skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you notice that all your WFH are actually the good employees, and the in-office end up being lack luster sycophants that you do not want to promote. From the POV of executive this is a nightmare.

I have WFH a lot and never really had any issues with it and generally preferred it over commuting. But I did miss the in-office connection. Having taken a 100% remote leadership role, it hit me why all these executives are freaking out and mandating RTO. If your job is to communicate in the course of creating and changing processes to drive the company forward, then your job is easily twice as hard when everyone is remote.
Sprinkle in a handful of offshore teams and...

No one ever gets on camera. I and other leaders set an example and get on camera for every meeting, but most employees and contractors do not follow suit. So, I lose any body language communication from them, and if they can see mine, I don't get the feedback from that since I can't see them. Very subtle loss of information but it adds up to be huge. You end up having to pull everything out of ICs to get them to engage. It is fucking exhausting. Not only that, when you multiply this across the organization it obviously compounds and can spiral into a lot of uncertainty.

Additionally, you are in meetings constantly where you are fixed in position in front of your station. For those of us on camera it seems to take a lot more energy than being in person, like you have to stage yourself since you can always see your image and you are subconsciously paying attention to it and adjusting. Contrasted with being in a meeting where you are in the room with nearly everyone at once where a matrix of (again) body language is constantly feeding information to everyone. All of that is lost. Even if we are all on camera I cannot focus on every tile and we certainly not making adhoc one-on-one body language connections as the meeting progresses.

To the average employee, they don't care about losing all that if they can skip the commute and spend more time with their family. I totally get it, but for leadership it is soul crushing.
This article is from the school's PR dept
Unfortunately so much information is spread through half-remembered tweets of quotes from screenshots of tumblr posts, a lot of people will never see the original story to begin with. Sometimes I feel like I have to pull people's teeth to get straight talk and links out of people making serious accusations instead of indirect references.
> I am sure is not a fundamental but is the reality for the currently available chipsets.

It is pretty fundamental. Ant has an inverted master/slave (or whatever we're calling it nowdays) relationship. In Ant, the sensor determines the timing, and can broadcast to many receivers. In Bluetooth, the central device (phone) determines the timing, and each sensor connects to one central with a one-to-one connection.

There are ways around this limitation of BLE:

1. A few bytes of data can be stuffed in BLE advertising, so the sensor can communicate without a connection in the Ant style. To my knowledge, none of the Ant+-replacing profiles support this.

2. The sensor can basically run multiple instances of bluetooth stack at the same time to connect to multiple central devices. This basically doubles the resource usage, and good luck determining if your sensor supports this without trying it.

#2 appears to be the path forward. A few sensors support it already, and the next generation of radio SOCs will make the resource requirements less onerous.
It's a small portion because pasta isn't a meal, it's a kind of starter dish before the main meal.
Yea, I’ve worked with folks in management who are just laser focused on the idea that offering leadership or management positions as a carrot to good developers is appealing. For some it is, but most of the time I find people just want to work on interesting problems and be appreciated for it.
I asked Johnathan McDowell, who tracks space objects alongside his main job working on Chandra. He's much less convinced it's from a rocket.

https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3leq2wb...

There's not any great candidates.
I love that I can workout on my lunch while wfh and not be peer pressured to sit at some overpriced mediocre cafe with coworkers like in the office. Also not having all the constant office junk food and sweets in my face is awesome.
When you liked the role of Senior Software Engineer, was the situation that you could trust that others in the company were doing a good job of covering the responsibilities outside your scope?

Or was it because the scope was nice, and you didn't much care what happened outside the scope?

(Both are valid ways that people look at jobs, at different times, and in different situations. Just interested in anecdata and insights into how I should think about hiring.)
I live in the fastest growing area of the fastest growing big city in the county. Traffic is the only reason I refuse to go back to an office. It can take 45 minutes to reach the freeway 5 miles from the house and then most of the mega corps are 45-60 miles from this location.
> Probably if they were actually going to do much of that

I guess I’m struggling to imagine the utility of those cameras for tracing abortion-provider visitors and illegal immigrants versus all the other federal surveillance infrastructure.
Yeah this was a plot point in Deus Ex 2, where there were kiosks where you could chat with an AI copy of a pop idol called NG Resonance[1]. Long story short, the entire point of the kiosks were to spy on people.

That game series had an alarming knack for being prescient.

