skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven’t been going into the office M-F but I’m up to a couple days a week and it’s been good to recalibrate to what a full day in the office feels like. The morning ritual of preparation. The commute creating bookends to the workday. Going out to lunch or grabbing drinks after work with colleagues. Maybe I’m the only one, but I really let myself go during part of the pandemic and by going back to the office it feels like I’m coming out of it in some way. I may go back to the office full time for a while just to know I’m making the decision to work remotely for the right reason and not because I ended up that way 2 years ago.
I didn't get it :)

Are you suggesting another method for graphing?
I am working 19 hours at the moment due to sickness. However, some people have negotiated 32 without being sick, both before joining and during employment. This is outside the US.

Think carefully about WHO you ask. Some people just like to say no. You might want to think about whether it is HR, your immediate boss or another boss to ask first. I have worked at places where the "NO" person can be bypassed and might give you the wrong impression that something is impossible. As kids know "NO" can often be a short-circuit response to avoid a commitment, and avoid time thinking about the thing.
What's an "sescanner"?
Yes, went from 40 to 32 about a year ago. One of the best decisions I've ever made.

I'm about 15 years into my career, with about 5 years as senior tech guy at my current company. I have a great relationship with leadership. Another tech guy was already working 4 days (I think it was part of his initial negotiation), so I asked if I could too. I got the OK and took the pay cut.

At 5 days a week, I felt close to burnout for years (the work is interesting and challenging, and therefore tiring). Now work feels sustainable, life is so much better, and I have energy for personal projects. It also helps that the company is already fully remote so I can work from anywhere.

I wouldn't want to do 3 days a week -- projects would drag on 30% longer and I think I'd really feel that hit to my velocity. 4 is the sweet spot for me.
> There are no companies or startups hiring my occupation for in-office-only.

There are many companies which have offices you and people with similar preferences as yours can go to. Do you mean you want your colleagues also having to come to the office even if they don't want to?
A lot... the only suffering that would require abrogation of free will is the one we do to each other.
Zoom recording playback doesn't work in FF for me either.
Securing 5G Core UPF
Have you tried the Ear Hero Bluetooth adapter?
I am in the camp of we are in overshoot, have been for a very long time. In the same way that a someone can spend way above their income by using the credit card. Looks great now but that looming cloud of debt is coming.
Societal wise we have done this via the monkey pore wish for "unlimited energy" in the form of fossil fuels. We got energy unlike anything else in history but at the cost of environmental blow back and setting the paradigm for our living standards.

Maybe we will rise to the challenge and go green on these, I'm not convinced yet but I am definitely not ruling it out.

When it comes to optimism, it boils down to two distinct modes. Necessity is the mother of invention. Less energy, stuff and stimulation will be good for most people in wealthy countries.

Fossil fuels will decline, we will make some cool new stuff that makes that decline easier, we will demand less stuff and use of energy. This doesn't sound so bad. Hopefully we will move into something akin to Solarpunk + cottage core. A declined future that is more fair. But the pessimist in me feels like that is but fantasy.
Tickets appear to be $2 and annual spending in tickets in 2012 was approaching $2 billion. I don't buy it. It appears to be a well populated pool of participants and I think it's alarming that one person is winning $100k+ (top prize starting amount) 200 times in a year.
Anecdotal: I'm not a power-user, but I never really had bluetooth problems (latency, connectivity etc) between my phone and bluetooth devices.

I do however have the rare bluetooth connectivity problems with laptops, even the newer ones, but that could be a problem with Linux.

Also, I've accidentally damaged my wired headphones before by walking around and the wires getting hooked onto something.

Besides, I find it convenient to keep my phone in one place and walk around while making phone calls, or listening to stuff. Like, cleaning my house while listening to stuff.

I agree that it would be better to have both BT and a headphone jack.
It seems like people are 95% as effective working 4 days as they are working 5, and quality of life for everyone goes up massively -- shouldn't this just become the norm.
Ask HN: What are the best tools to set and track personal goals?
Looking to set some personal goals involving health, work, learning, etc.

Have tried Plai (plai.team) for a few years, but I seem to be straying in an out of it (a lack of progress is my fault, not Plai's, just so we're clear.)

Do you have any other goalsetting tool that you personally use and largely outside work?
What I miss isn't the office building. It's the people. I don't really care to sit in an empty office.

I don't want to "force" you to do anything. I would like to find a workplace where I can thrive.
For saving battery life and performance I use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...

The plugin basically kills tabs if you are not using them, after you click on them they get restored and forms get refilled. There is also a way to exclude websites, but I have not yet found a site breaks.
This is something I have to remind people of all the time - usually I just get blank stares.

