skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Essentially, CoPilot is seen as a tool that can improve overall personal and professional capabilities, contributing to a richer and more efficient daily life."

I'll believe that when it can take my highly energetic dog to the dog park and play ball with her for 1-2 hours per day. Until then, it's reasonably OK at giving me scaffold/autocompletion for things I've already done in my codebase.

Has it been a game changer? For me, not just yet. It has definitely saved me time on occasion (as GPT has) but thus far I don't see it as being the disruptor which changes the way the world works - at least not for myself.
I really hope that one day we'll get back to a better web. Amazon providing you real options, not extorting you and their sellers. Instagram providing you with content you actually like, not rage and engagement bait. Google showing you interesting and relevant stuff on the web. At this point Idiocracy is not a dystopia anymore I'm afraid. We're pushed to consume bullshit everywhere. Our daily services are dictating our behaviour, instead of enabling us. But I don't know what to do I'm afraid.
> Standardized pay, like at universities and the military, has a positive correlation to retention

How does it correlate with quality? retention comes from being comfortable to be.. lazy- you can do the minimum not to get fired and still get paid.
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They created hotdesking so we miss the already-awful permanent seat shared open spaces and beg for their return.
Personally I find such snark comments to be a really bad look from someone who apparently is associated with a product (judging from comment history).
Did anyone ever attempt a recursive architecture?

So you take the first window or logical separatation (chapter, paragraph) and let the model summarize it into one or two sentences. Then you repeat that with the next window (and that derived sentence as context) and create a new logical separatation out out of a fixed number of sentences. Rinse and repeat until the result fits into your window.

I have a hunch that this is somewhat how the brain works when reading.
WFH works better for everyone.

It reduces commute time.
- This saves environmental and energy costs

- It increases worker productivity because now they commute time is recovered

- Commute time was not accounted for in contracts, and was a cost of doing business. It is no longer the case.

A common complaint is that Coordination costs have increased. However Data is missing for this. Further, Coordination activities are achievable online. Competitive firms will adapt and thrive. Bad firms will and should die.

Other benefits:
- Less money is spent on rent, Especially in high rent locations. This means that more money is available for R&D, or to give to shareholders

- Rent Money is now distributed across geographies - and will favor regions with lower costs of living. This spreads talent and wealth broadly, increasing chances for entrepreneurship and new businesses to flourish in those locations

WFH was considered infeasible, but COVID provided hard evidence not only was it feasible, it was feasible at scale.

The data has been updated, so our position has changed. Expanding the economic pie makes us all better off. WFH is probably one of the more interesting economic revolutions we will see in the developed world.
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> > I take this as further evidence that exercise is dangerous.
>
> What does this even mean?

Maybe not in GP's comment, but I've been seeing more and more Instagram content lately about "exercise = dangerous". And investigating further, it's always by the accounts that are perpetuating flat earth, numerology, and Andrew Tate.
BMW has an all-new electric 5 Series, and we’ve driven it: The 2024 BMW i5
> the UK enacted a number of sanctions targeting the banking sector, including a deposit limit for Russian citizens in UK bank accounts.

I do not request those funds to be deposited to a UK bank account, I even don't have any. And I don't have any sanctions imposed on me personally. The publishing company itself does not answer my questions of which laws or restrictions apply here. I do not understand, how am I being very disingenuous and bad-faith? I am refused to be paid without any comment on "why", despite "your nationality is Russian". Based on all existing laws, the only thing I could find is that using this as a sole base of rejection is not correct.
Note that in Swedish they are considered letters, and in Danish and Norwegian Æ, Ø and Å are letters.
That’s pretty expensive. Sonic offers 1-10gbps (depending on where you live) unmetered symmetric connections for $60/mo to the Bay Area… they’re also the only ISP that petitioned the FCC in favor of net neutrality.

For work I end up transferring 50-150 gigs often, sometimes daily. Never heard a word from them that this has been a problem.
Alas, that is the state of things. It's not even really up for debate. It just is what it is.

