skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had 4 day workweeks at two different times in my career. Once in my 20s, when I worked 10 hours days to get an extra day off. Didn't matter since I worked close to that anyway, and often more. The day off was flexible, so I chose Wednesday whenever possible. Two "weeks" of two days each worked great for me. Best schedule I ever had.

Another place, the salary was slightly lower (but not much due to the way they did levels), but the tradeoff was worth it. This was near the end of my time working for other people, so I was honestly on my way out anyway.

I think it's hard to make an entire company work on a 4 day schedule if you're interfacing with clients and so on. Or do the thing where half are off Monday, half off Friday.
You're right, my comment about your rhetorical choices isn't important. It's not on my to judge how well you communicate your message or influence others.

You're also right that you're trying to make points that I wasn't talking about and don't care about, and that attempting to correct the record when someone such as yourself decides to pop off about how "they" are ruining things isn't worth my time or energy.

Finally, you're right that you can bring up whatever tangential points you want that are correct and put them into a conversation to convince yourself that those were the points you were originally trying to make and I'm wrong.

TL;dr - You "Won"! Deuces!
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It’s just marketing. And it seems it’s working.
I wonder how much the openings affect the drag.
> One issue with Cloudflare Workers is that it is limited in only being able to PUT 100MB at a time to any host, Cloudflare or not, in an undocumented limit presumably for anti-abuse.

It's documented here:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits/#r...

This limit actually isn't specific to Workers. It's a general Cloudflare thing, because Cloudflare buffers uploads to disk in order to defend against slow loris attacks. That is, this is actually meant to protect your origin. We've occasionally discussed letting people turn this off if they don't need it but it hasn't come up very often...

(I'm the lead engineer for Workers.)
> The idea that you can staff whole teams of people (and their dependencies!) in a way that they're all guaranteed to sit within a short walk of each other is straight-up madness. Beyond a certain scale this is quite impossible.

If the world has been mostly remote well before the pandemic, what does this say about the idea that outstanding results can only be produced by the serendipity and (alleged) increased efficiency of in-person collaboration?
> Either it produces the required results (everyone understanding the problem and cooperating to produce and implement as close to an optimal solution as possible given resource constraints) or it doesn't.

And how can you tell? If a project fails, is that because people didn't have a shared understanding of the problem, or did they understand it fine and just weren't able to find a solution?
i find its usually the same persons or teams responsible for both. hard to do them in parallel
This was actually the point when the US joined the Berne convention and started treating copyright the same way as the rest of the world.
> beyond some hand-wavey "collaboration" answer that companies are giving

I'm confused what the alternative is that you would like. I'm sure they can link a bunch of studies that show its more productive to work in office, and I'm guessing those that want to stay remote will show a bunch of other studies that say its not; which continues ad nauseam.
> not dubbed at all.

Sounds like what most people expect and prefer (outside of regions like US and France where people have been trained to expect dubbing)

I'll take original voice actors and subs over any dub.
I think the ideas are worthless and a dime a dozen without execution has created a dismissive attitude. Everyone needs to be an engineer or lender to contribute.

Why would an engineer want to pair with somebody and “do all the work”?

Part of executing is looking at what features or decisions similar failure made, and righting the ship on the next go around.

Where is the idea person college course? MBA? Some kind of strategy?
Andy likes people in the office.
For team based creation its critical for productivity - sorry but its true.
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Alas I fear that this is also an HR tactic to lay off people without paying severance.

Whats missing from the current media narrative is the deals done per manager. Nothing is really ever "company wide". people worked from home before covid. based on manager discretion
Exactly this.

I think startups that work in-office have an advantage because of the potential for early velocity of execution and social cohesion -- if they can find and retain local talent in this market. But I think the ship sailed for the BigCorps a long time ago.

And on top of that the round of layoffs they just did are killing morale. And the status that came with their titles is sinking or has sunk.

Their only advantage now is compensation rates, and those are dropping too, by their own efforts and by the drop in their stock values.

Finally, I'd say the problem with startups that are doing in-office, is that so many of them continue to insist on the Bay Area as their locus, which limits their talent pool and also diversity of ideas of their workforce. It can work for some companies but not all.
Congrats on the launch of V2!

What are the main differences between Permify and Authzed/SpiceDB?
You get healthcare 7 days a week but only work for 4. Salary is only one component of compensation
Is it gonna happen after cars drive themselves or before?
OK, now we need large language model literary criticism. That's probably possible, since "compare and contrast" already works.
SABnzbd (Python Usenet client) is performant now
Is MLS truly a major league in the US? It depends where you are
Yes, it can. It's not as simple as giving it the same prompt, but literally feeding prompts into its response like, "this is really corny sounding, nobody actually talks like that. Please write it to be more authentic. Please also write it as if this response was the first, sloppy draft from a world-class, multi-disciplinary author, and rewrite it to be their fourth copy that's been edited by an equally talented editor. Also add more dialogue."

