skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Movie? I guess you meant show?

A friend of mine thinks like you, he feels extremely uncomfortable watching Fielder and his brand of comedy, and any sort of "cringe" comedy about sociopathic individuals, e.g. Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I really can't empathize, because after all he's playing a character which should be very obvious.

I think for my friend, the stuff depicted in this sort of comedy hits a bit too close to home, i.e. this sort of comedy doesn't work for people who are socially awkward because it reminds them of IRL too much, and conjures up bad memories, while normal people just laugh at the exaggeration of the awkwardness.
New request for comments on improving NPM security
It's 9:15am. I just spent 10 minutes helping my 5-month-old daughter fall asleep for her first nap of the day. Now I'm sitting with my wife and eating breakfast.

At 9:30, I'll walk 20 feet to my office and start work for the day.

At noon, I'll take an hour with my wife and daughter, cook together, eat together, and get back to work at a little before 1.

At 5:30pm, my work day will end, and I'll cook my family a healthy dinner. It takes a longer, more effort, than ordering in or doing something cheap and easy but I have the time and it's worth it.

The focus of my life is my family, not my job. That is what work from home means to me. Any company that demands I change that focus isn't one I'm willing to work for.
remote teaching doesn't work for students, so it stands to reason that it also doesn't work for teaching someone starting a job.

But this doesn't imply that remote WFH doesn't work for regular employees.
It's jarring to see "record high housing starts" and "dropping home prices" presented as bad news.

Fascinating piece, thanks for sharing.
Some things never change. One of my first HN comments got me four down-votes for much the same comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=679208

Back then, I was so new it bumped me down into negative score. I almost made a new account but decided to keep it and try and rebuild my damaged rep.

Nowadays, my score in the thousands, but Mel still sounds awful.
But what does "greater depth of consciousness" really mean? What are the metrics one uses to compare counciousnesses? I think we're trying to discuss things we don't even have the language for. Whether or not we can replicate it is just guesswork at this point. Compared to nature our computers aren't very powerful-- we can't even stimulate all the computations going on in a single cell in real life. It's sort of like alchemists thinking gold will spring up when they mix their random concoctions together, because they didn't know how nuclear physics works.
It’s worth pointing out that “tornado” in this context is a crypto project, NOT the popular Python web server/event loop library.
Ask HN: When will tech startups start to have IPOs again?
I own shares in a YC startup that was founded over 10 years ago. They have thousands of employees and are worth billions of dollars. I believe they’re at the right stage to have an IPO, but it sounds like they won’t be having one until the market is a bit better.

Are there any investors here who could provide some information and predictions? Do I probably have to wait 6 months, a year, 3 years, or even 5 more years?

They have raised a lot of money, so there must be a lot of pressure from investors who need them to have an exit. I heard that there are sometimes “10 year” clauses in investor agreements, which can force the company to have a liquidity event after 10 years. Is that true? How does this work during a downturn or a recession?
Evidence of pathogens in ancient DNA could help explain why 2 civilizations fell
The wild thing is, your benchmarks with turbo boost disabled (GB5 single: 617 / multi: 5163) almost identically match the benchmarks on levono's new ARM laptop[1], the Thinkpad x13s (GB5 single: 1118 / multi: 5776). True, Windows on ARM will likely keep on being a pain for some time, but linux support seems to be coming[2], and for those of us that target Linux ARM development anyways, this is one of the first performant alternatives to post-arm Macbooks. Plus it has the killer feature: no fan, long lived battery life.

Another interesting ARM system is Nvidia's Jetson AGX Orin DevKit, which clocks in at (GB5: single: 763 / multi: 7193) [3]. That system is linux native right now, but of course isn't a laptop form factor.

[1]: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/15575694
[2]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-5.20-SoCs-8cx-Gen3-Arm
[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrZt90c_-C8 (sorry for the video link)
I agree. I can see a future where companies differentiate based on pure wfh and a hybrid office/wfh model, and employees can pick what works for them.

My problem is when I explain that I personally get more energized out of being on a team that I see in person regularly, posters basically tell me I don't know myself and am just plain wrong.
Training up new/junior staff is the one area where I do think having some in-person collaboration is immensely valuable. But you can do this in bursts with certain team members and not have to require everyone to be in-person.
Ask HN: Open-source licenses to disallow use in any blockchain-related projects?
My philosophical beliefs around what open source should be aside, the problems caused by blockchain-related technologies like cryptocurrencies and NFTs have become too large to ignore and I feel compelled to do anything in my power to smother them out of existence.

I wish to add a legally robust "blockchain clause" to all of my projects' licenses that disallows use directly or indirectly in blockchain-related projects. If there are any that already exist, then Ideally I wouldn't need to hire a lawyer to draft one up, but I might be willing to pay if the costs aren't too high, knowing that others would then be able to use it freely.

