skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't have a decibel meter, but pretty loud, rattled the house and windows. Not as bad as someone using tannerite, though it might just be that the tannerite is a relatively recent experience and the sonic booms were a while ago.
>And yet we'll continue to treat climate change as an inconvenience that can be addressed in 20 years

According to the EPA, wildfires over the past 40 years are slightly down. Can you point to different data that ties these wildfires to climate change?

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...
Almost all half finished, especially lately (pandemic really killed a lot of my creative drive and seemed to make my mind even harder to focus). I’ve got like 50 board game prototypes and zero published (1 signed with a publisher though, and a couple that have been finalists in design contests though, so maybe someday), eight novel manuscripts I could never finish editing (most written during Nanowrimo), six half-finished video games (8 finished and released ones in my past, but zero in the past…almost 10 years now), etc.
This is an archive.org link, presumably they have changed it back.
I would be interested in a poll on WFH attitudes that just looked at home office vs work office setups. How many people have a primary motivation of a crappy home office?
I’d love to know the easiest way to answer this question: “what IP address and port is the microservice pod the CI server just deployed listening on?”
What this proposal does is to create an exemption from EU privacy regulation for the purpose of allowing mostly U.S based service providers to continue doing what they're already doing on a global basis.

I'm sure you can find examples of EU overreach and a desire to get bigger, but this isn't that.
Every git forge is able to show changes against target branch without anyone needing to rewrite history, though. Reviews can be done against changes, not individual patches.
No, it's selecting candidates who are aware of the current Twitter joke of the day. They're either unaware of how small that bubble is or accepting of the monoculture this promotes.
Somewhat related, a variant of chess where the objective is to lose:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_chess
It could be trivial to do an express “recertification” by recording a video of your workspace once in a while, after you’ve done the full certification.
I've been seeing lots of candidates trying to get at job at my current employer because we allow remote work. People are willing to forego their faang compensations.
but you are arguing a talking point from a decade ago -- China is definitely taking actions to diversify its power generation with solar production, convert existing systems to electrical inputs, use higher-efficiency parts like LED lighting, and other important steps. They are competing directly in science with the West in publications and PR and business cases.

This re-hash amongst Western chatty people is well-intentioned perhaps, but the targets really are moving as this debate has not.

action on the ground using the above mentioned fact-based changes is called for now, right?
You know what we need? Something that is the equivalent of a blue check mark for offices.

The standards would be stringent, an open office hoteling arrangement wouldn’t qualify. You must have an office with a door that can be closed IMO.
I'm using Pycharm Pro and it can use Docker for code completion. I use Docker AND venv on host filesystem for friends using Pycharm Community and VSCode. Is this still necessary?
Because a high Impact Index value is required to obtain grants later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor

Therefore is a captive customer case. And captive here has the same meaning as slave. If you don't work for free for some journals, basically you can't have a scientist career. In higher levels articles are not enough and you need to consider seriously to write a book for Elsevier or somebody else.

And this cut both ways. Acta Vertebrata, the journal of the Doñana's Biological Station since 1974, have to be closed in 1997 after decades trying unsuccessfully to achieve a higher impact index as journal. Low impact index means that you obtain less and less of the researchers effort and that interesting articles fly away your radar. Researchers deciding to publish in Acta Vertebrata had a competitive disadvantage. It was a terrific journal, the problem is that they did science in the latinosphere, period. Nowadays science means do politics or go home
For WFH, the organization that I work in had a form that I had to fill out prior to getting authorization. It essentially looked like something from OSHA.

* The working area is maintained between 68°-76°

* The working area is free of tripping obstructions

* The working area has a adjustable chair

* The working area has handholds on any staircase of more than two steps

Etc...

And yes, I am working on improving the area that I work in. It currently meets the requirements, I'm just looking to go another step for a more comfortable area now that I know that long term WFH is possible and reasonable.
I was just asking to check if I understood the problem correctly.
Why not just have employee cameras so that they can both verify the workstation set up as well as make sure they’re actually working for the full 8 hours a day?

Sounds like a great YC startup idea. They can use machine learning and AI to calculate the times that the employee is sitting at their workstation, have eye tracking to make sure that they are looking at the screen, and analyze the network traffic and keystrokes to make sure that people aren’t goofing off on HN or Reddit.
> Misappropriating those funds

Where are the transparency reports detailing how the 31529 BTC raised in the crowdsale were spent?

It would seem straightforward to spend a large fraction of that on software development which would mean that the creators can take part in the crowdsale (which is largely anonymous) and have the spent BTC flow back to themselves.
Calling my explanation condescending seems exaggerated. The opposition against nuclear energy makes sense if Chernobyl is your reference in terms of safety. But modern reactor designs are a lot safer than Chernobyl and Fukushima. That's why I'm calling it nonsensical - the skepticism was warranted at the time but it's outdated now.
I can see how that can quite easily be viewed as gatekeeping.

