skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> remote workers are significantly more productive than on-site employees

That is what GP says, too. GP was saying the advantage of in-person is agility and course-correction, which require intense discussion.

> The missing piece is that leaders need to plan, execute, and communicate effectively.

Maybe with perfect leadership this is tenable, but when responding in a quickly evolving situation, I can see the advantage of in person. It just doesn't seem realistic to expect leadership to do all the planning. Engineers "at the bottom" often have better perspective and should be at the planning table.

My personal perspective: I'm currently 100% remote and enjoy the improved throughput. I also have had to get better at planning, as you point out. But when I have to do heavy coordination, video conference fatigue gets real. I'd prefer to be in person for those days with >3 hours on video.
Advent of Cyber is that for infosec. It covers a broad range of security topics but is designed primarily to teach the basics of each topic rather than to be a test of advanced skills.
Heroin is a funny one - it's not hard on your body; you are hard on your body as a user.
https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI - runs on Mac silicon, can squeeze out SDXL images on a 16gb mac with SSD-1B or Turbo models.
I realize it may be good marketing, but it's odd to have the fact that it's on device and offline be the primary differentiator when that's probably how most people use Stable Diffusion already.

I'd probably focus more on it being easy to install and use, as that's something that isn't done much. For me, if it doesn't have Controlnet, upscaling, some kind of face detailer, and preferably regional prompting, I'm out.

I also kind of wish all of these people that want to make their own SD generators would instead work on one of the open source ones that already exist.

While an app store might be a good idea, in a world with Auto111 and all of their extensions I think it's going to go over poorly with the Stable Diffusion community, for what it's worth.
The Great Automatic Grammatizator (1954) [pdf]
Hideous language, just hideous.
In a small car it could work, but you'd be very much limited in power and weight.

See upthread links and subsequent updates

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38485097.

Note that more unsprung weight has other effects as well, such as poor handling because the wheel bounces higher and so will be out of contact with the road for a longer time when it encounters an obstacle. If you think of the weight of the wheel as the weight on a pendulum it is easy to see why that would affect the period of the swing.
It's a private school but it annually receives almost $650 million from the federal government as of 2021: https://governmentrelations.duke.edu/research/
Much of the problem is that wider science has taken too many lessons from economics.

Incentives matter a lot but creating incentives that work is almost impossible.

Science used to run on ethics (like many other professions). But we learned from economists that there are no such thing, only utility (money) maximizers.
> you wouldn't need an axle to deflect

This is really cool for rear wheels. I don't know why their demo shows it on all 4, since it has to be able to steer (note that the demo does show a CV joint in the axle on the front, but that seems like it would limit steering angle severely, since it is just 1 joint. They're probably planning to apply torque to steer).
Sure, but I'm gonna try and finish 2015's challenges first, something always comes up while I'm working on it, it'd be nice to get it all over and done with.
Punishment Envy and the Perils of Institutional Engagement
Ads and Reels (their TikTok competitor) I imagine would be the primary use-case. Imagine spreading the "wonders" of TikTok-like videos to non-$native_language speaking world.
I still remember article after article coming out with the newest "holy grail" of 3 column layout.
Unnecessarily cramming more density into one line to avoid soft limits seems like a poor tradeoff.

Ask any typesetter. Blank space used well gives text breathing room, making it easier to parse visually.

In the former example, it is extremely easy to pick out what each method name is and a decent idea of what it does at a glance. In the latter, I have to read to even see the method names.
I'm 38, remote, and can't imagine working in-office ever again. Our small-ish team (~25) works very effectively remotely.

But I suspect you're right. I learned a huge number of skills being in high velocity office environments, shadowing/observing others, etc. Starting out remote must be much harder.
> The strong Turing test is hard to beat but just about every conscious human being can do it.

Not a chance. Unless you're redefining large swaths of humanity to not be human. "A compelling bed time story" is something an LLM can do better than most humans.
My 1989 Bronco II has a computer ignition system. Even an OBDI diagnostic capability. You can count the pulses and it tells you the error code. It still works fine. Most brands of cars were using solid state computers at least in some capacity like this since the late 1970s
If worse leaders can be effective in office and not remote, isn't that a pro-office argument?
Yeah, I'm a fan of this.

Was a bit of fun in scala to see if you could rewrite something to be a single statement.

Sometimes the single statement version wasn't clearer, but sometimes it really was.

Point free programming takes this to code golf type territory and can be fun as a puzzle if not for real world code.

Maybe ruby just doesn't do it well?
Huh? The link would still resolve and work, just the referrer header wouldn't be set.
At a fundamental level we are just fluctuations in a quantum field, which causes emergent conditions for the fluctuations to be able to consider how they exist in the first place. We see light but our eyes are lied to, there are far more wavelengths that we can't see. We hear sound but our ears are likewise lied to - someone could be screaming at you at 60k hertz and you'd never pick it up.

