skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the select/deselect training data, I assume this means choose which context to pay attention to?

Each ML model, LLM and otherwise, is a combination of matmul operations & nonlinear activation functions on static weights. My understanding of your "ignoring training data" is to change the vector values of the neural network, which is part of what happens during fine tuning.

Curious why telling an LLM to speak like a character, then using few shot examples to anchor the model in a certain personality/tone doesn't suffice? Is it really the training data (meaning the response strays to random nonsense) or is it that the instructions are not good enough?
What a bad faith article. Most of the links don’t support the claims made.

> Your manager may suggest that returning to the office is imperative for the company’s success, workplace culture, and overall productivity. However, there’s a growing body of evidence suggesting that’s bullshit.

The link under “growing body of evidence” is to a study of a 4 day work week and has nothing to do with WFH or RTO.

> studies that have shown remote work is very productive

The link under “remote work is very productive” says:

“A study comparing productivity before, during and after an extended stint of remote work suggests information worker productivity isn't negatively impacted by remote working.”

which is very different from what is implied in the text.

> and RTO mandates could be causing a productivity slump

This is referring to a drop in labor productivity figures post pandemic which shot up during the pandemic. It’s well known that the spike at the beginning of the pandemic and the subsequent reversion is a statistical artifact resulting from the fact that the labor force working in person jobs such as restaurant and retail workers which are lower paying reduced drastically pushing up the average productivity by reducing the number of people in the below average jobs. Once retail and restaurant workers started working again the average dropped again.

The most likely reality is that we simply don’t know what works well and what doesn’t. It will take time to sort it out. But misleading screeds like this from someone whose clearly invested on one side do not help at all.
Bolt is discontinued and dealerships in my area don’t sell them for under $31k. Leaf also isn’t long for this world, is based on an ancient platform, and starts at $30k in my area. I don’t qualify for the tax credit.
> Intuitively, given that you picked a red ball, you should expect there to be more red balls in the urn.

This is what a math person would say, I had seen it many times in science, but is not the correct answer. The correct answer would be: "my sample is too small to carry so much information as I'm claiming that it has".

Intuitively If I walk on the street and I see a woman, I can't say anything about the proportion of men and women in the area, absolutely nothing, except: "number of women > 0". This is my result. Is dull and not publishable but also the only that I can infer about the population, because is under-sampled.

If the experiment is to take a ball from a bag, see its color and think that I can calculate the number of red balls with only this info, my goals are not realistic

I need to keep sampling. (not repeating, sampling the same population, doing ten times an experiment that provide tiny amounts of info will not generate new info about the first population from the air. The populations are independent). You need to improve the size of your sample over the same population.

Lots of the early ecology models that are flawless from a math point were basically useless when applied to the real life exactly for this.
The parent comment said “no matter how thin or light they get”.
What (book) should Stripe Press reprint?
I love your exterior building shots. Is that film, filters, or post processing (if you don’t mind)?
Absolutely, but it's depressing that we have to build a whole new system instead of dovetailing with a system that not only works but is already universally deployed.
The FDA provided ample threats regarding their health claims. No wonder this is how it ended up.
So after we die our “souls” are checked against some condition that we can’t comprehend and we get reincarnated based on pass/fail? Or is dying without passing on your genes the test?
The parent comment said “no matter how thin or light they get”. I’m just disputing that.
yeah, it’s quite an experience what you’re describing. i loved it last time i was in akihabara.

going back to yodobashi, seeing all the current gen electronics ever under a single roof spread out across x storeys was something i haven’t seen in the west in quite some time. it was tiring (there’s so much stuff), but equally impressive.
The title is rather ambiguous: evidence that RTO mandates do not increase firm performance is not evidence that returning to office is useless.

> we do not find significant changes in firm performance in terms of profitability and stock market valuation after the RTO mandates.
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What ticks me off is the fact this information was gathered at all. The fact that the Pentagon bought it is a predictable outcome.
I always worked from home, one day a week, before COVID. I'm Dutch and a consultant for hire and never had any issues with companies not allowing it.
After COVID most of the IT crowd I know wants to work from home.
I am currently working for a client on the other side of the Netherlands. It's a 90 minute drive to the office. I took this contract because we only go to the office once per 2 weeks (on the day the Sprint ends).
I know a lot of you think that 90 minutes is not a long drive BUT that is only on IDEAL times. It's straight though Amsterdam and on the busiest highways; it's more often a 2 hour drive than 90 minutes.

Also: My wife was actually from Rotterdam so each office visit is combined with a trip to my in-laws. I stay for one night so my travel is purely outside of the daily commute hours.

