skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you respect something that pays out prior participants with the money from new participants, you will refuse to call it a ponzi

if you don't respect something that pays out prior participants with the money from new participants, you will call it a ponzi

that seems to be the entire distinction based on seeing these kind of conversations over many years, and also watching for what prompts SEC enforcement actions towards managers that launch new funds and what doesn't, as well as DOJ enforcement actions, as well as the structure of many credit and government products
As a lefty side-writer, I find no challenge with using cursive. Writing in print is also pushing most of the time so I don't understand the claim that lefties has to push more.
There's a pretty good "Talking Politics" podcast on Rawls: https://play.acast.com/s/history-of-ideas/rawlsonjustice

Sadly, that series has ended, but there's a lot of good stuff: https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/history-of-ideas-seri...
There appear to be a few dedicated YouTube channels.

Quake 2022 Community Preview
https://youtu.be/ARsN0xldnys

GreenwoodQuake also appears to showcase a lot of levels. I'd sort by most views and try out all the top entries.
https://youtu.be/euyJa1rOZGg
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No. The company I work at (roughly 20 countries, 2000 employees -- blurred to avoid doxing myself) is embracing WFH and this allowed us to merge the knowledge and skills of the all our departments across the world. This also allowed us to hire people from all over the countries. Instead of hiring only people local to each branch we get to hire the best workers from all cities. This also allowed the company to hire where there are no offices.

I cannot see it going back any time soon. The advantages are too numerous.

We still have offices and are encourage to use them like any other resources. They have became hubs where we meet when needed to increase productivity instead of obligatory energy drains. New hubs were recently purchased and customized to our needs. Some even have private cafés and bars in them.

This requires trust from the management team, which we have proved over and over for decades.

If anything, people are working slightly longer hours now. The 2 hours people would use to do commute are no longer existent so a lot of people are willing to throw extra hours.

It's common for people to voluntarily stay in chatrooms while cooking diner and using the time to do teambuilding and also casually talk about work related issues. Similar to how people used to gather in common spaces after work. We even had events where the company would send us ingredients so that we could all cook the same recipes together and enjoy a remote lunch (on paid time).

Some of my coworkers are even living the digital nomad lifestyle where they travel across the world yet work their full time. Meetings where people have a beach or forest behind them are common -- and they are not static image backgrounds.

I do not miss the previous model and would never go back to it willingly.

I cannot imagine the company going back either as they would now need to fire all the new hires who are not close to the offices... and those offices have been converted into hubs with meetings rooms and a small amount of workstations. Even if the entire company wanted to go back tomorrow, there would not be enough workstations.
IIRC the rumor leak around that was more nuanced: the leaks reported someone allegedly saying that market economics may not ultimately be able to support more than 2 leaders, because the economics will make #1 and #2 able to profit at prices that numbers 3+ can't compete with due to lack of scale. So the statement was that GCP has keep up or its ability to profit will be at risk, not that they'd shut down just because their slice of the pie isn't big enough if they end up as #3.

I don't believe it was clear who said this, how confident it was that someone said this, and whether it was an off-the-cuff comment in support of a push for more growth or an actual deep assessment of the economics of the space.
So yeah that is reason 1. Plus your huge debts which are reasons 2 and 3. Not zero reasons. I have always lived with people, living alone seems like a great way to burn money. At least in England it is a little more commonly accepted.
> The first part of that quote is incorrect: the written formula at bullet point 7 does not claim that one envelope contains 2A and the other envelope contains A/2. It claims that the first envelope contains A and the second envelope has a 50% probability of containing 2A and a 50% probability of containing A/2.

But it's wrong! Try with literally any A.

> If you read bullet point 6, it is very clear: "the other envelope contains 2A with probability 1/2 and A/2 with probability 1/2". Notice that bullet point 6 does not claim "One envelope contains 2A and the other envelope contains A/2".

Sure but this bullet point is also dead wrong and possibly the start of the scam. If you say A is lowest value, Either it contain A with probability 1/2, or 2A.

Otherwise you are changing the reality of A midway through the sentence.

To meet you halfway, what you may actually want, or see in your head is the possibility that A (in the lowest value sense) may vary in the experiment, and try to compute the expectation of that new problem.

But that's a different problem. And if you want to compute the expectation of this problem with A varying in a range you have to write an integral over the p(A) around the (corrected) equation 7. But the equation 7, even in this integral, need to use the same consistency for A: either you have A being the lowest envelope value and you only write 2A ever, or the highest value and then you only write 0.5A
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who do you think uses webdis and for what use-cases?
we are curious about http but we want to understand the reasons first.
> Today we got an email that our entire global staff would be getting a long weekend, just because.

How is this related to companies ending remote?

