skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only time I've ever had a report ask me to confirm something in writing it was clear they were operating in CYA mode, but weren't willing to talk to me about why.

It's the sort of thing that immediately escalates a situation, and in reality when the card is played it either breaks the trust, or the trust has already been broken.
Chinese science and metric hacking disagree as well as Russian under communism.

I’m sorry but you have a wildly romantic view of your fathers time.
Bad leadership always seems to result in heads rolling first before leadership is replaced
You obviously don't work in the enterprise space then. They are a major, probably the most major player in hypervisors.
People use "AGI" in different ways. The term has vague meaning. Some mean true intelligence. Some mean it can wash their dishes.

That said, technology generally improves exponentially. So, where will we be in 5 years?
"Only one country (South Africa) has been known to ever dismantle an indigenously developed nuclear arsenal completely."

3 other countries have given up their Soviet nuclear weapons: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine
The article you linked literally criticizes the Namibia mine for causing ecological damage to the marine ecosystem from repeated trawling. All that for superfluous rocks we can make synthetically.

Granted, maybe there are good mines out there, but I still think commercial extraction of resources is almost surely damaging to its surrounding environment. You can justify that for some useful material, but it's hard to justify it for diamonds.
Don't remember _why doing any Rails development -- he was really key in Ruby land, but did his own (super-minimal) web thing called Camping. Anything I'm forgetting that he did with/for Rails?
I'd like to know which book it was.
From what I've seen secondhand, a bug bounty programme can actually increase the overhead vs. an email address, because now someone has to log in and deal with each ticket instead of ignoring emails that don't seem interesting.

There are some significant advantages to having a bug bounty programme, but they still attract a lot of noise. I know of at least one software company that has an entire team just to triage the queue. Not fix anything, just validate whether a report ia reproducible or not and if so, route it to the responsible party.
Obviously, yes. Integers don't exist in nature, being an abstraction made up by the human mind.

Math is only “discovered”, if by it, we mean the ability for humans to have the same ideas, simply because we think alike and live in the same environment.
That would/could lead to a poor life experience. Play to your strengths is my motto.
Yes. He just revealed that it was discussed at the table, with the others, not that he was the problem for discussing it with them, however impractical or decided against of course; the problem was revealing it, it seems, by how they censured him without much consequence after it was revealed
Makes no sense and not true most likely.
I'm going to (generously) assume that author means to immediately merge into a development or feature branch and review later before merging those commits somewhere else.

If so, sure that probably saves time. Most reviews should be uneventful anyway and it broadens the scope of review to the whole branch. That's helpful when you have lots of moving parts and multiple devs working on the same feature.

My opinion on this is that code review must occur especially if there is no other form of review. That's usually more technical projects where the devs are left alone. Contrary to popular belief there really are some projects so short-lived, truly throwaway code such as light web dev (marketing pages and whatnot), that final proofreading and QA are good enough.
One of the things I still have trouble not taking personally are insults. They're easier to take from kids, but from a grown adult who I consider a peer in at least some areas it's hard to brush off. [Funny enough, I have an easier time with it in person than with text.]

If you view someone insulting you as a child, it softens the impact. My main question here, though, is when do you stop doing that (if ever)?

If an adult is knowingly insulting me in front of peers/family and not fully joking, I can't imagine not taking that personally.

Whatever you do, including taking no action at all, is sending a message to your peers/family which they'll receive in varying ways. However much you care about them having an accurate perception of you, it's probably not zero for every last one-- so choosing a course of action and being able to explain it is not optional at that point. It is a personal problem that has been inflicted upon you.
> Nearly every educator I've ever learned from has unconsciously insisted that learning material remain sterile, and never become as funny and opinionated as this essay.

As a former teacher, I think the reason for this is the educational system as we know exists to (attempt to) have reproduceable learning outcomes, at scale. We try to transmit the hard-won knowledge of centuries of geniuses into the minds of adolescents. It's kind of a weird thing to do. It's actually surprisingly successful when I think of it that way, even though I think that it is not great at transmitting the actual insights behind the knowledge.

