skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are technically not wrong, but this discussion is always treated like a black and white white thing while the reality is far more complicated.

Some people don't have a choice -- I myself moved to a different continent to work in a country where people are notorious for not wanting to be friends (Sweden). If some people didn't go to the office to socialize, I'd have felt so deep into depression that I'd have probably need to leave the country.

Both 100% wfh and 100% office are bad for different reasons. For reasons like that I believe the best option is:

1) Company lets you do whatever

2) Build teams with people that made similar choices
[an 80% reduction in smoke-related damage] [is a huge public health risk]

Interesting.
Like i said in another post, where I linked the pubmed reference, the most effective way to suppress that nausea is to apply capsaicin cream on the abdomen but like you implied the only way to completely suppress it is abstinence.
Netflix CEO Confirms Partner Talks for Ad-Supported Tier
I mean, this guy wants people to go to the office, I suppose for the meaningful personal interactions that might happen there, but then doesn't want workers to fully and freely express themselves?

Sounds like those workers would be better off WFH.
That is totally incorrect, that is what article 50 is and that is how UK left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_from_the_European_U...
I want to be remote full time, but also want 2x (max) destination trips to build face time and bs.
For a lot of firms, it seems like the question is more of a test of leadership's insecurity than anything else. They feel like they don't have control without bodies they can see doing things.

The company I work for was bought by a huge, old, conservative company. Which sold its HQ last year, because after 2 years remote they determined that a large majority of the ~70k employees can work from home. We still have offices, but they're either for specific groups or are mostly executive playgrounds and meeting space.

It takes a certain amount of confidence in structures and staff from leadership. I think we're starting to see which other firms have confident leaders.
Alternatively, use offset values instead of internal pointers. Now your structs are trivially relocatable, and you can use smaller integer types instead of pointers, which allows you to more easily catch overflow errors.
It should never be either or situation, because people's preferences differ.

What you're saying is not universally true. It is true for some people. probably a majority, but it is not true for many, many people.

Personally I have absolutely no problem whatsoever never leaving my home for work. I could probably spend weeks entirely on my own and be absolutely delighted. I understand that's not how a lot of people, all of my family included, would want to live, but I would.
I just copy the url to a plain text file, wget and grep if I need to find something and can't remember what's what.
A Comparison of Node.js Environment Managers
The compiler and language make it easier to unambiguously specify a program.
Even if competitors end up bidding on their brands I don't think they should show up first if I was Googling for "toyota" anyway, right?
A few years ago, I started using a wiki as a sort of all encompassing knowledgebase. In time, my wiki took over even using browser bookmarks. When I found a link that I wanted to remember, I would include a link to it in the context of the entry. The upshot is that I always had context for what I wanted or thought about the link.
The actual dystopia: your main/only way of socialising is by being an employee.
There are some old-hand approaches to this which work out fine.

An example would be a generous rolling buffer, with enough room for the data you're working on. Most tools which are working on a stream of data don't require much memory, they're either doing a peephole transformation or building up data with filtration and aggregation, or some combination.

You can't have a use-after-free bug if you never call free, treating the OS as your garbage collector for memory (not other resources please) is fine.
It happens all the time, we just call it something else now: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/patient-caregiv...

That's just one of a myriad of conditions that cause paralysis.
Additionally, a lot of the county highways around Minneapolis have car-width shoulders. It's not all of them, but it's enough to ride 60-80-100 miles pretty easily without having to worry too much about getting picked off by a vehicle straying over the right lane line a little.

Fat bike in the winter; road bike in the summer; fat bike/mountain bike on lots of mountain bike trails in the metro and outstate all year. It's pretty great.
I completely can understand your emotion. But even the top CDNs can have outages of some form or the other. If site uptime is important, check out https://www.cdnreserve.com/ - it's built on the design principle that the likelihood of two separate platforms having an outage at the same time is close to zero.
Articbull is saying nuclear is better than solar for the energy system. He bases this on a claim that solar panels are inefficient along a number of dimensions. Look at his actual comments, they aren’t narrowly related to lab or theoretical efficiency (he is making points about land use, death, etc). There is no real concept of physical inefficiency there is only relative efficiency. And relative efficiency of Rankine cycle prime movers vs semiconductors is not a strictly easy comparison. 20% of something free that would have been entirely wasted is different than 40% of something you have to find, dig out, transport, crush, then filter. I also didn’t say what he said about theoretical panel efficiency is wrong (except all his actual numbers were wrong until he edited them). I am broadly saying this point doesn’t support his conclusion.

