skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “A lot of the time, they’re done,” Gadea said of underperformers. “They’re burned out, they need a break. And now you’re asking them to work harder.”

I've seen that once, most recently.

Before that, it was somebody who was trying to get let go on performance grounds, thinking that it would lead to severance (didn't work out).

Before that, it was somebody who got put on PIP, but I'm not sure why, and they were personally devastated and then quit.

Telling somebody that they're fucking up and that they need to improve is one thing, that's just feedback. Creating a structure that's officially "if you don't do X, Y, Z, then you're fired"... just fire them.
Footnote to QLDB: AWS has deprecated QLDB[1]. They actually recommend using Postgres with pgAudit and a bunch of complexity around it[2]. I'm not sure how I feel about such a misunderstanding of one's own offerings of this level.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/qldb/latest/developerguide/what-...

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/replace-amazon-qldb-wi...
Canada's major news organizations band together to sue ChatGPT creator OpenAI
http://gleam.so - a simple tool to create beautiful OpenGraph (OG) images, Social Cards in seconds. No design skills needed.

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Most of the papers in machine learning are coming from China. The vast majority.

Most of the open source models on GitHub, too.

Hailuo, Kling, Vidu, and Hunyuan (posted on Banodoko) blow Sora and Runway out of the water.

China is dominating at this field. And if they begin releasing weights as open source, that'll mean foundation model companies can only bank on the thin facade of product. That's a really good strategy to make sure American AI startups don't achieve escape velocity if they have to fend of dozens of fungible clones.
The claim that's being allowed to proceed is under 17 USC 1202, which is about stripping metadata like the title and author. Not exactly "core copyright violation". Am I missing something?
You mean: "when kids do reckless stuff like this, you gotta ask: where are the parens in all this?"
But the fundamental difference is that the regulatory structures are in place to recover your money if a bank loses it. That's not the case with fintech middlemen. Take the Synapse case:

* End customers are really a customer of Yotta, a (silly IMO) fintech where interest was essentially pooled into a sweepstakes prize.

* Yotta was a customer of Synapse - they used Synapse BaaS APIs to open customer accounts (again, these accounts were really just entries in Synapse's ledger, and they underlying funds were supposed to be stored in an FBO account on Evolve).

* Synapse partnered with Evolve, who is the FDIC insured bank.

Synapse went bankrupt, and Yotta customers are finding out they can't access their money. But the bankruptcy court is at a loss as to really what to do. FDIC isn't getting involved, because as far as they can tell, Evolve hasn't failed. Synapse is basically out of the picture at this point as they are bankrupt and there isn't even enough money left to do a real audit, and Yotta is suing Evolve alleging they lost customer funds. But, in the meantime, Yotta customers are SOL.

If you had a direct relationship with an FDIC-insured bank, and they lost your money, there would be a much clearer path for the FDIC to get involved and make you whole (up to $250k).
And Alt+Left / Alt+Right
It is to cover some of their bases in a potential wrongful termination case
The oldest running computer anywhere is apparently in one of the Voyager probes. Source: a video about troubleshooting one of them that was posted on HN a while ago.
That's a rathee obtuse response. You can typically operate under the assumption that the compiler works correctly. The question of the GP was - what prevents the compiler from (correctly) exploiting UB to change the program behaviour from the desired one? If the Linux devs want to rely on their compilers' output, they have to somehow be obeying the contract around UB.
I didn't see Andy Farnell's "Digital Self-Defense" mentioned, but I think it's relevant here -- analogous to how one should be cognizant of personal safety when navigating a city (or even while crossing a busy intersection).

https://www.solent.ac.uk/blogs/media-technology-blogs/digita...
Going through the motions of a PIP is a pain if you're management. If someone gets PIP'ed then a decent manager already exhausted all other avenues to get a team member to start contributing at the expected level and the PIP is just to provide cover.

