skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sort of agree. We (small startup) went fully remote with COVID and remain so. Work communication is fine, but socializing doesn't happen the way it did at the office. It works okay because most of us had already been working together at the office, but it's harder for new hires, and especially for young junior-level engineers without much experience (i.e., fresh out of college). Hasn't worked well for interns either. But for older, experienced, workers who are able to communicate effectively online and would much rather not be bothered to go into an office, it works well.

We haven't tried hybrid but I don't really see the benefits of it. One big advantage of remote is being able to hire people in other locations. The only way I could see hybrid being useful would be to provide a work space for people who want to work away from home (i.e., for variety or because their house isn't conducive to it), and let those who prefer to work from home (i.e., parents with young kids who need a more flex schedule) do so without set office day requirements (or very few).
> a two-wheeled cargo bikes are much easier to cycle than three-wheeled cargo bikes.

See video "The Car-Replacement Bicycle (the bakfiets)"

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQhzEnWCgHA

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_bike#Long_John_bicycle
> Meanwhile we have had no problem sourcing candidates since we can pull from anywhere in the world, we have some incredible people all over the world that we would not have gotten otherwise.

How do you handle taxes ?

For example in Europe a German company can't hire a French dev if the german company doesn't have a legal entity in France, it quickly gets out of control both in term of paperwork and cost. The dev can't be a freelancer because a freelancer with a full time, fixed hours, single customer is illegal in many places

Also let's say you have an American company with 200 german employees but no office on german soil, does that mean they don't pay any local tax because technically they don't operate their business in the country ?

I feel like a lot of loopholes which were seldom used will promptly be closed once they become widely used
Gone entirely or just no longer served all day?

In America, Covid killed the "all day breakfast," which is a shame. Sausage and egg muffin is better than all their lunch/dinner food.
Black holes are the most amazing, most extraordinary objects in the universe. Space and time so twisted it is stretched infinitely thin. There is nothing as extreme as this.
The reference was to new gear and new media both.

New gear usually needs time to marinate before it gets some hacking freedom.

New media is best ignored -- if you are always waiting with baited breath for 'the next new thing (TM)' they already have you and you will pay happily.

I personally ignore all new content and the odd time I want to see what's new there is more than enough waiting for me to download...

I'm not consuming every new song or film as they are released or even within a year of release because that is a waste of your attention and it's controlling you like a dog begging for treats.

The intention of the comment was -- if you just can't wait.. then pay your master. Seems you made your choice.
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"All multifarious means which human ingenuity can devise, and which are resorted to by one individual to get an advantage over another by false suggestions or suppression of the truth. It includes all surprises, tricks, cunning or dissembling, and any unfair way which another is cheated."
Except when there is no tube or bus to hop on.
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I read most of the print version of this (which is very nice and I can recommend). One thing that really sticks out about this is just how much work in such a project ends up going nowhere — you record something, you try using it weeks later, you realize it's useless, you do it again differently/better, lather, rinse, repeat. I'd somehow forgotten about this and started feeling kind of bad whenever I was working on something creative-ish (using it very broadly here) and didn't know exactly where each step would lead me. This sort of firsthand account of large projects goes a great way in reminding you that that's just part of the process.
this is probably the beginning of sharply declining developer salaries

That might well be true for FAANG-sized companies. Those businesses will pay start to pay less if they start embracing remote working (although right now they seem to be pushing for people to return to the office). It is not true for the rest of the IT world though. When developers can get remote jobs they're free to work for the highest paying company rather than whatever local IT industry there is. That pushes wages up if you're in Bumsville Idaho. Not to six-figures-for-a-junior levels, sure, but far more than you could earn before.

Overall I strongly suspect remote work will lead to developers earning more over the whole industry even if peak Bay Area wages drop a lot. Sucks if you work in the Bay I guess, and it sucks even more if you're a Bay Area landlord, but for the rest of us it's going to be awesome.
That's because connecting to the internet was a rare, deliberate action for most people and not the default state of every electronic device.
> must have very sensitive information in their Twitter DM inboxes.

I doubt that, and if they really do, they should be either trained or exposed pronto. Twitter is an entertainment platform.
Classical music metadata is SUPER broken.
It looks like you're reading several things into GP's comment that he did not write. At least I read it completely differently. I.e. that perhaps Mudge's alleged failure was "not playing ball" regardless of what the particular game might have been in that corporate environment, at that particular time, under/beside those particular execs.
There are so many forces pulling in so many directions. The world is being re-shuffled. Ultimately, I don't think it will favor labor at US/FAANG talent prices.

