skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Businesses gave mixed results on remote work productivity, with 30% saying it boosted output, and 40% saying it reduced it.

I think this is a continuation of the theme of technology making time-space co-ordination more independent.

Recorded music/videos made it possible for artists to record their content and for consumers to enjoy it across space and time.

E-commerce companies such as Amazon, Ebay, Craigslist made it possible for people to not require to be physically present at the same location at the same time to exchange goods and services.

Zoom, Slack, Confluence, GitHub etc. did make it possible for people to build great products and services by collaborating across space and time for a long time, it just validated during COVID.

The thing is remote work is what enables western companies to hire high quality labour from Asia, Eastern Europe etc to push out great innovations. If it works for that, why can it not work for employees across the length and breadth of the organisation?

I remember when I used to work at a company where I had to do some testing on physical servers in a datacenter. When I had to install new operating systems, I had to physically walk into the data center and stand in the hot/cold isles, pop in my USB drive and (re)install the Operating Systems I needed.

The day I discovered IPMI, I stopped going in. The IPMI implementation was not that good, but it was still better than going in physically to the data center. It cemented by view that, if something can be done remotely, it should be done remotely, even if the remote solution is not perfect.
Similar story here. I've been remote for 9 years. I don't live that far from a minor tech hub, but it would still be an hour commute each way.

Housing here is below the national average, so there is a huge savings there. I've only put maybe 10k miles on my 2007 Corolla in the last 5 years, so I pay much less in gas/maintenance/replacing vehicles. I can have delicious, healthy food every day for half the cost. If I need someone to come to my house for repairs (or other reasons), I don't need to take a day off or miss hardly any work time. I don't have to be mad when they don't show up (maybe a little). My daughter can attend a great school that requires pickup, because being away from my PC for 30 minutes every day in the afternoon is just not a big deal. If I want to take a break and get in a quick jog in the middle of the day, it costs almost nothing in lost time; I just walk outside and start running.

I don't know what sort of raise I would have to get to convince me to give all of that up. I think I've settled on 40%, which is untenable without relocation.
Have recently started seeing “Xitter” as a reference to the site. Possibly because it can be pronounced like a crude slang for a restroom, or just to make sure everyone realizes “Twitter” isn’t going away.
Totally agree on the fancy mics: even wireless hi-end bose headphones sucks.

Distance from mouth is the most important factor in voice quality, I've found that a cheap pair of headphones with buil-in stick mic sounded much better than a Yeti mic on the table.

It's quite easy to test yourself, but nobody does that: just record a test audio snippet using the OSX Notes app and listen to it yourself.
Interesting. Anyone knows some good resources to learn this stuff?
Im not a bad sleeper but it drove me insane when i wasnt able to sleep anymore about month ago. I was doing like the article suggested, lying in bed, but when it was 3-4 AM i kinda gave up and started just doing stuff. Then i either held off for next evening or slept in the day.

What changed it for me was turning my massive portable AC on and let it hum through the night. I think my body just dont sleep that well when its hot/warmish.

So there can be multiple factors in play. I agree though being really pedant about sleep rhytme helps, especially waking yourself up in the same time.
I am the operator. With my pocket calculator
I used to be a dev for them. HTS is how i got started with computer science.
Rule of thumb: IBM tends to spoof results to get published, then use the published results to trick tech-illiterate clients into using their stack.

At conferences I used to go to, they'd just phack the hyperparameters of an ensemble model on the benchmark sets, and put out a press release saying they were state of the art. They were mostly ignored by the academics who went to the talks on the actual novel work.
I totally can provide as much info as you'd like about it but would probably be better off forum. Shoot me an email xzel at protonmail.com . Still going to add a bit here but like I said there are so many companies that exist in slightly different niches in this massive space it would be a small novel.

Generally the people who buy licenses for these products are either people who want to make their own website with WP and stumbled upon the website builder tools or, more significantly, agencies or single person companies who are making a lot of websites for small businesses. Lots of restaurant, small businesses, etc need simple websites that look good, have the info there they need, are editable without blowing up and don't want to spend a lot of money. So they will pay 400-1000 dollars to their web dev who buys a website builder license with part of it. He will know the ins and outs of the tool (like my photoshop comparison earlier) and can whip up pretty unique but "gets the job done" website on the cheap with the tooling that provides a huge amount of short cuts. Basically these tools allow beginner / non-super technical designers or web devs to short cut most of the coding, as I said before. Someone like Elementor, probably the biggest company in the space, is used by a huge number of people and businesses big and small.

