skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe companies should lift a finger to create work spaces that, well, work?
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What I love best with my Apple Watch is that I can respond to Duo/Okta/BankId directly from my watch and don't have to look for my phone or pull it out of my pocket.
30 years ago? They were common enough 15 years ago in white collar jobs. But low-wage workers that often have less stable employment often still get paper checks. And like payday loans and monthly rates at cheap motels, check cashing is an expensive product used primarily by people without much income: real personal loans and leases require credit, and you can't deposit a $300 paycheck at a bank where you're $120 in the hole for overdraft fees and you're $400 short on your share of the rent. People in the middle-class and up generally use banks, even if they need to cash a check. Unless the check originated at the bank you're in, they only give you a certain amount upfront and make you take the rest from your checking account until it clears. That's only an option if you have enough in your account to cover the difference.
Have they found prions in Alzheimers patients universally? That would seem to have come up looooong ago given how much it has been studied.
How so?

Blue-collar workers are limited to a viable commuting distance. If employees don't like the rate of pay, they have limited options, which is why many in those fields have formed unions.

White-collar workers who don't like the rate of pay can look elsewhere around the globe.

I would note that WFH is beneficial to all parties (except commercial real estate). There's not only fewer cars on the road at key times, but remote workers can run errands at odd hours, allowing workers with less flexibility to complete their errands faster as there's less traffic to contend with during "rush hour" time blocks.

Also, WFH isn't for everyone:

* As much as people love their family, being around them 24/7 takes a toll

* Some people like the social aspects of office work.

* Remote workers are less likely to move up the food chain unless a company is 100% distributed (pure speculation).

I really don't understand why WFH is being touted as evil or elitist. The evil doers are the execs cutting those workers, forcing life changes, and making people miserable, all for financial gain atop already padded compensation packages.
The behavior of distant galaxies actually doesn’t match physics on earth. It’s a huge open problem. The leading hypothesis is dark matter, but that resists experimental confirmation despite extended effort, and has plenty of doubters.

Besides that, I think we’re assuming too much about their motives and capabilities. Who’s to say simulating dust clouds isn’t the point, and we’re just an accident? Or that the point is a survey of the evolution of astronomical systems, or an attempt to predict the fate of the universe? And, since any technology that could simulate even this planet is completely beyond human comprehension, why should we expect them to scale up only about as efficiently as humans do, rather than, say, orchestrating some reaction that results in a computer that grows exponentially and boundlessly? Or that the purpose or mechanism are as beyond our comprehension as a machine that could simulate Earth? Or, if they do have a point of limiting cost, why should we have any idea where that is, and where the cost is so low that resources are spent like they’re free?
> Don’t ever use namecheap for any kind of domains. It is the second worse domain registrar exists

When did this happen? Anecdotally, in recent years, I've seen namecheap be the primary recommendation for a domain registrar. When did the public opinion shift like this?
That's the example I often use. There are papers in prominent journals that draw negative citations.

A related but much larger problem is that citations are a measure of the number of researchers working on a particular problem and nothing else. There was one topic in particular that had many researchers making small contributions, but all of those papers cited all the others, simply because they were written on that topic. Maybe the methods weren't the best or the conclusions weren't robust, but the only reason to cite a paper is because it is prior literature. It's not like you can refuse to cite papers because you believe they are of low quality.
Honestly, I think there's a market for a professional trades phone support. There are so many cases were I just wish I could video chat and ask some basic questions from a professional plumber or electrician while I'm doing some DIY work.

My pet insurance provides something similar, where I will call a veterinarian outside of office hours that can help my triage potential emergency issues.
> The first major competitor to IE in years.

You mean Firefox was.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jan/27/users-g...
New Ransomware Reporting Requirements Kick In, Victims Increasingly Avoid Paying
The fun thing about bureaucracy in the US is that you never know what to expect. Half the time it’s a kafkaesque hellscape, but the other half you come away astonished at how smooth and painless the experience was
I thought MCD was relatively fast and aggressive?
That's about as easy as lifting an NPC out of a video game and allowing them to experience reality.
You NPCs are quite amusing! There's a texture map for when I go outside and look at the sky at night, so I think there are stars. And then there's some cute large language model to generate books, magazines, TV shows and web sites asserting the existence of "astronomers" who have "observed" galaxies and whatnot.

It is kind of impressive when I go into the city and see all the NPC AI running in real time. But the whole Trump plot arc is too stupid to be real.
It is not true for Physics either.
Now, now... they're not that antiquated! CD-R at least... or DVD-RAM
Truck driver is the number 1 job in most states in the US.

