skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow no indeed. I would be looking for a new job. Masks are a measure for times when no other option is available, not a standard check mark for every employee. From which management level upward do these rules not apply? It probably coincides with having your own private office…
We have the same issue and the same term at my company.

For me its now beanie hat, wireless headphones with music, head down and don't bother me please.

Eventually they'll get sick of me and stop asking me to attend i hope.
When I was in Cairo for work, the amount of people flowing out of their homes at dusk was unreal. Areas that were literally dead an hour earlier, became bustling with humanity.

When I left, I thought it was so stupid to build these big offices near the desert and to pack them full of people working 9 to 5 with massive amounts of aircon, effectively imposing on them the Northern European way of life - folks have been inhabiting those areas for millennia, they know how to properly deal with the environment they live in, let them work at night instead and save all that energy.
Fellow anarchist here who was the Hassled by the feds after 9/11.

So you’ve taken up the I’ve pulled myself up with my own bootstraps defense. I don’t demean that at all, but you did not grow up the same way as a 20 year old in your yard did.

To be a progressive, and I’m not talking about these progressives that you think you have in the Portland government, is to understand that we all don’t share the same life experiences.

You were lucky growing up in the time You did and probably you were lucky growing up in a time in Portland actually embrace community.

Tell me all these horror stories does not do anything to address the fundamental problems that are causing the horror stories in the first place.

Can you talk about this peaceful rebellion that took place in the past. What? What rebellion? Those people turned into the boomers that bought up all the property in Portland as investment vehicles. These people aren’t revolting in any positive or not coordinated way. Their revolt is more primal and therefore A true rebellion. It is an unconscious rebellion and that scares people into conservatives.
He isn't complaining about lack of money, he's complaining about lack of WFH. He should ask for that.
https://youtu.be/UrEUzKTt7j0?t=79
Joe Rogan moved to Austin and he can handle himself!

Whatever reasons Joe Rogan had for moving had nothing to do with him fearing for his personal safety. He was almost certainly scared of taxes, not muggers (add joke about the IRS being the worst muggers, here)
Thank you for building it! This is super useful. I have always been frustrated with not having access to a clean calendar, given that I use mac os (for personal stuff) and windows (for work). Apple built-in calendar app and Outlook calendar for Windows are too clunky to use. cal -y is convenient if you have a terminal window open, which I often don't have . Most of the times when I need to do something with the dates I am on my browser and what you have built comes in handy.
Clean energy met 38% of global power demand in 2021
> And to fill the loneliness gap, I tend to work more, casually burning out myself and then ending up depressed and feeling overworked.

This happened to me working in an office every day. I moved to a new city for work and lived alone. My friends and family were hundreds of miles away.

Co-workers are not going to solve this problem for you I am sorry to say. They're a temporary reprieve at best. You're going to need to build some sort of social circle for yourself outside of work.

You really should treat that situation as a major problem that needs to be addressed. You wouldn't drag around a broken leg, don't drag around loneliness and depression. Going into the office can't be your only in person socializing. It's only going to end up feeding into depression. It's not a fun spiral to get on.
179 comments 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30810626

Here are the other articles, but only that one had a discussion: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru...
An extra thanks to everyone checking this out and sharing issues you've faced. The fact that you folks are vocal about the issues you faced instead of just moving on, tells me I'm not the only who needed something like this. Cheers!
> Eliminate all forms of welfare and let people starve to death on the streets, and after a few years where they go hungry they will start to consider the idea that perhaps they should begin saving something

Hoping I’m not breaking any rules by this. I know often the Hacker News Demographic can be very different compared to the general population. Especially the population that lives paycheck to paycheck without any means of the ability to save. So I want to be very clear here:

This is insane, Literally (in every essence of that word’s non-figurative meaning). Inhumane does not even begin to describe what this is.
very tough to comprehend..
Portland is socially progressive but they are not economically progressive. In the word, they’re neo liberal. And I hate to use that term because people don’t truly understand its meaning.
Do you know if there are any modern, open recognizers that are not "massively deep learning", i.e. that one could tweak and retrain without Google-level resources, and that are not completely black box (not just wave to text)?

It would be interesting to build a more clever voice assistant. E.g. you say "computer, play ..." and it would immediately call a recognizer for game titles, and one for song titles. And the song title recognizer would know that certain song names are in English, other in Spanish, and so on. "OK Google" constantly gets tripped up on this case for me. It seems to transcribe everything to my language (German in this case) and only then interpret it. If I ask for an English language song I get silly results.
Was thinking about it regarding "do it myself or use a third party eg. Discus" sure it's easy to drop but then it's not your data anymore... Also I would think you lose SEO for an async loaded thing like discus. The other issue is identity/cross platform. And abuse.
Considering that accessibility standards worldwide are mostly pushed forward by governments, even when there's action outside of it it's usually due to "government put laws stating specific requirements". While accessibility is usually afterthought unless directly whacked by a fine, and you can't just use "what's already available".

