skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. Employers can't even look inside user's mailboxes because there is no guarantee that it doesn't contain anything personal. 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.
The UK is one of the Western democracies without the protections you're talking about (no written constitution, no ability to bind future parliaments, law passed by a simple majority of parliamentarians, first-past-the-post and strong third-parties leading to parliamentary majorities with ~35% of the vote) but has one of the longest and proudest histories when it comes to freedom and liberty.

Mob rule is always a risk but it's often better than rule by an out-of-touch elite.
> Companies should be judging their people by results.

You're not accounting for the many companies where a sizeable chunk of the workforce are "bullshit jobs" and are just there to create work for other bullshitters and/or be there for political reasons to pad someone's direct reports list and justify their salary. This is an major epidemic in some countries and cultures especially in Europe, and remote working threw a big wrench into this machinery by giving those workers a lot more power and perks that are usually reserved to elites within the company.

In this case there is no tangible output to measure, the only "output" is the suffering of the employee and the appearance of them working hard. This kind of spyware thus makes sense to force the employees to "work" hard and not become too complacent/comfortable in order to perpetuate the charade.

I don't expect this being used in startups or smaller/more modern enterprises where the org chart isn't (yet?) bloated and productivity is measurable based on output, but to be fair this is also not a vertical that Microsoft is targeting (nor can compete in even if they wanted to). This is targeted at large, bloated companies where they need to keep herds of bullshit jobs under control and make sure they don't get too comfortable - otherwise it would rock the boat if some low-level employee appeared to "have it easy" more than some high-level director/VP/executive, regardless of their actual productive output (if any). The spyware will efficiently detect such occurrences and make sure they are addressed.
I got that MIME type issue in Firefox yes.

In Chrome there just didn't seem to be anything to do on the page: it was dead with no instructions and no clue what kind of file I was being asked to upload.
Sure, Mach is great. No argument from me here.

Well except that, a new developer-focused Mac Pro with that centralized campus feeling, sounds great to me.

I can only wish it would have both x86 and ARM cores onboard, though, to get that true all-round Mach prowess...
That was sort of the impression I got as well. Hating anything your opponent supports, regardless of its merits, feels like a bad strategy to follow.
You can increase the number of options too, I increased them to 4, made it more interesting (You can literally just type: Let's continue but with 4 options)
I think the root of the problem (lack of access to OpenAI for some people, or a lot of people if you are talking about multimodal or 32k context) is that the open models aren't quite competitive yet. So we are relying on this one company with superior models.

I hope that efforts like OpenLLaMA can be successful.

Ultimately what will really democratize this is new hardware paradigms that are variations on compute-in-memory and vastly more efficient.

People that showed up a little bit later might be kind of screwed now though with a long wait-list. Not sure.

From my perspective OpenAI has done a reasonable job at distributing access to a limited resource. But they definitely do hold some things back like the 32k and multimodal for privileged companies. That part doesn't seem particularly fair but also it seems that there just isn't capacity to do otherwise.

I think the whole landscape opens up dramatically within a couple of years with much more efficient hardware for GPT and much better open models.
So we need to create mechanical robots typing text generated by LLMs on a keyboard to look like we are working at the 100% utilization all the time (probably costing <$100 these days based on robotic hand prices). Then some solution for facial recognition if a webcam is needed.
While it's obvious that people send their sick kids to daycare--because what are you gonna do, gotta go to work--there is probably at least some small part at play that people with young chicken are also sleep deprived and stressed the fuck out.

Written from my back porch as the two children scream at each other inside.
Also lost it at the timed lifetimes :)

Infinite lifetime is actually useful here and there. I'll usually slap an infinite lifetime wrapper around the `requests` or `httpx` module when I'm testing out some Python web scraping code.
Nobody wants the product you want to make. They all want you to make the product they need, and will do things the devs of your product could never imagine with your product.
Implications of AGI on Subjective Human Experience
It's a literal racket.
Even if the music is low, drunk crowds can be loud enough to impair my ability to hear a conversation.
I had a class where the textbook did that. I always would get last year's books to save more than a few coins, but the professor of this class would go through the problems in-class, and they were all different from what was in my book. I went to his office hours to understand why the problems he went over were different from the ones in my book, and he immediately lectured "Ahhhh you must have bought an older book from the bargain bin. I require this year's book in my class and this is how I know who failed to pay for the correct book." The professor was the author of the book, of course. It was at that point it sunk in what a huge grift higher-education was.

