skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this is always my hurdle implementing house wide. I can toggle it on and off when I have the stubborn link but my girlfriend just gets utterly annoyed. I just manually point some of my devices at my local server and leave it at that. Guess I should look into aws free tier and set it up there as well or just say screw it and use dns.adguard.com again.
Wait, really? We have been using Gitlab CI for a few years and it's awful. I run into bugs and surprises (missing features etc.) on the daily.

Now I don't even want to imagine what Github Actions are like…
What is actually a "middle name"? I have two "first names" meaning I can use either one I like, and in official situations I write them both in the first name field with a space (which works fine as such, airlines will combine them no issues whatsoever). What is the real life usage of a middle name in whatever culture has the notion of a middle name?
One thing I like about AdGuard Home is that it supports normal AdGuard's block list, similar to the ones used in browsers. Of course, it ignores the items that it is unable to block (e.g. cosmetic, or third-party etc), but it is nice being able to take the lists I use in uBlock Origin, and just feeding it into AdGuard Home.
Neat and timely. My biggest challenge is tables contained in PDFs.

Are there any similar projects that are lower level (for those of us not using Python)? Something in Rust that I could call out to, for example?
I worked a service job that required going to work for minimum wage and wasn’t happy that my wage didn’t increase when WFH employees got the benefit of WFH during COVID.

A class of workers benefited, but other classes didn’t.
Nora Jemisin is real. I've met her.

I read the first novel of her trilogy. I didn't like it. I have #2 and #3 but I've not bothered. I may never do so.
The comms thing is a bit of a bug bear for me too. I like to respond quickly to messages/emails because I believe the person at the other end appreciates having their questions answered quickly so they can get one with their day. When I have to wait an hour (or whatever timeframe feels disproportionate) for a reply to my message it grates. Still, I can live with it if I don't have work in a noisy shared space.
Windows 11 won't update if it has these apps installed
Is it fair to say the adoption rate in web design has been low? This is due to device, browser and tooling support or something else?

My general feeling working with designers and web developers is most aren't aware of p3. Figma only got p3 support around 9 months ago I think and Chrome around 1 year ago.
Do you commute to work via teleporter?
Oh we have quiet desks with huge cubicle walls and pods for calls.

But what's the point in coming to the office to sit in a pod or isolation cubicle all day?

What I liked was that our floor had its own atmosphere. Where people understood the needs of IT work and respected our conversations (eg headset on = leave me alone). That's all gone now with these hippie flex offices.

I don't see how the office could be made productive again with flex desking. It wasn't like the old office was perfect, there was already a huge reduced productivity from the late 90s when people had actual offices where you could close the door. It was already pretty poor with the large open spaces but it's now been ruined completely.
thx - on it
Correct yeah, each run starts on a brand new VM with a brand new disk - since these are EC2 instances with EBS volumes for their root disk, the whole instance and the EBS volume are deleted after the job finishes and are not reused.
The temptation to whine, cry and complain is too high in developer communities, as always.

It's either "just the way I want it exactly" or "unusable", any smallest and most accessible but slightly different option from preferred way to make things work be damned.

I'm really sad to see a part of F# community being persistently vocal against .NET which makes F# viable and possible in the first place.
>In what sense did Ireland go bankrupt?

Correct that the use of terminology is incorrect because no country can go bankrupt. But the point remains.

>We massively increased taxes, massively cut spending, and borrowed vast amounts of money. We spent more per capita bailing out banks than anywhere else on earth. Again, criticism would generally be of _doing that, rather than becoming bankrupt_.

corporate tax for example was ~38% in 1996, 10 years later after bankruptcy it was 12.5%.

Personal income tax was ~48% in 1996, 10 years later, it was 42%.

Spending vs gdp, 38.6% gdp in 1996, 33.6% in 2006.

I dont agree with your analysis at all. Moreover these 'we' clearly indicate to me you're not objective.

>By any reasonable metric Ireland was in a far better fiscal state in 2019 than in 2006, and we had a fairly extensive and expensive response to covid.

Until a few days ago I didnt know what ireland did for covid. But no, what north america did was significant different from what ireland did. The irish response seemed to have been about reverse course years earlier which is shocking to me.

The reality is that ireland couldnt afford a covid response and the government fully was aware.

>This is incorrect. Ireland's marginal rate has been 48% or 52% depending on whether you count PRSI (which is not strictly an income tax), has been for over a decade, and continues to be.

My source is The Office of the Revenue Commissioners

https://www.revenue.ie/en/personal-tax-credits-reliefs-and-e...

Clearly indicating 40%.

