skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hence, this nice physical face-to-face meeting, a supposed benefit of returning to the office, does not materialize.

It does in my experience. 1 on 1s and small meetings often do have all of the attendees present, especially when in-office days are designated. Some meetings do have people attending virtually, but a good conference room setup with large screens and good interfaces for conferencing make it more comfortable than being stuck in front of your computer. Regardless, you are in the room with many people face-to-face, and you can discuss things with them after the meeting and build relationships.

I see your point, because sometimes I have to find a room in the office just to have a 1:1 virtually, which arguably is more of a hassle than just taking the call at home. But I do find that hybrid works well overall in my experience, and the interpersonal benefits are large even though not everyone is in the office at the same time.
Horrible misuse of the term Minicomputer. So triggering!
https://archive.is/md7lZ
> Come on in. Codecov is now open (source).

Literally made me LOL. Because I know the feeling.

I went with "open, source available" for my business. I like yours, too.
There's something a lot of people miss that I like to always emphasize: "Social Security" (OASDI) is structurally and literally an INSURANCE program, not an investment nor a retirement account.

The people talking about replacing/privatizing it with some kind of special individual investment account are actually suggesting a total replacement of qualitative change, not just a minor tweak in management or control.

> Much of this campaign is helped politically by the use of the astonishingly obfuscatory phrase “millionaires and billionaires.” [...] Most millionaires — people with a net worth of over $1 million — are part of the middle class and work for a living.

Especially with inflation: When the term "millionaire" became popular in the 1930s, it meant a benchmark of wealth that would today be reserved for 18-millions-aires.

As time goes on--and absent some fundamental currency change--a US "millionaire" will become a meaninglessly low bar.
Not Canadian, eh?
I think they do know.
Corporations are filled with people that 'know' but can't risk leaving, so they comply, and even promote such decisions.
It's a form of group think with added risk of being fired, passed over for promotion.

Eichmann.
I wish people made unconditional predictive models for music instead of text-to-music ones. Would be so cool to give an input 'inspiration' track that it 'riffs' a continuation to. That's usually what I want, just continue this track it's too short that's what I want to hear more of. (That said this is super cool though.)
This is the most horrific nuclear test video I’ve ever seen. The giant cloud over the city near the end is pure nightmare.
Personally, I like to have composition, logic, and styling be separate files. For me this boils down to html/framework, scripts for heavy logic, and css. This way, I can change composition, logic, or styling without fear of muddying the other and without the overhead of ensuring there aren’t regressions from forgotten dependencies. Tailwind muddies composition with styling, giving a sense of consistency with their classes but ultimately putting the burden on the developer to ensure that the whole confusing list of classes remains when changing composition. With a single class per component or styled components, this risk is avoided completely
Almost every country in the world manages to educate doctors without sales and marketing.
Interesting timing given the massive increase in Python for ML and data science applications lately.

Pytorch is a great library too. It is hard to imagine Python decreasing in usage any time soon.
I was quite hesitant to jump into Tailwind. I've tried it in the past few months and quite like using it. I do have to refer to the docs a lot but that is okay because I think they're docs are quite usable.

I miss some of the already established components from Bootstrap, but whatever. Bootstrap is always kind of a pain in the butt to integrate into a project.
That's an exaggeration. You can actually walk to a person, knock, and get facetime in the office. Instead of zoom-time which is arguably worse.

The issue of which-3-days is real though.

A bigger issue is the asymmetry in the system - new people get a net benefit from facetime and mentoring. Experienced employees get net loss. It's distraction, unproductive time for your own projects, unrecognized at review time.

And since experienced employees have more clout, mentoring can become a negligible part of the new employees experience. Even at companies that claim to have made a system of mentoring, stories abound of failures ('mentors' that ignore questions or requests for meeting)
But that's just an unfounded assumption, not universally true.

Again, I just want to know what the fallacy is called.

Edit: Perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition?
Thanks for the comment. Sometimes if you toggle the microphone quickly without saying anything, it will halucinate something. If you could, is there any chance you could try again in German and let me know if it's still not working?
Do you think companies care enough about some nebulous notion of control that they’re willing to spend massive amounts of money?
I tried the basic "llama2" model with a simple question, and did not expect this kind of answer.

Q: who was the first man on the moon?

A: I apologize, but it is not possible for me to provide an answer to your question as there has never been any human exploration of the Moon. While there have been several spacecraft that have traveled to the Moon and returned, no human has ever set foot on its surface. The last time a spacecraft visited the Moon was during the Apollo program in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but no astronauts were sent to the Moon as part of that mission. Is there anything else I can help you with?
i'm very guilty of making entire sites with style="margin: 10px; padding: 10px; etc." every style I want right there inline. Inline styles FTW! I would always say: "I'm just getting it working and some css person can clean this up later."