Forget the dollars and cents tokens on wealth, they can and are manipulated but intentionally and unintentionally. How much energy and resources that gets us do we have? That is the real currency we have to work with.

All the debt in the world means nothing if we cannot produce the goods with the token we produced assuming the resources would be there.
Very good point, that's a salary you can live very comfortably on. Seems like it just depends on the school district, but I'd say the authors main point, that salaries across the board for teachers are lower than they should be given how hard the job is and how qualified most teachers are, still holds true.
Temporary Containers is the best extension for Firefox.

Every new tab is its own separate container. I configured it so Ctrl + clicking a link will open a tab in the same container, should I need this for "traditional browsing" where I want to share a session/cookies.

Security by isolation - by default.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

PS: There's also a neat one called Proxy Containers to assign separate containers to a different proxy.
If you use Firefox profiles regularly, you might enjoy the Profile Switcher for Firefox add-on, which provides a Chrome-like interface for loading and managing profiles in Firefox:

- Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...

- Source: https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher
yep, would do and do
> The worst part is that anyone who wants WFH can have it, but I cannot have what I need.

This really makes it sound like you think other people should be forced back to offices so that you can get what you "need"

Office work shouldn't be your substitute for a social life.
Human civilization will survive mass extinctions and change of habitability of some places. Humans are resilient.

And if they won’t, life itself is even more resilient.
You said exactly what I've always thought about public school but could never put into words. I've found, though, that private school avoids some of these problems by filtering out problem kids and keeping class sizes small. Kids can be made to be friends with each other(at least to some extent), but many of them don't have that guidance
Defections certainly happen, but not at a rate that would be significant enough to overcome the fertility inside of the group.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa

Interestingly these communities have a mechanism for selecting out those who do not wish to comply or conform.
> I'm always curious why those who like to work in the office are opposed to letting employees choose what they wish to do.

I think it's because they know that a lot of their coworkers will choose not to come into the office anymore, so the office will feel empty and that will make them feel lonely and sad.
If you want the link to the product without going through a wall of text. It’s approx $92 ($134 here in Australia) :

https://core-electronics.com.au/inky-impression-5-7-7-colour...
"Above" typically means above in thread, i.e. "parent", i.e. the post/comment one replies to.
This is pretty much it. I still use an iPhone 7 because the size is perfect. Good luck finding many options in the <6" smart phone market.

That said, Apple sells tens of millions (hundreds of millions) of phones, and the amount of data they get on customer preference must be amazing.

They clearly don't feel like the "mini" market is worth spending that much time on. I'm glad to see they offer it, but it's clearly not their key product.
What I mean to say is that I cannot take unilateral steps to remediate the issue at hand (i.e. quitting and finding a new employer)

Someone who prefers WFH can do this.
Try fetching only your photos in one archive, your Gmail in a separate archive, and then everything else in a third.

If you have "too many" Google photos and that archive fails, create albums for every year, and only download a year/album at a time. It's a huge PITA, but at least you'll get your stuff back. (Kinda: depending on how you uploaded your photos, the metadata may come back truncated or altered).
I'd really really like to see 3d content start making it's way into the DOM. (Ideally in manners far far far far beyond showing one lone hovering item, as per Apple's <model> proposal.)

Seeing Steven use his Live library to provide such an implementation should be utterly unsurprising. His past works have been so exemplary & leading-edge: mathbox, TermKit, Live itself, & others. Live was an interesting exploration of what grounds really lay underfoot the latest emerged React patterns (hooks), with lots of new capabilities, and seeing it applied to such a holy grail of an idea (3d via dom) is thrilling to see.

> Live goes far beyond the usual React semantics, introducing continuations, tree reductions, captures, and more

There's a ton of incredible wonkery here. As usual for Steven, he's chased incredibly far reaching frontiers, applying this hyper-advanced computing toolkit to 3d, then hunting down a series of hard problems/demos to make expident work out of. The article talks to a lot of specific frontiers, but the "general" work of the underlying Live library (and it's tour-de-force proof-of-value by creating Use.GPU out of it) is quite the distillation of computing into a consolidated, clear form:

> The result is a tree of functions which is simultaneously: 1. an execution trace 2. the application state 3. a dependency graph of that state

Hardly the point, but one thing I'd like a little more affirmative on, to see more clearly- where my desires & Steven's intents might be mis-aligned is- what would it look like rendering environments & spaces here? Can this "dsl for dsls" help us craft landscapes, houses, & actors inside? What do situated spaces look like in this environment, if we can pull that off? Can we represent space in the DOM?
> the very act of publishing to GitHub implies a desire to share the code.

