skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think it’s 2-3x averaged for the entire year?

I’m way more effective at writing complex code in an office. I’m not any more effective at random administrative tasks (due to procrastination tendencies, I might even be less effective at them). I’m modestly more effective at reading emails or design docs, but not integer factors more productive.

I’m a huge supporter of offices and was extremely salty when we got kicked out of them (for cost reasons). It’s why I love remote working now.
It has a huge impact in practice. The international community will look much more favourably on a country that violates a colonial treaty with its former Metropolis than with any other country.

In practice, colonial era treaties are less legitimate. No one except the parties directly materially affected care.
While executives primarily do collaboration work, they also do a lot of confidence work. I think there are legitimate reasons for a lot of strategic planning and feedback to happen behind a door.
> Surveillance state

If that exists, it existed before COVID, and vaccinations against COVID certainly haven't changed that.

> Social credit system

Are you referring to mandates? These have been a thing, in the U.S., for many decades

> exclude people from doing simple human things

Vaccine mandates have excluded people from things far more important than restaurants, such as education, for many decades. This is not new to COVID.

You seem to be arguing against a system that has existed for many, many years.
Making it worse, it is already known that changing things improves productivity, so it is really hard to study what works. If you make the lights brighter or dimmer it will improve productivity - this has been repeated enough to conclude it wasn't the starting brightness it was the act of change.
The way I look at this, the UI would be only to speed things up / simplify things a little bit. It wouldn't try to do full error validation before execution. It's the job of a command-line app to fail with an error if wrong combination of flags or inputs was provided, and the UI might display that error in a pretty generic way.
Could you share the code for this? It looks great!

I built my own to browse large video collections: Video Hub App https://videohubapp.com/

MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
But your clerks aren’t going to record every step i take for a decade inside your store and run algorithms to manipulate my brain into optimizing store outcomes.
Sorry I meant the 6th. Capitol riot in DC.
It's a bit late to add this, but I realize that I wasn't entirely clear above. When I say "results in maths (that) require an entire book length treatment" I don't mean a proof that is inherently book length. I mean, a proof that justifies (one or more) book length "downstream" treatments that explain, clarify, expand, etc., the base proof.

Going back to Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem(s) for example... yes, the original proof is not that long, but for whatever reason, people have felt compelled to write entire books on the topic, after Gödel, to say more about the proofs. That kind of thing is more what I was thinking of, FWIW.
Yoga will never produce the same amount of body strength or power that a good, sustainable, compound barbell program can.

I do think there is a place for Yoga in giving our bodies different kinds of movements so we experience our body in different ranges of motion and positions but Yoga is nothing like compound barbell training (whether it's powerlifting or olympic weightlifting).
The mi scales can be set up to have smart features locally.

Only caveat is that you need to use the app for initial setup and of course this assumes there isn't any kind of undisclosed antenna nonsense.
That’s why I am making flockaround.com . No more restrictions. You can create any subject and comment on anything.
Nice! Your profile still says you are VP Engineering at Stack Exchange (http://stackexchange.com)
Did very many people ever believe it was about those things?
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bhutton-json-sch...

That's an expired draft on the informational track. Informational track isn't supposed to be authoritative; drafts even less, let alone expired drafts. Having submitted an Internet-Draft to IETF is an indicator of seriousness, not authority, unless you get it approved on the standards track.
They don't do any of those things (at least not for me; there's a sibling reply where someone was harassed for non-compliance). If I don't use the device, no one contacts me. I lost power a few times and couldn't use it; I pulled a couple all-nighters over the years; I left it behind on a weekend trip once; I had a stretch of sleeping problems where I didn't sleep more than a couple hours a night for a week; I adjusted the device outside the doctor's parameters; I had innumerable problems with poor mask fit/leaks. All these metrics were broadcast by the CPAP, and all would have been a concern of my doctor, but it's got nothing to do with patient health. This is all about gathering evidence to deny future care, whether it be new equipment or coverage for more extreme situations related to non-compliance.
This really is a weird decision! And a closed source Browser, too. There was money involved in that decision, i guarantee it.

Now talking about browsers since firefox's market share seems directly corrlated to the inverse of their CEOs paycheck, what GOOD options are still out there?

* Chrome - Spyware

* Chromium variations of all kind - Spyware with some mitigations

* Midora, Konquerror, other weird browsers etc. - hopelessly never going to be feature complete enough to be useful

* Firefox - Now with spyware AND woke politics!

* Firefox based privacy remixes like libewolf - current best choice for privacy and reasonable website compatibility.
I use Firefox and will continue to do so to resist one browser rules all situation.
Formulas for Bayesian A/B Testing (2015)
It's been six years since I even had a cubicle. Most offices I've worked in since then had us in barrierless rooms, often kind of cramped, with just enough space for a computer and monitor. Look past your monitor and you see a co-worker. Stretch your arms and you hit a co-worker.

