skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in digitalisation for a Danish city during Covid. Since I was the HR “data guy” I worked on every sort of metrics for them and sometimes had to sit through meetings just in case someone needed a technical explanation. I think that happened twice, but it’s been some years since. Anyway, I got to see the data on employees working from home.

The short story is that efficiency and productivity went up but “hours worked” went down. Well, “hours spent active at the computer” and by that I mean not just keeping teams greens but actually doing things, went down. Which was taken to mean work, even though it could’ve been people doing their social media, shopping or whatever. The key take away for most of the decision makers involved was that productivity increased. Then they do the law required AMR and psychological evaluations that we do here in Denmark. It’s basically a questionnaire where you rate your mental well being, how the physical environment is and so on. For office workers the physical part is mostly about the air quality, but in a municipality you have employees who are physically assaulted from time to time, so the results can be pretty wild.

You might expect that some of the groups working with Alzheimer, or some of the more violently mentally ill, patients. Employees who work in the department which removes children from bad parents. Such groups. Would be absolute outliners in these sort of analytics, and they were. The one group who scored higher on unhappiness, stress and a few other parameters were middle managers. So during Covid it was apparently worse to be a middle manager than someone who gets physically assaulted.

Anyway, the positive reports were sort of buried. Unless you’ve worked in public service you probably don’t know what that means, but it basically comes down to bureaucrats vs politicians. So you might have someone with a candidate (or several) degrees in public management and a couple of decades of experience advice a janitor who is popular enough to have been elected to office for whatever reason. Obviously the bureaucracy wins. So they all went back to the office to keep the middle managers happy.

I certainly don’t know how it’s like at Amazon, but I hope you can use my anecdotal story to see that it’s not always about productivity. Especially because measuring productivity in hours spent in office doesn’t show the same output as it would for someone standing at an assembly line.
Not having to install and manage Kubernetes? Unless you're paying someone else to run it for you (in which case this entire conversation is sort of moot as that's way out of scope for comparison) that stuff is all still running somewhere and you have to configure it. e.g. even in small-scale setups like k3s you have to set up shared storage or kube-vip yourself for true high availability. It's not some magic bullet for getting out of all operational planning.

Also even in separate components it's not really "all of that". Assume an example setup where the application is a container with a volume on an NFS share for state: on a given node we'd need to install podman and keepalived, a .container and .volume file, and the keepalived conf. An average keepalived conf file is probably 20ish lines long (including notification settings for failover, so drop like 8 lines if you don't care about that or monitor externally) and looking at an application I have deployed a similar .container file is 24 lines (including whitespace and normal systemd unit file boilerplate) and the NFS .volume file is 5 lines. So ballpark 50 lines of config, if you or others wanted to compare configuration complexity.

Also, fun fact, you could still even use that Kubernetes manifest. Podman accepts .kube files to manage resources against itself or a Kubernetes cluster; I've been recommending it as sort of a middle ground between going all in on k8s versus transitioning slowly from a non-clustered deployment.
Wi-Fi 8, which will trade speed for a more reliable experience
If nothing else, home offices can be a lot quieter than the usual mix of plague ward and bazaar that defines modern work environments.
You can maintain a population of arbitrary size when using approaches such as tournament selection. Each worker can pull a subset of the population from another datacenter and run an isolated tournament. You also don't have to run the entire population each iteration. You can keep win-loss statistics and handle final selection/crossover/mutation in a separate thread once enough have accumulated.

Put more simply, run it like chess and use things like Elo rating to determine fitness at selection time.
I knew someone who would get seizures when sleep deprived and was aware during them.

I only saw one once. He was sitting on a couch, clutching a pillow in front of him, and kept shoving his face into the pillow. At the time, I wasn't aware of his seizures, and asked him if he was good. He just said "I'm fine, I'm having a seizure. Just give me a minute and it will pass."

