skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, I agree with you. One of my sneaky reasons for joining the military establishment would be to help make those sorts of changes from within. Or at least that's what I'd like to tell myself while designing devastating weapons.

I really do feel that reasonable people need to join such organizations, though, otherwise only unreasonable people will be in them. I recently found (to my dismay) that Von Neumann argued vehemently in favor of bombing the Russians before their nuclear program could be built, and all I could think was "This isn't the type of scientist that should have a lot of influence."
How macOS is more reliable, and doesn’t need reinstalling
You needed a full screen to experience a website.

But then phones came

The metaverse is an idea. Immersion is in the brain. Theater was the first metaverse.
Many companies will expect the same output if you go from 5 days to 4. So why accept a pay cut?
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

I guess it can be summarized by "Human behavior is influenced by various factors."

But the breath of these factors and their interaction makes for an interesting read. Robert Sapolsky is an excellent educator.
The op made the rather disingenuous statement that people who could not be productive working from home were clearly just not doing it right, without considering that his anecdotal situation is the exception rather than the norm for many parents in this day and age.
I think remote first is more efficient for companies because they have a wider pool of candidates to select from.

I think the productivity bump during covid WFH was actually due to there being little else to do and people had not established proper work boundaries.

I still think individuals are, for the most part, more productive in the office. However, smart companies will recognise that top talent will refuse to come in every day.
> It's hard to discern where the truth lies. Who's wrong?

If that's how you feel, then it's likely that a common and successful kind of propaganda has done its job. You don't necessarily have to be persuaded, you just have to doubt the normal conclusion:

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

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/10/flicc/
Yeah i got that feeling that this was way too fake to be genuine. Either they were doing that demo just to distract people from their other criticism, or they are actually becoming obsolete.
I prefer shopping for B2C anyway, regardless of if I'm acting as a B or C. If I look at the pricing of something, and they have a "contact us" form, I leave.
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Is this Mark Zuckerburg or his wife?
Except the program counting the data generation rate is running on only a single CPU...
I feel like the pendulum has swing too far in the other direction on this topic, actually. Yes people in the past weren't dumb, and shouldn't be under-estimated, but even a normal person could provide huge gains to any pre-modern society. Their understanding of mathematics, biology, evolution, medicine, astronomy, economics, reading+writing, organization, etc. are immeasurably valuable. I don't think people appreciate how much "ideas" are, in some sense, a kind of technology in themselves. Yes you probably couldn't make yourself a queen of the land with your advanced knowledge, but you could massively improve this society in fundamental ways. Like get infected with cowpox if you want to get vaccinated (a term meaning of or from cows btw!) against small pox.

>It's likely that ancient humans were adept at many of these things, like salt preservation, warm clothing, contraception, spun fibers, and boats. Many of the others (agriculture, wheels, etc) simply wouldn't make sense outside their native cultural contexts.

For people this primitive, even elementary metalworking would be revolutionary. Yes you'd have to do a bit of tinkering to work out the kinks, but iron ore pre-modern-extraction was everywhere, and once you have the foreknowledge that heat special rock -> smash into shape -> better-than-rock tool it's not hard to figure your way to something groundbreaking.

I do think you'd be limited in how much you could change things by how far back you go, but mostly due to human life span. The more new technologies you need to personally 'invent' the longer this stuff takes, as you'd need to experiment with on-the-ground resources and techniques until you can successfully realize your conceptual understanding. I know what a blast furnace is, and because I have the key concepts I can eventually build one with some trial and error. But it would take years if I had to start from just sticks and sand.
I really need to try this. I hear it'll work on the ergo dox too.
Everything one can do with Lists in Dart/Flutter
Yeah, color me skeptical until I can create a meta account without a cell phone and without an fb account.
Give the devs some credit - maybe they know about this and are not closing the loophole because they want it to stay open? The majority of readers won't take advantage of it and those who will likely wouldn't have paid anyway.
I Went to an AI Art Festival in Geneva – AiiA Festival Trip Report [video]
> Can I ask you something? Is Zuckerberg really THAT bad of a guy?

Even independently of Facebook/Meta, yes.
Congrats on getting Flakybot into private beta!

For people that prefer to minimize the number of moving parts, CircleCI now also has built-in Flaky test detection:

https://circleci.com/blog/introducing-test-insights-with-fla...

Of course this is coupled to our CircleCI platform, so if you want to stay agnostic for sure check out Flakybot :)

NB I work for CircleCI
The page is reused by the generator process without being zeroed.
I have found WFH to be enjoyable and rewarding, but this is despite both of us being in high stress careers and due to reasons somewhat unrelated to work (no commuting, more time around the family, etc).

