skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a good place to look for clues is in information sources that managers read, for example:

https://hbr.org/magazine

https://hbr.org/

https://teambuilding.com/blog/manager-magazines

Read the articles and imagine your company leaders are following this advice. For example:

"When Your Employee Feels Angry, Sad, or Dejected"

https://hbr.org/2024/07/when-your-employee-feels-angry-sad-o...

Gives advice on what the right thing to do is, to get your employee performing again. It's almost like the leaders do not know this stuff themselves and are learning how to fake empathy. The article creates a two dimensional matrix for when to engage with employees and the two axes of that matrix are "Is your employee focusing on a time-sensitive goal?" and "Does your employee seem to be coping?". If the employee is doing something time-sensitive and they don't seem to be coping the advice is to "intervene and help that person focus". That is, help them focus on their work, ignore their problems, give them a pep talk, "you can do this", wink at them in meetings if they get shot down.

I've watched managers transform from nice people to tyrants due to absorbing stuff like this. They share this kind of advice with their peers also. "10 tricks to get more out of your employees and accelerate meeting your project deadlines". Maybe you could buy your managers a subscription to Psychology Today or something else that you think would be a better influence on them?
True, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a 2 + 4 (e.g. 12 3456) style six digit number in the UK. 01234 567890 is probably what I’d expect; maybe 01234 567 890.
Here in my local state we banned all phones at school!

Everybody I've spoken to thinks its a great idea. Even the kids.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-06/mobile-phone-ban-canb...
It is all just extremely confusing if you stare at the examples as I am pretty sure there can't be a country code +12... that would get parsed as +1. So, that first one is actually +1(234)567-8901 ;P.
We don't understand green energy [video]
It's very strange to me to listen to music while snowboarding or cycling. Especially while cycling you need a lot of situational awareness of what's going on around you. I think it's very dangerous not to be able to hear cars coming up from behind.
> much ado about nothing
Did you seriously expect this to have an impact over a timespan weeks ?

Geopolitical stuff, with some exceptions, tends to unravel over years or decades.

This is a sizable event, and it will likely have quite an impact, but unless they renegotiate it , it's going to be a decades long thing.
Problem is that things like "manifest V3" may make this technically impossible (or you'll get a "manifest V4" to address this), and even then, software distribution is now controlled by a handful of gatekeepers who will quickly delete such extensions.
> Nobody decided that Russia is an enemy

Yes, the US decided and it was easy to lure thousands of Ukrainians to the Maidan uprising. 10 years ago no Ukranian would think that ditching Russian influence in favor of the West would end so bad, right? Now it is time for them to come to their senses and stop throwing themselves to a meat grind. The dream of beating a nuclear power is too far from reality for them and the earlier the civilians understand that, the better. That's a war they should never ever being convinced they could win. Even if they could win now they already lost so much.

It is still time to think if this is enough or if Ukraine wants to gamble their whole existence and continue waging a war they can't win.

Btw there was no mention of neonazis yet but it seems like supporting nazis is something that bothers you? It is still time to stop.
yeah i agree, if it wasn't clear what i meant to say was that i functionally didn't have a smartphone until high school was over, and as a result i think i was socially excluded from a lot of things - the social groups from hs seem to have survived college (which may be a quirk of my specific hs) whereas i only talk to two people who i was deeply close with.

and i think it's even worse now.
it would be f* funny if in the future, AI will be wasting 90% of energy on trying to resolve the Riemann hypothesis secretly from the humanity.
Researchers make 'green' floor to replace steel
I laugh at the funny HN comments. It is still a solitary activity.
This is itself inconsequential. Nobody is going to start frenetically doing oil business in Yuan just because this agreement has expired.

While it is true that the will probably slowly shift during the coming decades to some degree of de-dolarization, it is not going to happen overnight and neither is the expiration of this agreement a prime mover of that. Freezing Russia's sovereign assets was far more consequential as it eroded the trust on the westerns financial system somehow.

