skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several satellites focusing on human-driven methane emitters and monitoring that will be active in the next few years, like Planet's Carbon Mapper (https://www.planet.com/pulse/carbon-mapper-launches-satellit...). It's great to have active monitoring if we want to impose limits and hold offenders accountable.
Your argument was built upon the premise that Spotify pays 70% to artists. You were show to be wrong and now appear to be trying to move the goalposts.
I've grown pretty tired of these kinds of missives that are so one-sided that they don't even attempt to do an honest "pros/cons" look at widespread remote work. For me, I certainly agree with all of his noted pros: less time wasted in traffic, more flexibility especially for working parents, and even some things he didn't mention, like fewer distractions when you need "heads down" time. Even before the pandemic I always preferred working from home when I knew I just needed a long stretch of coding time, and things like huge open-plan offices terrified me. I also agree that RTO plans are largely useless; you often just get the "people come in and then just spend half their time on Zoom because some colleagues are still remote" dynamic.

But I do worry about the long-term effects of so much remote work, primarily:

1. When I was new in my career, I learned a ton just "through osmosis" by being around more experienced colleagues. I also built good relationship and friendships early in my work career (to be honest, I always felt kind of sad for people who took the "colleagues aren't your friends" mindset. Perhaps not all of them, but why not make friends with people you spend a lot of time with?) I certainly understand married people with kids and with well-developed friend groups being much more happier with remote work, but I think it's much harder to develop those relationships in the first place if you start out remote from the get go.

2. I really worry about overall isolation, and also an increase in polarization. We used to talk about the loss of "third spaces" when countries became much less religious, and now we're seeing the loss of that "second space" (the office) as well. I go into the office multiple times a week just because I get stir crazy staying in my house all the time. The average number of people I have contact with in any week is way, way down, and that doesn't help my tendency toward depression.

In other words, yes, I agree that remote work has won, but given that, I think it's a good time to focus on ameliorating the negatives.
> Please don't edit, trim, or cut off others' quotes so that you can misrepresent their position.

I didn't misrepresent anything.

I don't understand your comment at all. That's literally what I quoted -- "but it’s no less usable with the <hr> than without". I quoted what you say is the correct quote. And it's false, for the reasons I gave.

If you're designing expecting the <hr> to be supported ("with the <hr>"), and it isn't supported, usability degrades (i.e. becomes "less usable"). They made the point that it's graceful degradation, and my point is confirming that whether it's "graceful" or not, it still degrades usability which is all that matters. It's still a negative.

> so why you bristled like that is a bit perplexing

Just because somebody disagrees with you, that doesn't mean they're "bristling". It's not only insulting to say that, but it's also just plain wrong. And it's not helping the conversation.
This.

The looming commercial real estate economic catastrophe aside, everyone who fought to keep work remote fought for the opportunity to compete directly in a global wage market.

BuzzFeed-journalists enjoy sniping middle managers-as-petty-autocrats from the peanut gallery in a "fight the power!" attitude using gender-war headline bait, but I expect zoomer MBAs still living in their grandparents basements into their 40s, overseeing the cheapest possible globally remote gen alpha ICs and AIs, are going to do just fine.
Find a college course and follow its structure & do some exploration on archive. In math, I've found that some writing is a lot easier to learn from, due to its clarity and style.

I'm usually not satisfied with the canonical book choices in math. Sometimes books are chosen because of tradition and not because of clarity. Like, there's so much good modern writing and the article recommends reading Jacobson for Algebra?? really?
Here in Canada we just got through a cold snap that had temperatures down to almost -40c so... I would definitely call that pleasant :)
Interestingly, on the video it appears as rotating wheels that change inclination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68YMEmaF0rs&t=203s

From the close-up shots, you can clearly see them rotating and changing inclination.

By changing inclination they can control the contact surface of the rotating wheels and as a result control the direction of your movement. Very clever and simple but might be dangerous(you wouldn't want to have your pinky stuck between load bearing rotating wheels) and prone to tear and wear due to the high dynamic friction.

However, if there's actually a way to make it sticky or slippery with ultrasound then you can get away with a partial rotation back and forth while turning it sticky in one direction to push the objects in that direction and turn it slippery to reset its own position and get ready for another push. This probably will make it quite safe.
You don't aim a von Neuman probe anywhere. You use unbounded exponential math to send them everywhere as they are free. It seems like you might find the idea interesting if you look into the concept a bit closer.
Steppers with encoders aren't that expensive. Surestep is an example. 150 bucks for a nema34 motor with plenty of torque that won't lose steps. Nema23 is like 50 bucks.

That is the middle ground that won't lose steps but isn't as powerful.

