skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked very hard for my current employer. Then they closed all of our offices and forced us into full time remote work (which I do not like, at all). And pay reviews for the past two years have been so insultingly small that my pay today in inflation adjusted terms is significantly lower than when I started 4 years ago. I made myself VERY loudly heard by my manager at the last round of pay reviews.

Since then I have been firmly in the bare-minimum camp. Call it quiet quitting if you want. I get my job done but I take my sweet time. I try to meet deadlines but I don't work extra hours if they're at risk. I feel poorly treated so I responded in kind.
Sadly, I think people are starting to accept, as a fact of life, that software gets worse every time a developer touches it. People dread "upgrades" because it's going to get slower, buggier, the UI is going to change unnecessarily, and there's nothing they can do about it besides try to stay on the previous version, which is often impossible with web software.
Self-control fluctuates with tiredness level and mood. You want to build systems to protect yourself when those things dip and you're not thinking properly, by adding some artificial friction.
Medicare (the government part) wouldn't pay directly for Wegovy since it's an out-patient drug. That would be Medicare Part D, which is managed by private insurers who can negotiate.
Imagine if you randomly and frequently got paid a bonus just because the company wants you to succeed and not quit. And then we read articles about an epidemic of only getting paid your contractual salary. Quiet firing?
How do you go to work and think and function under a calorie deficit? Brains need calories and mine feels crippled without, like I am forced to choose between diet and productivity.
I find it very hard understand your paragraphs.

> (when i eat a pizza) i simply burn fewer calories later to negate exercise, such as lowered BMR/NEAT. as i lose weight my constraint is lowered. (constraint of what?) and any calories above it (above what?) will produce weight gain regardless of exercise.

what does this have to do with pizza? eating pizza negates exercise through lower BMR/NEAT: umm are you sure it's negating exercise itself? so michael phellps cannot possibly burn off a pizza? it's physically impossible?

felt compelled to comment cuz while i understand the terminology and know about this subject, i think its the particular form of writing that's just very hard to understand. thought you should know.

edit: i think you're saying you can't out work a bad diet. i usually hear it from the opposite pov: if you fast your body will compensate through lowered BMR/NEAT and so it's diminishing returns. surprised to hear your point seems to be it's physically impossible to burn off a pizza because a pizza will negate (seemingly any and all attempts at) exercise. ???
The full context is that they gave them 1 week to migrate before termination.

The reason is that namecheap is an American company in name only. The bulk of their staff is in Ukraine, only the well paid execs reside in America.

Personally the short grace period and (very) lackluster attempt at notifying affected customers made me lose trust in them, even though I agree with sanctions on a moral level.

I moved my two dozen domains to porkbun. As a bonus they have actually qualified support staff, being with namecheap so long I had forgotten what it was like to have support immediately understand DNS-specific terms.
Businesses Are Getting People Killed
or at 4am?
Except then there's no parallelism since you're only building one file. Ideally you'd split it into N files to take advantage of multiple cores, but then you have to decide how to split it...
> The fact that not doing additional free work is framed as "quitting" is both ridiculous and sad.

Yeah, that's something I thought was strange in the article. My understanding of quiet quitting was that you did the bare minimum to not get fired, not "not going above and beyond".
> past two years

This is the expiration date for any job. You hit the 2 year mark you need to be out or actively looking. The internal raise has never met inflation or market demand.
If you have an automated process for destroying evidence, that’s still destroying evidence.

I don’t think “50 years ago it would have been easier to get away with it” is something judges and regulators generally go for.
> You Americans are extremely spoiled

Well, yes. This is the aim of a civilisation, isn’t it? To render banal what was previously trying, and raise to daily concern what was previously trivial.
You don’t have to pay to do that on MacOS, they can bypass the warning saying it’s unsigned and that the developer can’t be positively identified.
Or another (and I think the most likely possibility, given what we know about human nature): one of the guards ran a profitable little side business selling basic machined parts in town made with free labor. In exchange, the prisoners got to make stuff they needed also. Only the high-ranking prisoners were in on the scheme. The rest were told the story about "deception", which is what we see relayed here.
That is kinda the purpose of an environment.
Show HN: Bard PDF – Chat with Pdf in Google Bard or Gemini
Chat with pdf in Google Bard or Gemini for free. Several ways to have conversations with pdfs in Google Bard or Gemini.
What a fucked up article. The manager on the piece is implied to be upset people aren't worried about KPIs when grieving dead loved ones. They say that they try to reward people with snacks instead.

