skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is not always a bad thing

Sure and that's reasonable, but in the cases where performance/throughput/training time/RAM usage is the main limiting factor of a field, suddenly this stuff matters a lot. There's plenty of useful code written in COBOL and Basic from back in the day, but you don't see people using those things to train LLMs

Imagine if instead of letting Basic effectively die, we had improved it with a myriad of extensions to the point where you can run LLMs and GPU code and things in a performant-ish way on it. Now replace the word Basic with Python
This is unrelated to “with Cause” conditions in employment contracts. This is about qualifying for unemployment and other benefits.
Right, but that phone warranty and 5000 Amex points is being funded by T-Mobile paying CC processing fees
> There seems to be zero self-reflection from the advertising industry.

Back in the 90's, I can remember seeing a blog post from an advertiser trying to warn his compatriots that pop up ads and obnoxious animated gifs were counterproductive, but they did not get any traction.
The target site has access to all the query parameters. If they wanted to they could send all of them to Google/whoever who then looks up if any of those parameters are in their database
It's a tool built out of personal necessity that they decided to share with the world for free.

But don't despair, contributions are welcome.

https://github.com/LaniJ/invoice-dragon
I had to use ublock origin to start blocking those sites

https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
I was able to carry the onewheel on any transport, and that's nice, but it's not as convenient to lock compared to a bike. It's also too heavy to carry comfortably for more than 5 minutes. When you want to go into a supermarket for example you're in a worse position compared to a bike.

How do you handle an escooter in that situation?

I've seen the "carry handle" in action on a EUC, and it's pretty convenient for that. Held vertical takes next to no space on the ground so it's not much different than having a trolley.
I certainly wouldn't brand Putin as "pro-user".
That could be a good idea, yeah.

I think on the whole, PL is at the point now where my engineering abilities have definitely outstripped my marketing/outreach abilities. So I guess I should spend some time really thinking about how to get the word out more broadly.
As a VR enthusiast nothing has come close to the experience of Half Life Alyx (except maybe PavlovVR). Luckily it’s had a prolific modding scene to keep me going but really we need more like it.
Dynamic vs. Static Config for My Tiling Window Manager
I had an Amiga and it was great at the time. But the engineers played some tricks to extract maximum performance at minimum cost which left them kind of trapped. There wasn't a clear path forward to take advantage of hardware advancements while maintaining software backward compatibility.

By contrast the Apple Macintosh hardware architecture was much more limited. But it was also easier to extend without redesigning everything from scratch.
This seems more cut-and-dried. Many of these employees were hired with their official location as “virtual”, so there’s proof of a change by the company.

The other thing that is happening concurrently at Amazon is Return To Team (RTT). Let’s say that you didn’t get hired with “virtual” as your location, but Seattle. Your leadership has decided that the center of mass for your team is Austin (or Tempe, or Arlington). Not only do you have to RTO, you have to return to that office.
> The clearest end point for this is some government issued digital ID that just asserts who you are, acts as a login etc.

Already exists in a bunch of countries. Works better in some than in others.

The issue is that you don't want everything tied to that ID. In a less than ideal world, ideally the ID would just attest that some random pseudo-ID is real. Like Webauthn, kinda.
Constructive dismissal isn't about whether it's legal or not to do it. It is, however, relevant to things like unemployment benefits—my wife, for instance, had her job changed on her just as the lockdowns were beginning, to something she had already made it very clear she was adamantly unwilling to do (and this was a complete change in title, responsibilities, department, the whole works), and after she had been instrumental in some reports that were pretty critical of the administration and (indirectly) supportive of unionization. She quit, and had no trouble (at least, no more than usual) getting the state to agree she deserved unemployment.
If people can't use their prefered Linux distros to do banking, or can't connect to social networks,email providers, music streaming services and so on this will mean practically they are forced to switch distros. Which would eventually add more control power to some Distros to what goes into development and what not.

You can see systemd and it's history about how it hold power.
Exhibit 1. A 'Hacker News' post by a user exhibiting the tell-tale emotionally-charged defense of their abuser, a classic hallmark of Stockholm Syndrome.
That's a word mark... it doesn't matter what font it's in because the mark relates to the words, not a specific design of the words in display...
> See Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man

No thanks. Why would I refer to a source whose author either lied to get the results that suited his politics or was completely incompetent? From the NY Times[1]:

But now physical anthropologists at the University of Pennsylvania, which owns Morton’s collection, have remeasured the skulls, and in an article that does little to burnish Dr. Gould’s reputation as a scholar, they conclude that almost every detail of his analysis is wrong.

Frankly I have my doubts about your knowledge of the subject if you’re relying on thoroughly discredited sources.

You did nicely restate Mr. Taleb’s novel redefinition of “intelligence” as survival ability though. No doubt then Taleb believes the humble tardigrade is one of the most intelligent creatures on Earth.

