skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've been paying rent on their offices the whole time.

If they went permanent WFH they could sell/lease those spaces and probably save billions.

Not to mention the cost all the employees have to endure for traveling to work, wear on vehicles, gas, repairs, collisions, insurance, medical payouts due to car accidents, etc. Plus just generally the externalities of higher carbon emissions.
This website gave me a blackout screen whining about my ad blocker and asking me to donate. But turns out the actual story is from a completely different site. Here's the original: https://www.spoon-tamago.com/2020/10/20/daisugi-japanese-for...

Why is openculture.com whining about my ad block when it's not even their content...
I bet the phone players spend less in-game because their priority would be saving up for a console before buying a ton of v-bucks.

So the role of the phone client may be less as a cash cow directly, but more as an on-ramp to get people into the game on a device they already have, but they don't become spenders until they've graduated off of it.
I said the infrastructure was worth $0. You need to pay for bandwidth no matter where you host your updates. It’s not free from Apple either. It’s just dwarfed by the App Store toll and isn’t split out as an individual cost.

What kind of bandwidth cost do you think there will be for something like an in app purchase of 100 vbucks? It’s $0.0000005 if you do it in a Cloudflare Worker.
It's GAN generated, like thispersondoesnotexist.com. I thought a chemical example was interesting because the relatively narrow range of molecular possibilities makes it possible to imagine compounds that have certain properties even if the means of manufacturing them remains unknown.
There is no doubt that America needs to get much better at rail and other mass transit and that there is a lot to be learned from the rest of the world. The challenge is that America is not Europe in many ways, but particularly in geography. And yet there is a certain condescension that America has to do it like Europe. That is a message that will never be well received delivered in that way.
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Well, if they did, you could never power them down...
A world where most crimes are solved sounds good to me. Do you think we've passed the optimum point where enough crime is solved and we don't want any more because that would make it dystopian?
This article starts of well, but quickly goes south.

> In a typical transaction, no market value is created. If I give you an apple and you give me an orange, the total amount of fruit in the economy remains constant. We can’t create fruit by bartering with it. We can only do so by foraging or cultivating an orchard.

Economics 101 begs to differ. Surprised at the level of economic illiteracy in this article (the author should read up on concepts like consumer surplus, labor markets, comparative advantage, economies of scale), given the interesting riddle it began with.
Virologist Dr. Angela Rasmussen about the ability of the vector virus to replicate

https://mobile.twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1387397186...
New evidence that British workplaces are losing viewpoint diversity
In one contiguous block too. I think you can do it more than once.
What was the motel owner's plan if the $100 didn't come back her way?
Heck, I'm an introvert and I recognize that the increased friction in communication has a significant negative impact.

I'm also a bit put off by the "it's so great not having a commute" people. Commuting does suck, but they voluntarily signed up for it. Meanwhile those that chose tiny apartments near their offices didn't sign up for spending all day in cramped quarters trying to work from a couch.
My statement was mostly about games like Fortnite not every single game.

I see Fortnite as mostly being either played competitively or with friends.

For competitive players you're never going to play out and about or lying in bed.

When you're playing with friends you're not going to be out and about unless it's IRL on your devices (Very unlikely) and lying in bed doesn't really make sense if you want to be on voice chat. You'd rather be on your console/PC with a headset.
I see kids constantly playing games on their phones or tablets. Minecraft is/was huge on mobile.
I see your point. I agree that a sort of word processor with markdown-simple WYSIWYG tools/automation could be very useful.
Learning mustn't require mastery. Learning begins when you open the door.
Can someone build a David Lynch alarm clock? Wakes you up with weather report!
Can someone build a David Lynch alarm clock? Where it wakes you up with the youtube video of lynch giving his morning weather report?
Your company is making up fairy tales to support a narrative.
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Good god is that depressing.

The fact that the cheap, shallow, and manipulative tripe that fills the App Store & Play Store to the brim are pulling so many players and so many dollars is genuinely depressing.
That's interesting!
Did they release any products based on this technology?
> I didn't need the managers to learn git (in the sense of being able to use it) but...

The analogy states they don't need managers to learn the thing, just to have awareness of an alternative thing to the current thing. Implicit is a criticism of managers being didactic in specifying required tools/solutions, too often favoring "our way"/"the old way".
Because Tesla moves to Ethereum hahah

https://twitter.com/Web3Wallet/status/1180114642301009921
These are the first widely deployed adenovirus vector vaccine.

There have been several rounds of trials of adenovirus vectors vaccines, but they never went forward to widespread use.

