skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The standard is 200 sqft of office space per employee (this factors in conference rooms, common space, bathrooms, etc). That means best case, you are looking at approximately 300 people per football field of office space.

Colocating functional teams together, and by extension the teams they need to work with, is a great idea but the math just doesn't work out for a company of more than a few hundred employees. At the minimum you are still traveling to other buildings on the same campus to have meetings.

None of us want to spend our life on Zoom. But I'll take a few hours a day of calls to get back 2 hours a day in traffic that I can spend having coffee with my wife and petting my dogs.
The thing is, in the world of gaming, Microsoft buying games studios is making it less of a mononpoly. Sony has tons of solid PS exclusive because of their studios. Microsoft starts to make similar like moves and all of a sudden it's monoploy problem. WTF.
Indeed---Daeyeol was the RL person!

I'm guessing we just missed each other in grad school?
It is not that you lose your copyright, but your trademark (sometimes your copyright) becomes harder to defend if you don't actively protect it. Sometimes the terminology is blurry and it's not clear when someone means copyright or trademark.

Nintendo is doing this to protect their trademark (Nintendo, et. al.).
In the old school German (and dutch) toilets, the shit lands on basically a shelf, for inspection.

You then flush it and it fucks off into the abyss.

The reason for the "poop inspection shelf" apparently was so you could take a quick look at your turd and see if it displayed signs of illness. Like say, blood.
I would make public transport free. Metro, train, bus

It's already publicly funded for most of the budget. You can scrap ticketing systems/gates and use the conductors somewhere else in the economy.

It won't happen, not because it's more expensive, but because governments like to keep track off movements.
What's funny is that I'd never consider buying an Xbox because every console game I want to play is a Sony or Nintendo exclusive.
I don't understand why game developers should be publically traded companies. You have a creative vision, you raise or borrow money to build it, you build a game, you sell it to pay off your loans and fund your next creative vision--it should be that simple.

The last thing you want is the public to start having control and financial interest in your creative vision. That gives us bullshit like loot boxes, NFTs, etc.
As a childhood fan of all things Blizzard (clocked in thousands of hours on their games), Activision has destroyed any respect I had for this company. They defiled every franchise, and Diablo Immortal is a sickening game.

Sincerely hope the deal falls through and the company goes bankrupt.
I love how Trust and Safety are the go-to watchwords for every tech platform’s self-serving business model-protecting content policy decisions.
11.94% vs 11.82%

The difference in ratings is statistically insignificant?

I’m not using either one these days but I’m not sure why C++ would be increasing more than Java.

Does this mean Rust is not taking anything away from C++?
My local city ticket was 80€ per month. This is huge.
Italy ageing faster than EU peers as population falls below 59M
Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image
That's not a choice.
Google is also bad. We are agreed on that.
Meanwhile there are countless games from AAAs to indies that are Steam or Epic Games exclusives but I guess that's also okay for whatever reason. Just because I can install multiple stores on my PC that doesn't make it better when it's locked in to one store.
I haven't thought of that. It's a good idea. I know how to compile to WebAssembly but how do I run it in python?

A quick search leads to pywasm and it is even native python. But is it usable? Any other options?
I thought New School was supposed to be leftist?
It's just crazy cheap. Really amazing and ambitious.
For me it's the fact that it's probably for over 10 years that I've been reading on how amazing Julia is and how it's going to become much bigger than Python in Data Science yet I've never seen any evidence of that. It gets tiring after some time and yet the Julia community keeps making these claims.
The difference is that Theranos's tech _never_ worked whereas there is a lot of positive movement in the FSD solution. I've had several near-zero intervention drives so far.

The problem here is defining what "full" means and debating what "full" _should_ mean.

Worst case is that Tesla refunds a lot of people's money, FSD gets a name change, and shareholders will find a way of dethroning Elon.
the "how much of the value created by transistors was captured by the inventors of this technology" question reminds me of the discussion around the difference between value creation and capturing of value. It's one of the important points illustrated in Peter Thiel's "Zero to One" book.

That a company generates large profits or that an individual takes home a gigantic salary does not necessarily mean that they have created a lot of value, but certainly that they have been able to capture/extract value. To me its the difference between Wikipedia and a hedge fund, or elementary school teachers and VC investors. Many people and organizations create lots of value, but are often not financially rewarded for it. As a society we should therefore be careful about placing those who are rich on a pedestal
I was thinking this exact question earlier today but for a slightly different reason. I'm on holiday and I used a "Henry" to vacuum up after my kids this morning.

