skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haven’t heard of one good reason why aid via land crossings is being prevented from entering Gaza. The US literally built a pier to deliver aid when this is not an island country. Mass starvation, transferring of population (settlers in the West Bank) against a single culture/people are all forms of genocide. Documented cases of hospitals being destroyed, snipers killing people seeking medical care are all happening, if this isn’t genocide I don’t know what is.
good one! The editor macros collection never ceases to amaze even after years of working daily in it.
Yes, it was quite an exceptional thing indeed.
> force them to deal with (unpaid) time consuming

I have personally turned most of those into paid activities.

I wake up at 8:30 and start my commute at 9-9:15, and leave to arrive at 6 at home, essentially being free at the same time as when I work from home.

Pretty much everyone does the same in my team and even in my company as a whole.
High bandwidth does not equal high quality.

I much prefer a well thought out text message rather than someone spamming their thoughts at me through speech.

That being said, for discussion points and fast iterations I agree that in-person is hard-to-beat, but for a lot of work this is the minority and doesn't justify forcing people to be there at all times just in case this is needed.
Think about what you wrote, it doesn't make sense even at the first glance. Millions of Americans have a yearly income in excess of $1million, for those people, employing house staff is a trivial expense.

And these people aren't even considered 'rich' by the standards of truly rich people.

True, the Soviet elite, like any elite ever, had great resources at its finger tips, and high ranking bureaucrats had access to perks like luxury resorts reserved for Party officials, better cars and luxury housing, I'm pretty sure no one had the excess wealth of having a hundred million dollar yacht (or equivalent), that today's billionaires (including Russian oligarchs) have.

Edit: I'm not allowed to respond to you, probably some anti-flamewar mechanism (and downvote you, which you obviously did to me), so let my answer stand here.

You wrote:

>USSR had the highest wealth disparity at "peak communism" under Stalin

then in when I refuted your post, you replied:

>Was said inequality less than in capitalist societies? Sure
Question: has he now been definitely fired? I lost track.
Well, this is honestly a sign of self-discipline and maybe accommodation issue. I WFH and I have "an office" (a room) and "the home" (the rest). So I know when I enter the office and when I leave. The office have it's desk/softphones, who do not ring outside etc.

I live in EU too, but I left the big dense city for the mountains to have such setup. Of course many are still "panicked" since if they leave the city they fear it would be hard to came back if the WFH end, but this is not really an issue in practical terms, it's a psychological issue: people MUST understand where we are, where we going and decide, no one have a working crystal ball but certain changes are moderately easy to predict and reasonably certain. Here the choice is between take the risk meaning potentially having a big prize or a big loss, or not take the risk and being SURE to suffer a significant loss.

Economically the office model is untenable: we have large, big buildings to "live", normally used less than half a day, "empty" for most of the days of the year, and others big as well used just less than half a day, "empty" for most of the days of the year as well. The rest of the time spent "commuting", it's an absurd way to keep people moving to get them "motivated" to work instead of the contrary. In the past there was no alternatives, remote work was limited technically, now is like convincing people that a horse is better than a car, he can go in much more places, he can reproduce itself, he eat grass around the world and produce free fertilizer for crops. Oh, all it's true, but we also all know why cars win. WFH is a key of a social change not only for remote worker but for ALL: we know an enormous amount of people will have to relocate due to climate change and human crisis, this alone is an enormous issue. Being able to move keeping our work means opening a way to move to others who do not WFH for the material needs like fill a cavity or buy groceries of the WFH cohort. Similarly WFH we can move where we need to be for climatic, productive needs, it's a needed flexibility in a changing world. WFH also push semi-autonomy witch is another big need because in a changing world we will experience more and more service disruptions and we need to keep living with them. A home can now have p.v. and lithium storage in most part of the world enough to keep a big of appliance working, can have water storage for a week to a month and so on. We can live well even with intermittent services and being able to do so means we are still productive and those who handle services have more slack to evolve them as well.

Consider that EU density and propensity of many EU country for dense cities" https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... is a big part of our current crisis. Irish people live most in homes, only 10.6% are in apartments, but Spain, Germany, Italy are the opposite, and that's why they suffer already and they'll suffer MUCH more in the near future being unable to implement the Green New Deal for most.
Suppose it actually required twenty, or 200. In that case, would the relevant organisation publish the truth or rather lie and say "two"? I think lying makes a lot of sense. Telling the truth would be like saying "go ahead and kill the most accessible of these 20/200 people".

So I don't think the "2" is very likely to be true.
I think the message is not clear. Mobifree is not a software stack, or a consortium, or that kind of thing. TFA and the official site make a poor job at explaining what it is.

