skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not one person here even admits the possibility that some WFH people are not really working. Or at least Jassy believes that.

Marissa Mayer ended WFH at Yahoo for exactly that reason:

https://money.cnn.com/2013/02/25/technology/yahoo-work-from-...

If you're CEO of a company that's shitty to work for, you have to suspect that everyone except the middle managers and suckups is just phoning it in. Literally.

Edit: all you people taking issue with this are just preaching to the converted (each other). I'm talking about what CEOs think, not what actually is.
Oh no, I think I saw the copyright footer or something.
I have no doubt that robots are safer than the average human. So overall incidents would go down.

But are robots safer than all humans? Safer than the humans who religiously follow all safety protocols?

It's hard to fault a person who normally operates very safely for being afraid of losing control of their equipment to a robot which could be unpredictable.

Surely it's valid to worry about a robot making a deadly mistake that you wouldn't have ever made yourself.
Arrogance does not disprove earnest belief. Snowden's comments before the invasion disappointed me. But many others said similar things. And I don't believe he owes Ukraine effective statelessness. Did he say anything about the war in 18 months?
https://github.com/gnuconcepts/YT-Notes

simple script.

I have a key.txt file I use for API keys

It requires openai and a library that pulls down the transcript.
I don't have a quantitative argument, but my intuition is that it might still be possible to make a track that globally has no net tension, yet still has "local" tension somewhere. This might be done by creating a shape that slightly intersects itself, pushing that section into tension, while a complementary section sums to the negative of the first section but without self-intersection.
I disagree. I have mentored many folks, and actively continue to do so. It’s only been beneficial for both me and my mentors. Not sure where this anti-mentorship culture comes from. I don’t see it at my current company. Even at Amazon I had multiple mentors (I didn’t mentor anybody myself back then).
I'm much like you, but its not just merely intolerant people (everyone is intolerant, racist, has some measure of bias), its only really highly intolerant people which I exclude.

The post 2012 era of people maximalist positions on every conceivable issue also makes it really have to have reasonable discussions with about difficult topics.

Trump made some of this harder, if for no other reason the people who I might have an ideological or philosophical disagreement with, simply wouldn't shut up about it.

I do vote however, I vote for the things I find desirable and people I find honorable. Being gay has made me very well aware of the fact that I cant ignore politics, I must be active and encourage others to do so.
The monthly hydrogen article, the carbon industry is alive and well.
impressive use of chicken scheme
So let me get this straight. Since you are Ukrainian, Chomsky, Snowden, Greenwald, and others are threatening you by expressing views on the Ukraine war that diverge from the mainstream? Doesn't that sound awfully similar to George W Bush who claimed that everyone who isn't with us (the US) in the "war on terror" is against us?
A more savvy (or less short term) take is that these places are able to negotiate favorable leases right now. Once office space fills up again, those prices will go up again.

I think the real reason lies between "butts in seats" and layoffs.

I also feel like there is a class of management that feels good about themselves by having subordinates observe them with all the trappings of their office. These are the people that want a dress code and spend money to look good at work even if nobody ever sees a customer. They have to have the bigger office -- not out of need -- to demonstrate their position. Bigger desk. They might have a better computer than developers even though they never use anything more taxing that Excel (this happened a lot more 20 years ago, less today). These people want to return to office, otherwise nobody knows how much they are in charge of.
> The only way to have market competition is to soundly enforce it.

Which is why NYC taxis are so cheap. All the market competition cultivated by their sale of taxi medallions for $1mil+.

> One of the single most important roles of government is to eliminate heavily unbalanced concentrations of power

I've seen no historical evidence that any government, ever, has even attempted this "role". It would be a little weird if they could manage to do it considering that they are heavily unbalanced concentrations of power themselves.
The podcast starts with a kid interviewing parents who unanimously support the bill, calling it brilliant.

If the podcast wants to say the thing, they should say the thing rather than its opposite.
Elon Musk to sue ADL for accusing him, X of antisemitism
> ... almost no one ever publicly admits to owning one.

Does having an NRA sticker on your pickup's bumper count? I see those all the time.
A gigantic reason for the move to cloud and SaaS is to get around moribund non-responsive "no, you can't do that" IT departments.
This is a pretty good question. I wonder, where else would this apply?
Also how does the pareto principle work here? 20% of the people produce 80% of the outcome, so the finfluencers are the 20% that produce 80% of the "advice" on forums and social media, which is based on the feedback that 80% of the people give which is based on their already established beliefs, because the other 20% of the people there are the ones that actually know stuff but aren't big enough to contrarest the 80%.
For starters, the "solution" here doesn't ensure that the ending piece meets the starting piece in the right direction. :p
A New Chapter for Media Temple (2022)
As if people actually work in the office.

