skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think a lot of people on here have not been through a real recession.

You can't be serious.

> During a recession, it is either social assistance or one takes the job that is available.

It's only this way because we allow it to be. Huge productivity gains over the last decades have been captured by the .1%. There's nothing ambiguous or mysterious about it.
There’s no union of people vs surveillance tech to act on our behalf
There’s no way to qualify the sample size of writers based on his claims so within the bubble of his experience I’m sure it’s correct but not useful to base an argument on that writers at large are onboard with this and as for good faith engagement your response to parent…

“Everybody not agreeing with you represents "chauvinistic SV attitude"?”

…wasn’t very good faith either as it’s unclear whether the writers share the same belief as some tech people that AI and humans doing stuff are the same and use that idea to further a pro AI agenda as opposed to them just finding a useful tool to incorporate into their workflow regardless of the underlying technology or politics. Your response assumed the former and paints parent poster as wrong based on your assumption. Some writers liking the tool, just like some artists liking stable diffusion, doesn’t invalidate the original criticism or imply their ideology.

Indeed my experience jives with what he said. Many AI people I’ve seen comment are very much “adapt or die” when it comes to AI technology, suggesting that writers/artists must (even if begrudgingly) use these tools to stay competitive and see many datasets as fair game even when their authors are against its inclusion in said datasets, such as the author of this article.
Any sufficiently advanced mathematics is indistinguishable from magic, where "sufficently advanced" turns out to be a low bar.
Only sophisticated investors invest in profitable SPACs, however, they suddenly become unsuspecting public when the SPAC loses money.
AWS has a massive economic hand in ARM support. By offering cheaper compute on the ARM platform, they gave enough reason for everybody to make things work on ARM. I think they had a pretty good idea that customers would make it work for the price
Oh boy, I'm excited for the massive wealth creation of this exponential growth to trickle down to workers.
Doesn't the idiom "girls do not exist on the internet" itself point to the "standard" that, in this circles, men think of the people are interacting with as men, as "default", and the not-default is women. And we come back to the invisibilization of people who are not a white young guy in tech.

I'd wish to get as far away as possible from such an attitude, and thus really enjoy when I see people outside of this "norm" to make themselves known and attract more heterogenous people that can enrich the community.
I think the question should be, why the fuck do people let their eyes scanned.
Honestly, I'd even take a cube farm. I've only ever worked at tech companies with fully open offices, or, at best, some cubicle walls up around groups of 10-15 desks.
I always performed better in 2-4 person offices. Not alone, but not open space either. The constant noise and people walking by all the time is terrible for concentration.
Well then our AI successors will still need some kind of meteor defense.
> There is still a simple solution to the "SPAC problem" - don't let them list.

OK - but how are you going to discriminate between SPACs and other c-corps? I don't think a porn style "I know it when I see it" test is going to work here.
If you want people judging you, mention that, if the goal is for others to judge the work, don't.
wonder if relate to bwacks https://github.com/bwack/VHDL6526 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLxncR7Ru4Y
None, currently.
That's ludicrous. It's counting words in a book. You can't copyright facts and that is all the tool is doing. Pages that are reproduced are only excerpts which falls squarely under fair use.

It's no different than you checking out the book from the library and counting all the words.
> I think its fair to say that RTO is not about data, or studies, or about anything really.

How is this fair to say at all? It may be true, but there’s no evidence that this is the case.
> it didn’t change the world or make anyone lives better…

Now he's got the wealth for a more impactful next chapter. Trying to get fabulously wealthy is difficult enough; trying to do that while having a major impact on the world is even more difficult. Not saying his second act will necessarily be great, but at least he's got a platform to work from now.
Not only will those employers competing for the best get the best, they'll get it at a discount rate because remote workers are on average willing to accept an 18% pay cut to remain fully remote.

Employees are literally willing to pay employers to stay at home. The middle manager who is awful at their job and so insecure they need to "see employees working" is costing the business not just in talent acquisition but when pulling in the dregs they're paying a premium for it. The center cannot hold.
LLMs make the scams better just like they will make spam better.

If it's gibberish you know you got scammed, LLM texts look convincing so you don't know for sure.
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Desktop software has been a consistent and egregious offender when it comes to overstepping bounds for a long, long time… especially big corporate desktop software (hi Adobe).

It’s honestly kind of shocking that all desktop OSes didn’t gain something like mobile permissions over a decade ago. macOS has some as do a few configurations of Linux, and yeah Windows is happy to hand over not only your farm but also a few acres from that of your neighbors’ farm to anybody who even suggests slight interest.

