skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One interesting job market change I've seen in the past two months has been the return of the private office. After a couple of decades of moving everyone they could into bullpens and other open areas, it appears that some managers see private offices, while not as good as open floorplans, better than having their workers at home completely out of view. Longterm leases and reduced headcount physically in the office makes these private offices, with floor to ceiling walls and doors that close, viable, at least for now. It's still only a single digit percentage of job postings mentioning private offices and it'll be interesting to see if the trend of offering them grows.

It's an new type of carrot, but I doubt it is going to work on very many. Open floorplans were an abomination but the gap between them and a private office is much smaller than the gap between a private office and a home office. For those who don't have a good workspace at home or just prefer to be in the office, private offices might be a nice change. There probably will be a small percentage of extreme extraverts who miss the bullpen type workspace.
From a modeling perspective, I am impressed with the effects of training on 2T tokens rather than 1T. Seems like this was able to get LLAMA v2 7b param models equivalent to LLAMA v1's 13b performance, and the 13b similar to 30b. I wonder how far this can be scaled up - if it can, we can get powerful models on consumer GPUs that are easy to fine tune with QLORA. A RTX 4090 can serve an 8-bit quantized 13b parameter model or a 4-bit quantized 30b parameter model.

Disclaimer - I work on Databricks' ML Platform and open LLMs are good for our business since we help customers fine-tune and serve.
But you probably will have to differentiate at some point between what you're inserting. Why not just do that, instead of artificially combine it into one function?

Nevertheless I feel like I'm getting lost in the weeds of this example. Obviously DRY and less duplication is good. However, you have to strike a balance between being clever and being clear. And frankly I would prefer 3 lines of clear code to 1 line of hard-to-read code.
golang mainly ended up competing with and replacing the likes of python and ruby, where it was intended to compete with C and C++, where it didn't really change anything.

It makes sense in retrospect of course, python and ruby are slow, dynamically typed languages, and any improvement in performance and typing is welcome. It doesn't mean that golang is inherently better somehow to other offerings. I still maintain that Java and C# are superior languages and ecosystems.
I haven't used chrome tab system, but Safari's tab groups are nice. Point being, most other browser, including esoteric ones like Vivaldi, have a way to organize tabs beyond simple order and moving them to other windows. If you are in a corporate environment, it is unlikely a user can install extensions like sideberry.
Sure. But if you took out a huge mortgage to buy your ice cream business based on anticipated sales, there are certain prices you cannot go below without going bankrupt.

In a way, this is worse with real estate. With ice cream you can always make up losses with volume (to a certain extent). With real estate you have a fixed supply.

Moreover, if you drop the price to get a new tenant, you implicitly drop the price for all existing units as well.
Its a shame that Go as a language is so lacking, the tooling is amazing.

I wish there was something like Go but with an actually good programming language attached.
I wouldn't advocate for grade inflation, and there's no indication here that's what happened. I would advocate for analyzing which types of students were well-served by the change, taking into account their learning and the effect on their GPA.

I would expect that it wouldn't be that difficult to select kids (perhaps based on prior performance in math classes, or overall GPA) to opt them into the class. This would be more fine-grained than simply shunting all kids into an advanced class.
You know they tried all this stuff right?
I'm reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

We are not, should not, and cannot all be the same.

I am bad at languages. Should I now demand that everybody please slow down so that I do not have to feel bad about myself? ... Nope.
Transit is actually never free, you either pay for it from fares, or from taxes, or a combination thereof.

Since mass transit access is something you can't badly overconsume in a sensible way, nor can you hoard and resell it in meaningful quantities, it does not noticeably suffer from the problems that plague free-to-take physical stuff. If keeping the access infrastructure is expensive, shutting it down and making access free may indeed save money. See how it works e.g. for public parks and city streets; both are toll-free.
In addition this, at least in California, kids can dual-enroll in community colleges to take supplementary or more advanced (or even vocational) courses that mostly do transfer for college credit when applying to UCs & CSUs.

I sometimes wonder if this is how the German system came about, where there's a hard split in high school / gymnasium between the academic track kids and the vocational track kids (and there absolutely is not any shame in taking the vocational route).
Yeah, if Github squares are affecting your health, a better policy is self-control. Otherwise your next issue might be unit tests displaying green checkmarks and repos showing coverage percentages.
There are also highly specialized schools that focus on special needs kids. Would we end up with more of those? Are the services available in public schools as good as what a specialty school may be able to provide?
> broken, slow, erratic, or stupid, program or OS behavior

This describes so much software that I don't see how you can fault anyone for thinking it is normal.
I believe the point of OP was that it is perceived as a common attitude as a result of Thiel’s influence.
As a method for choosing a language, doesn't this just inherently skew to the smaller and more simplistic one, which may not necessarily be the best for all tasks or over a longer run where the techniques of the more involved language could be learned?

