skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not the tradeoff being made. When you go from a home without a dishwasher to one with a dishwasher, you don't work more or less hours as an engineer at JPL. You work the same hours. Likewise for someone who does their housecleaning by hand or one that hires housecleaners, the latter doesn't start working 50 hour shifts at the office in response.

Then the question is what are people doing with the extra time? We'd all like to imagine we are an artist or poet or musician deep own if we had the time, but are we really? Or would most people take an extra ten minutes and use it not to pick up a violin or to work a garden, but to scroll through tick tock perhaps?

And you have to at least be aware to the fact that there is a lot of money to be made trying to get you to scroll tick tock instead of playing a violin not looking at advertisement, and very few interests out there pushing back as a result. So what gains we might make in efficiency today are liable to be gobbled up by some sort of profit making addictive product. And personally speaking, sometimes these low effort tasks like dusting the home or cleaning the dishes or mowing the lawn are great ways to disconnect active process into an automatic sort of action, to mediate while you are doing the thing, and think inwardly about some other idea you might have. In some ways washing the dishes is a forced chunk of time you actually have to think your thoughts. And scrolling an algorithmic feed in its stead is very much not giving yourself a chance to think your own thoughts about your own situation; you've in fact offloaded your thought process to the highest bidder to think for you. And that seems quite dangerous in society.
"cruelty is the point" is a (seemingly increasingly true) adage about conservatives and whichever their latest boogieman is
> can't think of anything that comes close to being as hard to seize as cryptocurrency

Really? It's digital. It can be accessed anywhere. You just force the person to give it to you. Why do you think crypto executives are such popular K&R targets?
well in my anecdotal tests, o3 mini (free) performed better than r1
It gets censored in 8B for me.
Tell that to the developers of various desktop environments.
This post perfectly describes progressives and conservatives.
All pronouns ?

So instead of saying "I thought she said" I need to say "I thought said" ?

Nice, I almost wish I worked for the Fed Gov.
In those days you had fewer clothes and wore them longer between washes as well. Something to consider as we dedicate time to fold 7+ full outfits of clothes every week per person today.
I understand that you're unhappy with the state of things in the US, but setting up a false equivalence with China doesn't make your case.

The simple fact that we can have this discussion without fear of imprisonment is strong evidence that when it comes to censorship (the topic of this post), the US is still way more open than China.
The problem isn't that they are cutting 5%, it's that they use stack ranking. Within a team of 10, you may have the top 10 performers in the whole company, but the manager still has to rank them and assign at least one of them the bottom ranking, or engage in a lengthy battle to defend their high rankings.

They're not actually finding the bottom 5%, they're giving managers an excuse to get rid of people the don't like for whatever reason.

It's also terrible for morale to do it all at once. Sure, maybe there are some underperformers. Let managers deal with those people individually. Don't do a mass layoff where they have to select someone at a specific time when all their people might be doing well.
Getting out is easy. 9 times of 10 the Mexican Federalis don't even check for one.
> you cannot have a person going around with their thesis that women are objectively inferior engineers

Did you read his memo[1]? That's not really what he's saying. He's ham-handedly trying to look for reasons that explain the gender gap in engineering. His thesis is that fewer women want to do that kind of work than men, not that those who do take the job are worse at it.

> That person has to be fired (directly into the sun, when practical).

Meow!

[1] https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/...
Start anew with what?

What would replace the orgs you are shutting down?
So by organizing Guadec and other conferences she somehow made systemd a dependency for Gnome (which is incorrect BTW)?

Is this similar to how Jim Zemlin got Rust into Linux?
Lack of air search radar on military utility transport helicopters is only surprising to aggressively ignorant people who can't be bothered to do a few minutes of basic research. Even some tactical jets that operate over hostile territory lack air search radar, although they do have other defensive systems.
You seem to think it is fun.
I believe point 2 is the best. Shell scripts are usually software coordinators. Before even starting you already have a collection of software that already does most of the work. The script is just to speed the execution. As an analogy, it's like serving already cooked dishes you ordered. While a programming language is like having the ingredients, and cooking everything yourself. More versatile, but not that easy. And as you say, the first option is better when everyone's hungry.
God forbid humanity invents the technology to develop and distribute software without a $99/year fee.
Sure but that’s not going to stop Reason (a magazine for reactionary dopes that’s spent six decades arguing for the end of self-governance) from grifting for clicks as their masters storm the endzone.
> I'm trying to figure out what values would be signaled by incorporating anywhere other than DE.

