skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Working remote has sucked all the personality and humanity from work imo.

A platoon of conventionally acceptably dressed drones sat at generic desks furiously typing in a nondescript openspace where soundproofing creates cathedral silence causing the slightest noise to be annoying so every single one is glued to their screen with headphones on is what sucked all the personality and humanity from work imo.

I find it much more personal and humane to have a Zoom call with a child-lapped coworker dressed with a tacky Hawaiian shirt, getting to say hi to their passing SO (should they find me comfortable to do so), or talking about the guitar visibly sitting in the background (should they elect to share).

> “I don’t want to talk to my coworkers ever if I can avoid it”

This is highly demeaning to an underestimated portion of the population. I can understand that some people thrive in the physical company of others, while others find it enjoyable but mentally draining.

While the former feel distress when forced to work remotely, the latter feel equal distress when forced to come to the office, suffer random smalltalk - because not all watercooler talk is That Next Big Breakthrough - that is not socially acceptable to walk away from, and end up feeling miserably inefficient the rest of the day.

Historically, the "watercooler kind" had the higher ground, and during lockdown they got to get a taste of what the second kind feels like when required to come to the office, yet now that the table has turned again the improbable opportunity for balance and understanding that COVID inadvertently created is lost as most fail to acknowledge the other side's suffering.

Mutual understanding is the only way out of this conflict. I would respectfully beg for people emitting such quips as the quoted one to openly reach out and genuinely try to understand why it looks like some people seem to act in such ways.
The theory that dealers are going to sit on inventory to keep prices high would have to assume that they're fools.

The banks sat on the properties because they knew the government was going to lower interest rates and otherwise cause the value of the properties to increase from their post-crash low.

For dealerships to keep prices high they would have to purposely sell fewer cars. But selling more cars for high prices is the reason they want prices to stay high -- all they'd be doing is giving the high price sale to another seller. Meanwhile they're paying to store inventory and paying interest on the borrowed money they used to buy it, or foregoing alternate investment returns if it's their own money. Only to continue holding something they could sell for high prices now so that they can wait until the prices come down and sell it for a lower price later?
Debit and credit cards are not popular everywhere. In Germany, their market share is below 50% in e-commerce transactions. In retail it's just above 50%. If you look at the overall volume, 82% of their transactions are made in cash.

Now, would they swap cash this solution? I doubt it... Privacy is a reason but not the only one.
>Jane Austen's men were rich bachelors, often coming to the country from London, often written as charming

Yes and often not rich and often not charming. One of the key points of her writing was to contrast these characters in a context where women had very high stakes (not marrying did not end well for most women, including her) and limited options.
Second brain, I have processes to trigger and re-surface notes. Raw notes i "recycle" on a regular basis into my second brain. Anki is great for things i need to constantly remember like key facts.
> At random. That's why it's background.

From the github page:

# The order in which the audio files are played
# Can be either "Random" or "Alphabetical".
playback_order = "Random"
Across a lot of Europe there are systems/companies which already fill this role. I'm familiar with Blik in Poland which in addition to letting you buy stuff online and in person pretty also lets you send money to an average person using only their mobile phone number.
well it not really a good analogy because pigs are very robust and have existed a long time and 'AI'(LLMs) are very brittle fragile embryos that can die from a sneeze.

a more relevant analogy for llms is a bullshiter that don't know shit about anything but like talk about everything and they're good at that (talking like they know), I'm sure we all at least know or knew in the past someone like that.

at a low enough percentage these bullshiters can thrive and get praise from other people but when there a lot of them and not enough of the real deal, well everyone is in trouble including the bullshiters since they no longer have who to mimic.
Doesn't mean you get angry, though. Just judge and move on.
No, I don't. I specifically said that they should not be required to actively support this, write and publish documentation or even provide a SDK. And I said nothing about providing warranty, replacing the operating system could just void the warranty. Again, I did not ask for active support, I asked for no active blocking, i.e. putting in extra work to block something that would naturally be possible.
Based on my reading of cppreference, it is required to return negative zero when you do std::clamp(-0.0f, +0.0f, +0.0f) because when v compares equal to lo and hi the function is required to return v, which the official std::clamp does but my incorrect clamp doesn't.
Found the non technical manager
their word, their rules.

or would you start another jif/gif-kinda war over this with the author? XD
Nice insights, I'm just wondering how advertisers and marketers will remain authentic if you use ai in content creation.
No it's not. If Apple didn't exist, people wouldn't suddenly be freer. Developing for Apple, and the job of "mobile developer" they invented, are both choices.
HTMX looks pretty much like something I would use for fast prototyping with very limited complexity/the scope is known ahead to stay simple. I've been working in full-stack for a decade together with extremely skilled engineers on large monorepos. Our wisdom is to stay as vanilla as reasonable and understand what your technology does underneath. As soon as there are layers over layers (tools calling tools with domain specific languages) you wish you could simply change X directly instead of having to go through e.g. create-react-app or htmx. But if any framework can provide me that level of comfort then I'm fine with it although I learned the more comfort frameworks provide the darker the other side.
Ruby 3.2.3 Released
Interesting read.

