skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a generous hybrid work policy: you can WFH, but you may be required to attend on-site sessions and meetings, for example if we're doing architecture brainstorms or design reviews. We've not found this to work well over zoom. Overall, this works out to a day or two a month, but most people choose to come in at least 1 day a week for various reasons (mostly social).

We casually observed there seemed to be a split in employee WFH performance, with most performing as expected or better when WFH, but a minority performing MUCH worse. That is, significantly less than 50% of the productivity they have while in the office.

We've had casual one-to-one meetings with those individuals, and while a few will sort themselves out, most just flat out deny a difference. So we resorted to adding some very basic anonymised monitoring tools to a random subset of staff laptops (hence throwaway account).

What we found was that the majority are indistinguishable which days they are working from home and which days they are in the office, but a minority basically do no work when WFH. By this I mean, behaviour such as their laptop is idle for 20 minutes then active for a few seconds. As it's anonymised we can't be sure, but I'm guessing those are the staff we've identified as having a problem. I wouldn't be surprised if they had a second job.

The problem is: what to do about it? We're in the UK so just firing people without cause isn't an option. HR are saying it would be unfair, humiliating and potentially constructive dismissal if we forced the problem staff into the office but not everyone else. There's also a lot of valid discomfort and GDPR-related fear around the idea of installing heavy surveillance tools on laptops to collect evidence, and a concern that it will make for a hostile work environment. Even if we just used it very selectively on staff suspected to be breaking their contract, they would undoubtedly tell their colleagues which would lead to discontent. But without that evidence, it's very difficult to legally justify sacking someone.

The HR people are trying to force us back to the office because these issues are too challenging to deal with, but we (the tech team management) are trying to find a way to deal with staff who are taking the piss without upsetting everyone else in the process.

What's the play here? Genuinely looking for a good solution as, like many others, I personally enjoy WFH and don't want to have to give it up.
Refreshing compared to the ways others have gone (tesla for instance)
Nitpick: You’re always going to get some parasitic D+D reactions because it’s reaction cross section is appreciably higher than D + 3He below 50 keV, and non-negligible even after the crossover point.
Eh, they seem to have a holier than thou attitude, I’m sure the Know What’s Best.
you can actually be racist in public as well.

get out of a swimming pool if a black person shows up and nobody can or will force you back into it.
Why Elon Musk Fought a Federal Search Warrant to Help Trump
I don’t want to work in an office with doors any more than I want to work in a jail cell.
Extracellular communication between brain cells through transfer of Cre mRNA
Stall is determined solely by angle-of-attack, which TFA points out. Airspeed doesn't factor in to whether the computer thinks it's about to stall.

Here's the relevant sentence:
"Crews involved in similar incidents reported that they assumed the brief stall warnings were generated by the erroneous airspeed readings, a not unreasonable interpretation which breaks down only when one learns that the stall warning calculations are based on angle of attack and do not incorporate any airspeed data."
Personally I'd start doing outbound. Find websites that are selling something complex, ideally B2C - like Shopify for obscure tools. You need companies that are overloaded with support tickets. Reach out to them and see if you can get them on a call.

At all costs do not do this in a spammy way - you will see 0 results if you do. Take a ton of time understanding each specific website you're reaching out to and why they'd benefit.

This will be a slog and the ROI on your time will likely be terrible but the feedback you get will be invaluable.

As for you actual website - it's incredibly cluttered and quite ugly. I attached my favorite landing page guide. You're solving a problem, not selling features. Even more so for a customer support bot.

[1] https://www.julian.com/guide/startup/landing-pages
I think RTO would have been a lot more palatable if most offices weren't intentionally built with 1hr+ commutes from residential areas.
> Then why are they making standards in the first place?

For one thing, membership in W3C is loaded with representatives from those browser vendors. Which is a good thing, since W3C would be absolutely useless if browser vendors weren't there.

For another, standards aren't the place for rants about who sucks shit and who doesn't. It would be a fun read, but a bad standard. A standard is for saying what you must do, not for saying who sucks shit.
The safety issues are what kills me. In a large enough office you will regularly have employees getting maimed and killed on their commutes. This is literally justified on the grounds of employee productivity as if employers just get to wash their hands of any culpability for safety so long as their employees die on their way to or from work instead of at work.

Employers literally demand blood sacrifice from their employees and wonder why their employees are either leaving or becoming non-complaint when they do this without accordingly raising wages.
If you add custom instructions, could you try the same questions with and without them, and let us know how it goes? I’m just really curious.
Do you then think it is clearly prosecutable under this law if along with the doxxing, an encouragement to others is made to cause the victim harm (implied or otherwise) knowinf that could lead to violence?

