skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do you arrange something like that behind your boss's back if you can only communicate with your colleagues via corporate-approved communication channels?

I'm a Betriebsrat, a Germany-specific "workers council", member at my employer. By law, the company is mandated to provide us with the resources we need (e.g. access to company wide email distribution lists, a private MS Teams channel, private folders on the file servers, a locked office for personal meetings of the council and with staff members) and is prohibited from interfering with all our duties. Any form of censorship or surveillance would be a big no-no which could even land our execs behind bars.
see also: hawaii + spam

(also, spam is surprisingly good. I had it for the first time as a ~40 year old American recently and realized I've let public righteousness / shitty opinions keep me from something good)
It seems like just in time to replenish a consciously sized inventory, rather than just in time to get a bolt on to the assembly line, would be a sensible arrangement.

Sizing of the inventory would be based on how long you've decided you need to operate if all inputs stop. So maybe they "just" need to increase that sizing, rather than effectively relying on the delivering semi trucks for inventory storage.

I drive a semi truck, and sometimes a trip will be designated JIT, with a note that being late may halt production. Quite often these trips are to deliver tires to a distributor, and not, say, to a car builder. And I often think "Really?" Followed by "OK, whatever."
-24C last winter, took 7 minutes for my EV to become too hot to have a jacket on inside.

Also: where are you driving if you're 500km from the nearest outlet?
For a single question survey, 1,000 is a more than sufficiently large survey. Standards are typically for 300+ given random sampling.

Reasons for enlarging samples have less to do with accuracy than with resolution. If you plan on looking at specific cross-tabulations or sub-populations, you need a sufficient sample size (typically n>30 for large-sample statistics) to draw inferences.

Error decreases with the square root of sample size. To halve error you must square the sample. A 1,000-element sample has half the error of a 31-element sample. To halve error again would require a 1,000,000 element sample.

"Would consider" is a fair catch, though here the question is how that compares against previous measures / trend.
How does wfh avoid office politics? I feel like it has only been accentuated and most employees have vastly reduced visibility.
As the old joke goes, Iran will fight America to the last Iraqi…
Foundry Virtual Table Top v0.8.6
> With that standard 8h work 8h personal time 8h sleep. Commute eats up 1/4 of your personal time.

For people who chose to not prioritise living remotely near their workplace.
Not to be pedantic, but he was court martialled for calling his superiors criminally negligent to the media.

The video you linked makes that clear.
I said I was being blunt in the prefix.

I definitely agree that we need to think about people, that was a large component of "you can't swing resources around freely". Firing people is not something that I would like to see. The point I was trying to emphasize is that it isn't as if Mozilla just happened to have X people with design skills and Y people with whatever other skills. There was planning to build the teams and planning to pick the projects. So while I agree that you can't just put people on random projects I wanted to point out that Mozilla had a lot of agency in the decisions that lead up to a team working on the redesign, it didn't happen just because they happened to have a bunch of designers available.
That totally makes sense from a software engineering point of view. The age check was probably implemented as a "verified_age" column somewhere, and they didn't bother backfilling it with your existing google account info.
Don't forget to display one or more books written by company execs!
After having sleep study done and bought an airsense 10 with the latest nasal pillow (very very comfortable, i slept like a log the first day I used it). Initially, I felt somewhat different/better but it was not totally obvious until i slept over at cousin's house without the machine and felt wrecked the next day. I then realised my coffee intake was half of what i usually have and I don't yawn during the day as much!
This seems to be the general consensus for folks like yourself where work is the primary focus in their lives. It's understandable, people are lonely and work is the only social interaction for many. If I didn't have a family and lived alone, I would definitely want to return the office. I'm curious if you're the minority or majority? Most people I talk to never want to return to the office. My company (major corp) basically had a revolt during a company wide all hands meeting. It was so bad that they basically said people will be only required to come in 1 day a week and they can pick the day.
Sadly, this is an expected consequence of the aggressive monetization, telemetry, and other tracking that ships with the OS.

When you make it hard to trust the system, people will look at any component that seems unnecessary. They might not know what it is, but they don't trust it anymore. So it might as well get disabled. You know, to be safe.

But at the end of the day I suppose it's only a small percent of users, isn't it?
I'm sure the aggressive push for automatic updates — replacing the "Cancel" button by "Maybe Later", and the "Maybe Later" by "You have 2 minutes" — has worked miracles.