At home we use a cordless Dyson which is convenient but damn does it pale in comparison, despite the convenience and it cost 3-4x more than the "Henry" does.

We've made things convenient with engineering, but they often suck in comparison to older technology.
You're conflating off-chain traditional finance (rife with fraud and theft) with on-chain programs.

We have never once seen someone successfully steal users' funds without access to their private keys. That's the entire point of crypto.

Crypto never claimed to prevent fiat fraud. Crypto never claimed to prevent human custodians from absconding with funds.
Is there a distribution of Alpine Linux under 50MB (terminal only), iso or raw image, with APK intalled? Every minimal Linux installer brings Busybox without a proper package manager.
Open hardware PowerPC Notebook: Prototypes ready, let’s proceed to test them
It's not, I disagree with GP's argument. Safe harbors in copyright law exist to allow this.
> The layoff was announced internally alongside an executive departure. Airtable’s chief revenue officer, chief people officer and chief product officer have all parted ways with the company, effective today

That's gotta be a little worrying, huh?

Also, in the article, it mentions that "20% of staff were affected". That puts Airtable at ~1250 employees (pre-layoff). They raised $725 million in 2021. So this can't possibly be a cash crunch, right? Feels more like opportunistic restructuring - a chance to make some painful changes with the justification of "the economy."
Summertime Render?
What about multi-region for anyone who has a remote team?
Airtable being valued at $11B is completely nuts. Sure it's kinda useful but the valuation was completely bonkers and I wouldn't be surprised if it hurts them down the road as they'll never really meet expectations a $11B valuation brings.
so many "pentests" are:

* run scanner

* print out report

not a lot of deep diving
It would be great to be able to leave feedback on individual search results

For example, the explanation text of "What is RCU (Read-Copy-Update) and how is it different than a Mutex?" was (mostly) great:

https://beta.sayhello.so/search?q=what+is+rcu+%28ready-copy-...

The code examples were not the best. I looked for a way to relay this information on the search results but couldn't find it (only "GOOD/BAD" vote)

---

Can you just put a <form> tag or an <input> at the bottom and hook it up to some DB table?

EDIT: It seems to re-generate the text each time?? So, if someone takes my word for it and then gets an awful description, that's why.
https://github.com/prisma/prisma/blob/main/packages/client/p...
Deep mind could be considered a corporate research lab, don't you think?

Microsoft also has a big lab I think
> I can't find the citation, but someone related to OpenAI said that ChatGpt cost a few cents per query.

Here's the citation, from Sam Altman of OpenAI: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1599671496636780546

Also, this person who doesn't appear to actually be affiliated with OpenAI estimates the running costs at $100k per day: https://twitter.com/tomgoldsteincs/status/160019699538936627...
Same.

Warp team: I watched the demo and it looks great, and I downloaded it while going through this thread. I didn't install. I think you're boxing yourselves out.
> but because governments like to keep track off movements.

You can buy any ticket in cash at the automatic ticket machines. I don't think it's that, the government has enough cameras to track you in general, they don't really need ticket records.
Interesting!

It's pretty slow for me. But will give it a more extensive test later when it's faster.

Small nit: someone on here recently suggested it might be better to build products "made with rage", rather than "made with <3". not sure, perhaps the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Edit: this is really cool! If you are raising money please send me wire instructions or a NEAR coin address.
You don't need a license to cite others.
If the current situation sucks then doesn't it makes sense to block moves that would make it suck even more?
You can't rugpull if you don't have their private keys.
If there's an equal distribution of talent/productivity among the remote-demanding group and the on prem-demanding group, and only 20% demand on prem, the smart move is to cut the smaller group loose. They offer a smaller talent pool and most of the highest-performing talent will be in the remote group.
> Yup this is non-news. Nobody ever gets paid during a strike.

Sounds like these people were paid while striking, for a few weeks:

> Nearly 1,800 part-time faculty members at the New School, who have been on strike since November 16 for better pay and working conditions, remained out of work and on the picket lines on Wednesday even as the university said it would start withholding their pay [emphasis mine].
The previous Chief Product Officer has a great background in consumer products... which is at odds with Airtable's focus on Enterprise SaaS.
Thanks for trying it out - we're still quite early so the model isn't going to be perfect + we're focused on programming related queries at the moment. What is your use case? Are most of your searches related to history?
It looks like you’ve stumbled upon the next big “impossible question” that is going to require future technology to help us solve.