[1] https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/NG_Resonance
The more important question is: how much is the pay raise from Senior -> Staff. For even the companies that pay generously, like Facebook, the median pay increases by about $150k in the US. If you look at companies like Dell, levels.fyi reports that the increase is barely $15k (https://www.levels.fyi/companies/dell-technologies/salaries/...)

Now if I were to choose, getting paid 15k less and stay remote in a LCOL area vs get that pay raise to live in a presumably more expensive city to RTO, it’s a no brainer. Even if I live in a HCOL area and I don’t go to the office, it is still a win. I live in the Bay Area, relatively close to the office and just commuting to the office, if I use public transportation, is about $300/month ($3600/year). If I drive, pay for parking, bridge tolls, and pay for lunch, I suddenly start spending $2000/month to RTO ($8 toll, $16 lunch and $25 parking 5 days a week). I’d need almost $40-50k pre tax raise to break even, which most companies refuse to give. And that is on top of time I waste commuting and the added work responsibilities I now have to take on.

The incentives to RTO are really not there.
I mean it's from the University of Alabama news site, hyping a University of Alabama lab. I'd assume it's serving a marketing/"school spirit" sorta purpose as well as sharing the news.
The left was never against vaccines. If you look at the states and their policies, the anti-vax policies are all Republican

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/political-party-affiliat...
Animated component library built on top of shadcn
Actual paper (paywalled): https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsapm.4c01525
While the data you cite is correct, this seems to include the entire working population. I'd be willing to bet that the average office worker has a much longer commute than the average worker.

For example, I suspect the average waiter or retail working isn't going to favor a far away location over something close to them. They all probably offer similar compensation and work environments. However, a white collar worker is more likely to take a faraway job if it pays well.
> We have used the vtable trick many times in satellite software operations, whenever we had to "quickly patch" this or that function

Notably, many generations of broadcom wireless firmware uses a similar trick. The Chips are made with a ROM containing the firmware, but obviously the firmware has bugs that get shipped, and ROM's can't be changed. Instead, the hardware has a loadable table of 'patches', which allows pointers or code from ROM to be overridden to point to a [much smaller] RAM at runtime.

Effectively, this means you can tell your software team "We have 2 year to develop this chip, however after 6 months you have to have a 1st draft of all the code, and then you can use the last 18 months of the development cycle to patch up to 5% of that code to make a saleable product."

When linux wireless firmware needs loading, this table of patches is what you're loading in.
You think H1-Bs are bad? Trying being on an L1 :)
Sorry did I commit a hate crime by mis-gendering some sophisticated intelligent soul who didn't realize that mocking your employer in public will get you censored, or more likely fired?
> Liv, for instance, said that her creator team included zero Black people and was predominantly white and male.

There were definitely Chinese and Indian males too
This article is indirectly saying something critical about a certain someone with a wide following of non-digital and digital beings, so I wouldn't expect it to stay up very long.
What California can learn from the place that invented the initiative
Curious if there's anything built with Eliza outside of crypto twitter agents

Cool project either way!
South Korea slashes forest biomass energy subsidies in major policy reform
99% of humans who make content for Meta’s platforms receive no revenue from them. In fact, some of them actually pay the platforms for greater reach. Even without AI personas, Meta can surely have its cake and eat it too.
Well, that's the official story given by the police. According to the protest medics who treated the shooting victim on the scene, the cops took so much time getting ready to respond - and this was independently verified by a local journalist, using hospital intake records and police scanner timestamps - that the medics gave up on the ambulance and drove the man to the ER themselves. When the police finally showed up, they were in fact told to leave, but it was not out of some political objection to emergency services: they were simply far too late to be of any use to someone who was already in the hospital at that point.

(I live just up the street from the police station at the center of the whole thing, so I paid close attention to all this stuff while it was happening.)
The bad experience made me realize how easily the data I put out there can be used against me or nefariously. If you have daughters you may know about people making indecent photos or videos using their images. Someone in Eastern Europe actually made an AI app to undress people. What happens when if I share more personal details and the data is no longer considered mine?

Do I need to really elaborate on all the bad experiences people, women in particular, face? I thought these were well known by now.
That’s such a vague question as to feel either rhetorical or obvious. Can it be used for the stated purposes? Duh? Blatantly and obviously yes.

WILL it be used for such purposes? How could anyone here answer that? The fact it could be, and has very little useful other purposes should be enough to encourage everyone to ask for their removal.

“But amber alerts” - ok so we violate the privacy of every American for an event that rarely occurs and won’t be prevented by this technology?
When I think of the SWE career ladder from IC to management, this Mitch Hedberg quote comes to mind:

"When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, 'OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?'"
Publishing the name of a suspect should generally not be tolerated. Particularly in the case of mass shootings or general terrorism.