Viral vector vaccines are a less new concept than mRNA vaccines, so it might be easy to see one as new and the other as traditional, but they're both new.
It looks great on the surface, living in Japan is a different story though. They have it just the way they want it, but it's only through teaching people to be quite subservient and obedient from a young age. There's a lot of unhappiness, loneliness etc.

One thing I'd say about the Japanese is their incredibly resilient, like I've never seen a race of people who can put up with so much rubbish and not even complain at all. While it can be seen as a strength, In my opinion it's actually a problem, there's way too much apathy in Japan and in my view, Japan is going backwards, not forwards. They'll likely need another Meiji to get them out of the death spiral they're in.

All of that being said, I absolutely love Japan and the culture ad the people, it's truly fascinating and ancient and "special", I just think it's a shame it have this view of perfectionof Japan from the outside, but the problems are mostly going unaddressed and nothing changes for the actual people of Japan, who are so kind.
Microsoft Is Changing the Default Office Font
Check out some MVNO's such as Red Pocket Mobile, or US Mobile. If you don't have heavy data usage, plans can be extremely cheap.
Each of these problems is not so difficult to implement with currently available custom roms and scripts.

I believe that using a very popular handheld with a clear rom like Lineage and implementing features like unlock and wipe from freely available open source solutions is much more secure, than trusting a company that only offers such devices, that they have not added a backdoor or a phone home.
All of those will be like a Pacific island in that they're protected by a warlike ally. A truly undefended country would quickly be invaded.
FE web developer is one of a kind and there are good reasons for that. I keep seeing the same responses pop up all the time so I decided to write my thoughts down on why FE web dev is a black swan in software development: https://erock.io/2021/03/27/my-love-letter-to-front-end-web-...
I get the impression that money spent on mobile games is from scamming parents in children's games with dark patterns that lead young children to making in app purchases.

I think looking at the number of folks playing Fortnite on each platform and comparing that gives a better idea of where gamers prefer to play games.
Hmm, not necessarily no. This can be a simple imperfection in the manufacturing process, it happens. There is not necessarily anything very wrong, just deficient QA.

The vaccine is going to work essentially identically to if it wasn't able to replicate. The difference is that you might get an adenovirus infection, which is basically a cold. Still far from perfect, but it is incredibly unlikely to effect efficiency.

This should be a pretty easy fix, actually.
When I'm helping someone debug or just compile something it seems like they very often jump past potentially important information before fully comprehending it. I find I'm constantly saying "wait go back what did the output of that command say" or "wait that error message doesn't make any sense based on what we changed last time, why is it that error?" when they try to just go back to editing the code again. I've used this "comprehension-first" debugging strategy (just made that term up) to successfully debug systems that I am less familiar with compared to the person I'm helping. I'm not sure what to make of this.
I'm not a doctor. I haven't worked in a wet lab. All this is from second hand conversations and anecdotes.

Mice aren't human.

There's lots of ways to cure cancer in mice. it's practically a joke. Mice can tell you a bit about danger - if your treatment kills the mouse, think pretty hard about that treatment on a human. It might kill the human too, but maybe not. Might be ok for the mouse but not the human, like maybe thalidomide.

The impression I get is, if it's ok for mice it _might_ be ok for humans, so it helps avoid a large swath of super dangerous stuff. But doesn't tell you a whole lot about what happens in humans. I'm sure there are things that kill mice that are effective treatments for humans, but both of those edges are outlier-ish. If it kills the mouse it's probably not worth continuing without a good understanding of why it might work in humans.
Anecdotal as everyone else, but what the grandparent describes has been exactly my experience. When we went all-remote last year we were in the later stages of an existing project, and it wasn't much of a problem because everybody had a good understanding of what we had to do. Getting our next project off the ground was much harder due to communication challenges.
If you define essential as "the project will fail if I don't make this trip" then yes, very little business travel is essential. That does not automatically mean it isn't beneficial at all. Employees gain skills by attending conferences and expand their network. Getting distributed teams from different offices together once in a while improves working relationships. Free travel to other countries is sometimes just a perk which helps with employee retention.
> Kaspersky's ties to FSB are an open secret

That was news to me, so I went looking for some context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_bans_and_allegations...
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No republican in history has ever uttered those words.

Republicans argue that government run programs are filled with waste, excess, and decreased output b/c they don't have a profit motive.
That was the case with Soviet manufacturing operations, Chinese farming, and the US Veterans Affairs Hospitals.
The Soviets could never get the right products when they were needed b/c manufacturing decisions where made from a centralized location, not by the people that needed certain goods.
China used to control farming, until one day they had the bright idea to let the farmers control farm output. Chinese farming production has increased by multiples of it's government mandate levels.
The VA Hospital system is the worst healthcare system in US, in terms of quality of car and lead time for an appointment. And the US Government doesn't cover military connected injuries at non-VA Hospitals.
The comment was kind of unnecessary and not complete right but please don't excuse the Soviet government complicity in the massive famines between the revolution and WW2.

