skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the cited source from KPMG: https://home.kpmg/xx/en/home/insights/2021/03/ceo-outlook-pu...
Where did you go to school, if I may ask. This seems like a dream to me, and not relatable at all as a student from India
Dude! This exactly. Think about having to explain that to NASA. Ahh sorry I can't fix this major SEC issue because our developers can't do a release atm. It went over as well as you'd think. I had to pull out our actual contract to be like "Well... we actually have like 8 days to fix this criticality of SEC so..." Then prayed to Al Gore and Linus Torvalds that what ever this dependency was would be resolved before I got my ass handed to me.
This reminds me of seeing a part of the chip from a scanning electron microscope: https://youtu.be/1kQUXpZpLXI?t=169

But I wonder how successful these methods are are extracting keys from a TPM or other hardware keys.
Is it really his fault though? Apple from the beginning pushed the boundaries multiples faster than any other company by asking the engineers to create the impossible, and more often than not they delivered. The butterfly keyboard did work, it just had reliability issues (I loved typing on the butterfly as long as it worked). The problem was that they tried to never take the complaints seriously in the open while secretly trying to fix the design with bandaid after bandaid before finally giving up. That’s the problem, owning up to mistakes (remember the audacity with which Jobs spoke about antenna gate asking the people to hold the phone correct) not the excessive push towards thinness. We reap the benefits of the dogged pursuit by the crazies in the company which just means once in a while they also screw up something.
Bioweapon is not the same as an accidental lab leak of a virus altered to accelerate research.

The latter is highly likely, the former is ludicrous.

Regardless, the CCP were clearly hiding something.
>Mozilla makes their money from Google. Mozilla is "supposed" to use that money to continue its mission, ("We're building a better internet, ensurig the internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all") but when Mitchell Baker takes home $2.4m in salary, there's nobody with skin in the game to say "no, that money should go back to Mozilla so we can use it to build a better internet."

That $2.4 million dollar salary is from 2018, a year when Mozilla made most of it's money from Yahoo. This is relevant as that Yahoo deal saw Mozilla making between 100-250 million dollars more a year than their deals with Google. That is what resulted in the board increasing their pay, and after the following Google deal was far lower many of their executives were forced out.
The best podcasts in my experience are:

1. Those that are tightly written and edited. That is, there is a script (which can then, of course, be posted).

2. Are discussions (lectures, interviews, conversations) about a text (book, article, concept, etc.) which itself can then be referenced for more detail.

3. Are narrations of short stories.

Examples of these would include:

- Numerous history podcasts: The History of Philosophy (Without Any Gaps) by Peter Adamson, History of Rome, History of Byzantium, History of China.

- The New Books Network, a series of author interviews on recently-published academic books. Here you're listening to the author and an (almost always academic) interviewer discussing the topic, effectively as an advertisement for the book. It's a great way to be introduced to deeper material.

- A few deeper / prepared podcasts. WNYC has numerous professionally-scripted podcasts, as do other NPR / public radio / government media affiliates in the US, Canada (Ideas), BBC (Tim Harford, various), and elsewhere. These blur the line between traditional podcast and commercial broadcast, but are quite intelligent and informative.

- Stories or nonfiction narrative. "Selected Shorts", "Soundprints", "This American Life", "Reveal", and others come to mind. Here the idea is to simply be entertained or caught up in the narrative.

- Various interview programmes. I'm fond of Terry Gross's "Fresh Air", the Santa Fe Institute's "Complexity" podcast, and others.

None of these is the proverbial dude/chick (and optionally friends) blabbing incoherently into a mic. All are scripted, most have either transcripts, extensive show notes and references, or both (the fiction / narratives being the exception). For the record, the unorganised / low-content flavour of podcast is one that drives me nuts as well. Sturgeon's Law applies. Seek the non-cruddy end of the spectrum.

For times when I'm read out, or otherwise engaged (kitchen, chores, driving), or want to zone out, these are worth listening to.

For conveying infotech content, I'd generally agree that podcasts aren't the best medium. I also generally stray away from anything that's strongly focussed on news, current events, or current topics, and the list of academic, historical, and philosophical programmes above have been quite the useful informative distraction from the moment for me, for the past several years.
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others" as Churchill supposedly said
So employers get a productivity boost and cost savings if they sacrifice their employee's mental health? I'd love to believe we live in a world where that would stop them.
F-16. F-32. When will we have F-64?
It is hidden in the HTML form sense.

<input name="amount" type="hidden" value="15000">

It doesn't become visible to the user until you click the radio button.
The productivity numbers, unlike inflation, don't compensate for basket shifts. So if people stop putting on low productivity things like plays productivity rises but it isn't real.
My XPS 9550 had two batteries swell and the 2nd time it broke my upper case and trackpad.

