skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no one wants to close tabs because they might not find that one critical page again

And most of the things in the tabs don't meet the threshold for bookmarking them, because the overhead of maintaining bookmarks makes one want to only bookmark things that are used often.
>> This is the tone-deafness that ruins all efforts to actually convince people to take climate change seriously. It's extremely harmful.

> They're not asking for agents in jackboots to start seizing gas furnaces tomorrow. They're playing a necessary role in getting a slow-moving regulator to start moving forward on a plan that will take a decade to gradually roll out and that will incentivize further competition and innovation in alternative solutions over the course of five years or a decade or whatever.

That's an unhelpful strawman, and it seems like the regulation would be a lot more aggressive than you describe, according to the article:

> The petition’s reading would force the EPA to set NOx standards that would effectively ban the use of natural gas in all new construction within a year after the regulation is implemented.

IMHO, current-day politics mean that any regulation like this will likely be rammed through quickly when one party has control, because a slow rollout will invite repeal by the other party.

> a plan that will ... incentivize further competition and innovation in alternative solutions over the course of five years or a decade or whatever.

Don't be fooled. If the past is any guide, the "innovation in alternative solutions" will still likely still be worse than what we have now (e.g. efficiency guidelines mean my dishwasher now either leaves my dishes either wet or dry-ish and soapy-tasting, because the dryer was crippled, forcing the use of a "rinse agent."
To me it comes down to control. They want to own you for the 8 hours a day (and often more if you let them).

There are upsides and downsides to working in a office, something I'll readily admit as a WFH proponent. For me the upsides of being in a office are outweighed (greatly) by the upsides of WFH such that I can work around the few downsides of WFH and still be a "net positive". This calculus is different for every individual person but businesses want to paint with a broad brush, ignore that, and just have 1 policy for everyone. As other have mentioned I've sure there is plenty of middle-managers that are particularly interested in getting back to the office as some of their jobs have probably been (rightfully) called into question.

There are a TON of companies hiring remote/WFH so at this point it's almost completely up to your preference what you choose to pursue. For myself I only intend on taking WFH jobs going forward, I've seen the light and have interest in going back.

> Or is there indeed legitimate net benefit to working in offices?

Yes there absolutely are benefits to working in an office, there are also benefits to WFH. In-person meetings are the best medium we have available to us but video calls are good enough for me (and the team I work on) and the technology is only going to continue to improve as more people WFH. On the flip side nothing can beat the comfort of my house. I have my office furniture, my monitor setup, my kitchen for meals/snacks, my bed/couch for breaks, and my dog. Not to mention how easy it is to throw in a load of laundry, take the dog on a walk, start dinner prep, have tradespeople come do work, etc. I won't pretend there are no advantages to the office but like I said before, the WFH advantages are far greater for me.
Which part of this equation is contributing to hospitals charging 50 dollars for a bag of IV fluid? I'd cut that part out. Whatever it is.
In the end are we not all a product of nature including the scientists?
That's why your dog watches you while pooping. They're vulnerable, you're able-bodied and will spot danger first, so they take danger cues off you.
Looks like some code regarding Bitwarden Enterprise
Win + Shift + arrow works better with modals because it doesn't try and resize/pin the window but just blips it to the next screen over preserving size and location. I use it a lot when I move from my laptop to a multi-mon setup to sort windows to different screens quickly.
Good grief, is anyone right of center considered "fascist" now?
Commercialization of large machine learning models might push the RAM game for the end user up in the not-too-far future. For unified memory machines like the current Apple chips that is, and otherwise the memory on consumer GPUs for the enthusiasts.

Last week, several posts made it to the HN front page of stable diffusion forks that reduce the memory usage, to make it possible to generate 512x512 images with < 10 GB GPU memory, but with a tradeoff in computing speed. Trying to go beyond HD resolution (far from phone photo resolution) will still blow out your top-of-the-line Nvidia consumer GPU.

When approaches like these will be hitting your favorite image editing tool, you'll want to get that 256 GB RAM iPad for your mom. Otherwise, you'll have to deal with her having to wait minutes to give your family cat a festive hat in last year's Christmas picture.
That's what I was thinking of, also--and I don't see it in my Corolla. It's always at least as good as the manual I drove before. It's got two downshifts rather than a paddle shifter, but since I discovered the cruise control does a better job than downshifting I haven't used them at all. The only case the cruise control doesn't handle is that for some reason it drops out at 28mph--I'm guessing it's a limit in the adaptive tracking. Thus you can't use cruise control to hold it to 25 mph going downhill.
Of course, the other plausible explanation is that (at least at the time) Weird Al didn't know the difference between RAM and hard drive space (especially likely, because he's talking about defragging a hard drive). In fact, I'd be surprised if that wasn't what he meant. I will, however, leave room for him knowing the difference, but intentionally being absurd (it is Weird Al, after all).

