skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We just romanticize some things we know less (eg buddhism) to somehow be more noble than the things we know more (eg christianity). The noble savage (aka dances with wolves syndrome) is just as much a fallacy as the savage savage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage
It ain't just older people, either. A lot of friends in my age group and younger default to not putting on their seatbelts, and only do so if I explicitly tell them to do so (or if they notice my truck beeping about it).
Headline is a bit butchered, it should read “was fired”:

> JPMorgan employee questioned Dimon's RTO mandate, was fired, then told he could stay
I am familiar. Certainly if terms and conditions like this are encoded in deeds then the idea sounds better, but OTOH what we're discussing is eroding protected status and replacing it with "less protected". After "less protected" is the new "protected", then of course it will just be eroded further.

Anyway, we all know that desert shacks will eventually want water and power, which is only going to be available if we slightly expand existing cities/townships. This is not great, because actually curbing relentless profiteering is ultimately a better fix than starting a new wave of it, but it's also not terrible. The bait-and-switch here is that removing protections on public lands is ultimately for companies that are interested in exploitative extraction, not for renters. If public lands are going to be used in that way, then at the very least it should be part of a way to fund basic-income or something. This is the way it works in Alaska (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund), and whether or not it's effective is a matter for debate, but at least it actually feels like trying to take a step in the right direction.
Thank you for replying.
Why Can't Coding Be Celebrated Like Art or Sports?
How so?

There's a tradeoff here between price and quality, and the different political parties have different preferences for what should be allowed.

Obviously they're going to talk about the benefits and not the downsides of a particular choice, but that hardly strikes me as 1984.
To the down-voters: sorry if you don't like it; doesn't make it less true.

You can be sure China is strategizing on how to fill the leadership vacuum the US is leaving in its wake -- this just being one of many.
Less than an hour after Mead’s call to Welch, at 5:14 pm, Monaghan texted Welch and apologized, saying he owed him a beer and a handshake. “I agree with your message, if not the delivery. We good?” Monaghan said in the text.

What a complete snake. Fires Mead for speaking truth to power, but then when a bigger dog tells the VP to back down, Monaghan wants to pretend that nothing went amiss?

Edit: also, apologizes by text! Could not even man up enough to verbally apologize.
That recently leaked memo where he go on a tirade is also just asinine. He's conflating bureaucracy with WFH, and talks about how there's 14 committees to accomplish something. He's the CEO. How much do you want to bet that complaining about the 14 committees even to Jamie will just result in 1. you being marked as a troublemaker, 2. resulting in 15 committees.

There's still zero evidence that WFH reduces productivity or that RTO increases productivity.
The title was editorialized. That's grounds for flagging.
They're ending ones that weren't even in force yet.

The title definitely sounds like they're wholesale removing them.

The title is very deceptive.
I predict the crowd runs away from the rampaging bulls
It's not about quality, it's about reducing energy consumption, which is critical because ... climate change (among other things). Come on, I shouldn't need to explain this.

Trump wants to bring back incandescent lightbulbs. And burn more coal.
You act like there is no benefit to entering a relationship with a fellow human’s website. You act like it is somehow difficult or unpleasant to do that assessment. You act like LLMs are stable and reliable.

I don’t understand how there is any comparison. The only way I can assess the reliability of an LLM is by doing hundreds of trials, analyzing each one for correctness— a gargantuan task. And it’s not like OpenAI has ever done such testing! And even if I did that work (which I HAVE done in other contexts while researching LLM reliability) I cannot assume that it will remain reliable when the model is updated.

Meanwhile there are well known social forces that act on humans to encourage them to not put poison into their recipes. No such force acts on ChatGPT until a kid gets poisoned or some outrageous recipe goes viral.

Sometimes I wonder if certain other people are using some different Internet than I use.
This happens pretty often. Karl Jobst has a lot of videos about cheaters, and it’s always interesting to see how many were ridiculously obvious in hindsight. Frequently, people won’t expect a good player to cheat, because “they don’t need to.” But cheating, at thay level, tends to be about saving time waiting for the perfect RNG.
That’s a great question. If anything I at least have the benefit of knowing what it’s like on the other side, right? Without that I’d very likely still be pushing for more. It’s all I did for 15 years or so. I didn’t even realize I was doing it. It kind of became who I was, always simmering away either up front or on the back burner.

I’ll be candid. I spent a lot of my savings on a home that cost way too much, and burned a lot of it on… Burning out. I was unemployed for some time after a layoff and good god, the timing was awful. It was only months after getting my mortgage. So it goes though. Buying the house did a number on me. I thought it was going to matter. I thought it would finally feel like I did something important. I think it was a net negative, though paradoxically, it was the kick in the pants I needed to start to realize how futile my goals and methods were, so it was good in some ways too.

