skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it necessarily better to work from home if remote? It's not self-evident.

Some people don't have a great space to work in at home. Some people find home to be too distracting. Some people want to not be at home all of the time. Some people want to be in a more stimulating environment, to be able to interact with people. I currently work from home due to the pandemic, but I miss the physical separation of work life from home life. I plan to either work from a café or a co-working facility as soon as I feel it is safe to do so.
“Multiple personality disorder” probably doesn't exist
Congrats, you've picked the worst of both worlds. It's interesting that you chose "Spurious social interactions..." Spurious means fake, btw. If fake interactions are "often the inspiration of important company initiatives" then you're in a world of hurt. And what's with the HR speak? You sound like either the owner or founder hoping that what you write is real.
Please add an RSS or Atom feed to your blog :)
Amazon prime UI and search is kinda shit, but if I found an interesting show to watch (to be honest I’m using tiktok as my recommandation engine) I search for it then continue watching from the Apple TV app
I think associations in developing countries, that's how I got into tech, I am curious how would you support? financial support or volunteering?
I thought I was alone when I unsubbed. I couldn't believe everyone was watching the trash Netflix was churning out. I take their decline as a positive statement about humanity.
Until your Roomba crashes into the landing gear of your $3.5mm private jet.
Happy Earth Day: Announcing Green Compute Open Beta
Movie product placements are big money
If you're using a GPG key, you don't necessarily need it to leave your PC. You just need to "re-deploy" the secrets manually when they change from a place that has access to the key
> US and Europe has increased it's purchase by 8 and 15 percent respectively

The U.S. has increased its purchase of Russian oil? That’s odd given we banned it…
> But what if someone is not pirating instead of purchasing, they're just pirating instead of doing something else?

By "something else" do you mean "another activity instead of watching TV/movies/etc," or do you mean "watching TV/movies/etc, just via another method?"

If the former...who cares? That still doesn't justify it. Just because I chose another recreation activity instead of watching a movie doesn't mean that I'm entitled to the movie for free. Not choosing something doesn't have an effect on the price (at least on the micro level; on the macro level, this is of course the concept of "demand," but even if the demand is so low that the "correct" price is effectively $0, that still doesn't give you the right to steal it -- the Intellectual Property is still property of the owner, and they are the only ones who have the right to sell it or give it away, just as you or I have the right to sell or give away any of our property, be it a couch, a TV, a pair of shoes, an idea for a story, whatever. It's all property).

If the latter, what could possibly fit that criteria? You're either getting the TV/movie via official methods or piracy, there isn't any other way. It's binary. There isn't a way to get your hands on a film that is neither officially sanctioned nor piracy.

> You need to consider that maybe the product you are producing is simply not that valuable.

Not that valuable? Are you serious? We're talking about products that are considered "low budget" when they cost 1 million dollars to make and at best receive profits of hundreds of millions of dollars. The entire premise of this thread is that everyone wants to watch everything, they want access to everything (i.e. the demand is high and not going anywhere). They just don't want to pay for multiple separate services -- but only because they can compare to and prefer the brief, golden period wherein everything was accessible on Netflix and Hulu, back when they were the only two games in town and were a breath of fresh air compared to the expensive cable packages (which, might I remind you, people still paid -- economically, that means that the price is considered "fair" and commensurate to demand). Back when Netflix and Hulu were both unsustainably hemorrhaging money, I might add.

Paying for 100% of the streaming services now costs <= your typical cable package just 20 years ago, and that's not even adjusting for inflation. So things are still cheaper than they've ever been, with a not-insignificant raise in convenience and overall quality of the product to boot. Had we jumped from cable packages to the current situation, HN would be jumping with joy.

Just be honest: you want what you want, for as little as you can get it for. And that's fine! That's human nature. What's not fine is, because you can get it for $0 pretty much risk-free, you'll bend over backwards defending why doing so is okay.

