skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think remote work has definitely changed the game (not in a bad way). I was working remotely at a YC start up since the start of the pandemic and they never really figured out their business since I've been there. I've been looking around for new work and my job search has changed drastically from pre-pandemic.

I've reached out to my network and found some success there but I've also been shotgunning out applications on LinkedIn to any "close-enough" remote role that had easy apply (I'm saving a ton of time on resume customization and cover letter bullshitting). That's resulted in a lot of rejections which is demoralizing - but it's a numbers game at this point.

No new job yet - but definitely some good responses and intro calls after only 2 weeks of searching.

(Background - 10 years experience/full stack and marketing/college drop out/LA)
I didn't expect one to fare well in a crash test against another car.

I also didn't expect one to receive significant damage from a lightweight cardboard box.

There's "unsafe", and then there's this.
Could you build with Legos, etc? Don't want sand in my house.
How did you plug it in without a hole?
> * F.. u. Today we're going to log into Microsoft account. No option to abort.

Actually I found a solution for this (on android). Open the settings, apps, find teams app and force stop it. Then try to open the link again. You should get the guest prompt. Sometimes this needs to be repeated few times, but so far this approach works for me reliably.
There's really very little reason for a GA single piston aircraft to land at a Class B airport anyway.
God, that title sent me down memory lane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMLrA_0O5I
I don’t think that’s still true.

In Spokane, WA 10-15 years ago you could get starter homes for under $100k. Now that price is at least $300k (after cooling off for the last 12 months).

If interest rates hadn’t risen it might be somewhere in between though.
Major chunks of Italy are basically outdoor museums that people happen to live in, so even if the math doesn't completely pencil out on these particular first generation panels, it still probably makes sense as a long-term investment to ensure that the next generation of this technology for which the math does work comes into being.
Which is what the conversation should be, and how it should be framed.

The press writing "life saving insulin" headlines takes away from the ability to discuss that: within the last decade or two, modern improvements made the process of managing diabetes significantly easier and else stressful. The drug companies gave everybody a taste of an easier life, and then jacked up the price, saying "pay us more or go back to the old way." At what level should the government step in and subsidize or control this quality of life improvement? At what level should its creators be rewarded?

I am old enough to remember when the entire world took traditional insulin. It wasn't pretty.
Silly apple boys, android has been doing wireless charging for years....

It's shyte like this that makes me giggle at the Apple boys and girls they swear up an down when Apple does something android does its "revolutionary" for all... fuck out of here wit that shyte.

Despite what some may think, there are more Android developers [Hardware/Software] then apple developers in this world. That is why Android will always be ahead of the game regardless what Apple does.

Old wise tail: You can polish a turd with bells and whistles, however it's still a turd no matter how you present it. Fin.
misleading title. It should be "Outlook ON MOBILE....."
> This seems like a great idea, thank you for sharing.

Thanks :D

> Are you aware of any notable caveats to using Boxxy, given the mount-based implementation?

System configuration to allow mount namespaces, tools might have to understand recursive paths, it's tested for my use-cases.

> E.g., will this continue to work if you sync ~/ with other machines (rsync, FTP, SyncThing)?

I haven't tried it! Would love to see what happens as that's unfortunately not a use-case I have.
The later is already happening as cities ban the sale of leaded fuel in their airport.
So, a fad?
What happened to replacing himself as CEO? The best move Musk could make right now, for Twitter and his own mental health, would be to put some distance between Twitter and himself. It's a mistake to make his hobby his career. He needs to appoint an engineer-friendly CEO (read: someone who will open the API) and focus on his rockets and cars.
As if running an engine for 24 hours was good enough for a plane!

And le Mans is not an oval track: engines don't run at 100% all the time.

And how many le Mans cars break down during the race?
Britain's prices shot up with everyone else in Europe's when Putin reduced the gas supply, but Britain is more reliant on gas than many other countries so the price hasn't come back down.

Sjælland's overnight price last night dropped to about 0.75kr, but in Britain it was 2.10kr! The peak prices today were similar, 2.70kr and 2.80kr, but Britain had that for most of the day, and Sjælland just 4 hours.

Britain also has buildings with worse insulation, fewer people living in apartments, and much less use of district heating.

https://andelenergi.dk/sel/timeenergi/

https://agileprices.co.uk/

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/GB (40% gas right now for GB vs 4% for East Denmark and 2% for West.).
Tech went bananas hiring during the pandemic, and are only suddenly discovering that this may have been a bad idea.

