skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is a split appearing between companies which are saving money as their office leases expire and those who own property?
I think a lot of this comes down to perception of ROI for management. If the employment market is giving you qualified candidates at the price you seek in-office, why would you expose yourself to risk? I'm in this situation now where I'm hiring early employees and looking to grow, and about 90% of the decisions is how well can I derisk this hire.

I don't need elite developers; I need competent, conscientious "75%" developers. It doesn't make sense to spend time interviewing, onboarding, and hiring, just to expose myself to another risk factor.

Your friend was probably not thinking "fair" or "unfair", rather, what is the employment market bringing him.
Why? Why should they be the responsible ones, when the well-funded, well-connected service provider is acting like the fly-by-night startup (that they probably started as)?

There's little public benefit in responsible disclosure here; all it would lead to is the whole thing being swept under the rug with some trivial "fix". There's lots of public benefit in immediate, wide disclosure - the scramble to fix this under pressure from vendors before potential abuse, and any real or imagined attempt at abuse, and subsequent lawsuits, would go far towards educating people and the industry about privacy, security, and bad business practice. It's a nice low real damage, high publicity case.

It's not like this stuff is new. But without serious pressure, the businesses will never learn and never stop making or enrolling into such systems.

Anyway, if it happened over here in the EU, I'd do the responsible disclosure thing and give a full, detailed advance expose to the local Data Protection Authority.

(And if I sound adversarial, then consider that neither the vendor developing such systems, nor the venues using them, are doing it in the interest of the customers.)
In Linux land you tell your computer what to do, not the other way around.
Great job!
But can you run DOOM on it?
> if RTO negatively affects it, but props up other investments it is probably sub-optimal for them.

What if it doesn't? What if they believe it's neutral, or the effects are unknown?
eh. this is india my dude
I'm not convinced the mere fact that AliExpress sellers are not Sensirion distributors is sufficient to assume these sensors are counterfeit. Obviously there's precedence - buy a 'stm32' and you'll likely receive a counterfeit chip, but that's because these chips have been cloned by many. The Sensirion SCD40 is fairly niche and has an odd form factor - doesn't seem trivial to produce a convincing clone.

AliExpress sellers sell these at €14,99/1 whereas DigiKey is at €16,38/600 (excl. VAT). Price seems 'right' to me.

I have been looking for a comparison between sensors sourced from AliExpress and a reputable distributor, but sadly couldn't find any.

Anyway, I did get a few of these sensors off AliExpress for my personal projects. They definitely measure CO₂ (not eCO₂) - the only issues I've been having with them is the default calibration being off and a struggle to get the temperature reporting right (the sensor suffers from self-heating).
> Like stock market prices, it fluctuates rapidly based on hundreds of factors.

I don’t think many brokers offer different prices to their clients based on attributes. How is this even a remotely valid comparison when you’re saying:

> Sometimes, their fare will be higher than yours, and other times, it will be lower.
> Because who at the "company" does even know about this?

Everyone who designed engineering requirements, technical requirements, test plan, everyone who wrote technical specifications, everyone who performed traceability. It was all approved by security engineers and management.

> The company was founded during the pandemic when contactless dining became popular.

There were tons of people intimately aware of the issue, yet for four years nobody cared.
You don't think there's an einstein jr that will come one day and change some fundamental model in the weirdest way that will flip physics on its head again ?
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I’m not sure if this could be considered “peak”. The ratio of waiting staff to customers is an obvious bottleneck.

This inefficiency is simply accepted and not even really thought about, it’s just the way things are. But one thing I can say for this tech is it fixed it and the difference is noticeable.
The Fed’s estimates thru 2022 say real estate makes up 46.8% of net US wealth ($83.5 trillion of $178.4 trillion) [0].

0. Readably summarized at https://www.barrons.com/amp/articles/net-wealth-is-over-135-... .
Adding a few more flies would make it even better. Hey the code is on GitHub, so we're all free to create our variations ;-)
Productivity would grow the amount of value in real-estate + some i guess. Should be a little spike starting at covid where new value is generated, but old losses are not priced in.
So of course the next question is the long play to replace ChromeOS with this?
I don't get/understand the time stamp on that one.
On top of this page (and from the home), it says '6 hours ago' but when looking from my 'favorites' page, I see '1 day ago'.
I'm using Helix (https://helix-editor.com/) on Termux on my 12.2" Samsung Galaxy Tab S8+. It's absolutely flying and less hassle to get LSP's to your favorite language setup. It could also be easier to learn than Vim if you're just getting into Vim. It's definitely not difficult for a Vim user* either. Helix is available on Termux repo's:

pkg install helix helix-grammars

*) Last year WebStorm started getting painfully slow with some TypeScript codebases I worked with. It got the point I thought to give NeoVim a try. I knew my 10y old Vim config just wouldn't cut it to replace WebStorm for me, so I spent some 3 months on and off fiddling to get LSP support properly working. I then ran across Helix around last December, and ended up as a happy Helix user instead.

