skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. Google's soundstream already has some great quality. Some examples at 6kbps here: https://google-research.github.io/seanet/soundstream/example...
It helps to put it this way: A union is a corporation that has an exclusive contract to provide labor. Company A does not hire the employees. Company B (the union) does. Company A cannot take disciplinary actions against the employees of B, they don't work for company A, they work for company B. This is actually how union contracts work.

Most union employees don't understand this; They think they work for company A when it's convenient for them, and company B when it's convenient for them, cherry-picking whatever suits them at the moment. Because legal formalisms aren't real and human behavior is, unions provide a thin veneer over petty human squabbles, one that mostly works.

Most union agitators absolutely understand this, but will never admit it. In classic orwellian fashion, they are the pigs, "overthrowing" the farmers "for the good of the farm animals" with every intent of just becoming the new farmers.
Why? Will Nvidia just fall over if ternary networks become realistic? Or will they build a ternary Rubin? I know which one I think is more likely.
Other work on this from January but focusing on temperature in stratosphere: https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2024-2169
interesting, there's going to be an arms race over censoring and uncensoring future powerful llms a lot like the getting a cracked version of photoshop back in the day
I hear you barfb - take a breath.. just a msg board here. I feel bad that you are upset.
I agree with you in a lot of aspects. Obviously extreme hyper NA EUV is possible....and with Wakefield accelerators we might be able to shrink the size of these machines to a more feasible size. And the gate all around transistor seems like its how the industry plans on handling leakiness when shrinking the size of our circuits.....yet cooling is the largest issue we face in some ways.

Noctua and gamers nexus have shown just how competitive the air cooler market is for cooler performance....and how the CPU package deforms over time impacts cooling.

Personally, I think we could make CPUs that are much bigger and stack the transistors and chips even higher if we managed to get the cooling figured out.

Imagine a 3d tower of a CPU where cooling channels exist in between layers

# = your silicon chip
@ = a cooling channel

Now imagine stacking like the following

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This could be a starting point for stacking chips.....sort of like how 3d nand is stacked....yet instead we stack the CPU wafers and have cooling channels in between them. You could even make the CPU and cooler, and have the chip interconnect going up the sides.....
> Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards.

I wonder if they also compensate them to the highest standards.
> you have an obviously cancerous group inside your organization which is actively working to harm you

This level of adversarial thinking is part of the problem. They're your employees, not your enemy.

A sibling comment alludes to violence; the history of labour organizing is full of employers opening fire on their employees, or hiring third parties to do so. The formalization of labour organizing and protected rights gives people a means to negotiate on a more equal footing that doesn't lead to violence.
The Supreme Court though, has the power to determine when Congress can do that, and can’t do that. In other words, the SCOTUS has authority over Congress’s ability to determine SCOTUS authority.

So it’s kind of a moot point. Yes, officially they shouldn’t, in practice they do, and the law is what is practiced (otherwise adultery is still illegal in Minnesota).
Not necessarily true. Most control is exerted at the board level through board director seats. You can have a low % and a majority of board director seats, depending on the leverage you had in each round raised.
It feels like a draconian security/monitoring department would have a problem with the caffeine app just as much as a USB jiggler dongle.

I hate the macOS wakeup too, it's way too slow.
> She and her colleagues calculated that the large language model BLOOM emitted greenhouse gases equivalent to 19 kilograms of CO2 per day of use, or the amount generated by driving 49 miles in an average gas-powered car.

If you go on to read the paper, you discover this is an outright lie. These figures are for training, not usage.
The post I was responding to was speaking precisely about "the least safe Boeing plane in service." The fact that airplanes are, trip for trip, much safer than planes is something I did not appreciate at the time when making my post. I expected most planes to be safer than vehicles, but Boeings falling well below average. The fact that vehicles are substantially safer than any plane, trip for trip, is far beyond what I expected. And it's going to make Boeing's look like death traps by comparison.

Imagine we're comparing a long flight thousands of miles around the world to a short little domestic flight between a couple of relatively nearby cities. Which flight do you expect to get the latest, most stable, and secure plane? Most of everybody would expect it to be the international flight. In reality, it's the short little domestic flight. The reason is that with planes a trip that goes on for thousands of miles is, in general, almost exactly as dangerous as the briefest of trips imaginable. Take off, landing, and pressurization are where basically all the risk (and wear and tear) come into play. So your little plane going on a hundred mile voyage is going to be exposed to far greater risks than the one traveling thousands of miles. It's why the stats, as typically offered - deaths/mile, are extremely disingenuous. And they serve very little purpose other than to mislead those who don't know better, which is the overwhelming majority of people.

