skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzhKEHDR_rc :-) Thanks for that, I think I will watch The Big Lebowski tonight!
You'd be surprised what lifestyle creep does to people. Often people don't pay off their debts and instead scale their debts to their new income - it's stupid I know.

I agree they should be in a better position because of their income, and I'd say more than an average amount are. But there are still a lot of people in that bracket who absolutely would have the floor pulled out from under them.

People are often caught with their pants down assuming the good times will keep rolling. And even when they see the market downturn or have a generous severance, it still can be very difficult to scrape together the 6+ months emergency fund required on short notice.
Living organisms were optimized on the objective of self-propagation and we ended up with a notion of truthfulness. Why is the self-propagation objective key for truthfulness?
Scare tactics: scientists offer insights on what makes a perfect prank
If that were the case, you couldn't give it a statement and ask whether that statement is true or not, and get back a response that is correct more often than not.
I don't think you can do that with Adguard right now. You can use a browser with adblock for desktop/mobile, and there are smart TV apps with adblock and sponsorblock both for Tizen [0] and webOS [1].

[0]: https://github.com/reisxd/TizenTube/

[1]: https://github.com/webosbrew/youtube-webos
Any specific areas of interest?

Some mailing lists at [1], like oss-security & kernel-hardening. CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) [2] has a few different areas they report on. Mozilla has the dev-security-policy mailing list for all things PKI (public key infrastructure) [3], and a few other lists as well. There's the Full Disclosure [4] mailing list for vulnerabilities/exploits, etc. Quite a few others at [5], though sadly many are no longer active.

[1] https://openwall.com/lists/

[2] https://www.cisa.gov/about/contact-us/subscribe-updates-cisa

[3] https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-polic...

[4] https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/

[5] https://seclists.org/
If I owned a controlling stake in a business, I'd fire the leadership every time there's evidence of short-term thinking. The problem with public companies is systemic: a large fraction of shareholders want short term appreciation, and so they support and reward short-term mindsets in leaders at the cost of long-term value.
I asked ChatGPT to make it brutal:

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Listen up: 20% of you—528 people—are out. This isn’t a discussion. I’m pulling the plug on your roles. That’s it.

Why? Because we’re not making enough money to keep this bloated mess afloat.

We’ve been weighed down by too many damn layers, too much bureaucracy, and soft sales. We’re not here to carry dead weight. If your department wasn’t delivering, you’re gone. We’re only keeping what’s absolutely necessary to survive.

What’s next

This is a brutal market, and we’re not interested in getting left behind while our competitors rake it in. We’re cutting back hard and doubling down on what we think might actually make us cash. This is a no-BS, keep-up-or-get-out game now. You’ll hear more about our plans for 2025 soon.

What you get if we’re cutting you loose

Here’s what you can expect, take it or leave it:

Severance: 16 weeks’ pay, plus an extra week for every year you put in here. If you’re international, you’ll get what’s legally required. No more, no less.
Equity: We’ll throw you your Q4 vest.
Bonus payout: If you were on a bonus plan, you’ll get a prorated payout based on what we predict you would’ve gotten.
Leave payouts: If you had any paid leave left, you’ll get a check for it.
Visa holders: We’re giving you a bit more time and a consult for your next steps. After that, you’re on your own.

Healthcare

US folks: Six more months of COBRA.
Canada folks: One month of healthcare.
All of you: You can still use Modern Health for therapy. You might need it.

Devices

Keep whatever company devices you’ve got. We’re not taking them back.

Job placement

You’ll get some career coaching and placement help, but after that, it’s up to you.

What’s happening next

We’ll give the rest of the details later today. If you’ve got questions, there’s a Town Hall later this week.

For those who got cut: thanks for your work.
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> high tech salaries

Are they really high? They are not that different from UPS driver salaries.