>Actually, you know what, I'm not going through the rest of this. This is peak HackerNews; absolute nonsense, stated confidently. I'd suspect the involvement of an LLM, but for the grammar.

"Absolute nonsense" is the biased person who has gotten several fact incorrect.
Computational limits to the legibility of the imaged human brain
Archived version: https://archive.is/qn32R
> that is only really meant for testing. It is, however, quite useful for benchmarking,

But not very useful for real users

Although great that they are measuring real latency with a camera!
Just think of the other things they'll find before finding MH370!
Alex Pentland wrote a book about a decade ago, Social Physics[1], where he empirically studied how ideas spread in firms. Comparing remote and office workers was one part of it, and he found a strong advantage for in-office work. The reason is pretty straight forward, there is virtually no spontaneous social interaction ("watercooler conversations") in remote work, and teams who worked in person were significantly more dynamic, ideas are generated more often and spread more easily.

Other than routine labor like doing paperwork for the municipal office aside, in person companies are going to have an extreme edge, Musk is right on this point, it's also an explanation for the geographic concentration of say, the tech sector, people don't pay those horrendous SF rents for nothing.

[1]https://news.mit.edu/2014/social-physics-0304
Exactly what I was referring to in my previous post:

_I am tired of the pretentious western europe politics/administration point of view that immediately ranks everything (including good ideas) coming from Asia/global South as "not transposable to Europe" or just "not as good as our ways"._

Did you live in China as an immigrant, did you settle down there for several years, did you have to go through their immigration process ?
Pretty much, from all the debate, its clear that the problem isn't the office. It's the commute. I hated going to the office when it was an hour drive away, often worse with traffic incidents. But for the last few years I've lived much closer so it's a quick train trip or bike ride to work and now I much prefer going to the office. It's so obviously better for communicating with people.
Musk was a terrible employee himself, he always wanted to do things his way. When Musk talks about WFH, it is something personal, you can see his face because he gets emotional.

I believe it is a good thing to meet colleagues from time to time in the same place, but for deep work I need to work alone. No distractions, on my place.

As an adult I can manage myself better than most people can.
I'd imagine it's largely just due to a combination of inertia & ignorance (though the lack of clarity around display support is almost certainly a factor too).

Apple made a song & dance about it 7 years ago but releases of supporting displays since have been relatively low-key & I'm not aware of any online reference table tracking them - so my guess that support is broad is just that, a guess. I know Samsung & OnePlus phones have it & I assume Pixels (not checked), but laptop adoption could be much lower.
yes, as I said in my original comment, paying little is one thing, paying nothing is something different. Streaming music has ruined the "product" market for music as it was. That will not change. YT, Spotify, doesn't matter, you do not get much paid for music anymore, unless you are among the top dominant streaming artists in the long tail model. But something is still more than nothing...
Not quite 1000 signatures.

Given recent petitions of withdrawing from the united nations was in the 100,000 range or the petition calling for an immediate election at 300,000 signatures.

This is essentially a nothing petition.
«

Hiro's feet go out from under him as the raft moves suddenly; he can see Eliot falling down next to him.

He looks up at Bruce Lee's ship and flinches involuntarily as he sees what looks like a dark wave cresting over the rail, washing over the row of standing pirates, starting at the stern of the trawler and working its way forward. But this is just some kind of optical illusion. It is not really a wave at all. Suddenly, they are fifty feet away from the trawler, not twenty feet. As the laughter on the railing dies away, Hiro hears a new sound: a low whirring noise from the direction of Fisheye, and from the atmosphere around them, a tearing, hissing noise, like the sound just before a thunderbolt strikes, like the sound of sheets being ripped in half.

Looking back at Bruce Lee's trawler, he sees that the dark wavelike phenomenon was a wave of blood, as though someone hosed down the deck with a giant severed aorta. But it didn't come from outside. It erupted from the pirates' bodies, one at a time, moving from the stern to the bow. The deck of Bruce Lee's ship is now utterly quiet and motionless except for blood and gelatinized internal organs sliding down the rusted steel and plopping softly into the water.

Fisheye is up on his knees now and has torn away the canopy and space blanket that have covered him until this point. In one hand he is holding a long device a couple of inches in diameter, which is the source of the whirring noise. It is a circular bundle of parallel tubes about pencil-sized and a couple of feet long, like a miniaturized Gatling gun. It whirs around so quickly that the individual tubes are difficult to make out; when it is operating, it is in fact ghostly and transparent because of this rapid motion, a glittering, translucent cloud jutting out of Fisheye's arm. The device is attached to a wrist-thick bundle of black tubes and cables that snake down into the large suitcase, which lies open on the bottom of the raft. The suitcase has a built-in color monitor screen with graphics giving information about the status of this weapons system: how much ammo is left, the status of various subsystems. Hiro just gets a quick glimpse at it before all of the ammunition on board Bruce Lee's ship begins to explode.

