skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Business owners collude around suppressing wages and worker benefits. Non owner managers sit and talk for hours about how to keep wages suppressed (iow market rate). What systemic reason would there be for doing something workers haven’t organized (iow created market conditions) to demand from employers?
It doesn't work for Prime videos with ads, which is irritating (I pay for Prime so I don't have to see ads, among other benefits).
> I believe he means doing a rollout to 30% of users and having that be consistent

Exactly. Also, not only shall the evaluation be consistent for a specific percentage and userId, but also, when increasing the percentage, an enabled feature shall never be retracted for a user which had the feature enabled before.

userId could also be IPs, country codes, worker nodes etc etc.
Yes, Arroyo is an alternative to KSQL, although more in the design-space of Flink.

KSQL is pretty simple and easy to run if you already have Kafka, but will be much more expensive and harder to scale due to its reliance on Kafka streams for persistence and shuffling of data in processing DAG.

And with Confluent's embrace of Flink in the past year (https://www.confluent.io/blog/cloud-kafka-meets-cloud-flink-...) it's not clear that KSQL has much of a future.
FWIW, most companies area already incorporated in Delaware, even if their physical location is elsewhere.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-missed-dozens-of-known-...

> The appearance of the images on Twitter was striking because they had been previously flagged as child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, and were part of databases companies can use to screen content posted to their platforms, the researchers said. “This is one of the most basic things you can do to prevent CSAM online, and it did not seem to be working,” Thiel said.
It was one of the most insightful comments in this thread.

Note also he was a director, not the author's manager. That's a very different thing - he has a view of this as a strategic business decision, not as a personnel issue.

I think his perspective on that adds value in understanding why the idea can simultaneously be awesome in an internal context at one highly-instrumented company and hard to market outside of that context.
Not exactly. Firefox had JPEG XL support in its nightly versions until January(?) 2023.
This looks great, and it’s very cool that it recommends Nomad to run it in production.

I wish more products would support (or at least document how to run on) Nomad.
The end of the intel mac laptop line models were the worst laptops I've ever used. My last one went through 2 screens, the battery swelled, it couldn't charge fast enough to stay on while plugged in (and the CPU ran at 10% perf while charging, but only if plugged in on the left side).

Also, at any given time 6 of the keyboard buttons stuck, and the touchbar constantly phantom pressed the siri button when I pressed backspace. It got under 90 minutes of battery when brand new. It reliably kernel panicked on resume 1-2 times a week. It was also loud and hot.

Maybe I should give lenovo another try.

They completely screwed me over on a warranty repair right after the IBM acquisition. When I got the laptop back after over a month, it was diagnosed "no fault detected" and had a new symptom: it leaked high voltage from the backlight transformer into to the case during boot shocking the heck out of me!!!

Also, when I look at their web page, I always have the problem that they offer too many sub-configurations, and there isn't a button that says: "just give me the one that definitely runs Linux with the taint bit turned off, and only contains components that have had stable OSS drivers for over a year, and whose BOM hasn't changed for at least 12 months".

Ironically, Apple's web page is pretty close to having a de facto button like that.
SMS and email verification aren't really for spam prevention though, they're for user tracking/advertising. Otherwise they would only require the verification to send or post, not just read. And they wouldn't use dark patterns and extortion like tactics to get you to cough the info up instead of putting the requirement front and center.
I used to watch YouTube daily. I’m now done to once a week and more often than not it’s a terrible experience. If there are others like me, that seems like a death spiral. The more leave, the more ads must be shown, the worse the platform gets, the more people leave…
this guy is one of the worst things to happen to AI.

He is going from interesting to repulsive to despicable to evil pretty damn quickly. Some legit tech-villain stuff
Ask HN: Does anyone have a diff list for Lemmy instances, than the main site?
That is interesting - I bought KOTOR 2 a couple years ago for my kid and ended up having to get a refund it because it didn't run at all (on intel). It just wedged when I clicked play. No response from Aspyr, so I'd assumed they abandoned their older games.
NASA Learns the Ugly Truth About UFOs
Maybe the company owns the building and doesn't want its value to drop?
It also has more capability on Firefox.
Las Vegas sewage facility fails again, spilling nearly 900k gallons
Gene Therapy Offers Long-Term Contraception for Cats
Some very cool improvements found in already highly optimized algorithms.

They found that in a sorting network handling 3 inputs, the AI found a way to save an instruction by reducing a "min(A, B, C)" operation to just "min(A, B)" by taking advantage of the fact that previous operations guaranteed that B <= C. They also found that in a sorting network handling 4 inputs, when it is part of a "sort 8" network, there are similar guarantees (D >= min(A, C) in this case) that can be taken advantage of to remove an instruction as well. The compiler may not be able to compete with hand-written assembly, but it seems an AI can hand-write assembly code that's even better in some cases.

