skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that's exactly what I was advocating for as the most productive. The ability to choose to go into an office at your convenience. It certainly was in my personal experience, and I wish it an option for everyone. I was simply pointing out how impractical and rare that situation tends to be.

And I also have a different perspective having worked from home "before it was cool" starting back in '98. I've spent far more time in my home office by a factor of 10 to 1 at least than in an office.

Keep in mind with WFH you are forcing everyone to your preferences just as much as work from office. There are far more dynamics at play than personal productivity - team and business productivity as a whole is far more important and rarely talked about.

Many times as a manger of a fully WFH team I'd force some grumpy sysadmin in for a few days a week for a month as we knocked out a project. Sure they got "nothing done" those two days according to them, but they unblocked critical projects for the rest of the team during that time that simply was not happening while they were in their "focus cave". To this day they will tell you it was a waste of their time and WFH would have been far more productive. I highly disagree.

As you say, everyone is different. As are situations. Some of the highest velocity teams I've interacted with were a handful of highly skilled seniors geographically distributed. There are projects I can think of I could call a few folks and form a fully remote team, and other projects I'd very much want to be on-prem "mostly office". It all depends.

There is something to be said about looking back the past 25 years. While I remember some fond moments from my spare bedroom, I remember far more from in-office interactions. I'm not sure how I'm going to feel about that fact in another 20 years.

Edit: I do wonder how opinions would differ if we invented free teleportation tomorrow. I wonder how much of this is commute vs. actual preferred work environment. For me it's mostly commute - give me a private office people respect and I'd likely prefer it with a teleportation pad in my living room.
Totally agree. In fact for myself, if a company is offering a free service, especially one that has significant cost on their end (bandwidth, compute, and storage are common cases), it's somewhat of a red flag to me. Too many things in tech have been "free" only to discover years later the negative consequences either for their business (which is ultimately bad for me as a user) or for society as a whole (which is also bad for me as a member of society). I much prefer transparent and sustainable business models that aren't based on some handwavy explanation that the free users will somehow lead to a bunch of paid users and that's how they'll make money Soon.
The filesystem doesn't just read from one part of the disk and write to another part of the disk, it reads from the disk and stores the result in memory, or it takes data from memory and writes it to the disk.

The other part of the kernel that deals with data in memory is the cache.

Rather than have two separate representations of "data in memory" and have to translate between them all the time, it makes sense to have one representation of "data in memory" that all the affected systems can use to talk to each other.

Even though the kernel now has multiple representations of "data in memory" due to advances in other parts of the kernel, it's still desirable to have just one representation shared between the cache and the filesystem, which is why people are talking about removing the old ones, and porting old code to use the new ones.
You could do what letter is most likely to come next
Is it actually faster?

You could just do counting sort if the big-O is important, but I'm a bit suspicious about that big-O anyway. A model where multiplying arbitrarily big numbers is constant time is a bit unrealistic, kind of feels like it's getting off the hook for a log factor for free.

It's also all such small values that I'm not sure the big-O matters either, I'm not confident which would win without just trying it. I'd _guess_ that usual sort probably just wins though, or counting sort if you really went out of the way to optimize it.
So the solution isn’t a real solution? You know what’s harder than carbon capture? Re-engineering human nature.
When 2001 came out in 4k, you could read the zero gravity toilet instructions... :)
Thought provoking, but ultimately disappointing because no proof of the "impossible" claim is offered.

Impossible is a strong claim that needs to he backed up.

"has failed to happen in a couple of cases" doesn't cut it.
How many companies pay VPs/senior employees more than the CEO outside of hedge funds?
MPT-7B-StoryWriter model designed to write stories with 65K context lengths
Do we need computers? Do we need indoor plumbing connected to active sewage treatment? Do we need heating out of anything more sophisticated than a wood-burning hearth of handmade bricks?

Cutting the energy bill of the bottom half of the country by an order of magnitude seems to me a self-evident justification, and that's only the first-order effect. Manufactories of producer goods and specialty parts in Germany are shuttering right now because of newly-unmanageable energy cost fluctuations. That puts German workers on the curb, prices consumer goods for all of Germany's sub-median class higher while their wages fall from the labor glut and cratered investor/entrepreneur confidence, and bleeds the ability of producers still above water to maintain a healthy sales base through competitive international products and prices.