I suspect a better way to educate people is the more student-led, discovery driven approach. But that is both seemingly harder to scale and less deterministic. Instead, we play out the same cycle of boring, mildly effective education over and over.
> might be easier with a public domain license instead of the current ones

There reference implementation is public domain (CC0) or at your choice Apache 2.0

https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3/blob/master/LICENSE
Trust me if the current robber barons thought they could get away with acting like the old robber barons, they most certainly would. Society changed and made it much more difficult for single persons to amass so much power. It will be the same with the new batch. In another decade, this tech cult will be a distant memory.
Bakersfield, CA averages 6.36" of precipitation per year, Los Banos is 9.48". The Central Valley where much of this is grown is very dry. (Merced + Fresno do a little better being closer to the mountains, but still under 12").

Anyway, the problem isn't so much in an average or good water year but in a bad one. CA is prone to lengthy droughts.

(Interactive map of these crops, not recommended for mobile: https://databasin.org/datasets/57a5c9c0ddf54e75861b0621a7e41...)

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This is in some senses, not that big a problem for growing annual crops - just plant less/don't plant, and if you have to give up on the crop, you at least are only losing that year's crop.

However, this doesn't work for tree nuts.

If the tree isn't watered in the year(s) of drought - and watered significantly more heavily than usual, (because of the drought), the tree dies, and it will take a decade or more for a replacement to start yielding significant amounts of that crop again. That's a much larger loss than a single year's crop.

This makes the almond and pistachio farming a much less flexible form of agriculture in an environment where water availability varies drastically.
I still remember the time we had no space for an intern to sit so we had to put him in an empty VP office.

But only senior people could have windows so they covered his windows in cardboard …
>causes that affect their writing, like being tired after a long period without rest, frustrated at a traffic jam they are stuck in

There is nothing special about fatigue or frustration that make it any less modellable than any other implicit structure present in the dataset that it models just fine.

>Though it's super unlikely that it will give the true reason

It's Super Unlikely humans will give the "true reason" for anything they do. There's a fair bit of research that stated reasons for the decisions we make are often(always?) just post-hoc rationalizations even if you believe otherwise.

>very significant gap between them and the idea of an AGI.

What is this idea of AGI that there exists a significant gap still ? It certainly isn't the idea of being Artificial and Generally Intelligent.

>I can confidently say we currently don't know how to imbue agency (as in embodied causal reasoning

I don't see the difference between what you've described and examples like these.

https://innermonologue.github.io/

https://tidybot.cs.princeton.edu/
Woof if you don’t think metric hacking wasn’t a huge part of Russian communist bureaucracy your don’t know your history.

Like my dude quota systems were at the heart of all successful capitalist, socialist, communist, and fascist nations. I can give examples. My man your logic is deeply flawed.
Similar to how the solution to work/life imbalance is never less work.
It’s properly designed if the goal of the website is to deliver ads aggressively. I’m guessing management doesn’t really care about what’s on the remain 25% of your screen.
For all the memes about cubicles the one time I had it was actually pleasant. You could have a small meeting in the cubicle. The walls were tall enough to hang up reference diagrams. Those same walls meant that sound didn't travel when your PM was on yet another call. Not being able to see a window was a downside. As was there oppressive grey-beige monotony, but I imagine with the Google colour palette they'd be much more bearable.

Here, however, I can make more working remotely than I can in office for one of the few local companies. I mean it's an obvious choice.
https://archive.ph/qtp1v
On the flip side it's getting increasingly easier to find top engineers when your company is fully remote
One of the weirdest things to come out of the cambrian explosion of AI has been the relationship of these tech giants as they hedge their bets.

Microsoft betting on OpenAI, Databricks, Meta, Oracle, etc.

Google betting on Google/Deepmind, Anthropic, TPUs.

