skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meanwhile, worker productivity hasn’t suffered

Correction.

Some people, work their assess off all times of the day because now they can be reached around the clock. Some people work the same but make up with availability which can be valuable in itself (I am one of these people). And some people goof off even more than before.

Maybe the total productivity didn't change, but definitely it has shifted.

The question is what happens now. I think what happens is companies will get better at understanding who is and who isn't spending time working (I am careful not to use word "productive"). And some companies will monitor this and some will make conscious decision to focus on trying to get better at understanding actual productivity.

The ones that monitor working time I call sweatshops and I would try to stay away from at all cost. You want to compete on quality of your work or even on productivity. But you definitely do not want to compete with your coworkers over who can spend more time by the computer because there simply are no winners in this game.

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One way it can bite people is that it may help the companies identify who is productive (if the company is smart about it).

I once talked with my boss about why he is allowing employees to access company funds (within certain limit). The finances people are furious and want to cut it off and instead give some ridiculously low limit for spending.

So one argument is that it allows people to be more efficient. When they need something, they don't have to wait for approvals or for "process".

But then the boss also says: "It is much cheaper for me to have an employee steal couple thousand dollars from me because I can easily identify it and fire the employee. It is much more expensive to keep that employee."

I think the same applies to working from home. When you allow people to do pretty much what they want, thinking they are unsupervised, you have now much better chance to identify employees who are completely immature, irresponsible or fraudulent about it.
> BB(100) has the value of 42

You wouldn't be able to express BB(100) explicitly. My article is about a lower bound on the much smaller BB(63), and it's already very hard to give a sense of how large that is. Go would of course be able to give you the 100 bit program for it.

> Chaitlin's number is 1/2

We know that Chaitin's number is not computable. So it cannot be 1/2. It has an infinite binary expansion of which we can only ever compute a fixed number of bits.

> I guess by the definition, it is computable

It's not.

> I'm also struggling with the reciprocal of BB(100). This is rational, so maybe it too is computable.

A number x is computable if-and-only-if its reciprocal is. Any fixed integer, like N=BB(100) is computable (with the trivial program print N), and therefore so is its reciprocal.
What is not computable is the function BB(.)

> there exists an algorithm to do X

What is X ?

If you want to discuss this further, please just send your reply by email.
The only point in the article that matters is the only point that will decide the debate as passions cool:

"What makes companies money tends to stick," he said.

RTO is dead because it’s economically inefficient. Over time the emotional “but I like my employees to sit where I can see them” will be less and less compelling to boards and shareholders. After time has passed, say 5 years, the next recession will kill the corporate sponsored office and will usher in the “Bring Your Own Office” age. BYOD saved millions. BYOO will save hundreds of millions.
Here's another useful view that shows the breakdown in a stacked area chart: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
The call is coming from inside the house. Why do you think this is a systemic problem in the first place?
Supposedly (and I only know this because Kent has talked about it in various public conferences) Kent has a regular conference call with Red Hat engineers and there is interest from Red Hat in helping it get polished up. So perhaps in a few years bcachefs will be a supported option.
> If you want to use ZFS, then TrueNAS with sensible defaults is a great way to go.

I evaluated TrueNAS Scale about 6 months ago and bailed on it very quickly. My install with their "sensible defaults" ended up having swap partitions on all my spinning disks. That alone was enough for me to decide against using it. One bad choice likely means other bad choices in my experience. They also trampled / reset my 'zfs_zrc_max' tunable every time a VM got started (I think) and it wasn't obvious what was doing it.

I didn't think there was any value in learning the quirks of TrueNAS over doing a setup from scratch, so I ended up going with Ubuntu LTS and doing all my own config / testing.
This is why it's good that we're finally starting to see a resurgence of support for labor power, and a wave of unionization.
Michael Gove prohibits planning authority from blocking MSG Sphere Stratford
I do wish it was common to have more colours at least, everything on the road being black, white, or silver is really bland and soulless in my opinion.
This take is so common and so bizarre to me. Executives at companies do not give a fuck about the landlords of their buildings. It's an annoying expense that they complain about. They idea that they are working together to make sure the real estate firm has a tenant is so hilariously detached.