You know who didn't? Apple. You know hasn't announced a hand-wringing, gosh-golly, tough times, BS announcement about layoffs? Apple. Got to hand it to Tim Cook, he seems to have stayed level-headed through the nonsense.
Honestly, I don't think the Turing test was ever particularly useful. Interpreted the way most people usually interpret it, it's more of a measure of the ability of the machine to lie well, than a real measure of intelligence. And while those things may be related, they certainly seem orthogonal to me. It also seems like possibly a bad idea to focus on teaching our AI to lie well. And I say this as somebody who is not a big "AI Risk" pundit.
>The biggest thing I’ve learned from chatGPT is that real people struggle with the difference between intelligence, understanding, and consciousness / sentience.

Well, I'm no fan of chatGPT. But it appears most people are worse than chatGPT, because just regurgitate what they hear with no thought or contemplation. So you can't really blame average folks who struggle with the concepts of intelligence/understanding that you mention.
Backprop is just an implementation detail when doing automatic differentiation, basically setting up how you would apply the chain rule to your problem.

JAX is able to differentiate arbitrary python code (so long as it uses JAX for the numeric stuff) automatically so the backprop is abstracted away.

If you have the forward model written, to train it all you have to do with wrap it in whatever loss function you want, and the use JAX's `grad` with respect to the model parameters and you can use that to find the optimum using your favorite gradient optimization algorithm.

This is why JAX is so awesome. Differentiable programming means you only have to think about problems in terms of the forward pass and then you can trivially get the derivative of that function without having to worry about the implementation details.
I have been using nushell for work for about 4 months, ever since I inherited a windows-only project and was looking for a decent shell experience. I'm not doing any extensive scripting, but I do live in my terminal.

I really like it despite its quirks. I love the implicit $in variable. I find the library easy to understand. I'm only using it interactively so if I have to restart my terminal every once in a while I'm not bothered by it. I trust that those sorts of things will get straightened out --- the git repository is very active.

I saw the maintainers in this thread, so shout out for your good work.
Authentication was HTTP digest.

I don't remember exactly how we implemented permissions, but I remember that at some point (after extending sabre/dav pretty hard) we did all kinds of customer configuration (including ACL) based on virtual files. Admin would just change a virtual file with roles and we would receive it on our implementation as a method call.
Whatever you want to call the problem solving and persona simulation it can do (in this first commercial generation), you'd never accuse a JPEG engine or an MP3 decoder of anything remotely like it. It's just a really backward-looking conceptualization, underemphasizing everything interesting.

You can think of science itself as lossy compression.
According to SpaceX Ukraine is using SpaceX for "offence" purposes - hence the disconnect. WTF, the whole world knows that Ukraine is defending against Ruzzia. Apparently, only Elon Musk and his team in SpaceX are so close to the Russians that are totally out of line.
A lot of it is to give pilots the experience they need to qualify to fly commercial airliners, also.
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Of course. I believe the Science.
Hey Eric, somewhat tangential question -- why is it that seemingly all precursor manufacturing is done in China or India? Is it just a low-cost game or are regulations making it too expensive to do in the U.S. or something else?
The traffickers aren't in the UK.
These would look great in Arizona. Anyone know the ballpark for roofing a McMansion? Their site doesn’t have pricing.
Also why do you have four H1's? You should have exactly 1, and on your home page it should be your brand name. This whole site is a mess. Instead of trying to be fancy I'd recommend you just make your marketing site on something like WordPress which is going to get 99% of this stuff right for you out of the box. You don't need React/Nextjs for a marketing brochure site and rolling your own solution when you don't know understand the fundamentals is not going to lead to a good result.
Ask HN: Is Slack ending their Fair Billing policy?
I am hearing from multiple sources that Slack is telling Enterprise customers the Fair Billing policy will end at the customer's next renewal. However, even though this seems like a major change for Slack, there is no mention of this anywhere public that I can see. I would be interested in hearing if anyone on HN can confirm this rumor.
I think LLMs are showing that neither cognition nor consciousness is needed to pass.
I'll contend that while I've been fully taken advantage of remote work (and probably want my next job to be remote too), I still fully believe it's a long term "leading lambs to the slaughter" type of plan. Companies save big on remote in so many ways. No more offices. No more weekly happy hours (just do a company retreat every 6 months). They can now depress salaries even further because they have a wider pool from which to choose. Don't need to bother with those pesky things called relationships because your boss from 500 miles away can lay off your ass without breaking a sweat.

It's short term benefits for all, but ultimately the workers will lose out.
Smaller, niche subreddits are almost always good as I find. Then there are some banter oriented small ones which are also to the point for what they were stood up so they too are good in my book. Problems start when there are too many tangents and toxic behaviors.
'k. take your word for it. Esp in relation to Maildir.
I know very little about Windows development.

