skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Attending sports events is becoming more and more expensive, even here, in Europe.

Going to the gym is also not cheap, and, even so, we're not all late 20s - early 30s people, us people in our 40s or in our 50s also need a nice place to hang out without getting physically exhausted in the process.

As for the hobbies, most of the "community" ones also require relatively more money to be spent, and, again, it pertains to a certain demographic.
JPMorgan tracks empployees office attendance, calls, calendars, and more
On the bottom of the page it says "© 2023 GitHub, Inc.". I don't see anything else.
Start your VM on libvirt in a couple of seconds
You make a valid point, LLMs intuitively change the need for such formalized languages. It may not be a total waste of time, but I fail to see how this slight exaggeration justifies how your comment is currently stamped into the ground, likely by the current livid rage currently directed at LLMs in the software developer community.

I get it, people don't like to have their lives disrupted, and I sympathize, just as I sympathized when secretaries, bookstore owners and others were forced to find other ways to make a living. At least in our case we still have (or can find) a job, it has just changed, to some extent even considerably.
You say this like norms are not meant to be challenged. That fully remote jobs are a life hack, which shouldn't be normal (i.e. hack).

Having experienced the full-time WFH during covid, I believe many feel that the extra time not spent on commuting can be better used for life. Why bother with extra commute when it does not bring you anything?

In the past for the paid workforce WFH has not been possible. You had to physically be present to perform the labor. In these modern times with computers and internet, we now have the ability to communicate and even perform most tasks related to the job when being in a completely different place than my coworkers.

Companies only get the benefits of people being in the office (more interaction, more control), but not the penalties (unpaid commute time).

Norms should move with the zeitgeist, in the spirit of the time and age we live in. Why stay stuck in the way of working from 50 years ago?
They for sure all have contracts. If nothing else with non disclosure clauses.
I mean, something in Europe was isolated at beginning at some point in time continuing to today. Whether I know their location at each year since their inception doesnt seem to matter that much
I agree, if this disgusts you and makes you feel angry, try Flinton's Mild Cigars, a man's time to relax!
Wait what, how does that work? How can you employ someone without a contract?
Maybe employees should take that into account. If work hours are from 9 am through 5 pm, then the commute starts at 9 am and again at 4 pm.
At the end of the day, someone has to pay for it. Higher and higher salaries, more and more perks and benefits, less and less hours put into work.

Sure there is time savings in not commuting, but there are also time savings in face-to-face interactions, team spirit etc.

Instead of cooking some food and eat alone at home you can eat and discuss with colleagues or friends who work in the same area.

Instead of commuting people waste their time on social media, news and other junk before, during and after work. A commute via bus, train, subway, bicycle can often be productive or even relaxing versus taking the car. It's an often needed break between work-time and free-time. It's hard to make that break when working form home.
> Maybe it's down to management style.

The success of WFH is the demonstration that if you treat adults as such, they are going to do their job anyway thus rendering an entire horde of middle managers completely useless.
dirty secret is, they'll just allow their best employees to work remote
some bold claims here, could you please link your sources/documents?

> sought to withdraw completely from Germany, if it became a neutral country like Switzerland or Austria

this bargain didn't work out too well for Czechoslovakia.
I am not advocating for travel time compensation; I am advocating for the right to complain in general.

I work from home the vast majority of the time currently with very occasional visits to the office. The office for me is 15 minutes away. I would never accept a job that required a greater than 20-minute single direction commute, so travel time compensation is not on my radar of things to worry about.
I saw my father die in front of my eyes so yes, I have been through that type of experience.

The over-reliance on "professionals" and the accompanying increase in diagnosis is one of the causes of the increase in emotional fragility.
The problem is they are leaking talent, as those who know that can pick another offer that suits their needs will do without thinking about it too much.
The difference here is, your home directory is tightly integrated. This is something most (all) all virtualization solutions try to avoid.

With support for running GUI applications, this becomes a viable solution for running apps from other distros, running an app as root when you aren't,
and being able to install apps into a system that is immutable.

It is also a lot really really fast to enter that session. (It uses podman or docker rather than lxc like with LXD)
I don't believe you've spent extended time taking care of kids through whole days on your own while trying to get work done. It's not super easy, if it's possible at all. Seriously, either you've been in an exceptionally good situation (but the kids were a bit ignored) and you're just not aware of what those days look like for most people, or you're making things up and trolling actual parents.
perhaps the downvotes are because you aren't adding to the discussion. you haven't read the book, you don't say why, and you have no comment on the linked essay.
> Ok but that means there would be more such objects, for every level before mastery right?

