skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who was still a junior employee at the beginning of the pandemic and has been remote work the majority of my career, this does not match my experience. Perhaps it’s the organizations I’ve been at, or the field I’m in, but I have had no issues getting feedback or up to speed on things. Stuff like code review, which the article mentions, benefit in no way from in-person vs remote work set-ups. Feedback in general doesn’t benefit from in-office scenarios in my experience, so long as the junior is proactive. The only junior employees that I’ve seen struggle in with remote work are those who

1) are woefully under-skilled, even for a junior level employee

2) don’t even attempt to solve a problem on their own. If something doesn’t work their first impulse is to ask someone else to fix it for them (which leads them to never fixing problem 1)

3) Always waiting for someone to tell them what to do. It’s easy to ask for feedback, or for problems that you can work on, or if you can pair with someone else on a problem they are working on so you can get some experience. None of that is really enabled or disabled by working from office/remote.

If I had to guess, I think it might be related to people’s experience in school/college. There are students I knew that were successful using resources that aren’t handed to them, like the internet. Others seemed to exclusively study via study groups, study guides, and going to the professor/TA during office hours, and without these. Once you enter the work force, the second kind of student has those resources pulled out from underneath them and very quickly has to learn to be the first kind of student, or they will struggle. I think remote vs in office doesn’t make much of a difference for the first kind, but in office feels more like a stop-gap for the second kind until they become more senior and acclimate. That’s just speculation on my part though, and is exclusively based on my limited experience and field.
It comes from YouTube wanting to compete with TikTok, yes. And it's become so ridiculously common on YouTube because the platform pushes the hell out of shorts compared to normal videos; as a creator, I can get 10/100/1000 times more views from a short than a normal video covering the same topic. So a lot of creators ended up jumping on the shorts train as a gold rush.

Of course, it's probably not great in the long term since shorts viewers and longform content viewers are not the same and your CTR can be destroyed thanks to shorts subs not watching your longer videos, but the easy views and subs are still enticing nonetheless.
The key word in "liberal democracy" is "liberal", not "democracy". There exists only a single political system - an oligarchy. When the oligarchs decide to be nice, we call that "democracy".
This is already happening right now. Companies will find a way to put all their knowledge inside a LLM.

The problem is that I don't think they are ready for what this will cause.

Imagine that Amazon managed to do that and now every employee has access to it. What prevents anyone asking "inconvenient" questions? Think something like:

- Does the Echo dot records audio even when the trigger word isn't used? Show me the relevant source code.

- What is the quality standard expected for an Amazon Basic product?

Companies aren't used to total freedom of information. And I don't think is easy to implement any sort of information access control for any system based on LLMs.
These are fabulous! This is not a rehash of how the standard blend modes work. These are custom art effects that the author is showing how to create by combining those modes.

Really nice work.
Rather than everyone voting for a few people at the top, what if each level voted for the one above and the one below? That way, people would be voting for the positions and people that they know the most about.

Like the other response said, when people with only a surface-level understanding get involved, democracy devolves into a surface-level popularity contest.
For sore knees and ankles, do a backwards walking, then a sled pulled backwards with weight for a few weeks, 10 minutes a day 3x/week. Doesn't need to be expensive, can drag anything to get the effect. See kneesovertoesguy for more.
Personally my team does stand up meetings weekly on Mondays. This is mostly to allow folks (and force a few) to think about their tasks and goals and organize them into "what can I accomplish this week" style bullet points.

But then we also have a Teams channel carved out to "watercooler" or Daily meets.

These are non-structured and you are free to come and go as needed. But its a place for folks to hang out and verbalize their tshooting or seek advice/help/opinions on problems etc.

For some, its a good place to listen and be a wallflower. For others, its a good place to bounce ideas. If you are trying to focus you dont join.

If someone specifically wants to bring someone into the fold they are free to ping them and just say "hey im in the daily, could really use your help when you get a chance". Sometimes that person can join immediately. Sometimes they may sit for a bit working on other things until the person they wanted to ask has the time. Sometimes that person just says "im busy, lets schedule a time or catch tomorrow".

Its worked....okay enough. And was specifically setup because I had several FTR guys well before COVID that specifically stated they felt distant and out of touch with the pulse or overall goals of the department.

Frankly I am in them so much I have a small Amazon Basics conference mic with a physical mute button and a blue/red indicator light.

The only habit that can be "bad" coming from it is sometimes folks will have an affinity to "rally the troops" and engage multiple people on something they themselves havent spent much or any time chewing on first because it can be perceived as easier or quicker to a resolution. This is especially true with "fires". But I have seen the same in person as well. Especially with teams of weaker IC's.
Ozone or active oxygen from what I can gather
Rule 3: Consider using Elixir
"it's a mouthpad"
"you mean mousepad??"
"no, MOUTHpad"
A paraphrase of the age-old glib phrase is in order: If you outlaw End-to-End Encryption, only criminals will have End-to-End Encryption.

