skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea why anyone gives credence to Gruber after his history of “incredible to the point of incredulity” pro-Apple bias over the years.
yeah, but at least it's not an Electron app
Why would all of the forced RTO companies not share the golden data that proves their point?
Can we finally call poll(2) instead of select(2) on a pty?

https://nathancraddock.com/blog/macos-dev-tty-polling/

Apple is doing a lot of great things in systems fundamentals, but I wish they'd take some time to clean up warts in their POSIX implementation.
> 1. Screen-recording permission once every week ?

Every month.

(Which is still annoying, but not the raw level of frustration that weekly would be.)
Do all of those put together generate enough revenue to match the operating costs of generative models, ignoring all capital costs?
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Well if you already have an Apple Watch and don’t want to spend the night plus potential sleep study cost (can be above $1000 for a lot of people), then this may help someone. Especially if they don’t even know.

I have sleep apnea and used Lofta’s service for $187 and paid for the machine out of pocket. So there is definitely a need for this type of testing.
You used to be able to easily visit the Duga Radar, legally, via one of the many tour companies that offered Chernobyl tours. Back in 2018 I visited myself, I believe with this company, as part of a conference: https://chernobyl-tour.com/tours_to_the_chernobyl-2_duga-1_e... At least then Chernobyl had been turned into quite the tourist destination with enough tours running that there even was a giftshop at the main checkpoint.

Unfortunately due to the proximity to the Russian/Belarus borders the whole area is closed right now due to Russia's invasion (Russia even occupied Chernobyl briefly). But it'll probably reopen sooner or later.
Absolutely, it's a silly argument. I knew plenty of people who slaked off in-person, most managers aren't literally standing behind you watching your screen. It's IMO a bad metric anyway, I'll read Reddit, HN, watch Youtube, etc. when I'm "supposed" to be working because I need to take a break, and I get more than enough done and work enough hours that it doesn't impact my work.

The things you can't hide are having no meaningful update for stand-up every day, not completing any cards, not participate in conversations/planning, etc. If's that not catching up to them then that's on management for not paying attention.
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> Writing code with AI? I could swap to a local model. Costs nothing.

Costs nothing? I'd have to buy a desktop computer with a good GPU to run that model. How much would that cost?
The actual announcement

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/ceo-andy-jassy...

An equally important update was reducing number of managers which nobody seems to care about :-)

So, we’re asking each s-team organization to increase the ratio of individual contributors to managers by at least 15% by the end of Q1 2025.
It seems like they could just give you a notification reminder once a month that apps have that permission, without forcing you to grant it over and over
Thankfully they can still work from home the other two days.
Thank you for this fantastic link! Seriously. Bookmarked and planning to share. :)
I would if there were any AAA games I was interested in.
My previous answer was too short.

Here is some more elaboration:

I said "untagged union" to distinguish it from "tagged union", which is another name for sum types. There are several comments that incorrectly called sum types "union types".

But it isn't tagging that's the problem, it's the limitation that a value can only be of one type in vanilla HM. And indeed both OCaml and Haskell go beyond vanilla HM: https://ocaml.org/manual/5.2/objectexamples.html https://hackage.haskell.org/package/vary-0.1.0.3

BTW `thumbnailService :: String -> VEither [ServerUnreachable, IncorrectUrl, NotAnImage, TooBigImage] Image` is isomorphic to `Image thumbnailService(String url) throws ServerUnreachable, IncorrectUrl, NotAnImage, TooBigImage`.

And nobody likes checked exceptions in Java. (hyperbole)
I mean, you can download source if you want to run it. It isn’t a complete nightmare yet. I think we’re still in a grey area. This will help some people still, though it’ll definitely hinder others (myself included).

Once you need to be in the apple developer program to build and run from source or something, that’ll be a legitimate nightmare. But we’re nowhere near that yet.
An old mentor once said "Don't solve things in software that should be solved in hardware."

Unfortunately, adding a clock to the thermal element was a software solution masquerading as a hardware solution. If you have a piece of your system that can start a fire, you need to be sensing temperature, somehow. Sensing anything else is daring reality to get creative with your abstraction model.
I don't think anyone is arguing it's giving zero value, only that the total value is not keeping up with investments. Look at the recent smart-speaker bubble: people indeed use them, but not often enough for profitable activities, and so the speaker market popped. Trying to goad people into shopping with them failed.

Making AI pictures of Pee Wee Herman riding a shark blindfolded is indeed fun, but not profitable for Microsoft because it's too hardware intensive for ads to cover. I gotta make more goofy pics before the bottom falls out...
> “We want to operate like the world’s largest startup,” Jassy wrote.

