skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone change the misleading title to part of the subtitle? It is "Less work, same money, more happiness and productivity. As of February 1, 45 companies in Germany are testing a 4-day workweek.", which is much more meaningful.

Title makes it sound like there is anything like a concerted effort, whereas these are just 45 random companies. No details on size of those companies, no data on number of employees or fields. I would expect that in particular the traditonal German "backbone" of the economy is not the kind of company amenable to this work week model or even participating in such a study. Example, classic automative supplier with more "blue collar" style work.

The source seems to be https://www.intraprenoer.de/4tagewoche but this is equally opaque.

Overall a weird article with not a lot of original research.

To not have this comment only be a rant, here is some data [1]: There are 3.4 Million companies (definition at link, they need to have employees and taxable turnover) in Germany, with 35 Million employees. That includes small 1-person shops as well as Fortune 500 companies.

Anyone seems to be able to sign up for that study, and without any further details this seems hardly representative. I am very much interested in the outcome of these studies and would probably for myself assume that I can be productive in 4 days as well, but I'm not sure how this gives us usable data.

1: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economic-Sectors-Enterpris...
Something not totally clear from the title, but it seems the claimed rate was actually achieve with a transmitter structure similar to what you would find in coherent optics (see figure 4). Instead of coupling to fiber, they couple to a high speed photodiode that radiates at the ~140GHz laser wavelength.

EDIT: Noticed that after a closer reading of the paper, the real goal was to assess the LO phase noise improvement when moving from a RF synthesizer to a SBS laser and PD based LO.
> There's some evidence out there that he did get back into piracy.

What evidence is out there?
The innovation is that they managed to write a hardware-aware kernel to make it run fast/efficiently on GPUs. The authors of Mamba are the same authors of FlashAttention which was a performance optimization kernel written to reduce IO while computing normal O(N^2) attention. As I understand it, previously SSM models were not as easily parallelizable as the Transformer architecture.
That's not usually a problem for software, especially this kind of software. New drivers and libraries for existing hardware are typically bug fixes because otherwise people wouldn't install them instead of using the existing code. The code for new hardware is generally based on the existing code, so if the existing code is good then it's likely to remain that way. Also, if the new hardware isn't any good then you just don't buy it.

This is why anyone making long-term investments in hardware-related software is wise to write it in a vendor-agnostic way -- even if the software continues to be good you may have other reasons to want to switch hardware in the next generation.
it's a GUI-only http server.. haven't seen those in a while.

It looks like it's still active - there are recent releases and users on forum -- but the documentation is all dated 2012-2013.
Have you ever heard of "abstraction"? People that actually use windows can handle opening the start menu as a single part of a step. There's no conscious checklist for how the UI can be customized.

If you're going to make that into a complicated mess, then you absolutely do not get to assume the user understands "add this line somewhere" or has "fleet" installed and set up the way you expect.
> and the x86 assembly syntax where the destination is the last register.

ITYM AT&T :). The idea is that the basic grammar is common across architectures to help compiler backend authors. The historical reason for the ordering is because that’s how it was on the PDP-11, the “mother” assembly. And all AT&T/GNU versions preserve this ordering regardless of the vendor format.

> The other is the syntax most commonly used in practice

It didn’t always used to be this way. In the dark ages before NASM, MASM was a top warez.

And depending on what you’re doing I don’t think Intel syntax is uncommon, gas will even accept it for the most part these days.

> "wait, which version is this? the one that does destination first or destination second?"

There must be some mnemonic to associate sigil vomit with destination last. Shitty sigils come out the ass?
https://once.com/campfire seems like a better link for this.
This is a rather bad way of making portability. It is bad for accessibility (even though they tried to add things to improve accessibility, it does not work very well), for working on multiple types of computers (since, then the software specific to that computer cannot do so by itself, and instead needs to use the specification of the received file, which is probably wrong anyways), and for many types of features that may be helpful but that are unavailable or are not designed or implemented well. Furthermore, WWW is also, not work well with multiple programs and with user customization very well, pipes, etc. And, it is complicated to implement and does not run efficiently. And, there are many security issues, having to be made more complicated just to avoid some of them, in ways that would not be necessary if it were designed properly. And, anyways, it cannot be the same everywhere, even if they want it to be.
Again, it's because you are the use case that is unfeasible.

It's a SEARCH engine, not a BROWSE CATEGORY engine.

And I get it, I get frustrated at this too. Sometimes I try to search for a category of something, like free image editors, and Google just can't give me an answer I'd like.. And it's really not a hard query to answer. It just lists me a bunch of names with zero info about what platform they are for, or what features they have. It's an useless list. It's simply beyond the scope of what it is made to do.

