skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remote productivity is lower than colocated productivity for the vast majority of the companies ( including 99.9% of those that are represented on HN). Most companies simply exist in the middle of the bell curve of "success" with their competitors being right there, next to them.

During the pandemic the productivity slump was about equal across the board. The first company that brings the workers back into the office will get the productivity gain of 15-20% over its newly "we are remote peers", cleaning its peers clocks. In a couple of quarters the management of the "we are remote peers" will tell everyone to get back into the office.
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Sports should count towards aerobic right? It is hard to find partners and teammates as we age. So individual sports like tennis, squash, etc. Seen plenty of older folks playing those also.

I think forms of martial arts are also fun and sustainable long term. Cycling as a group also good fun.
Proudhon (IMO) is not nearly as compelling as either Rawls or Nozick, although he is popular among the younger generation of 'professional-class' capitalists.
You're both right. There was loads back then but there was also way less than now.
> The app also used location data to infer where users lived, where they worked, and whether they were travelling. It generated an “event” every time users entered or left a Tim Hortons competitor, a major sports venue, or their home or workplace.

yikes
Yeah "modules that mostly work, usually, mostly" is no joke. And it's not that anyone really could do anything significantly better than ffmpeg, it is probably one of the best examples besides the kernel of an astonishingly complex library that is run extremely competently but the task space is just maddeningly complex and full of wild edge-cases. Especially when dealing with "legacy" formats and codecs from the 90s and early 00s - even today, have fun transcoding RealVideo or ASF files with some weird color space that nobody has used in 20 years.

There are infamously a lot of tasks that "look easy upfront but have a lot of underlying complexity" and ffmpeg is not one of them. It's a task that looks hard upfront and then when you get down into the weeds it's an eye-bleeding eldritch monstrosity.

The consensus around MP4 and MKV containers and some relatively small number of codecs (H264, H265, VP1, AV1, etc) has substantially eased things but video codecs, audio codecs, and container files are just complicated af.

And believe it or not - this is still way, way better than it used to be! Flaskmpeg was never stable, Virtualdub was nice but development ended with avi container files, there were some forks that added various features, etc, but ffmpeg and OBS Studio both actually just work incredibly well compared to what came before.
> For me the biggest drawback is migrating ALL those emails if your provider decides to end support for catchalls (like Dreamhost).

With Gmail for Business / GSuite / Workspace, I had gone through the trouble of adding aliases through the Gmail.com UI when I wanted a from address. And I had created a bunch of dead accounts with aliases to reduce spam.

But when I switched away from Workspace to NameCheap, I just set up my one account as a catch-all, and in Thunderbird, when I want to send from one of those aliases, I just type it in, and it works fine. (Gmail had a setting that if you got it wrong, it sent it as an alias, but also used your mail address as the actual from/reply-to, which I found annoying!)

I also stopped bothering setting up those "honeypot" accounts. I get more spam, but... it's almost all detected as spam and put in the spam folder, so I don't worry too much. A few weeks ago, I had a day where a couple dozen gibberish addresses came in, like 8aeef09lk@domain.com, but then it stopped again.

Of course, all that is to say, if my current host does end support, it would be a pain!
I'm surprised to see Elon explicitly admitting that he and his executives at Tesla have no way to measure the productivity of workers other than counting how many hours they are at the Tesla office. To be clear, I'm not surprised that this is the case, but I'm surprised that he would voluntarily admit it. He obviously thinks it's a sick burn, but it's a pretty big self-own even for an Elon tweet.
That was beautiful and poinant, typical of Le Guin. Thank you.

I read once about a young man who wanted to give away everything he had and go live with the poor and destitute. His uncle told him it would be much more compassionate if he got a job, made alot of money and have that away. I've thought about that alot. His uncle wasn't wrong. If we want to improve humanity as a whole we need alot more people working hard making a lot of money to improve things for everyone. But if no one gives everything away and goes to live in poverty... Something good is lost.

