skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the outside looking in, the whole of the US is, despite pretty decent split between the executive and legeslative branches, a lot less democratic the at least I believed for a very long time.
It's worth keeping in mind a lot of people (myself included) like WFH exactly because we go to the office to sit doing video calls all day.

I totally understand wanting to be in the office when your whole team is there and your work lets you brainstorm with them all the time. My work environment was like that before and I totally understand preferring the office in that situation.

But most places aren't like that, most places half your colleagues are in india.
Maybe now GraphQL api can stop auto completing movies that does not exist in their catalog.
Well, if person B being able to handle a given workload in 30 hours is roughly the norm, and someone else consistently takes 60, you probably have a performance problem to deal with. (And, yes, a lot of this stuff is hard to specify and measure.)
The piece of the WFH debate that I think is most interesting is the “I want X and for me to have X you all must do X too” mindset. It reminds me of my four year old, who insists his brother come play with him.

People who want to WFH? Great! People who want to work in the office? Great! People who want to work in the office, but only if everyone else is there to fulfil their desired workday experience? That’s a problem.

And I don’t think it’s symmetrical: WFH people don’t have a reason to insist that their colleagues WFH.

There’s a very “my freedoms trump your freedoms” mindset to this.
> If the employee is doing all that's expected of them,

It's all about those expectations. It seems having a trained skillset is never enough. It's not about practicing what you are an expert in, but rather increasing business value at any costs, even if it means doing a lot more than what you were trained to do. These expectations are typically more business skills, management skills, and even marketing skills. This is why going to the office is seen as a must for many "leaders" of companies.

You're not just a programmer that contributes code, you are also a business person who ones part of the company, a manager who has to lead teams of people, and a marketing person that needs to think what the end user wants and how to deliver it. When there are so many cross-disciplinary expectations (which are rarely stated clearly), it's no surprise they want people in one place in order to have them coordinate through this complex web of roles.
Small correction: Mullvad gave you 5 ports per account that you could assign (per VPN server city) to any of your 5 public keys in an arbitrary manner. E.g. 3 for one + 2 for another.
Gosh.

"We are a market-leading web intelligence collection platform, driven by the highest business ethics"

I think that's a bit debatable!
There isn't one. This headache is legal, not Twilio
Did they also try repeatedly colliding 2 vortex rings? That may make more sense of what parameter changes do (?)
Well, I think it’s more that the divide in the US (and some other places, but not everywhere) has become so much about _rights_. It’s very personal. I could (and have) relate to someone who has quite different views on _economic_ issues, but someone who wants to ban people from marrying or to ban abortion or what have you, yeah, not so much.

In Ireland we have significant political divide, across multiple parties, but it’s largely not about rights on a party level. No party with elected representatives is campaigning on banning abortion or restricting LGBT rights or similar. And conversely when the abortion and equal marriage legalisation referendums were held, they had all-party support. Many _individuals_, of course, will have views that people might find abhorrent, but it’s less a case of “they vote for X so they must be a bad person”.

EDIT: To be clear, there are _problems_ with this consensus-forming approach, where social progress kind of has to wait until everyone gets in line; in Ireland the abortion legalisation referendum passed by 67%, which would imply that it could have been held long before and since passed, of instance. I don't think it would work for the US case anyway; the US has a party actively trying to remove _existing_ rights, which is a very different sort of thing.
And there is a real cost of firing someone for the company. e.g. I know Google employees morale and respect for the company is very different now it laid off employees, which a year back it didn't even bothered employees for slacking off completely.
Well thats kinda what happened in IPv6 we were all supposed to move to long ago.
Massive opportunity for technical folk to contribute to AI policy. Ian Hogarth has just been announced as the Chair of the UK's AI Foundation Model Taskforce. He's the author of the FT article "We must slow down the race to God-like AGI", "AI Nationalism", and seems to get AI in a deep way.

To quote his twitter thread:

And to that end I put out a call to people across the world. If you are an AI specialist or safety researcher who wants to build out state capacity in AI safety and help shape the future of AI policy then get in touch:

We have £100m to spend on AI safety and the first global conference to prepare for. I want to hear from you and how you think you can help. The time is now and we need more people to step up and help.

The above link is an expression of interest.
There's lots of alts that don't post any text (esp nsfw alts, which I assume is where most of the "dirt" will be).
Getting a target DDoS'd is cheap, especially if that target resides in a country with not that great digital infrastructure.

For twenty dollars you can take down an airline that lost your luggage and didn't bother trying to find it back. It's childish behavior, but someone is petty enough. Store didn't honor their warranty? Pay five dollars and they'll lose more money in lost sales than their refusal would've cost them.