On the hosting front, there are a lot of good and cheap hosting options these days. Self hosting is so much better than its ever been as PHP security and in general VPS security is a lot better that it was in the past. I don't want to recommend someone specific for paid for hosting because we may have contracts with hosting partners and like the previous post these opinions are my own and I like to keep my HN posting separate from my business but I'm more than happy to talk about that via email as well. Wowzers that was a run on sentence. Hope this helps!
The problem is that pay cute are a huge feel-bad moment; many employees who are otherwise perfectly happy will simply quit rather than accept one. Some companies did it anyway in the first RTO wave, typically under the fig leaf of location-based pay. Others look towards a less disruptive strategy (https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/07/12/1110510488/lea...) of slow rolling raises and inflation adjustments for remote roles.
One of the biggest factors impacting education outcomes is students per teacher. Students tutored one-on-one learn better than students in small classes, and students in small classes learn better than students in large classes. Because if there are fewer students per teacher, the teacher can devote more time and attention to each student. AI promises to put a decent one-on-one tutor in the hands of every student for a fraction of the cost of human tuition, potentially bringing about a huge leap in educational attainment. No longer will private tutors be restricted to the rich only.
It had been profitable in the relatively recent past and I assume that like the others, it could have gotten back on track with a standard round of layoffs. If it wasn't for the extra debt and advertiser exodus.
The Role of Senescence in Crafting Cancer-Friendly Microenvironments
This just boils down to the dualism/physicalism argument. Physicalists would say that the mind is software and state, and they can be copied or moved just like a VM can be moved (e.g. Vmotion) from one host to another without any internally perceived interruption. The brain is just the host.
>A pointy scabbard would foible the wearer in the leg and groin. Curving the scabbard solves that problem nicely.

This is one of those comically out of touch armchair historian takes.

Curved blades were made back then for the same reason they are still made. They are effective at killing other humans quickly. Aimed at a throat or other vulnerable point the blade is highly likely to drag across an artery on the withdrawal thereby quickly ending your confrontation.

Curved blades don't work as well on animals with fur and thick hides.
Yeah reading and doing stuff is how you learn any topic, getting the right solution is not really the point (and arguably should not be in the book in the first place).

The main issue with education is grades and how obsessed people are with those as a sorting mechanism for students.
Blocking ads just pushes more ads on others and/or into embedded sponsorships.
In the UK, the move to WFH saved me £7000 per annum (the cost of a annual rail season ticket), the equivalent of £10,000 gross salary (taxed to £7k net).
Japanese version (fitting for Casio): https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZbmFeXTN7GA
Brilliant response and observations. I’m not sure I’d agree with this one tiny assertion though:

“1.87MB is not that big“

I have lived in rural communities most of my life and unless I’m on my own Wi-Fi, this actually is a big file to download. Maybe they have a workaround for mobile?
Mostly I just want to add that rural Wi-Fi still struggles with Web 2.0 architecture. More often we’re operating on 2-4G speeds.

Although if you’re in any kind of metro area with a population that supports better infrastructure, 1.87MB has mostly become a small file size. Except maybe at 6pm when everyone on your cable trunk is streaming content. :)
Thanks @hypercube33, I actually have given MassCode a run a year or so back, I’ll take a look again.

It’s strange to me that for a collection of engineers no one has really built a solid snippets manager. I really wish a company like leitmotif that built Kaleidoscope, the guys at Linear or other UI/UX focused companies would crank it one out.
Some points:

1. We know that evolution of life requires a degree of stability for long periods of time, and most likely conditions favorable to having a liquid solvent for chemical reactions to occur (probably water but possibly things like methane). Those conditions are relatively rare, which is why scientists talk about the "habitable zone" of planets around stars.

2. Given the requirements of a habitable zone and long periods of environmental stability, that knocks out pretty much the entire rest of our solar system, with the possible exception of some of the gas giant moons.

3. It hasn't really been proven that life is not abundant in the universe. There is a really good section in How the Mind Works that talks about some faulty assumptions in the Drake Equation (primarily that evolution "drives" towards more complex, intelligent life forms over time), but AFAIK we haven't ruled out the possibility of life in many of the planetary systems we've discovered. On the contrary, we've recently discovered many extra solar planets in the habitable zone of their stars, with signatures of water.
This implies that WordPress has figured out how to guarantee their company will be alive and functional in 100 years. They should sell that as a service!
Indeed, and I see plenty of reasons to listen to him. Khan Academy helped me immensely in college for free and Sal Khan has been at it for what, 17 years now?

I'm pretty sure he has a better than average grasp on what it means to learn and how to improve the process. And even more importantly, he's trying to! If not him, then who should we listen to?

I don't have a clue why GP reduces Sal to "good at explaining things" when Khan Academy is so much bigger than just him for a long time now. And I, for one, am very grateful that he exists. People in first world countries can't imagine the impact that free access to great education resources has in the rest of the world, like in my case.

> At the gym, people assume anyone with big muscles must be an expert in medicine. Let's not make the same mistake here.