What a bunch of absolute psychopaths.
I never understood why it had to be a dot file, except for naming it.
OP’s remark just reminded me of something more general not necessarily in that remark that really has been bothering me. It wasn't very clear that I was going off on a tangent, and I tried to keep it lighthearted in a hamfisted way that ended up being more condescending than I intended, and then I got more defensive about it than I should when it wasn’t received well. Sorry about that - thanks for keeping me honest.
I always didn't care for google docs. I wonder though how one would go about achieving good word editor performance on a 30mb doc file in the browser.
Activity might not be a directly efficient way to lose weight, but (imo) increased activity leads to increased willpower to make healthy eating choices.
When I first started using Google Bard (now renamed Gemini), I hoped to be able to upload my local pdf files for conversation, but I did not find the entrance to upload files and could only upload images. This doesn't meet my needs.

So I started looking for a solution, if I could upload my pdf files in Bard and be able to have a conversation.

After some searching, I found someone saying that you can use an online pdf link, enter it into the input box, and then ask a question. I tried it using someone else's link and it seems to work, which is great. So I uploaded the file to my website, then sent the link to bard, and started trying to have a conversation based on the file content.

It looked good at first, but later I discovered that this function was not really implemented.

Just an illusion. If you use an online PDF file in the prompt word, Bard or Gemini will only answer based on the name of your online PDF document, and then based on its knowledge base or online search for relevant content, not based on the actual content of the document. For example, the name of my PDF document is 'How to use PDF for conversation in bard', but the content of the document is 'How to make a pizza in 7 steps'. When I ask him to summarize the content of the document or answer based on the content of the document, The content of his answer is always 'how to use pdf for conversation in bard'.

So I started a new attempt and finally found the correct way to use it: Extensions based on Google Workspace of Bard or Gemini to talk to PDF files.

Therefore, through this project, I want to introduce to you how to use pdf files for conversations in Bard or Gemini. Share my experience with everyone. Don't be misled by wrong usage methods again.

Hope you enjoy it.
> Huh yeah I guess I need to learn more. My layman’s assumption was that it would help with a lot of NP problems that involved recursion or backtracking algorithm would benefit from it.

Recursion is more of a property of how you write your algorithm, than of the problem.

Eg Scheme or Haskell as languages have no built-in facilities for iteration, no for-loops, no while-loops; the only thing you get is function calls. (Well, that and exceptions etc.)

However you can built for-loops as libraries in both Scheme and Haskell. But they will be built on top of recursion.

To make matters even more interesting: once you compile to native code, all the recursion (and also all the for-loops and other fancy 'structured programming' constructs) go away, and you are back to jumps and branches as assembly instructions.

None of this changes whether a given class of problems is in P or NP or (almost!) any other complexity class. Just like getting a faster computer doesn't (usually!) change the complexity class of your problems.

> I could totally see the argument that they are physically impractical and therefore not likely to be actually used vs parallelizing conventional computers.

Quantum computers are impractical now. But as far as we can tell, that's "just" an engineering problem.

In the long run one of two things will happen:

- Either engineering improves and we will be able to build good quantum computers (though perhaps still not better than classical computers for the same amount of effort)
- Or, we discover new principles of quantum mechanics.

Basically, quantum mechanics is one of our most successful physical theories, if not the most successful theory. And as far as we understand it, it allows quantum computers to be built.

So either we will eventually manage to built them, or (more excitingly!) that's not possible, and we will discover new physics that explains why. We haven't really discovered new physics like that in a while.
Woah. And I was expecting some dinky Lunar Lander type game.
Dumb question - What actually needs to be done to close the gap?
Starting with the reversal curse is weird since there is a simple workaround to this, which is to identify entity names to keep them in their proper order, and then train on the reverse of the pretraining corpus: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13799v1

You can argue about how this doesn't really say anything surprising since the reversal of "A is B" is literally "B is A", but it's weird to expect elegant solutions to all problems on all fronts all at once, and we do have an incredibly simple data generation process here.
Oh, now that makes sense. Yes, there are beekeepers who produce lots of queens for sale. The process for doing that involves first grafting a bunch of 1-day eggs into little cups that are placed in queen-less nukes so that the nurse bees there will feed those eggs royal jelly. Then when the queens get close to hatching each of them gets placed into a finishing nuke (since otherwise the first to hatch will kill the others).

Beekeepers who produce queens for sale breed them for various attributes, such as mite resistance, gentleness, and productivity (of honey). The queens that they use for the first stage (for making the eggs that will be grafted) are quite valuable. Though it's still not worth stealing unless you can set up a similar operation, which means there wouldn't be very many suspects.

(There are also beekeepers who artificially mate queens to better control for male genetics. That is a very labor-intensive process, and those queens are correspondingly more expensive, but the main queens probably aren't any more valuable than in the process I described above.)
I technically have two parents. How far up the smarts pole am I?
I might be similar to you- web-based publications work better for me, but yeah, I bought the book too just to support Bob.
With emphasis very much on '_certain_ class of problems'. It's only a precious few problems quantum computers actually help with as far as we know, even theoretically.
Haha.. no worries.. you had me thinking I hadn't been paying attention when reading Cloud Atlas too. I was about to read it a fourth time! ;)
I jump around between multiple projects every day. Sticky environment variables carry risk.
Obviously this isn't completely correct, because elite athletes work to eat 6000 calories/day and manage to "burn it off."

