skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep thinking that; I don't want to believe this is just people who don't know how to use email and slack, enforcing their habits on everybody else. But, why has nobody come out and shared that data? All I keep hearing is these nice anecdotes about meeting random people accidentally, and vague hand-waving about collaboration.

(my own team is operations/application maintenance, and we are WAY more effective and efficient now that everybody is remote and on the same level. I understand that may not be the case in all fields/areas/teams).
I'm surprised that they coalesced around a "3 days a week in-office / 2 days a week work-from-home" arrangement.

In some ways, that arrangement seems like the worst of both worlds.

Unless everyone in the org works the same three days a week in-office, now you've got some people in office, some people still working from home, and coordination becomes more complex.

Have you ever been on a Zoom call where half the people are in a conference room and the other half are working from home and calling in individually? It's a mess. Either the in-office workers completely dominate the conversation, or, if it's more evenly matched, it's a lot harder to understand the in-office people unless you have really carefully calibrated microphones for the room.

Even if they were to agree on T/W/Th as everyone's in-office days, and everyone works from home on M/F, now you've got a large office space that is practically vacant for more than half of each week.
As has been repeatedly argued in cases of IP-rights-holders-vs-sharers, an IP address on its own does not identify an individual. We argue that both ways depending on what suits us at the time, or we are as bad as the music industry flipping between “you bought the CD” and “you licensed the music” when it suits them to.
Authy is owned by Twilio.
I feel bad for the younger out of college hires. Anyone else should know better. If you expect a company to treat you better than they have to as required by contract/law - including keeping verbal promises - you will be screwed my friend. Wrong and right are independent of reality.
I grew up obsessed with cars, I used to play racing video games almost exclusively, attend car shows etc.

I now work for a large german car manufacturer as a SWE. I cannot afford the cheapest car they make, it is literally more than I make in a year before tax. I don't own car yet and I'm not sure I will be able to afford one in the next 3-5 years. I don't even care that I (a former car nut) works for a car manufacturer when this would've been my dream job as a kid
Listening to Music While Working
I don’t think he does fire people when in a bad mood. As we’ve seen in the last week he fires people when they give ridiculous reasons for poor performance though.
There's no legitimate reason to force knowledge workers to commute to a dedicated work space. It is a good practice to offer it as an option for those who want it, though.
It would be interesting to see what career trajectories people that work exclusively from home have, when compared to people that work in offices. What you say about professional connections rings very true. Most work related friendships I have are people I met in person, be it in an office or at meetups.
>> honors English classes that were eliminated because they didn't enroll enough Black and Latino students.

How much of that can be explained by ESL speakers? California has an above average percentage of students whose language spoken at home isn't English and or who are themselves immigrants.

And is this one of these studies grouping Whites and Asians together (some activists started using the term "white adjacent" recently for that [0])?

>> The district earlier this school year replaced the honors classes at Culver City High School with uniform courses that officials say will ensure students of all races receive an equal, rigorous education.

"equally rigorous" can very well mean "dumbed down to the mean". It's actually what California aims to do by getting rid of advanced math classes (by grouping all students together the pass rate suddenly looks better for everyone! [1]). And that's not even touching some of the more controversial they plan to bring into the classroom. Now math is racist [2]

[0] https://www.asian-dawn.com/2020/11/17/school-district-catego...

[1] https://reason.com/2021/05/04/california-math-framework-woke...

