skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you live in the Valley or are you just making assumptions? Because this is not at all what I see around me.
I'm unable to talk to them, is there any data that backs up your claim? The study they're referencing (https://autonomy.work/portfolio/icelandsww/) specificially mentions increased "wellbeing":

> Worker wellbeing dramatically increased across a range of indicators, from perceived stress and burnout, to health and work-life balance.
Generalizations like this are kind of ridiculous, given the existence of hunting dogs, police dogs, herding dogs, livestock guardian dogs, and even many ordinary family/companionship dogs that are specifically bred to be docile, long-living pets.
This is really good news. Nvidia has always been show to be kind of hostile and proprietary and non community friendly as they've gotten larger and larger. It's always good to hear when companies that large get taken down a notch or two. ARM is too important to the broad market to let them merge with a company that will most likely swallow up the IP and limit access to it in an attempt to become hegemonious in the arenas that ARM finds itself in.
To be clear to anyone who's reading along here instead of the site, they're reissuing cards because they are changing the way their card issuance works in order to improve merchant compatibility (which is definitely needed).

As such they have to use, presumably, a different set of card numbers/prefixes/whatever that the card issuers dictate. No security incident prompted this.
> What do you do about office space? The company is paying a ton of money to give everyone their desks.

> I think the solution is to not try and solve it ahead of time.

Indeed. The company has been paying for the office this whole time. This is an opportunity to slowly decrease office spending over the next few years, not a logistics issue that needs to be solved ASAP.
The U.S. productivity slowdown: an economy-wide and industry-level analysis
Personally, I have just about zero interest in running an Apple OS, but maybe I could be interested in the tinkering to get it to run.

However, OS X/macOs is clearly a general purpose Operating System that could work on a general purpose computer, but is only sold bundled with Apple hardware. There's a potential quandary with respect to using commercial software without paying for it, but Apple doesn't exactly let you pay for it either, so eh? A lot of people don't have a big problem with copying software that is generally unavailable, and I could see how can't buy it without buying expensive hardware I don't want is close enough to meet people's ethics. And some people's ethics allow them to use commercial software without paying without remorse too, so there's that.

I would have no problem with paying for software licensed for use on specific hardware and using that software on different hardware. That's not really a restriction I think a software seller should be able to make, so I'm not going to consider it unethical to circumvent (although in a business context when there's an enforcement mechanism, I might not circumvent it then). Just because my DVD is only licensed for use on a licensed DVD player doesn't mean I'll feel bad playing with with VLC; same with a video game that I manage to play on a system other than the one it was made for. Of course, pirating a movie or video game is different. That's what makes this issue a little touchy --- you can't pay for OS X separate from the hardware (you also can't pay for the hardware separate from the OS); if it's a no cost OS that ships with the hardware, then it doesn't seem bad to use it otherwise, but if it's really a $100 OS that comes bundled, that's different.
Not a viable means for myself. I can hide my laptop behind my bookcase, leave it outside in the courtyard. I don't have space for two different chairs. I have dual monitors, I even bought mounting poles for my monitors to make it a larger area. WFH just doesn't work for me.
I had proofs in HS geometry way back when. I also hated it and it was the worst I ever did in a math class K-12.
Ah yes, the "silent majority" that won't stop screeching about any social change
Privacy.com has been fantastic for me - AMA.

However I am such a heavy user that this announcement is actually rather annoying. I didn't see an email about it yet either, and could have easily missed that I am going to need to update 10 or so subscriptions this month :/
The problem is sooner or later I lose the motivation to do anything. It's a feeling of deep dullness.
I actually remember worksheets in first grade (around age 7) where we had problems exactly like that, but with an empty box instead of a letter and we wrote the answer in the box.
I believe you are mistaken. One of the goals is to deny that people have different intellectual abilities. They seek to get rid of tracking and advanced courses. These reforms are related to what is being advocated by www.equitablemath.org. From their website:

Students are tracked (into courses/pathways and within the classroom).

This is a sign of white supremacy in their view.

See this PDF:

https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...
Not from my experience. We had all the Slack channels, work ones and social ones (memes, rant channels about work experiences, etc.).

Nobody on my previous team ever used a single one. Only people in other teams across the org, and not full participation from them either.

IMO nothing just "worked itself out", and is a good part of why I chose to leave.
That's pretty much what they did with NSO, which is getting the Huawei treatment:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/03/us_sanctions_spyware/

reportedly, this has created havoc on NSO, since for instance none of the cloud providers can sell services to them to host their zero-days, among other logistics headaches. Their recently hired CEO resigned.
> I'm waiting for the day that the US declares a foreign corporation as an "enemy combatant"

It’s particularly interesting to watch as the company is based in a country that is a very close ally.
It's a trade off for sure. I have seen people write test code with no regards to DRY and it results in tests that are hundreds of lines of setup trying to wire up the inputs and the expectations when a little bit of thought to remove all that repetitive code would go a long way in making the tests readable.

