skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it is somewhat true. The point of being in the office is to get work done. You're being paid to do work, and in the past, part of that was a requirement you be in the office some portion of the time. You were in the office _to work_. It's not to say you may not have other things you like about the office, but the reason the company bought an office and requires you to be there is to work.

Which leads to the other side of this. I want my time in the office to be about work. I don't mind socializing some, and I like my coworkers well enough, but we hired them because they were good at their jobs and didn't seem like bad people to be around. Not because I thought they'd be good friends, or have similar hobbies to me. Because of that, given the choice, I'd rather spend social time with the group of friends I have cultivated myself, instead of having my coworkers try to force a connection just because we sit near each other at the office.

I don't go to work to support someone's else's lack of a social life outside of work, and just because I was required by my job to be in the same room as you doesn't mean you can/should expect me to like you as more than someone I work with. There's plenty of coworkers I like and some I'm actually friends with, but also plenty of people who try to use the conditions of our mutual employment to fill in for friendships they didn't develop outside of work.
That is perhaps the least convincing test case you could have chosen to support your argument. (You basically proved you could fetch a content-less page, in part because that was the easiest proof case you could write, but because it didn’t demonstrate anything that an HN reader would come here for, it doesn’t resonate convincingly.)
Plugging in a past question I had related to this [0]:
Given that ECC RAM is not abundant, why don't operating systems have self-checks for RAM? Instead we only tend to have near-post mortem checks with memtest86 and the like.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24642062
It is also easy to port to different languages.
In political economy literature, the Soviet Union is often called a "state capitalist" type of economy rather than communist. It functioned as a giant corporation in global capitalism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism
Offices are in office districts in places like London for a reason: many people will join the job not living near the office, those people will be all over town, and of course the housing prices nearby might not be to their liking (or the neighborhood amenities, for that matter).

An office district allows people to get to the office expediently from homes all over town, or even in the next town over, because all the trains and buses are routes to take people there.

(Other cities in the UK may vary, but how many of them are tech hubs?)
Incidentally I've worked in London for the past few years, in a bank. Every desk in the building is equipped with aeron chair and multiple monitors. Yes every single one in the whole skyscraper (10 000 employees).

That includes multiple floors full of developers. On our floor the entire department had quadruple monitors (24" IPS Dell UltraSharp monitors if you're interested). Allegedly we're privileged because the norm is only 3 monitors for developers, the story goes that when the department was opened almost 20 years ago the head decided that developers would get proper equipment or the department wouldn't be opened.

Back to Dell, many companies are simply procuring equipment from Dell. The most classic display they sell is the Dell UltraSharp 24" IPS display, which is really good and really affordable.

London is the biggest tech hub in Europe with the most tech companies, quite of few of which are very serious about equipment because tech culture. I've not seen a company that didn't have dual displays since I moved here. I can't imagine a company that can't buy a display if you tell them what do buy. I don't want to jump into "just leave your company" because it's a bad HN trope, especially in COVID times, but come on, if your company can't procure a display/chair you can find a better company.
It does not follow, from the claim that belief in supernatural entities is not a defining characteristic of religion, that the rejection of supernatural entities is a religion. You might be able to argue that they are orthogonal issues, but then a lot of religious people would disagree vehemently with you!
SSD: $20 for 128GB on Amazon

SD card: $15.20 for 128GB on Amazon

The price difference is minimal.

But the SSD is much much faster in that price range.
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I think you are building on misunderstanding with assumptions that aren't backed up by anything.

> non-parallelizable part

Which part is that? Synchronization does not have to be expensive. The original paper had a theoretical 'serial' part of a program, but synchronization is different in that it can be very fast and doesn't tie up other resources. For a web server the synchronization is in IO, which is being handled by queues. It doesn't stall cores, processes or threads can put their data in a queue and another core can handle it.

> You can either speed up the parallel code 2x (let's be realistic here and stop this 100x nonsense)

Far from it. If python is translated to C++ directly you would already have a massive speedup (I would guess at least 20x, maybe more). If memory allocations are minimized you get another huge (7x) speedup on top of that. If larger chunks are dealt with at one time you get another huge speedup. I think 100x would be common.

