skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the classic fallacy of treating absence of evidence as evidence of absence (especially when you're biased towards the conclusion).

OP claims that the benefits of RTO cannot be easily assessed, and while the benefits of WFH are easily quantifiable, without further knowledge of the benefits of RTO you can't come to a rational, rigorous conclusion on which is better. You can make guesses, but it's "less rigorous" as OP says.
> as I understand it lots of options are voted on by people locally in the US

Yes, absolutely. But I’m talking about federal law. Two foreign policy pieces and a number of domestic laws. In this respect, our Congressmen are as local as your MPs.
The Griffin brand is still around:

https://incipio.com/pages/griffintechnology

Owned by the same company that owns Incase and Survivior. I can’t quite tell if the company and/or brand were bought, or if the company renamed itself. Their products don’t seem nearly as innovative as the old Griffin was though.

[Edit: oh, hey, they’re the same company that recently bought the Microsoft accessory designs: https://www.incase.com/pages/incase-designed-by-microsoft]
I completely agree with the attitude, but not necessarily the implementation. Would you want to live in any of those places? Let alone raise a family in one? In the second link, I think the difference between the presumably idealized/proposed [1] version of one of these areas, and what it inevitably turns into [2] demonstrates the issue.

So it would probably be reasonably affordable, but only because you'd make it less desirable to live there. Then enter the general problem of people's complete disregard for other's property in many places in the Western world and those places would become highly unpleasant, if not unsafe, quite quickly - especially if they were very affordable. There's a reason "the projects", everywhere, end up the way they do.

[1] - https://avatars.mds.yandex.net/i?id=e67240f3f995f865b864bee1...

[2] - https://avatars.mds.yandex.net/i?id=05678345cd91e9579bd7e719...
To be fair, if the Pentagon had a warrant, then there wouldn't have been a need to purchase the data.

Anyway, I imagine this situation is much worse than we realize. I'll be the first to admit I have no evidence of this, but I am a general believer of, "Where there is smoke there is fire."
One advantage of this is e.g. that you do not have to register for elections at all in Germany. You get automatically notified of all elections based on your residence and can vote without further steps.
Queer.af Shutdown
At least back in the 80s, the NSA's charter was that it did not deliberately spy on US citizens.

Did that explicitly change? If so, when and how? Or did this just become progressively normalized?
1. The problem isn't solved, because nobody has the patience or money to set up and sync multiple headsets when you already have a perfectly good TV.

I know zero people who have eliminated their TVs for a headset. Apple isn't going to change that.

2. And so the vision pro isn't even viable for 48% of watching. That's a huge percentage, and shows that nobody is getting rid of their TVs for this.
I'm curious if Ableton 12 actually requires 22H2 or just is only supported.

I was struggling with what to do with this recently on my wife's PC. I don't care for 11, she isn't interest in linux and 10 drops support in 2025 for regular editions. I went with enterprise LTSC iot because I figured that the support problems probably won't amount to much until after 2025 anyway. That version goes to 2032 of security updates but I suspect the install won't last that long regardless.
Time will tell. It's not meant to be hyperbolic - I'm short them and lots of others are and expect it will be a disaster going forward. There are obviously people on the other side of that trade with different expectations, so we will see.
Much of your comment is weirdly incorrect. The use of 3 miles as a travel metric for example. Polestar has just introduced an EV with 400 miles range. And that's just one of many more coming on to the market. EV sales are exploding in China, with Scandinavia, Europe and other regions not far behind. The legacy auto makers failure to understand EV momentum reflects their inability to cope with the upheaval that's about to happen. It's a Kodak moment all over again.
haha, wow... how shitty of them.
My office switched to a cloud-hosted network proxy appliance for our internet access. We now get "access blocked" from dozens of websites, including from reddit, simply because the "edge" ip address is technically from a netblock assigned to a data centre.
Yeah I was trying to convey there are successful businesses that are broadly maintaining and there are rocketships (and everything in between) and we should expect them to be valued differently and have different risk profiles. So the observation (100x! That’s dumb!) is not rational.
Iv'e seen the negative effects of WFH with my own eyes. Is it anecdotal? yes. Is the positive impacts anecdotal? also yes. Will people be biased to what is comfortable in the here and now? the exercise is left to the reader.
Yes, if you need a quick cross-platform GUI prototype it is very nice. One major downside is, that it will use more resources than necessary when idling.
I was an early adopter of 23andMe way back when they started. Before the privacy concerns. Before we had to worry about password uniqueness.

I didn’t renew my services with them. 1) I didn’t gain any value out of it, 2) their consistent blame of users that used recycled password for their breach.

