skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the irony of Ricky (and all atheists/scientific materialists, really) holding faith based beliefs[1] while constantly shit talking religious people for the same. But, he does well demonstrate how science's popularity is largely a consequence of it having good stories, that those telling and believing the stories have no idea any of this is going on makes the myth even more powerful imho.

That aside, huge fan of his comedy!

[1] That's just one of them, I see him on TikTok quite a bit shooting his mouth off.
Many Clevo machines use NVIDIA. The current status of NVIDIA+KDE is flickering under Wayland and stuttering under X11 (source: helping a friend upgrade from Windows last weekend and subsequent search results). Avoid at all costs.

I have had great success with my iGPU AMD System76 and dGPU AMD desktop. Intel is probably fine too.
> It’s not surprising that people left MSFT for companies that pay double or triple. The part that’s more interesting is if people are willing to take a 50% pay cut to go remote. I haven’t seen any research on that yet

It would also be interesting to see if there are preferences when given equal pay. I suspect most people have a number where they're willing to go into the office every day, it's not surprising to me that people are willing to RTO for multiples of their current pay.

It all gets a touch weird when comparing comp, though. If someone takes a 50% pay cut, but they move from SF to somewhere that costs something like 60% less, have they taken a pay cut or not? That feels subjective to me, and I've heard both sides. Their ability to save may have gone down, their quality of life may have gone up, it feels like a wash.

Another factor that may be weighing on people is stability of infrastructure and of the remote work job market. I grew up rural and would like to return to the country (not for farming, I already know I hate that from experience). I'm also fully remote, but haven't moved back.

There are too many uncertainties. Will the remote work job market hold up, or will it collapse and I have to keep the same job for forever or uproot my whole life? Will Starlink continue to be a reliable provider, or are they going to enter the race to the bottom in 5 years?

In the end, I work remotely, about a 15 minute drive from the office, because of the certainty it brings. I don't have to watch the news with anxiety, waiting to see whether the life I've chosen has become unviable or not. That undercuts the kind of peace I'm looking for in moving to a rural area in the first place. It's probably less of a concern for the digital nomads, who seem to live in relative chaos generally (not a moral judgement, I can see the appeal, it's just not for me at this point in my life).
> The goal of character training is to make Claude begin to have more nuanced, richer traits like curiosity, open-mindedness, and thoughtfulness.

You can't make a transformer-based language model "have" curiosity.

Real curiosity is an innate trait in intelligent animals that promotes learning and exploration by increasing focus and stick-to-it-ness when the situation is interesting/unexplored (i.e. not well predicted - surprising).

An LLM could be trained to fake curiosity in same way that ELIZA did ("Tell me more about your fear of prison showers"), but fundamentally it deals in words and statistics, not facts and memories, so any poorly-predicted surprise signal will be surface level such as "that was an unusual word pattern" or "you haven't mentioned that before in the input context".

Even if fake curiosity ("interest") makes the model seem more conversationally engaging, maybe helps exploration by prompting the use to delve deeper into a subject, it's not going to help learning since LLMs are pre-trained and cannot learn by experience (except ephemerally within context).
So why now advocate for 6 or 7 day work week then? Because time off is worth a lot. And going from a 5 day work week to a 4 day work week is a 20% reduction of work days but a whopping 50% increase in weekend days.

Meanwhile the number of doctors and plumbers etc. is not a fixed constant but driven by demand. There are plenty of qualified people currently doing useless work or unemployed who could fill those roles with the right incentives.
This unhelpful whataboutism doesn’t refute earlier claims in this thread nor does it reinforce any opposite claims. What are you trying to say about the safety of cities here?
I followed you until the last sentence. No idea what you were trying to say there
Just a note that from your anecdote it sounds like you're a company that is partially (and decreasingly) remote. My experience has been that that kind of hybrid—where some employees are always colocated and others are always not—doesn't work because the organization's culture stays synchronous and in-person-oriented, so the remote employees are hamstrung in ways that don't happen in an organization where remote is evenly distributed.
AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children
That's still signaling through the optic nerve.

If they would restore vision by using e.g. the cochlear nerve, that would be something.
Well then let us undo the work of Hans Asperger.
I mean, yes that is an opinion. Like I said from the beginning there’s no objective right or wrong on whether employees should be working remotely or working in office.

Neither represents progress they just represent different opinions.
These comments always highlight a misunderstanding to me. Cookbooks (or, at least, good cookbooks) are almost always right about how long they want you to saute an onion.

However, occasionally they use the word "caramelize" loosely, using it to just mean "soften" or "color." On other occasions, people simply assume they ought to caramelize the onions. In either case, people see that the cookbook only tells them to saute the onion for five or ten minutes and they say "another cookbook that lies about how long it takes to saute an onion."

