skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you. All of that is a big deal and should not be taken lighten.

Maybe I'm a bit jaded by what I've seen, but that doesn't seem too far off from normal American business culture. Deflection and manipulation seem to be par for the course. It's why lobbyist exist. Companies want permission to do/not do the things they're not currently allowed/required to do.

The ones that get caught are normally a few bad actors that whistle blow. The companies where it's ingrained in their culture get away with it. Of course...this is all my own experience :)
This is great, looks more user friendlier than the other platforms that i have used, good job.
> Everyone in this industry knows Python is C-like.

Compared to what? Haskell?
No, see what I mean in another thread. Return-to-office is in large part steered by public opinion and commercial real estate issues.

For every bold company that leans into remote, the majority rest check the public temperature and do what seems in line pending open revolt form their employees or competitors offering remote.

So much of the public temperature around remote work is oriented around heavy support from public figures for return to office. By some employees supporting it as well, everyone risks getting swept back into office whether they like it or not and don’t have a job with enough power (like a talented dev) to go against the grain and protest.

If you’re not in those jobs with leverage and at a company considering RTO or not, Employees supporting remote work are espousing very safe career views, and the employees who disagree risk going against the grain with mgmt who want the office back so stay silent.

So this is what I mean by OP’s opinions mean everyone else gets swept in it as well.
Yea I mean it's good advice to get a lawyer, but imagine you had to do that for every job offer. You'd be spending so much upfront just to get a job. And they don't even reimburse you for the cost of the modified contract from the hired lawyer if you accept.
Worth noting that this order is strikingly similar to the one from the StackOverflow developer survey: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-most-popula...
I have my own solo company, I send an invoice with my company details and my company's bank account number. that's it.

Then the company you own pays all these things. Not the company that hired my own company. It's more a B2B relationship than employee mentality.

I hired another startup to do all my accounting since it's really simple.

I keep some cash inside my company to pay taxes and so on. In my jurisdiction it's even cheaper the tax you pay as company than as an individual.

I have some sort of salary because my local legislation demands, but most is taken as dividends.

The spare money due to reduced costs I can also afford extra private "unemployment" insurance. One that covers two months, not even counting my personal emergency reserve.

So yes, you need to stop living by paycheck even if it means buying less stuff on Amazon.com.
> I'm going to have to ask you to put quotes around "engineering".

I did my PhD at Oracle. We got several top-tier papers from the work we did. There’s excellent engineering at Oracle.
You don’t understand the value of reputation.
Winter is coming here in Europe. Having a phone with FM receiver is going to be very useful.
Edited, thanks :)
Wrong tree
> I was young and I had a 1.5 train
> I built my career further and could afford to live closer to my office
> it was still a 30 minute cycle each way
> it was a 10 minute ride in a beautiful city

Almost none of these apply to the average American commuter. Public transportation/biking infrastructure is poor to non-existent in most of the US. And the places where it does exist are usually the most expensive. For 95% of American workers, a commute does not mean leisurely spending time on a train unwinding while they read or sleep, or getting outside for a nice bike ride through the city. It means bumper to bumper traffic on the highway for 2 hours every day.

As for the 6am and 9pm meetings, can you not just tell people to not schedule meetings then? My company made it clear that due to our distributed work force, meetings are only scheduled within core hours near the middle of the day so that no one is getting up early or working late.
It is almost funny, almost sad, that we were in this for nearly five years, every single day, and despite that a cartel created for the occasion completely evaporated us politically for pointing out "technically not wrong" technicalities that nobody ever had the intention to address, this is how we are perceived still by the same people we once thought we were giving a voice to :) Yet, somehow, Wasm has turned out to be almost indistinguishable of what was once presented or what is still marketed by its outdated supplementary material. Openness? Portability? Security? Web interop? Multi-language? Professional conduct? Giggles through rose-colored glasses. https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/401 —the AS guy
It's more than just food for eating. For instance, in BC they plant GMO round up ready pine, and then spray clear cuts and forest fire areas with round up, so that they can plant mono-culture pine stands. This has caused massive forest fire issues which also results flooding issues, along with biodiversity issues.
The UEFI firmware is programmed onto a chip before assembly of your mother's motherboard. Although it can be updated afterwards by the end user.

The UEFI applications that you can build with Lil UEFI can be shoved into a special FAT32 partition on your disk and named EFI/BOOTX64.EFI[1], the firmware finds this file and will start executing it.

[1]: It can be named something else so long as you tell the firmware about it in advance. I think that you can also load them via netboot.
I'm right there with you. Still "only" have a 1080p TV but a living room computer is the most robust option, that you get more control over, and it doesn't even need to be an expensive high-end machine either. Added advantage of being expandable and upgradable too, depending on what you're working with.