Sometimes it's not just petty criminals either. Extorting businesses with these types of attacks is all too common. "Pay us $x or your website will be down for months" is an easy threat to make, especially if you can take down a business for a fraction of their lost revenue. Attack twenty or more companies, wait for one of them to pay out and you've made yourself a huge chunk of cash.

There are all kinds of reasons to hire these botnets. Developing these botnets isn't very hard either, especially if you can sneak a trojan into a useful software library or hack someone else's library. You just have to think real scummy.
I too prefer full time office. Worked from home for 4 years cumitively and I will never go back. In person human interaction is really underrated these days.
> Users being mad at mods that think that they own communities that aren't theirs?

This is one of these places where the concept of "ownership" falls apart, at least in the monolithic ownership. A community consists of users, mods, and the platform operator. As soon as one of these components defects, the community is destroyed. So really the community as an entity can only exist when all three sides cooperate, which makes the question of who owns it somewhere between unhelpful and nonsensical.
> New spring library? Have fun applying the same changes to 14 different microservices.

On the flip side, at some point monoliths can get large enough that upgrading libraries or runtimes becomes an incredibly difficult problem. When I was at Amazon a major service was finally getting upgraded from Java 7 to Java 8. Took a cross-functional team 6 months (!) to make it happen due to the massive amounts of existing code. And these are AWS engineers who are much technically stronger than average.

I don't condone the 500 LOC style of true microservices, but people tend to go back to the extreme of "just make everything run in the same process with the same runtime and same dependency chain" as if that doesn't come with its own set of headaches.

(also for what it's worth -- in correctly done SOA, you don't need to upgrade libraries in lockstep. So that Spring upgrade can be done on a per-service basis as needed.)
Oh thanks but by “target” I meant “end users that will pay for that ~10min experience.

I thought that would be obvious… so side question: how would you have phrased it?
I bet the number of people working a side job like this is tiny. RTO advocates bring it up like everybody is doing it, but save for an anecdote here and there, I doubt it's happening that often.

I've seen people go and "work" for decades in an office and do nothing all day. There's nothing new under the sun.
https://www.techradar.com/news/judge-orders-mediation-after-...

http://web.archive.org/web/20191128170008/https://medium.com...

It's pretty well known.
Because that's the standard claim that's made, usually as a justification for driving Huawei out of business using sanctions.
Nice, yeah, I am not a fan of retraining models on my workstation in the UK’s current heatwave.
Reddit CEO says app founders who are shutting down in protest made millions
Why do you recommend Jellyseerr or Overseerr instead of Ombi?
This is not an issue of efficiency. Most of the software stack upon which these executives’ companies depend was written remotely by distributed teams.

Over dial-up. In the 90s. Using CVS.

We know how to run efficient distributed organizations.

This is a problem primarily with executives who came of age in a marginally digitized world unable to navigate the new fully digital reality.

It is the final form of the pointy-haired boomer boss who looks around his physical desk whenever asked to find an icon “on his desktop.”
I don't understand the impulse to aspire to be like an insufferable asshat (musk). Is this some kind of power thing to be a famous/infamous figure of industry that gets to be an absolute piece shit with impunity?
So confusing, there is also Jellyfish [0] which is also a media server written in Elixir.

Use case is obv different but close enough that I needed to triple check that I'm not going mad.

[0] https://github.com/jellyfish-dev/jellyfish
And what’s the problem with whataboutism when it is part of an argument of having unrealistic moral expectations from a single country?
I wonder if Amazon SNS SMS (terrible naming there!) has the same constraints, I assume not.
Ask yourself if you're really that essential to things going forward? If not, then feel proud of what you've done and do what you need to do.

And I mean really ask yourself. As you say, teams are scaled now, individual effort has less of a multiplier. In most cases, they'll probably be fine without you. That should feel liberating.
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The exact same problem exists in an typical REST api as well. In both cases you have to add a specialized endpoint to retrieve multiple results.
fully agree here. i often go to the office, then no one is there and i am sad. i used to be in that problem bucket. but its easy to solve. make good connections with colleagues and invite them for working days. ends up that sometimes more ppl are at the office, and alternatively i found people relatively close by are also happy to have me over at their house for a workday. super nice =). gotta think in solutions rather then problems!
I think this WFH articles are generilizing too much. Remote work is challenging for companies that, and I need to say this, in the end must deliver predictable realiable value to their customers at reasonable prices. There are safety, security and trust problems to mention 3 very important things in 2023 with remote work. Just imagine what can happen if you need to fire an employee and they must give you back the work laptop with sensitive data… but they are working from a remote beach in Thailand. Best case they collaborate. Worst case they sell the laptop to hackers. This doesn’t mean remote work is doomed or bad, it just means we are dealing with a complex issue, it’s not going to be a black/white solution.
> The issue at its core is that bosses hiring people “full-time” often do so, as dramatic as it sounds, to capture their soul.