(Comment too long for HN, continuing in the next one...)
Do you know this for a fact? I've done some work in the industry where I needed to make fast software, but never the like sub-microsecond tick-to-trade type fast, so I really don't know.

There was a great presentation from 2017 about some of Optiver's low latency techniques[1]. I had assumed they released it because the had obviated all of them by switching to FPGAs, but I don't know. Either way, he suggested that if you ever needed to ping main memory for anything, you already lost. So, I wouldn't have thought DDIO plays into their thinking much.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH1Tta7purM
One week after abandoning customers, Insteon posts a shutdown message
Us too!

We end up back-loading all of our meetings and team discussions to Friday, which is our in-office day, and it works really well to ensure that the rest of the week can be free of distraction.

It takes commitment to intentionally defer items to the in-office day, so simply adopting a hybrid approach without doing anything additional is just cargo culting.
I always cheer for Snapchat just because of the courage it took to turn down Zuckerberg's $3 billion offer in 2013.

If you compare Evan Spiegel to Kevin Systrom (Instagram founder), Spiegel is 6 times richer and he didn't have to kowtow to Zuckerberg for all those years. Hopefully that's a lesson to founders to go for it, build something real and don't sell out.
A family show that holds up surprisingly well is The Brady Bunch. There’s some weird 70s things in it — but overall maybe better than I remember it.
> It concludes that open source would drive out closed source software

Relative to the pre-FLOSS era, this is exactly what has happened. FLOSS is ubiquitous today in systems software. Many of the current Big Tech companies and business practices simply would not exist without FLOSS computing infrastructure.
I can agree that the most common uses are for development in progress, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say I wouldn’t use those facilities in a fully worked-out program. A sibling comment offers one reasonable example. I’ve done similar things before and probably will do them again.
The idea of this is almost enough to give me a panic attack.
It's quite simple - cancel culture. From both sides. I am afraid to write under my main account, as it will be easy to track me down and I may have problems because of my position in Russia and rest of the world.
Surprise, the physical layers in your DVDs and CDs is also decaying, so a CD from the 1980s may well be unplayable now. I've found that with many of my old commercial disks, let alone the ones I've burned myself.
They are, but as a diver I will never touch them unless they look in proper shape and are the types wrapped in some other material. Some fishy dive centers will have the old style raw lead blocks..
We were talking about other cars, not $3.5M jets, in the subthread.

> Until it crashes into some poor person's car.

With that said, Tesla or not, you’re going to have a bad time if you hit a private jet with your car at the airport (unless you live in a state where you can just go bankrupt and protect your assets if they attempt to pursue you beyond your insurance limits).
It's a little of both. There's enough woke influence over corporate communication to drive all employees to want to avoid non-inclusive words in docs. At that point, this becomes useful even for employees who don't agree with it—I'd rather just have the word flagged now and fix it instead of going back and forth later.

However, the net result is that words are driven out of the language even if everyone involved in the document wouldn't care.
Or the more logical explanation is that you're maybe a bit oversensitive to criticism just like the Indian government which proves the point made by The Guardian in exposing these abuses and holding people in power accountable for their policies.
How much time do you need to do that, though? Is keeping up with all the minutia, checking in on how Ukraine's doing every single day (even multiple times), really helping anyone? I do keep up with the news, and especially international news, but I'm under no illusion that it's a valuable use of time. Past very low-levels of engagement, it's a hobby, or a pastime. Like knitting or watching soap operas.

Again, I think that end would also be better served if a high proportion of news media consumption were shifted to citizenship-relevant books (and maybe very high-quality, low-frequency periodicals), probably starting with textbooks and classics in political science, history, and economics (I doubt anyone who's mined those well already, needs any help picking their next high-value read).
I mean I lost 80 pounds literally eating cheap hot dogs and kimchi for 6 months. It might be that simple.
I remember the days when a superhero would fight an army of bad guys, against overwhelming odds, and win. Now it's an army of superheros (Avengers as an example) against one bad guy and their win is often ambiguous. It just doesn't have the same payoff for the time spent consuming the entertainment.
If the car isn't your daily driver, then working on it is superfluous.

