skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I do, that's why my company is remote.

But if I were to play devil's advocate?

- Because you think the apparently qualified person in the Mojave desert might be a fraudulent person who doesn't exist.

- Because you think the apparently qualified person in the Mojave desert might be interviewing for jobs they intend to quietly outsource, possibly to people worse than themselves and definitely in ways that create security risks.

- Because you think the random overheard conversations and water-cooler factor of in-office work has enough benefits to compensate for nominally lower qualifications.

- Because you think you're not perfect at detecting low-quality work and think remote employees might take the opportunity to slack off in ways they wouldn't in an office.

- Because you think it creates additional security risks by removing the implicit air-gapping of having to physically be in an office to handle sensitive information.

- Because you and your current employees actually like being in-office and having that cultural cohesion, and you don't think you can get it remotely.

...or any number of other reasons.

Like, I get that people like remote work. I do too. But the moralizing of RTO is...just incorrect, I think? There are practical arguments against it (I literally wrote a few thousand words to that effect not long ago - see my most recent HN submission), but that's an entirely different class of objection than the idea that it's just about middle managers wanting to breathe down your neck.
And remains irrelevant: https://progressive.org/op-eds/let-cut-our-losses-on-fusion-...
Time for Musk to announce fusion powered self driving cars for next sear
Time Pilot reimplemented (68K Macintosh, Apple IIgs, X16, C)
Those 400k humans were pointing their guns at you? And they deserve to die because of it? And the 400k humans on the other side too? Wild. Wild.

Do you feel the same about the Iraqis, I wonder?
Eh, the difference is that for some roles being in-person is obviously necessary for the role while in others it isn't. Most people I know working in lower-level roles in-person recognize this because they've experienced more than their share of blatant management power games themselves.

There's definitely a generational divide though. Older folks seem more likely to view being at the office as just a natural part of how work "works", while younger people are more likely to understand when it's necessary and when it isn't.

It's a different story for lower-status jobs that could be done from home but aren't allowed. But when it's such a clear signal that you aren't trusted by management/society/etc, you really do have something to resent!
It's always been close. But now, finally, I think it's really close. As in, I think I may still be alive when the first fusion power comes into the grid, even if I probably won't be alive to see the full dream of infinite cheap energy come true.

Its interesting to think about how our economies will change if the price of energy drops by one or two orders of magnitude.

Desalination could then be used for agriculture and industry. Coastlines could become more valuable.

We could make huge amounts of aluminum for almost nothing. We'd probably end up with aluminum packaging for everything as it's much easier to recycle than plastic if you don't have to worry about electricity.
It’s also a way to cut your labor costs without having to fire people which seems to be the latest trend.
> I haven't heard of any accidents in civilian air traffic in Russia in last few years.

Not very hard, now that reports are no longer publicly available. Prior to 2022 you would still find that information on avherald and other places. That said, even with the little amount of information going out, in the last 5 years alone Russia had at least 8 hull losses with more than 80 fatalities.
Signed up to write this comment. Hi folks.

It appals me how much praise dostoyevsky and such still get, without any attention to a lot of the context around it.

The prime reason his (and of most other russian writers) legacy and importance to world culture is the fact that they were backed by an empire. Try and think, for once, why you tend to know about Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, but (usually) don't know about literally everyone else from east europe?

The answer is simple. While russian culture was supported, promoted, encouraged. The culture of their colonies was suppressed, imprisoned, executed.

It's about time Dostoevsky and Gorky and so many other russian writers get the same treatment Kipling did.

Dostoevsky was a horrible person, a staunch chauvinist who denied the basic existence of other nations and cultures on then russian territory, stating they're just an obstacle on russia's imperial path.

And not only were many of them plain bad during their life, their art was (and is) weaponized, to manufacture an image of russia that lifts it from the evil things they did (and are doing) into being something interesting, something positive. To erase cultures of those russia enslaved from the map of the world.

It's "Crime and punishment" scaled up -- fuck the victim, they're not interesting. Just look at the murderer though -- fuck the fact he axed a granny, look how deep his soul is!

Joseph Brodsky, who is so complimented in the article, also wrote one of the most filthy and nauseating poems i ever read (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Independence_of_Ukraine). Before the author continues with their adorement of both Brodsky and Dostoevsky, i highly recommend they read that one. And Dostoevsky's statements regarding Poles, Ukrainians and Serbs.

Such ignorance to the reality of who these people were is disgusting.
> AIUI they wanted a public apology?

Seems fair if the thing that needs an apology happened in public.
I’m curious to see a detailed analysis on potential impacts to energy costs and how it changes the ROI on things like residential solar.

