skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fun fact, and makes sense for a bunch of NYC-based writers which is one of the few non-driving-happy places in the US.
I think its a good idea to turn this example around to try and understand the executive perspective in this.

If your financial livelihood and the financial livelihoods of many other people are dependent upon you delivering a highly complex block of code—would you want to rely on a brand new production method or tool to deliver it that you don’t trust? A method that departs from successful methods of historical code production that have worked well for you for decades. A method that your peers, whose opinion you trust, advise against? A method that successful industry leaders are publicly moving away from rapidly?

Seems like there isn’t a WFH preaching engineer that is going to willfully move away from their set of tools and comfortable knowledge base to deliver something critical, I am not sure why we should expect something different from these leaders either.
It's not your DNS infrastructure unless ...?
Even china isnt silly enough to record people’s conversations to “train” ais. Corporate dictatorships have truly overtaken communist dictatorships.
How do we effectively give that minority what they want without forcing it on the majority? If you have 8 guys who don't come in and 4 who do its not really like working in an in office company you will end up relying on remote tools in order to include the other fellows anyway. It logically will be almost like working remotely but with a commute. At that point do you want to drive in to have a zoom meeting?
> controlling much of our communications

Google doesn't control my communication with others.
It is not that hard to measure, at the end of the day code needs to be written. If the work you are doing is design heavy, then documents and charts need to be created. And then code needs to be written. Then finally, a product or feature needs to actually be launched.
> I don't see any shady or exploit-y SEO at Pinterest.

Let's clarify this. Do you believe

1) Pinterest did not intentionally modify it's actions in any way to dominate Google's image search or

2) Pinterest's purposeful actions to spam Google images wasn't shady or exploit-y

?
> They do updates for pretty long and a lot of the OS you can trick into updating far longer.

"You can trick into updating for far longer" is supposed to be an argument that it isn't planned obsolescence?

> Windows 10 LTSC IOT for example is going to get security updates for a looong time and has all the bloatware and spyware stripped out.

Because there is a market segment which is less tolerant of this kind of abuse. But when John goes to the store to buy a new laptop because the one he had with Windows XP on it is too slow to run any variant of Windows 10, that edition generally isn't what it comes with. Why not? Is there a customer desire for spyware and shorter support lifetimes, or is there an abuse of naive customers going on here by default?
I am a bit shocked by how popular this game is. All the signs were there, though.

- Their previous game Divinity: Original Sin 2 was critically acclaimed, very popular for a pretty hardcore CRPG, and had long legs.

- DnD has a lot of brand power and has been strongly in the zeitgeist for years.

- There's a big cohort of millennials who have strong nostalgia for Baldur's Gate and who have plenty of money to buy games (if not time to play them).

- The Early Access release for this game was wildly popular beyond the developer's expectations, and maintained interest for years.

I definitely underestimated the brand power of DnD and Baldur's Gate because they aren't very important to me, personally. But also there have been a load of really good CRPGs in recent years and there seemed to be a pretty low ceiling to how much interest they could get. Tyranny, Pillars of Eternity, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, and a few others were amazing and beloved CRPG games but were lucky to have a tenth of the success of BG3. But those games were generally less accessible, mostly not multiplayer, and again lacked the brand power.
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I can only say, avoid dental chains at all costs and only go to trusted dentist owned clinics if possible.

I'm from EU and I got a yearly review + professional cleaning in a chain for my first job more than 15 years ago. The first time I used it they diagnosed me 4 or 5 caries that needed treatment, they said it was just a "beginning" but that it should be treated soon.

I ignored it and left it untreated for 1 year. My family never had problems with caries and before that time I was going to a public dentist who never identified any problem.

Next year I used the professional cleaning again but I went to a different clinic. They identified again 4 caries but in completely different teeth! Since that day I don-t trust any dentist that need an insurance to get patients or is managed by a profit-oriented chain. Note that in my country a lot of dentists don't work with insurance but that might not be the case in other places.

It's not like the dentists shouldn't earn good money, but they the ones that have their own clinic earn more than enough to not have to scam their patients. And even these can be greedy, but at least they are not pushed by a manager with monthly goals, so the chances are lower.

Fast-forward I met my now wife who is actually a dentist. 10 years later after my fake 5 caries she didn't find any.

When she finished her studies, she had to work for a few chains as well. What she saw there is terrifying.

The 1st job she was fired after 4 days because she was asking for autoclave sterilized material for every patient. First they tried to push back saying that ultrasound and chemical was enough, but she was having any of it.

Later the same week, she had a family with 3 kids, and she also requested sterilized tools for each of the 5 patients. They were telling her that sharing tools with the same family is totally fine. She was ready to leave the job the next day but they were faster and fired her. I guess she was starting to raise ideas to the young assistants.

