skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working remote for about a year now and haven't had this issue. Maybe that's because 90% of our communication is done during meetings where we have tone to convey intent
> what about ARM makes it more performant than x86?

It isn't. ARM's fixed-length instructions helped Apple achieve a wider front-end than contemporary x86 CPUs which helped, but that's about the end of the ISA differences.

Which is why all the other ARM CPUs are slower than x86 CPUs. ARM doesn't really provide an advantage. Apple's stonking huge cash and R&D budget along with Intel struggling right as TSMC is firing on all cylinders is what gives M1/M2 an advantage.
"Apocalypse" is needlessly dramatic language.

I think in 6 months we'll:

- Unquestionably be in a recession

- Have interest rates higher than they are today (i.e. cheap money does not return)

- Major layoffs across the board at tech companies

- It will be much harder to find a tech job after layoffs

- Inflation still not tamed despite interest rate hikes and declining employment

- Clear sentiment that this is worse that the dotcom bust

I'm not sure how anyone working in tech, looking at the data behind the scenes, seeing where all the math doesn't quite add up, can possibly think what we're heading for will be a "regular recession". "apocalypse" is a bit hyperbolic, but this is going to be bad and I will be delighted to realize that I'm foolishly wrong on this one.

For the record, this is what I thought would happen during covid, but never imagine the insane[0] amount of money the FED would pump into the market. However we've exhausted that option, and I don't see how we're going to print money out of this one.

0. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
And of course nearly all of those involved cars. There would be basically no bicycle deaths if we didn't have to share the roads.
Just answering for myself, but no, absolutely not. Especially not while the office remains an open floor plan with no noise isolation.

I hate commuting, I hate shitty office lunches and interruptions totally ruin my focus. The things that people like about the office (long lunches with coworkers, spontaneous events, fun conversations) are literally my bane.
Well said this is a refreshing take. All these please for going back to the office or being present in person seems aimed entirely to placate the people who for decades have exploited such environment to their favour. Chatting, small talk, being seen, all of which on top of the horrendeous open desk trend, only adds to the overhead for the rest of us who thrive in remote environments.

Market has already listened and are going to favor the latter group and the remote environment is going to be here with us indefinitely. If for whatever reason you feel like going against this new market trend/correction, you stand to lose out.

Companies who are demanding hybrid or return to office are unironically putting themselves in walls that will limit their competitiveness in the long run. Again this is what the market tells us, many companies are realizing they can save on expensive commercial rent/logistic overhead and hire more remote workers.
Compared to the cesspool that is the US system? The NHS was amazing.

We don’t talk about it, but people still die for non-COVID emergencies because hospitals in the Us are routinely full in 2022.

Privatization of hospital systems in the US have lead to very warped incentives, where C sections are the norm because it’s faster and more money for the hospital and Drs.
> I never really understood why people say productivity and socializing is difficult remote.

Absolutely agree with productivity, partially agree with socializing. Socializing is still possible, but you lose out on things like impromptu conversations at the coffee maker and such. Also, if there's a big meeting, there can be one speaker at a time. In person, 60 people can be having 30 conversations in smaller groups. It's hard to pull off virtually.

The latter point is something the company I work for has been experimenting with lately (not development wise, just how we can emulate that within). Tandem offers an "overhear" option in their Tables feature, which is alright. More distracting for some reason than in real life though. Break out rooms are okay, but have more of a barrier than turning to your left.

Overall though, remote work rules and I don't think I'll ever go back.
I think the commenter brings up an interesting point that China more effectively regulates industries that commit wrong [1]. I wouldn't reduce their point to being tantamount to fascism; rather, I read @gsatic as arguing for equal application of the law. This seems fundamental to the US constitution vis à vis John Locke: people (corporations in this case) cede rights for security. If we give corporations regulatory fines that pale in comparison to revenue as a result of malfeasance, are we allowing companies to enjoy our society's benefits, without having to sacrifice the same rights others do?

[1] - Of course, this isn't the complete picture: China has a penchant for arbitrarily dealing a heavy hand to law-abiding companies/persons.
Hi creator here, what browser/OS are you on?
Not sure what you or Verge is talking about. You don't NEED double storage space to get your original photos.

1. Go to google.com/takeout

2. Select "Google Photos"

3. Select "Email download link" (which should be pre-selected)

4. Click "Create archive" or whatever it says

Now you just wait for the email to arrive, then click the link. No storage space needed anywhere, just click the link and download like any other HTTP transfer.

I've been doing this once every 6 months or so for years, have been the same way always. Probably the reason no one is raising hell about this is because you seem misinformed.
Yes and no.

There’s many facets to these types of jobs, and these types of teams.

I suspect that he was a “known quantity,” when he was hired, and acted as he was expected to act, by the person that hired him.