“See, I told you they'd listen to Reason,” Fisheye says, shutting down the whirling gun.

»
> The degradation comes from waves of austerity politics by right wing governments.

There was a right wing government in Finland before 2019 and there is a more far-right wing government since last year.

I don't like either of them for their politics, but I cannot see how they could be blamed for authorities getting increasingly dysfunctional. They have not done anything like fired 50% or even 20% of the employees.
Copilot generates Jewish stereotypes, anti-Semitic tropes
It's the same time. An employee effectively pays me for what I feel is the "cost" of working there, which is measured in hours lost of my day.

They don't pay me to work 24/7, they pay me to work 8h per day. But of course the cost measured by the employee isn't the time lost working, it's the time lost working or commuting. So someone who used to sell 10 hours of their day to their employer and now sells 8 hours of their day to their employer for the same pay, isn't going to be happy about going back to selling 10 hours.

The fact that we got those 2 hours as an hourly "raise" at the start of the pandemic doesn't change anything. Being forced to go to back to the office is effectively a cut in your hourly rate.
I find the “it’s not fair to service workers” incredibly unconvincing. There’s lots of things that tech workers get that service workers don’t. Better pay, better flexibility with vacations, control over schedules, probably better insurance, the ability to sit all day, etc. The fact that WFH is the line for Musk is because he doesn’t like it. The same for other CEOs. But they know that isn’t an argument anyone will listen to.
impossibly large numbers

Forty-two for example?
The common law jurisdictions are simply more honest. If German requirements force people to marry in Denmark, and registering a foreign marriage in Germany takes 4 years to process (the actual waiting time in Berlin), then Germany doesn’t know if someone is married either. They are just more willing to pretend that they do.
I think a truly usable (quiet) office will be a perk.
I tried to automate job applications as a software engineer (and failed)
Dealing with Unicode is not the challenge that people seem to believe it is. There are edge cases where things can get weird, but they are few and those problems are easily solved.

What really got my goat about this article is that prior to the latest tested version of Gnome, the repaint rate was a fixed 40Hz! Whose decision was that?
People doing mechanical work made art through physical objects. Woodwork, pottery, glassware, you name it.

There are now far more options, both on the high and low-end, with the whole area being more affordable. The quality of most products also arguably went up, as factories beat handmade goods. And yet, if you want custom artisan goods, you can still pay a woodworker for it at more or less the same cost as you would have otherwise, as their labor costs are a function of time required and local living conditions.

In some cases, those workers were the ones to automate, benefiting from the assistance - woodworkers using CNC mills and laser cutters even for handmade goods, or composers themselves can use the AI - to speed up their otherwise fully manual work. It benefits the majority creating the demand, and tends to improve the craft overall.

> ... then the field stagnates.

A market that is not changing has already stagnated.
> With enough terminal output it will bottleneck whatever you're doing. Sometimes extremely dramatically so. To the point of adding hours to a task in really bad cases.

At the very laziest &> foo your output. Or preferably add logging to your application. Go back 20 years and you wouldn't have had the luxury of spewing hundreds of megabytes of text to a remote terminal for no reason.
I don't know if it was actually the most efficient strategy, but the thing I always liked to do in Transport Tycoon was find a coal mine etc in one corner of the map and a power station etc in the other one and build a line delivering between them - you got paid by the mile so when the train finally arrived the fee would be massive. Didn't realise that was actually an accurate (modulo apocryphal) element of the simulation :)
Seems like a pretty big benefit of in person work that you can get better results out of less trained/less expensive employees.
Having worked 30+ years in various office environments (some good, some bad) I believe that hybrid is the sensible option for everyone. And that should be optional as well. I had a great job working for a company that was one day a fortnight in the office. Pretty much everyone who could make it in did and they came from 50-60 miles (some more) but the expectation when you got there was 'hello let's do a bit of work together, chat, have a nice long'ish lunch and leave before the trains get too busy'.
One engineer's curiosity may have saved us from a devastating cyber-attack
And money, lots of money. A small house in Silicon Valley costs millions of dollars, but companies demand people work there.
Teleporters don’t exist.

Work from home can save employees money on commuting.

Work from home can reduce productivity.

So does WFH save employees or companies money?
you mean run an EC2 instance with EBS as buildkit server storage dir?

sure, it should work nicely. (I just prefer the local disk, it's just a cache after all.)
Pulling on the thread of executives blaming WFH for poor productivity, it just points to their lack of adaptability and poor management.