So I think we can expect more of this in the future, and the scripts will get even more paranoid in response. What an antagonistic situation.
Not sure I can agree. I've bought a new Bosch dishwasher and I am quite pleased with the overall sound level. Maybe except for the obnoxious beeping when it's done :)
I'm doubtful the US would be comfy becoming less productive, when competition abroad is heating up and challenging the US empire. On the contrary, I think Americans will feel challenged and a renewed sense of purpose, versus the last 30y of having no contender to measure itself with. I'm already seeing a bunch of people annectdata-ly getting into covid-inspired ventures, and all the "buy made in USA" people being vindicated by political pressure to develop advanced manufacturing within the US (and aligned countries).

So I think the decrease in daily overhead from the remote-revolution will actually serve an increase in productivity, and not be budgeted toward work-life balance.

I'm saying this and I've been remote for years, and promoting WLB aplenty. But my coldhearted crystal ball hints me that larger forces at play will not primarily favor WLB.
AFAIK the age restriction credit card thing (inside the EU) is the result of some stupid law change (the Audiovisual Media Services Directive). Google probably doesn't want to validate users' age (because selling ads to impressionable kids is very lucrative) but they have to now.
Not to mention that the notion that there's a huge global pool of talented devs is largely a myth. It's true that labor is cheaper in India or Russia, but research confirms that the average engineer is far less competent than their American counterparts.[1]

Software wages in the US are high, because it's very hard to replicate the quality of an American workforce. By and large global differences in wages reflect global differences in workforce quality. It's not like this is the first time companies have realized that global labor is cheaper. They've been trying to capitalize on cheap engineers in developing countries since the 1980s. It's always the same issue. Lower price on paper, but delivery and quality issues that scale far beyond the up front cost savings.

[1]https://www.pnas.org/content/116/14/6732
After the Spanish flu there were no Facebook groups or subreddits to engage in a circle-jerk with thousands of others around the world about how virtuous your continued mask-wearing is.
Nvidia never did that though.
I had the same thought as you re: co-working spaces, but I am frequently on audio and video calls throughout the day and need an office. Co-working space dedicated offices are expensive as hell if your employer isn't paying for them. I haven't really seen a reduction in prices due to the pandemic, either. Has anyone found a good solution?
If you use niche or power user features frequently, then it can feel like almost every single update is reworking or removing a feature you depend on.

Firefox updates are a constant stream of "1% of users use this feature so it's fine to do X to it" but it turns out that a lot of people fall into a lot of those small buckets at once.
What Rennaissance?
Historiographical nihilism tell us that periodization of history serves not objective purpose but rather proselytize specific cultures or philosophies.
Try streaming a call on MacOS... you'll feel a bit off.

40x the energy usage vs Safari. It's atrocious. Laptop gets to silly high temps, has to be bad for battery life... But I'm sure glad we have some new popup confirmation windows. Cool.

EDIT: I use FF on my Mac as my primary browser. Just so frustrated at how little fucks they give about performance and battery usage.
This is very place-dependent. In california where everybody is driving to work, you're probably right. But in many European cities where people would take public transport to work, and instead are heating entire homes all day instead of heating one office for hundreds of staff, the environmental effect of WFH is probably negative.
I think it's very common (I'm in Europe/UK). Things add up extremely quickly to reach ~1h door-to-door between home and office.

Saving that time does make a huge difference, indeed.

It's exactly my case, actually. My commute was just under an hour each way, walk and train, so I have been saving a lot of time and money since WFH. I go for a walk at lunchtime, though, in order to do some exercise but it's much nicer than walking on busy roads to train stations.
Sure. The same logic is true of angels. How can we confidently say that supernatural beings aren't everywhere around us right now? How can you say I'm not a demon here to trick you into denying God's glorious helpers?

The answer to this is that there are infinite possible things that could be true. But until there's decent evidence, nobody is obliged to take it seriously.

Do I think there is alien life somewhere in the universe? The odds seem very good. Do I think that a bunch of them have crossed the galaxies just to spend decades hanging around and fucking with people? I don't in the slightest. The simpler explanation is that primate brains evolved to survive on the African savannas are maybe not perfectly tuned to dealing with a universe 93 billion light-years across. That all of these ever-liminal phenomena share a pretty mundane set of explanations in the evolutionary history of the human cognitive architecture.
What you say is true, however, $1 is a killer feature.

It can replace many IC and will make a very good addition to ESP32 which lacks pins for many projects. And, sometimes you want external chip so output is not affected by ESP32 reboots or freezes.
I had this happen with the old "Ah fuck, I can't believe you've done this" video.

I'm not sure why exactly that has an age restriction, or why I'd give Google some ID to watch a vintage Youtube meme. I presume it's because their ML detected 'fuck' in the audio.

Note to Google: Ah fuck, I can't believe you've done this.
Is this legal? I mean - if I bought the game and suddenly I can't play it anymore, doesn't it affect my customer rights?
> There is a BIG difference between Bigfoot which would be limited to the forested areas of the earth and UFOs which would have the entire universe to inhabit and hide in.

