skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually have to commute for 3 hours a day. I have to be up early and get home late, stuck on a crowded train normally standing up for most of the journey.

I was never previously a big fan of working from home, I enjoy the social interaction at the office. Having coffee breaks with people, going out for lunch etc. But now I'm used to WFH I love the fact that I can wake up at 9AM and I'm 'at work'. I finish at 5:30PM and I'm already home. Yes I do miss the interaction with people, but I have met some people outside work, and regularly have Slack convos (or social ones while gaming for example) with those people.

I feel lucky that I've been at my company for a relatively long time, so have 'work friends' who I continue talking to. I now don't talk to the 'acquaintances' or new starters for example, which I guess is sad - but being selfish, makes it feel like I have even more time to do my own things. But on the other hand, probably isn't so good for the newer members of staff and doesn't help company morale.

I am still fairly young and have seen some people mention work/life balance. That doesn't bother me too much either as my company is flexible and I know if I do a few extra hours one evening I can do a few less hours another day etc. and wouldn't have to tell or ask anyone to do that.

Until reading this post I hadn't really thought about it too much, but guess I am just lucky that it works for me. If I was older and had kids/family, or didn't have an office to work from at home I can see how it would be more of a struggle. I do want to go back to work at some point, but I don't know how often I'd want to be there. I don't know if I can handle the long commutes week in week out now.
> There are schemes that allow proof a vote was counted without revealing the vote.

What does "proof a vote was counted" mean here? If the proof doesn't verify that the correct candidate received the vote, what exactly does it verify?
For me, I only use goodreads because there’s nothing better that I’ve found. I think of it as similar to evolution, evolution is just about survival, not necessarily the best at stuff that’s not survival.
The question should be, "how are you contributing to the destruction of the environment?"

Because it doesn't really matter how much trash you sort if you are flying around in a private jet and your house has the carbon footprint of a small village.
It's not hard to build something that gives you recommendations. It extremely difficult to build something that works well. For consumer companies I know only Spotify and TikTok that do it well, and Youtube that does it OK-ish.
Same here, I have my own desktop, camera is unplugged and I put it on only for skype with parents. Company didn't give us laptops, so has 0 lever to ask for anything. Most folks on our conf call system (webex) use audio only.

I made tons of other, more useful things (meals, real work, babysitting etc.) during those dull calls that are not really about me (or they cover me for 1 minute in 30-60 minutes). It would be really tiring to keep looking engaged while I couldn't care less about the topic (self pressure is a bitch), 3-6x per day.
I think S3 permits up to 20k requests before they start billing IIRC.
> Humans don't like simple things.

I like simple things, am I not human?
How can you tell the difference between an earnest concern for public harms and an opinion from a lobbying campaign?
Disagree on money. There are some aspects of performance marketing that you literally cannot get experience with unless you have a certain level of scale and the spend that gets you there.

If someone wants to seriously go down this path, you can learn a lot on your own, but it can also short circuit your learning to get a job somewhere that has experts you can learn from, and invest in your education that way.
A jump from coal straight to nuclear and renewables would have been possible.

That said, there are an innumerable number of side effects from cheap fossil fuels that would change present reality as we know it were they removed.

Removing cheap fossil fuel energy could have drastically slowed down emigration from cities to the burbs, so it’s also fun to imagine a different present where there’s dozens of New York Cities spread around the nation, connected by mass transport, and separated by vast swaths of mostly empty land. As EV tech and internet became widespread, it’s likely that the development of suburbia would only just begin to be happening now. Or not. Like you say though, fun thought experiment.
I think that "sucked in" shouldn't be confused to awareness.

There is one thing to manipulate someone into buying something and a different thing to just point to the existence of that product.
The resistance comes from a tiny number of people, and is not representative of the majority. Blocking the wants of the people requires subversion of democracy and subversion of the housing market by a few very wealthy and connected and powerful people.

California and many other states’ governance has enabled a small number of people to veto what the majority wants. For example, all of SF’s safe streets program during the pandemic have been held up by the actions of only two people [1]. Two people subverting changes that are wildly popular just because is is change rather than maintaining the status quo. Similarly, Minneapolis’ legalization of triplexes city wide is popular with a majority of the city, [2] but during the government process the representation was quite different, and unrepresentative of the city. Yet that unrepresentative process is somehow considered “democratic”.

My question to you is that, if you don’t like living in SF, why are you interested unmaking sure others can’t live there? Do you assume they don’t like it? Do you assume that you know what’s in their best interests?

Sooooo may people love living in SF, in fact almost everybody who lives there loves it. It works well for them. Let the people that love it enjoy it. It will leave suburbia emptier for those who prefer suburbia.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Sa...