Jack Dorsey had his own issues, and pleasing him may not have counted for much, after the new folks took over.

I do have issues with declaring that someone at that level is being fired “with cause,” especially someone that knows where the bodies are buried. This goes double, for someone well-known for doing well in other environments. Usually, there’s some kind of “golden handcuffs,” and the firee simply “leaves to spend more time with their family.”

Regardless of his faults, they set themselves up for this. From here, it appears to be a rather petty personality spat that may end up hurting a whole bunch of folks.

So yes, you are correct, but the person at fault may not be Mudge.
These studies always bring out knee-jerk reactions in genpop, but you have to understand what herbicides and GMO crops have done to alleviate global hunger and malnutrition.

In the most developed countries, we spend 7-15% of our income on food. The poorer you are, the higher that percentage is. In some African countries, families will spend upwards of 70% of their income for not just food, but for bags of rice. The bare minimum.

In the past 4 decades, we've increased our crop yields by 4x. This is because of intensive farming.

Now, is it destructive to the environment? Yes

Does it create fragility in our food systems and supply chains? Yes

Should we immediately stop using herbicides and large-scale monoculture systems? Think carefully about that one.

When people say, we need to implement regenerative agriculture, or organic practices, or stop eating meat, etc, they rarely have a full understanding of how our agrifood system works.

I'm an advocate for improving these systems, reducing herbicide use, and implementing sustainable practices (whatever that means at this point). But please, please, please try to fully understand how our food system really works. Try to understand the magnitude of cost reduction our current system has provided. Try to understand how global life expectancy has increased by >20 years due to these practices.
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Bigger example: Donald Trump called Net Neutrality "Obamacare for the Internet", back when the bug-bear was Comcast rather than FAANG.
thank you, fixed
All of these books and articles etc providing proof-positive that we are special snowflakes in the universe and no machine could possibly keep up with our specialness feel to me like the very serious scientists who made the claim that heavier-than-air flight was impossible.
For the most part, yes.

One difference is having constant instruction length, which allows highly parallel decoding and a wider machine in general. This is part of what makes Apple's CPUs faster and cannot be replicated by x86-64, ARM32 or RISC-V with compressed instructions.
> I found it funny that he wasn’t sure that the video games industry would last.

At the time, video games seemed to be overly saturated, the marketplace was way down in sales and yes, people didn't know if video games were a passing fad or not. Computers were still more a hobbiest item rather than a thing everybody had.
Taking it offline is a power move

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAMRukKqQg
At least with VBA people are probably scarred by having to modify auto-generated macros, the atrocious error system, GOTOs, and the terrible excel IDE.
You may not be giving them enough credit. Last ice age was roughly 10,000 years ago. At these time scales it's difficult to predict what's going to happen... Of course lets not forget the costs either. Someone has to pay for this.

Seems to be highly irresponsible to leave poisonous garbage around no matter what.
>Oracle is anthropomorphic. It is, after all, just a bunch of people.

And a human is just a bunch of cells?
I wonder if new languages or languages with bad documentation/lack of good textbook would warrant the users to frequent stackoverflow more.
The carrier's 100% sell the data
> I never really understood why people say productivity and socializing is difficult remote

For me, there is something about the physical presence of other people that slows me down (in a good way). With online interaction, I too find myself impatient, and eager to bring whatever I'm doing to a conclusion.

For example, around 20 years, I played a lot of go (the board game), both in-person and online. Online, I found myself playing impatiently and recklessly, especially if I was in the lead. Whereas in person it felt natural to take a long time, and I played better games and enjoyed myself much more in person.

If productivity and socializing works for you remotely, wonderful! Far be it from me to piss on your parade. But I for one found the obstacles to be quite serious.
There will always be people who believe the Bayer-Monsanto propaganda. Just like there are people who believe that burning 100m-year-old plant matter is fine. Just like people believe that there are aliens living among us.

There have been countless studies on the matter. Even without the surfactants it's still a nasty substance.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2021.7639...

https://www.cornucopia.org/2014/03/gut-wrenching-new-studies...

https://www.figo.org/removal-glyphosate-global-usage

https://jech.bmj.com/content/71/6/613

https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-...
> Did you look at historical data on who gave who electricity in former years?

I did and Germany has been exporting more than they buy for decades.

Considering that just like France it is part of a single market and France HAS to run their fleet all the time and so is selling "cheap" on the EEX it's quite surprising that Germany doesn't buy more cheap nuclear energy from France throughout the year. But it doesn't ant that's not only because of the failures of the French fleet in summer and winter but also because it's not really cheap. It's only "cheap" for the French consumers because there is a fixed price and they pay for the real price with their taxes.

> And even so, nuclear plants will go back to producing a shitton of energy once the weather cools a bit.

