skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that Fortran is highly used in the numeric world, especially due to widespread libraries such as LAPACK and BLAS, amongst others; in your opinion, what are the characteristics that make such code much more clear when written in Fortran as opposed to C or C++?

Also, do you prefer a specific version of Fortran, or is the latest one fine?
Is there an estimation what share of users was affected? I. e. how long mistaken heuristic was enabled compared to how often Defender checks heuristic updates?
One business implication is that third parties can detect whether your sales increase or decrease from sampling those IDs (a variation on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem)
I've always had this crazy idea that we could make high school useful again. Run year round and provide more opportunities for swapping in college-level course work or actual college or trade school courses.

This kind of opportunity would have allowed me to finish my education sooner, or at least enjoy it more. As it was, I worked full time every summer since I turned 16 and then 30+ hours a week while I was completing my bachelor's degree and taking classes year-round. I got my degree from a private school, but transferred in about 25% of my credits which reduced the total cost significantly.

It sucked and I missed out on a lot of experiences during that time period BUT I had a minimal amount of debt when I graduated.
Modern Python is sure ugly.
Usually in these days, auth was done via RADIUS. It's possible that the company handoff was done by not-the-sysadmins, and the operators of the company only had the things they knew of how things worked, which was the spreadsheet, whereas the spreadsheet to the sysadmins was just the tool they used to create the RADIUS account information off of.
It'd be great if more enduser software recognized Windows as a trojan and removed it.
Sure: hnwhoshiring@rennsport.gg
Why are you comparing 2022 to 2019? Shouldn't you just look at YoY growth over 2021 — i.e. compare a year of full WFH to a year of RTO?
This. Sending kids to public universities in the US has always been a big money issue for even the better-off parents (not elite), especially with more than 1 kid seeking higher education. It's definitely not just tuition. You have to enable 3 young adults financially like in my parents case. They had to juggle a lot to stay afloat! Thankfully I landed a great paying job after 2 years on the market and was able to help push my brother and sister through Arizona State, although we all picked up a lot of debt in the process though credit cards.
If you use public transport it works better (more cost efficient to run = more frequent) when more people use it, so my commute would not get better if people stayed home.

But I agree on the last part, I prefer it when certain coworkers WFH. TBH some days I strategically choose my office hours so I overlap with them less.
JPMorgan’s Dimon Predicts 3.5-Day Work Week for Next Generation Thanks to AI
Here are a few things that aren't working out from a management perspective:

Social bonding is much harder, but important for reliable collaboration, especially when there are disagreements. I also believe that conversations are more likely to derail when they aren't in person. I've also been part of so many lunch conversations in the office that resulted in someone being able to help out someone on a different team with an issue they had solved themselves previously, learn about activities on another team that were relevant to them etc. There are ways to achieve similar things in a remote setup, but it's hard, especially to deploy across large companies with thousands of people. For the record, I've worked fully in person, hybrid and remote and think hybrid is by far the hardest to make work.
Sad ... I think python need some performance improvement more than the no-gil stuff.
> I woke up every day excited and motivated

What would I give to get that feeling...

> Ultimately, never choose the one giving you an ultimatum.

This is very good advice. Related, never trust a retention offer. The leverage you have to influence the change that it represents vanishes the moment you accept it

> don’t accept any relocation assistance

The number of people I've seen getting in trouble because they burnt a signing bonus before the minimum retention period, or forgot about the lawyer fees for their immigration paperwork and switched jobs too early. It's fine taking any of these as long as you accept that you're selling out for a couple of years... But read your contracts

> This outflow of money does hurt the local economies of said cities, including the ones that big tech companies are headquartered in. In some cases, this pain has jeopardized a lot of the tax incentives that said companies enjoy.

This is an explanation, others also related to financial incentives, some related to trust (a lot of managers don't trust that people are working when they can't directly see their screens).

I think there is also an argument to be made that wfh is not for everyone and everything, and that collaboration can work better in person. It's harder to build a team when most of your relationships are built in meetings. Seeing people once in a while is good to build trust, and I can get why some companies can take the position that this is a must have in their employment conditions.

Not that I would be interested to work for such a company though.
Exact same experience. Socialization is great but work is a solitary pursuit in an isolated space free from distractions.
"We should just return to the status quo before COVID..."

Says the ownership class.

When we are given a rare and unique opportunity to shift our labor culture in the favor of those who provide labor, we would be beyond stupid not to seize that opportunity for everything it's worth.
https://archive.ph/Q7ZV4
The part you're missing is that they poured millions/billions into said projects. Taking those outlays into account it's very reasonable to conclude that they lost, even if they got some money/land.
I don't think many computer CD drives have ever exposed the error correction to the computer. It's usually handled entirely internally, as the link shows on the last page. What that program was probably doing was trying a bunch of times to read the same area from a bunch of different starting points to see if it could tease out the data with a little luck.

