skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't doubt that there are other great headphones. However looking closely you will find that the AirPods Max offer an interesting combination of features. Like noise cancelling, which can be quite a big help in certain situations. Even with modest background noise, the noise cancelling can just increase the music listening experience, as you just hear the music and no background noise.
Also nice is spatial audio. Especially for movie watching. And I have grown fond of the build and looks of the Max.
When it is -scheduled-. When they just walk over to your desk and grab you -- it completely torpedoes productivity.
> Yeah but the F is FOSSY stands for First

It clearly stands for "Free", where do you get that idea?
As a user, I don't know if it only does local processing, and I prefer to click the button explicitly. Eg. if I accidentally paste a password and it starts loading stuff I would be alarmed.
This is by far hilarious and sad. You have an interesting way to tweak facts and transform the narrative.

You could make a career out of it (if you haven't done so).

(Zero value reaction to a comment with no value whatsoever)
Nuclear power plants were never cheap. Sometimes they appeared that way if you offloaded most of your costs onto the taxpayer, like decomissioining expenses.

And in the West they never enjoyed economies of scale either. France's nuclear plants kept getting more expensive, even in the heyday when they were building lots of them.
I've lived this lifestyle a few different times while living in the USA, and every time it's just inconvenient enough that I need to go back to owning a car after a few weeks/months.

The time I'm able to go car free varies on location and climate, but there's still not the required infrastructure to make this a viable option for everyday life outside of a few select metro areas. It's a real shame, because the positive benefits experienced are real and quite noticeable, even in a short timespan.
It's already "too late" for any such solution. We are already at the point where geoengineering is necessary. But of course, environmentalists oppose that too.
.. in the context of Germany already having been swept over by one power plant failure, Chernobyl, and a second large scale one having just happened in Japan.

The risk of CO2 is high (almost a certainty) but over a long period.

The risk of nuclear is low, but if a "black swan" failure happens then it potentially wipes out agriculture in a large area for years.

(There's also the proliferation risk; is everyone OK with Iran building a lot of reactors to displace their oil usage?)
The Icelandic Saga Database
glibc and OpenSSL both have runtime detection of CPU features to switch between hand-coded versions of hot functions, so those two are probably the packages that will get the _least_ benefit from a recompilation.
So, where do I buy a home hydrogen storage system to store excess solar energy for later use?

Right, I can't because hydrogen in any practical density is too dangerous or expensive. Despite decades of research. It might be made and used on the spot for an industrial process but that's it.
If you'd chosen "Alice" and "Bob" as the metasyntactic names, I'd have thought nothing of it. "Jessica" and "Guillermo" I read quite differently.
> If they can't deliver without someone breathing down their neck then the answer is to get rid of them

Welcome back to my first point. It's hard to find people to replace this person who won't wind up in the exact same scenario. The trustworthy remote workers are in the minority. Until we all accept this it's going to be a really rough ride.

Perhaps the wide spectrum of takes on this boils down to the complexity of the underlying business. If you are running the equivalent of a B2B McD restaurant, I can understand how the bottom-barrel WFH employee & management techniques are viable.
Insane? I've worked in F1, and seeing making this bolt doesn't sound extraordinaire. It's rather normal engineering technology.

There are far more interesting, extremely expensive, specialized engineering methods in F1.
Don't get me started on all the vacation you have to take or how quick it is to pop over to anywhere from Kingston to Istanbul
So where's the renewable hydrogen?
They should just do what everyone else does and finance themselves by selling your data to the highest bidder! There are lots of advertisers who would pay a fair amount to know this much about your social graph and what you think of them.
In primitive cultures, reaching old age could be seen as an achievement, given the difficulty of surviving without a healthcare system. In most modern societies, however, aging isn't as challenging and elderly individuals are often "locked away" in retirement homes. In other words, they essentially disappear, living a life of a ghost. Moreover, what kind of wisdom would you expect from someone who spent their years merely waiting for the day of their retirement?
What happens if you pass it through Stable Diffusion using ControlNet? Does it scan? Yes![0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/141hg9x/co...
>I'm a fan of nuclear but it just takes too long to deploy compared to wind/solar and that is an absolute killer for ROI (and the climate).

Unless you build it like Koreans.
It really depends on what taxi service you use, but on a long run it can be cheaper and more convenient than owning a car, if you do not need to use it every day.
The manifest stuff is so you can have a more declarative way to specify packages (think Cargo.toml instead of mutable Debian installation).

(env)$ exit
$ guix package --export-manifest -p ~/profiles/developer
(specifications->manifest
(list "guix"
"coreutils"
"emacs"
"gfortran-toolchain"
"gcc-toolchain"))
$ guix package --export-manifest -p ~/profiles/developer > yourproject/manifest.scm
$ guix shell -C -m yourproject/manifest.scm
(env)$

Works the same as before. Now more declarative. And you can throw away ~/profiles/developer* now, it will be rebuilt each time (with caching, don't worry).
We're three years into this experiment and still no productivity studies referenced in any of these threads.

