skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, overtime-exempt means that you work in specific exempt fields such as "management" or "software development" that are exempt from the overtime requirement. This applies whether you're salaried or hourly. We don't customarily sign "employment contracts" that stipulate the number of hours worked in these fields as in the US there is an expectation that a professional works as little or as much as needed to get the job done. The way this works in practice is that the company will keep adding tasks to your list until you stop getting things done as quickly. So if you work 80 hours a week they will gladly work you like that forever.

So this law does absolutely nothing for salaried employees but may slightly improve the working conditions of wait staff and others provided their employer doesn't totally ignore the law, which happens a lot anyway WRT tips. I know this law sounds good in principle but like a lot of benefits it greatly helps hourly employees at the expense of hurting salaried employees in the middle class, and the upper class is as-usual totally unaffected by it because they can just afford whatever.
I don’t think it’s just usefulness. I know that you can’t possibly be watching something else on your sunglasses when talking to me indoors or out.

At least with google glass it was trivial to see where the eyes were pointed.
> But the vast majority of people want to have real in-person human interactions when they're out in the world.

Is this true? Most of the time when I'm out and about I'm going from point a to point b and I'm not really interested in talking to anyone I dont already know. If I'm already at a specific place to do a specific thing... I'm not going to have a vr headset on and I'm not really interested in interacting with people I dont already know.
There is a scene in Antitrust (@8:40) where Gates says something similar while planning a murder:

>The cold, hard facts are
that anything is possible.

>Anything, anything. You're just not
thinking creatively.

>I have every confidence that you
can do that, Phil.
Is this different from Dzoghchen buddhism?
"few counties away are taught when to use a backdoor roth ira" What are you on about? Nobody is talking about a back door roth IRA in high school.
If you read the unwritten subtlety of the phrasing, you can see I'm not exactly comparing these devices. Instead, I'm providing an example of where the company's ego would allow them to think that whatever device they do release would eventually be a smash hit. I intentionally didn't list all of the ways these devices are not the same, as I assumed that the audience would be able to put 1+1 together. I guess I'm yet again reminded of why it is bad to assume
This sounds a lot like what Grata does, although they've built a pretty impressive proprietary dataset
My translation: "I hope they fix it, because I can't do jack, I can't even threaten them properly because even that would cause an economic kerfuffle disguised as "audits and regulations" between the US and EU and my overlords don't want that, so I'm publishing this mealy-mouthed statement where I look tough in 20%, and the other 80% I reassure everyone I'm Boeing's btch".
Some German trains were notorious for having bad cell signal due to metal-coated windows (applied for reflecting solar radiation).

It's the first thing I thought of, and it's why we had ceramic tinting put on our vehicle windows instead of conventional tinting (which in many cases, AIUI, has radio-blocking metal in it).
Scientific publishing is a total joke these days, especially for theoretical works (vs practical/experimental results).

We need a better way to sift through the mountains of make-work papers to find the stuff that actually works and is useful. Ironically, AI will probably help with that, at least until it outperforms humans at scientific discoveries itself.
> Plenty of people are able to enjoy music without getting caught up in nomenclature. The idea that those people aren't real fans always feels very snobbish.

If you can't differentiate between neurofunk and liquid, you're probably not a big dnb fan.

That doesn't mean you can't enjoy it, but enjoying something and being a fan of something can be quite distinct things.
https://archive.ph/PpQlh
Which LLM will on its own go and write a novel? Also, even for humans, just because you technically know how to write a novel, you might fail at it.
Ten nations tell social media, banks, and telcos to get better at stopping scams
https://archive.ph/0E2Bw
That would mean hosting something myself and I never would want to do that.
I do have cloud and home servers, but it does not sit right with me - rather Apple and Microsoft than their dad.
FTC goes undercover to probe suspected antivirus scam, scores $26M settlement
As somebody who have seen a lot of market research coming from "real humans"(TM) I'm pretty sure it's actually hard to make it worse. Maybe there are boutiques which make quality research, but average is abysmal.

