skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the issue is one of:

1 - Unity has an unprofitable Business model

2 - Unity chose their business model

3 - Changing the business model will, as we have now seen, require time.

This is the startup trouble I see in that all the promises of the previous decade are void in the fave of financial hardship.
Reminds me of that 15 year old who revolutionized modding for Half-Life games by creating Metamod. Some kids are crazy. I cried from frustration trying to learn C++ at that age.
Do you only buy clothes made from hand woven fabrics?
It can be terrible in practice. Same with test driven development, also annoying if instituted by proclamation. A lot of code doesn't need these formalisms. By that I mean: Do it very carefully in circumstances where there is clear justification, and with an adequate budget for tooling and support. These techniques were invented before there was good tooling to support them, which makes bad outcomes a lot more likely.
Compared to open plan, cubicles are pleasant.
your

> Not wanting to seem dumb

is to me the root cause, not the imprecise asks
It would be nice if this was open source :) Recently, there have been various models that have become small in size (This one is 250kb. There are other simple tasks that have seen models of size 50kb or so for finetuning large models). I am looking forward to when we can actually get back to small models for useful applications :)
I participate in a couple programs, and when I report something, they have a team at the bug reporting service take a look first before escalating them to the actual security contact. Only issues that are in-scoope and severe enough get escalated. The company can even mark certain programs as invitee-only or for researchers above a certain threshold.

Many programs already have rules saying they will not consider DNS/header related issues.
We should trust engineers when they deem their own minor pull requests as not requiring review.

i.e. trust engineerings ability to judge their PR as trivial.

This requires trusting good intent (which I think is healthy), and trusting their self awareness.
That doesn't follow, patent doesn't imply every single invention should have one or else, you can design any patenting system you like
Definitely led to peace in Ukraine!

"The memoranda, signed in Patria Hall at the Budapest Convention Center with US Ambassador Donald M. Blinken amongst others in attendance,[3] prohibited the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, "except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations." As a result of other agreements and the memorandum, between 1993 and 1996, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons.[4][5]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
The loss here is the psychological impact of knowing your home has been violated, and thereby feeling less safe. Which is quite substantial for many.
So, are the black lines there just to pad the page? Seems quite wasteful.
Actually I think I will listen to the climate scientists instead of this fellow with a PhD in optics. Whereas if the discussion were on lenses I would probably trust him over the climate scientists... prior to seeing stuff like this video, of course.
I think it is a reasonable inference given the context and the description and that it makes sense to think of it like 'victim blaming' because mixing common parlance with legal terminology often results in similar confusions (for instance breaking and entering is a legal term which does not have to involve breaking anything, and assault in common use means physical contact but legally it does not have to).

In any case if it meant literally 'blaming the victim' it makes no sense at all, so either we give the benefit of assuming the poster is able to make coherent statements or we don't.
If you believe in God, and God made everything, it's thanks to God Finnegans Wake exists.
What makes you think patent holders don't want to license? Patents are already a significant financial investment. Also, patents are already financialized. I was litigating against a patent-holding defendant that used their IP holdings as collateral for a large bank loan. Patent trolls would much rather license their technology than litigate it, it's the big companies that refuse to license.
This appears to be two different systemic failures stacked one atop the other.

* According to the European Patent Convention, programs for computers should not be patentable. (But it turns out that the EPO has a novel interpretation whereby software can still be patented)

* There's an H.265 patent pool that is supposed to cover all the patents essential to H. 265. (But somehow this patent wasn't in it)
From 2014, and I'm not sure what specs the machine was running on.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/07/dos-b...
One of the extremely frustrating things that I experienced when purchasing my wife's engagement was the pressure from my family to buy diamonds:

When I was a teenager in the 1990s, and moissanite came out, I listened to my older cousin go off on how she would dump any man who tried to pass off a moissanite to her.

Then my mother kept confusing moissanite with cubic zirconia, and kept telling me stories about cheap men who bought their fiancées rings that broke.

I bought my wife a moissanite, but I was so afraid that she was just saying that she wanted a moissanite to merely humor me. What I did was give her matching
moissanite earrings a month before I proposed to her. She loved the earrings, so I knew she'd love the ring.
RTO has benefits, just not for employees. Commercial real estate, businesses downtown, municipalities, they all benefit from this slow moving trainwreck.
In theory, if there is such a thing as a "self" to have an interest in. The idea breaks down when the same 30 people sit on the board of directors of every publicly-traded company in a particular sector and also own all the property.
> Remote pair programming? Honest question here, is pair programming still a thing?