Then feed the story it wrote into a new chat and tell it to rewrite it from scratch, but include very specific details that it should change to convey the scene. "have it star out with the main character staring at a childhood photo".
In the 90s my girlfriend worked for the American office of a Danish industrial design company that closed at noon on Fridays. They claimed it was how everyone in Denmark worked, but I had no way to confirm it at the time.
Oh boy do I have news for you: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vodafone-plan...
99% (or more) of the recordings you might find for training would be in the standard accent unless you were specifically digging for regional accents.
Darn, I was hoping this would actually be one of those "XYZ Simulator" games on, say, the Steam games store.
My opinion on this comment is that it is completely wrong.

1. Currently, Prompt Engineering works, and that alone is a reasonable reason for people to explore it. The concept of doing nothing about things that work today because there might be a day when they become obsolete makes no sense at all.

2. Prompt Engineering is important and meaningful. Most people are thoroughly incompetent at giving instructions. And it's a core skill of projects. An incompetent person will fail, no matter how competent their subordinates are.

3. PE is something that will be needed even as AI gets better (until we have omnipotent superintelligence). In fact, even giving instructions to humans requires PE. It's a limitation of human language.

4. I think it's also wrong that people's motivation for exploring PE now is an attempt to make room for humans. Have you ever been to an AI drawing community?

5. It's not PE that should exist for human intermediaries, it's the skills to handle AI, including PE. If humans no longer need the skills to deal with AI, it will be AGI by definition. If what you're saying is that when AGI comes along, all humans will be unnecessary, that might be true, but then what you're saying is meaningless.
New Aurorae Detected on Jupiter’s Four Largest Moons
If you're a director with 10-20 years experience and you're making $300k/year, you're REALLY doing it wrong.
For those people hitting a geo-block on the above link, this one worked for me in AU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRoHKpmcRS0

It's hard to tell from the limited actual bouncing/etc in the clip, but it looks like it's lighter and has less bounce than a regulation ball. Still seems to bounce crazily well for something 3D printed and without air pressure inside it.

I'd be very excited to see this become a thing for balls in general if they can make them even close to existing basketball/soccer/etc balls. I doubt we'd ever see them in professional sports for tradition-reasons but for amateur/home fun I think it makes a lot of sense and for that market they don't need to be "perfect".
How is the short implemented?
Socketed with a piece of conductive metal resting on at least one of the antenna leads. Quality stuff. (It's possible I just had bad luck.)
That makes sense! It's basically a small town that has retained some form of soverignity since the Roman era.

Are you from San Marino by chance? It seems like such a cool and wonky political system, and would love to learn more!
I teach painting and many of the points I make in class are covered by this resource. Importantly, that the sky is almost always the brightnest thing in a landscape, even at night and that colour vision at night is poor. Great resource.
I am not sure what opinion I have on this one.

- Deans are paid a lot. Our dean make a quarter mil.
- Mass shooting emails should _probably_ have a human touch.
- Heck, any human tragedy email should _probably_ have a human touch.
- Does the university want to pay the Dean to write emails?
- Does the Dean want to write emails?
- What is the Dean doing for a quarter mil a year?
- Probably playing around with ChatGPT?
- For a quarter mil a year, could we not hire a bunch of grads to study GPTs?

No, I am just not sure how I feel about a GPT writing an email for a Dean about a mass shooting.
> I’ve bought a domain (grifel.app) on Google Domains. I use it because they have all of the extensions like app and dev, don’t do much marketing BS

They will also flush everything connected to your Google account down the drain the moment their AI decides you violated some of their terms of service. With no possibilty to restore or recover.
Define "progress".

Working from an office is not some kind of dystopia. Quite a few people prefer it to other arrangements. Having a pandemic that forced people to work from home for a year or two does not change the fundamental reality of human social interactions.
Ask HN: Advice on Switching from Data to Operations?
I am a Data Person with 4 years of working in tech/finance. For the past year, I have been consulting smaller companies. A couple of those projects spilled past simple analyses into full-fledged project management and operations management, where I had to work on Sales/Marketing KPIs and processes. I loved the experience of taking the initiative and implementing new data-based ideas/processes that brought an actual change in the company.

Any advice/insights on switching careers from Data Scientist to Operations Manager? How to find those jobs? How to learn more?
I never considered asking and answering my own question. I didn't even realize it was allowed.
Fate is funny. I just received an alert that there's a power outage at home. UPS is keeping things alive for a bit, but given PG&E's track record.......