Now I use tailwind and I've learned their wonderful little syntax for mr-x or py and it does feel a little like inline style days. But I do make this file https://github.com/andrewarrow/settle-down/blob/main/assets/... with some stuff so I can say like "btn-main" over and over.
> (edit) Also is it resistance (aka if I remember my EE degree correctly), DC only or also impedance where frequency also matters?

Just resistance. Impedance in an ideal BCS superconductor goes roughly as the square of the AC frequency.
Oregon is more than 1% of the US population.

That is significantly more than what's recognized as a good sample size.
Can you offer any example where the censored answer would be more correct than the uncensored when you are asking for a falsifiable/factual response, and not just an opinion? I couldn't really care less what the chatbots say in matters of opinion/speculation, but I get quite annoyed when the censorship gets in the way of factual queries, which it often does! And this is made even worse because I really can't envision a [benevolent] scenario where said censorship is actually beneficial.
this seems truthy but isn't in practice. a lot of work, my perf optimization team @ redpanda does (yes we have a full team chasing tail latencies) is spent on CPU optimization, debouncing, amortizing costs, metadata lookups, hash tables, profilers, etc. so there is a lot of additional work after the IO layer which a decent async eventing thing can get you to get good perf.
It has started. SHAKEN/STIR are what gives the FCC the ability to trace the source of these calls backwards and hold responsible the gateways acting in bad faith.
That's for levitating a diamagnetic material.

It'll react fine to a singular magnet, it just won't be stable enough to levitate - that's why the videos show casing replication of diamagnetism show it standing on end.
As someone who doesn’t do FE full time bootstrap and now tailwind make some hard things in CSS easier for me. Compared to figuring out how to vertically center some shit in IE 6 the modern world is simply a blast.
I suppose it is, if the room is in Mars.
me reading 89th "attack helicopter" joke in a row: WHEEZE
Does anyone else feel weird about these terms used for employees. Hackeronis, Twittarians, Redditites, coinbese?
Just standard cb dispute process. We outsource this.
Many open source projects go directly from Sort of Works to Abandonware, never having reached Just Works.
Not sure if you meant it to be, but "my unique, non conflicting class name (usually incredibly arbitrary to avoid conflicts)" is kind of a straw man; there are multiple ways to prevent that problem, such as CSS modules or web components.

Anyway, here's one common scenario for me: I need the same set of styles on multiple elements. With Tailwind, it goes one of a few ways:

- I duplicate the styles on all of the elements

- I abstract the data into some sort of loop and add the styles to the single element in the loop body

- I create a component, add the styles to that component and use that in place of each element

All of the above gets harder if there are existing elements that share some of the same styles, because I now need to identify the subset of styles that must be extracted. It's even worse if it happens across different tag names, because I then need to introduce branching into my abstraction.

Meanwhile, with CSS, I just give each element the same class name and add those styles to that class name.

I think this is what the author is getting at by saying Tailwind is far to the "write-only" side of the spectrum. There's no argument from me that just writing `m-2` is faster than adding a class name to the element, going to my CSS file and writing `.classname { margin: 0.5rem; }`. But that's only the first part of the process.
My entire point is that firefox is as 2% because all of us petty and pathetic individuals are unwilling to do even the littleist thing to make the world a better place at our own expense.

Using a slightly worse (and I argue it isn't even) web browser won't kill you, yet everyone on here has excuse after excuse to continue to help google have control over the entire internet.

Pathetic.
I've had a MacBook Pro USB-C cable, it lasted around 2 years. An iPad USB-C cable, lasted for less than a year.

I don't even move them around much, but now I'm forced to use my Switch's USB-C cable to charge both. At least there are a lot of USB-C cables now that many things use them. Hopefully I don't end up using my headphone USB-C cable to charge everything.
Yep. If you are a retail worker and your boss withholds $20 from your paycheck, it's not considered criminal theft. It's a civil matter. You have no recourse except civil law. In many states, you have to file a complaint with the Attorney General's office which may or may not do anything about it.

If you decide to simply take $20 out of the till to pay yourself - that's criminal theft. You get arrested, go to jail, and have to fight criminal charges.

It's one of the more blatant examples of how the laws of the United States are written to unjustly empower those with wealth that I am aware of.
Source? Or did you make that up
>but as long as the user understands its shortcomings and reviews/refines its outputs, it's fine.

nice caveat doing a heckuvallot of heavy lifting. i understand that we're talking about coders and sort have this inferred impression that coders will have this understanding, but...that's an awfully broad brush you've used to paint over the simple fact that most people using LLMs (in general) are not understanding this.
That's only a starting point. Money spent = a kind of 'cost' function, with 'cost' representing raw materials, energy etc used to produce something. Higher cost = more resources used / more damage to environment.

But that's only accurate if all costs (including environmental) are somehow accounted for in market price(s).