It is interesting to see how it attempted to “solve it” though (I put that in quotes since it isn’t actually doing the math)
Isn't this what everyone is asking for? If you over hire and have to layoff people, heads should roll at the executive level for leading to this.
Doesn't it? Why not?
FAQ: The “Snake Fight” Portion of Your Thesis Defense

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-port...
Surprised how low JS is on there.
The action in this case is less about the party in power than in the individuals involved. The FTC has been sleepwalking for decades. Biden appointed an FTC chairperson who has the reputation of being an anti-trust bulldog and appears to be committed to actually putting some teeth in the regulations. She can't especially go back in time, but she can certainly take action on what's upcoming.
Database Papers Advent Calendar
There's not always partitions, i.e. the troughs I referenced.

The clearances around the stall doors have never occurred to me as an issue. Nobody stands outside of a stall door with their face stuck in the door crack.
> (Yes, I know about map_err.)

I am curious to hear more about why you prefer what you wrote to map_err, if you're willing to share. I have my own guess, but I'm always interested in things like this.

(For those that don't know, you could write the above code as something like:

let aVar = SomeFunction().map_err(|err| OtherError::from(someContext, err))?;

or if it becomes too long,

let aVar = SomeFunction()
.map_err(|err| OtherError::from(someContext, err))?;

and in some cases you don't even need the |err| but since we're taking two arguments here you can't 'curry' it in a sense.)
Microsoft has already committed to releasing Call of Duty on Nintendo platforms and Steam, so that's probably not any part of the concern.
I think much of the value of "dockerization" is that it forces you to write a script, specifically a dockerfile, to build your system.

Most systems a few things that need to be customized to create an instance: database connections, filesystem paths and API keys.

The other day we (HN) heard from somebody in Germany who was running out of capacity in Azure and wondering what to do, if he'd had a script to build a copy of his system he wouldn't have been stressing it so much. It's good to document and standardize your install process early in development as if you do it when you're not under stress you won't stress it when you are.
It's not exactly rocket science to spend a few minutes thinking about how to make your cheating look just like an athlete who is marginally better than the rest of the field.
While I don't think centralization of media is a good thing, the anti-competitive argument doesn't make sense given the amount of viable competition. Microsoft is probably in 3rd place in console sales, lower if you include PC and define Steam as a separate platform.

If the merger were completed, it would certainly change things, but it wouldn't be any guarantee of Microsoft's dominance, or even a first place finish. So to block the acquisition based on something that might happen seems like a clear case of regulatory overreach.
I won't play Epic exclusive games. Valve put so much effort into Linux as a platform that they've bought my loyalty. When I see a game go from a Steam pre-order Epic exclusive it basically disappears from my RADAR.
Maybe not for long - https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/06/taylor-swift-ticketmaster-fi...
The company IT department has been disappearing from enterprises for years. Companies use SaaS apps and outsource many of the other functions so no code is just another step towards a no IT department. IT costs are an easy target for cuts so expect all functions to be reduced or outsource over time.
your child is experiencing that person, that place and your interest in the books... Google doesnt do that
People complain when layoffs don't touch execs and ask where the accountability is. Maybe this is that?

(That doesn't preclude it being worrying for the business.)
There's zero attempt to cache answers or cited sources, I suppose, because I keep getting different answers even from the same cited source just by clicking the search icon on the bar with the same query:

"The French-speaking population of France during the French Revolution was estimated to be around 25 million people" (wrong, citing that same Statista graph that doesn't mention language use)

"It is difficult to accurately estimate the French-speaking population of France during the French Revolution, as there was no official census taken at the time." (honestly the most accurate answer yet, but citing that same Statista graph)

"It is impossible to accurately estimate the French-speaking population of France during the French Revolution, as there is no reliable data available. However, it is estimated that around 80% of the population spoke French in 1800." (first sentence is correct, second is wrong, citing that same Statista graph)

"At the time of the French Revolution, less than half of France's population could speak French. This was due to a combination of factors, including the fact that French was an extremely popular language with the elite and higher classes, as it was adopted by nearly all European courts and it even reached the other side of the Atlantic." (cites a babbel.com article; I think the first sentence is the first time the answer approaches both accuracy and consistency with both the question and source, largely by plagiarizing part of the source. It still omits useful context about the lack of literacy/fluency that's in the same sentence lifted from the source. Then it goes back off the deep end with the second sentence, which the source uses to emphasize how broadly French was spoken, and not as a reason why so few people in revolutionary France spoke French.)
This is a massive change and a huge improvement for a lot of people. This isn't directly because of the price, although there is some reduction in price to the current system, but because it simplifies the ridiculous pricing zones. For example, Berlin is split up into 3 different pricing zones: A, B, C. If you need a monthly subscription for zones A and B you'd pay 63 Euros per month. If you live just across the state border from Berlin in Brandenburg, which still is technically one continuous urban area, you're classified in Zone C and now need to pay 83 Euros. This is still somewhat simple compared to some other combination. You can see all the zones on Wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_transport_ass...
There should just be a big popup that says "you win" and we can call it a day.
The fact that this happened in the crypto space is prima facie evidence that "Crypto's sole purpose is to prevent the theft that occurred. Fact." is wrong. Full stop.
You mean the sort of third parties that let a paper slip through the cracks which peers contacted by Science.org claim should have never been published because of the glaring errors it contains?