Amazon betting on Bedrock/Amazon/Sagemaker and their ASICs as well as Anthropic.
I think its the wrong kind of marketing awareness though. The individuals that feel good about it are already conserving water. The individuals that are not as aware by choice or ignorance are probably going to get upset by a no refill policy. There are better ways to raise awareness in my opinion.
The CEO did step down already: https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/09/john-riccitiello-steps-dow...
I got a friend who was almost killed by traction control. Pulling out of his driveway onto a 3 lane road, and having 2 cars 1 overtaking come around the corner very fast. He tried to punch it to get out of the way but: ”computer says no”. Longest 2 seconds of his life he reckons, waiting for the gas pedal to work again. Both cars had to brake very heavily.

"Safety"
No.

Sometimes speed for speed's sake is a bad idea.
Test first, review later. A quick skim of the code with a live test in some staging environment before merging is good enough
Executive assistants can work from home? Our admins mostly can’t.

Customer support folks working from home predated the pandemic. In fact, they often work from outside the country.

Marketing is a profession like engineering. They don’t get paid by the hour.

Most hourly workers have to work onsite.

I feel like your comment is less logical argument and more emotional reaction.
Black goo is the new oscilloscope: Love Hultén's ferrofluid synths
The point of peer review is not to debug others' code (sometimes it helps and that is welcome). The point of peer review is to ensure the change adheres to team standards - both technical and design - as well as to give a chance for domain knowledge share. With that in mind, trust is a foundational aspect of peer review, just not in the way you mentioned.
Thanks for your feedback. What kind of terms do you mean? I would happily add them.
Being pedantic when talking about empathy is about the least empathetic thing you can do.
They'll probably open source Unity someday. There's not much money in selling dev tools, just ask Borland, Sun, or Microsoft.
Indeed, I loved my cube too. Many people complained about the sea of cubicles, but they don't realize how much worse it could get lol.
It is significant enough that you would need a thicker wire for many applications. Gold's corrosive properties are often useful and it conducts well enough, though even then gold is used as much because of "gold" when something else cheaper would work good enough.
A few more years to go. All H.264 patents would have expired. We will have a decent "patent free" video codec.
The profits were initially distributed before you were born. Every year more profits are added to the value of society (I assume you are a part of society; if not, I do apologize) because potholes are filled, food is verified safe to eat, electricity is regulated, and generally people leave you and your stuff alone so you can do whatever you want within the bounds of the social contract.
After Jesus did the job he's been working remotely for thousands of years. Most have not seen his face, not even on a Zoom call.
CEO John Riccitiello has already lost his job [1]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/9/23910441/unity-ceo-presid...
I love the discussion we had about RTO at my company:

Company: What are your thoughts on returning to the office?

Staff: What are your thoughts if we all say fuck off?

And that was decided.
People who study the Bible that way (myself included) believe the book is inspired by God himself, so that makes sense to me. But nobody believes that about Finnegan's Wake, as far as I know.
When I've been to grocery stores with self checkout, there's usually one attendant at a computer near a group of self checkout stations. I believe the idea is that it's cheaper to staff less checkout employees even if that doesn't eliminate them completely.
> effect is pretty similar to what you describe.

The max yearly fee is $7,400? It can be a lot or absolutely nothing depending on a specific patent.

> In some jurisdictions you get a discount on the fees if you declare that you are open to license out your patent.

Would it really ever be worth the effort just to save a few thousand per year at most?

3,700 if you're a non profit or < 500 employees.
I was going to make a variant of this comment. $FAMOUS_COMPOSER's $REALLY_HARD suite is right there, you can get the sheet music and it clearly says "play this note, then play that one, then stop for a specific duration...and so on". That doesn't $EXPLETIVE mean that if you watch Khan Academy's video on how to play notes[1..n] you can play the music according to the composer's specification.