Just the other day I clicked on the website of some random law firm's career page. I wasn't happy with what I saw (in the context of my own career). Some researchers with 1 year of experience with starting salary of 450k+... tech salaries look high as long as you don't check other professions.
Yes, physics determins how phenomena work and aggregate but that doesn't necessarily support the specific claim (and we also don't know "all of physics").
Again: It's unbelievable that someone (like this) would be using an LLM to compose an email to their boss for the first time.

He's a lazy fuck office stiff (yet still manages to warrant an iMac desktop), you're telling me he's just now starting to use an LLM to compose emails? Sure, whatever.
If you think this ad is clever and funny you are entitled to that, you're not going to convince me it isn't idiotic and the joke is old.
Unless the message was Apple AI: the new thing for oblivious dipshits or the recently recovered comatose.

Their ad agency should know better too:
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/google-pulls-ai-ad-for-olymp...

Even the bastion of pretentious journalism Fast Company has this headline: "In Apple’s new ads for AI tools, we’re all total idiots"

> Ironically, you're doing the same thing as the actor in the skit - pretending to be confused, for effect.

If you're intuitive enough to conclude that an otherwise inarticulate douchebag probably used an LLM to compose an email, why would you
"pretend" to be confused? Makes no sense. There's nothing remarkable about using an LLM to write an email.
It's telling that the author doesn't even attempt to argue why these shouldn't be considered high risk - they only argue that doing so will hinder business interests, and that apparently is convincing enough for them.
Isn't paze.com a potential threat to this?
Whenever people are laid off where you work, I suppose you always volunteer to take their place? Since according to you it's only such a minor inconvenience I think it would be hypocritical of you to not to offer to take their place.

Grandparent is not even saying that it should be avoided, just that the CEO should face some accountability from it. In many cases they have none at all, whereas the impact on the employees can range from actually quite low (as in your example) to very high. In fact there is no upper ceiling to impact to the worker which is the real problem. From the horror stories I've heard about the US they could even lose health insurance and end up with someone in the family dying because they can't afford treatment. Accountability is good precisely when there are such asymmetrical power imbalances, where one person makes the decision and someone else bears all the consequences. Either you add some feedback loops or the imbalance grows unchecked until it becomes unsustainable, and eventually you end up with a war of independence, or a French revolution and things like that.

With just a bit of empathy it should be easy to understand why accountability is needed in such situations to keep a good social dynamic long term. Someone with the empathy of a river boulder might think it's just people behaving irrationally, but I suggest you look into game theory and you'll see how some seemingly irrational behaviours like tit-for-tat are not as irrational as they seem.
Because having a functional business model is what defines whether the use of capital is good or not. Bad outcomes from low interest rates are all these layoffs from overstaffing, all the wasted human-years on blockchain & NFT garbage during 2021, VCs blowing money on obvious failures like Juicero, etc. These are not good uses of capital, and if they had to have a real business plan to get capital in the first place, it would not have been wasted.
It's quite impressive to read an article as alarmist as this and find that basically every regulation it's complaining about is actually very sensible.

Of course an AI tutor is a high risk scenario: having an AI that children are supposed to trust is a highly risky endeavor. If you don't offer cyber-security guarantees, for example, someone could hack it and start directly talking to those children and go into various very dangerous subjects. If you don't log the interactions between the children and the AI tutor, parents that suspect the tutor is malfunctioning can't review records and verify this, even if they sue. And regulations like this ensure that businesses willing to do it well will not be easily outcompeted by people moving fast and breaking thing.

And complaining about the fact that enforcement will be federated and not centralized at the EU level is simply a misunderstanding of the EU. Basically no one actually living in the EU wants to put power into EU authorities, everyone wants to keep most of the power in their own countries. The staffing problem is an issue, but it's also an excellent opportunity: creating AI jobs in every region of the EU, that EU funds could help pay for, is a great chance for the engineering workforce in EU countries.

