skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an argument to be made that if the Palestinians have to ask permission to become a real state from Israel, then their "government" isn't really a government, and that all the Palestinians are in thrall to Tel Aviv, a government which rules them but does not represent them, whose laws bind them but for whom they may not vote.
It is not what happened a few meters from my home in a completely closed apartment. The "squatters" broke the first-floor window to enter, the Mossos took 15 minutes to arrive and did absolutely nothing. They have been there for six months, they already changed the front door, and the owner cannot get them out.
why not do both? thats what I see.

Firms give paltry pay bumps as default, but will fight with competitive salaries to retain top performers.

Top performers get completive raises by going to their boss with an offer letter from a competitor.
> And the new CEO (David Limp) used to be in charge of Kindles.

Seems to imply there is an issue with a CEO of a space company previously working on Kindles.

> Bezos had the former Honeywell CEO in charge of Blue Origin, which to me was such an odd choice

Also seems to imply the CEO is bad because their previously only worked at Honeywell on thermostats.

In my mind none of the above has anything to do with how good or bad a CEO is. Perhaps I am misreading it. In which case ignore me.
I’m with you. People saying it uses scripts - so does every other ai - what exactly are they expecting? Why is this device being singled out over literally any assistant.
I worked in a supermarket. They aren't washing their hands at all and they might well be playing football with your bread rolls.
> The problem with all of this is that it assumes the attitude that pay is the most logical, if not only, measure of success in your career.

I see what you mean, but I don't think the parent commented about career success, but just specifically pay. I agree with what you're saying in that there are other valuable things besides pay from a job.
Poorer parts of the world also purchase a LOT more products packaged in single use packaging than industrialized countries. In the Philippines, pretty much every consumer product that could be sold in a multi-use jar, tube, or bottle instead comes in a single-use plastic sachet like you would get for ketchup in McDonald's. Laundry detergent, toothpaste, hair products, you name it. When you combine that with a lack of waste collection infrastructure, you end up with the Pasig river full of single-use plastic sachets every time it rains.

Here's a well researched report that dives into a lot of the issues of why these plastics are used. It is a combination of economic and societal factors.

https://www.no-burn.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Sachet-Ec...

And here's a article that names and shames which companies produce most of the single use plastic waste found in the Philippines.

https://www.rappler.com/environment/findings-philippines-pla...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2020/09/turning-tap-plastic-...
Sometimes analogies are a useful tool for understanding a situation.

This one is not.
I disagree, I don't think they are a scam at all.

I cancelled my order with them a couple of weeks ago as I felt it wasn't worth the money to me - they gave me a refund without complaint at all.
There isn't any evidence that models are doing any kind of "system 2 thinking" here. The model's response is guided by both the prompt and its current output so when you tell it to reason step by step the final answer is guided by its current output text. The second best answer is just something it came up with because you asked, the model has no second best answer to give. The second best answers always seem strange because the model doesn't know what it means to come up with a second best answer; it 'believes' the output it gave is the correct answer and helpfully tries to fulfill your request. Sometimes the second best answer is right but most of the time its completely nonsensical and there is no way to distinguish between the two. If you ask to choose it will be strongly influenced by the framing of its prior response and won't be able to spot logical errors.

Asking it to do lateral thinking and provide examples isn't really helpful because its final output is mostly driven by the step by step reasoning text, not by examples it has generated. At best, the examples are all wrong but it ignores that and spits out the right answer. At worst, it can become confused and give the wrong answer.

I've seen gpt-4 make all kinds of errors with prompts like this. Sometimes, all the reasoning is wrong but the answer is right and vice versa.
A family member is paid very highly. He has switched jobs almost ever year for over a decade, including at top tier tech firms. I'm not sure why he does this but I have my suspicions. What I do know is that he is never seems happy with his work. And I also doubt how much impact he can be having with such short stints.

I have never quit a job without a major life event forcing me to (spouse getting a job, moving, etc.). I've had great experiences everywhere and I'm probably underpaid for it. I have no regrets. I'd prefer my lifestyle and job satisfaction to money.
May as well just use RFID tags, unless you have a lot of data.
You're not wrong, but that's not the full story here tho, at least not in my experience.

Worst job I ever had paid about 60% of what I usually earn, and I was told of by the manager for pointing out that there were compilation errors in our master branch (at this place, anything pushed to master was automatically deployed into production, with zero testing. The only reason prod didn't burn that day was because the pipeline crashed when it couldn't produce the jar file)

(Well, prod did burn that day, it burned every day at this place, but none of those fires were because of the non-compiling commit in question)

There were a lot of other problems at this place, but that was the day I handed in my resignation.
Probably depends on a lot of factors, but here's a simple example.