I’ve just encountered it at my newest job.

A little of it actually seems good, but more as a “show and tell” of how some part of the system you know operates, that may include writing a little code in service of better learning.

Otherwise it seems to be a great way to get two developers to have the output of half a developer.
followup to this now with further blake3 improvements, on a faster machine now but with sha extensions vs single-threaded blake3; blake3 is about 2.5x faster than sha256 now. (b3sum 1.5.0 vs openssl 3.0.11). b3sum is about 9x faster than sha256sum from coreutils (GNU, 9.3) which does not use the sha extensions.

Benchmark 1: openssl sha256 /tmp/rand_1G
Time (mean ± σ): 576.8 ms ± 3.5 ms [User: 415.0 ms, System: 161.8 ms]
Range (min … max): 569.7 ms … 580.3 ms 10 runs

Benchmark 2: b3sum --num-threads 1 /tmp/rand_1G
Time (mean ± σ): 228.7 ms ± 3.7 ms [User: 168.7 ms, System: 59.5 ms]
Range (min … max): 223.5 ms … 234.9 ms 13 runs

Benchmark 3: sha256sum /tmp/rand_1G
Time (mean ± σ): 2.062 s ± 0.025 s [User: 1.923 s, System: 0.138 s]
Range (min … max): 2.046 s … 2.130 s 10 runs

Summary
b3sum --num-threads 1 /tmp/rand_1G ran
2.52 ± 0.04 times faster than openssl sha256 /tmp/rand_1G
9.02 ± 0.18 times faster than sha256sum /tmp/rand_1G
That's certainly an argument but it's just one bullet point in a supportive 5 paragraph essay. How many employees actually have better equipment and spaces at home? Is your espresso machine improving your productivity, or is it a hobby to fiddle with throughout the day? What other distractions are at home that aren't at the office?
I'd be happy to fuck up this badly and get fired for $12M. In fact, I'd do it for $11M!

https://www1.salary.com/John-Riccitiello-Salary-Bonus-Stock-...
> One of the ideas was a system of property tax system in which you pay property tax based on a property value which you get to declare (rather than some assessment by a third-party or government agency). The catch is that you are required to sell to anyone who offers your declared value. So a bit like a land value tax but fully general (can be applied to anything) and also sidestepping the issue of how to actually determine the the "value" in land value.

The other thing you can say about that is that it's guaranteed to assess property at values that are too high. You buy things when their market price is less than the amount you'd be willing to sell them for. This is a scheme to simultaneously tax the market value of the property and the gains from trade that made someone willing to buy it at all.
My friend has a patent that made his company millions. He got a plaque and a pat on the back. He still got cussed out when he paid for his $100 steel toe boots (required for the job) with the company card. He’s an engineer in heavy machinery.
Typical Russian attitude - colonize other nations and act like they owe you
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Why do we even need computers in cars. The woz said never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. The only computer in my car is the radio.

It's just excessive consumerism and marketing crap. It's not needed.
It’s as secure as any C++ backend that performs no input validation.

Ie. whatever memory safety or sandbox you had from using wasm or rust is gone when you use it.
I would say no.

It has nothing to do with trust, if I make code reviews a must have. Everybody makes mistake, no matter how good they are.

Trust is build, that even I'm the CTO and one of the founders, I also cannot push stuff, just because I like. I have to go through the same process as all others. Code Review and QA. No shortcuts.

This gives my people the idea, that I do trust them to check even the "big boss" of the company and yes I have to fix my shit, if they find something.

Because it goes back to my first point: Everybody makes mistakes and there is nothing bad about it.
>> you are incredibly lucky

> Says who?

Says anyone who has spent more than a decade in the workforce.

> There's no more reason for an office space to be bad rather than good. And there's no reason to think that having a good one is based on luck.

By “no reason”, you mean no logical reason. That might be true. Unfortunately a crafted reality controlled by sociopaths isn’t required to be logically consistent at every layer. Hence our current reality, where this is very much a case of luck.

> If office space dynamics and setup are important to you, then put it in your job search mental list and find a job that matches that.

Thanks for the advice. That’s /exactly/ what all the folks working remotely have done. That’s also why we are agitated by shitty management trying to take it away.
You are on the money, but I think quality is much more subject to automation than trust is.

