skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I agree with you. I love working remote and don’t want to RTO. However after several discussions on here where I simply asked the question of remote work proponents to just provide real evidence of the benefit of remote work to the organization and not just the personal benefits to them…I generally got argued and downvoted and told the same “brick and mortar savings” and “happier workers work harder” as the crust of the argument—both of which are usually highly subjective to the specific org and employee and not a hard and fast rule.

Reality because of the HN audience is heavy on tech workers, which is one of the few disciplines that can actually and effectively WFH en masse, it’s out of balance to the real world. Add to that we tech folk already tend to believe we are the smartest humans to walk the earth, it makes for a fun combination of lack of real world awareness coupled with arrogance on the subject.
> When profit is the main goal, guaranteed savings(not doing the necessary spending to actually clean up) in the short term often take priority over possible long term avoidance of fines and lawsuits.

The interest rate is the mediator between the short term and the long term. Lower interest rates mean that the long term is comparatively more important.
Perhaps because 4% of user agents don't support it.
Unfortunately, yes. Despite (or maybe because) my best efforts to get them to use anything else, they're staunchly set on Windows.

I've already taken a massive hearing for trying to get them to use LibreOffice. Windows and MS Office is absolutely non negotiable.
Huh? You could say that about any cost at all. Yet, companies are constantly on the look out for ways of cutting costs. Use less material, use less labour, pay lower fines, find a way to optimize taxes, etc.
Vice.com is dead. Next story.
But this also means that possible information retained is constant irrespective of the prefix length. This might be a problem if the prefix is composed of essentially uncompressable data.
> I play jazz and don't fully believe in Western music notation :)

My friend - accomplished classical musician and now pretty well known jazz musician tells me you can't write down latin music accurately. Personally I think while written language is largely about conveying a fairly unambiguous meaning, written music is really about providing enough for the player / or conductor to be able to infer what they need to do.
let windows auto update and backup user files to another drive regularly...that should be it
Yes, footer of parent: https://youtu.be/oSCRZkSQ1CE?si=Na1d1cK3TApDhkSO
This is how Saks Fifth Avenue is actually, when you peel back all of the onion, the honest-to-God 17th century Hudson's Bay Company
Eh, a lot of startups even in the 100-200 employee range are still manually inviting Slack members. It's not really the end of the world as long as you're on top of things and have good communication between HR, IT, etc. Spreadsheets solve a lot of problems (in this case, having a good template offboarding/onboarding spreadsheet in Google drive that everyone can collaborate on to make sure stuff gets done quickly).
Pico CSS v2 comes with 380 manually crafted colors
Globe Explorer
Source: https://twitter.com/sincethestudy/status/1761099508853944383
Sorry, just noticed that. Very good.

Where is the FFI, I'd like to see how you do that and whether you go through C. I couldn't find it easily.

Duh, I don't know how I missed it https://github.com/inlinedio/ikv-store/tree/master/ikv/src/f...
#TeamTrees and Ethiopia have a working panacea that will save the world. /s

Planting trees isn't carbon capture or sequestration because of math, forest fires, and decomposition.
Apple Shortcuts Vulnerability Exposes Sensitive Information
Under what pretense did they get a hold of your own car keys?
in the real real far future you don't need his head, but maybe a single hair or a bone? Assuming every DNA cell keeps all memories or perhaps like a chicken running with a cutoff head maybe if his hands to be reconstructed, given enough time over a keyboard he would finally "twich" a password? Just thinking out loud...
Partly a joke, but with a grain of good advice.
However, it doesn't really work. I live in a different country, and hence am not available for in-person troubleshooting when something goes wrong. I'm really looking for a set up and forget option.

Just something like, have Windows Defender set up, make these sensible changes and for the most part it'll be fine.

To be clear, I don't need to protect them from standard call center scams, egregious phishing attempts or so. They seem to be good enough at identifying those very obvious ones.
230k Individuals Impacted by Data Breach at Australian Telco Tangerine
I'm wondering how this affects non-pirate media scrobbler trakt.
Ford stopped shipping F-150 Lightning electric pickups
blast from the past for me. I used i3blocks.... 10 years ago?
If you can't be civil there's no reason to respond. Don't swear at me.
From my experience and seeing others using Grammarly, Turnitin doesn't detect it at all, even if you abuse it for longer sentences. It is a magic wand to fix minor errors for the most part, and not an AI capable of writing parts of paper for you. Potentially she struggled with paraphrasing or used chatgpt.
here's the effect at 100% strength: https://imgur.com/a/PfrIsex

and a more reasonable 35%: https://imgur.com/a/doT8YKd
>Google might have good intentions

Don't be evil
Or you'd have tot take out a literal letter of credit from your bank - who would use all of that, plus some other stuff to assess your worthiness.
Yeah, I think 2016 with Bernie employing one populism and Trump another one tells this story well. They're more different than similar, to be clear but their pitches had similar shapes. There's an elite, they cause all the policies you dislike, and if we could just engage all the disaffected voters we'd easily get the things we want. For Bernie it was the economic elite preventing expanded welfare programs, especially Medicare For All. For Trump it was a globalist elite preventing nativist policies.

