skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Striking hurts the company by definition. Whether the result is that concrete dries out, or fish go bad, or production servers are killed, or television production is halted doesn't matter.

Right, but there's an obvious difference between hurting the company through lost production, and hurting the company through lost production and deliberately engineering scenarios where work stoppages would cost maximum damage.
It's unsurprising the Thomas Court ignored precedent, ignored the explicit legal protections covering strikes.

Also entirely expected that the Thomas Court rejected our Constition's separation of powers and continues to subsume Executive authority over administration.

Two aspects are surprising, however.

Justice Jackson's textualist sole dissent, asserting the Court should honor and adjudicate the law as written and render a legal decision. In other words, 8 justices, including 2 nominally liberals, are content to continue ruling based on their "vibes" alone.

This radical ruling wasn't snuck thru justice Alito's emergency shadow docket.
or docker ps, where is shows volume mounts.
I guess you're lucky that Apple and Samsungs have laptops that you like.
Shared modeling can help schools predict, avert dropouts – Cornell Chronicle
if you know the production database is going to run out of disk space in 4 days, that's not your problem

Uh... My interpretation of this decision is that is 100% your problem.
tvix-store is neat and I look forward to what it might bring in the future (along with the rest of tvix) However there are many deduplicating storage systems that exist right now. Switching to one of them could potentially be an intermediate solution, though compression would have to be solved; perhaps a low -memory version of zstd for compressing in transit would make sense.
“At large companies, and most organizations with IT services” you are increasingly likely to get an Office 365 subscription. If so, you can use your web browser to access all of this stuff including Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams.

If your company has standardized on Office 365 or Google Docs, the experience is pretty similar on all platforms ( Linux included ).

I use Outlook in a browser more than I launch it as an application ( even on Windows ). The same is true of Teams. To be honest, I do not use Word heavily much anymore ( but it works more than well enough to read any doc I might need on Windows ).

On Linux, I do tend to use LibreOffice to author presentations or spreadsheets rather than PowerPoint or Excel in the browser. Office 365 online would work fine for most of what I do though.

LibreOffice is more for people that DO NOT work large companies I think.
Wow, this sounds like a really fascinating study! Binary Search has long been the go-to method for sorted, in-memory data search due to its effectiveness and simplicity. However, given the limitations of Binary Search in certain scenarios, it's exciting to see new algorithms being proposed that could potentially perform better under specific circumstances.

It's intriguing that Interpolation Search, despite its historically lackluster performance, is being given a second life through SIP and TIP. I love the fact that they're leveraging hardware trends and advanced calculations to optimize search performance.

The fact that SIP shows up to 4x faster performance on uniformly distributed data and TIP is 2-3x faster on non-uniformly distributed data is quite promising. It seems these approaches could be really useful in practice, given that real-world data often follows non-uniform distributions.

The introduction of a meta-algorithm to dynamically select the optimal search algorithm based on the data distribution is a clever touch. It helps to enhance the overall search performance by not sticking to a one-size-fits-all approach.

I'd love to read more about these techniques and their practical implementations. Do they have any benchmarks or plans to test these new methods in large-scale, real-world systems?
I hope it isn't true! I'd expect them and other LLM orgs to support some plugins where it isn't worth them building the functionality internally but also replacing the ones that they can do better or with less or little effort. Hard to be upfront and honest about what the future looks like this early in the applied statistics arena. Maybe OpenAI should be deferring more to their Head of PR?

This is the usual "Netflix attempting to become HBO faster than HBO can become Netflix" [1] and a critical eye to where the work is being done and the value being delivered.

EDIT: btown mentions "Just because ChatGPT+Plugins isn't going to be the center of people's lives" in their comment, and I think this is somewhat the point folks are concerned about. ChatGPT (LLM interfaces in general, broadly speaking) might be the IDE of the white collar future, versus an API you call. And maybe that is okay if they can deliver a superior experience to where people live today (Excel, email client, word processor, other SaaS tools, a development environment). Half joking, maybe they should acquire Superhuman [2] and rebrand to that versus "ChatGPT", because that is the ability consumers and enterprises are paying for: to give people doing work superhuman ability.

(disclosure: paying OpenAI customer, no other relation to any org mentioned in this comment)

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2013/1/29/3930560/netflix-wants-at-...

[2] https://superhuman.com/
So intentional property damage is just a reasonable part of the right to strike?

An aircraft mechanic decides to strike by walking out of the tow vehicle that he's driving, while it's moving, causing the airliner that vehicle is towing to ram into the hangar. That's legit?