Unless the person is a politician or an active danger, no good comes from publishing their name. In the case they are guilty, you are giving notoriety which encourages copycats. In the case they are innocent, you've seriously harmed the reputation of an innocent person.

The only reason I'd make a carve out for politicians is because well connected politicians have a way of wiggling out of responsibility and electing someone that may spend the next two years behind bars is generally worse for the public they'd represent.
Hopefully it’s not the same people getting confused.
Setting aside the general question of Perplexity being an ad-supported service, I don't like that it's unclear exactly what the advertiser is sponsoring. Are they just paying for the suggested query to appear? Or do they also get a say in which sources the model uses to craft it's answer? Or even get to preview and approve the model's response?
> In the long run, a party can’t government with a sub-30% approval rating.

Labour won 3 terms in office and got elected repeatedly with Blair on similar rating:

https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/cf_images/2007...

And that's assuming these ratings last to the election and aren't a reflection on one thing, the budget. If the real economy improves then his approval rating will too.
Yes, it is necessary. They funded the research and deserve the credit.
Looks super cool. Congrats and best of luck!
"was" might be unfortunately too accurate.
I cannot think of a compelling reason why this would be beneficial.
Focus on your mental and physical health. Your relationships especially family. And work on things that challenge your mind, if nothing does currently that’s ok something will peak your interest again, no pressure, in the mean time work on being the healthiest you can physically, that has a way of making sure other things fall into place.
It was ANT+ for the profile and automatic selection of closest device.
There's a reason there are IC and manager tracks at most companies employing devs. You can keep refining your craft as an IC and become a Staff/Principal/Distinguished. No need to become a manager to get promotions, more money and/or more responsibility.
I'm enjoying being a manager. My team is pretty small, though, only 3, sometimes 4 other people. I still do a lot of programming, but I'm also mentoring--which I find very rewarding--and I have a meaningful voice in some decision making. Also, my boss trusts me, and encourages me to use his authority on occasion, too (a plan I've come to calling "weaponizing the org chart"). I don't think I could do that if I was "just" a senior developer.
> i’m extremely skeptical of people’s ability to view the economy from on high and pick out the “good, productive gdp” and the “bad, makework gdp”.

Maybe in general, but rent-seeking is a pretty large part of the economy by estimates I've seen.
When Elon cracked the whip in Twitter, everyone on H1B interviewed and eventually left. At the end, most people left at Twitter were US citizens and a few H1Bs. Yes they may not have the ability to just quit on a whim, but they certainly have the ability to quit. And that’s what people do.
Bro has friends in high places bro that's why there's no evidence

Does the victim have a name, or was that memory holed too?
I’m not sure I claimed simple phone number collection requirements is necessarily good policy or that it’s effective. I did not that other regimes have more draconian but more effective measure. I was explaining the provenance for such requirements - and that the base motivation is KYC. Being in the industry for a long time from small fintech to massive institutions I’ve never seen any place that’s intentionally harassing or being coercive - in fact the pressure is towards minimization of requirements and easing of onboarding / KYC as much as they can get away with. However this also turns into a farcical underinvestment in UX because management often believes by ignoring the function and turning the thumb screws on their KYC functions they can somehow make it better rather than worse - worse to the extent of appearing harassing and coercive, or worse to the extent of exposing legit users to fraud and hacking.

The issue though boils down to governments don’t want the financial infrastructure in their jurisdiction to allow unfettered crime. I’ve never seen a single government (granted I’ve never seen what happens in extremely oppressive regimes as we don’t generally do business there due to sanctions controls) who actively collects KYC outside of large transactions, the regulations exist to ensure a minimum baseline of KYC so the companies themselves can comply and reduce their own losses and instability as someone is often kiss liable in fraud and in money laundering or sanctions evasion some institution is subject to fines for facilitation.

But to be frank I think very little of what’s done is materially successful against most competent criminals and the consequences of being caught is usually just being blocked until they find a way around. To that end it’s a bit of not security theatre but compliance theatre. On the other hand it does act as a high pass filter as most fraud and financial crime is NOT competent. By and large retail finserv is a minimization effort not a prevention effort.

The regulations that are effective at prevention are usually so restrictive and so difficult to implement that they’re absurd for both the finserv to implement and for the participants to get through the hurdles.