It was more obvious in 2020 (with a less complicated, more policy-driven primary) that tons of Democratic primary voters don't want Medicare For All, and that the story as Bernie had told it didn't match the reality on the ground of differing policy goals even within the party's constituents.
On the ground, money laundering looks a lot like embezzlement, because it's basically the opposite: instead of trying to divert money away from a business and into somewhere it shouldn't be (their bank account), they're trying to take money from somewhere it shouldn't be (say, a shipping container full of cash) and putting it into a legitimate business.

This works best with a variably high volume, cash-based, low-variable cost business. Variably high volume, because the more legitimate cash flow you have, the harder it is to notice some level of illegitimate cash flow, and the variability makes it much harder for someone (law enforcement) to notice that you're consistently making more money than you have business for. Cash based is obvious, you have cash you need to legitimize. Low variable costs eliminate another way law enforcement could notice you, if your variable costs don't match your revenue (a restaurant that only buys a couple lbs of butter a month shouldn't be making thousands of meals).
Reddit hasn't turned a profit in 20 years, filed to go public anyway
Well they succeeded at their second principle, by using "fair" bias.
Florida refuses to bar unvaxxed students from school suffering measles outbreak
My main argument would be I don't understand multiple cursors unless there's a lot of identical lines which need prefixing or suffixing (and regex can do that). Vim lets you select stuff before acting on it, so "wanting to select stuff before acting on it" doesn't seem like a good reason to leave Vim. Although in practise I rarely use that.
I think that makes a lot of sense, and explains the behavior I see. It doesn’t excuse it, though. It’s still shitty behavior, and the opposite of the kind of reasoned discourse I’d like to see on HN.

I think there’s an interesting debate to be had on the pros and cons of remote work, and even more interesting discussions to be had about how to compensate for its flaws. (Such as difficulty integrating new hires into the social fabric of the company, challenges experienced by junior devs, a slow burn of “othering” in interactions, lack of serendipitous conversations, challenges with creative group work, tendency towards long scheduled meetings over “pop your head into my office” moments.) Those are actually of intense interest to me, since I’m dealing with these challenges in my real-world work. I have solutions to some of them, but not all. I’d love to learn from other people’s experiences.

But that doesn’t seem to be possible on HN, where the barest hint that remote work isn’t perfect brings out the shouters.
I have no background in combinatory logic, and so I've predictably never understood fixed-point combinators:

1. Every function has a fixed point.

2. A fixed-point combinator will compute it.

So what is the fixed point of f(x) = x + 1?

Also why doesn't this give us mathematical superpowers? Define f(x) = x iff x is a non-trivial zero of the Riemann zeta function...
Years ago I found a glaring security hole in schwab where when imputing a security question answer, if you got it wrong you could just hit the back button and try again.

to their credit, they took me seriously and I believe they fixed it reasonably promptly.
I am so conflicted when it comes to this sort of thing.

On the one hand, simple things can be quickly fixed with a good reporting tool. My city has such a tool and so broken things, signs becoming obscured by foliage, potholes and so on are all dealt with quickly. These are fantastic systems.

On the other hand people Love to complain. And it's always "they" who should do something about it. But they don't like the established time and effort it takes to complain in the right forum (Town meeting, contacting ward Councillor or whatever.) Much easier to go to some unsanctioned Web site and pile on.

Of course the actual biggest complaint is about change. Any change at all. It doesn't matter whether the change is good, or asked for, or desired, there's always someone willing to complain.

This is especially true at the hyper-local level. I'm tangentially involved in a proposed new residential estate. People 3 miles away, with no shared road, are complaining about it based on "increase in traffic". (Their access is from a main road which is busy all day long.) Their argument really boils down to "no change".

Lots of change is good. Some is bad for me, but common good. Some have good ideas, but there are negative side effects. Some have good ideas, but its expensive. Some have good ideas that are prevented by law or bylaw.

So well done on creating a site. More dialog is a good thing. But ultimately it serves little real purpose (other than just general bitching) unless some sort of real-world interaction with city management takes place. And I'm -guessing- most cities will just refer you to their current online system, whatever they use.
I am not sure, it depends on the cost. If they charge per token, a large context will mostly be irrelevant. For some reason, the article did not mention it.
Must be why, despite the fact that I can recognise OpenAI's product does have clear biases against affluent groups, it seems well intentioned and proportionate. It's clear the internet is bias not just towards the data of the affluent, but also the viewpoints and prejudices, so a reasonable person can recognise there is some unfairness and a bit of a problem. Also that any solution to this problem will be imperfect.