What levels of mastery? Roman historians didn't write much about the ins and outs of their metalworking industry so we don't know how intricate the process was but apprentices graduating is rather universal (their teachers get tired of them or die eventually, after all). Besides, just because it's an "apprentice piece" doesn't mean that it's made by an amateur, but by a skilled artisan to prove they're ready to go out on their own.

> And also such objects would be much more rare. Imagine all the objects that have been found and melted down during the last 2000 years. For us to have found over 100 of these so far is already an indication that it was a lot more common than an apprentice piece.

Finding only a hundred of these makes them extremely rare. Check out Wikipedia's non-exhaustive list of museum collections of ancient Roman and Greek artifacts [1]. The collections number in the tens of thousands of objects each and that's just the stuff a few collections felt was worth keeping - there is tons more Roman artifacts on the antiquities market and huge troves are still discovered on a regular basis [2][3].

From [3]:

> This guy even got his grubby hands on a Roman dodecahedron, an extremely rare artifact (only 100 are known to exist) whose purpose remains an archaeological mystery to this day. A total of 13,246 artifacts were seized in the raid on his home and from several safety deposit boxes he rented in Lorraine.

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

[2] https://www.ksl.com/article/24751877/10k-roman-artifacts-fou...

[3] https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/60269
This is pretty neat. As someone who frequently uses an iPad mini with a foldable Bluetooth keyboard (and who is typing this on the on-screen one right now), I like the idea of having a little UNIX machine on the go, and I like the idea of QAZ (I have been looking at QMK and other custom keyboard firmwares for a while).

Right now I use a-Shell and iSH to have surprisingly powerful CLI sandboxes in iOS, but having a normal userland would be great.

Curious about weight and (metric) dimensions, though. Thickness (or lack thereof) is one of the advantages of my current setup.
If you don't want to work, you don't have to. Why don't you just resign instead and stay in bed 9-5?
Much of the discussion is philosophical about commutes and keeping an eye on kids while wfh. But those issues aren't new.

What's egregious to me is companies committing to something which has major life and financial implications to the people that work there and then pulling the rug out.
An explanation for “days are longer but years are short”
really nice to see churches not fighting culture wars, tackling declining attendance, and serving their communities needs in such an awesome way. I love that they kept the services downstairs for anybody interested. I hope that more churches can follow this model so that less old buildings are turned into wacky church shaped houses for airbnb, and more affordable options can be built
this lxd approach sounds cool -- do you have a blog post or youtube video showing it or one that you would offer as a goto?
A bit of a shame that posting this kind of thing to HN effectively ddos'es it.
It is correct but apparently not sufficient - you need to give CONNECT access to user profile.
> The problem is we have as yet struggled to clearly articulate consistently what our actual best interests are, in terms of goals we can train into our AIs.

And imho, we never will be able to do that, because as soon as there is more than one human, they are likely to disagree about something.

Even things that should be no-brainers like "should we preserve our habitat or burn it down for profit", or questions like "is it a good idea to have loads of deadly assault weapons just float around in our society", seem to be too hard for our species to resolve.

If we cannot even align with our fellow humans, how can we expect to do so with machines?
David graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" finally actualized in a way I thought people would be forced to acknowledge, but nope, the bullshit jobs were continued to be allowed to exist.
Every single time chatgpt 3.5 told me there were no issues. So even if you got a good response out of it, it might have been just luck.
From personal experience, Bard's quality seems to be between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, closer to GPT-4 if you have to bet. Except when fresh or live data matters, where Bard is clearly superior. (Bard's training data is up to Feb 2023 compared to ChatGPT's Sep 2021, and Bard also gets live data from Google search.)

MMLU benchmark score agrees with this estimate: GPT-3.5 (70.0%), PaLM 2 (81.2%), GPT-4 (86.4%).
Shame it's not publicly available.
Graph Database vs. Relational Database
When I am presenting about graph databases, people often ask me about the differences between graph and relational databases so I decided to write a blog post about it.
Langchainrb: Build ML/AI-Supercharged Applications with Ruby's LangChain
Can you beat Pokemon FireRed while blind and deaf?
It is definitely in my top 5. The amount of green space isn't too bad at least compared to lot of European towns and cities, and you can easily access more of the green stuff in the Tokyo surrounding areas via public transport. No on street parking is a huge plus and I say that as a car owner in city.

I would say a few downsides are poor insulation from noise and weather in many buildings and expectation that children don't make much noise (it is really sad to see signs in small parks that say "no ball games"). I also echo bsaul's comment about the lack of terrace space for restaurants and cafes, those are great public socializing spaces.
> Instead of commuting people waste their time on social media, news and other junk before, during and after work. A commute via bus, train, subway, bicycle can often be productive or even relaxing versus taking the car. It's an often needed break between work-time and free-time. It's hard to make that break when working form home.

