skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one possibility. The other direction is that it takes the dull parts out of the job, so I'm no longer spending cycles on dumbass shit like formatting json properly, so that my mind can stay focused on problems bigger than if there should be a comma at the end of a line or not. Best case, our minds, freed from the drugony of tabs vs spaces, are sharpened by being able to focus on the important parts of the problem rather than than dumb parts.
>Do they? I wouldn't be so sure of the privacy firewall between the IRS and the rest of government

Not with a line item on their 1040, but through indirect means. It's essentially the entire point of RICO: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Cor...
I read the paper; much of the electronics details got past me on the first read, but I think that the part most relevant to your question is their statement that it needs to be determined if the LED is a deterministic or a probabilistic single-photon light source.
I don’t see any particular need to assume the ownership structure implies something about remote work. We could easily imagine that in a market socialist system people might be more willing to have WFH policies that benefit their co-workers.
12 before 12, 12 cold showers before 12 allowing GPT-7 to take care of my daily needs.
> because most viewers hardly know Kazachstan actually exists

I really don't mean to be insulting to US people here, but I really think this would be a huge difference in the populations between the US and other countries where the film was popular.
I've seen him in a few movies, often as an extra. One of my favs has to be "Space Cowboys" ... will probably (re)watch MASH and Space Cowboys this weekend in remembrance.
I'm not sure I would want to use Python for anything that remotely touches money. It's far, far down on my list of languages I would use for something that has serious consequences for being incorrect.
> And it’s not just the currently disabled but caregivers as well. I had a PM that was caring for aging parents and we could hear her feeding them as we were on calls trying to unbork a business process that wouldn’t let us give customers the software licenses they paid for.

I fall into the caregiver bucket, and I'll present an argument I was hearing a lot on linkedin and those kinda places in favor of RTO: Some companies and bosses think that if you're on the clock you shouldn't be taking care of your family.

The reality is a lot more complicated. WFH means I can spend 20 minutes resolving a problem that would've taken me half a day before - driving home, resolving the issue, driving back, finding parking, getting back into the right mindset to do work, etc.

It also means I can join meetings that I otherwise wouldn't have been able to join. (like in your example, the coworker feeding their parents). Admittedly your coworker should probably invest in a mute button lol.

Anyway, yea, WFH is a huge enabler! But I guess some people are kinda ableist/unfair about it.

It's silly. Life goes on. We shouldn't be playing this game of competing on how hard we can lick boots.
If you're like me, you need to stop thinking of it as "99% of call sites" and start thinking of it as "99% of iteration loops". I know it's super obvious on the face of it, but the implications is that most call sites can repeatedly fail but are totally overshadowed by insanely high frequency hot loops that it almost always predicts right (it's skewed, just like avg vs median)
A while ago they made a change to an existing law to increase the minimum sentence from 6 months to 1 year, probably mostly for reasons of political posturing rather than any deep analysis. They were warned it would have absurd consequences, but did it anyway.

Now it was changed back to how it was before, because of exactly what was predicted.

It's doesn't reflect well on the German government, but it also doesn't deserve the amount of histronics it generated.
UTF-8 encoded codepoints can have an odd number of bytes, so processing a file 2 bytes at a time would be a little more complicated. Processing the file one codepoint at a time works because you can decode the UTF-8 stream into a stream of 32-bit codepoints before passing the codepoints to the lookup table. I suppose you could also transform from UTF-8 to UTF-16 before passing values to the lookup table.

Processing byte by byte isn't necessarily faster than processing codepoint by codepoint, or any other size. You'd need to measure performance empirically, and it probably depends on caches sizes and other factors. In theory, you could also process bit by bit — then you'd only need 32 2-element lookup tables — but that's unlikely to be efficient, since you'd need to do a lot of bit manipulation.

Edit: Upon inspection, the method I described doesn't appear to be the method used by the featured program. It still basically uses a lookup table for detecting space characters, byte by byte, but the states are not how I described. Instead of the states representing which byte of a UTF-8 encoded codepoint is being processed, and the word count being incremented upon certain transitions — a Mealy machine — the state represent the class of the codepoint last fully processed, and the count is always increased based on the current state (often by zero) — a Moore machine.
This just reminded me of the “secret” bitmap of the dev team hidden in the OS.

I recall using Macsbug to show it.
I may be missing something, but why would you only have 1Gb of RAM on a server?
Ok, so add "and generate a C program to exploit it" to the prompt.
all that freedom and you can't return a faulty product?
A genre of swords and soulmates: the rise and rise of 'romantasy' novels
So the government isn't banning me from buying books, but they'll go to the book store and remove all the books they don't like.
Why isn't Meta getting hit with punitive damages for this crap?