A gas station fuel delivery truck driver decides to strike after starting the pumping of a load of fuel, intentionally (and foreseeably) causing the tank to overflow because he's no longer on the job to stop it. Just a cost of business and reasonable strike behavior?

How about the auto body shop workers decide to strike right after removing all the wheels from your car on the lift, intentionally starting the job first?

What principle are you advocating for exactly?
"and an unusually high 500 nit brightness."

I consider this above average, but not unusually high. For the past couple years the MacBook pro can do a peak of 1000nits HDR (unlockable to do it with apps like lunar for outdoor computing). There has also been the MSI creator 17 that supports 1000 nits brightness, and some HP laptop models that do high brightness though more for their 'sureview' screen security feature
A better analogy would be... there's this migration you have to run that consists on shutting down the service, doing something, then turning it on. So you shut down the service and immediately leave. Which I agree is simply destructive.
No, the difference is not "obvious". In some industries and workplaces, there will always be damages due to work stoppages. Otherwise the laborer wouldn't command a competitive salary.
That's the rub. They're from a world that was, in very meaningful ways, "pre-connectivity."

Doing meaningful work on a portable presupposes the ability to continue that work when you're at a better device. We have that NOW, but 20-25 years ago we really didn't.

People today talk about how bad handwriting rec was the death of the Newton, but it really wasn't. The HWR was pretty stellar under 2.0, even with my objectively terrible penmanship. What killed it was (a) its price and (b) its lack of connectivity to the desktop.

Palm entered the market with a $299 device that was dead cheap, fit in your pocket, and synced with either the Palm Desktop or Outlook. That's what killed the Newton.
That's a big inspiration, thanks
It's a pretty reasonable expectation for the 95th percentile. IDK how that translates to surgeons, maybe 70th-80th percentile?
FTFY: OpenAI is AI.com now.
Redhat is just falling.

It was a pain doing packages 25 years ago, comparatively it is simple now.

Frankly, the flatpak will have issues as well, but those will be outside of Redhat's direct control.

Which means the end game, will be a redhat flatpak.
There are various computer vision algorithms for detecting lines in images, like Hough transform[1]. You can combine it with an edge detection algorithm[2] for increased reliability. You would then look for quadrilaterals that have some space around them (as required by the QR code spec), transform them into squares, binarize the pixels (there are different approaches to that too, but a simple threshold would work in simplest cases), and only then would you start looking for the corner markers and trying to actually decode the QR code. At least that's how I'd do it if I were to build a QR code reader from scratch.

I built a similar thing for Telegram a while ago[3] for recognizing the text in the machine-readable zone of passports and ID cards. It does different things after the initial detection/transform/binarization steps, but those would be the same for a QR code reader.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hough_transform

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_detection

[3] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/...
Perhaps you missed the part about not needing distro-specific packagers by providing a way to run third party apps without having to trust third party packagers. You can deny access to the camera or filesystem or network without ever auditing the source code and trust that the software cannot misbehave in that aspect.

This isn't a knock on the value of package managers or maintainers. It's just an obvious step in better security. It seems silly to argue that integrity among package maintainers is the only safeguard we need. I personally like the little piece of plastic that my laptop has that slides across the built-in camera. It's not a software solution, or even an electronic safeguard. It's even better than the little DIP switch on my phone. I say, why not?
Research indicates the "unemployed surgeon" problem in Canada is more folklore than reality. [0] AFAICT, Canada has a shortage of physicians. [1] That unemployed people exist at all is not evidence that there is no labor crunch.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5866140/
[1]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-turning-away-home-gr...

That you are not running these rooms as much as possible indicates some failure in pricing/profit seeking, but I have no idea how the Canadian medical system works.
The little language model that could.
Kind of silly but indicative of modern times.

"Everything in my X must have an accountable responsible human Y" should always be the rule.

Corporations and Bureaucracy and Computer Systems and Market Capitalism have severely eroded this simple notion. We must not allow people to outsource accountability.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Shares Insight into Future Plans and Challenges
In an exclusive gathering with Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and a group of developers, discussions revolved around OpenAI’s APIs, product strategies, and the societal impact of artificial intelligence (AI). Altman provided valuable insights into the company’s plans, shedding light on key takeaways from the conversation.
Only the first link refers to this, the others are the previous "hat" tile.
As someone shared their findings with some bank related case, I'd like to share mine:

Approx 15 years ago I was installing POS system to one second hand store.
It was just a beginning of online authorizations and there were few issues with reliability of those that time.
As testing was hard, I usually tested operations by trying to make 10kEUR transaction with my expired Visa Electron card. If it worked correctly, I got "denied" response back.
It was some time in November when the installation happened. I tested transactions and those went through as approved. I canceled the transaction and cancel went through also. After few tests we found out that payment terminal had some weird demo credentials and finally we got that fixed.