I stream games from my gaming PC with Steam too and it works flawlessly. Controllers work great too. I'm lucky to have been able to wire everything with Ethernet though, but modern WiFi has gotten surprisingly decent from what I've heard.
> [complex dynamic systems] cannot be modelled mathematically in a way that allows them to operate inside a computer

Thank God an entrepreneur and a philosopher figured this out for us. I guess we can all pack our bags and go home.
There is absolutely no reassurance of any privacy any more. Several VPN providers have been caught for leaking data to corporations over time as well. There are too many points where any software can be compromised, e.g. the APIs and libraries required by any application, to ensure proper privacy.

It's wiretapping conducted on everyone using devices they purchased by private companies (that uphold no responsibility for proper use or securing the data) without any justifiable cause... God help you these days if you do warrant a wire tap, but at least the Government is usually a bit more secure and regulated concerning storage and use of that data.
> A criminal conspiracy can now use the "Wasn't me, must have been some random Twitter employees" defense.

I could see this being billed as a feature of a privacy-forward chat platform. Messages are slipped into conversations without either party having actually sent them and no way to tell whether they were real or not.
Anyone else try to figure out what the reflection texture is? I think it's Apple Park.
How is this not eugenics?
I didn't suggest anything about seriousness of conditions, and the parent did not suggest having different quality of care for poor people. You are projecting your own politics onto our comments. The issues you have raised are real but irrelevant to the comment "What if the government allowed private enterprise to open emergency clinics in times of great need?" I addressed your first criticism (incapacitated patients) and you responded with a personal anecdote connected to a nonsensical sentence about price. I'm not going to go through the rest of them.

I'm not sure why you are so belligerent, without engagement in each others arguments this is pointless so I'll stop here.
That's a false dichotomy and you know it.

You can seek profit AND help make food less scarce at the same time.
I would actually love to get some perspective on my own perceptions. If i'm slinging code, remote work sounds awesome. But when i'm slinging ideas, i want to be in person. I want to have the brains in a room around a market board figuring things out. The creative and communicative energy is just totally different.

My problem with the code-slingers who want to be totally remote -- don't you need to have periodic collaborative discussions with your peers? Do you really find those discussions are as good over a computer screen as they were in a room? Over a screen, most people are multi-tasking -- having multiple conversations, doing their laundry, whatever. That's a poor imitation of true collaboration, in my opinion. What am I not considering?
Steve Ballmer is that you?
At first I was all-in for working remote, but after having done it for two years, the question that made me think otherwise was simply:

- Ten years from now, would I be glad that I had spent ~70% of my time at home?

As you can see from all these comments, whether working at the office is good or bad, depends hugely on context. E.g. what type of commute are we talking about? 15 minutes walking to the office or spending 4 hours everyday standing still on the freeway? There simply is no single answer for this.

Working remote certainly has its upside in that it allows one to have more control of the day. Bad storm projected for next morngin? I guess I’ll just work from home. Not having to walk out the door means more predictability. But coming back to the original question, this sort of control might come at the cost of losing some color in your everyday life in the long run. And thats what freaks me out the most: am I purposefully grayscaling my life for the sake of convenience and control?

I’d rather not.
I'm talking about mass killings. It wouldn't sound jarring to me in the contexts you're talking about.
For all the talk about American individualism, American corporate culture is actually extraordinarily collectivist. The pervasive groupthink at all levels of the hierarchy is an effective survival strategy. It's quite depressing to read accounts of individuals who lived under the boot of various collectivist regimes, particularly the modes of thought and expression so prevalent and necessary in such societies to keep your family from starving, only to realize that they are more or less replicated in American corporate environments, for more or less the same reasons.
If you have that kind of density, you can build out and each part of the city is like its own mini city that is perfectly reasonable to live in. If you need to go to another mini city you can bike or jump on public transport.

In Berlin these are refereed to as Kiez for example.

Very large cities don't really have a city center as such, or at least not for most people. And you can have reasonably priced apartments or townhouses in a well connected Kiez that has everything you need to live.

> Did you consider that not everyone has a choice in the matter and the alternative is often unemployment?

And about far more often its the case that people would prefer to live in the city but are forced to live some-where on the far edge and then having to buy a car to drive into the city.

This is what the real problem with the kind of low-density city surrounded by sprawl. The actual city centers are tiny to non existent and lots of cars.
More modern features like "defer" should be enough to remove the last remaining needs for GOTO; even "try/catch/finally" may be enough for that.
Zotero is quite possibly the LEAST WORST solution I've found.
So it's not like mathematicians have ever tried to model complex dynamical systems? My entire PhD in complexity science and computational neuroscience must therefore be a joke, and the equations all figments of my imagination.
From an article linked in the OP (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/twitters-former-securi...), mudge is the alias of Twitter's ex-head of security Peiter Zatko.
It seems that it was evidence for theoretical approaches to predict molecule bond behavior. The author mentions DFT, which I assume stands for Density Functional Theory.
>It took decades to prove conclusively that cigarettes cause cancer in humans.

