skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No more unpaid overtime. The right to ignore work messages outside of business hours. No more noncompetes

This so radically clashes with my experience it makes me wonder if I've had a crazy lucky career or if people have a hard time setting boundaries.

At all the companies I've worked for, I've never once felt like I was obligated to answer a message outside of work hours. Also non-competes are more or less completely unenforceable. And finally... working overtime when you're remote is YOUR choice.

Now all of this is omitting visas. I've never had to deal with that and likely never will. But for US citizens working in tech I don't see how a union helps you at all.
When I was writing electronic trading systems, I experimented with audio logging for different types of fills / cancellations / other trading events. It was useful, but somewhat annoying. I disabled it later.
> Yeah, but such concerns are from a long ago and it didn't happen yet.

Well yeah because they are very sensibly doing it extremely slowly. Microsoft is doing the same thing; they're just a fair bit behind Apple.
> this is the way to understand maybe

I have this idea. Let's say I want to bring two words (AI and Apocalypse, Yud's thesis ) closer in some semantic space of ideas. How would I do it? I would write thousands of stories bring those two concepts together. Sort of like warping the space of ideas. Like a horseshoe. Subconsciously, if I want to guage the weightage of a particular thesis, my mind does it informally if it can pull many emotionally weighted instances in support of that thesis. The same applies to societies and groups.
I'd say because it's to your advantage to be better than your peers at negotiation. There's nothing but upside for you.
lol what’s on the “mildly annoying” end?
And well-known enough for Monty Python to make a joke of it

> Yes...I wonder if you might have 'The Amazing Adventures of Captain Gladys Stoutpamphlet and her Intrepid Spaniel Stig Amongst the Giant Pygmies of Beckles'...volume eight.
I am pretty sure the poster you reply to talks about time not money.

Most tech companies compensate for costs. My current employer doesn't blink paying ~$60 per day for my parking and lunch on days I come to the office, but that still means I spend 50 min each way getting there. My 2c.
In my experience it’s the people who are working in the office that take calls from the car because they got stuck in traffic during their commute.
I completely agree with the author and yet I have taken up the profession of writing books.

There are, as we know, two different kinds of books: fiction and non-fiction. There's actually only two flavors of books as well: polemic and exploratory. With a polemic, you're expected to have your own internal theme song and the produced work will conform to it. With exploratory books, you're on an adventure with the reader and the only bullshitting you add is the minimum amount necessary to make the exploration fun for both of you.

Polemics have become quite popular lately, and I suspect anybody taking a set of blogs or essays and "sticking them together into a book" would only have this avenue available. I took a lot of essays and material I'd collected over the years and wrote some non-fiction books on programming. They were exploratory: the theme emerged as I condensed the work together. (My guess is that exploratory fiction and non-fiction is very tough to do and sell; people like a book that they already know the gist of and are familiar with the author much more than they feel like spending many hours on a lark)

After I finished a few non-fiction books on coding and performative teams, I was done. It was fun, I learned stuff, I think it's critically important stuff, nobody cares, and I'm okay with that. Because it wasn't a polemic, I felt no need to rant or self-promote. There was no movement I wanted to lead. Time to move on to something else.

Books suck. Books change the way you think. All writing does that. Books especially change you because they draw you into some sort of self-created cosmology that you've now adopted.

I write because I'm a writer. I've always been a writer. I simply got honest about it as I grew older. I don't think you choose whether to write or not. I think you choose the fashion in which your writing interacts with your subconscious. A book is just a deployment bundle. It's not the point.
Yes, but it's a one-time thing, isn't it?
Is the reason these are coherent quantum states that the postulated ultralight axions don't strongly interact with anything except gravity, so they see very little environmental noise to decohere them? Would they also predict there's (much smaller) dark matter halos around ordinary planets and stars, and these also have quantized atom-like states?
Pay me Bill Gates money and I'll work from the office 5 days a week and not complain
> Mac doesn't cook but it doesn't fully go to sleep either.