E.g. they doxx someone and post a message like "this person his horrible, teach them a lesson". Or if they simply doxx a person and agree/thumbsup/like the post of someone threatening violence in that same thread/context.
SF tech companies that limit remote work may be in for a bad time
I think you described the process of purchasing any controlled substance at a corner store.
> basically "I wonder what amazing and important reason they have for doing this"

That's not what I said.

I don't care who does this, I will despise it either way, I just hope that Apple at least has a proper justification to do this.

> Google need it because they want to remove all fingerprinting vectors, and need privacy-preserving replacements for legit use cases

"Legit" defined by whom? Google? I am sorry but at this point Google has burned almost all trust, at least with me.
Yeah, you’re right. I was reaching for an example, but yours are much better and better capture the idea.
….and the jurisdictions that try to make BDS support illegal? Should they mind their business as well?
This is massively pedantic
So if all things looks so fine, why you bother? - Just run it!

I'm really serious. Business is very special thing, that you could taste it only yourself. Nothing could show you real taste of your own business. Not books. Not videos. Not talks.

Sure, better if you will find mentor, who you trust, and who will help you setup all things right on first year, and will help you if got in trouble on first crisis.

Also good to find community of people with similar look, but community is also special thing, I cannot guarantee they will do all things right.
If you get decent enough video conferencing equipment (e.g. microphone/camera designed for this kind of setup) and have good internet connections then this can actually work pretty well.
... and all this headache will just go away once Chrome's Web Integrity ships and hooks neatly into Protected Media Path and that totally optional TPM in Windows 11 that got stuffed down everyone's throat as a free update from an equally generously free Windows 10. The trap is almost closed, not long now.
yes! i found nebula to be slow for instance
Stories like this make me glad to not work for some prestigious MAANG that makes something or another self-important tech
One of the definitions of AGI is simply that it is able to solve any problem humans can solve. Such a system might have the inner experience of a calculator.

There is no a priori reason why an AGI would be the kind of thing we gave rights to. Rights are for things that can experience pleasure and pain.
For other veterans here from Slashdot, did this comment not evoke strong memories of the “Penisbird Enterprises” copypasta?
Good points except for that last sentence. We already know that not only some people wired such that they're much more likely to be compulsive/obsessive, we also know that some of the worst "culprits"/software vendors have explicitly and deliberately designed their applications with such dark patterns in mind precisely to exploit this human weakness.
The difficulty, in a geometric setting, is still how to maintain a robust correspondence between geometry and topology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust_geometric_computation
The W3C took a hit to it's influence in the early 2000s after their introduction of RDF (Resource Description Framework), the technology behind Linked Data and XHTML. Whilst technically superior and philosophically more elegant than the raw HTML they sought to enhance (note that HTML5 hadn't been invented at this point), it was not immediately very popular - the concept of Linked Data was somewhat harder to understand than the concept of markup, and getting it wrong would mean your website might fail to display. This lead to the creation of WHATWG, which holds sway over HTML5 and some miscellaneous JavaScript browser APIs, but still a very limited set of Web features compared to the W3C, which standardises lots of areas including CSS.

I would say that it was a pretty minor loss of influence overall, and their Linked Data is now used in almost all websites in at least a basic metadata capacity, which is how those 'social links' work (where you paste a URL in a chatroom or social network and find the title, logo and header picture appear automatically) for instance. More extensive use of Linked Data is often not directly visible to website visitors, but will soon form the foundation of a number of digital identity card systems, even for entire countries, and will do so in a way which has the potential to be significantly more privacy-friendly than a traditional 'citizen number' approach.

I'm currently a participant in the Linked Data area of W3C's work, but I wasn't around during the events I describe above. Resilient Web Design[1], a short but excellent ebook by Jeremy Keith is a good read for understanding why RDF didn't catch on initially, and anything by Manu Sporny will be worth reading/watching for getting a positive description of how useful RDF and Linked Data can be (his introduction video to the topic, for instance[2]).

[1]: https://resilientwebdesign.com/introduction/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x_xzT5eF5Q
I recently saw an author on social media remarking that their editor complained that they were mixing American and British spellings, and they should just pick one. The author was confused by the statement, because they didn’t there was anything unusual going on. Then the penny dropped. They’re Canadian.
Completely agree!

I work way harder unsupervised.

It's probably also naïve to believe all humans respond to supervision the same way...
We have sprints. We also have super responsive DBAs. Keeping the logic in the app is the path to unresponsive database calls. Been there, done that. Not going back to that crap.

