skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't count how many studies I've seen referenced that claim the environment is effectively doomed by 2030 if we don't change course. The same goes for other areas, whether its concerns raised over the risk of chemical exposure or the fragility of our toilet paper and baby formula infrastructure when a pandemic is declared.

If you think that many of the inventions over the last couple centuries are the culprit and would have to be rolled back, that sounds miserable but it also sounds like we at least would have a better chance being proactive rather then waiting for everything to come crumbling down.

I don't personally expect climate change or chemical exposure to destroy us all, life finds a way. But if we can't expect consumers to make purchasing decisions that generally align with what they think is important, why do we even bother with markets or capitalism at all?
I count my lucky stars I’m grandfathered in to the old Google Play Music + YouTube Red/Premium rate. I can’t imagine watching YouTube without it.
Sometimes, but he deliberately takes his time before hurling his displeasure. And it being fictional doesn't really matter. It's a demonstration of the subject at hand. Nobody claimed it was real using actors to portray a recreation.
Its beautiful! I will never understand the hate for this type of building?
This or that leader or organization might have their rise and fall, but organized crime is stronger than ever, and spreading into ever more "legit" facades too.
Where I live the act of being "over employed" is considered fraud, and can land serious penalties. Because it is fraud, when your employment agreement stipulates that you will not divide your time in some manner.

https://mcmillan.ca/insights/employment-and-privacy-implicat...
> 1) Most people don't want to pay for news. Even $1/year is too high.

So much of news today is not even worthy of my attention, let alone my money.
> projecting their own work ethic

Alternately, they're projecting their own home environment, which won't always be the same level of distractions/benefits across different employees life-styles/situations.

"My house is filled with screaming two-year-olds and my commute is five minutes away, so obviously office-work is superior."
Eventually, suggested other videos will just take over the entire page. No videos, just links to other videos with pre roll ads.
In general people struggle to consider how others' experiences might differ from their own.
I'm curious to know what types of interactions happen on that 90% of her time on video calls. If it's one-on-one meetings all day over video call, I can imagine why they might want to have them in the same room with someone as video calls can really drain some people (including me).
Good catch! I'd missed that. Still, experiences of folks in the level1tech forums are positive: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/genoa-9654-qs-experiences/19...
> Which pathways exist for a Chilean citizen who didn't complete their bachelor's degree on CS, but nonetheless wants to take a US job for a 501(c)(3) in a technical capacity?

You basically need 3 years of combined post-secondary educational experience to qualify for H1b. And job experience counts towards it, with 3 years of job being equivalent to 1 year at university.

So if you have, say, 2 years in a university and 3 years of job experience, it's going to be enough.
"As long as you stay in designated, mostly rich and gentrified, areas it's totally safe, orderly, clean, and civilized"
I don't think it's that weird at all. Nor did they say the "customer" needs to think outside the box (what a great misrepresentation). They were just explaining their thinking process.
Unfortunately, Gemini seems to suffer from the usual "kernel hasn't been updated in years".
> Reading a file takes a couple hundred nanoseconds on a modern SSD.

According to "Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (2020)" [1] reading even a single page from a modern SSD takes over 10 microseconds.

[1] https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/inte...
> People often don't perceive you as an actual human if you've only ever been a video square to them.

I don't have a camera, so I'm just a picture of Uncle Fester. No one I work with (across 3 jobs) has seen me in nearly 5 years.
I've never understood the "because CEOs invest in commercial real estate" angle. Like really? Why would senior executives be more likely than the general investing public to invest in that one very specific asset class? It seems like a small tail wagging a big dog.
This clearly looks like a new chevron to be locked.
When I first encountered this wiki I found its tone over the top, reminiscent of the people in Eco's Foucault's Pendulum; however, the breadth and depth of Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality (what is referred to as the Tome) is so mind boggling that perhaps such extravaganza is justified. What is at stake here, AFAIK, is to understand everything, the whole universe. Of course, you may take issue with Penrose's blunt criticisms of various theories towards the end.

Before I die I'd like to learn enough physics to grok Edward Witten's paragraph (the Graph), my understanding is that this roughly coincides with a MA in Physics level.

An ELI5 explanation of the Graph: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/ga39ic/e...
Kagi is a US company. GDPR is not a US law.
A lot of larger companies already have distributed teams though, so even if you are in an office you often can't get everyone into the same room, and you have to do a video call no matter what.
I was the VoIP debugger in my last job. Last minute trips to Tokyo, Barcelona, London. Happened about once per year.

I recommend you make yourself known if the situation ever comes up and you are in line to jump in. (Although you need to be able to figure out whatever the problem is.)

