skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People dedicated to working at home haven't worked in a good office.

I agree.

> The main thing was that we together were shaping the product; if you convinced others, you could have an impact. And to convince others, you needed to do your homework (in your office).

This is not. Shaping a product is not a collaborative work. Thus, product is something different, we talk about the real work environment.

> So it's not really the office or the desk but the rhythm of coming up with an idea and seeing it take root in your peers (or not) -- the opportunity to contribute.

This is another not. Office has nothing to do with that topic.

> Nowadays, it's open desks or cubes and product managers, and any collective discussion is shot through with politics. When initiative is squelched and mutual respect is replaced by influence, the only thing to maximize is slack -- which makes working from home the absolute best.

This is office chatting. Product development is done inside the computer. You don't need an office for that.
EF Core compiles a query for the entirety of the expression provided. I wonder if it actually outputs select * from book join author on book.author_id = author.id where author.id = 5 as you described - this seems like a pit of failure a framework would work hard to prevent from happening.
I remember trying Smashmallows, and they were delicious! Now I know why I can no longer find them... sigh.
Enough that the ground is mostly shaded on a summer’s day. Dappled shade, I suppose. You’re basically thinking about what percentage of the sky a given point on the ground can see, and a surprisingly small amount of cover goes a long way.
Is it possible the author is referring to the Amazon Rainforest instead of the Amazon River?
Wow, great use of the attr function, thank you!
Having a large expansive lawn with rocky features, rare plants, water features, and fish, while being perfectly manicured attached to an estate is a way better lawn than a 12x20 green rectangle in the front of a suburban home's lot.
Apple is right not to rush headlong into generative AI
I’m not an LLM guy… how large on disk is a 7B LLM? (Minstrel is specific is needed, but a range would be great)
Most brains don't treat themselves to an abundance of training data, the ones who do seem pretty knowledgeable to me.

Witty comment aside, the human brain is pretty efficient in terms of energy use considering it's taking in a ton of data while it's conscious. Two each audio and video streams, olfactory, gustatory, touch, vestibular, and all the interoception. Inference and training in real time. All for the low price of 125 watts, a quarter that if you're just measuring the brain and not the whole body.

The paper was published last year. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.338...

I'm not convinced this field will outpace silicon or whatever succeeds it, considering how big the semiconductor industry is.
Huh, we had an outdoor pool with no heating other than just being outside in the sun, and it would regularly get too warm. We would only swim after about 11pm.

We also thought it was too cold to swim if the air temp was below 35C (95F).

Australia.
Show HN: Rails Command Generator Tool
I created a rails command generator that lets you create:
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- command for new model
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The Republic of China is in control of the island formally known as Formosa. Taipei is a city on Formosa also under Republic of China control. Internationally, representatives of Taipei and the surrounding area are sometimes said to be representing "Chinese Taipei", because Taipei is on Formosa and Formosa is Chinese. There is only one China, and China is the rightful owner of Formosa, and one of its cities, Taipei.
https://archive.ph/2024.03.03-154420/https://www.economist.c...
> Most brains I meet don't seem to know more about the world than a 7B LLM

I think this is pretty trivially untrue, it's just a very different sort of knowledge.
French court issues damages award for violation of GPL
thanks, I'll look into that
Unrelated to the post, but I tried out your Loopbox app you linked in the bug report. I couldn't quite figure out how to get it working, so I clicked the question mark icon for a tutorial. But the linked YouTube video is of someone's holiday photos! Just fyi
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> People dedicated to working at home haven't worked in a good office.

Or, alternatively, some people work better from home and some work better in an office. And basing "all truth" off your anecdata isn't really reasonable (the same is true of those that say everyone would be better off working from home).

The biggest problem is that the people that work better in an office tend to see that benefit because there are co-workers there. And if half the people are working from home, the co-workers aren't there. So you can really only make one group optimal, and the other one suffers.
pick any of the reasons one always wants to self-host things
The overall disadvantaged business stuff is a requirement for taking federal funding (https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ac...).

How screwy any given implementation becomes is of course, fully at the hands of the local authority, and whatever slush fund silliness they have in mind. From skimming through, it seems like there's an overall very soft 10% "target" in terms of disadvantaged businesses. I think the law literally says that there is a national 10% target, but individual entity (so a single airport for example) are not allowed to take that 10% as a quota or target.
Yeah it would have been a no-brainer to train them on the machines if they were located in the same place. But I think it said the first factory was in LA and the second was in PA. That'd make for quite a commute! But regardless they obviously shut down the first factory too soon.
People interested in this thread and that are in the SF Bay Area might be interested in visiting the Bay Model Museum in Sausalito. It’s a giant model of the bay that was used for modeling water flow, floods, salinity and so on before supercomputers were economical for such things. It ceased scientific work in 2000.