Sure enough, after a minute or two, he stopped, explained the situation, and said he needed to call it a night before it happened again.
Let's go back say 40 odd years. I'm from the UK.

Back then "media" largely consisted of three, soon to be four channels on your analogue TV and a lot of newspapers and magazines. The media was largely passive except for the letters pages, which mostly featured real people, and the likes of "Readers's Wives" which was mostly bollocks (quite literally).

If we look at the newspapers back then: they all had a clear and well known set of biases - political and otherwise.

The Times was Conservative, so was the Torygraph (Telegraph). The Grauniad (Guardian - yes, that one) was unable to employ editors capable of effective proof-reading. The Independent was not really independent and the Sun and Mirror published pictures of young ladies alongside their biting political satire. The Sunday Sport had even more piccies of scantily clad young ladies and was barking mad - "Elvis piloted Lancaster bomber found on Moon".

We also had and still have titles such as "Private Eye", who are generally acknowledged to be proper journo outlets.

The media has always had a bias and it was always accepted that you took multiple papers, and watched the BBC and ITN News, if you wanted to appear to have a balanced view and at least appear to be well informed. Note that we forked out dosh for those papers and the UK TV license fee is not trivial.

Back in the day, I didn't have a bunch of Russians trying to spin crap at my front door, pretending to be Jehovah's Witnesses or double glazing salesmen or my work colleague. They bought peerages and sat in the House of Lords or footie teams, but at least they were mostly at a distance! Nowadays the buggers are trying to hack my telly.
Speaking Freely: Tanka Aryal
I guess now I realize where all the music in the late 90s Need for Speeds came from
Because otherwise it becomes convoluted. It is acceptable to cite and source published material. Having to account for the source of one’s ideas, however, citing friends and influences - it shouldn’t be a moral requirement, just imagine!
Steve Roberts built a chording keyboard into the handlebars of his recumbent bike. Unclear how much writing he really got done while riding the behemoth Winnebiko II around, but it was definitely a key event that inspired me towards computing & ubiquitous computing, made me see adulting as possibly being cool.

https://microship.com/winnebiko-ii/
Inexpensive barometric sensors are _remarkably_ sensitive too. Like enough precision to detect less than 10cm or 4" changes in height/altitude.

Note that's "sensitive", not "precise". The atmosphere changes pressure with the weather, so you don't get accurate absolute altitude - at least not without knowing the local "pressure altitude". Barometric pressure can vary in a way that represents plus or minus 300 or 400m of altitude, and can swing between high and low fairly rapidly in extreme weather events.

But over short timeframe the change in barometric altitude can be very useful. Glider pilots (including paragliders and even RC gliders) often use very sensitive barometric pressure sensors to detect when they're in rising to sinking air, down at the few meters per minute range of sensitivity.
OK, since we're wasting our time on the Pointless Editor War, I shall confess I know exactly one thing about Vim, the command `:q!'. That's all I've ever needed to know.
Claude/ChatGPT has become my man pages.
Polymarket could've easily registered as an exchange at any point in the last 4+ years, and then itself filed the suit that its competitors filed. Instead they chose to just ignore the law.

> VC's call it Regulatory Capture

This isn't regulatory capture. You can disagree with the regulation, but the barrier to entry here is not that high. Kalshi is like 5 years old.

"Capture" is a thing, and it does not just mean "any regulation that I happen to disagree with".

You do need capital to stand up a regulated exchange, but, then, you also need capital to stand up an unregulated exchange. And the difference between those two numbers is not nearly big enough to come anywhere close to creating capture.
https://archive.is/zPADI
Jungle instantly reminds me of Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things from 1996

