skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like it also helps them get an edge in the healthcare sector, which has buckets of money in the mix.
Remote work should just be for call center type jobs (where the feed of work is consistent); sales people that constantly visit clients (which doesn't happen much now ); or extremely talented superstars.

For everyone else that has a bad commute and wants to be home, they should consider retiring or get one of the jobs above.

If people can't don't 5 days in office, they should move to a 4 day work week and get 80% of pay.
Their ONT terminates to 10gb copper.

I bought a dual nic intel card off amazon (its from china) works a treat. There is an OK switch after that to get the network working...

It's going to take me. a minute to build out the rest of the network. Switches and cards are NOT cheap for 10gb. I'll probably end up running SFP+ fiber to a few places around the house and putting in a drop or 3 for some 10gbe love in other rooms.
Fair point. I have noticed a drastic lack of good startup advice outside of the Bay Area and Seattle scene. Both those two have very entrenched entrepreneurship networks so information percolates

> what a founder without VC connections should do

Network, network, network.

Finding a VC is the same process as finding your first customer. Sales is a grind, as is running a company. It acts as a filtering function to find seriousish players.

> How long will it take?

If you raise funding, at least 10-15 years to even get the chance to potentially list or get a high 9 figure low 10 figure acquisition.
Challenges in Expanding the Commonsverse
> The only thing that is better on Gnome is HiDPI handling. KDE works kind of OK with wayland on HiDPI screens but some apps have issues with very slow scrolling, e.g. SublimeText and LibreOffice apps

so that's what's been going on?

is there a bug report i can monitor? is a fix coming?
Could you point to where Flashbots representatives said similar things in the past?
This is like outlawing sneezing at home. Unless you’re sneezing so loudly that your neighbor decides to call the police (equivalent would be reproducing large blocks of existing code verbatim, but Copilot already has warnings for that kind of thing), good luck enforcing it.
While I don't expect Fedora to switch to KDE, as someone who drives KDE daily from 3.5 days, I don't think current KDE 5.x family deserves the "a steaming, bug infested pile of crap" sentiment.

Yes, its default setup looks like Windows. Yes, 4.0 to 4.2 was the dark days (and the devs openly said that they're considered tech previews, back in the day).

However, when some spends some time with it and tunes it one's liking, it becomes a third hand. Dolphin handles tons of protocols and have features that makes 10+ applications unnecessary. Some of the "effects" are actually usability improvements, which are indispensable when someone starts to use them.

People may not like it, it may not be space efficient as some GNOME themes or macOS, but that thing works, doesn't crash, and improves productivity.

And, you don't change settings every day. I'm opening settings app so rarely that most of the settings either changed or evolved over time. I don't know what's where. I just use it the way I installed and tuned god knows when.

Plus KDE ecosystem has some of the best tools in its class. Did anyone give a good run to KATE and Konsole recently?
This is true. The trade off is time, but reloading is cheaper. Maybe he uses subsonic loads.
HN has always been notoriously negative, and wrong a lot of the time. One of my personal favorites is Brian Armstrong's post about an exciting new company he was starting around cryptocurrency and needing a co-founder... Always a good one to go back and read when I've been staying up late working on side projects and need a mental boost.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754664
>And don't forget the old licensing controversies over Qt, which were long settled by then but a lot of people still regarded Qt with suspicion.

I think a lot of users today weren't even born when the QT controversy was happening yet they keep bringing it up like it's an active showstopper. I think this piece of lore keeps getting repeated so often everywhere, that people forget where it came from and assume it must be a current issue if people still keep bringing it up.
Yes - also there are lots of reasons for why people are low performing.

Office environments can take some of those reasons (e.g. certain distractions) away.
Claude is a next generation AI assistant built for work
That is a fair question, and I would guess that there are at least two different issues in play.

The first is that the ship probably has little or no ability to steer until it is moving at a few knots (depending on whether it has thrusters; I suspect not.) Once it was moving down the channel, it could steer (assuming the steering gear worked, of course.)

The second is probably that no-one with the relevant authority realized how vulnerable the bridge was to the much larger ships that have come into service since it was built (yet someone apparently realized that the adjacent power transmission towers needed better protection; sometimes people are not good at connecting the dots.)
Wallet recovery firms buzz as locked-out crypto investors panic in Bitcoin boom
Dr. Polak raises a good point, as do you. Concerns over the mechanization of research are valid. But there are domains (such as yours) where they are useful. The humanities may suffer.

I don't feel that jargon, legalese and newspeak are going to vanish. On the contrary, the value of these words may actually increase due to the appeal that they possess by way of gesturing toward authority, virtue and the like. There is a likelihood that AI will only contribute to their proliferation, just in the same terse manner that you are describing. Densely packed compositions of inarticulate gobbledygook that serves none, yet is served by many.

