skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What popped into my head at your mention of the libertarian outlook is
I was watching an anthropology/history show about all historical
cultures/tribes having something similar to Aboriginal "going
walkabout". In Nordic tribes and native Americans too, its okay to
just go "tread the earth". The point being to feel joy and gratitude
returning to the group. In fact I'm sure it's a biological hard-wired
need. I often have to just pack a bugout bag and go wild with no phone
etc. It's always lovely to come home to family and friends.

But isolated urban living of the technological libertarian seems like
an attempt to do that all the time, alone within the group. I think
that's a mistake because one is stuck in limbo, neither alone nor in
company, getting the joys of neither.
In my experience CEOs had a modicum of a private office, but it didn't really matter. They were in hybrid mode from the start, came to the office only for meetings and signing papers and went away the rest of the time, including working from home.

Two decades ago we had an hilarious all hands meeting where we scrambled to get to the office at 9AM while the big big boss would appear on screen from the corner of his kitchen table.

They just didn't want everyone to do the same.
This may not be his best article. But I have enjoyed some of the author's other writing.
In particular this one about the sinking of the ferry Estonia.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/05/a-sea-s...

(https://archive.is/bs3y6)
> objectively useful

I'm not sure most office workers feel this way about their work.
I feel like YouTube is one of a few subscription services that deserves my money.
it’s been 4 years, it’s time to move on
Technically, then everything it's doing are errors just with varying degrees of precision.

It's still just probabilistic babble. We were doing this with markov chains.
I think I'm missing something very basic. If you have too much wealth in one or two stocks, isn't the solution to buy VT or some other index fund?
This mirrors the mobile YouTube app which is atrocious for this same reason.
> Both 1984 and Animal Farm are critiques of the Soviet Union from the left.

I'm sure this is accurate and I've heard it before. In practice though, at least 1984 feels like a non-partisan criticism of power hungry bureaucracy run amok. I think that's why it's timeless, it criticizes political systems in practice more than making any argument for a particular ideology. There's would be lots of disagreement on the solution, but we mostly all agree the Party and the world it creates are bad, as are the similar things we see in real life, which again aren't really party specific but are part of all systems of government.
I remember when redesigns added features and ease of use, rather than removing features and adding whitespace. When these companies weren't secure monopolies, they felt they had to compete.
I like the design. The comments are easily readable on the side and I can just ignore the noise at the bottom of the page. I can read the comments while watching the video, it's way better!
Code monkeys need conference rooms twice a month
What I'm implying is nothing as complicated as you're making it out to be.

As for defending Dems as a lesser evil, none of that will matter on the current climate trajectory. But Don't Look Up if that helps you feel better.
Hell, just stick the data in memory.
"strange psychological haze" and "strange collective brain fog" are "nice"--and wrong--ways of describing what was (and is) largely extreme hostility engaged systematically against groups of fellow US citizens, under false pretense.
> tenant overfriendly--so I guess in this landlord friendly state I can do it

I get a concern with -over- friendly, and there are certainly some mechanics that are painful that way, but "landlord friendly" is generally ... oof. "We need to protect those who can afford to buy multiple homes from those who cannot[1] afford to buy one".

I've lived in landlord friendly states where the recourse for water leaks, failing hot water, faulty appliances that the landlord won't maintain is ... "sucks to be you".

[1] for varying definitions of 'cannot', thinking of the euphemism of "Bank says I can't afford a $2,000 mortgage payment so I guess I'll keep paying my $3,000 rent payment."
> news publishers have spent the last couple decades making their websites absolutely unusable

To appease Google…

Conversely, NYTs site is stellar. It’s fast and gorgeous and the articles are well-written and not full of clickbait and SEO spam. The games have no ads and there’s nothing pushing you to read more. No feed. No algorithm. NYT got the hell away from SEO and focus on the customers, who decide with their wallets
It's hard to pick the line of where these listings start and end. Selfie isn't in there but gyatt is...
where capitalised (B)ig other is a more spiritial (God) thing? I
don't read French so that's a nuance I miss. Thanks.

Edit: sorry tired and getting mixed up with Heidegger's being/Being
I continue to no longer attend vintage computer festivals
Show HN: A webapp that helps track your reading and create visual notes
An easy way to store all your book notes (quotes, ideas, questions) in one place, with the ability to turn the notes into visual pieces with one click. Connects to the Open Library API for book info and the Unsplash API for image resources.
And when you split plasticine it doesn't. Do numbers have tightly bound huge amounts of energy inside them?
I've bought a Palo Alto Networks big blue box on eBay in the past.

If you're only using it for legitimate research, the licensing subtleties seem different than if you were using it for the benefit of its product features.

