skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking for myself, I’m getting the hang of training people remotely. It takes more structure, and it took a year to learn how, but it’s totally doable.
A viewpoint I frequently see missing is having a truck is fun, especially when I want to go piss around outdoors. Sure a car is technically more useful/efficient day to day but it's not going to get me over sand, mud, or even slightly rough patches of ground on the weekend. I can throw a bunch of stuff in the back and don't really have to think if it'll all fit.

Construction and hauling aren't the only uses for a truck and without my Ranger my numerous moves would have been significantly more involved and annoying. Plus for road trips having the extra space over a car is more comfortable with the added benefit of the bed, which carries way more than a trunk.

I think the HN folks tend to forget about how spread out the US is and how many people drive for trips. Or maybe they've just forgot how to have fun.
Btw the Ranger is great.
Not "being a scientist": "science".

Science is seen as the road to human (not just personal) propsperity by people educated in the last 100-ish years, which is mostly everybody now, which puts extreme pressure to perform/produce on what was once a pure little hobby sport whose spectators were almost all invested as players themselves.
Is this 'virtual card number' something that Booking.com provides as an option to you, or do you have a third-party service for this?
Ditto. I took all the vaccinations, but the reality is that the testing of the vaccines was rushed. It was only in the real world that we discovered that they could cause blood clots and myocarditis.

The vaccinations were still a net benefit for COVID, but the unexpected side effects have seriously damaged people's trust in vaccines in general. We're going to pay the price for that for decades to come.
On Misinformation
Apple’s UI design certainly has flaws. I really don’t understand why they changed the way the System Settings in Ventura/Sonoma(?) now looks like and behaves more like iOS, as an example.

However, as someone who has used GUIs from SunView/Irix Desktop/DECwindows to iPadOS/MacOS, via Windows 2.0/3.0/95/NT/etc. I am of the opinion that Apple is still the most consistent and easy to learn GUI. Even my 80-year old mother manages quite well with her Mac and iPhone.
That's called fraud and no it's not how "science" functions.
Sort of off-topic but I see a lot of round screens in sci-fi and especially retrofuturistic settings and that always wonder if there could be an alternate reality where they took off instead of rectangular monitors. After all for CRTs they were in some ways more optimal!

I dream of a polar-punk alternate reality where we address pixels not by (x, y) but by (r, θ).

Of course there's one big flaw with this line of thinking: even if we used circular (or elliptic) screens, we can't tile them with other circles. Circular windows would waste a lot of space. Maybe we could split in "slices" instead though?
Or we could dispense with the myth that the Turing Test has ever been any kind of "goal post" to begin with.

It's like Schrodinger's Cat, it was a pretty minor and unprincipled thought experiment, that a major thinker in the field made in a fairly informal manner. The public perception of its importance and its level of prominence in pop culture around the topic has always far exceeded its actual importance.
The era between tables and flexbox/grid were the glory years of Bootstrap and Foundation CSS frameworks.
NATO doesn't control any of the countries that decided to join. These are sovereign countries that decided to join an alliance for their own security. Most of the benefit comes from article 5 that protects smaller countries from being invaded.

This is very different than an imperial dictatorship like Russia, which actually does turn their conquests into puppet states.

But of course Russia and its minions like to act as if NATO is an imperial power. They also like to act as if USA controls all the NATO countries. While if fact, those countries are democracies that decide their own destinies.

So in the end, it's actually Ukraine that wants to join NATO for obvious reasons, not the other way around. NATO could have already let Ukraine join if it wanted to.

This is not 'NATO wanting Ukraine under their influence', this is 'Ukraine wanting the security guarantees that NATO offers'.

I'm getting really tired of all the Russian bullshit that's being spread here.
My guess would be the person running the website has used one simple 3rd party include that then loads all of the other things so that they might not actually be aware of what's being done under the hood. Or, they are a sociopath. But not being able to come up with reasons is not a good look.
A conspiracy would involve people working together, conspiring, towards some secret goal. What GP stipulates works just as well if you assume everyone is working on their own in their own best interest.

Going by the principles of capitalism or game theory it would be more surprising if this wasn't true and board members overwhelmingly worked for the good of the company instead of their personal wealth
> …Yes. Ever seen an image file with circular dimensions?