With all these people in mind, I've started wondering something about your plea for frugality; what's your delta from the US median compensation, and do you tell it to people in politically-worrying husks like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, or Ohio after you're done reminding them they really could keep their heart beating without cheap energy if they just try a little harder?
I genuinely can’t parse this, sorry. What are you trying to say?
If you need a car to get around, day-to-day, it's not a city but a big suburb.
Not necessarily true. There is limited power to go around and finding spaces is also difficult. At scale, this becomes a limiting issue. Just because the price goes up, does not mean that a company can take on the risk of allocating multi-year contracts to expand.
Again, it's a strict improvement over what came before (centrally-managed namespace), and it lumps bsky's problem in with the existing place where the web is already wrestling with these questions. It hitches its cart to the world's biggest and most robust decentralized-identity mechanism; I can't think of a better approach to take, perfect or not.
The Ecosystem of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
I think it's mostly not exhaust but the dust from the road top layer and from tires. Electric drive helps little with that.
The fact I don't want a Mother's day email isn't that sensitive. The specific reason why is.

> maybe some platforms don’t expose this to advertisers, but they all collect that data.

They all collect interest data, sure. They could be blocklisting advertisers from from seeing sensitive interests like LGBTQ. I don't know if they do, it certainly sounds like a responsible choice.
I too would be surprised if it's not like Uber/Lyft. That said, concealed is concealed.
What El Niño Will do to Earth in 2024 [video][15 mins]
If you have to finance it, in what way is it a modest car? It’s not as if people are financing $2000 junkers. I’ve paid cash for every car I’ve owned, including when I was a teenager flipping burgers. Why aren’t these 59% buying junkers instead of going into debt and paying interest on a depreciated asset? Are you just going to blame America and society, or do we blame the people signing the loan papers at some point?
1. The people that don't want kids, cannot accurately model what it is like having kids. Your brain and hormonal output changes after a birth.

2. Children aren't that expensive unless the parents are playing status games (e.g. acting rich), and statistically it's poorer people that end up having more kids.

On the topic of sacrifice: One of my kids is just starting to stand up, and is using my shirt to pull herself up while squealing in triumph and delight. It's hard to express the fulfillment and existential meaning provided from children.

If I was told I would have to give them all up, it would be a soul-crushing sacrifice. Irrecoverable.
Tall Poppy Syndrome: How to Succeed in Tech Without Being Cut Down
So, DevOpsDays Austin 2023 is over, and I was very glad to see some old friends again, and to get a chance to meet some new ones. I would like to note that the best talk I saw was one from Brooke Jamieson, who is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS. It was entitled "Tall Poppy Syndrome: How to Succeed in Tech Without Being Cut Down".

Unfortunately, DevOpsDays Austin 2023 was not recording talks this year, but it turns out that Brooke gave the same talk about a week ago at DevOpsDays Rockies, and I found the link for their recording at https://youtu.be/bZGc7xp8H1E

I'm curious -- how many people on HN have heard of Tall Poppy Syndrome? Have you ever been Tall Poppied? Have you ever Tall Poppied anyone? If you have gotten a promotion or even just some accolades, what have you done to ensure that you've left the ladder down for the next person? What have you done to actively help the next person get up the ladder?

These are all questions that I'm going to be asking myself as I review my 30+ year career so far.
> Have you ever struggled with loneliness?

Yea. For a bit in my 20's and 30's. I think like most nerds.

> If so, how did you cope with it?
By distracting myself. So, not very well. But thankfully I'm more of an introvert, so, I have a bit of an advantage there.

> And what are some strategies you've found helpful in building and maintaining meaningful connections with others?

1) Being best friends with super-networkers. You know, those people that are always throwing parties. Glom onto them without being creepy. Be helpful at said parties and always be friendly and forward.

2) Start a family. Party friends aren't family. They're not really "friends".

3) Start keeping in touch with friends and don't stop. For example, never leave the town you grew up in. Hehe, it might work, but I wouldn't know. Bounced around the world too much.
Here's a practical example of a group purchasing this kind of data to do harm.

> Catholic group spent millions on app data that tracked gay priests. A group of philanthropists poured money into a Denver nonprofit that obtained dating and hookup app data and shared it with bishops around the country, a Post investigation has found

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/09/catholics...
Are you Australian originally maybe ? :)
The article was originally published in 1975. Note the "From the archives" at the top of the page. Though it is confusing because they republished it with 21 April, 2023 as the date (presumably the date of republishing).
The original Bitcoin Whitepaper laid out multiple use cases:

* digital cash

* peer to peer transactions

* digital gold

* censorship resistant transactions

* hard money with fixed monetery policy and capped supply

* highly-decentralized with no single point of failure

Never did it promise to be a high throughput alternative to Visa for buying coffee

Nevertheless the Lightning Network has innovated in the space such that buying a coffee is now trivial using Bitcoin.

I am a crypto “chud” and I believe eventually Bitcoin will become a viable currency and a stable unit of account.

It isn’t that today as it is still a highly volatile asset class with rapidly growing adoption but we are still early.

For now it provides dissidents a viable option that is apolitical and cannot be easily censored.

It offers a hard-money alternative to fiat-money which can be arbitrarily inflated/diluted in value by centralized powers.

It offers a digital asset that is highly liquid, difficult to confiscate, and easy to access for the billions of unbanked throughout the world.