I've been in a meeting with a senior executive, PhD, who argued that Total Addressable Market for a supply chain tracking software (basically just a database) is same as the market for the goods it tracks.

It is as if a startup which prints restaurant menus would claim the value of all food sold in restaurants as their TAM.

And this person was otherwise reasonable...

So, yeah, never underestimate the power of Natural Stupidity.

Perhaps
I would actually argue that if a child and an adult spent the same amount of time engaged in language learning and were graded on the same metrics the adult would get farther. I don't think there's a magical cutoff where we suddenly can't learn languages anymore.

Rather, I think it is partly because we grade them on a curve that children are said to be amazing linguists

Children have many other advantages that also help them:
* More free time
* Fewer internal distractions (Did I lock the door? What am I making for dinner? etc.)
* Not being afraid to make mistakes
Two matrices with size NxN each can be multiplied naively with the schoolbook algorithm in O(N^3).

It's clear that the algorithm needs at least O(N^2) because to access each element of the matrices once, you need a double for loop, which is O(N^2).

for i in rows
for j in cols
# do something with element matrix1 [i, j], matrix2[i, j],...

so it has to be j >= 0
> Why?

Cannot answer for parent post, but can share personal perspective. I love Atom / RSS because it allows me to aggregate all the information that I care about in one place. It greatly improves the signal to noise ratio and spares my communication channels for direct human interactions.
Berlin is over, just like Burning Man is over
Because if this works, the process of moving to login.gov might stall or be canceled altogether; there's nothing as permanent as a temporary solution.
My understanding is that you would have to provide a driver's license or another state issued ID to gain access.
7 reasons not to join a startup and 1 reason to (2021)
Mobile Validator SDK: The Tool Powering Digital Identity Wallets
In today’s data-driven digital era, the security and privacy of online identification are of paramount importance to help us keep our information private and confidential. This is where mobile identification comes into play: a safe way to prove who we are online.

However, how exactly can other apps, services or systems connect with mobile ID/wallet apps to retrieve the necessary information?

In this article, we explain how the Scytáles Mobile Validator SDK works as embedded tools within applications for interacting with mobile ID systems, providing you with a secure and seamless identification validation system that improves user experience, fosters customer satisfaction, cuts businesses' costs, and enhances innovation in multiple industries.
How old do you think the author is? He’s not some “new generation” dev.
I'm thinking that it is largely psychological/OCD tendencies that affect programmers at different magnitudes. It can sometimes be difficult to not be distracted by the minor style inconsistencies before being able to focus on the larger system design.
The problem isn't the form factor, it's the purpose. Wearing sunglasses is beneficial because it protects my eyes and makes it easier to look at you when you're talking to me.

Wearing an AR device is like telling you something more important than our conversation might come up and I need to be able to quickly shift my focus from you to it.

Maybe it's my age (early 40s) but it's common for our friend/family group to shame each other (in a half-kidding-half-not way) when somebody gets into their phone too much during a social event. "If you're going to be here, be here" is a mantra we tease each other with. We hold each other accountable enough to where when my elementary-age son picks out a movie for us to watch, if one of the adults in the room starts scrolling on their phone he'll pause the movie and ask them if they're going to pay attention or not.
The actual reason probably has to do with the fact that LLM developers and academics are more familiar with Python than other programming languages, and therefore have policed it's correctness better.
these things change quiet quickly.
Ask any zoomers (which i might add arent young anymore either, the first ones'll start turning 30 next year!) if its rude to glance at the phone mid conversation.
Gen Y/X generally considered that extremely rude, while gen Z started to see it as completely normal.
> For one, Macron cannot speak for the entire NATO block,

He's not pretending to,he is advocating to the rest of the alliance, not speaking for it.

> and secondly, NATO rules say one member must be attacked to justify a military response.