The gym analogy falls short to me. The mistake here is assuming that someone that worked in education for almost two decades, and has achieved extraordinary results in the mean time, doesn't have any clue about education in general.
Absolutely! That's absolutely a prerequisite for these periods of very sudden advancement. Look at the 19th century! Very nearly the entire world's capacity was pulled into a very small geographic area, which then made the modern world.

It's a bit depressing because of the brutality that's involved, but let's not write off Europe and Greece quite so quickly. There's plenty of powers in world history that established a similar level of "excess capacity" re: labor but didn't engage in anything that could be interpreted as "societal advancement". England, during the rise of its supremacy, decided to end slavery. Yeah yeah yeah I know - there were very good realpolitik reasons for this, and England over the centuries has had some very good PR agents, but in the end, they did it. The Enlightenment was, compared to the theocratic/autocratic fusion of the early modern era, an advancement[1]. I'll die on that hill. It wasn't possible without the blood and labor of countless aboriginal peoples, who we should honor in the same proportion, of course.

[1] There's some disagreement about this in the current era, which I won't express an opinion on. "Palingenesis" is an applicable cautionary term.
Great, you've a solution for the past. How will creators be incentivized to make and distribute future videos, that you can then download somehow?
>with ample resources and real power, because he is good at explaining things

Isn't explaining things well the heart of good education?
> And isn’t this for the models that are under $500?

Apple hasn't officially announced it, but the cheapest iPhone 14 is $800. So it's extremely unlikely they will have an iPhone 15 for $500 or less.
Technically you can still use an API in your server components.

But this is what I love about Remix. You write your server and client code in the same place, but the server code is just an api, so can be reused directly.
This is highlighted in the west depending on where the ruling goverment is with or against the west. Relatives of people abroad and out of reach are targeted. Currently 100s of people in Pakistan are in jail or custody as ransom for their outspoken relatives abroad.
> I miss this kind of playfulness in computing.

it's still right here every day when Firefox says "gah this tab crashed".
Perhaps the Saudi ownership component is larger than we've been led to believe?
I’m with you until you get to hiring people in other time zones that perhaps don’t speak the language (or don’t speak it well) of the management running the company.

This doesn’t work - 95% of software is communication - and that drives successful projects to hire within timezone and with folks that can communicate well. We have decades of failed India outsourcing projects as proof of this.
Well, duh. If a company suddenly stopped selling the product that their users rely on, they would lose sales. This is hardly a revelation.

There are lots of examples of software platforms transitioning to a new foundation while retaining a compatibility shim for those bits of the old applications that customers still need. Text-mode COBOL applications are deployed on Windows 11, which itself has almost nothing in common with Windows 1.0.

Wordpress.com would need to maintain compatibility with some PHP+MySQL plugins. This doesn’t seem insurmountable, especially as AI code translation is now a thing.
When an ideology becomes genocidal, it stops being political and becomes a threat to humanity. They won't give us the same non-violent courtesy.

Punching them, humiliating them, deplatforming them, etc is an act of community self-defense.

For the good of humanity, their murderous intentions must be stopped by any means necessary.
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Five thousand pilots lied on medical records to hide conditions
This analysis is accurate, but as someone whose family left the country under General Ershad, I think it misses the forest for the trees. Sheikh Hasina's government, while repressive, is also extremely popular. Her tack to neoliberalism has been enormously successful for the country, and most Bangladeshis do not want to change course. Her approval rating in multiple polls is 70-80%: https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/322206/why-sheikh.... She has the popular mandate.

But in a country with the kind of history Bangladesh has had, minority movements can destabilize the government and overrule the will of the majority. It's hard to have free-wheeling political discourse in a country where people don't have a long history of democracy and aren't above using bombs and assassinations in the political process. (Last time I left the country, I did so under armed guard during a hartal.) Every fledgling democracy in Asia has gone through an authoritarian stage while the country developed and solidified its institutions. Good take from Charlie Munger on this: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8YND31g/. I don't think it's even limited to Asia. The U.S. Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798.

The most important thing, I think, is that America should leave Bangladesh the fuck alone, which it has not been doing: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/08/03/washington-bangladesh-d.... The United States clearly has no idea how to build democracy in the developing world. I'm scared to see this article in the New York Times, and what it might mean for what the neocons have in store for the country.
They will in future (v3)
Hey, one of Wing's creators here.
Happy to answer any question or discuss any feedback :)
> The important part is that started from zero and went through all the steps to production in 8 weeks.

Why is that important? That may be personally impressive, but it's unclear how the company benefits from the intern starting from zero.

> And I assume it is not the only thing he did, presumably he did that in addition to what he was hired for. When he found that bug, he probably did a good enough impression so that the company let him work on it.