[2] https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...
It seems there are portions of the content which is just a bunch of symbols, at least that's what the results are showing (ie. "±ÆÆßÚ ÔÏ œ ‹± ß±´ Wø™ª ø7ß ÆªøT±7 ¨± æª¥1ª™ª ¨Wø¨ ø7ß ÔÎ ±J ß±´Æ \Æ1±Æ ")

If I click the associated PDF document, I can see there is legible text, so I think it might be an issue with the ingestion of the document itself.
Does Berkshire have any tricks from a 'cunning investor' perspective other than

1. Buy AAPL

2. Use their size as an advantage to bully distressed companies into giving them access to basically "sweetheart" deals?
There were a tiny company and couldn't afford the mixed-case terminals.
First UK child to receive gene therapy for fatal genetic disorder is now healthy
> Libmeldy is made using stem cells that are derived from a patient's blood or bone marrow and can give rise to different types of blood cells, according to the European Medicines Agency(opens in new tab) (EMA). These stem cells carry the new, functional genes into the body, where they give rise to white blood cells that travel through the bloodstream.

> In clinical trials, Libmeldy offered clear benefits to infantile and juvenile patients who hadn't yet developed MLD symptoms; these patients were able to break down sulfatides at normal rates and showed typical patterns of motor development, for example. The benefit of the therapy seemed to last several years, but at this point, "it is not yet clear whether it will persist life-long, and extended follow-up is needed," the EMA noted.

> Libmeldy is approved for use in the European Union and U.K., although the U.K.'s drug price watchdog initially rejected the therapy due to its hefty list price of £2.8 million ($3.4 million at today's exchange rates), BBC News(opens in new tab) reported in 2022. The therapy's manufacturer, Orchard Therapeutics, then offered Libmeldy to the NHS at a significant discount.

> The gene therapy has not yet been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration(opens in new tab).
Twilio owns Authy. I guess they’re assuming future issues there or with syncing.
Feels like a slap in the face to all of us that spent the last 3 years reliably launching new products. To say the least, it is obnoxious to be talked down to about the 'maybe' performance benefit of the theoretical "hallway conversation." Amazon's teams are globally distributed. We spent the last several years shipping real products all while working with people and teams for whom "a shared hallway" is thousands of miles removed.

Sigh.

(...Anyone looking for a (remote) senior SDE?)
That depends on the reason. For example, did someone cripple a system on their way out the door to cause the outage? Is this some retaliation? If so it doesn't speak to the quality of what was built. I only use this example to speak to the wide array of reasons that could cause this. Without knowing the reason it's hard to assess anything.
> Why would you pay more than most new cars cost, when you could pick up some shiter for a few hundred, run it until it breaks

In this thread and IRL it seems people are deathly afraid of a car breaking down. When I bought my most recent car (2001 Corolla) people were like “ooh what if it breaks down”. Wow, IDK, maybe I’ll fix it? Or maybe I’ll junk it. Still cheaper than buying a newer car. And it’s not as if newer cars are immune from problems. If anything, newer cars seem both less reliable and less repairable due to the ever increasing complexity. The cost to repair the CVT transmission in a 2017 Subaru is twice the cost of my entire car and their failure rate is through the roof.
Your comment perfectly describes why some folks may feel they’re much more productive at home, and wonder why leadership might still want them to come to the office.

Personal productivity does not necessarily map organizational productivity. You might be insanely productive by focusing heads down on your work all the time, but the organization as a whole may not grow as much.

Now, this may not apply to you and your organization at all, or may not even be generally true, but I did want to point it out because a lot of people here wonder why managers would ask them to come to office even though they believe they’re clearly more productive at home. There are non nefarious reasons leadership may be asking for this.
Twilio owns Authy but regardless it doesn't. Authy is mostly used client-side with a server-side backup option.
If the stock would have otherwise been sold off like the others, then it's not really different because the price is higher now than it would have been.

E.g. Allegheny selling AAPL + Berkshire buying AAPL == Berkshire buying Allegheny
(Assuming a perfect market, which isn't the case but I don't feel qualified to say what the other effects would be)
> The announcement came after the company already laid off around 11% of its workforce as part of a restructuring plan in September.
> A GoDaddy spokesperson was not immediately available for comment when contacted by BleepingComputer earlier today

This is just a sign of GoDaddy's complacency. I use Godaddy for domain registrations only. Yet I had my account taken over with a sim card attack/swap and they spent so long to fix the issue that domains where transfered without locking.

