skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had to guess, other than most offices just absolutely sucking ass, this is the nation-wide crux of the entire debate:

> My 'commute' (a 30 minute walk)

Most Americans have a 30 minute drive at best, and state departments of transportation and the federal government are doing everything they possibly can to make sure more cars are sold, more highways are built, and lanes are widened because they'll be damned if someone is going to wake up with no car related debt and walk to work.

No state DOT is turning down a lane widening project, or a new highway build, or a "smart lane" because their jobs depend on it, even if it comes at the expense of us all. They really are not departments of transportation but just departments of highways and cars.

Recently I joined a community input/comment session regarding a $44 million "Smart Lane" here in Columbus. I learned two things:

1) These comment periods are a formality. A state's DOT will never turn down a big project.

2) The state DOTs are focused on metrics like maintaining existing commute times.
Looking back on 12 years of school I have to say that I learned remarkably little. Especially when compared to the rapid learning I had to do in University.

I think it seems quite obvious that school mostly exists to keep children occupied while both parents work.
Protip: get a reMarkable or similar e-ink device. Revolutionized my reading, especially for academic papers.
OK, then post some articles about abuses by those other governments and I'll upvote those too. In the mean time though, what are you accomplishing by detracting from this? If you saw a post about GCHQ abuses for example would you be inclined to comment "but India etc. are just as bad!"?
Just a nit, strictly speaking, the electoral college is just a system where states must delegate the power to vote for president to a group of people (the expectation being that they should make an informed decision to further their interests based on facts on the ground in the capital). It's also a form of indirection: you don't vote for president, the best you can do is appoint people you can trust to make a good decision (similarly, there was originally a layer of indirection for senators, who were appointed by state legislatures, not by state vote). Of course, this is essentially abolished because people wanted more direct control over the government.

Regarding district level representation being obviously a bad idea - not necessarily. Since senators represent the state (and wasn't even voted upon directly by the people), representatives are the way local (populist) interests get represented. This only breaks down once when people start having general party allegiance (both at the ballot and in mind share), which I'd argue is itself caused by the fact that we vote directly on appointments which are far beyond our locality (senators but mainly the president), which then spills over to our choices of representatives.
There is no way to change useragent in Android Chrome or even Android Firefox. There is just a crippled "desktop mode" button that still tells the site you're on a mobile browser.
I'll argue - bitwise operations, they're fundamentals too, but

If you arent working close to hardware, then for example doing bitwise operations may be really rare.

I don't think I've met a problem that required them even once during my first few years as SE.

I've had CS degree and years of experience and I werent proficient with those, I needed to write it down in steps

and then I started working closer to hardware where those operations were common and I've learned it

I don't even remember whether we were doing them in school
The fact that talking to your daughter about her day when she comes home is a nuisance to you, which the office saves you from, is a very interesting detail
> You can do this with Passkeys.

Maybe in theory. In practice, I couldn't even look at the passkey Google has created on my android phone. So you absolutely cannot write it down.
> overall the productivity is higher

Then why is my performance review always individual?
I have no idea why people jump to this argument any time it's halfway relevant. It's... well, put it this way: do farmers want money?

Look, "liberal" Hollywood is largely conservatives at the top. Big farm owners & farm conglomerates aren't going to stop selling what people want just because they're mad that women can get abortions or they need a license for their semi-auto rifles or whatever. The almighty dollar rules commerce.
Honestly, I don't see how it could be easier for introverts in the scenario you mention. If an introvert needs something when they're WFH, they just send a slack message. I probably doesn't even require a face to face interaction.

For reference, I manage a fully remote team and we do one real-time video meeting a week, the rest is pure text and async. We are a very high performing team that consists of people new to the industry as well as veterans.
"new" when talking about a repository with 15 commits, the last one being 3 years ago.

It is obviously a toy experiment and it took my 5s to realize that.

While it does not say "this is a lisp", it also does not say "this is a new shiny thing that will change the world". In fact, it says nothing except "look at what i did".
"there's also no evidence that players have improved since AlphaGo's creation"

Read this for example. The author is Korean pro.

"The upside is that we sometimes see a player who was somewhat past his prime suddenly climb back to the top, having trained with AI more intensely. There are a growing number of young and new pros who demonstrate surprising strength. This change gives hope to all pros who dream to become number one, and also makes competitions more interesting to fans as well." [0]

There are serious downsides too.

Also [1]

[0] https://hajinlee.medium.com/impact-of-go-ai-on-the-professio...