I use ancestry.com as I’m working on dual citizenship with my family’s home country and find it worth the value. I was able to trace my family back through the Colonial Revolution all the way to the 1500s in Germany. That’s worth my money. Not 23andMe.
Some reasons that the state kinda needs to know where you live (at least in Germany) is for a number of reasons:

- so you can vote in local elections and they can send you your ballots

- taxes, as they depend on where you live (some tax rates can differ and more importantly it decides where your taxes go)

- security, so for example when you have an arrest warrant or have committed a crime, etc. the state knows where to send your fines, etc.

- planning of health services or education services requires the state to know where people actually live
Oh dear, looks like this seeming bot-comment is one of those reliability issues that GP was on about.
I'm trying to discourage others from breaking things with blanket IP bans.
Can wholeheartedly recommend https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html

Also, Physics Teaching for the 21st Century from UBC is a solid starter point regarding the applied aspects https://c21.phas.ubc.ca/article/heat-engines-in-the-real-wor...
Man had just started my career the year before and these companies hit close to home, Alcatel was one of our customers, JDS Uniphase was where we got our slimy C?O.

Amazingly I was never laid off, but that was a rough 2 years seeing stock go from $160 to $0.20 a share, losing 80% people due to layoffs, wheeling office furniture into the parking lot, etc.
I tend to disagree with the following sentence mentioned in the article:

> One hypothesis is instruction-level parallelism

This is Python code, whose execution has a massive gap to the actual CPU instructions executed. The experiment result feels more like something related to the memory cache.
.uk.com and various others are/were subdomain sellers.
So exactly what is the difference between a “cross platform framework that runs on top of a VM that abstracts the difference in the underlying hardware” in this case of cross platform frameworks and a web app where it runs on a top of a browser that serves the same purpose and also abstracts the underlying hardware that has the same drawbacks?
If you go by version number and anything < 1.0 being not production ready, I recommend avoiding reading any of the dependency files for large software products which are often used in produciton, they might cause you some concern...

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/go.mod for one obvious example.
Show HN: See live changes to Open Street Map in a relaxing musical way
Just a fun little map viz that pulls OSM changesets from https://planet.openstreetmap.org and plots them on a map. I paired the plotting of points to some relaxing chords just for fun and found I had created something sort of relaxing. Enjoy :)
> the NSA's charter was that it did not deliberately spy on US citizens

Deliberately, yes. “Do not have the right to,” no.
Same conclusion: You still have bills, tax bills, etc, so there is still no need for anything else if you wanted to keep things as simple as necessary.

> And proof of address is not a utility bill there, but either a form from your landlord or land register.

Because you've decided to do that, not because there is a practical requirement, which is my point.
I want the vendor that can take care of this for us, but that can guarantee a private egress range, or can run things within our VPC.

Several builds connect to internal resources, so running them on external nodes suboptimal and expensive when it comes to network egress.
Cloudflare registrar is poor recommendation because you are forced to use Cloudflare dns.

I learned this the hard way when I had to use route 53 dns and had to wait 60 days to transfer.

I don’t know how this is allowed, registrars should be required to let you set custom dns.
I am now fully returned to the office, and while I miss not having to put on clothes, it’s much better for my career. A lot of my job is meeting and talking to people, and making those connections for later. I can’t do that at home. Isolated jobs could be work from home, but if your job interfaces with people, it really should be in person as much as possible .
We are about to start two small 2d games in my company. We can either go with Unity or Godot, client doesn’t mind. What should we choose?
It would be good to have some actual analysis of how each of these prompt features improves responses.
Normal, it’s same in my company
Lets keep it civil, food and nutrition are one of my hobbies next to software. As such I'm quite interested in what you would describe as balanced diet.

Some call a balanced diet 80% healthy and 20% unhealthy.

For example the link below is saying that fastfood could be part of a healthy diet.

https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/fast_food_can_be_healthy

Edit:
Healthy/balanced those terms are quite loaded are not specified as such we could both agree that healthy and balanced diet is good. Yet both us could have a wildy different interpretations on what that would entail.

The goal was to start a discussion and get different viewpoints. And they could all be true.
> nothing happened

This is untrue. Legally and politically.
Doesn't Amazon want them more for their warehouse automation bots? Like the little things that carry around the pallets?
> devs who do most of their work while you are asleep

See, this is where Latin America comes in! There are lots of excellent devs all over Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, etc.
That's the point. Watching TV with other people is a thing that most folks do. At least in my house, it's nice to walk into the room to see what someone else is watching and join. Unless they become comfortable and universally ubiquitous, watching media isn't something Apple Vision is going to be particularly good for.
> I have always wondered why most religious people's counter argument of the Big Bang event usually is that one cannot create something from nothing, while most documentation about deities also do not explain where these deities suddenly came from.

How common is that though? I'm think your statement doesn't generalize very well, and probably only applies to a small subset of religious people (e.g. wacky young-earth creationist flat earther types).