Inside the Bay Model, you will find the Marinship museum. Marinship built 93 military cargo ships between when it was founded in 1942 and closed in 1945:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinship
None of the Amtrak rolling stock can really compare with the state-of-the-art high speed rail trainsets in that image though. Perhaps a better comparison would be, say, Siemens' facility for producing Velaro trainsets or Nippon Sharyo's Shinkansen-making factory: https://www.n-sharyo.co.jp/business/tetsudo/making/img-kouta...
Not sure how those got in there and git-blame is not helpful. Maybe just me typing out as many as I could imagine? :v

No h1 because there is only ever one of those and it's at the top of the first page.
Is cinema India's new political battleground?
I agree that the situation doesn't make sense at first glance. The contradictions are glaring. The US has both supported the one-China policy and supported Taiwanese independence. Even with these simple statements, someone here will probably find fault and offer a correction.

This isn't something that can be understood outside of the "ends-justify-the-means", "but my pragmatism" and other sausage making slogans of the foreign policy establishment. We'd have to go through all of the historical machinations before we'd even begin to have a context.

You're not wrong for looking for some semblance of logical consistency. If you prefer analysis from first principles, that's fine, I'd even agree with that perspective in many ways, but you'll have difficulty evaluating the status quo of geopolitics.

Maybe a long way of saying that it doesn't make sense, it isn't supposed to make sense under scrutiny, it probably never will make sense and the expectation is for knights-errant.
A completely unquantized fp16 model weight 7B LLM is about 15GB on a disk. You need closer to 24GB of memory for inference with a decently sized context.

Quantization is black magic of the software variety that seems to be able to significantly reduce that without a commensurate loss in quality, though the results are a little subjective. Some well reviewed quantizations of 7B models can get them below 9GB.
Why do you need to live in the city if the commute requirement is gone?
Is it me, or does the article not mention whether they were ever making a profit, or if not, how much money they were losing every year?

It's great to be generating millions in revenue, but if you're losing money on every order and there's no way to cut costs (because automation is currently impossible), that's a very different story than "we were making money as a boutique but tried to grow to fast and ended up failing".
Two possible implementation:

(1) Take your data as a stream. Use your machine learning gadget to give you the (predicted) probability for each of the possible next tokens. Then use those probability in arithmetic coding to specify which token actually came next.

(2) Take your data D. Apply lossy compression to it. Store the result L := lossy(D). Also compute the residue R := D - uncompress(L). If your lossy compression is good, R will be mostly zeroes (and only a few actually differences), so it will compress well with a lossless compression algorithm.

Approach (1) is a more sophisticated version of (2). None of this is anything I came up with, those approaches are well known.

See eg https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04050 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Lossless_Coding or https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1049... (Probably not the best links, but something I could find quickly.)
Veblen is that the demand is higher the higher the price, instead of the opposite, but instead of getting hung up on wether or not it's a Veblen good, my larger point is that lawns are luxuries like BMWs and Rolexes. Nice if you can afford them but recognize that we've normalized being extra in this way.
GDPR is about far more than some browser pop-ups - it severely limits the extent to which companies can harvest and share your information, even if you blindly click through those consent boxes. It confers a bunch of rights to citizens for discovering and controlling who has their data. Most importantly, it creates a disincentive for companies to be lax in securing the data they do have.
One of my biggest criticisms of HN in general is that dang, et al, have created a safe space for heinous opinions where pushing back on them too hard will get YOU moderated.

You're on a crusade against larger vehicles and you think that crusade is more important than avoiding more harm to poor people, to the point that you said they have no need of larger vehicles (with a straight face) so it's ok to place a tax on them that will mean the poor will be forced to forego something as simple as a minivan for their family due to the extra taxes on them.

that's an immoral stance, one that you can only have gotten to because poor people is an abstract idea to you, you don't attribute any humanity to that abstract idea.

What makes it even worse is that you're so far gone you thought my issue with your statement was because I think owning a van or SUV is a human right rather than your entirely cavalier dismissal of the poor as being people.

rethink your strategy, the harm from your current strategy means it will never be implemented.

Also, minivans and vans have been around since the 1930's. Get your facts right.
The city is where all the fun things are. There's nothing more enjoyable than going for a five minute walk and picking which of the 10 restaurants and bars I pass I'd like to stop at.
I don't know what the alternative is for the US matters. That's for US citizens to decide. Personally I don't believe there was any fraud in the US elections.

I know about my own country. And what happened here is this: they saw what Trump did and were seriously alarmed. In order to stop our Trump equivalent from winning, the supreme court basically staged its own silent revolution.