But all those upcoming powers like China, India have a vested interest in the continued survival of the dollar, as they hold (both the states and private companies) vast amounts of assets tied to the dollar. They may try to reduce their exposure a bit, but they know that they can't do a firesale of US bonds as it would obliterate a lot of their wealth.

Things will keep running as today probably for the next 20 years. Meanwhile the US will have the chance to re-industrialize itself as the dollar gradually weakens.

And this leads us to the other dollar's secret. NOBODY wants to hold the world's reserve currency anymore. It may be good to make your rich absurdly rich, to sustain absurdly high levels of consumption fueled by imports, but it inexorably erodes your industrial base.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Human Feedback
Legislation is absolutely happening! Check it: https://www.compactmag.com/article/ending-big-techs-child-ex...
> Margaret Hamilton worked out how to write bug-free software during the Apollo 11 project.

Since search engines suck so bad lately: anyone know a good complete summary of that method of hers?
I think a lack of self-confidence and a lack of a strong group of friends is the actual issue here.

If you have both, your friends are always there to let you know how much you are loved.
This seems very much the beginning of the situation predicted by Aschenbrenner in [1], where the AI labs eventually will be fully part of the national security apparatus. Fascinating to see if the other major AI labs also add ex-military folks to their directors or whether this is unique to OpenAI.

Or conceivably his experience is genuinely relevant and unrelated to US national security going forward, completely unrelated to the governmental apparatus and not a sign of the times.

[1] situational-awareness.ai
Does your software package work on Arm?
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Once your PR is merged, you'll see your package here: https://www.arm.com/developer-hub/ecosystem-dashboard/
Tesla Shareholders Vote to Uphold Musk's Pay Plan
Watched Tim Cook and MKBHD interview and Tim did say something along the same lines: the average smartphone user doesn't care about the technology branding but what can it do and that's what Apple aims for.

And I agree with their goal here:

Dall-e how much now? it can do what? text to image? can it do emojis?
vs
Genmoji: oh .. it can do emojis. nice!

same with "Rewrite" and so on.
Former director of the National Security Agency (NSA)…good to know the U.S. government keeps tabs on my ChatGPT prompts :)
> petrodollar isn't something minor. The role of both oil and the currency used internationally for trade can hardly be understated in history

In history. Not today. Remember, in 1974 the U.S. didn’t trade with China [1], the USSR or the Soviet-aligned world. (We were also a massive energy importer [2].)

There is a reason the term petrodollar only shows up in fringe blogs, and never in monetary policy discussions (since at least Greenspan).

[1] https://guides.loc.gov/us-trade-with-china

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_energy_indepen...
wholesome content :') x.com/augmentaltech/status/1798701297748902349
This obviously isn't true unless you think half the population is "evil". It doesn't help anyone's cause when you try and position it as "us vs. Them, and they're wrong"
In particular when you need to answer to shareholders and can be voted out of your position/company. I don't pretend that Microsoft's past hasn't been an issue, but if we compare the past to present, Satya has had somewhat of a positive impact (although know there's a lot behind the scenes that I'll never know about, as well as most). It's good to be critical of every company, otherwise the end users get rolled over.
Will there soon be regulator-industry revolving doors for AI?
I think it'd be better as a fully mechanical device. 1,400 printed pages that flip like a book minute by minute.
Also

The powerful immune system against powerful COVID-19: A hypothesis

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030698772...

In this article, we provide a novel hypothesis to describe how an increase in cellular adenosine triphosphate (c-ATP) can potentially improve the efficiency of innate and adaptive immune systems to either prevent or fight off COVID-19.
> Is 100ms not acceptable but 20ms is?

Yup pretty much. Doubling it for round-trip, 200 ms is a fifth of a second which is definitely noticeable in conversation.

