skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> game changer for humanity.

What a sad state of affairs if you need to put 50%+ of your population on drugs because of "addiction".

Humanity was mostly fine for millions of years in that regard, maybe we should think about what the actual fuck we're building instead of giving life long treatments to everyone
If you want someone to tell you to find another job, then consider this to be that.

On the other hand, so long as employment primarily defines your identity your identity will always be defined arbitrarily by the place you work.

A new director is starting in two weeks. I don't know how much or whether to surface these issues to him.

If a letter of resignation is the means of expressing yourself, then it makes sense. Otherwise, wait until asked. Being senior means adapting to moved cheese. Good luck.
I agree there will still be a market for fuel for the foreseeable future but I believe there are better alternatives given the logistical challenges and other tradeoffs of hydrogen.
Wayland has had 1:1 trackpad gestures as the default for years. I know this because I've been daily-driving Linux (both KDE and GNOME) with a Magic Trackpad for years now, and the experience out-of-box is better than my Mac.

In fact, I think Apple should take a page out of Linux' book and put cursor acceleration in system preferences instead of the terminal. The amount of work that Apple puts into enforcing controversial defaults is mind-boggling.

https://youtu.be/aBEsxTVRsEo?t=95
Yes I think this is the correct take.

"It shouldn't be this way!"

But it is. As others have said in comments, ADHD actually may be an optimization in certain environments, but do those environments actually exist in 2024? Even if they exist Are they preferable, overall, to the typical alternative?

There may be jobs that are better suited to someone with ADHD, but do they pay a living wage? Are they precarious? Are they dangerous?

Maybe those jobs "should" pay more. But, as a parent, your job is to prepare your kids for reality, not sell them a fantasy.
This is some nonsense.

I think this funimendimentally misunderstands what a strike is and how it works. When collective bargaining works, it's because you can force a negotiation with an owner or boss. A group can prevent the business from making money until the owners come to the table.

Having a bunch of people walk off the job for a day might make some kind of statement, calling it a general strike is a bit embarrassing from my perspective. This is a protest of a sort, but with no clear message or goal
I have no idea why China would bother implimenting EULV techniques when they can import it at-cost. America didn't bother either, and when we did realize we had to care, we just bribed TSMC to break ground on US soil.

Arguably Europe is better than America in this regard, since EUCLIDES was bootstrapped with European tech.
Shadow layoffs / quiet quitting is not related to work effectiveness
Yep. Some people are just the "let's hop on a call" type and others are "send me an email." If these people need to talk to each other it's difficult.
It's 246 C files and 3163 perl files
Your comment is bunk: should society also pay for people's hobbies? Should we spend 100% of our economic output on humanities?
Dell is not green then.
It was pretty obvious he didn’t like them IMO. He didn’t even hang them, he put them away as hidden as he could.
This just underscores the feeling that most of the problems people have with AI are actually problems with rampant capitalism. Negative externalities, regulatory capture, the tragedy of the commons -- AI merely intensifies them.

I've heard it said that corporations are in many ways the forerunners of the singularity, able to act with superhuman effectiveness and marshall resources on a world-altering scale in pursuit of goals that don't necessarily align with societal welfare. This paper paints a disturbing picture of what it might look like if those paperclip (profit) maximizing systems become fully untethered from human concerns.

I was always a little skeptical of the SkyNet model of AI risk, thinking the danger was more in giving an AI owner class unchecked power and no need to care about the wants or needs of a disempowered labor class (see Swanwick's "Radiant Doors" for an unsettling portrayal of this). But this scenario, where capitalism takes on a mind of its own and becomes autonomous and even predatory, feels even bleaker. It reminds me of Nick Land's dark visions of the posthuman technological future (which he's weirdly eager to see, for some reason).
A plane and helicopter over DC came within 500' of each other over DC barely 24 hours before the crash. They avoided collision because they were over 1000' and the TCAS was still active: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huVFZ__q2rI

During the day the only thing that was keeping those collisions from happening under 1000' was pilots seeing each other. At night the only thing keeping it from happening was luck.

The error is in allowing flightpaths to be so close to each other in distance and time.
Maybe because it'd be unwise to put an algorithm in control of human safety when it can't even tell that 9.9 is larger than 9.11?
> Elon Musk’s DOGE, the newly formed government agency aiming for drastic cuts across the U.S. government, has brought in an HR employment attorney and consultant who has spent the last few years teaching companies her “refreshing approach to diversity and inclusion” which include attempting to “redefine” DEI in a manner that she says is more consistent with Christianity and offers a “non-woke” version of HR practices, 404 Media has learned.

