skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The question then becomes what can be reasonably done about it? Or rather, can it even be realistically achieved (in an arbitrary time scale that we care about), given how much of the culture and tooling is currently centered around passing text from one command to another. Change for something so foundational surely wouldn't be quick.

It definitely won't be quick, no. I think the tooling is actually not that big of a problem there; the functionality provided by the 'common tools' generally isn't that complex in scope (at least, in the context of modern development tools), and the many RIIR projects have shown that total do-overs for these sorts of tools are viable.

The bigger problem is going to be cultural, and particularly that persistent (but often unspoken) belief that "computers peaked with UNIX in the 70s/80s and what we have now is the best it will ever be". It often results in people actively pushing back on improvements that really wouldn't have any downsides for them at all, thereby creating unnecessary friction.

That same 'ideology', for lack of a better word, also makes it very difficult to talk about eg. hybrid terminal/graphical systems - because "GUIs are evil, text is better" and similar sentiments. That really gets in the way of advancing technology here.

Ultimately, I think the actual interop and/or reimplementation problems are going to be a walk in the park, compared to dealing with the messy human and cultural/ideological factors involved that actively resist change.
> The way you wrote this and the way the media portrays the problem makes it sound like people will die from freezing to death, which is just not true.

This is true. Old people freeze to death every year.
I wish we could be honest with our kids that sometimes you need to be mean in order to not be destroyed by mean people.
Millennial here, so there might be some generational differences.

One important element of working from an office is that there are other people there I need to talk to. If half of the people I am working with aren't in the office then it's moot, I have to spend all I time in zoom anyway. The threshold for creating value is probably closer to 80%. In practice this means working out of the headquarters, or on the same campus as the headquarters.

Why is this important? New York City, Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Fransisco, Seattle, Redmond and all the other popular headquarter locations have insanely expensive office space compared to most of the rest of the United States. So companies often choose open office space, which increases the worker per square foot, so they can both save money on office space and fit more people in their headquarters for a critical mass.

Yeah, I'd love my own office or to share a closed off room with my two pizza team. If spending this extra per-worker office space means 35% less people are working in the same building then it might not be a tradeoff worth taking. Working out of an office where half of the people I need to communicate with aren't there will not provide a lot of value because I need to do the same amount of zoom and the same amount of written communication to keep everyone looped in.

On the topic of getting a critical mass, I wonder how plausible it is for tech companies to maintain the majority of their workers in a central location. There's huge infrastructure costs associated with it. Having 50k+ tech workers in a single location will have a massive impact on transportation, CoL and housing. The tech company is now vulnerable to local governments increasing taxes or reducing required services. There is also a vulnerability during a local natural disaster, something we can expect to see more of with climate change.

The private office might help Return to Office pushes in the margin for people that want to reclaim the space they use for their office in home, or do not have a private office at home. For me, I will always choose work from home unless 80%+ of the people I need to work with are also in the office.

Ultimately I think WFH beats the network of satellite offices and overseas extensions many tech companies have built, but doubt WFH beats a centralized HQ. I would love to see a comparison of F500 or Nasdaq companies in their return to office strategies and success, but this data isn't public knowledge. In five or ten years it'll be interesting to map Return to Office policies and stock performance, which might be the final nail in the coffin of corporate offices.
Been at a small company for 13 years. The full responsibility of the main product is firmly on my shoulders, but with that is compensation to match, and full autonomy over the stack. In addition, they've stood by me through personal challenges that would have been an algorithmic termination at other places.
> Blockchain is entirely irrelevant

I believe that’s exactly what the OP said above

> You make the mistake

I think it might be the other way round here - do go and reread the post you’re replying to :)
Hello hackers,

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> This isn't a great idea from a management perspective.

I know, I don't really care. It's more about caring on a human level.
Cattle?
This is a fantastic post - I'm 100% going to start using the term "Casino-Chip Society" whenever I talk about "cashless" society.

There is another reason that cashless society is awful that was not talked about in this article, but I think is just as important - a digital dollar means that you have a dollar where it is impossible to commit crime. While that sounds like a good thing (who wants crime?), it very much stops being a good thing as soon as you bump up with laws that go against your morals. Designing systems with the assumption that we will always have democratic and free government is a horrendous idea, allowing the government to have a complete record and log of every single transaction you ever make, as well as having the ability to stop you using digital money, makes it so easy for fascists.
100% this. I have been struggling with this for the last 5 years and only after my son was diagnosed with ADHD did I realize that I have it as well. Just having an explanation for the challenges makes life easier and I don’t have to beat myself up about it so much.
How do you find that these intel Mac Minis run linux distros?
Probably either this or the 0E0P metacell https://conwaylife.com/wiki/0E0P_metacell, a large pattern which makes copies of itself in a way that mimics another cellular automaton, or Life itself.
Sony is getting into the metaverse with a new motion-tracking system
I miss the quaintness of being on the old Internet.

