skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> to help people collaborate and interact in new emergent ways and improve productivity.

I wish you the best, but if history is any guide then the result will be less collaboration and a decrease in productivity.
If you actually look into the "SEO slop", they're constantly fighting a battle with Google to keep their place.

It's all garbage so no one notices when some of it suddenly disappears off the face of the earth and gets replaced with other garbage: but for the ones making it, their revenue essentially goes to 0 overnight.
Somewhere I found an essay that references some claims that humans dislike traveling for more than something around an hour a day. And it doesn't depend on mode of transport.
I've worked at a mix of companies, corporate and startup, and I can't say that I've seen an instance of it.

The closest thing I've seen is that people who have X number of years of experience doing the same thing over and over again don't get opportunities that people with the same number of years doing different things do, unless there's a position that needs X exclusively.
I think I have heard of their product before, and reading the blog post intrigued me, so I wanted to try it, but... VS Code Integration? GitHub Integration? No standalone version which you could actually use as a diff tool for git locally? Ok, I guess only having a "cloud" version makes licensing easier, and you can call me old fashioned, but seeing an eminently "offline" task such as diff being turned into "online-only" seems a bit strange to me.
But significantly more than $1000 is not financially feasible for a balanced UBI program. The average US taxpayer has $40,000 of income and pays $6000 in taxes. A balanced UBI program would increase the average taxpayers taxes by an amount equal to the UBI. So the $40,000 of income would increase to $52,000 and taxes would increase from $6000 to $18000. It works out to about 15% increase in tax levels.

Yes, we'd try and reduce that income tax increase by getting money elsewhere, most significantly because UBI should allow us to decrease welfare payments significantly. But that would still contribute well under half of the $12K.

The numbers work at $1k a month, but they don't work for levels significantly higher than that.

And if UBI isn't balanced, then it will affect inflation, making it much less impactful.

I believe that $1k/month is a good figure for UBI. It's not quite enough to live on, but it can be in a shared-housing situation, and it can go a long ways to cover expenses if you have to quit your job due to an abusive boss or something.
There was a funny (joke) academic paper circulating around 2000 that showed if you were plannig to do a computation that would take about a year that in 6 months you could pay 1/3 less and still get the computation done faster.

What made it so funny is not only that it was written so well but that things were moving so fast back then it felt plausible.
https://undo.io/resources/how-i-debug-python-code-with-a-tim...

"How I debug Python code with a Time Travel Debugger"

Works surprisingly well.
AFAIK that has been the case for many years, to the point where in Azure it’s acceptable to go “Linux-first” when developing new services. Maybe even “Linux-only”.
There's a useful trick many educators know: if someone uses sharpie on your whiteboard, draw over it with another whiteboard marker and you can wipe it up like normal. Also applies to glass and some other surfaces. Essentially the same process you're mentioning but different chemicals. But always be careful with solvents. If water or isopropyl alcohol (IPA) doesn't work, you should know what you're doing/using.
You can do whatever you want during periods of inflation. "It" will fail. The existence of a control group is meaningless. The control group will have bad outcomes too. So what if it does? Nobody can design interventions for periods of inflation, because inflation makes everything look bad: your outcome, control group's outcomes, everyone's outcomes.

For example, Brazil created their current public health system in 1988, realizing it in 1990, during inflation that was between 1,000-2,000%. It wasn't really functional then. Looking at it in isolation, at the time it was created, it would look like a failure, but all of Brazil looked like "a failure." Would it be valid to use SUS as implemented during 1,000% inflation as an example of why public health insurance is bad? No way.
Sure, but I was just giving a counterexample from my personal experience for the claim that their aren't many good paying jobs for Physics PhDs. In my career I have come across a weirdly large number of physics phds in very lucrative roles and that covers various fields, finance, in the software/tech industry (especially in data analysis type roles) and other places.
I guess the next question is: Was Girl Talk the Bob Dylan of poptimism?
> If a miraculous new technology that helps individuals grok any conceivable topic

If you think that's happened, then you and I are living on very different Internets with different individuals. :P
I believe this is actually a difference between named and anonymous functions. The named function syntax is

function foo1() { ... }

Both of the below examples are anonymous functions

const foo2 = function() { ... }

const foo3 = () => { ... }
"It’s really hard to build relationships with other human beings when not in the same physical location- sharing jokes, lunches, walks and just shouting across the room about the weird code change "

see here's the thing that has me scratching my head. I talk to my coworkers WAY more now that we're not all just sitting in our offices or in the open work area with headphones on. and get this, I can screenshot! and screenshare! and link to code!!! it's wild. communicating via analog audio signals produced by forcing air across our meat pipes is positively barbarian in comparison.