I do agree that there doesn't need to be obsession with DRY when it comes to writing tests (esp when you are bouncing around multiple functions and files just to understand the testcase) but completely abandoning it either isn't great either.
> but I can't see how, compared to existing copyright law, they encourage dishonesty, get messy, or require new industry.

The comparison was with OP's suggestion of replacing copyright with a simple tax, not with current copyright law. I agree Harberger taxes would be simpler than the existing system, though still not preferable.

> In a de novo work like Toy Story, or a fully licensed work like Wreck-It Ralph, Disney owns the rights and knows their value when they announce the upcoming film.

Sure, but a competitor could steal the rights out from under them in the time between announcing the film and the film hitting theaters.

There's another issue with not-yet-profitable IP. With Harberger taxes you wouldn't be able to protect IP while you're still working to build products around it. This is another way that smaller / new players get screwed with this type of system.

As I said, the forced buying / selling creates way more problems than it solves. All we are trying to do here is determine how high a tax should be. Inventing a scheme where people and companies can steal from each other (for a fee) is always going to have worse second order effects and be more complicated than just coming up with a price formula for the tax.
How does it makes sense to put any truth into stone by law?
> A large window of Mail.app in light mode is pretty blinding.

Honestly, if that is the case then the display is set much too bright.
Meh, you’re asking too much. For many teaching is just a steady paycheck and generous time off. It’s not a calling.
That's because those adults don't want an EDUOFFICIALS flag on their FBI file.
I love my family and love spending time with them, but I need a break sometimes, I'm human, take a chill pill

That's also not even the main reason I want to be back to work, didn't mean it to come off that way, it's really more the dehumanized nature of slack, text, email, (even a single camera angle of zoom calls).. we're humans, we need to be human, even at work. We're not all a CLI. Speaking of which, slack needs to kill the "ack" emoji..
I don't think personal attacks are warranted.
> Not getting vaccinated is not antisocial, assuming that those people take care otherwise.

Take care like what? Be locked up for years and not meeting anyone? Because everything else is much more risky than just taking the damn jab and stfu about it.

Also: those people who still are unvaccinated are mostly conspiracy nutjobs and don't give a damn about the rest of the population around them so it's quite obvious they wouldn't give a damn about "taking care".
Germany does a lot of things right. Why can’t we achieve anything reasonable in the US anymore?
+1 to this. It no longer makes sense to stay longer than three years at a company as an individual software engineer. With the move to the cloud and the compressed dev cycles that come with it, the pace of technology adoption and obsolescence has quickened considerably. What you did five years ago is no longer relevant from the employment perspective, and general software development experience is not valued at all by most employers anyway. Moving on every 2-3 years to a newer technology stack seems to be the best way to stay desirable as an Engineer.
Speak plainly. Are you suggesting this is a company being unfairly singled out just because it's Israeli?
Amazon CloudWatch Gets Feature Flags, User-Based Monitoring
Apple has demonstrated complacency on security issues. Stiffing security researchers on bug bounties is just one symptom, but so is the fact the market price for iOS exploits has cratered compared to Android ones.
Thanks for the link!

Yes, I see that. I calculated the mortality rate for all years, then the average and standard deviation for the last 10 years preceding 2020.

The average is 0.92%, standard deviation is 0.03%. The mortality rate in 2020 was 0.95% or exactly one standard deviation above the average for the last 10 years.

There is also another clear trend from the data which is slowly but steadily declining mortality rates. Obviously since 1749, but this trend is especially noteworthy during this century (since 2000). Then only one year has increased mortality (by more than one least significant digit) which is 2020.

2020 saw 10% higher mortality than 2019.

So to conclude: I'm by no means a statistician but I'd say this is probably not a random fluke.
If you don't have a long commute, don't have to work in an open office with a lot of people, it might be nice to go back. In my case, mandatory return to work means I'm commuting 6 hours a week at least and increasing my chances of getting covid.
Does it really help though? I mean parents with resources will always put their kids through private math courses which can be more rigorous and give their children an advantage in AP Math/Calc/etc. I don't think the disparity in math learning is from school.
It's hard to say whether the teaching is uncritical without actually being present in the classroom. If to "counter racialized or gendered ideas" is implemented by insisting anything other than 50/50 representation across all occupations is evidence of discrimination and that any suggestion to the contrary is sexism, then yeah that's definitely uncritical. I'm not sure how prevalent those kind of simplistic teachings are, but they do exist.
Google itself has this policy. My best friend works at their Cambridge office and he frequently goes in person.
> Your desire to work from the office comes at the cost of everyone else.