This is a bit silly.

Kind of like saying Netflix imprisons our bodies on the couch for hours on end, and even charges us $20/month!

The reality is we’re getting compensated in exchange (monetarily in the case of a job, and with entertainment for the Netflix example).

For anyone who feels like their soul is captured or imprisoned at work, it’s time to start looking around for a new job or a new career that you’ll enjoy more than whatever you’re currently doing.
Do you dislike it when application developers don't think about the way CPUs work at the silicon level? Or the way TCP/IP works under the hood (handling packet ordering/ connection negotiation etc.)?
It's not immediately obvious to me that an application developer should have to worry too much about how their software is delivered/hosted etc., though I'd certainly agree that understanding it better generally makes you a better developer. And that the reality of modern O/S's and hosting platforms still means that implementation details inevitably leak their way into application space, unfortunately.
That model is not all sunshine and roses either. Wages were a concession sought by labor in the Industrial Revolution because piecework was considered to be worse. Gig work revived all those old problems for a new Gilded Age.

All these problems are coming about because software doesn't fit nicely into any of the traditional arrangements. We really fit in more as consultants external to the business, but the software consulting industry as it exists today is corrupted by the perverse incentives of generating billable hours and essentially scamming clients.

I'd like to see the emergence of software partnerships modeled after law firms, where engineers are owners and not employees. The problem is, tech is currently dominated by criminal monopolists who regularly collude to drive wages down in violation of numerous laws. Musk and his PayPal mafia buddies are running the same racket right now, that Apple and Google were convicted of 10 years ago. They would simply refuse to work with any tech worker co-ops, because they have monopsony power over our labor, and they can just lobby Congress for more H1-Bs.
Corrected in another post, because could delete or edit the link

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=36383483
When they only confirmed the frozen models in the API hadn't changed and not the web interface I feel like that was pretty much admission by omission that chat gpt 4 under premium subscriptions had been lobotomized by sparsification or quantization or aomething.
yeah, guys working on improving themselves is pretty creepy, especially when they talk about it on the internet. and how would you know they're trying to become a more confident, well dressed, decisive and assertive version of themselves, anyway?

9. never tell women you are working on this stuff actively because it is extremely creepy to them that you are trying to pull yourself up from being unattractive. above comment is saying so, in plain english. the very thought that you would want to improve yourself is repulsive. general rule of thumb is just shut the fuck up about it and avoid over-sharing.

"just so you know, i'm working on not being a needy dork that texts you 24/7. i hope to be more attractive to you by working on my ability to make decisions for myself without being devastated when someone tells me their opinion of me. do you like me more now? how about now? how about now?"
I would think he would have a chance if allowed to enter, although he's older than a President should be. The US seems to like being a gerontocracy, which isn't always the best (or even a good) choice.
I think workers will self select into WFH and office companies. Then everyone gets the experience they want. Just growing pains now.
There's a pre-print (ie, not peer reviewed yet) study that, if correct, shows that the best-fit model for Betelgeuse's brightness oscillations over the past 30 years is that Betelgeuse is near the end of its carbon burning cycle. (doesn't have anything to do with the abnormal dimming in 2020 or so) If this study is correct (if) Betelgeuse will go supernova within 10-100 years.

The study: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.00287.pdf

youtube explanation (Dr Becky Smethurst) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QgLwpuDGhI&t=415s
>It's easier to ctrl-shift-c to pick the element in the inspector, then paste into the value="" HTML in the developer tools.

I use "Happy Right-Click" firefox addon for this. Just click the addon icon located on the address bar and voila.
Definitely.

I think most of us will all be happy and only work out of passion in a few years, and I'm excited to learn new skills:)
And why is there need for scraping proxies? Because greedy capitalists do not allow to scrape their sites.
More compute for the Bard maybe?
Only a matter of time before ChatGPT goes the way of Dall-E...
> Objective headphone reviews are only valid in the same setting, which means if your room sounds different, your head is shaped different, or you're wearing glasses they stop being true.

I get this with speakers but how are any of these valid with headphones?
CA is not a place to get laid. Go East, young man, go East and grow a pair.
Personally, I don’t think you’re in the minority at all. I suspect many people prefer working in an office collaborating with their peers (myself included).
I visited this island cluster last summer, very impressive. It felt like a tranquil oasis.
You’re Not Imagining It–Job Hunting Is Getting Worse
WFH is obviously a loss for managers, less control, less power.

It does not matter if the job is done or not, some people (quite a few) are not in this to be efficient, prestige is part of the pay.