You don't PIP a lower performing staff unless they're completely useless or toxic to the environment, you just find tasks that suit them better. At least in my experience managing staff.
Ask HN: Why are Teslas seen as political while Macs are not?
Many liberals feel embarrassed driving their Teslas, but conservatives seem comfortable using their Macs in public.
As long as yt-dlp stays alive..
> It's also a type of fraud which is fairly easy to detect. If a car is recorded as driving just 2000 miles per year, yet freeway cameras detected it driving 100 miles every weekday all year, open a fraud case.

Sure, but why bother? That would involve a ton of overhead and server time for a system that's still going to miss a lot of travel, thereby limiting revenue. I question whether the added expense of that kind of surveillance system would even recover enough revenue to break even. The same goes for mandatory GPS reporting devices, plus the civil liberties issues associated with such systems would make passing such a tax even more difficult.

Most countries have some sort of annual safety/emissions inspection, so any mileage-based tax could just use the odometer readings from the inspection. Sure, a mechanic could falsify paperwork, but how likely is that when it'll eventually come to light? If you want to sell the car, you're going to have to eventually admit the miles you hid so that they match the odometer reading at the time of title transfer. That means you're going to have no choice but to pay the tax eventually.

No need to try and build a more perfect mouse trap.
I've done both. I rather the PIP.

Bunch of people who took the ZIRP startup decade and assumed it was a permanent thing to not actually have to do work to keep your job.
Qt also introduces some messy changes between major versions but they tend to be a lot more reasonable than what GTK does. Since Qt4 at least there's usually some attempt at providing alternatives for each deprecated function or class (the alternatives are shown in the error messages) and sometimes full-on compatibility layers for missing features are provided like with Qt5Compat.

Not sure Gimp devs would be willing to switch to C++ for Qt though.
That department becomes the overhead every time since it imposes requirements or work on the team doing the actual creation. They make the teams building the product make changes or answer questions and “gate” releases. Every time you add someone extra things slow down if their whole job is related to reducing risk. Misaligned incentives.
Exactly. I have a 5120-pixel-wide monitor. I can afford the space needed to display a scroll bar.
Agreed, exactly the same here. I was hoping the article would explain, but sadly, no.
One should not build their own cryptography, one should not build their own ledger, that's what I am saying.
Are they making breakthroughs or are they taking what exists and copying/marginally improving?
Was it justified or was your colleague wronged?
I think the PIP is hated because it ruins the illusion of camaraderie, like an ultimatum in marriage. But really, unlike a marriage you shouldn't have that illusion in the first place, you were always a replaceable cog whose only value is what service you can do for your boss. If you always had that perspective then the PIP can be seen as a helpful encouragement to improve rather than a precursor to an actual firing.
A manager should be communicating expectations regularly. PIP conventionally means "we're firing you in a few months," so you're just threatening to fire people euphemistically.
And how would a system work, to check all that? To me that sounds like a lot of overhead to make sure no one outsmarts the system
he was referring to the U in "UB".
It will be "fixed" by just killing off old people in large numbers through some combination of high pressure euthanasia campaigns and denial of healthcare subsidies. Just no one wants to be honest about it.

Our political culture is not a high integrity, high honesty culture but one that relies on a lot of indirect communication and symbolism. In this the west has become a lot more like east Asian stereotype. So in my view this crisis will be solved, just not in a way that people want to acknowledge. A lot of the nonserious "attempts" to address the issues are just performances to make it look like the facially palatable policies have been tried before they inevitably fail.
Do you mean the menu you get from holding super and right clicking on the window?

