skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
who will even notice if you don't show up to the office?

They don’t have to “notice” it. They don’t even have to see it.

Do you have an access badge to get into your company campus/building/suite?

My last job started tracking access badge activity to monitor and enforce RTTO compliance.

Found it funny to get nagged about not hitting the required minimum number by a boss who lived four states away.

Laughed all the way out the door and into a new company whose policy is “if you wanna wfh, then wfh. If you want to come to the office, be our guest.”
> are waiting until the site is decontaminated

Right. It's all completely harmless and there's no risk to any residents, but the site is also too contaminated for investigators to make even a very brief visit. Makes sense to me.
Whenever I have to (re)install/setup Windows on a family member's machine, it's a miserable experience. The only silver lining is the petty satisfaction I get from watching Edge and Bing pathetically beg me to not install Chrome. I actually always type "Google Chrome" into Bing instead of going directly to chrome.com, just for the show.
Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software 1st Edition
by Elecia White
I have not read the book but listen to their podcast
https://embedded.fm/
http://makingembeddedsystems.libsyn.com/rss
Every market is A Market For Lemons.

nothing but price can be objectively compared. We were just talking about the dropshipocalypse/aliexpressification of amazon where it's no longer possible to tell if any two products are actually two different products; or if it's the product you will receive. Even quality sensitive/price-insensitive consumers have no way to know if they're buying quality; or if they do buy quality, will it survive 6 months of OTA software updates.
Hi, I have been using it since launch, have reviewed ~100s-1000s of profiles, have talked with ~50-80 people, did a try-out with 2, for 6 months each. (Background is: I am a technical founder with 6 prior startups, 2 of which were successful; still want to build something, looking for good ideas, and great execution people)

I'm still actively looking for high-quality cofounders to join, and will take anyone who jumps the (high) bar I've set that is required to make a startup a success. However, it is extremely frustrating to work with the site for a mix of cultural, and UX issues reasons.

Specifically:

* Establish a culture of people sharing both their ideas, and the progress they made so far on the project. If the "idea" section is empty / "will discuss on a phone call" / NDAs, that's a no-go from the start. You might want to add a text in the "idea" section of the profile builder, that _not sharing their idea_ is very very bad, and they will get passed on for that reason.

* Search, and a way to look at "everyone who wants to work on X". There are several usability issues with browsing people one-by-one: for one, there are some startup ideas that are very timely right now, and I want to know everyone who wants to work in that area. For another, I can't know if a person I've passed on ~10 months ago haven't pivoted into something more interesting. This is not a sector-specific selector, rather a full-text search for every profile who has specific keywords; with results displayed in a list, similar to cofounderslab.

* Having a profile checkbox, and ability to filter for high-quality founder signals: have built a startup before, have made it profitable, have sold things in the same product category he's thinking on launching a new thing in.

(These are off the top of my head, will edit, if other things come up)
I wouldn't lay blame on Paul's letter specifically.

I'll make the bold clain that there's no industry simply bereft of idea people who have no other function. Mainly because industry has almost no tolerance for people who have a great idea but no understanding of how to go about implementing it, even if that "go about implementing" is mainly having the leadership skills necessary to harangue, terrify, goad, or gingerly coax people who can do the implemeting to act as a cohesive group towards a common goal.

It's unrealistic to think there's any market for the "hey, here's a great idea!" person to receive a check for their brilliant statement and walk into the sunset. There are probably a great many "idea people" who wish that were the case and perhaps feel the world is unfair for this lack. Perhaps those are the kinds of people that the 1-800-Uinvent (or whatever it was) marketing scams preyed upon. Maybe the same group that wants to be the Jobs without putting in the work to be the Woz?
Why would they want to return? One you do an “upgrade” in your life, i.e. like remote work, quality family time, it’s difficult/impossible to go back.
The same is true for many other life “upgrades” like fiber internet connection, smart devices, smartphones, color TVs and so on
The ping database is one of the most unhinged and fascinating ideas I've ever come across. Its such a crazy concept.
> That's not an NP type problem

The comment I was referring to was talking about "decision problems and general problems" and there always being a reduction between them.

Now "general problems" is a bit vague, but in my classes on optimization the students are intuitively led to believe that optimization problems always have a decision problem associated with them, so we can talk about NP-hardness of optimization problems, too. Which is often true, but not always.

As a good example, if you consider graph coloring, you can argue that the associated decision problem is "given a graph G, and a parameter k, answer yes if G is colorable with at most k colors". This way, slightly informally, you can talk about NP-hardness of finding the smallest number of colors for a graph.