We are on the cusp of a fissure in the field of knowledge work led by AI tools. I'm inclined toward the more manual labor that favors a dextrous approach to "information overload" but there are opportunities to leverage these tools as a sort of valve for copious amounts of information as well. The technology isn't going to go anywhere, so hopefully this is Elicit is a useful product that will serve the interest of the conscientious.
Every time this comes up I'm struck by the same thought: do these cats measure _anything_ their people do? And what in the world happens when someone takes off for two weeks to go on vacation?

The solution to all this is very simple. Management needs to hold everyone, including other managers, accountable for measurable output. These are usually based on key performance indicators (KPIs) and are semi-standard in many industries these days. From there, you don't have to care how, when, or why anyone does anything, just as long as they hit the target.

This also has reaching ramifications for everything. People are no longer stressed out by working under ill-defined objectives or nebulous directives. Remote work is now palatable, since things are now results-focused rather than means-focused. Under-performing employees are now easier to discharge with cause, and identifying top performers is dead-simple. Reports are now easy to generate, sometimes without human involvement, so nobody can fib to the CEO. And all that applies to managers too, which I think we can all appreciate.

In contrast, a workplace that runs on vibes and gut-checks will have the drama cited in the article. The whole org relies on a near co-dependent level of trust, leading managers to have anxiety attacks when they can't put eyes on things. Accountability is less about facts and more about feelings. Nobody has a firm grasp on how the company will make that quarterly objective, but we're all going to "work hard" and "do what it takes" anyway. It's all well and good for a startup of 20 people, but it's miserable for an army of 200 or 2000.

Even in-office, we shouldn't be conducting performance reviews on a gut check or how happy you make your boss. It should be down to setting measurable goals, gathering supporting data through the year, and assessing the results at regular intervals.
c. social media is negative and positive, probably averaging negative, but people writing pop-sci tend to be hacks. It's possible for someone to be directionally correct and all their evidence is garbage; a common problem in progressive social causes.
You can subscribe to these here: https://www.who.int/publications/journals/weekly-epidemiolog...
"How to Use Spaced Retrieval Practice to Boost Learning" [pdf]
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However, research reveals that the key to successful learning via retrieval is not so much the total time spent learning, but the way in which that time is distributed. “Spaced practice” is a technique that can drastically improve learning without changing the amount of time spent learning.

In this guide, we discuss how to use spaced practice to improve learning. This technique—supported by hundreds of studies and over a century of research—is simple and easy to implement, works for any type of learning, and produces long-lasting results."""
Lowering your ldl might actually make you die early.

https://www.youtube.com/live/LSIyg_Z_ye4?si=O5uMFqligFcuPS8m

A high ldl over the age of 60 is associated with a lower all cause mortality.

And you are kinda right, having a higher income means you can afford more red meat and live longer.
Decibels are logarithmic; a 1 dB reduction in sound is ~26%.
The reason was sadly greed.

KDE was LGPL and flirting with the idea of making money. GNOME was FOSS purist and GPL, making it a safer bet at the time.

Then again, maybe Qt is so much better today than GTK because Trolltech is a company that makes money. (It's not even close; projects are fleeing GTK for Qt, and it's the reason why every GTK app is a toy compared to a Qt alternative, like Nautilus vs. Dolphin.)
I'm confused by your proposal a little bit. Are you asking what percentage of professionals could afford to travel the world at their own expense and teach others their professional skills for zero compensation? Or are you asking how many professionals would enjoy the idea of teaching classes that for the students are free but they still receive some sort of compensation for their travel and time?

Because while YouTube is free to view content creators definitely have an incentive program. The additional thing with YouTube is that the barrier for entry is very low. Largely the cost for entry is simply time because you have everything else you need.

I would like to be able to travel the world and teach others but I simply could not do it without compensation, at least not at this point in my life. The type of wealth independence that it takes to do something like that is very rare. Those that generally have that type of wealth independence are also typically looking to use it in a philanthropic way to gain some notoriety for themselves.

Also sorry but not sorry not going to sign in to fill out a survey.
I guess this applies more to GNOME than KDE, but why do linux desktop environments look like they were written by people with no taste? I don't exactly know what it is, but they all have an uncanny quality to them. It's really night and day compared to something like macOS.

It's not like the community is devoid of good taste, just go look at r/unixporn. There are plenty of people who know how to make things look good. Why aren't their sensibilities represented in either project?
This answer really is a bit of a handful.

To start: an army is not only there for military response but also for threat of attack and denying defense. So I don't really see your point here. Europe bent over since they are weaker strategically, not because they are doing the same. Do you have any evidence for Europeans spying at the same scale?

