skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of what you think of Teams -- I myself have had nothing but poor experiences over 2.5 years of using it daily -- it's telling that Microsoft has to require folks to use Teams.

I'm sure this is just Microsoft unifying everyone on the same comms platform, but seriously, I don't know anyone who chooses Teams.

I know non-tech folks who chose Outlook 365 because of familiarity and then end up on Teams because it's free, but there's a difference between "I chose an email/identity platform that I know and I guess I'll use its chat app too" and "I evaluated team chat offerings and Teams is our top pick."

Hell, at my most recent company (which was founded on O365 before I arrived) I replaced Teams chat interface with self-hosted Mattermost (Slack's HIPAA-compliant tier is way too expensive for a startup) and it was roundly loved. We did still lean on Teams for its video chat, because most of our non-tech staff know how to schedule and join video meetings, but even then the top complaint I got was from folks on Windows laptops whose Teams plugin for Outlook somehow got corrupted (or something?) and suddenly Outlook's Teams integration was gone.

Just an awful product all around -- said with no offense meant to the team building it.

_Update_: I now notice the text "for the sole purpose of video conferencing" which lines up with my use case, but still -- of all the video apps I put Teams down with Webex as "bottom of the barrel choices" due to the constant performance and functionality issues.
I imagine your first example includes private industry information that you are not allowed to divulge.

But your latter example about syntax… mind sharing that ChatGPT conversation?
Sure.

California homelessness crisis.
Bendix central air data computer
Fully remote setups only work if they are truly fully remote, and if the seniors have the decency to research how to better handle the thing.

Onboarding can be done remote, but the best is to schedule extensive meetings / pair programming, or even just a virtual room where the newbie can work independently but ask the senior "as in the office". Or even very clear directions on when to reach out if nothing else is possible.

What happens instead that the newbie is expected to handle all the responsibility of reaching out, and when that inevitably fails the conclusion that's reached is that wfh is not for onboarding.
The data in that survey comes from the American Family Survey, which seems to be taken pretty seriously, but the commentary is from the Institute for Family Studies, which is taken... less seriously. Caveat lector. Maybe the underlying data supports the point you (and IFS, for its own reasons) are making, but it's worth digging in, I guess.

One supposes it's easier to be happy as a conservative woman in 2022 given that identifying as such likely means you're sanguine about Roe --- which is a point even the IFS article makes.
The article itself mentions all the recent events.
As a consumer, this is great.

As a guy who used to have to take a zipper bag full of cash to the office safe every night, the convenience of the customer part may be laughable but the safety of the staff part isn't. Offhand I can't think of a more effective way to bring back 1990s mugging culture.
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From the article:

> If users can’t access the universal login page, Z-Library says they can log in through TOR or I2P and get their personal clearnet domains there.
> companies apparently overhired. We hired more than we meant to. How does that happen?

Everyone here is replying with various explanations of why these companies made the "mistake" of over-hiring but no-one is stopping to ask if it was a mistake. Sure the announcements are full of apologies and stories of taking responsibility for mistakes made, they need to be: they're marketing. But cui bono, or more pertinently, the inverse: who is negatively affected by layoffs? It isn't shareholders. Meta just did massive buybacks after layoffs.

Over-hiring isn't a mistake because the only real downside is the subsequent layoffs, and layoffs don't negatively effect anyone that "matters".

Sure there's institutional knowledge loss but that only matters for product quality which, let's be honest, isn't any indicator of revenue.
Yeah but that’s only used for creating the unique domain, and it wouldn’t affect user domains. So if that one goes down, they’ll just have throw the registration page up on a new domain.
This is no different than the executives of a company making the decision to use some particular software. Then the employees of the company use it, because that's their job. They don't have to; they can work somewhere else. The government has many monopolies but a source of employment isn't one.

I mean what are you proposing, some ideological principle that each government employee has to be able to choose their own governance software?
It doesn't really work anymore. Time to find new exploits
There are many ways to value a commercial building, but the majority of those are based on rents/occupancy rates. Even the "comparable sales" method basically includes rents, because sales rates on commercial properties are very dependent on expected ROI.
Calling them "record breaking" and showing all those details might be an incentive for those attacks.
> distrust and cynicism over anything related to medical health news, I wonder if this is widespread?

I doubt it. The problem with this approach is that in general you won't have the answers you want/need. So in the end you'll leave with more questions than answers, and that is not a great feeling.

And even if you did had all the answers, most people don't have the time to fully understand them.

Besides that, I don't think that 'medical health news' have anything special. This should apply to all subjects.
It's like arguing that _in response to you_ arguing Disney Land [sic] discriminates against Michael Jackson, which would be a valid refutation of your argument.
> When I asked "well qualified candidates" what they prefer

Not sure if I'm "well qualified" to you, but I assume I am...