Tundra is a masterpiece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G01DKEig14
Kalshi got the goahead from an appeals court to list election bets. I think Robinhood added election bets soonafter. Is there a reason that wouldn't apply to Polymarket? Granted, Polymarket was operating before that ruling.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-federal-court-upholds-rulin...
Yes but even from this point of view, 5 days of RTO doesn't make any sense: it's much cheaper and much more efficient to have people working their own home than from an expensive office, and people are massively more productive at home overall.
That's why we've got trade unions, if only software engineers stopped believing they were above employer abuse.
The original article says (the German equivalent of) priestess and contains no indication that she was married.
It's the Grauniad.
because that's what the data says
The cynicism in the 51s statement is what's wrong. And the media taking the expected cynical take. The 51 can say we didn't say it was fake we simply strongly implied it. And the media reported the implied lie. The media is either ignorant or more likely complicit.
Yup, exactly this. In the city I'm thinking of it was a municipal bylaw allowing for obscene 5-figure fines for anyone organizing a rave, even it was just the DJ they grabbed. The scene withered after that.
For context, Microsoft’s explanation of the new ISOs is relevant: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/iso

> The primary use for Windows 11 Arm64 ISO files is to create virtual machines on local devices for development.

> can also be used to create bootable media for installing Windows 11 on an Arm device. Depending on the device, it will likely be necessary to include drivers from the device manufacturer for the installation media to be successfully bootable.
Thanks for the note! I get what you're implying which is that maybe it's not the engineers who are biased to stay where they are, but instead it could be the recruiting mechanisms that are biased towards homogeny. This is an interesting takeaway. I do think Startups have the mandate here to do a better job positioning their companies, and finding ways to entice big tech engineers from their companies. I do think startups offer engineers a variation if nothing else, and often allow them to get closer to the business, and thus work on more critical problems.
A little stoichometry suggests that, ignoring oxygen, hydrogen, and energy input, the cited worldwide market for C2H4 would be satisfied by just about 1 gigaton of CO2. So if "we need to process gigatons of CO2 annually", that ethylene's gonna pile up.
How mature is the RISC-V ecosystem for dev machines? VS Code and Jetbrains IDEs are probably not supported, but what about a setup with Fedora, Erlang, Elixir, Node, and maybe NeoVIM?
I'm also confused, but I'd imagine that if Trump lost the election and betting sentiment on polymarket predicted strongly that Trump would win, it could be used as further "proof" that fraud occurred and that the democrats stole the election.

Polymarket probably thinks that the Biden administration is angry with them for showing how the population truly feels as all other sources are obviously corrupt /s
I used to have dozens of phone numbers memorized. Once I got a cell phone I forgot everyone's number. I don't even know the phone number of my own mother.

I don't want to lose my ability to think. I don't want to become intellectually dependent on AI in the slightest.

I've been programming for over a decade without AI and I don't suddenly need it now.
This makes sense and is also highlighted by the fact that promotions at Amazon have been becoming harder and harder, and new arbitrary requirements are added literally every quarter by every org leader.
It’s awful, yes. But it’s also where everybody is. So, if you have a public profile you need to be on there.
Funny you should say that. In Sweden, to get good grades in English you have to learn lots of facts about UK, like population, name of kings and so on. What does that have to do with english? It's spoken in many other countries too. And those facts change, the answers weren't even up to date now...
Futures markets serve an important role outside of speculation, i.e. producers managing their future price risk. Betting markets do not.
I just created an account on X and the list that pops up to follow: Elon, Terrence Williams, Sebastian Gorka, Dinesh D'Souza, Rand Paul, Dan Bongino, Leo Terrell, Tom Fitton, Mark Levin, Tiffany Smiley, Breitbart News, Matt Gaetz... not a single "left leaning" account other than Joe Biden and maybe Neil Degrasse Tyson, but I chose sports and science as my interests. Open and free speech, right..
Exactly - "an obligation that flows from [it]" is quite vague, and in any case wasn't the language of the Memorandum itself.
I wonder if 3blue1brown could explain this a bit better
Something that's not quite clear to me and is probably a stupid question if you know enough chemistry to be familiar with a gas diffusion electrode, but: can you run this thing on atmospheric air? Or will it only work if the gas in question is pure CO2?
The CEO or the company can only be in trouble if they are found guilty in court. That's not going to happen in the next two months, and Trump probably couldn't care less about this.
What would you ask an AI Prophet?
I asked the price of Bitcoin
Here is what he replied: https://prophetus.com/0x0112a08d17e9e7f
It's a matter of scale. "Optics" (as a separate concern) don't matter at orgs that are small enough that everyone can see everything (and/or has full trust in the people who do). Visibility and trust don't scale, hence the necessary evil of pageantry
It makes sense if a counterparty extended Amazon a benefit in exchange for driving foot traffic and now the benefit is at risk because they are not driving the foot traffic.
> As fans, we implore Crunchyroll to try to acquire an uncut version of the simulcast as we are paying good money each month for the services they provide.

