skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's the opposite of the conventional wisdom on the strengths of the judiciary, so much so that there's a norm that courts defer to legislatures on findings of fact

There... isn't such a norm (at least not in the American system) courts defer to legislatures on matters of policy, not fact. There's a norm that appellate courts in most cases have some deference to lower courts on findings of fact, reviewing them only for unreasonableness, but nothing about courts deferring to legislatures about matters of fact.
Buyers have a huge incentive to wait for lower rates, but sellers aren't just passive observers of the situation--they also have a huge incentive not to sell.

The vast majority of home owners (i.e. would-be sellers) financed/refinanced their home at the recent historically low rates. For them, selling right now doesn't sense--after all, they'll have to buy another house, and given the high current rates, they would have to pay much more per-month for a similarly-priced house.

The free-money music has stopped. Now everyone is cemented to their seats, waiting for the music to start again.
You say it's not a meaningless distraction, but fail to make a reasonable argument for how it "saves" the environment, or whatever. Running laundry or charging an AV at a different time of day doesn't materially impact energy usage and emissions, it just increases the bottom line of the utility company.
If you don't like being depressed by that, you could read: https://nav.al/david-deutsch
Privacy.com has a 1password integration so I have it create cards instead of filling in my real card

https://blog.1password.com/privacy-virtual-cards/
It’s absolutely how a dishonest science institution functions. Science itself is nothing more than a method. The disdain is for people who confuse the process with the institution. And at that point it is just blind faith like any old religion. Show me the preregistration, the conflict of interest disclosure and the third party replication and then I’ll “trust the science”.
See also: Normative vs. Positive analysis
I don’t know a single person that bought a Tesla solely because they thought they’d be income generating “robotaxis”. Not a single one.
i'm mostly upset that they use "w3" in their name to masquerade as an "official" source of documentation. i know their about page clears this up, but it's pretty buried.
Most people hate losing their livelihood.
Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (December 2023)
This thread is open to anyone seeking for volunteer projects and anyone who is seeking volunteers for their projects.

SEEKING VOLUNTEERS: A good example would be to write the name of the project, and a short description. Also write down the project website and git forge URL, and write the programming languages it uses. Also, please don't forget to start your comment off with "SEEKING VOLUNTEERS" for people seeking projects to find your comment easier, and not get it mixed up with the "SEEKING PROJECTS" comments.

SEEKING PROJECTS: If comfortable doing so, write down your name, and programming languages that you know. Also don't forget to write down some of the projects that you have volunteered on, or some of the projects that you made, and what you are interested in working on. Optionally, you can write your email, if you want opportunities to be discussed privately. Also, please don't forget to start your comment off with "SEEKING PROJECTS" for people seeking volunteers to find your comment easier, and not get it mixed up with the "SEEKING VOLUNTEERS" comments.
"Be thankful for what you have; You'll end up having more. If you focus on what you don't have, you'll never have enough." - Oprah.

IME, >50% focus on what they don't have - which is why they complain so much.
> Even my Hyundai can beat some 911 trims to 60mph

No, it doesn't unless you've made some mods to it. The current lineup of 911s are all at 4 seconds or less.
> people seem to be arguing against a "mandatory remote work" strawman.

Not at all. Even if there was such a thing as "mandatory remote work", that does not preclude going to an office. Remote work allows working from anywhere.

The premise is that, absent of job obligation, there is little reason for the seniors to show up at the same place as the juniors. If such obligation is placed on them then you have an RTO mandate.
This is just the dumbest idea I've heard.

On paper, it sounds great, but it seems to miss the context of humans.
Humans are a garbage species. Within a week, that Tesla would be trashed.
Random idea for a future browser:

o Give me flamegraphs of all the computing resources a given web page is using; CPU, processes, threads, fibers, specific methods/procedures/functions inside of the Browser... also, be able to selectively disable and keep disabled, on a granular level (by web page/URL) things that use resources beyond a certain amount, for example, in the article's case, a buggy animation -- but more generically any resource or browser process or sub-process that is taking too much CPU time and/or other computing resources (RAM, I/O, Network, GPU etc.)...

(Yes, including those "power user" features could lead to the selective reduction of functionality for some web pages -- but the user should always be able to determine exactly what they want and what they don't want from any given web page...)
>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.

This is basic human psychology you're talking about, not "political quid-pro-quo" motivation.
Most people I personally know are miserable at work, anyway.
> money is at the root of all of them

Money doesn't seem to be at the root of the first one.
I‘ve never really worked with Rhapsody, so I couldn’t tell. I came to Mac OS X from NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD, the first version I actually used as a daily driver (with the odd boot to Mac OS 9 for some stuff) was the public beta in 2000 (which was Aqua already of course).
When it was done in a private leaderboard in a traditional in-person team working in the same office it was a great watercooler talk topic and code-golf team building topic.