After that she still worked in a few more places before she could find the right family owned clinic first and later start her own clinic.

During this period, she saw multiple malpractices and the authorities are not checking anything until somebody is badly hurt: Non-graduated dentists doing full-licensed dentist procedures, low quality materials and tools from Aliexpress that shouldn't be used for any medical procedure, patients coming from other clinics where after checking the history of x-rays she could see the dentist "planted" the root canal treatment (difficult to 100% proof of course), dentists invoicing for things that they didn't really do, and the list goes on...

Just please, be very careful when choosing your dentist. Some people can save tons of money and a lot of teeth if they have a knowledgeable and honest dentist.
How much is the average person's exposure to commercial real-estate holdings versus the VC class' exposure?
"The problem is not capitalism"... Proceeds to describe capitalism.
Dont remind them why banks collapsed and why interest rates arent dropping any time soon. Focus on China, Russia, Elons cage match etc.
I was doing this pre-pandemic and it was the happiest I've ever been in a work situation. Most meetings would wait for the in-person time and my WFH days as a result were usually heads down. We were able to lean into the best parts of both work styles, and the people who preferred to work in an office would be there every day.

It depends on the team and work but I definitely feel a lot more disconnected being fully remote these days. Seeing my team (and broader org) every quarter was a nice compromise that combatted this somewhat but I miss the energy of the hybrid model.
Aliexpress has them, eg.: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003457635092.html

The pcb looks very similar, but is missing the holes to break the light parts away (probably saving money on the drilling).
Extreme heat taxes the body in many ways. Here’s how
And here in continental 'not Texas shithole', I'm paying the "exorbitant" rate of $.10916/kWh , less than the Texas rates. And mine are stable. None of this funny stock market bill crap.

Yep, deregulation is better for SOMEONE. I wonder who that might be.
No, I'm not saying you don't hold your views strongly. What I am saying is that I disagree that it's not your responsibility to convince others of your point of view. It is your responsibility and you owe it to your peers to do your best job of making sure that your reasoning and the perspective which led to that reasoning is fully understood by them.

Consider for example how your own opinion was formed based on reasoning that was at least in part put forward by people who came before you. If they had all kept to themselves and you never had access to the ideas/thinking of past atheists to help you make an informed decision, don't you think they would have effectively been doing you a disservice?

Note that I'm not necessarily saying hardcore proselytizing is the right approach to achieve that. In fact hardcore proselytizing can in some cases turn people away from your opinions, so it could actually be worse than doing nothing.
Sorry, RouterLink for Angular, NavLink for React router.
Thank you. To be clear, there was no criticism intended, merely an attempt to open people's eyes to the possibility of alternatives to their way of life. Traveling does that for me, and I'm grateful when it does.
> They have either seen a drop in productivity or they haven't.

Some of them are claiming that they have, but none have shown anything resembling evidence or numbers, there’s been nothing but hand waving about the value of water cooler talk. There’s no reason to believe a word they’re saying.
Musk offers to pay legal bills of people ‘unfairly treated’ for posting on X
It seems that traveling to a school is commonly known as "commuting". However, let's look at the way transit authorities structure bus and rail routes. Any given school, especially a public school and high schools, are really, really likely to be well-served by transit. While middle schools may be nestled in a residential or suburban neighborhood, they also tend to be nearer to the major arteries, and so you're likely to find a bus to ride. Also, the number of schools in a city is always smaller than the number of workplaces, so it's fundamentally easier for transit to serve schools than to cover all manner of possible workplaces.

I don't know about office workers. It's not easy to identify them by sight on a bus! There are a few types of commuters-to-workplaces that I can usually identify: construction workers, who have their vests, hard hats, and sometimes even a shovel on board with them; there are restaurant workers, who wear distinctive trousers and company tee shirts; hospitality workers, who are always headed way out to the resort hotels near the end of the line; and there are civil servants who are headed downtown to the Capitol and environs.

There were many, many office jobs I needed to turn down due to impractical or nonexistent commute. That's the reality. When data centers, call centers, tech offices, construction sites, and all sorts of workplaces are far from the reach of public transit, you're just not going to have those office workers ever consider public transit. That's a reality of the route planning and the limitations of a transit authority's funding and manpower.

Thank you for the link to MTA's statistics, but as I say, I regard NYC and environs as an outlier. They are not representative of other US urban centers in terms of adaptation to public transit. Denizens of NYC often eschew personal vehicle ownership and rely on subway/taxi/commuter rail sort of lifestyles. It's normal to see every walk of life on NYC transit.
The value of being taught something by an expert.
After 5 years of spinning wheels, maybe it’s time to accept that Windows is a second-class citizen. That’s why WSL exists, after all.

