skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If statistics is invalid, then how do you propose companies decide, based on a reasonable and empirical estimate of reality, on what work arrangement to implement?

As Einstein said, you should make every problem as simple as possible, but no more simple.

The problem we're describing cannot be reduced to few simple statistics, it's exactly making the problem simpler than it is.

Not only just the task of measuring productivity of knowledge workers is extremely difficult if not impossible, but getting any statistic across a wide variety of different factors makes it even more pointless.

In fact, the problem shouldn't be approached from a macro, but microscopic level. Start from the basics.

There's knowledge workers that don't do anything from home. There's knowledge workers that won't achieve anything at the office. There's gargantuan projects like operating systems or databases developed fully remotely and asynchronously. There's projects that barely move without lots of synchronous, meaningful in-person interactions and there's environments like early stage startups that desperately need this kind of situation (albeit I'm sure there's many exceptions).

In professional sports it is very well understood that slightly different formulas work differently for different teams and players. Some needs to be fast and lean to be effective. Some need to put up muscle and weight. Many need both. Some need lots of cardio, some need more skills training. And all of that has to interact and mesh together and face different challenges.

Yet you want to complex systems like business projects/teams built around few statistics? Ignoring the wide variety of factors and humans that will end up there?

I'm not saying that building teams like that is an easy task, sometimes you just need to make work whatever team you're given, and you will have to decide a setup and give the right structure incentives to everyone to make it work.

But even if tomorrow a stat told us that there's proof that statistically remote is better for 60% of the teams (or the opposite) that really won't help much.
The question is literally about escaping capitalism so it seems a fair response. "How do I complain about capitalism" is a different question and much easier to do.
The median itself is a type of an average, too, regardless of the distribution. We have many averages to choose from
> Data can become irrecoverable

This seems to be becoming less and less of a drawback when compared to Google where exactly the same things can happen when people seem to get arbitrarily banned from their account with no recourse. Not to mention the recent push for passwordless keys that can be lost with the device.

Sounds like it would be better if anything because at least you have to pay for the data hosting, and so being encrypted there's no way for them to block you for entirely opaque policies or decide one day that their abuse heuristics don't like you any more.

In reality the primary friction to adoption with any of this entirely plausible tech is inertia. It's going to take something colossal fuck up to convince even a large minority to bother using non-free alternatives.
He's talking about Adblock Plus, they whitelist "acceptable ads" and vendors need to pay them to be classified as such.

Apparently Adblock Plus makes enough money from that practice that they managed to buy flattr in 2017.
Bitwarden + 2 yubikeys is my solution. I remember one password, keep one key with me, and leave one key at home.
My employer pays a patent bonus (I forget the exact number). They'll pay $X per inventor for up to three inventors but only $3X/n for n inventors if n > 3.
Wasn't this the whole point of the Bill of Rights? Without it, some states wouldn't have ratified the Constitution. This was a concession (a weakening of federal power) made for a non-dominant political arm that nevertheless needed to be brought into the fold. That seems to me like it was "explicitly developed to resolve the problem of heterogenous goal vectors for a defined political population."

More broadly, "resolve etc." in the above quote sounds like a mathy expansion of "compromise", which happens in almost every legislative body every day. Although maybe that's done implicitly and not explicitly.
https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf
Just attribute the quote to Voltaire or Franklin.
Figure01 – Humanoid robot able to learn tasks LIVE without pre-programming
It already uses 32 registers, just like RISCV, but only half of those can be used to access memory. It mostly cuts down on the number of load/store and branch encodings. The address registers are "intelligent" and can auto-de/increment, while branches have been mostly eliminated from the ISA and don't use many encodings.

But sure, there is always demand for new instructions, and there is limited space. I imagine things like SIMD could be shoved into the secondary instruction set. Though I imagined that secondary ISA would by default be a Forth jump list, it would come virtually for free.
I never saw the upside of so haphazardly pushing the lab-escape narrative. Even if it's true, this approach basically ensures we're not going to get the evidence, and simultaneously exposes the US, Asian Americans, and YouTube to risk and liability.

Can someone explain the upside to me?
Helicoprion
Yeah, we'd love to help you when you decide to give it a try so feel free to reach out. We also have quite a few people working on VR at Collabora.
How to add question to "ask" thread?
It says "Leave url blank to submit a question for discussion", I guess it is "space" button on keyboard, but it didn't work. It says "please enter url". I event tried to copy and paste "blank" symbol.
This is essentially Brave browser's entire proposition for its existence.
It's interesting that HN zapped the second colon. The headline here (at time of my posting) is:

"Identifying Rust's collect:<Vec<_>>() memory leak footgun"

but the actual title of the blog post is:

"Identifying Rust's collect::<Vec<_>>() memory leak footgun"

That extra colon matters to Rust's syntax.
Feast of the Ass
Don't worry I moved to a company where people have to come in 2-3 times a week and the culture is great and I'm not depressed any more. It works much better than any other setup I've tried.