I don't think I ever access that menu from the titlebar. But that's mostly because the unity DE is where I built most of my muscle memory.
The example uses the plugin luxy.js: https://min30327.github.io/luxy.js/

It appears that the plugin basically does two things:

1. Repeatedly calls window.requestAnimationFrame with a callback

2. Set a custom style on a specified element (position:fixed, width:100%, transform:translate3d)

You'd have to stop both to override the plugin.
https://x.com/BorealBaron/status/1861563428462039440

https://x.com/RedPillSayian/status/1861982472847716721

Deleted, but from a Warp affiliate, oof.

https://x.com/CollieYimby/status/1832186179741253835
How on earth can you be a good manager and not realize that saying "your performance is shit, we're going to fire you unless you take this course and we deem you've passed" is totally and utterly soul destroying to a person?
> Of course, now that he knows, if he gets a lime burn again, there's no one else to blame—it's his own fault.

What a weird last line; they could have just left that out.
> Note the "suggests".

That’s what readwrite.com says. I think what the NSA says (or said; that is dated April 2023) is here: https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/10/2003112742/-1/-1/0/CSI...

I couldn’t find the word “suggest” or anything similar to it in that paper. They describe what they mean by “memory safety” and give examples of memoryxsafe languages (twice, both times the same list)
okay so now you’ve got double-entry bookkeeping except all of your credits/debits have two dollar values instead of one. let’s call it “quadrupal-entry”
Tim Cook is a friend to conservative lawmakers, conservatives feel fine paying Apple because it financially supports the values they respect. Money spent buying an iPhone or Mac is the ultimate expression of respect for concentrated wealth.

Both purchases are still a political statement, but their constitutent markets are oftentimes too dumb to even understand what statement they're making with it. Liberals get sucked into counterproductive marketing schemes when they see silhouettes dancing to Mariah Carey - conservatives whip out their wallets when you use social media to espouse centuries-old disproven rhetoric as gospel. Both of these consumer bases are so profoundly stupid that their own insecurity is a direct byproduct of not using common sense when spending money.

If they weren't vulnerable to simple marketing, Americans might actually think about what they buy. Thankfully for the marketers, original thought in America has been getting phased out since the 1960s.
> There are two futures, both bad. "Keep 'em barefoot and pregnant", or "Will the last one to leave please turn out the lights."

Overly pessimistic. Our culture and economy have been structured to yield low fertility. That will eventually pass. There's no need for oppression to get replacement rate fertility.
I agree and I am totally happy to say "I tried to measure but the result I found is inconclusive" or "I believe that this is at worst neutral commit - e.g. it won't add any regression". Having spent probably thousands of hours e2e benchmarking the code I wrote, I'm always skeptical about the benchmarking frameworks, blogs, etc.

The last one being the paper from Meta, where they claim that they can detect 0.005% regressions. I really don't think this is possible in sufficiently complex e2e system tests. IME I found it to be extremely challenging to detect regressions, with high confidence, that are below 5%.

Link: https://tangchq74.github.io/FBDetect-SOSP24.pdf
> Everyone thinks China leads the world in manufacturing because of labor costs. Ha, no. China's far richer now. It started out as the labor costs, but now it's the vertical integration

The US is behind China on key manufacturing sectors, but over the last few years this is changing in a big way. And I agree that China no longer has the labor cost advantage, but that also means that the US has a good chance to catch up now.

The last few years have seen an absolutely unprecedented boom in factory construction in the US. A lot of those are for green energy, but because green energy somewhat politically incorrect in the rural red areas where these go, there's not much local news about them.

https://www.volts.wtf/p/how-is-new-clean-energy-manufacturin...

So sure for plastic and PCBs, the US is not competitive and hasn't cared to be for a long time. But for emerging technologies like green energy, we have it in us to recapture the sector.