[1] https://archive.is/GhiVK
There is this thing called a shareholders registry which you are supposed to keep up to date and at the company offices which lists each and every shareholder in a privately held company. While there is no legal limit to how many shareholders a dutch BV can have there are practical ones: the typical shareholder registry does not anticipate more than low double digit shareholders and the fees really add up when you start doing many transactions, especially small ones. Every modification to the shareholders registry is notarized, and there are strict requirements with respect to KYC/UBO and AML/ATF that each of these transactions is subject to.

The 'record keeping' argument was shot down based on several (good) arguments, the basis of which is that if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck that it is probably a duck. The main points of interest: profit division, endurance beyond the work done for a particular job, the ability to trade them with others (possibly outsiders) and the fact that for taxation purposes they would likely be seen as shares. Having 'investor points' is a neat variation, but would probably be seen as a different class of shares.

Finally, there is a big problem in case the 'real' shareholders suddenly declare the points system invalid (because they have a big incentive to do so, for instance to be able to sell their 'actual' shares at a much higher valuation) to capture the profits themselves. This would likely result in a lawsuit where the points holders would take the position that their 'points' are shares and that suit would probably be lost based on the expected behavior.

So I can see many reasons why 'points' === 'shares' and only a few limited and ultimately broken ways in which they are not. The question then becomes 'is it possible to create a low-fee way to trade shares without going public?', and to me that one is still open. If the answer is 'no' then I think the idea is DOA, if the answer is 'yes' then it becomes a lot more interesting.

Bonds are traded on Euronext here (one of several major exchanges here), a retail investor would have to go through a bank or a broker and can't buy them directly.
I remember all the emails from Amazon recruiters and they sold remote work hard.
Does cal.com not fit for purpose?
> I think a unilateral change to the employment contract

These employees do not have employment contracts.

It sounds nit-picky if you’re unfamiliar with the law, but it’s very important that companies avoid giving the suggestion that there is an “employment contract”

Regardless, this is a company-wide policy change, not an action against an individual.

Companies close offices, shutter departments, and pull out of regions while giving employees to the opportunity to relocate all the time. This is well-trodden territory and it’s not constructive dismissal against an individual.
Sometimes just assuming others aren’t being antagonistic is best. You’ll live a better life.
> Low population densities can be misleading; much of the US is highly urbanized, and dense urban centers would be very efficiently connected by rail service were we to improve it. I for one would almost certainly make more trips to cities in Ohio, Illinois, etc. if it was a < 6 hour high speed trip rather than an overnight one.

The contours of a successful HSR system in the US and Canada are roughly as follows:

The core linear corridors of DC-Boston (densest US population) and Detroit-Quebec City (that's 10/15 largest cities in Canada). Combine these with an east-west Boston-Toronto and north-south Montreal-NYC spine (timed interchange at Albany makes too much sense), as well as several other small feeder routes I'm not mentioning.

A Midwestern knot centered on Chicago with lines to (in ccw order) Minneapolis, St. Louis (maybe to Kansas City), Louisville (and thence to Nashville I think), Cleveland, and Detroit (not sure how to squeeze in Cincinnati and Columbus). At this point, you might consider connecting the tendrils to the northeast system as well.

CAHSR, with connections to Las Vegas and Phoenix. Texas Triangle. Maybe Portland-Vancouver.

Nashville-Miami via Atlanta, and Atlanta-DC via Research Triangle in NC.
> The correct answer to the question: "How do I use a hammer to tighten a screw" isn't a lengthy description of how to perform some magic with a hammer. The correct answer is: "You don't. Use a screwdriver."

My car broke down in the middle of the desert because of a screw that came loose and all I have is a hammer. You have just condemned me to death because you assume you know better.
I actually noticed this (and considered blogging to myself about it) but in practice the only reason why this was not seen as an issue (IMO) is because it being implemented only on Apple platforms meant that there was no possible way you could really limit your services using it. It was just an additional thing people could use as another signal.

However, the Google proposal is explicitly concerned with pushing this as an always-on feature.

> However, a holdback also has significant drawbacks. In our use cases and capabilities survey, we have identified a number of critical use cases for deterministic platform integrity attestation. These use cases currently rely on client fingerprinting. A deterministic but limited-entropy attestation would obviate the need for invasive fingerprinting here, and has the potential to usher in more privacy-positive practices in the long-term.

All Apple implementing it ahead of time is proof of is that anyone hoping Apple will save us is naive.
In the US, the country of origin for both iOS and Android, iPhone market share is closer to 60%
It’s not like the very first thing Musk did was dismantle the verification system… even a tiered verification system would have made it less blatant that Musk is destroying Twitter.
> able to garner enough information

"Garner" is perfect here, thank you.

> But how do random chemical processes [make the leap from molecules to cells]?

Ya, that's a kicker.