I forgot the professor's name, but if you're reading this, fuck you, Dr. Shithead (and all the other Shithead professors who do this).
Most new routers have guest network, and internal network. Put your work laptop on guest network and that should do the trick.
"Simplest"? Some (maybe most) of us have never found or hired any such person, and doing so has its own stresses and inhibitions...
That's the very point. What we are discussing is not why a particular post was down but whether the policy of completely shutting the discussion makes any sense.

You could argue that if a discussion is heated, at some points both sides run out of arguments and things like Godwin's law kicks in, so letting it continue is counterproductive. On the other hand, I saw interesting and highly upvoted posts disappear after just a couple of comments (because they were politically incorrect, criticized someone, or were in favor of someone currently out of fashion).

This "I dislike so I flag" abuse (by a minority) is my single gripe with HN. Otherwise, it's by far the best community on the web and I'm happy to be a part of it.
You missed that DB is -1 indexed
> In the case of programming...

A percentage > 90% of the world isn't programmers...

There simply isn't the same workflow to monitor "word" / "pdf" documents without an insane amount of effort / document control that most SMB's dont have.

The only option available to them, without hiring programmers, is often only the metrics that get offered built into these types of products.

I dont think that's a strawman argument.
yes, i have two teenagers in the same room with me. send help.
It is not so clear cut https://youtu.be/sGG-A80Tl5g
Why does it even need to be "request"? Are they that cheap these days that they won't pay unless asked (begged)? If the company needs you to use a computer, it needs to provide you one. I am sure not letting my personal and work machines mix, both for this and IP reasons, and on the other side, if I was in control of such things, using personal machines would be an exception.
What leads you to believe that people who do not want to work are desirable to have in the workplace? UBI also doesn't give you wealth, it gives you basics, and overal that's much cheaper than dragging down an entire team or department.

At the same time, we currently have plenty of people who do not want to work and do indeed not work, that will not change regardless of what you implement. I also think that happy and healthy non-working people are worth more to humanity than unhappy or unhealthy working people.
I'd like to know where companies like https://www.hawkanalytics.com/cellhawk/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_Reveal get location data on US citizens legally without the permission of those citizens, and how them buying such info isn't illegal surveillance, and how reselling the data to law enforcement is not selling stolen property for them, and receiving stolen property for the fuzz (assuming, maybe wrongly so, that I own my location data as PII)
A red flag for the employer should be that this means that Microsoft can also see what their employees are doing.
Just out of interest: any reason you're not using the SQL server service broker?
Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash:

> Y.T.'s mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it. The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes. Later, when Marietta does her end-of-day statistical roundup, sitting in her private office at 9:00 P.M., she will see the name of each employee and next to it, the amount of time spent reading this memo...

> Y.T.'s mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes reading the memo. It's better for younger workers to spend too long, to show that they're careful, not cocky. It's better for older workers to go a little fast, to show good management potential. She's pushing forty. She scans through the memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section. The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading. It's a small thing, but over a decade or so this stuff really shows up on your work-habits summary.
Similar gap regardless of industry. Fix should not be industry specific.
What exactly is my bias?
"More - any outlet or organisation deemed too left or incompatible with right wing values is in danger of being shot up by right wing extremists"

Come on now. Deep breaths.
I worked a number of near-minimum-wage jobs from the time I could find one at 16 years old and had no money whatsoever until then. I didn't learn to drive until my late 20s because I couldn't afford the mandatory lessons until I finally had a decent-paying job after graduating university. I didn't even eat three meals a day for most of high school and university since I couldn't afford it. I paid my tuition by working as a highly underpaid intern and delayed my graduation by years as a result. So enjoy your pity party, but keep your uncharitable assumptions to yourself. Labor laws don't govern how your parents treat you.
Into this maelstrom came the neurodiversity movement, whose advocates celebrate autism as a gift that is an integral part of identity. They promise to make the voices of autistics heard, and to improve their quality of life by making the world more accepting of, and accommodating for, them, after decades of being marginalised and victimised. However, in recent years, there has been a backlash against this – growing numbers of people are now speaking out against the neurodiversity movement, claiming that it does not represent them and, more importantly, that it ignores the plight of those with severe autism.

and

Firstly, neurodiversity advocates can romanticise autism. While many with mild forms of autism might lead relatively ‘normal’ daily lives with little or no assistance, many who are more severely affected cannot function properly without round-the-clock care. Yet John Marble, the self-advocate and founder of Pivot Diversity – an organisation in San Francisco that aims to ‘pivot autism towards solutions which empower autistic people, their families and employers’ – posted on Twitter in 2017: ‘THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SEVERE AUTISM, just as there is no such thing as “severe homosexuality” or “severe blackness”.’
I run a couple essential apps in a Virtualbox on my work laptop. Mainly due to compatability but more and more so due to privacy and articles like this.