These articles never dive deep enough into the subject to make an informed decision. They just want us to be outraged by how much energy it uses then don’t even acknowledge the other consumers that use just as much or more.
One can be considered an asshole while not being an asshole by many people's standard though. Anyone could find an issue with your behavior. Ethics and morality are not so clear cut. Plus, if behavior is an issue, one needs to specify that behavior, labels (such as "asshole") are extremely inadequate.
Five Rosaries and seventeen TPS reports filed in triplicate.
Clickbait doesn't mean non-factual.
I guess you could argue back in 1776 AI and aluminum had a roughly equal impact, only for aluminum to over take AI and become far more important by the early 20th century…

Pedantic sarcasm of course.
No one is going to pay for it anyway, because its..... ALREADY OPEN SOURCE! Why spend 20B when you already have the source!

If the distribution point changes, its no longer popular.

And then what, would google be sued again if they start linking to Chromium's website (after spicing it up - to be more consumer friendly)

It makes literally no sense that a company be punished for internal growth. The FTC/DOJ needs to go after acquisitions that cause unfair advantages, not software that the company created themselves.

I mean can they be a little more creative and go after Google for interviewing THOUSANDS of companies pretending they are interested in an acquisition, and instead just find out all their secrets and then cause them to fold?
I like being in the office when everyone else is wfh. When everyone is in the office I can't focus, am stressed, little gets done.
I "retired." Still go to some events that are particularly interesting, usually in areas that I enjoy spending some extra time--though I did my best when I had a wage. Doing some of what I used to do anyway but on my own terms. I realize doing that is somewhat privileged but it works for me.
You're negating the value and requirement of economic laddering. You can't just jump from nascent AI to hyper useful AI / AGI, without going through all the steps from A to Z. Those steps are certain to be filled with failed experiments, 'wastefulness' (which isn't actually all wastefulness; for the process to be all waste, we'd all have to be omnipotent gods that knew better each step of the way).

It'd be like pretending you could jump straight to fusion (or advanced solar et al) and never have bothered with fossil fuels. Truly economically and technologically impossible.
Probably we will just burn the world with the free energy.
You're trying to make a wiki? There at slots of open source wikis on github and elsewhere, find one that works for you.
Who cares? If it brings benefits to the people who paid for the service, duh!
"no really" is about right. even if you have managed to produce sustainable fusion with a good bit of output energy (a very big if), you still have the problem of producing useable electricity from it, which as I understand it is one of the things that ITER was supposed to prototype.
I think a major change in leadership would be the first step.
It does ring true and I am not sure I can refute it ( management wants easily replaceable cogs for the machine ). But my overall thought is that humans are a lot of things, but among those things they are also horrible biological machines if seen only through that prism. Our whole value to the system is that we can adjust to the unknown.

Still, maybe more importantly, we are not all even the same cogs, but management tries to lazily put us in the same category. I am not sure we can even really call it management. That is actually a mismanagement of human resources..

I think I mentioned this pet theory before here, but it is no longer 1950, but the management has not evolved since that period in US. Maybe it is time to force that evolution.
> It’s been getting closer for what, two decades now?

No reason for pointless cynicism, this is also against the guidelines. Fusion power is like childbirth - yelling at 9 months that it has been 9 months, and is therefore never arriving, would be delusional.
Sanctions against Apartheid South Africa ended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during...

Sanctions on Iran were relaxed in exchange for partial cooperation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_agains...
Even still,in this analogy, the rationale for why they chose not to murder wouldn't really speak to their intent in relation to other crimes.

Like if someone assualted someone but did not murder them because a friend asked them not to, we treat that exactly the same as if they assualted them but stopped before murdering because they thought murder was wrong.
since the late 1950s
Being technically wrong and unproductive during a technical argument should not warrant being insulted.

But It would surely suffice to prevent a demand for a public apology from the exasperated party who was on the right side of the argument ; or at least not before the insulted party having issued an apology for being wrong and uncooperative in the first place.

When CoC have the effect of punishing volunteer work for not being nice/polite/SFW during an argument, regardless of who was technically right, this is putting form over substance.

This is a stance that seems balanced toward corporate friendliness.
But I believe that the kernel benefits more from being a community/volunteer oriented project than pandering to corporate culture of niceness over anything else.

Losing BcacheFS over this would be a shame.
> people who have no sense of boundaries, and will gladly invade your personal space and interrupt your train of thought at any time for any reason

You gotta game the system and learn some basic acting skills. Twitch your face. Pause just a little too long before responding. Get up in the middle of a sentence to stare out the window and just stop talking, forcing the other party to ask you to continue. Laugh obnoxiously loud at your own jokes. Stall, delay, confuse, whatever you do: make the experience not worth repeating for the offender.

