skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the tables in the results section, it would seem that the people in the study don't have long periods where they don't move. "average sedentary bout lengths" hover between 15 and 20 minutes.

So the problem with "sitting in chairs specifically" is probably not the chair, but the fact that the chair facilitates longer "sedentary bout lengths". If this is correct, then the commenter suggesting to get up and move every so often is probably on point.
This category of consequence would solve so many problems. Think of how much everyone's lives would be improved if stealing wages was a crime with actual repercussions.
Hi David! The word "strawberry" contains two 'r's.

-- GPT-4o
> replaces Git with a new idea about versioning

With the advent of LSP I feel like we're almost to a point where you could version structures and not code. Like being able to follow how some class / method got cut in multiple pieces during a refactoring round.

Or maybe we need something more than plaintext to store code and the meta data around it before we can get to this point. I'm sure it has been already done multiple times in different ecosystems but there must be a way to standardize the information about code and use it in IDE and versioning tools.
There were TVs made that you could upgrade the processor on, they were more expensive and never took off.
People want cheap, they'll forgo the better product if they can get one that's on sale cheap. Consumer choice says that an upgradable product sells worse and the company that makes the upgradeable models will get the lowest market share.
You'd have to legislate modularity and then you get people complaining about government over reach.
This seems like a tautology.

By definition most people are unable to grasp the true priorities of everyone else sitting around the table after adjusting for all confounding variables such as the correct time order.

Edit: And certainly not within say a half hour meeting once per week.

Because they’re all roughly equivalently intelligent.

i.e. In say a committe of ten, it’s very atypical for there to be 1 literal genius, as the committee chairman, and 9 unsophisticated and easily predictable members around the table.

Such that the chairman can correctly predict this or that, for any of the 9 other members…
this is not the halting problem.
If anyone's interested, here's my comparison of productivity with the Ideal Gas law I've written about here before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30000296

It gives a contrary perspective to this Parkinson's law interpretation, which I think is vastly oversimplified from the intent of the original quote.
For me, it's the acceleration of development in the last 5 years as seen in the Changes file. It's now releasing new versions almost every month.

https://github.com/PDLPorters/pdl/blob/master/Changes
First, that’s not the same as what fox news alleged - if they’d simply run a “hacker x reported being able to alter the software” story they’d have been in the clear legally.

Second, elections are systems, not individual voting machines. Someone being able to tamper with unlimited physical access is not the same as being able to do so in an actual election (e.g. your bank’s PC probably aren’t perfect either but you can’t just sit down and start hacking them), and that’s only a small part of the actual system - as a simple example, if someone could make it record a vote for a different candidate than you tapped, it’d be caught by your review of the paper ballot which is actually counted. If they messed with the counting system, a hand recount would show huge discrepancies.

The underlying thing to remember here is that nobody seriously believed there was a problem. They started backwards from the desire to pretend Trump didn’t lose and repeated conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory as needed to say that outcome was real. That’s why they lost the lawsuit because it was clear that it was essentially political advertising pretending to be news, with complete disregard for the truth. That also forced the lawsuit since left unchallenged the smear campaign would have harmed Dominion’s business, whereas if there’d been anything factual the company would have been compelled to fix a real problem.
Take good care of your teeth, my friend. It's a new era in agentic factuality.
Do they support WFH setups?
I feel that with a lot of hype cycle technologies, there are very few cases where being AI first is better than being AI enabled (with it being in the background) - your offering is around a fast & easy turnaround- not necessarily AI, so does your market respond better to AI based messaging or speed based messaging? I would assume it’s the latter.

I agree with theGreatZhopa, no one has to know, it can be your little secret that improves the customer experience and makes things feel a bit more magical.
There are multiple videos already, some even in broad daylight. For example, the nbc news clip on youtube about 15 seconds in.
Most likely the source code alone is not enough, probably the system works with third party paid cloud services or third party components that could not be licensed.
It seems you can access this directly through the link: https://docs.rigged.ai/
I am aware you didn't specifically ask for answer, but I was not satisfied with the answers you got :-), so I'll add my two cents.. I have 3 points to make.
(1) The first is about 'when does it make sense for a song to use more than 7 notes?'
WHEN we do this, we will often say "this song uses a key change".
Some keys have partial overlap - note-sequences they share, and ranges where they differ.
One elegant way to exploit this, is to let the song meander into the common range of the two keys, and then meander OUT of that range into a different key that we used to get IN to that range.
This can produce a cool surprise effect, a bit like looking at those optical illusion pictures that you can look at two ways. A similar trick can be used with rhythms that overlap, instead of frequencies that overlap.