Am I right in thinking that anything that goes on inside that Virtualbox is 'relatively' private?

I don't believe our IT department have the capacity to go beyond something like Office 365 Admin, but who knows.

Thanks,
"As a manager, it can be difficult to know what your team is working on and who is actually productive"

Successful managers figure out how to do their jobs without micromanaging or creating a culture of surveillance. Bad managers do what you're saying.
The rocks also need to be able to move a bit for elasticity, and have sharp edges. For that you also replace a part of the ballast every few years. That's hard to do when everything is sealed. Even with such "glue", the lifetime couldn't be eternal, after all.
The post is literally a "Ask HN" question. There was no claim.
I thought they were some sort of starving artist making near minimum wage... But 260k on average... Either there must be someone earning millions there... Or it really isn't that bad.

Not that CEOs aren't hugely overpaid either...
> Goalposts

You literally said "output" the most speculative / vague definition of "work" available.

I appreciate programmers / "creatives" "output" is much harder to measure, but there are alot of jobs where "mouse moving", "words per second" is a very reliable indicator of "output".
It seems useful to identify the right problem. It's better to know you just need the right compiler than the think the issue is something else as you can then work on building the right compiler.

Obviously democracy should be limited to the relevant franchise. We don't let children vote, we don't let people who don't live (and are not from) an area vote. The entire point is to identify the right set of people who should vote, based on those who suffer from the related externalities.

It seems unfair to say the article just moves the problem elsewhere, it touches on proposed solutions such as street-level development votes.
> Basically nothing

You might consider providing a more concrete example if you're going to throw shame around. This answer feels emotionally charged and incomplete.
In Norway misgendering may already be illegal. See e.g.

https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/tonje-gjevjon-faces-up-to-3-ye...
PRs are welcome!
If they could get away with paying 10-20% less, don't you think they'd do it now in a heartbeat?
My read time estimate code is here: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/aa3608afa6c62695ca0ab139f823...

I've been trying to play with the constants over the years to make the read time estimate more "accurate", but it's a tough nut to crack in general. So I can go over my numbers more accurately, how long did it take you to read it?
At least here in the UK, the official advice if a family member caught Covid was to isolate them in a separate room, with no allowances made for children. Sounds like we already tried this!
> humongous

14kb

> It also forces you to return HTML fragments via AJAX.

not true, you can return anything. support client-side templating for JSON etc
Not only does it rely on the labor of mods and dealing with a lot of bad behavior. However, the admins also enforce a "code of conduct" on the mods and threaten the loss of the sub for lack of compliance.
> 150€ sounds like the advertised poor person diet. Rice, beans, cheap vegetables like potatoes, little of cheap meat(chicken legs maybe).

That's my diet too lol. Am I eating like a poor person? TIL
I see this as a grand opportunity to start new subreddits. It's been decades that the biggest subreddits are being ran by the same aging small group of moderators. The new ones may not be better over time, but it's worth giving it a try.

There's nothing wrong with reddit finally being a bit more serious about their content which is awesome compared to a lot of what is today's internet.

Maybe if they focus on making money they 'll stop their childish grandstanding and culture war
He hesitates to make conclusions.
FWIW I've worked in tech here in Iceland for 12 years and this isn't really my experience. The article is a little rose-tinted but it isn't as negative a bbarn makes things seem either. In particular salaries in tech can definitely be higher than they make out and this sector is healthy for the size of the countries population!
The lawsuit is just for press, they know it is a joke.

Companies are allowed to have biases
Who needs textbooks when Chatgpt, YT, open course, khan academy, gives u education for cheap?
>we will clean up our act way before it cause serious issues.

There is already enough CO2 in the atmosphere to cause serious issues. It's not an instantaneous process, but at this point it will happen.
Do you have any pointers to papers/books exploring peephole optimizers? I've read a few paper, but found them underwhelming…
Cool way to generate an ebook. Does the AI fill out the Kindle Direct publishing form too?
Oh man, symlinks to share common configuration.
I remember the stress building up in me as I read that part of the book ...
But what does this mean in practice?

I've found it helpful to think of AI models as if they're people. What does that mean? It means when I'm talking to them I keep in mind that I don't know how they know what they claim to know, I don't know who else they're going to talk to or what they're going to repeat that I told them, that there's no guarantee they'll even try to treat me kindly. Trust AIs as much as you trust a random stranger on the bus.
I'm curious how the logistics of this strike are going to happen. With the old reddit themes you could just put a black everything over with squares in CSS but the new themes are so uncustomizable (especially in the app) that your average mass consumer may not even notice. In addition, anti-spam/anti-bandwagoning measures may be leveraged by reddit to censor protestors in the subreddits, along with banning of "malicious" moderators who attempt to enforce the strike on the most popular of the subreddits. While that would obviously degrade the moderation of those subreddits the sheer inertia of the communities will result in the consuming masses thinking everything is working as usual
Well, it sounds like you could come up with a set of useful heuristics, like living next door to the property.