The battery drain while a Mac is sleeping is insignificant, so I don't think it really matters what kind of sleep it is.

Resuming taking a minute is unacceptable. That's slower than a cold boot.
Miley Cyrus sued over allegedly copying Bruno Mars song on Flowers
You mention refactoring. Do you hope to be able to merge new VScode improvements as they arise, or is this a hard fork that will diverge from VSCode from now on?
I mean, honestly, what was so wrong with proper door handles?
I use Beekeeper and like it very much for a simple GUI that works with a number of sql databases.

It should be noted that the link here is a comparison page specifically for DataGrip. There are similar comparison pages for other tools. Or go to Beekeepers home page for an overview of the product.

https://www.beekeeperstudio.io
oh wow, I was very wrong, I don't know why I got this notion that electron shared the runtime environment between non-browser and browser code. Thanks for the clarification.

I am pretty disappointed about this, it severely limits the usability of native code from inside the UI code and makes Electron much less attractive compared to Tauri, Wails or similar alternatives.

Do you know if at least moving objects between the electron processes uses direct memory-copying and not some heavy-handed serialization (Wails for example serializes to JSON). The links you pointed out don't mention that.
The engineering time to "salvage" and test the 15$ chip, and the cost of downtime reintegrating the part to the production line is probably worth more that 15$, so unless the lack of that specific part is a bottleneck, probably no?
Should read “Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s actually funny"
Not even 802.11ac, and of course no 802.11ax or more recent modes. (802.11ac appeared in 2013). This means that you get about 2 MB/s from it, which makes it completely unusable in 2024.

Ah, even 802.11n is not supported! This is a 2009 standard. So we are left with 802.11a/b, which is 2003. The wifi of 21 years ago.
From that second incident:

> As for Sanchez and her Tesla, she says she’s a fan of the brand, but told AZ Family that this latest episode has shaken her faith.

This is really taking the "I love my Tesla but..." meme to absurd new heights.
And they are most fun when their author actually understands the subject. Don't make a trek reference unless you know your Kirks from your Spocks.
I've been working primarily from home for 12 years now, and I can absolutely understand these feelings.

I don't think I'd enjoy it at all if I didn't have so much family and loved ones around, just sitting in an apartment all day by myself. What interaction you have with co workers with so much fewer social cues can hurt more than it helps, really.

I'll bet you many managers in favour of RTO feel exactly like this when they work from home, and base their decisions on the way they feel.
I worked in a quantitative trading company, and the traders would use sound effects for every kind of alert. Each time a risk limit gets hit, a disembodied voice would say "<system name> limits!" or make a pig oink or something. There was a shared folder of thousands of .wav files.

It reminds me of plane cockpits where the system barks out things like "Terrain! Pull up!" if the pilot needs to react instantly.
Yea it would be more efficient to have "living pods" essentially little chambers where the employee can sleep in after a long 16 hour day a work. The personal home emits too much energy and waste. It would be better for the employee to just go into the pod, plug in their nutritional tube, and watch netflix for a few hours before falling into an induced asleep at the mandated time as set by their work schedule.
Isn't subghz a whole other ball game?
> Since the early 20th century [...] Congress has not dissolved federal courts whose judges displease it — which did happen in the more distant past.
As an atheist D&D always annoyed me, but it was created by Americans so nothing you can do about that.But it gets especially weird when everyone knows demons and hell exist.

In reality our ancestors have always dealt with a silent god. Something that even in medieval society did not go unnoticed.
Name 1 major employment shift that rolled out to everyone, across all industries, across all modes of work, across all tiers of employees, and across all geographic areas regardless of socioeconomic status — simultaneously.

We couldn’t even do it during a global pandemic, deeming all sorts of people “essential” without meaningful compensation.

