skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The complaint - which I definetely share by the way - is that for all the critical acclaim it got, Emily Wilson's translation strays so far from the actual text, it is not really a translation anymore and is actually closer to being a new text inspired by the Odyssey. That's fine if that's what you are looking for but it doesn't make for a great translation.

The πολύτροπος thing is a complete red herring by the way. Her translation is questionnable but remains within the bound of what I would expect from a modern translator. I am more annoyed by everything she drops in the rest of the poem. Remarkably and annoyingly, the coverage when her translation was released spend far more time dwelling on her gender than on her actual work.
Well it depends on your tradeoff decision between SLAs & Development productivity.

If you hire explicit 20% staff to do operational tasks, and also wall off a fixed rotating 5% of your dev team to assist them.. then you've made a conscious decision on resource allocation of 25%. If the other 95% of the dev team is getting interrupted every 30minutes by "questions" then your operational staff/rotation is not resulting in better runbooks, etc.

If you want better SLA and your operational staffing is not sufficient, then you should see your SLA breach, make staffing/process changes, etc.

When development just papers over these issues you end up with great operational metrics and bad development metrics, so then everyone can be even more upset at dev!
> When an actual human author mimics other writers styles, it is not illegal, why exactly should it be illegal for an author to use an LLM to do it?

There is a fundamental difference of scale. Say I write a blog post about some technical thing I know. You read it, learn from it (and other sources), and then you write your own blog post with your understanding. You may link to my post (if you believe it is heavily inspired from there), or not. But reading my post, understanding the material to the point where you can write about it took time. If you are so fast that you can produce more posts than I do, and your posts are the same quality, then suddenly you become a better blogger than me.

An LLM can automate that. With an LLM, you as a blogger don't have to learn from my post, you can just have it generate the post (you don't even need to read it). In that case, you have put absolutely zero effort learning about the topic, you just had some algorithm copy-paste-and-modify my post. Don't you think that if you publish a blog post that you haven't even read yourself, probably it comes from material written by somebody else at some point?

In any case it is very different. Once a human does it, the other time a machine does it. I don't understand why engineers think we can just transfer concepts between both. You as a human have rights (maybe you can vote), but your LLM cannot. Why couldn't an LLM vote if humans vote? Precisely because it is different, and it creates new problems.

The fact that LLMs can automatically (and at scale) launder copyrighted material is a new problem. Therefore we need to think about that, and to think about whether or not this should be legal.

The day people stop reading my blog and instead use ChatGPT (which is trained using, among the ton of other copyrighted material, my blog), and as a result nobody reads my blog directly anymore, I can assure you that I will stop writing. If 99% of books are written by ChatGPT instead of actual authors, but based on books from actual authors, in such a way that the readers don't really make a difference and therefore go with ChatGPT (because it's cheaper), what do you think writers will do? If they can't live from writing books (because ChatGPT does not buy their books, and people now pay ChatGPT instead of buying the books), then they will just stop writing.

It is a risk that needs to be considered. And it's certainly not an engineering question.
I always hated the kid at school who took easy classes and got a 4.0 vs doing worse in hard classes.
There is an accelerated solution team that uses the engine.
I can not return to an office -- I moved to rural Michigan where I enjoy nature and a quieter pace of life -- 100% WFH.

All these articles from media controlled by capitalists hellbent on shaming workers and insisting the problem lies with employees rather than employers at every turn. Fuck them.
Ask HN: GPD Pocket Alternative? Cyberdeck?
Hi, HN.

I wanted to buy a micro PC is a GPD the only viable possibility?

Maybe someone has a guide for a cyberdeck if thats also good as the GPD micro/pocket.

Ty.
Sweetgreens, Cava, Mezeh, Chipotle

Obviously don't get queso dip or soda, etc
The younger generation is much less willing to work under conditions they disagree with.
I wonder what these 7 PCs have in common that none of them would have AMD GPUs?
3.5% unemployment rate = nothing will get people back into office if they don't want to be in the office.

This all flips around at some point though. Maybe 10% unemployment?

For me, I'm looking incredulously at people making decisions on where to live assuming that "work from home" is locked in forever. I know someone who is in the process of settling on a house in the middle of nowhere working for a large publicly traded company remotely. The company just posted their first quarterly loss in forever.

If she ends up losing that job, she'll be 100% dependent on being able to find another remote position or be forced to sell her house.
While interesting, the next major step would be to find out how wheat production influences the impact of this effect.

