skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, its “take Scrum, then eliminate everything that Agile gets right, then treat professional knowledge workers like they were working on assembly line”, plus, bonus, be sure to ritually invoke a declaration that each meeting is an “effective” one.

Does this really acheive its goals that 92% of IC work time is “focus and collaboration”? Maybe, if you define those loosely enough. Does it foster effective productivity? Probably not. Specific notes:

(1) Everyone has the same fixed start, ending, and lunch times. This isn’t justified anywhere, and doesn’t seem to contribute to the goal in any way. Maybe makes it slightly easier to arrange necessary collaboration, doesn't contribute to the the total alotment of focus+collaboration time. Drops efficiency of focus time, most notably because forcing everyone to a tightly synchronized schedule means people are “at their desk” because its what the schedule says rather than breaking for lunch or even end of day earlier or later than a fixed schedule would indicate because of how convenient breaking points in flow work occur.

(2) Pulling ICs fully out of the process of assuring work items are properly prepped (no “backlog grooming” meetings, or team members doing similar work out of the meeting context.) Narrowing engineers view of the pipeline, eliminating their early feedback on work items and how to structure them, and putting this function (as you note in another comment, though not the main article), with a reduced time allotment in the hands of a group whose essential participants are the Project and Engineering Managers is... well, as someone wbo hates grooming meetings, I still think this is a step back. Yes, most prep of work items shouldn't be in dev team meetings. At the same time, the dev team should be involved, and shouldn't be seeing work items at the Sprint, er. “Iteration” Planning meeting, where they spring fully formed from the forehead sof manager-gods. Sure, that way may mean a greater share of time spent working on the work items, but it also means the work is more poorly directed.

(3) Probably the worst manageritis, despite a nominal focus on maximizing focus+collaboration time, you've retained from Scrum the Daily Meeting that Should Have Been a Kanban Board and the tradition of “Why deal with an impediment stopping productive progress today when you could have a regularly scheduled meeting tomorrow instead”.

(4) Not super critical, but this seems to assume there are only two levels at which meetings affecting ICs occur: dev team and whole company, outside of a very small company, this is probably a bad sign of an extremely siloed organization.

Big picture: Improving flow and productivity isn’t a matter of treating engineers like horses with blinders and increasing synchronization, its about embracing asynchrony and letting engineers own the work and the workflow. And, while avoiding unnecessary and unproductive meetings is important, taking miaximizing hours at work without meetings as a goal is... well, not an exception to Goodhart's Law.
I'm having a good experience with some automation build automation with Councourse CI. Of course, I self host, and I am doing some real trivial stuff right now.
macOS as well. Though it's not exactly a 'generator'. Even for white/pink noise it's just playing an audio file.
I feel like we're talking across purposes, I'm not here to debate deontology or the definition of violence.
And if the fire does make it to your house the 50 gallon drums will ensure nothing is left standing. I like it!
So make an Amazon mechanical turk flip a pixel?
While true, Smalltalk, Common Lisp and .NET are also part of the party.
While on holiday in the States for the first time recently I actually changed my Play Store country to be able to download some US specific parking app, not knowing that I apparently have to wait a full year before I can change my country again (I don't remember reading this during the process).

Explaining this to Google Play and Google One customer support led to nothing, they just told me to wait out the full year essentially. I'm just stuck with it for now.
Things like this are super annoying to me, especially when Apple is engaging in it as well. Just like deduplication on cloud services, this "feature" is literally only beneficial for the company so they can reduce your file storage use and make your data less secure and have an excuse to get to know more about your data they can use for other purposes.
> That logic doesn’t quite follow

No, it is that you assumed "typical environment".

8 billion today vs one third of a billion one thousand years ago: the place has gotten crowded.