Please note that this quote partial as it stands is misrepresenting what I meant, but it's for all to see and also not that important :)
Yeah, it's weird that no one ever made that model work. I think it was tried?
Why would Iranians care abour other areas? When was the last time the rest of the world cared about them in a good way?

Weather will become tropical all over planet, including Iran, which is likely too arid currently.
Haha oops didn't notice that
I doubt the EU has the mindset or ability to cultivate companies that are able to compete with Apple.
Anecdotally, privacy is actually something that people care about today. I used to think that it was mostly software geeks that cared about privacy, but during the past few years there's been so much discussion about various privacy issues, as well as discussions in my community etc.

Young people in particular care way more about privacy that us older people. In fact, young people feel way more anxiety around things that are tied to your identity.

But even despite them, I feel like even in my extended family privacy issues are increasingly very important to people. Everybody knows somebody who has been scammed.. even lost a great amount of money.

Your average user is caring more and more about security and privacy.

Re: being anonymous, I don't know. I suspect the anonymity part is more related to privacy for most people.

The other benefits of this of course is that you can make your own payment system and integration, and you won't need to be dependent upon VISA/Mastercard for your payments. Cheaper transaction fees ultimately helps lower product prices, enables microtransactions and more - I wouldn't discount how much of a big deal this would be.

I'm sure once they've finalized the whole thing, Misa/Vastercard will have employed their lobbying powers to the fullest to inject themselves into the final spec, but here's hoping.
That’s the same person who said that Safari ran out of memory on stuff their Android doesn’t.

Their point wasn’t “iPhones have more RAM than comparable Android devices” (as you say, that comparison is entirely unreasonable based on those devices), it was “this is the RAM on the devices where I observed this behaviour”. If the iPhone in question has more RAM than the Android, yet still OOMs where the Android doesn’t, that’s a pretty strong argument that iOS isn’t magically thriftier than Android at managing memory.
I don't believe this is a big issue, typically package authors just use $output variable which returns whatever path the package should be stored at.

The real reason for it are libraries. The binaries that are packaged in /nix/store very often depend on at least glibc and many other libraries. Their path is hardcoded to /nix/store/...

Changing the path would require recompiling, which also means all the caches that were generated would have to be purged and everything would need to be rebuilt.

Though in my limited experience I was able to also use a symlink. I got a warning that some thing could break but all things I was interested in continued to work.
For some reason Kalmbach Media kinda seems like a racket. What ever happened to competitors like Railroad Model Craftsman magazine ?
Not even browsers support IPv6 properly ... Enter IPv6 and it will redirect to a search engine, enter IPv4 and it will redirect correctly.
Dacia Duster
> blockchain-based digital "money"

> quotes because there is no such thing, "cryptocurrencies" are purely speculative securities

Fellow gold money user in the thread?
Text adventure might be an easier way to start.
Try Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/
how is the "world is on its knees"? also didn't google target net-zero carbon by 2030? https://sustainability.google/operating-sustainably/ what do you want google to do about war?
That reminds me: When I was about 9 or 10 I created the sequel to Zelda a link to the past. With colored pencils. On paper. Dozens and dozens of sheets of paper.

That game was amazing. I can’t believe Nintendo didn’t call me up, but instead decided to make a 3D game
Yes its in the same eco system
Perhaps its a matter of workplace? I don't think many people would describe their jobs as having personality or humanity.
I don't have one, but this one has buttons and lights - I think my kids would have liked it when they were younger.
> How much meaningful and interesting work do you think exists in this world?

I think meaningful work often leads to very interesting discussions because people always imagine stuff like humanitarian aid, etc as meaningful. While certainly true, it’s not limited to jobs like those.

In my experience work can be meaningful for something as simple as being a positive change in someone’s job, customer experience or whatever. I personally spent quite a while in a job where a lot of project have been cancelled midway through or were objectively useless to begin with (busywork). This feeling of spending substantial time in my life to work on something that nobody will ever see or perceive as something positive burned me out terribly. And no amount of work life balance and good pay could make that up.

I now have a different job (Fullstack Developer) at the same company. I work more focused and it is more challenging, my salary hasn’t changed substantially beyond inflation. But customers use our product and are satisfied with it, plus it brings revenue to the company. This job is so much more meaningful in a practical sense than the one before.

