skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'll see where it shakes out when it comes to art.

Even in myself I'm finding curious emotional responses: I'm now growing less interested in some of the more synthesized / formulaic types of music, and more interested in live performances / recording with real instruments. For visual art that is art, that to me usually needs some human emotion, message, story, path. For "art" that is placeholder or functional, yeah a lot of that may get replaced by AI.

My point to this particular article is though, if their sum contribution to the world is the analogue of:

1. Short one-sentence prompt to AI that's basically "piano, but tear-shaped"

2. 37 paragraphs of self-aggrandizing meaningless prose that actively deceives on the accomplishment and status of the thing

Then it's not "human creativity" as far as I'm concerned, or at least not one that I want to actively encourage (and in fact, as I mentioned, I want to actively discourage / not partake in).

In other words, I'm not saying AI should be doing the kind of things exemplified in that article rather than humans. I'm saying I don't want to see / partake those kinds of things [if not quite "they shouldn't exist":], and it's partially because they don't contribute any human creativity, as far as I'm concerned. That's very different from "not seeing value in human creativity", so I think we may have misunderstood each other there?
The plain text qalc doesn't compare with Speedcrunch. How do you copy & paste for example? Speedcrunch also has a shortcut for putting the result into the clipboard.

You can make Speedcrunch look like a good old fashioned bc session, whereas Qalculate puts way too much stuff on the screen. It misses a simple REPL mode.
Data loss hasn't happened yet but this makes me concerned! Thanks for the tip! I'll look into alternatives myself now... :-)
Does an artist not see thousands of artworks as they develop their style? Do artists not experiment with hundreds of styles as they hone in on something they want to be theirs? Is the internet, a tool that lets them see even more artworks, preventing creators from developing their personal style?

As I understand it, we've seen an explosion of different dancing styles as various apps let users share their craft with others - a quicker evolution of a greater variety of dancing. And I'm confident dancers use technology like playing videos at slower speeds to analyze others' movements.
Yeah, this seems like a fun idea. You get to make a couple of buddies and you can bounce ideas easily without being overwhelmed or treated like cattle. Team rooms.
I share the OP’s opinion that a lot of available information is incorrect.

It seems the industry is moving faster than the academics who write books and university courses can update these sources. Big endian CPUs, CPU architectures other than AMD64 and ARM, x87 FPU, are examples of the topics which are no longer relevant. However, these topics are well covered because they were still relevant couple decades ago when people wrote these sources.

Some details of modern hardware are secret. An example from low-level programming, many sources claim CPUs have two kinds of branch predictors, static one which predicts forward branches as not taken, and the dynamic one which queries/updates these BTB entries. This is incorrect because mainstream CPUs made in the last 15 years no longer have the static one. However, the details of modern branch predictors are proprietary, so we don’t have authoritative sources on them. We only have speculations based on some micro-benchmarks.
Don't know much biology, but appears "modern human biological variation is not structured into phylogenetic subspecies ('races'), nor are the taxa of the standard anthropological 'racial' classifications breeding populations."

"'Race' is a legitimate taxonomic concept that works for chimpanzees but does not apply to humans (at this time)."

https://www.nature.com/articles/ng1455
> The agent space is young and the need for standard protocol should be evident.

No? Don't protocols typically arise from the need to transfer x type of information over y physical infrastructure between z types of interlocutors?

Looks like people smarter than me are working on this, but it really seems like a solution in search of a problem.
> Meta never claimed to be the champion of anonymity

Except in this _specific case_ the plaintiff asked Meta to remove the anon content and Meta said No.

Then the Judge asked Meta to provide the details of the anonymous user and "Meta argued that Facebook users should be able to express criticism, even if it is severe and anonymous."
There's also just far more tokens to train on if you do multi-language. I'd guess only the most popular languages would even have enough training data to get a specialized version - but it would still be an interesting trade off for certain use cases. Being able to run a local code assistant on a typescript-only project for example, with a 32k context window would really come in handy for a lot of people. I don't know enough to understand the impact of vocab size vs context size.
WFH is a huge improvement in the work-life balance metric. You provide WFH and at least half of that W-LB issue is solved.
We found a big improvement and are moving a very large footprint over.
Not replying to you but the above comment got flagged before I responded and I already typed the comment up so I want to post it :)

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If we're specifically talking about large enterprises, these CEOs make more in a year than most Americans make their entire life. If you didn't live a Fortune 1000 CEO level lifestyle you could literally do the job for 4-6 months and retire, and that's ignoring the fact that they've typically been in the C-Suite making 20-50% of that salary for decades already. It's not often somebody living paycheck to paycheck is promoted into CEO.

