skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many people do knowledge work vs assembly work these days? Plus WFH is really not for manual work. And that's without getting into the fact that on an assembly line you can only go as fast as the slowest worker, so everyone's productivity is capped. Or looking at things like error/defect rates that contradict "items per minute" definitions of productivity.

People think you can measure this as a single number. At best, for a very limited number of workers, who don't WFH anyway, you can measure it. But you cannot compare those workers with the workers next to them doing similar but slightly different jobs even.

So it's a huge mess and the idea of a graph of it for the USA is like making a graph of the average number of testicles. Except people take it seriously!?
From the Article:

"One of Walmart’s latest offerings at its SuperCenters isn’t a hot new toy, snack flavor or sundress. It’s advertising.

Shoppers will soon see more third-party ads on screens in Walmart self-checkout lanes and TV aisles; hear spots over the store’s radio; and be able to sample items at demo stations.

Walmart’s push into advertising resembles similar moves by retailers like Kroger, which struck a deal to bring digital smart screens to cooler aisles in hundreds of its stores, and Target, which began testing in-store demos and giveaways, including a recent “Barbie” branded event with Mattel that took place at about 200 stores.

For Walmart, selling ad space to its wealth of existing partners is another way to capitalize on the company’s huge reach and to expand into higher-margin businesses. The discounter has nearly 4,700 stores across the U.S., with roughly 90% of Americans living within 10 miles of a Walmart store.

In the U.S., about 139 million customers visit Walmart stores and its website or app each week.

“When you think about our store, our store footprint and the the percentage of Americans that we reach through our stores, we can deliver Super Bowl-sized audiences every week,” said Ryan Mayward, senior vice president of retail media sales for Walmart Connect, the retailer’s advertising business.

The company plans to ramp up in-store ads using its approximately 170,000 digital screens across its locations as well as 30-second radio spots that will be available to suppliers later this year and can target a specific store or region.

And it’s hoping at least one of the new advertising initiatives will be easy to digest: Free samples in stores on the weekends.

Walmart plans to sell the sampling stations to advertisers and bundle them with other ad formats that can run at the same time to make for a fuller campaign. QR codes at the demo tables will pull up online shopping options, meal ideas or seasonal information.

It tried out the new in-house approach of selling sampling stations in Dallas-Fort Worth and plans to offer the option in over 1,000 stores across the country by end of January."
From each other.

Bigbang that has a center is perfectly consistent with Hubble law. Imagine that the spacetime is flat, there's no gravity and clumps of matter (galaxies) initially had random velocities. The faster the galaxy was, the further is went till now. What is a bit surprising, is that if you do the math in such universe and compare distances from any galaxy to others and their relative velocities you'll get Hubble law exactly. For every galaxy the distance to any other galaxy is directly proportional to relative velocity between them and they appear to be moving directly away from each other. So even though this big bang had epicenter you can't really tell that it had it or where it was if you can't see the edge. And if our observable universe is small when compared with the size of the entire universe we have a low chance of being near the edge.

Try it. You can do it on paper or do a little computer simulation and measure. I did it few years ago. I was quite surprised with the results. Especially with the direction of the relative velocity vectors. They always face directly away from one galaxy to any other.
Are these editors mobile responsive? Or is this something you see more as being used for desktop / cloud based editors?
This tool looks cool. Good job!

Usually when I'm debugging someones connection its because of problems in video calls. Sometimes people have very fast connections but large and erratic lag. This is frequently caused by buffer bloat and I found DSLReports buffer bloat grade to be the best at pin pointing it.

In other words, ping, fast.com, etc are insufficient to diagnose connection quality issues for lag sensitive use-cases like video calls. Or so I've found.

