skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been a C-Level at a (medium sized) company before, I had a go at using an open-plan desk (which I strongly prefer), but it’s not practical. The reason it can’t really work, is C-Levels spend a lot of their time in meetings discussing confidential information. An open-plan desk is a bit of a waste if you can only spend 1-2 hours a day sitting at it, and you need to spend the rest in a meeting room.

I’ve also worked at a company that considered offering private offices to anybody who wanted them, but the numbers on it suck. For our office sites it was going to cost an extra $20-30,000 annually per employee in floor space. Salary is very important to employees, but the total cost of employing somebody is more important to an employer. If it costs an extra $20-30,000 to employ somebody, that money has to come from somewhere. Most people wouldn’t choose to take a pay cut of that size in return for a private office. The extra money could come from increased productivity, but even if you believe you’d be more productive in a private office, you’re not going to be 15-30% more productive. In this case most people spent 1 or 2 days a week WFH, so to cover the cost the change would more realistically have to increase productivity by upwards of 50%.

I know they’re “notoriously unpopular” but if you did a survey I’m sure you find waking up to go to work in the morning is pretty unpopular too. The alternative is to increase the cost of employing you in a way that doesn’t result in any form of compensation, which if you think it through is likely not a very good idea.
>Were the great dictators just irrational?

Probably not at all, although it's hard to think/talk in a general fashion about such large systems.

The Axis Powers strike me as fighting a more reasonable war than (for instance) their WWI aggressor predecessors if you view it as simply a grab for land and resources. It's a thing that a Khanate or a Roman governor would understand and appreciate. I'd say that the actions of the Germans and Japanese would make perfect sense to the ruling class of most pre-modern states.

It's hard work to avoid Historian's Fallacy.
https://github.com/oliexdev/openScale/wiki/Supported-scales-...

(Not that it detracts from your point about the market).
Are you arguing that all of these unions don't help their members or that they have other negatives you don't like? Because that's kind of a different discussion imo
I was just about to ask about something like this! I looked at the page but couldn’t figure out if this allows you to watch the downloaded videos in the browser as well, does anyone know or if there is another docker/web app for that?
Yes! Perplexity is a great idea. Although you could technically have a low perplexity prediction that is not similar to the ground truth transcription.

CER is definitely more granular. There are papers that basically count Deletions, for example, as 0.5(D) when calculating WER - since they consider Deletions "less bad", but if these weights aren't standardized then WER scores will be super hard to compare.

Personally I think some metric including some type of perplexity is the way to go.
It is the foundation of C++. Even in pre-modern destructors were the heart even if we didn't use them as much as we do now with modern C++.
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Digital art is constantly stolen. Artists share designs online, and it's not much work copy the image and convert it into a T-shirt.
Finally I can browse Reddit without VPN!
Indeed, they do. They still have the domestic capacity to expand internal production to cover most of those 10 million barrels. I didn't say they produce everything they need in sufficient quantities, just that they produce it. It would cause short term trouble and rationing but long term the impact is mitigated.
Well, technically smoking kills ~400k a year and has been legal for over a century, so we could start there. We could get into heart disease and diabetes and the legality of unhealthy food if it’s about the raw numbers.
On the other hand, it's Chromium that isn't a fucking snap.
I honestly don't get it.
Why do people who don't write in python mind that I write in python? I don't mind that they don't write in python.
As has been reported a lot recently, Hedge funds and wall st are involved in a lot of these things for their own profit. What they do is not illegal afaik, but engineered "shortages" or "supply chain issues" increase profit for them and why would they want to not take even more?
How do you expect this to impact the job market for software engineers or database administrators?
I would add to that the option to 'self-host' the smart bits. Why have 10 computers idling all the time if you can have 1 computer in use most of the time. This obviously adds complexity (you either need a compute module, or a module that connects to your PC), but it would be nice for a customer to just buy one or the other pre-packaged, and it also improves the repairability.
I guess I'm just willing to live dangerously. Lots of folks are just too coddled and unwilling to take a risk, even for the greater good.

Back in the good old days, we were really willing to take risks--to cross oceans, even, as the op wrote--to do new things that could benefit our fellow human beings. Now it's all about "Oh no, this is a novel therapy that might infinitesimally increase my personal risk".

Really kind of sad.
I just got back from a session with a personal trainer, for exactly this reason.

On any given day, I cannot find the self-motivation to go to the gym and do a real workout. Even if I have a good gym in the building I live in.

But once I'm paying someone- pre-paying no less- for training sessions, then I do not ever miss a day. So all I need is the motivation to get fit one time, and then drop a huge amount of money at that one time.