In 30 years of working life, I've experienced a variety of working environments. I've had private offices at two companies I've worked at (ISI and Telegenics), mostly cubes, some places having strict hierarchical rules about cubical size (at my first job employees got their own 6x6 cube, contractors had to share a 12x6 cube with another contractor). One company had me literally working at a table in the cafeteria. But what I've noticed is that workspaces are shrinking and privacy is disappearing. My last in-office position didn't even have permanently assigned workspaces—in fact there was a mandatory remote day for my group because there were more employees than desk spaces (the status hierarchy still remained, but now it was defined in terms of private storage space: employees got a lockable lateral file drawer, contractors got a 12x12x12 locker which was supposed to be vacated at day's end.

I've spent all of 30 minutes in my current employer's office on a day when the only other person there was the HR person checking my documentation. It looks a little better, but not much.
To be honest this is probably in the top 3 reasons why I haven't investigated leaving academia for industry with any seriousness. A private office with a door and windows is very nice to have, and I don't think I'd want to downgrade. (Would I consider if the industry job were 100% WFH? Maybe... only recently started hearing about that as a feasible option.)

It used to be pretty common for engineers to get at least close to "private office". My dad for decades had a nice office with a window and view on the 30-something floor of the Amoco Building (now the Aon Center), which he shared with one other person. Amoco later moved them to cubicles in a suburban office park.
Can someone point to explanation on IoT botnets / what happened with Cloudflare / how they differ from regular DDoS
Have you been following the events in Australia, at all?

Linking to pre-Covid sources is a bit like linking to a pre-Hiroshima encyclopedia entry about nuclear energy.
Feels like a lateral move motivated by money and perhaps boredom. Interesting too to contrast Tinder with Bumble which is founder led and growing. Mature stagnant shuffling companies CEO, you can see clearly that the energy is gone.
I agree, a lot of problems seem to stem from over-reliance on federal authority to solve problems. It can get a bit reductionist but people are essentially mad they are not able to live in the way they want.
Who is trying to get people fired from their jobs because they smoke?
The offices in the picture(s) don't look very private to me, more like glass cubicles with the larger (but transparent) partitions.

Combined with people having their backs to (open, or in any case transparent) doors, this is very different from what I'd consider a "private" office.

If I were in charge of that place, I'd at least put semitransparent/frosted glass covering on the glass panels there so you can see if the room is occupied but can't peer behind someone's shoulder.

Also depends on the type of panel used, but such large surface glass panels are terrible at sound isolation...
30 grand a year for 1 office means you are paying upwards of 10 dollars per square foot of space, your office space is waaay too expensive.
Feels like a lot of the counter examples listed involve contractions and conjugation errors. Saying 'like' and 'liked' are different words is a strong interpretation. Similarly, 'I am' and 'I'm' are really not distinct words so counting that toward an error rate is a bit too literal. The objections could be solved by a decent parser. That said, weighting insertions and deletions equally is clearly a problem. Certain words ought to have more weight in a model. Weighting words by something like 1/log(frequency) might be a good start since less common words tend to be more important for meaning.
This above-it-all zen stance holds little value for me. I hear a voice saying "Authoritarianism harshes my mellow, man". It reminds me of Nietzsche's "Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off."
cheaper still: open office and don't worry about things like temperature gradient or air quality.
Related, are there better representations for music than standard notation (or MIDI)?

I'm wondering what the higher convolution levels could look like, if this was a CNN analyzing an image. Something between a the complete Ableton/Logic export and a MIDI file. Being able to capture the "feel" of a song (or a section within a song) strikes me as an important milestone towards designing really good generative music.
Walls and HVAC are cheap. What’s not cheap is all the additional square footage of floor plate to make offices work (additional space in the office itself, additional space for corridors, laying out architecture to allow sight lines to natural light, etc)
Most of the new things didn’t exist before. This is…basic information.

Even if they did, it’s pretty obvious that they have been dramatically increased in the last 18 months.

You seem extremely uninformed.
It's a wholly different use case. FreeTube is meant as a full replacement for the YouTube site. This app is a frontend for youtube-dl and concentrates on quick downloads noly.
Should we have freedom to harm others?

Sometimes?

Where we draw that line is very important, for sure.
This whole mess is about selfish choices, just not the one you are thinking of.
About 15 years ago my boss got promoted from VP of Engineering to CEO. It was a weird move for him, and one of the ways he handled it was to move out of his private office and onto a desk right in the middle of the R&D lab floor. He did his CEO work right in the midst of smelly chemical experiments and random hardware prototyping work. It must have worked for him, because he's been tremendously successful in the years since.
Smart TV baffle me because their software is always garbage and even non-tech people can tell its garbage. I've never seen someone happy with the OS in their television and most people use an external box anyway. Yet every TV must be wifi compatible with a bunch of shifty streaming apps bolted on.
> Salary is very important to employees, but the total cost of employing somebody is more important to an employer.