Then, shop finally opened on January. Shop owner called me that their bank account has now negative balance. I joked something about the issue that why he calls me about that and I forgot the thong for few days.
Then, after few days he called me again and said they have started police investigation about that fraud. On same evening, I was paying my personal bills and noticed that I had about 65kEUR too much money on my account. Sent immediately message to store owner that I probably have his money but I do not know why.

Well, next day I was suspect of fraud. I started to move money back to customer, but it was not possible for some reason on one tx, it was limited to 10kEUR/day. So it took like a week until customer had their money back.

So what happened:
Normally payment terminal transactions expired after three months. Meaning that bank would reject if batch includes older.
That was not case here, as there was exception that if same transaction has cancel transaction on same batch, then it is accepted.
But, on some later process, they rejected all the normal transactions but accepted the cancels.

So there was real bug on some bank system and bank tried to force me to sign NDA that I would not tell about this issue. I did not see any reason to sign that but most probably they fixed that very soon.
You could get a Toshiba FlashAir sd card, which can be read/write to from wifi. Plug that into a USB sd card adapter & away you go. Discontinued but there are some available about.
Being nice is indeed the classic startup strategy. Then they grow up. More people come knock on the door. Other people go away. And the company becomes the only thing it can become. Another corporation, acting like a corporation. Of course, there are exceptions. Apple is one to me. But even they, slowly are reversing to the mean over time.

PS: Please don't gimme the sweatshop talking point, that's BS propaganda for an outsourcing partner that powers literally most of Fortune 500, yet somehow it's always Apple's fault.
I have a friend who, at 59, just had another kid. He has grandchildren older than his new son, and is statistically unlikely to see him graduate from high school. That's heavy.
1. github

2. Hacker News
Glacier has no agency? They proceeded to fill the trucks despite the threat of a strike.

As noted elsethread, Glacier could keeping refilling the trucks, postponing the strike indefinitely.

Further, per the NLRB, the law permits this kind of strike.

Here's a summary of each side's arguments. https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/21-1449
You are describing most of the big tech companies.
Microsoft Twitter Tesla Facebook
Modern day slaves.
I call this Indo Pacific slave trade
Well, yeah on top of one in billion chance of bitflip you'd also have one in million chance that the bitflip would cause it doing something incorrectably wrong.

There is a lot of protection in modern engine, like retarding timing when there is a knock or long/short fuel trims to correct for any changes in the sensors.
If I read it correctly, it's in Chrome since the middle of 2018:

https://www.ssl2buy.com/wiki/google-will-start-enforcing-cer...

In that context, reading the already mentioned Firefox bugzilla communication is even more interesting:

https://www.ssl2buy.com/wiki/google-will-start-enforcing-cer...

It seems Firefox implementing it or not doesn't change much, in this case, due to its low matket share.
Forget insurance, paypal terminates accounts on a whim.

I've not logged into my PayPal account in at least a year but got a termination notice for policy violation.

That's the real threat.
I don't get this. You define the layer meta_mac but there's no key that uses it...
I'm guessing it's more about going public. Anyone who is using Apollo (or similar apps) isn't seeing ads and isn't giving Reddit lots of stuff they can track. For a long time, Reddit had allowed much more user-friendly access than most places. Their API offered great access for free and their ads were trivial to block with ad blockers. If you look at Instagram or Facebook, you'll be getting tons of ads even if you have an adblocker because they've spent a lot of time getting around those. YouTube has been working hard to get around ad blocking and Google is even trying to limit adblocking in future Chrome releases. This has left Reddit with less revenue than other popular sites.

If they're trying to go public, they're going to want to show revenue growth and show that they're able to get more money per user.

You've called Apollo an "important partner", but are they a partner for Reddit or a rival? In terms of Reddit's revenue, they seem to be a rival.

This is certainly terrible for users and I'm sure Reddit will face a decent amount of backlash over it. At the same time, I'm not really sure about categorizing Apollo as an important partner. Is Apollo kinda like YouTube Vanced? A better app for users that also means less revenue for the service? To an extent, who wants Reddit's ad-infested app when they could have Apollo?

