skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When this comes up in conversation it is worthwhile remembering that Linux was built on the team of volunteers centered around Torvalds who was famous for not acting like a jerk. Really. The perception of him among hackers of being a good guy, you could work with, who acknowledged when linux had bugs, accepted patches and was pretty self-effacing is probably the thing that most made that project at that time take off to the stratosphere. Linus was a massive contrast to traditional bearded unix-assholery.

The nature of the work changes. The pressures change. The requirements change. We age. Also the times change too.

But yeah, it is possible to act like a jerk sometime without actually being a jerk in all things. It is also possible to be a lovely person who makes the odd mistake. Assholes can have good points. Life is nuanced.

Of the bajillion emails linus has sent to lkml how many of them can you find that you believe show evidence of being a jerk.

Compare to Theo de Raadt at OpenBSD who have also built a pretty useful thing with their community. Compare also to Larry Wall and Guido van Rossum.

None of us is above reasoned, productive criticism. Linus has done ok.
How do you propose to keep in touch without periodic team meetings (aka scrum)?
I've lost quite a bit of respect for some of the HN community here - this should be obviously wrong, we obviously aren't buying 86% less today than we were in the past.

The title's premise is so outlandish it deserves at least a little bit of critical thought... But because it confirms some previous biases (even if at a completely different and more extreme scale), more than I expected are acting as if this is true.
Public+private spending on healthcare in the US is 2-3x that of public+private spending on healthcare in the rest of the OECD.

See the chart at https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm; we pay more in taxes than any other OECD nation does total for healthcare, and then pile individual spending on top of that.
I wonder what it’s like spending the best years of your life building vaporware for Google.
Companies that fail to adapt to a changing world will be the ones unlikely to survive a recession.
Take any ML course to learn the basics, then apply what you learned to process your data. Don’t fret over course quality or “student delivery” - pick any resource and start learning.
This is the no-brainer choice for anything that can be immediately replaced/ordered. Most of us aren’t keeping a stash of computer monitors in case of failure.

On firefighting…huge swaths of burned down land can’t be reordered on Amazon and delivered next day. People quip “just replant the trees” but of course that doesn’t rebuild an ecosystem, we might not even replant the right trees, and the things that lived there are now dead.

On personal scales, waiting for your car to break to fix it isn’t a good strategy either, nor would you wait for you gas pipes to leak, or see if the thunder actually hits your home before preparing for it.

Basically I feel “don‘t fix until it breaks” is a good strategy for day to day small scale decisions, but problematic for most stuff beyond that.
> the demand and pay for translators went down.

Prices on ProZ are basically exactly what they were before Google Translate
I wonder what executives believe behind closed doors.

e.g.,

If we don't fill this building then... I will have to figure out what to do with it?

Or maybe productivity / profit really does jump when people are in the office?
Two weeks notice is pretty bad. All of this is moot though, in a few months they'll be remote again... if not before or delayed again. It's clear that monkeypox is spreading into the mainstream population and becoming a serious pandemic that might require even stricter measures like fomite spread precautions. There will undoubtedly be a back to school related surge and big companies will snap remote again where employees have significant leverage.
Fair enough. I was just making a bit of a joke. :)
Hard Work Is Sometimes Necessary and Never Sufficient, but What Else Can You Do?
Strongly agree. I don’t think this is new. Those with the power are shaping conditions to what they know best. It’s perfectly rational.
I mean, if someone wants to Google this and check that I have my facts straight, they need to be exact about the spelling and punctuation.

True. But I'm lazy and this isn't really worth me spending a lot of time on. And it shows. With the exception of my quoted text, everything I wrote was purely from memory.
been using it and the sister sites (techurls, sciurls etc.) a long time now. A great low bandwidth agregator.

browserling also has many other interesting online tools you might find useful:

https://www.browserling.com/tools

Full Disclosure: I'm not affiliated with browserling and don't use their main tool. (it lets you impersonate many different browsers for dev testing, which I have no use for).
It's the reverse - it can only be decrypted after a threshold timestamp, not before.
But that would be the majority of rocky planets with water, no?
Thanks, but I don't think I would call what the 286 had "virtual-address mode". Intel themselves referred to "virtual addresses" only in the context of paging in their 386 manual. Addresses relative to segmentation were called "logical addresses", and they translate to "linear addresses".

