skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to the office to work the other day for the first time since February 20th, 2020.

It was great. So quiet, open, well lit, great and comfortable desk and chair, ..

Obviously, I could improve my home office, but in reality my home office is taking space that I otherwise was using before 2/20 and now there's a whole space in my home that is allocated to being a work station instead of what it was before.

A few other people came in, and it was great to talk in person in front of a giant whiteboard.
With stack ranking, many engineers blacklisting Amazon, and the sheer size of their engineering department, they must be close to literally running out of engineers to hire in America, right? At least if they stuck to in person work and limited their hiring pool geographically.
> So they took the time to get ideas out of him and do the exact same thing he did

No. Both package managers are open-source and share no code. They aren't even written in the same language. [0] [1]

It seems the author of AppGet wanted to sell it to Microsoft and Microsoft didn't see anything worth to acquire. He never even spoke to the people who could make the purchasing decision. Then they gave him a regular PM interview and it seems he failed it.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

[1] https://github.com/appget/appget
I am scraping radio broadcast pages for a decade now. Started with (ruby) scrapy, then nokogiri, then moved on to go and their html package.

Currently sport a mix of curl + grep + xsltproc + lambdasoup (OCaml) and am happy with it. Sounds like a mess but is shallow, inspectable, changeable and concise. http://purl.mro.name/recorder
Can this ever be answered?

Everyone has their own personal circumstance and reasons for wanting to work in the office, home or hybrid. Ultimately employees will choose what suits them and given nowadays a lot of companies offer the choice of remote, will see people shift if that's what they want.

Remote will become an accepted and standard way of working, and I hope local communities will benefit and thrive from having a local hub of workers.
China Is Now the Last Major Country Still Pursuing a 'Zero Covid'
> it's no longer the 1970's.

Oh? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58854081
Wikipedia absolutely has a conservative bent, I wouldn't call the editing body "liberal" for using a newspaper owned by a union-busting multibillionaire as a source

You didn't really respond to the assertion that all American politicians are right-wing, but it's true. We have a "blood and soil" far right party and a "diverse corporate oligopoly" center-right party.
"Always available" is more broken than going back to office.
I have never understood how someone dares base their business on the benevolence of a company that can, at any time and for whatever reason, shut them down and essentially render a product entirely worthless. Personally that's a risk I'm not comfortable with.
My wife and I were discussing Facebook vs Instagram vs TikTok the other day. Neither of us use Facebook. My wife pointed out that our friends aren't interesting. Their posts are often their kids or their families or politics or something that just isn't that interesting to us. They're still friends, but they just aren't interesting to follow on social media.

On the flip side, I love TikTok. It's full of strangers! New, exciting strangers doing wild, strange things in trendy and funny and smart and annoying and cringe-filled ways! TikTok is an entire world of social media that could never exist on Facebook. (Or maybe it did back when it started? I can't remember.)

Instagram is the more interesting one for me. I observed over the course of this conversation that if you look at my feed, it's boring stuff I don't care about. I follow my friends and they post pictures of their kids and blah blah blah.

But if you click the "Discover" tab, it's almost entirely three of my biggest interests: horses, fitness, and D&D.

To Eugene's point, my feed is my social graph, but my Discover tab is my interest graph.

Like Eugene, one of the things I like about TikTok is that it's an interest graph and I happen to be connected to a few of my friends. But since I spend most of my time on the For You Page, I never see my friend's stuff. That's totally fine with me!

I'd love more social media apps to understand that connecting with my friends doesn't mean I want to know everything they're doing, and instead I want to meet at the intersection of my social graph and my interests. Those two things don't often overlap, but when they do, it's a recipe for fun and engagement.

FWIW, despite having dramatically increased the number of ads they display, I still maintain that Instagram's ads are far and away better than Facebook's, TikTok's, Twitter's, and even Google's. I see an ad on IG and I very often say, "huh, that looks cool" whereas I would just gloss over it on other platforms.
Alpaca and llama therapy for care home residents in Germany – in pictures
Genuinely asking: Is it common for people to be suspended for trying to attend a meeting they don't have access to? I'm not in a corporate environment so I don't actually know. I'm asking this because two other people were suspended for doing that, according to the article, and I'm curious why those two people weren't just given a finger-waggle treatment.
On top of this, if Starship is successful ("fully and rapidly reusable") it could bring the launch cost down another order of magnitude.

And because Starlink is building thousands of satellites it has economies of scale that no previous satellite/spacecraft had.
A fun thing about the law is that nobody cares about your interpretations of "demand" and "legal teeth, so to speak". The only important thing is that it was in fact framed as an offer: "demanded that I agree". The original question was:

> How is this legal in any shape or form?

