skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet despite that, if you live in any major city and cycle to work, your life expectancy is higher that if you drive, even if including the higher risk of a fatal collision on the road.

Transit shouldn’t be an arms race, we should be working towards making transit safe regardless of the mode of transport, not putting everyone in armoured boxes.

> No one is making this argument. We’re debating what mode of transit is safest for one’s children, not in what way we should remake society.

No, we’re discussing the validity of car free living and its value. Bring the argument that riding a bike is dangerous for children means we should put every child in car is a silly and intellectually dishonest argument. Just like the argument that the solution to “bad guys with guns” is more “good guys with guns”, when the answer is clearly fewer guns. The same applies to cars, the answer to children being killed by drivers isn’t “more cars for kids” it’s fewer cars and safer roads.
You clearly don't understand the impact of your proposed change.

The laws for building new homes haven't changed much in a few decades. The houses being built are a result of equilibrium with profit and secured funding. Every single action you have proposed creates no new homes.

Your proposed change is to devalue all existing homes further, incentivizing people to not own and leave the state, while allowing the state to price people out of their existing assets by forcing an increase in higher property taxes every single year that is based upon the entire amount of the loan, rather than any equity they might have.

This is no less than state mandated stealing from who you perceive to be rich (homeowners), while creating no new homes; because homeowners aside from developers do not build homes.

Do you know what happened in San Fran areas where they created and enforced the rental boards? Property values dropped, rentals dropped, everyone with options didn't invest in the area, business left, no jobs available, police couldn't be funded, and people regularly get killed as crime increases.

Do you even know how much the price of real estate fluctuates over longer periods of time? Some years it increases, other years it stays the same or decreases. That additional property tax is based upon appraisals that don't happen regularly, and the percentage increases every single year.

For a regular home, it already increases each year by at least 7,000 dollars in property taxes. If you have a well paying job of say 50,0000, roughly 32,000 goes to food right now, more if you are not single; and if they got the funding for a house they wouldn't be able to pay property taxes in less than 3 years at existing rates, regardless of the equity they had since its about appraised asset value. Increasing that further and the economics say the asset class is no longer an investment but a negative cash-flow cost.

Honestly I don't get where you people seem to come up with these things being a good idea. Did you do any research before you actually proposed something to see if it was viable?

Or is this just mindless indoctrination speaking?
Very good question / topic. I don't have a good answer to contribute, but I am as curious as you are on the topic.
what a nice post... I hope so that your program is as best as your posting.
Google to Launch Long-Delayed News Showcase Product in U.S. This Summer
The pay discrepancy between FAANG and almost everywhere else is quite large. Even all the FAANG companies aren’t on the same level. If you think you can do it, study up, get a job at Netflix that pays 2x-3x the industry average, prioritize savings, don’t scale your lifestyle up to match income, swim around in your piles of money like Scrooge McDuck.
Sure, minimise if you want.

But yes, my intuition says that whatever you might eliminate by not storing food in plastic and other types of avoidance is just gonna be a tiny drop in the constant dose of plastic you're getting from everything you ingest.
The Evolution and Adaptability of Phishing
Guix generally feels much saner than Nix but guix upgrade is shockingly slow.
Oh, great. Makes me happy to catch people with it :)
Tolerating overt bigotry is absolutely something HN should NOT do. That's not politics. That's being a decent human.
Femtolisp anyone? Use in Julia I believe

https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp
This feels like the slowpoke meme; there are many other equally-capable foundation models in the wild now. And even if there wasn't, DJB vs US established source code as speech. I'd strongly prefer to not see the federal government investigating speech.
Lifespans got worse before they got better. Better to reference 10,000BC than 1023AD, and that’s not so clear.
I don't think Facebooks moves were heavily strategically thought out.

Instead, I think a small team of a few researchers made LLaMA and published a paper about it[1], and then realised to get any citations for their paper they'd need to let other researchers have the weights. Citations are like money in the academic world. Every researcher wants citations. Executives and managers care less about that stuff.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13971
> they could just call it something else other than "Bard" and erase the negative branding associated with it

That’s exactly what Microsoft did for Internet Explorer.. They totally got rid of this name in favor of “Edge”
Absolute nonsense.

First off, employees aren't directly accountable to shareholders. Nor should they be. Company boards are.

Secondly, how about providing a collaborative, remote company culture which enhances productivity and efficency? Which also widens the global hiring pool and doesn't discriminate against those who can't travel for hours a day. For tech companies, forcing their workers in to metal tubes and high-rises for hours a day will never be as purvasive as it is now, and I hope it stays that way.