It feels intrinsically pretty cheems to just say "this sounds tricky so we shouldn't bother" when the existing system is completely dysfunctional
Universal income covering the very basic would still keep people making beyond minimum wage vulnerable.

Paying meaningful money would be too expensive at scale. Then few jobs could pay meaningfully more than the universal income. Why work if you get +/- not working?
My solution: Guest WiFi. My router has an isolated guest WiFi mode.
re-enact Roe v Wade
Order a pizza to the back porch.
> I really wouldn't be supprised if Apple drop something along these lines on Monday

Apple is really slow on catching up on things, while they are good in introducing "new" things.
I don’t think that they even understand what is going on inside of these AI models.

Why is that? GPT-4 is as transparent as a black box and lacks transparent explainability and openly admits to regurgitating nonsense.

How do they allegedly ‘fix’ it? Train it on more data.
When I was in London in the early 2000's, the Central Line was closed because of the heat damaging the tracks (they never used the word buckle in their announcement, but that was probably what happened). If they have a track problem that far under ground, it's a serious heat wave.
How is changing friends a toxic mindset? Changing friends means new friends, not no friends.

There is a reason they say you can judge a person by the company they keep.
Doesn't Tcl's "trace" feature do this?
And long before Uber, YouTube did it in spectacularly brazen fashion. Back when the site's value was 5% very basic video player, 15% reliable fat pipe' and 80% enormous database of complete "we can't be responsible for policing what our users are uploading" copyright infringment. "Let the rights holders sue us today to take their content down, and beg us tomorrow to keep it up."

And it worked, which is how we end up with a hanful of people who would otherwise be competent but unremarkable 9-5 coders at $CORP, are instead through a bit of fortunate timing, in control of fortunes the size of small countries.
creating momentum is hard, even with a better product. Even before the internet, the slightly technologies did not necessarily get enough traction to unseat the incumbents
Please send for help. I have rubbed off my face with the palms of my hands.
It seems foolish to say we can never do anything that makes the life of the poor better just because it also helps the non-poor
Unfortunately, many of them think Microsoft can do no wrong, in the same way they blindly "trust" the rest of Big Tech.
Why even take the dozen in white when they have a model you can render in any manner? Most car commercials do not have real cars in them. Maybe the shots of a car actually in motion, but most of the static shots are 3D models placed onto backgrounds. I don't know why, but I was surprised by this when I worked in a post house that did a lot of car commercials. One of the roles for a coworker was to get flown around to locations to take the images for the background plates using photogrammetry. "Can't fly an Alexa through the back glass to zoom in on the dash now can we" was one comment.
Giving people what they desire in terms of like quality is destroying them? Pushing them to keep doing what they don't want to do is helping them?
They ain't desirable. But who wants to pay them do nothing? Many people ain't happy to cover existing welfare. Increase welfare and even more people would feel it's unfair.
Companies with the Worst Reputations in America: Twitter, Facebook and TikTok
I know I'm not contributing to the conversation, but this is really funny.
The point is just that you shouldn’t trust work issued devices. They are never going to be as secure as your private network, unless you have a big family or are a high profile target.
Then measure the number of boxes done.

Of course you have to be very alert for quality of boxes, and for selection of boxes. A savvy employee will only choose the easiest tasks as all are ranked equally.

Exactly the same with ticket based jobs. Any measure you have can and will be gamed.
So it’s not invariably true that arrays start at -1? They only start at -1 after an array literal assignment? You need to update the language description! ;)
You have to look at both. Consider a simplistic example: what would prevent the new majority from holding a vote to convert the social housing into market housing? (More realistically: they owners would either lobby to change the agreement or outright break the agreement, realizing they have the community support.)

Yes, there has to be an increase in the absolute numbers. It may be acceptable to compromise on the composition of the community to get those numbers. On the other hand, ignoring the percentages altogether will produce a change in dynamics that will ultimately be detrimental to those in need of social housing.
In the UK, several peaks happened during the summer (July 2021, July 2022 [1]). I am sure kids contribute, like they typically spread many other contagious diseases, but they are far from being the only way covid spreaded. And given the educational cost of school closures, I hope people won't start concluding that closing schools is a good way to stop diseases.

[1] https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?areaType=natio...
Germany famously just passed legislation that forces employers to record working hours for all employees.