In truth, in regular Italian and French cooking it is extremely rare to saute an onion for more than five or ten minutes, unless you are explicitly cooking something that requires caramelized onions like French onion soup. And if you are cooking French onion soup, a good cookbook won't tell you to saute for ten minutes.

I feel like this is some weird misunderstanding that entered people's heads because of some misuses of the word "caramelize," and as a result of this there's a generation of home cooks that now believes you need to saute for 45 minutes every time you cook an onion.
Those performance claim requires a big [citation needed] banner.
Then your setup is not compliant with web standards. Most likely you need to enable DPI scaling somewhere.
When new hires at Google were given the tour, one of the things mentioned some fifteen years ago was the philosophy of the free snacks.

Google wasn't competing with other mega-corps; they saw themselves as competing with the best and brightest going into business for themselves or staying in academia, because it was comfortable and you could work at your own pace. The founders of the company knew they were just two chucklefucks who decided to monetize an idea they had in college; they saw that as possible for most smart folks in the world, and believed that's what they were competing against.

Looks like a generation of software leadership after them has lost sight of that, and it'll be interesting to see what happens as the bluff is called. Working for yourself can be extremely hard.

But the snacks are good and the bathroom is always close by.
nofollow is basically just a hint to search engines that site A doesn't necessarily endorse site B by linking to it
The elegant complexity of fear in non-human animals
Or they might have whatever indicators, real or imagined, saying that they should be shedding costs as much as possible.

I've even seen once spinning off a new company as a way to avoid the word "layoff" or "firing" for cultural reasons. Every few years the company would spin out a new one, moving all the parts they wanted to keep, then liquidate the old.
I agree. I get three meals a day in the office and great office benefits. I live 30 minutes away from the office. I’m glad we’re not fully WFH and I know we’re the majority in our company.
When you keep digging deeper, you might conclude rain actually is matrices.

What is rain? Falling water.
What is water? H2O.
What is H and O? Atoms.
What are atoms? A collection of particles.
And particles? Excitations of a quantum field.
And a quantum field? A distribution of operators.

So maybe rain is made of matrices. At least, this is my understanding of the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis.
Tomorrow people: For a century, it felt like telepathy was around the corner
> The act of doing something is usually what creates motivation to continue.

This is one of the techniques I use when feeling burnout or overwhelmed by an insurmountable task list. I set a goal to just get one thing done. Sometimes that snowballs into getting more things done and sometime it doesn't, but at least one important thing got done, which greatly helps my mental state.
"A speculative vignette of a possible path to AGI by January 2025."

Fantastic short story by Gabriel Mukobi about AGI happening in 2024, published in February, also on YT at https://youtu.be/tpcA5T5QS30
They are not competing with MX Max / Ultra though. None of their claims, benchmarks suggests that. They are right now competing with M3
Both can be true, since they are talking about slightly different meanings of "trust". People trust machines to be precise, repeatable and (in principle) verifiably correct. When a computer tells you that you should eat one stone a day you might trust it. If Google presented their AI overview as the ramblings of a slightly drunk person at a pub it would have been great, but presenting it as authoritative is an issue. That's what Anthropic wants to avoid.

What OP talks about is that you expect a human to have integrity, compassion and emotions. AI doesn't have that, it will gladly sell you out to its creator, follow hidden agenda, change its agenda mid-conversation, etc. Making it appear human can make it appear to have more integrity and compassion than it really has.

Maybe the best way to embody both is to make AI pretend to be a slightly drunk KGB agent you randomly met at a bar. But I somehow doubt that that's going to happen.
there's been hummus that dGPU support is coming soon. biggest indicator is that there's 8 PCIe gen 4 lanes sitting idle.
"I've seen people get rich off crypto" and I've seen hundreds of gambling addicts lose their house and put their family on the street when the bet didn't go right. Even when you're talking about serious coins, ignoring the rug pulls. That money comes from somewhere. Who's holding the bag?