They gave themselves the power to do whatever they wanted. Then they implemented censorship, unheard of in Brazil since the military dictatorship of the 20th century. Blatantly unconstitutional censorship. Then they went to public events to brag about all of it. How would you feel if an unelected judge censored Trump and then publicly bragged about how he defeated Trumpism?

Smash a democratic institution? This is not a democracy. Unelected judges are running this country. They tried to pass "anti-fake news" censorship laws, Google even campaigned against it and got arbitrarily fined by these judges. The law was rejected. Then about a week ago they rammed the law through anyway via "electoral court resolutions". They determine what's fake, of course. Literal ministry of truth. They regulated AI too.

What do you do when your supreme court seizes power like this? What do you do when the guys who are supposed to enforce the constitution start shitting on it? The police obeys their "court orders". Do you see the point I'm making? They're arresting and persecuting everyone. People who protested this got worse sentences than murderers, rapists, drug traffickers.

Seriously doubt there will be any kind of civil war. Unlike the US, nobody here is willing to die over this cursed, corrupted land. The only solution for Brazil is the airport, as they say. Who knows though, maybe our current "president" will anger the israelis so much with his palestinian support they will nuke Brasília off the map. I mean, this guy is a communist so out of touch he publicly accused the jewish nation of holocausting the palestinians.
Because iraq was interested in selling oil in EUR instead of USD?
There are also plenty of Taiwanese that don’t think Taiwan belongs to either the PRC or ROC. The DPP, who are in power right now, is much closer to that opinion. Obviously the CPC dislikes the DPP (compared to the KMT, who at least believe Taiwan is a part of a china), but whenever the CPC speaks out against the DPP, the CPC only helps the DPP win elections.
One of the most important aspects of a safe and effective approach to contract lifecycle management in any company or organization is contract risk management. By reducing your concerns about prospective hazards, you can increase your contract risk management and expose yourself to amazing opportunities.
I think the moral of the story is that if you are handy around the house, you should exploit the fact that the younger generations are not and scoop up housing for cheap.
Maybe, but EU doesn’t actually have a way to enforce it directly. Instead, countries adopt their laws to the requirements and they enforce it. You end up with something that represents the character of every country, this usually means laws followed and enforced in the north and west, not so much in the south east.
The important part is that you're actually "listening". I used to listen to audiobooks when I commute to work and I do learn from them. Stuck at home, I play audiobooks as part of multi-tasking, and there are many times that I'm just "hearing" so it's not as effective. Still good enough to familiarize with the book and be more prepared the next time around.
What I said about a lack of capacity is openly said by the US military to be a leading priority.

> They have astronomical stockpiles of other weapons like JDAMs able to be delivered by F-35, etc.

Why do you think that? Last I knew, which was several years ago, it was constrained. I think they ran out in some situations (nothing of much consequence).
Sun surpassed Commodore in revenue first a couple of years after the Amiga launched, I think?
Though with the management chaos at Commodore maybe the Sun market cap had already surpassed them?

At the point Sun hit revenue parity Sun was one of the fastest growing tech companies, and Commodore had never reclaimed the peak revenue it reaches in 1984 (when it exceeded a billion USD), and so I'm not surprised it didn't seem attractive by the time it might have been financially possible.
>Office has shit food. Shit coffee. In an open office, there’s a high risk of catching a virus from your co-worker. People love to tap your shoulder, interrupt your thought process (clearly I’m in the zone, asshole), and ask you mundane shit that could have been resolved over IM.

It's not that complicated to bring food from home for lunch, grab something on the way in, or go out for lunch -- I doubt you're working in a food desert after all.

Ditto for coffee and even coffee shops.

Catching a virus thing, sure that's a real concern. For personal experience though I've found I've gotten sick more often since COVID and 100% WFH than when I used to work out of the office 2-3 days a week, including public transit.

As far as interruptions, a lot of offices have conference rooms engineers can use whenever they want. Even one person rooms or the newer telephone booths. Usually all soundproofed. You don't even have to tell coworkers which one you're working from and you can switch rooms throughout the day. I guess that's not feasible in like a 10-20 person office but I've been in offices for up to 75-100 people and it wasn't that difficult.

Most of the problems you've cited have relatively simple solutions in my opinion.
It's not so much the folks who suck it up and carry on, though they might be doing themselves a long-term disservice; it's the ones who project it outwards that are doing most of the harm in the world. Boys and girls, of course.
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It's nice to think that some education will solve conspiracies.

But conspiratorial thinking originates in the gut--not the brain.

It's not a lack of education (or an excess of stupidity). We become conspiatorial when we feel powerless.