My problem with the extraversion/introversion dichotomy is that I'm not either extreme. I am far too introverted to competently fulfil my basic social needs without some form of passive socialising like having an office full of people around me. I don't thrive with going out on the town and making friends like extraverts I know. But I'm definitely not the type of person that can not speak to people for weeks. I think that sort of person is sort of rare and should not be the basis of the entire system. I honestly think that level of introversion is not what most people even mean when they talk about introversion. That is highly unusual and is not how human nature usually works.
GP said "System A doesn't work without controls" and you replied "that's disingenuous: System B also doesn't work without controls". Okay? That has nothing to do with it.
I worked at a company where a yearly bonus structure was conceived of by a team in HR who were IMO bad with numbers. Many emails went out about how it worked and so on.

One year we got $300 (or less...) bonuses. It was just how the math of this complicated system worked out.

A lot of feedback was given about that program and it wasn't positive. They came back to a few of us asking us to elaborate. I told them "I once got a $300 bonus working at Little Caesars (American pizza chain) for selling the most crazy bread in a month."

They finally got the hint and canceled the entire thing, it was better not to have it at all IMO, more demoralizing having it around. $300 is better than nothing, except when it sends the wrong message.
LLM Powered FFmpeg Pipeline for Converting Media Files [video]
Howdy HN! MittaAI is an Open Source AI pipeline system I wrote that runs on AppEngine. The system is open source and supports building AI pipelines using Jinja2 templates. This video covers using the new `aiffmpeg` processor to transform media files using a LLM to write and run the ffmpeg command on one of our backend servers. This processor can be combined with other processors, such as the `aispeech` processor which generates .wav files using ElevenLabs or OpenAI's text to speech processors.
Hard disagree. Rehabilitation means you take something that wasn’t working and you fix it so it can be useful again. Most convicts will eventually be released. In an ideal world, each of them will have learned how to participate in decent society so that they can be a good neighbor, employee, boss, friend, or whatever.

I’m not saying that from a bleeding heart “prison should be a resort campout!” strawman perspective, but as someone who wishes people came out of prison kinder and more sociable than they went in.
It looks similar to the 757 design. The 757 has two sets of cables going from the cockpit to the elevator actuators, one set for each pilot. The left pilot controls the left elevator, the right pilot the right. They are synchronized via a cam with a detent (notch) in it.

The detent connection enables one pilot to control the left and right cables. The idea is that if one set of cables jams, the pilot can still control his elevator by applying enough force to pop the cam out of the detent.

Of course, if both pilots pull hard enough in opposite directions, it will come out of the detent as well.

I was one of the engineers working on the 757 elevator system. I don't recall anyone talking about the possibility of the two pilots fighting each other for control. It was just inconceivable. Besides, both pilots would be able to feel the controls "popping" out of the detent. I doubt a warning horn would have made them less confused.

I don't know if pilot training included popping out of the detent so they know what it feels like, but it seems like a good idea.
Fortran implementation of phi-2 language model
tl;dr https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/mens_rea
If you don't want to accept it, that's more on you, refusing to understand it is weird though.
Please share your ranking criteria. Is it billionaires per capita?
I can come back to this discussion in 10 years and we still won't have self driving cars.

I wouldn't even be surprised if personal cars are banned entirely before we reach self driving cars
Regular people are incapable of properly managing a key + keeping an up to date backup. You still need to have a recovery mechanism for lost keys.
It's not uncommon for me to drive 320km in a day and take flights that Google Flights claims emits 579kg per leg. So I'd place 55kg from phones in the "fuck all" category even if I upgraded every year.
The vast majority of analytics needs do not warrant a cluster.

There are many other competitive query engines that do not suffer from the startup latency.
Most products are created in capitalism, so it seems like a weird way to judge alternate economic systems.
Three Rubber Duck Questions
It doesn’t? Your site still does is the entire point.
Thanks, I'll check it out. I don't know any Chinese so I'll probably reach out to you for some help :)
A new method to develop recyclable, organic and flexible electronics
As a possible solution we can decouple data storage from data services. For data that doesn't need expensive computation, we can further decouple key owners from data storage. Users always own their data, they can choose which data services, storage, or key manager to use and they should all interoperate.

This is already a pretty common pattern in the cloud, just the same business entity owns all three. You basically need legislation that says business entities must interoperate with different data storage or key providers.

So you can subscribe to gmail from google and they store your data in Amazon or maybe EFF's data storage provider. You can then get fine-grained audit trail of how and when your data is accessed.

We can then come up with standard rules like maybe your data is only accessible without your end-user credential (i.e your computer+password) for law enforcement or limited operational activities described by the provider and approved by you(or your delegate).
If there are no writers it doesn't matter how many readers there are.
Congrats on the launch!