We have both simply adapted and now do our concentration-related tasks when our child is asleep.
As long as Facebook keeps investing in exclusives for their platform while Valve doesn't they'll keep losing market share, no matter what new headsets they come out with.
No. Maths makes testable predictions, which can be checked with computers in completely deterministic ways using extremely little human judgemnt. The same reality principle applies to the exact sciences and to a lesser extent the social sciences. At some point we leave the social sciences for the humanities where taste is disguised as fact. Not always, and the boundary is unclear but at some point knowledge ends and bullshit begins. If you believe there is no god theology is clearly bullshit. If you don't think white people are indelibly and irredeemably racist then Ibram Kendi is full of shit.

Finance, politics, international relations are more complicated because humans play against humans. As an insight becomes known it becomes useless because humans incorporate it into their models to beat other humans.

But Math clearly has real experise. Ramanujan was recognised on the basis of correspondence. Soros has real expertise in finace. Dominic Cummings managed to run two referendum campaigns that beat UK elite opinion. Kissinger and Bismarck are and were real experts in politics. But they can't demonstrate crushing qualitative superiority like experts in exact sciences can.
> Chevron has not yet paid the money or enacted a cleanup

I don't care much about any form of payment here (as it seems that large penalties hardly ever get enforced after they made their iterations through the courts) but please, why can't they just cleanup their mess?
Anything concurrent and distributed you want supported by your runtime a la Erlang.

The reason is: you want certain guarantees. For example, in Erlang you can set up a monitor on a process, and when that process exits for any reason, you get a notification, {EXIT, Reason}. Even if that reason was a catastrophic failure of some sort.

If this is implemented as a library, then the runtime can kill your code at any time, and you'll never know what happened.
Beside Clojure, Common Lisp has nice library addressing this issue — and of course the commercial version have their own too.
Higher productivity remains to be seen, only because you are working long it does not mean you are productive.

Thanks to the internet I do not need to drive to my work at all.

Private services are neat but not a real dealbreaker.

Lower carbon footprint? City dwellers need less co2 to get to work, but they consume more than the others and also fly more frequently.
Surely different teams need different (and tailored) approaches? You can hardly call yourself agile if you’re not iterating your own production processes.
Interesting points. Because English is not my mother-tongue, I wasn't aware of perceived quality of that dictionary. I chose Merriam-Webster simply because it was the first hit in my online search. Which English dictionary do you consider better?

But, I still find it important to look at definitions that are actually used out there. Some scientific papers I've read just redefined everything to fit their purpose. There is a fine line between making it practically impossible to communicate ideas based on common understanding of terms, and allowing those terms to evolve. Anyway, I am convinced it is a bad idea to try to "feel" or "impulsively answer" the question is json or yaml code. To answer such a question every intelligent person should, IMHO, remember or lookup the relevant definitions and then try to find a conclusive argument why something answers the question. It might also be important to reflect on the quality of the used definitions. Sometimes, definitions should be changed. But changing a definition should always consider many different use-cases and perspectives, otherwise it becomes a single-use tool. And such a definition is not worth it.
Screen time is ok for kids: major study
The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) is an intergovernmental organization with 122 member states.
Not necessarily: https://lfe.io/

Lisp Flavoured Erlang! ;-)
Regardless which is the true threshold for toxicity of fluoride in humans, which probably will never be known precisely, as experiments are too dangerous, adding fluoride to drinking water is unbelievably stupid.

A human needs to drink various quantities of water per day, depending on ambient temperature and humidity, on what kind of activities are done and on what kind of food is eaten.

The required quantity of water may vary from almost nothing when the water is provided by the food, to several liters.

So the quantity of fluoride ingested per day may easily vary by ten times.

Because it is unpredictable how much fluoride will be ingested and there is a high uncertainty about the distance between an optimal dose for teeth and a dose with toxic effects, it should be obvious that this is not the right way to use fluoride.

The right way is to use toothpaste with fluoride, which gives all the benefits and none of the disadvantages, because only a very small quantity of fluoride is ingested.

The only argument in favor of dumping fluoride in the drinking water is that "most people are poor and stupid and they will not wash their teeth".

I do not know how true is this argument in USA, but if it were true, the solution would be to better educate all people instead of choosing actions with unpredictable health effects, which punish the people who know to wash their teeth by supposingly aiding those who are ignorant.
One example of where this is counter-intuitively wrong is that you end up with more diverse ideas if people brainstorm in private than in a group.

I think the reality of face to face meetings is that the result is often almost predetermined based on the existing group dynamics. How many people are turning up to the meeting feeling their input will make a difference versus people with (probably) the dominant personalities who are happy their established conclusion is chosen. And seeing the later as naturally coming to a better conclusion, faster.

