skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bad idea. If implemented airlines will shut down services to small and less profitable airports and routes. It will only negatively affect passengers.
Despite being terrible, the last time I checked, the experience in Xcode was somehow still meaningfully better than with the VSCode plugin
Prior to it being force opted-into I never enabled it and I was worried that disabling it wouldn't free up the space taken up by the models. Glad to hear it does. I don't even need the space, I'm just loath to lose multiple gigabytes to something I don't consider to be a good set of features.
>Dell's about-face on working from home belies chief operating officer Jeff Clarke's mid-pandemic assertion that "we will never go back to the way things were before."

>"Here at Dell, we expect, on an ongoing basis, that 60 per cent of our workforce will stay remote or have a hybrid schedule where they work from home mostly and come into the office one or two days a week," said Clarke during the corporation's Q2 2020 earnings conference call.

I yearn for the day that an investor reminds him of this during an earnings call.
If it's the software, you should call out Federighi.
Idolizing the Free Market™ and private enterprise is also a false path.
I don’t see a list of the datasets that have gone missing. Is there a list?
The big question every one seems to be ignoring is whether air travel in the US should now be considered dangerous. If ATC is understaffed or filled with unqualified people, then how is any flight safe? Why would anyone get on a plane unless they really have to and have no other option?
When I think of the “uncommon” hires (former truck driver, bank teller) who I encountered who had those skills I mentioned and thrived… they would never be hired today.

It’s sad.
After reading the article, the tags are actually related to the content due to the user-supplied “random” number nature of the project and no restriction against users submitting non-numbers.
I think the user experience of seeing a model extruding realistic sounding text is what broke a lot of people.

Back in HS, I introduced a buddy of mine to ELIZA mode in emacs, and it completely broke her mind the same way LLMs did for a lot of people - like she actually conversed with ELIZA and used it to solve her anxiety during the college admissions process. Yet ELIZA used very simple heuristics to extrude human sounding text. And my friend wasn't some dummy or Luddite - she ended up going to an Ivy to study economics and medicine.

It goes to show that User Experience is all that really matters for technology.
Bringing synopsis here for those who may not click:

swiftly is a CLI tool for installing, managing, and switching between Swift toolchains, written in Swift. swiftly itself is designed to be extremely easy to install and get running, and its command interface is intended to be flexible while also being simple to use. The overall experience is inspired by and meant to feel reminiscent of the Rust toolchain manager rustup.
Typography in children's reading schemes may be suboptimal: Evidence
A whole bunch of ATC staff just left because the new contracts they got offered reduced pay.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91270064/a-bay-area-airport-near...
As a neuroatypical I feel this. But also society has to happen, even if I am at the outskirts of it. As a neuroatypical parent of a neuroatypical children, I still have to guide them understanding the structures and expectations of society, and I see often time that she resents me for it, as the autor resent their upbringing.

Society just don't care, and blaming parent for trying to impart that lesson is harsh, and while I don't know and I cannot judge author own experiences, I can see the one sidedness narrative that's at play, and wonder how much of this is the narrator own issues in processing a faceted issue, writing for himself a easy way out, and I wonder what parents would write about their experiences.

Overall the post address nothing about the thing that still needs to happen to function in the society, only a long unjustified self pity trip where each paragraph ends with an "I was right all along" that doesn't actually feel like it due the onesidedness of the narrative.
You’re saying he’s “defying the law.” My point is that I’m sure he has legal eggheads invoking aggressive interpretations of the law, like every administration does.

Regarding the second point, one of Trump’s main pitches was to revert the use of progressive social theories and terminology in government. Of course it’s going to take some time to clean up the web pages.
They just want to reduce headcount without layoffs
I'm genuinely surprised the answer isn't a smug "Why would you want to do that?" a la any time I tried to get help when I had a Mac.
They have zero clue or care about workforce effectiveness
What evidence have you that it was a present problem?
But that’s the thing— they are quick to discard those ideas when confronted with the promises of technology and AI. As if glorified Markov chains are somehow going to alter our essential humanity. See the trans-humanists, or that guy who injects his son’s blood.
More shadow layoffs.

I think it's pretty damning that all of the bigcos are so entrenched in their inertia that they can just bleed talent like this and it just. doesn't. matter.
Hence this announcement is great, since it seems to say they’re (going to?) support building GUI apps with SwiftPM and/or the newly open sourced build tool.
> What do AI Doomers do? Nothing.

You seem very keyed up about this, so it is a good thing you are wrong.
AI doomers are far more likely people to be giving to GiveWell, or actually thinking about how they are helping society. Source: Am AI doomer. Donate to GiveWell.
Biggest fear as a new parent is basically this. What if my ideals estrange my kid? They’re not bad ideals, but the kid might just not be wired for them. Working hard, doing good for others, building skills, all of that.