Web Hosting, particularly 'shared' hosting is extremely prone to regular banal attacks and requires extreme constant attention, customers less tech savvy would choose it for the very reason they know the Godaddy name, they're expecting them to look after the tech work.

A Multi-Year breach is an incredible display of incompetence and neglect. I have no idea what the security/monitor team are doing there but someone definitely dropped the ball, especially given the fact they admit that the 2020 break was related. It should have been and open and shut case from there.
They were good at making themselves indispensable, until they were dispensed.
Jeffery Epstein: Filthy Rich is one of the most surreal examples of narrative management I've ever seen.

It suggests that Epstein singlehandedly had limited sexual encounters with teenage girls, and basically no one else was involved. The producers omit even the role of Ghislane Maxwell, who was later convicted for her role. Les Wexner is dismissed as merely the victim of a homophobic conspiracy theory. It's surreal and I wouldn't trust it for a second to be an accurate portrayal of what Epstein was actually involved in.

(FWIW it was based on the book of the same name by novelist James Patterson who lived in Palm Beach near Epstein)
Stop bullshitting. These documents were released in 2019. Here's the link from the Document Cloud page you're indexing clearly explaining that.

https://www.businessinsider.com/epstein-giuffre-v-maxwell-un...
probably just adding up 11% layoff last september (although the % maybe on different numbers)
There is a tricky arms race if I ever saw one.

How do you beat that? Presumably an AI, and you have it copy the public-ish AI to see what it generates, and then compare?
Is the formation of DNA from the proto cells you’re describing, not still a pretty big mystery?
I use https://github.com/tadfisher/pass-otp with pass, which has a FOSS client for desktop and smartphone (at least for andriod, no idea for ios)
TSMC only has one rival: Samsung. Intel is not really a rival, no matter how good their process is, they cannot win big contracts with Apple, Nvidia, AMD.
They fired 11% late last year already
IMO it's good practice to not one's vital 2FA codes held hostage on a service where one's accounts or IP address can be flagged for spam or abusive behavior by automated systems. (This also applies to Google Authenticator, for what it's worth!) Especially in a world where customer service teams are being trimmed wherever possible!

I use 1Password - its UI leaves some things to be desired, and it's not cheap, but it has zero incentive to cancel the account of any paying customer!
TL;DR: how a data company uses their own product.
Thanks for this comment. I guess there's sometimes we (developers) take things for granted when they are not, and that puts a lot of pressure on us instead of celebrating our wins.

I would change now "pretty standard" by "we don't invented the wheel" xD :pray:, in the end I wanted to mean we use existing tools and "just" put them together
If your CPU is at 100% for 20 minutes starting every web service, that is definitely your problem, not Java’s problem.
Strictly work related ones probably still would, but maybe at a reduced rate.

What if there was the promise of a friendly AI used to filter out all non-work related discussions?

Then a chatGPT model fine tuned based on previous team discussions, that automatically replies in the team chat any time it has some especially high confidence that it's generated a good answer to a new question.

On my team, there is a lot of "tribal knowledge" that is known to part of the team, and buried in Microsoft Team's chat history somewhere, but having to use Team's search for anything is always the last resort. Maybe add a process where you have to wait for a team member to "like" the AI generated post before the person who posed the question uses the AI answer.
I love how they think “I don’t want girls to know I’m a criminal” makes them come off better. Also “crazy girls” aren’t googling you, it’s pretty much anyone.

It can be a basic personal safety step, if it’s a date rather than a hookup they could be doing a “do we have common interests, do we have incompatible beliefs,etc” search, and even a “I want to show interest in them, what are some things we can do/see together”.

