skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not consider "understanding", which cannot be quantified, as a feature of AGI.

In order for something to qualify as AGI, answering in a seemingly intelligent way is not enough. An AGI must be able to do the following things, which a competent human would do: given the task to accomplish something that nobody has done before, conceive a detailed plan how to achieve that, step by step. Then, after doing the first steps and discovering that they were much more difficult or much easier than expected, adjust the plan based on the accumulated experience, in order to increase the probability of reaching the target successfully.

Or else, one may realize that it is possible to reformulate the goal, replacing it with a related goal, which does not change much the usefulness of reaching the goal, but which can be reached by a modified plan with much better chances of success. Or else, recognize that at this time it will be impossible to reach the initial goal, but there is another simpler to reach goal that it is still desirable, even if it does not provide the full benefits of the initial goal. Then, establish a new plan of action, to reach the modified goal.

For now this kind of activity is completely outside the abilities of any AI. Despite the impressive progress demonstrated by LLMs, nothing done by them has brought a computer any closer of having intelligence in the sense described above.

It is true however, that there are a lot of human managers who would be equally clueless with an LLM, on how to perform such activities.
Is anyone around here posting unmoderated videos as part of the discussion?

That's the thing: if a link comes from Facebook, YouTube or whatever, you know it's at least passed the first steps of moderation.

I'd expect that constantly posting links to OnlyFans or other riskier sites will get you flagged or banned around here.
It’s infuriating that US carriers still cargo cult their old CDMA/SIM-less habits even in this day of 3GPP-only LTE/5G.

Sure, they can support the EID flow if they must to support whatever legacy distribution channels, but would it kill them to also support the QR-based eSIM flow like literally every other country in the world?
> That fat Nano was quirky. It was also, in hindsight, obviously a mistake. I’m quite sure that inside Apple there were designers and product people who thought it was a mistake before it shipped. Steve Jobs shipped it anyway, surely because his gut told him it was the right thing to try. Tim Cook’s Apple doesn’t make mistakes like that.

Look, I'm willing to accept a certain level of fanboyish Apple defense, especially from Gruber. It does seem like a bit of a stretch to say the fat iPod Nano was a failure for selling 10 million+ units but the Vision Pro somehow wasn't a mistake by comparison.
What is the best way to handle this if you are unwilling to return? Wait to get fired? Resign? Hope they make an exception for you?
You can also double click the title bar to expand to fill the screen, and double click it again to return to the previous size. One caveat to this is if your application saves window sizes on close and you close with a full screen window and re-open, it won’t shrink again because the “original size” was full screen when the window was opened
"We have a non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid, agender, bigender, demiboy, demigirl, two-spirit, androgynous, neutrois, third gender, polygender, maverique, hijra, kathoey, fa'afafine, man, or woman at my company whose job is to update Jira ticket statuses."

Better? (apologies to anyone I may have missed)
Plus there is latency on the supply side. A lot of people were drawn by the crazy compensation starting about 10 years ago and accelerating during Covid, so that there is a huge amount of new developers out there. Plus due to the internet and mobile devices we're all more connected so the existing pipelines in developing countries are all also pointed at developed countries, bringing in even more supply.

I wonder what's the number of developers today compared to say, 2014, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's 2x if not 3x.
I don't know which ones you've tried, but the most popular ones (Magnet and Rectangle) have worked perfectly for me for years. I routinely forget that I have Rectangle installed.
I haven't even added Strawberry support to my app yet, and so haven't checked what it's context length is, but you're right that additional context length is a scaling factor that's totally independent of whether CoT is used or not.

I'm just saying whatever they did in their [new] model, I think they also added CoT on top of it, as the outer layer of the onion so to speak.
Only speculation, but it might be to try to avoid having to support mirroring for Android devices too.
Wasn't this the drug that also had the occasional effect of stopping people's digestive tract cold so they could no longer eat? Or am I thinking of something else.

That's not listed here: https://www.drugs.com/sfx/ozempic-side-effects.html?form=sub...
Suboxone is far easier to discontinue than methadone, I took it for 18 months and then discontinued use about 10 years ago.

Methadone withdrawals can last for a month (I’d never make it that long) but suboxone physical withdrawals were gone in a few days.

Suboxone also has a dosage ceiling (32mg) where methadone does not.
Considering how much negative publicity companies see every time one of they require RTO, and yet not one has published metrics? They absolutely don't have any.
AeroSpace: I3-like tiling window manager for macOS
It's a solution to the problem of "our servers crashed at 2am, the product isn't functioning, and we have no one working right now capable of fixing it"

How does it work at EU/UK companies?
I didn't know about this one, thank you for posting.