I am not saying that WFH is perfect, there are issues, but in most cases it is overall superior than mandatory office work.
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It autocompletes so you find out more quickly that Netflix doesn't carry it, and what similar options are

I get that you are annoyed Netflix didn't have the movie you wanted, but autocomplete doesn't make that worse.
I agree, but sooner or later the time component comes in. If you're being paid piecemeal for work, a lot of dynamics emerge after a while including reduced perunit pay and increased expectation of throughout. In other words what happens when deliverables expected take 70 hrs of your time a week?

Speaking as huge wfh proponent as the project I'm managing has benefited from it tremendously (we had one primary and a few satellite offices before covid. Satellite offices were effectively second tier citizens. Wfh enabled everybody to be on the same page and tier. We are way more effective and I dread the return to primary office to exclusion of satellite ones. Everybody else's milleage may vary).
The discord servers for a few of the projects are relatively popular. Most have a help channel you could post in if you have questions. The Discord for KoboldAI has some developers from koboldcpp ,which is the easiest and one of the most bleeding edge way of running these models locally. It builds on llamacpp and allows the use of different front ends among other things like using k quantized models. People also have had success with using something like runpods.

Native fine tuning is still out of consumer reach for the forseeable future, but there's people experimenting with QLORAs. The pipeline is still relatively new though and is a bit involved.

https://koboldai.org/discord

https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp
The developer only exists to serve the product and customer. I do not know why the developer should be the center of any company, none the less why they should be on a billboard. Buyers don't care, they want a great product. Great products are built by companies that love their developers. They don't need to tell that on billboards, they need to tell that privately to each engineer they employ. It is not appropriate for a developer to be the center of a company. Why not quietly say thank you for the employment opportunity (a rare treat across all time and history)? Accept the fortune they gave you, if they were good share it with the world, and if not, move on to your next opportunity? HN may downvote me but I do not understand these "goodbye" posts. I don't think anybody cares and it just makes you think twice about the person who is leaving if they showed up at your door for a job.
Is Docker not an option? As far as I can tell, Docker is available on FreeBSD, and Jellyfin has a Docker image available, I've been using it for a few years at this point (on Linux, though).
A raspberry pi with a 4g hat?

Overkill I suppose, in the past for similar stuff I've used a microcontroller with a GPRS modem, but since the 2g switch off I'm not sure it can be done that simply.
the benefit is great for managers who go between different meetings, and especially if those meetings are at different locations.

much less time wasted in between meetings.

they definitely also get more done
Switzerland has 3GW of nuclear generating capacity (currently outputting 1.7GW as of this comment) but also 12GW of hydro, 3GW of solar, and 5GW of hydro storage (per https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/CH). They also have >5GW of interconnects with other neighboring grids (Austria, Germany, France, and Italy).

Nuclear is expensive and unnecessary to meet their target. Whether the Swiss are content with renewables across their lands is up to the Swiss voters (from a land use compatibility perspective), and based on the results, the majority seems to approve.
None of that needs Linux or a SoC and can easily run from a much simpler, better supported and cheaper microcontroller.
it was the headband that got flakey. maybe mine were exposed to more light or something.
Mastodon does this because they made a 500 character limit, but then you'd blow your whole budget on one link, so they made links not count, but then you need to shorten it somehow so it looks pretty because they don't support markdown or other means of posting links.
It's information that's only really useful to us. It refers to a set of machines running the same version of our software. Part of how we do progressive rollouts of software.
That’s not going to be much of a roadblock for LLM trainers… they crawl the web just as well as they consume API output. I don’t think this will accomplish anything but anger legitimate users.
Why? What problem did this solve for them? I use Netflix a lot, and I use it on AppleTV where I get automatic updates to the device and the app... the app has never changed except to get slower over the years (and I mean a lot slower). There is absolutely no new functionality they have ever deployed... isn't the app "done"? Is there some serious scaling issue on their backend that is causing the perceived frontend slowness that this will fix? Is this going to massively decrease the costs of the backend? Or is it just that the engineers are all bored and can't accept the idea that the product is either 1) done or 2) needs a new direction (instead of some new tech)?
What's keeping them from selling the sensitive data to hackers in any case?

Among concerns with remote work, this one seems pretty far down the list.
Water isn’t actually consumed, but rather cycles through the biosphere. The ISS recycles its water, and so would a Mars expedition.
The fundamental deficiency with our society is that we value talking about X more than performing/implementing X.

This is true for most fields, including programming.

Most teams have folks to do the heavy lifting, and a small percentage of folks who talk about it.

The talkers are considered more valuable than the doers, within the organization or without.

These are our thought leaders, influencers, architects, you name it.

I am not complaining, this is a game we are all playing. It took me far too long to recognize it.