skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you were hired while working remotely, and were doing your job, how is mandatory RTO reasonable?

It really depends what your employment contract said, but the smart assumption (and these workers are in Texas, mind you), is that covid WFH was a temporary situation. RTO wasn't a given, but no one should be surprised if an employer asks for it.

If you're actually remote and hired during covid by a previously non-remote company, you went into it knowing the company might change its mind, and you could be easily laid off.

> Mandatory RTO costs me between 12 and 15 hours of time and around $70 in gas, and that's only 3 days a week.

You signed up knowing there was a possibility of a 2-hour commute. You balanced how much your time is worth, the likelihood of mandatory RTO, and where you want to live.

Suppose you want to live on a ranch a few hours from the office in a city. Asking the company to pay for your commute and commute time is the company subsidizing your ranch lifestyle. That's a choice you made, but it makes others pay for it.
Disclaimer: Meta is my biggest bet.

My thoughts:

* they have a huge userbase throughout the world, which allow them to launch new products much more easily

* they’re printing money and will be for a very long time. They also have a huge amount of cash.

* they have whatsapp, which seems to have won the messaging war. I’m not sure why they still haven’t done much with it but the potential is huge (see weechat and all these types of super apps)

* they have been trying to get into payments for a long time, and the outcome could be huge as well. They’ve failed so far (brazil, india, libra/diem) but there’s no reason why it shouldn’t work at some point

* hardware is becoming bigger and bigger at Meta. That plus the massive investment into VR/AR and the fact that we still haven’t seen what AR product they’ve been working on

* to me the biggest argument is the strong engineering culture. I think the way the rules were set early and the way the machine is running can achieve a lot. What remains to be seen though is how companies like that can create new successful products without acquiring another product.

IMO Meta could be much more successful if they focused on:

- spinning off new products based on the tech they have (why are they still not competing with cloud providers!)

- spinning off new products based on the userbase they have (they need to launch a twitter competitor)

- releasing hardware products more often. Why did they give up on Portal? Why didn’t they release more iterations of the glasses?

- giving people what they want on FB. Turning it back into a useful tool. For example, chronological timeline as a setting
As an able bodied person, I see potential in mapping some of these to specific regular actions, rather than individual key presses. Using this, along with dictation and a keyboard/mouse combo could save a lot of time.
They should be faster, but don't they support voice commands while driving? That's the idea so you don't have to touch it much or at all while driving.
> Edit: Quoted portion of your post so folks who can't see the text of deleted comments have some context.

I'm confused; I didn't delete anything, were you just assuming I would delete my comment? Also, your comment has this weird vibe; like you are trying to argue with me. However, I wasn't stating an opinion on the issue, merely explaining why propriety hardware and software is used by large machine manufactures.
I don't use many content recommendation systems, so maybe this isn't typical, but youtube's is very good at what it does. It knows I like videos about trains and ships, and suggests virtually nothing else to me. It doesn't need to guess at my motivation for liking trains, all it needs to do is give me train videos.

I think these systems are what you make out of them. If you click trashy content, it'll give you trashy content. If you click politically edgy content, you'll get more of that. If you only click on trains, you'll only get trains. Maybe people who complain about these systems have a totally different experience than me, or maybe they don't like what they see when a content recommendation engine holds up a mirror.

As for their perverse incentives and profit motive... if they're bad at anything, it's getting ad views from me.
I didn't see how to get the actual paper off this website. I got it off of ResearchGate, though. Maybe this inconsistency can be figured out there (I ran out of the time I was able to allocate towards figuring this out just now).

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369458140_The_Role_...
that's just 2 more requirements: must be cross trainable, supply chain compatible with previous generation

there, problem solved
Those are known as optical switches. And they are horrible.
Maybe "AI doesn't look to help people with OCD like me" is closer to the mark.

There may be a role for AI in mental health. Diagnostic decision support, fMRI interpretation, drug treatment review, maybe even repeat exercise CBT reinforcement

But even in critique of this writing I tend to agree, it's unlikely we're going to be using Eliza and Parry's red headed stepchild in treatment any time soon
I do use the touch screen, but when doing complex driving tasks I don’t. I don’t think I specifically am advocating for touch screens as the singular interface. I’m advocating that buttons are a terrible singular interface. In fact, I use the steering wheel buttons extensively while driving. It’s only when I want something not core to the act of driving, like changing the song or some other ancillary function, do I go to voice command. The touch screen I use primarily when I’m stopped or as a passenger. But I’d rather that than have a hundred buttons decorating the center console. It’s not a reasonable user interface for things that aren’t necessary to have at a quick finger index.

