skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have ADHD and am autistic so loud open floor plan offices are a challenge. I'm in the category of people most likely to benefit from remote. Honestly it's been a much bigger challenge trying to collaborate and connect with coworkers in the new world than trying to cope with an office. People often don't perceive you as an actual human if you've only ever been a video square to them. And quick collaboration just doesn't happen anymore, or happens in a much slower and more frustrating way on Slack. Juniors especially struggle and I watch them take many times longer to ramp up than pre-pandemic. I honestly desperately wish my team worked in a room together 2-3 days a week.
Is it just mortgage rates or is it that moving down to the southern United States is not all that appealing for other reasons? There is clearly an amount of money that would convince me to move to "the US south" but as of yet nobody has offered it. There is a significant quality of life and sanity cost that I would prefer to not incur.
Decision Diagnostics executive sentenced to 7 years in jail for Covid test fraud
I’m not alleging anything, this is internal stuff that came out.

It’s impossible to roll your own for a very long list of reasons that go back to the late 90s.
Is there any evidence that this is actually happening and going undetected in large enough numbers for it to be rational to allow the possibility to dictate the official remote/not-remote policy of large companies? This feels more like a meme that circulates among management/executive types than it does an actual problem in the real world.
curl is good for isolating issues. Here's requests to https://zerosheets.com & https://www.zerosheets.com: https://gist.github.com/Buzer/67adedefe59f9efdf3b16b0b8def11...
The stigma is different now.

It’s not “you’re a loser”. It’s “you make a lot of money while ruining the world for everyone else.” Look at the jokes about Zuckerberg imitating a human.

He’s obviously one of the most powerful people in the world. But looked down upon by creating a socially harmful product. Like cigarette company or oil company CEOs.
They have a point, I guess. It pings home in bpc_count_daily_users.js.

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/content/sha1_git...
It'd be incredible for "test prep" to have to mean "learn things" to result in better scores.
I agree that there is a real difference between being at work vs working from home. You build a connection to the workplace. Your brain shifts into "work mode" by default. People talk to each other, culture develops, etc. These are obviously all good things.

The problem is, most jobs people do have an element of mindlessness and aren't cutting edge, innovating spaces. Most white-collar jobs people work in are satellite offices of large companies where the day-in day-out is simply maintaining and attending to larger systems, applying general verbal reasoning, keeping up appearances, etc. A lot of it is bullshit work, as has been articulated before. This work, stripped to its productive essence, can be done faster, more efficiently and in a fraction of the 9-5 work day at home, but part of the charade is for employers and managers to not admit this truth.
Do you have a source for the view that executives invest in commercial real estate, or is the view based on anecdotes? I have not observed any such trend/relationship, and am under the impression that most MBA-types are generally averse to CRE and similar markets, but this is anecdotal, and I have no data to support it.
I use a 3rd party app, and see messages marked [delayed] not infrequently. Just as another data point.
Promotion oriented programming.
Good way to lower your leisure time on the computer. Smart.
That's a fictional movie. There are a lot of things that are accurate, but it's not really evidence of any real person's ability.

Also, Fletcher still takes several notes to hear the incorrect tempo.
In the Silicon Valley tv show, the solved that by moving engineers to the garden roof.
The Troubling Trend in Teenage Sex
https://archive.is/G3tEZ
The funny thing is that if they invested more and made offices into, you know, offices people would want to work there.

Instead we have these open floor plan monstrosities for the hoi polloi and private offices for the masters of the universe.

I have no idea what brain damage causes this but if you can't work efficiently in the space you give to your workers to work in how do you expect them to work?

A more or less verbatim conversation between the CEO and myself as CTO shortly before I quite:

>The new office is so stuffy. I'm going to work from home.

>>We need to get a new office.

>No we paid too much to break the lease.

>>But you can't work there.

>I can work from home most of the time. I'll only come in for the big company meetings.
And there's several brand new accounts commenting...
Many people are willing to pay for news. Enough that it will keep coming in excess. Just not enough to sustain the scale and production values of yesteryear.

Plenty of independent journalists are out there doing just fine and even some of the big outlets have adjusted effectively. But in the internet age we don't need hundreds of outlets all reporting on the same stories 24/7 - especially when most of those stories have no impact on the viewers/readers.

The market is simply adjusting and the old establishment is going down kicking and screaming.
I do miss the old "whiteboard brainstorming session" sometimes
I suspect it was a conscious decision, they went for large, paying, enterprise customers instead of fighting for the free, public, and open source projects.
It's overpriced for what it is.
Casting a wide net and see what they catch, like most businesses who are not making bespoke solutions for their clients. Probably there is nothing they could do that would make you specifically pay for them.
People rationally worry that pressing the button during an update might brick the car. Not an unreasonable worry. And I've seen reports that the mechanical release latch doesn't always work.