Mobifree is a grant from the EU to any open source maker. This means existing applications can do the changes everyone complains about all the time while its developers see some of their pressure relieved. New software, infrastructure can pop up for the benefit of everyone, hardware projects can iterat a few more times to make something right. Anyone can actually apply for some it through https://nlnet.nl/mobifree : NLNet is an NGO that has repeatedly helped and supported the floss ecosystem, but this time with a focus on mobile. You can see their sub-grant here: https://nlnet.nl/mobifree/

F-droid is the expected partner for this given they only distribute floss software by default.

The grant page has maybe more information: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101135795
It's perfectly fine to not enjoy WFH, the point of the article here is forcing an option onto employees instead of giving them the choice.
Consider the scenario where your user goes offline for more than 5 or 10 minutes (or however long your expiry time is). Without a refresh token, now they’re logged out. That’s pretty bad UX.

And issuing a new JWT every 10 minutes certainly seems akin to “setting and constantly refreshing expiries on the session keys” which you called out as being a drawback of server-side sessions in a different post.
Those of us that are not on team Lombok still have to deal with it due to transitive dependencies.
Maybe Elon Musk has a nice job for him now. Would fit in perfectly with the culture. I wish this was only a bad joke.
Therefore the "seldom"

Myself wasn't forced, I had already discussed this with my supervisor beforehand.
According to the legal professionals overseeing this, you're wrong: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192

The court accepted the case and ordered Israel to take all measures possible to prevent genocidal acts to continue: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192...

Since then, Israel ignored the order and arguably even intensified its attacks. It seems clear now that the legal institution responsible for evaluating whether genocide is happening believes Israel is indeed committing genocide.
> I think that few days in office, especially as few as one per month, should really be about socialising.

Came here to agree with this.

Personally (and there is a heavy personal opinion to this as some people also do prefer the office life) I think a majority work from home but with the occasional mandated office day specifically for socialising is a good hybrid. I acknowledge that more extreme (for lack of a better word) introverts would like to avoid the office all together though.
I disagree. Physical space and distance helps, a lot. I can’t explain why, but the commute home helps establish a different psychological setting.
I think they shouldn’t make exceptions the police and military. These are precisely the areas where maybe you do want controls.

It’s just like the European snooping charter that exempts politicians.
The Consequences of One's First Programming Language
I don't really agree with this take. Similar to knolling [0], refactoring the code you're working on and that around it should be a natural part of every development flow. If you see a design choice that no longer makes sense, restructure. If code is unused, remove. Etc, we have plenty of powerful tools at our disposal in modern times and always cleaning things up as you go is the only way you will ever keep a code base maintainable. There will never be some magical future where you have time to clean up and refactor those thorny bits, the time is now. Similar to gardening, if you're pruning roses and you see a weed taking root, just pull it out, it's right there. You won't get all the weeds this way and sure, it would be nice to have more time to deal with them, but surely it will help a little.

[0] https://youtu.be/s-CTkbHnpNQ?si=KYwllK4NJY1bjRa3
What have your predecessors done with Kafka? What did Kafka do to your predecessors? Aren't you thrilled to find out? It's enterprise enough to be an endless source of surprises!
They are basically the same, other than support and packaged set of GC configurations.
> "I personally like working in office because it's where I work, and then I go home and that's my home. "

Well, that's not how IT nowadays works. On the assembly line, sure. But modern IT professionals usually take their "work" with them. I remember the times we had desktop computers and work really stayed in the office when we left, but the default in 2024 is laptop/mobile workplace.
What’s to stop a CDN rewriting the integrity attributes?
From the Readme:

“ To limit the use of ChatTTS, we added a small amount of high-frequency noise during the training of the 40,000-hour model, and compressed the audio quality as much as possible using MP3 format, to prevent malicious actors from potentially using it for criminal purposes.”

I’m having a hard time understanding why they have degraded the training, audio, and thus the output.
It’s not like this is the first or only text to speech system.
Everywhere I've worked had either people who made mistakes, people who made unrealisic demands, or both.

I guess you'd be the type with unrealistic demands.
I think this is a possible conclusion you could draw, but not the only one. The value of going to the office is the other people. If no one's there, then it's the same as working from home (you need Zoom for all your calls, even if half of you are next to each other) so if more than about 5% of people are remote, it semi-forces everyone else to be, even if they'd prefer to be working with people as a local team.
The problem is not liking or not working at home. The problem is being forced to work in an office if it doesn't fit you and other jobs allow you to stay at home. And the impact it has on corps ability to retain those workers.

I know I have received a number of offers for work with higher salary in the last 2 years with forced hybrid work from office/home[1] but I won't accept any of that. At least until my youngest daughter is out of primary school.