As a dominant personality in meetings I definitely think about the effects of that a bunch.
I think the issue is with the scheme, this works:

http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/vr-revisited.pdf
True story…

I grew up within walking distance of Byberry Mental Hospital.

I could see it daily thru the window in the distance from St. Anselm’s Catholic School.

In the 1980’s, after school my friends and I would take our pellet guns in the forest adjacent to Byberry to just target shoot and hang out outside on the then forest edge of the Philadelphia city limits.

All of our parents told us to never enter Byberry hospital grounds, so of course we ignored those orders every single day.

It was split between Old Byberry and New Byberry.

Gothic Old Byberry facilities were long abandoned, while New Byberry continued operations.

It was an incredibly creepy place in terms of gothic architecture, burned out and disheveled facilities, the underground and partially underground tunnels connecting all the buildings, and the detritus left behind.

No BS, we did run across a lot of satanic pentagram graffiti on numerous occasional and locations, with one very elaborately painted and decorated room like straight out of a horror film.

Very carefully painted bright red with black painted satanic pentagrams and symbology, fully furnished. Quite surreal.

Speaking of horror films, I was at Amazon running distribution for their then new music and video categories when I met the writer/director of The Last Broadcast Jersey found footage film that preceded Blair Witch Project, and was filmed in the area, but lost out onto Blair Witch on distro.

I distinctly remember telling him he should consider filming a sequel in Old Byberry Mental Hospital.

Because it wasn’t until I was much older and further away did I come to understand the horrors in that place weren’t too far removed from a concentration camp or horror film.

2 or 3 times we ran across mental hospital patients who were either on day release or just wandering back to where they had once lived.

It was like The Wonder Years meets Hunter S Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Old Byberry Mental Hospital.
We know for a fact that Stadia runs on Linux. We have leaked documents from CDPR hack earlier this year with details of Google's deal with CDPR. From these documents we know that Vulkan renderer exists and even how much Google paid for that.
I can see your point.

I think it works best when there needs to be a solution where no single expert knows enough to come up with the best idea. So a group of complementary experts where the solution is more important than individual ego's :).

But when it's kind of decided already, so more 1 way, written communication works better.

I was in some situations where there was long emailing back and forth between people. Then it was decided "to just have a call on this", and came to a solution in 15 minutes.

It's definitely about trade-offs, and I can see benefits in both. So I wouldn't just throw away the power that "a bunch of people in a room" can have.
> to avoid government regulation

Could you elaborate on that please?
If the requirement is that client should follow the redirect, one should not use a 4xx status code. I think “319 never gonna give you up” is more adequate
It's extremely unlikely that any consumer router would support it.

If you really want to force clients on your LAN to always use a specified DNS server you're looking at a more enterprise-y router solution, probably something running pfSense or OPNsense.
Time Traveling in Data Lakes
Ask HN: Is control over your work computer important for you?
How important is it for you to have control over the computer and operating system you use for work?

Are you happy to accept a token closed-down Windows box that's managed for you, or do you prefer to run and maintain your own customized win/mac/linux machine?

Do you feel that your preference gives you a definite productivity or ergonomy boost, or do you think you could do your job either way?

I'm asking because at work, the security office is overhauling a long-standing set of security practices, which might force a group of ~40 data engineers and scientists to abandon their mac and linux laptops. This is causing annoyance for many, including myself.

I'm curious to learn if I'm being unreasonably spoiled in my desire for owning and controlling my work machine. I would be interested in learning other's opinion on balancing corporate security demands against personal preferences.
Or the evil EU.
The controversial US gunshot-detection firm
I have a cubicle which is much maligned in corporate buzz as "cubicle hell" but I have to say I really love it! It's big enough to do yoga inside and has high walls that you can't see over and also a sliding door. I love my cube. The ability to concentrate, take a quick meeting at your desk and take calls is so much better than open office. Also, I appreciate the ability to scratch my face or check if I have lettuce in my teeth without the entire office watching.
Why should the court not be “pissed off” if you deliberately try to interfere with the process?

I guess by your logic the judge also shouldn’t be pissed off if you start blasting music in the courtroom?
Ah, but the M1Max is unified memory, isn't it?

And am I doing the math right that a quintillion fizzbuzz will take about 7 months?
Whom? Metaface?
Alright, so perhaps my tone was ill-considered. I certainly don't think “those guys are clueless and wrong” - those guys are the people who worked out the stuff I think I know about the cosmos - not me. I'm dazzled by what they've done.

When I were a lad, the Big Bang theory was treated with scepticism; the orthodoxy was Hoyle's steady state. Big Bang is now orthodoxy, steady state is dead, and Penrose is out in the weeds. Similarly the idea of a black hole was considered pretty left-field. It's now more-or-less proved. These changes have happened in my lifetime.

