skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I literally used a paper check last month for my new apartment's deposit. It's still fairly common for some transactions in France. Last I heard, faxing was still a thing in corporate Germany.
There are (at least) two powerful forces that will make "hybrid work" evolve into "WFH" at many offices.

What I saw at Mozilla with a remote-heavy workforce is that declining office attendance is a vicious cycle. The fewer people there are in the office on any given day, the less incentive there is for those people to keep showing up.

You can mitigate that to some extent by requiring people to be in the office on a few specific days (as many "hybrid work" programs are trying to do). The problem then is the company has a lot of expensive real estate that's only being used 3 days a week. That seems wasteful. I predict that as leases come up for renewal, and as they get more used to remote work, a lot of companies are going to look at their office investments and downsize or eliminate them. The super-rich Big Tech companies and the like will continue to spend eye-watering amounts of money on lightly used office space and services, because they can, but I don't see how that's going to work for normal companies.
> it rubs me the wrong way when people who decided to take on long commutes for better pay talk about how it's being taken away from them

Sure, everyone happens to live right next to several good potential employers in their field, but instead choses to take a job further away because money.
Are we talking about the same paper here? I thought this paper discussed a possible mechanism for a hypothesis that they openly acknowledge may or may not be true. This may be fun mathematics but it doesn't seem like any basis to influence public opinion or social policy.

This paper would have definitely gone completely unnoticed, just a cute little theoretical exercise, if it hadn't been blown up into a public controversy by its critics.
> Why does it seem like every single crypto company inevitably engages in shady business practices

It doesn’t sound like Binance is engaging in widespread sanctions evasion. They dropped their Iranian users. Seven users found a workaround. They were later caught and banned. Replace Binance with HSBC and it would be unsurprising, actually Binance did better, and the comments would be conspiracy theories about regulators being lax on violators.
This seems to be just want I was looking for.
Right now I use keycloak but I'd like to have user data separate.

I'm what format is data stored?
How resilient is the stored data against corruption?
Green is the official h4xx0r color x)
It's a difficult thing.

In the long term, certainly we want to be able to appreciate the positive contributions made by talented creative people.

But in the short term, it feels pretty awful to contribute to anything that might even in some small way support an unjustified war of aggression.
How will businesses view any contract from Musk or one of his companies after this twitter kerfluffle? Will there have to be a set of clauses to defend against him changing his mind or losing interest? Assets placed in escrow to ensure compliance? Will this make these companies less desirable business partners when resources are limited?

I would think that other companies are looking for performance rather than performance art…
You should check out the cartoon: Tron Uprising. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1812523/
tbh this is a big weakness of the left (in terms of its marketing at least) that I'm trying to understand better. one idea is that whatever solutions we conceive of now, are constrained within the understanding we've gained living under capitalism/state power etc., and that we need to dismantle the current system incl exploitation/keeping the majority of peoples time/energy locked up in wage labor/systemic lack of freedom to disobey an order or to freely relocate/etc, before we can explore a wider range of solutions. But I get how this is unsatisfying, sounds like it leaves a vacuum for bad/regressive solutions to come in, but this is something I'm only starting to learn about.

That's why I appreciated the new Graeber/Wengrow, it finds a wealth of prev overlooked ways that humans have lived, post discovery of agriculture, in large societies and with greater freedoms and prosperity defined in new ways besides within the terms of economics. This gives me optimism that capitalism/states aren't necessary or inevitable and that we might be stuck on this shitty plateau having convinced ourselves it's the only realistic one
I wouldn't call it propaganda. It's just part of a narrative. Not saying the narrative is wrong, but if you're going to write an article you're trying to convince your readers.
So, we have a "standard" which says that both behaviors should be supported, and there should be two different ways to express them, but explicitly declines to say which does what?

I'm genuinely not sure what purpose this particular standard serves, but it looks like it's not allowing people to write portable code...
I personally think it is unwise to do it now. Times are just too unstable and who knows what will happen. Recession is upon us and the inflation is huge. Do what you think is best for you, if you are an expert in your field there shouldn't be any issues but if you are "replaceable" then be careful. Whatever happens, make sure to invest in yourself because that is the only way to fight inflation.
Based on the title, I imagined crawling all websites and counting how many pixels used each colour.
> It leaves the unfair impression that this is a "toy" db.

So you consider Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 also to be "toy" databases?
thx for the contrary perspective from your experience
Texas had grid problems because of the natural gas demand was off the charts, along with peaker plants being offline, renewables being offline, and a perfect storm of other issues during an unusually cold spell . I assure you it wasn’t from people running their air conditioning during a freeze.
So you're saying 2 of the ten most penalized companies in the world are crypto companies? That's actually remarkable considering their relatively inconsequential market
There were numerous occasions when hundreds or thousands of cars were stranded on highways during blizzard and exhausted their fuel reserves. It is easy to deliver some fuel when conditions clear. I am curious what it would look like with electric vehicles.
Do you really want the grid taking energy out of your car when it needs it?

