skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I truly appreciate the negative climate impacts of Work from Office, the faster we can accelerate global climate change the better!
Thank you, that’s great advice. The whole flow can be easily customized by non-experts via our Quest editor, which includes automations. There’s also a low-code integration path which allows to have dropdowns powered by data coming from elsewhere, send submission data to Google Sheets, Airtable or any other API really.

I’ve added some notes to the step that this is a demo and that you can be creative with your name and email.

I’ll further change the title to make sure it’s clear for signing in somewhere physically.

Thanks again!
Everything you listed has more to do with inequitable economic policy than covid response. Blaming public health for bad policy driven by shareholders and the financial system seems short-sighted.
Looking at this from the other direction is interesting. Suppose hospitals had a way to monitor fetal heart rate with no possible side effects (e.g. no possible placebo or psychological effects from wearing the monitor). And they discover that intervening based on the results leads to poor outcomes, and they do better if they completely ignore the data except for one sample taken every hour roughly on the hour.

One solution would be to say “great! Let’s sample once an hour!” But surely one could come up with much better filters and heuristics.

Of course, doing this in an ethical way might be complicated.
> If you look at any metric like life expectancy, literacy rates, child mortality, things have gotten so much better.

Indeed. But I was talking about drug pricing, not all of that.
It kills me that I can only get ONE external monitor. It would otherwise be perfect.
Why in the future? It is already the case in a lot of companies that are not able to make WFH and office work in parallel, especially on the information sharing, on the spot decision making and so on. My personal biais says that most companies actually failed to transform to viable remote-oriented companies and are not ready to remove the bandaid and bring everyone back to the office.
my previous air went for 3 years before something got screwed up in the thermals and the fan needed to run constantly, and selling it to somebody who wanted to fix it was the easiest way to deal with it. The apple store wouldn't do anything for me. now the M1 Air that i got in january 2021 has a failing keyboard.

this isn't "anti-apple bias", i like macs and will keep buying them. but the claim that they're more durable or longer-lasting than equivalent windows laptops is just nonsense. you can't expect 9 years out of one, but if you're very very lucky it might last that long.

my Acer chromebook that i bought in 2013 is "still going strong". so is the pair of the absolute cheapest possible dell inspiron i bought in 2012 for rental customers to use at outdoor events. but i'm not going around telling people they should expect acer or dell laptops to last a decade.
Gleam is kinda awesome :) the type system is more like Standard ML tha Java's, but the syntax should be familiar enough for anyone coming from a C like syntax.

I feel the hard part about jumping from something like C# to something like Gleam isn't the syntax, it's learning the semantics. once you learn the semantics, it's easy to pickup new syntaxes, regardless of the language.
> And AI/copilot just helps me write the better code faster.

Consider that AI, by necessity, has to be trained on an aggregate of human output. That means that, by definition, the aggregate amount of data that it's trained on will be representative of the "average" solution to any problem. This doesn't mean that I can always do better, but I wouldn't assume that what AI will give me would be "good." Most developers I speak with who are using CoPilot and ChatGPT tell me that they always examine the output and have to "massage" it a little. But I don't see it jiving with my workflow, specifically.

In any case, if people find it useful then great! What works for others will not always be what works for me and vice versa.
What is the nature of the space he's working in?

Something like physics, you can have a gap of months or years between a new theoretical breakthrough or the completion of a new machine giving you new raw data to churn through.

... but chemistry is something (no offense to chemists) you can do to the dirt outside your house, and every novel molecular arrangement can be paper-worthy.
I've run into this a few times with Apple. It's not that the upgrade is explicitly not allowed by policy. It's just that things are broken in ways which prevent you upgrading/using the device properly. I don't know if it's just lack of care on Apple's part, incompetence, honest mistakes or a stealth method of forcing an upgrade. In any case, hardware that seemed slow and outdated with Apple's software ecosystem now runs perfectly with Ubuntu. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's why I said "middle class". I made the same point as you one reply over.
Another interesting aspect to consider is that GPT needs priming & prompting to get it to generate a relevant response. I doubt blindly providing comment text would create valuable responses.

