skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A company I know forced all employees to attend a seminar about ergonomics at work. It included a visit from the presenter who would come to everyone's desk and adjust everything (chair height, reclining resistance, screen angle, light, etc). This company is now migrating everyone to hotdesking.

What I'd love to ask the CEO: was it all a circus back then, or do you not care about your employees' health now?
That's difficult to assert, it is also possible that it is diagnosed more and more people seek professional help today than decades ago. I also don't think it's true that society has become sexually more liberal. I'd claim that it has become overall less liberal in comparison to the 1970s.
$ ping6 tonsky.me
ping6: no address associated with name
$

What every software developer must know about IPv6 in 2023 (still no excuses!).
I don’t understand how any of that follows. Databases are as much about locking and data structures as about persistence.
Zed is currently doing this, still pre-open source: https://zed.dev/blog/open-sourcing-zed-on-zed

Same with Ghostty: https://mitchellh.com/ghostty

Atom had a delayed open sourcing but I don't know if this was planned, they had already open sourced some parts of it but not the whole editor: https://atom-editor.cc/blog/2014/05/06/atom-is-now-open-sour...
While I love working from coffee shops, one thing I really get grumpy about is people taking meetings out loud. If you're taking a meeting from a quiet corner while not disturbing others, it's fine. What drives me up the wall is people sitting at a large community table or sitting in the vicinity of many others and speaking loudly. It's elementary common sense to not do that. Mercifully, it doesn't happen too many times. (I'm located in Belgium; so the real-estate is usually small in coffee shops.)
IANAL but it surprises me too. Sounds more like 2nd degree murder. Lack of intention, lack of planing, lack of maliciousness.

https://manshoorylaw.com/blog/difference-between-1st-2nd-and...
Only if you are willing to be that sacrifice.
> The problem is that you're assuming search is deterministic.

I am not assuming search is deterministic.

But even in a generally non-deterministic system, some things should always stay true.

For example: When doublequotes means "exact match", any item that doesn't contain an exact match should not be shown.

I also understand that a webpage might have changed since it was indexed, but I have a really hard time believing all the false matches I have wasted time on over the years relates to websites suddenly changing between the time when they were indexed and the time when I visited them.
I will never understand this. I prefer working from the office and being around my colleagues. It’s more comfortable than home, and the commute is an added bonus for me (short enough that doesn’t bother me, but provides a barrier for “I’m done with work for the day”).

That being said I would never force my colleagues to go back to the office if they don’t want to. Their circumstances are different than mine.
So what’s the problem with “you want to come to the office? Come. You want to work from home? Don’t”

It’s cheaper from the company (no providing food for everyone, the office doesn’t have to accommodate everyone, etc) and better for all employees, who can do exactly whatever they want.
I sure don't! I want them to have it as good as I do, and I want to use my influence to make it so. This can only work if we are one group.
No. There are many methods beyond the controlled experiment. The natural experiment is one, which is extremely important in epidemiology for example. You don't show smoking is harmful by setting up a control group to smoke incessantly for 30 years. Your view of science is far too narrow.
The problem is that "what sounds better" isn't the same question as "which one is uncompressed".

The original CD version might have some high frequency stuff that's just on the edge of perception that you don't really know is there, but you can just sense a bit of discomfort when listening to it. After going through the MP3 process and that high frequency is removed because it contributes the least in reconstructing that signal, the resultant decompressed signal might sound "better" even though it's not the original, because you get a high quality reproduction but the thing that led to a slight discomfort when listening has now gone.

In this case, the sound engineer got them all right because he could tell the difference and knew what it was supposed to sound like. The rest of the people maybe could tell the difference or maybe couldn't (which was the claimed result of the test), but in fact, even if they could tell the difference, they had no idea which one was the uncompressed one and voted on which they thought sounded best.

As another comment has noted, it'd be a much better test if there was a "they sound the same" option as well as asking which one sounds best.
Google Maps is for finding your way around where you are. Google Earth is for seeing the world.

I like the combined approach of Apple Maps.
Please elaborate on the everlasting effects of his disastrous campaign as Greece's finance minister.
Everything you wanted to know about cron jobs in a single place
In my country you can usually appeal a decision and a new judge takes that case. Mind you a judge is probably smarter and less "fallible" than the average guy/gal on the street.

We don't drag someone off the street at random for most jobs now do we?
"American news company with a primary user base in America."

And it's infamous for misrepresenting the other parts of the world to better suit USA's interests. Cases of outright lying and negative propaganda that they know is a lie abound.
Looks like biojulia.net got taken over by spammers :(
The company I work does hot-desking, but it is implicitly also divided into groupings. All the people in each team sit in the same part of the office each day and hotdesk within that group of desks. There are maybe 1 time in 50 that I show up and there are no desks free in my teams part of the office.