I think people who are frustrated they can't grok diff eq in a n-week course are likewise deluded. There is such a deeper meaning those symbols on the page, and I suspect there is simply no way to spoon feed it.
https://youtu.be/W17uYuQA9Mc?si=3Ndlen5P2ZqeyZdn&t=52 Oh Its perfect.
this article is about using very high mass alternators to stabilize the grid's frequency
According to the article, they have half a billion dollars in revenue (with currently $154 millon in losses), and that seems plenty to run a company like Unity. Lay-offs are rough, but looking at the numbers, they make sense in a cold-hearted capitalist sort-of way if the goal is to reach profitability. Certainly much more so than the runtime fee thing.
> you are incredibly lucky

Says who?

There's no more reason for an office space to be bad rather than good. And there's no reason to think that having a good one is based on luck.

If office space dynamics and setup are important to you, then put it in your job search mental list and find a job that matches that.
To everyone responding “no”: how certain are you that your colleague didn’t just skim your +5,000/-5,000 patch and slammed down an LGTM in the comments? Okay, maybe they put a few nitpicks in to make it seem like they looked closely.

You still have to trust your team to actually do reviews.
>I'm looking with horror to the day when you need to replace your car

Which car of yours did ever swap the positions and shapes of the 3 pedals or the steering wheel?

Every (manual) car I ever drove had left pedal always clutch, middle one brake, and right one was the loud pedal and steering wheel was always in front of me and somewhat round shaped.

So what's there to adapt to when changing cars? At least use some good analogies if you want to play this game.

>completely breaking the ability to work on the computer is the most retarded First World Problem

Where did I say it's completely breaking the ability to work on the computer?

It's not, but it's annoying enough to affect my productivity, kind of like a rock in my shoe, and enough for me to prefer to stick to my ISO layout wherever I can.

But you do you, and let me do me. Peace out.
Agree with this recommendation. There's also a lot on the related 'cultural' aspects as the designs evolved, e.g. pilots vs. mission control in terms of who has primacy, who has the best instrumentation, etc.
Agreed, it really works too well for how simple it is!

We implemented it in ES6 as part of a uni project if anyone's interested: https://github.com/gurgunday/onedollar-unistroke-es6
I agree that if you can, BLAKE3 (or even BLAKE2) are nicer choices than SHA2. However I would like to add the following comments:

* SHA-2 fixes the problems with SHA-1. SHA-1 was a step up over SHA-0 that did not completely resolve flaws in SHA-0's design (SHA-0 was broken very quickly).

* JP Aumasson (one of the B3 authors) has said publicly a few times SHA-2 will never be broken: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13733069 is an indirect source, can't seem to locate a direct one from Xitter (thanks Elon).

Thus it does not necessarily follow that SHA-2 is a bad choice because SHA-1 is broken.
> Compression method is patentable as an algorithm

So math is… patentable?
I agree.

There will be a set of presets of hash function and settings; if BLAKE3 fails, then I'll actually have to add SHA3 or something, with a set of settings, as presets.

The per-commit storage will then be an enum identifying the hash and its settings.

This will let me do other things, like letting companies use a 512-bit hash if they expect the repo to be large.
We are also in the class that's driving housing prices up (via geographic arbitrage) and pricing out a lot of forced in-person workers (who actually live "far away" as you said, and not in the city center). And that does breed a lot of resentment.

So in some ways (i.e. housing prices), you working from home does directly make these people lives worse, as you are now their competition for real-estate.
Hey that's great to hear buddy
What about PAL?
> When people wistfully proclaim that they wish for the next major macOS version to be a "Snow Leopard update", they're wishing for the wrong thing. No major update will solve Apple's quality issues.

When I wish for a “Snow Leopard update”¹ I’m not saying I believe every bug would be fixed by the time it is out. What a Snow release means is commitment to making that release focused on bug fixing.

Software has bugs, we all get that. But we also know those bugs can be fixed with time, which Apple engineers currently don’t have because they’re busy shipping new features. A wish for a Snow release is a wish for what the author suggests:

> a break of 23 months, or more, from computing disruption

I don’t care whether they do it by skipping a release or by doing one to save face on the annual schedule. But I do believe the latter is more likely.

