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> It's a terrible solution, because it costs too much.

That's a reasonable position, and I think reasonable people can disagree here. I disagree for two reasons:

1) I think (could be wrong) the cost is largely regulatory. I suspect (could be wrong) that we could streamline that without sacrificing real safety and dramatically lower the cost.

2) Even still, the cost is absolute peanuts compared to the cost of climate change. Even the famous $30B Georgia plant cost less than the world's richest individual spent so he could smash a social media network against the wall like a toddler with a Tonka truck. The US Military gets about 100 of those plants in funding every single year. It's really not that much money in the grand scheme of things, when you're talking hundreds of trillions of dollars in damage about to smash us in the face. IMO we need to stop counting pennies here and really actually tackle this problem.

But yes, absolutely agreed it is relatively expensive compared to other solutions, and it should be a priority to get that cost down. I just don't think it's so expensive that it's disqualifying. And, again, I think reasonable people can disagree here.
Ideally there should be a Remote filter
Having lived in both urban and rural areas, I don't think either has a monopoly on ignorance.

FTFY
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I also use backblaze amd am happy with the price and service.
It's good to know how to eat healthy, avoid processed foods, maintain healthy sleep patterns, avoid PUFAs, maintain strong mind-muscle connection in the body, communicate effectively and succinctly and empathetically with others, and many other life skills as well. And they'd all make you a heathier, happier, more robust, performant human. Which translates to better productivity. Better code.

So, should this new programmer start there, or start with binary?
> Learning binary and knowing what binary is are two separate things. I don't think you need to learn binary to learn to code. Been doing this for 25 years working at some big name companies, I don't know binary other than 1 is on, 0 is off.

You're wearing your lack of CS knowledge like some kind of badge of honor. Of course you don't need deep CS knowledge to be a competent programmer. But almost undoubtedly you'll be a better programmer if you do know CS (I'm using binary here as a proxy for CS since I can't imagine having a deep knowledge of CS without knowing something fundamental like binary). How many times over those 25 years could a problem have been more efficiently solved (in programmer time or CPU time) if you had known about problem solving techniques (perhaps those related to binary knowledge for example) that you don't know from the world of CS? You'll never know... You may guess, but you'll never know what you don't know.

It's not gatekeeping to say that to give someone a complete education to be a software developer we should provide them a knowledge of binary. We can teach programming in an approachable fashion AND teach binary in an approachable fashion. We do it every day at my college.
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Thanks for posting! A little feedback, from an active job seeker:

- Searches for "C++" seem to also match "C#" positions.

- A very useful filter would be: jobs with salary range above $X per year.

- Another helpful filter: employee vs. contract
> Who cares

Potential users care. It's off-putting to use something familiar but different in strange ways.

Using head/tail versus car/cdr would be a deviation I could understand. This = mess isn't.
In which case a hdd + bank deposit box might be cheaper than other solutions.
Sure. Even the most basic text editor is a lot nicer if it has tabs, or some tab-equivalent.
Always-on air purifier + opening windows a couple of times a day is cheap and effective.
That's good to hear, I had not heard of them before and was putting "they will go out of business in x years" into my risk assessment.
Ummm the bar doesn't actually exist.
Whoah there: Your typical (cheap) consumer scale will have four (50kg) load cells hooked up to an hx711 (or clone) and the cheapest microcontroller the manufacturer could find that can drive an LCD directly.

Even the cheapest load cell is pretty damned accurate and the average between the four of them is going to be accurate within 0.1kg (~0.22lbs). Having said that, load cells have this problem where their values drift over time but only if there's a constant weight on them. If you step off the scale and allow it to re-calibrate itself (which is what it does every time it turns on) there will definitely not be enough drift to matter from a, "how much do I weigh?" standpoint. All it takes is like 2 seconds without weight for a load cell to "settle down" back to its not-actually-very-noisy resting position.

I've tested loads of the cheapest possible load cells money could buy along with some load cells I took from an expensive transparent scale that had cracked. They were all far more accurate than I was expecting and any differences between them was negligible.

The longer you wait before weighing something the less accurate it'll be but only by tiny, negligible amounts. Like, if you're weighing something that's 100kg and you waited ten minutes after calibration (something most scales won't allow because they all have something like a 30-second timeout) you'd still get a value that's within 0.01 of 100kg. They don't drift that much at rest unless there's some serious temperature variations or you had something resting on the scale the entire time.
I see, you're saying the loan is never paid back. Or is paid back only through more debt rolled over from something else.

Ugh. I guess that's exactly how governments fund themselves.