(A message from a tech worker who performs great at his remote job for the last 8 years and has reaped the benefits of remote work before, during and after the pandemic)
100% agreed. My wife uses Apollo because it handles accessibility (particularly Dynamic Type) better than the official app.

If Apollo development stops because of exorbitant API pricing, allowing "accessibility focused" apps does fuck all for any of Apollo's blind users.

Accessibility should be part of all apps, but clearly that's not a priority for reddit or she wouldn't be having this problem in the first place. This insinuation by reddit that blind users should be corralled into some special "accessibility focused" app is just PR to cover the fact that they're trying to kill the most accessible reddit clients.
When I lived in a, erm, more eventful part of Philadelphia, three kittens popped out of my neighbor's shed. We kept one, brought another into the office, and the third one was too wild for us to manage. We've since moved, but when we lived there, we did trap and release for dozens of cats.

The one kitten we kept has distinctive fear reactions to sirens and gunshot type sounds (we live next to 95 and deliberately backfiring your exhaust is, for some reason, a popular choice) in ways that our other cats don't. It's noticeable enough that we've joked about it being epigenetic.
So when you're reading code and you get to a bitmask... what do you do?
Home Insurers Curb New Policies in Risky Areas Nationally
Yeah; it's hard to learn new stuff.

However, at a tech company that's targeting an ecosystem that changes every few years, managers that are unwilling / unable to learn new stuff are incredibly damaging to morale and to the business as a whole.

If Google was making widgets that were designed in the 1950's, and have undergone zero customer-visible revisions, then yeah, they'd need conservative managers that can keep cutting costs / defect rates a few percent every year while investing as little as possible in evolving the core business.

However, Google isn't there yet. They're facing an existential threat, where Internet search is going to be lights-out in a few years thanks to LLMs, their primary revenue sources are being outlawed in large swaths of the first world, and they are a distant third in public cloud, which is the thing that's driving economies of scale for server-side compute (meaning they're dangerously close to falling on to the wrong exponential curve when it comes to datacenter hardware innovation).

If a manager can't figure out how to manage via zoom + slack, I seriously doubt they'll be able to figure out how to incorporate non-human intelligence into their team workflows while also pivoting from surveillance capitalism to a privacy-respecting revenue model, and also becoming customer-focused (at Google!! Hahaha!!!) enough to court enterprise customers.
There are two primary facets to a functional democracy: trust and information. Democracy works best in high-trust, perfect information environments: people trust each that others are working in good faith and all have access to good information. It can work in low-trust, perfect information environments: even if people don't trust others, they are at least equipped with good information to make a proper decision. It can work in high trust, imperfect information environments: even if the information is wrong, the people involved at least have trust that the others they are working with are acting in good faith. It works worst in low-trust, imperfect information environments: people don't trust each other and they cannot rely the information to make decisions. This is the trajectory of the western world, particularly the US. At least one of these facets need to be fixed.
I occasionally have to manipulate binary numbers too. But, aside from bitwise operations, I almost always forget what I had learned last time and have to re-read the material again.
The model was open for any researcher simply by applying; you had to enter your name, university or group affiliation, write like one sentence about your prior work or publications, agree to the noncommercial research only license, and that was it. They don't say how many people got to download the weights via this method but it was probably in the thousands.

And the weight files weren't watermarked/fingerprinted or anything. The hashes were all the same. Therefore no real way to trace who put up the torrents first.

So this isn't much of a 'leak' as it is... just good old piracy. Like if you found a torrent of a DVD rip of the movie Frozen, the MPAA wouldn't be blaming Disney for 'leaking' it.
Show HN: I got fed up with LangChain so I made a simple alternative for AI apps
But congress won’t, because they can’t. So our air and water will become dirtier. Seems like a pretty big issue to me.
For sure, what area you get into has a big impact. Language, industry, etc. but there is also the "career strategy" aspect. If your aim is to maximise income and progression, I'd say you should target high growth companies and teams, for internal promotion opportunities, and send your CV out every 2 years, for external promotion and salary increase opportunities.

By 'growth' I mean increasing headcount (perhaps not the best period right now...). If you're in a company or team that has no plan to increase headcount then opportunities for meaningful promotions (expanded responsibilities and scope) and salary increases will be almost nil.
Got it, that makes sense. I suppose the CFTC may come knocking on your ass instead ;-)
The motivation for building simpleaichat was indeed a direct reaction to the frustrations of using LangChain, with a Hacker News thread full of similar complaints being the primary catalyst for development: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820931

This package isn't trying to ride the AI hype wagon for venture capital as often said on AI submissions on HN: it's to fill an actual demand, and one I personally needed even if no one else uses simpleaichat.

