skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have yet to see anything indicate remote work makes knowledge workers more productive. I prefer hybrid word, but exclusively because of the benefits outside of work. Anecdotally, I’m probably around 80% as productive at home compared to at the office.
Yes, HN was at its peak around the time I signed up for it.

It started to go downhill after that.

It’s kind of like how SNL was at its peak when I was 17 years old and hasn’t been the same since.
At the very end of the article: "This article originally ran in the February 1997 issue of Reader’s Digest."

Surely this should be noted in the HN title?
Of course the terms "Internet" wouldn't be used for another decade (and deployed even later) but the rfc-editor's index is more recent than that.

There are some implications of RFC 20 right in the abstract that are obscure today.

> use of standard 7-bit ASCII embedded in an 8 bit byte whose high order bit is always 0.

This was very important because character sets had still not been standardized back then, though ASCII newer non-IBM systems tended to choose ASCII by default. Even then, since byte and word lengths varied, multiple character sets were common even on a single machine (e.g. both ascii and SIXBIT) so specifying the 8-bit byte (and IBMism IIRC) was necessary. 36-bit words were quite popular in research machines and back in '69 I think all the arpanet hosts were 36-bit PDP-10s, which supported bytes of width 1-36 bits. You can still see remnants of these machines in some older protocols.

As a consequence, the FTP protocol had a "binary mode" and a "text mode" because you can't safely transfer binary data from machines with incompatible word sizes and endianness. Text mode guaranteed a stream of seven bit characters in the correct order. If you specified the wrong transfer mode you usually ended up with gibberish.

> SRI uses "." (ASCII X'2E' or 2/14) as the end-of-line character, where as UCLA uses X'OD' or 0/13 (carriage return).

You can see that this issue also goes way back.

So if you think things were better before the confusion of utf-8 vs other representations, or were better before Windows code pages, well, they weren't.
The openness of this approach will allow for great recall potential with GPT models when we eventually get them running locally. Dave Winer has already been experimenting with this (admittedly not locally) based on his large backlog of blog posts and has found it effective[1].

[1] http://scripting.com/2023/08/06/131842.html?title=miriamIsGr...
>As a meat eater ... you cannot yet know what you lack/you'd gain ;)

No, I'd even grant that my pov could even be a sign of lowered empathy, but as my second part was meant to indicate. On the other hand developing an empathy for other animals can lead to lowered empathy for the 'murderers' of those animals.

If you empathise with foos and bars, and foos are harming bars, surely that would impact your empathy for foos.
Both ends (takeover / collapse) are exaggerations for the benefit (attention) of the person making the claim.

The US and EU/Eurozone/Western Europe are not going away. Their significant allies are not going away (eg Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, India, etc.). China isn't taking over, they're becoming (have become) a peer global power.

China has accumulated vast wealth, infrastructure, manufacturing, know-how, and so on. It's not going to reverse backwards in the sense of collapse. Things aren't going back to the way they were 30-40 years ago. China is - at least for our relevant time - permanently established as a free-standing power (ie even if the West wanted to, that genie can't be put back). They will likely continue to progress, even if at a slower pace.

Stagnation brought on by hyper rigid authoritarianism is most likely. At least during the Xi era. Perhaps there will be a Deng Xiaoping like loosening again afterward, who knows (maybe someone far worse will use Xi's levers of power to implement even stricter authoritarianism).
I guess this is a different kind of training altogether, but I’m having fun coming up with exercises to do entirely in my head. Scales don’t need to be practiced at a keyboard.

I’m an amateur and partially self-taught so I don’t know how common that is.
I like the part where the reason the US keeps allowing it is that "if we don't, China will", as if China has access to the same flood of data that US FAANG companies and contenders like Zoom have access to every second of every day.

Sure, at the government level it has access to the same data as everyone else, but that firewall's still there, can't have an AI trained on data that might give a more worldly view on matters the party doesn't want citizens exposed to. A Chinese AI will be pretty useless for western audiences, so best they can do is make the hardware.

Which they already do.
On the veeeery bottom of my to-do list has been to get a 2nd yubikey in case mine breaks....

9 years later I'm still procrastinating and after reading these comments I'm convinced I'm good for another couple years LOL

I did have a nano though, it broke on me, but it was my company's key. I don't think the same holds for those ones.
Did they use Teams internally and got fed up?
How Addictive Tech Hacks Your Brain
Another read on dental overdiagnosis and outright fraud:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-tro...
Additionally, train noise is predictable. With car/motorbike noise my ears are primed for the low-esteemed person who needs to make a Big Wroom Wroom.
What is @music on Twitter ? I've never heard of it.

edit: To answer my question it seems it's just a borderline spam account that occasionally posts links to youtube music videos. I don't see anything being "built" there.
This is how I’ve come to use that term mostly.

