skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get these worries; I have them too when hiring potential future colleagues while being a remote employee.

Most people are not fraudsters. Probably you will find them from time to time but it's something that's been disproportionately blown-up by the RTO crowd. There were many people like that in the office - they were forced to show up to work but their productivity has always been non-existent. Signing flexible contracts and allowing the company to fire more easily should prevent vast majority of such hires.

There's another weird point about not being able to detect low-quality work. I fail to see a difference between low-quality work in the office versus remotely. If the employer fails to detect it and pays salary, it's the employer's problem either way.
The title of this article really irks me. Calling something a myth/conspiracy to downplay something very real is not only condescending it makes you lack empathy and self-awareness.

The overwhelming digital connectivity and urbanization will naturally give rise to loneliness as humans have long evolved to be social. We are actually seeing deurbanization taking for the first time in East Asia and young moving away from urban centres for the countryside.

All this modernization that ultimately comes at the cost of human connectivity and community and I don't like the choice of words the author uses to push their idea
We Asked for It
Life exists in shades of gray. If you read the article, it spells out this dilemma quite clearly. The problem is that the military generally ran on a pool of recruits post-Vietnam who were largely effective and got the job done. This happened despite military doctors setting sometimes-unrealistic standards for who could get in at all, or who needed voluminous amounts of paperwork for a waiver of standards. Kids hid conditions, and recruiters made tough calls to balance what kids truly were a bad fit (asthma, major mental issues, morbid obesity) as opposed to the track star who merely had a broken leg once.

Now Genesis came along and made everyone strictly play "by the rules," and exposed the problems with this kind of black-and-white thinking. It turns out the standards the military was REALLY operating on were not the standards they thought they were getting. And the standards they REALLY were operating under got the job done, whereas the strictest standards they COULD apply would result in not being able to staff the force, because doctors were not willing to incur enough risk.

Ultimately, it becomes a question of whether or not to break a rule at potentially little or no consequence to accomplish an important goal, or to be so pedantic at applying the rules that the organization cannot achieve its goals. The FAA and airlines have the same problem. Scores of airline pilots hide and fail to report medical conditions so as not to lose their jobs. And eventually someone goes nuts and tries to crash a commuter plane. But for that one nutjob who obviously shouldn't have been flying, there's scores of airline pilots fudging their paperwork and seeing docs off-network for cash who nonetheless safely and effectively fly their aircraft. So what IS the standard, or what should it be? Because the black-and-white standard then becomes just a lie doctors tell themselves to avoid risk.
Wonderful comment that expresses exactly how I feel on this way better than I could. Thank you.
Is it at least somewhat in sync with plans from Microsoft , OpenAI and Meta? And is it compatible with the current tool use API and computer use API that you’ve released?

From what I’ve seen, OpenAI attempted to solve the problem by partnering with an existing company that API-fys everything. This feels looks a more viable approach, if compared to effectively starting from scratch.
What kind of propaganda? Because we do no find their propaganda funny.
TBH, I don't think your test is very useful in real world environments. That is, you have 2 independent tables, and you're wanting the solution to depend on the fact that there are columns that are named the same across both tables.

IMO these kinds of "shortcuts based on column naming across tables" usually end in disaster down the road. For example, I've been bitten in the past by "natural joins" when we've wanted to refactor something later.

I definitely agree that I don't want to have to repeat logic within a single table, but the kind of syntactic sugar that is your litmus test is a big foot gun IMO.
> there will be other firms willing to pay more and attract that talent.

...marginally more. Still nowhere near the actual value their labor brings in. We simply don't have a competitive enough employer market to provide the upward wage pressure that would be sufficient to pay people fairly.
It seems to highly correlate with religious fundamentalism, IMO, which has a great many angry adherents worldwide, as well as in the US.
>catch2 has become fairly bloated. doctest takes all of the best parts of catch2 without all the bloat and the end result is a test framework that is literally over 10x faster than catch2. It's also like 90% compatible with catch2 so porting your tests to it is pretty easy.

I feel like you could make a madlib where you could plug in any two project names and this sentence would make sense.
> but "tracking" is a very broad term

Which is why it should be defined in the law. The GDPR and the ePrivacy directive define what counts as tracking and what is acceptable. See for example:

https://commission.europa.eu/resources-partners/europa-web-g...

I don’t think GP is suggesting we just make a law that says “u track, u pay fine”.
I have had a project on the back burner for about a year now to offer a BGP feed via a websocket to facilitate people playing around and doing research without allowing them to accidently spew crap into the DFZ. Shoot me an email if you are interested and I'll try to get it spun up this week.
I suspect this fulfills three objectives:

1. It puts Bluesky on notice that they need to watch their numbers

2. It preempts accusations of unfair application of the rules

3. It reminds Blusky that if they trade internationally they need to "do as Romans do".
Cody (VS Code plugin) is supporting MCP https://sourcegraph.com/blog/cody-supports-anthropic-model-c...
The title is the only mention of the word myth?