Glyphosate has been around for almost 5 decades. Wikipedia says "The consensus among national pesticide regulatory agencies and scientific organizations is that labeled uses of glyphosate have demonstrated no evidence of human carcinogenicity"[1]. If you think this is not "conclusively" enough, how much longer/more evidence do you need? Is this a standard that we should apply to everything[2], or just chemicals made my evil multinational corporations? Maybe we should delay rolling out cell phones for a few decades just to be sure that they don't cause brain cancer?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate

[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demand...
Probably because of Android and webservices.
If there's a difference between what you wrote and what I wrote I'm missing it.

But you're also welcome to write your own post. :)
You really think just after paying an FTC fine, staring down SEC actions, and a huge legal fight with Musk…Twitter is going to “suppress” the content to keep this a secret?

Sure.
"Time is a flat circle." - someone at Sleepycat, probably.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiter_Zatko
What's "LC" ?
Namespace unsharing: deny-all firewall, destroyer of telemetry
What is a "data driven opinion"? Do you mean a fact? What data drives your choice of favourite colour?
I understand what you're trying to say, but the people who the corporate media trot out as "scientists" aren't really scientists. They're beaurocrats wearing lab coats. They are the ones twisting actual science to push agendas.

A perfect example is when coronavirus started, people were told by the scientific beaurocrats and the corporate media that they could not go to work or school, that they could not go to visit family, that everything would shut down. And they were told that this was the only way to prevent catastrophe.

Fast forward to the Black Lives Matter, Inc. "protests", which began a couple of months later, and those same scientific beaurocrats and the corporate media were literally saying that "social justice" was more important than social distancing. That thousands of people marching shoulder to shoulder should in no way be seen as a "super spreader". Because we all know that "the science" shows that the virus doesn't affect you if it knows you're fighting for "social justice".

So don't confuse the beaurocrats in lab coats with actual scientists. No actual scientist talks about science in terms of 'trust' and 'believe'. Science is about questioning, testing hypothesis and trying to verify as best as you can. Trust and belief is the realm of religion. They might as well start telling people to "have faith in the science".

People should be able to have confidence in the methods and motives of the science and health professionals. But that will only happen if we get to hear from the actual scientists whose only agenda is actual science.
Scenario 404: It turns out to be a natural academic, researching difficult mathematical and philisophical problems of its own volition.
Excalidraw[0] is the best tool I've found for whiteboarding over Zoom. Just enough structure to let you quickly sketch out what you're talking about, but without the rigidity of a Visio or Lucidchart.

0: https://excalidraw.com/
Hungary's top weather experts fired after wrong forecast on national holiday
Edible calories per acre per season are one thing. Labor cost per acre are another, and that's the key element we need to figure out if we want to transition. Right now the economics don't work out.
This is how we collectively got here: "This product doesn't work for me, I want something that does." We collectively asked for more product/service diversity, more on-demand personalization and lower prices and we got it.

We need to accept that the attention/surveillance economy is a natural outcome of high volume personalized markets. I did my undergraduate thesis on "Nash equilibria to predict consumer decision making under uncertainty" under Dr. Bruce Lister WELL before machine learning was even a core field of Computer Science.

People, individuals, you and me, demand increasing determinism from other stochastic humans so that we can better predict and manage our relationships with them. A corporation has the same instinct, so they are doing the reasonable thing and collecting data in order to predict the next state in the Markov Decision Process that is you.

Every major technology (and some non-technology) corporation either has built or is building a similar system to optimize you for their system. People have chosen by a HUGE MARGIN to join these systems because the non-hidden benefits outweigh the hidden risks. For the people that recognize the externalities some are pushing back (like these lawyers), but most people don't even know this is happening and honestly don't care because you get benefits from it.

The only thing shocking about this is that Larry said the quiet part out loud
Ukraine conflict: How are drones being used?
Anything is possible in Pennsylvania... Trust me (worth the downvotes, and I don't really live in PA mind you) :P
My confusion is that if I have 10 GB of photos in my Google Photos, that counts towards the Google cloud storage. Gmail contents also contribute to the total cloud storage. So if Google Takeout is taking my 10 GB photos and creating 10 GB zip files for download, where is it gonna store those zip files? If I sent it to my gmail, doesn't that mean I'll get 10 GB of new zip files that takes up my gmail storage space?

If I send it to my Google Drive, then those 10 GB zip files take up my drive storage space... So Google Photos + zip files... that's 20 GB. Double the storage right? And if I don't have enough space to store those zip files, then I'll have to upgrade my storage space and pay more money...?

