skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typical German bosses blaming everybody else but themselves for their lack of growth and incompetence

I too would fake an illness to avoid dealing with people who still think a fax machine is a thing
Considering the complete 180 and sudden viability and admission of supression around the lab leak theory in Wuhan I can 100% see why lableak conspiracy is going over level 9000 for any such thing now :D

I have not done any kind of research into if the Wuhan lableak story is true or not, but the admitted supression by the govt has made sure I cannot trust any kind of conclusion around it.
I literally explained that I did in #1. Answer my question

Edit: This is my crowd funding offer, I have no idea what this guy is talking about. My email is in my profile lol.
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Stochastic Rounding 2.0, with a View Towards Complexity Analysis
I think to solve this problem we need to take a step back and see how a human would solve the problem (if he had all the necessary information).

One thing is clear, in the vast majority of cases we don't have a single truth, but answers of different levels of trustworthiness: the law, the government, books, Wikipedia, websites, and so on.

A human would proceed differently depending on the context and the source of the information. For example, legal questions are best answered by the law or government agencies, then by reputable law firms. Opinions of even highly respected legal professionals are clearly less reliable than government law itself and are likely to be a point of contention/litigation.

Questions about other facts, such as the diameter of the earth or the population of a country, are best answered by recent data from books, official statistics and Wikipedia. And so on and so forth.

If we are not sure what the correct answer is, a human would give more information about the context, the sources, and the doubts. There are obviously questions that cannot be answered immediately! (if it's to easy to find the truth, we would not need a legal system or even science!) So no machine and no amount of computation can reliably answer all questions. Web search does not answer a question. It's just trying to surface relevant websites to a bunch of keywords. The answering part is left as an exercise for the user ;)

So an AI search with a pretense of understanding human languages makes the task incredibly harder. To really give a human-quality answer, the AI not only needs to understand the context, but it should also be able to reason, have common sense, and be a bit self-aware (I'm not sure...). All this is beyond the capabilities of the current generation of AI. Therefore, my conclusion is that the "search" or better said the "answer" cannot be solved by LLM, no matter how much they fine-tune and tweak it.

But we humans are adaptable. We will find our way around and accept things as they are. Until next time.
is that a reference to COVID? I thought the lab leak hypothesis was stronger than the bat cave hypothesis now?
We also do this. For us, the limiting factor is the IDE getting slower with bigger files. For IntelliJ+Kotlin the big file handling got better over time, but if files get bigger and bigger, the response times of auto completion and other ide features gets slower and slower.

At some point in time, some dev splits the file to get faster responses again.

Despite this, we have no issues, git works fine and search and navigation in the code is also just fine.
Criminal charges were not filed because there is no evidence that he sold his vaccine certificates.
May I suggest a merger of intel with Boeing?

Two back-in-the-day engineering driven future-forward companies and today run into the ground by Quarterly Reports And Nothing Else Matters culture and meandering around.

They'd be a lovely cultural fit.
Are there any other programming languages that are inherently as imprecise as prompting an LLM? From my knowledge, there isn't, and that seems to be a fundamental diff between prompts and code.
This means that we can finally do gRPC directly from browser.
I have absolutely no idea what you’re asking me.
I think your comment works as a reply to claiming closed source is more secure than open source - you try to bring them both to the same level.

I dont think it replies to what the user asks though. It seems reasonable expecting widely used open source software to be studied by many people. If thats true it would be good to question why this wasnt caught by anyone. Ignoring all ssl errors is not something you need to be an expert to know is bad...
Breaking the image: a 12th-century Ai Weiwei?
Well, it's about as easy without neither Nix not Guix.
Considering how well Apple speakers perform for their size, I would say you’re making a huge leap not supported by evidence.

They make and sell more speakers than any other company on earth and are routinely praised for their quality to size ratio.
no way something that old gets security updates still...aaand it stopped getting security updates earlier this year. nokia's update promises are not great, often just about 2 to 3 years of updates. (combined with phones getting released on older android versions, like android 13, and having only two os upgrades which pretty much comes down to just one...just none with android 15 just about to drop, it's really not great.) which is maybe fair for phones that cheap, but samsung with quite competitive specs at the same price ranges offers longer update promises (something like A series, like A15 apparently promising 5 years of updates)
Maybe the embedding could be paired up with a set of words that embed to somewhere close to the original embedding? Then the embedding can be updated for new models by re-embedding those words. (And it would be more interpretible by a human.)
This seems to have similar ideas to an post from a year ago by François Chollet: https://fchollet.substack.com/p/how-i-think-about-llm-prompt...
To a non westerner, this doesn't seem like a bad thing. A world where US sanctions are useless is a good world
> Even with a proper certificate check, downloading and running a remote executable is by definition an RCE vulnerability.