We already know for animal products that organic growth yields more omega 3 and contributes little towards inflammation.
Archive of novelty answering machine recordings
We had “hotelling” at Accenture in the early 2000’s and I hated it. It made sense their, because at any moment you could be called to an out of town assignment, but the lack of workspace consistency and the feeling of coming into the most generic workspace available was really draining).
Not just poisons, but also explosives, knives, guns, bludgeoning weapons, battery acid, cars... there are innumerable ways to kill or maim people but very rarely do people do these things. The truth is that very few people are ever inclined to murder. Remember this the next time politicians try to make you afraid and tell you they need to xray everybody and grope grandma to stop the terrorists.
My office is across the street. I can see it from my window and still never go in.
Enabled them and restarted, still nothing (although there's a chance I messed it up somewhere, I haven't tested it thoroughly). But honestly, I don't really care given that 99% of the web works otherwise.
Shout out to Viva Piñata and its sequels, an underappreciated game from a few years after Microsoft bought Rare. On the surface it was a silly kids game with a bad TV show tie-in. But underneath it was a remarkably complex sandbox game with some interesting game mechanics for completing a collection. A different take on Pokemon or Stardew Valley (or Harvest Moon, historically). Good stuff.
What if I told you I could get you a cubic mile in the Venusian atmosphere for only $99??
Couldn't this be the answer to dark matter?
> And, please keep this in mind: the President of the Boston mycology club died of mushroom poisoning, and he was surounded by "mushroom experts".

Do you have a link for that? My web searches brought up 0 hits for this.
What do herbicides have to do with this study? They added gluten to the diet, not wheat.
So, the advertised performance is just for the read-part, not the write-part?

As far as I understand: writing would still exhibit the same characteristics as before, while reads would never be affected by other users.
I am an outlier and minority here - WFH should have worked for me, but I realized the lack of control over snacking when at home, and a lack of discipline to take breaks between meetings to walk and be active. I gained 20 lbs over two years.

When I’m in the office, both these problems don’t exist; in fact 1:1s become ‘walking 1:1s’. I feel more healthier; the commute back allows me to disconnect from work and decline meetings.

This is not to say working from the office is better for everyone. I wish I had the discipline to be better at WFH.
I love working from home as much as everyone else here (seemingly) but I don't think people are fully appreciating how damaging not talking to people in meat space is likely to be long-term. We are embodied/energetic creatures and that energy is not exchanging the same way online (sorry if that sounds woo but it's true!). More so for the younger people, let's not forgot some of whom have never worked with people much in person.
The term ape has being used traditionally in different ways with slightly different meanings.
Why would Amazon develop a custom Arm chip and not RISC-V?

Don't they have to pay a fee to Arm for this, even though it is being developed by them?

And would Google (which is allegedly developing their own Arm Chip) and Apple (which also has their own chip) not also benefit from backing Risc-V as well?

I have not been able to get clear in my head the relationship between Risc-V and Arm, and even more so exactly what responsibility down stream each user has.

Would appreciate the some ELI5 from knowledgeable HNers.

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Slightly related: is it more or less a given that eventually no one will use x64 chips (since Arm/Risc-V is more efficient)?

If not for servers, is it at least a given for desktop computers, as more software is written for ARM, and re-compilers like Rosseta improve?

If so, I know that Intel is investing in RISC-V, but has AMD given up the space entirely?
You took my words
> The idea that employers need to give you everything you want is strange.

The working class, low class, and middle class are all tax cattle. We have to take ostensibly dangerous commutes on highways with people too tired/too rushed/too busy to care. We have to eat inside of a certain timeframe, respond chipper no matter the circumstances, and when they're done with us they just let us go in a "right-sizing". We are subject to panopticon levels of surveillance with open offices, late nights because you don't want to appear to be the guy leaving early, etc. If you're lucky you get a few dozen hours a week with your family, maybe have some hobbies.

Cattle, imo, actually have it better because at least Farmer John drives them to work and they eat for free.

The Cxx's are always so chipper about coming into the office because they make, on average, 20x more than than the engineers doing actual work, and they can work from home/beach/yacht as they please.

Employers would be wise to treat employees with what they want. WFH is a net savings for them unless they're locked into 20 year leases. Many companies happen to get their lease through their VCs so it explains entirely why they are so keen on coming back to office. Employees will just leave to companies still offering remote. The problem for the employers who refuse to change? In a "fully" employed recession wages will not match the environment. If they cannot make up for lost wages with benefits like remote, paid healthcare, 401k match, etc they will die because without tax cattle, they are nothing.

This was simply the cattle waking up and realizing that they are the ones with the actual power. Any power a CEO claims to have is simply voodoo. The issue is employees still don't see this. Even without a union having enough people just walk out because the company doesnt respect them will crush the company. Rightly so.
I miss the commute that was my ~20m morning bike ride (now I have to motivate myself). I don’t really miss the commute that was 20m on transit but it was ok. I really don’t miss the commute that was 45-60m+ in traffic (even the times I was on a work shuttle).

