skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the parent poster states, the key thing is that everything is structured about incentives conditional on delivering measurable results e.g. the quantity of published papers; but that implicitly includes a very important thing that "published" counts only if (and because) it has passed certain filters. There are no barriers to publish research outcomes as "blogs" or something, it is easy, so such "publication" doesn't imply that any reasonable research was done, and no incentives would reward such publishing, and that's why researchers often don't bother with it.

Like, the existing system already has issues with publication being too easy to game, with predatory paid journals, lax standards for reviewing, etc; that's hard to fix, but it's considered a problem - and so any changes making the barrier to publication even lower than that won't be welcome.

And from the perspective of researchers, we don't really want more publications - they're a pain to read, there's an overabundance of poor content that's salami-sliced, we do so many publications because the incentives push us toward this but we recognize that this is a bad thing and we'd be far better off if the same research would be published in fewer, better articles. But we can't, because anyone who does that will be effectively denied resources for future research.
If 13 years turns out to be some sort of period for this cycle (like cicadas?) maybe we can name it after you.
I might be reading your statements wrong. But it sounds like what you're saying it sounds like is:

* Remote work is better if the management has a common goal and everyone can swim towards it.

* In-person work is better if the management is adversarial or competitive with each other, or doesn't have a common goal to work towards.

In either case, it seems like the problem is management, not the work location. Am I wrong here?
Was thinking more of people stating that the job parameters were unilaterally changed on the fly. Hired for remote work, sorry, that's been changed, etc. Yeah, it's at will employment, but not everybody likes employment agreements being changed without their input.

Sorry if it seemed flippant but it seemed to convey in a few words what I just wrote in a paragraph. I always viewed "negative job actions" with a jaundiced eye, and started a job search. And I fully believe that getting people to leave is the intent.
What Mark Zuckerberg Thinks of Apple Vision Pro
Sort of. You have to feed them about half what they need to get them to hunt. That was the official policy of the General Post Office in the UK at one time.

Stanford once had something known as the Stanford Cat Network, now called the Feral Friends Network, which sounds like something from the Camp Wedontwantcha comic. This group caught feral cats left on campus and tried to find them homes. Some of the cats that were too feral to become cats ended up at the Stanford horse barn.

Some of the barn cats would hunt. I've been presented with a dead mouse. Others managed to get people to overfeed them, and they'd get fat and lazy. Once I saw a mouse, found a cat, and put the cat down near the mouse. The cat did nothing. Useless cats accustomed to free food were sometimes placed as house cats and replaced with new hunters. About four good hunting cats could clear the entire property of vermin.

You have to manage the cats to get results.
Junior engineers are missing out on lots of knowledge transfer that will put them behind an entire career. It's the difference between early working alongside excellent engineers vs working alongside almost no one.
As an Atlanta resident, I LOVED when this was announced, and I'm thrilled to live in GA with this plant, and I hope to see more. Yeah, it's going to drive my bills up a few bucks for a while, but I get to know we're burning that much less coal and gas.
Man Sues OpenAI Claiming ChatGPT 'Hallucination' Said He Embezzled Money
OpenAI is facing a defamation lawsuit filed by Mark Walters, who claims that the AI platform falsely accused him of embezzling money from a gun rights group in statements delivered to a journalist. The lawsuit argues that ChatGPT is guilty of libel and alleges that the AI system "hallucinated" and generated false information about Walters. The Register reports:
"While research and development of AI is worthwhile, it is irresponsible to unleash a system on the public that is known to make up 'facts' about people," his attorney John Monroe told The Register. According to the complaint, a journalist named Fred Riehl, while he was reporting on a court case, asked ChatGPT for a summary of accusations in a complaint, and provided ChatGPT with the URL of the real complaint for reference. (Here's the actual case [PDF] the reporter was trying to save time on reading for those curious.)

