skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think WFH is also primed for abuse, but I haven’t heard anything from companies of what they are going to do, or what employees are going to do, about preventing and avoiding abuse. it’s easy and rather flip and just say well if you don’t do your job you’re going to get fired, what does that mean exactly, and how long would it take? I think there’s also a trust issue, a lot of people who want to return to the office just don’t trust their colleagues to actually do the work from home.
How is it different from just copy-pasting?

It does add some degree of plausible deniability (accidental violation, instead of intentional), but I don't think it would matter much.
They haven't made any public statements on if they're looking at LICENSE or not; I'd sure appreciate it if they did!
Something I noticed while experiencing heatwaves in Netherlands in 2019 and 2020 was how the infrastructure was optimised only for the cold climate.

No air cooler in bus, no fans in houses and office buildings etc., I'm not a civil engineer but I felt as if our house was not breathing out heat so we had to run a standing fan 24X7 for a week.

It was funny to see workers continuously water the tram lines over hundreds of bridges in Amsterdam.
The problem with estimates is that you can only really estimate the best-case scenario - how long it seems like it would take if there were no surprises. If you base your estimate more on past experience ("I've never done this exactly, but I did something similar to this once before and it took a month"), the people demanding the estimates are going to push back and demand you itemize - mostly for the purposes of "negotiating down" your initial estimate. Which, of course, isn't an "estimate" in their mind, it's a rock-solid guarantee.

After 30 years in this profession, I've lost hope that we'll ever get away from the mindset that developing software is a mindless, mechanical, repetitive task rather than a creative endeavor.
"That's one small step for a person, one giant leap for personkind"

Time to rewrite the history books! (1984 anyone?)

"_Man_ borde inte tvinga andra att anpassa sig efter en skrikig minoritet" (_One_ should not force others to conform to a loudmouthed minority)
> I’m honestly perplexed what the FANGs are even thinking in being so aggressive about pushing an end to WFH.

Yes, aggressive measures such as:

-Allowing employees to apply to be permanent remote employees

-Allowing 2 WFH days per week
I work at a FANG (hence the throwaway), and I agree.

Frankly, the COVID-19 pandemic is simply not over yet. Not in the whole world, and not even in the U.S. Especially with news about a new variant, it feels like a safety risk to re-open offices so early.
Exactly. Every person on the planet making a 100% change will only make a minuscule difference down the line. It has to be regulated in that the big companies that make most of the damage can no longer just do whatever they want.
The problem is that companies like Amazon are so big and so rich they are functionally running the country.
I post my code publicly, but with an "all rights reserved" licence. I don't mind everyone reading my code freely, but you can't use it for anything but learning. If I found out they were ingesting my code I would be angry. It's like training your replacement. I don't use GitHub, anyways, but now I'll definitely never even think about it.
> Carmack does not have a Master’s Degree, as listed in the minimum requirements. Other than that, he seems to greatly exceed every other requirement.

In other words: Industry legend ALMOST makes minimum requirements.

I know what you are saying, but it is absolutely crazy to me that they would post a job ad with Minimum Requirements even someone like Carmack doesn't have. Not to mention the "Preferred Requirements".

Maybe they should make their Minimum Requirements more realistic or stop calling them minimum if they are not actually minimum requirements.
BA took it seriously as soon as it was reported. The article suggests it was a coverup culture within the ranks of staff:

> It said drinking was endemic among employees and those who complained were bullied and ostracized for blowing the whistle.

Presently, even a casual mention of a pilot drinking near flight time to airline management will ground them for testing. I imagine it was like that, then, too.
Hello Ethan, yes I remember. What are the chances :) You made me a sample app in node and mongodb IIRC. I'll drop you a message and say hi.
Almost anybody who meets the intersection of all those requirements isn’t checking LinkedIn or other job listings. They’re already employed, or being courted directly by prospective employers.
When does 'something you have' NOT become 'something you know'?
Maybe people enjoy church bells but not the calls from the minaret?
Postal address verification for logistics and delivery
I'm not an ambassador of HN opinion and I didn't set the first goalpost.

But there's no contradiction in asking for a neutral way to include performance in the rankings and then being disappointed when the solution considers only performance of Google's own browser.
Incredibly cynical.

What if we helped minorities, women, and others on the outside meet the qualifications instead of lowering the standards? And yes that also includes rewriting some of the qualifications to be more realistic, I am not discounting that.

This comment is coming off as incendiary, judging by the quick clapback style of response to simply the first clause. I want to emphasis I also believe requirements should be rewritten to be more realistic and pertinent to the job. The solution in my view is to cater to the people who do take job requirements seriously (which to my understanding is the reason why women for example are excluded more) rather than just throw your hands up and say "job requirements are a joke"
> "hybrid" return to office policies where employees have to live within 100 miles of the office and be able to come in 1 day a week or 1 day a month depending on team.