Who’s “we”?
Pat Gelsinger on Intel Foundry Momentum, Progress on Plan
> Their terms and conditions make it fairly clear that the only thing that would cause this is if you upload illegal content

This is false:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32547912

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33737577

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35133917

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146082

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22705122

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4013799
Curious as to why this contract agreement needs to be secret. Can it not be reverse engineered somehow? I'm imagining there's a set number of codes per doctor-insurer combination, or are these codes uniquely generated for each patient?
To be fair, Qt also needs a POSIX API running underneath it just like AOSP does. So you're still on Linux for embedded devices.

I've tried building an embedded product with AOSP that isn't a phone or web browser. It was a massive pain in the ass. I hate the JNI.
The 'cycle' option in Rectangle.app allows just this. I use the hotkey(s) + bracket keys to cycle 1/3, 1/2, 2/3 screen windows justified left or right, and the hotkey + pipe key to cycle center justified.

These three shortcuts are embarrassingly effective and cover 99% of my window tiling. Others include the standard hotkey(s) + return for fullscreen and hotkey(s) + backspace for the previous window size..
Yes. A POST that is idempotent, safe, cacheable (POST normally isn't any of those).

Alternatively this is a standardization of "GET-with-request-body" (which is NOT allowed by the spec but which some implement anyways).
All—every one of—the non-tech office workers in my social circle at this point are at least hybrid with a more remote days than in-office.

And almost none of my social circle is tech, so this sample is a fair proportion of all the people I know. Four different industries, and government, state and federal. All at least hybrid-mostly-remote, and about a third fully remote. Still, this long after the pandemic. Most aren’t high-earning, either, so it’s not that they have remarkably high personal leverage or something.

It’s to the point that non tech office workers I know aren’t going back to full-time in the office unless the pay difference is enormous. WFH is too valuable.
I have sleep apnea that I treat with a BiPAP machine. The neurologist who manages it said that everybody has sleep apnea to some degree, and, as a matter of fact, with my BiPAP machine, I have fewer episodes than the average person.
According to the writer everything in tech is AI. It bothers me and makes it difficult to take the article seriously.

> Similar to how big tech companies like Google and Amazon rely on outside vendors to help design and manufacture custom AI chips

> Having missed the first wave of the AI boom dominated by Nvidia and AMD, Intel reported a disastrous second quarter in August.
So do I understand it correctly; the problem is not MacOS having a client app, the problem is iOS acting as the server with only apple approved client implementation?

I really don't see how it falls outside of the DMA.
I'm the opposite. on my last team, about half were out of town and half were in office. Everyone was very productive.
Interestingly to me, there’s still many who believe tech is some sort of utopia of meritocracy where everything is logical and sound, because (relatively) high labor rates.

It’s always been a factor of ROI for the roles vs competitive labor market rates. Tech tends to operate closer to business leadership than many industries so many get this idea of being modern clerics or something and being part of the nobility class in organizations when again, really we’re often some of the most despised in the labor force as a necessary evil that must be paid (relatively) high where at every turn cost optimization experiments are attempted at our expense.

Business leadership doesn’t like you, they like that the things you can do can be wielded to scale their and the organizations wealth higher than most roles, because tech scales. That’s about it, IMHO at least.
The Steamdeck is an AMD APU (potentially originally developed for Magic Leap), and several follow on portable PC handhelds using AMD Z1 apus. https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/handhelds/ryzen-z...
It’s not like OS-level features and improvements aren’t in every release—Apple’s been talking about them since WWDC in developer channels. Read the release notes.
What happened to Microsoft and Alphabet does not seem comparable to Sears, GE, Boeing, and IBM. The latter group have objectively declined in terms of profit and potential.

MS/GOOG are still earning near record amounts of net income with fat profit margins, and have a higher than ever market cap.

AMZN also, so far, has pretty rosy numbers to back it up. They’re profit margins are relatively tiny though, so the executives are focusing on increasing those to match its trillion dollar market cap.

It is the reason Amazon shareholders enjoy a $2T market cap rather than Walmart shareholders that only have a $650B market cap.
I seem to remember quite a few examples posted to HN over the past few years of companies "declaring RTO" and then finding that rank-and-file employees largely just ignored it, and the companies never did anything about it because they can't fire everyone.

"I declare RTO" can only work if you have critical enough mass of employees who believe the bluff and actually come into the office. This is definitely an area where a workforce that is organized and works together could hold out forever, but the tech worker mantra is "unions bad" so collective action is difficult.
It seems like this would only be useful for nonrepudiation, when people want to prove someone said something despite them denying it. The solution is to only deal with people that sign their statements to begin with, and you don't need a proxy for that.
The primary goal of any aspiring writer on any medium should first and foremost be to write.

