skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a lot of the journalists and execs miss is that the remote part of remote work is only half the story.

The other half, arguably more impactful, is the process. Geographic distribution mandates certain work practices to remain productive, and those can be highly rewarding and enjoyable to work with. Especially compared to something like agile/scrum.

They'll catch up eventually, but at least in the meanwhile I'm getting paid to help with this.
Then why don’t you post some links here for us Urdu speakers on HN. We do exist you know.
If you like stuff like that, check out https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/
Contrary to Betteridge's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... I would say the answer is maybe. Sure there are cases where it might make a big difference. Most cases it will not.

The article does seem to educate people on what different encryption models mean, which is a good thing. People should know and understand what they signup to use and how control of it could be taken from them. Take it would a grain of salt, companies have lied about E2EE so the only way to know for sure is to do the encrypting yourself and stay on top of security flaws in your encryption software.
Time to update "3 Billion Devices Run Java" message.
1. Is it profitable?

2. Is it evil?

Then yes, Oracle is a big player in that space.
Nice! Good luck with your project. The parsers are available under the utils.social namespace: https://crawlee.dev/api/utils/namespace/social The headless browser utils are under puppeteer and playwright utils https://crawlee.dev/api/puppeteer-crawler/namespace/puppetee...
> What if a therapeutic bacteriophage (mutates and) attacks symbiotic gut bacteria?

We don't have only one species of bacteria in our gut, and even if it was possible to for it mutate to infect one kind of bacteria in out digestive system it's unlikely (like winning the lottery, a few dozens of times) the phage can can mutations to target all of them. In any case, damages to the human symbiotic bacteria already happens with antibiotics (which damage the entirety of the flora not just a single species).

> Note that 10% of a human's weight

This sounds really fishy.
> Such a shame for Intel, AMD and Qualcomm.

If the article is true (and that's a big if, given Max Tech's history of tech reporting), instead of blaming the above companies I'd just congratulate Apple and thank them for putting the bar higher. AMD recent processors are still great on the desktop, and an absolute blast on the server, with extremely attractive value for money ratio.
Hello. I would be happy to collaborate - been architecting applications for Adobe for many years now. My email is available in HN profile, or my Github profile https://github.com/sangupta
Why would you wonder if experts are making basic mistakes?
A history of OSS licensing from a lawyer who helped blaze the trail [audio]
i thought we were all skipping windows 11?
It is an awful side-effect of products getting bazaar-ified, where technology reduces friction in entering the marketplace and new "stalls" appear en masse. Human curation is a clear remedy - I can only listen to so much music or eat so many meals a day, so do I really need an algorithm to "optimize" that quantity?

I bet many listeners believe the Spotify-presented playlists are being curated, as if the stock image models in the thumbnail actually are jamming together and meeting with musicians face-to-face. So much of the recommendation service seems obfuscated to customers that I honestly don't understand what the end game is. Everyone is racing to just be "stickier" than their opponent that I can imagine a sudden pivot in customer demands where "Made for you" becomes a technology mistake akin to "Facebook Games"
The easiest thing for them to do is simply exclude Kids music from their recs. Kids music doesn't benefit much from it anyway. Apple Music does this as do most video services.
In fairness, I'd bet that most of your favorite tunes would become very un-catchy if they were stripped of harmony and percussion, and played by a quantized, expressionless square wave
Is the thinking that VCs will stop funding remote companies? Because one advantage a fully remote org will have a slightly extended runway not spending money on rent, office furniture, and other costs associated with operating in-person operations.

To me, an office sounds like something a tech company should only obtain after a strong and established revenue stream.
You can pay as much as you want but after a certain threshold having the possibility to work from home is paying for itself in many ways. No stress from commuting, more flexibility and more focus.
Still sounds like you are trying to convince people that its not needed. I have found that people who spend more energy on explaining why they think something is the way it is ends up being more about them wanting to convince others of an opinion, than stating outright, short and sweet, why you aren't going to implement something. Personally I don't think its necessary to have a big education course one what E2EE is, there is plenty o material on the subject that can be pointed to.

My 2 cents.
'local government/LEO gave the all clear' is not a tight defense against federal prosecution and conviction. For instance, Jeremy Kettler was convicted despite full local and state blessing for possession of a silencer in violation of federal law (he, the state, and local government all thought he was following all laws including federal ones, but it turned out federal prosecutor had a different opinion on what 'interstate commerce' is). I personally would never risk getting registered as an offender on the hopes some federal prosecutor has a different view than local LEO, it's just not worth unbanning the guy unless both the state and federal prosecutor have signed statements granting immunity from prosecution.
Corpspeak is the worse for strategy and product because there's a lot of meaning in the precise wording of something but inveitably every slide gets wordsmithed to death and ends up a vague buzzword bingo sheet.