Another improvement is also very cool. They discuss VarSort4, which takes a list that may be 2, 3, or 4 elements long, and sorts it. The existing algorithm is

if (len = 4) {
sort4
}
elif (len = 3) {
sort3
}
elif (len = 2) {
sort2
}

The AI found an algorithm that looks totally different:

if (len = 2) {
sort2
}
else {
sort3
if (len = 4) {
sortspecial
}
}

It's pretty wild! It immediately runs Sort3 on something that may be either 3 elements or 4 elements long, and only afterwards does it check to see how long it really is. If it's 3 elements long, we're done; otherwise, run Sort4 - but because (having already run Sort3) you know the first three elements are sorted, you can use a special and much simpler algorithm to simply put the 4th element in the right spot.

Very cool. Improving on core LLVM sorting algorithms that have already been heavily hand-optimized by the best in the world is definitely a "it's 1997 and Deep Blue defeats the World Champion in chess" kind of feeling.
It's more realistic than cynical at this point. There has been a pattern of announcing return to office after mass layoffs.
Civitai is a good place to get these models if you don't want to train your own. NSFW partially
I'm a mod at a >100k subscribers subreddit, and old reddit represents 2% of pageviews and 6% of uniques.
What's well studies is theoretical algorithmic sorting.

For practical sorting, for a particular CPU architecture, there is still plenty of low hanging fruit:

> Today we're sharing open source code that can sort arrays of numbers about ten times as fast as the C++ std::sort, and outperforms state of the art architecture-specific algorithms, while being portable across all modern CPU architectures

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/06/Vectorized%20and%2...
They don't have to make any of it public. It was never public till they decided that they wanted to inject aliens into their strategy. Now, the Chinese communists and the Russian Oligarchs both still know our instruments suck, except they attributed to aliens.
Am I really supposed to sit here and pretend that social media companies don't know private information about the people who use their platforms? Every single one of them know who you are, where you are, what your opinions are, and who you do business with, and they ALL sell that information to the government.

So no, I don't care, because until THAT is an issue which is addressed, the rest of the arguments on the subject are moot. I don't think anyone should have any of that information, but there's no point in giving a shit if people are going to refuse to be logically consistent.
It was widely reported as well (I remember a video of some govt agency installing a device in an AT&T datacenter siphoning a huge amount of internet traffic, it should have incited outrage and gone viral), just not much interest without a smoking gun. The laypeople you speak of weren't interested, they were blissfully ignorant. I honestly still believe with a smoking gun and 10 years later many people just don't have much interest, they tend to abide by the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" views of privacy (in US at least)
“Dead Duck Day” marks that time a scientist witnessed gay duck necrophilia
1. It's a 70s movie, not everyone from the 70s is dead

2. Most people do care about respecting the dead. Otherwise there wouldn't be laws against desecrating graves
You cannot send cash online anonymously unlike gift cards. But I am for anonymous money transfer so I am ok with gift cards.
So they only get tax breaks if people are actually in the building? How is this even regulated and controlled?
We can safely add plenty of liberal democracies to that list if the criteria is "willing to cause the deaths of millions to realize their political project". At the very least Britain and the US.
This looks promising, I hope it gets some traction. Simple design much like HN.
The main problem with Reddit, and the crux of my point, is that year on year the problem creeps into even the smaller and intentionally non-political subs.

If interacting every day, it's getting harder not to be labeled an -ic or -ist of some kind in a sizable home town sub or a sub about a generic tv show.

That problem doesn't seem to exist on HN: more often people reply to the content of the comment without labeling the commenter.
My second surname is Arroyo. Probably my ancestors lived near a big creek ;)
There are cities that offer breaks on payroll taxes. I don't know how the payroll taxes are calculated for a remote work force though, so I remain confused as well. Maybe they're calculated by the home address for each employee?
What?

I never spoke ill of Rui, i love him and supported him as best I could. Like I said, he's a genius and an amazing engineer.

I spent time trying to convince Google to pay for mold, as well as pushed other companies to it where i could, etc.

I'm actually pretty sad this business didn't work out (and that he left!).

In the end, whether someone works for Google or not i care less about than whether they are happy and able to do something they love. Work is work. If people are happy doing what Google has to do, awesome. If not, i want them to find somewhere they can be, whether self-employment or whatever.

Plenty of people leave to chase a different kind of happiness, and more power to them. I hope they all succeed, and try to help however I can.

Life is short, everyone deserves to be happy.

Beyond that, he's the one who wrote a critique of his idea, not me!
I only pointed out that the conclusion i would draw is a little different than his.

Perhaps you should also consider that you don't know me, him, or our relationship, and that i may have a good idea how he will take what I write after working with him for years?
And I really don't care about their sliding rent prices and occupancy levels. People/companies who make their money through solely holding/selling space are some of the least talented and useful people.

