skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some notes for the non-economically schooled readers:

- Ungated (working paper) versions are here[1] and here[2]

- This was published in Econometrica, one of the top journals in economics. That doesn't mean that the results are true, but it means that the the math and methodology are probably sound. If you want to attack the results, the weaknesses are probably in the (implicit) model assumptions.

- In economic lingo, "welfare" means consumer surplus (buyer gets a good deal) + producer surplus (seller makes a profit). Standard academic economics analysis is indifferent wether the producer or consumer gets the profits (i.e. between producers selling at costs and consumers buying cheaper that they'd be willing to pay, and producers maximizing profit while consumers maximum they're willing to pay). "Higher welfare" in dynamic pricing vs uniform pricing means that the sum is higher in dynamic pricing. In this context it basically means that more flights are flown using dynamic pricing than would have been in uniform pricing. Negative externalities from more flights are usually out of scope for a paper like this.

- Airlines can adjust prices continuously for the same flight as a response to demand changes, or price discrimination (charge more to those willing to pay more, i.e. business travelers). The paper claims as a key contribution the disentanglement of these motives. I haven't gone through it to see if it's sound, but when since it's published in Econometrica, it will probably take quite some time to fully digest.

[1] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28989/w289...

[2] https://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/pub/d21/d2...
Nope. "Piracy" is just copyright infringement. It is literally just copying bits, no theft of any kind is occurring. The only loss here is the corporation's artificial monopoly rights which shouldn't even exist anyway.
You're asking someone to respect your choice to work from an office, while it feels like you're disparaging their choice to live where they want to (or possibly can afford as, for example, most of the suburbs have become cheaper than cities for much of America.)

Can we all just agree that people want different things?
I love working from home and remote suits me. But the past few months I’ve noticed more and more coworkers asking for zoom pairing sessions, increasing numbers of mob programming sessions, and a general craving for face time.

Personally I dislike those because they’re the worst of both worlds. Not quite remote, not quite in person. I get more done on my own.

In my observation many people are just very done with remote. Especially the younger folk whose lives aren’t as full of adult crap yet.
Our experience is gcloud and some other commands get messed up :/

Probably not asdf's fault, though. I've had multiple issues with gcloud not being compatible with my setup, spamming errors like /tmp/_MEIRZ3igG/libssl.so.1.1

But what asdf doesn't solve, though, is the setup for new devs. Python projects can sometimes take days to get running properly on a machine because of various differences, asdf solves some of it but replaces it with other installation steps instead.

That's what I like about a dockerized setup, if it works one place it works for everyone (almost, nix is probably better).
> is of the age where she would not remember when exactly she had last paid which bill

I've been of that age since I was 18
This. A big problem with office work is office cube design. I'm old enough to have had a closed door office in the 90s and it was the best. I also worked in large cubes which had moveable partitions as walls where you couldn't see your neighbours. They were also good, not great, but better than today's cubes. They even had large book shelves where you could keep your reference books!

At home, I can close my door and it is much superior for my personal productivity than an open office cube plan.
> Employers much prefer that workers be fungible, rather than maximally productive.
This will make you less valuable, unless there’s enough interesting problems coming down the pipe to keep us all employed. And then once they expand copilot to also solve the hard problems then what’s the use for you anymore?

This very much seems like cheering on the destruction of your career.
From a quick reading of the proposal: They can do that by not wanting to. They «will have to open up and interoperate with smaller messaging platforms, if they so request» which leaves open the possibility that neither Facebook nor Apple requests interoperability from the other.

(And, I suppose, the possibility that they don't have to interoperate with other platforms that are large according to the same rule, only with smaller ones. But I guess that's just sloppy wording in the announcement.)
5 of us wrote Microsoft Works for the Macintosh while working at home from 1984 to 1992. Without the internet, we got together as needed to merge code, usually once a month, but sometimes once a week. We talked on the phone. We went to Microsoft once in awhile. It was ideal and worked very well.

Maybe it was just our personalities that made it work, but I am astonished that any programmer would rather go into the office. With high speed internet and video conferencing, I assume that some people are just very lonely and need face to face. I see nothing wrong with that. I understand it, but after 1992 I took a job that forced me into an office and I hated it.

I can safely say I never wrote any good code while working in an office. There are too many distractions.
Are you trolling? The last time I heard EAR files mentioned was 10 years ago.
I've not noticed anything either, to be totally honest I actually prefer the new electron version. It's a nicer application in general and I've had no performance issues at all. I only wish I could get it on my old "take anywhere" macbook which for some reason is refusing to update to the latest macos version.