I wonder what this guy’s parents were seeing, what they were going through. From what I’ve seen from parents going through it, it can be really super challenging to handle a hyperactive child while still being, you know, an imperfect person yourself
Thanks for the article, it provides no evidence of anything you said.
There is a "hide" button which lets you hide certain posts from the front page. Maybe that's a good solution for your case?
The "Double Empathy Problem" is a great way to conceptualize this, both to educate neurotypical people, but also to get over shame associated with neurodiversity. It's usually brought up in relation to people on the spectrum:

This theory proposes that many of the difficulties autistic individuals face
when socializing with non-autistic individuals are due, in part, to a lack
of mutual understanding between the two groups, meaning that most autistic
people struggle to understand and empathize with non-autistic people,
whereas most non-autistic people also struggle to understand and empathize
with autistic people. This lack of mutual understanding may stem from
bidirectional differences in dispositions (e.g., communication style,
social-cognitive characteristics), and experiences between autistic and non-
autistic individuals, as opposed to always being an inherent deficit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_empathy_problem

https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/professional-p...
It’s more that that they aren’t innovating or doing anything novel. Eg. “Tensorcracked is hiring to build document processing with LLMs” are fairly irritating
If you have enough traffic then you’ll want to roll out new features gradually, and revert them quickly if despite your testing it causes trouble in production.

If you don’t have much traffic, and can live with having to redeploy to flip the switch, then fine, stick it in a config file.

But I clicked through expecting a defence of hard coding feature flags in the source code (`if true` or `if customerEmail.endsWith(“@importantcustomer.com”)`). I very don’t approve of this.
I don’t know you, but I’m embarrassed on your behalf that you seem to support the idea that federal employees should bring their own ideologies to the workplace to frustrate the duly elected executive. It’s openly advocating a soft coup.
> Avoiding politics completely, so the FAA has been systematically understaffed for decades because of this current administration?

The former FAA administrator was pushed out (by Musk) after one year of a five-year term. FAA employees were encouraged to resign (https://www.opm.gov/fork).

The current (or previous) administration is not to blame for the current situation, but the current administration is certainly causing a lot of uncertainly and chaos unnecessarily.
What point are you trying to make? That no amount of lifting and muscle mass is discernable through clothes?

I can walk through my office and immediately pick out who lifts or has lifted.
Our king has to moonlight as a airline pilot.
Couldn’t we just say a hypothetical of the opposite?

If we’re entering any hypothetical it seems like we could say anything.
I have thought about this actually. Federighi seems to have a positive sentiment for having a sense of humour about himself and managing to deliver presentations sounding the least like C-3PO in human clothes out of all the execs. But I guess the buck does stop with him on this.
Parenting is hard, right or wrong are always in far future’s hindsight. I felt the need to blame my dad, until I had my own kids.
So trafficking comes from other places so no point in reducing it in places we can control?

We monitor ports of entry. It's easier if you don't have to monitor the entire border, you can focus more on ports of entry for other trafficking sources.
It frustrates me that Good Communication is not seen as a skill, but rather some formless office sprite that had to be coaxed out and captured.

TFA talks about email chains that last forever, I'd add my pet peeve of zoom calls that are attended without question because they're recurring calendar invites.

Clear communication, towards a well expressed goal, with an understanding of the context your audience holds, and ultimately reasonably tracked outcomes should be the goal. But instead of teaching people how to do this we flail our arms around and complain.

Personally I think the real goal is corporate climbing and these companies only incidentally accomplish their vague goals.
Funnily enough, deployments are faster than changing the environment variables. Probably something to do with the high sensitivity of some variables.
This sounds like an agreement?
Time will tell, no?
The single biggest value add of feature flags is that they de-risk deployment. They make it less frightening and difficult to turn features on and off, which means you'll do it more often. This means you can build more confidently and learn faster from what you build. That's worth a lot.

I think there's a reasonable middle ground-point between having feature flags in a JSON file that you have to redeploy to change and using an (often expensive) feature flags as a service platform: roll your own simple system.

A relational database lookup against primary keys in a table with a dozen records is effectively free. Heck, load the entire collection at the start of each request - through a short lived cache if your profiling says that would help.

Once you start getting more complicated (flags enabled for specific users etc) you should consider build-vs-buy more seriously, but for the most basic version you really can have no-deploy-changes at minimal cost with minimal effort.