I've worked jobs in public companies where the CEO and half the C-Suite was driven to work every morning. I've worked jobs where a rank and file programmer got denied a raise because he left at 4 every day (despite working 8 or more hours every day) because the policy was to work 8-5, while the CEO worked from a vacation home when the weather wasn't nice where our HQ was. Whether the job is hard is irrelevant, all the GP is saying is that you have ultimate flexibility in that role, and now the poors have a taste of it too, and most of them/us aren't going to give it up without a fight.
Wow, found your github from this and getting insane imposter syndrome haha, very impressive work
I kind of disagree, you have engagement statistics on twitter; you're not exactly flying blind. The comments really aren't adding so much in my opinion. Arguably by vacating twitter entirely you have zero feedback which is worse?

Just about every news provider in Australia has locked or removed their comment sections and it seems like that's necessary. Rupert Murdoch's outlets have comments open only on uncontroversial articles, and open for a short amount of time only. I don't see the point.
Why Static Languages Suffer from Complexity (2022)
Aye, same. My first job was a cube farm and it was much better than sitting at a giant wooden table with 5000 chairs.
According to the article, $100k is the maximum penalty for ignoring this specific court order. Do you think the article is lying?
There's nothing an office can provide me that's better than the moments I have during the WFH day with our infant son as he grows.
What does that mean? Employers are raising wages in the free market. Unionized or not, the market is free - nobody is forcing companies to not unionize, and if that means more employee retention then the others better follow suit if they are keen enough. There’s no monopoly on who can have a union.
I may be wrong, but isn’t Worldcoin using zero knowledge proofs in their system? It would mean that nobody has access to the private data behind them - not even WC.
AIX, Solaris, HP-UX
Why? Aren't salaries paid before obligations and taxes?
Yes - There is less than zero thought put into open floorplan seating charts.

We had in sequential rows - Level1 support, R&D, Development. Sat like this for years.

So R&D was sandwiched between the team that was constantly on contentious urgent calls, and the dev team they ran over to ask for help.

Best open floorplan seat I ever had was in a far corner way off from most dev, sat near a trader who spent all day on the phone yakking. Just like a total storyteller kind of guy, incredible yarns were spun .. kind faded into interesting background music for me. Like leaving the History Channel on in the back. Philosophy, science, history, movies, politics.. etc.
The writes via SQLedge are sync, that is we wait for the write to be processed on the upstream Postgres server. So it operates as if SQLedge wasn't in the request path from application to Postgres. The writes to Postgres are only reflected in SQLite when the data is received back from the Postgres server on the replication slot.

This means writes are eventually consistent, currently, but I intend to include a feature that allows waiting for that write to be reflected back in SQLite which would satisfy the 'read your own writes' property.

SQLedge will never be in a situation where the SQLite database thinks it has a write, but that write is yet to be applied to the upstream Postgres server.

Basically, the Postgres server 'owns' the writes, and can handle them just like it would if SQLedge didn't exist.
-eu? Yes. -o pipefail? Maybe not, for two reasons:

1. Pipefail is a bashism, and doesn't exist on Ubuntu's /bin/sh or Busybox /bin/sh (common on embedded Linux systems)

2. Pipefail invalidates some common shell patterns like "grep _something_ | xargs -r CMD".

Pipefail is nice in some circumstances for sure. But it's probably not great advice to automatically copypasta into the top of every shell-script.
I never had a private office but always worked in bigger or smaller open plan offices. About 10 years ago I had a consulting engagement at a company that was working from a 70s office building with private offices. They were going to tear it down because it was not 'modern' but that was _really great_ and I always wondered what happened and if we would not get back to that style of offices at some point! It's great to be able to work from a private environment, where you could still enjoy shared lunches, or pop into a co-workers office to jointly spec something out or... and yeah you can do that stuff on Zoom but it's different.

And I understand how it's great to work from hom. I also have the luxury of a proper office room at home. I don't like my commute either, but having the laundry, family, whatever available as distractions is not always great in my opinion.
Yeah, but the neat thing is, we can build them [=
Unveiling Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL)
No need to wait, the future is now. I've already seen huge gains in income and work-life balance by spending time automating my workflow.

I hope that by "trickle down to the workers" you aren't talking about technically illiterate workers who are not actively contributing to the automation effort. Unfortunately, they will receive some benefits as well, which is completely undeserved.
And I'm also sure if Joel Spolsky created a company today it would most likely have a remote first policy. At least, I'd be disappointed if I found out he didn't support it with how forward thinking his companies have been.
> unless it's attached to my home, i am not going there

Why on Earth would you accept an office attached to your home?! Seems like the worst of all options...
Mushrooms are very forgiving of spores from other mushrooms and easily include them into their structures. So much so that they are considered promiscuous. No book will help you with this in the emergency room. Why take a chance? Go to the gricery store and have a comfortable dinner. And, please keep this in mind: the President of the Boston mycology club died of mushroom poisoning, and he was surounded by "mushroom experts".
If you want me to spend 2 hours+ of my day commuting then pay me for it.
Just because you're telling the truth doesn't mean that they'll present it to the court in a way that makes it seem like the truth. If they want to convict you, witnesses will show up pinning you to the crime. That, or they'll use "interrogation" tactics to get you to "confess" when you're innocent. It's mindgames to close the case early. The U.S. has a worrying amount of wrongful convictions, for many reasons.

