skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
False Equivalence is one of a big sawhorses I bring out for why things suck so much more now, in aerospace and defense generally. For the past 10-15 years, we've had mechanisms for quantitatively ballparking equivalence in pools of supportable assemblies and spared parts - but generally, no one wants to touch that. The purchasers of enterprise solutions (CAD, PDM, etc) want equivalence to be ultimately a financial decision, not a question solved by materials, interfaces, fluid dynamics, frickin' electricity, etc.

Your problem there is . . well, jeez, look around. You're treating completely different products like they're the same thing. Not exactly a new problem, either, but it sure is interesting how it's compounded since the great "financialization" experiment in American capitalism circa 1974, and with a whopper of a sequel post-2008. I am out of my sandbox here, but if I was a betting man, I would put the root cause of this nonsense in this bucket, i.e., lowering apparent risk (by making things look similar) so as to meet requirements of issuing larger financial instruments (bonds, etc).
Yeah, the last 10%. I saw your reply after posting mine, thanks.
Imo our reflexes differ based on context. But I'm not sure if it's the reflexive system chosing one of N options that are always available or the planner that "activates" just a few options based on the current context.
Probably getting downvoted because somehow this is still a politicized issue :/
What if the economy is really bad?
In this article, and in the comments here, and in news reporting in general, falling birth rates are generally seen as a problem. Why is that?

I strongly feel we should strive to decrease the amount of people on this planet: less people means less resources needed to feed and to house them. It means less pressure on the planet's ecosystems, less CO2 produced, less pollution.

The only ethical way to get to a lower amount of people is to have less children. We should see falling birth rates as a good thing, not a problem to be solved.

Are falling birth rates a problem for the economy, as the article hints? I can see how that's a problem, but if the economy only works well when the earth's population is ever increasing, that's clearly not sustainable. The future needs to be sustainable, or human kind is not going to have a future.
> the alternative seems to be aggressively metricize and cut

This is, for me, the funny part about it. If all those metrics, meetings, tickets and what have you, pushed mostly by the management btw, can't help them, then I'm afraid nothing can. ROT is as much of an excuse as the above.
Please provide examples and metrics used to evaluate as "thriving."
I’ve seen more places use devops as a fancy name for sysadmin than as a fancy name for backend dev.
Multiple C&Ds?! You make me realize I might not be living the adventure I should be.
Not sure we read the same article. The first point under "Decide how to respond" is "1. Ignore" (although it suggests this is risky if ignore includes continuing what lead to the C&D)
I mean, so what?

It's hard to be a good manager and if it's easier and more consistent for these companies to extract acceptable performance in office vs. remote, why wouldn't they do it?

People act like remote is right and in-office is wrong (or vice versa), but they're just choices with consequences. There's no objective right or wrong here.
Have to recommend the book "50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)" by Gever Tulley. I think he still runs a camp where they promise the kids will come home with band aids.
Yep, it's all about power.
I don't think that they used the DNA from the databases to convict the people in these cases. I think it was more like this:

• They've got a serious crime, like a serial killer, but no real suspects. They do have some DNA that is almost certainly from the criminal but it does not match any DNA they have on file.

• Years later they compare that DNA to DNA in some large DNA database that is not focused on criminals.

• There are no matches that indicate that the criminal's DNA is in that database, but there are several matches that indicate people who are relatives of the criminal.

• They can then look at assorted public records to find people who are related in the right way to some of those relatives.

• Among those people, some previous person who either never was a suspect originally or a very weak suspect comes up. They then take a thorough look at any records can find about that person's activities at the times of the crime and find that they were actually connected to most of the victims and in the right places at the right times to be the criminal.

• That gives them enough evidence to compel a DNA sample from that person, or they start watching the person and get a DNA sample from something like a discarded napkin or cup that the person unwisely discarded in a public trashcan. That sample matches the samples from the crime scene.

• It is that latter sample, and the records of the person's activities and relationships with the victims, that form the bases of the conviction.
this is why I've always rejected the notion that everyone should put all their data out there so as to overwhelm those trying to collect everything.

Your data is forever and banking on there never being an effective solution (effective does not mean perfection here) doesn't seem like a good gamble.
If this was $500 I’d call it a game changer, and hopefully it gets there in 5 years
Until the banks, and credit card companies just offer the services themselves for cheaper... Like Capital One and I think Discover are already doing
We are well within a Digital Age and we are now digital human beings.
Adversarial Interop is a fundamental Digital Human Right.

Louis has been on the frontlines of this unjustly lonely battle against big evil megacorps (META specifically) for the last few years.

If any lawyers are here that care about digital rights as coders then please reach out to louis because a coalition is needed to fight against C&Ds against independent, OSS, interop developers and their users.