Seems like they want Crunchyroll to offer it, I wasn't able to spot a mention of taking the safe one down; it's an uncharitable or invalid characterization on the part of the author imo
All of these examples have nothing to do with disability accommodations at work.

Lots of people in offices don't do much work too. I mean, that was true before people worked from home. Can you actually cite any statistics that prove this is a widespread, pervasive issue?

Anecdotal evidence only seems to serve proof that you're annoyed at a bunch of things people do in society and somehow that means accommodations in the workplace for people with disabilities must also have the same perceived issues.
The problem is that it's a dev board that will likely be slower than QEMU, and is missing half of the Risc-V extensions that you want to test with. (and it supports a maximum of 8gb of ram, so good luck compiling LLVM on it)
"depending on how one interprets the data"

I don't want to keep an open mind when interpreting data. What I want is the exact opposite.

So, yeah. "I want to believe", but I don't want to have to bend my critical thinking in order to do so.
I'm interested in a lot of subculture music, and it really isn't there like it was for the most part. Most families of music seem to have stagnated or regressed. The early 90s gangster rap is definitely superior to mumble rap/emo rap, the 90s IDM/jungle/trance is superior to modern EDM/house/trap and the pop mainstream now is just garbage compared to the the mainstream from the late 80s/90s.

Mixing and production are worlds better and musicianship has improved compared to where it was for genres where people care about musicianship, but the actual music is mostly either painfully derivative or actively worse because it's trying too hard to be "different."

Modern metal is amazing compared to the stuff from the 90s though.
It's definitely a run on academic writing that didn't get enough editing. It's consistently bad in ways LLMs typically correct for.

Run your papers through AI and have them identify simple corrections. It's like having an endlessly patient English Literature major at your beck and call.
Come on, it's clear they were referring to either my reference to "two different meanings of the term" or the reply's reference to "the same meaning but with the sign reversed"—those are two different meanings.
Yes! Here's a pic of dappled sunlight from the 2012 partial eclipse in bay area: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qBGGPUEu8bZB4Dgi9
The queuing reminds me of old "tote board" technology. I can't find a reference easily but these were machines used to automatically figure and display parimutuel payouts at horse tracks. One particular kind of them would have the cashiers' terminals emit ball bearings on a track back at the central (digital but electromechanical) counter for each betting pool. This arrangement allowed the cashiers to sell as fast as they liked without jamming the works, and then allowed the calculation/display of odds to be "eventually consistent".
> while not irritating folks who do not have epilepsy.

From the article:

"However, photosensitivity is not just connected to seizures! Photosensitivity also affects those who are visually impaired, and those who have migraines, amongst other conditions."

...

"And these non-epileptic seizures are exactly what occurred during “Electric Soldier Porygon.” 76% of those who had seizures during the event had never experienced a seizure before, and of those who had, most had never had a seizure provoked by TV before."
"Some other mechanism if warnings are not effective" -- like what, and how would it differ from the edits? A method known to work trumps an hypothetical method in my opinion.

The "ableist" comment by the author seems a direct response to "I don't care about this because I'm not an epileptic", which is the definition of ableism: not caring about the disabilities of others. He/she seems upset that some animé purists only cared about watching the original sequence and disregarding potential harm to others.