It's like hiring a new farmhand and saying, "here, dig two 3 foot holes, and we'll see what takes you longer, this shovel or an excavator you have no training or experience with," and then concluding the shovel is superior for all digging tasks from that point on.
golang and Clojure are not in the same space, so it doesn't make sense to compare them. And I question this litmus test of using a junior dev anyway.
What? Tell me you don't follow the space. FB AI is one of the top labs..
> It is neither an endorsement nor an ad. It is a music video.
Now, Nokia could have been paying her to use their phone during the music video - product placement is a thing, and you can see the brand logo in the shot.

I believe it is a fairly clear example of product placement, which is a form of advertisement. Like, when I see Andrew Garfield playing the role of Spiderman and having shots of him using Bing in those movies, there is no way I could consider it anything but product placement/ad.

Sure, there are less clear-cut edge cases in music, such as rappers namedropping luxury brands like LV, Ferrari, Rolex, etc., but at this point it is a part of the identity of the genre.

But overall, I think it is pretty obvious that when a brand/logo gets prominently featured in media such as movies, music videos, etc., it is for product placement purposes. And in cases when it isn't, taking it as a personal endorsement is kind of silly. For me, personal endorsement is cleanly defined as using and/or recommending products explicitly, outside of "fictional" media you produce (e.g., MKBHD reviewing tech products is not "fictional" media, so for him the endorsement would often come from within the media he produces).
I'd say opportunities. When there are fewer kids matriculating into college it's easier to get into a better school (see Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers)

Professors and Teachers, the variability of them is huge.

Friends can have a huge impact as well. Is the norm to skip classes to go work on a startup or focusing on getting good grades?

Resources such as the Numberblocks which make math more visual and accessible. My pre-K kid was doing multiplication because of that show.
Weird. When I first watched it (a few days ago) it was in English. Now it is Spanish only.
Which places have school vouchers today?

Besides, the state can mandate a minimum curriculum which includes civic education to receive the voucher, with the state managing standardized end of years test for the mandatory curriculum.

The options to handle it well are there, society just needs the will.
Mind trying https://discord.gg/SEJEfSqctQ ?
The value of domain expertise in combination with technical expertise cannot be overstated.
If they want to own the whole stack, I don't think they have much to work with. Their highest-end server chip is a duplex laptop SOC, with maxed-out memory that doesn't even match the lowest-end Grace CPU you can buy (nevermind a fully-networked GH200). Their consumer offerings are competitive, but I don't think Apple Silicon or CoreML is ready to seriously compete with Grace and CUDA.
Same thing deep inside the Java TOS. I remember it from like 20 years ago.
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There is no difference between "no value" and "the fact that there is no value". "The fact that" is just rhetorical verbiage.

There is an ambiguity in a polymorphic container between a present entry indicating a null value, and a null return indicating there is no entry.

E.g. hash table being used to represent global variables. We'd like to diagnose it when a nonexistent variable is accessed, while allowing access to variables that exist, but have a null value.

This is because the variables are polymorphic and can hold anything.

When we are dealing with a typed situation (all entries are expected to be of a certain type, and null is not a member of that type's domain) then there is no ambiguity: if a null appears in the search for a value that must be a string, it doesn't matter whether "not found" is being represented by an explicit entry with a null value, or absence of an entry.
Also geopolitical interests, revenge, spite, hate.
I've heard similar things about New York as well. In the 70s, NYC was a crime filled mess. But it was cheaaaaap. And the cheapness brought in young cool bohemians and now it has the opposite problem.
Wow, actively dumbing down maths and kneecapping kids from learning advanced maths. And for what, equity?
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For some of the decisions these boards make, outrage happens to be the only rational response anyone who cared could possibly have. If they were crippling my children for the rest of their lives, I wouldn't get up in front of the room and drone on in monotone about how there are more reasonable choices to be made. No one could do that in full confidence that it could work even some of the time, nor do anything but react when it was proven to you that it didn't ever work.

As for ideology, I doubt it's possible to be non-ideological. I have children not because they are accidents or the abortions my wife didn't bother to have. Not even because we just didn't know any other way to go through life. We had children because children are a good thing unto themselves. So good that I hope they grow up to have their own and enjoy that experience. Schools are hostile to that and seem to be doing what they can to encourage sterility.
Sounds great, you've really found the place for you. Only question is: what are you doing posting on HN then?
Lease non-renewals will continue over the next 4-5 years. TBD on when defaults hit a tipping point or runaway failure, but it doesn't bode well for the particularly-exposed regional banks.