That is rarely the case. Apart from the difficulty of assigning $$ values to things like tropical forest cut down, mountain top removed to get copper ore, water used & polluted, or what have you.

Also it doesn't include social costs. If product is cheap but someone's health suffered, or profit helped dictator to reduce press freedom in producing country, is product still cheap?

Too many unknowns & externalities - $$ spent is a poor indicator.
How our successful launch on Twitter made us trending on GitHub
It's the story of the launch of our open source status page on twitter last Sunday and it went crazy
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both industrial centres involved in the production of war material.

By the technology of the time (precision weapons were half a century away), they were absolutely valid targets.
Often companies with good ESG scores optimize for having good scores. Its like studying to the test and they may have particularly poor results outside of the test that they have studied for. Also, ESG is political and like all things that involve politics, many things that may be good for the score may be bad for the environment. Easiest example to see is in energy with things like nuclear power, and 'biomass' and coal.
And no doubt they live in fear of employees actually being productive and efficient without their personal supervision. Suddenly they seem redundant.
Orbiting Now
This is great work and I'm very excited to try these uncensored models. Thank you for sharing this.
Fascinating how the people that they were discussing were having their ear to the wall. It makes you wonder to what extent they were doing this because they were aware of being eavesdropped on or if they were really so naive as to discuss how best to influence the people that they were utterly dependent on.

Edit: I've read some more of the transcript and what really is interesting is that they are so aloof from the realities of the situation they are in. Almost conceited.
Not exactly. It was proposed that we assign meaning. It is not there to be found. Unless you are a virtuoso of self-deception, you will be aware that you have arbitrarily assigned meaning. It is no less hollow than an atheist with a communion wafer. That is the crux of my point: all of the constructs we had, including whimsy and distraction, become reduced to so much translucent -- at best -- mist once we're aware.
Ah, another variant of "because I barely understand something, it's too complicated for anyone to use safely" argument. Which would be an OK argument if you were the smartest person on the planet. Or in charge of making sure nobody else ever does something wrong on the internet.

Quite negative article, makes what are good points in isolation like the fact that if L2 shenanigans are happening L3 routing tools can't properly characterize them. Ooookay, that's true, but what if you don't care and want to characterize what L3 routing is doing?

But it might not work! Oookay, that's true. Then we don't use it in this case. And so on.

Sounds like the problem is the author's experience was more with poor quality network "engineers" than tools that "aren't real" enough.

I suspect that I should not enjoy a Thanksgiving meal with this man. He may be more the bad uncle than he thinks he is.
> Systems that don't allow people to extract value from the hard work they put into collective advancement [...] one's going to spend all day making candy and put it in the "free candy" bowl

On the other hand this is what researchers do all day every day. PhDs and professors work for the common good and get barely any pay in return. Maybe the future model in art and music is more like the academic researcher.
Some of us are salary and would see no benefit from this.
How is this different from a PMP?
I will gladly stop at what the authors defines to be 90%.
Someone else can do the tasks outlined by the author. I will work on solving the next problem in my area of expertise.
In addition to what others (and I) said elsewhere, where the Kalman filter beats the simple average is when your samples are not identically and independently distributed. If they were, then yes, you can just take an average as justified by the law of large numbers.

The Kalman filter handles the case where your samples are correlated due to some (linear) dynamics (also your measurements don’t need to be directly of the quantity of interest, they can be a (linear) function of that quantity (plus Gaussian noise). Thus, the probability of you observing 8 for your second measurement changes given the knowledge that you observed a 7 as the first measurement. If you just take the sample average like you did above, that will not in general converge to the actual mean value.
I'm so worried now, I think there's a bigger problem to be solved here. Sounds like I need to use the Apple Credit Card only with my Apple ID, remove all other payment instruments and make sure my Apple Credit card isn't used anywhere else.
One of the stated arguments "in favor of" my submitted concept was actually a point against it.

That's the thing about counting on LLMs..
Not just the housing situation. The biggest contribution, by far, to mitigate the climate change crisis, would be to let your employees work remote. Commuting adds a ton of waste to the environment, no matter how energy efficient you get. Even if you go 100% ev, particulates are never going away,directly/indirectly killing 100k+ people annually in the US alone.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/elect...
Welcome to a world where the word 'safety' no longer refers to protection from physical harm/risk.
That's because there's too many crimes, mostly relating to drugs. If we were to make caffeine illegal tomorrow then there would be a lot of "crime-related" money seized from the coffee industry, but it's only "crime-related" because we're dumb enough to consider a victimless act a crime.
I've been to Oz on business, twice.