I’m guessing religious tests will soon be required.
Labor shortages don't exist. Every empty seat can be filled with attractive compensation until your unemployment rate hits zero. Labor competition has only one constraining factor, and it's name is money.

The correlation of compensation to educated workers probably explains why the US government is staffed by morons that treat the economy like a teething ring.
Agreed, I saw the same in literal cubicle farms at Intel.

When there is Bad Communication, whether due to zoom or timezones or whatever, it's like every interaction is a cache miss, for both parties.

When it's good people can basically wink and grunt at each other and it's enough to convey the meaning.
Definitely for various definitions of "not collapsing".
There was an article by one of the original creators of kubernetes on how the mistakes they did when developing the thing to release to the public.

I can’t find it again and i suspect the original author has deleted it.

One of the point for example was to go with ipv6 from the start, and another was about storage.

If anybody has a link, please paste it :)

But yes, the “public” kubernetes is a dumbed down version of borg. But frankly i think it’s mostly two things:

1. They probably had to redesign the things that in borg were too specific to the custom google infrastructure

2. They didn’t want to give away the _really_ good things, the competitive advantage.
That's true around competitions, but the main reason they aren't strong relative to powerlifters is because they don't train to express maximal strength.

They could easily add a few top sets of higher intensity work with low reps and get much stronger.
I'm surprised that this was not given more attention, despite how much it was given, it should have gotten orders of magnitudes more.

In the US, you can fly multiple planes into skyscrapers, rape three whole kindergartens, and lynch an entire race to extermination. As long as you then win the next election before you get convicted, you're in the clear.

This is the United States of America.

Vulgar examples? The bare minimum necessary to make people remotely feel the severity in their bones. Problem is that no one dares to say them out loud in fear of their reputation, despite it being a good thing to do.
>> And there's still a ton of innovation going on in the tech industry

>I don’t think that’s true, mostly.

I mean there's all the work in the cloud-native space. Fusion and quantum remain speculative and probably relatively long term but you can't say there isn't a lot of innovative work going on there. Lots of little things in the Linux kernel and elsewhere in open source even beyond cloud-native. AI is probably a big deal depending upon how you define it although I'm more cautious than many here are.
The format gets a new major version precisely because it is incompatible.
Is o1-pro not the o1 equivalent of o3-mini-high?
It's also funny that companies crack down on business travel. C-Suite folks decide, are in-person meetings critical or not? Zoom only works from the local office?
You guys were super efficient because you had whiteboards? You don't think people develop relationships with people they work with closely remotely? Time for bed grandpa.
I think many people have been super tired of the entire format and all the terrible interaction that it breeds, but didn't have a good enough reason to quit (because after all, there still was and is a community there, plus the dopamine fix of course) until now.
Getting rid of the WFH is just the easy thing. They are planning to gut the federal workforce generally.

That may be less sledgehammer-like when it comes to people whose jobs are obviously critical. But everyone else is on the chopping block, including quite a few whose absence will be noticed when people die.
When combinations of humans and AI are useful: systematic review, meta-analysis
o3 is absolutely fantastic compared to r1 what are these people talking about
Yep I still see people posting links to X every day, I never see Bluesky or any other "alternative" microblog platform.
> This reduction in competition can harm consumers

So, you either didn't read the quote you just posted or you mistakenly think that the cause and effect are the other way around. The Clayton Act does not in any way prohibit harming consumers. This is dishonesty bordering on illiteracy, at this point.
I like minimal government too. It has a few necessary roles, and foreign aid isn't one. Why are we recognizing that with Ukraine, and Mozambique but not Israel? Keeping the free market working by trust-bustingbis one too. I welcome a true house cleaning, but we are just trading regulatory capture for unregulated corruption. You wanted the land of do as you please, but got the land of do as they please. This is just an authoritarian power grab under the guise of renewal. I could be wrong, but as others have said, the proof will be in how the response to legal challenges to the house cleaning go. If they are ignored or rubber stamped by the scotus no matter how obviously they violate the law, then we know I am right. If some of the move fast and break things gets stopped by the scotus, or the admin backs down when things get challenged as illegal, then maybe this is exactly what we needed. I am not hopeful.