Edit: Fixed formatting (my fourth comment on HN...)
I've got reasonable financial success in my software product mainly from the merits of the tech. Pretty much all the marketing I ever did was spamming a small mailing list once, making an anonymous website that subtly mentioned my product, got good Google ranking, and got referenced by other people, and eventually making a Wikipedia page which I'm not sure does any good. I got good ranking in Google early on without any particular effort, probably because there just aren't many competitors.

Other people have done a lot to help at their own initiative though. Resellers approach me and market it themselves, customers recommend it on forums, researchers mention it in their published papers, and one customer even wrote a chapter of a book about it - which was key to being eligible for a Wikipedia page.

I'm lucky though because it belongs to a slow moving, well-defined class of products that people in my target industry already understand so when they go looking for a cheaper alternative to the super-priced big names, they find mine. I'm not inventing a new market.

It's not free money though. It's very code-heavy and technical-understanding-heavy and I've spent nearly 20 years actively developing it by now. One man wouldn't be able to just smash one out in a year, and you'd need some reasonably deep domain knowledge.
Sorry, should've been "how". My understanding is that the optical sensors work by recalibrating every week or so, assuming that the lowest CO2 level they've seen is equivalent to the baseline "outdoor" ppm that was set in the factory (which can be adjusted over time to account for climate change).

If the sensors are in an environment where the CO2 is always elevated, how do you keep it properly calibrated (eg if the CO2 never goes under 700ppm, how do you stop it from recalibrating so that it returns "400" when it should actually return "700") I know you can just turn calibration off but won't the sensors' accuracy decrease over time?
How about a bullet? :)

https://theworld.org/stories/2024/08/27/a-rise-in-water-rela...
Totally agree. Add to that the fact that in many cases, businesses ran fine without the in-person interactions of these managers… which could mean that we actually don’t need them, the managers I mean. And they are very scared of that.
inefficiency? It's part of the experience. I'm not in a restaurant or café to drink as fast as possible. I'm there to socialize as well. Waiting a bit is not a bottleneck, but a feature. (If I wanted speed, I'd take the drive-through).
A dumbed down file browser.
For 3 years? That would mean that no developer has ever raised these issues with management, to speak nothing of an actual pentest being conducted.

No, this is not some obscure security hole they forgot about. This is plain incompetence and/or deliberate design decisions.

I agree that full public disclosure like this is irresponsible, but exposing issues like this to the public is the only way for such companies to make a change or, preferably, lose business and shutdown.
Also wouldn't the most sensible strategy for these ruthless capitalist to let in entirely crash and then scoop it up at the bottom and then mandate RTO...
Given caffeine has a half life in the body, couldn’t you have less coffee but drink it for longer in the day and have the same result?
I currently use M3 Max MacBook Pro. Mac OS 14.6.1（23G93).

Firefox 130.0.1

"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0"

Safari 17.6

"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.6 Safari/605.1.15"

Seems like a Google Chrome-specific behavior, but I don't have Google Chrome installed to test.
If you have billions of dollars in real estate losses and think can offset the losses by driving some anti remote work stories in media, I don't see why rich people would not do this. Also you think planting stories needs coordinated work across media. It doesn't. Read more about it.
Oh wow, super useful link.

So in a way my simplified assumption was more or less right, my ego grew a little bit and i think that's a bad thing
It's not violence if it's the state doing their duty to protect the public. It's just called force.
> Bootstrap started as something like this [...]

Exactly, and meanwhile relied on jQuery until the most recent major release (3 years ago).

Once you're starting with one framework (no matter how "lightweight"), you can't gradually introduce a different one that better fits your problem domain, you usually have to rip it out & redo at least some parts.

> [...] for some reason a generic look on the web is considered bad [...]

Yeah it is bad. I won't go into specifics but it's horribly bad, and the sheer amount of CSS frameworks out there is evidence enough.