This is where I suspect a lot of places are going to end up in the medium term. I'm not back to the office in the first place, and I'm aware that I have a nice office and moderate commute, but I still want some wfh time, as well as some time seeing my colleagues. A balance.

The problem is that in a hyper-optimizing environment balance is something to be eliminated.
> the parking garage was full of water

The pool never collapsed or lost water. Local pipes bursting from the collapse might do that.

Things like a truck hitting a pylon would also need bad architecture. A water or sewerage leak could undercut a few pylons at once.
No it does not. You wet your shirt with unheated tap water, wring it out, and wear it. Repeat as necessary every 15 minutes to 1 hour in extreme heat, no matter how humid it is.

In high humidity by wearing a shirt doused in tap water you cool down by heating up your t-shirt. This method does not work if water comes out of your tap already hot. This only happens rarely. In dry environments evaporative cooling helps but it is not necessary to be effective.

I recommend using shirts made of elastic breathable material such as under armor shirts for comfort. Cotton tends to stick to your skin extra and feel really nasty.
People write code in their spare time, often without compensation.

Then a big corporation comes in, appropriates it, repackages and sells as a new product.

It's a shameful behaviour.
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Sorry about this Cliff. Hope somebody at Amazon can clear it up. FWIW I bought one of your Klein bottles last year (directly from your website) and it arrived quickly and undamaged.

I'm also moving away from Amazon ordering in general because it takes much too long to sift through all the fake reviews of Chinese-made garbage to find the fake reviews for the Chinese-made good stuff.
In this case we should be able to work less and enjoy the benefits of automation. We just need to live in an economic system where the economic value is captured by the people at large, and not a minority that owns capital.
Supplies, land, labour, demand, location, taxes are some of the things that make it difficult to have a universal construction cost per sq foot.

At a granular level maybe some comparisons are possible.

The original premise of the comment above that because it’s not the same as where I am.. it can’t exist anywhere else is all I was shedding some light on.
Keybase does way more than just the messaging. Fundamentally it's a really cool solution to the digital identity problem. With that solved, they built a lot of useful tools around those identities, ranging from secure messaging to secure file storage and git hosting.
If anything it just seems like legislation to tell Muslims that they are not welcome in Switzerland.

I think it is exactly that and this should be their right.
As a radar engineer, I am not happy about repeating hearsay discussions.

Radar has a range resolution and an angular resolution. Andrej completely omitted this fundamental aspect in his talk.

In my humble opinion, Andrej needs a real Radar engineer in his group before making such a statement in his talk.

Nobody can be smart for all topics, which makes all humble also.
I suspect it's individual managers who've never quite got past "if you can't see someone how do you know they're working?" Never underestimate human irrationality in these things.
But to solve a problem any more complex than 2 + 2 you need to have a model of the world, however simplistic.

For example to count how many bananas are in a box properly, without weird edge cases, you need to know what a banana is and what it looks like and what a box is and what it looks like.
If it's truly not possible to measure these performance metrics in a way that takes non-Google browsers into account then they are bad metrics and I'd prefer something else.
Carmack really should up his game if he wants to be successful in the software development space.
People need to read what the first amendment actually says.

>Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press

NDA isn't a law made by congress, so it's fine.
Because we're living now. It's our descendants who are screwed. Just don't have kids.
A sauna has extremely low humidity. A steam room, on the other hand..
As long as you have a good overall dynamic range. Granted I've only seen the same photos everyone else has, and not the panel in person, but if the photos are to be believed these panels have a better black than any I've seen before.
my linux-like kernel will be MIT license though
Know the effect you intend to create
> a singular event like this.

It's quite a stretch at this point to call these events "singular".
I assume you are living in a time where a perpetual pandemic is something you've considered as becoming a reality[1]. With Covid mutations pushing countries back into lockdown you must see where we are potentially heading. Young people have had their university experience revoked. So many people go to university partly for the education and partly for the social experience. Finding love, new life long friends, and getting an education is what university used to mean to people. This is no more and may never be again. We are living in a time where our old life is being disposed and we don't even know it. I feel like most people think this is just temporary, well it's been almost a year and a half and we are still here. Life won't go back to how it was, ever. Too many paradigms have changed, and we have band aids for Covid that are just about keeping our hopes up. This hope will wane and we'll be work ourselves through to the final stages of grief as we accept our new lives in semi-isolation.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/1c7266b1-1fad-458e-8585-12dc3164f...
https://nationalpost.com/news/postpandemic/its-only-the-end-...
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/13/moderna-ceo-says-the-world-w...
https://www.businessinsider.com/when-will-the-pandemic-end-d...
> I’m honestly perplexed what the FANGs are even thinking in being so aggressive about pushing an end to WFH.