However, the optimization problem I presented -- coloring k-colorable graphs -- is a valid optimization problem, it is interesting and has been studied in the past, but it has no good decision problem associated with it.
Concept makes a ton of sense, I find GMX super hard to use compared to robinhood for example
Let me preface this by saying I don't have much of an opinion for or against RTO, but I feel like there's too much emotion attached to companies mandating RTO by tech employees. I'm at a company that is mandating RTO and for the past couple months there has been tons of whining and moaning in public slack channels, team Q&As, company wide Q&As, HR Q&As, being passive aggressive etc. All this behavior has reeked of immense entitlement, leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

The fact remains that a company exists to make money. When a company mandates RTO, generally it's doing so because it believes that's the best way to get the maximum output of it's resources against whatever metrics they are measuring against.

Employees should feel like the relationship between them and their employer is mutually beneficial, if that's no longer the case, pursue external opportunities.

We are incredibly lucky we are in a field that has a high demand for strong engineers, so you should be able to find what you are looking for.
A wise man once clued me in about getting published in print. He said that publishers have a problem -- they own a very expensive printing press that costs a fortune whether it's printing something or not. So they're always desperate for material to feed the beast with.

The reason it seems like it's difficult to get published is that they also have another problem -- they are inundated with crap submissions. "Crap" doesn't even mean bad writing, it includes pieces that aren't suitable for the particular publication -- wrong writing style/tone, wrong audience, etc.

The trick to getting published is to understand the publisher's problem and help them solve it. You do this by paying attention to what they publish, noting the style/tone, length, topics, etc., and give them something that fits and is high quality. They'll love you to death.

Once I really internalized that, I found it was pretty easy to get published.

Online publishing changes the economics a bit, but even there, publishers have limited resources and the same rules still apply.
You pay a few hundred bucks a month to rent a wework desk so that you have an excuse to commute somewhere?
I don't think there's a realistic baby-bathwater trade-off here. This is just leveraging, using your power in one market (PC operating systems) to gain a competitive advantage in another market (browsers). It's not some deeply technical subject the courts and legislators are incapable of understanding, they just haven't cared since US v. Microsoft ended.
Even before the AI age, SE should have only been a tool in my toolbox.

With the exception of the 0.1% exceptionally good programmer, SE should only be a tool.

As someone with an engineering background, I have always regretted leaving a possible "real" engineering career to become a SE.

However, one of the first victims of AI explosion will be real engineering jobs where the rules are somewhat clear.

AI is probably going to put a lot of power in hands of people who exploit human inefficiencies and weakness, like lawyers, advertisers, marketeers, politicians ....
I'm sure it'll be a useful feature!

Welcome to subscribe the discussion for it. https://github.com/Kanaries/pygwalker/discussions/23
So you’re saying, being remote is okay as long as that remote in another office?
Basically small early stage startups and not always even then.
> Nginx is not relatively simple.

Sure it is, if your needs are simple and you follow a tutorial and don't just randomly spam stuff into your config files. Nginx can get really really complicated but it doesn't have to.

> mthese services replace dozens of hours of banging your head against software that's one misstep from blowing your legs clean off.

Yes, you can definitely spend hours figuring out Nginx, but you can shoot your foot off with a PAAS just as easily and at least Nginx is a technology that you can use in many different situations. It's definitely worth learning a tool like that, versus a commercial service where you play in a sandbox and they can jack up the price or change the rules at any time.

This is written as a long-time web developer and sysadmin. A lot of comments like the above seem to be written to try to scare younger devs away from standard tools and into the arms of PAAS vendors.
Not OP - I'm in my mid 30s and do this for roughly the same reasons.
I'm sure it'll be a great feature!

Welcome to subscribe the discussion for it. https://github.com/Kanaries/pygwalker/discussions/23
I think you should try reinterpreting this, if there are a bunch of holes in your examples that are meant to be clear and defining, then maybe it isnt so open and closed?

Its also a little strange to be called a contrarian in this instance (yes generally speaking true) because it does not seem to be contrarian to point out obvious counter examples. It feels like a way for you to easily dismiss any other opinion because you already binned it as some one denying reality in order to pointlessly argue.
FYI: I just get redirected to an "Oops" (/not-found) page when I try to sign-up. Tried twice
It is definitely a hard problem. There are ways to ensure consistency, such as using beam search decoding, which is deterministic. But that comes with other tradeoffs regarding answer quality.
I am supremely confused by the involvement of the FBI in the first place. I broadly appreciate that a Civil War cache of gold would initiate something like “an archaeological excavation to recover government property”. I can understand having law enforcement presence during the dig due to the high value of the property, and if I really stretch I guess the FBI are essentially the federal government’s police force? So maybe that could be the explanation for why they were involved, but I’m still dubious on that. Even then, why they would carry out their own archaeological dig? And why they would document it so poorly, and finally why would they redact their documentation so severely afterward?
> It won't discard background tabs with … Active Audio/Video … partially filled forms …

Thus begins a new arms race, as people who don't want their tabs discarded add hidden forms which are later modified by JS to look like they have useful new state, or adding silent single-pixel auto-playing videos, and the browser try to detect those tricks, so further tricks are devised.
Some food for thought: seems like the majority prefer to WFH, now think of all the coworkers you were having lunch with, how many of them would prefer to have lunch with you if they were not forced to go to the office? Not many.