Would you want petrol stations siphoning fuel out of your car when they are running low?
Here on the European continent having enough space for a dedicated office is literally luxurious.
Personally I think that's okay. I also think it might make sense for any summary to lump colors together using clustering and averaging the group using a colorspace like Oklab.

There's lots of room for different types of analyses here!
Oh, absolutely; I'm just trying to raise the awareness/importance of this missing feature. Most devs that I know IRL that looked at PG had a very similar reaction to mine.
I have definitely seen RAID arrays where the drives were all part of a single manufacturing batch, and multiple drives all failed in rapid succession. I think this can be caused by several things:

- Unless you periodically do full-drive reads, you may silently accumulate bad blocks across multiple drives in an array. When you finally detect a failed drive, you discover that other drives have also been failing for months.

- A full RAID rebuild is a high-stress event that tries to read every disk block on every drive, as rapidly as possible.

- And finally, some drive batches are just dodgy, and it may not take much to push them over. And if identically dodgy drives are all exposed to exactly the same thermal stress and the same I/O operations, then I guess they might fail close together?

Honestly, RAID arrays only buy you so much reliability. Hardware RAID controllers are another single point of failure. I once lost two drives and a RAID controller all together during Christmas, which was not a fun time.

I do like the modern idea of S3-like storage, where data is replicated over several independent machines, and the controlling software can recover from losing entire servers (or even data centers). It's not a perfect match for everything, but it works great for lots of things.
The remaining per-capita carbon budget to avoid > 1.5C climate change is 50 tons. Two new cars could easily consume that entire amount, even if never driven. Replacing the entire vehicle fleet with battery-electric cars is a bad enough idea, but replacing it with twice as many cars is truly unworkable.

Replacing your short-range transport needs with a bicycle, on the other hand, is a great idea.
From my experience it won't get better unless you put effort into learning how to write. Just writing is not enough.
Vote for the lesser ugly.
So, which company do you absolutely trust, to buy their stocks?
A politician isn't like a cook, or an athlete, or a flute player, or a pilot.

That claim was why the Athenians - rightly - called Socrates an idiot. One who didn't understand the point of protecting his interest through participating in politics.

A politician isn't supposed to administrate, he's supposed to represent people's interests - those who elected him in our system. He doesn't pilot the ship, he says where the ship should go in the first place. To the degree mere competence is required, he can hire someone to help him.

When family dynasties happen in politics, it's doubly a bad sign. First, there's no reason to think the son of a representative is accurately representative just because the father was. There's always the risk that he could be advancing private interests at the expense of the public he represents. And second: that the son is even there, is itself evidence that the father may have done just that, advancing his family interest over the public's.
I think the OP is talking about single car households becoming two car households just to have one of each.

Fewer cars is better, electric or not.
form over substance
Agreed, this is the worst. If only google could just SHOW US the author/modified date
You can have a proper desk and any huge monitor (or three monitors) just fine in a 50m2 flat...
To put things in perspective, toluene and benzene and a whole lot of hydrocarbons make up gasoline. So keep that in mind when filling up the wheels…
The parent to my original comment states:

> No it's simpler than that, they hate Go cause it's a half-assed language. The creators didn't respect developers enough to make it consistent and complete cause "devs are not smart enough".

If that isn't the definition of flamebait and a personal attack, I don't know what is. It certainly is far enough from a measured, concrete suggestions for improvements to the language.
Reshma Saujani (Girls Who Code) on Gender Equity and the Future of Work
China bot galore. Lol.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043571
> Can police be unbundled over the course of years and result in an overall net good? Emphatically yes.

Do you have proof or some source to support this idea?
PDP-8: A Programmer's Reference Manual
My 2012 IOCCC entry https://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/hint.html
shows how much you can do with a few dozen bits using a binary form of lambda calculus.
According to their compatability section (see: https://ruffle.rs/ then scroll down), it looks like, after years of work, that they're only up to supporting 10% of the AS3 language, and only 5% of the AS3-based API. Yeah, I don't think I'm going to be regretting all those expensive Flex development books that I recycled a while back.

