skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean the times of Aix, Solaris, HP-UX, NeXT, Mac OS, Amiga OS, Atari ST, Acorn, BeOS,AS/400, z/OS, Psion, Palm Pilot, Atari Portolio, Newton, ...?
Amazon employees could mutiny the CEO in less than a month if they acted in unison, no unionization necessary.
Yes. Initially the receivers had very long linear feeds, because a spherical mirror focuses to a line, not a point. Later additional mirrors were added to partially correct for spherical aberration.
Yes. That happens sometimes.
Initially just older cars... ?
> Some of the backing studies do, but the linked article, which is the object of discussion, absolutely does not. Have you read them?

From the linked article:

> Basics of global poverty measurement

> Throughout this article – and in global income and expenditure data generally – the statisticians who produce these figures are careful to make these numbers as comparable as possible.

> Non-monetary sources of income are taken into account

> Many poor people today and in the past rely on subsistence farming and do not have a monetary income. To take this into account and make a fair comparison of their living standards, the statisticians that produce these figures estimate the monetary value of their home production and add it to their income/expenditure.

> Differences in purchasing power and inflation are taken into account
I’m not an expert, but in the world of government contracting margins are often fixed. It’s common to contract on a “cost plus” basis where the contractor discloses its costs and is paid an agreed margin on top. For a diversified business like BAH (well not that diversified but I digress), they’d need to allocate sg&a in some way to those cost plus contracts. My guess is they were doing it in a way that was, shall we say, “advantageous.”
> hair-dryer is pulled into the bathtub

What hairdryer? British building regs restrict you to an isolated "shaver" socket in the bathroom which takes different plugs. You can't drop a hairdryer in the bath unless you play silly games with extension cables.
Or just use OmniSSHAgent which works for pretty much everything
There is a silenced minority of people who feel that in office participation is better for learning, collaboration, brainstorming, even in technical fields. I'm not going to argue with your convince you to change your mind about RTO, but don't use the term nobody.

I'll add that I understand there are many benefits to remote work, including some that I truly enjoy. And that I'm not sure CEOs care about my personal career growth or how much I benefit from in-person collaboration. I believe they're pushing it for real estate reasons.
If people are just expected to be human state machines and are penalized for not doing the prescribed automata, then you might as well flip a coin for the trophy and skip the game.

This is like saying a catcher can't signal to a pitcher.

Information-passing is a human skill that adds a dimension to the game. Let the best win.
>But China has now seen consistent and large outflows for the past 18 months, as investors grow wary of autocracies.

Gosh, I wonder what happened 18 months ago to shake investor confidence in autocracies.
They think this is more valuable than all of the other existing Google Workspace features? Because it's more expensive than all of them AFAIK...
Once upon a time, google was obsessed with aggregating the worlds data. Today, google is all about AI generated or sourced data. And building a complex model to estimate pollen levels is definitely what they’d do.

(Plus the cost of those sensors would not be justified for such a small product).
We asked developers to work all week in VR
FWIW I imagine 95%+ of it is warehouses and fulfillment centers, not necessarily office space.
I mean, a gasoline explosion could melt aluminum. Gasoline and wood both burn at ~1800 degrees Fahrenheit, and most Aluminum alloys melt past 1000 degrees (afaik).

There are a lot of situations a car can get in where aluminum melts; I don't have 40 minutes to watch the video so I'll need a CliffNotes of the more damning evidence.
MagicEdit: High-fidelity temporally coherent video editing
Whose username is derived from "moot".
So if Amazon employees have it worse, will it make working conditions better for the teachers and firefighters and contractors of America? By that metric, aren't those jobs pretty privileged compared to the people living in third world countries? Maybe we should make their working conditions more painful also.
I use a Panasonic flatbed microwave to heat precisely the volume of water I want by filling the tea cup(s) I want.

Two minutes on high (1100 watt microwave output from, IIRC 1800 watt input) per cup. So usually two minutes for the one cup of I intend to drink.