Please.
https://world.hey.com/dhh/turbo-8-is-dropping-typescript-701...
This reminds me of a problem on Project Euler [1] with a different turn angle. In the problem you can go through the same path several times though.

[1] https://projecteuler.net/problem=208
They are going to show source code and charge for it?
Man, talk about a ship that has sailed. I was 100% anti-subscription pricing for a very long time. Eventually I realized, it's better for the software vendor and the customer. Final Cut Pro used to cost $999 upfront, now a teenager can use Final Cut on their iPad for $7/month, and subscribe only when they need it.
NIST post-quantum standards resulted from a 8+ year process and public competition:
https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography
And we do. The difference is that Snowden did the crimes he is accused of. The US government, on the other hand, did not commit the crimes Snowden accused it of.
> To revive this, they would have to find an expert to attest that it is technically feasible to have security with a backdoor that government can access, but at the same time is impossible for malicious entities to access.

> Ergo, this is technically dead, which is the best form of dead.

Except it's not. There exist such cryptographic trapdoor constructions that are perfectly secure, if the government backdoor key is kept safe.

The problem is keeping the government backdoor key safe. But that's not a literal impossible technical problem. It's much more a social problem.

Don't get me wrong, I really, really wish what you said was true and we could kill this garbage forever by nature of technical argument. But it isn't, so we must keep fighting against it for the real reason: we simply don't want this.
The thing is its not the 90s anymore, pretending otherwise is how you get LibreOffice or Inkscape.

Tech has come a long way since the creation of linux or python. Even these projects have gotten to a level of sophistication that it would implode without big tech support.

Why do you think you don't see any interesting oss tech from hobbyists is these days? All the ones you see are either incubated inside FAANG or VC backed.

To build, grow and maintain anything thats interesting these days will require a group of pretty talented people and these people have plenty of other prospects where they'll get paid pretty well.
I would rather have them offer a full purchase option, with, say, 10 years of upgrades included. I could pay 750 EUR for it once, and be set for the rest of my career, basically, instead of having to deal with purchases every year.
"Loss-leader" is the term, I believe
I had to go this route already. As a new driver, my rates were quite high - and the best option for lowering that was letting them track my driving through an app on my phone.

I don't particularly like it, but it's something I'll just have to live with.
They didn't say which database software Toyota uses. But in general, if you are performing DML and you have configured backup retention to "normal".... that means the transactions file will balloon in size until the database is BACKEDUP. Because this caused an outage, I assume there was no DBA assigned and management assumes it will run faithfully like it always did.
> later, when I tried to extract some large files from the backup, I saw that they had been replaced with some text files, containing a message that the download of those files failed.

That's a really asinine failure mechanism. At the very least, it should create "filename-FAILED_TO_RESTORE" or something like that.

Something that I was instructed to do nearly 30 years ago when at Motorola was: never overwrite the original files. Standard procedure was to make a directory called "BACKUP" (or "RESTORE"?) and put the files in there instead. The requesting person was then responsible for moving the files back to their original location, so any screwups were on them, not us (IT).
If we're just trying to translate the literal meaning of this sentence from English to Latin, these are good answers. But I suspect that if we went back to ancient Rome and found someone experiencing the meaning behind these words (a guy talking about a girl who has said goodbye too many time, and he doesn't believe that it's going to be final this time either), the actual phrase he says may be completely different. Because while English speakers (specifically, American English speakers, or even more specifically wherever the songwriter is from, looks like it's Los Angeles) reach for this particular phrase to convey this meaning, this is very idiomatic when you think about it.
Manage OTA firmware updates across your devices
Prior to SaaS, we had software packages that weren't updated, and often became abandonware because companies could not afford to maintain the software without growing sales demand. It left us in a very insecure world with bugs that wouldn't go away.

Say what you will about recurring SaaS payments, but software is more secure and supported than ever before. SaaS companies don't go away like old box software companies did. When new platforms take over the old ones, they provide migration paths.

Yes, ONCE will give you the source, but what company is prepared to support another company's abandonware? This isn't a bad deal for software libraries, I've used libraries that became abandonware because the companies went under. I really though it would be good for companies to put their source in escrow and you get access to it in the event the company stops supporting you.
Many, many folks that come into the office are not really working. WFH didn't change that.
Humans are tribal by nature. Countries and borders exist precisely because we can't agree on the same set of laws, forms of government, and how society is structured.

In that sense, an open and universal internet is an anomaly. It was a great thought experiment by hippie technophiles, and "connecting the world" is a commonly parroted platitude by social media executives, but humans are far from ready to interact with millions of strangers from their own country, let alone from around the world.

