skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that businesses are about profit and not much more, but I do find it interesting that it doesn't really register that people, given that option, choose to live in very diverse locations.

Some companies don't have the choice. If you need people to come in and operate machines, do manufacturing, care for others and similar, then you often need your employees to commute. If you don't need that, why wouldn't you hire the best qualified person, even if that person prefers to live in the Mojave desert?
Unscented filtering and nonlinear estimation (2004)
> Withdraw from Ukraine and sanctions end

This will be Europe’s first post-War test of security integrity.

My suspicion is it will fail—that Europe as a single force, versus collection of countries crowded on a continent, is an American invention, and without American strength will dissolve divided. But my hope is it will succeed.
I don't think that suicide thing is confirmed. The other day they said cardiac arrest. Who knows.

But he has written some really good books, such as https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
This attitude will keep you off the pager rotation, but get used to building meaningless projects or having your expertise relative to the average developer seen as a liability to the org rather than an asset.
Not the person who wrote this post, but I also have Crohn's (that isn't quite in remission). If WFH was off the table, there's no way I'd be able to work at all. With WFH, I'm bringing in more than half of total our household income. Very very grateful that this is available to me.
> Good code is not written in a democratic way

[citation needed]

In case anyone's looking for that last sentence (quoting Kent here, not my words):

> Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/citv2v6f33hoidq75xd2spaqxf7nl5w...
This is crypto scare all over again.

My answer is still the same you always have to do a cost benefit analysis.

AI is many times more valuable than the energy it consumes and thus:

AI doesn't have an energy problem, energy have an AI problem.
The spooks will simply create another company.
In this conflict, there can only be losers. :-(
Sure, I'll bite:

> in office socialization is shallow and distracts from more meaningful socialization with family and friends

Many people's adult friends come from work. Sometimes their spouse does too. I've noticed a phenomenon where more junior team members in particular would go into the office, even though the senior folks rarely did, and I think part of this is just to meet people because they may not have built up a friend group in their city yet.

> at home office is far more accommodating to fit an individuals needs

That's the case for me, although it depends a lot on your physical home situation and the social dynamic at home. I think for some folks the office is an escape.
Came a bit too late for me; I spent some time fixing bugs in an ISDN driver in my teens, but Linus’ reputation prevented me from ever trying to upstream it.
The comment you replied to says that they can’t meet demand due to insufficient supply (due to grounded aircraft). Very high occupancy is consistent with that. If Delta suddenly had half as many aircraft they would always be full too.
It's bad if half of your fleet is also grounded.
That's not relevant to this. It's a direct quote from the work the students handed in.
The kind of abuse I (and they) are thinking of are things like "working four different jobs and half-assing all of them" or "outsourcing your job to some guy in the Philippines".

You can say "well that's the sort of thing you should catch in a performance review", but that's more-or-less isomorphic to hiring anyone who applies to your job and relying on performance reviews to fire the bad ones. I think people can intuit that that approach would not work very well.

If you want to frame "being worried people will not do their jobs, or will do them worse than your expectations on hire" as "asserting control", I suppose you can do that. But surely an employer has at least some legitimate right to try to ensure that their employees are doing the job they pay them for (notwithstanding the broader economic undertones to the employer-employee relationship, which are a much larger issue that extends way beyond RTO).
Hey, congrats. I did a similar thing... in December 2019. Poor timing, but a good decision nonetheless.

Even years later, I am still not making as much money as I was making back then. I could not care less about that. I'm making plenty of money, and am more than twice as happy—this is harder to measure than salary, but it sure feels true.
“ The whole point of our jobs is to facilitate the needs of the business.”

But people conflate the needs of the business with the “needs” of the executives or investors. I have little faith that any exec that I have met that is capable of putting their own ego aside and honestly describe how RTO helps the business. Maybe it does help the business, but I haven’t seen anyone make that case.
The Business-School Scandal That Keeps Getting Bigger
I am sorry to see that they closed. I visited several times while I was living in Connecticut and it was a nice store with a pretty broad range of products.

Would also like to mention "Altex" of old in San Antonio TX. They have morphed into a computer store but used to be a really amazing electronic component store. It made me want to buy stuff just because it existed.

Feel like specialty stores are mostly dried up now. My father knew all the tool shops in San Antonio and I enjoyed just seeing the diversity of stuff to do anything (welding, electronics, fasteners, pneumatic tools, plywood, Camera Shops, etc.) I suppose there are a lot of these sorts of places but most of what I see is pretty generic consumer stuff (Home Depot, Wallmart, Amazon).
Counterintuitively, yes, because air travel is a Cournot good and you grow/make money by expanding supply (more planes), which they can’t
The point of modern sanctions is not that it makes import impossible (look at Russian circumvention for dual-use military technologies), but that it makes import at whole-economy scale more expensive and unreliable.

