skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm going to have to disagree with this one. My friends in HR said the number of inter-employee problems went way, way up during COVID remote work.

*reported

It could be that people felt more empowered to report incidents, but the reality is probably just that the nature of harassment has changed and is just different from how it was like in-person.
I see you, and I appreciate the joke
When I contributed to Foxglove Studio, a robotics data visualization tool built in React and Electron, I found the codebase very easy to navigate. Without much prior JavaScript/TypeScript/React experience, I was able to prototype several new fairly sophisticated features. They've nicely decomposed the code into libraries, with just about the right level of abstraction to make it easy to extend. And given that it's built for visualizing streaming data, they've got performance figured out.

Unfortunately they ceased developing it in the open, but there's a lot to learn from the v1 codebase, and other related projects that continue to be open source.

https://github.com/foxglove/studio/tree/v1
I'm at about ~22GH/s per Xilinx VU9P UltraScale+ FPGA - at least 40GH/s is possible (for around 250W/device.)

The nonce alphabet being limited makes the whole thing quite a bit more expensive.
I wrote apps for Android when I first got a smartphone, circa 2011, and it was so easy. There was a bit of doc to read to understand activities and intents but that was basically it. At that point you could write an app without running into new surprises.

I tried again to write a tiny Android app last year and couldn't figure it out. There's so many moving parts with SDKs, API levels, support libraries, contexts, fragments, Gradle, ... And the documentation is built similarly, bolting on new chapters when new concepts are introduced, making a whole that is useless and inscrutable.

It's really a shame. Is there a better starting point that could get someone ready to write a simple app in 2024? Some document that would introduce some reasonable workflow from A to Z (whether SDK, React Native, Kotlin, or whatever is simple)?
I'd love to take work a lot _less_ seriously, tbh. I don't live to work, after all.
While the exact line items are made up the money to pay nurses ultimately has to come from somewhere.
I'll choose the one that can't come after me with guns
For (1) , that ship has sailed for any company that actually owns their offices -- and there are a ton of them. Unless they sell the property, which many never will for as long as company is in a good financial state, one desk not utilized is money thrown in the water.

(Interestingly Charles Schwab is a notable counterexample -- they were forcing people back into office, until the company's finance is in a bad shape, and they rushed to halt that and actually closed down many offices.)
I think -- on the basis of this same argument playing out for years at this point -- it's because the 2 views are talking past each other.

Sure, in office works better for some people and remote makes them miserable. They're real people.

But the side suffering economic compulsion is the remote preferred people being forced back to the office against their will.

If everyone can work how they prefer then great. But that's not the world we live in and to draw a false equivalence between the dominant (at exec level) RTO view and remote workers forced into unpaid commutes and time away from families gets our hackles way up.
There's MIDI, of course. Then you have things like fruity loops and similar.

Then of course there's all kinds of synths for FL studio.

Audio is ultimately analog, and requires a DAC, digital to analog conversion. I would think you might have some fun with some hardware synths.
Actually it doesn't call for that
Yeah because wearing a mask and not going to the gym was soooo much to ask.
This gave me PTSD flashbacks to an extremely difficult computational geometry course I took once, but this is cool.
It could work against you as a US worker. They would set up branches in Europe (and other places) and just hire there, instead of having headcounts in the US.

Just look at Google.
As someone formerly diagnosed with ADHD I tend to agree with you, but I thought there were studies which found specific genes and brain structures common to many people diagnosed with ADHD, I need to look in to this. On symptoms alone the overlap between trauma-noise and ADHD means someone with C-PTSD may share the symptoms of ADHD and vice versa but psychologists need only be aware of the conditions which are often confused and find criteria to rule one or the other out. There's no doubt that many of disorders/conditions in the DSM need more work to make them as helpful as they can possibly be, and for the world to recognize that they are clusters of symptoms not true things with firm borders (unless they turn out to be through neuro-science). Once certain issues become recurrent/troublesome enough to seek a diagnosis I only hope the DSM aligns people to something which is helpful, whether it be pharmicological or developing coping strategies. Some may find it invalidating for their DSM diagnosis to be questioned but it's not an attack on the validity of their problems, only on what the labels are referring to.
I subscribed to the Economist back in the day. I found an old joke to be true: get the weekly magazines, put them aside for six months, and then read them: they'll be more fun than Mad magazine.

I'm considering subscribing to the Financial Times, since Bloomberg is out of reach.
> Ship the parents back to the office and those issues you mention which have some sort of root cause forcing the home-rearing just… go away/out of sight out of mind? As I said, a mindset out of the 1950s. Also, hiring/firing is still a solution, wfh or not.

