skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like the can count on their driver to understand a bit a damage to their car is well worth the championship points and press that comes from such a bold move.
Wapo definitely does independent fact checking. That's how they caught the Project Veritas "sting" so trivially.
productivity is scaling according to pay. system is working as intended.
Sometimes those people change the work processes in a way to make their role important.. Need printer paper? You have to go through the old lady in the 3rd floor office, because noone else can order, store or give out office supplies, not even the office next door, where you can get ethernet cables and headsets.
me: here's some facts; can you give me examples to support your claims?

you: (moves goalposts)
> Since anyone who could do it could turn it off, and they should turn it off

I sincerely hope you mean they ought to turn it off for the campaign trail, and even that's a depressing recommendation for those seeking public support.

Words matter. The language we use to discuss the world around us has a distinct influence on how we see, interact with, and frame both problems and solutions. Lowering the level of discourse helps nobody. That's why it's ill-advised to speak only in babytalk to young children - we want to help improve their language skills through practice, and by leading by example.

The English language (and I'm sure others) is a sprawling mess, but different words do have different connotations and histories that can have a practical affect on those you're speaking to. For example, speaking informally about firearms has left the Conservatives under the impression that legislators are drafting laws they don't really understand - and it's hard to fault them for that.
I'm from a small and flat country and no matter where I've been there's always been reception, so I understand the assumption that some people might make that everyone is connected all the time.

But I've been traveling around in the UK and I know you shouldn't take reception for granted. In Malvern, Worcestershire there's no reception in some parts of the city, and in Wales I only have reception in the cities.

We had a situation last week where we were setting up a tool, and I couldn't proceed because they required 2FA through SMS, not a great first impression.
I am not the parent, but I believe I can answer, because my thoughts on the few days that I do venture into office border on postal. In my defense, I hate people who invented mornings with a passion reserved for people, who hurt puppies for amusement.

When I see phrases like "executive vanity", I immediately picture a manager, who saw the productivity numbers gained and decided that those do no matter ( and some of us did go above and beyond specifically to show that there is a benefit to WFH for companies ) and instead opted for butts in chairs for no other reason than "I want to feel like I still matter". Some executives refers to this as management by walking.

<< Have we come so far that working from an office is now "torture"?

It is kinda like this. We all know WFH is possible. We know it results in good results for the company and yet management opts to RTO. They want me to commute, force me to get up extra early, almost kill people on the way two work if I do drive by car ( because I am sleepy; not because I am postal ) and somehow match the productivity that was happening precisely because we implemented WFH? Yes, by comparison it is torture. I had a glimpse of heaven and it was forcibly taken away from me ( it wasn't taken from me, but please understand that this is the mindset ).

edit: And, if you buy into one specific poem I will not name, hell is everyone but heaven and therefore torture.

Whether you agree with it or not is irrelevant. Put yourself in their shoes. See the world through their eyes.

If not, a good chunk of the people, who managed to keep the companies afloat during covid will bounce ( and some did ), because those are the people that actually knew what to do when SHTF.
There were definitely attempts at promoting nazi ideas in the west, both in the us and western europe. But unlike modern day it was quickly counteracted. Today you dont need a specific political ideology to sow discontent and damage free societies. All you need is to indoctrinate naive cousins in any toxic topic they may be ready to believe. At scale that causes polarisation, mistrust, conflict and eventually political change. A bit like poisoning the body just enough so it doesnt function properly. The question is how do you police content in such way that it doesnt block legitimate opposing ideas.
Modern KDE is closer to the experience and usability of GNOME 2 than GNOME 3 is. (And that’s a good thing.) If you prefer a traditional desktop with some configurability over iOS, it’s worth a try.
Good on them make a correction
That won't happen in a federation like US or Canada, sadly. The states (provinces) would have to either agree on an infrastructure (hah!) or agree to give that power to the federal government (OMG lol).
Thanks for adding some context. The "max" or 25 year view on that chart provides some perspective. Still unusual that there's been a recent decrease, but almost every measure of the economy has seen some really weird values in the past 2 years.
man I was just thinking about that yesterday. Will give it a try
ASML was spun out of Philips which is not a US company so I'm not sure how accurate it is to claim this as a main factor.
> None those are related to use or lack of use of technology. Those are purely bureaucratic rules setup by insurance carriers.

They are very much related to use of technology, because they are enabled by technology. The degree of bullshit paperwork every white-collar worker has to deal with nowadays is a direct consequence of computers making it possible to make us do that work, and for the recipients to process it.

