skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commercial zoned real estate is typically more expensive than residential because commercial tenants have more money, so the landlords who control zoning boards arrange to keep commercial rents high by limiting the supply even more than they do for residential housing.

If demand falls off the price will decline. They might respond by rezoning some commercial into residential, which would be great for residential buyers, but the existing landlords would not be pleased by anything that makes any real estate more affordable (i.e. less valuable).

Which is, of course, good. But they're going to try to prevent it any way they can.
They are so insistent that most people want the entertainment use case for social media, they informed their protocol architecture design by that. No, no one wants that. Everyone is already sick of centralized social media services forcefully shoving recommended content from unknown people down their throats. They just want a chronological timeline of posts made by people they explicitly followed. No ads, no recommendations (Instagram's "mute recommended content for 30 days" is straight mockery btw), no prompts, no nothing, just updates from people you followed. And that's already solved by ActivityPub. Everything becomes much, much simpler when you don't need some kind of pool of "all posts in the universe" to choose from.
I agree, but shouldn't we expect to see some 100% remote businesses eat the lunch of the old dinosaurs in their highrises? I would think that would be the best proof.
Does icloud e2e still have a loophole where apple can re-key it for you whenever they want? That's how it used to work, and as long as that's how it works their e2e is just for show.
He ran ycombinator for a while too. I think that’s where he gets his reputation from.
It’s good for us, but not for you.
https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/

> Effective June 1, 2021: Phabricator is no longer actively maintained.
Per that AI Dilemma documentary, we likely already lost control at "first contact" of social media.
I guess you can't have an opinion unless there's a reddit level conspiracy theory about capitalism.
Really sounds to me like you’re speaking from your own professional context and are talking to consider the huge spectrum of circumstances in which web code is written.
I can definitely understand how there's more collaborative bandwidth when you have a small group in a room, focused on a large, complex project such as early stages at a startup. However, I don't think that's necessary once you've broken up the tasks and started executing. Once you're at that stage, being crammed together in an office where everyone's trying to do head-down work on their own is a productivity killer.

When MS came on the scene, my understanding is that their recruiting strategy was to get top talent and give everyone their own office, with a door. The thinking was that you're hiring people to focus on a problem, so give them a quiet place where they can work in peace. With that approach, MS proceeded to wallop the rest of the tech sector to the point that they were considered too successful. Fast forward to the final days of the pre-pandemic world, everyone forgot that lesson and was deeply entrenched in the cargo cult of open plan offices. Going back to that dynamic for mid-stage/mature business is a huge blunder.
I don't really care what Sam Altman has to say, or doesn't have to say about any given topic.

Like this is the smart persons problem, being successful at one thing, does not make you an expert on any number of other things.

For example, being an AI luminary does not make your opinion on working conditions or or cars, or whatever else you happen to have an opinion on.
Privacy laws implemented now would undermine the profitability of "structurally significant" US companies and restrict the flow of data from these private entities to government entities, and thus would likely be seen as a threat to national security.

Privacy laws are dead almost before they're even conceived.

It would also create a very large spike in unemployment. I can't imagine how many jobs would be lost if the tech industry could no longer spy on the internet.

I can dream though.
If you wanted you could also purchase and strip DRM. All the big ones are cracked.
As someone on the spectrum, it had amazing therapeutical effects on me.
Elevator is what it is, elevate is what it does. If we wanted to use 'lift' we'd have to call it a lifter. I don't care for either term because I take elevators/lifters down too, but I don't want to have to change to calling it a 'descender' depending on what floor I'm on either.
I just started using HTMX in new projects and really like it.

The LivewView/Hotwire/LiveWire way of building applications make a really great tradeoff—the ease of building websites with the speed and power of webapp UX.

I wanted something simple to use with Express and it's been very productive.

There's a few things to get used to, but overall like it and plan to keep using it in my projects.
That's one of the aspects in which Crystal shines.

It retains most of the flexibility and DSL capabilities, but the type- and nil-safety allow you to leverage them without nasty surprises at runtime.

Not having to guess what a method or block returns and instead having the compiler tell you when you get it wrong makes an enormous difference.
> I still don't comprehend why Dorsey didn't just try to make the largest ActivityPub server on the web.

Have you seen the ecosystem study BlueSky published in 2020? https://gitlab.com/bluesky-community1/decentralized-ecosyste...

