skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... people in the same physical working space will just dominate a similar group spread apart ..

Do you have any evidence for this assertion, or do you just believe it to be true?
Apple HQ is in Cupertino, Adobe HQ is in San Jose, and while Airbnb is still in SF, they've cut a lot of real estate there.
If your superiors don't consider you training people part of your job then you should either get them (ahead of time) to agree it's part of your job or you should stop doing it.
Ask HN: World news aggregator similar with TechMeme
I stopped reading the news about a year ago and I constantly feel that I miss the important stuff happening outside technology e.g. Ukrainian war news, wildfires, etc.

I don’t want to invest time going through different media sources so a simple aggregator similar to TechMeme would do the trick for me: I can quickly browse top headlines and click if I want to read more.

I looked into some sources but most of them were focusing almost entirely on US politics.
Grouchiness may be correlated with age but not all older people are grouchy. Maybe it's actually caused by feeling useless and unloved.
How do you set up a fediverse instance and forget to block the main neo-nazi (no exageration here, by the way) instance?
There’s a DevOps Stack Exchange as well. https://devops.stackexchange.com/

That said SE makes for a poor subReddit replacement as a subreddit usually focuses on discussion/link sharing which is not what SE wants.
Inflation is the artificial increase of the money supply; The government spends the new money with corporations, *at the original value*, using up resources. Those resources are now missing and will need to be replaced in the market; This demand now increases the price of those resources, and everyone else who doesn't get freshly printed digital money shoved up their butt by the government, now has to pay those *raised prices* to overcome the unnatural draw on the economy you get from using an inflationary fiat currency system.
You certainly should because you're building the company that way.
Show HN: A non-recursive C Quadtree
Wazzup Beijing,

You might have seen a HSHG written by me the other day (supahero1/hshg, post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34210305), which I also shared here. Well, I've quickly come to the realization that while grids are really nice, they really suck at handling objects of varying sizes. The HSHG could handle 500k objects of very similar sizes at 60FPS, and this Quadtree handles 100k objects of all sizes (can vastly vary or be similar, doesn't matter) in a similar amount of time. Also, while HSHG was really close to being O(n), this Quadtree is much worse, of course resembling O(log n).

The way how I achieve lack of recursivity is doing a modified depth-first search. A modified one, because I first add all child nodes to the stack before descending to the first one of them, so the maximum stack length is depth * 3 + 1, and I assume no madman will want to go over the depth of 20 (by default, can be changed).

For some reason, this time around, running this on my laptop actually results in worse performance than I get on my PC, whereas the situation was the reverse with the HSHG haha. No clue why. Some lack of dirty optimizations I suppose.

This time, no JavaScript port. I just wanted to whip out this Quadtree real quick (took me a week in total, from scratch) to use in some other project of mine. However, I do hope some people can make use of it, or maybe learn how non-recursive Quadtrees work, idk.

On the other hand, this time I included a nice OpenGL + GLFW display showing exactly what's happening and how the Quadtree divides and merges its nodes. You can move around with your mouse (by dragging), and you can click LMB to warp to the fastest object in your view, which then you can deactivate (stop following the entity) by pressing RMB.

Hope you enjoy!

~don_shadaman
Fully agree. Those people who say that they're much more productive at home must be a minority of a minority, and the rest of them just lie because they want to slack off.

As for myself, I do prefer the adhoc discussion of issues, brain storming and silly what-ifs during coffee breaks et cetera. I'm much more in the zone in this environment.

there isn't a single colleague in my department (~30 people) who preferred WFH where I feel they were more productive, or even on par. Quite the opposite, those who exclusively stayed at home when working completely lost touch, gave vague updates and excuses about what they're working on and what current problems are. When they returned to office (we've three mandatory days at the office now), it really showed how disconnected they were from all the process and changes that happened over the last two years. And I mostly don't have to care, I'm not responsible for these people, except for one instance my work doesn't even directly depend on them, but I can absolutely see why an employer wants to get everyone back into office. It's not worth keeping WFH up if for every one of those few who actually benefit from it, there are five others who you basically now need ten times the effort to make sure they di their hours and don't just bullshit you in endless video conferences with flaky connections and parrots going mad in the background and whatnot.
Did you read the next sentence after the two you quoted? The point is not how much carbon is stored in the prairie but how much it changes by each year.