Not everyone prefers remote work. There are many permanent remote teams and companies these days to choose from. What's so bad about people like you joining remote teams, and people like OP joining in-office teams?
One thing I, personally, find very interesting is that a lot of wording from the coalition contract on this and related matters is apparently taken from or at least based on [0] a document [1] released by the CCC for that very purpose. I haven't personally carefully verified this to be true, but I have no reason to distrust the linked report.

[0] https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=9f60b12e

[1] https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2021/ccc-formulierungshilfe-re...

(both in German)
I'm in agreement with you. I don't see any indication that the Israelis specifically made this weapon to target US interests, nor do I see any indication that the Israelis are discriminating between the US and any other nation, nor do I see anything that leads me to believe that we aren't potentially using this ourselves against other nations.

Fuck NSO, for sure. But I'm just not sure Israel should be held accountable for the actions of a private corporation with no apparent political motivations, just as in your M-16 example.
I suspect plenty of parents will begin the process of trying to get their kinds into a private school, but it still requires a lot of resources and effort. I sense that most parents would try to fight this while simultaneously trying to find a way out while the process goes on.

As for the competitive advantage, I think that only works for the children who are already in the private school system.
please refer to the part where I said "liquid global permissionless marketplace" ?

Really tiring to repeat this 100x here on HN. For digital artists NFTs are a revolution.
This is a comment made quickly without any research or expertise of any kind. I hope that Mr. Musk isn't doing that on a regular basis and that this is a one time emotional event.

I respect Sam Altman's comments and agree. Web3 is it.
My thinking. Not sure how they will translate “right to encryption” into law, but if they mean right to E2E encrypted correspondence, then german law will be on a collision course with EU laws in development. If that happens it will be interesting to compare the debate with what happened with Poland this year.
I have an HP OmniGo 100 that uses this, and it turned out as a pretty usable mobile operating system (for a 386 palmtop, at least). If I didn't know there was DOS underneath, I would've thought it was custom software like PalmOS.
And Apple's terrible software and QA processes, like lack of CI or fuzzing, which is why Google Project Zero is discovering flaws for them.
Because it has an extremely HIGH probability of Nvidia being hostile and blocking other companies from getting new or relicensing old licenses. Nvidia is big enough and powerful enough as it is whatever country it is based out of. ARM is much better placed as being independent in the market and not owned by an 800lb gorilla like nvidia.
LA is a very useful tool.

But imagine that you never heard of concepts behind it.

It'd just become a more-or-less useful artefact. And in no time it would devolve into a useless ... thing so to say, a decoration, as you lose knowledge how to apply it.
I wonder how this holds up under sunlight. One of the problems with leather is drying and cracking.
> You're playing with words.

So you interpret and perceive (and then assert as True). But then, aren't we all "playing with words", at all times, to some degree?

For example, I could say that you are "engaging in persuasive rhetoric" when you say that.

>> If you happen to be blessed with muscle, don’t throw it around. If you happen to be a great hunter or a dazzling beauty, don’t flaunt it over others. Be one of the good guys, in other words.

> This is completely gratuitous and unsubstantiated. It's ridiculous. And then there is more of the same.

gratuitous: uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted

Don't throw your muscle around, don't flaunt exceptional characteristics over others, be a good guy - in the building and maintenance of a successful community, these things are "uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted"?

unsubstantiated: not supported or proven by evidence

Here you have a better case, but when it comes to the "not supported by" part, I suspect these are not entirely new ideas in the fields of anthropology and social evolution (I speculate).

Out of curiosity, did you read my other comment? I put a fair amount of work into it, and I believe it has some relevance. Perhaps you could critique it!
Presumably those phones had Ugandan numbers.
From my experience, the students who are truly gifted only needs a good environment they can study in (without worrying about money/work/bullying/parental abuse) but they definitely do not need 'cram schools'. The talented ones often have enough motivation to study what they like, and they can do self-study well with just light attention/mentoring from teachers.

People who are blindly praising Asian-style cram education really haven't actually experienced one in their youth at all; it is a fucking disaster at raising actual talent, and it robs you so much of your adolescence.
> For the themed sets, they stopped including ideas on the back of the box because people would complain that instructions weren't included.

This is why we can’t have good things sigh
I know that it may be difficult to accept, but not everyone has the same 'social' needs. Is there a good reason to force me to drive 20 miles so that we can talk?

For some jobs.. sure. I am certain I can't be a butcher remote; not yet anyway. But if my job is done, my boss seems happy with the results, my basic question becomes, why can't I live AND work in my ideal habitat, which happens to limit the amount of people I directly interact with?

