skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok hear me out - headstones are installed after someone dies. It’s still after his death, so the problem can still be corrected for future generations
I like this, as the author of LRCGET (which is made with Tauri), I hate debugging something that works on Windows (Microsoft Edge WebView2) but doesn't work well or doesn't work at all on Linux (Webkit2gtk) or macOS.

One of the example is audio playback. Chromium and in turn Edge WebView2 have great support, but make it work in Webkit2gtk is a big pain in the *s. I then decided to switch the audio playback feature to Rust side (using Kira and Symphonia) instead.

Having Chromium bundled eliminates all the pain about inconsistency between webview engines, and using Rust means we don't have to pay for the NodeJS size in our app bundle (plus better performance).

For Tauri, I think something like Servo will fit well as bundled browser engine. Hopefully some day it will happen.
Why is it so hard to go back to the moon?
Their wives took care of the children.
Go easy on calling yourselves "QI", the hugely entertaining BBC TV show might have some qualms about this.

https://www.qi.com/
Just what we need from the same company that tracks its warehouse workers down to the few minutes during the day when they are in the bathroom.
Bro you were making more money than most people ever will. Unclutch your pearls. That's not tyranny. An annoyance at best.
Can't see anything wrong in making fun of the powerful, that's what comedy is mostly about. It is also the main way we turn these people back into human beings instead of the carefully curated image they wanted to show to the world, with their good and evil deeds.
it does not unfortunately; open to suggestions about common slash commands ppl would like to see included as shortcuts!
You can publish your extensions on OpenVSX fyi. A lot of projects have started doing that now. Not all, but a good amount. Glad you found Theia though.
for me very useful feature in cursor is 'apply' where it just merges ai generated code with your code and you just only confirm or reject - for this they also use custom ai and this feature doesn't work with bring in your own key and you need subscription.
The beginning of a new Techno-Economic Paradigm
That’s not a good take. Compare/contrast: “but you’re not forced to work for a company that wants you to work in hazardous conditions without safety gear”. That’s far different from RTO, but the point is that there’s a huge power imbalance here and it’s not as simple as saying “don’t work there if you’re not happy with […]”.
This is a great run-down and mirrors my experience of reading Fagles, Fitzgerald and Wilson.

My favourite though is Christopher Logue's version of the Iliad called War Music - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Music_(poem). It was controversial because he didn't know ancient Greek and based his version on other translations, as well as taking liberties with the text and introducing anachronisms (one of my favourite lines is about the "camera" panning across the armies in front of Troy). It's the only version I've read where I could clearly hear the characters talk in my head - it was a bit like reading a play at points.
Well, that makes sense, since Amazon has been losing money and it's stock has been underperforming ever since they went fully remote - oh, wait.
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I think it’s a little condescending to call them token interactions. They can be, but they also don’t have to be. I’ve worked in teams which were like little families while they lasted. I’ve had co-workers become real friends whom I still see many years after we stopped being co-workers. I’ve also had co-workers who were token interactions at best. I think it completely depends on who you are as a person, and also who you work with. Even if you don’t become life long friends you can easily have valuable social interactions with co-workers. Just like you can grow apart from friends. It’s all depending on the situation, and most often on you. At least in my experience.

5 days on office places are silly in my book. They’ll lose anyone talented enough to get another job. I’m an in office person for the most part, but if you take away my flexibility I’m frankly just going to work for someone who gives it back to me. Why wouldn’t I want the ability to work from home when I need to pick up the kids early or similar? In my experience the best of both worlds is when you let people work where they want but try to staff your teams with half of each preference or with people in between and then label certain days as preferred in-office days. Notice how I said preferred and not enforced. I my teams it has usually developed sort of naturally, often depending on what is for lunch.
Sometimes people edit their comments after they realize their mistakes; grammar, spelling or otherwise. I use [sic] to denote that "it was like that when I copied it". It's probably from my "old internet" days (/., local forums, etc.).
This is exactly it. The few years I had in office were an amazing foundation for my career. I see the same in those who started around the same time I did. Most of my team who was hired remotely are struggling.
The only way out of this is probably unionization. Or a slow death from the inefficiency of idling or pushing out so many people who are job hunting while coasting.

I never imagined Amazon could be a place to coast and collect a paycheck until they fire you. Bet there's a ton of 2-job 1-person incomes right now. The company culture is rotten and the leadership principles don't have any meaning.
Is this more general than LLMs? Is it possible to do something Chain-of-Thought-like in a transformer model that _isn't_ trained on language?
Gwern's site feels like the "old web" in all the best ways to me. I think the writing would actually lose something if transposed into book form
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/horny-on-main
Cisco’s second layoff of 2024 affects thousands of employees
Secret crypto code that helped end apartheid cracked, open-sourced
I'm guessing that's a joke. The benefit of hardware support for fractions is eliminating rounding errors you get with today's machines. You can do it with libs like PyMath but ultimately you need to do build it from the ground up to completely eliminate type and class abstractions messing up the accuracy, so why not start at the hardware level so potential future chips are automatically supported? Then you can get today's performance without the overhead of legacy software.
They are missing a huge chance by not using ultra cheap SDRs like RTLSDRs.

