WillDaSilva

kdb doesn't support effecient vector similarity searches, or efficient storage of high-dimensional vectors. It isn't really in the same class as the vector databases discussed in this post. It's more suited for time series data.

Why not have the managers of the underperforming employees be straightforward with them? Tell them that, as far as the manager/company is concerned, they're underperforming (no need to single out the WFH aspect here if you don't want to). They may deny that their performance while working from home is different from their performance in the office, but the manager can dismiss that. It's unpleasant, but better than resorting to surveillance software, and better than making things worse for everyone just to help out this minority who underperform while working from home.

Once they've been notified that they're underperforming, try to help them out. If they can't be helped, fire them with well-documented cause (their history of poor performance).

I'm slightly surprised by the direction they seem to be taking here. It seems like they're going to try to use this as a source of funding for PyPI, rather than focus on its potential to bring namespaces to PyPI.

I also wasn't able to find out how much it will cost. Nonetheless, I'm glad to see this development, and will probably be making use of it for the company I work for.

> [...] it's still a Chinese Room.

So are you, and so am I.

That's not to say that ChatGPT is sentient or has a significant amount of personhood, but we shouldn't wholly dismiss its significance in this regard, particularly not using that faulty argument.

Road damage is proportional to the vehicle weight to the fourth power. We all pay for larger vehicles.

> If you don't like to tip, there are plenty of restaurants where tipping isn't expected; specifically those where you carry the food yourself from the counter to your table.

Generally such restaurants serve significantly different kinds of food, and are typically lower quality. You can't expect these kinds of restaurants (typically fast food, food trucks, buffet food, etc.) to out-compete restaurants that they are hardly even competing with in the first place (e.g. fancier sit-down restaurants).

What evidence do you have to support this claim?

If your business model isn't compatible with the freedom of your customers, you should generally find a new business model, rather than working to reduce that freedom.

See also: modern intellectual "property" laws & enforcement, the businesses that push for it (typically large companies with a wealth of IP), the organizations that facilitate the control of information (governments, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Netflix, etc.), and the business models that depend on it.

There are cases where the benefits are worth a reduction in freedom, but this ain't it.

Yup. I'll add that it's not just unemployment that hurts us (under our current economic systems), but also underemployment, as we see with the "gig economy". Some people will overly focus on the unemployment stats, and naively conclude that all's well despite many people not living up to their potential, and barely making ends meet.

That seems less "anti-AI" and more anti our current economic systems, the inequality they produce, and their increasing incompatibility with the present and future. The "incompatibility" being between our values and the resulting outcomes. Our values tell us that AI and automation freeing up immense amounts of human labour/effort so that it can be directed to new (creative) ends should be wonderful and celebrated, but the reality is that it's bringing about a frightening future where an increasingly small few control the vast majority of the power in the world, and direct it towards "profitable" ends which are largely divorced from human values.

To add to this, it's poisonous because it makes increasing "engagement" a primary goal for these platforms.

Likely followed by git commit --amend

Why is it that this study considers being focused on the present moment a form of temporal distortion?

There's a significant difference between "so you want people to sit at home all day and collect free money", and "so you want the people who sit at home all day to collect free money".

The former is a clear misrepresentation of the views of most UBI proponents. The latter is an accurate part of their views, albeit a loaded/(mis)leading statement.

They are far more comfortable than buses. Larger too. If you rely on public transit, then your city switching to trams for the highest frequency routes can be a significant quality of life improvement for you and the many thousands of others who will use them every day.

That isn't their only advantage, but it's one which is often overlooked.

The Python docs themselves is a good place to start: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#slots

The Python wiki also has some good info about it: https://wiki.python.org/moin/UsingSlots

No. Regular body temperature is around 37°C. Hypothermia starts at around 35°C.

Addiction and tolerance are related, but distinct.

Another contributing factor is likely that back then most recorded voices you heard were from professional speakers/performers. Nowadays anyone can easily record their voice. Not only does this mean that many more amateurs will do so, but also that it has become a more casual affair - people don't generally put as much care into it.

> Parents need to drop kids off [...]

This is far from universal, and is a problem we should address wherever it is the case. It's bad for plenty of reasons, with one of the largest being that it prevents us from having schools operate during times that work well for children and teens.

Have you conducted interviews? In my experience, years of experience correlates poorly with technical ability.

I've seen several senior devs with 15+ years of experience who can't complete basic programming tasks (in a language of their choice) despite allegedly working at a job where they write code every day. I'm talking fizz-buzz level stuff. It's baffling.

It can be done with a checkbox element instead, and then have the style changed (to translate it) based on whether it is clicked.

The presence and depth of the debate about this formatting choice suggests that it isn't arbitrary. Many have provided solid reasons for why one option should be preferred over the other. They aren't merely articulating their opinions; they are also providing objective reasons for why their opinion is valid.

It is sarcasm. Nintendo is extremely hostile towards perceived infringements on their IP, and go out of their way to make modding and fan content difficult to use.

Banning it all but guarantees human obsolescence. We certainly need to tread very carefully here, but foregoing this advancement would be a grave mistake.

The title on that Reddit post is far better than the one on this post. It'd be nice if Hacker News would increase their title length limit.

Weakref finalizers can help with instance destruction in Python

https://docs.python.org/3/library/weakref.html#weakref.final...

Neither does drawing one, as shown by the numerous artists (painters, illustrators, etc.) with aphantasia.

I would recommend Open Data Structures: https://opendatastructures.org/

It's available for free online, or if you'd like you can buy a physical copy. It's got 14 chapters that take you through a variety of data structures, introduces you to the theory behind them, and teaches you the basics of analyzing them.

I've done many of the exercises from this book, and found them useful for learning the topic.

> We are all logical people

That's a bold claim. In my experience the vast majority of people hardly try to think logically or apply critical thinking skills in most opportunities, and no human does so anywhere close to all the time. Humans are deeply irrational creatures, and we shouldn't pretend otherwise.