skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contract law is strong. If a company deliberately gave the employee lots of rights in an employment contract (in return for less pay), a court would hold the company to that later whilst it was solvent, even if company management later changes it's approach.
I'm not recent no, been out over nearly 2 decades. I also don't look back with rose tinted glasses.

I can agree with basically everything you've said, bar the assumption that the military is only recently dysfunctional. A brief look at any period of history will mostly show you a severe lack of proper leadership with very few exceptions.

I'm aware my experience isn't everyone's.

Unpopular as the reality might be, when you train people to be killers, in the lowest ranks many of whom are there instead of in gangs or jail, because there's no other options for them, don't be shocked that within that subset of the population you finding high rates of various crimes, especially violent ones.
Median wage is only about $50k in the US. Tech compensation is just really high.

Also note that salaries are rarely that high even in tech. Usually a big part of compensation is stock grants which are taxed differently.
this also means companies are much more hesitant to hire
One of my favorite patterns.

The implementations of this for C# support a value type as the buffer object. You can get upward of a half billion events per second in a SPSC arrangement.

My use cases for it are primarily in gaming or where I have a latency critical element. C#/.NET isn't necessarily ideal for these use cases, but you can do clever things like align GC to the disruptor batch processing boundaries.

If you are finding trouble with this pattern on small machines (1-2 cores), consider adding a heuristic that checks the core count of the machine and swaps from busy to a yielding wait strategy if there aren't at
least 4 cores. Yielding wait isn't always good enough, but it definitely works for testing and prototyping.
I just found it surprising how dead it is (according to Steam, anyways). Apple will have to do something drastic (and uncharacteristic) to recover.

> Does that 2.08% Linux include the Deck btw?

[edit] I think I was wrong, see sibling comment which indicates that 41% of Linux users are on the Deck's OS.
"Oops, an inadvertent unavoidable accident meant we broke the functionality we didn't want but were forced to add!"
Lilygo T-Deck Plus is a $70 handheld with GPS, LoRa, and a BlackBerry keyboard
> Having more than two weeks off in a year is pretty strange.

I mean, not that strange: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...
I have no idea how one person could have this much sophistication in their evening/weekend work on their dots: but for an example of some hard core BQP as daily driver:

https://github.com/xddxdd
I don't get the reasoning here. Costs in SV are a direct result of the economic powerhouse it is, and the size of the local population. A lot of people cite all sorts of other reasons, but those reasons exist in every other US state to a degree, and yet many of those states do not have high property costs.

It's all about population density compared with economic might.

If the USD was to crash tomorrow, people in SV would still draw their salaries, housing would still be the same price relative to them. You're not going to erase costs due to population density and economic drive, because a dollar drops a bit.

Not to mention, the UK has a GDP basically half the US per capita. That has nothing to do with a petro dollar or not. I really see the "petro dollar" thing is a talking point, without the validity to back it up.
nice! missing the popular 31-210 "Improvised Munitions" tho

https://archive.org/details/usa-tm-31-210-improvised-munitio...
Can't wait until the US wakes up and we get an endless 'that's why the startup/innovation culture in the EU sucks and will never be comparable to the US'
Not a dumb question at all, and something I hope they address in the actual publication, which is what should have been linked to instead of the usual shoddy PR

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.ade4642
Better reading IMO: Temperament by Stuart Isacoff. It is a small-ish music history book that covers the whole subject pretty thoroughly, with various tuning options that have been tried through the centuries, while treating the tradeoffs between them in a fair manner.
Unemployment insurance is a form of insurance in US that pays you if you lose your job due to layoffs and other conditions. It is paid by you so it is not “welfare.” It is managed by each state independently and has some rules. For example, if you lose you job today and “don’t claim” unemployment insurance for two weeks, those two weeks are not paid out to you (this is in Texas). Every week, you must show that you are “actively” looking for a job. You may lose the benefit if you are not, or if a job is available but you decide not to take it. You must report on your efforts to find a job (interviews etc), and must attend some state class about looking for work.

Most states’ unemployment insurance covers up to a maximum benefit per week, and a maximum number of weeks. When I lost my job once, I was paid $325 per week.
No, you are not buying that in your salary. The cost of living is shared more evenly in most European countries. You may consider it an insurance, and most insurance policies don't work if there is only one buyer.
Curious to know how the OP is biased when they have no conflict of interest, and they explicitly mention the `torch.compile` stack like... a few dozen times in the blog?
'Kafkaesque': bank blocks cash transfer, saying it could be an AI scam
That's where I suppose the US and EU truly differ. The US generally goes for the "the market will solve it" approach. If you're a bad employer, nobody wants to work there, the company goes down and the competition wins. It's a beautiful theory IMHO.