In all seriousness, I won't work for an organization that works the way you describe. It's a red flag and a sign of organizational issues, personality issues, and ineffective management. Don't need to waste my time at a place like that.
Aphantasia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
> It's OK to limit SSO access to OSS and stuff like that.

Personally, I can't wrap my head around people wanting to use Infiscal for better security while *not* using SSO.
Then you definitely shouldn't read any of these RFCs[0].

Not that they're of the same ilk as RFC 9446, but they're even further afield.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for...
I didn’t read much else on the blog, but the next article linked at the bottom had me drowning in the same word goulash flambé as this article admonishes.

Having said that, I don’t completely agree that one’s point always needs to be made concisely and efficiently.

There is something to be said about the value of prose sprinkled with meaning and truth or the other way round.

I quite like writing more and larger words than minimally required to articulate my conclusions.
The problem is with using `session.add(obj)` instead of `session.scalars(insert(TheClass).returning(TheClass), data)`. If there's a way to get generated SQL from an AsyncSession, please do let me know.
If you're leaving, why not stay home like the manager? If you start a trend he'll have to explain himself.
latin1 as an encoding also results in broken Unicode support (for obvious reasons). The point still stands that if you did nothing, you didn't have correct Unicode support, and if you tried to do the correct obvious thing, it was still broken. And a lot of people ran into this, enough that it literally made many folks avoid MySQL.
Yeah, I think the term should be retired. Hard takeoff or fast takeoff is much more descriptive.
> Google and Facebook being allowed to steal your content just because they’re massive is a huge problem.

Have you heard of robots.txt files? It pains me to read comments such as yours which display such colossal ignorance.
> Have some cookies, croissants, pizza delivered right as the meeting starts

I've been in the position of being the sole remote guy (technically in office but working from a satellite site) and this happened soooo many times. The meeting would start and a box of donuts would be on the table and I'd hear "sorry, we'll mail a leftover to you!" followed by uproarious laughter.

It almost made missing the 1-1 asides and whiteboard visuals worthwhile. Declining junk food in person is much more challenging than simply having it 1000 miles away and obviously out of reach.
Rampart – Squish the Stack
I also had a problem with Sandisk 2TB portable SSD. But it dies for a few days and comes back. It's wired. I will not keep anything important in that drive after this incident.
the W3C's role has been explicitly and intentionally ceremonial since they tried to invent xhtml, and learned exactly how much power they really have.

their mission is only to write formal standards to describe and document the things that browsers have already implemented, not to drive browser development.
do you mean ibm 709 assembly or what

i don't actually know what he was hacking on at berkeley
All the classical AI tasks I list abover are dominated by the classic approaches I listed and neural nets are completely useless in them.
I think this is awesome.

One interesting difference between the german autobahn and american freeways seems to be how the left lane is treated.

On the autobahn, if someone is going faster in the left lane, the slower person should pull right.

In the US, if the person in the left lane is going the speed limit or over, they don't feel any need to move to the right for someone going faster.
1. Something “in a superconducting state” has zero resistance, but the transition to superconducting states is not sudden, and there are various things which disrupt that state like magnetic fields.

2. Alternating currents will dissipate even with zero resistance, because the circuit will emit EM waves.
I believe Yandex is well enough infiltrated by Russian government actors that it doesn't need to be nationalized.
Ironically, article makes some strong claims without scientific proof. Written by linguist, not ai researcher.
Yes, surprisingly. He had fairly strict communications restrictions as part of his bail deal, only to harass a witness indirectly in the press in some of the few ways left he could contact the outside world.
That's only for the hosted service, no? They have a MIT licensed version
> 18 USC 19

Pedantic, but 18 USC ch. 19;and if you are going to specifically refer to 18 USC § 373, you might as well cite the section, not the chapter.

More substantively, I think the practical the first sentence of the linked section: “Whoever, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony [...]”.

While, you say it is “It is common knowledge that stalking, harrasment and even violence (all criminal acts) can occur to someone if you doxx them”, awareness of a risk—and even moreso “common knowledge”—is very far from enough to show specific intent (if it was a recklessness or criminal negligence standard, that'd be more useful.)

> How I interpreted that is you can't say you didn't expect the person to be harmed

No, that's not what it says. What it says is that if the person you command, solicit, etc., to commit the act could not be convicted of the target felony because of the absence of some specific required mental state, or because of incompetence or legal immunity, that doesn’t stop you, as the soliciting party, from being convicted under § 373.

> There was no other possible intent that can be used as a defense that does not involve intending to cause harm to the victim by hoping others will do it for you.

The requisite intent is not vague harm, but to provoke a specific felony. To have evidence to support that is hard, and in many cases the intent may actually be, well, general harm.
This is supposed to be easier to use than git but the getting started guide is mostly mathematic algorithms.

