skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the push for "back to the office" one of the most astonishing things to come out of corporate America.

We've basically been moving to a model where people can work from home for a few decades. We're reached a point where it's not only feasible, but it's senseless to do otherwise for many positions.

And then, suddenly and out of the blue, a lot of CEOs and upper management started demanding that employees go back to the office. There's really no reason to do this; data has proven over and over that people can work more productively from home.

Nobody wants to waste time to work in a noisy, less comfortable environment. Yet the lords and dukes of our day demand that the commoners go back to the office or fine subsistence elsewhere. My impression so far is that it's done mostly to filter compliant employees from the more dangerous "free thinkers" which might question senseless commands.

These years are going to be a fascinating read in future history books.
I just imagine everyone there is using Chime and it’s not working that well
It was unusable in production. It's also the case the Netflix' goal isn't actually to give you the best recommendations; it's to keep you as a subscriber which is a correlated objective but not the same thing.
Earlier discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36850113

Not mentioned is, that the answer to the headline and the explanation for the drop in England is very likely the introduction and wide adaptation of Laudanum among the poorest segments of society. Like Lobster being formerly food for the poor (its icky insects after all) same pattern is visible with opiates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_trade
Wiki also mentions it being the most effective treatment for dysentery and cholera. Here its worth mentioning that drinkable water was the initial reason for the adaptation of alcoholic beverages.
Ask HN: Which programming language to learn in AI era?
Hi. I'm in my 40s, relocated to a new country. I am thinking of changing my career and learn a new programming language to get a job . I've always had a passion for technology and something useful I can develop with it. AI is changing the IT landscape and the way people build software. At this time I'm not sure which language I should start with. Should I choose React.js, Python, or is there something else that's trending? Any courses, youtube channels, recommendations are welcome
Perhaps the ability to work fewer hours. As the number of 'human' jobs reduce (consider the number of bullshit jobs that exist already). I would gladly accept this trade off. To me, time is more precious than things. Of course, on the presupposition that we can live somewhere between basic needs met and the modern luxury of today's North American. I can have lot's of fun cheaply: going outside, playing cards, playing music. Maybe I am being naive.

For now, I feel we have so much work ahead of us.
> 35Kx speed up is not scaled speed up.

Right. However, this is a comparison versus Python and the GIL, which can’t do that at all.

> While i think there are tons of optimizations to be done for python (looking at you GIL) giving access to low level cpu primitives is not one I think that will be broadly adopted by the python community.

It doesn’t need to be, any more than writing Numba or Pyrex is done on a large scale.

> That's one of the joys of python: system agnostic, looks pretty close to pseudocode, coding. If you want speed, glue together a bunch of compiled code calls, and hope the call overhead isn't too large. Or write cpu intensive operations in numba, or pyrex. At the end of the day, mojo's pay to play programming language harkens back to the early 90's Borland days.

The appeal is having a high level language that compiles to efficient machine (and GPU!) code. One can “drop down” to Python for non performance intensive parts.

I think this will be much more of a draw for people coming from C++, Fortran and other older, jankier languages. It looks to hit a sweet spot for real time embedded development VERY well, especially given Rust-like memory safety!

Mojo will also be a worthy competitor to Julia in the HPC scientific arena I think…we’ll see!
‘long long long’ is to long for GCC, but not for the Beatles who may be made to sing it a long long i; // = todo time
Save what you enjoy doing for your free time.

We'll always (knock on wood) need sysadmins, even if you don't see it as your calling in life.
You think researchers who dedicate their lives to measuring extreme poverty don't even account for a problem that you instantly thought about?

> In all these statistics, the researchers are not only taking people’s monetary income into account, but also their non-monetary income and home production. One reason why this is important is because many poor people are small-scale farmers who produce their own food.
Also diffusion models [1,2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rao%E2%80%93Blackwell_theorem

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11239
Chess Rivals Settle Cheating Dispute
A perceptual color space for image processing
pfas are banned except for food products (water resistant packaging and nonstick coatings) wtffff
It used to be that either you paid for the software product, or the software was free and you were the product.

