skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment you replied to didn't suggest any conspiracy. They merely suggested that board members on the boards of multiple organisations sometimes will do things that favour one of the companies but is detrimental to the others.

As for your "well known fact", I'm not convinced it's either well-known, nor necessarily a fact (I can buy it happens some places, but would question whether it's an inherent limitations or an issue with management in organisations who don't know how to handle remote work)
It looks like the wheel is mounted on a hub, just like normal cars.
Unveiling the Power of the NixOS Integration Test Driver (Part 2)
I get the impression this was discovered in the Endatabas bibliography, since the same user just posted a link to the quickstart.

https://www.endatabas.com/bibliography.html

...Copeland's paper is a fun and inspirational read. If you enjoy that, you'll probably enjoy other papers from this list.
It's more than three years since most people started working from home.
Can you estimate when you expect these impacts to start showing up?
I get the impression that MacOS is kind of like Gnome in that they aren't really designed with multitasking in mind. On MacOS, the green button in the corner of the window expands the app to fullscreen. Opening an app in Gnome likewise goes fullscreen.

There are some workflows where that would be OK, but to do my job I have to be in and out of multiple windows constantly. I gave up on Gnome when I was trying to find one of 5 different terminal windows in the exploded window view and it was clear that they'd rather I cycled through them all one at a time instead of what I do on XFCE which is scroll up on the terminal icon in my dock, which quickly cycles through them and brings them to focus.

Personal preference for finesse will always differ so I tend to focus more on the usability aspect of it and accept any finesse that comes along for the ride as a kind of luxury experience lol
Doping in sports doesn't waste millions of taxpayer dollars and murder stroke victims who might have otherwise recovered.
Just talk to a few? I know plenty of junior developers who've told me that their professional life suffered during remote work over covid.
I thought you'd have something practical in mind like specific industries or working for non-profits or something that would work today, not some theories of how the world could work. I can't go tell my landlord he should believe in subsidised housing like you do unfortunately.
The rest of the world should be building more nuclear plants.
So can we say iPhone pictures are not admissible in the court of law? Since the photos are more like hand drawings (I.e. subject to interpretation by the algo) than a snapshot of time.
The language there is more than a little bit disingenuous, they all but blame the user for their fuck-up.
> I think what happens is companies will get better at understanding who is and who isn't spending time working (I am careful not to use word "productive").

It's not clear to me that there's much of an incentive for this, and I think it requires more effort on the part of decision-makers than sending an email telling everyone to come back to the office.

Direct oversight has always been a very minor part of performance metrics, compared to word-of-mouth or deliverables. WFH still has those two factors, all it's missing is the direct oversight. I can only see manager support for this at places where managers are regularly checking over your shoulder, which is already crazy.
We are just increasing to detachment to think that executives carry large (if any at all) stakes in their landlord's company (or even commercial reit in general.) So much so that spending $100,000/mo from their own company (which they likely have a lot of equity) makes more sense than not renewing the lease.

Guys. Please. There are many reasons why a company would want to RTO. Being in cahoots with the real estate industry is not it.
If you have malware on the hotel computers presumably you could make the malware make the request.
You can't get too aggressive with your geo/browser checks because there are probably a lot of legitimate logins where the owner is doing some work from home or from a different location.
Ok, I'll be that guy... what edge case?

My part 2 was 4-line addition to part 1 (see code below, if inappropriate let me know and I'll remove it), and it worked first try. On the other hand, I made a mistake in part one and got it right only on a second attempt...

(definition of nums[] omitted)
for (j = 1; j < 10; j++)
if (!strncmp(&buf[i], nums[j], strlen(nums[j])))
buf[i] = j + '0';
I think you have unrealistic expectations for this community.
Every time I've reserved a hotel room with Booking.com, the payment has required 3-D Secure verification. For me, this involves entering my VISA card's PIN into a card reader, thus needing both physical access to my card and knowledge of my PIN. That might not be very much consolation, but it's at least some protection against having your account fraudulently drained.
Why do you seem to think that those two things are mutually exclusive?
The Turing test is never dead: Just deploy the curret best chatbot as a remote consultant in a technical field and see how well it works. This is a Turing test.
With anachronism induced limitations removed and available talent pool unlocked globally, the unfortunate truth is that the average developer comp will come way down. I am not an RTO supporter and highly paid developers supporting RTO is the biggest hand gun ever in human history.
Yeah. The difference is that people get really angry when they hear scanners are doing this, while in the current case (look at the other comments) most people treat it like a perfectly acceptable curiosity.
>ASML machines consist of at least two main parts: laser and lenses. Both has been engineered by third-party firms: TRUMPF (laser) and Carl Zeiss (lenses).

Correction: not lasers and lenses, but EUV light-source and mirrors.