I tried to do it in a remote work team with weaker personal links, and it felt like a chore, so this year I'm not doing it at all. No fun without the in-person code reviews and pair-programming code golfing.

Also many of us tried new languages of paradigms every year.
How do you know we wouldn't be off even better with less alienation and exploitation? What makes you think those generate prosperity, rather than destroying it?

> It would be much cooler for al of us to be musicians, painters, astronauts and F1 drivers.

No, it would be cool if we were fully fledged human beings and shared some of the shitty work that needs doing more fairly, and stopped exploiting each other. Between those two things you'd quell a lot of "complaints". It's not about doing grand things, anything can be grand if you have the heart for it, and put your heart in it.

> Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

-- Noam Chomsky

But you can't put your heart into being a cog. I don't even think you can put any real heart into being powerful and using people as cogs, that's both a failure state of how to human IMO.
That has to be a PCI violation. Maybe it doesn’t have any teeth. The CC networks seem lax with their rules.
No details, I'm not a lawyer nor accountant. All I know is that there anti dumping laws and these are to prevent selling goods with loss as it can be a strategy to dominate market by killing domestic products with lower price. I also know that there are exceptions for seasonal sale. That is it.
Monte Carlo tree search is another “easy” way to build a decent AI for a game. I love it because you simply define the rules of the game in a purely functional way, and it does the rest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_tree_search
On my Mac M1 Max 32GB of ram, Vicuna 13b (GGUF model) at 4bit consumes around 8GB of ram in Oobabooga.

Tried turning on mlock and upping thread count to 6, but it's still rather slow at around 3 tokens / sec.
The ship has sailed. If the job is outsourceable, they'll adjust regardless. There's not much inherent value in being from the same region as the headquarters & most of what there is comes from timezones.
Which video card?
Because no actual human I've met in real life is as willing to fellate their employer as enthusiastically as the people I see on LinkedIn? And I'm saying that as someone who's quite happy to sing the praises of my current employer.
According to what objective standard? Can you qualify your claim as I have?
Hossenfelder vs. Goff: Do electrons exist?
Given the context, maybe you should ask OP what chip they're using?
This has nothing to do with the circle. Rendering animations in Chromium really is just that expensive.

VS Code experienced this same issue with the cursor blinking animation and some loading animations - there the best fix after dozens of attempts and some of the best JS perf engineers in the world looking at it was to actually move back to JS to show/hide the cursor on timeout. The only real "fix" for CSS animated things is to set `steps(30)` or whatever other low value to decrease the refresh rate, but that will make the thing stutter. There's no way to have efficient 60fps animations in chromium.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/138396

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900

If anyone does know a fix, you could save the developer community about a metric ton of battery life hours worldwide if you share it with the above :)
Universities are some of the wealthiest institutions on the planet, and they don't seem to have any issues getting a legal team together when it comes to other matters.
I see your point now. You know the way they go for hard-hitting headlines. I interpreted it more as "one of the causes" than "the sole cause."
It's simple for me. How has the TSA done handling security since its inception without facial recognition? No buildings knocked over by airplanes? Cool then we don't need to degrade our expectation of privacy any more than we already have.
privacy.com is fantastic for this.
Maybe, but it's probably a relatively small circle that elevates someone's status by being in academia. (Not to say that isn't the circle whose opinions matter to them, though).
Man there's some amazing graphics on there. Just 5 minutes into exploring it, and everything is laid out so beautifully.
She was the artist in residence at Boston Dynamics. It was literally her job.
> Isn't bragging the main thing people do on Social Media?

start following more interesting people
A question for someone who already knows how to wrangle Skyfield: what is its answer for the "dawning of the age of Aquarius" ca. 2150?

(see Chap.16 "Of Sky and Time" in "When They Severed Earth From Sky", esp. Table 2, for the prevalence of —or at least ascription to— mentions of precession of the equinoxes in ancient mythology)
I was talking about the steering column - looks like I missed what OP was focusing on.
Rust regex crate author here.

fancy-regex is built on top of the regex crate and supports look-around.

The regex crate doesn't support arbitrary look-around because it isn't known how to implement efficiently.

See: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
Outright fraud, bad experiment design, and bad statistics. At this point a good rule of thumb is if it hasn't been replicated it's bullshit.
That's pretty much it. Technically, the statement is mostly accurate.

Adults that do this are called shysty assholes, and commonly, they sell cars. lol

This stuff just writes itself..
Fresh 1.6: Tailwind CSS plugin, simplified typings and more
I'm not typically a statistics hawk.