I have to disagree here, the vulnerability part is that it can be exploited by a third party. Auto-update itself isn’t really an RCE vulnerability because the party you get the software from has to be trusted anyways.
I think you're looking at the volume in shares per day, not dollars per day.
Big tech is very much a function of your team and manager. Any job is a function first of your manager, second of your team, third of your ability and fourth of your project. I always select teams in that way, within a company and outside, and this has been incredibly helpful.

Stripe is a great place to work in some ways but judging from the writeup they had a ton of context switching preventing their productivity and the needs of the team didn’t align with what they did best. I’ve seen this feedback many times in many jobs.

I’ve been there myself! No doubt this person will find something exciting in no time.

Apropos of nothing as interviewers we do not put any weight on your submitting solutions after the window closes because we have to evaluate candidates consistently for business and legal reasons. We can’t give one person extra time because that’s not applying a consistent bar. Smaller companies may be more flexible but big tech won’t be. On the plus side big tech knows interviews are often a function of luck and setting and will generally always invite you to apply again without prejudice a few months later.

Being in a position to recover by getting bored and hacking on stuff you’re passionate about without pressure is something we’re really lucky to have, and I always try to do this between jobs.
Even at large companies. Secrets management was not even being done across large swaths of FAANG companies until ~2020. I know some people that made a very lucrative career out of enabling secrets at these orgs from 2010-2020.
As I recall from the reporting almost a year ago the investigation was opened because of a suspicion that he was doing something fraudulent.

The lack of charges and lack of evidence neither negate nor support the suspicion - they just leave it hanging.

If there's any post event interview with the man the gives his side of the story it'd be interesting to read, but even that would have issues as he may initially have thought to sell or pass on certificates to others but since changed his story once an investigation was opened <shrug>.,
Well written.

The one thing that immediately pissed me off was you doing something awesome, then having management attack you for reason X, where X attacks everything but the results. The reason never really matters, the real reason is that you threatened them in some manner and they need to justify their job.

Honestly, I would have just quit at that point. You're a saint for staying any longer.

This sounds like an absolutely terrible company to work for.
Nope. Jamming together related changes is bad also.

Now, of course, someone who makes a new commit every time they make a minor change, like three commits to fix three spelling errors in a comment, should be squashing that. That's a strawman.

Changes that serve a different logical purpose in a related change set should be separate.
Sleep is a definite signal. If you've eliminated diet, medication, and personal relationships (tough one) as causes, you're left with professional obligations.

Note too that "chronic fatigue" is NOT "lack of sleep".

The brain fog is the net resultant of the body being in a constant "fight or flight" mode for too long. Psychologically, you've been doing WWI "trench warfare".
What you are experiencing is the symptom of working in a large company where no matter how well you perform, you can not significantly move the needle yourself.

Coupled with the fact that, as you yourself pointed out, there is a literal endless amount of work to do, forever. This is also due to the nature of the company being so big.

All companies always has work to do, and no one is ever «done», but in a giga-enterprise all meaningful deadlines and deliveries sort of tangentially rounds down to zero in terms of impact.

I almost burned out from this myself working in Microsoft. I was succeeding in my work by most metrics, but I am motivated more by my work being MEANINGFUL and having impact more than anything. That is almost impossible to achieve in any large enough company.

Jumped off to be a startup CTO and life started smiling again instantly.

Take time away from work, but not too much time. Comments such as «it takes years» can be true if you have ground yourself down to a nub, but trying (and being ok with failing) to do some work that lets you feel like you mean something and contribute back to society is an understated and important part of the healing process.

Good luck!
Yep, that's definitely a thing I'm proud or correctly foreseeing. I was upgrading from an old machine on 8GB, but I figured especially with memory being non upgradable it was better being safe than sorry, and if I kept the machine a decade it would come out to sanwitch money in the end.
This is not a piece of code I would commit, obviously! It's a piece of code in the middle of being written and re-written (and re-run, a la REPL), and constantly replacing "resp2" with "_" and back again with "resp2" is friction. Go doesn't have REPL but having a TestWhatever(t *testing.T) function is a mostly good enough replacement, except for this one small problem.
Building a real pawn that transforms into a queen, automatically [video]
This article is 6 years old. I wonder how much smaller the difference between a $100 Android and a $1300 iPhone (or Android flagship) is now? Especially if you were to choose a Chinese brand like Oppo instead. I guess the $100 display and camera will be massively better than 6 years ago, while the top end will have had only incremental changes.
I guess that with a steaming hot potato the higher risk is to inhale rosin in the steam rather than to eat it. I would much rather use duck fat to roast potatoes.
What's your recommendation? I've tried so many multiplatform toolkits (including GTK, Qt, wxWidgets, Iced, egui, imgui, and investigated slint and sciter) and nothing has come close to the speed of dev and small final app size of something like Tauri+Svelte.
Amen. As much as it sucks in this culture atm, give yourself, at the very least, quarterly goalposts.
Wow I can't believe how fast I had forgotten Atom was even a thing. Hell I even used it professionally (with Nuclide) for years.
Out-of-order delivery is another case where UDP provides a benefit.
I found it fascinating.
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Covid was "special" in a lot of ways (though of course it wasn't a lab leak.) Flu pandemics can be extremely deadly, however:

- 'Long flu' is not a thing (it's actually possible but it's rare, mild and short)

- Our baseline immune competence would probably be much higher (even though neutralizing antibodies to H5N1 are low in the population.) This should be particularly true for people whose first flu as children was with Influenza A.

- Unlike Covid, no reason to suspect H5N1 will cause diabetes, heart disease, or various other kinds of permanent damage. It's probably also unlikely to cross the blood-brain barrier.

- There are various vaccine efforts already in the pipeline.

I wouldn't expect it to be like Covid in 2020 but maybe like in 2023, after it went from the 3rd leading cause of death to the 10th.
It turns out that New Year's Day is a bit more likely to fall on Sunday than Saturday. To confirm, here's a bit of simple JavaScript that checks a complete 400-year cycle. You can run it in your browser's console:

const counts = Array(7).fill(0);
for (let year = 2000; year < 2400; year++) {
counts[new Date(year, 0, 1).getDay()]++;
}
console.log(`Number of Saturdays: ${counts[6]}; Number of Sundays: ${counts[0]}`);

Output:

Number of Saturdays: 56; Number of Sundays: 58

Note: getDay() returns 0 for Sunday and 6 for Saturday (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...).
> Unix was born to play games

Please correct me if I am wrong but I thought this was only the reason for the predecessor of it on the PDP-7: Thompson wanted Space Travel to run on the PDP-7 and the necessary boilerplate became a rudimentary OS. But porting this to the PDP-11 was not motivated by Space Travel -- or was it?
I’ve seen this pattern repeated so many times that I feel like it can be generalized:

when your mental health collapses nothing else holds value, it really doesn’t matter if you achieved your dream job, got all the prestige and income you initially desired, being mentally healthy is the basis of the pyramid.

Something I learned based on that is to really prioritize it!

Even if someone considers their career to be everything, realize that spending some of your earnings seeking professional help (therapy) is even a cheap investment considering that if you break and have to quit, you’re going to lose hundreds of thousands, and to recover it will suck (I’ve heard of people trying to quit tech altogether after burning out)

Sneaking something else related to mental health: sleep should be #1 health wise, when you’re consistently not getting quality sleep for months, there’s nothing you can really do to get around that, it will eventually just break you (your body won’t care if you’re coping with coffe or exercising!)

Btw that’s great writing and I really appreciate your courage in sharing this!
I hope you’ll find your joy again.
This is a great post and I'm glad the author was able to share it.

I feel like I had a similar experience. Start working at a new job, hustle for several years, get promoted, projects do well, then ended up feeling bored and unexcited. Not exactly burnt out, but burnt out on the current pattern of life. I quit and moved to another country.

I don't know if the author is "burnt out" or not. This is a privileged take, but sometimes it feels like a full time job is a leash. Life becomes so defined by your job it can feel suffocating. You can take a few weeks off, but a few weeks a year is hardly enough to have your own life.
Zed Editor.

Open Terminal in Zed and run Aider...

https://aider.chat/
https://zed.dev/

You can also configure Supermaven or Copilot for Zed and whatever LLM model you prefer for Zed's Assistant and Inline Assistant. But Aider makes these tools a bit irrelevant.
Is it crazy? The chip itself is small. I'm not up on the subject but is it unusual? Are we talking power draw and cooling adding greatly to the size? I guess the M4 Pro must have great specs when it comes to running cool.
For anyone wondering, this is just the IP address written in a different form: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56814434
Thanks a lot for this reply. This is very heartwarming and informative. Looks like there is a world of tools to help me better function in the society.
yeah, that's seriously old, and perhaps even for 2018 that's a pretty awful choice lol. nowadays (for past several years really, since about 2020-2021, when huge notched/cutout screens really hit the lowest segments) you'd be able to get a pretty damn good phone at that price, with a huge screen and a huge battery (and maybe even quite a lot of storage, like 128gb options). it'd actually be interesting to see a comparison with a modern $100 phone.
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The (almost) direct counter example is Aperture. That was the “Pro” photo application and it was killed for seemingly no reason with no notice. It’s fairly reasonable to be pessimistic about this acquisition given that history.
I also think it is interesting. I didn't want to dismiss it - content marketing can still contain valuable information, that's the whole point of it after all.
I doubt websites as we know it will be what we’ll be dealing with going forward anyways.