Bit more of a summary https://twitter.com/bluesky/status/1511811083954102273

BlueSky/AT Protocol seems to have pretty distinct design goals that are not possible with ActivityPub.
This entry has much to be desired, but at least it has a link to their site. Will have to visit this place some day.

http://www.historyingranite.org/
Indeed, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
Plus the door is still open if another belt object is found before the spacecraft leaves the area. Anyway it's not like they can put the brakes on and stay: how much delta V can they have fuel left for ?
Tracking space weather and studying heliophysics sounds more useful than exploring the Kuiper belt, but much less fun.
To clarify 996 refers to requiring employees to work 9am to 9pm 6 days a week.
Well you have a very particular scenario, but in most cases, having to clean up everything, take the trash out, doing dishes, cleaning grill, taking linens out, collecting towels and starting the washer while still getting kicked out at 10? And paying hundreds for cleaning on top of that? You can’t enjoy the last day and you’re paying for it.
Or, you can buy a Librem 5 (although it’s quite expensive).
CarMax drives business value with GPT-3.5
Maybe you are confused by the words "common stock" in Basel 3 or something -- that's in the stockholders' equity line, book value, and is not defined by the market price of the company's own common shares.

(For example, you can look at PACW's Q1 press release, and see its Tier 1 capital ratio not getting cut by 2/3 by the precipitous drop in share price they endured: https://www.pacwestbancorp.com/news-market-data/news/news-de... )
How do you find people that you like?
I have noticed that senior employees, rather selfishly, advocate for full remote work.

This robs junior people of valuable one on one mentorship and makes it extremely difficult to gain domain expertise and break into niche fields.
I did read the article, and I did understand it. I just disagree with his position.

> You need SOME time in person

I'll agree with this. But it can be on an as-needed basis, not a regularly scheduled thing. This is how I've done it in my own startups. I had office space for people who wanted to come into the office (many prefer that), but it was not mandatory. We'd have in-person meetings every so often as needed. On average, this was about once per month.
Go away. Crypto chuds have been pushing the "currency" angle for a decade. But whenever you point out it doesn't work as a currency, the goalposts move and now its a store of value. But it's not even good at that.
Right! Decide on the shape of the software, then rearrange your organization to match.
> Researchers have resolved the mechanism of exciton fission, which could increase solar-to-electricity efficiency by one-third, potentially revolutionizing photovoltaic technology.

“Orbital-resolved observation of singlet fission” by Alexander Neef, Samuel Beaulieu, Sebastian Hammer, Shuo Dong, Julian Maklar, Tommaso Pincelli, R. Patrick Xian, Martin Wolf, Laurenz Rettig, Jens Pflaum and Ralph Ernstorfer, 12 April 2023, Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05814-1 : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05814-1 :

> Abstract: Singlet fission may boost photovoltaic efficiency by transforming a singlet exciton into two triplet excitons and thereby doubling the number of excited charge carriers. The primary step of singlet fission is the ultrafast creation of the correlated triplet pair. Whereas several mechanisms have been proposed to explain this step, none has emerged as a consensus. The challenge lies in tracking the transient excitonic states. Here we use time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to observe the primary step of singlet fission in crystalline pentacene. Our results indicate a charge-transfer mediated mechanism with a hybridization of Frenkel and charge-transfer states in the lowest bright singlet exciton. We gained intimate knowledge about the localization and the orbital character of the exciton wave functions recorded in momentum maps. This allowed us to directly compare the localization of singlet and bitriplet excitons and decompose energetically overlapping states on the basis of their orbital character. Orbital- and localization-resolved many-body dynamics promise deep insights into the mechanics governing molecular systems and topological materials
A sufficient quantity of money, invested judiciously, can, yes. And that money can buy experiences as much as it can material objects. Deep companionship is something I’ve experienced both as a poor person and as a wealthy one. It’s not as durable as the wealth.
After their partnership with Microsoft, no IMO.
The best and most productive I've ever been (at least felt, but I think the results spoke for themselves as well) was when I was able to go into an office, but did not have to.

There is some tragedy of the commons there though. It was quite convenient to have most everyone in the office on a given day if I decided at 11am it might be nice to switch gears. I also lived literally across the street for one job, and about an average 18 minute door to door commute on public transit for the other. Many others on the teams were in similar living situations so it was easy to call impromptu office days the day before or whatnot as-needed.

I've otherwise worked from home most of my career - but would travel into an office about once a month to see faces and have meetings. Or just go out and have dinners with folks after work. This worked pretty well.

Full remote is tough for me now. I would prefer to be in an office 2-3 days a week, but not forced to be. I do miss the energy of a well functioning team executing together in close proximity.

And to be fair - the worst job I ever had was a 50-90 minute each direction car commute from hell. Literally anything is better than that.
Right, which is why I said “Node earlier on” (as in, without good Windows support yet)
All open source projects are remote, including Linux. That's a rather exceptional. Not a company but shows that great, complex, engineering can be built remotely. Probably because engineers need focus and time to think. Gitlab is also fully remote.
It's already being used that way, because it's hugely valuable. People with skin in the game want to save money. Some partners at firms are concerned that it will be used so extensively that no one will be able to become a good lawyer because one needs to go through the stage of doing a lot of grunt work for it to all sink in. A partner at a firm commented to me ~ "this is amazing. I'd never have been able to become the lawyer I am without doing what this does though. I wonder what will happen."
> "Crony capitalism" is a thought-terminating cliche.