It seems to me a great deal of the article remains shallow and im unconvinced. Pointing out there's been social scares many decades ago, decades apart, and trying to conflate this to being a hoax doesnt jive with me.

I think social media is HELPING the social crisis. Certainly not causing. The crisis predates social media. covid only exacerbated.

The actual problem derives heavily from very popular government policies that had the unintended consequences of greatly reducing in person social interaction.

The people who ignored government, they are still happy and not lonely. Everyone else well I recommend betterhelp for mental health problems.
The South Korean government doesn't seem to be doing much about misogyny. Until they get serious about that, a lot of young women are just going to opt out. The same applies to many other developed countries, to a lesser extent.
Probably related Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Teams calendar are down worldwide (89 points, 8 hours ago, 42 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42235183
Accountability and Authority
That's fair. It's more of a post-WWII peak. I've edited the post.
Interesting. I never worked in Android, but did in Chromium & Chromecast code bases. Biggest difference with Google3 was honestly in the tooling. Style guide was fairly close, maybe a bit more conservative. Also the lack of the core libs that eventually became Abseil.

I work full-time in Rust these days and everytime I go back to working in C++ it's a bit of a cringe. If I look long enough, I almost always find a use-after-free, even from extremely competent developers. Footgun language.
> It's really difficult for me to believe that they really got 10% top performers.

Of course there is no hard data on it, but I can say anecdotally the people I know who went on elsewhere were consistently rated at the top of whatever organization they landed at. And also, there wasn't a single person there that I would not want to work with again and would jump at that chance.

> For one, knowing the cut-throat nature of employment there, I would expect only a minority of developers would be willing to try working there, despite the awesome rewards.

On the flip side, a lot of people wanted to work there because of that culture. But you're right, some really great people wouldn't even apply, won't deny that.

> Finally, just as a cheap shot at Netflix, sorry I can't resist as a customer: they absolutely suck at the most basic stuff in their business, which is to produce good content in the first place, and very importantly, NOT FREAKING CANCEL the best content!

Actually, objectively, it's not the best content, which is why it gets cut. The way that decision is made is every piece of content is charted on a cost vs minutes watched. Then that chart is looked at by actual humans.

Some content, like reruns from the 1950s, is super efficient. It's not watched a lot but it also costs very little, so it stays. Some content, like the latest Marvel movie (before Disney had their own streaming service) was very inefficient, but it was kept because it was a big marketing draw. But some content didn't quite make it over the line because it was expensive but niche. It was popular amongst a small set of die hard fans.

I think your complaint it more about the industry in general though -- it's not just Netflix that doesn't give a show room to grow. Even the old school TV networks cut shows much quicker now than they did before.

> I won't even mention how horrible their latest big live stream was... oh well, I just did :D.

Netflix knows it didn't go well. Streaming in general used to break just as much. But the nice thing was that they gave us the resources to hire the right people and the autonomy to fix it. And so we did things like create Chaos Engineering and OpenConnect. I suspect the same will happen with live streaming.
I think some of it is people just refuse to go outside and do things. There's plenty of opportunities if you want! But the world isn't going to come to you.
> Did you ever consider the possibility that you might be the one living in a bubble?

You're wrong about that, but you couldn't have know. I've lived in far more different places with more different people, than most people you've met.

> innate talent predated IQ tests and twin studies by many millenia

That's why I wrote it hadn't been well studied, not that it hadn't been studied at all.

> You're declaring that

Of course not. I'm not the source.

> incredibly smart people were wrong about their own domains, which is a pretty bold claim to make. What do you have in support of this claim? A fake Einstein quote?

That's from a letter Einstein wrote 1926 to Bohr. He wrote in German, that quote is a paraphrase in English.

Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr%E2%80%93Einstein_debates, And, about him being mistaken, quoting that article:

"As mentioned above, Einstein's position underwent significant modifications over the course of the years. In the first stage, Einstein refused to accept quantum indeterminism [...]" -- indicating that, at some points, he had the wrong beliefs, right.

Here's the quote explained further: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/5937/why-did-einstei...

> It's true that a number of people have been fooled by twin studies, most notably Steven Pinker, in Chapter 19 of the Blank Slate (did you read it?)