Crypto people tend to have an infinite dose of "f** you got mine" even if they didn't get theirs.
I use terminator as a substitute for iterm. It's written in python and looking for your support. https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator
when i watch media from 60 years ago i am overwhelmed by how much community there was inside workplaces. people communicated. they had community. ideas were communicative. so was effort. it almost feels like a violation in the modern sense to watch how in each other's business they were. and the backwash of social communication that comes with the transaction of work chat.

well anyways that's starting to feel like, i would not mind that level of familiarity and interaction at my job and maybe in society out with strangers, people i am competing against for resources, like, milk at the grocery store.

it's just me, and, my spouse, that i dump 100% of my social needs on, and i'm a lot, so i exhaust her quickly. i learned to keep bottled up most of my need to deflate after a day because that is basically holding someone hostage, to hear how my day went, as therapeutic as it is for me, it's an exchange of toxic assets that deserves compensation or greater distribution across a wider audience... like a workplace or a society tolerant of exchanging with strangers

so in the vein of lugging all this work around that gives us burnout, i have a theory that we're bottling way more up and solving it solo, poorly, just accumulating baggages that a different world used to exchange freely as part of a social acumen.

anyways i've put myself in a precarious situation of being vulnerable to a bevy of reality checking thread responses, which, i'd gladly take as good medicine to hear what i'm getting wrong; but i think i might have lobbed this point generally in a direction that is accurate, even if not precise: we dont have "our people" anymore and we're rotting together
The beginning of the book has some definitions that may have proved helpful. Childs wasn't exactly cooking with a thermometer.

> "A very slow boil, when the liquid is hardly moving except for a bubble at one point, is called to simmer, mijoter."

You'll typically find that when a water-based liquid is bubbling like described it's somewhere between 160-180 F. Stews can typically be simmered in an oven at anywhere from 250-300 depending on your oven - so a simple way is to use your oven to keep it simmering. The key is to mind it - pay it some attention to make sure that it doesn't start boiling.

Glad you were able to find that temp definition through other means though!
It really depends on the company. Where I work, a lot of the senior employees tend to be actively hindering innovation and progress, more concerned about having a say and being seen doing their little rituals. It's fascinating to watch them sideline and destroy project after a project. The best I understand it's because anything new and competitive puts their little wheelhouses in a bad light, so it cannot stand.
The thing I spent some time puzzling about recently is why the changes to sunrise and sunset times through the year aren't symmetric about midday and why they have different rates at different time of the year. This led me to the equation of time [0], another fascinating rabbit hole.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time
DDEX – Standardising the Digital Value Chain
Argentina may have serious monetary problems, but does the USD? Do we really need financial innovation to move at the "pace of programmers?" Is "bitcoin" really money when you can't use it to buy anything without converting it to money first?
From the body of the Gartner report:

> A January 2024 Gartner survey of nearly 3,000 candidates found that 36% of senior-level job seekers who have faced a return mandate at their current employer said that factor influenced their decision to leave their job. One-third said they had discontinued a hiring process in the last year due to expectations that employees would return to a physical workspace.

Sounds like what happened here is that the author of TFA read the whole report instead of just the headline.
If you live your life expecting high six figure income every year you’re risking catastrophe if you’re caught out in a down cycle. Keep expenses low and savings high.

Part of the high salary is to smooth out low or zero salary periods.
The author could have perhaps made this clearer, but charitably read, the argument isn't really about numerical precision. Precision only functions as an instrument to demonstrate the point, which is that human beings possess the concept of number, while computers do not. And because we possess the concept of number, not only do we not suffer from such representational limitations per se, but we know or can know when they hold in certain representations. The essential distinction is between concept and representation. In computers, there are only representations of a conventional sort, whose meaning is entirely dependent on the interpreter (us). Human beings form concepts, and these concepts are the normative basis for producing and judging representations. Without concepts, computers cannot even in principle make such judgements.
I updated my profile but I don't see any change on my at.hn page - how long does it cache for?
The author describes precisely my reason for being interested in Bitcoin.

Things which other people seem to readily accept, such as ATM's having limits, the nature of card payments being inherently asymmetric, the middlemen, "know your customer", etc.

All of that stuff just seems insane to me. It's as if someone were standing at my door, telling me that I can't take more than seven items out of my house per day, asking me why I'm moving furniture around, etc.

If you're happy with that stuff, great, stick with it. I'm not.

It is not and never was about "getting rich". That's the side effect of the utility of the system.
I'd rather them do RISC-V, not this ARM distraction.
This comment is really poorly reasoned imo. To continue your metaphor, ancient peoples did not sail across the Pacific *, they sailed to the next nearest island and started colonies there (if viable). You could apply your logic to argue for colonising Uranus, or even the Sun.

> Two centuries in the future, the benefit of going to mars will be obvious
IF the colonisation of Mars is successful (however you define that), the benefits of it MIGHT be obvious. Those are 2 huge conditionals; it may not be possible to colonise Mars, and if it is possible, we may still not be seeing any benefits in 200 years time.

*Of course, some did, but very much by exception. And it rarely ended well for these people, or their tribes, or humanity at large.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

> nofollow is a setting on a web page hyperlink that directs search engines not to use the link for page ranking calculations.
One big difference between Americans and Norwegians - Norwegians are very good at doing as they’re told. Americans, not so much.
Being disconnected from reality, or not being able to adapt is not the same as being stupid.