As for the exact numbers, reread your own source, and include the entire quote. You're having a failure where you keep misreading something the same way. Keep in mind you quoted 1.19 for 2019-2023.
It could be a tmux alternative if the session persistence is the only feature of tmux you care about, and you don't like the rest of it.
Caching definitely helps, I agree there's no way Google would be wasting so much re-running every search token through Gemini.

That said, it's still worth calling out that their Gemini answers use drastically more resources whenever they are run and cached. We'd have to know Google's caching rules and the average frequency of cache hits to know how much it actually reduces the Gemini resource usage.
Whether Starbucks was engaging in unfair labor practices was not determined in this case. This case only concerns what test courts should use to determine whether granting an injunction is necessary.
"There's no magic solution to this."

Sure there is. It's called OKRs.

OKRs are a popular management philosophy and framework used by organizations to set and achieve goals. The concept was first developed by Andy Grove at Intel and later popularized by John Doerr, who introduced it to companies like Google.

Here’s a breakdown of the OKR framework:

Objectives: These are high-level, qualitative goals that the organization or team aims to achieve. Objectives should be ambitious, inspirational, and aligned with the overall vision and mission of the organization.

Key Results: These are specific, measurable, and time-bound outcomes that indicate the progress towards achieving the objective. Typically, each objective has 3-5 key results. Key results should be quantifiable, making it clear whether the objective has been met by the end of the evaluation period.
I learned programming by myself using magazines, borland documentation, x2oulu.fi, win95 api book, bao 3d games programming, and reading the java api.

The fastest growth I experienced was while working at an internet startup around '00.

I only recently got a CS degree just to check off the box. I enjoyed it, and I thought the material was pretty good. Some things were explained very well, other things could've been better, but overall the theory side and some algorithms were pretty ok.

On the programming side... Let's just say I'd rather hire anyone (a teenager, or 60 year old) who enjoys writing code than someone with just a CS degree and no ack for programming.

College, imo, is the wrong vehicle for knowledge transfer/acquisition for a lot of subjects. University Apprenticeship is the way to go.
They updated their Google nest smart display to fuchsia a couple of years ago. I can't find the write up at the moment, but it was quite the engineering feat and the software engineers were quite nervous the day of OTA.
Cheap and open is going to win in this situation, even if what you described happens. Nobody wants to pay the piper in terms of licensing fees.
I'd love to try this, but most of the places that I would want to use it are servers, and the rust requirements are way beyond where debian-stable lives.

Too much hassle to muck with backports and package pinning for a QoL tool - my feedback would be to try to make this install without tomfoolery on the stable branch of major distros.
Because they like to sow division.
I'm a remote worker like this. Legally though I'm not an employee, but a legal entity (individual entrepreneur, same as a company in this context) that provides consulting service. Would you ban foreign companies from providing IT services to american ones?
Even if the employee is excellent, the deceit is enough to justify the firing. There is a requirement in the financial industry of being of good character and even minor things could result in loss of employment. There was a story a few years ago of a UK banker being banned from the city for fleecing train fares, even after he offered to repay the train company.
Do web apps running on CrOS care about the system's ABI?
Space sun shade? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade
Don't know, but such cities shouldn't be encouraging urban sprawl, should be insisting for solar panels on every roof possible, and at the same time shouldn't be incentivizing people to move there.

I've lived in AZ, and it is nice in the winter, sure. But that's only a few months. It is hot as fuck in the warmer months and I to this day have no idea why people actually live there. the urban sprawl plus the fact that you have to drive everywhere, just blows my mind.
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i dont know about that part, but they 3d print

i don't honestly believe there's anyone building a rocket like this that isn't concerned about the rockets success
Asimov did eventually explore some of the ideas of the hidden causes/effects of that Black Swan Crisis in deep sequels and things you don't expect to be sequels ("The End of Eternity" for example). The answers basically boil down to "meddling from Robots and Aliens" both groups of whom the Empire worked to destroy and/or claimed/believed didn't exist (and so Hari Seldon was entirely blind to them as actors in galactic politics).

Though certainly at the time of writing Second Foundation he had no idea what caused it, was writing by the seat of his pants, and was just looking for a MacGuffin that would confuse everything he'd built in the first Foundation novel.
Can't they spray some ozone as they deorbit?
Corporate IT gets told to keep workstations secure, they set a timeout way too low, people get frustrated.
I was wondering when this would become a more mainstream position. When you have a manufacturing base where you can iterate on hardware, PCB design, chip manufacture and other fundamental technology, it's only a matter of time before scientific throughput catches up.

I suspect China has been a scientific superpower for at least 5-10 years.
Wonder how many home furnishings and free coffee were given to Thomas…
Sustain Open Source, sustain the planet: A new conversation
To steelman the argument, maybe they meant "the monitoring system is good enough at catching defects that if none are reported, the engine will probably pass an all-up hotfire test of the engine".