I replaced the case, trackpad, and keyboard, but Dell won't sell me a battery and their batteries have DRM so you can't use a 3rd party unit.

My top of the line, i7, 32gb ram, 2gb gpu, 1tb nvme drive laptop is now no better than a paperweight. When plugged into shore power you can't get max CPU or GPU power and it's an annoying mess to deal with so it's just sitting.

I now own an X1 Carbon 7th gen and a 2020 i5 MBP and love them both. I'm traveling more than ever (bought a camper van to get out of the city center) and they are typically more abused than the XPS ever was. No problems at all. Shit, my 8 and 10 year old MBPs are still running after giving them away to friends in need.

I have a thin Anker dongle that has type a ports, ethernet, hdmi, and type c and a couple cheap backups in various bags. It's a small price to pay and all of our devices save the iPhone are type C now so I am slowing moving to one cord for everything.

Anyway...I'll never buy another Dell for the rest of my life. End rant
IMHO they are probably all way more efficient for developers and team leads (Jira has the worst UX I’ve ever worked with) but managers who barely use it will complain it lacks some features.
The lack of concrete evidence wasn't an accident. The CCP deliberately prevented it's collection.
Not looking for an argument, just trying to incorporate some more perspective.
Right. If everyone wants a scapegoat there is a real one that we can all focus on: meat consumption. 1918 flu pandemic probably started on a pig farm. This one at a wet market. We encroach on nature to make more corn and soy for meat, the outcome will be more diseases and death, and that doesn't even include the health issues and dangerous conditions required for cheap meat.

This isn't a theory, unfortunately, but since it requires self reflection it will never be a popular story in the US media. I admit I have seen it discussed in print several times.
Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B
> Are they? Do you have a link? I saw from the New York Times tracker that China has vaccinated 74 million of their own citizens. Are you saying they've sent more vaccines to the rest of the world than the 74 million they've used on their own? If so color me impressed.

12 millon Sinovac doses have been shipped to Chile so far.
Who wouldn't want some fun, safe, math optimizations!

I still don't think it's very descriptive though. Whether or not it's unsafe depends a lot on the domain. In most of my code, I don't care about the sign of zero or floating point associativity and want my compiler to auto convert division to multiplication by reciprocals. Better would be something like -fnon-compliant-float-math or something.

Although I guess -fno-trapping-math is a bit different from the other optimizations which could actually be "unsafe" in a different way, since signaling nans are quite useful for debugging.
Then why have a real fight now? US launches its virtual flights, China, Russia, UK will develop their own. So let future war be of virtual fights! The side which loses a virtual plane pays the cost of the real plane to the other side. And the country which pulls out of this game(once it starts) loses the war! I see the future of war as total virtual affair. No need for Boston Dynamics style robots or expensive military hardware.

This idea is nothing new. In one of the star-trek episodes this was the theme, the only difference there was a real human was sacrificed for each virtual human lost!
Your cited source also shows 10.9% more hours worked and only 0.8% more hourly compensation (and -1.6% real compensation) comparing Q4 2019 to Q4 2020. Does the data show whether people are more productive because they are happier living more flexible lives at home, or because they simply have worse work life balance? Does it show whether these changes are roughly homogenous, or if there are pockets swinging up (down) the mean hours worked (compensation)? What's the variance?

You can levy a dozen counterfactuals at the use of BLS data like this to support permanent WFH. The analysis needs to be way more holistic and BLS figures aren't nuanced enough.
There arent any real study on work place transition, productivity, and overall AVERAGE health of employees had been conducted.

Even on the smallest scale of sample size, I thrived during the work from home year, yet my SO can't wait to get back to office work where they can socialize with coworkers face to face.

Any call for either OR are dramatically overweightted.
If combustion is possible, how are there still combustible fuels?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535224
I can't imagine a situation in which someone dies because I used the term China virus.

Also the CCP definitely cares. Negative PR for a country which is a major exporter is a bad thing for the country.
Sounds like our respective leaders are pitting us all against each other to farm us for the technology that enables our oppression.
Good question! In a simply word, GCC&LLVM compilers are good at traditional RISC-like hardware, namely, IR expected to be load/store/compute/branch, etc. More important is, these compilers do not allow user to add custom IR at will. AI chip operator evoloing rapidly, adding IR means the compiler needs to be overhauled. XOC is multi-level IR compiler, MLIR is not. MLIR open source later than XOC. Moreover, MLIR lack s of powerful optimizations.
I didn't say no public presence.

What I did suggest what's a standard effort well-trodden ground to go out and do the public advocacy and Outreach.

And in terms of the ideas the leadership and all of that, I put that in my first comment. I sincerely hope people can keep the focus on the ideas.

Regarding the rest of your comments, they're valid, and solidarity on ideas is hard.

Software Freedom really matters to me. I'm willing to act with others to advance those ideas. I don't have to like some of the people all that much. Neither does anybody else.