Edit: you are also wrong about what happens to the energy that hits the panel. Some light is reflected, a lot of light passes right through the panel. Further, panels are designed for particular wavelengths which is why multi gap panels have theoretical efficiencies higher than any thermal plant. And some is turned into heat. All of this would have happened had the panel not been there too except no usable electricity would be created.
Any reason to believe it wasn't K2? Or...moldy weed?
Relevant to both parts of this study: I can’t recommend a walking treadmill with an electric standing desk enough. I walk about 4-5 hours a day at ~2 mph. I can eat what I want and maintain my weight (or lose it), I’m more alert during the day and I sleep better at night.

The only real issue is that if I have to think particularly hard on a problem I might have to step off of the treadmill/turn it off for a bit.

I work from home and most of my work isn’t mentally challenging, so I know I have it better than most. Still, for anyone who thinks it might be doable for them I’d recommend it. It takes a while to get used to, but it happens. Right now I’d love to find a way to incline the treadmill easily to increase the challenge without increasing the speed.

Plus, you should see my calves. The bottom half of some pants look like leggings on me.
An equally plausible frame is that once a technology becomes replicated across several companies, it makes sense to open source it since the marginal competitive advantage are the possible resultant external network effects.

I don't know if that's the right way to think about the open sourcing of large language models. I just think we really can't read too much into such releases regarding their motivation.
> I don't have random desk drop-ins pulling me out of work flow

Yes, in my experience the people who enjoy working from home are those that prioritize their work over the work of others because it allows for fewer "distractions." I'm not saying that people don't distract others frivolously, but I think it's typical that when someone distracts another working person it's because they need immediate help to get unblocked. While the distracted worker may lose out on some productivity, the whole is more productive.
its a nexus and conduit for cash flows

but yes your primary point about how management tactics are largely irrelevant are spot on. I say the same thing about employees that try to make a corporation "use their platform" on political issues completely unrelated to the contracting relationships and revenues
> [Ellison is] fond enough of repeating the quote “It is not sufficient that I succeed—all others must fail” that it’s often misattributed to him instead of its generally accepted originator, Genghis Khan.

> Most of the more than 30 Lanai residents interviewed for this story say that because there are no real alternatives to Ellison’s control, his decisions carry the force of law, with a minimum of discussion and hardly any due process.

> Many residents both rent from him and work for him, and a provision in his residential leases states that if you’re terminated from a job with any of his companies, you can be kicked out of your home, too. Under Ellison, 30-day leases have become the norm for Lanai’s small businesses, as opposed to the five-year terms some were used to before.

> Ellison shook his hand and told him, “We’re gonna do great work together,” he recalls. That was the last time they spoke. Two weeks later, Andrus was out of a job.

> People here say there remains a “plantation mentality” that leaves residents afraid to criticize those in charge.

> “He has the right to do whatever the hell he wants with what he owns,” Andrus says.

> “He’s amazing,” says Gail Allen, who owns a gift shop in town and manages rental properties for Ellison’s visiting employees. “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you, please.”

> In this version of gentrification, you don’t just get pushed farther out from the city center. You get pushed out into the sea.

Fascinating article, thank you OP.
Good find. TLDR:

~50% of inflation is supply-driven, ~30% is demand-driven, and ~20% is from ambiguous factors.

They’re basically trying to communicate to Washington that reducing money supply and raising interest rates to weaken demand can only reduce inflation by ~30%. Fully killing inflation will depend on economic and fiscal policies that increase supply (especially of energy and food).

The unstated implication is that without the latter, rising interest rates may cause a recession without ending inflation, and we’ll get stagflation again like in the 70s. Increasing supply is critical to avoiding that.
I wish there was a word for hearing someone express a thought that so perfectly captures something you feel but had not yet realized you felt.
Do compilers really can never call `free()`?

Simple compiler probably can. Most complex probably cannot (I don't want to imagine a Rust compiler without freeing memory: it has 7 layers of lowering (source code->tokens->ast->HIR->THIR->MIR->monomorphized MIR, excluding the final LLVM IR) and also allocates a lot while type-checking or borrow-checking).

What is most interesting to me is the average compiler. Does somebody have statistics on the average amount compilers allocate and free?
So as I'm reading this, there are apparently other approved "electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS)"[1], but Juul in particular failed to provide data proving the safety of their products. Which is kind of interesting.

1. https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/premarket-tobacco-produ...
Fundraising 101
Pretty much every company I've seen, even the ones with the "not even the CEO has an office" ethos, still have offices for the lawyers and HR. Basically they spend so much time having confidential conversations that it was cheaper to give them an office than have them always in a conference room.
Microsoft could provide an opt-out for projects or even contributors, regardless of licence.
When Docker was still new, a Go IRC channel saw one employee after another coming to ask about combining ungzip and untar in a streaming fashion inside a Go process. We tried to help, but that was roughly when I realized Docker will never gain technical excellence. It never was in their culture.
All of the analog serdes layout engineers I know still draw wires by hand. This was true at least in 10nm when I worked with them.
If you are ever going to try any illegal drug in your life, a vape pen with cannabis is probably the way to do it. It's pretty safe and the effect is really not crazy, it's sort of on the order of magnitude of alcohol. And soon it probably won't even be an "illegal drug" any more - where I live in California it's legal enough that you can simply walk into a store and buy some.
I think there's a non trivial chance that the inflation reverses a bit because it was never actually the currency's problem but rather things just getting more expensive due to war and covid and shipping.
Yeah idk what OP was on about, the EU is huge for allowing Europe to punch at the level of the US, China etc
> And I have seen videogame overuse fuck up people's academics and careers.