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2364137-humans-have-imp...
They publicly push renewables as a solution because public opinion is aligned to that, it's PR for them to be saying that out loud publicly and showing projects around it. They might as well be subverting renewables at large (as another PR move) through support for dissenting voices pushing nuclear over renewables, as a way to delay adoption until they are well-positioned in that market.
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I don’t understand the animosity to your comment except that perhaps the crowd does not agree with the power you have attributed to the analysis. In general, though, I would agree that the analysis does identify an interesting set of threads to consider when thinking about how we change as we age. Have a great day.
I don't really understand the hurdle to "learning binary". It's not necessary to understand how binary works to complete a hello world program, but I think it's something that you want to get a handle on pretty quickly.

If I recall correctly, we only spent a few minutes on it in a larger lesson about different schemes for representing numbers in Comp Sci I. I don't think I've performed binary arithmetic since that class, but it's good to know how it works and I could always look up/figure out how to do those calculations again if I needed to.
It sounds like they didn't do any follow up prompts. The first response from chatGPT is usually inadequate, but with some follow ups you can get a much better one.
One of you is the least attractive person I've ever seen, and I'm not gonna say who.
Yeh never said they did it out of kindness, just that the system is very different here in the UK and (imo) clearly better.
I feel like you're unclear on what poverty, homelessness, and hunger are.

You have proposed that a homeless person obtain a phone, find a library that'll mail books, obtain a mailbox, have a book mailed to them, presumably pay for return postage, all so they can obtain recipes to cook on a stove they don't have with utensils they likely lack with ingredients they can't afford.

Homeless people aren't in that situation because they needed someone to write down "how to make rice in a pot", nor are they likely to have discretionary income for your proposals.
One can only imaging what kind of credentials an exec of one of 13 companies which own 147 companies which own the rest of the world has.
This is a completely stereotypical and offensive view of extraverted people. You conflated them with loud and inconsiderate individuals. I suggest you read up on what extraversion is, because it's not pestering random people with small talk.
So they aren't lying? What part of the report is inaccurate?
It's roughly a figure GitHub has stated with Copilot: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/events/FY-2023/Morg...

> Scott Guthrie: I think you're going to see – I mean, I guess the way to look at it would be what is the productivity win you're giving to the business, whether it's around making an employee more productive or making a specific business process more effective. Take the example of, say, GitHub Copilot, since that's a product that's GA today. We're now seeing the developers using GitHub Copilot are 55% more productive with it on tasks, and that's sort of measured by independent studies. And 40% of the code they're checking in is now AI-generated and unmodified.
This is a really simple and flexible approach.

I just wish that you could natively do something that works more like select elements, so users see the contents of the option elements but the value of the option element is actually what is populated in the form.
There's a whole population out there that is fundamentally convinced that humans have some innate superiority over LLMs in terms of reasoning that will buy into this because they believe there will always be a difference for any text of meaningful length.

My main counter to that is that any such detector can only keep working if it's inaccessible to people directly or indirectly without huge consequences, because if it's accessible, it'll be probed and used to produce test cases to improve LLMs with and/or to train models to "spin"/postprocess LLM output. The latter can be done much "cheaper", e.g. consider the article:

> Real science papers also use more equivocal language – like "however", "but", "although" as well as "this" and "because".

Even if you can't circumvent this just with careful prompting (and you probably can in this specific case), this kind of information alone is enough to know you need to adjust the frequency of those words to better match scientific papers, whether by fine-tuning on some science papers or training a small model to know when it's ok to interject them in a text.

At a minimum you need to host and rate limit access to such a detector, or you can just automate working around it.
That's a fantastic analogy for how incredibly wasteful Bitcoin & similar cryptocurrencies are just to maintain a steady state!
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Outdoors we see quite different lifetimes with the Plantower. Sometimes insects are getting into it and reduce the lifetime. No experience with pollen.
As atmospheric CO2 increases, perhaps the CDC will recommend CO2 absorbers as well.
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> Commute, kids or not, a car can even be a necessity.

For most people this is only true in cases of infrastructural deficiency. I know someone who works in film who absolutely needs a car due to the remote nature of film sets, but niche roles like that aren't the "typical" commuter route. If you're commuting to an office, you shouldn't need a car unless there's been an abject failure to service that office with proper transport infrastructure.

> A lot of outdoor sports?

Which outdoor sports? If it's jetskiing, sure: you'll likely need some kind of truck/trailer to transport the jetski. But again, that's niche. I'm not aware of any popular outdoor sports with a strong vehicle need.
I missed that!
No. The SC is hostile to regulatory agency overreach as a means of congress not doing it's job. The SC is holding congress accountable. Regulatory agencies should not be able change the law through gradual expansion of scope. In this specific case, state level caps on carbon emissions are well beyond the original scope of the clean air act.
What is SF doing different is not bussing their problem to Texas or Florida as Texas and Florida do.