As for streamlining - this is streamlining, making it so that multiple entities within government that all need to build websites can use a common shared resource instead of duplicating the work (even "going shopping" for external solution takes valuable time).
This is false and proven false by your link. Super Mario Run was freemium from the start. The app was free in the stores from day one. You could download and play the first few levels and then you were (surprisingly) asked to pay $9.99 to unlock the rest of the game.

Users were annoyed by the bait and switch. Nintendo should have charged $9.99 in the store and been done with it. Instead they tried to straddle some line between freemium, paid, and demo.

In addition, Nintendo added always-on DRM so that even those who fully paid for the game were dealing with silly issues that you would only expect in a freemium game.

“While still using the freemium model, Nintendo eschewed requiring players to keep paying to access more levels, instead offering the game as a free demo with the first three levels unlocked and requiring a one-time payment to unlock the rest of the game.[12] Part of the reason for this pricing scheme was to make it transparent to parents who may be purchasing the game for their children so that they would not incur further costs.[42] Fearing piracy of the game, Nintendo added always-on DRM, which requires that players have a persistent Internet connection to play.”
Promising. Unusable on mobile since the examples span multiple pages
thats because concepts like "spin" arent actually real but only a mathematical model. like all models, its a set of rules that allows us to make predictions, nothing more. its not reality.
Google Workspace tracking re-enabled, stripping admin controls
Should a govt be able to ban your payments or take your cash if they dont like you?
There is a decent opposition movement, but Orbán's clan gradually devoured all media. At this point every single TV station, radio and newspaper with any public funding at all is a channel for propaganda. The incumbent's facebook / google advertising is ~ 3x that of all other parties combined.

Elections are on Sunday, so we'll see. I have my fingers crossed, but if I'm being honest, the descent into a Putineque regime seems unavoidable at this point.
OK...

If the covering ix is as almost fat as the table there may be little benefit in it. If the original table can just fit in the ram but the orig table + covering index together can't, they may be fighting for space in ram which means hitting disk which means slooow. But hard to diagnose from a distance.

> The query executes millions of times per day, actually per hour (that implies query plan MUST be cached and query parametrized) ...

Not at all! See below (Edit: I see what you're saying. Still, see below. Opt. 2 might be best here, but it depends)

> And then performance tanks, because, yeah, for that particular parameter value the reasoning was true, but not for 99% other cases

We had billion row searches and the cost of a recompile might be a second or two but the cost of a bad query (from previous, cached plan) can be vastly larger. Esp. here as you talk about it not suiting the other 99% of queries.

2 poss solutions:

1. Force a recompile every time. <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/st...> (... WITH RECOMPILE clause). This really worked for us. Note that cpu is proportionately cheaper if you have multiple cores, and who doesn't these days. Recompiles are cheap on such machines. Recompile works very well IME!

2. More advanced. If you know the type of data the query then write identical queries in stored procs with different names, and consistently use a given proc for given expected parameter(s). Each proc compiles and stores its own query plan, so you have multiple query plans ready to go.

Further, make sure your stats are a) present and b) up-to-date. Bad stats = train-wreck query plans.

Further redux, don't assume that a covering index is all good news. I'd have to look at the query plan (edit: what I'm saying is multiple 'thinner' covering indexes may be better than one fat one).

1 & 2 may be complementary rather than totally exclusive but nevver used both together.

If you need any more, shout.
I don't recall ever seeing a statistic of any sort attached to this particular claim. I'm sure there are more than zero people who ever did this, but hard numbers, or even soft ones, haven't been put forward.
Does creating the trigram index take long or use much space?
It strikes me that none* of these are "liberal policies" but rather realities that arose in a few West Coast liberal cities that simply couldn't handle the influx of people who came to SF, Portland, Seattle.

* Perhaps no bail, although I think in isolation that's unlikely to be an issue

These areas are always unique because transient and the homeless can live with some degree of year round comfort, so they will be naturally appealing to people who have uncertain housing prospects.
Good job Nord Stream 2 is dead, then.
it's no different to any other pcie device
Anecdotally when I've taken SSRIs in the past they worked very quickly, what took 2-4 weeks was the side effects to set in. Everyone's response is so different though, I had a friend who was on an identical dose of an identical drug to me and it effectively and lastingly lifted a deep depression in them while it was the real-life equivalent of the Dementor's Kiss for me.