>math caused the slower reads.

The error correction was ALWAYS being done, and that math was done on a dedicated circuit.
I've been fully remote for 6 years. I know people who's primary criteria for their next job is that it be in person. I think remote work is here to stay and there are so many people who are discovering that remote work is their preference thanks to the pandemic, but I don't think in person work is going to die, there are also lots of people that prefer that. I know that I made a lot of my first friends in SF at work and that would have been impossible if I had worked remote then. How that plays out at companies remains to be seen. I can imagine big companies divvying up workers by team. Some remote teams some in person teams. Smaller companies will likely need to make a more total choice.

Acting like there are no benefits to in person work is silly. One of the first things we did as a company going remote was to say that if anyone is on zoom in a meeting then everyone in the meeting needs to be on zoom even if many were physically in the same place. I don't think anyone would ever choose to sit in a conference room with 5 other people all on zoom together.

Everything is tradeoffs. Remote work just got a huge profile boost which is going to give a lot of people the opportunity to live life differently from how they did before. Now the pendulum is swinging back but it'll never get as far as it did before.
It could be if it were true, but it's inaccurate. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37740928.
<raises hand> I am
> the environmental benefits of vegetarianism emerge from/rely upon our entire population being mostly meatless.

I understand the argument, I still don't think it's valid. Companies are made up of heterogeneous individuals with not only different preferences on how to work, but different work styles, different flexibility needs, different energy cycles. One of my current teammates has Crohn's and is a fantastic programmer but there's no way he could work 8 hrs in an office. For myself, I have really bad ADHD and working in the office means I will be completely dependent on stimulants instead of being able to work around it most days.

You can't put the cat back in the bag that made the whole world collectively realize that for most jobs being in an office building wasn't the real requirement we all thought it was.
SEEKING WORK | Full Stack Developer | Remote

- Technologies: Python, Django, FastaPI, Docker, Terraform, JavaScript, Ansible, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, React, Vue, Next.js, Vercel, AWS, Zapier, Airtable (Scripting), Notion (API integration)

- Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariocesar/ you can ask for for my CV by email

- Email: mariocesar@humanzilla.com

I have most of my experience working remotely with startups and SaaS projects throughout my career. I was the sole developer in over half of the projects, taking on everything from sysadmin to backend and frontend work.

My expertise lies in scaling applications to support more users or matching resources to a budget. I specialize in creating custom CRMs for niche industries. I can help market your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) while converting your homemade tools to Software as a Service (SaaS). Additionally, I am skilled in creating complete and robust automation projects using tools such as Zapier, Notion, Airtable, and AppSheet. I can also develop integrations for your SaaS or in-house tool for Zapier, Make, and other Automation Services.

To see my coding skills in action, please feel free to check out my GitHub profile https://github.com/mariocesar. I also frequently post code snippets at https://gist.github.com/mariocesar, and you can find most of my links at https://mariocesar.xyz/.
First: That isn't even the correct use of "metastasized". (Unless you assume that any cost at all is a cancer.) That's rather jarring in an article about higher education.

Second: If prices are out of control, so people aren't going there because it's too expensive, maybe the answer is to let supply and demand do its thing? This proposal takes universities that are too expensive, and looks for an alternate way to pay them anyway. That's not the answer - or at least, it's not the answer to the problem that they say they're trying to solve.

Find a way to lower the cost of college, rather than changing who pays for it. (We can also talk about who pays for it, but the solution to the stated problem is to find a way to undo the insane increase in college costs.)
A level of productivity is part of the package that the employer buys from the employee. Some people might be less productive WFH, but if the WFH perk is important enough to them that it is a deal-breaker, then… that’s what’s for sale, the company can take it or leave it.

If you already have a set of employees, and you demand they all come in, you are selecting against people who know they can sustain their lifestyle by moving to another company.

Only problem with low enough productivity enough to be bumped down to becoming totally unemployable don’t get the choice. These also are the people who are most likely to follow an in-office mandate. It seems like a bad filter to apply.
These are just my opinions, but:

- Arduino C with ESP32.

- https://scratch.mit.edu

- Basic Python (ala the wealth of No Starch Press Python books oriented towards kids and games and fun projects).
I am an aerospace engineer versed in controls and autonomy. I can construct an estimator nonlinear and observable. With thermodynamics I am teeming with lots 'o news, with rocket fuels both hypergolic and catalyzed.
Even on classical 2D microscope the illumination can be non-uniform, and you might need to calibrate your image.

Source: PhD in biolab with microscopes, and napari dev.
Eh, people forget. Heard about Blackwater lately? Or was it Xe? Or Academi?

