skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wife works for a retail bank. Front-line employees didn't go remote - they need to be in retail bank locations serving customers. Back-office employees were 98% in-office prior to COVID. In several weeks, the company pivoted to remote work, including procurement of laptops (most non-managers had desktops). During the 2.5-3 years of COVID-induced WFH, their engagement numbers and measured productivity went up.

I've heard similar stories from friends and family in similar workplaces.

While I realize that's all anecdotal, I haven't heard any stories countering this narrative.

All that said, I like being in the office a few days/week for all the reasons mentioned. But, my team is all remote (hired that way, mostly pre-COVID), so even when I'm at the office, I'm only chatting with peers on other teams, not the people I'm doing project work with.
Remember the British system is called "Imperial Units" -- these were used for a huge chunk of the world! Everywhere except Britain has switched, and Britain was in the process of changing to metric when it became one of the first media-pushed us-vs-them political issues.

Close to all trade, construction, design, healthcare etc in Britain is done in metric units.
I've seen a lot of critics complaining about using direction technique (editing, music, etc) to make audience cry, as if only the story, screenplay and acting is pure enough to be allowed to trigger these emotions.

On the other hand, no problem for triggering laughs. It's actually the reverse: you need good direction and good editing (because rhythm matters a lot) to make a joke impactful.

I've never really understood that. Is it shameful to be emotionally affected by a movie, even if you don't really like all of it?

I've seen that a lot about Spielberg movies, and more recently with J.A. Bayona (in particular with The Impossible and A Monster calls).
That's not really what he said, is it?
I mean they did, the kettle was built in 1976 :)
We’ll check out the express entry program you’ll be welcome

However, I’d read up on the healthcare shortage and high housing costs first though
Haven't learned much from this post.
I prefer calling it "floor-index" vs "ceil-index" rather than 0/1 or offset/count based
Holy shit! Game, optimizations, code, test suite and even a simple 3D render - not to mention a well edited video game with a great sense of humor, gags, memes and the obvious next step already in the works.

This guy is going places!!
Yeah you're talking about zones. Zones refer to the intensity of maintenance / how often you'll be harvesting from them. Zone 1 around the house is most frequent - zone 5 is way in the jungle where you harvest wild guavas once a year.

Guilds are about companion planting - they're combination of plants that form a small ecosystem where they provide benefit to each other. E.g. comfrey is often used around fruit trees to break up subsoil (it has very long taproots, to 10 feet or so), and as a prolific mulch producer (cut it back every couple months, and chop and drop the leaves in place). Nitrogen fixing plants are common, as a way of providing nutrients. Etc.
https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/462 has a nice page where they did a high res 3d scan + model of the painting that you can explore on there; the only thing missing I think is that you can't change the light source.
It is always a matter of perspective. As a tech worker, the average H1-B worker you know is probably close to the average of the other tech workers you know like you.
But you have to compare their skills and education to the global average of society to understand the benefit they bring.
Not saying I agree or even that the author is referring to these specific ideas, but there's plenty to anger people with: https://www.avclub.com/your-guide-to-the-wall-e-controversy-...
do you have any doco for this or links to read over, i like the sound of this but too inexperienced in docker to set it up.
A source for companies rolling out return-to-office plans? It's all over the news. Not sure what you're asking.
"Fluorine" is also the terminology used for covalently bonded Fl moieties, not just difluorine, the gas.

Fluoride is the ion, but if you want to get pedantic, you're not adding the ion to toothpaste and drinking water - you're adding another fluorine compound which is dissociating in solution.

Ie, when you salt your food, you're not tossing in Cl- ions directly.
The parent post doesn't dispute that - it's just adding that in addition to the plenty of skilled engineers part there are also a bunch of low skill workers from degree mills coming as well.
Keep in mind the COL in Canada is often higher too. So its pay cut + higher COL. Most Canadians can't afford to buy homes.
In the same way the author says that people would hate Up without the first ten minutes, I think a lot more people would enjoy Cars if the first ten minutes were removed. The opening is really heavy on the advertising and low on the story beats and themes compared to the rest of the movie.
>My answer is that the demand will provide its supply.
You have no definitive proof that this is actually the case.
Pixel fucked: Inside Hollywood's VFX crisis
Thanks. I can't figure out how to look at the markdown. I made an account figuring that'd let me edit (so I can view), but the protections apparently have another level.

So, are the components different files? That'd definitely help if there's a component that applies to several recipes, like a sauce or crust. However, it could make things more complicated than some would like if they're working on a smaller project, like a reference notebook or a family cookbook.