What is a browser if we just digest all the HTML and spit out clean text in the long run?

We handed over something of some value I guess, once upon a time.
Yeah this is why I sometimes miss the jobs I had in my early 20s, working at bakeries/ice cream shops/etc. Obviously the pay wasn’t great and the working conditions subpar, but there is a genuine psychological benefit to making a simple thing, giving it to people, then finishing work at the end of the day and being done, without an ongoing to-do list, sprints, daily meetings, and all the other requirements of contemporary white collar jobs.

It’s led me to wonder how one could structure a knowledge work job in a similar way. The tough part conceptually is how to make progress long-term while still only keeping your focus on a day at a time, max.
Yes, it’s a reference to SARS-CoV-2, and no, the lab leak “hypothesis” absolutely isn’t the stronger one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Origin_of_SARS-Co...
took at look at these benchmarks. they appear to be using some extremely antiquated code, and workloads, that do not take advantage of any of the advanced features and instruction introduced over the past 15-20 years in the x86-64 architecture.

additionally, the only updates they appear to have made in the last 5+ years involve optimizing the suite for Apple chips.

thus, it leaves out massive parts of modern computing, and the (many) additions to x86-64 that have been introduced since the 00s.

i'd encourage you to look into the advancements that have occurred in SIMD instructions since the olden days, and the way in which various programs, and compilers, are changed to take advantage of them

ARM is nice and all, but the benchmark you've linked appears to be some extremely outdated schlock that is peddled for $1000 a pop from a web page out of the history books. Really. Take a look through what the benchmarks on that page are actually using for tooling.

I'd consider the results valid if they were calculated using an up to date, and maintained, toolset, like that provided by openbenchmarking.org (the owner of which has been producing some excellent ARM64 vs Intel benchmarks on various workloads, particularly recently).
You might need stronger environmental queues for your body to wake up. The body has both internal and external data to know when you have to wake up - lights, noise levels etc.

If you set up your bedroom “too well” - quiet, light blocking roller blinds etc, then your body can only rely on the internal clock.

I used to have that but since moving to another place without those “niceties” suddenly my body quite easily finds “the correct time” every day.

Also you can experiment with this on long flights to get rid of jet lag. After I land, if I spend the first night drinking and fall asleep, I effectively ruin my internal clock for the night, and then the body has only the environmental queues. Wake up in the morning and my clock is effectively reset. Might not feel great for the day but suffer zero jet lag as I start waking up in the morning at the “correct” time even though I’ve flown halfway across the planet.
Also: "people in poor health don't sleep well". That's really hard to fully control for, because a lot of problems will affect mortality at sub-clinical levels that don't satisfy diagnostic criteria and won't appear on your medical records.
Apple hardware, amazing and can last for years and even decades. Supported operating system updates, only a couple of years.

That’s not accurate.

Just yesterday, my 2017 Retina 4k iMac got a security update to macOS Ventura 13.7.1 and Safari even though it’s listed as “vintage.”

Now that Apple makes their own processors and GPUs, there’s really no reason in the foreseeable future that Apple would need to stop supporting any Mac with an M-series chip.

The first M1 Macs shipped in November 2020—four years ago but they can run the latest macOS Sequoia with Apple Intelligence.

Unless Apple makes some major changes to the Mac’s architecture, I don’t expect Apple to stop supporting any M series Mac anytime soon.
The first thread is large, for sure, but is it relevant? Why do all of these have to do with pixel art, which is something you probably should do in a pixel art editor (Aseprite[0] is great, cheap and deserves your support)?

If this is indeed an issue overall it would be very ironic because the Affinity suite of products are (as far as I understand) way more focused on and enable a non-destructive workflow than Photoshop and its related products. I think it's a big "if", though, no offense intended.

0 - https://dacap.itch.io/aseprite
wont work on firefox. hot damn

edit: WHYYYY
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FWIW it’s mentioned in the study explicitly as a limitation:

> There are several limitations in this study. First, the single week of data collected for each individual provides only a snapshot of their sleep–wake patterns, and future work should collect sleep–wake data over a longer timeframe and include multiple weekend-weekday transitions. It is nevertheless interesting that even a snapshot of sleep behaviors is predictive of mortality for a follow-up period of several years.