My go-to was 5 business days + weekend to where I could get the problem solved. My goal (and I was successful at it) was to solve in 2 and then have 3 days paid vacation.
When you remove CEOs from that context you do lose the point here.
I can't stand to work with anyone who doesn't understand that there are games being played and takes things from C-level at face value
All of this still requires actual journalism to happen at some point, though. Someone needs to conduct interviews. AI isn’t going to do that any time soon.
I had no idea this series existed. What a pleasant change from the normal horror stories.
US/UK impose new restrictions on trading Russian aluminum, copper and nickel
The main reason to update dependencies is that when emergencies do arise, you don't want to be in the situation where your only options are:

1. take on the additional risk of months or years of changes in between

2. beg or plead with (or throw money at) upstream to patch your old version

3. attempt to patch it yourself, potentially introducing new issues because you're not the domain expert
This would be a neat variant of the scream test.
"The problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have no taste and I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way" - Steve Jobs
With how often people mention increased whitespace I feel like there should be a 5 inch gap between every element by now. Looking back at e.g. Windows 98 the screenshots seem small but back then most users had sub 96 DPI standard monitor setups (e.g. 1024x768 @ 15" would be a decent setup). When you correct for that the actual space used by buttons on e.g. YouTube today vs systems back then hasn't changed nearly as much as one would think and the gaps between desktop icons are pretty big too.
Well, yeah? What are the users going to do about it? Complain forever even though it's not going to do anything?

By the way, I still see it mentioned occasionally, both in YouTube videos themselves (often when someone is talking about YouTube) and amongst my friends. Both as a general complaint about the usability of the site being worse ("I had to wait 90 seconds to realize this video was a waste of time because downvotes are gone") and as an example of a service being able to do whatever it wants without regards to whether users like it or not.
No one called them out?
How does a US company go about performing a criminal background check on an employee from Canada? From what I gather, you have to be a Canadian citizen to run a background check on another Canadian citizen.
A two hour one way commute is entirely unreasonable at any frequency unless it's on the clock.
If someone has to relocate to a HCOL area for a hybrid job, the WFH days are seen by the company as a benefit, but the move to the HCOL area is generally going to be a net loss. It’s not enough of a benefit to make up for the significantly higher housing costs.
Absolutely textiles!

And if woodworking isn't some kind of tactile art, why do people always want to touch wooden furniture or art? Always. Just watch it happen. I'd like to know if that's how all apes react or just we.

I would argue that food "mouth feel" is pretty important (as is the feeling of eating with hands - that's something to turn into art for a third of the planet daily and the rest of us on lucky occasion).

Arguably, whatever's going on with haptics in VR is art. Even if it's porn. Porn is almost as good for spreading art as it is for spreading tech!
Historically, between only being nationally united after 1861, 20 to 40s fascicm, the right vs left (and far right vs far left) infighting all the way to the "historical comprimise" era until the 80s, and the North and South divide, Italy has been quite a fragile construct...
oh man, datatables, that takes me back.

I agree that the way React does things is preferable.
What about news specific to your locale?
https://youtu.be/UFcb-XF1RPQ
God actually didn't ban networking, contrary to popular belief [1]. He just didn't add network drivers to his OS because of all the network cards he'd have to support and cause the OS to bloat up. He stated "We need a network connection, possibly implemented as a super-simple high speed serial
device." [2] so browsing the Internet isn't a sin after all ;)

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/TempleOS_Official/comments/2pzdy6/c...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170305000952/http://www.temple...
Doesn’t this only work if everyone you need to have meetings with also has the same plan for 2 meeting days per week?
I never said they said the customer needs to think outside the box. They claimed that they had to think outside the box (as if no company had sent promotional t-shirts before and as if promotional t-shirts is some kind of groundbreaking idea). I did not misrepresent anything
From the abstract:

"Researchers have long associated collectivistic culture with harmony and cooperation. However, the bulk of the evidence suggests that collectivistic cultures compete more, and more intensely, than individualistic cultures.

Collectivists are more likely to see competition as zero-sum, engage in social comparison, and base their self-worth on common standards rather than self-defined goals. This raises a paradox: where does the popular conception of harmony in collectivism come from?

In reviewing prior studies, we find that people in collectivistic cultures tend to use indirect, hidden methods to compete against others. This allows for an outward harmony, without negating competition.
We ask whether competition in collectivistic cultures is only stronger when competing with outsiders. Studies reject this speculation.

Rather, people in collectivistic cultures compete more with in-group members and are more vigilant toward classmates and co-workers.

Next, we explore how people from different cultures decide to enter into competition. We find that collectivists’ tendency to enter into prestigious competitive environments might end up harming them.

