skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN never disappoints, jeez. Thanks for chiming in with some expert context! I highly recommend any meteoronoobs like me to check out the pdf version of the linked paper, the diagrams are top notch — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07744-y.pdf

Main takeaway, gives me some hope:

Our results provide strong evidence for the disputed hypothesis that learning to predict short-term weather is an effective way to tune parameterizations for climate. NeuralGCM models trained on 72-hour forecasts are capable of realistic multi-year simulation. When provided with historical SSTs, they capture essential atmospheric dynamics such as seasonal circulation, monsoons and tropical cyclones.

But I will admit, I clicked the link to answer a more cynical question: why is Google funding a presumably super-expensive team of engineers and meteorologists to work on this without a related product in sight? The answer is both fascinating and boring:

In recent years, computing has both expanded as a field and grown in its importance to society. Similarly, the research conducted at Google has broadened dramatically, becoming more important than ever to our mission. As such, our research philosophy has become more expansive than the hybrid approach to research we described in our CACM article six years ago and now incorporates a substantial amount of open-ended, long-term research driven more by scientific curiosity than current product needs.

From https://research.google/philosophy/. Talk about a cool job! I hope such programs rode the intimidation-layoff wave somewhat peacefully…
As someone who could find such a thing interesting, I googled a bit and there seems to be some RPGs with more of that focus, although I think people mostly play video games for that:

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/city-building-manage...
https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/ll6z4d/games_that_have...
https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/2zazc9/rpg_systems_whe...

And if you want people slightly less insane (lol), maybe a mixed game with management elements would be easier to swallow? The ASOIAF RPG, Pendragon and the Border Princes region for Warhammer Fantasy all have some type of feudal lordship elements in addition to the usual RPG fare for example.
They were previously in "Keychain Access," which was primarily an app for administrators so it was also a pretty bad UX.
How did they F that up so badly
Finetune, Eval, Deploy 60 LLMs in a single Colab notebook
Having been next to the people working with the FDA at one point, they do tend to give a lot of feedback, especially when they don't like something. And there were a lot of hoops to jump though where the feedback was "you are on track" for a while before the actual official approval of that step came through.

Very likely all of the core approvals were done, and they were just waiting on things like approval of software testing methodology (yes, they have to approve your software testing system), or something of the like.
They’re getting better. But as the article mentions backwards compatibility is a huge lock in factor. It’s way easier for AMD to achieve it than it would be for Intel (or anyone else) following the PS5.
>2. Hiring only A-players. Bloated teams kill startups.

I love coming on here and seeing the world's wealthiest and savviest tech magnates breathlessly murmuring in awe amongst themselves about such unprecedented tidbits of genius business acumen as "only hire good workers; don't hire bad workers"
Being ex-IBM, i can relate.

Basically, the management class despises SDE worker class, and thinks of them as overhead. Recent statements by the aws head about chatGPT replacing SDEs is along the same lines.

SDEs are tools that just do what mgmt tells them. mgmt holds the decision-making and all the cards.

periodically there is a whipping (pipping) in the form of a layoff to keep the troops in fear.
I'm really not sure what the alternative is.
To run a 7b model? Not much. To run the 405b model mentioned, at interactive speeds, at reasonable quantisation? A lot.
The second sentence invalidates your first - there's a lot of things it doesn't do compared to 1Password.

However it also doesn't randomly crash or simply refuse to autofill in Safari, so, I already switched.
Yes thats the key. Before pandemic it was under radar, team could set their own policy, people do not come at all, people come for few days in week, few hrs in a day. All would work if manager is okay.

Now companies have implemented tons of metrics and monitoring right from the top. So individual manager have little leeway in giving employees any flexibility.
I was there, this is correct.
Are Amazon teams co-located?

My team is global. My customers are global.

When I go to the office, I still spend >5 hours/day on Zoom. The only reason I go in is to get out of the house.
Lina Khan is like 90% of the reason I'm enthused by Biden (now Harris) and it would be an even bigger tragedy than when Google kicked her out of New America. I sincerely hope they don't do that, given I'm far from alone in admiration of Lina
Second is reasonable because the peer review is done by academics for free, and there would too much duplication of work. Peer review is a good amount of work, takes a few hours per paper.
Only a matter of time before my company pushes 5 day RTO. Now is the time to do it while the market sucks.
> Nvidia has graphics chips, but it doesn't have the CPUs. Yes, Nvidia can make ARM CPUs, but they haven't been putting out amazing custom cores.