If anything, all this technology that was supposed to bring us together, has instead driven us further apart. The internet is our main source of information, yet it's been corrupted by advertising, corporations and governments to spread disinformation and propaganda on an unprecedented scale, and influence the masses towards their own agenda.

We're still in the early stages of the technological revolution, but it's clear that a universal communication medium cannot exist yet. We're not ready for it. China and Russia already have isolated alternatives, and it's only a matter of time before other countries or coalitions follow suit. In any case, we can safely assume that all of it will be heavily censored and controlled by each government. Cryptography will exist in some form, but there will be backdoors for any government to exploit as needed.

Is this too pessimistic? :) I'd really like to be wrong about all this, but I can't picture a scenario where billions of us happily sing kumbaya together around a virtual campfire.
Eh... this is a really idiomatic expression in English. Maybe if you rummage Plautus or Terrence, perhaps even the epistolary corpus of Pliny or Cicero, you could chance upon something sentimentally accurate, but I wouldn't hold your breath. Grammatically accurate word for word reconstructions aren't really going to convey it.
> a) GPT4 is in a league of its own, and b) GPT4 still isn't really very good.

Agree with both and I work in information extraction too.
> What the heck... Was I expected to extract the archive and go through all the files one by one (there are thousands of them) to check if every file was properly backed up?

There are a lot of silent pitfalls like that in my experience. For example, if you use folder level encryption with Synology Active Backup for MS365 it can silently mangle the file names due to path length restrictions. You'll end up with files that have "file name too long" as part of the file name.

That's why I'm trying to reconcile every file in this data set. I don't trust anything without being able to personally verify it at this point.
“It’s rare that an industry raises their hand and says, ‘We are going to be the end of humanity’—and then continues to work on the product with glee and alacrity.”

OpenAI rejects this criticism.

imagine that

for humanity's sake I really hope that Altman is another Elizabeth Holmes
2.5X bigger Falcon beats Llama 2 by 1%
Thanks, that's insightful. I take your point from above.
The process involves collecting and sharing information in a cooperative (not competitive) way. In a capitalist system, one of the roles of government at best is to regulate industries to encourage competition. Under capitalism, sharing information cooperatively usually looks like collusion or corruption, so we necessarily need laws preventing that.

A planned economy just doesn't make sense at all within a capitalist system, so there probably would be no stock markets, and no one would make billions.
If it's an option – good. If it's the only option – not so much.
RTO is there to remind you that despite claims of talent shortages and after taking into account the fact that a substantial portion of the workforce is okay with returning to the office, for many companies the supply of talent is greater than the demand for talent.
There simply aren’t enough phone numbers for that to be viable.
I'll chip my vote in for "stealth layoff". Phrasing research in terms of "why do you prefer hybrid work over 'fully remote'?" is misrepresenting what's under debate – mandatory RTO policies.
The Iraqi Who Saved Norway from Oil: A Lesson in Sustainable Resource Management
The Ruby on Rails stack may shine with this. Every cloud provider has hosting instructions. With the gem ecosystem, you can eliminate 3rd party SaaS dependencies that most startups rely on. That's why tools like Gitlab, Github Enterprise, etc. are so easy to self-host.

I'm most excited to buy Once software so that I can study the source code as an educational resource.

This reminds me of TailwindUI, but for SaaS.
> If you're really talented in the US you can get very far on talent alone

While this seems true, I wonder how much selection bias is involved here. I mean, we wouldn't know about talented people that kept failing, right?

Edit: since they failed, they must be dumb, right? No matter how many PhDs they have. (I am being sarcastic, ofc)
Socialism isn’t a planned economy. That was one attempt, the Marx-Leninist attempt in the USSR, at socialism. Socialism is the fundamental reordering of society to benefit the lowest wrung. You can have socialism with markers still, which is what is done in syndicalist style socialism. You can have limited social programs as a form of socialism as per social democrats. Or you can have more extreme radical direct democracy. There are thousands of ways to implement socialism, not all of them are the same.
If you choose to uphold an ideology, then you are taking responsibility for its consequences. Nazism is inherently violent, so resisting it is merely defending the innocent. After that it boils down to tactics: Punching a Nazi is a somewhat ineffective strategy, but it does tend to drive them out of the public sphere where they can gain legitimacy and the power to enact their evil. More permanent solutions are better.
Very dubious that that's a better idea.
Signalling? Thank you for expanding my horizons. Could you please share some more? Even a link or two would suffice.
Biden’s Green Energy Inflation Reduction Act Needs a Big Bailout Already
"According to a report late last month by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (Nyserda), large offshore wind developers are asking for an average 48% price adjustment in their contracts to cover rising costs. The Alliance for Clean Energy NY is also requesting an average 64% price increase on 86 solar and wind projects.