Anecdotes ARE all our anecdata now.
Plumbers have a 100% location-dependent job role by its very nature.

Inventing the transistor* or the next leap in LLMs are both knowledge work, so could both be performed remotely

*of course, there was a ton of actual science experimentation and lab work that needed physical presence, but my understanding of the key interactions between team members is that the key collaboration didn’t require physical presence
But home equity loans are often up to 85% of home equity. The point is inflated home prices allow people to inflate their lifestyle, regardless of what they’re spending it on. It’s about the system of revolving debt being propped up by inflated home values, not necessarily about what the debt is spent on.
The only thing that's really weird here is that this is published in Nature. It should be sent to a systems or database conference. Nature publishing minor CS results is weird.
There's a reason Digg has been mentioned so much around this story. Reddit ate Digg's lunch because Digg made bad decisions. Reddit is making the same flavor of bad decisions and their lunch will be promptly eaten by someone else. It's obviously a losing strategy. Everyone can see it except for the greedy execs seeing dollar signs rather than the real world.
How to Fine-Tune Your ChatGPT Interactions for Better Results
"I have patients who are half your age, twice your weight, and not one-quarter as healthy as you are."

Sounds like a lead-in to a whiteboard interview question. =)
I'm in love with Scheme, so would much rather use Guile/Guix for this than learn Nix's DSL that's not even lispy and that's not used anywhere else.
Archaeologists Found Evidence of a Viking City That Was Supposed to Be Mythical
I know quite well what Guile and Scheme are; I was asking about the specific DSL/library/whatever combo that Guix is programmed in. The code snippets on the page which this thread is about, for example, mostly use macros that seem to mimic their Nix equivalents very closely but are marginally more verbose. I would very much like to see a compelling example where the fact that Guile has macros makes a practical difference.

(Note that Nix's laziness is not an unalloyed good either, for example it is notoriously difficult to debug. But let's limit ourselves to pure expressiveness for now)
>The smugness and naivety in that article is grating.

It's The Guardian – not the first time, certainly won't be the last. See also:

https://unherd.com/2020/11/why-i-had-to-leave-the-guardian/
> hit by high energy prices

I wonder why that might be. I have seen several sources claim that renewable energy is the cheapest energy and we are increasing that in the mix. Why the price going up?

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/01/20/which-european-cou...
What's your point, they're crypto so doing illegal stuff is ok because it's 'different?'
KPIs are also killers of quality. I just planned a tech migration that the whole tech team agreed on, and that would bring countless advantages to the company, that got ultimately rejected by higher-ups just because "it doesn't fit into your (mine) semestral KPIs".

KPIs are a good way to make sure nobody overperforms or shows signs of cross-functionality. The moment KPIs take over a company, people get turned into bots.
I watch movies, read novels, and even code on my phone but I refuse to use the reddit app. It's that bad.
> What happens if the price drops by 10x? That won't happen overnight obviously.

That won’t happen at all, at least not in the foreseeable future.

https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/solar/cost-of-solar-...: “The average cost to install solar panels per watt is between $0.90 and $1.50 per watt for the materials and an additional 25% for the labor. This means you’ll spend anywhere between $1.10 and $1.90 per watt in total.“, so even if all hardware became free, we’re ‘only’ looking at a price drop of 80%.

Because a lot of the hardware cost isn’t the solar cells proper, I think predicting a price drop of 50% already is fairly optimistic.

> We're heading for a future where energy is going to be dirt cheap, clean, and plentiful.

That, I think is true.
You can buy this right now: https://www.h2networks.com.au/lavo-hydrogen-battery/

But of course, given the enormous anti-hydrogen campaign of the last decade, everything is currently at an immature level.
Agreed. I like to try out different Linux distributions every so often. After seeing this immature tantrum, I wouldn't go near Asahi Linux.
Agreed, it was always about reducing cost.
> This problem can be solved by making hydrogen

Again, nobody seems to be making hydrogen from renewable energy at scale yet despite there being a real industrial market for it. Including steel reduction, which would be a great use-case! But it's not happening because water cracking to hydrogen has a really high capital cost.
There are many reasons that qualitative research is better than quantitative research. Understanding context and nuance, exploratory studies, complex phenomena, and social dynamics and interactions are more often better served by having fewer subjects.
Not just 23K packages --- that's just what is in the main Guix channel. Nix has a whole bunch of packages that are created automatically, on the fly, such as most R packages. The Guix equivalent would be the humongous guix-cran channel, which provides automatically generated R packages.