To sum it up: never speak to police without a lawyer.
It's a two-way street between employers and employees.
I'd gladly go back to the office if the company did away with Slack in favor of email and meetings.
I've worked in open plan spaces most of my career. I've had my own office a few times also. I don't hate all open plan arrangements, if it's a room with 4-6 developers and no sales or marketing or other functions going on, desks are large enough and spaced apart a little bit, it can be fine. Developers will mostly put on headphones and get into the zone. It can feel kind of nice to have other people around even if you aren't interacting with them.
I am a big fan of Learn You a Haskell! Was absolutely lovely when I was learning FP.
Police are trained to get you to incriminate yourself. They will twist your words of innocence into evidence of guilt, i.e., you say, "I went to the kitchen for a knife so he could cut his steak.", but the police write down, "suspect went to kitchen to grab knife."

Despite what popular culture teaches us, the truth isn't going to come out because crack team of investigators using DNA and cool tech to magically solve a case. The police are going to pick an easy target to pin everything on, and trick them into giving enough information for the prosecution to strong arm a plea deal.

It's not about justice, it's about solving cases with the lowest possible effort.
Russian passport, your official documents would be from the Russian state; your police would be Russian

And, most likely, your personal allegiance would be Russian.
The list is amazing indeed, from the top of my mind: DMA Design (Lemmings and later GTA series), Frontier (Elite series), Bullfrog (Theme Park, Magic Carpet)
> My vaguely populist take is that the pandemic, WFH/remote and hybrid gave the mass white collar class a taste of what the C-suite has had for years.. flexibility.

That’s not populist at all. It’s just another example of the white collar class enjoying the benefits of technology and globalization while everyone else gets left behind: https://www.epi.org/blog/wage-inequality-continued-to-increa....

Before the pandemic, I already made a lot more money (as a lawyer) than my middle class neighbors. Now I also get to work from home three days a week, and get a lot more quality time with my kids, while they have to go to work every day because their jobs aren’t knowledge work.

Obviously, management versus other white collar workers is one class dividing line that exists. But work from home is a good example if the fact that on many important dimensions, such as work conditions and generational mobility,[1] those groups are in the same class.

[1] CEOs are obviously richer than say accountants of engineers. But in the US, CEOs largely come from the class of these white collar professionals. In that sense, they’re in the same class as most other societies understand the concept.
Mullvad is THE ONLY mainstream VPN that doesn't have seriously questionable credibility.

Proton VPN is very questionable - sleuths have figured out that it's just a white-labeled version of NordVPN. But the trail is a rabbithole, and you might not be personally satisfied with the standard of evidence. Here is a start for you:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23571653

And since the link to [2] in what I linked above is broken, here is the archived version: https://archive.is/iZ2l2
Why do you say it is not 175K? How much should it be? Is it because you don’t want to pay that much?
The article states the maximum penalty is $100k. Show me where it says otherwise and I'll believe you.
Eh, I mean.. it is better than some of the other ideas that were floated just over the past few months:

- we donate to a charity of your choice and keep the tax writeoff
- we let you rent a hotel room from us
- we have a special room, where you can cloister yourself for a little bit when you want to be alone

By comparison.. your own office is an actual perk.. either WFH is getting close or someone with actual ear to the ground is listening. It is still wrong. But it is less wrong.
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There have been many studies that have shown that decreased worker productivity and increased sick leave negate any cost savings from open floor plans. Their only benefit is that the my look cool, especially when recruiting junior employees.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90285582/everyone-hates-open-pla...
> The old European and US car makers are however failing quite badly. What they produce is hot garbage at a huge loss per car.

VW Group (VW, Audi, etc.) seems to be moving quite well into EVs, I don't understand how manufacturers with a huge know-how to manufacture ICEs could be taken as "failing quite badly" in a market that's barely 5 years in the mainstream. ICEs are much more complex machines to produce than EVs, battery tech is something that most automakers have gotten into.

I think it's still too early to call shots like that, Tesla is still holding on its almost-first-mover advantage but it isn't a given it will stay that way when the competition increases. And competition has been increasing quite substantially.
If HOAs increase property values, maybe we can convince our overlords that an Office Workers' Association for planning these renovations will help save them from Numbers Go Down in the commercial real estate market.
I definitely think it is curious, and it obviously deserves to be thoroughly investigated (and by all accounts it is), but I just don't understand this need to immediately jump to conclusions in cases like this. The top comments on this article on the WaPo site are basically "It's not rocket science to know she did it."