When I was searching for a job, I basically told the recruiter/manager what they wanted to hear (after research them). I can work wherever, and since I'm located in a city, a commute is easy. There's a benefit to telling someone what they want to hear so you seem like a "culture fit".

Realistically, I like hybrid but not the 3/2 per week breakdown we see a lot. I want to WFH for 2 weeks doing my work in peace, then go to office for a few days of busy planning and socializing. This is especially helpful around holidays, vacations, etc where my schedule is disrupted and I don't want to be forced to commute. Being told in-office only would be the worst option, because the flexibility of being remote for package delivery, family events, travel, etc is too important. I understand the value people profess of in-person work, but its one of those things that benefits the company more than the individual.
same. It feels infantile and sure 'time is money' but that's just a way of making your self feel over important imho
Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
This is an ideological statement. You’re free to believe it’s true but it’s not how those words used in normal discourse and you’ll probably find your evangelism more productive if you clearly state this up front.
much cheaper to just get humans to write them
I assume things will just go back to the pre-covid norm (maybe norm is to strong, but it was common). The policy is of course you go to work every day. The reality is you can do whatever you want until you're missed. Reliable folks aren't questioned, trouble cases get the stick.
Probably in this case "Incentive Stock Options"
Everyone makes stupid mistakes sometimes. If you are perfect 99.9% of the time, you're still doing something wrong every quarter.
You still have to decompress it on the other end, to actually parse and use it. At which point you have four times the memory usage, unless you turn it into some smaller in-memory encoding...such as UTF-8.
Honored to work with you!
> The caveat here is in the "if your team is competent",

Maybe it's from a place of privilege, but I have no interest in working where the team is not competent.

But, even if your team is incompetent, there's no guarantee of competence of the people who wrote the dependency you use instead of building it yourself. Most of the time, I'd rather deal with local incompetence than remote incompetence.

At the end of the day, if you want your project to work, you're responsible for the whole thing, include the dependencies you outsourced to others.
Professor Mazzucato's argument is that the big three are weakening government's ability to innovate because that function is outsourced.

Although she is confident this can be remedied by bringing more innovative projects in house the reality is the same as in large companies: entrenched cultures, fiefdoms, silos, budgets make change very hard due to entrenched interests.

It takes outsiders to be the Piñata in the room at some point, they can say things FTE management can't. I'm a consultant, my beef with the big three is the 'nobody gets fired for hiring Mckinsey/Deloitte/x' syndrome.

You will get a lot of cut and paste boilerplate slide deck read outs from the big players, smaller more specialized consultants tend to provide a lot more value for much lower costs.

Ironically government departmental efforts at innovation/change/evolution are typically expensive, big players too...
HoneySQL allows you to write SQL via data structures so you can compose that. Gives you a lot of power.
Well, reworking Bing and Google for a ChatGPT interface is going to be massive hardware and software enterprise. And there are a lot of questions involved to say the least.

Where will the software engineer come from? We're in a belt-tightening part of the business cycle and FANGs have a pressure not to hire, so you assume the existing engineers. But these engineers are now working on real things so those real things may suffer. Which brings actual profits? The future AI thing or the present? The future AI is unavoidable given the possibilities are visible and the competition is on but a "shit shows" of various sorts seem very possible.

Where will the hardware and the processing power come from? There are estimates of server power consumption quintupling [1] but these are arbitrary - even if it just doubles, just "plugging the cords" in takes time. And where would the new TPUs/GPUs come from? TSMC has a capacity determined by investments already made and much of that capacity is allotted already - more capacity anywhere would involve massive capital allocation and what level of increased profits will pay for this?

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/the-generative-ai-search-race-ha...
My previous executive come from one of those companies. She was the worst leader that I ever had, she left after less than 2 years with a completed failure from organizational standpoint and many people disgruntled.
UTF-8 has no upper limit on the number of possible characters / emoji's, now or in the future.

Everything else has.

And then is UTF-16 which has all the pains of UTF-8 with none of the advantages of UTF-32
I think ChatGPT an AI is (or will be soon) more like dimethylmecury. It has a very small, limited number of uses but it's too dangerous and immensely toxic and so its distribution is highly restricted.

Saying it's a tool means nothing. Some tools are too dangerous to be used, like nuclear weapons, and I also believe AI falls under this same category.
US Military Updates Autonomous Killer Robot Policy
I'm a big fan of the Congo theme for Hugo: https://jpanther.github.io/congo/

It's simple to set up and looks pretty great.
You really created a new account just to post a rude comment like this?
Welcome to the new UX/UI/Web x.0 whatever.

