skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People need to stop trying to make things return to the original office model.

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.

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

Then there is also the social pressure of having to go for after work socials at the local boozer/cafe/restaurant, or be seen as the person who never joins the team for social stuff.

There are so many benefits to working from home which reach beyond personal and into society/the environment but very few benefits to going into an office. The one reason which supporters of the original office model tout is ‘collaboration’ but I call BS.

With today’s tech we can literally be collaborating in real-time with people from any corner of the planet from the comfort of our home office. How would that change in office?

Then you have the whole “oh, but, learning” as if it is simply impossible to part with knowledge via any medium other than a coworker’s breath hitting another’s eardrum.
The data on its own doesn't seem valuable. Having a "real human / really who they claim to be" authentication API that internet companies rely on for all sorts of things seems valuable. I assumed that was the goal, to create such a service.
It doesn't solve the issue of organised crime in those countries rounding up multiple people to get their aid package under duress to resell.
They are not hardware replicas (as in "the same circuits"), but as far as the pin voltages are concerned, they can behave exactly like the original chips. And when I say "exactly", I don't mean "pretty much the same", I mean the same. That's the beauty of the digital world, it's absolutely possible to fully and perfectly emulate digital circuits.

Arguably an emulator could do the same, but it's much harder to simulate the entire system than it is to isolate a single chip and emulate that.
The whole point of this site is for people to express their opinions, and torginus took the time to write a thoughtful comment anout LLMs and how they might help both authors and readers.

As for your point about serendipity, torginus never said that he didn't wander book stores and libraries looking for books he wouldn't have been previously exposed to.

Based on the post, I'm sure they understood the basics of reading a variety of books, both good and bad -- there is no need to get judgemental.
Wouldn't asymmetric cryptography be better suited for building proofs of identity for government transfers?

you must allow a metallic sphere to look at you with its eye and generate a “personality test.” The proof is then associated with the QR code and the app becomes a passport called World ID.

[...]

Altman claims that the digital passports and wallets will be essential when general artificial intelligence (AI) has surpassed ours and unemployed humans need to receive a universal income.

What happens if the biometric information is stolen? Wouldn't that make it possible for another human or for AGI to impersonate someone, with no possibility of revoking the biometric proof of identity?
Ask HN: Anyone know how to contact Frederico Faggin?
Faggin is an early pioneer in integrated circuits and CPU design. i recently came across his articles on consciousness, and IMHO a he is the only one writing intelligently about it. trying to contact him to explore his work further. his website fagginfoundation.org has no contact info. maybe he is retired?
Assembling the list of links to archive is a manual process--I just log them in an Obsidian notebook with a category and summary, and I later post it to my blog. (I don't really think other people care, it's more for me to be able to find past things I've found interesting.)

For the archival process I use ArchiveBox[1] running as a container on my NAS; I just grep through the note for `http|https` and feed the resulting list to the archiver. For everything not-hackernews I set the depth to 1, but for HN threads I do 2 so I grab whatever people may have linked in the comments.

I think there's ways to hook into like, ALL Firefox history or saved posts on reddit, but that's way heavier than what I care for.

[1]: https://archivebox.io/
Right, the obvious fix is not "make it illegal!"; but rather to have the regulatory/disclosure/etc. requirements for a SPAC more similar to those of an IPO.

(There's also a good argument that IPO requirements are too extreme, as demonstrated by many companies that would previously have gone public, staying private. Perhaps the right trade-off is to make both IPO and SPAC processes have a more well considered, moderate set of requirements.)
Every Door (Flutter, so either Android or iOS) is superb for mapping POIs. I polished off an entire mall in an hour or two last year.
Isn't that a problem with the company policies? Any company with heavily locked down laptops probably won't be happy to let you BYOD. I have a work supplied laptop but I run my own OS on it.

The real issue here seems to be around expensing. You shouldn't have to pay tax on a laptop you use for work. Think about it as getting 80-100% more hardware for the same money.
You can listen at a reasonable level (70dB) indefinitely, and up to about 80 for an 8-hour period, without any kind of hearing loss.

So the good news is unless you're absolutely blasting it with open buds to help block out background noise, the tinnitus was caused by something else, and there are many causes.

I actually had tinnitus for nearly a decade in my late 20s - mid 30s... thought is was noise induced from multiple concerts without earplugs, but eventually decided to make all sorts of lifestyle changes to reduce stress and improve sleep and it magically went away.
I'm also glad the 2019 IPO didn't materialize, but if it had, anyone who bought in would have been deserving of no pity and I wouldn't call them "innocent retail investors". As badly managed as WeWork was, this was not a case of fraud. Everything was wide out in the open, for anyone with eyes and a brain to see. Heck, the whole reason the 2019 IPO didn't go through is that WeWork's original S-1 was such a shit show of epic proportions, with nothing but red ink as far as the eye could see and completely made up vanity metrics, that Wall Street's collective reaction was "Are you fucking kidding me?"
Also, 17? At that point young adults have reached cognitive maturity[1], so perhaps that's a good time to drop the qualifiers.

