skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be productive from home. Many people are quite productive working from home --but a big amount of people are less productive working from home. They have distractions or simply do not have the habits that allow them to be productive at home and need the environment at work to push them to be less unproductive. Some people are more productive with supervision/office environment.
I can assure you that remote work is here to stay for good and that managers will get a real job in the long-term :)
That's fine, Kurian is under Sundar too. But GCP isn't winning.
XPS15 is a really shit device. Almost (every??) all Dell portable products are. Very poor build quality, subpar components unless you spend a LOT maxing then out. Their warranty support is awful, their callcentres are outsourced indian script readers.

Lenovo on the other hand! Fantastic.
Apparently The Atlantic changed it: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34695531>
> Who will be best positioned when these killer apps start coming out?

Hopefully everyone. Use OpenXR as a base and release on every headset.
In my experience it’s not about labor at all. It’s very far from wanting to put the best high up and more about which social circles you get access to. It’s always a struggle between what’s best for the company and what is best for the individual board members/ceo and there is way to few real active investors for the best of the company to take priority usually.
The Gervais Principle

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

... illustrates the fallacy of the Peter Principle.
Authoritarian types consider any information derived by science which is contrary to their position as invalid or irrelevant because facts challenge their authority and ability to exercise control.
Show HN: A simple file transfer website built using Cloudflare Workers and R2
The internet is not the best medium for satire I suppose. Hence the ROFL for emphasis.
Otherwise you end up like Atherton, where schools are building on-site dorms for teachers, because no teacher can afford to live in Atherton (or really anywhere close to it).

And then when someone does try to improve the situation by building medium density housing in Atherton (hah, I jest, by naively trying to suggest maybe building, I mean)... you get people like Steph Curry filing objections because he might have to increase the height of his fence for privacy.
Ken Thompson made more than his manager at Bell Labs.
Marissa Meyer found this out and she gave her remote workers an ultimatum because it was such a lost cause --when she had her people check access logs many had not logged in to the systems they worked on in some time.

It’ll be interesting to see what the productivity numbers reveal in the coming years.
I’m not sure any population increase really means any of the other post’s story is true.

Rural populations have been moving to suburban size towns for a long time now.
Yes this, I have a hard time forming words some times due to a brain aneurysm. It is such a great tool to form my thoughts. The responses need a little tweaking but it really helps me write well structured arguments for why I dont want to implement a piece of technology which results in me having to do more work.
A killer app for me would be to make all the windows in my apartment seem larger. Scenery can stay the same just make them 1.3x the size.
I recently switched from using Google Docs to storing my notes in Markdown/Git and making them available just to myself via Docusaurus on a private Gitlab Pages repo.

Benefits:
1. Free
2. Securely available from any web browser. Only people added to you repo can access the published notes.
3. Clean interface with solid search capability
4. Versioned
5. Easy cross-linking
6. Can edit locally or on the web, both with preview

Cons:
1. Requires a little upfront setup. See [0]
2. Requires familiarity with Markdown
3. Requires free Gitlab account

I am pretty happy with this now. I'm able to organize and search my notes at https://<gitlabusername>.gitlab.io/<repo name> and the 1-click edit link takes me to the Gitlab web IDE where I can make changes, see the preview, and commit changes.

[0]: https://jedfonner.com/2023/01/22/private-kb
>The Cosquer Cave is located in the Calanque de Morgiou in Marseille, France, near Cap Morgiou. The entrance to the cave is located 37 m (121 ft) underwater, due to the Holocene sea level rise.

Yup... we cant blame big coal/oil on this one.
Why would a user pick Chrome over Safari? From a software development standpoint, maybe Apple would stop tying browser versions to the OS if they had competition. Safari is IE all over again with users stuck on older versions because they can't upgrade their OS.
Ideally, one should think that for every dns resolver they use.

As one example, even when a popular configurable dns resolver says they don't store logs outside the EU, they might yet be caching those logs and analytics with AWS and GCP servers all over the world.