This culture is a joke. An intentionally unaccountable but highly compensated and connected federal political apparatus is ignored and blame placed on local power for its lack of accountability fixing country-wide issues.

Such exceptional neighbors I have across the country that they put up with this.
> bringing up Lacan in this conversation tells me you don’t know psychological science very well

Lacan is one of the most famous psychologists of all time. Probably only Freud and Jung would rank above him in that regard. That in itself is a pretty big indictment of the field, since the latter two are not much better.

But the problem is not that Lacan was spouting garbage while being a psychologist. The problem is that other psychologists were tolerating that garbage, instead of ostracizing him. That's as if an immunologist who spreads conspiracy theories about vaccines containing microchips somehow continued to be invited to conferences, and have his peers listen to him and discuss and debate his "theories".

It's obvious that the field as a whole is incapable of cleanly separating itself from left-wing politics, philosophical intellectualism, and outright nonsense.
I don't like hybrid because what I say about ruining flow is still true on the days that you have to come in and even worse, you're forced into the real-estate market by the office vs living where you want and where you can afford.
Don’t forget that the people who’ve convinced themselves the US government is bad so they look at China doing something far worse or far more extreme and try to argue it’s the same - it’s because of predictable cognitive biases that more self awareness would easily alleviate.
You assume malicious intent. At work, developers are exclusively given Macs as corporate laptops, and all our internal developer tools, guidelines, and acceptance tests run on Chrome.

The side effect of this is that stuff is broken in Firefox all the time. And if you're using Firefox on anything other than a Mac, good luck getting anyone here to fix your issue.
I'm always surprised there aren't troll billboards in the south of "Vote Red for Socialism" overlayed on a Soviet flag.
Not true at all. Meta was still hiring new people just before announcing the layoffs.

Got myself a call from some Meta recruiter just a week before the announcement in November.

And HashiCorp had opened positions listed on their site too.
> If the population inversion flipped and there were fewer Reykjavíkers than outsiders, would you really be making the same argument to reduce the voting power of the rural population?

Yes. I don’t know about the history of this in Iceland. But in the US, voter distribution helped Democrats for much of the 20th century, because rural voters were a key part of the FDR coalition. JFK won by just 200,000 popular votes, but over 80 electoral votes. Biden had a popular vote margin of 4.5 points compared to JFK’s 0.2 points. But JFK had a bigger electoral vote margin than Biden. Obama, who did well with rural voters, could have lost the 2012 popular vote to Romney and still won the electoral vote. Republicans weren’t complaining about the electoral college back then.

> Yeah, pretty much.
This is just a losing argument, logically, and you know it.

It’s the winning argument. We have an entire world based on location. People fight wars so they can align voting with location. The minority view on this issue are the individualists, why everyone else attaches so much importance to soil.
You're completely right. That's a wonderfully kind, empathetic, and compassionate approach that's incredibly effective for teaching people what kind of power they are starting to have access to.

I've found it's also one that is very expensive as measured by instructional time and energy. I've also found it relatively ineffectual for teaching fundamentals.

I do not have to lecture someone about how they are unworthy and useless to know that understanding a bit of discrete mathematics, HTTP fundamentals, DNS, or relational algebra will make them better software engineers. There are absolutely people in this world who, when learning the glories of React with a codepen, will ask how things work several times and learn big-O notation... but there are far more who won't ask but would benefit from knowing anyway.

Do you think it's perhaps possible that people benefit from both a solid grasp of the often-boring fundamentals as well as feeling the joy of tinkering?
Okay, look. Can we at least recognize that these are not the same? It’s like saying the US has done a bad thing and China has done a bad thing so the US and China have the same number, kind, and quality of oppressions of the public.

This is not true!
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Yes, but you've already lost that by distributing people all across the world.
But they won't. Nobody wants to work on something that they know they have no chance of sharing with their friends without paying a (for them, in that point of their life) significant sum of money for that privilege.
That probably sources back to a blog post from GitHub saying that almost half of new code was being written by copilot.

https://github.blog/2023-03-22-github-copilot-x-the-ai-power...
Meta and Google have insane cash cows and they are outliers no matter where their workers work. Other huge companies like Walmart and Amazon have huge workforces that have to work somewhere. I’d like to see breakdowns by industries: healthcare, retail, tech, or oil.