Power vs simplicity is often a balancing act.
See https://tildes.net/ send me an email (look at my profile) for an invite.
It's easy to just down-vote my post and move on. But stop for a moment and think about it: Why is the lifetime output of even a highly skilled professional worth just a tiny fraction of what a land owner in the same community is worth from doing nothing? The land owner can sell a tiny piece of his estate every 20 years and live his whole life without contributing anything. And on the opposite side, those who are not landed will have to work hard their whole life and usually with nothing to show for it.

Go talk to everyday people and ask what their dream is. Except for winning the lottery, the dream of everybody is to buy real estate and live of rent and price increases. Not having a career, not creating a big and successful business. Those are fools errand and a waste of your life, because laws and governance are now all-in on making every aspect of the economy having the purpose of transferring wealth to the landed gentry.
So how old are you? Where did you study?
If you switch that on, it also disables the zoom effect when you use Exposé, which makes that feature more disorienting. You can't win!
It's always funny to me to see the hypocrisy of HN on immigration policy. Low-income workers to clean our buildings, pick our crops, and receive more in taxes than they pay? Bring 'em in! High-income workers to drive America's tech industry success and pay way more in taxes than they receive? They're taking our jobs!

While I'd argue we need both, the latter is clearly better for the nation, considering our skyrocketing debt.
Unfortunately, enterprises are intensely risk averse. I worked at a place where we could only generate proper certs by manually submitting a ticket to IT and waiting probably days to get it back, giving us zero hope of applying meaningful automation. Getting certs from a proper CA was absolutely forbidden, despite our lobbying, so in a lot of cases self-signed certs were the only option if we wanted to automate.
Just do express entry, I did the same ( regrettably) I should add.

Feel free to shoot any questions
Beside the points you mentioned, doing some exercises helps your health in general which is a big plus :)
https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...
I don't particularly agree with the title but agree that there's a present awkwardness in the way that users are expected to derive correct insights from LLMs. In the same way that tokenization exists to overcome a would-be shortcoming of present computing resources and architectures, but may eventually become unnecessary: a more streamlined interface would be helpful in tiding us over this hump of awkwardness even if it too eventually becomes unnecessary.
Maybe, but you can expect a lot of new businesses being opened too. You would never dream of starting your company on a H-1B but with a blanket work permit you absolutely will.
Perhaps unlikely, but one of the rules of this site is to assume noble intent. I try to apply this, and I think it does generate overall higher quality discussion.
> It seems the UK is good at self inflicting damage. First the brexit...

I voted remain, however I'm still a Eurosceptic. The two issues aren't comparable.
Give it a watch! I think University is very slightly more enjoyable to watch, possibly because the universe is already established from the first movie so it can move a little faster. But yeah, both are absolutely stellar films.
I'm a big fan of QuantAQ. Speaking from a PM10 perspective, your monitors perform on-par with high-cost regulatory monitors in a much smaller package and far lower cost. I also love the open API. That said, I would love to see a locally-hosted variety for environments where LTE/cloud is not accessible/preferred.
It’s too easy to scalp, or for an unencumbered overseas competitor to take your chips. When offices resembled factories there was at least a capital expense to be leveraged.
Yep! You can grab a free bike and go for a ride around the park surrounding the museum. Highly recommend it
Probably nicer coming in Mons and Fris, less traffic and office quieter…
It would be nice if “contains data” chips were mandated to be bright pink, then you could know what parts to destroy.

Open phone, snap off the pink, recycle the rest.
I’m sure Apple is the entity that caused the caveat.

> Most vendors don't have the luxury of being able tailor both to eachother.
> Google was never really interested, culturally, in making money.

People find it really easy to say money isn't the important thing when they are rich. But see that wealth challenged and their behavior changes very quickly (with some exceptions, of course).

Google may have had ideals, but they were still a company filled with directors and managers and employees who weren't rich (enough) yet. They weren't paid off from the initial rainfall of money. They were going to use all tools at their disposal. It is no surprise it happened, even if the founders weren't too concerned with money (which I don't believe).
I always chuckle when Italian-Americans refer to coming from "the old country". I know they mean "the country I was born in", but it sounds like Italy is older than the USA, when the USA is nearly a century older.
We can rewrite definitions, don't worry too much about.

I guess your motivation of keeping substandard immigrants out but substandard locals in doesn't come only from your desire to stick to the definitions, am I right? Because if that's your worry, it's very easy to resolve it by changing the definition through a legislative process.
I think by definition you're not going to find that in big networks. The incentive structure is about gaining reputation for yourself. Best way to do that is to "dunk".

I have good faith discussions with friends/coworkers. The incentive is to raise the reputation of your relationship, and the only way to do that is be a reasonable (and not tribal) person. That being said, this relies on you not surrounding yourself with tribal people
I do not see this "market conditions" in the UK.
Hoping for something in WSL land.
Well, someone had to do it first, therefore "invented".
For the Greeks, bread was almost as separate from other foods as drinks were, so maybe the concept of baking that other food with dough is not that obvious.
> > [1] Reparations for slavery in the US is another example.