That problem (referring to things that are not conventional fast, volatile random access memory as RAM) seems to have only gotten worse in the last twenty years - exacerbated, I believe by the increased use of flash technology (SSDs, etc - which have, admittedly blurred the lines some).

It also doesn't help that smart phone and tablet manufacturers/advertisers have long insisted on referring to the device's long-term storage (also flash tech) as "memory". I doubt that will ever stop bugging me, but I've learned to live with it, albeit curmudgeonly.

Whippersnappers! :-D
Right, but as it mentions there, "Continuous data is from 5-Aug-2008 , Individual contracts start with VXF09 (March 2009)". To calculate the Vix Futures curve, our models need the individual contract intraday breakdown not just the intraday data for the front-month contract. I'm sure this data exists somewhere but I haven't found anyone willing to sell it to me. If you do, please let me know!

I can assure you that there's no conspiracy to start the models right at the start of the last bull market, and I'd be elated to get my hands on the data for this as well as a couple other indicators that don't stretch back as far. Though there is no guarantee, market volatility, bear markets and general downturns are actually the conditions that enable the models to outperform. During buy signals which can be quite lengthy in periods of low volatility during bull markets, the returns are exactly equivalent to buy & hold.
Geohotz got StableDiffusion working in tinygrad (
>MiB

That 'i' is silly. As is the one in "GiB."
An awful lot of people work in a corporate desktop environment where the machines are bolted down. They don't go home with you. You don't have admin privileges, you can't install software, and there's probably corporate spyware installed.

Customer service. Tech support. Inbound sales. Outbound sales.

The company doesn't trust you. If you take a machine home, you're probably going to lose it or break it or sell it, so that's a hard no.
Also, if everyone would be an entrepreneur, no-one would work together on the same thing, right? So working on _stuff that matters_ does not have to imply being an entrepreneur. It is perfectly fine to leave that to the people who are talented with or have a strong passion for entrepreneurship.
idk about Meta specifically, but each election cycle is worth a couple billion $ in online ad revenue alone.

https://www.opensecrets.org/online-ads
I somewhat jokingly built out my gaming PC with 64 GBs of RAM with Chrome as my justification... unfortunately well before it reaches even 16 GBs of RAM usage it becomes fairly unstable before eventually reporting that it's out of memory despite less than 50% memory utilization.
Millions of .xlsx files
I wonder how much of this is associated to technology overuse and information overload.

I can only think of WebMD but on steroids with thousands of videos and blogs of anecdotal evidence convincing people they have illnesses they would not previously have considered. Add on the addition of likes and engagement on those things to then convince yourself further.

It is rather upsetting to think that this can be the outcome of our mental health at an all time low or our medical systems not being able to actually practice medicine anymore.

The amount of co-rumination and associating internal symptoms with named conditions is the most interesting thing to think about. Are we making ourselves sick doing this? Or does overly talking/sharing these symptoms and conditions actually improve them?
If you think about it, we’re a bunch of suckers here in the US. We spend money and lose years of income to obtain education for the privilege of being someone’s employee.
Not enough. Those phones are so expensive it should be 10 years for security and 8 for OS updates.

Especially considering they remove core features like a headphone mic jack or embed batteries.
I really dislike these stories because virtually all these companies lose the script (no second act). It seems that companies that start with a larger vision have multiple acts. Microsoft with software going from programming tools to OS to office to cloud. Apple with computing going from computers to iPods, phones, and tablets. Google with organizing the worlds information and making it accessible. Perhaps it is survival bias or perhaps I am mistaken.
There are still a lot of stars, with little reason to suspect any one has a life capable planet. While you can get a lot of information from spectral observation, most of the universe isn't close enough to observe it. The earth is young enough that even if we assume infinite magnification most of the universe cannot observe it as no light from earth has reached them yet.
Please don't do this to me, I don't know if I have it in me to go on ANOTHER big scrape & scan.
You seem to have misunderstood the feature. Google doesn’t decide anything - the person sharing the text with you, or the search result referencing that text, is what uses the feature to guide you to the right location.

Sometimes I wonder if people enjoy being blindly knee jerk reactionary.
Realtime video production is definitely an outlier. You probably want a workstation-class system anyway, with a full TB of RAM so you know that's never an issue.
Recent and related:

California passes law requiring companies to post salary ranges on job listings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32695199 - Sept 2022 (108 comments)

Also, the law isn't law yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32696131
I was responding directly to this line:

> They often doubt the measured productivity improvements of WFH, and either believe that the metrics are inflated or that they are temporary, and as in-person connections fade then so will productivity.

Specifically "believe that the metrics are inflated or that they are temporary".

