skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is that trough laws like those, criminals will be getting the power as well. Here are multiple options how to implement this law, all are bad:

Mandated backdoors on the phones sold here - worse security for everyone except the criminals who will import their phones from abroad.

Hackers for hire like NSO group being paid by tax money for dveloping exploits - will be abused by everyone who can pay.

Government developing their own exploits - incredibly expensive and risky.

That all assumes criminals and LE are separate entities but in reality criminals will probably get access to those powers in some capacity, be it trough a breach, rouge employee or a corrupt leadership structure. On top of that, even in EU there are countries like Slovakia that were and after next elections likely will be ruled by parties with close connections to mafia.
For many years California had a bipartisan gerrymander that made the 60:40 D:R state have about 60/40 in its state legislature and US House districts and every seat was a safe seat. That's a certain kind of democracy death. :-/

I'd much rather have any algorithm that gives no power to any parties, and solves a better answer to the question "what is a district for?" (my short short: Local representation for local issues)

As other comments have also noted, lots of people don't want _geographic_ representation but some kind of other issue/identity Proportional Representation. Yup. Also true. My dream State Legislature has a PR Senate at-large across the whole state in batches of 20 or so, and a small-local-district House.
> Their goal is to make as much money as possible

This isn't a nitpick. It's the point under contention. Companies setting core values like Hashicorp has are ostensibly saying "we're not just all about profit, we care about how we obtain that profit." Positioning companies as having a singular goal of "making as much money as possible" is not a universal absolute. It's a choice we make. Let's choose differently.

For example, I'm not in business just to make money but because I think that what my company does is important, valuable to our customers, and good for the world. I also want to get paid and feed my family, but I have options and will walk if I feel like leadership at my company no longer cares about the values they established. I stay because I trust my leadership.
That's not cynical - that's just realistic management.

If you are current at headcount X and want to be at headcount Y by the end of the year, you don't let go X-Y people: you need to take into account the expected voluntary attrition for the year as well as any critical hiring you may need to do.
I know many people do it out of necessity or desire to live in a certain place, but commuting that long would be a last resort for me. It turns an 8 hour day into a 10 hour day. You don't get paid for the time and it costs more in fuel and wear and tear on the car.

When comparing salaries, I always factored in the duration and cost of the commute. Jobs that were further away that paid a little more turned out not to be worth the extra pay when I took these factors into consideration.
Having billionaire-level access to private healthcare might play a non-negligible role.
I own forest land in the PNW, and my wife and I have placed around 15 acres of oak woodland into conservation over the past 5 years, which involved a lot of restoration work which was funded both by ourselves and with grant money through NRCS.

One of the reasons we decided to buy land in the first place was because of Climate Change, and a desire to get hands on in doing something – even if at a small scale. We've learned a lot in the process – there's no substitute for 'doing'.

I'm chiming in because I feel like this experience has given me a fairly deep perspective on the matter. Fire prevention is on the minds of everyone. Even the most conservative farmers I know are in their own way environmentalists. That's the interesting thing about getting out into the country and off the internet is that you meet a lot of people, and you find common interests – even if you disagree on a lot of stuff.

The issue is, this stuff is expensive. You can mow, do manual limbing of trees to prevent 'ladder fires', you can get goats, you can try converting over to ecosystems that are more fire resilient, create smarter development plans and keep structures 100' away from dry woodland, etc.

But all of that costs time and money. There are grants, yes, but even that isn't available to everyone, and even that takes time.

Because the Climate is become more chaotic, you end up with intense rain fall in the cooler months, leading to explosive growth of brush that is dry fuel/tinder by the end of the long hot summers. And because of the way communities are being planned and developed – closer and deeper into the wild/urban interface – fires become more 'destructive' in terms of property and loss of life.

Climate change is a systemic problem. There's no one thing you can point to and say, change this and it will fix the problem. Except maybe drastically reducing the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

Lastly, I'm a huge fan of controlled burns. But they're not without risk, and the liability of conducting them is largely than the people seem to realize. We had an agricultural burn set of a tree 30' away during a rainstorm, in the deepest part of burn season, during extremely high humidity. Why? Because the summer had been freakishly hot. According to the fire department, it was a happening a lot. It's getting harder and harder to safely use fire as a preventative measure in a lot of areas.

Anyway, just some perspective from someone who's actually been living this.
It still astonishes me how people can be so naive and believe anything tech executives say without it being independently verified, even after Snowden and Twitter Files and all the revelations about the CCP.

