skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The experiment is interesting, but the interpretive claims made in this article extrapolate well beyond what the evidence actually shows. It reads like a mediocre university press release about the research, except it's the actual research article itself that is making uncritical, overgeneralized claims about what it showed.

My comments on the abstract:

> we show that videoconferencing inhibits the production of creative ideas.

No. At most you showed that people doing videoconferencing in 2022 have less creative ideas on average than people in a shared physical space in 2022. You didn't show that videoconferencing is the unconditional, eternal, inherent, invariant cause of this.

> we demonstrate that videoconferencing hampers idea generation because it focuses communicators on a screen, which prompts a narrower cognitive focus.

No. At most you showed that communicators using videoconferencing in 2022 focus more on a screen, which prompts a narrower cognitive focus. Why do the communicators do that? Did the videoconferencing force them to focus on the screen? You didn't demonstrate that, and it's probably not true.

Maybe we have bad social norms around how videoconferencing is used because we have not had sufficient time to develop and spread best practices. Maybe we feel obligated to sit very still and stare at each other's faces, when we could instead have a shared norm that it's OK to stop doing that and focus on our tasks while on the call. Maybe we should feel free to turn the camera off from time to time (Slack huddles default to video off, a gutsy and visionary choice). Maybe we should feel free to pace around the room, like some of us might do in a physical space. Maybe we need to set each other free to be humans when speaking to each other virtually, rather than reducing each other to motionless bodies that exist to present stationary faces on a screen.

We need to look at the interaction between the technology and our social norms before we jump to the conclusion that some aluminum and silicon forces us to behave in certain ways and that we are helpless to do otherwise.

If you had to guess, what kills human creativity? An inanimate object made of metal and glass that makes pictures and sounds if you ask it to... or social pressure -- which could be explicit and external or implicit and internalized -- to conform to behaviors that kill creativity?
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Anecdata is silly in this case.

"In my experience" I never needed a straw to begin with, I am fine just drinking from a glass as humans have done for centuries.

So in "my experience" a plastic straw makes zero sense.
Not at all. The options truly suck and makes passwords seem like a godsend. Which it is, until you are forced to use these crappy solutions that only aid in you getting locked out of your digital life and where you have no control of your logins.

I truly hope there is something better coming out of this because this is a nightmare.
Sorry but is this a f*ing satire article? Ex-google ex-apple guy calls up his VC friends to ask how to raise a $5M (!!!!) seed round?

For god's sake. It's something straight out of the Silicon Valley TV series.
Not if the fossil fuel sector has so much power over the US government that they can squelch renewable competition via control of funding for R&D and spending projects. Anyone who looks into actual DOE R&D budgets since Reagan will see this playing out in practice.

China notably has no domestic gas/oil to speak of, and coal has so many obvious drawbacks that they've decided to push money into renewable R&D as part of their long-term strategy.
I've found most experienced teleworkers like myself rarely use video conferencing for remote work. When I need to work on a creative idea it's much easier to grab the phone, put earbuds on, and sit in the garden to walk and think, or take a walk in the street, or get myself in whatever comfortable position. If there's anything to share it will most likely be a screen with code or text, which is functionally the same as sitting with someone side by side except with all the personal space you can't get otherwise.
My question has been answered, but somehow I cannot find a way to feel satisfied. Rather… oh god no, say it's not true, please say it's not true and yes I do realise it's true.
Did they pay like $10 or less on each $25 par value or something? Or did they buy at par at like a 10-12% or so rate and duh, the banks redeemed them for par?

Still sounds like gov took the downside risk while shielding themselves from the upside.
Yes, it's an absolute dick move. If it's that bad, accelerate his cliff and let him leave early.

Had a situation where I was let go 2 months before my cliff in an advising/part-time situation, and while I won't say anything negative about the company and most of my colleagues, I was honest in respect to the exec teams behavior. Zero of the 4 applicants who I relayed that to accepted their offers. Was my small equity stake worth (potentially, may have had other reasons) 4 hires?
Maybe you’re getting slower at the same rate as computers ;-)
Hmmm, perhaps "a program's output is part of its interface" wasn't such a good idea after all...

If programs communicated with each other using structured interfaces and not "plain text" (already a misnomer), this would be a non-issue.
> The IRS have a completely different point of view.