Walmart is paying $95k per year starting salary.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/07/business/walmart-truck-driver...
How do you know? It's rare that anyone even tries to replicate scientific results outside of clinical medicine
It’s only theoretically incorrect.

Practically, satellite communications are power-limited and accordingly will always be so close to the noise floor (i.e. S/N << 1) that the logarithm can be approximated with a constant and the bandwidth dependency is negligible and drops out of the equation.

It only matters in the bandwidth-limited regime, i.e. for S/N >> 1.
Thanks. I appreciate the encouragement. It was definitely pretty slow at the end of the year.

It isn't about getting responses though. That is generally fine, from what I can tell.

It is more that I feel like every company wants to talk, and they want to test you, but really are not interested in hiring even if you seem like a good candidate.

E.g. they want to wait for other candidates, are slow in scheduling, have tons of required interviews where they ask similar things
"elite status symbol for wealthy" don't work! :))
> Apple has proven that ARM is fantastic for low power & high performance solutions

Apple has proven that Apple Silicon on TSMC's best process is great. There are no other ARM vendors competing well in that space yet. SOCs that need to compete with Intel and AMD on the same nodes are still stuck at the low margin end of the market.
I think there is a middle ground between:

- a full AI-generated persona that might have generic or irrelevant insights

- and write user personas manually with real users.

I use Hellooo.io for this:

- All my user interviews, transcripts and highlights are in it

- Then I select one or several user interviews and ask the "AI Researcher" to generate a user persona with this prompt:

Create a user persona from the selected interviews.

Format the persona with different paragraphs.

The first paragraph should contain a fictive name for the persona.

The second paragraph should be a short summary of the persona.

The third paragraph should contain basic demographic details (including age, location, and education).

The fourth paragraph should contain specific identifiers with the top 3 pain points, the top 3 goals, and the top 3 unmet needs related to our product or service.

Make sure the pain points, goals, and unmet needs are formatted in bullet-point lists.
There is a huge difference between life and advanced civilization. For most of its existence, Earth had life but not intelligent life.

Telescopes only recently have been able to detect signatures of life relatively close to Earth. There have been very recent possible discoveries. But may not be able to confirm without going there.

There is no systematic search for radio waves. We would only be able to hear anyone for short distance. Advanced civilizations would be rare so not hearing doesn’t say anything about life.

The one thing we haven’t seen are megastructures like Dyson Spheres. Those would be visible for long distances and we haven’t seen any in our galaxy.
I was just browsing HN because I'm procrastinating solving a date based bug.
It is literally this bug! Who said surfing HN is not productive!
Yes imagine if the physical requirements of those jobs were rewarded with some type of additional monetary compensation, given the demands placed upon the workers...
Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to univerbal.app because this website requires a secure connection.

Same with Chrome...
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Let me have my status symbol, it's at least more earth-friendly than driving a F-150 or Mercedes around town.
Exactly. What kind of editors does your field have? In my field, that kind of oversight would have been called out on twitter immediately.
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>their system doesn't verify the sequential #s

Not sure what good that would do. I keep a few checks in a travel folder and have a couple pads of checks in different places around my house. I don't necessarily write checks in sequential order.

Yes, they're not very secure. It's also a system that generally works pretty well for a lot of people. And, yes, it's a good idea not to keep an excessively large bank balance for a variety of reasons.
No if you are manipulating dates do not use time.

Use an integer type denoting days since the start date. See Modified Julian date.

Thus tomorrow is always 1 more than today - if you have times you need leap seconds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm : "quickly band and disband on projects" has overheads which can be prohibitive. Especially in knowledge work. This is partly why offshore outsourcing wasn't a success.
Anyone who regularly lifts weights enough to "be strong" will have far above average cardiorespitory fitness. For example, cardio became my limiting factor deadlifting, and I had to start incorporating more running in order to lift more. Heavy weights can work out your cardio system to a surprising degree!
I mean this is just another entry in the various hit pieces being sponsored by anyone who's long on downtown corporate real estate.
I always struggled with the setup time and effort to create embeddings and feeding data to AI models, this service automates all of that so that I can actually focus on the prompts and the design rather than the technical part.
A declaration doesn't reserve an address. It just means that "x is a variable of type M." How this actually works depends on the compiler.

Weird things happen to uninitialized variables during optimization. Basically, nothing can be assumed about the value, because using an uninitialized variable results in undefined behavior. The original un-optimized generated code may very well have some default value, maybe. Probably not. But, the optimizer can decide that this value is represented by register R0 here and R4 there, and since the variable is uninitialized, there's no point in doing a spill or a load. It really comes down to how the optimization passes were written.
It doesn't sound like true multiseat, they're still the same session, there's only one focused window, etc.
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I made a little tool here to help me find good domain names.