Ignorant question - do they have to? The last time I was up on gaming hardware it seemed as though most workloads were GPU-bound and that having a higher-end GPU was more important than having a blazing fast CPU. GPUs have also grown much more flexible rendering pipelines as game engines have gotten much more sophisticated and, presumably, parallelized. Would it not make sense for Nvidia to crank out a cost-optimized design comprising their last-gen GPU architecture with 12 ARM cores on an affordable node size?

The reason I ask is because I've been reading a lot about 90s console architectures recently. My understanding is that back then the CPU and specialized co-processors had to do a lot of heavy lifting on geometry calculations before telling the display hardware what to draw. In contrast I think most contemporary GPU designs take care of all of the vertex calculations themselves and therefore free the CPU up a lot in this regard. If you have an entity-based game engine and are able to split that object graph into well-defined clusters you can probably parallelize the simulation and scale horizontally decently well. Given these trends I'd think a bunch of cheaper cores could work as well for cheaper than higher-end ones.
> The company culture is extreme almost culty.

Is it? I know one former employee who is currently in open conflict appears to think so, but they're also a single potentially biased source. Beyond that, has there been any specific information about the culture inside? This document hardly reads as "extreme almost culty" to me.
Making the Web More – For Everyone
Not only do I work less in the office - the quality of the work I produce is lower. I'm more stressed out about things that I no longer have the time for because I'm wasting time commuting to work when I could be taking care of chores and errands or myself.

If I ever have to waste 5 more minutes over water cooler chat about what someone did the last weekend I'm putting in my 2 weeks notice. I don't go to work to socialize and as far as I can tell that is the real reason people want to RTO. They quite literally don't know how to socialize outside of work and bugging their coworkers so want everyone to RTO so they have people to chat with who have no choice but to pretend to be listening and be courteous with them.
This seems overly complex assuming you are trying to prove something when you control both aspects of the process, or are engaged with the party that does. It should be trivial to use backend records or a significantly less complex client side implementation that just verifies what the user saw/did via standard RUM tracing methods, without relying on a custom TLS implementation.

Additionally, some of the statements about the "public" values in HTTPS are false in this document, that combined with relying on their custom TLS implementation deeply concerns me from a security perspective. I'm being hard pressed to imagine a situation where I would pick "write my own TLS implementation to subtly modify the protocol" as the answer.
>It was definitely the dominant conceptual approach, but I think it's an open question how much it was actually followed versus just being the lies everybody agreed to tell the executive caste.

Its funny because that would the inverse of the current situation where exec proclaims their company is agile to external observers and potential hires, but the de facto regime could be anything
The macOS behavior has been the way it is for I believe 30 years, perhaps longer. Im not sure where your expectation of changing this comes from.
Why start counting 02024 years ago then? is pretty much a small scale arbitrary starting point. Humans have existed for longer than that, they could say we are in the year 300000.
Steve Jobs announced a white iPhone 4 and couldn’t ship it for 6 months.
How many professional unions are for jobs that can be done from home in the first place?

I don't think teachers, cops, sanitation workers, or iron workers can realistically do their jobs at home
Any condition that is not chronic is temporary by definition. It doesn't matter if it can be cured in 5 years or 20. If a person is dependant on a drug to maintain health, then they have a chronic condition.

This is exactly why I italicized usually.
Show HN: Exocortex – Encrypted Note-Taking Desktop App for Networked Thought
Amazon already openly stated that there is no data to support RTO:

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-andy-jassy-no-data-re...

https://fortune.com/2023/08/03/amazon-svp-mike-hopkins-offic...
> Your Mac can already get all your iPhone's data from the cloud

Only if the data is available in iCloud and it is stored in files and it is not encrypted.

Otherwise data from apps like Instagram will be exposed exclusively via screen sharing.
Humans hallucinate too though. A lot. A good tip for system design is to assume the human operator goes off the rails at some point and does something absurd and nonsensical.

Hallucinations don't need to be fixed in one go as much as improved progressively. There is some magic threshold where they'll stop being an issue for specific tasks, or alternatively they simply become more reliable than humans. The problem will die with a whimper.
Releasing 5 language support in one attempt with NextJS and ChatGPT
The majority of microservice architectures end up being distributed monoliths.
Intel Creating Foundry Subsidiary and Announces AWS Chip Win
> They could have made the override still clear but much easier to access.