40 ms is a twenty-fifth of a second, or approximately a single frame of a motion picture. That's not going to be noticeable in conversation all.

Of course both of these are on top of other sources of latencies, too.
The problem is that so much of our popular culture and social fabric has now been consumed and locked within such a disgusting business model.
My social life suffered greatly being one of the only kids in my highschool without a cellphone. This was the early 2010s in the United States.

Imagine being a teenager and trying to include someone lacking a cellphone to your social group. It adds a huge amount of friction.

Including someone without a cellphone means you give up the ability to be spontaneous (assuming the kid needs to adhere to an agreed-upon schedule to be picked up by a parent), and trivial things become a literal telephone-game ordeal.

It also means almost invariably that the kid is relying on a friend's phone to communicate parents / a ride, unless that kid is so privileged as to own their own car.

Could you imagine if every time you hung out with a friend, they asked to borrow your phone, open Facebook Messenger (or whatever sensitive messaging app you use), and to contact a parent?

It also means the kid isn't included in group chats, which means they just aren't part of conversations other kids are having. You can't have a rich social life with someone you can only talk to in classes you share and for 20 minutes during lunch break.

The "green bubble" phenomenon is bad enough as it is. I don't like it, but for all practical reasons, owning a cellphone is necessary for a kids social life in the United States.
> We find that the population of reentering satellites in 2022 caused a 29.5% increase of aluminum in the atmosphere above the natural level, resulting in around 17 metric tons of aluminum oxides injected into the mesosphere...

On the scale of the planet, that's incredibly tiny. 17 metric tons of aluminum oxide can be made by oxidizing a cube of aluminum about 1 meter on a side. The catalytic action must be incredibly potent!

Wolfram helpfully tells me that the mass of the mesosphere is on the order of 10^12 tons, so that's on the order of parts per trillion.
Recent UK labour market dynamics
Maybe not a regular customer, but there's other reasons you might have a phone field:

> In Israel, certain advertising numbers start with a *.

> In New Zealand, non-urgent traffic incidents can be reported by calling *555 from a mobile phone.
In the UK, 01, 02 area codes are land lines, 07 are mobiles, 08 are freephone or fixed price services, and 09 are premium services. 03 and 05 are in use but less common, 04 and 06 are unused.
ChatGPT is good at those kinds of questions.
Discovery of atomic clock-like spin defects in simple oxides
That may be true but overall, the PS3 was the loser at the time and it took until basically the end of that console generation, consisting of many price cuts and years of developing a strong catalogue, for them to (narrowly) outsell the 360 worldwide.

Considering the absolute dominance of PSX and PS2, it was definitely not what they were hoping for. Not quite as dramatic as Nintendo with the market loss from SNES to the N64, but I’m sure Sony had a lot of similar conversations. You also have to consider that Xbox was the distant third place console in the previous generation, so barely losing to Sony at the last minute was definitely considered a huge success. Especially after the disaster that was the RROD. If that hadn’t happened Microsoft likely would have beaten Sony’s sales.
Nice, thanks! I was reading https://pathway.com/developers/user-guide/deployment/persist.... If I understand correctly you persist both source data and internal state, including the intermediary state of the computational graph. And you only rely on the backend to recover from failures and upgrades. So if I want to clone a Pathway instance, I don't need to reprocess all source data, I can recover the intermediary state from the snapshot.

Is it the same logic for the VectorStoreServer?
https://pathway.com/developers/user-guide/llm-xpack/vectorst...
No, no, no - the trends are clear: it was obviously crypto first, then AI next, both brought to you by the same benevolent taste-making thought-leadership organized in elite private chat groups. /s
I suspect that the majority of people could lose 10% or so of their lung capacity, heart strength, memory, analytical ability, fitness recovery, immune system, etc. without ever noticing. People don't use their bodies to the fullest and they have no idea what they are capable of, so if their maximums dropped a bit, it would be practically asymptomatic.

