skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't have all my juniors around me, so I can't overhear their conversations, so I can't jump in when they talk themselves into trouble. I can't help people debug problems I'm not aware of, and frustrated grumbling often comes a few steps before actively asking for help. I don't have people from other teams around me, so I can't grab them for coffee/lunch and catch up on what they're doing. I used to have a couple of PMs from other teams who regularly came to me for help because their engineers weren't great at talking to non-technical people.

There is nothing here that can’t be addressed in a remote setting, you just need different methodologies (tight feedback loops for juniors, public channels for team comms, etc). You may simply have a preference for being around people and using the methodologies you listed here, which is fine enough, but remote doesn’t fundamentally block any of the outcomes you mentioned.
Who is counting?
There is definitely a use case for nuclear, but the discussion absolutely should not be renewables vs. nuclear, but renewables and nuclear vs. fossile fuels. Nuclear advocates should celebrate every advance in renewables and vice versa.
> I get very frustrated when I see posts on TikTok

Well, there’s your problem.
Surprisingly my random scales off of Amazon do not do this. Accurate both times.
I'm sorry but I see no relation between saying "some people will fare better then others in society" and "technical advances grow the economic output". Personal success and overall societal progress are completely independent processes. Some people will advance in degenerating societies. Some people will loose out during golden ages. I really don't see a point to be made here.
Torvalds*
How would one use a modern IDE in this environment especially when you have multiple projects with different dependencies open at the same time? Would one need to install the IDE as a dependency of a project? Would all the IDEs have different settings?
This doesn't make any sense. From a management perspective, it should be easy to understand the scope of work from a high level. You should be able to track progress. If employees aren't delivering then try to understand why. If they can't deliver without someone breathing down their neck then the answer is to get rid of them, not create an environment where you can breathe down their neck more effectively.
Yeah absolutely - I think this is a relatively recent change for them. The only thing stopping me from doing that is that 1) setting up an OIDC server for personal use is a lot of work I don't necessarily want to do, especially if it's just for Tailscale 2) this announcement suggests they may be working a full passkey setup, which would make that work useless.
Companies are run by people and their goal is to provide services to people. In general, the goal of the economy should be to serve the people, not the companies! If a company does fucked up immoral things, it will hurt their bottom line eventually, especially if they are called out. They would not try to look good if this was not the case. Some people will just refuse to use their services because they are aware the suffering some of these companies are causing. There is nothing naive about this, in fact I find the rationalization of the fucked up self-serving logic of these companies absurd and insulting.
To put a stronger version of that forward:

Math doesn’t tell us what outcome to prefer — only how to accomplish it once we do. Eg, do we prefer an outcome that gives everyone maximum individual impact or one that maximally balances the power of racial tribes?

The reason the US doesn’t use math to solve gerrymandering is that it prefers to have districts focus on maximizing the power of minority racial tribes ahead of equal representation of all voters.

- - - - -

Of course, that’s a contentious choice — with some people believing that such racist policies favoring minority groups are akin to the divide-and-conquer used to subjugate India by the British.

Understanding the pushback against “DIE” requires understanding the view of elites engaging in neo-colonial tactics to subjugate the average American, eg by disrupting class movements along racial fault lines.
IMO you lose so much more by sacrificing spontaneous conversation & ideation that results. You also lose the ease of just walking over to someone to ask a question. You also lose an unbelievable amount for anyone who lacks experience - training is AWFUL remote. Not even close.

It's not perfect but a group of aligned people in the same physical working space will just dominate a similar group spread apart that has to use chats & zoom to communicate. Management has got to be seeing this, in various forms, across multiple business segments.
The extraordinary claim would be the claim that something that violates known physics is happening in the brain, and that claim is a necessary prerequisite for it to be impossible to replicate the processes of the brain. As such the burden is squarely on anyone suggesting they can't be replicated to show at the very minimum a plausible indication that there's unknown physics going on.

Just one measurement that doesn't fit would be enough to shift the burden. Absent that, any suggestion we can't is no more than a religious belief.
Mostly the parts having to be certified, and than the recertification of the entire plane.

FAA approval is expensive. For example: many airliners have switched to iPads to be used in the cockpit (saves weight in bulky manuals, folders, rugged laptops, etc.). Reportedly an 'FAA approved' iPad mount and charger costs well north of $3K, excluding the installation and reapproval costs.
My friend is 6’4” and drives a Honda fit without issue.