Yet another case, many times we will respond (or not) to a questions with another question, to elicit deeper considerations. In my experience, GPTs will answer any question without thought, pun intended :]
People crave convenience, and the ability to get things done.

That's why people text instead of call, and call instead of meet up.
Human disturbance increases coronavirus prevalence in bats
Except the training data is secret…
Whaaaaaaaaaat.

This needs to be on the front page of.... something.
> I feel that the majority of relationships and marriages say 60-70 years ago were happy and mutually fulfilling, but now anecdotally it seems that most people are not happy whatsoever.

My guess is you are definitely not Gen-X, and your feeling isn't supported by data: https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-us-divorce-rate-has-hit-a-50-....

As a "towards the tail end" Gen Xer, basically it seemed like half my friends had divorced parents. The best explanation I've seen for this huge spike in divorce rates in the 70s and early 80s was a disconnect between men's views of marriage and the change in women's views of marriage as a result of women's lib. That is, many men of that era were raised in environment where husbands were "boss", they were expected to be the provider and women were expected to be subservient and manage the home. After women's lib, even women who would not label themselves as "feminists" still had an expanded view of women's role in a marriage, and this came in direct conflict with men's expectations. I've seen the subsequent reduction in divorce rates explained as a younger generation (a) getting married much later, and (b) having more balanced expectations of marital roles (even if they don't always act this way). Today, divorce rates are highly correlated with income and education levels.
Good post. I am still hopeful that a large scale "backwards" build-system can be made ergonomic enough to be used on even small projects.

If Bazel didn't have so many gotchas, it could be the one:

cc_library(
hdrs = [ "app.h" ],
srcs = [ "app.cc" ],
)
AR and VR are inherently antisocial technologies, though. They both isolate you from the world.
> My company choose an hybrid option that I find interesting. It is remotely only, but hires only locally.

Oh, the worst of both worlds. The talent pool of one city and reasonable commutes, combined with the great communication and innovation of video calls looking up someone's nose.
> builder focused culture he created at FB for at least the first ~half of its life

I loved that phase as well. Their culture changed drastically post 2016 elections and they grew too fast and too broad during Covid.
The #1 thing preventing Apple from getting into S-tier is user-serviceable storage.

Baking on the memory? It's frustrating and gimps the device lifespan, but arguably unavoidable with the bandwidth Apple is targeting. Without replaceable storage though, every Apple Silicon device is effectively a ticking time-bomb. These devices will all hit their TBW limit long before they're unusable, and Apple refused to anticipate this because... it side-steps their pricing scheme?

The current Macbook lineup is a step in the right direction, but far from perfect. Even ignoring my hundred gripes with MacOS, I think there are clear hardware improvements they can make with future iterations. None of these improvements seem particularly profitable though, so I'm not counting on Apple adding them.
Just shows how BAD conventional journalism has gotten.

If you watch old clips of Dick Cavett it is unbelievable how the audience back then was treated as adults.

And old school vibe of actually caring is also the "shtick" of Kevin McCarthy who has amazing interviews. Here a little bit of him discussing 35mm film with Brad Pitt: https://twitter.com/KevinMcCarthyTV/status/16389734357903892...

Rogan took this on as well, the bar of letting people talk for hours is so low now that all these podcasts were able to wipe out traditional TV.

Dick Cavett vs. Lex Friedman, the regression in interview style is horrible.

Cavett with Richard Burton, nearly 2 hours (!) of in depth, well executed talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D49O5obqhiA
First, the underlying article/interview makes more sense to read than the Verge summary of one section of it: https://www.gq.com/story/tim-cook-global-creativity-awards-c... Just skip to "But he was willing to explain why Apple might—hypothetically—be interested in something in the world of AR/VR."

