skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why?

Because of the already sunk cost into office space?

Any other reasons?

I know I can drive 40 min and stare at the same laptop and email/zoom with the same people.

What’s in it for me? All I see is unnecessary agony, and a lot of it.

I produce more from home. Why does an employer want me to suffer more, even if it will cost them? What’s in it for them?
Were you creating flows in Power Automate or something else?
The Making of Four Laps
Very hardware dependent. On a lot of modern OLEDs black pixels can be entirely unlit (versus even just the slightest dark gray shade away from black needs to be lit). A lot of the people usually asking for dark modes that use true black like how those pixels look when unlit (on OLEDs). Depending on lighting conditions, things in true black really do disappear from the screen, and it directly cuts down on the overall amount of light emitted from the screen.
Critical systems should be unreachable from the Internet. Eliminate all external network connections.
That kind of statement is designed to make you think they have good reasons to make the claim, but if they did they would just share the reasons. One past example of a "hacking group believed to have links to the Chinese government" was someone they suspected as a hacker taking an rideshare to a large office building that rented space to a government organization.
“The previous state” circa the era of discussion, was punching in via front panel, IO drivers for my disk, keyboard and 16x64 monochrome/composite display. Being that close to the hardware helped me learn assembler, but I would not want to go back there. I definitely would rather let the Linux crew write my IP stack and WiFi driver. And as far as my recent embedded system efforts, I’m pretty stoked running C#/WinForms on the Pi. But then again, I don’t use the OS for much aside from the UI. I use a custom kernel for running the attached machinery.
So can vaccinated people.
Remember that jokes often struggle to survive translation from one modern language to another, let alone ancient Sumerian to modern English. There is, of course, an XKCD about the additional effect (https://xkcd.com/794/) when you're dealing with a completely different cultural background. It's even possible that joke technology has simply improved in the last couple of millennia; I can't remember where I read it, but I do remember reading a fairly compelling case that the art of fiction-writing has got noticeably better over the last 500 years or so.
We are actually in an age of abundance and by abundance I mean we have a lot of stuff that we can't afford to buy.
It's intersting to see that some people add randomness to fight this, for example with maps in Go. It seems like it's the right choice.
Wouldn't this need to allow upload/download of CSV to really meet the spirit of the title? Or maybe replace the references of CSV with "HTML Table"?
There’s plenty of pointless and counterproductive things we insist our children do that we do not mandate for adults.
In a household with two teenagers one couldn’t go back to school while the other one flat out refused to.

So, 50% of the kids don’t want the socialization.
I wish all the covid vaccine protocols were applied to other diseases we have vaccines for. Measles is a million times more infectious.
Show HN: Advanced CouchDB CLI
Yeah, but only the Java VM is relevant in a web context. WebAssembly is the new applets.
So executives can lord over their kingdom. Why else?
When office shutdowns started happening, everyone waited for the big tech companies to make the call and copied them, just like how everyone followed Google's leetcode and hire model for all SWEs in SV.

I believe Google made the 3 days in office call starting Sept first and places started following suit.
Are you saying that calling Barlow “Fartlow” on Twitter is the equivalent of a mob attempting to murder Jews?

I think Eve Barlow is adult enough to handle a fart joke. If not I’m not sure being a journalist is the easiest career choice for her.
I am tired of this. There will be a lot of batteries once we get EVs. No, you do not need to charge a grid battery to charge your EV, can people please stop with this joke.

The other factor is that grid storage isn't profitable because there is almost zero demand for it. Please wait until it becomes a problem.
signing on adobe software actually hashes the document with a cryptographic key.

this looks more like drawing a image onto a pdf.
Nice, I haven't accepted them, but it would be nice it they stopped asking every time I open the app.
Everyone where I live gets the MMR vaccine in grade school.
Somehow this didn't show up on my radar back then
The thing that does this many times is not having a process that you follow each time. You need to avoid giving dates without following some sort of evaluation process. BTW don't feel alone on this, I had this when I started my first consultancy and went through a few really rough contracts while I fixed it. I have talked to a ton of different people that went through a version of it too, so you aren't alone.

By process I mean you need to define the work at a level of detail sufficient to let you estimate it reasonably accurately. This will also give you a milestone guideline to communicate to the client. And if the client comes back and makes a change, you adjust the date and milestone. I got to the point that unless it was like a simple spelling change, I'd always add 1 day minimum to the schedule.

Lastly you need to add in a factor (multiplier), I used to use 3 different factors complexity, client type and risk. Complexity was project complexity. A marketing website with static content might be a 1. A complex algorithm implemented in a low level language might be a 3 etc. Client Type is all about the client, e.g. small business (new business), medium business, large business, enterprise and then add also in who is the person on their side making final decisions. A super experienced person from a mid-sized company who seemed on the ball might be a 1 (no extra factor), but a new entrepreneur or startup founder might be a 2-3 depending on how I felt they were. Lastly, risk, risk is all about the level of risk you feel this project is to you. A high risk project would get a high multiple, low risk gets a 1.