Salary is arguably more important to an employee than the total cost of employing them is to the employer because for the typical employee their salary is close to 100% of their income, while labor expense is less than that for nearly all corporations.
My bosses aren't aware that any of these things have been "proved". Some of us have anecdotical evidence that we worked more during the lockdowns, but that doesn't mean the managers are convinced of it.
>As another comment said, if the unvaccinated were willing to stick to their "ideals" and die at home instead of an ICU bed, I would be a lot more amenable to arguments against mandates.

This depends on where you're at. Where I live we currently are not near capacity in hospitals or ICUs. There isn't an issue and we are not near one.

Should so many be mandated or highly pushed to get vaccinated because of a few hot spots that affect a small part of the population? This is a question I've heard.

Note, there is a difference between believing (or knowing) the positive effects of vaccines, being a proponent, and getting one yourself.

This is about forcing others against their will do to something. I fear this will come back to bite our nation in the future. Both in terms of the willingness to force people and the repercussions that will come from it.
Some details are here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-thwarts-17-2m-rps-ddo...
Can you keep the snarky clever comments on Reddit, not here? Thanks.
I've said this in another thread, but many I've talked to who don't want the vaccine are hesitant because of the accelerated timeline. A typical vaccine goes through 3 phases of clinical trials, with phase 1 lasting 1-10 years, phase 2 lasting 2-3 years, and phase 3 lasting 2-4 years.

That means you have anywhere from 5 to 17 years worth of data to look at and determine if there are long-term effects.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines/timeline
> means something very different from being a monoid in the normal sense

Yet you didn't say how exactly different. I understand I probably need to know category theory for that, yet nevertheless OP's post was useful, fulfilled some curiosity, but your comment didn't, besides leaving feeling "it's complex", sorry.

I'd really appreciate if someone one day wrote as clear explanation of monads as OP's, but at the same time staying correct.
You can try this addon (Unhook: Remove YouTube Recommended Videos Comments) as it does just that and more, my web yt is clean, I don't even have a feed thanks to this.

Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unhook-remove-yout...

FF - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...
Would this be helpful in any way for fall detection? Especially for the elderly. I wouldn't want a camera watching my parents for example.

I think so, if it can track acceleration it may be able to do so. Would have to play around with it to know for sure.
> a novel gene therapy

I recommend a 7th grade biology class. mRNA does not touch genes at all. Let alone modify them.
What spyware is present in Firefox?
Why not comment on the obvious implications of the drug war discontinuity?

Prosecutors routinely fabricate evidence to convict people.
>what GOOD options are still out there?

You know, that's a good question given the threat exposure in a browser.

Maybe the right answer is a mixture. Use a dedicated Chromebook in guest mode for financial transactions/bill paying/banking (high security, low privacy from Google) and something akin to a text-based browser on an open source OS for everything else.

Is there something like Lynx but with a bit of formatting + still images? I can see going that route simply because the sheer size (in LOC) of a modern browser is so great that I question it's trustability.
I call this "late fee" logic. Often times an apartment will want to charge $X for rent but only charges $Y. They make up the difference by imposing fees and other restrictions so by the end you are basically at $X. I hate these policies because I hate people lying to me. Cut the shit with these late fees and just raise the damn rent.

Likewise, if the goal is to vaccinate the entire country, don't try to beat around the bush and have OSHA do it, actually mandate it.

I'm not in favor of vaccine mandates, I just hate when poeple tell me to my face "Oh well we need to do this because of A, B and C" where everyone knows it's really "We're doing this because it will accomplish X, Y and Z"
And what about unknown long-haul effects from newly developed vaccines? Are we permitted to be concerned about those?
Waze has been pretty good at finding gas stations along my route and organizing them by distance from me and distance from my route. Like it would show a gas station 2 miles off the highway from the next exit but it will also list out a gas station that is 15 miles away right off the highway. Either option is up to you based on how much time you want to waste versus how soon you need gas.
You are wrong. There are great volumes of evidence that keeping a low weight and keeping macronutrients roughly in some gap makes you live longer. I'm not sure what is left to be talking about. Specific fad diets?
I am pretty sure that switch just ignores PSP after boot; ie neutering it after it's necessary
It's sad that the only point to keep using Firefox is because it is open source.

The Firefox's interface is getting worse and worse and it does not seem to be doing anything to protect the users privacy.
I was going to defend Python with the obligatory 'every language is least a little bad' but then I noticed

Python sucks

followed by...

