skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So passing functions to functions instead of explicitly calling them is what exactly then?
The Impact of LLMs on Open-Source Innovation: Evidence from GitHub Copilot
totally depends on the job, team, and culture as well I think.

I thought I'd enjoy going back to the office, until 5 days a week was enforced and I was frequently getting interrupted.

As another commenter said, nurturing a social life is more difficult when working from home, you have to be deliberate about it. I felt the office just made it more convenient to hang out, but it never really happened because I was too burned out by the work.
>When we look back over the last five years, we continue to believe that the advantages of being together in the office are significant.

>we’ve observed that it’s easier for our teammates to learn, model, practice, and strengthen our culture;

They believe there are advantages to being fully in-office because they have observed these things. Zero mention of actual data to back up their beliefs and observations despite substantial industry data verifying that remote and hybrid work environments are more beneficial on almost every level.
I think you're getting somewhere here.

If people were able to express themselves without being judged as, for example, psychotic, then the world would be a better place. It makes a lot of sense.
Calling average professionals average is an old trick in the book. If everyone is an excellent professional comparing to outside, they'll be average inside. And then you need to keep pushing extra miles on top of each other and sacrificing your personal life.

This is the kind of mentality that got us all with anxiety crisis and panic attacks depending on medications.
Marketing section isn't helping. Some over the top claims mixed with some lies. You are not winning any favors with it.

It's clear domain knowledge is lacking in this project. Things like not numbering moves in engine lines, not naming the engine you are using, showing an eval from a point of view of a side to play (usual convetion is to show it from white's point of view so positive eval means better for white, negative eval means better for black) are giveaways. There are also bugs in the puzzle section. I encountered one that says black to move but only accepts white's move. Some end too quickly as well.

If you are looking for advice then I would recommend some humility and working on domain knowledge. It's a tough space to make a business in as there are very strong free services (like Lichess) and great commercial ones (like Chesstempo). Even making one thing better than Lichess might win you some users and potential customers but it won't happen by claiming it's already "quickly happening".
I also get depressed being in my home all day every day which is why I go to coworking spaces, cafes and parks. There is endless variation that still doesn’t have to chained to a certain commute.
I think the main thing you miss with 100% remote working is what I call "corridor creativity" [0]. As good as working from home is (or can be), I do miss the serendipity of walking past someone in a corridor, having a quick chat, drawing something on a whiteboard, and then continuing on about my day. In a fully remote world, I need to organise a meeting (over Zoom) for just about every interaction, which ends up being quite a chore and far less than serendipitous.

[0]: Corridor Creativity: https://matthewsinclair.medium.com/0124-corridor-creativity-...
>Even clothes were reused

My mom repurposed old pants as bags (I used it to carry my books at college - did get a lot of odd looks, but that's what I could afford at that time). Even now, I cut pieces of old clothing to be used for cleaning purposes. Those habits die hard.
I’ve self published three books now, with another in the works. Amazon print on demand makes it incredibly easy.
They’re about my adventures around the world, with some lessons I learned and observations about whatever part of the world I’m in sprinkled throughout.

The process was immensely satisfying, and I’ll never forget the feeling the first time I held the printed book in my hands. “Holy shit, I wrote a book!” My name was on the spine and everything.

I write them in LaTeX to have ultimate control over the layout and formatting, then run it through Pandoc to get a compliant epub file. Details here [1].

I have them for sale on Amazon printed and book, and kobo and apple as ebooks. I’ll never get rich, but ~$500 a month forever is really nice when I’m on the road in a foreign country where costs are not high.

If you have the desire, I highly recommend it. The learning and immense satisfaction are great. It doesn’t cost a cent, and you will have it forever.

[1] http://theroadchoseme.com/how-i-self-published-a-professiona...
It’s just been so long since going from ‘head to code’ has been the hard part for me. I’d imagine you have to be very unfamiliar for this to be useful.
The comment above seems too dismissive in my opinion.
There is a lot of (credible and rational) (thinking and research) around what AGI might entail. There are also many interesting theories about consciousness that are worth considering. However, I don’t buy panpsychism nor notions of an “earth spirit”. Materialism works, best I can tell, and I’m not ready to throw it out. / I’m just asking for GP to explain.
It was largely thanks to a gardener who was also responsible for the Cavendish banana that we all eat now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Paxton
> because Americans don't want it and don't support it

Exactly - most Americans want the car lifestyle. They don't really wake up dreaming of being packed like sardines into public transportation: busses, metro, rail.

I live in the Netherlands, and many people here are increasingly opting for the car lifestyle because of all of the issues associated with public transportation. Sure, it's more cost-effective. But it's not faster. It's smelly, loud, chaotic. And no one wants to stand around waiting for the next bus to be canceled. Or the next protest shutting all transportation down.
Gobang seems stagnated (no PRs merged since last year), which is a shame.
SQLite Transparent Compression
>Stop downplaying the importance of craftsmanship.