Every electric kettle I’ve ever owned has a minimum volume of at least two cups. Who bother heating two cups if I’m only going to drink one at a time.

Tasmania (AU), 240v / 100amp supply to residential is standard.
American induction cooktops also have boost functionality. All boost does is temporarily increases the power output usually at the expense of other elements. Power isn't "stolen" from other phases. Usually the reason why the cooktop cannot be in boost mode the entire time is cooling related.

https://www.subzero-wolf.com/assistance/answers/wolf/common/...
I'm sorry for your loss. Losing a child is a horrible experience and you never really get over it; time moves on but the emptiness persists. I wish you and your family well.
This is the proper way to use ChatGPT. Relying on it as a source is a bad idea. However, it's handy for finding reliable sources to read further.
Ianal but i think usually these things cone down to: is it reasonable to expect privacy in the situation (e.g. filming someone in their home through a window is different than someone in the street just happening to be in the background of your video).

I don't think most people would reasonably expect privacy in the context of a staff meeting.
Only by those that never bothered to understand ISO C legalese, and actual implementations.
The personal benefits of WFH are obvious to the individual employee: no commute, the ability to live wherever you want instead of obscenely expensive areas like Silicon Valley, spending more time with your family, flexible work hours.

How exactly is it "groupthink" to prefer this?

The question is, why exactly do executives prefer RTO? They seem to be rather short on evidence of the benefits.
Oh, very nice!
Thank you! Any nice books or courses to start with?
This looks great. I found the docs helpful for getting a clear idea of what it does: https://docs.gradient.ai/docs/introduction
Continuous is anything outside of a small "startup window". Appliances with motors will often have an initial surge amperage that's higher than peak.

Fuses/breakers are ultimately about heat control. They can run "indefinitely" at their rated amperage, but can support short, higher loads.
Very interesting usecase ! Thanks :)
Always used to think about him while travelling on this beautiful road in Hyderabad.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Professor+CR+Rao+Rd,+Hyder...

One of the few times I've seen roads named after academicians and scientists.
I have a feeling you and I are not paid the same, so there’s that.
> It's in alpha, making performance/presentation comments seems really out of place.

This is a ridiculous statement. They've collected half a billion dollars from customers and have been in alpha for over 10 years.
Who Owns the West?
Maintaining your innocence is easy, anyone can do that, it's the avoiding any meaningful punishment that is difficult.
That's essentially the definition of a union: employees working in unison. Getting that many employees to act in unison is the tricky part that requires all of the infrastructure that Amazon is intent on ensuring doesn't get built.
Equality doesn't necessarily mean Equivalence.
Maybe 95% by square footage - probably not by $$$.
I don’t think eg ruby->go is a bigger jump. Learn defer, structural typing, interfaces vs learn to replace all loops with map/filter/etc + pattern matching. Feels similar, no?
I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that this obfuscation scheme is legacy, and they keep it merely as defense in depth and because it's tested so why not.

Modern Macs can do remote attestations from a trusted boot chain all the way up to specific apps, which obviates the need for this sort of obfuscation. The memory spaces will be protected by the operating system as long as SIP is enabled, and if it's not enabled or has been disabled / the root partition has been modified, then that will be detectable by Apple remotely. Although code obfuscation is fun (I've built a virtualization based obfuscation in the past), a properly implemented remote attestation and security architecture does obsolete it. It's therefore mostly useful on Windows/Linux PCs where these schemes don't really hang together.
How many residential appliances benefit from three phase, and is the benefit outweighed by the additional cost of more copper for the additional wires?

For example, a common big motor that needs a starter capacitor is a HVAC unit. Usually the copper to run those is extremely expensive, on the order of hundreds of dollars. Adding an additional wire may add an additional hundred dollars or more. By comparison, starter caps are quite cheap. $20 for a HVAC sized one. That also isn't counting any of the costs of three phase infrastructure for breakers etc.