Recommending certain guidelines or approaches is certainly fine. Self-reflection and self-improvement is usually an admirable goal but not at the cost of just doing the damn thing.

And, frankly, invoking seasoned professional authors is just silly when the topic is amateur blogging.

And let's not pretend unwarranted criticism—or even just unnecessary expectations—so often just ends up being unhelpful and literally counterproductive or, much worse, a form of gatekeeping.
And what would be the rationale behind making people call to learn about negotiated rates instead of providing that information directly?
The ability to launch a jar?
For reference, according to Worldbank data, Chinese male life expectancy was 76, while female was 81 in 2022.
Kind of killing the golden goose though. If this was the plan then it would be better to NOT force a return to office and just keep blaming everything on WFH over and over with a little "millennials/Z just don't want to work anymore" sprinkled in.
More like Kowloon, the OG 15-minute city.

Naturally the execs will live far away, next door to the urban planners.
To you and the previous commenter, is it possible you've just aged out of the market? (not sure what other word to use than "aged") but my point is, most people eventually change their habits in almost everything.

The way I game now has changed drastically over the years for various reasons. The latest for me is probably just being tired of games that seem 3% different than the last fps/shumps/twin-stick-shooter/metroidvania/...
Good reminder to monitor for the actual problem, and not a proxy, if you can.

Printer heads being on for 10ms isn't a problem, overheating is. Might have been cost-prohibitive or too complex to add in a thermometer and use that to shut down in addition to the 10ms test, but in a perfect world..
Right there with ya. They can pry my perpetually licensed pseudo-32-bit copy of Photoshop off my cold dead Mac Pro…
> roblox (why?) might have offered better, but

Every time I talk to a roblox recruiter it's something about how they have 70mm monthly recurring users and they're "building the platform to build games on" or something, but they're a total ghost in the mainstream media. I don't see the value proposition. Maybe they're the next "it" social media company as the users turn 16-21. Whatever they're doing, they pay full price for talent, allegedly.
Yeah, good luck persuading an SVP to approve an exception for you.
If you can't run jars, it's not a java implementation.
Those sound like good April 1st RFC fodder.
I’ve played a fair bit of Stardew Valley, and that complexity can be fun, but sometimes I prefer to return to Friends of Mineral Town for the simplicity, and can do so on mobile (iOS lacks a mobile port of SD to my knowledge).
Gotta stop gambling *before* you lose.
> There are people working 2-3 full-time jobs, pulling over $500k, while actually putting in only a few hours worth of work each week.

Why doubly care if they perform well enough? Some sense of misguided justice?
Everything you said applies to Google as well. Genuinely interesting at a technical level, but terrible leadership that squanders it.
Yeah I get what you're saying. totally agree.
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Really too bad, but I’m not surprised. I know losing affiliate money many years ago hurt bad.

But the truth is I don’t care much anymore. I loved TA because they helped me find fun games. And while I’ve found a few from them in the last few years like Peglin most of their coverage is unsurprisingly what most of the industry makes: pay to win with smurfberries advertising laden crap.

I strongly believe the iOS gaming scene died the day IAPs came out.

There is the incredibly rare indie game that you can pay for now, and Apple Arcade. While I enjoy that most of the good games I’ve played before (a plus on the name = existed before). Those that I haven’t played or are new often were obviously designed for IAPs and aren’t that fun when they’re removed.

And I know devs seem to hate it, and I’m not surprised. But it’s the only option I’ve got left.

I’ll miss you, Touch Arcade. You long outlasted the era of greatness for the platform you covered. Thanks for making it as long as you did. One more sign we can’t have nice things because ruthless unnecessarily exploitive capitalism.
I work less in the office. Too many distractions.

Also the corporate productivity difference is only marginally better, but I get to spend significant time surrounded by my wife and children.

I will not be in my deathbed wishing I spent less time with my loved ones. It’s interesting how RTO mandates reveal the priorities of those around us.
The job losses were entirely from post Covid earnings expectations falling and from anti-inflationary efforts like the fed increasing rates. Very little if it had anything to do with AI.
Three Degrees of Freedom: Ontology, Epistemology, Metaphysics
And most of all, have fun.
> my back hurts because I never sleep on my back

Try a body pillow. Having something to wrap your arms & legs around and keep your spine aligned counteracts at least some of the discomforts of sleeping on your side.
> - Execs truly believe that culture and productivity are better in office (i.e., what they actually say in their announcements)

fwiw I talk to a lot of execs/board members and the belief here is genuine, whether or not workers agree with it. Most other execs I've talked to have wanted to pull the trigger on full RTO for years but have been afraid because they know it's a hugely unpopular decision. With a major player like Amazon doing it now, it's suddenly a lot easier to justify to employees. I suspect by 2026 fully-remote jobs will be about as common as they were pre-COVID, which is to say they exist but are an exception, not the norm.

