skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
most companies didn't allow themselves to run the experiment.

there's many examples where new projects ("startups") succeeded, including 1000s of FOSS projects that were remote-first.

also, large companies often have products that get to market via cross-functional teams in lots of locations - they're remote-first by definition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNNThHfBxTc

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While project.el or projectile.el are good sometimes you don't want to see anything else except your current project. A new instance is an easy way to achieve that.
Could at least credit the original authors of the ASCII arts.
People born here do not have an automatic right to US citizenship. The 14th Amendment was intended for the descendants of slaves. It was not intended to cover the child of a diplomat born in the USA. Nor was it similarly intended for people who entered the country illegally. In time we will review cases of so-called birthright citizenship for those who are children of people who entered illegally, and correct the status. As noted, foreign diplomats children born here, do not have US citizenship for a reason.
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This seems a bit inappropriately toned. Plenty of businesses care about this, as it de-risks things if you know you can self-host if necessary.
You can’t just forget racism because the superficial differences are too stark. The caste system is akin to Europeans forgetting who was a serf and who was nobility. Something that can be left in the past. Do you want to have laws that prevent discrimination against former European serfs?
A number of other countries do it by separating students into different tracks bound for university, the trades, or unskilled labor, respectively, already while they are schoolchildren. Public universities are free or nearly so, but the system ensures that only a portion of society is directed to them. Those who didn't get on the university track while still at school may be able to gain a public university education later as adults, but the process is complicated enough that many are discouraged, or in some countries they turn to private universities that are not free.
I thought those were just placeholder images, but you are right those were the actual logos of Windows at the time. Beautiful serif typography to match too:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_logo_and_wor...
I really like the blog layout.
The whole point of wanting to work in an office is being surrounded by colleagues. That means everyone on the team needs to be in the office on the same days.
Hangul already has precomposed syllables in Unicode. We still have several hundred thousand unassigned codepoints to deal with diacritics.
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You could means test repayment. That's how it's done here in Germany, only once I earn a good deal I'll have to pay back a small percentage each month. If I never get a steady income I just won't have to repay it if I understand it correctly.
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Excellent example. My onetime Japanese distributor was walking distance from Shin-Yokohama station and I would never have guessed the history

>Shin-Yokohama Station opened on 1 October 1964, with the opening of the Tokaido Shinkansen.[4] At the time, the surrounding area was completely rural, and the site was selected as it was the intersection of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen tracks with the existing Yokohama Line

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin-Yokohama_Station
Do you personally write utterly perfect code with absolutely no defects or unexpected/unintended consequences on the first try, every single time?
wish they had something for Linux
Indeed this whole story sounds like the driver is just a useless human. They dropped off the passenger at a pet hospital. I can't imagine how the driver realized there was still a cat in the car and did anything other than return to the pet hospital. I wonder what lyft's GPS data says, do they see the driver stop a few minutes after leaving the pet hospital, near where they found the cat?

I looked for a couple other writeups on this story, but no one seems to know how the cat got from inside the car to anywhere else. Without any details, I'm left to assume the driver is a terrible human being and simply discarded the cat on the side of the road.
are you sure? how many poor people in the US do actually get into college?
i doubt that the number of poor european students that fail to qualify for college is higher than the number of poor students in the US that fail to qualify there. but i don't think we can find a good answer without looking at statistics.
I would be surprised if a freedom of religion challenge could succeed here, since that would open the door to people discriminating on any number of things, based on religious views.

Regardless, "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is from the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_Liberty_and_the_pursuit_...
I am wondering if and when this change happened.

I seem to recall the search results got progressively worse over the last few years.
I visited northern Laos in 2013. Speaking to people along the construction route, many didn't even know what a train was. None had ever seen one before.
I only saw a single paved road in the country, which I hitchhiked on from the Chinese border to Luang Prabang. Most drivers on the road were Chinese, but none were coming to visit Laos; they were driving through to Thailand.
So I came to understand this train was built to connect Thailand and China, rather than for Laos.
This article misses one of the coolest things about the Zarr format - that it's flexible enough that it's also becoming widely used in climate science.

In particular the Pangeo project (https://pangeo.io/architecture.html) uses large Zarr stores as a performant format in the cloud which we can analyse in parallel at scale using distributed computing frameworks like dask.

More and more climate science data is being made publicly available as Zarr in the cloud, often through open data partnerships with cloud providers (e.g. on AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/decrease-geospatia...) ERA-5 on GCP(https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/public-datasets/era5)).

I personally think that the more that common tooling can be shared between scientific disciplines the better.
It depends if you are charging for premium service or not.

If you want a cheap banquet, the organizer will probably tell you to put all your oranges where the sun doesn't shine. As a budget service provider, his job is to find you the best deal, with streamlined service, a limited number of suppliers and high volume deals, etc...

