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rawlingon New Anthropic Paper: Sleeper Agents

112 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38974802

rawlingon People have been buried behind a Mississippi jail since 2016, attorney says

> These persons are either homeless people, inmates from local jails who died but relatives never claimed their bodies, unidentified persons who officials were never able to connect with family, or even persons who died" whose families couldn't afford a funeral.

"Inmates from local jails" and "unidentified persons" are separate categories.

rawlingon Navajo objection to flying human ashes to the Moon won't delay launch

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38899120

rawlingon Alaska Airlines grounds 737 Max 9 planes after window blows out mid-air

Some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38889774

rawlingon Fujitsu bosses knew about Post Office Horizon IT flaws, says insider (2021)

(2021)

rawlingon Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards since 1994

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38865020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38871051

rawlingon Block cookie banners on Firefox

The article itself doesn't say that.

> The cookie banner blocker is available starting from Firefox version 120, and it's automatically enabled for users in Germany browsing in Private Browsing Mode.

> ...

> Enable: By default, it's on in private windows for users in Germany.

> ...

> Why Germany and private browsing mode?

> Our initial launch in Germany and private browsing mode has specific reasons:

> - Private browsing mode displays cookie banners repeatedly, making this feature especially useful. Germany, as a part of the European Union, is a prominent market where cookie banners are noticeable due to GDPR.

> - We plan to gather insights from this launch before potentially expanding the feature to a broader audience.

rawlingon CEOs will admit that return-to-office didn't move the productivity needle

Seems like, yeah.

rawlingon Building a better keyboard and mouse switch

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

https://github.com/hrvach/deskhop

E: Oh wait, that'd show up as a dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38780519

rawlingon CEOs will admit that return-to-office didn't move the productivity needle

We've already downsized two of our main offices since we sent everyone home.

No, we're not investing in more space now we're calling everyone back...

rawlingon CEOs will admit that return-to-office didn't move the productivity needle

Someone tell my CEO this before April please, thanks -_-

rawlingon Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

How did you get "sending it to Google" from

> A few KiloBytes native program like PDFtk

rawlingon Maze Generator

It's on the "help" page, as is R.

rawlingon Mathematicians Prove the "Omniperiodicity" of Conway's Game of Life

rawlingon Pedestrians, already dying at record levels, now face Elon Musk's Cybertruck

Non-MSN source: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/pedestrians-already-d...

rawlingon Windows KB5032288 – A New AI Limitation Is Introduced

https://www.cryptopolitan.com/windows-11-update-copilot-reso...

Original source/title

rawlingon Nationwide (UK) rescinds 'work anywhere' policy, tells staff to come to office

> Joel Garner, the then chief executive, said that although the business was continuing to invest in office space to foster social contact, collaboration and creativity, workers “won’t be forced to return to an office”.

> However, on Tuesday his successor, Debbie Crosbie, who was appointed at the end of 2021 as Nationwide’s first female chief executive, unveiled a new policy that will require most staff to be in an office for at least 40% of their contract – two days a week for a full-time employee.

rawlingon Git Query Language

rawlingon Banker pays $2M for coal mine, discovers $37B rare Earth elements

https://www.benzinga.com/general/23/12/36051788/wall-street-...

FWIW, original article source rather than the Yahoo mirror.

rawlingon I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans

I'm specifically addressing the parent comment

> In this case it seems it was pretty clearly meant to push this employee out before their stocks vest

which if so it singularly failed at.

rawlingon I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans

I read through the article expecting this, but... if this is the case, it doesn't feel like they tried very hard?

> I wasn't put on Pivot. My manager wanted to work with me a little bit to see if I was going to commit to the job. So they sat me down and said I could go on Pivot and leave right away, or they would work with me.

> ...

> I played along, and I'm good at playing along when I have to be. So then the money is in my account. That next day, I called my manager and I told them I was resigning.

They let him stay long enough to find a new job and for his options to vest, and then he quit.

rawlingon Awesome Engineering Games

> Theme Parks & Dungeons

> A genre started by RollerCoaster Tycoon back in the 90s

No love for "Theme Park"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_Park_(video_game)

rawlingon Using GDPR to get interview feedback from Facebook

Actual link, since this one seems to just lead to the subreddit homepage:

https://old.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/seyh96/used_the_g...

rawlingon The shortest papers ever published (2016)

Ah yeah, the PDF shows it for n=2 and I assumed that scaled up but it doesn't.

rawlingon The shortest papers ever published (2016)

The paper doesn't answer the problem in its title (n²+1) but demonstrates two different "advancements" towards it (n²+2)

> We have posed a fine (in our opinion) open problem and reported two distinct “behold-style” proofs of our advance on this problem.

There's also a linked PDF which, if I'm reading it correctly, trivially proves n²+1 is impossible.

rawlingon Ant Attack City: Minecraft

I wonder if this was painstakingly copied by hand, or dumped out of the game files somehow.

rawlingon [dead]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37804856

rawlingon Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37681004

rawlingon 'Couple,' 'Few,' and 'Several'

It is.

> Several came into English in the 1400s, but didn't develop its quantity meanings until the 1500s. (Several initially meant "distinct or separate" in English.) Yes, meanings: several originally referred to more than one.

>> They be but one heire, and yet severall persons. — Edward Coke, _The first part of the institutes of the lawes of England _, 1628

It even mentions Jupiter's moons later!

rawlingon Ford's Theatre Front-Row Tickets from April 14, 1865

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37616544