You got by for decades floating by on overinflated prices and passive income. I'm sorry your golden ticket has slipped a little, but maybe we can tear down some of your ugly grey boxes and build affordable housing to combat actual problems: inflated housing prices, lack of housing space, lack of affordable commercial space for small businesses.
Lots of talk about weight and who's obese. Bottom line, you have to build the planes for the customers you have. Never mind blamethrowing.
Yes, I'm not discounting the results. I think it's a very interesting approach. I just think the language is important here. If you ask a CS class turn in their own quick sort implementation, you have n implementations of 1 algorithm, not n new algorithms.
this is why crowdsourced (or otherwise) tools like https://keepa.com/ are great. because you can determine if something is a sale, not by the dark patterns utilized by your adversary, but by using historical data.

we need a decentralized version such that amazon can't just do in and bribe/pay to remove their products from it though.
Did you really create a new account just to post this comment?

Sad.
50% drop of what? Where are you getting your baseline from? Because, as far as I know, there is no native macOS port of Cyberpunk 2077.

At 1440p, and if we take this [0] at face value, it would be 50% of the performance of a RX 6700 XT paired with a 5950X, both desktop parts, which I think is pretty good.

[0] https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/cyberpunk-2077-pc-pe...
AI-Generated QR Codes
Converse app is my favourite! Its like one stop for all extraction needs along with reasoning capabilities.
> That decision sparked worker outrage. More than 2,000 comments have been posted on Farmers employees’ internal social-media platform, most of which were negative or crying and angry emojis, according to postings viewed by The Wall Street Journal and interviews with employees.

So this "revolt" was the same as any other return-to-office "revolt"... a bunch of crying about how unfair things were on some internal social platform, and then quiet acceptance of the new-new normal. Even the Amazon "walkout" protest last week only got 100 employees to show up.

As it was pre-COVID, if you want a flexible work situation, make yourself valuable enough that you can demand it. Senior and specialized roles were frequently WFH pre-COVID simply because local talent didn't exist, even in markets like SF or Seattle.

If your role is "generic tech employee doing generic things at large corporation" you don't have bargaining power. It might not be fair, but until unionization happens, it's the way the world works.
I use Telegraf (collector) + Influx (storage) + Grafana (visualization and alerting). Telegraf is amazingly simple to use for collection and has a ton of plugins available.
The state gives them tax breaks if they force people to go to the office because they contribute to local businesses in downtown.

This is an incredibly short term decision of course, what would be a lot more beneficial would be to push for remote work and let local businesses develop all around the city in residential neighbourhoods, which would after a while lower CoL everywhere, while still having the same amount of money spent, just spent more equitably geographically speaking.

But of course when your political term lasts 4 years, you don't give a single fuck about all that, you care about your next election.
You can see hashing optimizations as well https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphadev-discovers-faster-sort..., https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/commit/74eee2aff683cc7d...

I was one of the members who reviewed expertly what has been done both in sorting and hashing. Overall it's more about assembly, finding missed compiler optimizations and balancing between correctness and distribution (in hashing in particular).

It was not revolutionary in a sense it hasn't found completely new approaches but converged to something incomprehensible for humans but relatively good for performance which proves the point that optimal programs are very inhuman.

Note that for instructions in sorting, removing them does not always lead to better performance, for example, instructions can run in parallel and the effect can be less profound. Benchmarks can lie and compiler could do something differently when recompiling the sort3 function which was changed.

For hashing it was even funnier, very small strings up to 64 bit already used 3 instructions like add some constant -> multiply 64x64 -> xor upper/lower. For bigger ones the question becomes more complicated, that's why 9-16 was a better spot and it simplified from 2 multiplications to just one and a rotation. Distribution on real workloads was good, it almost passed smhasher and we decided it was good enough to try out in prod. We did not rollback as you can see from abseil :)

But even given all that, it was fascinating to watch how this system was searching and was able to find particular programs can be further simplified. Kudos to everyone involved, it's a great incremental change that can bring more results in the future.
A Bicycle for the Senses
This paragraph:

> To better estimate latency, we implemented a dual value function setup, whereby AlphaDev has two value function heads: one predicting algorithm correctness and the second predicting algorithm latency. The latency head is used to directly predict the latency of a given program by using the program’s actual computed latency as a Monte Carlo target for AlphaDev during training. This dual-head approach achieved substantially better results than the vanilla, single head value function setup when optimizing for real latency.

Briefly, they use a neural network to predict whether a given sequence of instructions is correct, and how fast it is. Then they used this neural network to guide the program generation via Monte Carlo tree search [1]. It is this procedure that keeps track of the partial score functions at each node.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_tree_search
People who wonder how we justified sacrificing humans before. This is how.