Oh, what's that? Sunk cost fallacy you say? Doesn't seem to impact this process in me and I'm not about to convince my lazy brain that it should.
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She said that if I disabled it, insurance would refuse coverage.

This is true.

That's how i found out that one of my medical devices has s cellular modem: I got a letter from the DME company saying that if i didn't use it more hours, my insurance would refuse to cover it and I'd have to pay the balance.

Where i lived, i had terrible cellular service, so i had to get an exemption from the insurance company and make sure to bring the SD card to my doctor quarterly to ensure the insurance company would continue to pay for it.
A v40 QR code can hold ~3000 chars/bytes. Isn't that enough for a GPG key?
Well the people doing it did learn lessons from that. Only time will tell of course.
One of the reasons I dread going back to office is that I will be FORCED to hear chatty coworkers.

Some people like the noise. But others don't. My productivity suffers in the noise. What a waste of time!
Everyone will follow the rules. You wouldn't download a car, would you?
White space is definitely an issue. It was an issue for Guido from day one, and he brought that issue to the rest of us just because he could.
I agree with you that proof of work is a disaster. The problem is that mining is probably the last part of modern cryptocurrency network that will go away following a full-on regulatory onslaught.

What will instead crash first are the newer and less-resilient networks that don't use proof of work: proof-of-authority systems like Cosmos/Polygon, centralized systems like Binance Smart Chain, all the scalable rollup servers. Ongoing transitions like Ethereum's move to proof of stake might also be disrupted. Even if a regulatory approach was ultimately successful in shutting down proof-of-work mining, I think it would take years. Those years could be better spent by devising and encouraging more efficient consensus technologies, like the ones already being launched today.
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The problem is it fails even simplest tests (Q: "Adam was not born in 2012. When was Adam born?" A: "2012"; "Mary says Adam was born in 2012. John says Adam was born in 2013. And in fact the latter date is correct." A: "2012").
I was told about the cellular connection by my respiratory therapist. Mine even has an app that has achievements for proper and continuous usage. It also goes into pretty good detail about what you're screwing up if you aren't getting good mask seal. Even got a call from my therapist after two weeks following up with me about the data he received.

AFAIK this is what home medical equipment seems to be moving too. My dad's external pacemaker had a base station that phoned home over cellular as well.

If I wasn't wholly depended on the device I'd be very interested in poking around inside of it. I'd be very interested in learning what it's collecting, and maybe someone living in a area with laws allowing users to request their data should follow up with them.
China hasn't colonized Africa.

China produces very significant amounts of copper ore, iron ore, coal, and has the facilities to expand production on short notice .

It would hurt production in the short term, yes, but there wouldn't be anything that China would completely miss.
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I witnessed a similar thing today, I was the first car in front of a black BMW for over 20 kilometers on twisty country roads. There was a young man behind the wheel and he gave me lots of space when I was turning onto the road on a busy intersection, was keeping his distance, never looked down at his phone AFAIK, and it felt really nice not to be expecting to be hit from behind at any moment.
I mean have you guys seen the prices in general in the world right now? Everything is a bit bananas.
The vaccines were as close to a literal miracle as I've ever seen in my life. We got several different vaccines that worked within a year of the pandemic hitting. There was no guarantee that we'd ever get working vaccines, let alone so many so fast.

Depressing that it wasn't enough.
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According to the staff, the temporary holding area I was in (an office cube farm converted to holding patients in recliners) was new, as was the practice of lining every available hallway with people in beds. I went to this hospital specifically because it was close to home (riding in a car with an appendicitis is agony), and because it advertised low wait times. It turns out the low wait time was to be triaged, not to be treated.
True, but readability is something that can be measured through experimentation, and for most people monospaced fonts are worse.
> a world without copyright (or something similar) would be a world of endless exploitation and stifled innovation

Says who? The copyright monopolists?

There's plenty of historical evidence to the contrary:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28330810

It seems obvious in hindsight. Less monopolies lead to more competition and better products. Even the US engaged in such infringement.
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Sounds like a candidate for an "About us" section of the website.
Just so you know hn doesn’t have any pm functionality, you also don’t have any contact info in your hn bio, which is how most ppl connect outside of hn.

