skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the unspoken reasoning for these back-to-work efforts is to stave off a western financial collapse in commercial real estate.

If I asked some superintelligent AI to create the most wrong reddit theory possible, I think it might be this one.

Large companies (small ones too) have to spend money to give you a desk. Some will even go so far as to put a price tag on it, that facilities cost is $x per square foot or whatever. If they can offload that cost onto their employee, that's win/win.

Some real estate companies might do bad if that happens... even if none of their leases are going unrenewed, it puts downward pressure on prices. But those companies have almost no overlap with the ones doing RTO. And I've yet to see that people like Jeff Bezos or whoever have any significant holdings in real estate (even if they did, the positives of remote would outweigh the negatives, and you'd just see them divest).

There are winners and losers in a remote-work world, and the people who would win are or should be happy to let the losers lose. Something else is going on.

>a crash in the commercial real estate sector would cause solvency problems for large cities

Mayoral politicians are so powerless I can't come up with a witty way to describe it. They're Vice President-levels of worthless (and not the Dick Cheney sort either). They have no influence or mojo to swing this. If this would hurt large cities (and it might), then those cities will just be hurt.
https://www.404media.co/the-no-win-mystery-drone-clusterfuck...
I built https://coverLetterGPT.xyz -- super simple GPT wrapper that generates cover letters. Makes almost $600 a month now. It's also open-source. I wrote about it here: https://docs.opensaas.sh/blog/2024-12-16-my-gpt-wrapper/
Rust uses the `?` operator to convert between error types which allows for users and libraries to hook in to the error before its returned.

There are a number of helper libraries that provide an extended type erased error type to attach a real stack trace to the error, such as `anyhow`. These helper libraries also provide ways to attach extra metadata to the error so you can do things like `returns_a_result().context("couldn't do it")?` so you can quickly annotate the error. The standard library is support for this through a `context.Value` like api on the Error trait. The std lib `Error` trait also has functions for find the cause of the error and traverse a collected chain of errors, very similar to go's `errors.Cause` api.

Rust also has a number of libraries for making specific error types like `thiserror` which can help generate error enums with the implementations required to carry backtraces, context and causes.
Ask stupid questions, receive stupid answers.
They should just ban sales tax. Many states already have 0% sales tax, like New Hampshire, and Delaware.
Ok so you went back a day, saw the ongoing sky high readings from multiple sources which you were apparently trying to claim didn't exist, now acknowledge they exist, and now you want to claim they don't mean anything. Ok.

You sort of people are so weird.
> Fingerprints can be lifted from photos where your hand is in frame.

Or used with your own fingers while you have been drugged or you passed out being drunk.
If I’m China, I’m funding cheap drones into Europe and the US. Eventually I can use all that video to build models to allow attack drones to function without any need for an external connection at all. But that’s just me…
>The data on population changes in the USA indicates the people want to avoid freezing temperatures over hot temperatures.

That data is probably at least somewhat biased by retirees who turn the air conditioner on and don't want to deal with some of the inevitable physical demands and transportation difficulties associated with snow.
AI will be dead in five years
Oh come on we get barely disguised european scientific racism on HN all the time. Let us have a little hotep shit every once in a while.
You only type in the reasons, not the results. Lean computes the result for you. Otherwise, if you do all the work yourself, you wouldn't need Lean :-)
Milvus 2.5: full-text search and semantic search
All you need is press about one mysterious looking unidentified object, and then everyone starts looking up and filming anything creating a snowball effect.
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> This is how science gets discredited - by allowing idiots do “science”.

Not really - science has to be open to all as otherwise we risk having a "priesthood" of scientists. What we need are better systems to deal with rogue researchers and retracted papers.

The scientific principle is fine, it's just our implementation that is lacking.
Can you remember what sort of problems you were hitting?
>I don’t think anyone has a scheme that can do this

If you substitute "token", for "letter", what you have described is exactly what a modern LLM does, out of the box. llama.cpp even has a setting, "show logits", which emits the probability of each token (sadly, only of the text it outputs, not the text it ingests - oh well).

I don't think anyone actually uses this as a text compressor for reasons of practicality. But it's no longer a theoretical thought experiment - it's possible today, on a laptop. Certainly you can experimentally verify Shannon's result, if you believe that LLMs are a sufficiently high fidelity model of English (you should - it takes multiple sentences before it's possible to sniff that text is LLM generated, a piece of information worth a single bit).

Oh look, Fabrice Bellard (who else?) already did it: https://bellard.org/ts_zip/ and you may note that indeed, it achieves a compression ratio of just north of 1 bit per byte, using a very small language model.
The military doesn't magically know what's going on better than random civilians, and in many cases is risk averse and paranoid, subject to hysterias and fads just as much as everyone else. They do have some non-public sources of data like air search radars.