Btw, Rethink is FOSS (https://github.com/serverless-dns/serverless-dns), and its deployment logs are inspectable right on GitHub. Not saying you should trust us, but that's already more transparency than most resolvers (speak nothing of vague / cute privacy policy). Any how, our focus with Rethink has mainly been anti censorship / anti surveillance, and nothing much else.
I had a pair of 2015 era Samsung Android tablets that were perfectly fine. I cracked the screen on one and was able to get it repaired at a local shop for under $100.

Fast forward to last year when I bought an S22. It's not a BAD phone, per se, but very overpriced. I would love to get rid of the bloatware (I don't root my daily driver phones) and it would be cool if it would last more than 6 hours on a charge. In all fairness, the camera is quite nice.

I also would love to have a 3.5mm jack and a removable battery, but meh.

I recently got a Packt feature phone to try out. Works fine. When I'm in the car I hook my tablet up to it (it's also a hotspot) and it's completely acceptable. Big screen google maps. Only wish I could get a GPS receiver for my tablet.

I'm mostly done with mobile phones anyway. My kids are grown so I'm not freaked out about being out of touch all the time. Gonna rock a land line for a while now that I'm old. Maybe also get a Commodore 64 off ebay. I wish I was kidding. But I got old. Smart phones just don't do it for me anymore.
Have you looked at Gallatin County on a map? https://www.google.com/maps/@45.7139136,-111.2522263,97391m/...

It's nothing like SFBA, there are miles and miles of open land inside Gallatin Valley, all around Belgrade, Four Corners, and Manhattan.

If you meant that it's:

>everything outside [Bozeman] has little to none infrastructure to accommodate any meaningful incoming number of people

Then they can build it, because there is plenty of land. Outside SFBA in Central Valley, they are building tons in Tracy and Manteca, and that's separated by long unbuildable terrain, unlike west of Bozeman.
What's interesting about this work-in-progress repo with what seems to be a very barebones IaC to deploy a single-binary app on a specific PaaS?
Cheating in RuneScape is what got me into programming. There was a program called SCAR (I believe) that let you write automation scripts in Pascal. That was a lot of fun.
Sir Nils Olav Promoted to Brigadier by Norwegian King's Guard
Are managers allowed to be in unions?
They're concerned about profits as any capitalist enterprise is, but if it makes you feel any better they are trying to innovate and find new revenue streams (ex: in digital technologies related to lifestyle and events - that's how I was involved with them), and not necessarily getting more young people to drink.
I've never played another game like runescape. It's pretty insane.

1. Tons of free content. I didn't get a membership for a long time. When I did it was something like 5 dollars a month, which I could scrape up as a kid.

2. Massive world. You could wander around for hours and find new stuff. Even just little things like some cool empty building, all of it was so fun to explore. Staying up late and exploring the wild with a friend was legitimately thrilling - and horrifying when you'd see a little yellow dot show up on the minimap.

3. Tons of quests and content, new content came out all the time.

Whoever pushed RS3 greatly misunderstood all of this. Graphics improvements were appreciated but not super necessary - otherwise, the game was basically ruined by having tons of random shit and an extremely cluttered UI. Really bad mobile game vibes.

I played against a year or two ago, just for a week or two, and it was still super fun. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a time sink, and I just can't spend time on it anymore. But it was a hell of a lot of fun.
DC attracts the higher end culinary restaurants--the sort of place an upper middle class person can afford to eat at once a month or less. But you are fooling yourself if you think the tiers of restaurants below that are any better in the district. Both are worse than food scenes in real cities.

And for the places you are paying 200/person for dinner--people in Arlington aren't much (or at all) further than people in NE.

And you are fooling yourself if you think the people living in old town are much different than people in Logan Circle. Or people in courthouse are different than people in navy yard.
"Today, we’re launching an all new, AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser, available in preview now at Bing.com"

I'm so confused. Is Microsoft straight-up BSing?
Can you elaborate on these "two really good ones?"