(2) Where does the "rule" of 7 come from, ie what shapes it:
As you know, notes have harmonic friends that they resonate well with.
So when you are picking a 'colour palette' of notes that go well together, you will of course often pick such 'friends'. However, the more notes you already have in your picked pool, the harder it gets to add another note, that will still mesh nicely with all those previous choices. Your remaining choices will be more and more likely to clash; in particular it will be more and more likely to be "close" to one of your existing choices. And close notes clash. So, on a 12-note scale, 7 is about the optimal number of tones you can pick without them clashing too much. It is just a convention however, so some stubborn individual might come up with an 8-note scale. Once you start with 8 notes, you would be tempted to employ extra "OK I have 8 notes, but I try to avoid playing THOSE TWO back to back"-rules.

Then again, I often hear my 10-year old loudly playing .. sounds(music?) from tiktok and its ilk,
and as an old geezer, I am starting to think that some of our youngsters have given up on scales altogether..

I have no idea what my third point was, at this point.
Consuming more resources is a matter of perspective, not efficiency, because the scale of total phenomena would be much larger than what is experienced. Always bet against the comprehensiveness of your comprehension.
I've heard this referred to as "time blindness", which may help if you're looking for more information.

I'd also be grateful if you could share some of your strategies.
Where do you see evidence of wages being stolen?
Arguably the ultimate commentary on that aspect of history and politics is to take T.E. Lawrence's original map showing his suggestion for dividing up the Middle East based on linguistic groupings and factional differences and religious factions and interactions and to then overlay it with any more recent map.
Sure, but so does a video game telling a kid to commit violent acts and then the kid committing violent acts. I don't think video games cause violence and I'm open to the possibility that chatbots cause suicide, but if we're going to compare evidence for each, we shouldn't do it in a biased way.
Gukesh Dommaraju Defeats Ding Liren in World Chess Championship Game
So this is out there but the late John Keel who investigated UFO's and the paranormal during the 20th century believed that these phenomena aren't even physically there.

It's some kind of trick that an unknown entity plays on people. Like Bigfoot, lochness monster etc. It's possible the drones don't physically exist. Yet we can see and hear them.

The government might know this. Hence lack of response
so how is the data encoded?
Thanks, I just spent two hours exploring the history of Europe while I should really be working.
Show HN: New release of JQM, an open source job queue manager
For Cyprus citizens, no. But for third countries nationals living there it will change everything. Now they are locked in because Schengen visas are almost impossible to get because embassies mostly issue single-entry ones, waiting times are several months for 1 trip, and all slots are bought out by bots... Many live here for several years and never had a single trip just because it is too hard and expensive (up to 1k per person per trip + several months), to get a visa.
I don't know why you'd be confused by the valuations, they're just 2 different businesses. Google is an ad sales business with an extremely strong revenue driver (youtube and Search) so it churns out money but it's pretty well understood revenue stream and is facing some possible disruption. Nvidia is a chip sales business and whether through luck or through skill (or both) they've essentially ended up as the monopoly provider of the worlds best chips. It's not unreasonable to expect Nvidia can squeeze a tonne of cash out of their customers for the next few years in an undisruptable way. So it's easy to understand the valuations.

On the GPU side - One way to look at it is lets just ignore whether you're selling chips. Let's just look at where compute is done - because Google let's you rent time on the TPUs so if they're really great people will just choose to rent time on them. How much time is being rented on TPUs in the cloud vs. Nvidia GPUs? Google's TPUs are not a market leader, they're probably not even significant market share. Pretend Google decided to sell TPUs tomorrow - are many people who weren't choosing to rent TPUs going to decide to buy them? No. There's an element of interoperability and supply chain etc. etc. but I think the core of it is a full ML product the TPU isn't anywhere close to the Nvidia GPUs.
Which model do you use for React? Different models behave quite differently. Sonnet-3.5 seems to do quite well at writing several files at once.
Of course, that is why people have developed so many tools that are external to the mind like language, writing, math, law, the scientific method, etc.
Job Queue Manager, or JQM for short, is a queue manager / batch engine.
It is made to optimize and streamline the execution of jobs, whatever they may be, on a grid by using queues with rich configuration, to make job administration simple and to be easy to include or embed in most environments.

The version 3.0 has just been released, it brings a major overhaul of the JQM internals, aiming at delivering better performances, a more modern and maintenable codebase as well as enabling easier delivery of more features in future releases.

The most visible change is the new GUI, which was fully rewritten. It is more reactive and user-friendly.