On a previous team, implementing team-wide autoformat-on-save and a decent linter eliminated ~75% of code review feedback overnight. If your code reviews are mostly enforcing cosmetic properties of the codebase, automate that shit.

You have similar levers to pull in other areas. Fail the PR if the test coverage drops, add warnings on branch complexity...
Hahaha. If I didn't know exactly how this happens I would say this is made up.
Why would this be the internal monologue about people I interact closely with? They aren't the ones forcing everyone in.
> The catch is that you are required to sell to anyone who offers your declared value.

This sounds terrible for owners and perfect for governments and rich investors.

Governments would love it because it forces people to over-value their property to avoid the risk of their property being snatched from them against their wishes. If you can effectively be evicted from your home just because someone else wants to buy it, there's absolutely no security and you might as well rent, rather than own property.

Rich investors would love it, because they can go around snapping up more properties that happen to be "undervalued" and make quick money of it, in a way that's simply not possible for normal people. Say someone bought a house for $100k, declare its value as such, and then demand increases in the area and 6 months later the market rate is $110k. A property investor could then rock up and demand to buy it for $100k and immediately flip it for 10% profit and then move on to the next target.

This inevitable consequence is that people would be forced to "value" their house at the maximum they think it might be worth in 12 months time or risk losing their home, or even higher to signal that they really don't want to leave their home, all the while paying more tax than they need to because the actual market price for houses would be lower.

Of course, this might also force the purchase prices for housing to be forced higher, so stopping people getting on the property market.

All in all, it sounds like a terrible system for most people.
I lived for several years on family land "out in the boonies," Texas; the locals' practice for trash removal was open-pit burning.

Smelling plastic burn, essentially at any time of day... there was no talking any science or trash removal services. Diapers (like 5%+ of landfill waste) is the most gut-wrenching smell, and reminded me of living near Milpitas, California's open-pit dump (particularly during summer months).

Except out in the country, it's all been burned at low-temp [incomplete] bonfires attended by rednecks with keggers.
Code reviews have absolutely nothing to do with trust. If you don’t trust your team members, then the team is inherently dysfunctional. Code reviews won’t fix that.

I’m in a team where members have a very high level of trust yet we’re still very strict on code reviews, because it helps catch mistakes, things that were forgotten or makes sure things were thought about. It’s a quality gate as well as a knowledge sharing tool (both from reviewer to reviewee and also about the code changes being made). None of these have anything to do with trust.
Nvidia H200 Launched with 141GB of HBM3e at SC23
OP clearly said "If you're looking for the right turn of phrase, you already lost", which I quoted.

OP is correct that rapport is important - although that's a different thing from what the article is discussing. An exercise for you and OP: Consider being the boss of a team where you haven't had time to build rapport with the team.
I do have a kid, but I’ll sneak some Bluey even when they’re not around. It’s a great show with good lessons about life. Even good those of us who don’t quite fit the demographic.
Did the a1000 have hard floating point? I know it had a great f18 flight sim that seems like it would have been difficult with integer math, but people do amazing things with integer math.
> from the bottom by those who have yet to grapple with the fact they dont have friends or hobbies and need you in the office so that they dont feel like such embarrassing losers.

Two anecdotes supporting this.

Back in my early career I worked with this dev in their 40s. He always brought his gaming laptop to office and would stay late in the office. He had family and kids, this was the only time he could play games without being bothered.

At another job, we had a director who was workaholic and would schedule meetings at insane hours like 7PM. You were not forced to take meetings in person, could dial in but still it was insane. Rumors were that she was going through divorce and work was escape from personal life. Escape from your life is fine but do it without making everyone else's personal life miserable.

I can see such people wanting RTO.
I've been very curious to watch New England states in how they deal with the aging and decreasing population alongside expensive housing while at the same time having great school and university systems.

Clearly a very educated population who would be in a good position to make wise med/long-term decisions.

So I was excited by this article but by the end:

> Mr. Chu’s message has resonated with business leaders and state officials, but it has been a tougher sell with the population as a whole. A recent poll found that a plurality — but not a majority — of Vermonters supported increasing the population.

Well, that's the problem I guess.
Pairing does not work if you believe you have to convince the other person that you are right.

What you did wasn't "pair programming", it was an argument.
> So in some ways (i.e. housing prices), you working from home does directly make these people lives worse, as you are now their competition for real-estate.