I agree linear motors are well overkill for this. They are mainly useful when you need very high acceleration, which isn't true here
I don't think so. Solutions don't need to be perfect for them to not be a mess. All buildings have roofs.
And yet technology surrounding remote work has failed us, curious. Bad internet, bad software, bad hardware, the holy trinity of communication enshittification.

I can code anywhere and I can text anywhere just fine. 1:1 calls work more often than not. But boy do I abhor remote workshops. They suck in every way possible, and even in some previously thought impossible!
Per https://www.phonearena.com/news/iPhone-vs-Android-How-often-..., a relative handful of users switch between Android and iOS. That does not seem to qualify as "all the time".
The issue is the amount of money spent on commercial restate leases and maintaining space is quite high.

Once upon a time people thought “hey if we could let people use their phones instead of a corporate blackberry we could save like $5mm a year!” BYOD was born.

Now, as passions cool and leases come up for renewal, they’ll look quite hard at the hundred million spent on real estate per year. Most companies compute a per head occupancy cost. I know for banks on walls street it was $30,000/person/year before 2020. With hybrid that’s becoming nearly $60,000/person/year because the people only occupy the seat half the time.

Thats eye watering numbers. It’s going to be increasingly hard to justify without concrete returns on investment. “I prefer,” “serendipity,” “corporate values,” “think of the children’s careers,” etc only have weight for so long. Right now there are enterprising finance directors preparing slides to help secure their next promotion proposing eliminating most office space once tax agreements and leases expire. Boards will see a nice uptick in EPS as the conclusion of that deck, and when the almost retired CEO starts lamenting the loss of the way they grew up, they’ll buy them a horse and buggy whip and shut down the office.

This will pale compared to the wage savings they’ll reap when they level the wage distribution nationally. There’s no reason to pay inflated rates for Bay Area or New York City employees, beyond the very few that are genuinely differentiated.

It has nothing to do with preference at the end of the day. And there will likely be some much smaller offices for people who really insist on working in an office. But for most people it’ll just be a thing of the past
from the link:

Elisabeth Schneider suggested that this prologue, as well as the person from Porlock, was fictional and intended as a credible explanation of the poem's seemingly fragmentary state as published. The poet Stevie Smith also suggested this view in one of her own poems, saying "the truth is I think, he was already stuck".
I found the nonlinearity thing overhyped. It was fine, but on par with, like, Fallout 2. But not quite on that level, even. Not some revelation.

Actually, kinda worse than that, because good and evil are more-explicit in BG3.

It presents an illusion of much greater depth than it actually has.

(I did enjoy it, and finished it, but have found much of the praise for it more confusing than something I can relate to)
To see so much conspiracy around here is sobering. This community loves to poke fun at things like religion while applying the same faulty logic to things like extraterrestrial UFOs.

I think that extraterrestrial UFO conspiracies are extra juicy because they also infer negative things about the US government.

From https://lite.cnn.com/2024/01/26/opinions/ufos-actual-truth-b...

> “What’s more likely?” asked Kirkpatrick. “The fact that there is a state-of-the-art technology that’s being commercialized down in Florida that you didn’t know about, or we have extraterrestrials?” he said. “And it even makes me scratch my head more when you show them; here’s the company in Florida that builds exactly what you’ve described. And their response is, well, no, no, no, it’s gotta be extraterrestrials, and you’re covering it up.”
Valve makes plenty of money out of a proprietary platform, and still manages to be the good guys.

It's possible.

But disney has lost the friendly vibes for a long time.

They still got talent, and that's not nothing.
Wait.... Can this run on a normal intel/amd server and then be used in an xrdp/nx session?
I need social compatibility and a good camera.
I already tried i3 but it is difficult to use without a physical keyboard.
I hope you mean on "this site" you mean on the author's site, because it is complete twilight zone, even relative to HN.
Well if you were working in “endless cubicle farms” and “wasting your lives in traffic” then, yes, removing those two things from your life is a smart thing to do. Being socially isolated from the other members of your team and only having VC is, in my mind, just as poor of an alternative.

Imagine instead if you and (the majority of) your colleagues came to work by cycling for 20 minutes through green pastures, parks, under willow trees along the river, and through the centre of one of the most famous historic towns in England. That’s what we do here in Cambridge.

We also do not operate a cubicle farm. Our office is spacious, filled with breakout spaces, relaxation spots, a library (aka quiet room), VC equipped rooms of all sizes, with a mini- and a maxi-kitchen and free snacks and meals.

We come and go as we please with two days a week all together and frequently other in-office days for sub teams too, agreed by consensus not fiat. I often work at home in the morning or go home after lunch for the afternoon if I need uninterrupted focus / maker time. We have a personal IT budget for our home offices so I don’t need to cycle with my laptop (which btw is an Ubuntu Dell XPS, because our IT team know what they’re doing — you can have a MacBook if you insist.) Cambridge has gigabit fibre which is handy when pushing and pulling models from the A100 machines in our remote data centre.