I don't see how a responsible person can even compete in that environment. It's like joining a sport where everyone's doping.
So these posts are what from indeed.com and other places? Do the companies know that their jobs are being posted here?
Or even leave one in your car
That was helpful but there's a difference between "possible" and "feasible in practice for the vast majority of users". Eg, you can theoretically develop your own passkey device as you say, but that doesn't mean most people can.

I'm not sure I really prefer passkeys less than passwords but I do think some of the "misconceptions" aren't really misconceptions, but realistic concerns about what happens in practice. It might be better to be up front about these than dismissive, because that's where the problems in practice develop.
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Remind me where you work so I can avoid whatever it is your company makes.
Hahha, yes! That was really stupid on my part:

>>The first Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference

Sure the word "first" is in there but it doesn't even have the capital F like Free....

Bows head in shame....
judging from your username this seems to be a problem concerning you significantly.

as a car owner who got a car _specifically_ for that reason i can tell you that you don't want to visit a german forest on a holiday. if you happen to have a big forest in an acceptable driving distance you might want to take a chance but there will be people all over the place. plus loud motorcycles you hear from 2km distance and millionaires enjoying a flight with a cessna.
But can the big big companies afford to lose a few good employees to apply a hybrid/in-office culture? For whatever are the trade offs.

Their bulk of hiring will be younger folks. Those people generally move closer to work and show up everyday at office.

Smaller companies will be pragmatic in a different way. They will try to retain good employees. They realize the benefits of remote workers.
It's not least bad in every aspect.
How do you prevent SQL injections or bad queries?
Buy a HDD, backup to it, then put the HDD in a safe deposit box at your bank.
Thank for you saying this so clearly. It really articulates my own feelings.

Something is lost when you give up in person collaboration. But that can be fine and perhaps it has no real impact on your team’s productivity. And even with this loss, the benefits of remote working can greatly out weigh the drawbacks. But I think it’s worth being honest with ourselves and acknowledge that it’s a balancing act, and not try to say that remote work is superior in all aspects.
Mind that I work with physical products so often collaboration involves talking about and handling actual objects, but I've found that the team I'm on has lost something when relying on virtual collaboration sessions where only one of the people actually has the item they are talking about. This is especially true for the more junior members of the team who require more collaboration.

When I'm in the office I get practically nothing done due to this, but the end effect is that the whole team is more efficient since others are unblocked with a clear direction. This just doesn't happen as well when we are relying on someone reaching out to setup a call where we try to talk through a problem that is better solved by actually standing around to collaborate. I also see it happen with the newer teams in other locations, we miss the small details in things that you only think to talk about when you are sitting in a meeting room over a prototype that gets passed around.
This seems like it makes sense to me.

The senior folks are sometimes cleaning up messes created by the junior folks.

The last 10 years it seems like junior developers have become less likely to own up to their mistakes and senior engineers have to track down the mistake and then pull in the junior engineer to discuss what the mistake was and what the fix needs to be. The Junior engineer didn't want to participate at all and thinks their productivity is being impacted because they just want to keep working on whatever new feature ticket they think represents productivity. The seniors are thinking their productivity is increased when everyone is in the office cause they can much more rapidly find the people responsible and pull them into an in person meeting and do a full interrupt on the people responsible for an issue.

It's like the juniors are too incentivized by completing new feature tickets versus generating positive customer impacts or something.

I've been at 3 companies in the past 11 years and seen this at all of them.
An antipersonnel mine is the simplest kill bot. They are bad.
Apple seems to be turning a bit of a corner with the 17 release. Loosening up the app store restrictions, and now this.
In general the goal of these progrms is to win, not to pretend to be human.

In chess, there is a project called Maia which aims at predicting the human move rather than the best move. Even then it blunders less than humans of a similar rating, so it can still be detected.

https://maiachess.com/
They are both pretty bad. I ask about templates for CI/CD and they imagine parameters that don’t exist, and no amount of wrestling it around can suppress this. People like to cherry-pick examples where they work great and then proclaim it’s the best thing since sliced bread, but it’s just simply not.
While it doesn't support Linux, Backblaze is cloud storage and it's $70/yr for unlimited storage. To me, that's not a rip off for very secure off site back up. I backup my Mac locally to an external drive with Time Machine, many things (Photos, Mail, etc) are also in iCloud, and I use Backblaze.

If you only use local external drives, get more than one, and rotate them off site. All it takes is a fire or break-in and your computer and external backup drive could be gone. If you at least have a drive off site, there's a much higher chance that you'll be ok.
> IMO you lose so much more by sacrificing spontaneous conversation & ideation that results.

> Lots of people say this, but I just don't see it.

...probably because the scenario has been framed as a benefit and it is clearly not.