The waste majority of famines in pre-Communist Russia were limited in scope in one region before transport was available.

Even the most extreme famine in modern Russian history killed a few 100k of people.

Under the Soviet government many millions died and often in years where there was not actually shortfall in the harvest, but that the government continued to export food during the mass starvation of its citizens.

And lets not ignore what is basically genocide when the Soviet government forced nomads to farm and basically killed large parts of the population.
I agree. It’s very rare that you think “they should be doing it like this” when you’re in Japan. The super fast train ticket machines, the coloured lines in the stations that tell you where to go, the wash basins that drain into the toilet reservoir. How did Germany get the efficiency stereotype and Japan didn’t?
Maybe we could view it is a case study in how to pull this off successfully instead of implying they did something wrong and actively spreading the current atmosphere of blight?
Wouldn’t this mean that editors which have a more “mechanical” means of getting information (like a keyboard shortcut) fare better than ones with a complicated graphical display, as the cognitive load is reduced? In this case, Emacs or Vim might be better than VS Code, despite the learning curve.

I fear a bit of confirmation bias on this one, so correct me if I’m wrong.
This is a modest proposal to replace some Americans (senior managers of Amtrack) with other better future Americans from europe. Then we have a stronger modest proposal "This percolates down to planners and line workers, and I don’t think Americans are ready for a conversation about full workforce replacement at underperforming agencies."

What is missing is the proposal to replace All Americans with better future Americans. Perhaps thats the next post.
People who get a job at Basecamp are not marginalized. They are incredibly privileged both financially and professionally.
I had never heard of "tropical algebra" so I have no idea of its utility here. I'm only commenting on the distinction between learning about something and learning something.

The former enables you to direct your learning towards learning the thing itself when you realize it's applicable (JIT for learning) if that's your role. And if you're in a leadership position it helps you to recognize the insights those you are in charge of are bringing to you and their relative applicability, or to direct them towards a line of work that may be useful. (Of course, there's a level of incompetent awareness that often happens as well, and that's how SAFe shops are born.)
It's a respected journal, but lately it's been publishing research that is of questionable quality for its "top-tier" reputation.
Ethics aside, if we could simulate a whole brain, then we could simulate billions of brains and try all sorts of things, something we wouldn't be able to do with physical humans. At least not without being labelled as mass murderers and turning into a bird.
How large was the bundle at the end? I'm not going to claim that webpack is fast for large applications, but I've never seen a build take longer than 3 minutes and this is for applications where our own source code was at the MB scale.
There is nothing wrong with metrics, the issue is optimizing for them which is what OKRs are trying to do.
As a parent my workday has shifted to be 8 am to 6:30 pm and lots of people complain about that kind of shift, but I see that as a plus.

I used to be out of the house from 7:30 am to ~6:30 pm depending on commute, so it wasn't like that my time anyway. Now I'm working a slightly longer day, because during it I'm taking an hour to make my kids lunch, an hour to interact with them in the afternoon, some random downtime here and there when they pop their heads in, etc.

As schools reopen my plan is to basically just to set my core working hours to the schoolday which is going to be at 8:15 am to 3:30 pm and then I'll log a bit more in the evening if needed. We normally have the kids do some reading before bed to start winding them down and I can easily sit there with my laptop while the kids read. so many of the other parents I've seen struggle are the ones that rigidly stick to 9 to 5 vs a concept of "I should do about ~8 hours of work today". Those are the ones that really seem the most vocal about wanting the office back. Which honestly if that is what they want, that's fine. They can be the office crew and have the commute, pay for childcare, etc. I'm not looking to get back on that grind though.

I do feel bad for parents were both parents are constantly on Zoom. We're lucky in that we were able to rig it so all my meetings at AM meetings and my spouse has PM meeting, so we can have an on call parent most of the time. For families were both parents work sales, this probably sucks. Although I've seen some people in sales do enterprising things like setup little pods of rotating babysitting so they can just not schedule calls during their day to watch all the kids in the pod (do their reports or whatever).

I think going forward two things I'll advocate for at work is flexibility during summer hours and for parents with kids too young to be handed a Redwall novel and told to read quietly for a bit. Both are forms of investing your employees as short term thing for long term benefit since after all eventually the children get older (or you at least end up with a more mature child that can do tier 0 support duties and escalate to mom or dad when needed).
The vaccines delivered to Brazil also have a replication deficient Ad5 vector, Anvisa says that among the vast majority of replication deficient vectors some replication-able viruses were present.