Technically it is elementary, the tool just a combines of names.
Basing CEO compensation on time spent instead of performance is a horrible idea, IMO.
"Knowledge worker who doesn't know anything" => straight out of college management consultants.
So you believe that people working at mentioned companies get into work everyday with the conviction that their work is making the world a worse place, but disregard it because of $$?
Not “shock” precisely, but definitely an interesting surprise to me. Thanks for posting this
I think you just need the Wohnungsgeberbestätigung from the landlord and fill the registration paperwork at the Bürgeramt (which, depending on your city, might be a bit hard to get an appointment), you might also need to take care of the TV bill stuff.

While not awful, comparing to Portugal, where I just need to register in a website an then wait to get a confirmation code by mail, it feels like going back to the stone age.
gross thinking! a huge chunk of the workforce has always been "remote" or does not/never did report directly to a corporate overlord and their pit...
Yes, you make a good point.
Fails to simulate the speed of light, at least from what I can tell.

Should be some million years ago civilization starts, lives for thousands of years, goes extinct - but we never become aware of them. Most never send signals (radio or otherwise) strong enough for us to detect. Others did, but the signal hasn't reached us yet. Still others did, but the signals passed by before we developed the ability to detect them. Still others are reaching us now, but are so far below the noise floor we can't detect them.

The universe is large. You have to account for how slow the speed of light is when talking about the Fermi paradox.
The pareto effect!?
Did I not look closely enough? I didn’t see any tests in the changes.
I agree! I think a more interesting question is "why?", the implementation details are 6 vs a half-a-dozen.

I wrote a short story about why: https://nothingtrue.substack.com/p/discovered-a-secret-messa...
I've been working with a hyperspectral camera (350-1000nm,4nm,12b,410x410,8Hz) lately and this article was quite interesting through that specific lens. I'm pretty much in love with hyperspectral imaging now and it's really opened my eyes to a whole new world of information and technology. Not super relevant, just thought I'd share. Also, this camera has really made me want a real-life tricorder.
Yeah that was weird to hear. I’ve been using Namecheap for over ten years. I have around 100 domains. Had no issues, never transferred a domain tho.

I also don’t use any other services they have.
When I came to the US ten years ago I hadn’t written a check in a decade. I was absolutely shocked that I could buy a car and later put down a deposit on a house with a personal check.

The amount of trust people are willing to place on a piece of unauthenticated paper is astonishing.
in a SPECIFIC month. it's only 28 for february, and then only sometimes. it's only going to affect months where the month contains more days than the month after it. january, march, may, august, and october.

of those, however, there's more than one date in january which would error, so the total is more than 5. 6 or 7 depending on if it's a leap year
Looks cool. Have you looked into the Firebase SDK? I've found streaming data via a websocket created by the JS SDK much faster than the REST API. I think they have a Go SDK as well.
How could you distinguish being pulled out of the universe from being transported to a different part of it? If you're able to experience it, how could you know it's not an experience that's possible within the universe?
I had something like this for a while. It wasn't a bug per-say, it was a test flake due to dates and follow on calculations based on them. On the plus side, it prevented you from working on the weekend as the tests/PRs would always fail during that time.
People said this about voice assistants as well, we would get used to talking to them in public after a little while. I've still not seen anyone speaking to Siri or Google in public. The only thing most people use them for is setting timers when cooking ...
Can some billionaire not fund some sort of 'Academic Integrity Institute' non-profit

- bust citation rings

- catch plagiarism

- flag statistical malpractice/mistakes

- attempt replicate published studies/experiments

Could give jobs to loads of young scientists and be a huge net positive for society.
Given the author, I wonder how many states a binary TM would need to run a universe that is complex enough to contain intelligent entities that think about things like TMs...
Would really love to see an answer to (1).
Thankfully I only have one of these.

It's not the first cloud dependent device I've had bricked like this, I've got to stop buying these kind of products. I've also got to figure out some kind of local AC control in the next two months.

At least Ambi Climate will be doing some kind of partial refund to customer depending on when you bought it.
I recently went looking for floppy disks in Akihabara, Tokyo. I needed them for a photography project and I didn't want to buy an entire box off Amazon (yeah, they are still available) since I only needed 2 at most.

Despite Akihabara having no shortage of retro hardware junk stores, even many with floppy disk drives for sale, finding actual floppy disks was surprisingly difficult. I did eventually find some, but only after asking multiple shop owners who swore they had seen some around their shop to then fail to find any. The last guy went digging behind the counter and eventually produced a dusty box of floppies with only about half remaining.
> I've also seen that during peer review a reviewer may give a list of publications they 'suggest' for the literature review, sometimes completely unrelated fields. If you choose not to, you will likely see your paper rejected.