Whereas with Google, I just have to imagine they let some bigot go wild, and everybody was afraid to say anything about how fucking bad the product was due to the optics, so nothing kept them in check.
interesting catch, thanks for sharing. my poor memory is already racing thinking about cases where i may have left traps with the same assumption
But my Canadian data rate...
It means you could know what the code will do, that's it. Even that's useful though. It means you can write complete formal models of the language and apply them against your code. The current situation is that you can only build partial formal models, and the assumptions those models rely on evaporate in the presence of UB. It's a really shitty way to do proofs.

Not knowing what the code will do also means that most of the safety critical code in your life is verified through a checkbox that essentially says "I promise there's no undefined behavior". For example, here's what MISRA says about undefined behavior:

Rule 1.3: There shall be no occurrence of undefined or critical unspecified behaviour

Analysis: Undecidable, System

It'd be nice to have at least the potential to analyze the code both as one of the people writing safety-critical code and a person who uses cars, planes, trains, etc.
> They’re angry, vocal, and sure of their morale superiority. There’s no point in engaging with them, so I remain quiet.

They do have morale superiority on this issue though. Not because WFH is superior and they are smarter than everyone else. But because the arguments brought by their counterparts are in most cases either very dishonest, or very dismissive and confrontational.

RTH mandates acknowledge that the fulfillment of the employees preferring WFH is not their priority even if it does not negatively impact productivity. Company culture is prioritized over employee fulfillment, while it was pretended that these cultures were all about making employees happier. Masks off, people are calling the BS, and this is perfectly legitimate.

What you see as arrogance really isn't, it is just outrage, and a legitimate one in my humble opinion. Keep in mind that not everyone has the luxury of watching this situation playout while being comfortably employed as VP of a fully remote company.
One reason I can think of is that many engineers really don't do testing. They write tests after the fact because they have to. I've worked with a bunch of engineers who will code for days then write a few tests "proving" the system works. They have low covergage and are usually brittle.

This system would be a godsend in the minds of engineers who think / operate that way.

I've also had managers who told me I wasn't allowed to write tests firsts as it was slower. Luckily I was able to override / ignore them as I was on loan "take it up with my boss". They're probbably thinking the same as the above engineers.

Another way to think of this is most devs hate documentation... if they had an AI that would write great docs from the code they'd love it. And these to these devs docs they don't have to write are great docs :)
0.6 percent of a model with 890 million parameters is still 5.34 million parameters.

That's still pretty big. Maybe big enough to fake normals, learn some albedo smoothing functions, and learn a depth estimator perhaps??
But the buyers agent is going to work with most buyers only once. And work with dealers many times. This is hard to get the incentives right
I really believe this "application" is the result of thinking about tests as a chore and requirement without great benefits. Your thought of LLM writing application give the tests is interesting also from test pass/fail as optimization that ca be run online by the LLM to improve the result without human feedback.
> Second, Gemini is pretty slow. Many requests took a minute or more to return, so it’s not a drop-in replacement for every LLM use case.
House scarcity is caused by restrictive zoning laws that limit or even outright ban the construction of new homes in high demand areas. It has little if anything to do with capitalism. The main supporters of restrictive zoning are homeowners who oppose new homes in their neighborhoods. See Katherine Einstein, “Neighborhood Defenders’.

http://tinyurl.com/mr394vbe

House scarcity is a result of too little capitalism, not too much.
Subscene.com Is Shutting Down
I had a feeling that Y combinator just sounds like recursion but with lazy evaluation...please correct me if I'm wrong.
Me: "We should use SCIM, our IDP and our App both support it"
PM: "No that's too complicated, we'll roll our own provisioning and never worry about de-provisioning because they won't be able to log in due to SAML anyway!"

I can't tell you how many times I've had that conversation... but I'd need at least both hands and a foot.
Bitcoin has no leader.
I spent months passively waiting for a former employer to evict me from Slack. It was genuinely bizarre, almost a year later I still had full access to a ton of internal channels.

They are friends, but this was not them being friendly, it was just because slack account management integration with Google Office is a dumpster fire.
It's cringy, but it's harmless.
Islington and the area southwest of the Angel are extremely interesting. After all, it was not always the gentrified chichi place it is now:

- old London Jewry still had a presence on Rosebery Avenue, in little mom and pop stores. I used to stuff my face on salt beef sandwiches prepared by a lovely old lady near Sadlers Wells.

- down towards Clerkenwell is the Church of the Holy Redeemer, a rare example of the High Anglican Church (aka "bells and smells"). I cant go in here without feeling like someone out of Dickens who just had a nice letter from Cardinal Newman.