People who fish with a pole rarely catch more than the investment made into their gear and bait.
I'm not a native english speaker either. Chances are you aren't offending anyone. You probably know exactly which words of the english language are unambiguously offensive. Words like motherboard just aren't offensive.
99% of office workers don't have an office with a door, or a short commute.
The part that baffles me is that there isn't a "There's an object, not sure what it is, but there's something, I should stop/avoid it" instead it seems to be "I don't know what this object is. Oh well, it's probably fine to plow into it"
Also on the Eastern side there's only a ferry to connect the North and South Circulars. And that ferry has quite limited operating hours and capacity. It's also very slow.

To avoid the ferry you either need to come West a bit and use the Blackwall Tunnel or go way East and use the outer ring road (M25) crossings at Dartford.
Not really? You could have thousands, hell millions of people who love your twitter account or your podcast but if a critical mass (not even a majority! just a large and sufficiently noisy minority) complain about you, you're gone.

On Urbit there are 65k tracker nodes and ~4B permanent peer nodes. So long as a single 1 out of those 65k is willing to sponsor you and broadcast your location anyone can find you and get packets from you, and even if the last 1 gets sick of you he's still just the equivalent of a torrent tracker: anyone who is already your peer will continue to see you on the network. It doesn't matter how many enemies you have or which corporations you piss off, you know? You're your own platform, once you install the software to share tweets or photos or interviews or whatever there is no one left between you and your audience to play gatekeeper.
Driver drives on road made for speed in car made for speed and on roads with no limits and doesn't get fined. Also, water wet and fire burns... News at 11! (Faceplam)
CDC 6600 ran ten threads on one processor in a way that seems a lot like the Niagara T1 on paper.
dont know about glitches, but https://twitter.com/74ck_0/status/1517483406518591490

"Drone-ID sends high-accuracy GPS positions of drone, pilot, and “home point” (where the drone returns to). the packets are sent basically every second, revealing the full flight path.
along with GPS, it discloses drone type and serial number."

"we didn’t require “DJI Aeroscope” for this: a cheap SDR is sufficient.
our receiver is a proof-of-concept with super low range of ~5m — nothing to compare with the Aeroscope range of 20km+. but it shows that there is no encryption whatsoever."

The only way to safely use DJI drones is GPS spoofing on both ends, the phone/tablet (Mock Location App) and rewriting in flight data from external GPS module in the Drone itself (modchip).
Thats very impressive to be honest. So to understand better people like you, if you decided to change jobs, would you search for SWE again, or only filter for positions with "senior", "principal" etc.?

If for any SWE position, what would be the motivation/ in which cases would you consider smaller scope of work?
In principle, yes, absolutely! You can cover the 90% case with simple rules of thumb, and so just following the top-level recommendations from the spec do indeed cover a lot of it: have tests which cover your type API fully (not just your runtime API), and run those tests against all the versions of TS you support.

In practice, it's somewhat more annoying:

1. TypeScript itself ships breaking changes semi-regularly in its own minor releases, so libraries need to do additional work to buffer their consumers from the impact of those (which is what this represented). That, in turn, means library authors need to understand those and have testing in place to account for it.

2. I said "90%" for a reason: the fact that TS has type inference (but not something like Hindley-Milner), a fully structural type system with a bunch of dependent type-adjacent features and control flow analysis for the types means you basically have to model it as higher-kinded mutability, which is… interesting! But complicated.