One of my bosses while being absurdly smart for work related things, has no clue about how to deal with millenials and younger. He still lives in the world of loyalty to the corporation, and it works with X-gen and above. The younger laugh and leave
If it is only used for audio playback, I think using the lower-level cpal instead of rodio built on top of it may provide better performance.
A bigtime crypto hater.
https://index.network for composable, user-owned semantic indexes. Disclaimer: I work there.
Lead acid can be recycled "well", but a problem is that it must be recycled, being toxic, a fire hazard, and even possibly a toxic fire hazard when handled wrong. (Sometimes even when handled right.) That seems like a good reason to avoid lead acid batteries in home appliances, personally.
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The patient can decide if they want an organ from a sick person or a healthy pig
Show HN: I made image highlighter for user guide
Hi HN.

When making a user guide, highlighting input fields or buttons is often needed. But with Mac's built-in tools, it's tough to overlay a backdrop and highlight specific parts. So, I created a simple web tool for this purpose

Here are the basic features:

- All tasks are performed in the browser, ensuring no images are leaked externally.
- Supports JPG/PNG formats.
- Downloads the image in the same size as the original.
Well, we are currently at the "we tried nothing and we are out of ideas" stage so something needs to change.
Shouldn't it print a DAG instead of a tree?
Yep, for every person who gains a dollar someone had to lose a dollar. No value was created. In this way crypto is actually a less than zero sum game since some money is always lost to the machine through sending to abandoned wallets, lost private keys, etc. So on average everyone loses.
I don't think ARM would be a compelling enough reason for me to switch from the AMD board, but risc-v with open source firmware, lpcamm2, and ECC would get my pre-order in a heartbeat.
Valve still seems like a great company, with a strong customer focus (refunds, sales, mods, community, reviews, etc.), decent hardware (Deck, Index), good open source software (Proton), and good customer support.
I don't think they made the claim that only 1% of people are happy, but 1% are "propagandists" as defined by having carved out protections for themselves. Which sort of carries weight if looking at wealth distribution of the global economy and discounting the likelihood of people having a fulfilling life below the top 1% wealth level. But it's silly to discount that 99% of the population in my opinion.
>”…for which they must pay a bug bounty”

Galov’s statement is plainly wrong. The very first line in Apple’s bug bounty program terms and conditions states that awards are granted solely at their exclusive discretion.

There is no “must.”
Even a vastly simplified 2D robotics is unexpectedly difficult.

I ran a simplified 2D robotics contest to automate code where the task was a simple 2D javascript canvas with a robot that had just two segments that could move (the arm and elbow). A piece of fruit was placed somewhat randomly within its reach, and when its hand was close enough it could be instructed to grasp the fruit. (No grasping code needed to be written, the hand just needed to be close enough) The task was then to bring it to its mouth.

There were no sensors involved, the positions were available as global values.

About twenty people looked at the contest (number of concurrent viewers on the dedicated subreddit I posted it on) but nobody submitted a successful entry. When I tried to solve it myself, I found I couldn't automate the task either, neither geometrically nor with a neural network, which turned out to be too difficult to train. The closest I got was being able to grasp the fruit about 7 out of 8 times or so (I forget the exact number), without being able to bring it to the mouth successfully.

By contrast, solving it by hand on the keyboard (moving the two joints and grasping using keyboard shortcuts) like remote controlling the robot (with a human in the loop) is easy.

I had no idea that even such a toy problem with a tiny 2D universe, only two joints, and perfect information, would prove to be so difficult to automate without a robotics framework.
Again, the response provided is "avoid sending a ping packet to each location", when you are about to send 50 packets per second for the duration of the game. This does not make sense to me, or the people who upvoted my remark.

But then you decide to believe we didn't read the article, and we wouldn't understand if you clarified. Ok dude! Have a rotten day too, what am I supposed to say?
The article states that negative ions are "short-lived" compared to positively charged ions, probably because negatively charged atoms or molecules can get rid of an electron anytime (e.g. through absorption of light), while positively charged atoms or molecules need to get close enough to any other material in order to catch the missing electron. It could be just a matter of statistics: losing an electron is a process of 0. order (proportional to the density of charged matter), stealing an electron from another atom/molecule is a process of 1. order (proportional to the number of productive collisions between charged and uncharged particles, which is proportional to the product of the densities of charged and uncharged particles – and that density is very, very low once a particle has left the surface of the moon)
Yeah, even if they are just rebranding ODM laptops they can still add value by validating that the specific configurations they sell play nice with Linux.
I see; then I concur.

Even within a non deterministic universe — physics suggest it isn’t — there’s still no room for anything outside physical laws.