You may not see the use case for Bitcoin but that speaks more to your individual privilege as a citizen of a first world nation than it does for Bitcoin’s usefulness to millions or potentially billions of people around the world.
It's funny how small some communities are, particularly the ones rallied around niche tools or capabilities.
I don't know that EU members aren't doing the same thing. I'm sure the US isn't the only place this happens.
Phoenix and Manhattan have about the same population, but Phoenix has five Manhattans worth of parking.
I buy all my socks from Muji.
There is probably zero electricity on the Moon, and yet it manages to get both much hotter and much colder than the Earth, somehow. Ever wondered why?

Please read this, and then do us all a favor and read much more before trying to contribute to this subject's discussion again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect
That’s a tax law-tax law is a bit different. In tax law, it is considered important to have clear start dates decided by Parliament - because both taxpayers and the tax office need certainty, and the budget depends on revenue projections which depend on a clear start date for each tax law change. So yes, tax law is an area in which the government is most likely to advise the GG to not assent if serious technical drafting errors are only discovered after passage by Parliament.

In other areas of law, where certainty on start dates is less crucial, setting a start date by proclamation is much more common
We do have to live with the consequences though: increased energy prices and greenhouse gases through cryptomining.
The UK post office database scandal – “can't see the bug = user is a thief”
Today in the UK Post Office database scandal: this support engineer spent an hour looking at an error report, couldn’t see anything obviously causing it, and so decided it was OK to go to court and testify in a criminal trial that they were sure there were no bugs and the user was a thief.

Back-story - Fujitsu built a database for the UK Post Office that had bugs that led to cash balances disappearing. They refused to accept there could be any bugs, and the Post Office prosecuted hundreds of people over the 'missing' money. There were suicides.
This is great for some use cases, but in situations like a very large list mentioned in the article it’s likely that a real world app would be virtualizing the nodes.. which would make an id a more stable key than a dom node.
Yes, the way I've been working for the past 14 years to the benefit of myself and my employers sure seems like a mistake in hindsight. I guess I would have been way more productive spending 1.5 hours commuting each day to a crappy office as that is the true source of value employees provide.
So, under many regulatory regimens (notably the GDPR, but others, too), sexual orientation and other personal data are treated somewhat differently than, say, “this user likes cat videos”. Now, that’s not to say that it is absolutely forbidden or anything, but it is _not_ the same thing as a generic “this person likes this sort of video” (even if it is inferred from precisely that) and it’s disingenuous to pretend that it is.

I doubt TikTok had any particularly sinister motivations here (or at least no more sinister than any other profile-building), but that is arguably not the _point_.
Keeping TikTok around. It’s actually a very good platform, just needs major damage control on trust and privacy.
> Okay, so your microservices are each very simple, but that made the interactions and resource provisioning very complex. What was the net gain?

The net gain was composability of microservices, distribution of computing resources, and the ability to marshall off implementation details. Just because those requirements were routinely ignored in the era of monoliths doesn't mean the complexity wasn't essential or didn't exist.
If nuclear was more expensive China wouldn’t be building it. It’s stupid western regulations that make nuclear expensive.
Besides a single author who wasn’t present when that was allegedly said, is there any evidence to attribute that quote to Assange?
Proponents of ActivityPub talk a lot about how flexible it is. I think that's the problem here.

Sure you could implement BlueSky-over-activitypub, but would it be usefully compatibile with mastodon-over-activitypub? If not, why add the complexity.
> you’ve never made a mistake in your future predictions? youve never committed to something you couldnt deliver?

I have. But then I worked my butt off to make it right. If I still failed, then I apologised and owned it. I didn't pretend it never happened.
A Unified and Comprehensive NLP framework. GitHub: https://github.com/HugAILab/HugNLP
If there was surface noise it probably wasn't Hi-Fi. Hi-Fi recorded the audio as FM on the tape alongside the video signal, if I remember correctly.

I was overdubbing with my setup and discovered that the shitty Tascam four-track had speed variations all through the song, on every take. I had to memorize where they occurred and ride the pitch control while copying to the VHS. It took days, and by the time I had an acceptable mix the original tape was wearing out. I kept a VHS first-gen copy I think.

When computer audio became a thing I of course digitized all the original tracks and gleefully made a perfect mix. Maybe someday I'll do a surround one.

Kids today will never know what it's like to try to edit on consumer audio equipment! I remember memorizing how long it took the pause control to release on my tape decks, to make seamless edits.
Never sail in ship guided by an idiot Captain!, well it may not sink, but if it was to, than your proababilty of drowning increases many fold!