Get bipolar: be the very best person you can be on Slack. But be a complete hebephrenic bug eyed lunatic when someone interrupts you IRL.
Fusion power has been getting closer — no really — for a long time.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’ll be ecstatic when / if it arrives, especially if it does so with sufficient lead time to be relevant within my lifetime, but no number of “we’ve halved the distance to the wall again” articles will get me excited (or us there).
Sure, one of the effect of CoCs is that it can be easier to get rid of an assohole who, even if he is productive, can have a negative impact (not a judgment about the case at hand wrt. Kent Overstreet).

But there are so many other effects that it is still unclear to me wether, at the end of the day, CoCs attract or detter coders from joining / staying with a project.

I've often found myself fighting the macho/childish/exclusive culture around tech, yet the reliance of formal CoCs to police our attitude have made me feel uncomfortable. I guess I'm not the only one.
We spend absurd amounts of resources on novelties and other completely unnecessary industries.

I’m currently writing this from an airplane on my way to an international vacation. I would be surprised if my entire lifetime future use of AI comes anywhere close to the energy needed to do this novelty trip, with all of the unnecessary things involved.
Steam.

The actual problem is reaction vessel wall ablation.
The surprise for me is that the industrial and academic leaders, with the exception of Yann LeCun, have been saying loudly and constantly "this is bad and we don't know how to make it not bad" and "it has the potential to kill us all" and "optimising anything too hard without concern for literally all of your other values will break those other things you value", and yet a big part of the response has been people saying "pshaw, you're just saying that to sound cool"…

…and the messages that are actually getting to people are data centre resource usage, copyright, and cheating in exams.
> lose, and be no worse off that without the suit

This kid should change his name, given his initials, high school and parents’ names are public record next to a four brain cell cheating attempt.
Yes, brokerages do this with your cash sweep funds, but they always name actual partner banks. I believe the issue here is those banks moved the funds into non-banks
I wouldn’t say it’s friendly, but that’s not really the point. The commenter was saying smart people didn’t work there which is really hard to say when talking about the AI groups. I would say you can get a lot done if you’re not in a few particularly slow moving heavily layered orgs. They’re also pushing hard to flatten as they should
Probably? Oh ye of little faith.
> The parents' case hangs largely on the student handbook's lack of a specific statement about AI, even though that same handbook bans unauthorized use of technology. "They told us our son cheated on a paper, which is not what happened," Jennifer Harris told WCVB last month. "They basically punished him for a rule that doesn't exist."

I'm going out on a limb here, but if this is the viewpoint of the people who raised him, then I'm not surprised he cheated.

If this was my son and the facts were the same, he'd be grounded in addition to whatever consequence the school deems fit.
Linux is officially dead. This nonsense should not happen. Now users will suffer from bugs, because of some CoC nonsense.
Angular v19
You can have a separation of spaces within your home. I have a home office. The only time I go in there when I'm not working is if I left something there (and it's really nice that "swinging by the office to grab my earbuds" doesn't involve a commute).

As a result, I just don't think of that room as part of my home. I'm never tempted to go in there and use that room for something else. For the most part, it's as if that room only exists during the workday.
Well, we could always just set up solar panels and use it to capture output from the massive fusion reaction 8.5 light minutes away from us. Does that count as a successful utilization of fusion?
I hear echos of my friends' stories in that kid. The author exhibits a pattern of somebody doubling down on a wrong idea in the face of increasing attempts to correct them. Eventually it devolves into conspiratorial thinking that writes off everybody else that disagrees with them. In a weird way the author is unconsciously lucid about their own problem.
Perhaps you're right. English isn't my native language - thanks for explaining.
Do you think college admissions officers follow the news and use what they learn to maintain a naughty list?

Perhaps a business idea?
Even if that was literally done, it would still be a better home than Mars :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GjOuqAlFEk#t=6m45s

(not trying to make any kind of point, just a fun fact / video)
As a "westerner" you will need a Russian residence permit I think to trade. I at least would not know how you can actually buy something in MOEX as someone based in Europe.
I probably saved more than I had to do and probably shouldn't be as (relatively) frugal as I am. COVID definitely pushed out a significantly earlier (semi-)retirement.
Comparing the very optimistic deadline given by Commonwealth Fusion, concerning a prototype that has not even began construction versus the latest postponing of the first firing of ITER is kind of meaningless.

As underlined in the article, ITER is already 9 years behind schedule. Not because they're incompetent or underfunded, but because fusion is hard. I don't expect a private company with much less funding to do any better.

That said, I'd like to be wrong and see one of these companies crack commercial fusion in their basement.
Yeah, my bad :)
> Does that count as a successful utilization of fusion?