If your first hits are you criming that implies that shit is recent, so they need to know.
Most of these tools support a std set of channels (emails/texts). I think you could reach a much wider audience if people could write plug ins for their own channels
Millions in the US alone. The EEOC is still processing claims from that period and don't appear to be close to being caught up. And that's the ones who bothered to let themselves be fired rather than getting the shot.
That works for any function f that is precomposed by a bijection. Then the bijection and its inverse cancel out, so that is correct. Many of these examples with regards to precomposition and postcomposition might be embedded in other categories, such as slice categories: C/f or f/C. However, of all the different categories you can use to make a model of functions I have singled out Sets^(->) because it forms a topos.

The property that Sets^(->) is a topos gives us a lot to work with. All impredicative constructive mathematics can be defined internal to Sets^(->). This is interesting because it means almost all mathematics can be done internal to Sets^(->), with functions instead of sets as its first class logical objects.

Secondly, the fact that it is a topos gives us an internal logic in Sets^(->). The internal logic of Sets^(->) is a trivalent logic with three values: true, false, and half truth that fails to satisfy the law of excluded middle. Sets^(->) has its own distinct system of logical operators and connectives which generalize those in classical logic and that can be used on all subobjects.

All aside from that, Sets^(->) has an incredibly remarkable logic of quotients. It has been shown that the dual logic of quotients in Sets^(->) is intuitively similar to the partition pairs construction of Hartmanis and Stearns in Algebraic Structure Theory of Sequential Machines (1966). So the immense power of the topos Sets^(->) is enough to capture their central construction for creating a computational structure theory, and mine.

All this demonstrates that Sets^(->) by itself has an incredibly rich theory which is worthy of further exploration. The theory of Sets^(->) is really the functional counterpart of set theoretic foundations, a foundation for a different kind of function-based mathematics, and the means by which we can create a system of logical reasoning for functional programs.

[1] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/topos

[2] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/internalization

[3] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/internal+logic

[4] Hartmanis, J., & Stearns, R. E. (1966). Algebraic structure theory of sequential machines. Prentice-Hall.
They didn't escort the balloons. Maybe they made a flyby. A balloon goes with the speed of the wind, the f22 can't go that slow or it falls out of the sky. Especially at the heights we are talking about.
This whole "balloon gap" story is a textbook example of where media interests actually lie and manufactured consent.

First, the actual Chinese spy balloon was a complete non-story. Large nations spy on each other. The SR-71 was invented for the US to fly over the Soviet Union. Yet it got wall-to-wall media coverage. Why? The usual reasons. It evokes fear (and this part worked) and plays into the need for even more military spending (because almost $1T/year just isn't enough).

All this while an actual catastrophe is taking place, the East Palestine derailment, with a virtual media blackout. Why? Because the media as a general rule doesn't criticize corporate interests. Hell, the company responsible (Norfolk Southern) has a case on this term's Supreme Court to attempt to overturn a PA law that people can sue a company that does business there. The actual case involves someone who got cancer.

And the Biden DoJ has filed an amicus brief in support of Norfolk Southern's case [1].

I really wish more people would recognize the balloon story for the intentional distraction it is.

[1]: https://www.levernews.com/bidens-doj-backing-norfolk-souther...
The commute is a big part! I was thinking about this recently and calculated that, since I started working from home (January 2020, slightly before everyone else), I've saved $4500 and 750 hours that I would have spent commuting.

Trying to do focused work in an open floorplan environment always felt pretty silly to me, but I never really minded being in the office, but thinking about it now...a leisurely morning walk to the park to sit in the sun with coffee before work is a hell of a lot nicer than any commute I ever had.
Samsung and Intel aren’t capable of making chips that either Nvidia or Apple use. Intel isn’t even set up to do contract manufacturing and their entire software and hardware design tool chain is not industry standard and is geared toward their own chipsets.

Intel’s first major announcement for its foundry is manufacturing 16nm chips for MediaTek. This was state of the art for TSMC back in 2013

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/25/mediatek_chooses_inte...

https://anysilicon.com/semipedia/tsmc-16nm/
Out of curiosity: What do you differently than Mautic?
Doesn't directly make line go up so company doesn't care, but you're right it should be.
Federal government has other priorities, on the border of Russia to be exact.
This kind of policy can also be a hidden layoff forcer. You never know what they actually want. They make ambiguous statements about vague gains, culture, etc. It's never concrete. It's just what they want.
> the vast majority of human beings can not "fluently" navigate social situations either...