Now if you are going to a luxury service provider, you can essentially ask anything, he will deliver orange juice on the moon if you want to. His job is no longer to find you a good deal, his job is to do whatever it takes to do what you want if you have the money. You will obviously pay a lot more, even for regular service, but that orange juice breakfast should be easy.

It reminds me of documentaries about the most luxurious hotels. Like preparing a bridge table in the room of a repeat customer, or one who forgot his passport and they immediately dispatched a chauffeur to bring it to him at the airport. All of that without even being asked. That's what you get when you pay several thousands a night. Part of the price is for being ready to handle any situation.
Thanks to conspiracy theorists we can't even have good things. An innocent idea (design cities to have most daily necessities in a reasonable radius) becomes a conspiracy to trap us all
Yikes. Definitely not here. At the most you get a fine and your car is impounded until you can show proof of insurance. I guess eventually they might destroy it, but I can't think of anything you can do that would result in immediate legal confiscation of the vehicle. Even if it's impounded and you can't get it registered/insured, if you show up with a tow truck and pay the impound charges, they'll let you take the car away.
I did this for a few years with one SSD in various laptops or desktops as logisitics warranted. Desktop at home, 12in Thinkpad while traveling, 14in Thinkpad at work. It was easy to swap drives with the Thinkpad drive bay that they used to have.

Sadly, once most laptops went over to NVME 2280 pcie cards, it got a little too tedious to constantly swap out drives any more, and I started worrying about accidentally breaking them. Also had some weird issues with very poor write speed which I thought was overheating necessating a heat sink, but it turns out nvme speeds are actually just as slow as anything else under real workloads.
There's no way to have $300k in a 401k in 2 years. There's an annual limit much lower than that. I'm assuming you have a typo somewhere.
This article makes me think about "tofu-dreg projects" [0]

Poor quality construction work prevalent in mainland china. If you
look for content with this keyword, you will find jaw dropping
videos of constructions workers bending or breaking "rebar" with their hands,
Owners chipping away concrete in high-rise buildings like its sand, etc.

Of course some of this can be propaganda, but considering it has a local name,
there must be truth to it.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project
In case you don't see the comment above, a few books that I know cover this topic include "Superimperialism" (Hudson), "Silent Coup" (Kennard), and "The Divide" (Hickel).
thanks! killer example.

how are you dealing with failover?

how are you dealing with interactive reporting?

how large are your records?

is the s3 data in cold storage? how much is stored in S3 right now? is it warm-enough to query via (e.g.) athena?
Retiring at the youngest age possible isn't the be-all-to-end-all and I will continue professional activities for at least a time at some level after "retirement." But, yes, giving yourself options is good advice generally.
Being online is like talking about people behind their back - it's so easy to get cajoled into believing you're right without hearing the other side
Depends what you use it for.

> ChatGPT has no citations.

I use three programming languages every day, and lookup syntax details often

Using Google (any search engine) returns acres of SEO driven garbage and astro turf

Chat GPT has been a huge boon, essentially no B.S.

No need for citations, the compiler keeps them honest.

I used Bing search, via Skype for a while (it has been degraded recently IMO) it read web pages for me, summerised them, and returned links with it

So I think LLM mediated search is a definite possibility for disrupting the enshitification of Internet search
None of the (Western) sanctions include widespread internet blocks/filtering, nor would it really be to the West's benefit to do so.
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I don’t think it’s a reaction to anything in particular, just one of many fruits of Apple’s reinvestment in WebKit over the last few years.
2000 was great, I used it too. I admit to leaving it out because I couldn’t instantly think of a contemporary criticism!

It was a time when the Mac wasn’t even an option (OS 9 sucked, X was a barely working beta) and Linux was frustratingly unfinished. Windows 2000 really was a great OS for the hardware of the time.
The best "why don't you just" talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA
Totally, that would be extremely frustrating to not be able to use your phone when you need it.
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> US English spellings & conventions are quite a departure from other dialects.

As far as the written, formal language is concerned, English really has only three dialects: US American, Canadian, and everywhere else. There are some other subtle differences (such as "robots" for traffic lights in South Africa, or "minerals" for fizzy drinks in Ireland¹), but that's pretty much it.

¹ Yes, this isn't just slang in Ireland: the formal, pre-recorded announcements on trains use it: "A trolley service will operate to your seat, serving tea, coffee, minerals and snacks." The corresponding Irish announcement renders it mianraí. Food service on trains stopped during covid and has not yet resumed, so I'm working from distant memory now.
someday I hope they actually make another rack system....
I’m developing a service just for that. It’s called https://useftn.com and it’ll fine tune models off your json formatted dataset.
Airports often replace multiple days of travel via other means though. In that context, 1-2 hours isn’t a big difference.
I'm tired of the propaganda on both sides, honestly. I don't really care what non-technical people think about a piece of software that they don't understand.
>If your 401k is maxed out it is probably wrong to save anything more in general

The path to freedom is max, not min or mean.
As per the article itself "[previously] an executive for DuckDuckGo", which seems more relevant than what's on that Stanford page.