And if we map this stuff onto well known politics, political organizing activities, what we've got here is a fight on our hands.

There's an awful lot of money very interested in letting some of these ideas prevail and the really important ones fall by the wayside or be co-opted.

Looking around at our side, the software freedom side, it looks kind of grim. We've got work to do.

And frankly, if enough of us don't prioritize this, do not value it highly, that work won't get done, these ideas die.

All of that is why I could give two shits who is likable or not. What I want to know is who's behind the ideas, who believes in them, who's willing to do work, and what that means, and how I can help.

And on that note, speaking of leadership, those are the things that need solid answers. Or, again, these ideas die.
Not the parent poster but: Imagine you have an elaborate user flow diagram for a complex workflow. Every state/page a user could find themselves in, the outbound transitions perfectly match all cases of what someone might want to do. Now, these transitions end up quickly becoming stories: "A user in state X should be able to do Y."

And you can bundle those together like "A user should be able to cancel and return to the project screen from any step of the wizard." Alternately, you can separate things by teams like "An API exists to cancel the reservation in progress, releasing the underlying inventory" vs. "A user can cancel the reservation in progress using the API" vs. "Factor out cancel buttons into a UI abstraction" if you want people to be able to pick those up and show progress independently.

But fundamentally all this stems from an underlying plan, that flow chart from which all these stories flow. That plan is the epic. But that plan can't just be a frozen flow chart; it needs to be a living central repository of documentation, ideas, and mockups.

Ideally, you have few enough of these epics that you can maintain things in the tools they're meant to be in: a Clubhouse epic, for instance, could simply link to the top-level Notion table of contents for the planning process for that epic.

But if you're pulled in a billion different directions and have a massive feature surface, having this all in one place, alongside the chat related to that feature, with live references to the ongoing action items, would be incredible. Whether Kitemaker solves it or someone else, there's amazing work still ahead here.
I hate this "elite" framing. The substack writers are media stars with megaphones powerful enough to influence politics and thus our lives. They are rich and powerful, in other words they are elites.

On the other hand, the employees engaged in PC warfare on corporate slack channels, or the social media mobs annoying advertisers, are mostly not the elites. In another framing you would call them populists.
You also make the successful people entitled and failures on the test feel like a second grade person in that IIT system. While meritocracy is a valid thing, expecting that a 16 year old has enough maturity or suck it up ness to ace that test while not having enough opportunity Is bullshit
> At an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on Monday, a single resolution to remove all five passed narrowly [PDF] with 52.7 per cent of the vote on a turnout of 53 per cent of members.

Wow. 53% turnout for something very important and with a limited membership. Why isn't voting compulsory? Vote (or abstain) or lose your membership IMO.

It's sad that most of the domain registries have been overrun by business vultures that aren't even competent enough to grow their core business; selling domains.
While we’re at it we need to remove the stigma of working on this type of software. China and Russia are plowing full speed into this technology with their best engineers. We must encourage our bright engineers to work on this tech.

What will Russia and China donor they come out ahead with AI weapons? Whatever they want.
> "Just 17% of chief executives plan to cut back on offices, down from 69% in the last survey in August."

Really it's up to us to make that our choice and not theirs.
Why are you conflating 'china virus' with violence and racism? China is a country.

>We all know it originated in China and most people now even know the name of China's 9th largest city.

And history should continue to reflect this fact by naming the virus after it's origin instead of this Orwellian tip-toeing around refusing to call a spade a spade.
I'm favorable to keyboards with minimal key travel, and the MBP with its butterfly keys- initially- was amazing. The problem is that after just a few months of regular use some keys started double-activating, or some keys require extra force to activate. And due to the nature of the keys, they were difficult to clean free of regular dust/grime.
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children" - if it's not harming children, who or what is it harming?
any security issues with using browser's inbuilt password manager when compared to dedicated password managers?
They don't call them "on purposes". Intent and context do matter.

On the other hand, if a driver consistently has accidents and people end up dead, it could be that they are a bad driver and shouldn't be in a position to, you know, drive.
Usually when I've seen 19th century homes for sale at premium prices, it's because they're of a desirable architecture in old-money neighborhoods and have been well maintained for their entire existence. I think it might be a bit of a survivorship bias.
New York makes complaint records of 83,000 police officers available to public
Excellent bootlicking.
> z3 is tested on python 2.7

Yikes!
Hint... it didn’t actually “stray”. The computer center was actually a fluorescence detector on Dugway Proving Grounds, they just assumed it would make a good target.
> That's more of a demo and showcase tool rather than a GUI builder.

It is a UI component builder using the principles of atomic design.
Ah, I misunderstood. Yup that's pretty bad then!
back to irc. its not for sale.
I mean, the technology industry (especially FAANG) aren’t exactly known for sacrificing long-term growth for the sake of short-term penny-pinching in the context of employee happiness.