If reality is merely what we can experience, we miss out on a lot of what reality truly is because we view it through the lens of what we believe it to be based on our flawed biology and pre-existing biases.
Yeah man I press the gas more time than the brake but I still want the fuckin brakes to work...
Sure, if you're not into personal growth. Not everyone wants to become the useless bit of lard sitting in a chair while a computer does everything for them. Yet. Some of us still like to do the actual things, but just need some assistance along the way. We still have a bit of time before we're all the humanoids from Wall-E
That desktop would add a lot to the power requirements, though.
Catering to a mixture of management and users helps sales. Having a product that users (reports) love will get your product to have internal advocates. Some managers are self centered jerks, but most will at least consider their reports advocacy if the product also has the features they need.
I don't know when it appeared, but navigating to about:profiles shows

- Create a New Profile

- a list of the existing profiles

- - for each one of those, a "Launch profile in a New Browser" button for any one that isn't already running

along with "Rename" and "Remove" buttons, so that feels about as full-featured a management screen as one could ask for. The only(?) user-hostile behavior is having to know that about: URL
I actually agree with those words, but they rankle when coming from a billionaire. I felt the same way when Munger's quote about not feeling like a victim was posted here, particularly after someone mentioned that apparently his family connections were able to overturn his denial to enter Harvard.

Maybe we should find some spiritual leaders or other to hear from. At least Oprah might at least have some distant memory of what it was like to be poor I suppose.
How do you attract traffic to this site?
I'm thrilled to see the progress made in the last 30 years.

As a student in the mid-90s I worked on a system called Verbmobil at the German Research Center for AI and it did speech-to-speech for English, German and Japanese in very limited domain.

This was done via "classical" NLP: You had to model the domain with concepts, you needed sentence parsers, semantic engines, speech-to-text hand-crafted for 3 languages etc.

As it turns out, this approach is/was a dead-end.
> Or executives believe it is beneficial for themselves.

I don't disagree with this. I do get that feeling that this is part of it...

But executives are often the ones trying to squeeze an extra dollar out of every line on the ledger. Are they really willing to spend so much extra for this perceived personal benefit? Are their bosses willing to indulge them like that?

These aren't insignificant costs. For gigantic companies, the big skyscraper headquarters in some world class city must comprise just as much of the budget as a more modest building for a more modest company in Oklahoma. They're spending millions for it.
AIUI they bought a ton of treasury bonds and are using that as the backing of this transition and that's how they can promise the 6% return or whatever it is for the initial years.

Theoretically if the market tanks hard those 401ks will drop like a rock and the bonds won't so this could be a hedge to protect their employees but to the employees it probably looks really scary.
I'm not sure when the author added their update but they responded to this point:

> What can I say! Once in a while, I forget how to Ruby :) This does not make the argument invalid (this way of writing methods is still frowned upon and never used; and still, reads like “several phrases”), but it probably should’ve been centered around the community’s view at `;`.
It's not confirmed that the modem has been killed off. Just rumors.
I’d wager that most implementations would be fine on “sevenine3”, as they’d likely get 73 for the row, whether or not they found the 9.
Show HN: HistoryLogbook – Visualize Wikipedia Articles with Maps and Timelines
HistoryLogbook [1] is a history learning tool where you can put Wikipedia articles, visualize timelines, plot locations, and compare data between multiple Wiki articles to explore and gain a comprehensive overview of any historical topics.

I created the project to support my hobby of exploring history. It mainly helps me take notes with dates and locations while watching history videos on YouTube. Later, I add related Wikipedia articles to get into more detail and compare timelines.

Hope you enjoy it! I would love to hear your feedback.

PS. The work is hugely inspired by WinkJS example: transforming Wikipedia article into a timeline [2]

[1] https://historylogbook.app
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33819752
Reminded me of this one which should be interesting if you think OP interesting.

Also grounds emotion in the physiological. Published recent years.

The Emotion Process: Event Appraisal and Component Differentiation

Annual Review of Psychology

January 2019

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-psych-1222...
What was this edge case you encountered? My code worked...after I finally read the problem closely enough.
The real intellect is the sun.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-facebook-user...

> According to the Settlement Administrator, payments to class members between $200 to $400 started going in the mail May 9.

I got a $0.19 check from an iTunes settlement once, but this wasn't one of those cases.
> still believe that 'managing people' means real-life first person interaction, and are completely invested in offices

You hit the nail on the head. Senior managers who are unwilling to learn to do their jobs slightly differently are a big part of the problem. Imagine forcing an entire work-force to commute so you can physically stop by someone's desk to interrupt them vs sending a message or scheduling a meeting. Senior managers want productive staff, but instead of listening to what they need to be productive, they set up roadblocks to satisfy their own lazy vanity.
That is not your typical company though. The typical company is leasing pretty cookie cutter office space in an office park or downtown. And many of those companies are not renewing many of their leases as they come up.
The way to impose discipline effectively is to have automated checks.