I think that back then, you'd often host your own site. Or at least, write most of it in HTML.

It was mostly your content, and maybe if on geocities or something, a few ads around the edges.

Now, it's 280 chars surrounded by a whole page of, what is realistically, ads or 'not you' content.

Content is broken up, piecemeal, not one.

While you can setup a singular resource, it's more rare for people to do.

Many old pages were just a text menu on the left "birds", "my dog", "the month I spent travelling", and then deep content.

Now you get mostly reactionary fluff "Can you believe the horrible thing I read!!!"
This is nothing compared to 2001-2002.

We’re just hearing about layoffs right now back then companies went out of business left and right which meant the layoffs were 100%.
The city drawings have very obvious underdiffusion in them.
I looked into a PHEV last year but didn’t bite the bullet. One thing I learned is there are a lot of chargers out there. Even Ubiquiti (Unifi) has a charger on the horizon or possibly in early access now. They said don’t mine gold sell shovels, smart car chargers are an interesting niche market.

My local power co-op offers free rates during the night time. The caveat is my daytime rates would near double. Not sure if it was worth it. Being able to schedule charging is a must for the car and/or charging.
Most of my bitching that JavaScript is slow comes from node, which is quite far removed from the DOM. Fast and slow are relative terms, of course, but JavaScript's language features necessitate that it will always be slower than most static, compiled languages. Regardless of runtime. What blows me away is how unsafe the language is on top of being slow, and yet it's basically eaten the world
This is where it starts to become complicated. I am not the best person to properly enumerate these complications so if this comment made you curious, check the podcast Maintenance Phase and their episode "Is Being Fat Bad For You?"[0]. However I can briefly try to summarise some of them for your curiosity:

- it is received wisdom that if you are fatter you are "unhealthier" and this is reflected in a lot of data whenever this is studied

- however this tends to not get controlled for some important factors (e.g. lower income people are generally more unhealthy overally than those on higher incomes) for a whole variety of reasons that aren't necessarily related to weight or whether you're categorised as overweight

- a very undeappreciated problem is that if you're "overweight"[1] you tend to be quite under-served by doctors currently. So it's common for an "overweight" person to go to the doctor with a problem - heart pains, gastro-intestinal problems, whatever - and to be told "lose some weight, you're overweight". While someone thinner would get some more attention even though they may both have a weight-agnostic root cause . This is not very well studied or measured, but this type of treatment is widely reported problem whenever you survey "overweight" people

- people with eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia are often excluded from these studies with the intent to get untainted data. These eating disorders are usually only diagnosed for people below a certain BMI, when in fact they are still definitely present among higher-BMI individuals and have a similarly detrimental effect on their health. Sustained dieting can have pretty serious effects on your body, and if you go to a doctor because, say, you're a woman on a diet who has stopped menstruating ... well, see the previous bullet point, you're just just get told "lose some weight"

There a few other additional issues, but I hope this is enough to make you stop and think that while yeah there's possibly increased health risks it's potentially less than we might realise and is a pretty complex subject that deserves careful study and to be treated with more nuance than it usually is.

[0] - the answer is "kinda yes, but not as much as you think and not in every way and it's more complicated": https://www.stitcher.com/show/maintenance-phase/episode/is-b...

[1] - Aubrey Gordon, a host of the podcast I mentioned, has suggested she doesn't like "overweight" etc euphemisms, but I chickened out of using just "fat" like she does ... but I still think "overweight" possibly incorrectly suggests there is a correct weight you should be - so I surrounded it in coward-quotes :) I do know for a fact that "obese" (and morbidly obese) are heavily frowned-upon and tbh not particularly helpful categorisations, I saw them floating around elsewhere in this thread.
To echo the rest of the comments, hybrid is fine if and only if I get some kind of private space in the office itself, a cube is OK, a desk with partitions is OK, but I want to be able to isolate myself when necessary. A layout where someone can creep up and tap me on the shoulder? Not OK. Open plan where I can watch other people picking their nose? Not OK. But whiteboarding and social collaboration work best face-to-face, and I'm up for that, at least part-time.

