skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping to find out, that the actor's voice in the demo video was generated, or that he had recorded the video speaking in another language or something.

That would have been the knockout punch.
Time and again I see this when these claims come up, it comes down to a lack of responsive cultural changes to new norms, rather than inherent differences in in-office vs remote work. If you change your processes and cultural norms to facilitate better work for all styles, everyone benefits. There are ways to overcome preceived deficiencies of remote work. In short, its a solved / solvable problem, but it means changing culture, and seemingly, thats what the C-Suite hates.

I would love to hear otherwise. I haven't yet seen evidence to the contrary, and I'm very open to it. I don't think executives like culture changing without their fiat, which is what happend in most WFH transition cases. Some did end up embracing it anyway, but over and over again as of late, its being walked back, and even Amazon admitted they have no data to backup their RTO plans.

The pattern of behavior I'm obvserving aligns (to me) with what I'm saying: its C-suite taking back control because it diminished their executive power and increased competition for labor, driving up labor costs.
That's really cool, astropy is well baked into our python codebase but may need to experiment more with Skyfield since it's coordinate transformations and timing and positions functionality look good.
Universities are the ones collecting the checks from the fraud, they have zero incentive to uncover anything for the same reason they never looked too hard at their athletes.
Same here. I would've really like if the spec specifically mentioned the possibility of that one edge case ahead of time instead of having to sift through the 1000 lines of input.

No hate on AOC though, I really respect all the hard work that goes into it.
I'm assuming that this is just more of Ken Paxton abusing the courts to boost his political profile.

Like that time he sued to overturn other states' elections.
America's Unsung Rail Renaissance
Inboard brakes exist in specialty applications such as F1 and vehicles with portal axels like the Humvee.
I'm questioning if this 61k model will ever see the light of day. It's also not going to ship before 2025, and lots of things will happen by then. The 2025 promise means nothing, only the models that'll ship in the coming 3-4 months matter.

So it actually starts at 80k (74k with tax incentives, if they apply), and has 300 miles of range, but which in real world circumstances will likely be more like 150-200 miles of range considering the purpose of a pickup truck (drive uphill/downhill with load, in diverse weather, off road, etc.), and the fact that you get this "brand new" performance only for a few months before the car sort of settles into 85%-90% of its range.

Plus Tesla always inflates their EPA range.
(anecdotally) PDFs usually come from many people, departments, companies, and apps. It's hard to shoehorn in accessibility if someone didn't add it in at the origin (like in indesign or whatever app they used). Or if they printed to PDF, whatever accessibility they had would probably be lost. Much of the time it's like working with a raster image with some embedded text. Not really the same as being able to edit a proper semantic document.

With a website and available source code, any dev working on it later on can still add accessibility, tweak contrasts and fonts and add screen reader hints, etc.

It's much harder to do so for PDFs after the fact. And PDF viewer apps may or may not even support the accessibility annotations. By contrast all the major browsers and operating systems have OK support for web accessibility.
This does that already. At least, to a first approximation. Voice cloning is not that great in general right now.
What's the country? I'm in this situation in Poland and I'm running a company (sole proprietorship). I'd say the majority of IT work is done this way here for tax benefits, even within the country.
You may be doing the employee a favor this way (their costs can be written off), and you'll make things simple for yourself.
Science and the advancement of technology is literally the only thing that has ever led to lasting prosperity for humans. All other periods of prosperity over the last ten thousand years have been temporary and highly localized. You can lose your golden age of prosperity through a single assassination. Only science breaks the wheel.

If you factor in all future humans in your utility calculations, then science is by far the #1 noblest pursuit humans can ever undertake. We're talking about scientific advancements potentially helping trillions of people before all is said and heat-deathed. Great works of art can also be enjoyed by all future humans, but science has a super-linear (if not actually exponential) growth curve where every advancement makes future advancements a little easier.

The question is whether the noble pursuit of "science" and the day-to-day activities of "being a scientist" have diverged or not. There is mounting evidence that the institution of science has been subverted to the extent that many people who are professional scientists are not actually contributing to the pursuit of science. Or, far worse, detracting from it, as we see here. It's one of the great tragedies of our era.
I just found the words to express that people have really conflated AI with the singularity. I agree with you that AI is here. And that doesn't mean Skynet. It means that you can converse with a reasonably intelligent partner who adds to the shared pool of ideas. Just like another person does.

