skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mind opinions that challenge my worldview. I despise complete lies like what Alex Jones spews.
I did a bunch of iOS development for about 4 years. I found Objective-C way more productive than C++.
No, it's just a dedication to pure relational algebra. Nulls introduce "three valued logic" into your code/sql. A nullable boolean column can contain 3 different "values" instead of two. True is not false, true is not null, false is not null (and null is neither true nor false). Or in a nullable numeric field, you have rows where that column is neither greater than zero or less than zero.

On the other hand, even if you eliminate all nulls, you still have to do some three-valued logic ("A join B on B.is_something", "A join B on not B.is_something" and the "anti-join": "A where no B exists"), but only in the context of joins.

It feels a little like rust's Option type. If something in "nullable", these are tools that forces you to deal with it in some way so there are fewer surprises.
> Mixing and production are worlds better

Long gone are the days of "shoes in the dryer" mixes where guys were just slamming two DATs together with no pitch control. Sadly, I think we've gotten to the point of those tight mixes being less of the skill of the DJ and the result of software. With everything being done on laptops with cool software, I really wonder how many DJs are even mixing and just performing while a premixed file plays.

But as you say, the production quality has definitely improved. The music is just clean with no quality loss from layering/multi-tracking/bouncing. The concept of the space between notes has never been so distinguished.
The social platform doesn’t have a political opinion. Its owner does. Every owner of every company ever has had political opinions.
I think the authors think that if the Coca Cola claim was totally bogus, that the Reuters article would take that up? I.e. what is not written also gives information?
Like the proles in 1984.
I'm curious what your exposure to the available tools has been so far.

Which, if any, have you used?

Did you give them a fair shot on the off-chance that they aid you in getting orders of magnitude more work done than you did previously while still leveraging the experience you've gained?
> I don't understand why CEOs and executives who lurk on here don't just come out and say what the deal is. I can only assume because that doesn't happen...

Which part of that was unclear?
Experimental digital camera with a color eInk display
The vast amounts of waste in building nuclear power is part of why it is so expensive, with projects traditionally ballooning to triple budget estimates. Exactly the stuff he is required to cut hard by mid-2026. With the numbers in plain sight, arguments of corruption will be rejected, despite the fact he stands to gain billions due to owning the biggest slice of proven, lower cost, less wasteful alternative.
How did you find that link?
My friend this is the company that gave people doors for desks irrespective of the practicality/ergonomics/actual costs benefit.

If it's any comfort, the execs are even bigger sadists against each other (at least in the past).
Keras is not a language
So how exactly would this work?

If the software or movie or whatever is licensed for use in the UK, and you go to France… you’re not in the UK. You don’t have a license to view it right?

Unless they someone get rid of licensing geo-restrictions would this accomplish anything?

Or would this work in the EU because maybe by law anything you buy in France would also be licensed in other EU countries like Germany, so you should be able to use another EU country store?
is serato no longer a thing?
You can buy a cane toad leather hat with croc teeth from famous Aussie made Jacaru hat brand.

https://jacaru.com/products/1017-outback?variant=29981911941...
What they're allowed to ask is already outlined in the guidelines. They often do ask questions if you don't preempt possible ones.

There is a limit and a line though. What Amazon is doing here is actually pushing the line much further than most employers do in my experience, especially big corporations. usually, they'll simply take the recommendation the medical professional gives at face value. Amazon is purportedly not doing that.

In fact, the way they worded it, I can't help be feel at least a slight annoyance they even have to accomidate disabilities to begin with.
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What did you switch to?

I switched to Manjaro from Arch in 2017 because I don't have time to debug / fix broken updates, and the same Manjaro install has been completely stable since then.

Is there another distro which can do this (and I also don't want to have full reinstalls / upgrades every few years like Ubuntu/Mint)
"some people having their feelings hurt that they don’t censor opposing views like they used to."

This is an extremely dishonest take on what is happening.

What is ACTUALLY happening is the world's richest man using his media company to manipulate an election.
You brought MacOS into this conversation not me. I’m not sure what the deal is here.
That was one of the prompt injection tricks noted to exist way back in 2021 with CLIP that kicked off the whole visual/text world (researchers put a piece of paper saying "iPod" over an apple and the model said it was an iPod).

https://openai.com/index/multimodal-neurons/
Given the complexity of the system, I'm curious to know how many people maintain this service
That's perfectly fine. Considering OpenAI, Google, Amazon despite their strong RTO policies are attracting the top talent, they don't have worry about pleasing midwits not applying to their companies.