No. Thats like saying the very act of sharing pictures online implies you want someone else to use them, or that printing your book and selling it somehow implies you want the world to copy it.

You share on GitHub because its a source control platform, and your code may be interesting to others. This does NOT mean that you are okay with someone taking the code and using it in their (potentially commercial) program.

That is NOT implied, and thats why licenses exist. You could even argue that, as GitHub has license detection etc. built in, sharing and reading code there should mean you are aware of licensing.
How can you have all those problems and still have better quality.
Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
TLDR; never use google cloud systems for production.

Google cloud suspended all our projects due to the billing issue in their system they had.

Despite reassurances "your account will not be suspended" while communicating with billing support, all the projects were suspended at 1am on Saturday.

All the account payments were made and the billing cards are valid. There are no outstanding bills.

Never use GCP for production.

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Edit full story by request, long read:
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Previous month billing didn't went through. Not sure if this was due to the billing outage google had (https://status.cloud.google.com/products/oLCqDYkE9NFWQVgctQTL/history) or financial transaction issue, however we went ahead and made a manual payment covering all the outstanding amount + extra.
Despite the payment made, about a week+ later we suddenly started receiving threatening emails "Your Projects are at risk of suspension". Edited and updated the billing cards. Opened a billing support request clearly mentioning this is a production environment and all the bills are paid. They were "investigating" the issue and assured the project will not be suspended.
Looks like the camera has fixed focus. So the distance from the subject is fixed.
480p? I mean do you need anymore reasons?
It's fixed focus, it's also a "half-frame" camera (~APS-C-ish, except it's portrait because the film still runs horizontally of course), meaning half the image size compared to full-frame, so more depth of field with the same parameters. It also has a slow lens - about equivalent to a 40mm, f5.6 full-frame lens.
I want to use this to read old magazines, color manga but this doesn't seem quite there in terms of saturation and color.

I await the day when I will be able to look at an eink screen and magazine and not tell the difference.
Never used uMatrix but looks like it's a content blocker like uBO. any reason for using both instead of just uBO?
You almost certainly do not want to have this, because countries like Germany have very strict copyright law. Youd end up having to check which law applies, from which country, etc.
> If there hypothetically was a magical source of near infinite renewable energy that could be harnessed without negative side effects, would you be ok with 2600+ sqft homes and air conditioning?

Yes. In a world with zero negative externalities for massive resource consumption, then by all means, give everyone a mansion and a yacht.

> What number of humans can the Earth ideally sustain in your estimation? If it's substantially less than the current population, then the cure is worse than the disease.

In our current industrialized, consumerist, global economy? Far less than 8 billion. You're painting me as a rabid anti-human eco-fascist though, so let me assure you I'm none of those things. I want humanity to succeed and I want all people to be happy and successful. But the current rate of resource extraction and ecological disturbance that we're directly responsible for will drive our species into a brick wall very soon. Along with millions of other species. We will come to a point where we simply cannot extract the energy we need to feed everyone, and where the biosphere has been so damaged that the necessary agriculture yields just won't be there. And also the other things, like the tropics becoming uninhabitable, ocean acidification killing marine life that the food chain depends on, etc.

I'm not anti-human, I'm very much a humanist, and pro-nature. Humans are part of nature. Unfortunately, we seem incapable of limiting our consumption to sustainable levels when given the opportunity to overshoot. Or at least our current civilization does (past ones have done better, but they also didn't have to try to resist the temptation of internal combustion engines like we do now). I've lost hope for any political solutions given how lackluster all efforts have been thus far, so we don't really need to sit here and debate solutions, because no one's at the wheel and the brick wall is getting very close. Enjoy the surplus of energy while we can still extract it.

TL;DR the famous book "Limits to Growth" was very prescient and it mostly hit the mark.
I’ve got a Samsung Plasma TV that I’m still pretty happy with. There’s a line running down the left hand side of the image that is supposed dust, and can be fixed with some effort, but I’m lazy.

I really like the screen quality we get with it. Haven’t had much reason to replace it in the 10 or so years we’ve owned it.
It's a good point to make. But dang, why must there be a built-into-the-page PDF reader that I have to fart around with? I'd rather just have a simple PDF that gets served from some load-balanced location, so I can use my own viewing tools. I'm sure there are good reasons, and I realize there is a download link in the "..." menu, so it's not too bad, at least. Just griping (:
> genuses (geni?)

genera

But good question. There's actually been a ton of plants identified as "hyperaccumulators" (which is distinguished from regular "accumulators") of various heavy metals. You can actually find a good list on Wikipedia[0] organized by the contaminant. There's entire journals dedicated to this research. If you peruse that Wikipedia list you'll see Salix spp in general listed as being a noted accumulator of a large variety of contaminants.

