skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question, what percentage of people working at a Google office wear a mask during work? I'm at an office in NYC of a smaller but household name tech company a few blocks away that used to do in-office mandatory nasal swab testing and masks at one point but now there are no precautions taken at all other than "if you're sick, you have to tell us and not come in".

Curious if there's been a big bifurcation of covid precautions at workplaces that I'm just unaware of (since I only regularly enter one office).
Limitless Pendant
Konstantin is a terrific speaker, if you haven't watched him before you should give him a few minutes of your time, you won't be disappointed!

Here is a previous talk where he goes to great lengths to explain and visualize the Planet 9 hypothesis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywrgee0aiFI
What is “foolish” discussion of a personal health topic? The main arguments I saw were that long term studies did not exist (tautologically), and that side effect reports (especially those from women) were swept under the bureaucratic rug. Which is also true.
Anonymity + non-threatening nature, and nobody would want the optics of suggesting that people shouldn't be free to wear a facemask
I'm still surprised the scandal of how Pfizer's clinical trial for COVID-19 was designed isn't widely known - most specifically with how the app to collect clinical trial participant reports was designed:

1) there was no free-form writing field to mark down symptoms that weren't on an existing list of pre-approved or allowed-to-be-reported symptoms, and

2) the clinical research director for the ignored participants who attempted to contact them to report symptoms not reportable in the app.

Source: a teenager and her mother who were participants in the clinical trial, here in their ~10 minutes of testimony - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2GKPYzL_JQ
They should get in touch with Elon Musk, I seem to recall he promised to pay the legal fees for anyone fired for their political beliefs...
Animation has to be the most intriguing hobby I'm never planning on engaging with, so this kind of blog post is great for me.

I know hand-drawn 2D is its own beast, but what's your thought on using 3D datasets for handling the occlusion problem? There's so much motion-capture data out there -- obviously almost none of it has the punchiness and appeal of hand-drawn 2D, but feels like there could be something there. I haven't done any temporally-consistent image gen, just playing around with StableDiffusion for stills, but the ControlNets that make use of OpenPose are decent.

3D is on my mind here because the Spiderverse movies seemed like the first demonstration of how to really blend the two styles. I know they did some bespoke ML to help their animators out by adding those little crease-lines to a face as someone smiles... pretty sure they were generating 3d splines however, not raster data.

Anyway, I'm saving the RSS feed, hope to hear more about this in the future!
Most people would not care, once a brand name is established it can sell out and continue to profit for at least 20 years or more.

Proof is just about any footwear or fashion brand you care to think of.
Here's an old article that explains everything very well:

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/planet-x/
It is weird to see people still wearing facemasks, but "it feels political" is an odd reaction to an essentially political protest.
Both methods can call emergency services, but it’s a setting for both (Settings > Emergency SOS)
> why this is significant?

Ultimately, because new people keep being born and missed the years where this was pretty common and haven't yet bumped into the corners where it still is.

The repo and the SO discussion it was inspired by are themselves 11 years old and seem to be rooted in a new generation of iOS app developers starting to get more deeply curious about the system they're running on and how else it might be approached, which this person then ran with on MacOS.

Apple invites people to get started in making software for their platforms using (what's meant to be) more accessible tooling like Objective-C, Interface Builder, Swift, SwiftUI, etc but there's of course a whole BSD-rooted operating system sitting there once those those developers start digging. It's no secret, but it's a discovery that some people need to make on their own.
It exists in the universe of Gattaca, that's why you see him exfoliating every morning in the shower

To become less of a "good shedder"

>Offices 2–4 were all known to be occupied by the same owners for many years (see Supporting Information 1). The owners were detected as the main contributor in background samples and in most instances sufficient DNA accumulated to identify these individuals after 4 weeks of occupation. In contrast, office 1 was occupied by the current owner for only 1 year, and this owner (a known poor to intermediate shedder) was not detected at either time frame. Notably, there was a prominent male profile (further discussed in Section 10) that was detected in most background samples, but not at any other time point after cleaning. It is possible that this male profile is from the previous owner of the office who had a much longer duration of occupation and perhaps was a better shedder
When i said Musk is a DoD agent and Tesla/SpaceX are front companies, i was right, you were wrong for flagging me, glad the story unfolds, so everyone can enjoy the truth

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-spacex-secre...
Yep.