Thank you Louis for writing this, I wish I saw this last year before nuking my OSS project out of an abundance of abject fear that this $800bn megacorp could ruin my life for what amounts to pocket change. This experience still hurts till this day.

RIP & Long Live Aaron Swartz
They can perhaps be used to establish willful infringement if it ever does go to court.
Lol farmers absolutely want their tractor to work when the cell network doesn't what are you talking about. Sounds like you might have drank a little too much of the company koolaid. It's not surprising, I know engineers at Deere and it sounds like quite a toxic environment.
Some states are more strict than other. That seems extremely lenient. They are generally misdemeanors or felonies that would cause many people to lose their jobs. Your part about faking work release is really a separate issue - did you report them?

Most states will not issue you a license if you have multiple DUIs. So he should have been on a suspended license, which should have drastically increased the penalty in most states. It seems the judge may have been ignoring sentencing guidelines if it was so lenient.
> I know several people personally who just blatantly don't work.

I'm confused. If you cant figure out people aren't working remotely then how do you figure out they aren't working in the office? Randomly check their screens? Check the check-in/out time?
https://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html shows the current status of the DSN, including bandwidth for each stream. Pretty interesting.
Why can't the farm have the server on premise instead of needing a subscription. So somebody can say they're meeting their KPIs and request more money?
> All the IllumOS distributions are defunct (SmartOS hasn't seen a release since 2020 and that's the most recent) aside from OpenIndiana, which I haven't looked at in a long time.

Er, what?

Tribblix 0m33 2023-12-14 https://tribblix.blogspot.com/2023/12/changes-in-0m33-prerel...

OmniOS CE r151048 2023-11-06 https://omnios.org/article/r48.html

SmartOS 20240125T000404Z 2024-01-25 https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/sm...
I sometimes use YouTube in a "no cookies" Firefox profile, and holy cow the vitriol and hate that is on the front page is staggering. Shocked that blue chip advertisers are willing to put their content on that stuff to be frank.
> the problem is that they don't really have an alternative.

In situations where there isn't an alternative, consent is impossible.
When I was in Osaka I accidentally stumbled into what looked like a model store. There were all sorts of display cases with all sorts of models, from airplanes from WWII and before to futuristic mecha. All kind of jumbled together without any sort organization by type or manufacturer.

Then it hit me. I was not in a model store but a model display case store. All those hobbyists would need a way to display their models and this store fit just that need.

I know a lady from Osaka who responded, when I said I'd be excited to return there: "Really? It's so boring here!" If she only knew. And to bring it full circle, her sister-in-law hand-makes fake food.
Our biggest GHA fees come from running on MacOS. Do you offer MacOS as a managed service (or plan to?) and how much cheaper is that than GitHub?
Farmers in every generation of my family's existence in the US. The current ones are decidedly not poor. Maybe not a lot of free time but not poor.
8 billion monkey men on the planet!

The human population needs to drop 90%

The only people averse to this are the ones running the ponzi schemes...
I'm by no means an expert, but it could be interference caused by other electronic devices, the direction of the ferrite rod antenna inside the clock (it cannot get signal if it's pointing in the direction of the transmitter), or maybe the battery running low in the clock could also cause something like this (based on that the Pico wasn't able to power the receiver module in my experiments).
any sort of scheduling
> I know several people personally who just blatantly don't work.

Good for them. If this upsets you, then it sounds like you're working too hard.
The $100 goes right to the web dev? What a joke.
It's sad that most people are less "legally literate" than they are "scientifically literate", when the former affects them more often throughout life. Schools should teach kids how to not get screwed over with the law. Tenants' rights in particular is very important and almost nobody I know understands them, or how brazenly landlords/management companies will rip you off if you let them.
That timeline is very enlightening and those references are extremely useful. Must have taken a lot of time to find and make sense of all that material. I'm especially thankful for the explanation of terminfo files.

> We used semicolon (like other SGR parameters) for separating the R/G/B values in the escape sequence, since a copy of ITU T.416 (ISO-8613-6) which presumably clarified the use of colon for this feature was costly.

Non-free standards are self-defeating. What's the point of the standard if the people who need them to implement stuff can't read them?
It’s not just bad memory: in the 90s, cars were considerably smaller and less powerful – yes, people had 70s barges but those had much lower acceleration than an SUV and the driver was less insulated from the road and had better visibility. The other big change is Google Maps/Waze/etc. — most people did not know every possible side street and tended to stay on major roads more.

To your other point, yes, people need to teach children to fear cars but that also means grownups should be thinking about how much public space we’ve taken away from everyone to remove responsibility from drivers. It’s not unreasonable to think that balance is unhealthy, just as most of us have decided that we shouldn’t have factories in neighborhoods any more.
> The kernel community has never put the effort into tooling that it needs;

I know a certain git that might disagree.
Diogenes Club
Apple can be hacked like anyone else.
Real disposable income in Sweden has increased 50% over the last 20 years.

https://tradingeconomics.com/sweden/the-real-gross-disposabl...
> A good defense attorney would get that tossed.

