skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> from the employer’s viewpoint

This being purely subjective, and especially based on employers’ assessments only, discredits the entire study. And on top of that, these are not normal conditions - people are obviously under way more pressure and in fragile states due to the pandemic.
Thanks for the article. Nice read.
Gamers use their machines for things besides gaming. There are a myriad of reasons to ditch proprietary OSes for Linux software and Proton is making it easier. There might currently only be 1% of sales, but Proton is good enough now where that number is only going to grow.
You mind if we come over to play on your computer?
Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
Adobe Photoshop's 'super resolution' made my jaw hit the floor
The README says it's around 8 billion times slower than Cortex-M0+ (the RP2040's main CPU).

Here's an intro to the instructions that the PIO provide: https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/01/27/a-closer-look-at-ras...
It's kind of weird that they included manufacturing and retail in the mix.
Because it's useful.
AARRR Framework- Metrics That Let Your StartUp Sound Like A Pirate Ship (2017)
But at least my cellphone doesn't track my every movement and my surroundings to enable me to defend against unfounded accusations and deepfakes, it does so to help Google sell ads.
I don't believe Japan is a good example. Having worked for a Japanese company for about 4.5 years I was really wondering how they handle the WFH. Japanese companies are very hierarchical and permanent reviews and monitoring are required in order to reach a decision. I can see WFH not being as efficient as office presence.
Or GNU Shepherd. With Lisp-based configuration, you get all the power of imperative programming with all the transparency of declarative programming.
I think that's a pretty direct way to put it but I really cannot agree more. I have to believe that OP already knows this and that's why they subconsciously made this thread in the first place. Perhaps this can be the gentle nudge to get them to have the uncomfortable realization with themselves that more drastic and potentially messy (but necessary) action is required.
Cool idea and I submitted my site. You've got a minor bug - on a tag page, the submit link goes to /tags/submit.
Neither 0 nor 1 are irrational numbers. So Doom is not necessarily an irrational number.

There is a maximum length of all Doom programs in all languages. Therefore, if I understand your definition correctly, Doom is always finite and hence not irrational. That the length of the set is unknown is irrelevant - we don't know how many books there are in the world, but we know that it is a finite number. Not knowing what fraction represents Doom is very different from saying there is no such fraction.
It's hard for the general public to grasp the difference between a photoshopped image and one generated with ML processes, so I expect both will be called "deep fakes" by the media for the foreseeable future.
Standard EGA didn't support the extended palette for 200 line modes, because it would break backwards compatibility with CGA monitors. Some EGA monitors had a switch to enable it, but software support was very limited.
What is the best deal on a BedInABox Mattress?
AFAIK, a German drivers' license requires 5 substantial tests (4 seasons plus bad weather) ... while one in USA is little more than 10 minutes of "can you not crash into things at low speed".
> Factors affecting adoption and productivity of WFH:

> "The requirements by rules and regulations that some tasks must be conducted in the office": 57.7% (part of a multiple answers question)
Given that in any highly evolved system, the vast majority of mutations are harmful, "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" is a wise principle to follow.
You can read the paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02054
Author here: unified function call syntax is awesome but sadly out of scope for what I was trying to do with this language. I mention this in the "Class-based discoverability" section: for the sake of uniformity and IDE discoverability (arguably Java's killer feature that its successors have diluted), I'd want every value and function to belong to a class, which means every nonlocal method call should come after a dot.
That’s unfortunate. But also probably true.
Seems like a collection of websites that were manually submitted by their creators. Scaruffi has been online for decades, I doubt that person would be interested in submitting to a website directory.
Yes. A thousand times.

At our small company we trialed Jumpshare, CloudApp and a bunch of other stuff for both video and screenshots.

Cleanshot was by far the best, and costs the least. Unlike most tools which are SaaSified and require a monthly subscription, CleanShot still offers a one-off license. It's a steal.