Of course you could do a water or air-pressure leak test on the plumbing pretty easily, and you would likely do that on the first 30 engines...

But if you have confidence in your build process, maybe the juice isn't worth the squeeze on (say) a direct contact ultrasound void check on every square millimeter of the part.

It's all about "how expensive is it to run the test" vs "what is the likelihood the test catches an issue" vs "what's the cost of failing while everyone is watching?"

Same reason SpaceX went from dry-dress-rehersals to wet-dress-rehearsals to separate-static-fire-before-launch to hold-down-for-three-seconds-before-launch... The hold-down -before-launch is an integration test that covers everything the previous tests do, so eventually you can start removing redundant tests.
THIS is exactly right.

I wish I could find it again, but I was impressed by a study of remote work around 2010 that showed that remote work improved the results of teams with good managers and (further) degraded the results of teams with bad managers.

A key difference between the good vs bad managers was that the good managers focused on specific tasks being accomplished whereas the bad managers focused on the usual indicators of work such as as time of butts being in seats, which has only an incidental and often inverse relation to quantity or quantity of work produced.

This 'tech' is simply attempting to enable bad management with remote workforces. A good sign that remote is winning the war and here to stay. A bad sign that bad mgt will make it suck more (at least until AI eliminates those jobs for good).
It's not only about the end that's receiving, it's also the end that's transmitting 10kbps * thousands of users.
Peter Hofstee (one of the chief architects of Cell) gave a talk at UT Austin around 2008.

At the time, UT was building TRIPS[0], a processor capable of > 1 teraflop / sec.

In the middle of his talk (with several TRIPS members present), he made an off-hand remark "I think I could build a petaflop processer...without too much trouble,"* which caused a small stir in the audience!

[0] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cart/trips/

* I might be misremembering the exact quote, but this was the gist of it.
Looking forward to see it appear on next LLM generated texts....Any reason is good, to convince the AI lords that humans are not useless...
The Second Amendment imposes a clear textual standard that makes as much sense today as it did in 1789. It's not like anyone is confused about what "bear arms" means. You might think that standard is bad policy today in light of intervening changes, and maybe you would add more caveats, but plenty of people disagree about that.

The Alien Tort Statute, by contrast, literally doesn't make sense--talking about the "law of nations" is like talking about the "aether" or "faeries." It's not even an originalism issue. Even in 1789, the Founders likely didn't intend for the ATS to e.g. allow suits in U.S. courts against the British East India Company for violations of "human rights."
> They have visibility into the data and a lot of the systems. It's not kosher at all, and those countries in particular don't care about protecting American laws or American IP

If these foreign contractors did all the R&D and built all the system's they manage, is it really American IP? Is it because the company is headquartered in the USA? What about Apple and other large American tech companies that keep the majority of their financial and IP holdings in Ireland for tax purposes? Surely Ireland should impose similar restrictions to keep Irish IP at home?

What you're asking for is basically impossible given the state of globalization today. Given how easy it is for tech companies to hire wherever they want, and how easy it is for information to flow over the internet's tubes, I'd suggest moving to a different industry if tech offends your nationalist sensibilities.
> For the foregoing reasons, we hold that district courts must apply the traditional four factors articulated in Winter when considering the Board’s requests for a preliminary injunction under §10(j). We therefore vacate the judgment of the Court of Appeals and remand the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it sounds like this is just about a temporary injunction to give the employees their jobs back while the actual labor case gets decided? The lower court used the two part McKinney test to grant the injunction, and the Supreme Court said no, you have to use the four part Winter test like other district courts, go back and decide again.
Why do users need to feel guilty? They should know the cost, and from there they can either accept it and keep using Google or go somewhere else.

There's always the end case where no search tools offer LLM-free results, but even then a person can still just not use search if they really care.

Its just about informed consent in my book.
It was my opinion, but yes. Highly technical founder CTO, but to me there's a chasm between "can write the code for a b+tree" and "can build and then operate a data platform service". They can build an MVP and impress an investor, but that's not a sellable product - not even remotely close.
Consistently failing to meet KPIs.
One of the most colorful GitHub pull requests
The scope of protected activities is not unlimited. It's a balance, and governments generally choose to impose on the employer to provide a right to the employees.

> You have a right to strike, picket, and protest regarding work-related issues, but there are limitations and qualifications on the exercise of that right. Your right to engage in these activities depends on the object or purpose of the action, on its timing, or on the conduct of those involved.

