skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Personally, I haven't seen many good arguments that WFH produces superior work outcomes. Companies are collaborative human endeavors. Most WFH arguments I hear are related to personal fulfillment: more time with kids, less time commuting, more time for hobbies, etc. Those are all great things, but have little to do with productivity.

> Personally, I haven't seen many good arguments that WFH produces superior work outcomes. Companies are collaborative human endeavors. Most WFH arguments I hear are related to personal fulfillment: more time with kids, less time commuting, more time for hobbies, etc. Those are all great things, but have little to do with productivity.

I don't see any rigorous argument that WFO is more productive in your analysis either though, just that you suspect it's the case. It seems a bit of a stretch to me to assume that WFO is more likely to be productive merely because it's claimed on that side of the debate; if anything, making that claim without hard data makes it more dubious to me compared to the side not making any claims that require data without providing it. We don't even know for sure if either WFO or WFH even is more productive in a significant way, let alone which one it is!

Tangentially, there's also an implicit sentiment here that the needs of the company trump the needs of the employee when they're at odds, and I don't think that's universally the case. The reason minimum wage and workplace safety regulations are a good idea is orthogonal to productivity; they're good ideas because they are important enough for workers that we're willing to deal with the consequences they might have on productivity. Even if I accepted the premise that WFH is a net negative for companies (which I don't accept as a premise, although I don't have my mind 100% made up one way or another), I still think the question of whether it's important enough for workers despite this is unsettled.
I'm up in Dallas but probably directionally same as down in SA. As you know, basically nobody makes the legal minimum wage in Texas. The market is higher. Caregivers are usually near whatever that "effective minimum wage" is. They might get paid $1 an hour more than someone working at Chipotle or similar. Up here, this wage band has gone from ~$10-$12/hr to $15-$20/hr in a short period of time. This is core inflation.
For folks in the global south who might own a smartphone but not a macbook, a native mobile dev env is god-sent. For others, the Replit mobile app is but a start, even if it looks like a toy, and can help in building only toy apps, and deal only with toy codebases. This is a start in the right direction.

Besides, in the future, more advances in AI might mean, folks only need to key in prompts.
Then the "free market" zealots would just be crying about subsidies instead of tariffs and regulatory barriers. There's really no winning this battle.
The US’s rail network isn’t that different than the EU’s.

The average freight rail trip in the EU are much shorter which makes rail less competitive relative to trucks. That has nothing to do with the rail network and is instead a function of EU’s economy.

The difference in utilization largely comes down to geography and politics. America’s flyover states and high population coasts just fit rail really well.
Meta’s new speech translation system for an unwritten language (Hokkien)
anecdotally, i am willing to put in far more hours if i don't have to worry about falling asleep on the commute home.
Running anything other than Chromium as a company is dangerous; Firefox is still less secure than Chromium.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20656680
I repeat myself: Foreign product tariffs prevent nothing of what you just listed

You can also argue that shooting yourself in the foot will prevent child labor in sneaker industry... but mainly because you'd stop buying sneakers.
> What grocery stores are left that wouldn't be under that umbrella?

The best one, Winco. And of course, Walmart, Target, Costco, New Seasons, Trader Joe’s, Grocery Outlet, Natural Grocers, etc. Lidl and Aldi are making huge gains nationwide too.
> It is not possible to have bi-directional communication using sonar

Yes of course. No one has suggested otherwise. That's the entire point of using a drone, after all.
This is also why the free market trumpeteers are wrong.

Companies charge the most they can, any lowering of internal costs will only change the external costs under 1 circumstance. When lowering the external cost will increase volume enough to make up for the lower cost.

Tech has changed the game so it's much easier for a winner to take most. The free market idea has always assumed local competition, that's no longer the case. When Apple and Google can collaborate on how much to charge for a phone it becomes more difficult to associate lower costs of production with lower cost to consumers.
> Neo-liberalism that literally pulled half of the planet out of permanent poverty?

My original quote said "better outcomes for the country." Yes, a lot of people were pulled out of poverty, but their gains came and the expense of middle-class Americans.

Maybe you're a globalist and you think this is a good outcome. I just hope you never have a nation state-level problem, e.g. unfair competition in the market place. The help you receive from the Chinese government, despite all of their gains, is likely to be quite minimal if you're not a Chinese citizen.
I very much enjoyed "The Republic Of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down" by Colin Woodward. I'm pretty sure I originally came across it in a thread here on HN.

Not that I'm expert enough to know, but it felt well researched. On the assumption that what he said was as true as possible given the circumstances, I thought it was pretty enlightening.
Have I read what you’ve posted in this thread? Yes. And more when I was learning to use htmx. I gave it a good-faith effort and I’m completely unconvinced. If we were having this conversation ten years ago, I might be excited. Today, not so much.
This article keeps describing anarchists and then following up with 'but they're not anarchists'.