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30762417/
> If you need a quantitative measure, one can use e.g. the number of difference species per area (biodiversity) to know the area where an accident has the least impact.

The arctic ranks very low by this measure.
Nah, I had a personal office and still quit in order to leave the Bay Area because commuting >30 minutes to mostly work with people in offices hours away when I don't love where I am doesn't make sense. Middle management at large companies spent years building distributed teams without the executives noticing, and now they're learning about it too late. Having hour long commutes to sit on video calls all day in one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country isn't a life.
When I worked for eBay they had a hexagonal version of a cube farm.

I thought it was brilliant. Pack more people into a space, and make your distance to your nearest neighbor farther. Plus you naturally had a comfortable place to sit, 2 filing cabinets, and 2 spots for bookshelf, whiteboard, or whatever. And a lot more desk space than you'd expect.

I was always puzzled that nobody else ever tried that design.
My vaguely populist take is that the pandemic, WFH/remote and hybrid gave the mass white collar class a taste of what the C-suite has had for years.. flexibility.

Sure, these guys might go into the office but they do so from their pied-a-terre / 3rd home / whatever within a 5 minute chauffeured drive. They do this while maintaining a nearby suburban/exurban estate and maybe a lake/beach/ski houses where they spend the majority of their actual hours.

I was listening to a podcast and they observed that US commuters might have had a boiled frog scenario where you slowly just get used to having a worse & worse commute as you age.. and COVID snapped everyone out of it cold turkey. Now attempting to go back to it is revolting for many.
Yeah, they're hiring process is biased towards people that love talking about themselves over and over again.
> I long for a return to common sense. Maybe AI will do the trick, but I doubt it. Plenty of people are happy with behavioral prediction if it means convenience without caring about the implications.

The general population isn't going to care about "privacy" in the abstract, that kind of thinking reserved for an activist fringe. IMHO, the only way any progress will every be made on such abstract things is activists influencing government to force the changes.

The general population will respond to realistic fear and danger, though (e.g. witness all the rituals people do to avoid identity theft). Maybe the best way forward is to cultivate fear in people of losing their livelihood to AI, and present these privacy invasions as an attack on that front.
I wonder if it's a ploy to either secure a monopoly on iris-scanning biometrics, or poison the market for everyone else?

Either they have a monopoly on it and it's all good (it's fine for them to have the data since they are verifier anyway), or if not, then it makes sure no other company can exist in this space since they have a massive database of high-resolution biometrics that could presumably allow to bypass any competitor's product, making it a non-starter.
I loved that music. I recorded it to minidisc just so I could listen to it on the go.
Does it even improve marginally?

I can see this being highly variable for the type of position / work. As a software developer the ability to schedule face time and use messenging for low-priority is way more productive than an unexpected door-knock that demands an immediate response.

Apart from that, I was going to comment saying the exact same thing. Not having a commute is non-negotiable for me. That said, I have been working from home long before the pandemic, and for the one year out of 20 that I worked in office (was a once in a lifetime job opportunity) I rented a condo across the street from the office. Life is way too short to waste 1 - 2 hours per day driving. I also finding driving to be one of the most stressful activities in life. Not because I don't enjoy driving itself, but because of traffic and having to share the road. In other words, I am positive that working from home is literally adding years to my life due to drastically reduced stress levels in addition to having more time to actually enjoy life.

So no, I will never accept a position where I need to commute for work regularly unless it is temporary and a very special circumstance.
Who? The US in Iraq and Afghanistan, for example.

https://www.context.news/digital-rights/why-does-the-us-stil...
yep, i don't care if they give me an entire palace. unless it's attached to my home, i am not going there. if my job requires me to be at the office, i will say "no" and then get another job.
I tried Ampere Altra on Hetzner, it was unparallel price/performance wise. But it kept falling into low frequency state (1 GHz on all 80 cores). That's either something in the motherboard or in the processor, couldn't figure it out. Guess not mature enough yet.
> Do you have a source for this? I didn't see that mentioned in the article.

The person who runs prosecraft says "I looked to the internet for more text that I could analyze, and I used web crawlers to find more books." [0]

I'm just inferring, but if they had, say, purchased each of these books, or borrowed them from the library, or only sourced from sites that ensure the copyright is satisfied, then they might have mentioned it.

(FWIW, the blog post says the other source for the 25K works was their personal library, so I'm assuming the bulk of the 25K come from the internet, though I know some people have prodigious personal libraries.)