But if enough people like me move out from the city, there's a possibility that prices will go down in the cities, right? So that should help the people who need to be physically present at work.
the sat terminal attack was nothing compared to the one that hit Puerto Rico. https://www.npr.org/2021/06/11/1005413481/a-fire-and-cyberat...

Thanks for being constructive though.
You are mixing up a lot of things, imo. Laws in EU countries are obviously not the same across all countries.

Yes, there's a eu-wide 30% content regulation.
No, YouTube adblock detection scripts are/could not be legal because of not having EU competition.
YouTube and Netflix are also entirely different, because on Netflix it's always required to pay. Not sure how this helps staying on topic, this thread is about ad blockers.

- A case that was in German media: Bild.de tried to take AdBlockerPlus off the market because of "circumventing complex anti-copyright mechanisms". It took some years & instances, but ABP was now deemed legal.
- This case (Ireland) and some concerns in Germany about this are more about privacy (GDPR) and tracking. They are browser fingerprinting and tracking how often you are using the ad blocker. This may or may not be legal. Who knows.
Taking offense is a choice. Be better at making choices.
If your CEO is a MBA you will have 10% layoffs every year, with hiring happening simultaneously.

It is called the vitality curve.

They believe that in a given workforce, 10% are non-producers and have to be put in a PIP or laid off.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve

These layoffs usually happen at the same time during the year.
His book is what got me up to speed in 2015. I was visiting Chiang Mai and binged through the whole thing over a few days and then spent the next week cloning various personal projects I'd written with JS backends.

In under two weeks of opening Michael Hartl’s Rails Tutorial, I was already more productive with RoR than with the stack I'd been using professionally for 3+ years.
Hikvision Wins Project Requiring Ramadan Alerts Against Minorities
They’re really just breakdowns of episodes. This is common in tv adapted to books. Great for kids who are being read to or learning to read.
The clearest term IMO is synchronous capacitors. They are in effect large flywheels that can operate as both an electric motor and a generator.

Over time they are a net power drain for the grid, but as parent says offer synthetic grid stability independent of power sources.
If you're someone like BlackStone or Vanguard you absolutely manage investments in companies that are paying each other.
The NYPD is using drones 3 times more than it did last year
Apple is a bad example. See replies here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38250351
> Patents don’t even appear to be serving their intended purpose

The intended purpose of patents is well documented: they are supposed to result in technology being published rather than being kept secret.

It isn't clear why a legal patent system is viewed as compatible with a legal trade secrets regime.
>Honest question here, is pair programming still a thing?

Yes. Whether remote or in person, pairing works best when there's a experience/skill mismatch. Both parties benefit because the senior has to know and explain the why and the junior learns the what. I enjoy it as long as it's small doses.

It is draining and tiresome when done for long periods but I think worth it. It keeps you sharp and builds relationships with teammates.

Pairing with someone on your level can also be beneficial but with diminished returns.
I was a code review skeptic. I changed my view after seeing the impact it's having on my current project. We've prevented a lot of bugs, improved how we communicate and actually trust each other more as a result.

Yes, it's slow at the start but the review process made sure there's context and a common pattern emerging, which over time pays off in velocity. We have little tech debt. I wish I could say the same about merge first. It's really not about trust at all.
Imagine referring to good coffee, the substance that built modern America and industrialized the world, as a “distraction” and arguing that it doesn’t improve productivity. Can you imagine?
Google fights scammers using Bard hype to spread malware
It sounds like you were just using your pair to type for you.
This post is a perfect example of why RTO is bad for everyone, including office-likers like myself. I don't want to have to be anywhere near this guy, lol.
democratize failures. teams do PRs so that no one person can be blamed for taking the ship down.
There are barriers to loneliness that cannot be addressed by the individual experiencing it.

And yes, it was poorly worded. It's early and I skipped caffeine this morning because of activity.

Regardless, some people might not "fit in" socially because of age, skin color, income, or what have you - compared to the demographics of where they are living. There can be barriers that they simply cannot fix themselves.
>To get offended is to have a strong aversion to something.

No it is not. The actual definition:

>cause to feel upset, annoyed or resentful

Low quality article.
Had to scroll down a lot to find this. Developers should be able to easily test their code, if needed, merged into a staging branch somewhere, which can be easily rebased or cherry-picked into production.