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
> strangely not mentioned

It's not mentioned because it can only be used by Tesla cars, of which the gentleman"s is not.
Some extra nuance is that there exists people who's entire lives revolve around work. These people's whole life schedule revolves around work and their social networks revolve around work people because they have no hobbies or other avenues of socialization. These are the type of people who live solely to climb the corporate ladder and only talk shop and office politics. Despite being quite a social person, I can't stand working with these types of people and would rather be isolated at home than be subjected to these types. At least this has been my experience working in large enterprise corporations in Silicon Valley.
Also the largest which is Wal-Mart, I assume they sell food in the PNC
The content was a publisher. Writers would submit articles, the system would automatically tag them, and the system was good enough that usually the writer or editor would weed out a false positive or two, which is about the same result as all these machine learning use cases with thousands of hours of dev time.

IIRC, terms were weighted, so that some of them needed to have more instances in the articles than others in order to be included in the final tag results.

Locations were one-offs, but specific topical items required more mentions because of false positives. And then there were things we called branch-offs. Branch-off tags occurred when a topic was mentioned enough to be a tag but there's another name that some segment of the population would know it by.

For example, the fish known as the white crappie are known in Louisiana as sac-au-lait, but people would also spell the word sacalait or sac-a-lait. So when we would get an article from an author in the Carolinas, they have no familiarity with a term that is the dominant one in Louisiana, but the software would add the tag anyway, which also exposed it to our site search.
Datadog Announces Cloud Cost Mgmt, Cloud Security Mgmt, CoScreen and more
Ahh yeah, I guess I should specify that these were not breaks I took "on purpose": one was while waiting for some documentation to go through, and the other one was parental leave, and at least one of them was partially paid.
Developer discovers he prefers socialising to programming.
This is well worth replying to, it surfaces some culture/class things which are worth making explicit.

Being responsible about the future is important, but let's phrase the goal as "savings upon retirement", rather than "retirement savings".

A sabbatical can help with that in a few ways, but first let's talk about the gap.

A sabbatical is not a gap in one's resume, it's a sabbatical. What's done with that time is open-ended, but one of the things it does is provide a useful line item.

This is in fact a class thing. People of independent means will take time off to improve their careers. Real talk, I can't stress this enough: don't buy a sabbatical, or a Porche, if you can't afford it.

They don't put this on their resume, but rather, on their C.V.

I'm not from those people, but growing up in a university town, one gets to know them.

A sabbatical is good if: you can write an open-source library in your niches which solves a problem, if you expand the breadth of your expertise, if what you're doing has a significant philanthropic angle. All of these can set someone up for a higher tier of job, something with better prospects.

It's good to have a comfortable nest egg, and it's even better if when you do, you have the kind of respect and stake in your field where you don't actually retire. Emeritus is a wonderful Latin loanword. May we all merit emeritus.
This is pretty cool! I'm finding it very useful for searching for tattoo artists since they often have personal sites, Instagram, Reddit, etc.
On a dollar-of-stuff-produced basis, US manufacturing has continued to grow and remains only a fraction behind China:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-manufacturing-scor...

It’s the jobs that went away, not the manufacturing sector or the dollars.
> can only publish this kind of thing in America because people are so ignorant of what is possible and what is already being done in other nations

Like not publishing bad GDP numbers during a party conference [1]? The comparison to China is doubly misplaced: the problem here is range—most Chinese EVs have reduced range in favour of a cheaper price.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/93daf530-14c1-4877-8d59-d4f184fec...
Great idea! I think, making podcast documents SEO friendly might give you a decent amount of organic traffic over time.
I think there are two uses for an AI colorizer. One is to generate a color image that looks great, another is to generate an image that accurately reflects the true color of things.

A better AI model helps a lot with the first goal, but help only so far with the second one. Truth to be told, there is a lot of contextual color information in black and white photos that an AI model can exploit; but nothing beats someone that knows, for sure, the color of the dress of someone in the photo.

I mean, take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/ - some of those color artists do a lot of research to know the exact shade of green of the military uniform of some country in the 19th century, and things like that, just to have an accurate reference.

So I think that the ability of directing the color output (either by rejecting a color textually, or by painting over the figure with a starting point - even if maybe I'm not painting with the exact tone or texture but a rough color that should help the AI to figure out the details) is essential for a colorization product, even if the model is flawless!
I used to write Amazon affiliate articles and I would look to reviews for a sense of what to write.

At first, I was astonished at the number of reviews where the product flamboyantly failed its purpose, e.g. "hammer cut off my fingers".

