skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sheesh, why should it be unpopular.

It shouldn't be, but it is for many.

Most times I mention online preferring to not work remote I get people calling me some sort of corporate shill, or worse.

(Or the posts just get downvoted to oblivion by people who can't articulate their objection more meaningfully than that!)

> Companies telling everyone to be in the office 5 days a week 9-5 (or whatever) is removing that choice.

The problem is that it is genuinely hard for a company to support both (and/or flexible mixes) well, and if you ask for a little of the old way it becomes a tribal binary us-vs-them thing. I work in the office most of the time because I prefer to keep work and home separate, and I find I work better that way, but I'm still working on a remote team because practically everyone else is remote. We have a day-per-week policy (well, more of a string suggestion) but most people ignore that.

> It's called having a preference/choice.

Unfortunately while people are usually all for being flexible when being flexible means doing things the way they prefer, being flexible in both directions is rarer than it should be. For instance: I dislike phone calls and video calls, to the point of significant anxiety, but trying to get people to just send me an email or IM instead has been an uphill struggle with some. Of course I'll clench my arse and take part in a call when it is the best way to deal with a situation (as it sometimes really is) or because there is no choice (perhaps it is dictated by a client, or those up high), or the dailies and other regulars (calls that are habit/routine are less of a problem) but otherwise I much prefer to communicate in person (“in person” in person, not virtual in person) or by text mediums.

If I leave this tech job, or lose it for any reason, I think I'll have to retrain for a different industry, even if that means taking a hefty pay cut, heck even if that means mind-numbing minimum wage work. Working on a remote team is not great for my mental health, and it very much seems to have become the norm. Luckily in current DayJob we have found some sort of balance that works well enough, and I've been here long enough (and I'm sufficiently good at what I do) to be inconvenient to dispose of, and the people who wouldn't take the hint about not wanting to take a call for a chit-chat are no longer here, but at some point that might all change.
that's what I thought you'd say: you'd be embarrassed to pick even 15 songs from your list and call them "great."

And then demand that I do some work for YOU.
> The reports right now ...

Propaganda is running at 400% on both sides, I wouldn't trust anything, especially not "we just hacked pagers and made them explode via software"
$7 Trillion dollars is all you need.
Ever heard of ugrep?
I'm aware of various information management tools, but exploring these tools, getting familiar with specific syntax or intricacies of usage needs a higher activation energy than simply running $EDITOR and typing away.

I'm usually working on hardware that's at least a couple of years old, and the experience with modern day desktop applications (websites in an Electron-wrapper, if you will) is that they're terribly slow on relatively okay, albeit older, hardware. Not to mention (but I haven't checked!) that you'll need the application to search through your content, perhaps due to the use of some database, instead of grep(1)ing for keywords inside text files. I'm not opposed to optimized, application-specific search, but, for personal usage, if I need the application to search through content, this makes data portability much more difficult.
Here is the official feature list

https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/23/

471 could be the harbinger of breaking changes if they further deprecate it by making you flip on a startup option in a later version, like the way JDK 9 broke a lot of stuff that still needs --add-exports or --add-opens to run. The winner in the "never gets out of the incubator" is 469 (the Vector API) which would be easy to blame on vector instructions being a perennially moving target but is really hung up on the (difficult) Project Valhalla -- however it's the kind of project you might have to finish quickly or never finish because every delay gives the targets another chance to move.
IEML, a language designed to structure and categorize information
Unlike Htpy, this one has callbacks and state in Python.
> The affected pagers were from a new shipment that Hezbollah had received in recent days, according to sources familiar with the matter cited by the Wall Street Journal.

Presumably someone, likely Israel, intercepted them before they got to Hezbollah and added an explosive payload that could be remotely triggered.

Hard to see how a remote exploit could detonate the battery, which was my initial thought.
Microsoft's Copilot 'Wave 2' is a tsunami of unanswered questions
More likely this has nothing to do with the batteries and this batch of pagers was physically intercepted and rigged with actual explosives. A very concrete example of a supply chain attack.
There is very little chance that what you are working on has never been done before. Most likely, you are writing simple code to do simple things. These things can be broken down into simple tasks, and these simple tasks can be estimated.

Unless you are working on ChatGPT-6, i assure you, you can definitely estimate how long things will take. your estimates will not be perfect, but they will be good approximations for guiding development.

Even OpenAI by now probably is pretty good at estimating how long the next ChatGPT version will take to develop, since they've done it 4-5 times already.

Alway always distrust someone who says "we are doing things that have never been done before". At the very bleeding edge (OpenAI, SpaceX), you are iterating on something that has been done many times before, but with a small innovation.
> It's a matter of ignorance more than anything else.