True telepresence is as exciting to me as teleportation. But I'm skeptical of any approach with a headset.

I prefer Google Project Starline approach and wish it was focused on families and friends using it with each other, even as it's insanely expensive. My personal dream is something that makes me feel that people are in the room even when I'm not paying attention to them. I'm forced to work in the office today and I kinda wish my girlfriend could "be" here with me even as I ignore her while I'm working.

I think it's underestimated how much people would be willing to pay for real telepresence with family and friends. I'd keep a thing like that on all day.
Nice try ChatGPT commenting on itself!
Its rhetorical, as it makes the case that a human is also a glorified text generator. I.e. it's a meaningless statement to say something is a "glorified text generator".

So a highly intelligent AI that produces text is glorified, whatever that means...
Not only Macbooks, also the iPads have seen an absurd increase in price, especially the iPad Mini, going from 379 € to 579€.

Sure, newer devices are faster and their lifecycle is longer, but the prices are becoming really out of reality.
What is the difference between decline and terminal decline?
Any experience with USB-C dock and DisplayLink drivers?

I tried openSUSE, but the only distro that seems to play with DisplayLink (or, actually it's the other way around) is Ubuntu. And I like Ubuntu as a server, but not as a desktop...
Western Digital says hackers stole data in 'network security' breach
I worked someplace where we were seriously considering getting one of those yellow things and we dodged a bullet by not doing it.
Is the problem that it was Saudia Arabia / Russia, or would this have happened regardless of country due to his contract with the Spanish university?

If it's the former, it really doesn't seem like a justified reaction.
Various sources seems to claim that the minimum VRAM requirement for Hogwarts Legacy is 4GB and recommended being 8GB. Seems to still be far away from 24GB.
I just don't see it. AR experience requires basically perfect implementation, and software is just a nightmare of bugs and broken experiences. Maybe if we actually had good quality software, but that's just not the trajectory our industry is on.
But do you think there is a solution? Why do we have to bear such a painful ecosystem?May we are at an evolutionary stage where too much variety is proliferating, and over time things will converge into a few proven ways of doing things.
Windows also does perfectly fine with 8GB. Hint, being a developer doesn't require using Docker all the time.
Satellites reveal hotspots of global river extent change
> Most popular movies are rehashed boring superhero/avenger movies that blend into each other.

Nah, you're not wrong, highest-grossings are indeed in a rut. Top 10 highest grossing in 1990: 2 films that were sequels or otherwise an entry in an existing franchise. 2022? All ten are sequels (even the Chinese propaganda film at entry 9 is a sequel!)

There are tons of good movies released every year, but the top-10-by-sales are in fact mostly safe bets on sequels or entries in sprawling franchises, these days. Since those so consistently out-perform better, original films, it's kinda hard to argue that studios should stop. Theater-release films are in kinda a rough spot in the age of streaming and strong competition from TV. Tickets are crazy-expensive and people just don't watch movies in theaters as much anymore, so the lion's share of the money goes to safe, FX-heavy films where the audience basically knows what they're gonna get for their $12 (or, about the cost of having a whole streaming service for an entire month).
He was “publishing” every 37h, it seems to be mostly by co-signing papers
I’m not sure if I should feel offended or not ;)
I am not Japanese but I am a recluse and I strongly believe that this type of thing is not even slightly limited to Japan.

For the last ten years or so I generally avoid going out and rarely attempt socialization. Not even online. But I think that it is very stupid if people think that someone is a recluse to the same degree if they do a lot of online socializing but don't go out. The online world is part of this equation.

I think that this is wrongly painted as a psychological problem. I think it is an economic problem first with a psychological component that it probably a lot smaller than people realize.

I have been doing freelance programming contracts for most of my adult life and/or bootstrapped startups (my own or individual's). Contrary to the false information that may be spread by privileged people on HN, the vast majority of such contracts available have relatively modest budgets. And it is vastly easier to get this kind of work online than projects that are well-funded.