I know there’s been much consternation over permissions, sandboxing, etc and how they complicate software development and power user workflows, but I don’t see a path forward where they aren’t necessary.
This is just a creative take on the utterly broken interview process from software companies, that we all are probably too familiar with.
Rosetta can be used to emulate individual processes inside a linux-based virtual machine - Apple provide tooling for this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...
This is a profoundly dumb summary of the referenced research article - rather astonishing for UCLA.

Studying the boulder swarm - amazing! Saying the boulders that came off are like shrapnel from a hand grenade - sure. Observing that the boulders keep the relative velocity of the original body and that they could cause damage if they hit something... ok yeah? Interplanetary velocities are energetic - true - and that this is similar to the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb - technically true also, but this is where it veers into sensationalism.

It's rather telling that this part is put as "Jewitt said" but not quoted. This could very mean that Jewitt said it would have X amount of energy, and the author decided to put in the nuclear bomb angle because it was a similar energy.

Asteroids this size just burn up. "In theory" they could hit something in orbit but space is mind-bogglingly huge and this is exceedingly unlikely. And weighed against surface impact of something judged worthy of a planetary defense scenario?

Unanticipated risks?
Can you give examples of hardened images?
If the HN community was kinder, this kind of caveat would not be necessary
I will admit that I am mildly confused by this outrage, but it is X/twitter so the standards are different.

All that said, I remember doing basic text analysis in college and then sentiment analysis in my MBA class.. is the concern out there, because of how source material was acquired?
Me too. I honestly didn't mind it as much as I thought I would. I much preferred it to the open office I ended up in for 15 years. I had some bookshelves, a whiteboard, some semblance of silence.
No, I'm talking about the complete shit show that is python packaging and the fact that there is any hand wringing over this (2FA) being "hard" to force on devs.

There's nothing hard about it.

This doesn't have anything to do with auditing source, that's such a creative cop out, subject change, whataboutism.

No, actually, I'm not a giant corp, I can't afford to hire teams to review every commit. Especially across the python ecosystem, it being what it is. And that's assuming it's even easy to find the damn source, or go from papi back to the actual source commit. Which, it often isn't!

Oh and supposedly I have to do this because devs that publish packages with millions of users are too lazy to have some actual security around their release process?

No. Sorry, it's not unreasonable to review a project, skim the source, and determine there's software engineering going on. However, without 2FA, none of that really matters, does it? Oh! And, this whole scenario is moot given that most people aren't pinning with hashes anyway, so your little made-up scenario and words you've effectively put in my mouth really doesn't make the point you think it does, anyway! In fact, thanks for another great point to add to my initial list!

> you don't want to establish a direct trust relationship (personal or legal) with the original developers.

Do you actually understand what this thread is even about? What in the hell good does that do me when their laptop gets swiped at a conference and their latest package gets replaced?

> while hopefully avoiding any devastating effects akin to how English land enclosure deprived commoners of their rights of access and privilege.

Wow, I can't believe I wasted my time reading you post, let alone replying to any of it. I love a dramatic flair but that's in poor taste.
I always wonder how you do the risk calculus for this kind of scenario.

Clearly if the certainty of a world-ending impact is 100% then committing the entirety of humanities resources to deflecting it would be justified and expected.

But what about if the the certainty is 90%? 80%?
This demonstrates that placebo analgesia is actually activating the opioidergic pathway.
I am finding it increasingly difficult to take the world seriously.

What a joke.
> I love how HN blames MBAs for everything.

> This was greedy "tech people", nothing more nothing less.

It's hard to talk about WeWork without talking about Adam Neumann. And looking him up, it seems that he does have a degree in business -- albeit only in 2017 -- rather than a degree in something like computer science or engineering. And prior to WeWork, he apparently founded a children's clothing company: not exactly a "tech people" industry.

So I'm not getting tech people vibes from him.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/weworks-adam-neumann-is-gr...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Neumann
My #1 reason for working remotely today has nothing to do with office layouts or benefits, it's that housing costs in large-city tech hubs are insane. Chances are I'd pay at least twice my mortgage in rent for a crappy apartment if I moved back now.

The open office plan just might be #2 though. ;)
Simple. Just allow an opt-out for Authors or Publishers. Then only interested parties will comprise of and make use of the service, like you want.
I worked in a company that had meeting rooms with glass walls.