Also, on most windows, you can option-click the green window bar button and get this same behavior. However, some apps, like Safari, will instead expand the window to "a reasonably large size" that will not necessarily cover the whole screen.
I've been happily using Magnet for a long time for this purpose. Good window tiling is critical when working on a 57" monitor...
A commonly cited analyst described lower than expected sales of iPhone 16 Pro due to AI features not rolling out until October.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/15/iphone-16-pro-demand-es...

I find that a little hard to believe. I would suppose the vast majority of customers don't think a lot about the timing of software features in a purchase decision.
The company culture is extreme almost culty. I do think that probably what you need to succeed in the creative world because the competition is so insane
> No more noncompetes

FWIW those were recently completely outlawed: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/.... In theory you can happily sign a noncompete and promptly ignore it. Unlawful contracts are unenforceable.

That does not diminish the value of unions, though.
I've heard from people working there that Amazon tech is full of Indian managers. And the "hearsay" here in Mexico is that Indian work "ethic" is terrible. That they are terrible bosses (same with TCS and HCL who also have lots of positions here in Mexico).

A Mex programmers subredddit r/taquerosprogramadores has plenty of stories about that.

Maybe it's just the structure AZ has established for Mexico. No idea.
It's DMA. Certainly part of it is punitive, but it makes sense, too - building and especially supporting interoperability for these protocols is a burden that they can avoid by not shipping features to the EU. They're free to change the key exchange, APIs, wire format, etc. without having to deal with documentation, key issuance, etc. outside of their walls. And, being forced to open up Screen Mirroring would reduce its value as a moat, since someone would presumably be able to build an Android client quickly and with no reverse engineering work.
I agree with you that they're not small in absolute terms, but I think these offices wouldn't make the mental list of top 4 tech employers in the Bay Area, and there's a very steep drop off after that. Maybe it would be better to say it feels like there are 4 big employers and almost nothing after that. All of this is hard to research - I tried doing some googling for numbers to validate my gut feeling but I wasn't sure how reliable they are.
Apple doesn’t say. I also think a Remote Desktop with fancy branding shouldn’t be hard to release safely and even allow 3rd party integrations.
Hm, I've been really happy with Rectangle (https://rectangleapp.com) and its shortcuts have become second nature to me, but if the native version is equally keyboard friendly I might give it a go.

(btw, have you tried Rectangle and if so - what didn't you like?)

(Not affiliated with it, just a happy user)
This is amazing, it amazes me how some people are able to take the simplest idea and put it out. Amazing, kudos
Rectangle does thirds with ctrl+opt+D/F/G and two-thirds with ctrl+opt+E/T
* Sequoia is available

Proceeds to talk about new App features instead of OS ones.
What transports are supported out of the box? Like file, S3, etc?
It’s about everyone doing 60-80 hours of work a week though
iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 -- the versions with the full Apple Intelligence -- are both in betas, and there are enormous numbers of people blogging and vlogging about their experiences. And yes we all realize that on-device models aren't going to be competing with trillion parameter models, but people are finding it pretty useful.

They just don't feel like it's release ready so they're refining. Apple has done this with major releases over several iterations now where a couple of features are held back for the .1 release while it's perfected.
They have repeatedly tried to remove the free coffee perk (usually by claiming that it was only intended as a temporary thing and will be removed at the end of the year) and the only reason it has been retained this far is because for multiple years running now there was an internal uproar about it.

I suspect at the end of this year they will fully remove it, uproar be damned.
I bet it's written from an Apple device :)
I like working there, but Amazon definitely has the worst in-office accomodations. No snacks, no free coffee, for-profit (like 4-5$ for a chocolate bar) vending machines on every second floor, no cafeterias in most building and when they have one it's a hole-in-the-wall that microwaves stuff (except Seattle).

In the original RTO email they even pointed the importance of employee spending money in the surrounding restaurants to support the downtime economy as if I should feel personally invested in spending 30$/meal on an overpriced burger for lunch.
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Sleeping on your back isn’t a medical treatment. It’s a snoring reduction. You can buy snore guards, nose strips, special pillows etc to prevent snoring and none of those require FDA approval because snoring isn’t a medical condition.
Would be an interesting relationship to explore. I think you can look at it as both cause and effect. Effect in that flooding destroys wealth and often-flooded areas will not have longstanding infrastructure or buildings - hits to the local real estate that result from flooding can affect non-flooded buildings as well. The cause could be because property and income taxes in low-income regions may be insufficient to fund infrastructure or public works that prevent or mitigate flooding and flood damage.
In my collection of CDROMs, I had one titled "Wired For Sound Pro" -- it was some custom software that could add sound effects to a ton of Windows events, as well as a huge library of sound files to attach to those events. I think products like this were to showcase "Multimedia PCs" that were starting to make it big in the mid 90s...
I'm aware of the FTC rule, but that's subject to change depending on who's currently in the white house

Also some of Harris's donors are pushing her to get rid of Lina Khan. Even if she wins, the rule might not stay around
I've been in tech for 20 years now. Inflation has outpaced everything
Great effort, thanks! I just recently had to implement camt054 for our client and others will follow, because it's becoming the new standard soon. There's definitely a whole lot more in that namespace, yes.