> This is gross. My mother was arrested for going into a whites-only Pizza Hut as a child.

Are you talking here about reparations for slavery or reparations for much more recent events (segregation, Jim Crow, etc)?

I think it is easier to make the case that people deserve some compensation for wrongs done in living memory, than for wrongs done over 150 years ago.
I used Phab at a job and it was a complete mess. Stacked Diffs only sort-of worked, CI integration was bad, notifications were so noisy everyone tuned them out, etc.

Talking with a Meta person, it sounds like Phab really needs Mercurial to work well, at least for Stacked Diffs because you need to be able to identify commits independent of their location in history to properly maintain the Stacked Diff associations.
The People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
Conspiracy sports is quite entertaining; why it has ever been banned is beyond me. I realize some people think it's real just like there are some people who think that WWE is "real wrestling" but those people are blessedly few and easy to identify and dismiss. YouTube is a time-sink with ads: bring in the wild conspiracies: it's an easy way for me to remember I'm not craziest person in the room.
It depends on if you think Marx or Eliezer Risco has a monopoly on being the furthest left.
I built a perfect note taking system
Baking is chemistry, chemists measure primarily by weight.

Weight is superior.
As someone who’s on H1b this whole effort by Canada seems pointless and I don’t understand the rationale behind framing this law.

H1b comes through a lottery. This year less than 10% got through the lottery (mostly because Indian consultancy scams that US govt is trying to crack down on but mostly won’t). Even in good years, a good 50% don’t get through the lottery. If you complete your masters in US, you get 3 shots at the lottery after which you have to leave the country (Called the STEM OPT extension). If you pass through the lottery you are mostly set for life in US. If you’re not from India or China, you just need to find a company to apply for your green card and then get in in 3 yrs (All of big tech will apply for your green card). If you are from India and China you will have a long waiting line, Indians in particular might have a 100 yr waiting line because of the massive amount of recent immigration. Even then your H1b lasts a total of 9 yrs, after which you can apply for green card and then get an EAD while waiting for your green card, which basically ensures you can stay in the country and work as long as your green card is processing. This situation is a bit stressful, because if your green card processing has issues and you get a reject, you have to instantly leave the country on EAD (your life is uprooted) but by this you are either 100% committed to living here or you’re gonna leave (a lot I’d estimate 50% leave back to India)

Which brings me to my puzzlement regarding this law. The main bottleneck is the H1b lottery, I would guess easily a good 30-40% of Indians leave unable to get past the lottery and that number is increasing. Canada is also giving choice to those who went past the lottery. But if I went through the lottery, why would I ever consider going to Canada? No offense, but US salaries are easily double, and even higher the higher you climb, there’s no comparison really. And if Canada is trying to maintain quality of immigrants, the H1b is literally a lottery, a member of Google or an Indian outsourcing sweatshop like TCS have the exact same chance of getting through (and TCS applies way more for H1b) so this isn’t even a great quality filter. By my prediction, this won’t do anything to attract immigrants from US, because those who made it through H1b are not going to leave except to maybe return back to their home country. US is simply too good pay wise, and then on top of that most of the country is very welcoming to immigrants.
We didn't plan it this way, but we felt we had to launch before the end of the month :)

My co-founder Enzo (the CEO) came up with the name because when starting out the feeling we had was that most analytics products felt cold and intimidating and our goal was to build something that feels warm and welcoming - like June
OpenSeaDragon
https://openseadragon.github.io/examples/in-the-wild/ (an open source package that can provide the deep zooming experience just like MicrIO used for these paintings) has been used for this collection:

http://boschproject.org/book_links.html

where you can compare the visible light with some kind of UV (I guess? you have to buy the book to find out), eg:

http://boschproject.org/view.html?mode=curtain&layout=top-ma...
> So from a purely economic point of view, an H-1B immigrant is a perfect profit center for government taxes.

It is just all things being equal and they are specially not equal in this case.
If they were so great countries producing them would have used them for no-downside profit but it is not happening. US being hub of thousands of high tech companies also not finding much use of them lately.

I guess good on Canada for finding such a profit booster in times of economic downturn.
I agree the intent isnt bad day-to-day but when the terms are used in layoff announcements, e.g "to the Tacklers we are parting company with today..." it seems to dehumanize (perhaps intentionally) the outcome.
Intermittent fasting diet ‘no better for weight loss’
There are tons of reasons to not use an external CA.

First, cost. Any CA that issues unlimited certificates will charge tons of money. Free CAs like letsencrypt do have rate limits that we would frequently hit with autoscaling environments, CI jobs, and such.

Also, CAs require the use of certificate transparency logs. Which will expose your internal infrastructure data to the public. It will, by exposing autoscaling data, also expose financial data (at least in hints), e.g. by showing that last christmas, your scaling peak was far higher.