The level of difficulty is absolutely intentional. For you, it's a small speed bump. For the guy on the phone with my grandma trying to hack her computer, it's more of a hill to climb.
this memo is one for the ages. filled with management speak.
Random blogging has been complaining about imperative approach to management for a long time as well. There's a lot of nuance in different cases, but both have their bad/good sides. Having used both a lot, I'm using nix on everything these days though. You'll have to try and experience them yourself.
Who said I expected macOS to change?

I am not changing, so that's why I install an additional app.
I was excited to use this, and confusingly it requires the attached phone to use the same Apple ID/iCloud account as the Mac!

This makes it practically useless for developers.
> impoverished postdocs pay thousands to publish their own research

If anyone does this, they should just quit academia. Research funding literally always provides money for publishing, unless maybe it's some shady bs journal that you submit to because your work can't pass muster.
Observation of resilient propagation in free-space electromagnetic "smoke rings"
I never hire any former Amazon or Facebook. I've worked with some when I was an IC, I even hired a few before I knew better. Never had a positive experience.
Why would a startup have a Union?

Unions aren't like the bar association, it's not obligatory across the industry, or even the same company. Literally today Boeing is on strike in WA but not in South Carolina, exactly because only the WA employees are union.
An a similar but also not similar note, today in the morning I and chatgpt tried to create a new kind of musical instrument

https://franzelio.franzai.com/

sadly no uptick on HN
I’m plenty invested in my company’s success and have worked both in office and for the last 15 years remotely. This is hogwash. Hire shitty people, get shitty results. All you get from being in the office is more opportunities to play hallway politics.
>> blow-out small-to-medium company

This is surprisingly more difficult than it seems. You could go by VC fame, but even those have only a 10-20% hit rate, with a decent chance you end up at Juicely or whatever.

You could go by VC dollars raised, but that often sets you up for sales-driven companies rather than true engineering-rich cultures.

You could go for obvious stand-out products (OpenAI, Claused) but you notice there arent that many positions except in rare cases.

Am I over-simplifying this?
>he went to bat for a module called slut and then tried to justify it using sophistry and pedantry.

No, nothing of the sort actually happened. Rather, he mentioned the fact that he had voted to leave it alone ten years ago, and that this was one of the few split decisions he could recall from his tenure as a board member. And the vote was 6-4 with 1 abstention, so it's not as if he represented a radical fringe position.

Nothing he said was to argue that the module should have been left alone or that it would be correct to do so today, and what little he said about his recollection of his 10-year-old memory could not plausibly be called sophistic or pedantic.

And, again, he censored the word. It's one thing to get upset seeing objectionable words in plaintext when reading the Python Discourse forum (or HN, for that matter). It's quite another to get upset by the fact that someone else is talking about something in a context where you can tell that it involves objectionable words somehow. Sometimes those discussions need to take place, because otherwise you don't actually form objectionable-word policies.

Finally: the PSF gets hosting for PyPI provided by Fastly - it would be prohibitively expensive at market rates. (By my back of the envelope calculations, it would cost a few times the entire on-the-books revenue of the PSF to pay for the downloads, if they had to pay AWS or a similar service.) Shouldn't they be the ones who get to decide what content is appropriate on their servers? (I certainly hope you aren't trying to say that people shouldn't be allowed to name their packages what they want to begin with, even if they're only distributed privately.)
Update: they did!
In highschool my friend wrote a mIRC script that waited in our city's DALnet channel for someone to announce they were *\f\(our city), and would DM them hello, start a conversation and if they responded the script would announce "babyfaceangel16 is female".

He'd turn it up and go play N64, and occasionally his computer would announce he's in a conversation with a girl so he'd drop the controller and pick up the conversation.
That frankly makes me just wish it was legislated to be true. Sigh. Reverse engineering iot devices that are supposed to help you shouldn't be a necessary step but it looks like it increasingly is...
My point about the features you claim have to do with adoption and scale. You don’t need crypto to make a more efficient payment network.

Regarding nano-gpt, that’s already a solved problem. Literally all API platforms support pay-as-you-go credits. I went to your link, and I loved the irony of them asking for a 0.10$ minimum deposit - note the complete lack of crypto rates. That is par for the course for crypto apps, nobody cares what the coin conversion is - it’s just a gimmick.
All I know is that when I took that word out it let me create the account. This was somewhere around the same time as your account creation. It might be more complicated than that, but I'm not about to try and reverse-engineer it.
Precisely the kind of hidden feature that makes it easy for power users to bypass the "rules" Apple imposes on the platform, while still making it highly likely every day users won't know how to bypass the rules meant to protect them.

