skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think RTO folks tend to care more for everyone on the team
to be in the office at least part of the time, whereas WFH folks tend to care less if their team colleagues are in the office or also WFH. So I don’t think it’s quite symmetrical. It’s better if the split is outside team boundaries, or between different companies.
Those sort of arguments are always made in bad faith. Is it surprising that <arbitrary infectious disease> was lower during the pandemic, in the midst of unprecedented lockdowns and mask mandates? Absolutely not.

The same goes for any argument that claims that COVID deaths were simply mis-classified to take advantage of special hospital reimbursements, and that people were really just dying of the standard flu. It takes almost no effort to show that the ALL-CAUSE risk of dying in America was excessively high during the pandemic years, which turns their argument from "they're just reclassifying flu deaths" into "there's a global conspiracy to submit extra death certificates for fictional people." [1][2][3][4]

[1] Age-adjusted mortality up to 2018 (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data-visualization/mortality-trends...)

[2] Age-adjusted mortality for 2019 (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr70/nvsr70-08-508.pdf)

[3] Age-adjusted mortality for 2020-2021 (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db456.pdf)

[4] Provisional age-adjusted mortality for 2022 (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7218a3.htm)

And for easy consumption of that data: https://imgur.com/a/zFYICrt
It'd be great if the U.S. would invest in very affordable elite educational institutions, to the point that they are superior academically and research-wise to the private universities. They should be national (rather than state) universities, to draw attendees from across the country. In an ideal world, today's "elite" private universities would have reputations more like Amherst--fancy places where rich people send their kids, but not schools that the best and brightest aspire to attend.

The U.S. pubic universities are arguably superior to the private ones already in aggregate, we just need a few flagship schools to take the crown of "very best".
How is Yandex, whose stock stopped being traded on the day of the Russian war, is still able to browse the entire Western universe? I’m not expressing a moral opinion, just surprised the West lets them do it.
Only if you satisfy a long list of conditions. The reason this is the case is that Switzerland sorts kids very early, at 12 years essentially. Get sorted wrongly once and while you do get a second chance, they make sure it takes you 2 years absolute minimum, 4-6 years normally and even more is possible to enter university. Oh, and if you get sorted wrong (lang or kurzgymnasium), it takes years and expensive courses to get back.

The low tuition only applies if you enter before you turn 25 years old. And Zurich is very expensive to rent a room.

Even once in university, you only get one chance (you should see the crying on results day), if you want to redo a year, you can do it in Germany (closest) or France/Italy that do allow it. Which of course is anything but cheap, as a non-local you do not qualify for any kind of aid.

But sure, what you say is correct, tuition is not that high and if you really try, yes you can get through it as a very poor person. But one mistake and it'll take you a very long time to claw back, and a lot of money.

(this is about ETH Zurich, EPFL is similar, but not quite as bad)
This is America. -Childish Gambino / Donald Glover (the music video conveys even more than the lyrics)
You absolutely have to install a form of ad blocking.

So many web sites now have multiple hundreds of MBs in payload when you visit. I agree that 8GB is the bare minimum.

It's sad :(
They tried that years ago and built prototypes for their Model S. The problem with swappable batteries is that you end up with reduced range because you can’t design the car with batteries crammed into every nook and cranny available.
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They don't own the voice, but they own the vocal performance, which ends up being a meaningless legal distinction in practice.

It's one reason why VAs rarely take fan requests for a character they voice.
It's fun specially for folks like me who have ADHD. But there should be a button to disable it
Apple Support Account on X No Longer Offers Help from a Human
I think they are trying to say that in higher cost of living places you sometimes cannot afford to have a space large enough for your family and your work space. If they work at an office maybe their life partner takes care of their family during the day.
Many companies, unfortunately, go out of their way to not produce meaningful science in the sense of publicly available (trade secrets) or publicly usable (patents) knowledge. Biotech especially.
Profits are not equal amongst Public Schools.

What you're suggesting would work well, for an industry not designed to milk every bit of money from their 'subscribers.'