Like -Werror, and additional "lint"-style checks to make sure that coding guidelnes are followed.

Non-shitty teams automate as much of the flow as possible, to catch mistakes early and help the human reviewers catch everything.
What kind of heartbleed that must introduce.
Even a perfect human translator following you around wouldn't be anywhere near as good as knowing the language yourself.
They finally have a gaming strategy that makes sense.

Now that iOS devices and Macs have the same CPU cores, GPU cores, and APIs, targeting Apple hardware gives you a much bigger user base that you can target than you've ever seen previously with Intel/Power PC based Macs.
I tried but gdb showed me nothing, this screenshot(https://pxscdn.com/public/m/_v2/97422265439883264/bc40e5d2a-...). gdb layout asm shows "No Assembly Available". Maybe I'm not so skilled in debbuging such programs it's running under wine it seemed to me.
> Yet pay is the point of work, wouldn't you say?

If that's what I thought about work, I would be quite depressed.

Fortunately, I find meaning in my work that has nothing to do with pay.

Of course, if I didn't get paid, it would be a problem -- but pay is very much not the point. (Especially because my needs are met.)
> It doesn't happen when you put in ".21". It happens when you put in ".21". Little less obvious.

It's so much less obvious that I'm going to ask you to explain the difference to me because for the life of me I can't see it?
Because the Vision Pro has no compelling use case. Games is what you do when you don’t know what to do.
Why only high performance though.

A motor per wheel simplifies everything.

No diff, no CV joints, you don't need this, just a simple planetary gearbox.

You gain space, lower manufacturing costs (theoretically, assuming multiple motors doesn't offset the other cost reductions, although as you could base a 2wd and 4wd high performance version on the same motor, that's an even harder case to make).
Interesting solution.

I have a theory in my head for years now. It is probably wrong, but here it comes:

In an infinite universe the total amount of gravity that affect us in one point in space is defined by the event horizon if we assume that gravity travels with light speed. Every atom in the universe has a very small influence on us. But this event horizon expands with light speed all the time. I wonder if this could lead to very small but permanent increasing gravitational pull from all directions at once. In other words, and increasing inflation.
May I interest you in a game of Snake for that.

https://github.com/linker3000/Z80-Board/blob/master/snake.pa...
I don't see it. Where is it?
Wikipedia is not a proper source and I’ve no idea why people stopped considering this and now use it as such. The graphic may be fine, but provide a real source when pushing back against another commenter.
No crash test is perfect, but some are useful. Cars don't change that much from year to year and manufacturers tend to copy each other quite a bit. Developing a suite of tests against a selection of typical vehicles seems very doable.

Existing crash tests don't perfectly cover every scenario, and people quibble about the details, but the tests still provide useful information.
Interesting, will check it out to see how it compares with https://diffusionbee.com which I am using for last few months for fun.
I think for demanding jobs the distinction between remote and in-office is non-trivial. If you expect people to push themselves to (and past) the limit, coming into the office and handling all the interruptions that entails is an enormous source of daily friction.

We hear so much hand wringing about the loss of 'hallway conversations,' but few people seem to discuss the loss of productivity from high performers in particular. I was at an intense startup when the pandemic hit, and switching from in-office to remote was such an unlock. I had an additional ~90 mins a day, could wear whatever, and just focus on executing.
I’d expect a pay raise if I had to accept WFH.

I live a 5 minute walk from my office and I get catered lunches.
Because there are countries that use '.' and countries that use ',' interchangeably and some are so messed up they use both. So entering pennies is the safest option.
Or anime chatrooms.
>The reason we all love WFH is because we can slack off.

Don't insult me like that.

I won't pretend I don't know people who only work 4 hours a week, but stop acting like you know me.

I love work from home because I can get actual quiet. Not music downing out distractions. Quiet.

If you want to insinuate that I don't work, or perpetuate a culture that assumes I will not work as hard because there's no hall monitor, then get bent.
But that's by weight, which is kind of a weird measure.

Conversely, there are ~130 billion wild mammals in the world [1], but only 8.1 billion people.

We're just particularly large as far as most mammals go. But in terms of population, we're still far, far outnumbered. And important metrics like diversity or endangered status depend on population counts, not biomass.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_mammals_by_population
No, but there is a cool blending of the two concepts when light is bent by large gravity wells so that it actually shows the same star multiple times. When we observe which copied star "produced" a certain photon, it technically collapses the quantum possibilities backwards in time as that photon was emitted potentially billions of years ago.
but isn't that a TikTok shtick to use the obviously fake voice in your video?
Currently using SDXL (through Huggingface Diffusers) on an M1 16GB Mac. Takes on average 4-5mins to generate an image. It's usable.
> Science and the advancement of technology is literally the only thing that has ever led to lasting prosperity for humans. All other periods of prosperity over the last ten thousand years have been temporary and highly localized. You can lose your golden age of prosperity through a single assassination. Only science breaks the wheel.