Overall, I'm happy that I read this article. It left me very happy with the existence and form of the EU AI Act.
I can take care of neighbor pets without extra capital.
Plenty of "smart" appliances phone home unnecessarily.
Another version/interpretation in this "truth" space is whether a model is capturing multi-part correlations with truthy/falsy signals, much like capturing the "sadness" or "sarcasm" of a statement.

In other words, a model might have local contextual indicators, but not be able to recognize global hard logical contradictions.
Just off the top of my head: every engineer should have 6+ months of savings. Market isn't great but our salaries can help build those savings easy.

If I had more time, I would love to understand the fss market better and also what impact ai is having there. I don't see a Q3 earnings report from Dropbox, but as others have pointed out in other comments, Dropbox seems to have been doing fine financially.
That's exactly the same as zelos's example of "the total amount of rope produced in 2019 was thought to be about 500 meters per second". It's a little bit odd, but it's a perfectly correct way to describe the total amount of rope produced in 02019†. Multiplying by the number of seconds in a year isn't additional research. In the same way, you can validly say "the total temperature rise of the teakettle over a minute was thought to be about 1.5° per second" or "the total GDP of South Africa in the early 02020s was thought to be about US$6400 per person per year".

There's nothing incorrect about any of these; it's mostly just a question of which units are the most convenient or unambiguous in a given context. And, I guess, which units your audience is accustomed to seeing; the SI unit for liters of gasoline per 100 kilometers would be square meters, but if you say your new car's gas mileage is 7.8 × 10⁻⁸ m², a lot of people will think you're using the wrong units, and they will surely have a hard time interpreting it.

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† Well, except that in this case the "500" is almost certainly made up; I don't think zelos was looking up South African rope production statistics!
>However, a crazy person in 2024 with access to a hydrogen bomb could theoretically kill billions.

People have been predicting this possibility ever since H-bombs existed. It's been a common trope in fiction -- Peter George's 1958 novel "Red Alert" featured a mad US general who starts WWIII (it's the novel that Kubrick adapted to make his Dr. Strangelove, although he made it a comedy and George was being serious).
Paper link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004565352...

Press release: https://toxicfreefuture.org/press-room/first-ever-study-find...

Personally, I just got afraid of ever buying takeout sushi, put a label on the black spatula and hope to use it for garage experiments but you do you...
> Companies allow things like remote work, which is a perk, but also has a lot of abuse in terms of how much work gets done

Do you have any evidence of this? There are unfounded claims of “productivity metrics” but I have never actually seen one.

E: I realize this is a poor choice of words after saying productivity metrics don’t exist. What I mean is my tasks are easier to complete in a WFH environment than they are in an office.

I have been far more productive from home. The constraints around communication necessitate effective documentation which enables asynchronous communication which alleviates scheduling challenges which improves delivery.

Maybe managers need to go in to the office to rub elbows but ICs definitely don’t.
There are also different types of creep, some that you can easily stop, and others that are more difficult. Specifically, everything that involves a medium to long-term obligation (such as a mortgage or vehicle loan) can cause problems if you cannot sustain it through cashflow interruptions or significant declines. Going out to expensive restaurants and Broadway shows definitely costs a lot of money, but you can immediately stop them if you have money trouble.
Power is king for commercial batteries. On whole sale energy markets you often see high prices in one 1/4 hour, and much lower prices 1 hour later.
You can than nicely make an arbitrage profit if you completely cycle the battery.
Also many such batteries have similar Max energy and power limits, e.g. 1.5MWh energy vs 1MW power.
> remote work, which is a perk, but also has a lot of abuse in terms of how much work gets done

If you can't tell remote employees are slacking then you also can't tell if they are slacking in the office, you are just getting fooled by thinking presence implies work.

So tired of hearing this "argument".
The Karma connection in Chrome Web Store
I have a 2009 and a 2018 Windows laptops.

The only reason the 2009 one now gets little use, is its motherboard now has some electronic issues, otherwise it would serve me perfectly well.
What's New for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 41
I wonder if one of the obstacles is the amount of data that would likely be used.