It also deals with the obsolescence of many components: old Java versions are dropped, new TLS ciphers are supported, IPv6 is now supported, the CLI was rewritten…
It's only twice the bandwith if your content isn't cacheable.
Neither FBI nor Pentagon have ability to fly drones in the US airspace at will. On the contrary, they, like everyone else, have to get FAA approvals and those always leak. And usually in fact published by the FAA who needs to warn pilots of potential threats -- one could go to the official FAA website and search those NOTAMs.

Ignoring FAA by the FBI or the military just doesn't happen, the price to pay is WAY too high.

NSA or spooks could theoretically be behind this, but why do it where it annoys people and attracts attention and not in some desert or foreign place? Something doesn't add up.
I wonder what fraction of economic activity passes through these "wrapper companies".
Schmidhuber said this before, cf.

https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/2xcyrl/i_a...
Suction cups are way better than multi-finger grippers.

Multi-finger grippers rely on "affordances" i.e. space between the boxes to get the fingers in. If the boxes are pushed up against one another, you've got to do something to make space for the fingers first. So to grab a box with a multi-finger gripper you need space at the top, left and right.

Suction cups, on the other hand? They only need access to the top. No need for space at the left and right, no need to slide things to make space, just apply the suction cup and pull upwards.

Suction cups can also be made of soft, flexible rubber so if the planning is a bit inaccurate? No problem, the suction cup just bends. A multi-finger gripper, though? If the fingers are rigid and strong enough to lift a 30kg bag then they're also probably rigid and strong enough to punch a hole in an adjacent bag.

Suction cups do have a bunch of disadvantages, of course. Porous materials you can't get a seal on. Vacuuming up detritus and messing up your vacuum generator. The payload swinging about on the flexible suction cup. Losing vacuum and dropping the load if there's a power cut.

But they're certainly a great starting point in an application like this one.
Interesting. Thank you - so the goal of the operator would be mirrors across the replications of the system - how fixed would this goal be across replications & would it be possible to “mutate” in a way?
I'm unable to find a number about how many people listened to him around the time period, but still arguably, she was a very well known public figure, even if some people didn't watch her. My mom would watch her show religiously.
Is this an actual problem domain? What is the perception of "level" in this context? I think that large corporations and small companies operate at different levels and don't have the same problems so they don't need the same solutions. There is no need to have equal footing.

An example to argue my point: a small hamburger restaurant vs. McDonalds. The small mom-n-pop hamburger place does not need HR systems, an ERP for supply chain & logistics, a large marketing and promotions department, a fancy business intelligence platform, etc. McDonalds needs all of that because all of their franchises depend (aka pay) them to supply them, do marketing, etc. The small hamburger place has no interest in government contracts, like a McD's at every army base, and is very far away from needing anything like a large corporation until they are closer to that size.

The small burger place doesn't have processes in place to scale, they have Bob the cook who likes to season the burgers liberally and Sally the other cook who holds back a little on the salt but typically adds extra pickles. McD's probably has a set of procedures on how to cook everything uniformly, season the same, count the number of pickles, the amount of ketchup, etc. all the same.

Smaller businesses operate effectively more so because of the people at them. Large corporations operate effectively through top down processes, procedures and bureaucracy with replaceable people.
Gratz to our youngest ever world champion Gukesh, who slightly better kept his nerves in check.

Has a world championship match ever ended with a worse blunder than Ding's Rf2?

I see there was an article about that at [1]. While it may not top those other blunders, this one was a championship deciding one...

[1] https://en.chessbase.com/post/ris-ten-blunders-world-champio...
Why Does U.S. Technology Rule? – By Paul Krugman
Everybody who has worked on a large/huge code base knows that most of it is there for historical reasons: it's always safer to add a new feature than to replace something old, as most of the time people don't know if that old code is useful or not.

BTW tinygrad shows that tens of thousands of lines are enough, it's skipping even most of the AMD kernel drivers and talks to the hardware directly.
it may seem similar to a stripper or an escort but onlyfans is not just selling nudity or porn, they are selling faux relationships.
Finally a use case for generative AI which makes money. And we all know, if the porn industry adopts a technology then it is here to stay.
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I don't know if it's true but someone told me this is the main reason why the likes of Home Shopping Network and QVC keep their over the air transmitters going in many places even though most of their viewers are on cable. It seems like a waste of spectrum space but it's so that they can force the cable operators to carry them.
Same here.

I have some questions 1) are these telcos effectively pass-thru operators for actual spammers ? in other words, just a paper entity working with 1-2 customers ?