My first job I was an entry level developer. If I had stayed there for 25 years earning 3% raises each year... my salary would have finally doubled last year. In real life, I left there after ~2.5 years, and left the next job after 2.5 years, at which point my salary had already doubled.

Of course staying in the same company, I'd likely have moved up some and gotten some promotions with meaningful raises along the way. That company was pretty small but... I know that a lot of colleagues at that time stuck around and are VPs of some sort now, as the company has shown consistent meaningful growth. Early on, though, there was little room for growth in the short term at such a small company.

My largest raise staying at a company was going from $9.05 / hour to $13.05 / hour. That's 44.2%. Ha! But realistically since being salaried, my single largest raise was a couple years ago during the inflation rush, where I got 13%. Often changing jobs would land me 15-20%, and I could generally do that every 3 years without any obvious negative consequences. Assuming a more conservative 12% at 3 years intervals (with 3% in the years between), after 24 years I'd be at around 4x my original salary after 25 years.

Comparing 4x to the 2x from my first example, I've come out double. Factor in possible promotions and maybe it would've been 2.5x vs 4x which is about 50% more. If the promotions came with substantial pay raises, it would start to favor staying put. Personally I haven't seen any promotions like that because I've always been valuable as an individual contributor, and less so as management. But individual results may vary. We're looking at "on average" though.
Just want to point out that this is just an Excel thought experiment and not a study of peoples lives of any kind. The comparison is just 3% raise vs jumping every 2 years for 10%. I've seen too many people take this as some gospel of a career strategy when it's more of something to keep in mind when you get stagnant at a job.
Cloud Performance on a "Toy" Computer: From Python to Rust
Without companies like Google, the best the community is able to deliver is to keep cloning 1970's UNIX in C, ever and ever again.
Busytown is a safe, happy, and high-functioning society. With great artwork. And the classic "children's book" excuse for being utopian.

And for parents - consider the emotions of sharing Richard Scarry books with your young child. Vs. the emotions of discussing the so-many dystopian aspects of the real world with your favorite wee one.
When we say life on earth we mean human life and civilization. Prokaryotes, while alive, are not really what people mean. Yes they would survive asteroids, nukes, possibly nanobot swarms.
The dock is per-process because there are options to quit the program on the menu. I suppose they could switch it to close window and change to quit on the last window, but Mac users are very used to the way it is. There should be an icon there even with no windows.

I‘d imagine the dock would look quite ridiculous for someone working on multiple docs, or a slate of images in photoshop, etc.

Anyway try this app for a different method for what you want to do (switch to a specific window): https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
The train left the tracks when the government failed to establish uniform mechanical form factors and interface protocols for swappable batteries. It should be easier and quicker to refuel an EV than an ICE-based vehicle, not the other way around.
I believe a task without motivation is pointless. If you are not motivated but is doing it anyway, it already has innate motivation, you just may not admit it is.

Not motivated to pay your bills? You do it anyways because not getting services cut off is actually the motivation, or that “I always pay up“ is motivating you
What other compiled language has a significantly better way of solving compile-time flags?
Can you elaborate on your concern? Is the issue that you don't trust gVisor to keep the cloud provider secure?
It most certainly doesn't
Vulkan probably wouldn't help macOS gaming from a users' point of view, but it sure would be nice for us engine developers. There aren't many Vulkan games, but the big 3 non-in-house game engines (Unreal, Unity, Godot) are all committed to supporting Vulkan in addition to Metal, so we (collectively, the engine dev community) currently have to support both. Dropping Metal would reduce the amount of engineer time spent chasing down Metal-specific bugs (which is not inconsequential), which allows us to spend more time on actually interesting features that users want.

Metal is a hidden tax that isn't obvious, but it's there.
US Lawmakers Accuse Nigeria of Taking Binance Executive Hostage
Ask HN: Any way to report ads on YouTube Premium?
As of a recent update, the Apple TV Youtube app seems to be displaying nearly-full-screen advertisements that need to be manually "dismissed," one at a time. Given that the value proposition of YouTube Premium is to pay to avoid ads, I'm hoping this is a bug or oversight rather than blatant disregard for customers. I've confirmed that I'm logged in to the Premium account, but can't find a way to report bugs and/or defects, other than (presumedly) reaching out through my credit card representative. Any links or ideas of how to make sure Google is aware of this?
I don’t really care either way. I’m tired of having to debunk the same sloppy arguments year after year.
LLM-Patcher: Generate and Stream Patches of Changes
It's a very distant dream that will always remain distant if we don't work on it. We have a lot of things to test before we get to testing the gravitational requirements of human reproduction. As it stands, we don't even know our basic gravitational needs. All we know is that 0g is too low. It's entirely possible that it turns out we can function relatively fine at something low but non-zero, like 0.1g.
I'm pretty convinced that, eventually for most of us, job hopping breaks down when you reach an age where you no longer fit in or lack of new skillset and you can't find a job. Then you wind up as one who stays at one place for more than two years for security--if you can find one.
I thought the majority of ocean plastic pollution was fishing nets? is everyone on the same page about what "single-use" plastic means here?
Do yourself a favor and try to spend some time as a freelancer. Constantly have to sell yourself. Constantly managing stakeholders, etc.