For people working in enterprise IT, word was (a least a few years ago) your salesperson could hook you up to purchase one their small boxes with a license, for home use. It's in their interest to have IT people familiar with their products. But (unlike whatever you bought on eBay) I don't know whether that license would have you agreeing to restrictions on research investigation, or to restrictions on talking about the product.
I think it’s more that the big asset holders spent marketing money in CEO monthly magazine and it was effective.
It bothers us because most of us have basic empathy. Also to train on the work of every artist then lament how human art resembles art generated by a machine trained to reproduce that art strikes me as a bit tone deaf.
If you look at the picture while it's standing, the design has the diagonal braces all running the same way. Any homeowner who has knocked together a wooden gate could recognize that as abnormal. If the bridge were standing, I might think "huh, I guess the did the math and it works fine like this". But since it's scattered across the riverbed, I guess they didn't.
Don't forget adding user hostile dark patterns and optimising for attention stealing.
Yeah. Won’t make a difference anymore. Not like things will reverse
submission is a follow-up to this original post: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5587

prior discussion of the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40005150
Over which copyright?
Depends on the type of meeting. Where I work, we have a short 15-minute meeting every morning that's done over video call, just to see who's working that day and make sure everyone is on the same page. The CEO constantly does screen-share meetings with clients so they can show him what they're trying to do with the product, and he can watch the recording later and break it into tasks to give to us. I'd say it works pretty well. Without this the product would lose out on a lot of valuable feedback.
My two cents on Kagi raising the price of their subscription to cover their back taxes:

- Businesses that’ll eventually need to collect sales tax should add sales tax automation software to their stack from the beginning (even if they don’t expect to hit the threshold in a given jurisdiction anytime soon). Compliance can get really complicated really quickly -- and what founder wakes up and prefers doing taxes over actually building their product?

- Avalara is probably the most well-known one (Box uses them) but they have an implementation fee that we couldn’t stomach as a bootstrapped business https://www.avalara.com/us/en/index.html

- We ended up going with a fellow startup called Kintsugi because they had a free option that connects to Stripe and didn’t have an implementation fee. We probably won’t even hit any thresholds to need to file until 2025 (cross your fingers it’s earlier!!) but they said they’ll email us when we do, here’s their page https://trykintsugi.com/

- Anything related to compliance makes me anxious so this is great because I don’t even have to think about it until I actually need to, though hopefully not under the same circumstances as Kagi :)
Remember when google first launched and it was so great as it was just some text adverts rather than things like punch the monkey.
Researchers develop better way to make painkiller from trees
Ventilation is also for co2, and more than just covid.
People do tend to get mad about borders, to be fair.
Some people have always complained about redesigns and always some people have liked them. The proportion of each depends on the redesign in question, but I reject any assertion of a general trend in this proportion asserted without evidence. It is more likely that the perception of a trend reflects the circles you frequent.
it's time to move on from what, exactly? from the global realization that maybe the idea of forcing people to come to work or school when they have any sort of contagious respiratory disease isn't the best idea?
The ideal I think is 2 days in person, 2 days from home.
Everyone is mad about every redesign. Give it a week and they'll get used to it.
Well I'm glad you're enjoying the philosophical equivalent of junk food I guess.
bro, come on..
In the screenshot of the DLC it shows GDScript.
I can’t be bothered using their crummy, janky, overburdened web interface (new or old), even with ublock clearing most of the dead wood away. I’ll download to view offline using a non bullshit media player instead.
everyone is different, but remote is perfect for me and most (but not all) of the people I know
Really depends on the area though. In LA for example, you'd have to move 1-2 hours away to get into MCOL or LOCOL.

What would be really cool is reconceptualizing hybrid work as quarterly retreats, where the company provides housing and other amenities for 1 to 2 weeks every quarter. This gives everyone time to bond and work on harder problems.

I get this wouldn't work as well for those with families because being away for that long is tough, but this would be great for say juniors and seniors with greater flexibility. It also solves some of the other issues, ie I could move to an MCOL and just fly in once a quarter to work together with everyone. The "retreat" aspect of it would also incentivize more people to be there.
That's scrutiny at the border. But in 17 years of regular business visits, I've yet to see La Migra barge into my cubicle to make sure I was not programming while there.
Spent half an hour reading this blog post and I already feel like I am an expert at Ring Attention.
Yep. Soon as I saw the second one, I bailed.
wouldn't a warehouse near the ocean also be bad for electronic parts/metals?
Why is this agitprop on HN when politics are supposed to be shunned here and this article is clearly political and from a biased source at that?
Not sure if that’s strictly a Chinese thing
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> AMP was deliberately created to mitigate the horrible website experience of news publishers.

That was very generous of the billion dollar corporation to do. I'm sure there was no self serving motivation behind it.

> of poor news media being forced to dig their own grave

You seem to be struggling to see this outside of a black and white narrative and are mistaking your own polemic as being diametrically opposed to my point of view.