Sure. Easy to object to something secret, which has a carefully crafted cover story. My defense attorney is psychic too. /s
this regime, aka Xi Jing Ping's reign is pretty stupid. He has had failed projects after failed projects for 10 years now. Also, dictatorships don't care about unemployed young men, look at Putin, sending waves of unequipped untrained men to their death.

China already has human trafficking of women from Laos and Cambodia. Birth rate still dropping.
Why are you drawing an equivalence between a test for a contagious disease and a genetic analysis service like 23andme? That seems a bit extreme.
A better comparison of efficiency is task energy, which the article did cover.

In a video encoding task, the 8700G used 30% less energy than the 14600K, but it actually used more energy than a 13400.
So research is finally coming to the same conclusion that a lot of people, myself included came to over a year ago.

Well managed companies don't care where you work, it simply doesn't matter. The problem is that management is a lot harder than many thought, but you could sort of hide the fact that you're bad at it when everyone is at the office. There simply isn't enough talented managers around. We're not solving that by requiring everyone to return to the office, the terrible managers are still terrible.

If anything companies could use this opportunity to identify people with poor management skills. If a team under-performed during the work-from-home period, then it's probably time get their manager some training.
I get that the post is about terminal witchcraft, but regarding the Emacs part I believe you, author, ought to look into TRAMP mode.
Review said text was perfectly readable and not blurry and when combined with multiple floating windows it seems like it’d be serviceable
I disagree. If your soil is depleted and dead, under sprawling petrochemical monocrops... you are fundamentally not a farmer.
I tried using kitty recently. Its really neat, until you try to sshing somewhere. If the remote system doesn't have kitty in its terminfo, nothing works. Kitty's "solution" to this is to use a custom ssh wrapper, which I'm sorry, is not an acceptable solution. A simple solution would be to let users override what TERM gets set to, but they refuse to allow this on some moral ground.

Maybe I'll try it again in a few years when its in more terminfo packages.
What tools are needed for better remote management?
One thing to be aware of is that letters are not guarantees that they will follow up or take you to court. Especially if they have a weak case - it is just as likely to be a bluff, hoping you'll just stop because they are big and you are small.

Ask an attorney to know for sure, but if they have no case and are just being bullies, don't cave in.
Lotta words for "yes"
> falling birth rates are generally seen as a problem. Why is that?

Anyone who's ever lived in a place (at a city, province, or national level) whose population is dwindling knows exactly why. Opportunities are fewer and people are generally less wealthy[0].

[0]: I mean real wealth, like living in a comfortable home and being able to afford hobbies. Not your 401k balance.
> To make them not expensive, you have to avoid a lot of things that most people consider a normal, middle-class part of a regular lifestyle or a middle-class way of raising children.

Well, you can make the middle-class lifestyle affordable.

It's not Disney vacations that make people give-up on childbirth. It's housing and schooling.
My office is filled with distractions. I sit in open space with tens of people around me. They talk, drink coffee, eat food. Some of them also have pets.
who cares about the justification

how about the car accident statistics?

or this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39191767

but what i was trying to point out is that not having a car does not reduce your liberty to move around. it actually increases it. now you can argue the specifics, but you can't argue that without a car your general freedom to move around is reduced. because it isn't. (unless of course you make up some specific example that probably does not apply to the majority of the population. i am sure, for any specific case that you can come up with we can find a workable solution. being that there are cars for rent for the few cases that you need one or something else)
"If education worked, we wouldn’t see stats going up contrary to the rest of the world."

This isn't really true. Most other developed nations have much stricter licensing with much lower fatality rates.

Yes, enforcement is definitely an issue too. Progress penalties and fines tied to income levels (or vehicle values) would be a good start.
Housing policy, interest rates & urbanization are the usual factors everywhere, seems a safe null hypothesis here as well.

Eg in sweden, deregulation: https://www.thelocal.se/20230627/explained-swedens-plans-to-...
a lot of people have been working remotely since long before covid, and many of them were very effective. there are some skillsets that an effective remote team has and many teams that suddenly went from in-office to remote still don't have those skills (and often they aren't even aware of that and just think that remote development is not going to work).
Most of AMD's desktop processors for the past several generations have had poor idle power because they're built using multiple chiplets with a cheap, power-hungry interconnect. The 8000G series (and earlier -G parts) are monolithic laptop processors re-packaged for the desktop socket, so they are unaffected by the main cause of poor idle power in AMD's main desktop processor product line.
"Offices across the U.S. are at an all-time occupancy low, and commercial real estate is starting to see an all-time high of almost 20% of unleased space, according to the Wall Street Journal. The reduction in real estate spend has enabled companies to reduce their operating expenses, thereby positively impacting their financial health. This poses the question: Are return-to-work mandates better for the workforce or for business bottom lines?"

