skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, hot-desking replacing the previous (also terrible) open office.

I doesn't actually replace it. It's an additional horror on top of all the old ones.
That's becuse my nation is Tiny :)
You can update the title to correct it.
A Unique Window into Huawei
Indeed, the embedded LinkedIn post from a Netflix "technologist" in TFA seems to imply that paying for it is a possibility if not a likely outcome.
Did someone invent 1+1=2?
We really need a closed-loop video system with AI to inspect bathrooms after use, with an alarm of course.

Something like:

https://brnskll.com/shares/didnt-wash-hands-alarm/
Sorry, this does not compute. Your whole argument is that since we cannot do all jobs remotely we shouldn't do any jobs remotely?
I’m all for finding technical solutions for legal problems usually but the issue here is that you cannot keep changing codecs to escape patents because the algorithms are etched into the silicon itself. So it’s basically impossible to have a royalty free encoding, unless you’re willing to use encodings that are 20 years old. This is a legal problem that needs a legal solution.
It bears mentioning `shasum` is better supported in that it ships with operating systems (macOS, I guess Linux depends on the distro, don’t know about Windows) and is available directly from programming languages (Ruby, Swift, Python, …) without the need for libraries.

Even if BLAKE3 is massively faster, it’s not like I ever noticed SHA256’s supposed slowness. But I do notice its ubiquity.

Based on the article, I would consider switching to BLAKE3 immediately where I use checksums. But until it gets wider support (might be easier with a public domain license instead of the current ones) I can’t really do it because I need to do things with minimal dependencies.

Best of luck to the BLAKE3 team on making their tool more widely available.
Probably a symmetric escalation. Website uses ads, some people start blocking it, website has to compensate by using more ads, even more people block it, etc.
There's a difference between being popular, and being the most popular thing in a category ever and keeping that title for decades with no serious challengers. The browser as we know it with the DOM is the latter. Maybe that will change with new APIs that hook into the canvas, but we're still a ways off from that and I suspect the DOM will remain in the picture even then.
When women hit on me, I hold my hand in a way where my ring is very, very prominent.

If they don't "get the message" I start casually discussing my children.

That being said: I love the tradition of engagement and wedding rings. It's not just about preventing cheating. I bought my wife a moissanite engagement ring because we both wanted to follow the tradition, and we both understood that diamonds are a marketing gimmick to convince suckers to part with large sums of money.

I spent a sum of money that we were both comfortable spending, and we're both very happy with our purchase. My wedding band is made out of precious metal, and I love it. Other people I know wear cheap bands from Amazon and are happy with them.

If you want to be in a lifelong relationship with someone, it's important that you're both on the same page about these kinds of traditions. You don't have to follow them, but if your partner wants to, or values them, it might be worth it to play along to keep them happy. (As long as you're spending money that you're both comfortable spending.)
Retroarch does have some NTSC filters (combined with svideo/composite input) that are appropriately noisy.
The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Yep - https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-productivity-surges-se...

From my experience it's quite obvious that people with families amidst layoffs and a difficult job market will work harder (or look like they are) to ensure they keep their jobs.

This is no longer a worker's market, meaning your labor has been devalued and competition has increased. Increased globalization and rising unemployment rates (latest report has a .5% increase) will spell disaster for those of us who keep the same attitudes we enjoyed the last couple decades. I'm just a worker like most people on here, but I'm really steeling myself for what's to come. I don't think now is the time to sit on your laurels and hope that your tenure is enough to keep your job around.
Probably is a good thing that they've already been on the case for 5+ years with AV1 then.
No.

I trust myself. I still want someone to review my work. If nothing else than to essentially catch typos.

You can’t proofread your own output.
They don't need to explain themselves. Big enough shareholders just can express their needs to the board, a vote can be held and, if the decision is not implemented, courts can get involved.
Hmm. Ctrl-F "ECC": 0 results found.

This could be a great product but the chance of even one bit randomly flipping is far too high.
No they just have board meetings where they stress the importance of being in the office for "spontaneous exchange of ideas" and "culture" while also floating think pieces in business magazines about how important having people in the office is to success.
Obviously the intraparty bickering is just as in any other country, but imho it's fairly true that, not having to trouble themselves too much with popular opinion, Chinese leaders tend to push for long-term projects with more abandon than the average Western politician. Deng's pivoting, their moves in Africa, the "new Silk Road" / Belt and Road initiative, the artificial islands in the Straits - the horizon of these projects goes beyond the next (fixed) election, in a way that we don't really see anymore in the West.