Edit: I see.. they are using RasPis. But it looks like a super complex setup.
This is fascinating. How were these usually jugaads obtained - did you more commonly get them from friends, family, shop owners, the Internet, or just (re)discover most of them yourself?
It's all corruption? Always has been.
Interesting tidbit for you my Amiga friend, guess from where the name Copper comes from in "Copper Robotics" (see the other thread for context) :)
Every discussion about RTO is missing a big point, it's not being in an office that everyone hates, (even though it's generally worse than home), it's the commute to and existence of downtown cores.

Companies, stop buying the most expensive real estate! Setup offices 2 towns outside a major city and encourage your employees to move to that town.

The US with its top 15 cities are all infested shitty rat holes.

Why do we continue to try to optimize existing cities, rebuilding over and over with insane expense rather than grow and invest in more, smaller cities.
> if they live in the same city as you, chances are they have the same lifestyle like you.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs.
Hezbollah members reportedly injured by exploding pagers
quick question, do you do any physical activity? or if your hormone imbalance did not allow you to do it, now that you have a different medicament, have you started doing sport? Not just a walk in the evening, like minimum 3 times a week 1 hour of high intensity workout, possibly supervised?
The Wikipedia article should probably be updated with the information about the use of the whitworth thread standard.
It is sort of a big deal.
Imagine the construction delay if every thread and bolt needed to be cut by hand to an arbitrary pitch as was done before the standard was adopted.
https://archive.is/a6pQb
That reminds me of the Say tool on the Amiga almost 40 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_music_software#Speech_sy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr5IFzGiTEk
Ok but could we make it a blurry heptadecagon?
This hack is the best argument against network-connected electric vehicles that there is. Imagine the same, but with tens of thousands of Teslas.
Not sure why this was flagged, it's certainly a novel way of striking the enemy, regardless of the political undertones.

Reuters seems to have a bit more details, and is probably a bit less biased than current URL (timesofisrael.com): https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-m...
That was just question of time.
Many managers like to keep stuff close, the reasoning not existence.
> Also, if you are in a relationship, having friendships with other females will likely be a problem.

I would never subject myself to that kind of relationship.
Yes but you can't demote the stress element because the remuneration element is larger. They're not dependent variables at the point the stress is felt.

Stress isn't less stressful just because you get to take a holiday afterwards. A broken leg doesn't hurt less when you break it because you have health insurance.

Sure,the duration of the stress may differ, but that's a different variable too.

Can a millionaire experience the same or higher levels of stress than a cashier? Absolutely. Can a cashier and millionaire be in a position of high, inescapable stress for prolonged periods? Yes.

Stop comparing relative hardship based on your own bias... Unless you promise to never complain about anything you eat or drink ever again because of "starving African children"
I remember in the late 90's the frustration of being unable to play back video content for which there was no codec on the Mac. When I would ask an engineer from the Quicktime team about it I was told repeatedly that "we don't do codecs". I don't doubt there was a rationale behind that policy but I was worried that Apple and Quicktime would lose out to Windows if Mac users kept coming across .avi files and were unable to play them.

As Apple was circling the drain back in the mid-to-late 90's it appeared to some of us at Apple that the Quicktime team were acting as though, as we would say now, they were too big to fail. It was as though they believed they would survive all of this somehow — being a valuable asset that would not be allowed to die even if the company itself did. And maybe they were right.

In hind sight, when Steve came back to Apple, the diminishment of Quicktime had already began. There were a lot of things that Steve seemed to tolerate at first because they were key components of the Apple ecosystem, but like a lot of things that had come to fruit while Steve was not at the helm, he would seek to replace those with NeXT technologies if he could.

Ultimately Quicktime "won" though with the adoption of the MPEG-4 standard. But the engineering weight they carried at Apple definitely seemed to have peaked by the close of the 90's.
Wireless Devices Explode Across Lebanon After Israel Warns Hezbollah
Couldn't you do something like "I did X by YYYing after working around P by doing Z and Q by doing A. Here are some details about how I worked around P and Q and my strategy for YYY."?

My technical writing course stressed that structure should be obvious. Better awkwardly obvious than so subtle people miss it.
First off: group fitness classes live and die by getting a core of regulars. This class he went to was employing time tested social techniques of getting repeat people. Especially for an a la carte gym.