There's still a lot of work that needs to be done with the package (it's missing important demos such as working with embedding vectors, which is a separate project I have in mind born out of annoyance) but I'll be putting forth the time on it.
I'm confident if we replaced congress with an LLM, the LLM would do a better job.
Maximum wealth would come from creating (or being and early member of) a startup that succeeds. This also has high risk, but the worst-case outcome for a paid early employee is still pretty good relative to the average (non-tech) salary.
None of that matters. If you can get into FAANG your best option is to cram leetcode and get into FAANG (or FAANG-lite...basically any reasonably well known public tech co with Silicon Valley roots). You can learn whatever you need while you're there. And after a few years jump to another one, etc.
From your first link:

>One study found, for example, that a third of social psychologists admitted that they would be unwilling to hire a known conservative to the faculty, and nearly half thought that their colleagues would be unwilling to hire such a person.33 Subsequent work suggests that those findings are not limited to psychology, and that conservative scholars might have a similar willingness to discriminate against liberals.34 On the whole, there does not appear to be a robust pipeline of conservatives desperate to get into academia.

This is substantially different from what you are suggesting, this idea that there is a natural bias when it seems to be a supply problem (and a dismissal of academia entirely, as the article links together the larger conservative push against higher education). Can't hire that which does not exist or believes your field is a farce.
There isn't really a clear answer to this as if there was everyone would do it and because of supply and demand it wouldn't be a valuable anymore.

That said, there are a few "meta strategies" you could consider

1) get really good at learning and hop from hot thing to hot thing

2) do the jobs that no one wants to do that also pay well (mainframe maintenance, documentation, sales?)

3) get really good at soft skills and put yourself in positions like management where a lot of your staying power (and income) comes from the relationships you build and maintain
The more we learn, the less reasonable it seems to dismiss the risk as small enough to ignore.
I think that title needs an "A".
Is this name collision, or is Monica somehow related to the previous Chandler?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_%28software%29
must be nice
I must be a useless worker because I really can't relate to everyone praising the productivity when WFH. My productivity is almost non-existent unless I have a super interesting task.

Seriously, I can't be the only one who is just slacking off when working from home.
A closer look at Apple’s Vision Pro keyboard and other controls
A warning about monetizing extensions with search
The entire basis of how the internet works is based on cryptography, and while everything has the potential to be misused, it's impossible to argue that the primary use of cryptography is criminal, unethical, or wasteful.

The same cannot be said for cryptocurrency.
The names you provide (Freud, Jung, Lacan) were trained in psychiatry or neurology and represent the psychoanalytical tradition in _psychiatry_. They've never been fundamental to _psychology_. Fundamental to psychology have been e.g. Watson, Skinner, Thorndike.
No? This article is clearly largely about a memo getting upset that folks aren't making it in the required 3 days a week.

Yes, it mentions fully remote people with the hopes to get them to switch off fully remote. But the meat, as it were, is in the reminder to everyone else that absence factors into performance reviews. That is, they don't measure you by OKRs, but by attendance. (I can see an argument that it is "in addition to OKRs," but that doesn't change my challenge here. If those work, why have attendance?)
The example is overly simplified, sure. But even if it’s in the middle of a swath of other operations, it will still result in very similar behavior. You’re likely never to get a clean number once a floating point error happens, and the result will be slightly off and seem to not be rounded.

Searching “why is my arithmetic operation not rounded”, I got https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/floatingpoint.html as the third answer. I obviously can’t unlearn what floating point arithmetic is, but it feels like someone without any knowledge of it would likely be able to get a similar result relatively quickly as long as they are good at searching for answers (a much more important skill, IMO, which should be considered foundational)

> That said, there's a large swath of very similar things that crop up where the person benefits from a familiarity with the fundamentals of computing.

We’re talking specifically about binary, not fundamentals in general. Some fundamental knowledge is more important than others, and I posit that binary is on the lower end of that spectrum.
Strongly seconding this answer. I did the opposite in my career. I did not change jobs often enough. One job I had for a very long time. The growth staying in place was not very much. I knew changing jobs would get me more money, but I didn't think I could find a job as good in all the other aspects. I was wrong. I've changed jobs a few times more, and every aspect got better, including money.
Yeah but the crosswalks
None these things are immutable laws of work though. They can all be fostered in a remote first environment, its just not the same thing.

Its a "lazy" solution to require RTO for the sake of collaboration, training etc. as there are demonstrated examples (like GitLab, for instance, also see companies like Linear, Supabase etc that are full remote and still pushing out great work).

While I get sometimes in person meetings are great, they really start to lose their effectiveness past a certain point, and I think thats pretty clear with these remote first companies that are successful is they took the time to re-think process, re-think culture, and re-think the approach.