No, they don't. Article 5 is a conmitment, but not the exclusive means in which NATO can launch military action. NATO has engaged in military action under Article 5 mutual defense commitments once, several times as a consequence of Article 4 regional security discussions, and other times as a joint command for members acting under UN resolutions.
Live sports is potentially huge. I am sure companies like Second Spectrum are thinking about how to use their player tracking tech plus traditional video coverage to provide a real time PoV shot from anywhere on the court/field.
This was a huge problem when I was working on a similar product some years ago. The issue is that false positives or worse, false negatives, can be pretty catastrophic when you're thinking about valuing companies in particular. What's hard for LLMs (currently) is to decide what is most important or to infer the things that aren't explicitly stated.
So? That list has nothing to do with corruption in the sciences.

BTW, social sciences get credit for the modern economy and for the known history of humankind, for modern farming, for today’s government and policy, for mental health and mental therapies, for modern advertising, for understanding of languages, and for modern corporate management, just to name a few.
Do you have a reference for that achievement?
Indeed:

> Frame: Plywood, Polyurethane foam 30 kg/cu.m., Particleboard, Solid wood, Fibreboard

An example of something that looks well-built is the Skogsta dining table [1].

> Table top: Solid acacia, Clear acrylic lacquer, Clear lacquer

> Leg/ Rail: Solid acacia, Acrylic paint

(Though the oak version, which costs more, is oak-veneered particleboard.)

Many Ikea things aren't designed to last. That table has cross-beams, so it has a better chance surviving a party where someone leans heavily against one end of it. Something like Mörbylånga [2] looks like it would collapse.

I would give the furniture on display a good shove to see how sturdy it is.

[1] https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/skogsta-dining-table-acacia-704...

[2] https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/moerbylanga-table-oak-veneer-br...
It basically depends if you view the story as an example of strong love or as a great drama that had to end badly.
What’s more interesting is that if you get into a car now, there are OBD tools that just let you program a new key and drive off, which is wildly insecure.
They'll sell the data to potential employers so they can avoid hiring people that may have expensive diseases to treat.
How much of that foreign/domestic distinction do you think is marketing/propaganda?
> I'm also sure I could find examples and get benchmarks. Right back at you.

I've provided examples. Your "examples" are to say that yes, it sucks, no JS isn't better, but you won't provide any examples to support your claim that JS is better.

I can't take you seriously at this point.
Are they actually doing good work, or is it just marketing? My only reference is Watson, which... was hyped out the wazoo... and isn't state of the art.
Simple and Scalable Strategies to Continually Pre-Train Large Language Models
Why? It’s already eaten all of the publicly available data on the web.
Maybe I'm old fashioned but one of the biggest barriers for me adopting VR/AR is there isn't a socially acceptable way to "duck out" of a VR experience you're just not into. I've been given a couple of demos of headsets by friends and more often than not by the end I feel trapped -- you're strapped into a thing that fully occupies your visual field, yet it's obvious and socially awkward when you take it off.

And your eyes are both covered so there isn't a good way to non-verbally communicate waning interest levels...I suppose a solution is to simply care less if I hurt my friend's feelings but I'd also like a way to spend time with friends without feeling trapped.

At least in an f2f or video call meeting that I'm bored of, I can zone out or look at my phone or tap on my laptop, or do anything but stare at the slides. With eye tracking, the headset knows (and presumably everyone else could know as well) when you're tuned out.

The eye tracking thing also kind of weirds me out from a privacy standpoint. It's already bad enough that web pages track how long you engage with different portions of content. Now they know what parts of images I stare at, and can algorithmically feed me content based solely on my gaze alone. Does that prospect not weird anyone else out? Or are most normal users like "plug me into AR TikTok, but with gaze mechanics now!"
Not following the relevance here. I acknowledge and am aware this is very common, and it's a shame. But seems like a separate discussion.
Why would the company relying on scarcity of knowledge they deem "trade secrets" to gather revenue instead of directly being productive? Expecting unbounded ongoing revenue from a constant amount of work they did once to describe the "trade secrets" into code is extractive and doesn't incentivize future productivity.
> that GTK is the one hold-out, which I wasn't really expecting

Gnome are consistently the hold-out, and are the source of much drama and chagrin in Wayland.
GCP IAM is the worst. AWS IAM is not nearly as bad.