Flash/Flex: it's not coming back, just let it fade away?
I wonder if we could chain cars together to the nearest power plant, so using the traffic jam itself as the grid.
Costco stresses me out! It's always so crowded, they move stock around so I can never find anything and the lines to check out are huge! BUT I do love how wide the aisles are.
Banks of lithium-ion batteries at a Microsoft data centre in Dublin will support the growth of renewables in Ireland by providing backup to the electricity grid
Why not, as long as I got paid for it?
Anecdotally, what I've seen happening is you have a cadre that really does want to come in most days for whatever reason. But others coming in part-time do their commute to a pretty empty parking lot, hardly know anyone who is in the office, and incrementally come in less and less unless there's some specific coordinated reason to do so on a given day.
My father was a professor, so saw a lot of University people and politics. I just dont understand how anyone can talk about Academia as "elite". They are mostly a bunch of poorly paid, navel gazing bureaucrats who do a little interesting exploring but mostly spend time with annoying students. Its a terrible career, esp compared to tech or business world. To say poorer students are "locked out" makes me lol.

There is also the fact that many more people have undergrad & graduate degrees now so the fact that the number of educated parents has increased is what you'd expect.
Yesterday, 122 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043571
> Coming from an MS SQL Server background, this behavior surprised me.

Oracle behaves the same as Postgres with regards to NULL values in unique indexes.

> I guess this does go against the spec?

The first comment (by the blog author) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32054151 explained this:

> The background here is that the SQL standard was ambiguous about which of the two ways an implementation should behave. So in the upcoming SQL:202x, this was addressed by making the behavior implementation-defined and adding this NULLS [NOT] DISTINCT option to pick the other behavior.
Exactly... You gain so much speed by having everything in the right order.
1. White

2. Light grey

3. Some other light grey

...

235. dark grey

236. slightly bluish dark grey

237. slightly yellowish dark grey

...
> What does “gaslight” mean in this context?

"Do you believe your own lying eyes, over me?"
The page was created before warp and workers existed, so the description was valid at the time. They did fail to update it. If we say "cloudflare bad" 3 times, maybe jgc will appear and get someone to fix it.
Because you'll get back to your car to find that its tank is empty and you can't drive anywhere. They'd have to pay a substantial premium for that to be worthwhile.
I interviewed him once. Such a kind and responsive developer. He told me he put 80 hours per week, on average, in Calibre’s development.

Edit: the interview (in Spanish) https://calibre.softonic.com/articulos/entrevista-a-kovid-go...
exactly, it's absurd that literal fruits and nuts sellers (one of Irans top 5 exports) are being penalized for political reasons the same as anything related to war efforts (like oil exports).

Sanctions are often more palatable than war to people who can more easily overlook the death and suffering caused by poverty relative to the death and suffering caused by weapons.

If you're in the US, just look at how often you see headlines about murders by gun are explicitly reported on (as if any subcategory of murder was easier to solve with policy than the many many many things in poverty that kill people daily).
In Canada it is Mastercard only. Used to be Amex.
"Just isn't in position"

==

"Some higher up doesn't want it to"
Well, if you don't have to pay for it, you watching it might be considered a net negative, so the opposite of support. OTOH, https://literarydevices.net/beware-of-greeks-bearing-gifts/
Most of the people I know that get into academia do it because traditional work sounds awful to them but they're really good at school, so they stick with what they know. My ex got a PhD just so she didn't have to work for 5 years in a traditional office style job in finance.
I'm not sure if I see how boycotting a free version of a series based on a long dead author's public domain work makes a difference one way or another.
Counterpoint: I've actually made some of my best work friends during the COVID working from home era.

A lot of that was due to good leadership. My PM and tech lead setup a Discord for non-work-related discussions and encouraged its use by posting in there regularly. So we were able to replicate, to some extent, the hallway jokes, conversations, and bonding experience. We also had some infrequent but still valuable face-to-face meetups when COVID was at its low points, which also helped with relationship-building. Importantly, most of our face-to-face meetups were social and not work-oriented, so they left a lot of room for developing friendships.

To date, it's been the closest group that I've worked with by far. Many of us still hang out regularly. In fact, I just had drinks with one former coworker and his girlfriend last night. And I enjoyed the company so much that I wound up coming back to it after a short break.

My point is that it's still possible to create meaningful human interactions via Zoom and other digital tools. You just have to be more creative and hopefully work in a environment that properly supports it.
what I would like to find is a free a cheap way to OCR my handwritten notes. I know that handwritten is much more difficult but it would be possible to use supervised learning mon my specific handwriting.
So people with the worst vision have the biggest say in what is the best color.
You can use any pattern for peano numbers, now there is an uncountably infinite number of uses.
Cheese slicers are great for slicing cucumbers. Utility knives are occasionally being as temporary replacements for pretty much every other tool in the toolbox.
For software, you’d need to archive the whole build process too. The dependencies have their own issues with bit rot.
There’s a newish David Attenborough–narrated CGI nature documentary about dinosaurs, and I think it suffers from something like this. The photorealism is top notch but it still looks fake. At first I thought it was that the dinosaurs’ movement felt off, but I now think it’s more that the the cinematography doesn’t feel enough like a nature doc. It feels more like a cinematic feature, where everything about the framing and mise en scene is intentional and beautiful, too much so. Bits of blurred foliage in front of the subject feel like a DOP’s intentional ‘dirty frame’ rather than something that accidentally got in the way of the (imaginary) camera operator while they tried to get their shot of a fleeting animal moment. It’s all just too nice and considered. Or maybe it’s just that I know it’s fake because it’s dinosaurs, making this an unsolvable problem, I’m not sure.
Lots of people do not need to earn the global maximum, but merely enough to live at a certain comfort level, and in a place they want to live.

