skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People put up with small NYC (and I'm assuming SF) apartments because there is so much going on in the city you'll hardly be there. If you wanted to get the most bang for your buck out of rent you'd move to Dayton Ohio or some other place where the cost of living is ultra low (for the USA).
That's actually good news. Can we get it as a wagon?
I wrote my own converter a few years ago, then ended up needing it again last week. It’s one of those things you don’t always need but it’s handy to have when you do. https://github.com/baltimore-sun-data/csv2json
In fairness, the basic premise of NATO was that the US would handle military protection of Western Europe in exchange for solidarity on foreign policy, trade, and economic development.

If Nato didn't exist its debatable whether western Europe could maintain their existing level of defense expenditure. The EU would also need to manage increased defense expenditure amongst member nations to avoid an arms race.
We're splitting hairs. I agree with what you're saying, and I think you agree with what I am saying. We're just focusing on a different argument. One thing we completely agree on is this statement:

> so that HMs have more options of who to fire

Totally true, I don't deny that. But that's not the same as hire to fire, in the context of how it's commonly understood and criticized: that the person that was hired will also be the same person who is going to get fired. My point is that while it's unfortunate that someone will get fired, it's not necessarily the same person who was last hired.
Americans Done with 5-Days a Week in Office: What That Means for the Economy
I'm unclear on what \tau_{syn} and \tau_{mem} mean. I assume that syn stands for synapse, and mem stands for memory, but I'm not sure what the \tau is about? Time? I imagine that this would be clear to someone in the field, who would be the target audience for the paper, so this isn't really a criticism.
We do allow society input. They are called laws. A corporation must consider laws and the fines and punishments involved in its metrics.

In Facebook's case, they have repeatably been fined billions of dollars, but the gain more than the fine, so they continue.

There is no abstract principle that needs to be advanced here, just pass laws and set the punishments at a level to discourage them.
Secular religion is an oxymoron. Sure, the secular world is slowly being taken over by "new" belief systems, but it's not necessarily a bad thing. Hell, religion isn't necessarily a bad thing. But anything drastically new is taken as a threat, and it would seem that one aspect of the modern "culture war" phenomena is the perceived threat of these new belief systems encroaching on old belief systems.
What enemies? And what wouldn't they already be aware of?
Today? Nobody. In 2003? Iraq....and shitting on the Iraqi military with overwhelming air power made the ground war 10x easier...demonstrated twice. In less than 10 years, we quite possibly could be in an air war with China over Taiwan. We can't tear down and stand up military hardware like AWS VMs. The lead times for a viable, robust capability are sadly on the order of 2 decades. For China I'd argue it's maybe half of that... Our procurement process is screwed, and I'm not convinced most of it can be chalked up to "modern tech is complex".
What are the rest of the budget items that pass with bipartisan support? Is their salary package one?
"my fear is the biggest cost in the long run is all the single young men come in five days a week, and college-educated women with a 6-year-old and an 8-year-old come in two days a week, and six to seven years down the road there’s a huge difference in promotion rates and you have a diversity crisis"

and a followup I saw someone post:

""I like working from home when everybody is working from home"

is not the same thing as

"I like working from home when some people are working from home and some people are grabbing lunch with the boss",

and I think a lot of us are about to figure that out."
Logical Commander – First platform to detect, reduce and prevent internal risks
Teton county manages to simultaneously have a very low population density, yet feel extremely overcrowded for a few reasons:

1. Only something like 2% of the land in the county is privately owned. Most land is NP or NFS. Also, the super rich have created land trusts in the name of "the environment" to prevent development encroaching on their estates*.

2. We get millions of tourist per year on their way to GTNP & Yellowstone.

3. People from outside communities drive hours to fill a endless supply of "good paying" jobs fueled by the tourist & ultra-rich. At anytime in the local classified, you'll find 4-5 pages of "help wanted" and maybe only 1-3 "for rent" listing
“Propaganda” has a negative valence in 21st century English, but it used to just be a synonym for “PR” or “advertising”. Yes, NASA exists originally and still substantially for US soft power reasons. Who disputes that?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27376496

We can certainly get a lot of work done within CSS's limits

All I really want is a linear model over current layout model. E.g.

...your regular css...

