skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably it is a "Zero Interest Rate Policy"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_interest-rate_policy
That's not how it works in countries with modern labor laws. You will have a baseline amount of vacation days as per the law, and employers can't circumvent that by putting "infinite" on your employment contract.
As the article author correctly points out, Python should have just thrown when a method is called that requires a TZ with a datetime that doesn’t include one.

Between this, the Unicode circus, and the rejection of PEP582, Python seems more and more like the HOA that isn’t earning their monthly fees IMO.
Unfortunately, Google makes more than 18+ billions by showing ads to Apple users... Otherwise there is no reason to work together.
All that being true, your own post says that's the thing blocking you from getting another job, a better job. So even if you learn nothing (which I doubt) it's still what's holding you back. Check out this HN post, I think it's relevant.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38317087

You have to look at things from a practical perspective and leave ego aside. Getting a job is selling yourself. Look at all the things sales people do to sell a product. Your the product, the buyers want to see a degree, even if it's from a mediocre university. So, you can remain where you're at and keep looking for the 1 in a million job while those people who did the University thing get there CV's moved higher up the stack.

Otherwise you're looking to move to a place where they don't care, but again you're looking at an entry level non programing job. You will have to prove yourself for at least 7-10 years with no degree, or become well known in the industry for your area. Doing that requires a lot of networking. Attend every users group and conference. Become a presenter, etc...
JetBrains Mono says invictus maneo
It’s not growth of the economy, it’s growth of the successor to humanity…

Apples and oranges…
I have been looking online to search for a number on how many people where killed by a cat, excluding the obvious infection risk. I literally cannot find a number. Most likely because either it's so vanishingly small no one cares to track it. Or because it's 0. Show me a few cases of a cat killing a person in a fight and I will reconsider my stance.

I have been in a fight with a cat. There is a lot of blood. But there is little serious damage. Unless you are extremely unlucky with the cat going for your eye there is little to be really concerned about.
I used it to implement a 4 day work week. Just took every Friday off, plus a week here and there for vacation.
This is correct.

Best case: unlimited/flexible PTO policy simply reflects a company taking the attitude of "you are a responsible adult and we trust you," and skipping the need for a cumbersome tracking system.

Worst case: constant pressure + an unclear PTO policy induces workers to take less vacation than the norm.
> “Your best action is to walk away” - Good leadership doesn’t just walk away and let the company and employees fail.

Yes, exactly. In fact, it's corruption of leadership.

If an engineer came to the leader about a critical technical problem and said, 'our best choice is to pretend it's not there', the leader would demand more of the engineer. At a place like OpenAI, they might remind the engineer that they are the world's top engineers at arguably the most cutting edge software organization in the world, and they are expected to deliver solutions to the hardest problems. Throwing your hands up and ignoring the problem is just not acceptable.

Leaders need to demand the same of themselves, and one of their jobs is to solve the leadership problems that are just as difficult as those engineering problems - to deliver leadership results to the organization just like the engineer delivers engineering results, no excuses, no doubts. Many top-level leaders don't have anyone demanding performance of them, and don't hold themselves to the same standards in their job - leadership, management - as they hold their employees.

> Not when there’s still the ability to effect positive change and fix the problems.

Even there, I think you are going to easy on them. Only in hindsight do you maybe say, 'I don't see what could have been done.' At the moment, you say 'I don't see it yet, so I have to keep looking and innovating and finding a way'.
This is interesting in a 'human interest news' report way but doesn't do anything to judge current systems any more the average people thinking older less capable chatbots were human.
I had a similar experience at Elastic. All the good employees left. No direction and ego managers.
Suppose you want to run a routine after 12h. That is now is 7 PM and want it to run tomorrow at 7 AM. Like if simply print times you get:

t1 = datetime.now()
t2 = t1 + datetime.timedelta(days=0.5)
print(str(t1)) # '2023-11-19 19:00:00.000000'
print(str(t2)) # '2023-11-20 07:00:00.000000'
This is exactly it. Cash value needs to be available to pay out if it has a value. With unlimited, that is zero.
In the United States, the Fed cannot deploy a production CBDC on its own. Their responsibilities and privileges are bound by a mandate of congress, so it would require an act of congress to allow them make it happen and on what terms.
In the long run this is how it will work out, and people will choose companies that match their preferences. In the meantime there's a culture split within many orgs, with each faction wanting their org to end up on their preferred end of the spectrum.
Everyone is built different. 4 years ago my bloodwork came back with an extremely low level of Vit D (so low the dr. Said they’ve never seen it that low. I live in Canada and work in an office so not a big surprise. But the severity and frequency of flu/colds lead me to investigate further including doing a genetic test. Turns out I am genetically predisposed to low vit d absorption. With dr supervision I began megadosing 4-5000 IUs daily. As of my latest bloodwork which was 3 weeks ago my vit. D is still just below average. What I have noticed is that the severity and frequency of my cold/flu is much lower than what it was pre-dosing. I know this is not placebo because often in the past if I got the flu it would lead to pneumonia. Since dosing I have not had a single case of it. My 2 cents N=1.
> In the first batch of participants collected via Amazon Mechanical Turk, each received 11 problems (this batch also only had two “minimal Problems,” as opposed to three such problems for everyone else). However, preliminary data examination showed that some participants did not fully follow the study instructions and had to be excluded (see Section 5.2).

