skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience with this is nobody cares but you. I’ve worked at company’s where managers practically forced people to take at least some PTO, and other people took 6-8 weeks a year. Neither type of person was judged for their decisions and neither have been held back. The real issue is you don’t feel psychologically safe at a job after five years…it’s either an awful organisation or you have some personal issues (e.g. imposter syndrome, etc)
The source article doesn't even say be careful with what you're giving to kids, but how much. It says that parents should use pre-dosed medicines instead of telling parents to give (hard to gauge amounts of) food complements.
I’d guess that something like 80% of fees are shouldered by 20% of folks (or maybe 60/40, 70/30). The bottom quarter to half of Americans probably don’t have large entertainment and travel budgets.
10M is a lot of connections. Not a lot of services have enough customers to generate that many connections and yet each connection is not so busy, so a single server can service all of them in a reasonable fashion. Viable use cases are chat, email, push message gateways, etc. Apple isn't going to talk about its server infra, and Google often doesn't either; when I was at WhatsApp, we did go over 2M connections, but changes to the client <-> server connection and improved platform push services meant connections used more resources and when we left softlayer, the target was closer to 500k; at fb, chat was on small machines so connection counts dropped further.

Big servers keep getting bigger, but virtual machines are very popular now.

IMHO, if you're going to aim for this, you would do well to research receive side scaling, and get as much as possible aligned so NIC queue/network buffers/server thread are all own by the same cpu core and there's as little cross-core communication as possible. Or just suck it up and use multiple ~C1M systems.
The Fermi paradox seems to point at us being doomed, why we don't see probes disassembling the universe is the part I'm still confused on.
I've worked at two places with unlimited and have managed about six weeks a year at both. Makes the vetting of your manager that much more important.
It’s not misleading. You claiming we say something we do not is.

I’m not going to continue this conversation as you’ve shown only to be here in bad faith.
You are putting words in my mouth. I did not say it's not serious. Any fight with an animal is serious due to infection risk. This is what I said:

> I doubt any non-impaired person will seriously lose to a cat. All these stories are people LATER having some kind of infection. Sure, you have a chance at serious damage due to infection. But a cat just killing a person in a 1v1 deathmatch? I very much doubt that.
If it stops making sense on paper they’ll just cancel it. But I don’t think they’re consciously exploiting the self governing social shame aspect of this.
I am also not a huge fan of unsolicited grammatical advice, because I feel like it's both low effort and derails the conversation. If the grammar error is more syntactical in nature and doesn't obscure the meaning of the thoughts intended to be conveyed, then let's just all move on.

This is an international forum, we're well accustomed to being able to parse meaning despite a few inconsequential grammatical issues.
It's very easy to criticize visions, especially after the fact.

Not trying to subvert this thread. Do we think that cash will still exist in 50 years time? Assuming we don't, how will it work.

He had a thought (maybe crazy) and went with it. I respect that, irrespective if we think it was correct or not.
As someone who has been remote since '12, I absolutely agree. Nothing is better than having a cool/fun office environment close to home where you have things set up to an ergonomic ideal. I've been a member of many co-working spaces because of this.

The problem is 95% of the time it's not like this.
Machine Learning is broader than Deep Learning.

The Stanford course doesn't go as deep as, say, transformers.
This isn't true. I wrote a blog post about it a while back but never finished. It's complete enough to demonstrate the point though so I'll plug anyway https://stefanlavelle.substack.com/p/no-language-isnt-enough

TLDR: Internal LLM representations correspond to an understanding of the visual world. We've all seen the Othello example, which is too constrained a world to mean much, but even more interesting is that LLMs can caption tokenized images with no pretraining on visual tasks whatsoever. Specifically, pass an image to an encoder-decoder visual model trained in a completely unsupervised manner on images -> take the encoded representation -> pass the encoded representation to an LLM as tokens -> get accurate captions. The tests were done on gpt-j, which is not multimodal and only has about 7bn params. The only caveat is that a linear mapping model needs to be trained to map the vector space from the encoder-decoder model to the embedding space of the language model, but this isn't doing any conceptual labour, it's only needed to align the completely arbitrary coordinate axes of the vision and language models, which were trained separately (akin to an American and a European to agreeing to use metric or imperial — neither’s conception of the world changes).

