skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you say remote is nice for the worker, and i am certainly not less productive, but for "let's concentrate on this task today to get it out" i tend to drive to the office. And it is also nice to have chats and friendly banter with others that might be in on the same day. Ofc most devs seem to be the strightly professional and introverted type.

Remote you definitely get less of the gossip that might help you, either for advancement, or by planning to steer things / intervene.
Yea he seems to have really double downed on the more gossipy side of tech. I don’t understand the play (outside of sensationalism), and I’m starting to lose faith in his brand.
Swiss labour laws are a bit more involved than that. You can fire with 3 months' notice, yes, but not if the employee has recently been unwell or had an accident, and not for any number of legally protected reasons (including the employee being absent for mandatory military service, employees exercising their legal rights such as freedom of speech in ways not directly related to the workplace, or as a result of a dispute between employer or employee if there was no misconduct). Full list (in German): https://www.seco.admin.ch/seco/de/home/Arbeit/Personenfreizu...

So effectively, the burden of proof is on the employer to show that the reason for firing is a legal one, but that does include "orders drying up so we need to cut back on staff who would otherwise be idling".

Courts can and do award fired employees up to 6 months' salary as compensation if employers overstep the lines here. And because Switzerland has a well-working legal system, that means most employers don't abuse their firing powers, and making a facebook post on $CULTURE_WAR_TOPIC from a non-work account is unlikely to get you fired unless your role is "brand ambassador" or executive officer, for example.

Also, if you are fired in Switzerland and you're a citizen, you have very generous (by international standards) state redundancy/unemployment benefits.

I agree with the parent poster that the flexible labour laws are part of what makes Switzerland attractive for business, but I would much, much rather end up being fired under the Swiss system than the U.S. one.
Maybe someone knowledgeable can chime in. I heard that if energy inputs required to produce photovoltaics (in China, most likely) are taken into account, they are not efficient enough and long-lasting enough to be net-producers of energy in parts of the world that are not absolutely bathed in sunlight. Basically, many places in the world just don't get enough sunlight. Photovoltaics might make sense financially (at least in the short term), but not ecologically, in many places. Anyone has informed insight?
If I don my tin foil hat [1]...

Nuclear is an ideal green solution for the fossil fuel industry. Why? Well, building a power station is super hard because: it's expensive, takes years and no one wants a power station in their backyard.

I can imagine fossil fuel execs recognising that the energy grid is going green despite all of their lobbying. So the game then becomes to delay the inevitable as long as you can, so that you can extract as much money as you can from fossil fuels.

[1]: I listened to a lot of the Drilled podcast by Amy Westervelt in the early days of the pandemic https://www.drilled.media/drilled-podcast/
If it sounds overzealous, consider things like

"Positioning must not obstruct visual or physical access to aircraft controls and displays, flightcrew ingress or egress, or external vision'

So all the certification requirements mean somebody had to map out where it goes and how. Including CAD drawings, any recurring maintenance tasks, research on sub-supplier quality, troubleshooting procedures, a reliable replacement supply chain, and so on. And have all that reviewed, documented and approved for each type/subtype of aircraft it's certified on. If the process were more lax, it's not hard to imagine a problem with pilot visibility of some control (or whatever) starting a bad chain of events.
Sure, variable costs matter less with less use. I guess the difference in fuel efficiency is not that great, then.

A lower insurance (which is my guess/ opinion!) and a lower lease cost has a greater explanation value.
Message Silo is an open-source platform/tool for Developers to auto-correct dead-lettered messages and make integration simpler for event-driven systems.

Receive from and send messages to any of the most popular message broker solutions: Azure Service Bus, AWS SQS, RabbitMQ, etc.
>A company can o ly seek to produce customer value in a capital efficient manner, it is up to us (the customer) to value things correctly.

This is not how businesses act in reality.
WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) - Britain will host a global summit on artificial intelligence safety later this year and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and U.S. President Joe Biden will discuss the technology at their Thursday meeting, the UK government said.

The summit will consider the risks of AI, including frontier systems, and discuss how they can be mitigated through internationally coordinated action, the British government said in a statement. No date was given for the event.

Biden and Sunak, who will meet on Thursday for a fourth time in as many months, will work to coordinate their approaches on critical and emerging technologies, with an eye to strengthening their economic security, British and U.S. officials said.

U.S. technology company Palantir Technologies, which already has more than 800 employees in Britain, will separately announce plans to make the UK its new European headquarters for AI development, the British government said.

Sunak planned wide-ranging discussions with Biden on the UK-U.S. relationship and how the two countries could work together to strengthen their economies and cement their "joint leadership in the technologies of the future," the government said.