It's a lot easier to hit someone up on slack, as normalized behavior, than having to "accidentally" run into them in a hall. I know all the people I work with. I know that I can access them as a resource. When in the office or at home, if you can't initiate ideation without happenstance, you have a behavioral problem that is masked by working in an office.
This is also a question I’m interested in. To what extent is it:

- better services

- 35% more cops per-capita

- lower tolerance of camps

- something else like the street price of drugs
Thanks Deltacoast, that's an interesting insight. I agree that being given the answer is the wrong approach, and the AI needs to be fine-tuned to not do that, similar to KhanAcademy's Khanmigo bot.

I do think having a knowledgeable assistant can be helpful though. I've watched some users literally get unstuck with the AI, and it's amazing.

Great work on Codecademy by the way, I'm (obviously) a big fan.
I found the Remote filter. It's a drop-down on the right-hand side, right above the first search result.
> Then I grab a desk in the designated quiet section of the office and I have a clean desk, no distractions and, since I'm in the quiet section,

Most work places don't have a "quiet section".
Parent's comment is mildly revealing in a sense. Management does not want to learn new things. It already thinks it has all the tools needed. It had them ready and polished since 50s and they work so well. So well. And them youngins come in and upset applecart with all that remote work. Stupid pandemic ruined managing.

FWIW, I am exaggerating, but only slightly. I did overhear an actual comment from a manager that they had to 'toss out their toolset' to deal with remote.
This is just a stray man and a lose/lose attitude. The developed nations need to pave the way by driving down the economies of scale further.

What India is doing despite more than 1 billion people mustn't be used to stop our own (developed country) focus on reducing our emissions.

As for the link:

https://www.google.com/search?q=china+renewable+share

China is investing at an unprecedented scale into renewables because it is cheaper for them than buying fossil fuels abroad in many cases.
> If psychology could make predictions to the 13th decimal place like we are able to do for the gyromagnetic ratio

I think you are missing that you are being measured that accurately, by marketing departments using methods from psychology.
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This may depend on if your use case is only vector search in isolation (ANN lookups). In this scenario pgvector is potentially not the best option (https://ann-benchmarks.com/)

That said, using pgvector (or using other SQL databases with vector search support.. many have this capability) will let you do both ANN and your usual SQL filtering and joining (or full text, or.. etc) to produce more hand tuned results to a query. This is something the specialized vector databases don't have much support for.
When talking about modeling oligopolies and monopolies, often oligopolies have worse results.
Is this a launch of a new product? Website seems like you are quite well established.
> Work relationships matter, sharing 3D space allows people to be more creative and collaborative, and companies are recognizing that. Google seems like the last company that would make people come back to the office without doing their homework, there’s clearly data showing that fully remote employees are falling behind.

A couple things I wanted to point out when reading this:

- RTO does not imply sharing a 3D space with those you collaborate with (e.g. distributed teams).

- There is no data that proves that in-person work is more "creative" or "collaborative", simply because it's not measurable.

- You assume Google's intentions to always driven by data rather than appealing to stakeholders.
> According to Chao Wang, an immunologist at Soochow University and coauthor of the study, feeding mice nanoplastics induced a greater overall immune response in their guts than feeding mice larger microplastics.

Still interesting, but yes, this is in mice.
In the US there is a big difference between fired and laid off. Fired means for cause, and when asked the company will say "bad employee, you shouldn't hire them" fired also means you don't get unemployment as it is your fault you don't work there anymore (this varies from state to state). Laid off means you were an acceptable employee (or better), but the company just doesn't need someone to do your job anymore, when asked they will report you left in good standing, and since it isn't your fault that you don't have a job you get unemployment while looking for a new job.

Fired is so negatives that companies will rarely fire anyone. They prefer to ask you to quit - you still don't get unemployment pay (varies from state to state, but it is your fault you are not working). If this happens it is in your best interest - while it is now your fault you quit (and you cannot sue them for it - which is why they do it and a downside to keep in mind!) they will then report that you worked there in good standing until you left. In practice most companies only fire someone when they discover actions that would go to the police.
I haven’t noticed that, it’s still hallucinating badly.
Australia has solved this problem with mandatory voting. Those who fail to vote are hit with a $20 fine. They generally have above 90% turnout in elections.
Of course they are BS, but it's not Hashi's fault in particular.. its the whole thought process industry wide of hiring these consultants to write glossy garbage.

Companies exist to make a profit for their owners. We work for them exchanging our output/time for money. We aren't family or friends. Companies aren't our church, social club, or local pub.

I've worked at companies that had simple 3 word values list of - Integrity, Discipline, Excellence.

In other words - work hard, get good results, don't lie/cheat/steal. That seems pretty good set of rules to live by.

