skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were many studies during covid that concluded remote employees are more effective [1]

I don't really put much trust in these studies, nor the studies that claim the opposite, but it's pretty obvious to me that both the WFH and RTO mandates have nothing to do with worker productivity. We've witnessed record levels of hiring at tech companies during the most remote working conditions ever. I've been in calls with higher level leadership where they essentially admit they have no objective data to track worker productivity. And I've witnessed great engineers, who've received nothing but great performance reviews and promotions during their WFH stints being fired for low productivity because their manager wants to have good RTO stats.

[1] https://www.vox.com/recode/23129752/work-from-home-productiv...
Hasn't happened that I know about, but I only accept requests after confirming with the person who added me that they sent it. I spent too much time in parts of the internet where catfishing like that was done routinely as trolling.
That's a rather unbelievable reason to relocate a company.
Maybe having LLM providing insights on more math proving techniques (which is the soul of optimization) is more meaningful than having it directly solve the optimization. The ROI of having a effective proof vs. brutal forcely search for a solution is simply day and night.
If you look deeper into the issue, there is a lot of people willing to do volunteer security work to keep using devices they love. I don't think we should have to rely on this and without it I 100% agree with what you're saying.

The other side of the coin, the other option we shouldn't really rely on but we can, is entirely blocked by the way these vendors operate. Android has had its fragmentation issues because the vendors aren't using the stock Android, and aren't upstreaming the drivers and tweaks needed to actually run Android on their hardware. There is usually an economic incentive to not do so (if a custom ROM can be made for their phone, they won't get the ad and deal revenue from the garbage they've preloaded into the phone).

Some do this better than others and there are custom ROMs out there that allow you to update, but custom ROMs are a horrible solution for most customers. It's really only accessible to technical people that have the time and energy to put into it and maintain it directly.

The same thing is true for most IoT devices, the drivers aren't upstreamed, the source is closed, third parties can't fix the software or use it outside the designed ecosystem and the manufacturer doesn't have an economic incentive to give you any time after you've purchased their product.

A lot of manufacturers of devices are mostly white labeling reference designs with a small modification for an extra sensor or other relatively small benign change to the electrical schematic and they'll correspondingly use the reference software for that design which hasn't been updated in 20 years since the reference design was created. Those designs usually have the same problem, the manufacturer of the chip had some devs hand edit a "stable" version of the Linux kernel outside of any source control or public repository and shipped a binary with custom drivers (probably not up to the normal quality expected of code merged into the kernel either).

I think that last one is really the sticking point. The fractured Android ecosystem isn't great but its fracturing issues have been much better in the past 6-8 years than it was up till about Android 8 (based on my recollections) so is kind of an outdated example at this point.

If manufacturers of custom ICs kept reference designs up to date, or upstream their drivers into mainline Linux that becomes the economically cheapest, lowest effort, and widest impact change that could make meaningful security improvements to all devices produced. I have zero idea how to turn that into something that can be legislated though.
I find adderall to be nothing short of life-changing, should we sell it over the counter to anyone? Should buying it black market be legal?

How about antibiotics? Codeine?

Some drugs have very little risk when used improperly, and some can fuck you up for life. The average person isn't really equipped to make that kind of judgment for themselves, they need a medical expert in the chain who knows how much is safe and whether it's an appropriate treatment.

That's why we have OTC drugs and prescription drugs. Some drugs just are not safe to use without guidance.
Quite the claim without a source - you're implying that almost the entirety of American healthcare costs are due to people eating vegetables, chicken, pork, fish?
LLMs to analyze corporate reports and predict stock prices
Triple life sentences are not dumb...

Lets say you murder 3 people, go to trial and are convicted on 3 counts and given 3 life sentences.

Then lets say one of the sentences is overturned/appealed the others can still stand.

Now 11k seems rather insane, but if you commit 11 thousand infractions and each one comes with a years sentence then you can get weird outcomes like this. That or the court system is insane, I don't have any interest in learning Turkish law at this point to see which one applies here.
Bus coverage in rural areas of the UK is variable but it’s on a completely different level to the US where I now live.

The high school I went to growing up had people travel in from all over the county by public transport (train and bus). I certainly wouldn’t choose to live in a rural area without a car but people did!
Is it a big assumption? "Ease of getting a new job" hopefully does correlate with competence (which I equate with 'good performance' here). It's not saying "people who stay at a job with mandatory RTO must necessarily be bad at their jobs", so I don't see why you decided to insult those of us who enjoy remote work.
I've worked on several large node.js codebases and builds never took more than a few seconds, def. not "go grab coffee" time, so maybe something else was going on.
Civil government’s (as opposed to self, family, church) function is to secure your God-given rights. Those are negative rights, not positive ones. You have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Not a right to anyone’s labor. If you want this done in the market, do it yourself.
To be fair they aren't. They are demonstrating how Apple is a willing participant obfuscating the actual privacy monstrosities happening by Meta.
Thank you that's an interesting idea, hadn't thought of that approach, might try it if we can't get through a normal appeal.
Alright, I guess.