If they stuck to the average Mechanical Turk worker instead of filtering for "Master Workers," the parent's conclusions likely would've aligned with those of the study. Unfortunately, it seems the authors threw out the only data that didn't support their hypothesis as GPT-4 did, in fact, outperform the median Mechanical Turk worker, particularly in terms of instruction following.
I work for free every time I contribute to an open source project, and I directly donate to content creators I enjoy watching, so you'll have to come up with a better argument.
Aye I'd happily go to an office every day if it was within walking distance. The problem was the commute and all the time wasted to and fro. If anyone ever comes up with working teleporters I'll go back to the office no bother

Also punctuality and butts-in-seats, but that whole thing turned out to be adhd (working from home gave me the time to figure that out!) so might not be an issue now I can get up early enough to not have a mad panic rush every morning, haha
Scientific experiments are necessary for life if you're dying of a fatal illness.
K Mayo Clinic says 600IU/daily. I'll take a 1000iu/with a K2 every other day maybe
"Acting on safety" is a continuum, not a binary thing. Same with market-edge.
all true but you miss that naive UTC has become a _de facto_ standard in many (particularly finance) codebases.

Sometimes conceptual beauty must unfortunately reckon with long-established reality. It's basically very late to be doing this.
People here talk a lot about being able to have closing doors. My experience with private offices was, barring confidential conversations or rarely going really heads down for a few hours, the unwritten policy was you kept your door open. I've never worked anyplace where private offices generally had their doors shut.
Hey, there is like 30+ bots out there that do transcriptions of the meeting, who knows, maybe they had one.
What if this is not direct competition to OpenAI, but it does use understanding of how next generation models are built?

When you are piloting multiple companies, I wouldn't be surprised that you'd be making mistakes from time to time. And can forget that one of the companies, in fact is owned by a non-profit. That requires a lot higher levels of disclosures to the board. You can be thinking that you are doing a right thing, while in fact it can be a gray area. And from the perspective of the non-profit board, it be more on the dark side.
> But the downside risk from e.g. bioweapons is spread across all of society.

It gets old hearing about these "risks" in the context of AI. It's just an excuse used by companies to keep as much power as possible to themselves. The real risk is AI being applied in decision making where it affects humans.
AI safety is just a rent seeking cult/circus, leeching on the work done by others. Good on Meta for cleaning shop.
> My office is all setup for work and has the best perk, I can physically leave work behind each day.

You can also have a room setup for work at your home.
I completely agree with you, as I have enough experience in the third world commission structure for government payments. Intermediate distributors always want commission; often times, local politicians even at the village level create fake beneficiaries. To cut down the graft, some kind of digital payments is necessary: mandatory bank accounts for beneficiaries, along with transfer of payments to beneficiary accounts.

Even before bitcoin and after bitcoin, private banks create/destroy digital currency: they create digital money when new loans are created, and destroy digital money when loans are paid. When people receive paychecks through ACH direct deposits, it is all about moving bits around various accounts, no creation or destruction of physical currency involved. With CBDC, tokens need to be verified with some kind of entity, wallets are needed to store these tokens. What difference does it make now, when one doesn't need to deal with the hassle of opening accounts with private banks?
So weird you posted this because I stumbled upon it organically 2 days ago when I thought I needed it to modify an SWF file. Installed CS5 in WINE before realizing I couldn't import an SWF directly.

Then I found JPEXS Decompiler[0] that allows for full modification of SWF files!

[0]https://github.com/jindrapetrik/jpexs-decompiler
Zizek's take on authoritarianism in a postmodern world applies:

> Instead of bringing freedom, the fall of the oppressive authority thus gives rise to new and more severe prohibitions. How are we to account for this paradox? Think of the situation known to most of us from our youth: the unfortunate child who, on Sunday afternoon, has to visit his grandmother instead of being allowed to play with friends. The old-fashioned authoritarian father’s message to the reluctant boy would have been: “I don’t care how you feel. Just do your duty, go to grandmother and behave there properly!” In this case, the child’s predicament is not bad at all: although forced to do something he clearly doesn’t want to, he will retain his inner freedom and the ability to (later) rebel against the paternal authority. Much more tricky would have been the message of a “postmodern” non-authoritarian father: “You know how much your grandmother loves you! But, nonetheless, I do not want to force you to visit her – go there only if you really want to!” Every child who is not stupid (and as a rule they are definitely not stupid) will immediately recognize the trap of this permissive attitude: beneath the appearance of a free choice there is an even more oppressive demand than the one formulated by the traditional authoritarian father, namely an implicit injunction not only to visit the grandmother, but to do it voluntarily, out of the child’s own free will. Such a false free choice is the obscene superego injunction: it deprives the child even of his inner freedom, ordering him not only what to do, but what to want to do.

