skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be the single most dysfunctional idea ever posted to this site. Shall we go over it point by point?

> Morning stand up meetings:

Meetings are synchronous time for human beings to interact with each other because we don't know what they are going to share. Replicating this with a machine that is going to asynchronously process all inputs including direct input on your tickets and direct work makes absolutely no sense.

> analyzing voice tones for stress or uncertainty

This is a creepy way to manage as a person. Applied by a machine it is HAL9000 levels of creepy it just trains people to talk like robots to the robot so that HAL doesn't bother or use it as a data point counting towards them getting later terminated.

> Conflict Resolution: Using its vast knowledge base and understanding of human psychology...

Humans are incredibly bad at psychology and its literally mostly snake oil and impossible to replicate nonsense.

> Training & Upgradation: EMAI monitors the latest tech trends. If a new tool or technology emerges in the market, it identifies which team members would benefit most from training and automatically schedules online courses or tutorials for them.

In what universe would this result in a better result than just asking people what they would like to learn

> End-of-Day Reports: Every team member receives a personalized report detailing their accomplishments, areas of improvement, and resources for further learning. These reports aren't just data-driven and include motivational feedback designed to boost morale and foster continuous learning.

Motivation is motivational because it demonstrates that your work is important enough that manager bob took the time out of his schedule to praise it particularly. Automating it and having a computer do it makes it worse than useless. It's telling your people that they are so worthless that having a fake robot generate fake praise is all they are worth. It's like taking the much memed pizza party to "boost moral" and taking it to the next level by delivering pictures of pizzas instead of pies.

> EMAI also manages to keep stakeholders informed, and it can negotiate with them to find the best solution given their inputs and the business context.

If your interests are represented by a URL which you can babble at chatGPT you aren't a stakeholder.
Stubbing your toe makes it harder to walk up stairs, but we still build ramps and elevators for people in wheelchairs.
Linus Torvalds would like a word with you. If something is changed in the kernel, even if it's technically a bugfix and something in userspace breaks, it's a kernel bug, period.
Reminds me of La Boca in Buenos Aires:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=la+boca+buenos+aires&t=osx&iax=ima...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Boca
I'm in global geophysics, have been for decades, I understand the size and georaphy of the USofA.

> will not destroy ecosystems.

Are you certain about that?

I would have said it was more the case that eco-systems in in off-road 4x4 areas will be destroyed where the vehicles routinely drive and the best comprimise would be to have limited areas for total destruction by 4x4's and larger areas for limited 4x4 constrained to pre existing trails.

Even beach driving is problematic: https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/02/28/2175600.h...
Many of the national parks and forests are free. Sometimes even the camp sites are free. It's usually the smaller ones or the high traffic ones that require more staffing to maintain or have historic sites that need to be upkept.
With a 70B param model how many tokens/second?

Did the math and assuming 100% util and equal performance (which is certainly not the case) payback on your Mac is 9 months...
Fast RAM is not in the minimum requirements, but I don't remember how 10 FPS compares to Doom.
There was also Ubek, but it required a 68020.

https://www.ppa.pl/gry/ubek.html
I do a lot of hiking and have never broken my phone in the wilderness (or in town either, I've scratched and cracked the screen, but never enough to make the phone inoperable). I generally travel with someone else, so it's even less likely that we'll all break our phones at the same time -- if I were hiking by myself, I'd be a lot more worried about having an injury prevent me from calling for help rather than having a broken phone prevent it.

I do carry an InReach when I hike in remote areas but if my phone could make satellite emergency communications, I'd stop paying $144 a year for the InReach.

If InReach dropped the price to $50/year, then I'd consider still subscribing to it.
Park entrance costs $80 per year. You think that's stopping RVers?
In Wirecutter tests, the Molekule was the only filter to perform worse than the control test.
Why use dynamo for so few reads?
I like the idea. Maybe my brain is broke though because the puzzles are impossible.

Seems like a great way to torture anyone that likes jigsaws
ATproto 2023 Protocol Roadmap
Given my history I'm definitely not a fan of this madness in the licensing space. But I am also willing to acknowledge that the 1P vs 3P bomb set off by the public cloud incumbents will continue to yield damage to the open source startup ecosystem until something changes.
The way it is brought up in arguments about how if what you're doing in Julia is slow you can put in the ASM directly in arguments leaves me with the impression that is nonetheless a core part of the "faster than <x>" claims at least. And that's a cop out.
why do we need national parks as opposed to state parks? Why federalize everything?
Teen Brains at Risk: Common Herbicides Linked to Cognitive Dip
Given that no one is paying for your transportation to or lodging in the park, it's expensive in any case regardless of a typically modest admission fee. That's almost surely true in most places.
Suggested alternatives:

"Microsoft on the Issues Blog – An update on our IRS tax audit"

Or:

Microsoft SEC 8-K: "IRS is seeking an additional tax payment of $28.9 billion"

(I've emailed mods to suggest these.)
Log + LUT as a final product would look the same but take up more file size.

