skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My watch can ping my phone, and my key fob can ping my car. I find these to be embarrassingly handy location technology. I'm an Airtag skeptic right now but I was a late adopter on other things. I'll wait for the killer app.

Late adopter and killer app are 90s phrases if there ever were.
Weird how Julius Caesar wrote of himself in the third person.

The intro to book 1 of the Civil Wars is particularly bizarre:

"Vossius's supplement to the first book: I will now say nothing concerning the absurd opinion of those who assert that the following Commentaries on the Civil War were not written by Caesar himself. Even without the authority of Suetonius, the diction itself would be sufficient to convince the most skeptical that Caesar and no other was the author. I am of the opinion of those who think that the beginning of these Commentaries is lost. For I can not be convinced that Caesar commenced so abruptly; and History itself gives sufficient evidence that many circumstances require to be previously stated. For which reason we thought that it would be well worth our attention to compile from Plutarch, Appian, and Dion, a narrative of such facts as seemed necessary to fill up the chasm; these facts are as follows: "When Caesar, after reducing all Transalpine Gaul, had passed into Cisalpine Gaul, he determined for many reasons to send embassadors to Rome to request for him the consulate, and a prolongation of the command of his province....."

That was supposedly written by Vossius, not Caesar, but it is stylistically indistinguishable (to me) from the rest of the text. I can't tell where Vossius's writing stops and Caesar's starts.
These articles are so low quality. Some ppl WFH better, some ppl prefer an office. This isn't ground breaking philosophy and the endless articles repeating the same basic idea is just boring now. /rant
You are running too fast. If you are running so hard you can't have a light conversation, slow down. If your speed approaches walking speed, that's fine.
Are you just looking at the total number of fires in Figure 1? Figure 2 shows that annual wildfire-burned area has been increasing in the last 40 years. Figures 3, 6 and 7 also back that up.
This can be true if language is constantly policed to make certain words and thought dangerous to say, as in the 1984 plot.

In unpoliced discourse, I don't believe this happens. There are always some rough edges in languages as they aimlessly evolve, but nothing that hard.
Reading this chain of comments made me think: What if Copilot was a purely academic creation. Imagine a bunch of computer scientists from ETH Zürich created something identical. Would we be having the same debate? I'm not sure.

And yes, I do agree that some tech companies push the boundary of information and commercial law and wait to be tested by someone with deep pockets.
Quite insightful. Thanks for sharing!
Editorialised title.
HN readers will probably try quite hard to solve a problem by themselves before contacting customer support so are unlikely to be helped by a chatbot. But I wonder whether we are unrepresentative of most users in this respect. Are a lot of people calling support with easy problems which the chatbots are in fact able to solve? I’m curious whether they are actually providing a useful level 1 support.
git bisect is not something one thinks when commiting code.

And there is a difference between entirely broken builds and not-tested ones.
x2 Gunicorn workers, MKL mapped to half physical cores for each... for some reason the model (tensorflow) performs better on half vs 1 worker
I’m a researcher at a first world university. I used sci-hub to pirate my own papers cus we did not have a subscription to the journal anymore. I’m not paying $39 to read my own work!
> Chernobyl was a traumatic event

And yet the number of casualties is lower than the number of casualties caused every year in Europe by coal:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/12/european...

I don't deny it was a traumatic event. But like airplane crashes, the emotion can differ from cold numbers.
If you find police or air traffic control Comms calming there is http://youarelistening.to/
If they're encouraging users to distribute my GPL code under a CC0 license that doesn't even mention my name, how am I gonna "get my money back?"
Many of the things the article mentions are also an issue if working from an office (clearly author has never had the office next door undergoing noisy renovations).

Some others are due to an improper setup: no door/ private space can also be an issue in an open-plan office and at home, if faced with the prospect of long-term wfh, one can and should condition a proper, closeable space to work in. This mitigates most of the distraction-oriented complaints.

As to “i’m always working” - what’s needed here is the discipline of closing your computer at X time. Having a separate space really helps with that, otherwise just close the computer and chuck it in a drawer.