It should also be pointed out to them that saying “you there, yes you, stop doing that” to remote, likely anonymous, criminal types, has never been effective.
Just a few days ago I was reading an article from some tech site complaining about ads in Windows and the first thing upon opening the side is a popup ad for a newsletter. Do they not see the irony there or is the whole industry on autopilot?

https://i.imgur.com/KOU98Bw.png
I see two different situations for bilingualism. One is to be raised from birth speaking two languages or as an adult learn a new language.

I'd say the situation as an adult requires much more effort. The learning should help brain neuroplasticity or cause neuroplasticity? However it works.
Are there any versions of something like this for basic media controls?: play/pause, next/previous, etc. I've always wanted one for biking.
Ecology. We are always scratching the surface.

Are spiders vegetarian? Yep. Some are. Do European butterflies migrate like the monarch butterflies do?, yep. Do mosquitoes eat diseases? yep. Do they eat other mosquitoes? Double yep...

Ad infinitum
Ctrl+W is a great shortcut, I have it mapped on the extra button on my mouse, along with Ctrl+Tab and F5
Privacy-Friendly Tech Tools to Boost Productivity
I think it will impact both - surely a lot of the potential repeat purchases are from people that had ethical motivations to buy an electric car - they probably wont give up on electric, but there are a number of good alternative options now on the market.
They indicated why they wrote it. At the end there is a parenthetical that says “sparked by this”. “this” is a link to here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35678093
ChatGPT Can Help Doctors–and Hurt Patients
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ResMed AirSense user here. Do take note that the water reservoir in the recent versions is prone to leakage after around a year of use, and replacing it is pretty expensive.

I sealed mine with food-grade silicone as fellow users in the internet suggested, and it's been good since.
Is the next generation of GCs going to use Reinforcement Learning and Machine Learning? The problem with a lot GC is that there's a currently unavoidable tradeoff between memory usage, latency and throughput.
I can't pay $20/month for EVERY site and tool.

I'm happy to pay the current $120 I do for Kagi, but that's my upper limit.

I do have some web tools I pay $250 a year for, and they are significantly more complicated than kagi.

With Kagi's new pricing, I will be paying >$300 a year. That is too much. They aren't THAT much better. That is literally more than my beefy dedicated gaming server in a datacenter!
There is a level of ad I'm willing to tolerate.

20 seconds before a YT vid -- yeah maybe. Every 2 minutes during the vid? Not so happy.

ditto for a paid search. something on the side of the page, or something that's in the middle of results but still clearly an ad... maybe.
I'm curious as to how this plays out in practice (though I love the theory). Some questions:

1. Is this measured in _depth_, in breadth, or in both directions (and if both is the total calculated with `MAX` or `SUM`)?

2. Do you run multiple `main`s, each with this restriction?

3. Do you count third-party frameworks and libraries as layers of abstraction?
At this point, why not take a stand and tell the governments across the world that e2e encryption is here to stay?

Signed by most of the tech community and the employers, with a threat to collectively retaliate and blackhole the entire country. Or something along those lines.
It's the FYIGM mindset; the advantages that previous generations had over later generations are now an aside, the next class divide is those who are inheriting something, and those who are not.

Without inheritance, for the average Millennial and Gen-Z, they will currently not be able to afford buying a house.

Also, don't bother trying to argue that buying a house isn't required; the system all previous generations has set up for retirement requires that you own a house. It's just now they cost $1M.
As far as I know, ZGC uses a lot memory than G1, and for as long that's the situation, it's unlikely to replace G1 as a default configuration. Another understanding I have is that ZGC is best used for large workloads, compared to G1 which is more generalized and doesn't perform as well with larger workloads.

But, I'm no JVM experts and might have understood it incorrectly. Happy to be corrected!
I've been wanting a wearable computer with a display integrated into glasses for years. A few years ago I got to try one that was on par with a Fitbit Versa, which would be perfect for me. (I never got one, and now it's not being made.)

Something like this would be perfect for a wearable computer. I personally want to try one, but I suspect the cost, and custom molding, are too high to "just try it out." I had a 3D scan of my mouth a few months ago for a bite guard, and it cost more than $700.

One thing that I want to point out is that the battery module next to the molars looks very uncomfortable.
I assume there are some conversion-optimization experts who think and consult data to choose the ideal timing and frequency to invite a visitor to sign up. I.e. the moment they are most likely to do so if invited.