Why?
Stockfish according to this linkedin post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pukar-khanal-54a09a287_chess-...

I struggle to see what this has over lichess and I doubt the claim that it became a go to place for chess players. Just guff.
It also says:

> With the M3, engineers at Michigan are the first to accomplish energy neutrality via indoor energy harvesting in a wireless system of its size. With a 1mm2 solar cell producing 20nW, the device can harvest enough energy under ambient light to run perpetually.
Sure. You need to know how to handle those types; you'll never be rid of them. Broadly, though, I think any large ecosystem needs a broad mix of personality types, including the ones stereotypically painted as 'negative', to remain vibrant. If everyone in a community were high in agreeableness, say, this will feel nice to the people in it, but could have downsides if no-one feels able to engage in conflict, disagreement or argue for controversial ideas.

We don't need to celebrate or encourage any asshole-like behavior of the stereotypical "genius asshole" but, regardless, enough such people have achieved things that, potentially, an agreeable genius could have not. (The same is true vice versa, of course, we need as many highly agreeable people too!)
Aye, the main character is a detective.
OS News, one of the websites which covered BeOS pretty well in its heyday, is still going strong. And it's got a good summary of this release: https://www.osnews.com/story/140746/haiku-r1-beta5-released/
> The systems that China used to get ahead

Let's not forget that the CCP can force people to do certain things by various methods of "discouragement".
But you're not forced to work for a company that wants you in the office, you're free to seek employment elsewhere that matches your remote requirements similar how a company isn't forced to hire remote workers only. You are both free to choose the best options that fit your demands if you can find them.

Jobs and employers aren't for life. If you uprooted and reorganize your whole life based on the circumstances of a once in a lifetime global pandemic expecting things to stay like that forever, you've done goofed.
>Famously Douglas Adams had to be forced to write every sentence in the Hitchhiker's Guide. He certainly didn't have a book inside him that had to get out, he had external deadlines and rent to pay.

The book was written 45 years ago, an entirely different media market, was based of a story he had already developed for radio, and we have no idea if this anecdote is apocryphal.
In the collection of Rilke's letters "Briefe an einem jungen Dichter", he writes what I think one of the best advice about writing a book or not:

"This above all: Ask yourself, in your night’s quietest moment, Do I have to write? Dig deep down into yourself for the answer. And if it is yes, if you can meet this solemn question with a strong and simple “I must,” then build your life around that necessity."

It's harsh, but I think the necessity aspect is important: if you feel like a spring from which the urge of writing naturally flows and you could not repress it, then write. Else, don't.
>which locks you out of your purchased App Store software, DRM content

Also false. But Apple's glad you believe in that.
Not really no. I moved my desktop to 14 when 14.1 came out.

But it's really nice that there's always two production releases so you have plenty of time to migrate.
A deep-dive into isKnownUniquelyReferenced in Swift
I mean, it was clearly panic-driven. This isn't particularly unusual; economic upsets tend to cause transitory layoffs. Note that many of them are now hiring again.
Found multiple bugs in the puzzle area. If you can give mate in more than one way (multiple correct moves for the last move) it sometimes says your move was incorrect which is not.
And as all the past 2 months show, you don't get to this level of success without exploiting, if not outright abusing, your labor.

>I am willing to bet he knows his metrics better than >95% of startup founders.

Id bet so too. Becuase he's definitely rich enough even pre-youtbe to just find a YT contact and ask about the metrics, on top of studying his market. Very few startups get such objective data.

> Hiring only A-players. Bloated teams kill startups.

It really depends on your stage of scale. You don't need 100 A-players once you start expanding the app. And it benefits to train younger workers on your systems as your older ones start to move on, retire, or die.
Learning Communities from Equilibria of Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics
Should be, yes. Tauri supports windows, and this wraps it.
Boss makes a dollar,
I make a dime.
Now Boss makes 10 dollars,
on HN that’s fine.
Yea, I’ve been working remote for 12 years and that was the first thing I had to solve.

There’s a local tech Slack in my area that I keep up and I have a text group that I’ve built up over the years that sometimes grabs lunch or hits the gym. Keeps me balanced.
Pressure from local govt to somehow salvage the "downtown tax base", pressure from boards of directors that are inbred with big investment funds holding most of that commercial real estate. The relatively small group of ultra-rich parasites is trying to claw back the inevitable change of decentralization. We would all be so much happier in a scheme where instead of one giant "center" our metro areas were "distributed" ie more commercial centers closer to more residential areas.
It’s a proposal that was rejected by everybody who isn’t Google. It isn’t going to be part of the web platform. It has exited the standardisation process. It’s at stage “never”. It belongs on MDN about as much as JSSS does.
Totally agree. Even in my childhood, if anyone was seen walking without work or running without being chased by dogs or thieves, they would be seen as lunatic. Why would anyone spend their precious energy except for some absolutely needed work? People perfected minimalistic energy spending and question any unnecessary walking. They ride on buffalos while coming back from farm, use farm animals and tools for harder work, have 24-hour servants, have more children, and have large family, get everyone, including women and children out to farm work.