The benefits of those processes are whatever they are designed to be, but this creates a false image of net productivity, because the costs are now hidden, smeared across everyone's workload, adding to a vague sense of dissatisfaction and low productivity. In contrast, if you tried the same processes few decades ago, it would mean hiring dedicated people on both ends, and the costs - as measured by their salaries - would be clearly visible.

> I can't believe I'm having to explain to someone the productivity advantages of a system of record to a technology focused crowd...

You don't have to. But you're missing the disadvantages of the situation when maintenance of that system of records becomes a job distributed across everyone. It's not the digital recording per se that's the problem, but the fact that everyone is now also their own secretary.
To me both of those examples seem like a preference to not change inertia/vector. I see your main point.
> The claim for MSRs is that they actually are inherently safe.

Safer isn't safe. Hopefully safer is safe enough to make them affordable even given the much worse conditions the materiala need to withstand, but there are other risks involved (how to make the USA or Russia let you have one without installing a puppet government given they can make superweapons grade Pu is one).

> There's a strong negative feedback the slows the reaction rate as the fuel heats up.

This is only true of two fluid MSRs. Many of the other advantages are only true of one fluid MSRs.

> Since the fuel is liquid, you never need a large amount of fissile material in the fuel. You can add a little at a time.

You still need a critical mass and you don't have water as a moderator. The quantity of fissile material is equal or higher than in a PWR. There may be significantly less fertile material in the core though (but about as much in the blanket).

> It's also possible to remove some of the fission products as you go.

> The most troublesome fission products are chemically bound in the salt, so even is someone destroys your reactor with artillery, you don't get a large radioactive cloud, just hot rocks at the reactor site.

The purification/extraction step has never been demonstrated and many of the best candidates for salts are water soluble.

> For either thorium or fast uranium MSRs, the waste products are just fission products, not the long-lived transuranics. Encase them in glass and bury them, and they'll be back to the radioactivity of the original ore in 300 years. Since the decline is exponential, most of the radioactivity goes away in the first few decades.

Yes. This is a huge upside. As is the corollary that there is actually enough fuel.
My universities networking lab has 2 P4 enabled networking switches. They are essentially a Intel Xeon based server, similar to how high end cumulus switches work, but the switching backplane consists of a custom ASIC, which is part that is programmed in P4.

It's an impressive technology but the driver support outside the vendor provided linux distro is so abysmal that we weren't able to integrate it for use by students (and we tried for a whole year).
The Ant That Went to Mars
In Ruby, all of the following statements are true:

Class.ancestors.include?(Object)
Object.ancestors.include?(Class)
Class.is_a?(Object)
Object.is_a?(Class)

It's beautiful.
the rotating donut written in C shaped like a donut, also a lot of early demoscene written by hand in assembly
Second on the NVC thing. A coworker who was an underwater CTO put me on that because he was having a really hard time being under water and dealing with me being an acerbic dickhead. It is really, really effective at making difficult conversations much easier. In general, applying it in daily life makes me a happier person too. Not that I'm a fantastic practitioner or anything. When dealing with sticky situations like OP here, I'll usually write out how I think the conversation might go and try to nail down the NVC language before hand so I don't mess up with a bunch of "It feels like" non feelings language.
That's not realistic.

Calendly has no way of knowing if you joined the meeting or not. Even linking your zoom to schedule the call doesn't mean you'll actually have the call on zoom and not face to face.

Then, they actually want people to use their system and pay for it when they're ready. Being in a situation where the company says "you're not using this right, now pay us", would mean in practice that I'll drop that account and never want to interact with them again. You can't be hostile to your users.
There is literally no chance that Twitter has 10 engineering managers for every engineer. That is simply absurd. i worked there for over 4 years, and the ratio then was very comparable to every other tech company I've worked at, including large ones like Google and smaller ones (then) like Salesforce.

Maybe more interesting, there are a lot of roles that have "manager" in the name somehow. Product Manager is the obvious one, Program Managers exist, and I'm sure there are others, not to mention that every function has managers in one shape or form if they're at all scaled out -- there's managers for designers, lawyers, accountants, etc at a fairly predictable ratio at every company I've worked at.

Amusingly, Twitter was one of the most manager-lite companies I ever worked at when I started. In 2011 the ratio was a lot closer to 50:1 than it was 1:10.

Perhaps Musk is simply taking everyone with manager in their role and implying they're managing other people. This is not the case and is willfully misrepresenting people's work if so. Par for the course for this guy, though.
It sounds like the banks put up with this seeing as the account was not perma-frozen. I have had situations where banks were so suspicious of fraud that they could only unlock my account with a manual override after showing my ID at a branch.