And ultimately that's what imposes economic costs.

It'll be curious how much of the gap is filled by substitute Chinese goods. (E.g. the domestic CFM-alternative engine projects [0])

With the wrinkle that Russia and China are united by their geopolitical opponents more than their friendship, and Xi doesn't seem thrilled about shackling the Chinese economy to the consequences of Russian war.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAE_CJ-1000A
I don't expect AI to be bad for the planet either because unlike many other industries it completely internalizes its energy costs. The industry is naturally incentivized to reduce its energy consumption, because energy is ~100% of their operating cost.
They didn’t mention of Boeing fleet but the situation is supposedly the same. Together, while only small percentage, they are more efficient, can transport more, go farther, need less maintenance, so more desirable.
I've been working on marketing my Chrome extension too. It alerts users to when a company is offering a free sample of the item they're looking at on Amazon.

I've been posting on Reddit about it - that's gotten me a few early users and a bit of useful feedback. I am thinking about what to do next.

Here it is btw (all feedback is most welcome!): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/freebie-alert/mofbl...
Liberals dominate the jobs where RTO is even an option. Conservatives are trying to eliminate it from the US government for a reason.

It’s entirely political. Conservatives hate the idea that “lazy” limp wristed soy boy ML engineers can make more money than their good old boys making tractors at catapiller.
Keeping the karma low is similar to the peaceful anabaptists' way of being able to up sticks at (nearly) a moment's notice: without contractual ties it's possible to deconflict from a safe distance.

Shorter Herbert? https://read.gov/aesop/048.html
> equally if not faster then python

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

> faster then Java

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

> faster then ruby

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Work is not only about what the company wants but also about what the employee needs. I don't see much difference between the ability to work from home and the ability to avoid working on weekends; the later is an acquired rights in many places, the former can come over time.
There's a lot of hype and now virtually every company is claiming to do AI something.

Is it valuable, more than just a novelty, enough to pay for all the training and usage? Dunno.
Time-series forecasting through recurrent topology
If nuclear power plants produce more than solar can provide, you notice direct warming from their waste heat even on a planetary scale, rather than the indirect kind of warming we get from the sky column being marginally more likely to scatter IR emitted by the surface.
Depending on your browser, Right click on Wikipedia and select Inspect Element or View Source.

That explains everything you need to know to get started.

And google MDN.
I think the jury is still out on the cost benefit of AI on the long run.
Relatives, or illegal daycares. Or relatives who run illegal daycares.

I think that’s how folks make it work.
While I felt the same after reading, there are worthy recommendations that are good reminders.

For example, learn as much as possible about the domain and stack you are working in or read books about fundamentals rather than blogs because books provide information in condensed form and are best suited to topics that change slowly, if ever.

But some things work just for the author. "Reviewing pull requests as quickly as possible (<<1h)" would simply destroy my focus during the day.

Anyway I believe such posts are a good thing to read from time to time
There's an argument that the US did everything to prevent Europe from coalescing into a single force and only want Europe to be a single market, not much more, for instance by convincing Eastern European countries to trust their protective umbrella rather than the French-German domination.
> For context, a data center campus with peak demand of one gigawatt is roughly equivalent to the average annual consumption of about 700,000 homes, or a city of around 1.8 million people
> And aluminum has more benefits than these AIs.

What’s the reasoning behind that assertion?
Kent is only prevented to merge for a version and mostly because he refused to actually apologise and kind of dig his heels.

Reading his comment on LWN, he seems really really tired. A mandatory break doesn’t look like the worst thing which would happen to him. I don’t think he is a bad person.
More than the residential use of some entire cities.

This is a misleading comparison. "AI data centers" aren't a residential use, they're much closer to an industrial one, and they should be considered on that basis.

In comparison, a 2007 report on the US Aluminum industry (https://www1.eere.energy.gov/manufacturing/resources/aluminu...) (aluminum is a particularly heavy user of electricity, since its main processes are electric-driven and not chemical/combustion like steel) notes that the US industry used 90e9 kWh/yr in 2003. That's 10GW of power on a continuous basis, comparable to the data center usage discussed in the article.

An exact comparison is more difficult because the article discusses a number of individual projects, without aggregating them over time.

Is this projected energy usage good? I don't know, but the statement that "AI will be as important to the United States as the aluminum industry" doesn't seem too outlandish.
I've seen reports of the fediverse getting a bump in users. End of the day you will almost never see news about it because it has no marketing budget, and offers no investment opportunity. Money talks.