I don't mind going to the office once in a while, or even everyday if it is 5-20 minutes from home (as long as I keep possibility to work from home if a particular need comes). But I will refuse one that forces me to burn co2 for no value, that add stress to my day (commuting by vehicle) or that takes me more than 20 minutes by bicycle or public transport as long as I can find a decent one that doesn't force me to do that. My partner's doesn't work from a computer so she will have priority in our place of living for the foreseeable future.
facepalm I’d had a few whiskies and misread your comment. Sorry about that!
If the trial is federal (and I believe it is) there’s no deal that gets you out of federal prison faster than 90% of time served I believe, and that’s for good behavior. Feds don’t have a parole system otherwise

Edit: it’s 54 days per year, not 90%

> The Act amended 18 U.S.C. § 3624(b) so that federal inmates can earn up to 54 days of good time credit for every year of their imposed sentence rather than for every year of their sentenced served. For example, this change means that an offender sentenced to 10 years in prison and who earns the maximum good time credits each year will earn 540 days of credit.
Surely the distortion of the perceived distance between areas just north and south of the equator is the same or greater than that between Japan and Hawaii in current maps. In fact it's very difficult to judge the relationship between the north and south in general because they are basically two separate maps.

And while I can see the appeal of centering the maps on the poles, as it is "apolitical" and probably leads to less overall distortion, it prioritises what are, for the vast majority of humans, the least relevant parts of the world, at the expense of all the other parts.

It honestly doesn't strike me as useful at all, though I appreciate that it can be academically interesting to create new map formats that satisfy some manufactured constraints.
> M-x zone

Available in the menu: Tools → Games → Zone Out
Could Musk have referred to Whatsapp's backup feature? IIRC, that stores data unencrypted by default and was used in the past to access entire accounts.
Isn't a lot of the WFH/WFO debate centered around personal preferences? A lot of people like WFH but that doesn't mean there aren't also a lot of people who do actually like/prefer to be in the office.

Of course generally it's not up to them, instead up to the management who sets the office policy but to describe the people who don't like going to the office as 'the good ones' seems a little short sighted.
That only works for companies that have a single office. Once you are multiple offices, that argument is moot for the most part.

Also I think you are mistaking high bandwith with low latency. You can certainly do high bandwith remotely. What you lose is on latency because remote work involve some form of async communication.
It doesn't look like a leak but a misdeployment.

Same service wrappers from two years ago:
https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-php-client-services...
There's more to this than just work from home vs work from office.

I did a PhD and felt similarly: I couldn't ever "leave" work. Home was work. My desk at the university was work. When I finished and started a real job I was indeed relieved that I could come home and, for once, not be working.

But it was never about the location of my body. During my PhD, my head was work. I had nothing else in my life. I couldn't escape work because it was my entire life.

When I returned to working from home (during the pandemic) I couldn't believe how unproductive I'd been for the past several years of working in an office. I would finish a day and think "wow, I haven't been this productive since my PhD". This has made me happier than ever.

The difference is, unlike during my PhD, I have other things in my life now. It doesn't matter where my desk is. When I decide to "finish work" at the end of the day, my partner is normally home. When I'm with her I'm not working. If I decide to continue studying at my desk I'm not working. If I go out and do some exercise or walk by myself I'm not working.

I was incredibly stressed during my PhD. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to complete and lived with impostor syndrome the whole time. Nowadays I have a much more balanced relationship with work. This is something you should strive for too, and then you might find the scales tip in favour of working from home, like me.
Well, as the others have to realize the same. RTO meaning IMPOSING all return to the office, so imposing the will of some on all. WFH does not means imposing the end of the office if so many want it and they want something doable.

I have my wills, of course, some are doable, some are not. I really want to be immortal, never fell ill, find a large plethora of sex-hungry partners and so on, these are just few examples of not really doable personal will. If the office can economically survive because it does work it will, if the slice of those who want WFH is big enough to kill the office that's how democracy works. I do like WFH, I do not pretend imposing others the same, as long as others do not pretend imposing me the office.

Of course I observe issues and strong points in both models, so the future will be decided by the majority anyway. We will see, knowing that any imposition tend to last less and less as more and more it's imposing and impacting people life.
This shows why it's important to accommodate both and not impose one way or another. Like for me this unification is exactly what I'm enjoying. I can never "leave", but I never have to "go" either. Not perfect but as an introvert still a better situation. Also not everyone in Europe live at less than a 30min bicycle drive. Why must it always be 100% one or another?
It would be better to just have a professional director guide the model the same way you would any other actor.
As someone who is in this space, I’m not aware of any recent major developments so it’s most likely someone just thought it’s cool and hasn’t been talked about on HN in sufficiently long
DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database
I am pretty sure a lawyer could be found that would happily take that case against the board. And that Altman would be quite willing to go that far. At least I would not have staked my professional life and personal economy on it not happening.