In-office had a long time to evolve (half a century I'd say). Remote work kind of only had the COVID years. It's a baby in an incubator. The RTO stuff is kind of like infanticide. So while I understand your perspective, from a war point of view, we have no choice but to protect this baby. They want to cut this experiment off asap. Every little anecdote, every little corporate RTO plan, every little CEO saying shit, is just chipping away at such an infant life.

Give it the same chance the office bullshit had, which was decades. I kind of have to be militant about this. Thanks for the other side, but this baby gotta be kept alive.

If your team sucks, your team sucks. Doesn't matter if you're in office, or out of office.
Any plans for Electron support (or similar)?
But… but… a well-armed society is a polite society? Something about high gun death rates seems oddly impolite.
If I were in this position, I would absolutely not sabotage anything. Besides being wildly unprofessional, the people it's going to hurt are my former coworkers and the poor suckers who are hired on to replace me & others. It also opens me up to litigation, or even criminal charges down the line!

But I'm also not exactly going to be excited to do a full brain data dump. At my current role, I try to document everything as well as I can; if I were in this situation, I certainly wouldn't go back through and make sure I didn't miss anything. You get what you get, and you don't get upset.
Good question I will investigate this, thank you.
Am I misreading the financial statement linked by your sibling comment? It looks like they spent in the $250,000 or so range on all salaries combined in a given year, but maybe I’m misreading it.
I haven't been able to get any work code working in Bun yet.
All my personal/pet projects work fine, though. Speed is impressive when it works.

I did raise issues with repros for it only wasn't able to try to fix the issues myself. Building Bun is not working for me
Proving that LLMs __will__ (not can) reach a global optimum for a general instantiation in P time (i.e. without EXP number of prompts) would imply P=NP :D

Proving that they __could__ reach an optimal solution for some instantiations of the problem is trivial; an LLM can reduce to random search, and random search is essentially a family of algorithms for which there exists some seed (ie instantiation of the algo) and an input, such that it produces an optimal solution.
Weird lag on my iPhone…maybe Bluetooth headphones are to blame?
Because no American was forced to commit war crimes in Iraq. Yes, participating in an attack on a state that is of no imminent threat to your own is a war crime. Brainwashing may have been an extenuating circumstance, but a lot of Americans were staunchly against the war so how come they let themselves be brainwashed? If I join a gang can I claim to have been brainwashed when most people in fact do not join gangs? People are responsible for their own actions.
Why are dollar-for-service inevitably going to switch to ad supported? I can't imagine the necessity of that, you already have a paying customer.
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9474/nasas-oxygen-generating-expe...
I would hope you are not allowing IoT devices direct access to your database. There is no saving that haha.
Quite a few of the (well not many these days) conferences I attend that want to appear environmentally aware (yes, I know) use the biodegradable disposable cutlery. It's perfectly fine.
Technically they backed down from CSAM scanning after public pressure. Can we say the same thing about Google and/or Meta?
> I was also surprised by how loud the explosion was. The explosion is fast.

Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9CI6KSV560&t=1625s
> In general people who want remote work care less about work

It's pretty weird to frame someone's care for their family and personal life as an insult.
Depending on the wording, these DEI statements may be legally actionable as religious discrimination. “I agree to follow applicable federal and state non-discrimination laws” is probably fine. But requiring any “affirmation” beyond that is almost certainly infringing on freedom of conscience and the rights of adherents of religions that believe in e.g. procreation as the basis of sexual relations.
No, the main goal wasn't "look close enough to Java to fool the suits" but to make something useful.
"don't really see humans"

Didn't you mean "resources" there? ;-)
I mainly use my macbook m1 as my keyboard (also when connected to external screen)

Before this I used a thinkpad as my keyboard
That engine popped into my head again today and I'm pretty sure that we're still no closer to finding out what actually happened.

Most likely some beef with Autodesk.

Also I'm not sure whay JB is expecting in 5 years when he releases a paid version and all the languages that were inspired by it are more commonplace.
If only people would come to realize this.
Sorry that happened to you. You are right I should not be surprised! The friction does seem to be by design.
In Boulder, I’ve noticed the opposite. Way more bees and bumblebees this year, way fewer wasps. I suspect it is highly cyclical even excluding external stimuli.
Workers should push congress for legal protections around hired work status.

Additionally: we all talk about climate change and helping the world yet government policy is ambivalent or an impediment on WFH. How much pollution are we allowing in society with these RTO mandates?