If Meta needed to cough up a million dollars to the state of California every time they lost one of these, they'd set up a proper customer service line tout suite.

I know that small claims is limited in what it can award to the plaintiff. However, I don't think that applies to punitive damages against the defendant.
Yup. The problem with frameworks is they assume (historically mostly but not always correctly) that layers of abstraction mean one can forget about the layers below. This just doesn't work with LLMs. The systems are closer to biology or something.
That's not necessarily a drawback. That's the reason people hire plumbers instead of learning plumbing: they have more important things to focus on.
Hey that is interesting - IMDB's name folder is an indexed list... ordered by.... ?

nm0000001: Fred Astaire

nm0000002: Lauren Bacall

nm0000003: Brigitte Bardot

nm0000004: John Belushi

nm0000005: Ingmar Bergman

nm0000006: Ingrid Bergman

...
It seems it is alphabetical, based on last name, but the first list must have been a very small select list, and then it rolls over around 9xx to start another list of people at A, etc etc....

I wonder how that database was populated / why that way.
Or because the conversation is being driven by the banks that provide liquidity to the S&P500 and, coincidentally, own most of the commercial real estate.
At a glance this sounds like fast food.
Hand amputations for theft are not automatic, even in Saudi Arabia. Even pickpockets preying on pilgrims in the Prophet's Mosque do not automatically suffer the penalty.

However, many believe that this is the case. The erroneous belief does tend to keep crime down.
The way they’re using hard-fork and soft-fork, is that based on the blockchain usage of the words? If so, that makes it hard for me to take seriously!
I don't think that. They clearly don't care. I think they should be forced to fix the problem.
Wait, lambda demanded a portion of the income from your job that you had for several years prior to enrolling in lambda…? Am I understanding this correctly?
I doubt you'd see many workers calling for in the office every day, no exceptions for in-office workers, which was mostly the norm (outside of travel and customer visits) for many professionals in, say, the 80s. However, there is a subset today that would like to see co-workers with a regular office presence.
I understood your intent, my comment was aimed at the child comments that collected under yours. I just felt like it needed to be explicitly said that this isn't some conspiracy/cover up. The content is still there, and who said it isn't really consequential. It doesn't help or hurt YC, it maybe shielded Austen from getting booted from Twitter, but beyond that who cares? People getting out their pitchforks because HN mods did something inconsequential, four years ago, for a person who's now labeled $bad today seems silly. More so since it's well documented that they'll do it for anyone on request. I just don't see the what justifies their outrage.

I agree partly with the lesson but more broadly I think it is that any hint of impartiality//conflict of interest for governing/regulatory bodies will be construed in a negative light. Where I disagree is that you could have saved the mods the trouble. I don't think there was any way you could have worded your original comment, or I mine, or Dang his, that would entirely quell the accusations that followed. There's one person in the thread that continued to insinuate that this isn't a policy or it's a new policy; even though Dang showed his comments about this policy going back almost a decade.
Now that this is done, AI can copy the form, automatically generating this type of visualization for anything. Can you spot the hallucinations?
Where Facebook = Instagram, the question of is Instagram able to censor unwanted content, their ability to filter out gore or CSAM is to say Facebook's ability to censor is similar to TikTok China's ability to censor, just for those two categories as opposed to other things.
I'm not sure how that helps. If we identify the precise biological markers that correspond to depressed feelings, does that help us in some way to change them? We already know these people have depressive emotions, it's not like this test would reveal something we didn't know about them. There is clear value in this from the scientific side, but I don't see how it would help with treatment more directly.

Conversely, if we find biological signs that are not directly related to currently experiencing depressive thoughts, those could be a promising target for medication/therapy, and could help detect depression earlier or in more borderline cases.
> Certainly looks like that motion sensor is turning the light on in the night uselessly.

Interesting read John but since no one brought it up you should be careful to assume the sensor is at fault.

Hypothetically the timestamps in the example (roughly 00:00 to 04:00) sound like a fine time for rodents to roam and many motion sensors will also trigger on our small mass friends. :)
> I'm pretty terrified that the gears of capitalism will eventually lead to remote work being outlawed.

Unlikely. The current "RTO" push is simply executive management not wanting to take the write-down hit on all that unused office space that is a loss now that no one is working inside of it. Once they've either jettisoned the space, or taken the write-down anyway (because they were forced into this) you'll find all these RTO calls dying down.
Absolutely!! Talk to MoMath in NYC too

I'm happy to find a contact there if you want
Yeah, I asked it in a negative way, probably because I hold the view that Africa is the dumping ground for unethical behaviour/products. Just 2 months ago we were outraged at Nestle putting sugar in baby foods [0] in Africa. We have 2 kids, the eldest of which is addicted to sugar.