The all female bent was strange, most lifetime fitness classes are pretty mixed, and spin tends to make more than female. Then again this was the weird dance on bike phenomenon which as a "real" cyclist was always weird to me.

...50 classes to "get" spin? I think he was only going once or twice a week in the beginning, so yeah he didn't improve that fast. People, work out 4-5 times a week, it works really well at developing fitness over 1-2 times, where you won't really stress the body to improve long term.
When Fact-Checks Backfire
Author here! I actually did a follow-up where I looked at the table-based decoding: https://commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.cgi?artic...
At the risk of caricature, it seems like there are two camps:

1. WFH is amazing and just as good for productivity and back-to-office is just a flex by evil managers.

2. WFH is bad for global productivity and so we need back-to-office.

Seems pretty straightforward that if #1 is right, then full-remote companies will have a massive competitive advantage, and the issue should be adjudicated decisively once more companies implement b-t-o.
I left Amazon back when the 3-day RTO was announced. Their recruiters periodically ping and ask if I'd be interested in returning. So leaving on good terms will give you options to return if you want.

I haven't seen a recent who's hiring post, but searching for the most recent one can help you find jobs that are hybrid or remote friendly.

Also the startup I went to after I left is fully remote and hiring, my email is in my profile.
Congratulations, you work for a very nice company.
Title needs to be corrected:
Novel Covid-19 mRNA gene therapy may lead to the longest period of peacetime excess mortality
Managers like being able to see you at your desk looking busy. Otherwise they assume you're slacking off. They lack object permanence.
It would be astonishing if Voyager shipped in 1977 with computer vision capabilities that were capable of that level of object detection and discrimination and accuracy. Plus the detailed star maps for correlation. And all designed and built several years before launch!

And in fact I think it's not possible. But orienting on Sol should be achievable. Even at 15 billion miles away, it's still surely the brightest thing in the sky.

Presumably the orientation sensor is precisely in line with the parabolic antenna?
Layoffs incoming.
This is recounted in the article:

> Karsh ducked his head under the camera’s viewing cloth and adjusted the focus. The cigar was still lit in Churchill’s mouth. In a tale that he would repeat countless times, Karsh suggested the prime minister place the cigar in a nearby ashtray. Churchill ignored him, so Karsh pulled the cigar from his mouth and rushed back to his camera. “He looked so belligerent he could have devoured me,” Karsh later recalled. Then he pulled the trigger.
This may be the first widely reported deadly hack of a connected device. Wild times we live in.
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you're not alone in this. I thought i would love WFH but it turns out I need some social interaction even though i dread it.
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Sure, but that doesn't mean it's not pervasive.
For standard pager I can only imagine perhaps some way to short the battery, but that sounds unlikely even as I write it.
https://x.com/WachtelDan/status/1836038754756145515

Footage from the hospital
The whole thing:

"I checked out with K 19 on Aldabaran III, and stepped out through the crummalite hatch on my 22 Model Sirus Hardtop. I cocked the timejector in secondary and waded through the bright blue manda grass. My breath froze into pink pretzels. I flicked on the heat bars and the Brylls ran swiftly on five legs using their other two to send out crylon vibrations. The pressure was almost unbearable, but I caught the range on my wrist computer through the transparent cysicites. I pressed the trigger. The thin violet glow was icecold against the rust-colored mountains. The Brylls shrank to half an inch long and I worked fast stepping on them with the poltex. But it wasn’t enough. The sudden brightness swung me around and the Fourth Moon had already risen. I had exactly four seconds to hot up the disintegrator and Google had told me it wasn’t enough. He was right."

I like how Chandler writing sci-fi sounds exactly like Chandler writing one of his gumshoe stories. It's terse and tense and cynical. The protagonist drives a vehicle into some kind of ambush, and everything's incredibly snappy (including the scenery). Not at all like the actual sci-fi author who turned the parody into a complete story, and felt compelled to discuss something in the middle of the action, and ruined the pace.

I don't think "Google" here is a machine or all-knowing entity, sounds more like it's just some guy. With prior experience of disintegrating Brylls.
"supposed to" depends on the company. The company I was working at announced immediately that we were work from home forever. They canceled leases on over a dozen offices across the world and let us come in and take the old furniture.
> Churchill did a great service to us all.

Maybe we stop hero worshipping and learn the real history?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/29/asia/churchill-bengal-famine-...
I believe they are talking about a situation where S6 is pid1 / system init, starting "system" services (I know the distinction is not in S6), aka things configured by root. I'd expect DNS, cron, NTP, SSH to be in that list.

Then, also, separately from the pid1 S6, unprivileged users can have their own supervision trees independent of the pid1 instance, but that can depend upon things started by pid1.