You seem to be extending your own experience as if it applies to everyone equally, but it doesn't.

I find commutes neither productive nor relaxing. I do not need a break between work-time and free-time, I have an office space at home to provide that compartmentalization.
Much remains unknown about recommender systems and their alleged promotion of extremist content. I am not sure whether even people at Google fully understand the dynamics in YouTube. Here is one recent paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.11225.pdf

So while it seems that blindly relying on algorithms may indeed push people toward niche/extremist/pseudo-science/etc. content, people are more likely end to these rabbit holes through links posted on other websites, including social media. That is, some people deliberately want to consume such content.

But as said, much remains unclear.
It is good news, but these things always make me wonder: what kind of death increased? I see there was a two year increase in the expected life span in the USA over the last two decades, so probably people are indeed living longer but death finds us all. Did cancer death rates go up?
That's close to signal flag language.[1] Which makes sense. It's used to convey the same messages, things ships need to communicate to nearby ships.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Signals
> Plus you’re going to have to do this anyway for whiteboard interviews to get your first job.

Or they could improve interviews so they test more than memorization.

> If a CS student can’t do this by hand, then just get out of the field.

Why? Should construction job applicants also dig holes using old shovels to prove they aren't weaklings depending on modern machinery? Completely pointless.

> We do not need more intellectually weak engineers

But that implies current "intellectually weak" engineers were good enough for handwritten whiteboard interviews, so what's your point again?
Commercial advertisement comes with many regulations and ethical requirements in every nation. Even in the capitalist hell of the US you are typically not allowed to brazenly lie to consumers to their face. Deception for financial gain is fraud.
This is great but also I hope the non-profits have aftersale support for the panels. Considering their "copay" is $3.5 over 3 years it's unlikely the villagers would be able to replace a faulty panel.
I hope this is not the case of "giving someone a fish", instead of teaching them how to fish.
Yes, please see "How To Install LXD on Debian 11 Linux" [0] and search for AWS or GUI examples. FYI, upcoming Debian 12 will install LXD via APT and you no longer need snaps.

[0] https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-lxd-on-debian-1...
Interesting.

I went through clinical depression and solved that partly through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) [0], which has "The Happiness Trap" as its core text. The core idea of this (as you'd expect from the title) is that pursuing happiness as a goal is pointless and futile. ACT emphasises values over feelings as the core of meaning, and distancing oneself from one's feelings as a way to deal with them. There's considerable overlap with stoicism, which also de-emphasises feelings as a source of meaning (or anything). Both of these treat emotions as things to be treated carefully, as a probable source of misery and dis-ease, and not something to be embraced as one's core path to meaning.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_and_commitment_ther...
So many allow WFH. There's thousands of open software positions in SF alone, and plenty are ok with remote. Some are even ok with me being in the taiwan time zone. I'm managed to stay consistently employed in the Taiwan time zone with SF and NYC based jobs the last 2.5 years.
MI = myocardial infarction, percutaneous ~= stents/angioplasty
>Comments were the the organic voice of the public

The comments were likely just reactionary brigading of the misinformed as reddit, google, facebook, etc. sent mobs of people to flood the site.

I could not care less if comcast wants to charge FAANG extra for the disproportionate bandwidth they consume. They frame the issue like it's about keeping the internet neutral meanwhile google and facebook want to be the whole internet and actively discourage people from leaving their gardens.
Pink promise driven employment?
It can and does happen at the local shopping mall, where middle schoolers too young to drive a car play hooky and go to the mall.

"Car centric urban design" is the catch all ill and if we just fixed transit it would go away.

Except it won't, because all the social factors that make car centric urban design preferable will still be there.
Aren’t those layoff headlines desirable if they bump your stock price?

It sounds perverse but surely conpanies notice how much the market likes them.

Even the serverance they save is a rounding error compared to a 10% bump in market cap.
Rainforests don't burn extensively when they receive lightning strikes. Same as sequoia forests.

Humans banned water based ecosystems, and substitute them for fire based ecosystems. The brilliant results had been always the same. Big desert in Sahara, Big desert in Australia and parts of Asia. Brazil has some human made deserts also.

Keep committing the same error by inertia, because is what they did in the middle age, and expecting different results is foolish. We need to pause and think twice why we want to send all this CO2 into the air.
> there are at least some core values that I believe a majority of humans share.

Really? What are those?

Given that there are entire countries that refuse to, oh idk. punish things like rape adequately, and that we have nation states who happily tout their ability to burn down the planet, I'd really love to hear about these core values we all share.
Let's not say "hosting costs". Actual hosting costs are less than $3 million a year:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/26/Wikim...