The prairie does not accumulate more carbon each year; it is roughly carbon neutral as decaying matter balances new photosynthesis. The corn field has a large part of the biomass carbon removed from it each year. Within a few years the destruction of the prairie has been cancelled out.

This is true even for most woodland, although of course the break-even is much much longer. I'm not arguing in favor of cutting down first-growth forest to grow ethanol though, and I don't think that is the typical case in the United States.
> Knowing how to use a multimeter

Wow... this is for advanced users and even more. I rarely use a multimeter and I have somewhat of the right background (or maybe European electricity is simpler)
That's more to do with police underfunding plus their general attitude to fraud which is to ignore it.
PINGing the Voyager 2 space probe
Inside the control room at the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex (CDSCC) while receving the Voyager 2 signal after a 30 hour PING time. A detailed look at the receiver control system screens.

Video by Dave Jones (EEVblog), hosted by Richard Stephenson - Operations Supervisor, NASA Deep Space Communications Complex (CDSCC), Tidbinbilla, Australia.
I sure hope so. I get that people like to take pictures, but paying for stock photos has always felt really bad. Thank god for AI.

Paying for something like wedding photos or art photos never felt bad for some reason. I think the work for photographers will really change the coming years
One of the examples from another comment[1] here was:

"They found that in a sorting network handling 3 inputs, the AI found a way to save an instruction by reducing a "min(A, B, C)" operation to just "min(A, B)" by taking advantage of the fact that previous operations guaranteed that B <= C."

Which isn't incomprehensible at all.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36229068
It's the fediverse, a decentralized twitter. The guy he is replying to is from a large neo-nazi instance.
If it can be directed in this way I wonder if the lightning could be harvested to charge up a battery somehow.
And their provincial governments both cut the helicopter rapid attack crews in the last few years
Inflation Drags Eurozone Economy into Recession
As someone who's been working remotely (or nomadically) for nearly a couple dozen years or so, I firmly subscribe to the notion that the sentence "hell is other people" was coined because someone kept interrupting the author, or because they had to share a workshop (or an open space office) with apprentices, bolstering peers or customers barging in unannounced.

You can have spontaneous conversations in a number of ways, but anything that requires focus work suffers greatly because of the insistence in shoving people together without providing suitable spaces for isolated work--which is why I would, back in the 2000s, frequently grab the brick that passed as a laptop and find an empty meeting room to work in, and later (thanks to GPRS and 3G, not even Wi-Fi) "upgraded" to sitting in the cafeteria or a lounge for two hour stints every day just to get work done.

Yes, you need to coordinate with people. And yes, you need to manage them. But doing either by having them within earshot and "not knowing" what they are up to are truly the hallmarks of incompetent managers, or of a broken company culture. Set up office hours. Rotations. Anything but mandatory RTO at arbitrary days that will force people to spend 4h a day in a commute, be unable to pick up their kids from school, or aid elderly relatives (or friends).

I sincerely hope that I do not have to go back to an open-space office ever again, and that my trips to the office are driven by actual need rather than management insecurities.
Yes to some extent but the correction factors will be influenced by absolute temperature levels, airflow in the room etc.
Well you seem to be skipping over the fresh cilantro, herbs and spices, marinating time, and expert preparation found in a Chipotle. Do you understand what it takes to build and maintain a respectable and functional spice rack?

Not to mention the spoilage that goes on. The rice and beans can keep long-term, but you'll need to do logistics on chicken, tortillas etc to keep fresh ones in the pipeline without wasting any, which you can't afford either.

Look, I've had food boxes before. The food box is an amazing wondrous bit of charity where you can get a ton of free food just for asking. There's cereal, I've gotten big hunks of frozen meat, dry beans and rice, I've gotten bits of candy and such, lots of staples, powdered milk, canned chickpeas and spinach and you-name-it.

However the food boxes only go so far. They won't cook the meals for you. They won't give you the utensils, pots and pans. You don't get any fats, oils, herbs, spices, or seasonings. they won't tell you which ingredients combine in a flavorful way. You don't get any recipes that use these ingredients and don't call for something you don't have.

Now you boil some water, throw in some beans and rice plain, and cook until soft. Go ahead, throw in some string beans for vitamins, and some kind of protein. Spoil yourself! Then try to choke that down in the absence of salt, butter, or anything that might impart flavor. How long until you're going to just kill yourself?
I expect they to do the same I have been doing since 1996 for Web projects, Web standards, and do the needful to make it work across browsers.