I've been interested in automatic testset generation because I find that the chore of writing tests is one of the reasons people shy away from evals. Recently landed eval testset generation for promptfoo (https://github.com/typpo/promptfoo), but it is non-RAG so more simplistic than your implementation.

Was also eyeballing this paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03038, which outlines a method for generating asserts from prompt version history that may also be useful for these eval tools.
yup, there's a legit bus factor question, but it's not totally a one person's job either having a healthy stream of contributions (some even as code). What makes it even less a concern for me is that the scope of the software is clear and finite, its implementation mature with no major feature missing and it has a sound design. Boring is good in this area as far as I'm concerned.
It's common practice afaik, there's no secret there. I used to work for one and they are small peanuts.

Edit: Acme inc owns Acme Real Estate Co and Acme Operations Co. Operations Co leases from Real Estate Co. There's no funny business, it's just how a business might split its assets and liabilities.
I feel the issue is with human filters. Creating a seamless and believable image edit requires time and effort, regardless of how experienced the editor is. You were limited by what images you could source, how they'd fit together (does the lighting and perspective match?), and there was often a contextual paper trail people could follow ('I recognise that picture of X').

With these image generation models, the only things filtered by human involvement are the creation of the prompt, and whether or not they believe any generated image is believable. The required time and effort is minimal, and on top of that you can generate hundreds by the time a single person can make a convincing Photoshop edit.

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In terms of being able to sift through generated images across the wider internet, I've no idea what can be done. But I feel a potential defence against them would be for news sources to publish the exact images they were sent online, keeping the original resolution, removing cropping, and retaining Exif data.
Credit aside, if this is mostly your code there may be a copyright/license issue.

The original license: https://github.com/rubberduck-ai/rubberduck-vscode/blob/f11a...

The new project: https://github.com/srikanth235/privy/blob/9b4f8ce7e176ab45d5... no mention of the original copyright
Code review service reduces time to merge by 5x
What? Let me spell it out for you.

Artificial scarcity is bad. I am not comfortable denying people things that cost nothing to reproduce. This is a problem.
You're not wrong.

Have you tried https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/memories - it solves all of my issues with photo management in nextcloud. (Together with the recognise app) I don't see why they haven't replaced the default photos app with this already...

I think improving the photos experience would have the biggest impact on home users, but nextcloud certainly seems to be chasing the enterprise/gov market in the EU? I'm not complaining!
By the same argument we don't really need C to begin with, because things can still be coded in assembly. It all boils down to convenience of reducing boilerplate. As the meme goes - "You don't need sneakers to run, but they sure help."
The contents of the letter are interesting in their own right, but there are 2 aspects that strike me as particularly interesting. First off, he doesn't seem to regret killing his wife, more the consequences of his crime. He doesn't mention her by name or say that she didn't deserve it.

Secondly, the person he's corresponding with, Fredrick Brennan is fascinating in his own right. He's one of the 3 central characters inside the HBO documentary, Q: Into the Storm, and has a totally bizarre relationship with Jim and Ron Watkins, the two figures currently steering the ridiculous QAnon set of conspiracy theories. It's a very strange confluence of interests.
Samsung says Galaxy AI features will only be free 'until the end of 2025'
That's because it is obvious and intuitive even though it's wrong. In the first year of my undergrad in an assignment I added unlimited buffering to every single place that needed buffering. I remember a sense of superiority from all the extra code I wrote to do it. Of course buffering felt correct! That was long before I heard of the word backpressure.
Taxes jump to mind. COL adjustments vs inflation for the past few years also comes to mind. Beating some measurable world record by 1.4% is probably a big deal. I'm sure there are more examples if you look for them.
I feel like this is really dependent on what you understand by "capitalism". Pretty sure the Marxists in the Communist Party of China would not consider what they do there capitalism.
I'm with you on that one. I read the whole thing closely and my conclusion is that some of what's there is playing to an invisible audience. And some of the rest of what's there feels like 'the real Hans' shining through because he hasn't really changed, but is actively trying to change how he is perceived. I could try to enumerate those bits but it doesn't matter all that much, it's just the feeling that I get from reading the text.
I don't know if we are post-scarcity. Our inputs to agriculture (lots and lots of fossil fuels) are not post-scarcity in any sense. Multiply by the scale of humanity and it's difficult to argue we're post-scarcity in agriculture. We might have more food than people to feed, but that doesn't mean if nothing changed we'd be able to sustain our level of production.
Obviously being anti war cannot mean any of those things. I see that uncle Joe taught you well. If you disagree with someone accuse them of being a foreign agent. As usual, people like you are the same as the thing they proclaim to hate. Putin would be proud of you.
you mean Ask HN? Those are normal posts like the one you just did. Just literally type Ask HN: (question) as the title, leave the URL blank and you're good
Not "people", "some people". The more serious your crime, the less freedom you have during your incarceration.
Stick shaking is already used for stalls, and only for stalls (ok, specifically, it activates right before a stall, but for all intents in this argument, that's the same thing).