> About 700 office leases are likely to expire in 2023 and another 600 are up in 2024 in the Financial District alone, said Avison Young’s insights and innovation head Dina Gouveia, for a total of about 10 million square feet of office space. In 2025 and 2026, another 10 million-plus square feet are likely to expire.

https://therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2022/10/17/downtown-sf-...
The proposal sounds pretty moronic, but I don't understand the need to call Dallas conservative vs Cali 'progressive'. Dallas probably has more democrats ratio-wise than California, it's a major city.
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This is why my kids are in private school now. The public school system here in NJ has been dumbing down its curriculum for years. And while I thought “social promotion” was only a thing in horrible inner city schools, we have it here out in the suburbs, too.

The first six months was very rough as they caught up from being so far behind, but they are being well positioned to the rest of their school careers compared to where they would have ended up academically in the public schools.
Sure. Lots of people have ideas or preferences I think are terrible. I hope they lose at the ballot box.

[EDIT] To make this more substantive: I think there's a distinct difference between collectively funding a public system, and redistributing money to folks to go toward private entities—this goes beyond not liking the values or environments of some of the schools private-school-preferrers might spend their vouchers on. That's why I suggested that if we must do vouchers, it ought to be limited to what a given person paid in themselves, not other people's money—I think there's a fundamental difference between funding a public good available to all and giving people cash so they can get past a private paywall to access a similar good.
> Working on a cross-platform project where in Go, I write code and it just builds

I've worked on large golang code bases that had to build on bazel, and I had the same experience fighting it. It has nothing to do with the language.

> In Java, I fight with Gradle.

So gradle's issue, not Java's. See above.
Being on the spectrum entails downsides as well as super powers.

Elon is a jerk, Elon is a genius, Elon is the best custodian for the vast capital he controls.

https://abilitycentral.org/article/autism-quick-tips-top-8-t...
I have never doubted the performance of Firefox. There’s a really old computer sitting in my house, never updated it for almost a decade now and my parents occasionally use it. The Chrome on it kept getting slower and laggier, while the Firefox always work fine. At some point, I just removed Chrome and told my parents to use Firefox: “the red fox is the Internet”
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Bit of a weird position to take that you're in favour of schools doing indoctrination, just as long as it's away from the viewpoint you don't like.

No, it's not. Society only works when people believe in a shared fiction, and when they stop believing it, things go completely to shit.

I would absolutely oppose indoctrination into a bad shared fiction, just like a religious person would oppose indoctrination into a 'religion is the opiate of the masses and must be purged from society' shared fiction, or like a pro-democracy person would oppose indoctrination into 'the way forward is installing an autocracy that will seize power through force of arms' shared fiction, or like how most of us would probably have issues with pro-ISIS indoctrination.
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First find out where you’re at. Then you will know better how to go where you want.
We were trying to do the same thing once deployed haha... we found, if you want it to take on another persona, you could end your prompt as:

'Assistant: (responding as XYZXYZ)'

And then let it complete! Worked much more reliably than just saying:
'XYZXYZ:'
Enormous complaint about this space: people seemingly never think to include checksums. Drives me wild when there is supposedly all of this concern about the right data and provenance, yet it is not easy to even confirm you have the genuine article.
I’m reading these as completely different.

The latter sounds like advertising and education about masks rather than wearing the masks themselves. ie telling people to wear masks made no difference in spread probably because people’s minds were already made up about masking.

I din’t see it making any conclusion about masking itself
Depends on the task. For code, ask it to implement a not-difficult but not-trivial feature. "Please add hooks to the AnkiDroid source code so that addons would be viable" might be a good start, for something that is on my mind. Then compare implementations.

For checking hallucinations, ask it about events and trivia that happened eons ago, and also within the last decade. Try some things that it can not possibly know, like how much celery Brad Pitt likes in his salad.
Does anyone have a less biased article about this to tell if this is actually a thing?

I remember the controversy over Common Core Math and I realized a lot of people complaining about it weren't very good at math and their criticism was more a reflection of that than valid criticism.

Now it's hard to believe when people complain about something when education is involved.
It is, my Pi 2 could handle 10,000 req/s and this page could easily be cached or even static. What kind of traffic does the HN frontpage generate?
Mind asking in our Discord community (https://highlight.io/community)?
Happy to help there - looks like you are missing the docker compose v2 plugin (https://docs.docker.com/compose/).
Firefox has 2.2% usage on US government websites according to https://analytics.usa.gov/

If it falls below 2% it may lose official support on .gov websites according to https://designsystem.digital.gov/documentation/developers/#b...
> If it is the case, while avoiding the privileged ones to run ahead is not ideal, the alternative of doing nothing is even worse (which is in practice what a lot of people criticizing this measure prone: they did not have any plan to change anything before the subject was introduced).