It's not intuitive, but it's hard to argue with these results. Even small LLMs can caption images. Sure, they don't get the low-level details like the texture of grass, but they get the gist.

I keep reading your sort of analysis, but honestly, those priors need updating. I had to update when learning this. If 7bn params can do it, 175bn params with multimodality can certainly do it.

It's true that humans need symbol grounding, but we don't see hundreds of billions of sequences. There are theoretical reasons (cf category theory) why this could work, albeit probably limited to gist rather than detail.
I still don't get ads, using uBlock Origin on Firefox. What am I missing?
I think Apple made a terrible mistake. But I am not worth $3 trillion, so who am I to argue? But I will piss into the wind anyway:

The biggest difference between USB-A and floppy/CD/DVD drive is the network effect. USB-A is an interface between 2 devices, so its usefulness is measured as an O(N^2). It allows all my laptops to connect to any of my peripherals. To replace USB-A, I would need to replace all my laptops and all my peripherals. A floppy drive, on the other hand, is an O(N) device for the most part. Its usefulness is mostly limited to the single device that it is installed. (Sure, floppy disks are shared between computers, but I would say that this is a less frequent use-case.)

The other difference between USB-A and floppy is that the USB-A is "good enough" for almost all use cases. My keyboard, mouse, flash drives, USB-ethernet adapters, all work perfectly fine with USB-A. In contrast, going from a floppy to a CD increased the capacity by 1000X. From CD to a flash drive, we got another factor of 10X to 100X. And much faster random access. A floppy became "NOT good enough" very quickly.

I see USB-A existing for the foreseeable future, the next 10-20 years, because of the network effect, because it is good enough for most things, and because it is slightly cheaper than USB-C.
Is this book and course helpful when both parties have ADHD? We used to both be medicated. Now only one of us is.
The single biggest issue I've noticed is that body language communicates a lot, and in remote environments you cannot see this. You don't feel at all invested in the other person either, and I've noticed people multi-tasking instead of listening to what the other person is telling them - often followed up with a "Sorry, I missed that. Can you repeat it?"

As another example, I've worked with some people who are quite confrontational and dare I say, aggressive, on camera, and have raised their voice a couple of times in the past. This same person has very different interactions in real life, a lot more empathy, where it becomes apparent the other person is in fact, an actual person with emotions.
I 100% agree, the commute (90+ minutes twice), the open office space where people walk in and out and interrupt even without checking if you are in a meeting or concentrating on some complex problem and the team not being there (I start early and leave early, other do both late).

and yes, the team thing is hard, but we do have office days when we all show up and have an agenda of things to discuss. That's when the team building happens!
simplicity is also very difficult to achieve. it requires much more beyond just mere comprehension..

as whoever said.. "i am writing this long because i don't have time to make it shorter"
Because that's how the typical arrival of improvements in solar power are usually hailed. I see announcements like these to the tune of one every couple of weeks and they rarely make it to production and if they do they end up as niche rather than mainstream. But some of them do make it. In the meantime, the steady drip of cost reduction due to economies of scale make silicon based solar panels harder and harder to compete with for new technologies, not unlike what we've seen with other semiconductors.
The first one I heard about was 10-15 years ago by projecting an image on the tongue. Ahh, here it is: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/device-lets-blind...
These all appear to be full-time unpaid work? Like the expectations are incredibly joblike and the pay is free housing and a visitor's pass to all national parks.
Why is screen time singled out as an undesirable form of sedentary activity for children when it is just as sedentary as, say, sitting and doing homework?
> If you want to feed that data into a citywide network which the police can query to see who was where at which time, less fine.

