skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they only use point 1 as an excuse. If you remove people from the office you can save a lot of ad-hoc costs immediately. You pay less for coffee. You can save on heating. You can probably also save on cleaning costs if you concentrate the remaining employees into certain floors.

I have definitely seen companies cut their losses before. If you remove all these points and only keep 1, most companies would shift to remote regardless of their real estate.
Are you sure?

https://imgur.com/a/dsm4zL9
Go to salary.com and look for software engineering salaries in most major cities.

You don’t even have to do that. Go to levels.fyi and look at the compensation for places like Delta, Walmart or one of the insurance companies
This is just one symptom of the advertising-supported web. The web was intended to inform, but modern websites are designed to impress. Personally, I'm more impressed with websites designed to inform, but the average person apparently isn't.

The Semantic Web failed for the same reason: Humans click on ads but computers don't. Hence we're left with a web that is not only designed purely for human consumption, but also to appeal to the ADD part of our simian brains that says "Oooooh. Shiny!".
I'd like to advance a more productive argument for pro-privacy tech people. Often the reply is to claim that governments are lying when they try to 'protect children' and the like.

Having at least some experience with international police orgs, I can say that significant resources are dedicated to online crime (including CSAM) and their 'lived reality' is very much expending significant resources because e2e prevents low-cost surveillance.

So the attack line that 'none of this is sincere' is actively unhelpful -- since so much of it is sincere, it comes across at best naïve.

A better line, imv, is this: assume present goverments are entirely sincere. It doesnt matter. We cannot know the intentions of future governments. And we have good reasons to suppose that governments, in general, require extraordinary systems of checks-and-balances to be prevented from abuse of power.

So I'd advise not attacking people who are, very often, actually thinking of the children -- you're just antagonising the people in power. Rather, invite them to help you defend the liberal order of individual human rights that prevent state abuse of power. As a matter of fact, they really arent actually trying to create a secret police.

Enabling state abuse of power has a far far higher negative outcome than marginal increases to the difficulty of policing some crimes. In many cases, police agencies can find ways into criminal networks and can access messages using traditional policing.

A better rhetorical strategy here is supporting policing, providing significant additional tech expert resources to police, significant funding for 'online detectives' -- whilst at the same time explaining the high risk against mass state incursion into all aspects of our lives.
Before smartphones some banks used a hardware token to authenticate web transactions, but now that is being moved to (non rooted) smartphones.
Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer quits Harvard's board, blasting the school
Could the “C” in 80C386I stand for CMOS? Wasn’t that pattern used for the 80C88, for example?
No system is perfect, but you're very unlikely to get banned outside of high profile multiplayer games.
> If you were to do this with joins, you'd have a ton of duplicated data returned (via returning every column from every table to have all the relevant data)

ARRAY_AGG for Postgres or GROUP_CONCAT for MySQL does what you’re asking without duplicating rows.

Re: JSON, don’t. RDBMS was not designed to store JSON; by definition you can’t even get 1st Normal Form once its involved.

IMO, claims of DX regarding SQL just mean “I don’t want to learn SQL.” It’s not a difficult language, and the ROI is huge.
Locally, such a proposal would immediately become subject of the local cultural war. Journalists would hop on the news and make clickbait of them incessantly.

But few people, including the media, pay real attention to anything that happens in Brussels.
I second the recommendation. Very good clear no-bullshit book about the topic.
This was heavily discussed yesterday. I am willing to wager it is not SBF and the culprit, if he's ever found, liekly resides in a developed country, similar to the Bitfinex case . It's not Russia or North Korea.
Anything with an input and an output is replaceable by NNs nowadays.
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So what can create dry air? Circulation chimneys and cool caverns were the moisture runs down the wall? I wouldnt want to rely on electricity in a wet-bulb.
> Land I probably won't be able to do what I want on exactly, anyways.

I can confirm this. One of the myriad of reasons that made me leave the EU for good.