I personally would want to see lots of widely-depended on open source projects adopt such a clause, whatever dangerous precedents that may come with it.
If you find it better to work in an office, great.

But telling me that my preferred way of working is "not best" for my mental well being is just annoying. Or telling me that I actually must not like WFH, and I just am not conscious of it or haven't acknowledged it yet is just... No.

I think I am uniquely qualified to judge what is or is not good for my own mental well being, my own productivity, etc.
> now that the pandemic is over

Ha. That's news to me. Here in QC, Canada our hospitals are still suffering a lot from overcrowding covid patients. Cases are on the rise again. It's far from over.
And western media is mostly under Rupert Murdoch control.

Uh, no.
Firebug was a game changer in frontend development, suddenly everything made sense and things got a lot more simple.

Before firebug in the IE6 days, there was a script that you could inject into your page which created a draggable floating window in the document with a basic console and maybe some DOM view. I can't remember the name.
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32326573
Not OP, but here is one... checkpoint.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_Point

Horrid piece of software. I don't know when this sort of office-abuse became the norm but it makes me very sour about our industry as a whole.
That’s only unrepresentative if you privilege parties over constituencies. There’s an argument for that but it’s not a given. I detest party lists though, it’s a terrible idea to suborn elected representatives to a party bureaucracy. Elected representatives should be ultimately answerable to the electorate.

I don’t think it’s fair to phrase it that way, I’m terms of choice. Democracy doesn’t give individuals a choice in how they are governed, it grants them a vote. That’s not the same thing. Also I don’t think it’s reasonable to have the structure of political power up fir continuous change. There should be mechanisms fir change, sure, but in most cases that should be over fairly long time frames with plenty of brakes in the process.

The reason is that changing power structures is extremely dangerous. Once you fall into a peer structure that’s vulnerable to abuse by a clique or even worse an individual, you can easily get trapped in it permanently. In a constantly changing system up for frequent revision it seems like that would eventually be inevitable.
I gave my Galaxy Nexus to my dad, so it saw longer use than usual. After five years it was virtually unusable. It was already slow when I stopped using it.

My Nexus 5, which is sitting in a drawer nowadays, also becomes ever slower. Even my HP Veer, keeping the Nexus 5 company, isn’t getting any faster either—even though it never saw real use.

So yeah, basically all manufacturers “do it”. It’s not even about heavy use or anything.
"but slowly realised that complete remote working was an alienating experience that has diminished the boundaries between work and leisure."

Yeah, no. The boundary was already destroyed by emails and other 'urgent' messages outside of regular hours, on top of the requirement that you get your bum on a seat within view of a manager for 8+ hours a day (the commute time is your problem).

There seem to have been a few 'WFH is bad for you' posts lately. Is this a concerted campaign?
>> For me I find it helpful being in an office as at home by myself it's way too easy to get sucked into the rabbit hole of YouTube or the Productivity Porn on Hacker News. For me it helps feeling like I'm part of a team and I don't want to let my team down.

> Sounds like you have poor self-control. I've been working from home for 6-years and never once had this problem.

Sounds like you have a bad attitude. It's not a good to respond to someone who shares their personal experience with a drive-by judgement that they must be the problem because you think it works for you.
At the office I guess the guilt is somewhat hidden by having "proof" that you were seemingly working.
Ask your IT why they're not using JAMF Protect and maybe some light reporting like splunk.

Carbon Black probably needs some adjustments, or they need to spec laptops better. That sounds pretty intense and unnecessary.
Defcon Password Cracking Contest
The Defcon password cracking contest begins this Friday. You'll learn more about PKC (encryption and digital signatures), PGP encrypted/signed emails, password hashes and see real-world passwords cracked by some of the best in the world. It's fun and educational.

https://contest-2022.korelogic.com/
Presumably a lot of scary men who glow in the dark start to really care about your free time and personal connections when you do things with nuclear power.
How would this be a capitalist trap? I don’t have the numbers, but I’d expect that most government employees have returned to the office, whereas many industries (like IT) have kept WFH/hybrid work post-pandemic.
Sorry but I try to avoid dumping huge amounts of information on people in every comment, that often doesn't go down well either if you can imagine. If you want more I'll elaborate. There is no possible way you can deploy this service anywhere while effectively complying with AML laws. It isn't going to work. But it's also the only real effective way you can obscure the source of transactions on a blockchain that's forced to be public. There's no reason transactions need to be forced public in the first place, other than how blockchain designers insisted it was a fundamental design parameter, when you probably agree that it isn't and that some transactions should be private by default. The simple solution is to avoid all blockchains and cryptocurrency altogether. Yes, they are that bad. I wish it wasn't true and I could say something good about them, but I just can't after watching 13 years of bad things happen.