Finally, we discuss whether there can be versions of collectivistic groups without competition or whether this is a utopian dream."
It could be a line of credit, which might be modified. There could also be an ongoing relationship, related to the issuance of a series of loans used for financing inventory or something like that.
An obscure energy calculation could dramatically speed up USA's EV future
Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep RL
And even a larger company I'm familiar with has been looking very hard at lease renewals and has been walking away from a bunch of them. There's a certain lip service to the energy associated with having people back in the office but, in practice, people are being switched to fully remote if they don't come in and offices are being eliminated or swapped out for smaller spaces.
Google books has a long history. Read the Atlantic article. In short, everyone cried and eventually reached a deal with google.
> How long until an adversary figures out a way to inject something nasty through the ad network? Only a matter of time. I can’t wait for the Blackhat talk.

Microsoft don’t care, they want to serve their ads, sell your data to the highest bidder and to hell with the users.
It works fine until there's a high-profile, close election. Then you'll discover the data source was noisier than you thought. We're only talking about one in a thousand people goofing up a vote and moving on.
I think one and a half days is the best.

One of those days is the Friday so you get the half day automatically while being sociable.
No paywall on Seattle Times:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/how-an-obscure-energy-...
Will never upgrade to windows 11. It’s a downgrade really..
> she's always distracted by other things which doesn't happen in the office

Ah yes, some people will use any excuse to get away from their family/kids.

Before WFH these people were traveling to any meeting or conference they could find.
Yes, and this StackEx post gets a response about ammonia that quotes Clark's Ignition: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/22758/reasons-why-...

AFAIK, IANAExpert, Haber process is very energy intensive and centralized. It would be helpful to crack the N2 in a more distributed manner and harvest the results and maybe in a more rocket friendly molecule than ammonia, like APCP feedstock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_perchlorate_composite...
> there are often people posting here who say things like "I for one enjoy targeted ads"

You can find some people on HN who will say anything. That's the nature of a large distributed community.

But I also think the fact that there are people who would say that is a good thing. I despise ads, ad-tracking/privacy invasion, etc with a passion. I won't use anything that has ads. I won't even install most apps, even paid/premium, if they collect personal information. So you know my biases.

Their argument is a whole lot more nuanced (and better) than you are presenting it. The main point is that they find (or consider) ads to be useful for helping people find new products they might be interested in. And that does quite obviously happen sometimes (how often is very much up for debate though(. For them, the privacy tradeoff is worth it. I would guess that a portion of people who agree with that would fall into the "what do I have to hide if I'm not doing anythign wrong" camp. I think they're nuts, but it is an interesting viewpoint to consider that is a lot more nuanced and contextual then just "I enjoy targeted ads."
Malvertising was already bad enough at the browser level, now we gotta be concerned with the OS. Can't wait indeed..
Green party?
Thanks but I'm still curious why you linked to the transformer or why it's relevant to your claim of "has nothing to do with LLMs" which held enough weight to get the title of the post changed.
Your LLM Is a Capable Regressor When Given In-Context Examples
Valid strategy
What would you say is the moral of the book?
Meetings can only be replaced with E-mail if people actually read (and respond to) their E-mail, and I've found fellow employees' E-mail hygiene to be pretty spotty.
This was so inevitable it’s comical. Microsoft has been the face of Enshittification in my mind for years now but hoooo boy does this put the icing on the cake.

With gaming on Linux finally becoming fairly mainstream I just cannot justify using windows anymore. There’s literally no reason to use a Microsoft product in 2024.
I have a seek thermal which plugs into my phone.

Very handy for checking for drafts and cold spots, and also checking the fuse box and other electrical for hot spots.

The resolution is not amazing, 206x156, but it's enough for this type of work.

I have a friend who is happily using a flir one, with a resolution of 160x120 at his day job as an electrician and it is also enough for checking for draft, water leaks insufficient insulation, etc.
Google Cloud providing AI Services to IDF could be anything from simple office automation to augmenting weapons systems. I really hope it isn’t the latter.
I would love it if this is the end of the barn (aka open) office. It's such a awful place to work. Companies say they do it to foster collaboration but the truth is its very cheap, and easy to deal with a lot of turnover, which every company I every barn company I ever saw had a lot of.

The funny thing always was "everyone has the same space" and the SVP/ CEO reserved this conference room all day, the one with suspiciously nice furniture that is never available.
I believe the failure happened in the joint between the wood and steel. The joint was a sandwich with very thin slices and with many nails. Anyone with materials intuition knows that puncturing a material to such a degree weakens it. Mix in constant moisture and single points of failure..
Should have been a couple of big old bolts and some bracings, alternately thicker slices in the sandwich
One thing I miss from the earlier days of the net is you used to be able to opt in to these kinds of things, not wait for your stuff to all A/B trial rollout. For YouTube there used to be Test Tube and now https://www.youtube.com/new but new simply says "No features are available right now" all the time as they roll out new features. Reddit was the same with with the first redesign where you could opt in early then they started rolling out newer Reddit and it was in a similar fashion. I remember when Google started rolling out native dark mode A/B trials (now an option after the fact) I went hunting down the cookie for it so I could apply it evenly across my devices/browsers.