In any case, this is horrible design. You need to let users do whatever during upgrades (because, they WILL) and recover gracefully. Anything else is a horror show.
We do 3 days in person, 2 days from home. Seems like a good split.
A simple search on "javascript import export" will yield much information on this topic. You can only import what has been explicitly exported. I don't know of any projects that are handled this way. Normally, you would just use the script tag in html. As for Node, I have only used "require" to import the standard modules but an npm package should import the same way.

>seem to leave out all instructions for how to actually get the files there, as if it's obvious.

I see this all the time and it's frustrating. I can't even begin to count the number of hours lost hunting down little snippets of information simply because some people think it's too "obvious" to mention. This is usually because people are pretenders. They don't actually know what they are doing because they are simply repeating what they saw on the Internet somewhere. You just have to laugh (to keep your sanity). My favourite example is people explaining how to make an SSL certificate. It's so simple, you just type this OpenSSL command. How do you get this "OpenSSL" they speak of? I've tried using OpenSSL and it's a bitch. It's bad enough that I've rolled my own code to make certs just so I don't have to use OpenSSL because I can't remember how I managed to use it the last time. Just have to laugh.

>And finally, if you answer this, can you spare a word about typescript?

Brother, you are asking a lot of questions that I can't answer but hopefully someone else will. I have to ask: why do want to use typescript? Did somebody tell you that it's better than javascript? For what, exactly?

P.S. Looking forward to further discussion on this.
Yeah the generation is very simple, 2-4 random numbers between 1 and 9 inclusive. Definitely gives impossible puzzles sometimes (because I don't know a general algorithm for generating possible ones only).
A lot of what is mentioned in this article actually comes across to me as positives.

That said, one of the things that kept me from using Kagi much is their focus on A.I., which has been staring us in the face since Day 0. I hate A.I. Anything connected with A.I. carries a certain stain that is hard to articulate, but basically immediately makes me feel I have some insight into the psychology of the people behind it, and I do not like what I see.

I also think that a lot of people assumed that Kagi is privacy respecting without much evidence, it was never part of their pitch that I remember.

For those reasons I've just never used the service. This author's axes to grind beyond that don't concern me too much, but those two things are total deal breakers. Which is sad.

More variety in the search space is still good from my perspective. I still hope that Kagi succeed.
I kinda wonder at what point would Google enter the field by sucking AFP's feed, auto filtering it and AI generate articles.

Yahoo News wasn't that, but a search engine getting into the news business would not be unprecedented.
Should be fixed, thanks for the report.
> I have sympathy for the journalists actually doing journalism

You know that with Substack all these actual journalists are having no issue getting paid very well.

I'm not sure why we'd want to expand NPR or make more NPR's. We need less of their low-quality and biased journalism IMO, not more.
It was a demo on how to use the tool. Would you like to learn how to? Try the following steps to construct a prompt on Claude Opus:

1. Type in "I saw this comment on Hacker News:"

2. Hit `>` to start a blockquote.

3. Paste in my entire previous comment

4. Type in "Is this person saying that we should copy-and-paste LLM output as comments to others? Could you explain what he is suggesting I should do if I misunderstand?"

5. Hit Enter

I just tried it and the explanation is right on the money. Not everyone can pick up on human language well, even if they're skilled at other stuff.

You can repeat that with the original sequence of comments as well.

0. Type in "I saw this sequence of Hacker News comments:"

1. Paste in Arrakeen's comment in a blockquote starting with "FWIW I agree with you"

2. Create a nested blockquote with the next response '"Flagship" means important.'

3. Create a third level of nesting with the next response Ford's battery "Important"

4. Exit the nesting and ask: "Does it appear that these people understand what "Ford's battery flagship" means or are they confused by the term?"

And it will correctly detect that they were confused as they said:

> FWIW I agree with you. The title hardly makes sense to me as well.
"Ford's Battery Flagship" - even after reading the article I'm still not sure what this is.

See, he does not know what it means, but if he had asked a high-powered LLM it would immediately have gotten him there and saved him some time commenting. And it looks like you could have too! It's really pretty good stuff. Thanks for working on them.
Screw the Prints and Comments
I was sick of the comments and prints taking away my visual focus when coding, so I made this VS Code extension today to just hide them, literally. Interesting how no one did this before, it seems to be a problem for a lot of students still learning code.

Hopefully it gives you value. Enjoy!
Yeah, I would but finding such puzzles is kind of hard. Might look into it this weekend
Yup, the biggest class of assets in SV are boring single family homes owned by multimillionaires. Once you take the proximity to offices out of the picture the SV property bubble pops. Make the drones come in a few days a week and the assets value keeps going up due to artificial scarcity.
Yes. I used Google sheets as a database to build a website and ran into this issue. The worse part is, if you come across the limit there’s not much you can do but wait or rate limit.

