skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
unless you live in a densely-populated area

this argument does not consider that if there are no cars, we would need a lot more busses and trains, and then even in a less populated area, public transport makes sense.

only extremely sparsely populated areas would need individual transport.

planned with public transport in mind

why does it have to be planned ahead of time? you take any area, count the traffic, and replace every 20 cars with one bus. you'll find that in many areas that's enough to need a bus every few minutes.

then you take every busy highway and replace it with trains. again, you'll need multiple trains per hour to accommodate everyone.

even in a country with very good public transport like germany, public transport is only 10% of all personal traffic. if all cars were removed, there would have to be 10 times as many trains and busses to make up for that.

a local train that now runs every 20 minutes would then have to run every 2 minutes. instead of an hourly long distance train, you'd need that same train to run every 5 minutes. a small village that only has one bus per day, would still be able to now have a bus per hour. probably in that village many would still keep their car, but they would use it less.

more public transport means a higher frequency, and the whole problem that makes public transport unattractive goes away.

the problem is not the end scenario. the problem is how to get there from where we are now.
In fact, they spent a lot of their time on ~~slash dot~~ ~~Reddit~~ hacker news!
Or who fear consequences. That means enforcement has to be effective enough that people know there’s a high risk of consequences - for example, if driving on a suspended license means your car is sold at auction, people will care a lot more about following safety rules.
> It's like hiding $500 in a dummy wallet in your underwear drawer, if someone finds it, they think they found your stash and they move on without tearing the rest of the place apart.

This is one of the silliest things I've read in a while. Maybe it will stop your junkie kids from pawning your shit but there are no "rules" to burglary otherwise.

We were burgled just last week. Despite stealing a single large high-ticket item ($2000) it wasn't enough to stop them from stealing random garbage and glass and metal jewelry the kids made at summer camp. They took everything they could carry.
I run a team of embedded systems developers writing software for a kiosk system, and our productivity is about the same as it would be in-office. We've had to make technology decisions at times to avoid doing low-level bring-up but almost all of the work we do doesn't require a shared lab space. My team is very effective at meeting organizational goals. We're more effective than many of the higher-paid "flagship" teams at the organization. We've delivered key strategic projects that the CTO considers very successful.

So no, remote work doesn't "kill productivity." It's a different way of working. There's a skillset and a set of attitudes and habits that successful remote working requires, and you have to start building that in new hires almost immediately if you want them to be successful. Like any transition in business you have to have a roadmap. And you need to think about the work your team does and how you're going to provide organizational supports without having everyone in the same room.
I think it is more the environment for some people.

Working from home, really does IMO require a Home Office, a space dedicated for work.

I know many people that are more productive at home, all of them have a home office. I know many people that are not productive at home, none of them have a home office, instead are using some Shared Space, like a corner of the living room, the kitchen table, etc.

If you do not have a dedicated home office then likely your home will be filled with distractions,

Living situations impacts this as well, if you lived a alone with no pets vs having a house full of roommates, children, spouses, pets, etc.

So from a Management perspective do they fire all the people that cant work from home, or require everyone to return to office? Or do they have different policies for different people then open themselves up to Workplace legal liability from either discrimination or hostile work place charges
I think the idea is horrible but didn't downvote.

I think I don't even have the button to.
It sounds like a textbook case of bad management if no one in the management chain or peer groups for those people can tell whether they're absent. I don't think that's a common situation though. Rather, tech companies have gotten paranoid about information flow regarding layoffs and don't meaningfully incorporate that data into executive decisionmaking. To escape their information vacuum, they instead look to outwardly visible signals like RTO/badge swipes as a substitute for the individualized performance metrics they've firewalled out.
>There isn't a growing mass market for heavy and expensive VR headsets.

According to Statista, there is[0]. The market is expected to grow by about 10% annually for the next half decade. Moreover, if this weren't a growing mass market, I don't think FB would have renamed to Meta and gone all-in on VR headsets. They just dropped the Quest 3 which undercut their 3x as expensive Quest Pro. The tech is rapidly improving and the market is definitely growing so I think it's natural that Apple wants to enter it.