So, long story short, anyone know how I can try out this new style for myself? I can't get it to kick in on any of my devices, even when not signed into my account.
I still opt to go into the office two/three days a week. It's a bummer that nearly none of my old workmates are there anymore.

And yet, I can't help to acknowledge that there's no going back. And of course I can see that some things are remarkably convenient when working from home. So even though I miss the way things were, I understand this is here to stay.
You can make an office as palatial as you like. If it's a 1+ hour commute I still don't really want to come in.
Congrats on your green card!
Does anyone know if there's a dict formatted version of this anywhere?
I’m all for periodic retreats. I volunteered to do something like this when I was moving about 6 hours from the office. Then the pandemic happened, and about 6 re-orgs, so it no longer makes sense for me to go there.
It's hard to quantify, but as someone who grew up in the south and left, the "unappeal" is definitely apart of the calculus.

Not only do the outdoor activities pale in comparison to what you get in other parts of the country, but additionally so much of the political rhetoric, attitude, and actions isn't just "I want myself, my family, and my neighbors to do well" but "I want other people to suffer."

It's truly a terrible micro-society within the U.S.

Like anywhere, there are of course tons of nice/great people and some nice places. But exceptions, rules, etc.
Ok, that tracks. Which third party app?
Yea I disagree with King here. He wants Wendy to be strong but IMO it’s such a better story with her as this hopeless character who’s dealing with crap way over his head. It makes the story into a classic Greek tragedy.
>Screw the games, I need to know what this thing does.

Sounds like me. My first fascination was with my Texas Instruments scientific calculator. Then I got an Ohio Scientific Superboard. I really really needed to know how these things do what they do. Now I know. Sort of. It has gotten mucho more complex since then.
Hm, I don't understand, why not just carry the cell phone directly?
Lots of email, chat, and video calls. Also conferences in the case of major projects like Linux.
And I think that's a good thing because you want your team to have sociable relationships it helps with the overall synergy and longevity of the team.
Implement a Miller column file manager and it will take off.
wow this is now the 9th time someone has built this lol
> We've tried nothing, and it didn't work. Time to move on.

Uh, yeah, no.

Offices are havens of particulates, volatile organics, carbon dioxide, etc.

How long does it take that burnt popcorn smell to disappear from your office? That gives you an idea of how bad your office is.

HVAC systems can have HEPA filters, UV lights, good air exchange, etc. But the cheap ones don't. And, without pressure, nobody is going to install good ones.

Welcome to the pressure.
Microsoft-backed self-driving startup Wayve expands to Vancouver
Hybrid for two years and fully remote for another two haven't gotten me sick any less often or any less severely.
I found a lot of people treat being in the office as the job. They can walk around, socialize, and not really do anything useful, but they are “at work”, so it’s ok.

Meanwhile, people at home feel like they need to prove their worth and make sure their impact is being felt, so they work harder.
What is “next monday” at saturday?
At this point, no surprises. I'm not even mad anymore, they've shown us who they are.

The question is -- will IT workers and professionals in the industry be able to grow a spine and say "enough is enough?"

It's, of course, more about their atrocious security practices, but this should really be a good kick in the pants about the whole thing.
Quadratic Equation Rap by Suno.ai
Made this for my daughter in Algebra I. Enjoy
I took a tour of CaliExpress by Flippy, the fast food robot "test kitchen"
I don't know about this project, but some projects fled GitHub on principle, when they sold out to MS.

If this project were, say, an adtech company, or someone publishing open source solely for resume-boosting reasons, then principles might not matter.
That's what they mean in China as well.

The same way you book a flat from DLF and wait for them to build the shell, that's the same process if you buy a flat from Evergrande or Wanda (tbt)
Fully agree. This is great for existing screwed students, but having this kind of backstop incentivizes even more reckless lending behavior and even more ridiculous tuition prices.
> you have a function that takes a general type, and you can pass multiple specific types and it will do the right thing

What does this have to do with inheritance? This is just a generic function.

> And if you want to avoid huge if-else statements, you should put the code for the special cases in the classes, not in each function that operates on them

This doesn't sound any different from how people usually talk about inheritance.

I am not convinced it gives you anything more than composition does. Composition is very easy to setup and easy to change. And there are certainly functional ways to do runtime polymorphism.
I've worked in IT (support, network mgmt and development roles) for 20 years, with colleagues, customers and clients from dozens of countries.

I've never once heard anyone drop out the dots in an IP. Non technical users aren't confident enough to do anything but read it exactly as it appears (one zero dot seven zero dot...) and technical users who are generally experienced enough to know what an IP address is, know that the dots are meaningful.