Which also means, must have been much easier in the past to isolate oneself, within reasonable horse distance. Nowadays, many countries are simply clogged with presence and to find a "desert" is almost impossible (also considering air traffic).
Go: What a central PGO server could look like
Hi! Intrigued by the recent publicity of profile-guided optimisations in Go 1.20 and 1.21. Thought it'd be cool to build something simple that could be used to streamline go service pgo initiatives.

Presented is just an idea; it is intentionally rudimentary. Will give a go measuring this in an actual environment and collecting some metrics.

Any feedback on this topic would be highly appreciated. Thanks.
memento mori -- remember the death.

life only has one true exit.
Some of our children were allergic to dairy though. It can’t be beneficial when they’re actually allergic to it.
The open source drivers for Nvidia have sucked for years, meaning you need to use the proprietary drivers. The proprietary drivers frequently break on kernel updates and have historically been problematic to use in combination with Wayland.
You said it better than I could have. Amazing how no one will consider how overstimulating the immune system might create autoimmune disorders.
As is stated in the link I posted, you don't have to run your own bridge. With snowflake, there are more entry nodes than ever, and you don't need to know anything about them in advance.
agreed re: hobby & research, and i was aware that cerro tololo is a timeshare of multiple telescopes (was speaking colloquially). looks like gemini south in chile was also impacted
Very nice - I have a ReMarkable, but haven't used it as much as I'd have hoped but might give this a try.
The intent of the original was for spectacle, inspored by theater, and I would think that other upscale restaurants with similar configurations would choose to do that for the same reason. It has entertainment value. The article contrasted it with diners and sushi restaurants where it serves a different purpose: ensuring sanitary standards.

Open floor plans in offices serve yet other functions: cost savings and employee management.

While it's interesting to note the parallel trend of removing walls in offices and restaurants, I don't know that they actually have that much in common
OpenAI's ChatGPT has a left wing bias
Excellent write up. This is the kind of content that I love to see here.
Great to see how chatgpt helped you along the way to learn and solve a problem you weren’t very well versed with.
Resonate with the comment that you were the developer and chatgpt was the coder ! Exactly how I felt with some of the projects.
Also indeed true that Simplicity is indeed complex .
> Petty theft is still theft. Small injuries are still injuries. Small violence is still violence.

Agreed. But at no point does theft automatically equate to violence. Theft can be violent. Not all theft is violent.

Equating everything to “violence” is just significantly lowering the resolution and intelligibility of the concept conveyed.
Why Fantasy Avoids Gunpowder
Never tried dogs. I did grass allergy shots for about 6 months as an adult. All that ever gave me was an itchy arm. My nose -still- becomes a spigot every time I have to cut grass...
I'm actually curious if libraries like pytorch are even trying to move away from CUDA and if moving away from it is worth it. I get why newer ML toolchains would do that but do mainstream established MI frameeorks plan on sticking with nvidia exclusivity for now?
What exactly is a closed kitchen? One with doors completely shutting it off from the rest of the home? That seems to be exceptionally rare in the US. So much so I don't think I've ever been into any home that that was the case. There's of course ones with and without walls that partition it off from the rest of the living space, but I can't remember the last time i saw a door on one.

Even when I lived in Germany, while the kitchen was a separate room, it had a big opening that went into a small hallway and right next to it was a dining room.

In none of these scenarios would I think you'd ever magically block off the smell of cooking. I walk by some houses and I can certainly smell what they're cooking, so it's not like even the entirely closed off house is going to prevent that.

I think your issue is actually a ventilation one. You don't dissipate the smell of something by letting it fester in a closed off space. You open a window (like you said) or find an apartment that has a range hood, vented or not.
Reminds me of this Portlandia clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAlWrT5P2VI
I'm really wondering the reason

Honestly MindGeek was already famous for the insiders while begin a discrete name for anyone else

Why trow away a brand like that?
I am very concerned for the people living in areas who have suffered from recent wildfires. While 2022 did not see as many, 2021 was a brutal year for fires and I worry that there has not been adequate vegetation growth to stabilize the ground structure. Sadly California has experienced mud slides and debris torrents following fires and they take just as many if not more lives.