More and more, I find that these sorts of "we know best" attitudes towards security utterly distasteful and the total opposite of empowering. Infantilizing, more like.
I don’t think that’s a hot take at all, I’m pretty sure that was lesson one in the data structures course at my school.
There are non-Apple options for FAR less.
I hear a fair amount of this sentiment floating around. Not so much "I won't do oncall" but more so a deflation of moral -- if you want clock punchers, we can be clock punchers.

Setting a SEV2 to "pending" does prevent you from getting re-paged during the weekend when you're at home (where work, as I understand it, does not get done).
Huh? I have friends that work in engineering, accounting, and purchasing that are all at least partially if not 100% wfh. Plenty of other industries have given up on 5 days in the office.
ACE 5, I'm mid 30s now, standard bad stuff, parents died years ago.

I stay somewhat mentaly healthy by being relentlessly busy. I don't give much weight to accomplishment, fear of being in a situation of poverty or vulnerability again drives me. I have some underlying mental issues, busyness helps keep them at bay and the sadness and pain has faded over time. At low points I try and remember it comes in waves.

I have a wonderful wife and young child, they are my satisfaction and I feel lucky every day. I don't expect to live long past 60 due to medical and historic reasons, so I intend to stay busy for the next ~25 years, do my best by them and try and leave a net positive on the world.

Didn't know this existed, thank you for posting, reading these has been an eye opener.
> just get a waifu bro
Because with this approach, the entity making the statement doesn't have to cooperate. Even if they want to cooperate, there's a lot of chicken-and-egg problems in trust infrastructure that you sidestep by leveraging the existing Web TLS PKI. It would quite powerfully allow you to notarize and audit any statement by any domain.

Unfortunately (some would say fortunately) this isn't cleanly possible, so you still have to rely on witnesses and/or magic ledgers in the sky for trust.
The real question is why is the team putting up with this? They should be complaining about the PM and wasted time every chance they get, at the "retro", team meetings, and 1:1's... Complain, complain, complain.
Evolution has not solved the principal-agent problem.

> What is enough today will not help you survive tomorrow's famine.

Tomorrow's famine will be caused by you (read: those behaving as you describe) not knowing when enough is enough. Best preserve what we have, rather than waste it all in a frantic bid for number-goes-up.
Is it possible to set a custom keyboard shortcut for the native window tiling commands?
> the reverse-engineering requirement would become an insignificant hurdle compared to the value of such a vulnerability

The idea that breaking device attestation that is secured through Secure Enclave hardware i.e. not accessible from user code is an insignificant hurdle is hilariously ridiculous. It is borderline impossible for any ordinary developer.

And people that bring up the "just ask the user" argument clearly don't remember how poorly that has worked in the past e.g. Microsoft Vista. Users will blindly approve any dialog which is why Apple has been so careful to limit them to targeted actions which a "do you approve this app to record everything on your iPhone" is not.
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Unrate is an indicator more than anything else. The BLS has detailed data on dozens of dimensions including rates of underemployment. Unrate is convenient because it's apples to apples.
To whatever companies will be top of the pile in a decade or two, after Google and Amazon have gone the way of IBM. Some of those will be founded by engineers who left the current FAANG setup and managed to not copy the insane parts of their previous org.
AGI: Artificial God Incarnate [video]
The joke is, this is what it comes down to: a question of who has the most negotiating power. It’s not a question of what’s best for the employees. It’s not even a question of what’s best for the company. It’s all about who has coercive power.
Grandma probably needs an iPad.
Perhaps they could've done something like...

sudo tccutil disable_monthly_screen_recording_prompt [bundle_id]

tccutil(1) is already a thing, which by its name you'd think would give you full CLI control over the macOS permission system (TCC), but strangely it only has one command as of now: "reset" (in Sonoma at least, haven't checked Sequoia yet).
I had exactly this experience at a previous job. I hadn't seen anyone with such confidence. Even worse he was a self-described 'devops' guy that would tell you he wasn't a 'good coder' but would then strong arm the entire dev team on architecture decisions.

I think about it regularly and while I've seen a lot of overconfident phonies, none of them stuck out quite as much as he did...
@dang, this thread is a dupe (though it was posted first): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41560648
> I don't think OP actually disagrees, the chest pounding rhetoric is likely because they're covering up something deep inside that's saying "I know this is the right move for Amazon but I'm terrified of what that means for me".

This is condescending and aggressive. You may not have meant it that way, but it is.
Woah :O
I cannot believe I’d get a reply from the creator of hledger himself.

Damn

God bless you simon !

Hledger is AWESOME