I fully understand wfh is not for everyone. However, one must realize when the main benefit of an office is imposing on you the discipline you’d need to have on your own if working at home.
depression is not a disease, it's a name for a group of symptoms with wildly different causes and remedies.
I agree. I have more autonomy and even though OP suggested all the wonderful things an employer provides, that's not always the case and people shouldn't take it for granted.
It totally is a sensible point. In fact, _all_ file formats, SQLite or not, has to deal with untrusted data, which will involve some kind of integrity check.
> So many words for mere conjecture

Yes, this is what's known as a "personal essay". There's some research citations, too, because the author is a researcher who has worked in this area, but if you're expecting a broad study correlating the Big 5, ACEs, existential depression, and giftedness, you should 1) look elsewhere, or 2) go get your PhD and do the work.
It is really hard to enforce office boundaries on two year olds. He doesn't seem to care no matter how many times I sit him down to tell him I need to work.
Let me introduce you to the concept of a patch series...
The same thing happens in PoW networks. You have to wait several blocks to gain confidence that a transaction won't be reverted.

In Ethereum's PoS, by waiting a similar amount of time you actually get finality; at that point your transaction cannot be reverted without a third of total stake being destroyed.
My new outlook on "meaning" is that it's felt, not rationalized. That is to say, we create our meaning but don't have much control over what feels meaningful to us. If someone told you that a given dull, repetitive task would be good for humanity in a utilitarian sense, it wouldn't necessarily feel any more meaningful. There's a reason the strongest predictor of men's happiness is their work. We like to work on whatever happens to interest us and so much the better if that helps us engage with others, and shows impactful results.

I think it's possible to find meaning in our work whether we pursue it relentlessly or leisurely, it comes down to preference. Some people are content to live each day like the last and lead low-stress lives.
>Extremely fast charging [...] can charge 10-80% in 18 minutes, which is enough to travel around 330 km. That's roughly 3 hours of driving in most counties.

This is not very impressive, and exactly where I see hydrogen have the upper hand. I suppose it's a matter of opinion, but _having_ to stop for 20 minutes every 3 hours isn't ideal at all for me.
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> It was to become a League of Democracies, an iron fist against the next Nazi Germany wannabe, a guarantor of the "Never Again."

That is what both you and I hope that the UN would have been, but unfortunately not much based in reality.

> It was the US who go the idea to get USSR into it, pretty much sabotaging it on the day 1.

Without Soviet cooperation, the purpose of the UN would have been moot from day 1.
I found this about 6 years ago and it has genuinely changed the way I work. I can’t listen to music that has any “real” vocals (i.e the vocals are the focus, unlike a lot of electronic music) while programming as it distracts me.

But these compilations are perfect - it lets me slip into a state of flow quicker than anything I’ve listened to before or since. It’s not particularly enjoyable in and of itself, but if I’m in a situation where I really need to get something done and focus then it’s my go-to.
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Odorless / colorless -- same as natural gas. Just drop in a tracer chemical.
> Just that it is made aware, instead of leveling a counter-argument, you are only appealing to authority.

The original poster attacked the author's credibility. I pointed out that, when you help establish a concept, you're qualified to write about it to non-experts in a public venue.
Because it's free for one. Second because I have so many more options and control of what my OS is.

But really, reality is that Linux support for games is still caught in the cycle of too few customers to bother -> customers want better Linux support before moving over -> too few customers to bother...

So I can now have all the (my) benefits of Linux and enjoy gaming that otherwise I wouldn't.
What if mathematics is only valid within the simulation?

If seems natural to us that a simulation must be grounded in mathematics, and that maths must therefore be a thing within the reality/universe that is running the simulation, but I don't think this is a given. The infrastructure might utilise something else that we can't conceive of.
Haha. I feel you. But on the other hand, it's an endless article cycle either way, right? It's just philosophizing about WFH instead of Google now.

I imagine it'll dry up in a year or so. Till then, it's probably important to let people express what's on their mind. If people hate WFH, addressing the concerns is the only way forward.
Can you not copy the fingerprint from the fingerprint sensor surface?
I read it is possible to create artificial fingerprints from fingerprints found on different surfaces or even pictures. So why can you not get the fingerprint from the surface of a fingerprint reader?
Anec-data: I’m in my 40s and live in the Vancouver area. The first time in my life that I ever experienced a smoked in summer was about 5 years ago.

Actual data: the link you posted shows a decrease in fires overall, but the size and damage of them increasing. I guess when the fires are so big and start merging your overall count goes down.
That part - "Rome was not only white" is the motte from which the author is pushing his ideas about "whiteness", "colonial bias", "diversity in classics" and more such things. In short, he is trying to inject critical theory into the classics by attempting to racialise the subject area. The fact of Rome being "white" is also inconsequential since the classics tend not to be seen in a racialised light other than by people like this author and other racially focused individuals. Should they - he is not the only author who attempts this - succeed in racialising the classics they'll use these as yet another weapon in their attempt to deconstruct western culture.
How else do you answer questions like "How long has this been broken?" And without the answer to that, how do you know who needs to upgrade, and who doesn't?