However your team having 2 members that are remote, then generalizing it to all remote workers is a bit of a leap.

Outside of that I do agree. New technologies that require a high degree of experimentation and discovery lend themselves to in person work.
No, that's not the point. There is no point to a general type system without automatic type inference. Because otherwise, it's just a kind of cumbersome and cobbled together logic.
The war of the machines will look more like the Bhopal disaster, and less like a war.

Of course, maybe we're already post-singularity. My memory of the before-times is pretty hazy and confused. "Reality" seems more and more like a camp Paul Verhoeven satire of reality.
Please don’t skip the other thing that we all know to be true.

There is a lot of work from home abuse.

Of course, work from home advocates would never do that!

Everyone knows the quiet part. Just have a few people talk about it, tells me that it isn’t insignificant.
Will developers return to hostile offices?
> ... 8mm lithography machines and are promising 3mm sometime in the next two years.

Wait what? I've soldered SMD parts smaller than that, I guess I could do 3mm lithography free-hand with a good razor blade.

Sounds like I'd have a nice head-start in the "cutting-edge" field of sub-centimeter lithography.
Those plans have been adapted to the new reality that their wind and solar industry is enormously successful and has grown much faster than anticipated even a few short years ago. And its a market they dominate. At this point there's no economical need to build a lot of more expensive nuclear plants. Another issue in China is that their economy is struggling a bit lately and that it issues with a lot of debt that is at risk of defaulting. Adding to that problem with a lot of economically challenged nuclear plants is not helpful so, they are putting on the brakes a little bit. Not all the way.
> Running laundry or charging an AV at a different time of day doesn't materially impact energy usage and emissions,

Doing it when there is surplus renewable capacity has beneficial impact on emissions compared to doing it when marginal demand is met by fossil fuel sources, even though it doesn't impact total energy usage.
> But you're also getting the commuting time back, which might be worth some money too.

Not necessarily - a lot of people (myself included) essentially give that time to their employer. I drop my kids off at school and start work when I get home at 8am and work until 5pm when I pick them up. When I go in, my commute necessarily occurs between those two events.

In my company at least, I don't think this is rare. On the rare days I go into the office, it's easy to notice that people don't show up until well after 9 and everyone is gone by 3:30-4. I think many people have shifted to taking their commute time from what used to be considered the employer's time rather than personal time.
but did it need to be attached to a manned space station, or could the observer run from a sattelite?
A friend of mine used to be responsible for (among other things) water temperature measurements on naval ships.

Speaking loosely to make the point, they used to measure temperature from the front of the ship, then inexplicably (to him, anyway) changed the procedure to sample from behind the ship (where the water was warmer from engine exhaust/water output), leading to a sudden increase in water temperatures.
Your credit card most likely offers the service
Executives at companies do not give a fuck about the landlords of their buildings. It's an annoying expense that they complain about.

you spend $2B on a brand new office campus. you work directly with the architects and talk about how this new campus will create a great place for your employees to work. and then you have the humility and wisdom to throw all that away? even though everybody at the company knows that this is the big project you spent billions of dollars on?

the money that companies spend on their offices is a commitment that an executive makes. keeping their commitments and persuading other people to buy in to those commitments is one of the biggest parts of the job if you're an executive.

another very big piece is making sure that the assets on your balance sheet don't turn into liabilities.

This take is so common and so bizarre to me.

so take the time to think it through and understand it. commercial leases are 10-year leases. when an executive makes a 10-year commitment, they have spent energy to convince others to make the same commitment, and they are committed to spending more energy on it as well.
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I used Booking way more times. I'd say just call support and explain what happened.

Also maybe do not provide card info "for card confirmation". It literally gets just sent to the place in the clear. Many of them print it and keep for who knows how long for anyone to see.
> Pay and working conditions are better than 90% of other jobs out there

Pay, sure, but pay doesn't make happiness. Working conditions? I doubt that. But that's a subjective thing, so it's hard to really measure.
So professional work during a worldwide pandemic with all the hardship that entailed suffered...from working remotely? I don't buy that.
AI Decides to Engage in Insider Trading
A few reasons I like them:
1. The goal is to come up with a workable solution - not to try to fold your brain inside out to optimize them like leetcode. They feel a little more "real-world" (though still firmly in the domain of programming puzzle)
2. There is a community that all solve them at once. At my company, we have a leaderboard and a Slack channel discussing them every day. And then there is the Reddit and everything else that makes it feel more "fun"
3. They are bound (only 1 problem a day). Some days are longer, but I don't get overwhelmed like I do with leetcode where you can lose hours just churning through problems.