Don’t get too attached to people from work.
that's one take.

Personally I think it was motivated by trying to create a marketed feeling of exclusivity , drive a stake between Those With and Those Without, and alienate those without into buying an iProduct and joining The Club.
By the time it's out of warranty you can afford a fully working parts mule off ebay to leave lying around.
My guess is Zelando right? I was always intrigued at the quality of NLP research coming out of them!
Spotify Official Overseeing Rogan, Podcast Partnerships to Exit
IIRC the Steam Machine was a specification and not a product you could buy, so quality varied. I'd bet that contributed to its failure.
Time travelers preparing to travel to the year 2009 certainly find it invaluable.
Oh, sure, I think employees ought to organize to increase wages in general. But absent that, the value of perks like a four-day work week (while it remains an unusual perk, at least) do factor into wage negotiations, and individuals can't do much to resist that on their own (aside from... not get the job and keep working five days somewhere else). I'm talking "is", not, "ought", in describing it the way I did.
This is my personal take, given that I work at Amazon. Here's the landscape of people I interact with:

* Supply Chain - Bellevue, Vancouver, Austin

* AWS / other businesses - Seattle, occasionally elsewhere (NYC, Boston, HQ2)

* Foreign business teams - Luxembourg (EU), occasionally elsewhere (India)

* Team members on my team - Bellevue, Seattle, Vancouver, and elsewhere

Tell me how we're going to get all of these groups together for "hallway talk". At best, you can get a team in one locality, but even that is difficult with immigration challenges.
you have 3 out of 5 parts of the standard tuple

not perfect but not unworkable either
Only if you're naive enough to think that Apple doesn't do the exact same thing with Safari when you launch other browsers...

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/153379/how-do-you-...
Can’t give an answer but my thought here is that this thing probably would like to be swept up before the news cycle turns and balloons aren’t a thing anymore. Looks and feels like something put together in a bit of a hurry (which is perfectly fine)
Thanks. I figured it may not be accurate but seems like I was underestimating it.
- Weed instead of alcohol. The things I want to do stoned (yoga, writing, coding, guitar) are the polar opposite of what I want to do when I drink (porn, video games, junk food).

- Yoga. If you have ADD/ADHD, give it a try. People usually groan because yoga is corporate's favorite suggestion, but it can change your life. Six months of daily practice was a turning point for me.
I bought a t470s on ebay for 100 dollars during the holidays and I’m blown away that its mostly an intel era macbook air (was there a 2017 model?) with upgradeable ram 16gb (for 35 dollars), nvme, and a replaceable battery.

Gaming pcs, until about a year or two ago, are pretty much desktop replacement pcs.
Any videos of a game with this ball?
Well the real solution if you want to actually utilize copyright protections is to register the work. This creates a dated government record. In the US (which is admittedly a bit of an oddball), to file a copyright infringement suit, you need to have a registered copyright. No one can get a registered copyright on your work if you've already got one (well they might be able to get one if there is a clerical error but it would definitely be dated after yours).

Without a registered copyright you can still defend yourself from an infringement suit by showing your work predates theirs, but you can't really go on the offensive. You can send cease and desist letters but that's about it. You can't collect statutory damages or attorney's fees.

In most other countries a registration will at least create the presumption of authorship, meaning the other party is obligated to prove their work came first.

But yeah, putting the year on the copyright notice does nothing.
I'll just leave this here... :https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03166-w
Tell that to Chief Justice John Marshall (McCulloch v Maryland, 1819.)
This is one of the most strange recurring theories. Companies are valued based on the recurring cashflows they generate from operating activities. A large technology company could have a _huge_ one-time write down of their real estate assets, and (assuming it does not make the company illiquid) not have its valuation materially impacted. Nobody is buying these companies because of their skill at investing in real estate.
He explains why he does this in his post....
>But I miss the bustling office culture, going out to lunch with coworkers, forming friendships with people from the office who don't necessarily work in the same department/team.

Not everyone is built the same way
But... that's _not_ what they are according to the definitions found in obvious places. Which is fine; it's a vague enough term that having your own definition is reasonable.