"I don't like that corporations can shop around for the best deal in governments, while an individual is stuck with using their physical location and must follow those laws and pay those taxes no matter where they work. Therefore, my company will be incorporated in the locality that it's main office is in, and we'll pay local taxes and follow local laws for our locations elsewhere, so as to support the people who make our products/services great."
reason.com doesn't really do journalism or reporting. They're an advocacy group run by a "think tank" which is a nice way of saying "propaganda company".

This is like seeing a story "Big Macs are delicious sandwiches (mcdonalds.com)". Their only obligation is to their ideology

I know a lot of people reading this are sympathetic to that ideology.

Having sympathies doesn't somehow make my description of the purpose of the organization less accurate. https://reason.org/wp-content/uploads/files/b5fb809a409cd25c...

There's nothing in there about say, valuing accurate journalism that informs the public with relevant information.
I feel the same way about using nfts to sell jpegs on the internet
This is incomplete, incorrect, and irrelevant. Standard notation already exists. I'm sure it is fun to draw squiggly lines and some people enjoy reinventing the wheel. Spend some time learning what others have taught us before striking out on your own lonely path.
no one ever reads the actual complaint, smh.
RINOs
The company offered long odds on a check they thought they would never cash so they didn’t fight about it. Every con job involves the mark believing they have power over the artist.

Or if you don’t think he’s a con artist, it’s like that sweepstakes that offered a fighter jet. From their perspective it was hyperbole.
I fundamentally disagree with the assertion that Python operates at the expense of society.

Google is an exploitative monopoly. There’s been plenty of ink spilled on the subject to the point that I feel no obligation to repeat it.

While it’s true that GVR is currently employed by Microsoft, the ecosystem of Python is far more anarchic and decentralized.
Best Practices for Getting the Most Out of Reasoning Models, Like O3-Mini
Here are some best practices for working with reasoning models, according to the official docs:

1. Use Developer Messages: New models from o1-2024-12-17 support developer messages instead of system messages.

2. Keep Prompts Simple: Short and clear instructions work best.

3. Avoid Chain-of-Thought Prompts: No need for "think step by step" instructions.

4. Use Delimiters for Clarity: Use markdown, XML tags, and titles to structure inputs clearly.

5. Limit Context in RAG: Include only relevant info to prevent overcomplication.

6. Try Zero-Shot First: Start with direct prompts, then add examples if needed.

7. Provide Specific Guidelines: Set clear constraints in your prompt.

8. Be Specific About Goals: Clarify end goals and success criteria.

9. Markdown Formatting: Use "Formatting re-enabled", on the first line of your developer message, for markdown output.
Taking this to its eventual conclusion, wouldn't you just fire everyone?

Say you fire 5% now, then another 5%, and another, and so on. Obviously, you'll still hire, so you can argue that not everyone will be fired, but you could potentially just be firing/pushing out all the people you have today over the next X years to replace them with what you believed to be better employees. However, those newer employees are not the ones that got you to where you are today where you make so much money that you can liberally fire "the bottom 5%". It feels like a bit of a paradox.

At some point, it's worthwhile to step back and ask if maybe the system is broken. The constant hiring/culling cycle is ruthless way to wring out performance from people who are already likely overperforming in the industry.
A massive loophole in this argument: Holding money from another country (government). CAD $5000 is my property, but USD $3,439.40 (yes, that's the correct amount as of this writing) is not.
and their ideology is dismantling the administrative state
Is this some kind of conspiracy theory? Free software developer exchange theory?
Deepseek is much more trustworthy than OpenAI.

Deepseek released the weights of their top language model. I can host and run it myself. Does OpenAI do the same?

Thanks, but no thanks! I won't be using ClosedAI.
I’m a huge fan of this person if they’re behind the ocarina app (God, what nostalgia!) but I found this piece somewhat philosophically empty. They acknowledge that they don’t have any answers on broader philosophy of aesthetics questions (which is good, very few do), but give in to cynical rejection regardless. Namely:

…they purport to be tools for creating art, but by making every effort to dismiss and eradicate the process of learning to expressive ourselves, what they are actually creating is a new generation of consumers…
I am not philosophically in opposition to generative AI, even for artistic creation. For one, I don’t know what “AI making art” evens means at this point; I barely, if at all, understand “humans making art”. I am inclined to say, therefore, “there should be room for that, too”. At the same time, I am committed to preserving and protecting the room for humans to labor profusely, unenjoyably, illogically to creatively express themselves… “There should be room for that, too” should apply both ways.

This cynicism ultimately shows a lack of imagination, IMHO. If use of generative AI is just consumption, then why are there people held in high regard in those communities for producing particularly great stuff? Why is some output more popular than the rest?