I will say, however, you’ve been incredibly dismissive and condescending, at times even insulting throughout this entire thread, up and down the page, even as someone who is pro-vaccine, I wouldn’t consider you “safe”. So your offers comes off as more gaslighting than anything else.
NATO only responds to attacks on it's members (and even then, only to attacks on its members in certain areas - NZ attacking a US/UK/French base in the South Pacific doesn't count.) However, where it responds to is not limited. NATO said 9/11 was an attack on a member, so they all went into Afghanistan to respond to it.
I looked up this law, fwiw: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/pennst01.asp . The actual provision is that non-residents of Pennsylvania could not keep slaves in the state for longer than 6 months. Unless those non-residents were "members of congress, foreign ministers [or] consuls".

The rules were considerably more complicated for Pennsylvania residents; the law basically grandfathered in existing slaves owned by Pennsylvanians and provided for a decades-long slow abolition as the children of existing slaves reached the age of 28.

It's interesting that the law exempted members of congress (and representatives of other countries, possibly for similar reasons) but not the president.
It could be immediacy.

Too many times in my admittedly short career some exec or PM has come up with something and immediately wanted it and asked the developer to do it.

Developer doesn’t have any context on the ask, so has to go ask other people.

Execs solution is to call a mega meeting and they can easily grab everyone if they are in the same room. Online or in offices, it can be time consuming to wrangle everyone.

Overall, very disruptive to work, but it does seem to allow their particular ask to get done quickly which makes them look good. The damage to other productivity is like rust. Hard to notice until it gets really bad.
Could you give some concrete examples of the types of data that an existing smart monitor (not a TV) collects and sells to others? (Ideally also naming the manufacture and the device.)
Unfortunately no immediate plans to do so. It was a quick weekend project to scratch an itch.
The mass comes from binding energy, not kinetic. The binding energy is potential energy in the gluons and their interactions with the quarks.
Hilarious how little of Python's history is considered/known in the post.

> For a very long time, Python had two major versions running around in the wild. They are, of course, Python 2 and

Python was popular long before that, and the most recent explosion in popularity came with the rise in data science.
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Question is not availability but banning anyone without one from working.
Part of it's control, part of it is the market seems largely apathetic. The impact of private offices and 4 day weeks is probably small enough that their lack won't kill companies on their own (you don't have to be the best, just good enough), so the effects are still speculative and on a case-by-case basis. Maybe offices and 4 day weeks will slowly trickle into the market place, like remote work pre-covid. But it'll be a generational change, not a revolution.

Plus management lives on metrics. If you don't have metrics to capture an impact or potential impact you have no argument. Very few companies currently using open offices/full work weeks are going to expend the capital to experiment with private offices for all and 4 day work weeks. So to make your case at said companies someone else your leadership admires has to do it first and then you can quote them, similar to how every startup office basically turned into a Google knock-off once Google took off.
Why fucking Vivaldi? I would take vanilla Chromium over this
Or have recovered from covid. Not sure why you would leave that bit out.
It was temporary, originally enacted for four years. Unfortunately, it was extended a few times in whole and then in part before finally being allowed to expire completely after 18 years.
Yes. Both modern intel and AMD CPUs require a signed firmware on boot, and there's no way to adjust these keys. This basically kills any attempt to keep the boot process open (but doesn't completely stop attackers because the signed firmware is vulnerable to a variety of attacks).
Because they are even more resistant to reinfection with the vaccine.

Anti-vaccination enthusiasts have had a year to make their case. It's time to roll up sleeves for civic duty.
Oh no. The govt is distracting us by trying to save people's lives.

/s
A submarine could get within 220nm.
Love it, both farcical and terribly serious.
>Today’s new wind power projects have turbine capacities of about 2 MW onshore and 3–5 MW offshore. Commercially available wind turbines have reached 8 MW capacity, with rotor diameters of up to 164 metres.

Depending on the power, each 0.2-2 MW strike is equivalent to the energy produced in a few minutes to an hour of normal operation.

https://www.irena.org/wind
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Doesn’t have all the author’s desired features out of the box, but recently I was forced into using PowerShell (Core edition, which is OSS, different from Windows only pwsh) for a work project and you know what? It’s surprisingly capable! It’s available from powershell/powershell on GitHub as a built binary for multiple systems and architectures including MacOS and Linux, or you could compile it yourself since it’s open source. The powershell gallery is the marketplace this guy was talking about, so there’s that. And you can distribute or consume fully encapsulated modules as well. The scripting language itself is fully object oriented, and while it takes some getting used to, you quickly start seeing real value in your day to day from the conventions and patterns established by the community over the years. I haven’t switched entirely from zsh yet, but I’m slowly investigating exactly how to do that as time allows. It’s a bit more verbose than typical Unix shells so you type a little more, but that’s a small price to pay for everything it brings to the table. If you’ve never tried it (OSS version, aka “core” edition) I highly recommend it. WAY easier to learn for first timers than bash!
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In this case I'm on the fence.