Having a "spare" room or a rented coworking space to use as a remote office is a luxury of the middle/upper class.

I can see your logic, and I can see how it would be more profitable for companies when hiring remote, but at the end of the day, there are many profitable things a company can do that they are not (technically, see: "legally") allowed to do, for example not hiring disabled workers, firing pregnant female workers, and so on.

We choose to not maximise productivity to create a more accepting and equal society.

That is of course all in theory.
It helps the professional remote workers with dedicated power user setups standout from the crowd.
> This is obviously written by someone who's never done any sort of review-based workflow.

I think you meant to say the following:

> This is obviously written by someone who's never used my review-based workflow.

As is is so often the case in these discussions, there's a conflation of what works best for one person and what works best in general. I very much doubt that the difference in viewpoints is simply ignorance.

Edit: I also wish HN had a rule against this type of dismissal:

> the only sustainable model for a project of any size

Fossil was designed for the development of SQLite. It does not help the conversation at all to have an anonymous commenter dismiss SQLite as a toy project.
That rule does you no good if the net effect of the interplay of the rules with the rest of reality is that having more coins gives you more coins. This will be the case as long as coins can be used to purchase the means of production.
If anyone is interested I have a GitHub template that is essentially a simpler of the scaffolding the author lays out (https://github.com/mplemay/python-template).
Teens gain the upper hand in hot US summer jobs market
Eh? An employer should ensure all of this; money normally spent on that employee's workspace should be spent on their home setup. This should include enough money so that the employee can move houses to a place with a spare room, desk, chair, screens, electricity, internet connection, etc. Take what you pay per employee in desk space, and pay it to your employees directly.

And open up your wallet for relocation, since it's unlikely they'll find housing in SF.
That part of the article isn't talking about WIP branches, experimental branches, etc. My personal Fossil development philosophy is that you can go wild on those. The article's point applies primarily to long-lived development branches, things like what Git now calls "main", which Fossil calls "trunk". Commits to such branches should always build and pass all tests on all supported platforms.
I see this posted more often here than on music forums. That said, it is a high quality mix selection.
That's similar to what Ethereum's proof-of-stake does. Any staker can submit the two inconsistent transactions as proof of malfeasance by another staker. When that happens, the misbehaving staker is automatically "slashed," losing a portion of their stake.
A company can still hire unverified workers though if they want.
Yes, it looks like unfinished work. They could have:

- implemented plagiarism detection to attribute code to its source (where possible), then present the result together with the link. This makes Copilot same with Googling your answer and then copy-pasting the code. You are fully responsible

- implemented some regexes to filter out secrets, or even better, change the secrets to random values in the training data

- implemented a robots.txt like system so people have a method to ban the Copilot spider from their code

If they did these things before release it would have been so much better. But they are simple fixes so I see no technical obstacle.
The problem with waiting AFAIK is that it's vulnerable to attacks on the underlying peer-to-peer network.

Let's say you wait 1 hour to see whether there was a double spend. If an attacker wanted to, they could spend twice and somehow mess with the network for 1 hour.

For example, an attacker at the internet service provider could intercept packets from the Bitcoin network and just block the other spend transaction from getting to you. You wait 1 hour and consider the payment finalized, and you swap goods for Bitcoin.
I mean, I hate it, but it's not THAT far from certain requirements that you can run into. For instance....when doing games development as an indie dev, you can't have a Playstation devkit at home unless you have certified locks installed on all doors, the devkit is positioned out of view, the window isn't easily accessible from the outside(preferably with metal bars)....it's a pain to actually demonstrate that your place of work is safe enough to have a devkit present there.....otherwise they just won't send you one, end of story. So yes, in order to just do your job from home, there is a requirement for a level of security and setup involved.

As an aside - funny how in the pandemic these requirements were massively relaxed and as a remote worker I currently have a PS5 devkit on my desk like it's a not big thing.
Chess engines destroy humans at speed chess. The time use creeps in if you're using a low-tech method of cheating (i.e. manually punching moves into your engine and the website).
Political debates are about narratives that speakers wants to peddle, not truth
Long Covid: How It Keeps Us Sick
Ask HN: Why can't the fusion be to 2020s what moon landing was to 1960s?
Somewhat naively, I see fusion as the "holly grail" that can fix a lot of problems caused by the modern world energy demands, first and foremost the climate change issue and everything that comes / will come with it.