Oh, I fully agree and I would bet a majority of them know that as well, they just have figured out a way to use some weasel words to act like it's not a payment to the general public.
I'd be a little more generous and say "Buskers as a service". Stuff like:

> * a teenager building a house of cards, and when they get a certain sticker, they have to destroy the house of cards and start building it again. they are pretending to cry while doing this, and begging you not to give them that sticker

Is clearly performative and meant to entertain the audience.
The best example of why large organizations are like this was Engels writing on "the state":

“The state is, therefore, by no means a power forced on society from without; just as little is it ’the reality of the ethical idea’, ’the image and reality of reason’, as Hegel maintains. Rather, it is a product of society at a certain stage of development; it is the admission that this society has become entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself, that it has split into irreconcilable antagonisms which it is powerless to dispel. But in order that these antagonisms, these classes with conflicting economic interests, might not consume themselves and society in fruitless struggle, it became necessary to have a power, seemingly standing above society, that would alleviate the conflict and keep it within the bounds of ’order’; and this power, arisen out of society but placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more from it, is the state."

Replace state with "management". The answer for "reduced politics" and "real engineering" is smaller organizations. These are often early stage startups.

There are two types of startups:

- Those that will find product market fit and sell things

- Those that are pushing the vanguard of tech

Sometimes, a startup may do both, but it's rare. If you are financially stable and skilled, you can jump to a startup doing "tech advancement" but you won't have job stability. If you want reduced politics but are down to make your 5th a crud app, then a startup that is finding product market fit and selling things should give you less politics.
Maybe we have different definitions of snark then. When I read

> How about "Don't use Google Analytics and Google Fonts"?

> Like, at all?

It reads quite snarky to me and you could have conveyed your point differently.

I don't disagree with your points and I agree that the OP should ideally not use Google Analytics, but I do think there are better ways to express this.
Well, there are many collections of patterns, GoF doesn't claim to be exhaustive. Enterprise Integration Patterns is more high level, for example. But for everyone who hand waves away something like the Strategy pattern as trivial, I have to work with a dozen libraries which accept a massive dictionary of static options to configure their behaviour instead of allowing me to choose an arbitrary, dynamic policy at runtime. I don't think that's a conscious design decision on behalf of most API developers. I suspect it's because the industry largely received the original GoF book as a bunch of cut and pasteable code and later rejected it as symptomatic of Java-esque OO excess. We could instead have received it as a network of signposts telling us what's possible, when and why. Not earth-shattering stuff (neither is Christopher Alexander's original) but useful nonetheless.
The more I work in science, the more I go back to the period from slightly before the industrial revolution- the 1750s or so- ending at the beginning of WWII.

Each time I go back I understand just a little bit more about how we got to where we were in 1938. Or how we got to the point that freshman physics students can build a michelson morely interferometer in an afternoon on a benchtop when the original required heroic efforts including a pool of mercury.
> If her psychiatrist had an accurate description of her behavior and praised it (as the article asserts) he was off his rocker.

I find people put too much faith in psychs. I'm thankful for the help they have managed to provide people, but it's still the most abstract, nebulous, and least scientific field of medicine. I'm not trying to completely discredit the field by any means, but merely trying to be realistic about it.

From personal experience, it seems like one presents with arbitrary symptoms, and is then given a arbitrary label that cannot be successfully mapped to any underlying biological or physiological cause. Afterwards, one basically proceeds to brute-force n >= 1 medications until something works.

It gets more complicated when one researches the various medications and the underlying mechanisms of how they treat various conditions and their efficacy.

I have ADHD. Data suggests that stimulants are highly effective for ADHD. By why do stimulants work? Good question! To put things in very simple terms, it's hypothesized stimulants work due the effects on the dopaminergic system, but the honest truth is that no one actually knows why stimulants work for ADHD. A similar pattern can be applied to other mental conditions and their respective treatments too.
After today's CPI report lets take a look at the numbers [pdf]
What are the advantages of renaming something that is this globally known/famous?

I mean, there must be deeply strategic and tactical business reasons (/s) for such a name change considering the mindshare the current branding has?
You are 100% correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Larsen
> making some early design decisions in what data you collect, how you store it

This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. "How you store it" very well may include "on any cloud server owned by a US company," including AWS, Google, and Azure. That's a pretty big issue for a solo founder with no legal advice beyond GDPR wishcasting on HN.
> See the Cultural Revolution and Great Famine etc for examples of what it can do. Basically anything.