And just to clear up the other part: France and Germany were punished for their response to Iraq by the US. They also didn't do it again.

Re Russian forces in Syria. Yes they are in Syria. Are you really saying that the Russian army has a similar scope to the US army? The Russian army tries to actively invade the poorest country in Europe and gets a bloody nose. You really can't compare the two countries here, since the US is in a different category, financially (as shown above) and also by experience. Same counts for China. Saying that those armies do things too isn't really saying much.

Re rights:

The US meddles in Afghanistan since the 70s. They have no rights there and particularly not in Iraq. They also had no rights to support the murderous Pinochet government, Islamic terrorists all over the world, murderous lunatics in the Philippines or central America. They had no rights to support Nazi refugees. Yet they still did all of this and more.

Re Chinese security companies with ties to the state:

Blackwater? Halliburton? All the other companies? The economy of the States is hopelessly centralised and couldn't be tighter with government. You might want to say the companies own the government.
At a Beverly Hills mansion, where an electric truck is your only source of power
High heterogeneity shows the conclusion doesn't have much availability and have a little meaning.

Is there some method to reduce the heterogeneity in medical statistics?
Why Verification Became the Chip Design Bottleneck
To be fair, they are very good at removing debris from a front-porch. I fully support banning them, and they are heavily overused in situations when a rake works just as well, but they are superior in some cases.
Right. Social media companies explicitly use the same addictive psychological reward mechanisms that are leveraged by companies that make slot machines.

https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/social-media-copies-gambling-met...
People letting an engine run, just because, they have such a weird quirk of the mind. It's bizarrely common.

It's not just out of spite, although for some for sure it may be part of it. It seems out of a weird affection for things that are noisy, under their dominion.
Same Ana as in Analysis, anaphylactic, anamorphic...
Yeah it's crazy. Meat eaters are eating chicken fried in seed oils with soda.

Take away the sugar, alcohol ,and seed oils and meat eaters are all healthy.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40375029:
99 points | LeoPanthera | 10 hours ago | 80 comments
You're the CEO of Your Healthcare
Here's an archived version of the Microsoft Knowledge Base article about the bug:

Outlook Express: https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Microsoft_K...

Outlook: https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Microsoft_K...
C.S. Lewis and the Pain Scale
I use Fedora with Gnome on laptops since Fedora 17, when Fedora 39 were released I installed one of my VMs to KDE because I wanted to differentiate that specific VM. The experience was so good that I swapped all my VMs and the laptop. It is also working good for me with Wayland, which have not been my experience with Gnome at all.

On my desktop I use sway, coming from i3, and it is mostly working OK. Every time I tried Gnome and Wayland I had ocean of issues and after couple of days reverted to Gnome with X.
For what it's worth, automowers are great. I had a Husqvarna 330X doing .75 acres and was very happy with it. I don't even know how far it got on a charge to be honest, it just charged itself so I never had to worry about it.
Have you heard the term "defense in depth"?

In the security world, it seems accepted that no security effort is a silver bullet that's 100% impossible to get around.

Rather, it seems best practice to compose many layers of security efforts, which all work to raise the level of effort an attacker is required to exploit people.

So I think it's unfair to say this is a charade.
This exactly.

When our kids reached 12, they were almost the only ones in their class to not have a smartphone, nor any social media.

So what to do ?

Trying by ourselves to educate every parents whom made bad decisions letting their children get access to social media way too early ?

Continue holding to our valor and isolate them from any outside school social interaction with their schoolmate ?

Bend the knee to the power of social media that have rotten our society so deep, and let our kids use WhatsApp to communicate with their mates ?

Of course, in my ideal world, it would be the first option. But I've tried and failed (may be I'm not a good talker ?) so many times that I gave up.

So if any government rule was made to protect my kids and protecting other's ones, well I'll sure want a debate on it. And a people debate, not a lobbyist one of course.
The tone of the post just reminds me of how frustrating interviewing for a (software engineering) job is: Many rejections are arbitrary and the best advice is to just keep applying.

In this case, I suspect Jason assumes that every business should be 110% focused on fundraising. Well, businesses are trying to run their business! The goal is to run the business, the pitch is a tool, not the goal.

The same thing applies to finding a (software engineering) job: Candidates have life obligations and can't dedicate 110% of their time to pleasing a single interviewer. The goal is to demonstrate that you can do a job, the interview isn't the job itself.
Do they think Copilot/ChatGPT are usernames of contributor accounts which can be banned from a project/repo?