The browser isn't displaying a file, it is displaying data mapped to a rectangle. It is 2023 you should be able to spend some polygons on those shapes.
I prefer the painting turtle in the series “Elementary”. The paintings look like Jackson Pollock's, and the technique is easy to copy.
Well-known facts eh.
I trust them that Atlassian product performance is bad in ways that are always novel and surprising, at least.
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70-year-old Ugandan woman gives birth to twins after fertility treatment
That's not what theory of mind is. Theory of mind is the understanding - not academic understanding, but functional, meaningful understanding that guides your behavior - that the other people (AIs?) around you have their own separate thoughts and feelings from your own. This is what leads to the stark behavioral differences as a child develops from ~3-6 years of age. Imagine a child is playing with their toys and puts one of them in a box out of the room, then later asks you to retrieve it for them. A 3 year old will assume that, because they know they put it in the box, that you know it is there as well. (Incidentally, this is where a lot of tantrums come from, because they can't understand why you aren't reading their mind and get frustrated.) A 6 year old will not make this assumption.

While this is a simple example, the concept extrapolates to more complex issues as we develop cognitively and emotionally. Not only is theory of mind about recognizing that your thoughts and feelings are separate and distinct, but also being able to project your understanding into others to predict how they might be thinking and feeling in their own separate circumstance. This is the fundamental basis of empathy, or being able to predict and understand how others around you may be feeling given their unique current circumstances even if they are different from your own.

LLMs have not demonstrated any of the above understanding. Again, I'm sure they could generate a definition for it, and on any given prompt they could probably even generate some generic-ish text that could pose as empathy, but so can a horoscope. But there is not the deep, continuous comprehension of the user as a separate thinking and feeling agent that is fundamental to the idea of theory of mind.
BitBucket offered free private repos long before GitHub. The hate is unjustified.
As ICE cars are right now, no, because unlike electric engines, combustion engines and the clutch can't be made efficient, cheap and compact all at once.

If you have to end up with 4 "normal sized engines" or "normal sized clutches" to implement this, you now are in net gain of wasted weight/space.
Every time I go into the office (very rarely) I understand the benefits of going in. Having 1:1s in person is night and day different than having it over video. Lunch discussions really help with sending subtle messages which you might not do in more structured meetings. Moving around is probably also healthier for me than staying still constantly in my home office. That said my team is distributed across 5 offices and it would be unfair to some of them if I went in, so staying home levels the playing field. I'm also far more productive in many ways (no commute, no running between meeting rooms, ability to multitask during meetings, etc).

If my entire immediate team was in a single location I don't think I could get away with not going in despite the tradeoffs.
If it didn't come out of a Physic Lab or a hard Engineering Lab dont trust the results at face value and even it did there's plenty of reason for doubt. See LK-99 or Ranga Dias.
China was planning on building 30 nuclear reactors a year. Instead they're building less than 3 a year.
But, no, that's not right. If someone is typically a buyer of a ... Range Rover, or a BMW X5, or something like that, then replacing that car with an EV of equivalent size makes a proportionally larger impact on the environment than someone who replaces their Corolla with a small EV.
I do them in Elixir and I find it to be a great language for this kind of thing.

I'm not a very sophisticated Elixir programmer, but I think my solutions are decent enough (and readable, for the most part!). I have a repo which has solutions for quite a few of the puzzles, along with some nifty little mix tasks to help set up a skeleton for each day's puzzle and automatically fetch the input file.

If you're interested: https://github.com/epiccoleman/advent_of_code_ex
Semantic Search Engine in Python Without Vector DBs
The rot has set in relatively lately, but is getting exponentially worse. Probably still in the 1990's or even early 2000's (depending on the field) an academic could have had a fine career publishing (a good paper) every few years. Or write a (good) book or two in their whole career.

I did my PhD under a professor who was very respected and influential in his field. He published quite rarely, although he had piles of manuscripts that would have passed review but he didn't find them worthy. And refused to have his name on his lab's papers if he didn't feel like he contributed enough (nowadays many/most professors who won't even read the paper require them to be added as an author).

In the current system he would have no chance in academia. He said so himself. As has Peter Higgs: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-...
Please ELI5:

- Is AGI if a computer meets the intelligence of any human?
- Or of an average human?
- Or of the most intelligent human?
- Or of cumulative total of all humans?
That’s not what authorised means and I think know that and are just being deliberately obtuse. If I install your package I would need to be authorised not you.

But as I say if you deliberately put something in your software package intended to cause damage you can’t disclaim liability for that. That’s exactly the same as if you write any other piece of malware and it gets installed on my computer you are responsible for the damage it causes.

I’m not going to respond futher on this thread now.
Rhiannon Giddens is a world class musician who specializes in banjo. If you ever played Red Dead Redemption 2 you'll have heard her song Mountain Hymn. She's at the forefront of the movement to reclaim the banjo as an African instrument.

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/rhiannon-giddens-banjo-w...
This is on point, but I think it can also be simpler.