Colleges are profit driven. Free doesn't drive profits.
Interesting comments on librarification:

* (Emily) If we had the capacity to write portions of Git's code in Rust (memory
safety, performance, use it as a library), would we want to use it?
* (Junio) I notice in the participant list people like Randall who work on
NonStop. I'd worry about the effect on minority stakeholders, portability.
* (Junio) Not fundamentally opposed to the direction.
* (Elijah) did not parallelize the C implementation of the new ORT backend.
Wanted to rewrite it in Rust, cleaned up headers as a side-effect, and looked
at other bits. Merge backends are already pluggable, could have a "normal" one
in addition to a Rust backend.
* (Emily) If we already have something in C that establishes an existing API
boundary, that makes it more tenable to rewrite it in Rust. Could say that the
C version is deprecated and make future changes to Rust.

If Git manages to split out parts of the codebase into a few core libraries, that would definitely be interesting to a lot of people who are (still) using libgit2 today. GitLab and Github say they both finished migrating away and completely stopped using libgit2, but I think a lot more people would benefit from an official library, beyond just the big forges.

Especially people on Windows, where starting a lot of short-lived CLI processes is noticeably expensive
Kagi also uses Bing
Equitable, adj: fair and impartial.

If you actually believe that legacy admissions are a fair and impartial way to decide who gets to go to Harvard, I'm not really sure what to say.
It could be the cause why Google tries to monetize fast and now, at the expense of extremely fast enshitification.
It's always been 10x pricing for macOS on GitHub Actions which is absurd from the start BUT it's even worse since the machine they give you is horribly slow. Like it will take 2x longer to check out your repo and install dependencies than it will on linux which really means it costs 20x more. I've considered doing a 2-step flow where I build part of my app on linux, put the artifacts somewhere, then start up macOS and build the rest of the way (iOS app using Capacitor). But at the end of the day the cost is still way lower than buying a build server mac so I just put up with it and pay it when I go over my included minutes.
Hah SVS is child's play compared to MRXS:

https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/openslide-users/2012-...
what other downsides could there be from making education accessible to everyone and not just those that can afford it?

i can think of two:
one is the quality of the education. if it is to low and everyone graduates without having learned much then that would be bad.

another is having to many graduates without jobs.

but both can be fixed with more quality and being more demanding. one benefit: when you don't pay for education yourself there is no pressure to let you pass classes just to get your money.
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I dunno, that's what Google told me it was from
I've been trying out Kagi since the HN post from just under two weeks ago. Enjoying it so far.

The post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37603905
Wasn't aware of that, thanks for pointing that out. And full disclosure, I haven't seen any tiktok book reviews so these are my thoughts on tiktok globally (which is perhaps unfair). I guess my general annoyance then is the, let's say, minification. And the stupidly engaging hook sentences. Very artificial and a lack of authenticity and because you're at the mercy of the algorithm, the discoverability of niche, genuine vids can be extremely hard. Not that these are groundbreaking takes though
I wish they make it possible to use any, callable builtins for type annotations
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> don't understand, don't want to understand

They're a threshold for when things are complicated and not wanting to understand something is fair. But as an adult, you very likely have a home with an address, which contains a room with a common name, which contains a folder, which contains your documents (birth certificate or something similar). That means you already understand filesystems. As a non-poweruser that's all there is to it - beyond that is just being uncomfortable with something you haven't encountered.
> will go uncriticised by HN.

Says the comment at the top of the thread criticizing the project.
You are correct for Washington state, at least. I looked it up and the harsher penalties only take effect if you are convicted after a refusal.
Oh, I didn't realize it was on the first weekday.
Engineering associations between plants and diazotrophs to spare fertilizer
From my perspective education isn't a "freebie", it's an investment in our nation's future. Change is coming at us really fast and we need a bunch of sharp kids out there looking at all the angles. It's the same situation with school lunches. We need a bright, healthy population to face challenges.

You might look at this from a national security angle. Did you know that the largest category of recruit disqualification in both WWI and WWII was malnourishment? Did you know that our technological 'edge' comes out of public universities? We don't want a small pool of healthy Americans to call on, we want the Roman ideal of a sound mind in a sound body for every citizen.
You can just surround a word with double quotes if you need exact matches. It's nice having synonyms otherwise.
Generating text fast enough for a human to read it imo is only the bare minimum. New classes of use cases would be possible if you could generate 100s of tokens. For example, on-device classification of emails/texts, LLM-powered recommendation system based on your local data (to go beyond simply parsing dates in text for example), context-aware text or email auto-responder (I'm sorry, can't reply as I'm driving/in a meeting, I'm not home next week, can you deliver to this address instead etc.) ...