No amount of money saves you from dealing with many of the consequences of bad urbanism in most of the US for example.

But also if you earn 3x the median in your country you tend to be able to live comfortably, even if that number is low compared… well compared to the US basically.
I have a office room in a decently affordable rented flat in London of all places. Let's not keep moving those goalposts.
Good. Sanctions against Iran are counterproductive and should have been dropped years ago.
Of the ~10-20 people I know who caught covid, 1 died. She was 38, healthy otherwise.
I mean, if we are throwing out random anecdotes.
That’s consonant with my experience and I think that’s kind of the point. Being alone is more about getting the necessary space we need for our brains to reset for once and not have to focus on anything or waste cycles on distractions. I often feel more refreshed after sitting around doing nothing outside for a second than I do after sleeping.

I think this is another reason being outdoors during solitude is great, it’s like a relaxation and brain refresh force multiplier.
> My previous job had independent standing desks, modern aerons, noise cancelling headphones, bean to cup coffee, a few floors above a gym, surrounded by varied lunch options.

I have never seen an office like this, except on TV.
In a compromise, everyone loses.
Allow me to introduce you to the concepts of 'roommates' and 'children'.

(Some of my colleagues returned to the office as soon as it was allowed, just to spend some time away from their families.)
I want to thank you for saying you don't like SQL. Now in your future, please tell it to everyone involved where you work so that you won't work on it and they'll find someone else to do the SQL.

I've worked at place where people hated SQL and where hiding it. Instead of crafting nice and performing SQL, they wrote "select * from table" and then did foreach loops in the code to filter the results they wanted.
I mean obviously there would be some kind of floor in terms of how much range you are willing to be left with. If you're willing to discharge your car lower, you can take greater advantage of arbitrage opportunities, but obviously your car could be lower at any point in time.
? could you expand on this comment?
You can control how much is given to the grid, and say that e.g. it has to have 60%+ left at all times.

There's no need to keep cars charged to 100% all the time. They already have batteries that are overkill for daily commutes, and if you suddenly need to make a long trip, you can top it up in 20 minutes from a highway charger.

BTW, on the Internet there's always some guy who just has to have a 500-mile daily commute while towing a boat, through a desert, in snow, uphill both ways. That's fine, they can opt out.

Note that the charging connector isn't a dumb plug like a household appliance. It has a two-way communication protocol that negotiates all of the parameters.
> > Only if you make them. Have been pretty simple for me. I don’t do most of the things you mention, and do not see myself wanting to.

> That's not how it works. Each device and firmware has its own way of doing things. For example, I would have no idea how to build "ebook groups" on my reader

That would be you making it complicated. What are you all doing with your Kindles that needs multiple levels of organization?

> How would you keep track of it then

Keep track of what?
Yes. Because it means fewer peaker power stations need to be built. And I care a hell of a lot more about that than whether my battery is at 86% or 94% when I wake up or get out of work.
If you're suggesting a reaction today, then I need to point out that globally, over the past decade, new renewable generation was being installed roughly 15x faster than new nuclear generation. So even that is yet another difference from the situation from the 1970s that makes the experience of 1970s inapplicable: we have choices today that we didn't have back then.

> natural gas will still be critical to the energy mix in 2050 if current plans continue. E.g. [1] shows a nice summary of that.

Being critical and being a large component are two different things -- and it's not that difficult to source smaller amounts of natural gas than what Germany uses today. As far as predictions for distant future are concerned...well, we know how e.g. IEA was able to botch those. So I really wouldn't take any predictions about 2050 for granted.

> Thus arguments like "efficient building codes" are a red herring. You'll still need to heat your efficiently insulated buildings.

Decreasing the energy required by a factor of five or so is not "a red herring". That's a massive change. Likewise, there's apparently a chance that by 2030, this will have been amended to require zero-energy buildings in the future.
Yeah me too..

That would have made a lot more sense than what they're doing. I'd really like to see the outcome of that. Not this random comparison.
If they aren’t moving, just running the heater, how long do the batteries last?

Regardless, that’s such an edge case, I’m not sure it needs to be a major part of EV vs ICE calculus. Here in DC, it’s a 1x/decade event, give or take - basically takes a ton of wet snow falling mid-morning, the Fed closing offices early PM, and the entire city tryin to get home that afternoon in one giant mob.