skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't really seem beneficial. In the end all that actually matters is that the employee is sufficiently productive. There's no reason to needlessly gatekeep working from home. Everyone works differently so whatever standard that gets set might work for a few people but be less beneficial for others and basically useless for another group.

Do we really want SWE interviews/applications to get more toxic than they already are? On top of quizzing for largely non-pertinent academic knowledge, wasting people's weekends with no-pay projects to "judge their work", and other arbitrary BS do we also want to tack on a qualification for getting hired being that your home is structured in an employer approved way?
I can see a large split based on this. One of the things I don't want about going back to the office is going back to a crappy chair that does not fit me well (I am rather tall). I have gotten used to having a headrest. But if I were using a wooden kitchen chair all this time, that office chair might be quite nice.
I don't think the issue is that people are hiding the fact that their WFH situation is not ideal. The people who have crappy WFH setups are quick to tell everyone. They aren't trying to get away with working from home, they are asking to work from an office.

Even if you have this WFH certification like you talk about, that isn't going to tell your employer much. Some people will have great WFH setups and not be very productive, some people will have bad setups and do great work. The only way to see which is which is to observe their productivity. Certification won't help.
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PAC implies convergence in probability but is more powerful. PAC results are non-asymptotic (and in supremum) so for a fixed n you can chose a degree of uncertainty and get the corresponding bound. Usual convergence results in statistics give you the asymptotic rate of convergence at best, nothing else.

That's why PAC / VC results are so useful for ML: you get results for the useful case (limited and fixed amount of samples, estimator that isn't even in the same class of function as the true function), not the theoretical case where you somehow managed to get infinitely many observations.

Of course the price to pay for hypothesis that are so relaxed is weaker results.
You could try self medicating with nicotine.

Everything else I would write is covered by annie_muss, particularly acceptance and being realistic. I wasted years torturing myself with a cycle of thinking I should be able to push through it and focus if only I tried hard enough, failing and getting depressed, bludging, repeat.

Now that I’m medicated I’ve still got a strong aversion to trying that I have to deal with.
I feel you. If it brings you solace, other governments are as old, angry and afraid as yours.
Here is a (somewhat old) talk by Richard Hipp, the author of SQLite about Git:

"Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No"

https://youtu.be/ghtpJnrdgbo

I use Git every day, but I am curious about Fossil and have been researching it for a while. I am not planning on changing, as I need
to get to the bottom of some data corruption events I have
seen in their forums. Not saying it was the fault of Fossil,
just that it requires more research on my side.

We should not forget Version Management did not start with Git but has a vibrant history that began with SCCS, RCS, CVS, ClearCase, Perforce, SVN, etc... As I used all the systems above except for SCCS and RCS I would advise for some caution here on thinking Git core flows are the one true way. I know the authors of ClearCase though the same way :-)

If the author of SQLite advances some arguments around
the proper way of doing version management, I would advise to error on the side of caution and listen at least a second time. Do not throw away your own experience and insight, but at least listen carefully. Don't just dismiss the arguments as quickly as some are doing here.

I found this recent thread very useful not only as a features comparison but also as a core reminder of what the main use case for Fossil is:

"Lessons from 13+ Years of Fossil" :

https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/22ca69016940d34299d52...

"Fossil's reason for existence, plain and simple, is managing the source code for sqlite3. That's the scope of project it was initially envisioned for, and that size of project seems to be quite average for the FOSS world, falling clearly somewhere between "small" and "large." It does not scale well to projects with hundreds of thousands of files in any given version and/or tens of GB of data."
As far as I can tell the only criteria is price at close. I assume that all the outstanding sell orders below a given price are filled first, so you couldn't just double the price of Apple, Inc. by swapping two shares at twice the previous closes.
If Microsoft is confident that Copilot is not a parrot, they should include their proprietary codebases in the training database.
I might have gone a little bit overboard
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I graduated in 2002. My peers had been boasting about how we wouldn't even entertain offers below $75k when we graduated in 2000. There was the general .com bust, but I was also literally working on my resume the morning of 9/11 which essentially froze up the market entirely.

Most offers which were "locked up" were rescinded. I was fairly fortunate that the small software consulting firm I had interned at landed a new contract and made me an offer- for $37k. I swallowed my pride, the market was absolutely flooded with java devs with a few years experience that I was competing against. It seemed far better to be working and building a resume even if for a non living wage.

I received only one hit on my resume my entire first year working, despite sending it out to multiple places each week.

