skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies have been relentlessly thinking about how to automate and offshore positions, regardless of the broader economic trends and definitely regardless of your physical work location, for decades now. It isn't "RTO and avoid getting laid off", it's "RTO and get laid off anyway".
$5250 USD (not including the bonus at my new firm, which is expected to range from $5K-$35K; higher cell phone reimbursement; 50% internet reimbursement and $350 yearly allowance for equipment, etc. at the new company). Most importantly (for me), I get paid twice a month at the new company. All in all, I'd say the TC is about the same.
Proton is a dream nowadays. It seems to get 10x better every year. The problem is that there are some popular games that use a kernel-level anti-cheat that will never work in Proton. Honestly, I think the best option is just to not buy those games in order to disincentivize their bad behavior. Yes, I'm fine with never playing Fortnite if it means never having to deal with Windows again.
The problem with PLA for coffee (and other hot beverages) is that it starts to get mushy at ~40oC and by 60oC it will likely melt completely.
It doesn't need to be slow. Private developers are not stupid - they know when their customers arrive by car and thus demand parking so they have incentive to figure out how much parking they need. As people switch to other modes of arriving they will decide that the parking isn't needed and eventually worth tearing up for something else. (but this assumes you provide those other options - if transit remains terrible people will drive and need the parking)
There's a ridiculous 40 messages per 3 hours limit which gets burned quickly when designing a GPT. Imo they shouldn't include that in the limit.
Do you think that these studies are maybe too shallow though, and that some industries operate very differently and that for some industries there is a productivity benefit?

I am not sure the current data we have is enough to say there is like flat out no productivity benefit anywhere, ever.
But not every game runs on Linux. And there are games I like to play with friends that aren't on Linux, so for better or worse I'm stuck with Windows for gaming.

And that's not to speak of VRR issues, essentially no HDR support, etc.
Wall street has tightened its expectations on money invested in a higher interest rate environment and the price/earnings ratio is one of the main KPIs that’s easy to game with a layoff. If you’re uncertain about how well your company’s performance will do, you do a round of layoffs and that boosts your chances. Furthermore in companies that pay well culture is often more cut-throat and management will blame remote work as first layer. People who have a family and live with a commute may struggle with that, but those with a spouse will make do and go back to the office. The spouses that earn less get impacted, especially if the variability of commute can’t support both parents commuting. The funny thing is that in consumer companies where you need to be attuned to consumer demand the jobs that keep a finger on that are perfect for remote work but less paid. So if you are a consumer tech company and you mandate return to office you are likely shrinking.
Chrome was beyond TERRIBLE compared to Firefox.
Firefox:
1)Right click image
2)Save as

Chrome:
1)Right click image
2)Can't save as because Google decided so, just like Apple's mentality.

Imagine actually utilizing a browser where the maker decides you should not have access to basic features.
I wonder if Google could respond to this by encrypting all the data (of course the decryption key would also have to be local somewhere on the machine), and then making a complaint against Microsoft under the DMCA if they tried to extract the key and decrypt the data, bypassing the “copy protection”.
Being able to sue has no relation to being able to collect any judgments for damages.

Even the US government requires cashier’s checks, not personal checks, for passports.

>Worst case, they take the collateral (house, car) back and get to sell it again.

Worst case is the asset gets trashed or stolen and not recovered, and the seller spends a ton of time and money in court to find out the buyer has no assets to recover from.

Edit: I was wrong about the US passport needing a cashier’s check. It was probably for a travel visa, so a different country requiring it.
"branches into additional simulations"

Sounds like someone has worked out how to call fork() - I hope it is implemented using Copy-on-Write!
HuggingFace Library for Large Scale Text Deduplication
> RTO prioritizes the interests of the company and management

Maybe management. I do not think it prioritizes the interests of shareholders and the company. It seems like management severely undervalues the easy cost savings from real estate.
Show HN: Music video made out of browser pop-up windows
Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGMaINyM0ek

I usually do browser security research, but I thought it'd be fun to take the things I've learned and make something fun instead. This project was written from scratch in raw JavaScript, you can view-source on the page to see the entire source code.
It'a a purely legal form of combat. Lawsuits and contract disputes.
My CIO was a big RTO proponent. He also lived a few miles away in a ritzy part of town, had full-time child-care, a parking spot at the building, a garage at home. All this in a dense city. Then he'd walk into an office that had a view, a door that closed, independent temperature controls, furniture, workspace, was quiet, and private. Contrast that to the guy who drove 1.5 hrs each way due to construction on the main highway expected to last years, pays $30-40 a day in parking, $5-15 in gas and tolls, drops his kid off at daycare that costs $500 a month and charges extra every time he's gotta stay over. It costs that guy over a thousand bucks to work in an office every month. To do the same job he was doing remote. At an Ikea desk shoved in a row of Ikea desks.
I recently decided to open up Edge and see how it was, given that it is the only browser on Windows which features hardware isolation [0]. Though it seems like this feature is deprecated now.