How exactly do you know this civilization will not crash too? (and take with it that highly localized habitat)
I'm 37 and a factor that I haven't seen much discussed is that in-office is a vastly higher burden for my generation. Commutes are longer, more families have two working parents (and need to, to pay the bills).

In-office doesn't mean heading out the door at 8:30 and coming home at 5:30 but something more like leaving at 7:00am, dropping off kids at before-school daycare ($$$), driving back to the train station to make it in by 9 and then coming home at 6 after your 1-hour commute to the closest affordable suburb. An 11-hour day, and you are paying out the nose for childcare if you can even get it, and you'll spend all your PTO on kids doctor appointments and parent-teacher conferences and the like.
Why is it surprising that different people could have different reactions to WFH? Some people liked it. Other people hated it.
The crosswalk with the flags does not have a light, just a crosswalk, so cars will drive without slowing down unless a pedestrian is present. The flags simply make the pedestrian more obvious to the motorists. In other areas I've seen crosswalks with buttons that will flash lights to alter motorists.

All of this absurdity could be solved with a simple stop sign, but that would be a minor inconvenience to motorists.
Pay very much brings happiness. Even the research that shows that happiness does not grow with your income/wealth shows that it grows up to a certain income level after which it levels off.
I dont know why but my mind enters an endless loop when thinking about the vastness of space and where that space exists. Almost as if it reaches the end of human imagination. I can imagine the multiverse, but i cant imagine the “nothingness” in which they exist. I cant imagine where everything came from and where it goes. It makes no sense. I understand the explanation of physics and time, the big bang, expansion, but where the heck does it all exist in? The void of what? What are they expanding into? I understand matter existing in the universe, but where is the universe expanding in? What are the laws of that “in”? That void exists in something but what does the something exist in? It’s almost as weird as if nothing ever existed yet it exists.
I think that's giving Elon Musk too much credit.

I think Elon says things fully expecting them to become true.

Whenever I hear him say "I'm confident that X will happen by Y", I mentally add "provided that every single engineer at [one of his companies] puts in 20 hour days for 2 years and manages to solve a mountain of problems that have never been solved before."

Sometimes it works, which unfortunately encourages the behavior.
This is the same failed strategy that Microsoft tried with windows 10 uwp. The control schemes and form factors matter so developers don’t get much benefit.
Without going into spoilers, its interesting that people jumped to regex to solve this. For me that was a fairly non intuitive when I first saw the problem(both parts).

What jumped to me is the problem statement indicated a finite number of states and I crafted a solution based on that information. But its really cool to see how we all jump to different implementations.
I share your sentiment but in this case, I don't think bootcamp devs usually get to work on such a device. Not fresh of bootcamp devs at least.

But yes, this general type of event is inevitably what happens when the entire field prides itself in not having any standards.
It depends on what your goal is; for some tasks it's possible that getting the AI to do it is best, but, e.g. the existence of auto-pilot doesn't mean that hobbyist pilots wouldn't benefit from/enjoy exercising the same skills manually.
Introducing new, ambiguously-parsed syntax to avoid an “ugly” semicolon or a bare `end` for code-golfing purposes is an extremely poor trade.
Part two of today's problem makes me wonder if they're trying to come up with puzzles that aren't easy for LLMs to complete but might end up making things that also discourage humans from playing.
So how are these flood proof? the TLDR she is designing super cheap limestone/mud/bamboo dwellings that last longer than tents. Are they being designed at elevation?

It got me thinking of can someone mass produce simple pipes pre-filled with electrical wiring and outlets that don't require sophisticated knowledge to install/connect to solar? How do you cheaply bring up the standard of living in these $176 houses?
Fair use and transforming other people's work is completely accepted in the creative industry.

But, of course, when techies do the same thing that creatives have done for decades (IE, make transformative fan art), well now thats not fair apparently.

> you reinterpreted it

Reinterpretations, fan art, and "what if" scenarios are completely common in creative industries. People build whole careers on transforming others work.
Elixir is great for this, especially with Livebook (https://livebook.dev/) and kino_aoc (https://github.com/ljgago/kino_aoc).
>"A large fifth-millennium BC cemetery in the subarctic north of the Baltic Sea?"

Somewhat misleading title, the burial sites are on land in Lapland, not in the Baltic Sea.
The accessibility nerd in me is excited!
Also just Krita with the diffusion AI plugin: https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion
I say let it upend. Shifts aren't easy, but they are needed. It would do the world long term good to let this play out on its own rather than having government intervention (or corporate intervention, for that matter, let employees win for once)