What makes the situation even odder is that the case Riehl was reporting on was actually filed by a group of several gun rights groups against Washington's Attorney General's office (accusing officials of "unconstitutional retaliation", among other things, while investigating the groups and their members) and had nothing at all to do with financial accounting claims. When Riehl asked for a summary, instead of returning accurate information, or so the case alleges, ChatGPT "hallucinated" that Mark Walters' name was attached to a criminal complaint -- and moreover, that it falsely accused him of embezzling money from The Second Amendment Foundation, one of the organizations suing the Washington Attorney General in the real complaint.

ChatGPT is known to "occasionally generate incorrect information" -- also known as hallucinations, as The Register has extensively reported. The AI platform has already been accused of writing obituaries for folks who are still alive, and in May this year, of making up fake legal citations pointing to non-existent prior cases. In the latter situation, a Texas judge said his court would strike any filing from an attorney who failed to certify either that they didn't use AI to prepare their legal docs, or that they had, but a human had checked them. [...] According to the complaint, Riehl contacted Alan Gottlieb, one of the plaintiffs in the actual Washington lawsuit, about ChatGPT's allegations concerning Walters, and Gottlieb confirmed that they were false. None of ChatGPT's statements concerning Walters are in the actual complaint.

The false answer ChatGPT gave Riehl alleged that Walters was treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of SAF and claimed he had "embezzled and misappropriated SAF's funds and assets." When Riehl asked ChatGPT to provide "the entire text of the complaint," it returned an entirely fabricated complaint, which bore "no resemblance to the actual complaint, including an erroneous case number." Walters is looking for damages and lawyers' fees. We have asked his attorney for comment. As for the amount of damages, the complaint says these will be determined at trial, if the case actually gets there.
Having had (pet) rats as well as a cat (briefly), I don’t think that cats are generally sufficient for rats. Fully grown adult rats are too big for cats to handle and they only take 10 weeks to reach a size that will make them troublesome for average cat.

Remember that a feral cat does not have access to health services. If they are injured trying to take down prey, they will probably be dead shortly after.

That having been said, if NYC has a rat problem, then it should also have a mouse problem. The problem here though is that trying to use feral cats to tame mice in the places where they’d be stubborn would be either troublesome, inhumane, or just disgusting (e.g. subway tracks).
Or if they are, they'll use an adblocker and be of 0 revenue.
I hope every single employee affected by clowns like this "chief people officer" sues their employer for promissory estoppel. Does anyone know of any organizations or individual attorneys who are helping affected employees explore this option? I'd like to donate some money if so.
Honestly it's probably better for the web if it reverts back to the model of smaller independent forums. HN is a good example of a healthy small/medium sized community.

I would say the 'social media era' of the history of the web has concluded in failure. When you consolidate everyone onto a singular platform, it creates a weird unhealthy community dynamic, and the business incentives do not align at all with users.
It also depends on how you define content. While the initial thread may be a “repost”, the ensuing discussion is original and leads to different inputs.
So we'll solve it with more laws.
Brilliant!
Just outlaw murder while you are at it too!
Say what you will about Apple but I'm really thankful of the stance they've taken on user privacy over the last 5+ years.
In many fields of science your ideas don't really matter, it's about reproducible data - sure, ideas and motivation matter for choosing the experiments and interpreting them, but any reader is effectively expected to read your ideas, assume that they're wrong, worthless and discardable, take a look at your data (which is the key part of the publication, not the creative writing) and see if the reader's ideas and interpretations based on that data match yours.

In the end, your thinking is a process, not the outcome. It is a tool to prove an outcome based on data and logic; better thinking and better writing makes the argument easier to understand, but should lead to exactly the same outcome for the reader, just with a bit less effort compared to sloppy thinking and sloppy writing.
I think mikk is disgusting, but even the few times I've tried it in the USA it's obvious there's something wrong, lower quality, with it.

Perhaps it's the homogenization. Too aggressive perhaps?