Land "ownership" is a joke in the EU. Worse, it's actually a scam: if you own property in most of the western EU, you have about the same rights a tenant would have.
You work hard to serve Putin. Lies are all that Russia has. There is no reason to believe any numbers that Russia supplies about their economy. They lie about literally everything. It's easier than having actual prosperity.
Great post. The most interesting thing to me was how historically significant the 386SL turned out to be. I had always mentally slotted it as a cheap cut-down part for the emerging laptop market, but it actually was a relatively sophisticated (3X the transistors!) precursor of the modern SoC.
This is so funny to me and will never understand the logic in buying a more expensive stripped down laptop, then spending MORE money to upgrade it back into a laptop? Take away all the ports, then just buy a dock to add the ports back. Take away the keyboad and mouse, no problem, just buy a wireless trackpad and keyboard! Oh, speakers suck cause they are too small, just get out bluetooth speakers! They are made by Dr. Dre!!!

Are we just showing off how much money we can waste at this point?
How's that different to e.g. Optuna?
Metabolic differences are why for a person of my height a weight of 68kg is normal but a weight of 86kg is also normal. Metabolic differences alone don't explain why many people of my height weigh 100kg and more.
Love the post!

Some DOI and Bitsavers links are broken (linking to righto.com or 404s). Also, where can I find "Automatic Place and Route Used on the 80386"? DDG only contains one result: this post.
You’d think that. But a few weeks ago I interviewed a full stack dev working for IBM who was making $110k with 8+ years experience.

I was a bit floored. I know IBM isn’t FAANG, but I was expecting them to be making a lot more based on their resume and working at a big co.
You absolutely do not understand the role of the European institutions and give the Commission much more power than it actually has. And you fail to understand the EU states are actually souvereign nations and states like Texas or California.
One of the first games I ever played. My mom was a secretary at a local University and the computer lab manager set 15 (1978-79) year old me up at a paper printing PDP terminal and cut me loose. I would take the paper printouts home and pour over them.
There's nothing magic about saunas. The only thing different is you can choose when you leave.
> Civilisation emits more new (coming from oil and coal) carbon to the atmosphere every 10 years than is contained in the entire Earth's biomass.

That's absolutely false. Most of the world's biomass is stored in peatlands and burning that much peat in 10 years would increase the atmospheric CO2 by hundreds of ppm very quickly - significantly more CO2 than humans have produced in our entire history combined.
Also that git timestamps are localized to each individual developer and are not validated, it can make global development more difficult. https://alesnosek.com/blog/2017/01/02/git-getting-the-timing...
Is Your Team Caught in the Solution Fixation Trap?
One thing I noticed was loading times on Starfield were even faster than on my desktop with an NVMe drive.
Well the irony is that children have a right to privacy. This law hurts their integrity
I think he has a point, I'm just concerned.
The Divine Coincidence of Abstraction with the Bayesian Occam's Razor
I mean, for most things a touchscreen is pretty much the ultimate human interface — we are fundamentally hand-based creatures and the ability to re-render the same glasspane into a controller for anything is still magic.

There are of course things where more specialized inputs are required, but for the rest, touchscreens are here to stay*

* One improvement I would like to see it about their surface — we can no longer blind type on phones, because we can’t feel the borders of the buttons - but I think we have the tech to dynamically make the screen’s surface rougher/smoother. Another idea is to bring back 3D touch (and potentially improve on that - maybe it could even take some 3D vector as input?)
It's not an issue. The dry air insulates fairly well, so your body heats up slowly and you can last a few minutes.
exactly. why would Sam need to hack his own exchange anyway when being CEO literally has the keys to every wallet?
I've been using Soduto, a 3rd party KDE Connect client, on the Mac for a few years now and it works quite well for my needs

https://soduto.com/
Dude buy something new
Scientists just drafted a detailed map of the human brain
Contrary to what this press release implies, radiation treatments are focused too. The basic idea is that you use a rotating beam source with a center of rotation at the exact spot you want to treat. The beam delivers only a fairly modest dose to most of the surrounding issues because of its continual motion, but it always passes through the center, so the cumulative dose in that area is far higher. This image illustrates the idea:

https://patients.uroweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Radia...