So I'm curious if fusion is a resources problem (i.e. if we were to put 100x the funding could we get there by end of the decade) or is it something else, like the necessary technology simply not being there yet?

p.s. I'm not saying that cheap energy is solution to other environmental problems or human society problems, but I just humbly think it would still be a game changer. I'm curious if someone disagrees with this as well.
> There is more than enough know-how condensed between Baric and Zengli Shi to swap RBD's and insert Furin cleavage sites without leaving traces of having done so.

Baric, Shi and others use particular reverse-genetics systems, which are well known to the outside world. Developing a new system is a significant effort. They don't just swap RBDs or spike proteins into random viruses that nobody has ever heard of before.

SARS-CoV-2 is an entirely new virus, different throughout its entire genome from any previously known virus. An engineered virus would use a known backbone, such as SARS-CoV or WIV-1.

Keep in mind that neither Wade nor Deigin actually has any expertise in virology, and it shows. Rather than listening to laypeople shooting from the hip, listen to what actual virologists have to say. Here's Kristian Andersen and Robert Garry on TWiV: https://youtu.be/Hez3xNv2ido
CPU, GPU doesn't work out well in our case. There is the data transfer cost as well as memory constraint & the model blows up in memory for every inference call.
Getting back to working from the office last week has done wonders for my mental health. I went from being locked up for a year WFH with my wife and kids in a small row home working out of my goddamn basement to actually being able to concentrate in a beautiful, still-mostly-dead office with a view. There's an exercise room on my floor that no one uses so it's basically my private gym. I can chat a bit with the few coworkers who are in the office regularly. It's been amazing. I feel like an actual adult human again instead of a parent/employee trying to hold on to various threads to keep everything from becoming undone.
I think android overloads would improve the situation.
As someone who is of below average intelligence I can confirm that I don't exhibit any of the symptoms described in the article.
HN is generally 10 years behind on crypto news.
> My concern with such a chart is that not everyone has a home office that looks as good as a traditional workplace. In addition, interruptions happen at home too and chatting with coworkers is not a problem per se.

I wish every person arguing for or against home office would open their comment detailing what their home setup looks like. As someone living in an apartment with no backyard and a small desk placed in the intersection of my kitchen and living room (aka "the one room that is not the bedroom"), losing my office has more cons that pros.

At the same time, I am fully aware that the "my office" part of my previous sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Those cursed with an open office plan are probably enjoying now those benefits I've been missing for a year now.

If only there was an accepted "working environment checklist" that we could all use...
Why your internet habits are not as clean as you think
https://archive.is/Efovp
I had some rather large SQLite databases so I just wanted to get a rough idea of the impact:

Size (MB) Quick (s) Integrity (s)
8 0.061 0.47
76 0.39 1.8
582 2.8 13.
2926 14. 79.

I tried my best to do the measurements with a cold filesystem cache, but this is by no means rigorous. For example, the databases for this test are roughly similar in schema and they all consist of many small rows. Few big rows might perform very differently.
See also: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_generator

Example fake paper: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/rooter.pdf
What does climate change have to do with wild fires?
Every single problem listed with working from home also applies to at least some subset of office environments.

At least with a home office I can attempt to make my environment better instead of just accepting whatever my employer provides.
> The numbers check out but it is undeniably ghoulish.

The numbers are bad for any energy source. Or any industry, for that matter. Coal-fired power plants have emitted much, much more radionuclides than the nuclear industry over the last half century. And contributed to killing millions of people.

The problem is that we’ve come to think that our current way of operating is fine. After all, it clearly is working. Except that it isn’t, but a lot of people have some trouble realising that.

> It is not “completely nonsensical” to oppose nuclear power, even if the argument is badly flawed.

You’re right, and we should be able to have a nuanced discussion. However, arguments such as “nuclear is bad because nuclear weapons” really are completely nonsensical. So is the “we should get rid of nuclear waste, but we are never going to accept to put them anywhere” argument. Or “we need better technical solutions but we oppose any R&D funding”. Or “nuclear plants are important greenhouse gas emitters”. These points are things that actual politicians say, and the a lot of other people believe. They also are utter bollocks.

> Being so condescending and dismissive doesn’t help anyone.

Quite right. And the fact that nuclear has been so opaque because of its association with the military and closely-guarded industrial secrets is very unhelpful.

That said, there are a lot of parallels with trump-like nationalism and anti-vaccination movements. At some point we have to accept that on any given issue some people are going to be vocally ignorant.
Right now in the US the biggest travesty is: (1) we have a large anti-vax movement that hasn't let us get to herd immunity. (2) the government has banned those under 12 from taking the vaccine.

This creates a situation where now the only ones still taking a risk against their will is children.