Why, in the name of ... , when only 1 (one) input field is displayed on the screen, why it is not active ? 20 years ago this was the standard. What happened ?
How come you didn't want your results shared with research groups? It's not as if they're tagged with your name and SSN, are they?
Does someone know if this is official at a global scale? From the little I know they were asking people's opinion on it, not mandating it per se.

Disclaimer: I don't work at Salesforce.
Avoid Walmart. just shop at the locals grocer. Trust me. they will appreciate it, and Walmart will maybe get better (bwahahaha)
By this logic, ticket scalpers provide significant value.
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Seriously, it is incomprehensible that Microsoft would ship something so utterly broken

It has to be said, what on earth do you mean?! This is Microsoft, they are famous for broken.
It doesn't know what letters are because it sees BPE tokens, but if you forgive that it does something like it.

example prompt: Imagine I took all the letters in "Wikipedia" and threw them in the air so they fell on the ground randomly. What are some possible arrangements of them?

Similarly, it can almost do arithmetic but apparently forgets to carry digits. That's wrong but it's still generalization!
It seems like a little bit weird to have ligatures in a monospaced font. The whole reason ligatures exist is so that bits of letterforms in closely-spaced type don't crash. That shouldn't happen in a monospace font. If you're just changing the space so that two characters are grouped as a kind of unit, that to me defeats the purpose of using monospace to begin with.
> it's pretty clear that GPT is producing an amazing level of comprehension of what a series of words means. The problem is, that's all it is really doing.

very key point
I'm excited for Linen[0] to potentially replace Discord for our use case because unfortunately it doesn't feel like there is another tool that we could use besides Discord or Slack. (We were on Slack for a long time but we just couldn't get people to use it, and we've had a lot more success building a community since swapping to Discord.)

What other tools do you recommend for Open Source communities to use?

0: https://www.linen.dev/ (They are going to be adding a 2-way sync soon that lets you post messages from the web into Slack, Discord, and even GitHub Discussions, so you can basically pick any platform and it doesn't matter. Kind of like the old IRC days!)
This is a discussion about uneducated self-treatement. In such a case, I think it should be non-germ line.

Correcting germ line issues could still be preformed by some trained person to avoid potentially making things worse.
I actually like a lot of microsoft products, even though I own several thousand dollars worth of Apple hardware.

I happily use windows 10 for most personal computing (I haven't upgraded, so no comment on 11), VScode, github, word, excel, whatever...

Teams, though, is one MS product that genuinely never worked for me. Last company I was at used it, and they had to upgrade my work machine since teams needed more CPU (old machine was an i5 macbook with 8gb). Google/zoom was fine, but running teams would regularly overheat my computer.
Back around 1982 I visited New Zealand. Traveling around Auckland it was surprising to me to encounter so many unreinforced masonry buildings. I tried several times to ask politely what was being done about this problem and each time received a stern response along the lines of "Shut up and mind your own business, damned Yankee." Then in 2011 nearly 200 people were killed, mostly by those buildings which had stood as an obvious risk for decades.
At F100_NAME we have piles of developers from Deloitte. They put a couple of them on this medium-sized Python project that a now-retired employee created. The first one re-wrote a lot of it and screwed it up, the next one started fixing it (not sure why they didn't just roll it back), the one after that didn't do anything for 4 months (then they left), and I recently spent two afternoons with the current one where they were trying to trick me into doing their job. I'm from another contractor/consulting firm.

Haven't heard from them in a while so I'm not sure what the current status is.
As someone grappling with a career that has seen fits and starts, bouncing between roles this is an interesting perspective.

I'm currently looking at jobs and definitely harbor a lot of self-doubt because I don't have specialized skills that match desired skills, but have so much other experience outside of any one domain.

One of my aims is certainly to sit down and master something in the domain of work that can make things smoother / more sustainable, but at least going into jobs assigning proper value to my suite of skills is a helpful thing to keep in mind.
I would love to read anything you have written about the topic at length. Thanks for your contribution.
Thats not how most of the US works.
Sounds like the litigation has been dropped, but the $1m in attorneys fees already paid was a loss too large to bear.
POSIWID is perennial: https://design4services.com/concepts/systems-thinking/posiwi...
Be that as it may, I don't see how I can be expected to make good decisions as a voter in a democracy without good information.
I would love to read anything you have written or studied about this topic at length. Thanks for your replies.
I'm not worried about kids, and I don't care about sex, I'm making a point that this has been arbitrarily sexualised for no reason. Obviously you wouldn't give it that label by default, so what is the author trying to do here? This is supposed to be a technical problem.