I accidently also stumbled across the different einvoicing types that exist. What a space to explore :)
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How exactly do they get rich? No obvious mention of profit share or any other actual reward expect the growth of the beast media brand
Installing it on my mid-2015 MBP thanks to Open Core Patcher!
They've made a statement, however weak: https://archive.is/Rl7Ue

“Due to the regulatory uncertainties brought about by the Digital Markets Act, we do not believe that we will be able to roll out three of these [new] features — iPhone Mirroring, SharePlay Screen Sharing enhancements and Apple Intelligence — to our EU users this year.”
Yup, complete with free and paid tiers of service:

> The Python in Excel add-on license includes everything in Python in Excel for Microsoft 365, plus premium compute and more calculation mode options. Premium compute means faster Python formula calculation times. With the additional calculation mode options, you can switch between manual, partial, or automatic calculation modes to control when and how often your workbooks recalculate Python formulas.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/python-in-excel-a...
Imagine taking drugs instead of working out.
Can you explain to me what you mean by this? What about the internet today isn’t fun? There are plenty of websites that don’t have garbage listicles and AI slop, they just aren’t as popular.
Right, so presumably the data indicates the opposite? Or they knew better to not look for it? Confused by the whole thing
> It's super counter-productive too because in the morning is when I'm at my most productive and a guaranteed interruption every single morning is horrible.

At least in my bubble, tech seems to be skewed heavily towards night-owls. I winder if putting the meeting in the morning is due to people assuming that, since they aren't productive in the mornings, neither is anybody else.
Worked there for 7 years (left in 2021) and this is an accurate summary of my experience there.

Adding on thoughts:

One of my biggest gripes was that "make a good marketing opportunity at Re:Invent" seemed to become more important than "release beloved software that makes the lives of our customers easier" by the time I left (not that I was working on anything for reinvent in my final years there).

I will add that I learned a TON from AWS, and got to practice much of it too. It's the best boot camp one could ask for regarding general skill development imo (not particular frameworks etc but like, the theory and practice). There's also some things I miss like the weekly ops review and the general engineering culture, especially when it came to explicitly listing service limits, API specs, and cost up front in your design. Oh, and I honestly miss the docs culture. Quip wasn't as good as Google docs but the actual docs themselves and process of authoring them were SUPER valuable.

Coding wise, CDK was so much better than terraform (once we moved to CDK from lpt+cfn, which was way worse imo). Smithy and open API are neato too (@smithy externally everyone uses thrift it seems, but the overlap of functionality/use cases isn't identical).

Probably the biggest thing I miss was bones (kind of successor to octane), which is kind of like yeoman or create react app but would include so so much of the excellent internal tooling of ci/CD approval actions. I don't know of a real external equivalent, but would love to have one. If you ever see a Breland Miley or Ian Mosher apply to your company, HIRE THEM IMMEDIATELY. (There was another really solid guy on that team but their name escapes me at the moment, and here's hoping I got the spelling right)

Oh, also isengard is still easier to use than okta or AWS organizations to manage accounts imo.
But that was already part of continuity or was it previously limited to user activities?

It’s hilarious that Apple made such a big deal out of it and then failed to release it for everyone.
It's all relative and I imagine there is more startup energy/funding here than in Madison, it's just not pervasive like it is in SF. Also we as an industry seem to be heading into a funding trough, only AI promises are keeping the bubble afloat.
I grew up in NYC, down at the end of Brooklyn by Coney Island / Brighton Beach.

My entire life, I have always called the NYC Subway the “great equalizer.” For a tiny sum of money (75 cents when I was a kid, just over $2 now) you could get anywhere you wanted in the city. Transfers were free. The subway goes nearly everywhere.

I used the hell out of it, especially because students (aka anyone under 18) rides the subway M-F for free.

So while I didn’t have bikes or stoops, I did have access to see friends and do things that were otherwise completely inaccessible to me. Sure, I didn’t ride the subway alone until I was a teenager, but before that I had buses.