I think maybe they need someone to help write some user friendly documentation.
Larian's Unfair Advantage
i see that all the benchmarks have processpoolexecutor either equal to or outperforming multiprocessing and i do not find this to be the case for about 90% of my cases.

also a niche question, is this able to overcome the inability to pickle a function within another function to multiprocess it?

i'm still excited to try this as i haven't heard of it and good multiprocessing is hard to come by.
I don't think so. I have M1 Max 64GB and it works okay for some inference. I'm buying a few credits from RunPod. It will be a few 10's of dollars to get it trained.
Where did he say on farmland?
The Internals of Veilid: A New Decentralized Application Framework [pdf]
> I find it funny that when people were required to be home, employers talked about what great productivity they were getting with people at home.

In our case, we do have good, long-standing metrics: we measure how happy our customers say they are with our service. Since the whole point is to have happy, repeat customers and they have no reason to lie about being happy, we can trust this. That went up significantly and sustained itself during the pandemic.

While my employer did initially want to bring people back to the office, they relented after the push back and have been relatively soft and flexible about this, actually opening up a dialog to talk to everyone about what they need and want.

It doesn't hurt that they're looking at some significant cost savings by significantly downsizing our office footprint.
no, to become a standard at least one other browser vendor would have to at least signal an intent to implement it.
The sentence I quoted is from the part of the article discussing classical AI, not AGI.

>> Tree search is limited to small games like board games or Atari.

To be clear, those are board games like chess and go (and shoggi).
Why not have the managers of the underperforming employees be straightforward with them? Tell them that, as far as the manager/company is concerned, they're underperforming (no need to single out the WFH aspect here if you don't want to). They may deny that their performance while working from home is different from their performance in the office, but the manager can dismiss that. It's unpleasant, but better than resorting to surveillance software, and better than making things worse for everyone just to help out this minority who underperform while working from home.

Once they've been notified that they're underperforming, try to help them out. If they can't be helped, fire them with well-documented cause (their history of poor performance).
Clojurists Together – Firefox 116 release
> Don't poke the bear

We should kill the bear.
Only thing I highly recommend, very hardly limit your possibilities to make risky moves.

For example, I seen suggestion, make with your family fund, and write in statute, that you could spend money from fund only if all members of family vote "yes".

So, play this only with small amount of money, not touch your savings.
no, the method used get/figure out the video. -dlp uses the same method as the android player -dl uses the same method as the web page.
Right, I know. My issue is/was the certainty with which we assume one outcome or another. It creates unnecessary drama. I think it's fair to lobby for one outcome vs. another, but complaining on some msg board does not serve that purpose. The only purpose it serves is creating some illusion or perception of some guaranteed outcome (when there is no guarantee, only probabilities). So, if one is inclined one should give money to lobbyists or pacs that can bring about the desired outcome instead of lamenting uselessly.
Which page are you looking at? https://pijul.org/manual/getting_started.html is mostly some shell commands, similar to a Git beginner's guide.
Needs [video] in the title!
And it was pointed out 40 years ago that DT fusion will be inherently expensive (specifically, more expensive than fission, which itself has demonstrated it cannot compete.)

https://orcutt.net/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Tro...
Yeah, we should probably do that. I get that it might be confusing
My passion for my job is limited regardless of salary. I am not going to break my back for someone who makes me jump through arbitrary hoops for everything. Want that promotion? Here's yet another 3 things this review cycle we want to see changed. Just do the work of the title before you're awarded the title! No problem! Take unpaid pagerduty shifts that are forced upon you to resolve problems we wouldn't have if we allowed developers time to do anything!

I work because I have to. There's nothing to be passionate about. Employers are just mad because it takes a little more talent to do as little as possible when remote. If you're smart, optimizing your work to exactly the requisite sprint points (maybe a little more occasionally to show "initiative"), making the appearance of availability, etc will net you the same effect as zoning out at 2pm and staring at your monitor for the next 3 hours when in office. Even better if you learn to exploit PM's miraculous ability to expand into any time available for work. Now you can reduce your sprint obligation commensurate to the amount of time the PM needed you to "plan". Employers never realized often the smartest most talented employees were mentally checking out way before clocking out. The physical appearance of "work" was enough to trick these morons.

I made this realization when I realized how Cxx's, sales, etc view engineers. Just "pie in the sky" dreamers who want "perfect" everything. After making a VP particularly mad at one company (for formally criticizing his dogshit work during an audit as the source of a sev0) I got a reaming that included these exact words. It didn't take long after that to make the connection between engineering and labor, the solid titanium ceiling to progress, and the subsequent solution.