If you're Reddit and looking to have a good IPO and grow your revenue, Apollo and other apps are standing in the way of that. They're offering a better, ad-free experience of Reddit. Over time, more and more people would want to use ad-free apps like Apollo instead of the official Reddit app as more people realize they exist so it's not like the problem would be shrinking for Reddit.

I think LLMs might be a convenient excuse, but I think the bigger issue is likely that they want to grow the revenue they're getting from their user base and they can't do that when people are using apps that get around their monetization. Reddit is following what most similar sites have done.
May I point out the post I replied to had no data.

If you have data that addresses the two points you made, please post them.

> For the first, there is an obvious incentive towards exaggerating one's stay in state, and no counter-incentive whatsoever.

Nothing obvious or even true about it. Using the word obvious just hides the fact it isn’t.
Intelligence != consciousness. Sure our intelligence is emergent "applied statistics". Nevertheless, whence qualia (subjective experience)?
1. the decision is that the lawsuit can proceed, not that it's the workers' "problem"

2. regardless unless you take a slippery slope interpretation to the ruling, it's doubtful that any and all losses related to work stoppages (even ones that are days/weeks out) are the workers' "problem"
Within comp sci? Not sure. Within academia writ large? No way. But hey I look to biologists who put biological immortality > 100-200 years out (I've never believed Aubrey de Grey and similars during the 20 years he's been in headlines) and see AGI as in the domain of biology/psychology. We've implicated the brain, that's about it.
It lets them focus on more enterprise-y features and improve overall security.

Such a minor amount of work saved, if any, and it's all for cost savings, with a reduced user experience.

Yup. Redhat as IBM.

Modern IBM has fallen so far, and could never, ever create or originate something like redhat.

So buy it, they did, and now legions of managers preen, and describe how to "improve" redhat, each cutting, shaving cost, impressed with themselves.

And don't believe the "hands off" junk, they still have purse string control.
I'll call this situation
Bad for people and good for companies
> What are the specific things about any of those that warrant infringing someone's free speech rights?

The terms of use of the service.
I’ve been surprised by the bugginess. I open up a thread and as I scroll, some of the comments are already collapsed, despite having 50 or more upvotes. I can only assume this is a cell reuse bug. If that’s true, that is seriously amateur hour.

Edit: and their video playback has been notorious for years now
People have been using third-party clients to access Reddit for more than 13 years. When you have that kind of history, a change like this is difficult to seem like anything but a rug-pull.
> This when people in the US needs to be as brave as the people in France.

What exactly are you proposing? Blocking traffic? Setting fires? Riots?

Perhaps the American people can rely on our government to protect us (from you).
Yeah all the way back when Reddit sent out takedown threats on most 3rd party apps for their names (I use Relay which used to be called Reddit Relay, can't recall the Apollo app name before) and launched their own apps it was pretty clear.
is this the streisand effect

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36177895
I feel like people don't understand what this is, and what google has historically done.

This is research for some math to improve the ability to do a style transfer, and they show it on their own text-to-image generator muse, which they have also published the structure of.

This is what they have typically done, and this is what they didn't do with Bard.

No, they did not release waits for it, you cannot run this on your own computer. But they typically didn't release weights for things like Lambda or Imagen either AFAIK.

This is not a product. This is not a tool for you to use. This is for researchers.

The point of this paper is not to let you run it on your computer. It's to allow other researchers to implement and build on the methods described in the paper.
I'm confused. This seems like a much better language than CreamByrd. Why is CreamByrd supported in the browser natively and DreamBerd not? Feels unfair on the part of the standards bodies.
Interesting how often "a banana" turned into multiple bananas, and how the coffee machine flip-flops between infusion and grinding, and the towel not only changes number, but also sometimes disappears entirely!
Even worse, GIF was not intended to be just an “animated image format”, it was “general purpose media streaming format” which incorporated frames/layers, sequence ordering, palette switches, and compression (also, one couldn't be sure that client hardware can decode and paint even a single frame fast enough).

Some old picture book or presentation type GIF files have 0 delay time between frames (doesn't work well with software of later decades, when GIF animations became common), and 0 is “draw as soon as possible” in the specification. Even a simple viewer program without support for metadata or user interaction would have to wait for each frame to be received via modem link, and it would take some time, especially for full screen images. Therefore, a competent GIF viewer software should have an option to simulate 1200 baud download for those old files, and compute the additional delay based on frame size in bytes.
> The "quotes" have been chosen to back the author's opinion obviously.

Or, to provide some balance to the actual anti-union ruling.

The quoted words are from the ruling. "Misses Entire Point of Striking" is a statement of fact, because striking can't work if that act doesn't negatively impact the business.