Another mind bender for me is the concept of "self". When some collection starts to prefer their own company over others. That boundary (or barrier or affinity or homophily or whatever) between "me" and "not me".
The actual threashold is “a meaningful change in your work requirements” and there is, I believe, plenty of case law to establish that this includes a significant change to your worksite location.

If you live 5 min from your office, maybe you can’t use this excuse. But if you are committing 45+ min each way, or have since moved out of state…
Bloom (https://bloom.io) solves a lot of this, but without the open source part.
More about the book at C2, https://wiki.c2.com/?TheNewFontanaDictionaryOfModernThought
So I'm not doing RLHF that's how LLama is pre-trained. It's in the loss/optimization phase in their training I believe.

For the finetuning i'm using LoRA to freeze most of the layers for parameter optimization. Using PEFT from huggingface
OK, but the person you’re replying to left SO over this policy, and you didn’t seem to register that at all, just repeated the policy.

The fault finding culture of SO is toxic.
Middle managers reason to justify their “work”
If those breaches in user trust don't bother you, why not use Chrome then? I can't recall any campaign Chrome has pushed that breached privacy as severely.
>If it’s so irrelevant, why did he buy it for $44 billion?

Stupid is as stupid does
What term do competent people use to explain things they don't understand?
> It will be a slow descent for reddit, but if you take the "rule" of social media that splits content creators/active participants/lurkers as 1/9/90%, and if we assume that a substantial amount of the 1% is moving away from reddit, then it stands to reason that the other 99% will end up following the creators.

In the domains of programming, suggesting that many of the 1% have moved away from Reddit, that is extremely optimistic... though that may be my visibility into fragmentation of communities across Lemmy.

https://lemmy.ml/c/java
https://programming.dev/c/java

From what I've seen, the content that has taken off on Lemmy tends to be the lower effort "ask Lemmy", memes, and similar.

Instances on beehaw tend to be more thriving, but this may also be a function of more active moderation... which is one of those things that people rail about being unfair and Stack Overflow over moderates (that's another thread).

The people who left Reddit appear to mostly be moderators who have gotten tired of moderating rather than people who are creating content / posts / commenting on Reddit.

https://programming.dev/c/cs_career_questions

290 subscribers, most recent question was 8 days ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/

1M subscribers (yes, bots, inactive and all), 25th oldest question was 9 hours ago.

There was a surge a few weeks ago (especially as people hit private subs) - but it hasn't been sustained.
So you don't know it's a poor substitute then?
The articles conclusion is explicitly that there is no valuable literature on the subject
To the people saying "stop using Chrome", I don't think you understand the situation. Using a non-Chrome browser does not protect you from this proposal. If anything, worst case it will force you to use Chrome for specific websites, say a bank. So unless 3 billion people switch browsers overnight, avoiding Chrome does not make this go away.
Google just says they won’t be providing software updates at a certain point. So the devices won’t get security patches, new browser features, updated root certificates, etc.
Except those adds are often provided by Google itself.
So penalizing them would be self harm for google revenues
Oh, it was! And there was no way to "prove" it, it's just like "look, the equation this way actually makes a lot of sense and is very clever and produces results that seem reasonable and much respect to whoever designed it... and the equation the way it is in code now... does not. It seems like clearly it got accidentally transposed at some point?"

And the response was just like "We disagree, we think it makes sense the way it is and the product is correct"

That's kind of the end of the argument, there's nothing more one can say!

It didn't help that I came in assuming that of course everyone would see which version was correct (as you just did! although i didn't find it obvious, it took me lots of study to figure out), instead of producing a narrative designed to gently persuade them that. (That's on me -- I think I've learned something about technical communications around bugs and disagreements since then, although I'm still far from perfect).

The real answer, I think was given in one of the reddit thread comments -- the way it's broken for the most part _doesn't matter_ in the usual operations of reddit, it matters only in edge cases, and not very important ones, so really people mostly don't notice and we don't care.

Fair enough, I guess? But they did fix it three years later? I forget how I even found out they had fixed it; I can't at this point find any context for _why_ they fixed it, or who with power finally noticed/agreed it could use fixing why.

(And if it had happened three years after that, it would not have been in public source, and my gloating satisfaction would have been stolen!)
I'm sure everyone has thought of this, but is any search engine trying to add LLMs to the crawler pipeline? That might be more useful than at the user side (like Bing) where the index is already polluted.
Devs being opposed (or not embracing) automation is wild to me. Like that's literally your entire job, to write software that does stuff automatically, reducing the amount of tedious/manual task that have to be done.

I'm also of the belief that every on-boarding is a great opportunity to improve the process, update documentation, etc. You have this person that knows absolutely nothing about your processes/environment. They're going to ask lots of questions, those should be written down and placed in your KB so your not relying on tribal knowledge as much.
It’s not a poor substitute - in a lot of ways it’s one of the best VR headsets you can get. Once you go wireless there’s no going back, and there are plenty of standalone games that don’t need great graphics to be fun.

