skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remote work makes modern life possible. In almost every major US city commutes, and the pressures of caring for a family 10x'd over the last 50 years. In their heart of hearts everyone knows 90% of the pandemic was not fear of a virus, but coping with exhaustion of a life that had become untenable for most people.

I don't think everyone is as-productive in a remote mode, but knowledge workers who build tangible things often can be more productive, and measurably so.

Excess Management is more visibly pointless with remote work, and naturally excess managers who contribute ~nothing hate it. For example people who manage mediocre webblogs due to be replaced by LLM content such as the author of this document. It makes those people miserable, and the majority of workers in any organization are unproductive. That's all.
At this point, I'm much more worried about shorter-term effects as this reality becomes more tangible for folks.

We already have spikes in heat-related deaths, people dying in their homes. The despair... No, that's the wrong word, nihilism? from young generations is devastatingly sad to me, not to mention alarming.

The political powers in the US have orchestrated the fear and hate just enough to keep the people at each other's throats, always just out of reach of true class consciousness.

These days, I can't really be motivated to play the games anymore either. If no one else cares, in meaningful, impactful ways, why should I?
You should be downloading season packs instead.
I have long stopped caring about what Musk does day-to-day with his pet project.

(hint: it's generally always bad)

It's just tiring to have to read headlines about the man a dozen times daily in various outlets.
Ask HN: Why doesn't zoom and Google Meet “ring” the other party?
Remember the old days of calendar invites and the location was just a phone number? And it would say "Party A to call Party B" so you knew at 10am wait for a call and Party B would either call right on time or be a little late but when Party B started "the call" it would RING and they would hear a ringing sound, and they could let it ring over and over until it went to voicemail knowing Party A should have been hearing the rings.

Vs. today I show up right on time to a zoom or google meet and wait. And wait. And many times the other party flakes. But I never get that satisfaction of 10 rings and that feeling of they are being notified of this call right now.

Yes I could txt them or email but that's so awkward. It's like getting stood up for a date. You have to play it cool and just wait for them to notice they missed the meet.
You don’t understand how WebAssembly works. You severely misunderstand how the VM secures itself. Listen to what all the other comments are trying to teach you. There are no security vulnerabilities in your code.

For simplicity, pretend any pointer dereference is a function call with the address as its argument. The VM makes sure it’s within the range of valid values every time. There is no executable code in that range either, only data. Further, function pointers are not real pointers, just an index into a table which again, is checked on any indirect function call.

In practice the memory is secured by allocating a 4 GiB aligned memory range and just masking off the pointer on every access so it’s within that memory. This way there’s very little to no overhead, depending on the architecture.
I'm aware of 5 operations that a standard link should support:

- Left-click (obvious)

- Right-click (context menu)

- Middle-click (open in new tab)

- Ctrl-click (open in new tab)

- Shift-click (open in new window)

Most sites support at least one of right/middle/ctrl-click, though sometimes you have to Duplicate the tab and then left-click. If none work, and duplicating the tab loses context, it's probably time to abandon hope and find another website.
donated! thank you, Bram, for our beloved vim
no it's more like "man who steals tank and goes on murder spree renews debate over how many motor vehicles are too many." grizzlies are far, far more dangerous than American black and brown bears—lumping them together is nonsensical.

bears are bros, grizzlies are murder machines
Whenever I see articles like this, I have to question our drug policy. People have been getting high since before we were human (non-human primates get intoxicated). We can't stop people from getting high as we discovered with prohibition. Why not legalize drugs to help bring it out into the open and have laws to make sure one uses them responsibly (need to be an adult, don't drive, etc.). This way the user can know that they get something that is not tainted with fentanyl. Also, when purchasing, one can sign or get a sheet of dosing and symptoms to watch for (in case one needs to call 911). Also, it could have standard tax sales tax applied (can't make it close to 50% like cannabis is in California otherwise, dark market will still exist) to bring in some revenue. This should also reduce violence of drug dealers/gangs and reduce expenses associated with prosecuting, jailing and forth.

This seems like the feds pissing into the wind to get into headlines so that it appears that they are doing something.
This, exactly. We need far more (and larger) protected wildlife areas.
I think of this as the "appification of websites", we need to stop doing it. We need to move back to SSR and sprinkles of JS on websites.

On the other hand web apps absolutely can play a little more with the UX if it provides value to the user. But if it's in the browser, some of this really do still apply. I'm all in on web apps, its a universally accessible platform for development outside the walled gardens of app stores.

What we need to stop doing is treating every single website as an app!

If you want your page to appear in search results on a search engine, it's not a web app it's a website.
Just torrent them.
Unfortunately I can't get as into the later ones, so those are me giving up
I worked remotely from 2014 and then switched employers and a chose to be onsite after the pandemic.