The only one at our company not using Cleanshot is a developer on Linux. I think he's using Flameshot.
Skyrim is a ten year old game. Almost all modern games can be Alt Tabbed in Windows flawlessly.
Oh it's entirely possible.

Space Infrastructure Servicing (SIS) is a spacecraft being developed by Canadian aerospace firm MDA to operate as a small-scale in-space refueling depot for communication satellites in geosynchronous orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Infrastructure_Servicing

and also

OSAM-1 (short for On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1), a robotic spacecraft equipped with the tools, technologies and techniques needed to extend satellites' lifespans - even if they were not designed to be serviced on orbit.

During its mission, the OSAM-1 servicer will rendezvous with, grasp, refuel and relocate a government-owned satellite to extend its life. But OSAM-1's effect will not end there.

The benefits are many. OSAM-1’s capabilities can give satellite operators new ways to manage their fleets more efficiently, and derive more value from their initial investment. These capabilities could even help mitigate the looming problem of orbital debris.

https://nexis.gsfc.nasa.gov/OSAM-1.html
> It's certainly not flawless, but I haven't seen some of these issues you're mentioning.

You previously said for single player it was.

I experience them all the time and I tried different distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro) it has been quite consistent issues over at least the last two years.

I find it very hard to believe you haven't seen any of these issues (especially alt-tabbing). I actually sometimes think people are just straight up lying but I have no hard evidence.

> I'm running a dual-monitor setup off my 1050ti, with my primary display being a 1440p 144hz display. I only have windowing issues on games that already had windowing issues natively (the Fallout and Elder Scrolls games are a particularly large sore thumb), and I have never seen a game spawn on the wrong display. I haven't played Doom Eternal, but Doom (2016) ran at a locked 60hz for me. I could push it higher, but at 1440p I'm already stretching the capabilities of this card. Game streaming, while partially broken (eg. you can't stream an individual display), never had that considerable of a performance impact for me. I streamed Valheim over Discord the other day, and only lost ~3 or 4 FPS overall.

Discord streaming literally halves my framerate and I have a 1080Ti with a Ryzen 3700X. So I just don't believe you. You won't see performance problems with Doom 2016 as even a medicore card back in 2012 can play that game decently (my old 660GTX played the game fine at medium on a i7 from 2014ish).

> Besides that, I understand where you're coming from. The experience isn't flawless, but neither is gaming on Windows. It's ultimately up to you to pick and choose your battles, but the majority of the games I play work relatively well, even compared to Windows.

It isn't flawless on Windows but it doesn't have any of the problems I've mentioned, it is generally very stable and it has worked consistently for year. I have no idea about the so called issues you have. I have a sizable library and I will fire up old games every so often and they work without issue.

However I know how to look after a Windows installation (a lot of people don't and that includes so called tech savvy users). I've played all sorts of games on Windows 10 fine. Games going back to 2002. The main problem I have is the resolution of my screen is soo high the fonts and sprites are tiny.
I wonder if they could try to switch to something like "Fully-assisted Self Driving" to keep the original FSD accronym, if the term ends up being regulated.
The catch is when it's cold out. I'm in a similar situation. ~120 miles one way. My Nissan Leaf gets ~140 miles per charge, and it works fine in the spring/summer/fall.

In the winter I get about 90 miles on full charge, so not only am I stopping to charge, but I have to be at full charge when I leave. Also consider that the only fast charging station on my route is right around 30 miles in, and I'm running "on fumes" every trip.

I know there are cars with bigger batteries that will make it. But I also know they are another ~$10k, which is a significant upcharge.
Solid memory! It was definitely SIMCGA that I had and it worked awesome. Thanks for the nostalgia hit!
> what we need is to explicitly encourage human-scale ownership and development everywhere, through every means available, including zoning reform and tax policy.

People focus on the zoning a lot, but it really is the tax policy.