What I find with RTO companies is they want to plug their ears to the idea of real change, because its a real effort to get everyone to do things a bit differently. For example, look at the struggles everyone seems to have around maintaining useful documentation and async communication. One thing I realized is companies that took remote seriously gravitated away from everything being a Zoom call and started pushing in earnest centralized documentation and async communication. Long form responses became the norm. In depth Wiki's became the norm. Those are two examples I've seen in successful remote environments that I think, anecdotally, remain true across the board.

Companies that don't give this real thought are the ones that seem to also be going back to RTO. To me, RTO is an implicit acknowledgement that the culture of the company is unchangeable, and leadership is unable to consider different ways people work.

You can have all this in remote first cultures, that much is clear.

That said, I think it should be everyone's individual choice, if one was to ask me. I have no issue with people wanting to work an office everyday, but forcing everyone to work in an office every day is the problem
Dogs are a lot better at hunting rats. The city should breed and release thousands of rat terriers if they mean to get serious about their rat problem.
Not really but I noticed during their keynote they kept mentioning that features and apis would be opened to 3rd party apps. In the past these sort of features were always exclusive to apple’s own apps and considered part of their moat.
In any large company, the workforce is so scattered anyway that you still end up having to do remote networking. I’ve been working remotely since 6/2020 at $BigTech and my network has grown much more now than it did in the 25 years I spent working in an office.
I don't have much Zig experience at all, but from what I've read Zig is pretty genius because in addition to being a Zig compiler -- with its own sane build system -- the same tool also acts as a C/C++ compiler.

So mixing Zig and C/C++ has a lot less friction.
I think the ideal is that nobody has your private data, but that seems impossible to accomplish without living in a cave. Big tech feels entitled to know everything about everyone.
To those of you who live in Connecticut or Missouri, contact the shit out of these representatives and give them a piece of your mind. This sort of blatant attempt to restrict the power of individuals should not be allowed.
In my experience type ahead is most useful on datasets that are generally too large to load the whole dataset locally. There are certainly times when a list is too long to fit in the available space, but unlikely to grow unbounded, but such large lists that are known not to grow in an unbounded manner are rare in my experience.
Drop the junior title immediately from your resume.

Complain to your tech friends about tech while making new tech friends - one day they might work somewhere you want to, too.
> Good luck to all who are trying to change the unsatisfying status-quo elsewhere.

Thank you. I think it's important to realize that changing the status quo requires people who stay and vote for that change, as happened in the Netherlands and elsewhere. People who run away to some place where it's already better, or grew up that way and never knew anything else, generate zero net change.
Sf decriminalized drugs and petty crime. Then was shocked by an explosion in drugs and petty crime, which then started edging into less than petty crime.

The city’s famously progressive policies were, perhaps, not thought all the way through.
The blog post in this submission makes the same point: a git repo can be a channel, you just need to add a file for it.
You can price yourself out of the market with this strategy.

Because every overpaying technology normalizes over time. Someone who is willing to pay more at this point in time, will always find someone cheaper in time next few years.
It’s not hybrid vs remote. It’s fully onsite vs fully remote. Hybrid policies are a compromise that aim to give both sides ground, while acknowledging that it’s not the perfect outcome for either. To say “hybrid is forcing me back into the office when I want none of it and screw those people who want to talk to me face to face” is wholly and completely the juvenile response that indicates you truly don't understand the concept of a compromise whatsoever.
Learn enough about product that you can be a "product engineer". Automation is coming for the industry, and routine jobs will suffer. Engineers who can make sound product decisions are and will be hot shit.
That sounds like a shot across the Bow from open AI. here we go.

It’s pure unadulterated fun to watch these tech titans foil one another’s ambitions with cheap shots and swipes. Sama comes off as a little arrogant after all and downright scary sometimes. no doubt he is brilliant.
Perhaps you underestimate the desire for power over others that some among us possess. Or, perhaps you don't
So when a physicists makes something up as a reasonable assumption, later to be found wrong, that is just good science.

But a psychologist makes some assumptions, later to be found wrong, it is complete bullshit, con artists, the entire field is corrupt.

Do you see the false dichotomy here? You are so biased you can't even see the problem.
Yann LeCun in a podcast said it was because of uncertain copyright status on models but an expected fair use defense if distributed for research only.
I would have assumed (probably incorrectly) that the 'seal' which would come in contact with the glass & liquids would be a type of silicone lid, while it could be considered a type of plastic, if its a good food grade lid, I would imagine it's a bit better ?

Ironically though silicone is much harder to recycle though.
if companies want people back in the office they should be required to start compensating for commutes. travel time, gas / electric for vehicles, etc. I sincerely do not give a damn about "productivity" or any other corporate BS from management when they can't even put their money where their mouth is