[0] https://blog.shaxpir.com/taking-down-prosecraft-io-37e189797...
I only browsed this but it seems like a pretty cool primer. Loving the style as well.

It's also a very good idea to write these types of resources when you teach yourself something new because it clarifies your thought process and helps you identify parts that are still unclear even though you initially thought you understadn them etc.

I also liked this at the end:

"""
I talked to GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 a decent amount while writing this article. While they lied to me a lot and most of the information was useless, they were sometimes very helpful for working through problems. LLM assistance can be net positive if you’re aware of their limitations and are extremely skeptical of everything they say. That said, they’re terrible at writing. Don’t let them write for you.
"""

Congrats, cool project.
There is no excess labor left in the system. We just went through a pandemic where, in the US, 2.4 million people just vanished from the labor force. If there is a recession it'll be a fully employed recession where the fed has to keep rates high because workers are fully employed and driving up wages while capital is crying uncle for lost profits and cheap money again.
I know what you mean, but I see it a little differently.

1. I was a precocious kid, and as much as it might rub people the wrong way, there’s nothing wrong with being proud of yourself for that and bringing attention to it. The downside is that you can (at least some of us) have one hell of a shock once you’re out of the wunderkind age range and you’ve made that a core part of your identity.

2. Different standards are warranted with youth. That was a big reason why I prefaced everything with my age growing up. Programmers are notoriously nitpicky and curmudgeonly, but they do tend to have a special place in their heart for youthful curiosity and enthusiasm, and are more willing to give constructive feedback to someone in that phase than a mature adult who won’t just RTFM. I know I feel that way.
The Spam Chronicles
> You can't be serious.

I have to agree with the parent post here. What do you think the median age of HN commenters is? I'd say it's probably mid-late 20s, in which case most people graduated after the great recession was largely over and only experienced the COVID blip that wasn't a cyclical recession in the normal sense and mostly helped tech workers instead of harming them.
Came here to recommend this. You can find a longer excerpt here: https://www.uvm.edu/~jbailly/courses/HomerTranslation/LogueW...
Yeah if there's some solid iron asteroid out there heading right for us we're totally screwed. That's like a core of a planetessimal! Very dense stuff!

It could also be some lighter rock (a matrix) with iron clasts, created from a collision between a huge, light asteroid and smaller iron planetessimal fragments. Then if our planetary defense system breaks off a bunch of boulders, some could contain the heavy iron fragments and some might not, so different things would happen on reentry for each boulder.
This is awesome, and so is your website. Programming, writing, flying, music, that 's wild. Congrats!
Years ago I worked for a company in a huge windowless, wall-less open plan building that was supposed to be fun because they put a slide in it. You had to have headphones on to think.

Looking back it seems so surreal like thinking about when people used to smoke on airplanes. I can’t imagine ever going back to that.
Not sure how the state population is relevant, the vast majority of people living in Arizona live in the Phoenix metropolitan area which is where these new fabs are being built. The population size for that area is also around 5 million. Also, how is immigration between countries in Europe easier than immigration between states in the US. That is simply not possible when the US has no language/cultural barriers.
It baffles me that people think that employees should just put up with whatever horrible environment an employer produces and be grateful for the job. Even after employers have demonstrated time and time again that they have zero interest in the wellness of their employees aside from how it affects health insurance rates.
There is a big area in the middle between pro- and anti-science. And what you describe is more pro-education than pro-science. Education and science are not the same, even if it includes knowledge acquired by science. And we know from all around the world, that even well-educated people, even scientists, can fall in the intellectual pitfall of myths, superstition and strange unscientific theories and maintain both worldviews side by side.
They won't be when the rising disability rates (ONS and FRED data show this) shrink the labor pool.
You got a bit confused, stating something is not given isn't sign of confidence, rather sober analytical approach... Confidence is parent stating the opposite, without anything like crystal ball to back it up, while host of others don't agree
He's talking about repeated squarings in a modular field, like integers mod N
where N is the product of two large primes.
> The envp argument contains another null-terminated list of environment variables used as context for the application. They’re… conventionally KEY=VALUE pairs. Conventionally.

TIL! It seems a lot of (newer) programming languages make this assumption.

> …I love computers.

Me too, kid. Me too.
Everything is marketing.

The age thing is a bit of a red flag now given that too many parents in this industry try to give their kid an advantage by presenting their work as the work of their child. Seed the internet with all of the amazing accomplishments your kid "achieved" at a young age. I now look on the "I'm NN years old and I..." claims with skepticism, to the point where it's a net negative. It makes the project look worse.

Not in this case. It probably a nice guide. Already know how CPUs work so didn't read it, but it's entirely reasonable that a teen could do the work and assemble the details of how a CPU works.
It's easy to read because it's vague, and it's going to allow some regulator to decide whether my use of IP addresses constitutes "normal operation." Puts a hell of a lot of trust in government officials to decide who is worthy of prosecution.