There is definitely middle ground - frankly, I don’t believe you are interested in hearing it because you have already decided that obscenely large cars that kill children easily are the only way you can feel like you're experiencing comfort.
First, employees aren’t fungible. Some teams will expand, others will contract. Second, the recruiting apparatus needs some baseload to healthy operations for when the tide swings.
I think the argument is - So then don't promote BS values during boom times that are just meaningly words you have no intention of following when times get mildly non-boomy.
To me this is the point - making it obvious and explicit that they're all just bullshit.
Are there any projects using this?
Fantastic. It's about time. There's as much resistance to this as there was to clean water, and even more evidence than there was at the time of Cholera that cleaning the air works.
Almost two orders of magnitude smaller codebase.
Do you mean to ask if I sent three of my colleagues on a multi-year doctorate research program for a question that everybody seems to already know the answer to and is in agreement, or if I let my team work on my product?
There is a requirement to have a "group consultation" in the UK if 20 or more people are being made redundant which often means the process is relatively well telegraphed. But the "group" which must be consulted with is only people who are at risk so it can still happen relatively quietly if redundancies are limited to a certain team/etc.
But your "a browser" is different for other people, which one do you expect devs to target?
Note that Reddit already has some "premium membership" in place and yet from those reddit makes about 1/25 times what it makes from advertising (2021).

So what you're missing is that, in general, people are not that willing to pay just because "you ask them to pay" as you assume. The premium subscribers are already subscribed. So... should they include the "third party app API key" as part of that subscription? Then they would be making no money from it. Should they charge an additional amount? How would they justify that to people already paying?

Also what you mention as people being "very firmly hooked in Reddit" actually means that redditors feel intensely that they already contribute, that it is their submissions and comments which brings value to reddit. When that's the prevailing feeling, making them pay is hard.

It all indicates that this is a much harder sell than you make it appear.
Although it is not the Guix, Nix supports:

x86_64-linux
aarch64-linux
i686-linux
x86_64-darwin
aarch64-darwin

Perhaps some day this will also be possible for Guix, but I don't think it fits the ideology of Guix since MacOS isn't free (not as in beer).
You can get activated charcoal filters to help. But just having positive pressure (ideally with the intake vent a decent distance from the ground, since radon is quite a lot heavier than air) should help, because radon usually seeps in through the foundation due to pressure in the ground, and the fact that lower levels of houses are often natural at a slight negative pressure.
>I wonder if this is why devs have such strong disagreements on this – I doubt there is a right answer here, it just depends on the nature of the work.

It's worth jumping into the HN Looking For Work threads from time to time to get a general picture of the people who use this site. I find it enlightening to realise that dogma about programming that seems foreign to me is mainly coming from people with massively different technical backgrounds. It also explains the webdev defaultism.
Because the entire history of chess theory is really a set of heuristics to optimize a tree search.
I'm thinking, just tape a few DIY legends onto a few key keys (heh) and then glance at a paper cheat sheet for the rest. Repeat as necessary.
We shouldn’t discuss possible excesses of policy framework just because we can’t demonstrate that there’s genuine intent?

If I look out at the current incarceration rate and the loosening of marijuana policy, I can see a projected drop in future incarceration. (I’m all for releasing everyone whose only crime is non-violent drug possession or sales.) But we have all these prisons and all these people whose income depends on them being fairly full. That’s a lot of pressure to find other what the private sector would call revenue streams.

Pharma companies created a great fairly novel technique to target specific viruses. You don’t think it’s likely that they’ll create pressure for governments to use that capability to encourage at first and later to force multiple annual flu/other shots? That there won’t be sanctions for non-compliance as there are today for existing inoculations?

(I say this as someone who took a handful of C19 vaccines and gets a flu shot most years. This isn’t an anti-vax rant, but rather exploring the pressures that allowing government too much leeway to restrict individual freedom and violate bodily autonomy has. I don’t want to allow the burden of proof to shift to the individuals to prove the government has ill intent or else submit to a novel, restrictive policy.)
Green means they are participating. Thanks, I'll put something for that. I wondered if it would be clear enough
I think I may have been too subtle with the point about security. Hashicorp’s providers are more trusted because they come from the tool vendor, they are using them in a commercial product and running them on their own hardware as part of terraform cloud. They are all but “implicitly” trusted since you trust Hashicorp code with secrets in order to have Terraform do its job. Yes you can architect a lot of safety layers around credentials and treat Terraform as untrusted, but it’s a sliding scale.

There is an incentive for project management on the AWS, GCE, Azure, Kubernetes, and the other Hashicorp maintained providers, to not prioritise work that reduces the number of potentially chargeable resources.