Several governments are considering how to mitigate the dangers of the emerging technology, which has experienced a boom in investment and consumer popularity in recent months after the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT.

That includes China, where the government is seeking to initiate artificial intelligence regulations, according to billionaire Elon Musk who met officials during his recent trip to China.

Regulators globally have been scrambling to draw up rules governing the use of generative AI, which can create text and images, the impact of which proponents compare to the arrival of the internet.
I very much prefer the Guix community because based on my personal experience, it is more friendly and helpful than the Nix community. The main help ressources are the help-guix mailing-list and the IRC channel.
Of everyone I’ve managed (surely 50+ managers by now), I can only think of one who was heavily biased towards under-hiring. Most were biased towards over-hiring (some strongly so) and that’s the makeup of most companies’ middle management ranks. Many identified (often correctly) that the more people they had in their org, the more important they were. (Some leveling guidelines even make this explicit.) Add periodic freezes to the mix and this gets amplified during the “open season” times.

Every place I’ve worked I’ve heard things like “you better hire someone for that req before it goes away”, “if you think you need 4, ask for 6”, “make sure you don’t lose that backfill”, "never leave unused budget", etc.
It's a meta-analysis, so they analyzed 92 studies.
We need more antitrust on everything. Things are not working if consumers have no choices in practice. "Support Nestle or just never purchase any snack or drink," isn't a real choice.
Just another LISP clone...
Because freezing hiring doesn’t lower payroll
This is just silly. Firstly, when Jobs was in charge Apple brought out the iPhone which is basically what drove Apple's value even to this day. On the flipside when Steve Jobs was in charge a plucky young man name Tim Apple became SVP for Worldwide Operations and built out Apple's supply chain in such a way that it became an enormous competitive advantage for them and that's drove a massive portion of Apple's value even to this day.

Like... we just don't have to attribute value to individuals...
Well, he's a grifter.
I created an account just to chime in . Had the same experience happen to me around 30 years ago in a rural area. I think the only reason I was able to distinguish the round shape against the night sky was because there was almost no light pollution. In my case it was a small group of them flying in a v shape Formation just passing by.
No offence taken. I understood what you mean now.
What you are describing is inadequate remote working conditions - it will be just as bad as inadequate office working conditions. Adequate ones can be had if you give a crap about your work - get a dedicated room with a closable door, set expectations with your family, soundproof where needed - again not different from setting those kinds of boundaries in an office setting.
>The hybrid shit in the middle with all the context switching drives me absolutely bananas. Get into the pool, or get out of the pool. You cannot exist in a superposition of org chart and hope to survive long term.

We did this forever! If you were ever on-call or had to remote in from home, you were hybrid. WFH has always been supported by employers - as long as it was free.
The thing that usually keeps firms from raising prices is that customers don’t have money to pay the higher prices.

What I think is novel now is that there’s a lot more cash available to pay these higher prices.

Record profits are the result, not the cause.
The goals of the people who make these kind of decisions aren't aligned with either the employees or the shareholders interests.

Maybe just maybe they're aligned with the shareholders' very short term interests, but not with anything useful in the long run.
For this to work I think the assumption is that the benefit of gerrymandering is less than the "anyone who doesn't like the in power guys" effect. e.g. % of disgruntled swing voters.
Because I just launched and don't have any testimonials. It's a chicken and egg conundrum. I will replace with real testimonials when they come in.
If the co2 emissions are similar and both are just for fun I don't see how you ethically justify the one and not the other. This looks elitist and classist.
Depends on natural attrition rate. It certainly can, and you can also make incentives for people to voluntarily depart.
One of the main reasons why the A380 Pax is a bad freighter is floor load. Reinforcing it, the floor of a Pax A380, is not economically abd Airbus never built a dedicated freighter version of. Which is a pitty, because more often than not cargo capacity is limited by volume and not weight.

If at any rate possible, it is avoided to open the nose of a 747, tue cabin is pressurized and sealing it again properly is major PITA. That, and most 747 freighters started their lives as Pax planes, and tjose noses cannot be be opened anyway.

Through loading is obly helpful for long cargo, andbyou can even squeeze 10 foot containers through the cargo door of a MD-11. Which leaves the odd specialty cargo job and military applications. And for RoRo loading, the 747 nose is too far above the ground.
And the UK and the rest of Europe have a weak tech sector.
Yes. Another variation on this scheme (which AFAIK the Porsche synthetic fuel plant in Chile is doing) is producing methane from atmospheric CO2 and H2 from electrolysis, then converting methane to methanol (how most methanol is produced today, albeit from fossil methane (natural gas)), and finally converting methanol to gasoline with the methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) process.