I also find it funny that pointing out something is a weird and distracting choice is considered angry, and I can only assume by the onslaught of downvotes, uninclusive or something... or maybe my "what if" has been interpreted as a "think of the children", hard to know when people don't bother forming an argument.
haha we've been working hard to get to this point, thanks!!!
Imagine the prompt hacking possibilites, this time not to generate outputs, but to reveal private discourses. Imagine that when this hallucinates, you will have wrong impressions on your colleagues or the state of projects.
I've used Teams, Zoom and Meet. Teams is, by far, the worst options. I cringe every time I have to use it, because it's random whether I or one of my colleagues will not waste minutes at the start of the meeting getting something to work, or just joining.

You see, MS has completely messed up the login for Teams. I have like 3 different MS accounts (Azure, Office365, etc). Some of my coworkers have many more than that, due to identities they use for contracts. I've tried Chrome, Edge, Firefox, etc. I've tried incognito windows. Sometimes it just doesn't work.

Never had a single problem with Zoom or Meet, other than the default audio devices not being selected. That's easily fixed.
40 miles is absurd for the majority of metropolitan areas.

That is easily a 1:30hr commute, one way. Depending where your office is, 4 hours a day of commuting..
And endianness.
Whatabout

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If that's all you've got -- and that is, indeed, all you've got -- then just pipe down and save the bandwidth. We didn't try to take over and annex Iraq. We got rid of a dictator. Should we have done that? No, of course not. But it's hardly comparable to what Putin is doing, and your value system is horribly broken if you think otherwise.
If you're a company of 10 or 20 people, you won't notice the problems. It starts to break at medium-sized business scale (anything over, say, 100 employees). You start to notice limitations in the UI/UX but also just constant bugs in calling functionality, split meetings, super laggy large meetings, slow navigation, and broken search.

It just feels like it wasn't built for serious scale from the ground up, like some after-thought Todo List app that was thrown in with Office 365 to tick a checkbox.
Context. I can never get Google to know the context of what I'm looking for, and the more context I add the more random 'important' stuff it decides to show me matching less significant terms. It was right in the article:

> Wall Street loves to play “Who wins, who loses” when a new technology explodes onto the scene. The fingers were all pointing at Google as a potential loser.
OSS projects that use matrix for official comms (of the top of my head) - Fedora, Ansible, sonixd, binrw, gotosocial, helix and ofc matrix & associated project.
Obligatory shout out to Babashka [0] which is interpreted Clojure. You just download a simple binary and you can get going. Widely used for quick-running scripts, with a lot of batteries included.

[0]: https://babashka.org/
OK so let me build the house and post the ~$10k bond to demolish the house once I'm dead. Since in my case the alternative is no new house at all it'd be back to where we started after I'm dead and in the meantime the place I'm renting opens up to someone else.

The handwaving about market asymmetry or whatever we all know is moving the goalposts from the corruption you were talking about earlier and easily bypassed anyway by posting a bond to demolish the house upon death/sale or other mechanisms like documentation of deviations or posting bond for special inspections upon transfer. In practice there's a place a few counties over from me that DOES do self-certification where they completely look the other way and all the crazy fears you have, haven't come to fruition and you can even transfer those houses unencumbered.
Heck. I've built my own embedded in memory EAV database back in 2002 for exactly the same reasons Joel mentioned. It was major backend part of my product that provided me with healthy revenue at the time. There was no way I'd be in the mood of paying licensing fee to somebody else.
Can they though? Because they actually can't. They can only regulate the content accessible from India IPs or hosted on their territory.

Everything beyond this is YouTube's own doing, really.
It wasn’t formaldehyde either.
> Even something as broad as 'buying and holding an index fund' beats almost all funds and strategies.

How do you come to believe something so blatantly false and naive? Is this due to the proliferation of the (good) advice that most Americans are best off saving for retirement in index funds?
Did anyone ask them why they were feeling this way?

No.

> The survey did not ask students about reasons for their feelings of sadness or thoughts of harming themselves.
Many of these want to know your revenue and then make a sales proposal based on your total revenue. This is frustrating for companies where software is a tiny proportion of the products/services. Example: recently tried to license software that wanted 1% of our sales when software makes up 0.003% of our sales by volume. I now don't even try to negotiate with these types of folks.
I mean, 40 miles in the Bay Area is 3-4 hours of driving each day you have to commute, longer if they're also going to require 9-5.

That's basically saying "because I want to feel power over my plebs I'm going to give you a 20-25% pay cut".
> US tech voluntary attrition seemed to be somewhere around 15% per year pre pandemic.

Source?
Eh, this means that most people work for a company they are either indifferent to or for a company that they actively despise. My preference is actually 3 when I do meaningful work, 4 occasionally.
Yes, you are correct. Oops. Too late to correct.
Another recommendation is bandwidth.com. They have minimum pricing but their api is great.