That said, it seems clear that exercise does not help most people lose weight; adding a small amount as you're losing weight may be a way to retain more muscle mass and improve health in other ways, though.
This article links to this paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/oby.23308

It’s short and interesting, but the most interesting tidbit in there for me was that physically active hunter-gatherers have roughly the same daily energy expenditure as sedentary westerners. I always thought they’d have to eat huge amounts of food to fuel their activity, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22848382/]
People have been saying that about Microsoft for ages but it keeps growing and chugging along. I use a minimum of 7 Google products everyday, they came up with all of the research for LLMs, they have the only self driving car that actually works, run the largest smartphone OS in the world by a mile etc. They’re not going anywhere.
>on the Wayback Machine

I mean, the original MF link literally still works (I intentionally break the link in case HN filters it)[1].

> Luckily, there was [archived] from oddly recently (Jan 23 2024)

You can see archiving reason on WB's index page [2].

In this case, it was archived due to "why: archiveteam, archiveteam_mediafire".

[1] http s:// www. mediafire .com/file/rwpl49xusm55s2a/WordFillVer2.jar

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://download...
On a slightly related note, old Emacs modes (elisp) run incredibly well to this day. There might be working code there that spans over 3 decades.
As a resident of that state it was frustrating to see the media and political narratives both untruthful and in alignment.

Even the impressive images of a downed giant 'giraffe' transmission tower[0] wasn't enough to convince those who wanted the anti-renewable narrative to be true. Apparently 20 towers collapsed in total.

Surely a more decentralised grid (a grid of micro-grids?), more easily facilitated by smaller and more distributed generation (including rooftop solar and home batteries), would mitigate such events? Too complicated and nuanced a concept for your average outrage-consumer and too long-lasting a project for your average politician to take credit for.

[0]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-28/sa-statewide-blackout... (top article image)
So many thoughts and questions about this.

That's INSANE that 6 years later the bodies metabolism had not adjusted back!!? Hard to believe!!

Is there a decent sample size study for this or we going on one guy?

Maybe this person has some sort of syndrome?

If this is normal for the human race as a whole...is metabolic readjustment a spectrum like many things in biology? Like will some recover their original pre-fat metabolism after a period of time?

Are there medicines or areas of research into how to trigger this metabolism?

Are there foods and/or exercise that can build a metabolism back.

How does gastric bypass seem to work so well? Does it basically just reduce the distance of your digestive tract so that you absorb less calories which matches up to your new fat metabolism?

Ozympic seems to be a miracle drug in that it curbs the appetite so people can maintain this new low calorie diet.
> I still have my KPIs to meet so I can only be understanding up to a point.

If the KPI was set under the assumption that employees were going to work more than they are contractually required to, then that's not the employees problem. That's the fault of whoever set the KPI. They wrote a check they can't cash, and THEY should be the one to take the fall.

Either lower the KPI, or hire more and pay more so you have the resources to achieve them.

Funny how they can view the employees not doing extra labor as a problem. Meanwhile the management is effectively admitting incompetence. Isn't that a bigger problem?
Hey! On the metrics front, we do basic metrics like requests, tokens and cost for now as all of the usefull information about llm is included directly in the Span Attributes of the Trace.

So what a lot of users have told me is the want to track their usage(cost/tokens) and want to keep an eye on the user interactions like prompts and responses, We are looking to add more accuracy based metrics too which is very highly asked to us.

Also re on UI: UI is optional, You can use the sdk to directly send otel traces and meyrics to your preferred destination.
https://docs.openlit.io/latest/connections/intro
What about that book? K&R C is more of an introduction and perhaps a manual. It ain't a spec.

And that book was very much written to describe existing implementation(s) of C.
What about:

env $(cat .env) [program]
The corporate world could use some employee-oriented alternatives to the employer-biased term "quiet quitting". How about "workload rightsizing"? Or maybe "compensation matching"?
reinventing native UI, good riddance

I remember when it started, trolls were telling me how my React Native stack is bad and how active flutter's github is, how it was trending with stars. I'm like bro, having way more issues than stars isn't something to be proud of. LOL
I don't use it myself (I don't mind the notch personally), though it would give more space for menu bar items.
That sounds idiotic. I'm on a very clear downtrend in weight and on days where I burn more calories I eat more to avoid going into too high a deficit.