2) Do these VOIP providers act as resellers for the big telcos ? If yes, how does the telco contracting/onboarding fail so hard at screening for bad actors as potential customers (is there a law like KYC for them at all ?)

3) Finally, once onboarded don't the big telcos have some incentive to boot bad actors from their busy networks ?
Nothing stopping anyone from using Inline::Perl or NativeCall [0]. I'd like to see Raku's concurrency model working on these data structures. Otherwise there's always PDL::ParallelCPU [1]

[0] https://docs.raku.org/language/nativecall
[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::ParallelCPU
Being a customer also means making responsible choices in what companies you do business with.
Don't we all experience this from time to time? When I'm focused on solving some mathematical problems I'm not thinking in words, but in concepts. When you are thinking of words you also think of a concept, the only difference is that sometimes there are no words associated to it. Im my opinion, words, sentences are just a label to the thinking process, a translation of what is really going on inside, not the driver of it.
The author misses something crucial - for this to work the
the right environment must be established first.
Without a supportive and healthy culture, tight deadlines can do more harm than good.

To succeed, teams need an environment where:

- Mistakes are seen as opportunities to learn, not as reasons for punishment. This fosters confidence and creativity.

- People feel recognized and valued, rather than being treated as just another cog in the machine.

- Management is transparent about goals and decisions, building trust and aligning the team's efforts with a shared vision.

Equally important:

After periods of intense deadlines teams need time to:

- Fix hasty decisions made under pressure.

- Reduce technical debt.

- Explore and experiment with new tools or technologies to improve their skills and boost morale.

Without this foundational culture implementing the author's ideas risks creating a toxic work environment.

Tight deadlines in the wrong setting can lead to:

- Extreme stress and burnout, resulting in slower progress or higher turnover.

- Decision paralysis, or as I like to call it "team freeze". Especially if people lack confidence in their abilities or fear making mistakes.

- Fragmented collaboration, where rushed individual contributions fail to integrate into a cohesive whole.

- Misaligned priorities, particularly if management operates from an "ivory tower" and imposes deadlines that seem arbitrary or disconnected from reality. This can create uncertainty. Worst case this may create rumors about financial instability, distracting teams from their work.

- A loss of individual potential, as workers who feel unrecognized are less likely to go above and beyond or contribute unique ideas.

Additionally, if deadlines become the norm without breaks teams lose their drive and motivation. The pressure of constantly sprinting leads to diminishing returns while unresolved technical debt creates long term pain points in the software.
Over time this can result in teams feeling like they're digging themselves into a hole with no opportunity to climb out.
I would love to do it just for the chance of being noticed by the greatest Expert in all things! What an opportunity
It is surprisingly difficult to study history chronologically when one gets beyond the scope of a given text/item due to overlap.

When I was still reading to my children in the evening, after running through all the standard texts (Narnia, _The Hobbit_, _The Lord of the Rings_, Susan Cooper's _The Dark is Rising_, H. Beam Piper's _Little Fuzzy_, &c.), I decided I wanted to read biographies to them, in chronological order, starting in as far back in history as was possible --- that was a surprisingly difficult list to put together (arguably because I missed texts such as: _Isaac Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: The Lives and Achievements of 1195 Great Scientists from Ancient Times to the Present Chronologically Arranged_), so we did a dry run of just American Presidents --- this worked quite well, and I found it expedient to read an "adult" biography to pair with a children's one so as to anticipate and answer questions which came up during the reading. Unfortunately, my wife's job schedule changed and we stopped this at Truman, but it was very helpful in improving my understanding of the ebb-and-flow of American history.

EDIT:

Interestingly, this has been posted about here in the past on multiple occasions, but none of them yielded any prior discussion AFAICT:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=oldmapsonline.org

It would be really interesting to see this paired with a dataset such as:

https://www.explorehere.app/

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42381612
The parent might be referring to us: https://workmode.net/. Most of our clients work from home. Do you have a specific concern about body doubling and working from home?
Fair point. There is no substitute for keeping your eyes open.
125x faster than Pandas, 2.2x faster than polars
The question I'd like to know the answer to is "What was the total cost of training Gemini 2.0 and how does it compare to the total cost to train equivalent capability models on Nvidia GPUs?". I'd be fascinated to know, and there must be someone at Google who has the data to actually answer that question. I suspect it's politically savvy for everyone at Google to pretend that question doesn't exist or can't be answered (because it would be an existential threat to the huge TPU project), but it would be absolutely fascinating. In the same way that Amazon eventually had to answer the "Soo.... how much money is this Alexa division actually making" question.