This will translate to always thinking about your place in the market and gives you a lot of skills to avoid being taken advantage of.
When you describe ChatGPT as just a model with weights that can create a string of tokens, is it any different from any lossless compression algorithm?

I'm sure if I had a JPEG of some copyrighted raw image it could still be argued that it is the same image. JPEG is imperfect, the result you get is the same every time you open it but it's not the same as the original input data.

ChatGPT would give you the same output every time, and it does if you turn off the "temperature" setting. Introduce a bit of randomness into a JPEG decoder and functionally what's the difference? A slightly different string of tokens for ChatGPT versus a slightly different collection of pixels for a JPEG.
I don't think they've announced publicly what models we're using. I don't think there's any particular reason for this, but just in case, I can't name them here. I'll see if this can be addressed in a blog post of something.

I can tell you that Recall isn't using Phi. Rather, it's using a collection of models that are much more tuned (and therefore much more efficient) for the feature.
fyi, HN doesn't support markdown
"'Red-Tape' can also be non-productive rules that just hinder progress, but that isn't usually what is meant."

You have no way of knowing one way or another.
No, in Barcelona, there are numerous examples of people who went on vacation, leaving their apartment completely closed, and it was occupied.
It seems you've come up with a proof that there's no such thing as wasting electricity. When you prove an extraordinary claim like that, it's time to go back and figure out how you got it wrong.
> never put it into the age 20## type funds

Why not? Especially with Fidelity and Vanguard, the expense ratios are often very low, and for a 21 year old the fund is going to be mostly stocks anyway.
There's a massive spectrum between "dismissed" and "mechanisms completely understood". Research continues https://gpsych.bmj.com/content/32/5/e100089
Excuse my ignorance about the term, what does “crystal-radio stage of gravitometrics” mean in this context?
To pile on here. I reuse my reusable bags hundreds if not thousands of times. I purchased a set of high quality bags that stuff into a small bag. They are better in all ways than any other bags I've used. The ergonomics are excellent.
Where have they said that a UI change wouldn’t matter? It is faster than chatGPTs voice chat.
Same playbook as scammers, you want to focus your efforts where they are most likely to have the desired effect, and those who fall for the obvious lies will always be more easily manipulated than those who require a more subtle approach.
Five years ago, Jensen Huang was worth $3 billion. Now he's worth sub $100 billion. Must be nice to go from Scrooge McDuck to ruler-of-the-universe level.

1- https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/05/28/nvidia-ceo...
I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease when I was 13. I was on various 3x-daily anti-inflammatory medications; doctors said I would be on them the rest of my life.

I started going to therapy as an adult and made a lot of progress in my mental health. I went off my medications 5 years ago and have been healthy since without intervention - I give a lot of credit to this work. I don't think we fully understand the role of the mind/emotions in health; my advice to anyone suffering from IBS and the like is not to forget the mind component to overall health. When you're suffering in your head, it can sometimes manifest in your body.

Gabor Maté talks a lot about this connection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fPQ7Oc44SU
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My observations suggest that this applies far more to lower performing employees than higher performing ones since the barrier to change jobs is lower for top tier talent.

I think talent and the capability to market/self-promote oneself (I believe only for the latter capability, the barrier to change jobs is much lower) are mostly uncorrelated.
A lot of mirrors in a 24h orbit might be easier.

Still, even then it will take, what, about a century to get rid of the CO2? (Does it even count as an "atmosphere" at ground level, given that it's past the critical point and the distinction between liquid and gas phases no longer exists?)
Databricks acquires data optimization startup Tabular in challenge to Snowflake
You have thrown in your opinion and not countered the content of the poster.

That «y-axis» mentioned states that GPT-4 would be at the level of some «Smart High Schooler». I have been unable to be focused on LLMs in the past months, but unless the LLM revises its internal body of knowledge - which, if it happened, should be quite well advertised - it is not at the level of any relevant minor animal brain.
Note that these are all lifestyle choices which agree with OP. If you really care about money you will be open to moving. If you value the location stability more then you won’t
The article calls out the real reason: Because doing so polls well with critical swing voters for the upcoming election. What a shame.
Pull in power inductively from power lines to recharge battery. [0] Use ESP chip with rechargable coin cell [1]. Only turn on chip with no ssid broadcast every hour at some odd minute for a short time. [2] Put/get only URI & decrypt key, main body is on Mega or similar.