Most humans have friends, at least as children. They’re certainly not hated so much to be thrown down a flight of stairs and beaten to the point of being hospitalised as young Elon was.
I mean, the conspiracy theorists insisted Ghislaine Maxwell was going to be "suicided", there would never be a trial, all this information would be conveniently memory-holed and the media would never cover anything related to Epstein because their globalist controllers would never allow it.

Literally everything happening right now goes against the conspiracy theorists' theories. Hell, they were trying to decode secret messages in Democratic Party emails about nonexistent sex dungeons in pizzerias when this broke, Epstein wasn't even on their radar. Now they're insisting they were right about everything all along.

They're discredited because their thumbtacks and string bullshit always harms legitimate inquiry and discourse more than it ever helps[0..2]. They're only ever right in the same way a broken clock is.

[0]https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-qanon-impedes-legitimate-...

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/technology/qanon-save-the...

[2]https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/a...

edit: posted sources.
I believe it's the latest round plus the previous from a few months ago?
I'm confused by this comment - are you implying the answers to these questions are all so obvious that they are not worth pursuing evidence of?
I would love to play with the self-hosted version of this. However, being at a company that sends ~ 5 billion messages (across channels) to opted-in existing customers each year, your pricing is far more expensive than Salesforce, Braze, or other commercial competitors. It's enough out of the ballpark that I wouldn't even bother to spin up an instance and play with it.
Arguably, a ban on racial discrimination (or "affirmative action") is a civil rights law, so almost repealing such a ban would be almost repealing civil rights law.
Name a state that trump won where the polls showed him down over 36 points on the eve on the election.
Personally, I could imagine doing a long weekly commute like that if it were by train. I’m in Montreal, and if I were to take a hybrid job in Toronto, I could take a 5 hour train ride Monday afternoon (work on the way), get in around dinner, stay 3 days, and head home Friday while working. It would probably be a lot less pleasant than I imagine, and it would certainly be expensive, but if I’m getting a big pay raise then I think it would work fine.

Doing 10 hours/week on a plane sounds hellish.
Have you tried something like Kotlin? It has the same experience IMO of being very easy to refactor, especially because the IDE can do so many refactorings for you very fast, and because the compile turnaround time is so low.
O’Reilly for Public Libraries
i would not be surprised if their back end is still a bunch of old skool perl scripts in the cgi folder that were l33t coded back in the day, but nobody now can even start to parse the perl itself.

switching from impossible to read perl scripts to flavor-of-the-day language would be a use case i can actually get behind and support for replacing.
Direct energy weapon to compromise reentry integrity appears feasible.
Yep all that run off into the water or chemicals in the air will just stay in the little white republican town.
/s
Some talking points are repeated ad exhaustion as if they were absolute truths, when they are largely relative:

- People collaborate better in person: Bullshit, a lot of developers collaborate better through text. Code Reviews, code snippets on Slack, quick screen shares, diagrams. In fact, verbal communication is very inefficient, prone to inaccuracy and misunderstandings.

- Junior developers don't get mentoring: Bullshit. Most developers are self learners (that's how most people learn to code anyway). Plenty of great material online, from tutorials, to stack overflow, to Indian dudes doing videos on YouTube. Mentoring is largely overblown, and can still happen through text,

- Humans are social beings and need human interaction: Bullshit. Many developers are introverts. And if you are not, find ways to socialize outside of work. Find a hobby with a community or a meetup close to whwre you live. Anything, from tabletop games, running, playing soccer, magic the gathering. Do a language class on your free time, go to a music concert, anything. When you are remote, the world is your oyster.
Finally something good to come out of the layoffs.