Or maybe the comparatively poorer diet/aggressive production schedule?

Not that Im surprised though. The one thing I throughly dislike about the US (otherwise I love it) is the low foods standards. My local WF doesn't hold a candle to the quality of any grocery story in any country Ive lived in.
Have a rummage in about:config to switch off all the telemetry BS, pocket integration, and "experiments" that Firefox marketing likes to re-enable every six months or so
Switched to NixOS for that reason. Never had stuff break.
Please more. And next time without so much wasted time. We don’t have much time.
Apple also runs this kind of bidding now: https://searchads.apple.com/best-practices/bidding

If that’s not “selling your data”, we need to be more specific about what we are talking about.
Exactly this, it happens to have a long history of questions/answers for most topics, so I pretty much use it as a search engine.

OTOH Reddit as a social media seems like a dumpster fire with a toxic culture, community, and mods.
(Not talking about all subs here, I know that many subs are wholesome and inviting)
ePub. Definitely ePub (but really, why not both?). I have a million PDFs but for reading a book, ePub on either a Kindle or iPad is much more pleasant. I can read a PDF on the iPad or Kindle. But nothing beats reading something properly rendered for ePub: read, read, read, swipe left.

That said, for long ass manuals (the 5,062 page Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual comes to mind) then PDF. Also for published papers. But for books, ePub.

For example, the Pro Git book is available in ePub, PDF and mobi. It is regularly updated.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
Perhaps a better link would be this to the entire series: https://debugagent.com/series/manifold
Many moons ago, I distributed a mobile app that was effectively just a UI client into a SaaS API. The first step in the setup was to login to your account in a web browser, obtain an API key, and paste it into my app. This was the key used to authenticate and authorize all requests to the third party API.

Why can't the same flow be used here? Just require users to obtain their own Reddit API key, and let the app be a thin client that doesn't ship with any keys owned by the devs themselves. I'd be happy to pay-for-my-own API usage.
Impossible to tell, it’s a request form on their support site where you have to answer a bunch of questions, and they’ll get back to you.
Oh!
I thought this was something about describing a data model in plain text and having an LLM generate the entity-relationship diagram tool.

I’ve done this with GPT4, asking it to output Mermaid relationship diagrams. And it’s usually impressively good (never went beyond ~10 entities). I also had it update and fix the result using natural language feedback.

I sometimes had to touch up a few things "by hand", but I really wouldn’t bother doing it from scratch myself anymore.

Even the failures are interesting, as they often result from an unclear description, or issues in my own understanding of the domain or model.
Is there a way to tell if this actually deletes or if Reddit just shows it as deleted but keeps backups of it?
I'm sure there was some kind of tool to share screens, maybe back to X11? IRC was used in the 90's to let people chat in 10+ groups. I can't remember all the unix-y things that floated about to network, nor all that Sun helped create. Nor can I remember whether IBM (Lotus Notes) or DEC had tools in the 80's. And I'm too lazy to google for it.

Here's one: https://thoughtsofanidlemind.com/2012/12/14/vax-notes/

Our field has no memory of its past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)

And people got bored back then, or wanted to hack new things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

NSFW, Jennicam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Ringley

Given the clever nature of the HN community and the desire for VC money to make more money, there would have been a lashup in 3-6 months and a product in less than a year to scratch the itch. Y Combinator, of course, would have funded it.
> Cats on the streets are a disaster for the bird population

and still pale in comparison to the effect us and our cities have on their populations. cats are not the big problem, we are, people just don't like to admit it and would rather blame them. As is likely us destroying the insect populations many species depend on.