Circa 2005, a non-trivial percent of students sat in the back of lecture halls playing WoW during classes.

Games have gotten terrifyingly more addictive since then, though you don't hear so much about games ruining lives anymore in the news. Maybe it just isn't newsworthy anymore?
Maybe it's ok to have rough-sailing every now and then, so we can toughen up?

I'm sorry to say this, having lived through various life-served situations, but you sound very spoiled. At home isn't good, at work isn't good.. everything is the problem except you?
Apple Notes is where I put urls along with just about everything else.

The one and only thing I miss about Delicious is that it was great to see what other people were saving under a specific tag or topic.
Fearless FFI: Memory Safety, Safer Dependencies, Supply-Chain Attack Mitigation
I'm sincerely grateful for this embarrassment of riches you took the time to share -- thank you! Very happy you replied!
I agree with him that it would be the best way forward (and as a Norwegian I think Norway should join).

But it seem pretty clear this is not what people want at this time, so equally clearly it is not the right thing to do as democratic countries. Trying to influence opinions is OK, forcing treaties on us is not OK. In my opinion. EU can start by building trust and transparency and perhaps look inward instead at blaming people for not trusting them.
>And you just won't get as much out of your life as you could get, won't achieve as much relationship success, professional success, or personal fulfillment.

So, like being addicted to an Internet connected, social media infested smartphone?
Yes, of course we have work chat. But everyone is just a little green dot. Often people will be in another meeting or afk, so you'll send a ping and then wait for 30 minutes for them to get back. Or you'll forget to ping them when they're done with a meeting. In person, if someone isn't at their desk, you just wait until they come back, which you know happens because you see them.
China’s Expanding Surveillance State
Yah, it boils down to the 10th Amendment at the end of the day and the US's approach to federalism.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-10/....
This is news to me, because I was told repeatedly by the anti-Brexit people that this was unthinkable, there was no method in place, and so on, and so Brexit shouldn't occur because no procedures had been made for it. I didn't buy that reasoning, but I had foolishly assumed that they were telling the truth. More fool I, I guess.
Is the word "plummet" really appropriate here? They're talking about falling at a rate of 0.001mph, which is much faster than expected but hardly a "plummet."
The new virus is also less deadly than the earlier variants, generally speaking
Given the state of undefined behavior in the standard, I'm inclined to agree with you.

With that being said, can you recommend a modern language designed around a model of computation flexible enough to target e.g. non-flat memory models?

I'm additionally interested in targeting MCUs with no ISA-supported stack and ~2KiB of RAM.
if you liked that, you'll love Plumbum[1] :)

[1] https://github.com/tomerfiliba/plumbum
Those are some great points!
Ask HN: Is TI Tiva launchpad a good platform for learning OS/Bootloader?
Hi friends, I have a tiva launchpad which I fondly used for a few introductory low level programming projects. Now I want to dig a bit deeper and use the platform to teach myself OS/Bootloader and perhaps compilers too.

Is it a good choice comparing to barebone Pico or Arduino Uno (stripping down to barebone)? Thanks!
Would the kernel pull in any dependencies, or just reimplement everything like it currently does?
The meaning of "safe" is pretty straightforward. It means that you don't read memory that you have freed, don't read memory that you haven't initialized, and don't read or write memory that you don't own.
I mostly use bookmarks for easy access to commonly used tools and documentation; however, typically, I suffer from the fact when I need to share a set of bookmarks, the browser support of export/import is really awful for both the exporter and importer.

I encountered it so much that I built a tool in the last few months to allow sharing of bookmarks natively in the browser. I didn't want to use a new tool to manage my bookmarks; I just wanted to enhance the browser bookmark feature with the ability to share bookmarks.

https://www.bookmarkllama.com
> If your code is using a license that allows it, how could you possibly opt-out aside from using a different license?

A repo setting that instructs Github not to use your code for Copilot, it could be a similar option as turning Discussions on / off.

If they really want to win developers over they would even have Copilot scanning disabled by default but that'll never happen.
It's so interesting watching the portion of the world that thrives on human interaction struggle to exist in a world where human interaction is not forced on everyone.