Simple (if not particularly potent) example I'm dealing with right now: "right to win"... my employer wants to use this wording in various strategy templates across all businesses and product. So every discussion is why do we think we have the "right to win" this or that market. In reality some products are differentiated in a way that serves a smaller segment (hence technically not "winning" the market) and perhaps deliver a higher IRR than an alternative strategy that is better boxed in this "must have a 'right to win'" perspective
This seems like it'd be slightly better for quick and dirty UIs. Plus if you can use python libraries this would be awesome for ML applications
Why is vector generation in the browser untenable with ML approaches? There are tiny models and tensorflow.js
This is literally from the horses mouth. You are exactly who marcan was referring to in the “peanut gallery” comment.
what I find peculiar about the kpop crowd is how they seemingly appear out of nowhere and on-demand on in political topics to drown out/cancel people who don't like them or share their values.

In Korea a blogger was able to see how BTS fans or "bots" were able to game the music ranking. What's interesting to me is how they seemingly correlate with wumaos as well.

I don't have solid evidence but it appears that much of the "stan" (kpop mob on social media) are very much politically aware and push a certain side of the spectrum.

All of this makes for some bizarre dynamics and I'm afraid that youngsters who are caught up in the craze don't know that they are being manipulated by very large crowd that behaves in bot like behavior or are herded into specific political flashpoints without understanding the underlying nuances.
They wouldn't have to actually play the songs, could just use the offline listening reporting endpoints.
All they need to do is filter out content with genre=kids from recs. They could create a separate kids recommendation item if people actually want that.
Okay, how about a tad more nuance though.

The better headline would be "Remote Startups will win the war for top talent among employees who prefer to work remotely"

Not quite so sexy. Sure some; probably even most software devs prefer remote/hybrid work, but there are still plenty of incredibly talented people out there who prefer being in the office every day.
maybe that's the selling point? I opened up one demo and despite it is indeed running the browser, it definitely _feels_ like running an AWT widget in ActiveX! oh the memories!
Accelerator operators: pillars of particle physics
So instead of taking a statement from the lawyer you think it makes more sense to wildly speculate and make things up? The burden of proof falls on the other side now to prove the whistle blowing started after Musk.
So when will they drop the sanctions on Russia? After the current majorities get wiped out in the next round of elections?
I don't - I leave them as a pile on my desk then comment their location to my memory palace.
I really hate websites that break "swipe back" functionality. Other websites work just fine but I can't swipe on my Magic Mouse to go back from this website/webpage.
How many devices are you allowed to register again?

What if your CC on file expires?

Well I guess you can just ask (beg) if you need assistance accessing 'your' music library
I switched from an XPS 13 to an M2 Air recently. The differences are striking.

I have my XPS 13 browsing HN next to my M1 air. That's all the XPS is doing, firefox browsing HN. My M2 has multiple docker containers, a collection of office apps open, browsers, vs code... and so on.

My XPS battery will barely last until 1pm if it isn't plugged in, and the fan kicks on for no apparent reason... It will last a little longer if I manually set it to "best battery life" but even that can be surprisingly ineffective for no apparent reason sometimes.

My M2 Air will last nearly two full working days (I haven't pushed it that far but so far it appears it would make it), the battery life is crazy. I go into the office and I don't even think about plugging it in, I know it will do fine.

I don't know what it is about macOS and using their M chips but the efficiency is amazing to me.

I even had a docker container freak out on my Air recently. It pegged a CPU core to 100% for a good 45 minutes. Temp skyrocketed. But I was on another virtual desktop and I didn't notice a thing. The OS ran smooth, vscode, node and everything else was running smooth. It wasn't until I looked at the status bar that I saw the CPU and temp had skyrocketed. I found the container responsible, killed it, and temp dropped quickly. Even under non ideal situations the Air performed well.

With my XPS the moment I put it down I think about where I can plug it in. If I pick up my XPS to quick order some Tacos and it wasn't plugged in from the start I feel like i"m in a race to get the order in "Come on, hold on, I need tacos!!!"

With my Air I don't even think about plugging it in, that's a completely new experience for a laptop for me.

I don't really understand the benchmarks and such that I've seen, but the every day user experience has been like night and day.
That's kinda the point! For ex, my wakatime extension sends metrics about vscode usage so the developer can see their code stats.
> The whole point of my network is building professional connections and gaining skills for work

And you're afraid of getting interesting insights from and interacting with bots ... ?
There's actually a way (though it won't happen).

Setting up a system that invades privacy to catch crimes is bad because once you have that system, all you need is for your government to criminalize good things to reach a dystopia.

In order to avoid that, you'd have to actually run that dystopia, but dramatically and at a small scale.