The first one I thought of was the time provider. It’s a virtual module like the null provider and all it does is put a logical delay into the dependency chain to handle edge cases… it would be all too easy to start assuming that customers use this module more in order to handle functionality that would require more code in other modules. They probably have metrics on resource and module use via terraform cloud (I don’t have the privacy policy and ToS memorised)

How strong the incentive is and if it’s ever really more than a subconscious influence on Hashicorp’s code the code that customers are more likely to use than 3rd party providers… is basically impossible to tell, but the inventive is absolutely there because Hashicorp’s pricing changes have made “number of resources in use by a terraform cloud customers” into a metric that the management will be looking at… the business development, the parts of the company that are responsible for making the money happen, will be measuring this number because it’s obviously important to them now…

And once you begin to measure something as a metric the incentive to game the metrics begins.
Retraining your way of thinking only goes half way. You have to reduce the overall stress in your life, that means perhaps changing your line of work.
A look at Japan’s demographic collapse, through the eyes of its youth
> promoting over hiring

Where are these companies you speak of?
There's also these two books:
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In addition, there's no requirement for you to assign them work or require them to be in the office in this period. You can send someone on garden leave while working through the process, you just still have to pay them.
Tell HN: TIL that AWS gives a golden jacket to anyone who passes all their certs
Who has one?
* Deflationary by design

* Early adopters disproportionately end up in control of majority of coins (currently 0.03% of wallets own 59% of all bitcoins)

* Proof-of-work is wasteful

* Chain is very inefficient

* Loss of coins with loss of wallet means, for one, that inheriting the coins is not possible unless special precautions are taken which undo a lot of the security

* Other libertarian nonsense that shows very naive understanding of economics that I can't think of at the moment
Given that, over a long period, this has shown up in two but hasn’t shown up in other sewer systems that are also being tested, I think we have strong (albeit indirect) evidence of the contagiousness.
Also when you convert forest into farmland and cut down the trees, the root systems of the trees will, over a period of time, decompose. Annual plants have much smaller root systems.
From me one got an "upvote" and one got a "downvote", but from all customers on average they would get a similar number of "upvotes" and "downvotes".

(You can't "upvote" your first driver as you have no comparison)
That's what I meant -- ha, yes, sorry -- I am not the author : -)
Improving Human Pose Extraction with Transformers
Nixpkgs is enormously larger.

I like Guix better in principle as well, but it should be clear that its principled stance on what software can be packaged means it's a nonstarter for many people.
> The big difference is that the private space in my own home is under my control.

So you have definite control over spouse, the children, the dog, a neighbour, some builders doing work in the street, ...? Must be magical where you live.

I observe this with coworkers every week:
- their special needs offspring needs special attention
- their neighbor is noisy and an Grade A jackass
- cats meowing for minutes
- the wife of someone interfering to assign him chores for lunch time
- i personally am plagued by sirens of medical emergency transports during months when it gets hot under the roof here, multiple times a day / night
Not sure, but its just CO2 - not PM.
After a few cycles on Wall St tech, what I cynically observe is this:

Individual firing takes months, and up to a year, with management papering the decision and only doing so during certain times of the year around the review and compensation cycle. Sort of like the FAANG PIP process. The person being fired still ends up getting severance, etc, they almost never bother with for-cause due to legal burdens. Quite often no one really gets fired but they play chicken with you by giving zero raises and cutting your bonus until you quit.

Mass layoff firing is usually announced and followed through on in weeks. Usually they go after low hanging fruit, but often that might just be out of favor teams/departments/divisions more than just poor individual performers.

It really puts weird incentives in place for people who might want to skate. If you do a bad job - you have many warning signs before you are fired, if ever. And then everyone has an equal risk of random layoff.
Companies I have worked for where there has been implicit (and sometimes even explicit) overestimation of staffing needs when requesting extra people to counter the fact that the entire hiring round will not complete before the inevitable next hiring freeze.

I'm not talking the large scale stuff like Meta assuming the metaverse was a trend that would require their company to grow 50%, but the medium scale stuff like a department in a 1000 person company putting in to hire 12 people instead of 8, etc.
I miss developer magazines.
I like and prefer the paper format.

I learned so much from Dr Dobbs.

I learned a lot from MSDN Magazine (changed names several times)
Last few copies I read I was disappointed in the technical content.

I also loved Byte magazine, but it was for a more general audience.
What is Pournelle up to this month?

I dont remember the correct names anymore but ZX Spectrum User or some
such was also a source of great learning in programming.
Helikite – A Modern Improvement on the 'Kytoon' (2012)
The use case was always there: paying for stuff.

Unfortunately it hasn't been a priority for the community and the focus has always been on getting rich, instead of working for infrastructure and adoption.