It's the very least you can do to protect yourself (and everyone else you come in contact with later) if your work cannot be done remotely and your boss (or the nature of the work) obligates you to remain in close contact with other people's untreated exhaled air, or if your work can be done remotely, but your boss obligates you to not do it remotely.
B-Corps are a interesting line, also Co-operatives and worker owned companies, these have the freedom to align with greater goals than pure profit. https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/ and https://cafe-libertad.de are examples of what can be done aside from throwing your hands in the air and walking on by.
But try to stuff 3000 calories that teenage boy needs from rice and beans only. The portions will be massive.
Important to remember just how close we really are to slavery. It's not ancient history by any means. The last living child of an American slave just died a few years ago. And we still have living memory of people born in slavery; the African Americans who marched in the 50s and 60s grew up with stories of slavery from their grandparents. This is crucial to understanding race relations in the US.
>is this substantively different from how search queries are handled when DuckDuckGo forwards them to Bing?

No, it is the exact same business model but applied to AI chat instead of search.
DDG has terrible reputation, what are you talking about. From sharing user data with Microsoft, to hiding websites in search due to political bias
I love that summary! I might use that later in some marketing material ;)
Its just hacker spirit. You can play halo 2 right now in online lobbies or the campaign with either the original graphics or remastered hd graphics from 343.
Not true. I take a used Starbucks cup and leave it in a building. Now the DNA of the person who used it is in the building. The person may never even have been in that city or country.
Translation is so different from what I read years ago.

I like to think of the difference between the Chinese version and the Japanese version of Joshu’s Dog koan.

A monk asked Joshu, "Has the dog the Buddha nature?"
Joshu replied, "Mu (nothing)!"

That’s the Japanese translation.
In Chinese, it’s Wu

If you ask the dog: “Have you a Buddha Nature?”, the dog will reply “Wu”
im just being more angry at sugary & chips companies.
The Overton window has changed. Imagine Google saying this during peak BLM.

"But ultimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics. This is too important a moment as a company for us to be distracted."

There is hope here that Google will not fade into irrelevance.
Actually Google under Sundar’s leadership desperately wants to re-enter China, to the point of already building in backdoors for the Chinese government to spy on Chinese users. See Google’s maybe-cancelled, maybe-not-cancelled project called “Dragonfly”
Oh so it is! TIL, thank you!
Pretty clearly implies they are out of money.
> KABAS: If I understand correctly, some of the 28 people fired were not actually involved in the sit in. Is that right?

> IBRAHEEM: Yeah, this was retaliation, like completely indiscriminate—people who had just walked by just to say hello and maybe talk to us for a little bit. They were fired. People who aren't affiliated with No Tech For Apartheid at all, who just showed up and were interested in what was going on. And then security asked to see their badge and they were among the 28 fired.

So is this a lie?
Is dalle-3 available through API yet? If not, then I think the title is reasonable. Having to have a chat GPT subscription in order to use it is a major change, and in my opinion a sun setting of the previous.
>It's not correct to say that it's an artificial sweetener

And what does that matter for the context of this conversation? Honestly?

The conversation isn't about whether or not it's synthetic sweetener. It's about the total amount of added sweeteners in the product. Therefore, any sweetener, synthetic or natural, count toward this end, correct?
I find it interesting to see how massive crimes like these take approximately 50 years to be uncovered. And how little impact such an uncovering ends up having.
I guess it could be entertaining for people who have so much money they don’t know what to do with it.

I file it under “gambling” category.

What if you get injured? What if something comes up and you won’t have time to achieve a goal? The list goes on and on and on…

I can only see wealthy people with not enough things to worry about in their lives wanting to use it.

I feel like charging fee for it is unethical and borderline scam.

Also, it gives me “solution in search of a problem” vibes.
Nice try to bring in some EU bashing. But Switzerland isn't a part of it.
I think it's on brand for Adam D'Angelo, just not good tho
I've seen basic functions split across apps, broken cloud services, and even big-budget banking apps that are painful to use. Reliability and security often feel lacking too.

I have a few theories why this happens: Are we all too distracted to do focused work nowadays? Does the industry focus too much on the newest trends rather than building things right the first time? Have easy coding tools led to devs who don't grasp the fundamentals?

Plus, what does the rise of AI mean for software quality? Could things get a LOT worse before they get better?

What are the worst examples of bad software that drive you crazy? Are there shining examples of exceptional quality that give you hope?
At least in the US, wearing a mask while protesting is common in order to avoid harassment.
How much sugar is in an equivalent amount of breast milk?
Wait, isn’t every protest political? And given the fact facial recognition exists, as well as recording devices, and power regimes tend to rise and fall, so what’s fine/legal today might make you a traitor tomorrow, or be used to cancel you or sabotage you publicly, a face mask is bare minimum deterrent for anything imo.
Do you know of how Pfizer designed the COVID-19 shot clinical trial, and how they designed the app to collection symptom reports from the clinical reserch participants?

Do you know of Maddie de Garay's story?
It's good news in the big picture, but the law is extremely limited and weak. It's better than nothing, but isn't really an adequate solution. I'm hoping that these sorts of laws get adopted by other states as well, and are made much stronger.
Has this been done with time rather than distance? I’ve always thought it could be a neat way to explore historical topics or quickly get a perspective on certain time periods.
Discussing health topics at all online is rife with problems rooted in bad faith social stuff and poor rubrics.