Someone down thread mentioned the obvious solution to the trolley problem being saving more lives. I agree, and also, someone has got to rail against the injustice of whole trolley situation to begin with.

Maybe what I'm trying to say is ethical utility can be good, and we should strain to be better.

Just my random thoughts after reading above.
Crazy. I suppose they stopped after Google and Apple tightened their rules in 2020 regarding location tracking and not because of a change of heart.
The economic shock from the wake of covid is, in my view, primarily caused by early retirements in Advanced Economies. There is also the rising tide of on-shoring, but I think it's still related to the initial shrinkages of labor in Eastern Europe and in China.

I think that the changes in price from the lack of labor will be fairly wild, even though the change in laboring population will be fairly predictable.

Please compare these graphs, unfortunately they are USA only but similar trends can be found in most Advanced Economies:

25-54 year olds in workforce - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060

All ages in workforce - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART (note the peak in the 2000's).

Their difference is not caused by a surplus of children, but by a surplus of old. We are in for a very very bumpy ride.
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Instead of the usual plastic on metal frame fly swatter… For a near 100% success rate, use a low or empty (just the cardboard) roll of paper towels to hit the fly. (Please try prior to commenting. It is truly amazing.)
I think I was misunderstanding the point you were making, thanks for elaborating.
This is not the norm in Forth due to the very spartan environments it originated in, but most mature implementations include a pretty comprehensive decompiler as SEE. (Ironically, this is where the Forth claim of having a modular compiler comes apart, because SEE is always monolithic and nonextensible, or at least I haven’t seen it done any other way.)
Forcing in-person now is a cowards way at doing layoffs a-la Yahoo a decade ago.
Why would their opinion on 21st century economics mean anything at all?
I think enslavement and torture aversion are widespread, but some people are likely more tolerant of enslavement and torture risk. The fact that people volunteer for military service and combat duties is some evidence of this.
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No, I started out with violin, then moved to piano, did nothing for 5 years, then played saxophone for 17 years and then stopped for a couple of decades.

The big difference between violin and say piano is that with a piano if you hit a key with a certain velocity it will make a certain sound. Over and over again. On the violin it isn't nearly that simple and just forming the tone will take a long time (in a way you never stop getting better at that).
Does this differ from GreasyFork[1] at all? They have been around for a long time and also have a search by site feature.

[1]: https://greasyfork.org/en
I'm a fan of Reolink's cameras but they are basic.

I actually use mine with an SD card inside and just use their app (it's all free).

It's a little pricy at $50 a pop but their RL-520 haven't failed me. They even put out an update to upgrade the web dashboard from their older flash to something modern.
As with everything in tech, the products will eventually pander to the needs of those with the deepest pockets. And those aren't individuals paying £50/yr. They want a piece of "enterprise" customers, and few have bigger budgets per head than the police.
Same. I knew acquaintances who worked in very well paid positions in some of the world's top companies, including investment banks, and they all were so smitten by this new shiny thing that they forgot to do their basic dilligence.

I tried to warn them to treat it as a "gotta check on it thrice a day" investment and not a "set it and forget it" investment but they were all lured in by the LUNA "community" and basic greed.
SREs don't normally write Kubernetes alternatives. They are the people who operate/write automation that interacts with/advise teams how to run their software on/ Kubernetes to solve business problems like ensuring availability.
well, we haven't been gamma ray burst'd yet. sheepish thumbs up
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It's not just Elon. A few other prominent and less prominent CEOs are pushing the same agenda. My former employer went the other direction and opted to not renew any leases on office space. So I think this is going to be a point of friction for a while and we'll see some varied approaches but I also think remote work is definitely going to win.
My HN account email is sleepy.home9993@[mydomain]. My email provider (FastMail) creates these "masked emails" at the click of a button, with a Description field so I can identify the purpose. Each email address consists of two random words plus a 4 digit number. Then I just store the information in my password manager.

