skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are quite a few very nice UI touches. I think the bit about the author (authors?) being 17 is relevant because it seems like they put a lot of thought about how to represent a book on the web and came up with some new conventions, just like you'd expect from a new generation. The chapter navigation widget at the top for example, where the previous and next chapters are slightly opaque. Haven't seen that before.
Thank you! What is batch normalization doing and how does it help
The statistical likelihood depends entirely on the timeframe. Within our lifetimes? Extremely unlikely for any large impact. Over the next billion years? A lot more likely!
Private office with a dog bed under my desk is table stakes.

Separate offices would go towards driving up the value of commercial real estate which seems to be important to companies.
Urbit is a weird freak system built to be intentionally hard to use by a bunch of actual fascists whose goal is to become the new landlords of an imaginary digital real estate economy. Yes, it deserves all the ridicule you can give it and more.
Meeting rooms is fine—it has the added benefit of seeing easily if one is empty. Offices would be terrible.
Svelte 3 was released 4 years ago. Svelte 4 had VERY few breaking changes, and those were in obscure corner cases.

Four years in the JavaScript ecosystem denotes a very stable API. 99.9% of all Svelte 3 projects would likely need no code changes at all moving to v4, at least that's been my experience.
Agreed, a daily cross on the beltway isn't something that should be necessary so I can sit at a computer. This isn't 1965, I'm not working at Honeywell as some mainframe engineer.
There's so many angles of this that feel uncomfortable to me.
ChatGPT and Open AI were released ahead of Sam's talks with regulators to allow for an organic and unregulated response to - and use of, these tools. This included producing examples of the threats to authorship and ease-of-access to sophisticated language and programming help for bad actors.

Altman now holds in his other hand an antidote to this in the form of a new technology that requires biometric data on a global scale, creates crypto noise for wealth generation for him and investors, and doesn't actually promise much beyond creating an inevitable leak of biometric data.

Altman is a long term thinker, and his decisions about Open AI were clearly contributing to the production of a landscape that was ready for WorldCoin. Given the data implications of that - it all makes me feel really uncomfortable!

This doesn't even necessarily reflect on his personal ambitions with the project - the outcomes are enough to assess it with.
To think the UCLA article didn't even include the photograph of the asteroid taken by DART prior to impact.
There is one sentence at the very beginning that is completely false:

> But remote workers don’t build the skills and connections that can help them one day get a better job.

It is so wrong yet it's repeated so much some people started to believe it. Maybe at some specific jobs or in some companies where management doesn't understand remote culture, but otherwise it's blatantly false as evidenced by all the people who switched from one remote job to another with a salary increase.[0]

[0] Could they get an even better job if they had worked in the office? Maybe, maybe not, but it's clear what was important for them.
This seems to be using https://prosemirror.net
> I just wish they made laptops with them. I'd buy a laptop I can use at the beach with sunglasses in a heartbeat.

My Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo SI1520 laptop back in ~2006 had a transflective LCD, and that wasn't mentioned in the spec. I just bought it because it seemed like a nice laptop, and took a gamble on it running Linux well, which it did.

I found out some years after buying it, when I took it out in bright sunlight and found the screen was perfectly readable.

In bright sunlight each pixel looked like a square mirror or black, rather than the usual colour in darker environments. I don't know if it was officially transflective, or just a side effect of the LCD implementation, but that was the effect.

Text editing in Emacs in the Linux console while basking in open fields on a bright day was a breeze. I didn't try the beach but I think it would have worked perfectly.

As this wasn't an advertised feature, I thought that meant later devices would tend to have the same as standard, just something nice we could take for granted. Unfortunately that hasn't been the case on newer devices.

I'd probably buy another Fujitsu-Siemens laptop because I was very pleased with that one, but they shut down the business since then.
> bash was written a decade prior to standardization, and has interesting issues because of this.

bash can do whatever it wants to do if it's called as "bash". But it should only do specific things when called as "sh". This is true of any shell:

> When interpreted with dash instead of bash, the same script will fail. This is because dash is much stricter than bash in following the sh standard. Since dash is designed as a minimal implementation of the sh standard, it has to be stricter. The double brackets [[ … ]] are a ‘bashism,’ or a feature only available in bash and other, later shells such as ksh and zsh.

> Even though zsh also interprets most of these bashisms, zsh in sh compatibility mode is also stricter than bash and will error.

* https://scriptingosx.com/2020/06/about-bash-zsh-sh-and-dash-...

* https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Invocation.html#Compa...