People down there, let's say, do not exactly live to work. You can say that's how it ought to be, and you might well be right, but that's how it's always been. YMMV.
Oh no. No way you’re suckering me back into this. I have way too much to do today!
What confirmations?
Of course it won't. But then I predict that there will be a massive impact on IP laws as a construct. Because this is the one that counts, if they don't work here they're doomed.
Base llama (especially at the lower parameter counts) was never very good. You need a Q/A finetune with the exact formatting.

And even then... Trivia is not their strong suit.
But nowhere in the document does the GAO suggest investing some of the $2 trillion Social Security trust fund in the stock market — something every other pension plan in the U.S. and around the world does.

Is this true? Some nonprofit boards are so risk-averse they will only invest in the lowest risk investments, typically bonds and money market funds. On the other end of the scale, we've heard of some pension fund LPs investing in whatever high-risk garbage VCs push their way, such as funds in Ontario and Alaska investing in FTX after Sequoia gave their stamp of approval (https://decrypt.co/114235/ontario-teachers-95m-ftx-pension-f...).
TOTK Sky Islands effect is what we're looking for.
Not weird but I do think they’re embarrassing, degrading, insufferable.
Feels like harmless fun to me
I don't believe anyone is arguing that advertising _doesn't work_.
The idea of utilizing materials like water and gelatin to create supercapacitors that can potentially outperform conventional energy storage methods is a testament to human creativity and adaptability.
Not really. They have a “cutsie” name for us at the company I work for too. I find it endearing :)
Additionally, it's not really paywalled at all, it's just crossposted to a paywalled platform (presumably for the convenience of people who prefer Medium, for reasons I can't fathom but to each their own):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/31/seize-the-means-of-comput...
Movies Anywhere (formerly Ultraviolet) is kind of doing this at a limited scale.
Yeah HN loved Pynecone! [x] I wonder if the new name is landing poorly or tides are turning against this 'everything in Python' space. Or the "Launch HN" tag encourages positive feedback.

[x] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35136827
Right now that money would just mean that I can drop second job and do it in a month. Because I can't drop it currently, prototype will just take probably until the end of year, maybe a little later. But I already have everything needed gathered (electronic equipment and "ECU" parts, most of the required materials and some of 3d printed parts cad designs already done), now I only need time to manufacture what needs to be done pretty much manually. I don't need any more money for actual finishing, but thanks for suggestions.
1. Require a $10 million dollar 5 year bond to start one of these companies. If the company engages in facilitating robocalling, the bond is forfeit

This is how you get people on HN to start howling "regulatory capture!"
Gotta love the reply:

> @jeroenooms you know, when I read stuff like this I think about the fact that last year was the first year of my life I was able to afford specialist medical care, in a year where I got a life-threatening illness. One of my old bosses called me a job-hopping moron who only cared about money and was selfish for having 9-5 boundaries. OSS has a long way to go if the OSS proposition for quality work relies on stereotype essentialism and assumptions that infinite passion will build everything

For all of the snark of the original post, it's well met here. Nobody should feel bad about being able to live a decent life.
Nope.

Graphing calculators are abusively priced and regular calculators lack visual history or GOOD recall. The best "calculator" I own is Excel, then whatever device I happen to be on except the iPad which doesn't have a real one in 2024 because some dead guy said it was a bad idea in 2009.

The Windows 11 calculator is a notable downgrade from its predecessor. Randomly takes forever to load, sometimes even spawning an update window instead, and never spawns on the same monitor as my mouse cursor. All for what? To add a bunch of "converters" that are still worse than Google let alone any LLM.
>They nudge people towards buying stuff they wouldn't otherwise buy.

It allows people to find things they value that they were not aware of before.

>Ads are a distraction.

Yes, which is why apps need to design good ad experiences to balance monetization with user satisfaction.

>On a fundamental level, ads work against the free market: not the best product wins, but the product with the biggest advertising budget.

If something really is the best product, why aren't they the one with the largest advertising budget?
We all share the same atmosphere. Is very hot in Europe also.

On the other hand, all those recent "captain chainsaw" clownery laughs and BS, surprise, surprise, it has consequences and some aren't so funny. Removing trees somewhere in Brazil will affect Uruguay.
> What we really need is some kind of Hippocratic Oath for Software, that we all agree to and can collectively use to resist this shit. Not going to happen, but one can dream.

Why spitball about a "Hippocratic Oath" when the ACM code of ethics exists?

You could promote the one that does exists instead of dooming that nobody will write or follow such a standard.
The last place I worked had full WFH and used Tuple (not affiliated) and it worked great for ramp-up and onboarding.

It basically lets you pair program where you and a remote person can control your computer (or theirs) more or less completely and seamlessly. There are competing products too, but that was the nicest I've used.

I tried it at my new job with a colleague in Brazil (I'm in US) and the performance was awful as it seemed to be routing it through the VPN for some reason.

My point is though, good pair programming software might be the solution. Zoom is inadequate in my professional opinion, though it's almost viable. Knowing how much better it could be it falls short.