All this to say, temporary airspace shutdowns don't convey any useful signal about the existence of uaps or foreign drones.
I've been trying to look very hard just out of curiosity, and I've drowned in hoaxes.

If you can point some videos of really strange appearances that aren't airliners or other aircraft I'd very much appreciate, right now it's quite hard to find through rummaging the internet, the hysteria has taken over.
The Bill of Rights works?!

Elsewhere I have specifically used the 2nd amendment at an example of why simple laws don't work.

Are arms permitted to everyone or only to members of a militia? And it's a binary, no restrictions on what type of arms.

Look at current gun law vs the wording of the 2nd, how can you possibly relate the two?? (Although in some cases I can see other laws being relevant. There are things you can possess but neither store nor transport due to the rules around hazardous materials. Top of the list: Tannerite. You buy it as two separate containers, you're free to handle it as you choose. Once they're mixed it's a high explosive and subject to all the handling rules of high explosives. You can detonate it or you can destroy it, that's it. Also, high power amateur rocket motors. Lots of rules about storing and transporting them that are simply impossible for many users--think about what would happen in a fire.)
There's another key difference: normal buildings lose all of their windows in a large explosion. Alex Wellerstein's calculator says that "glass windows can be expected to break" at 1 psi (7 kPa) overpressure, i.e., out to 13.9 km distance (!) from the smallest-size modern MIRV warhead (350 kilotons).

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

(Do you happen to have a link to that specific Cold War guidance?)
Interesting that Wikipedia considers "campus" and "varsity" to be novel genres, but neither of those words appears here on BISG:

https://www.bisg.org/fiction
Your incredulous attitude is naive. Yes, people don’t want to have yet another increasingly niche chat app to communicate with just a few people.
This is my favorite tech article. It's satirical, it's witty, it's dense, and it's memorable. James Mickens truly outdid himself with this one - his other works are great, too, but this one is a cut above the rest!
Just gotta find that price point within discretionary spending where a manager can OK the cost without having to get a VP to sign off on it. It's definitely way higher than $10/mo.
Go has insanely good tooling and very fast single binary compiling.

While all these languages (afaik) can reach similar levels of functionality (GraalVM e.g.), it's more work. As much as I hate the language Go, I can't deny how braindead simple it is to just make a tool with it. I don't need to choose a build tool, or a runtime version, there's a library for everything and most developers with more than a room temp IQ can immediately start working on it.

The only other language that currently comes close is Rust. If only they had stuck to using a GC, I'd be in heaven.
What’s the most significant difference between the theories? The Wikipedia article says:

> “The primary competing scientific hypothesis is currently recent African origin of modern humans, which proposes that modern humans arose as a new species in Africa around 100-200,000 years ago, moving out of Africa around 50-60,000 years ago to replace existing human species such as Homo erectus and the Neanderthals without interbreeding.[5][6][7][8] This differs from the multiregional hypothesis in that the multiregional model predicts interbreeding with preexisting local human populations in any such migration.”

But it is a somewhat weird quote in the Wikipedia article. They’ve got the whole thing in quotes with multiple citations (so it isn’t clear which citation the quote comes from), it isn’t attributed to anybody in particular, and it doesn’t seem to be a very accurate description of what I though the consensus was, at least. (It is widely believed that humans interbred with other hominids, right?)
How so? Not the type of attestation we're talking about here (i.e. not the early 2000s trope of "zomg Microsoft is locking down our PCs", which ironically is what Apple is now doing instead, all without any evil TPMs).

Apple and Google very intentionally threw FIDO attestation out of the windows without replacement, and Microsoft frankly doesn't matter enough for non-corporate contexts at this point. (Imagine your bank only allowing passkeys on Windows, but not iOS, Android, or macOS.)
There's now 'accesskit' which seems to be targeted specifically at providing a cross-platform accessibility interface for custom UI frameworks (including immediate mode frameworks). It's written in Rust, but it has an optional C API. The most realistic option for Dear ImGui is probably to expose an "accessibility cmdlist" similar to how it exposes a "render cmdlist", and Dear ImGui user code can map this "accessibility cmdlist" to the tree structure AccessKit expects as input.

https://accesskit.dev/how-it-works/
It won't make much of a difference to be honest; the Wakefield paper that "proved" a link between MMR vaccines and autism was published for nearly 22 years until it was pulled in 2010, but it's still cited and vaguely referenced as being definite proof. It's this weird absolute but super selective belief in certain science that gets me, it's both "this paper PROVES it", but also "all these other papers that fail to replicate the findings or outright disprove it are FAKE SCIENCE pushed by LIZARD PEOPLE and I'm NOT GOING TO READ IT".