I'm sure you can install old binaries to answer this sometimes, but I'd prefer to do it with a DVCS bisect, since that'll narrow the matter down to the individual commit that broke things.
Previously to GPT-2, I would have agreed. With that and GPT-3, I think most people from the 70s familiar with science fiction versions of AI would think this was pretty close to how they conceived of AI, at least until they were educated on the specifics of how it works.
It's a rhetorical statement, not a logical one. Koans aren't logical either: they're meant to prompt inquiry.
> that is North America and the heart of Europe save France

Rest assured that France is really keen on carbonising its electricity supply and closing a significant number of its nuclear plants, thus going back into the fold of its European neighbours. Stupidity knows no border.
> but you are arguing a talking point from a decade ago -- China is definitely taking actions to diversify its power generation, convert to electrical inputs, use higher-efficiency parts like LED lighting, and other important steps.

Indeed. But the major argument against doing anything in the west is still based on the idea that it's futile so long as china doesn't do more.
Does it not come down to the usual "cathedral vs. bazar" opposition? SQLite, for which Fossil was originally built, lists 3 persons on its developers page and looks pretty much like the definition of a "cathedral", whereas git was built by Linus Torvalds for Linux, which is the prototypical bazar project.

It makes sense when you have a small team of people that know the project very well to record everything, and they can easily maintain stringent standards, like never committing anything that breaks the tests.

Whereas for a big project that involve thousands of people mailing patches around, some of them first time contributors, you'd rather make sure that what ends up in the immutable log has is clean enough.
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I just don't understand these articles. The office isn't going anywhere. Don't worry, if you want to work in an office that option is not going away.

Working in the same physical space as management will aways have an edge on remote workers. That's why it won't be going anywhere.

I can only speak for myself, but I feel that for many of us this is a once in a lifetime chance to establish working for home as a completely viable, respected choice. I don't want to move up, I just want to do my job in peace.
This is a valid point. FSF is very particular about requiring people to reassign copyrights to FSF when you contribute to GNU software. (It is controversial!) They do this to strenghten their legal stance. They can more effectively defend their license and copyrighted code base if the copyright is fully owned by a single legal entity. I could imagine a legal challenge by FSF backed by legal resources from EFF. All we need to do is get Copilot to spit out some non-trivial code (including comments!) from some core GNU utilities. That should be enough to start a lawsuit.
It's getting to be the new tabs vs spaces argument
Right, you must have room with a door to WFH otherwise back to the open plan office.
The most frustrating thing is that my destination is a friend's urban condo. They share a parking garage and valet with a hotel. There are destination chargers, and the valet will charge your car for you. But only if you're a hotel guest; the chargers are not available to condo residents.
>You must have a room with a door that can be closed IMO.

I have a bathroom door. Does that count for the blue checkmark?
>”government really seem to be afraid of their constituency by now.”

Call me a cynic, but I just don’t see things changing. The US government didn’t see a big change after the Snowden leaks and those were dramatically more revealing than this statement is. Sadly, Congress has a really high incumbency/re-election rate and most Americans just can’t bring themselves to vote for the other party. Congress usually has a single digit to to teen approval rating yet they continue to act the same way.
Because batteries are laughably costly for long term energy storage. It’s not even close; batteries will never be used for anything but short term storage.
Try a different facial expression and tone. You're dealing with a small mind that doesn't have the capability of reason, but from an early age, babies/kids know when other babies/kids are sad/angry because they put on a pout face - an obvious outward visual cue that things aren't right.
This should come as no surprise by now. Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon are all fairly familiar bedfellows with the NSA at this point, you should really only use their services to store data that you're comfortable having exposed.
> It's the responsibility of a country's own people to pursue free government for themselves, assuming that they care to. Reap what you sow, and all that.

This isn't possible often enough. There are countless dictatorships that use any means necessary to ensure their survival, from starving their populations (North Korea) to murdering or beating them up on the streets (Tiananmen massacre, Arab Spring revolutions) or silencing any opposition (Hongkong, Belarus).

Most freedom movements need some form of support from the outside, be it arms, money, logistic or ideologic support.
I'm on my phone right now, but there is a paper on the exact P=NP efficient market question.