The various reserves of intellectual, technical, social, and other pools of energy reserves are all allocated elsewhere. I’m not going to make time for everyone and everything ever.
> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
Banks don't generally lend out deposits.
Will try!

It looks quite similar to table plus, any killer features I’m overlooking?
New Dungeons and Dragons Sourcebook Features AI Generated Art
> Obviously, lowercase characters didn't exist in 1963, they were invented later and that's why they added them later.

Lowercase letters were invented in 1967 and later backported to cursive writing for use in hospitals to thwart Chinese medical espionage.
Barcode stickers only work when they are scanned. The difference here is that bluetooth tags are automatically and continuously scanned by things in their environment.

Though if the issue is "they put the wrong tag on it" (which sounds like the issue here) that's not going to solve anything.
How about the other option?

>What is the minimum quality of life you want for your children?
I am very curious to see how it develops. I'm currently working on multiple SQLPage [1] websites, and getting a better IDE experience would be awesome. Writing only SQL is refreshing compared to all the boilerplate required in traditional web dev, but the developer experience is not yet as polished as in, let's say, typescript.

[1] https://sql.ophir.dev
They probably force themselves to use their own product which is why remote comms is failing.
Interesting internal comms along these lines from 2013: https://www.techemails.com/p/imessage-for-android
I kind of doubt Newton was that concerned of cases like this when he defined his laws of mechanics and if he was given such an example he could have easily made an alteration to the laws if he wanted.

This discussion is only happening because he did not get around to doing that. It's not important.
There’s a reason that the dentistry model is Drill, Fill, and Bill.
This is the one place I like insurance because it at least gives some cost conscious perspective to proposed procedures.

My insurance sucks but at least it’s useful that insurance considers optional what my dentist says is essential. For example, my dentist only does tooth colored fillings and my insurance doesn’t cover them. My dentist says the covered ones are unsafe.

It’s a weird situation. My last dentist said I needed an “emergency crown” because my tooth would shatter at any moment. It was $3000. My insurance covered $600. The dentist said it was because my insurance was terrible.

Another dentist said the crown was optional and would cost $1800. That’s almost a 100% price difference.

And my most recent dentist says I don’t need a crown at all and it’s been two years since the “emergency.”

I’m not sure what’s going on, but of course it’s impossible to compare prices when choosing dentists and I don’t trust new dentists at all.
My understanding: business A sells USD 1,000 worth of goods abroad.

Customer wires USD 1,000 to bank B to the account of business A as payment for the goods.

This money does not go directly to the account of business A.

Bank B sends USD 1,000 to Central bank and gets RMB 7,000 (or whatever the exchange rate is) which go to the account of business A.

Bank B ends up with deposits almost entirely in RMB to loan out. Few customers outside China really want those.

Compare with a situation in which bank B kept its USD on the books as customer deposits. Then it would have USD to loan out, and the market for such loans is much bigger.
Does ChatGPT tell me that I can caramelise onions in 15 minutes?
I am not a lawyer, but https://explore.zoom.us/docs/doc/Zoom-hipaa.pdf reads like as long as they don't disclose your information, they aren't in violation.
Knowledge Laundering
'While you've got good insurance, we can upgrade all your teeth now, before they get bad'?

There may be stereotypes about the British having bad teeth, but I've never had a dentist try to milk my wallet like that despite a poor diet having done a fair bit of damage over the years.

Dentistry here seems much more about doing the minimum necessary work to save teeth and relieve pain. The thought of getting crowns done en-masse is terrifying, I've only had one done, and it wasn't a fun experience - it's something I see as a last resort to save a tooth, certainly not something I'd want to go through for cosmetic improvements.
>Regulations can be bad, but they can also be good. Maybe the pendulum can start swinging back the other way to find the right balance between accessibility to all who need it and flying cesspools.

What relevant regulations would have helped in this case? Airlines are already liable for expenses that you incur as a result of lost/delayed baggage. Do we need to the DOT to mandate that gate agents double-check baggage tags before they're attached?

[1] https://www.transportation.gov/lost-delayed-or-damaged-bagga...
FlixBus in Europe has been great IME
Because of opportunity cost relative to other housing options. Right now you're only allowed to build SFHs, and the market will only bear a price of 2-3M before most people are priced out, so that's what they cost.

If instead of one SFH with a large yard you build 5 row houses in the same plot, and sell each one for 1M, the SFH is only 50% efficient compared to the row houses, so its price needs to increase for it to be worth building.

It's obviously more complicated than that, but that's the underlying idea. It's the same reason you don't see SFHs in Manhattan, because the opportunity cost is too high.
Oh it's okay, it's a single-player game, it's not that you need any server capacity for that. Other than download servers but it's Steam's problem, not publisher's.