It's maddening. I mean don't get me wrong, I don't read scientific papers at all because I'm not smart enough and don't have the attention span but I can criticise those that say they do and believe in science nevertheless.
Not happened across Loro, thanks for sharing.
Because the data those models were trained on included many examples of human conversations that ended that way. There's no "cultural evolution" or emergent cooperation between models happening.
Do you have any links to share?

Like you said, the signal to noise ratio is really fucking rough right now and I simply cannot find anything interesting in the sea of noise.
APs are going to be the great new app platform, but also a very clear security problem. They have now grown so much spare capacity they can host a lot of extra interesting services. The noises from China suggest some people in companies like Xiaomi worked this out a while ago.

Fundamentally we need to move to a home networking model that involves isolating all clients completely (especially cameras and smart TVs), and using AP hosted services to mediate interaction between them and the Internet at large. This will involve needing to trust the AP, but will have the advantage of being able to deploy slightly less trustworthy devices at the very edge.
So it just kept going and neither one stopped?
Ancient clay remedy may have potential to boost modern gut health
I’m not sure why people always praise Apple on interaction Design. I just got a MacBook again, and there’s little things that just drive me crazy: when you use tap-to-drag on macOS, there’s a delay when releasing the drag (presumably so u can continue dragging by putting the finger back down). This doesn’t exist in windows or Linux, so when working with multiple OSs, one keeps mis-dragging, making a big mess every time. But there doesn’t seem to be a setting for it, either.

Or why does Apple insist on having a non-standard keyboard in Germany, it doesn’t even have characters like ~{}[] on it, only accessible via hidden key combinations that don’t match the standard keyboard. Oh and the US keyboard is only available in the Apple Store, where everything is 200€ more expensive. Just like, why mess with basic interaction design in a way that’s really unrefined and infuriating.
> but like many things it sort of spiraled out of control from there.

I love when this happens, beautiful work, impressive! Looks like you have it well under control :)
MD's previous governor can't tell the difference between drones and freakin' Orion. Expecting the general public to be any better is just going to leave you sad and disappointed.
I'd rather software chats not be on Discord, but that said I've found the forum feature quite helpful for help channels. You get auto-search for the topic as you type out a title, and if you don't see what you need, you can turn it straight into a topic. It's a lot better than the old system of posting into a rolling scroll and hoping one of the regulars is around, and that you're not asking a question which should be in the docs but isn't (and therefore gets asked an annoying amount of times).
Stephen Hawking managed to live decades with ALS.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stephen-hawking-a...

Unfortunately, most people only get a few years.
> Oh, and they also need to compete with Akamai (Linode) who probably have much deeper pockets.

As of a couple (2-3 years ago) Akamai had no plans or interest to expand into Cloud. They wanted to remain on-prem/hybrid because of existing synergies and strategies. Their CDN business was also heavily used by companies that have cloud BUs.

I don't think this strategy has changed.
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how is that bad for the economy?
Too many clocks at my home
No doubt those biased Europeans felt their theory had the preponderance of evidence behind it. Funny how often the settled science is like that until the incumbent scientists die off rather than because better evidence was considered and adopted by science.
You can still emulate them.
Obviously you've never worked for a big corporation before. Corporations don't want top employees. In a corporate environment, top employees are a nuisance much of the time. Most managers, if given the choice, would rather have an employee who shows up, does their work (but not too much), doesn't care about anything (and thus will do whatever they are told) and will accept whatever is given to them, and someone who is not at risk of leaving and can be laid off or fired easily/cheaply when the time comes.

Top employees often have an axe to grind, an ego to satisfy or a ladder to climb. This is the last thing a corporation wants or needs. When I was a manager in Corporate America, I was instructed to screen out overly ambitious or eager candidates. They are just too much trouble for what amounts to normally a 10-20% increase in performance over a regular candidate.
The rabid chants went from: we need to stop illegal immigration and make sure everyone enters legally

To:

We need to make sure we only allow valuable immigrants that add to the economy

To:

Cancel this program. They are gaming the system.

You can choose the game to play but you can't choose the rules of the game.
> You can build pretty fast applications with it, if you know what you're doing.

have yet to see one. (no, vscode is definitely not remotely in the "performant" ballpark)
Well, with Latudio [1] a language learning app, we're 6 years in since the first line of code and we still haven't thrown in the towel even if we have little traction. But we still do those small little steps and hope they add up so we have a snowball big enough that it starts rolling by itself, perhaps, one day.

In my mind, I also had a thought that we would rise and be huge, but I let go of that one. Instead, we just put one foot in front of the other and what warms my heart are those stories like when a person in Uganda got so confident thanks to our app that he opened his own language school. For this it makes sense to continue.

What I want now is just to have a nice work/family balance and the app paying my bills and something extra. That would be a great start.

[1] https://www.latudio.com
What you're describing here is dualism and Descartes, in response to a post that references Buddhist scholars, a philosophy famously focused on monism.