I guess they just, you know, fixed the glitch.
Clarification.

US health is great if you are employed, have a good income or are retired and on medicare. If you don't fall into those categories it is pretty tough
Lol

I don’t think you understand just how much of a niche NI has for test equipment. There isn’t really another option for a lot of devices
If you're on Windows you can try Win Merge? There are a lot more choices on MacOS and Linux too.

Or you can just use the built in comparison ability of VSCode: https://vscode.one/diff-vscode/
> Every other country in the world calls it bribery.

This is, unfortunately, not true for the majority of "democratic" countries.

They call it "lobby". They avoid to call it "conflict of interest".
Hey, don't feel bad. Programming is tough. We need sysadmins too, and that's an awesome and powerful skillset to have. Programming isn't for everyone, and you shouldn't feel bad that it's not for you!
Anthropic's Claude 2

32k context window for PaLM 2

Adapter tuning and RLHF for LLaMA 2
Canadian chiming in here. Sorry, but it's just not true of at least Canada that the single payer&provider system is working or working well. We get better _average_ outcomes because we do some preventative work, but if you're really sick you get far better care in the US if you can afford it.

There's probably some nice middle ground around having a national preventative program (screening, weight loss, nutritionists etc), and allow insurance to cover "you're fucked" scenarios like Cancer, Heart attacks, car wrecks, Gun shot wounds etc.
What is your definition of "robot"? I think a robot is a machine that can accomplish a task with autonomy. By that definition, a dishwasher and roomba are both robots.

This dictionary even includes machines that are operated by remote control as "robots", although I disagree with that. They seem closer to waldos to me.
I am a programmer and a crappy sysadmin. I always feel bad about not being a better sysadmin. To each his own.
Yes, I have an idea, cause I’ve implemented it :)

This simulates substring search as if it was implemented in Python. In reality the Python str calls LibC function from cstring.h, that would work at 1.5GB/s. Still 10x slower than what the simple heuristic provides :)
Relatively small differences in dissolved salts are enough to cause halocline barriers that don't really mix well and still pose a hazard to local flora/fauna.
''Relucidate'', if you are the Thing-Fish.
Sure would be nice to have some kind of hyper boost setting. There's a 3 phase connection, so why don't they use it? Time to heat that one pot of water with 11 kW.
Once you have a color system, however, it can be very easy to work within it an maintain the visual "brand promise".
If you were British, you would not need to ask this.

Being compelled to wait two minutes more to boil a kettle for a cuppa would be enough to provoke an armed rebellion.

Not even sure I'm kidding.
true, but the other kind dont quite exist, dispite some loud marketing and vc claims.
> Keystroke timing has been a concern for terminal I/O since the 1980s and folks were using primitive encryption with stelnet and kerberos.

I had a visual basic AI addon in the 1990's that could work out who was typing at the keyboard from their typing pattern within a few minutes of typing, which kind of rendered the logon process mute.

Today, that can applied to touchscreen logons by tying finger pressure patterns ie size and shape of finger contact with the touchscreen to a user, and when incorporating swipes or mouse movements in the desktop OS context, its possible to have a security app which can lock a system if someone is using a device and user account which is not theirs.

At the very least you can log every time one's GF/missus has gone through your phone.
if we're talking agriculture, then those prices will be subsidized by the federal government. the free market isn't free, especially in agriculture.
> There are plenty of folks who would rather see the natural world preserved for its own sake, even at the expense of human growth and survival.

Because of what...geology? The Earth itself? (No.)

You might have missed the “and/or animals” part. My comment already addresses those who are more concerned (as in preoccupied) with non-human life.

But I guess I should have mentioned plants as well. Mea fucking culpa.
The same group think happened during COVID.