Whether that's about elections, or 9/11, or AIDS. And yes, i am susceptible to conspiracy too, and do are you.

The cure to conspiracy isn't facts, but empathy.
Yeah, combinatorics is neat and frightening.

It's crazy things have sensible probabilities at all, but surprisingly often the virtual numerator and denominator are of comparable size, despite the magnitudes involved.
I have worked in the environment you describe. It’s still worse than working from home with a team that communicates over written mediums even semi competently.

The problem with what you describe is it still requires either coordinated interruption of your peers or working effectively remotely anyway.

There is an inverse relationship to the people available for arbitrary “free-wheeling discussions” and how busy they are actually working. Getting a bunch of do-nothing flap-jaws to give you quick feedback seems productive but it’s actually worse than no meeting at all.
Going by the contrapositive: Since China doesn't perceive this as a declaration of war, then I guess by your binary logic Taiwan's an independent country.
I don't know how Doordash can be so bad at predicting delivery times... got me a few hundred bucks of free deliveries though by complaining
Where to direct the uproar? It doesn't matter which partisan puppet sits in the Oval Office or any other office -- they will continue to sell you out to Big Surveillance, as their predecessors have done. The only real difference among them is the culture war window dressing, and that's tiresome.
Taiwan is a country regardless of UN status or opinion.

China just uses its weight to bully countries into submission on declaring their view on Taiwan.
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Human beings don't generally want to be programmers. They have other things to do with their time. I've never understood this obsession with getting non-technical people into programming with some new development methodology or programming language.

Programming isn't for everyone. A programming language is a tool to solve an automation problems. And tons of people just aren't interesting in solving automation problems. You can make the language as non-computer-y as you want. It won't be able to remove the stuff that makes automation difficult -- edge cases, repeatability, maintenance, etc.

What AI could replace are all the frankly hare-brained attempts at "natural language" programming languages intended to make programming appealing to people who probably would never find it appealing. So basically, Shortcuts and AppleScript on steroids. That's a great use for AI. But it does not represent a threat to the employment security of the guy who maintains a kernel scheduler, VM subsystem, etc.
As someone who went out of their way and studied being a good listener, none of these are wrong, but I don't see it as being the best way of learning how to be a good listener.

Reading about how to be a good listener can only get someone so far - watching someone demonstrate it and talking about it is the surest way to understand what it means.

Specifically, Reflective listening[1], Clean language[2], and the approach used by Eugene Gendlin[3], jump-started my own skill of practicing being a good listener. You may also hear the term "holding space" as a sort of umbrella term for this as well.

You would be amazing at how far these go toward creating a safe, non-judgemental, space for people. Simple, open-ended, genuine questions worded in their own language, has afforded me the opportunity to hear people open up from the very bottom of their souls. It's absolutely amazing that the simple act of listening can do that, but it does.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflective_listening

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_language

3. Wiki reference, but best seen, of course, on Youtube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Gendlin
It’s an indirect quotation, not a quote from a primary source. Your quotation is a quotation of the article, not of Matt Miller. Read the primary sources, the misunderstanding is yours.
> What more do you want?

Don't partner with a gambling site for your official Sports app, put their odds in your app, and refer to it as putting out feelers for a larger integration with them.

Not clear enough, or you find that too complex?

(And an aside, but why must people jump to putting words in your mouth the moment they run out of valid points?)
I mean, technically they're right.

There's no connection between a rate increase on Jan 1 2024 and reported earnings for 2023.

Bad title.

But it will be curious to see how 2024 goes financially for them.
"Country" is an abstract concept and this is one of the cases where the abstraction breaks down. The map is not the territory etc..

Taiwan is a sovereign nation in most respects, at least to the extent that any non-superpower is. China insists stringently on the legal fiction that it is a part of China controlled by a different faction in a frozen-but-ongoing civil war, and other countries - not least Taiwan itself - go along with that legal fiction under the implicit or explicit threat of Chinese force; a threat that is less effective against the US than against many other countries.

Is this an act of war by the US against the PRC? Eh, maybe, if you accept the PRC's territorial claims. A lot of technically-acts-of-war happen, especially in situations like this. Again this is a case where the abstraction breaks down and the realpolitik becomes paramount.
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Rate increase means more profit. As PGE is granted a preset profit margin of revenues.
Unlimited year over year growth is cancer, and it's killing most of us. A lot of other companies are raking in records profits as well.

[Edit]

Much of these profits have just as much justification as pg&e - "I want more."

[Edi]

Wow, they have the audacity to say the profits are "primarily driven by an increase in customer capital investment," as if customers chose to give their money away.

https://www.pgecorp.com/news/news-details.d78413bf-71e9-4a77...
The other interesting comparison is how similar SF and Stockholm are.