...right?
That seems an intentionally blind take on the matter. That's like saying that because you've seen a kid shoplift a pack of gum at a gas station, an organized crime outfit stealing entire ATMs from every gas station in a 200 mile radius isn't anything new.

Scale matters.
I don’t know the vendor you linked either, but Digikey (a huge electronics parts wholesaler) has an entire educational kits section on their site: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/educational-kits/...

Lots of microcontroller stuff in there, but also plenty of simpler hardware electronics projects
Predictions for Chinas GDP growth in 2023 is 5.2% - https://www.reuters.com/markets/major-banks-cut-china-2023-g...

That's considered to be low.

Predictions for the US's 2023 GDP growth is 1.6%

They seem to think a pandemic where Chinas response was total lockdown is indictive of the future.

> The Economist now claims that China might never catch up with the US

That's not how The Economist works
Polish charity gets phone bill thanks to stork
> If someone cares enough about the work to build on it, they will replicate it anyway.

Well, the trouble is that hasn't been the case in practice. A lot of the replication crisis was attempting for the first time to replicate a foundational paper that dozens of other papers took as true and built on top of, and then seeing said foundational paper fail to replicate. The incentives point toward doing new research instead of replication, and that needs to change.
How to enable end to end encryption in Zoom:
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360048660871-End-t...

(Presuming of course that their closed source software really E2E encrypts without a backdoor)
Which make you think, how many people are in the same situation, don't get viral, and get screwed in the end.

How likely would it be that you would win a trial in a small claims court?
Beat me to it. This is a superb article and I highly recommend that everyone read it in full.
Ha, I've always wondered what those were intended for. Because you're right, whenever I've checked in at a desk, I've never once had them bother to actually stick them on my luggage. Thanks.
It'd be amazing if I could torrent my co-workers so I could skip all those pesky ads they keep doing when we're sitting in remote meetings.
Did you enjoy solving hard situations at first at all ?

good luck for your next steps, hope you find a chill and joyful spot
I'll bite. I'm assuming you're talking about RH removing source availability for RHEL[0]? If not, would love to be informed on the licensing "shxt show" you're referring to.

Some background: I avoid most of the Enterprise Linux ecosystem (CentOS, RHEL, AlmaLinux, etc.) as my mentality to sysadmin is often quite different than the average RHEL lover. I run NixOS everywhere and supplement with Arch Linux or Ubuntu when I can't use NixOS. So I am in no way a part of the target demographic of RHEL or derivatives.

But, I actually agree with Red Hat's view on the RHEL clones[1]: they should start using CentOS Stream as their upstream base. CentOS Stream is upstream of RHEL, so if the RHEL-compatible distros start snapshotting from CentOS Stream, then all of the Enterprise Linux ecosystem will benefit from bug-fixes, improvements, etc. that they all contribute into CentOS Stream. Unfortunately, for the RHEL-clones, if they adopt this approach they wouldn't have bug-for-bug compatibility with major RHEL releases, and they would have to do more work in making an LTS off of CentOS Stream. But, everyone benefits (theoretically) in contributing to the same upstream codebase -- and I can't think of many instances where an application that works on RHEL wouldn't work on CentOS Stream or a downstream derivative.

AlmaLinux has chosen to rebase off of CentOS Stream[2] and I think it's the right choice. Rocky Linux has chosen to try to workaround Red Hat's removal of source availability by relying on loopholes to obtain RHEL source code via UBI containers and cloud images[3]. I can't imagine this (seemingly fragile) approach being sustainable and it feels counterintuitive to continue building a distro based on the work of a company whose mentality that you fundamentally disagree with.

Long-winded response, but I guess I don't love the FUD surrounding Red Hat. Red Hat's work benefits me as a Linux user with tooling like Network Manager, systemd and GNOME. I don't think Linux would be as serious of a contender in certain spheres without Red Hat's open source work that the entire Linux ecosystem benefits from.

[0] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-s...

[1] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-sour...

[2] https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/

[3] https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/

EDIT(s):

Some minor grammar fixes.

Also, I would recommend looking at the the AlmaLinux link's footnote for ABI compatibility and what that means.
Talent <> value to the company.

We sadly let someone walk because while they were SUPER talented, they weren’t working effectively on things that mattered
Is that ironic? Work is rarely accomplished over zoom. In fact it’s typically the opposite of productivity.
kind of like how disk shouldn't be a bottleneck for framerate, but, you know... how we forget.
HitchBOT
What would be a good quality/price ratio microphone for this sort of keystroke sound recording?

It would be nice to try to tokenize the strokes and then try to assign labels probabilistically.
>In order to get coast to coast public transport you'd have to take the whole of the country (the United States) into account and then you'll find that that average population density suddenly matters a lot.