Tech closed up shop on a Wednesday. Finance shut down the following Monday.
This. Which is why US averages are so bad, on average folks have shitty insurance and thus healthcare.

But if you purchase, or negotiate excellent coverage you can get excellent care. (You still have to do some research to find the best providers)
DJIs biggest drone is over 1m wide and can carry a 6 kg payload.

If you could make a suitable receiver that weighed 6 kg or even 600kg, you could just suspend it from motorized plastic cables on space frame towers. Drones aren't going to make it cheaper or easier.
They lost me with the emoji for file extension. That’s not a world I want to live in.
> WFH has expectations of availability during working hours and expectations of 40 hours ish of time commitment.

Not when done right. I run my remote teams async and definitely don't expect them to get back to me instantly at any point other than the very few prearranged meetings we have. I also want them to take time throughout their day to do what makes them content/relaxed/happy. Coding is a creative profession and getting people into a relaxed state creates far better software than deathmarching a scrum team.

> If I finish work in 2 hours and go do personal stuff for the rest of the day I don’t feel relaxed, I feel anxious like I’m in a gray zone in the employment contract and I’m going to be sniffed out and given more work to do.

This is due to poor management. Strong management makes employees feel secure and not-surveillanced.
Lesser Known Postgres Features (2021)
Morten Bo Christiansen: The first-ever cargo ship powered by green fuel [video]
Everyone I've ever interviewed who currently works at Amazon is desperate to leave an environment ripe with overwork, backstabbing, and nasty office politics. You create the culture you want.
Typically you use poetry to generate a requirements.txt and make your docker image as usual. You do not need poetry in your docker or prod environments, but still benefit from actual dependency resolution.
I a world without Windows (or at least one with enough competition), software and hardware wouldn't require Windows either, since it would support multiple OSes.
$30/user/mo on top of normal google workspace per-user pricing seems like a lot for this. Is it really that good, or is google just trying to cash in on the AI hype train?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/29/23849457/google-duet-ai-d...
Its pretty impressive if you go in with an unbiased outlook

IF you have the hardware to run it and you're a scifi nerd its mindblowing the first time around, even after 3000 hours i still have moments when i'm mindblown. (Recently had a tank that shot my friends ship from the sky during an ingame event)
the fact you even think they are comparable to a calculator is scary. they're not in any way comparable.
Statistical Process Control: A Practitioner's Guide
That they uniformly laid off similar percentages of employees last fall (despite the fact the stock market has rebounded) should have confirmed your suspicions nearly a year ago.

They seem to largely be lemmings, calling plays out of the same playbook.
It’s called “TV pickup”, and Wikipedia has a good article explaining it, especially the bit about using pumped storage to meet demand in seconds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
> Really all residential connections in the US are 220V split phase

Really all modern residential connections in Europe are 400V three phase electric power, capable to immediately power an electric motor without the need of capacitors.

No matter how you put it, the US residential power grid is conceptionally lagging.
Yes, it’s intended as a C99 library, to be easily pluggable into different runtimes. NodeJS is next in line :)
Significant equity or extremely green staff. And those will only work for a short period of time.

The only other plausible reasons that wont lead to massive attrition in the short term are around political extremes (eg Ukranians signing up for high risk jobs with long hours and little pay to defend their country) or some sort of legacy (you're a medical company with a plausible cure for cancer).

If you're in this situation, find funding to for the team you need or start winding down. Asking the question implies your staff will be better off if you shutter the company.
you read sources and original works, did you actually think this was a gotcha? you are depriving yourself of proper learning and knowledge lol
Last I checked, Americans already pay more tax for health care than anybody except the Norwegians.
ehh, mediocre ideas, tricks, dogmas, religious approaches.

You have to evaluate decisions by the case, with the context.

It is called software *engineering* - you have some goals and constrains and you design with those in mind.

