skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's possible to plant big trees but it requires heavy machinery as root are large.

Mature trees are also simply expensive by itself, as they require many years to grow. They are expensive to transport, and the transplant frequently fails to take hold, requiring buying another expensive tree, digging up the previous one and replacing it. This makes planting mature tree cost tens of thousands of dollars, compared to tens of dollars for planting saplings.
Are you complaining he used a word you weren't familiar with?
Oh there absolutely are local taxes, and they only increase. Here in the UK it's "council tax", and often paid to the authority one higher up than the one responsible for trees and green spaces. A relatively small amount then trickle down to the local town and parish councils for them to spend.
There was a post here on hacker news not that long ago where GPT4 came up with "the confetti has left the cannon" when asked for an original phrase similar to "the cat is out of the bag".

Other users confirmed Google could not identify any other use of that phrase.

People saying GPT4 is unoriginal have an uphill battle, it is not the default assumption of anyone who has worked with it.
I find people in general are increasingly less productive, anxious, depressed and lonely. It seems to the sign of the times, everyone seems burnt out.
Just watched Ice Cube in a video cruising through South Central LA where he grew up. There were no trees along any of the streets. He said the city cut them all down because the Police Helicopters couldn't see through them. I guess FLIR doesn't penetrate trees.
Personally, I'm more interested in the ideal Bear to Picnic Basket ratio.
Unfortunately, I think a lot of government control happens because that's what the people demand. Whenever there's a tragedy or major event politicians (the government) are asked to do something regardless whether it's effective or not.
"The research, which is not yet peer-reviewed, was based on 2400 employee responses across five surveys between 2021 and 2022." Why is this even allowed to be posted?
There are several tests that have been ongoing over decades doing exactly this. The small loss of current during measurement occurs, but you only engage with the field intermittently, and you can calculate approximately what the loss should be.

Yes it could be some tiny resistance, but the same issue occurs with the resolution/accuracy of the voltage or current measurement you would make.
This is easily achievable already and yet it is not happening. So consider that you are wrong?
"Directly access"? Computers can use cameras and robotics hardware and such. It is not as if humans are special because of using eyes and muscles instead.

Also, text does say a lot about the world. It includes descriptions of physics experiments and people's best knowledge of the laws, for instance.
> We haven't seen evidence yet that an LLM can combine existing language in novel ways.

How about BubbleSort written in Shakespeare style?
Nvidia can't do a translation layer. Back around 2010 Intel and Nvidia were suing each other, the settlement agreement specifically said Nvidia wouldn't produce anything like that
Summarizing:

> In teaching hospitals, mortality was lower among high-risk patients with heart failure or cardiac arrest admitted during meeting dates (P < .001) No mortality differences existed for low-risk patients in teaching hospitals or high- or low-risk patients in nonteaching hospitals [or high-risk patients with AMI in teaching hospitals]

So in the specific case of teaching hospitals with high-risk patients with heart failure or cardiac arrest, the normal treatment is making things worse.

Outside of that special case, the cardiology meetings don't seem to have any effect (positive or negative). This could mean that the normal treatment is useless. Or it could mean that the hospital is doing a good job of planning around the cardiology meeting -- e.g. delaying non-urgent treatment until the next day, while ensuring there are still enough doctors on staff for the urgent cases.
I feel like the steadfast RTO deniers are either

1) families or other people who have a large amount of responsibility outside of work, absolutely love hybrid

2) recluse engineers who love being alone and socialize on the internet, even 1 day in an office a week is unacceptable
I've worked remotely since 2016.

A few of my takes on it:

How conducive an org's culture & policies are to remote work has a direct impact on remote workers. (Companies who were quickly forced into remote work at the start of the pandemic all fired a shotgun from 100 yards and hit the target everywhere. Those who hit the middle realized that remote work had its upsides. Those who missed reinforced their own bias against remote work and dug in their heels.)

Each team's implementation of these policies can vary which gives a member on one team a great experience and a another team a miserable one.

Remote workers all have different social needs. If you're lucky, your team fits your's. If you're not, your potential office BFF may be on a different remote team and you'll never meet them.

I spent 2016-2022 at the same org who was 50% remote and it was great. Early 2022 I moved to a new org and my team never spoke outside morning stand-ups and I hated it. I've now chosen a hybrid position where it's 95% up to me when I'm in office and it's been the perfect fit.

YMMV, not all orgs will do remote well. Not all workers will do remote well. Let's stop demonizing the other side and realize there is no single answer.
There are so many bloody articles going both ways on the WFH. Feels fairly simple, some people enjoy it and some people hate it. Some are more productive working from home, some are less productive. This desire to try and paint everything as either black or white, good or bad, it's so frustrating.