That Wikipedia passage seems to be inaccurate, or a least not use the common terminology.
If you don't deliver, they don't pay. It can be low risk for them.

It all depends on your product and delivery. I know an AI powered company with millions in ARR and all they do is email pdfs to their clients. The key is what is in those reports, it's worth many more millions to their clients.

Might be best to do some startup learning, there is a lot of knowledge out there now so you don't have to learn everything the hard way.
To be fair, most tech based companies have very long pipelines. Google is making money off software written over the course of two decades. Intel has a 4 year pipeline for chip tape outs. A lot of tech companies were positioned well to increase revenue due to the pandemic.

So just because companies are making more money, doesn't mean productivity hasn't gone down. It could be that it's just lost in the noise at the moment and won't show up in the data for a few years.
Market is cold, so now’s the time to do RTO. All the people considering quitting will have a much harder time putting their money where their mouth is.

I am a bit of a pessimist but RTO feels inevitable to me.
> People take work for granted a bit more and are a little more "entitled" to everything now.

Is this because of remote or just the hot job market? I am a quiet quitter because I know I can just leave, so why do more than the minimum?
How comes this thread with 420 votes just jumped from 2nd (?) to 23th position?
> if I was a security researcher, journalist, abortion seeker or dissident, I wouldn't use Signal either.

I mean that's really bad, right? Supposedly Signal is the go-to alternative to doing things the hard way (e.g. GPG over email), but apparently it's just not good enough for those with the highest security needs. Given that the alternative is that these people go back to using extremely brittle software, shouldn't someone do something about that?

The implication of course is that Signal should do something about that, because they already have the user base and are in a position to adopt user identifiers that are not based on phone numbers.
It will take a while to determine which jobs lose or gain productivity from WFH. Some regimented jobs like radiologists, or call centres we’re doing a lot of WFH well before the pandemic. Jobs that require focus probably also benefit, but in a lot of cases it’s just regaining lost productivity from the switch to open office plans.

The sort of major product breakthroughs that more creative people had during walks, cross team pollination over coffee breaks, or extended lunch brainstorms are probably fewer though. It’s hard to measure.
Google has remote postings in Canada. Amazon as well.
This. This 100%. I’m exhausted by how this has become the norm, it’s such an endemic issue in the tech industry that even rationally minded people will disagree when pragmatic solutions are proposed, instead suggesting something harder or “more complete” to justify why our solution is better or more valuable. Complexity kills, but people really enjoy building complex things.
Your company may suck at remote, but Apple doesn't. Two years into the pandemic, we see record AAPL profits, no visible downturn in software quality. And yet Apple's CEO, in thrall to the pet social theories of a bunch of ancient billionaires, is willing to throw it all away.
My first reply was to this comment, that I quoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32464963

Anyway, there's one thing we can learn from nature.

How individual cells of different nature and scope, unaware of each other, cooperate by passing messages to make living beings functional.

That would be really interesting.
Yes? My configuration isn't complex enough at home to require my own documentation, but I absolutely had to read what the manufacturer provided, configure the firewall for my needs, and update the firmware. I don't think anyone should just throw a router in front of their network and think "This will just work!" - I mean, it might "work", but what is it leaving open? What is it logging? Who can access it?