It's all bits and since China has the executives of course they'll always retain a way to access the data as long as no independent entity is watching over them and all entities in China are under control of the CCP.
If you've ever used any filtering in VS Code, this is the algorithm. Re tomato/margin-top, weight is given to matching the prefix exactly, so margin-top does indeed rank higher.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/src/vs/base/co...
IMO that's just Twitter being a hyper inflammatory platform. Rust's community is also a lot more active online/on Twitter than other languages, so I think that'll bias things considerably.
People go back and forth form banking and finance industries to the regulators of those industries all the time. Were they crypto companies unaware of their obligation to provide cushy jobs for "regulation" peoples, and that's what this is all about?
The article skips directly from #4 to #6, so I'll nominate something for #5: ranges should not be iterators. Instead they should impl IntoIterator and the iterators should be separate types. That way ranges can impl Copy without any issues. https://kaylynn.gay/blog/post/rust_ranges_and_suffering
Tesla Willing to License FSD to Other Auto Companies
You're absolutely right, but if that makes you not try something you might be missing out. For example, Rust is probably my favorite programming language (definitely my favorite native-code-producing one) even though I find some of the community extremely off-putting.
>Is there any actual data on remote work productivity?

How would you even benchmark this in software world?

Companies, teams, products or even months differ strongly
Cool. So when do we get whatever science psychology will turn into?
Yes, many research papers have been written, and many CVs have added lines which include the word "AlphaFold". But has the human condition been improved one iota from the "discovery"? Has anything real actually happened? Not at all. Only "maybes" and "possibilities" after more than 5 years of work. "Revolutionary" at padding researcher CVs indeed.
You can read the original article here:

https://www.technologizer.com/2023/04/15/the-end-of-computer...

Comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35583853

...instead of the Hackaday summary ripoff
Possible, sure. Likely, maybe. But you made it sound inevitable? Of that I am less sure.
Moving people around isn't easy - teams aren't likely to willingly let go of their most competent employees, and when they do, the timelines they give for such a move are often months as they wind down that particular resource.

Additionally from the perspective of employees - you are taking on most of the burdens of job change - learning new technology, having to familiarize yourself with new people, organization - without the benefit of a higher salary.
I would again say, no. The only code that runs is compiled. Any interim human-oriented language is a fiction sustained only until the app is compiled. So optimizing that interim step for an LLM is a mistake. The intermediary language is for humans -- for us to debug, understand, and extend. LLMs will write the human languages that we need for coding. There's no reason to make a special one for the robots.
Show HN: Whiz – DAG/tasks runner for monorepos, alternative to Concurrently
Whiz is a modern DAG/tasks runner for multi-platform monorepos. It provides convenient live reloading, env management, pipes, and more in a tabbed view.

Whiz was created to support the development of Metatype [1] and an example of the configuration file can be seen on GitHub [2]. At its core, every process lives inside an actor [3] and uses message passing for controls, logs and reloads. Because of its architecture and tabs, it offers an interesting alternative to Concurrently [4] when there are a lot of parallel processes.

[1] https://metatype.dev
[2] https://github.com/metatypedev/metatype/blob/main/whiz.yaml
[3] https://actix.rs/docs/actix/actor/
[4] https://github.com/open-cli-tools/concurrently
I managed several dozen people scattered across Hong Kong, NYC, London and Bangalore. I couldn't even overhear the team at my location because I was often in meetings. Nearly everything was done async, with weekly video calls. The main cultural challenge was getting people to IM frequently and casually like gamers on discord.

From a CS angle, we know async is more efficient than synchronous code, but requires very careful implementation. Same for people. It works for OSS volunteers, it can certainly work for full-time employees.
What was the distance it was transmitted over though? I don't recall seeing anything about the distance in the article (correct me please if I've missed it).

1mm, 1cm, 1m, 1km, 1000km?

Exciting, regardless though.
That link is about E-85. E-85 is 85% ethanol (actually 60%-85% depending on the season and the gas station). Ethanol has 30% less energy density than pure gasoline, so E-85 has 0.3*0.85=0.255 less energy density than pure gasoline. That is why E-85 gets 25% lower gas mileage.

"Standard" E-10 gasoline contains between 0% and 10% ethanol. E-15 is 15% ethanol. So E-15 has at most 4.5% less energy density than standard gasoline. You would not see a 25% decrease in gas mileage between standard gas and E-15.
Technology in the service of exclusion and harassment of the most vulnerable
Maybe it's because corn is subsidized.
The strangest thing about our society is that we have absolutely no problem with dramatizations of killing and murder in movies.

Even to the point of having an entire genre of "Horror" movies with a general theme of murder defining the genre.