It seems the underlying issue here is bad code submitted ultimately by human contributors. Consistently thorough code review and testing will always be necessary.
In absolute numbers but by rate, it is behind St Louis, Milwaukee, Detroit and Cleveland.
A higher end robomower can handle an acre
Can't wait for them to get fined 10 years from now at only 30% of the money it made them instead of 300%.

Cost of doing business.
> That’s an awfully uncharitable projection.

Not the OP but I would agree with you if I was not told explicitly by several people that they love being outside with loud gas powered engines. These people happen to be my neighbors. There's a culture around small gas powered engines. People grew up with them, and learned engine repair on them, which helped them build a career. I have used battery powered leaf blower and a battery powered weed eater, and I have been told "that's nicer than anything else I've ever used, but I just love gas engines".
We need LiFePO4 packs, we need them at a +200% markup ($300/kwh) rather than a +900% markup ($1000/kwh), and we need them mounted in a frame based on good backpacking backpacks with a wire running along your arm to the tool.
I think when people talk about COVID-19 in the past tense they're referring to the period of national lockdowns, which are no longer necessary since the health services are not being overwhelmed in the way before anyone had immunity/vaccinations. I don't think anyone believes the virus was eradicated.
> Big remaining problems involve deadlock analysis, both in the thread sense and in the Rc/borrow sense. Those are somewhat equivalent. I'd like to have static deadlock analysis in Rust. If you had that, I think you could get safe back-pointers, too. If you can prove that all borrow and upgrade calls can't fail, you can eliminate most reference counts. That gives you free interior mutability when that's possible.

I’m not a formal verification guy, but I don’t think locks in the traditional sense is helpful. No compiler will give you anything useful to work with wrt locks. You just accept and live with the danger.

In fact, locks and ref counts are runtime constructs in Rust. Imo it “goes against” even Rust’s own strong principles of single ownership - these things are shared mutable state. Arc broke Rusts RAII model so much that they had to remove scoped threads (which needs destructors to run before end-of-scope).

Anyway, rust aside. Global refcounts have cyclic and leak issues that again are global. I don’t think we can necessarily get rid of them, but I do believe containing them is better, eg with arena-style scoping.

As for locks my gut feeling is we need an asymmetric data structure, for instance a channel. In eg Go you can break a channel into sender and receiver, and have the sender goroutine do `defer close(ch)` which is guaranteed to run if the rest of thread finishes, even if there’s a panic. Doesn’t necessarily have to be channels but separating the roles (reader-writer / producer-consumer) is much easier to reason about, and that probably helps formal analysis too.
For now, from the looks of it things like SynthID are gonna start making their way through the multi modal outputs of models and having signatures identifying the source that generated it (and the user). I'm sure open source "scramblers" will appear but the more code you generate the easier it is to identify. From what I read of state of the art SynthID for normal text output only 3 sentences are needed for an accurate signature to be produced in the text without affecting quality of output.
Then what's the problem? There'll be work record somewhere, either emails, commits (if they're software engineers) or system audit trails.

Moreover if you ask those 20 people during performance review, it'll clear as day.
Really? GNOME has now a Tray and non GNOME apps are supported now?
What happen ? did the big ego guys left and they can now implement standards ?
The results are interesting, but because it's a correlative study, I think the results are still compatible with internet usage being bad for your well being. People might use the internet more when they are feeling better/more sociable, even if the internet tempers that. Similarly, people might avoid the internet when they are feeling low because they can't take it.

I'm not convinced that is the case however, I wouldn't be surprised if internet usage actually improved most people's wellbeing, with some notable exceptions (teenage girls, as they mention in the article).
if it takes 1
hour to get one answer by hand, but only 20 minutes for the machine, and 20 minutes to check the answer, the user still comes out ahead
Yeah, buy a 3090, put it in a Ubuntu closet box, set it up as a server, and let it rip. It’s really not hard or expensive.

I’m tired of people trying to force a square peg (MacBooks) into a round hole (ml compute). Apple needs to get on board with making it easier and more cost effective for people to access compute more effectively. Developers are jumping through hoops to accommodate apples business goals of locking you to their ecosystem.
> I am at a point in my career where I can be selective and only consider 100% remote roles.

I assume “point in career” you mean “around the block for a while”. My kid graduated and considered only remote jobs, and after a couple of years when the big-company employer tried Return to Office he jumped to a startup. That’s just an n of one, but these days anybody can consider it.

My company is not 100% remote, but that’s only because we have a chem lab with some special instruments and other equipment. But if/when you don’t need to be in the lab, remote is the default.
If an inaccessible wallet is able to be recovered, how does this not scare people who don't want someone else to access their wallet? Do they do a modern brute force attack on them?
"None of this work really matters in the end"

I look forward to this not being true