So it comes down to a few factors for me. I have always had some socialization problems. I am usually pretty broke. Going anywhere is going to end up costing easily $20-30. On the weekend it could be closer to $40 just for the Lyft rides (I work remotely and sold my car in 2013).

When I am broke it doesn't make sense to go out. It's very unwise in fact.

But beyond that, even online I am tired of saying something to the affect of "I have a lot of hope for the income from this latest startup". So telling people honestly how it's going is kind of a bummer for them unless I lie.

Now I am trying hard to get my GPT4 powered VMs out. But even though I have plans for a lot of controls and screening, I believe that people will try to cancel this effort due to supposed safety concerns (again mediated by prompts and screening). And then others with better connections and funding will replicate the effort with inferior safety controls but better marketing for them.

HN is the closest thing I get to a real social effort. Most of my comments aren't appreciated much. But I am authentic if nothing else.
I doubt the recruiter would have known anything different. A lot of these sudden RTO initiatives appear to be top-down things, not something recruiters would have known about a year in advance.
Maybe rights is the wrong word. 'Leverage' is what I meant.
Larger companies have economies of scale that enable dealing with these laws easier.

Smaller companies have to use something like Deel.

That hypothesis doesn't sound that convincing - especially since multiple Americans I know who wanted to join big companies pre-pandemic did so because of the access to living in different places outside of America.
From a business standpoint, Tesla sells an order of magnitude more EVs than the closest competitor and makes a ton of profit on each one, whereas most other automakers sell their EVs at a loss.

If you happen to be an engineer or just love tech, I highly recommend watching some EV teardowns (and cost analysis) on the MunroLive youtube channel. The differences are more than skin deep, and give a better picture of how Tesla manages to build so many vehicles at such high margins.
Posting for my wife as she does not have an HN!

Location: Cambridge MA, Chapel Hill NC and Dorset England

Remote: Can do but would prefer to build strong relationships in-person

Willing to relocate: Maybe but only to either North Carolina, London or Southwest England, and not for six months

Technologies: Massive data processing for all of the -omics (C++ and Python, depending), shotgun and capture sequencing, RNA-seq, ancient DNA sequencing,

Résumé/CV: https://imgur.com/aKt2kT4

Email: f"alice@pearson{}".format(extension for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland!)

Bio: Experienced research scientist for all of the -omics. University of Cambridge PhD, Harvard Postdoc in field-leading lab. Comfortable processing terabytes of text files on high-performance computing and only share results when I have a strong conviction that they are right. Would be a great asset to any -omics startup, especially in the consumer or medical genetics spaces. Also a fantastic C++ and Python generalist, willing to consider quant finance roles on East Coast of USA. Husband works in finance so plenty of domain knowledge there as well.
I was an Apple hater long ago, then a buddy gave me his G4 PB when he bought his first Intel MBP. I begrudgingly started using it, then bought my own Intel MBP, giving the G4 PB to another friend (who was also converted). OSX/macOS gave me most of the utility of a unix in a nice GUI environment that I rarely have to mess with.
They are begging for their collars.
Not yet. Our first prototype is a bench model without the necessary structure to handle full loads. We're working on the detailed design to get on the water now.
Depression is very real, and can be fatal.
People who train AI models claim that anything they can find on the internet is fair use.

It's the whole point of the discussion… is it really?