Its not up for debate apparently
is this for real? very concerning, and i'm curious as to why all these years they've decided to abandon it.
You did not look very closely then. The founders list includes : Pierre Bousquet (ex SS division Charlemagne), Emmaneul Allo (judged and condemned nazi collaborator), Léon Gaultier (Waffen-SS) and more (not listing OAS and GUD). All of this is known and documented.
I always find a kind of ironic that Linux Foundation is the home of Zephyr, an embedded OS that has nothing to do with Linux, other than being competition against Linux distributions for the embedded market.

It isn't only Zephyr, also being the home of several other projects completly unrelated to the Linux kernel.
Obviously there is also a summary in Wikipedia [1] which might be quicker to access (caveat: I didn't watch the video).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C23_(C_standard_revision)
Three issues to distinguish here. Parent is referring to a change in usage of "computational social science" from meaning agent-based modeling to meaning statistical data analysis. This change in usage may have been driven by physicists moving into social science.

You ask about modeling based on micro-interactions, which parent mentioned but did not comment on.

You seem to ask why social scientists might be skeptical of physicists contributing to social science. My observation is that physicists tend to be extremely naive about the high dimensionality and nonlinearity of social science phenomena.
Harnessing the power of the sun to turn apples into art (2018)
Oral B
We're talking about competitors to Google. Why doesn't DDG count as a competitor to Google?
Idk. This makes me super nervous. Look at what the bell breakup did for innovation in software. The transistor was literally invented there before it was broken up. Likewise, I think it's probable that if Google is broken up, you'll not see anything as innovative as the transformer models, GFS, or Spanner anymore. I think quality of life for employees will likely go down, as it did when bell labs was broken up.
> the company claims it has at least 4,000X more endurance than NAND and can store data for 1,000+ years.

I'm sure the company has some tests to prove those claims. /s

Anyone did a HALT test with the M-DISC ?
Lunduke has been picking so many fights, I'm a bit lost as to whether I should pay attention or not. Sure, it doesn't seem great, but the Linux foundation putting money in other areas of the ecosystem is hardly a good point. Show us a real breakdown, instead of a gratuitous Linux kernel expenditure vs not-Linux kernel expenditure.
Apple's AI Moat
Several AI publications have expressed doubts that Apple has any moat. The lack of notable LLM moves, absence of AI mentions during their WWDC presentation in June, and the lack of eye-popping AI investments or partnerships have raised eyebrows.

Well, Apple is playing its own chess game, probably maneuvering its queen in a strategic play that could checkmate the industry. Apple has been here for a while, it hasn't merely dipped its toes into the bubbly waters of AI; in fact, it's plunged in headfirst, making AI not just a feature but a core component of its hardware offerings. But what does this trend signal? In a nutshell, Apple is setting the stage for leading in the hardware sector transformed by AI.

The signs are clear when you look closer:

1) Apple is far ahead in AI acquisitions compared to other behemoths (according to CBInsights):

The signs are clear when you look closer:

2) Apple is far ahead in AI acquisitions that other behemoths

3) Apple has multiple teams focusing on AI (according to The Information): The Foundational Models team led by Ruoming Pang and overseen by Apple's AI chief, John Giannandrea, stands out as a significant player. This team specializes in LLMs and is primarily comprised of engineers who previously worked at Google. Their budget has rocketed to millions of dollars per day. They are working on advanced models like Ajax GPT, which reportedly outperforms OpenAI's GPT-3.5. There are also other teams within Apple that work on Visual Intelligence and multimodal AI, which focus on generating images, videos, or 3D scenes and understanding both text and images respectively.

4) Apple aims at hardware transformation (a trend we regard as the most significant): Shifting its focus from solely software capabilities to hardware integration, Apple is extending beyond mere chatbot experimentation. They are embedding advanced language models into Siri, transforming the iPhone into a more autonomous, intelligent device. The funny-looking VR glasses they recently unveiled could evolve into a potent tool, enriched with multimodal AI.

5) Apple is hiring massively.