Your assertion is not based in any feasible reality, at least in America.
Come to think of it, Windows 95, XP, etc. had lots of sounds built in. ICQ played a typewriter sound with every single keystroke. It was a bit annoying, but if I listen to those sounds now it definitely brings back a strong sense of nostalgia.
It's really funny because if someone is accusing you of cultural appropriation, they're actually saying you're not acting like how they think YOU should act, the stereotype for how you look or your background, and they're telling you to feel bad about it. i.e. racism.

The real distinction was whether one is PARODYING another culture than their own. That usually does not go well unless you have good comedic skills and an audience that trusts you.
Because there's no problem to fix?
Very nice.

My suggestion is to add support for user-defined gradient colors for more unique screenshots.
> This is how it was for me growing up blue collar in the northeastern USA in the 80s. My father fixed everything in the house and the vehicles. I inherited my older siblings clothes, and my younger siblings inherited mine. My mother would hem pant legs shorter when we were young, and then let them back out as we grew older. If you wore a knee or an elbow out of clothes, it was getting patched.

Thing is, they were able to in the first place.

Forget about fixing a modern car. The electronics side is a mixture of "a datacenter on wheels", DRM and anti-tamper technology (sometimes enforced or heavily suggested by law such as in emissions control, sometimes by reality, e.g. "Kia Boys") and high-speed protocols instead of early age wires and relays that you could troubleshoot with a decent multimeter. The physical side is a ton of plastics designed to absorb crash energy and finely tuned metal alloy stuff (with the form also having crash safety implication) that your average DIY person cannot reasonably weld instead of plain old steel sheets. You can't buy a "reasonably repairable" new car any more because of the legal mandates and because you don't want it to be stolen by some kid having watched a YouTube or Tiktok video showing how to bypass the locks.

And clothing... patching a 1980s piece was possible, the fabrics had weight and structural integrity of their own. Nowadays it's extremely thin fabric everywhere that shreds itself after a few washing machine cycles. Try to patch it and you'll more likely than not find out that your very act of pushing a needle through it to apply the patch just causes the next rip to appear. You are still able to purchase better quality clothing technically but you end up paying like 4x the amount and it's still made in some Bangladeshi or Chinese sweatshop under horrible safety and employee rights standards.
I was in a meeting with an AWS engineer who took it from their car. It felt weird to me.
Social media is full of trad-pubbed authors (some with NYT best-sellers) complaining they have to keep their day jobs.

Self-pubbed author groups have far more authors earning far more money. There's a good number of six figure authors and not a few seven figure authors. They're almost all writing to market - tight-niche, mid-quality writing that gives readers a predictable genre experience they want to repeat.

Successful self-pub is equivalent to a bootstrapped micro start-up, and many of the same ideas apply. It's not trivially easy, especially the marketing. But it's certainly easier than trying to pitch from a cold start to the agent/publisher circus.
They should also remove all desks and force people to sit directly on the floor. Forget open office plan. The new trend is Minimal Office.
FAANG pays very well, and money can be exchanged for goods and services.

I know that having benefits like a free bike feels good, but the total compensation you are getting is much lower than that of people that work for big tech and pay for their own transportation.
If you are okay with more of it then it is clear on which side of the gap you are
https://ghost.org is the other good option. It also has an Open Source part that you can host yourself if you need in future.

WordPress is matured and lots of options (plugins) to get it done one way or the other.
> most problems we care about are not stated as formal languages

then a way would be to translate them to formal language
Are you HN backed when your Show HN gets over 200 votes?
BS, you can measure management productivity and effectiveness.
Have you actually read the paper/know how a ML paper should be written?

Here are some of the issues:
- section 1.4.3: Can you explain how societal consequences of LLM hallucinations are in any way relevant for a paper that claims in the abstract to use mathematical theories ("computational theory", although that is an error too, they probably mean computability theory)?
At best, such a section should be in the appendix, if not a separate paper.
- section 1.2.2: What is with the strange subsections 1.2.2.1, 1.2.2.2 that they use for enumeration?
- basic LaTeX errors, e.g. page 19, at L=, spacing is all messed up, authors confuse using "<" with "\langle", EFC.