There's theory and then there's implementation. What's theoretically "wrong" with capitalism is it promotes the "bad" parts of human nature, i.e. greed, ego, materialism, etc...

Cronyism isn't a theory, it's an implementation detail. You could implement a capitalist economy that discourages cronyism by capping the number of employees a company can have and limiting the radius they conduct business. Essentially force an economy with only small and competitive, locally owned ma and pa shops. This is, in practice, the way capital-driven economies worked in the far far past long before the dawn of megacorps. Communism has worked well too when communities are small and everyone knows everybody. The big problem with both ideologies is finding an implementation that doesn't suffer from "scalability" problems.
That's not what the article says. The quote was specifically about startups 'going full remote forever'. That's way different to saying the era of remote work is over.

Lazy clickbait OP.
These came from Sipura, which Linksys bought.

The last time I had some in service, they were responsible for connecting landlines for FAX and 911 service. (This was before VOIP exchanges had E911 availability and while FAX was still a viable protocol for signed documents.)
Yes, that's certainly where he gets his reputation on HN from. He's largely considered not-that-impressive off HN (e.g., people who have worked for or with him and I say that as someone in that category).
Making it part of the cost of doing business is precisely the point -- you allow business to go on when it passes a cost/benefit test, and the business tries to minimize that cost by taking safety measures. There's a middle ground between "basically nonexistent" and "insanely high".
Arturia makes a tape plugin modeled after the Mellotron tape system. It's my go-to for less gnarly tape sounds:

https://www.arturia.com/products/software-effects/tape-mello...

ChowDSP has an open-source tape plugin. I haven't used it too much (I use the iOS version), but it has a lot of parameters:

https://chowdsp.com/products.html#tape
Maybe not exceptional but Canonical is fully remote
The purpose of life is to hydrogenate carbon, said a minimalist.
This is not the way
Yup, but I've seen a Ferrari. I've never even heard of this company before this article.
This is a nitpick but also it's been a few years since I was taking academic ML and linear algebra courses. However regarding this part.

> So you only gain a factor 2 * L. But the trade-off is that you are doing a near neighbor search in higher dimension where you are then subjected to the curse of dimensionality (the higher the dimension the more similar all points are to each other).

I thought that the curse of dimensionality meant that in higher dimension, points got farther apart
Sewing apparel can be really hard to figure out by yourself, even with youtube. The best way (imo) to learn is to find a self-paced, bring your own project kind of class. A skilled instructor will help you step-by-step with a project you are passionate about.

I would start by making a little zipper bag, then pajamas, then whatever interests you. Maybe t-shirts because it's so cool to make a t-shirt out of a unique fabric. But they can be tricky.

The instructor will help you learn the patterns and techniques. And with someone helping you its less frustrating in the beginning.

Eventually you learn the techniques and then it becomes all about the creativity and craft. Im telling you, this hobby pays dividends. I hope you enjoy it!

One thing to remember is that commercial garments are usually certain types of fabrics for a reason. So when you break the rules you really gotta know what you are doing. Just like business ;D
Good news is you're both right. Collapse is the future. :)
That is why nature invented subletting.

Getting 80% of what you're paying for space you don't need is much better than getting 0%. Then you get to claim a big cost reduction this year and a big cost reduction when the lease expires and you can dump the unneeded space entirely.
So two friends living in two different places can never build a product and then business around it together. They must be sitting within one meter proximity or the magic potion doesn't work.
This is a fact.

Hard work, a good plan, and a good idea are what buy you the lottery ticket. But it's still a lottery.
> I am arguing that the Axis progression is not a variation of the Canon in D progression

But it most certainly is. They chords Axis are using are

E – B - C#m – A, or I-V-vi-IV

Pachelbel's Canon transposed to E Major uses the same chords except for the last, which would be

E - B - C#m - G#m, or I-V-vi-iii

Changing one root from a minor third to a perfect fourth does not a new progression make. Changing one chord in a progression by one half step in the same key does not make it "a rather different chord progression." One is a variation of the other and derivative, and the single variation is in the same key, changed by a half step and minor to major.

And Axis is doing the same thing. They're changing the minor third to a perfect fourth in many of the songs they're demonstrating. But how could they do that if it would make it a fundamentally different progression? Because it wouldn't.
Editors have had directory trees and integrated terminals for many years, why is that something you find special?
It is my understanding that the at protocol has the building blocks for alot of these use cases as well. So while yes bluesky the app is just a micro blogging social media, the protocol should be able to do the rest.
HTMX Solution to keeping client and server in sync: Remove the client.