Using this system I'd literally sometimes have a schedule that the estimate would be 4-6x longer then my gut would've initially said. If things go great then awesome, you deliver early and everyone is happy. But more times then not this saved my butt and we were on-time or slightly early. You handle the objection by telling them you are not the guy that is going to blow smoke up their ass, you are giving them a real schedule that you can keep and you will be aggressively trying to be done early.
NO, King County banned "government use" of facial recognition software.

This is such an annoying trend in media coverage of this issue: every city in the world is happy to restrict THEIR USE of facial recognition. That's a symbolic and small victory. It will always be a symbolic and small victory. Every headline leaves the "government use" part out. Every single time. That's because people who write headlines know what everyone knows: that "government use" is a small slice of the overall problem. The key is that anyone who raises this issue with these headlines will hear from some annoying person chiming in to list out why government use of facial recognition is bad (as though that's the basis for my rub here. It's isn't.) But individual localities making internal rules to stop their own use of facial recognition software isn't solving the big problem. This has been going on for years, and cities banning their own use of facial recognition has had zero effect on any other political entities but other cities seeking easy headlines. It's not solving the societal problems that facial recognition poses. It's not earning the click. Cities should stop distracting from that bigger set of problems with this stuff.
Chills and thrills: why some people love music – and others don’t (2014)
Call me a backwards traditionalist but I prefer to keep social skill development that has worked for millennia.
Your own source doesn't agree. On page 3 it says:

"What you can do:
- Buy foods grown locally
- Avoid purchasing processed foods
- Cut back on meat"

I understand that GHGs are emitted in producing, shipping, refrigerating, and disposing of the wasted food. I am 100% for reducing waste, but we have bigger fish to fry than biodegradable food waste.
AMC Skyrockets in Reality-Defying Rally That’s Feeding on Itself
Great read, and fantastic debugging! Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this bug would have been caught if a CMYK JPEG would've been tested, assuming that an extra component would break the accidental well-orderedness of the stream.
Their pipeline systems weren't connected to the Internet, and did not get compromised. What got compromised was their business billing and customer communications systems - and those do need to be connected to internet, that's their whole point, and they apparently were critical enough to make them shut down the (uncompromised) pipeline anyway.

When Colonial attack happened, there was a person posting who described Colonial's situation from the inside. Colonial shutdown because their system their billing was compromised and their pipleline could have been compromised.

The pipeline was connected two way in hardware but one-way in software. But software can be compromised. Why not one way in hardware? 'cause the company was. Once billing was compromised, they had to assume the pipeline was compromised.

I suggest you read:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27101756

Not connecting is helpful in some cases, but it's nowhere close to a sufficient solution.

Sure, my comment above involves some hyperbole. The main point is that companies allow a ragbag of profligate connections between various subsystems to be default OK because this saves them money now and costs other people money later. And then expect outsourced security to solve this.

I'm sure a lot of the companies hit by the solarwinds exploit had cybersecurity teams. It's just these teams can't say something like "don't allow some shitty third party to autoupdate their software into your system - if you view security as important, as maybe a government agency should."
I’ll note, your second item here is a structure of arrays, which is often higher performance in practice when you are only interested in certain portions of the data.

For this reason, your second structure is how I serialize code I’m interacting with in C.
Depends. We have trained ourselves to be blind to garish pictures top and bottom, or over to the side... But when the top item in the search results column proper is distinguished from the others only by a laconic "sponsored result" label below it, is that perceived as what we usually call "an ad"? I'd say it's pretty reasonable to call that "pay for placement".
My kid also sometimes doesn't want to brush his teeth or eat his broccoli.

Part of childhood is doing things that adults insist is good for you even if you don't want to.
> fixing

I dislike the abuse of this word. Lacking some shorthand notation doesn't make the language "broken".

It reminds me of handling support tickets where clients say "X needs to be urgently fixed" even though X has never been possible. (Should it? Often yes, but it doesn't mean it's broken.)
I dream that one day whoever did that incredible transformation to Blender would do the same to Inkscape and Gimp UIs. In one or two versions it went from the past to the future!
If you need an excuse to eat more chocolate.... I mean collect more data, you could try a swiss-style tournament next time. It will yield more match data for the weaker chocolates.
That's an argument in favor of switching to natural gas yet many countries don't do so. Natural gas also tends to be more expensive than renewables so you can afford to shut the gas plants down when renewables are available. Compare that to coal where the coal plant pushes renewables off the grid because it cannot throttle fast enough.
The promise of universal API is overrated. It has some truth thatthe RPA brings the best bang for buck for mainframe etc., but in local on premise ecosystem the application API especially cross vendor is a hit and miss. The real promise is in the cloud where API becomes a mandate.
What is the socialization phase?
They also don’t want to clean their room.
s/interest/short-term cryptocurrency speculation/
> And there's no reason to need NixOps to maintain a repo of three or four physical machines that you have around your house.