Another problem I had is an API change one year in.

I would not use Google Sheets again. Maybe I’d try Airtable, Notion, or some other similar platform where the API access is more of a priority to the company.
> YouTube tests adding large, bright, and attention-grabbing thumbnails to the bottom of the player.

It seems like some people are better able to handle visual noise. The idea of having autoplay videos on news websites is unthinkable to me, for example. I truly can't comprehend how anybody can stand having a flashing image in their peripheral vision while they're trying to consider a news story. Yet by the lack of public outcry it seems like people are at least fine with them. This YouTube thing seems similar: gaining engagement at the cost of eliminating focus and calm. People complain about environmental pollution but rarely complain about mental pollution.
Added, you can use ?numbers=1~2~3 to specify your puzzle.

Like this:

https://blaise.gg/number_game/index.html?numbers=1%7E4%7E6%7...
Should be fixed now, sorry for trouble.
One company had a related (but less defensible) decision, coming down from the top, which broke CI runners and other things, and the poor overworked Git&CI infra lead was trying to work around it.

They asked me to be a Git reviewer for their big workaround, and I found around a dozen new vulnerabilities and future build-breaking defects that the workaround introduced.

I also told them that it's unreasonable for this other team to ask them to work around that mess, and the solution is for the other team to do the thing in a different, much simpler way. I also ended up raising some even bigger security decision problems with the C-suite.

As one engineer from a different team told me (after they'd given notice of leaving, and kindly granted me an exit interview), the company had too many people making other people's jobs harder, for no reason.

A too-entrenched-to-fail-soon company might be able to justify that (say, it was the easiest way to check off a compliance box, with their encumbered velocity at implementing anything). Most companies aren't that, though.
That's all well and good until you're the second job people are working.
Timeframe makes a big difference. 2010-2012 was the tail end of WotLK through Cataclysm, and by then leveling content had been trivialized (especially after Cata’s release in late 2010).

Not that it was ever particularly difficult relative to other games, but in the original game and TBC, levelers often found themselves in dicey situations that kept things from getting too dull. In WotLK and Cata, baseline player power saw a steep increase and the world was largely defanged, making it so levelers rarely faced significant danger.
oh yes that's right I see that as well, I notice it less because of the more benign topic. I just clicked on a few links from the home page and it seems to depend on the section the article is on (science, tech, gaming etc.), in the "tech" and "gadgets" sections I get the military plane video, when the article is categorised as "gaming" or "information technology" I get the Quantum Leap video, and when I'm reading articles in the "science" category I get a third video about Biomarkers in medical diagnosis.
I thought that atheists believed that politics and religion have caused most if not all wars in history?

Guess what was the impetus for developing technology? War. i.e. politics by other means. Guess that Stalin developed technology for the love of the game, though. Not for war or politics or anything.

Or are we saying that religion and politics have moderated the impulse to war? i.e. in an ancient atheist world, war would have been much more furious and necessary for survival, so the pressure to develop technology would have been much greater than it was with all those pacifist monks running around spoiling everyone's armed conflict fun with their woo-woo? -- Maybe ICBMs should have been invented around the time that Byzantium was founded
When the interest rates finally come back down and we're in the middle of the Greater Resignation, these CEOs will be admitting that getting rid of fully remote work was a mistake.
thats a totally fair argument. "I want to be here so I run into people at a restaurant or sports event"... but thats generally the angle. typically its some bs like I want to be in person to work with other people or something
Good. Hopefully other states follow. The headline might as well be, “After Decades of Freebooting Their Content, Google Threatens to Kill News Rather Than Pay Journalists for Their Work”

Google is now the modern, lazy business equivalent of a bum asking for free stuff in exchange for “exposure”
I'm a European SWE working for a US company and I could request a transfer to the US (L visa?). The latest waves of layoff made me realize that my job wasn't particular safe, especially in the US. My question is: how long would I need to work in the US (lower/upper bound) in order to get a green card (or perhaps some visa with better guarantees than the transfer one).
It's a reasonable counter-example, two other CEOs of successful firms who emphasized safety were Lawrence Culp at Danaher (he is now at GE) and David Cote at Honeywell. All three had tenures more than a decade where their firms invested in and introduced new products, so I suspect they focused on more than worker safety but I am not personally familiar with their policies and decisions.

I think it makes a very good story that a focus on worker safety--to the exclusion of any other objectives--is all that you need. But I don't think anything is that simple.
this looks to be a book about historical slang, whereas a modern slang reference probably is Urbandictionary.com... it looks like most of the words referenced in this catalog are not commonly used today
I have so many Ublock Origin Rules for Youtube that I didn't notice a redesign. I can't imagine using Youtube just out of the box.
Employing Others Is Linked to Wealth and Wellbeing
> Possibly the most natural representation of a UTC instant would be an integer, because fundamentally UTC is a count of milliseconds

It's not! It's a subtle point, but because of leap seconds, the correct representation of UTC is the tuple (year, month, day, hour, minute, second, ...), with the `...` being filled in with your desired precision.