GCP sucks so bad as a product, that the only way to tell what IAM policies apply to your service account, is to run some kind of analysis query thing exported to a BigTable (which will cost you money).

You'd think you could just go into the console and click on the service account and it'd show you which policies are linked to roles are linked to your service account? That would make sense, and be convenient. But this is Google we're talking about. Engineering principles will always trump customer experience.

It's much worse than that of course. The default roles give too many permissions, for nearly anything you want to do. Often you are limited by what you can control, to only at an Org level, or Folder, or Project. Yet making a custom role is often difficult, leaving you to usually just slap on the default roles, making your resources insecure. Much of the time, a user must have an Admin-level permission over all VMs in order to SSH into them with GCP creds. Kind of defeating the purpose of having IAM to begin with.

I think the only reason we haven't heard of more GCP accounts getting compromised due to the shitty default policies is, thankfully, GCP has few customers.
> I conjecture that for every j > 0 in R, a number n exists so that any two n x n matrices can be multiplied together in O(n^(2+j)) steps.

Is this stated correctly? Because it seems almost meaningless as stated. You start with "for every j, there exists an n such that...". That would mean that for the rest of the statement, n and j are constant. So you are just saying that you can multiply constant sized matrices in constant time. Technically true, but I feel like you are trying to claim something stronger.
I think you're kind of mischaracterizing this article. The conclusion drawn isn't really that psychological research is wrong per se, but that the statistical and methodological tools which we _believed_ suffice to allow us to formulate experiments that make decisive epistemological statements apparently do not do so. Scott Alexander isn't imputing the behavior of most of these scientists or even the endeavor of social psychological research. He is simply observing that our methods clearly are insufficient to the end of attributing results strong epistemological weight.
Yes.

Median US household income is ~$75k. For married households with that income and a ~$30k standard deduction, they will pay an overall federal tax rate of around 7%. For single households with that income and a standard deduction of ~$15k, they'll pay federal tax of around 12%.

10-12% is a high state tax rate, so add that on. (Most high tax states graduate tax by income and wouldn't apply these top rates to $75k income households, but nevermind that.)

1% is a high city tax rate.

10% sales tax isn't unheard of, but sales tax also does not apply to all income -- only spending, and only non-exempt spending. (And usually you also don't see 10% sales tax rates in high income tax states; it's one or the other.)

The end result is south of 30% for the median household, even in high tax states. Nowhere near 50%.
I once had a team discussion about something style related. I told them "I don't care either way. To me, it is like Tabs vs. Spaces: Both are fine, let's just pick any and all is well." A more senior developer added: "Yes, as long it is Spaces."

He lost a lot of credibility in my eyes that day. Really, you are so very much more experienced than me, but you cannot cope with tabs?

Since that time, I am even more tired of style discussions. Choose whatever you want, as long as you don't make it annoying to me (e.g. if you want a specific formatting, give me a tool; don't force me to do it).

I would rather have an Abstraction Czar that ensures that all code is properly abstracted (not too much, not too less) instead of the nightmares I have to deal with every day.
It's an even stranger example to use when you consider Montreal's (and Quebec's) history.
During the "Quiet Revolution" era of the 1960s and 1970s, government in Quebec basically became a "Style Czar", to use the article's terminology.

Québécois language and culture was forced upon Montreal's sizable and established populations of English-speaking and non-Québécois residents via Loi 101 and other policies.