Net: most folks can get a long way by doing some pretty simple things, and the spec outlines that. If you're maintaining a more complicated library and really want to insulate your users from breaking changes outside your own actual major versions, you might have a bit more to do.
true detective, season 1
The ever relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1897/
I mean, this is the way of things. Corporate slacks have bots to correct non-inclusive language, and enforce syntax changes like whitelist --> allowlist, master --> main, etc. IMO it's silly, but nevertheless increasingly ingrained in corporate America. For the many of us that use G Suite for work, this feels like a natural extension of other areas to remind us to use current language. It's potentially a helpful reminder that avoids the awkwardness of someone actually making a gdocs comment about it.
Net neutrality sucks for one reason - it makes paid fast lanes illegal.

Hear me out . . .

A connection to the internet should be basically a dumb pipe, not filtering, accelerating, or slowing down anything.

However . . .

An ISP should be able to have a side-pipe to a specific service that provides for unregulated access to something thru that pipe.

For instance you might watch Netflix all the time and want to pay a couple bucks for a side-pipe access to Netflix at a consistent throughput. Or maybe you work in finance and want access to Bloomberg, or Fidelity.

Or maybe you work remotely and would love to access your Microsoft email and SharePoint with higher upstream throughput.

Or maybe you’re a gamer and want a lower latency link to your game.

Why can’t you have that?

It is things like that which drive me crazy. The intent of the law is great but the implementation is lacking.
most of the times that someone asked for a carousel, it was because they thought it makes the page more 'alive'. which should be immaterial
The guidelines ask that you Please don't post shallow dismissals.

Are you aware of the scope of SPARK's assurances? You can't accidentally dereference a NULL pointer in verified SPARK code, for instance.
"a teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh around a billion tonnes."

https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/n/neutron+star#:~:text=....
Woke Clippy (to borrow from up-thread) is going to have a field day when it learns German. There. Are. So. Many. Violations.
_Your_ computer, maybe.

My workstation will certainly not be prevented from entering sleep by anything a webpage can do.
Well it happens frequently. So maybe the amount is low per occurrence, but the cumulative amount may be larger than a typical man who doesn't donate at all, right?
Maybe the had line of sight but since they weren't standing right behind it simply misjudged the clearance? It does stop after a bit, like if someone was watching from a distance and got surprised by the plane moving.

To avoid liability the instructions should specify "monitor at such a distance that clearances can be accurately judged". The current guidance implies it's fine if you watch from a distance.
Not All SBOMs Are Created Equal
We shipped a proper mechanism for software distribution last October. If you haven't booted up since then you might want to. Discovery still requires word of mouth (but not for long...), but sharing them is now as simple as sharing a link in chat or punching something like the following into the Dojo.

|install ~dister-norsyr-torryn %canvas

edit: yes, there's an ecosystem of developers shipping software now. Here's a screenshot of my homescreen, which I cleaned up a couple of days ago to remove some apps I don't use often: https://imgur.com/7keFr7Y

Of the apps you can see, 13 were created by distinct developers. Some people are more prolific.
On the other end of the spectrum is lightweight, but bulky stuff. I sold things like this for a time, some time ago. Would get a fair amount of grief from customers who would use the simpler UPS/Fedex calculators on the weight only and complain that I padding shipping prices. But UPS and Fedex charge "dimensional weight" for these types of shipments, and you have to use a more complicated formula.
So you can use Clojure. ;-)
I think his comment was completely rational; likely accurate even. What I do think is that it was insane that he posted it here.
It's not as straightforward a comparison. Instagram is still worth 3-5x more than Snapchat today. It's not obvious that they would have seen the same growth had they stayed independent.
Disney has struggled to make software part of its DNA, but they've made great strides. As legacy companies go, they've done it better and faster than most.

Gaming is a whole other thing. After Disney Infinity, they embarked on a policy of licensing IP instead of publishing or developing games. Games are a hits-driven business, and Disney Interactive wasn't profitable. Licensing and partnership is more consistent revenue.
Doesn't that negate the logic of the article?
MS Word introduced a language censor like this recently (I've not seen it, only seen it announced at a workplace), so maybe they are following where MS leads?
NoScript gives warnings for all videos on this site.
It isn't 'brave' - none of this is secret, and I'm happy to explain things.