Right now we can transmit levels of black with a regular 8-bit PNG file. The issue is that you can’t display it unless you are using an OLED screen, which your phone probably has but your computer monitor doesn’t (usually due to $$ for your average person).
Hydra is in the table, but you might have to scroll sideways to see it. That column also still needs to be filled out
Huh so i can get an ADHD diagnosis in 30 mins for cost of an office visit, and get a free lifetime pass to national parks? Pretty based
This is just an American with ADHD who emigrated to Canada speaking but... yea, why don't we lower the bar and remove that nonsense requirement. It'd be great if everyone who needed help could get it in a reasonable manner. Maybe you have severe mobility issues and need physical assistance showering and doing daily hygiene tasks - maybe you're a neurotypical person who just lost a family member, went through a rough divorce and was diagnosed with cancer all in the same week. It'd be great if there was social assistance to help you out - especially if you weren't shamed for using them.

But, specifically on the topic of Paxlovid, ADHD people tend to have less stable, shorter and poorer lives - there is a strong correlation between the illness and the need for financial assistance. ADHD people tend to also be less proactive about health issues and delay treatment more than normal people (because going to the doctor is hard and there are so many considerations) so perhaps the Paxlovid allowance is because people with ADHD are more likely to have more advanced COVID cases - I can't tell you why they made that decision but those are two pretty solid reasons to consider it.
Lots (most?) of classic COBOL used EBCDIC[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC
I really like Rust's async for its ability to immediately cancel Futures, the entire call stack together, at any await point, without needing cooperation from individual calls.
Except the original title in my experience is always longer than they allow.
How many people actually read the letter?
The Paxlovid.com website is from the for profit company Pfizer, which makes Paxlovid, so yes, they'll list every kind of disability that could conceivably be a reason to take paxlovid and make them money.

But yeah ADHD can count as a disability, in some people. That's based not what you have, but if what you have substantially limits at least one major life activity.
Other than the obvious matters of scale that the other commenters have already pointed out, Earth's insides are full of heavy radioactive elements that are constantly pumping heat out.

That said, a Longtermist startup focused on wrapping blankets around volcanos/geozits to save our atmosphere would certainly bring some levity to the news.
At the very least, we should be aware of potentially perverse incentives. The more we reward disability, the more incentive there is to get yourself declared as disabled.
There should never be a gap this big unless fraud or evasion is involved. If the rules are that vague it needs to change.
The Playstation network was down earlier today, could be an infrastructure attack.
Show HN: I built an app that pays you for your old iPhones
Any feedback would be appreciated!
I mostly use Mastodon through an app, same with Lemmy and a bunch of other apps that have perfectly fine web UIs. On phones, apps just work better in most cases (though that strongly depends on what kind of company is behind those apps).

From what I can tell by the comments on this article, WordPress has implemented ActivityPub for publishing posts, but you can't actually follow other people. Maybe the next update will fix all that, but no client app will ever be able to compensate for unimplemented APIs like that. Comments do federate, but it's not as "social" as most of the Fediverse.
It’s utterly irresponsible. The “efficiencies” are beside the point, apart from being purely theoretical.

There is no such thing as an AI manager. It’s just an automated todo list. But when I have a problem I need to talk with someone in charge. Machines are not in charge. Somebody owns the machine.
People think disability as having no leg or being blind. If you ask any random gen-z, they will tell you they have ADHD. That's why ADHD as a disability lost its weight.
Used to live in Japan and separating trash is no joke. If I didn’t use the right bag, or didn’t separate things properly, the trash bag would end up back on my porch with a big old yellow sticker. It was effective as I was really diligent with sorting my trash afterward.
Ah now that you mention it, that does sound right! I forgot that part of the story.
Metrics and Optimization to Find Product-Market Fit at Superhuman
The AI generated content on YouTube is often 80% right, as is human generated by some channels, and sounds very plausible (and is sometimes very hard to identify!) - but is presenting hallucinated facts as reality for the other 20%. Quite convincingly too.

It’s in almost all topics now, from the Ukraine War to cooking.

And ancient aliens type stuff is all over the place - UFOs, pyramids, gov’t conspiracies of various forms, etc.