Even assuming China is all powerful and can achieve "anything" here, the policies would still have a latency of an entire generation. Unless you include time-travel as part of "anything".
I think you’re looking for what some pants have - Creases https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-creases
Also people compare this to twitch, but for twitch's own gifting system(Bits), streamers get 100% of the bits when they cash out. the 50/50 split for the subscriptions(when a viewer subscribe to a streamer - 3 tiers, the cheapest being $4.99)
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In part because importing people without paying for 12 years of public education is an economic bargain.
A little empathy goes a long way when thinking about issues that intersect technology and people with disabilities.
The remaining Sydney subway stations with original tiling and fittings are two beneath Hyde Park: St James, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HauHHw7zkoM, and Museum, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80MDwect8Y4
My introduction to quantum was through chemistry- the teacher wrote
E Psi = H Psi
on the board and we all said "can't you just cancel the Psi" and that's how we leanred about operators and tensors.
PPP “loans” were always meant to be forgiven from day 1. They were only called loans because of you used them for things not intended (primarily paying employees) then you needed to pay them back. Student loans were not.

Keeping a pause on student loan payments during a time of high inflation and record low employment is absolutely asinine.

I also think that most people that think our infrastructure is bad haven’t been outside the United States. Our roads - especially our interstate system - are among the best in the world. Where we have problems is usually down on the state or lower level due to misallocation of funds.

Our internet isn’t great, but Starlink has been a real kick in the pants to other providers. Mass transit is lacking but that’s mostly due to people’s choice along with the sheer cost of building out such things in the US.
Everyone has their own story, and one’s person’s experience can be very different from another person’s experience. I used egrep a whole lot, dozens of times for the automated test setup I have for my open source project. I had to spend most of an hour this morning updating that code to no longer use egrep—a non-trivial task. Here’s the amount of hassle breaking egrep has given me:

https://github.com/samboy/MaraDNS/commit/afc9d1800f3a641bdf1...

This is just one open source project. I’ve seen fgrep in use for well over 25 years, back on the SunOS boxes we used at the time. egrep apparently has been around for a very long time too. Just because it didn’t get enshrined in a Posix document—OK, according to Paul Eggert it was made obsolete by Posix in 1992, but apparently no one got the telegram and it’s been a part of Linux since the beginning and is also a part of busybox—doesn’t mean it’s something which should be removed.

I’m just glad I caught this thread and was able to “update” my code.
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In a way it is, the more you know about the US tech scene - the more it feels like you're handicapped in Europe - especially if you're not living in a tech hub.
> The only way the IFR might change is if healthcare systems got so overrun that they could no longer give care. This did not happen anywhere in the industrialized world.

What world do you live in? It certainly isn't mine. One of my co-workers passed away in her home after being turned away from the ER in part due to no hospitals in the area having available ventilators.
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Because “systems that level the playing field” tend to make a system less meritocratic (and less fair), not more.
Peter,

Thank you for taking time to do this.

For founders with spouses (either through marriage or common-law), where both spouses are from Mexico or Canada, what is the best visa for the founder and what visa should the spouse apply for (if he/she desires to work)? For the spouse, how do visa considerations change if the spouse has:

1. A liberal arts-oriented university degree

2. A STEM-oriented university degree

3. A law degree

4. A medical degree

5. An accounting degree

6. College diploma

7. No tertiary accreditation

Additionally are there any considerations if the spouse has a bachelors, masters or PhD/professional degree?

For children in such a scenario, what visa considerations would they have?
>"Conflict of interest" is ultimately just another way to say "I don't want to assume the liability when things go sour".

No, it's not.

It's "malice is not a reasonable explanation for things going wrong". It only changes liability when it follows malice, what is much rarer than you seem to think.

It is also a way to assure people that you won't do something bad.
First, please address the chronic distress ASAP by drawing healthy boundaries for yourself. Let other people at work and/or home share some of the health risks you are bearing by yourself here, if possible.

Chronic stress, to say nothing of distress, is associated with cognitive decline, so please at least consider that.

Second, I hope you'll consider planning as a set of specific, defined activities that can be done in a known time period. It may take some practice, but typically the most effective planner's mindset is something like "this usually takes N minutes and will result in a new or adjusted schedule."

The "enticing idea" of global planning-need can really, really be a mental drag at first because it feels like a great way to move on (it is) but it's also really vague, so I think it's important to define and know exactly what activities planning will involve for you (not even so much what you need from it) and how long that will take.

This should get you to the point where you can do big-picture planning every day if needed, and therefore feel like you have serious traction.

When I make plans, I start by writing my status. Because stress may be involved, and lower-brain emotive components, I _always_ vent a bit to start. In my experience, people who can vent and complain faster will generally have faster access to change. So I start by doing that, and pretty soon the data-flow begins--what needs to change specifically. What needs to be done next.