So no, I'm afraid you are wrong. The paper violates many of the unspoken rules of how a paper should be written (which can be learned by reading a lot of ML papers, which I guess the authors haven't done) and based on this alone, as it is, wouldn't make it into a mediocre conference, let alone the ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS.
Starlink as an Alternative to GPS
I have several books I want to write - I'm definitely bursting with idea, intent and motivation, and not just idea as a concept, but rather fully fleshed out. The hardest part is fighting ADHD or whatever and actually doing the work.

These days if I were to publish I'd probably setup an LLC as a publishing company, do a little work to make the company look a lot bigger than it is and try to find some bookstores to sell to directly - in addition to selling online of course.
I would say that things like afterlife, divine intervention and souls are non existent parts.

The clerics in Constantinople no doubt prayed very hard during the Fourth Crusade but it didn't work.
What do bitmap and excel have in common? :D
This is great, I love following the Voyagers.

>When Voyager 1 lifted off to space on September 5, 1977, no one expected that the probe would still be operating today.

This is kind of an odd statement :) When launched, I remember brief news broadcasts and articles in the local newspaper stating the engineers added abilities that were not approved hoping for a much longer life time. It never stated if they got in trouble. But lasting this long is quite an achievement.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/cuba-said-to-reduce-bre...

I suppose in your modern communism they'll blame the "AI".
Nothing prevents them from making meetings to connect with / meet their peers. When you work remotely, you need to change your habits a bit. You have the same type of interactions, it just takes some initiative.
>5k source files. They don't fit into the context. I know I can limit what is sent, and I can attach files in the Aider chat myself. But this is not perfect for making an LLM answer questions about a codebase when I don't know much context beforehand. With Cursor, I can just do "@codebase How is a %feature% implemented?", and it's very quick and often helpful with a couple of follow-ups.
Blindsided by Rust's Subtyping and Variance
Intel Creating Foundry Subsidiary and Announcing a Big AWS Win – ServeTheHome
In the late ‘80s they were called expert systems.

Most demonstrations were regarding troubleshooting large systems, industrial processes, and education.
Check out Climavision. They use AI to generate both hyper-local ("will there be a tornado over my town in the next 30 minutes?") and seasonal ("will there be a draught next fall?") forecasts, and they do it faster than the National Weather Service. They also operate their own private radar network to fill observational gaps.

Disclosure: I work there.

https://climavision.com/
Agile is not against processes when needed. Agile is against too much process.
>Also your approach seems to be to just accept whatever employers throw at you.

Where do you see me saying such a thing?

>I would like to know a rational reason why I should spend so much of my day travelling.

Companies say it's for "better collaboration". You would do it if you had no other options if every potential employer would require you to be on site depriving you of remote options, but because the market is in your favor giving you options, it's difficult for you to empathize with the other situation.
For anyone interested in Godot, I made a mobile first (Sailfish Os only) version https://github.com/poetaster/balldrop which is based on https://github.com/Bauxitedev/balldrop It was great simple problem set for solving touch screen problems in Godot and makes lovely melodies :)
> If software is about people, not code, who would you expect to manage it better - an engineer whose undergraduate and graduate training was in code, or a business MBA whose training was in people?