And the answer is, any person or corporation has the power to make an offer not to sue. Consider this post a legally binding offer from me to you, not to sue you for any matter arising out of your reply to my comment. I demand thirty thousand US dollars for the covenant not to sue. You don't have to accept, but if you don't, or you agree but do not pay within 60 days, I reserve the right to sue.

You don't need any more authority or legal power than the power to contract. There is zero legal difference between what Facebook did, and what I just did. If you don't want to accept, I cannot make you. Facebook's negotiating position is only better because they have better lawyers, more money to waste on frivolous lawsuits, and the developer maybe felt they might have done something wrong.
Could you please cite your sources for your claims? They are rather bold and contrary to what I've learned.
> What's so wrong with letting every employee make their own choice?

You're inevitably forcing your colleagues into your own way of working to some extent. Imagine a team of 6 people working on the same product:

If 1 is in office and 5 are remote, then the benefits of the office are largely lost even for the 1 person. That 1 person is still working in a remote model just from a different location which happens to be the office.

If 1 is remote and 5 are in office, the 1 person will inevitably miss out on a lot of the ongoing in-person communication. This was a well-known thing before the pandemic - the most common advice was to be remote for entirely remote companies/teams but to avoid being the only remote person on an office-based team.

If it's 3-3, then some of the communication is in person and half of the team is missing out on it but all meetings still have to be online.

I don't doubt that some companies will do this but it doesn't seem stable in the long run.
Why are you asserting people are giving up anything? I got a pay raise when I quit my in office job.
don't be anti-plant
I do wonder why and how green parties were able to get everyone else to retire nuclear plants but then nobody (green, blue, red, etc.) set plans in motion to replace it.
> Gamers aren't going to leave what they already have -why would they? Edus sure as heck won't -who does that leave, a couple of hackers? Maybe?

they do, you need target specific group of the population, then with time (years), it spreads to other new generations

that's how teamspeak died, it's userbase was aging and as a result died with time only for discord to take over
Damn was hoping for something more exotic. Actually disabling a speaker at distance would have been a feat
> already agreed with

Since when is comedy about finding something to agree with? I watch comedians to laugh. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.
Neverthrow – Type-Safe Errors for JavaScript and TypeScript
It makes sense as selling cloud and data analytics solution is the new hottie for today's corporation world.
It's like trying to deal with FB or Google period.

We got locked out of our FB account once because FB randomly required a phone number and someone in our marketing Dept provided their own. Despite owning the email address and knowing the password, we couldn't get in because we didn't know who the 2FA code was going to.

We had similar issues with our Google Pay Account.
> I don't know why people say Amazon has a bad reputation as an employee.

Note this isn't actually a question. You then go on to preemptively defend Amazon's reputation with:

- "depends on department, location, job."

- "I know a couple of employees who are happy."

- They pay really well.

- "All companies have good and bad aspects"

What I find striking about this defense is that it is so generic, it could apply to any and every company (aside from maybe pay). You obviously have no interest in learning why Amazon's reputation is negative, and frankly are trying to shut down discussion of it.
Its hard for me to understand exactly how the term "plant-based" came to be an acceptably descriptive name for a category of food. Is it so hard to just put the name of the plants in the name of the food? I think most people would be skeptical of going to a bar and ordering something off the menu that was simply called "Animal-based Wings."
I’ve had a similar path to you. Whenever I’m having a frustrating experience with them I just remind myself that it’s better than it used to be. It used to take weeks to resolve things - now it merely takes days. The problem is that most of the time the frustration should have never existed.
This isn't true; they do ask for proof of residency. Source; I've been twice with folks from the US needing urgent care, and they've been treated, but also coerced into paying and or giving their details. If I were there outside of a visa etc, I would already not trust the NHS.
Yeah, I have the same experience. I work on a major aws team and we have a lot of focus on work life balance. Oncall sucks for sure but otherwise it's fine. My girlfriend at Google has a much worse work life balance. It depends on what team you're on.
CPU in kilohertz then megahertz then gigahertz then it stopped.

RAM in kilobytes then megabytes then gigabytes then it stopped.
Both and I someone else I’ve spoken to have been reached out to by Amazon recruiters for different, both technical roles.

Neither of us get any attention from “good” companies whatsoever, but we both at least got a handful of messages from Amazon recruiters. They seem desperate. I didn’t bother pursuing as a little research showed they wouldn’t offer enough for me to relocate anyway. I’m not a fan of the FAANG hiring/placement and would probably not engage Amazon on that unless they could offer me a particularly enticing role, at least not now. Am I missing out on money? yeah probably.

The most interesting thing though, was how robotic the recruiter felt. The messages I got felt more like some mass automated messages than someone reaching out to speak to me about open roles.
I read the entire article before posting, and that's how I knew that the discrete GPU is sitting in an electrically PCIe 2.0 x4 slot (even though it has an x16 connector on the motherboard) that makes it bandwidth limited at somewhat less than 2GB/s. Modern discreet GPUs are now typically benchmarked in PCIe 4.0 x16 slots with upwards of 32GB/s of bandwidth. Having 1/16th the amount of bandwidth to and from the GPU versus the other CPUs in the article have is going to result in it having a pretty massive performance handicap.