People think when AI gets here, and if it's even a little smarter than humans, it will compound over time, make itself smarter, and rule over us all. That ignores that humanity is made up of intelligent people, some of whom are smarter than others, and even organizations (and technologies, like books) that allow our ideas to persist past our individual lifetimes. And yet, no organization has come to dominate the world. Why would an AI?
Theory meets practice. An automated theorem proves that knows about Android view hierarchy, Parcelables, Android kernel well really entirety of SELinux not to mention whatever Bluetooth firmware drivers seems quite a bit of boiling the ocean.

The actual device (not the app) does seem poorly engineered and not at all fail safe / provided with ‘might kill the patient’ error handling.

Seems like double whammy where an app and hardware conspire against its user.
I think this really depends on the mirrors tbh. I run a small fleet of three work trucks. 2010 Ford Ranger, 2020 F-250, 2022 F-150. Out of any of them the F-250 is the easiest to park, all due to the towing mirror/ low convex tear drop mirror. Ridiculously easy to park given its size.

Any of these vehicles is easier to park (parallel especially) than my 2007 Acura TL personal vehicle. Good mirror design goes a long way.
Who whoa

He could be a Canadian and sharing a condo with 10 people!
Central European Time in Benelux, France and Spain is basically Hitler time, see

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38478402

If people would become aware of that the proposal might have more chances.
This is a great example of basic functionality regressing due to the bloat of modern technology stacks.

Blinking cursors have existed since the original IBM PC and before. Yet for some reason, now a blinking cursor is a problem that causes CPU spikes on modern gigahertz level machines.

This shouldn't even be possible.
Off-topic rant: to read this article, I:

1. Clicked on the link.

2. Got pay-walled.

3. Remembered that I had access to the Atlantic through Apple News+.

4. Opened the News App on my phone.

5. Went to Magazines.

6. Found the latest issue of The Atlantic.

7. Found the hidden link to go to the magazine's "channel," since this article was not actually in the magazine.

8. Thankfully, this article was the most recent thing posted.

9. Read the article hunched over my phone while the still-paywalled version was looming over my head on my computer screen.

Somebody has to figure out how to fix this.
Just 12 years full time with Ruby here, I'm a noob. But when I see that I could replace

def initialize(text)
@text = text
end

def inspect
"#<#{self.class} #{text}>"
end

def ==(other)
other.is_a?(Word) && text == other.text
end

with

def initialize(text) = @text = text
def inspect = "#<#{self.class} #{text}>"
def ==(other) = other.is_a?(Word) && text == other.text

I start drooling a little. That's 3 lines to replace 11. We have a soft limit on class length of 100 lines, and I like the extra conciseness this allows.

You can also do it like

define_method(:inspect) { |text| "#<#{self.class} #{text}>" }

and we do that in some places, but that extra verbosity makes for more lines.
> "...pretty much all Macs are capable of running Triple-A titles, which is not what it was like five years ago.”

It's interesting that Apple keeps making this point, and that they released the Game Porting Toolkit. I don't think we're going to see like an Apple Switch device, but they do seem to care about console/PC-quality games in a way they never have before.
If you booked with Booking, and the hotel called you back, and told you they don't use Booking any more, how do you imagine did they get the information needed to call you back and knew of the booking?

What you have here is commission fraud on behalf of the hotel against Booking.com, and if you call back Booking.com and tell them about it, they will set the hotel straight.

Or you get back to the hotel, tell them you understand how commission fraud works and if they are willing to split that commission (18%) half and half with you.
I don’t know that that’s true. You still have a big time zone and cultural gap.
Average human.
The following already worked in Ruby for single-line method definitions:

def foo(s) s.upcase * 3 end

foo "Hey" # => "HEYHEYHEY"

No ; and no =
If the drive source is attached directly to the uniwheel, then handling radial drive inputs isn't required and the uniwheel isn't necessary. It's effectively a hub motor with reduction gears at that point. Once the motor is mounted remotely from the uniwheel and the uniwheel is handling radial offsets, then we need to prevent the axle from getting pushed around radially. Rotating shafts that deflect introduce off-balance vibration and destructive mechanical loads. If the motor is located very near the uniwheel, keeping the shaft's free length very short, the motor's output bearing does effectively provide that support. Then we're only constrained by relocating the suspension elements.

Thrust bearings are for the gears. The depictions show helical gears, which would surely be necessary when operating at transportation speeds for noise reasons. Helical gears experience axial forces, which would need to be handled for each gear. Mainly on one side for ICE drivetrains, since coasting loads are small, so one side could get away with a ground and hardened rub surface. EV's using regenerative braking would need robust thrust handling on both sides.

Herringbone gears would eliminate the axial thrust issue, at substantially more expense. The easiest method is to separate the gear areas with a central runout groove so you'd have a hope of grinding in a decent surface on the faces, then it's only a little more than double the work; effectively cutting two gear shapes per gear plus the runout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herringbone_gear
No mention about HTC?