But... just, FWIW, this particular subject has come up a lot on HN over the years with various explanations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18783525
and many many others easily searchable on hn.algolia.com

My fav comment was by an MS dev: "NTFS code is a purple opium-fueled Victorian horror novel that uses global recursive locks and SEH for flow control."
"Intel is engaged with TSMC on N3 for its next-generation graphic processors (GPUs) in 2023".
https://www.eetimes.com/intel-will-rely-on-tsmc-for-its-rebo...
...which incidentally has a very nasty problem brewing with Continental engines, grounding of all of the manufacturer's fleet running Continental engines that were made in the past few years.

It's actually an aviation crises in the making with 1000's of SR-22s.
If you're assuming it is a hobby then comparing it to car/motorcycle usage for travel is useless/invalid.
The problem is that regulations are often a knee-jerk reaction without consideration to the second order effects.

When a crash happens, add a rule to prevent it from happening again.

Eventually however you have so many onerous rules that it becomes incredibly expensive to design a new aircraft engine and thus are suck with decades old tech that lacks modern innovation and safety features.

It's very rare to do a pass over regulations to try to simplify them. From a regulatory POV, there is little glory in that and lots of risk.
It seems like the thing to do is to downsize offices until they correctly meet usage. So, take your number of employees, multiply by percentage that usually comes into the office, add a buffer for growth, and have an office for that.
Novolin 70/30 ReliOn vial (10 mL; 100 iU/mL) has had a flat price since 2014. The Novolin 70/30 ReliOn FlexPen (3 mL; 100 iU/mL) pen has been the same price as the vial since mid 2018 when it came out.

The price of these drugs NEVER went up.

Framing it as only "more hassle" or "purely convenience" really downplays the difference in the quality of life improvement the last decade has brought everyone.
Irreversible? If Tom Brady can come out retirement your typical tech worker will surely find it possible.
Things might be a little different regarding losing trust of top-performers when layoffs happen broadly across a sector.

If every semiconductor manufacturer reduces headcount by N%, there may not be much incentive for an engineer to jump ship. If only one of those companies doesn't lay anyone off, though, the dynamics are completely different.
> There are many cases where the government can produce things at cost

Yes, and the costs are always higher than that of a for profit company.

> the situation is quite dire at this point

Right. The solution is to remove the regulatory and legal barriers that add $190 in cost to a dose.
There are a lot of qualifiers there. The linked post by Thunderbird’s Product Design manager spends a lot of time talking about tech debt and feature availability, and not so much about problems with the interface. Indeed, it has a reassuring amount of respect for the current interface, describing a future that "allow[s] veteran users to maintain that familiarity they love".

It doesn't look like the interface is a big problem to anyone. Projects with a tech debt problem could always do with a touch up. But emails haven't changed that much in the last few decades.
Not often you can employ exhaustive testing, but it's useful in some cases.

I did a project in college for a VLSI minor where we implemented a 16bit multiplier - after we got the chips back we were supposed to do scan testing, but I just wrote up a little program in an fpga, wired up my chip to test, and swept all the possible inputs verifying the output. I think I could only run this at 10MHz, and you had to shift in the operands one bit at a time, but it still only took on the order of an hour or two to complete.

I also verified this setup by capturing some cycles on a logic analyzer - then pulled together a little awk script to turn a dump of that into the actual numbers I could check. Fun project.
Cool. War propaganda.
Is it really erratic if it's predictable? Seems like he has a regularly reoccurring manic episode every few months. Those are probably also when he's done his best work throughout his career, so you gotta take the good with the bad. But I hope he's introspective enough to recognize this pattern in himself, because otherwise he'll go crazy.
The UK is making many bad decisions, and descending into a dystopian horror. Where to emigrate to?
T-Bird is still my primary email app on my Mac. Apple's "Mail" app fine too but it's great to see the T-Bird team is willing to modernize it with a complete rewrite.

The last T-Bird update was really pretty good considering the old code they were working with so I'm excited to see them take this path.
You can usually get a good directory from the Chamber of Commerce. Defunct businesses won’t pay dues to be included. Participation rate from active businesses is high.
To be a fly on the wall and be privy to what Medvedev told Blinken and to know what the Russian armed forces have in their back pocket.
I had one but the battery was dead and could't find a replacement. With a Pixel 7 Pro now I feel the speed difference.
The bigger thing I think is offshoring
I'm not looking for a job, but there are no contact details in your HN profile.
> Making an example out of insulin would fix that

No it won't. It will just shift the cost to the taxpayers.
Hi, I'm the OG author. When I was a teenager the Sabretooth tiger was my favourite animal. The project also preceeds that office episode by a few years (I think I started in 2005), so it was a bit funny to see that episode.
Climate change is natural. What were we arguing about?
Yep, you can sideload both VR and non-VR apps.
Id rather the web have less javascript than my phone be faster.
So de-rate and conservatively tune the engine to a peak HP that can be sustained indefinitely. This is SOP when putting automotive engines in industrial uses. Just because you don't know of it doesn't mean it's not dirt common and well practiced in industry.

