skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
USB power delivery works very reliable. Much better than those 10W USB-A chargers/devices operating outside the USB spec and sometimes shutting down your old Laptop when connecting it, because of too high power consumption.
As a parent, I am watching the latest generation of kids where they are struggling to find meaningful work because some of them never worked a day in their life. I want to avoid that situation. I obviously am not advocating for child labor in a meat packing plant working night shifts around dangerous tools and machinery.
So you call social media censorship "etiquette" now. That's one way to make it sound nicer. Here is a novel concept: You don't have to follow people you don't like on social media. Your "etiquette" seems to be just an attempt to legitimize censorship.
>Parents are the last person to vote on education so. Most are unqualified, all are emotionally involved.

They shouldn't need to be qualified or emotionally not involved to vote on something that affects them, their families, and their children.

That's democracy.

Anything else is authoritarian dictums, whether they are based on god given or expertise given or gun given power.
Everything regarding how democracies and voting work. There countless of ways how it implemented, studies on how those affect outcomes, you name it. I didn't see a single reference to that body of work in this blog post. In short, everything.
I think the point more is about advertising masking as research. Yes, OpenAI did a lot of research and there's no question about that and the quality of it and their results. But the question is if *Open*AI is doing internal research (as is common to any big company) or academic/open research. Researchers have different goals and so want to probe these models and understand them. I think the confusion comes from proprietary work looking like academic research. It is nice to peek behind the curtain, but it is unclear what the utility is.

I think a lot of the recent pushback is the social immune system going into effect. We just have to decide if this is an auto-immune disorder or not. The question comes to the advertisement-to-utility ratio. Have we crossed that threshold? What is the threshold? I think the immune response is happening because we don't know and our definition of that is as good as trying to define porn. I think there's a lot of confusion because we're not accurately codifying what the issues are. Or rather we all see different issues but are acting as if others have the same concerns; so we are talking on different pages.
The Pi 4 is really only a moderate step up in performance from that model.
I had a race car track like that, I think they were my father's, so dating from the 70's. It was great and I only got shocked a couple of times, you quickly learn to be careful.
Pffft. One Instagram? That's pocket money these days.

If LLMs really might be as powerful as they're being marketed as, what we're seeing is a shameless play at capturing the technology that most power will flow from in the future.
I didn't do a ton of debugging before giving up and switching away from python, but I think that at least some of it was issues with the event loop and cost of serialization introducing latency.

Yeah, I think some of my irritation with the situation bled through there, lol, didn't mean to come off as aggressive. I also lament the absence of a common input standard of some sort. WASM or the like would be a neat common layer; I feel like it's a good target for embedded scripting and module systems these days.
You don't need a mechanical robot for that. Just need a device masquerading as a keyboard just sending that stuff in.
US Officials Confirm NATO Weapons Were Used in Attack on Russian Belgorod Oblast
For this comparison to make sense, the slave would have to sell themselves. Which is a very different conversation from what is commonly understood as slavery.
but just like tuition, the overall price seems to be increasing across the (college) board, especially for the prestigious schools. this purchase decision stuff is not working.
How so. It is not tied to office hours. I am bound to similar process being located in Spain and put my hours whenever they are. My job involve on-call shifts, work with people in different timezones and releases/maintenance out of regular office hours. It works just fine.

The only thing that annoy me is the software my employer chose can only be accesed from inside the corporate network and do not provide a rest api. Otherwise I'd setup a large physical button with a led light connected to a pi zero so I can just hit it on starting and stopping my work.
ChatGPT has made this argument obsolete. First, ChatGPT can generate textbooks that can not be copyrighted. Second, ChatGPT makes textbooks obsolete by replacing one-size-fits-all text with custom answers to questions.

Source: I'm a teacher.
I wonder why we didn't try the same thing in the War on Terror?

Capture high-ranking Islamic clerics, give them a choice: "Go on TV and explain to everyone that Allah's will is for all good Muslims to throw down their weapons and surrender to the Americans. If you refuse, we'll put you on trial for war crimes."

[1] In this post I'm not taking a position on the morality or legality of the US taking such an action, either in WW2 or the War on Terror. I'm merely noting that:

- The US did this sort of thing with the Emporer in WW2, and it seemed to work.