Reason being it’s so much easier to ramp in person and build trust with colleagues. I now go in a couple times a week on days when I have a lot of meetings.

Another factor is the work environment. My current big tech campus is an absolute pleasure to work out of a few days. My prior grey soulless bank employer was not inspiring at all. I also Don’t like wearing shirts with buttons or hard pants in the summer.
They are free to do as they please and so do I. I've got nothing against that particular part. I respect their wishes they must respect mine in return.
It's well known among scientists.

But global warming is a very major political issue, and those who determine what will be done about it - voters and politicians - have on average zero clues about it.
Huh.

I'm still reading and hearing the claim that AI can't create art, no matter how good the output, because they can't feel the pain or joy that inspires it in humans.

Basically the same argument that predates the Turing test, and which Turing quoted in the paper where he described the test:

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"""Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain—that is, not only write it but know that it had written it. No mechanism could feel (and not merely artificially signal, an easy contrivance) pleasure at its successes, grief when its valves fuse, be warmed by flattery, be made miserable by its mistakes, be charmed by sex, be angry or depressed when it cannot get what it wants."""

- Off-print, ‘The mind of mechanical man’, The Lister Oration delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 9 June 1949 from the British Medical Journal, (Vol. 1, 25 June, 1949)
The option that is always glossed over, partly because it is the real mode of operation of senior staff in any non trivial company, is that you are effectively remote with in-person meetings for a week or so every couple of months, and a regime of daily communication otherwise. That is far better than either total remote, "hybrid", or full time in one office, as you get the benefits of the ability to do deep focused work, and build successful relationships.

To put this in perspective I still almost daily speak to former colleagues from a decade ago who were located in offices thousands of miles away that I never shared a physical office with.

The problem with the pandemic was that it interrupted that good aspect of occasional interaction, but this deliberate effort to confuse that with the daily open office grind isn't fooling anyone whose salary is not dependent upon it.
Firefox should natively support OpenNIC and other alternative DNS providers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root

This will help Mozilla gain marketshare by being the goto browser for anyone wanting to access non-mainstream sites.

But I admit, that also makes firefox hostile to corporate environments. If only firefox obeyed windows system/gpo/registry settings like chrome. I have never seen a non-tech company even permit firefox in their IT policy for these and other reasons anyways.

If they really are for privacy for individuals, this is the way!

It would also be ideal if alternative root systems supported DoH well. But that's only half the problem, discovering a list or resolvers is a big pain because those can also be blocked.

My suggestion is for willing sites to frequently update their SRV records with new/current list of authoritative root IPs that support DoH. Supporting mainstream sites can also do that, so when you visit these sites you have the latest root list, and if that list is dynamic enough (have static root IPs but make them reachable with IPs that change all the time) blocking the system becomes a whack-a-mole and the difficulty is set by network size and how many new root resolver's can be added (DHT over https might help too).
Extroverts who were forced into WFH because of the pandemic having withdrawals symptoms; News at 11.

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Before Pandemic, people self-selected into WFH/remote scenarios; if you were introverted and just wanted to focus on work, you would have taken the quiet path yourself. If your office offered it, you took it; if not you would try your best to move to job that offered it.

If you were an extrovert who gained energy from social interactions... you would never have chosen such a path, but the pandemic forced extroverts into to seclusion, and they are now stuck.

They can see the clear benefits from a WFH/ remote setup, like being able to focus on work, time/fuel savings from no commute, flexible schedule... but they want the office energy back.

Like boomers, they pine for the good-ol' days and they don't just want themselves back in office, they want the whole crowd, and to make a crowd, you need EVERY one back.

So they are miserable and trying to make us miserable too.
Jan Potocki‘s “Manuscript found in Saragossa”.
You have to pay me to use Windows and macOS. After speeding years using both products, I don't want to use them any more unless I'm getting paid. I personally do not need any software that is tied to either platform. Professional, depends on what needs to be done.

Not all have this view and nor most will.

Hard-core gamer will most likely keeping on Windows unless developers and distributors change their ways.

Some people buy a computer because of the OS it is running and they need select applications to run. Most only need a web browser and it does not matter what OS they run, often it is the least expensive laptop. Something that has a bigger screen than a smart-phone.

Windows backwards capability is also limited. Gaming: never was able to get Slave Zero running on a Windows XP box, only Win98. Development: had to ignore the input event system Microsoft designed for WinForms and WPF, using Win32 message pump directly, because of faulty drivers and new features breaking backward capability.
But like what? Genuinely curious for an example of "blatantly false claims"? As I'm on the "right" side of the spectrum, and these kinds of comments come from a criticism of "misinformation".