That being said, I do disagree with your opinion that "they're all bad" even limited to the definition you gave. Being able to make food last longer is good. And recognizing that, it's a matter of tradeoffs for the additive in question.
some of the companies in this space>> https://flatfile.com/,https://www.oneschema.co/,https://www....
I'm not angry. I left and because I have no media I own in your app, I don't have a reason to open your app ever again.
with the "added trust of microsoft"?

10 years ago this would have been on The Onion
Check out the application "aldente" for a tool that lets you manage this behavior directly... it can stop charging at a specific battery level regardless of what "optimized charging" wants to do, it allows "sailing" mode where it won't start recharging until the battery is discharged to a specific level, and it allows halting charging when the battery is above a certain temperature.

It does what it says on the tin in terms of system behavior at least, no idea how much it will actually help in terms of battery life.
>So the question is does the rate of derailments scale with the number of individual cars or with the number of trains?

You have to take in a much larger number of factors than that.

The railroad industry is currently pushing their new just in time paradigm which has been leading to attempted strikes in the US (Uncle Joe says no) by the railroad workers. The railroad operators are pushing for longer trains, less engineers per train, and less inspection time per car while also playing computerized shipping optimizations that put the number of 'hazards' on a train just below the regulated minimum number of cars so they don't have to declare it.

It's just ironic that this incident that got national news happened so quickly after the railroad co's got their no right to strike validated. It looks like it could very well be their undoing.
Gitlab is somehow in the conversation with github and a huge reason for that is talented engineers. There hiring process is not the best, the ego level is higher than it should be and management isn't the sharpest or most creative.

Without wfh you wouldn't be talking about gitlabs.

They have access to a greater pool of talent but they still have to have a solid business plan / sales / some luck.. And they have to pick the right talent from that greater pool
Calling midi a form of lossy audio compression is a stretch. Its like saying whistling a tune is a lossy way to compress a song.

Yeah you're transmitting information about the source but to call it lossy is an understatement.
I am not angry at Netflix. I simply have cancelled the subsription couple of of months ago - in March last year I think...

It had been a good idea. I spent more time outdoors or reading books or just sleep instead of watching mildly interesting serials.
Why are you even asking "basic questions about biology"?

"It's not my job to educate you" is a response borne of extreme frustration with being repeatedly asked the same basic questions (that can easily be answered with Google), to the point of being suspicious that the questioner is acting in good faith. A common pattern is someone "playing innocent" in order to bait a Socratic dialogue out of someone. If you get this line often, it would be worth some self-reflection.

>If you truly believe something is true, and you believe that you have evidence to back it up, you would show that evidence every chance you get.

Meh. After being asked why I think the Earth is round for the hundredth time, with the most carefully considered answers invariably failing to convince my interlocutors, I'm now inclined to tell them to bugger off instead of wasting my energy. It's basically the fail2ban mitigation to DoS attacks.
I am not at Amazon, but at another FAANG, also am in Seattle, and it is the same thing for us. If we were hit with RTO, it would make exactly zero sense for my team/org.

Out of people I work with, one of them is also in Seattle, another one is in Toronto area, the team lead is in SF, the manager is in SD, and the skip level manager is in MTV. I am not even gonna talk about people on the partner teams that we gotta work with, as they are all spread out all over the place. RTO would be an absolute net negative for every single person on my team, as we aren't going to see the people we work with in our local offices regardless.

And don't even get me started on trying to find available meeting rooms in the office for meetings that were not scheduled way ahead of time. If someone wants to hop on a call with me for a debugging session or has anything to discuss impromptu, being available for that in the office is rather difficult. All while I can hop on a meeting call on a minute's notice when WFH.
If you think it’s useful you’re stealing the work of GPT by posting without attribution, if you don’t you’re wasting our time.
I wish the same! My first couple weeks on co-founder matching were consumed with meeting a wide range of folks, most of whom in the "I'd like to start a company if the right co-founder / idea / other criteria present themselves" stage.

One thing that seems to reduce the noise is selecting "I'm working full time on my startup" and make that a requirement for co-founder. But it would be nice to also meet those who are not actively working on an idea but very committed to finding a co-founder to start something.
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The government refuses to hear arguments against government surveillance of its subjects. Shocking. Next we'll be surprised that Congress won't vote for term limits.
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Everything needed for you to post that comment had to be heavily subsidized by your local government, almost every single piece of infrastructure involved, even the protocol itself was subsidized by the US government. It reminds me of that great quote: "Libertarians are like house cats, they naively believe in their fierceness and independence while being fully dependant in a system they don't understand or appreciate".
I'm 40 and I work from the office 5 days a week for roughly the same reasons. General expectation from the company is around 2 days a week in the office, but I prefer it, so I come in every day.
No, they say they do it for the change of scenery and nobody else is there.
The first in a series of lectures by Brandon Sanderson. BYU 2020 creative writing class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6HOdHEeosc