(btw this week the UK has a 4-day weekend starting tomorrow)
No, this is just going back to normality. This is how it was in 2019.

IMO certain professions may be ok with remote but for the most part, the kind of work Tesla does, remote work is suboptimal.

We are going to see a bifurcation of companies that adopt either strategies. Time will tell.
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Smart companies will see what's happening with the airline industry--execs pushing for end to restrictions, having a full return to normal, etc.--and it backfiring with huge swaths of staff out sick constantly, etc. and re-evaluate plans to return to full in-person normal. It really seems like it should be a team-by-team choice if and how they integrate in person into their workflow.

edit: Also if your company is in manufacturing, typically a 'pause' of operations is a big warning sign that orders are down and layoffs are coming soon.
Awful for you, but a lot of people love the walkability / bikeability of cities and the proximity to services, activities, and other people.
It's very easy to understand. The administration was a well known grifter and backroom dealer and he made sure friends in high places got free money. Simple as that.
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Man I feel this.

I recently purged most of my subreddit subscriptions and really focused in on topics I care about that still have content I actually want to see. I probably dropped 90% of my subscriptions.

The payoff is that as long as I never visit “all” I get a fairly well curated list of posts that don’t suck.
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I agree with you on the coffee but not the commute.

I had a long commute for a few years -- 9 hour workday with 3.5 hour round-trip commute, 5 days a week. I traded ~50% of my free time for ~50% more salary.

After factoring in commuting costs, taxes, and the time-saving services for things I used to do myself it wasn't as much of a net increase as I thought it would be.

But more importantly, what's the point of having money if you don't have time to use it?
I was just forced to go on-site for team building.

It was fun! I had to fly into SF. We had a nice time.

Came home. Covid positive. Me and my partner. Hooray.
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We ended our lease in May 2020 and saved tens of thousands of dollars since even with the cost of outfitting people's remote work spaces. Productivity stayed the same or increased and we could hire more easily outside the city. People felt more comfortable having kids because they'd be around for them more. Why would anyone go back?
Geometric mean of (time + gzipped source code size in bytes) seems statistically wrong.

What if you shifted time to nanoseconds ? Or source code size in terms of Megabytes. The rankings could change. The culprit is the '+'

I would think Geometric mean of (time x gzipped source code size) is the correct way to compare languages together. It would not matter what the units of time or size are in that case.

[Here the geometric mean is the geometric mean of (time x gzipped size) of all benchmark programs of a particular language.]
U.S. plastic recycling rate drops to close to 5%
I think your startup plan should not be: "Step one: Displace Google Search." Instead, you find the underserved niche, people who care about quality search results (maybe in a specific domain), and you address that. As you conquer the small market you expand.

Google really does seem to be frustratingly bad these days.
Downturn means less money.

Less money means pressure to lower salaries.

That creates a pressure to hire outside the US, thus remote.

So, given that we understood that remote is possible, the downturn will make remote more likely.
Got it. That is definitely a cool insight. Thanks for sharing!
There is a lot of work on alternatives.
Fairly certain it wasn't but was it this Google study instead? https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/
Looking at the source, its a Drupal site. So yes, at its core it is an open source software stack probably with a lot of state-owned templates, themes, and plugins made and/or managed by their contractors. Its fronted by Cloudfront, I don't know if its then being hosted on AWS, some other cloud provider, a state-run datacenter, or a raspberry pi under a desk at one of the DMV offices.

Either way, each DMV and other state agency or agencies in other states is going to want to craft the site in its own fashion for its own "brand". Whether or not this is a good thing is debatable, there's pros and cons each way IMO. You're going to need to have certain kinds of integrations and plugins into byzantine ancient computer systems that each agency also owns and manages. It'll practically never be some quick one-click deploy to make a DMV site; every DMV between all the states are different. They have different forms, different workflows, different database systems for their old systems, different priorities their state legislatures have given them, etc.
I think in either case, GC or not, you write something intuitively and then when it becomes an actual problem, you study the patterns and improve them, but most of the time you can leave it alone and the general purpose thing is good enough.

Or if you are in a niche like audio/video or something, you avoid allocations all together during the bulk of the code.
> If you've got the skills that are in demand you can always quit and go work somewhere else where remote is still an option.

You could say this about any shitty part of tech work though. Software devs won't be put on 24/7 on-call rotations because they can just quit and work somewhere else. Software devs won't be forced to put together a quick hack because they can just quit and work somewhere else. Software devs won't be forced to work nights and weekends to meet an arbitrary deadline because they can just quit and work somewhere else.

For whatever reason, it doesn't end up being that simple.
Companies that advertise roles on HN are not representative of the economy.
Police enforce EVERY law. Even the most minor infractions are ultimately backed up with the idea that the police will force you to comply. We have plenty of examples up to and including little kids getting tasered and arrested for minor or even imaginary infractions.