I get what you mean about not feeling safe without the money. I grew up pretty poor and a lot of my motivations were essentially “never be poor again”. I’m still insecure about this, but much less compelled by it. I think going through a rough stretch of essentially living on lentils and water made me realize that the thing I was afraid of wasn’t actually practical so much as status-driven. In a weird way I actually enjoyed aspects of having to watch every dollar again. Having to be resourceful is engaging and interesting. Making good food with less makes cooking more exciting and rewarding. Solving problems around the house with fewer tools and supplies teaches you so much stuff you’d otherwise miss. I was confronted with the fact that I was previously comforted by money more from an ego rather than a practical or survival perspective.

Well, everyone is different, but that made me feel like a complete moron and I began reconsidering my relationship with work and money.

Which landed me here. Knowing what I know now, and without my savings, I’d totally take the route I’m on now. Without knowing and with the option to earn more? The idea of working this job would fill me with dread. Weird, right?
Nope.

You want my list? Critical government services. That’s it. Nothing more. I’m sure you won’t see the police, public health, state dept, as waste.

And Republicans were voted in on an agenda to cut this sort of stuff. So sure, it would be great to hold hands on this but that’s not how our system works.

And yes, Congress sets a budget and laws with very high level instructions. The President’s job is to implement.

So when the law says “Congress approves $50B for FEMA in order to provide Americans with disaster relief”, the President has discretion on what “implement disaster relief” looks like. And the President is not forced to spend money on waste or fraud.

So what happens if money is left over? Like all things in politics it comes down to the details. Maybe Trump brings his new budget back to Congress and tells them to pass a much smaller budget. Maybe it goes to court and a new pathway for returning funds is created. I don’t know.

But crying “Constitution crisis!” When the President, with all the powers of the Executive, decides on how to run the Executive (within the bounds of the law), is going to fall flat among voters, especially when the President actions are exactly what the voters asked for.
I don't understand either. Personally, I believe the rare earth hypothesis is more credible than it seems at first glance. But the matter is warped by our own definition of life, in that we're looking for familiar things (i.e. humanoids or bacteria or radio signals) out there. For me, when looking deeply at viruses, kinesin or even something like fire, the line between living and unliving seems like a pretty arbitrary definition in many ways. Which is fine, but if we decide the definition is something resembling us, or life on earth, then I think the rare earth hypothesis seems as credible as any other theory. Not to mention when you think deeply about physics, or just how inhospitable the vast majority of space seems to us. But on the other hand, I guess finding anything extraordinary or complex is all that we're really looking for.

But, regardless, I guess I am just confused, as bothersome to me sounds a bit like worry. I am not worried (i.e. bothered) about the matter, as it seems irrelevant to my livelihood. I believe I will die without knowing either way and have no qualms about that. But if you are bothered by the matter in the sense that you're just very interested, curious, and desiring to know, that's very understandable. It would be truly awesome if we found concrete evidence of life elsewhere.
His VP apologized when their skip level boss got involved and forced him to.

He wasn't doing this voluntarily.
Since you knew the reference plane of the table did picking up the dominos only need to calculate the orientation?
Discussions:

(110 points, 10 hours ago, 64 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061481

(64 points, 6 hours ago, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43063512

(54 points, 1 day ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43055119
IMHO this is a good thing if it ends the now-common practice of chasing after tiny gains in efficiency at the cost of shortened lifespans and more difficult repair.

The list of specifications developed during the last administration have encouraged the sale of bathroom and kitchen faucets, residential toilets and sprinkler nozzles that just don’t work well.

I think that's been a problem since before the last administration...

Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20856036

http://www.freeexistence.org/highflow_toilet.html
Nice I love looking at these sorts of things. RCT would be a dream.

If you want to download all quickly:

curl -s https://donhopkins.com/home/TheSimsDesignDocuments/ | \
grep -o 'href="[^"]"' | \
cut -d'"' -f2 | \
while read -r file; do
# Skip parent directory and query strings
if [[ $file != "../" && $file != "?"* ]]; then
echo "Downloading $file"
curl -O "https://donhopkins.com/home/TheSimsDesignDocuments/$file"
fi
done
I describe in past tense what I just did.

For example -

"
uuid added to the test to make the newly created mailbox different each time
"
There are many who have not yet read the Foundation series.
Can we _please_, __pleeease__ go back to doing software like this?
Obviously, but most normal people won't have to interact with them.
Yeah, that's BS. Which rule specifically is this post violating?
This really sucks. I do think you can still download books from an older version of kindle for pc. Hopefully they don’t axe this feature as well.
I should've clarified that, but I wanted to find out how to do it as a single person.
Nah, better to run those tests and chastise employees who fall for it.

After all, it's not that they're routinely required to enter their password on an endless list of websites all the time to do their job right? Right?
If the title said "cancelling new appliance efficiency standards" it would be fine.