It's not perfect, and acoustic waves should have fewer side effects, but we already have the ability to selectively target a specific location inside your body.
That is so objectively wrong, I don't even know where to start... Utter Liberitarian none-sense...
This is an issue in the spatial domain too. Whenever somebody invites me to their house I ask them "what's the address?" and they inevitably proceed to give me a long verbal list of relative directions: "Go east on highway 10 and take the first exit, then turn left, go two blocks, and then turn right." There are a thousand ways this can go wrong. Errors compound.

Please just give me your actual street address, and Google and I will figure out how to get there.*

*Except yes, Google gets many addresses wrong. Those are the exception.
I think there are two ways to deal with getting moisture out of the air:
1. desiccants
2. cooling it down past saturation
Yeah, trees will only remove the CO2 from the cycle for a century or so.

That's why "invest on renewables" was right next to it on the OP. I'd invert the order, and invest on artificial capture too. But the comment is quite right.
People have always done it that way because it’s to date the most performant and efficient way to do so. RDBMS have enormous amounts of logic devoted to turning your query into the most efficient possible access pattern.

If what you want is NoSQL, then use NoSQL.
No, it just means that people from that area cannot handle higher temperatures and humidity. Many parts of the world are not used to higher heat and humidity, and those same places are experiencing both more regularly, so it's quite relevant, and scientifically valid. Pennsylvania is nothing like Alaska. Nor is it the same as Qatar, but that should be obvious to most.
The problem you're explaining can be generalized:

"Junior X starts flipping knobs thinking Y is somehow holding him back"

This is sadly how many of us have to learn. If you don't have a mentor or someone to check your work, it's a way to learn.

Experience will tell you not to make bad decision. You get experience by making the wrong decisions.
https://archive.ph/jXbm1
I've written a lot about this myself: https://simonwillison.net/series/prompt-injection/
Why is nobody mentioning using a tenths decimal, like 1.1 days ago, 1.9 years ago, 2.5 weeks ago. That’s how I like to implement it!
Israel does deserve all the blame for the bombings of infrastructure, hospitals, and civilians in Gaza.

And let’s make no mistake, what they are doing is terrorism on a much larger scale.
I'm an old hippie; the outfits you mention are much more meaningful, musically, to me too. But to my taste, the Beatles are dragged down by McCartney, whose sensibility was definitely pop (and fame). Many of Lennon's pieces were excellent rock music.

And for clarity, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix both died in 1971. And most of my preferred Dylan and Stones music is pre-1970.
Chain-of-Verification Reduces Hallucination in Large Language Models
At least you have something. I attempted policy, then had folks refuse to hire me for so much as SOC.

You have time to post on HN, you have time to code on the side.

OSCP is worse than useless -- combining

And even if you get it... you'll probably be 80 to 100% travel.

Pentesting is not a fun gig. Focus on automation etc but... that's hard if you grew up poor.

(My area, Appalachia, is as poor as some of the areas we outsource too, but it's maginified by if you must rely on parents for college etc and never amass wealth of your own, you're on a dark path)

Your best bet is to do fun projects, and save as much money as possible.

I regret not traveling more when I had an emergency fund, forever afraid to give my name or let someone spend the night lest they go into the computer or something. I will always regret that.

Anyways... try to write some scripts of your own, and put them on github, and share them here, and you might get something.

I got my first decent offer that took me out of a terrible situation when I wrote some toy scripts that did things like use python's RNG to generate a passphrase, take the MAC up and down.

Another option is to go more of an analyst route but... my Bellingcat cert didn't help much.