Our CEO has emailed around asking people to come in 2 days a week from next year, but the offices are open plan. This means my Q1 2023 to-do list now has 'find a new job' at the top of it.
Then why have the police, for decades spent overwhelmingly more resources investigating and infiltrating left-wing groups than far-right groups? When was the last left-wing terror attack in the UK?

I know right-wingers like to latch on to the handful of examples of police overreach when targeting right-wingers, but the reality doesn't match up. There is a huge discrepancy.
Why not ask what it will take for Boomers to allow Gen Z to WFH?
I do. Now I try to consciously reconnect more with my (extremely sophisticated) face muscles (a mirror helps)

IMO, our current lifestyle is certainly not making this any better.

100 years earlier, people communicated/worked with people face to face most of the time. Knowledge work (i.e in your head) was way less frequent. Screens, totally absent.
Datafaker: Generating fake data for Java, Kotlin, Scala
I think intelligence and happiness are independent and both fall on a spectrum for people. Intelligent people are probably just more likely to see that as the root of their unhappiness - "it must be because I'm so smart and understand the world better than other people" where less intelligent people would blame something else. In reality I think it's more "I just don't have habits of viewing the world positively" for everyone
Buddhism principles do not lock you in their system if all you want is to understand how happiness works and why you are not happy.

But people just ignore it anyway. Which is precisely the problem. Why address things when you can either ignore them or you can fight against yourself, but in both scenarios you always go round and round in the same loop.

In the current global consciousness, happiness is attributed to material possessions, which ironically is also what makes you unhappy.
How did you find your psychiatrist? As someone in a similar situation who has decided several times to get a consultation, it seems like the whole system is set up to be as difficult as possible! Just finding someone taking new patients is hard enough, then you have to worry about whether you have to have a PCP in their hospital, if they are allowed to do telehealth, whether they take your insurance, ..., ...

It was hard enough finding a therapist (and retaining them -- my therapist dropped me because the office only allows them to see someone for 1-2 years max).

If anyone has tips on more effectively finding therapists and psychiatrists, I am all ears. (I'm in the US if it helps)
This illustrates the core problem: victim blaming.
Tailwind is not an abstraction, it's a collection of one-rule utilities.

Tailwind is not for beginners, it's a dependency reversal for professionals.

Tailwind is not replacing CSS, it's embracing the realities of component libraries.

Tailwind is a paradigm shift...
Hah. My last major project was shut down due to legal issues, so I'm not entirely surprised this space is also laden with legal traps, but meh. It's art. If it's popular enough to attract bad attention then it's succeeding in its own way.

I'm sorry to hear you took away that impression from the game development space, though. It's not clear to me what innovations you're specifically referencing, though. Are you just worried about media trademarks? Or are there more technical tricks of the trade which are off-limits?

Thankfully my game is going to involve ants, not rodents :p I should probably look into what SimAnt's lawyers got up to, though.
"When you get what you want, you’ll naturally be more happy."

Oh, the babe! Oh, the pure, innocent child!

https://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Fyodor_Dostoevsky/Notes_from...
I wish the demo videos included walking inside the skyscrapers.
Present day Windows is NT, which wasn't made in the floppy era (floppies existed but were not practically useful by the time NT 3.1 was released).
Oh, if you were willing to spend $50 a card, I think you can get them down to the thickness of a credit card.

If you are willing to spend even more, you could bundle the card circuitry with the silicon embedded in the e-ink display already, and there are FPC e-ink displays. So it'd be about half the thickness of a credit card and flexible!

(at that point, we'd need to change the plinth interface, probably go for NFC like people are mentioning in these comments)
> curl seems like a quite basic application

It's an HTTP client. Here's 1 of 7 HTTP RFCs https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7230

There are bigger specs like for wifi where it's thousands of pages, but I don't think you can classify a client that implements even half of the HTTP specs as basic.
Unhappiness mostly comes from boredom as i see.

How smart people become boring ? Because they have no enough interesting resources/knowledge to discover ?

How to pursuit knowledge ?

To be happy or not to be happy? That's the choice.
Advanced Sentiment Analysis with NLP Transformers and Vector Search (video)
I don't think I have full blown ADHD but if distraction and procrastination is a spectrum (I believe it is) I'm probably somewhere in the middle. Though I've found ways to battle procrastination and improve it's always there lurking. I wonder if for cases like me (which I think is a huge proportion of the population) meds should be considered.
There is a growing possibility that any search engine using advertising-based business model will either not exist or will have to carry 'for entertainment' label in cca 10 years (as in 'do not take these results seriously, they are here for your entertainment only', similar to the disclaimer some ad-based media like Fox news already has in their terms to avoid liability [1]).