This is pretty much Ring’s secondary purpose, at least as Amazon continues to loosen their data privacy when it comes to LEO requests.
Not including sales tax kind of makes sense, because it varies so much state to state (and often within the state). This allows companies to advertise one price nationwide.
People in here complaining of unlimited PTO while some companies offer laughably little PTO or none at all
You've heard the term "The pen is mightier than the sword" right?

AI is it's own damned pen.

All were waiting for is some dumbass to give it terminal goals.
Honestly inclined to agree. Not to question people's ethics unduly, it sounds exactly like the same logic we use to "protect" drug users from drugs by destroying their lives in advance and inducting them into the criminal justice system as a manner of measured due course. Makes sense, yup yup yup. We know what's best for you.

ChatGPT doesn't do anything you can't already get by searching Brave or Kagi. Just a little more human-centric given its chat formst
I suppose correlation proves causation when a medical authority says so.
> I've waited 48 hours to hear back on a DM, and in other cases 3-4 weeks before getting reviews on PRs.

This sounds like a performance management or team expectations management issue, not an issue with remote work.
> Past events: date and time string in UTC with UTC time zone, unless there is a strong case to be made that these should be localized (see “planned local events” above)

I don't think there's any case for storing local time with past events. They happened at a specific date and time, store them in UTC and if needed convert to local on display. Plus, though it's a rare circumstance, for one hour each year DST switches cause a duplicate hour - so local time is ambiguous during that hour.
This needs to be upvoted.

I’ve worked at a company with unlimited PTO since 2012.

It was the founder’s preference, as was allowing us all to work from home, because he didn’t want to babysit adults who all agreed to work towards a goal.

It’s never felt like a trap. Employees absolutely take a week+ off work, multiple times a year, and I’ve never heard of anyone ever being reprimanded.

The same founder also continued to pay an employee who was struggling with life in general, encouraging them to take off for a couple weeks and when they were ready, chat about whether they’d continue to work here.

There certainly can be scammy, predatory “unlimited PTO” policies, and maybe my experience is the exception, but I definitely prefer it over having to submit paperwork any time I have to miss working hours to take my kid to doctor, or just to take half a day to with the family on a Friday afternoon.
Why is it going to rely on co-operation if users don't have the means to change the model enough to misalign it?
Systems built to operate in the EU will already have that capability.
It looks like it covers the basics pretty well. Any pointers to alternatives?
Akazehe
Ask hr during the interview what unlimited translates to in practice. If they are concerned by the question asked politely then that’s a red flag to you.

If they don’t give an answer just say “my prior employer was unlimited and 4 weeks a year was typical, does that sound similar? Also do you need manager approval?”

current place unlimited = 4 weeks or more
I'm afraid global warming and plastics in the ocean might make our quality of life much worse, but if I'd had to bet on what risks human extinction, "bad people with superweapons" would be higher, and "autonomous agents a bit smarter than any human that are built to compete with it" higher still, if they were options on the page.

And how reasonable is that we would have autonomous agents a bit smarter than humans in the nearish future? Very low, I'd say, about the same as the odds I'd give a year ago for GPT4? Not odds I'd be happy to take for the _destruction of humanity_.
Oh, that's a good point. I had missed that.
And you have to treat the timezone offset as information-free.

As in, 02:00+00:00 and 04:00+02:00 are absolutely equivalent representations of the same data.

If you need to know the timezone in which to display a time, you save that timezone separately
Seems like lobbying groups don't have a good argument for this. The argument I'd always heard was "shady businesses started having these resort fees or fees for choosing your seat, etc, and we needed to do similar or else they'd each our lunch when folks compare prices". If the government is suggesting banning the shady fees, then we're back to a level playing field, no?
> And what kind of security do AppImages offer you?

It shouldn't. Security should be implemented as a separate tool, not tied to any package management system.
Yeah I can see that now, but for me "I don't know, I was just told" = "Don't know, don't care" and "Let me get back to you" = "I am ending this line of discussion. Don't bring it up again".