But to be honest, if you're precarious, it might be best to save up as much as possible, and hostel in the EU -- you'll find a partner or a job, most likely.

(Since I was American, they didn't help me, so I went back to where I came and eventually had my hard drives fail and lost most of the memories.)

Sorry to be flippant but... so many here are millionaires and billionaires -- it breaks my heart to see smart people told to give up their savings to prove things we know they have when we see their code, see their speech.

And on top of everything, you speak (or at least write) English well -- a huge asset. Own that. Many struggle because of comms issues.
t.i.l. Indigenous people have lived in Australia for around 65,000 years.
ImHO a somewhat serious media outlet should report such stories of course but otherwise remain neutral and refrain from "coloring" such stories with opinion and rage-bait. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but this new thing reeks too much of Buzzfeed, Fox News, RT or Bild.
Oh man, I’m so glad my country (the U.K.) left the E.U. and no longer have to worry about all that government corrupti- oh…
NASA's Psyche mission is on its way to this huge metal asteroid
Running red lights to me is way worse than doing 75 mph in a 65 zone. However, red light violations aren’t enforced where I am and indeed every single day I see someone running a very red light. As a motorcyclist this is terrifying.

Here is what happens in the US: police departments derive a non-trivial amount of money from speeding tickets. Everyone speeds because our roads have poor quality control (you can have pristine pavement or potholes and bumps that will send your head through your sunroof) and speed limits haven’t been updated. Actually going the speed limit will cause huge traffic jams. However, if you are caught going over the speed limit you’ll be issued a fine of a few hundred dollars. Who gets caught? Mostly people going faster than average but generally it is a lottery. A cop on the side of the road decides that your car today looks like it deserves a ticket so he takes off after you.

Oh and you can fight tickets by simply requesting a second review and get a 50% or so discount unless it was more than a routine speeding ticket.

Also in the US a speeding ticket is a criminal thing. You are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Therefore you can’t just scan the license plate and issue the ticket to the owner of the vehicle. You must identify the driver and a camera can’t do that. Therefore you must take a picture of the driver and match it to a known face, a hard problem that is costly. Moreover, in lots of places if you install a speeding camera, the proceeds must be split with the local school system. That means a police department has to pay a lot of money up front with a slow ROI. Pulling random cars over is better business.

The entire system is inefficient, unfair, and is full of backwards incentives.

The solution is: raise the speed limits to realistic levels but also enforce them strictly. Highway limits most places should be 75, not 65. But if you go 77 or above, ticket.

Moreover, we need multiple classes of driver’s licenses. Your basic license should allow you to go the speed limit and no more. But if you take an advanced test, have a car that won’t let you text while you drive, and have a clean driving history for the past N years, you can go 5 or 10 above the speed limit. You get a different license plate color to easily identify you. Again as a motorcyclist who is much more vulnerable on the road than a car driver enclosed in 3 tons of an SUV the guy doing 90 in his Civic worries me a lot less than a soccer mom with a latte and a cell phone in her hands doing 70 while seemingly unable to keep her vehicle in her lane. One of these is paying attention, the other isn’t. Speeding tickets issued by cops penalize the wrong behavior.
There is now a pretty big wealth gap between the US and the "rich" EU countries. I expect it to keep growing. As the EU economy further stagnates, it will become a zero-sum game with, I expect, ever increasing level of government control and eventually repression.

Even now I don't agree with your assessment that European countries are much better at most things. Even the glorified "free" healthcare turns out to be neither free nor universal when you actually get to use it.
> I can confirm, you don't.

I'm sorry if I insulted or embarrassed you. That wasn't my intent.

My view is that the design of governing bodies is another area of engineering, and you can learn a lot about design goals by looking at the resulting systems. But I realize this can also become very personal.
Can't such a block be considered as a proof against Google in an anti-trust trial?