POSIX.2: Shell and Utilities (IEEE Std 1003.2-1992) is a few decades old now: regardless of when bash development started, I would think that by the 2010s it would have managed to better compartmentalize compatibility and extensions.
StreetComplete is fun! I was riding the bus the other day, and I opened the StreetComplete app. I noticed that most of the bus stops had incomplete information, so as we rode by I answered questions like "does this bus top have a shelter" for each stop as we went by. It's very easy to use, and I get a feeling of making the world a tiny bit better.
No idea how reliable or good that revenue source is now, or in the long term.

I wonder how hard it would be to make such an "algal mat". I would use something like this around here on my little farm/vineyard even as a kind of weed block, alternative to "plastic mulch": rolls of algal-produced fibrous mats, 2" or so thick. Permeable so water and air can get through, but thick and tight enough that weeds get blocked out. Would just degrade or be tilled into soil over time.

There's already equipment out there for laying "plastic mulch" but the stuff itself is fairly controversial because even the biodegradable stuff is still a plastic. If one could economically produce such a thing made out of algae, and compete with plastics on cost, that would be pretty damned nifty.

That and just some kind of bulk powder that can be soil incorporated as a carbon amendment. Pay farmers to lay the stuff down in huge quantities as a way of improving soil while getting CO2 out of the atmosphere.

Even better if a bioreactor and related equipment to make this stuff could be made to operate locally on site.
Humans have only been working in offices since the industrial revolution, before that it was nearly all WFH. WFH is our natural state.
This is pretty neat! One question, if all your queries have to be SQLite-compatible, doesn't that defeat the purpose of using PG in the first place? Maybe SQLite supports more PG features than I thought, but if for example your app uses pgvector or pgcrypto you might have issues here.
I don't have this information first hand, but that's my assumption.

Dang was handing them out like candy on January 6th. And I think he was justified in doing so; there was a coup in progress in the United States, so discourse here went completely off the rails.

But it's a very easy to implement method of throttling volume, which helps improve the conversation by minimizing opportunities for people to gish-gallop. You can email and ask to have it removed; I have refrained from doing so because it serves as a gentle reminder not to get dragged down in the lowest common denominator of what passes for discourse on the site from time to time.
Personally, the commute is secondary. I hate being at the office. The office could be right next door to me and I still wouldn't want to go. Offices are cold, sterile, mentally unstimulating environments of constant surveillance. I never want to go into another one ever again
There's a third interpretation: he took an x-ray of both bits of the sample and found that the XRD pattern of the levitating flake didn't match LK99's
Mozilla finds CPU bug (bad store forwarding) in Samsung Galaxy S20
In the US I think it's also a retention strategy. Nobody will just up and leave before they have another job lined up because health insurance is unaffordable. One US colleague mentioned $1000 per month!

It's a big deterrent IMO especially compared to Spain where healthcare is free
Before cubes were a thing, open office layouts were the norm. When cubes were introduced, office workers hailed than as wonderful things because it meant no more of the hell that is open office layouts.

Open offices < cubes < private offices

Personally, I will never again work in an open office setting, or even a "pod" setup. I've learned my lesson.
Some people are missing the social part of the office life.

I only miss the meals with colleagues, but that is not worth the extra time wasted on commute and the productivity loss of being interrupted by noise and jack-asses.

Middle managers are missing the sense of control, I think they rarely pay for themselves, with WFH this is even more apparent.
Free markets are sometimes useful tools in making profits but are also sometimes hinderences towards being able to extract the highest amount of profit from consumers.

That's why we see so many mergers and intensive lobbying for government regulation in things like healthcare, telecoms, and air travel, it's way easier to make money if you can restrict competition in your market and it's something essential to consumers
Open floorplans are especially problematic if your team handles any mix of development & operational tasks.

Wall Street tech it's pretty typical to do your own SRE/L3 and honestly even L2/L1. Everything from business user "hey how do I.." customer service questions down to "the server is on fire, alerts are coming in .. ".

Open floorplans mean even if you have an agreed PagerDuty type rotation, everyone gets sucked into or distracted by it. It's hard not to want to lend a hand when you see your buddy getting blown up by some difficult user or your inbox/slack is getting filled up with alerts.
Employer-provided health insurance comes from World War 2 and the US government locking market pay rates for the war. To compete, employers had to add non-monetary perks such as health insurance. Unfortunately we didn't transition out of this and it ballooned into the current mess.
> Employees have realised we are equally as effective working from home and simply do not want to waste 2+ UNPAID hours of every day travelling to a corporate building for the sake of it.

Not only is it unpaid, it actually costs the employee money. In the worst case you need a car + the insurance, fuel and maintenance costs associated. In the best case you still need to pay for public transportation.

> Nor do people want to spend £10+ a day on food and drinks which they have in their fridge, at home.

Eating out regularly is also hazardous to your health. In my experience and opinion there is no such thing as a healthy dining option. There are varying degrees of poisonous; some options are certainly better than others; but if you're trying to be strict with your diet then forget eating out daily.