WFH is a global trend and something you cannot fight. People will just go elsewhere.

Executives should indeed highlight there is a problem and fix it accordingly by changing how managers operate. Not by trying to wind back time.
In other words, unless you have a perfect management, a remote organization is going to perform worse than an in-person one.

I don't think such scapegoating will actually help the remote crowd.
> the word Christian. It has different meanings to different people.

«

“All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us. Now, religion used to be essentially viral—a piece of information that replicated inside the human mind, jumping from one person to the next. That's the way it used to be, and unfortunately, that's the way it's headed right now. But there have been several efforts to deliver us from the hands of primitive, irrational religion. The first was made by someone named Enki about four thousand years ago. The second was made by Hebrew scholars in the eighth century B.C., driven out of their homeland by the invasion of Sargon II, but eventually it just devolved into empty legalism. Another attempt was made by Jesus—that one was hijacked by viral influences within fifty days of his death. The virus was suppressed by the Catholic Church, but we're in the middle of a big epidemic that started in Kansas in 1900 and has been gathering momentum ever since.”

»

(Ibid.)
Tabby [1][2] has "Restore terminal tabs on app start" under Settings > Terminal > Startup.

[1] https://tabby.sh/

[2] https://github.com/eugeny/tabby
I've heard many people say “you cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place." With the implication being that conspiracy theorists can not be engaged in good faith debate and must be manipulated at best and coerced at worst.

If simply discussing matters calmly with an AI can lessen belief in conspiracy theories then it seems to disprove that notion, which should come as a relief to believers and non-believers alike.
So you think "depressed" is enough... well, let's agree to disagree.
That’s cool. Thanks!
DTrace for Linux 2.0.0-1.14
Vector Search with ClickHouse – Part 1 (2023)
The AI "stole" it's training data the same way that those fleshy composers "stole" their training data.
How much more would you be willing to spend to get these employees to work in your office? Or put another way, at a fixed salary budget, how much smaller a talent pool would you accept to recruit from?

Recruiting only from the pool of "people who accept to work 100% in an office" is a massive handicap, at least in some regions and positions.
It ain't piracy if the record I want is out of print and no longer commercially available. Most of the music I listen to is pre-2010, so there are a lot of records that fit that description.

Same goes for live recordings, remixes and radio sessions. P2P has had this for 20+ years, Spotify doesn't and never will.
> the Soviets decided to steal the secret

Did they decide or was it gifted to them? My speculation is that USSR supported creation of Israel as a quid pro quo.
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I was thinking about exactly this was I was writing my original post.

I'm currently also an expat living in the EU. The common sentiment from a lot of other South Africans here is to go back to SA for a 2 week holiday to get your passport. Apparently dealing with anything home-affairs related via your local embassy is a total shitshow. People have been waiting years for birth certificates for new babies and such.

It seems that the intersection between Home Affairs and International Relations (embassies) is in total shambles.
https://www.getlago.com/pricing

They have open source / no support billing, so why wouldn't use use that?
They also have an up to 50% discount for early-stage companies.
The usual number for Canada is 200,000-300,000.

They increased this to >1,000,000. Then after outcry decreased the number by 50%.

But this still means they are still roughly 100% higher then the normal numbers.

You notice the trick they played.
My company did a hilariously stupid thing where, towards the beginning of the pandemic, corporate decided that hybrid work was the future and ordered everybody to change to open offices. We are a small company and have few enough people that there is room for everybody to have a cubicle. Our management sometimes fights stupid pointless orders but not this one -- so they began a lengthy process of tearing out all the cubes and replacing with a bunch of open spaces, including more conference rooms and labs for some reason (that I guarantee will never be used because again -- very small company). They went so far as to change where walls were -- when I visited recently and took a tour back there, it felt super claustrophobic.

When corporate changed their minds and said everybody needs to start coming into work again, our management realized that, because of the way they did the conversion to open offices, they no longer have enough room for everybody in the company to be there physically!

I still can't decide whether I'm bitter about the pointless change to open office, or if I'm thankful they did because otherwise they would have pressured us harder to start coming in again.
AI Has an Uber Problem
They seem to have got the correct impression that it's been "around for some time" as "some time" does not mean "a very long time" and you just confirmed that it indeed isn't a just-published article but one which, coming out last year, has been around "for some time".

I'm guessing you're just reading into the phrase an implication that isn't there about it being particularly old.
Obviously related to the whole vinyl and cassette retro thing -- the smart money is buying APL keyboards ...