I’ll be mostly comparing it to Java and C#

...and it seems unnecessary to belabor the point.
My favorite workplace layout was a long hallway with offices for everybody. Then they'd put us 2-4 people in an office (including the execs). If you wanted privacy, you closed the door, but most people left them open. And you got to know your office mates well. It was a great time.

Current company sent out a survey about the office remodel. The options were "2 to a cubicle" or "1 to a cubicle". Ugh
Not really. Things would be pretty simple. You see something? You can copy it. Not a single legalese document in sight.

Don't compare this stuff to police brutality, looting, murder. They're not even in the same realm. Intellectual property is just ideas and absurd notions of ownership. It's like trying to own numbers. The real brutality is sending people to jail over this.
Nail on the head.

I think the gimmickry exists as a facade to give them a reason to slap enough electronics in a device to be able to harvest data, and to piggyback off the user's internet for "updates". If you're going to put a microphone in a fridge, people are going to want to know why, so you need some kind of gimmick that allegedly uses it so you don't have to admit it's mostly there for data harvesting.

They are cheaper (in dollars), which does appeal to consumers. Manufacturers sell the data and discount the merchandise.

Tangential, but I'm curious what the margins on stuff like smart-fridges are. It seems like competition would drive us to a point where smart appliances are sold for at or below cost, with profits coming from selling data. It's crazy to me that LG or Maytag could become a data vendor that just so happens to sell appliances, because the data has to come from somewhere.
We are Chrome. Resistance is futile. Your Internet usage as you know it is over. From this time foward, you will be monitized by us!
What about things that do have a lot of cost? Drinking (10,000 lives per year lost in the USA due to drunk driving), not to mention destroyed families and caused homicides, smoking (countless lives lost), sexual immorality (countless abortions and mental and psychological effects of casual sexual relationships).
tl;dr
"I don't like python because it doesn't have the features I personally like"

If you find a language you like better than Python, cool, use that language. In the meantime, don't post rants posing as objective critiques, that's just a waste of everyone's time.
The problem with extraordinary claims like this, is that you’re much more likely to be estimating your own productivity incorrectly than you are to be correctly. There’s no doubt that most people would write more LoCs sitting a in quiet room undisturbed, but that’s likely a rather poor measurement of your ability to productively provide value to your employer.

I worked with a guy recently who was a notoriously poor communicator. He’d spend 4 days/week WFH, would barely give any updates on what he was doing, and was in general incredibly hard to get a hold of. He did write a lot of code, and most of it was very high quality. But almost none of it was ever used. His excellent code would almost never end up solving the problems we needed it to solve, or provide the functionality we needed it to provide, and nobody ever learned anything from working with him and his very senior-level skill set.

In my experience, people who make extraordinary estimates about how much more productive they’d be if left to work on problems alone are much more likely to be similar to that guy rather than the person you’re describing. This person was a rather extreme case, but I’ve worked with plenty of people like him.
When I was a youth vaccines gave immunity to their recipients, that doesn't seem to be a case now.
Because it's not lifesaving medicine for them? Vaccines are lifesaving for old and obese, not so much for anyone else who is pretty much at zero risk from COVID, yet most of the people are harassed with restrictions and forced vaccination if they don't wanna be discriminated for being healthy and taking care of their health unlike obese filling hospitals.
In my experience, upper management like that tends to listen to those people that know what they're talking about. They understand that they hired these people to be experts, why would you ignore their opinion when that's literally what you're paying them for.
I think what i'm working with would definitely help in this endeavor.

Will let this comment here also as a mark, so i can come back latter (2 months from now) and poke the author to see if it does what he was intending..

Of course it not the concrete shell, but the platform to build such a shell, and anything else (applications in general) really..
"Burned" how? You wrote 9 extensions for it and then the browser started to suck?

Burned... Just export your bookmarks and start using another one.
Every side is the 'human side'.
Interesting, maybe instead of my proposed perplexity metric, we measure the difference in both utterance and per-word perplexity between ground truth and output with a strong language model? Ideally it's low - the language model should consider each predicted word to be "about as likely in context" as the closest ground truth words.

In other words, measure LM perplexity on the ground truth words, then on the predicted words, and minimize the difference in perplexities. Ideally with a general model like GPT2 or BERT or something that you aren't using anywhere in your actual ASR.

This may even be more tolerant of errors in the ground truth transcription than raw WER
Is it really accurate to call it mandatory when exemptions have been relatively trivial to acquire and use if one desires to?

People keep acting surprised that other people would say no and also object to not having a choice.

Then there's the immunocompromised people who react poorly to vaccines and programs such as this are trying to corral them into a one-size-fits-all mandatory vaccination program.
I agree. I don't think there is a such a thing as a bad programming language, only bad programmers.
I was given the paperwork for this program on my first dose, I got it early.