Then add the stress of a commute, workplace hazards, risks associated with commuting (I have a ZERO chance of getting killed in a car accident when I'm not travelling in a car), risks associated with communicable diseases and there is a case to be made that working in an office is actually hazardous to your health.
The problem is these people were told that software was going to eat the world, so they anointed themselves as Certified Experts In Everythingology and think their garbage takes are the word of god.
I used to live 5mins from work. The office catered lunch every day, but I still went home every day to eat lunch with my wife instead. Hated being at that place
Both come from the shared common ancestor of, how do you work when you’re a small scrappy team who’s just gotta get stuff done together? You find a room, you get the equipment you need, and you work out of it until you’re big enough to need more.

I can fully understand why people dislike this kind of thing, but the fact that it shows up in multiple contexts suggests it probably does achieve what it’s aiming for.
> Would that, in your opinion, "suck the 'soul' out of a painting"?

Out of the analyzed painting, no.

> A tool to provide deep insight into something that would be very challenging to quantify personally.

Yeah, and will prevent the would be creator from developing a personal style. No matter what medium they create with.
I go back to reading "Joel on Software" from time to time... it's not my Bible or anything, but a lot of it has aged REALLY well.
New cleaning products hit shelves to tempt shoppers sick of stocking up
mullvad if you want good support and good linux/mac/windows client, proton has a shitty linux client, they support dynamic port forwarding in their windows client
> They give you the least they can possibly get away with.

Absolutely, but that line has shifted majorly. To the point where it won't make sense for "average" employers to even try to bring people into the office. I'm not going to sink money into gas or public transportation just to be imprisoned in a meeting room when I could just take the call at home from the porch, a treadmill, or a couch.
Most devs are very sedentary. That puts an enormous toll on the body. Which is worse? I don't know, but neither is great.
If you see where the packets are going you might be able to block at the DNS level.
On 10:44 PM GMT+8, the service is now recovered
Hi from the OpenStreetMap Foundation chairperson. We have one employee (our site reliability engineer), one external admin assistant, one external developer for the iD editor, and one external bookkeeper. The "8" on that site probably counts the board of directors, who are seven volunteers.
There was quite the mystique around Ultimate in those early days. So much so in fact that when I was 10 years old there was a conspiracy theory going around that the colours of their logo were a secret nod to an amazing game they would only release if the company ever got into trouble. Yes, this collection of schoolboys believed that Ultimate had created something so incredible and mind blowing that it could only be regretfully unleashed under the most dire of circumstances.

We also sat in from of a Spectrum for 16 hours waiting for the mythical midnight boat ride in Jet Set Willy. We may have been rather gullible.
Everyone is upset at the eye scanning but honestly I have no idea how this could actually be exploited for evil. Like is he going to turn around and sell personal data on the world's poorest people? What would anyone do with that?

I still can't get past the fantasy economics of crypto. Bitcoin and Eth caught lightning in a bottle and fueled a wild speculative frenzy that made some people a lot of money but they have utterly failed as currencies. No one has come within 1000 miles of dethroning USD with crypto, specie or even a rival fiat. What the hell is issuing Worldcoins supposed to do for anyone?
Reminds me of working out of a WeWork in South Station Boston. I faced away from the door and kept headphones on.
The GFC didn't hit tech too hard. The places I worked pretended "times are tough" to justify not handing out any raises, but the place next door was always happy to pay more. I certainly was not feeling the same recession as my friends in other industries were.

Anyone that worked through the dot-com bust is late-forties, at minimum. But they'd have to be mid-50s or older to really feel the effects and know what changed. And people in their mid-50s+ are a strong minority in tech.

If the median tech worker is 32, they would have graduated college after the GFC was over (2014ish).
Persian Rug – it ties the Rust room together
Well - at my massive company no one is willing to share any data about these decisions. That's a huge red flag. And anecdotes about remote working are personal (individual manager) and larger team (100s) to entire orgs (500+). it's been working great.
interesting

i was running various jelly bean custom roms and band selection was a common feature iirc
I like the UK method [1] more. You can be silent if you like but if you want to claim you were just going on a "jog" and not "running away from somebody you murdered" you better make that claim now.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence_in_England_an...
Wyoming seems like a good place to build such a thing.
Middle managers aren't making these decisions to have people go back to working in offices
A lot of numbers are being thrown around in the article. $170,000 a year and Drivers discussing their hourly pay of $40 or more routinely make national headlines. and Prior to the new deal, the company said drivers earned about $95,000 in pay annually on average or about $42 an hour, and another $50,000 in benefits and raised starting pay for part-time staff to $21 an hour and the new contract would provide a pay boost of $2.50 an hour this year and $7.50 an hour over the five years of the deal.