Don't some real estate contracts require specific occupancy rates (measured at monthly levels?)? At level of detail that is affected by people not in office? How long are commercial real estate contracts usually for?
I don't want to just know the superficial stuff. Have always been interested in learning a little bit more, but not enough to warrant a Computer Architecture course.
Wait, how do you know there are few actual birthing HN readers? How many children have I had?
> Knowing what your team is doing,

This one anecdotally seems to have been the biggest issue for some managers. Unless they are overhearing things (literally), they don't know what is happening.
So you chose a house on a dead-end street but also are still afraid to let your children play outside?
Playground (YC S19) Is Hiring a Product Engineer (Remote)
Green is disposable income, orange is cost of apartment housing:

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tonEuOE0IXE/WfpBpIzy8rI/AAAAAAAAF...
I saw this start at 10:14:29 CST.
Calculating derivatives is the most expensive and numerically challenging operation you do in optimization.

Simplex circumvents these issues by traversing the edges of the polytope.

Pivoting is very cheap and from practice we see that you are afforded a LOT of iterations before even start thinking about interior point methods.
I wouldn't say Rolls-Royce, more like Lexus. Fuddruckers would be closer to Rolls quality as they actually allow for something other than well-done, preformed, meat pucks.
Right!

In fact only Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia of the Northern Europe countries are showing a long term decline.
:o those lazy slackers
Distraction plays a huge part these days. When I was growing up in the 80's and 90's, drivers drove. Now they're watching TikInstaXFaceTube and relying on lane departure warnings and brake assist to do the driving for them.
In this case, you crack the encryption by cutting and pasting the URL into your browser's address bar. Navigate to the link, and you get the decrypted message. It is encryption as theatre. Non-functional encryption. Encryption that hides nothing.
This is not an issue with Emacs though, GUI or otherwise, because everything's just a buffer
Assert dominance by forcing them to fire you for not coming in and arguing for constructive dismissal.
Amazon has a completely different business model to Walmart. If a truck doesn't arrive and the shelves are left bare, you're never going to know. They'll just ship the product off to you later when they can finally get the truck there. They can easily take the amateur hour risk.

Costco, which is likely the closest analog to Walmart in terms of scale and logistical requirement, pays the same.
Yeah but the banks will screw it up somehow :P
I love to work from the office, I prefer it. I hate working from my desk at home, next to my bed. We have two desks in the bedroom. I'm in MGMT. Today I'm working from home as I can't afford the commute time, last week was pre-pandemic 4 days in office.

What I don't like is changing what WFO looked like. If someone had to WFH for personal reasons (e.g. repair, packages, child issues, doctors appt), they just did it. Four days a week was normal, five was never normal. If we are trying to do 3 days and go to four, then everyone needs a dedicated desk. If you aren't willing to put a dedicated desk for people, you don't have a mandate for WFO, you have a mandate for hybrid.

I sit next to an officer who is not ranked highly enough to have a desk. A first year associate should have a dedicated desk.

It took the pandemic and a world in panic to swing the pendulum in this direction. It's going to take as much to get it back, and it may not go back to exactly the same thing.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: if you want me to return to the office, give me an OFFICE. Not a bullpen, not an open workspace, not a folding table in a warehouse with 200 other people. Maybe also some support staff, for office management, travel arrangements, and other things that suck productivity.
This site uses AI to automatically tag HN articles. It's hit-or-miss:

https://histre.com/hn/?tags=+ai

Or maybe Google restricted to HN site results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
Ask HN: How often are you using Stack Overflow these days?
I wanted to ask the community at large about their Stack Overflow habits. Personally I've used the site for years as a reasonably reliable source for finding answers to questions but around 2020 onward have noticed a (personally) sharp decline in answer frequency and answer quality.

It's to the point that today I skipped over multiple Stack Overflow links in a search today in search of other options that I figured I'd pose this question to everyone else.

Are you still using Stack Exchange regularly, or have you also noticed a decline in its usefulness? How do you deal with this issue, and have you found alternative resources that you trust more?

Personally I use Mailing Lists/Github Issues to find help with issues - I also acknowledge that this may be a personal bias on my part, wherein as I grow as a developer, I increasingly need specific answers to questions as opposed to more "Stack Overflow Friendly" ones.
>>no facebook browsing at all

So I am now a target of the NSA..... I despise Facebook and all other social media. Though I do have a lurker account on Twitter now that Elon fixed it from the authoritarians that use to run the platform. Never post though