Edit: I think I was being disingenuous about foreign aid, sometimes foreign aid can be necessary to protect the well-being of US citizens. Stopping pandemics early or preventing them. Standing by a treaty so people know our word is good. Maintaining access to a resource our economy depends on etc. I just find it telling that the only foreign aid that was exempted was to Israel.
Please keep mansplaining your ponzi scheme as if everyone on this planet hasn't already heard the same weak sales pitch.
Came here to say basically the same thing. It is possible both that ADHD itself negatively impacts some people and that other people's (especially parents') reactions to ADHD negatively impact some people. They're not incompatible beliefs at all. Same for autism, and also personality disorders like BPD. Putting all of the blame on either side seems overly simplistic and unhelpful. Identifying which issues stem from which causes seems much more likely to yield solutions (or at least coping mechanisms).
Also Gemini API is free for coding.
There's been a lot of reporting in their vein over the last couple years—both on the ATC staffing shortage, and the large number close-calls at airports (which some observers link to ATC staffing). I.e.,

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/21/business/airl... ("Airline Close Calls Happen Far More Often Than Previously Known" (2023))

- "But the most acute challenge, The Times found, is that the nation’s air traffic control facilities are chronically understaffed. While the lack of controllers is no secret — the Biden administration is seeking funding to hire and train more — the shortages are more severe and are leading to more dangerous situations than previously known."

- "As of May, only three of the 313 air traffic facilities nationwide had enough controllers to meet targets set by the F.A.A. and the union representing controllers, The Times found. Many controllers are required to work six-day weeks and a schedule so fatiguing that multiple federal agencies have warned that it can impede controllers’ abilities to do their jobs properly."

...

- "“The staffing shortage is beyond unsustainable. It has now moved into a phase of JUST PLAIN DANGEROUS,” one controller wrote to the F.A.A. last year in a confidential safety report that The Times reviewed."

- "“Controllers are making mistakes left and right. Fatigue is extreme,” the report continued. “The margin for safety has eroded tenfold. Morale is rock bottom. I catch myself taking risks and shortcuts I normally would never take.”"
I’m 50 and started working in 1996. I started working remotely in consulting in mid 2020. I’ve led multiple medium to large consulting projects over the past 4.5 years where the entire team and the customer are in different locations.

There are all sorts of remote white boarding tools and even something as simple as two people working on a shared LucidChart.
Raising kids is hard. And it’s an evolving task. How we were raised is not the right way to raise kids now. Parents sometimes try to relive or remake their childhood. You can pour so much time and energy into parenting and not get it right. It’s disheartening but sometimes it may come down to luck of the environment and just the kid. I frankly no longer think parenting matters all that much beyond simple basics such as providing food and shelter (ie economic resources).
The distributed part of Earthstar seems like the selling point? Otherwise, it certainly does not have the range of database capabilities of either PGlite or SQLite, which also work offline, store data locally, and work in the browser. What do you get from the distributed nature of Earthstar? Backup? That's pretty simple with both SQLite and PGlite too, so I'm not sure I see a big benefit for most db users. The win seems to come from people who want to store data on their machines AND share that data with other individuals who also get local copies. Maybe this is for pirating content?
I think what I meant by that is obvious.
I must disagree with this very strongly; this attitude of "the problem isn't me, the problem is other people" is exceedingly harmful.

You cannot blame others for their (alleged) inflexibility when you yourself are incapable of flexibility.

Consider: you fly to the UK and try to drive on the right side of the road like you always have. Do you have the right to blame everyone for driving toward you? Or should you adapt and drive on the left side of the road for once? Yes, the rule is arbitrary, but that doesn't make it valueless.
A couple years ago the transportation secretary tried to get funding to hire 2,000 more controllers. Congress said no

https://thehill.com/regulation/transportation/4617992-buttig...
hey, is this that annas archive bounty thing? Best of luck to you!
> We are also "gently reminded" often and another rule about showing your face on video.

I'm actually buying this being 100% remote. We had more than a couple of folks who never showed their faces except for the first interview, never attended any face to face meeting (company sponsored travel and accommodation) and in one case a dude posted a daily update from his second (or third, or seventh) company on our channel by mistake and was pissed off he's getting fired.

I'll take the video if this means I can stay 100% remote otherwise they'll announce RTO and I don't even have an office to go to in my country.
I've reached the same conclusion, and I've been using zstd unless I want extremely fast (de)compression with lz4.

And even when I still have to use gzip (the format), the executables of libdeflate are fully compatible and noticeably faster than gzip/gunzip (the tool).
It seems like this small website was more complicated than I would have guessed and that caused most of the downtime.