My point is that what is considered orthodox can change in just a couple of decades; it's not insane to question whether an orthodoxy that's been in place for just a couple of decades (and is itself pretty speculative) should have the status of scientific fact.

I'd be a fool to think that modern cosmological theory is in any way a final answer. Sure, I wouldn't recognise a Lagrange equation if it slapped me in the face. Similarly, I'm not an economist; I can't prove that Friedman had the wrong end of the stick. But I can still make reasonable judgements about a government's economic policies, and my judgements are sometimes more right than those of experts.
In all seriousness, how many kids do you have, and how close are their ages?
Never mind the metaverse. Given that facebook (meta) is in the business of selling your meta-data to the highest bidder, the name appears to be spot-on.
The DNS approach helps more for malware than it does for adult content and the like.

Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Google/Bing image search etc all have adult content easily within reach and DNS can't do anything about that.

It doesn't make sense on a technical level so it doesn't even matter if it makes sense on a philosophical level.
You don't seem to be getting what motivates people to go into politics. They are not looking for ways to avoid involvement in corruption. The opportunity to be involved in the favors economy is most of the job's appeal. Paying them more would just cost more.
The Germans and people from eastern Europe are usually straightforward in their communications. There might have been a shift towards conflict-avoidance in younger generations (< 30 yo) though.
Because they don't have to.
Some context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lago_Agrio_oil_field
He has a super positive vibe about fixing things that irritate you.

You said it yourself:
"You pay the price to be inspired"

For me, that was the whole point of reading the book. I enjoyed how it affected my mood. It's the same reason why I spend so much time with the Discworld books. In a similar vain, that's why I avoid depressing "everyone will die" horror movies.

$10 for the ebook is a great price for 4 hours of feeling good.
Actually you are probably right. And it's not just building the environment: also unit testing, simple baseline algorithms, etc... We have a tendency to skip them.

Whatever you build, you will need to change, as this is the nature of SW projects. Being able to make changes fast will be life saving at some point
I find it really strange a company can pursue criminal cases against an individual. I don't really care for activists but it just seems asymmetric. You can't after all pursue criminal charges against a company. I don't think it's allowed in my country. A company would need to raise the complaint to the state (say at the police station) and the public prosecutors would decide what to do with it.
I'd be impressed by anyone who could write this in an hour on a whiteboard even with the code provided to them.
We tend to overestimate science and technology progress in short term, while underestimating it in long term. Of course, starship will fail on it's promises and artemis program will lag it's schedule and cost of kg to orbit will be 2000$ and not 100$ For next two decades that is.

But in 2045 it would be unimaginable to design new rocket not taking in account starship. Starship itself will be on it's 10-th iteration. Everyone: EU, China, Japan will have starship-inspired space launch vehicles. In-orbit refuelling will be finally figured out.

That is when slow progress will change thing forever. Not Artemis program, not today.
So what's changed?
That is a difference in grammar, not vocabulary.
Of course it makes sense.

If the meddling central planners didn't screw up and created all sorts of artificial shortages (labor, nat gas, chips, services), producers of substitute goods would increase their production and lower their prices because fixed costs would be spread over more units.
Except, of course, that Kahneman-style behavioral economics is only slightly more likely to be true than The Secret. Hardly any of it replicates.
> MS SQL server is relatively cheap

At $14K/core [0] for the Enterprise edition, it doesn't fit exactly on my definition of cheap. Sure, it's 1/4th of Oracle's price, but still translates to 6-7 figures for even small deployments, which again is not cheap to me.

But I guess the main attractiveness for current SQL Server uses might be more on the licensing terms/compliance problems than the cost. Just trying to understand how to license SQL Server and how cores are counted already requires you to read a 42-page guide [1]. The risks associated from incorrectly purchasing licenses for your SQL Server cluster(s) may be a compelling reason to jump into open source with minimal migration costs (at least compared to migrating directly to Postgres or any other open source database).

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2019-p...
[1]: https://download.microsoft.com/download/e/2/9/e29a9331-965d-...
There is no market for things that just work on V1.0 then continue to work flawlessly. You wont sell a version n again and again and there is no support contract for something that does a single thing and does it well.
the best idea ever - let's not test vaxxed to not discourage them from vaccination, so they can as asymptomatic spread virus under perfect conditions
You can get a well paying job off of these skills, but the job title will read something like "performance engineer" or "security researcher" rather than "assembly programmer".
And then let me guess, in the end Chevron will get away without having to clean up their mess. The whole story is fucked up on every side.
My high school friend group lived on 4chan, and this was in the era of shock sites and the like. You grow out of it pretty quickly.

Zero parenting experience here, but making something the "forbidden fruit" is probably how kids learn to change the DNS on their device.

As far as I can remember, the only real-world consequence was someone applying Bengay where it should not be applied.