IMO, they are a fun community programming puzzle tradition. I would still turn to leetcode for interview practice. But AoC is awesome for me when I don't want to grind leetcode for some interview I don't want right now.
Yes it is a systemic issue. A cursory search for academic research fraud will reveal this. Some fraudsters are very high profile. There are all kinds of perverse incentives; prestige, grant money, not wanting to waste time with ‘useless’ negative results.
Animated gifs have been optimized to an absurd degree for decades. For achieving high-performance animations, this is what I'd try. Then benchmark real-world performance.
I've had good success with:

Clojure (Polylith, Reitit, Clojure Spec and Spec Tools), XTDB (Postgres as the datastore), HTMX and Tailwind

Other combinations work just as well Clojure (same Clojure stack), InteriaJS, Postgres (no XTDB), Datomic, Tailwind

I would also recommend AWS Copilot to deploy containers to the AWS cloud with a Postgres RDS backend.
Is this a scam site? Nav links are bad.
Imagine, in 5 years we'll have 1 starship deploying 50k tesla autonomous drones on battle fields anywhere in the world in <1 hr...
I used to kind of think this, but for me reaching out slack has turned into something I really appreciate. I can asynchronously ask someone to get in touch with me. they do when they are ready. i dont interrupt them. i can continue doing other things. there is no set meeting time, we can just have a little chat with zero effort, say goodbye and go back to work.

at the end of the day after doing this I do feel more tired, but I get plenty of self-scheduled productive little discussions.
Frankly they're not even great for that. When was the last time you enjoyed traveling on a stroad by any means?
They have set trends, but not good ones: abusive labor practices abroad, implication in spying and surveillance, behaviorally conditioning people to buy new devices every year, while also slowing down and breaking old ones. To think Apple does anything, let alone green-washing, for a purpose other than marketing is naive.
We must not be reading the same FT. They publish at least an article a month to say that remote work is great and there to stay.
> (except perhaps on linkedin)

Where there's a strong incentive to lie so as not to endanger employment prospects.
If commercial real-estate could be repurposed to residential units (it isn’t trivial of course, you need way more bathrooms and whatnot!) it would be a great victory for people who would like to live inside.
"Never trust a drug that hasn't been on the market for at least 30 years"

- Samuel Shem's "The Fat Man" character(IIRC)
Well Rhapsody was released 25 years ago. So you’re both right, now go back playing ;-)
I JUST had this same issue. Even worse, the Sendgrid "sample renderer" supports flex, but Gmail doesn't, so I didn't notice there was a problem until I started sending myself test emails, and then had to rewrite the whole template with tables.

Madness!
Thanks for sharing all these details throughout the thread, Tostino. True open source spirit.
These guys are widely considered the most well-dressed of the entire animal kingdom and here you are claiming "The Emperor Penguin has no clothes."
They have lawyers to vet releases, no doubt? I don't think this is Palmer live-tweeting from the toilet stall.
From the linked paper in the article:

>If it relies instead on some sort of deep learning, then the answer is equivocal—at least until another algorithm is able to explain how the program reasons. If its principles are quite different from human ones, it has failed the test.

Why would we expect our reasoning methods to be the only or even the most efficient? If it can get to the correct conclusions, shouldn't that be what matters?
There's also the struggle of remote workers in a hybrid team unable to move up the ladder as easily as on-site workers for the same trust-based collaborative reasons you mentioned. It is possible that remote workers would look elsewhere for upward mobility, leading to more turnover.

Additionally, because the social fabric is weaker around remote workers in a hybrid environment, there may be a perception of them being less likely to remain out of any sense of loyalty or obligation. This seems like a potential stigma that remote workers would need to overcome in the absence of explicit inclusivity efforts by leadership.
> Good news is that China has delivered their 8mm lithography machines and are promising 3mm sometime in the next two years. maybe this will introduce more competion down the road

I have my doubts about this.

SMIC is still struggling with 7nm, unable to deliver at scale. 3nm in two years sounds like a leap.
Life as a Self-Employed Software Engineer
What’s the nature of your work so you are not allowed to install software?
There were many rumors (and it probably was true) that OpenAI was hemorrhaging cash on GPT4 requests. So it makes tons of sense for them to sprint towards a turbo model at the expense of some ability. GPT4-turbo still is ridiculously powerful anyway.
> Let's build a pipeline

I don't think that is the right approach for archiving. The preferred pipeline would be

all the pdfs -> archive them all -> markdown them

This way you can always re-run the conversion as bugs are fixed and improvements are made. Generally archivist prefer to save as close to the source material as possible, because every transformation from there can only lose data.