I'd say my one general gripe with 1Password's current major offering is that it's awkward to backup my passwords outside of 1Password. It's possible, but requires figuring out my own solution rather than just having something baked in.
V is such a nice and simple language, it's Go for system programming
I can't speak for the OP and everyone has their own reasons but
- Do you have a roommate? Children? Now your house/apartment is looking like a mini-office with shared space.
- Your house has one office. Where will your spouse/partner work? Most houses don't have two offices.
- Maybe living in a small apartment is OK for people because they can get out to larger spaces. Want to live in a studio apartment and work there too?
- Offices can have cafeterias and tend to have restaurants nearby.
- habit
> "Generous maternal benefits" don't come anywhere close to filling this gap.

You would expect some effect though, yet Northern Europe and Japan continue to have extremely low birth rates despite the efforts of their governments.

Also, many European countries saw fertility rates drop a long time ago, often back when housing was much, much cheaper. IIRC countries like Sweden and Norway dropped below replacement levels in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Reading this is so entertaining. "It's not the regulation that has depressed the EU startup scene, it is depressed because we in the EU are too smart."
There is a difference between using a brain implant and other devices like eye trackers and some type of muscle translator.

I've seen a lot of the latter. I don't think I've ever seen the former.
Thanks for the feedback!

This is probably the biggest challenge we faced we decided to create Throw.

We have addressed the problem face on and believe we have developed a robust solution to outrun this kind of behaviors.

Our moderation (filtering out and reward) algorithm very quickly promotes or demotes users based on the quality of their content.

And it is the community itself (with supervision of our team) that drive the tone.

Also thanks for the wishes!
It's an anti-trust concern too. Current SCOTUS precedent is essentially dumping/predatory pricing doesn't work so there's no harm to the consumer so it's not illegal. If you could show it worked, i.e. a company drove competitors out of business and then maintained artificially high prices then it would be a slam dunk case.
I find it so obnoxious when people put sighs in comments as if they are talking down to a dumb child that my instinct is to immediately jump to insulting them.

The worst part is that the sigh always precedes some generic hot take with no evidence or actual argument, just some copypasta we've seen on twitter before.

If you think the response to someone is stupidly obvious, then don't say it. Keep it to yourself.
That’s why the “entirely at home” from the study’s highlights is an egregious conclusion from its methods.
Social interactions.
And half of that will be fetishists baiting others into furnishing wank material. And half of the responses are really other fetishists posing so the whole thing is really a role-play that superficially looks like Q and A.
Imagine you are playing a soccer match and there's an unfair referee who gives the other team 30 undeserved goals. You protest and, at the half, they replace the referee with a genuinely fair referee. Is asking for further remedy to make up for those 30 undeserved goals the other team received 'prejudiced?'

Player A joins the match for the other team after the half, but does not have the opportunity to make a goal that puts his team in the lead because the team's score has been adjusted from the unfair treatment. Has Player A been unfairly discriminated against?

Should your team just be happy they are now in a fair meritocracy and just get on with making goals instead of whining?
Depends what you're using the WFH number for. If you want to extend it to an argument about being able to live substantially further from a job then needing to meet a GC on site some of the time is a dealbreaker. I think it's fair to say to call the job as a whole a WFH job it needs to be 100% remote. That's not to say non-WFH jobs can't have some remote time.
> I do think simplicity was a goal for Sir Tim

Saying that your design allows people to do things in a "simple" way is not the same as saying that the protocol is meant to be deploy only in the limited use-cases.

> I just had an idea and I'm gonna try to implement it.

You are (implicitly) asking people to conform to your design, though. Or would you continue working on it even if you were the sole user?
When I run into questions like this with IDEA, there is usually an answer. If not, file an issue in their issue tracker. Seriously. They fix stuff nonstop. Sometimes it even takes years, but they eventually do it if it is a good one. They are very responsive in their tracker.
I wonder if RAM actively fails more often than we realize because I would presume desktop users more frequently switch apps and processes spawn and die on a more regular basis than server processes do.
I think if you only count it from "even casual stream watchers have heard about it" it was about a year until shutdown. I mean, I knew what twitch was and was even watching people from time to time, and I have friends who stream and I don't remember anyone except one person ever mentioning mixer. It simply didn't seem like a viable alternative until just before the ninja thing.
We are going to have a massive problem with taking on juniors, particularly younger people. Without many people visiting the office, there is a lack of banter, encouragement, confidence building. Imagine you were 16 and your introduction to the world of work was sitting in your own bedroom!