It reminds me of the war on drugs in a lot of ways.
> You can't be serious.

Ok, im serious. It's silly to quote someone when you don't have a rebuttal.

2008 was 15 years ago, and didn't hit tech as hard as other industries. The last serious one was early 2000s. A significant number of people "in it for the money" or with non-traditional credentials simply had to leave the field.
Yes! I've been a firm believer in this for ages. Heck I'd even quite like a cubicle, no really, I would. The open plan office that is ubiquitous in the UK is the absolute worst of all possible designs
Note, in response to the title, that I don't mean "awesome for a 17yo", I mean awesome, period.
Can't wait for people to start abusing this strat by lying about their age.
Obsidian with Obsidian Sync, because I want reliable sync between work devices and my personal iPhone. I don't use a lot of plugins, nor spend a lot of time perusing plugin options. The one plugin that is crucial to my Obisidian workflow is Omnisearch.
It’s actually pretty easy, no? A SPAC has requirements that it has to meet - no operating business, only nominal assets, a limited period of time in which it must transact.

But like another poster observed, not letting a SPAC list completely obviates the sole purpose of a SPAC (which I personally think would be an excellent outcome).
I had a private office at a large tech firm for many years. It was perfect for me, I would probably go back to the office for that setup. I’ll never go work in an open floor plan.
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For a different reason though having to do with a brain disorder where they have trouble distinguishing their thoughts and imagination from perception.
Are you in advertising/marketing, especially in media planning/buying? Or in media, especially in ad sales?

We've developed a bit of adtech software and are looking for a few more beta testers.

An overview: https://www.loom.com/share/7390b1c3eb9549e1995015baec78976a?...

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Let me know if you'd be interested in beta testing at winston@antsandaphids.com. Thank you!
Eating out is a net positive for me. I get better, more varied food and feel better if a professional does the cooking. It's not worth saving money on what I eat - it's so important for health.
See if I lived five minutes walk from work, I’d want to be in the office even less. Why sit there between meetings if I am five minutes from my home? Why bag a lunch when my kitchen is down the block? I’d probably show face at the obligate meetings then just go home for the day if I could.
> don't let them list.

How exactly do you intend to do that? Remember the law is like code, not something you can rearrange on a whim.

There's no legal distinction of a SPAC. It's just a company like any other listing on the public markets. The better solution is to increase reporting and listing requirements for the companies they're merging with. The merger process should become exactly as it is with traditional IPOs; S-1 filings, roadshows, lockup periods, etc.
That right there moves it solidly into "planned action", but I don't have much available data.
GPU sharing with multiple Python environments white paper
>They give you the least they can possibly get away with.

Yup, and now that employees have had a taste of freedom from that, they are very resistant to returning to that. Why is that hard to grasp for companies?
Swirl 2.5 Released
Swirl 2.5 is now available! This version focused on performance. Configured with 12 SearchProviders, 2.5 supports ~15 queries/second on a Standard F16s v2 server (16 vcpus, 32 GiB memory) with a median response time of ~3 seconds.

Version 2.5 also includes SearchProviders for HubSpot contact, company, and deal records, plus improvements to the Galaxy search UI.

Check out the Release notes for full details: https://github.com/swirlai/swirl-search/releases/tag/v2.5.0

Please star our repo :-) #gratitude
Have you tried Every Door? It's a similar micro-editor for iOS:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Every_Door

For more complete editing, I like to use "Go Map!!"

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map!!
We have a whole kitchen staff that prepares very good breakfast and lunch for us (no dinner!). The kitchen is also open for beverages/snacks throughout the day. We have a great gym with trainers. That is enough for me to come into the office everyday.
Sign up for LinkedIn Premium (they often offer free trials for a month or 90 days even I think). The guy is in the network: https://www.linkedin.com/in/federicofaggin/
Same setup for me. Obsidian+Syncthing+Restic (with B2). Works great
PUP – DVP [video]
Plus which video formats and resolutions are being used.
> IBM and Oracle wouldn't have needed to buy a CPU company, they'd both been designing top tier CPUs for decades

you HAVE TO HAVE those CPUs on devs laptops. Otherwise it just won't work. Macs with M1/M2 are pretty much ideal setup to develop for gravitons
This is how I feel. I know someone whose life was pretty severely impacted by long covid, and I don't want to be her. And I'm a 37 year old woman, which apparently is a higher risk demographic than average.

Between that and the benefits of working from home (having lunch with my local friends or eating leftovers, no commute, control over my environment, being able to work from my partner's occasionally), I really don't think there's a realistic amount of money I'd go back to an office for. Onsites are fine, but RTO 5 days a week 48 weeks a year? No thank you.