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/em...
The Emotional Side of Public Software Funding
I didn't say they didn't exist, I said the market is shrinking. They used to be an ubiquitous form factor, they're now uncommon outside of the enthusiast market. Only 20% of PCs are desktops of any kind, and a good portion of those are now SFF or other designs.
The NLRB relies on other courts to grant injunctions, which is the matter at hand here. The SC has not ruled on the underlying case or even whether an injunction should be granted - only what test the lower court should have used to determine that.
The US Supreme Court has been illegitimate in my mind since Citizens United.

They're nothing more than unelected politicians working for moneyed interests.
As someone who is required to enforce GPOs and similar around this, I don’t blame you. Compliance checkbox.
In fairness to Amazon Q, the AWS docs are pretty confusing. Maybe it was just embarrassed and made an excuse. (Sidenote to Amazon and others: an LLM is a supplement to good documentation, not a replacement)
Fednow vs. UPI
And the KDE version is Kalpa, but they're both still spins of MicroOS.
For anyone getting just reading the headline, the thing at issue was an injunction to “reinstate the workers while the agency's in-house administrative case against the Seattle-based company proceeds”.

With the SCOTUS ruling, the decision on that injunction will just occur again, but with a different legal test. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) could still get the same injunction for the workers under the new test, though it is apparently more difficult.

The overall case against Starbucks could still be won or lost, and the legal tests for that haven’t changed.

The decision was essentially 9-0 with Justice Jackson dissenting in part but concurring in judgement.
How Apple's AI model tries to keep your data private
The answer is trees everywhere in numbers that you don’t find in western cities. Like 100x the number of trees normally found in a city. The benefits aren’t just in temperature but also air quality, biodiversity, etc etc.

Edit: for those saying “But there’s not enough water”, I strongly suggest reading “Rainwater Harvesting in Drylands and Beyond” written by Brad Lancaster in Arizona. For those who don’t want to read the book, check out his TED Talk here (warning: his enthusiasm is infectious and you’ll want to read the book afterward): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I2xDZlpInik
Is it a different issue? It's the employer trying to get more than what they are paying for, and I think it factors into the overall employer/employee relationship.
But can it solve ARC?
Apple AI
Sorry I should have been more clear. Adding a secure default is awesome (I forgot whether it was in 3.5.0 or not, because it was committed early enough that it was part of the discussion from the outset when all the outrage blew up, and it wasn’t enough). It should have stopped there. The plugin is a stupid idea that makes the application less secure and more of a flight risk. IF iTerm is going to have AI integration, THEN it should be the most simple and secure implementation, not a less secure one because some people think separate binary is a better look. Sounds like we’re on the same page about management capabilities.
Yes, massive companies are a nest of conflicting priorities. The sales team wants to do whatever it takes to win the deal, and the legal team wants everyone to behave ethically at all times. The board wants to be shocked(!) when it turns out those goals are in conflict, with the ethical side sometimes losing out, to remove any personal risk to themselves.
Yes and optimism bias leads people to believe they won’t experience those negative events. Everyone must believe they are going to do better than the median outcome when they start a company.
Here in Norway a bridge built with known structural deficiencies did in fact collapse[1], and basically nothing has happened except tax payers get to pay even more for a new bridge.

Unless enough lives are lost, people generally don't care that much it seems.

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/statens-vegvesen-legg-fram-rapp...
Yeah, very much this. I personally classify this kind of event as “a nothingburger that looks like a somethingburger so people will get worked up anyways.”
OpenAI's Requests for Research
Not familiar with WF but I've seen large corps in the past where HR mandates N number of reportees to get promoted. It goes up the chain, so your boss is pushing you to hire and you are pushing to hire, etc.

The problem is then, people get hired but there is no work for them, especially during lean times.

There is a wide chasm between well-run large companies and poorly-run ones. You can look at sector-level revenue/employee to get an idea of efficiency/waste.
I haven't used Caffeine but used the very similar app Amphetamine and found it worked great.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704?mt=12
Would be nice if there was a Lua or Python/language subset version of this, and it could be run without needing to manually convert to bash first.
How does a tax fix it? Sure the government takes in the money and could even do right about how they allocate spending it, but the damage (so to speak) is caused before the tax is ever collected.

Consumers just need to know how it actually works, at least at the most basic level of what the costs are. From there either consumers don't care or stop using it. Do we really need the government forcing more morals on us through another sin tax?
You bring up a good point about the US Supreme Court. My limited understanding as a US citizen is that they are there to interpret laws, not make them. I don't know how well that works in practice so I'm willing to be swayed on that stance if someone with more legal experience can present compelling arguments.

Chief Justice Roberts brought this issue up on his dissent on the Obergefell vs Hodges case few years ago. The constitution never addresses the topic on the legality of gay marriage and thus the court should not be the vehicle for delivering that decision; that responsibility falls squarely upon the legislative branch.