A lot of people want to work for FAANG. If a current employee resigns because of WFH policies, those companies can likely find a replacement who is more receptive to returning to the office.
For hobbysists? Likely not much, other than familiarity with an industry standard renderer (though not as popular as it once was).

For professionals, you get quite a few things but speed optimizations (resolves faster in my experience), render quality (usually fewer fireflies in my experience) and some more advanced transmission models to name just a few.
10% of people leaving during a time when hiring has gotten significantly harder sounds like a serious problem for any company.
They look like propaganda posters from after WWII.
If you're going to add Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, you should add TAOCP as well.
You are right that this won't happen by itself. We need another economic system, and not just hope that this time things will magically fix themselves.
That's the secret though, isn't it? The more likely you are to know all the steps the more likely you're going to make an accurate estimate. The catch there though is that if you know how you're going to do everything, you're already at least halfway through development.
It's worth remembering it's also an unfolding situation, and what I mean to say by that is if you think a 65c peak is unlikely then unfortunately there's no-one you can ask that can give you a totally verified answer. Even still only 5c above current peaks in some places puts us at 55c which is pretty bloody spicy. At that temperature you need to be actively protecting yourself, even a healthy adult might not survive a wave without some kind of proactive protection.

Given that I live in a very hot climate, which already hits 45-50c each year, I'm sitting in the "Better safe than sorry" camp and I am thinking about precautions I can take to make sure me and my family stay healthy long term. One of the longer term thoughts is making sure it's possible to move if it looks like the climate will become particularly challenging.
Works this way in TX too. Better yet, just go grab the mail and you'll be set. :D
I wonder if you could use an inkjet printer, photoresist or something similar to print holograms like that.
I'm not sure about emacs, but I don't think there is anything wrong with teaching vim to new programmers. I learned it along with Java in my first programming course. I think it should be presented as an option along with other editors, though.
I fail to see why the simple construction of a minaret harms anyone any more than say a steeple of a church of a different denomination.

Minarets do not build themselves. There would be very possibly some money and influence involved from countries that do not share Swiss people values.
I mean, if the poll was on the monster website it makes perfect sense. People are only going there to post or apply to jobs. 5% posting and 95% applying sounds about right to me.
4 million people in Houston would beg to differ.

I’m sure there are many other places as well.
> I'm happy to see one of the replies calls it sex discrimination.

I'm not seeing this reply. In what sense is it discriminatory?
Interesting question! I can "hear" the Star Wars theme, and the brass and strings or whatever it is that makes that iconic sound, but it's not the same as the real thing. I think the best way to describe it is that the music and images in my head are both experienced with the same level of clarity as my inner-monologue. My inner-monologue doesn't sound like a real voice in the room with me. As in, there's no way to confuse it with real sound. But it has the same tone and feel as my own voice, just as the music in my head has the same tone and feel as the real music.

This is where I think the difference in description is happening between myself and others. I've experienced both visual and auditory hallucinations before. These are indistinguishable from real images and sounds. When I picture things, play music, or talk out-loud in my own head, it's not the same as reality. It's a different type of seeing and hearing. Some people seem to imply that their imagination capabilities are on the same level as hallucinations. They say they can picture things with picture-perfect clarity, right there in the same room with them. I even had one artist say he could overlay an image on a piece of paper with his mind and then trace over it.

I have another test I'd like to ask these people: is it possible to picture a black square that sits in front of your eyes and obscures your whole vision? If not, why not?
The existence of a LICENSE file is neither necessary nor sufficient to determine the terms that apply to a given work.
Where does it get 95° F and 80% humidity in the southeastern US? I grew up in Miami, and it was rare to have a day above 90° F in the summer, but the humidity made it unbearable.

I can’t even imagine how hot it would have felt at 95° F or higher with the same humidity—I wouldn’t be surprised if it was deadly.
I don’t think most of us are scared enough of being “tainted” by the sight of a GPL snippet that we’d bother. Besides, if you want to target a specific snippet so you can type the start to prime the recognition - you already saw it?