I thought I was fine after my infection until I tried running some high-intensity intervals (max heart rate), I quickly discovered I was not fine. But non-athletes don't push themselves that hard, and even athletes avoid it.

There's also the fact that the body can compensate for injury in subconscious ways, and it is impossible to separate the impact from the Covid-19 infection from everything else that has changed in the past few years, including the constant impact of aging.
I'm not saying they feel exactly the same, but pointing out the fact that no new gameplay experiences are unlocked by said advancement. This is evidenced by the fact that games are ported between the PS5 and Xbox 1X with little to no gameplay changes between the two, the feel of triggers and rumble aside.

Before haptics became standard, game designers could not base any significant gameplay experiences on the presence of haptics. Early games like Ocarina of Time had neat optional side quests enabled by haptics, but in no way required because they couldn't rely on all customers buying an optional accessory.

The presence of the Switch's HD Rumble (And novel controllers in general) enabled new types of play on games like 1-2-Switch, and Nintendo's Labo series that use the rumble to control cardboard toys' movement.

The same cannot be said for the PS5's more refined rumble or triggers.
Latest study I saw on flu was about 10% of people get it each season. And there was another study showing that families with toddlers are basically always exposed.

COVID does follow the same general rates of corona viruses, from what I remember. Which is to say it is higher than flu. So, I am not trying to downplay that.
The daughter was vaping. I'm not entirely clear, how did taking away a phone stop that?

And I know a large number of teens that are honor role, on sports teams, and gesticulate, all while having a phone and actively use social media.

I also know teens with depression, insomnia, and poor grades, even though they don't have a phone or social media.

That's not to say phones aren't harmful, but clearly it's not everything.
MicroStrategy plans more convertible-debt sales so it can buy more Bitcoin
It depends on whether the laughter is about the game itself or some personal experience a friend has shared over VC. Cause the loudest room on our dorm floor was always the League+Melee room, and it wasn't cause they were sharing funny stories, it was because Falcon did a moonwalk short-hop reverse-knee fast-fall L-cancel.
remember to dial 9 first to get out.
Not sure. In my experience a lot of companies dont do any custom coding for their CRM and if they do it is usual basic stuff that can be done with a zapier integration (add lead to CRM when form is filled). An API is probably good but dont think every CRM customer needs APEX level API.
What is the actual vulnerability? The post is super light on details.
I really wish AI generators displayed the prompt used to generate content so that others can learn from it. E.g, https://storage.cdn-luma.com/lit_lite_inference_text2vid_v1.... was generated from "A gray and silver Maine Coon playing with an android" and it's unclear how to make it as good as the official demos.
Energy Usage and Performance of Pandas and Polars Data Analysis Python Libraries [pdf]
Cars are a percentage of the global Oil usage. And meanwhile, consumers are getting increasingly cold-footed about EVs.
Adobe employees slam the company over AI controversy: 'Avoid becoming like IBM'
> can we not give the builders of the Torment Nexus any further ideas?

A - Please refrain from giving the builders of the Torment Nexus any further ideas.

B - Are we able to stop giving the builders of the Torment Nexus any further ideas?
> OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General to board.

Very typical move of a company planning to enter the military supplier space.
> and climate only 'cares' about the emissions

How can size not be an issue behind emissions?

Both the energy and materials required to manufacture and transport the car to the dealership are dramatically impacted by size. Between a light compact car and a huge SUV there is a way bigger difference in those costs that just weight would suggest.

There's also other factors such as microplastics: most of those on our planet are not coming from plastic straws but tire wear. Bigger cars require bigger tires which will wear more due to weight and higher stress.

We just can't pretend that the way we consume does not impact the planet.

I'm not against big cars. But they should get taxed more, as in many parts of the world, whereas in US legislation which focused on the ratio between weight and fuel consumption basically made it more efficient to just build bigger trucks.
Ex-NSA…how are we supposed to feel about this?
* wouldn't need all the...
For my phone at work, I could need a "how to untangle phone cables" guide! :)
The IEA is not to be believed.
Their comment implies that very little time is spent in educational content (all the time is “crap time”), which is the other extreme.