The TRUMPF laser in the EUV machines is nothing too special, but the Cymer EUV light source, consisting of blasting tin microdroplets at the right angles at speed, with said lasers, is the secret sauce.

And mirrors are used instead, because lenses would absorb the EUV radiation.
Incomprehensible to want to slow china on this front... climate collapse doesn't stop at country borders.
How did that happen? Technically my job has a 3 day a week recommendation but it's completely ignored by everyone. The management tend to be older than most of our staff and as such have homes and families far out from the city centre. It's much harder to get them into the office than the 20 somethings. Even the 20 somethings who did initially start coming in a couple of times a week have dropped to a couple of times a month in our work place.
You could do it in elixir using livebook.
Now I understand why hotels.com charges your credit card, then gives the hotel a different card number to charge.
You can pop the pump off on a moment's notice (there is a needle sticking out of the pod at the back, some other manufacturers use an umbillical that can be disconnected).

Totally agreed on the communications failure here, they all but blame the user for not noticing their error. That's not how a responsible medical device manufacturer should deal with this.
If the sender doesn't play ball, they won't have any business.

Third-party aggregators and hotels are a complete shit-show. But as long as I can save $30 on my trip, I will keep using them...
Interesting read! Thanks for sharing.

For others who are curious, the article says the global cooling effect is on the geological timescale (millions of years).
Oh... That is indeed very high. I thought I had it bad in California with 43 cents/kWh...
I feel like this is a veiled attempt to be extremely, grossly sexist, but at the risk of taking the bait, yes I'm absolutely sure she would.
Great point on potentially overlapping board membership. More broadly, there's also a theory that growing common ownership by index funds and others with significant commercial real estate exposure is driving this pressure.
My favourite was using iFrames as a type of ersatz AJAX. Click a link, make the target the iframe, an voila! No page refresh, and the iFrame gives visual feedback.
The title is misleading without context. TFA doesn't argue that RTO is a bad policy or is being abandoned. It only presents facts showing that the post-COVID RTO trend is flatlining, i.e. employees aren't currently RTO'ing any more or any less than they were last month (as a share of paid work days).
can this not use a single center motor with a shaft, just replacing the current structures? It won't be that big savings as it is in electric vehicles, but it could reduce some complexity and unify architecture of electric and ICE?
I was a USPTO patent examiner twice before. The job today is not as you describe, and I doubt it was as you describe in Einstein's day either.

By Einstein's own words, being a patent examiner was a lot of work [1, pp. 102--103]:

> he complained about the workload: "I have a frightful lot of work. Eight hours at the office each day and at least one private lesson, and then I have my scientific work." [26] Once he had settled in, though, he found his forty-eight hours per week at the office tolerable. When his friend Habicht was not entirely satisfied with the school service, in which he had landed after completing his studies, Einstein suggested that one day he would smuggle Habicht in among the "patent slaves" and tried to commend the work to him by observing that "along with the eight hours of work there are also eight hours of fun in the day, and then there is also Sunday." [27]

As a former patent examiner, I know precisely what he meant when he described himself as a "patent slave". I basically had a quota to meet, and it was quite challenging to do and meet any reasonable quality standard.

You can find sources like [2, p. 4] that indicate he did do some research at the Swiss patent office, but it's a secondary source:

> Rudolf Kayser, Einstein's son-in-law writes in his biography on Einstein, "He soon discovered that he could find time to devote to his own scientific studies if he did his work in less time. But discretion was necessary, for though authorities may find slow work satisfactory, the saving of time for personal pursuits is officially forbidden. Worried, Einstein saw to it that the small sheets of paper on which he wrote and figured vanished into his desk-drawer as soon as he heard footsteps approaching behind his door.

I don't doubt that he did some research there, but it probably wasn't much judging by Einstein's own words and my own time as a patent examiner over 100 years later.

[1] A. Fölsing, Albert Einstein: a biography. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking, 1997.

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3904
It's recently been in the news that China is substantially increasing the size of their nuclear arsenal. I can't substantiate the GP's claim that the weapons and reactors are connected, but it's a reasonable prediction.

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1207156597/new-pentagon-repor...
The adrenal cortex (i.e., fight-or-flight) is a good example where your brain-in-the-body reacts before your conscious awareness.
Just released a series of Tensorflow.js models based on the [MAXIM architecture](https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02973). These include:

- Deblurring

- Deraining

- Denoising

- Low light enhancement

- Retouching

- Dehazing (Indoor & Outdoor)

They work in both the browser and Node, although only on browsers capable of ingesting a 64x64 image into GPU memory.
Not only is Cocoa a moving target, it’s deep and wide. The amount of functionality it offers is staggering and extensive enough that for many types of apps, a dev may not need to import any third party libraries if they don’t want to, with no negative impact on the quality of the final product.