- Young workers typically want to socialize with other young workers

- Older workers prefer to be alone, with family, etc. Have funds for larger homes and at-home amenities

- Nearly everyone hates commutes

- Cities are expensive and small, but exciting. Rural is large, open, inexpensive, but can be socially boring

- Office REITs want a return to the office because that's how they make their income

- Cities want a return to the office to support their tax base and economies

- Offices and cities are a huge tax on companies

- Some managers like to manage in person

- Extroverted roles may tend to prefer in person

- Physical work (hardware), whiteboarding, etc. are harder to do remotely. (Or impossible. You can't passage cell cultures remotely.)

- Much of the time spent in the office is wasted / distracting

- Remote work allows greater flexibility of running errands, doing chores, multi-tasking, childcare, ...

- Workers will tend to choose remote work over onsite work if the pay is the same

- It's expensive to live and work in California, not so much in middle America

- The pool of talent stretches far beyond America. Fungible remote workers means you can pay $50k for someone in another country to do the job of a $300k+ FAANG worker.

From a purely economic perspective, it seems like remote work will win out. But that entails drastic and cascading changes to everything. Labor will move beyond expensive American borders and become much cheaper for companies to hire and replace.
Yes, especially how in the announcements where he was no longer with the company, they said they couldn't elaborate due to "employment and privacy concerns". But now that he makes an allegation against them, they don't need to worry about privacy?
Kicad is a fantastic tool. I've used it for several projects ranging from microwave RF to ESP32 embedded. I usually use PCBWay (since before they had ads everywhere) but have also used JLCPCB with no complaints. Although in my experience, PCBWay has a slight capability advantage.
I don't think MSFT/Dell/Google could have done anything. Perf difference is because of AMD/Intel
> 10GB is pretty much nothing nowadays, and once one has downloaded it then one only has to download the updates, not the whole thing from scratch. And local search is so much faster than remote search that it is incredible. Using notmuch for email is such an improvement over the Gmail web UI; it really has to be seen to be believed.

10GB is more space than a very significant fraction of people have available on their devices (more even than some new devices have free). Or want reserved for stuff 99.9999% of which they will absolutely never access. 10GB is also considerably more traffic than many can spare without incurring multiple dollars of cost. 10GB may also take most of a day to download for a great many people. People might also just want to access their stuff on a new device, such as someone else’s computer.

Local search certainly can be faster, but it’s often not. It’ll normally be using different software from what the server uses, too, since the server software is likely to be factored as a server with no direct library equivalent, and my experience is it generally produces inferior results. I know, none of this is inherent, merely typical. But back to performance: you might be surprised at just how slow storage is on cheap phones. Only a few megabytes per second is realistic, and with not enough memory to keep it in there either.

When talking of all this performance stuff, I feel like pointing out that I live in Australia and am used to the internet being slow purely because of latency to US-hosted sites. This definitely tips the balance a bit more in favour of local for me.

By all means, support downloading everything and being able to work offline and doing local search where possible. Please do, because it is better where feasible and is likely to lead to the software being better in other regards too. But for most people most of the time, requiring this is a bad trade-off.

> One still needs encryption from one’s server to another’s. To put that another way: from one’s end to another’s. Or … end-to-end encryption.

NO! This is NOT what is meant by end-to-end encryption. This is transport encryption. And note that E2EE doesn’t obviate transport encryption, because it still protects the metadata.
I don't think so. Communism has an idea of what should happen next, democracy does not. Democracy is open to change, for whatever people choose, even quitting democracy.

Democracy is always changing, always on move and dangerous. That's why I like democracy. Functioning democracy can even end democracy and choose tyranny.
Honestly people wanting to make a hobby project from scratch and then brag about it in a blog post to make themselves look like a more savy programmer/techie (hey, not blaming people, when it is done well it is way better than a resume with bullet points) is primarily the reason they dont use org mode. It is like wondering why people go through massive amounts of efforts to bake stuff from scratch when there is a super market and bakery down the street, except it is also like I said a resume.

If you want a plain text organizational, compositional and scheduling tool that you can use for the rest of your life and know that 30 years down the line it will be actively supported, developed and you will be able to tweak anything you want.... emacs/org mode is by far and away the best choice. It isn't even remotely close, we are talking about the difference between a planet and a tiny asteroid when you compare org mode to other plain textish organizational, compositional and scheduling tools.