Yknow something else I just realized? Now when i want to tell someone a command, I can literally just - send them `foo bar /srv/company/* --snafucate --no-fubar` instead of "ok so foo bar - no wait, sorry, backspace that, it's foo space bar, not foobar. Ok now /srv/company/*. Sorry backspace that I mean literally the star character. Ok now dash dash snafucate. Now dash dash no fubar. No sorry not --no fubar it's dash dash no dash fubar. ok yeah hit enter. oh sorry sudo -i -u companyuser first." The alternative to that exchange of course being to type on their cheesy keyboard. No thanks, I don't want to cross-contaminate our keyboard microbiomes, mine is just the way I like it.

I dunno. I grew up on IRC and MSN and stuff. So slack is just IRC with inlined GIF memes and mini-memes (emojis) that you can comment onto literally any message. Sounds like a pure win to me.
> from closer to the center

People keep repeating this, what the heck does it actually mean? If we define Kamala Harris as "left of center" what does it actually look like if she "moves to the right"?

Just listening to the news/social media for the past decade, every single "right wing" issue that gets brought up is purely performative culture warring, so what do these "centrists" want?
Indeed, one thing that happens after people dig that deep hole in the shield is it will fill with water sooner or later.

Ontario already has a natural Radon contamination risk in many places, so maybe no one will notice the increasing lung cancer stats.

Best regards, =)
Does CrowdStrike Falcon get validated by the Windows kernel as being crash-free?
I fail to understand how that applies to what I said.
Testing as an Act of Fun
No, it isn’t simply about being sedentary, and yes sitting is especially problematic.

1. Sitting is the optimal position for getting work done like on a computer while almost not engaging any muscles beneath your shoulders (bad)

2. It tends to shorten the hip flexors which ultimately can affect your lower back

3. Any sedentary but still somewhat active position tends to be viewed as better, such as standing or squatting. There are tribes in Africa that are very sedentary but don’t sit on chairs—they squat instead

Source: Move Your DNA (book)

The problem for me is that, while I do have and use standing desks, I won’t use them for more than thirty minutes at a time. Often thirty minutes a day only (on a good day). So for me I just haven’t found a lot of good alternatives to either replace sitting or minimize it. I have seriously tried to stand on my knees at the office but eh it’s kind of painful and distracting and you get derisive attention.

EDIT: Oh shoot, I guess this proves that I don’t use it enough: I totally forgot that I also have a walking treadmill. Oh man it’s actually quite nice, and I am able to walk faster than I imagined while getting work done (there’s a limit to it mostly determined by resisting natural arm sway, you know while working on the computer). Yeah you can move while both programming and playing video games.
Create an encoding system based on various unconventional modifications to physical objects, do not document it anywhere, teach it to a small group of humans who are contractually bound to not spread the knowledge, and keep the knowledge going into the next generation along with the sense of purpose.
I'm not sure that we disagree, but perhaps we're understanding "launching" in the metaphor somewhat differently. I think the key point about the interstellar probe example is it's assumed that once it's launched, it's not going to improve on the very long flight to Alpha Centauri. Maybe this isn't actually fair -- if you design a solar sail, pushed by a giant laser that stays in our system, you could likely upgrade the laser while the probe is in flight, but your probe can't build itself a new larger sail, or develop itself a fusion drive.

I think research is rapidly building off the prior generation of techniques, but this improvement doesn't show up in the economic impact the article author is complaining about. Actual productivity changes are going to come when large organizations integrate AI models to replace or improve key systems or human-performed functions. This is slow, expensive, and probably a minority of transformations like this are even started, let alone showing fruit, and I think it's rational for a lot of companies to defer starting this work until the tech improves further. There's also a possibly prolonged intermediate phase where some stuff is being done both by an AI-centered system and either a human or a legacy system while the organization measures how well the AI version does (and how stable/reliable any associated vendors are), and during this period, productivity may even take a measurable hit.
> and steel has a weight problem and a major corrosion problem

if i want a salt water low tech floating shed (not mission critical), can you make it work with galvanized/re-painting schedule? or is marine grade steel a must ? (man, its expensive... )
Calling sleep for 30 seconds really doesn’t have anything to do with dates or time of day.
Ours does
Microsoft also charges per core for a licence, linux does not
Eieio: 'Computer bought the farm' Err, what?
I understand the pragmatic barriers to onboarding or bi-monthly payments via NIT, but it still seems easier to overcome these barriers than institute a domestic UBI.
Microsoft Blames European Commission for Major Worldwide Outage
> You have to ask the customer if they're okay with that citing "our software might failed and brick your machine".

I think you’re still missing the point of Canary deployments. The question your sales team should ask is “would you like a 5% chance of a bug harming your system, or a 100% chance?”