The conflict of interest produced by ad-based business model is so strong and will continue to grow like a malignant body. Public's erosion of trust in information served by an advertising company and at the same time realization by the users that what information we put in our heads is as important as what food we put in our bodies will inevitably lead to a major shift in the way search works.

We will see the rise of search engines with paid subsription business models that will align the interests between the information provider and customers (I am the founder of one, not trying to promote it but participate in the discussion close to my heart) and increasingly better AI that will be able to condendse multiple pages of information to produce contextual answer with references (an example here in fighting misinformation [2]).

Once we have this, there will be only one way for search to go and that is becoming better and better for the users, as the positive feedback loop between the search engine and its customers will drive such behavior.

[1] https://www.foxnews.com/terms-of-use (beginning of the third paragraph)

[2] https://twitter.com/vladquant/status/1597423319598305280
How about you start paying artists fairly, and then we can talk?
I think it would be better to say that it's random-inspired - you get a riff or a piece of a melody, but the whole song still has some artist-imposed structure or else it would be unlistenable. There's some nuance that I feel is worth distinguishing with its own word.
I love the domain name!
I'm not happy because I'm smart.

It takes ignorant to be happy.
> eliminating all the competition by undercutting them then jacking up prices

Standard Oil resulted in lower prices for consumers. They had a patent on railcars designed for hauling oil so their competition had to load and unload barrels on to standard railcars and that was much more expensive to do. Any monopoly they had was explicitly enabled and enforced by the US government, via the patent office. After they were broken up, prices for consumers went up.
One of the underrated problems for back-to-office advocates is that the average gen z office worker does not want to extensively interact with all their co-workers.
It’s worth mentioning since the title doesn’t say much that AssemblyScript removed WASI support. There are still ways to get it to work but they clearly are dissatisfied.
ECB on Bitcoin: "Regulation can be misunderstood as approval"
A book that made me see how carefully and how well we can ascertain a nebulous concept in social science:

Culture Of Honor: The Psychology Of Violence In The South by Richard Nisbett and Dov Cohen

https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Honor-Psychology-Violence-Dir...

The authors use a variety of independent evidence (historic, lab experiments, etc) to show that a culture of honor exists, what it is, how it is perpetuated, and how we can make predictions based on it. This book is superb!
Flying cars have existed for a long time - they're called helicopters.
When approaching a topic regarding a marginalized group, heuristics like "mainstream" show their failure points. "Mainstream" is effectively asking for the opinion of non-marginalized people on the marginalized. This doesn't mean it's necessarily biased, but it has the tendency to be more biased.

However, there's an easy fix. The obvious correction to the heuristic is to in turn ask the marginalized group their opinion. In this case, that would mean asking one or more transwoman their opinion on the topic.
I finally retired in 2021 as I was working too many hours. At least the last year was at home, so I could avoid the hour commute. Most of the people I needed to meet with were 3000 mi away from me anyway, my immediate team sat around me, but we still talked on slack all day anyway. There was little reason to be in the office. WFH saved me a lot of wasted time, although I missed having lunch with people every day, and teaching new team members what we were doing on a white board was handy; otherwise nothing else helped.

In my long career I saw every kind of environment, cubes, open office, bullpens, private offices, and shared offices. I could cope with any environment and still get work done, sometimes having everyone you needed within spitting distance was useful for quick questions, but not everyone is good at task switching, so it's not always helpful. I found my best productivity was quiet + instant comms (such as Slack). When the people you need to talk with are spread out over multiple time zones, being in an office, especially and open one, is terrible, especially if people insist on having calls on a phone or computer with a mike. Hearing 10 meetings going on at the same time is a killer.

Offices are nice if you can close the door, but who gives you offices any more? Companies seem to prefer cramming people into sardine cans these days.
Pogo pins were too expensive, I'm (totally mis)using spring fingers.
the more 'actionable' Naval-ism that helps me is

"If you can't be happy with a coffee, you won't be happy with a yacht."

somehow this makes me naturally gauge if I'm enjoying the present as a question "am I enjoying this coffee / new fountain pen / crunchy leaves?" and I actually feel the happiness bubble up in sensory focus.

Doesn't last long yet works for me.
Sapling SCM from Meta
Conversation Summaries in Google Chat
The modest reduction in quality from leftovers is easily made up for in the time and money savings; at least for me.
Minimum Viable Git for Trunk-Based Development
They're moving my group from low cubes to open office. I hate open office.
Or figure out a system that works for you. Medication is not the only way.