You have no basis for any such presumption. Plenty of Americans, myself among them, have lived in large, dense cities with good public transit--and we have then chosen to not live in such places because we prefer not to. You might believe that living in a large, dense city with good public transit is the best way to live, but that doesn't mean everyone else has to agree with you or be ignorant. Other people simply have different preferences from you. In a free country, which the United States of America is, people with difference preferences for what kind of place to live in can simply live in different places without making presumptuous claims about ignorance.
Only when the dog handler wants them to!
It “surfaces”, as in “reveals”. Yeah, the wording could’ve been a lot clearer there, but it’s actually correct. Let me try a hand at it:

> The new Highlights feature easily reveals directions to the addresses mentioned on a web page.
I do not understand what this actually is. Any difference between Browserbase and what you’re building?

Also, curious why your unstructured idea did not pan out?
As you note, the issue isn't women in the workforce generally, but professional high-salaried women in the workforce. From the 80s to the 2000s, the number of women doctors doubled; the number of women lawyers went from less than 10% to nearly 30%.

Online dating does not explain a 400% increase in executive pay. It might explain how one particular man achieved a higher salary, but it doesn't explain why that higher salary was available in the first place.
Nice, I guess a more established framework for writing webapps in Python is Streamlit, which is pretty good - minimal syntax can create quite an advanced, "reactive", GUI. It's very quick to throw together functional / relatively complex stuff with. But it's also very opinionated, so all Streamlit apps tend to have a similar look. Also it's more aimed at ML demos, for a few, non-persistent users, rather than for large apps with persistant users, etc. Wonder how this compares.
This is largest juxtaposition between familiarity and nostalgia against an outright alien uncanny facade of fiction.

A dissociative, delirious, memory. Orthogonal to our current experience, but barely.

These two songs are the closest I could find in an analogous auditory form.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE5JMEu5hZA
When my employer tried to make us come back to the office, I flat out told them - school dropoff is at 8:30, the next train is at 8:50, so the earliest I can be in the office is 10, if every train arrival is precisely synchronized, which it never is.

And since pick-up is at 4:30, it means I have to leave the office at 3:00 at the absolute latest, lest I incur significant monetary penalties - as well as the ire of the people who care for my child - for late pick-up.

So sure, if you want me in the office for five hours a day - one of which is going to be taken up by going to lunch with my coworkers, since face-time is so important - I'll be there.

Unless there are significant delays, which there usually are, in which case I'll be there for maybe four hours a day, because I'll also have to leave early since delays in the morning frequently mean delays in the evening.
https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1836037485492629605
Prolific professors who publish dozens of papers at scientific conferences year after year also have similar methods. There's a pattern, there's a method. There's always some novelty of course but it's a production line nevertheless. (I'm talking about real successful academics with real status in the community, not fakes).

It also reminds me of the MrBeast document from the other day.

Once you hit the formula, you keep grinding it. Consistent high performers almost all do it, no matter the field. Whether it's songs, books, YouTube videos, science papers, blog posts, paintings, consultants, etc.

Of course science papers are a team effort but so are novels and music and paintings. Hans Zimmer didn't single handedly compose his recent film scores, he has lots of people working for him on the project. Master painters used assistants. Stephen King isn't typing every character himself.

Amd then there are one hit wonders who are at the right place at the right time, saying what needed to be said in that moment, and then sink back into obscurity or become a parody/tribute of their own self as they try to milk that one insight from their 15 minutes of fame.

Outlier level work by one person that keeps being novel in truly surprising ways, on a consitent basis, is so rare that there are probably only a handful of instances.
It wouldn't be a first

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash

> Shin Bet agents gave him a cell phone and told him it was bugged so they could listen in on his conversations.[17] They did not tell him that it also contained 15 grams of RDX explosive
I realized afterwards that 40 is too high and I was considering lowering it to 20.

But even by your standards, "it was always exactly like this" is clearly wrong.
they give managers visibility, deliverables, stuff to fill their calendars with, and automates their job into easy, if inefficient daily meetings.
Things you should know about Windows Input, but would rather not
Not really. This is about the worst your can do with a lithium battery in practice https://youtu.be/oieH2wwDGzo and that's a proper short in something way bigger than a pager. They don't explode like these were reported to.
Nailed it! We use pywebview. (Rio Dev here.)

Local apps run inside of a webview. Think of it like electron but for Python. Even though this _should_ be cross platform, we've unfortunately found a lot of subtle issues with pywebview. That's why we're still considering this to be experimental.

In my experience webview works great on Windows, but struggles on Linux. For examples Videos don't play reliably when using the GTK backend.