PS: I understand there is a system for naming hurricanes but at least for me, the fact this one is named Hillary has added to my trepidation.
Obviously, if it doesn't happen to you it must mean that he is wrong.
Everything you're allergic to is something you were exposed to at least once; your immune system has to see it and learn to recognize it before you can react to it. Some types of exposure are good and some are bad.

Good types include oral exposure and continuous exposure (as in sublingual immunotherapy). Bad types include skin exposure (especially with eczema) and intermittent exposure with long periods of zero exposure (e.g. seasonal pollens including grass). Timing is also important especially relative to other immune triggers like actual sickness or vaccines or allergens that you already react to.

This is all poorly characterized in general and a lot more study is needed, but we definitely know of ways to expose you to allergens that are much less likely to cause allergies and in fact are likely to reduce or cure them.
> [...] discover the factors our immune systems are missing in modern life and reintroduce them

Sadly, many commensal bacteria that co-evolved with us have gone extinct due to a variety of modern interventions [1].

Re-engineering the gut microbiome is an incredibly challenging problem but essential to re-establish immune tolerance, which is governed by microbes [2].

[1] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(15)00614...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06431-8
I got curious and decided to google around. I din't find anything from Pike specifically, but my overall impression is that the maintainers simply refuse to see significant value in sum types. They do acknowledge the benefits but not their importance. Interestingly, the overwhelming majority of Go users (at least as indicated by this[0] GH issue) do wish for Go to have sum types. My speculation for Pike in particular though is that he's not that important to have significant influence on the evolution of Go.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19412
In the US, FSAs are legally constructed to only run for the year (1/1 - 12/31). All of the money is available to you on Jan 1; it's not accrued per paycheck.

If you spend everything in your FSA in January and quit your job, the company has to eat the loss.

(IANAL, blah blah blah)
I love onsens so much, but this is also true in a hot tub at a ski area. Fond memories of Tahoe and Colorado.
I agree. I just think the kitchen can be a social focus with the open plan.

This is not intended to be like open plan office seating, where nobody can escape. This should be combined with appropriate quiet places too.
I read this fun anecdote about him, I think in Klausenmeyer. Not sure if this is apocryphal but the story goes that Benjamin, during one of his many stays in paris, developed a certain ritual. Every evening, before settling into his writing or reading, he'd visit the same cafe in le marais, always occupying the same seat by the window. The cafe was nondescript, but apparently Benjamin was drawn to it due to an old, barely functional gramophone they had, uncommon for the time. he would usually request the barista to play a record. The gramophone had a quirk. it played every record slightly slower than it should, making it sound a bit more melancholic

Apparently Benjamin walked in one night to find another patron sitting in his favorite spot. most would've taken another seat, but benjamin, ever the stickler for his rituals, decided to wait.

He ordered a coffee and stood near the entrance, patiently waiting, occasionally glancing at the unaware man who was engrossed in a newspaper.

The minutes turned into hours. the sun set, and the cafe's dim lights were starting to cast shadows. Benjamin's coffee went cold, etc. Meanwhile the patron showed no signs of leaving. and just when it seemed like benjamin would finally give up and break his ritual, the man stood up, folded his newspaper, and began to walk out. but, not before stopping by the gramophone, placing a coin, and letting it play a tune.

Anyway the record, due to the gramophone's quirk, played one of Benjamin's own radio broadcasts in its distorted way. Supposedly this is the event that really got him thinking about the effects of reproduction of art and media more broadly
Imagine there is a party which wants to gain supporters by always telling the truth. Then there is another party which tries to gain supporters by spreading lies and conspiracies.

If the AI adopts the formers ideas, can we say it has "truth bias"? It tells the truth more often than not.
Does that mean it is biased towards truth and against QAnon ?