I could do an office again though if it weren’t too far from home. Working from home can be strangely lonely, maybe I should just be better about organizing co-working with friends virtually or in person.
Same here.

Pivotal does something similar: saving the page no longer loads lanes or stories. In Chrome, you can set to "be offline" so the Javascript doesn't try to erase the DOM.

It's harder with archive.org, since it requests on your behalf. In that case, archive.org could set its scraper to behave similarly, toggling network off after the fetch, before archiving.
A lot of what's in the Pure Bash Bible is horrifically slow. Many of those things are substantially faster, even when paying the cost of starting a new process, when you use an external and commonly available tool. I wrote a bash performance profiler that outputs data in a format that flamegraph.pl recognizes - it really helped identify where we could improve the performance of ZFSBootMenu.

https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/releases/tag/v1.12.0

Don't fall in the trap of thinking things have to be written entirely in bash; it's okay to use other tools to help fill in the gaps.
the Audiophile argument
https://ubuntu.com/blog/written-interviews
The reason for creating an AI-powered workspace
Yes, also the typical career cycle in HCOL areas is you are 22 and live in a dumpy apartment with roommates but close to work. You maybe couple up with someone by 30 and get a nicer place a bit further, but still within a 20-40min transit commute. Finally you maybe decide to start a family by 40, and move out to somewhere 40-60min commute, if not further.

Each step is just a small increment worse. But when you go from remote back to the worst level, it's jarring.

Objectively, transit has also gotten worse in some cities (NYC, DC) since COVID and still not recovered. So we are also returning to something worse than where we left it!
There was one recently involving Swedish police, I think.

I expect VPN usage is easy enough to unmask by state level actors with timing attacks.
...if you take them at their word. Oh, and ignore the bit where they will give you extra money if you agree to let them keep your biometric data on file to "improve their algorithm".
This is the second post on creating a KMP library
Lines of code that changed everything (2019)
A dedicated Elasticsearch query language (ES|QL)
Show HN: Code and Chat with Files – Now Support for GPT-4 32k via Openrouter.ai
GPT Everywhere allows you to integrate AI into your workflows by simply dragging and dropping files, websites, and PDFs into the app. It handles the heavy lifting so you can focus on being creative and productive.

Top features:
-Drag and drop files to chat with GPT
- Vector store and embeddings for PDFs and code
- Whisper AI integration to talk to the app anywhere
- Keyboard shortcuts to engage GPT in any app
- Access rare models via openrouter.ai
- Create specialized skills for different GPT uses
-Tailor temperature and max tokens
- Automate complex workflows with chains

And more!
I would work almost exclusively from the office in this scenario and even keep my work belongings there (if possible).

It's much easier for some to have a complete separation of work and home spaces. Also a change of scenery in the morning and getting to move a bit before starting to work is nice.

If you work 5 mins from your home you can just walk there for lunch. No need to bag a lunch, no?
No one said control the world. Just that a VPN provider is probably compromised by the NSA.
I don't mean this as cras, but even better is "lunch" with the wife.

I.e., when the two of you are finally home alone and awake, because school is in session.

I suspect for some marriages, WFH has been a real blessing.
> DMA Design

Which is now Rockstar.

Also can't forget Codemasters
> Reading what you wrote, I'm concerned that you may be suggesting that all disclosures of negative emotions to strangers are verboten.

I'm glad to alleviate your concern then: No.

What should be considered verboten is using strangers as your punching bag because you're having a bad day for reasons unrelated to them.
“I don’t hate that other species, we’re just biologically better, therefore they are naturally subjugated to us. It’s just science.”

(To be 100% clear, I’m just quoting what a person who thinks this way would say, just as slave holders in the US used to say)
To me it beggars belief that companies spend so much on humans only to put them in an environment where it’s impossible to concentrate. I reckon at some point someone will figure out that the physical environment can be modified to make knowledge workers more productive, and start walloping their competition.

I am on a distributed team with no in-person interaction, and I love commuting even though I don’t see anyone I work with. But, I hate the physical space.
> The truth is that some pristine areas and ecosystems are much more important than others (even ones that haven't been polluted and denuded)

OK, so which ones (that haven't been polluted and denuded) are less important?

I'm genuinely looking for an answer here. Nobody has ever been willing to volunteer one to me.
Japanese people with Western spouses (e.g. Keiko Jackson), or who are popular overseas (Marie Kondo) or have spent a lot of time overseas may prefer to use the Western ordering.

Even people who live in Japan may prefer to use Western ordering when talking in English. Insisting on their own order rather than adapting to others is pretty un-Japanese imo.
Hello, I'm the OSM Foundation chairperson. Indeed, we benefit from the support of corporate donors, and their contributions are immensely valuable. This support often aligns with mutual interest in free maps, and sometimes extends to participation in working groups, such as the communication or licensing working group.