We're looking into other ways to run a browser - my favorite would be to just find one already installed and just start it without UI - but that's some way off.
Super Simple Breadboard-SDR Receiver from 50 kHz to 30 MHz (2023) [video]
It would be a lot easier if they didn't rename things. 'Text' becomes 'span' and 'justify' becomes 'text-align'. Unless there's more I'm missing, it looks like they've just added a layer of indirection.

rio.Text(self.name, justify="left"),

Becomes:

<span style="[...] text-align: left;">Dataset 1</span>

I'd prefer:

rio.Span(self.name, text_align="left")
literally what?
Related:

Java 23

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567728
And you don't even need build systems for modern SPAs. You can write web components in plain JS, load JS and CSS with standard module imports. Use bare import specifiers with import maps. Things have gotten much simpler.
Another working theory is that it could just be an opportunistic cyber attack - compromising lithium batteries. Though some of the videos coming out look like a bigger explosion that just a battery going off: https://www.reddit.com/r/lebanon/comments/1fizgag/ha_member_...
This video is very low in information density at 8+ minutes long.

A quick search shows an article with more information that can be read much quicker:

https://www.space.com/earth-mini-moon-asteroid-2024-pt5
With (3) it’s hard to have different instruction sets for different parts of your program. Ideally, a function that logs only uses the log instruction set and this is reflected in the type. Once you start down this road, you end up at final tagless anyway.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567573
> I can play this silly game also.

Please could you share your prompt or a link to the conversation?

I'm genuinely puzzled that you're more interested in doubling down and justifying yourself and making new points (different from what I initially presented) than understanding the other person's point of view.

If you share your prompt, I'll have a better understanding of your motivations and whether you are arguing in good faith.

As far as silly games go: if you honestly believe a game is silly, you shouldn't play it, unless you want to win silly prizes.
[dupe]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567299
Multiple queues?
> Hard to see how a remote exploit could detonate the battery

If that is the case - we have a problem...
But how did just that specific software model explode and not the previous ones? Shouldn’t your case apply to all models then?
Dimensional crossover in a quantum gas of light
or what if it's 2 full tones and one quarter semitone flat? that's what I'm saying the dude flexing his perfect pitch doesn't know what the original intent was. Maybe that brand of bell is well known for that specific microtonal pitch
GPU Acceleration with Polars and Nvidia Rapids
I just need a way out of this intuit stupidity
This is a pretty amazing exploit by the attackers. Either they had access to the pagers during shipment and installed malware or had access to RCE on the devices.
i agree, i was just being conversational
> More than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics

The CNN title implies that only Hezbollah members were targeted were reality seems different. It's crazy a country is capable of doing a "special security operation" on civilians of another country without any international sanctions.
Show HN: Pull requests for digital artifacts for founders and job-seekers
Solved was built on my experience as a founder and product manager in early-stage startups.

Software engineering has created many good practices that other functions and industries should borrow. One of my favorites is the concept of “Pull requests.” We think of Solved as “pull request but for work artifacts.”

Solved is a platform designed to give people more access to expert feedback so they can accomplish their professional goals. While there’s a lot of “information” about how to run a business or get a dream job, nothing beats getting honest, contextual feedback from experts. Our experts are on the other side of the transaction, meaning investors reviewing pitch decks or hiring managers reviewing resumes, etc.

We launched our first two verticals: (1) reviewing fundraising artifacts like pitch decks, financial projections, and business models for founders raising from venture capital and (2) reviewing resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn profiles from job seekers applying for software engineering, product, design, and marketing jobs.

Solved operates on a freemium model. By default, artifact reviews are free and publicly available, allowing the entire ecosystem to benefit from shared knowledge: open source. Users can upgrade for a small fee to expedite the review process / keep their information private.

Try it out and send any feedback our way.
I'm not sure about Amazon, but in some of these large companies the team is still distributed even when they are "in-office". So everybody is still on zoom calls.
I agree the world isn't "fair" for most definitions of the word. Unlike many, I don't attribute zero weight to human pettiness that desires a sea of toiling workers as a prestige accent to an executive's self-image.

But also unlike many, I believe that that weight, whatever it is, to be overwhelmed by the colder calculation of profit, growth, etc.

If our corporate overlords could get it done with 50% of the present workforce fully remote, they would, happily. Even better if they were in Bangladesh. Which is another reason to be careful what you wish for.
I've lived in a large, dense city where the public transport was excellent. Having had that experience, and having also had the experience of living in a less dense area where I used a car to get around, I prefer the latter.