If there's a sense of reflection in the requester, it doesn't survive past the end of conversation with me.
Extreme weather and falling demand are pushing wineries into the red
This is the same thinking that wants to ban my 3d printer.
It's mixed.

On the plus side, if I book out the family holidays and school holidays and and some time at Christmas and a few days for gigs or whatever, then as soon as something unexpected comes up I need to start horse-trading my days off to "balance" if I have a hard limit. With unlimited, I can just take the time for the unexpected thing without worrying about really accounting for it.

On the down side, it's clearly not _umlimited_. Managers talk about it in an unwritten "code" of what's reasonable. 35 days max, basically. Most roles in my industry in the UK will give you about 28 by default. So on that basis it's an extra week off.

This is my first year with it. I expect I'll be somewhere between 35 and 40 days by the end of the holiday year. I'm interested to hear what comes back as a result of that.
This is fair, but I think software engineering is more typical of most knowledge work in this respect than mechanical engineering is. Most knowledge workers aren't handling physical objects for their work beyond a keyboard, mouse, and possibly a high-quality headset.

Software is probably rare among engineering disciplines in never requiring physical access to specialized equipment, but it's pretty normal in the scope of white-collar work in general.
Chicago has an estimated 4000 coyotes living in the urban area. I would occasionally see them in parks and graveyards when I was out walking at dawn, but otherwise they are almost invisible. Rodents, including rats, make up about 75% of a coyote's diet and a single coyote can eat about 1800 per year. They are a welcome predator in the city as they keep a very low profile and keep to themselves, except for the rare instance where they make the news, like when one visited a Quiznos and took a nap in the beverage cooler.

1. https://www.wistv.com/story/6324187/coyote-stops-by-chicago-...
Nobody wants to raise prices but everybody wants more money. In the past week, I've seen under the line mandatory fees from a pet grooming service ($5.99 required "materials fee"), a large apartment operator ("technology package fee" to have mandatory access to the resident portal), and a bookstore ($2 order handling charge).

Hiding the actual cost with sneaky fees is getting out of hand and I have zero sympathy for "oh the poor merchants" or "showing the proper price is too hard." They made the decision to impose the fees, they can make the decision to put them in the price where they belong.
Sorry to be all 'yet you participate in society' about it but it's notable that you're choosing to have this conversation on an international, text-only website on a Sunday rather than in a local public space. Nothing beats in-person interactions, except perhaps the ability to interact with a community with niche knowledge that's thousands of times larger than what's within a 30 minute drive.
Mandatory gratuity for a non-tipped employees should be 100% forbidden.
> the US will also need sales taxes included in the advertised price

This is totally separate from junk fees, which are controlled by the seller.

Sales tax exclusive is a common complaint from visiting Europeans. It is seldom an issue for Americans because most aren’t paying with exact change or calculating budgets to the penny. Go to low-income neighbourhoods, where incomes are closer to those in Europe, and you’ll find tax-inclusive pricing.
Transparency, Openness, and Our 2021-2022 Financials
is there a site to students for volunteering hours or regular volunteering
Show HN: Koe – AI-powered transcription for human speeches, with GPU support
As someone who still watches the Korean Broodwar scene, how are the mechanics in this game? Is there micro? Or is it more sc2 style where you put all your units in a single control group and then death ball them into the other death ball?
No, but they would have front and back, and people from the bridge would share which way was “up” and “down” and “left” and “right” based on the controls.
OK, conceded.

I looked into it. I also looked at a keenly-priced X230 from a friend to do it to.