The EU approach is sort of the same, but to add regulation on top to steer the market towards specific goals, like having a strong middle class. If, for example, a company doesn't suffer from being nasty to their employees (e.g. because they're a monopolist), regulation will be put in place to create that dynamic. I personally find this approach more feasible, but regulation can be worked around and sometimes backfire, it's not easy to get right.

Back to your point: It comes down to how much you get paid. If you work full time and can't afford vacation or sickness, is that OK?

If you think that's OK, we just disagree I suppose. There's a power imbalance between employers and employees that favours the employers. They have more money, expertise, legal counsel, negotiation power etc. Given the chance, they will pay as little as they can for labour, crush competition etc. I don't believe that's good for a country in the long run.

If you think it's not OK, something has to happen. Paying people more so they can save up money to deal with this is one approach. Assuming the risk of them not working (with paid vacation and sick days) is another one. In the EU, we tend to go down the latter route. I guess you could see it as patronising, but there is beauty in sharing and distributing personal risks. I'm personally fine with both solutions. I'm running a consultancy right now, so I've decided to take the first route, assume and manage my own risks.
I wonder if I'm counted once, thrice or four times. I've ran Steam at least once on both windows and linux on the x86 box and on both macs...

Edit to answer the reply below this one:

I have no idea how many times I got the hardware survey popup, but I always click Yes on it. It's possible I wasn't counted for Linux because I don't really use that install. The x86 box is headless and I steam stream games off it to the macs that have monitors. That doesn't seem to work from Linux.
High IQ, Low EQ.
You are making it sound as if Epic can't provide privacy, security and safety reviews, considering they already have an established PC store competing with Steam. I think we are gonna be okay.

It's not going to be the wild west, as your words make it out to be, but a healthier system than the oppressive and monopolistic mono culture that Apple clings on to for dear life.
> “I suggest everyone working in the EU to learn their rights and to consult a lawyer when something doesn't feel right, doesn't cost much here, initial consultations are often even free”

In many European countries unions provide free legal support.

Join the union even if things are good for you now, and you don’t have to go hunting for legal help if one day you feel like your employer isn’t being fair.
Google acting like a monopolist.

Would they ever apply the same scrutiny towards their own apps? Can you imagine Google maps being taken off the play store without being given a reason?

I filed a support issue in the play store complaining about being unable to install the app.

But quite frankly this should be a case for antitrust.
Having short term contracts solved this a long time ago and is mostly a fallacy.
It could be just the opposite.
One of the cheapest ways to improve alignment would be to re-run the models iteratively. The AI was likely looking for precision in the aforementioned experiment. Precision in inference is a correlate for aligned inference.
https://doi.org/10.22541/au.172116310.02818938/v1
For anyone interested in substance:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.ade4642
Torch was originally a Lua project, hence why pytorch is called pytorch and not just torch.

In another timeline AI would have made Lua popular.

The best part is it trampled TensorFlow which I personally find obtuse.
I knew about analog flash cards for learning but thanks for bringing anki to my attention!

Do they support tiny videos instead of images? Because I think this is essential especially for beginners who generally don't know the names of operations.
> You are effectively buying those labour protections with the difference in salary.

FWIW, this is not as simple as labour protections being effectively equivalent to $29k. By being a legal requirement and not a choice, that $29k doesn't register to the market as using disposable income, so competitive pressure doesn't inflate prices of everything to compensate. It's strictly better than having a choice between $97k and $68k + labor protections.
The 2.08% cover all Linux users: Deck and non-Deck users. You have to check distro details for the breakdown. SteamOS Holo (Deck distro) is 40.97% of the Linux users.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=linux
CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) data source
And here's the Fediverse post about the incident if you don't want to click on a twitter link https://fosstodon.org/@organicmaps/112976308191001762
Comet – Video Converter
I don’t mind paying for software but… for a business with 10mm annual revenue the idea is that for them it’s cheaper to use the best database vs hire an employee to manage a worse one.

So for us solo devs it seems nightmarish. But I think at the enterprise level they say: “hire 2 employees to manage X or buy cockroach”. So they buy if software cheaper.

That’s why it’s so expensive I think.

Note: never worked in corporate so I don’t know.
A "bestseller" :)
You don't even need to join to get access to the support.
Cargo Cult Thinking Nearly Derailed Our Startup
Well, this can have a price tag difference, and some consumers might care for that.

Apple insists on taking 30% of every purchase. If Epic can sell their products on their own store, that middle man money is out of the picture, and they can offer their apps for cheaper than you'd find them on the app store.

> Most Gamers are upset when they have to use any launcher besides Steam and I don’t see how this will be any different

I am one of those gamers, but if I see an Epic store sale, I might buy the game via the Epic store (I got like 7-8 titles for free already).
Senior Manager here who build up a career from being dev at agencies to overseeing 500 devs at a global large company.

All is speculation. Culture is a term that has no meaning. There are niches for everything everywhere.