Many of these use cases are possible today with either specialized models, or are old school and rule-based. Being able to have an LLM apply soft judgment on a device that generates so much contextual information, and completely locally/privately, is bound to make smartphones an entirely new kind of device.
Porperty is a bundle of rights, and often hard to pin down. In the case of voices, if a company owns enough of your data to train a good simulacrum, and they have the right to do it, then they kind of do own your voice -- or more precisely, a damn good substitute.
Brave sells the shit they scrape for AI training/inference... with no way to opt-out. How is that even remotely close to "privacy respecting"?
Here are some figures: https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statisti...

Putting the US as the 2nd in terms of "per pupil" funding in the world and pointing out that the federal education budget is just 10.5% of the total spend on education in the US.
People generally didn't get a 20% pay cut when going into the remote.
>It would be extremely obvious...

I don't think this is necessarily true.
Look at the PC ports. Games tied to FPS which results in poor in-game physics behavior. Inability to change settings. It's like they live on some other planet not us...

Devil May Cry 3 and Dark Souls 1 jumped to my mind immediately as notoriously bad ports. Even DMC4 and DMC5 have some problems. FromSoft games improved the quality of their ports on the other hand.

I do understand that Japanese mostly play on consoles but nowadays it's not an excuse anymore.
It's a joke. It made me laugh.
And they don't say who it is. Thats why I was asking precisely who is doing this. I want to know what kind of orgs would make a decision like this.
I've been a fan of Julia Evans, for what seems like ages, because of all her blog posts.

This is the first time I'm seeing a video of hers and I feel I've become an even bigger fan now!

What an amazing, incredible, human being! I don't think I've ever listened to a technical talk and smiled all the way through it!

Thank you, Julia, for reminding that this feeling of joy is one of the main reasons a lot of us are here.

And thank you, Slackwise, for posting this and sharing that joy on HN.

While writing this comment, I was also reminded about one of the main reasons of Matz's for inventing Ruby!
I don't understand your problem, the Linux VM isn't even enabled by default and Android can be disabled with 2 clicks in the settings.
For most of what I use Google for, OpenAI would not be in any way helpful.

I enjoy searching for opinion/editorial articles on random/obscure topics. I enjoy finding when a niche sport I enjoy gets coverage in mainstream newspapers/broadcasters.
Hey thanks, I tend to agree. Although if I read this right, OME-zarr punted on lossy compression (which is all that really matters) so IMHO it doesn't have much use in the real world yet even though people evidently put a lot of work into it:

https://github.com/ome/ome-zarr-py

https://ngff.openmicroscopy.org/latest/

https://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/v2.1.0/api/codecs.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356622607_OME-NGFF_...

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.17.528834v1....

i.munro (Ian Munro) August 15, 2023, 8:54am

On the original point about size I suspect your answer is compression.
I have found that a lot of image formats use lossy compression.
I’m not sure about CZI specifically.
AFAIK ome-zarr (sensibly IMO) uses only lossless compression.

Best

Ian

and:

sebi06 (Sebi06) August 15, 2023, 1:42pm

Hi all,

for CZI we offer currentyl two compression methods:

JPG-XR
ZSTD

So we have lossless and lossy options depending on your needs. All of them are implemented in our C++, #NET or Python APIs and also supported from BioFormats.

Looks like CZI is a competitor:

https://www.zeiss.com/microscopy/en/products/software/zeiss-...

https://github.com/cgohlke/czifile

http://www.physics.hmc.edu/~gerbode/wppriv/wp-content/upload...

CZI is basically JPEG compression and is probably missing the multidimensional compressor which is the secret sauce missing from the various formats. It also mentions licensing and legal so is maybe lost in the weeds and not open source.

Without more info, it feels like this is still an open problem.

My interest in this is for video games, since so many are multiple GB in size but are also missing this multidimensional compressor. If we had it, I'd guess a 10:1 to 100:1 reduction in size over what we have now, with no perceptual loss in quality.
Here's a reference describing what a context window for LLMs is:

https://www.hopsworks.ai/dictionary/context-window-for-llms
Not really a contradiction so much as redundant/poorly worded. Should have said, "at least 4 million tokens".
hope this website page could have a margin, LOL
You have to leave two newlines between each one though.

