skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Belsat's article[1] is a bit more detailed and I found this fragment interesting:

>According to Andrei Kramarenko, a leading expert at the Institute of Transport Economics of the Higher School of Economics, passenger traffic in Russia has almost stopped growing due to insufficient supply. In September, Russia's Ministry of Transport revised its annual forecast to last year's level of 103 million passengers carried by aircraft.

>Seat occupancy on Russian passenger planes this summer reached 93-95 percent. The expert believes that the situation will fail to improve next year, which may prompt airlines to simultaneously reduce average annual flight times and maximize redistribution of their share of seat supply toward the summer when effective demand and ticket margins are several times higher.

So basically it seems that their airlines are stretched thin.

[1] - https://en.belsat.eu/83600150/russia-half-of-airbus-a320-and...
Reducing the amount of car trips, is how bike lanes improve safety. Even if nothing else convinces you.

If efficiency isn't relevant for you then I don't know what to tell you. Transporting more people, getting them where they need to go at low cost to the person and to society is something most people think is a good thing.

There are not tradeoff, research is pretty clear, improving in biking improves the situation for drivers as well. And the claim that 'people are not willing' is simply because, people are misinformed.

To claim Poland is to hot for biking is freaking ridiculous, its equally ridiculous to claim its to cold. Biking is much more common in places Finland and in the Nordics. And in some places in Switzerland. Poland is mostly flat. Netherlands are also flat and rainy. In places where Poland has improve their bike infrastructure, they have seen adoption. Poland in literally every way is like other nations, so get out of here with your Polish exceptionalism.

Not all post-communist nations are de-urbanizing. Superannuation is a direct result of policy not some 'cultural will'. Infrastructure and policy is deterministic to a far, far greater degree them 'cultural memory'.

Demographics are why you can't have bike lanes? Now you are just flat out ridiculous.

Poland growing economically and many people are moving to Poland, including many poles who left. And in regards to drivers, that an equally crazy claim. Driving a vehicle is not some intellectual job that only a brilliant physicists can do. And the claim that the city can't afford it is equally wrong, much, much poorer society then Poland have managed to run a bus system. Are you fully pricing the roads and the parking? If not then that's how you can get some money, and improve the system.
People who write about this stuff refuse to believe how much energy an oil refinery or a chlorine factory consumes. But not one single journalist in the history of America has ever written a flashy headline like "Chloralkali process consumes more energy than thirty entire states" even though that headline would be completely accurate.
Don't worry, the Russian rail network is in a worse state - https://www.newsweek.com/russian-railway-collapse-sanctions-...
https://archive.md/Bn3Dz
Do you consider $450k a lot for a house? That would hardly get you a shack in the Boston area.
It's also hints at the much larger maintenance problem that Russia has.
At least you have a much better chance to (live to) eventually retire. I am glad to see this kind of change is not just possible, but really happening.
Being able to jump into a zoom call with everyone immediately outweighs trying to book a room or walking over to someone's desk. I can easily waste more time and look like I am working in the office where at home it's hard to coverup nothing has been done.

There has been some bad faith over hiring and then forcing rto to avoid termination payouts. We see Musk plans to do the same even moving government offices to states like Wyoming.

Most companies are not bad faith actors just copying others.
That’s an extremely broad statement. Biology, physics, architecture and history are pretty different professional cultures.
I don’t understand - do you think it’s the government’s role to step in and mandate remote work?
I agree, and I've argued vocally against RTO from my privileged position because I have that value that makes me hard to replace.

I just want to make sure that we're not forgetting the people who weren't able to become high-level ML engineers for various social and economic reasons and are locked into 10 hour hard days in person.
TikTok CEO Seeks Musk's Counsel on Incoming Trump Administration
https://archive.is/yLYGv
AI will account for 99% of global energy consumption. Solve for equilibrium.
Discussed before the ruling:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41861818
Was introduced to Dostoyevsky by my girlfriend in high school. Read Crime and Punishment and was enraptured by it. Happy memories
Totally agree on the RTO forced memes. I recently participated remotely in a mostly-in-person team summit that went great. At the end of the session, Big Boss gave a rousing pep talk about how much this proved the value of in-person collaboration and my heart sank. Was that the whole point of this session, and not the technical solutions we spun? I was literally right there on the projector meeting room, and had obviously weighed in as much as anyone else. I’d been feeling hopeful because $EMPLOYER has been encouraging about the prospects of sustained remote work there, but they also own a lot of business property and I know they are going to follow suit with the others.
That’s a fair point, but it’s also not a complex class, and could be extended to be compatible, such that swapping out for stdlib is a single import statement.

For larger or more complex problems, especially those that don’t have an RFC behind them, I can definitely see the unwillingness to do so.
> What's striking to me is that the parents sued

And the kid was even offered a redo!