I'm not wasting time trying to fix the breaches. I can just nuke that email forever.
To support your point, there was actually a vote[1] and consequentialism in general only came out at 24.1% (of which utilitarianism only makes up a portion.)

> Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?

> Other 558 / 1803 (30.9%)

> Accept or lean toward: consequentialism 435 / 1803 (24.1%)

> Accept or lean toward: virtue ethics 406 / 1803 (22.5%)

> Accept or lean toward: deontology 404 / 1803 (22.4%)

1. https://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl?affil=Philosophy+f...
So much this. I work on spatiotemporal entity resolution and it requires extreme care and cleverness to not turn it into a proverbial "boiling the ocean" compute problem for all but the most trivial cases. The implied state that needs to be managed alone is often effectively intractable. At one time supercomputers were used for large-scale entity resolution problems; they may still.
Yes I guess you are right about that, and I don't know enough about Rawls to say much more.. But if an analytic 20th century social philosopher is going to be a "woke" guy now, I don't know who is not vulnerable to that charge anymore. But I guess thats the point.
Your mention about /fit/ reminded me of the infamous Bodybuilding.com forum. Such a legendary place, and looks like it still ain't dead yet, far from it.

EDIT: to add another recommendation: https://bogleheads.org/forum/index.php - Personal investments, financial independence
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Apart from not needing it, it would be rather conspicuous in our neighborhood, and given our small lot we’d have to park it at the community lot a quarter mile away. Lifestyle creep is easier to avoid if buying stuff is inconvenient…
So for a specific example, in a world in which (say) 50% of people earn a dollar a day, and 50% a hundred dollars a day, and we are judging two potential policies: 1), that reduces the number of people on a dollar a day to 25%, so that now 75% of people earn a hundred dollars a day; or 2) that means that no one is an a dollar a day, but that everyone is now on 50 dollars a day. Rawls would say go to option 2, where plenty of people are worse off, but now no one is terribly off. Is that a fair example? Net, the situation is worse; but now no one is destitute.
>You seem to be ideologically opposed to the very idea of public schools, and yet apparently have no problem working for one

The Ron Swanson Effect
For open source projects(my use case) it is.
It has a couple of really good links in README, one of them https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=LrcWFxK56Ug
You are not missing anything. If Government doesn't step in and force oil companies and businesses to be more responsible for recycling and reducing plastic waste, then as far as they are concerned, anywhere on our planet is a good place to "take a dump". Nothing like plastic sh*t in birds, fish, and even in the blood of unborn babies.
My comment was about comparing async/await as an evolution of other "async models" compared to just using native threads - which is mostly about efficiency.

It's not so much about comparing an async callback based solution to asycn/await - which is as far as I understand what your comment is about. I agree that directly standardizing async/await or coroutines instead of a lower-level abstraction (callbacks, promises, etc) can improve both efficiency and ease of use.
You are assuming that behind the veil of ignorance, you are still you, with your memories, risk tolerance, education, etc.

That is false. You are a random person, with all of those characteristics decided by the proverbial roll of the dice.
Gravitational waves can either stretch or contract spacetime relative to a baseline. Since the Einstein field equations are nonlinear, I think gravitational waves can be "refracted" when traveling through a region with a high baseline curvature, so maybe waveguides are possible. Gravitational lenses do lens gravitational waves in addition to light.
This is why I always use a retail store's mobile website and never download their "app". The browser sandbox saves me from having to worry about these shenangians.
NOBODY? How about anybody who cares for the future of their people or the stability of their society? Forcing women to work is arguably the root of most social ills in the last two generation.
You are comparing one side of one trade to the other side of many trades.

Each individual options trade is zero-sum (one side wins exactly as much as the other side loses, barring transaction fees), as is the total of all options trades.
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Well, I have been going out and doing stuff for months and months, but i didn't catch covid until I was forced to go to an airport.