And no, things like monero and zcash aren't a working solution to this problem either, that's a whole different discussion though.
I love the ARM frontend casually thrown in there, I wonder if that project is back on the table these days.
> politics does not belong in software development.

Those who insist on ideological purity in their software are welcome to do so. I'll just not work with them, being by habit persistently, willfully, stubbornly impure.

I firmly believe that software, most jobs, and many other areas of human endeavor can be pursued without reference to politics and are better for it. I've been repeatedly informed that alone is "unenlightened" and makes me a political opponent of those who disagree; that there can be no common ground to work with unless it's all common ground.
I was initially excited by the benefits of working from home, but slowly realised that complete remote working was an alienating experience that has diminished the boundaries between work and leisure.

You can't state this as a fact. Lots of people are able to separate work and leisure when they work remotely. Over the past 25 years I've spent about 30% of my career being remote, and it works brilliantly for me.

If anything I think there's a lot of people who feel they're more able to divide work and leisure time when they work remotely. Prior to the pandemic some people definitely saw the office as a proxy for a social life, and wanted to have their colleagues around after hours in the bar or at barbecues or as friends to hang out with. Many, many people didn't want that at all though. People complain about office socials no end. There are some who just didn't want to socialise at all, some who had a healthy social life entirely separate to work, and some who maintained a balance. The idea that you need to leave your home and go to a different building for part of the day to be any of those is silly.

There is nothing about remote work that prevents you from doing exactly the same with your leisure time that you'd do after hours when you worked in an office. Nothing.
I clicked the link thinking I'll read something about the ease of outsourcing of the remote work positions, but what I read in the article is not in the vicinity of what I'd ever worry about working remotely.
> ...concatenating them with a plus sign, like you do in scripting languages.
Show HN: Pyroscope-rs a multi-language profiler built with Rust
The project started originally as a facade for pprof-rs to profile Rust applications and send data to a Pyroscope Server.

It has then evolved to have its own internal timer, session manager, Backend interface and FFI support (for Python and Ruby). There are some light technical details here: https://github.com/pyroscope-io/pyroscope-rs/wiki/Technical-...

The project is open source and can be explored on Github: https://github.com/pyroscope-io/pyroscope-rs. It's probably only relevant if you are interesting in profiling, observability and Rust!
You're right, just looked up the transcript.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYc922ntnKM

> source community an amd variant might be

> a way around this but in spite of me

> making introductions nearly a year ago i

> haven't received any update from either

> side so consider this a public call out
You're right, I wasn't aware of that usage. Another reason to keep avoiding Reddit like the plague.
The quality of bonds and trust I formed with in person colleagues is greater than that of remote colleagues, who have been much more prone to let me down, backstab, or be unaccountable. People can say, "it's your company culture". I don't think remote can help culture, it can only be neutral or negative.

The other thing is, every organization will have at least two potentially overlapping cliques (the more they overlap, the better the org): a select cadre of high achievers who fix difficult problems and mentor people into their group, and a 'mafia' who hold the power and make the decisions. In person, it's much easier to learn who they are and observe their activities and act accordingly. With remote, you're in the dark on any communication you're not specifically included on. PRs and bug reports can clue you in, but there might be a stellar admin/SRE who is knows how things really work that you'll never hear about. Stuff like that.
You might be referring to slices. Arrays in rust have to have a known length at compile time.
You can create cards from a google spreadsheet. You might find that easier.
Sure, blame the user, that is the mature response whenever someone is pointing out that modern ID security is a topple tower.

Whatever technical solutions can be made don't really matter unless normal people can and do use them correctly. In any case, simply setting up another non-phone computer to do the job of the smartphone doesn't change the fundamental issue, it can still break, or get stolen, or some account can get closed for spurious reasons.
(Don't worry about the hate Mike, that type of tone doesn't belong here.)

Some people have trouble working from home and need a bit of social pressure to get things going. I personally prefer cafes or coworking spaces over a mandatory office, but that's me. I have faith that people will find what works for them and gravitate towards the opportunities that work well with their skills and personality.
It seems like the issues bright up in this article could be remedied by better systems and habits.

Make it a habit to shut off your work laptop and pack it away somewhere you feel compelled to open it on weekends. If you’re feeling alienated, set up a weekly lunch date with a friend or join a social group. Make it a habit to sign onto meetings early for a couple minutes of small-talk etc.

WFH can present some problems, but I’m not convinced they are unsolvable problems.
Possible. Definitely didn't work for me however (xD). I'm accountable to myself (in addition to the colleagues / bosses) and that seems to suffice feeling guilt if I don't progress.
The article extrapolates from his own experience of procrastinating when WFH, and extends that to the population at large. I don’t believe that is the case.