I decided, reluctantly, too much work and too difficult. I like my X220 as it is and I have a to-do list so big I will die before I make a dent in it. Life is too short for customising laptops.
In-house IT isn't up to the task of building systems that are infinitely scalable but as the price goes up lots and lots of shops are going to realize they don't need infinitely scalable, they need the scale they're at and have no reason to want to grow it. In-house IT is great at that.
It didn't start out that way now did it?
It’s not specifically American at all. Such a phenomenon can be found anywhere with a car culture. If you see someone cycling in the Arabian Peninsula for example, they are usually the lycra set. Ditto for white people in most of South Africa.
That is doubtless true for the type of people who frequent Hacker News (mostly computer programmers). But in some other communities, the word 'theory' is commonly used in the same manner as Gilbert Ryle uses it. The author of this article is apparently unaware of that fact.
I feel the key here is talking with other coworkers in your department and finding out what they do. I would have taken less time off had a coworker early on not told me they took 6 weeks off the year prior.
> The traffic signal on North Las Vegas’s North Commerce Street had been red for at least 29 seconds, but the Dodge Challenger did not slow down. Instead, it flew through the intersection with Cheyenne Avenue at 103 mph, almost three times the 35 mph speed limit. Carnage ensued

And what has this to do with 100mph ?

Put a radar there, and a policeman to check red lights violations.
+ end of year
store_opening_hour_and_minute_of_day=(9,0)

It’s not a date time.
After Thiel and Zuckerberg colluded with Cambridge Analytica to use military grade psychological warfare to scoop the elections for Trump and Johnson you still are naive enough to trust either of them?
these companies are acting like vultures, they will scam the customers until they are stopped
Concern with AI risk actually originated decades ago, way before current AI hype. Here are some of Eliezer Yudkowsky's papers from 2006/2008:

https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/yudkowsky.p...

https://intelligence.org/files/AIPosNegFactor.pdf

I am concerned with AI companies keeping all the power to themselves. The recent announcement from the OpenAI board was encouraging on that front, because it makes me believe that maybe they aren't focused on pursuing profit at all costs.

Even so, in some cases we want power to be restricted. For example, I'm not keen on democratizing access to nuclear weapons.

>The real risk is AI being applied in decision making where it affects humans.

I agree. But almost any decision it makes can affect humans directly or indirectly.

In any case, the more widespread the access to these models, the greater the probability of a bad actor abusing the model. Perhaps the current generation of models won't allow them to do much damage, but the next generation might, or the one after that. It seems like on our current path, the only way for us to learn about LLM dangers is the hard way.
In my experience in big-co, the decision makers on something like TF are going to be constrained by cost. They'll be picking between many different tools and they are incentivized to provide as much value as possible.
That datetime is unambiguously represented by 1700414554 as a unix timestamp, and you'd convert to the user's local time zone on display.
People working on incredible things that you don't know and will probably hear about in some years
It's a bit like calling Magic the Gathering «just» an older game. («It came out in 1993, how old, must be bad !»)

Your complaint would have more merit if the many innovations of Spring-Recoil engine games had been adopted more widely in the genre, but even Supreme Commander 1 came short (except for polish maybe).

You cannot expect RTS to become one of the biggest genres again, but it's still quite lively (yes, even outside of SC2 and AoE2) :

RTS is fun, actually (and you can learn it): a video essay - CloudCuckooCountry :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl4myN8q_KM

A list of upcoming(ish) RTSes :

The Most Anticipated RTS Games in 2023 & 2024... SO MANY! -
GamerZakh :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKujSK4FRWk

(Notably, including BAR, another Spring-Recoil game.)

(Yes, most of them will suck and fail, such is life.)
Thank you! A commenter who actually knows a bit of what they are saying! I will take a look at it.

From my knowledge of other such situations, enslaved people have many fewer rights, customary and legal, but not none. Humans will still be sickened by seeing other humans do bad things; there are limits. Also, they want the enslaved people to be pacified and cooperative, not murderous and angry.
When I was a junior my manager was in a different country. What's the difference? It's like how companies didn't used to support WFH right up until the moment they wanted you to take some work home for unpaid overtime.
Tell that the kids who lost their parents because democracy was delivered to their neighbour's wedding.
Hostile, unpleasant, threatening, and not the sort of thing I want to see on HN.