I mean, seriously, I know Google is a blackbox, but Google is really just a single textbox. We're expecting too much from a single textbox.
"I didn't know it was in drive"
As someone in an English-speaking country, I expect my colleagues to have good English.

We operate a helpdesk where clear communication is essential. Internally, we need to be able to quickly coordinate with each other on highly technical problems. If someone from another country came in with a bad attitude about "why do I need good English?" we would be more than a little hesitant about hiring them. It doesn't matter how good you are in tech, English literacy and fluency are foundational to everything else.

It would surprise me if Germans see this very differently.
More like a build up to this bug. The proverbial straw on the camel's back, kind of thing.
The push is not to make monopoly (defined as market share) illeagal.

Lina Khan and others are fighting good fight against misuse of monopoly powers, two sided markets, anticompetitive effects of platform-based business models and so on.

GPU market is not natural monopoly, nor is the market structured as monopoly. Nvidia just has a competitive advantage.
Nuclear’s biggest issue is the demand curve. France was getting ~68-72% before wind and solar was a thing because the demand was just that low on nights and weekends even with significant exports.

Which is why most countries that under 30% of total electricity, but renewables are likely to push this even lower even if you prioritize nuclear over renewables simply due to differences in cost.
Neither can I, all it made me think about was vim for some reason
Just checked this out! This is awesome.

I've built an SEO minded interview app, just audio, realmockinterviews.com

Perhaps we should do intros?

I just did a trial and submitted my email on the app.
The AVP is not AR though. Regardless of passthrough and their "Spatial Computing" marketing. It's a VR headset that will black out, and not stop "augmenting", the moment the battery get's disconnected. If you're skiing that might very well be the difference between hitting a tree (or worse, another person) and avoiding it.
That may be a bit strong. What can be said is that a lot of the initial media outrage regarding the residential schools in the last few years were based on possible gravesites, discovered using ground-penetrating radar. However, multiple excavations have so far been unable to confirm those gravesites at the scales predicted, some of them even turned out to contain no human remains at all [0]. That does not excuse anything, but I find it troubling how many fairly strong claims are made in this thread with zero citations/evidence to back them up.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_...
> Also, this extremely strong claim of yours sounds dubious to me, any examples of self-described Latinos with actually zero native american ancestry ? As proved by either reliable and comprehensive family trees going back to the middle ages, or DNA analysis ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Latin_Americans

Case in point, me - my ancestors fled Europe in the early 20th century to a Latin American country due to lack of work, famine, wars and whatnot. One of them was Spanish, so by definition, I have Hispanic blood. Zero native american ancestry. You will see that this is a very common situation for many Latin Americans.

For more examples, see the Brazilian government whitening policy right that happened after slavery abolition. Lots of Europeans (Italians, Germans, Poles, Spaniards, Portuguese, etc) were brought to work in plantations and to decrease the relative % of the newly freed Black population.

When miscegenation happened, it was with Black people, as the Native Brazilian population was already decimated by this point.

This also happened in other countries, like Argentina.
It is about solidifying semantics, but those semantics are still a concern to regular users who are writing `unsafe` code, not just Miri.

As I understand it, Miri would like to be certain about the presence/absence of the UB of any particular program execution, but there will probably always be some cases it can't catch.
PRC is entrant, west is incumbant with majority of global shares to lose. PRC building up mature nodes, which is still plurarity of chips, which they can soon with indigenous supply chains. As since they are huge export source, and intermediate good source, they get to inject their own chips into everything on global markets. Of which they now trade more with global south than they do western bloc. West can consolidate within bloc, but they'll start to lose large segements of global share, which is where future growth will be. Loss of global revenue, will in turn impact west ability to R&D without large subsidies, which drives down commercial viability. There was study analysing result of PRC domestic overcapacity turn into exports in various sectors like solar, display etc, and their effects on incumbant leaders (predominantly western firms) operating profits, and the effect was like 50-100% loss. The TLDR is west already has dominant global share, any share PRC gains on global market is share lost by west, and west is going to lose big if they retreat/consolidate around only monopolizing western shares .
They are only transmitting 30 mm, when they moved to transmitting 20 meters it had to drop from 64QAM to 32QAM and lost some throughput. It's also laser generated so I don't believe it's omnidirectional, just point to point.
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I concur. I have a 350MHz Power Mac G4 that I purchased for only $40 in 2009 from a couple who couldn’t figure out why it stopped working. It turned out the hard disk and the CD-ROM drive didn’t work, and its internal battery ran out; replacing them was easy. It’s one of the easiest computers I’ve ever worked on. I have both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X Tiger installed on separate hard disks. It even handled the Web decently until around 2013.

