skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason why the ultimate goal should be to solve the problems before the customer calls in is because of the amount of time wasted by both parties once things get that far. If an AI agent can reduce the time spent by both parties (no waiting on hold for the customer and no employee time for the company), then the goal is accomplished.

For example, you call out documentation as something that needs to be improved so that customers can solve their own problems—what's wrong with that documentation taking the form of an interactive agent you can ask questions to? A well-trained chatbot (not raw GPT) has the potential to be much more useful for the kinds of queries that would otherwise end up at customer support than does a search engine on a bunch of docs.
> It seems employers have two concerns: cost and presenteeism.

There's real value in people talking to their coworkers in person and knowing them. There's an obvious cost as well, but let's not pretend there's no value there.
“Remote work saves businesses $800B.”

There, fixed it.
It’s not the clearest title, but it’s taken directly from the original source who seem to assume the reader has been following their reporting on it and know what it means.
Bluetooth battery monitor apps continue to send your location
The best solution is to run both at the same time.
This is just the reality of the impending job displacement. Trying to prevent technology from advancing is not possible, and even if it was, it would limit everyone’s standard of living, which is undesirable.

We have two big problems to solve. First is figuring out if we’ll need a safety net for the first wave of automated workers, or if more jobs will be quickly created.

Second, which is more difficult, we need to make sure most people still have the purpose they derive from work. No matter how shitty a job might look from the outside, I wager most people still borrow a strong sense of identity from them. And if they lose that, shit will get weird.

The whole concept of paying UBI to everyone so they become artists is complete BS. A lot of people will just be depressed or behave in a way that negatively impacts society. Jobs are a good way to keep social order.

But telling sob stories about workers about to lose their job doesn’t solve any of these problems. It just makes people feel afraid of the future, which is counter productive.
There is a fixed probability of matching all numbers but the value of doing so varies, so sometimes the EV can be positive.
If you're linking to OpenSSL, it's scary to have that upgraded from under you. Maybe it got better in the 3 series, but I seem to recall pretty much all the important 1.0.1? releases would be something you'd need to mitigate a bit vulnerability, but would also have api changes that would break your application if you were trying to do newish things. Sometimes justified, but still a pita.
Hi. Nice browser. Looking forward to daily drive this.

One thing that caught me off guard after using safari is swiping up the address bar doesn't bring up the tabs in this. Idk, I guess it's more intuitive that way.
Ask HN: Why do web sites not place the cursor for input?
To their credit, Microsoft puts the cursor in the text field ready for me to type in my authenticator code. Most web sites I've found, do not. So I look up with my shiny new code, ready to start typing, realize I need to move my hand to the mouse, place the cursor into the field then there's a 50% change I've forgotten the code and have to look back at my phone.
The convenient truth of the matter is that you don't want to drain your battery "to 0" regardless of whether or not it increases wear and tear on the battery, because you don't want to be stranded. As such giving lifetime aspects under that assumption that people won't do that regularly is fairly reasonable.

On the flip side, I agree that the "100%" mark should be the mark that people regularly charge to, people don't leave empty space in the tank for fun.
>SQL injection is super trivial to prevent, right? How are we still falling for this?

Because the bug is super trivial to fix, it's also super trivial to do. Not to mention, the human mind is naturally inclined to not care about trivial stuff, which leads to careless mistakes at many levels and thus Bobby Tables dropped out of school.
You changed the document after they signed it? If you didn't also remove their signature, that's forgery.
> It literally is a conspiracy where a cold bureaucracy is letting people die. That is exactly what is happening.

It saddens me that you believe such nonsense.
To be honest, average American IT infrastructure is the same; the larger the business, the worse it seems to be. Large tech companies like Google are outliers.
Actually to me it sounds like Reddit and spez won a complete and decisive victory.
This has taken such a long time to play out. It's been obvious to me since it became possible to physically move my computer out the office and take it home (c. 1990) that software development doesn't need to be done in a central building.
Then when I worked in Silicon Valley in the late 90s, I did go into an office, but realized that 80% of the colleagues I interacted with were not in that office. They were either elsewhere on campus in other buildings, or in other countries.
This, of course, facilitated by the internet that we were building at the time.
So I moved to a location where I wanted to live, a long way from the office building. My employers' would ask that I travel to be "on site" from time to time. Fair enough, but after a few years of this I noticed that I was traveling to an empty office to have meetings where all the other participants were on the
Polycom.
So subsequently I only worked for clients who were mostly/fully remote.
Next a pandemic, where everyone else adopts my work model. Everything's fine -- nobody is commuting and they can continue to do productive work while attending useless meetings remotely. Collaboration (aka "pair programming") is much easier thanks to remote screen sharing. Business relationships widen because nobody cares where anyone is located any more.