Should we not in fact DEMAND that AI-bots MUST be truth-biased?
Same here! Talking about traditional setup…

It probably varies from place to place? Here in north-east europe traditional peasant setup was kitchen and living room together. Kitchen stove was used to heat the house as well. Usually houses would have cold side and warm side. Warm side was warmed up while cooking. People would also sleep in the warm side during the winter.

It only started to change in 20th century with people moving to apartments or building fancier houses en masse.

However by the end of 20th century people were already gravitating back to the usual setup of joint kitchen and living room. Which is the norm in new buildings for the past 20 years or so.
My two complaints about Onsen are:

1. They are gender separated. So when travelling as a straight couple or in groups you likely can’t share the experience together. Some see this as a plus. I see it as a minus. Put it down to personal preference.

2. Must be nude. Ok well I guess I’m just a prude, but I don’t enjoy the concept of being nude in front of others. Rules out German style spas too.

3. Bonus issue. Tattoos. Because of the criminal association with Tats in Japan you can possibly find it hard to use an Onsen (Ie banned).
I know this is probably blasphemy at this point, but I actually wasn't enjoying package management in Deno (or lack thereof). I've been an avid user of the NPM ecosystem for a long time (10+ years), it's entrenched deep in me and I don't mind it haha! In particular with Deno, it was trying to remember all the dependency URLs, and not wanting to duplicate them - every time I wanted to read a file and I had to lookup the std library URL for the umpteenth time. The package discovery isn't as good, and documentation was too different (why is everything in a file called mod.ts? why do I need to see all of the files in a dependency?).

This led to the recommended advice of having a dedicated TS file where you pull all your external dependecies in and then re-export them locally. This felt worse than package.json (read: clunky not having a first-class system to list external dependencies). And this is in a project with minimal dependencies too - yet it still frustrated me. Plus my editor had no type info for any external imports. I then discovered import maps, but that was still hit and miss in my editor (Neovim mind you) with code completion, made worse by not having a clear way to import ohm-js. Not to mention having to explicitly list `--import-map` for every command and forgetting too often and then wondering why my code wasn't working. Just feels like it's on a roundabout path to reinventing package.json anyway, just with distributed packaging by default?

I'm not particularly concerned with security either, so having to list `--allow-x` and `--allow-y` got tiring very quick. At this point, I just felt like Deno was constantly trying to stop me from getting stuff done. I ended basically ditch most of the new stuff in Deno and was basically treating it a ts-node (thanks to the new NPM/Node compat feature) - but it had me off side now.

I knew Bun.sh has some rough edges in terms of compatibility, etc (which is fine as it's pre-v1)... but for writing a compiler: I'm mostly writing everything from scratch and just need to read/write from the filesystem which is definitely stable and well documented. Switching to Bun was painless and all of a sudden everything Just Worked™, ran faster and I can get back to actually working on my compiler. The only problem I've had with Bun is not being able to tweak the output the results of `bun test` (e.g. if one of the first tests fail, I have to keep scrolling back up through my big list of passing tests to see why it failed) - if Bun had a better error summary at the end of the test output I'd be set!

TLDR; As someone using NPM/node for over a decade, nothing in Deno "just worked" for me and instead blocked me at every turn and the lack of package management turned me off. I know there are sound and objective reasons for design decisions in Deno, but none of those things matter much _to me_. Bun, on the other hand, is intended as a drop-in replacement for Node, but faster and with native support for TypeScript which ticks all the boxes I need for this particular project. (FWIW I tried switching a Remix project to Bun and it didn't work and stuck with Node).
Musk is very closely involved with SpaceX. There are extensive technical interviews with him on YouTube talking about the Starship program.
DLSS is only marginally better then FSR 2.0.

Sure, you can see the difference if you're carefully looking for it in comparison videos. But when you're actually playing it's usually not noticeable to any meaningful degree. You're gonna get occasional artefacts with both.