Both. The strict separation between tech and humanistic education is the root of (quite) all (modern) evils, and having these two skills in a single person is even better.
I suppose quantitative traders use the "Retard! Retard! Retard!" Soundbite for slightly different reasons than airliners
"Employees have a legal right to work from home,"

We're just making shit up now, huh
> I respect that Apple has every right to completely destroy the legacy of the Macintosh

I disagree. Apple's various machinations to control the best available supply lines (deals with TSMC, etc...) make me feel quite entitled in saying what is and is not acceptable behavior on their part. This feeling amplifies with every "courageous" announcement they make sunsetting some useful feature they no longer feel like supporting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Judiciary_...
Well, most PhDs are obtained by writing a book, so there is that.
Same here. I can totally imagine the excitement in their engineers eyes after reading this fascinating writeup, paired with their managers anger while they ask for a better way to protect the company's IP.
I was ready to sign up after I read the article. But, when I click on the button at the bottom ("Ready to fix with a click?"), nothing happens. After open dev tools, I can see it registers the click with a linkedin ad tracker network event, but nothing happens. Maybe Firefox blocking?
Interesting.

Where I live, the stops are too long for a flywheel to make any sense. The postal worker will usually deliver to a mailbox serving several houses, and will often have packages. Perhaps in the suburbs, where there are individual mailboxes for each house, it could work well.

Still, if we take 8000 lbs, times (10mph)^2, and divide by 2, we get about 35kJ. First supercap which came up in a Google search does 1kJ for <$10. So it's like $350, and will have far less maintenance and better efficiency than a flywheel.

If we do 20mph -- although goodness knows mail trucks here don't go nearly that fast for start-and-stop between mailboxes -- it's $1400. Even 40mpg would be around $5k.

So it's very cheap (and, electronically, very easy), at least for this use case. For highway speeds, it'd be a different story.
I was really saying two things:

1) The theoretical notion that a fixed depth transformer + COT can solve arbitrary problems involving sequential computation is rather like similar theoretical notions of a Turing machine as universal computer, or of an ANN with a hidden layer able to represent arbitrary functions .. it may be true, but at the same time not useful

2) The Turing machine, just as the LLM+COT, is only as useful as the program it is running. If the LLM-COT is incapable of runtime learning and just trying to mimic some reasoning heuristics, then that is going to limit it's function, even if theoretically such an "architecture" could do more if only it were running a universal AGI program

Using RL to encourage the LLM to predict continuations according to some set of reasoning heuristics is what it is. It's not going to make the model follow any specific reasoning logic, but is presumably hoped to generate a variety of continuations that the COT "search" will be able to utilize to arrive at a better response than it otherwise would have done. More of an incremental improvement (as reflected in the benchmark scores it achieves) than "converging to the right program".
That is very possible. Pretty sure we scrapped it off some random sound site.
Because they are breathing in a sustained steady rhythm.

Apnea, by definition, is not breathing, so if they are snoring and breathing, they aren't likely to have apnea, are they?

> You’re making the assumption that the snoring people are healthy

I am not making this assumption.
Data centers are everywhere. What it's like to work in one
> It is sad to see such a misinformed take on a technical forum.

If you’re going to make such a claim, you should be very careful to ensure you’re not misinformed yourself.

> Similar things were said about iMessage interoperability with Android, until Beeper proved them wrong.

No, they did not. We already knew Apple not allowing iMessage on Android was a lock-in choice. The trial with Epic brought that unambiguously to light, years before the release of Beeper Mini¹.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375128/apple-imessage-an...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406303/imessage-android...

> They managed to reverse-engineer it, build a compatible client and clearly proved Apple's claims were BS

What claims? The only time I remember Apple publicly addressing iMessage on Android was after cutting off Beeper Mini’s access.

¹ Which is an important distinction from the earlier Beeper, which used trickery with iPhones to accomplish the task.
Keeping the mini line alive is good news to me. It's the low cost pathway into the M-chip apple world. I only work at a desk with full monitor/keyboard/mouse so I don't want to pay a premium for laptop form factor.
If that was the case these execs would be sharing the data so it was harder to argue against. They will share any data that backs up their decision and when they don't share any data you can know it's because they don't have any that supports them (or doesn't support their public position. The data probably shows that people voluntarily leave because of RTO mandates, but that's not their public argument) but they've decided to do something anyway.