Heck, supposedly the personal computer was invented in a garage (not an expensive office).
I'd prefer a newsletter as I'm not actively using Twitter, but give me your handle and I'll follow you for the time being.
Online account recovery could go a long way by bootstrapping off the notary system, and then having a waiting period to mitigate forgeries. But companies don't want to add the complexity where a user could commit to a less convenient process for more security, so we're at an impasse. Also they'd have to hire someone to verify the authenticity of incoming physical documents, and having skilled labor do things that aren't "scalable" is verboten.
>The weight issue, however, should be talked about more. I don't think filling highways with 10,000lb minivans with the acceleration speed of a Corvette is an improvement on the whole.

But they aren't. The "minivans with the acceleration speed of a Corvette" exist today in the ICE world and are very few and far between because of price. You can buy a Lamborghini Urus that does 190mph, or a Range Rover Sport Turbo, or BMW X5. But those cars are all 6 figures++ so very few people can afford them.

Sure, a Rivian R1S can do 0-60 like a Corvette, but Bob down the corner isn't spending $100k on a car, so the ones that accelerate like a Corvette will be exactly as ubiquitous as a Corvette.

Meanwhile the fastest/heaviest Kia EV9 does 0-60 in 6.0 seconds, and weighs 5,700 lbs. Both a far cry from the numbers you're concerned with. Meanwhile a Chrysler Pacifica weighs 4,300 lbs, so the differences most people imagine are GREATLY exaggerated.

The vast majority of the "the vehicles are too fast and too heavy" are scare tactics by oil companies. The F-150 tips the scales at 5,500 lbs and nobody is worried about them "ruining our roads". Please don't buy into the nonsense.
Yeah, as someone who’s built a WebKit browser for kicks in the past, WebKit is designed to have applications built around it and you can definitely feel that when working with it.

It may have changed since then, but last I knew a good example of this is its multiprocess architecture. In WebKit, that’s part of the engine while with Blink it’s part of the browser. So while using WebKit gets you multiprocess regardless of how your app is built, if you’re using Blink you need to bring Chromium along for the ride or roll your own to get that.

And of course Gecko is joined at the hip with XUL, so to do anything with it your only real choice is fork Firefox.

Really hoping Ladybird turns out well and/or Servo takes off because there’s a dearth of properly embeddable web engines right now.
After reading "Persepolis Rising" and getting a heavy dose of what propaganda and pacifying messaging from authorities, this reads like it's from that book.

Make sure to mention how easy, super not-inconvenient it is. Include some initial skeptics who now have no problem with it. Resistance is indeed futile.

(I don't think this is the height of tyranny - there are much worse everyday systems harming us. My commentary is on the government press release dressed as a news article.)
I'm just going by the statistics, where I live (France), half of the workers are living less than 12km from their workplace.

Right now, electric cars have improved and the ones being sold are in the 300km battery range.

That's already overkill for most of the normal usage. People have a warped idea on how they are using their car and think they are doing way longer trips than the statistics tells you.

I'm using an EV myself and I changed nothing to my behavior, everything is alright.
Plenty of leases have already expired.

Yet it seems landlords would prefer to leave a building empty than to lease it for a low rent.

Somehow the usual rules of supply and demand don't seem to be applying.
What cities never recuperated. 1B sounds like a lot until you realize that you are aggregating all sorts of negative events across a substantial period in a 23000B economy.

We can avoid future misadventures murdering fewer minorities in the future.
Absolutely insane this gained no traction here.
The biggest story in human history is happening.
The stigma psyop has has worked on most people here.

This is like the beginnings of COVID. Major things started happening in China and everyone sees the headlines, then go about their life as if it can't happen here.
> Because you need something to begin

They have experience with electric drive trains/motors with the hydrogen vehicles and experience with batteries with their (plugin) hybrids.

They just haven't bothered to release a full EV for whatever reason. Maybe they don't think it will be profitable at the moment and it will hurt sales of more profitable existing product lines.

> Thus spreading FUD about EVs

Are they wrong about their concerns over the supply of lithium? Or that for many people EV won't be an option - due to lack of infrastructure in their countries, range issues, ... etc.
Can confirm. I remembered everything that might possibly be important about an address back when I used to deliver pizza (tip amounts, broken doorbells, so so many broken apartment intercoms, violent neighbors offended by my car, ...). I guarantee if I had seen any of those customers out in the real world I could not have recognized them if my life depended on it.
Toyota somehow develop this magical battery for an EV but forgot to develop an EV.

I truly think Toyota's ignorance of EVs will end up turning them into the next Kodak or Blackberry.

They don't NEED a breakthru battery like this, the current ones work well -- I drove 1200km today in a Tesla. What they need to do is develop and sell electiric cars.