You are "free" to take all the PTO you want, as long as your boss feels it is the appropriate amount, but they won't tell you up front how much is appropriate.
Less wrong is created by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Someone who is very outspoken against AI development, because of the fears around AI destroying humanity. Once went as far as calling for the bombing of AI researchers and/or data centers, if I remember correctly.
And the reversal is largely due to a resurgence of old communist ideology.
YMMV; I actually greatly prefer "unlimited PTO." It's very convenient to be able to take arbitrary days off whenever I need to, without needing to consciously think about whether I've accrued enough credit to do so, and without needing to file the HR paperwork for it.

I take roughly 4-5 weeks off per year. If you're not using your PTO, that's on you, and it's not the company's fault or the policy's fault.
Most companies do it because they don’t want to pay out the cash for employees who don’t take their PTO. That’s the only reason to make it unlimited.
Back in 1998 there were 4 or 5 main port types. And today there are still 4 or 5 main port types (with bluetooth as well). Compatibility was indeed the reason to switch to USB in the first place, as the universal serial bus made plug-and-play real. No reason not to have two USB port types, except device thinness.

The only issue the parallel port, 56k modem, and floppy disk share in common is throughput. This isn't a problem with USB-A compared to USB-C (until USB 4.0 becomes mainstream).
It's because games are more like media than software from a consumption perspective.

People want to watch a movie while it's still new, which is why theaters want up front exclusivity. Songs are "hot" for a while. TV shows are better when you're watching it around the same time as a lot of other people. Sure you can watch Breaking Bad for the first time right now, enjoy it, and have some good conversation about it with a few people. But it was different when every week half of your office or classroom was talking about the latest episode.

I still don't recommend buying games on launch date most of the time because of the current state of the industry. But it makes sense to me why people do it.
Even if you have limited PTO, nothing limits you to set it in such a way can go negative. It is pretty obvious what's "unlimited" means in this case.
TDD works great for this. Usually before I am sent a new piece of equipment (has to go through the approval/purchase process) I’m given the docs. I’ll write unit tests using the examples in the docs (or made up examples based on the docs). I’ll write my software controller against that. By the time I get the actual device I’m just confirming my code works.
Yeah, agree with you. I also like going to a local farmers market. Because of proximity, familiarity, the idea of supporting local businesses, quality, etc. I feel none of that for Silicon Valley Webapps. You’re cheaper and better, I subscribe, your competition gets better and cheaper, I am out.
> If you don't want competition, why give your source away?

Of course they don't want competition, but what they do want is customers like me, who will never voluntarily choose to become fully dependent on a single third party for anything remotely important.
Yes. I’ve mostly seen it in US corps. European corps usually go with a fixed 4 weeks PTO and I love it better than the alternative .
It takes away your right to accrue time that you can cash out when you leave the job. At worst it can be weaponized to prevent you from taking more vacation than you otherwise would, but I wouldn't assume every company does that.
This; it’s a win-win-win for the company.
Propaganda doesn’t necessarily mean lies. It’s anything that makes a recipient feel compelled to participate in the spread of that thing. Right in the name: propaganda, propagate.
> the primary reasons companies do unlimited PTO is that it's just not worth it to invest in official rules and some sort of tracking system.

One of the reasons that this can be so much of a problem is that a lot of states treat the PTO as essentially a liability to the company. It's something that needs to be paid out to an employee leaving (barring being fired for cause or other situations where it'd be forfeit). I've worked in a number of start-ups or early companies that ran with unlimited pto for this reason alone since it makes the balance sheets easier to deal with when reporting to investors because now there's not this extra lingering liability that can be difficult to deal with if things go awry.

The pressure to take less almost certainly is another benefit to those early companies but it's not the one that I've heard being primarily discussed for keeping the unlimited PTO like that.
What is the closest to Google Keep but self hosted?
Totally a scam, it just saves them a bunch of accounting, and they know that most people who aren't forced to take use-it-or-lose-it vacation at the end of the year will just keep on working every day. Our office used to be a ghost town in December. No longer true now that we have unlimited PTO.