There are probably good open source libraries you can use here too, though I haven't gone looking for any in the last five years.
Building Swift code for iOS without going through xcodebuild is sort of obnoxious but is possible. You do need to have a copy of Xcode installed regardless of programming language simply because the iOS SDKs aren't distributed separately.
After seeing various consultant presentations early in COVID (and much pundit commentary), I find it somewhat remarkable just how little ended up really changing five years later. It has changed a bit some places. Some relatively remote-friendly companies that basically ignored hiring location requirements during COVID really can't go home again without drastically cutting their workforce--which they probably don't want to do if they're doing reasonably well whether they like it or not. But I'm not sure that, aside from seeing a few more masks being worn, that there's really a lot of change overall.
Eh, I presume a comment like that makes you look brilliant/prescient if you're right, and nobody cares if you undo it later.
Maybe. But a human agent also has personal needs, desires, and self-interests that may motivate treachery. Human's have an evolutionarily proven propensity for duplicity and deceit. It may turn out that some silicon experts are more neutral and less prone to betrayal, and are worthy of trust.
I've had an issue with gitlab feature flags when gitlab became unavailable. I couldn't fire a new deploy and the system wouldn't work until gitlab came back to life.

That was a stupid dependency.
I so very badly want to find a way to "chart my own course" these days. This corporate stuff is just awful. It's all so transactional and soulless and generally unpleasant.

I'm fine with transactional if I'm shopping at the grocery store. Somewhere where I spend 8+ hours a day, I kind of want to have some human connection with people.

Some days, I really miss where I worked in Italy. We weren't "family", or even "friends" really, but we were all friendly and got on well and people seemed to care about one another. And importantly there was none of that fake-ass "family" crap from management - we were all there to do a job and do it with pride, but without all the 'rah rah' BS.
Pro-Remote employers are going to have such a huge advantage in recruiting talent.
> Bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2

Please, no. What's next ? BZip4 and BZip5, each one incompatible with each other ?
There's not a single person involved in this letter - reader nor writer - who is confused about what this is actually about. Companies would rather not have an employee than have an employee who has leverage over them, even if having them and paying them is objectively better for the company's outcomes. It's all about power. And forced RTO is always about shadow-layoffs.
Git has the advantage for the user, that there is no lock in effect, how about your approach :)?
And it applies to just suddenly hiring a bunch of people.

There’s no magic solution.
That doesn't work with all transponders, right? Many private or military craft don't work with that system.
Question for the group here: Has anyone ever flatly said “no” to their manager re: an RTO mandate? Did it work?
Meeting fascism with nonviolence is a good way to sacrifice your life in a way that's guaranteed to be ineffectual.
Then they'd still have to explain how running over students with tanks is "respectful dialog".
Arguably, women have to do much less to "look like a model" since that only requires not eating too many calories (facial proportions and such can not be changed anyway, require no effort), 15-minute daily skin-care routine and waxing every now and then. A bodybuilder has to alternate between bulking and fasting, pay attention to nutrition and spend many hours a week doing hard exercise to build muscle. A hollywood actor like Chris Hemsworth will not drink for two days before a topless scene to achieve that muscle definition. An emergency doctor has to be on set because it's so dangerous. And don't tell me about cosmetics or hair care... a typical football star will go to the barber three times a week minimum and they aren't even in close-up shots.
If we are speculating on existential risks, then consider Satya Nadella's take on the future of software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_RjOhCkhvQ

It's quite creepy that in his view all tools, features, access and capabilities will be accessible to an AI agent which can just do the task. This sounds fine in a narrow scope, but if it's deployed at the scale of Windows, then it suddenly becomes a lot more scary. Don't just think of the home users, but businesses and institutions will be running these systems.

The core problem is that we can't be sure what a new generation of AI models will be capable of after a few years of iteration. They might find it trivial to control our machines which can provide them unprecedented access to follow an agenda. Malware exists today to do this, but they can be spotted, isolated and analyzed. When the OS by design is welcoming these attacks there's nothing we can do probably.

But please tell me I've consumed too many sci-fi.
The inability to say no is the pattern I loathe the most in modern software. Fuck you, this is still my computer, stop removing my agency.
The motion was denied, and has since been appealed. See https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.223...
Blame is rarely as simple as “either A or B”.

And while controllers were not fired (we think), apparently most/all of them got an email saying they may be laid off at any time without notice, so they should accept buyouts and quit[1], which might impact absenteeism and commitment.

1. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-admin-emails-air-traffic-19...
It's an easy way to have the least motivated leave the company, without layoffs and severance payments.

Whether it's the most productive who remain is always a question, of course.
I started reading the article and couldn't finish it. My mood is already low enough without this depressing content.
A majority of people are not systems thinkers.
I believe the compression levels are included in the list above.
Which is exactly the same engine that any consumer can buy in a regular Explorer ST available at their local Ford dealer. My uncle bought one to tow his boat. The police model is nothing special or particularly fast.
> what if this wasn't an issue of attention, but one of incompatibility?

it's both, but the incompatibility is worse - if you don't attempt to fit in, the 'normal' (actually, quite literally normal) people, which are the majority (hence why they're 'normal') will make you either conform or suffer. probably both. your parents knew that and that's why they enforced the norms so much.