(Speaking as someone who dreaded the “inevitable” victory of Windows on the desktop in the 90s I might be a little biased/overjoyed.)
> Personally, working from home and not seeing my teammates and colleagues in person for long periods of time makes me more depressed and increases anxiety level.

That sounds unhealthy. Do you have family and community relationships? Work should be professional relationships. You provide services in exchange for money. If you are getting anxious and depressed from not seeing the people you work with, I think something is wrong with work life balance.

By the way, it is the company that benefits from this one sided attachment. If you feel emotionally attached to the company you are less likely to leave for higher pay or tolerate more abuse from the company. Believe me, the company will have no regrets parting with you if they feel you are not adding to their business value.

Companies love selling their employees on how they are a part of a family and how they are all on mission together. They are trying to inspire loyalty. In reality, the company has pretty much zero loyalty to you.

I think one of the reasons companies are trying to get rid of WFH, is that it is harder to make people emotionally dependent on the company and inspire one sided loyalty if they are working remotely.
Some of the core people behind the first game were fired. They say it's because the owners of the IP were doing something malicious and wanted them out of the way. The company says it's because the main guy (Kurvitz) was impossible to work with and couldn't behave. There are interviews with people who worked with them on the game and it does seem like it was a very toxic environment (that nevertheless produced a masterpiece). It's hard to tell what's really going on.

It's a shame because Kurvitz was behind most of the crazy ideas in the game but I can also understand if people don't want to work with him again. It's also very possible that some dodgy dealings are going on with the ownership of the IP like he claims, but that's not really clear.
What is a deliverable, though? You can deliver output but the question should be if the quality of the work is better wfh or wfo. The quality of work increases with face to face time with my colleagues. The quality decreased when I was all alone at home. So for some people with very straight forward deliverables it might be great, but for others that quality may have gone down.
I have a total of about 75 saves: quick and auto saves are limited to a rolling 25 by default, plus about 25 manual saves. Steam shows I have used 795 MB of space, so they're not _big_ but they're not small.
Wouldn't it be easier to just have a banner "all your meetings are belong to us"?
ToS can't negate HIPAA or any other laws that could potentially be violated though.
My son when 3 had a fall and a few teeth were bent. Went to our local dentist who mostly had a wait and see opinion. But then calls a day later and says they’ve decided they should just come out. Two top front teeth. Would have no top front teeth for years.

I went into engineer mode and while I acknowledged I didn’t have domain expertise, I asked questions and probed the whole situation. Very unsatisfactory, meandering answers.

This was a deeply distressing experience. For the first time ever I did the “call in a personal favour” thing and asked my dad to reach out a family friend, a former cosmetic dentist and former head of the province’s dental association for a second opinion.

He saw my son a few hours later and he was just livid about the diagnosis. That it was possible they’d have to come out but it’s impossible to know this for at least a few more weeks or more.

In a few months the teeth returned 100% to normal and firmed right up as the ligaments healed.

I’m not a conspiracy nut. I believe in listening to experts (but ultimately making an informed decision). I believe in modern medicine. But that experience shook me and forever changed my trust in the dental industry.

My feeling is that the nature of dentistry leaves a lot of room for subjectivity and COVID left a lot of dental chairs empty.
At that point doesn't it make more sense to fire the person?
What I take to be the TOS for Google Meet (it's a little hard to tell!) makes no specific reference to AI, but does mention use of customer data for "developing new technologies and services" more generally. https://policies.google.com/terms#toc-permission
Sadly, this is why this space has laggard for so long. Devs don’t want to pay for tooling but expect others to pay for their product.
What else do you expect from the airline that breaks guitars[0]?

[0]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo
Here’s Macworld on that topic: https://www.macworld.com/article/1341317/lightning-usb-c-iph...
Why libvirt supports only 14 PCIe hotplugged devices on x86-64
Setting aside the drilling on shadows...

There are studies that link gum disease to dementia.

https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/large-study-links-gum-disease-d...

> The mouth is home to about 700 species of bacteria, including those that can cause periodontal (gum) disease. A recent analysis led by NIA scientists suggests that bacteria that cause gum disease are also associated with the development of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, especially vascular dementia. The results were reported in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Going to the dentist for cleaning may be a good thing for those with less than ideal dental hygiene habits - even if no suggestions of cavities are ever drilled.
and in this proposal, who will be tasked with replicating the work?
Perhaps a controversial opinion, but I think exceptions should only be thrown when something exceptional happens. Languages, like Java and Python, overuse them e.g. failing to open a file is not exceptional, but running out of memory is.
I call this the Reheating Coefficient: how good does something taste when reheated compared to how good it did originally?

Stews can sometimes achieve even >1 RC. I find lasagna is really good as well. And then you have stuff like fries which start out pretty great and lose all appeal the second they hit room temperature, never to recover.
Google controls mine as search and gmail and chrome are major ways that I communicate with others. It’s difficult not to use them because my employer and many sites require chrome.