I think you didn't read my comment. The problem was parents cancelling daycare because they thought they could take care of kids and work simultaneously without impacting their work.

They literally had daycare, cancelled it, and brought the problem on themselves after WFH was instituted.

> I work in cybersec, all those alternative channels can be monitored or blocked just fine,

You are deluding yourself if you think none of your employees are using their personal phones to talk to each other, or that groups of employees don't gather in personal Discords and chat app groups.
How can they enforce it?
I have first noticed logprob fluctuations in GPT-4o. Perhaps the same phenomenon is also going on with Turbo. I din‘t recall specifics but it was naming inconsistencies with variable names, meaning: same variable name got a typo somewhere, but the typo was close enough - perhaps a space vs. an underscore or something like that.

Model could be the same, but maybe some in the infra is different.
Can you share the coding questions it failed on?
yeah, well how can you explain the fact that i've made $37 today selling htmx 2.0 on floppies:

https://swag.htmx.org/products/floppy

check mate, roger
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40593674

203 comments, 15 days ago
Evolution is not an abstract concept. It's a concrete algorithm with some abstract steps.
I totally understand your point and others commenting here.
IMHO the main problem are other parents giving their children their "old" phone because they want the latest one.

There is a finite amount of control that you can have, there's always a friend with another phone where they can watch everything.

Communication is the key, we talk a lot with our 11 yo about the danger and pitfalls of social media, electronic games etc.
Yes, he has a simple smartwatch (bare minimum: call, location), yet I think we managed to develop a healthy digital hygiene.
I wish you best luck!
> It could be that people felt more empowered to report incidents,

Or it could be that the number of incidents actually just went way up? I don't understand why everyone tries to inject alternate explanations to wave away inconvenient situations.
So? You have the choice of not using the service. Companies are not obligated to give you a choice of payment type.
This is essentially the same approach as the solution described in the article. You are observing the bits of the poisoned bottle number in binary, bit by bit. The only difference is that you avoid retesting any bottles once they have been ruled out by previous tests, whereas the fixed design in the article does not bother with this.
In case people missed it, the name of the exploit is a blink 182 song released around the time it was discovered.
This is a common take. I respect it but find it entirely unconvincing
It's discriminating between social media companies purely on the basis of their speech--the recommendation algorithms they choose to use.
I wish you the best. I don't think "not-fully" open source would make a difference in terms of donations. Have you looked at setting up a Patreon?
> What does 'carefully vetted' mean

“We’ll take the extraordinary step of making software images of every production build of PCC publicly available for security research. This promise, too, is an enforceable guarantee: user devices will be willing to send data only to PCC nodes that can cryptographically attest to running publicly listed software” [1].

Based on this thread, Apple over-allocated to engineering over marketing.

[1] https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
QQQ tracks the Nasdaq-100, which contains the 100 largest non-financial companies, not non-tech companies. Nine of QQQs top ten holdings are tech companies, which by themselves account for almost 50% of the ETFs allocations.
My Problems with Linux
Your own link says that during the revolution of 1911 in China local theocracy seized power in Tibet and held to it for 40 years.

"After the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, most of the area comprising the present-day Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) became a de facto independent polity, independent from the rest of the Republic of China"

"At the time Political Tibet obtained de facto independence, its socio-economic and political systems resembled Medieval Europe.[29] Attempts by the 13th Dalai Lama between 1913 and 1933 to enlarge and modernize the Tibetan military had eventually failed, largely due to opposition from powerful aristocrats and monks"
I think the question wasn't about the technology. The question is why doesn't android more intelligently manage Wifi connections.

Yeah and the technology is not able to provide the information to manage WiFi connections more intelligently as I described in great length above.
The best analogy of zk-proofs I've heard is to suppose you have found Waldo in "Where's Waldo," and want to prove that you have done this without revealing the location.

You could take a piece of paper (much larger than the picture/book), and cut out a waldo-shaped hole it and position the paper such that he is shown in the hole. Then, when you show it to the challenger, they know that you have found him without you revealing where he is.
That sounds like: lets appear that we are doing something, but make it easy enough to go around so it doesn't hit our bottom line.
What do you mean? It works the exact same way for 128 bottles. 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1.
That’s apples and oranges. PE-owned businesses pay corporate income tax just like any other for-profit entity.
You might also consider using xcb, which is more of a simple wrapper around the X11 binary protocol, rather than Xlib which leakily tries to abstract it. The famous example (noted in XCB's documentation) is calling XInternAtom in a loop to intern many atoms. Xlib forces you to send request, wait for response, send request, wait for response. XCB lets you send all the requests, then wait for all the responses.
I don’t understand #3.
All the "time travelling" they do with these data structures is really cool.-
Passion + skill > Total compensation optimization + Javascript.
Right. The phenomenon is real, but the description on that site seems a bit obtuse on purpose:

> For organizations with more than a handful of employees, this feature is critical for IT and Security teams (...) In short: SSO is a core security requirement for any company with more than five employees.