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest
A lot of these things seemed normal to me in Bay Area tech companies pre pandemic (large companies, not even startups). I always left the office in the middle of the day to do errands or go to the gym and never felt bad about it. I can’t tell if I somehow had an unusual experience within those companies, or if it’s just that most people on HN work at more restrictive companies.
> A lot of their job is "intangible"

I think for many executives it's so "intangible" as to be worthless bordering on detrimental ;)
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Dope!!!!
In the fourth video the sample appears to be levitating at 00:19 if you see the space between the shadow and the object itself, hard to tell for sure though (the surface of the table is quite porous).
I can program an IKEA smart lamp to be better at chess then I am; I see this as a win.
I don't know about 'real' programmers, but I have an, admittedly, irrational fear of git GUIs doing the wrong thing. Even in Intellij, I open the built in CLI to interact with git. Old habits die hard :)
No I'm talking about the blog author
For X Corp a cheap publicity stunt, nice move.
It’s more about training people to automatically click “accept” without reading anything. That’s security best practice for a continent?
In my view, most of these laws have a protectionist aim and this has been admitted in the legislative debates around them.

We might have tried similar things if Europe was as dominant in American tech markets.
Yea, let's blame EU for websites spying on you

If website uses cookies just for legit purposes (e.g auth, language choice), then it doesn't need to show cookie consent.

Webmasters should get awarness on this or stop spying
> That's obviously fake and wrong, but so is the idea of solving current human problems with current tools.

There are easily stated problems like "Reduce US car accidents by 50%" that should be solvable with AI as it stands today. This seems like a useful and achievable goal that would save money and lives. I've never understood why full self-driving was the problem most people chose to solve instead.

But perhaps I'm misunderstanding your point.
No mention of the dramatic difference between certain news websites not having intrusive pop ups due to GDPR. Which should be mentioned any time this debate pops up.
keep in mind that if you're a bigger customer, aws discounts are huge (often >50% off of sticker). if the payback were 16 months instead of 8, it becomes a much tougher sell (esp with GPUs improving rapidly over time)
I'm a friend of this this guy, but he is to shy to write about what he does.

Latest jobs:
1. Development of low-latency platform for trading. Implementation of kernel bypass TCP/IP stack on top of DPDK + F-Stack + Rust.

2. Implementation of low-latency algorithms for HFT. Rust, WebSockets, gRPC.

Personal projects (you can see links in his resume):
RSGC
Concurrent garbage collection library for Rust
(November 01, 2022 - March 03, 2023)
Concurrent GC library written in Rust for Rust. Throughput and latency are comparable to that of HotSpot GCs like G1 or Shenandoah, outperforms .NET and Go garbage collectors.

b3-rs
LLVM-like library for code generation
A library for code generation based on B3 from WebKit. Supports generating x86_64 and RISC-V machine code out of the box.
> To be clear I am an “open borders” guy but both political parties in the US make a lot of noise but never change anything.

Significant changes in immigration system were made through law in the 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s; the inability to reach a sufficient consensus to pass legislation (both divided government and the weaponization of the filibuster to functionally act as a supermajority requirement for almost any legislation in the Senate have played a role in preventing legislation) has resulted in most changes since then being by executive action, with drastically different approaches between the parties. “Both parties make noise but never change anything” is, well, quite false.
Yes. These are good strategies for addressing the shortage. I was replying to the assertion that there is no such thing as a labor shortage (“EVER”).
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Hemel complains that "...the top 10th of households reap a larger share of the income tax subsidy for retirement savings than the bottom 80%."

He fails to mention that the top 10% of households pay 70% of all federal income tax.
If not for EU law the result would have been displayed inline immediately.
Just a guess, but even people that don't want to be tracked choose the easy "accept everything" button than spending the time to customize the tracking.

If companies DoNotTrack, they will have fewer people opting-in for tracking.
I think if you really dig into the arguments he is making, you will spot the evasions and non sequiturs, and conclude he's not arguing in good faith.

There is so much peer reviewed work saying the opposite of what he claims that you should default to skeptical about him. It's the same way one should treat a creationist.
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The ads are a lot worse than the consent banners, though.
It may be annoying, but just the possibility of opting out of some of them is already something against the rising tide of taking control away from the user.

Is it the perfect system? No. Is it better than no system at all. I think so.
And it is not like companies could have chosen a better approach.. like default opt-out, or remember that one thing, or respect a DNT. There would have been some options to comply with the law, but there was only one that still allows companies to grab most of the data and at the same time get people annoyed about the attempt to reasonable legislation (which certainly could be improved, like just go a DNT approach, but companies went immediately rampant on that for the same reasons..)