- The US didn't do this sort of thing in Afghanistan / Iraq, and those wars were definitely same kind of overwhelming success story that WW2 was. (I don't dispute some key objectives were obtained: Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were eventually killed; and there has no been 9/11 level terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11 itself.)
Who owns all the media organizations in Italy? Black people? If not, their power to respond and argue is severely constrained
I don’t know the OPs answer, but I’d hazard to guess because ssmb is a completely neglected feature with very little in the way of community or UI. In theory it would be great, but MS basically never invested in it after its release and now it’s just a random, “who knows when we’ll drop support for this” sql server feature.
Tax burden on Danish salaries is borne by employees post-tax rather than businesses. This tends to inflate net take home pay.
PiVPN – Simple VPN installer – interview
My dad, a teacher now nearing retirement, expressed during the early days of covid that schools were primarily government-provided daycare services. His concern was that the economy would crumble if schools were kept closed. Then the American Federation for Teachers expressed a strong desire to keep schools closed for longer and he quickly reversed course. Even within the system it's abundantly clear that no one is sure of the role their profession plays, but it unfortunately often comes down to politics rather than the needs of students and society. I agree that such a conversation is needed, but I suspect that it would quickly devolve to the same vapid talking points.
What happens if nobody pay for the funeral?
for the next 15 years.
I'm personally not too concerned with cases like this. I mostly avoid personal activities on work equipment unless they're benefit-adjacent. My thinking is if they over-snoop and see health or financial data they shouldn't see (and it gets out), it'll look bad because I was managing benefits that are part of my employment.

Outside of that, I keep my use very benign. I'm logged into the Financial Times and Stackoverflow. Most companies with knowledge workers won't look at any metrics they collect unless it's a security thing or they have a reason to look. But yes, assume that they can look if they want to.

Once they start snooping around, they're probably going to fire you regardless. They just need a story to tell.
The "basic" in basic income isn't there for decoration: just taking UBI and not working would probably be about as comfortable as living on something like Universal Credit in the UK, minus the adversarial means-testing, which is to say, "not very". Certainly I wouldn't characterise it as "easy wealth", more like "easy bare minimum so you don't have to worry about starvation". Besides, if it was that much gloriously easy wealth, you'd get it too!
(I’m from Europe, have lived in US the past 8 years)

> Is there a concept equivalent to US, salary employee?

Yes. It’s called full-time employee. This encompasses anyone and everyone who does not work as an independent contractor.

> If so what are they expected to work?

40 hours per week.

With mandated minimum lunch time and breaks, paid minimum vacation, paid medical leave, paid maternity/paternity, govt mandated lunch allowance, govt mandated transportation allowance based on commute distance, and many other “perks” that US companies use as negotiation tactics.

If you work more than 40 hours per week, you can request overtime pay. Many employees waive the overtime thing for various reasons. In some industries because they’re exploited (restaurants and such), in other industries because they’re Mission Driven and want to work more (startups and such).

The law is there to protect you, but in practiceit comes down to your relationship with your boss.

edit: Personally, I don’t like this paternalistic/maternalistic attitude from either approach (as laws or as perks). Just pay me a shitload of money and let me figure out the rest. I’m old enough to buy my own lunch thank you.
There is no free market when companies collude and form monopolies or oligopolies. Let’s stop pretending that free market rules apply in the current climate.
Hard disagree. I've worked at multiple companies that care about security. Monitoring employee equipment use for activity that could indicate a compromise is a positive signal.
The worst case scenarios of climate chanve are grim but still leace room for humanities future. It will be tumultuous, but not catacalysmic. Alarmism does nothing for us. We should try to stay level headed
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I failed to consider the audience.
Setting the Record Straight
That's not how you hold people accountable.

Even simple metrics like number of PR/code reviews can easily become so useless. They can be good indicators when taken with a grin of salt. But judging someone's productivity from these dashboards is stupid.

I really hope companies/managers who use garbage like that suffer the consequences and the industry learns from it.
when they openly talk about this, they give ideas to those less aware of technology (business people), about how they can leverage the existing technology for surveillance.
I had to add a DS record to a Route53 zone just the other day, and when I did, I didn't see a DNSKEY option in the list of records. Don't count on that 100% because I wasn't looking for it, but I definitely don't recall seeing it.
> Oh. So the solution is: I don't have a solution so I'm going to move the problem from one place to another and state that it is an interesting question for someone else to solve.

This is most of political theory in a nutshell. Whenever you see "The solution is..." just apply this template.
This made me remember of my first 3d accelerator card, the Diamond Monster 3D. It was exactly like that, a 3D-only card, that took over the 2D signal of your default video card when you activated it by daisy chaining the 2D videocard to the 3D via a short vga cable between both :-) Good times when 640x480x16bpp was enough to make me wow at something like GLQuake
this chart says msnbc and the new york times is far left of center, not sure how much value i'd put in it
> Loops are a complicated relic of archaic programming languages. In DreamBerd, there are no loops.

Flex
>I don't think they'd have enough replacements ready quick enough.