So I think comparing the size of package collections is less interesting than checking whether your packages are included. Personally, I would have a very hard time with Nix because I need the quality control in Guix that gets me packages that have been built completely from source without depending on opaque upstream blobs (e.g. bundled jars, minified JavaScript, etc). Because of that I wouldn't be able to use Nix productively for bioinformatics, statistics, and things like pytorch in the same way as I use Guix.
Right — and the reason that the US doesn’t have a formulaic solution to prevent that is due to intentional racial gerrymandering.

They’ve chosen a different strategy, with different outcomes. That’s the sense in which mathematics can’t solve a political problem. US voting maps hinge on the “one drop” rule — where the government says anyone who is multi-racial counts as black but not their other races.

> Based on that guidance, census responses from people who marked both the "Black" and "White" boxes should be counted with the Black population. And when focused on discrimination specifically against Black people, responses marking boxes for two or more minority races including "Black" should also be counted as Black.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/18/1126287827/redistricting-supr...
At least on Edge, it got continuous substring matching right (illa shows vanilla), but failed to get the most important type of matching: arbitrary substring. Not a surprise, I only know a couple editors that support it. But it's truly the ideal form of filtering, especially when the entries are long. Think css, how much nicer would it be to type "mato" in devtools and get "margin-top"? Or, the ideal case that is somehow still missing – browser history entries: type the first char or two of the hostname, one or two from the path, and a couple form the query, and you've filtered everything down to just one or two options.
I have worked with volunteer translations for Valve using the now defunct Steam Translation Server (and Crowdin very rarely nowadays) and discussing problems like these with other people from the community, the mods agreed that this is a lack of context issue.

Then, I started playing World of Warcraft and realized how bad the localization is. I mean, the translation isn't bad per se, I really appreciate that they tried to adapt the game to my country's culture and that is totally awesome.

But seeing Blizzard pay a ton of money for some people that don't even play the game to verify if their translation is correct or makes sense is just astonishing to me. When Blizz released the new UI for WoW, there was an option called "snap" which meant "snap to grid". The amazing translator team, having no context and not even the decency of checking the context in game, translated this option as "estalo", which, in portuguese, means "snap (sound)", as in a finger snap.

Another example is that when they added minimap sizing to the UI editor, there's an option that allows the name of the zone to be below the minimap. The brilliant translator team translated it in portuguese to "abaixo cabeçalho" (literally under header) or something very silly which you could literally see that they put no effort in the translation.
It takes 1.6 years for a solar panel in the UK to offset the CO2 used to manufacture it. https://www.renewableenergyhub.co.uk/main/solar-panels/solar...

And the UK is pretty much worst case scenario for solar panels. Other locations can do it in 3 months.

And given that solar panels last >25 years...
If pay for UK engineers is so low, and housing costs are so high, that you cannot possibly afford a place with a private office - then your condition is materially different than US engineers. So much so that the discussion of your situation should be separate.

Either way, I don't see the point of your arguments. Nobody says that engineers who want to work from the office shouldn't be allowed to. We're just refuting the bogus argument that the office is some sort of distraction-free paradise offering ideal work conditions, compared to noisy WFH setups. Because for the vast majority of US engineers, it's rather the opposite.
I am certain that is not the narrative reddit is selling to potential investors because that is a narrative that does not maximize profit.
Being new is not an excuse for producing meaningless garbage.

It's okay to not know. It's not okay to claim results when there aren't any to be drawn from the available data.

And astrology did not "turn into" astronomy. Astronomy developed (in part) as a result of astrologers trying to predict the motion of celestial objects. But astrology is not at all the forerunner of scientific astronomy, since its main concern (how celestial movements influence human lives) lacks any factual underpinnings. It's not that astrology produced incorrect results; the entire endeavor is fundamentally wrong.
Imagine if you couldn't buy with or redeem USD (et al) with Bitcoin. That's the only way Bitcoin could 'solve' whatever the issue is.

Now let's talk use cases.
It's valuable to train models. It's just not valuable to sell, as it can be accessed freely, and has been dumped multiple times already and used to train models.
Nix isn't, but NixOS is, if I'm not mistaken.
The Federation's national interests are driven by two primary objectives: the enforcement of the prime directive and the expansion of our alliance through the discovery and inclusion of planets and civilizations. These noble pursuits have formed the foundation of our society, aiming to foster peace, understanding, and cooperation among diverse species.

It is true that Starfleet, as the exploration and defense arm of the Federation, assumes a significant role in upholding these interests. Through its diplomatic efforts and scientific missions, Starfleet acts as an ambassador of the Federation, promoting peaceful relations and extending our shared values to uncharted territories. The use of soft power by Starfleet helps facilitate dialogue and cooperation, providing a platform for resolving conflicts and building alliances.

However, it is important to maintain a delicate balance between military and civilian authority. History has shown us that when the military assumes control over all aspects of civil administration, it is a rare exception and not the norm. Such a scenario tends to blur the lines between defense and governance, potentially leading to an imbalanced and potentially authoritarian society.