But in the context of corn ethanol in the USA, none of this has anything to do with the environment or sane economics, it's all just an agricultural subsidy scheme.
The impact of culture is another critical data-point. For example, in some cultures, elders are viewed as being kind, wise and important while in others, grumpy and useless.
> Bitcoin solves this.

Indeed. Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency that the powers have deemed a commodity. The rest are securities.
Just to nitpick ...

> their goal is to provide services to people

Their goal is to make as much money as possible. "To provide services" is just a way to get there.

> fucked up immoral things, it will hurt their bottom line eventually, especially if they are called out

There are literally thousands of examples where this is not true, and where the "hurt" comes long after the fact, if ever (DDT, PFAS, plastic, oil extraction, deforestation, animal agriculture, ...).

> try to look good if this was not the case

Hence the popular term "wartime CEO" ... painting the situation with nice words to extend the extraction period.
Yeah ChatGPT is great. Really cool tech. I just don't think it's going to change or take over the world, or take people's jobs.

It's far too unreliable. People don't understand that it's just a text generator. It can't really solve problems and stuff, it just produces some text that seems to make sense in a given context. No matter how much they improve it or add more training data or whatever i don't see how they can change that. Seems to me it's already past it's limit in terms of resource requirements etc.
"Our study was inconclusive: one third of patients were cured, one third died and the other guy got away".
Isn’t this a word wide problem, though? Since we live in a capitalist society, if Big Money wants something, they use Big Money Lobby to get it. That’s true in Europe, US, China, India or Africa.
Yeah it can be quite limiting. Especially when you start looking for specific phone options. I have the older Pocophone F1 and it's great. Unfortunately can't buy it anymore anywhere.
Awesome book - wait untll you read how they developed computers.
I won't spoil it but is biological based as fitting their approach.
I wanna go one step further and say they did not really answer the question.
> I feel like the author really overstates how hard it is to make a new crate.

I read it more as the maintenance overhead when publishing. You need to bump version, check dependency versions etc.

I'm speaking from personal experience here. The more I split my crates into sub-crates, the longer the release/publish process takes.

There are some parts you can automate with e.g. cargo-release but I now think a lot harder before cutting a release to crates.io.

I also have the gut feeling this is happening throughout the ecosystem.

I have a lot more overlays in my Cargo.tomls now than I used to, two years ago.

I.e. there are PRs and fixes in the repo. that you need but the author hasn't cut a release.

This may be coincidence ofc but I can't help but think there may be a connection.
Yes, we are looking at the SEN55. The reason we currently still use the Plantowers is that there is a lot more research out there on the Plantower and how it behaves in different environments.
I know at least one affected engineer there.
Is there going to be a new "halo" project for Xilem, the way Druid was partially codeveloped with Runebender? I suppose Runebender itself might get ported to Xilem?
The alternative is Europe, where people take off when they're sick.
Just wanted to see the original source (to double check for deepfakes) and got curious, what platform is this that Linus is writing on?

I can see that kernel.org is where the Linux source but this social.kernel.org is completely unmoderated even with a 'code of conduct'.

Absolutely abhorrent replies on the original thread.
There's no "napkin philosophy" here.

What you call "systematizability" is irrelevant. Only whether or not a function can be computed matter, and if a function can be computed by a brain restricted to known physics, there is no reasonable theory under which it can compute anything which can't be computed by any universal turing machine. Given the absence of even any real hypothesis for any category of functions which can't, it'd be an absolutely extraordinary claim to suggest such a function exist.

Where you'd get a Nobel in physics if you could show unknown physics in the brain, you'd secure a Nobel in mathematics if you could come up with a class of functions the brain can compute which can't be computed by a computer, because it'd fundamentally break basic assumptions in any number of subfields of both maths and computer science.

What you describe as "subverting itself" does not require anything as drastic. It merely requires thought processes unobservable by the person in question, and processes to complex to casually understand and/or randomness. Given a large proportion of people don't even have an inner voice they can "listen to" in order to observe their thought processes other than via outputs, and we know e.g. from split-brain experiments that the conscious part of human reasoning often outright invents knowledge and observation of thought processes, we have no reliable way of analysing the extent to which thinking is "systematic", and plenty of evidence to suggest we can not trust any such notion.
> You also lose the ease of just walking over to someone to ask a question.

Well, the person that got interrupted by you probably lost quite a bit of productivity because of you.
People don’t all have an equal risk of a random layoff. There’s some baseline, non-zero, random risk for everyone, upon which is added/subtracted a factor which is individual in nature.