No, it isn't. They'd like it very much, but the SSO tax is proof positive that this is not a truly critical feature for small customers. In fact, it pretty much measures at which point it becomes critical.
Why would it not be a proof?

What is your criteria of "can be checked then"? If a proof for "sqrt(2) is not a rational number" can't be checked by a 5yo, it's still a proof no?
Short of switching between models (which at least OpenAI definitely does for free customers, but I believe they always indicate it), how would that work? Different quantizations?
> Islam does have a specific problem in this regard since its scripture explicitly calls for violent struggle to spread it over the world.

Which part of the scripture?

Every part of the Quran that involves violence has consistently been understood to apply to a specific context, by almost all classical Islamic theologians and jurists.

That’s why extremist groups rarely cite Quran for justifying perma-war, instead citing opinions of Islamic scholars instead.
Not a bad argument!
> What does Hungary have anything to do with it?

Presidency over the EU council rotates every half year. The presidency sets the agenda. In July Hungary will take over.

Hungary, with a less democratic government is interested in control infrastructure, thus likely to push such an initiative.
It's debatably even a flaw. Network transparency is pretty cool. This Minesweeper probably runs faster over an internet SSH tunnel to Australia than any pixel-based remote desktop protocol.

You feel it's a flaw because you only ever run applications locally. But more constraints are a side effect of more possibilities, because you have to program the lowest common denominator of all possible scenarios, so your program works in all of them.

That's how APIs work. They all have this tradeoff.
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I think a better term would have been "non-breaking backwards compatible change". hard/soft forks are very much the jargon used when talking about ways to upgrade blockchain based protocols.
Ah yea, no worries. It is always good to consider ways to optimize, either for TB or PB!
VaaS (Vaccine as a Service) suits Gilead as a business model,
multiple people at previous jobs joked about how using FMLA would get you fired or at minimum banned from promotion
Correct, which is why the DSM doesn’t get to define what it means for all English-speakers.
Keeping religions in check as such is incompatible with liberalism. Secular societies need to be maintained, but antagonizing religious people with phrases like that is not how.
I'm not sure developed countries are the most lucrative market for HIV vaccines. How many people would even get them and why? This is a product almost entirely developed for Sub-Saharan Africa so it only makes sense that they focus on testing it there?

Hard to say, maybe it's not inconceivable that ~1% of potential patients in the US/EU/etc. might end up paying more than > 50%-90% of the people living Sub-Saharan Africa for whom getting the vaccine would make a lot of sense.
Wrong. If they're not 501(c)(3) then donations to them are not tax-deductible.
The brief appearance in Animal House is a little gem.
They should've fled to the EU, but now they're being collectively punished for happening to reside in a country with a narcissistic, murderous autocrat. This particular sanction seems kind of small and petty. Indian, UAE, and Qatarian individuals and companies should be sanctioned for their ghost ship oil embargo running.
I've seen plenty of QIC drives on HP/Apollo systems, I've used them on HP 9000 series and on Suns from that era, they were quite wide-spread at that time.
I really like using nested bullet lists. When I think of a project idea, I create a new list.

Each bullet is a goal of the project, and then I split it into sub goals and problems, and keep notes as I go. One thing that really helped was the soft rule of only allowing leaf nodes to be actual tasks, everything else has to be a problem or goal. If it turns out a leaf node needs to be split up further, I gotta re-formulate it as a goal/problem.

Also, I try not to work on anything before I've written it down first. Since I've been doing this, it's easier than ever to come back to a project after not working on it for a while. I've always thought that people write things down to remember them, but for me at least it seems that it helps me forget and free my mind for other things.

It's important to me that the software supports infinite bullet nesting. I use Dynalist but there are other good ones out there, I'd love to switch to RemNote actually.
Has anyone who took them to court included an affidavit pointing to the thousands of previous instances as evidence of a pattern of negligence or whatever, and asked for punitive dates to be awarded?
I beg to differ. The Globe is the worst of the lot, and I say this as a Boston resident. The NYT, for all its faults, is far superior. The Globe quite literally employed fresh-out-school undergraduates for COVID reporting (whose job, apparently,was to get scare quotes from fear-mongering local academics); outside of Tim Logan the newsroom is packed with NIMBYs; Renee Graham makes it clear she doesn’t much care for white men as does Shirley “pale and male”Leung; international coverage is sparse and superficial; and it’s frequently uncritical of the Democratic political machine, something absolutely fatal in an uni-party state like MA. Overall the Globe is an amalgamation of its midwit, upper middle-class, blue, 495 suburban beltway newsroom staff and editorial board. For its $38/mos subscription price, I want something that will inform, not inculcate.