It was great. You could write on the glass like it was a whiteboard. And the knowledge that everyone else could see you were in a meeting was an incentive to only be in meetings when you had a real reason to be.
The purpose of the scanning is to just have a different talking point so people will buy the coin. It is a scam like all the others. If they'd just launched it without scanning, would anybody be interested in buying it or even talking about it?
Even during our one day a month "mandatory" in office day we for some reason still have a teams call set up with people on the line.
>Perhaps there is a secret cabal of commercial office space lenders

In a sense, I think this is much of it.

Commercial real estate used to be a fairly predictable investment. Costs were mostly predictable, rents would increase over time, etc.

Now, we have all these vacant buildings and it's highly disruptive to the investors and owners of those buildings. You have companies in the middle of 5, 10, 15 year leases, and they're paying on those spaces with no hope of getting out of the contract. So the companies have a large incentive to justify that spend, which is really only going to happen by utilizing the space, which means in-office work.

I think if there was a viable way for these lessors to get out of those obligations we would see more of an embrace of WFH or hybrid work.

There is also part of the issue where for some people and tasks, an in-office scenario is higher net productivity to the company (but not necessarily the employees).

Additionally, you also have companies where a large contingent of the workforce can't WFH (eg: manufacturing, assembly, etc.). It creates animosity among the workers when the higher paid people also have the luxury of not needing to come to a physical location.

Overall, I think the deck is stacked against WFH becoming a long-term trend for a majority of the workforce. I think it will become a more common perk, something that is earned and not granted.
> If I have an option i'll stick with JSX.

"I don't like the way the garnish looks they put on my ribeye, so I'm just gonna head over to McDonalds."

JSX doesn't even parse the same as HTML5; it matches XHTML from decades ago. Again, the source doesn't match what the target uses (browsers). It's close, but not the same.

A Big Mac is close to a good burger, but it's not a good burger.
I had no idea this even happened. It would have been useful to show a notice within the app itself (like you do for patch notes?). Maybe you did, and I didn't see it, but I just got done paying for another 6mo on your service being none the wiser.
> Why would they even do so ? Large ISPs are public

Ehh, not really. China Telecom for example is 70% owned by the State. You aren't going to be able to buy shares in Parsnet.
I wonder how much of this comes from 'war rooms' that companies like the Big 3 do. They work on a project for 5 months all smashed together in 1 meeting room.

And then you need to talk to one of them, they pick up the phone in that room, not even walking out. Absolutely horrible.

Is that where this comes from?
The chart reflects what I've observed in the media in a visually appealing manner.

Personal datapoint: I loaded up Threads when it was announced, and then said "meh" because there wasn't enough content at the time. This post actually reminded me to take a look at it again and now I see much more content, so I'll take a second look at it to see what's there.

Also - Still waiting on my Bluesky invite.
That's true but it's also true that during a recession companies may be more focussed on saving money, and smaller offices because employees WFH save money.

IMHO, for jobs that can be done either in an office or remotely the crux is the company's management team: Some people want to be in office to keep an eye on staff and maintain status, some don't care as long as the work is done.
Like it or not, ICE cars still rule, and given their prices and lack of serious used cars markets so far with adequate pricing its not changing soon (I mean every BMW car I've bought was 20-25% of the price of new and was >95% of the car, so far they lasted 11 years / 150k km without any issues, I am not going to waste more money on cars regardless of technology). So sales of traditional ICE car manufacturers in electric space is not so important, at least for now. Given how much we destroy earth by mining all EV stuff I don't consider this as eco-friendly technology neither, at least not yet.

Where I live (Switzerland) they don't plan to phase them out anytime soon. All EU goals will shift to later in future, everybody understands that, including politicians pushing for them.

Also, Tesla had some good momentum in the beginning but right now they are just another e-car manufacturer among many, say Porsche beats them on everything actually important in car (apart from price, but then we talk about premium brands). So I wouldn't bet seriously on its future, it can be stellar or can flop ie if EU subsidies dry up.
The argument for me ends at productivity. We went full remote in march 2020, and our velocity metrics went up by 60%. All the other arguments (and they are persuasive) are worth an order of magnitude less.
I have repented of my bitching about cube farms since discovering there are worse things.
2 meters of dirt is all you really need
At one point in time people probably said the same thing about employer provided health insurance, and now it’s expected. Tough to get good talent if other companies are providing better perks
We finally have a –~room temperature superconductor~~ modern scientific process
I like this article about internet outrage being bad that seems to exist solely to use that conceit to try to drum up internet outrage
I don't know how it is in Australia, but in the US, there's no reason to talk to the police if you're suspected of murder. It can never help you. It can only hurt you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

edit: the video is a talk a criminal lawyer gave explaining why it's a bad idea to talk to the police. If you want a more detailed explanation, watch it.
The biological definition of species includes reproductive isolation. Two different species mean normally some kind of reproductive barriers. In this sense, if two diverging groups of animals X and Y mate and the offspring is fertile they are still in the same species and will split sometime in the future. How we define the splitting time is the problem. Neanderthals and sapiens are only partially fertile, so by definition were two different species that diluted into one. Red hair and green eyes are consider Neanderthal contributions. Modern sapiens is clearly an hybrid.