On the downvoting, don’t be obtuse. On HN people downvote if they disagree with an opinion. I don’t particularly take much notice of either direction on the voting. Internet points don’t count for much, and I’d rather enjoy my discourse than scrounge for points.
Note that the CCP can command a device to phone home in the future. So "We did not detect any leakage of data to DJI servers" just means that the device is currently not sending data home.
Everyone has a different perspective, but at the end of the day, some companies do better or worse than others to the benefit or detriment of the shareholders.
What does this have to do with the thread discussion?
look man this boot doesn't lick itself ok
Last year when something like this happened, it came out that there's a legal representative in Rio: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2022/0...
Interestingly there is a semi-successful modular system called StanFlex [0] that the Danish navy developed in the 80s, and now uses for all their ships.

"each [StanFlex] module is housed in a stainless steel container measuring 3 metres (9.8 ft) in length, 3.5 metres (11 ft) in width, and 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) in height.
...
Modules are usually installed and replaced by a 15-ton capacity mobile crane.[3] A module can be swapped out and replaced within half an hour, and after system testing completed, the ship is ready to deploy within a few hours."

There are modules for Surface,Air,Submarine, and anti-mine, storage and ELINT, among others

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StanFlex
I mean, I know why it's in there. The situation at that facility seems like hell even for a day or a few hours.
> MongoDB gained traction not because it's an alternative to MySQL or PostgreSQL.

Disagree. It gained traction because it was an alternative to MySQL in the ways that mattered - fast, easy to administer, widely known, good enough. Yes, there are significant differences in the details of what they do - but in terms of someone looking for a backing datastore for their webapp, they're actually competing in a very similar space.
The extended "original" versions of several idioms, including this one, were created in the 21st century. See, for example, this: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/508907
What happens if the moon is made of cheese?

Outside of obscure hypotheticals you make do or switch providers.
What? Next you're going to tell me that Marilyn vos Savant isn't the smartest person alive.
Can you explain? Mac trackpads can be delightful, but they’re delightful when the user is looking at the screen. Which is a bad idea when driving.
Since you’re aspiring to be on the list, you might already be a grifter. Might as well just put “Forbes 30 under 30” in a resume or LinkedIn profile with no context and you’ll get most of the benefit without actually being on the list. No one is going to check. If they ask just have some random placeholder website for a professional looking “tech consulting” business or something to direct people to, where the income is impossible to verify.
Meta has led in the application of ML to computer vision for years now frankly. They have tons and tons of papers on computer vision using ML that are clearly and obviously applicable to metaverse-esque things.

(I have no stake in Meta in any form, just care about computer vision)
> But even if that turns out to be true, it still means programmers have to care about performance!

Who is he even talking to at this point? He's arguing that performance has more than 0% relevance to software, which no-one on disagrees with.

>claims there is no argument to be had, and that performance somehow won’t matter anywhere in a product lifecycle

No-one says performance never matters. People disagree on what performance merits optimization. A 5s to 1s page load improvement is massive, a .5s to .1s improvement starts hitting diminishing returns in user experience.
> connect mobiles phones to satellites

How does this work? Do typical phones already have the hardware for this? The satellites emulate cells? (one big “cell”?)

Edit: Spotted a typo in my comment… but it’s actually a typo in the Reuters headline?
This isn't how tactile buttons in modern cars work. You're doing the same thing as pushing keys on a keyboard. The software can still be slow.

Turn the physical volume dial on a car with a slow Apple CarPlay interface and tell me how that works out for you.

Oh, it's too loud? But it takes 2 seconds for the software to respond due to lag and now you're fiddling with the volume button trying to not make it worse?

A physical button didn't fix that.
I concur... LOL at 'pants'.
As is mentioned in a parallel comment this will change dramatically as LLM are introduced to voice assistants. LLM are much more robust in inferring semantic meaning from noisy language. As long as they don’t ask the LLM to solve partial differential equations and confine it’s originating prompt aggressively to only interpret voice text transcriptions to a finite set of actions, it’ll be amazing.
It’s a double edged sword. It’s difficult to organize without using the employers resources.

Some companies aggressively police lots of behavior. Walmart considers outside contact with other employees as potential off clock work and will terminate if discovered.

The hyper-insanity over unions is really stupid. It’s really all about power and accountability. The inconvenience of having employees who can tell the emperor that he’s naked is drives the attitude. This is especially true at retail - lots of regional supermarkets are unionized and successfully compete with Walmart, despite Walmart’s advantage in purchase power and their carousel of the cheapest employees available.
Can you elaborate on why choosing saturated vs unsaturated fats is not important?

Also: to your "garbanzo beans suck" point- I actually love them—but not those awful canned ones! I enjoy raw sprouted chickpeas from our local farmers market on salads, or simmering some dried ones with onion, tomato, a bay leaf and some yogurt until they are just "al dente".
Presumably they also have the ISO stored but can’t distribute them for obvious copyright reasons.
And thats what courts are supposed to do.
Of course. But it's quick and almost always works.
Eh, those backup cameras are super useful though, and the screen can be small. My 2013 Kia has mostly physical buttons and like an 8 inch or so touchscreen (that I never touch). I would hate losing that camera.