But over the years shopping I have begun to see new sellers with new products with lots of reviews for other products that they never had, bizarre reviews that don't quite make sense, reviews for completely different products, and reviews that seemed too suspiciously easy to read for their message, and realized how very deep the fake advertisement industry is embedded.
Sure, maybe that explains why Europe has made more progress with their inland transportation network. But what I said is still true. Transporting freight via river systems is cheaper and greener than using road and rail. The gap will widen as energy and transportation costs continue to increase.

The United States has the largest internal waterways system in the world, and we basically only use it for bulk goods.
Met with this team probably 8 years ago for consideration on a (at the time) large subscription product. Didn't go with it because of issues in the organization I was working with, but KillBill folks were good people, impressive, good product. Glad to see them still around.
What's the point of productivity? What if I just want to enjoy myself as much as I can? Spending my time playing games and reading stories and learning new things and such sounds pretty great.

And as someone who is trying to do early retirement, the main reason is so I can own myself... I'll never have enough energy to do everything I want, even without a day job taking a tremendous amount of it.

And just to add another anecdote: I quit my job for 9 months (for burnout). I never felt the need to "go back to work" other than the bank account running out.
No, WebKit is the same across devices.
I am starting to realize that if I don't write things down, then they won't stick around.

I've procrastinated writing things down because it would take more time and effort than its worth -- If I just think a bit longer and harder, then the solution will come, and I won't have to waste all the time it takes to write everything out.

Recently, I have noticed this usually fails, and when I end up writing things down, then I come to the realization that actually writing things down would have saved more time in the first place. It was merely my assumptions, laziness, and arrogance that cost me more time.
U.S. built things costing 6-8 times as much as Chinese built things is not specific to shipbuilding.
Big Picture:

There are no meaningfully accurate (which is to say, common) thing you can say about what "working in tech" is like. None.

It's so young and always shifting that literally every environment is very different.
Then what about when Brave hijacked affiliate links en-mass for all users? No 'not required' as it was maliciously done in the background (until they were called out on it at least).

Brave is a shady platform at a minimum; and has been caught in the past being actively malicious.
I've been learning how to take stereoscopic photos and found that most of the literature is on how to make stereoscopic movies which got me to read

https://thefsu3dproject.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/foundati...

by Lipton who was the inventor of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealD_3D

and just found out that he passed away recently.
I am all for a business model that has an opt-in feature that generates revenue. I love Brave, and want to stick around, so I have no moral qualms with them making some money. I personally opt out, but I am grateful for those who use it. Their crypto system itself is quite benign - I tried it, and it required no investment on my part, so I don't understand where the "scam" is you speak of...
Ask HN: Are there any undocumented ISA extensions used in Linux systems?
If someone were to build a Linux system with proprietary, private (undocumented) ISA extensions, how would they do it given Linux is open source? Are there any examples of this being done? Would it be possible at all?

I got inspiration from this (https://github.com/corsix/amx) and I wondered if someone has done it before on a Linux-based system. I understand a userspace library could be created to access those instructions from userspace, but how would then they be implemented in the kernel? Through a proprietary kernel module built using a custom compiler? Or is that not needed at all and the library could just run on the processor taking advantage of the proprietary extensions?
> Rent-seeking is the American dream

I assume it is everyone’s dream.
That's how it should be. Most blogs and other systems should be using git, not a database. The database is overused.
Soviet Argon-11S Computers for Space
The Jones Act in combination with the Passenger Vessel Services Act (1889) also forces foreign-flagged cruise ships (which is basically all of them) to stop at a foreign port even if they loop back to the same starting US port or all passengers will be charged a fee of several hundred dollars.

A Seattle to Alaska to Seattle cruise will need to stop in Canada, even for an hour, just to avoid the extra fees. Starting at one US port and ending at another requires a stop at a "distant" foreign port which makes it difficult from cruise lines to offer routes like Los Angeles to Hawaii.

https://thepointsguy.com/guide/what-is-the-jones-act-for-cru...
I put a Fantech SE704N in my WFH shed, which is 10x20 feet with 6-7 foot ceilings:
Newer ERV:
https://www.supplyhouse.com/Fantech-FIT70E-SE-Series-Energy-...
In stock HRV:
https://www.supplyhouse.com/Fantech-SH704-SH-Series-Heat-Rec...
You can buy the core and swap HRV->ERV (not sure if FIT70E uses the same core).