We properly view those scenes though as complete fiction.
What if we have an alternative to deep learning that does not need those thousands of GPUs?
And replacing the filter is problematic.
IMO apple has been the notable exception Cook is easily the top CEO of the valley. Its honestly impressive how well Cook was able to keep the company moving after jobs stepped down.
I've been using math and C++ to do redistricting since about 2005 ( https://bdistricting.com/ ). It definitely occurred to me along the way that for the mere cost of a year or two of software engineer time, I could totally build an _evil_ version of my impartial redistricting software that optimized for evil goals. But I obviously didn't want evil ends, and sadly no one even offered to pay me to be evil ;-)
I would still make more sense to set an example and control the behavior of people you are indirectly accountable for in a democracy. No matter how much of a joke that sounds in context of any agency able to survey almost all your communications.

And it does sound like a joke already. Maybe having a strong democracy would actually be a good defense against autocracies that behave like China.

Maybe stop security agencies posing a security threat in the med to long term because nobody really believes in democracy anymore.
Do you want roads in the country?
> there a plentiful amount of otherwise land unused for agriculture?

More like land that "shouldn't" be converted into agricultural lands (or ranches for that matter)

I'm not sure if "grazing" is an issue, because the argument is what should we be encouraging our private farmers to be doing. (While "Grazing" questions tend to be a question on public lands IIRC) If you own 100 acres of wilderness, you can cut down all the trees and replace the grass with corn... or maybe you can leave the natural grass and harvest it instead.

Natural grass grows wildly, its perfectly suited for the wild environment to grow quickly. Learning how to take advantage of the natural state of American land is a good idea.

The question at hand is "is this a _profitable_ idea?" and that remains to be seen. I know they've been working on various chemistry, biofuels, etc. etc. to try to take advantage of natural grasses for a few decades now.
The cause of poverty in cali is different though. It’s mostly not lack of jobs. It’s unaffordable housing.

In much of the south it’s lack of good jobs.

The housing problem is easier to fix… not that cali is fixing it.
This has been my experience working on a distributed team as well. I think my ideal setup involves getting the team together in person once or twice annually for a few days where the focus is brainstorming/collaborating.
Yes. Just saying that the filter is not simply an appliance that runs forever.
How are the values BS? Is there some way to encode the values as to prevent the layoff magically? Is it more kind and transparent to tell everyone at once? Or not? I think that is really subjective and situational. For some, maybe many, there is no ‘kind’ way to layoff or be laid off. I don’t know that the values become BS though, there is a lot more going on there than layoffs and they can apply those values to those things.
I’m curious.. what is it about her blog that makes you feel that way?
Countries controlling/spying through national companies is an already legitimatelly dubious activity but possible depending on said countries laws.

Extending that to international offices is kind of a big no-no, specially between two superpowers.
Why I recommended ECS instead of Kubernetes to my latest customer
There are a lot of winners through nepotism in the world.

Your ability to craft an idea in correct logic of a language does not mean the logic is meaningful to reality.
> I haven't even considered that overhearing "fuck this stupid bulllshit"

Why can’t this happen over IM ?

You still only overhear those within earshot

What if you were in a meeting at that time ?
I guessed you would disagree. It's a bit sad, though, coming here asking "what am I missing?" and then making every effort to discard anything anyone says.

Don't mean to antagonize; just think it's sad.
I am not one of those people saying Astrud is the main responsible for creating the song.

My position is that her contribution deserved a portion of the profits the song generate larger than $120. I think it’s fair that she should earn more directly from it, even acknowledging that the song kickstarted her great career and was the foundation of a lot of profits in the future.

I am not saying it was illegal or the $120 was paid on bad faith at the time of recording. I am saying that after the song becoming a worldwide hit, she deserved to earn more. It might not have been illegal for her to earn only $120, but it was unfair in my opinion.
> This places it squarely in the mathematical tradition of showing that a simple problem is equivalent to a far more complicated one, and then solving the more complicated problem.

That… is strangely worded.
Woah, ease up, friend! We're on the same side! I agree these storage solutions are all worth investing in. They're going to be great solutions for many areas. I just think nuclear is a great and proven solution for many areas too. I absolutely don't think "it can't be done," I just think we should hedge our bets a bit and rely on the fantastic, proven solution we already have, in case the other solutions don't pan out.
I mean, I was pretty happy with GPT-3.5 while I was waiting for GPT-4 access. But once you get used to it, it's hard to go back.
What about this ruling from 2022?