That also isn't even counting that many appliances are moving to inverter based technologies that don't utilize induction motors at all, such as induction hobs. Or, many appliances with no benefit from extra phases (resistive heating devices such as ovens, dryers, toasters, etc).

Seems to me that the tradeoff is worth it.
Can confirm (for sharing; not so much for the reading stats, sorry). I run Calibre on my desktop; on desktops and laptops I use the content server for built-in online reading. For the Kobos in the house, they plug in and I click "Send to Device" for any new books. Kindles I hit "Send to Kindle" and it uses the email delivery system for it to magically appear on my Kindle. Androids and iPhones have myriad apps that will happily consumer Calibre's content server.

I keep the metadata up to date, strip Kindle DRM from the books I buy from Amazon, and maintain a giant personal DRM-free collection of books and comics (which Calibre also handles!). It's one of my favorite pieces of software.
What would be the use case for something like this?
>It seems to me that what’s meant by “the wrong abstraction” is “a confusing piece of code littered with conditional logic”. I don’t really see how it makes sense to call that an abstraction at all, let alone the wrong abstraction.

No, it means the wrong abstraction. Like forcing a one-size-fits-all abstraction on a few pieces of duplicated code, and not waiting for them to grow to enough cases to hint at what is the best pattern/abstraction/architecture to handle them (perhaps more than one, for different classes than somebody might just shove in a single abstraction prematurely).
Mogwai
PSA: if you have a disability as defined by the ADA (anxiety, depression, and adhd falls under this btw) and have been a remote employee this entire time, they may be legally obligated to provide continued virtual work privileges to accommodate your disability. There seems to have been some recent successful lawsuits surrounding that topic.

Take a look here https://www.bfvlaw.com/fielding-remote-work-accommodations-r...
My UPS is showing 236V at the moment (continental EU). We also used to have 220V IIRC, but are now closer to 240V it seems.
Ask HN: Those who were broke and lost in life in 20s. How'd you find way again?
Yes. I am in that situation. It is personal.
Native green threading instead of async/await would have made for a much more pleasant to use Rust language IMO.

I hate async/await with a passion.
This is ignoring OpenAI's margins. We don't know how much GPT-3 and GPT-4 actually cost for them to run but it isn't what they are charging us. For Llama 2 the quoted cost is just compute, but for OpenAI you are also paying for using their software.
If the CEO has a wealth of data and it says with remote working Metric A has gone up which is good, and Metric B has gone down which is bad, they have to make a judgement call about which metric to rely on even though they're making an evidence-based decision.
Linux 6.6 Adding Randomized Kmalloc Caches for Further System Hardening
I mean... I can solve this with three easy requirements.

No bootloader locking beyond EOL.
Required writing and release of tech documentation/source code at EOL.
No part serialization or cryptographic shenanigans without also supporting user based reset.

Until you solve those facets preventing handset board reuse, in the bin it's gonna go. Which is a pity, because with the right docs, and a bit of elbow grease, a pile of phone boards with generic linux kernels integrated into a network information system would be a perfect recipe for a beautiful and power sippy Beowulf cluster.

And before the "but you just made theft a problem" crowd stirs up, deal with it. World's never been a safe place. Risk cannot be destroyed, just converted from form to form. I'll take less severe distributed smaller individual than a honking, centralized, far reaching risk anyday. You can at least actively do something about the smaller ones. The big ones are pretty much giaranteed to never be remediated.
I wonder if $12 million is seen as an acceptable price to pay to keep in good standing with US government officials. Pretend to build a plant in the US. Get feel good press and no one looks to hard at how you run your operations overseas for a few more years.
WFH is the new norm. If you want to drag workers back into the office, you had better be offering a lot to make up for the added costs to the worker, including monetary, time, stress, etc…
I don't know about their tips, but generally you should start medication some weeks/days before exposure.
Thanks - let us know what you build on our platform!
I suspect the 'unfortunate' in the parent comment was dry irony, not an earnest expression of sadness.
> At least... I hope so

As do we all, but CIG doesn't make it easy to hold on to that hope when their transparency has all but disappeared. Squadron 42's store page has been removed from their website for months now, where any links to "pledge" lead to a 404 error. The only acknowledgement of it from them was buried as a reply to a days-old, user-posted forum thread where they claim it was removed for a price change. That was months ago. Meanwhile, multiple ships' prices have been updated.
I understand and largely agree with your general concerns.