That doesn't mean these projects are "better", that there is no (massive) corruption, that it's a preferable governance model (fuck no), etc etc.
Is it the machine instructions being patented or their novel compression method?
That was just an example, almost every other distro will also have handled that for you. No need to do anything.
Years ago I read the book "Radical Markets" by Glenn Weyl and Richard Posner. 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.

While this would pose obvious practical problems as a system for property taxes, it seems like it might actually be a good system for patent taxes. Basically, you should have a to pay a patent tax to hold a patent. You can declare whatever value you want on the patent but have to also be willing to sell the patent at that declared value (or maybe just license it). I haven't thought it through really (just an idle thought) it certainly seems like it would basically destroy the business model of "patent trolls" and curb the practice of major tech players accumulating a huge portfolio of dubious patents as a cudgel they can threaten smaller competitors with.
I've been WFH for a decade, at the end of the day, if i'm forced to come in to an office then i'll just take my business elsewhere. There are plenty of companies willing to pay me for my time and more than happy to have me work remote. I don't see how i could possibly be the only one.
Perhaps, but can you name even one successful, big, bloated institutional project that operates primarily on the principles of HTML First?
Fair point for home games. Arcade games skipped NTSC and just used RGB on separate wires.
The advice to put inline styles in your HTML.
Unfortunately, the world didn't need a first Gödel, Escher, Bach pseudoscientific conspiracy theory pin board that falls in love with the idea of beautiful ideas over the nuances of reality and the incomparable contrasts of entirely different things.
> I find avoiding sources of offense leads to a happier life.

I was talking politics with my girlfriend last night and I made pretty much the same point, though more pointed at politics. My argument is that really the most important things in one's life is family, friends and your local community, everything else (such as national politics) might as well be a game show called "news" that everyone tunes into every day.

If you decide to tune into that game show every day, make sure you keep it at "arms length", getting too close will make you go crazy.
After doing lots of Node and Go I've recently come back to Rails and, no joke, it's about 5x faster in development for me. So many niceties. Using Prisma I had a 25 line method (and no real models) and that went down to 3 lines in Rails. It's just a night and day difference. I won't leave Rails again.
The substantial point here is good, but I think it's poorly articulated and needs an overhaul.

> To disagree is to provide an observation that counters a specific claim.

> To get offended is to have a strong aversion to something.

Neither of these are true. Someone may use these words this way, but it simply isn't how we collectively normally use these words.

If you want to express a concept as a contrast, don't do so by twisting the meanings of existing words. It won't stick because it doesn't integrate with the rest of our language.
Using AI to get things done
nitpick: TSMC's EUV process uses lasers to vaporize tin, not lead, into EUV emitting plasma.
I wrote a bit about why we’ll stay remote at Supabase (https://supabase.com/blog/why-supabase-remote), there’s plenty of drivers both on the company side and on the employee side.
An unstated premise of this article is that most people are self-reflective and introspective. Most people aren't. Being offended is exactly the emotional response we need less of, no matter whether that is coupled with some supposedly helpful self-reflection that should follow.

I will posit we need less of any kind activity or thought that puts ourselves--thoughts, feelings, proclivities, reactions--at the center. You just aren't that important. Stop focusing on yourself and just follow facts. Listen to other people. Not "active listening" or trying to find a way in to insert your own thoughts, conclusions or bright ideas. Just bloody listen and follow facts and stop thinking your opinions amount to more than a hill of beans. You aren't that dang important and your ego is wily, desperately maneuvering to put it at the center of your thoughts. Offense is just one of its tactics.

Stop being offended that the sky is blue, stars burn hydrogen and termites eat your walls.
Do you have any ore information on that book? I would like to dig it up at a local library. Is is this one perhaps? https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.16412/page/n9/mode/2up
Or unionize.
> Also onions, chilies and tomatoes are not vegetables.

If you look at the first response. First item in there was onions. Second was tomatoes.

> GPT actually gave the correct answer.

what? You just said saying onions is wrong ?
That's a terrible idea and a great example of why nobody should take LinkedIn seriously. Even the best 10x coder or whatever LI buzzwords you want to use is going to have a bad day, or lack context sometimes, or misunderstand a requirement, or ...
Sustainability is a luxury belief. The market will change when such values disseminate more broadly.
The Curiosity Show (1972-1990)
compare with what, in what load?
In addition, from being on both ends, asking for what the priority is for a new ask is incredibly important. It not only gives you cover for when other things slip due to the new ask but forces the manager to consider the slippage (always good to remind them as well) and be clear if this is a "drop everything" or "when you have time" task.