> It's like: previously Cybersecurity vendors are shy to ask customers to setup Canary systems because that's just "one-more-thing-to-do"

You should by shy because it is not your customer’s job to set up canary deployments. Crowdstrike owns the software and the deployment process. They should be deploying to a subset of machines, measuring the results, and deciding whether to roll forward or roll back. It is not the customers job to implement good release engineering controls for Crowdstrike (although after this debacle you may well see customers try).
Maintainer of rrweb here: media playback was added a little while ago and was recently improved quite a lot. Canvas recording is also available but there are three different ways of doing that as all three have their own pros/cons.
Hope you have a good time at the wastewater treatment plant. It's not really relevant to anything but I'm pretty sure someone threw a renegade rave out near that Brighton location a few months back....
I didn't read it as a luddite take so much as a long winded description of what you say: there's a lot more latency in technology adoption (or even understanding by those who are developing it) than most people recognize.
_Companies_ largely don't need people to be in-office, but if _you_ need to be in an office setting, why not find a coworking space?
“talk a lot and saying little” is a horrible place to start. Acting like you're superior to people who don't speak like a computer is not a good way to endear yourself to neurotypical people.
I had exactly the same thought. I don’t know if that 20k number was supposed to inspire confidence, but for me it did the opposite. It would have inspired confidence if it was 300 lines of code.

My impression is that the WebAssembly verifier is much simpler.
"[...] by transcript, not waveform".
Do a great job and get your existing customers to refer you.
The Finnish friend has a good education. Little fissionable material is dangerous from impact, otherwise it would not have taken Los Alamos to build a fusion bomb.

Depleted uranium is very highly toxic. "In a three-week period of conflict in Iraq during 2003, it was estimated that between 1,000 and 2,000 tonnes of depleted uranium munitions were used."

The Germans did not get a bomb because they did not concentrate their fissonable material. ( look it up )
apples to oranges. Look up this meatball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F%C3%B6rstemann
There was a podcast or video about this exact same issue in... Sweden? Some anecdata from people receiving welfare, but couldn't start a job or a business because if they received any money, they get nothing from welfare and wouldn't be able to support themselves.

This resulted in people that were trying to start a business not get paid for their work (I believe one of the anecdata was a photographer) because doing so would mean they couldn't support themselves.

Personally, I'm a big fan of the "for every $2 you make, you get $1 less from UBI/Welfare" concept. This seems a very easy way to wean people off of welfare. That money is already tracked by the IRS (unless you're getting paid under the table).
We use Azure AppService. If you choose AppService Windows, it provides a virtual instance of Windows with IIS. If you choose AppService Linux, it provides a virtual instance of Debian (if I remember correctly). I'm not sure if Linux is running on top of Windows or Windows on top of Linux, but you get what you chose.

I'm assuming Microsoft has pivoted to SaaS and the Cloud, and the OS plays a lesser role in the current form of Microsoft. Gone are the days of Steve Ballmer. Windows and Office are no longer the primary cash cows.
It was uncharitable to illustrate each child being from a different guy but the way the article worded it, it definitely seems like they are not the boyfriend's kids, so it isn't necessarily dumb to assert that the article has an uncharitable take on the boyfriend
I sit in a lot of doctor training sessions and the feelings on hrt have changed a lot in the last 5-10 years. It’s now well thought of and an acceptable risk. Apparently the quality of life improvement is huge compared to the relatively minor risk
In layman's terms: batteries don't last millions of years, so wtf?
I would give Nim a try only if there was a way to avoid indentation, curly braces rulez! ;-)
You're being insecure. It's not rude to disagree.

Also, there's often no perfect combo of words, there's a spectrum of options and you just pick an operating point. Transcription is a longer word than "word" so there's a tradeoff. It doesn't feel like a chasm to me.
If given the option, go with OpenID Connect instead. Both the OIDC and SAML standards are overly complex and designed to accommodate more use cases and enterprise configurations than they should. That said, OIDC is based on OAuth 2 and does not depend on XMLDSig. That's a win, in my book. OIDC library support is good, and getting basic federated login working for common patterns is relatively easy.
^^ Excellent applied statistic problem and solution.
I think you've answered the question posed by the title here. That's feels too far
This is a pretty common and unsupported argument that people also use for things like saying minimum wage doesn’t make sense for the same reason.
> If the roads were designed with enough capacity and planning in mind such that groups of vehicles are not stuck driving 15 MPH on a 70 MPH speed limit stretch of highway for 30 minutes or longer every day, that'd be fine.

If you build that, then more people see that there is a nice quick road between where they work and a place where they can buy a more affordable home. The road gains more commuters until the congestion returns.

Your other suggestions are more scalable. If housing is expensive, there should be more, denser housing. If commutes are long, we should be zoning such that houses can be near workplaces, and conversely workplaces can be near housing.