Most cellular carriers offer unlimited on-device data plans, but they cap data for tethering. Integrating an LTE modem into a laptop essentially requires a mobile data plan with unlimited tethering - which, AFAIK, doesn’t exist at the moment. I’m not sure why.
They don't know which 20% needs to be cut. That's why they wait until something unrelated to their business internals (market downturn, other companies are cutting) happens to try.
I had only heard of Beelink this year, when I bought two of their mini gaming PCs about six months ago.

I actually really like them. I use one as my home server (replacing a rack mount one that idled at about 250W and went up to 500W at peak), and one running a customized NixOS/SteamOS thing as my primary gaming console (after the MiSTer), and I've been extremely satisfied with both. Getting NixOS on them was pretty painless, and even getting some non-obvious stuff like eGPUs wasn't terribly hard.

It's cool that they're giving back to the community.
Martin County mining disaster cover up
This disaster was bigger than the Exxon oil spill but received almost no news coverage. A meager fine of $5,600 was collected. There is a ton of proof that the Bush administration covered it up.
More likely, those companies happen to have similar fiscal calendars.
Exactly. This is what the whole "iot" and "smart grid" were supposed to get us -- appliances and EVSEs that can be readied to start, and will then start themselves when the energy price is favorable.

We apparently have that for some EVSEs, but still not for my stupid dishwasher. (It uses electric heat to boost the water temperature, no matter how much I prime the hot water plumbing, and it's quite a pig energy-wise.)

Real energy has curves, and the sooner we embrace that, the better off we'll be.

Worse, my energy provider put me on a time-of-day rate that's _most_ expensive during peak sun hours, which seems backwards if they're supposed to be introducing more PV to the mix. I guess it's time to negotiate with the landlord and get some panels on the roof so I can start offsetting my own consumption at their so-called "peak" times.
… sounds like a decidedly interesting fellow, but wow, does that excerpt ever prove that economists haven’t got the slightest clue how climate does (and is, and will) effect economies.
This was mid 2010s and the laptop has long since bit the dust. IIRC this was a Dell Studio 15, but I recall checking eBay for old new stock with no luck, but it doesn't surprise me that the Dell Latitudes have lots of stock floating around ebay.
Scaniverse Open Sources SPZ Compression for 3DGS
I recently realized this when there was a heat-wave and I walked through a small patch of trees in the middle of the city.

The shadows of buildings were pretty light color and walking through them wasn't changing the temperature noticeably. But between the trees almost all of the sky was blocked - so the diffused light wasn't getting there - and the shadow there was much darker and it was significantly colder than every other part of the city.

So - shadows can get darker or lighter, even if there's just one light source and it's very far :).
Your impression of BOTW doesn't line up at all with how it has been received by both fans and critics.

One of the things I love about BOTW is that the world is very intentional and uses altitude as a significant and important feature.

Compare this to so many other open world games where "content" is strewn about everywhere and your choices as a player are meaningless because you'll find the same bland crap whichever way you run.
Well that does not sound appropriate or accurate at all.
Well the most obvious approach would be to pay cash.

The more fiscally conservative option is to only borrow money if you have capital which is earning income at a higher rate than the mortgage. This probably necessitates having more capital than the house costs.
A 2019 meta-analysis found compelling evidence for a link between Glyphosate-based herbicides and non-Hodgkin lymphoma

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31342895/
Orwell wrote this back in 1944:

"Everywhere the world movement seems to be in the direction of centralised economies which can be made to ‘work’ in an economic sense but which are not democratically organised and which tend to establish a caste system. With this go the horrors of emotional nationalism and a tendency to disbelieve in the existence of objective truth because all the facts have to fit in with the words and prophecies of some infallible fuhrer. Already history has in a sense ceased to exist, ie. there is no such thing as a history of our own times which could be universally accepted, and the exact sciences are endangered as soon as military necessity ceases to keep people up to the mark. Hitler can say that the Jews started the war, and if he survives that will become official history. He can’t say that two and two are five, because for the purposes of, say, ballistics they have to make four. But if the sort of world that I am afraid of arrives, a world of two or three great superstates which are unable to conquer one another, two and two could become five if the fuhrer wished it. That, so far as I can see, is the direction in which we are actually moving, though, of course, the process is reversible."