You don't. You can use `nixos-rebuild test --target-host=red --flake .#red`. If you want to build locally, add --build-host=localhost.

NixOps gives you the advantage of not having to repeat yourself, but you could easily whip up a shell script for `rebuild-switch red`.
The time smear (not skew, really) method works very, very well, for almost everything

Here's as pretty good summary:

https://developers.google.com/time/smear
There’s something hyper draconian about a billionaire CEO demanding everyone return to the office so he can see their faces.

Apple execs have enriched themselves by capturing way more profit than regular employees (Apple engineering pay is average/low average).

This is overstepping. Not only will any company that insists on a return to the office lose employees, they’re also loudly signaling their disdain and it’s going to have long term repercussions company and industry wide.
Sure, but those reductions will only be in the jurisdiction with the tax and will be matched by a corresponding increase in other jurisdictions. So if the goal is to migrate emissions to countries like China that don't have the tax, it's easy to do. If the goal is to reduce global emissions, then that's another matter entirely..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
I have always admired blender, since I was 14. Now, in my late 20s. It's just the lack of talent that stops me from using it. But will always admire what it can do, and what Blender does for creatives.
The "market capitalism" solution is to put a price on bad things.
I also don’t live in Brooklyn, but some people do
I’d never heard of Essex girl jokes before. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_girl
"Type 58008 into your calculator. Now turn it upside down!"
You're talking about the performance of a click action. How many clicks a second do your users do? Millions?

Also counters aren't mutable state in the sense of a value changing in time. The "increment" name was chosen so it's intuitive. They're more like the nth-child selectors, where an attribute's value is determined by its position in a list of matching nodes (where the match is determined by the increment being specified in those elements).
The website looks really beautiful on my screen. Probably a question of screen resolution? It is true that many serif typefaces degrade quickly on lower resolution displays.
It's a religion now, and an important part of testing your adherence is going to be seeing whether you're willing to wear a mask all day at work, tell others how important it is, and cluck and shake your head at the unenlightened (anti-maskers) that disagree with you.

I understand this will be perceived as a troll post, but this as absolutely the setup I am seeing.
Factually incorrect - both statements.

Minuscule (if we just take it at face value) is not the same as none. If a kid dies then there is a risk. Plus it depends on what I consider to be high risk. If a kid dies from preventable causes then for me that’s high risk environment.

Kids also spread the disease even we ignore the risk for them. So that means that it’s an increase of the risk for everyone else. Kids also interact with their grandparents in a lot of cultures quite frequently which is the highest risk group.

Mask decrease the probability of spreading or contracting COVID.
I'm chuckling at the idea that you could have possibly misinterpreted that post.

"No, int_19h, he said to NOT use regex to parse HTML!"

int_19h: wạ͈ͣ̿i̘̱͚̝̍̎ṱ̜̙ͯ̏̾̐̃ͮ,̿̑̓̒̇̄ ͈̺̯͙̰ͦ̐̎̂w̜̦̱͇̝͂̐̈́̄ͅh͚̞̯̰͑͑̐̋ͪa̩͕͑̂̒̔t̪̬̱̞̞̹͌̿́̆̑ͮͮ?͕̮͒̊̃͒̊̈

/s
Faction Driverless Electric Vehicles
you seem to be overestimating school both in general and its social aspect.
I think you wanted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27365961
I'm pretty sure Serenity does not support CMYK colors right now, if I understand this snippet correctly :^)

if (context.component_count != 1 && context.component_count != 3) {
dbgln_if(JPG_DEBUG, "{}: Unsupported number of components in SOF: {}!", stream.offset(), context.component_count);
return false;
}
This is the kind of stuff I expected to study in my CS degree
There are quite a few interesting aspects about this project.
I'll try to summarize as I remember.

The reactor uses molten salt to cool the core. Unlike conventional reactors the generated heat is not pumped directly into a heat exchanger to generate steam, but is instead pumped into a storage tank. The same tank can then be accessed from outside the nuclear building, which they claim, allows them to build the whole power station component to industrial standards rather than nuclear power plant standards, which is a cost saving.