- If you don't
- Your list looks like this

Whereas:

- This list

- Has two newlines between

- Each item
I may be misunderstanding what you're saying, but it looks like they may do that in the Image Variations section.
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Speaking of status pages, are there any that exist that can aggregate the status pages of various SaaS apps?

Meaning - Let's say I'm a company that subscribes to many SaaS apps (ie: Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, etc.), but want to create an internal dashboard to monitor those SaaS apps and alert my internal users. What options are available?
Also true. My current job has a lot of people whose survival mechanism to date has been "interminably long Zoom meetings where people tune out". Now that I have been on a "fewer, better meetings" kick, that is definitely springing some leaks.

I would stress the video capability, though, because that's the thing that impacts how people feel in pretty substantial ways. I have a weekly 90-minute meeting every Friday where my product teams bring questions to both ask me and to kick around with a group, and so far the feedback has been excellent--and a direct reason cited is that I'm not just letting the meeting wander but I am leading it, I'm standing up while on camera and projecting excitement and a reason to be engaged. When compared with the interminable-drone meetings the rest of the week, it really drives the point home that you have to talk to people like you want them to listen to you, and that is much harder on a camera but it is a totally learnable skill.
> The tool would have to be pretty damn good. And also not introduce business risk or at the very least a minimal business risk.

That is actually quite possible.
Ada is in a really good place as far as that goes: imagine the cost of writing an IDE (to include compiler) for, say, Ada, PL/SQL, and VHDL -- given the common lineage, you could make a custom internal representations (IR), where each language has a 'Subtype' constraint for its particularity (e.g. `Subtype Ada_IR is General_IR with Dynamic_Predicate => Is_Common(Ada_IR) or Is_Ada(Ada_IR);`, and so on for PL/SQL and VHDL), make these IRs with SPARK proving, as you implement PL/SQL and its query-engine also implement SPARK's proof-tools and SMT-interfaces, proving it as you go, next implement and prove code-gen/HW-synth.

Now, put the IDE source through the IDE, and BAM! Now you have a proved IDE+compiler for Ada, PL/SQL, and VHDL giving you a very solid platform. (Also, as you would have a DB-engine onboard, you could populate the IDE with templates and run a query like: SELECT Name, Code FROM Entities WHERE Purpose LIKE “%SCSI%”;... or SELECT Name, Purpose FROM Algorithms WHERE Purpose LIKE “%SORT%” AND Ω <= log_2;.)

Also, being Ada-based, you could use Ada's Distributed Systems Annex to distribute portions of the IDE, and/or implement CI/CD as per https://users.ece.utexas.edu/~perry/work/papers/icsm87.pdf
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I had some run-of-the-mill frustrations at the time, but looking back on it I realize that I was always treated fairly and with as much flexibility, consideration, and respect as an otherwise completely unskilled teen just interested in saving up for an Xbox could ask for. There was zero abuse, zero exploitative pressure, zero sketchy behind the scenes stuff to cut cost or whatever.

I've never worked fast food other than Chick-fil-A so I can't really compare what the average conditions are like at any other fast food McJob, but my experience at Chick-fil-A was pretty much across the board positive and I think it set me up to have the right kind of expectations of myself and of the kind of employer I want to work for ever since.
But you still need an external->internal lookup, so doesn't that mean you still need an index on the fully random id?
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Seems like this has nothing to do with twitter
On Ubuntu it requires admin pas on every action. Like mount/unmount. On truecrypt it's on click. Sadly they are not compatible. Not sure, did veracrypt pass external audit like truecrypt?
Where's the data? Before COVID, there were plenty of anecdotes from remote companies about how it helped their hiring and productivity, but that wasn't enough to convince the vast majority of companies to try WFH. They stubbornly said the status quo of in-office was enough and no further discussion was allowed.

Now where's the data to change the status quo from WFH to the office? Amazon admits they have none. If the other companies forcing in-office had data they would be shouting it as much as they could, but when asked for data, it's just silence. Companies have had record profits and quarters with WFH, so clearly the financial data shows no issues with WFH.

Again where's the data? All we hear are anecdotes, that wasn't good enough to change the status quo before COVID, why should it be enough now to change the status quo away from WFH?
Good. Things with positive externalities should be subsidized
Stability is so awesome, I love them