skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel one of the things people ignore for WFH is the 'social handshake' aspect for lack of a better term. Let me explain what I mean:

When you're in an office, unless you're explicitly in a meeting Coworker Jim can walk by your desk, tap you on the shoulder and ask for help, or a talk, or to simply ask about your day. You don't have a choice in this interaction. Ignoring him is rude and often even when I told people I was busy they would persist or break my flow.

When you're WFH, they can't do that. They send you a message on slack and you can choose to asynchronously respond, or schedule a meeting for later or if it's important to clarify something now hop on a call. A good team understands this and reorganizes everything to work around that asynchronous nature.

I have a feeling the breakdown is that upper management hates this aspect. They can't stand that they can't simply walk the floor and annoy people or micromanage people as they see fit. Even if it's better for productivity, it's worse for them mentally. Which is why you see them cramming RTO or hybrid even when most people indicate otherwise.
Yep, default runners in most CI platforms shared resources so they are prone to produce flakiness (depending on your set up).

That was one of the reasons we ended up setting up our own runners. Didn't mention in the post but we use spot VM instances.
If the government followed the constituion this wouldn't be problems:
1. Marijuana would never have been illegal at the federal level because an amendment wasn't passed.
2. Healthcare and any other federal welfare policies could be ennacted by passing an amendment.

If there isn't broad consensus across the country to pass an amendment then states can do it independently. There is no reason a state can't have single payer healthcare, except that they don't want to pay for it and want to just add the cost to the national debt.
For reference :

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/13/twilio-layoffs-1500-employee...
SLU needing more people is certainly an opinion.
That's always for the best. So now that 15 has had some time to settle, it's a good time to adopt.
I'm not a CTO or tech guy, but in our case deployment takes a few minutes (usually up to 5 mins, rarely more). Node.js on meteor
There is a vocal portion of Juniors who are struggling over the idea of making friends outside of college and have been seeking the work place as an option.

Yes, before the downvoters/extroverts start going on: Yes, in person meetings are good on an rare occasion. However, the claim that you have to be in person/"be social creatures" to work effectively is drastically overblown.
Damn, I tried really hard to be good at computers and only achieved mediocrity. It was lonely, made me miss lots of other stuff in life and now I can only try to just be barely competent. I am really happy for you, but it just reminded that I have almost surely missed my shot at life and at getting those kind of memories. Hey at least I get to live in interesting times.
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What a weird premise. The purpose of an organization is whatever that organization decides that it is. Shareholders can choose to invest in that vision, or not. If the majority of the owners are dissatisfied with that purpose, they can change it, by electing a new board. There are plenty of businesses where shareholder value is explicitly not the primary value. See for example: cooperatives, b-corps, non-profit corporations, etc. But you don't need a "special" organizational structure just to decide that profits aren't your primary value.

That said, I've definitely been at organizations where they defaulted to the vision of shareholder profit, but every single time it's been because they've lacked any other compelling vision.
I wouldn't group python with java and c# either. Quite different beasts
In English that's correct but this is a common mistake for ESL people.
Amazon funds seaweed farming at offshore wind farm to test CO2 capture
>The damage caused by global heating across the globe is increasingly clear, and recovering from climate disasters is already costing billions of dollars. Furthermore, these disasters can cause cascading problems including water, food and energy crises, as well as increased migration and conflict, all draining countries’ resources.
They must have some data that shows people are more productive (whether it's against their will or not/whether they hate their lives sitting in traffic to and from work or not/whether they thinking being in the office surrounded by a bunch of people who are mostly fake is soul sucking or not) in the office. There's no way Google + Apple + Amazon + Meta are all aligned on "work from home isn't a viable option" without dating backing it.

It's just an echo chamber here on HackerNews that we begrudgingly don't want to believe it.
It's entirely possible they aren't American. Remember, the internet is global.
Intel released a couple days ago new Xeon-W CPUs with AVX-512.

The wx-24xx uses the same p-cores as alder lake, but with avx-521 enabled. Same for wx-34xx but with raptor lake's p-core.

The entry levels xeon are believed to be identical to Core ix, with the e-cores disabled and avx-512 enabled. The extra I/O and ECC support is done by the chipset.

In summary, they just went to support avx-512 only on xeon w.

This makes sense, since must be hard to schedule between cores with and w/o avx (the e-cores doesn't have avx).
If you want to be pedantically technical, Cede & Co. owns all of the publicly issued stock in the United States.
We offer a very competitive solution that is quickly becoming a one-stop shop for what you mentioned: https://stadiamaps.com.