For as long as humanity doesn't collapse and probably even after it does org mode and emacs will be used (there is going to be some nerd somewhere using org mode and ledger cli to meticulously track how many smoked rats and cockroach kebobs they have left to eat before they have to leave their bunker), there is just such an intense critical mass of utility under an open source license.

About the only bad thing with org mode at this point is it has such a vast nexus of interconnected capability it is difficult to even describe what exactly it is anymore lol. Like how would you even adequately describe org mode in a single sentence? It would have to be a Thomas Pynchon style sentence lol.
The k-server problem
Does Musk know Mudge?
ah ah ah so they trust twitter ? the situation is improving at minus light speed...
Is this not a generic phenomenon though with no specific relation to Kpop? I was involved in campus recruiting a decade ago and remember distinctly all of the deep discussions the students were having about Kony2012 and what they should do about it during the recruiting dinners. How and why these political flash mobs form online doesn't seem well understood and will no doubt spawn dozens to hundreds of papers over the next few decades examining it.
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The scam part here is that listen traffic is bot-generated? Irrespective of that, on the payout side, why do you need stolen identities? It is Spotify paying out legitimately, isn't it?
I was playing with GPT-3 last night and discovered it can do Base64 encoding. I asked for `encode the string "<string>" using Base64` and sure enough, I got the correct Base64 in the result.

I then tried asking for a bcrypt hash, but that didn't work. It generated the $2a$10$ prefix, but everything after that was wrong, as it thought the hash ended in "/9/9/9/9/9/9/9/9".

What got really interesting was prompting it with `AWS_ACCESS_KEY = "`. I got several sets of credentials, though none of them worked. It's possible that the strings generated never were valid credentials, though the format was correct.
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Ah, the proper clothing with rain and snow flakes into your face, and then hoping to the bathroom closet as changing room replacement.
From my understanding, there are three things to keep in mind:

1. Whenever you do an x86 vs ARM comparison, there's a number of variables that need to be considered, the node size of the CPU, the power envelope, number of cores, cooling, etc... that make it very difficult to do 1 to 1 comparisons.

2. The main issue x86 wise is that every x86 CPU needs support instructions going back to the 1980s for backwards compatibility, which "wastes" a lot of silicon on functions which are rarely used but need to be in there.

3. Apple has the ability to have their products focus on a few specific devices and just one operating system. This helps design CPUs that they know 100% what they need to handle. You couldn't say that a Qualcomm Snapdragon, just because it's ARM, is better than x86.

All that being said, I'm very much someone who prefers x86 hardware and Windows, but the M1/M2 and Rosetta are very impressive pieces of hardware/software that hopefully kick Microsoft/Linux/Intel/AMD to innovate.
I'm happy for you. Let's talk right now if you're hiring.
I believe the EU is on that one, let's see if and what comes out of that.
> Just because something is technologically feasible doesn't mean that it is the best solution.

Agreed. But either way, it's a means. Not an ends. Then your hammer is tech then everything is a nail. We all understand at this point how foolish that is. Well, some of us do.
Your code is running on their hardware. But I get your point...
I'm not totally sure what the question is but currently these are the inputs:

delimited, excel, json, feather, parquet, sqlite, postgresql, mysql, googleSheets

Outputs are the same (excluding databases currently). This is probably the most time consuming piece of the project if I was to expand this set dramatically given the quantity of possible connections, although here is where open source could help.

It's hard to know how technical or not technical to take this. e.g. could there be a python input e.g. arbitrary python script to pull in data? That would allow for basically any input or output. But for non technical users thats a harder sell... open to ideas.
Calibre Web, running on a Raspberry Pi. It comes with login, you can use Github to login too. Expose it via your router (put Nginx+LE in front) or cloudflared.
> If you live close to work commuting isn't so bad

This, I work from home when the weather is bad, otherwise it's a 10 minute bike ride, which is actually quite enjoyable when the weather is good and a nice way to compartmentalise the day (+ using my legs isn't a bad thing either)
Communications and collaboration is very important. However, "socializing" through Slack is simply just not the same as going out to lunch with a coworker, for example. Permanent remote work has a very detached feel to it, at least for me.
Difficult to fault students for not wanting to be able to pay off the massive debt they're forced to buy into just to get entry level career jobs.

College may have been a place of higher learning at some time before the last thirty years but I doubt it.

Javascript may be the only one of those four worth teaching as it has different patterns and different ways of solving the same problem.
1. You are right - I probably would not speak to someone in person like that. I apologize.

