skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Today’s leaders rose up the ranks through their success in the pre-WFH era. They mastered the art of managing staffers in person, for the most part, and that’s why they’re leaders today. Tomorrow’s leaders will have to be adept at managing remote staff.

The article compares this to the silent film era, where time changed and stars from that era needed to adapt to audio and dialogue. I don't see full in-office work ever coming back as a standard, especially for companies that don't require that type of environment. Although, it can be difficult, even in tech, to find a fully remote job recently. Hybrid seems to be the most competitive form of the culture, as folks will still heavily apply for these roles.
A whole lot of people taking this hypothetical seriously but nobody bothering to ask the real question...

Why do you think you will be unable to download FB, IG & WA from the App Store?
Was that hungry really accurate? I bought my last car in 2019 and it was 35k, cheaper than a luxury car but more expensive than the average car. I won't what the median price was? And is that price what people were spending, or the average price of cars that were available?
200 seems fair
The fact that on my day job and also as per most engineers I know ChatGPT is now the first line of defense for finding quick code snippets where for over a decade Google held that distinction is profound.
You appear to have your heart set on toasters, and that's fine. A coffee roaster for the prosumer, however, strikes me as a more interesting product to make. I think there's still an opportunity to make a better or at least different product, and the area has been heating up recently. It's a lot like a toaster, if you think about it. And there's more opportunity for software and hardware integration ("roast profiling").

I also have a question: if a product is sold as a kit where the buyer performs the "final assembly", does that alleviate any of the burden with UL testing, FCC, or product liability?
Tidal power generation, in theory, could. In reality, unlikely.
my first book as well; good memories
What I don't understand is that the Play store are still receiving updates like yesterday. Where is that code? Who is the developer? They still advertise as OSS applications.
There's a whole field called Compensation Analysis devoted to doing the opposite of what you said. Well, truth be told it's mainly devoted to controlling risk for the employer, but as a prerequisite for that goal there are Compensation Analysists in the HR dept of every medium/large company in the US with a big spreadsheet, row for each employee and a row for each "job", and a mapping from one to the other. This spreadsheet highlights when the two are not in lockstep and all things being equal they will bring them back into step. Modulo some edge cases where individual employees are just paid above market "because" (e.g. they have some special knowledge that would be very expensive to recreate but otherwise don't merit a high paying job code).
Do solar panels have to be dark?

Is there a way to make them, say, white?
This is why you should never stay with a company for more than a year
This may not hold true for companies that gives your RSUs and you want it to get vested.
Update: it worked! We were able to save our sopping filthy clothes. ;-)
I've always disliked that Bram calls Vim a "modal" editor. All this means is your keyboard and mouse actions do different things based on what "mode" of the editor you're in. All editors are "modal" editors. In VSCode for example, if you've focused the search box, pressing up loads the previous search, compared to if you've focused the code area, pressing up goes up a line.

Vim purports to be more efficient than other editors because it's a modal editor, but that's nonsense.
Awesome to read. Really great job Tim Patterson. Maybe someday I'll build an S-100 machine - seems like an elegant architecture.
It wouldn't make any sense to generate the world's energy centrally and transmit - economically, politically, etc.

The Americas could generate 100% of energy needed from <0.25% of land in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, California, Chihuahua, and Atacama.

And even that wouldn't make sense - because there's so many other places to generate solar, transmission is expensive, and you want your generation decentralized due to weather and many other reasons.

Why would China buy solar from Sahara when they have the solar radiation to get it domestically from Southwest Tibet?
I don't know how faster I became at editing text after switching to vim. But it definitely has a different feeling: the text just flows from the fingers. Your mind is never interrupted to remember some shortcut e.g. to select text inside the brackets or inside the quotes. Anything you want to do with text happens effortlessly with the speed of thought.

Definitely worth it.
Okay, I see a lot of people discouraging you, so I'll try to be positive. I say go for it!

