skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The RTO is being entirely driven from the top by institutional investors wanting to avoid losses on property investments and from the bottom by those who have yet to grapple with the fact they dont have friends or hobbies and need you in the office so that they dont feel like such embarrassing losers.

This is argument keeps getting parroted without evidence or skepticism. Where's the evidence? Just because many people don't like RTO doesn't mean that RTO is driven by evil forces up to no good. There's nuance - on both sides of the debate! - and it does no one a service to reduce the arguments to bumper stickers.

No, employees wanting to work from home don't universally want to loaf off. No, employees that want to work from an office aren't universally middle managers trying to justify their existence. Some people work better at home, others work better at the office. Some companies have found WFH to improve productivity overall and are flexible, and other companies have found RTO to improve productivity overall. If you work better from home, go work for the former. If you work better from the office, go work for the latter. Let the market decide. If WFH is overall more productive, eventually the RTO companies' performance will suffer, and vice versa. No need to blame things on the boogeyman behind the curtain!
How Netflix Is Upgrading to Spring Boot 3 [video]
Most devs I am aware of were horrified by the "Fuck you, pay me" nature of the new terms. Unity would tell you how many "installs" they claimed to have seen, and you had zero way to interrogate their data. It also made it clear that the Unity runtime was probably phoning home more than most devs realized.

So you're a small time indie who agreed to the terms to "pay your fair share", Unity says you owe them $100k, and you know that doesn't make sense, but can you prove that in court? Can you pay for that court case in the first place?
I'm curious: Do you think there is a realistic chance for another chip maker to catch up and overtake NVidia in the AI space in the next few years or is their lead and expertise insurmountable at this point?
If you look at the total compensation of top 5 earners at Unity, it's damn close to 100 million.

https://www1.salary.com/Unity-Software-Inc-Executive-Salarie...

The CMO alone makes 32 million? Absolutely wild.
Sounds like the general management trend of biz majors ruining everything.

inb4 you all get kneejerky salty like jerky from a knee. Ofc I'm not saying all biz majors, but it's certainly a part of biz culture for 'em, esp tech related biz.
Regents Exams May Become Optional for High School Graduation in New York
EV demand in Europe to slow as customers await affordable electric cars
Arbitrary semigroups clearly don't describe the real world. Nor does this prevent us using particular groups to describe particular quantum fields.
We go over some of our reasoning around that in section 7.5 of https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3-specs/blob/master/blak.... An early BLAKE3 prototype actually didn't include the chunk counter (https://github.com/oconnor663/bao/blob/master/docs/spec_0.9....), so I'm definitely sympathetic to the use cases that wish it wasn't there. However, after publication we found out that something like a chunk counter is necessary for the security of the Bao streaming verification tool: https://github.com/oconnor663/bao/issues/41. It could be that there's a design that's the best of both worlds, but I'm not sure.
Yes, the mechanism which can provide power for some 45 seconds is a generator replacement.

Sigh…
How do you deal with shapes and permissions not being available yet?
The shadow mask is overly represented. This may work better on a yet even higher resolution display, or perhaps there's an option to reduce the shadow mask effect. The other thing that this emulation can't get right is that phosphor-based displays had more vibrant colors (at lower intensities) than currently popular (IPS) LCD panels. VA panels are better for this.
> As for social security and such not being constitutional, that strikes me as sovereign citizen, "taxes are voluntary" nonsense.

Article 1 Section 8 clearly enumerates the powers of the federal government. Nowhere is it granted the power to provide welfare of any kind. Nowhere is it granted the power to provide medical goods and services. Nowhere is it enumerated the power to provide educational funding. Nowhere is it enumerated the power to set federal minimum wages.

Our system is corrupt to the core.
The time when academia was working "pretty well" in the West was less capitalist than is today. It was quite social-democratic, with a relatively strong state (and academic independence).
You're transported back in time to 1994. How do you outcompete Amazon?
I doubt there's much difference. Just implementation details. The retroarch spec is a lot to code if you're just looking for one or two shaders.