A great example could be a US state where abortion is illegal and gives actual jail time (I think that's a thing, not sure). You have one of those states put into law that online services must scan for the word "abort" then actually find and put women that had illegal abortions to jail over this.

If you did that, you might get the congress to make digital privacy a protected right at the national level.
Maybe the word productivity is creating some ambiguity here. Company (net) productivity is very different than individual or team productivity. Direction, Strategy and Agility play a much more significant role than raw speed or throughput.I believe with in person communication & interaction it is much easier to succeed in that.

Remote introduces barriers. It is theoretically possible that remote can move 100x faster & have better net productivity than in person, however that is far from the truth today.
I personally bought a white phone once, it was the S10+, i did it because it was the flashy color and it was on every AD, also the Black sucked on that phone, there was no midnight black.

After a couple of months, I regreted it, and my next phone was naturally black.
Yup, most of the hard problems were solved in 1960 to 1980, and modern libraries cover 99.999% of use-cases.

If people are focused on Research and Development in a large commercial project, it will often catch the ire of people responsible for risk mitigation.
I was curious, so I extracted the .deb package, and the TeamViewer executable seems to be an ELF binary. It looks to me that they actually compile for this platform.
The surface-level argument is that the instruction set is simpler and more efficient.

Certainly the floor for the complexity and size of an ARM processor is lower than for x86 - the ISA is smaller, easier to decode, and suffers from fewer silly legacy baggage items.

However, the reality is that all modern out-of-order microarchitectures are fiendishly complex and that at the "top of the game," implementation details at every level of implementation matter more than the fundamental ISA at play. With x86 there's a certain die size and complexity "tax" in terms of instruction decoding and support that majorly affects small designs. For example, an x86 microcontroller would be a bad idea compared to an ARM one, full stop. But, once you've paid that top-line x86 tax and you're building a huge out-of-order microarchitecture, the differences are minimal and how well you build the rest of the CPU's machinery matters much more than the ISA you started with.
Or flamethrower https://hackaday.com/2021/09/11/dont-sleep-on-the-lawn-there...
I've seen some genuinely very smart people unable to perform at their level because of the baggage holding them back in the current environment. To those unwilling to admit the baggage, I could see how it would come across as incompetent especially when it would be advantageous to the employer.

These managment types that refuse to see that core components are just bad/wrong so that the right thing is to scrap and replace. However, that is always seen as expensive and very disruptive. So if you can't come up with a way to change the tire while the car is running 65mph down the highway, then you're not able to do your job as hired. Therefore, incompetent. QED /s
Yeah, but Elon knew all of it.
Reminds me of Calvin's Dad's assertion that black-and-white photos are actually color photos of a black-and-white world:

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2014/11/09/
"A study conducted on the main campus of a Fortune 500 company found that just 10 percent of all communications occurred between employees whose desks were more than 500 meters apart. This suggests that once companies span multiple floors, buildings, or campuses, they’ve already lost much of the collaborative value of being “in the office” together."

This point often seems to get missed. If you're at a large company, you're often working with people on different floors, buildings, offices, countries. I want to be co-located with the people I work with often just isn't an option at larger companies even if many people come into an office.
I drove my father to the hospital when he was having a stroke. To be fair, I didn't know until he told the nurses. Just because someone is being driven by family doesn't mean that it isn't serious nor that there is realistically a chance to call around because of price.

I don't care if you find my tone constructive, by the way. The issues I've raise are real issues, and if you can't explain how you'd get around these and still be sure to have the same quality of care for the poorest of people, it isn't a good plan. Unless, you know, the "separate but equal" (Which rarely works) is your goal.
I used to simply dislike remote. Now I hate it with a deeper passion with every additional day that I do it.

Other things I'm looking for in a job (apart from a convenient office location) - (1) high pay and (2) stability. Startups just can't offer these things, least of all remote startups.
>Hybrid models will always struggle and 1/3/1

What does 1/3/1 refer to?
One of the factors is that all ARM64 instructions are the same length which makes decoding simpler.
Run Stable Diffusion with a Cloud API and Docker Image on Replicate
I’m happy for you. Let’s talk in 3 years.
Search combined with memory is key. Slack has quite a powerful search system which makes it easy to retrieve previous discussions. When I have a doubt regarding whether we've already talked about a specific topic in my team, I systematically search keywords related to that topic. It works well for my case and can be beneficial to your coworkers as perhaps they'll be more likely to search what's been said previously before sending their message.
Remote work is not perfect, but it's better than going to my office without windows (yeah, you heard right).

I don't do creative work or programming, as I work in HelpDesk, so I don't see the reason for going back to my bunker. It seems most of my coworkers have the same beliefs because as my company started threatening with going back to the office previous to thos summer, people left, and many became pretty hostile.