Sometimes it is better to duplicate, sometimes to it is better to have single source of truth.
> The years 1900-1970 were the golden years of mathematics for example and now there's very little to do there.

I doubt this is true. Lots of amazing math has been done since the 70s. I guess your sentiment comes from the fact that what we learn in school/university is necessarily old math, as the newer stuff is just too advanced. Also, from the old stuff it's easy to pick out the important parts, making it look like it was better.

I forgot who said this (possibly Knuth?), but it rings true to me: "When I was young, I thought every step of progress takes out one more thing that could be discovered. Now I know it just opens several more new avenues."
I agree, that is the core idea behind most projects we build and maintain at Unum. Otherwise it would have been impossible with just 10 devs: https://github.com/unum-cloud
Layoffs sound bad... hmm... how to get rid of a chunk of employees without making it look like a layoff, so our shareholders won't get scared? Let's take away the benefits and make them quit instead!
We have reached peak authoritarism I see.

It's a shame that a country of 1.4B can't produce a competent opposition.
I just tested it.

Compared with other EPUB readers on Linux, it is fast. Really fast.
OK, it wasn't very clear if this was all the time or what.
Tbe slavemasters want control. Will the American public follow orders?
The MySQL “Swap Insanity” Problem and the Effects of NUMA (2010)
This is so ironic coming from the company that benefits more than most others when society works from home.

You know what’s close to the office? A bunch of not-Amazon brick and mortar stores.
Here is an example where I would have had a better day if I simply didn't show my skills to anyone

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37308823
That only makes sense if all the people using self-driving cars would have driven drunk (or drugged, or sleepy) instead. Otherwise, you're replacing a decent driver with a sub-mediocre automatic system.
The maternal mortality rate for the US is 4.7 times higher than New Zealand's. The infant mortality rate is 61% higher.
Overwork is signaling. There is nothing productive about it. I have seen coworkers who literally spends their entire lives in the office; the amount of actual output they create is negligible. They loudly claim how hard they work and put down people who go home at five. It is nothing more than a cult of stupidity.

From the article:
Over time, it leads to diminishing productivity, higher rates of burnout, and even to increased likelihood of mortality. A 2021 World Health Organization study found that working 55 or more hours per week — compared to 35-40 hours — is associated with a 35% higher risk of a stroke and a 17% higher risk of dying from heart disease. What sets workaholism apart from other forms of addiction — especially in a capitalist economy that reveres money above all else — is that it’s not only socially acceptable, but also materially and socially rewarded.
I find it's better to keep abstractions small and independent, so you can mix and match. Too big, and they risk not fitting future change well. Even if the smaller ones create a bit more work or "mini duplication", it's worth it to have that flexibility.
i feel this culture of "you can program" has resulted in this situation to me. program is extremely tough. I feel day and night difference in programming for hobby vs working as a sysadmin. the amount of brain power required for programming is different, you need to give your 500% every minute while programming for me. IDK some people are just built differently to program or something. Thank you for consoling me, that is nice.
> Nobody wants to waste time to work in a noisy, less comfortable environment.

Except CEOs because they have nice comfortable offices, flexibility, assistants handling interruptions, and they don't have to spend long periods of time focusing. Looking over the heads of their minions is a tacit affirmation of their power and influence. Just like looking over an empty building full of open office desks without workers is kind of sad and disappointing. "Have I failed as a leader? I didn't, surely. But then, why is there is nobody here? We should fix this...".
Most employers don't financially reward you for doing all of that extra work, so finishing work in 2 hours just means you do what you need to to stay employed. I've never seen a place where people were "swamped in tickets" also accurately recognize and reward work that creates value for the business. In fact those places are most likely (in my experience) to have raise caps, onerous review processes and extremely limited room for advancement.
Guy Martin did a good 3 part TV show earlier in the year

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/guy-martins-great-britis...
That sounds intractable.