I mean, I hadn't heard of them either. But they did state their bias up front in the article, and bloppe's description isn't unfair.
Why don’t poor people just get more money? It would solve most of their problems.
No, not at this time (and not expected to).
We already means-test repayment in the US, we just make the means-testing opt-in, and have loan servicers who have a financial incentive to steer people who would benefit away from the means-tested option.
The mostly state owned companies? :)

And getting back the money from loans is also a win.
Thanks. Some alphabets have precomposed ligatures that aren't really letters, like old German alphabets with tz, ch, ss (I only know how to type the last one, ß, because the others have died out over the last hundred years).

Actually in German (at least) ä, ö and ü really are actually ligatures for ae, oe, and ue -- the scribes started to write the E's on their sides above the base letters, and over time the superscript "E"s became dots or dashes. Often they are described the other way around: "you can type oe if you can't type ö." That's what my kid was told in school!

But Ö and ß aren't really part of the alphabet in German, while, say, in Swedish, ä and ö became actual letters of the alphabet. English got W that way too.
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This is getting down voted and I'm not sure why. Google has flagged some of my personal domains as "deceptive login" (why: I could not fucking tell you... they give no info, and my logs show absolutely nothing going on. My best guess is I used chrome auto fill in them while testing letsencrypt staging certs after switching cert providers)

But... they are very clearly publishing info claiming my site is malicious, and it's not. It seems like a super clear case of libel, which I won't pursue because it's personal sites and I'm not losing revenue or anything, but it seems open and shut.

It's not even exempt due to general section 230 clauses. It's not user content. It's just them.
Fun to see that they do touch on indoor pets and such. I'm... doubtful that any house that allows dogs is on any sort of solid grounding for this debate. On either side.

That said, I do always get annoyed at the portrayal that people wearing shoes are bringing in all sorts of gross things. Yes, it is totally possible. The scenes of people taking mud covered shoes throughout the house, though, are ridiculous. Even houses that allow shoes will get annoyed if you do so with dirty shoes. No different than jackets, if you have a dripping wet rain coat, you are taking it off near the entrance.
Fair enough. I was thinking of them as obsolete, but shouldn't since you do see them a surprising amount in Japan.
I used to be something of a populist (not in the "right wing Populism" sense mind), and a big believer in human potential, and thought the future could one day look something like the Star Trek: TNG world. But with every passing day, I become just a tiny hair more misanthropic and believe that all the future holds is a cyberpunk dystopia, and eventually the heat-death of the universe.

I'm hoping that I'm wrong, and that events come along and smack me in the face and show me just how wrong I am, in my lifetime. But as it stands today optimism is a hard thing to come by. And that's hard for me to say, as somebody who has spent ~50 years thinking of himself as an optimist at heart. :-(

Maybe reading Pinker's The Better Angels of our Nature or something would help restore some of my optimism. Dunno.
If this community was available for crawling then LLM would crawl it and there would be no value in participating in the community because you can just ask the LLM about all that, no?
They aren't deluded, they know it won't increase productivity. Maximizing productivity isn't the goal, it is just the excuse they use.

A CEO at a major tech company makes more in a year than he will spend in a lifetime. The company becoming more or less productive won't affect their personal situation much. But forcing everyone into work does increase their power which is what they truly crave.
I'd really like an en-GB-oxendict (British English but favouring -ize over -ise) locale for formal writing.
Those photos are amazing.
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I have done this and been there before.

Dropbox syncs the deltas in LUKS and veracrypt disks. A change of a bit in plaintext changes the blocks that are involved, and only those blocks are updated. But most other sync tools don’t handle it properly.

That was around a decade ago. Today, one would use cryptomator, rclone, gocryptfs rtc.
The problem is, how do you distinguish between "lacked the skills or tools to make a true life-like statue" and "intentionally made something more abstract"?

When I played guitar I liked doing noisy high-distortion stuff because I could play bad guitar and still make it sound kind of okay (to my ears anyway).

Not saying that everyone who plays this type of music is a bad guitar player, because many aren't, but some are.
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But... there's no way you could possible have 300k after 2 years of contributions to a 401k.

You’re right…but that’s not what was said. After 2 years, all they had was $13K. But if they’d been contributing for 20 years like they should have been doing (because they’re 40, not fresh out of college), they’d have $300K.

IOW, $13K is nothing to brag about if you’re 35 and working software jobs your whole career. At least that’s how I read it.
Lockdown was 100% a top down imposition...