And if it's not fair use to train on windows source code because of copyright… doesn't that same copyright law cover everything else as well?
Dr. Who was on Netflix for a long time, except maybe whatever recent season, and more recently HBO Max
The movie is worth watching purely to be absolutely amazed at the aesthetic vision Kubrick brought. I re-watched it recently and could not stop thinking about how modern, even futuristic, it still looks for a film from 1968.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Javacript/JS, Python, Ruby, Rust, PHP, Kubernetes/k8s, React, Vue, Django, Rails
Résumé/CV: desmondw.com
Email: resume@desmondw.com

Full-stack engineer w/ 8 years at startup companies. Frontend/backend roles OK.

http://desmondw.com
It was likely in the public domain the whole time.
The games industry (specifically since they were bought by Epic, Unreal engine) has stuff like RAD Oodle Texture with BC7Prep and Oodle Kraken:

https://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2020/06/oodle-texture-bc7pr...

https://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2020/09/how-oodle-kraken-an...

https://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2021/02/rate-allocation-in-...
You’re pricing your SaaS wrong but that’s probably OK
I've been in a very similar position.

Spent 5 years founding a startup that the vast majority of people here probably know. We raised healthy eight figures and failed to pivot to profitability before markets & investor sentiment turned on us. At the end of the road, we faced a critical decision: 1) Do a deep cut in team & revenue to get to profitability. Restart healthy growth with no clear path to exceeding our liquid pref stack 2) Fire sale.

We chose to do a fire sale that wiped out common shareholders. In hindsight, a fire sale was the right choice. It allowed me time to recover, and then get back into a new business that has thrived. More importantly, it gave me the necessary space to emotionally recover from a long journey, take a step back to learn from my mistakes, and healthily reset.

My advice to you:

- Take a deep breath. It might seem like the darkness will last forever, but the sun will rise again. However this fucked up situation turns out, you're going to be OK. Eventually, you're going to laugh at the pain you're experiencing now.

- Accept that everything in the past is a sunk cost, and your equity is worth 0. Yes, it sucks that you spent 10 years on a fat zero. But, you need to remain objective, and the facts are clear. The fair value of common shares today is 0, and any value creation is a function of future work, not past work.

- Appreciate the opportunity cost of your time. I don't know you personally, but if you're the type who will just start a new business after a long break, I'm willing to bet the expected value of your time is at least $1m/yr.

- Try to negotiate compensation with your board that clearly exceeds your opportunity cost. And, be generous in evaluating your opportunity cost - chances are you're underestimating your future self at this time.

- If you're unable to negotiate this package, quit.

- Get a founder coach if you don't have one yet. Someone who's been in the trenches and can relate with your situation. I can connect you with mine who is amazing, just reply here.

Best of luck friend, wish I could spend more time on this response.
WinIntel was already into IA64 boat, when AMD64 came to be.

Without AMD64, their partnership would carry on anyway.
I think you’ll be very pleasantly surprised.

Consider talking to a couple local dpc providers and see which you feel you’d work best with.
> to fairly compare prices by exchange rate you always need to discount the European price to subtract its VAT first.

Even then, it's imperfect. Some of us in the US do not pay sales tax.
I have configured a new MBP with the M2 chip a few times when I consider upgrading my laptop mix. I'm still pretty happy with an Air M1, Lenovo X1 Carbon (6th gen) and a big ThinkPad P17. But the cost comes in well over $3K on a config that I think is "worth it." I understand that you can amortize it over quite a long period and at some point I just might buy it. But at that price point it keeps ending up as a "not click" buy for me.
You do not own the OS. You didn't create it, and you don't even own a copy of it. You have a very limited license to it, as in permission to use it in a very specific manner, and no other rights other than those that you were granted. If you look closely even those rights may be subject to change, and change without your approval. Microsoft, under their current license, is free to do whatever they want to their OS, and as a for-profit corporation, their goal is to maximize shareholder value and return, not to create a pleasing product for you or your offspring. If you don't like the product, you should be asking yourself what type of incentive structures created it. And if you don't like that answer, your only real option is to do what you've done and use something else.

Once a company grows to a certain size, the wants and needs and opinions of individual users are no longer relevant. Users are more akin to cattle and only ever viewed as larger collections who exhibit certain traits and behaviors that can be channeled into profit directions (normally at the expense of other groups of users). Microsoft has decided that the experiences of those users is more valuable (as in generates more profit per unit economic) than the experiences of whatever group you fall into.