The article had very few benchmarks relevant to typical software development workloads (a single LLVM compilation graph vs dozens of gaming benchmarks that we already knew it was going to lose is not very balanced in my opinion). If it were up to me, I'd do a few more single vs multithreaded benchmarks for developer workloads (ie Linux kernel compiles) to see how the GDDR6 impacts multicore scaling as compared to other CPUs. The few benchmarks that did have single threaded vs multithreaded results showed that it did fairly well on multithreaded workloads, but the latency hit of the GDDR6 controller was hard to overcome. A curious CPU, yes, but not really worth much more in the real world.
It’s literally mentioned in the article
The ROC is de jure* a country.

*Well as much as a such a claim can be made without specifying what legal system is being referred to.
It didn't prompt any useful discussion though as there are no other participants on the "package managers are evil" side

It might be useful to the commenter, but to the community it is not.
Then perhaps Apple should make submissions to the ACCC in a less passive-aggressive manner.
I tried to get into gRPC/protobuf in Go on a Mac for a little hobby project, but man the effort just to get protoc up and running and then generate the stubs was insane. I'm sure somehow or another, it's user error, but when the barrier of entry is so high, it's hard to justify the effort when JSON-slinging is so rarely the bottleneck.
TSMC is good at this subtle diplomatic tightrope dance.
So basically "you spot flaws in systems by watching people break them". Uh -- duh! Some revelation ... I don't think something that is common knowledge is a secret weapon, but to each their own I guess.
> Before working in tech I lived in mostly small and medium sized cities.

How long ago? If you compare downtown Seattle to downtown Seattle 10 years ago, it was much better back then. Things changed quickly this decade, I wouldn't be surprised if the places you left packed are struggling today.

Seattle in general isn't struggling at all, it grew 25% this decade and the housing market...but downtown has a huge hill to climb in going to back to a fun place to visit on the weekend.
Here are your winnings, sir.
The Gobi Molten salt reactor is finished and testing has begun. China thinks that in 2030 commercial thorium reactors will be available.
I agree! I would love to see this extended to excavators and bulldozers, these are way overpriced.
> overwhelmed

You know very well the load on the health system is not the same now as it was pre-covid. Just stop with the word games, it's embarrassing (as is the whataboutism for that matter).

For example: My dad's cancer treatment was never delayed pre-covid. It was after. That's entirely unprecedented.

>your accusation that an unvaccinated person will kill you.

Surprise! There you go with more words games instead of honest debate (changing what I said from "might kill" to "will kill").

Listen, this arguing style might work in your circles but not with actual informed grown ups. Do better. This is laughable.
Not the person you're replying to, and I haven't forgotten what Apple contributed. I remember being a young person, trying to figure out how to load my own program onto my clearly capable Motorola Razr (pre-iPhone), and getting so incredibly frustrated that there wasn't a way for me to boot up whatever software I wanted to boot up.

Part of how we got apps on phones was by Apple bullying corps in the names of users. I remember how Apple leveraged their desirability to get AT&T to do all kinds of things they previously blocked outright.

They were bullies, and they're still bullies. It's just that we really needed a bully back then to change the telecoms. I'm not convinced they're using their power to make things better for the user anymore. What Epic is doing to Apple feels very similar to what Apple did to AT&T.
The importance of focusing on one customer when evaluating opportunities
I thought Fuchsia was a microkernel? not to counter your point.
Sure, but we're not just cutting out those desirable cases from how unemployment is reckoned. Unemployment as counted is tied to the system that doles out unemployment payments, and thus comes along with all the quirks of legislation that have been added to most American welfare programs to try to discourage people from using the service. Having personally dealt with the unemployment system, I know for a fact that without a ton of legwork, it's really easy to slip through the cracks and get classified out of the category. Were I not a relatively well-off developer with savings to live off in the interim, it would have been difficult for me to do that legwork, so my confidence that the system as implemented isn't knocking a lot of people out of the pipeline (and thus also the statistics) to avoid paying them is quite low. Also, it definitely is not counting the well-documented swaths of people who, in the post-2008 economy, just continue to effectively live as dependents of their parents into adulthood.

I'm skeptical that trying to minimize unemployment, let alone maximize labor force participation, is a good thing for the government to devote resources to do. Optimizers tend to take shortcuts that don't accomplish the real desired goal and have seriously undesirable side-effects, and we see that play out in the unemployment situation as well as others, like standardized tests in schooling, when the government tries to be one. However, even in basic fact-reporting, I think the unemployment statistic is a joke. It's been so overtuned to functioning as a means-testing mechanism for a welfare program that it doesn't actually give anyone not interested in that very useful information
> China can just bide its time they will be the biggest economy at the end of the decade that will psychologically change the world so much regarding the West and Asia.