Trying to apply any statistical analysis to this feels like such a waste of time. There are so many outside factors to consider. Even if you do some shit polls and find that "WFH is 10% worse on average" or "WFH is 17.8% better on average", using that information to make any decisions for yourself or your company would be insane.

The way this article tries to legitimise itself with it's shoddy use of statistics is just painful, I couldn't finish it.
Agreed on all being fantasy but

> All of humanities memories somehow encoded in DNA

Why not? The Dune universe is in a very far future, the books are happening 10 thousand years after humanity has been practically completely replaced by AIs and mind-uploaded humans for another 10 thousand years. The factions in Dune perform extensive bioengineering, and that is after the anti-computer revolution.

Why couldn't the computers/people with computers/people-computers before the revolution bioengineer the genetic memory? Or the people who performed the transition back to biological life, perhaps as a way to ensure nobody ever forgets the 10 thousand years of slavery?

> interstellar space travel from taking too many drugs

Interstellar travel in Dune is done using the Holtzmann effect, basically a warp technology. The spice gives them precognition abilities that are necessary to not crash into something while warping.
I am rather surprised that Apple still operates and maintains the App Store in Russia - Steam and Xbox/PS5 has left ???.
Off the top of my head (haven’t verified carefully):

What they’re really saying is that they have an initial value problem in classical mechanics that does not have a unique solution.

Fortunately, the theory of such things is very well established.

From the article, the dome results in motion like this:

> d2r/dt2 = sqrt(r) [reformatted as text]

This function is interesting at r=0 — it’s not differentiable, and it’s not even locally Lipschitz. So one would not generally expect solutions to the initial value problem to be unique, and math and classical mechanism still work.

You can read more about the theory here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_value_problem

(The differential equation in question is second order and is in two spatial dimensions. The standard transformation to an ordinary vector differential equation applies, and you end up with four variables (x, v_x, y, v_y or however you like to name them) plus time, and the time derivatives of v_x and v_y as functions of everything else are not Lipschitz in any open set containing the origin.)

And, intuitively, what’s going on is that the acceleration of the mass is exquisitely sensitive to position around the top of the dome (it varies infinitely quickly with a small displacement), which is precisely what breaks the uniqueness of the initial value problem.
https://archive.is/dmTPs
Pomodoro Experiment: A 4-Day Comparison of Focus and Productivity
I’ve worked remote for a long time. Finding remote workers who can handle working remote has always been a challenge.

A lot of the people who apply to our remote openings think that working remote is going to be a shortcut to working less, interacting with fewer people, and doing less communication. They may have read books or blogs or Reddits that talk about remote work as an opportunity to shrink their workday to 4 hours or less so they can travel the world or something. Or they have fantasies of working two jobs or building their startup while collecting paychecks and health insurance.

Others have good intentions, but then struggle with the lack of face to face interaction. It’s common for people new to remote work to have trouble interpreting text communications or to start assuming the worst. Some people are nice in person but then into flame war monsters when you drop them into a Slack channel where everyone is just a screen name.

I hate it, because the more of these candidates we let through our filters, the less welcoming of remote work the company becomes. Filtering out these candidates is imperative to keeping the remote work going. And sadly, firing them quickly when it doesn’t work out is also important.

This blog is a prime example of what happens when companies don’t filter and instead just let the bad candidates run wild on remote work. You get silly ideas like “WFH is a two-day workweek” because that is exactly what the bad candidates do if left unchecked.

It’s time we stopped pretending that WFH is appropriate for everyone. It needs to be selectively applied if we don’t want the abusers to become bad apples that ruin the whole concept.
This is complete and utter nonsense. The "exceptions" are 99% of medicine. Almost all of medicine is applying strategies we know on average improve outcomes as well as we know how and as well as that clinician is able to within the scope of the time given. If you don't know this is likely that you haven't had much need of medicine. I you had you would know better.