Amdahl's Law is really about diminishing returns when there are significant places that need to be serial. Any emulator can be a good example. There aren't nearly as many scenarios that have to be serial as most people think.
>who I pay $2000 a day

American salaries sound great.
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The RISKS digests are an invaluable resource, though I'd argue moreso for the earlier period, through the mid-to-late 1990s.
Niels Abel: "The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes."
I'm curious as to what if any disagreement there is here.
YMMV; I prefer to work from home;
What setup do you use that replicates it? The ones that I’ve tried are a far cry from markers on a board.
Time to get some personal relationships and health back then. And/or start some new projects in things you find significant, but not necessarily the most profitable. Kind of like the WhatsApp Founder donating to the Signal App and and being involved with it.
After working remote for 6 years now, I miss office a bit.

I don't want to be forced to be there, not even one day a year.

But I want to have the option to be with my co-workers for a couple of days every few months.
There's a small typo on the main page:

>> CorePlus ofers a simple way...
Very interesting concept, system reassembles itself on every boot like from lego blocks. Each installed application package is mounted and connected to the core image. This way the system is refreshed to the defined state on each boot.

I wanted to set up a minimalistic pocket environment on a USB flash stick, but eventually stumbled on the need to re-package some of additional applications.

For example, I needed to add Maxima, yet it was not in their prepackaged repo. Trying to recompile it manually threw some dependency-related errors, well, familiar story...

But the idea is still great, it works well on older boxes. Will probably revisit it at some point.
That's odd: the test claims that my user agent is Go-http-client/1.1, and that there's gzip in HTTP_ACCEPT, after I've followed the redirect trail manually (with s_client(1)), only providing a GET request line and a host.
You should remove those obnoxious share buttons on the left. They look horrible on both desktop and mobile, and on top of that they cover the content in full-width.
Amazon has idiosyncracies, but Aliexpress is outright trash. It's the worst of the West-facing Chinese ecommerce sites (with the worst support too).
I went looking for articles about what personality traits correlate to success. From a 2018 Forbes article, there are 8 'scientifically proven' traits[0]. I surmise that the more of these traits one exhibits, the more likely they will attain 'success', and yes, the article casts it in more nuance than simple financial success:

1. The ability to delay gratification

2. Conscientiousness

3. A belief in free will

4. Being in an open network

5. Childhood adversity

6. Avid reading

7. Past success

8. Grit

If we work backwards and imagine persons who have fewer of these traits, it becomes easier to imagine that they'd also be more likely to have mental disorders of increasing severity. A lack of grit and lack of conscientiousness could be signs of depressive personalities, for example. Or not believing in free will and not having an open network may stem from paranoia.

My takeaway is simply that social programs may want to focus more on proactive measures to address mental health of children in lower socio-economic circumstances.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/briannawiest/2018/04/23/8-trait...
I wish these extensions could integrate with Firefox containers. Work and schools can easily ask people to use new sites which can not avoid and in that case it's best to defer to later day or just not fight with extensions.
> not sure what he was doing at sea in such conditions.

Things can go from 'what a nice cruise' to 'what on earth am I doing here' in about 15 minutes.

I once nearly drowned on IJsselmeer during a rigging test that was supposed to last a half hour and that ended with a severely damaged boat because of a storm that materialized extremely rapidly and out of nowhere.
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Here on Norway ECC ram is absolutely necessary due to cosmic activity?. I remember there used to have lot of problem in software where checksums would fail. Ultimately it was due to ecc issue.
I think you mean that the workplace sounds subpar... or do you think it makes the commenter's work product of poor quality, too?
A computer can guess over 100B passwords per second.Still think yours is secure?
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I think that would be this one:

http://tinycorelinux.net/12.x/aarch64/releases/RPi/

Note how there are ports on this page but it doesn't seem to be updated well. The Raspberry Pi links lead to ARMv6 ("piCore") ports and not AArch64 ("piCore64") ports:

http://tinycorelinux.net/ports.html

I found the first link from their Raspberry Pi forum:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,24384.0.html
Vogels
Main discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25163220 but I'm not sure if there is some new info here.

Note: They only show some increase in the length of the telomeres, that is an indirect indication of age reverse. So "Holy Grail" is overoverhype. It is not reproduced yet.
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I don't ;) ;) ;)
4 years at home and no need to go to any office ;)
Roughly 25% of these disorders are "broadly defined schizophrenia." Should we change that diagnosis so we can blame those suffering for their own failures?

Personally, I'd rather hope and strive to reduce the amount of people suffering from mental disorders rather then redefine them so they aren't "serious." Everyone should be entitled to the "resources and advantages" that prevent illness, not just the rich.
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The biggest factor for me is really simple the benefit of investing in my office.