The sheer amount of garbage I had to turn off made me give up and close it half way through. Which is a shame, because there seems to be good tech underneath all the garbage.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-...
The pro-RTO don't talk about why is outsourcing perfectly ok but not WFH? All large companies have people outside of US, WITCH (Wipro, Infy, TCS, CTS, HCL) in India and some have people in Europe, South America, etc.

Second, even in large campuses (HQ of the company), many buildings, most people can't find a conference room to meet (they are almost always booked), and lot of them just webex from their desk because meetings are back to back, you won't have the 5 minutes it takes to walk to the conference room in the next building. Rarely do people work with just a few people around them. People work with others in different buildings, locations, countries, timezones. When this is ok, WFH is perfectly ok.
It would harm accessibility for one thing.
The iPod
This feels relevant to the conversation: https://twitter.com/BigSpiderBack/status/864309383106240512/...
100%! Also in a way reversing what Moore/Grove did when they abandoned commodity memories. Such a hard thing to do.
you can rewrite the same phrase in more polite language: "sorry, I didn't expect so much push back, I sent these changes with good intentions only".
E Coli is not a deadly food poisoning bacteria; it's an essential part of your gut. There are toxin-producing e coli, and also salmonella, but I don't think those get used in iGEMS competitions.
I can confirm this does work. The GPT might provide a summary instead of your exact instructions, but it will be quite close to what you wrote.

I asked it to reveal the instructions for my Skincare Decoder[0] and Fast Food Decoder[1] and it complied but left out how the JSON data is computed. When I asked for that specifically, it returned my instructions for building the final JSON.

[0] https://chat.openai.com/g/g-eSfkMqbaM-skincare-decoder

[1] https://chat.openai.com/g/g-TxBPotyFb-fast-food-decoder
That's when my son graduated college. A couple years earlier one of his friends was offered a job in IT rather than finish his degree. (e.g. no need to graduate, we'll hire you now.) I suggested that was a short term strategy and that lack of a degree could result in lack of mobility later.

He graduated at a time when companies were rescinding offers to hire and even trying to claw back hiring bonuses. It was a long time before he found work in the field and I suspect that it has affected the trajectory of his career to this day.
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Super, but most of the rest still stands.
Spinoza theorized God=Nature=Universe

He was called an Atheist. Just for re-framing God in a way others didn't dig.

So anybody can take a concept of 'God', say your concept isn't the real 'God', and you are an atheist.
Has Godot proper GUI-Components for building a good interface, or are those the type of freeform canvas-based interfaces?
Mmk.
The Register has been told by an anonymous source that it could be an unintentional bug:

> A person familiar with the kerfuffle who has visibility into the Windows giant, though who did not want to be identified, told us it appears that "if a user chose continuous import in the Edge first run experience on some other device, this state may be syncing incorrectly across their devices. This is not the intended feature experience." We're assured that Microsoft is addressing it for the next Edge Stable release.
Yes, including an open source model from openAI (sharp-e). It’s not very good but it does do it
https://archive.ph/z6qBF
Poe does this. I'm not sure why it's not more popular.
> I assume the finance guy had some means to verify I had the balance in my account.

I don't assume that.

Every dealership has their own policies. My guess is nonpayment on personal checks for car purchases is such a low occurrence that they are willing to take the risk of just assuming that the check will clear. Plus they also (in my state anyway) register and title the car on behalf of the DMV so they have all your information.

When I bought my car I said I needed to move the money into my checking account before I wrote a check. It was from the same bank so it was instant but they replied "no problem - do you need us to hold the check for a couple days then?"
> I like the fact there's actually commercial transactions here, seems like at least an additional layer of friction to access the data of US citizens.

It's free for them as long as the taxpayer covers the cost.

> Imagine if the data owners was a government department, there would be seamless, always on availability for the Securitate

They would likely buy often, store everything they buy, and make it available to themselves.
>> Under the beneficiary centric process, registrations will be selected by unique beneficiary rather than by registration.

Why do they think that's a good thing? If you have more than one offer then you are more in demand on the job market, presumably being a better specialist, more deserving of getting a visa :D
But not for a space mission which requires careful tracking, metrology, and controls. And is by default restricted by ITAR/EAR and possibly classified.
Xorg + DRI3 uses the exact same buffer swap mechanism as Wayland. Wayland is basically just a very over engineered protocol to blit some bitmaps. How exactly is Wayland more optimal for modern hardware?
> A lack of parking is a symptom of a thriving location, not a problem.

This is false. I've seen many downtowns that are not thriving and lack parking. They do okay for the midday luck crowd, but they are empty by 6pm as everyone has gone to the suburbs.