Read more at https://www.turingpost.com/p/fod22
changing their tune and gaslighting us with "we never said

I've come to view this as a personality type, the eager salesman (or less charitably, the habitual bullshitter). They will say whatever serves their needs at the moment, and never carries any long-term weight. When they say "we never said that", they actually mean it -- because what they remember were their unspoken motivations, not the words they spoke to achieve it. You can probably find them in the hierarchy of most organizations, as they're good with words and readily commit to changing strategies. They must be, because they need to have a new strategy ready for when the old one inevitably fails. Admitting to mistakes is not part of their personality, the most you will get (if anything) is that their idea was sound but the problem was in the execution or in unforeseen (by them) circumstances.

Learn to recognize the type. If their goals align with yours, they can be useful idiots, but always have a counter-strategy for when the winds inevitably turn.
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Ask HN: Why does it seem like hype cycles won't apply to AI
It may be the case for any hype cycle that it initially seem to break the laws of the innovation/hype cycle and never to hype down. However, in the case of AI it feels like the value is ever compounding and I don't see how it will stop.

If you look at the internet as a technology category, it seems like it has never hyped down either. New things have come along in between, but in aggregate, the internet as a tech category is more hyped than ever.

So, is it the case that AI is such a fundamental technology leap that the hype will be ever compounding?
> but perhaps this could be improved with web workers?

This also means that I need to have a constantly running web worker on my phone/tablet etc...? In my time I am also trying to solve this problem of "data never touching a server" but I believe we're not there yet, despite all the devices we have: sometimes the smart watch is off, sometimes the laptop is off, etc., so you need a mechanism similar to "Google drive", and who never had sync issues with that? And that's a supercentralized solution. It's super hard to "merge" in a distributed async system.
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> Of course tech workers are working class. You either give your labour for a living or you invest capital in businesses

I mean, you’ve left out the petit bourgeoisie entirely, describing only the proletariat and haut bourgeoisie. Its true that some tech workers are in the proletariat (part of the proletarian intelligentsia) but a whole lot of tech workers are petit bourgeois, having a mixed reliance on capital and labor (not, for tech workers as such, the classical pattern of applying their own labor to their own capital, but that’s not the only pattern of mixed reliance that puts people in the middle class that sits between the working class and pure capitalists.)
It probably unlikely but your discomfort might be due to carpal tunnel - usually it’s numbness and tingling in fingers though, but it might be worth getting it checked out if it’s causing you significant discomfort/other issues.

I actually put my thumb under the laptop so I actually have a pincer grip going on. This might be because I don’t use my laptop at a desk. I usually actually sit it on my lap. So thumb goes under the laptop and then my index and middle fingers do the scrolling etc.
I started to think about flipping a single bit in some process a million times per frame inside some loop, but that could only be done in cache…

Still if you only changed the state of the memory once per frame, you would do it in RAM, not in cache. At 1000 FPS (we should consider the worst scenario even if rare) that's 3 hours of playing a game to reach 10 800 000 reads/writes.

Now question is what happens if that bit gets damaged, perhaps the memory just disables it as damaged, and uses another bit for this memory address from now on. Perhaps it makes the ultra ram slower over time as more bits (sectors) get damaged?
Good tune - it was used for the Royal Wedding back in whenever ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1h_FcW2pIM

PS 'London Records' puts up a lot of video clips from that original era that have been cleaned up and restored, eg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg9Wqs4vjZM

is a cleaner looking version of the original video you linked to.
r*-trees work doesn't work well when the number of dimensions stored in the index is much higher than the logarithm of the number of indexed entries, and this is a prevailing property of divide-and-conquer spatial index types when the keyspace is divided based on a single dimension at a time.
As vectors regularly have 100+ dimensions, normal spatial indexing methods applied to vectors wouldn't be very efficient for anything with much less than 2^100 index entries; which is quite suboptimal for most datasets that you would want to have indexed.
The 2022 report (which was not linke even though it was the source of this article) doesn't look so dramatic. The listed grievances look like small contributions alongside their main projects:

https://project.linuxfoundation.org/hubfs/LF%20Research/2022...
There is no simple answer. Companies like Microsoft prove that a simple performance to pay to promotions mapping doesn't work well, is easy to game and can lead to frustration. This is especially true for large companies that try to keep everything leveled across the company.