In my case it takes a <10 minute walk to get to my office, I don't have to spend too much time nor money, but at home I have a cushy place, two large monitors, and over everything else, I hear birds and see nature while at work.

I have to take some mandated breaks (collective agreement). In my office it was dead time, I couldn't do anything interesting. At home I wake up and do some house chores.

When my journey ends, I just get up, pack some stuff and go to the beach or go meet friends. I have way more energy than when I worked at the office.

I'm clearly not "top talent" but having tried this, I can't just forget it.

Companies say there's a lot of intangible benefits while working at the office, and I say there is a lot of intangible benefits while working at home, at least for me. I didn't even know I was to have that much energy and do so much stuff instead of laying in the sofa because I was tired.
Pop legal quiz - define « fraud ».

Musk literally tweeted about the « bot problem » on Twitter before the acquisition.
> This kind of pendulum like, tick-tocking back and forth between things like fat clients/thin-clients, dumb termials/PCs, centralized vs. decentralized (well, cloud-based [i.e., someone else's computer]) applications, and so on, are part-and-parcel of computing that goes as far back as possible. This is just another "tock" in that cycle.

True, this is because all software design and architecture is a set of trade-offs and each trade-off has a downside. Software design and architecture is also very fad-ish in that "the it thing" changed and everyone rushes to use it in order to keep their skills competitive. The fads of IT is a large part of the churn that makes low quality software.
The stove migration to electric will be longer term. I think tabletop « toaster ovens » and tabletop pressure cookers (like an instant pot) will be really hard to come by come winter.

Maybe a run on electric kettles if the culture is to use stovetop kettles.
If AI flag and human is "immaterial" difference as you noted, wouldn't AI flagging it as abuse material make it impossible to view it by a (non-LEO) human afterwards, as now that would show actual intent to view that material (it is illegal to view it with intent to view it).

Surely your reviewers never deliberately looked at the material a second time after marking it as abuse material for law enforcement, as that would be legally risky I would think.

The issue here is even if local LEO clear it, the federal prosecutor's opinion can differ and he can use the fact you knew AI flagged it and that you released it anyway to damn you. There are cases out there where local/state government cleared someone of wrong-doing but they still got hemmed up federally.
Maybe just cheaper to build and only loses 5% of the brand recognition when the giant arches are still on a sign out front.
The $1M question in my mind is:

Will wages in, say, Lagos or Buenos Aires rise to SF/NYC levels? Or will the reverse happen?

Economics says that it depends on the value of the labor, but cost of living matters too (or at least, has in the past within say, the USA).

I think this essay https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala... shows evidence that says the answer is "yes", that we'll see a weird fracturing of labor markets.
One interesting spin on this is the question "what new competitor would you be most afraid of? 100% remote, hybrid or in person team?"

The poll I saw overwhelmingly had "in person team" as the competitor that is most dangerous.

Talent isn't just about hiring the right people, but getting the most out of them. With 100% remote you're also selecting for people that want to be more comfortable or unsupervised. It could be a good or bad.
Is it a better database for their particular use case? Do you know what they use today? Does that choice matter to customers?
Monday work from home.

Tue-Thur work in office.

Friday work from home.
I'd be curious if the new architecture can be adapted to use different content types, other than HTML. I think the Fediverse (even if it can be crawled as the normal web pages) it would benefit for a custom crawler that can jump from inbox to inbox and understands (at least some) ActivityPub jsonld.
Have you spent much time searching for an app with interval chaining? I'd be surprised if that doesn't already exist.
It can still be a lot cheaper to hire good enough talent remotely.

If you're an average company in California you can hire good enough, remote talent 2-3 times cheaper remotely than if you had to hire locally. Just compare avg developer salaries in US vs Europe. "Slightly above average" developers in Europe can do the same job twice as cheap.
See also: Migrating Browser-Based Java Applets to IcedTea-Web Using JNLP

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32565828
Unfortunately, given how terrible MacOS Outlook is, running a Windows VM is almost a necessity.
That's because it wasn't risky to get a job as a helper to a working professional, learn their trade while doing the worst/easiest part of the work, transition to doing skilled work while having your helpers do the crapwork and the professional did inspection and finishing, then either taking over the shop from the professional, partnering with the professional, or opening your own shop with your already established customers.

So completely unrelated to the modern world.
I developed a process of printing/embossing on heavy-gauge aluminum foil with dot matrix printers (sans ribbon). The metal can be coiled into a stainless steel, sealed cylinder (a canoptic) and inserted in a deceased's coffin or cremation ashes urn.
N=1 does not prove anything.
I would love to rip the gas heating out of the house and have little nuclear reactor there.
It's just Windows and how long are your uptimes and do you leave it open all the time?

I know it's not just me because I did find the github issue and there was no fix so I just stopped using VSCode