I’m not sure what the gmail market share is, but chrome and search are over 50% and they’ve used that market position to harm users (showing ads for their own products until you choose chrome) and harm competitors (showing their own ads above competitors).
cool, we’ll look into helping at an appropriate time. Since we are still developing the LSP, this issue isn’t affecting anyone

> the only problem for fixing the problem is

Hopefully it’s as easy as you make it sound!
Because the traditional PE model of debt-fuelled dividends is not feasible anymore. Back in the day it was really feasible to issue debt on the cheap, since you'd find takers, but with equity outpacing debt in returns, that model became infeasible.

After '08, my old firm (mega PE) went on a spree away from the PE play book, simply because they had the dry powder but not enough opportunities. Commercial and residential real estate, biotech, tech, etc.
The only reason human communication is ineffective is because it's slow. If an AI can read/write 1000s of words per second there's no reason it shouldn't use natural language to communicate.
I guess some clarification on the word "tase" is required. In my case, the shock threw me back some distance – I won't give in to hyperbole and say "threw me across the room" but 'twas nothing like the gentle tickle of 120VAC or the throb of 230VAC.
David Sachs whinges about his SF real estate portfolio nearly every episode of the all in podcast.
Vent stack is probably blocked. Or possibly not connected in the first place, if somebody did a lousy job with the plumbing.

Basically, the sewer line should be vented to air on top of the building somewhere, or in some cases air could be let in via an air admittance valve. This should prevent the creation of a vacuum that would cause gurgling or odors.
I don’t even know where to start. How about the low hanging fruit. What “federal network” are you talking about? Do you think there is a federal power grid?

Also: Texas leads the country in renewables generation: https://www.kxan.com/weather-traffic-qas/texas-leads-the-cou... (“ Texas more than doubled what California produced in renewable energy last calendar year. The gap will only widen in the next few years as our state looks for continued increases in solar power harnessing.”)
How do you interpret "Zombie Economy?"

>a corpse said to be revived by witchcraft, especially in certain African and Caribbean religions.

Edit: I admit that I used the wrong word. I would correct it to:

I'm still not sold on the "China is Japanifying" theory.
What kind of fps, and therefore performance, do you need to spot a wildfire?

https://archive.li/VvwnT

I see it says a camera does a 360 degree sweep in 2 minutes so the view changes. 1 fps gets you a 3 degree change. No mention of FOV though.
The expression "2-3" isn't intended to be a schedule, like MT-WThF. It's shorthand for "two or three".
Not sure why people point to bailouts as some sort of gotcha, they're loans, not free money. The US government made a profit from the 2008 bailouts:

> Early estimates for the bailout's risk cost were as much as $700 billion; however, TARP recovered $441.7 billion from $426.4 billion invested, earning a $15.3 billion profit or an annualized rate of return of 0.6%, and perhaps a loss when adjusted for inflation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilizati...
> That sounds unhealthy.

This is kind of risible. No, it does not sound "unhealthy" to express a desire to spend time around colleagues as part of the work day. I can hardly imagine a more natural or healthy desire.
Many of these devices will run Linux though, and it's becomming increasingly more common as even the low end chips are pretty capable nowadays. It could be worthwhile to build some lightweight alternative to UEFI that just handles disk identification and handing off a devtree to whatever bootloader comes after it instead of implementing the behemoth of a spec that is all of UEFI. Call it "LWFI", "light-weight firmware interface"?
I caught that too…after I had already shared this with my wife

But it still feels relevant. I had a dentist that wanted to drill cavities out with every visit, regardless of how often I flossed and brushed

Been to four dentists since and haven’t been told anything bad at all. There absolutely still exist dentists who are cashing in on us.
Without an actual formal study, I'm skeptical that an employer can accurately measure productivity. Unless of course they are in a stagnant industry where the tasks today are exactly the same as yesterday, like counting widgets built on an assembly line.
It's so weird, as I had a very near identical experience. I went through a cursory checkup then they sat me in some waiting room with a video on all sorts of dental diseases, apparently all of which I had. They needed to drill out some half dozen cavities, carry out a root canal, and I cannot even remember all what else. I noped out without even asking for a quote, and started skipping my annual exams.

Some 20 years later I finally went to a dentist again, in a developing country no less, because I had a visible cavity - my first ever. It was quite scary given the elapsed time. $15 dollars, and about as many minutes, later all was said and done, with no other issues present.
Just get over it. Semantics are much more important than syntax. Every language will have some piece of syntax you won't like.
Sorry it sounds like you don't have a satisfying life outside of work, and that has nothing to do with WFH vs RTO.

Learning to WFH is as much a skill as learning to operate in an office environment. The difference, when you learn the former you also have increased freedom.