And there is quite a lot of jobs like my first one. And if you actually believe in a market working as intended, this begs the question: why?
I don't think it's a register allocation failure but is in fact necessitated by the ABI requirement (calling convention) for the first parameter to be in xmm0 and the return value to also be placed into xmm0.

So when you have an algorithm like clamp which requires v to be "preserved" throughout the computation you can't overwrite xmm0 with the first instruction, basically you need to "save" and "restore" it which means an extra instruction.

I'm not sure why this causes the extra assembly to be generated in the "realistic" code example though. See https://godbolt.org/z/hd44KjMMn
And the word thaler is a shortened version of Joachimsthaler. Joachimsthal was the place where the silver for the coins was mined. And the second part of that, thal, is cognate with English dale.
Well, tell him one needs to take baby steps before they start running. Tell him 2D is how all the programmers start, and they all start from using https://www.scratchjr.org

Going straight to 3D is going to feel like a chore after a few minutes and stomp his drive
What counts as a hacking attempt? Like, if there's a port scan against jpmorganchase.com is that one attempt, or does each attempted connection count as an attempt?
Not from a CSP (content security policy) perspective. Which can sometimes make all the difference.
Man, that page is gold. Thanks for creating it
DuckDB is about querying existing files or am I missing something?
Scientists were already barcoding ants much earlier. Not with QR, but see for example https://www.reddit.com/r/Awwducational/comments/31mqtq/resea...
Very cool process, shame this post drowned. For anyone who stumbles upon this, the tl;dw is:

- The pointer that GBA games use to play audio relies on the game to provide it with a buffer of space in RAM where the audio data is located. When the game crashes the pointer continues past this until it starts playing data from the MMIO (about 1.5 hours after the crash), where the actual ROM of the game is located. The author has a separate video with more detail here: https://youtu.be/wSWNkpqjtQY?si=qFpnQUN-2yWCfwuQ&t=361

- By getting a high enough quality recording of the sounds that the crashed game makes is sufficient to reconstruct the ROM, with some caveats that the author goes over and works around. He does not elaborate on the code for this but posts the source code in the description.

- The author uses this to dump a Chinese replica cartridge with actual Nintendo hardware. Part of this process requires creating a messy DIY audio adapter by cutting up cables, very hackery. The author then examines the surprising differences between it and a genuine cart. It uses some clever hacks itself which are clever enough to warrant a whole separate video.
> Vue 4

Is this a thing?
tl;dr

OpenAi is accused of libel because ChatGPT fabricated an entire lawsuit; Generating an entire complaint with an erroneous case number, ChatGPT falsely claimed that Radio host Walters had been accused of defrauding and embezzling funds from the Second Amendment Foundation.

In response, OpenAI argues that ChatGPT's output cannot be considered libel, partly because the chatbot output cannot be considered a "publication," which is a key element of a defamation claim.

I really hope this will argument will win in court. Because of the fear of fabrication the models are continously dumbed down with RLHF. I'm just using a tool here, and I will judge its veracity and whether or not it can be published
Interesting study, but the claims of 'digital' vs 'print' are overly broad. The only digital setup tested was scrolling text on a laptop screen. No attempts were made to isolate factors that could influence the findings such as paging vs scrolling presentation, text clarity (resolution, aliasing) viewport size (fullpage vs small letterbox) , digital technology (ePaper vs (unspecified) typical laptop panel) or ambient dexterity (lightweight handhelp device vs. static deskbound laptop).

Given these gaps with significant impact plausibility, I feel claims extending the findings to the entire 'digital" domain should be toned down explicitly before publication.

Furthermore in should be noted that the results did not find differenc in resulting comprehension, just differences in measured brain activity. Specifically "there were no significant differences between the medium of presentation in comprehension of the texts, reading times, or performance on a measure of information retention. "

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.30.553693v1
This is exciting news.

GNU Taler has been in development since 2014 (10 years now!). I'm very happy to see European Commision's interest in this privacy-protecting technology. Along with GNU Net and GNU Social (amongst others), it seems like one of those technologies that have a huge potential to make internet a better place for everyone.

While many consider GNU projects to be vaporware with development pace of a turtle, it seems that the turtle is slowly starting to lead the race. GNU Hurd has also had significant news lately [0]. I'm feeling really hopeful about this, especially after the somewhat recent RMS lynching campaign that was lead by major corporations.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2023-q4.html
My impression (which might be unfair since I haven't used the Taler system) is that this looks like a technically better but practically worse version of payment systems which already exist in parts of Europe like the Polish Blik, Swedish Swish, Norwegian Vipps and the one they have in the Netherlands (I forgot the name of that one).