Also FYI: your link features a lot of shaders using the megabezel presets, which are extremely unoptimized. The koko-aio bezels in the same slang-shaders repository can do the same effects, but with much better performance.
BlackRock and housing: Setting the record straight
Smarter summaries with finetuning GPT-3.5 and chain of density
How would an "Html Web Component" handle state change? I was a bit lost on the benefits given the example of wrapping an img tag. Sure you could group and reuse common elements but you would still need javascript to do anything interactive. Even in the example given the alt text of the image is typically dynamic now because of localization so even then content is missing with javascript.
I can play (some) video games and listen to a podcast/book at the same time but I don't think I could play a game and explain something at the same time. It's actually kind of impressive though she did seem distracted but that might be because I was watching the video - maybe if I just listen to the audio it'll be better.
I think the article should not have described a condenser as a generator. It's causing confusion.
> except for some people telling others how they have to live life

Don't act like this is a one-way street.

If you're working remotely then your employer is also telling its employees how they have to live life. It's just that in this case you happen to agree with them so it's A-OK!
> This inevitable consequence is that people would be forced to "value" their house at the maximum they think it might be worth in 12 months time or risk losing their home, or even higher to signal that they really don't want to leave their home, all the while paying more tax than they need to because the actual market price for houses would be lower.

This is mostly a thought experiment so there is not an actual detailed implementation plan by the authors. But my sense was that it's not that you actually have to sell immediately but more like someone can offer to buy at $X and then you either have to sell or $X becomes the new declared value for future tax payments.
C code (complied, maybe?, with a C++ compiler for things like variable scoping. I forget.) NetWare’s code almost assuredly was pure C as some of the processors it supported may not have had C++ compilers then? Compilation was done on an IBM RS6000, the same as for the Mac OS at the time, but debugging used a Mac running the MPW debugger (I forget the name) connected to another Mac that ran the code. The Metroworks compiler was just becoming a viable around the time the project was cancelled but all internal development, including MasOS used IBM machines as compile servers.

A tiny portion of the code by necessity was written in assembly (which I happened to work on) for thread switching and the page table.

Only Novel’s most common NLMs (apps) were available and no 3rd party ones were available at the time. The Beta would have gone to some number of NLM developers had it not gone out. Somewhere is an article about developing NLMs, I’ll try to find it and post a link.
You could call it an escalation, but it wasn't a linear escalation. It took an exponential jump with Trump and I suspect it would not continue that trajectory if Biden had lost. There will always be a crowd of people saying something was stolen, but we have never had the losing candidate just make up complete and total lies about how the election was stolen and continue to spout those lies for years after his failed insurrection. Hopefully the legal system can withstand the pressure and put that criminal threat to democracy in prison where he belongs.
Yes, and culture is made up and therefore not above criticism.

It's not even culture that somehow organically came from the needs or habits of people. It's literally just a marketing scheme.
It's a server motherboard with 8 GPUs crammed on it, facing up. The tall towers are the GPU heatsinks. I believe the blade looking things on the side are CPU RAM, the heatsinks on the back are covering the CPUs, and the little heatsink in the middle must be the CPU VRMs. Fans are in the back, and they crammed some electrical components on the front where all the IO is.
There seems to be some confusion in the replies to your post.

What I’ve read is that DDR5 has “on-die ECC” which means that the module itself handles the error correction, but then it can not handle errors that happen in transit to the CPU as full ECC can.

There are DDR5 full-ECC modules that would be real equivalents to DDR4 ECC.

> When the latest version of DDR memory – DDR5 – was introduced in 2020, marketing campaigns
got one important fact wrong. DDR5 UDIMM, the regular desktop RAM we’re all familiar with,
was touted as having “built-in” Error Correcting Code (ECC). Not true. What it has is built-in data
checking, which is a very different feature that shouldn’t be confused with traditional ECC.
For that, your customers will need DDR5 ECC UDIMM memory.