It's such a shame. Toyota had the first hybrid. And it was good -- I drove a Prius for ten years. They even made a plugin hybrid. They were the leaders. Now they seem to be last in the electric car race. Tragic.
That doesn't really matter if the car is ludicrously expensive or the battery takes up too much space (or something else, like it's prone to bulging or spontaneous combustion). People don't worry about those things with today's EVs because they aren't problems. I have three EVs and no amount of range would overcome certain downsides.
I don't think the points made in that video will survive long-term. Zoning laws will be forced to change, i.e. minimum parking laws, single zone areas, expensive high-end designs, high-pressure plumbing per residence, lack of use of fiberoptics for sunlight lamps etc. Ideal designs will need to change to accommodate all the empty space that will slowly fall apart without use. I would hate to see all these huge buildings demolished on a shortened lifecycle.
Cool! I've just contributed several examples. If anyone is interested in the sheer amount of identities that have been discovered, good books are (many of them gigantic references spanning thousands of pages). When bored, try proving some of those facts, examples build on top of each other. These are not the only examples, as there are
many texts like these in other areas of mathematics and engineering, be it numerical analysis, optimization and variational analysis, statistics, abstract algebra, control theory, geometry and so on.

Table of Integrals, Series, and Products, Gradshteyn & Ryzhik.

Special Integrals of Gradshteyn and Ryzhik, Vols. I and II, Moll for some proofs of the above.

Handbook of Integral Equations, Polyanin & Manzhirov.

Scalar, Vector, and Matrix Mathematics, Bernstein.

Handbook of Number Theory I and II, Sandor, Crstici & Mitrinovic.

Wikipedia also has a plethora of pages with mathematical identities. Some of them:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

... and its several lists of integrals (including trigonometric, exponential, rational).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_integrals#Lists_of_in...

More advanced topics:

http://proximity-operator.net/
I imagine you'll have a LOT of trouble getting people to vote for them.
presumably they also contribute to corporate identity
These hybrids totally fail the reason of EVs, to get rid of the CO2 emissions of combustion engines.
In France :

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/autoentrepreneurs/trava... (in French, video)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/16/business/uber-eats-delive...
(in English, article)
A signup form at in the blog is a good idea, but HN readers tend to be quick to call out being sold to, so you have to deliver on the content.
Simpler doesn’t mean cheaper to the consumer at time of purchase. You have to factor in R&D, price of parts etc…

ICE cars have had decades to bring down the cost of manufacturing, through shared components and improved manufacturing processes.

EVs are newer, with a lot of cost going into R&D that must be recouped and parts that aren’t shareable across their entire lineup of vehicles yet.

The simplicity of EVs results in reduced ownership cost though with little maintenance required
> An honest manufacturer would only advertise the amount of capacity you can actually use day to day, rather than the capacity that is there but you really shouldn't use unless you want your battery to die young.

Toyota do this. In fact, all PHEV manufacturers seem to do this: they keep their batteries between 15% and 85% and only advertise this range.

Insofar as they advertise it at all: the battery size in eg a Prius prime is buried in a footnote, and the range - miles/km - is what’s advertised, and is real, and corresponds to the 15-85.

I guess it is more important in a PHEV to never fully charge not discharge their batteries: most cycle from full-ish to empty-ish much more than a BEV. And so it is more logical for them to publish their 15-85. But the honesty is refreshing; BEV numbers feel disingenuous to me.

I ignore all breathlessly excited battery “breakthrough” headlines, but I ignore any from Toyota less!
Adieu to ‘all the birds,’ Elon Musk says as he announces Twitter logo change
We need the passport ranking sites like Henley to downrank online application into the ‘requires visa’ category
What does it catch under Rust? Unsafe code? I'm under the impression the borrow checker would prevent the class of problems valgrind is made for.
Regardless, they catch fire much less than ICEVs.
Exactly, this topic requires purposeful journalism. Otherwise it’s just doomerism.
But no problem getting flagged immediately.
Your intellectual weakness begins to show when you can't craft an argument or admit when your opponent makes a point.
rvv1.0 is frozen, and ffmpeg does contain some usage of it: https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/tree/HEAD:/libavcod...
Is the value quantifiable?
Forget about HN for a moment and ask yourself who benefits from a waitlist announcement vs waiting to announce your launch until the product actually exists. The only party who benefits from a waitlist is the owner of the list. That's great for that person, but spam contact harvesting pollution for everyone else, which is ultimately destructive to the community. "Great for me but destructive pollution for the community" defines an antisocial act. Is selfish community harm something that you want people to associate with your brand?
The should have chosen a different color for the United States wind pattern vs the deposited of rem graph. It creates confusion over how much of a deposit. I don't think the inclusion of the overall deposit of all testing is necessary for the paper, though it's useful for background.