Say you are not breathing, and the machine is working, but not up to manufacture's specs. They have the data. They should inform you of a malfunctioning machine? Since they have the data, it's incumbent on them to inform you of the state of the malfunctioning cpac machine?

If they don't get back informing you of a faulty machine, a lawyer could subpoena those cell phone records/data? And maybe have a case?
> If there’s anything that’s an absolute must in my Observability to-do list, it’s getting org-wide acceptance of OpenTelemetry (OTel) for data-collection.

OpenTelemetry exists to allow CTOs to tick boxes on requirements checklists, and help to get the CNCF technology stack into the F500 space. The project is textbook design by committee, with seemingly infinite scope but very little acknowledgement of the actual technical constraints of the problem space. It claims it can solve a lot of problems, but I can say from first hand experience that it does not, and cannot, deliver on those claims. It's not good. Nobody with a choice should be using it.
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Eastern Europe and Latin America is generally considered to be part of the West. Your argument is unconvincing because I could say the same about Eastern Canada.

Generally the dividing line between West and East is the Ural mountains.
Unpopular opinion: it will be much worse.

RISC-V is meant to be flexible and you can create CPUs that look very very different. Furthermore, some early chips used own solutions in some areas as a standard way of doing things was yet not available (e.g. memory protection).

So we have a hardware landscape with extreme fragmentation. If people cannot agree on the hardware, I have hard time seeing them agreeing on the firmware.
> You might want to check the science on that - for the Delta variant.

I have.

The general vaccine effects that it reduces likelihood of contagious infection seems to be very true of Delta, as does the effect that it reduces the length of contagious infection appear to remain. The effect that it doesn't seem to have with Delta that it had with some previous variant is reducing viral count in breakthrough infections compared to nonvaccinated infections.

The media, on the basis of “if it bleeds, it leads” and “man bites dog news, dog bites man not” has highlighted the science relating to the absence of the last effect, but not as much that relating to the presence of the first two.
I keep thinking WWIII will start with India vs. Pakistan. And China takes on Taiwan as part of the general chaos.
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The flu definitely overwhelms hospitals on a yearly basis. Try searching Google with a date filter before 2020 for hospital overcrowding and flu.
> Australia, New Zealand, and Canada are quasi-police states [1] and will probably mandate vaccination+boosters soon.

Regardless of whatever metric you use to define “freedom” all of those countries rank higher than the US pre-Covid for “freedom”[1][2][3]. If your argument is that those countries are fundamentally “less-free” post-Covid due to public health measures, I don’t see the data to support that. To imply that all those countries will shift from the principles that drive them pre-Covid to a police-state post-Covid is very unlikely given the prior right?

As someone who’s lived in one of those countries and the US, I can say that the tendency of the US to argue over every small issue, even if it is overwhelmingly common sense and beneficial, takes away a lot of focus on the big issues that the country needs to solve.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

[2] https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table

[3] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-i...
I can't picture anything more boring than being stuck in my own office all they. Might as well work from home, then. At least I then can wear sweatpants.

Not that I want open offices. But I want to talk to my colleagues, collaborate, hear their discussions and chime in, shoot the shit etc. So a small office for the team is perfect. 6-8 persons.
On the contrary, UNSCEAR has painstakingly tracked the long-term effects at Chernobyl specifically because they wanted to know.

[1] https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html
Do you mean that as a counterpoint to the parent? These products seem to generally be targeting wealthier consumers. I wonder if China did face a shortage of animal protein, they could avoid some of the political unrest by marketing plant-based alternatives as being more desirable, like these US companies are trying to do (with reasonable success, it seems).
Whats wrong with it? I've been using it for a while and it seems like chrome + UI improvmenets.
Are you in the diplomatic corps? Are you certain that US, Australia, and Japan are not communicating to China? Not all diplomatic exchanges are made public. For example, it is clear that the US is currently talking with the Taliban leadership. What are they saying? We have no idea, but it is taking place. I suspect the same is true for the above.
> "Stand your ground" rules

American spotted.
There's a boulevard in my city named after him. According to autocomplete, there's at least six another french cities having such a boulevard.

The big store "Galeries Lafayette" is also named after the street in which the first store was opened.
My answer: get up earlier. Morning work outs seem to make my brain a lot more alert all day.

I get up at 6:30, leave home at 7:15, get to the gym at 7:30, 30 minutes of cardo, 1 hour of strength, then get back home and quickly shower, starting work at 9:30 (WFH benefit right there). I do that 3 days per week.
> Anti-vaccination enthusiasts
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