Let's hope so for the not self sufficient country of France so the rest of Europe with their diversified power sources won't have to safe their ass again.

PS. it is not "just" the heat which has wrecked their nuclear fleet. Look it up. It's a massive fuckup and they need to be done by winter when all those electric heaters in French homes will come on line.
These guys live for this:

longnow.org
The same channel has other videos about biking in winter. But I of course don't know where you live and what you would use them for.
Sure but if you want full transparency you don't use Snowflake. They never sold themselves as that.

I wouldn't buy a Ferrari and complain about lack of trunk space.
I was referring to the ones in Motl's blog. I wasn't aware this paper was updated compared to that one to remove those problems. Either way, looking at the paper I see a few things I can't follow. For example for theorem 1 he says for d>0 there exists \psi(y) = some expression uniformly for y≥1. The source he quotes is Montgomery's book on multiplicative number theory. Looking at the theorem in that book (Theorem 6.9) I can't see how what he says follows from it. The book is looking at the distribution of prime numbers with some error bounds. There is nothing in the paper about any sort of error bounds. Quite often such papers when submitted to arXiv get a quick look-over and if the professional mathematicians don't think it's worth much it gets thrown into the "General Mathematics" section, whereas more legitimate attempts would be put in the number theory section.
The CPU/SoC's efficiency is likely the core driver behind this difference, but I believe that Windows exacerbates the issue.

I recently installed Fedora 36 on my Tiger Lake (i5-1130G7) ThinkPad X1 Nano, and while the machine has never had particularly good battery life, it's more "calm" under Linux on average. Even while setting things up with various things running its fan didn't kick on and it didn't get warm like it typically would under both the Windows 10 installation it shipped with, as well the current upgraded Windows 11 install.

Additionally, while I haven't yet actually tested it, GNOME under Linux estimates that it'd get somewhere in the ballpark of 8-8.5 hours out of a full charge when running in "battery saver" mode, which is a good hour or two longer than Windows' estimate in its low power mode.

Of course the M-series devices I've used destroy the ThinkPad in terms of battery life, regardless of the OS it's booted into though.
Oh good, all of our MySQL timestamps are INT(10) unsigned.... Good until 2106, and at least i'll be dead by that time.
I have an ask for corpspeak to be mandated by HN rules.
Fantastic! But it's missing the most important thing: USB-C
> - This Congress is ill-equipped to understand tech, much less hold it accountable. As long as the people are happy, Congress is happy.

There's an article I was introduced to yesterday: Do We Need a New Digital Regulatory Agency in the U.S.?

It argues that it it is the agencies and the experts within the agencies that need to become more technologically literate to be able to advise creation and implement the laws that have tech impacts.

Congress isn't supposed to be experts on subjects, they're supposed to be the representatives of their people with occasional domain knowledge in certain areas of importance to their constituents. We can't (and shouldn't) expect every member of congress to be an IT expert.

https://techpolicy.press/do-we-need-a-new-digital-regulatory... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32555365 )
Windows 10, Chrome 104.0.5112.82
Non-remote simply means asshole bosses.
- r/Parenting is very high quality, for all you parents out there
- a bunch of subreddits related to cycling, r/bicycling, r/cycling, r/xbiking, r/MTB, r/bikecommuting, r/bikepacking, r/bicycletouring
- Finance stuff: r/PersonalFinanceCanada, r/leanfire, r/financialindependence
- Photo: r/photography, r/photographs, r/darktable, r/FOSSPhotography, r/CineShots (cool one!)
- Electronics: r/AskElectronics, r/PrintedCircuitBoard, r/Embedded
- "Traditional" engineering (I'm a mech engineer): r/AskEngineers, r/Engineering, r/MechanicalEngineering, r/fea
- r/EatcheapAndHealthy
- r/functionalprint (inspiration for 3d printing stuff I do at work)
- r/HomeImprovement and r/homeowners (newish homeowner, learning a lot)
- r/knots
- No programming or "tech" stuff (except r/nim), I get my fix from HN
How do people holding such reasoning find their way here ? What's the incentive to stay ?
It was the HN traffic.
Usually it's very smooth.
The Arab Spring should have been looked at as a warning sign, but everyone in America was still in full-on neoconservative "we will be welcomed as liberators" mode. No private company should have the power to overthrow governments.
Unfortunately that doesn't work with some custom auth systems.
Counterpoint: pre-Covid I had an in-office job, and I would specifically request a WFH day if I had an especially meaty problem to write. The office was full of distractions, whereas at home I could focus in on writing code without background noise. Several of my coworkers followed the same pattern.
Who puts gray finish on a real wood floor? That sounds crazy.

I assume any non wood color floor that has wood-like markings is vinyl.
If the work is not obvious, it's almost certainly not important.

If you can't communicate, changing where people are located won't help.