It remains imo the best social platform because of those reasons.
> Tens of millions of hectares burn all the time, far more than all the nukes on earth would likely set on fire

Totally wrong. You’re still comparing forest and urban fires, and assuming you’ve calculated a burn mass from blast effects alone.

> There's zero basis for it

So you still haven’t read the first source. The one with “superfires” in the title.
Yes, full coverage is needed. And not just of the lower lattitudes from the ecliptic plane. The original Solar Orbiter proposal plan A was for a highly inclined orbit passing over the poles of the sun. But this was too expensive and instead they went with just another generic spectroscopic imager in the ecliptic plane. It was such a disappointment.

I wonder if the 4m DKIST on Earth would have higher resolution photomosaic of the sun if it were used to do this one day? Probably. It's field of view is smaller but it can image features down to the high single km scale (~8km) on the photosphere.

The problem with this is that at 10km scale the features of the sun are changing far faster than at large scales. The rows of exposures' tops and bottoms would not match very well assuming a normal raster scan. The higher the resolution the smaller the timespan you have to take the full disk image. And the higher the resolution the smaller your FOV is. It's a rough situation.
Maybe we could update: instead of roles for actors, we take on chromas and skins for characters?
Money can't buy time.
Fidelity is very regulated, and large. If something happened it would be a systemic event that the government would definitely get involved. Wealthfront may be fine too, I just don't know.
The post you are quoting did not say they closed the stock market. They said they “closed off” the stock market, which implies denying access to certain classes of investors.

That said, I’m not finding anything about Russia prohibiting foreign investment, but I am finding a lot about sanctions prohibiting dollar and Euro investment in Russia.
Hmm, I think you may have just not been paying attention? There was the Superjet that crashed and burned at Lukhovitsy just a few months ago, the A320 that ran out of fuel and landed in the field near Novosibirsk a year ago, the AN26 that crashed in 2021, the Superjet that crashed and burned at Moscow in 2019…
Not to mention that you’re putting your corporate boss’ well being above that of your children who have to cope with those circumstances. I’m willing to deal with the commute. I’m not willing to let my kids take the hit.
In the context of the article, that just means "a lot of companies put together are using more energy than some cities". OK, so what? There are a lot of wasteful companies and industries in the world.
Meta loses ground to Bluesky as users abandon Elon Musk's X
What do you mean by end up like Germany?

Producing so much energy that you are a net exporter?
Apart from that, there are (or were, last I tried it six months ago) some performance bugs in the code.

Nothing that completely breaks it, but I found at the time that the high variance on read requests for Samsung 970 series NVMe causes the filesystem to also dispatch reads of cached data to the HDDs, even when it’s fully cached.

Which predictably increases latency a lot.

Really I should make another stab at fixing that, but the whole driver is C, and I’m not good at writing flawless C. Combine that with the problem actually being hard…

(“Always read from SSD” isn’t a valid solution here.)
Depends greatly on whether you have kids and their ages.
Russia doesn't import RW rolling stock. This is plain lies.
Goroutines are also more limited from UX perspective because each goroutine is a true green thread with its own virtual stack. This makes spawning goroutines much more expensive (asynchronously yielding .NET tasks start at just about 100B of allocated memory), goroutines are also very difficult to compose and they cannot yield a value requiring you to emulate task/promise-like behavior by hand by passing it over a channel or writing it to a specific location, which is more expensive.
At 100 people, every desk-job company is already a remote company, even if they don't know it yet.

Travel distance between desks has already become so large that many people won't do it for small things. For decades now those situations would be handled by a phone call or email.

Meeting in the coffee room to chat becomes rare because schedules and tastes (eg. office coffee versus off-site coffee, bagged lunches versus going out) differ. Also there's too many people and too much churn to really get to know anybody.

Arranging meeting times becomes difficult outside smaller 5-10 person units so asynchronous communication becomes predominant.

What I've seen work is not trying to co-locate a full team at all. Doing so only leads to silos and hiring difficulties. Instead have small offices which people from a small geographic area use. Those people will be on different teams and in different departments -- which is good for inter-team communication and synergy. This is exactly what offices normally miss because teams are co-located resulting in a relatively high 'distance' to build a rapport between teams.
Not overpaid. Even if you are paid below the market, but you are highly skilled in a job where you deliver a lot of value for the employer and you make a lot more than the average worker, you can take a pay cut. For example, average pay in US is around $50k/year. If you are very good in tech or an MD and you make $250k, are you overpaid? Probably not. If you take a $50k cut, with the remaining $200k you are still fine in many places. There is no reason to reach the conclusion you are overpaid.
> the US did everything to prevent Europe from coalescing into a single force and only want Europe to be a single market, not much more

I mean yes, we did. Western Europe was unifying under Berlin in the 1940s.