¹ Which conveniently has a “Snow” modifier which can be applied to any release, e.g. “Snow Sonoma”.
If you're using that smartphone as the control surface for operating some sort of vehicle, you're doing it wrong is more to the point. Cars removing buttons in favor of touch screens is a horrendous decision that we're only starting to back away from much too slowly for my tastes.
> It's absolutely infuriating to anyone who values anything

It's not really your place to say what's infuriating to others when your pair programming experience with a _single_ (somewhat neurotic) programmer was irritating. In my experience, pair programming has been a delightful two-way share of ideas that was both refreshing and productive (but I'm not going to claim universality or such an experience).

Pair programming probably does suck when one side is extremely impatient and overbearing.
The reason the Swiss value their privacy from the Government is because of a surveillance scandal that happened in 1989. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_files_scandal

Of course, privacy enabled the bankers to do shady things, but this wasn't the initial motivation. Swiss people value their privacy overall.
This is great. It's odd because this kind of stuff is pretty normal in TV (quiz shows, sports etc) but I had never imagined it might happen in books.

I can see how Sir Terry might have been deeply annoyed back then, but this was very fun to learn now.
I don’t understand why people use sha256 when sha512 is often significantly faster:

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/26336/sha-512-fas...
Good memories. I had a Quantex 386 DX 40 with a math coprocessor. I used to churn out 3D Studio images one rendered block at a time over hours and hours and hours.
you get nitpicks on <150 LOC changes and insta LGTM on >2000 LOC I find lmao
Humility has always been a virtue. Whether people did abide by it is another question... Veni, vidi, vici
If RTO drove actual, material benefits to results, companies would be explaining RTO policies by connecting those dots.

At this point, I haven't seen a single attempt from any company to offer such a rationale.

We can reasonably infer that such policies are not rooted in any evidence-oriented analysis.
RDIMMs are implicitly ECC.

There's UDIMMs (typical RAM from desktops), and then RDIMMs (Registered), and LRDIMMs (Load-Reduced DIMM).

Because RDIMMs and LRDIMMs are only used on servers, they're all ECC / Error Correction just implicitly. At least, I've never seen an RDIMM or LRDIMM missing ECC.
This reads like some crab mentality; since heroic nurses and factory workers can’t work remotely then we should bemoan those who can and do work remotely.

Should we also cancel telehealth programs so those nurses that actually do work remotely don’t become spoiled and entitled?
One of the larger companies I'm most familiar with is definitely not renewing leases on a fairly widespread basis. I'm sure some companies feel they're locked in for some reason but it's just not universal.
He wasn't the only member of leadership.
Another issue I think is that pre-covid there were people that had been working from home for years.. a decade even.

Now I think those people are getting the same back to office spiel.
HEVC is from the VP9 generation of codecs. Qualcomm has supported VP9 decoding since 2016 (Snapdragon 820). Unfortunately, no Apple device has ever supported hardware accelerated VP9 decode, so HEVC is the only UHD option on those devices.
Solving a Sudoku with SBY and Formal Verification
if model is on client side itself why not make it open source?
BLAKE3 Is an Fast, Parallel Cryptographic Hash (2020)
In certain closed-source implementations.

>"The researchers traced the keys they compromised to devices that used custom, closed-source SSH implementations that didn’t implement the countermeasures found in OpenSSH and other widely used open source code libraries. The devices came from four manufacturers: Cisco, Zyxel, Hillstone Networks, and Mocana. Both Cisco and Zyxel responded to the researchers’ notification of the test results before the completion of the study. Hillstone responded afterward."
Yes, and the algorithm itself, whether by hand or on a computer, is patentable.

What is not patentable is taking a previously existing algorithm, prior-art, and claiming patentable novelty by performing that algorithm on a computer.
Broadcom sues Netflix for its success ( 2020)
Marton's "Polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa" Conjecture Was Settled by the A-Team