Any company that (pre-COVID) had a proclivity to sacrifice short-term profits by providing free food and other generous onsite perks is probably also a company that might choose to scrap plans to cut back on offices if doing so has a positive impact on their employees’ mental health.
Is there a provable limit to the maximum depth of the tie-breaking bit? Otherwise sounds like a potential DOS vector?
We can police the police by tracking them with data. Complaint records are amazing to have, but we can also find dirty/racist cops with existing data from county public records. It just needs to be scraped and collected.
Redditors and folks at HN started this project, and we are making progress, but it's a big task. With enough volunteers it will be possible to create a database and scraping infrastructure that will enable citizens to truly understand how individual police officers and departments are behaving.
Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/m59o2g/i_think_i_a...
What if it already is? Do you have any reason to believe no one has been working towards this amazingly obvious eventuality?

I suspect if a serious war started one side would just lose, almost as if by accident. I have no reason to believe this.
> remember that black swan events happen once a month in finance, so I think people would be surprised how far OTM they need to go to actually get to a "minimal" risk of them being ITM.

I think you're talking about the wheel strategy. Keep reading this at r/thetagang but I believe the premiums lately have been higher than normal so that's why lots of people suggest this. HN was one of the last places I would see this suggested.
You do realize that in 10 seconds your computer can achieve a lot of stuffs right?
I look forward to discussing that on the 25th when we have more information.

Evidence of this nature will always be difficult, though, since it’s very difficult to prove a negative. We can only prove that some specific issue hasn’t yet occurred.
sounds like the fundamental dilemma in existence, that an individual is a free agent in a prescriptive system. can businesses be free agents? certainly someone is excited about laser missile defense, and certainly the economy of ideas is in play.
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There's some edge cases around the globe.

For example, all new highways in Jakarta are toll roads, operated by a dedicated company.

There are no public parking lots.

https://theinsiderstories.com/indonesias-jasa-marga-to-opera...
It's weird that this is such an unpopular concept to some people

If a child insists you have cooties (the fictitious ones, not lice) do you fight them to the bitter end?

You can never prove definitively that you don't since, of course they're not real, and the child gets to define the criteria for having them "oh you can't see cooties with a microscope, only I can!"

It's not about implying the Wuhan lab did release the vaccine, but it's about realizing chasing a conclusion that is not falsible is never going to give you a scientific conclusion.

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Most of the current lab leak theories revolve around:

> But it’s also possible that SARS-CoV-2 evolved naturally in the wild before it was brought into a lab to be studied, only to subsequently escape.

At the end of the day you're saying the one thing you can freely observe indicates it was not man-made, but due to factors you can never observe (with an extremely closed country with a government structure that strongly discourages a mistake like this ever being properly attributed even if there wasn't immense pressure to not have this come out as the case)

Well when it comes to pinning blame on a country for releasing a virus that leads to a pandemic, "if it quacks like a duck" doesn't pass does it?

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Why not spend energy looking at how we went from a virus shutting down a city in mainland China to 500k deaths in the US and all the mistakes made along the way there rather than chasing the equivalent of saying another kid gave us cooties on purpose...
Utter bollocks. The most galling thing about this is that the more conspiracy theories get spun out the less people are going to hold the global developing world agricultural sector to account and the more likely this is to happen again.
That's why the DDG-1000 guns don't have the ammunition to shoot - the plans were for it to cost in the Excalibur ballpark while the actual price is half the Tomahawk - $800K, so they are thinking about taking the guns completely off the ships.

https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/navy-league...
The US government purchased those. They own those doses and so they are not AstraZenca's to sell.

From your own nytimes link:

>"Last May, the Trump administration pledged up to $1.2 billion to AstraZeneca to finance the development and manufacturing of its vaccine, which it developed with the University of Oxford, and to supply the United States with 300 million doses if it proved effective."

AstraZenca is free to export any vaccine beyond their contractual obligation of those doses. Jane Psaki confirmed as much in her WH press conference on Thursday.
> “Either downsizing has already taken place, or plans have changed as the impact of extended, unplanned, remote working has taken a toll on some employees,” KPMG said.

So...they don't know which it is. Great article, Reuters.
Sadly, never, since Nintendo refuses to give up on the trademark.
I think both are important? Overall strategy and the ability to execute.
Also, it is possible that employees were putting in extra effort so that they won't be one getting laid off in case their company decides to do a layoff. It was a scary environment in the beginning with a layoff being announced almost every day.
Microsoft in talks to acquire Discord for more than $10B
I think it's the classic "help enhance user experience" opt-out (usually prompted when you first open Chrome) that was weirdly not done here.

It's accessible even afterwards on chrome://settings/security
... events that realistically are very unlikely to ever happen, since wars are becoming extinct .. yet we keep pouring money into crap like this