I only pick companies where I am allowed to work from home.
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Now I realize why it's called a field. I always thought of a physical field but this makes way more sense. If there's enough division in a group, it is considered a field.
Who are the devs and managers implementing this crap?? I know you're lurking around here! Stop.Doing.This.Crap!!!!

Behave
The OP is doing the exact opposite. They’re saying we don’t yet know, as opposed to a lot of people who are claiming we know one way or the other.
Neovim is 10 years old today
I can tell you dozens of stories about people that were collecting a paycheck and were supposed to be in the office doing work, but were in fact at the nearby comic shop or movie theatre.

Do you lock the doors to the office once everyone has arrived?
It would be nice if it were the latter but given the stranglehold the major email providers have over email I think it's a lost cause.

Just look at the hoops you have to go through to send a patch over gmail.
What's the point?

Most R&D is driven by Government Procurement or Commercialization anyhow, which can validate if shit works or not.

A lot of the subfields with a replication crisis are those that aren't exactly "tangible", and as such don't have a quantitative way or vested interest in validating that stuff works as expected.

If I'm researching a compound as a MatSE on a grant from the DoD or Applied Materials, it's on the assumption that tangible results will happen, and any attempt at fraud will be detected once commercialization or productionizing kicks in.

At the end of the day, a field like Pure Math or Anthropology just doesn't have a commercial incentive that forces reproducibility because there isn't a tangible impact.
This is an important comment.

Instead of "AI"(be real, llms and stable diffusion) being developed openly and studied without a profit motive, it's been thrust into the cheap world of VCs looking to extract any profit whatsoever from it, nearly immediately.

This has caused these "AI" tools to be used to steal and rehash artists work(cheapening artists because tech bros and MBAs resent art and the time it takes to perfect). Cheapening human labor(why pay a person to understand anything when you can have an llm do 20% of the job and worse).

These AI tools were thrown in the deep end with a singular purpose: Cheapen what was thought to be protected from computers, while not providing any real value to the layperson.

The average person can maybe get a funny joke, a bad few lines of code, or an ugly bespoke AI image for their medium article, but the true winners are the ones cutting jobs en masse before the tech has even matured, so both the employee and the customer gets a worse product while the MBA's show a solid quarterly report after they ran a knife across their workforce's neck.

Those with power and money have continued to show they will not use technology for any positive societal purpose until they are forced to with regulation. So we're forced to neuter the technology before it can really develop. It's like one child playing violently with a toy, forcing the teacher to take the toy away from everyone else.
I think you did too, I don't have the slightest clue where your math came from. This bug happens when the month you're setting it to has fewer days than the month in the date object, so it rolls the day forward into the next month. It's the same functionality that lets you just add days and iterate over the whole year.
I moved away from it many years ago.

To a French one =)
Exactly, outsourcing success requires stakeholders and product actually writing down what they want, and the steps they want it done in, in verbose pedantic language and then staying on top of people who overlap for 1 hour per day at best to actually stick to that plan.

If you have an org capable of doing that, amazing, sounds great.. I've not seen it once, anywhere, in 20 years.

So given how real orgs actually work, the problem with the outsourcing model is -
Good luck turning tasks around quickly, or changing directions on a dime, or course correcting devs who do most of their work while you are asleep.

If companies really wanted to save money without all the pain, they'd hire nearshore US dev talent for 1/3 the cost of NYC/SF and eliminate most of those issues.

But really for most businesses given the margins on software, dev costs end up being tolerable.
Unless they don't use Docker images in those k8s clusters that's not too bad for a news article I guess.
There is a failing mall (A larger mall was built not very far away so there is no reason for this one to exist anymore) near me that proposed to do that, but the city refused to make the needed zoning change.
Is it actually any better proof of anything than what people see under the influence of psychedelics?
At some point we'll have to throw this internet away and start a new one.
>Not sure what the bank wasting its efforts trying to combat this would accomplish.

It would prevent me from losing my money! I filed a fraud claim form that also required an affidavit with notarized signature and Bank of America still won't return the stolen money. That money is gone.

>The system you're envisioning whereby banks refuse payment on otherwise valid checks based on Reasons seems a lot crazier.

My point is that BofA computer systems already have some aspects of "suspicious activity" algorithms and heuristics in place to prevent counterfeit checks stealing funds from the account. The banks are already "wasting effort" as you put it to try and distinguish real vs fake checks. E.g. When the landscaper tried to cash my legitimate check that had my handwriting and my signature, the bank sent me a phone alert which I then had to explicitly approve. Otherwise, they would reject the check. (An example of "Reasons" as you put it.) This is what the verification alert that requires explicit approval looks like: https://imgur.com/a/62dCsBx

But the next check a month later that someone faked, with a weird sequence #, without any signature, and the "payee" to a company notoriously known for unauthorized checking account withdrawals and fraud... No alert for my approval was sent; instead, they just went ahead and paid it.