What did they do that made them so special?
It seems that pthread_jit_write_protect_np isn't public on iOS so perhaps JIT can't be implemented regardless of AppStore
> Does it nag you constantly and do everything it can to steal data from you?

I remember having to spend a little while de-shittifying it, they push the Shopping/Rewards stuff pretty hard and clutter up the UI. You can't get rid of Bing on the new tab page without extensions / other hoops.
I wonder how much of the Jank is attributable to FF just being a wrapper on iOS?

Like, maybe they had to "start from scratch" there with new code and couldn't use all their previous magic (UI, UX) from the Desktop codebase.
For what it's worth, and I get zero financial or other benefit from this, but Neeva search has a really great GPT summary and query system by default AND it's a paid search tool that you can make default everywhere (iOS FF & Win FF for me).

It's data policy + great search + no ads + AI Summary is just killer and has completely transformed my web experience.
> Quite simply, don't write any software to improve your employer's operations unless you are instructed by your boss to do so. Don't use your own initiative to do something unless it is acknowledged and approved by your superiors.

Heh, are there actual companies where this is possible? If I went off coding random pet projects to "improve operations" I'd get in trouble real quick. Unless it's discussed and prioritized from higher up it's hard to make time to work on substantial projects. Maybe I should be looking for a new opportunity eh!
> easier and faster

That's the thing. The privacy implications are different at scale.

A world of FOSS tools, where centralized ID databases are heavily restricted or banned, and people are using facial recognition technology on people they encounter in their lives and tag, that would be fairly harmless, perhaps even doing much more good than harm.

But it's not going to play out like that. How many of us run speech transcription software on our own machines, and how many of us use a remote service?
The difference is, webkit doesn't have an army of angry weaponised nerds that will go out of their way to remove every single unwanted pop-up and ad imaginable the second they appear.
Chloramine (chlorine and ammonia) in the water we drink has been linked to IBD, IBS and Crohn’s. Most large cities switched to this now in the US (San Francisco switched in 2004). It is also difficult to filter out of water. We shower in it too, vaporized into our lungs with hot water.
The storm of wanting to keep their obscenely large profits at the same scale? I mean, that's what the other big tech companies who are laying off employees are doing
Thats my point. Its not reasonable to expect rapid public transit in a place like PA.

You could run buses, but youve just turned a 30 min commute by car into a 1.5hr bus ride with multiple bus changes.

Transit only works in medium to high density cities.
99 wc crew
If you pay X for something, and then have to start paying Y > X for the same thing, it's become more expensive for you. I don't see how this is debatable.
PSA - note the below quoted passages! If you played RuneScape between 2001 and 2012 and have any data archives or machines sitting around from that time, you might be able to help this project :)

> Contribute to the RuneScape Archive [1] with any lost RuneScape data prior to 2010 and receive any obtainable item of your choice as a thanks!

[1] https://rs-archive.github.io/index.html

> Our goal is to recover missing versions of RuneScape from 2001 until 2012.
These versions were not saved by Jagex and are at risk of disappearing forever, with over 2/3 remaining unrecovered. If you ever played Runescape just once on a computer, the full game files were all downloaded.
Similar to the "we must have microservices so that we can scale" fad a lot of people thought they had big data even though their records easily fit on a single machine.
I think the recent industry layoffs reflect that in part.

Though I think there’s a better way— that is executive data science, what I do at Zapier. The key is that I’ve built up a huge amount of econometric and economic / business skills that I apply to affect good change in collaboration with company leaders. It allows me to work with Execs using sensible analysis. I improve growth and output by helping us catch errors of assumption before they go into production and cost growth / bad surprises. I also help the executives gain alignment around good information. This multiplies their departments’ output by allowing them to work better together, more in concert. That helps avoid issues with data being bent to decisions.

They typically carry a lot of hard-won valuable domain knowledge (that I combine with my economic-statistic knowledge and skills for rigor).