> This was never a matter of insufficiently-firing neurons: your natural patterns of thinking and being were systematically suppressed.

it's possible your natural patterns of thinking were causing dangerous, potentially life-threatening, situations for you, your classmates or your family, hence why those around you wanted to suppress them.
All three of my kids are neurodivergent. If they have suffered from my parenting, they are more than welcome to blame me.

Sure, parenting kids with ADHD or Autism or whatever else is hard, but that doesn't make one a Saint and therefore unassailable. If comeuppance is due, it's due.
[Adding context because, at first glance, it’s easy to lump these actions into a familiar narrative—some mix of a broader shift to the right, political pandering, or just another corporate move to dodge taxes. But this one is more interesting than that. Delaware—the place where almost every major U.S. corporation is incorporated precisely because it’s supposed to be business-friendly—is suddenly making some weird choices.]

The fun thing about the Moelis case is that the Delaware Court of Chancery in 2024 sided with a minority shareholder against Ken Moelis. Which is kind of wild when you think about it. You’re a minority shareholder. You invest in Moelis & Company, an investment bank that Ken Moelis—yes, that Ken Moelis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Moelis), the famous dealmaker whose name is literally the brand—controls through majority voting power and ownership. And then you go, “Wait a second, Ken Moelis has too much control over the board of Moelis & Company!” Yeah, that’s sort of the whole point.

And this is where people start saying, “Huh, maybe this court is getting a little too activist.” Wasn’t the whole idea of incorporating in Delaware that it’s business-friendly? That it streamlines governance and makes it easier to run a company?
Best way to discover new music is friends, family, gigs, events, parties, social gatherings...
I'm about 2/3 of the way through Richard Hofstadter's "Anti-intellectualism in American Life". It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964, but it's striking how many of his observations are still pertinent - which is consistent with his identification of anti-intellectualism are as persistent theme in American history. Indeed, in his chapters on evangelicalism he discusses these ideas as they manifested among the Puritans. There are good accounts of the revivalists like Dwight Moody and Billy Sunday (late 1800s - early 1900s).

Many prominent politicians were subjects of anti-intellectual attacks. If you're annoyed by modern political trash talk, consider this observation about Thomas Jefferson:

"It was charged that he kept a slave wench and sired mullatoes; that he had been a coward during the American Revolution; that he had started the French Revolution; that he had slandered Washington; that he was ambitious to become a dictator, another Bonaparte; that he was a visionary and a dreamer, an impractical doctrinaire; and, to make matters worse, a French doctrinaire."

Of Adlai Stevenson, he says:

"The quality in Stevenson that excited most frequent attack was not his intellect as such, but his wit."

" The association of intellectuality and style with effeminacy which I have remarked on in connection with the reformers of the Gilded Age reappeared in the 1952 campaign."

Some of the attacks on Stevenson in this vein that he quotes from the media of the time are just incredible.

He's a wonderful writer, too:

"But in world full of dangers, the danger that American society as a whole will overesteem intellect or assign it such a transcendent value as to displace other legitimate values is one that need hardly trouble us."

"... an unbridled passion for the total elimination of this or that evil can be as dangerous as any of the delusions of our time."

I'm thinking of reading his "American Political Tradition" of "The Progressive Historians" when I finish this book. Highly recommended.
I use it because my company bought the enterprise plan and trained a bunch of "specialist GPTs" that were fed internal documents, code bases, Slack threads etc. I am not aware of other good LLM companies providing the same level of integration.
I felt the need to blame my parents, until my life got better and I realized whatever they did had no impact once I decided to take full responsibility
Wow! I’m really surprised by the ESP32 work here [1]. This looks super interesting! And, personally, unexpected.

This is the kind of thing that makes you want to quit your job and just tinker all day again.

[1] https://github.com/apple/swift-embedded-examples/blob/main/e...
Thanks for the correction! It can be hard to appreciate how true “everything is an object” is.
For those who live in a representative democracy like the USA, ultimately the actions of the government need to conform to the wishes of the voters.

On a recent trip to the Manhattan Project B Reactor, I was puzzled why there wasn’t a more substantial memorial to the victims in Nagasaki (last time I saw just one photograph of Hiroshima and none of Nagasaki, where the plutonium from the B reactor was used). After some research I learned that while historians felt a larger memorial was more appropriate, it was vehemently opposed by most Americans.

Likewise perhaps an electoral majority of Americans are angry that their hard earned tax dollars were going towards maintaining the NASA Applied Sciences website which had no immediate benefit to the vast majority of them (except for perhaps a small group of technical professionals).