Many execs and upper management would have read or watched the movie about MacDonalds and how they make loads of cash through owning the property and renting it back. Board member or not, they try to use it to boost earnings.
GAO report warns Artemis 3 landing may be delayed to 2027
More likely is "your job has now been moved to Poland. Thank you for your time"

Sure, for SDEIIIs that's not true. But for entry level people 100% WFH is a disaster.
Well yeah but FreeBSD is not Linux, and I don't see the connection with your comment. I also use a Linux distro as a daily driver, but I love playing with FreeBSD every now and then.
don't forget that the holy grail was to have a locked in header and footer with the middle section as scrollable 3 columns
I moved to a new role in my company a year and a half ago, and it's taken me this long to be confident enough to take responsibility for things that I'm not told explicitly to do. That's really the line between junior and senior in my opinion, both feeling like you have the power to make changes in addition to permission to do so. That transition is hard no matter if you are in the office or not (in the office, for my example) but it really can't happen if a junior is suddenly the senior tech because the real seniors all left.
If a property asks you to cancel your booking on Booking, please make sure that Booking knows the real reason.

(I'm leading a very nomadic lifestyle and I've used Booking over 50 times)
And if you tell 2 experts to build something with W3Schools as the resource against better documentation, I'm sure the results will be the opposite.

That's not the point though, I'm not going to say different strokes for different folks.

Instead I'd say, if that beginner uses the 'slower' path instead, that will pay dividends in time -- they are better of learning to use the docs than getting paid peanuts for delivering that project which depends on the juniors faster.
Chris Harris did it back in 2013 with two ICE vehicles (G63 AMG pulling a Fiesta ST) when the modern EV era was just getting started and none were officially rated to tow: https://youtu.be/5Ea7k3VAdi8
I was going to post the full Fresno Bee title, but that's the point I suppose: the viewer can take Fox's word, or open a tab and try and track down The Truth, then use some kind of workaround to actually read the content.
Much cheaper if you can build rooms not just along the outer edge but also the inside of the building. The students at the University of Michigan are giving it good reviews https://www.veryapt.com/ApartmentReview-a7222-munger-graduat...
Discrete mathematics and calculus.

Also, likely Java. I bet there will still be Java code running in 2070.
No analogy is perfect and I feel like this one is already stretched enough.
I agree. My gut would be that we are able to hear of more folks that are not "fulfilled" by their job. But it is really hard to hold some thoughts in my head about how this is really new.

Worse, I think, is that it sells to tell people how bad off things are. Which seems to be driving even worse moods and outlooks along the way.
It's always frustrating when you live in a capitalist economy but rich people don't care about saving money. I disagree with the sentiment that RTO is about saving money. For most companies saving on real estate cost would make a big difference on their bottomline.

But what really frustrates me is they could save at least 10-15% on salary (biggest cost for most companies) for those who want to WFH.

Part of it is manager ego but a bigger part in my opinion is like most things in the corporate world, consultants are driving RTO because they always have a conflict if interest (the real estate companies they also consult with) and by nature they're extroverts.

I've worked with people in the past where even though it is their job, they will not lift a finger to help you unless they socialize with you in person and know they can play political quid-pro-quo. These people cannot function remotely and many of them are typically managers. But see, I would have expected consultants to use the opportunity to train management on how to manage a remote workforce efficiently.

A lot of money to be saved/made all around with WFH but greed has gotten so bad they want the whole cake and be able to show it off. More cake isn't good enough.
I didn’t know it wasn’t possible to mentor junior employees remotely. It’s impossible to assign a mentor, actively check-in on their progress, encourage collaboration, etc. over a computer.

I guess I’ll have to tell the junior I’m mentoring that we are doomed.

Annnnnnyways, I’ve been having a great time mentoring a junior engineer at my company. We regularly meet to discuss his work and I constantly stress “please bother me if you have questions.” I reach out once a day to ensure he’s good to go and he often reaches out a few times a day for questions. We assign him work that is challenging, but within his skill set and abilities.

In summary, anyone saying juniors will suffer either has no idea how to mentor remotely or are just lazy. Adapt or die.

Edit: I will add that my company flies all remote employees into the office once a year for the sole purpose of team building. We did our hackathon in person and focused on building those bonds that can help people work better together. It’s technically optional, but who wants to turn down a free mini-vacation?
AIs will be convincing long before they are smart

ELIZA and PARRY proved this all the way back in 1966 and 1972. ELIZA was a silly AI hack which mostly just repeated back what users said to it, turning users' statements into questions in the style of Rogerian psychotherapy. People could tell it was fake. But PARRY used the same technique but pretended to be a crazy asshole, repeating users' statements in the style of angry accusations, and people thought it was real.