And they always complain about stuff like that, even when they aren’t playing games!
That's the problem with Windows Defender - Microsoft has basically removed the ability for a normal user to configure it to quarantine instead of auto-remediate (delete).

After I caught Windows Defender uploading my places.sqlite in my FF profile "for analysis", I permanently disabled automatic sample submission, auto-remediation, etc via group policies.

I still won't use any other AV though because they are generally even worse about making decisions without user input and don't respect group policies at all unless you are an actual enterprise customer.
Lenovo X200 Charging Port Upgrade to Type-C PD
You are more correct than you know. “Coke” (the full sugar, red can kind) is actually Coca-Cola “Classic.” Notably in the 80s Coca-Cola reformulated to the absolute outrage of the soda drinkers of the world (1985). They had released a diet version of this reformulation three years prior (1982)—I suppose as a trial run—based on Tab. For some reason people liked the diet version. This is Diet Coke. After
backpedaling on the reformulation, the full-sugar flagship was re-released in all its former glory, dubbed Coca-Cola Classic. Much later, a diet version of this “classic” formula was released. This is Coke Zero. So yes, it’s absolutely about taste, because Coke and Diet Coke aren’t based on the same recipe!
Companies have a right to fuck their employees over in all sorts of ways. "It's not literally illegal for them to do this to you" is the absolute weakest defence that can be made for any behaviour.
Online privacy is not an absolute and I wish we'd start threat modeling instead of mindlessly calling entire platforms compromised.
Oh yeah? But you have? Show me what billionaire funded think tanks exist that push for leftist policies on climate, like the green new deal. Famously popular among the wealthy. Are you serious?? To act like there is the same billionaire class interest in "protecting climate" as there is "continuing burning fossil fuels if it makes us money" is childish naiveté. Joker indeed.
Critique is technically everyone isn’t happy since it’s not fully remote. In addition, I don’t really want to give up two entire days including my evenings to the company every month which is what “hackathon and happy hours” means to me.
Polymath Robotics (YC S22) Is Hiring
Mastodon Annual Report 2022
Show me the evidence for "white flight" it certainly doesn't happen in most European metropolitan areas (the map of the French elections certainly didn't show that any of the areas surrounding the big cities were right leaning, in fact like e.g. Sachsen and Thüringen, the regions in Germany with the highest support for right wing parties, experience lots of people leaving, not moving there). That's one of the reasons why cities have become increasingly unaffordable.
> For this reason I have a one strike policy for apps. One marketing notification and permissions are revoked.

Yup, this is very easy to do on Android. Long-press any notification, and you can change the notification preferences for that app.

The first time I see a marketing notification, I gag that app permanently. Takes less than 3 seconds. If this also prevents that app from being useful, oh well, time to uninstall.

In theory, Android apps can also categorize their notifications, so I could selectively gag them. But this takes me at least 30 seconds to figure out, and it doesn't prevent that app developer from abusing their categories. So I almost never attempt fine-grained control, unless it's an essential app. Normally I just block all notifications permanently on the first offense.
Those are disposable $500 suicide drone numbers, no one is losing 10000 Mavics a month.
I don't really have a horse in this race, but it's actually funny the way you worded that:

[three reasons for RTO] "There's no reason for RTO. None." [perhaps another]
As I would like to call it, the new shiny js tool of the week. Aren't we all already tired of this
Sounds like it’s time for a folder.
The Colab notebooks are a fresh and independent session with no caching.
HN isn't the only community to write for. While most people here seem to be unsympathetic to such job concerns, unconventional articles do hit the front page from time to time.

I'd like to read it, in any case.
Is Cypress dying? tl;dr Nope
So if this is all accurate we should see a decline in new BRI projects and a preference for IMF and World Bank financing over institutions where China plays a larger role like the NDB. Let’s wait and see.
As part of the social contract, reasonable employees would agree with it if there were a solid case for it but this doesn't seem to be so. They're being offered ambiguous one liners such as the "making forward business progress" devoid of substance and which contrasts to actual measurable such as turnover, profits and other tangible measures that indicate otherwise (showing that remote work works).

I truly hope the line between leave and work doesn't blur.
Yesterday I helped in an 'investigation' why a remote WinSvr2012R2 VM with a public IPv4 is no longer allows logging in.

To no one's surprise it was hacked, but what was quite amusing is what the hacker wannabe installed... RDPGuard to protect 'his' machine from other hacker wannabees.

Also years ago mIRC was a popular component of the Windows 'rootkits' because it has control and communications built-in.

Yes, Tor is used by malware to securely communicate so it's no wonder it can trigger AV. Refer to [0] for details.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37740584
If you host copies of your data with a few big providers could you do something smart like detect and redirect requests from AWS to an S3 bucket and not pay for bandwidth leaving the provider?
You're both correct, I was too flippant with my reply. It is out of place.
This IMO is about companies finding it easier to manage to mediocrity rather than managing towards excellence

They don't need innovation anymore. They need general competence to maintain a business model.