I think the leisure walking, jogging, gym are all products of availability of too much food in return for less work. We are simulating work by cheating the body to think that these leisure activities are actually work.
The point is having a choice
> forward dome fell off during recovery

Was it made out of cardboard or cardboard derivatives??
That's probably why we need some morals to come in and balance stuff. You want quick and easy money, you run drugs or sell your body. I'm sure you can be very successful in both if you optimize to be successful in those ventures.

But those are not only societally looked down upon but illegal is most US states. Your success here also lies on the ability to operate discreetly out of the eyes of the law. Would that be a success? (even if I personally believe they should be legal).
I remember being surprised during the pandemic just how many people were uprooting their lives and moving to remote locations. Even though there has been a trend towards remote work over the previous decade I always thought there would be a bounce back and some of those people would be stuffed.
Another bug in that area is when you need to do your move for white but you also need to move the black piece next, otherwise the puzzle won't proceed
It's just clickbait titles, because it works. Wouldn't surprise me if we see more of that on books as well in the future rather than short and vague titles
Signatures of gravitational atoms from black hole mergers
>From my understanding the main difference between electron and other WebView Containers (besides built-in APIs) is that electron runs your nodejs code in the same process as your browser code.

That is not correct:
https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/process-mode...

> So there is no cross-process communication, true synchronous communication between browser and nodejs code, ability to communicate without copying memory and without serialization, etc

From the Electrton docs:

> Arguments will be serialized with the Structured Clone Algorithm, just like window.postMessage, so prototype chains will not be included. Sending Functions, Promises, Symbols, WeakMaps, or WeakSets will throw an exception.

(https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/ipc-renderer#ipcr...)

But yes they do build pretty heavily on Chromium, so swapping it out for a system WebView would probably not be possible.
Kaiser is only available in a handful of states though and even then, they may not be nearby.
Every developer must go through that phase. You can't do anything useful "for people" if you don't know how to use your tools correctly.

Trying to make jr engineers realize this right away (or treat code as an afterthought) is bound to create terminally junior engineers, or worse - senior engineers that simply can't code.
I'm not a engineer but I can't believe engineers took the scrum/agile workstyle and adopted it like that. Why didn't they vote with their feet?

It's almost inhumane; sprints are those 10-20 seconds you run in a 100m 200m dash. Marathon is how you run faster. So, forcing people to do repeated sprints is for me, bad for your health, without exaggerating.
> but if that's true why has nobody proved it?

It'd be extremely difficult to study properly; there _have_ been studies, giving answers in both directions, but they're very easy to poke holes in due to confounding factors.
success without morals is exactly how we got into this age of enshittification. We got customers on lock, easy "success" to make a Big Mac $8 and mine data from an app, or retroactively increase our subscriptions from $10 to $20/month.

Maybe we should integrate that social value into "success" more often. Facebook was probably the most successful company, so successful laws are being made to reel their patterns in. It wasn't illegal before though, so success?
Not necessarily. The car key seems inevitable in retrospect. Both Voyagers have had decades of opportunities for something to go irreparably wrong. Let's see if that car key will still be functional in 50 years, and then pass judgement.
I believe Virginia Woolf wrote, "I write only for my own pleasure. I write to give myself pleasure." Which pretty much encapsulates this.
Living in a high income country, where $200 is well within monthly fluctuation, this situation makes me wonder if a little more telepresence might lead to us bifurcating into a world where the Eloi will know a tiny amount about how all of it works, and the Morlocks will know all about how a tiny amount of it works?
Look up "constructive dismissal". If WFH is in your contract and they try to pull this RTO nonsense, you can quit and it counts as a layoff -- they're on the hook for paying your severance.
Premature generalization is the root of all evil.

(yes, this is indeed a generalization)
Reset. Start work with a 30m walk 'going to work' and end it with a 30m walk. Free one hour exercise when you sit/stand all day.
Only when using non highres monitors. I'm using 2 4K LG 27" monitors and they work just fine
Can any of these tools do anything that the Github copilot cannot do? (Apart from using other models?). I tried Continue.dev and cursor.ai, but it was not immediately obvious to me. Maybe I am missing something workflow specific?
Well, he can shove that right up his Jassy.
> if there's a feasible path to gradually steer an existing organisational structure in that direction

The path I took was to just start doing it and expecting it for critical topics within my team (which was around 200-250 people when I started it). It takes several iterations to get good at it and the first few feel like it’s quite foreign and even wasteful. (It puts a lot more work on the author, by design.)