While Starfleet plays a crucial role in protecting the Federation and expanding its influence, it must coexist harmoniously with civilian institutions, where governance, legislation, and civilian oversight are essential. The principles of democracy, respect for individual rights, and the rule of law should guide our decision-making processes, ensuring that our society remains true to the values we hold dear.

By striking a balance between Starfleet's military capabilities and civilian administration, we preserve the essence of the Federation—a diverse, democratic alliance built on principles of exploration, cooperation, and respect. Through the concerted efforts of both civilian and military entities, we can ensure that the Federation continues to flourish without veering into the territory of a militaristic dictatorship.
The point is that if you want to publish a crate to crates.io, you need a GitHub account, which is true and verifiable in ten seconds. Not sure why it's important how it's required, the end result is the same.
Your examples of tax protest were by people who didn't really want to be a part of the government they weren't paying taxes to, or felt they weren't being treated properly as a class.

This doesn't seem to want crypto or finance exchanges. Thistle people just want the benefits of the government without paying for it.

That's just fraud.
Apple’s Vision Pro Isn’t the Future
I used to do this "intercepting bad ideas" out of habit, but often the people who had the bad ideas had more senior job titles and salaries than me. It got me in a lot of trouble, mostly because I gained a reputation for being very knowledgeable (invited to everything) and for making supposed seniors look bad. They were not actually senior, the place just didn't pay enough and any actual experienced people were incidental and often didn't hold the title.

I eventually had to leave because I turned into a human Confluence replacement and architect on top of my existing work and still was one of the worst paid people (with little to do about that, management hates "mercenaries"). So I'm very happy I no longer feel compelled to do this working remote anymore, except when people abuse our platform.
Confused Deputy Vulnerability in Cloudflare CASB
This is the write-up of a critical vulnerability I discovered in Cloudflare CASB that enabled me to view sensitive information about other customers’ Microsoft and GitHub organizations, including employee names/emails, links to SharePoint files, private repository names/descriptions and more.
ah yes

"During his years at GE, Stonecipher learned from the example set by the managerial legend Jack Welch. Stonecipher acknowledged his debt to Welch many times, but perhaps his clearest acknowledgment was his consistent introduction of Welch's patented managerial innovations in every company he managed. "
> Note that he never mentioned any expectation of "free", just that it was about 100x more expensive

Again, my point is that I believe this is absolutely intentional. If in these emotional pleas to the community somebody comes out and says, “$1 per user per month is what we’re willing to accept”, you’re going to see the people that were on the app developers side flip out and say $1 a month is too high.

My evidence for this is that there’s a reason nobody has put a price they’re willing to pay out.

I guess we just see the situation differently.

You see it as one where Reddit has killed 3rd party apps.

I see it as one where Reddit’s made a choice that will affect 3rd party apps and 3rd party apps are making it look like they have no options.
OpenAI Won't Build Any More Consumer Products Other Than ChatGPT
It is coming online as we speak. You are just not aware of it. This mirrors the early days of wind and solar power.
For me it is the crates not having something like a namespace.

Something like this:
@org/axum
@user/axum
> But the claim doesn't make sense against the renewable industry.

Well, my point is that you just have to see what some major fossil energy producers say and do. You don't need to believe anyone on this.

[1]: https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/new-energies.htm...
[2]: https://www.chevron.com/operations/new-energies
[3]: https://totalenergies.com/group/ambition/being-world-class-p...
[4]: https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/what-we-do/gas-and-lo...
Indeed, besides the obvious social damage it does (you're basically chopping people up to be fodder to amoral adtech industries) there's something to be said for the hygiene hypothesis and its continuation throughout life.

Casual and constant exposure to infectious agents (natural ones, not those transmitted over TCP/IP) develops and maintains an immune response. It's not just the brain wired to have interactions with others, it's the whole gestalt.
But most of the companies we discuss here are nowhere near having bad finances.
No kids? Author clearly mentions he had a young daughter that had just out grown their child seat when they gave up their car.

Certainly living in city with good public transport is a large factor. By why can’t we build more places like that, and making living car free easy and practical for everyone? It’s ultimately cheaper and healthier for both the individuals and society as a whole, why hate on those that want see more people being able to benefit from such a lifestyle?

As for taxis, in London, the money you save on fuel, tax, congestion charges, maintenance, insurance etc etc which all come with car ownership, will pay for a lot of taxi rides each year.
I agree that onboarding remotely is terrible. From a junior perspective trying to figure out what is going on remotely is hard. Things happen like you get stuck with things and wait two hours for a slack response which still isnt great.
This is something these companies, who are so eager to have people in the office, could easily change. With space so inexpensive and after the many layoffs, why not add more private offices for those who do come in?