You wrote "ending appliance efficiency standards". That is a bad title.
I hope this means a move away from standards that result in serious usability impacts for moderate improvements.

Examples I've personally experienced is that many/most driers now available require multiple attempts to get clothes actually try. Then there was the debacle of fedora enabling aggressive power saving in a difficult to disable way in updates, claiming it was mandated-- resulting in nonsense like remote hands incidents to unsuspend servers and users using TV as monitors perpetually needing to turn the TV on and off every use because TV's won't wake and the power saving functionality wasn't disclosed (if you could even figure out that this was WHY the screen kept failing-- and did so without sending a display to the landfill first).

Energy efficiency when it comes at no impact to functionality is good (at least if it pays for its own landfill burden-- many home devices have more embodied energy in their manufacture than they'll ever use) but when it has a usability impact it really ought to have a good justification or even just not happen at all because people are capable of choosing more efficient devices when it actually makes sense to do so.

(like the efficiency impact of a device run for 10 minutes a month is very very different from something that runs 24/7 and usually only the owner of the device knows the usage).

Intrusive requirements also set back environmental causes by enlisting opposition by members of the public that are harmed by them-- which could easily have a greater long term impact than the benefit of the standard. (and if it's argued that these changes have gone too far, then I'd say it's likely an example of exactly that).
It will require different accounting, probably. It's not really true to say that these costs are not accounted for. Every dollar a university pays out is accounted for somewhere.
"Today’s actions postpone the efficiency standards for the following home appliance rules." Seems substantially correct. Although I agree it doesn't meet the usual standards for just copying the article's headline.
I have a feeling large parts of this pristine blue and green ball will be further enshittified by the greedy men who rules it.

I was always amazed at how much of the US is national parks, what a treasure for you guys over the pond I thought. My home country also has large swaths of untouched land but my content is way overcrowded.

I feel sorry.
My theory is that it’s only a matter of years before the Saudi’s launch a league. It’ll scoop up a large swath of international players including NBA superstars. Jokić becomes very famous and wealthy.
I've worked somewhere that adds a banner to all external emails.

Then they ran a phishing test and it didn't have the external banner :D
Came here to cite the Power of 10 paper.

There are a couple of talks by Dr Holzmann on youtube regarding JPL high reliability software development process: "Mars Code" is the one that I remember: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16dQLBgOwbE well worth the watch I think.
> [These are just a few examples. There are many more great comments on the video!]

Just FYI, in general people on this forum (and many others) _really_ don't appreciate a big wall of text; more so if the text is just a big paste from another source.
Fertilizer production is dominated (in energy terms) by nitrogen fertilizer, and that's made with hydrogen. Hydrogen would come from electrolysis, and driving that with PV is very likely to be feasible, especially with cheap Chinese electrolysers.
You can't secure it because it's badly engineered.
Lets not pretend efficiency had anything to do with this. It’s all part of an ordinary power grab by the cronies of Trump and Musk, with the only goal the looting of America.
I started reading from the beginning, and by the time I got to the post about her cancer recurring, and her parents having to tell her that she's going to die, I was sobbing.

Had to take a break. Not sure I can go back to it.
You're porting in the WRONG direction. The existing COBOL code is undoubtedly using system utilities such as database management systems, etc. on the mainframe computers. And I doubt that you've written Python code that smoothly integrates into that system environment and just needs to be ported to COBOL. And I doubt that the mini-Musks can do so. (I'm not including the massive application-specific knowledge that you and they would or should need to grasp before attempting to insert code into the system.)
At least on the android client you can have jellyfin play the selected media in VLC (or other external player). Couples most of the library features with the playback performance of VLC.

Somethings like playback resume don't work but for me it's a nice middle ground.
> I suspect the universities are doing that accounting already for their internal purposes

They absolutely are. The salaries of faculty and postdocs, student stipends, and administrative support staff are apportioned to each grant they work on.
Copyright, as in the right to prevent other people from making copies, indeed is meaningless unless you have lawyers

But plagiarism is a serious academic misconduct, that gets papers retracted, people fired from academic positions, PhDs rescinded, etc. It's not at all a copyright issue and would remain a gross misconduct even if copyright were abolished today
Energy efficiency is a quality metric. Come on, I shouldn't need to explain this.

Even if you disagree with that for some reason, it doesn't really affect my point. It's a tradeoff and they want different rules about what options on the tradeoff curve are valid.
> There's still zero evidence that WFH reduces productivity or that RTO increases productivity.

Depends on the team and the job, which is what I appreciated about this employee's question. He brought up that for his team, there were 7 people scattered around the globe. RTO didn't make sense for them.