This isn't to say outcomes are always good our knowledge is imperfect, people are imperfect, and not every situation has a good answer.
This is plainly false. With reinforcement learning, an objective function and the ability to generate random solutions it's possible for AI to stumble upon sequences/strategies that greatly outperform human state of the art.
Sorry, yes. On reflection, implying that it's only those other folks who do it is itself propaganda. No, now I'm doing it, I'm caught in a spiral ...
Sure the engine tech is fantastical, but the "realism" is in the attention paid to g-loading, momentum, the vast expanse (heh) of space, etc. The authors have chosen strategically which aspects of their story to be fantastical and which parts to keep hard. And of course, every good sci-fi has to do this. Which is why I personally like the metric of "does part of the enjoyment of this story come from a (somewhat) realistic portrayal of real science". Conveniently categorized by my non-sciencey reading buddy. The more it does this, the "harder" it is. However that means the location of the fuzzy boundary is subjective, but we can probably rank different stories relative to each other. The Martian is harder than The Expanse is hard than Star Wars. Pretty clear I'd say. The Expanse may have unrealistic engine tech, but at least the spaceships aren't dogfighting Second World War style.
Wow, I was surprised to see my article from 2013 appear on HN today! (It's hard to believe that the article is 10 years old.) In that time, the x86 documentation has expanded from four volumes to 10 volumes. Curiously, the number of pages has only grown by 21% (4181 pages to 5066). The x86 instruction set has added a bunch of features: AVX, FMA3, TSX, BMI, VNNI, and CET. But I guess the number of new instructions is relatively small compared to the existing ones.
> ...if they want to maximize their views/revenue on YouTube.

Thankfully YouTube is not the only way of educating people.
The force at the top is not differentiable, which allows surprising things to happen — see my other comment.
A Two-Person Method to Simulate Die Rolls
This is mostly a property of the RLHF/instruction-tuned chatbot models most people use. Base models tend to be more varied.
Its frustrating to see “research” like this where you just look at numbers and determine causality.

Very few people ask the question, how much of the remote work productivity drop is actually bad? And how much of the depression and anxiety is related to unreasonable expectations set during the pandemic and the resulting burnout? In the first year or so, as people adjusted to the pandemic, they worked more and slowly that became the norm.

If now people are less productive, are they working less than they did pre pandemic or is the curve coming down to normal? And what percentage of these unproductive workers is because of burnout and unreasonable expectations?
Some beans are roasted in butter.
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What do you mean when you say mask? To me it sounds like your listing things an in office culture helps with. Yes we could absolutely in theory do different things but do you think the society and companies that have been failing are going to?
Just tax carbon and everyone can decide with their wallets just how much they want to eat meat or imported Peruvian fruits
Perhaps unintuitively, smaller banks tend to be more susceptible to problems like the recent bank runs. Matt Levine has written about this in his column for Bloomberg, Money Stuff.
AI will change society by getting rid of the necessity of vast numbers of people to be involved in production. Factories will become like farms, which need few people to produce goods for billions thanks to combine harvesters and so forth that were 20th century inventions. You'll have auto plants out in the middle of nowhere overseen by a few technicians. Cities will be for the poor. People will be stacked and warehoused on UBI. This is "Ze Sustainable awwnd incluzive fewcha [said in a thick german accent]."

Here, let me pull up Klaus Schwab's "Covid-19: The Great Reset."

"As far back as the Black Death that ravaged Europe from 1347 to 1351 (and that suppressed 40% of Europe’s population in just a few years), workers discovered for the first time in their life that the power to change things was in their hands. Barely a year after the epidemic had subsided, textile workers in Saint-Omer (a small city in northern France) demanded and received successive wage rises. Two years later, many workers’ guilds negotiated shorter hours and higher pay, sometimes as much as a third more than their pre-plague level. Similar but less extreme examples of other pandemics point to the same conclusion: labour gains in power to the detriment of capital. Nowadays, this phenomenon may be exacerbated by the ageing of much of the population around the world (Africa and India are notable exceptions), but such a scenario today risks being radically altered by the rise of automation, an issue to which we will return in section 1.6. Unlike previous pandemics, it is far from certain that the COVID-19 crisis will tip the balance in favour of labour and against capital. For political and social reasons, it could, but technology changes the mix."

Schwab, Klaus; Malleret, Thierry. COVID-19: The Great Reset (p. 39). Forum Publishing. Kindle Edition.
It's tempting to go "wow bitemporality is a jolly great idea! Let's make a bitemporal database where every field is bitemporal" but this elides the significant jump in complexity/overhead of such systems.

Bitemporality should be explicitly enabled on data where required, part of the database schema rather than default behavior. This could be a big chunk of your data, but unlikely to be 100%.
If there is one company which should be going all in on remote work, it would be Zoom. It has all the cultural and business reasons to foster remote work. And yet, they are doing this.

This confirms my hypothesis that remote work is overhyped and works only for a tiny sliver of workforce which is senior enough to work independently but not too senior that it needs to interact with a lot of other people.

After a lot of debates, I have come to realize that remote work can be awesome but needs complete rewiring of corporate culture, especially how we collaborate and communicate. Biggest obstacle to that is the ingrained habits of decision makers, who have worked for decades and find it easier to mandate RTO rather than changing their habits. On the other hand, I see remote being adopted by startups, typically led by young-ish founders who got used to the flexible lifestyle during COVID.
My prosumer cinema camera (sigma fp) records video with individual dng files and a wav for audio. I think it’s not that unusual.
Super long term, the stakes are the continued survival and existence of the human race, once increasing solar luminosity renders this planet uninhabitable, in a billion or two years.