Home routers have gotten pretty good about sane defaults these days, but at a minimum I'd be disabling UPnP and looking over what those defaults are before trusting it to protect my network.
What the hell are you waiting for?

https://i.imgur.com/zx2rnyW.jpg

Do it.
> It's almost as if there's a frustrating unmet need with signal as it stands

Do you have an alternative suggestion? Is there an app and platform you'd rather use over Signal? Maybe Wickr? Matrix? (AN0M? <smirk>)

My take is there's a very small "unmet need" that frustrates such a small number of people that everybody who's tried to usurp Signal has effectively failed.

Signal has literally become "SMS but secure" for everybody I know.

> signal is the only thing that can talk to people on signal

That's untrue. There is nobody in my signal messages that I cannot talk to over the phone, via SMS, and almost everybody I can talk to via email (with a vanishingly small number of those for whom I have trusted PGP keys).

A agree with your premise that it'd be really nice to piggyback Signal's contact graph without having to do the work and make the compromises Signal have done to create that graph. But that's a totally unreasonable expectation.

(And FWIW, I think Signal totally lucked out early on by being in the right place at the right time to build their contact graph. My network of friends/colleagues exploded back when WhatsApp fucked up their messaging/policy a few years back, and practically overnight my "normal" and non privacy focussed or recreationally paranoid friends all rage quit Facebook messaging and encouraged each other to move to Signal. There was a super obvious step change in who my available Signal contacts became back then, and I'm not convinced Signal would be what it is today without that fuckup by Facebook back then.)
What's with the title? The article itself does not make this claim (even if it has some outlandish presentations of information) - it claims that dollars have 86% less purchasing power, not that we have 86% less purchasing power. The article does everything it can to make you think this without actually saying it, but it doesn't say it.

It's a terrible article, but that title is somehow worse.

(Honestly, I don't think this really deserves a submission, it's just wrong..)
Man, I commuted 4hrs daily. I won't go back.
In Guadalajara there was a car mechanic on my street with various car brands painted by hand on its facade which is common in Mexico.

There was a "Telsa" misprint that always gave me a chuckle. It made me imagine "Telsa, by Eron Muks".
Unfortunately, doesn't seem to be open source.

For me personally, the mainstream independent search engine is Brave search, its genuinely good.
while i am not a "cloud expert", i'm pretty sure that google datacenters have more than one switch. furthermore, while the precise datacenter layout is probably secret, i infer that the the compute servers and the data servers cannot be housed in the same or nearby racks, since both are independently provisionable and can be arbitrarily attached. for example, if i start a vm and connect a drive, even if google could put them right next to each other in the datacenter, what happens if i start another vm, which for fragmentation reasons gets placed way on the other side of the building, detach the drive and connect it to this new one?

therefore, there must at least be several switches between the devices, and realistically, probably one or more routers.
Not gonna lie. They had us in the first half.
It's really hard to imagine chemistry that could support non-carbon-based life. You just really need an atom that can make 4 covalent bonds.
Why not both?

Apple's proven it feasible to provide high performance emulation of a prior ISA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)
What's RTO?
Y'all sure you don't have Sims 2 and Sims 3 mixed up? Sims 3 is rated Platinum on AppDB / Gold on ProtonDB (and I've ran it on Proton on multiple machines and distros without issue), whereas Sims 2 had a Garbage rating on AppDB for the longest time (apparently the Origin version is Silver now, but still).
I want to believe there's no path from the HN vertex to the 4chan one.
IIRC yes but you have to opt into it with a manifest (or an API call).
You cannot do a scrum meeting over Zoom?
I grew up socializing online so I am the opposite. The office was a barrage of spontaneous interruptions, and made me look for a hole in the back of the office to hide in. It’s easier to take a brainstorming walk and ping a colleague with an idea than give them the 50th shoulder tap of the day. It’s understandable that not everyone is used to communicating in this way.
Will the clock on my lock screen return to being on a single line instead of two?