[2] https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/crosstabs-MN-NH-NV-WI...
Everyone wants to fix Goodreads except Amazon.
Well even in that regard I'd say Rust still wins.
LK is C. It looks like they ported it to C++ for Fuchsia. https://github.com/littlekernel/lk/tree/master/kernel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania

Apparently, there is no consensus as to what triggered this phenomenon. Very interesting mystery.
So far he has averted the one that he removed his blog over, and in response, someone else did one instead. It's like there is a war on truth itself or something. I recommend looking the article up.
Living in a city, we get two bins: trash and commingled recycling. They get picked up once a week. Anything that is not obviously “garbage” goes into recycling. I believe that most but not all of it can be recycled. I have no idea what they actually do with it, or why they do it this way, but the logistics of pickup are dead simple.
The 2019 documentary "Inside Bill's Brain" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCv29JKmHNY) definitely focused a part on how Bill still hates talking about this deposition.

He makes it very clear in that documentary how much he regrets that he wore his disdain for the antitrust suit on his sleeve, as it played directly into the prosecutor's hands.
Kernel will hopefully be ready; user space is another story.
I remember plenty of ads, 20 or 30 years back, showing how they would be able to easily & cheaply break down & reuse plastic (they compared it to un- & re-zipping a zipper). Was that vision / promise simply abandoned, put on hold, or not true in the first place? (I'd put my money on #3, but the idea was cool).
Snowden's reputation is as a barely literate conspiracy theorist who leaked a list of targeted servers to China, a huge trove of documents that didn't say what he apparently thought they said, and a single illegal US data collection program (phone metadata).
Title says "nears deal," not "sold"
Almost all of the banks include it for free at this point on all but the most basic plans.
Isn’t this a case of the expectation creating the outcome. If half the employees bought homes outside commuting distance, what can the company do?

Seems like they’ll be forced to adopt remote first whether they like it or not. No company is going to be able to lay off half its workforce. The labor market for software engineers and most other professionals is still extremely tight. Until it’s otherwise, the workers are essentially in charge, and management will mostly have to accommodate.
Can we please call these bed-Zoom communities? ;)
Agreed. I think those regulations cause so many societal problems, many of which are quite indirect and I am sure many of us don't realize. For example the decline of rural areas would be less of a problem if it would be a real alternative for people to find a better fortune elsewhere, but prices make this impossible unless you are already well off.
I love it. I came to this thread here expecting I will find many different ideas, instead I found: no, impossible, are you crazy, never, it will not fly, heads will explode :D ...

I would really like if I found even attempt of ideas, or even break down of problem to many points ... something along those lines ...
> Since 1967, the second has been defined as exactly "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom

> realisation of the metre is usually delineated (not defined) today in labs as 1579800.762042(33) wavelengths of helium-neon laser light in a vacuum
> can't handle certain cases where a path is retraced in opposite directions

It does ok if there is only a small part that retraces, but you're exactly right.
Now months later I feel like things are starting to grind a bit and productivity is starting to wane because the "pipe" is starting to dry up.

My employer mandated a return to the office about 2 weeks ago. Productivity has declined compared to when we were all WFH for 6 months and I have the stats - pull requests, builds pushed to prod, tickets opened, all are down.
That's what the recruitment theory implies.
I think that's why people go to cafe to read. There's a certain ambiance they've come to expect and appreciate. Maybe what you really need (when it's feasible) is a cafe, or even just a bus with an hourly route you can sit in for a while to get out and appreciate that feeling?
Not really. Plastic is stunningly inexpensive for what it does. That's why it's so ubiquitous. A grocery bag takes a few grams of material at most, and the feedstock is dirt cheap to boot. It's almost impossible to compete with that on a per-unit cost basis if you don't take externialities in to account.

The 'good' news is that the vast majority of plastic waste in the ocean isn't diffuse from around the globe; rather, it is concentrated in a few rivers in asia. The reason for this is that the countries these rivers pass through don't have modern waste collection and landfill infrastructure. It's not exciting to talk about, but this means that helping China, India, and the SE Asian nations build waste management facilities would do more to help the world plastic pollution problem than anything else by orders of magnitude.

(We still need biodegradable plastics. But, much like shale gas being helpful because it decommissions even-worse coal, simple proper waste management will put a huge dent in the problem before the ultimate solution becomes available.)