No. Bigfoot, as with UFOs, could exist on other planets. That's not the assertion being made with these recent videos, though. Just like Bigfoot, they're alleged to be here, on Earth.
This is true in the U.S. as well [0]. Some states allow for religious, philosophical, or medical exemptions; these exceptions are similar to the systems implemented in the Netherlands (religious [1]), Australia (philosophical [2]) or Germany (medical [1]).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_policy_in_the_Unit...

[1]: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057/s41271-019-001...

[2]: https://www.sabin.org/sites/sabin.org/files/restricted/Salmo...
Making integrator’s business more successful in the UK
Back between 1990 and 2005, I lived in Austin before moving to north Alabama. My commute when I was working on Redstone Arsenal was exactly an hour each way. I didn't really mind for several reasons.

One of which was that my 6 mile commute in Austin took between 45 minutes to an hour.
AMD's SenseMI is a neural network to predict data fetching. That's quite the opposite of brute force.

They add massive caches as a side effect of having loads of cores enabled by their chipset designs.
Implementation of Live Reverse Debugging in LLDB
I find myself feeling vaguely offended by this response.

These are needs that all previous generations fulfilled through their community, or by meeting strangers. But I have the feeling that (some subset of) current generations find that proposition unacceptably risky. And I guess the offense comes from the idea that we should all be inconvenienced for their sake, and also from how the idea "I can only make friends in a safe space" is presented here and just expected to be believed.
Who are the speech police and who has the authority?
> This is the new elite in a nutshell: extremely privileged but obsessed with their own psychological frailty which they flaunt like it's something to be proud of.

Absolutely this. Middle/upper class America has been doing this for the last decade, and it's left a horrible impression on our youth. I'm not going to teach the next generation of kids to give up so easily.
If anything, I'm collaborating more as a senior than I did as a junior. Junior dev work often means getting a work assignment and working on that by yourself. Senior dev work often means getting together with different stakeholders to work on a design.

(Although obviously those statements aren't absolutes, hence the use of the word "often".)
Isn't this why microservices are a thing? :).

More seriously though, it's part of skilled project management to organize work in such a way that seniors don't need to constantly collaborate to stay in sync.
I really like the idea of just treating numbers as a higher level data type instead of ints, floats, signed, unsigned, or whatever. I wish most high level languages kept floats as an implementation detail, and defaulted to decimals.

Though I don't see a way around it with a Serialization format like JSON that is meant to work across languages.
I've done limited work with static languages, but from what I remember it would be a nightmare to have a variable that could be one of many types. I'm thinking overloading, or interfaces, or something. Could someone familiar with like Go or C#, or whatever explain how they would handle that?

Edit:

Writing that reminded me of something. If you are using a 64-bit unsigned integer, and you need to convert it to JSON for public use, please do not just give a object with a high and low value in hex. If you decide to do this anyway, but also ship an official Python SDK, just do the conversion in the SDK. I'm looking at you F5.

I should have never needed to write this function to read memory usage stats, but it was kind of fun figuring it out.

def ulong64_to_int(ulong64):
high = ulong64.get('high')
low = ulong64.get('low')
return int('{0:032b}{1:032b}'.format(high & 0xffffffff, low & 0xffffffff), 2)
My employer gave everyone the option to continue wfh or return (no effect on compensation). Only 20% of the “mangy dirty coding bots” opted for wfh.
Just as the note from the author says: Never run scripts without reading and understanding what they do.

This is an outdated fork of a configurable script that I use to do initial config of my windows 10 machines. But I've created my own config saying which functions to run and which not to run based on reading what each function actually does. I'm an IT pro, I knew how to do most of these tweaks in windows settings or group policy, but it's still easier to just run a script than to perform hundreds of clicks, especially when the settings get reorganized in every other windows update.

And as this is HN, I expect lots of people here being IT pros, so I would correct you here: Don't run this stuff if you don't understand what it does.
For me, 'old internet' is when individuals hand-crafted sites on the internet for their hobbies and interests, and searching Google actually surfaced those sites. Now, no one makes a website except to try to make money somehow.
I guess you refer to what happened in Denmark? If so, your summary sounds wrong to me. US leveraging Denmark spying infra to spy on other EU states would be more accurate.

I am not saying the Danes were not aware of the risks when they gave the key of the kingdom to the NSA, but still.

Edit: spelling
If you are going to apply 3 angles directly, then you run into problems (specifically, if you pitch +/- 90 degrees, then roll and yaw become the same thing, aka gimbal lock). If you take those 3 angles and convert them to a matrix, and use that matrix to apply the angles, you're all good. You can then even take the new matrix and pull 3 angles out of that.
IMO it's preferable than the macho BS of pretending any and all vulnerability makes you a sissy incapable of ever amounting to much.
I remember when, in college, the pro-shop of my local bowling alley described asymmetric cores and how finger holes in relation to the center of gravity changed ball movement.