I'm having a hard time getting a read on your intended tone here. I hope you are getting something out of the conversation, since you are responding. However, some of your word choice seems to indicate irritation (e.g. saying my comments are pedantic and so on).

Regarding my intended tone... First, I'm genuinely curious about your strong reactions. Any guesses I have as to your deeper causes are, like I say, guesses. They are based on imperfect pattern matching. Second, logically speaking, some of the supporting details, as you state them, are unpersuasive to me, but I appreciate where they are coming from. I also recognize I'm not getting the full context.

I sometimes engage in longer threads of discussion here on HN not only out of curiosity but also because I'm exploring various ways to communicate and connect. As such, I'm very aware of the non-textual human factors.
OK, Pollen API, but maybe also add this to google maps so people can use it now, not wait for others to integrate it?
Because they were explicitly selling a wing commander type game as part of the package.

Perhaps you don't know how evocative that is, and how cynical it is for you to compare that to procedural MMO quests.

They're very different things. It's like paying for a gourmet meal and then being given a month's supply of tasteless protein bars.
Anyscale's business model was completely disrupted by OpenAI. They are trying to shift to provide hosting/fine tuning for open source LLMs, but the model performance will get crushed by Gpt4/newer open AI models. In theory the alternative to openAI models is nice, in reality anyscale is now competing with Azure/AWS/etc to provide model hosting.

Their original compute platform for running arbitrary ml workloads will become obsolete as the industry consolidates around LLMs.
Labour had arguably a more costly and involved war, still doesn't account for 13 years of Tory ineptitude.
IIRC Facebook explicitly licensed against that use case.
Great to see more focus on observability for Wasm now. This was a major impetus and still a major goal of the Wizard Research Engine, which has engine-level hooks that allow programmable instrumentation.
It sounds more like the idea you propose is "just do whatever" and that there's absolutely no experience those guys (seasoned devs and instructors) have.

There's nothing particularly nonsensical about the "two/three “hardest things in computer science” (although it was said half in jest).
I Will Never Use the Metric System [video]
I wonder how much better it would be if we had developed more for walking than for cars.
You mean like my healthcare records?…
This seems to be the general pattern so far. A particular benchmark shows better or equal performance for a non-openai model, but then someone else tries a different task and it's just not even close.

I think that's really significant. It's arguably a case for fine-tuning models for specific tasks. That's great for teams with ML experience. But for product engineering teams without ML engineers, they can just use a foundational model and get great performance for a low cost.
> I'm sure you can think of examples in your own life where something you respected was judged from a moment in time.

More like 10 years in time. We've long passed "a moment" of promises and underdelivery.

> I know you now have no choice but to double down in bravado because we're on the internet, but it is what it is.

This is projection at its finest, considering you have to justify actual money being put into a project that has not really delivered on promises for a decade now.
I would like to see a US electric range with Schuko outlets and 16A GFCI breakers on the side, but that probably violates too many electrical codes.

Schuko makes the most sense because it's unpolarized, so appliances don't expect a neutral leg. You still have the 50/60 Hz problem, but something like a kettle probably won't care.

Or there could be a countertop "Schuko dongle" that attaches to the screw terminals on the back of an existing range, if it weren't for those meddling codes...