One other potential advantage with hot-desking is that you can have different zones with different rules. Working on a project where you need to talk with your colleague a lot during the day, sit in the 'talking' zone. Need to be left alone in silence for 8 hours straight, move to the 'quite' zone.
It might sound like it disproves it, but if you look at what you wrote it is obvious that it does not. You've just presented an interesting hypothesis.
A lot of people on here denigrate executives, management, money people generally. Maube they add value commensurate with what they're paid. Some almost certainly do. Others probably don't.

However, I bet that the vast majority of software developers would hate the job and the lifestyle, perks or not--which among other things generally involves a ton of tightly-scheduled travel.
> One way Google maintains their monopoly is that many websites block all bots except for the Google indexing bot.

No, I don't think that's true. I am writing a web crawler, not for search purposes, and I haven't seen preferential treatment for GoogleBot compared to others. Sure, some might be banned outright (though bad crawlers just ignore robots.txt and do whatever they want), but in most cases new bots have the same access rights than GoogleBot.

Also, your sentence doesn't pass the sniff test: you claim Google has better access than all other crawlers; but robots.txt is solely in the hands of the webmaster. How does Google coerce most website owners to block other bots? There is no conspiracy at play here.
Is it?

Of course, neither of us nor the company really has hard knowledge of what is "more efficient", because despite being entirely driven by profit metrics and A/B testing there is still no real way to measure productivity for knowledge workers. And even if there was, employee misery wouldn't be part of the metric unless it measurably affected retention.
That is like saying what is the point of Pascal, you can use C. Well, one is a (dearly loved by me) footgun.
Thank you <3 Also, my mother was just talking to you and mentioned that she accidentally gave you her credit card information. Would you mind passing it on to me, so I can give it back to her. The security code would mean so much to her.
I let him borrow my ipad every now and then, but I really want him to have his own device not just for consumption but also to create at free will. I think the ipad is very restrictive in what he can do/play.

Also, my TV in the living room is hooked up to a Mac Mini, so he already plays Youtube on it for 30 mins/day to watch his favorite shows. The computer I would like for him to use more creatively, and tinker with and learn the stuff not generally taught with books or videos..
I think it did but I was surprised by the price there as it's not normally that cheap. It was a second car with 'classic car' insurance. I went on a comparison site and got a quote for more than that which I didn't do anything with, and then some guy called me offering to insure for £75. I guess it was a promo to get new customers probably.
The problem I see is that no one controls the language model in a transparent way. It's not an open database like Stack Overflow, Reddit or other websites that you use when searching for a programming solution, for example.

It has no way of telling what's wrong and what's right. We've seen how AI and bots behave when their training is completely automated. Did everyone forget the bot Microsoft made that became racist after some interactions on Twitter?
You don't even calculate the hours per year you spent removing padding from text boxes anymore...
Because most people are trying to uphold some baseline of professionalism and aren't actively seeking to make the lives of the people around them harder?
Warren Buffet does not need to work to pay the bills.
Oh, I'm fine with twice-yearly get togethers of an often highly-distributed team. But I'm not sure how much that helps with onboarding. It certainly doesn't lead to a vibrant office culture.
404? Try: https://github.com/trholding/llama2.c
Different needs dictate different design choices for optimality.

Could not agree more. Even for time series, which could be seen as a subset of OLAP, trade-offs and design choices inherent to time-series data are necessary. As an example of a TSDB that I know well, QuestDB: Data is always ordered by time once it lands on the disk, the data is partitioned by time, and the ingestion protocol is conceived to stream large volumes of data, which can be either continuous or in bursts.
> Databases are automatically obsolete. A file system is enough and performance is improved by not using a database.

This makes no sense at all. Databases are much more about what data structures are used internally and the high-level interfaces provided to access said data than the underlying technology used to persist data.

There is also the matter of how much data can/needs to be persisted, which is not addressed at all.
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Sr. SWE @ Mastercard [4 years]

build out the Mastercard cloud platform (AWS/Azure/GCP)
paved path single-manifest infra management via OSBs, k8s,
terraform, golang, python, groovy, bash, jenkins

DevOps @ Harvard Medical school [2 years]

CLI tool + Django RF, Vue UI w/ LDAP
focused on enabling data-intensive container computing on
15k core/100 GPU Slurm HPC via chef/puppet, python,
singularity containers

Sr. SWE @ Air Force SpecOps [2 years]

E2E unit tests, automate deployment, containerize dev
env, python 2to3 migration, implement features for python
+mysql/postgres/sqlite webapp

Misc. freelance software contract work [4 years]
The quip is something like "The next Haskell should be strict and the next ML should be pure".
But that in turn is less efficient than 0 desks for 15 people.