I don’t see where the story is here.
That looks like a lot more fun than the Metaverse!
Same reason cross origin caching is limited today, it's a stuffed channel that can harm privacy and allow tracking.
Too many things and tools to deal with. For example, my manager uses a shitload of apps/services that he keeps inputting information to, rather than spending time to work with my team. It's not to say that he is wasting time - he is just literally following the protocol.

The protocol of working and the order of things is just more fucked up these days than it was in the past.
The problem is that Intel competes with Apple, Nvidia and AMD. They have a conflict of interest, just like Netflix has with content producers, and that's going to cause issues for their growth.
You’re still struggling to grasp any of the content. Your whole reply is only focused the response to your unrelated spelling dunk.

Having such superficial interactions with the world is congruent with believing the meme that all of Arizona drinks well water though.

I hope you do take some time some day to learn about the state you grew up in. The water projects are quite impressive engineering because there is no other option. The rural holdouts that pumped their groundwater dry learned that lesson the hard way.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Nonviolent-Communication-Audioboo...

It's read by the author, which is a good move I think. Really good stuff that I think can help you map out where you're trying to go.
I know that you don’t want to spend money on a test machine but you might want to check on used laptops through eBay or Craigslist or Offerup. Or someone here might have an older laptop sitting around.
> requires either the attention span or the intelligence of a goldfish

Good thing I have both.
This is people in the open source community trying to decide whether the name "Gitea" is now spoiled for their purposes, and whether to fork the toys into a different sandbox. Nobody is really saying the Gitea people cannot do what they seem to be doing; people are just making their own plans, in reaction.
I'm 99% sure that it originated in climbing - it's been a term since the 80s at least (short for ascend - to 'send' a climbing route is to climb it successfully without falling or weighting the rope). Outside climbing I first noticed its use in the mid/late '00s in mountain biking (which has a fair bit of overlapping user base), and then in other extreme sports. In the jump from climbing to other extreme sports it became a shorthand for 'commit and do something difficult/risky successfully' (similar in spirit to its meaning in climbing if not literally given the etymology).
I’ve got much fitter now I exercise instead of commute.

I can focus more and get more done in fewer hours.

Communication has got more efficient because it has got to.

I don’t miss the forced pub time which I hated anyway.

I am much more confident that I could get another job quickly if I had to, which means I’m not being abused by tyrannical slave driving boss anymore.

I spend more time learning new skills and sharpening existing skills because I don’t feel the pressure to “look busy” all the time, so I can stop and watch a 20 minute YouTube video that levels up my skills.

Middle managers are disappearing, being replaced by Ticket systems and source control, good riddance.

I have developed closer relationships with coworkers because when you’re chatting in chat rooms, the pressure to answer immediately is not there like it is in face to face communications, so our conversations and more thought out and answers are deeper. I know this communication style doesn’t work for everyone, but adapt or die

Overall it’s excellent, I am never going back to the office
https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/a13539c7c5c482...

My mind was blown that I could read Apollo 11 source code. It was additionally blown that it included comments like, "# TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE"
Have you checked out Vivaldi? Incredibly customizable UI over Chromium, if you do make the switch from FF.
There is no bus route anywhere that has been canceled due to interest rates.
Great point(s). There's no longer the barrier to entry. No longer a belief that just because you can doesn't mean you should. That behaviour gets reinforced because doing X or Y is easy, that lack of friction builds a bias that the end product / output is 10x better than it really is.

You're not the only one with that bait and switch feeling.
I am very excited for Turbopack.

I hope to see this considered by the Angular team. Angular is tightly coupled with webpack, however, they've been experimenting with ESBuild, which is included in Angular 14. Vite has been tested by an Angular team member and reported some promising results.
I just hope they don't tightly couple the implementation with ESBuild and fall into the same issue again.

Back to Turbopack:

> Turbopack is up to 10x and 700x faster than existing approaches.

The 700x speed gain compared to webpack is for dev mode changing 30000 files at once.. I understand that it scales very well. But is it realistic to boast about unrealistic scenarios? It erks me.
Good points. What did your temporary deafness end up being, if I may ask?
> I'm beginning to think y'all are conflating the increase of documentation with the use of digitalization. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

I think what we're talking about is a clear (if non-typical) example of the Jevons paradox[0]. Digitalization makes creating and processing paperwork more efficient, allowing the overall organization as a system to support/afford more of it. As a result, amount of documentation and form filling increases.

----

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
You are right. It's even worse and many other organizations are involved. Here is some discussion with an investigative journalist. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZNfE8GKokQ [video]
I think this is missing a little justification.

They go from this, which I agree with:

> A good markup language describes an abstract hierarchical structure of the document, and lets a separate program to adapt that structure to the desired output.

> Great markup format unambiguously interprets an input string as an abstract tree model of a document.