> - An opportunity to force attrition without layoffs

this is almost right but "layoffs" is the wrong word. Layoffs = we want to cut spending to improve our cash position/burn rate/etc. It's more accurate to say it's a way to get rid of people who aren't "dedicated" for lack of a better word, without a ton of paperwork. The idea being that if someone hates the company enough that showing up to an office 5 days/week will make them quit, you're better off replacing them.

> - Maintain real estate value / Justify real estate investments

This one's a silly conspiracy theory, most executives don't have heavy investments in commercial real estate, at least not directly... residential has been so much more profitable for decades now
"Retiring before the statutory age will not be allowed, state news agency Xinhua reported"

I'm curious what this really means - just that people can't pull from the retirement pension before the statutory age, similar to social security in the US? Or is it somehow stricter? There are certainly unemployed people in China. Are there restrictions against a self-funded early retirement?
AFAICT (haven't yet discussed with my manager), managers have zero flexibility and any exception must be approved at SVP level
s/Playstation/PlayStation 6/ - next generation
"OpenAI will have to continue to raise more money than any startup has ever raised in history, in perpetuity, to survive."

As of 2022, Uber had supposedly raised a total of $25.2B in funding over 32 rounds.
So they may be ahead in the money-drain business.

"There is no way to justify the current level of investment, with local models being freely available."

The business problem OpenAI faces is that their systems aren't good enough that users can trust the results. Slightly crappier results are also available at much lower cost. Unless OpenAI can definitively fix the "hallucination" problem, and at least return "Don't know" when appropriate, this isn't going to work at OpenAI's price point.

Chatbots are about as good as low-end outsourced call centers. They can sort of help with programming. The systems that generate pictures can do some impressive things. LLMs produce better blithering than most bloggers. It's really impressive. But, absent a major theoretical breakthrough, that's not enough to fund OpenAI.
In the case of one CEO of a moderately large company who I know pretty well, they honestly do think that the energy and camaraderie of having people in an office is a positive thing and they're probably right. They're also shedding real estate and are pretty resigned to the co-located workers genie not going back into the bottle especially given changes that happened over COVID. Sure, companies can force it but they'll lose a lot of their workforce in many cases and they may not consider that a good tradeoff.

I actually don't think it is about conspiracy theories in general but more about executives trying to recreate a past that had some positive features that have evaporated. Even 15 years ago, I spent a lot of useful face-time with people which evaporated with COVID and travel/off-site budget cuts. You can deal with the latter to some degree but a lot of companies really haven't.
For a lot of things, especially in bigger companies, a programming task could take 4 weeks, where the coding is only 2 days of work. The rest is spent on writing docs, ticking checkboxes in some internal release tool, and waiting, waiting, waiting for approval from code reviewers and multiple gatekeepers. I've seen a 5 minute programming task take a month to deploy because the privacy and legal approvers were on three week vacations, and the project couldn't go live until their feedback was given (and possibly resulted in code changes).
Study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073510972...
Shows nothing but a blank screen on an older iPad.
I love this idea.

YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYTHONS
interesting. I have not found Llama able to do any of the sort of 'reasoning' that the larger foundational models can do. It's too easily tricked up by small things.

The larger models aren't perfect, but worlds apart from Llama.
fancy a picnic?
It is great when claim everything works better when we are all in the same office together and then expect you to get online in the off hours because of an outage, or work with teams from other offices 3 timezones away on a project, or work with offshore to save money.
>Can't wait to get this in more devices.

Samsung received FDA approval back in February:

https://aasm.org/samsung-galaxy-watch-sleep-apnea-feature-re...

It works on a different monitoring method and requires 2 sleep cycles over 4 hours each in a 10 day window to start detecting.

>The feature, a software-only mobile medical app, uses smartwatch built-in sensors to monitor the user’s sleep for significant breathing disruptions associated with OSA. Users may track their sleep twice for more than four hours within a 10-day period to utilize the feature.
Ah no, I am not saynig they are useful from a bussiness point of view (I have no idea about that). I am saying more as a user who uses GPT for free, for example.
I make them myself
It seems like OpenAI is trying to build a moat now, each generation appears to be less and less open to the point that you can't even see LLM reasoning steps.

It's been a while since we've had a major tech company commodify/open source a major dependency (and not just layer some rent seeking pay/subscription service over existing assets). Meta seems to have the best long term plan for LLMs.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558554
Somewhere on AWSs network it isn’t. How does it get from the Load balancer to your backend EC2’s if the load balancer is doing SSL interception