On the other hand, the school caved on National Honor Society after the parents filed. So maybe the best move would have been (tactically, not as a parent) to show the school the draft complaint but never file it.
It's usually in the fine print of their website, something like "insolvency.io is not a bank, your funds are handled by <some bank you've never heard of>".
Well crap happens :)

There are many issues that can cause problems, I have seen worse things happen at work over the decades. In this case, I fully believe it is a one-off occurrence.

On my other Laptop, and old T420 with only OpenBSD, I never had a panic or lost files. Even after moving to 7.6.

But was saying, I can see her point when your professional livelihood depends upon what system you use.
I haven't heard of any accidents in civilian air traffic in Russia in last few years. Of course you're free to make your choices.
Anyway, don't overestimate the issue: 2.5% of the fleet seems to be grounded right now.
They sold you on the college campus? I guess it is working.
I'm in the Atlanta area, so that's mid to high for a smallish house, yeah. Or at least it was. Prices have short through the stratosphere recently.

There are tiny little condos being built next to my office in northeast ATL that are going for a STARTING rate of over a million.
Sounds like wishful thinking to me.
Fidelity’s brokerage business would be covered by SIPC, which would include its cash management accounts. They also likely sweep cash out to FDIC-insured accounts. More importantly though, Fidelity is large enough that you’re unlikely to need that insurance, and that’s really how I’d prefer to approach this.

Yeah we can look at 2008 and say no institution is safe, but if there’s risk everywhere, I’ve just got to try and minimize that as best I can. Fidelity didn’t give me any sort of scare that year fwiw. Disclosure: I’ve been using Fidelity for basically all of my money for most of my career now, including cash management.
> Phlogiston is such a great bit of the history of "science".

Based on a quick read on wikipedia, Phlogiston goes well with darkons and holes.
It's Time to Make Software Accessible
Great to see sanctions working. Withdraw from Ukraine and sanctions end.
PS. Kudos also to their install system, which rocked! (rocks?)
How many plants did they built?

And aluminum has more benefits than these AIs.

It’s even disputable if the really raise efficiency of people.
Not sure what the timeline on that is, but the University of Washington had housing specifically for PhD students with families in the 60s/70s IIRC
When I graduated college, the drive from Santa Cruz to 85 and Shoreline was about 35min at 730am. These days that is 90-120 minutes at that same time (think google/microsoft campuses). Many can’t afford to live close to those areas any more.
Yes. I also have a "random blog post" button which I like to hit from time to time. It's nice to see where I was years ago and what was going on in my life back then. (my blog spans more than 20 years by now)
I suggest reading the whole mail thread before judging.
The CoC decision was the last resort.
Jay Z had a section in decoded where he talked about how his needs as a young man getting into drug dealing quickly and seamlessly switched from food to new clothes to a Lexus - how what started as something he needed to do because they needed money for food became a pursuit of wealth and status almost without him noticing. I don't know your financial or family situation, so don't take this as a critique of you personally, but I think that happens to a lot of people - we don't recognize when the things we're treating as our material needs have moved well beyond where we'd consider trading off for things like meaningful work or a life aligned with our personal values.
It's truly awe inspiring to know how inconceivably huge and far away the Sun is, yet it we can feel it's warmth, admire how it's light touches everything we see, and how it's responsible for all life on Earth. I love our star :)
Examples – G6 – Graph Visualization Engine
Computer scientists advance in their careers by writing papers, software developers do by writing programs. Some CS grad students and profs are genius programmers, but mostly CS researchers write a program that at best lacks the polish of a real product and at worst almost works.

When I was in physics grad school I had a job writing Java applets for education and did a successful demo of two applications at an CS conference in Syracuse and was congratulated for by bravery. I was not so brave, I expected these programs to work every time for people who came to our web site. (Geoff Fox, organizer of the conference, did an unsuccessful demo where two Eastern European twins tried to make an SGI supercomputer show some graphics and said “never buy a gigabyte of cheap RAM!”)
And from the same people who download 5gb 4k versions of The Simpsons will come even more climate control bs.
Argh, right in the monads!
Right but then they have to litigate every new fancy attempt to dodge the rules individually, and they don't have the staff or the funding for that.

The Supreme Court has, for decades, been carving down regulatory powers to only exactly cover explicit, specific, literal interpretations of confessional law, so now we get thousands of potential cases that amount to "Stop touching the customer's money" "I'm not touching it, the atoms in my hand are getting close enough to the money to affect it with atomic forces, but nothing can be truly described as touching anything, if you think about it."