Edit: my info on the Globe is a couple years out of date now. Perhaps it has gotten better recently, maybe I should sign up for a trial and give it a second chance.
Small Language Models: Apple, Microsoft Debut LLM Alternative
> was the opposite approach governments took towards Covid in many countries

And how did that work out? Despite quarantine being a millennia-old practice even when we had to invent evil spirits to enforce it.
It's a great little gem, especially since it came out when Will Smith was near the peak of his "pop" persona, while the movie is definitely not.
All of your statements are true just like these are

1) humans can be asked anything on any subject at any time at the click of a button. The response time differs but we can also add a delay of hours for LLM's to respond and make it seem the same.

2) humans have even less accountability than an LLM when stating falsehoods or dangerous advice. At least in the US, humans can spout whatever bull shit they want under the guise of the First Amendment. LLM's can be censored legally because they have no such legal privilege.

3) humans are really good at generating statements that sound believable or authoritative even when devoid of the truth. See US conservatives, corporate disinformation, advertising, and fundamentalist religions

One could make the case that humans created LLM's in their own image. We identify the erroneous outputs as bullishit or hallucination because that's what we do. If we did not have the capability of lying, hallucinating, or the term I prefer, confabulating, it would be difficult to recognize in LLM output. It's tough for us to imagine a world where other beings didn't lie or confabulate all the women saying that, I'm beginning to wonder if in LLM is such a creature. It gives us confabulations because it doesn't know they exist and can't modify its behavior.
What would you do if you had 8 years left to live?
I'm wondering how long it will be before transponder data and satellite imagery will be correlated to look for suspicious activity like individual ships moving their transponders to small decoy ships while they commit crimes.
I'd happily prototype things in python 2.7 but not in 3.something. The ratio of looking up documentation to building stuff has gone badly downhill. Sadly most dependencies no longer run on 2.7 because 3.0 was better in some sightly unclear fashion so python 2.7 is now, finally, essentially dead.

But whatever, we've still got lua 5.1ish.

The rest of the article is coherent, including the properties you want in the language, I just think python in particular has catastrophically lost its way.
> You can wait for every human to change their behavior to fit your preferences

No one has said or claimed that... and it isn't about "my" preference or yours; it's about the scientific approach to resolving an issue by addressing its root cause, or at least adhering to the 80/20 rule.

The issue here is exploitation. All I see is a greedy company trying to profit from a demographic instead of resolving the root cause, offering a "subscription-based" medicine. It's strange how all these new "breakthrough" medicines are supposed to be taken for life, like Ozempic. Meanwhile, the best prevention is to get tested in advance. It takes a few minutes and it's reliable, safe, and obviously cheaper than paying for pills/shots for life for the chance of getting that disease/virus.

If that medicine were a "treatment," on the other hand, then it would definitely be a breakthrough, especially if it's taken once, like some treatments for other STDs. Obviously, it isn't, and there's an entire business model built around that.
The post just skips over _why_. It states that Python is 'more modern' than java as an axiom. This is not a particularly easily adopted axiom. For example, python is in fact older than java. Which surely isn't what the author is talking about.

But what _is_ the author talking about? It just isn't said. It merely states that the argument 'python is slow' is no longer relevant. It doesn't even state a reverse argument (why python would be better than java), and thus doesn't even begin to allow waylaying _those_.

As a trivial example, perhaps the author means: A nominally, strongly, explicitly typed languages is obsolete. In which case - how does that explain how, for example, typescript has happened, which actively _re-introduces_ these aspects to a language?

Clearly then, 'python is superior' cannot be taken as a truth universally held and requiring no logical argument.

The rest, sure, whatever - "Programming language used has a significant impact on what you can write and how one would write it" is.. kinda obvious, no? Turing machine logic says that it is _literally_ incorrect (anything you can compute in one, you can compute in the other), but that _is_ something all those with a modicum of programming experience probably take for granted. You _can_ write a compiler in brainfuck, but, that'd be insane.

The tricky argument isn't stated, the obvious arguments are.

I surely must be missing the point of this post.
I find your take extremely naive.