We still allow people to be as remote as they want and we also have a satellite office in London. It is rare though for the core eng team to not see each other in person for more than five days on the trot. It’s just so much more productive to build and plan stuff in person around a whiteboard, with pair programming, or in a war room.
I saw a video about this a few days ago, one thing that’s not addressed is what aluminum alloys this works best with. Some alloys aren’t suitable for casting. And separately you need to flux the molten solution to separate out oxides and make sure there’s no voids or inclusions in the metal object.

That said, this is brilliant and could easily have huge impact in non structural applications or prototyping.
Children of the Dog Star

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOHAr9wR86E&list=PL83DE505F4...>
Or they'll hire overseas and LCOL.

Everything is supply and demand. Now workers are orders of magnitude more sourceable and fungible, meaning the supply went way up.

Wages will stop going up and even start to slide backwards for new hires. I've already seen it. I was making just over $400k at my last job, and new positions at the same level aren't listed over $200k total comp.

And if hypothetically AI brings down demand in the future (big if), then the wage curve is under even further pressure.
https://youtu.be/zQTfuI-9jIo?si=vYYxLP_yQfgsYEA9

This is a fascinating talk that goes into the details of such an endeavor.
What are the chances of a small group and 10k vs big business with infinite pockets and teams ofa lawyers who went to law school with the legislators and judges?

America is not a country where the little guy wins typically anymore but wishing the best for them.
the man has left, or the man was pushed away. the man has left, or the man is providing financial support, while being deprived of contact with his children.

when 1 in 3 children are raised in a single parent household, compared to the traditional norm of 1 in 20, everybody could use a reminder to act responsible when it comes to the life they create.

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_parent#Children
These commentaries have such nuance and focus it reads like a work of art. I appreciate the many people who contributed to this thread. A true critical reading of each person's comments. It's absolutely beautiful.
There will be no savings nor winners is no one moves a finger. Doing nothing will have infinite cost.
Lost: my lost dog poster, last seen here. White and covered with black patches of Calibri
> it’s pretty interesting to me that especially US society has accepted these facts so seemingly easily

Because in the 1960s and 70s the US was rebuilt to be entirely car-dependent. And most Americans today accept that as the norm, because the only places they know that are different are New York and those quaint European and Asian cities rich people travel to.
Korg Gadget isn't half bad: https://www.korg.com/us/products/software/korg_gadget_for_ni...

There isn't really an above-board way to publish software on Switch without an SDK. However, you can unlock the hardware to run Android or a (very fragile) version of Linux. There are also custom firmwares that let you create homebrew software for Nintendo's official software, but you'll be pretty limited there too.
You're right. You'd have to use the `read` built-in and `echo` or `printf` in a while loop combined with redirection, but the POSIX-specified `read` built-in is intended for text and isn't going work correctly with binary files.

With bash you could maybe use the non-standard `read -N` option but I'm not sure about null bytes.
Yup, no one has really solved the virtual conference yet. It's a massive opportunity for whoever figures it out.
Block form is not intended to run untrusted code, it is used similar to how exception handling is used in some languages:

perl -e 'eval { die "aiee" }; print "problem: $@"'
I bet they would have made more money by offering subscriptions on iOS despite the fee because of the reduced friction for consumers. Spotify, epic, et al just want to have their cake and eat it too.
Back in the 00’s I worked for a fortune 300 company. My day consisted of working with sales (always remote), executives (always traveling), and operations (distributed across the country). My day consisted of conferences calls, emails and accessing files on the network. The only reason needed to be in the office was to answer the phone and use the network. One cellphone and vnc running on a spare desktop I really didn’t need to be there.

In office is a waste of time and money.
Microsoft CEO calls for tech industry to 'act' after AI photos of Taylor Swift
Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
I wish I could buy into something like this.

But I believe that alien theory, alien simulation theory, etc.. are all our modern form of deism. Humans have a great need to find order from a higher power.

I will believe in god(s), aliens, or any other higher power when I am shown irrefutable proof. Until then, we are on our own folks!
I'd say my primary motivation is an educational goal, i.e., helping people understand how LLMs work by building one. LLMs are an important topic, and there are lots of hand-wavy videos and articles out there -- I think if one codes an LLM from the ground up, it will clarify lots of concepts.

Now, the secondary goal is, of course, also to help people with building their own LLMs if they need to. The book will code the whole pipeline, including pretraining and finetuning, but I will also show how to load pretrained weights because I don't think it's feasible to pretrain an LLM from a financial perspective. We are coding everything from scratch in this book using GPT-2-like LLM (so that we can load the weights for models ranging from 124M that run on a laptop to the 1558M that runs on a small GPU). In practice, you probably want to use a framework like HF transformers or axolotl, but I hope this from-scratch approach will demystify the process so that these frameworks are less of a black box.
I’ve been told that this is still a problem at large organizations in that industry.
Awesome! Thanks. I already thought about using my server for Linux phone sessions. At the moment only tmux+mosh. Having a DM that actually works for phones would be much better. This might help getting me there.
The way I've seen it used in TV shows, there'd be a number somewhere (embedded, or day of month the message was sent, etc) that indicates what page of the book to use.
No, hence the "this is cool".