All that functionality for a lot less than $1000 / month.
This is nonsense. There is no paradox. Some people don't do good with remote, some people do good with it. I was a junior engineer when open office work was the norm. I can tell you right now nothing was harder on my ability to learn to engineer than being interrupted by loud people having calls, or being interrupted by coworkers, or being interrupted by other distractions. Now that I am a staff level engineer WFH (and have been WFH for many years now) I have NEVER been more productive.

It's like all of these astroturfed posters and article writers have been trying to get us to have collective amnesia over just how bad pre-WFH tech offices were.
This is pretty cool, though I wonder if the use of AI in this particular way is extraordinarily novel. Computer aided design using physics and optimization has existed and been designing parts for decades now. This is just more of the same.
You have not met the federally mandated quota for volume of suffering. Please call back when you do.
IMHO there's a huge gap between "trust this dell hardware not to contain hardware implants" vs "trust cloudflare warp to MITM every SSL connection I make"
https://youtu.be/pEZcRR61Bqg

Louis Rossmanns video on what happened. Basically amounts to adding a provision at the last minute when almost everyone in the house is on vacation
I agree that this is bad but I'd encourage you to rethink your comment. The "clown engineers" you are calling out maintain a level of uptime and scale thats hard to for most people to imagine. You don't do that by being an idiot.

Instead of calling them names and assuming bad intent, maybe take a second to think about how much it must suck for them right now. I'm sure it's all hands on deck nights/weekends to fix. No one sets out to do a bad job in my experience.
If you ever find that teapot orbiting out beyond Saturn, let everyone know.
From someone two degrees of separation away from the situation, this really was a core issue. A lot of bickering involved from family members and outside interests on what's funded and how much. (yes, all second hand random internet rumors, heresay, take it with a grain of salt, etc.)

It's sad because the LCM and Cinerama had such an impact on Seattle culture.
With technical escalation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrage_balloon
Thankfully it never passed the senate.
Note that this is written by an HR trade group that has lobbied against the bill. The most important piece:

> Nadler emphasized that the bill would not ban all arbitration pacts—only mandatory pre-dispute agreements. Parties would still be free to choose arbitration after the dispute arises.

Arbitration is still available, but employees can't be forced to sign agreements to arbitrate future disputes.
Further, she had the experience to understand exactly how damaging the text messages would be AND she would know that the fact she deleted them would be revealed in discovery and severely punished by most judges YET decided to delete them anyway. That's how damaging they must have been.

Also, the texts were sent to someone and both parties had to delete them for deleting to work - so... conspiracy too.
The company will also be acutely familiar with which arguments worked on the arbitrator in the past and which ones did not.
ESG isn't even close to illegal. Investment firms offer hundreds of different funds to choose from, you pick the one you like best and go with that. This concept would be illegal with your reasoning.

But it's all irrelevant. A person that invests in a BlackRock S&P500 fund will pay fewer fees than a person that invests in a Texas-approved S&P500 fund. These two funds will have the same return over the course of your 40-year career, but the person with the BlackRock account will have tens of thousands of dollars more money. It's basic math.

If ESG is bunk, the market will reject it. In fact, billions of dollars have been pulled from ESG funds over the last year. I suspect that there will be an eventual equilibrium found, but that's just me. In the meantime, BlackRock is making serious cash on their ESG funds (higher fees). Money that firms that don't offer ESG funds aren't making.
Maybe they do. If so, they should share it, then, because it's certainly not readily available. It would go far to increase their credibility.
For server binaries they're typically being dropped into Docker containers not scp-d to servers directly, and the moment you go there you can just use jib and get a JVM container easily so there's no difference in logistics.

For CLI tools whilst a single binary can be convenient, native-image lets you get those for JVM programs too these days. But it's not always the case that it's enough. In practice you will often hit the need for:

a. Cross platform / cross builds.

b. A way to easily update them for your users (that isn't "everyone mount this NFS/SMB drive")

c. Ability to ship other files e.g. third party libraries written in other languages, config files, data files, readmes ...

d. Possibly, avoiding virus scanners and Gatekeeper if you have users on Windows/macOS.

Conveyor [1] does support distributing CLI tools (in any language) that can then be updated via apt-get, the Windows package manager or Sparkle on macOS. If your language/runtime supports cross-building then it can do it all from your developer laptop, you don't need each OS to build for. The resulting artifacts are single files (deb, msix/exe, zip) and it supports both self-signing and regular signing if you want that.

It provides a few other neat features on Windows:

• One click install that immediately adds new tools to every single terminal session without needing restarts.

• If you want, silent background updates Chrome-style. If you don't, manually triggered updates.

• For JVM apps specifically it automatically configures the Windows terminal to support ANSI escapes, Unicode and other modern features so you can use all the same stuff as on UNIX without needing to futz around with win32 or wrappers.