The $170k number comes from the employer, and the article expresses no curiosity about which end of the confidence interval at the end of 5 years that benefits fall on. Future cost-of-labor numbers from the employer may incorporate burden and liability forecasts as well, as those are considered to be a portion of labor expense when discussing compensation. The article also seems to be doing its own math to arrive at hourly rates, naively assuming that an entire amount is paid compensation and doesn't include benefits or overtime.

The base rate being increased from (apparently?) $18.50 to $21 is a red flag that should have us asking critical questions. Delivery driving is destructive to one's body and dangerous. $18.50/hour is a ruinous rate for work that's not unlikely to change the usefulness of your body.
The other reality is that in most regions there's only a handful of truly dangerous fungus groups with look-alikes that, while edible, are not particularly choice. And the really delicious fungus often have look alikes that are not delicious and may cause GI issues, but wont kill you.

So while all of this should come with a warning to talk with others and do research, it's not impossible to learn what's edible and enjoy foraging. The internet is great at making us afraid of the outdoors. But you just need to take a few precautions if you do eat fungus such as picking one person in your group with a solid GI system to eat a tiny bit and wait 24-48 hours. If they're good, make a note in your journal, take some detailed photos and try eating it again.

Some of the best eating I've ever done was sauteed butter-footed boletes in an omelet.
I don’t think it’s intended as such, but the particular phrasing as expressed could be misinterpreted as such. Therefore it should be expressed differently; don’t choose to differentiate based on attributes that shouldn’t make a difference for your message.
Apple is planning to move the button to hang up a call in iOS 17
I agree LLMs can make better spam. But good spam isn't real competition. It's not like anyone is debating whether they should buy the latest book from their favorite author or the latest book from their favorite author's clone LLM (which is known to have written some solid books). Again, this is an issue that needs to be solved by vendors (it seems like all they need is a system where authors get a copyright to their name, and can curate the list of titles published under their name).
Hi, I'm the OpenStreetMap Foundation chairperson. We have one employee (our site reliability engineer), one external admin assistant, one external developer for the iD editor, and one external bookkeeper. We do indeed run very lean, thanks to our amazing volunteer community.
You can also use TheC64 (Max) as a USB keyboard to the PC to use in Vice if you decide you want the keyboard and want to take advantage of some of the functionality of the emulators. I found a page that shows how to add a USB connector to the Max to allow this.
Agreed. The space of “read a file and X” problems is huge though and it’s been awesome seeing folks solve these themselves.
it will never happen, but i always felt that everyone should have a private office by default (not a cubicle) that opens into a main "open plan" area and then breakout/conferences rooms. to me that is the best mixture to mix things up and accomodate all types of working types. add to that the ability to wfh and i think it would make me want to go in. sometimes i like popping into cafes and random co-working spaces for that reason.
Tremendous damage to the boulders.
Wow, that's incredibly generous of you. If I start listing out thousands of other professions that are not well paid, do you promise to loudly state your intention of generosity on an internet comment? It's the least you could do, after all.
> If you want to watch your employees work, build glass walls

I'm not sure if the author is serious or trolling. Looking forward to another series of articles "I gave them glass offices, why won't they come back in?!"
Please, desktop was plain GNOME.

Same experience as fedora, arch, and every other gnome based distro. They had a good installer (ubiquity?) and a permissive policy with proprietary software and codecs. They had a dedicated installer for proprietary drivers (jockey?) and a huge repository (universe) with packages, drivers and codecs that other distros like fedora and debian deemed more ideologically or legally questionable.

That's what set them apart, people wanted mp3 codecs and Nvidia drivers.

And they had consistent branding, with nice identitary themes, color, wallpapers. Something community based projects always failed to achieve.
Laundry service was a pretty common perk for Bay Area employers 10 years ago.
> I'm not going to sink money into gas or public transportation just to be imprisoned in a meeting room when I could just take the call at home from the porch, a treadmill, or a couch.

You're obviously not an average employee then.
The challenge with toolkits confined to <canvas> rendering is their inability to effectively utilize the browser's integration with the OS. Key components like font rendering, input methods (including standard key shortcuts and behavior within input fields), selection handling, image decoding, network stack, native-like scrolling, and accessibility features need to be recreated from scratch. A web toolkit must use the DOM for optimal performance. (and therefore lower to HTML)
+1 my best office was a 15 minute walk through a upscale shopping area, into a cramped room alongside my teammates and boss with a great view of a large pond.

All of our desks were pushed together in the middle of the room. The _room_ itself would switch from chat mode to quiet mode.

Though I think the quietest member of the team would have preferred a solitary arraignment, I can only speak for myself.
If slog needs to avoid virtual calls or boxing or whatever else for reasons of performance, I guess I feel very strongly that it should do so in a way that doesn't impact users, and shouldn't let these concerns influence the API design.