So I go back and underline those things, then I carry them over into either a list (daily or weekly scope usually) or a concept map / mind map in my own style (weekly through yearly scope for example).

This then needs to be made amenable to calendaring, so each item or topic is given a text file if it doesn't already have one. This text file has a "current position" section with the general position of things and the next step. The step is placed on the calendar. I also use programmatic tools to parse these files for tags so I can get the output in my text editor.

Anyway, that, or the ideas in there, should help you get a good start from where you're at. Again please go to work immediately to reclaim your energy, and focus & positive change will likely follow. GL & hang in there.
Then why does Google Meet suck?
And anyone on a fixed income gets absolutely demolished by it.
Which is what every single company would say when caught red-handed.
First off, yes, Stripe uses Stripe to bill our own customers. In fact, for our larger customers who have negotiated complex pricing plans, we're currently migrating much of our manual billing to a system that's inspired by Stripe Billing.

Second, this article seems to miss the point of Stripe. It seems to want to build a platform, which is what Stripe Connect is designed for.

For example, charging a percentage fee is just one line (https://stripe.com/docs/api/application_fees):

` $application_fee_percent = 5`

Slack, Atlassian, and Notion have all built their B2B billing on top of Stripe. But we don't target just B2B or B2C ecommerce in case a business has multiple revenue streams (which many businesses are increasingly adding). In fact, we designed Billing so it can flex across any business model—per-seat, usage-based, tiered, or even graduated.

This is the point of Stripe. A single stack that flexes with your business as it grows and pricing that's public.
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Yup, this is all big companies. And if the metrics are wrong, that's not your responsibility. The PM's and VP's that come up with them know that metrics are imperfect and have tradeoffs. Let them handle the tradeoffs. If you're impacting the metrics, then you're doing the job assigned to you.
If you only use it on a single ios device, it screws up your whole syncing method. Google drive/dropbox works on every other platform seamlessly.
Oscar is the same. They no longer offer Oscar insurance to their employees. It's a liability to mandate that your coworkers information is stored in Production and accessed by Client Services.
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Interestingly, there are no breaking changes that were required to be addressed by Hasura GraphQL Engine to support Postgres 15. Hasura is fully compatible with this release, with the potential of adding the MERGE command via the GraphQL API soon.

Excited about the incremental performance improvements and making more secure defaults by revoking CREATE permission for public schema for non-superusers.
I wouldn't call that "mansplaining;" it's just correcting misperceptions.
I would recommend looking at the Fast Colored Text Box ( https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/161871/Fast-Colored-Tex... ) It is a .net control that has built in syntax coloring. Some of the sample code are full fledged editors.

If you are doing html and occasionally for other purposes foxe html editor is highly underrated. http://www.firstobject.com/dn_editor.htm
We kinda enforce "don't trade slaves" globally... And "No child labour"... And "don't steal other countries ships when they sail near your country".

"Don't emit more than your fair share of carbon" is just another rule like the others. If most countries agree, but there are a few dissenters, we can deal with it like other international disagreements - warnings, then sanctions, then war.

Currently, we're far from that, because we don't have a majority of countries agreeing on carbon caps.
Bash actually has a POSIX compatibility mode.

There is a great deal in POSIX that was not in Bourne, native arithmetic expressions being the first to come to mind, then new-style command substitution.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...

All of the POSIX utility standards, including the grep variants, can be found in the URL's parent directory:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/

If this new GNU grep functionality becomes widely distasteful, I think that OpenBSD's grep tries to emulate GNU in a few ways, and could supplant it, becoming the system grep while "gnugrep" is relegated to the shadows.

It is also extremely expensive on Windows for a version of grep to be implemented as a shell script. Launched by xargs, the penalty will be severe.

The commercial platforms based upon GNU are in a marriage of convenience, and can easily pick and choose.
'Some of the strictest control measures' is not how I would describe life for anyone in, say, the Central Valley.

Maybe people in the major coastal cities actually followed any of the difficult-to-enforce restrictions [1], but I can't say the same for the three quarters of America that is rural or suburban.

[1] Obviously, when schools are closed, that's a restriction you have no choice in following.
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> I thought it's 50% like Twitch.

it's not the best comparison imo. For twitch's own gifting system(Bits), streamers get 100% of the bits when streamers cash out(100bit = $1 but when purchasing it, 100bit costs ~$1.3). the 50/50 split for the subscriptions(when a viewer subscribe to a streamer - 3 tiers, the cheapest being $4.99, and streamers would get half of that)
That's a great tip! Thanks for sharing nate. I'll have a look at the book too