> You see, Pinker ... Bouchard's 1990 ... The Bell Curve's Charles Murray ... thinks ... structurally flawed

No, didn't read that book. Continuing in another comment.
America's Productivity Boom
You can say just about whatever you want on bsky as long as you’re civil. I think you will probably get kicked if you start hate-ons for issues like trans, LGBTQ, women, etc that are uncivil. It’s one thing to debate gender, it’s another to say “quit crying qu*r”. That’s likely get you reported and banned or on some blacklists. I think you would probably have to be civil in discussions on groups that are likely protected under say the civil rights act, and modern take on that as to which groups should have been added but haven’t like LGBTQ. Just my take, it’s not the law of the land :). It seems like dems/magas/libertarians aren’t considered protected groups on there and I’ve seen some heated”discussions” that didn’t seem to get cut.
I am flummoxed by your train of thought here, and I really do think part of it is you’re not thinking through what goes into a product.

Firstly, look at any tear down. The boards aren’t identical. Beyond that, it still requires specific tooling, specific power delivery and engineering, as well as parts that aren’t shared.

So in your weird business view, you think Apple is doing all of that regardless of market share. For what purpose?

Then beyond that, they also spend significant money to market it, and again you believe they do so despite a lack of market?

Beyond that, they have expensive retail spaces and many products vying for attention. Yet they dedicate significant amounts of space to a product you claim has no market? You also claim they're not stocked at most retailers, yet I can walk into the Best Buy and Staples near me and they have iMacs available. So what incentive would they have?

If everything you say is true, then you must surely think Apple is both incredibly stupid and flushing billions of dollars away on a product line that isn’t selling?

How about we try approaching this the other way, and you explain why you think Apple would do such a thing, year after year?
Sometimes you want to be able to do something like "run some SQL, but instead of using the normal tables use these temp tables I just created."

In particular, I wanted to do this in SQLite recently. I wanted to have one write process which would always remain unblocked. And I also wanted to be able to run certain tasks which would do some temporary/discardable DB manipulations as part of producing an output file. These tasks could open the SQLite DB in read-only mode; load relevant data into temp tables, manipulate that data, and write the output file. Everything would have worked great if only SQL were a more composable language.
Adapting foreign names to phonotactics and/or spelling practices of one's native language is a common practice throughout the world. The city's name is spelled Lodz in Spanish, for example.
Ya I would assume those already recruited into the military have a warrior mentality.

But the article is talking about recruiting first from the general public. American men have very much feminized over the past 50 years.

I remember back how the high school seniors at my school in 2002 had mustaches, were smoking cigarettes, they looked like full grown men.

Something has changed. I think a social premium on safety also results in a poorer recruiting class in the U.S.
Only if you are a shady company.

For the rest of the universe, it has been a pretty good deal.
The secret sauce part is the useful part -- the local vector store. Anthropic is probably not going to release that without competitive pressure. Meanwhile this helps Anthropic build an ecosystem.

When you think about it, function calling needs its own local state (embedded db) to scale efficiently on larger contexts.

I'd like to see all this become open source / standardized.
Waymo could be much better at driving but without a low cost sensor strategy they can’t make money in a market that will immediately become commodity priced.

Reaching huge scale needs the right market strategy as well as good supply chain.

SpaceX has a clever strategy of exploiting their first mover advantage in cheap launch to create the first cheap satcom system. They will suck up so much of the available revenue from that market that the next movers will have trouble getting sufficient investment.
The Fertility Crisis – highlights from the comments section
> This is a little clearer with thinking of the List datatype: this is a number list, that's a string list, that's a grocery list, this is a guest list...etc.

That's what I was referring to when I said "as a non-native english speaker". In my native language I would say those in a way that's more similar to "a list of numbers", etc etc.

> One nice thing in F# is that there's an ability to "standardize" how you write generics to look more like the (admittedly arbitrary) way that C# or Java or C++ write them:

Arguably this order (type then generic arguments) is not that arbitrary because this is effectively a type level function, so it makes sense that it uses the same order. However the angle brackets are indeed arbitrary, and IMO to be more consistent the same syntax as function application should be used. For practical purposes though this may make a type's syntax too similar to an expression, so it may not be the best choice (unless you're in a language where types are actually values)
"Cassette" is just appending the French dimunitive "ette" to "casse", which means "case". So "cassette" just refers to something being in a little box. The word itself has nothing to do with there being tape inside.

In English, the word became strongly associated with cassette tapes because it wasn't widely used before those came around, but the word itself is much older and more general.
> he has thought carefully about this matter --- respectfully, far more than you seem to have

He was wrong in his guesses about me and what I've read, and wrong about the quote too (see sibling comment).

> is from 2015 ... what we've learned since 2018

You're saying the graph is somehow invalid, because of newer GWAS related research?

The blog he links to looks biased to me. Are there two camps that don't get along: looking at DNA (GWAS), vs looking at twin studies etc ... yes seems so. I'll reply to both of you in another comment
https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-says-bluesky-is-violat...