Look around Vancouver and you'll see little three story walk up apartments all over. They stopped making them in 1993 because the incoming Liberal government adopted an incredible deficit slaying austerity approach which was in vogue at the time. The federal government completely got out of participating in housing at all. Beneficial tax policy that encouraged small apartment development was ended and since '93 pretty much the only thing that was built after was condos.

Effectively the current housing affordability crisis in Canada can be traced back to this early 90s austerity decision. Nothing filled the void left by the government pulling away from housing development.

The relatively much more spendy contemporary Liberal government has made lots of noises about housing investment, but they really haven't done much at all to undo the damage of the '93 Liberals.
It's certainly a new way of thinking about minimum viable cars. Nowadays you sort of expect 200hp from a normal family car, most often closer to 300hp. My car has a 4L that produces 286hp, and it's guzzling fuel. Most of the time is spent in towns and cities going slowly. I could easily move to electric, but sometimes I also need range and cruising speeds of 70-90 mph.
* You have to remember to do that.

* I was thinking return values.

* Also you can't use that style in an enum definition if you want to return a custom enum.
Somewhat weird. From my own experience during the pandemic (two organizations, from lead to manager), productivity has been higher than ever.

I kinda suspected this, as I'd been doing certain work from home earlier – but I was always surprised to hear leadership exclaim their fears about WFH, and their suspicions of both efficiency and productivity.

The worst part is, though, that many are vying for a swift return to a traditional colocated work-place – even though they agree that the current situation works fine (pandemic, and its specifics aside).
I've even heard some say it's different to actually be able to pop up and peek over their employees shoulders, to see "what they're actually doing", even in cases things are going better than planned already...
Isn't it the case everywhere in the world, in the post 2008 crisis world, to have society's prosperity tied directly to the real estate bubble? Most exacerbated in metro areas.

Only the most stupid politicians would want to kill the peoples' prosperity by popping the bubble, wouldn't they?
Excel spreadsheet dropped contact tracing rows leading to 1500 additional deaths
I agree w/ your sentiments here, but it is worth keeping in mind that Simula predates Smalltalk and could be viewed as both the first OO language and the progenitor of what became mainstream OOP.
The math is $1,000,000 is the average price of a house in Toronto[1]. You usually need 20% down for a house at $1M or more[2]. Therefore you need $200,000 downpayment, which at $11K / year is about 18 years, assuming no compounding (which at least today is basically the case currently in Canada with interest rates where they are).

It should be noted though that it is pretty rare to reach $175K salary in the GTA before turning 30 (Average household income in Toronto is sub $100K[3]). Therefore for the majority of people it will take more than 18 years to build up that down-payment, which could be where the number in the article came from.

[1]
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/average-gta-home-price-to-top-1-m....
[2]
https://www.moneysense.ca/spend/real-estate/cmhc-tightens-mo...
[3]
https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/data-research-maps/to...
So it is just a "send the URL with a key in it" scheme? I totally missed that when rooting through the web site.

So regular encryption with insecure key distribution. Dunno what distinction they were trying to make with the end to end claim unless they think all forms of encryption are somehow end to end.
This is super impressive. I could not figure out for a while who exactly was running this project, but it looks like its Microsoft. Great work!
My dad used to say that, FoxPro is the best in MSDos and visual Foxpro killed it and it was so fast in handling large amount of data.
no word of a lie.
You've got the contrapositive there. The claim was that folks who love Rust do not accept criticism of the language. Therefore, a criticism by someone who loves the language was presented, to show that claim was false. Your parent isn't saying that only folks who love Rust can criticize Rust.
>> Toronto was ranked as the 98th most expensive city in the world; not even in the top 50.

So, I'm not going to look into different methodologies that are used, but Toronto is often ranked near the top of least affordable cities.

For example:
http://demographia.com/dhi.pdf
Online Platforms: Economic and Societal Effects [pdf]
Elon may be a visionary, but his disdain for regulations is well documented.
> A man steals my TV from my house, he’s a thief and he stole from me. Observing that he did not also steal my toaster is irrelevant.