I also don’t understand people’s aversion to Meta over Google, Amazon, etc. but that’s a personal choice.
In high school in 1988, a friend and I discovered a vulnerability in the netware deployment of 30 IBM PS/2 Model 30-286s in our brand new computer lab that allowed us to insert programs into the autoexec netboot sequence. Prior to that, we'd been hacking on the (brand new at the time) VGA registers and figured out how to switch from 80x25 text mode to 320x200 256-color graphics mode with no flicker or glitches, as both modes have a refresh rate of 70Hz. So he created a TSR that preloaded a digitized picture of a clown face (a popular upload on BBSes at the time) into A000:0000, and after about 4 minutes, it would display the clown face for a few frames and then immediately switch back to whatever the user was working on. We gave ourselves away because we couldn't stop laughing in the corner of the room watching all the students get very confused/horrified looks. One bonus was the comic timing of a student calling the instructor over, having him stare at the screen for 3+ minutes, turn away, then have the clown face flash when he wasn't looking.

My friend's name was Brian, one of the smartest people I've had the privilege of knowing. Ten years later, we created mobygames.com.
> I am surprised by how many commenters seem to be anti-scientific comments or crypto-creationist arguments.

You must have a hair-trigger definition of anti-scientific cryptocreationist because I don't see it.

IMO, drawing narrow boundaries around how scientific questions can be discussed is rather anti-scientific, since a search for the truth can't presuppose that truth.
Fascinating, thank you for posting that. It ate up my whole day but it was well worth it.
Or, it means that the conditions under which life could arise are not persistent. Life either originated quickly or it would not originate at all. For example, if life originated in a small warm planetesimal, it only had maybe 10 million years before the short lived radioactivity in the early solar system (which we know was there from the decay products) died away and the planetesimals froze.
Wouldn’t solar benefit desert ecosystems by providing more shade? Most desert animals are nocturnal anyways, I guess you might even see more activity during the day. I don’t think solar means “paving the desert”, most panels aren’t at ground level, and they aren’t even that close to each other.
In California, a Math Problem: Does Data Science = Algebra II?
It’s true that sometimes people repeat mistakes of the past by iterating on a fundamentally bad idea.

But sometimes the idea wasn’t bad. The mistake of the past could have been in execution of the idea or tech limitations.

When any new VR product is released, I could post a link to the article for the Nintendo Virtual Boy and make a snarky remark about how successful that was. That doesn’t really add anything though.
p = 0.20
excluded from browsing the web starts where? my isp wont let me browse the web? or youtube wont serve videos to me?
What is your budget and desired ecosystem?
The Valve Index is (imo) the highest quality VR headset right now in terms of fidelity and comfort and tracking, but is also one of the most expensive and hardest to set up.
The Quest 2 on the other hand is exceedingly affordable, is portable, and can be run standalone, all of which are very very cool. But then you take the Meta plunge.
Sure, but only days after publicly demanding to buy the company and signing an ironclad contract stating that he would. ::Shrug::
Professionals, from Stack Overflow's user surveys.
What did you think of the actual game?
Yeah, that's what happened to most of them. Between that and leaky caps I don't think there's many working examples left now.
Sounds like you probably have a bad input somewhere. Or perhaps missed a section entirely?

If you'd like any help with your scenario, just let me know.
Remember AllAdvantage? That was a service around the turn of the century that showed you ads on your desktop and paid you for it. But only if you were actively using the PC. People used mouse wigglers to fake it and there was a little arms race.

This tech would be their wet dream. You could tell if a request is from a real browser or from a script. You could disable attestation if an untrusted driver is used (to simulate inputs) or the web browser is automated otherwise. Really disturbing tech.
Mostly adequate guide to Functional Programming (in JavaScript)
This is really helpful for understanding, thank you. Perhaps the question is improved by incorporating the intent of the maintainers. An example:

If we're interested in whether WhatsApp's developers have implemented the Signal protocol in good faith, because we suspect they have not (we suspect they've put in backdoors at the behest of bad governments), then having the source available (and reproducible builds to use) allows us to check that more easily than analysis on the binary's behavior.

This is because the primary way the duplicitous maintainers would do this is in their own source. It's possible (and for three letter agencies probably common and desirable) to deliberately introduce bugs in dependencies that provide the desired behavior in some end product, but it probably shouldn't be our base case. Our base case should be: you swear your code implements the Signal protocol without backdoors...ok, great, you show us the code.
I don't think that would play well with cdn caching.
https://www3.nd.edu/~dthain/compilerbook/

https://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/

Lot of projects here - https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
Well, those sites are often running ads probided by Google, so it's understandable why Google doesn't really have a good incentive to follow your first suggestion.