If the banking system allows 3rd parties to fabricate e-checks with no verification, they should also offset that dangerous power by allowing account holders the security tools to stop those types of echecks from being cashed. E.g. a smartphone approval step.
I have a ton of Euro domains, and I've never heard of having to manually renew them within a specified time period.
requirements don't make sense, numbers are pulled from thin air in the regulations so even in this case requirements should be elliminated
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I don't think it's difficulty in verifying, it's just not the right tool for the job in a lot cases on an airplane. Aircraft don't use much steel, and aluminum welds typically have a heat affected zone (HAZ) adjacent to the weld which is weaker and more prone to fatigue cracking. For this reason aluminum is often riveted or bolted.
Resist.bot and 5 Calls make it easy. I find half the friction is finding the contact information.
More households in Germany (and I'm sure other places) rent than in the US. Not that I really disagree that the US is a pretty mobile society overall.)
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There were numerous iCloud issues reported yesterday. Dunno if they’re ongoing.
I don't need a study to be able to tell WFH has a positive effect on my life without negatively impacting my work output. If anything, I work more because I can and often do sit down late at night and early in the morning to enjoy extended periods of uninterrupted focus and do work that requires that.

What's wrong with having evidence-based opinion on WFH?
I’ve heard Meta is going full throttle to make their Ray Ban form factor glasses have an AR display.

Very much like the XReal glasses but with resolution of Quest line.

I loved my XReals. The biggest issue with them was it had no head/position tracking to keep the screens in one place.

The technology I’d throw my money is glasses that:

- look like fashionable glasses. Not that glasshole crap from Google. Or VisionPro goggles weighing a kilo. XReal are fashionable enough that most people didn’t notice it when I was using it in public.

- Add an unobtrusive display only visible to you, not to bystanders. Text display ought to be crisp and readable.

- Built in speakers audible only to you, not to bystanders.

- track head position so windows can stay floated in space instead of moving with head. The immersion of virtual object.

- some form of finger tracking to select and tap on things. Again private, shouldn’t need to put them infront of my face.

- pretty darn good contextual AI that has understanding of world around me. Show me gps directions. When I meet someone, recall their notes so I can have a meaningful conversations. Fact check my conversations on the fly. Be the bicyle of my mind.
Concept of time and eternity - we are in time that flows in one direction, everything has a beginning and end. A being in eternity outside time views all moments of time all at once (like all individual pictures of a movie), hence no origin is necessary/defined in eternity.
This is a problem with remote work as well, but this is waves away as a “management problem,” as if management is completely superfluous.
In this case, though, it's like Walmart building a store that encloses an existing Target.
> the fact this information was gathered at all

LLMs make practically any human-generated data valuable. These will be collected as long as it’s legal, to a greater degree now than before.
Looks like there's no love here for lefties. Pity.
I personally don’t see much of that on this site on this topic. I see a whole lot of people talking about their personal experiences, the few structural things we do know (e.g. office spend), and people making broad factual claims on either side getting reliably downvoted and “citation needed”’d

But obviously the “what do you see here” discussion is pointless.
Well I guess it depends on your definition of "modern", but there is a fully libre Power9 machine in form of the Raptor Talos 2.
> The only exception is if you are a resident of that country and have a valid passport to reflect you live in that country, and that the domain can be claimed & validated because you live there.

Isn't that the whole purpose of ccTLDs? In fact, are you sure that your use case for ccTLDs for countries you have no connection with is actually allowed or legitimate?

Every single time I registered a ccTLD the registrar required me to provide documentation that attested I had in fact a relationship with said country, either a valid passport or business details. Frankly, I thought any other scenario was automatically deemed invalid.
Also I think AWS/SaaS replaced offshoring anyway.
Boilerplate work gets done with commodify products.
A much higher % of the work done by devs is actual real company IP than 10/20 years ago.

So the question there too is - do you want to offshore your IP?
This is a common narrative, but malls are overall doing just fine. A few are failing all the time - enough that you can cherry pick many examples to make it appear the case. Most failing malls though are close to some other mall that is doing okay - or in some cases both malls are doing bad as there never was a reason for the second to be built.
Similarly Gerrit stores everything, including permissions, in Git as well. I'm not sure there is an offline review flow yet, though, but it's certainly possible.
> Compared to the UK where you need to have some utility bills or bank statements as proof of an address, having an ID card with an address is a lot easier in practice.

Well, no.

You already have bills in your name, so there is nothing to do.