> by convincing Eastern European countries to trust their protective umbrella rather than the French-German domination

Militarily speaking, modern Germany is irrelevant. (Partly due to how it’s been managed post-War.) Especially to Eastern Europe, whose security concerns require a nuclear umbrella.
Women of 7 October
When I was doing this, I went in a bit later and dropped the kids off and my spouse went in a bit earlier and picked them up. They were neither the first ones in nor the last ones out. My commute was worst case 20 minutes, that also helped. It worked fine (except when spouse was traveling), but WFH Is much easier.
It's possible it could help but it wouldn't be lead to a typical clean DP problem, because you need the full mixed strategy vectors at each level. That requires
N real numbers that sum to 1, for each player.

Assuming you've found such a strategy for N, when you go to N+1 you still need to find the (N+1) element vector representing the probability that you select each number as your first guess, and you likewise need to know your opponent's probability vector for adversarially choosing a number. Once you guess at those vectors you can use your recursively built up DP sub-solutions to get the value of the game, but you are still stick with solving the optimization problem of finding those mixed strategy vectors for N+1, and will probably need something like CFRM or a similar technique to find them.
I have an investor account and I know for sure the stock market isn't closed.
I tried reading the history here. I confess the emails signed "on behalf of the committee" hit with a bad taste.

In particular, if the goal is to promote more discussion and openness between contributors, having a "committee" involved feels very counter productive. As does demanding an apology.

By all means, empower folks to call others out as rude. Publicly call out what you see as transgressions. But don't do so with a shield of, "I'm speaking for the committee."
He should get some tips from Theo. :D
At this point, what would Russia have to do to get back onside with the rest of the world? Obviously, ending the conflict with Ukraine is the first step, but what else would they need to do? How long would it take for them to get out of the doghouse, so to speak?
Nuclear energy is complex even without sabotage by foreign actors.

Didn’t hear any fears that Russia could hit a WEC with a rocket.
Scientists reveal the shape of a single 'photon' for the first time
> And aluminum has more benefits than these AIs.

It's not like these data centers or the power to run them are free, or being paid for out of public generosity.

If AI proves to be over-hyped, then the private-sector backers of these ventures will lose their investments, and life will go on. Frankly, I'd expect that fate for half of the projects in this article (if not cancelled before completion) just because of the "gold rush" dynamics at play.
> and sanctions end

Source on that? No documented cases in history of U.S. sanctions ever ending.

(Which is why from a game theoretic point of view the only winning move is import substitution, not kowtowing to whatever terrorist demands.)
It’s not just that it’s more expensive COL but if you’re buying then you’re taking a 30 y mortgage that may not be so easy to divest when the next round of cuts come and you find yourself let go anyway.
> This will come of a spoiled and privileged, but I honestly have no idea how we'd make our day to day life work if I didn't work from home, with incredibly flexible hours.

I don't think it's spoiled, I think you're spot on. Yeah, it's hard. And yes, you (and me and probably many others reading here) are privileged.

> Obviously people make it work

And yeah, they usually make it work, and it sucks. Or if they can't make it work then maybe a spouse or partner has to quit their job to handle that stuff and take care of the kids and then they have to get by with even less income.
It also assumes no progress in power efficiency during inference.

If the price of OpenAIs mini models are indicative of compute, and therefore, energy usage, I would be surprised if we didn’t see a lot of similar energy optimized models in the future.
“Closed off” means “restricted access to”. It doesn’t mean “closed”. I have no idea what restrictions the parent was referring to, but they weren’t saying that the stock market shut down.
Crypto currencies consume more than entire countries.
AI has at least good uses compared to that.
I have yet to come across a single good use-case. It will never offset the damage that is has done and is currently still doing. But I am still looking.
Web3 is going great... maybe it is time to reduce the energy consumption that is only doing harm.
Did I understood correctly, if teleportation would be real you would go to the office every day? I would, if I would meet my team there.
Doesn‘t look good at the moment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42220298
It’s been getting closer for what, two decades now?
Increased demand for, and investment in energy is what we need to get to abundant, cheap, green energy. Stop the stupid incrementalism (e.g., banning gas stoves), and jump to the solution. Or take off the mask and admit the real goal is deindustrialization.
Which they can, because Russia produces aircraft domestically.
Heh, that seems evasive. Good metric or not, it makes me think they aren't at the point where they can factor `15 = 3*5`.

I'm not trying to disparage quantum computing. I think the topic is fascinating. At one point I even considered going back to school for a physics degree so I would have the background to understand it.
Graphic novelist's Elon Musk book can't find UK or US publisher
To the people here talking about switching to fully remote positions (while taking a pay cut) - how and where did you find your new positions?
Neon will never die: Inside the Bay Area movement devoted to the glowing art