That's a lot to assume with no evidence. None of this was stated by the OP.
MS Dynamics for a start.
fatigue is a feeling that makes sleep, getting rid of it is not the purpose of sleep, it is to convince you to sleep
If you want a small, portable vi with Unicode, you can static build the version from Busybox. That's what I do.
Show HN: I made a 3D motorcycle parkour game
Later, Teenage Engineering would make a series of tiny exposed PCB synthesizers called the "pocket operator" in a direct reference to same.
We have the internet now though
Remix doesn't feel bloated to me. More like express combined with react in 1, in a way that lets you write nicer Codd and more performant apps
Cool. Does it pick me up at me house and keep others away from me? No? Then not interested in how often it runs.
Rigged seems a bit extreme. They had to make a few changes to keep things up to date. That they tripped over this small hurdle and went tumbling down the stairs doesnt change that it's a small hurdle.
You also have to take into account something that should have been more noted at the time. Pretty much no executive in June 2020 was going to say "If we can't get people back into an office in three months we are so totally screwed as a business!" Of course, they had an incentive to say everything's fine--even better than fine.
Why not? It’s your decision to move off shore
"the sooner we can start asking the real question: how can we take this technology, limitations and all, and actually use it in a production system? Where is it useful and where is it useless?"

I just published a talk I gave on Friday at WordCamp US where I tried to cover pretty much exactly this: the actual practical things you can do with existing LLM technology right now.

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/27/wordcamp-llms/
Definitely not. That’s just shit circumstances.
"a typedef name was a complete surprise to me at this point in your program"

Ah, the joys of fun compiler messages. I miss those days. I remember getting one from a vendor compiler that was:

"No! But they'll only let me warn you. Danger Will Robinson! Danger!"

and:

"Really! If you are fussing around with void *, just go home or at least back to your editor!"

I think the IT manager kept that as a vendor just because of the message (the SDK was meh, but also fun!).
> wash

> dress

Hold up, these are on the clock too.
Yah I’ll pile on. Record yourself like you’re on a call and look at different things. Do some typing, do some on-a-call context switching and listen how awful it is. Then imagine network/VOIP - it’s only worse and most services even resample and do things like audio detection to avoid typing or other background noises. Your fancy mics all suck for this. In my experience anyway.
This is not about backwards compatability. Google is preventing users from installing apps that are 100% compatible with their phone.
Have you ever considered that Next.js can simply be a layer only used by your web client that just consumes your API's? That or you can write API routes in Next.js yourself that can be used by your apps if you choose.

I really don't understand the claim you're making when nothing about uses Next prohibits you from having an API. It is exactly what you say, an optimization/use case for web clients. But nothing about this prohibits other clients from doing their own thing consuming the exact same api's if you choose to do so.
High-frequency trading: now there's something the world needs more of /s

You could argue that ham radio is an antiquated niche, but at least there's some social benefit (emergency communications, for example).
I recently completed a grad Cert in cyber security, and a large initial part of the practicals were to just go through otw and complete some of the lessons. It’s a great resource, and had I known about it before hand I probably wouldn’t have bothered paying so much for the course and just completed the otw exercises instead :/
I know you’re joking, but she wasn’t 18 yet before they changed the picture.

AFAICT, kids own the copyright to things they create[0], but guardians are responsible and can use it on the child’s interest. IANAL, consult an attorney, etc., etc.

0 - https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-who.html#:~:text=Can%....
Perfect, this is exactly the same situation i am for this week. Need to update the targetSdk of 2 legacy apps. I know it's going to be fun :)
> Only mingw AFAIK ships i686 packages (with simd support), all others stay in the safe i386 camp still, without simd support.

Conflating i686 vs i386 with SIMD vs no SIMD is wrong. The Pentium Pro was an i686 processor with no SIMD, and the Pentium 2 was its successor that added MMX — a very narrowly-useful integer-only SIMD extension (which was first introduced on the pre-i686 Pentium MMX). Floating point SIMD (SSE) didn't show up until the Pentium 3 (on the Intel side; AMD's 3DNow was earlier but was eventually dropped).

It's certainly reasonable to enable SSE and SSE2 when building for 32-bit x86 these days, but calling that target "i686" doesn't accurately describe the hardware requirements.
Or you can do what I do and support the creators on patreon and continue to use adblock on YouTube. That way you can consume content without feeling guilty and not support Google's monopoly at the same time.
We can and do.

But I also want Airbnb to be regulated and return to what it was originally - a place that people can rent out their own home for a few weeks while they are on vacation, and not illegal hotels.
ahh, good to know. not a fan of nextjs personally. might want to dip into remixjs in the future.
According to the World Bank, global poverty has decreased by nearly 20% during that time; the rate of decrease for those in extreme poverty has been even greater.

That's something like a billion and a half people who absolutely think the world is different between 2013 and 2023.