Okay, now you have half the code base, but need a round trip to the server for every interaction.

You could also remove the server and let people download your blog, where they can only post locally. No server-side input validation needed!
Yes definitely, which is why I mentioned Cardelli. Previous comment on the same subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21832009

A program fragment is safe if it does not cause untrapped errors to occur. Languages where all program fragments are safe are called safe languages. Therefore, safe languages rule out the most insidious form of execution errors: the ones that may go unnoticed.

-- Luca Cardelli

It's certainly fine for Rust to have a keyword called "unsafe". But as you note, users should remember that this isn't equivalent to semantic safety.

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As a trivial example, integer overflow IS unsafe in Rust, but it's allowed WITHOUT using the unsafe keyword.

Any language that traps integer overflow, regardless of debug/release mode is safer than Rust in that respect.

Python is also safer than Rust in that respect, because it allows arbitrary sized integers.

Rust made a tradeoff for efficiency, which is appropriate for its use cases, just like C did at the time.

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Programmers often use/abuse terms from computer science, which is perhaps OK when the difference doesn't have engineering consequences.

Here it absolutely has consequences -- a crash is SAFE because it protects you from undefined behavior at runtime. Crashes are also easy to debug.

I think the fallacy is that there's any other option. Many errors can't be caught at compile time, because they're simply incomputable problems. The mathematically BEST behavior is to crash.

Related thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/tqtxf...

e.g. "Regular expression" was abused by programmers, and that one also has significant engineering consequences. O(n) time and O(1) space are desirable engineering properties.

So if people let one definition of "unsafe" take over, then they've lost the ability to think clearly about the problem.

There are languages that are safer than Rust now (e.g. Python), and there will likely be languages in the future that are both safer and more efficient. (Maybe Mojo if they do something different WRT bounds checking).
To me, he'll always be the creepy WorldCoin guy.
It's absurd how broken sleep is on most machines. Macbooks are the only devices I've observed to correctly resume.
I emphatically, categorically disagree.

Maybe _perceived_ productivity and creativity is worse in some cases because remote workers can't physically be seen working, but that doesn't mean it's _actually_ worse.

Almost every engineer I know is able to be far more creative and productive working remotely than from an office, regardless of whether or not they need to collaborate closely with others.
Org will be orgs… and I find it hard to disagree with you :(

The only counterexample to Conway that I have seen working is “away teams”:

https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/amazon/operating-mode...
At least when I was dealing with them, if you DID have a support contract (we had one for our phone system) they would move hell and high water to get it working, whatever it took.

Which is why this "we won't do shit no matter what" attitude is a bit surprising; often they'd have a firmware available for long-dead devices that was only available via support (or very sketchy Russian websites).
This is oddly downvoted, but it is accurate.

When I use university-linked accounts, I get insta-approved for almost whatever I want. (2,048 spot T4 GPUs? Go for it.)

When using my personal CC-backed account, my max quota is often an order of magnitude lower.
In my case I created (1) one passkey for the Apple ecosystem, and (2) a second passkey for Chrome. I had to add the Chrome-specific passkey because Google isn't using native OS passkey support via Keychain.

I don't know if this will be universally true among sites that support passkeys, but Google allows you to create multiple passkeys per account.
JohnFen, your observation is as sharp as a finely honed knife. It's true that in many tech companies, remote work practices have been silently integrated into daily office routines for years now.

In the pre-pandemic world, remote communication tools allowed us to streamline our work processes, making them more efficient and less disruptive. As you pointed out, this level of efficiency has been achieved even when sitting in adjacent cubes. The shift to a fully remote environment simply built upon these practices, ultimately reaping benefits for individuals, teams, and the company as a whole.

An interesting point to consider is the potential for increased focus and productivity in a remote setting. Without the distractions of a traditional office environment, individuals can better tailor their workspaces and schedules to suit their personal preferences and needs. This level of customization can lead to a heightened sense of ownership over one's work, which in turn boosts motivation and productivity.

Another aspect to ponder is the impact of remote work on employee retention. Companies that embrace remote work may find themselves better equipped to retain top talent by offering an additional layer of flexibility that is highly valued by many professionals. This not only benefits the employees but also saves the company from the costs associated with turnover and training new hires.

In essence, remote work is more than a fleeting trend; it's an evolution of the modern workspace that has been in motion long before it became a necessity. Embracing this shift will undoubtedly yield benefits on both individual and organizational levels, all while maintaining a high level of efficiency.
> What if they threatened your family?

Then they picked the wrong person to fuck with, as they'll be finding out? ;)
In Ruby, I would see your example as name having the value str. Chomp would have the value of the result of the operation assigning bool the value of False, which I result of the operation might be true, so would chomp have the value of true? Either way, it looks like an assignment instead of comparison error, so I’d kick it back in a PR no matter how it worked.