Also, as an aside. What is a "false claim"? If it's a claim, they're asking you to believe it, which means they need to motivate it and provide details to back it up. Seems precisely where all the media generally is (including CNN/BBC/etc), pandering to peoples' bias without saying anything factually incorrect.
Beavers also raise the water table. I heard or read somewhere that it's partially because the sheer weight of the water behind the dams. This study found an increase of about one foot in the water table following relocation of 69 beaver in Washington State:

We evaluated changes in temperature and water storage following the relocation of 69 beaver into 13 headwater stream reaches of the Skykomish River watershed within the Snohomish River basin, Washington, USA. We evaluated how beaver dams affected surface and groundwater storage and stream temperature. Successful relocations created 243 m3 of surface water storage per 100 m of stream in the first year following relocation. Dams raised water table elevations by up to 0.33 m and stored approximately 2.4 times as much groundwater as surface water per relocation reach.

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2...
This thread is a great counter argument to anyone who claims that HN is a place for civil discussion and debate.

People are screaming propaganda and conspiracy as soon as they run into a view that doesn’t align with their own.
Not well, and usually not without assistance. Lots of people making 20K a year have families.
CNSA is planning to launch a pair of spacecraft next year that will flyby Jupiter on trajectories reminiscent of Voyagers 1 and 2.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Express
Much of this information was also BS.

The vaccinated are still pretty much alive and didn't die because of AIDS
Yes, I too worked remote for a long time. I would say I was cut out for it. I had a strong work ethic, didn't miss having co-workers for company and had always kept home and work separate. It's not for everyone.
"Farming life is better than city life." - citation needed.

Farming life is long, hard, and expensive. The difficulty in even running a small farm, never mind something larger - and that's ignoring being priced out by huge corporations buying out land and farms - is significant.

That's not even touching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_the_Uni... which - if you knew anything about "farming life" - you'd know is a significant and long-standing issue in the farming community.

Spend most of your days doing physically taxing labor (even with machines to help), and still be at the mercy of weather or pests (for crops), and markets / health scares (for animals), having little access to healthcare, mental health support or financial support, and then come tell me how much "better" it is.

Farming life is more than just fresh air and being less densely-populated. Saying it's "better" when farmers have some of the highest suicide rates, issues with mental health, and levels of poverty and income disparity - never mind the significantly higher risk of death or serious injury from machinery or livestock - is totally inaccurate and incredibly disingenuous.
I met Bram in the Google Mountain View office. We chatted for over two hours. He was full of humility and curiosity and more interested in what I was working on (I was working on DistBelief back then). Hats off to a life full of impact and a legacy that will continue to impact programmers all over the world. RIP.
Deep Space Network – live view
If a bit of rain would stop you then that says a lot. I bike thousands of km per year and get caught in the rain frequently, it doesn't even factor into the decision of whether or not I will go because when you bike a longer distance in NL the chances of getting rained on approach certainty.
Much more detailed history of Grizzlies, Montana and The Endangered Species act on MTPR's site https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2021-04-02/timeline-a-hist...
Thanks a lot for that clarification. That actually changed my understanding of section 230: I always thought that the "shaping" of content was some sort of loophole that the section might have more or less accidentally enabled - I wasn't aware that this was its main purpose.

Considering that we increasingly understand how much power lies in that ability to "shape" distribution of UGC, and how much platforms actively abuse that power, the people wanting to reform/repeal the section just got a whole lot more sympathetic in my view.

> If its not IP, no one has ownership ; ownership of content only applies to IP of some kind.

(I edited the GP before I saw the reply)

My point was more who is responsible for violations of other IP in UGC - i.e. the classic case of someone uploading a blockbuster movie to YouTube. Would the liability fall on YouTube or the individual user who uploaded the content.

Or, in a similar vein, you post your address/phone number/real name/whatever to a platform, then later want to delete the post again, but the platform doesn't let you. Can you (legally) force the platform to delete the post or not?

However, the fact that both scenarios resulted in years-long, (and still ongoing) debates and in the end, new laws had to be passed to handle them (DMCA and GDPR), shows to me that the whole area seems to be extremely messy and not completely well-defined.

But yeah, the other question is also interesting: If I uploaded some personal project to YouTube (which would constitute IP I believe) and suddenly it goes viral, could Google steal the video and publish it as their own? Good to know here that they can't.
It will indeed be interesting to see whether our intelligence can build something that is, or can evolve itself, to be as intelligent or more intelligent than our intelligence!
sadly the reality is that remote companies that do well is still rare, and large corporations have employees onsite are doing better, and they get even bigger and keep expanding.