Unfortunately the little default GUI that lets you trigger updates and add CLI tools to your path on macOS isn't officially launched yet, because it only works for JVM apps and not other types of program. But if anyone wants to try it just let me know, it's easy to activate.

If you don't need any such features then yes, a single binary can be a bit more convenient than a zip. But the number of situations where it breaks down is pretty high and it's not so hard to handle multiple files.

[1] https://hydraulic.software/
> I'm not sure I understand why these forks exist exactly.

A large part of it is mistrust of Muse, over the initial opt-out nature of the new telemetry and over other past decisions, unrelated to Audacity, that people have found questionable.¹ Fool me once, and all that.

> Looking at the git tree, it's clear that these forks have diverged significantly from upstream Audacity

That in itself would be a reason, certainly from a dev's PoV, on top of that trust thing. If both projects fit what they want, but the downstream ones do it in a way they prefer, that is enough difference even if

> [sic] the marketing does not make clear the difference from upstream

implies that there is no major difference² from an end-users PoV³ at this point.

--

[1] I've not looked into the latter in much detail, my use of Audacity is so infrequent currently that I don't think I've updated (or, obviously, switched to something else) since before the hoo-hah.

[2] Yet, at least.

[3] beyond the telemetry and potential trust issues
I have a paid-off house in a beautiful place with gigabit fibre an hour from a major city by train. If I needed to go in to the office it would need to be for roughly €90,000 extra per year to offset that.
because we have other clues for that. A question is denoted by a raise in tone at the end of the sentence. A period is denoted by a pause.
Hey you're right we need to add a privacy page! At the moment our cloud option is hosted on aws. We are working on encryption at rest, (you can off course self host if this is an issue). We store customer data in a mongo instance. What would you like to see, are you looking for something in particular?
You've never heard of John Titor? In all seriousness while you don't have to believe in time travelers, there is a lesson to be learned there. Look what happened to the Digital Domesday Project. If preservation efforts had begun earlier it might all be online now.
You can export photos as html tables from GIMP for some reason too, example: https://chaoswebs.net/pepe/
Shouldn’t we focus more on fixing commutes then? As a bonus, all the rest of our traveling also improves.
Of course the rockets are heat seeking. But someone has to give the order. They have sensors, they investigate. They report up the chain of command. I don't even want to know how many people were involved from the moment it was detected to the moment the order was given. 100? 1000? More? And no one bothered. And the US weather service alone starts around 60,000 to 100,000 balloons a year.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34838828 which was posted later but has higher points and more comments
Who did? The worst roads in America are all (meant to be) maintained with local/state money. The road surface of the federal highways are all in a reasonable state, although many bridges are sketchy. The F-35 isn't the reason an average country road in America looks like the surface of the Moon.
You reboot and suddenly your CPU is at 100% for 20 minutes starting every web service...
I mean 50s and 60s (and, to some degree, 70s) cars. Modern cars are taller but there were some absolute boats back then, and they weren't uncommon. And they felt huge on the inside. All but the largest of big-ass SUVs don't feel as big as they did, when you're actually in them.

[EDIT] And even with the added height, the view from a truck or SUV sucks compared to those old cars. The only modern car I've been in the comes half-way close is some model or other of Tesla, and even that wasn't terribly close. Modern windows are shorter (they start higher up the door), windshields more-angled (for less actual viewing angle), and pillars have gone from a thin strip to big ol' things that are far thicker, both width and depth. One feels far less closed-in in most old cars than in most modern cars.
"Rational" is arguable. There are a lot of analyses that would indicate that layoffs hurt your company in the medium-to-long term, even if it props up your short-term prospects.

There are plenty of companies still haven't done layoffs (Apple), or have even raised employee salary (Nintendo, Sega) to ensure that employees feel safe and continue to perform at high levels.

If anything, it's irrational behaviour. Herd mentality, prioritizing the short-term, fear-based, etc.
I don't think they have *solved* it. Rather, this strikes me more as making them less attractive for nefarious use than other options.
Oh, OK. I couldn't see what approximate calculations using logarithms had to do with random integers.

Also, I learned to use a slide-rule in the sixties; I 've never touched one again until I inherited an antique, a few years ago. Nobody was using slide-rules in the seventies, surely.
In the 90s and early 2000s, people, even from other countries, typed it correctly on the internet. I have the EFnet IRC logs right now on my hard drive if you need proof. Hell I'm tempted to make a youtube video just to prove my point.
"the corporation, which is owned by no one"

Conflating the legal fiction of the personhood of a corporation with the fact that it cannot be owned, or worse, has no owners, is not something I'd expect to hear from a WaPo journalist.