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Archaeologists with drones discover pre-Columbian earthworks in Kansas
Which camera and mic are you using?
Ask HN: What is a better approach to interviewing?
I want to make the interview experience better for applicants but have no control over the format or time. There is a lot of criticism of the algo centric approach and I'd like to change that within the confines given to me.
Except in the case of a both legislation and enforcement, they spend tens of millions of dollars seeking to avoid it. Often successfully. The former is via lobbying and the latter is the good old "revolving door policy." Ex. Nick Clegg [FB], Jay Carney [Amazon]
Tons of countries want our dollars and flood us with with plastic shit to try to buy those dollars.
My problem with Goodreads isn't the recommendations engine. The recommendations are fine. I'm actually skeptical that any ML recommendation engine is going to recommend better books than my friends will. The only thing I expect from a recommendation engine is discovery, by which I mean finding new things that neither I nor my friends have read that look interesting. Whether they're good is another story altogether...

My problem with Goodreads is actually the site performance. It's one of the most abysmally slow sites I've ever had the displeasure of using. Loading from page to page takes so long, I wonder if they're running on 486 machines in the background. It's unfathomable to me how something that has such a monopoly on the domain can have such terrible performance.

It's so bad, that I often don't even bother going to Goodreads except when my TBR pile empties out, and then I spend as little time as I can (which is a long time because it's OH MY GOD SO SLOW) so I won't have to visit it again for a while.

I wish it was open source, or something, so I could contribute to improve response times...
Yeah, high frequency detail such as facial features for faraway figures or text tend to get washed out after compression - this is probably due to a couple reasons: 1) The training dataset contains relatively few pictures including text, 2) high-frequency detail is too expensive to encode and the model learns to forgo encoding this in favor of more 'important' features such as shapes, colors, etc.
On this note, the notifications are popping off about every 10 minutes for me. It would nice if I could set notifications to only show for "important" emails.

PS - Thanks for the app, it's already an improvement in some ways over the gmail interface... looking forward to even more!
There's an entire research field about Recommender Systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system) with its own conference series (https://recsys.acm.org/).
This animation might help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_integral#/media/File:Line...
I'd be curious to run that too. That was the very last release of macOS I really liked. Everything from that point on went down hill.
I was thinking that the high-end vacation towns of the affluent would be a pretty good investment bet, because even when remote work isn't popular there still is high end demand for vacationers. Think places like Jackson Hole, Aspen, Maui, Nantucket, Newport RI, Hilton Head, Scottsdale, etc... could see places like that retaining their value no matter what happens.
Ok interesting-- after this do

Experian, Equifax, etc

Coal mining and other swine industries that are politically connected and valuable. Of all the bad actors in the world, this seems like a funny prioritization but we live in dumb times

Another self-inflicted wound in our economy
This is what happens when "coders" barely fumble through JavaScript, can barely hack a front-end together, and then self-promote themselves to "full-stack" developers without having a lick of clue on system basics, principles of computer science, application programming, etc.

You know, the stuff people go to school for.
FS2020 was a 3d worldview tech demo that got smashed up with the FSX14 flight code. The 50 pounds of mush got shoved into a 40 pound sausage casing and then shoved out the door.

To think Microsoft had any real planning on this product is wishful thinking.
I live in one (Shelburne Falls, Mass - https://shelburnefalls.com/).

Everything is in walking distance and most of the houses and buildings are 100+ years old (the town is on a river in a bowl of a valley so most of the buildable land ran out 100 years ago). We have a drug store with a soda fountain counter, a nice grocery store and a few nice restaurants and bookstores.

I moved here around 20 years ago after stints of living in Boston and Chicago after college. It has been a great place to raise kids but now that they are in their teens the main downside I'm seeing is the public high school options are sub-par compared to "magnet" schools available in cities. I don't think my kids are as ready for college as they would have been if we would have stayed in Boston. However, if we did want to drop the money there are a lot of world class private schools in the area.

We have been lucky enough to make sure to travel as the kids have grown so they don't become "townies". They have been on trips to England, Spain, France and Italy and many places in the US. We have also hosted two year-long exchange students so they realize there is a wider world out there. In my mind the biggest risk of raising kids in a small town is that they become provincial.
Because you are not independent, cannot work without micromanagment and supervision, and can’t do anything by yourself. Because can I call you for 2 minutes is all you ask for 20 times a day. That’s why.
Are you sure the recycling acceptance rules are broad? In my town, they'd rather not get anything other than #1 or #2 plastics and don't want some other things like boxboard (or pasteboard; cereal boxes and the like) or aluminum foil.
Looking at R&D by inputs alone is a mistake anyway. You could spend billions on attemptint to revive phrenology but that doesn't mean you'll get anything of worth. There are certainly times when it needs more but spending more into it isn't an intrinsic merit. Plus even if you have a fruitful program it doesn't mean it can always be scaled up meaningfully just because there is more money available.