After about a year, things picked up a bit and I landed a job with a group that was impressed by my distributed systems undergraduate research work and curiosity and was building what would become known as a high frequency trading system. My salary was still lower than my 2000 self thought acceptable, but at 55k I could at least afford to move out of my parents house.

Things took off from there a bit, but it was a rough start. And it's a post 2010 thing that engineers can retire in their 30s. My expectation was that this would lead to a comfortable middle class lifestyle but the eye popping salaries of today were beyond the expectations of any of us. Tbh, when one of my coworkers left to go to Facebook in 2007, I looked at it with disdain- a website? How disappointing... I imagine his net worth is deep in the 8 figures- he is still there.
Shelving is closer to git stash than WIP branches, though. No history etc.
A recurring argument where one side is delusional and wrong, while the other is right?
The point is how the prospects of scamming would look to the operators in 2014:

They would know that audits could always be demanded, and that an on-chain trail would exist. If said audits reveal massive grants being given to themselves, they would immediately fall under intense scrutiny, and it would only take one of their co-conspirators to spill the beans for them to all be burned.

For them to actually consider this subterfuge, with the risks involved, would be unthinkable.
Moreover, some prefer both. I know because I am one of them.

Really enjoyed the opportunity to wfh before the pandemic and am really excited about the office now. I guess I just like the change of the scenery.
Antidepressants are just fine after you have tried everything to resolve the depression naturally. Diet, exercise, relationships, career, etc. Most often this will work.

Eventually you may need a heavier hammer. Antidepressants can do the job but they are not meant to be used for long term use. The reason is side effects, long term withdrawal/dependency, and the eventual “poop out”. One year should be the cut off.

Fluoxetine, for example, induces neurogenesis. This is the method of action that cures depression. Exercise can do the same thing, which is why you’ll see studies of “cardio is just as effective as antidepressants”. Psilocybin as well.

Chronic stress will reduce your neurogenesis. There are many, many ways in this modern world to experience it.

The stigma of antidepressants needs to end. They can be very useful tools under the right circumstances.

Another thing you have to watch out for is mental illness, such as bipolar, that is not treatable with antidepressants (they can induce mania) nor any holistic method. Mood stabilizers and possibly an “antipsychotic” will be required. I’m bipolar and Lamotrigine has improved my world that no lifestyle change ever could. It’s been nothing short of a miracle drug for me.
A shortcut to Dabrowski's approach I find useful:

What do I stand for?

A serious and deep dive into the answer to that question tends to reset my thinking in the most positive of ways.
I'm confused. The article talks about "tenants". Does this mean the Chelsea Hotel is not actually a hotel, as it has long term tenants?
I encourage you to read more about depression and how to support depressed people. It'll give you a better insight into how depression operates than a single event you experienced.

> It also made me recognize my own capabilities; I was very impressed with my ability to evade danger and survive a dangerous encounter I was completely unprepared for. I’ve never done sport or anything like that so I kind of thought I would be useless if ever attacked, but it turns out I can run and use obstacles in my environment pretty well.

Unfortunately these kind of events don't compare well with bouts of depression. They really are not the same thing.

Sometimes depression and/or anxiety is like having a hundred of events like that a day and not time to get back up.

With that being said.

> Sometimes I wonder if a lot of depression and anxiety in western society (I say western because I don’t know enough about others) is due to life just being too comfortable.

This a confusion between immediate physical dangers (disease, aggression, security in your home) and the stress of our current way of life (competition for work and at work essentially, culture with a heavy accent on individuality, etc.).

Another approach could be: why is there so much depression and anxiety in spite of the comfort level of western society. (maybe western society isn't that comfortable ? or we should work on the definition of comfortable ?).
Untrue - long-term energy storage options are being targeted by deep pocketed capital. E.g. Form Energy and Vanadium technologies.

LiON batteries can't do seasonal though - short term only.
I'm also interested in this, but I'm afraid the answer will be "CRA/Next/Nest or deploy your own webpack/babel".
Lot of Sanskrit scholars are priests and their bias is shown a lot as well. They cry whenever something becomes slightly better offensive to 2000 year ago people.
Well, no, quite a few people do have to justify their experience as they're likely being railroaded by their organization back into the office.

These articles and comments are people figuring out their true feelings. Justification of preference is currently vital.
Highly recommend watching the video explanation linked in the article.

https://twitter.com/tartanllama/status/1410959645238308866

Lost it at “if you come from a functional programming background…”
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While your question is intellectually worthy, I doubt there is any serious case law in existence testing this scenario. I could imagine very soon, someone will create a video game that can generate art based upon a trained model. At some point, the model will regurtitate an exact replica (or very very close). Someone will screenshot it, and the original artist -- who likely was not paid -- will sue. Or musician. Take your pick. Any performance or visual arts could fall under this umbrella.
Udemy too clever password reset broken for me
On first password reset attempt on firefox 88 on an uncommon OS.