Annoying!
The google site should detect the window size shrinking and inject their own banner below.

Something like...

^^ THE ABOVE IS A LIE. GOOGLE ROCKS!!
I once used the trial month to watch 3 series I wanted to watch, then saw that there's nothing special in addition to that, so I never subscribed. Specially the UI was a big pain, and the recommendation engine was really bad, both compared to Amazon Video.

Way too expensive for what they offer, but then again, I didn't know it was legal to share accounts, so I might have shared it and split the costs.
there are better sources than DailyMail for news like this
There is an interesting result in complexity theory that shows that the obvious greedy algorithm for the minimum set cover problem (add the element that increases your coverage the most, repeat) is essentially the best-possible polynomial time approximation. This sometimes causes people to use the greedy algorithm and think they can't do better.

But this result is about the worst case approximation quality-- the quality on pathological inputs. On ordinary inputs the greedy algorithm by itself is not that great and can easily be outperformed by algorithms with heuristics that anyone can come up with after thinking about the problem for a bit. Heuristics with polynomial complexity just don't improve the worst case performance.

I think this is just a more narrow case of the same underlying error: Taking an interesting yet often rather narrow and academic result and assuming it applies more generally. I suspect it's exacerbated by researchers talking up the significance of their work. I suspect it's also partially a result of the fact that an answer can be surprising and worth study yet still not very useful. The fact that we can say much at all about the space of all possible polynomial time algorithms is very surprising, but it's much more surprising than it is practically useful.

The main points I tell people: Results from complexity theory are usually about best and worst cases, practice usually cares much more about typical cases (which might be application constrained to never be pathological). Results from complexity theory are usually about exact solutions, usually a good approximation is all that we need or it's fine to solve the problem exactly most of the time buy give a bad result in a rare case. Many problems are actually small enough they can be exhaustively checked. Many problems are large enough that only a very rough approximation will ever meet the timing requirements (so just because you have a polytime algorithm it might not help). All these factors mean that while it can be useful to know the limits, they often don't matter.
I can't really tell. I mean, there's enough people on HN who say they do pair programming at work, and some even that they do whole projects almost exclusively in some sort of group coding sessions - to me this seems like a bizarro world, so what do I know about majority of software jobs?

For me personally, every software job I've done so far - including both the ones where I was one of few (or even the only) coders in the company, and ones where I was but a small cog in a multinational corporation - all of them had an availability component. Usually in the form of being there to answer some question, or help someone who's blocked or slowed down by an issue I'm the best suited to resolve (or the only one in the team/branch/company who can).
I don’t see how creating a prompt that includes all the main things you want to say is different than writing the whole essay yourself. Seems like about the same amount of time would have been put into each.

I can’t think of a context where I would be upset about receiving a letter written by AI from uni administration/company/government, but I also use tools like CharGPT to help me communicate myself.
I prefer the office as well. Work 4-5 days / week.

A big part is my employer allowed me to transfer to a closer office to my home, so now my commute is ~15 mins via light rail rather than ~1 hours via car.
By intentional design, Stack Overflow is a poor site to use if you need to work through multiple questions and answers to solve a problem. There are other sites that work to fill in that approach and do so better.

Stack Overflow works best when there is a well defined problem that can be reproduced and you are a specific answer rather than guidance for how to proceed or a tutorial.

If someone needs to come back to a question to answer comments and work through it, SO becomes more and more difficult to use in that format. AN important thing to remember is that it isn't the right site for every question (and trying to use it as such will run into those intentional design choices made at the very start to make it difficult to use for certain types of questions).
I was once in the market for time series databases, but all I could find required down sampling of older data. I don't know if this has changed, and to be fair I haven't been looking for quite some time, but does yours allow for keeping data with the captured precision in perpetuity (or until my hard drive fills up)? My guess from the way you describe your approach is yes, but I wanted to check.
That will last until Microsoft realizes it cannibalizes Office licenses.
No, you ARE making a claim, and that claim is bullshit. Certain knowledge is required to understand what I wrote and why it makes sense. And it does make sense, which is why other people were able to meaningfully respond to what I wrote.

It's fine that it doesn't make sense to YOU, but you shouldn't confuse that with it not making sense objectively, which it does.

OpenBSD doesn't literally ONLY try to audit bugs, but it is the bulk of their work and they prioritize that over addin or improving mechanisms to lockdown and prevent exploitation issues.