It was revelatory. It made me feel like a superman to toss a ball down the lane and see it reliably curve towards the intended target.

To read this was a joy. I'm not sure why all the hate that it's not filled with more diagrams, or the (justified) hate with Wired's paywall strategies. But the human side of engineering was artfully portrayed and engaging.
If I use mouse to navigate webapges, the most used actions would be back/foward stop/reload (it took them maybe a decade to combine this into one action) and the address bar.

Makes sense these actions would be close together, right? So what's the motivation for moving one (address bar) away from the rest?
There are also native Ethernet SSDs that speak NVMeoF. Marvell is a big supporter of that idea since they make Ethernet switch chips but not PCIe switch chips. They make a NVMe/PCIe to Ethernet converter chip that can be used on small interposer boards between drives and the backplane or integrated into the drive itself.
Absolutely, but for one of the largest sites on the web, served by one of the richest companies on the planet, being the one company knowing the most about me (and billions more) compared to other companies, and Youtube being probably one of the most profitable sites on the web too, I do expect better.
Different people and cultures - I don't think it'll stick for all but there are people who enjoy wearing masks. They like hiding behind them, or they feel safe. There are others who use them as a way to gain victim status in society - these are unique present-day phenomenon.
with due respect, what's the issue with a previously used name?
Agreed. Tik Tok users are worth less on average than other social media. It’s going to be both the social media platform and the niche you are in that affects money to be made. The amount of posting also matters.

This is not including the important and elusive count of true influence. The basic ways are usually like/bookmark, repost, replies/comments. An overlap can also be if your posts get referenced outside the social media network a lot too.

Counting a couple thousand followers as categorization is meaningless since they could be barely interacting to really interacting. And at such a small follower count, low interaction could mean someone with a couple hundred followers is more of an influencer in terms of literal influence than someone with 10x followers.
You work so hard explaining to your friends good infosec practice like not just typing their credit card in because some site wants to "verify their age" and then Google and Apple just go and fuck around with stuff like this.

At this point the best advice you can give your friends is "stay the fuck away from computers unless you're willing to sit down and read a bunch of FOSSS manuals."
This time we have a legitimate competitor on the world stage who absolutely swear that masks work and that anyone who denies that is killing their population unnecessarily.

We also have social media now, where people can completely inhabit their own worlds of "truth". I think the parent comment is onto something. Some people really are true believers now.

At this point I doubt they will be dissuaded, as long as there is a Trump-electorate sized rump (~30%) who continue masking. If that dwindles to, say, 10% or 15%, then I could imagine them feeling enough shame to come down off the ledge.
those tab heights will certainly kill me. And it seems I cannot mute tab like I can do it now.

Simply worst design tbh :(
PSA: The average commute for Americans is about 27 minutes each way [1]. If your commute is 2 hours, you're an outlier.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/09/20/650061560/stuck-in-traffic-yo...
Agreed, how did mollycoddling become a virtue? Look, I get that it's fun to commiserate about how stressful life can be, but people today are taking it to a whole new level. Some people are projecting that their lives are balanced on a knife's edge of disaster because of the burden of ... adult responsibilities?

I sense this is coming about because of an cultural emphasis on empathy and validation rather than resilience and mindfulness.
If you consider all the other chores you have to do in a day, saving 2 hours of commute will probably double your free time.
Price will block you again. You pay as much insurance and tax on cars that sit around doing nothing as cars you use every day. You have to drive the extra car a lot more than the average person to make it worth having a second car sitting around for rare trips. Renting is expensive enough that the rare trip has to be very rare before it is worth it.

For most people the oversized SUV that can do anything they need is a more economical choice than a similar SUV and even a "cheap beater" car for most of their driving - and of course most people would demand both cars be expensive nice cars.
Or if everyone's two days is Tuesday and Wednesday. :-)
Most apartments in suburbia (outside metro/city areas) are typically a 3 story building and parking lots that are usually 40 feet or more away from the structure. Most apartments don't have numbered spaces, just general parking. Even numbered spaces are commonly not honored by whomever has guests.

Throw in northern snowy climates where a snow plow clears an entire lot and you really can't have charger stands everywhere. There are a lot of infrastructure problems to solve for renters. Not impossible, but EV everywhere isn't going to happen sooner than we think.
There are legal barriers around regulated activities and tax problems too, at least in my line of work (particularly tax residency of companies/corporate vehicles).

Many of these are temporarily waived by the authorities for the duration of the pandemic but that won't last forever.