.fancy { behavior: url("path/to/pie_files/PIE.htc"); }

(It is still online [1]! And even on GitHub [2]!!)

[1] http://css3pie.com/
[2] https://github.com/lojjic/PIE
I don't think you have any idea of how hard EUV was to pull off.

They toiled for 20 years without guarantee of success. They managed to pull it off and now they own the bleeding edge process and will do for the foreseeable future. If someone wants to do the same, they can become competitors.

It's not just a question of patents, they keep almost everything about these machines secret.
> So if all those exploited people were to be be less exploited and have the prosperity to choose other careers than to work in farms or sweatshops to supply the wealthy west, then those "we" would be much better off, but then the westerners "we" would be less well off as now we wouldn't be able to afford those commodities we take for granted at non-slavery prices.

The key thing is: we can redistribute where all the wealth generation goes to. At the moment, the lion's share goes to a very few very rich people - obviously people can't afford good quality, fairly priced food any more.

There used to be a time where one middle-class income was enough to feed a family of four, live in a decent house in the suburbs, have a car and go to vacation once or twice a year. We need these times, this wealth distribution back.
That’s silly. The center of the surface of the balloon is obviously the little part where you tie it off. I’m glad I could solve this universe paradox for you and all physicists in just a few seconds. Maybe I’ll get a Nobel Prize.
If you want some insight on how complex and expensive latest lithographic process are check Asianometry on YT (ex: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SB8qIO6Ti_M)
Androids built to meet the labor demands
Unpopular opinion, but this seems more like an issue of developer comfort than actual productivity, similar to how taking adderall can make you feel more productive than you actually are.

If the product quality depends on you maintaining a flow state for extended periods, then you're either working in a research lab or it's a poorly designed product.

I say this as a dev who also gets annoyed when my deep focus is interrupted, but so long as the interruption is actually warranted (and with my company's culture it usually is) I swallow my annoyance, task-switch and get the job done anyway. I'm already earning a higher salary than than most people in the world with good benefits and flexible hours. I can be mildly annoyed at work sometimes if it helps get the job done.
Ideas Change History – Interview with Steven Pinker
Not just investors and commercial holdings, but many states & localities have offered big tax breaks to businesses to get or keep them in town -- Texas (Austin, esp.) come to mind. Idea being that a lot of big developments translated to a lot of workers, who bought houses, commuted, purchases gas+coffee+lunches, etc.

With those workers leaving the city loses revenue, on top of downtown areas dying off, which exacerbates the tax base problem further.

Anecdotally, my org mandated 3 days back but has pretty slide, across the entire org, back to 2 days. The genie is out of the bottle and there is widespread, if quiet, resistance from everyone, to include senior managers.
What’s not mentioned is that he used to work in technical roles with KLA and Applied Materials, and has been with ASML for 15 years. He’s very much an insider and knows the industry very well.
There are, like remote happy hours, travel blocks, team get togethers etc.

These are solved / solvable issues. Socialization at work can be facilitated in a myriad of ways, even remotely. Games are popular way of doing it, virtual happy hours, team building activities etc.
How are they going to chat with their mistresses?
> > It would be much cooler for al of us to be writers, musicians, painters, astronauts and F1 drivers.

It's not about that, work should yield some result and it should do so within a timeframe that doesn't make you lose yourself and your mind in a multi decade process, and also while team work is amazing beyond a certain treshold the less people necessary to yield the result the better.

Modern day jobs are all about ass kissing on a massive scale and massive projects that require 5-10 years to yield what was laid out in the first meeting, and by the time you get there you fail to extract any satisfaction from it because you are a completely different person and so much water has passed under the bridge that it feels very anticlimatic.

Cutting wood or hunting with 2 or 3 guys trumps 99% of desk jobs and I also suspect driving an F1 car considering that you see those guys now but they started practicing for that when they were 8 year old.

The pinnacle of work was when we discovered fire for the first time, or discovering that pointy stones would hurt wild animals when thrown at them. Whatever you do you'll never reach the same level of work satisfaction as our ancestors when they first discovered the fundamental physical realities of our world.
I think the edge cases were entirely unclear in day 1, part 2. I had to redo it in a "dumb"/brute-force way to avoid using fancy regex tricks I don't know.

It's quite clear the small sample data was chosen intentionally to not cover them.
Twitter thread with video introduction

https://twitter.com/1x_tech/status/1730610445541638378
Thanks you.

I have been burned by this in some version of Ubuntu and have assumed it was normal behaviour ever since.
"The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.
"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that something so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.