.wrapper:relations {
div.text/left == svg.line.underliner-segment/left + 5px
div.text/baseline == svg.line.underliner-segment/bottom + 2px

#item-a/center-x == #item-b/center-x

#item-d/right >= #item-c/left + 20px

*/right <= $this/right - 10px
*/bottom <= $this/bottom - 10px
}

I don't want play a detective with css properties ever, when there is a proper mathematical model for coordinate relations. Those who are fine with current CSS could then continue to craft wands and potions and everyone'd be happy.
Related 2021jun01: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-01/americans... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27376591)

Quote that stuck with me:

"my fear is the biggest cost in the long run is all the single young men come in five days a week, and college-educated women with a 6-year-old and an 8-year-old come in two days a week, and six to seven years down the road there’s a huge difference in promotion rates and you have a diversity crisis"
CEOs and leadership teams would not mind remote work I believe, at least not as a general rule, given there are benefits to the bottom line, e.g. real estate, other expenses, productivity arguably. What I think is the key concern for leadership teams, is that remote work does not allow for an environment to train the next generation of workers. Most of the experienced people do just fine remotely, but imagine wfh exclusively as a grad. That said, even that concern might be from the perspective of an "old" generation, given young people can probably navigate online collaboration more effectively and therefore adapt to learn the job with less face to face guidance.
People enjoy the cities?
> You can have the most Nukes of any country, but at some point, you have enough nukes to do anything you want, and after that, any nuke you add is a drain on your economy.

If we have enough nukes to do whatever we want (we definitely have more than enough nukes), then it follows that we do not need giant conventional forces, right? We are already invulnerable to invasion/defensive war because of the nukes/geography so what is the point of conventional forces from a defensive standpoint?

This means the F-35 is about offense and conflict escalation - about increasing the reach/power of the American empire. The most cost effective strategy for a nation that is not an empire in this situation would be to drastically downsize conventional forces since we already have a deterrent. Expensive new fighter jets are no longer needed for defense.

So I see the F-35 program not as a counter against the U.S.’s enemies, but as a way to more effectively attack other countries.
Seeing yourself produce more doesn't imply the net impact is positive. Because working from home (using 2020-era tools) greatly reduces social presence [1], which may be undermining team work, creative thinking, etc.

I'm a 100% remote work maximalist, I think in the long run physical offices for creative work will be non-existent. However, the fact is that the tools we have today are about 5-10 years behind where they need to be to be able to replace the social presence benefits of physical co-presence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_presence_theory
> But if you are like many people, and ended up working more hours during the pandemic, [1] then that erases some/all of the gains of not commuting.

Wow. I cut my hours down substantially due to WFH. Pre-COVID I was doing 70+ hrs per week due to commuting into the area during the week and having nothing to do.

Now I put in maybe 40hrs per week, broken up into 1hr chunks here and there and I'm not spending over $1500/month just for a room/expenses in the area where work is.

It's great! I'm not going back to the office, like, ever.
Just a hint - extra attributes in the `mkShell` appear as environment variables in the built shell. So instead of a `shellHook` for this you can just have an attribute `ERL_LIBS="";`

I'm not completely sure but I think this approach is preferred because shellHook only runs in `nix-shell` but if you ever wanted to `nix-build` a release it might not run.
That’s still an hour a day which i could spend cooking a nice dinner instead or working out
I sold a gun on Gunbroker, they have a PayPal button as an option for some inexplicable reason. I wasn’t thinking about terms of service and clicked it. Buyer clicks it on his end, but there was an issue with his dealer and I refunded him, sale fell through. PayPal bans me three months later without saying why.

I explain it was an accident to click the PayPal button and it didn’t go through.

Banned for life :D PayPal can join the rest of the former tech giants anytime.
While I understand that, the conflict that makes this analysis important is based on reasserting a presumption that Twitter and its trends represent organic sentiment or desire. Make no mistake, the entire social media business model is predicated on disinformation (outrage for ad engagement), and the only real problem they are running up against is how to keep doing as much harm they are doing without being regulated out of existence.

Good on them for publishing, but concrete analysis in this case is faint praise, and imo, it's going to look like astroturfed tobacco science in 10 years.
and a followup thought I saw posted on twitter:

"I like working from home when everybody is working from home"

is not the same thing as

"I like working from home when some people are working from home and some people are grabbing lunch with the boss",

and I think a lot of us are about to figure that out.
If you are on the committee you should probably speak up and say something.
So few people focus on junior employees! The junior employees on my team who onboard did in 2019 vs 2020 are much more than 1 year apart in terms of output and performance.
This is what caused me to let me eBay seller account die - they demanded Social Security Number (SSN) to continue selling. Call me crazy but giving my SSN to a company where the C-suite thugs sent live cockroaches to bloggers for negative articles seems like a bad idea.
I take walks if I want that time to think :)
Some here are being honest, so I'll be brutally honest: Covid has upset the master-slave relationship, and they're realizing they're giving up too much control. Yes, even the supposedly forward-thinking, progressive tech world.