Does this take into account China's demographics? Will be to able to 'grow rich before it grows old'?
Poly: A generic text conversion/processing tool for the CLI
IIRC I saw a comment on lambda-the-ultimate years ago that said that this paper was great but there are no hints of any implementation or anything since it was swept up by irobot.
GPU Impulse Reverb now 10 years old
> I remember when...

> I'm afraid...

> I'm happy to...

It seems a little absurd to me to ask the OP to cite the source(s) of their thoughts, emotions and memories.
This feels like comparing potatoes and pineapples.

A new Cessna vs a used Falcon 9 launch hardly seems like a fair comparison. The cost of the rocket is written off as externalized. The actual satellites are not factored in at all. Really what we are comparing here is the cost of an operation vs the cost of an airplane. The economics still seem dubious.
For some people it isn't their only revenue source and the adage "you don't leave money on the table" applies.
Coworking is pretty good for this, and going to be amazing post-pandemic.
Why I host my blog on Cloudflare Pages
Frg
Microsoft's power to dictate what developers should do and how is curiously small considering their market share in the personal computer market. Apple, OTOH, has no issues deprecating functionality when they consider removing it (and disabling applications that rely on it) is beneficial to their ecosystem.
I did, not that different. To clarify, I accept things on Linux I just don't want that on windows because it is a mostly solved problem that does not need the complication. It only introduces a false sense of stability. The endless sea of windows software makers will not suddenly stop their development/deployment practices.

I mean on Linux you have the source and everything is debuggable but imagine 10 apps needing 10 versions of the same software. If it comes to this, it will be a fork moment except you can't fork freaking windows!! Stop trying to make windows Linux and Linux windows. They are both great for their uses, this childish war where one or the other needs to be the only way is silly. This silliness is how we have one browser to dictate everyones needs now.
It's probably because the concoction contains so many elements that it's difficult to label.
i am not sure what you are disagreeing with. chain rule is basic calculus that precedes understanding hessians. my argument is, if you can not understand what the chain rule is, you will not understand more complicated mathematics in ML. do you think i am wrong ?

EDIT: also uncertainty estimation is the stuff of probabalistic approach to ML. i would say that people who do probabalistic ML are quite mathematically capable (at least to my experience)
"Square dancing" here is I think a fairly awkward translation by the author. "Square" here refers a location, as in "public square" or "field". The literal chinese is 广场舞. 广场: public square (like Times Square or Tiananmen Square, but more commonly an open area in a park); 舞: dance.

Put it together... "square dance". Hm. Accurate in a word-by-word literal sense, but the article writer is being obtuse in ignoring the more popular usage of "square dancing".

I think "field dancing" or "park dancing" might be a less confusing translation that stays relatively literal.

Though... if you're searching your memory for where you've seen this before and trying to remember by dance style... honestly I'd say it significantly resembles line dancing (which still shouldn't be confused with square dancing). Usually no caller (as far as I've seen), but everyone's listening to the same music, facing the same direction, and doing the same dance moves. Generally no partners--just a grid of people individually dancing in unison.

I would probably accept "line dancing grannies" as a reasonable translation. Less literal, but more descriptive.
Good for material conditions, bad for social conditions. How you balance those is your political alignment.
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta on hold as Elon Musk has last minute concerns
I found my Amazon interview to be surprisingly easy and friendly, except for one interviewer who gave me Alien Dictionary and got offended when I told her this was a well known leetcode problem. Oops..didn't get the job.
Thanks! that's exactly I want.
I made a point to only speak for myself, my own situation, and subjective but certainly true "lots and lots of people," whereas the person I was replying to spoke in generalities.
Sleep is not about enjoyment, it is one of the most important influences on long-term health. Even more important than "a little loud" music and dancing at a time others want to rest.

From all I've heard the chinese work week is challenging enough as it is, even without noise pollution on top.
> Those things have existed for ever, and yet humanity has always found a way to move forward

This is different.
It's the same in the US too. My last (internal transfer) job interview at Apple was 8 hours long, 8 interviews.
the player is malfunctioning anyway, similarly to those videos that report short runtime and then go on forever that get passed around quite frequently
vscode remote ssh mode is a much better experience than x forwarding. Like, it's not even close. It is hands down the best remote editing experience I've ever used in any kind of editor or ide, and running anything electron through remote X11 is basically like trying to kill a flea with a tractor.
The labor market is super tight, so whatever labor wants, labor gets. I suspect this will turn on a dime, when the labor market softens.

The cynic in me thinks big tech wants to promote WFH forever, as they have benefited stupendously from the war-time economy and they are in no rush back to normalcy.