Please don't lock me into a room to stare at you while you slowly gather your thoughts. My time is important. Gather your thoughts and then present them. Don't make me babysit you.
Everyone has a different trending timeline on Twitter which is now more based on who they follow. The trending timeline is "baked" and dictated also by moderators and paid promotion often... It's why topics like "K-POP" trend so much, even for people that don't even listen to it at all.

If you follow tech personalities, there's a higher chance you'll see the news.

On my music account on Twitter, I don't follow tech personalities and tech news outlets, but I do follow CNN Breaking News, and nothing about this major story has popped up all day long.

This is how the Twitter trending timeline is artificially baked... This story is a very big deal for everyone on Twitter, yet only a fraction of its user base will see the story. Privacy is important to every user on the platform, you'd think Twitter leadership at least would be trying to get a grip on the story first within the platform in a very public manner.

It happens on every major social platform at key points too, highlighting the conflict in their ability to maintain proper social credibility as platforms that report on trends that news channels and other institutions regularly cite.
Have you ever sat on a jury? Seen how that particular sausage is made?
Look, your preferences are totally valid.

What I’m referring to is this. I’ve worked at a few places that maintain an in-person office option for employees like you to support hybrid offices. These offices are frequently libraries though. Nobody is there. So the following happens.

If it’s a disciplined, remote-first place, this is accepted and ok. The subset of companies that can support this is small IMO.

For most others, they look at the empty office, hear preferences like yours that want in-personal back via appeals for community, at the extensive and the loud culture of OpEds in the Wall Street Journal/NYT by Peggy Noonan or Malcolm Gladwell about how remote work is critical for national and personal meaning, and then the return to office discussions start b/c employees support it as do thought leaders, the media, and politicians, and the nearly-empty office is expensive.

To be sure, there might be work places that stay totally in-person and you’re free to work there.

But the other issue is a lot of people don’t want work friends as their friends. This is loose scientific evidence, but Office Space is a very popular movie in the US and the Office in UK/US for this reason, for example.

So calls for return to office means, imo, a lot of people who would also love to be remote but can’t bc they’re not software engineers or wherever get swept back in. So your personal needs harm that greater good as I see it.
Scenario 5:

The AI decides we are so cute, decides to keep us as pets
> For something to stand the test of time, it has to be lost.

I agree. Some of the people quoted in the article advocated writing on a monumental scale in order to preserve it, but I don't think that gives particularly good odds of preservation. To add to the examples you cite, the Georgia Guidestones were pretty much a modern experiment in preservation through monumentalism; they painted a monumental target on their backs right away, and ultimately ended up being destroyed this year.

The way to go is probably massive replication in a compact, durable medium.
Yeah, I expected such bs explanation. Naval Ravikant at nav.al also mentions in a related podcast that counting bits per second for human cognition is just bs.
But nevermind. You just do the following: you are an actual developer, go code while simultaneously counting every second and how many bits per second you handle, afterwards provide estimates of quality of this code. In this option there is no assuming that we can use the full input bandwidth.

I'd add the following to the 1) of the formulation: how many actual developers would just believe (unable to actually calculate by themselves) the above mentioned 11 mln bits per second AND what code quality/contribution to CS do they produce.
Does this also let you sync annotations? My gut feeling is no but you seem smarter than me.
This will just shake out into a market like anything else. Some companies will be remote, some companies will be in person, some people will be remote, some people will be in person, and for the more in-demand companies and employees they will get to decide what they prefer, the less in-demand companies and employees will need to just take what the market offers them.
No, it's a matter of someone making an ARM CPU that's worth using in a laptop/desktop. So far only Apple has, and they aren't sharing. The broader ARM market is still pretty weak & broadly uncompetitive with current x86 CPUs.

In the server side of things there's Neoverse, graviton, etc.. which might have "trickle-down" effects but since it's primarily focused on just having more cores rather than faster cores that seems unlikely. And that also hasn't "proven to be better than x86" either, Epyc is a beast and AMD doesn't seem to be slowing down or hitting any limits in scaling up.
One of the defining moments in my view of the industry was discovering, some 10 years ago, that Oracle’s client side library are still using 8-character function names internally.
No in this case there is an abuse of language which has led to the poisoning of the conversation somewhat.

There, the reason being the broad change in the correct definition of the word "vaccine". In former years this would be a preventative treatment that was probably 90%+ effective for multiple years for most people for almost all symptoms and almost all ability for infection to spread. The key being stopping the spread as this is why vaccines are adopted in the first place historically.

For some reason this particular treatment is given this grandiose title despite unfortunately not really working at reducing spread, and only demonstrably reduces severe symptoms for those who are clinically at risk. It's a preventative treatment which works very well and should be applauded but the problem is people are now calling it what it's not which causes problems.