... and the other 95% of folks who just grab an off-the-shelf email-list-invite popover widget and slap it on a web site.
Unfortunately it's Electron.
RSS feels intentionally sabotaged.
The trailer video exclusively features people with quadriplegia.
The fact that you think "most office cultures are shitty" and have thus decided to dismiss everything that might mention any kind of downsides of WFH as a conspiracy.

That's like... the definition of ignoring facts over personal bias.
Yeah I continue to be impressed by their recommendation engine - and the very well executed niche channels. The latest example I’ve seen is Idaho Horseshoeing School which is some combination of woodworking, artisan craftsmen/women, animal welfare videos, etc. and that I had no idea I would enjoy but I can see why the algorithm figured out that’s in some Venn diagram for me
Historically, Luty's 9mm:

"""In response to more restrictive gun control laws, he set out to prove that all such laws were ultimately futile by showing that one could manufacture a functional firearm from hardware store goods, without using any purpose-made firearms parts."""

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIhGCRIQnCA

& in recreational use:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YE9J7qcj0c
Micro USB is fine. Most people have a ton of them around, and they are cheaper than USBC. You enjoy paying a premium to not have to look at which direction you're plugging it in?
Very likely some cleaners also have some solvent, though there is an explicit warning about UV and ozone[1] sanitizing:

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/ce...

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/up...

but I believe that more than anything else is the quality of this PE-PUR foam that is lacking.

[1] ozone sanitizing treatments have been found to damage a lot of materials (besides metal which oxidizes very quickly also rubbers) and actually ozone chambers are used to test rubber materials durability
1930s How Photographs Were Transmitted by Wire: Spot News (1937) [video]
> 150 years for very extreme storms, such as the Carrington Event that occurred 154 years ago.

Wow. I knew this was a possibility but I didn't know we were overdue. Echoes of COVID a bit as a "once in a hundred years pandemic".

Looking forward to the space mandated holiday to be honest.
I will consume (information) how i see fit. Not how other people/companies think i should consume.

If they have a problem with that, it is totally in their legal right to try and do something about it.

Just as it is still totally in my legal right to consume (information) how i see fit. This may or may not involve legal workarounds.

I do not care if their business/earning model is not compatible with my method of consuming (information).
One possibility for WebAuthn over email/password is the easy retrieval of local, strong and domain-unique encryption key material via the prf extension. Support for this is currently limited to Chrome Canary + hardware key, but MasterKale thinks it will be coming to other browsers, and biometric:

https://blog.millerti.me/2023/01/22/encrypting-data-in-the-b...
My favorite reality/survival show.
Like a previous comment mentioned, the only resistance is that it as a small user base and it makes no commercial sense to pit any ads there. This also makes is resistant to insincere content. There is no need for low effort click-bait content because if you would like to attract lots of users you wouldn't be publishing on Gemini.
Why not let me read first and then prompt? "Want more like this? Enter your email to subscribe."

You could probably get much higher conversion and lower unsubscribe rates by only going after readers who stuck around a bit.
Most of us use scihub to retrieve papers.
Ask HN: When will AI be able to turn entire novels into movies?
And when this happens, will more people try to become novelists?
They are most noticeable for x-rays, though there is an increase in gamma rays too.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/goes-x-ray-flux

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radiation-solar-activity

> Solar flares are large eruptions of energy coming off the Sun containing several different forms of energy: heat, magnetic energy, and ionizing radiation. The ionizing radiation released during solar flares includes x-rays and gamma rays. These rays of ionizing radiation can damage satellites because they are in space and are not protected by the Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic energy from solar flares can interrupt radio communication on Earth or damage communications satellites.

Unless you've got a satellite, this likely isn't impacting you.

Bit flips tend to be from from heavy charged particles. https://www.scienceabc.com/innovation/what-are-bit-flips-and...

I believe you're more likely to have a bit flip from radioactive decay in the chip itself than a cosmic ray.
Even an uncontended mutex can create a lot of cache-line bouncing, making it less cheap than it seems.
This stuff has forced me to read every article in Firefox' reader mode. I am forced to tolerate missing figures and bongled formatting (from bad internal markup) because I cannot read an article if at any moment I might be hit with a newsletter-jumpscare.
Yes, this would be my hypothesis too. I see Hollywood epics all the way from D.W. Griffith (and the studios that made them) wanting to broadcast an aura of gravitas. And nothing does that like using pretentious Roman numerals. Of course it's all convention nowadays.
While I agree with you I must admit that it sometimes even save my time. When cookie/newsletter pop-up shows it breaks my procrastination habit. I ask my self in that moment if I really need to see that content. In most cases answer is no. So instead of closing the modal I just close whole tab.
Writing characters on a touchscreen seems horrible.
Well it's a very hypothetical black swan type situation. I don't think it's a sensible use of resources to prepare for a badly understood phenomenon with uncertain probability. If and when it happens things will get fixed, and we will learn from the experience.