That’s extremely difficult to reimplement, even if you lock compatibility to a particular macOS release.
> I just tried implementing this on some random stroad and you can easily remove more than 2/3 access points without any investments.

No, you can't. Who's going to remove these access points? Like actual physical labor. Are you going to rent heavy equipment with your own money and remove them on a 5-mile stretch of a stroad?

What's so hard to understand?
I mean, pretty much if you want to learn anything you're going to have to put a lot of time into it. With ZFS it will be building different servers with different disk layouts and figuring out how to test and benchmark those options. Which just takes an absolutely massive amount of time.

I know, I was doing just that 5+ years ago.

Commercial storage vendors aren't really any different. Mostly the biggest difference here is they offer a very limited subset of hardware and disk configurations and tend to iterate over that very small configuration space. Step outside of that config space and they won't have much insight.

This remind me of the earlier days of Mac vs PC. Mac tended to have a very small hardware set of supported devices, and in many ways helped stability. PC supported pretty much anything you threw at it, which commonly had issues with crappy drivers and untested interactions.
A friend did her PhD in climate science and the research involved weather station data. She said all of the data is full of gaps, outliers, messy, and the way the "science" solves it is to just get rid of reports that don't align with priors and use very basic functions to fill in missing data.

When people say "trust the science" it means making scientists and researcher High Priests of the Religion of Truth. Until every single experiment is pre-registered, all data is public and transparent, and all results are published, the entire experimental scientific establishment should be treated with massive skepticism.
Skyfield is so well maintained and documented that we actually use it to process tracking data for our own satellites and plot additional orbit parameters like beta angle, altitude, etc.
Let's be real. The reason we all love WFH is because we can slack off. It's so easy to game the system and make it look like we're working when we're not.
As someone who has been effectively remote for a long time, I actually sort of agree with you.

To the degree that an office is very hybrid, remote people will often be somewhat marginalized while the environment for in-person will naturally use things like hot desking and a lot of people won't just be there. Some of this can probably be mitigated (and large companies always had people in a lot of different locations).
Miserable is not the right word. I think most Americans feel unfulfilled at their jobs. They don't feel accomplished, just another brick in the wall.
> It’s just picture of my dog. It’s not that serious.

Until you want to send it to your vet, but you can't, because your phone keeps beautifying out the exact medical problem you're trying to image.
> but I’m not a frontend dev, so, who knows?

Yeah I don’t get it either.

I kept reading it expecting something to jump out at me. He just goes on about how “a square cannot be rotated”.

This honestly feels like more of a chrome bug or more likely some really weird settings on behalf of the author. I’ve seen this exact approach on the web. Nothing struck me as odd.

What is odd is that he didn’t do any testing with a different browser, machine, or OS even. He just decided to make a blog post.
Yup, this is correct.

We have had some requests / discussions around adding hooks to the sync service that will support custom logic on the write path (as per https://github.com/electric-sql/electric/discussions/565). This seems like a good idea but they don't exist yet.
> It's not necessarily even status, just feeding themselves: Publish or die, and you aren't publishing if your conclusions aren't positive and strong.

The wider science needs to learn a lesson from the Economics science: Incentives Matter. A lot.
The "well-known" fact you speak of is what my wife's boss uses to justify return to office. It's definitely not the massive investment in office furniture, office remodel, and meeting spaces that have been gussied up for impressions of success. No way it's that! /s

The fact that senior employees are leaving for remote work ensures junior people are all they have left! Junior people are, shockingly, not as productive as senior people... who would have thought?
I'll be doing an Advent of Precalculus, kudos!
Also regarding the "center" of the Universe: the reason that "everywhere is the center" is because the Universe exists in higher than three dimensions. Asking "where is the center of the Universe" is like asking where the center of the surface of a balloon is. The center of the balloon is not on the surface in the 2D Universe.

The center of the Universe is the Big Bang, which is physically located at the beginning of time. Gravity is a depression on the surface of the Universe, which is why gravity and time are related: it literally brings us closer to the past :)

(Also note: physics is not my expertise, so take what I say with a giant grain of salt. I have just thought about this a lot over the years)
The cheapest labour is unpaid. Slavery was proof of that and it continues today, even if it's hidden away in long and complex supply chains.
Managers tend to be older than workers. The higher level of management, the older.

Older people are more comfortable having a face-to-face meeting rather than an online chat or video call. They're more comfortable managing people they can see in their seats, rather than having to judge only by the amount of output.

This is true even for many larger software companies.