However, your motivations don't seem very clear to me. What exactly are you trying to achieve with this venture?
There are so many decisions other than just the dates that you implicitly make (or are made for you when you book your flight). Do you want insurance? Wi-Fi? Extra leg room? Turbo prop aircraft? Jets only? 2-3-2 seating? 3-3 seating?

Logically, you should want to control each of these variables while searching for flights. If you are ready to trust a flight aggregator with these choices, some fuzziness in price seems acceptable too.

You are probably thinking that you don’t want to make a choice about aircraft type or seating configuration and so, whatever the search engine shows in whatever order is fine by you. If so, consider that others might have the same ambivalence towards price fuzziness.
I've tried it and my experience is the exact opposite. I have good results with for example "Crown Prince" variety pumpkins, which I find far sweeter and tastier than butternut.
So, I absolutely agree with regards to normal federated systems. Your examples are examples for a good reason.

But Bluesky works a bit differently. Users don't work as like, "user@domain", you have the moral equivalent of a UUID. If the host of your PDS decides to defederate with someone else's host, that doesn't mean you're prevented from getting their posts, it just means that like, it's a bit harder to. And if you don't like what your PDS's host chooses with regards to defederation, you move to a different one, and when you do, you retain your entire following/follower graph, and people who follow you don't necessarily even notice..

The closest way to think about it is git, IMHO. GitHub hosts a copy of your project (a PDS of your posts), and you can have one locally too. You can also put up copies elsewhere, and people can grab copies of your project elsewhere. If GitHub decides to stop hosting your project, you can put it up on another host, no problem. If GitHub decides to stop hosting a project you want to follow, you can follow where they move.

This is in sharp contrast to email or Mastodon, though in my understanding, Mastodon has made it a bit easier to move servers lately.

Most criticism of BlueSky/AT tends to be that it's too hard to do things like private accounts, keeping your block/mutelist private, or even deleting posts. (Though the latter is better now thanks to the addition of the moral equivalent of git rebase.)
or just fall back to StackOverflow
Here’s a Swedish one https://ondemove.eu/products/
Elon Musk Demands 25% Ownership Threatens to "Build Products Outside of Tesla"
Not all modal editors are created equal?

Once fluent in vim, I could literally get more done in the same amount of time, but YMMV.
"If we build enough of X to a ridiculous level never before seen by mankind, will we have unexpected other effects? Our computer models (based only on levels seen before) say yes!"
Beijing tells some investors not to sell as Chinese stock rout resumes
In fact, for all these companies the retail operation is a secondary business. Their main business is to prop up the stock. They do that using all kinds of accounting and financial tricks, the reward cards being one of them. These companies will do anything to increase short term valuation, such as stock buybacks (totally useless for the business), announcing vaporware/initiatives that have little impact on business but look good for investors, etc.
There was some chatter about 9 months ago I think when folks were using compression, unicode and all sorts of weird hacks to increase the context window.

This is rather recent, but in the same vein. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/llmlingua-inno...

https://twitter.com/VictorTaelin/status/1642664054912155648
Isn't Threads kinda proving that explosive growth isn't a requirement to a successful social network?
Machining & Prototyping shops or "on-demand manufacturers". That involves choosing a region, evaluating the options/making a list, contacting a few and having a NNN ready for them to sign, getting 3-4 quotes for every parts in different MOQs, managing information on a need-to-know basis (to have some level protection beyond your NNN), managing these relationships etc. There is a lot more as the processes move to die/mold making as you go up in quantities and these have their own design requirements & ownership agreements.
Aren’t the Japanese conglomerates perpetually underperforming businesses that get away with it because Japanese shareholders are toothless?
They will be offering paid services in the future (see my link above) but only one has shipped yet: a partnership with namecheap to make it easy to get your handle as a domain name without technical knowledge.
I've been giving away my invites on Twitter and it has become increasingly more difficult to find any takers. I think I'm currently sitting on like ten invites since my friend is feeding me his spare invites too.
I’m a Christian if that makes a difference. The book spoke to me about the idea of believing we will find meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in things if we just try hard enough. If I have the right idea and execute on it I will final be happy, if I reach a certain level in my company I will I’ll finally feel that feeling of the ultimate win, if I have enough friends, or leisure or whatever. None of its going to bring that sense of peace and fullness we are seeking. It must be found outside of our striving. As a Christian I find that feeling in God and being present with family.
It would be good to work with musicians on having ways to adjust hearing aids for better-sounding music, both recorded and live.