Honestly, I don't know how we deal with it unless we create a schedule where there has to be certain people in the office on certain days so that a junior can get the interaction and support which is as much of job training as anything they can do online.

So that's one example of when can do != should do
I make no claims of morality here, implicit or otherwise. I agree that everyone is potentially high cost, and that's the point. We have to decide who gets more, and who gets less. Some people are going to say that it is more moral to invest in the kids who are most able to deliver return value to society, and they're also going to say that those are the high-achieving kids. Some people are going to say that every kid should have an equal claim to public funds, and it immoral to allocate resources so unevenly. You may not share such perspectives, but there's no reason for anyone who does not already share your moral framework to agree with your assessment either.
Looks like this got flagged so I can't edit, but obviously typo: "social made platform" in the second last paragraph should be social media platform.
In addition to all of the social reasons others have listed, I'll list 2 technical reasons why an office is a more comfortable place for me to work:

I have 2 large monitors at my office desk (so when you include my laptop's screen, I have a total of 3 monitors; lots of screen space). Compared to no external monitors at home.

At the office, I have a gigabit connection to the LAN and file servers. At home, I have a VPN that is, while pretty good, not able to compete with 1GBe.
Reduced User-Agent Strings, Multi-Screen Window Placement, and More
Many (basically all?) Java libraries that use native code have pre-compiled code for all platforms. They'll just work on all platforms.

We've been upgrading our dependencies for arm64 support; for the most part it is as simple as updating our pined version to a newer version of the jar. Sometimes the native code is in a separate jar so you just add it (opencv works this way).
Assuming he is currently employed I wonder if taking on some programming work as part of his existing role might be a good way to slide into it. If he knows and uses Excel then writing VBA would be a good first step.
At least you get a cube or half cube. My office is basically a really long desk with 4 people on one side and 4 people on the other (directly across from each other), with maybe 5 feet between you and the next person.
Half of women will get a false positive 3D mammogram, study finds
> modern advertising's purpose isn't to tell people about a product they already wanted but didn't know existed

Yes.

> it's to cause people to feel a sense of fear/loss/inadequacy that they previously didn't and then present the product as a solution

Maybe a bit.

But, these days I think the real reason is the corrupctive influence ad money buys. Major media platforms censor at the whim of their advertisers. Content providers also do so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAkQlZgnbUQ
Checks are ridiculously stupid. They are not save, expensive and you need to go to the bank to cash them in.

All of this just because our society is to stupid?

Old people are not stupid, they are just old. They should be able to either teach themselves or being teached.

Our society should focus on helping them to navigate the current world and not try to keep things like checks alive.

And I'm pissed about this though because I believe it's a mindset thing which needs to change to be able to act on real problems like climate change.

When I talk to old people about solar energy holy shit do they care more about how those Solarpanel look at buildings then the benefit of them.

If we don't help those people they are being limited by society one way or the other anyway!
> And do it opt in of course.

In my case, ISP charges you extra if you decide to keep the paper bills instead going for "eco bill" pdf file send by an email; same goes if you decide to opt-out from company selling your number elsewhere.
Last time while getting new contract, 3 different people at local company's office tried to convince me that I can "win some fantastic rewards" if I decide to let them do with my number and personal information whatever they like.

I did opt-outed but they manage to sell all my numbers present on account elsewhere and somehow every month around time when bills arrive, I'm getting bombarded by robocalls - either about photovoltaics or central heating replacements. They claim they didn't do it but they can't explain why newly added number that has all opt-outs receives calls at the same time with the rest.
“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” - Ayn Rand

As an example, loving animals and eating meat are not contradictory ideals.

I love animals, therefore I care about their well-being as a species, therefore I participate as a hunter to help harvest the ideal amount of said species to keep the entire population healthy each year as determined by science, because I love the animals I won’t waste them so therefore I eat them.
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Some people are really good at this type of things but that's amazing a really me. Can offer some different packaging boxes on Dnpackaging.com
I’m in the US, choose to live in the least expensive and smallest apartment near a large-ish city so that I can have a short and manageable commute to both work and the things I enjoy doing.

My transportation costs are essentially 0 — bicycle maintenance I can mostly do myself. My electric bill is $20-$50 a month. Sometimes $3 for a bus ticket. Plus no homeowner’s insurance, property taxes, maintenance, water/garbage bills (all included in rent).

My costs would be 4x-5x higher if I didn’t make the choices I do, simply because the style of living I prefer isn’t available outside of cities.
Did you name it Rocky? Please tell me you named it Rocky!
This is amazingly great for how simple the idea is, going to have to play with the output a bit to poke around for strange edge cases (it is sh, after all) but given all the random devices out there with Busybox or similar this could end up being significantly useful for configuration management, etc.