Though it wouldn't be the first time I saw first hand a company reject the will of the employees or what the data is telling them because it doesn't match their "gut" (speaking of pre-pandemic things at a company I used to work at).
Imagine for a moment we all stop what we're doing, crack our knuckles, and then REALLY clean our planet up. Clear the oceans of plastics, the sky of co2, the lands of garbage, and our hearts of consumption.

And then humanity gets wiped out by a rogue meteor. A rogue blackhole. A really bad solar flare. An object comes to our solar system and knocks us off our orbit. Our home is wiped clean in nuclear fire. Take your pick.

We have all our eggs in earths basket. I love earth, lets get the hell out of here though.
IDK, anecdotally at least I broke the 100G RAM barrier earlier this year by upgrading to a Ryzen 5900X with 4 x 32G sticks. RAM has largely become quite affordable with a 32G stick of DDR4 going for around ~$100 (and you can occasionally see discounts down to ~$80).

It has been great being able to spin up VMs as needed, or keep hundreds of tabs open on Chrome and not have to worry about things getting bogged down. The only annoyance is that this also results in gigantic memory dumps if the system crashes...

(FWIW, I'm usually hovering around 20G just with browser tabs alone and no VMs running. Admittedly, I do use tabs as a way to organize work so having hundreds is common.)
Here, at least, most of us are in the tech industry, so ire directed at tech companies is us collectively trying to get our house in order first.
Global Tech Trends
Lost my virginity to that song.
Isn't this just the same as processors? We used to primarily care about GHz and GBs, but there were diminishing returns for continuing to grow those. As a result, processors started shifting to multiple cores, but still usually hovering in the same GHz range. Meanwhile RAM total size might be the same in your current machine as it was a decade ago, but bandwidth and clock rates have drastically increased since Weird Al wrote that song. A similar thing happens with digital cameras and megapixels.

It wasn't that things stopped improving, it is that the old measure of improvement has been de-emphasized in favor of other factors that have proved to be more important for normal use.
Wolfram also has Functions:

https://functions.wolfram.com
The regular fall to orc arrows. Their durability is highly variable in the books.
Does it though? I made another comment but for home use I can't even max out 64 GBs.

The only thing I can think of that'd ever max out my RAM is some sort of training task (even though I'd expect to run out of VRAM first). But those are the kinds of tasks that do best on distributed systems since you don't really need to care about them, just spin it up, run your task, and tear it back down
GiveCampus (YC S15) hiring senior engineers who care about affordable education
In nature, it makes no sense for a virus to be both highly transmissible and highly deadly. Any such virus would cease to exist after having run amok in such a way in its hosts. Therefore, any extremely deadly virus should be looked at with similarly extreme criticism, especially if / when it adapts and becomes a better behaving parasite.
Huh? You have misunderstood my point completely.

I meant easy to use languages are better than hard to use but “technically better” languages. Brainfuck would be the last language to use for either scenario though.
What a strange rebuttal -- maybe just argue what you disagree with and leave the judgement out?
> I've never seen a wall framed with 2x6s because it had plumbing in it. It's all 2x4 regardless, here—you almost never see a 2x6 wall. Is that a California thing?

My California home is all 2x4s everywhere and there's plenty of plumbing in most walls.
Anyone knows if this dump contains drug insurance coverage?
Sorry for my ignorance, but what kind of lisp has piping? Or what is the vertical line operator called?

(torus :z 60 30
| twist :y 0.07
| rotate-pi :y t :z 0.05
...
I only see 3 vehicles in a row, it doesn't look too bad.
Caiso: Northern CA Region Transmission Emergency Notice
It is possible to convert the TexInfo file to a PDF
I'm author of Hacking Healthcare for O'Reilly, 20 year health system executive, blah, blah.

It's very easy for people to forget the scale of the US "health system", we are talking 1/5, maybe more, of the entire US economy. If US healthcare spending were a country, it would have the third largest GDP in the world. Accidents of history and the massive federal beauracracy created the crazy monster of ICD/CPT codes that results in the very clumsy way of pricing healthcare services that results in this massive matrix of data.

As pointed out elsewhere there is a tremendous amount of cost distribution that goes into the code matrix and this plays a large role in negotiations with health insurers as well. Ground is given in one set of procedures and lost in others.

This is a big step in shining light into areas that need it to improve the system overall.
Google's lack of search quality affects hardware specs. Better at answering general questions and less good at finding a specific thing, especially from a few months ago.
pharo Search All by Date for Past Year — 271 results (0.005 seconds)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

:-)

> I know there are a lot of issues with image based languages…

Learn how to do version control with Pharo.
whoops, didnt see this. No real test done. My scale (that i haven't jumped on in forever) says like 35% at the last "scan".
Which language do you use for web stuff?
What color should we paint the bike shed?
Absolute rubbish cherry-picking of facts and figures. Arguing repeatedly that 'there is no evidence for...' in respect to criminal justice reform and increased crime rates in part of the article, but then makes loosey goosey conjectures about things like trauma from COVID-19 and lack of sidewalks; uses murder stats liberally but doesn't mention the 50 percent increase in violent crimes; points to gun stats but declines to point out that progressive DA's use diversion programs for gun possession, which is essentially like decriminalization of guns.