It's so much easier to ignore the BS of "company culture," "a new family" and other such nonsense when working remote. Plenty of people here have outright stated they work as a way to fund their lives and they couldn't care less about "the mission," "changing the world" and other similar lies. When WFH you only need to put on a show (and sometimes pants!) when on a video call, then you can relax and get your work done and shut out the BS.
IIRC (correct me if I'm wrong) the other benefit of molten salt cores is that they are self regulating. They stop reacting as the heat rises, and reaction accelerates as temperature decreases. Therefore things like catastrophic meltdowns are not really a huge issue and cooling is much less of a touchy endeavor.

Also, they aren't pressurized like traditional cores are. Therefore if there was a rupture, a bunch of radioactive material doesn't go flying all over the place.

I remember looking into this a number of years ago and I'm excited to see all of the work come to some sort of mainstream fruition.
>However, I don't think one should expect to enjoy all of the benefits of an extremely high performing company (i.e., RSUs of great value, high pay, prestige, etc.) if they approach work in this way.

Why shouldn't I expected all the benefits (RSU/base pay/free food if that's included)? It was all agreed upon when I started the job.
I love when musicians nerd out on gear. This snare drum commissioned by Aphex Twin may interest you: https://stichtinglogos.org/instrum_gwr/snar2.html
Why the UFOs are probably Russian
I spend 150$+ per month on AC and heat because of the pandemic. I spent ~30$ in gas a month commuting. I could even walk if my bike didn't work.

Personally I like the free AC.

Once you optimize your job to be close to your home, many of the benefits of wfh disappear.
You seem to assume totally objective performance management
The whole point of creating Stack Overflow was to not have subscription access like Experts Exchange. Doing that would be suicide for SO.
This approach requires

1. a _huge_ amount of trust and respect for the acquired team to not meddle/interfere, and

2. a huge amount of restraint to not force the acquired team into conforming to whatever standards and norms are present in the acquiring team.

Both of these are exceedingly rare.
Same. We each have a larger glass with dinner, and a smaller glass afterward, and that's the bottle.
Yes, but this is what .net does as well, it is not a reason not to add another one. WASM is lighter and has security model that the previous generations of vm-s do not provide. I don't know if this will be enough, but so far the experiment looks interesting.
That sucks. I wish CUDA didn't rule GPGPU. What was the breakage that hit you?
Intelligence is a precisely defined and precisely measurable notion, so of course we can precisely correlate it with physical measurements [/sarcasm]
> I don't understand how so many people in this thread are saying they spend more on food while working from home. How is this possible?

It's simple. I work at Google, but this answer works for many other companies as well. Prior to COVID I would eat an average of 13 meals per week (and snacks) at the office. Now that I'm eating all of those at home, my grocery bills have shot up.
A new religion with ever shifting rules. What was dogma one day can be blasphemy the next. Older religions were subject to change but usually slowly over generations, giving everyone time to adapt to the new revelation. But this secular religion changes constantly and woe to those who aren't current on the latest changes.
I started using 3D as a lark. I am a long-time on-line editor and VFX compositor and had access to 3D in the various studios I worked when commercial 3D packages became a thing, starting in about 1983 or so. More importantly, I had access to some amazingly good animators, modelers and 3D engineers of whom I could ask questions and who I could watch work (and annoy). They had a lot of downtime to talk because of rendering time. Several of these people are, today, legends in the field.

In 1995 I started my own 3D animation, design and VFX studio. It was a Softimage house on SGI with a DEC Alpha render farm but I had a couple seats of 3D Max as well as Side-Effects Prisms and, later, Houdini.

I have used Cubicomp 3D, Bosch FGS-4000, Vertigo, Wavefront, Alias|Wavefront, Softimage, Prisms, Houdini, Maya and 3D Max packages as well as the Rhino 3D Nurbs modeler and several other long-gone packages including a 3D solids system whose name I cannot recall.

A 3D guru I am not, though. I regularly see stuff today that I just cannot imagine how in the hell was done and the insane skill levels involved in doing it. I will point out one thing that was common among the really good 3D practitioners: most of them are really good musicians in addition to being outstanding fine artists. The character animators generally had a drama background.