To this:

> [In Markdown] there's no way to express generic tree structure, conversion to HTML with specific browser tags is hard-coded.

I understand why you'd want the markup to be turned into a tree, but that's different from saying you should be able to build any tree with the markup. Isn't the point to encode text documents? The fact that you can't build the entire layout of your HTML result in the markup language doesn't seem like a sensible requirement. Why do you want or need infinitely-nested structure in documents?
ansible just runs commands over ssh. can’t get more simple.
This is how I set up my Mac as well; just a local connection. Sets up out of box Mac in about 15 minutes and I can keep my two Mac's configs in perfect sync: https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook
I find I am much less stressed and I feel I am more productive working from home. I find it hard to set work boundaries though as I often log back on in the evening after working a full day. Probably because I don’t feel like I am working hard as I am always home. Something about spending time in the office makes you feel like you accomplished something even if you didn’t accomplish much of anything.

I don’t miss in-person social interactions at all. I don’t miss in person meetings.

Honestly WFH is one of the best things that ever happened to me.
People might be a bit more willing to move on if you hadn't destroyed their careers, businesses, reputation ect...

"Yeah, we got you fired. You were right, our bad. Sorry. Let's go get coffee and hug it out."
At least this is open play with ball in hand, and there is danger there. I fully admit I am not very familiar with American football, but the completely accepted "taking a knee" to run down as much as two minutes of the clock at the end of the game strikes me as far more cynical.
Interesting video with Obree where his positions are tested in a wind tunnel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ9H0INZ2_s
Well actually, the human vision system at night, while not as good as cats and perhaps dogs, is still much greater than any camera we've come up with thus far, I read something that claimed we can actually detect individual photons hitting our retina, once we are adapted to the darkness

https://www.science.org/content/article/human-eye-can-detect...
Wow so interesting! I have a very high astigmatism so this makes a lot of sense! I wonder if it would help to wear glasses that correct. I wear my contacts and they really aren't capable of correct astigmatism the way glasses are.
Not knowing much about nascar or that GameCube game, I watched the video hoping to see someone fire a blue shell or get a star boost or something. Slightly disappointed.
You have absolutely made the right decision in keeping things simple.
I’ve got a document shared with my wife that explains all of the various technology in the house, and various access methods. Additionally, I explain our domain names, our password manager, anything I have been able to think of.

We have a password manager together, and share each others master passwords, as well as a shared credentials.

I probably need to add some messages to post to various accounts, just to save her the trouble.
> If what we think of as the "browser" used more of what is available in the operating system, and operating systems were more closely involved in web standardization (rather than treating it as a completely siloed project) I think we could have better standards for web apps that integrate seamlessly with the user's desktop.

As a web developer, I do not want this. Currently, I can install Chrome and Firefox on my Linux machine and between the two I can test and get the same experience as 95% of my users. Safari is the only browser I can't directly install on my machine, but it's not hard to test that too, at which point 99% of users are covered.

If what you propose came about, all of the sudden OS (and OS version!) becomes a major variable that has to be accounted for in testing and troubleshooting, which eliminates one of the biggest advantages Web development has over Native.
No, that math isn’t correct. If you are in the minority, there is no compromise in democracy. The level of care you receive is exactly 0 if the majority voted against you.

20 years ago you couldn’t have 40% of a gay marriage, it was just no gay marriage.
Personally? Because I don't think the stress is worth it. I've been in this situation and find it unbearable.
My first real software engineering job.

I was put in charge of the company's email program. This was in 1987-8.

It was a single file, with over 100 KLoC of 1970s-vintage FORTRAN IV code.

Not one single comment.

Variables written like INTEGER A1, for a buffer index.

No subroutines.

GOTOs galore.

That was some trauma that convinced me to write good, structured, well-documented code, from then on.
I love this comment and want to add another perspective.

The existence of video games brings people together on a level playing field where they are free to explore their ideas and refine strategies over a length of time far longer than anyone can actually play the game in reality.

You see it to a more immediate effect in games such as Dota2, League, etc. Professional level players regularly play with amateurs and non-professionals and you notice that ideas propagate throughout the community readily.

Obviously there is a certain barrier to entry for physical sports and the online equivalent to share in ideas, but with how far sports-based games will go striving for realism (all the iterations of Football Manager come to mind), it wouldn't be hard to imagine that in the future strategies will be tested virtually before being employed in real.
This is nice. One of the reasons I still stick to the "Plastik" style and haven't moved to Breeze is the "smoothness" of the interface. This seems to bring in some definition to the interface.

I know plastik feels so old and out of date. But it feels more tactile to me because of the higher gradients.
How is freelancing or self-employment scene/culture in China?