It's akin to saying that apartment renters care immensely about their landlords to the point of going out of their way to keep paying them rent. Its a total and complete fiction.
How? All Im seeing is notebook by notebook export.
And 'after hours' if you happen to come by the front desk it isn't all that rare to see the computers up and running but unattended because the desk clerk stepped away for a moment.
In case of buggy interface behavior violently rip device from torso.
Genetics seems to count for a lot. Lifestyle is proven to have a huge effect on quality of life and the risk of certain ailments, but doesn't seem to be the main factor in longevity. As my dad used to fatalistically say: "When you're gonna go, you're gonna go." (Ironically, his lifestyle has resulted in him living under 24/7 care, but he's still alive.)
IIRC, both the ipod and the Zune media players independently ended up with nasty date/time bugs due to errors in open source libraries they used. More eyeballs can be a good thing but given the number of willing eyeballs and the amount of open source code, it seems like the effectiveness of eyeballs on code is going down. Probably still better than just company eyeballs but far from something that should be relied on to filter out defects.
Kosmos2.5 seems promising and I hope we see it in oss (otherwise assume it just makes Azure cloud ocr better)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.11419.pdf
It's way way bigger than that. The whole world changed since those early days of modern science.

During those days, the science you were talking about was one of countless hobby clubs for aristocratic circles, where bored rich folk could dedicate themselves to one upping each other in the discovery game their peers and recent predecessors had invented. There were certainly cheaters then, too, but the whole thing was very insular and the only people who even cared about it were the people who were in on the game themselves. So excelling within the rules and elaborate demonstrations of the game were all part of the club sport.

400 years later, billions of people across five or six generations have been told that this game is the secret to human prosperity on earth and that the more its played, the more aligned we'll be with the truth of the universe, the longer we'll all live, the more leisure and luxury we'll all enjoy, etc

That's a whole different game! The demand for scientific output has gone from an exhibition sport shared among a small and snobby circle to a replacement for an eroded theology. Trillion dollar governments and globe-spanning trillion dollar industries now (ostensibly) make their billion dollar decisions based on each day's summary of the sport, and billions of people dreaming about prosperity or salvation await the next big game's result as though it were a demonstration of divine grace.

There are now so many games being played, by so many people, with so many bets and spectators, that incentives are unfathomable and referees are sparse and cheating is rampant.

Unfortunately, you're not going to clean all that up by telling some journals to reshuffle their revenue allocations.
> Research and the documentary record show that the protests of 2020 were overwhelmingly peaceful [...] The characterization of these events as “riots” followed as part of a deliberate disinformation campaign by right-wing groups, media’s distorting focus on isolated incidents, and biased framing by political campaigns.

Wait what? According to Wikipedia the damages from the allegedly-not-riots is 1-2 billion. Surely then the most damaging protest (that the record shows is totally not riots) in history.

If you burn over 1,000 buildings in one city, and then 99 other cities have mostly-peaceful protests, it seems weird to launder one with the other. If that's the criteria then the only thing needed to claim something is not a riot is more smaller protests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests
ElectricSQL's architecture is documented here:

https://electric-sql.com/docs/reference/architecture#primary...

https://electric-sql.com/docs/reference/architecture#data-fl...

The docs explain how the Electric sync service publishes a logical replication stream that the Postgres database subscribes to. The Electric sync service is responsible for validating permissions based on the DDLX configuration.
Where are there so many seemingly dishonest Alzheimers researchers lately?
I know it is included. The problem is that the available selection of languages is not good enough to include any of the languages I need it for. There is only support for a handful of languages.
People can pick and choose what is best for them... only by changing the company they work for unfortunately. The company I currently work for gives me little choice in the matter: I can always go to the office more than 3 days per week, but not less.
Regardless of any “Pax Americana”, nuclear weapons have been the greatest force for peace in history.

Before them, we had two devastating world wars in the span of about three decades, with over 100,000,000 dead total. Now we’ve gone over seven decades without another.

Let’s hope the deterrent holds through the current, ongoing, and horribly irresponsible brinksmanship.
"Scientists have created tiny living robots from human cells that can move around in a lab dish and may one day be able to help heal wounds or damaged tissue, according to a new study."

links to here

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replic...
You are implying here that having and expressing an opinion on social policy is worth "holding someone accountable" for. Be careful with that hammer. It feels righteous to wield until the acceptable opinion changes in a way you don't agree with.

Also, this kind of thing may be a net benefit for DHH. It's publicity. Time will tell.
Why not build on PureDarwin?
> If a few powerful people can engineer a disease like COVID an unleash it the world,

What
Mouse jiggler for the win lol. That's what I use when I "goof off".
Probably not, this is using four motors that are close to each wheel. ICE cars route energy from a central motor.
China is aggressively building more nuclear weapons and these breeder reactors will be key to produce the weapons material needed.
OAuth APIs Explained [audio]
This article is not about graphics drivers. The project in question is "advanced parking and driving assistance technology".
> Your blue isn’t my blue.