— Intel, “Error Correcting Code (ECC)
vs. Built-in Data Checking”: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/7549...
As of 2015 when I worked there, Boise was almost entirely R&D. Since then, they did a fab expansion, and I'm not sure if any of that ended up for production.

Production was in Manassas, Virginia as well as numerous locations in Asia.
You'd have to ask Steve. But he's still there, so the organization may just feel his idiosyncrasies are worth it. Maybe he does really impressive, reliable work when you just let him do his thing.

It's less important (and implausible) that everybody act as the same game theoretic agent than that the team understands everybody's idiosyncratic shape and can compose those shapes into productive patterns.

You usually have to do very good work to be a Steve and hang onto your job, but very good work is rare and valuable, so if you do deliver on it, you can often be more assertive and draw some of the boundaries that more marginal team members can't get away with. It works because real-world teams are more like an organic ecosystem than a mechanical gear system.
The author is one of the creators of blake3, Zooko.
Only at a very narrow layer, and only if you’re also installing a custom AOSP build.

Want to fix a bug in any of the hardware interacting modules like drivers? Not usually possible because you can’t modify binary blobs. Instead you need to modify the parts interacting with the driver and hope you can get a workaround.

Want to modify the apps? Most of the apps people use are closed source , including many that people take for granted as being vended by the OS. So that’s also moot unless you stick to FOSS apps only.

And even then, to go AOSP, you’d probably lose access to a majority of the differentiating features of your device.

At the end of the day, yes, you can MAYBE fix a small section of bugs if you have the skills and are willing to make a lot of compromises as well.

It’s not as cut and dry as OSS makes it sound
> And yet, during both those times you will have no meaningful engagement with all those people you care about.

This was not my experience at all, for what it's worth.
I don't have the answers here any more than anyone; but I notice that most approaches tend to cut along the existing verticals (e.g. the product areas).

The break-up of AT&T provides another perhaps more viable arena for thought...

There the breakup resulted in multiple, independent competing companies cleaved from AT&T. Three organically produced combinations now remain of the original 7:
1. Verizon is what was the north eastern region (Bell Atlantic + NYNEX).
2. The now reunited trademark AT&T started as the western ones (Pacific Telesis and Ameritech) then added the southwest (Southwestern Bell/SBC) in 2005 and the southern states' one (BellSouth) in 2006.
3. The midwestern region was Qwest which is still around in some form as CenturyLink/Lumen.

From one massive company which did everything you got a bunch of companies that actually competed with each other in the main and market dominant sector. The market continued to evolve and real market forces forced combinations among them; IMO this is a good and natural thing.

Remember MCI and Sprint? Did you know they were already around pre-breakup as starving competitors of the monopoly? Suddenly they became national brands and introduced their own leaderships' priorities into the consumer marketplace (MCI in particular was early in seeing the importance of several early Internet packet-based technologies and in consumer email).

Prior to the breakup did you know that the domestic television networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, there wasn't Fox yet) had long-term contracts to send their signals over AT&T's terrestrial network? Almost immediately after the breakup (this is not a causal thing, but there is a lot of correlation) they all switched almost immediately thereafter to sattelite distribution (which had been available for nearly a decade).

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The point I'm making is that you don't have to just draw inside the preexisting lines. The goal isn't the punish Alphabet, but to maximize competition in the market to the benefit of the nation (externalities positive and negative) and its consumers (first-order real good). Promoting competition may result in 2 search companies that can't reunite or something equally unthinkable...
Time boxing is just a method to do cost/benefit. So sure, time is a bad proxy for many things, but it's not a bad proxy for cost in a world where folks are compensated for their time (generally speaking).
I think this is a clear example of why people need to be empowered to investigate their own health issues and even come up with diagnsosis ideas for themselves using online tools or databases.