Alternatively, do what I have been doing since 1990, middleware for business logic with native UI integration.

The four preceding years don't count, as I was using only Timex 2068 as my single computer.
Oh god, promoted as well, I for one am glad they are bearing the burden for me.
And then seniors have to pull overtimes just because they need to semi-constantly babysit juniors, or clueless managers of other teams or projects who only know how to escalate and chase etc.

I get it, if you are junior, there are benefits. If you are senior (and not ie team lead and control freak at the same time), you lose. Hell you lose a LOT, can confirm. Offices are way more stressful, so this is clear downgrade for senior people. Constant noise and interruptions way overweight the benefits.

Guess who brings more added value to companies, juniors or seniors? (not talking about long term perspective, most companies are led by people who focus on next bonus only, and who they manage is steered that way too).
I'd say age is certainly a factor in this issue. Generation Gap for the 21st century.

My Gen X generation would be used to office work but comfortable with modern technology. Although many times for complex subjects when you get into back and force messages "just call me" would enter my brain.

Millennial would be similar but grew up with more tech. Voice calls on phones would have been replaced by texts when they were young. Last golden age of TV was over so not much of a draw. I'd guess messaging would be more comfort that for all except the oldest audio voice calls. They be more comfortable working remotely but have certainly experience office life.

I'd Gen Z was born into tech never knowing TV and wouldn't care. Face to face in an office wold be alien for some maybe they never even had a job yet. Email would be ancient tech, messaging is basically speech and cryptic at that.

Basically I think there is a clash of culture and it depends on your generation how comfortable you are which results in how efficient of a worker you are.
I can recommend Xiaomi Smart Scale 2 (not the body composition one, it's nonsense). It is very accurate and repeatable. So much so, that you can see your weight drop after you go to the toilet.

It is fascinating how much one's weight fluctuates during the day (or night which is even weirder if you don't eat/drink anything!)
it's not even like they need the API, they can get all the Reddit data simply by scraping, it's all crawlable by bing bot, if search indexes can index it, that same data can be extrapolated for ai training. you know who can't do that in a meaningful way?

apps that really matter to core Reddit users, they need the API and are the only ones hurt by this.
A while ago on hacker news there was a story about a team of n<10 that was split between the east coast and West coast. They setup an always on zoom call on a dedicated screen in each office. Obviously this won't scale if you work with tons of people, but I would think it's quite useful if you are prototyping or building something together as a team.
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Pretty sure that burning things generally leads to a lot of carbon emissions..
That sounds very reasonable. However, where I've seen this ideological aspect is for example in Finland where the permits for nuclear plants are very difficult to obtain. So once a permit is granted, they want to make as massive plants as possible, leading to big risks in construction (see Olkiluoto 3 for example, one of the most expensive constructions in history).
> is it common to work with so small sample sizes in psychology?

Yes. Even much smaller sample sizes are common. I've seen "results" published in supposedly reputable journals with sample sizes as small as 9. Not 9 other studies that were meta-analyzed, mind you. 9 individual people.

This is just one of several reasons why most of psychology is junk science, if not outright fraudulent. Statistical methods is usually a required course for students in such disciplines, so I do not buy the "they don't know better" excuse. Not that you need to know statistics in order to understand that you can't conclude anything from a sample size of 9.
Having worked across the full spectrum of company shapes and sizes, the absolute most fun I’ve had and most productive I’ve been (and my entire team has been) is in startups where everyone is working together in the same office, passionate about the same project. This has coincided with places I can easily walk to/from work.

Yes big companies are still in-office, but they’re dull and slow by comparison. The type of experience (and level of productivity!) I’ve had with the micro-to-small scale startups in-office seems all but gone.
Meanwhile I (amazon) am returning to my local office by myself as the rest of my team is in Seattle or California

The next year or three will be weird for office work, but at the end I’m fairly convinced it will look like pre-pandemic (5 days butt in seat, teams colocated, remote is 2nd class citizen)
It makes perfect sense.

Often people will default to DMs for things, which makes it appear like no one is chatting and isolates these casual chats to 1:1 DMs.

If you encourage these kind of conversations to happen in channels (Public or private), other people can jump into the conversation.