> There's really no industry that deserves this kind of history repainting less than the media moguls.

You also seem to be unaware of just how many small and medium sized broadcasters and publishers there are or how large this industry actually is. You are interested in narratives, I'm interested in facts. I don't think there's much more to discuss between us.
My question to that person was "How can you accept non trivial user input without the risk of jailbreak?", in the context of their idea of using one "correctly", without severely limiting the use of LLM. I agree with you.

The problem space of replacing small text boxes is definitely in the realm of "trivial" user input. And not caring about a jailbreak is different than preventing one. But, not caring about a jailbreak is the only sane approach where LLM can really remain useful. That's fine, as long as it's understood. Allowing jailbreaks, in your system, without negative consequences, doesn't mean it's not "correct", which they seemed to be claiming.
One night where the outside temperature gets below -25C is not a serious problem. If you had the heat pump keeping your house at a comfortable temperature the day before, you aren't going to die of hypothermia or have pipes freeze overnight. You'll just wake up to a house that's chilly inside and takes most of the day to get back up to where you want it.

Sustained cold spells are where you need an alternative heat source.
your projects aren’t actually important
so, get of Facebook already and go to the news sites?
Yeah.. I can understand where the author's coming from not wanting to be on a call or get emailed by the founder, but this is such an immediate assumption of bad "fatih" on their part, and a tactless way of communicating that, that I don't consider it a great look for the author.

I'm not even arguing people should assume good faith until proven otherwise (I don't think we should, generally). Just that being so steadfast in one's assumption of bad faith is unwarranted.
they do for sure: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donat...
Even fairly mid-level execs are probably in meetings--whether in their offices, at home, or in conference rooms--maybe 6+ hours a day.
How were Meta and Google funding "actual" journalism vs. clickbait? Do you have any sources on that?
I think a lot of executives are part of the boomer generation who had a stay-at-home partner as they climbed to the top. They have no idea how much more complex the workplace is when two partners work and have kids. We have to work in open floor spaces while they have a private office. Their reality isn’t our reality.
Maybe consider the Internet archive? https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donat...
Adobe will fork over cash for clips to train text-to-video AI
The concern isn't that humans are magic, it's that we haven't found the trick yet.

When we do, most likely there will be a big revolution. But we haven't and throwing more money at it isn't going to make us reach it.
I question the competency of any CEO that enforces people return to the office on a whim.

We have crossed the rubicon on remote work. The shift has been well and truly paradigmed.

To choose to restrict your candidate pool to a small geographical location, pay relocation, pay higher salaries, have a lower employee NPS, have higher company carbon emissions, whilst your competitors have a much larger non-geographically constrained talent pool, with more attractive, flexible, family-friendly working conditions and pay less for those employees, making their companies more competitive.

It’s a no-brainer. The status quo has completely shifted. Any CEO that doesn’t yet realize that should consider quitting.
I really like the information about how the cloud providers do their multiplexing, thanks. There was some tech posted here a few month ago that was similar I found very interesting - plug all devices, ram, hard drives, and CPUS into a larger fabric and a way to spin up "servers" of any size from the pool of resources... wish I could remember the name now.

nit: HN formatting messed up your math in the second sentence, I believe you italicized on accident using * for equations.
The entire existence of labor laws is because businesses tend to not do what is best for their workers and workers need and deserve protections.

Not all workers are in unions. And even if they are, that shouldn't mean local governments shouldn't also be able to put protections in place.

All jobs have risks. Ladders are a necessary tool for jobs. Having workers labor in extreme heat without protections to prevent medical illness is not.

I'm not outraged. But certainly disappointed and hope for better for the laborers of Florida.
Did you at least front run the market and stocked up of 4090ies before this release?
Also gamers are probably not too happy about these developments :D
This would make an unsettling interview question.
Researchers explore building better antibodies and curbing autoimmune diseases
Regarding "Left", there's a Strugatsky brothers short with exactly this scenario (there are a few people left on the planet, but they seem like militia/survivalist types out in the sticks; everyone else seems to have deliberately but in a great rush gone into the cities and ... disappeared somehow)
checkout https://brisk.news
I wasn't arguing for every person for themselves with regards to PFAS in city water. It seems totally reasonable for water utilities to be required to provide clean water, either through government or internal rules.

I was arguing that more consumers could step up to make similar decisions, in this case avoiding PFAS products.