This Supreme Court is hostile to regulations and precedent.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/the-supreme-court...
Because eventually LLM based AI will be advanced enough to author its text with as much variety and diversity as any human, making it indistinguishable from anything authored by a human.
No it was an exaggeration, but for real though, people are placed in GAV (temporary incarceration) only because they are present during street protest, with the pretext of them being dangerous political opposition so you can guess the possible abuse

ps: there has been cases in France of people being sent to prison because of harassment on social networks though
`Display: block` doesn't hide content; that's what `display: none` does.
The simple fix is don't determine grade based on coursework (because cheating is too easy), instead use exams.
Show HN: Proxy GPT – A GPT backend powered by OpenAI
Hey all,

Just showcasing something I've been hacking on with a friend we decided to open source. Proxy GPT is a GPT backend powered by OpenAI. It includes a team based chat api, user signup, login, context caching and much more. It's an abstraction layer on top of OpenAI's chat API that makes it slightly easier to programmatically build chat apps that might require custom user signup/auth, separate teams and chats, etc.

Let me know what you think.

https://github.com/asim/proxy-gpt
I appreciate where this comment is coming from, and I love efforts to simplify and remove over-engineering, but htmx doesn’t really keep all state on the server, since once the data is displayed, you now have another holder of state (HTML).

As soon as I started reading the docs on hx-sync and started imagining scenarios where that sort of functionality has been needed, I started thinking “man once the state gets this complex I’d really rather manage it in a proper programming language instead.”

I think it’s often reasonable to consider the DOM the “database” of the frontend, but it can also be nice to have an intermediary representation to create the appropriate transition. Inversion of control, you might say.
Everyone must know two passwords: their password manager's password, and their email password.
I don't doubt your experience, but it is not my own. There are absolutely exceptions who prove the rule but on average we found productivity plummet with remote junior hires and remain similar for folks who have been at the company for decades across all skill levels. Even high-velocity junior folks seemed to be spinning their wheels or getting stuck when remote in a way that perfectly average senior folks did not.

I was anticipating employee pushback as the company switched from remote to return-to-office 3 days a week last year. But the junior folks I've talked to have seemed mostly enthusiastic (with significantly higher retention than when we were remote) whereas the objections mostly came from senior folks. The people who quit to keep working remotely were almost entirely senior folks.
People online assume too much with the french pension reform

Government reports forecasted a possible deficit that was in the ranges of €10bn in 10+ years, which is tiny, along with other predictions that put it lower and even predicted profits. Uncertainty's equal across any of them

Many alternatives were brought up by either the opposition and various economists; reducing pensions, increasing dues, pointing out new/other sources of income, ... many of them coming from right-wing political commentators. It was a trainwreck across the board. Then the government politely declined all suggestions without much in the way of arguments and pushed the reform over the parliament

You don't get all the major unions, including the ones that are basically carpets, to call for a strike for a pension reform if it's legitimate. Nor do you get 93% of the working population to disagree with you. We have pension reforms every 5 years or so and while they usually cause some forms of strikes, we never get 3+million people in the streets for something like that. If you were french you'd be pissed off. But you're not, so you just followed the story through the prism of foreign news and they often can't afford to go super in-depth
Smoky Conditions to Last for Days as Wildfires Rage
You mean a giant supply chain chock coming from transitioning away from Russian natural gas.
What are you testing?
A cool way to describe this is, faster compiler discovered using deep RL
Can’t wait for the Thread ESP32 units to be better developed
Honestly you could replace everything you said there with an iPhone and it'd still apply.
Disagree.

Just decide that you meet e.g on monday, so you can plan everything

and spend rest of the week actually doing the work without disruptions
There is no real-world example of a communist country under that definition. It is purely hypothetical and never been successfully applied. We can speculate about literally anything. What's realistic?
Because the LLM can train itself against the AI detector to become undetectable.
A former boss called me the most distractable person he had ever met. I've worked in open plan offices since 1997.

But apparently I have superhuman abilities to concentrate, because honestly I've never found it difficult to ignore people around me to focus and get work done. And yet I don't feel special, most people I've worked with seem to able to do it.

I understand many people don't prefer it, and they should very much choose jobs accordingly. But I guess I'll stop pretending my preferences are based on objective criteria when everyone else does too.
That’s specifically because the DEA and congress cracked down on the useful alternative.
No. The argument is more like:

> Companies aren't the kinds of things that can meaningfully have values, and 'criticism' along the lines of the OP takes for granted that they can and do, in a way that makes outcomes like this Hashicorp layoff meaningfully surprising. This gets in the way of the correct critique— and thereby in setting the correct expectations.

The moralistic tone makes the event described seem somehow exceptional, when the crucial lesson is that it is not at all. It also directs people towards a useless simulation of politics (yelling at people, or in this case companies, to scold them) in place of the real thing (fighting institutions by disrupting their basic functioning, exercising power to change incentive structures, etc.). The stress on the economics is about directing people to the information of strategic significance, not narrowing the bounds of acceptable critique per se.