I don't assume that planning an economy would require solving NP-hard problems to outperform the market because I am certain that the market itself cannot solve them efficiently.

As for resources, us as a society already dedicate trillions of dollars a year to market planning - its called profits and capital gains, as well as the entire finance and real estate industry. As long as the planning system requires less than a trillion dollars a year to run even without being more efficient than the market at whichever cost function we choose it will be more efficient overall.
The sedentary thing is orthogonal. I have worked from home for years and remain far more active than I could be in an office without being weird. Having an Apple Watch -- or any similar fitness tracker for that matter -- can definitely help towards this.

I love working from home. However it is a constant battle to ensure that others understand that it really is working. That I don't have flex time to do anything at any time. I might have the agency to be able to, but I also have goals and inertia and focus that I want to feed and that are very important to me.

As to interruptions, that really is case by case. I completely shut out peers when I want to (to be frank, fuck your noisy, useless, attention sucking slack chat/discord/IRC and anything else where anyone has expectations of synchronous responses), and have been lucky to be in a position to do so. I also just shut my phone off when I don't want calls. If I couldn't do that, work interruptions would be a disaster. However it's a bit more tough on the family front where my wife, for instance, feels pretty slighted if I can't engage in a conversation whenever something comes to her. However many calm explanations have occurred, if you're in the same house it's tough for people to perceive you as unavailable.
> This re-hash amongst Western chatty people is well-intentioned perhaps, but the targets really are moving as this debate has not.

It’s not. It’s an excuse for doing nothing whilst blaming the Chinese.
The moment I posted the comment, I was like, "Crap, forgot about kids."

Yeah.

Our solution was to install a lock. Are you in a situation where you can do the same thing?

The lock happened to be to our basement, which isn't exactly a nice place to work in. But it was effective. A lockable side room might make all the difference.
If you hate running, the first thing to do is to stop saying, “I hate running”.

Same for: cardio, gym, cooking, waking up early
Which is different to Windows because...?

You're making silly arguments based on your own strawmen.
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> Although GPON is shared, it is not half duplex!

Seems like you are right! Although most are asymmetric (2488 / 1244 Mbps). I guess that even for ones with symmetric bitrates, effective upstream transfer rate would be lower than downstream transfer rate due to synchronization / higher inter-frame period needs.
I think we've established now that WFH is either the best thing that ever happened to you or complete misery. It 100% depends on your home, your mental health, your social life, your own needs, etc.

Whatever your preference, it's ok and you don't have to justify that preference.
This might help: https://pythonextensionpatterns.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ind...
Clarification: One cannot patent an algorithm, but an implementation in source code can certainly be copyrighted.
One exception makes the whole "EU doesn't have" incorrect.

EU doesn't enforce it on the states, yes. But some (maybe all) countries that are in EU do have it.
> I will soon be diving 1600km. Google suggests the route will take 14h. I expect to make it in 15. Friends with Teslas suggest it would take nearly 20.

Google doesn't account for stops required for toilet breaks, eating and drinking. Of course, you can just not drink, so you don't have to pee. You can eat while driving even though that's isn't a good idea from a safety standpoint. You can skip taking any breaks and get tired, which is also a bad idea from a safety standpoint.

It also depends on the available charging infrastructure, of which I have no clue at your destination.

In my own experience with driving about 1200 km with regular breaks, it took about an hour longer than it did with my diesel. It just took more planning. Most times, a charging stop meant peeing, drinking a coffee and then the car would be finished charging. The biggest issue was that some chargers aren't near a rest stop.
I thought at first it would tag users on a website and could identify politicians by input style. At least this is slightly less disturbing.

But I also think this is a helpful tool to teach representatives about the repercussions of surveillance laws they passed in the last decade. In fear of terrorism that already mutated into domestic issues where the population slowly becomes the enemy.
My experience with offices is literally the exact opposite. They're like high school full of corporate nonsense, cheerleading and other childish behaviours.

My work from home life, with my beautiful wife and child at arms reach, is a miracle.
Red Herring in that --> Green hydrogen + Solar + Wind + Energy Storage are all important components of the future energy portfolio as we deleverage traditional O&G.

They serve different functions and should all be targeted aggressively.

I agree a Hydrogen car is a long way away though. Many more viable options in the near term.

And electrolysis and plasma based hydrogen from renewable natural gas coupled with renewable energy are going to be cost-competitive with SMR based hydrogen very soon. Faster than anyone thinks.