The list goes on. Not mentioned above is the indisputable fact in crime statistics that a very small percentage of the population commits a disproportionately large amount of the crime, especially violent crimes. If you put 2 and 2 together, and remind yourself that the criminal reforms removed in NYS the dangerousness consideration for bail, it's pretty obvious that repeat criminals are allowed to go on sprees. It's bearing out every day in headlines, and the breakdown of trust in the society is because quite simply: you're rubbing shoulders with violent and unhinged people on a daily basis in NYC.

I'll take my down votes with glee here. That's the Zeitgeist : denial by the current crop of people in power. And the pendulum will swing back in a few years, as it does.
Not even the first time that happened.

Stewart Butterfield previously tried to make a game that eventually became flickr.
Unless you can literally walk across the street to your job from your front door, you are going to blow at least 1/2 hour a day commuting, and maybe more.

Also, and nobody seems willing to say this out loud, you (and your boss and your CEO) may be done with COVID, but COVID is not done with you.
Same with the chromatic aberration
No I did not misunderstand the feature, it was Google who pushed it on me. In Google, in its search engine. And I was not able to disable it. Sorry that I don't like to be told what I want to see.
Plaid was originally a budgeting app. After realizing how terrible banking APIs are, they pivoted to building a developer-friendly banking API. Now their valuation is 10B+.
To add to this: having the backups copy somewhere that has write-only permissions can be a life-saver in a crypto-ransom malware situation. Hackers are smart enough to delete or encrypt backups, and this is made far easier for them when admins have full read/write permissions to the backup location.
Double-negative confusion?
Is the word 'like' required?

Like maybe they aren't seriously insisting they can believe that "small" tree does refer to a 40+ft tree.
Slowing Down to Speed Up – Circuit Breakers for Slack’s CI/CD
How Slack increased developer productivity and prevented cascading internal failures by implementing orchestration-level circuit breakers.

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What happens when your distributed service has challenges with stampeding herds of internal requests? How do you prevent cascading failures between internal services? How might you re-architect your workflows when naive horizontal or vertical scaling reaches their respective limits?

These were the challenges facing Slack engineers during their day-to-day development workflows in 2020. Multiple internal services that engineers used were stretched to their limits, leading to cascading failures between services. Cascading failures are positive feedback loops where one part of the system fails at scale, leading to a queue in an adjacent system that results in another system failing due to scale. For several years, internal tooling and services struggled to keep up with 10% month-over-month growth in CI/CD requests from a combination of growth in 1) internal headcount and 2) complexity of services and testing. Development across Slack slowed due to these failures, leaving internal tooling and infrastructure engineers scrambling to restore service. Engineers managed to restore service in the short-term by…

- Scaling appliances like Github Enterprise to the largest hardware available at the time in AWS (limiting future vertical scaling).
- Scaling one service with more nodes to handle a new peak load (only to discover that this led to failures in another service in the infrastructure).

Of course, these solutions would only work until we reached a new peak load in internal services. We needed a new way to think about this problem.

This article describes how Slack engineers increased developer productivity by implementing orchestration-level circuit breakers throughout internal tooling at Slack. Engineers across Developer Productivity teams at Slack applied friction to defer or shed requests in Checkpoint, a Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) orchestration service.
Let's consider the other options:

Climbing a very good rope. I think this option is the most medieval.

Using a huge launcher brings to mind trebuchets.

An electric plane can give you a higher platform but I'm skeptical of that getting fast enough to be the bulk of a launch.

Antigravity magic? I guess that's not medieval, but I'd argue that magic is in some ways quasi-medieval.

Rockets are likely the least medieval option.
> There is also the uncomfortable fact that you may not know. A lot of abusers/predators act like good people outside of their abuse victims

Please be careful about spreading this particular fact. It's unfortunately true, but not everybody has what it takes to handle it responsibly.

It makes people suspicious and paranoid, which leaves them susceptible to manipulation by the actual threats among us.
Why put this under pkg, why this weird structure?

The Readme doesn't say what it is, reading it on the phone.
Agreed! Don't see anything.
I'd call that more of a design review than a cancelation. Obama tried to cancel the Constellation program, but because it provides a lot of jobs it was un-canceled and resurrected as the Artemis program. At that opportunity some changes were made: the Orion capsule got carried over, but the Ares V was downscaled to the SLS, but uses the same basic design; the lunar gateway was added and the landers were turned into a contract more like Commercial Resupply. But at it's core it's still the same "let's get to the moon on spare shuttle parts" concept, with many contracts simply carried over.
Are you suggesting trees migrate?