There is never a shortage of losers desperate for a crumb of power.
Beating BP is very impressive, but I guess they dont have as much name recognition anymore.
I would like to recommend "Trinity And Beyond," a 1995 documentary on the development of atomic weapons narrated by Bill Shatner. It features beautifully restored footage of many detonations and a fairly matter-of-fact, unbiased account of the history and events.
UBI will just cause inflation so that you have to work to afford things again. No company will forgo an opportunity to raise prices when they can. Fiduciary responsibility to corporate boards has always been more important than morals or ethics. And easier to get sued over. So boards will demand growth, as they do, and that will include raising prices where people can afford it. Poverty will still be there, it will just cost more (nominally) to get out of it.

The question you pose will remain with UBI, as will poverty. It might just get more extreme for anyone who gets disqualified from UBI for some reason (undocumented, etc).

This problem has not been solved for UBI nor seen in small-scale trials. But there isn't a single rich country or region in the world where the retail prices have not adjusted to consumers' spending power.
Email keeps everything on-prem.
Roughly twice the cost an identically-sized RP2040 Pico (both 51mm x 21mm), but 6x clock, with 250x the RAM, miniSD slot, USB-C and optional ethernet connect. Freaking awesome.

(And to show my clock working here: a stock RP2040 is two cores @ 133Mhz each. This board's 1Ghz + 700Mhz. 1700 / 266 = 6.4x. Not sure how apples to oranges arm-thumb/risc-V is though?)
Are you paid by the hour? Any job I've ever had with such rigid time tracking requirements was a hourly paid position.

This sort of thing backfires on the employer in my opinion. It's quite easy to stretch a task to fill 8 hours if you have to be there anyway. But maybe you'd be happy to clock out after 5 hours one day and take a few extra unpaid hours for yourself. If your work is done, the employer should be happy to save a little money and let you do that.
I'd say there's nuance to be had here. They don't just choose leisure, they, through generational practice and upbringing, can do so without completely becoming undone in the process.

See: what happens to most people who win the lottery, not having been first acclimated to that sort of wealth and leisure.

Look at the sorts of things the Victorian aristocracy indulged in. It's not that they couldn't instead have been diving face first into mountains of cocaine and very top shelf booze. They just also had the ability to pace themselves and find forms of leisure that weren't debaucherous, but nor were they work.

New money typically goes one way or the other -- it's that middle path that the old upper class manages to find a way to travel.
> Booleans can be true, false or maybe.

> Technical info: Booleans are stored as one-and-a-half bits.

Technically, ternary values would be ~1.5849 bits.
Here's a fun way to spend the next 15 minutes on the site. Find search terms that satisfy both the above constraints:

1. Has at least 20 results

2. None of the first 20 results is porn content

I even tried with Math and Chess. No dice.
In the EU you should not be asked to work more that the maximum hours defined in the European Working Time Regulations. There is usually a range in these directives so member states can choose to go to the high or low end. But there is a range that has to be put into law for each country.

Basically you shouldn't lose your job for refusing to work more hours than are defined in the regulations, if you do there is a tribunal process. But, if the employee is willing there are ways around it.
> The Spectator does have a tendency towards superficially high-minded but ultimately ineffectual chatter (which at least fits with its name).

The article draws rather thinly supported conclusions about SV from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Yes, the bank failed but so did others like First Republic, and for similar reasons: interest rates went up and left them holding low-interest bonds that undermined their balance sheets. This is plain old bad management. The Fed response is similarly explainable by fear of contagion.

It would have been a stronger argument if the Spectotor pointed out that many large VC-funded firms look like pyramid schemes. Wework and Uber are two obvious examples, along with numerous recent database IPOs--firms that still have no clear route to profitability. Not only that, prominent VC firms seemed to double down on the strategy, as evidenced by A16Z funding Adam Neumann (again) after Wework. [0]

[0] https://a16z.com/2022/08/15/investing-in-flow/

Edit: typo
I am primarily impressed with this comment in that you did a very good job of re-phrasing "children are disgusting snot machines."

...and I'm someone who likes kids.
I don't really understand the subject too deeply, just enough to have me convinced UBI should be implemented in some form, but I think the fundamental assumption is that everything that the government has to provide, it is going to do so, by no fault of the government itself, in a very inefficient way. So by the mere act of UBI replacing many systems and centralising in a single program many forms of wealth redistribution, it would do so with less waste, even if UBI would be by itself inefficient.
> So where the FUCK is all that money going?

Please be aware that higher education is a massive dumping ground for the lowest-performing segment of the politically-connected managerial class, who are too cowardly and lazy to run for elected office, and too stupid and impulsive to make it in industry.