IIRC, the Big Bang is often embraced by religious people as (more or less) proof that the universe was actually created and that something can be created from nothing (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatio_ex_nihilo#Creatio_ex_n...).
Some countries require you to either be a citizen or have a business there, yes. But it’s definitely not the case for all ccTLDs.

some ccTLDs in the EU require you to be a citizen in any EU country. (So .fr or .eu for example)

Examples of the latter are for example .to or .ag, that do not have such requirement.
I used Godot to make a tool that was not really a game at all, and I read about others doing that as well. It works great just as a simple WYSIWYG GUI editor and GDScript is not a bad scripting language.
Why even bother? Wayland is on it's way out and will go down in history as the worst managed piece of system architecture in history. After year 16 (!) the responsible "committee" still has not figured out how to deal with window icons[1] or how to do drag and drop properly[2]. It's an absolute farce that needs to end soon.

1.: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...

2.: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...
The viewer then, has infinite capacity at its disposal (according to texts of old). The question then is, where could this power be drawn from?
My favourite: try suggesting that WordPress is ever a good solution for anything. InstaDownVotes.
> The issue is productivity is ludicrously hard to measure

And with any luck it will remain so for years and years to come.

This difficulty is what levels the playing field in the office. It's what enables untalented-but-hardworking employees to still have a seat even though they have to burn the midnight oil to do so.

True meritocracy is a slippery slope I pray we never have to travel down.
Where you live is a compromise. If we had Star Trek style teleportation I might be interested in living on the moon, or Mars. Like you I find that friends (and family!) are the biggest reason to not move - I can make new friends but it is hard.

There are advantage and disadvantages to living everywhere in the world. You soon learn to enjoy the things that are possible where you are and not get into the things difficult/impossible.
in this case maybe amsterdam style will suit better your usecase? you take a 5-10 min electric bike(maybe even cargo type) trip to a discount store, you put everything in bags/cargo space and return home.
Or Swiss style: discount stores usually are placed close to trams, you buy your stuff and just take a tram to your home(and since usually those have ded lanes, it's damn fast). You may be concerned about capacity(maybe you don't like to carry two big bags) - you can take a foldable luggage cart.
Ofc you can also order a taxi and since you live not too far, price isn't that big if you do this once a week.
You can also use your car, but with all added costs/time spent for some ppl it's not worth it.
There are also services that just bring to you what you order from these big stores.
There's one more thing: you could combine the two store types: daily shopping for some small stuff in nearby store could offset the need to go to a bigger store by one week
They announced this last year: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-...
> Most code written by academics is missing trivial, obvious optimisations

I agree with this, but I would pose it the opposite way. Academics shouldn't be prematurely optimizing their code: they don't have the resources for it, nor will their results be representative across all hardware. I routinely see (and publish) papers with novel cryptographic protocols where the reviewers will say things like "compare the running time of your algorithm to a state-of-the-art production system that Apple spent $50m developing and optimizing for their silicon, using hand-tuned assembly." We're not going to win in that benchmark, and we don't have the resources to even compete. Moreover, the resulting code wouldn't make for good reference code. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't publish our work, so that e.g., Apple (or other resources) can begin the process of optimizing it for production.
Check out “Songbook” by Alec Soth. He’s an amazing photographer, and while the book isn’t exclusively Silicon Valley, there’s some great photos of various campuses and areas that feel timeless.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/justinesharrock/silicon...

https://www.magnumphotos.com/shop/collections/books/songbook...
I like the bit where it uses the deadly food poisoning bacteria. Feels thematically on-topic.
Ask HN: What was your most successful project?
I've been working on lot of projects of my own, all of them failed fast.
I would like you to share a story about your most successful project, side project or startup.

What was it? How did you succeed? What did you do? Please share with people and me.
Are you evaluating his work by your personal taste, based on a single product that has yet to ramp up production?

What about the Model S, Model X, Model 3 and Model Y (most sold vehicles worldwide only 4 years after launch)? What about everything he does that is not design-related?
Not really, as you still need to show a passport that you and the bills go together (which is still conjecture, to be honest, if the name is common). Why have two things?

Edit: because the decision was to have a strong ID system, so when people show an ID with an address the confidence is high in that being correct.
Unfortunately, this is extremely hard to do for two reasons:

1. The input space is boundless. Any natural language input, with any optional source of data, for any arbitrary use case is what's possible. But that means it's awfully hard to tell if a response can "improve" or not in advance without applying it to your use case.

2. The output space is so hard to measure! Usefulness can also mean different things to different people, especially once you get out of "better search engine" use cases and actually use GPT to produce a creative output.
>Making the tools a user choice over an established protocol/data model creates lots of possibilities to innovate

If that were the case we wouldn't have had this discussion today. Email workflow is abysmal and the limited innovations it has (patchwork comes to mind) is not enough to attract new developers.