As a small (anecdotal) data point, I run an online store, when the pandemic hit we saw a massive change in browsing habits. Our store sells personalised items that can be quite time consuming for a customer to “play” with before purchasing. It used to be that about 2.30-3pm we would see significant spike in people on the site customising items, during that mid afternoon slump while at work. After people started working from home this vanished completely.

So my assumption, and it’s not that, is that people have become more disciplined when working from home. They are ensuring that they finish their work in the afternoon so that can jump back into home life.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they aren’t doing “8 hours” in front of their computers, and may be clocking off early. But I suspect the number of productive hours has increased.
I have worked alternately remotely and in-office for about a decade, about equal amounts each. Currently working remotely, and that's fine by me. However, I think a lot of people are underestimating how much more likely they are to get laid off, when the time comes to pick who gets axed and some of the people show up in person at the office and some don't. I am a serial contractor, so that's not an issue for me; I'm always temporary anyway. But I've accepted as part of this lifestyle that the job will go away right when it is most difficult to get a new one. I'm not sure everyone working remotely is aware how much more likely they are to get laid off in a downturn.
>“we run the risk of finding more homes on the market than buyers in the near term due to cyclical factors”

As Lord Farquad put it: "It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make". Bring it on!
What bothers me in that indicators is that they never shows battery health (every vendor). If battery has, for example, 90% of health it means it can never be charged at 100% of claimed capacity.
This has been my experience as well - especially when C++11 came out. I have seen codebases where it has been "use std::shared_ptr for everything, becuase it is safer if/when we use threads". I know that doesn't make sense, but it just was the attitude back then.

Tbh, Back then, I didn't see a problem with it. Once i started chasing down weird bugs where objects aren't freed properly because no one knew which objects own what, I have been very cautious.
I can think of two guys who should get a pink slip.
Are they any good? I see them listed in the app, and they all look pretty lame, about the level of the free games that come as demos with an operating system. Some are clearly tie-ins to marketing, and look like afterthoughts.

They look so weak I've never bothered. I assumed it was a test run that might be replaced with real content later.
all that does for me is remind me of the PageRank-induced farming for backlinks, doesn't make it look more credible (which is what this particular author tries to do).
There are a lot of indie browsers. I have 130 web browsers currently installed on my Mac alone.

https://twitter.com/vladquant/status/1525168129784938496
This message of hope and resilience is wonderful
Flip it around. Are you saying that you'd be comfortable with the idea that human behavior is completely and utterly random and unpredictable? I'd like to believe that every person has the ability to steer their own future (within the extent that their circumstances allow) and those of their families, and that requires a certain level of pattern recognition and predictability for that to succeed.

And anything that can be calculated by a human can possibility be calculated by an AI as well.
Explosion at Google's U.S. data center may have caused recent outage
I think this is true of some (I have suspected it among people I work with too) but there are objective advantages to being in the office just like there are advantages to working from home. For example, asynchronous communication over Slack or Teams is distracting and inefficient sometimes. I know there are also drawbacks to being available for people to bug you but nothing beats being able to communicate in real time when you're trying to solve a problem. I have been contending that in-person work is actually preferable but it has become so fraught with problematic work and management practices that we can't stand it anymore. I think that while working from home solves some issues, it's not the newer and better work practice that it's cracked up to be.
"Too battery-inefficient, too laden with security holes."

Lol. The reason Apple didn't support Flash was it was too good. If flash was supported 100% (practically natively) - there would be no point creating native apps in objective C (Flash was a full decade ahead). Flash devs would have coded circles around objective C devs. This could have screwed over the entire ios ecosystem. Once flash was dead and gone: SWIFT!
> thoughtcrime is a thing now in modern America?

Nothing wrong with writing code. Code is speech, that's settled law. But the Tornado Cash team wasn't just publishing. They were building a tool. Semenov styled himself as a co-founder and the group advertised open positions on its website.
Dude, what? How many services require SMS 2FA again?

Your phone is indeed a SPOF. If you lose your phone, you're fucked in a variety of scenarios. To say nothing of services that require a custom app and accept nothing else.
This also hinges on the ability to predict voting patterns based on residence, which is quite the insanity.
This is an article lamenting the author's unhealthy relationship with their work and claiming that this must be true for everyone. Somehow we're too widdle to have this much freedom and we must be constrained. Infantilising and trite, it is a genuine mystery to me that this article survived past proofreading.
It’s a physical device with access control that is unique to a single human, three nines
Yes, but then again, I'm looking at seven older smartphones —right now— on my desk, and only one is even capable of running /all/ those apps.

I had to buy it just because of that. 'cause even my Huawei P-Smart 2021 (currently in my pocket and not among the others on my desk) can't run some of those pesky apps.