$100 million or so are now spent on salaries.
In your example I'd say it's more down to the team. If you have a solid team then you're set, but if you have low performers (which is sometimes the fault of the manager but certainly not always) then I imagine it could be more difficult to manage someone out remotely.
Bye Bye NextJS
Author here, I've built my blog with NextJS a few years ago but now I'm in the process of migrate to Birdgetown Ruby. I wrote a blog posts explaining the reasons behind my choose
> something in Europe was isolated

Ok! When and where?

I mean at this point this is just hilarious, because you've said white people are a real thing, and they were isolated from other people at some point (15000 BC???) which made the race form but you can't say exactly when or where that happened. So you, supposedly great at "formal logic" have no idea when or where this thing started existing, its existence by your definition would have been passed down to now from that point through ancestry, and yet you are somehow certain that it exists.
The second photo was coffee.
It is not new, but it is still offensive.
Use IPv6, not some third party X86 servers like pinggy.io.
Honestly, the general feeling I get from people is that such public places are dangerous esp for families with kids. And it makes sense. If you aren't policing and controlling bad group behaviour, then people lose trust in such a thing being possible and simply avoid it entirely. I know I would if I ever visited America or any of the immigration-heavy EU cities.
No, that's SMP. SMT is specifically multiple instruction pointers (threads) on a single core, i.e
Hyperthreading
ChatGPT as part of the evolution of programming languages
It's just a large language model trained on textual content. It's not going to hurt you.

Do you have to wait until every product you use is bureaucratically vetted?
Noticed any change in the past couple of years? There have been reports of increases in heart attacks following Covid infection, especially in younger people.

However data moves pretty slowly. The article linked above for example cuts off in 2020. Whereas most people only got infected in 2022.

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/today-young-people-are...
It can be bad optics for companies which took large sums of money from the government recently (say, for pandemic relief or major tax breaks of some kind) to then turn around and announce large layoffs. It guarantees that the CEO is going to have an unpleasant day or two in front of, say, a Congressional committee or maybe a state legislature hearing. And letting CEO's avoid unpleasant consequences of their own decisions is definitely an important factor in corporate decisions.
Deno is a nice project for running TS without a separate transpile process, but that's server-side only.

Browser-side, they tried to add support for a second language via Dart, but that didn't work out.
I don't think it's just about management style. It's also about the preferences of the employees.

Some people are really motivated by the social life and comraderie at the workplace. I work in a coworking space that's full of self employed people and startups who could work from anywhere, but choose to go to a bustling office to work.

But this only works if everyone goes to the office.

My partner works in a company with a pretty liberal WFH policy, but prefers to go to the office. But when she does, the office is half empty, and she hates it.

So you can't make it right for everyone. You have to pick: Either the company is remote first, or the company is office first. A compromise sucks for everyone.
A dangerous myth of modern society is that science is beyond the capacity of ordinary men. I strongly believe it's not.

The practice of science itself may be, as it takes years of research to get to the point where one can produce a new result. However, things that are already known can be taught, and iteratively simplified in a way that abstracts away details while keeping the core argument intact.

Take for example the claim that everything in the universe is made of atoms. It's not a trivial thing to understand, yet everyone accepts it nowdays because we've had so much time and effort put towards simplifying the theory and presenting it to people in a way that is easy to grasp.

If those LLM "experts" were truly experts, they could explain their point clearly without the dark-ages-church "trust the priests, peasant" act.
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Anyone who claims being a parent is "super easy" is immediately outing themselves as either someone who has never done it or someone who is really bad at it.

It is incredibly hard to deal with kids while working — for either the kind of job where you have to sit and mindlessly make widgets for 8 hours a day or the kind where you need to think and focus. Kids are not awake 100% of the time but a) when they are they demand up to and often 100% of your time, b) you don't get to decide when they are awake. As for your idea of "oh just reschedule the meeting or delay it": sure, once or twice that's fine, but if you had kids you'd know that this happens _all the time_ and feeling like a total flake who can't concentrate sucks for the parent and the employer.

(Yes, they can find a new job blah blah. I'm more concerned with your lack of empathy though.)

It seems like the only thing you're interested in is insisting that your work arrangement is the best and every other one is wrong, even when you aren't doing them or don't understand their challenges.
Care to explain why? I’ve given my reasons
I remember at least proposals from companies like Facebook talking about lowering salaries for people moving to lower cost of living areas. Not sure how broadly it was implemented.
This is the State Design GoF pattern.
Maybe also improved transfer logistics to the right hospital to get tPA for STEMIs?

e.g. more pre-hospital ecgs so patients go straight to the right hospital?

And with those pre-hospital ecgs, more pre-hospital administration of things like ASA and clopidogrel?
> CBSNews at 11

Always has been https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh-Z8_6_m4Q