So I say, use GPT-4, Claude 2 and any and all Google searching and arxiv papers and go ahead and try to come up with your own theories. Obtain digital copies of the imagery.

Try to come up with your own theories. Use those potential diagnosis as a starting point in your search for specialists on Google or whatever directories. Reach out to your own chosen specialists.

Get multiple opinions from different specialties.

Have you been to an acupuncturist or a chiropractor? Normally I would never suggest a chiropractor because I think many of them are complete frauds and dangerous, but if you can find a very successful one they might actually be able to do something. Although that is a last resort because they could easily make it worse or perhaps cause some new disablement.

Maybe you will eventually come to the conclusion that the only way to narrow down the diagnosis involves opening up his spine or perhaps even his brain. If this turns out to be case then that explains why doctors could not resolve it. And they are understandably hesitant to get into that because of the risks.
I have worked with people who do say “I don’t know”
U.S. struck with record 25 separate billion-dollar disasters so far this year
A lot of home hardware had RGB as well. The variety of hardware in general was pretty high, to the point that many tricks pixel artists employed only worked on very specific hardware combinations. Case in point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-G02cjXpZ0

Notice the glass tubes at 0:47+. On the composite output, they look smooth and have that rainbow effect. This only worked on first revisions of the Megadrive; later ones had better quality output, mostly losing the effect.

The same applied to displays - crispness, scanlines, bleeding etc were all different.
I feed ChatGPT 3.5 answers from surveys and it summarizes and categorizes the answers for me. I have a quick read through as well to be sure, but I've been very impressed so far. It's a massive timesaver when doing a lot of research.

I can also feed it a list of web accessibility issues and have it sort the list into most/least critical, along with providing references to the specific WCAG criteria. It has occasionally stumbled on this task, but again massive timesavings.

I also use ChatGPT for filler text in designs. Yes I have to build on what it writes, but it's way better and quicker than what I'd do myself. I know our communications team is doing this x10 more than I am.
Came here to say this. It is extremely over-simplistic to think of DNA as Infrastructure as Code.
I use gpt (3.5) and it's great but deep learning only happens when you add in friction and chatGPT makes things easy so you lose that step. For one off tasks use it but for others try to solve the puzzles yourself before you peak at the answer.
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Some of us just don't enjoy socializing with whoever happens to be around more than we would enjoy just not socializing. I have had some good relationships with some of my co workers but I haven't made any real friends at my current job of ten years. And the people that talk the most tend to be the ones I find the most difficult to relate to, whether it's because they only want to talk about one thing (football or hunting generally) or all of their jokes assume everyone else is racist too. The specifics here have to do with my location but it seems like a wide enough issue that most of my real friends experience similar issues at their jobs as well.
What does this pressure look like, in practice? Sternly written letters? Phone calls? What power does a city have over a private employer when it comes to employment decisions like this? If remote is everything people say it is, the cities should have no power to overcome improved performance and lower (in the long run) costs (due to lower or nonexistent rent)
I felt this way after a COVID infection, takes 6 months at least to get cognitively back.
Have a HTML page that you just send. It’s really simples.
Or latex/rubber ones, see the recent thread on degloving injuries in /r/construction (content warning: severe hand injuries).

Perfect for construction work, travel and sports like lifting, climbing etc
At one recent gig, everything was fun until the company got big enough to need an HR scold. Ugh. We were told that a ping pong table was forbidden because of "health and safety issues". Needless to say, I left soon after.
That’s what JavaScript is supposed to be for: state change. Not rendering the page.
Ya, that was one of the many broken norms. Now that we have more information we find he has undeclared foreign bank accounts (china) where he was receiving millions from a Chinese bank for rent in a building they never actually moved into. And coincidentally, they didn't renew their lease after he lost the election.
LA is a big place, and includes suburbs. If they're gonna do that, they'll have to add more transit to these areas.