But big corps know what they wanted and do and lead the rest of the pack..
This is neat. Every house could have its own energy storage built into its foundation. How coool is that.

Maybe dams could store excess energy in their structure.
TinyMCE ChatGPT plugin. Integration sample on CodePen
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This seems to be the real reason that AT&T is pushing RTO, including telling people that have worked remote for their entire careers and never seen an office in 20+ years that they must relocate to a designated location either by the end of 2023 or 2024 depending on their wave. If they reject immediately they will get severance, but if they accept and don't relocate later they will be terminated without severance.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/at-t-tells-60000-m...

Although the story says that "managers" (e.g. non union individual contributors) get to choose from the 9 locations, that's not the reality, your work stream is assigned a designated location, there may be an alternate location you can petition to go to instead but it must be approved first.
systemd has nothing to do with this. In erlang/elixir if you configure your processes to automatically restart and you never check your logs, you'll have exactly the same issue.
There is a little more detail here: https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/blob/main/docs/technical/co...

Storing the conflicts symbolically in this way lets you reproduce the conflicts later and even auto-resolve certain conflicts, but it doesn't address resolving the actual contents of conflicts. You could probably use Pijul as a jj backend and get the best of both worlds (if someone were to implement it).
Guide to the Internet (1991)
NewHope: Harnessing 99% of GPT-4's Programming Capabilities
Can you explain more about how Tiptap’s concepts extend or replace ProseMirror’s concepts?

A few years ago I evaluated rebasing Notion’s editor on various editor frameworks. ProseMirror came out at the top of my list, but I wasn’t sure how to rank TipTap.

Having more batteries included is good, but I’ve found that layers of abstraction can really get in the way. For example if I need to fix a bug with Android Gboard input, without a framework I can exactly control the DOM structure and input handling, but the downside is no one fixes the bug for me. With ProseMirror, I’d need to tunnel through 1 layer of abstraction and/or patch 1 layer of abstraction. With Tiptap, maybe I’d need to fork-and-patch both you and ProseMirror? Each layer also increases our maintenance liability. If the ProseMirror author decides to retire or take the library in a direction that doesn’t work for us, then we need to fork and maintain it. If both you and the ProseMirror do that, we have more code we need to maintain.

Ultimately I decided adopting a library was too risky, and opted to improve our native ComtentEditable handling. Because our product’s selling point is an editor, we want to control our own destiny.

For others who can afford a library but still need to weigh the risks of that abstraction stack, can you share some insights?
Well, it‘s fairer than cherry picking the most outrageous examples. Though I wonder if he didn‘t get any Reddit cookie banners because he had already accepted them at some point in the past.
Hello, my name is Jason and I'm software engineer with 12+ years of experience, most of it fully remote.

Within 2-4 weeks I will likely need another contract to continue to fund development of my startup (PadHub, now mainly a ChatGPT Plugin, the evolution of https://aidev.codes). (Note that aidev.codes is going to be retired as soon as I can get PadHub up.)

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yes it does? consider running a bash script, or piping commands over ssh. if you lose the connection only the first command might send. (bash is line and command oriented of course, so this is pretty obvious...)
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I feel like a reasonable tweak to GDPR is to require that if a site has an "accept all" button, it needs an equally (or more) prominent "reject non-essential" button.
Yes, I can't think of an API has caused me more grief than METRC's.

Recently, I discovered that they do some strange XSS protection on text fields that sanitize any appearance of the characters "SCRI" appearing in sequence. I was scratching my head wondering why the "described" we were sending through the API turned into "debed" on the record itself.
What's your technical stack?
Tidepool: Product analytics for AI text interfaces
With the last few months, there's been a Cambrian explosion of products integrating AI. A big part of this is because LLMs enable users to get good performance on a lot of NLP tasks out-of-the-box by calling an API or running a pre-trained model. Previously, applied AI/ML work revolved around collecting + labeling data, training a model, building infrastructure, etc. to get good enough performance for a given use case. But now the models work well out of the box, the work shifts to building a great product experience around the model and getting to product-market fit with an AI-enabled product.