Solid fundamental rules don't work if the Court takes every possible chance to redefine every single term to make them not apply.
Show HN: EnvCloak: lightweight, env file encryption – ready for CICD pipelines
When someone here told me to focus on something more useful than reinventing the wheel. So. EnvCloak, a lightweight and simple tool for securely managing sensitive environment files. The design focuses on simplicity - just a few intuitive commands using the Click Python library. I assume seamless integration with CI/CD workflows.

The aim is to provide a streamlined solution without the need for clunky tools. If you're tired of complex configurations or bloated alternatives, this might be worth a look!

I would appreciate any feedback, feature ideas or input on how to improve this solution. I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Regards!
Low income people exist by either living with family or commuting insane distances from lower cost areas. I've met quite a few people who would commute from Tracy or Stockton to SF/Mountain View to work as janitors or food service workers at tech offices. It's brutal, especially when they're expected to show up in time to serve breakfast or open the doors.
I'm not saying accept it. I am a vocal critic of the RTO policy at my work and have been for years.

But keeping context and perspective is important. Even in your example, it would do the security guard some good to take a moment and be grateful that he does have that minimum wage job and a place to stay.

It's not meant to encourage you to settle and get screwed over. It's meant to remind you of what you have and often those things should drive you to fight harder for other people and yourself.
This is kinda meaningless without knowing how much data goes through a given data center, and ultimately how many people-hours it ends up serving. A data center is just a concentrated processing center for many people's computing needs, so of course it's going to use a lot of power. If you removed the centralized data center and spread it out all over the world, that same amount of computing will be even less efficient, and use even more power, especially accounting for heating and cooling.

If the argument is that AI training is wasteful, well, yes it is, but it's also valuable enough that many people and billions of dollars want to keep doing it. And if they bring back enough nuclear, power won't really be an issue anyway. But whether it's concentrated in a data center, and whether a particular data center may end up using more energy than some random city, is completely irrelevant and really misleading as an absolute number instead of a ratio of energy consumption divided by usage.
Mercedes spends $8bn/year on R&D
They're not optimizing for the kid's education. They optimizing for the credentials the kid is able to get.

Filing the lawsuit is an asymmetric bet:

- win, and increase college admissions odds

- lose, and be no worse off that without the suit
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt discusses DOJ move to have Google sell off Chrome
Good code is not written in a democratic way. Seems like Hocko was wearing Kent down with his arguments on what was a very bad idea in the first place.

I agree the last sentence by Kent was not needed, but I can totally understand his frustration.

I think it’s a loss for the users at the end on the day.
I love your comment on this. Perfection.

Once, while traveling in an RV for some work related marketing thing, the discussion turned to the lack of fuel economy...

The RV might perform better if the engine powered the RV by blowing fuel right out the tail pipe. Horrible efficiency, terrible for the planet, and, and all the negatives packed right into a quick expression.

Your comment is on point. Solid and I just felt like sharing my appreciation for the morbid fun it contains.

Nice work. Worth a healthy chuckle. Thanks.
Those charts that show remaining time you’ll be around someone at a given age are sobering.

Even if you live 30 years after your kids are out of the house, odds are only something like 5-10% of your total time with them will be in that 30 years.

Similar figures for your own parents and grandparents. Those hours with them are few, especially at ages when they can still do much.
Are you willing to discuss how MSFT compensated you for on call.
I have no sympathy. America has made it so easy to convert hard work into a better job. Nowhere else on earth has it even close to this easy to literally pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

Security guards are usually security guards because they want to be (most require a concealed carry license). I do not care if they think they are underpaid. They can always snap and go murder half the building. Id rather we didn’t even have a security guard, since the tweaker whod try to come into our building to do drugs is almost certainly not going to literally shoot the place up because overpaid tech workers were talking about not like RTO…
Is anyone aware of a study between political affiliation and RTO views? I feel like it's become just yet another political/social echo chamber warfare topic and I wouldn't be surprised if there's a huge correlation between political ideology and RTO opinion.
> usually because they don't trust workers not to abuse remote work

So, it is about wanting to assert control. Because they think "abusing" remote work is when workers have more control of their circumstances and don't have to break their backs or brains for their salary.
This would just mean that people living farther away would have a harder time finding jobs, or negotiating salary/promotions, because they are more expensive for their employer. Yes you could have laws making it illegal to discriminate based on commute distance, but you know that employers would find other pretexts.
How did you get to the point of turning it down before finding out about the in person days?
Only in some cases. Often public transport at commuting hours is too crowded to practically do so, or is a bus rather than a train so that many people would get travel sick if they tried to read.
I personally see WFH as a way to improve working conditions in general. Just because some jobs really need to be done in person does not automatically mean all of them should be. Similarly, not all should be RTO. As such, it is valid to point out ( and even complain ) that trying to apply 'one size fits all' RTO solution is silly at best.