A man works as a blacksmith, manufacturing items as demanded by customers and, in every case, exchanging them for cash, which he keeps. Saying his labor is unpaid is false.

Slavery is a legal status, not a salary status.
I hope we just do the rational thing, and rather stop treating video as if its some perfect representation of reality that's inherently trustworthy.

We've had to confront similar issues with other media earlier in history, after all.
Understood. Let's imagine you found such real-world tasks and trying to solve them. You write SQL queries, play around to get dome results but now you need to confirm your solution is right. And given you are playing around on some website that gives you sandbox and interactive SQL tasks — I am not sure there is a way to confirm whether a solution you provided is right or wrong without involving a person (a mentor) to take a look.
I expected it to be a usual "WFH improves efficiency" (without much data) piece, so I'm surprised.

Working from home is different, definitely has its own issues those need to be solved and may not work for all teams/companies/roles and/or all the time. But what occurred to me after actually reading the article is that if WFH is what a lot of people want, it might one of the ways we'll handle the fact that due to increased general productivity a lot of jobs won't have to be 40 hours/week. (Actually, as far as I'm aware, it's already around 35 hours on average in Germany.) So instead of cutting back to 30, you might be able choose to work (mostly) from home at a 70%-ish efficiency.

(Disclaimer: I've spent most of the past 10+ years working remotely. Mostly from home, sometimes from coworking places. Now those were fun and a productivity killer for sure.)
Having driven in both the US and Europe, I think it's also worth pointing out that it's easier to drive and understand the road system in the US. In Europe they occasionally have some bizarre rules and tourists just end up going slowly straight through and hoping for the best. In the US, pretty much any moron can get on the interstate or even drive around Atlanta or a big city like that.
In what way? What kind of constraints are you imagining here?
The monopoly powers Google holds over search have given them such a strong position, that Google is more than reaping benefits. It is in the public's interest to prevent such powers to destroy the 4th column of balance in democracies that journalism should strive to be.

This is not to say that Murdoch's news empire isn't bad as well, but no country should sit back and watch while Google and Facebook siphon money out of the countries.
Yeah, I think many are aware that Japan has a pretty special work culture, especially when it comes to the importance of butts-in-seats.
India shows the world how to take 1.3B people to the bank
Calling it a 51% "attack" is like saying Biden "stole" the election by getting at least 51% of the votes. The whole point of a cryptocurrency is that there is no central authority. Vitalik can provide a vision, but he doesn't, and shouldn't want, to control it. If the compute power disagrees with him, then that's just how it's gonna be.
One more observation. The choice of words in "diversity equity inclusion" is telling. DEI is god in Latin. In good old times, the ruling class had the Church with its inquisition and heresy to control the crowd, when the neutral laws didn't work. Today you can shout "I'm a heretic and I don't believe in god" and nobody would budge, so the ruling class had to invent something else. Not long ago it was the abstract communism and terrorism, but even these two words don't instill fear in masses today. So the ruling class has come up with this DEI - the new awkward god for the masses, and racism being the new heresy. But given how convoluted and laughable this ideology is, I bet it won't stick for even ten years. I'm really curious what will be next.

Someone here has posted a link to the Herman-Chomsky propaganda model. A quote from it: "So I think when we talked about the "fifth filter" we should have brought in all this stuff -- the way artificial fears are created with a dual purpose... partly to get rid of people you don't like but partly to frighten the rest. Because if people are frightened, they will accept authority."
Making the CEO testify costs Google very little.

Could you provide links for this part?

> Or passing disturbing crony-handout legislation like the Australian Parliament did to the clear detriment of specific companies?
Or all the nonsense going on in the EU? Or the political discussions to do as you suggest, breakup Alphabet, by people with the power, though not the moral standing, to do so?