> I think that the idea is not to "dumb down" the kids, but to have a goal that everyone can achieve instead of a goal that is impossible to achieve for some of the poor kids anyway. See under this lens, the proposal makes more sense: the lectures are given at the NORMAL pace, without assuming that extra learning is made at home while it is known that this extra learning is impossible to do for some.

The NORMAL pace is too slow for some kids who aren't even doing any math at home. The solution to kids learn at different paces and some kids can learn at a faster pace if they have resources at home, but not all kids have resources at home isn't force everyone onto the normal pace. It's to make sure all kids have access to resources.

If it's hard to get resources, then maybe you can free up some by adjusting class sizes. Instead of 60 kids, and 20 kids / class room all at the same pace; you can take the 30 kids capable of doing a faster pace and put them in the fast paced room, then have two classes of 15 kids at a slower pace and now they've got more time for individual instruction, and you didn't have to hire anyone.
Erlang is dynamically typed.
of course not, but all of this insanity is just based on feelings, not actual outcomes.
Yeah, it looks like there are some slab serifs in there. I guess you could generously say that serif and sans-serif are handles on either end of what is really a spectrum. It may be simpler to call it a sans-serif, because if you called it a serif, people would expect it to be more serify.
> It would be more expensive and harder to try instead to invest in and help those with additional needs. But nobody is interested in spending more to help others

Underneath all of this is a budgetary trade-off. Quite often there are funds to pay either for more support for struggling students or advanced opportunities for advanced students, but not both.

That budgetary problem is ultimately fueled by larger socio-economic challenges, including high cost of living that is out of pace with tax revenue for school funding, high public pension costs, and ever-increasing demands on public schools to be social service hubs dealing with fallout from things like drug and violence epidemics. Those are expensive problems to treat.

Furthermore, those problems are not distributed uniformly across society. They are heavily disproportionately present in lower income communities, whether they're urban or rural.

Schools in uniformly well-off communities don't need to worry about treating these problems to anywhere near the same degree, so they need fewer behavioural
and educational specialists just to keep the classroom functional, if they can do that at all.

Well-off children from supportive homes and communities are cheaper to educate. They arrive in the classroom with years of preschool and summers of educationally stimulating camps. They don't come to school hungry.

As a society, we could address some of the deeper inequities in opportunity, to relieve low income schools of the additional societal burdens we place on them, but those sorts of measures are even more polarising than school funding.

Therefore, we end up with the default, which is individuals optimizing purely for their own interest (i.e. the push for school vouchers), not what is more sustainable for society.
I was going for “batshit insane” but I absolutely love your use of the word “sinister”.
> And Go has succeeded despite these condescending diatribes on how a language needs to have a Hindley-Milner type system with ADTs and type classes to be useful

Fine. But it's beside your parent comment's point. The article claims that everyone thought Go's type system was an advance on the state of the art. This isn't even close to true.
So taxes the state collects from me automatically become 'public funds' I have no say over?
I mean if you have ever written a for loop before you know enough go to get started. I like go fine but this seems like a very short sighted thing to optimize for.
there is a download wall again :(
sweden.se is fine; it's identity.sweden.se that's having some problems. This is a really limited site with a target audience that's normally in the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of developers. It's probably just running on a cheap server/VPS somewhere, which is fine almost all of the time.
Compliance for COVID mask mandates was measured and found to be extremely high, especially at the start (>95%). These mandates were enforced by harsh penalties so high compliance levels is no surprise. Thus you can't argue mask mandates didn't work because of low compliance.

Also health authorities told people masks were highly effective. That's what justified the mandates. So you can't argue mask mandates didn't work because people were told it wouldn't work.

Therefore there's no self fulfilling prophecy here. It didn't even matter what individuals thought anyway, we all had to wear masks.

Although Cochrane much prefers to use RCTs, people have run regressions over the data and there was no link between levels of mask wearing and infection rates. It sucks but it appears that masks just can't stop aerosolized virus, which spreads like a gas. They aren't designed to do that so it's no knock against the manufacturers, who in some cases explicitly warned people that their products would be useless for that purpose (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfNmzptXkAEg9Od?format=jpg&name=...).
Odd indeed not to mention the artist playing the sample. Also odd that OP article about the instrument does not mention the inventor.