1. Using a redis connection per socket as a cross thread message queue

2. Crashing the server on invalid sentry tracking header

3. No size validation on user input

It looks like a fun project but it ironic that the third party monitoring service to track downtime was your downtime.

Now I feel redis is not worth the effort over a Hashmap you write to disk/s3 every 5 minutes for hobby stuff. Ya ain’t gonna need it and if you do just install a full sql database
That is just a dumb as hell CFO. That philosophy is based on absolutely nothing.

If you’re “second best” as a product then you need to position yourself as being better at something that the market leader isn’t doing as well.
What can be done is participating in resistance when you can. Turn in work slower. Lose documents. Be the sand in the gears. Be the mosquito in the room.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881367, which has the original source.
There are already some research hinting that ADHD in human population helped human civilization progress. [0][1]

[0]: https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/evolution

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/21/adhd-may-hav...
Contra the title, the article has essentially nothing to do with RNGs and is instead about debugging the author's toy web game very verbosely.
Intel PMem really shines for things you need to be non-volatile (preserved when the power goes out) like fast changing rows in a database. As far as I understand it, "for when you need millions of TPS on a DB that can't fit in RAM" was/is the "killer app" of PMem.

Which suggests it wouldn't be quite the right fit here -- the precomputed constants in the model aren't changing, nor do they need to persist.

Still, interesting question, and I wonder if there's some other existing bit of tech that can be repurposed for this.

I wonder if/when this application (LLMs in general) will slow down and stabilize long enough for anything but general purpose components to make sense. Like, we could totally shove model parameters in some sort of ROM and have hardware offload for a transformer, IF it wasn't the case that 10 years from now we might be on to some other paradigm.
"dozer" Small Rust Compiler
>And yet, this utter nonsense doesn’t appear to be DEI nonsense, just incompetence.

??? From the OP:

"This assessment was implemented in large part due to a push for diversity among ATCs by the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE)."

And from your link:

"In 2012 and 2013, the NBCFAE continued pushing this process, with members meeting with the DOT, FAA, Congressional Black Caucus, and others to push diversity among ATCs. "

I can't see how anyone would read those two sentences and conclude "this utter nonsense doesn’t appear to be DEI nonsense". Diversity, the D in DEI was specifically the reason why it was implemented.
For my first full time job, I was a junior sysadmin. My toolset had to include LOAF floppies, one FREEDOS floppy, and a bent paper clip.
I had an office. My office. With a door.
Since then, every advance in my career raised my skill level, raised my pay, and shrank my office. First came the open office plan. Then came hot desks. Now I'm all-remote, and I mostly float around libraries and cafes when I'm not zooming.

The people making these RTO demands should remember they are demanding people meet in person in what is little more than a set of hot desks dedicated to one company. It's really demoralizing to have to come to work to such an environment where you can't even put a backpack's worth of things on a desk and leave them there at 5 PM.

If the managers making these demands vacate their own dedicated offices and go hotdesk for a while, they'd realize why there's so much pushback on RTO.
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”

― George Orwell, 1984
You’re making the exact same kind of maximalist argument as people who argued that ripping a CD and letting your brother listen to the MP3s is exactly morally and criminally like shoplifting the disc. Or that recording a movie off TV was equal to stealing it. (That particular one was of course famously judged by the courts as “tough shit” to the copyright owners who sued over it.)

Yes, training does impart some fraction of an article into the weights. NYT famously “demonstrated” this by like typing whole paragraphs of their articles into GPT and having the model produce some of the following sentences. However, this substitutes for the article in zero ways, since if you need the article to summon the article…who cares?

We should admit that nothing about our copyright law intentionally weighed in about LLMs. It’s simply nuts to apply a law to a situation when its drafters had no idea of the positive or negative implications of such an application. It would be like applying a law that calculated prison time based on number of horses stolen to someone who stole a Honda Civic with 100hp and saying that clearly they should get 100 years because it is equal to 100 horses.

Now, I get that we have a useless legislative branch which even if they actually passed intentionally applicable laws, they’d be stupid ones, but I think making simplistic analogies like that do not help anyone, other than the Luddites. Look, the cat is out of the bag and even if say, the US government effectively killed all Gen AI by forcing any training to be done with material you own the copyright of, countries like China (and criminals, who can simply use the tech in secret) will happily just pull ahead of us and economically demolish us - like any country would have done if a competing country had banned electricity 100 years ago.

We need something better than the ridiculously unfit 200-year old paradigm for this.