies can't chew them or because there is 20 years of dried beef jerky in reserve to sell first.
https://archive.ph/8wJUp
It very much depends. I have been with a company that found and hired someone because they became known through a felony conviction related to hacking.(They had a specific set of skills we needed related to the hacking conviction.)

...But ultimately we couldn't complete the hiring process since there was a bank on the first floor and the building owners would have terminated our lease if they found out they worked there.
Docker Desktop:

1. In the past, created a managed WSL vm to run containers.

2. At some point, it included the option to use a WSL distro instead, but you had to tell it explicitly.

3. Nowadays it detects whether a default WSL distro is present and uses it to run containers automatically. Otherwise it creates a managed WSL distro just to run containers.

As far as I understand, Podman Desktop still is at (1). You can't tell it to use your own WSL distro.

> I'm about to try `sudo dnf install podman` and hope it connects to the podman-machine? I dunno, it's not exactly clear

I think podman-machine is meant to be executed on the host, but worth a try anyway
The other thing about the iPad is that it’s pretty stable and predictable, with a very mature OS and very mature hardware. It’s also commodity, so if it gets stolen on a tour or smashed or beer spilled on it, it’s not hard to find an Apple Store anywhere in the world and pick up a replacement. That’s huge for touring musicians.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Oklahoma_teachers%27_st...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_West_Virginia_teachers%...

If you like some real numbers; <600 elected Federal officials, only 1 million LEO from federal to local, and very few billionaires and mega millionaires.

All propped up by labor of tens of millions.

Let Jamie Dimon go door to door for those mortgages. 10k NYC cops threatened to strike over vaccine mandates; only 34 did. Let them see police work for pay not fealty.