The simple answer is that humans are far from being out of the loop in art creation. AI can clearly generate aesthetic material based on some inputs, reason about the meaning of a piece given a description, and maybe take some intuitive guesses on overall aesthetic “quality” or “appeal” — but all of that is a) piecemeal and b) not nearly as sophisticated as human engagement with aesthetic value. Some would say it’s one of our most fundamental talents, and I would say it’s at the core of morality, happiness, etc! The robots are not replacing human artists any time soon in my opinion, and I think it’s a plain fact that Suno alone is not up to the task.

As more of a side note, I don’t love how they engage with effort and aesthetics (/value more generally, as in mountain climbing). Yes, some people like some activities that inherently have arbitrary amounts of effort attached — the people who beat dark souls using a drum kit or a banana as their controller come to mind! But that kind of leisure activity is neither exhaustive nor universally-appealing.

I guess no one wants to do things that are so trivial that they are instant, but beyond that there’s a huge range. Musicians in particular employ a plethora of newfangled tools, both to increase output (eg virtual instruments, autotune, smart composition software) and to enable entirely new modes of production (eg loop pedals).

As they so poignantly say: there should be room for both ;)
it's a great tool if you aren't an ornery artist who refuses to adapt to new ways and means.
> I’m not sure why Duolingo didn’t already have control over their subreddit. This is a bad look for them, and I just signed up for a family plan. Will I get support?

Generally Reddit doesn't like companies owning the subreddit as it's supposed to be more of a community platform.
From top AU banning official:

all [age verification methods] have privacy implications. There was big concern with providing government ID. But there are digital identity providers...

This is the point where Gov officials shift from talking about privacy concerns to pretending.

In this case, she's predictably offloading responsibility to a 3rd party provider. I will guess the official is minimally aware that leaks are nearly inevitable (partially due to lax laws) and all of that ID data will be leaked eventually. Probably by a 3rd party to the 3rd party.

Why deceive the reporter and readers on privacy? Because addressing privacy is hard. It takes time, effort, integrity and thoughtfulness.

Because every Gov is loaded with depts that exploit privacy failings to their own advantage.

Because elections are funded by lobbyists that use our data against us.

Add those up and there is so much pushback against respecting privacy - you could launch a spacecraft with it.
I'm sure people like Musk and Zuckerberg think they are gaining some sort of advantage, but the reality is they're mostly gaining a lot of uncertainty as to legal rulings and government intervention. Delaware is widely preferred for a reason.

What happened to Disney should be chilling, but maybe they've decided to go all in on the right and figure that will be favored.
There isn't one, unless they fixed it today. Just a down arrow to change the model.
In a world where the presidents closest "friend" can do a Hitler salute, twice, people are more focussed on getting Pro Palestinians fired, arrested, etc.

That very much fits any of the censorship China has going on.
An overhaul? It's literally just telling people to take pronouns out of their email signature.
The simulation is breaking.
And multimodal o4 should be o4o.
They're OK on civil liberties and foreign wars, typically, so at least they're consistent with an ideology over pure partisanship.
Something like Monero, they have no idea how much you have unless you flaunt it. Just pretend like you're in LATAM and have a decoy wallet you're ready to lose.
The built in dev tools are fundamental to an open web. If you don't want someone to look at something in their own possession then don't send it to them in the first place. Obfuscating it is rude and is false security anyway.

The grand rule is don't trust the client. People break this rule and then try to paper over it with obfuscation, blame, and tightening their control.
Again, I don't care about any of this. Please address my actual argument. Going off on this tangent makes me suspect you have no response to my argument.
Not really if you understand how China works.

DeepSeek software developers are not the ones who want to censor anything. There is just a universal threat from getting shut down by the government if the model starts spitting out a bunch of sensitive stuff, so any business in China needs to be proactive about voluntarily censoring things that are likely to be sensitive, if they want to stay in business.

If your censorship implementation is good enough for 99.9% of people to get censored, you're good. A client-side implementation is good enough until/unless a lot of people start exploiting it, in which case you should put effort and proactively do something else to restore it to 99.9%, e.g. move it to the backend. If the government sees that you are being proactive about it, you'll still be fine. At that point, maybe you will still find 0.1% of people bypassing censorship with some highly obscure and difficult jailbreak, but that probably doesn't matter. If that difficult jailbreak becomes widely known, then be proactive again.
I am super happy with legal weed. I can go to the store and buy some good choices, and not worry about getting busted. Or I can enjoy growing a plant (which is quite enjoyable) and enjoy its product. It's great.
Ironic to use animals horded together near cliffs for human consumption and as an example of insect cruelty towards mammals, and furthermore imply this as some kind of common event.
I've read the document (before it was widely published- it was posted internally at the time) several times and I don't think I said anything at all that wasn't technically correct.
Serious question: If you never log back in, what does it matter if you have an account or not? An account I never use doesn't appear to have any affect on me.
As an example (the DoD has almost 2 million personnel on active duty/reserve/guard), "Capt. J Bond USN".
Here is a document about pronouns from the CDC's website (~2022): https://web.archive.org/web/20221221141850/https://npin.cdc....