Udemy: "only humans can reset a password."

Me: "I am human."

Of course I can't reach a fellow human in tech support though.

Move fast and break things and waste other people's time and money.
Citalopram then Sertraline.

Different people have different reactions. This is not medial advice. Consult your physician to see if sertraline is right for you.
Reasonable explanation I guess.
I meant it as a general comment on journalism. Yes, that's what journalism is, but somehow it's easy to forget it's just echoes, or echoes of echoes.
The Mirai offers more range; it’s not apples to apples. FCEVs do have some constant overheads around the fuel stack weight.
Not action is also an action. But, we humans feel that to do the default is to not take action and thus be free of consequences.

Most parents brains are going to think: what happens if my kid is vaccinated and something bad happens, if I do nothing then I have "no remorse".

Of course, this quite normal way of thinking misses the future you with a sick kid thinking why the hell you didn't do anything. The To overcome the otherwise rational decision of postponing to take action what is needed is education. In this situation, trust in the authorities, media and medical profession also help to reduce the fear to vaccination.

I hope that most people sees the need to vaccinate their children, and thus the children can avoid future consequences of a lapse in their parents reasoning.
The company's "technology description" video makes clear that storage of both "waste" heat and cool is an explicit part of their system.
This sounds great. I've been listening to Komiku's "It's time for Adventure" album(s):

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Komiku/Its_time_for_adven...
> Git records what the development should have looked like had there been no mistakes

To be fair, for us mere-mortal programmers I never really know what I was trying to say until I’ve said it.

At which point I revel in the opportunity to rebase, squash, fixup, and amend what I actually said into what I now realize I meant to say all along.
I wrote/drew some things about this a while ago. In my case, a big contributor to multi-decade mental health issues was an undiagnosed B-12 deficiency. SSRI's can be a godsend for many folks, but with their advent, the previous medical knowledge about other physical causes of depression went out the window. It's important for us to screen for and treat those, too.

Here are some of my pieces on this theme:

https://radiosof.com/2015/01/20/depression-comix/

https://radiosof.com/category/mental-health/
It’s toxic for some.

An office space, desk, power, AC, coffee provided by your employer is nice if you can’t get a decent one yourself. It’s all trade offs between travel, free time, quiet space, social.
I do enjoy TDD, in that it makes it easier for me to ensure that I implement everything I need.

I completely agree that it's not always necessary, but I definitely find it a useful tool.

That being said, TDD with ML applications is a bunch trickier, as you'll normally have functions/classes which take an unfathomably looooooonnnnngggg time to run.
Soon my company will be switching to 3 days in the office being mandatory with 2 days being optional in office or at home. I suppose just having all 5 days being either one would be best, but it's an ok compromise.
Tangentially, can we anticipate a spike next year in family home sales inventory as they get sold because post-lockdown couples are divorcing?

From a macro view, a lot of things that have been postponed for 18-24 months will likely happen all at once. Given the trajectory to normal, whatever that was, it will have been almost 2 years of artificially suppressed volatility in a lot of places, and a lot of stuff is going to roar back.
I think the problem is most people think they work for a company rather than an industry. Some companies have gone fully remote, so if the office is your thing, you will need to leave that company.

To me that isn't a big deal, but a lot of people are reluctant to switch jobs.
If my product is in beta, is it ok for it to leak your secrets?
Shipping lithium ion batteries is expensive, because they weigh so much. And no, there's no plan to ship them to poor countries, that's just a fabrication, based on nothing. It's quite likely that battery production will be performed very close to fins assembly, because of the low price of batteries per pound, especially compared to something that does get supped a lot, like solar PV panels. Long distance shipping of batteries would add significantly to their cost.

In reality, lithium ion battery recycling is baked into this supply chain from the start. There are many startups eager to recycle batteries, the biggest challenge is that there isn't any substantial amount to recycle at the moment. Manufacturing rejects are one of the prime inputs to current battery recyclers.
I think some people object (aka downvote) because one of the good parts of wfh is "different strokes for different folks" without having to justify it or get permission. You are suggesting an approach that people will tend to find highly invasive and controlling.