> threat of dead cats makes rat poisoning efforts far more difficult to implement

the reality of dead owls and other small natural predators is a more real issue here, and why rat poison should not be used and be banned. It just was in my city Vancouver because it was doing more damage to owl populations then cats were.
Falling in half in six years? Again, woah. Any idea what's driving that?
Big companies are also ridiculously overstaffed, as Elon Musk proved empirically. And many of them have only one thing that works and ambitions of doing more than will never work out. So there's a lot of wasted talent, in other words, but this ability to waste talent necessitates in person communication, just to make sure everyone is stack ranked according to the current arbitrary and probably mindless goals.
Not that I'm necessarily disagreeing, but simde has made life a lot easier here. If you want to write SIMD stuff and don't want to use a higher-level library or depend on the compiler to optimize the code down to SIMD (both of which honestly seem like pretty good options these days), simde is worth taking a look at. You write code that looks like native code, but it'll translate it to the other archs for you. Well, "other archs" just means partially-supported NEON here, but I'd still consider that quite a win.

No relation with the project, just a user.
I better buy some popcorn.
Hey, I've got a friend who is looking, but for a different role than devs and designers. Otherwise, he'd love to use the tool. Any chance for adding more roles?
The "mostly a joke" bit is him suggesting that while his previous bit was just making a point about the $20m insistence, he'd be open to selling and walking away. He doesn't shut the door on selling it in the linked post either.
It makes me wonder why mechanical over something with a XO, given it wouldn't have the status-symbol associated with mech watches. (Or maybe it would?)
Rabies is a horrific disease. I can only imagine what it was like when it suddenly arrived on the scene. Apparently it spread from the New World, finding lots of new hosts in the varied European dog breeds[1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5620125/
The defaults are not sane. Sure it is nice they restrict applications, until you open a DVD reader and discover it can't talk to the DVD drive.
So i don't like homogenization because it destroys the mouth feel. So i am sympathetic to what you are saying.

However, what would the mechanism be for increased inflammation caused by homogenization? Do you have a source? I'm not saying you're not correct, but I'm more inclined to believe that there is a hidden, highly correlated variable at play.
AUR is part of the official repository of Manjaro? That doesn't seem like a good idea.
Funny to contrast this with people boasting on HN not too long ago about job-hopping twice a year or more. Loyalty works both ways.

After 40+ years programming I never expect much stability or loyalty from employers, though it happens. The tech industry revolves around short-term results, growth at all costs, and pumping the share price, which can work out in the employee's favor, but can also lead to over-hiring and layoff cycles, projects staffed and abruptly canceled, "pivots" as dumb ideas get played out.
It’s probably macro-powered but mostly manual.

It’s work he has to do, otherwise those stories would overrun the front page. So the community finds it rewarding.
> Junior engineers are missing out on lots of knowledge transfer

I have worked as an engineer for > 20 years, and I currently work at a company of several hundred people that has been remote-only since its founding before the pandemic. I have personally helped to onboard a junior engineer on my team, and it's gone just as well as the junior engineers I've helped onboard at previous (in-office) companies. You can't make blanket statements like this; it's all about the processes that have been set up to facilitate knowledge sharing, camaraderie, etc.
Sorry you feel that way. You said you were desperate so I thought I'd offer some simple advice. Despite your aggression, I hope you overcome your fears and figure out how to cook for yourself and not rely on exorbitant prices from restaurants
True but is all that work and processing worth it? It needs to function on a mass scale.

CF functions are cheap, but at scale it's more than an irritant.
Where do I buy FB, Google and MSFT user data?
Would taking supplements work as well? I saw that Taurine supplements are available for cheap. I have no idea what people are taking it for.
Obligatory link to this wonderful interactive site explaining the inner workings of mechanical watches: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
Do you have any remaining invites?
Go do stuff that is not computer-related, or use computers to make things happen in the real world. "A person's primary task should not be computing, but being human."
You can get into the field! It's growing fast. There is a ton of pure SW involved.
These are jobs that either aren't even yet on the spectrum of automation (carpentry, plumbers, industrial HVAC & electricians) or as I referenced in more detail, folks who work on the robotics that "replace the jobs" or are otherwise augmenting the spectrum (in the outlier instance, its medical industrial systems stuff. I think they make surgical robots)

Unless the robots are either going to become good at swinging hammers or designing, maintaining, and install themselves, I think these are some of the safest jobs you can have, if there is such a thing
I can’t believe a person exists who would prefer a call over getting the information via email sooner.
The original medium post is really good. The book is not.
Because there's a real danger of losing some of these bird species, and absolutely zero danger of losing domestic cats as a species?
ZorinOS[0] is fantastic!