[0]https://www.statista.com/outlook/amo/ar-vr/worldwide
Other articles have noted this also affects the 2003 to 2004 Pontiac Vibe, which is essentially a rebadged Toyota Corolla Matrix.

https://apnews.com/article/toyota-takata-air-bag-explode-shr...
We don't need perfectly entangled qubits, but we do need a large number of physical qubits in order to achieve quantum error correction (and in practice get a smaller amount of perfect logical qubits). We are not very close to that level today, but the progress in the last decade was quite radical.
Same here, I did some NBA research yesterday and was served low view count videos (some as low as 700 views) for popular players and topics.
That isn't possible on Android and most likely iOS if you actually have the permission off.
I think it is retaliation. Employees started pushing for WFH, raises, better work/life balance. Employers (especially bad ones) like to have control and so this is to get employees back in line.
Thanks. Corporate firewalls see "vpn" and go crazy...
Apple won't even make a consumer-targeted dedicated monitor, I can't see them doing a TV.
Ask HN: Anything cool going on in the mobile AI space?
Does anyone know of any companies focused on mobile for language models? SDKs or using mobile in a unique way.
Nothing this extreme on my end. Mind you, the recommendations have gone completely off rails. I will give them that, it's no longer the same popular stuff everyone sees and I do see content from small time creators who have less than 500 views and whatnot, which is good(I do occasionally find something good in there). The big channels I am subscribed to have really dropped the ball when it comes to quality or outright abandoned youtube altogether.

But on the subject of blocking, I have two things going on: ad blocker, courtesy of Brave and a plugin that removes youtube shorts, which I hate with a passion.
Oh yeah. The truth is obviously way more complicated and nuanced.

I was just being snippy at the parent comment giving the really tired complaint that it's all about not having enough money (obviously false).
As someone who has built media players, the established convention seems to be that the play/pause button shows what the button will do. It hurts me to do "button shows what it will do" every time. But all the other media players I'm familiar with do it this way.

Does anyone know of a major media player where the play/pause button shows what the state is, rather than what the button does?
Counterpoint: If you want a terminal w/o the bloat of a full GUI, but still most of the advantages, `xterm-mouse-mode` will get you 80% of the way there:

(require 'mouse)
(xterm-mouse-mode t)
(mouse-wheel-mode t)
(setq mouse-wheel-scroll-amount '(1 ((shift) . 1))) ;; scroll one line at a time
(setq mouse-wheel-progressive-speed nil) ;; don't accelerate scrolling
(setq mouse-wheel-follow-mouse 't) ;; scroll window under mouse
(setq scroll-step 1) ;; scroll smoothly

Also, I should point out that I use `(setq auto-save-default nil)` - as God intended.
You can write it more functionally very easily, something like (untested):

Path("measurements.txt")
.readLines()
.groupBy({ it.substringBefore(';') }, { it.substringAfter(';').toDouble() })
.forEach { (name, temps) ->
println("%s=%.1f/%.1f/%.1f".format(name, temps.min(), temps.average(), temps.max()))
}

I didn't do it that way because with one billion rows, it runs out of memory. The imperative version that mutates in place doesn't.

You can probably write a functional version that also doesn't run out of memory using .groupingBy{}, because it all applies to lazy sequences. I just didn't bother working out how. The Java streams framework can do the same things and has the advantage that it can sometimes make it easy to parallelize.
I imagine a mostly autonomous land vehicle relying on GPS would also require RTK GPS, which does require an external source of the data. Some GPS receivers can receive that from satellites, but the data is encrypted and requires expensive commercial licenses or military grade equipment.
Remember, though, that in many places ignoring something can put you at risk for a default judgement at a later date. It'd be nice if we could just ignore troll trash :/
Even better, don't watch LTT? It's the "Big Bang Theory" of tech content and they shovel 3 or 4 ads in there just for fun.
I think much contempt is actually directed at how JS features have not always had the same performance profile, support, or implementation across browsers.

The language itself is fine, and incongruities have long been polyfilled.

With Shared Array Buffers, Webworkers, WASM and WebGPU, offloading heavy computational work will only become easier.
Yeah, my gaming (obviously I'm not playing AAA action games) PC runs on a 350W PSU and is rarely audible.
There are alternatives but none that are generally popular.
> Find a domain space with one archetypal decision that gets solved by many different companies

Interesting. Can you give an example of what kind of decisions you're thinking about?
Agree with all this. I think the lowered birthrate is all explained by the accessibility & acceptability of birth control. Before birth control, if you didn't want to have kids, you had to be celibate, which uh no, thanks. So lots of people had kids whether they wanted them or not. Now that we have a choice, we're finding many people just choose not to.

If this is a problem that we want to solve, then the solution IMO is to treat child rearing as the full-time job that it is. I don't mean subsidies or tax breaks, I'm talking a full $70k/year salary for the job of Being A Parent. As a childless person myself, I would support this.
100%

Also, the tools a manager needs for 'remote management' is very different than what's needed for in-person.