2. I have a raised a child with some one I love. We made a decision to limit the size of our family for the reasons I stated above. I do not begrudge others making a different decision. I dis-like it when they bemoan the fact that their decision has consequences they don't like.
Cavium has been proven competitive then killed. Something didn't add up there, but at least we have the Ampere processors left.
How many bycicle accidents, with deep injuries?
> No country other than US would ever think about it being a legitimate question.

That's because most other first world relatively wealthy countries have much more interventionist governments when it comes to things like product safety. The US approach is more to let companies try pretty much anything that isn't actually malicious and if it turns out to be a bad idea, but not bad enough that it isn't profitable enough to keep making after the lawsuits, maybe step in and regulate.

That necessarily means the US will have a lot more lawsuits, both reasonable and unreasonable.

BTW, that's also one of the big reasons that we don't have "loser pays" as the default in civil suits in the US, unlike much of the rest of the world. In the US we use civil suits by the aggrieved party to enforce a lot of civil rights laws. There's almost always some risk of losing even if you have a pretty strong case that you were, say, turned down for housing or a promotion because of your race, sex, religion, etc., and loser pays for such suits would discourage a lot of people who were in fact discriminated against from suing due to that risk.

Much of the rest of world relies primarily on government agencies to enforce such laws. They civil court cases are mostly just truly private disputes like breaches of contract or torts.

> We should start taking responsibility for our inability or recklessness when using potentially dangerous products.

> Unless the product was faulty in some way, which it doesn't seem it was, trying to extort millions from manufactures can't be seen as an act of progress.

It's interesting when you look at that from an economic efficiency point of view. Most of us use a ton of products that are potentially dangerous. We could make it so that it is entirely our responsibility to deal with the danger.

So for each product, we would need to evaluate the risk and figure out how to deal with it. In most cases the way to deal with it, if we decide not to ignore it, would be to buy insurance to cover the damages if the product harms us.

An efficient way to do that is to make the product manufacturers strictly liable for the harms involving their products, regardless of whether it is due to some flaw in the product or the occasional careless, reckless, or stupid user.

That funnels all the data about the injury rates and costs from those products to the manufacturers, which can combine that with their sales data, which puts them in the best position to figure out how much insurance is needed to cover the injuries. The cost of that insurance gets priced into the cost of the product.

Handling it closer to the consumer involves more duplicated effort as more parties need to make independent evaluations, and those parties have less data. Besides being inefficient that is probably more expensive because underinsured people can still get expensive injuries and run up emergency room bills that they can't pay--and then the public ends up paying instead.
>Totally agree. Lukas Eder has some nice presentations about it.

Thanks for the shout out! For the record, that's probably the referenced talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTPGW1PNy_Y
By theater, what type of theater are you meaning? Stage performances like plays? If you put on a crap play, the critics will lambast it for the sham it is, and then no more ticket sales.
> This is is actually a terrible trap

Agreed.

> You still rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

And there's the trap. Data is a liability, but until a company gets burned for losing it, they won't do anything about it. Well, being real, even if they do get burned it's just the "cost of doing business".
I haven't caught any complaining. I've read a bunch of snark and mild disbelief.

This is fairly vapid.
It seems to me that's pretty much the "current" location, since it's the "last used location to call google", which you just did when you did your search.
1994 was one of the best years in my life.
Sex drugs and Techno.
Love Parade, clubbing, being young.
If I could turn back time..
If I could find a way.
I'm infected, what a gross realization. I need to bleach my vocabulary.
Or more so that mechanical refrigeration (as opposed to river ice extraction and shipping) may be a small scale technology that could exist past supply chain collapse
We keep asking ourself "is this chemical safe".

But what we should be asking is "does use of this chemical have benefits to humans that outweigh the disadvantages to humans".

A weedkiller that harms people might still be a good thing if it has overwhelming benefits too, like for example it saves far more peoples lives through greater food production.

Regulators never seem to see this bigger picture - instead we allowed things that have small benefits and large known harm (eg. leaded fuels), and disallow things that could have huge benefits and tiny harm (gm crops).

Regulators need to be the ones seeing the bigger picture, because the people getting the benefits (eg. farmers) are rarely the ones taking the downsides (eg. cancer risk of those eating the produced food).
> It feels very unusual for a CEO to comment on the circumstances of an exec's departure like this.

It's unusual circumstances. Im sure if there wasn't a huge newspiece in CNN Parag/twitter would have said exactly nothing.
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Isn't that just IP Geolocation? That has been common place for at least a decade.