Lack of parking is a feature of thriving locations as well, but it isn't an indicator.
I thought Zelle was just a friendly frontend to ACH?
Embracing Winter Tranquility
Sure, the actual difference in probability is minute, so it essentially has 0 predictive power.

That is, statistics also tells us that P(n>50 | first ball is red) ~= P(n>50) ~= P(n<50) ~= P(n<50 | first ball is red).

Of course, the problem statement is not realistic in the slightest because it gives you too much other (critical) information as well: you are told that n has a uniform probability distribution. In reality, you never know the probability distribution a priori (even when analyzing a die or coin, you can't be a priori certain it is fair). And the conclusion in this problem, even weak as it is, depends critically on knowing the probability distribution. Not only would the conclusion be different is n was not uniformly distributed between 1 and 100, but you can't even do a similar analysis over all possible probability distributions.
Yes, they are, by definition as the owner of the device.
I will never trust Edge to honor ANY setting; every so often it tries to trick you into resetting all settings to default through the out of box wizard, this is totally built into the os! And even if you manage to make it through this periodic shit some windows update will go ahead and change some settings anyway so you're stuck. !

Its maddening!
looks like it... it looks like San Marino has a very solid response for lack of payment, and that is damaging to the real end users / customers of registrar services
Typo/bug: pretty sure variable 'oldTag' should be 'oldTail'
Until the LLM starts hallucinating its own instructions and "fills in the blanks".
“So as you can see esteemed jury, we’re not just copyright infringing _now_, we’ve been doing it for years! So you must acquit!”
My main question is about narrative. Many people identify themselves and are driven by narratives. In McDonalds you can say that you feed busy people on the go. Provide the framework for a stressed stressed family who needs an out for an evening etc.

I am not trying to qualify each of these individual narratives. People do that themselves.

My initial questions was just on the enumeration of narratives that would leave the implementor on the morally right side.
> Apparently $356M is nearly $0 to the WSJ

That is a pretty awful click-bait title. Presumably the "$0" is in reference to their sub $1 share price?

The fact that they put everything behind a paywall _and_ slap on click-bait titles is confusing to me. I can't imagine paying for access to that type of writing.
Shenanigans are forthcoming, guaranteed. I had 30+ domains with them, a client of 20 years and a true fanboy, referred dozens of friends. I wouldn't touch them with a long pole now. Moved all to Porkbun and INWX.
Domains is such a racket. On the retail side, there are too many entrants fighting over <$10/yr scraps like street vendors hawking knockoff DVDs. On the upstream side, there is a king rat of mafioso companies formed out of Byzantine M&As that is completely unreachable and unaccountable to anyone.

I know we all hated network solutions when it was the only game in town, but I’m not sure the current flea-market situation is a net improvement.
> Dinner here is a starter, main course and dessert.

Yep. Check out the online menus in English restaurants and pubs. 'Mains' is the typical term used.
Note: Easily implement distributed training, machine learning library
As someone who sticks with Debian Linux, the only times I use Windows is in the workplace. I leave the internals of Windows to the infrastructure team. How they setup their users, updates, etc.. is not of my concern. I only use work laptop for work.

Sometimes, however, I come across trying a modern Windows. To install and setup myself. For example, the mother-in-law buying a new laptop. I just cringe at all the new rubbish I have to do. Last time I had to create an account. The crap on the taskbar (news, weather) to Microsoft Edge.. and all inbetween.

I am a proud user of Debian. It might not be perfect and I might not be able to play the latest games... but it provides everything I need.. which is the bare minimum!

(Yes I know Steam has come a long way in recent years... but point stands)

I just wish more people would move away from Windows. Yes, gamers may have to sacrifice their games if not supported... but companies go where the money is, including game devs.

Sadly, as computers get better and better.. and more convenient, the more freedoms you lose. People dont care.
> TIL macarons [1] are also known as macaroons [2]

Not to forget macarrons! Where I'm from, macarrons [3] is a kind of pasta (penne).

[3] https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macarrons
You can train it to display images from the web if you tell it how to build the URL. I've found that it often won't display the image in the preview or dev window, but they do appear when you run the GPT.

One caveat is the output of a Custom GPT (a saved conversation) can't be shared if it contains DALL-E images.
> Academics shouldn't be prematurely optimizing their code

While I agree with that in principle, the question of whether or not a given algorithm is fast enough to be practically usable is very useful information for the reader of your paper. Do I need to read your paper, understand it, implement it myself, and only then figure out that its 3 orders of magnitude slower than existing algorithms? I know its a lot of work, but as the reader I don't want to do that work either.

I've spent the last few years working on a novel collaborative editing algorithm for text editing. If the algorithm was orders of magnitude slower than existing CRDTs, it would never get adopted. And I want my work to be used. I want to use it, but again - only if its fast enough to be practically usable. I ended up writing a very highly optimised implementation of the algorithm - which took a massive amount of time - to answer that question. For the paper, I spent another couple of days writing a much slower reference implementation that people can read to understand how it works. (The optimised version is thousands of lines, and the reference code is a few hundred lines).