Is this all of what's going on? Maybe not. But I suspect it's at least part of it.
Working Memory – The Key to Unlocking Potential in Learners with ADHD
At least (?) that's in an app. But it's worse. A hotel told me it's sometimes plaintext over email.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/myste...
Probably meant sending the payment details without tokenization, which in practice means sending a merchant-specific (in case of this one, hotel-specific) card details (https://www.emvco.com/emv-technologies/payment-tokenisation/). A lot of hotels, for some reason that I still don't know, are still relying on MOTO methods to process payments, and MOTO requires the whole card number/PAN, name on file, expiry, and CVV to be sent (which I encounter from-time-to-time because my non-MOTO Mastercard is being rejected for being too weird). Combine that with the fact that US cards don't really enforce 3DS means that you'll have a card number bonanza usable for most American stores.
We are worse at rote arithmetic but better at math. More people complete calculus and beyond now than ever in history. The major inflection appears to be in the late 90’s and early 00’s after the SAT allowed calculators and presumably schools became more permissive over time.

https://maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/cspcc/InsightsandRec...

I often hear people bemoan the loss of arithmetic skill. I will never understand that. Beyond very basic arithmetic for accelerating daily life or saving time from reaching for a calculator it has almost no actual value in life and knowledge of the mechanical shortcuts taught in school teach you absolutely NOTHING about math - like actual math, not extremely limited and specialized edge case of grade school arithmetic.
Alternative version: Start a long distance relationship with a chatbox and see if it is engaging.
What?

I really don’t understand what you’re getting at. Can you connect the dots? It looks like you just wanted to post another anti-government rant and just replied to any random comment to do it.
This seems patently true to me from personal experience. Seems pretty likely that the following statement is true: "some people do better and some do worse in a new and different mode of work."
> Also, full-time rigorous peer reviewing would be an interesting career prospect for many current scientists. And here is your startup idea..

I don’t know about this. (But I don’t have any answers for the question either).

If you’re a full time peer reviewer, first, are you really a peer? But more importantly, your motivations change. No longer are you looking to try to see if the paper is worthy of publishing or if it is sound; instead, your motivation is to push through as many papers as possible. When getting paid depends on approving papers, the quality will drop.

Maybe the problem is where the money exchange occurs. What about if authors paid to have their paper reviewed, instead of published? Currently, journals only get paid when a paper is published. What about if they got paid to review the paper at all? It would limit the paper submissions to Nature/Science/Cell, but you’d be paying for a high quality review (which often makes a paper better). You might even have luck with decoupling reviewers from journals completely… make the journals compete over the best (already) reviewed papers.
I am not a marketing professional but what about something like this. "Our booking service is xxx MM consumer's first choice for planning trips. Get access to our customer base and reduce administrative workload by adding our integration to your point of sale system. 4 competitors within 5 miles of you are already booking with us!"
Seriously. GDP and productivity are super high right now.
do you have a source to cite for this?
Ok, now I understand: this part is a description of how optimizing C bindings using the OCaml FFI often requires to play around the GC:

With OCaml uniform representation of data, the GC will follow all data that looks like a pointer in its reachable set of values. Which is the right thing to do for valid OCaml values, for which anything that looks like a pointer (outside of strings or numerical arrays) is a pointer to a valid OCaml value.

However if you are building OCaml values in the C FFI, and that this in-construction value is somehow reachable by the GC, you have to make sure that there is no pointer in the uninitialized part of the data. Or alternatively you need to make sure that the runtime will not enter a GC phase while you are building those values.
I think my attitude is similar to the "slow food" movement, though I don't go as far as they do. Once I start thinking about how quickly it cooks, it becomes something to optimize, to rush, to worry about. I don't want that.
Agreed, it's like being hugged by 766 pairs of strong but gentle arms.
That's probably part of it. Science needs an incentive rethink overall.
In my industry, we are seeing skillful phishing attempts compromising experienced and well-connected businesses. Those connections are immediately leveraged to strike again.

The MO is the same as described in the article -- a well-crafted email with a link to a file in a respected cloud host.

Is there a centralized place (FBI ?) to report these attacks? The bad actors will be obvious in aggregate.
While it may be true, I'd assume this is the case for 99% of the working people.
A lot of people on HN seem to have this opinion. A lot of the content on that site has been re-written, and it's now a pretty fantastic resource for beginners.

If you tell 2 beginners to build something with PHP/jQuery/JS, and send one person to W3Schools and the other to PHP.net/jquery.org/MDN, I have no doubt that the W3schools person will get something done in workable state faster.
The real problem for me is that once the last few days of the puzzle roll around, I'm too busy running around to different Christmas events to have time to squeeze them in.

I completed it in 2020 and felt extremely accomplished. I doubt I'll get through all of them this year before losing interest, got too many other projects going, but I always have fun with them.
Because its still in major development? Huge refactors are going on still under the hood. It's a project with a small team working in their free time with a big goal and its some way off. I mean, a BSD-based open source OS binary compatible with mach binaries ... it's very cool IMO and I hope more people get involved