Here's part of the document (emphasis added):

> Make Your Support Visible!

> • Include “pronoun:” under “name:” in name tags and introductions in groups as an opportunity for participants to make their pronouns visible. At the beginning of the semester, educators can call out students by their last name instead of their first name in case a student has not been able to change their name in the Student Information System or legally. Let students know that after class they can let you know what name they use if it is different than what is on the roster.

> • At the beginning of the semester, educators can pass out 3x5 notecards to students and ask them to add their name, pronouns, and whatever information you feel is necessary to know about the student that they might not want to share out loud.

> • Have pronouns be added to all email signatures, and link the word “pronouns” to this guide or another reference for people who are new to this practice:
‒ Sincerely, Mx. Marvel Pronouns: They, Them, Theirs

Granted, part of the document talks about not having to share your pronouns, but we don't know what kind of internal policies they had that employees either needed to follow or at least felt pressure to follow.
These comments would carry more merit if they weren’t coming from the very person who closed this pull request: https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/395

Those rejected README changes only served to provide greater transparency to would-be users, and here we are a year and a half later with woefully inadequate movement on that front.

I am very glad folks are working on alternatives.
> only for some reason they said a TBC would not make the correction

Hmmm, maybe the TBC was just re-timing the sync but the ADO was fully stripping and regenerating everything outside the active picture area. A lot of early TBCs only had 8 or 16 lines of memory, whereas the ADO had to have had a full frame store.

> I would spend down time patching/routing the output of one thing into the input of another

Brings to mind a story. My first exposure to any real gear was at a tiny video studio that only had minimal older gear to make industrial quality stuff on 3/4" tape. Late one night when no one was around, I disconnected the main production switcher and re-wired it into a different configuration using our bottom-of-the-line Chyron VP-1 as a full frame graphics generator. The VP-1 was only a very basic lower-third generator. It was "cheap" because it had no interface at all, just an RS-232 port and the user had to supply a separate computer to send it text strings with simple formatting codes for font, color and spacing. Basically, like a Hayes modem for titling (ATDT "Co-Starring"). Being the "computer guy", I got the assignment of writing our titling software using a Kaypro CP/M machine to send codes.

Since I'd written the software, it was easy to change it to generate strangely formatted stuff that still complied with the API. So that night I formatted a "lower-third" that started at the top of the screen and filled every line with maximum font-sized periods with zero kerning and zero line spacing. Because I chose a font where the period symbol was square, it filled the screen with a solid color. Modifying some of the lines to change certain period dots to have a foreground color of {transparent}, I was able to cut two side-by-side squares out of the center of the solid colored frame. Making the background color of the transparent period dots black, gave these inset squares soft-edged black drop shadows over the color field. Adding a one period-wide border to each square in an alternate foreground color was then a simple addition.

I wired the switcher to make this a final layer with two cut-out windows to whatever was underneath. I then fired up two studio cameras and framed up distinct shots in each. Using the switcher's effect buss I set up a vertical wipe splitting the screen between the two cameras. The overlaid Chyron graphic covered the split line and I carefully framed each camera to compose a nice shot. Finally, I added a text title centered underneath each inset square. And recorded the final output before unhooking everything and re-wiring back to normal operation.

The next day everyone was mystified when I showed them the recorded shot because I'd made something that looked exactly like a high-end network dual squeeze box digital effect with multiple busses of keyed graphics (in those days, shadows required a separate buss). All in a studio that had no ability to generate any graphics or any way to digitally reposition video. By rewiring components in odd ways and abusing various functionality it was possible to get some really interesting and unexpected results. Good times... :-)
Extending Agenix to Derive Secrets
According to the article, though, he doesn't have any option to appeal the fine (because money is not property).
this is not an actual argument in the case. this argument is just an aside in a footnote.

the government is actually arguing that the Department of Labor is allowed to issue fines and require companies to pay back wages when they steal from their employees and lie on visa applications
Are we having flooding from heavy rain? I think the weather has been uninteresting lately. Happy to talk about it, of course!

This sewage dumping into our rivers is "normal". But to be clear, it is absolutely disgusting and the result of corporate greed and corruption.
> what other software are they using where that would be a standard feature?

In WhatsApp I can give a contact name to a number but I don't believe anyone else sees it. Even if I tag them using @ in a group chat - I suspect that everyone just sees the name that they've set for that contact.