I understand how much work and expertise is needed to do things like this, but I still want someone to do this work. Even if its "We wrote a straightforward implementation of <competing algorithm> and <our algorithm> in plain C code. They perform at roughly similar levels of performance <see chart>. We suspect highly optimised versions of both approaches would also perform at roughly similar levels of performance."
Ex-chemist, can confirm.
No OS is "better". Each has its own positives and negatives. Run an OS that performs the task required.

It's a tool. Not a religion.
I really question that, id believe that 300,000 jobs from tech companies have been lost, but 40% of all tech jobs. Sounds like nonsense, especially since the source is an outplacement company.
I wouldn't move. But then again I'm a low performing piece of shit with a disability.
EU had a similar structure with micro-USB, and yet it managed to transition to USC-C without issue.
Aren't they all technically subdomains? I want .
It's also hard to take it seriously knowing how many high level execs make sure there are satellite offices near each of their homes so that they have the flexibility they are revoking from everyone else :-)

I remember being on an all-hands call announcing 4 day RTO where the big boss was literally in a rural satellite office either in his own home or with like 5 desks for whatever personnel he stationed there for himself. The office is not even on the company intranet site.

Similarly to my prior company picking an HQ2 based on where the CEO wanted to move due to his preferences & spouses job.
Promethease is why i initially did 23andme, and it was beyond worth it for me personally.

But for the same reason I'm just a one time customer, all I needed was for 23andme to give me a very expensive hospital test at a 95% discount, and I didn't need them anumore
>Even the US government requires cashier’s checks, not personal checks, for passports.

This must be a new policy - I wrote out a personal check for my passport.
How is low gluten obvious?
Thanks for this correction. Mind if I link to this comment in an edit to the article?

I'm happy to learn this as "Framework 13 AMD" is nicer to write than "Framework 13, 13th generation."
Show me an ostensibly high performing software organization that uses SAFe?
Any FANGs?
I only ever see it in pathologic orgs. And 3 months, lol. Let me introduce you to the federal govt!
I learned programming through a mixture of Scratch and code.org. Once I "graduated" from those websites, I learned my first professional programming language using W3Schools.

I wouldn't recommend signing up for W3Schools, but the free content is a good enough primer for beginners. (Some of the examples are not idiomatic, though.)

I hope that helps :)
I have a relative who lives in Arizona who told me, a decade ago, that Phoenix had that problem.
It's also the electrical supply. What a country.
Thanks! They're basically interchangeable --- HMAC produces a "MAC tag", and in the context of the Macaroon protocol the last visible tag is called a "tail". But I'm guessing I screwed up editing the code when I switched everything to "tail". :)
To be clear, I was speaking more toward starting new family farms. Few families can afford to invest the capital required to compete with families like yours that have inherited generational wealth. Put those assets on a balance sheet charted over time, and I suspect their net value has decreased relative to their productive returns. If so, that’s a large fortune turned into a small one.

Do you honestly think your family could start from scratch and still successfully compete in a saturated commodity market entrenched with others in such a position?

And don’t talk to be about nice markets, because that’s far less farming and much more marketing (as another commenter pointed out).
I highly recommend "Silicon Valley: The History In Pictures" by Mary Wadden

Edit: (Written in conjunction with the Silicon Valley Historical Association)
Research ramps up but PFAS pollution remains tough to tackle
No, they try to rebrand as “quantitative bioscientists” or “molecular engineers” and cross their fingers and hope for postbac students who weren’t chemists because they don’t believe in their own curriculum anymore.
Yeah I thought the topic was things you have to do to move, like registering in the new city and notifying the old country or so
Is this license information on your website somewhere? I'm not seeing it on any of the pages for your pictures.
What are the odds that in 2044 we will still be able to run the code published with CS papers today? If it's pure Java SE or ANSI C with no dependencies then it will probably still work, but anything more complex tends to decay pretty rapidly.
It includes lunch break at 12pm-1pm. I can confidently tell that most of my former coworkers (since RTO mandate) have been taking it slow/easy more so than they used to be.
I didn't know. Please elaborate.
This is a damning indictment of Wojcicki's management of the company. Failed execution on the drug development strategy over 10+ years, lying about growth, pushing out the cofounder, never making a profit, hack that went undiscovered for months ... about the only area she's had success is raising money and that's in large part thanks to being a member of the Silicon Valley elite.

If she can't convince her family, friends, and connections to pony up more cash, the company will likely be sold as the DNA and profile information has real value. I worry that it will go to PE (like Ancestry.com) or a global data broker that will strip-mine the assets in every evil way you can imagine (and maybe even some we can't).