How would you differentiate mojo code from vanilla python without a ton of boilerplate at language boundaries.
Seems about par for the brain trust here
Using X-rays to look inside an old and new Bialetti Moka pot, an AeroPress, a Fellow Coffee kettle, and a burr grinder
It looks to me like "server meshing" is a concept coined by SC for the architecture they have planned. The top page of Google for the term turns up only SC-related results.

EVE uses a different, simpler model where each system is a process, and players connect to proxy servers that keep track of which system they're on (and therefore which server they need to connect to) [0]. I'm sure there are layers of caching and other optimizations built on top of that basic structure, but that's just Gall's Law in action: a working complex system invariably evolved from a working simple system.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the architecture that I can describe in a single sentence is the one powering the legendary 20-year-old game, while no one seems to be quite able to explain what "server meshing" will look like except that it seems to have a lot of moving parts and still hasn't been finished.

[0] https://www.engadget.com/2008-09-28-eve-evolved-eve-onlines-...
Thanks for the feedback! Going to make some changes to the website to reflect that later today! Right now we support connecting Google Doc, Google Sheet, PDFs from Google Drive, Slack channel, or Confluence space. O365, Notion and a couple other sources integrations are in beta. We don't technically have restrictions on volume, the biggest customers we have have around 100 GB of data with us total. If you were trying to connect a terrabyte worth of data, that might be a conversation about pricing! :)
... You can assume that I meant a native African person. ;)
What happens if people move to a new address, or to a new country? The hospital mails the bills to the old address but nobody will know?
You don’t have to, “.mojo” is equivalent.
It depends on the company. It's kind of like a menu item that says "Market Price". You know it's not going to be cheap. You don't know until you ask if the price is less than the value offered.
It does not seem to be available. I have already requested access a long time (back in April) but still nothing. I requested it again.

Does anybody know how to get an access to it? Is there some invitation code?
I love the idea, but after using it on a day to day basis, I think I’m jaded with the number of ways to do packaging in python.

I often find my self removing it from the later stages of the multistage Docker images I create just to decrease the amount of contextual overhead. Maybe I’m crazy but npm feels less intrusive for some reason.
I'm curious to see what types of vehicles they're making and which ones are selling the most. I would assume the majority of Chinese electric trucks are not comparable to what the west has worked on and is releasing (Rivian, Ford F-150 Lightning, etc.). Same in the car market.

I've read China has been going through gas shortages/extremely expensive gas prices so makes sense for people to start adopting electric as well - though not sure if the gas problem is government-made or naturally driven by economic factors.
US healthcare isn't great regardless of what metric you choose to use.

It's mid-tier all the way around except for cost, where it far exceeds any other system in the world.

Never being able to access the healthcare you're paying for because you can't afford the insane deductibles is even worse than not having healthcare at all, because when you DO have an emergency that you need to see a doctor for, your rates would often be lower out of pocket with the money you could have saved.
‘Significant security concern’ prompted internet outage at Univ of Michigan
They should make turbo kettles that hook up to 3 phase power like a stove. That seems like it would be fun. Why stop at 3kW, when you can have 11?
"$30, at least for large organizations."

Hopefully they'll make it like $5-$10 for small teams.

Or maybe not 'hopefully'. If they don't, a better and cheaper alternative will probably appear. LLMs are slowly being commoditized, thankfully.
Rotterdam, Amsterdam.
Amsterdam had 100 explosions in 2022, Rotterdam 50. But in 2023 there were 250 explosions by the 16th of July. Will probably end the year with over 1 explosion per day on average, i'd consider that "almost daily".
Just to clarify these aren't accidental explosions but bombs left outside appartments and shops.
:sweat_smile: $30 per month per user; not $30 million per user :sweat_smile:
The article seems to be arguing against conditionals not duplication.
> The CEO herd mentality is why entire industries make the same mistakes simultaneously.

Also, most CEOs would jump on the hype train for anything that investors may like.
This study takes into account home production and non-monetary income.