Where is Google Takeout storing those zip files if not on my storage space?
We like mushies
That doesn't make much sense. Nobody is going to decide that a few percentage points bump in interest rates is going to stop them from pursuing profit entirely.

Also, it's silly to compare current conditions to post-bust conditions: the market at the time of the bust was incredibly immature and people had been throwing money at ridiculous garbage just because someone had a landing page and a marketing team. We've gone through several entire generations of startups at this point. VCs are far more sophisticated than they were back then, and far more people have made in the tech / startup industry.

Millennials and Zoomers are far more hedonistic than their parents and grandparents. They will gladly go into debt to fund their lifestyles rather than cancel that 8th streaming service they haven't watched in 3 months. They're so bad at managing money that we literally have services like Trim to remind them that they're being stupid with their bank accounts.

We're not entering into a recession because the economy is collapsing and value has disappeared. We're entering into a recession because of a myriad of supply chain issues and because people are literally making and spending too much. While I believe that our entire monetary system is a disaster waiting to happen... we're a long way from being in a bad spot in terms of investment.
I work on a storage engine at $dayJob. We have created a connector for MongoDB, although for a very ancient version. We are currently working with $cloudProvider to use our storage engine in their cloud DBaaS offerings.

This field is pretty interesting when you're talking about performance vs space amp vs write amp vs read amp.
How many people actually use them? If 1% of people use them that probably won't be enough to stop anything.
I was at a friend's halloween party around 2010 (with a bunch of ex-USC people) and there was a guy quietly sketching in the corner, I walked over and immediately recognized his drawing style. "are you Jordan Mechner?" I followed his sketch blog at some point. we had a short conversation, I told him how much I loved The last express (he joked I might be the only one) and I didnt mention how young I was when I discovered prince of persia. Really great guy, quiet, unassuming and just nice.

Interesting party that night, I met another game industry person I admired as well as some other fascinating folks.
I feel the same. I read GP and thought: "Oh, another 'extremist' WFH advocate." This is a never ending battle on HN -- with so little new, interesting input on either sides of the debate. The "all office" vs "all remote" crowd: It is exhasuting. Both are correct and wrong at the same time. Like Realpolitik in geopolitics: For each team, it is all about what works for your team. But please, don't tell me what works for my team / family / personal situation.

The very best teams have highly levels of adapability -- whatever comes we can adapt, but continue to be high functioning!

Personally, I really like WFO. Why? I like the pressure to wake up early, dress well (suit and tie!), ride the metro/subway, and perform at the office. However, I never pressure my teammates to do the same. I tell all new joiners: You can wear hoodie and jeans everyday, but please don't take away my necktie! Yes, I know that I am the cultural equivalent of an office / cultural dinosaur in 2022!

In my team, people that WFH more often have measurably lower rates of collaboration versus those who work-from-office (WFO). To be clear, the most advanced sales teams literally measure everything regarding collaberation or client contact. (I have seen custom built software at multiple companies that try to exactly measure this!) It does not mean that WFH is less productive or less collaborative. Instead, it means that each team is different.

A "WFH zealot" on my team was adamant that their previous boss who commuted by high speed rail twice per week more than 500km away was a "good situation". There is no limit for the zealots (on both sides: office vs home). It could be working from the moon (WFH -- new SpaceX colony!) or everyone sleeps in the office 7 days a week (ramen profitable / office uber-zealot). Both sides are simultaneously correct (with perfect fit team) or wrong (with terrible fit team).

This whole silly "argument" feels like the anti-vaxxer equivalent of WFH vs WFO. I am tired of it.

What is a good reply to this post? Talk about when/where you were wrong / learned something new (!). "Oh, I was WFH zealot, but then I was forced to WFO and was suddenly much higher collab and connected with my teammates." (Or the exact opposite -- "I am tired of annoying sales people asking me to fix their broken mouse!".) Please don't reply to this post if you are the anti-vaxxer equiv of WFH/WFO. You add nothing new to the debate.

Last: This whole debate feels eerily simliar to the mid-2000s argument about (only) "hire old/experienced" vs "hire young/inexperienced". Both sides were correct and wrong at the same time. The same old anti-vaxxer crowd argument again! The ultimate team had energetic people of all ages / genders / experience / ethnicity / religion. Hey... Looks the same in 2022!

The best team I ever worked on had wild variety in experience. All the way from "I-Am-Old-Get-Off-My-Lawn" to "17-year-old-summer-intern". Amazingly, people were open-minded and tolerant. As a result, we worked at a furious pace and team meetings were amazing.
There are a number of agricultural chemicals that we see as being anecdotally harmful.

Heres a meta study concluding that glycophosphate exposure can contribute to population reduction.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33636765/