Not just YouTube of course, but very visible there.
The same applies to all the BS Delaware corporations.
Yes, and there is manual calibration to do that sometimes. (Iirc for sprayers most chemicals are 99% water so the factory does that, but planters often do have a process where you dump seed for a minute and then measure what came out). However you still need different nozzles for different fluid rates.
Parts of Dallas and Fort Worth are walkable already, and there are sizable pops living in both cities that absolutely do not want that
Can Journals adopt a pull request review like process on some central server? I am imagining Github PR review like capability on arxiv where anyone or authorized people can review the submission and submitters can respond to comments, all publicly.

I don't if this is how it's done already. I have seen people complaining about peer review here and was wondering why there isn't a solution to that while software already enjoys a well established peer review system.
If cost is of no concern you could build a network of satellites with similar performance to what is available on the ground, the cost will be eye watering however and a waste compared to building it on Earth. The “floor” I reference is in terms of the crossover point in cost versus the alternative. I don’t know where that precisely will be given it depends on the internal proprietary costs of the businesses in question.
Why have we put RVers in such a terrible place that living in a national park with no hookups for your home is a preferable choice? Couldn't we solve that problem by just providing reasonable housing subsidies to people who need them? And if that decision would be so preferable then what does it say about the standards of living of those people today?
> There are about a million things that make it difficult to support yourself: being newly divorced is a huge hardship, as is being newly laid off, as is not having health insurance in the US (see today's stories about Mary Lou Retton needing to crowdfund for her medical care on GoFundMe).

Don't disagree with any of these also being very significant, personally I wouldn't mind if these folks also got the pax. But

a. these aren't considered "permanent" in the general sense (you can get rehired/remarried), and
b. permanent disabilities are much "easier" for a govt to classify than to spend resources everytime someone needed assistance

And
> Otherwise they should restrict it to disabilities that actually have a medically demonstrated increased risk of severe illness or death from COVID.

ADHD does have a medically increased risk of severe illness or death from COVID. Perhaps not "directly" like someone on immunosuppressants, but as someone w/ adhd and another chronic health condition (T1 diabetes), adhd makes it several times more difficult to handle my health (and T1D has life threatening complications within arm's reach of poor management).
Didn't booz allan just make a ton of money off a nps contract?
This plugin isn't for WordPress per say (yet?), it's for wordpress.com, so not self-hosted.
What is the regular rate for an average joe without any disability or army ties?
Yes, there are special teams for these huge companies because their tax affairs are so complicated.

Typically these very large orgs will also have dedicated relationship managers.
Remember the halting problem is proving within a system, we can often step outside the system to prove it. Which sometimes allowes for more properties to be proved'
You can also use those features with systemd's seccomp sandbox, they have a ton of features such as chroot, user and group namespaces etc.

It's littered with sandbox features but you can read your way through the man pages locally. [1]

[1] well, or online: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/systemd.exec.5.htm...
Straw man alert. Free != Lawless
> Have we as a society come to define disabilities so broadly that the term has basically become meaningless?

I would say so. There ought to be a distinction between losing your legs and having ADHD. Most people with ADHD don't even know they have it. And it's also incredibly easy to fake.
Clearly killing open source and wrapping it in $h1t sandwich! I wonder if they were not making enough money, and somebody advised them to do this stupid move.
Show HN: Cloud Benchmarker: See how fast your cloud instances are for real
I'm a big fan of super discounted cloud instances (VPSs). I just want the most powerful machines running Ubuntu for the lowest price, which means I'm drawn to providers like Hetzner and Contabo. On the surface, these look like unbelievable deals compared to AWS and the like-- for under $35/month you can get 8 cores, 30gb of RAM, 1tb SSD, etc.

The problem is that these providers-- depending on the particular data center, or the time of day, or their aggregate customer demand-- have a habit of "overselling" their physical capacity. Of course, they don't generally announce this to you-- instead, you have to discover it by your machine acting far, far slower than it should be given its stated specs, which often causes your applications to fail in bizarre ways (this is doubly true if you're making a distributed/decentralized application!).

After having this happen to me one too many times, I decided to make this tool to systematically track the real world performance of a fleet of cloud instances. I didn't want to reinvent the wheel, so I just used sysbench and its battery of tests for things like memory, CPU, disk, etc. performance. What makes my project so convenient is that it uses ansible for everything: you just specify an inventory file containing your machine IP addresses and SSH key, and it will automatically connect to each machine, install the required software, run the benchmarks, extract the key values from the reports, and send them back to the control machine.

It schedules another benchmark every 6 hours by default, but you can easily change this in the .env file to whatever you want. This lets you get a good sense of how fast your machines are in practice over time, without placing undue load on them. I believe that you can't really know how your machines are performing without putting an actual big load on them!