PG called it over 15 years ago: "You could parachute him [Sam Altman] into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king".
Uniform Commercial Code Amendments on Digital Assets
"UCC Digital Asset Amendments Finalized
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This month, the sponsors of the Uniform Commercial Code (“UCC”) approved wide-ranging amendments to the UCC (the “2022 UCC Amendments”)[1] to provide workable rules for emerging technologies, such as distributed ledger technology and virtual currency.

If adopted by individual state legislatures, these amendments should provide greater certainty regarding the rules governing security interests, competing claims, custodial risks, and other issues associated with digital assets."
With Apple, many times it's just bad QA. Just like you can assume they QA iMessage much more than standard SMS since this is what "they use" :)

With Microsoft, every update I get this wizard that tries to trick me to put OneDrive, trial Office and other things. and... one in a few update a new dark pattern is being added. So it's not a bug... it's a feature from their perspective.
> It's an accessibility nightmare, especially (but not only) for people with hearing loss.

I can't make out any conversation in a noisy environment so usually switch to try-to-filter-noise-and-fail plus some amateur form of lip reading which works ok for a casual conversation but not for a more serious one. Hearing is "ok" enough though when testing, so no clue what it is.

It helps a lot when the ambient noise level reduced by a few db and tuning down the music helps a lot.
>Musk, and Zuckerberg, and Bezos, and Ellison, and all the other amoral wealth-hoarders

Not so much wealth hoarders but products of the capitalist system where you can own a company and it may do well and become worth lots of money.

And what is the alternative? Communist communal ownership of the means of production is not really cracking along these days.
Most Ghidra discussion I see online boils down to whining that it's not IDA Pro, so, probably not bad.
There's another side to this: not being able to leave home to work. I, and many of my work colleagues, have small child or children and not enough rooms to dedicate one purely to work. I have my space and my wife does everything she can to help me, but it's really hard to argue with 10 month old child that wants to be held for a few minutes. Due to this, my productivity at home is nowhere near the productivity at the office. I do appreciate the possibility to work from home (I'm actually at my "home office" right now), but I use it as a last resort, not my default mode.

As for the space, some people don't have enough of it to replicate the "designed to work" tools at home. At my office, I have a large eraseable board behind me, printers, fast coffee machines, sometimes lunch is provided, easy access to people for "quick question" (chat/email doesn't have the same responsiveness), not to mention two huge screens and way more comfortable chair than I can fit in my home space. If my company will pay me to replicate this environment (which would have to include bigger place), I'll happily move to WFH for as much as possible.

At the same time I recognize the different preferences regarding WFH and I don't want my colleagues to be the victims of "some people prefer to use the desk at work so everyone needs to RTO". I personally advocate for individual approach, because I can see that many of my colleagues work better from home - overly social office space for them isn't really better than their comfortable home.
Folks who are hearing impaired do. And that's increasingly more of us as we age.
That's irrelevant. If you want, you will steal without leaving any trace. If Snowden could sneak out loads of documents from the CIA, no company would be able to keep their IP airtight. NDAs and good old trust are the only way.
A while back I install ponysay on one of my servers, and put fortune | ponysay in the .bashrc, so I get a quip from a random mlp pony whenever I log in. Brightens my day a little
Interesting since in their model spec OpenAI [1] suggests that for translation they should basically let you do whatever.

[1] https://cdn.openai.com/spec/model-spec-2024-05-08.html#excep...

EDIT: I got a translation but it lectured me first (and I'm not convinced the translation is accurate) https://chatgpt.com/share/10c63fad-4716-4cde-885d-a681c7cb78...
Even systems with 15 years of legacy and eons of manhours behind them get replaced. These projects do not always succeed but I've seen it happen.

A rewrite from scratch doesn't need full parity with the old system as long as you can discover, implement and test all the critical business use cases beforehand.

That last part is also the most common reason why large system replacement projects fail, go over buddget, or are not even attempted.

Often the people controlling the money do not have the technical knowledge how much complexity the old system hides. The safe bet is to keep it going.
Study Suggests Second Half of Decade Will See Spike in Electric Vehicle Demand
In November 2023, he was surprisingly dismissed, but confirmed in office a few days later. He has been in office ever since! The story refers to this "surprising dismissal".
OpenAlgo: Open-Source Algorithmic Trading Framework for Indian Markets
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