Eventually, it escaped just my group and (with support from others, including the CEO, who liked the process after seeing some of the documents that I or others shared with them) and is now fairly common in the corporate center for our standardized processes, though not nearly as standardized as I perceive Amazon to be in its use.

Basically: start doing it and stick to it for at least 5 complete cycles. Make sure that influential people (not necessarily org leaders) are public in their praise of well-constructed and effective documents.
Apple software leaks new Mac mini with five USB-C ports ahead of rumored event
I have made this point to my teammates. When I expressed concern about my job, several of them disagreed and said I was irreplaceable. I told them no one is irreplaceable. The company would be happier with someone who did 60% of my work getting paid 50% less. I am very good at my job in a position where being very good is no more desirable than just good enough.
Third parties can easily just use the same resolutions Apple uses for their monitors and they would work exactly the same
One of my favorite gzip party tricks is that (ungzip (cat (gzip a) (gzip b))) == (cat a b). That is to say, the concatenation of two gzip streams is still a valid gzip file.

This hasn't ever been practically useful, but it means you can trivially create a 19-layer gzip file containing more prayer strips than there are atoms in the universe, providing a theological superweapon. All you need to do is write it to a USB-stick, then drop the USB-stick in a river, and you will instantly cause a heavenly crisis of hyperinflation.
They can and have been banned in some cities. It’s glorious.
Ask HN: What is your personal motivation for documenting code?
Hey guys! There's a statement that good code is self-explanatory, still there's a ton of articles in the web describing the importance of documentation. What makes you to write documentation (if you was not asked by the "manager") and what are benefits that you gain as a developer when codebase is well documented?
> I feel like the freaking frog on the stove while the water slowly heats up. When is it time to jump out?

Whenever you feel like it. Just like frogs do:

> While some 19th-century experiments suggested that the underlying premise is true if the heating is sufficiently gradual, according to modern biologists the premise is false: changing location is a natural thermoregulation strategy for frogs and other ectotherms, and is necessary for survival in the wild. A frog that is gradually heated will jump out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
My thinking is that if you only meet someone in one particular context say cycling, then you are cycling-buddies. Or work, they are just colleagues. But if you start meeting them in a separate context as well that's how they can become lasting friends. And you have to kind of intentionally guide things this way if that's what you want.
Scrum sprint is not running sprint

Lets not be ridiculous
I still don’t understand why we’re using any of these Electron-style “apps.”

Ship a web application, or write actual native apps. Electron and that flavor of “app” development is the worst of all worlds.

Just like the JavaScript web frameworks have turned what should be small web applications into huge monsters — Electron has made what should be relatively small, high performance applications into these bloated resource hogs.

I get it, JavaScript developers want to be part of the fun and there is definitely a use case for tiny resource-constrained startups still changing product-market fit. But companies like Slack for instance — worth billions of dollars and can’t find a way to write a high performance desktop app in Swift for MacOS instead opting for Electron.

Think of the climate! All that extra power required to run these resource hog Electron apps on tens of millions of computers isn’t trivial, not to mention a neutered user experience that results from not taking advantage of actual native applications.

JavaScript isn’t the panacea people want it to be.

Electron makes it easy for companies but it makes it rougher for the victims.

And Tauri and all the others are simply different flavors of the same shit sandwich.
It's not a matter of popularity. Some people need the interaction. Others like me hate it.

This is why making it flexible is so great. You could be in the office with other people who enjoy it, while people like me don't have to.

Even before the pandemic I would often hang at the office until 10pm because I could only get work done after the others left. I would get so stressed from all the distractions around me.
Dwarf planet Ceres: Origin in the asteroid belt?
Also, you're people too.

You have to read the code from last week, last month, last year...
feedback - I tried the puzzles. 1) they all seem trivial and don't escalate in difficulty fast enough 2) I got stuck on the 14th - I'm making the correct move, but nothing happens. I'm not wrong, but even if I were wrong, the website ought to have some feedback to show me my move is wrong, or an option to give up.
Same. But that's ALL you can do. At its best, hybrid or full remote opens up a whole world of healthy, fun lifestyle options - which cost a company ... NADA (unless they're shitty companies)
well maybe they should. That's why we have so much reguation. And why instead of following regulation they lobby to remove such restrictions.

Can I really say a company lobbying for worse people/worker/world conditions to be a "success"? The cigarette metaphor is apt here. if you wanna go more extreme, children in mines would be the best success; employees who can't talk back, can be paid peanuts, and are easily replacable is peak success.
Some people do dumb things, but that doesn’t mean everyone on that trip would have made the same decision given more information.
Yup.

In the mid aughts, one of my lecturers insisted that motion capture was limited to a few minutes because "several megabytes" was "too much" to store.