Have you lived anywhere except where the public transport was excellent? Do you realize that people, like me, who prefer to live in other areas see benefits to doing so that outweigh the costs of having to have a car?
> Also, if you are in a relationship, having friendships with other females will likely be a problem.

What do you suppose a monogamous bi person would do?

All this normalized controlling jealousy out there is so strange and sad to me as someone in open relationships full of bi people. We're happy for each other if someone has a good time when we're apart, we all hang out together and have a good time, even go to furry cons and get up to shenanigans together.

From what I recall of a lecture I once listened to on human sexual behaviors, the drive to at least have encounters with multiple people is very common and makes evolutionary sense as far as adding diversity to your offspring pool.

I'll go as far as to say the expectation of strict monogamy is a repressive social norm that leads to needless heartache and shame from the effects of cheating, on both parties - of course breaking the boundaries of a relationship is one's own avoidable choice, and the cheater is wrong to do so and bears the blame here, but the fact that it's such a common occurance supports the argument here - the repressed urge was so strong it overrode their care for the relationship. How many relationships would have been saved if sex wasn't seen as such a big deal? In the age of contraception, PreP, vaccines, etc. I don't see the value to society in strict sexual monogamy as a norm.
Agreed! At the end of the day, humans at work are still humans, and can form any level of human connection with their coworkers. Long-lasting friendships that persevere past being coworkers isn't super common, but that's because making those friendships isn't super common in general. I think the very real human connections we can make with coworkers is a large part of why it can be easy to confuse mutual loyalty between coworkers with loyalty to a company (which is effectively never mutual because companies don't operate in a way that incentivizes caring about the feelings of individuals).

That doesn't make it reasonable to _force_ people back into offices though. Companies requiring in-office work so that the workers can experience social interaction that they don't have time for outside work sounds pretty dystopian, and arguing for that for one's own personal benefit at the cost of others feels pretty selfish to me. To be clear, I think it's totally reasonable for a company to hire someone with the understanding that they'll be in-office, but the issue with what's going on now for me is that plenty of people who were hired with the understanding that they _wouldn't_ ever have to be in an office are now being told that they need to. I'd argue that forcing someone originally hired remotely to pick between coming into the office or resigning is effectively equivalent to firing without cause, and it's disappointing that it isn't viewed that way legally.
Public Letter – Against Big Tech's Attack on Digital Sovereignties
Stop stifling dissent. People who can think freely on software, or chemistry or whatever, are not eager to accept a situation where they cannot also think freely about politics and international relations.

Accept reality in international situations. (Taiwan is a de facto separate country; the nine-dash line is a mapmaker's aberration rather than any kind of reality.)

Accept reality in economic statistics. (A number of those apartment buildings are worth zero.)

Accept reality in society. (People don't like being fed propaganda. People don't like thinking that they can be in trouble for saying what they think.)

But I don't think they can do those things and keep any kind of "business as usual"...
Pedant: Enshittification means something different, involving a company making one group’s experience worse so they can extract more money from another. It’s not “just” making a product worse.
These papers become increasingly difficult to properly comprehend.

Feed it to ChatGPT and ask for an explanation suited to your current level of understanding (5-year-old, high-school, undergrad, comp-sci grad student, and so on.)

No, really. Try it.
"My breath froze into pink pretzels."

The temperature in the synthetic atmosphere wasn't precisely enough to prevent the character's exothermic respiration from condensing, inconveniently.
Yeah, I'm getting the same energy from that claim as this: https://dtrap-blog.acm.org/2019/09/04/hackers-can-turn-your-...
What Was Puberty Like for Ice Age Teens?
The laws are just the embodiment of the requirement, not the requirement themselves. Many jobs involve information and processes that simply cannot be handled in a home office environment. For instance, there aren't any work-from-home air traffic controllers. Nor do many companies let certain trade secrets be discussed outside dedicated facilities.
Why so you think no one uses it? Probably someone asked for this.
Israel has done this in the past by supplying parts to Iran for printers that would explode
https://apnews.com/article/iran-israel-ballistic-missile-sab...

I also seem to recall them using modified cell phones to blow up militants or use them to triangulate their location. I can't seem to find the article(s) about this, unfortunately.
Seems like the israeli knew who these devices were addressed for, intercepted them and added explosives.
> living in gated communities where they can keep out the undesirables.

Most Americans, including me, who live in areas that aren't large, dense cities with good public transport don't live in gated communities, and our only definition of "undesirable" is someone who commits crimes, which I would have thought would be any law-abiding citizen's definition. Your patronizing description is simply inaccurate.
> 2 mHz

TV broadcasts sure were frequency efficient.
This isn't really relevant to the discussion is it?