It’s going to be hard to tell what’s related to the Covid shutdown and what’s related to remote working.
Where did I say it was a nuisance? I said it was a distraction. I love talking to my daughter after school, but that doesn't change the fact that my daughter coming home from school also effectively marks the end of that days 'flow'.
I did the force hybrid thing for a while (team showed up on the same days).

It was awful for productivity. One in-person day per week would have been OK, but the other time in the office was a waste. The only work that got done that day could have been done via a few scheduled 30 minute 1:1’s.

If management must force people into the same spot, I’d suggest considering a “Thursday we grab beers or go hiking, etc at noon” schedule.

It would be better for morale and productivity, and also cheaper than maintaining an office. They could even give everyone a free coworking account.
The antagonism is to great. You want me to cite sources to justify an entire field? Just go look. Why would I spend a lot of time on sources that nobody will read. It isn't my job to educate the world. Do your own research.
> on twitter and reddit

There, this was your mistake. :p
if you read the breakdown of the disassembly the minecraft malware does this too!
> this statement is prima facie untrue, and quite ridiculous sounding

If it sounds ridiculous to you, I invite you to speak to some actual human beings. They believe so many things that are patently ridiculous (and frequently contradict) it's like stepping into an ocean of lies. I'm honestly surprised that this specific part of my statement is that weird to you.

> it's important to verify the output is correct rather than relying on our own sometimes faulty wrongness detection capabilities

This is a step you must take with both AI and people. Given that this is the case, I do not see a difference in value in terms of the reliability of facts. If anything, you could make a case that human imagination is more valuable (because the AI is just a mathematical reproduction of whatever imagination went into it). That said, I can't think of why it would be the case outside of a human superiority angle, which is tedious.

> the AI output could have been completely made up

Hence why I called it a springboard for further discussion and not an encyclopedia of absolute fact.

> you relied upon it for factual claims

I did not. That post isn't mine.
One "today" I'll be spot on.
Nonsense. Good software is about good looking people looking at the screen, one of them is sitting down and typing while the other are pointing and confidently smiling. No grilled cheese.
Could something like Linux have ever developed and matured without the entire Linux team sitting in the Linux office?
Yeah, ofc, just don't do business there / with Americans.

It's not hard. You just have to exclude them, not secretly help them around your make-believe georestriction.
I'm glad they're at least being honest in advance about it, so I didn't have to waste any time thinking about attending. What really stinks is when conferences pretend to be normal in advance but suddenly spring insanity like this on everyone the day they start.
> the article is mixing classical and contemporary features

As a C++ novice that is practicing to improve this is the number one problem with finding tutorials. It's really hard for me to figure out which features are current best practice and which shouldn't be used together. I can obviously dig in to specific topics to read the history and pros/cons of features, but that's a very slow way to learn.
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. My question is more about the grazing on public lands. Meaning, it's already being used for agricultural purposes (ie cattle ranches). But your point makes sense when we're talking about privately held farms and encouraging specific behavior.
Cost of something just has to be higher than the cost to deliver. It should be much closer to the value provided than the cost to deliver, however, or your business will fail.
An important difference is that the US government doesn't have a "god credential", they have to request the data (and there is a process to request the data involving courts, etc.)

Meanwhile, govt officials in China appear to have unrestricted access
Piggy backing on Breaking ToS is prob a not a good idea.
Maybe a little bit offtopic, but rxi also made a few Lua / LÖVE 2D libraries that I've been able to put to good use, namely shash [0], lume [1], json.lua [2] and classic [3].

He makes some nice stuff.

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[0]: https://github.com/rxi/shash

[1]: https://github.com/rxi/lume

[2]: https://github.com/rxi/json.lua

[3]: https://github.com/rxi/classic
And it's never "just a question", either. Social etiquette being what it is, nobody ever comes over and says, "what port does Postgres run on again?". They come over and say hello, and chat a bit, then they ask about ports, then they go off on a tangent about networking problems, then they chat about their kids for a while, then they finally say, "oh shoot I have a meeting in five minutes, got to go".
Guix can certainly beat Nix on documentation, with a lot following from that.
Easy to onboard in person but still work remote.
That seems like an unnecessary escalation. It's possible that OP has observed what they're describing before.
Heya thanks for the super informative response! I learned a lot here it was very useful. Good luck with Daft!
The compromise is simple but nobody wants to say it, only single people who live alone should be allowed to work from home.

People with kids or spouses, or those with roommates, should not be allowed to work from home because many in that situation (I’ve learned) do very little work and others have to take up the slack.