And maybe the needs of these other sectors will push local suppliers to want to be competitive, if the volumes are large enough. Because if there is a big enough customer, they can be competitive. But if a persons new project is not big enough to move the needle for a company in the US, why would they change their practice for PCB production?
You also need law and order. Years ago living in Toronto, I stopped taking transit when the crazies started getting on the train along with the innocent commuters.
"Physics-Informed Machine Learning: A Survey on Problems, Methods and Applications" (2024)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.08064 :

> We systematically review the recent development of physics-informed machine learning from three perspectives of machine learning tasks, representation of physical prior, and methods for incorporating physical prior. We also propose several important open research problems based on the current trends in the field. We argue that encoding different forms of physical prior into model architectures, optimizers, inference algorithms, and significant domain-specific applications like inverse engineering design and robotic control is far from being fully explored in the field of physics-informed machine learning. We believe that the interdisciplinary research of physics-informed machine learning will significantly propel research progress, foster the creation of more effective machine learning models, and also offer invaluable assistance in addressing long-standing problems in related disciplines.

Re: LLM ml benchmarks; FrontierMath (only 2% of tasks in 2024), TheoremQA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42097683
I love its contribution to wordplay. You can write things like “yesterday we sat down to a meal of golden, moist, roast whisky” because the adjectives lead up to a set of expectations about the subject that turn out to be untrue.
I saw this so many times. It is rather depressing. Even experienced devs hardly know enough about floats, rounding etc to implement these things, but they do. We were asked to troubleshoot a project for an online insurer ; the devs did two conversions; js and php. So the amount from the frontend ended on the server and got converted and got into the db as an entry. Definitely depressing how frontend numbers are converted and actually this means something to the end result. But the php conversion was also wrong, so it was often cents off. I believe people should never be allowed to have a 'senior developer' job again, but this is really quite commonplace. Most companies don't have enough revenue to notice or care, but given how often we see it, I would say it's actually normal.
Quantity of papers is really not a good measure.

> that'll mean foundation model companies can only bank on the thin facade of product.

The “facade” of product tested in the real world in the hands of millions or billions is better than thousands of unread/uncited/clique-cited papers using questionable gameable benchmarks.
Employment is at-will. It's better to just fire without the PIP drama. As it is, a PIP does not provide legal cover if the employee writes back, effectively rejecting it.
This is extremely similar what anti LGB people were also saying in how they were contrasting it to the civil rights movement.

Also similar to what the anti-civil rights movement were saying when contrasting it to the end of slavery.

Here, let me show it:

"This also highlights the huge difference between the "Abolitionist Movement" and "Civil Rights". The abolitionist movement just asked society to leave them alone. No impositions on my life. The "civil Rights" movement demands that I accept they can share spaces with me (or I'm a bigot) and allow blacks to have access to the same systems in society (or I'm a bigot)."

The only thing that has changed between these is that once these movements get set in stone, and legislation catches up - reactionary people such as Coleman stop attacking and othering it. This is why history is important. You get to see these patterns and realize its just the same shit happening all over again.
spoils of war, spoiled
> You don't PIP a lower performing staff unless they're completely useless or toxic

Maybe this is part of the problem -- that it's called one thing (a plan to improve performance) but is used as another (legalese once you've already given up hope).

But I've never quite understood why. I imagine if I was a manager people would know if they are doing 20% as much as the best team member and would either be off the team or have shaped up within 6 months. That period where you genuinely are making sure that somebody understands you think they aren't doing well and clarify expectations seems valuable and ideally would happen long before it's too late.
Surging crypto prices dampened interest in AI in 2020. Will they do it again?
Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering
The idea that you can never make a good piece of software is backwards and wrong. There should come a point where your software has the essential features and reasonable UX. Producing software which does what the user wants without being actively hostile to them is the bare minimum. It doesn't take 20 years, it's not an endless process. If you spend 20 years doing it, you are managing your time badly. GIMP is managing their time badly. The "loudest/most frequent" requests is not a good metric to use because most of those issues are filed by software developers and not users.
Have you tried Mistral? I am blown away by how good it is.
Getting Started with Category Theory
Does it allow filtering visited page list by a specific referrer and vice verse?
that's safetensors

whatever you load via ollama should be safe, as it only supports uugf and safetensors.
Also don't fuck with that thing where scrolling down progresses an animation, moves things sideways, gets you past the scrollgate until you can continue scrolling down the page. Terrible, jarring, disruptive, user-hostile design.
I’ve never heard anyone brag about giving working PIPs. PIPs are pretty demoralizing even if they “work”.