And external CAs are a security risk because you need to provide firewall exceptions and/or transfer mechanisms for certificates into your internal infrastructure that you would usually want to isolate.

Lastly, an external CA is an availability risk. Should your external CA be unreachable for some reason, you might not be able to run any CI jobs or auto-scale-up your infra.
the yellow paint in "A Starry Night" is made with what was called "Indian Cow Yellow".

It's made by feeding cows nothing but mango leaves and dehydrating their urine to a paste.

Now you know...
I have a proof though, there's this country called The United States of America, where almost everyone is an immigrant and they live in a prosperous country. Immigrants turned into builders, doctors, scientists, engineers, artist and many more!
People with from countries with low standards of living would simply undercut
the market, destroying it for citizens. This already happens to some degree
with the visa, but without it, the entire would would rush to the highest paying country, push wages down until there's a different country paying more, then move there, repeat.

If a country doesn't prioritize the interests of it's citizens, who will?
A modest proposal. The back-ronym for it should be S.W.I.F.T.
Just tried and mouse's still confined to less than full screen at 1280x800.

I think it was worse 5 years ago. Will try again in 5 years.
The "original" population is "replacing" itself by not having enough children.

The racists and conspiracy theories should be railing against their own "demographic" for not reproducing enough.
A publicly traded company can bend the facts, but not by much, otherwise it commits securities fraud. A random NGO that publishes some estimation that a single Tesla emits a gazillion tons of CO2 is subject to no regulations, and has no fear of any class action lawsuit. Given that, which one should I trust more?
This sounds more like the discovery of a money pit than anything extraterrestrial.
I love the tagging aspect. That's super important to me -- when I know I had a thought a long while ago and just remember vague aspects of it or a certain subject matter, it'd be awesome to just search by tags.
Where do you go for thoughtful, good faith discourse?

HN is about the closest I have found.

For everything else I take in all the things you mentioned, then I make a cup of lemon balm tea, sit in my recliner, turn on the 4 Red/NIR light clusters and recline. Then I meditate and transform everyone online into rational stable people all of whom can be red-pilled. Some may call it a coping mechanism but it has made for some of the best conversations I have ever had.
Houses for only 1M? Where? In Toronto that buys you a two bedroom condo. Housing prices are insane.
Hmm is this still cheaper than purchasing the service?
The policies don’t emerge from the definitions, but rather the definitions emerge from the policies.

Changing the definitions and expecting the policies (which are the expressed will of the people in democracies or of the leaders in autocracies) to change is folly.
How does the water company know you're using rain water?
- Certificate Transparency logs leak internal domain names, therefore potentially internal infrastructure or product still in stealth mode
- HTTPS challenge requires opening the network to the entire internet
- DNS challenge requires API access to the DNS provider. The DNS entries are the keys to the castle (MX mainly). Some names ever operators don’t offer sensible API access (none at all, or poor scoping (single token with global admin access))
Thanks for the appreciation and the criticism.
I think, at least for audio calls this is very ear-catchy.
Instead of cold automated calls, if your name is personalised and the whole pitch is personalised according to the category (say 5-6 categories of people in a sales pitch), it will look good.
Currently, for the free-demo, we chose to use a voice that sounds almost similar to the original voice, not the actual module that the customers will get once they sign in which is much more advanced. But I understand that it was a mistake. We will add the actual module as the demo next time we show to the Hackernews community.

Thanks a lot for your inputs!!
MS has the home team advantage here in the US, so you’d certainly hope they’d win here at least!
Oooo, speaking of power, I've heard a few mentions about the power it takes to move a single bit on-die versus off-die (down in the femtojoules and stuff, but it does add up).

I wonder if that's it; simply keeping a PCIe link awake between various chips uses a bit of power to drive the trace capacitance, for instance.
It's very bad for tech in particular. This is a bit dated, but ~84% of Waterloo grads jump ship to the US (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25911922). Put another way, it's a roll of the dice chance that a graduate stays in Canada.
> I'm imagining a system where everyone in the society is brought in on a temporary basis

This is how the Gulf economies work. (Also the Vatican, but for different reasons and at a different age.)
While George Hotz is undoubtedly a genius, and his hacker approach to tiny grad is just awesome to watch; he is simply not a deep expert in GPT-4, so it's probably the least interesting tidbit this article could have written about.
It's also a bit like schools and organizations that want to foster community by using the term community as much as possible, without actually doing the things required to create a community
Understandable, thanks for the links.
Being an immigrant is stressful. period.
Are you really typing your password more often than anything else on your keyboard? Except if your password contains very unusual character I think it would very difficult to extract that info from normal wear. If your password contains an e or an a good luck to guess that from the wear.