Thinking about it, why stop there? Negative desking is the future. A team of 15 could have -15 desks (or less, if they are high performers). Super efficient.
Jessica Benjamin and her book "The Bonds of Love" really struck a chord with me. I believe that her concept "gender polarity" fundamentally underlies old and modern "gender wars".

Other books and authors I found really interesting:

- Estela Welldon and her Book "Mother, Madonna, Whore"

- Sándor Ferenczi, who was a close associate of Freud and pioneered the concept of "Identification with the Aggressor", which seems to be the driving force behind what we call "transgenerational inheritance" of trauma. His concept of the "confusion of tongues" between child and pathological adult is also very interesting!

- Mathias Hirsch, a german psychoanalyst who wrote a lot about trauma, love, sexual abuse and was not afraid to explore stigmatized topics. For example:

- the effects of sexual relations between analysts and their patients (he saw parallels to incestous abuse in a parent-child relationship)
- sexually abusive mothers and the idealization of motherhood
- the fact that his pyschoanalyst Günther Ammon, who later became his boss at the Deutsche Akademie für Psychoanalyse, controlled the academy in a cult-like fashion
It's clearly allowed, but I think the reaction here is negative because, unlike for example Python, this isn't someone making their own language from scratch which is then organically adopted. Instead, it's essentially someone looking at an established language and community, and saying "you'd all be better off if I was running the show here." And the person making that claim does not have the track record to make that claim believable. I don't think it's strange that people are reacting with some reservations here.

Of course it's not a hostile takeover, he'll try to build something that convinces people that he's on the right track, and I wish him the best of luck with that. There's a small chance that the project succeeds and essentially becomes the successor language to Haskell, and there's a large chance that the project fizzles out, and both of those outcomes are fine. The worst possible outcome is that it succeeds well enough to fragment the ecosystem, but not enough to really take over.
Yes, "average life expectancy" is just misleading noise; "life expectancy at N" (3<=N<=5) is what you want.
You'd be surprised how accounting works at some companies. I've seen companies buying 10k euro civil engineering software to run on 1k euro computers that could barely handle it, and refusing to also pay to upgrade the computers.
Seems fair to say “we aren’t going to let web developers cripple the user experience”. A bit like the inane fight over autofill and passwords a few years back - web developers don’t always know best, don’t always have the users’ interests at heart, are often subject to foolish and outdated requirements from their bosses/organisations etc

Where this policy falls down is in assuming that video content consumption is all Netflix or YouTube. The absence of an API makes certain experiences that use video in different ways.

The UK driving test has a hazard perception part where the examinee has to click to indicate a developing hazard - if there are hardwired buttons on the video player that popup a new window, you can’t build something like that safely.

Half the point of JavaScript in the browser is that the browser development team cannot predict all the possible meanings of a click in a rich web experience.
I agree, but I personally also need a couple of WFH days each week so I can be completely without distraction for tasks that require deep thought. My concentration is broken easily and I find other people talking across desks to each other or walking around in the office area distracting. When I'm WFH they simply can't distract me, as my notifications are switched off and I'm alone.
Very nice!

Tho it might be worth changing the title so it is clear at a glance that it is about arm64 not amd64 :-)
I believe the author means database as disk persistence. But we could all host sqlite db's in /dev/shm today if we wanted.. I guess it's just excitement about persistence at speed :)
One compelling reason would be to take out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebino_VLF_transmitter

which could potentially relay strike back commands to nuclear armed submarines from the UK | US | other loose partners of Japan.

Given Japan, the US, and (possibly(?)) the UK hold joint exercises together an enemy might conclude that all VLF transmitters must go, particularly those in allied countries.

In a first strike scenario all VLF transmitters would ideally be the very first targets hopefully struck simultaneously.
I'm was in a similar situation and bees actually helped me get over it for the most part. I never did "bee therapy" specifically, but just by hanging out with people who keep bees got me used to the sound of a hive in the background.

The sound of a single wasp around me still triggers that fear, but I can mostly tell the difference from the sound of a bee now. Unlike wasps, who I still believe are just evil bastards, Slovenian bees are very friendly and will even let you pick them up and pet them.
It's time tech workers realized they're just expensive sheep with no real power. Time to unionize or form co-ops, or it'll just be another race to the bottom like every other job. Companies will say whatever they need to say when there's a growth bubble, and then take it all away as soon as there's not. It shouldn't be surprising.
Dependent types are a great idea, that still requires a lot of research to come up with a mechanism that make them tratable to the journeyman developer.
If at some point it was deemed unsafe and impossible to fix, I am wondering how you could do a controlled destruction of it without damaging nearby buildings.