It’s different, but I don’t regret it. Once I got to high school, I went to a school in lower Manhattan, which opened up my world even more.
> "Notice that I gave as an example the early days of Google. In those days, it was stacked with 99th percentilers working full tilt: Sergey and Larry, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, Luiz André Barroso, Urs Hölzle, Amit Singhal, etc."

and it was up against Yahoo! one of the most famously directionless bumbling tech companies, and their peers. Yahoo! didn't seem like it was executing on almost all cylinders with almost LASER focus on some goal, so why did it take 99%ilers working full tilt and an innovative idea (PageRank) and an innovative model (off-shelf Intel/Linux clusters instead of 'real' expensive server class hardware like Sun and mainframes) and Silicon Valley funding to beat them?

If you're not at a FAANG or similar, your coworkers are average, maybe disinterested, the processes and procedures seem almost designed to slow and frustrate progress, managers don't know much about the job and hate making decisions or taking risk; shouldn't it be possible to outdo half the companies which exist, and most of the companies which fail, by doing just slightly better work than average?

Where's that discrepancy coming from?
I'm pretty sure all the mentioned runtimes support all the standardized console methods, and it does not mention anything about compatability with more restricted environments like quickjs or embedded js.
Management and leadership are different skills and fundamentally different endeavors. They both involve influencing the direction of people, but from different angles.

Need both in a healthy team.

‘Hire leaders’ appeals to teams that lack direction.
‘Hire managers’ appeals to teams without discipline.
>And the side effects are minor compared to, say, being 200 lbs overweight.

I was about the reply the same thing. Obesity is directly or indirectly a risk factor for almost every health problem imaginable.

Even for a situation that looks completely unrelated like getting shot in the knee by a gun, the risk of dying during
the surgery will be significantly higher if you are obese.
Oh! How is it for a dev. box ?? Can you get gcc/clang/rust/python ?
Does it have a decent browser and code editor?

It sounds like fun to play with - I've been wanting to try something new...
You didn't fail. You succeeded...Doing nothing mostly means letting your mind go wherever it wants to.
Counting the time (seconds on a clock) is a good way to start doing nothing
Discworld runs on Rule Of Funny just as much as Roger Rabbit does, but the author was very good about continuity so there were rarely noticeable direct conflicts.
“This OS update could have been an app update.”
Because the world is imperfect and having URLs instead of using content negotiation makes a far better user and SEO experience so that's what we do in practice.

IOW pragmatism.
It's more about changing eating habits than working out. Pretty easy to work out and not lose weight (or gain weight if that's your goal).
Or just use Qt Widgets? Yes, the default sizes and styling might not be suitable but these are easily and fully customizable. The one disadvantage is that Widgets is not hardware accelerated.
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Sure. I've used `say` on macos (spd-say for linux) like so:

mvn clean install ; say "Done"

It's great for those build times that're awkwardly long. Just long enough that you get bored waiting, too short to accomplish something else in the meantime. So you crank up the volume, load up HN, read an article and "DONE!" OH HOLY SHI--. Back to work.

that said it sucks to set up that flow when you /sometimes/ are around other people. it's pretty jarring if anyone can hear it, so you just wouldn't do it in a tight-collab area.

Usually though they're SUPER annoying so eventually I weeded them out of my workflow.

Would not recommend using sounds in development.
I don't mean to say your experience isn't real, but that isn't what I encountered at all with my last 12 years "waiting for Ubuntu to get good" (I am quoting myself here).

Every time I tried to install it to test if it was good, something broke for no reason. This happened to me on many PCs and many versions of Ubuntu.

The last time I tried 24.04, the installer crashed in the middle of the installation and I couldn't finish it.

If someone wants to test Ubuntu, I'd say you should try it, but do not get surprised if something very basic seems broken since that's my entire experience with the distro. I'd recommend Fedora instead.
imagine how the rest of us have been feeling up to this point.
If you hold option while dragging the window, yes. Otherwise dragging the window to the top of the screen is the method of moving it between spaces (e.g. separate desktop workspaces).
> We also had initial results from the FLOW trial, suggesting that Ozempic prevents diabetics with kidney disease from needing dialysis.

Between this and the 2nd order decrease in renal disease from the reduction in diabetes and high blood pressure, Ozempic would have to end up having some truly awful long term effects to net out negative in utilitarian terms.

The US spends 130 G$/yr (0.5% of the _entire_ GDP) on dialysis, and that undercounts just how awful being on dialysis is in subjective terms.
You don’t understand the model. Residential customers pay most of the fees upfront as hook up fees monthly. You could use 0 energy in many areas and you would still pay almost the same amount.
Reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Shilling with a bit of hyperbole.
Here’s one for HN readers, you can now find jq in /usr/bin/ in Sequoia.
Xcode isn't working with Sequoia for me. Anyone else having this issue?