That document is a very interesting read though, thank you. I don't fully trust insurers though - it's in their interest to create a feeling of risk.
the Lords have been completely subordinate to the elected Commons since 1911

they can be completely bypassed when necessary

they are a scrutiny committee and despite the gold and pomp they do quite a reasonable job
I worked as a manager for the past year and fell into a lot of traps this article describes. I've realised that managing people isn't for me and I'm moving onto a technical role but I've gained a lot of respect for engineering managers. It really is a tough job that I think many commenters on here don't fully appreciate.
> "* 3.5mm headphones?*"

Sure as heck aren't those. While I still want a physical connector, jiggling the cable to get a good connection when the jack started wearing out is something that should have been put it in its grave long ago.
From the way the cursor moved on the screen and the visualization of input with those orange squares, it looks like it operates similar to the thinkpad trackpoint. (There’s a dose of serendipitous humor here - the trackpoint has an infamous anatomical nickname, and this device seems to be reminding some commenters of a related activity.)

I wonder if they’ve explored trackballs? Conventional trackballs are operated with a single finger, usually the thumb, and proponents of trackballs claim it’s the equal of (or even superior to) a mouse, while touchpads and trackpoints do seem slightly limited compared to full-fledged mice. Controlling a trackball with your tongue instead of your thumb seems like it might be just as effective - maybe even more effective! This might be an avenue to make this device even more capable.

(Did I just compare the cunnilingus touchpad to the clit mouse, and then suggest adding “licking balls”? Goddamnit, lol)
Do you think it's beyond the realm of possibility that a group of wealthy commercial real estate owners would get articles published and studies paid for, particularly when they face significant financial harm due to people wanting to work from home? Who do you think paid for that study? It's paywalls so I don't know. I doubt it was a union.

Do you think it's strange that we've had a deluge of negative articles about working from home and almost no positive ones? Does this seem statistically normal to you?

Serious questions to think about.
This is only applicable if these businesses spend $0 on SEO. If they want to clog up the top results, then I reserve the right to complain about them.
hello thanks for your comment, That sounds kinda harsh, so you suggest sticking with what I have?

memoiri is actually "cutefied" word of memoir.
It's amazing the kind of cross platform quality products the KDE foundation keeps putting out, the same guys making the great Plasma desktop environment (out of habit we refer to it as the KDE DE but that's the name of the company, Plasma is the official name of their DE)
How significant is the domain name in 2023? I mean, most hits will come via search anyway, and recommendations via shared links.

I enjoyed the lists though. Like wandering through a graveyard.
I find _modern_ cinema spastic and alienating.

The pacing and cinematography of pre-1990 cinema is what feels correct to me.
Apparently some spammers are too lazy and don't care. It's about the same level of half-assed as that "Nazi Ukrainian spy" who was busted with copies of The Sims video game.
Marketing thinks "OMG, people subscribing the newsletter are returning to the website way more often than regular ones". Then by showing this newsletter pop-up down everyone throat, they successfully get X% more subscribers. Much engagement, much success, poor UX, annoying for everyone.

Maybe people subscribing to that newsletter are the most interested and you shouldn't bother everyone with it for the sake of few subscriptions.
The BBC didn't have copyright statements at the end of the credits until the early 1970s, and initially they used Arabic numerals, but after a couple of years later (the mid/late 70s) switched to Roman numerals, which they've stuck with since. I think the changeover is around the time end credits and channel logos stopped indicating "Colour".

IIRC in 1999 one of the trailers for the BBC's millennium coverage involved years counting up to MM in Roman numerals, which seemed perhaps to be a nod to their use of them in credits.
> I feel as if this has expanded my ability

What benchmark could you possibly have for this? You have no clue what monolingual you would have been like.
> I don't even know who else to blame for this.

Microsoft. It's their binary shipped in their system, and their customers are being directed to break their own systems. It's on them to remediate the situation.
Price plan updates for mailbox.org private customers
Films used roman numerals in copyright notices because books used roman numerals in copyright notices.

Books used roman numerals in copyright notices because the copyright notice was on the title page. Title pages used roman numerals because they looked better as title page display text than arabic numerals (so Volume II rather than Volume 2), and mixing numeral types looked ugly.

None of this was a hard and fast rule and house styles varied.
I heard the firmware is written in Lisp.
Multiple Working Hypotheses
A few brick and mortar store retailers around South Africa have started asking "May/can I have your cellphone number?" when I'm making a purchase to which I respond with either "You don't need that." or simply "Nope.".

When asked why, conversation typically goes like:

Me: "I don't want my phone being sent SMSes or phone calls from your company or anyone they would share my number with."

Them: "Oh, don't worry, that won't happen from us."

Me: "Well it absolutely won't happen if you don't have my number.".