I put it behind a Lutron Caseta Fan Speed controller, it struggles a bit to communicate due to range, but at the low settings I can barely hear it and it keeps CO2 PPM to ~1k if it's just me in here (usually), I turn it up to 3 if I want a gentle wind noise and rarely go to 4 (but would if I wanted to freshen it up). I used the Fantech 4" ducts and it was pretty easy to self-install.
The $450 price point is bad by itself, but selling it with 64GB storage is simply inexcusable.
Yeah - my point was that once prices start going up noticeably, all the other processed food manufacturers will increase their prices, also (often with a "return to what the original size was" along with it).
Good point, I've missed quite a few. I guess I was thinking more of "one stop shopping", which even PCC barely qualifies for only a select group of people. But at the end of the day, should the merger go through and Krogerson's tries to go all monopoly, the listed alternatives will serve as mitigating factor.
Why statistical inference from clinical trials likely to generate false results
We were in exactly the same position in the UK, putting our twins into nursery from a very early age so my wife and I could continue our careers. In retrospect we regret it somewhat, as it clearly affected them negatively. But it has been positive financially downstream. At least you know you can afford to privately school them later on to make up for it.
Is all the other spam just getting completely dropped at the edge?
Don't think I agree. He is using a real SQL database stored in git. You can run queries against it. He's hosting a database in a static web site. I don't see this as an ftp clone.
> The reasoning was that "users can't do anything with information we tell them anyways",

I mean, I feel like the focus of the OP was on giving them something they could do something with. Like the information that their information was not lost; and the recommendation to change X or try again in Y way; and the fallthrough to contact customer support with a quick link.

The OP was definitely not recommending giving more specific technical info without thinking about what the user could do with it, but instead specifically thinking about what hte user could do or would want to know (about their data/account, not about your under the hood services), and giving info to that end.
Critical-Severity Flaw in Apache Commons Text Library
I got this idea late, thanks. My mistake. That makes sense.
True, but complex terminals increase the unit price and ongoing cost (higher weight and surface area both increase fuel consumption).

EAN supposedly works with only 300 base stations – in terms of terrestrial networks, that‘s nothing.
I mean if butchering people was a disqualifier then we’d be in deep shit too.

Make no mistake that human rights is a PR/Political tool. Not an actual thing any state gives a shit about.
Happened to me. I was hired for an it position in a legacy siloed division that had been an acquisition of a Fortune 50. At my office, everyone outside my group was an entirely different division of corp.

All 4 of us in my group supported developers in Phoenix. My supervisor reported to someone in Chicago who had no idea who we were.

Shortly after I was hired, corporate reorg and Phoenix eliminated. 2 others in my department left. Boss now reports to New Jersey to someone who has even less of idea who we were. Then boss had health issues and leaves.

Nobody knows I’m still there. I knew I was heading to grad school in a few months so I mostly just slept and played Counterstrike.
Google Is Deprecating the Widevine DRM CDM
The trick is to under promise and over deliver. Only give 50%-60% of your true capacity and gear up whenever it's truly urgent. If everything's urgent, nothing is urgent.
Any chance you would license the model for us to use with pixlr.com?
Or we could just make sure women have careers by having good social support?
Very unprofessional name, this is not something I could even bring up in a commercial setting if I wanted to use it. Please consider a different name.
Dash conf keynote video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv1hkseBrM0
Love to see this on the Steam Deck.
That isn't really the point of OP's comment.
> - reconnect with writing code for fun. Programming is legitimately the one activity that fully calms me and replenishes me. I stopped doing any side-programming for 10 years, and reviving that atrophied part of myself has been absolutely invigorating.

I'm struggling with this right now. I have not worked on hardly anything on the side in many years as well. Either I find some excuse not to, lack the confidence/knowledge to do it, or I just do not have any ideas on what to work on.

I actually enjoy programming, but I just struggle with motivation and focus issues which makes things much harder to get started.
‘Evidence-Based Medicine’ and the Expulsion of Peter Gøtzsche
How do protons all end up with the same/similar amounts of quarks?
Again, as I understand it, the standard argument is that product tariffs prevent, say, child labor, since cheap foreign products, produced as cheaply as possible with unsafe child labor, can still not be profitably sold domestically since the tariff makes domestic products comparable in price. This makes foreign child labor less common, since it is not economical to produce products abroad for the domestic market. This seems like a reasonable argument to me.

I also repeat myself: this theoretically also preserves the domestic economy, which would otherwise be outcompeted by cheap foreign companies.
In my experience it's either a single thing, or both partners have similar situations and are each doing colleague things frequently.

What absolutely does not work is when one of them is home pregnant and the other one is playing games with his buddies most nights at the gamedev shop they work for :). That is why I left a AAA game company. Had I been single, I would still be there. It was nerd paradise.
There's a difference between having children (which only women can do) and raising them (which both parents can do).
A table of contents isn't the same thing as the raw file system, and is much more analogous to the simplified file system available on iPads.