In the way a fire is a steam engine.
Weird analogy but to work with it: if someone has been shouting that they're about to give birth any moment now since the 1950s, forgive me for being a bit skeptical when they say "but no really I mean it this time".
It works fine for tech and most white collar jobs. You can indeed vote with your feet unless you make very poor financial decisions (or have too high of needs) for most of these careers.
imagine if fusion research could consistently get 1% of the pentagon's accounting hole.
> I am starting to wonder if the management wants to ensure people in general do not make that connection ( and just want to have, ideally, serfs barely making ends meet)

Why do you think healthcare is tied to employment in the US?

Why do you think minimum wage in the US has not gone up in decades?

Why do you think 2 weeks leave is normal in the US?

Why don’t more Americans travel overseas?

At this point you have to be willfully ignorant not to make the connection.
> lose, and be no worse off that without the suit

If I were in college admissions then I'd probably think twice about admitting the candidate with a widely reported history of trying to sue their school on frivolous grounds when things don't go their way.
Very true. The 1958 Atoms for Peace conference prominently featured big fusion exhibits expecting breakthroughs soon.
> [citation needed]

IMHO
lovely, we only need warp drive now :)
It's odd to me that people think the value in excess wealth is just living on a beach somewhere.

The value in excess wealth is what you can do with it. You can find a person in need and hand them a thousand dollars for fun. You can fund some program your town needs. You can build a "third space" for your community. There's so much you can do with wealth that isn't just hoarding it!

Personally, my goal is to have enough money to buy a giant mansion on the edge of some town and be the weird rich lady you can go to with your problems. If I get richer than that, great! It'll be a bigger mansion and a bigger town. But if you gave me a billion dollars tomorrow, I'd just use it to be a bigger weird rich lady you can go to with your problems.
It depends whether you're compiling in 32-bit or 64-bit mode, MSVC has two different modes and there are different versions of MinGW for 32-bit and 64-bit
> It’s been getting closer for what, two decades now?

This is low effort. Are you arguing we haven’t made material progress in the last twenty years?

Material science advances in magnets alone should raise your curiosity to not have to wait for a packaged consumer product to notice advancement.
i am just trying to imitate wikipedia's design like how their content and images are aligned. I am not trying to make a wiki specifically
The Economist as scientific harbinger of the fuuuuture!

Even if good net-energy happens, even if they solve neutron flux irradiating the reactor vessel, even if they can sustain power generation for commercial periods, if they can safely operate the superhot plasma

... it comes down to, ECONOMIST, the cost. As someone that hammers fission power for being currently infeasibly expensive, fusion has a long road to economic viability. I suppose the public will at least not NIMBY it to the same degree as a fission reactor
Why didn't they block his access to the mailing list instead?

It's not his code that people felt hurt by, was it?
Steve Mould of Youtube fame did this:

Why all solar panels are secretly LEDs (and all LEDs are secretly solar panels) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WGKz2sUa0w
Here are some of the case documents:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69190839/harris-v-adams...
fusion is the ultimate clean energy source. we shouldn't give up on it just because it's a difficult problem
Yeah, whatever - most of us like a president who does not believe climate change is real and thus this topic does not need to be addressed. Drill, baby, drill!

:'(
That sounds insane to me. Again, I had a long commute by bike. Could have easily shed most of it by getting a car. Would have to shift off rush hour, but that isn't too hard to do?

Would love to see more data on this. Quick googling shows average commutes well below an hour. I'm assuming average is just not a good stat for this?
It's also a net negative to be burdened by incompetent coders with unjustified confidence and a mistaken sense of their own abilities, however polite they might be.
looks like that article didn't read this article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42221756
Have people wondered about a possibility of an advanced life form hiding inside a star? It doesn't seem easy, but there'd be an abundance of energy, and the less advanced life forms are unlikely to interfere.
Trumpism has no culture. That's not shade. It just doesn't have any culture, any more than the Goldwater right or Nixon's "silent majority" were ever a cultural force. That Bluesky will be the center of cultural gravity online and be where people on the left migrate toward is just observationally true. Smarter people can speculate why that is.
Another recent discussion (fewer comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42201302

Also FWIW, I use OpenBSD as my daily driver, and I like it especially due to the security (I separate user-level activities, including net browsing, by account), and have not had the crashing or filesystem issues, fortunately. Her points are probably valid though, as my demands of the system are less than hers.
I forgot about the incident at Lukhovitsy - that was w/o passengers.
2019/2021 incidents are completely out of scope of "recent years".
Yeah that’s fair, I didn’t do any research on behalf of the author, and they didn’t cite any sources.

I do think that there a lot of baby boomers hanging out in the workforce still, Covid just pushed the RIP (retired in place) people over the edge.

Reflecting on my place of employment though, I can only come up with a handful of people planning to retire in the next year.

We also fired a lot of them recently, so there’s that.