But the main problem isn't even that it looks (&works) ugly, it is also lacking/incomplete as a basic UI toolkit. How long did we wait to have a standardised date picker? Color picker? Where's the progress bar? Context menu? Tab bar? Icons with labels, representing files/objects? Half the other stuff we've had figured out in the 1980s and considered absolutely necessary by 90s?

Fire up Borland Delphi Builder from the 90s and marvel at how easy it was to stitch together a simple UI that looks decent next to every other app that ran on your computer. JS is ~30 years old, and we've been building web apps even before that, there was plenty of time to match it - but we've spent it on churning through frameworks instead.
people are underestimating the havoc this could create in a country like India. Imagine serving chicken at a table that is strictly vegetarian (many people in India are vegetarian due to religious reasons), will lead to a lot of outrage.
So you can plug your laptop into it at the colo when you set it up so you can verify that the server is working right and can get to the internet while you are still there. And if it isn't working right, it'll be a lot easier to keep everything plugged into the switch, rather than swapping between your laptop and the colo's network every time you try something to fix it.

But yes, if you think you might want to add other machines later, preemptively putting a switch in there will make it tons easier.
Even today, The 'Hey Google' stopped working. Restart didn't help. The microphone works (I did a video call) but 'Hey Google' stopped working.

I used to have the Lenovo Smart Screen 10, which was great. But it didn't support Netflix or Disney+ so I thought that the Pixel Tablet would be an upgrade. There so many things that don't work any more. For example after starting a timer, the Lenovo know the command "re-start" while The pixel for the same command starts a new timer. I have many more examples, but it just make me sad to think of it.
Actually, with emacs 29 it should come out of the box.

Open any python file (emacs has a built-in python-mode), M-x eglot, and you are golden.
This sounds like a CS 102 homework assignment. Break out a book on bash scripting an get to hacking.
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During quarantine, companies universally congratulated themselves and their staff on the boost in productivity that WFH enabled.

The non self-directed types were still employed, and their productivity wasn't much better or worse, but I suspect that the self-directed team members were able to deliver even more than before.
> It means you are classified dangerous and not curable

No it doesn't. It means you've got some sort of mental issue. Curable or not. TBS is more focused on treating the underlying issue instead of simple punishment or rehabilitation.
Wrongful convictions happen, should normal law-abiding citizens that get thrown in jail just suck it up and expect no due process because they are now a "criminal"?
Actually no. We got a `CHANGELOG` file in Git, which's last 10 lines consist of variations on `:wq`, `:x` and `:q!` :D
In most restaurants the kitchen remains the bottleneck. Tech has not fixed that.
And to add that he tried out the exploit on unknowing participants. It would be better to try this with a friend in-the-know at a separate table. It makes me think he did it more as a practical joke than testing his exploit, especially because he mentioned they were "not-too-intimidating-looking guys".

I'll admit it is a bit funny and the damage caused is tiny(just the price of the food). However, things like this do harm the reputation of bug-bounty hunters.
Just like iOS!
There are also tax incentives. Cities like big company offices because in theory their workers would become customers of local businesses, which would not be possible with remote work. Maybe cities have been threatening to take away the tax breaks unless leadership did a RTO?

It's also highly likely that this is a soft layoff, trying to delay the real layoffs in 2025
This can easily be done with a small shell script and standard linux commands.

#!/usr/bin/bash

MAILTEXT=$(grep "dbkey" db.txt)

cat emails.lst|while read ADDR NAME
do
mail -s "Subject" $ADDR <<EOT
Dear $NAME

$MAILTEXT

EOT

done

Schedule with cron.
Here is a low hanging fruit for governments around the world fighting low birth rates. Allow your people to work from home and they will start having more babies, simplle as that. I am my wife had to switch jobs just so we could work more from home, an unnecessary annoyance.
This is a bad excuse for drunk driving, which everyone knows is wrong because of the risks involved even most of the time you get home without killing or maiming someone.
this is purely and simply about boss power
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O1-preview Analysis, Great at math, reasoning, average at coding, writing?
Interview with C3 language creator, Christoffer Lerno [video]
> If you're a C-level at a Fortune 50 company, some massive percentage of your personal assets, if they're invested in the stock market or private equity, are in commercial real estate.
> There's no mystery here. People with assets want those assets to remain valuable, and act directly to reinforce it. This is why we don't let athletes bet on their own games.

Wouldn't Leadership's financial incentive be stronger to increase the value of the company rather than "the whole commercial real estate market" that a single company only has a small effect on?