Plus those screens can be useful for safety. I much prefer the screen on my dashboard for maps compared to having it on my phone (even with a mount it's bouncy and small)
the NLRB ruled Cognizant and Google as joint employers
Here is a recent discussion:

https://millcomputing.com/topic/what-is-your-roadmap-for-202...
In all honesty, 11% sounds high for land area covered by cell service.

There are large sections of the trans-canada highway that aren't covered (the only east west highway, and the main road across the country). I can't really count on having cell service on the highways between towns when I'm travelling in Canada so they aren't really providing much coverage there.

Just to drive the point home here's a map of Rogers coverage. They don't have a single tower in the three provinces that make up the northern half of the country. Canada, despite being large is really a VERY centralized country. 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border.
That’s not how credit cards work. A credit line isn’t “money you have left”, it’s the max you can borrow.
Politicians have much more power than CEOs.
I've done about a dozen trade shows and have done both of those things, from personal experience. (This anecdote comes up frequently in these discussions and I always wonder where from, because it's not anything like I've seen...)
> renders you unable to make logical statements.

Please don't do these kind of personal attacks. There are plenty of people in this thread with roughly similar opinions that "AMD employee kimixa" is expressing. Unless you want to claim they're all AMD employees it's a perfectly normal view to hold – if you disagree then you can say that without attacking people.
Each satellite is a cell.
I can do all of mine: three knobs are vent selection, fan speed, and temperature, three buttons below those are AC, defrost, and recirculate.

Don’t know every vent knob position, but the first (upper vents), second (adds floor vents), and last (defrost) are the important ones.

I couldn’t do the aftermarket Bluetooth radio, but the only buttons I use there are prev/next, plus the volume knob.
Good point, that’s why this conversation has more nuance. In this case, a single judge from one of the Brazilian states has decided to take down an app for the entire country.
> You still have to look to find where to press. With real buttons, you can find the right button purely with tactile feedback, as well.

that's not a given at all. maybe for computer keyboards I guess, but not for cars.

car makers always seem to want buttons to be flush with their surroundings and have no bumps or dips on them to help you find the button you're after. I always have to look for the button if it isn't on my steering wheel, and I usually have to look when it's there as well.

the only control in my car I don't ever need my eyes to find and use is the volume knob for the entertainment system. maybe the hazard button, too, but I haven't needed to push it yet.
To clarify for those who don't feel like reading: New Apartment building will use geothermal heat pump to reduce heating and cooling energy use [and cost]. Some people may read the title and think the building is generating its own electricity from geothermal energy... This is not that.. that would require profoundly deep boring and other sophisticated technology.
And in Bangladesh where I’m from Friday and Saturday are the weekend days to accommodate Friday prayers. People would get very mad if foreigners came to Bangladesh and complained about that. To me, it’s more of an assimilation into “white culture” to come to America as a foreigner and then loudly insist that the dominant culture change to accommodate you. It’s quintessential white American individualism.

The situation of ADOS is of course different. Their ancestors didn’t come here as voluntary immigrants to an already developed country. There is no comparison. But I think that point cuts both ways. How I act as an invited guest in this country isn’t any commentary on the entirely unrelated political situation of ADOS people. It would be utterly disingenuous of me to complain about a system where people like me do far better in nearly every metric than the dominant culture.
I'd bet that Tesla FSD could pass most DMV driving tests in the US.
There’s a reason why Sony and Microsoft still have a console
They don’t require a certified transcript sent directly to the institution like every other college in the world?

I never had to send HS transcripts because I started out at community college after the army but for the couple other times I did they were pretty strict on what they would accept.

Humbolt State, some random private school that’s probably bankrupt now and Arizona State University (who decided I wasn’t a resident so I couldn’t take any classes there) were all this way.
> If I was going to alienate a major chunk of my userbase, this would not have been the time I would've picked.

It does seem like this was a plan that was in the works for a couple years, and momentum is keeping it moving. I doubt they would have picked this timing if they knew what was coming!
The message pretty clearly states that the visible presence of the homeless is a crime against the OP that leads to vigilantism (i.e., attacks on the homeless). This kind of eliminationist rhetoric is common on this site.
For CPU clock, I agree the gains are marginal, yet BIOS settings still allow the end user to trivially further bump up the clock. There are young people with a lot of time on their hands who will do it for that 3% uplift.

Further, with memory we have things like XMP which again are blessed by the vendors and are 100% within the definition of overclocking. Just because a memory module can run at XMP rates doesn't mean the motherboard or the CPU have the signal integrity or power integrity margins to support the timings. And this is something component vendors can't optimize from the factory (only system vendors can), because it depends on multiple parts.