What's worse is that the email workflow is very resistant to changes[0], and arguably, the people supporting the email workflow are too. It's hard for one to imagine there is a chance of innovation given the current predication. Even a complementary system like patchwork has remained relatively unadopted according to my non-scientfic observations (most people are likelier to link to the mail directly instead of the patch series on patchwork).

[0]: Building a more complicated system akin to the forges on top of emails will likely require modifications to the original email workflow, e.g. to add metadata. I don't know how well people will receive it, I'd imagine very badly.
"you might also need to take care of the TV bill stuff"

You mean what was formerly known as GEZ?

No worries, nowdays that got easier, they just help themself. In my case they just took the money straight from my bank account without consent or asking first, or without me even giving them my current account. (No idea how that was possible, it was the same account as some years ago, but I was living offroad for some time and never gave them permission, but suing them is a fools errand)
McAfee was Renee James idea, she was two in a box (Intel speak for sharing a management spot) with Brian Krzanich.
Another thing that they removed was the built-in "car loan calculator"

It's odd because they still have the mortgage calculator. I can only imagine it was some weird agreement between Google and car companies to remove it.
In the absence of evidence that RTO is better for productivity and given the mountain of evidence that WFH eliminates the many harmful externalities of commuting, the rational course of action is to maintain the status quo of WFH until more information is obtained about productivity.

Forcing hundreds of thousands of people to upend their lives and move back to large cities so that they can drive to the office again is irrational when there is no concrete evidence that it will make companies perform any better.
it’s dominated by niche groups of ultra-elite workers providing unique services within otherwise mixed work environments.

Which applies to most people on HN.
Marble – Open-Source real-time fraud and AML monitoring
Maybe I wasn’t clear; I meant after Itanium failed, Microsoft refused to support yet another 64-bit extention of x86 as they already had AMD64/x64 (and IA-64 obviously)
I've published in some well-respected, but not highest-tier, journals (think impact factor ~ 5-7), where this was absolutely the case. You could very often identify the reviewer by who the corresponding author of the twenty papers they asked you to cite was. Perhaps it's field dependent, my field (chemistry) was not always as, shall we say, ethical as some of the other fields.
Any address in the EU (or Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Lichtenstein) works as well.
bummer. I haven't had trouble with their 2FA solution and in fact they were one of the first to implement (working + practical) FIDO support. IIRC, I turned that on even before Google.

that said, I haven't tried them for key recovery yet... and hope I never have to!
Not excusing the overall behavior, but just FYI there's a checkbox somewhere on the onedrive first login process that changes this. At least on the Win10 version of it.
> ... without further knowledge of the benefits of RTO you can't come to a rational, rigorous conclusion on which is better.

Better for whom?
considering that an appointment for changing your registered address in Germany can be booked online and than you only have to go in person so they can put the new address on your ID card, show them your "Wohnungsgeberbestätigung" (letter from the landlord that you actually live there when you rent, not needed when you own your house) and sign once that you actually moved there I would say it sounds worse than in Germany.
There can never be "proof" that "return to office" is "pointless."

There are, of course, a myriad of variables that come into play for whether or not working physically near someone is more efficient than not.

Hyperbole is a bad thing in almost every case, in my opinion. And it is primarily used in the modern era to incite rage and misunderstanding between parties.

I don't think articles like this should be on HN.
One use case that jumps out for me is that a link sharing site can help users connect to a more functional site. Bypass paywall, login, etc. HN used to have a "web" link that did this, but it was removed. Now you'll often see comments that manually link these sites.

I've actually been looking [1] for an alternate HN front-end that does this (I'm not a fan of the extensions). Farside looks like an optimal way to do it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39166043
What Can Be Done in 59 Seconds: An Opportunity (and a Crisis)
I think high quality open source software is an existence proof that you fully remote teams can effectively collaborate over decades to produce high quality software.

We have known this for a long time. Covid forced the tech companies to acknowledge that as well. These short term studies back up that consensus.

I think the evidence is overwhelming in favor that remote teams can build high quality software, not just short term but over a long term horizon.
The important caveat is that we ALMOST ALWAYS need to do Chime meetings/Slack chats because our team is split across three cities -- Seattle, Arlington and Chicago. 2/5 of the team is stationed in Seattle office; 2/5 in Arlington; and 1/5 in Chicago. Not to mention that a bunch of folks from Hyderabad in India that we have to continuously work with. On top of all that, folks who are returning to the office can pick one of any weekday to go into the office (the other two days are agreed upon as Tuesday and Wednesday), so some folks are in the office on Monday, some on Friday (nobody choose to go in on Thursday from my limited observation).