I'm glad these tools exist and do help people, though I do think the potential risks are downplayed in our society.
Corecursive did a podcast with the creator, was interesting

Edit: originally commented on uploading frequency but looks like they only do once a month
From the end of the video:

0.75 * 132.5=99.375

0.75 * 133.3=99.975 or 60 milliseconds slower over 4 minutes. Probably imperceptible if you played 2 videos over each other.

Interesting they caught that difference. Wonder why he made the math error? Maybe originally he divided 2 wall clock times that weren't exact lengths and just ended up using the wrong multiplier all along.
Honestly, until any of this 'Web3' malarky has even a chance in hell of being superior to AWS or Azure I think most of it is worthless. None of it has a
trajectory of becoming superior so far and most of it is incredibly slow, expensive, and wasteful (as far as electricity goes).
I got permabanned from Twitter for a screenshot of Twitter's stock price.

Not that I cared, that place is a cesspool of 100 IQ LARPers anyway.
An issue with micro is, that you can’t use the mouse to select, copy, and paste text when SSHing in from a Windows host (easily). I never bothered to read up on why this is an issue for Micro but not Nano, but something is done different.
Is it not possible for you to go for a walk from the office?
So glad my tax dollars went to recreating Bootstrap.
I remember back before Material design, I think it was called "Polymer", and how it generally meant I needed to be extra careful because reimplementing basic browser behaviours in JS meant I was never sure if typing text in a textbox will work, not to mention dropdowns and such...
Hypothesis: hormone-mimicking plastics in the human body are causing endocrine disruption and are part of the cause of obesity epidemic.
Being able to specify the shape of arrays will really help me when typing numeric code. I recently wrote:

RotationMatrix_3x3 = npt.NDArray
TranslationVector_3x1 = npt.NDArray

and that felt kind of gross. But for numpy heavy it is really useful to know and specify the size of matrices. Will switch over the minute 3.11 lands
Social platforms did a tremendously effective job of training and conditioning the users to not escape their walled gardens and not even click links, let alone read or comment on blog posts. And platforms like Twitter bury tweets with links anyway, so few users get to see them in the first place.
> This describes every place on Earth except -- arguably -- Venezuela and Somalia.

That's just ignorance. Argentina, a G20 member, has had banks not allow it's citizens access their accounts in 2002. Currently they don't allow their citizens to buy dollars and have a black market for it. Banks change rules constantly trying to adapt to new laws. This is a similar thing occuring in many countries.
Russia and Ukraine have also strong issues due to the current situation, and citizens are adopting crypto because of it.

Just because you don't know about it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

>And the solution to Venezuela and Somalia is to fix the government

Oh. So as a citizen I have to just fix my goverment! Thanks for the suggestion.
Study shows creative people's brains appear to route differently from others
> others are staying isolated in their offices, and all communication still happens over email, Slack, or Zoom.

I saw this even before the pandemic. Open office situations are noisy and distracting, everyone set up their desks so they would stare at walls, put on headphones, and used Slack to talk to people right next to them. One CEO even doubled down on it, giving attaboys to the people who sent the most Slack messages.

I don't have a problem with Slack. I like it, and feel it helps remote work. I just feel that this article is 100% correct that if everyone in the same room/office is using slack to talk to each other, something is broken with communication within that organization.
> Not strictly. Especially not if you switch four times.

It's splitting hairs now. Your original claim was, and I quote, "did you do so in order to enjoy different political systems, or more because of unrelated things like work, family, studies"

- Work is a spectrum between "you're forced to work at the collective farm and you don't even have documents to travel anywhere" (e.g., USSR, until about 1960s) and "move to whatever place you want and start your own company" (most of the modern world).

- Family is a spectrum between "divorce is fully forbidden, punishable, or fined" (most countries with heavy religious influences, even today) to "you're free people, do what you want". And not to mention things like child care and support, rigths of husbands and wives, rights of children etc. etc. etc.

- Studies is a spectrum between "women and/or non-believers and/or non-priviledged classes have no access to education" (really most countries until modern times, some countries even now) to "yeah, go ahead and study whatever you want" (most of the modern world).

And so on. To pretend that major things in life are not affected by politics is disingenuous at best. There's literally, right now, a huge ongoing debate in the US about healthcare (affects family) and student debt (affects studies).
We let normies use the internet. We had our shitfights before, sure, but when the wine mums and over opinionated 18 year olds got on the whole thing went to hell.
Check remote.com or similar solutions. They have a few competitors, but for 200$ you become a full employee in your country of residence.
Google used to have a good blog search. Biggest problem was SEO spam blogs - but even these used to fall down the rankings.

Sadly it died of Google deprecating an API. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Blog_Search
Indeed. Watch Sina's youtube video on Ringo Starr where she explains the very special style he had and what makes his drumming stand out.
> The fact that I have to post this and that is not known for a drug that’s existed for this long is because People need to be spoonfed their sources.