So yeah, I think there is a balance.

I am not one of those "we need to stay inside forever" people. All activity has an inherent risk, and we are not robots that do everything perfectly every day. However, in retrospect I think having us fly in without a working vaccine was reckless.

So I guess my point is that covid is still out there and forcing people to congregate on a regular basis isn't the move yet. People are still getting sick.

For me, it was a very mild sickness. My poor partner is MISERABLE today.
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Ask HN: Is the stock market's growth largely anything more than inflation?
It seems like the stock markets (USA) growth is strongly correlated to inflation. The more money the government prints the more the stock market goes up. So the market doesn't actually represent value in a company but instead debt owed to somebody else.

What are the implications of this and is it a bad thing?

What would the market look like if we corrected for the money supply?

PS: I'm asking here because when asking at other places I was told to just not worry about it.
I can't find the documentation for it, but you can see here that they measure the size of the source file after gzip compression, which reduces advantage of code-golf solutions:

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...
When people's beliefs are refuted they often double down on them. It's a phenomena that people have studied.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails
There are limits to contracts in the law. There would have to be some form of consideration to that contract. If you gave me a million dollars a year but I just can't use my current legal name in casual conversation, I'd take that contract. If you just wrote a contract that said "you can't use your name, you get nothing" its an unenforceable contract under US (and most of the developed world's) contract laws under the principle of consideration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consideration
It looks clean and super good! Considering moving from Obsidian as it gets more refined.

A few more features IMO would be nice: (fuzzy) search; task management; math formula support; or just expose API for such development would be great as well.
> The varnish is the finishing layer that is on top. That layer is also, fwiw, about 3-5 mils most of the time

Are you saying the varnish is that thick, or the layer the varnish is on is that thick?

Painting on a 3-5mm thick layer of varnish sounds like a lot of coats.

The below link is from someone who makes violins and they make the top 2.7-2.8mm total thickness.

https://www.violincellomaker.com/2021/03/17/how-the-thicknes...

Edit: rereading your comment makes me think that you’re saying the total top thickness is usually 3-5mm.
I'm happy that my comment brought you out of retirement.
Nuclear Winter has been generally discredited by modern modelling. The whole premise was likely politically motivated by scientists who wanted to make nuclear war less likely to occur, by dissuading politicians with this yarn. (A true noble lie.) Criticism of the hypothesis was muted by few scientists wanting to risk the perception of supporting nuclear war.

As for "permanently denying use of satellites", this is only partially true. High orbits would be fucked for millennia, but LEO would mostly clear up before the century is out. I know that seems 'forever', but it isn't. Also, depending on the severity of the debris, interplanetary exploration would not necessarily be out of the picture; if the debris is severe enough that a GSO satellite has a 99% chance of being destroyed within a year, then that orbit is as good as ruined. But if you only plan to pass through that region for a few hours, not spend a whole year there, you might be able to do that if you can tolerate some risk. It'd be like running across a highway, except the cars move faster than bullets and won't brake for you. If you hang out in the middle of the road you are certain to get hit. If you time it right and run across, you have a chance of getting through.
I assume every app that has location permission does this. I can't imagine google doesn't, or the phone company. I don't think it's right (and even less right that apparently google will provide this information to law enforcement). I just think the only practical thing to do is assume you are being tracked and don't install apps unless you're ok with the tradeoff.

The flip side of this, is why would I ever install a Tim Hortons app, why do I think they are offering an app, and what possible meaningful benefit (even assuming I went there regularly) would I drive from having an app?
Clouds have multiple conflicts of interest in favor of:

1. Dethroning sysadmins introducing devops in the middle ("devs" capable of deploying in the cloud but unable to control the OS).

2. Increase CPU and other resource consumption (promoting heavy frameworks, unable to pass the Doherty threshold in 2022).

For clouds, increasing complexity and costs almost always expands the business.