I was gonna go the Christmas party until omicron showed up. That was the extent of my social needs. More to the point, do I really need to be where I do not want to be? How does that help anyone?
Just listened to one of the episodes. Sounds decent. I personally think it would sound a lot better if you slowed down the speed a little bit. 0.75x sounded much better to me.
It's not about "having a life outside of work".

I have friends in several different social circles.

Some of us still desire a concrete separation between personal and work lives.

Not only that, but some of us find there are significant benefits and upside to being able to socialize with our teammates and even management because those work relationships are great resources later. Someone is much more likely to want to help you get unblocked if they've formed a connection with you before. Otherwise you're just "that other person working on that other project and since it doesn't block me from my work then why should I spend any time, despite having the prior experience to assist you"?

And that's just one example.
Thunder started out great but now he just likes to rationalize the dominant perspective. It’s a loss.
It sounds much in line with the notion of bildung. It's a key concept in teaching and pedagogical theory.
Everyone spies on everyone, no one is actually shocked by that. The US does it too (see the interception of Angela Merkel's phone calls...)

The key is you don't get caught doing it, because it removes plausible deniability.
Couldn't the reverse be said for folks wanting to WFH? Everyone who wants to come into the office has to change their communication style to something that is often less convenient.

I think there are pros and cons to both and we will probably end up with some companies (or parts of companies) that specialize either way. I think it's perfectly fine for some folks to prefer working in an office with most/all of their coworkers.
"Hello, dog!" Said tail
Go to a cafe
agreed! they could just use an arbitrary scale.
> DIE

Usually spelled DEI, for the obvious reason that "dei" isn't an English word meaning death.
Why would Israel be allowed to do whatever they want?
Race as biological concept exists but there are no human races in the biological sense. Humans are able to interbreed and were not selected by their environments for long enough to develop significantly different cognitive abilities. If we use the word race for human being it can only mean cultural or other such societal concepts meaning it is a social construction. I hope that helped.
Read some history of how that came to be. You might still disagree when you're done, but I suspect you'll at least be able to answer your own question.
There are people like that everywhere, but it’s definitely concentrated in the West’s liberal cities.
There are currently around 35000 American service members deployed to Germany.
I can't believe people still think after 2 years we're at a point technologically and logistically that we can control nature and just make this "go away".

Delta came out of India. Omicron came out of South Africa. How do mandates in the West stop variants elsewhere?

And variants aside, the vaccinated are still getting sick and dying at significant rates [1]. This vaccine is not the slam-dunk our "experts" promised. Until some miracle cure comes along, R < 1 is simply not possible.

If you think full vaccination is a necessary goal despite all this, OK fine. You know what might go a long way in terms of achieving mass vaccination? Open sourcing the vaccine recipe. Not just the RNA sequence. The whole recipe.

This should be a no-brainer.

Governments have no qualms with mandating lockdowns, masks, and vaccines for the masses.. but for some reason they hit the brakes when it comes to mandates for pharma. Not only is this a good idea in terms of improving supply side logistics, but also for the sake of re-building trust.

But no, common sense is too hard and "blame and shame" is too easy.

Being unvaccinated does not harm the vaccinated.

Hospital collapse has been liminal for 2 years now, it's a manufactured crisis. Instead of bolstering our healthcare staff and paying our front line workers more, we have done.. the exact opposite. We funnel tons of money to pharma, while frontline workers have effectively had their pay cut in half.

We're quite literally being force fed lies. But I guess that doesn't matter because at the end of the day the Milgram experiment prevails and all these attempts to question the narrative and hold authority accountable is pointless.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

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Some interesting stats from ed.gov [1].

Only 59% of schools offer algebra in 8th grade.

There's a map showing percent of schools with 8th grade algebra by district. There's another map farther down shown percent of 8th graders who took it by school district. (The maps can be slow to load).

Overall 80% of students have access to algebra I in 8th grade. Breaking that down by type of school it is 88% in magnet schools, 81% in traditional schools, 60% in charter schools.

It is 86% in suburban schools, 75% in urban schools, 75% in rural schools, and 76% in town schools.

That is access. Enrollment is another matter. 24% of 8th graders actually take it. By gender that is 25% of the females and 22% of the males. By race 34% of the Asians, 24% of the Whites, 23% of the two-or-more race students, 14% of Pacific Islanders, 13% of the Hispanics, 13% of the Natives, and 12% of the Blacks.

[1] https://www2.ed.gov/datastory/stem/algebra/index.html
If you are a Russian hacker, you probably don't want to piss off a Russian mobster who has the capability to take you out, and the contacts within Russian intelligence to identify you.
All of that is pointless. You're inevitably going to be exposed to the virus many times throughout your life regardless of what your employer does. Whether you're exposed in the office or somewhere else hardly matters. Fortunately the vaccines and other treatments make the risk minimal.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
Doesn't this limit you to still living near a specific area?
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