Unlike with PB&J, where if you are allergic to peanuts you're not harmed by someone else enjoying them, exposure to epilepsy-inducing animé can maybe harm you if you glance at what someone else is watching. Say you enter a friend's house, and they are watching this episode, and they've already skipped past the warning (because, after all, it doesn't affect them) and you watch what they are watching and it turns out you are affected.

Of course, you cannot cover all risks all the time, but editing these animés just in case seems like a reasonable and safe choice to me.

And let's not be dramatic, everyone can still watch the animé, it's just that some visual effects have been edited to make them less potentially harmful. It's not like censorship.
The fee will end up somewhere.

If it's in the rent, it's better to amortize the cost of the broker fee over a year vs. pay upfront.

Between the fee + first month's rent + security deposit (+ sometimes an additional month's rent) it is common to have to front 10K - 20K just to get into an apartment here.
Having an internal monologue (thinking in words/sentences) is actually a minority thing.
Apple's AI-powered Final Cut Pro 11 is now available
The secretive Goldman Sachs pipeline that helps founders tap into their wealth
If you lack a New York Times subscription:
https://archive.is/bVlNz#selection-4519.0-4519.51
The nearest thing is probably a Monaco based IDE that generates self-contained executables (like VB before .Net) with modernization for todays OS ecosystem.

twinBasic
https://twinbasic.com
A crypto security firm says that crypto is safer now and we are all supposed to believe it?

Also stablecoins like USDT which is supposed to be backed with USD but has never had an external auditor look at its books are somehow the solution here?

There is a reason crypto is looked at skeptically.
I had to look it up, and I had gotten that slightly wrong. The 256 did switch to 2x128 NAND while the previous model used 1x256, but the 512 is also multiple. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/08/m4-mac-mini-modular-sto...
Or the brokers simply go away, like every other city in the country.
Yea, that tracks. It's wack too because it's affecting the products it's in - like Cursor. It'll make a one-line change in a file but replace every other line in the file with *leave the rest unchanged*. first world problems ig but still
Regardless of what you think of The Guardian, if you are posting on X, then you may as well be posting on 4-Chan at this point.
Yeah, that is what I meant. :(
This is for killing people, right?
Hoax bomb threats on India flights have skyrocketed
Pure anecdata. And there are some other factors that include more pre-COVID events and travel.

But basically, a fairly hard switch to pure-video conferencing meant that, for the most part, I basically didn't establish new relationships (with some exceptions) to most people before I left. It wasn't sustainable but it was a fairly short runway.

More generous travel budgets and more event travel would have helped certainly. But I wouldn't have been happy in a long-term pure WFH environment.

(For context, even in a nominally working from office environment I was doing business travel for months a year.)
What rake did I just step on? I'm getting downvoted for this.
I do, too, but not everyone does that, and many people, say, on Discord, just link to Spotify.
If this were aimed at Polymarket and their betting activities, then their lawyers would be getting subpoenas and the like, and a raid on their president would most likely be in concert with raids on their offices. AFAICT, it was only his person targeted.

That the FBI raided the home of an individual most likely means a criminal investigation of that person, for a federal crime or a crime that crosses state boundaries.
It's not even amplified just from his account but the site itself. Create a new account and follow something like sports or entertainment.. then see what floods your feed. I logged in first time today, and it's quite shocking actually. Not a single left leaning account, just all maga that outnumbers the sports or whatever you clicked as interests.
> 2. Help a repo owner confirm that a new PR author is human and legit. For example, when a PR author submits their first PR to a repo, can the repo automatically do some kind of challenge such as a captcha prompt, or email confirmation, or multi-factor authentication, etc.?

Just do a blue checkmark thing by tying the account to real-world identity (eIDAS etc). It's not rocket science, there are gazillion providers that offer these sort of id checks as service, GH would just need to integrate it.