Most hearing aid vendors and audiologists don't seem to make much of an effort on this, so I usually switch to Airpods for better sound.
> They managed to keep high-bandwidth low-effort users out until nicest of online people recreated early-Twitter-like culture

You say that as if it's a good thing. Bluesky turned into one of the most toxic networks out there. Just browsing the discover feed should dispell any illusions of a healthy community - most posts are whining about american politics or whining about some other unimportant memes like AI art instead of fostering growth about common interests like Mastodon does.

Bluesky had their chance with invite only and curated feeds (with some really dedicated community admins) but they've fumbled it all by focusing on american culture wars instead of the nice thing they had.
What do you mean by elf is gone?

You might be able to use this, https://github.com/cole14/rust-elf/
GE washing machines and dishwashers are solid and the distributor service network still backs them. Haier (the company that owns GE Appliance) sells Haier-branded appliances that aren't bad for the money, too.

Commercial appliances are the way to go for reliability. They are 3-4x the cost but for some appliance categories that's palatable. E.g., we were able to buy a Speed Queen but haven't found a commercial fridge we're comfortable buying.

Commercial isn't all upsides, either, since you are committing to owning the same unit for longer and paying for a series of repairs over time (or DIY if you have time and expertise.) The bulk of the retail market would rather put that money into a new unit every 8-10 years. We're with the crowd in some appliance categories, not all.
It's Apple memetic marketing, it isn't real.
Begun, the Solar Farm Wars, has
They are still run Postmates on top of Uber Eats, seemingly to appeal to younger audience. Not sure how much longer that will last.
This is the part of the argument that gets ignored when people talk about all the sunny deserts that are available.

Why would you want a majority of your power generation in one easy to attack location?
I still don't understand WHY is it "Incredibly user-hostile". Will do my own research anyway.
https://www.danielsen.com/jokes/objecttoaster.txt
> M1 MBP for either an M2 15" MBA or M3 MBP today, or wait until M3 MBAs become a thing

My 2 cents, since I am also looking to replace the original M1 MBP with something.

- Apple's official refurbished laptops are a thing, M2 already can be found on it. They have warranty.

- Think what you need, RAM vs CPU. If you run Docker containers, hundreds of browser tabs, work with heavy multimedia etc. and your budget is limited (or you wouldn't be asking) then you may want to consider M1/M2 with specced up RAM (you'd need to get Pro or Max to unlock higher RAM) instead of a basic M3. Yes, basic M3 is faster than basic M1, but it won't make your RAM issues go away so if you are at the limit of RAM capacity then you'll shoot yourself in the foot.

- If you do go for a basic model still consider upping at least storage because at the low end (less than 1TB) SSDs in M2 and M3 have been nerfed and are slower than SSDs in M1.
If you are applying for a job you owe it to your potential employer to communicate clearly why you are a fit for the role.
Having coding/logic more decoupled from visuals/styling would be interesting.

E.g. allowing the application to be more visually clear when describing states of cells and the relationships between them, while giving one more freedom in the way those cells are then displayed.
I glanced thru it didn't seem to address the historical issues of rising tide<=>boats lifted.

It's that gains for the poor don't become lives of wealth & leisure. Gains for the poor get leveraged and annexed by the wealthy/powerful.

More time? More responsibilities and more complexity.