On the other hand signoring performance altogether can lead to laziness, and doing the bare minimum at your work.

Many places choose some middle way, but that leads to other problems like unfairness and involving luck in your promotion or salary.
can you do contracts for non-us candidates?
Sigh. Nobody cares about the upstream LTS kernel. All the LTS distros maintain their own downstream LTS kernel. Android too.

There is no reason to duplicate that work upstream and then nobody uses it anyways.

And by the way, LF founs the Civil infrastructure project which mantains LTS kernels for 10 years.[1]

[1] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform...
I am Deaf. I never ever have overheard anything. That's a serious handicap if there are many people thinking random unstructured conversation is important.
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Lightricks: The Oldest Generative AI Unicorn
The landscape of Generative AI (GenAI) changes almost every week. Just like with Imbue the other day. The company, focused on reasoning in AI, joined the unicorn family overnight after raising an insane $200 million Series B round.

In the breakneck race, let’s not forget about veterans: number 6 on our list is Lightricks, the oldest generative AI unicorn. Also, the first one on the list without a proprietary foundation model. A pure user of GenAI.

What is Lightricks, what do they build, and what is their $1.8 billion valuation based on? Let's explore: https://www.turingpost.com/p/lightricks-chronicle
>Roberson was portrayed by prosecutors as a cold and calculating father who displayed no emotion

It seems they have portrayed him as a cold, calculating murderer.
These e-ink projects always grab my attention, I guess it may be the hacker spirit of such endeavors (we did it because we can).

While they are neat, I'm left wondering what are some real world use cases, personal or business, where e-ink would be superior?
The video actually makes it an important point that this is not the case since C and C++ are different languages with different design philosophies. However, in the areas where they overlap, it makes sense to eliminate silly differences (like 'func()' vs 'func(void)' or '= {};' vs '= {0};').

Auto and constexpr fix specific problems that also exist in C (auto is useful in type-agnostic macros, and constexpr finally fixes the problem that a const isn't actually a constant.

One interesting tidbit (which I didn't know yet) is that the C committee requires two real-world implementations for a proposal to even be considered (with the C++ standard counting as "implementation"), while the C++ committee doesn't require an implementation. Meaning C++ users are essentially guinea pigs for the C standard ;)

Explains why C++ has become such a hot mess, while C has been mostly spared any serious f*ckups (I can only think of one: VLAs, but those have essentially been removed from the standard in C11).
Exact literal search in Google. Allegedly
With all the current fuss about the decline in quality of Google's search results, and their apparently inventive and creative ways to interpret searches even when in quotation marks, I thought I'd mention something I was shown recently.

It's been documented before, it's been around for ages, you're all going to say it's old hat, but I was one of yesterday's 10,000.

Perform a search, with quotation marks, and you get the results page.

In the header, under the search text box, there are buttons for things like "Shopping", "Images", and so forth ... go further right and you find a small text link marked "Tools."

Click that and you get two options. The second is a drop down with "All results" selected.

But the other option is "Verbatim."

Try that.
That motto was only ever used for radio dramas in the 1940s and the tv series in the 1950s. Over the long history of the Superman franchise, there have been plenty of variations[0], most without the "American way."

[0]https://www.supermanhomepage.com/the-history-of-supermans-tr...
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> By the definition you give then people who claim benefits and do not work are not “working class”.

Yes, people who do not rely on overwhelmingly on selling labor for their support are not working class (people who are working class might transitionally be on support without working, or might be on support while working, depending on the benefit structure, but if their principal source of support over an extended time is not selling labor, then they aren’t, as a matter of economic class, “working class”.)

Just as someone isn’t part of the capitalist class if over time they do get most of their support from working and don’t have capital holdings. Economic class is a description of how you relate to the economy.

> It is delusional to think our jobs are on the same level as someone who grafts all day with their hands and does back breaking work for minimum wage.

The proletarian class isn’t defined by the nature of labor, but by the fact of selling it as one’s overwhelming-majority means of support within the economy. Yes, there are important differences within the class as well as the broad common features and interests.
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