In my experience, though, it isn't worth the time and energy to respond to hostile cross-examinations. I'm interested in satisfying the curiosity of good-faith users, and this feels more like an interrogation. That's no fun and does nothing for the community.
I think that any topic on the "hype cycle" list brings non-technical people in to try and sell it. You could say the same thing about quantum computing or digital twins or chatbots or whatever. Crypto is only special because of what a scam it is.

Maybe I'd ask the OP, what does it mean to bring non-technical people into tech? Like teaching people to code, or become data scientists or something, or like applying some soft skills to tech, like AI ethics or sales. Or some other thing?
I'm not sure where you're located but for me, I prominently get a panel with the streaming options. Something like this https://searchengineland.com/google-search-tests-new-interfa...
A possible target would be paper mill towns or similar. They tend to be rural to be close to the wood supply, but having a staff of engineers means there is a chance for a tech component to the population. I grow up in a small town in Maine, 1500 people in 45 square miles. The next town over from the mill town. Our regional HS had a strong science/math component again connected to the engineering population I think. Interestingly, cable was so late in getting to my town that when it arrived it was cheaper to run fiber than copper, so my parent's have fiber to the house, excellent internet speeds. I have been able to work very functionally in my software engineering job from there.
California’s Medical ‘Misinformation’ Crusade Could Cost Lives
It takes a certain sort of mindset to ignore the fact that there are many male dominated roles that are low-status, low-pay and "crappy". Not to mention that men dominate fields where the work is physically dangerous; front-line military, forestry, oil rigs, sea fishing, construction and mining.
Stripe will enable businesses to pay their consumers using cryptocurrencies, beginning with Twitter, in the latest indication of how large financial institutions are shifting to digital assets.
I think I did this too, but in reverse! Unfortunately I couldn’t get to the store fast enough after my 72 hour fast, and my stomach hurt so bad that I ended up eating a Chalupa. Then I gained 60 pounds. Oops.
> The easiest way to not be Damore'd is to apologize and repent.

What? Absolutely not. That is terrible advice when it comes to something that couldn't have been a literal accident. If he'd used the word "mother", then sure-- that could be apologized for. But a protracted essay on population level statistical differences between genders and its impact on the employment pool? Not a chance.

There is so much noise and outright disinformation about any issue that often the only reliable source for wrong doing is when the target of an accusation admits it themselves.

And even when that fails to protect you, at least you can be a hero to someone. Do you think a damore that apologized and said he was mistaken would be more employable? That people would eventually see it as a youthful transgression? I doubt it greatly-- it's not like the screens that show up when you google his name will yellow with age. Instead he'd just be the enemy to both factions of the war he wandered into, rather than enemy of one and hero to the other.
Cowboy Bebop and Archive 81 are oly the latest examples where Netflix cancelled a series I intended to watch before I was even able to watch one episode. So why should I keep my subscription at all?
I can come back in a few years and see what I missed in the mean time.
The people vested in using lead in fuel said so out of profit motive, but it seems lead was widely known to be harmful for hundreads of years [0] before it was using it fuel.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA
National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park is also excellent.
Question to the experts: Is this kind of a classification or a detection problem ... or both? I remember that visual algorithms for classificaion can get confused by objects or situations they were not trained on, so in the result there were unpredictable outcomes in situations that seemed safe before. Or is it more like a "shape and size of a plane" issue?
Conflict resolution is no different WFH than in the office. You think people are going to solve their issues by wrestling in the parking lot? Or by being put in timeout by HR?

Conflicts get resolved exactly the same why WFH as remote; you discuss the issue with your manager, they talk to the other person, and have a joint meeting if necessary. No needs for hugs and handshakes...

The onus is on you to prove that remote work doesn't work.