We are all on a spectrum. If AI and ML reminded us of anything, than it is that there is always a spectrum.

The only question is, whether you are willing to take risks or not. If you have a boss, you live by his mercy. Bosses change, circumstances do as well, team members do, workspace and subjects to work on. All not in your control.

I think of my pay check in terms of punitive damage to a certain extent. High enough to stay? High enough to find out?

If you have a somewhat plan b worrying about culture becomes meaningless.

I saw it many times, there are no predictors. Slow processes? Fantastic people bound to decisions. Friendly encouraging folks wanting you? Crazy sociopath who forget about you, once lured in. Fantastic tech stack? Yeah, at the beginning.

So what do you do? Professional attitude that honeymoon means nothing. Money and options do.

There might be one exception that I used and that was bluntness. I told people that I look for people who care about professionalism. I told them, about what we are really doing, how our tech stack came to be and is managed over time. What our career model really is. Nothing shiny 24/7/365, but great devs with challenging technical objectives looking for similar people or others who want to have a more relaxed supportive function. Nothing wrong here.

I quite talked them out of the job so to say. Addressing mistakes and how you cope with them might be the only helpful predictor I am looking for.
I didn't even consider the legality (they're legal in the Netherlands), but I was thinking more along the lines of Google's 'Family Policy' mentioned in the Tweet (Xeet?).
That article wasn't written by NIH staff. They just host a copy on their website which doesn't imply any endorsement or quality review.
Just used it yesterday. It's a great little app to browse OSM data as it is. Much better than Google Maps at finding walkable trails. If only it had the features of overpass turbo, e.g. searching for points tagged with specific attributes.
A while back I interviewed with Meta. They have an “onsite” which is really just 5 hours of interviews over zoom. I split it up over several days.

After the first day (which I didn’t feel great about) I asked the recruiter if I had passed the interviews I had given, since there was presumably no point in prioritizing further Meta interviews if I already failed. But they refused to give me any useful information.

Maybe that’s just part of their “process” but let me tell you, that process sucks. If I have other interviews to prepare for, I need to know how much time to allocate to each role. Thats not the only thing that turned me off about meta but it stuck out to me as unnecessarily bureaucratic and inflexible.
> Europe is CHEAP compared to America, it's fascinating.

Yup. Cost of living is insanely low compared to the US, even when just comparing hotbeds like Silicon Valley vs London/Berlin/Munich, with the largest factor being housing. Additionally, healthcare costs are far lower as well - there is no such thing as co-pays, surprise bills and whatnot here (although I do admit some things like dental and vision care aren't covered by insurance, but generally still affordable).
Good luck collecting: X is notorious for stiffing on debts.
I think this is one of the very few times I've seen Elon Musk's companies lose a lawsuit.

With all the jockeying in the US, I wonder if this is a sign of more, meaningful, legal trouble to come.
I think he probably means that the LLMs never see the rasterized image output.
I think you're being overly paranoid. Apple is not an advertising company. They are a hardware company first and foremost, with a content and services business that goes to extreme lengths to ensure privacy.

The Apple routers and access points did zero traffic inspection (other than IGMP) and had absolutely no tracking features. Please do not bring biased, toxic reasoning into the conversation.
My first thought was "bullshit, these are _obviously_ trees cracking." Well, using triangulation, it is obviously coming from 250+ ft in the air. Good to test assumptions!
In the UK ACAS provide free support as well.
Sinclair is a revolting person, with little professional dignity, who shamelessly manipulates his audience in interviews, spreading misleading scientific information, out of desperation to promote his personal brand.
Unless things have changed, the survey is opt-in and thus it's a statistical sampling. Over the many, many years[0] that I've run Steam, I've gotten the survey pop-up maybe 4-5 times, although I'm not a heavy gamer so Steam isn't installed and running all the time.

[0] Since HL2 or maybe the Orange Box. I'm old.
> He can play for time and later declare bankruptcy in the European subsidiaries that have too many legal costs racking up.

Indeed, but payments awarded by courts generally rank very high in priority in bankruptcy proceedings, and he can also apply for garnishment against Twitter's bank accounts in the meanwhile.
Oh it's just another multi-trillion dollar company operating with near unlimited discretion in the domain in which it's a (mono|duo)polist. What else is new? Anything else than turbo-capitalism is so out of fashion these days, even things like "utilities" regulation as applied to e.g. phone companies in the 20th century is now decidedly out of scope. We will continue to have these hugely profitable companies bully competitors and extend their tentacles everywhere until states do something about it.

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The unspecified "you have violated our terms of service ergo your account has been closed / your data has been deleted / you can't open this page or this app, no appeal or review allowed" is a pretty insidious example of this prepotence.
I don't take any of this, I think they are just bait for people that want to "be better" without doing work. But what I mean is know many people that do take nootropics or "microdose" mushrooms or whatever and they never test their own cognitive abilities in a standard way before and after they start. It's almost like they don't care if it works.
> Ars used to be such a wonderful site.