It’s my job to ensure Execs start with good sensible information regarding objectives. They usually ask fantastic questions and share a lot of great analysis of their own.

There are times I learn about what I might call controversial implications. This is typical of innovation using technology. It’s in these moments that I feel I create the most value by highlighting the trade offs I believe we face / potential regret.
> And I'm sure the kids still remained with their parents at night. Through all of our known history across all cultures families have slept together. It is only in the past few centuries that European wealth and individualism changed that.

I am sure you are so sure because you are attempting to shoehorn reality into some vague political philosophy.

> So why is this the 'better' option? What is the benefit from separating a child from their parents at night?

Privacy for one. Some people claim letting your baby cry in the other room is healthier for their development, 'etc. If you insist on being post-modern about everything lets take it all the way, what even is 'better'? Why is 'better' even 'better'?

I'll keep my individualism thank you. You do your better and I'll do mine.
What many people don’t realize is that some large corporations actively manage for mediocrity. Oh, they won’t say that is what they are doing, but it is the outcome of things like micromanagement, constant meetings interrupting flow, high levels of process bureaucracy.

But there is a rational reason for it. It reduces risk and makes output more predictable. If you have a 10x developer who is actually producing 10x, how do you plan for that? What if he leaves? If you reduce him to 2x or so, it’s much more likely he can be replaced.
Citizens. Not all who live here are.
https://archive.is/5e3Ts
Yahoo was a cesspool at that time, right?
Hardly, reddit, in its current form, will die because of LLMs. It is too easy to get an account and post. They will have to wall the garden or trash will fill it. :(
Codecs and formats that Apple tries to ban, touch events API that Apple tries to ban, support for DASH that Apple tries to ban. And so on.

Basically anything that Apple tries to ban for anti-competitive reasons. Once this blocker is removed, no one will care about Apple bans anymore.
Most ICs and EMs I've talked with prefer remote. I think it's coming from higher up, execs or maybe even VCs. Probably whoever is looking at the ROI on those pricy multi-year leases.
because it's integrated in my Google ecosystem and I for one like it that way.
Disagree with what? I never said _you_ are a dummy for using distributed compute. There are many good applications for distributed compute. I used spark and flink at a big tech job. The stack worked well for some things, and for others it was a hammer looking for a nail. What you do not see is that for every team that you work with and consider a peer group to you, there are 100 teams that really do not need distributed compute, because they have an org wide infra budget of <3M dollars and a total addressable data lake of less than 1TB, but they are implementing very expensive distributed compute solutions recommended from either a Deloitte consultant or a very junior engineer. Should an IB with an infra budget in the 100M+ infra budget zone use distributed compute solutions, absolutely. There just aren't that many of these orgs.
Discovery of an Exceptionally Rare Nearby and Energetic Gamma-Ray Burst
I always come back to runescape every couple years and the things i do in game speaks volumes to my mindset.

Back when i first started playing I never really did much of anything really... explored around, tried quests and never thought of looking up a guide, talked to alot of people standing in the bank, played alot of minigames etc. etc.

Years go by and I come back and i was hooked on efficiency. What wierd methods were there for getting insane xp per hour like sitting in lunar island, cannoning the trolls, while woodcutting the trees and high alching the logs.

skip to my early 20's when i first started programming for my day job and i would come home and write runescape bots for all sorts of stuff. One of my favorites that i wrote would have around 20 bots with gmauls sit in multi-wildy and hive mind spec poor souls who walked by.

I haven't touched RS in years, but funnily enough last weekend I found out the OS buddy and the runescape Wiki post grand exchange data. Was spending some time learning rust and decided to build a grand exchange analysis tool that looked across a number of factors (Volume, stability, beta) to determine the best items to flip.