Will they stop show and telling me about blocked spam text messages?
Same. Honestly, doubling my comp wouldn't get me back to that grind.
What did centos 8 do?
If you like that and it really resonated with you, you might also find a lot of value in Drift Into Failure and Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts

I've found the more I go down the rabbit hole on these particular topics, the faster I'm able to spot problems at a system wide scale in realtime and (try) course correct.
You get on a call periodically.
> Steve stood out to us because of his extensive experience at tech and internet companies where he played instrumental roles in shaping products from research, design, security, development, and getting them out to market, and also because he was the only seemingly qualified candidate that didn't call me an incompetent overpaid retard to my face.
Brave forked Chromium to not face an uphill battle on web compatibility - they never had plans to write their own engine (they actually started with a Gecko based product in the very early days).
Yes, it is automatically inefficient. It's just not obvious because there are no free market health care systems left to compare it to.

It's inefficient because nobody is as careful spending other peoples' money as they are with their own money.
I think it's closer to Ford being both your manufacturer, insurer, and sole authority on vehicle repair. This is something our nation already faced, and rectified with legislation.
There is a secret keyword that you can use in comments to "sage" a post – i.e. using a secret keyword in the comments of a post will prevent it from gaining traction in the article scoring algo. I cannot say the keyword here because it would sink this post, but if you look around at some posts you can find it.
See my reply to the parent for suggestions that compliment and build on that knowledge in a practical way
When people describe process monitoring, this is what I imagine.
Google, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, and Oracle are all generally remote friendly at this juncture.
>My feelings on gun control can be summed up as "I want mail order rocket launchers delivered to my doorstep."

I don't know. I'm a believer in extreme gun rights as well, but giving people the power to have rocket launching systems like MANPADS just seems a bit, dangerous.
I like how no companies complained of productivity problems when everyone was working from home.

After RTO, companies start mentioning productivity problems.

Maybe they're related?

I'm a huge fan of working in the office - but it astounds me that anyone can miss that people have different working styles.
Also highly misleading is the phrase "crisis pregnancy center" referring to a facility which has the objective of dissuading pregnant women and girls from seeking abortions.

I would suggest journalists and other neural entities (and of course anyone on the side of women's rights) find a more accurate way of describing such places. I don't think there is any obligation to use their own dishonest framing.
Return to Office
Requiring SIM registration is nearly universal outside of Europe and NA.

https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/sim-card-regist...
The change has forced many of us to seek social interactions with people we don't work with. And I feel it's been healthy.
Well, yeah.

I think cloud gets much maligned — but all the serious discussions with, eg, AWS employees work from this paradigm:

- AWS is a “global computer” which you lease slices of

- there is access to the raw computer (EC2, networking tools, etc)

- there are basic constructs on top of that (SQS, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc)

- there are language wrappers to allocate those for your services (CDK, Pulumi, etc)

…and you end up with something that looks surprisingly like a “program” which runs on that “global computer”.

I know that it wasn’t always like that — plenty of sharp edges when I first used it in 2014. But we came to that paradigm precisely because people asked “how can we apply what we already know?” About mainframes. About Erlang. About operating systems.

I think it’s important to know the Unix tools, but I also think that early cloud phase has blinded a lot of people to what the cloud is now.

All the crawler needs to be is a quick crawler script, a Typescript definition of resources, and you get all the AWS benefits in two files.

Maybe not “ten lines of Bash” easy, but we’re talking “thirty lines total, with logging, retries, persistence, etc”.
Lots of countries (including India) make it difficult for Apple to open their own stores.

Dubai allows Apple to open stores freely without needing local partners, and has the added benefit of being a travel hub, so the size of the market is far bigger than the local population. It makes perfect sense.
"Return to Office", most likely
A stack is register renaming. Instead of "Register #n" you refer to it as "SP - n". The difference is that it's rebased with every op, and in ops the registers are almost always implied: "ADD" always loads reg #0 and #1, always puts results back in #1, then renames #1 .. n to #0 .. n-1. OoO should handle the continuous renaming OK, I think. ADD + PUSH would add (orig #0, orig #1), place result in orig #1, put new data in new #0, alias new #0 as "SP-0". Only the aliasing would need to be ordered. Maybe it could be part of the decode. As I noted elsewhere, some HP 3000 models had multiple ALUs so some form of OoO.
Return to office
Holy shit, to me you are a giant. I could not stand a driving commute of more than ~30 minutes.
Well sure, but does it require me to use my phone at some point in the process of account creation? That's the part I have an issue with.