You are severely misrepresenting how things work here. A reviewer doesn't accept or reject a paper. A reviewer gives their response to an editor and the editor makes a decision. The editor knows who the reviewer is, and has access to the reviews and the author's response to them.

If the editor sees the reviewer has suggested adding bunch of references to their own work, and has suggested rejecting the paper after the authors refuse this then the editor is going to know what is going on. They aren't completely stupid.

> purposefully leak your own paper to get past the publisher pay wall

Many papers in maths, physics and computer science appear on arXiv before being submitted for publication. In the fields I have worked in you can replace the "most" with "pretty much all".
They could be doing that every millisecond too. Maybe in their time, a millisecond takes 1 year. We wouldn't know.
> I wonder if any (likely well considered) techniques developed to combat this context may be able to be backported to help reclaim the usefulness of general internet search.

For a level of an individual researcher this is easy, you just learn what is true and what is false. For a level of the whole society the battle is already lost, your (highly valuable and competent) solution to make a gigachad search just will be either lost or gamed or sued/prohibited.
I don't think this hack makes macOS actually have to pointers, it just teleports the pointer to the screen associated with the input device you're using.
One man's noise is another man's ciphertext.
My experience working at companies using Linux machines to target Linux devices is that IT treat Linux as a headache or a toy OS. They like Windows. They like being able to give you an antivirus that cripples any compilation. They like being able to ignore fine-grained resource management - everyone needs to be a superuser to get anything done, anyway.
Congrats on the release! I think marketing it as a general alternative is a little bit misleading. People have their favourite technology they care about and almost every current stack already has an open source boilerplate, no?

I too built my own boilerplate, Rails + blogging + Kamal deployments, and call it Business Class. Not free, but worth it:)
When satellites first appeared the future was going to be satellites. It turned out that the future was land-based optic fibres because of thoughput, latency, and capacity.
> and all their other "new paradigm" platforms also initially shipped with no software (Mac, iPhone, iPad). The mainstream usage of these devices is really based on what developers built for them in the first couple years after release... Unless AVP is an exception to the rule...

what about Apple Watch, AppleTV and HomePod? Those don't have the app success story of the Mac, iPhone and iPad.

There's two paths that lead to a passionate developer base popularizing your platform via their apps:
1) build a platform that developers love to use i.e. Mac and iPhone to a certain extent
2) offer access to a product with a lot of users i.e. iPhone and iPad

The AVP is more like the first HomePod (quite expensive compared to its 'competition' and irrelevant long before the mini arrived) than the iPhone and iPad which launched at competitive/accessible prices so we're not expecting a product with lots of users.

Could the AVP be a platform that developers love to use? The mostly likely use case from a developer perspective appears to be as a portable big screen monitor for your Mac albeit with limitations*. Would that be compelling enough? Craig Hockenberry https://furbo.org/2024/01/29/the-next-40/ :

"Apple Vision Pro is a technical marvel, but ultimately falls short in ways that satisfy the natural curiosity of developers."

*p.s. there are other headsets with similar display specs to AVP rumored for later this year. It might be worth waiting if you primarily want virtual monitors for your Mac
Nobody thought Apple making a phone was odd. Phone + MP3 players were already in everybody's pockets. Telcos were making money selling ringtones for $2.99 a pop. Apple already had a digital music store. It all lined up. And that was before they tested the waters with the Moto ROKR in 2005.

Back in 2010 there were rumours of Apple building TVs and cars. Those would be weird because they're in areas where Apple had no experience and no software content to provide.
If that's true it's only because most people don't understand these pure maths fields. But their results are generally very useful to the applied mathematicians (whose results are and should be used in most other fields) and in this way there is still an impact although it's not always reflected in the citations.

The fact is that these pure mathematicians could almost surely write the more applied papers but don't because it would feel to repetitive. You don't need to read Euler's work in order to indirectly benefit from it. It's the same for a lot of pure math.
Surprised they didn't mention the Bekenstein bound. It has clear implications on how to calculate the amount of information contained within a 3D volume of space in our universe and how that maps to other dimensionalities.

I've even heard it stated by physicists that the Bekenstein bound helps to prove the feasibility of constructing a simulation of a universe within the size of our universe - but alas, I am not a physicist and this is merely armchair conjecture.
That’s not a bug, that’s a feature, and in this context I really mean it :D
You could make something up like: Simulations as we know them have limitations. Given those limitations, things like recursion require more processing power than simulating a bouncy ball. And if we can detect slowdowns, or a higher state of energy simply by going between two mirrors, we could count it as evidence towards a simulated existence.

Of course this is all conjecture, and assumes that there is no effort to conceal the facts, but at least it is a solid, actionable starting point.