I like remote work myself, but if I'm the boss, I might change the idea 180 degrees. It's difficult to stay focused and motivated all the time WFH, it's human nature, sigh. At the end of the day, the company has the upper hand and has the say so they're demanding employees returning to offices more and more now. In two years I predict most of us will "have to" get back to offices.
I always imagine there is an "intro to forms programming" which includes code to disable copy and paste, and its concepts now have thousands of descendants across the web, to the point that people start imagining it's a security measure and proactively copy it. I agree w/you and don't see the point in stopping users from pasting in the first place.
Last year I visited LA over a couple days. I remember walking from downtown to Hollywood, I barely saw any trees. Just concrete with the occasional lawn in front of a house. I don't know if that's supposed to be a "rough area"; I didn't feel particularly unsafe.
I tried searching but I couldn’t find any evidence to support this.
Written without a single mistake.

Kinda suspicious, if you ask me. These are probably not his notes, but more like a publication and he doesn't want to use modern tools.
Yes, but there are many large assemblies, even presidential inaugurations exceeding a million people don't get unruly. Is there evidence they would be messy like you said were it not for policing?
Being remote since 2009, founded several full remote companies. I never ever plan to go back to an office. Same for all people's working with me. Customers are totally ok with it, productivity is definitely not lacking. And for social interactions I have real friends and family. Much better than fake work relationships I had in the 10y in office before that.
I wonder if some companies are paying for this propaganda.
Pretty clear there's no future in watching Disney products. I've never been one to horde data, but it seems pretty obvious that sometime in the future it could get harder and harder to get your hands on the data you want. Some things really could potentially disappear forever.
Ask HN: Does anyone make portable PCs?
If I always use my laptop with an external keyboard and display, why do I need to carry these around with me? They largely determine the form factor of the PC. A suitably robust box, housing CPU and storage, could be much smaller and do the job just as effectively. Does anyone sell such a device?
It tells us that git supports multiple workflows and some of the defaults are for a workflow that most git users don't use.
The UI is hillari-bad, but Google Meet lets you "ring" the other person instead of having a meeting.
Couldn't agree more. I remember when I was working in an office and I'd be invited out to social events with my colleagues outside of work, to the pub or whatever, and I almost always turned it down. I got on really well with them, but just being in the office used up my social energy.

When I started working from home, the situation flipped. Suddenly I was the one often organising these social trips, because my social energy was no longer being used (as much anyway, I was still talking to people regularly, possibly even more so). Working in the office was convenient, I could fill my social needs without even doing anything, but it wasn't real. I wasn't actually socialising with people or seeing friends, I was just sitting near people for 8 hours and that tricked my brain into filling that bar.

Personally, I decided I'd rather than inconvenient truth than a convenient lie. Though real socialisation is a lot more difficult, it's also a lot more fulfilling.

Not saying this is the case for everyone certainly, but that's how it's been for me.
Hackernewsitis is a made-up term that refers to the tendency of some people on the online forum Hacker News to get overly focused on or obsessed with certain topics, technologies, or companies.

Some characteristics of hackernewsitis include:

- Endlessly debating or commenting on the same subjects over and over, even when no new information is being contributed.

- Getting emotionally invested in certain technologies or companies, treating them like sports teams to cheer for rather than objectively evaluating them.

- Assuming the conversations and interests of Hacker News represent the tech industry as a whole, losing perspective on what is niche vs. mainstream.

- Spending too much time on Hacker News reading and commenting rather than working on your own projects and goals.

- Seeing the world overly in terms of tech industry buzzwords, losing appreciation of other domains.

- Acting overly cynical or pessimistic about new technologies based on theoretical risks rather than evidence.

So in summary, "hackernewsitis" refers to the potential for discussions on Hacker News to become unproductive echochambers if participants are not self-aware. It highlights the need for individuals to think critically and not get swept up in groupthink dynamics.

(Claude)

Me: Does this look like AI not understanding?
As far as I can tell, at least the Linux kmd is open source^:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/graphics-for-li...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics

^ The repo ships with dual licenses and exceptions, have not read the details.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/BkVtE
One thing that I think gets forgotten in these discussions is the economics of offices. Offices are really hard to convert to residential space, and paying for a space you only use 2-3 days a week can be prohibitive to companies that aren’t huge, not to mention downtown SF is becoming a ghost town with all businesses closed
don't spend more than $600 tbh
For now this doesn't really matter much, right? I assume everyone in Australia has multi-region DVD players and Blu Ray, and you can just order them from somewhere else on Amazon, right?

I mean this is clearly a sign of things to come, with no physical releases anywhere. But for now it seems fairly easy to work around, unless I'm misinformed about how the DVD/BluRay market works down under.