We legitimately believed that sacrificing humans was helping prosperity, etc. We’re doing the same now with a few extra steps of indirection and abstraction.
That's very helpful -- thanks for the detailed summary.

Come to think of it -- they may be turning to their phones in part to seek relief from all of the stressors you've mentioned. Just like us poor, harassed adults. Though I do suspect the phones are a probably co-factor (in introducing stressors of their own).
I can imagine some scenarios involving grooming and other evil things, but to assume that teenagers acting on hormones is inherently self-imposed sexual abuse is a little extreme.
Some are real bad, you have those unskippable ads PLUS the in-video sponsored segments.
it should have been named stop cause you have to stop at every function call to check for an error.
Not only mount. What happens when you unpack an archive that uses non-fully utf-8 compliant names. Or checkout the history of a git repo with non-utf-8 filenames. Network filesystems are also a source of pain.

And even if you settle for utf-8 you'll still have to deal with differences with filesystems automatically canonicalizing names or being case insensitive.
Like humans’ “slow” and “fast” thinking, then?
Governments are the ones interested in influencing our lives to give them more power, and for all the uncritical talk of how powerful corporations are, governments are still vastly more powerful and it’s not even close.
If you truly believed this you would never turn off a computer.
If all you browse is HN or other ad-less websites, uBlock wastes electricity instead of saving it :)
I'm not familiar with the guts of SQLite enough to say, but wouldn't this be true for an in-memory database too, if you structured the "tables" properly?

Also, I'm not sure I understand how cache coherence would be relevant in the context of what the article is discussing, querying across all game entities to answer complex questions.

Wouldn't cache coherence matter more in the case of single object access?
Yes! this book is a first-person account of product development at Apple, showing how both the design and the features of a system tool keep progressing under the selective pressure of iterative review sessions, with creative and specific challenges provided by managers at multiple levels, all the way to the top (Steve Jobs at the time of the book's tales). It's a great book, very well written, the only one I've read that provides insight into (some of) Apple's creative process. When they say that Steve's DNA has profoundly shaped the company, I imagine this is one aspect of what they mean.
Modded Minecraft Malware – Fractureiser
For Sales Tax and certain state taxes, the company needs to charge sales tax -only- in states where they have a "nexus". Companies typically have "nexus" in whatever states they physically operate in (which could include where WFH employees are living).

In other words, the IRS doesn't really care what a company's HQ address is on paper. They care a lot more about where the company is actually operating, even if there's not a physical office.
This does seem like introducing a "office available" tax break for companies that offer wfh but have a physical office would be the best of both worlds.
> You should familiarize yourself with the charges: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-julian-assa...

Yes, which confirms his crime is saying he would look up an md5 hash on a public website.
This is the same sort of "more guesses faster beats smarter guesses slower" that made afl-fuzz by far the best at exploring large search spaces in program fuzzing

Fast search often beats accurate search. Sometimes adding clever heuristics or more complex scoring "works" but slows down the search enough that it's an overall loss. Another kind of a bitter lesson, perhaps
And then he just released it all.

Funny how the results don't line up with the narrative.
Is there no legal liability to telling your employees they can do one thing and then forcing them to do another?

It seems like part of the contract is being broken if you were hired for a remote job and then told you have to come into the office.

At will employment obviously means you can fire them, but can you just change the terms of the contract at will?

"I will pay you $79,000 for this position," followed by pay of $25,000 is obviously not legal. Where is the line?
Reddit mods aren't predominately NA college kids.
Resisting for temptation?
Showing for everyone, that decisions are not influenced by money?

Suddenly Google throws a promise of one million donation in hopes of enabling ads in Youtube.
> There are enormous advantages to living (as much as possible of) your life in VR:

> - your home can be arbitrarily large at zero cost and without taking any land away from anyone else

Except it isn't.

> - you can change the decor whenever you want at zero cost

Except you can't.

> - you can paint walls as ornately as you like, at zero cost, immediately, without even any prep work required

Except you can't.

> - you spend zero time on travelling

Except you don't.

> - you can instantly hang out with friends in foreign countries for free without even needing a visa

Except you don't.

This is an incredibly dystopian view.

Let's not kid ourselves that VR will not be monetized to the breaking point just like any other platform. Enshitification is inevitable.

In other words, corporations will do what they already do, sell lies, create demand for those lies and in exchange demand more of the irreplaceable things like time, land and resources.
Weirdly enough, some people I know are still are afraid of it. I can't really know why but they distrust change.
As a Dvorak user (for 20 years now), I always say "I came for the speed benefits that never materialized, but stayed for the ergonomics (reduced strain)"
I think there are good arguments against redoing films like this, but this isn't one of them? If "we" actually cared about "people who make films," we'd be doing more to ensure their integrity, livelihood etc. No writers strikes, et al.
Then maybe you shouldn't go around saying it's the entire reason.