On the other hand, regarding ID cards (in France): First there is no obligation to keep the address on it up-to-date (so why is there even an address on it?). Second, if you do want the address to be up-to-date then you need to follow the administrative procedure to get a new ID card, which involves providing... a proof of address in the form of an utility bill!
"The fixation on mileage may be misplaced, however, given Americans don't actually tend to go all that far when they get behind the wheel"

When you have a family with kids, you travel way more than 3 miles on average. This combined with the poor infrastructure makes it a hard 'no' from me at the moment.

What's not mentioned here is the weather and many other factors determine how many miles you can go on one charge, and it can dramatically decrease it.

We should have focused on hybrid. This would have given consumers a reason to buy it (extends gas mileage), infrastructure is still supported, and it would have given us time for acceptance and to build out the infrastructure.

Now, the automotive companies lost billions of dollars, and will most likely drop EVs completely within the next 10 years.

This should be a lesson in attempting to push radical change without anything to really support it. I've seen this at a smaller level with companies and it ends up in failure every time.
I've really enjoyed using a HDhomerun with Jellyfin as my OTA DVR. There was a bit of setup, but it works wonderfully.
There is https://answeroverflow.com which is a search engine for Discord support channels
maybe they talk about russian style hyper dense blocks but with 0 infra that looks like hell...
I believe the point was that, if a person displays their weapons on the lawn, the police don't need a warrant in order to discover that the person has those weapons. They can look from the street without having a warrant.

> In US federal law there is no right to privacy except for the limited provisions defined in the Privacy Act of 1974.

And yet Roe v Wade was decided on the basis of a right to privacy. Is abortion the only privacy right we have? Or was the Roe decision a case of judges judging on what they wanted, not on what the law said? Or do we actually have more of a right to privacy than what you are saying?
Yeah, my dad got one of those back in the day. He still uses the email address.
One of the great things about Godot is that the editor itself is a "game" running on top of the Godot game engine! This means that improvements to the Linux port will be noticeable in both published games and the editor itself.

As a consequence of running the editor, Godot also has great support for UI primitives, which I'm taking great advantage of in my own game!
> The fact that a judge can come in and completely reverse such a decision is mind blowing and seems more like a judicial activism.

A shareholder filed a lawsuit, it went to the courts, a judge ruled on it. What's the issue?

What recourse does a minority investor have if the BoD, which is supposed to represent shareholder interests, is full of CEO loyalists agreeing to cartoonishly large bonuses?
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https://github.com/diffblue/cbmc/issues/7732 I'll note that some form of undefined behavior checking / documentation is on the roadmap for the next major version
I'm more interested in what is simulated, why it is simulated and for what reasons the plug may be pulled.
Simulation implies there is an operator of it with an intention for it.
Even if it is only for his/her/its/whatever own pleasure or curiosity.
The inspiration of the simulation thesis is obviously a thinly veiled idea of a creator God, no doubt.
What will it do when it realizes that its Little Computer People are starting to use the resources of its simulation (information, computing capacity, matter, energy) to simulate their own little world?
Does this thwart its plans, contaminates the experimental setup?
Is it what it is researching?
I'm not convinced this will make much difference? When I have contacted my MP in the UK I get back very poor responses that are either generic or completely disputing everything I suggested. For example, if you have an evangelical member of congress there's little point in writing to them about a woman's right to choose.

Can you name a time when letter writing or calling successfully changed the law? If we are honest only violent protest has ever really changed anything.
> More and more it's announced alongside layoffs, in terms of "you better do it, because", rather than "we want the collaborative environment fostered by RTO" kind of phrasing.

In their defense, it's hard to take the latter seriously when the entire office is still on Zoom calls for every single meeting.
It's a pitty. A floppy disk requires you to remain concise, 1.44MB, that's barely above 140 characters in a docx file!
Learning 3D physics simulators from video
Thanks! The majority of them are digital, most with a Fujifilm camera either X-T1 or X-PRO2 depending on when they were taken. I do shoot a fair amount of film, so a couple will be Kodak Portra. I prefer the film aesthetic so my digital presets aim for that look.
Gorillaz called. They want their Plastic Beach floating artificial island back.
> If remote is more productive then companies will eventually switch over. If remote isn't more productive then they won't. If it's a wash then the people who earn the right to be remote will do so. The rest will go into the office. Life is full of earned rights like this. No sense in getting worked up about it. If you want to be remote then earn the right to be so.

I think your faith in companies acting rationally is about ten orders of magnitude higher than my own.
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> Resist.bot and 5 Calls make it easy

Duplicate comms work if they’re a significant fraction of likely primary voters. If ten people send a form letter in, it gets shredded. It’s not enough to signal organisation potential, yet enough to signal the people won’t take the next step of organising themselves.

Practically always, going to the elected’s website and submitting a short blurb is better than using a form. (Getting contact information usually involves just searching for the elected.)