This is the original article (linked from The Verge one) and is much clearer:

> Bluesky, the rapidly growing social media platform, is violating EU regulations by failing to disclose important details, a European Commission spokesperson told reporters during a daily briefing on Monday.

> “All platforms in the EU even the smallest ones which are below the threshold, which is the case for Bluesky, have to have a dedicated page on their website where it says how many user numbers they have in the EU and where they are legally established. This is not the case for Bluesky as of today,” the spokesperson said.
Compare to another popular Italian bread, ciabatta, which was invented only in 1982.
This is pretty much the problem Python has had for years is that people feel entitled to just type “python” and have it work. Linux distros choosing Python for scripting nearly killed the possibility of migrating to Python 3, had pandas not come along we could be talking about Python 3 the way we talk about Perl 6.

(Moral: never use the system Python unless you are writing super-simple scripts out of the standard library.)
Often repeated, always wrong.
> They only target the poor schools anyway.

The three schools around me are among the richest in the state and all have recruiters visit regularly. What’s your source for that belief?
I don’t agree with your comment about Map and ForEach, just by virtue of the fact that sync.Map exists in Go’s standard library.

But your point about the lack of contexts is definitely a deal breaker for me personally too.
What happens to the chlorine?
No Linux version :(
We're definitely interested in extending MCP to cover remote connections as well. Both SDKs already support an SSE transport with that in mind: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/concepts/transports#ser...

However, it's not quite a complete story yet. Remote connections introduce a lot more questions and complexity—related to deployment, auth, security, etc. We'll be working through these in the coming weeks, and would love any and all input!
I'm skeptical that this would provide enough scrubbing action, especially in all my nooks and crannies. My dishwasher doesn't even do a sufficient job on simple plates and bowls without preliminary cleaning, so I expect this device would have a lot of those same issues. Instead of going into the business of providing human washing machines, I think providing a "human to join you in the shower and wash you" service would be a lot more popular and profitable.
When you don’t know the difference between good and bad, and when bullying your way through things on a technicality because you have the money to do so is normal, well I doubt seriously they convince themselves of anything. They know based on pure emotion and the desired outcome that they were wronged — so of course you sue?
> > twin studies and they have taken in serious beating in the past decade, especially in light of GWAS.

Here's a twin study from 2015, newer than the books (Clean Slate etc) and papers you (David) mentioned.

"Thinking positively: The genetics of high intelligence"
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4286575/

Figure 3 indicates that intelligence is pretty strongly inherited, and they arrive at 0.44.

Now you're saying that that doesn't matter because of GWAS? Sounds a bit hand-wavy to me.

> > Sasha Gusev's Substack as an entry point: https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com

Blog post looks biased. So there's a controversy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_heritability_problem

And there's two camps:

https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/the-missing-heritabilit...

(I like that article!)

And the two of you (Davind and Thomas) seem to be in the "The DNA Proponents" camp. The other is "The Twin Study Advocates" camp.

I guess now I'm in "The middle ground" camp, no longer in the "Twin Study Advocates".

Thanks for that. Maybe I'll check back in 10 years later and see what has happened.
Most of the people I worked with were 30-50 years old with families and kids. The work life balance was great. I was the rare outlier who was married without kids.

We had senior engineers who would work hard and get things done and then go and be parents and partners.
But show me an external monitor which has all this inbuilt. Even if it just has average quality. There is nothing on the market. Once there existed a Dell video conferencing monitor. But the quality of webcam, microphone speakers and even USB hub of this monitor was just terrible, much worse than Apple. It seems like everyone likes a lot of cables around her/his monitor and a shaky webcam on top.
That ship has long sailed. ALGOL 1958 used := and Pascal popularized it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_(computer_science...
There's no better noise cancelling than as much bulk around your ears and as thick a wall around your room as possible! I too have a wired Audio-Technica (ATH-M40x) and can highly recommend it. I got immeasurable pleasure out of discovering that many of my favourite pieces of music had entire lines that I never knew existed when still using lesser audio equipment!

Another suggestion of mine is to listen to CDs from the late 80s, when record labels considered 'digital' a mark of quality and actually followed through with the marketing. They tend to be the best, in my opinion - they have good dynamic range which nowadays is usually compressed out of the recordings to maximise loudness, and they had just started using 192kbs bitrates, which I consider to be at the upper level of my hearing ability. No help for new albums, of course, but hopefully those will have FLAC downloads available as some consolation!
It's a variation on "Premature Optimization Is the Root of All Evil". Focus on what actually matters for your startup. If for some reason some EU regulator actually comes knocking, you're most likely big enough to mean you've created a successful startup.

Then you just say "Sorry!" and you implement what they want.

This is probably different if your company is in the EU, but this is my North American point of view.