I can now spend my money on my home office and build it as i like it for me and as long as i can work remote, im getting those benefits directly and i'm no longer bound by a company because of those benefits.

I got myself a standing desk at home with a nice real wood top, which is awesome.

I haave to have a work space at home anyway for taxes, learning/writing, playing games, doing something with pictures etc. Now i have a great home office and a great private 'home office'?

And yes holy shit finally a clean nice bathroom i like going to.
I’ve heard the term Product Engineer used to describe those qualities.
Can Danes comment on the availability of mental health care in Denmark?

A pernicious issue in the US is mental health, even with "good" health care plans, is quite rationed. So US citizens are heavily incentivized to avoid seeking help. In the US, this might exacerbate the effect the Danish study identified.
The forums are live: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/
I don't miss the office at all, and I never want to go back. If management asks us to go back full-time, I will start looking for another job. I'm happier and more productive than ever. I never want to go back to rotting in a cube farm pretending that 1-2 productive hours a day is enough.

1. Cubes, cube pods, and "open offices" are inhumane.

2. I don't have to wear headphones to "hear myself think" anymore.

3. Meetings no longer produce the positive feelings that result from the presence of another human, so there's incentive for everyone to eliminate the pointless meetings.

3a. I can multitask during the truly pointless meetings that haven't yet been eliminated. I can't tell you how much work I've gotten done during "town halls" during the last eight months.

4. No commute.

5. My house is way nicer than my office. I know this isn't the case for everyone. But if you're working as a software engineer, you can afford it. You have to ask yourself why it wasn't a priority before.
I saw that as well. May be the admin just had not updated the home page for decades.
The paper is open access and contains lots of pictures, so at leasts we non-geologists got something nice to look at.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75665-7
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I had a great social life outside of work but due to covid that's also disappeared.

And even then I still miss specifically office socialising. I like knowing my colleagues and having a feeling of we're in this together. I like the random break chats throughout the day and meeting folk from other teams organically. I hate that the majority of my day now is just sitting at a desk alone talking to no one. It's perfectly valid to want socialisation from work, it's not necessarily caused by a poor social life outside of work.
Why is it so hard to explain to employers the value of using 2 displays ?
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It is still not clear if that is a good or a bad thing. It depends on your circumstances
Yeah i stop here, you obviously have no clue since you compare apples to...nothing at all.
Because many companies are run with a mix of cost and profit centers. If you run IT as a cost-center and allow bean-counters to “optimize” things, you can easily get outcomes like that.

Making a computer faster for a worker who isn’t on the critical path and who is almost never waiting on their computer doesn’t make sense. Most of accounting falls into one or both of those tests, so they could rightly decide to optimize for cost. They can then wrongly conclude that they’ve already solved that question universally and apply that solution to devs.

Even a lot of IT employees don’t care or don’t know. Some want to just order something that users won’t revolt over and make the deployment and warranty support a first consideration.
The problem with this is that Forbes almost certainly went into that article with the eight traits they wanted to say are important, and then found articles that can suggest their importance. There are countless other traits that likely have the same or a better correlation to success that Forbes doesn't want to encourage.
I've started zapping the X server on my personal computer when I get up in the morning to keep me from checking things like hackernews too often.

It doesn't take too much separation to break bad habits, but it does take some care to maintain the separation.
It's not an either or. You can have a great social life outside of work and still want and enjoy great relationships with colleagues. Yeah maybe they don't last once you leave, that doesn't mean they're not valuable!
It does cost too much for everyone. Unless you are a starting startup (<$10M in revenue) I bet you could request better hardware for yourself rather than expect it for everyone.

Now that you say this, I wonder what the threshold is for size/revenue of a company that does prioritize computing equipment and accessories. Every public company I have worked for have cared about ergonomics. Below $50M in revenue/100 employees I’ve found it difficult to request certain equipment (sit-stand desk for example)
> Or are you gonna get busy running.

Can you describe what this means in the context of someone who has schizophrenia?
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Hopefully HN is still a place where people who are interested in technology can make predictions. I make an effort never to call anyone names, but to focus on the data. I don't think people who are excited about new nuclear technology are idiots. Obviously, nuclear physicists are smart people. But no one, no matter how intelligent, is immune to hubris.

> capitalism will decide the path forward, and not you (fortunately, imo)

Capitalism is the poster child of hubris, and ultimately a fallible set of human ideas -- but that's a different discussion. However, if that is your metric, then the argument is already over.[1]

> how can you make such a confident assertion about the prospects of nuclear? It boggles the mind.