There is pretty much no chance at all that this affects efficacy.
philosopherai.com had a few funny instances of self-censorship, like “who owns the central bank”. A ridiculous side effect of some well-meaning censorship.
People must be reading a different piece than I am. Where does the author say we have to do it like Europe does?!
Correct, and so will municipal broadband be shit.

The right solution is one that encouraged competition, not one that locks in monopolies which is both the current situation and the situation with municipal broadband.
Apple has a few personalized playlists that get updated weekly, I really enjoy them. Seems like in general, Spotify fans think Spotify is superior, AM fans think it's superior. I've tried to use Spotify recently for a couple's subscription and I find the UX worse, but maybe it's just different more than anything.
coincidentally KDE 4 looks very similar to Windows Vista
I actually like it because I was a Windows user back then and I could run KDE 4 on Windows.
You have no good idea about where and how Mayans grew their crops and the notion that those structures were built far away from where they grew and harvested food nothing more than a notion.

The Mayans that live there confirmed my assumption. Go tell them they're wrong
I don't think the iOS-ification is overblown at all. The fact that unsigned apps are met with increased hostility, and increased hoops to jump through to run them, demonstrates this. It's not hard to imagine in the next couple of macos releases that homebrew stops working, or requires grotesque hacks like local building/linking to escape the signing requirements.

Do we honestly think apple is going to reverse course on this? I highly doubt it. Open platforms are not their m.o. for many years. They've let the walled garden around macos have too many cracks and holes, and they're going to recapture those users that have taken advantage.
How do you get to those numbers exactly? You really think Russia and China are choir boys?
My understanding is that whales are generally adults that have been taken in by the extremely addictive mechanics of the games. Like an old lady that dumps her pension into penny slots every day.
This assumes the presence of enough office demand to replace a Google sized company in the markets they lease in. It’s not clear that this is true.

US vacancies are projected to be 19.4% nationally. On top of that, there isn’t exactly another Google-sized employer waiting in the wings over in Mountain View.
Ask HN: What Is a CTO Org?
I just got an email from a recruiter from a large-ish (mkt cap ~$10B) tech company asking me to apply for a Senior position in their “CTO Org”. I’ve never heard of this before. I can kind of guess that it’s some small group that reports to the CTO, but I’m curious what the dynamics are of something like this. Has anyone done something like this before?

FYI, I’m at a (well-known) startup right now, and the largest company I’ve worked for had ~$5B cap.
I don’t want to sound sexist in this case, but shouldn’t some jobs have a non-50-50 skew, simply because of one sex being more fit for it? Like for example, the army might be more skewed towards men because of their larger body sizes, while the medical field might be more women because of their better inter-personal skills, and higher studiousness.
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That logic is flawed, I think. It is fairly easy to see why.

Gyms have been closed for many months, but that doesn't seem to imply that exercising is not important.
Yes, it's entirely possible that this is a manufacturing fuckup, but as Lowe points out in the linked article:

> The response from the Sputnik V camp has not been good. The official Twitter account has accused Anvisa of having “invented fake news” about the vaccine, when what you’d hope to see is more of the good ol’ “We stand by our manufacturing process, but take these concerns seriously and are working with the authorities to resolve this question” sort of thing. But no, it’s all for “political reasons”. Their official statement is no more conciliatory. A tip for the vaccine’s manufacturers: don’t immediately start accusing your critics of bad faith, especially when they are the regulatory authorities. Step up and act like responsible drug developers: address the issues directly, with transparency, and work to find a solution. Throwing fits on Twitter is not the answer.

Update: Here's Gamaleya's official response, which immediately smears the decision as "political" and basically dismisses Anvisa's findings as impossible.

https://sputnikvaccine.com/newsroom/pressreleases/sputnik-v-...
Sharp's appliances in Japan aggressively talks about notification, some tips. and so on.
Check out Beeper (not affiliated): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25848278
You're correct on the facts here as they relate to federal law-- I was reacting to the post's previous mention that firearm manufacture for personal use was 100% unregulated by any existing law. You've since edited it to be much more accurate and my comment isn't necessary.
You wrote: "it’s still worse than my experience of FTTH overseas". Can you be more specific?
> Many people my age see their phone numbers as being more private information that should be given to those you trust

This is a really relevant factoid against the background of the debate over Signal requiring a phone number to communicate with people. It seems the next generation is likely to look elsewhere if that continues.