Others can disagree that pledge or unveil are not as good as SELinux, but they would be wrong. It isn't a subjective issue, and you would have to be rather ignorant of the differences to insist it is. SELinux removes the concept of an all powerful root user, and can grant every process the specific minimum access it needs. Pledge and unveil don't come close to offering anything like that.

Then you say I'm not making a point...even though you clearly here disagree with the point I supposedly didn't make. Are you by chance on the spectrum? Just trying to understand your issues with what I wrote, it's quite odd.

I'm not interested to explain anything further as I don't think it would be productive in proportion to the effort I would have to expend. I'm mainly just curious to see where this goes at this point.
The author of the linked post claims fairly strenuously that they always search for answers elsewhere before posting, which (taken at face value) suggests that they are not at all suffering from this "common misunderstanding". If you want to refute their point then you really have to make the case that SO is functioning as intended despite their implicit claim to the contrary.

I personally have no trouble believing that it isn't functioning as intended, but I haven't participated in asking or answering for a decade-ish so I don't really
know.
Did anyone commenting read the article? The author was a meditation teacher who had been meditating for over 10 years, when he had this experience.
I did this for years in the UK too, it was a tradeoff I was willing to make, and I'm glad I did.
>Great point, thank you. However, I think this leaves out many companies - those that don't have job postings

Unless you're planning to cold call people and get them to pinky swear to tell you honestly what they're using or you have some other plan then you're somewhat stuck anyway for companies that don't post jobs.

Also worth noting but plenty of companies won't even really tell you anyway. E.g plenty of companies will have language like "systems programming language" or "object oriented language". When they could be using anything from C-family to Haskell (leaving aside how secretive many Haskell jobs are or being hidden in custom dialects) You are going to be running into all kinds of human BS, it'll be fun but a can of worms nonetheless.

>I think a job board like startup.jobs would solve this by creating a job archive - then it would be prime scraping material. But it's only a job board with (mainly) current jobs

Not sure how much experience you have modelling data but this can also be trickier than expected to capture postings by date even leaving aside the fun of unstructured data and differences in models between platforms and your judgement calls needed to decide where you're crawling.

Having cut my teeth scraping property listings of competitor websites you come to realise most boards incentivise people to delete and repost ads so they boost their recency score and appear higher in the search. So now you will have duplicates messing up your data which you want to deal with if you're trying to create value off your data.

The classified site also doesn't like this so will try to stop this gaming of the system so that game of cat and mouse will normally mess up your scraping and dedupe logic too.

As said it's a potentially fun can of worms to open. I was just making a joke about HN commenters tendency to massively underestimate the oceans of complexity that seperates their hello world project from an enterprise grade "just a CRUD app" system that people pay for. E.g all the people that could totally build twitter with a sqlite DB and some bash scripts + sellotape etc.
I think the point is that small data can be continuously carried over to new mediums if it's valuable enough.

How many pre 1st century writings will fit on a 20TB hard drive? I'd venture to say - all of them.

> Would the data produced in the first week of 2099 be worth more than all of history prior to 1900 just because there's more?

No, and I think that's why we're mostly in agreement. Valuable and small data will always have accessible interfaces, because it is propagated throughout many mediums.

If there's an apocalypse scenario looming, you bet your butt that someone will be printing the most valuable information to good old paper, in case all machine-readable interfaces vanish overnight (unlikely scenario that I'm not going to lose sleep over).
I think there's two disjoint issues here that are meant to be handled by separate entities, but people want them to be handled by one entity.

The first is whether section 230 is being correctly interpreted. This is undeniably the domain of the Supreme Court. In my opinion, section 230 is being correctly interpreted; moderation does not somehow remove the immunity. This bit seems pretty salient on that point:

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

The second issue is whether section 230, as it exists, is still a good idea. That question _should_ be for Congress to decide, not the Supreme Court. I'm also sympathetic to the idea that at some point, moderation can start to look a lot like publishing and perhaps should be treated similarly. The current law seems pretty clear that that's not the case, and a ruling that changes that starts to look an awful lot like writing laws by strange interpretation.

It's all kind of paired with the inability of Congress to get anything meaningful. People have gotten used to Congress being ineffective, and are now looking at the SC to effect change. It's a dangerous line to tread, though, since federal judges are appointed rather than elected and don't have a direct feedback mechanism for people to express discontent.
I have no idea what Taleb actually means, but to the extent it isn't dramatic rhetoric, I imagine his claim is based on the idea that humans can never be completely right, due to the limits of our perception and memory. The best we can hope for is to be right enough to survive until the next iteration of our learning process.
I'm going to tell you what. I still remember the Microsoft layoffs in 2008. I was not impacted but at that point I decided I will never work for Ms again. Amazon is also on my "hell no" list.