(cycling workouts with power meter or on Zwift, accurate calorie counts)
Japanese yen weakens to 160 against the USD for the first time since 1990
Generally companies need to do something wrong before being regulated, as self regulation is the goal. There’s a lot of opinions in this post as well, with “extrapolating”. Have you asked the actual customers how they feel? I’m an Apple customer, and really wish the Android customers would focus on their own wants and needs. Blue bubbles are not a need.
Prayer does not change things for you. It changes you for things.
Uh no. You would typically retrieve the data in a function and assign it to a variable scoped to the function. The struct or array then gets passed through a pipeline of functions to do something possibly writing the data back to disk or the db.

Even if there is some data I want to keep in memory there is no need for a global usually. In go I may just keep it in a var in a goroutine that doesn’t exit until the process does.
Also relevant : Foundations of Applied Mathematics - https://foundations-of-applied-mathematics.github.io/
I'm misunderstood quiet quitting to be the people who did the least amount of work possible while still keeping their job.

This "9-5 engaged worker" is certainly a new one on me
Yes, it definitely adds quite a bit of friction. Though my other points about not needing to pay for the Apple Developer Program unless you want to codesign (at a much lower price than what you pay for a codesigning certificate suitable for signing Windows programs) and not having to pay Apple 30% (or 15%, or anything) on macOS still stand.
I have never used or seen pimpl in my life, and c++ is all I do
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Sure some of the weight in those first ten days might have been water, but it stayed off. Possibly because my diet didn't immediately revert to pre-cut levels but it's hard to say given it didn't go back up and I wasn't exactly suffering. A 1000 calorie deficit over a month would still cut 8lbs. No problem for an overweight man who is likely eating well in excess of 3000 calories. The point is that major interventions aren't really necessary for that level of weight loss, and imo practicing the self-control needed to lose 10lbs should be beneficial to pretty much anyone. Let me put it this way: it should be way harder for a couch potato to train for a 5k run than to lose 10lbs on a cut.
One of my first jobs was writing a Perl script in 1996 that did an incredibly mundane set of checks on some routers in a datacenter (using this really cool new technology "BGP") and offered essentially a public REST API (though we didn't call it that back then) you could periodically poll to see their status. Every so often I check to see if it's still there, and it always has been. I really hope it makes it to 30 years.
I think your definition is correct and "the extra mile" simply refers to above the minimum. It wouldn't be a phenomenon if it referred to the normal amount of work that was expected.
it might be, but the question is if there's some long term bad effect, like it causes brain bleeds if you take it for 20 years or something. I don't think patients taking it for weight-loss instead of diabetes changes the underlying biological processes that happens as a result of taking the medication, so long term studies based on diabetes patients is useful information for non-diabetes patients.
Yup thats correct, Love as more tools come up! We though tried to follow the actual OpenTelemetry's Semantic Convention for GenAI, the others dont.

Additionally none of these libraries "then"(Can check again) seemed to send the cost attribute which was what most of our user's mentioned, So we added that.
Paul's benchmarks are excellent and they're the first thing I look for to get a sense of a new model performance :)

For those looking to create their own benchmarks, promptfoo[0] is one way to do this locally:

prompts:
- "Write this in Python 3: {{ask}}"

providers:
- ollama:chat:llama3:8b
- ollama:chat:phi3
- ollama:chat:qwen:7b

tests:
- vars:
ask: a function to determine if a number is prime
- vars:
ask: a function to split a restaurant bill given individual contributions and shared items

Jumping in because I'm a big believer in (1) local LLMs, and (2) evals specific to individual use cases.

[0] https://github.com/typpo/promptfoo
I really don’t like the term “quiet quitting” though. A person who is doing their job well according to the working hours in their contract is not quitting anything. Why is there even an expectation for the whole f’in company to go above and beyond?

If that happened, would they rate everyone “5/5 - leading performance/goes above and beyond” in performance reviews?

Even if they did, they wouldn’t hesitate to lay them off if that helps them improve quarterly earnings (and lets the CEO keep their multi million $ stock bonus).
Apple should really provide free codesigning for free/open source software.
I would suggest using a tool like tmux to partition those projects entirely. Instead of tearing down env and building it back up to switch projects, just re-attach to that tmux session. I treat this stuff as though it’s immutable and try to consciously avoid cross pollination.
Have you considered naltrexone?
A well-read person I know said that he actually was a bad emperor, in that his attacks on the Germanic tribes are what actually united them and strengthen them.
All this over green bubbles. Life has gotten so good in the US that all that’s left to focus on is green bubbles. We’ve solved homelessness, wealth gaps, housing crisis, so now it’s time to take down Apple because those green bubbles need to die.

I wish this current generation would learn what’s actually important to fight for. Green bubbles are not on the list.
That's also on Charles Bukowskis tombstone.
Giving up alcohol is huge though
Indeed. I thought they were damned cool.

The only thing I didn't like was that I couldn't afford one.