So yeah, you can't force all models to have all the biases that you want them to have. But you most certainly can limit the number of such models and restrict access to them. It's not really any different from how totalitarian societies have treated science in general.
For the record, "batshit regulations" means things like (from the article):

> Rather than let schools try and improve their quality by bringing in AI tutors, Europe preemptively says that there must be impact assessments, authorized representatives, notified bodies and monitoring.

Funny that opponents of the AI Act seem to implicitly agree that these systems won't survive "impact assessments, authorized representatives, notified bodies and monitoring". They apparently can only work without oversight or accountability.
I very much enjoy being able to start compilation and just seeing results fly by.
Kindle Colorsoft review: The missing link in Amazon's ereader lineup
https://archive.ph/2024.10.30-145843/https://www.theatlantic...
Calling San Francisco a "town" diminishes what they've achieved. It is the second densest urban center and ride hailing market in the US, and a difficult place for humans to drive. I think being able to effectively replace Uber drivers there means that once they crack freeway driving and snow, the regulatory, economic, policy, and social hurdles will start to fall like dominos.

I don't think this is how most people expected this to go. My personal belief was that self-driving cars would be limited to medium-density suburban areas initially (i.e. places where the driving is relatively simple, but there's still enough demand for it to be economically viable). It's astonishing that they were able to move from suburban trials to high density environments so quickly.
The article reads like a vanture capitalist is upset that they can't operate in an unregulated space. I have zero objection to regulating AI. To date most AI products are simultaneously frivolous, terrible and ecologically disasterous. That's that right kind of problem for regulation to fix.
Doesn't support the specific claim that souls don't exist? We know how atoms/waves interact. We have literally no reason to think there is some other soul-based mechanism.

Of course, maybe induction is false and gravity will reverse in the next 3 seconds after writing this comment and God will reveal themself to us. We have no justified reason to think otherwise other than the general principle that things behave the way we observe them to and will continue to do so.
> For ~20$ I think I can buy a PDF of the standard from ISO.

You might find most standards for ~20 USD, but ISO8601 direct from iso.org will set you back 173 CHF (~200 USD) for part 1¹, 194 CHF (~220 USD) for part 2². For $20 you get only the latest amendments from them.

Meanwhile the Estonians will gladly sell you their version of part 1 for just under 30 USD.³

¹: https://www.iso.org/standard/70907.html

²: https://www.iso.org/standard/70908.html

³: https://www.evs.ee/en/evs-iso-8601-1-2019
"A difficult decision"
Are we talking about risk-adjusted cost doubling?

Most humans think in "next paycheck" terms not "risk-adjusted" terms, but at the same time, the Covid supply chain issues whacked people in the head with "this is a black swan" and "fragility" sticks.
It was trippy playing an Initial D arcade game and driving down the same highway in real life before in Gunma-ken to Shimonita.
It's 60 days, not 50. But 60 days of severance would be significantly less than what they are offering. They're definitely not doing it strictly to avoid regulatory scrutiny, more like to avoid bad press and a bad reputation in the tech market. When things eventually swing back up, companies still want to be able to hire the best talent, they don't want to be grouped with companies like Twitter.
They were high in 2013.
Is there a normal LLM user yet? Most people would want their options to be as wide as possible. The big ones usually get covered (eventually), and there are distinct good libraries emerging for Mac only (sigh), but last I checked the experience of running every kit (stable diffusion, server-class, etc) involved overhead for the Mac world.