As for ray tracing - to be honest, playing at 4k with an RTX 3070 there's very few games where I can turn it on without the game running unacceptably slow even with DLSS.

Ray traced shadows and AO are nice but hardly a deal breaker.

I think it's more the desire to have the latest and greatest tech that makes Nvidia cards desirable, rather than any material difference that you'll actually notice while gaming.

Some good comparison shots of DLSS 2 and FSR 2 in this video.

https://youtu.be/1WM_w7TBbj0
The use the Signal library. A security researcher could analyze the binary, and check that it always calls the signal library correctly. Prove that they don't, and congratulations, you will become a very famous security researcher.
> This company has their own proprietary heavy fluid called R-19. Their formula isn't public, but presumably they understand the success of their company depends on it being affordable.

That assumes they plan to ever deliver anything real. There are very few substances cheaper per unit mass than water, and I would not take on faith that something that isn't even being mass produced yet could ever possibly compete.

> It means that, if pumped storage starts to look worth it to you (given budget, etc.) with tanks of size V and a height difference of H, then with their system it might be worth it if the tallest hill available to you is H/2.5.

That's not how turbines work. Pressure head is independent of volume.

> Or you can keep the height the same and reduce the volume. Or keep both the same and increase the storage. The point is that they claim to offer a better trade-off.

And I am saying that I do not believe their claim that they offer a better trade off.
How does this tool compare to the built-in streaming (screen share) feature?
the article talks about it - the best antidote to allergy is early introduction:

> Right around the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, when food allergy rates were starting to increase, the American Academy of Pediatrics said to withhold peanuts and allergenic foods from pregnant mothers, from nursing mothers and from children with risk of allergy until they’re four years old. That was exactly the wrong advice, and that fueled the fire and caused even more increase. Now all of the push is for early introduction.”

of course there are cases of severe allergy, but these seem to be quite rare. as everything today, allergy is also way overdiagnosed by lazy & fearful doctors.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep4+shtml/061248.s...

The rainfall prediction from the National Hurricane Center showing vast majority of areas will experience 1-4 inches, but some inland areas in small regions will experience up to 10 inches.
I doubt bigger rooms was hard to build. Here in north-east Europe traditional wooden houses were essentially 2 big rooms on either side. With entrance and storage in the middle.

One side was kitchen and living room while the other was „cold“ and usually not used much during the winter.
That's obviously false, because then it would be highly unlikely to have two highly successful companies (Tesla and SpaceX, not even counting PayPal) if it was just him being lucky with employees.
Ah, thanks for pointing this out! Yeah, I was unaware of how little of it there really is. It does make a lot of sense, of course. And the cast is often maligned for their poor eye contact and wooden reading of the cue cards, so it's clear to see how they're under orders to stick to the scripts. Considering how much improv background some of them have, they may begin to resent that!
For mid-tier gaming they are very competitive, but for consumer AI they were not even a player until very recently and still marginal at best.
My take is that it can be one of two things, either the task is delegated to you by your manager, or it's an attempt to shift the task over by a coworker.

If it's a coworker you can ignore it.

If it's your manager and for whatever reason you deem it unfair, reflect on exactly why, then bring it up with the manager, then see if you can align. If not, start looking for other options.

Whether these things are hard or not, is a different and independent issue. New things in life are usually hard.
The perfect echo chamber/ filter bubble. Great.
> Tolkien's Aragorn was the epitome of duty and commitment, always putting life and limb on the line for it; Jackson's didn't want the job!

There's a reason for it. A movie requires the protagonist to undergo a character arc, where their perspective on the world changes.

... Except that in this story, Aragorn already dealt with all those issues, and by the time of the Fellowship is just doing what he's spent his whole life working up to.
In my parts of the world it was the opposite. Kitchen and living room was traditionally joint. To use kitchen heat in winter to heat up the living area. Usually people would also sleep in the same room during winter.
Servlets existed before annotations, so no, you are wrong.