Of course it is, in practical sense ("qualia" don't matter in any way). If it isn't, it means you're suffering from one of a finite number of visual system disorders, which we've already identified and figured out ways to deal with (that may include e.g. preventing you from operating some machinery, or taking some jobs, in the interest of everyone's safety).

Yes, our brains do a lot of post-processing and "computational photography". But it's well understood - if not formally, then culturally. The brain mostly does heuristics, optimizing for speed at the cost of accuracy, but it still gives mostly accurate results, and we know where corner cases happen, and how to deal with them. We do - because otherwise, we wouldn't be able to communicate and cooperate with each other.

Most importantly, our brains are calibrated for inputs highly correlated with reality. Put the imp-in-a-box in between, and you're just screwing with our perception of reality.
It's not necessarily even status, just feeding themselves: Publish or die, and you aren't publishing if your conclusions aren't positive and strong.

In medicine it's especially tough, as testing is among the most expensive and the number of available data points is quite low, so one gets to fignt over individual data points that make a difference. Did this person not follow the protocol, and I have a paper, or not?

I've seen something similar when working in agriculture: Early tests of new plant strains are low data, because a company will start by testing so many experimental plants that it'd be unaffordable to test them all very strongly. This makes people really argue about single data points in those early tests. Was this chunk of the field contaminated? Attacked by a wild animal? But there at least the interest in fraud is small. If a breeder gets a stinker through, it just goes into trials on the other hemisphere, where it's planted in an order of magnitude more fields, and therefore just lead to disappointment 6 months later.

With medicine, the cost of replication is so high, and often takes so many years, that it's not just that an honest mistake is catastrophic, but that the difference in outcomes for the person doing the curation is so high, one doesn't have to be all that dishonest to make biased decisions that will lead to a strong career.
For the Penguin!
Why not? Humans are, after all, just large quantum state vectors, numbers like any other.
>I don't understand why there has to be such a divide. There can be a world where some companies are remote and it's a competitive advantage (ability to recruit from a wider pool of people) and other companies that are in-person and that's a competitive advantage (better social dynamics among employees, easier collaboration in certain ways).

Because chances are this world is not our world. In our world the former companies have an advantage, but there are a lot of financial interests put on not going down that route.
The Implications of ChatGPT for Legal Services and Society
Every big hospitality broker is under these kinds of attacks. Hotels.com data got exposed en-masse through one of their service providers.
1million users waiting even a 1 second longer is about a month of single developers time.

This sort of calculations you preach are inherently untrue, as they completely ignore that 1second times million. After all, nobody bothers economically evaluate just a single second.
But it does account to much, when multiplied by the ammount of users.
And when we multiply again, by the times a single user uses your software, and then again, by the time a users uses different software from other developers who also thought "it's only 1 second, nobody cares", we end up living in world where software usability gets lower and lower despite hardware getting faster and faster.

We end up living in a world where literally weeks are wasted everyday, waiting for slow windows file explorer.
If you'd want to evaluate that honestly, you would probably come to conclusion that microsoft should have a dedicated team, working for decade on nothing but explorer startup optimization, and it would still pay for it self.

But they don't.
Because at the end of the day, this whole "lets evaluate developers time working on given improvement" is just a cope and justification of being us lazy, that only pretends to be an objective argument so we can make ourself feels better
Armed and armoured robot dogs don't kill people, people kill people.
I guess we have different definitions of aggressive, but okay, wasn't meant to be aggressive. Your comment about "so obvious" seems a bit obtuse to me and is where the conversation went off the rails. Why are you even questioning how obvious this is one a source image as the one from the TFA? Just based on that, I rejected your premise of this conversation as not being very conducive to anything approaching realistic.
The hard part was getting CUDA and torch to work. The package itself was just poetry install. Easy-peasy.
Hi all, I was on a Le Wagon coding bootcamp earlier this year and was very disappointed -- and surprised -- with the experience I had as it was very different from the reviews I was reading online.

I since found others on Reddit who shared similar experiences, so I decided to make: https://lewagonreviews.com/

Have you had a negative bootcamp experience with Le Wagon, or another bootcamp provider?

I suspect that there are plenty more of these stories out there...
Or as I've told the devs in the place I work "Don't fuck up the data path to the reports, it is a cardinal sin".
That nicely illustrates something I've tried to explain SO many times to developers and "content creators".

I know machine translation exists. I know how to call on it if I need it.

But if you turn it on without asking me, much of the time I'll be translating back into English to try to understand what the hell you were trying to say. You make more work for me, not less.