Higher wages? More fees. More expectations. More bills and more complexity.

Tasked saved? Complexity added to routine living.

Burden eased? More burdens & still more complexity.

Advantages not dreamed of by ancestors? They're all means for you to satisfy the will of the wealthy and powerful.

More children reaching adulthood? Childhood got shrunk from sq miles to sq feet - limited by roads, laws, lie-based fears, complex demands and being permanently welded to increasingly exhausted adults.
A funny Massachusetts crazy laws story. When Apple Computer IPO'ed in the early 1980s, Massachusetts residents were not allowed to own the stock. Like it was actually illegal for them to buy this stock. The reason was that Massachusetts runs its own state-level version of the SEC, and the Massachusetts regulators felt that Apple stock was too risky to be made available to ordinary retail investors. This situation persisted for several months before the Massachusetts regulators finally backed down.

As everyone knows, Apple went on to become one of the best (maybe the best?) stock market investments a person in 1980 could possibly have made.
tbh, I came to this loose conclusion after many data points and discussions with female peers.

The a woman's cycle effects hormones in major ways that can likely have an effect on a trip. Any man who suggests that it doesn't effect women are not being kind to the differences in hormonal physiology. There really needs to be closer research done on this but until then I just ask female peers to be slightly aware and cautious about their mental states during their cycle.

It is my suggestion that women record in their trip notes additional info such as, what day of their cycle they are on, and if it may or may not have effected their trip preparation, trip, or integration work afterwards.

As a rule of thumb, I advise women who partake in MDMA to extra care due to possible compounding effects during a post MDMA "comedown/withdrawl" and hormonal drop associated with a period. If they emotionally struggle sober during their cycle then it might be a good idea to abstain, take very conservative doses, or wait until their past the their period.

There exists a community called Mom's on Mushrooms that can probably has the largest collection of individuals who can give anecdotal experiences.

There are conditions such as premenstrual dysphoria disorder that psilocybin seems to help with symptoms, but its all anecdotal experimentation and feedback. so who knows
emacs has CUA available and another comment mentioned there's an "easyvim". My point being that those editors already support those features.
https://www.noaa.gov/heritage/stories/cryptogram-in-silk-dre...

This is a slightly better and more detailed version of this story.
While individual posts are not self-authenticating (largely because it makes deletion much more complicated) all of a users posts are in a merkle-tree that it itself self-authenticating. A Post and the merkle-proof to the root its a complete verifiable entity.
Ask HN: Are YouTube playlists lagging terribly for any1 else?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cp6mKbRTQY&list=RDMM&index=12

slows asf on youtube but when i brave browser it works like a charm/faster.
Breaking the keys that protect early bitcoin outputs.
I worry about that more than I’d like to admit. However I have far peace and fulfillment than I’ve ever had so the trade off is good. I think Scott Galloway said nothing is ever as bad or as good as you think it will be.

When I was 20 I worked at Costco while going through college and one of my coworkers was previously a software engineer at sun microsystem. He ended leaving the industry because his skills were up to date enough but he was happy in life and had paid for most everything he needed already. It would be unpleasant to go through but make wise financial decisions and ride it out as long you can. Also I maximize my 8 hours a day and do my best to learn on the job.
Rwasa: A web server with no dependencies written in x86_64 assembly
Also in Australia and in my experience everything here lacks aesthetics, quality and technological innovation, and is still a ripoff.

The Kmart stuff is at least value for money and sometimes is quality too and owning it makes the most sense.
White ones would be less efficient because the white color consists of reflected photons, and there's a lot of energy in those photons that a modern panel would be able to convert into electricity.
For me it’s somewhat slower at the price of freeing my mind from “ctrl-shift-left-wait-wait-oops-right-right”-like things. I believe that faster typing in vim is a myth supported by our adepts, who are more zealous than is reasonable.
I love this idea and the competition is fierce from Chinese companies. Check out Robam’s combi ovens, like this one: https://robamliving.com/collections/steam-oven/products/roba...