On a team of 15 laying off 2, do you really think that the highest performing employee has an equal risk as the newest joiner or the lowest performing employee?
That she has the same source material as has been available for a millenia and came to a different conclusion to anyone else should be the first hint.
What do you mean by "more elaborate"?
That's the story of my life, unless you speak French you will probably pronounce my name wrong, no matter how many times I repeat it and help people pronounce it, I don't get mad nor think it's rude, it's kind of amusing actually. Once I realize they can't handle it I just tell people to call me by my last name which is very easy to say in English. There are too many interesting things in life to get hung up on a petty detail like a name.
We originally designed a smaller monitor but it makes it very difficult to get an accurate temperature reading because the enclosure heats up and you cannot have a good distance from the active components to the temperature sensor.
> do Exxon even do business in the EU

Not sure if you are joking... Even if you don't have an Esso petrol pump within a few minutes' drive unlike the majority of Europeans, in their own words

"We are one of Europe’s largest oil and gas producers, a major refiner of crude oil for fuels and lubricants, and one of Europe’s leading petrochemical companies"
> It also helped us avoid rabbit-holes.

I think this is a big 1. There are so many in modern coding.
Here's the secret: don't make it from corn.

At least not until you manage to convert the whole plant to Ethanol, stalk and all

(I mean it's not a secret, more than the US being overly invested on corn)
Exactly this, and in fact as seen with CSGO skins / keys, steam had tradable skins which meet all the definitions of an "NFT" without blockchain.

They've been winding it back best they can ever since because having a tradable USD proxy (keys) led to money laundering and under-age gambling websites where people used "keys" as a proxy for dollars so eventually they had to make the keys non-tradable.

The cat was out the bag and too late to make the skins themselves non-tradable, but it's worth noting that other companies haven't tended to follow suit in having their skins fully marketplace enabled.

There just isn't the incentive for one, why would a company want people to be able to resell skins when they can just sell a fresh new copy at full price.
I was a Byte subscriber. The ads were part of the content as they gave me a feel of the market. From big companies to the little guys in the back pages, you could see what people were selling and how it related to the magazine's own content.
> You should look up the history of Crimea.

History doesn’t give them a right to take what they feel like that.

Just because Putin is salty that Stalin made Crimea part of the Ukrainian SSR doesn’t allow him to reverse it.
I find it very suspicious that the debate has been framed as "renewables vs nuclear" while we keep burning fossil fuels.
If you have more money than time, that could even be optimal for the company.
We have language and writing o hand down our knowledge - it implies that each colony has to learn the same lesson over and over for each generation.

That is the main reason besides short lifespan why celephods despite their intelligence does not rule this planet.
This is the only reason I haven't tried to use Guix. I love the concept, I want to use it, but it does not run on FreeBSD. And I would not invest time in a packaging system that works on my workstation but not on my servers.

It is sad to see so many Linux only software, especially when there is no technical reason not to support *BSD.
Yeah i know that that's the idea, i just don't really understand how a computer program i wrote that runs on my computer could become "uncontrollable". I can just shut it down whenever i want to. As far as I know it's not as if this is a real thing at this point anyway, we just have shit like ChstGPT which takes some input and produces some output. It's not sitting around doing stuff on its own time, it doesn't have agency. It isn't thinking or planning or anything, it's just a piece of software that does what it's told.

"But people can use the tech for mean stuff" yeah well they already have nukes, i don't see us writing code that's worse than nukes any time soon.
I have a pet peeve about graphs with bad / non-existent labeling.

Here is how to read the graph: The black line is the outside air PM2.5. The green-yellow-orange-red bars are the indoors air PM2.5.
The outdoor kit focuses on PM measurements with dual PM modules for enhanced accuracy. The indoor kit has in addition CO2 and an optional TVOC sensor.

I think for a pottery studio to measure PM and VOCs is a good start (and CO2 to see how well the ventilation works).
For what it’s worth, I encountered this yesterday and immediately pasted the headline into ChatGPT (out of idle curiosity), and the output started by immediately explaining that SQL and CSS fundamentally serve different purposes and shouldn’t be compared in this way.
Simple browser extension for bulk email outreach.
Don't forget ground source for the heat pump.
Guix can be extended with channels, and so there are channels like nonguix (for nonfree software) or guix-science (for software that's too messy to include in Guix proper) that go beyond what quality control keeps out of Guix proper.
And you might as well frame the debate as "nuclear rules, renewables suck" while you're at it, for extra delay from infighting between environmentalists.