Even Bitcoin itself made this choice.
I don’t see how this project can be considered a rewrite of anything. Yes, it compiles JavaScript and uses TypeScripts typing syntax, but it has different features and semantics compared with TypeScript. It’s like saying C++ is a rewrite of C.

I think the HN title is pretty misleading.
> To me the only thing lost when WFH vs working in the office are the random conversations you eventually pick up when passing by the coffee machine, or water cooler, conversations about topics tangentially related to something you're working on/have worked on or know about and can easily chime in and help.

Sometimes I think remote workers could use a new kind of watercooler. Maybe an online game everyone can drop into and play for bit while communicating over voice and chat? I guess not a lot of companies would be happy to install a bunch of time wasting network games, but I've worked on teams that ended up doing that while in the office anyway and it was great for getting to know people and talking about random things. Productivity obsessed people might hate it, but is hanging out in a FPS or MMO any different than standing around distracting others talking about sports with your buddy for 40 minutes every afternoon? Virtual workers need virtual spaces to gather at and a reason to want to go there.
cool. I'll give this a try on the weekend.
Well I counted 0 references to Lisp or Scheme in the documentation, so it seems to be presented as novel.
This is one of those things that really depends on the etiquette and expectations. We had a simple "if door closed == thinking deep thoughts == don't disturb unless urgent" etiquette, and it worked well, but this does need to be widely understood and communicated, otherwise it can indeed come off as "harsh" (especially if you're the only one doing it!)
It's been known essentially since the beginning that new infrastructure around these technologies will have to be built out. The article is completely pointless too since it basically says the same thing:

> The reason there are so few facilities for recycling solar panels is because there has not been much waste to process and reuse until recently.

OK great, so first gen solar panels are starting to be decommissioned and recycling centres are starting to be built.
This works the other way though, Google adds a new button to Gmail and the IT illiterate exec gets in touch to ask what it is or clicks it not knowing it does something they don't want to do, and suddenly the IT team find out from users that their policies and documentation are out of date.

It may not be the option we like as tech-aware users, and I've found it annoying in the past at a previous role where I was always asking our Workspace admin to enable features. But, I don't think it's the wrong choice.
> but even Telegram has E2EE in their similar offering

They absolutely don't have E2EE in groups, let alone channels.
number of samples = 92

hard for me believe that you would infer anything statistically meaningful on population scale from that small of a sample, or am i missing something? is it common to work with so small sample sizes in psychology?
CSS any day!
Google's internal machine provisioning model was already automated and accessible via an API, it would have been recognizable as a "cloud", but it was internal only. The kernel changes that enabled OpenVZ and Docker were done by Google engineers.

In the same way OpenAI shipped a business on transfomers (invented by Google). Google invents stuff, but then is last to its own party.

Looks like GCP has existed since 2008, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Platform

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups

https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/transformer-novel-neural-n...
Such hotels may simply be blocking UDP traffic entirely.
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I see you are the submitter, possibly the creator of this, I hope you do not take offence. I think this is brilliant as an idea: provided you can provide the service as described, sure to be a success. Horrific since it feeds the narcissism which I view as blight, no a plague on the world. Were any of my friends to use the service I would drop them, change my phone number and pretend never to have met them.
I don't get why it is forced to be on the Dock. I like having a super slim dock that only has open apps in it.
Actually Guix System also runs on GNU Hurd. Also one might try porting it on kFreeBSD as well.
Britain to host first global summit on artificial intelligence safety
Are you hiring right now by any chance?
The docs are still terrible, coupled with AWS / GCP docs around these things it makes it near impossible to get this stuff to work without investing a significant amount of time.
In general I think yes. People should be able to decide what they want to be called. I think it is really strange that we assign names to countries.

Imagine if I asked you what your name was then ignored what you said and pronounced that I would be called you Frank. That would be quite rude.
What makes you think all US companies are like this? A lot of non tech roles were made redundant at my last job, affected people had a 90 day notice and if they stayed the 90 days a hefty severance based on years worked.

My current company does it similar to what you said and gives you time to find a new role or relocate.

The first company I worked for called people into a room and RIFed them out of nowhere. People still got hefty severances.

It’s not a one size fits all approach, start up’s are usually less caring and ruthless with layoffs.
Why These Old Japanese Vending Machines Are Genius
No affiliation, I just use both and compare.
I would differentiate between those subs but I don't have a list of them. I've created a wiki page[1] if people want to start compiling that info

[1] https://github.com/xNul/save-3rd-party-apps/wiki/List-of-Per...