Maybe you should consider giving people feedback in non-PIP form!
My understanding is that R&D in the US is a very small part of the business for these China-based companies, both in terms of headcounts and org chart. TikTok hires many people in the US, but that's nowhere near the number in the Beijing office, not to mention that all decisions come from China. You can find lots of articles that talk about midnight meetings for folks in US. And there is a good reason for that -- you can hire a few engineers in China for the same price of hiring 1 engineer in the Bay Area.
> and also increases the workout effect

If you push 300W on a 5kg bike or 20kg bike, the "workout effect" will be the same.

At the end of the day, if you are looking for "workout effect", it means that you're trying to achieve something, like winning races or going faster.

And for a given rider, with a certain weight and certain physiological abilities, they will go much faster on a 5kg bike than on a 20kg bike.

There is a whole world between <$1k bikes and those >$2k ones.
Weight being an important part.
Not only because it reduce the total weight of bike + rider, but also because a 5kg bike behave in a very different way than a 20kg.

It's like saying that cooking with a chef knife is the same as cooking with a sword.

Sure, after a certain point, the race for removing a few grams here or there is a luxury and many people tend to believe that spending $$$ on a lighter bike will fix their lack of fitness.

But modern bikes provide a completely difference than the old, heavy ones.
Okay, I don't know what I was expecting, but is it meant to be as disturbing as I think it is?
You know, it's kind of funny, but it seems like most businesses are not interested in doing things "right". As doing things "right" is time consuming, hard, and cuts off avenues to "innovate". "That's not how accounting works" is like telling management to clean their room. No one wants to hear it.
IANAL, but I don’t think this is correct
Feature request: I tried "año" (year in Spanish) and it's blocked. Perhaps you can allow some special characters. Ç is used in Portuguese. ß for German. ... I'm not sure about accented characters like áéíóú.
I've never been put under a PIP, but if I were, I'd be looking for a way out. The company has told me I suck and, even if I recovered, I'd be concerned that just having had it there would hurt any future progression I had in the company.
Interesting how you interpreted 'current government' even though I specifically said 'decades' and 'all parties'.
You are bang on correct and complete.

But it's an absolutely sadass commentary on the commentariat here that you have been downvoted. I feel for dang and his cohort, but there are a great deal of trollholes on this internet. (Yeah, I just made up that word.)
OpenAI Sued by Top Canadian News Publishers for Copyright Breach
This looks perfect for my command line go app. I wanted to add config wizard all along.

One question though: app is primarily distributed through docker. Can docker app open a window somehow on all platforms? How?
I don't think anybody talking about "latency" without a qualifier is thinking about build latency.

But it's a nice article. The idea that giving-up on waiting for a delay has a simple exponential distribution is something that I never thought. (And now I'm fixed on understanding why... Something must have biased me against it.)
I read the headline as the copyright violation claim being core to the lawsuit.
>flex, 0, 1

And each one can behave differently: https://lwn.net/Articles/908817/
FLOSS/fund has released a database of projects that have applied. This makes it possible to analyze what has happened since the fund launched 36 odd days ago.
The CSV file has 80 rows - covering 130 projects, 2.4 M$ in funding requested. That number actually comes down to 1.8-1.9 million, once I weed out some outliers.

My complete analysis, some charts and graphs are all here: https://techbitsatoms.substack.com/p/analyzing-the-flossfund...

TLDR is: After an initial burst at launch, new projects applying to the fund has become a trickle - very few submissions in the past 12 days. This is puzzling and hard to explain. I am hoping that people in the community can help find projects and more importantly - get them to apply.

I'm also wondering how much of "friction" the funding.json itself creates ? I'd love to hear from anyone who has actually submitted a funding.json file to floss.fund !