As a South African, I appreciate that we're also the most unequal country in the world (by Gini coef). So, some of what was going on in my mind as I read the Bloomberg piece, was:

* did they choose people at random, because the high HIV rate is obviously skewed towards vulnerable groups (think a young woman who's financially dependent on her boyfriend, who has multiple partners)

* just because the HIV rate is prevalent, doesn't mean that young sexually active people would have multiple partners, so how do they account for situations where we were sexually active, but with 1 or safe partners

* condoms are freely available in clinics and often public toilets, and we've generally gone past the fear of asking for them. So how does safe sex affect their study

[0] https://www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-news/opinion/2024/2024-04....
Hungary currently seems pro-Russian and pro-authoritarian/strongman. Will they really be strict about protecting civil and privacy rights?
>> I can’t recall the specifics but within a week of COVID lockdowns and no commutes, carbon and pollution in atmosphere plummets

That was more because half the planet was told not to leave their homes. Sure, stopping commutes had an impact on pollution, but the roads were literally empty in major cities - that wasn't because people could suddenly WFH.
Lossy compression is definitely anti-dither, that’s true. I think a lot of the banding you see in streaming is actually bad color handing and/or miscalibrated devices… very dark colors are especially prone to banding and it’s often due to TVs being turned up brighter than they should be, and sometimes due to compression algorithms ignoring color space & gamma.
Im sure you are a hoot to hang out with.

Hows it go? "Why so serious son"...
Nope. Property taxes.
> They of course have the right to refuse that request and decline my money, but in the real world, contractors usually comply with such requests as smoking is known to harm health.

Right, but you're suggesting that they should legally have to comply with this request and can't refuse service.
Then let’s have clubs and hobbies and so on again
Chat Control is the main proposal, the following paragraph clearly says that they have until 2026 to agree on what that proposal is going to look like. Hungary has already said that it has plans to continue negotiations.

This outrage is about forceful E2EE monitoring and not letting EU users to view links or images unless they agree to the said monitoring. What happened today puts an end to that for the time being, but it is unlikely to come back.

Check out this:

https://chatcontrol.eu/
What is unconstitutional about it?
Replace work FaceTime with a third place FaceTime.
Paper notebook.

When you don't need to share information, there's nothing better than a notebook to see all of your ideas spread out and iterated. No need to log into anything. Take it with you anywhere -- sit on a bench and ideate. Go to the gym and jot down ideas.

I can keep my daily goals in a checklist in there and just check them off 1 by 1. No need for GitHub projects or anything like that because there's no need to communicate status with anyone.
Man do I have a brilliant youtube channel to point you at: https://www.youtube.com/@AngeTheGreat/videos
I guess you must be in the EU and on iOS 17.4 or later. I forgot the Apple were forced to allow other browser engines to be installed in the EU recently.

But aside from that recent exception, no one ever had anything except Safari on iOS, even if they thought otherwise.
I really wonder if some organization like the ACLU could bring cases against
"Return to Work" initiatives as being discriminatory?
A well structured pnpm monorepo and a plugin system / architecture has made all the difference for us at Lowdefy [0].

Additionally we’ve architected a way to build complex web apps using config - not everyone’s cup of tea, but with a small team we are building a LOT of complex apps for customers. We are really happy with how this is scaling and we have all the flexibility we need on project.

The config first approach might be controversial, but have a look at the Lowdefy repo, after a few years of iterations it works well for us.

https://github.com/lowdefy
The DJI Drone Ban: A Uniquely American Clusterfuck
Explains the decline in birth rates.
What no one has stated so far is: jobs and salaries at non-profits have almost no discipline applied to them; market or otherwise. If they lose a little more money this year: ok, so what?

WETA (the public TV station) paid Sharon Percy Rockefeller $855,000 in 2022. The 12 highest paid employees all made more than $300,000. Maybe they are all "worth it" but how could you prove that WETA wouldn't function just as well at median salaries for everyone?

https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/530242992_202206_990_... (page 71)
I met him briefly when I was at Cambridge in the late 90s. I can't remember why I did, but I do remember that he was an absolute legend back then.
> overwhelming the publicly funded small claims court

I'm guessing there's no court fees that the losing party has to pay? It would seem fair to tell the troublemaker to pay for the judge's and other court employees hours...
This video helped me a lot to understand the basics of zero knowledge proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOGdb1CTu5c
Lots of people have never experienced depression but don't feel the need to claim that means it's not real.
Besides just not using these services, wouldn't it also be necessary to divest any investments in any of these companies (even if through mutual/index funds, etc.)?