Anyway, the control machine (the one running my python project) then assembles all of these benchmark reports into a single file, and processes it to arrive at a single normalized overall score for each machine between 0 and 100 (this is a relative score, with the most powerful instance getting a score of 100). All of this data is stored in SQLite, where the data points are enriched with the IP address and machine name. This data is then exposed via a FastAPI REST API with a Swagger page so you can easily get the historical benchmark data and use it in your other applications. You can also download the historical data as a csv file. Most usefully of all, it provides a nice web page with dynamic charts showing the historical data in various ways using Plotly.

This has already been very helpful for me, and hopefully it will be for you, too! Let me know if you have any questions.
Avoid committing the # tempfiles or saving them in a separate directory generally solves this problem.
I used to think the same thing about public transport -- make it completely free! However, after a couple of local experiments in making it completely free, I've changed my mind. It should cost _something small_ in order to 1) prevent abuse but also 2) enforce a psychological valuation of the service.
> Community moderation, in almost every form, should be considered a failed project.

There's no such thing as "failed" or "successful" when it comes to community management. There's "better" and "worse", and it's subjective. Communities are gardens, and the goal of managers/moderators is to try to make it nice for the folks you want to happily grow there.

For free speech absolutists and ne'er-do-wells, content moderation under Elon is "better" than it was under Twitter. Advertisers and users are now deciding whether "prison rules social media" is for them. From recent statements by Linda Yaccarino, Elon's assertion that X has lost 90% of its value, and the X-Twitter refugees flooding services like Threads, X appears to be in sharp decline.

> Our public digital spaces, as they currently exist, cannot be fixed…

Nah. HN is great thanks to thoughtful community management. TikTok is surprisingly not terrible. Threads is great right now, and if that changes I'll leave it too. And I'm on tens of communities on Discord, Slack, and even Basecamp that include thousands of great people.
Some links if you're interested:

https://www.mercatus.org/research/research-papers/do-minimum...

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/6/19/do-minimum-lot...
> Hate it if you must

You know, I had quite a bashful [though in a good spirit] comment on your work before, but, thankfully, HN throttled me.

But thanks to your reply here now I not only can't endorse you, but I have an evidence what you really make some extremely opinionated thing and everybody else is wrong.

I can't wish you luck and I don't see myself as someone who would wait for news for this project.
Spotify streaming audiobooks devastating
I hear more and more that disadvantaged people want access to markets instead of having stuff procured for them, with medicine as one possible exception.

If you get a Section 8 Voucher but the amount is too cheap, that isn't access to the market. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fond-du-lac-apartm...

I think maybe this would be better solved by improving the financial situations of people with permanent disabilities, because then they might be able to afford a ride to the national park and not just entrance. One possible unintended side effect is reducing services given to visitors of national parks.

Edit: actually single payer seems to work in some places as a means to get access to the market for health care providers, rather than access to a Health Insurance Marketplace®.
I find crossformers easier to track:

https://openreview.net/forum?id=vSVLM2j9eie
Ahh good point. I'm from a much older generation and the new drugs are outside my experience if they really provide that kind of vibe.
Lol, the _nice_ suburbs had those things. Poorer suburbs? Yeah, no, you get strip malls and Chicken Express.
Yes! I learned about the library state park pass program recently and it truly is wonderful. Some state parks don’t accept the pass but the vast majority of them do. It has propelled my wife and I to explore outside of our normal park options.
Yes, that was my point. :-)
The * binds the name, not the type.

https://godbolt.org/z/GsoxrWdrG
I had three NDEs well. I found my NDEs to be more like dreams. Very relaxing dreams.
What kind of "consistency" do bm25 indexes offer? e.g. I think ElasticSearch is eventually consistent and is constantly indexing in the background and classic Postgres GIN indexes have configuration like `gin_pending_list_limit` and `fastupdate` functionality to avoid slowdowns on insertions (and then you get slowdowns when an insert hits the threshold and triggers the catch-up indexing).
A Low-Computation Energy Consumption Prediction Framework for Bluetooth LE
At 1:05 in that video he says "this version of the robot had a turning mechanism that worked by lengthening a particular side".
Yeah, same experience here
Perhaps that is true on a social level, but informed consent is an institutionalized, strongly enforced rule of research.
IMO, companies should go source available by default instead of bait and switch FOSS. If your business model isn't compatible with FOSS (which I would argue most aren't), don't do it.

I think being honest with your intentions up front has value, and you can charge for your software in a way that doesn't create a financial cliff when converting from free to paid (make up margins with volume etc).

I hope the rest of the ecosystem starts to feel this way and becomes comfortable paying for software again, especially from a sustainability perspective.