What sets OpenStreetMap apart from other map or data providers is its diverse and rich community. You're right that relying solely on a few large corporate donors could lead to challenges in maintaining OSM's strength, resiliency, and independence. That's why we're trying to attract a diverse income stream, including a broad base of support from individual donors. Every small donation reaffirms that OSM will remain a collective effort, which all contributors play a part in shaping and preserving.

https://supporting.openstreetmap.org is our fundraising site.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21648568
Many people with families, or even just DINKS, would opt for private offices. Unless you've got a giant home with private space, working at the same time and while your home life goes on around you is pretty bad.
I've always been fit but when I was in the office, I understood why a lot of people weren't. Work + Commute + Daily exercise is a HUGE chunk of time.

With remote, I simply exercise _during_ work with my home equipment, it's fantastic.
It loads just fine for me, but only the article summary. I suspect to archive the full piece you'd have to make a local copy when logged in and upload that or provide some credentials to archive.org (not sure how, maybe their Archive-It.org product supports this?)
Learn about the concept of hearsay...
Moq Testing Library Sends Email to SponsorLink
Download YouTube Subs as RSS OPML
> gives a used-car-salesman feeling.

I really don't like the aesthetic direction Proton's been taking in the last few years, from top to bottom. I'm finding their mail apps, both in desktop web browser and on mobile, less and less usable. In addition I get this feeling from their design choices as well. I know their mission is to grow enough to challenge predatory providers like gmail, but it makes me wary and makes me feel as if I won't be using them in 5 more years.
SDXL Dreambooth fine-tuning with LoRA on free Colab
Using the diffusers library and combining multiple optimizations
- Gradient checkpointing
- Mixed precision training
- 8-bit Adam
- Gradient accumulation

This allows using LoRA to fine-tune SDXL with DreamBooth on a T4 GPU, which is provided by free in Google Colab.
B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for and does not want
Have you/she looked at FODMAP?

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

It's a thing that's been messing me up for ages and only just got suggested as the cause/trigger for some remaining allergy like symptoms after my allergies went away (lots of issues besides it, it's just a trigger).
I predict automation/outsourcing will keep whittling away the need for work from home computer based jobs. The labor demand will be for the in person jobs that require physical labor.
Well, humans have been selecting for high levels of gluten in wheat for decades (centuries?) so that bread can become lighter and fluffier, but other than that, gluten is naturally occurring in many grains.
I suppose if you used powerful ice breakers, ideally nuclear like the Russians, and escorted ships through in a line, it could work.

You couldn’t justify taking them through one by one.

This kind of thing requires Canada to have long-term vision and will, things they’ve been lacking politically in the last decade or two, in my opinion.
Hah, I was scrolling through some commercial listings this morning and found a barren industrial warehouse (with windows!) that I thought would be perfect for the eternal tormenting of information workers under the guise of a Fun, Hip Place To Work.

No carpets, no canvas on the walls, nothing - just a new paint job, a couple of kegs, some ping-pong tables, and maybe a cornhole setup for maximum tailgating vibes.
Besides the technical differences brought up by other commenters, I'm a Canadian and I hear about USA sanctions toward Cuba on regular TV news and newspapers, never mind more specific news sources, every USA election cycle. It's a massive topic of public debate, and from what I can see it hugely influences outcomes of key seats in state and federal elections. Sometimes these claims of "nobody talks" or "mainstream media doesn't want you to know" are just... incorrect?
> What data do you have to support this, other than a personal anecdote?

If RTO proponents had any hard data, wouldn't they shared it by now? It is _they_ who are making the claim that office work is more productive, so it is on them to _prove_ it. We are being fed some fables about "spontaneous interactions at water cooler" and other such bullshit instead.
Epic systems basically has a company town set up. I don't think you ever really leave work when you work for epic.
I strongly prefer speedcrunch due to it opening much faster and being simpler.

Qalc has poor documentation so I don't find learning its extra features to be worthwhile.

Qalc is also awkward to type.
Not OP, but yeah most definitely. And I have also started actively seeking out providers who pay a fair wage - for example I only get groceries at farmers markets. I sincerely wish they would do the same for clothing but that’s harder to find. It’s not my fault that capitalism makes it incredibly hard for me to do this by restricting the number of businesses that pay a fair wage, but I genuinely do my part. I don’t buy from Amazon anymore unless I have no choice. I’ve paid double the price at times just to avoid Amazon.
No, it just loads indefinitely. You can access it with scribe.rip and then archive. Medium.com involves JS to load article, probably to make paywall work.
I don't understand why this is news for anybody. This is just the cloudflare version of ngrok...