At the large scale company, a cryptography dept can live without an amazing expert. They'll hire some middling crypto people, and they'll generally be fine. These companies have some massive moat, and dethroning them from that moat would be a multi-generational effort.

So when he says "My Prediction"

> Every company that issued forced relocation ultimatums to their pre-pandemic remote workers will not only lose most (if not all) their top talent in the next year, but they will struggle to hire for at least the coming decade.

Their brands as big, stable companies will let them continue to hire boring, mediocre, but good-enough employees willing to relocate. That's my prediction.. Nothing big will really change.

Optimistically though the companies that need excellence over mediocrity are startups, and I'm hopeful it'll drive talent into that space to truly innovate beyond Amazon or whomever's latest TPS report
Spangler Science: How to turn a bottle of water upside down without spilling [video]
Except if you read the article it's arguing that the opposite happened.

>Note that although this is a debt trap, it isn’t really a case of “debt-trap diplomacy”, as some people accuse. Debt-trap diplomacy is where you get a country to owe you money, and you force it to make geopolitical concessions in exchange for loan forbearance. China doesn’t appear to be doing that; instead it appears to simply be walking away with as much of the money as it can, and thumbing its nose as it walks away, and leaving developing countries bitter and resentful.
What's MTV... The "Music" TV station?
I don't know if this disagrees with you or not, but we were done with individual dial-up modems by early 1996, and spent most of that year on Ascend's platform (the Livingston PM3's the next year; I left in the middle of 1997 to go work for a vulnerability lab, and I definitely set up a bunch of PM3's, so that's the timing worked out for me).
Just because the car eventually rolled off the pedestrian, doesn't mean there's no news story.

Reportedly, mass removal of Tor Browser happened, and damage is done: a lot of privacy/security stuff disabled, couldn't be used, some won't be reinstalled, there's extra vulnerability at reinstallation time, etc.

And the demonstration that Microsoft can easily do this is of interest to people tho don't want that kind of thing to happen, as well as to people who would like that capability.

Also, this is Microsoft actively removing a competing Web browser (after long ago being put on notice about sneakiness around competing browsers specifically).
You probably like people and are comfortable with whatever you excelled at. And you probably don't have an inner voice comically second-guessing everything you are about to say, causing you to act timid and awkward around others.

Qualities missing from most people at the office.
This is an incorrect conclusion
AV at it's best prevents script kiddies. It is ridiculously easy to bypass an AV. However, most of the organizations rely on EDRs, not AVs
> What ensures that the “rest of the string” is, in fact, a suffix of the input?

Nothing, unless you have unit tests. Or use Liquid Haskell:

https://ucsd-progsys.github.io/liquidhaskell/

There are languages that let you express stronger guarantees/requirements via type system, but it’s better not to go down the rabbit hole of dependent typing.
If you type "a", combine it with "´", then change your mind and hit backspace, you probably want to end up with "a" even through "á" was a thing "visually displayed as a single unit".
Of course, the US is widely known for repossessing airports[1], seaports[2], and railways[3], then displacing local workers by flying in your own people. That totally happens all the time - its just that US biased media hiding it from you. The era of this kind of lazy anti-Westernism is over, China is only out for itself, and it will drag countries into its sphere of influence any way it can. "But what about this american thing?" I don't really have the time or need to respond to the thoughts of an "American anarchist activist" which is in all likelihood a nice euphemism for foreign agent or useful idiot.

[1] https://www.africanliberty.org/2018/09/10/like-zambia-sri-la...

[2] https://saharareporters.com/2021/11/26/china-takes-over-ugan...

[3]https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/kenya-ch...
This is not about remote versus non-remote. It's about worker power versus owner power. A unique set of circumstance temporarily shifted power in favor of workers and we should not willingly cede what little ground we have taken.

Of course our employers love unpaid commutes - commutes that we actually pay for ourselves! What a racket.
> For many applications, a user is forced to register for application access. You want to know who the user is so you can provide them with individualized functionality and data.

> If your registration process requires an email or mobile phone number, registration allows you to market to your customers. This is great if you are pursuing a Product-led growth or freemium business model. Having contact information allows you to communicate with them directly, allowing you to remind them of the value of your application and driving re-engagement.

Ugh, this article is discusting. I can't bear to read the rest. "Having contact information allows you to communicate with them directly, allowing you to remind them of the value of your application" please no. No.

Definitely super grateful for Firefox Relay right about now.
FYI, I wasn’t defending. I was noting market dynamics and likely counter-forces.

How you decide to position yourself (and plan), and how they decide to position themselves (and plan) is of course up to each participant.
The U.S. government already has the capabilities described for early-detection systems. This is a social media surveillance project.