Might also make for a neat Geocache.

0. https://hackaday.com/2024/01/27/harvesting-electricity-from-...

1. https://www.instructables.com/Remote-Control-ESP8266-With-Co...

2. https://arduino-esp8266.readthedocs.io/en/latest/esp8266wifi...
Setting aside stock appreciation, are your refreshers greater than new hire FAANG RSUs for a similar position?

Most FAANG total compensation dips in year 5 due to 4-year vesting schedules, and refreshers for existing employees being lower than nee hire grants (assuming stock price remains flat).
How Schrödinger's Cat Got Famous
Spouting off someone's talking points without verification makes you propaganda. It's just a question on if it's due to an agenda or incompetence. It's one of those.
> However, that's strictly better than the natural PK situation, where you would need to not only add new columns to the key, but also add those columns to all referencing tables.

Foreign keys referencing surrogate key has different semantics than fk referencing natural key - it is a can of worms actually and can lead to unexpected anomalies.

Lets take the example from the article (with surrogate key):

Restaurant(id, name, city)

Now let's add a possibility to record visits:

Visit(restaurant_id references Restaurant(id), user, date)

We have a procedure to register visits to a restaurant:

register_visit(restaurant_name, user_name, date_of_visit) {
INSERT INTO visit SELECT id, user_name, date_of_visit FROM restaurant WHERE name = restaurant_name
}

I very much enjoy spending time in "Polish Kielbasa" restaurant in Warsaw and I visit it everyday - I don't visit any other restaurant at all.

Now changes of a restaurant name will lead to the database containing misinformation:

register_visit('Polish Kielbasa', 'mkleczek', 2024-6-4);
update restaurant set name = 'Old Kielbasa' where name = 'Polish Kielbasa' and city = 'Warsaw';
insert into restaurant ('Polish Kielbasa', 'Warsaw');
register_visit('Polish Kielbasa', 'mkleczek', 2024-6-4);

Question: what restaurants did I visit this year?

This kind of anomalies are avoided using _natural_ keys and - first of all - defining proper _predicate_ for _each_ relation.

The predicate of relation visit(restaurant_name, city, user, date) is quite obvious: "User [user] visited restaurant [restaurant_name] in [city] on [date]"

Question: What is the predicate of relation visit(restaurant_id, user, date)?
> Because it's very common for the first launch of a company's first orbital rocket to fail to make it to orbit.

It is also very common for the first pancake to be a total failure.

That doesn't mean it is non-trivial to make pancakes.
Yes, it was meant to be a joke.
Did you leave positive impressions on your coworkers? Did you maintain contact? Part of the advantage of moving every few years is that you work with more people, which means more people are willing to recommend you for open positions. In those three jobs you were laid off from did any of your coworkers also get laid off? Where did they go to, and can they give you a recommendation?

No matter what story your resume tells, social connections will usually be a louder signal.
"Observation of Bose–Einstein condensation of dipolar molecules" (2024)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07492-z :

> Abstract: [...] This work opens the door to the exploration of dipolar quantum matter in regimes that have been inaccessible so far, promising the creation of exotic dipolar droplets [14], self-organized crystal phases [15] and dipolar spin liquids in optical lattices [16].
This might be a useful reference here: https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definitio...

"Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic." ...

"Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation."

Because Israel is a Jewish collective then some criticism of it can be and is antisemitic.

One test of whether specific criticism of Israel is anti-semitic or not is to s/Israel/OtherCountry/ and ask yourself whether similar criticism would be made. E.g. comparing criticism of Israel on its war in Gaza contrasted with the US war on Afghanistan or Iraq or the war on ISIS. For example, when the US bombs a hospital in Afghanistan ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike ) do we see the ICC issuing warrant for the arrest of the US president and secretary of defense?
David Lynch Theater Presents: Chrystabell and David Lynch – Sublime Eternal Love [video]
Waste of time point scoring?
Is the battery soldered? Is it a fairly standard kind of thing like an 18650 (obviously not the same size, but I'm not familiar with what "standard" pouch style batteries exist)?
Depends on the business. If all revenue is coming from contract work then everyone's job is tied to having a contract. If revenue is streaming in from services then most jobs are tied to support and are buffered by much higher margins.
The issue, in this case, isn't opinions nor the other discourse in the thread. Rather, it is the account's comments over a long stretch of time.

The question "has an account been using HN primarily for political or ideological battle?" is one of the most important criteria we use in HN moderation. When it is the case, we ask an account to stop and/or end up banning it.

This rule has many advantages. One is that it's a reasonably objective call to make (and for readers to verify) regardless of the specific views a user is arguing for or against. Another is that it allows for a certain amount of political and ideological discussion (as long as it doesn't break the site guidelines in other ways, of course: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40589862