"The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing.' 'But, says Man, the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' 'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and vanishes in a puff of logic."
I had used this app prior to the addition of the Paperless-ngx integration and it worked well, but with that functionality added it's just so easy to scan and be done. I have a Brother scanner as well that I'll still use to import longer documents or anything I want in the best quality, but for 95% of things importing from this app works perfectly.
also why the housing bubble won't burst -- too many stakes invested across the entire market
About the Security Content of iOS 17.1.2
"We" don't. "We" need to create individual accounts for each eligible staff member and provide each with a 2FA system, for example a Fido key or a TOTP auth app, or an app that uses push notifications and asks for a "yes".
I have always struggled with languages like ruby. def something do end.

Swift JS Go Java etc just feel a lot easier for me to read if that makes sense.

Not sure why. I’ve worked with ruby in the past, but never liked the syntax. Same with python.
Although true and considering what “mrob” had also replied, this will never mean full translation every time, all the time. This will work with specific environments and linguistic expectations.

I’ve been learning german since 8 years, and the amount of expressions and different ways to say things around the country is impressive. There’ll be a “interpretative” real-time translation, but it won’t guarantee fully understanding in so many cases, maybe ever.

Other thing, and we have this in common with all languages, is the context and this is difficult to address i believe.

Nevertheless, it’s impressive how far we’ve reached and i acknowledge the usability of these tools. However, human knowledge will be always crucial and primordial if we want to guarantee full understanding.
> What I found was "How to throw away data that doesn't support your desired conclusions," for the most part.

What exactly are you referring to here? This seems like a wildly misguided characterization of statistics, which I am sure cannot be based in expertise or practical applied experience.

> We're building "AI" right now but think about the inputs those see: The very first step is to throw away the statistically too common "stop words"

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what a "stopword" is and how it's used.

Words like "the" are hard to utilize within with a bag-of-words model specifically. Removing them is not something people do/did because they are clueless monkeys. The goal is to improve the signal-to-noise ratio.

For example, traditionally spam filtering uses a very crude variety of bag-of-words model called "Naive Bayes", in which we assume (wrongly of course) that word choice is completely random, and that the only difference between spam and not spam is that random distribution of words. Are you really going to argue that the word "the" is critical to that process? If you can build a better NB spam filter by including stop words, by all means go ahead and do it. But both linguistics and decades of success in the field are against you.

On the other hand, words with grammatical function like "the" are absolutely important and relevant to the overall structure and meaning of a document. Therefore, training pipelines for modern deep-learning-based LLMs like GPT don't remove stop words (as far as I know at least), because the whole idea of a stopword doesn't make sense in a model like that.

I want to be respectful here, but it sounds like you took a cursory look through three vast literatures, without the perspective of having actually used any of this stuff in real life, and drew some invalid conclusions.
This is what I'd like to build (the tutor part at least, not the VR game part yet). I'm planning to extend my current English only rough prototype[1] to support Mandarin. (I happen to be learning Mandarin myself at the moment, and there are a bunch of open source bilingual Mandarin LLMs and speech synthesizers from China to choose from.)

I think a lot of people are working on similar things right now. I know of one called http://yourteacher.ai

[1] https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NC624PBFGB7
I think the time when you could get a programming job without a degree quietly just ended, during the massive layoffs.

Of the dozen people I know affected by the layoffs, only the ones without degrees are still without work. In fact two of them have not had a single interview beyond HR phone screen in months of looking, even with 7-10 years experience.

Note also that most of these people don't have CS or other relevant degrees, just degrees at all. Programming now seems to fall under the same rules as other white collar professions.
There’s already a few of them. Checkout https://hallo.ai
In enterprise software, you cater exclusively to management, they will turn a blind eye to 99% of issues as long as the team is able to get the work done.

Take one look at EMRs and realize that its sold / marketed to .01% of the hospital, despite 80% of the health system using it.
"Or equivalent experience" are the magic words found on almost every job posting. Outside of a few corps like Google, the degree requirements are rarely a dealbreaker.
The Dot-Com Bubble vs. AI Enthusiasm
IMO most people can't mentor effectively to begin with, its simply a little more obvious when its remote.

This is solved by having a structured mentorship program and guidelines, and really good onboarding.

Of course, this means businesses have to invest in this sort of thing, and of course, they don't, because they implicitly got it for free by having seniors covering for juniors for so many decades it obfuscated the problem
that's been happening since the 1970s :/
C# has something similar, but uses the existing lambda syntax, with "=>" to the left of the body or expression, e.g.

int AddOne(int x) => x + 1;

or

void SetXToZero() => x = 0;