We are fools for not capitalizing on laws that protect WFH
That's a pretty slick idea actually. I've been battling on the upstream reference design angle as I think that's where a lot of security issues truly come from. Release of device internals probably wouldn't help fix those upstream references unless it also covered support the drivers of individual electronic chips from their producers as well, but it definitely would help opensource devs to potentially fix things for devices they love.
Also. As I am excited. Here you go for a one-click deploy .. https://github.com/OriPekelman/express-bun/ Very unofficial. Very.
You can move the tax up to more auditable levels, like manufacturers or importers.
Double or triple life sentences matter in most jurisdictions. First, "life sentence" in many places means something like "life sentence, or 20 years with good behavior or parole", so a double life sentence makes release less likely. Second, multiple life sentences usually come from different instances of the offense, so it reduces the chance that a single appeal or reversal will release the convict (for example, someone who gets 4 life sentences for killing four people and then it's discovered that one of the victims actually died of something else, the convict would still have 3 life sentences to serve).
If you need a quick & dirty solution (that works for now), I suggest using [An Algorithm for Nudity Detection - by R. Ap-Apid](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249767252_An_Algori...). It has multiple oss implementations in [js](https://github.com/pa7/nude.js), [python](https://github.com/hhatto/nude.py), [ruby](https://github.com/rummelonp/nude.rb), [go](https://github.com/koyachi/go-nude), and you could probably find one in the language you're using (or implement it yourself). It works well enough™
Does someone know why this isn’t a Rapid Security Response?
I don't use gas except for the stove, so if they charged me anymore than $10/month for gas I'd tell them to get away from me with their toxic waste. Currently I pay about $5/month there.

I don't pay for water, it is grouped by the building. Which is exactly what I'm suggesting for electricity -- multi unit buildings should have a single connection cost, not one per tenant.
Torvalds didn't create anything like the `git` we know today in 10 days.

It was heavily inspired by `monotone`, which popularized the concept of a Merkle tree. Torvalds' comments about what he liked and didn't like about `monotone` are preserved in the Wikipedia page. In particular he criticized their use of C++ and SQLlite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_(software)

Torvalds' git, on day 10, was some basic routines which saved and restored the contents of a directory. But it did satisfy his desire for it to be fast and minimal.

Someone named Jason Stopak helpfully found the original version of git and commented it heavily, here:

https://bitbucket.org/blog/what-can-we-learn-from-the-code-i...

A bash script shows what the workflow would be like. You would be adding files one by one, saving trees, obtaining a SHA from that tree, then retrieving the SHA. There is a very basic notion of history.

https://bitbucket.org/jacobstopak/baby-git/src/master/exampl...

As is typical with Torvalds, he left it to others to write tooling around the basic concepts soon after this. Torvalds deserves credit for the core ideas and a barely usable prototype. But most importantly, he enforced its use on a major open source project, very early in its life, which ensured that it would be improved upon.
But half the top supercomputers are a cluster of Linux x86 boxes, and the other half are Linux on some other architecture.
> And Israel’s absence from that symbolic list was likely a precondition to get many of those Arab and African nations on the list. Israel has ISIS locally so there’s no doubt they’re fighting isis.

Israel has never fought in any battle involving ISIS or carried out any smaller strikes against them. Some others who aren't in the coalition, like Russia, have. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_battles_invol... Their operations in Syria have been against regime forces, Hezbollah, and other targets unfriendly towards Israel, not ISIS.

Even if there's significant ISIS presence in Israel (which I've never heard of), it hasn't convinced them to help fight ISIS next door. Their stance is neutral, and they don't pretend otherwise.

> Israel attempted to maintain some level of neutrality wrt Russia bec when they show preferences, Russia punishes the local Jewish population… which they promptly did as soon as Israel showed any support for Ukraine.

I didn't say there was no reason, because obviously there would be, including trade. They have been allowed to stay mostly neutral.

> Finally wrt the Jordan’s west bank: they lost it years ago and it’s so odd you keep calling it that… maybe use the actual name for the area and suddenly Israel’s policy will make sense.

It's the common name for the region used in America, that's all. I truly don't know what other name you had in mind, but whatever you call it, the US has been unhappy with Israel's policy.
> I think it's unfair to compare Facebook actively screwing us to Apple not adopting your proposed metric

I don't think they were comparing. They were basically saying that Apple is complicit to what Facebook (and others) are doing with regard to data collection.
The execution of the product maybe should embarrass them. It's gotten better, but it's always been a bit on the flakey side (read a message, and it might dismiss the iOS message indicator, it might not, who can say, for instance). Romeo (formerly GayRomeo), with AFAIK a much smaller team, is far more solid, but only used regionally (these apps tend to be virtually local monopolies, for whatever reason; every country has one or at most two non-niche ones in common use).