Example:

pid1 S6 launches root-configured service, S as part of its supervision tree.

Unprivileged user, U, has a discrete instance of S6, which I'll refer to as pidN S6 with a supervision tree that U controls (e.g. in each user's $HOME). pidN S6 launches a service T which depends on S.

Is there a way for pidN S6 to wait on pid1 S6 to note that S is ready, blocking the launch of T until that notification.

The separate supervision trees part seems trivial based on my understanding of S6.

I also see in the docs that a daemon can signal its own supervising S6 that it is ready, so that S6 can manage the dependencies among multiple services in its supervision tree. The part that seems unclear to me (and the original question-asker) is if there can be cross-supervision-tree dependencies.

The brute-force way to do this would be to have the PID1 S6 launch a pidN S6 process for each user, with the supervision tree defined in that user's $HOME. Then the pid1 S6 can ensure that each pidN instance is dependent upon all PID1 services, so that the user instances only launch after all possible dependencies are initialized. This would still depend on an implicit contract between root and users so that root does in fact launch all upstream dependencies.

Alternatively, I guess you could give fine-grained sudo privileges to each user that gets a pidN S6, so that they can check the status of running daemons under the pid1 S6.
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IMHO, yours is not a good take. I get it, I also like to WFH if I can instead of commuting, but working from the office is not the same as working with hazardous substances both legally and as a apples to apples take.

Working in hazardous environments is outlawed (unless proper care is taken), working from the office is not outlawed. If you want working from the office to be outlawed as a health hazard you'll have to convince the government to do that as part of OHSA and labor laws but good luck getting any workers' sympathy that commuting to work in your cushy air conditioned office is not to your taste from the likes of those doing landscaping or roofing.

Otherwise we can stretch the definition endlessly to working with Windows, Agile, Scrum, Teams and Jira is a health hazard and should be also outlawed because I just don't like them, but me not liking something is not enough to make it outlawed.
No, this is the field of complex systems.

We already have this field. It is just too new though. We seem to conflate the sciences with the efficient market hypothesis instead of the reality of progressing one funeral at a time. We may even have structures now that keep things in place after the funeral and stall progress even further.

I study complex systems on my own but if I was a PhD student I am not sure it would be a great career move.
Not to mention phones, laptops, tables, smart watches, medical devices, children's toys, etc.
Churchill was a terrible politician but an effective leader and an able administrator. It's the politician aspect of him that usually gets ridiculed.
Not a good comparison because:

1. Cars have existed in approximately the same form factor for the entire lives of the vast majority of people alive today. Convenient, portable machines for typing are a relatively new product. You can easily see the age gap, ask a teenager to type something and then ask a retired person to type something. One of those two people will struggle. I can't remember the last time I wrote something other than a to-do list, but my retired parents regularly send me photos of hand-written notes.

2. Driving and walking do not cover the same use cases. You cannot drive through the grocery store and most people cannot walk 100+ miles away.
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Sounds like LZW compression to me - is what you're thinking of different than that?
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> But the hard part needs to be regular computer science and the AI comes second.

Yes, indeed. The AI could be used to prefilter the list of warnings generated by static analysis to reduce the amount of false positives. To achieve that an AI could use the history of the projects static analysis results to find likely false positives. Or an I could propose a patch to avoid a warning. If it is automatically compiled, passed to the test suite and the whole ci pipeline, it could reduce the manual effort to deal with finding of static analysis tools.

But leaving out the static analysis tools would loose so much value.
> WFH did not seem normal to most employees or employers until they were forced into it...

True. To nearly every goddamn programmer in the world it was clear that the tech to make WFH work for programming jobs (and similar) had been in place since the mid 1990s, at the latest.

The fact that millions of people had to die in order for the suits to use the tech in place is heartbreaking.

It's also quite painful that the suits are trying to claw back the thing many of us been quietly screaming for for ~thirty years and that we've all proven over the past ~four years generally works really well.

It sucks so much.
It's... "knee-jerk obvious". But is it actually true? People seem to be interested in the concept in formal logic arguments for example https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346658578_How_to_Fo... (which uses formal process for part of formalization), so maybe it's not as simple as it seems initially. I mean, if we're already talking about formal problems, it could use a stronger proof ;)
The name Google was chosen because it's kind of sciency and sounds funny.

Googly, Goggle, Gogle...

It's a funny word that's been used for 100+ years. No irony necessary for a word to be reused for its intended purpose.
History Did the Dodo Wrong
"It's easy for days to go on with no 'change of landscape', and that can send anyone straight to depression."

Counterpoint: That's an exact description of how I felt working in an office.
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This is true and there's a fascinating history for Earth-bound (little v) voyagers!

But Voyager does not have this particular problem. :)