Take a simple AI technique, add some element to make emotion overwhelm analysis, and you pass the Turing Test (because the Turing Test was only ever meant to be a thought experiment). PARRY convinced a lot of people, and Peter Norvig's AI book in Lisp shows you how to write ELIZA in the first couple chapters. It's trivially easy to make an AI which is more persuasive than smart.
Permanent summer time is fine for me too in Greece. The linked proposal of moving Greece to CET is a joke anyhow since even now in December in central Greece you have already twilight at 7am which is fine and more useful than having it at 6am and in the Summer without DST sunrise would be too early for any real use while the weather and culture (don’t forget that) makes more use of the sun light in the evening
Or executives believe it is beneficial for themselves. I've seen plenty of managers over the year manage by "perceived busy-ness", and managers who liked walking the floor and to get a feel for whether people are busy have to actually do real work to check when people work from home. Or execs are more likely to be extroverts who like their job because it provides an opportunity for them to be at the centre of a group of people. Or enough board members are also on the boards of companies that make a living from commercial real estate.

There are many options, and many of them can be true to various degrees at the same time.

When you fundamentally change a balance of anything you're likely to run into all kinds of odd entrenched interests you may never have thought about, in part because many of them may never have needed to assert themselves before.
It seems like there was a lot of pressure to meet the deadline and everybody overworked in this environment. A perfect example of normalization of deviance. It's a shame that there still exists many workplaces like that.
It's our duty to be aware of what's happening around us and tell the guy - Hey, what the fuck are you doing here? Get home, that's no critical emergency.
At no point, because that would increase distrust in science.

Trust scientists, even when they lie and cheat, they do it for a higher purpose that the general public can't understand.
That link is kind of a random news organization. Doesn't seem very reliable.
This pretty well articulates my feelings.

I think there is an unspoken belief amongst most here that they are the indispensable contributors to their organization (and there are many genuinely talented people here no doubt), and that they can never be replaced. Of course many of our mentors have told us an undeniable truth; that the world's cemeteries are full of indispensable people.

You'll often see an argument that timezones are important, which is fair, but I'll note that there are many countries south of the US with cheaper labor and some quite smart people (my experience from working with them).

Language/culture is another argument and another fair point, but I think at some point cost differences make up for it. And the US seems uniquely good at exporting language and culture anyway.

At the end of the day, I like working with a small team of smart and dedicated people. We work in a quite hybrid fashion that seems to work for us. I don't believe we've ever all met at once in the time I've worked here, but while I and a few others come in almost every day, some come in to work a bit more closely as needed. I think this sort of individuation of working circumstances is something that a large company is just going to struggle with; it's not really something that can be articulated in a policy that all parties will consider fair, but it's just sort of the way things have organically fallen here even before the pandemic, but especially after it.
Military-industrial complex boner, and deep shame at the ethical and moral "development" of our species. Another day on the Chimpan-spheroid.
No joke, that would be an awesome LLM project name!
This is confusing. The author could explain what should be done instead.
Even if it was an svg drawing a circle, the render engine will treat as it was a square because of the canvas, which is always an square.
In fact rotating an element can overlap bounds, forcing to redraw all the elements around it, causing an extra work. That could easily be solved with an format with animation support (gif, svg, av1, webm...)
Steve Mould – You can't bounce a ball under a table [video]
The human eye does color temperature correction automatically, and so do digital cameras, basically since they are available. So yes that is okay obviously.
I remember how this used to be a common problem with web ads in the mid 2000s.

One of the reasons why I loved Chrome when it came out was that the multi-process architecture made it easy to kill a Chrome process without closing all my open tabs: The offending tag would "crash," but otherwise I could continue browsing.

Also, around that time there was an ad on Slashdot that gobbled CPU. I remember quickly figuring out that it was the ad, grabbing a screenshot, and emailing them. I got back a quick knowledgeable reply (and apology).
It is literally the same but a more refined term. Just like calling something distended instead of fat.
China spans almost 5 timezones, they could create chain of solar panels and extend solar day by additional 5 hours
Drone strings are significant. The bagpipe has a drone (pipe?), andit seems that when many Scots migrated to the US and Appalachia, they tried to find another way to play music using drones. One of the big ones was the dulcimer which was & perhaps is a particularly Appalachian instrument. (Although check out Mimi & Richard Farina highly recommended). If you hear Amazing Grace on a bagpipe you will get the idea.
Hub motors make wheels quite heavy, which means that there's more unsprung mass [1] in the vehicle, making it less responsive under acceleration/braking and more noisy and sensitive to vibrations.

They're common in electric scooters, bikes and bicycles though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsprung_mass
newest MISRA for c++ just came out, though it's based on c++17