In "the real world" I really don't want to be dealing with a wallet of electronic cash stored on my computer. What I want to be able to do is relatively seamlessly pay for a curry or send my friend some money I owe them or something.
It very clearly says it has no effect on void elements, and then directly follows up with describing the effect it does have.

And the link you provided is specifically for the input tag, which has nothing to do with the syntax definition in general. Why would they repeat a generally applicable rule in more specific sections?
Indeed, GNU Taler doesn't use a blockchain, as a blockchain cannot actually implement digital cash. In a blockchain, transactions are necessarily centralized — on a distributed ledger maintained using a peer-to-peer protocol, but the transactions themselves are still account-based —, so they are effectively equivalent to wire transfers, i.e., just accounting entries: they cannot take place between two offline parties like you can do with actual cash. Also, blockchain-based digital "money" (quotes because there is no such thing, "cryptocurrencies" are purely speculative securities and that's it) need to be at the same time the currency, the long-term storage, and the transaction system.

On the contrary, GNU Taler is only a transaction system as you said, and uses advanced cryptography (double blind signatures) and infrastructure that allow it to be bearer-based, i.e., actually decentralized transactions between two offline parties can take place. Taler can actually do digital cash, with buyers privacy, and auditability and taxability of sellers.
we need better communication to get OVER waging war...

we are all humans, we should not continue to wage war against each other for any reason.
These discussions always miss the main point. Remote work gives you the opportunity to decide what suits your life best. It enhances the possibilities a company offers. The main conflict is people trying to convince other people that their way is the right way and vice-versa. Find out what works for you and if you are better off, everyone will be better off around you too including your employer. That is why I mostly ignore these findings. I know what works for me and no study can convince me otherwise. And I know some colleagues like the office more and I'm glad they can go there.
> > Meanwhile Israel has recently expressed a desire to occupy their neighbors as well as fully settling Gaza and West Bank after they are ethically cleansed.

> I have not seen anyone say this before.

Smotrich is very blunt about this, as just one example of many.

https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/174690024226652991...

"Soldiers in Gaza saying they won't stop until their mission is completed: "Occupation, Expulsion, Settlement"

One of many such clips, most with a backdrop of flattening whole blocks with wired explosives.

https://twitter.com/PeruginiNic/status/1747730495482310771

"The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with 315 mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed."

Same thing with the supreme court of Gaza:

https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/17317722618482647...

What more "concessions" is Palestine supposed to make here? They already get treated like people without any rights whatsoever. What more could they "concede" that hasn't been ripped from them already?
From looking at the GNU Taler FAQ[1], making “p2p” payments still needs to go through the exchange, and the exchanges need to be independently audited to ensure compliance.

Ok. So, privacy?

Given that the system ultimately relies on centralized actors, it can only be private for payment amounts below any applicable travel rule amount in the given jurisdiction.

[1] https://taler.net/en/faq.html
How to build a strategy, not a roadmap
There is a lot of boring and low "meaning" work that needs to be done. To give a trite example, washing your dishes and keeping your house clean. Or brushing your teeth and flossing. Or making revenue dashboards tracking income and making sure that data reporting is accurate.
>If the band develops a suntan except for under the tape, you've got a good bulb.

Beware, heat from the lamp can also cause a "suntan". That's why checking under the tape is a mandatory step. If even under the tape is tanned, it is caused by heat and the test is invalid.
May I suggest creating an option to add waypoints which should help recreate bus routes?
> millions of people are negatively impacted by this to the benefit of a small few.

Can you justify this? These sorts of phones were unthinkable only 20 years ago, even for a billionaire and now they're extremely affordable. That is a net positive impact all of this seems to be at best a tiny dip in.

> a huge majority of those people likely aren't aware that they're being taken advantage of

Let's wait until they are aware, and let them choose. We shouldn't assume other people's choices and "act in their best interests".

> What Apple is doing here is exactly the behavior I believe governments ought to be trying to prevent.

We have endless periods of time where the setup wasn't conducive to the sort of innovation that's happened over the last 20 years in phones. Governments are indeed great at that. It's just hard to notice until you see a country with a government that is conducive to innovation, and then they start creating entirely new industries, and you wonder what happened.
If you believe that kebab shops, or any shops, that put up such signs are really about card fees then I have bridge to sell you...
The important thing is to identify what the outputs (of meetings etc) should _be_ and then work backwards from that to how to accomplish the task _remotely_ and _asynchronously_.
i disagree. making the backend format a div and send it back is much faster than creating a json, sending it to client and having the client hydrate stuff inside the page
Use scratch. My kid loves it, and despite him being only 6 when he started, he actually knows what he's doing. His games are mostly 'the cat flies through the air when it touches the cheese' (in other words, not really a game) but he has tons of fun.
After skim reading this, can we just stick to PDF please? :-)