Companies who make such outrages plans/claims to attract more user (and hence cash flow), can't simply be just forgiven, people invest there time and money on such things. A single mistake (or eliberate plans) by such company waste thousands of hours of valid time/money of users who placed their faith in the claims/plans. There is no excuse to lies,which waste time/money of people.
Introducing WebKit Documentation
"Forever" is such a word which you should nit utter lightly, especially in the context of a service commitment.

I see that mistakes are made, and they need to be fixed when they become obvious (usually other people have to fix them than the people who made them). But there's no expectation that making and fixing such a mistake should be free, without impact on reputation and customers' goodwill.
Is it? The code in the repository is MIT, but the models are downloaded from Azure:

https://github.com/openai/shap-e/blob/main/shap_e/models/dow...

The code license in such cases would not extend to binary blobs downloaded from the Internet. And the code is basically useless without the blob.
There was something like that, but seemingly (comparing demo videos) much higher quality released a few months ago from NVIDIA - https://research.nvidia.com/labs/dir/magic3d/
ok look people.

I think what is needed is to recognize that the SPA architecture isn't actually just a view processor. IMO it is a very shitty designed:

View rendered <--> client process <--> server process

So it seems that SPA apps load an absolute mountain of javascript into the view (the tab/page) and then that starts (crudely IMO) running as client-side daemon tracking messy state and interfacing with local storage, with javascript (opinion: yuck) ferreted away in a half dozen divs.

IMO, what has been needed since you have local storage and local session state and all that is ... a client daemon that the web page talks to that offers data services, and then that client daemon if it needs server data calls to the internet.

That way local state tracking, transformation, and maintenance can be isolated away from the code of the view. Large amounts of javascript (or maybe all with CSS wizardry is dropped). The "client daemon" can be coded in webassembly, so you aren't stuck with javascript (opinion: yuck).

You can even have more efficient many views/tabs interfacing with the single client daemon, and the client daemon can track and sync data between different tabs/views/windows.

Now, of course that is fucking ripe as hell for abuse, tracking. Not sure how to solve it.

But "separation of concerns" in current web frameworks is a pipe dream.
That's just the chain rule, right?

d/dt y(t) = ( d/dx y(x) )( d/dt x(t) )
Nebula works great. I don’t need some of the emergent bells and whistles of Tailscale, and Nebula works on devices which don’t yet have WireGuard.
Don't currently have anything (that I know of) on the web but my current project will get posted here when it is ready, it has aspects which should be of interest to enough people here to make it worth posting. The VCR recordings are most likely lost to time.
there are many countries where assisted suicide is becoming more widely accepted. Many people are willing organ donors and blood donors. Everyone and their bodies absolutely must be treated with the utmost respect, but for many, the highest respect is to be part of even the smallest iota of scientific progress.
Or we rediscover regulation and people pay out enough in settlements that insurance decides its important again.
The wording is weird.. "What is the probability of heads?".

If they wake her up with a coin toss and ask her "what is the probability of a (totally unrelated) thrown dice landing on the number 6?", the answer to this math problem is 1/6. But in this problem "probability" is related to the results of the coin throws?

The wording in the Wikipedia seems better: "What is your credence now for the proposition that the coin landed heads?". Bloody "journalists" ruining everything.

Edit: in the original German language article [2] the question is in past tense ("showed" instead of "shows"). Seems to be make more sense. Do I shake my fist at the journalist or the translator now?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty_problem

[2] https://www.spektrum.de/kolumne/welche-wahrscheinlichkeit-ha...
They do not know the percent chance of death during early experimentation. They literally do not understand the procedure well enough to estimate the effects with sufficient confidence for it to be acceptable to do in human subjects. That is why it is called early stage and why we have animal testing, to establish these parameters as best we can for it to be acceptable to attempt on humans. This is literally the blood the human clinical testing rules around consenting to procedures is written in.
Even as the article states, the problem is the risk-aversion of private actors to regulation. I can assure you, the scientists are happy to have the administrators handle regulatory affairs. To get approvals, administrators do the comparative analysis to show that a similar risk was accepted with similar constraints.

The real problem is the advantage this gives to repeat players. Then innovators have to sell out to the majors before market validation, so there's been little significant change in the identity of the key players, even though there have been huge (finance-driven) changes in organizational and market structures (with wider profit margins).

It also amplifies first-mover advantage. Not only do first movers capture customers, they set the regulatory standards others have to beat. If they are a key technology (like Illumina's NGS short-read sequencing), it's a perfect set-up for the monopoly to tie sale of one product to another (e.g., the one-time hardware to ongoing reagents or software services). This is amplified by the privacy of the regulatory submissions.

How can it be changed? It can't. Big pharma is a trillion-dollar golden egg is a nest of the FDA's making, and no rational humanistic discourse or broad-based health-care financing issues are going to dislodge those investments.

The best we can hope for is to keep the profiteering reasonably discreet. By being somewhat unpredictable, the FDA gives each administration leverage to extract some concessions for each generation.