The output of R&D is what justifies it - although great potential may take a lot of time to vindicate. A low ratio would result from a successful matured program which simply cannot expand fast enough to reinvest. Under that metric a program with the top people paid industry leading salaries and pumping out generations of advances would be worse than a lab full of scammers which never produced any applications. That isn't a very useful metric.
From the looks of those machines (size) it looks to be a big business already
What about the simplest explanation - shareholders believe that when people meet in office face-to-face it generates more value.

If WFH produces superior result, it should mean that companies endorsing WFH should be better investments and make more profit.

It is also possible that other factors matter way more, and therefore it is not the thing to focus on.
These issues exist for mail in voting as well. The main difference is how well the average Joe understands computers vs mail. There could be a secure opt-in system for online voting. Heck they could mail out the ballot and let you submit it online.
No way, man. You have to pay like $1.5 mil for a home in Palo Alto and Mountain View. You do all that and you get a glorified suburb. No way. The city is like 400x as city life for like 1.1x the price.
The pinball museum in Alameda is one of my favorite spots! I hope it survives the shutdown, they always seem to be operating on a shoestring budget. Super cool place if anyone hasn't checked it out before, highly recommend!
Almost all the plastic trash I see is due to food takeout.
If we simply were to require that food take out use reusable containers (special bins in public spaces, deliver people transport back to restaurant for home deliver) I think NYC could cut its waste by a huge portion.
The UFO shows that I see on the history channel and the like are completely disheartening to me. The problem is not the people believe in UFOs or that there are shows about them; rather it seems the show is intentionally stroking a specific type of right wing conspiracy theory regarding the fact that the government is hiding information from the public and that the government’s power comes mainly from their exclusive harnessing of alien information and alien technology.

I see it as a direct and logical continuation, in fact even a normalization, of the conservative tendency to disregard research, experts, and complicated logical reasoning. It is much easier to think that aliens gave us the transistor than it is to realize that there are in fact people out there who are very smart and dedicated. The fact that these types of shows are shown on a channel called “the history channel” borders on criminal irresponsibility in my view.
I get the sense that part of the problem with book recs vs. YouTube video recs is that you can evaluate the quality of a video recommendation super quickly (click in, find out like 10 seconds in that you don't care for it, click out).

With books, actioning a recommendation involves

1) getting a copy of the book (digital or physical, both cost money or at minimum the time required to pirate),

2) starting to read it (with the sunken cost of time and/or money + the drive to "give it a chance" both looming over your shoulder, costing you more time),

3) eventually either getting to the end or swallowing your pride and bailing.

I think you'd start to see actually useful systems here if you could even eliminate step 1; make it easy as clicking in from a recommendation directly into reading mode.

Also solves a critical issue for the engine: gauge recommendation quality by how soon people click out of the rec, as opposed to waiting for the user to go through steps 1-3, and care enough to come back and provide a rating. Way more data to work with.

Of course, this all skirts the Actual Problem: the amount of IP law you'd have to trudge through in making enough books this accessible.
I get doubtful looks from friends when I explain to them that the only waste worth sticking in the recycling bin is aluminum and glass.

These articles that have popped up on this topic are hugely useful to refer people to. I don’t enjoy being right, I just want there to be an open understanding of the lies that have led us to this situation so new solutions can be developed.

It might just be that burying it in the ground for the next few hundred years is the best solution, and through laws attempt to curb the explosive growth of plastic use.
Thanks for linking. That was interesting.

I only watched the first little bit, but I could understand how this could play badly for PR, but i'm pretty sympathetic to gates here. Seems like they want to use layman simplified definitions of tech concepts, then catch him up on technical nitty gritty.
I also recently googled a quote, found it in a specific page in a book hosted on https://www.pagebypagebooks.com/, and just impulsively clicked through the whole book because it happened to capture my interest, and only "demanded" that I commit to a single page at a time. Hard to explain, but it felt more natural in that every-page-is-a-URL format to trivially bail at any page, without the weird apprehension I get from the same action in an e-reader / physical book.

The website is super old/limited, but if all books were that trivial to access + click through, I think we'd see something more interesting here. Made me wonder how hard it'd be to convert the entirety of Project Gutenberg into that sort of Web 1.0 format automatically.
It doesn't help when progressive cities like Seattle provide giant recycling bins to houses with no charge for pickup, while charging regressive high prices for small regular garbage bins. It's a huge incentive just to throw excess plastic and foam bits into the recycling - people do not like getting charged another $5 for a one-time extra garbage bag pickup.
> I will call anyone's bluff who says this. Do it. Good luck. If you haven't successfully done this already, there is a reason and you know it.

It's fine. They can force the expensive employee to teach the new cheap person everything they need to know in the few weeks before departure!

/s