I have no idea how the idea of vaccine bans is still a "thing" after it failing in every way possible over the last 1.5 years. We need to learn a lesson and stop doing this.
Agree. I've written a comment on her blog about this. Hoping she'll enable it. I've published an opinion piece on the subject matter myself: https://rugpullindex.com/blog#BuiltonStolenData

Edit: My comment was enabled: https://juliareda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringin...
Sixty years of climate change warnings
> What if the "honest" signal of intelligence is the ability to detect bullshit?

In machine learning research, we have the idea of adversarial algorithms. One algorithm tries to generate convincing bullshit, and the other algorithm tries to differentiate this bullshit compared to the real thing. Resources are spent equally on improving both sides, to the benefit of the larger system.

Perhaps human evolution does the same. People get better at bullshitting to navigate social structures in a more efficient way, and other people get better at calling bullshit to prevent people from navigating those structures TOO efficiently.

Makes sense to me.
I have been WFH since 2005 across 4 jobs. There has always been a little anxiety when the jobs ended that I would not be able to find a new one.

I am holding out hope that the ratio of WFH jobs will remain permanently increased after this, even if it isn’t a tectonic shift.
What do they use for the refrigerant? Refrigerant leaks have some of the highest green house gas potentials of all compounds. Depending on the product > 2000 times global warming potential of CO2.
As someone with narcolepsy, the pandemic is the single most wonderful-terrible thing that could have happened. When the black plague struck Europe, the survivors found themselves inheriting immense wealth. I feel sort of similarly, because for the first time I can participate normally in a traditional office environment -- because the tradition is now to use Zoom and not to have your ass in a seat from 9 to 5. I wake up each day not quite believing my luck.

I really empathize from the other angle too, where people who are used to a normal environment don't want to WFH. But a lot of their hatred may be due to their awful environment they put up with. (A lot of it might not be, either! Different people like different things.)

As I said elsewhere, a lot of people seem to feel they can't change it, or they put up with distractions, or they don't worry about setting boundaries, or the equipment is subpar compared to the office.

One day my wife and I set a trap for my father in law. I nudged her to keep working, since she had unconsciously started fooling around online because of the inevitable story that FIL was going to walk in and tell, like clockwork. The moment he came in to tell his story without asking, I said "Heyo! So, I didn't understand until a few days ago, but it's best that, before you do this, mentally teleport yourself into her office and imagine you're standing next to her coworkers."

It made all the difference, and I haven't seen him do it since. He was super understanding too. I'd been guilty of the same thing; it's easy to forget that WFH means "you need office boundaries at home."
That's section 2.5 in the same document: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.w...
* Round-trip energy efficiency: I can't see a system taking electrical input to produce liquid air on the way in and similarly to run a turbine generator on the other end without having substantial losses both ways... I believe Tesla is around 88% on their system.

Well you can just power an engine on the temperature gradient. That's going to incur some losses though. This seems to be the downside of storing energy cooling stuff, you have to fight the second law of thermodynamics both ways.
Does everyone test if their commits don't break the build? I doubt that, e.g. if you want to commit before going home, there isn't always time to test and more importantly until you push to master/target branch there is no need for it besides bisection, which I'm not sure if is common.
But that doesn't address the issue that there would be a legal way for companies to discriminate based on your wealth, regardless if they do it or not.

"filter for applicants with a remote office" is virtually 1-to-1 with "filter for middle/upper class applicants", which of course is unacceptable according to our modern view on social mobility and egalitarianism.
Charging batteries with solar and wind is much more efficient than producing hydrogen. Why would you not charge batteries during peaks?
Just to be sure: GPL doesn’t prevent anyone from selling.
So, Co-pilot generates text including secrets it has seen.

For a comparison point, afl fuzzer actually generates never-seen, valid JPEG files "out of thin air", see http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/11/pulling-jpegs-out-of-thi... and matching conversation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8571879

It would be interesting to combine both approaches and (interrupted by the sudden singularity ;-).
This would be a good (Bad?) time to read the sovereign individual
I've successfully looked at commits years old to understand the context around a feature/bug that was confusing myself and a product owner. This context is where small, well-detailed commits come in so handy beyond just the initial review.
> Why should the least well off in society be part of a crypto-coin whose supply has been given to early adopters and insiders?

Just taking a stab at it, maybe bc we haven't come up with a notion of how a viable crypto-coin could be started by the least well off, who are -by definition- at a competitive disadvantage in launching successful projects.

I'm not saying it's an impossible problem, just that these systems tend to be driven by economies of scale, whether it's new/disruptive, or the product of an older, more established regime.

And to be clear, I am not suggesting this with the finality of a foregone conclusion, but merely thinking aloud about the dynamic of the underlying problem.