Short term, heck, I'd take the risk just to experience microgravity for a good while. Tourism and pleasure itself is utility.

As for this NASA project: the unspoken subtext for doing this is that the US doesn't want China to in effect own the moon uncontested.
Don't you have to disclose affiliate links?
> That is just not going to happen in (classical) reality, though. Because once you properly set the initial state of the ball (force=velocity=0, or any other values), then the solution becomes unique and that’s it, there is one possible trajectory.

Not true, and the trick is very simple, you just contrive a force field that admits x''(0) = 0 but some non-zero higher derivative. Indeed, if you look at the proposed solution r = 1/144 (t - T)^4 for t > T, you'll see that:

r(T) = 0

r'(T) = 0

r''(T) = 0

r'''(T) = 0

r''''(T) is ill-defined (but Newtonian mechanics AFAIK says nothing to forbid this)
I’m curious to hear what you’re excited about in signal processing?
> People who were torrenting were not buying DVDs.

I am a counterexample, and there's never only one.

My usual workflow is:

1. Watch a movie on a streaming service. If I enjoy it:

2. Pirate a local copy. When the physical copy becomes available:

3. Rip the physical copy, delete the pirated version.

Without a physical release, there's no step 3, and step 1 becomes increasingly pointless.
Big companies who can’t manage remote work in their corpoate structures are trembling in their pants, remote work companies have the potential to eat their lunch and so are pushing this propaganda while they’re scrabling for a new footing.
yes thats probably right in most jurisdictions.

you are illustrating culturally, and legally accepted signals regarding expectation, or lack thereof, of privacy while in public purview.

THNX for your support BTW
iPhone market share is 21% [1], so it’s unclear where you’re getting the 90% figure.

[1] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-smartphone-share...
It's mostly Facebook groups.

Vintage, Rare, & Antique Books: https://www.facebook.com/groups/657123184415628

Small Press Limited Book Collectors: https://www.facebook.com/groups/193517360836341/

Fans Of The Folio Society: https://www.facebook.com/groups/60943174501/

(^ Each press typically has their own following so you can find groups for Fans of Amaranthine Books, etc.)

+ dozens of more groups.

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Maurice is working on building out a more cross platform community for collectors, still early days there:

https://www.collectiblebookvault.com/

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There is a Reddit: r/BookCollecting but I don't go there often.

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Edit:

Oh and Youtube! Booktube is a real corner of the internet and lots of discussion happens in the discords of individual creators people enjoy.
a very small percentage of humans make big advances.
think euclid, newton, einstein. the rest of us squawk memes on hacker news.

calculators can do better on arithmetic than all humans, does that make them smarter ?
So a bunch of pull quotes from CEOs and one non-peer-reviewed survey study? One would expect that out of all the companies pushing for an end to remote work, one would have solid data they were willing to share.
The one thing that’s certainly anticdotal, but very easy to see, all the people I’ve ever met that make it to late 90’s or over 100, drink alcohol, albeit sensible amounts
Sad that Runic games is gone too. But I got the impression that as fun as Torchlight was to play (first game I finished in some time), people were getting tired of working only on Diablo clones. That was the reason given for Hob instead of another torchlight. But then Hob never came out on a device I owned, and then they outsourced III as there were on the way down.

Place like that could have been a good landing spot for ex Blizzard people.

Are there any other companies that I should be watching? Maybe some WoW alumni working on different mmrpgs?
No Accountability 3 Years After History's Biggest Non-Nuclear Explosion
>Today's AI models are missing the ability to reason abstractly, including asking and answering questions of "Why?" and "How?"

This claim seems over general, because you can ask gpt-4 'Why' and 'How' questions and it seems to do a pretty good job.

The author doesn't provide a lot of contrary evidence.

There's so many articles saying "LLMs can't do X" that leave me wondering whether the author has even tried. Maybe they've tried and have some more sophisticated argument, but I often don't see it.

If I was going to knock LLMs for being unable to do basic science, in particular, I'd make sure to do some experiments first!
Litigation Funding as rules and transparency lag behind – 60 Minutes [video]
You are not fundamentally wrong, but there are degrees. LLMs can do some symbolic manipulation and a few reasoning steps. Maybe they are just the result of pattern matching, but I have a hunch that most of the time humans do the same. We fake our understanding as much as we can, we use all shortcuts.
Ah yes, I remember learning in physics class how increasing points of observation of a temperature causes it to increase. /s