I agree it is hard to not feel defeatist.
should be for all regardless of age; long as "age" is a required input, there will be incentive to track users one way or another. if its ageless, they have no right to ask for that information (unless they find some other means - which is what we should care about more: stop collecting + tracking users, and parents should be supervising their own kids)
Telling the LLM to walk through the response, step by step is a prompt engineering thing though.
Your primary source of face time should not be coming from your work.
First Amendment doesn't cover things that cause direct harm or speech to minors. In this case, you can draw a straight line between social media usage and an increase in teen suicides, and keeping them on it for long periods is detrimental to their overall mental health especially when they don't have fully developed impulse control or are not legally expected to. You're not allowed to advertise gambling products, alcohol and tobacco to minors under the First Amendment. You can't intentionally show porn to a minor without going to jail in many cases. (18 U.S. Code § 1470 - Transfer of obscene material to minors)

You want to get adults addicted and express yourself to them, so be it, but the legal distinction on limitations on what you can express to minors is well documented.
The beginning of the next big trade war. China is a huge and growing economy. As we shut out their companies, our ability to do business will suffer. Simultaneously our companies will miss out on a massive amount of revenue when we're shut out of their markets. Eventually the world will choose whomever has the cheapest, adequate products, which we all know is China's. This will bring us into decline, and give China all the leverage it needs to become the new dominant superpower. All they need is to capture the financial markets (give it 20 years) and we'll become powerless.
https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-gen
The fundamental problem with any representative democracy is that people want to vote on issues, but they are instead only given the opportunity to vote for whoever will "represent" them on those issues. Worse yet, it comes as a package deal where you have to basically select the policy package that comes the closest to what you want - which in practice often means "the least bad".
Working from home is not considered a reasonable accommodation in the U.S. as a general rule. I hope that changes someday soon.
Seems like they're getting around the complaints about the previously overturned laws by just going after the feed order while not banning access to the underlying content via conventional means.
Eating high-water food is filling. Compare an apple to dried apple slices, a grape to a raisin.
Tajikistan had civil war in 1990s where Islamist radicals were the opposition and wanted to turn TJ into sharia run state.

open political system actually makes islam opposition stronger (and easy to influence with $$$ from Gulf monarchies).

Keeping islam in check, also means keeping in check Gulf oil $$$$ that install their own version of islam.

the pipeline of volunteers from *stans to join ISIS/Al-Qaeda was funded and enabled by Gulf monarchies.

If there is another big war in the Middle East - guess from where all the islamist volunteer fighters will be coming from - from these poor 3rd world islamist countries, the *stan countries
If purchased with "carry forward" capital than it becomes tax differed until any of that is withdrawn.
Not really. When performing clinical trials, if you'd like to use the results of the studies in chinese/indian populations you'll need to prove bioequivalence in many cases, so you're going to need to collect a meaningful sample in the first place.

The reality is that most clinical trials aren't successes. If you can get a huge cohort of people for relatively cheap elsewhere, you can screen a lot of promising but doomed tests at a cheaper price point, then only re-create similar testing on the most promising candidates in your lucrative markets.
The pluckable string demo on ycombinator the other day is pretty cool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40442595

Just simulating a string vibrating has a huge variety of sounds depending on how its harmonics pile up and where you sample from it (like where the pickup is on an electric guitar).
Gotta watch M*A*S*H tonight with a martini that's drier than the Sahara Desert.
I'm pretty sure that there are no VC-backed firms building software for chimney sweeps.
> Right now the discussion tends to end up with US companies saying they charge so much for new medications to recoup the costs of ideas that didn’t pan out.

This is just public relations, because “we want to make as much money as possible” is not good PR. However, everyone wants to make as much money as possible, so faulting pharmaceutical companies for that is stupid. It’s just business.

> Since only the drug companies know what didn’t pan out, it’s hard to refute.

Lots of pharmaceutical businesses don’t pan out. For every Novo Nordisk, there are a lot of upstart pharma companies that go nowhere and lots of gambling day traders that lose money on the stock. Otherwise, an index of purely pharma companies would be the best performing asset class.

> If most drug research happens in the US (and, really, I don’t know if that’s true), then it suggests that the US model does a good job of incentivizing research. If another approach could get the same results, it would refute the drug companies’ argument.

Exactly! If it’s so easy to develop medicines, then do it. All these governments around the world are free to invest tens of billions of dollars, and yet none take up the cause.
Cola bottlers using public tap water is another good example. Rail infrastructure in America is another one.