I've been lucky to work at some places that are very clear about their asks and also are very open to you coming back and saying "So I looked into this and to do it the way you want it will take 2 weeks or I can get it 90% of the way there in <1hr". Being open to that back-and-forth as well as surfacing the different time estimates are both important and can benefit everyone. It's sometimes hard to know, as an employee, when asked to do something if it's important that it be "pixel perfect"/"exactly to spec" or if it was just an idea someone had who would be happy to settle for an alternative that takes a fraction of the time to complete.

As a manager I've found how important time-boxing certain tasks are and asking people to circle back if it's taking longer or if they later realize the task is bigger than either of us thought. Sometimes we have to take the time and sometimes it's something that we need to think about a lot more before we dive in. The worst is when you get busy with something else then find out the next day that someone spent all day on a task you thought would take <1 hour. Sometimes it's a misunderstanding of what needs to be done, sometimes it's the person trying to match exactly what you asked for even if an alternative would be way faster and completely acceptable, and sometimes the task just is a bigger task than you anticipated.

Bottom line, always communicate (both up and down the chain) if you think a new ask is going to affect other timelines, communicate if something is going to take longer than anticipated, and communicate if you have a faster alternative. So really, just communicate. I totally understand there are companies where CYA or blame-culture makes the idea of being open/honest about things like this is dangerous for your career prospects (at least at that company). To that I just say: consider finding a place that doesn't have so much "office politics", they absolutely exist and they are so much nicer to work at.
OpenResume has been excellent for me: https://www.open-resume.com/
We Idolize Assholes
YT channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ9oDWliqkUxGHsKVbkwQOw
The legal solution is exactly what AO Media has done: own the patents that pertain to your video format and license those patents on royalty-free terms.

Sisvel's and Avanci's claims are essentially "Haha, you missed some! Sux to be you! Pay us!"

And the legal remedies for that are to test those claims in court and win, or to buy Sisvel and Avanci off with a settlement.
> In your typical introductory physics class less than half the students will walk away with a very solid understanding of classical mechanics.

That's probably true.

> To my mind, if the textbook was actually excellent then that would be 80%+. We're nowhere near there. I think there is LOT of room for improvement

In my view, that's probably false. I don't think the problem is masochism, gatekeeping, and people holding on to old textbooks. I think the problem is that classical mechanics is actually hard, at least for most people. If you come in to beginning classical mechanics wanting to have learned it, rather than wanting to learn it, no textbook can save you. And I think that many people come in that way. They want it out of the way as a prerequisite for something else, rather than really wanting to know it for itself.
As someone who bought a pair of matching silver rings for us, I agree with on the inexpensive option. I never wear mine because I'm getting old and my knuckles don't like to maintain a constant size.
I'm not sure that they would like their pay being docked when the profit is negative. Or having to help repay creditors in a bankruptcy.
> We don't need you (whatever "you" means) to sign a treaty with "us" in order for "our" law to apply when you deal with "our" citizens.

Because...?
Wait. Is this why streaming Netflix has been so terribly laggy lately? This article dates back to the end of september. It's MP3 all over again.
>They're apparently making a lot of money doing it.

No. Unity is not making money, they are losing money. That's the problem.

"Reduced losses" means they are losing less money than they were. That's still losing money.

Unity was losing money before the licensing fiasco. It's still losing money.
That's the output side. Ii could do without a $15 tuna sandwich from Tatte, too. That adds up.
St Thomas Aquinas noticed that animals have these powers:

"Now we must observe that for the life of a perfect animal, the animal should apprehend a thing not only at the actual time of sensation, but also when it is absent. Otherwise, since animal motion and action follow apprehension, an animal would not be moved to seek something absent: the contrary of which we may observe specially in perfect animals, which are moved by progression, for they are moved towards something apprehended and absent. Therefore an animal through the sensitive soul must not only receive the species of sensible things, when it is actually affected by them, but it must also retain and preserve them."
Please do tell me how you feel about regulatory capture and the ever-growing monopolization of entire industries.

Is that "real capitalism"?
and gitlab, github :)
I stopped using Facebook many years ago, now with hindsight that was One of the very best self-care decisions I've ever made in my life.
Oof. Difficult one. I've dealt with multiple people and there are some I would blindly trust because I know they would do the right thing.

On the other hand I've worked with people who need more reminders (eventually we had to discontinue our relationship) to do the right thing:

Does the PR make sense?

Did you format the code?

Did the tests pass?

Did you fix the tests? Or did you just comment them out?

And for the people I trust, it's because they insanely high quality of code, consistently. And even for them, while I DO trust them, I prefer PRs.

4 eyes see more, and we have different mindsets.
> Working physically together, in the same space, as a whole team, can be extremely enabling.