I just have the reflex of clinching my butthole now every time I hear that kind of speech.

It's not the speech of the people that invented the machines, it's a speech written by the lawyers, sellers and executives.

Even Nintendo, which is one of the worst offender in obsessive legal actions manage to actually have creators sharing their vision in their voices about their games.

This video is the opposite of that.
Light aircraft parachute system deployed by pilot saves his life [video]
Transparency is a double edged sword. You definitely want to hide some capability (ambiguity) otherwise the opponent can calculate what to do to win, and then just do that.
This might be a matter of perspective.
So back to Aerotrims?
When the fed prints money they debase the currency. Debasement reduces the purchasing power of the existing currency in supply. This means the dollars I traded my time and energy for can purchase less. Bitcoin does not have this problem.
> So just because icj can tell someone to knock it off if they (falsely) claim the reason for the war is to prevent genocide, it is unclear they can do so when the reason is self-defense after an attack

In this matter, they are the judge of whether the actions are self defense, and they are the judge of whether the actions are genocidal. Otherwise, even the most monstrous and illegal acts could be excused by unilaterally declaring "self defense!". Russia, for example, also claimed all their actions were "self-defense", and continues to do so, to this day.

The similarities don't end there: Much like russia claims Ukraine isn't a real country, and should be demilitarized, and Ukrainians should be controlled by Russia; Israel claims Palestine isn't a real country, and should be demilitarized, and Palestinians should be controlled by Israel. Both Israel and russia attack civilian buildings full of civilians (!), and justify it by unconvincingly claiming there was a military target somewhere around there, plotting to harm them. russia usually doesn't level the entire block like Israel does, but not for want of trying. All in the name of "self-defense".

russia: goal is removing the government of Ukrainians by force and dominating Ukrainians. Israel: goal is removing the government of Palestinians by force and dominating Palestinians. russia: 'we must deprogram Ukrainians to remove their extremist, anti-russian feelings and get them to accept our domination of them'. Israel: 'we must deprogram Palestinians to remove their extremist, anti-Israel feelings and get them to accept our domination of them'. That last bit of abuser gaslighting is particularly gross and scary to me. All in the name of "self-defense".

With that in mind, the reasons claimed by each side for each action may inform the judges, who then judge what the actual reasons are, and rule accordingly. Indeed, Israel sought to have the case dismissed, claiming a jurisdictional issue like the one you suggested. The judges heard the arguments and evidence for and against such a claim, and judged that they had jurisdiction under the law.

Israel's participation in these proceedings, in front of the judges who judge such matters, on both jurisdiction and merit, seems to only further legitimize the judges and their judgement on such matters. Could Israel be cynical enough to join russia in doing an about-face on their recognition of the judges' legitimacy, simply for being ruled against?
This is why we can't have nice things – and also anti-capitalistic behavior.

If the market see no need for commercial real-estate in cities, it ought to bankrupt. That is the free market.

Forcing people to work from an office in order to plan for economic outcomes could be deemed plan-economy - the US communism (How ironic).
>I imagine it's pretty hard to get seriously injured or die when not on the freeway.

I don't have data handy, but it seems like an awful lot of fatalities occur in and around intersections (which imply not-a-freeway).

Freeways feel like they are safer overall, most of the time you are moving in the same direction as the vehicles immediately surrounding you, which reduces the chances for head-on or side collisions, which seem to be particularly fatal.

However, an actual freeway crash also feels like it has a higher probability of being fatal. Proportionate to miles driven they may be less common, but like a plane crash, they are noteworthy when they do happen and make for "better news".
Property taxes will have to skyrocket to compensate for the lost tax revenue in many cities. Whether we like to admit it or not, the infrastructure costs are a shared cost and if we lose a lot of commercial tax revenue that was indirectly gathered from residents, it will have to be gathered directly from residents.

Increased property taxes will push people on the margins out and compound the issue while also decreasing real-estate value.
I've sold IT stuff to a city that had some expensive consultants configure their ActiveDirectory as <name_of_city>.ad, as in the ccTLD of Andorra.
Same. Or at least, I strongly prefer having the option of using it standalone, especially when the devices involved are highly portable.
Using laser-grade ply is important, because often the smell is more glue than wood. Air assist makes a big difference, as does using a well-focussed laser source with good beam quality. Failing that, try a sealer coat of shellac or polyurethane.