One of the first times I visited it I was on mobile data with like 300mb high speed data left. After opening the page and reading the article I got the notification that I have no data left.

I don't know if it was actually Ars that munched on my data or if it was something in the background suddenly doing that, but it didn't happen before. Ever since then my taste of the website has been a bit soured.
And if you want to block it

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-block/bepbbcpgol...

:)
Not sure about germany or other countries but in France any contractual change that specifically make the employee position worse without any clear return is essentially voided in "prud'hommes" (the workers/companies justice court) unless they were warned in advance of a negociation meet and brought their representative with them (any company above 10 must have one, and more and more as the company grow).

Also, any major change need to be in counter signed writing, it cannot be a one way thing, not even a "we both agreed" even if it's true.

As an employer myself it sometimes lead to seemingly absurd situation where you need heavy procedures for a simple change, but the end result is that no worker is screwed this way in a way that would stick in court (it still does happen, mostly in areas where people don't go to court after, of course).

A specific kind of deal is the "the company is going south, we make a collective agreement like eg no firing and no dividends and workers agreed to reduced hours or salary for X months" things like this, and in Twitter case it could be what they should have used, but again these have clear procedures and steps to be considered legal and not abuse by the employer, and as you can imagine a middle of the night email with no representation does not fit at all.

I know Musk is a know it all that believe he is so smart and better that he doesn't need to listen to the competent persons around, but I wished I could be a fly on the wall in the company's lawyer room that day, just for the absurdity of it (I imagine it was sort of "we can pretend it's ok, or we can tell him and be fired too").
You change your phone every year?

Because I have this Android phone sitting on my desk for development. When I bought it it was almost as responsive as iPhones (and much cheaper). 4 years later the UI is a lagfest [1].

Meanwhile, my iPhone XS is over 5 years old and almost as responsive as on day one. And I have major version OS updates to blame for the "almost", while the Android one got one major update and was lagfest even before that.

[1] I don't even use it every day, Android development is kind of a side job once in a while.
National Public Data admits it leaked Social Security numbers in data breach
He can be both an excellent business/technical mind, and a massive asshole with a fragile ego. Hell, you could argue those things go together more often than not!
Intentionally draining money to force a bankruptcy and void debt is a felony in most places. Of course an army of lawyers might make that case go away.
Rewrite.

I don't think I know anyone that would buy one, paying IBM is not the main issue with mainframes, and having support with big pockets is nice.

But I only work in one corner of the industry.
We plan to support fastHTML at https://py.cafe/

This also uses pyodide, but supports more frameworks out of the box.
Unless that dedication is highly remunerative, pissing them off can be the smart thing to do, if that means pleasing the other 90%. The problem comes when the developers are having their egos stroked by this dedication. Imagining that those players are somehow valuable for PR is part of the rationalization for serving them, but experienced lesser players will learn that a game that caters to that elite won't be fun for them, and will treat that catering as the negative sign it is.
But being able to generate slop doesn’t mean the AI is bad, even AGI could be able to generate slop. I certainly can. So how does it say bad things about OpenAI that their AI can generate slop?
I contributed patches to OpenWRT since the WRT54g days and have a couple of travel routers that I upgraded myself. But the quality of decent, home grade compatible equipment is pretty dismal, so if you can tell me what boxes you used I'd be curious.

However, I do not want to have to support, flash or manually patch my home Wi-Fi, which currently consists of no less than 5 Airport Extreme base stations connected via Cat 5. But I also don't want it to send data to the cloud or rely on proprietary apps for management (I tolerate Apple's Airport Utlity because it has worked flawlessly for decades).
I wonder if the ideas behind GIMP's new nonlinear resampling filters (NoHalo and LoHalo, and eventually more https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/q/138059) may translate to vector rasterization in some form (though here we're translating continuous to discrete, not discrete to continuous to a differently spaced discrete).
You need Overpass Turbo for that or OsmAnd~ although I always forget how to search there.

This is hilarious but brothels search and bbq area search are the two Overpass Turbo shortcuts in my browser.
It would be better if the HN submission link was updated, as it has way more engagement than on X.
The Deck shows up as "Steam OS Holo". Which is 41% of the Linux category (or 0.85%
overall). For whatever reason Valve never updated the combined view to show Steam OS Holo.
"Allow Markeplace from Epic Games" Wow....

This is a small step in installing an app, but a giant leap for digital freedom. I hope that non-UE citizens can achieve this goal by the end of the decade, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
For those interested in escaping the Hacker Prison where ‘Weeks of coding can save hours of thinking’ I strongly recommend William Kent’s book “Data and Reality’.