WeWork seems like an obvious exception - but Adam Newmann was self-dealing by renting his own real estate out to his own company. It was a hugely perverse incentive, and I suspect most boards aren't so captured by things like that.
Based on election results and popularity, the Hungarian government is more democratically legitimate than the French and German ones.

The wide acknowledgement is only wide in a particular EU bubble.
It's seems clumsy. I wouldn't really cheer for them opening this Mastodon server or whatever, because, really, all that Mozilla is expected to do is to advance Firefox. But since they did, what's the point of shutting it down? It upsets some people, because "once again Mozilla turns its back at free and wonderful stuff", and I'd imagine running a Mastodon server must be virtually free, isn't it?
I can't answer this definitively; I doubt anyone can, but I can suggest at least two possible mechanisms that don't require a shadowy cabal of elite conspirators. These don't require anything other than people acting in accordance with incentives that they already have. I'm sure it's not hard to find more.

Mechanism 1: Those S&P 500 shares that you own through Vanguard and BlackRock index funds, you don't actually control the voting rights to them. Vanguard and BlackRock do. They have coordinated voting power and a big voice in the C-suite of many large corporations. I do think that execs will listen when they make a suggestion, and it's in their interests that the value of assets under management stays high, because that's what determines their pay.

Mechanism 2: C-suite comp is tied to stock price, often through options. Well, as it happens, asset markets are tightly interrelated, and high valuations are a result of leverage. Strangely enough, a dollar invested in real estate can also be a dollar invested in Amazon (even if it's not Amazon's real estate). When asset valuations are high, their owners can borrow against those assets and use that money to bid for other assets, raising the price of everything together. In this process new money is essentially created ex nihilo and increases the price of assets. Conversely, when asset prices start deflating, that can trigger a sell-off of other assets, and this money doesn't simply change hands, it disappears along with the leverage that created it. A pop in commercial real estate valuations can mean that many investment funds which own Amazon will have to sell them off at fire-sale prices to cover a margin call. If you're an exec, this wouldn't be a good thing to happen before your equity compensation package vests.
That's completely unrelated. Maybe we should just abolish the law entirely because it gets misapplied sometimes.
Most email providers have APIs now. This is probably one rest call. Super easy in most languages.

Pick a language.
Pick an email as a service.
Read the docs.
Extend an example for your needs
Set-up your cron job

Profit
Much like how widening the I-405 does not improve Los Angeles's legendary traffic jams, slabnus do not improve the bottleneck.

Namely, restaurants who move to slabnus simply get rid of the waiters who would have taken the order. You're left with even fewer waiters serving food and drinks, let alone taking orders.

The coup de grace is I don't even get a discount for the degraded service.

Note: Slabnu because I'm pecking at a slab of silicon instead of a proper menu.
I looked around to find a security contact at DotPe, and couldn’t find anything. Hopefully, this HN post raises enough alarms.
Hey HN - I'm riffing on an idea about having a dictaphone app for your desktop and mobile, where you can take notes by simply speaking into the microphone.

Above is the very first version (super simple right now). Would love to know the top challenges you face while ideating and dreaming of new thoughts.. What would you like to see, what would you like to add?
Already been done https://ubuntu-touch.io/en_GB/ I ran my main phone on this for a little while and it was definitely an interesting experience
This is almost completely solved by e-bikes. You can convert practically any bike to an e-bike and while it does cost money, it is cheaper than the costs associated with driving a car or the bus by orders of magnitude over the life time of the bike.

Walking is fine as well, though. No real reason to play off walking and cycling against each other.
Might be nice to have but its also expensive in a low margin business. Maybe waiters get paid like crap enough for it to not matter in the US but other parts of the world have labour laws to abide to making it the biggest expenditure (and thus the one to save on by cutting out staff and replacing it with an app)
Or it fires to soon and you get an explosion to the face and hit your head on the steering wheel.
dang explains it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40577703
That's too obvious of an explanation and probably the likeliest one. It is common knowledge that almost every big corp is trying to downsize now, and RTO announcement does force a lot of employees to reevaluate their situation.
I have a hard time believing that dealing with a singular ISA for two different compute cases would be an "obviously better" solution. I don't doubt that it's plausible/possible, especially if RISC-V + extensions are still simple, but then again, that's far outside my wheelhouse.
> Looking forward to seeing it more often

Not sure if you're serious after reading the paragraph where he ordered food for another table ;-)
if you don't want to open it you could weight it and compare that number with the specs