This thing can toast, steam, bake, and air fry. It is objectively good at all of those functions, and it is used every day.

The only thing it doesn’t have is the ability to add custom programs, but most of the built in functions can be used for recipes other than what they suggest.

That being said, if I could get the same thing at the same price point, made in USA, I would.

I also would like a properly engineered waffle iron that is made in the USA. The whole waffle iron market today is dogshit compared to the waffle Iron I got my mom in the 90s. It still works, it is easy to use and clean.

Somehow a similar design is no longer available on the open market and the options are all variations on trash.
Frequency response is similar to an EQ, but there are lots of other problems. There is feedback, which is worse at higher amplification, which people with more severe hearing loss need. There is wind noise.
飯糰 also come in a Shanghainese variety (粢飯）. They're long and stuffed with a deep fried dough stick 油條, the pork floss, and sugar. As well as a savory variety with mustard greens 榨菜. Seems like the Taiwanese version is fusion of both Chinese and Japanese styles for Taiwanese tastes.
A profit is one thing. That's what I'm referring to. This is in fact necessary for a business that hopes to stay in business.

A ever increasing profit is another entirely, and I agree with you. I love the book "small giants, companies that choose to be great instead of big"
Do you have any thoughts on adding tensor core support? Tensor cores are most of what modern GPUs are used for but are devilishly hard to program well (they totally break most of CUDA's abstractions).
Everything is regulated these days and it usually costs a fortune and helps nobody except incumbents. Makes everything feel rigged and makes me not want to participate in the economy.

I wish we could go back to a time when everyone takes their own risks and has to do their own research. Manufacturers could optionally pay some standards company to add some safety label to it to help boost customer confidence but it should not be compulsory. We're all going to die eventually and this obsession with safety is unhealthy and probably kills more people than it protects (e.g. due to the mental distress they cause and false peace of mind which dumbs down consumers and makes them feel like they don't need to do their own research... Not to mention the social harms caused by the passive 'trust the experts' mindset).
This somehow reminds me of Marc Levoy's HDR+ [0] that uses the same exposure time for each shot instead of the conventional bracketing. The technique can take many same short exposure time shots and computationally make the photo brighter (among other HDR effects) with reduced noise, which in a way emulates some benefits of longer exposure time, although not the motion blur effect.

[0] https://blog.research.google/2014/10/hdr-low-light-and-high-...
Isn't that a griddle?
Many times it's an environmental regulations thing. There are things you can do, manufacture in other countries that you cannot here. It's just like textiles, much of mineral and other heavy metal refining, etc.

If anything, you'd build a plant in Mexico to do that stuff, then put it together here, like most appliance manufacturers do.
Worse yet, the dining philosophers in the image have too many hands. No wonder they’re deadlocking! :)
Engineers taught driverless DeLorean to drift
> This one was a very large caveat pointed out loudly every time the feature was mentioned to the community.

It really wasn't. There were people on here, including Oracle employees, claiming that the virtual thread implementation was a drop-in replacement that would work (not necessarily perform better, but work) in all cases.
The correct description is death by Wall Street. Despite recent attempts, there is no way to revive industry in the USA because industrial companies cannot make the amount of profits that Wall Street wants. They are interested on monopoly power exemplified by Google and Apple, which are able to generate the juicy returns that investors want.
Ah yes, the 2024 version of the old Hackernews "any programmer who's any good should be able to quit their job Friday and walk into a new role the following Wednesday".

Still not true.
Physical objects are literally the worst thing to sell. As a fellow software developer I urge you to stay the hell away from hardware. So many things that can go wrong with a physical device that you can do nothing about.

Also, it’s expensive as hell getting the proper certification for whatever you’re making, even if it works well.
Drug use is a modern thing? Opium, tobacco and alcohol are quite old.