Self-attrition by entitled, highly paid mid-performers are the greatest gift to corporations in this economy, where there is fresh batch of engineers wanting to take their place
That seems largely irrelevant to the core thesis of the article.
It’s meant to be the latter, only between member states.
I don't like the idea of requiring it in school. It is tantamount to the government (of which school is a manifestation) forcing you (a minor) to enter into a rather unfavorable contract (data collection? arbitration? prove you are a human?) with "Open"AI. This type of thing is already too normalized.
I can't read your second link because it's behind a paywall and thus not accessible to 99.9% of the people reading your comment.

It opens just fine in an incognito window. Failing that, you could use an alternative browser that doesn't have any cookies set. Failing that, you could look it up on archive.org. This would have taken less time than fulminating at an internet stranger.

This is Hacker News, after all.
other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42126976
There’s people in the comments characterising this as political positioning, and I think they’re dead on. However, it continues to do my head in how utterly ridiculous this statement is. Literally, there’s not even a motive.
Yeah, the reflexive accusations of "witch hunts" and "crooked hit jobs" are a recent development. Their lineage is obvious and ... I guess you can't blame them because they (somehow) play with a significant percentage of the population.
Yeah, in line with the old RE adage: I had a problem. I used AI. Now I have two problems.
You’re making some assumptions here and I suggest you broaden your mindset a bit. First of all, at least according to testimony under oath, they are not avoiding detection and there is a plethora of high resolution imagery and sensor data, they just keep it hidden and highly classified. I get that there isn’t a lot of quality stuff coming from civilians, but we don’t know the UAP intentions or quantity. They could be just trying to observe us without freaking us out or interfering with us en masse, much like we observe animals in nature ourselves. They may only be interested in subtly monitoring our military assets and nothing else. There could be any other unknowable reasons. They may not perceive existence the same way as us, they may not have the same 5 senses or see in the same spectrums, they may not have emotions or a completely different thought process.

They also may not be light years away, but rather ultra terrestrial or interdimensional or time travelers or they use wormholes to “teleport”. We just don’t know, but the possibilities are not constrained to just your “incompetent but competent” paradox.

Edit: you may find this article thought provoking: https://jdmadden.substack.com/p/naturalizing-without-demytho...
Interesting perspective. I read your first line about phone numbers as a fantastic thing -- people used to have to memorize multiple 10 digit phone numbers, now you can think about your contacts' names and relationships.

But... I think you were actually bemoaning the shift from numbers to names as a loss?
Glad they are ending this notorious NYC grift. Renting in the city is a horrible experience in no small part due to this broker racket
Why would you interpret this as Google disliking Keras? Seems a lot more likely he was poached by Anthropic.
When companies switch to LEDs they seldom make sure they met Lumen requirements. Might be a start:

https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/19...
It seems obvious why companies want employees in the office. Namely it's a lot easier to shirk while remote.

If you do valuable work and prefer remote then your employer ought to make an exception. That's how things were before COVID (default in the office; WFH negotiated on a person-by-person basis). It makes sense to get back to that.
They aren’t allowed to ask how you cope outside of work.

They are allowed to ask for medical documentation on what your limitations are.
> you often can make up for not having a zoom lens by walking towards what you're photographing

Nitpicking: You can't really make up for not having a zoom lens as your field of view will stay the same. Hitchcock's famous "dolly zoom" demonstrates that quite nicely.
"I hereby pardon you for murder. Nope, you didn't murder anyone, and you haven't been indited on murder charges!"

Technically sure, you're correct. The worst kind of correct.
Low, just not low enough.

Though that's even assuming Putin (etc.) actually tries to use them — as I said, Biden's deliberately not given enough aid for Ukraine to win hard precisely because he doesn't want to risk it.

He's limiting support to enough to not lose, which is different than winning; he doesn't want Russia to keep rolling tanks to the line of the old Iron Curtain either.
Apple launches Final Cut Pro 11 with even more AI features
> Corporations have been making these kinds of statements for almost the past decade.

For ever...
Actually, it's not. As someone who has been both raided by the feds and been arrested. Being raided is way more traumatic and gave me PTSD. Being arrested is easy as fuck. Being raided involves fully armed people busting into your home and tearing it apart and seizing all of your electronics.
"new kind of food hall" sounds much better than ghost kitchen
When I saw the screenshot I almost laughed out loud at the thought that anyone would say this is innocent looking.
A lot of teaching is wasted on those who already knew and those who are ill-prepared to learn. Although I am skeptical of many of the current proponents of AI in education there is clearly a lot of opportunity for improved efficiency here.
The standard is (a) whether the act was illegal, (b) the company knew it was illegal and did it anyway.

None of what you listed is relevant since it isn’t illegal for example to suppress speech or mislead the public.
I really wish these CPUs had the Vector extension
Most mainstream newspapers and magazines publish letters to the editor and guest editorials or opinion pieces from those who disagree with the publication's reporting or editorial opinions.