Sure, but coast-to-coast is not what matters. Moving people between where they need/want to go is what matters. I suppose a very large portion of all trips people in NJ makes on an annual basis is not coast-to-coast. It is within New Jersey or adjacent communities.
I don't see how this is ironic. How are people going to attend meetings on any day if they are only coming 2 days a week. Similarly, Zoom has multiple offices so even if people had to go to the office 5 days a week there would still be a point to have zoom for calling between offices.
The need to adapt it for the average user is mentioned. The average person uses a pc (if ever - good luck with this on mobile) mostly for work (ms office + some ERP) and in some cases for private uses (e.g. news, e-banking, mails, important administrative work). If you go a bit deeper maybe reddit and video games. An average user would never want to link around stuff on the web with a hundred arrows and multiple colors. He simply does not care.

The author and the old guy in the video he linked to behave almost cult-like, especially the old guy: He literally claims that this IS the best method for working with documents ever, the www is a fork of his idea based on a "dumbed-down in the 70s at brown university", he does not understand why it has not already taken off and he thinks its the most important feature for the human race. Really?

If people really see potential in this and work in spaces like journalism and academic research there would be already big programs out there.

Yes it is good to have passion about something and yes it is good if someone has a real need for this and his delivered with a solution, but this will never go mainstream. And in my opinion not even in the segment of technical skilled people like engineers.

This is the typical invention that fits the "I know it is the best thing, I love it and almost pressure people to use it, but it has not taken off the lightest for decades" case.
Is it really that unusual? Even in the pre covid days, all the places I've worked had someone working remotely because of some reason or another, but the general policy was that everyone had to come in all or most days.

The WFH became almost a perk, like if you work hard enough and prove yourself, maybe we'd consider it.
I use tmux/neovim so I basically live in the terminal 100% of the time when working and when playing around with sideprojects. And I find alacritty to be super easy to use and more responsive compared to iterm2 :)
The fact that no one is really in control. I donate to my mastodon instance knowing that if it takes a turn for the worst, I can just go somewhere else and donate there. It’s not flawless but at least no one is holding all the cards.
I do therapy and group therapy on Zoom, are they going to train a therapist AI? Does this go around HIPAA privacy rules? Would they keep a file on phi?
If you take a car to a mechanic, the upper limit anyone will likely pay for repairs is the value of the car.

If you take a human into the healthcare system, there is no upper limit.
I'm seeing no changes since 2013 and no issues either open or closed. Do you know what sort of state the project is in right now?
If major 3rd party Reddit client developers adapt and repurpose their apps for Lemmy backends, can it drive significant user base there?
I remember those mushy keyboards! One of my college friends was an ST fan. Her dad had at least 4 STs: 520, 1040, a couple of Megas. I was an Amiga guy myself.

I don't really like seeing retro hardware "modded" like this, unless the original machine was totally non functional, but to each their own.
Maybe I'm just missing something, let me explain:

I've already ssh'd to my work machine. I want to send an HTTP request to my company's internal web API from that machine, but we only use webauthn credentials. I'm going to use curl to send the request to the web API. With basic username/password auth or totp it's easy for me to write a script that prompts me for my password/totp code and marshals in into the expected format. How do I do this with my FIDO2 private key in a way that doesn't completely undermine the whole process?
There are, or rather were Lisps with fewer parenthese: Lisp 2, CGOL, Dylan, but I wouldn't say they were popular. It isn't too difficult to write one yourself. After you've done so, and used it for a while, you'll understand better why those earlier projects never gained traction, and learn to love (or, where appropriate, not notice) Lisp's parentheses.
This would appear to be a material change to the terms and conditions.
What recourse do paying subscribers have in terms on cancellation and refunds?
if it was just 100 push pops, that would be fine for a delay.

if its 20 push pops
foo
10 push pops
bar
foo
20 push pops
foo
foo
10 push pops.

to achieve the same delay.

its like:
a=1
b=2
result=0
print 1+2
return

it isnt wrong, but its indicative of someone who doesnt understand whats going on. you wouldnt describe it as good code.
No, I'm not.

A metro is bad. A Tesla tunnel is good.
My wife was shocked to learn in dental school how many people were there focused on the money. From her experience I learned that dentistry in particular is a profession that has a low investment / high payoff ratio. Relative to medical school dental school is easier to get into and shorter, and unscrupulous dentists can extract a lot of money out of patients.

PS: I feel compelled to share her best advice re oral hygiene:

"You only need to floss the teeth you want to keep."
Would also add Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything: The Basics to this list
Wrong. Obviously a Bluetooth tag does deliver some value or customers wouldn't be doing it.

Of course airlines don't care what YOU want, because they don't have to.
i still think every single one of these return to office orders are from investors that are heavily portfolio'd (new word!) in commercial real estate and are trying to keep the bubble from bursting like it should.

There is soooo much vacant office space right now and no one is lowering prices like should happen with this much surplus.
attackers are now creating fake Okta pages with <client name>.okta.com landing page and steal Okta user/pw