(Upon further research, the author was neither an attorney or an economist, but did win the Pulitzer, and has since passed on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pearlstein )

However, I still take issue with the statement that a corporation is not "owned" by the shareholders. As a matter of law, a corporation is owned by the shareholders.
... or you can just use a sane FP library like

https://github.com/paulhoule/pidove

Some people don't like the Lispy signatures so I did start coding up a version with with a fluent interface but didn't quite finish.

Overall I would say the implementation of lambdas and method references in Java 8 was genius, but the stream library was a big mistake. Part of it is that has this cumbersome API that in principle would let it optimize query execution by looking at the pipeline as a whole but doesn't really take advantage of it.
(based on my conversations with friends, family, and peers who started during and after the remote work boom, and my own experience switching from Eng to Product during the pandemic)

It depends on how your organization manages onboarding and communication. For a lot of junior emmployees, they don't get as much institutional support or ability to learn from watercooler conversations while being fully remote. When I started as a SWE, I was in the office and could pester experienced devs about this or that, and learn from conversations happening over lunch or over beers. While remote, that entire learning avenue shut down. In addition, most friendships are made thanks to the workplace. If you're fully remote, you aren't meeting other people and making friends. To some people that might be fine, but to others it's very restricting. That's a big reason why early-to-mid career (20-30) types prefer working in NYC over SF now - most other people our age are still there, while SF has become much older.
>If that was the case I’d expect LLMs to fail in the same way humans do, to exhibit similar self correction. I’d expect them to not fail in the ways they do fail, in the ways that humans don't. It’s these completely different behaviours that map out the strength and limitations of these systems, and I believe illustrate that they function in a fundamentally different way.

No. Do you expect a child to understand everything in the same way you do? Of course not. There are certain things chatGPT clearly doesn't understand. But you can't use that to say that chatGPT understands nothing. Do you understand all of quantum physics? Is that a feature expected out of you in order for you to qualify as a entity that can understand things? No.

ChatGPT is a nascent technology. There is clear merit in investigating this line of thought: "Like a baby chatGPT doesn't understand a lot. But What it does understand, it understands exactly the same way you understand it." Because as of now, nobody knows the answer.
So a popular example would be with discussion around BLM, which revolves around black people dying at the hands of police, despite the fact that far more white people are killed by police.

The argument is based on per capita vs total, and so is definitely discussed in terms of how it affects one group more than the other. You also see it around gender discussions that revolve around crime rate victimization - since men are more likely to be victims of violent crime.

The point is you see it framed that way all the time, and yet it's only an issue in instances like this. Anything that frames the wrong group as a victim is a no-no.
> Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., however, raised concerns that the broad prohibitions in the FAIR Act would prevent parties from freely entering into contracts and would burden the judicial system. "This bill will ban arbitration agreements across nearly all contracts," he said. "It outlaws arbitration agreements with respect to not only big, huge corporations but the most humble businesses and parties in the country."

Absolutely horrible, won't you think of the mom and pop shops that force their employees into binding arbitration agreements?

It's pretty mask off when a bill that makes it so that both parties have to agree and have the right to to refuse arbitration means an effective ban on it.
Yes, because royalty got to its position through being a self described "empathetic person".

No, power is awarded to those bold enough to do what needs to be done. You'd be wise to read _The Prince_, and instead of being revolted by it, take it as a lesson in how people such as US presidents, CEOs, dictators, etc all come to power.

I'm getting downvoted because people like you haven't studied history. Typical of the pseudo-intellectual I doubt you've read any books on the historical acquisition of power. If you did, you'd notice the common thread across all cultures, kingdoms, and royalty. There's a distinct difference between deliberate machiavellianism, and uncontrolled machiavellianism. The former is business, the latter is "psychopathy". I put it in quotes because you also do not have any idea what psychopathy actually is. I'm sure you go around the office calling people "nazis" and "fascists" too.
I seem to remember reading that upx had a performance impact (startup times?).

@mihaip, have you been able to measure any changes before/after?
But 3 seconds isn't on the table. It is more like 20-30 seconds on a medium sized app and 8 seconds for a small one.
It's not MY representation, but what was in documentaries on netflix etc .

Good point, though, I do agree it's awfully conspicuous.
I used this when planning out my apartment. I grabbed a floorplan from the listing ad, recreated it to scale in Sweet Home 3D, resized and recolored the bundled furniture models to match the dimensions and colors of furniture I was considering ordering online, found a layout I was happy with, and had everything ordered before I even moved in.

Sweet Home 3D was honestly really useful for giving me confidence that everything I was buying would work well together, and I’m very happy with the result.
Couldn't even be bothered to run it through ChatGPT first?
> Hybrid feels good but produces very little.

Isn't feeling good something worth producing?