Given that there's over 400 species of willows though I doubt this holds uniformally for all species and I also doubt that all 400 species have been rigorously tested for their phytoremediative potential. Common osier (aka S. viminalis) is a common tree in Europe so it's likely that it's just a readily available type species to study

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hyperaccumulators
The backlight on e-ink Kindles works just fine.
Sure! In our documentation we go over some of the details here: https://docs.ditto.live/javascript/common/how-it-works/crdt

I'm not sure if you know what CRDTs are but they're a family of data types that allow different actors in a distributed system to edit data concurrently even during network partitions. If enough data is shared, they will deterministically agree on the same value. They kind of give that "google docs" behavior if you're looking for an analogy. They're perfect for peer to peer and offline-first systems.

However there is actually more to it, and a much more detailed write up is coming soon. Ditto is a distributed database, each peer has it's own database. The database is organized into collections and each collection is a Ditto Document (this does not work like most NoSQL document databases). Each property of the document is it's own CRDT, you as the user can pick which CRDT you'd like to use, our current catalog includes:

* Registers (Causal Last Write Wins)
* Counters (sums of each writer's numeric values)
* Binary Attachments (same as a Register but you can put large arbitrary data like say video files, images, PDFs whatever)
* AddWinsMaps (coming soon) - This type allows for concurrent upserting and removing of values based on a key.
* ReplicatedGrowableArray - this is an array type that allows for concurrent insertions while preserving some semblance of order. It behaves rather closely to a collaborative text editor merge behavior.

Our AddWinsMap and ReplicatedGrowableArray are more special than you might think. They can actually host nested CRDTs. Think of it like a folder within a folder in Google Drive that can hold synced documents nested within.

I'd love to show you over perhaps a call! We tend to be perfectionist when it comes to documentation and have been so busy that we haven't fleshed it all out. Perhaps we might just open source our CRDT system.

Email is in my profile, I love chatting and sharing about this stuff!
> Because even if it works, it's still bonkers

Is thinking you can throw something into space really a priori any more bonkers than thinking you can get to space by strapping a seat onto a bunch of explosives? Because that's what rockets are.

"Bonkers" is a classification only for concepts that haven't yet been normalized.
Humans evolved to make up stories. We do that every night when we dream. Here's another one. Rosebud.
A lot of the early music theory comes from discovering resonating overtones before having the full physics & mathematical model to describe it exactly scientifically. The opening chapters of Theory of Harmony by Arnold Schoenberg are a very interesting read from that perspective.
In a way its the same question as for math. Do mathematicians invent new mathematical theories or do they discover structures and concepts that exist in the idea world outside of our physical reality?
I've always been an optimistic person and consider myself to be very happy. People around me who are more pessimistic often seem unhappy.

I see no value in beating myself down on things that I cannot control. The world around me is beautiful. I just have to make the best of it day by day.

Facing hardships is a natural part of life.
Not a good look for Google.

I still don't think Google understands customer service yet. They think they can solve everything by being more technical than everyone else.

Google's engineering led culture is both a blessing and a curse.
> The income potential of these fields is known, so complaining about this, once in the field, is really just an irrational thing.

Are we not allowed to complain about known things? If you get a speeding ticket do you complain about it? Under that same philosophy, complaining about your ticket is irrational and stupid. Someone complaining about a hangover is irrational and stupid. Someone complaining about having back problems because you sit all day and don't exercise is irrational and stupid. I just don't think this line of reasoning makes sense at all. Our priorities change and maybe a teacher wants to do something good for the world but after 10 years they see they're not paid/respected well, and they have a family to take care of and a mortgage to pay and they're tired because they work 60 hour works. IMO that's a very rational place to start complaining.
> Then there are billion plus people in third world who can't pay whatever lowest price content owner might decide. So piracy is not second thought but like most natural first option to watch content.

When I lived in a third-world country there were loads of people with Netflix accounts. I didn't have one, but I did have Spotify which was significantly cheaper than Europe (~€1.75/month). Steam games are cheaper too, although I don't recall by how much as I never really use it.

This is why these platforms are so hawkish about regions, because otherwise everyone would be living in Africa or Asia to pay the cheaper prices.
>>I think it's because they know that a lot of their coworkers will choose not to come into the office anymore [...]

That was probably true during the pandemic, but anecdotal conversations I've had with non-tech colleagues and friends surprised me by echoing what many in this thread are saying: that they'd like the option to go into the office on certain days, but not necessarily 100% either way.

It feels like the true minorities are those that that are 100% in either direction, except that there seems to be a higher percentage of leadership teams in the 100% minority.