And not being fixed.
The other punishment for playing that way is how much you run into inventory and/or weight limits.

And yet it's still hard to convince myself to just skip looting all the useless junk
Yes they have, and that makes it even more of a reason to rub their corporate face in it.
previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085565
I stared at this really hard, and I eventually couldn't figure out what you mean here.

Obviously naively just dividing integers by zero in Rust will panic, because that's what is defined to happen.

So you have to be thinking about a specific case where it's defined not to panic. But, what case? There isn't an unchecked_div defined on the integers. The wrapping and saturating variants panic for division by zero, as do the various edge cases like div_floor

What case are you thinking of where "integer division by 0 is UB in Rust" ?
Correct, I put that in my comment, where I said that slavery was a factor.
What form does this sexism take? Favoring men in interviews over women with same or better skills? Favoring men over women in promotion and compensation decisions?
It has, but there was also Carbon until around the Intel transition.
ARM follows its own calling convention, which by default uses registers for both argument and return value passing [1], so these lessons likely do not apply.

[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0041/c/ARM-Proced...
I would think the fundamental issue with this is similar to what the author described with template databases:

> However, on its own, template databases are not fast enough for our use case. The time it takes to create a new database from a template database is still too high for running thousands of tests:

And then in the timing shows that this took about 2 seconds. Launching another container is surely going to be at least that slow, correct?

So it's clear the author is trying to get an "absolutely clean slate" for each of potentially many tests. That may not be what all teams need, but I will say we had an absolute beast of a time as we grew our test suite that, as we parallelized it, we would get random tests failures for tests stepping on each other's toes, so I really like the approach of starting with a totally clean template for each test.
> fetishize human workers and read more like activist pieces arguing against tech.

Agreed. The writing style, including adjective/adverb use, is clearly intended to convey an emotional tone of disgust and displeasure.

I'd love to give these people a chance to review a car from the 1900s or 1910s. They'd undoubtedly walk away convinced that the newfangled 'automobile' was a heap of rubbish destined for the dump.

(Of course the successes we have today are built on top of endless heaps of rubbish and a few good ideas.)
Hey, so I have made all of the "arguments" that I am willing to make on this topic. Check out other parts of the thread if you are interested.

However, while talking about voting is breaking HN guidelines... your higher-level comment got flagged. While I disagree with some of what of what you said, I vouched for your comment, because I believe that this discussion is important for people to see.

Here's to you, bubba!
many user scripts for filtering sites on hn on greasyfork. search the url or site name there.
1.3 million GPU hrs for the 8b model. Take you around 130 years to train on a desktop lol.
It is not. This was just a new wave of people finally looking under the hood.

(Where they would have found many many dusty but detailed man pages and docs waiting for them)
Optimizing the Deployment of Tiny Transformers on Low-Power MCUs
Added sugar leads to overweight and obesity. But can’t you be healthy at any weight? Not every overweight human needs to lose weight. And it’s probably ok to have a little sugar, even if you’re a small child, if it’s part of a balanced diet
I'm curious about the fix now. If they are going to just glue the metal shell on, or drill and fasten.
Everyone's talking about it.

I'm sure if anybody locked themselves in IBM's CTO's office to protest them selling the computers used in the holocaust that those employees would have been terminated too.
The 2nd paper actually uses a 3D dataset, though it explicitly doesn't attempt to handle occlusion beyond detecting it.

I sort of hope you can handle occlusion based on learning 2D training data similarly to the video interpolation paper cited at the end. If 3D is necessary, it's Not Good for 2D animation...

AI for 3D animation is big in its own right; these puppets have 1 billion controllers and are not easy for humans to animate. I didn't look into it deeply because I like 2D more. (I learned 3D modeling and animation a bit, just to learn that I don't really like it...)
It’s highly unlikely that they will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on buying their own copies when it’s not even remotely clear that doing so will be enough to answer the copyright violation cases they are facing.
>> proper syntax highlighting (I use a monochrome/shades of grey color scheme)

> Let's see it.

https://pasteboard.co/pfI4JQY7pBlr.png
Resend founder here - feel free to try out the integration with Supabase and let me know if you have any questions
Frankly I'm surprised this isn't much higher quality. The hard thing in the transformers era of ML is getting enough data that fits into the next token or masked language modeling paradigm, however in this case, inbetweening is exactly that task and every hand-drawn animation in history is potential training data.