2000hr equates to, generously, like really generously, a 150-200k service life. It really drives me up the wall to see you acting like this is a big number when in any other context you'd be happy to pop in and tell us about how your you're so smart because you bought a Toyota and it's guaranteed to make it that far.
You can't reduce it to the finals.
I just did the 4th chapter of the book today (04_mnist_basic). Very educational.
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/filing-informal-complai...

PDF version of the information is here: https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/filing_an_informal_c...
> So less regulation is not going to help

Yes it will. The government is far, far more powerful than the corporations.
It’s funny, people don’t hesitate to trim and remove trees for roads, power lines, or plumbing. I would consider trimming a tree to access the internet worthwhile.
> Might as well suspect every single Linux device you have sending an ARP request then, who knows where it's going? Maybe they're exfiltrating it to Canonical.

That's a good question. So I looked into Ubuntu, since you mentioned Canonical. As it turns out, Ubuntu the OS (22.04 LTS) does NOT send ANY data to 3rd parties of its own volition, at all. And it doesn't even send data to Canonical, of its own volition. [1][2]

[1] https://ostechnix.com/install-ubuntu-desktop/
[2] https://ubuntu.com/legal/data-privacy

Maybe I should switch to Ubuntu. You should think about it too.

> Why is it that every Microsoft thread on HN with a hint of the word "Windows" generates the most overblown theories and accusations? I'm honestly expecting someone to soon say "what if Windows 11 takes a picture with your webcam and sends it back to Redmond?".

Given what happened with Roomba, and Amazon & Google smart devices, this would not surprise me in the least.
How to execute Ruby in the browser in 2023
I live in the UK and disagree with almost everything you said.

If you’re not working, sure there are some state benefits but to assume that life on benefits is some sort of ‘easy ride’ is nonsense. Your quality of life will be poor, there will barely be enough money to heat and eat and your “house” will most often be a poor quality council flat. Some accommodation is so bad there have been deaths caused by mould.

It sounds like you may have developed a skewed view of the situation perhaps due to your personal experiences. You should read up on some of the myths about benefits at this website:

https://www.poverty.ac.uk/editorial/exposing-benefit-‘myths’

Income tax rates for the highest earners are relatively low in the UK compared to other European nations. Denmark has the highest personal income tax rate, at 56%, compared to 45% in the UK.

I do agree there is a problem with inherited wealth in the UK though. Money makes money.

But on your overall point — nope. For the vast majority of people in the UK, all the stats evidence that your life is likely to be way more pleasant if you’re earning.
How is it a false dichotomy?

People are either allowed to stay home or not.

I don't wanna be forced to go in so other people can feel good about me being there.
I don't think I made myself clear.

The company ships one product which is a community edition of a bundle of open source software. That version has telemetry enabled and can't be disabled. Users who want to patch the code manually can of course disable it, just like they can disable the Ad lens in Ubuntu if they want to build it themselves, and those users will be off the beaten path and likely to run into issues that aren't easy to find paved solutions for.

They also offer an enterprise edition with a support license, on which telemetry is enabled by default, but can also be disabled.
There are a bunch of different people reacting to a stressful change in economy and its effects on the job market. That's all.

It may be 'easier' to fire people when you don't have to deal with their physical presence, but I doubt that factors much into the decision overall. My bet is that companies are battening down the hatches because they see strong headwinds economically (or are using other layoffs as an excuse to clean house).

Good companies will retain good talent. They won't jettison their valued contributors just to have their competition scoop them up.

The emphasis here is on Good. Bad companies likely will jettison many of their good employees, either by setting bad policies and having them opt out, or by firing them direction because they aren't paying attention. Remote work is one of those factors that some companies are struggling to set policies for.

Unfortunately, there are many 'bad' companies, and many people on HN work for them.
This is Hacker News, where people are ostensibly interested in the technology used to build projects.
From my response to your sibling:

I don't think I made myself clear.

The company ships one product which is a community edition of a bundle of open source software. That version has telemetry enabled and can't be disabled. Users who want to patch the code manually can of course disable it, just like they can disable the Ad lens in Ubuntu if they want to build it themselves, and those users will be off the beaten path and likely to run into issues that aren't easy to find paved solutions for.S

They also offer an enterprise edition with a support license, on which telemetry is enabled by default, but can also be disabled.
>Which is it?

I think it's fair to say that people would like to work remotely while also not being converted into a commoditized faceless resource; and I think that it's clear to anyone at the moment that we haven't quite worked all the kinks out of total remote work , yet.

An ideal remote environment would be one where the human at the other end of the line is still remembered as being a human and cherished rather than just treated as a gig worker-drone.