What evidence do you have that anyone has actually looked into those data? In what context? You're simply repeating his claim but there isn't evidence the data was ever scrutinized. In research you're shown other people's data all the time - that doesn't mean that people actually look into it.
> The problem here is defining what "full" means and debating what "full" _should_ mean.

Exactly. Do you mean "we can get rid of the drivers and save on labor expenses" or do you mean "We can upsell this feature to make driving easier". A lot of investors, for example Uber investors, were promised the former. That's the fraud angle. But there are a lot of satisfied car owners who are enjoying the latter right now.
FIFA is EA, not Activision. Although they’ve taken your advice, FIFA 23 is the last one the licence the name, it’s going to be renamed EA Sports FC for the next one.
Germany doesn't do gates, it's just random inspections.

But yes there's quite a lot of overhead in the ticket system, it would certainly be more efficient to just fund everything from general taxes.
As a fellow Dutchman I hate how it takes literally just two seconds to hear that the author is Dutch as well just by the accent nearly all of us English speaking Dutch suffer from (conversely he could do the same with my pronunciation of English).

It's like a national shibboleth as impossible to get rid of as herpes.
Yes, the messages! In Haskell, you would get the effect with a higher-level function that can add context, or something like <?> in Parsec, or maybe a custom function that calls catchError. In the continuation-passing style like you get in JS promises, you can do this with .catch(err=>...).
BWXT starts fuel production for microreactor
Show HN: This VC Does Not Exist
Source code: https://github.com/retrohacker/this-vc-does-not-exist
Good. Microsoft buying up every single game publisher they can get their hands on is good for no one.
It's quite likely a fair use violation...

1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
3. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

Particularly 3 & 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#U.S._fair_use_factors
> Perhaps if you spend most of your time trying to produce slides, designs, etc., freeing up some of that time for more high value activities is not such a bad thing

Maybe, but if doing that was my full time job then I would instantly feel less valuable and less secure.

I just don't buy the argument that AI/automation frees up time to do more valuable work at the individual level. Sure it's great for the organization. But if your job became obsolete tonight, simultaneously with thousands of other people, what "high value activities" would you do to earn money? I'm not saying that has happened but the day may be coming for us "knowledge workers".

The trend here is that knowledge work is becoming less valuable. Not everyone will be able to rise above the machines in this category.

Luckily we can probably still clean houses for a living, since it appears that robots will be able to write good code before they can wash dishes or make a bed.
I watched it, am plugged into the crypto universe and still have no memory of it. Do we expect people to remember every obscure commercial they saw? Coinbase is another story because the QR code was memorable but I think it's also higher profile than FTX ever was in the US.
Maybe, but that doesn’t make the comparison less valid.
PD.pub is hiring! All your work will be public domain.

I am a huge fan of AirTable, but obviously think they've missed something huge: (see my talk "If spreadsheets and programming languages had a baby" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l2QWH-iV3k). We've got lots of exciting stuff coming out!
Exactly, we use some information from traditional search engines as input to our model.
Blizzard was done before Activision. Even before the Vivendi deal.
so now layoffs.fyi which is using Airtable can have a row with Airtable layoff record inside an Airtable table component.
I think the GP's implication was that it's more like rats fleeing a sinking ship rather than heads rolling.
Did this slur end in the letter "X"? If so, yikes!
Some minor feedback: It's a little confusing that right below the search it asks "Was this answer better than Google?" when the answers you get to compare with on the right are from Bing. That question could be changed to "Was this answer better than the Bing results to the right?" Also, shouldn't the Bing results to the right be labeled as Bing results? I only know they are from Bing because it says "We also show regular Bing results side-by-side with our AI answer." in the post.
"There is an interesting epilogue to this story. When Heisenberg derived the uncertainty relations several years later, he used the resolving power of the microscope to derive the uncertainty relations"

Loved this part. They are pretty much the same :)
This kind of fuel is used in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_gas_reactor