Regardless of one's stance on the matter, the reality is that it was extremely disruptive to Montreal, socially and economically.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, many residents and businesses ended up leaving Montreal, and moving to cities like Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver.

Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver subsequently saw significant economic and social growth, while Montreal stagnated throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and even beyond then.

Today, Montreal still has a rather fractured society in many ways.

Maybe a "Style Czar" figure or mentality can bring a sense of consistency, but forcing it on existing and established communities will likely cause a whole new set of problems.
Depends on the subgenre of Techno. A lot of hardcore and Tekno features a lot of movie samples.
The way I see it, a symbolic logic system is not an integral part to an AGI, but rather a tool that it can use the same way humans use tools.

Tools can be useful for many things, but tend to be inflexible compared to neural nets.

The way I see it, the main benefit of such tools come when the part covered by the tool is very repetitive and well defined. In such cases, algorithmic solutions may offer better precision and lower power consumption than neural nets.

Anyway, once most of these algorithms are actually WRITTEN by AGI's, the difference may cease to matter.
Is this the same technique discussed in the submission or just a related article?
That charge rate definitely makes it a commute/overnight charge uni-tasker. I wonder what the insurance table looks like for it.
Show HN: A small tool for visualising option chains
Hey HN,

I've always been intrigued by prediction markets and the concept of "skin in the game". It's fascinating to see where people are placing their bets rather than just hearing their theories. This led me down the rabbit hole of option markets - a complex yet intriguing betting arena.

The challenge with option markets, I found, is the steep learning curve just to understand what you're looking at in an option chain. So, in an attempt to peel back some of that complexity, I created a simple tool that helps visualise option chains through vega lite's expression language. This allows for a more intuitive understanding of options by visualising various metrics and comparisons.

Here are a few examples of what you can do with my tool:

# Option Price vs. Strike Price:
See how the price changes relative to the strike price.
Link: https://opts-visualizer.vercel.app/?fieldT=datum.ask&fieldX=datum.strike&symbol=SPY

# Strike as Percentage:
For those who prefer percentage-based comparisons, this visualisation uses the datum.relativeStrike variable for a different perspective.
https://opts-visualizer.vercel.app/?fieldT=datum.ask&fieldX=datum.relativeStrike&symbol=SPY

# Comparing TSLA vs MSFT
Curious how the market expects TSLA and MSFT to move?
https://opts-visualizer.vercel.app/?fieldColor=datum.ul.symbol&fieldFilter=inrange%28datum.relativeStrike%2C%5B-0.2%2C0.0%5D%29&fieldT=datum.ask%2Fdatum.ul.ask&fieldX=datum.relativeStrike&symbol=TSLA%2CMSFT

This is a fun side project I've been tinkering with. It's entirely free and open source, hoping it might help demystify options a bit for those interested. Feedback, contributions, or just a quick test drive would be immensely appreciated!
The way I see it, it's a matter of who owns the chrome. Historically, we've seen that it is a losing battle to insist everyone uses your toys (e.g.: web input elements). I am not overtly opposed to keeping the protocol lean so long as there's a canonical and easy way to accomplish the basics.

Of course, because this is Wayland, one good idea suffers due to coexisting with other independently good ideas. The minds behind Wayland didn't want the protocol to ossify like X11 did, so they made extensions essential. If a given functionality doesn't need to be core, it's an extension.

Both great ideas in isolation, yet now, as a result, Wayland has trapped its ecosystem in a half-assed state of completeness. The one saving grace is that, unlike X11, things will actually improve over time as the gaps get filled in and older applications age out of the ecosystem.
Fwiw if they're serious scientists, taking a known method and baseline and improving it is good science. Extensions to get state of the art are probably possible, but their goal is to measure just the impact of their change in a simple setting. Let the engineers do the munged system combinations and get SoTA.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39712284
[1]: a delete command was wrongly issued to all Cassandra servers during a planned maintenance

[2]: a database server had its disk full that lead to a corrupted database

SRE is tough.