From: http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/unix-leap-seconds.htm...

> Unlike TAI and UT1, the UTC time scale should not be considered as a pure real number (or seconds count): instead, it should be viewed as a broken-down time (year-month-day-hour-minute-second-fraction) in which the number of seconds ranges from 0 to 60 inclusive (there can be 61 or 59 seconds in a minute); during a positive leap second the number of seconds takes the value 60 (while a negative leap second would skip the value 59, but this has never occurred).

...

> If we attempt to condense UTC to a single number (say, the number of seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00 or since 1900-01-01T00:00:00, or the number of 86400s-days since 1858-11-17T00:00:00, or something of the sort), we encounter the problem that the same value can refer to two different instants since the clock has been set back one second (negative leap seconds, of course, would cause no such difficulty).

Most datetime libraries get this wrong. I know because I'm working on a new one that specifically doesn't get this wrong.
I say "PRs welcome" sometime. It's not a demand that you submit a PR; it's an invitation and an acknowledgement that I'm unable to put the time into fixing all reported issues promptly on my own. I try to make this clear but may not do so reliably.
It's max a couple of hours work to cache in some local database like sqlite or in memory.
Those examples had me puzzled. I would have expected "tu tomorrow" to be 00:00:00 of the next calendar day (converted to UTC), rather than "now + 24 hours". If I wanted a particular time (besides 00:00:00) on the next day, I'd like to be able to input something like "9 AM tomorrow" or "tomorrow +9h".
This was a really cool deep dive into various optimizations that apply specifically to voxel-based games.

I especially enjoyed how the author packed progressively more information into the bits of a single integer using some clever tricks, and it stayed approachable the whole time even for those who don’t do a lot of low level bitwise optimizations in their day to day (me)
> They said it makes no sense,

No, they didn't
Offices or remote, nothing is perfect, it's a tradeoff.

And the habits and practices are far from settled at this point.

I think that most companies are doing remote wrong, too many meetings, not enough async communication, not enough written communication overall.

The open source world is a good example of the possible efficiency.
lol if you don't think corpo Dems aren't in bed with capitalism then I have a bridge to sell you.

Read Manufacturing Consent if you want an answer to your Overton window question and its longterm implications of inevitably ratcheting us rightward while being tricked into believing otherwise.

> If your complaint is actually just that people misunderstand you, this is the only thing you can actually change in this equation.

The lack of positive reception has more to do with how minds have been conditioned to reject these criticisms. Relevant:

“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”

https://medium.com/@nicholasadiaz7/introducing-mark-fisher-p...
> productivity can go die.

If someone on my team had that attitude I would hate to work with them. They would hold me and my projects back.

So I’m glad you’re not my colleague.
Downvote though you may, you misunderstand containers - they are not simulating a whole operating system (that would be a VM), they are using features built into Linux to isolate tasks running on the same OS kernel to be isolated from each other.
It’s a big deal because it causes a semantic confusion: for any ID scheme that claims to be “universal”, users expect pervasive uniqueness without resorting to serialization. The “U” in ULID becomes misleading when devs bump into the monotonic variant. That can lead to hard to detect bugs because conflicts or perf degradation may happen only in production. Bad idea to make it part of the spec.

It doesn’t even make sense to have such a scheme in ULID. The only advantage it has over a 64-bit integer is that ULID is 128-bits but, that doesn’t solve any problem or help with anything. It’s just waste, and will cause pain and confusion.
Border radius. People are mad about border radius. :/
> if you can't work efficiently in the space you give to your workers to work in how do you expect them to work?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that most CEOs and COOs use private offices as private, perpetual conference room space. I know my own executive manager has office space he barely uses because he's in conference rooms all day.
If you're trying to buy from them directly you aren't going to get anywhere. Palo Alto is a channel company; you need to find a channel partner that considers a one-off sale worth their time. Palo Alto does do direct deals, but not small ones.

There's an easier way to get a firewall spun up, though. https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-nkug66dl4df4i looks like the current version. I'm still running https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-3xtziatyes54i and can't speak to the newer option directly, but there should be something suitable on all of the big cloud providers.
Google has single-handely ruined the internet, and absolutely warped our expectations around what the economics of content creation looks like online. Google earns money from that content. Why wouldn’t the content creators be entitled to a cut?
Now I wish I had bookmarked the distributed (peer to peer?) github replacement I’ve seen trend on HN a couple of times. It seems like a good place to host something like this. Anyone remember which tool I’m talking about?
'Oracle of Wall Street': 'crisis of the American male' will crash home prices