Don't really want to post it on github cause it'd probably fuck with the economy but if anyones interested, hit me up at rhoades.lorenzo@gmail.com
I just got a massive hit of dopamine from the nostalgia of seeing the classic homepage. So many hours of my middle school life spent playing Runescape...
They also give you a good performance. I'm a maintainer of a specialised open-source 3gram database, and there's a lot of performance tricks you can do with 3grams. There are around 2*24 different 3grams (less if you only care about printable characters). This is small enough to pack into a single array on a modern computer. For example the file format I use has a header that reserves 8 bytes of data [1] for every possible 3gram - that's just 128MB of overhead per index, not a lot of disk storage. For 4grams, that's 32GB, much less acceptable even now. And 2grams are just not very useful for large datasets.

[1] for the curious - the header is basically uint64_t file_offsets_to_3gram_data[2**24].
Gave “him”?
Yup, it was one of the candidates. https://devtalk.blender.org/t/developer-blender-org-call-for...
Manhattan isn't the bay area, which has better transit than most places but cars are still needed to go many places. 4 spots is very reasonable for a midside+ single family home if you consider two adults and a child or two of driving age, or visitors.

Given that this appears to be basically 5 single family townhomes, and 15 apartments, its probably going to cause real parking nightmares for people who live there if any of those single bedroom units have two adults living in them. Its going to require a hard cap of 1 car per apartment unit and 2 cars per townhome which leaves 3 spots for visitors. I hope the people who live there enjoy walking to the closest public transport because some number of them aren't going to have any choice unless the place is full of single adults who never have live in friends. Except its the bay area, 800sf apartment will probably be full of couples, invariably with kids.

So that isn't to say 80 is the right number either, but i'm guessing anything below 1.5 spots per apartment and 3 spots per townhome (~40 total) is legitimately too few.
> Google Glass explicitly bans this type of feature:

But that's, like, 90% of what I'd want something like that for. Not for everyone in my field of view, of course, but when I'm out in the field I meet a lot of people in a short time and I can never remember everyone's names. Work shirts with embroidered names are an absolute godsend.
The Declining Rate of Teen Driving
I think the problem is that some of the Turing machines are infinite, so getting 47 million steps in is the _entrypoint_ and you must then run until it halts (or you determine it’s not going to halt somehow). So the search space is unbounded, but it seems like you could snapshot the state of each machine at the 47 million steps and then incrementally search a couple thousand steps forward on each one looking for halting? I may be totally off though, I won’t pretend to fully grok this.
Statcounter and other sites show ~10% for desktop Safari, and 15-18% in richer countries.

Most people I know with Macs have at least two browsers installed, but then most people with Macs I know are fairly tech savvy.
Yes, absolutely this. Once you hit senior ranks in engineering at a big tech firm, it's actually very difficult to move upwards. Very few people are ever made principal engineers or senior staff or even staff level for that matter. The jump in technical ability for those levels is quite large as well and can take many years to get a single promotion since openings are pretty slim as well (some orgs will only get 1-2 staff engineers).

If you switch to becoming a manager, your salary increases a lot and you have many more opportunities for promotion. So a lot of engineers hit senior and say "screw that, I can just be a manager" which is a much easier path to high salary.

It's very common and we need to incentivize people to stay as ICs.
Got to Jetbrains IDEs first, never had to move to VScode ;)
So is this an argument? You're not comparing any real data either, just making a hypothetical comparison. Can I do that too?

Imagine if every state issued their own digital ID that was part of a national federated system of PKE. That is, each state trusts the certificate authority in each other state, and the fed trusts the states. There's some mechanism to sign into a federal website and to transfer money to a bank account, or perhaps a mechanism involving showing up to a postal office, who knows. Compare this to dispersing funds quickly but without any verification of identity.

By doing the work up front to be able to quickly verify identities it means that the fraud prevention happens before the fact.

Do you think the $76 billion would have been better spent on digital infrastructure or written off as fraud? And what about the next time there's a need for helicopter money?

You know the DoD is fazing out CAC and there's a lot of very cheap tooling around PKE digital IDs...
CBMC: The C Bounded Model Checker
This is such an uncanny representation of an episode of Space Force it's hilarious.