What they filter out is the utter crap that invariably comes to completely dominate any unfiltered comment section that is open to the general public and takes effectively anonymous submissions via the internet.
first thing i did when i read "3rd degree polynomial" was search "elliptic curve 3b1b"
I do have a problem with musk supporting a political candidate. Not for any kind of high minded reason. Just because I am uneasy that someone has so much power. It is simply a threat. And people get too wrapped up in the argument to notice that.
Final Cut Pro 11 begins a new chapter for video editing on Mac
Agree. There are a lot of mistakes that can be undone, but ecological damage can take decades to restore its former beauty, and extinct species don't come back (some recent headlines notwithstanding).
Not at all, just stating the facts.
Essentially, if you legally bought something in member state A, it has to remain being accessible if you move to another member state unless there's very specific regulatory limitations (i.e. not something the vendor can decide on, pretty much).

Considerable part of the push with Digital Single Market is that it should be, well, single market.
It depends on how and where you like to work.

For over a decade, I have preferred an ergonomic chair, lots of deskspace, 3 LCD screens, fullsize keyboard, trackball and a powerful desktop with masses of storage, RAM and performance.

For me peering through the single screen of a laptop and trying to retain context which multiple monitors affords strains my brain. Adding extra screen, etc to a laptop defeats the portability aspect.

When away from the desk, I just use a Chromebook - cheap, secure and runs all day.
The idea of being away from the desk is to interact with people, etc. Not bury my head in code development in some noisy cafe.
How then did Ford pardon Nixon?
We clearly don't have enough information about what went down, but betting on political outcomes should be legal. In my opinion, at least. If you can bet on a sports game, you should be allowed to bet on an election.
You're not missing anything — that's exactly how it is. There's nothing that stipulates that US companies must sell to other US companies, and it's a great place for investments & startups, so even if Polymarket isn't licensed to operate in the US it still makes sense for them to be there.
Does it have anything to do with his statements about firing and enacting severe penalties, federal investigations in, and changes around the censorship requirements that many of these corporations engaged in with government agencies? He promised retraction of billions in federal funding- and many of these corporations are implicated.
It is. You want to give me your or buy me one? ;-) I never said it wasn't a thing, only that my discretionary fund for such things prevents me for purchasing them.
> If people weren’t so anti-capitalism then the journalism would have incentive to be less manipulative across the board

I'm struggling to put into words the thoughts this sentence triggered. We're on HN, not reddit, so I'm going to assume good faith.

What reasons over the past 30-50 years have capitalists given the population to root for them? When your business model is to fuck over everyone in your path in a race to the bottom for the gain of a select few at the top, why would anyone expect anything else from the people capitalism stomps all over?
I agree that there’s interest in it. I found ChatGPT and AI search very convenient in some situations where I used them. Other times they hallucinated. I have no idea, though, what customers prefer until I see large-scale surveys by companies not pushing A.I..

It could also become a differentiator allowing multiple suppliers. On one hand, you have people doing search for quality results. Other search engines include the AI results. The user could choose between them on a job by job basis or the search provider might, like !G in DDG, allow 3rd-party AI search as an option.

The bigger problem I have is with scale for the dollar. Search companies with their own indexes already mostly failed. There’s a few using Bing. It’s down to just three or four with their own index. Massive consolidation of power. If GPU’s and AI search cost massively more, wouldn’t that problem further increase?
Bipolar is a mood disorder. So is depression.
> smugness and conceit that drips off the page

Yeah, when he's like this his writing goes off a cliff. I feel like it peaks any time Sotomayor wrote whatever he's disagreeing with, but that may just be me.
FTA "With over two million users, Keras has become a cornerstone of AI development, streamlining complex workflows and democratizing access to cutting-edge technology. It powers numerous applications at Google and across the world, from the Waymo autonomous cars, to your daily YouTube, Netflix, and Spotify recommendations."
There's been numerous articles about it:

https://www.vox.com/recode/23129752/work-from-home-productiv...

https://www.nber.org/papers/w30267

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4443825-telework-prod...

https://hubstaff.com/blog/remote-work-deeper-focus-fewer-int...

https://atlassianblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/0...

https://www.opm.gov/telework/documents-for-telework/2023-rep...
Thanks for the kind words Mike, will correct ASAP! Kinda surprised that’s the only thing I got wrong, thanks for taking the time to read it.
> sending it overseas doesn't help Americans.

In a global market like petroleum, doesn't production anywhere reduce prices everywhere?
>A 20 year old piece of windows software prettt much “just works”

No, it only works because Windows basically included something much like WINE (they call it WoW) in Windows, so old pieces of software aren't running on the modern libraries.

>it’s nigh impossible to compile a piece of Linux software that runs across every major distro in active use.