If you want to control my work space and dictate what that looks like, then assign me an office and make what you want on your dime. Don't try to turn wfh into some perfect slave labor scenario where employers control it and employees pay for it and it's this highly invasive process.
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From everything I’ve heard about SQLite testing, it is absolutely an exception to the ‘normal’ state! I hadn’t heard that they took direct inspiration from DO-178B, so thanks for sharing that. That’s a great data point :)
>One cannot patent an algorithm

software patents?
optimistic nihilism
Well, the way it's phrased it seems like they asked for opinions after revealing which device they are discussing.
> But pretending people are motivated by sheer hippie-foolishness is just an ignorant ad hominem.

I couldn't see any obvious ad hominem in the comment. They are correct in that the anti-nuclear stance of many Greens is often dogmatic to a point where they wouldn't even discuss it if the alternative were a social and economical catastrophe. And I don't think it's too far-fetched to attribute the emergence of that dogmatism to the early green movements.
> I very much doubt that the difference in viewpoints is simply ignorance.

You can usually tell if a difference in viewpoints is ignorance by how the other person talks about the idea they disagree with. If they don't mention any of the perceived advantages (or try to but miss the most obvious ones -- like, say, the ability to do bisection or review changes), there's a good chance that it's out of ignorance.

EDIT: It seems I was slightly mixed up; I was referring not to to the text linked story (which just talks about valuing the "messy" history) but to "Rebase considered harmful" [1], which having just re-read, am confirmed in my opinion was written by someone ignorant of what they're arguing against.

[1] https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/rebaseharm.md

> It does not help the conversation at all to have an anonymous commenter dismiss SQLite as a toy project.

First, I'm not anonymous -- I don't have my full name in my description, but if you wanted to track me down it shouldn't be too hard based on my comment history.

Second, I never said SQLite was a toy project; on the contrary, I said it was "AWESOME". What I said was that it was small; and what I meant was that it had a small development team. My understanding is that SQLite doesn't accept external contributions, and that the team developing it is 4 people (or something on that order of magnitude). With only 3 other people, all hand-picked, committing to your tree, you can afford to just look at the total diff of the branch before merging it (and/or presumably have a conversation about what's in the branch). That's simply not going to work if you're reviewing dozens of patches a day from random people on the internet.
Early on you don't need a board. At Series A you probably need to give one seat to the investor.

You can have all kinds of mentors and advisors who don't need to be part of the board. You don't necessarily need advisors either. If you want to someone to help you with the company, it's best to hire them or ask them to become investors and that way receive the equity.

Equity is very valuable so you shouldn't be giving it out. People should earn it or pay for it. If you must really get someone then consider very small amounts, like <1%.
Actually, reading the title, I wondered how it could possibly do just that.

But it's not generating the secrets, it's generating code that contain those secrets.
First: How can anyone expect 996 culture and having more babies to be compatible?

Second: The article is an interesting look into the perspective of people who given such bleak prospects in life chooses to just lay down and not participate.

Its odd that the NY Times makes no mention of the concept of social parasitism?

Seems like it would be relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism_(social_offense)
<<Woah>> If this claim is real: Please, please, please someone blow the whistle. Can we get some of these DLLs and get people to extract strings or reverse engineer to extract GPL/AGPL code? This seems entirely possible. EFF would surely help with the legal side.
I think we all need constant monitoring and certification that we're not shitting our pants. Because, you know, shitting one's pants is bad, so we totally need some patroling to save people from this. Can we count as a civilized society while we let pants-shitting happen to our citizens?
The Toyota Mirai consumes about 1kg of hydrogen per 100km. In Germany, the government subsidised price for hydrogen is 9.50€/kg.

That’s expensive as all hell.

With hydrogen you get: fast refuels (if the station has pressurized itself after the last customer), good range, but the cost is redonculous and the distribution is nonexistent in most countries.

There are more Teslas in space than there are publicly available hydrogen refueling stations in Finland :D
Also, the Jabberwocky project, Better off Ted.
The article covers this pretty clearly, describing decades-long tenants and saying:

> Plans are underway to make the Chelsea Hotel an actual hotel again.
I guess the larger the wildfires are the lower the number of individual fires are. When everything is burning there will be only one fire.
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Technically, the consensus mechanism is the mining lottery, which is how transaction order is finalized, preventing double spends.

The scheme for commitment of a scarce resource (e.g. PoW, PoS) is the Sybil resistance scheme, which is what makes lottery participation conform to some notion of fairness. You have to buy your lottery tickets.
In addition, I recommend others read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27736216. It’s a thoughtful discussion that dispels the unintentional FUD of this thread.

Before today, I didn’t know that CVEs aren’t vetted and can be easily spammed for self-gain[1]. I should be more skeptical the next time I see scores of links to CVEs with 0 comments and bare-bones descriptions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25612429