But for places with existing transit, yeah I agree.
If I was the creator of the project, I'd be happy with it. Most companies would not have donated anything.
Providing Runtime Secrets to NixOS Services with Agenix
I think I've finally seen the light when it comes to Web Components:

https://github.com/kennyfrc/cami.js

> No Build Steps, No Client-Side Router, No JSX, No Shadow DOM. We want you to build an MPA, with mainly HTML/CSS, and return HTML responses instead of JSON. Then add interactivity as needed.

> Declarative templates with lit-html. Supports event handling, attribute binding, composability, caching, and expressions.
Even so! This is usually closer than the assessor estimate! Assessor estimates are wildly off, mine by nearly $400k, or more than 60% of the total value.
I idly wonder whether having easier access to information about “how to truly benefit and improve yourself” is the cause. The more it becomes common knowledge, the more people will be competing to do that thing.

In this view, everything has become closer to an ideal free market, and the stories of olde about getting in to Stanford with a 3.8 were a lucky guy stumbling upon an undervalued asset.
Sure, let's say it is shareholders. So these shareholders (diverse, distributed groups) get together and collude to pressure their investment companies to sacrifice performance (WFH) for the benefit of the shareholders' other investments?

I don't buy it.
I had him for second term calculus, which was the first math course I took in college. So I get to listen to him speak it in my minds eye —- his voice is unforgettable. He was a great teacher.
2. I have an interesting take on this subject. I became an engineer at 50. Out of personal choice. What I found was that engineering had changed and what mattered was your savvy in manipulating expensive programs on the computer. In those programs, differential equations were solved numerically. No one even thinks about solving them any other way. There isn’t any time.
> letting companies use a 512-bit hash if they expect the repo to be large.

A repo would have to have more than 1e32 documents for a one in a trillion chance of a collision with a 256 bit hash. (Total annual world data production is estimated at less than 1e24 bytes.)

A 512 bit hash thus seems overkill for almost all purposes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/05/world-data-produced-s...
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Comment: User-ID: Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshi@vistomail.com>
Comment: a.k.a.: Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx.com>
Comment: Valid from: 10/6/2023 1:30 AM
Comment: Valid until: 10/6/2026 11:59 PM
Comment: Type: 4,096-bit RSA (secret key available)
Comment: Usage: Signing, Encryption, Certifying User-IDs
Comment: Fingerprint: F99DE33FAEB5E1A4D6F402D5C5B5DE37B68B1FC8
The point is that everything is always implicitly on the market at all times. So if you declare your house to be worth $X then you have to accept on offer of $X (or else declare a new, higher value going forward). When you're talking about people's home then obviously this would not be a practical system for many, many reasons. But in other domains it seems like a reasonable idea.
It does though, lol
What do we actually do in light of this ... ? Do we just have to keep using H.264 for 20 more years until the initial round of H.265 patents are expired?

I'm genuinely wondering. I can't imagine living in a world where we're just starting to move on from H.264 in 2043. But I also can't imagine another royalty-free video codec project succeeding if AV1 is found to be covered by patents outside of the AOM. It genuinely seems like our only shot.
> There's an H.265 patent pool that is supposed to cover all the patents essential to H. 265.

Pool operators like to pretend that this is how it works (unless you ask pointed questions), but it already failed with the first popular codec patent pool, Thomson's MP3 pool - where devices were collected on trade fairs by customs because there were some additional patents from Sisvel that spontaneously appeared.

Also note: pool operators don't guarantee that they provide customers with a full set of licenses. From the horse's mouth (https://www.via-la.com/licensing-2/hevc/hevc-faq/): "no assurance is or can be made that the License includes every essential patent"
Ask HN: Why does OpenAI have such a ridiculous content policy?
https://chat.openai.com/share/375a303c-cbab-4d82-803d-19ed2d0893e9

“No Blending of Food and Animals” is oddly specific
Flywheels are underrated tech for both stability and decentralized energy storage. They should receive environmental funding just like solar and wind do.