I also have a “trash can” Mac Pro that was my daily driver from 2017 (when I purchased a refurbished model) to 2022 when I switched to a Ryzen 9 build. My Mac Pro was a beast, and while it lacked expansion slots, it was still user-serviceable.

I miss the days of user-serviceable Macs, which is why I switched back to PCs after using Macs as daily drivers since I bought an Intel Core Duo MacBook in 2006. I now use a Ryzen 9 build at home and a Framework 13 laptop when I’m away from home.

I am grateful for Jean-Louis Gassée, who helped turn the Macintosh from a closed appliance to an expandable, user-serviceable machine, beginning with the Macintosh II in 1987. The IIfx, the Quadra, the Power Macintosh line, and the pre-ARM Mac Pro line were all part of this legacy.
No religious flamewar on HN please. I realize the parent more or less started it but it's quite against the HN guidelines to take the bait this vigorously.

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: yikes, you posted 16 times in this thread! That's egregious. I'm going to assume that you hadn't seen this comment before posting any of those.
> DE currently require good knowledge of German

That's quite reasonable. No matter how good you're at a certain skill, most jobs will require an advanced level of communication.

Imagine if you hired a builder and the person wouldn't be able to understand the intricacies of the job you need performed?

Having teams that are exclusively English speaking in Germany would make sense, but Germany is large enough to not have them yet.
That's a good point, that's what I get for doing a linear extrapolation. This looks like a better estimation, which doesn't look good for my argument: https://towardsdatascience.com/the-carbon-footprint-of-gpt-4...

I still think my point about imagining that using ML models decreases emissions versus a human doing the same task still stands though — humans don't produce that much more or less emissions depending on what task they're doing, and they'll be existing either way, and probably using the computer the same amount either way, just not spending aa much time on that one task, so I don't see how you can argue using an ML model to write or draw something uses less CO2 than a human doing it. You can't count the amount of CO2 the human takes to exist for the amount of time it takes for them to do the task as the CO2 cost of the human doing the task because humans don't stop existing and taking up resources if they're not doing a task unlike programs. And you can't really compare the power used to run the ML model to the power used by the computer the human is using during the time it takes them to do the task either, since the human will need to use the computer to access your ML model, interact with it to define the prompt, edit the results, etc (and also bc again they'll probably just shift any time saved doing that task on the computer to another task on the computer). Additionally of course there's the fact that you can't really use large language models to replace writers or machine learning image generation tools to replace artists if you actually care about the quality of the work.
> widely visible

Usual selling point in marketing of ground based free space optical links is that it is very hard to intercept. Compared to P2P microwave the beam is significantly narrower and alignment requirements higher and the link loss budget is usually tight enough that when the beam becomes visible off-axis due the weather efects (heavy rain or ridiculously thick fog) the link fails.

On the other hand one can extrapolate from results of reverse engineering of the starlink dish. Everything that goes through the space segment is encrypted and entirerity of the high-level control plane is mTLS authenticated, so one would assume that the inter-satellite links work in similar way. Of note is that software in the dish seems to share large swatches of code with what is not only on the starlink satellites but bunch of other SpaceX embedded linux systems.
I misphrased my first sentence. P2P's legal uses died with mobile. For example, Microsoft spent a huge amount of time and money removing the P2P functionality in Skype, because nobody was going to tolerate the data cost and battery drain of running a superpeer in your pocket.

Yes, people still use P2P for piracy. This is actually part of the problem, and why it was so easy for mobile to kill P2P. While P2P itself is legal, associations with piracy meant nobody was willing to use P2P, which meant nobody was going to invest the time or money into making mobile P2P work[0].

Tangent time: Have you ever wondered why we distribute online video through YouTube instead of BitTorrent? Remember, you could just put magnet links in RSS, there was even an RSS/BitTorrent combo client called Democracy[1] which was basically YouTube before YouTube. But a lot of corporate suits didn't want to touch BitTorrent in any capacity, even for things they intended to distribute for free, because of the piracy stink. YouTube was also ridden with piracy, but they cleaned up their act and brand with a bunch of automated moderation tools. So when online video became corporate, all the monetization and ads went to centralized platforms and not decentralized ones.

And as all of this should have tipped you off by now, I'm not a "clueless gen-z user born with smartphones". Even if I was, Zoomers figure out this shit anyway, despite Apple and Google's attempts to starve their brains of oxygen by denying them access to real computers.