With visual user interfaces, there's a whole category of product analytics tooling that helps product teams understand how users interact with their products + make product decisions to optimize their product-market fit. LLM apps have introduced a new paradigm for interacting with software, where users can work iteratively with the software via a natural language interface, generating user inputs and model responses consisting of unstructured text.

Traditional analytics techniques don’t deal well with large amounts of unstructured text – it’s hard to summarize, it’s hard to aggregate, and it’s hard to effectively sample. AI developers resort to digging through a pile of hundreds to hundreds of millions of datapoints of unstructured text to understand how users interact with their product.

Tidepool tries to solve this problem using neural network embeddings. After you upload user text interaction events, Tidepool will:

- Automatically group your data by similarity. Tidepool runs embedding clustering on your users’ text interactions to surface interesting attributes: things like prompt topics, prompt languages, and common usage patterns that can be turned into shortcuts.

- Summarize common attributes in your data, using LLMs to determine what each cluster “contains.” For example, understanding that the most common topics that users discuss are business, education, and art.

- Track attributes in production traffic, allowing you to uncover how a specific attribute might be correlated to good / bad product outcomes. We utilize lightweight models running on foundation model embeddings to scalably extract these attributes from hundreds of millions of interaction events in production.

Lastly, we have a self-serve free tier! I thought this may be useful for people building AI applications. If you're interested, please try it - I'd love to hear any feedback on what works and what doesn't :) https://app.tidepool.so/
It could still be well within the required compressive strength for things like foundations...

But it's unclear to me how you'd get enough electrical capacity in such mixed applications since concrete is mostly aggregate (rock, gravel, sand), not cement, by volume.

I think those areas of the MIT press release are just fantasy.
I agree but that's a stronger claim that's more difficult to defend. In terms of "why are they pushing return to office" it's not that relevant.

Assuming they are doing anything by doing this, they need to be in person to do it. I'm with you though I don't think very much of value is taking place up there.
Seems like the rich are able to save more for retirement than the poor, and will use the most effective means to do so.

Contribution limits to retirement plans mean that for a billionaire, their 401k or IRA balance is very unlikely to be a significant portion of their portfolio. The typical case I can imagine for this would be putting their roughly $20,000 worth of 401k contributions into company stock every year and then seeing their company go 100x.
Wasn't there an incident where a browser shipped with DoNotTrack enabled by default, and thus the signal didn't actually mean the user explicitly enabled DNT themselves?
I’m afraid I don’t understand anything in this comment.
‘Supercool': OpenAI’s new top lawyer preps to face novel issues
What's the advantage (I can't see any) of this scheme over using client certificates where appropriate?

It seems to me that the "attestation" doesn't add anything (other than the ability to positively identify a device across multiple sites, which is a downside rather than an advantage) to the TLS session set up process.

If a site (i.e., a corporate VPN) needs to ensure that a particular client is authorized to access it, client certificates and user authentication already provide such confirmation.

I don't see why this is necessary for sites that, while they may wish to encrypt sessions with TLS, don't have any reason to track (and potentially block) devices that don't possess the properties (e.g., no ad blocker) they want to see.

ISTM that this is antithetical to the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet and is just another way to restrict access for those who are deemed to be acting against the financial interests of large corporations.

I have no interest in donating my CPU cycles and bandwidth to those who want to identify/categorize/advertise/restrict my access to the open internet.

This could also kill off tools like curl, yt-dlp and other non-browser tools.

Altogether a terrible idea. Or am I missing something important?
> The Tiptap AI integration beta is a service where you connect your OpenAI API key to our backend and install the Tiptap editor AI extension to get AI writing experience in your editor. Here’s a demo: https://ai-demo.tiptap.dev/

Congrats, any plan on supporting code/monaco and autocompletion? We had to rebuild it ourselves on top of yjs and gpt4 for windmill.dev and would have happily built it on a service if it existed.