Google abusing of is position as the provider of the android app-store to protect his sales of phone as a manufacturer. That are different activities.
I agree, saunas are different. People working outside don't have the luxury to do so for only 10-30 minutes a week. And, not all positive: in Finland, a study found that there's around a 1 in 100k death rate per capita where heat exposure was the culprit.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18471223/
I was just thinking about that the other day..
The Dread Pirate Roberts ordered passports on his own illegal website.

Smart criminals do stupid stuff all the time.

It would not surprise me at all if this is SBF or another insider’s insurance plan in action.
About what rough area percentage (or some other metric if you think there's a clearer comparison) of a 386DX is standard cells versus hand layout?
Land ownership has literally fuck all to do with the EU.
Almost every address where someone says "google gets it wrong" is simply not accurate. Mapping software was right every time.

The maps are constantly updated, whether google, apple, or openstreet. The perception of them being inaccurate unfortunately does not tend to update.
I've actually been looking for a good description of the Kalman smoother, to process recorded data without phase shift, but I haven't found any. I have text books on the subject from school, but I can't really translate it to real code in this case. I understand using and updating the filter sequentially, but how do I use information from both previous and future data for each point?
These conversations make no sense without talking about location. OP is talking about a remote (US) position. $120k is a 90th percentile salary in much of the country, and there are tons of people who would be willing to take that salary if it means not having to move to the coasts.
Americans are more worried about inflation after resumption of student loans
It's about time we have some standing voted directives originating with the people. Perhaps an AI could verify law proposals and shoot them down if the citizenry oposes it. Properly tallied and percentaged of course.
National government is a very different thing from national parliament.

In my state the national government came out of a political compromise. The leading party has 15% support. They are limited by the national parliament in whatever they try to do here - but not in EC.

Giving them control over the whole population through the EC is a spit in the face of 85% of the population.

And it's very visible right on this issue - the leading party supports what the rest of the population would label as totalitarian and oppressive. They tried but were unable to pass stuff like this at home, but they support it in the EC.
Guess he's expecting something like this to happen faster?

https://wayve.ai/thinking/lingo-natural-language-autonomous-...
The European Commission has veto power over the European Parliament, so I'm afraid it can just force it through.
Doesn't normally come to that - there's enough corruption and alternative ways to pressurise the MEPs.
It is still a hallucination even if the words it hallucinates happen to line up with a factual sentence, in the same way that a broken clock happens to correctly display the time twice a day. The function of the clock does not suddenly begin working correctly for one minute and then stop working correctly the next. The function of a broken clock is always flawed. Those broken outputs, by pure coincidence, just happen to be correct sometimes.

LLMs are broken in the same way. They are just predictive text generators, with no real knowledge of concepts or reasoning. As it happens most of the text it has been trained on is factual, so when it regurgitates that text it is only by happenstance, not function, that it produces facts. When it hallucinates a completely new sentence by mashing its learned texts together, it's pure chance whether the resulting sentence is truthful or not. Every generation is a hallucination. Some hallucinations happen to be sentences that reflect the truth. The LLM has no ability to tell the difference.
Most of the time I senior folks say benchmarking is the only way to know. So I'm not sure that this piece of advice is good.
An ML model in theory can model anything with an input and an output. That's almost anything in the universe. You can replace a huge portion of engineering with it in theory.

Actually in theory you can replace everything with it. So what's the point of asking this question here? Ask it for everything.
To give context for those who don't know: relatime is a relatively (I'm a dinosaur) newer introduction into the Linux kernel; mounting partitions noatime used to be the only alternative to the default which was updating the atime on every access, thus fiddling with that setting used to be important. Not any more.

BTW I used to continue to mount everything noatime anyway, since having the atime field be set upon file creation and not anymore afterwards was a way to get file creation time, and I found that more useful than the access time. This isn't necessary either anymore since the introduction of an actual file creation time.
Yeah, well, 15 years of living with horses has taught me otherwise. I'm calling bullshit on that idea.