[0] Yes, I know about AirDrop. AirDrop is just a taste of what we could have had if real engineering hours had gone into mobile P2P, instead of moving the few early adopters back onto centralized services.

[1] This would later be renamed to Miro and then abandoned as their YouTube API integration broke. Yes, they were also NewPipe before NewPipe.
Nobody's forcing you to operate in countries with worker's rights
You can easily create a custom version of ChatGPT which focuses on whatever teachings you want. I'm not familiar enough with the teachings of Buddha to know what to tell it to make it for you.

eg there's https://chat.openai.com/g/g-WxckXARTP-astrology-birth-chart-... for astrology
Project manager and editor of the book here! Marcin has posted a lot of updates and newsletters about the printing process. It was fairly arduous to get the quality for the print run we did. Marcin hasn't disclosed the total, but you can tell through the Kickstarter campaign it was at least 4,500. Each of the book set’s hardcover volumes comprise 38 large sheets of paper printed on both sides, then 10 for the softcover volume 3, then sheets for the endpapers and covers and slipcase. Each of those sheets takes from an hour or two to much longer with the degree of attention we paid.

We spent about 100 hours on press with the printers across about eight days, sometimes 12 to 14 hours a day in July with 80°Fs and 90°Fs outside (the printing plant is conditioned somewhat for heat and humidity, and sometimes we had to stop printing for the day as it was just too hot).

It was glorious and exhausting. But we were almost at our physical limits for overseeing the print run and our printers were close to their ability to simply house the raw, printed, and then bound materials. This is an intensely physical object to its scale and the number of pieces.
"TU9 German Universities of Technology e. V. is the alliance of nine leading Technical Universities in Germany"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TU9

And I have a remote job and we almost have no location restrictions.

If there is no demand, how could she see the job advertisements and apply for them?
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> Additional reputational, legal, regulatory risk vs. upstart competitors

It is absolutely this.

Looking at the speed with which they rolled out Bard, are developing Gemini, building features into various products -- I see zero complacency and zero hesitancy.

But they are focused on doing it reliably and safely and not getting sued. These things just take longer.
Interestingly, as a German who lives in a bubble where people take their jobs very seriously, I was equally surprised when I experienced pretty much what you described while visiting the US.

I guess there are “proud to be lazy” kind of people in any country. It’s definitely not a widespread German cultural thing, though, from my experience.
This is HN. Everyone here is more intelligent, capable and aware than people who are industry professionals in their specific field.
Is Catholicism still relevant once we create a new AI god to rule over us and it kills the old god? Could Catholics utilize their expertise in worshipping omnipotent deities to appease Roko's Basilisk?
putting repeated data requests behind a function is what I'm suggesting...

sprinkling your ORM code all throughout your codebase is the equivalent of NOT using functions but instead copy/pasting the implementation everywhere it's needed.

Most ORM's recognize this is a problem, which is why they often try to bake in some sort of solution for re-use, only it's always done badly. They'll generally attach it to the model and it will turn into some sort of unobvious behavior or they'll attempt to be able to attach SQL fragments by name. What it ends up doing is effectively spreading an SQL query over several files. Often by convention so there's no real way to know if part of the query is going to be in file X without just checking or knowing ahead of time.
This is opposite of reality. House of cards (RE overinvestiment) of past leadership was inherited by Xi, who has been actively dismantling it for years, which he started early - RE square footage stagnated a few years after he started office. Meanwhile, almost every PRC strategic improvement that US is panicking over from PRC military modernization to MIC2025 to PRC moving up science/innovation, capturing higher value supply chains, PRC expanding trade influence was driven by Xi. He also inherited inertia from past efforts still it's been down to his guidance. Which is not to say he did "best" job, but good enough job that PRC strength on trend to grow under his trajectory, which we have 10+ years of data on.
Yes. There's a huge portion of humanity who doesn't read Twitter. Newspapers in their heyday were more influential on public discourse.
while I agree with you in the context of a work environment 100%, in an interview there is a series of checkboxes interviewers need to hear and if you say I don't know I will look into that you can really screw yourself.
Claude Shannon showed you could use n-grams to represent language. Then Chomsky invented automata / formal languages theory to show why it couldn’t work.

IIRC transformers are at the very bottom of the Chomsky hierarchy, and yet they are clearly able to master English grammar.

What gives?
I interviewed two guys last month who were definitely using some form of real-time assistance on a remote (MS Teams) interview. Their English language skills were atrocious, but their answers were still peppered with ten-dollar words that they couldn't pronounce.