Now, I just mostly play around, doing the occasional explainer video/animation pieces and elements, usually having to do with automotive and aviation technologies. My old-ass brain can't keep up any more.
I don't think it would matter much. Someone else would have lead the program, there were never a scarcity of talented Chinese scientists/engineers.
I don't know dude. I understand there are a lot of impressions. For the purpose of furthering curiosity, it was easy to punch in their positions into Google and read their raw, reasonable words. You're welcome to highlight a bad faith argument, in the raw words.
I feel like remote will be a powerful recruitment perk in the coming months. “We can pay you exactly what you’re making at $MEATSPACE, but we can give you full time remote.”

The costs for the company making the offer have already been realized over the past year. There’s high demand for that from candidates, and those companies can keep facilities overhead down while staffing up.

Once the talent poaching begins in earnest, that’s when I bet that we’ll see some of this get walked back.
As noted in the blog post, he's the author of the Shell Namespace code, but not the ZIP code beneath.
Video Game Marketing Strategy: On Waiting to Do It Just Before Release
No, but the why is. It's worthwhile being very careful taking fiction books as a depiction of how peoples minds work, because they're just plainly not - they're a depiction of how a very small subset (authors who publish books) think peoples minds work.
Oh... that explains things. Apologies if I was negative!

Would love to see additional arguments from this talk. Does anyone know the primary source?
I think this is what they're banking on. They're _requiring_ 3 days but are hoping you'll realize it's easier to just give in and come to the office all 5 days.
> Just decide: would you pay a higher price to not get stuff from slaves, or not? Just you personally. I don't care what Americans think. How could you possibly say, "Yes, I'm okay with lower prices enabled by slavery." You wouldn't!

Since you asked: For me personally, it depends. I bought a lab grown diamond for my wife's engagement ring some years back (before they were generally socially acceptable) since we weren't comfortable with diamond mining. I buy free-run eggs even though they're more expensive. We have a community-supported agriculture subscription and we buy Ontario apples when Costco stocks them.

But like the vast majority of westerners, I buy cheap shoes, despite not knowing where they are manufactured, and despite knowing that almost all shoes are made by questionable labor. I even eat chocolate even though it's virtually impossible to get chocolate that doesn't come from child slave labor. I eat all typical meats despite seeing videos of slaughterhouses, of baby chicks being shredded, etc.

Does this answer your question? I think it proves my point: I consider myself knowledgeable on this stuff and it barely affects my purchasing behavior. No one cares. No matter how many videos of slaughterhouses and labor camps you try to shove in my face, I will still eat steak and buy shoes. People want meat, people want gas, people want cheap goods, and people want to ignore all negative externalities. Information is more accessible than ever, and yet like the sibling comment says, there are not a lot of vegans.
> That's fine. You can have your opinions on whatever you want. I still don't think you can read papers from most fields :shrug:.

That wasn't an argument in your original comment. You specifically said that people were not scientifically literate unless they were "experts".

> I don't choose my words that carefully, so this isn't the point you think it is.

One day you will discover that before you are able to make a point you need to learn to choose your words carefully first. Words, like science, have an exact meaning too.

> I said knowledgable as some wiggle room. Don't read too much into it.

Don't worry, I'm not taking you seriously yet, at least not until you define what precisely does "expert" mean. Nevertheless, it's fun to see how far you are willing to go with your comments without admitting your mistake.

> This is an insecurity you have with yourself, creating some weird definition of expert. Like I said, people hate to hear that their opinions don't matter.

Which insecurity? Please be specific about your words here too.

And let's finally check your premises. What's your definition of an "expert"?
I agree on everything except two points:

1) Home is not without distractions, but I think the office had more; it mostly came down to ambient noise and people always moving around in my field of view. Being alone I can focus more. Everybody is different. If you find the office better for focus (for you) I don't debate that.

2) I hate over-the-shoulder code reviews. I don't want me and my coworker's faces to be kissing distance while we both squint at a 14" laptop. I'll take a Zoom call screen sharing on my 34" ultrawide any day.

I absolutely think being there in person is a competitive advantage, especially in the ladder-climbing aspect. We don't work in a purely egalitarian system. There is a game, and you can play it or not play it, but all other things equal you'll get more monetary rewards if you play it.

And my non-Machiavellian viewpoint on it is that I like my coworkers and I think seeing them and conversing with them in person few times a week is good for my mental health. I get more face to face social interaction when I work at least part of the week in the office.