But the field has gained a lot of complexity in the last decades. There are ring species, and cryptic species, and sometimes the DNA of a parent is entirely discarded. Changing our point of view is possible with better data, except that we need to find this data first.
Can it do ans* etc. Is there a history of expressions and results. Is the history on-screen while next expression is typed. Is there a current result indicator, i.e. live update of the expression result as you fiddle with parameters.

Just what's coming to mind for basic daily use here.
https://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-designed-a-smart-...
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-nvcleanstal...
The best tidbit of insight to hiring processes I've heard is that once your initial application/resume has cleared the first hurdle the company is basically looking for reasons to not hire you.
How will the company stay in business without workers?

They'll have no choice...
Right, but most "big data" money is made from selling people tools to process data. Few seem to have any amazing use case that benefits from a ton of data. LLMs come to mind, but that is from a very different type of data, all told. Even medical data is only useful if you have a ton more data per person.

Iris identification is just not that useful? Even in movies, the goal is to get a high value target's iris to fake an entry. But, while entertaining in movies, this is not really a thing that makes any sense at a mass level. Is it?
You could give me a 5000sq ft corner off with every amenity imaginable and I still would prefer working from home.
Yes, but you shouldn't extrapolate from that. In many cases "startups" are much much easier to manage remotely. You often have a much smaller, and more focused, employee base. There is much less room for unproductive employees to hide in the shadows.
Are you seriously telling someone else how they should enjoy something?
Your care and attention to detail are rare things in my experience, and will stand you in good stead in your future career. The effort and love you've put into this project really shine through!
Interesting.. laundry/grocery service would be trivial for a lot of employers, and a huge benefit for employees. Why hasn't anyone offered it yet?
I would be happy with a desk even.

I've worked not even with a decent chair.
Nope. My previous employer tried this in ~2021 with the intention of demanding a full RTO as soon as they possibly could after decades of being a cubicle farm. I immediately left for a company that adapted to remote-first and never looked back

My commute time has turned into workout and cooking time, (as expected I'm in the best shape of my life,) my only coworker is my spouse and best friend, I get to live closer to my family than ever before in a quiet, LCOL town, and the impact on my career and for the company has never been greater

You'll have to do a LOT better than my own closet to convince me that wasting my time commuting every day, from a place I don't want to live, to spend time in close proximity to people I might not care for would be a better proposition than the one I have now
Don't even suggest that. Someone might see this.
Agreed. Honestly, I thought it was always about humble brag. For example: Look at me I'm a 5 yr old cat living in a $2M loft in Soho while I go to school in MIT riding my private helicopter. I'm such a success at cat.
A lovely piece of advice I came across from Larry King in his book How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere:

If you're about to give a public speech and you don't have much experience (and are thus anxious), come out and state as the first thing (something like) "Hey, I don't talk publicly and this is scary, but I'll try my best".

This immediately can make you less anxious as any mistakes you make can be understood (rather than criticized) by the audience.

When commenting outside my area of expertise I often mention my lack of qualifications so as to invite gentle corrections to my mistakes (and to make others not assume I speak from great knowledge).
My theory is that RTO is a way to reduce headcount without having proper layoffs and severance.
Asymmetric PoW algorithms, such as Cuckoo Cycle [1] or the poorly named Equihash [2] (which is not a hash function) do not lend themselves to password hashing, since a given problem instance can have 0 or 1 or many solutions.

[1] https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equihash
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Not to mention asteroids made of iron would be much harder to knock boulders off of.
I don't think that it needs to be better than home. However, offices have been actively unpleasant places that are difficult to work in for a very, very long time. Now that everyone is reminded (or made aware, for younger workers) of that, people rightfully expect better. That much really does need to change.

Everyone getting an office with a door -- even a small one -- would go a long way toward making the office a good place to work.
The United Nations might not be as clear of corruption as you might think. If you've spent any time in the global public health apparatus, you probably know how bad it is (this is my exposure to UN initiatives). I don't think public health is special, and I'm sure most of the other UN-sponsored global projects have also had to line a lot of pockets.
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