"Cognitive science" vs "neuroscience" as a concept is just how we decided to slice the problem up for academia.

Next time, maybe cut the first paragraph ;)
As somebody outside of religions (thank you both parents, probably the greatest gift one can give to one's kids - freedom of faith and self determination, something almost impossible as adult if indoctrinated young), these kind of discussions are funny to me.

Why? They are present in every corner of the world, every religion. And all you need is to take few steps back and stop taking everything literally, trying to find some universal life guidance in bronze age texts. Not that its not there completely, some things are universal, but so are half the self-help books for example or literally any other serious text. Frank Herbert's Dune series is way more appealing and worthy to me for example and truths in it way more universal, yet I am not basing my whole life and morals on it, nor do I feel the need to push it on rest of the world.

Those were stories, no moral value greater than old greek (or persian, hindu etc.) tales which always had some strong message beyond story on the surface. Stories made up by men, hundreds of years after christ, which were retold probably 20x before somebody wrote them down (and then 20x translated between various slangs, languages and targeted meanings). Current bible has little to do with original story, its simply not technically possible for complex stories to be preserved 100% for hundreds of years by just retelling them.

You realize that say sunni vs shia muslims are, when reduced to few words, a conflict between which member of the family was the truest believer and whose words are more important, while having 0 reference to actually decide so? Yet conflicts between those are numerous and victims of those in hundreds of millions.

Every time I see people desperately looking for specific truths, there is some deeper underlying problem and inability/unwillingness to decide something rather trivial for oneself. Like which sort of music should be happening where - what the heck does this have to do with actual faith in your god(s)? Do you also consult religious text when picking up Sunday sweater color? Deities are not that petty, not even in those bronze age tales, its just showing human flaws and fears.
That's quite a statement. You make it sound like people haven't done their due diligence unless they have infiltrated your team's internal comms and dutifully searched it for potential drone videos.
Can you ensure this level of assurance without requiring an independent review of router firmware? If it is managing security boundaries, how do you know if you trust it? And how do you ensure that trust is maintained over device lifetime as firmware updates are shipped? Hard problem to solve by building and maintaining long run "people, process, tech" systems.
Font size in inputs should be strictly 1rem / 16px. Otherwise, they’ll be zoomed in Safari iOS.
rope a dope - we should all be looking what ELSE is going one while we are staring at the sky :)
I believe it's very hard to implement across networks in a way that does not require core routers to become quite stateful and/or risks flooding parts of the network with multicast data nobody asked for.

There was a short conceptual revival of the multicast idea as an overlay network on top of unicast IP, under the banner of "content-addressable networks", but I haven't heard anything about that in a while.
Someone was trying to raise money and find engineering time for the effort (but, no longer):

> We recognize that our rate of visible updates has slowed to the point where it no longer makes sense to continue billing sponsors of this project.

> But at the moment, our lead developer is working on Linux touchpad improvements at less than 1/8 capacity. This means that progress is slow as he can only spend half a week per month on improvements.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39607747
The news of the drone sightings started weeks before the shooting.
Thanks :) Our fancy draggable hero header didn't work on mobile. Fixed now haha
Different strokes for different folks. There's an attraction to having more space/less noise/etc. and being able to travel into a big city for activities without too much hassle/time. There's also an attraction to having a probably smaller place and just walk/cab/transit to those activities.

I ended up mostly gravitating to the former but I understand the attraction of the latter and, who knows, I may change my preference some day.
Very polished UX. The questions are good, one thing I've noticed is regardless of the voice recording, the questions keep coming, maybe a good feature would be to get more clarity on the question asked if the answer isn't exactly right. Would also love to see the transcription of the things I am saying as I am saying it.
Fully agree. He's also really patient and kind. He's the type of person who's really really smart and doesn't make you feel really really dumb. He takes the time to thoroughly explain things, without being condescending. I always enjoyed when our paths crossed because I knew I was going to learn something.
"Recovery security

Passkey synchronization provides convenience and redundancy in case of loss of a single device. However, it's also important that passkeys be recoverable even in the event that all associated devices are lost. [...]
To recover a keychain, a user must authenticate with their iCloud account and password and respond to an SMS sent to their registered phone number. After they authenticate and respond, the user must enter their device passcode.[...]"

And we get back to knowledge based auth in the end.
Even if the Catholic church might technically be not polytheistic, it is hard to argue that the cult of saints didn't replace the ancient Roman lares in the day to day cult. Yes, saints are supposed to intercede to provide favors and protection, but the practical effects [1] are the same. Religious syncretism is very well attested.

[1] however you want to interpret this.
Interpol is generally ineffective, and this is exactly the type of work I've noticed that they like to focus on and screw up.
And CORBA before it. And so forth.
The artificial limit does not have to be political, it can be as simple as nvidia blowing fuses to reduce compute on lower tier cards.