I switched from Ubuntu too and it was surprising how polished ZorinOS was. Everything was super stable and in the last 2 years, it didn't break by itself, which I can't say the same for Ubuntu sadly.

Linux Mint too is cool but the outdated UI is the only deal breaker for me.

[0] - https://zorin.com/os
That would hilariously low for a social network.

https://sacra.com/c/reddit/
Now that is a solved problem. The issues the grandparent post raises about rewriting the text to be shorter or longer are real, but changing to a totally different reference format is what Latex does automagically for you when you apply the publisher's template - I can't recall the last time when I even looked at what a publication's reference format is, I have the list of sources in bibtex and whatever their template outputs should be correct, and if something in the format was difficult to implement in Latex, well, that was their problem for whoever made that template back when they did it.
Do you have any invites?
Mastodon doesn't have algorithmic recommendations, so you have to follow people fairly liberally to get a good amount of content in your feed.
Using unmodified third-party Reddit apps with a custom server
Getting a Reddit API key seems to be a more complex process than the usual, with the first step being submitting a service ticket [0]. I imagine that this would also help Reddit prevent people from doing what you're suggesting, if it were to become popular.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api
I wonder what Whisper's token vocabulary looks (sounds) like..
> In order for Europe and US to adopt the same connector

The J3068 standard is the North American version:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAE_J3068

It's largely compatible with the European standard.
Honestly, don't know what distro some of these people are using. Maybe the last time they tried snaps they were slow but they have the same startup speed as anything else now.
I order stuff off the Internet from time to time including taurine, is there an easy/cheap way to test things that come through the post from Amazon or another company are Taurine and don’t contain things they shouldn’t?

The supplement industry strikes me as dubious! Is there a better way to think about this?
You'd be OK at the pole, but somewhere like McMurdo? It's often mild enough for a chicken to survive in the summer for a while, certainly long enough to interact with local wildlife.

Plus, scavengers would still be an issue with dead birds.
I know a lot of people hate Manjaro but it's one of the very few distros with sane defaults. I can't stand vanilla gnome, it's too anti-UX for me with all the missing features so Manjaro makes it more usable OOTB, just like ZorinOS.

It's been pretty stable for me, so I don't have any complaints.
tzcnt and popcnt are for parsing strings! If you'd like to e.g. lex a json document then you'll need these.
I remember IRC and other Athena tools (Zephyr?) but not anything for screen sharing.

I still suspect you are right though the widespread adoption of Zoom was much easier due to its almost decade long usage and enterprise features like SSO, etc.
You can change that.
I've seen NYC subway rats and I'd wager most cats wouldn't take them on.
But would the logo for that company have a tiny penis tucked behind its ear?

for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3RwX06wcBs&t=107s
The big problem Reddit has is it has relied on unpaid moderators to get to their revenue streams.

Piss off those people and you don’t have a business anymore.
Yea my bad there - fwiw I added a hot patch to the frontend to accept hackernews as a valid "email" since I couldn't update the parent comment. It should work now, but j+hn@jjcm.org was the email used.
Ha are you joking? This site is exactly the place I expect to see that kind of sentiment. It precisely matches HN’s reputation; it’s been a cliche since Dropbox launched.
The entire OS being declarative. You tell it what is required, not how to do it, as in other OS.
Arch does "just work" it's more of an issue with booting from a live image you are encountering by the sounds of things. Ironically your preferred OS is derivative of Arch and considered less stable by many users of both systems.