In the old days one couldn't enter BIOS setup and find even a single mention of overclocking, and the term itself was taboo because it meant operating the system outside the design spec. Nowadays a lot of vendors use OC in marketing. I think this alone makes my point about being mainstream.
rq doesn't interoperate with other languages though, so if you use it then your workers can only be written in Python. :(
Inspiring!! Congratulations
Amazon scraps its fitness tracker brand Halo
The reason that Black Lives Matter today is because gangstas have owned the streets for 40+ years.

It is certainly unjust that any innocent should die at the hands of a police officer, but it is not unexpected, that after 40 years of no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners gang warfare in the streets of every major metro and urb, that police have developed an itchy trigger finger when it comes to confrontations with the general public, who have typically been quite well-armed and combat-ready.
I believe what GP meant is the feedback they offer. Do you think the Magic Trackpad moves? Hint it doesn’t, the “click” you feel is a haptic feedback motor.
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’s prison sentence delayed
This is exactly right.

Why should my build tool require more study than the language I’m working in? Why do I need to learn a wholly language to build?

In the same vein, why should the ORM be more complex than the database?

Why should the application server be orders of magnitude more complex than my code?

I mean - I do understand the reasons as given - I just don’t agree that the solutions are worth the sacrifices. I should not need a two week course to be good at some ancillary tool.

This morning I started thinking about this thread and what I use today. I don’t even notice the build and dependency system in Go. It’s just there, and it works. Easy things are easy, hard things are possible, and performance is important.
Show HN: Bravoboard – Where gratitude meets collaboration
Who is Dick Morrell? This Twitter thread seems discombobulated, although I admit I am quite tired at the moment. Does this only apply to people who use Echo? Is it all Amazon users? Why does deleting 2FA help? Is Amazon storing passwords in clear text?
I've always naively assumed gravity to be a facet of momentum/movement through time. The math between acceleration, gravity, and time dilation are all too cute to be coincidental in my book.

I suspect that gravity manifests as a force but does not stem from the same underlying drivers as other forces.
> That physical button that takes 500ms to respond is still as dangerous. You've just removed one problem.

Major accidents are almost always a cascade of errors. It may not be perfect, but not having to take eyes off the road can really break the chain of a big accident in progress.

A touchscreen UI probably won't cause an accident on its own, but it will be a link in the chain of a driver already tired and lost in the area, trying to find the button to press to turn on the headlights. Because yes recently there was one car manufacturer that moved that function to touch also, and proudly claimed their software was 100% bug-free. I'm sure the audience here knows how ridiculous such a statement is.
But that's the thing. I don't want to be a network engineer. I just want my devices connected.

Yet IPv6 is very complex with tons of moving parts compared to IPv4, and a lot of it works very differently so I can't rely on my existing IPv4 knowledge. In fact it frequently a hinderance.
This video by Patrick Boyle discusses it. https://youtu.be/V36kSqwjaaw

I'm not sure it adds much information that's not already covered by the article, but it is funny.
Centrist group No Labels causes ire with 'unity ticket'
Crypto’s Cure for a Shrinking Customer Base: Buy Government Bonds
If you need to cure your visual snow, watch this: https://odysee.com/DSOPi
This may be true in the USA where union membership is in an all time low, however in the rest of the world unions are still landing deals which guarantees more labor rights, this includes longer parental leaves, more sick time, longer vacations, more benefits for part time workers, more enforcement against violations, more education and guarantees for at-risk groups (such as foreign workers), equal pay certificates, 36 hour work weeks, 32 hour work weeks, anti-harassment guarantees, etc. etc.
A lot of thing, China's economy and the country itself, might be numbered if they decide to invade Taiwan.

This isn't like Ukraine where there was an implicit agreement that nobody will send actual troops into Ukraine to fight its war. If Taiwan is invaded, the US will send its own troops. And if the US is involved, the EU is likely involved too. China is big but not enough to challenge the US militarily. Not yet.

It would take an absolute madman to make China go to war just for Taiwan.
I don't think algorithms have to be bad, there's still room for experimentation with algorithms that don't just "maximize for engagement". I'd love a platform where I could customize my own discovery algorithm.

For example, I'd like to try out algorithms that:

+ Prioritize people who post less often

+ Prioritize people with less followers

+ Prioritize posts with less engagement

+ Let me manually choose people to prioritize/deprioritize

I'm not sure any of these algorithms would actually be any good, but the point is I want the freedom to experiment. I suppose this might be theoretically possible with ActivityPub/Mastodon, but I haven't seen any implementations.
Well, no one wants to lose a job. Can't fault them for that.

Globalization, technology, loose monetary policy all affect different socioeconomic strata differently.

I think the fundamental issue is that not everyone in society is making the same progress.