Better machine translation won't fix this, if you don't give it context. You could have the best machine translation in the world, but if you just gave it the word "Share" and told to translate to German, it would have had to make a guess on whether you meant share as in stock or share as in distribute.

The worst is, some sites like YouTube seem to reward creators for "localised content", pushing them to make garbage translations of things I can perfectly well read, and serving up that instead of the original.
As this applies to DHH, are you suggesting that having and expressing an opinion can cause "harm"?
Thank you!

And you can change visualizations in the dropdown, there is a special one for Pluto's eccentric orbit :)
Falsifying in research feels a bit like doping in sports.

At some point the prestige & funding are just too much of an incentive to not take advantage of it.

It's probably easy to morally justified in their minds because they believe their hypthosis is correct
Do you have any evidence to support your assertions?
> Did we get worse at maths by using computers to do our computation?

We did as a matter of fact.

If you could get in a time machine, I'm sure people 50 years ago were better at mental arithmetic that current-day people. They got a lot more practice, since they had not other choice.

Today you can probably live your life without even knowing how to add or subtract. Just stick your card in the slot and let the computer do everything.
This is why I switched to AMD video cards. NVIDIA was always flaky under Linux. I finally got a working setup, and then they stopped backporting new OpenGL features to the binary blob drivers for it, breaking all sorts of stuff.

CUDA is a big advantage for NVIDIA, but I don’t use it. Similarly, NVIDIA hardware tends to be a half a generation ahead. Whatever. The AMD drivers are open source, in kernel tree, and reliable over time.
> It’s simply decades of R&D that no other company has done.

ASML machines consist of at least two main parts: laser and lenses. Both has been engineered by third-party firms: TRUMPF (laser) and Carl Zeiss (lenses).

> Simply invest tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of man-years and there you go, a second ASML.

As it is often, you'd just need to know where to buy your start (remember MS DOS) and then you can invest a lot from your first revenues.

Canon might come up with a good different solution (13.10.2023):

- Canon, [], launches ASML challenge with machine to make the most advanced chips
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37870372

- Canon Nanoimprint lithography semiconductor manufacturing system (5nm)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37894925

- Canon Prepares Nanoimprint Lithography Tool to Challenge EUV Scanners
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37917587
> Notice one of the primary drivers is Jamie Dimon, Chariman & CEO of JPMorgan Chase, who will be a huge loser in a office real-estate crash,

Could be just coincidence that he recently sold his 140 million dollar worth of shares of JP Morgan.
Yara announces first clean ammonia-powered container ship
> These days, most remote work is done as part of a “hybrid” arrangement, with some days at home and the rest in the office.

For me the office days are terrible now though. I used to have my own desk, obviously that doesn't fly with hybrid. But the whole running around with laptops is just so horrible. I really hate the office (and the colleagues that love the office and keep asking us to come in because they feel lonely or something).

I don't think this works for me.
Discovery of planet too big for its sun throws off solar system formation models
I suspect that we end up in a world that is still more hybrid than before; I remember the days of having to commute into an office even through a fairly bad snowstorm. That is probably mostly gone for office work. I find even outside of work people are often quicker to jump on a Zoom call than get together in person.

However, that world will also have companies that are much friendlier to full-time remote where practical and companies that mandate coming in a few days a week at least. And people who prefer one or the other will naturally gravitate to different work over time if they haven't already done so.

Right now we're going through a phase where things are changing and people feel that they're not getting what they bargained for whether staying remote or getting back to a before-times office.
Carbon dioxide becomes more potent as climate changes, study finds
Dijkstra once —when the discipline of CS was itself much younger— wrote something to the effect of "how are we supposed to teach our students things that will last their lifetimes?"

(ie if today's kids are ~20, what could we teach that will still be relevant for computing in ~2070?)
Nothing. However 2FA could prevent those hackers from being able to login to booking.com using stolen credentials and perpetrating this scam.
So much wrong in this comment including the obtuse conspiracy mongering.

But I wanted to answer the simple question that's posed.

The stock market is going up because company profits are going up. Additionally the return of war thanks to the spread of populist nationalism and the growth of AI both promise future growth in profits as well. It adds up very comfortably.
you think OpenAI employees watch your conversations and register your domain names? Or that OpenAI has a system in place where they try to profit from registering domain names people talk about?
I would imagine with Wine the number of people interested to see Windows applications run under Linux/BSD/etc is significantly larger than with macOS/Darling.
Code is very token dense, from what I understand.
AFAIK, model behind yiyan is Baidu's ERNIE. Yi-34B (and Yi model family) comes from another startup created by Kai-fu Lee earlier this year: 01.ai.