Throughout history, there has been no law so vile that police cannot be found who are willing to enforce that law.
It would be shocked if the original survey included RSU, 401Ks, and capital gains in the estimation.
> In particular I'm not sure how to really tell ffmpeg to handle multiple audio/sub streams without programmatic interaction - you kinda need to know there are 2 audio streams and 4 sub streams, because you need to tell it what to do with each stream you want included in the output file, even if you do the exact same thing to every stream.

I made a script that converts all the videos in a directory above a certain bitrate to H.265 to save space and found that just using the flags `-map 0` to grab every stream, and `-c:s copy` was enough to avoid having to probe the source for every stream since subtitles were the most problematic if any streams were bitmaps. It then checks if there were any errors before replacing the original video. I still get the occasional outlier that I either fix by hand or just leave as is.

Also the script was written with python and argparse, so it would be relatively easy for me to create a GUI with Gooey[1] if there was interest.

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What does the prog form with parameters do? I only know about progn in CL.
I've started running Nomad in my homelab, and it is a great piece of software. Although I feel like the question is sort of flawed, if you want to learn Kubernetes, you are going to need to run Kubernetes - or one of the downsized versions of it.

If you want to learn about containers, distributed workloads, etc, then Nomad is a great option that is easy to learn/adopt piecemeal.
I expect you'll get downvoted by the vocal cohort on HN that hates working in-person, but FWIW I agree with you. 9/12 years of my career have been remote, and increasingly it's difficult to even find a job that has an office. But the time I was in the same building with the whole team I was working with were the most productive and enjoyable years of my career. I really wish I could get that back.
It is great effort to make a high ranking spam site and trivial to destroy it for Google. It would be a winning battle.

I think that Google just don't care and are happy to be a search motor for Reddit and Wikipedia and to answer questions like "How old is Lady Gaga?".
4Bn rows/sec query benchmark: ClickHouse vs. QuestDB vs. Timescale
Depends what you mean by ending remote. Thoughts below only apply to tech companies:

* I think that relatively few companies will return to "back to office = 5d / week"

* I think that many companies will return to "back to office = 1-4 days / week" or "back to office = everyone is in the office for a full work-week every month"

But I think that some amount of essentially 100% remote roles will endure, just as they existed pre-pandemic. If I were guessing 5-15% of the workforce will settle into that state.

Companies are practical. If 5d / week in office means a lot of employee retention issues, and you aren't ok with that, rational actors aren't going to intentionally floor the car off a bridge.
The "Veil of Ignorance" is an idea initially developed by John Harsanyi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harsanyi

Rawls for some reason focused only on "within a country" so he failed to recognize that the true application of veil of ignorance should push us towards open borders and more aid to developing nations.

ps - "veil of ignorance" is probably the best perspective to take when thinking about all the "trolley problems" - because it leads you to recognize the correct (utilitarian) solution (of saving more people).
Personal opinion - remote work is not the future. A hybrid work model will be the future for software jobs.

Remote works best only when they already have a shared context and trusting relationships. That's why it worked pretty well in the early stages of the pandemic. Now that employees have churned, I am noticing a huge drop in productivity of teams simply because a vast majority of employees are new, have no shared context and have very shallow relationships with each other.
There really does need to be a term beyond SPAC that we can use to describe profitless companies seeking investment.
Small company data point here, but we're going more remote, not less.

Previously, remote was basically for people that had been with the company before and left the area, but that we wanted to keep.

The pandemic finally wore down the last bit of resistance to embracing remote fully. We still have our (scaled down) office location, but new hires need not have ever set foot in the area.
> Are they working for stock options that are going to make them millionaires?

Maybe, maybe not. But now they are working for a well known company that looks good on a resume, and I have no reason to believe they are not being paid fairly for their work.

Seems comparable to the big law firms. those might be worse tbh. Do it for the experience and Resume, then get out.
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One of the most harmful and anti-utilitarian legal theories to ever become popular. It's baby's first attempt at first-order anthropic utilitarianism, with disastrous entailments.
Important fyi is that in Rawls's conception of justice, you do not have knowledge of the likelihood of characteristics like handicap, immigrants etc. Otherwise an enslaved minority would be worthwhile enough to make a just society, which is clearly incorrect.
So basically you stood out not because of the work you did but because of social skills. Gotcha. Yet another reason why WFH is better. Rewards people who actually stand out due to quality of work and not unrelated unproductive skills that affect human psyche and make it seem like the person is contributing more than they are.
According to Buddhism, there is no boundary. Between a human and the "external" world. This point of view is very interesting.