Mind you, there's a bit of a tradition of this. Gaydar, which was popular in the same space in the pre-smartphone era (it never really made the transition to phones well) always felt a bit held together with duct-tape, and had a particularly unique approach to preventing SQL injection; it simply replaced all single-quotes with backticks...
Metformin cuts risk of long Covid by 40% in patients with obesity trial suggests
That'd be nice, if there was one that had a gsheets and gdocs and gmail alternative that had as good or better UX to google's versions too, I'd give it a go.
If I recall correctly, Bun doesn’t support Windows, unlike Node/Deno.

Edit: sounds like this is changing. Thanks for the correction!
That's some mighty fine green-washing going on there, as well as creating the illusion of a "premium" product for which they can justify a higher price.

The self-reported "low carbon" certification doesn't seem to include the GHG produced by growing and transporting the feed to the cattle, the cattle to the abattoir, running the factory, distributing the beef, though, does it? I could not find those numbers anywhere.

It also elides the other issues with beef, such as water and land-use. A kcal of beef is going to cost hundreds more gallons of water to produce than a kcal of vegetables. What about nitrogen run-off into ground water from feed lots?
I'm not looking to use it as a programming language, but I'd like to see an introduction to theorem proving using Lean that is more explicit in its explanation of semantics than the ones that assume an existing math background
'Apple's main source of income is through luxury hardware and subscription services.'

So why not keep it that way? I understand the temptation of veering from the path of 'do no evil' but Apple are not exactly short of revenue?

Apple, Google and Meta are currently all three sides of the same coin. Take your pick but don't claim any virtue for doing so.
im just saying that the development of a human like robot is not necessary. if that robot is as smart as a human you might as well use actual humans.
Sheesh, I've heard of Grindr but I'd be surprised to learn that the company was larger than about two dozen people.
> and the do-not-feed-the-trolls heuristic, which advises one to not reward malicious actors with attention.

Step 4: delete your user accounts on all services run by advertising companies (ie YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Gmail)
> What is too often overlooked is that the rent also includes all those PITI+HOA+maintenance costs, plus a slice of profit for the landlord. If you own it you still pay the same PITI+HOA(hopefully not)+maintenance, but you cut out the middleman which saves you some money.

The rental market is decoupled from the ownership market. This hasn't been an issue for a while because multi-family had not been built up enough (i.e. there had always been an apartment shortage, especially after the GFC), but given that the US is building these more than ever [0], this is going to become clear in the very near future. There is a carrying cost to an empty unit, and price will likely reduce to get someone into a unit. Unless there are significant job losses that push people out of their ~3% mortgages and into the rental market, this may persist for quite a while. Anecdotally, in my VHCOL city that built out these ugly 5-over-1s like crazy in the past couple of years, most are offering multiple months of free rent just to get units to be occupied.

Also, while it is true that these irrecoverable costs are "included" in the rent, what is not included in the rent is the time machine to go back in time to purchase a property before the pandemic. This means one's landlord can cover these irrecoverable costs with the rent, plus the mortgage (if any), and still make a profit, all while having the total rent be less than the total irrecoverable cost if one were to buy the same thing today. Anecdotally, this is the exact dynamic I've observed in colleagues and friends who have bought houses in the usual VHCOL tech cities (Seattle, Austin, Bay Area); it's possible to rent a similar house for vastly less money per month.

But yes, as a renter, one always has to be ready to make good on the "threat" to move out at the end of a lease, which is difficult to time and tiring to have to execute upon :(

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNDCON5MUSA
Thank you for giving it a try! You're right, I might have chosen repositories that I'm familiar with. Themes like Simple version, Web development or Pythonista could be a good idea.
Bun already supports that [0]. It is the default behavior on Linux, but can also be enabled on macOS.

[0] https://bun.sh/docs/install/cache#saving-disk-space
Ask HN: I've been diagnosed with ADHD-Inattentive Type. What next?
I'm a 35-year-old male business owner, running an 27-person accounting services firm in the PNW. I was diagnosed this week with ADHD-Inattentive Type, and it seems to fit my experience. What should I do next? How can I best use this knowledge? What are your experiences?
Washington state made it mandatory that single use cutlery is opt in only. I’ve not heard anyone really complain much. I’m glad to not have to throw all that stuff away, always seemed needlessly wasteful. Probably slightly improves margins at restaurants. Single use plastic bags are also largely gone, etc.
App idea inspired by this that I'd like to see:

Something like this, that has a big library of songs, where you specify the delay between notes and the speed at which it is played (ideally w/all notes displayed so it can be really really customized).
Why do you people think that anything that isn't discussed constantly on HN is dying or dead? Their cloud revenue was $22 billion last year and climbing.
I think this is a pretty good article that highlights the benefits of TreeSitter in Emacs: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/tree-sitter-complicat...

I'm happy that TreeSitter is in Emacs Core rather than elisp, it'll run faster.
It's in thousands so it should be $250,000,000? I don't know that I'm reading it right either.