And just a point of perspective, it was only recently 40h a week ( 1940 ) and child labor (1938) was not considered some sort of communist plot intended to overthrow capitalism.
In particular, how well does it work in sunlight / outdoors?
The single-occupant driving commute is the most common way to get to work in the US, by far. [1] That’s just miserable: it’s stressful, lonely, expensive, prone to risks like car problems. I feel like we can do better, even incrementally. Why isn’t slugging [2] more common, for instance?

[1] https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/acsbr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slugging
Many people overlook a key benefit of remote work: the ability to live in cities where good companies don't have offices. E.g, living in Montpellier while working for a company based in Paris (700 km away), living in Düsseldorf while working for a company headquartered in Munich (600 km away), or living in Seville while working for a company in Barcelona (900 km away).

I'm not talking about global hiring (something many people don't like because salaries tend to go down), but companies allowing remote work within the same country. This, imo, is the greatest advantage of remote work
I arrived at this conclusion too after 3 years of smart working, it's unreasonable to have today an obliged/implicit sacrifice of time and money that's commuting to the work place.
I think, especially in the case of an oil factory, people expect it to be awful for the planet.

AI is interesting because it isn't expected to be bad for the planet. Or at least was, I think we have all read these articles a lot now.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42221564
> SQLite also always had a null type, surely?

In 'stringly typed' languages, the natural value of NULL is the empty string.

SQLite currently distinguishes between "" and NULL, and I don't know if this was always the case. But it's quite possible that SQLite 1 and 2 conflated the empty string and NULL.
This is a free correction for over hiring force someone to pull the kids out of school and move across the country or lose severance.
The Russian Ruble is also starting to do very bad again:

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=RUB&view=5Y
In legal cases that is how one can choose to remain anonymous.

See, there's stuff even geniuses dont know.
>There's a reason why they closed off their stock market
That's a completely false information. The stock market isn't closed.
> how we all must sound to the janitors, security guards, baristas, etc, who can't ever work from home.

Absolute bollocks. This is the Elon Musk screed and it's baseless. Do you think fast food workers gripe and moan when extremely well paid pilots or nurses go on strike?

Every worker wants every other worker to succeed over management.
Marshall Brain has passed away
I heard a financial planner say once that many of his clients don't know how to retire. My Dad worked until he was ninety making money he will never spend. If you enjoy your job and have control over your time and projects, you may also want to keep working.

Retirement sounds very appealing when you aren't spending enough time with your friends and family, or when you aren't getting enough relaxation. But there will come a time when your kids won't really want to spend that much time with you. And a hobby you spend all your time on could become an unpaid job.

There will be times in your life when you have to be all in on your job. But when its not those times, try to have a balanced life now.
Asking whether the job requires in person presence is usually among the first questions to ask in an interview (e.g., the screening part)
Is a ~95% seat occupancy considered bad...?
Surrendering because 2.5% of the fleet may be not working sounds reasonable to me!
we have to accelerate to the point where nuclear energy is abundant and cheap! what is this "limited resource"? energymaxx or end up like germany.
I've been an on and off contributor of FLOSS software for a long time. Sometimes I sent some unfinished patches and got responses like ' I don't think you know what you're doing' and 'turn on brain'.

At the time I considered those developers were right and didn't complain. It made more careful before sending patches and commenting. But it also affected my willing to contribute with the project. I also consider that, although those devs were right, they could have expressed themselves more cordially. I don't think being that rude improves anything.

I do support the CoC committee decision and hope more projects had one.
Good point. Worth noting that the Russian newspaper reporting this, Kommersant, is the most liberal/independent of the three business dailies in the country and is sort of the Babylon Bee of Russia, if the BB wasn’t satire: it spells its name with pre-Revolution Cyrillic and uses creative neologisms, wordplay, metaphors, and legally imposed euphemisms in its stories to maintain a degree of independence in periods of severe state censorship
A data center is also easier to place near a source of renewable/non emitting power generation. Harder to move entire cities around.
To give some context, Overstreet insulted another maintainer in an LKML email and despite being asked to do so by the CoC committee has yet to issue an actual apology and mostly seems to be digging his heels.

Reading the LWN comments where he interacts, he seems very very tired so a mandatory vacation might not be the worst thing. He doesn’t seem like a bad person but some time off is probably more than overdue.

It’s nice to see the CoC committee starting to act.
A lot of people bullied the ever hell out of the current ML engineers today. A lot of those bullies are only just now experiencing the economic effects of their actions from 10-30 years ago.

Kids knew which kids they’d have to clean to the house of 20 years in the future and they intuitively want to knock those elite kids down a peg while they still can.

Never forget the extreme resentment that those around nerds have for a nerds mind. When this country stops treating nerds like shit and celebrating anti-intellectualism, I’ll start being worried about the plight of the lowly security guard.
Weren’t lots of those planes leased from an Irish company, and now effectively stolen property?