It's also very possible managers are not given the tools needed to manage a remote workforce.
Also Eastern Europe has by far the highest road crash fatalities - according to Eurostat[1] Romania tops it. So some worry might be earned... even when other people are less stressed about dying in a car crash.

https://actmedia.eu/daily/eurostat-romania-the-highest-rate-...
> Companies With Flexible Remote Work Policies Outperform On Revenue Growth

> The report shows that the three-year industry-adjusted revenue growth rate of companies that have what Scoop calls a “fully flexible” policy—meaning they allow employees or teams to choose when or whether they come to the office, or are fully remote—is 21%. Companies in the data set with more restrictive policies—say, those that have corporate mandates for a couple days per week or those that require full-time work in the office—had only a 5% industry-adjusted revenue growth rate, the analysis found. When excluding the tech industry over the same period, public companies that were “fully flexible” outperformed by 13 percentage points.

You should offer office-optional, if you're tech you should really offer office-optional. I'm genuinely shocked how people didn't see these results coming, companies are simply unwilling to invest the money to give every employee a nice office tailored to their own productivity but guess what -- employees will do that on their own if you let them, for free.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenamcgregor/2023/11/14/compani...
Congrats on launching; it's a big step that a lot of people shy away from. And congrats on the traction and comments you're getting!

I think there's nothing wrong with entering a crowded market or building an alternative to similar existing products - but I also think you need something to differentiate your offering! I'm not sure what that is for this product, but I think it's great that you launched and hopefully v the experience will help you design your next offering.
So glad to see this here. Ken Shirriff's work is really fascinating.
Substantial Performance Regression in Python 3.12
I found this article fascinating. It's about the uk affordability of housing but with 175 years of data.

https://www.schroders.com/en-gb/uk/individual/insights/what-...

You can clearly see the impact of ww1 and the influenza pandemic in the 1914-18 period.
Yah, I do pretty much the same thing. The default colours are far too dark for the dark background, so I just increase the luminance of all the colours.
My 2001 Camry was not affected by this. Hooray.
What's the proper course of action if you don't have an attorney?
China is still urbanizing rapidly. Just like GP said, it won't be a ghost city for long. It depends though on how long the investor can hold out, and whether or not the new city is doomed from the start.

CCP planning is just different. TBD if it's doomed to fail like the Soviet Union, or if it will make it through a crisis like this. It's also hard to tell what will ultimately call a crisis; just thinking back to 2008, a lot of the story is only figured out in retrospect (eg how critical Bear Stearns was).
Yeah those services offering one-time or service/vendor specific CC #s for total management are probably going to have a bright and profitable future.
I really appreciate your comment, I'm hoping I am wrong about my experiences!

But, this is the issue I believe:

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/09/15/limitations-on-macos-virt...

(or, the original is here: https://eclecticlight.co/2023/12/26/when-macos-wont-work-wit...)

You cannot login using AppleID. If you can't do that, aren't you prevented from basically doing any kind of stapling and/or retrieving certificates for signing?

I would LOVE to be wrong about this. You've done that?
It's rare, but I've been woken up at least once by a "congratulations on completing your stand/exercise!".
Isn't this just bad management? Hire people who can WFH effectively.
Do you think rto solves that? Your manager isn't going to be following your around physically. They're in meetings 6 hours a day. Everyone knows that one person who takes the 1 hour lunch break, leaves early, talks about this super hard bug that somehow takes them 3 weeks but no one has time to look into it.
perhaps the answer is not necessary, since either way the solution there is to hire managers that fit the company's design and IC's strengths vs accommodating managers with weaknesses such as being a "bad remote" managers
Quite a long read, but well worth the time.

Sinofsky nails the analysis on EU regulation and provides some interesting insight into how it is to be on the other side of the table.

Also a very apt analysis of Apple’s motivations.
In my experience, bureaucracy doesn't run on laptops.
This is an excellent idea. A few other applications would use the heat for:
greenhouses in winter(I think at least one person had done this)
drying wood/lumber
drying foods
A baby born today isn't going to add demand for housing for almost 2 decades.
> Quality is not a bottom-up thing, everybody has to be in on it.

I like it. But I've seen at least one place (a start up) where (to some extent) quality was a bottom up thing. Eventually it became a share value, but it was rooted in developers saying: No, we need more time.

On the other hand, I don't know of examples where quality was forced top-down — places where a senior developer would say: I'm done/I don't care/this is good enough and their manager telling them to spend more time on a feature or teaching them about software design.
>Upper-middle and upper class aren't having children either though

Interesting. In USA fertility is tub / U shaped [0]. Filthy rich just hire nannies and bang away and dirt poor have none to negative opportunity cost

[0] https://twitter.com/theHauer/status/1222514313723875332/phot...
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> Most of the unfinished buildings will be completed in 2-5 years.

Many things wrong with that statement. Chinese local governments are overloaded with debt - 12.6 TRILLION https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/china-orders-local-gove.... National government has refused to supply local governments with more money, in fact it has limited some local governments to what they can build. Local Governments have zero incentives to add more inventory to an already bloated real estate supplies. A lot of these unfinished buildings were left unfinished for a number of years, is already left to ruin, and unsalvageable. Tofu dreg building qualities means it's easier to demolish these buildings.
I'm not sure I understand this whole contamination argument. There are so many ways to find signs of life, it could be a fossil, it could be frozen in ice deep underground it could be evidence of non-Earth compatible biology.