Also seeing quick, readable examples right on the github landing page is such a small but wonderful thing.
> Things are correlated. No one seems to seriously dispute this. So why all the debates?

I know many very outstanding programmers - but very few are also outstanding at writing poetry, or learning foreign languages, or engaging in impactful political action.

I've no doubt that 'general science' performance is correlated with 'assembling objects' performance. But I wouldn't expect Bobby Fischer to have great insights into world politics just because he was a chess grandmaster.
Huh - my ten year old mbp runs intellij just fine?!
article is quite misleading, I can't believe author wasted 5 mins of my life explaining data science and visualisation while all I cared for are answers.
There's no need for web apps to store all of your data in the cloud, but almost all of them in the real world do it anyway. Users have been conditioned to expect that if they log into the same web app from two different devices that their data will still be there, and this can be a huge convenience, but it's also less private and less secure than what we had with desktop apps.
We’re not targeting market research in particular, it is just one of the use cases.

Thanks for the feedback! We will surely keep this in mind!
You're probably right, but I think a bigger factor is that if someone pays by mail, a scammer will find it difficult to cash a check that's made out to the utility company.
Fair enough and good points. Thanks for the reply, looks like I was too reactive. Appreciate your comments!
Another way to look at this would be to look at the correlation between scores of different standardized mental tests. ASVAB, IQ, and SAT scores are strongly correlated to one another, even though they use slightly different testing methodologies and focus in some ways on different things.

All of the evidence we've gathered over decades seems to indicate that there is a general factor for intelligence. But as he points out in his conclusion, this is /descriptive/, meaning we can arguably accurately determine someone's intelligence via testing and that single general factor accurately describes their intelligence in relation to others. It does not in any way imply we understand the causative factors that lead that score to go up or down in any meaningful way.

For reasons I don't fully understand, there's a lot of folks in the social sciences these day that seem to be waging war on the very concept that you can describe intelligence generally (and IQ tests specifically). The mere fact that the results of these types of tests on large population groups tend to follow a normal distribution is alone good evidence that they're indicative, as in most things diverse large population groups tend to fall on a normal distribution.
Not the person you asked, but for me it’s the social aspect.

I can’t stand being on a camera, voice and text chat don’t really replace the in-person conversations for me.

Everything else is either the same or much worse working in person.
"37%" isn't a number with high precision to be begin with, so the "approximately" is implied.
Maybe the mayor also cares about local businesses that get their income from city workers as well as the transport networks which need all the money they can get. Maybe they care about the tourist buzz from a busy city or the saftey in numbers.

You don't always have to assume the worst of someone just because they are powerful.
Yeah. I think it's good that we are exploring what WFH options look like and where they can work, but I think a part of that needs to be recognizing where they don't work, too.
In the United States, even paying for the highest level of TurboTax does not get me the ability to have my mortgage information prefilled. Still have to enter the information that Chase sent to the IRS on an IRS form in manually on my form. Tax preparation in the US is truly the wild west.
I don't think it's vastly different from someone younger who wanted to shift career into tech without previous experience.

I would recommend him taking one or a few bootcamp classes to bring him up to speed, maybe focus on one area in particular (e.g. web development) then find a smaller dev shop where he could come in and support in a junior support role to start with and then take it from there. Maybe develop a few pet projects to build his portfolio in parallel.

It's not impossible but maybe manage his expectations a little bit that he's going to have to start more or less from scratch.
> Can't you say that the blackhole as a whole maintains a quantum state that accounts for every particle in it?

No - in current theories of black holes (GR), the strength of gravity (the curvature of space time) at the center of the black hole is such that there is no room for a single particle to exist, everything is condensed into a single mathematical point (well, it's actually a disk I believe, since it must be able to rotate). As such, a black hole is characterized by only three things: mass, charge, and angular momentum. If it has more degrees of freedom, it's not consistent with GR.

Now, the clear assumption is that mathematical solutions that involve singularities indicate limits of a theory - that is, that GR breaks down inside a black hole, requiring some other theory of gravity to explain what goes on in there. But QM is not that theory, and there is no theory which encompasses both GR and QM - though there are a few incomplete candidates.
Looks interesting, but a waitlist signup is off-topic for Show HN[0]:

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>Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Same thing here. I'm happy to pay for Nebula. But I don't want to pay to a platform that is constantly criticized by all the creators publishing there.
apparently??? it was such an amazing app used by millions and by me every single day, i was devastated to hear it was discontinued