The IRA includes federal tax credits that can offset 50% of a project’s costs. But renewable developers say their costs are increasing faster than inflation and that the projects will “not be economically viable and would be unable to proceed to construction and operation under their existing pricing"
I have a duplo/lego question - is there a name for the combinatorics problem of how many structures can be built with N 1XM legos? I have spent a fair bit of time thinking about this problem and I'm unaware if it's been posed elsewhere.

Any piece able to freely rotate is considered the same structure. For example, for 2 1X2 legos the arrangement count is 2: top connected to bottom with both nubs, top connected to bottom with one nub because if you analyze legos you will find that such an arrangement can freely rotate over 270 degrees, and left vs right nubs result in the same structure when taking rotational symmetry into account.

For the problem I assume an 'ideal' lego with 0 manufacturing tolerance, no illegal building techniques are allowed.

Is there a name for the above combinatorics question? Is it well-posed?

Is there a closed-form solution? If not is there a generator program?

I should say that with a high enough N any generator would be very complex - imagine how degrees of rotational freedom give rise to the possibility of further structures hidden from other rotational orientations.
Polish "za" has so many uses, it's really mind-boggling (as someone learning Polish)
> We give you the software, you get to host it.

People can't host their own software. The handful of people who can host software won't install security updates or deal with backups. It's a drag. It makes no sense for millions of people to individually manage servers and server updates when it can be done centrally for a fraction of the cost. That's why SaaS won, ultimately.

I don't believe for a second 37signals is going to make desktop apps that you just install to your machine. These will be dockerized web apps with many fragile dependencies. This is a step backwards, frankly. If you want to make buy-once-zero-maintenance software the client software should automatically join a fully distributed peer-to-peer network. The alternative is for 37signals to offer the digital service part at cost.
Sounds like this will just be open source software repackaged and sold to enterprise
My experience is that rural Southern Black people are similar to stereotypical white "Red tribe" people except on the question of race.

Also, there is a lot more mingling between white and Black poor people than a typical "coastal elite" would expect who never spent time in the South.

I grew up around racist people who all had friends of the other race. They just consider their friends an exception to their general dislike of the other race.

The thing I heard all the time growing up was "I don't hate black people, I just hate N-words." The idea is that it's not the race that a racist person has a problem with, just the cultural practices (laziness, lack of class, etc.) they associate with people of that race. A member of that race who rises above those associations is welcomed with open arms. Of course, they are oblivious to the idea that associating those cultural practices with a race is the racist part. But it makes it very easy for them to be racist and have friends of the other race without feeling any dissonance.

It cuts both ways too. I also had Black friends growing up that had no problem being friends with me or other white kids but wouldn't hesitate to disparage "crackers" as a whole if they were in a safe enough space to do so without being harmed.

I don't know what groups poor urban people of color end up feeling affinity to.
People trusting the advice of a stranger over email to permanently etch their skin? What a world...
Only with our enemies can we make peace, I guess.
Firstly, no infrastructure was attacked or destroyed, or lives lost, unlike your example of FedEx plane. Some US govt folks had their emails read.

Secondly, the US does this all the time, even to friendly countries, so it's hard to justify harsher measures.
I used to be a researcher in NLP until not too long ago. Over the last few years, increasing pressure has been put on on everyone trying to publish papers related to training data collected through human trials to provide ethics statements as a way to ensure that certain standards are met regarding that data. Not everyone is able to see too much sense in this process, and I've heard comments from non-US colleagues that it reflects a purely American world view. But I think that there are at least some applications where ethical consideration are definitely worth talking about, eg., in applications such as hate speech detection.

And of course, even if you don't agree with the necessity for ethics statements, because it is just one more thing that takes up time you could otherwise spend on your actual job (doing research), you certainly don't want to risk having your paper rejected just because you don't meet whatever ethics standards the conference or journal seeks to uphold.

But remember, I'm talking natural language processing here.

In that light, it is a complete mystery to me how research like the one described in the article could have possibly, ever made it past an ethics review. Unless, of course, completely different standards are applied - which in itself would be rather questionable.
// there is a significant game theory component

Funny, I read your first paragraph and thought it doesn't make sense from game-theory point of view. If Amazon wants to lower city council's power over it, the easiest thing it can do is not be dependent on Seattle (ie - if your workforce is distributed, Seattle is irrelevant)
Pretty tough to read, yes. A Beatles comparison, seriously? Nonetheless, quite a few interesting nuggets of data in there...
Deterministic password managers have their caveats:

https://tonyarcieri.com/4-fatal-flaws-in-deterministic-passw...
Preparations for pad repairs and upgrades were well underway before the first flight - the question was not whether they'd be necessary, but how much and how soon. In particular if I remember correctly manufacturing of the steel plating that now forms the pad started all the way back in January.