We don't have direct control over what's in our water, especially in areas where collecting rain water or using a well isn't even allowed if you wanted to do it yourself. We do have control over what we buy though, we just rarely see consumers making decisions that match the values we often argue for (like we need to massively reduce oil/plastic use and chemical exposures).
Let's not forget the issue that comes from Discord being a platform

(which results being hard to copy from)

that Kagi founders use it is a huge red flag that their values and mine do not align.
Exactly this. The sooner we stop pulling the wool over our own eyes on what Google and Meta actually do with respect to "news", globally, the better.
The only way that many people can justify their exceptional success is to assume they themselves are exceptional. It's a nice ego stroking way to look at the world and allows them the rights to create double standards at will.
Am I missing something or did the writer just drop this line in the middle of the article with no context:

> But salaries in Michigan for all manager roles are typically around 15% to 20% higher than for comparable roles in the south, she said.

Why on earth would anyone move for a job paying 20% less, regardless of their mortgage status?
The worst of the open office trend was ripe for a backlash. CEOs should have known better in the medium term. Short term, of course it looks attractive. And no one could have predicted Covid and remote work would be a big driver of the backlash.
Don’t even understand what they are fighting for. The lowest cost option is there to stay
In applying for O1/EB1, does rejection hurt future applications?
My boss (middle management) is very staunchly opposed to more than 1 day per week of WFH. She spends about 90% of her time on video calls, so I was always confused by that until she was telling me that when she does WFH she's always distracted by other things which doesn't happen in the office.

Maybe a lot of the WFH opposition is really just managers projecting their own work ethic onto others?
The T-34 Won the War: The Greatest Myth of World War II
I live in the US and "mostly for girls" is an understatement. I'm not denying that there might be a few boys named Ashley, but it's now considered about as feminine as "Susan" or "Emily"
These are already high salaries, and they're still not enough.

And that's a good thing. These companies need to pay the true price for talent, which is much higher than what they're paying but also they've done a lot of dirty tricks to grow as big as they are; the real price for what they're asking should bleed them dry.
I often have to hide from folks who want to interrupt me doing my work so I can do their work for them. If I turn them down I get a bad peer review and get labelled a "Jerk" (no jerks allowed!). If I help them, I don't get to begin doing my own work till 5PM.
Ah. Creative license?
My understanding is Microsoft traditionally does much more defense focused cloud infrastructure. I’m curious what made the IDF choose Google.
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And that would be perfect if you only have to go in once a week. Many of my coworkers are in that situation and had been commuting 4 hours round trip for years before the pandemic.
You can hold on to your stock and avoid paying capital gains taxes and still diversify your portfolio by entering into an equity swap contract where you receive a rate of return equivalent to an index benchmark (or any asset, really) while the swap writer would receive the returns of your single stock position. Both parties would still hold their original assets (or futures/options contracts), but would receive the returns from the asset of the other party by marking to market and making net cash payments to each other on a regular basis.

You still hold the original asset, but receive the returns of an index instead, so you’ve diversified without incurring any capital gains tax.

The swap writer would likely hedge their risk (shorting stock or using options) and make money by charging fees/premiums for writing the swap.
Yeah, exposing load bearing wood and glue to the elements requires some extra caution and engineering intuition
The attackable noise ratio did not go from exponential to polynomial either. It went from classically subexponential to quantumly polynomial.
Exactly. This is a tax thing that lets you do that, without getting hit with a big capital gains tax bill from selling off your big (appreciated) position.
https://radicle.xyz/
This?
You will likely lose your green card if you stay out of the US for more than 6 months. So it's not a good solution for occasional stays.
I agree about the issue with not being able to move, but i'd hardly call some of the many benefits "worst of both worlds". Avoiding the traffic, avoiding crowded offices, avoiding distractions, gaining life time back (no commute), etc - if you like it and have a proper space for it i'd still say it's a net benefit to hybrid WFM.

I'm fully remote atm, but i've also done hybrid. WFM was always a benefit to me personally.

I don't advocate that it's for everyone, ofc. Just saying many of the benefits hold true even if you have to work hybrid.
People brazenly defy the RTO requests at my company. I suppose management could start turning the screws on people, but I have a feeling enough people are still willing to quit to make that impractical.
Let's put it a different way, if Vlad wasn't apolitical, like all the haters seem to be complaining about, I wouldn't be paying Kagi any money, it wouldn't even be on my radar.

While no one can truly be unbiased, I want them to try. Arguments against this are just sophist nonsense, and I'm not convinced they are made in good faith.
That doesn’t make sense unless the CEO owns the building the company rents. If you have money in REIT then your company’s little decision wont affect it. Anymore than buying a single share of Apple will affect the price.
> Your brain shifts into "work mode" by default.

I never found this to be the case in office.

However I would agree with you on the shift out. 30 mins into the gym or drive home and I was able to stop thinking about work. Whereas now it's often 8-9pm at home before I go "whoa, I should dim these blue lights and do something with my life"
"Google recently described its work for the Israeli government as largely for civilian purposes."

That "largely" does an awful lot of work, doesn't it.