I take offense at companies that have these lists of core values as if you are in the Miss Universe pageant or applying to an honors society. It's just not what they really want in practice out of you, nor is it how they will really treat you when the chips are down.
For alt rock / indie bands half of the fun is saying oh you haven’t heard of the band x ?

One time when I was at university someone was impressed that I listened to Oh Mandy by the Spinto Band
> The fossil fuel industry could as well be pushing the nuclear talking points to delay public opinion on the benefits of renewables

> They are fighting to still be relevant as profit-making companies in a world where renewables take over

So basically, if the fossil industry promotes nuclear, it's to sabotage the only viable option in order to sell more oil, but if they promote renewable, it's because they know it's the only path forward and they want to save their skin. Your theory is not falsifiable, that's a problem.
I'm just saying; we both seem to be pointing out that current policies look a lot like the sort of thing that might have been found in the 1920s. The 1920s turned out to be setting up the 1930s, where people thought it couldn't get worse. Then the 1940s where they were proven wrong.

I don't know why you expect me to relax when you compare the situation to 1918. 1918 was when the seeds were being planted for one of the greatest episodes of suffering that the world has seen to date. The policies set in motion around then and the philosophies in vogue around then were indefensible disasters. The upside of the 1950s->2020s was that people were so shaken by the failures of 1910->1950 that they changed tack. The ones that didn't, in China and the USSR, who doubled down on authoritarianism then turned into their own disasters but at least they focused inwards. The US can consider itself lucky that it only had to deal with the great depression and an acceptable rate of needless war casualties.

> You have a very odd way of framing historical events. The US govt's own website contradicts the claim that assistance with rebuilding Europe was out of "benevolence":

That is nitpicking. Investing huge amounts of money to rebuild a shattered continent is benevolent no matter what the motivations of the US government's website happens to say. People do things for reasons. Sometimes they do things that are benevolent because it benefits them.
Yep exactly right. Awesome product you're building, I'm sure so many people can get value out of this
I wanted this to be true for me, but on Android it sometimes kills my internet connection (even when turned off) until I force-close it, on Windows it'll hang and consume lots of CPU every few days and on Linux (Ubuntu/Pop) the service sometimes stops and I don't know why. I just have bad luck, I guess.

(On-topic, I would prefer them to to take my damn password please.)
How much trust do you have in the lifetime plan? Surely the only way that can work is if new customers keep arriving - if they ever stop gaining customers then the money stops flowing, and you'd better hope they didn't spend it all.
I'm not fully convinced that there are two strong camps, on the merits. If there were, you wouldn't have to have policies requiring one over the other, as you would let it win on the merits.

That said, I'm also not convinced remote is amazing. I do wish they would move to more performance oriented metrics on who they are allowing to work from where. This is akin to having school focus on attendance instead of test scoring. If you just want people in the office, surely you have a reason for that.

This is especially true for a company that famously lauds OKRs. If they work as well as we've been assured that they do over the years, make that your push. Don't focus on "percent in the office X days a week."
Same approach here: Password manager and uBlock Origin.
What? Yes it did. Windows 98 had the first version of MS's Automatic Updates, with the Critical Update Notifications. Windows ME came with actual Automatic Updates, and so did XP.
It kinda occurred to me after posting tho that maybe this is Googles cheap way to lay-off. Easier to get people to quit than to pay severance.
check out metarationality: https://metarationality.com/stem-fluidity-bridge
We recently built a new house and I decided to over provision air handlers so that we could get better control at the room level. As a result of that, there are a lot of fans moving a lot of (sound dampened!) air, through air filters. I upgraded the air filtration on each of them to something pretty close to HEPA, but not quite. I also have activated carbon added to the filters in order to reduce an odours.

Long story-- the house is comfortable, yes, but we also just don't get nearly as much transmission of viruses between the family. Of course plenty of colds get passed around with 2 adults and 3 kids, but anecdotally we just seem to be way less sick and rarely all sick at once.

My alertness level is also never an issue like I remember it being, but I have made many other lifestyle changes which could be having an impact on that.
The opposite has happened as well, perhaps through no fault of the event, when they decide government mandate changes meant they could no longer require vaccinations.

But, in general, I have no problem with events laying out clear policies in advance which allow potential attendees to attend or not attend either because they don't want to wear masks/be vaccinated/be tested or because they feel the event isn't being cautious enough.
It won't flop, but they won't hit their projections during the frothiest times of the market and their last funding round. The AI FOMO bull run just shows how much money there is on the sidelines desperate for anything to invest in with growth potential.

If the metrics look anything like this: https://backlinko.com/reddit-users they will get investors
multimonitors are cheap and if you're not gaming or doing intensive things most CPUs and onboard graphics can handle em just fine.

2 monitors for stuff i'm doing, and a 3rd for discord / email / system stats