I've seen the difference it makes when everything is done in public channels instead of DMs. Everything feels more lively and you interact with your team a lot more. Everything in DMs feels isolating.
In their defense, we've had plastic for much longer, and efficient recycling has been an empty promise so far.

It will take special attention for these panels not to end in a landfill or in the ocean like most of the waste we're currently creating.
My first reaction was "wow, these guys are fast". The smoke in the air in the Northeastern US has been going on for 2 days and these guys updated a federal target already?

Nope. This is an updated regulation due to Covid-19. Better to have it than not, of course, but it takes them 3 years?
Wow, they even acknowledge humidity plays an important part -

10. Should indoor temperature and humidity be used to help reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission?

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/ventilat...

Their answer is a cop-out, but light years ahead of anyone else.
The solution is to switch to hydrogen cars and avoid all resource intensive materials. Not to mention that LFP comes with major compromises and most US Teslas do not use them.
Enough is enough. Sam (facebook) should fork his work. Get him a dedicated team working on this, it's too important to abandon due to some bs politics.
If an infant is able to survive outside of another person without being hooked up to modern medical equipment I would say there is a very big difference between it an something which cannot.

What happens when we invent artificial wombs? It isn't that far away.
Yes and they cut the rapid attack helicopter crews in BC and Alberta. Also, the fires there started in a short window when vegetation hadn't started growing yet and there was old dry winter grass everywhere.
> Is it just accessibility and moderation tools or something else?

The information density and UX are terrible in new Reddit and the official app (in my opinion of course). I find them completely and utterly unusable. I just tried opening new Reddit and going to /r/all. I can see exactly 2 posts on my screen, compared to 14 on old Reddit. I tried clicking on something, it opens up in a narrow popover. Middle clicking to open it in a proper tab takes a lot longer than in old Reddit.

When it comes to the app, there are similar issues, it's just _so_ much slower than using RiF, the information density is abysmal, comment chains are painful for me to read and it uses _significantly_ more data than RiF. I'm guessing it preloads lots of assets in the background or something.

When they kill off 3rd party access, I will stop using it on my mobile. I already feel like I waste too much time on Reddit, ruining the experience will make it much easier to quit. If they ever kill old Reddit, then I guess I'll finally quit Reddit for good or make an extension that makes it look and work like the old version.
Lionel Messi Makes a Deal with Inter Miami of MLS–and Apple and Adidas
If anyone is interested in learning more about Alloy, I would recommend this book by the author, Daniel Jackson - "Software Abstractions" - https://www.amazon.com/Software-Abstractions-Logic-Language-...
There's no "passkeys" protocol. If there is, it's well hidden behind marketing bullshit. :)

> In marketing material, the terms passkey or Passkeys are preferred over related terms such as FIDO or WebAuthn, because they are less likely to cause confusion.

Yeah. Nowhere does it say what it actually is or how it's related to the other standards. Not confusing at all.
Psychology isn't accepted as a hard science, perhaps an applied science. Since there really isn't a precise follow to the scientific method, hypothesis - inference - conclusion.
> Hydrogen is pretty much the main hope for truly carbon neutral replacement of industry use of natural gas (huge in Germany for instance). Long range transportation could also probably use it

In Switzerland the three big wholesalers got together and switched their whole truck fleet to hydrogen. They have the foresight to invest their money well.
Easy solution though, just limit the scale's display to a magnitude that it can accurately measure reproducible.
the moderation here literally doesn't care about the authors and developers who provide the links to the articles.

routinely they let them be harassed and derided on HN and do not care to focus on their attempts to stay off and away from that.

it's completely expected but still shameful.
Windows 10 has built in sandboxing now, might be worth checking out. I’m not sure if it’s available on Home and Pro editions though.

Data does not persist though, so maybe create a setup script to install mods combined with cloud syncing for saving game state.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...
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I'm in a similar situation. Except I moved to a country where I do speak the language during COVID. I left my job due to a burnout last year and took some time to recover. I tried most of the usual HN advice. I do multiple different sports for years, don't drink, don't do drugs, eat healthy and sleep properly. And I try to engage with various social activities. Alas, none of these helps in any meaningful way. This is aggravated by the slowdown of the remote job market (there aren't many open roles where I'm at), and I feel on the verge of a complete breakdown most of the days. Being around the same age as you doesn't help.