Believe it or not a portion of the human population (a large portion) has felt this strain for their *entire lives* because they live in a world where frequent and varied social interaction, an activity that is quite draining for them, is required to be a successful member of society.

Imagine living with this unpleasant world for one or two years and viewing it as the decline of human civilization. Meanwhile, all these people have dealt with an analogous situation for an entire lifetime and have been told that their stress and anxiety is a character flaw to be overcome with self-training and behavior masking.

Maybe try some of those?
> To Asians, the Greeks were all called Ionian

Not picking nits, just an interesting fact. At that time, Asia was the name of the province on the eastern shore of the Aegean, where the Ionian Greeks were also located, so in a sense the sentence is absolutely true.

However the name "Ionian" still survives to this day throughout (modern-day) Asia: from the old Greek "Mikra Asia" in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) all the way to India, Greeks are "Ionians": "Yunani".

Ah, and I just remembered another curious little thing:

The western island complex of Greece (you know, Corfu-Zante-woohoo! etc., plus Odysseus' Ithaca, whichever among the candidates it may be) are also called "Ionian", but traditionally were inhabited by Doric, rather than Ionian, Greeks.
"Stop naming your software projects after single common English words"
If I had a personal tech blog I would have already done a show/tell HN post for this. It causes multiple problems but the most immediately obvious is difficulty in troubleshooting, because it creates so many search collisions. "Hydrogen" as an element is more common by a factor most easily expressed in exponents.
In this case, good luck finding that one guy from five years ago who had the same problem as you and developed an obscure workaround.
Really depends on the business. I'd argue that for forging product market fit, there's nothing better than a small team sharing a common space, feeding off each other's creative energy.

For later stage companies where you're optimizing something that's already mapped out, it's quite a different beast, but you're also probably hiring quite different people at quite a different scale.

+ open plan offices are hell
While I can't do it I've lived in siesta countries and people actually do fall asleep in minutes.
Don't know how but it must be learnable.
You'll like what we've done during my Hackathon
https://github.com/fork-tongue/collagraph/pull/66

We added support for PyScript using Collagraph, which allows you to define single file components with a Vue-like syntax.

Excerpt from the project README:

Write your Python interfaces in a declarative manner with plain render functions, component classes or even single-file components using Vue-like syntax, but with Python!

- Reactivity (made possible by leveraging observ)

- Function components

- Class components with local state and life-cycle methods/hooks

-Single-file components with Vue-like syntax (.cgx files)

- Custom renderers (PySide, pygfx and now PyScript)
Probably because of the real reason - supervision.

There are people whose work ethic is such that they don't need supervision and then there are people who are bad at managing everything in their life - from food to setting up work schedule.

At our workplace, the ones who were the loudest about hybrid model were the ones who don't pull their weight.
Working out is hard, but we should do it even if it is strenuous, because it is good for our physical fitness.

Learning basics of history, chemistry, etc. is good even if it is boring, because it enhances our understanding of the world.

And interacting with people in person is good even if it is sometimes annoying, because humans are social creatures.

To ignore the benefits of social interaction is an extremist view. To think that it is healthy that millions of people glamorize isolation and laugh along at how annoying it is to talk to people, is to cheer on a very unhealthy trend.

As I alluded, I think the pendulum will swing back toward normality in time. We are a social species, and we need in-person social interactions. If one feels like interacting with the grocer is an undue, unnecessary burden, then they are as mentally unhealthy as someone who can't walk a flight of stairs is physically unhealthy.
I know a lot of people who would rather work remote - but are willing to go into the office just to spend time around other people. They would be 100% on board with this.

I personally prefer an office (if it's close) for the distinction between work and home, but I'm also fine working from home. That said, a biannual reason to spend time with coworkers sounds great.

And, if teambuilding is like a second-tier vacation where I don't have to pay for stuff or use vacation time, that's even better.

I'm not against going into the office because I hate being outside my home. I just hate commuting.
I think we're past a certain threshold, maybe not AGI but some definite qualitative change is happening.
Foundations of Machine Learning [Playlist]
With this claim from SpaceX, it seems that drama creation is a group activity :D
One big problem we have with shopify is users don't stay logged in for more than 24 hours. Do you guys fix that with hydrogen?
The amount of flower doesn't seem to make much difference for me; it still produces the anxiety and panicky feeling, but doesn't last as long. For example I'll have 15 minutes of panic attacks instead of an hour. That's a great trick though, so I'll try it out with the CBD flower and see how it goes, thanks!
Still no. First case I would not even consider censorship. The third one was temporary until Google stopped operating in Russia altogether.

A quote from the second one: "cumulative 45 percent decrease in traffic from Google searches"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31851373
Pretty much my exact experience except I don't have the walking treadmill yet. Wish I could recover more from lying down but it helps. Going outside for a walk is more often my go-to.