Pilots are trained very thoroughly to react to stick shakers in one specific and immediate way -- execute the stall escape manoeuvre, and that's to immediately, with only very minimal instrument scanning (typically, just check altitude and airspeed), apply power and push nose down to the extent the surrounding terrain will allow you.

I do agree that dual input could be better handled, but I doubt we'll see many big leaps in that area until active side sticks become the norm. For Boeing aircraft with yokes, I can't see a good solution. Maybe have some kind of hard-to-miss, single-purpose visual indicator on the glare shield, like where Airbus puts theirs? Or an alert when the two control columns get unlinked?

Also, to be clear -- stick shakers are a Boeing-only feature. Airbus has an aural, but very distinctive "STALL, STALL" warning, plus flight envelope protection provided by the FBW system. Alpha floor protection (A.FLOOR) is the subsystem responsible for preventing stalls.

EDIT: ya know, maybe as HUDs get more widespread in civil aviation there might be better ways to surface this information. Fundamentally, we can only alert pilots in so many ways based on the five major senses, and with taste and smell being out, that leaves aural, haptic, and visual indicators.

Aural and haptic are sort-of out for the reasons outlined above, and visual indicators have to resort to being easily parseable in peripheral vision, since if a pilot's in a high-stress situation they may be looking out the windshield first. That's why it makes sense to put urgent stuff on the glare shield; it's easier to see it out of your peripheral.

With HUDs, these indicators can be more information dense. Instead of a green light or an arrow indicating dual input or stick priority, you can have DUAL INPUT flash over the centre of the HUD.

Most modern HUDs have the drawback of being monochrome green, which is a limiting factor on information density here.
When does IBM launch their commercial airline, to accompany the revamped, silly-named points program that invalidates all previously accrued points?
You may be right, I don't back the list but don't think it's bad. "They might have various levels of state control" opens the door to broad definition of capitalism and I'm not sure domestic production of everything would be a requirement, but maybe.
I lost my son three years ago last month and this resonates with me in ways I cannot imagine. I never expected to find this in this place today but I am both glad and sad that I did. "Unfathomable" is so painfully accurate.
Theory is that I'll rotate out passwords insecure? systems.

One case I know is that in one system my old password was hashed with an older method (which was the right choice at the time) and when I reset I'm now using their updated (right choice today) hash.

Another feature is that services I don't use I'm reminded to close/deactivate.
https://wolnelektury.pl/katalog/audiobooki/ is the Polish audiobook collection.

The English audiobooks are public domain recordings from LibriVox (via the LibriLight dataset).
It hasn’t even really been journalists for a while now. There’s been other tools, just not as advanced as the current ones. Maybe they require someone with basic reading and editing skills to do a once over before publishing.

It’s not like LLMs are displacing any valuable jobs in this case. I want actual journalists to get paid to write novel stories, but this is really only a threat to industries that have been making a buck off of low effort republishing.
Yeah I think we are talking about different price ranges. I'm in the 90% who buys dirt cheap cars <5k which as a result are often very old already, but with ICE that can still result in a completely usable primary car, even with more expensive ICE maintenance it works out way cheaper. With ICE that strategy seems to result in a car with an impractical range, and no alternative at the same price bracket (even for total ownership).
I've used https://adnauseam.io/ for years. It's great.

First, it hides (most of) the ads making the internet more tolerable. Then it "opens" them in memory and clicks on ALL of them making your profile worthless.

The last time I pulled up my Google profile, it said I was a 18-99yo, both male and female, and was interested in EVERY topic they listed.

It works in both Brave and Chrome but isn't available in the Chrome Extension Store for some reason.. ;)
People say this to downplay what flying an airliner is like, but driving a bus is hard! They're huge, have lots of inertia, you've got dozens of lives in your hands, some systems complexity, schedule pressure, a percentage of whacko passengers (and no crew to help) and that's on top of the day-to-day lunatics with whom you have to share the road. I'm sure your friend is being humble and is perhaps romanticizing the stick-and-rudder days; I still think it says more about how difficult it is to drive a bus rather than how easy it is to fly an airliner.

As a passenger, the real problem with flying nowadays is that it's quite a lot like riding the bus.
Mobile DevOps for Enterprise: CI for the problem child
I find it interesting to ponder about crafting something that can withstand 7 centuries, given what we currently craft (as a software engineer) not even lasting 10 years.

Even NASA was unable to establish contact with the IMAGE satellite after 18 years. I do see the false equivalence here, yet it is nonetheless thought provoking, alongside 100+ year old tea shops in Japan.