What do you mean by variety is the problem?
Hahaha legit. Blow your life force on losers like that.
>> then just go there and hope they show up at the right time and don't want to change plans

Why make plans in the first place then? Changing plans at the last minute is really inconsiderate behavior.
It's so bad, worse than radio/TV.
Bad idea on his part, and even worse for those who would invest in MicroStrategy. Yet again, tech stocks keep going up , bitcoin keeps going down. This is why it's so hard to beat the stock market. People think they are diversifying by buying crypto, but they are just adding more risk with less upside compared to tech stocks. The worst of both worlds of more risk and less upside.
Ask HN: How to keep desktop and laptop in sync?
I rarely stray from my work-from-home office desk and I can see the value proposition of building a desktop PC to be my daily driver. For the past decade or two, I've used high-end laptops docked to a monitor mouse and keyboard. When I do have to do work outside home, I'm rarely in a place with good enough internet to go the route of RDPing into my home and using a laptop as a thin client.

I can't be the only one with this issue right? I run Windows 11 on all of my desktop/laptop machines, and it'd be nice to also have my WSL2 distros synced as well.

Anyone have any tips?
Whoa .. that's weird. It was on the front page and now I can't even find it.
That's disappointing.

Not that it matters any, but this means that the odds of me ever buying Tesla anything has fallen from "very low" to "zero".
Most software jobs are profoundly uninteresting--finding convoluted ways to put strings in databases and fighting with systems "designed" far in excess of their requirements doesn't inspire much but apathy.

Pair this with this sick obsession the industry seems to have developed to replace humanity with chatbots, and yeah, here we are.
Don't fall for it. They will find a way to let some powerful actors exploit the users for dimes.
Probably falling back to age old IRC might be an option.

AI Might be implemented there as well in future, but not so quick, may be!
Hagerty has a bit more breakdown.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/motorsports/the-mad-machinists...

I tried to find pics of the build+internals but kept finding the same YT video over and over.
I have two boys 10 and 12. Same upbringing, same household culture, same screen time rules. The young one loves programming in Scratch, building levels in Roblox, creating music, exploring all kinds of creative projects. The older one has tried it all out, but prefers to just play games.
Tickles a bit. But the pad might help.
You must not have been there for the nogaems memes.
Do you agree this is yet another tactical or strategic setback meaning it's only more critical to get our debt spending in order since we can less depend on outside investing on t bills?
> human skin turned into lamp shades

This is horseshit. Even the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem says that concentration camp lampshades made of human skin were probably myth. The one extant example was tested in 2012, seems it's just cow leather.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lampshade
It obviously depends on circumstance - she doesn't have endless phone time but it's summer and this week she has few other plans.

I don't wish her only social interaction to be on her phone but the fact remains that if I took it away forever it would mostly impact her ability to play with her friends. I don't personally believe that it would be good for her mental health.
> dollar=oil relationship has been used as the argument for US dominance for a long time

The dollar’s dominance was won at Bretton Woods (decades before the petrodollar) on the back of WWII.

The petrodollar was a contributor to dollar hegemony from the 1970s through the 2000s. But the combination of the USSR falling and American energy independence thoroughly ruined it as an explanatory factor for dollar and Treasury pricing and utilisation in the post-crisis landscape.
I agree that a cellphone for call/text only is important. I had one too. If you need blue bubbles nowadays, fine, handmedown iPhone with parental controls will do that.
I've always wondered if the US Government's AI research is as advanced as their general technological lead (usually 10-15 years ahead of consumer tech). If so, it would mean OpenAI has more to gain with such a partnership than the other way around. And maybe this sort of oversight is a kind of de facto requirement when approaching AGI.