Why not just copy it and then edit it? If a snippet is changed both logically and syntactically to not resemble the original, then it’s no longer the original and you aren’t in any licensing trouble. There is no meaningful difference between that manual washing and a clean room implementation.
All the ML changes here is the accidental vs deliberate. But it will be a worse wash than your manual one.
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Our collective global response to climate change is going to be the same as our collective global response to COVID-19: wealthy people will help themselves and leave the rest of us to die in the lurch. I've lost hope in our species to solve global problems, we're just too selfish to survive.
This is primarily so people can learn the renderer in their free time and for educational use. It's akin to what used to be called the Personal Learning Editions in the industry.
Iconic Apple iSight webcam design makes return in new 4K Dell UltraSharp camera
I'd like to follow your blog, but I don't see an RSS feed link. Will you consider adding one?
In "theory" yes, as measured at scale. Whether or not such correlations really hold is up to a) your data science group, and b) the complex and political negotiation of optics by stakeholders.

I'm sort of kidding here, as I find your point sensible, but it may be a tough sell that demand is inelastic.
One interesting aspect, that I thing will make it difficult for GitHub to argue and justify its not a a license violation
would be the answer to the following question: Was Copilot trained using Microsoft internal source code or will it be
in the future ?

As GitHub is a Microsoft company and OpenAI although
a non-profit just got a massive one billion investment
from Microsoft (presumably not for free), will it
start spitting out once in a while Windows kernel code ? :-)

And if it was NOT trained on Microsoft source code, because it could starting suggesting some of it...Is that not a validation that the results it produces are a derivative
work based on the work of the open source code corpus it was trained on ? IANAL...
Have you never seen folks with walkers or wheelchairs out and about? Sometimes loading a wheelchair into a van and driving to the grocery store is easier than using a wheelchair to go 10 miles to pickup groceries.
This is only if you enable comingled inventory. I don't believe it is required but I barely sell on amazon.
That's what the green new deal is. A sound transition plan.
> People tend to overlook the decay of the modern web, when in fact these numbers are extraordinary—they represent a comprehensive breakdown in the chain of custody for facts.

This is a particularly good quote to sum up the article. The internet is not a repository of facts, it is a repository of facts, spam, junk, and things. Moreover, it is not the only repository of these.

Link rot happens. Content is subject to the will of the publisher to spend the time and/or money to continue to host it.

Depending on links to work eternally is a mistake. The problem is not the link rot, it is the bad assumption.
I too would like it to be changed to the fetaure link. AFAIK this page was not available when I posted the release PR statement.

Also several of my partners shots are in their product announcement page, which is nice to see. (To be clear I don't work for Pixar and they aren't in the rendering team so this post wasn't a plug)
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Now is there a way to do architecture to passively remove moisture from the air...?
Under what circumstances does this occur? Is this something the cell itself signals to the immune system?
Real conspiracies are super boring.

For example we had this guy in Australia James Ashby who was the chief of staff for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party.

They play to a lot of the fake conspiracy types that also fall into the “basket of deplorables” from which other conservative governments globally garner their support.

However all the outlandish shit that PHON either spread directly or nurture indirectly (such as NASA doctoring climate change data) is far more interesting than the actual conspiracy they were alleged to have perpetrated which was James Ashby pressuring candidates to use his signage company:

https://www.afr.com/politics/knives-out-for-hanson-staffer-a...
I both dream a lot and have great control over my dreams in general, but when I get sick it falls off the bus.

Once I tried to somehow fit a ball into blue. The two concepts were so different that I just kept on trying and failing.

Recently (also with quite a fever) I had a stack of dominoes that would fall over as I ran my hand over them. But then when I got to the end they were all upright again and I just kept going forward and back with no resolve.

It's extremely frustrating.
from the article, ISPs are interested and presumably they will turn the flat pricing into plans. Dropping a solar powered cell tower with Starlink backhaul on top of a mountain could easily serve 200 cell phones paying $2/month each
Yes, he can be conservative as in the political philosophy, but not in the sense of being a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Quitting is good. It shows confidence in the overall economy and a certain economic vibrancy. We should be much more afraid when workers feel trapped by employment.
I am

really glad

not everybody does this
The systems that determine local temps and weather are greatly dependent on small changes over very very massive areas so if you mess those up with small changes local climates will change drastically.
The answer to climate change is to wet a t-shirt and sit next to a fan in your damp armchair while watching the world burn. Talk about frog in a pot.
My brother has a very senior role (non-IT). Probably in the top 5 in the UK, possibly even top 3, out of perhaps 30-35 jobs? Proven long-term record.

He was going to transfer to a different company and was told that company rules meant he had to go through HR "as a formality".

He was blocked by his HR interviewer on the grounds that he was too successful and therefore wouldn't be "hungry" enough for such a competitive position.

He couldn't believe it. They didn't want someone with a proven record of repeated long-term success?

The person who was trying to recruit him was furious, but as my brother said, this was indicative of a wider problem, and so he declined to move there. Instead he won his Industry Award for the following year at the company he did move to....