The more interesting aspect of the molten salt storage tank is that it is effective a huge battery. It can be used to ramp up the power to meet demand without having to touch the core. This means that such nuclear power plants could work well in conjunction with intermittent energy sources (wind, solar, ...etc) without the need for a gas peaker plant. In the past a big problem with nuclear was that it was an all or nothing option, as people thought it was not compatible with other kinds of energy sources due to its inability to react quickly to meet demand. This is very promising.
It doesn't sound like a request.
Perfectly reasonable given the office space and campus perks to stuff all the time wasting meetings into the 3 days of lowered productivity meatspace time, and crunch real work out on Wed/Fri.
I’m hoping my organization does the same hybrid setup.
I’ve spent enough time and money on my home office setup that it gives a shiny new office building a run for its money.
There is a lot of stuff you can do better in person especially with the secrecy behind everything like in apples case. For Grunt work you are totally right.
Mark my words: Hyrum's Law will strike in full force and introduce a whole new world of pain once more and more software development will be done (or helped-) by machine learning.

What happened here is a perfect example of what an optimiser might come up with and resulting systems will be so brittle and delicate that a whole new form of cargo cult might develop around them :D
implicit differentiation can be complicated and counter-intuitive

for example:

9=y^2+x^2 find y' the answer is NOT 2y

so if you jsut studied calculus, this new rule invalidates what you just learned

I hardly use it even though I do use calculus in some of my work. Usually I just need to get the differential of a single variable of a function of the form w=f(x,y,z) or such. I think implicit notation makes things more confusing.
Perfect location: Wyoming is already the biggest net energy supplier in the country [1] so it has the required grid access, and also the 2nd lowest population density [2], next to Alaska (excluding Jackson which has become a mecca for billionaires for some reason).

[1] https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=WY

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...
There is none! Variance could be arbitrarily high I suppose. In the limit, if you assume a uniform distribution, I don't think that a single sample will give you any information about the underlying distribution characteristics.

However, for the sake of the argument, variance can be arbitrarily high and still provide increasingly lower amounts of Bayesian evidence. As long as the variance is not unbounded (i.e. as long as the distribution is Gaussian, which I think is a reasonable assumption in nature), you can extract _some_ evidence from a single sample.
These are the type of fascinating comments that keep me coming back to HN. Thank you.
I’d rather just go in five days, although I definitely prefer completely remote forever.

For me, it’s about context switching and having a work/non-work routine. Having to wake up at different times, do meals differently, schedule childcare differently through the week is actually harder than just doing the same thing all five days.
Yes it does. Proof of stake networks (Ethereum, Tezos, etc) pay dividends + transaction fees to stakers, decentralized exchanges pay a cut of fees to token holders (with decent P/E ratios), and the list goes on.

This is an out of date view that does not match the current reality.
> Perhaps there's a point at which you become advanced enough to not need [something like] SO.

Not really, no, which is why it's so infuriating when people ruin it with "How do I do X?" "You aren't supposed to do X, here let me tell you how to Y instead.". The HTML/regex Zalgo rant at least had some style, even if it was utterly useless at answering the question.
Sure, but the probability of that happening is much, much lower, to the point of it being not worth protecting against, for the most part.
I work for another company that is going to do a partial return to office. I will be looking at options for companies that offer full in person office (or 90% in person office) after things settle down. I have worked full remote for a total of 5 years of my career, and I believe working in the office is a competitive advantage.

* Overhearing hallway conversations (and joining them) helps spawn invocation.

* I often do/did paired programming, and over-the-shoulder code reviews. These are easier in person

* Having a workforce socially close improves productivity because everyone wants to step up for each other.

* Being seen by my fellow employees helps keep me from becoming distracted.

* Working at the office helps prevent home life from being distracting during work hours.

There are some personal benefits I enjoy from being in the office.

* I save money by spending less on food, drinks, and electricity.

* I enjoy the routine.

* I had a stronger work/life separation. I rarely turned on my work laptop at home.
I think one of the things in the boys' favor is that they had true community. It sounds they they grew up on the same island. Were part of the same community. All went to the same Catholic school. From the mention of "Their days began and ended with song and prayer" along with the Catholic school, it also seems they were all religious.

As much as we on HN like to think that logic and the rational mind is what makes people behave good, many times it is the subconscious ties of shared family, friendship, and faith that that help people pull together in times of crisis.
I remember Trump’s trade war shutting down the first plant in China.

I suppose it took a few years to bounce back?
When it becomes tidally locked, days will be infinitely long. It's far less trippy to think about a tidally locked planet than it is to think about one that is almost tidally locked.
That’s how websites like this one came about actually: “ backwards traditionalist”. Also the internet, ICE, industrial revolution, etc. We just kept doing what worked for millennia.
Apple employees should quit. The market is red hot, I get more recruiter spam then ever, no way I'm putting up with in person work ever again
Serious money. You have a crisis of your own making and you need to "save" all the people who lost their livelihood because you are literally fighting the Black Death, which kills people in small shops but, by miracle, spares them in Costco or Best Buy. And this money needs to be distributed. And you are in charge of the distribution. What's to gain here indeed?