It's vague and confusing.
I really don’t see why this is downvoted as I also thought it was the most interesting part of the parent comment.

My understanding is that ethics courses for students of subjects like computer science are uncommon. Ethics courses for engineering are more common and for law or journalism very common (though the ethics taught for law and journalism is basically opposite).

Towards the end of my degree, some faculty at the university made some attempts to create an ethics course for mathematics students that talked about some issues they might face in industry (popular careers were finance, tech or going to “work for the civil service”)
You might be interested in this news story which goes into the details of how she got caught: https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/03/pa-woman-created-deepf...
For me, I think it depends on the office layout/vibe vs. the home layout/vibe. I feel much more productive at home as I don't have to listen to all the conversations surrounding me and if a manager stopped by they would often feel compelled to say something. Communicating via email is much more deliberate. Also, it seems as though the places I've worked have opted to silo projects and give them to individuals in a way that minimizes collaboration. It's also nice for people that are invited to a number of meetings for things that don't directly affect them to be able to multi-task at those times.

I also think that being watched produces a certain level of anxiety that is counter-productive.
Same old world
I don't blame you, but the "I want the platform the game was developed on" is a pretty terrible line of logic. Persona 5 was developed for the PS3, but the PS3 is the worst way to play it. Same goes for a number of Sony games that have since been ported to Windows and a massive stockpile of Xbox games that are being upgraded and enhanced for more capable hardware. In many ways, Proton is running the platform the game was developed on: you're still installing DirectX and .NET, but on a different operating system with different system calls. I won't hate on a Windows user who's exclusively there for gaming, but you may soon find that your hostility is misplaced.
I agree. I wouldn’t at all be surprised if “civilian” bodycams become the norm in public in the next ten years. It’s just a matter of making them convenient and fashionable enough.
I'd like to see more follow on research in normal times.

Right now, travel is difficult, restaurants are closed, events are nonexistent, etc., etc.

So, yes, people may mostly be working ok (if not great) at home -- but I wonder if that will be the same when the outside world isn't so dire and boring.
Thanks.
I can see the utility of having separate components do their "own" full lifecycle even if I usually do tend to approach it in other ways, it's a valid take and can make sense (although as you said I think it can be done with SQL).

I agree with you on redis-like utilities being better for pure KV stores. If you resort to that sort of thing regularly and want to give another look into postgres you might want to give Elixir a try. It has first class support for postgres with Ecto, and you can use redis-like stores from the language itself, skipping serialization (a note is that, one of the valuable things in redis usually comes from being in a separate instance, many times managed automatically, and so almost being a permanent cache - to have exactly the same properties you would need to dig a bit deeper in Elixir, but still pretty doable with the language building blocks).
> Another advantage is that they don't need to get inspected every other year by the authorities (TÜV) and due to the standard 50ccm two-stroke scooter motor they are really cheap to maintain.

Ouch, these vehicles must be wrecking hell on local air quality.
Here is a great PSA on how to defend yourself against DeepFakes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r-r6lFheKA
Yes, in that case you are 100% right, your parent didn't provide an actual solution.
Allright, but these are numbers are nothing compared to men of all ages dying prematurely and incarnated at way higher rates. There are things called priorities when you want equality.
> making it difficult to clean

If scale == lime then vinegar gets rid of it easily.
Microsoft simply realized what current Open Source really is -> free labor. People will willingly work for free in their own free time using their own hardware on projects of other people or corporations. And they are proud to do that!
Anyone not taking advantage of that must have brain damage.

Original ideas of open source (free as in speech) are long forgotten.
My stove has a power boil option for that. Do you typically use your kettle to boil water for cooking?

I typically don’t even keep track of how long it takes to boil on the stove. I just do the rest of the prep work.
Not yet, but it's a work in progress: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-february-2021/74...
OSS Conquered the World: Insight from Veteran Developers
I think that phenomenon has existed long before the internet, though.