I guess you'd need to dismantle it floor by floor? Are there any example of very high skyscraper having been destroyed/dismantled on purpose, not by 9.11 attacks?

EDIT: found a table on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_voluntarily_de...
Flowr: Agile project management tool built over Gitlab
Someone has already posted an archive link that allows non-subscribers to read the article. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37748603

And if archive.ph doesn't work with your DNS, try this one:

http://web.archive.org/web/20231003073031/https://www.busine...

You could have created either of these links yourself in the time it took to post your comment (just go to archive.ph or web.archive.org and paste in the original URL).
> I take this as further evidence that exercise is dangerous.

What does this even mean? Whatever we call exercise is an arbitrary threshold. Humans, unless they live their life bound to a chair, move about, in different degrees, and anything more than walking we can call exercise.

Humans have evolved to cross this exercise threshold multiple times a day simply to survive (who's gonna catch that running antelope?), so how can moderate movement for more than 5 minutes be dangerous?

It might be because of your set of physical issues, but it's not a rule.
Show HN: Tiny OS that boots to LLAMA2, has DOOM and easter eggs
Screen shots: https://twitter.com/VulcanIgnis/status/1708851772435968017
As a wasp allergic who grew up in a province filled with beekeepers: they sound nothing like each other.

The sound of wasps compares to that of bees like the sound of a broken Vespa against a Harley Davidson.

But maybe it is me being a professional in the audio-postproduction field.
Hi Jason,

> Uncountable has offices in San Francisco, New York City or Munich. Remote flexibility is available for senior candidates within the SF or NY metro areas.

Could you elaborate? How many days of remote work per week/month/year? What locations / timezones? (Only from within the SF/NYC metro areas?)

In case 100% remote work is possible and would not require presence in SF/NYC, would it still require a US visa / work permit or would there be other options?

PS: Too bad there is no remote work option for the Munich people.
“Sooner or later, everything old is new again.”
Meta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a “Pay for your Rights” approach
The metric is profit, and they're trying to optimize it by "encouraging" people to leave. Zuckerberg has wasted $40 billion on a failed idea and needs to turn things around.
Sorry to cause the confusion, we are building a stdlib for Go, and all these goals are related to the development experience when using our stdlib, and we are not aiming at anything like replacing the official go stdlib (which we also enjoy work with).

Were the confusion caused by the choice of project name `pcz` instead of `xxxstd`? or any suggestion for us to improve?
If Warren Buffet stopped working tomorrow, how long do you think it would take for him to fall behind on his bills and default on his mortgage? That is the basic differentiator. If you work because you have to, then you are working class. If you work primarily because you want to, then you are not. There is of course also a large 'grey' area of people who could stop working and live quite comfortably, but feel compelled to keep working to finance their current lifestyle.
I think it does what it says on the label but maybe I'm missing something.
“Let us grant that this woman is correct about the science and that the project is technologically possible, although I don’t think that has actually been proven. Now she desires that we get rid of the dragon. Presumably, she thinks she’s got the right not to be chewed up by the dragon. How willful and presumptuous. The finitude of human life is a blessing for every individual, whether he knows it or not. Getting rid of the dragon, which might seem like such a convenient thing to do, would undermine our human dignity. The preoccupation with killing the dragon will deflect us from realizing more fully the aspirations to which our lives naturally point, from living well rather than merely staying alive. It is debasing, yes debasing, for a person to want to continue his or her mediocre life for as long as possible without worrying about some of the higher questions about what life is to be used for. But I tell you, the nature of the dragon is to eat humans, and our own species-specified nature is truly and nobly fulfilled only by getting eaten by it...”

https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon
> Databases are a means to query and index data with greater performance than without.

I don't think you understand your own point. The querying, indexing, and performance bit are tied to the data structures used internally by the database, not the technology used to persist data.
Article claims a tenth the latency of dram at 100x lower power, but also says they're trying to fabricate at 20nm. Oh, and also persistent.

If they've done that, awesome. Make it, show that it works, licence how to make the thing to semiconductor companies and retire wealthy. Or maybe the university owns the IP.
You are indeed missing something. In all the screens we are discussing here (triton, kaleido, etc), there are no distinct color pigments. They are just standard "black and white" pigment over a color filter. The result is as terrible as you'd expect (low contrast and 1/3 resolution).

Also, a mobile phone as the first eink device? Where did you even find that? The sony readers at the very mininum are much older.
No. Neither can two clerks keep a store open for eight hours in six hours. Much like nine women can't give birth to a baby in one month.
With durability claims of

> 10 million write/erase cycles

this is not going to compete with DRAM, which needs to endure trillions of write/erase cycles in its lifetime.

Unless they grossly underestimated its durability, a name like UltraFlash would seem more appropriate?!