- City University is nearby, and although its all polished now, back then it was very much a local education resource for working people. I took Russian at night school here once.
You can always do described video, so this is just awkward and sloppy.
https://github.com/inlinedio/ikv-store/tree/master/ikv/src/f...

Yup, it has JNI and C FFI
Immediately following 2016, there was a vogue for left populism as a response or corrective to the right populism that carried the election, an idea that "our side" needed to get some of that energy for itself. 2018 was a test of that idea, and it failed pretty conclusively.
And they should have been held accountable, were they?

If such an entity demonstrates gross negligence yet there are no repercussions, perhaps it is worse than negligence, it is outright larceny - Equifax could be characterizes as a govt supported cartel.

It is not unreasonable then we should actually physically destroy their premises and all related collected information as an active threat to the nation, as well as re-issuing all sensitive information to all affected individuals.

As for what to do instead, credit reporting need not be the important solution, rather one part of an accepted solution, such as multiple scores issued to multiple numbers that are not tied together by a single bureau. Then when credit checks are pulled it is not sufficient to use a single service and the incentive to illegally utilize said information decreases, as the relevance is reduced for any one credit check.
> how to compensate for its flaws... brings out the shouters.

that's because the flaws are irrelevant to the employee. Those flaws are problems for the company (e.g., they are all related to extra value extraction from the work of the employee).

The simple answer is - pay more for working in the office, and you will get people to come. There's a monetary value associated with WFH, and you just need to the pay to exceed that value (as determined by the market of course).
If you don't like the terms with your current bank, how would you apply for a loan with a different one [that doesn't know you]? People need the ability to shop around.
Syncthing doesn't have a DB? Are you thinking of Duplicati maybe?
Windows out the box is pretty secure. Make sure they are behind a NAT router and sll incoming connections are blocked.

AV is built in and works well.

Of course it's not Windows you should be worried about. It's about programs that they download and run, or come via email. That's best solved with education, and frankly applies to phones as well as desktop.

A healthy amount of fear when it comes to new software, or opening docs is no bad thing.

And please don't foister things like Libre Office on them. They are a poor solution to those used to Office. It sounds like you've tried that before :)

Only techies care about mundane things like license and freedoms etc. Regular people just want working software, that they are used to, which just works. These days that means Windows or Mac, or whatever they had before.
No, you can have abstract representations of a concept which would fit understanding in a certain sense of the word. You can have “understanding” of a concept without an overarching self aware hypervisor. It’s like isolating a set of neurons in your brain that represent an idea.
I'll give you sticky headers on one axis, but am still waiting for the day that CSS supports them on both axes: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/8286
I honestly think that incident helped make the type of people who would have the nerve to stick their neck out and say "This is racist" avoid Google like the plague.

Sundar absolutely had to fire Damore because he came out with the arguments like that women are too neurotic for high stress jobs. The thing is even Damore's more reasonable points were ignored and Google's ideological echo chamber only strengthened.
Make a browser extension that stickys all table headings :p
I guess following X's path of membership after going public might make it sustainable.
The Fastest Copilot
Lots have heard "code is law".

Fewer have noticed "law is code".
Covering all the "if err != nil { return err }" branches in Go is pretty mindless work.
There are some models that can batch transactions throughout the day, and then upload them at the end of the day.
> The batteries themselves are cheap now.

> about the same energy density per cubic meter

Energy density isn't the issue. Need to either buy the best cells or oversize the pack to meet normal loads. Both options cost additional money.

Go look at the spec sheets on the cheap ones, they aren't power dense enough to make a small (1000-1500VA) UPS with comparable or even double runtime of the lead acid.
You can prevent later longer reslicing by add an additional cap() element to the slicing to shrink the capacity.

s = s[:3:3]

from your first example link.
NIMBYs are incentivized to restrict zoning to preserve the value of their capital.
"Follow me on Twitter to see my Wii reviews."

People will get used to it.
Wildly unfeasible. The consumer does not have a choice, they do not have an ability to live within their means without incurring credit checks.

Take housing - perhaps it is possible to purchase outright a home with cash, however you will not find generally anyone willing to take payment in cash.

If you cannot afford that and are not taking a loan, then you must rent. However you cannot rent without a credit score.

So no the consumer did not consent to anything. This is a ridiculous and dishonest viewpoint.
It is reinforcing my belief that language design is hard. Go is supposed to be a simple language, one may write it for long time, but there will be some trap you discover once in a while.
Ha! Today I learned
Flaco, the Eurasian Eagle Owl, Has Died
The GitHub repo is 404ing. Maybe it's set to be private?
The article did mention costs, specifically it was provided to them for free and they don't know how much it will actually cost.

As for your larger point, it really depends on the ROI.

To summarize your Twitter feed, probably not.

To identify correlating factors and trends across your industry's recent research papers, the $5 bill will probably be fine.
Trade-in evaluation?