Why is it so hard to just wait for more information? Yes, it definitely looks very suspicious, but there was no talk of motive in the article, and if someone wanted to murder people, inviting them all over for dinner and then poisoning everyone except you and your family seems like the dumbest way to do it (and I'm not saying that's exculpatory - plenty of murderers are very dumb).

I just wish more of us would say "We just don't know yet, and that's fine. Just give it a teeny bit of time to know more."
Ask HN: How much can reflection of sunlight help with climate change?
Couldn't we put a bunch of relatively small satellites into orbit that reflect sunlight away from the earth?
Most people outside of China. Not just "the West".
See, "shared team spaces" aren't too bad; most development work I've done has been in teams of 2 - 8 people in a SCRUM setting, for that kind of work I think small team sized office spaces are ideal.

I've also worked in a big open space where, while all five teams worked on the same product, each individual team had their own section. But for that one, you could hear the next desk block over talk about football and another block talk about what THEY're working on, which is highly distracting.

Another one was an open office across three floors with a central auditorium (that is, big open central space cutting across all floors), which in theory would be bad but they had enough noise padding and ceiling-high walls / whiteboards between the blocks to not be an issue.

Another one was one where we were asked for input; they initially wanted to make it an open space, but we convinced them to divide it up into rooms instead. They ended up being rooms with glass walls, some matt glass, but that was enough for team privacy and limited noise.

My current spot has a mostly open plan space, but they have heaps of noise padding; felted panels on walls and dividers, in between rows of desks, and desks arranged in groups of 6-8. It's manageable, although unfortunately the walkways are in between the desks so people passing by having conversations is annoying, and the meeting rooms' noise insulation is inadequate. That said, we're only there two days a week so it's manageable.
You'd see more energy, but no more momentum transfer. Unless one of two things happened:

1. The nuclear warhead sent the back part of the rocket backward (that is, away from the asteroid) hard enough that (with respect to the asteroid) it has negative momentum, so that the part that hits the asteroid has more momentum.

2. The energy of the radiation from the warhead ablades material from the asteroid, turning it momentarily into a rocket motor. The momentum of that material leaving the asteroid causes an equal momentum change on the asteroid itself.
Never thought of this. Looks useful! I will look it up.
Surely they don't need to monitor the websites you visit to get this information. They can see what the GPU is being asked to do, after all, which would tell them everything they need to know.
For the people who don't have a kit yet, they can always take the cloud approach and use Google Online Development simulator (G.O.D. simulator) and follow their tutorial for Hello Universe[1].

[1]: https://youtu.be/tmGMd2bqh6o
It's really common for embedded systems to ship without Bash. I don't include it in the production firmware on any systems that I design.
We taught ChatGPT to do customer support tasks
Tastes so good though.
This makes sense. We tend to think of wheat as being a wholesome natural food source, but modern wheat is far from that. It's genetically engineered and drenched in herbicide far beyond its original easily digested form.
Did you watch the video? It’s explained in the video.
Reading between the lines, I'd be very surprised if it wasn't highly undesirable content, i.e. child porn or fraud. This came about a month after a very publicised raid by the Swedish police -- after which they left with nothing [1].

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/mullvad-vpn-hit-with-search-warra...
OSDP was supposed to make it harder to break in to secure facilities. It failed
ARM chips are more energy efficient because they're simpler. Less gates/instructions = less power usage.
I think that's just something that excess carbs can do.
What's annoying is that things don't have to be this way. If our chipmakers like Apple, AMD and Intel were able to actually work together, we could make a proper GPGPU library that puts CUDA in the grave. Nvidia is betting on these companies being driven further apart though, and they just won't stop being proven right.

We need FAANG to put aside their differences to fund an alternative, or else FAANG will suffer the consequences.
Didn't the human population drop to something like 2000 individuals at some point in history? Would be like dropping 2 rabbits in a box and opening it up to see 4 million.
You registered with a name on their disallow list. Same thing happened to me with the same language when opening a business account with a listed partner who had previously been banned from eBay.
Well to be fair, peasants helping eachother to raise a barn is technically working from home. This idea of commuting has only been possible with a means to move labor from one region to another versus having cottage industries ran out of the home. That came with the horsedrawn streetcar.
I think the boiled frog is a perfect analogy. I grew up always assuming there would be a long commute. I couldn't afford to move out of my parents house for almost a year out of school in my first job (2008 making less than $30k/yr) so I spent 7 or 8 months driving an hour each way. I'm too young to remember but my dad spent the first few years of my life and several before that commuting 2 hours one way. Spending at least 30 minutes each way driving was just assumed.