> It’s hacker news, I’m not writing a research paper.

You are the one making claims. If you aren't going to take the time to back them up with trusted sources don't expect anyone to take your claims seriously.
Hm... What are comments like in 2022, I ask myself.

There's lot of hate, spam and other abuse, one word replies or no replies at all.

Is that worth running the "infrastructure", checking comments, moderating them? I don't think so, I don't miss comments in blogs.
Jack Dongarra Wins Turing Award
Hey man, haven't read that book, but I love your other one. Thanks for writing it.
It's so confusing to me as a piece of art using engineering principals to express something.

How would it even work? Hydraulic fluid would need to be under pressure. It just scooping it back in wouldn't keep going. Perhaps if it was a lubricant, without which the mechanical system would overheat... but this wouldn't quite tell the same story...

Then anyway we find out the robot is purely electrical, there's no hydraulics. Rather than contributing to the story as the post suggests, this feels like failure in execution. It was clearly just easier to build this way and then have a pool of fluid.

I guess for me the execution matters in this instance. The idea that's the artist is trying to express gets confused by the inconsistent engineering, for me at least.

I feel more pathos for those boxes that switch themselves off (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KTilOsXBmU). While going for a completely different emotion, they seem to express it using engineering quite well.
> The facts here are anybody you don't see often, you don't know them well enough and they don't figure anywhere in your list of top people to give anything.

Then you leave and find work with someone that doesn't have the attention span of a goldfish. If you're producing work of value you should be compensated. If the company is doing well then all of the employees should be doing well. No one should have to put on a song and dance for their managers to get their work recognized and rewarded.

If your manager can't remember you unless you're in front of them at all times they're not fit for their job.
I won’t use either. No Valorant, no Google.

I want to pay once for a game the same way I want to pay once for a car. Elden Ring is a perfect example.

I understand others feel differently. To each their own.
What I love about computing and programming is the ability to create something that really helps people, or that they find fun and enjoyable.

The problem is that over time, the opportunities to do this have become harder and harder to find. All the low hanging fruit has gone and more and more people are relying on social media instead of websites to communicate and run their businesses anyway.

Additionally, I'm just not interested in privacy violation, spyware, big data, ML etc.. so that frontier holds no appeal for me.

Ironically it seems like it was easier to innovate in the mobile space and find a market in the days of Palm PDAs than it is today.
> Non-determinism is inherently going to be at the bottom of the "layers" of physics, if it exists.

That's exactly the thing: the bottom layer (QM) is purely deterministic. It's not even chaotic: the wave function evolves through purely linear transformations. It's much more exact than Newtonian or Relativistic mechanics from this point of view. You can actually predict the exact value of the wave function through arbitrarily many transformations, even if you don't have a very exact initial state.

However, when we try to actually use this wavefunction to measure something, we get some weird non-determinism in the middle of the model. To accept it as an actual element of reality, you have to accept that reality is not reducible: you can't explain the behavior of, say, a ball by looking at the behavior of atoms composing the ball. Essentially, you could say that the atoms behave deterministically, but the ball behaves non-deterministically, according to something like an ontological version of the Copenhagen Interpretation.

This is clearly logically inconsistent, so the actual CI treats the wavefunction as not being an element of reality - but then, we can't say anything about how atoms actually behave, we can only say how they behave in relation to classical objects.
Alternatively, if these people have taken a 2 year vacation and the company appears to be operating fine, maybe there's no problem?

I don't understand why this issue is being raised now - surely they already have existing processes in place to deal with people who underperform, in which case those same processes can be applied regardless of WFH status. The fact that they haven't suggests that in the end work is being done satisfactorily and someone is just jealous or on a power trip.
Ah, delightful to have a/the master behind Asahi development/reverse engineering efforts here!
No

The only question if Orban will have a majority or super-majority

Also the opposition is a mix match of far right-centrist-liberal parties. Not one single party, basically they came together under
the umbrella of "anything but Orban" but they have very different views
You don’t have to solve the halting problem to have consistent latency - you are conflating distinct concepts. The fact that a computer can’t check if an arbitrary program will eventually halt does not preclude the existence of programs that halt with exactly the same number of instructions every single time.
Of course music is a competition, in listeners' time, sales, streams, and awards.
Show HN: Satisfaction surveys are outdated. Expert feedback for support agents
It's not a dream job because it barely pays above minimum wage. I have a hard time saving. And that's cos I live in a cheapish city.

I hope jumping into software makes this better and can finally be financially confy.
> I pay with cash wherever possible and if somewhere refuses me, I tell them I'll pay this time by card but I'm not coming back.

Leave all your cards at home. Make it their problem. This is what I do.