If you create pockets of higher density housing and workplaces, instead of only building large swaths of low density single-family residential, you can preserve the options to live in a city, a walkable town center, or a more quiet location, while still having dense enough groupings to make transit lines viable.
New Cold Fusion Device Successfully Generates Heat – What Does It Mean? [video]
Then you're basically back to "anything can convert back and forth with void " -- the point is to avoid* that.
Never lived in NYC but if you consider our air quality a plus I'm concerned for your lungs. Not wrong about Denver people on a macro level, but if you can find your own group of weirdos it's a very fun city to live in (or at least, I'm greatly enjoying it). Very laissez-faire vibe here right now IMO, feels like you can do pretty much whatever you want so long as nobody's getting hurt.
That's true but we don't know what the slope of those curves are. Also, less productivity is needed in total to support a lower population at the same standard of living.
> inconsistent with everything people like Musk and Yacarino have said in the past about free speech

Or maybe they were lying the whole time and it never actually was about free speech...

> until there's an official explanation from X.com

In the case that he did act intentionally, why would he ever give an official explanation if he could just as well leave it ambiguous?
Thanks for mentioning Difftastic. It looks very interesting! I'll give it a try.
Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii
The reason women don't pick the "nice dorky Christian boy", is because of comments like this. Nice Guys turn everybody off.
I really think Rust should adopt one of the popular datetime crates into the std lib - it's not reasonable to offload researching maintainer status and quality to each developer needing to use dates correctly.
Although I knew a woman who had breast cancer and a consequence was taking her off HRT. Which she was dreading.
It's referring to Windows security software. If you have a lot of context with eBPF, which Gregg obviously does, the notion that eBPF will subsume the entire kernel doesn't even need to be said: you can't express arbitrary programs in eBPF. eBPF is safe because the verifier rejects the vast majority of valid programs.
> I want to live because life is fun some of the time and death is boring.

It is good you found out. I found my contentment is similar, but for me it was a journey and it took most of my adult life to understand it. Some people do not agree with your assessment nor can they understand it at all. It is nice to have a simple “what is life for” explained in “because god said so” or short stories of sheppards and people living a simple life.

Regarding Nietzsche it took more than 2 millennia of western philosophy to get to him. For people that never were exposed to philosophy his works are as comprehensible as the Heisenberg uncertainty.
I guess it depends how you look at it. I’d say hiding symptoms is the same as reducing symptoms.

In this case when you reduce symptoms with masking then you get different symptoms, like exhaustion.

And yes, this doesn’t seem healthy for the person who is masking, especially when taken to the extreme levels.
> Some people had young children that didn't understand that "you can't bother mommy or daddy right now" and it was a constant fight.

When you're working from home, you yourself have to treat it as being "at work" just as much as you expect others to.

This means that if both parents are working from home, you still need someone else to look after your kids. Either out-of-home daycare (preferred) or an in-home babysitter.
I'm not convinced you would need to. "Students" cease to be students immediately after graduation, so they wouldn't really be "students" anymore, right? So "none of the downsides to bankruptcy really apply to students" doesn't really seem accurate, does it?

Even reading it more charitably, students and recent graduates still probably would like access to credit cards, or the housing rental market, or whatever. Bankruptcies stick with you for 7(?) years, so you'd also have to think about whether you'd be locked out of the mortgage market, auto loan market, what-have-you, while your peers are able to make those moves.

Bankruptcies are also like a whole legal thing with a judge and everything, so I doubt we'd see every single student getting their whole debt discharged instead of a judge just being like "Didn't you, like, just spend all this money on getting the training required to get a high-paying job? Seems like if you plan on working anytime soon you should make some payments."

Also lenders can just like, be more selective or restrictive in other ways? Higher interest rates, requiring more established co-signers, etc etc etc. Honestly the strangest part of this is that we've normalized saddling 18 year-olds with tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt.
Triggering Paget’s disease in 3, 2,…
The AppleTV+ video is easily the highest quality video of all the services.

Their bitrate is roughly double the other popular services.

For example a 1 hour 4K TV show is about 9-11GB on AppleTV+. On Disney and Netflix and Amazon, it's about 4-6GB. On HBO MAX it's about 7-9GB.

The audio is the same across them all more or less. Most using 768K DD+ with Atmos these days.
No, I've never worked for Cisco, but I did have my own firewall product at one point. (: That's another story for another day though.

Plan 9 is, at its core, still an ambient authority system, and I will never try to misrepresent it otherwise. That said, I've found it does an admirable job emulating what a "familiar" (in the sense of not looking completely alien to someone who only knows ambient authority) object-capability system could look like, kind of like how you can emulate the free monad in Ruby despite it not being a functional programming language.

This is possible principally because the mantra of Plan 9 is that everything is a filesystem: if you can bind it into your namespace, you can access it. As a corollary, if you can't bind it into your namespace, you can't access it. It makes shaping one's ambient authority a remarkably productive endeavor.
IBM, Lenovo come to mind. Some family friends were hired there at age 50+