I had assumed that there would be an alternative to access the service post-creation. My gripe is more with the fact that a phone is a requirement at any point.

To put it another way: imagine I had to send a letter to Signal's HQ in order to make an account. Now, obviously I'm not going to be sending and receiving letters constantly to/from Signal, but the mere fact that writing and sending a letter would be a requirement as part of the process would be at the users personal detriment. That's the point I was trying to get at - that it is forcing the user into a specific method which is undesired, arbitrary, and frustratingly unnecessary.
Probably going to get downvoted by people but… There are a lot of people ITT scornful of Apple’s decision here, and saying that they’re only doing it for dumb reasons, I.e., to justify their office or because managers are old and out of touch.

Please don’t take this as a wholehearted endorsement of Apple’s policy here, but I do sort of get it. In my experience, doing collaborative creative work is dramatically more difficult in a remote environment. In person we can quickly sketch diagrams and wireframes out on a whiteboard or paper and having a six person debate about designs is easy. Remotely, you have to deal with virtual whiteboard software (and as much as I love figjam, it can’t compare to the speed of a physical pen) and video chat (where even a tiny amount of latency results in people talking over each other). I’m sure remote works well for some creative teams… but in my experience, it is much harder (I’ve spoken to peers at other companies who feel the same way). If Apple thinks that collaboration and idea creation are core to innovation, I can see why they want people back in the office.

Not saying I agree with their methods though - personally I would have gone for a softer touch and a more tailored-by-team approach.
My MacBook ten years ago quickly developed a very obvious, when off, imprint of the key shapes on its screen.
The information they collect includes your name, your photo, your phone number, and a list of all the people you've been in contact with using Signal.

They encrypt it using a pin which they ask you to set or one they generate for you. They (and anyone else) can decrypt that data by brute forcing what is often just a 4 digit number.
My hunch is that is the result of this: https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion#weights

> 515k steps at resolution 512x512 on "laion-improved-aesthetics" (a subset of laion2B-en, filtered to images with an original size >= 512x512, estimated aesthetics score > 5.0

https://github.com/LAION-AI/laion-datasets/blob/main/laion-a... for more details.

What's remarkable is this: https://github.com/LAION-AI/laion-datasets/blob/main/laion-a...

That aesthetic predictor was apparently trained on only 4000 images. If my thinking is correct, imagine the impact those 4000 ratings have had on all of the output of this model.

You can see samples (some NSFW) of different images from the original training set in different rating buckets here, to get an idea of what was included or not in those training steps. http://3080.rom1504.fr/aesthetic/aesthetic_viz.html
Citation needed. I'm told that Apple-designed cores have indeed dropped AArch32, and AFAIK, no others have. I don't think its fair to call "only the ones designed by Apple" "quite a lot".

The Cortex-A78 generation of Arm cores was the first set of Arm-designed cores that didn't support AArch32 at EL3, and they retain AArch32 support at EL0, even the N1 and X1. The early APM designed ARMv8 cores supported AArch32 at (at least) EL0, although I haven't kept up with that lineage. I haven't seen an nVidia-designed ARMv8 that dropped AArch32, although I also haven't worked with some of the newer ones.

I suspect that maintaining support at EL0 is very cheap, because it can be done entirely in the instruction decoder.
I think that and retention. It’s well known that remote jobs make it way easier to jump, plus people are less attached to their coworkers.

That’s still not a good reason, since you are essentially trying to guilt people into staying or making their life more busy so interviewing is harder.
Nah, you're right. I missed a "not" and added an extra "going".