As an aside, the NYT should at least wait till it gets published in a journal. I don't like the now common practice of citing of arXiv as the equivalent. It's sorta okay for fast research but continuous use for more than that undercuts the review process.
Not sure where did you get this number. $45/hr was the standard expected rate for software development houses and agencies 7 years ago in Eastern Europe. So now it probably is around $70-80/hr. For $30/hr you could get a talented junior freelancing, if you're lucky. But that comes at the cost of quality and efficiency, which offsets the savings from the seemingly lower rate considerably.
The Tesla Model 3 has been out for six years. Toyota could release this tomorrow and still have alot of catching up to do.
Urgent care is never going to be staffed and equipped the same as an ER. It's not an ER. If you get shot, the ambulance isn't going to take you to an urgent care.
For a breath instrument I will usually take a breath between phrases. For an accordion I often switch direction there. But sometimes I need to adjust this to be practical.

It seems similar to speaking? Sometimes people will talk about saying something "breathlessly."

The bass and chord buttons on a Stradella bass (the most common kind) both go in a circle of fifths, so the root and major chord are next to each other, for example. There is a second bass row with the major third, and for French accordions sometimes a third bass row.
"The future is now and the future is hybrid or fully-remote for 99% of jobs."

I assume you mean for 99% of office jobs.
It’s not those in power wanting to oppress the masses. Humans with too much free time cause trouble. We don’t want that.
> Using a bare laptop all day will damage your health.

Do you have any references to support this? A NY Times article on posture, littered with affiliate links, is not it.

I am using only a laptop for the majority of my almost 10y career as a web developer, without any discomfort or pain, during or after. I've tried the "ergonomic setup" in many different variations and I always ended up with some pain, most often pain in wrist and lower arm, due to repeated movements between the keyboard and mouse/trackpad. Most important improvements for my setups were a good chair that allows shoulder and arm mobility (HM Embody) and a standing desk frame for precise height adjustment when sitting. And the macbook pro seems to have the perfect position of keyboard and trackpad so that I do not cause any strain on my wrists.

But our bodies are different so there is no single best way, health damage is a bold claim without supporting literature.
That's a very good point. That's a tradeoff I made to get some extra space inside those constrained landscape screenshots, but I will probably revert to actual device frames once I revert to portrait screenshots. Thanks for the great examples!
I'll give a counter-point here.

While I agree with a lot of what you said about the challenges of these roles, my company is actively providing opportunities for our call centre folks to access internal re-training programs (designed in collaboration with professional educational institutions) to bring them into junior development and product roles within the company, as we transition more and more to a self-serve model (and therefore need less and less call centre agents).

Obviously this is not for everyone (our first cohort was 60 people and we had just over 1,000 applicants, out of which only about 30% met the qualifications).

It's been a very successful first cohort in 2022-23 and one thing these re-trained folks bring to the table as transferable skills is a very clear understanding of the problems and shortcomings of our service offerings, having been at the "failure" end of many processes as you put it.

As a result, many of them are very quickly contributing way more than a junior who is coming in straight from bootcamps or the outside, and are helping improve our products in meaningful ways that might have been hard, or expensive, to suss out by our existing product teams.

So if these jobs didn't exist, we wouldn't have these smart humans coming into our teams with that real-world experience.
Do some embedded work, implement a bare metal program on an ARM microcontroller in C or Rust. Make a LED blink. Then, make the same LED blink in pure ASM. The RP2040 is easy to bring up.

The magic will fade away quickly.
> I drove 1200km today in a Tesla

Sorry, was this in one day, with a single charge? Or over multiple days (ending today), with charges in between?
They were brought in as a panic reaction to "omg, we need to show we're not racist!", but it didn't take long to realize that they are the most resource diverting (into waste), agitating, and destroyers of psychological safety of anyone they've ever hired.

Like "AI ethicist", it seems these roles only attract the most unethical and toxic people in the world.

Neither role is even inherently evil. It just seems that only evil people want to (or get to?) do them.
Well he definitely hacked it logistically.

Basically what I meant: a bit of maths, a lot of logistics. To me that qualifies!
What an interesting coincidence that his companies are always on the bring, and always saved with government grants, loans, and investor funds.
Just throw some GPT at it and call it a day!

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UI can't wait until we hear of the next level MIT geeks in vegas armed with AI glasses doing all the card counting for them, across many tables, decks, days, tourneys etc...

If there is one industry that should be afraid of AI nefariousness - it would be gambling.
The problem is that here in the US, the chance of making a 200 mile trip 10-20x in 3-5 years is high and no one here wants to deal with getting a rental or special car just to do that.

We like our road trips and while they're rare, they're important and we don't want to rent or have a second car in order to do that.

EVs need to be comparable with gas cars in realistic scenarios and that means a real 3-400 miles. Not 400 miles but with a giant list of can't do's
That website is nothing but glogspam and straight up AI generated material. I wouldn't trust anything they post.