Sure you can, with Docker. It's effectively doing the same thing Windows does with WoW.
Drum brakes is an excellent typo tho ahah
tbh it's probably just system prompt engineering.
How much different is Donkey Konga compared to Taiko? Wouldn't it have been simpler to adjust already existing tools (i.e osu) to export to whatever proprietary format Donkey Konga uses instead of making an entire new editor and reinventing the wheel?
Chinese international flights, or domestic? I'm talking about international flights here.
I see. Well that was not my intention here.
AMD views ROCm as a professional market feature so they don't support it on IGPs and also not on most gaming cards, sadly.
Perfectly said on both counts. Rents, unlike broker fees, are highly transparent prices that are far more influenced by market pressure and competition, a win for buyers in a market already very lopsided toward sellers. Because broker fees are disclosed selectively and later in the purchase funnel, buyers (renters) often make less optimal and more expensive choices due to that information asymmetry.

There definitely will be a small spike in the cost of rentals, but 1) it will definitely not be a perfect 12-15% transfer from what the fee costs, and 2) I predict that downward price pressure will bring rental costs around what they are now, especially given the prevalence of no fee units. The cost will likely just cut into landlords' revenue, and anyone claiming prices will rise substantially are probably lobbying on behalf of landlords.
you're worried that they'll explain 3rd degree polynomials with a leftist bias?
>What I find entirely humorous about this is its executives that want hybrid / RTO by a large margin, and comparatively few employees want hybrid / RTO and prefer working from home.

Converting an in-person culture to a remote culture can be hard and many companies haven't done a good job. A functioning team can go remote, but over team, many companies are starting to see where it falls down. For example, you don't have a culture of writing things down and decisions are made it meetings, or informal conversations. Tons of a context gets lost. Also discussions must be serialized. Most "planning" sucks over remote meetings because of this. Things like breakout rooms help parallelize discussion - but companies that are async first can run rings around the "marathon meeting" type cultures. Working in person smooths over many of the inefficiencies and minor disconnects this causes.

And onboarding and training new people is much harder remotely ... if you don't actually have an onboarding process. In person, people can somewhat onboard by "learning through osmosis" and the natural connections of just meeting people, building report, helping them out. A few zoom training sessions and then getting tossed in the deep end is going to work for some people, not for others and then will bring an organizational toll over time. Companies like GitLab have remote-first ways to approach this ... but without similar investment, things will degrade.

And third, it is that is much harder to gain visibility and micromanage a remote team. If you don't have good async processes, written culture, or metrics, managers can get in the trap of "not knowing what everyone is doing," not being sure if they are on track for success or failure. Plenty of ways to avoid this, but plenty of things are much harder without approaching them from a remote-first mindset. Interpersonal issues on the team: old playbook, take them out to lunch for coffee for an informal conversation. New playbook, avoid or have an awkward conversation over a 30 minute 1:1 zoom, where you could be being recorded so nothing of consequence is said. Checkin on sales to see if the quarter is on track: walk down the sales area and assess the vibe. Tons of a excitement and backslapping and gongs, no worries; everyone looking glum, I need a have a deep conversation with the regional manager. New playbook: review salesforce data that you know is bullshit and are frustrated you can't figure out why things aren't like they used to be. Is it because all the new hires we brought on don't seem to be productive? Did remote kill everyone's mojo? Are my middle managers able to hold their team to account?
Small discussion (140 points, 15 days ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41981289
Oh, well, thank you!

You should probably take me with a grain of salt: of course, I, the technical architect of Sandstorm, still think the technical architecture is great. ;) Whereas I never claimed to be good at business so I'm not adverse to reporting I am bad at business.

But yeah I still think it's the right architecture. Still believe in what's written here: https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works

But I do think there is a lot of work needed to get to a baseline of functionality that people will use. Bootstrapping a new platform is hard and needs a long runway. Could you find investors willing to back it? I don't know. I hated fundraising, though.

Of course, there are many lower-level details I would change, like:

* Consider using V8 isolates instead of containers. Sandstorm had a big problem with slow cold starts and high resource usage which V8 isolates could do much better with. It would, of course, make porting existing apps much harder, but ports to Sandstorm were always pretty janky... maybe would have been better to focus on building new apps that target Sandstorm from the start.

* Should never have used Mongo to store platform metadata... should have been SQLite!

* The shell UI should have been an app itself.

* We should never have built Blackrock (the "scalable" version of Sandstorm that was the basis for the Oasis hosting service). Or at least, it should have come much later. Should have focused instead on making it really easy to deploy to many different VPSes and federate per-user instances.
Don't sugar coat it, he would basically be ending the relationship. It will also force the roommate to figure out a new living situation on top of all the other things: Working on stabilizing, Hospital Bills, Job Loss, dealing with shame/stigma in their friend group. This is part of why these things snowball downward in a positive feedback loop.

If it's going to be a chronic ongoing issue, I agree that OP should move out.
Yeah but if you hire old people you can't boss them around...
Following hashtags might open you up to new people talking about subjects you enjoy?