The curious thing is that it's unlimited in much the way my unlimited data plan is. With an asterisk. If you take enough time, you get flagged and it will be denied. Something around the 25 day point is my understanding from folks I know who have experienced it.
It’s likely a gradual rollout. So, it will happen eventually.
One way to approach this that has worked for me is to, once or twice a year, discuss your vacation plans with your management. Tell them you plan to take a week or two off at the end of the year. Tell them you plan to take a few weeks off during the spring/summer. Discuss expectations for ad-hoc days for burnout/maintenance/illness.

The best thing about unlimited vacation is that it adds flexibility, but you have to seize that flexibility. If you find yourself in a culture that "offers" unlimited vacation but, in practice, rewards employees who take very few days off, polish your resume and find a better place to work.
It's THE game with my friend group right now. We play FFA, team v team, team v bossAI. Great polish, watching playbacks is sweet, observer seats is great.

Overall fantastic experience, really impressive for FOSS
Hi, yes those two, for sure. And certainly add "original contributions of major significance." AI specialties are generating "original contributions" thick and fast right now for engineers and data specialists.

"Original contributions" is the foundational category for a tech or engineering case anyway. And trending specialties like AI are well-placed to develop solid evidence in this category.

I'd also add the publications and judging categories. These are easy-win categories that are evaluated with a more lenient standard than the other 6. They're also a great way to attract "sustained acclaim" by building a reputation as a thought leader in your field.

Note that the "field of endeavor" for these 2 categories in private-industry cases is industry publications, presentations, podcasts, broadcasts, and events, NOT academic publications or citation counts. (All these industry activities "count" as publications.)
...and YT gets 30% of that. So it's still a fail.
Undrerrated? Tons of people from the surrounding coutries visit Hungary's termal baths. And not just those in Budapest.
Has anyone tried to load old Flash files with these? Will give it a try, I always regretted not converting some of my old Flash projects into YouTube videos, etc.
Don’t forget to ensure it’s on archive.org.
The only way I would take "unlimited PTO" is if there are contractual MINIMUM vacation requirements.

Most "unlimited PTO" is, I would argue a fraud. It's obviously not unlimited for real. And it serves as a way for companies to not have to pay out unused PTO when someone leaves.

And "unlimited PTO" starts the whole 'how much time is too much?' and a whole lot of angst on requesting days off. And that leads to studies showing "unlimited PTO folks" take 13 days off per year, and non-unlimited take 15 days off. https://lifehacker.com/why-unlimited-vacation-days-is-a-scam...

Contractual minimum PTO with unlimited policy fixes that problem.
Yeah, but we're talking about the USA here.
Post-covid WFH discussions have led to a collective amnesia about this. We also spent buckets of time complaining about offices before it because almost every employer made decision like yours. Most offices were terrible places to work and non-technical managers ignored common sense and science to cram as many people as possible into their existing real estate costs. We'd gone from yearning for personal rooms from our cubicles to yearning for cubicles from our loud open-plan spaces.
Note that the goal of ASI isn't to beat you per se, but the best humans.

GPT-4 is generally not competitive with domain specialists (outside areas where machines have already been competitive for some time). That of course doesn't mean it isn't valuable - but it becomes more for human augmentation than replacement.
> This doesn’t happen magically.

Correct! It happened by offering a completely free service with no advertising, in order to become the dominant player and eliminate all the competition, some of which was trying to use more sustainable business models. The idea that YouTube should be free also didn’t happen magically, it was (and still is) intentionally fostered.
you get the same result if you apply them sequentially, don't you? to me the crucial difference is that you stop after a certain number of iterations, a number which is uniform across the whole string, so for interesting l-systems your final string has nonterminals in it, while usually with a cfg your terminals and nonterminals are disjoint and so you can't stop expanding until you run out of nonterminals

i'd love to see your examples!
> An application may be designed in such a way that all dates and times are in a single timezone that is known in advance. In this case there is no need for individual datetime instances to carry their own timezones, since this uses more memory and processing power for no benefit, since all these timezones would be the same and it would never be necessary to perform timezone math or conversions.

The memory and processing differences between the two seem marginal, at best. Especially when it's at UTC ("plus zero" doesn't take too much processing).

So I'm gonna have to ask for benchmarks on this one.

And even if it was slower one must ask if having a confusing concept like a naïve datetime is worth it. Obviously Python is all about the "programmer productivity at the expense of some performance" trade-off.
You would think that, but having just went through trying to implement Terraform Cloud at work, its tools for doing anything that approaches behemoth deployment are abysmal. Permissions management is a nightmare and any sort of orchestration between different layers is barely there.
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We have the scripts that run at intermediate times through these disposable email domain providers to get frequently generated new domains. I explicitly ran the script now.
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