I'm not surprised that using off the shelf diffusion models or multi-modal transformer models trained primarily on still images would lead to this level of quality, but I am surprised if these results are from models trained specifically for this task on large amounts of animation data.
I partially blame Google for fostering an environment where these employees genuinely thought that they could spend their working time advocating for social causes and staging protests while staying happily employed and cashing their paychecks/vesting RSUs. No, Google isn't "fascist" for firing you because you barricaded yourself in the CTO's office, intimidated and threatened fellow employees and live streamed the entire charade. Your corporate job isn't a democracy.

If the company continues cleaning house and gets back to their mission then maybe there's still hope for them.
I like the idea but aren't you afraid that Google won't approve or authorize the book? Try to contact them
This sounds Manichaean actually.
From the article:

“It began in 2021 and provides cloud computing services to Israel—specifically, we’ve recently learned, to the Israeli Ministry of Defense—and though it has faced internal criticism since its inception, efforts against it have naturally intensified since October 7th.”

Criticism has intensified since October 7th? Since the day that was marked by the assault, kidnapping and massacre of thousands of civilians initiated by Hamas? That October 7th?

There’s plenty to criticize about Israel’s campaign in Gaza, but tying objections back to the original date of the Hamas attack is pretty gross.
GSM was indeed heavily compressed (voice channels were only around 12 kbit/s, compared to 56-64 kbit/s on landline), but comparing a modern VoIP codec like Opus (which is what almost every VoIP solution uses these days) to GSM FR or even EFR compression is like complaining about 64 kbps MP3 compressed by an early 2000s codec sounding bad and going back to vinyl for quality.
Over the years I've used a variety of network test tools including ntttcp, iperf, hrPing, and I even whipped a couple of custom ones.

I've gravitated towards using custom test tools that use the same pattern as the application that will run on the network. So instead of testing maximum UDP throughput or with dozens of TCP threads with artificially high window sizes, I test with "whatever it is" that the client/server apps are likely to do.

I still use hrPing, because it behaves a lot like a large category of common server apps, such as Linux tools ported to Windows.
> There's no job that can't be automated.

Sure there are. Whether or not that remains true forever remains to be seen, but currently, most jobs can't be completely automated.

But I think the answer to "what is the purpose of humans" is the same as it has always been: our purpose is whatever we decide it is.
From the preface, it looks like a bunch of the reference material has been cut from the book in favor of C++ documentation on the internet:

"The third edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ is about half the size of the second edition. Students having to carry the book will appreciate the lighter weight. The reason for the reduced size is simply that more information about C++ and its standard library is available on the Web."
I see that this post was flagged, I am curious why and hope we can discuss that. I had not heard of this group at Google nor the story of their arrest/termination, and I found the account to be interesting and worthy of a spot on HN.
"Lie", "incorrect", and "incomplete information" are very different things. Ibraheem clearly believes this to be true, but that is not the same as it being so.
> Curious if there's been a big bifurcation of covid precautions at workplaces that I'm just unaware of...

It's almost certain that nearly all workplaces are doing nearly nothing in regards to COVID precautions. (After all, (because of the nature of stock investment market) COVID precautions don't generate shareholder value, and certainly have negative ROI for their parent-company's/owner's/whatever real estate investment portfolio.)

The variance will be due to a mixture of each individual's level of acceptable risk, and how clued-in they are about their local COVID situation, and COVID more generally.
That’s a pretty disingenuous framing. Obviously the content of the communication- what you ask the chatbot - can totally be personally identifiable, and is stored.

You aren’t providing communications content privacy, you’re providing a meta data proxy which is not remotely the same.
Thanks for mentioning that, I had no idea! This is something I've been looking for my home network for a while. Are there any resources or reading that you particularly recommend? I'll kagi search of course, but good network related stuff is notoriously difficult to find.
From https://www.icce.rug.nl/ I got https://fbb-git.gitlab.io/cppannotations/, which does work.
Maybe they end up in management in game development :p
“Fixed” here meaning?
BlueHats Prize is a buried story.

https://nlnet.nl/bluehatsprize/2024/
People are talking about it. If they had any ideological sympathy for the protest or even a neutral bearing, it's unlikely they would've fired 28 people in response. That's a fairly extreme reaction.
To me both sound plausible (that the process was added, and that it’s a fabricated story). Either way we will never know, and ultimately it’s Tesla’s responsibility to make sure the accelerator pedal doesn’t get suck in the on position due to manufacturing defects.
A lot of the tech world if filled with hypocrisy.

Many people were vocal in saying that one country has a right to defend themselves after an attack of an actor that killed their citizens. Not saying the same thing when another country has its own nationals killed in an attack is a clear example of double-standards.

Similar is happening here. Companies are clear to express support and stand with one country, but quick to fire and say 'please stay out of politics' when support is express for another country.
Exactly. Way too much influence by financially extremely powerful industry interests. Simply far too much money to lose.