I manage two teams with 10 direct reports total. 9 of them are in NYC. Having some days in office absolutely has benefits. Personally, mandating 5 days in office doesn't make sense to me. People come in 3 or 4 days and that's great.

There isn't zero evidence that working in person has benefits. That's silly.
The link one answer down is more explanatory

https://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentDraftDHTProtocol
On HN we discuss tech, which was mostly apolitical until Elon decided to make it very political. So yeah, politics is now in. I don't like it either, but you'll have to take it up with him. Flag all you want, it's not going away until that situation changes.
So the answer is no, it’s not fair to lump YC in there. You don’t have any evidence or knowledge at all, you’re just jumping to conclusions.
A lot of people are bothered by it. There's not much we can do about it yet - we've done what we can with the crude methods we have available to look around, but we're severely knowledge-and-tech limited in ways of checking.

It leads to a lot of philosophical hypothesis though, including the idea of a "great filter", which makes a lot of people extremely worried. Hell, the richest man in the world, and one of the most powerful, is supposedly motivated by a desire to get off-world to avoid a future disaster. I haven't heard him speak specifically about lack-of-aliens as a reason for worry, but I'm sure he's come across that argument before.
As a local, Sri Lanka turning into Bali is one of my biggest anxieties at the moment. I've grown up around the hospitality industry all my life, it's not a good outcome for locals. Tourism should be considered an auxiliary industry not the primary industry.
A closer look at the health of platform workers
How does it require 10x the energy input? That makes little sense.
Shopify does somehow to this day.
What topics are you interested in?
Hopefully the NY DoL and AG will deliver them a fresh proctological exam.
There's so many prolific posters here debating the same simple facts over and over, pointing out they don't care about a discussion without contributing any of it. But surely all that weird stuff we see cannot possibly ever influence flagging, because the people who state their motivations for flagging are the only people who flag. If anyone did anything fishy they'd just say it, obviously.

You cannot "point out" an internal motivation anyway, you can only claim it. At this point, the question "why should I believe you?" seems an appropriate response, since not a single one of them I've seen could explain why why they don't click "hide" instead of "flag". Or allow people to opt-in to a view that ignores flags. Can you?

And hey, there's a link in the footer of every page to something that mentions Musk of a group of "the world’s top AI experts", to garner interest in a "100% free conference and every attendee is hand-picked." But that has nothing to do with anything, either.

I'd say some people bank on fascism winning but also don't want to be seen in case fascism doesn't win. Trapped between two kinds cowardice. Simple as that.
here you can get your personal days overview as well

https://datebydays.com/
You should give it a try. I do not think you will be able to do it for less at similar quality, especially with food.
Privatize it, or just not have it at all?
Someday scientists are going to want to study human reproduction in microgravity in order to test the feasibility of space colonization, and "some dating website" will indeed be something on which mission critical code depends.
Right, but a penny saved is a penny earned and this could’ve been profitable if she hadn’t set the production quality bar so high (food stylist?) from the jump.
The problem was that at least for some categories, the regulations weren't making appliances actually more efficient any longer, but rather just gaming the numbers by skimping on their primary functionality. For example clothes washers that don't use enough water to get clothes clean (hot water is directly counted as energy use), or dishwashers that skip having a heating element for the dry cycle, and then substitute some combo of dodgy "rinse aid", humidity-absorbing crystals that regenerate by using heat from the water, and drip drying.

Don't get me wrong, being an electrical engineer, doing a lot of DIY repair, and taking note of what goes into appliances I've got zero faith in manufacturers to come up with more efficient solutions on their own. But at a certain point the ever-advancing regulations stopped being productive as well. You can only switch to ECM/brushless motors one time.

(Also a meta issue - if the actions of the Trump administration were limited to only executive branch domestic policies like this, we could at least readjust in four years)
I would bet a lot of money more than 1 engineer at nvda flagged this as a potential issue. If you were going to run this close to the safety margin, I would at minimum add current sensing on each pin.
Or replace all with zig.
well, lets see. These events are previously unheard of, and therefore "new", and a "phenomenon" due to their significant impact, which therefore makes them "interesting".

So yeah, it fits.

thanks to Musk, there's about one of these every day, thus the number of HN posts
I haven’t seen it.
They could arbitrarily decide that I am a persona non grata and lock me out.

They claim rights above what FOSS licenses allow, and I do not want that.

I do not want my code to end up in their LLMs. Yes, I have blocked them from my self-hosted forge too.
> Or is it just to protect the value of their office buildings?

I have a very strong belief it's the latter. Every corporate entity is doing wierd shit with Listed Property Trust investment on their own buildings, and if it can't rent refuse to rent below rate because it affects the asset value, and associated loan-to-value costs. Nobody wants to be the grown up admitting they bought at top of the peak and the office is worth 10x less. (fictional amount for illustrative purposes but I read that city buildings are selling way below buy cost)