"But even some proponents of nuclear power doubt the program will spur construction of new commercial reactors as long as natural gas and renewable energy remain relatively cheap. 'New builds can’t compete with renewables,' says Robert Rosner, a physicist at the University of Chicago. 'Certainly not now.'

...

"Ramana [U. of B.C. physicist] questions whether the U.S. nuclear industry can be saved. Although issues of dealing with waste and the public’s apprehension about radioactivity remain, the biggest issue confronting the nuclear industry is the high capital cost of new reactors, which can be $7 billion or more. In deregulated markets, utility companies cannot afford such capital expenses, which is why cheaper renewables may ultimately replace nuclear energy, he says. 'This is a sunset industry,' he says, 'and the sooner you recognize that the better.'[2]

There are competing arguments in the same article, but the argument is between nuclear designs that only exist on paper and wind/solar technology that has already been built and is already providing electricity. If you want to put a shovel in the ground today and have renewable energy in a few months, it's possible with existing solar and wind at prices cheaper than any proposed idea for nuclear.

Of course nuclear physicists want billions of dollars for R&D. Of course they believe they can create the one true design that doesn't have any of the fundamental problems of nuclear technology. But according to those people, even their best efforts won't produce any results for years and years.

To put it into startup language, do you want to build a service using an architecture, language, and set of libraries that have been tested and used for years, or do you want to wait a decade and then start building on the latest holy grail platform that no one has successfully used in production?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

[2] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/us-department-energy...
Put a browser inside a read only virtual machine and have everyone agree to use it. All temp folders can be mapped to RAM. Have the VM use a random VPN each time and never login to anything.

Nearly everyone would have the same fingerprints even down to the browser resolution, root CA lists, installed fonts, etc. The only real difference being the sites you visit.
but that only works up to 10.. my method works for any number, and you could adapt it for x11... see below
Until the day you need to travel...
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So, hospital for bumps and bruises, because they're just as serious as broken bones?
Ah the age old, “I was successful despite setbacks, so literally everyone is capable of the same, just work harder like I did”. I grew up in a very wealthy town and many of my friends shared this opinion - until they volunteered or worked with actually disadvantaged kids. Young Jimmy can’t pull himself up by his bootstraps when dad is in jail and mom works 12 hour shifts at McDonald’s. School feeds him breakfast and lunch.

“Just work a little harder young jimmy, you can be successful despite not eating enough and having little parental guidance for the first 15 years of your life!” I did it just fine!

You see it as a race because you won. Many people are just trying to stay alive, they can’t even conceptualize competing.
Low-traffic schemes benefit everyone, not just better-off, finds study
But you did say that if you're lonely it's because you've not got enough of a social life outside of work. You can have an active social life outside of work and still feel lonely at work due to WFH. That's what you said that was unfair.
I've been bringing my own keyboard and mouse for years. My current employer would buy at least an ergonomic keyboard for those that want it, but they aren't going to drop $200 on my mechanical keyboard for everyone, and I think that's pretty fair.
Not exactly the same use case but there's also `at` for generic one-time scheduling. For example, to send a notification at a specific time you can use:

echo "notify-send 'Tea is ready'" | at 15:30

To view and edit your currently scheduled jobs there are `atq` and `atrm`.
That's great for people living/working with people who have a healthy respect for boundaries, but not everyone has that luxury. Boundary issues are rampant, especially in families.
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You almost certainly went into this comment with a bid against Forbes, so it all evens out.
Is always good to report packaging bugs so then people can fix them, do you have examples of python packages that can be improved?
Is there any database that just defines their own partition type? It always seemed strange to me that databases are so optimized, but still operate on top of the filesystem abstraction.
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>There's plenty of coworkers I like and some I'm actually friends with, but also plenty of people who try to use the conditions of our mutual employment to fill in for friendships they didn't develop outside of work.

That seems an uncharitable way to put it. People only make friends in general by putting themselves out there and making an effort. Is the difference between those two groups merely that the 'actual friends' are the ones who you ended up liking rather than having to pretend to like?
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Strange how Mars had a planetary-round flood but Earth didn't.
Is this before or after taxes?
Ram definitely does flip bits more often than might be intuitively obvious. Most people who have worked at places with a large physical server deployment have stories, and there's row hammer, but I think my favorite is the paper on DNS bitsquatting. You can see the statistics on flipped bits on normal PCs.
I don't want life to be nursery school throughout adulthood.