I am still not convinced "in the same space" makes any difference. I couldn't care less if co-worker is sitting next to me or on the other side of the country. But in person, you get an extra cognitive load of being around people. Someone brings smelly sandwich, someone else forgot to shower then another one keeps chewing gum and making loud mouth noises.

> Supporting a joyful environment.

One man's joy is another man misery. Certainly having people making morning journey from across the country and then observing how they "work" may be joyful experience for a manager feeling insecure.

Best compromise I saw is that if someone can't work at home, company gives them vouchers at their local co-working space of their choosing. No commute and office experience.
> (1) Everyone needs to operate in good faith. I've observed leaders ask their direct reports for something off-hand, without giving it more than 5 seconds of thought. I've watched direct reports operate as a "human command line", requiring precise syntax before they'll act. Don't be either of these type of people.

Operating in good faith is so important.

Leaders who operate by pushing the limits of what they can get away with are a stark contrast from leaders who operate to form good faith relationships with their team. Managers who make thoughtless demands all the time will steadily lose their best employees. In my experience, after a long enough time these leaders are reduced to having only juniors reporting to them because everyone with experience avoids the team.

Your description of “human command line” team members is a great example of bad faith operation, too. I’ve worked with people who thought they were so clever by demanding that even the smallest request be delivered through a form they created or a document they need people to fill out before they can get started, which they might try to debate, critique, or circulate for a couple days before they’ll even think about working on your small task. They think they’ve insulated themselves from small asks because nobody wants to go through all the trouble of asking the question just right to get them to acknowledge it, but over time they build a reputation as difficult to work with.

Another variant is the person who tries to exploit ambiguities in every request; These people have a good idea of what’s being asked of them, but they think they’re “teaching a lesson” by exploiting ambiguities in the request to deliver something that technically matches the letter of the request, but that everyone knows isn’t really what was needed or wanted.

Not coincidentally, most of the people I knew who tried these game found themselves laid off in the past year. I think people can tolerate a bad faith coworker who at least does some work for a while, but when it’s time to downsize they’re at the top of everyone’s list to remove.
When moissanite sparkles, it sparkles with rainbows. Diamonds sparkle with just white light.

They are very similar, and you need to look very closely to observe the difference.

One of the nice things about moissanite is it allows creating jewelry that otherwise is economically unaffordable with diamonds.
also important to read the nuance of them "feeling" like losers. Obviously if you're working in tech there's little chance of you actually being a loser in your career (which is probably the most difficult place to find success) so really they'd just need to put some effort into being social and these people would be doing well for themselves, however, in-office can be a huge crutch for people to pretend like they have a social life.
I don't understand why it is always either working in the office or "never seeing coworkers in person". I work remotely full time, and every three months, we gather with my team for a couple of days.

Those gatherings are great. Working with my team remotely is also great.
They're still at a net loss.
What about them? They're criminals.
I would imagine it's more nuanced cues like expressing skepticism at key moments that encourage alternate choices
I keep saying—if you want me to return to the office, give me an office. Or even a cubicle. Why even enforce a hot-desking setup when the space is 20% full? It makes no sense at all!
I agree in general that there needs to be at least some level of review (typos, etc.), not necesssarily to catch big but subtle issues.

On the other hand, I've had it where small (single character!) PRs have to wait for several days because I need to keep bothering my team to review them. But this seems like a problem that solvable organizationally somehow (not sure how?) rather than by eliminating an important part of the process.
HELL NO. The point of mandatory code review to ship is a protection mechanism to force another coder to validate what has been presented to be safe for deployment. Coders today are still (mostly, for the time being) human and still make mistakes.

Perhaps it should be possible to bypass code review and smoke testing for minor changes to code comments that do not change production artifacts.

Another problem is creating sufficiently appropriate test infrastructure to retest the area(s) touched and exponentially/phase deploy looking for positive and negative signals.
To me it sounds quite similar to this recent SIGGRAPH paper: https://imaging.cs.cmu.edu/split_lohmann/
And “ask” as a noun is an abomination.
Wish I could read the terms without needing an account, but I couldn't find them easily.
>the emergence of a contemporary mode that publicly emphasizes everyday cultural practice (to accentuate ordinariness, authenticity, and cultural connection)

A darker interpretation: elites signal their status by doing what the rest of us can't. "Everyday cultural practice" is now out of the reach of most, due to the contemporary nature of housing, work, education, and healthcare.
If "you" are so different species, I'm looking with horror to the day when you need to replace your car.

Come on, button shape and placement (which is not that different, there is no round Caps Lock on Backspace) completely breaking the ability to work on the computer is the most retarded First World Problem.