Academia is perfect, for them: a gigantic stage for demonstrating moral superiority and hiring friends, with no fundamentals that matter at all.
It seems to work fine on my side with Windows and MacOS using Chrome Canary. I can't find where the problem is at, but I will keep on looking for it. If I manage to find it I will try to shoot you a message, and if you can find/think of anything else feel free to contact me.
SoyletNews is still going strong
Over the last several months, articles have been on the internet tracking one of the Mid-2010s darlings – SoylentNews – for a possible shutdown. With the user NCommander posting in late May, "SoylentNews is going to shut down operations on June 30th."
SoylentNews is owned by a company, SoylentNews Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), which NCommander is the president of. The site SoylentNews uses a fork of Slashdot code engine which was made open-source. Using PHP and Pearl, it has seen better days with little activity in its Git Hub. Michael Casadevall (NCommander) is a New York Ubuntu core developer and president of SoylentNews Public Benefit Corporation (SN PBC). NCommander has just recently been active in the community, asking for assistance. The goal is the call for the next generation to step up and lead the renovation of Soylent. With its dedicated editors and volunteers hearing the call, activity has been resurgent on Soylent, along with staff discussing what to fix next in their IRC Channel at chat.soylentnews.org

The countdown continues, so we will have to see if SoylentNews survives the summer.
Were you going to provide the definition? What is this “capacity” you are talking about?
Maybe the distinction between social network and media consumption needs to be heightened and that will ultimately be a great thing.

But there was a period where I could do it all on Twitter and it was convenient. Perhaps it was never meant to be, as the incentives are kind of twisted.
Sorry to interrupt...
First they came for peoples social media behavior, and I did not speak out—Because good people have nothing to hide.

Then they came for peoples work clicks, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for peoples minds and souls, and I did not speak out—grown up people should know how to protect themselves.

Then they came for me, but were no people left to speak for me.
Yeah, you weren't kidding about their comment history. A looooot of talk about Nazis and their ilk. (Something something doth protest too much?)

Noted on the brevity though, lol. I really gotta stop engaging these types in any serious capacity and save myself the blood pressure spike.
Note: I’m the author of this article.

We aren’t talking about breaking out of the sandbox here, the extension sandbox stays intact. The problem is that this sandbox has plenty of privileges. And so Chrome attempts to restrict what code runs in this sandbox.

Technically speaking, they succeed – only the extension’s own code runs inside the sandbox here. But this is a mechanism aimed at preventing security vulnerabilities, not at combating outright malicious extensions. An extension can always download some data guiding its decisions. These extensions take it to the extreme, essentially turning that data into code.
Didn't know that. It does seem in this case, they are just reporting on the studies as far as I can see. Here is the source material from Science, Nature, Vaccines, BMJ and other peer-reviewed medical journals:

Extended SARS-CoV-2 RBD booster vaccination induces humoral and cellular immune tolerance in mice https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422...

Class switch toward noninflammatory, spike-specific IgG4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciimmunol.ade2798

Assessment of avidity related to IgG subclasses in SARS-CoV-2 Brazilian infected patients https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95045-z

Interleukin-6 blockade with sarilumab in severe COVID-19 pneumonia with systemic hyperinflammation: an open-label cohort study https://ard.bmj.com/content/79/10/1277.abstract

IgG4 Antibodies Induced by Repeated Vaccination May Generate Immune Tolerance to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/11/5/991

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Naturally Acquired Immunity versus Vaccine-induced Immunity, Reinfections versus Breakthrough Infections: A Retrospective Cohort Study https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/75/1/e545/6563799?login...

Effectiveness of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Bivalent Vaccine https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/10/6/ofad209/7131292?l...
> You might consider providing a more concrete example if you're going to throw shame around. This answer feels emotionally charged and incomplete.

Exactly what I am calling out. Thanks.
Imo, the future is millions of micro-GPUs on a chip, with simplified instruction set. Such mGPU clusters will be called neuromorphic chips.

Btw, it's time to measure performance of LLMs in watts.
See
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/images/free-speech...
There was a mathematics professor in Canada who wrote what became the standard calculus textbooks used in universities here (the violin ones). Anyways, one day a local paper did a little showcase of the house that textbooks paid for and now that I'm trying to dig up a reference to that article, I find it has its own Wikipedia page!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_House

Suffice to say, I, nor anyone else, should not feel bad about pirating that series of books.
So an 'employee' who attending 4 meetings every day and edited 20 documents but didn't actually accomplish anything useful is better than the one who did nothing for 3 days but managed to produce a lot of actual value for the company in the other two?

> In reality

IMHO the tool would be most useful in dysfunctional companies where managers don't really know what their subordinates are supposed to be doing or are trying achieve besides "working".
> Even if the company has a rule that you're not allowed to use it for personal things, the law supersedes that and you still can't do it willy nilly.

Companies are not homogeneous blocks of matter and there is always information some people at the company may need to know that others have no business dealing with. Tax, banking and health related information are some of the things that I can think of that would be shared on a need to know basis with people at work and have no business to be seen by people outside of the intended audience.
Increase your natural T. Doubt you maxed it.