Though in practice, the key to boiling fast is to use less water. A 1500W kettle with 500 mL minimum fill is totally reasonable for cup of coffee/tea.
> I'm struggling to understand how the British grid works

Like most things, understanding the history helps. The ring circuit was designed because it uses less copper than other methods - and copper was scarce after WWII. Almost all other design decisions either come directly from the idea of saving copper, or the idea that there are not enough Legos to step on so the electric plug must substitute.
In the benchmark listed on their website

are they comparing how long it takes for each platform P to compile v sources or P sources ?
how are keys more work vs password?
Note that CSS Color Module Level 4 is still at the Recommendation Draft stage, and "supports" here is more accurately stated as "supports, except for Microsoft Edge (chromium) and Pale Moon (goanna)":

https://test.csswg.org/harness/results/css-color-4_dev/group...
IIRC, the statistics department in the UoH is also named after him.

edit: fixed typo
ROCm already supports HMM.

You're not helping anything by going off on some rant based on an assumption and falsehood - this sort of comment is exactly the sort of thing the phrase "FUD" is used to describe.
I always looked at the world as if everyone's parent-child relationships were more or less like mine.

Now I think that was an error.

Corporal punishment is an example. Some parent-child relationships include it. Some don't. I don't assume one or the other.

My relationship with my child is nurturing, not competitive. I want my child to be better at everything than I am.

YMMV.
good point, the subsidies are of course US tax payers money. Nobody a winner then, save perhaps the politician who parlayed everyone's material losses to political capital!
mmap weights directly from a file seems to be new (I think). Need to check notes to remember whether you can already do that with some cuda* API.
You could do steganography with this. There's work on getting a language model to re-word an innocuous cover-text by using a minimum-entropy, key-derived distortion of the probability distribution that is used to sample words. Then, if you use the same model on the receiver side, and have the key, you can decode the covertext back into the ciphertext. This also works with images, too. https://openreview.net/forum?id=HQ67mj5rJdR
I think you are delusional. I do not send any people anywhere.

All people on HN are individuals, not some kind of a collective Borg.
I think I've noticed this conflict between msys and the built-in OpenSSH and worked around it for years without understanding why it happens.

Basically I find that my ssh agent never works unless I set GIT_SSH to the builtin one (at C:\windows\system32\openssh\ssh.exe). Once I do that, everything is happy. If I don't, git over SSH doesn't work right.

And that makes sense. When msysgit calls the Microsoft one explicitly, it uses the Microsoft version of the agent protocol.
Sorry to hear your friend did not. Parity files are imo an wildly underrated tech for long-term storage and something that I currently use for all long-term storage. I’ve even been known to use 1% if I’m relying on ZFS/RAID and just want to “trust but verify”. Off-site and multi-device backups are still vital for anything that’s important enough but as you mention multiple copies does not remove the need to test the media.

For anyone who doesn’t know already: they got popular (and probably created) for binary files posted to usenet. Usenet was a high-speed and low-completion platform where files got corrupted all the time. PARity files took the algorithm for RAID and created a new file that could live “next to” the binary files. If you had a 1GB file and 300MB of PAR/PAR2 files could could recover the complete original file even if 30% was missing or corrupted. It still works today on Windows/macOS/Linux.
No it's not. It's just against code if they use a NEMA 5-15 outlet. If GP used NEMA 5-20 outlets and the appliance used a 5-20 plug, then there's no issue.

Many commercial appliances use 5-20 plugs. Also, lots of commercial cleaning equipment seems to use 5-20, which is why you see businesses tend to only use 5-20 outlets.

I'm not aware of any kettles that use 5-20 plugs but I bet they exist somewhere.
Neither does cellphones or GPS, but the court has to keep trying to apply a 250 year old text to modern culture.

When SCOTUS was doing the GPS case they had to try and imagine the 1700s equivalent, which was an officer hiding in the trunk of a horse-drawn carriage and writing down all the places they stopped at. Think about that.
Feeling safe from crime linked with lower risks of heart attack and death
New Foundational C# with Microsoft
Any kettle with a flat bottom (no exposed heating element) can be used with far less water than the 'min' line - and some models don't have a min line at all.

All new kettles have boil-dry protection as well, so they won't be damaged with no water at all.