Sure, once humans are there we should check every alien life discovery with unprecedented rigour, but there could be evidence which can't be explained with "humans brought it with them" type of reasoning.
I think we're past that. Our phones have already seen so many things we could find embarrassing.

One smart thing Apple usually does when using cameras for sensing (see Face ID) is never showing you the image, making it feel a lot less creepy.
> People are consenting to this, that’s the issue.

I don't think they are, by and large. At least, not "consent" in any meaningful sense.
Really good manager is highly context dependent. I had a manager early in the pandemic who was reasonably effective, but only because he was everywhere and picking up stuff via overhearing convos in our corner. It worked because he was omnipresent.

As soon as communication and the flow of information needed to be deliberate, he was more challenged.

In person, anything he wasn't present for never got considered or failed.
The article specifically discusses Solaris as a gleaming success for web startups in the 1990s. I am here to tell you that as a member of that scene, I would have burned Solaris at the stake if it had a suitable physical manifestation.
> There's certainly enough people on the planet to make up for any headcount-shortfall with immigration

I'm just glad they're all perfectly interchangeable.
Already responded to that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39190257
This comment still doesn't answer parent question. I design critical infrastructure control systems for a living. Every single component of my systems is user servicable and replaceable with an alternative COTS available component with a little bit of work. There is literally no reason a tractor can't also do that. Other than market moats and rent seeking.
It's absolutely possible. But if you're a really great "in-person" manager managing a remote team, calling that "poor management" is totally fair game, as far as I see it. That they're good at a completely different set of skills is pretty much irrelevant. I don't think there's much more nuance needed here.
I browse HN with a custom client I built for myself: https://hw.leftium.com/

- Shows all posts that hit the top page, ordered by most recent

- Easier to read; long sub-threads start collapsed with comment count.

My client is read-only, so in order to comment there is a link to the original HN page. (Also have a bookmarklet to toggle between the two.) To improve my experience on official HN site:

- Refined Hacker News: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/28686126

- Made it more readable with a custom user style (I modified another "Readable Hacker News Theme"):

@-moz-document domain("news.ycombinator.com") {
body {
margin: 0;
}

p,
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max-width: 685px;
font-size: 1.1em;
font-family: sans-serif !important;
}

pre {
font-family: monospaced !important;
max-width: none;
padding-bottom: 14px;
font-size: 1em;
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Yeah... CEOs. Most of them don't work.
The linked paper is open access and explains the novel part very well but the watermark on the PDF makes my eyes bleed. Probably I should have linked it instead of the ScienceX recap, which I do fairly often.

On the other hand there are many papers that come to a strong conclusion but you wouldn't get that from reading the title and popular articles sometimes do do a better job of explaining the importance of the work. (e.g. some really technical thing about Metal Organic Frameworks might have big technological consequences) I find the HN community is likely to complain about a ScienceX post having obnoxious ads but that on Mastodon or Tildes I am likely to get comments like "I wish I could understand that" when I post journal articles, even when they are relatively easy to read.
Thanks. Pretty nice!
Same for me but there was a single sentence that more than halved my interest in buying this: you can’t have multiple floating windows of MacOS. It’s all in one single floating window. This is by far the biggest flaw for me, and a really stupid one. Hopefully a software update changes this
Windows, panes, a nice bar with the time, scrolling.
If you eat the stationary that the C&D is printed on, it's like it never existed (IANAL).
> *Apparently there are some legal systems, particularly in Europe, where the costs of taking Big Tech to court are lower. You’d have to ask your lawyer about that. The time and willpower aspects may be similar though.

I’m not a lawyer, let alone a European lawyer, but I’ve heard that the drain-their-bankroll-with-spurious-motions technique that’s beloved by shithead corporations and their attorneys when they have no case isn’t practicable in most European jurisdictions. This is because even at the motion filing level, loser pays. So drowning you in garbage motions just gives your lawyer an easy payday.

Odds of the US adopting that system?
On what does it run on?

Yeah, I'm sure governments do buy some amount of desktop PCs because they don't intend for their workforce to work from anywhere else other than a specific office, but you also can't tell me with a straight face that selling PCs to the DMV, FBI and other bureaucrats represents a big lucrative market that was waiting for the APU revolution.

PCs are a low selling niche now. APUs won't move the needle on that, that's why AMD ignored it for so long. End of story.
I have taken to using a single card in person, and a single card online. The Card on use online is also a Capital One account so I make use of their Eno service to make virtual cards for every vendor

If some company does not want to unsub me, I just turn off that virtual card.