I don’t know there’s any perfect solutions, and what exists is generally dumb, but the intentions are at the core well intended. It’s foolish tho to look at something as complex as financial infrastructure and wave it away as harassment and coercion rather than well intentioned incompetence.
> Every single terrible job experience is the result of a shitty power tripping manager.

Having been both employee and manager, it's hardly that one-sided. For example, having an employee coming in high is not the manager's fault.
Please do! I would love for you to do this.

Would you be so kind to ask

1. Do you think a tornado has real probability of forming in north-western Europe, where historically there has never been one before? And what do you think are the chances of it being destructive in ways before unseen? (Think Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, ...)

2. How are the attractors (chaos theory) changing? Is it correct to say that, no, our weather prediction models are not going to be more accurate, all we can say is that weather is going to _change_ in all extremes? More intense storms. Colder winters. Hotter summers. Drier droughts.

3. What institution predicted the floods in Spain? Did anyone? Or was this completely unprecedented and a complete surprise?

I think these are my primary questions for now.
Good. If I have to go back into the office it may as well be with a fat pay raise and a new mission, the likes of which are more likely with a new company.
One could argue that a newspaper is continuously publishing something on its website. And therefore it has a duty to keep any archives it keeps available to the public updated.

Obviously that might just lead to most publications deleting all their archives...
My citations are for data brokers, but ALPR databases that are constantly updating from field sensors, and with porous data security and governance, they should not be dismissed. This is a commercial surveillance dragnet system, full stop. They aren't weapons until they suddenly are (shades of Salt Typhoon). There is precedence for the misuse of license plate data by law enforcement and adjacent private sector orgs.

https://epic.org/data-broker-helped-anti-abortion-group-targ...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/location-data-tracks-a...

https://www.nacdl.org/getattachment/567b4c71-b702-47d7-a59c-...

https://americandragnet.org/

https://deflock.me/
It's tempting to think that phones can do everything, and they sort of can, but not well. There's a time and place for dedicated hardware, and cycle computers are very firmly in that category, aside from very casual usage.
AMD64 mandates 48bit virtual addressing minimum, with the rest sign-extended unless certain optional features are enabled.
why do you think employee had to get high :)
I am unable to read the article due to the paywall, so I am left wondering about additional insights since the following 2009 article:

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2009/gc/b9068...
This is neat, but the amount of data seems overkill just to see the trend in day/night length and the keogram is a bit busy. It seems like compressing each day to 1 px tall would result in a clearer representation of that.

It's neat that you can look at different things, like cloud cover, the moon, stars and anomalies (such as the aurora). But these are convoluted in the raw data. Deconvoluting these to obtain a keogram of just the sun, just the moon, just the anomalies would probably make for some interesting visualizations.
I recently added dual screen support to the ELKS console-direct driver, so if your system has both MDA and CGA cards, you enable CONFIG_CONSOLE_DUAL in your kernel config and select runlevel 5 in /bootopts, it will allocate 4 ttys, with one of them on the MDA display. You can see this setup running on my hardware in this pic in the README:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ghaerr/elks/refs/heads/mas...

I could use some help testing it on EGA and VGA hardware, as I don’t have any 8 bit cards for those in my collection.
False. I need you on my timezone or really close to it. I have been dealing with software development teams that are 12 hours off and they have settled into a pattern of ill-communication because it is simply too difficult to sync up properly. They dig in on analysis for stories on their time and have to ask questions of us. The following day they get an answer and have to reply again for more clarification. All this after having groomed with the business and having standups together early mornings. I could go on and on, but it royally sucks. I'm trying to fix it, but the end goal is to switch the teams to ones in my timezone. Not to mention how discriminatory and hateful US devs are to India devs...it is just constant bullshit.
Planetarion
I believe the S3 bit is just as an object storage standard
Great way to measure it actually - I suspect users of Kagi have a much higher average search volume than the average Google user. I know I definitely do.

Currently I think the only piece of clothing I own that has an actual logo on it is my Kagi T-shirt (for being an early subscriber) - you could say I am a fan :-D
a cheap 32 bit RISC-V chip like the CH32V003 goes for about $0.10, and the cheapest MCU I've heard of (PMS150C, barely useful for anything) goes for around $0.03

there's little real point in 8 bit chips anymore
The European Union has just made producers of software liable for bugs, as has been the case with other e.g. electronic products already for a long time.

This means it would be quite risky for companies to rely on only a few junior developers that can only copy & paste from ChatGPT.

But LLMs are useful for initial boilerplat generation if one is careful to vet the result (in particular error handling is often incomplete or missing because the models are trained from Internet tutorials rather than robust production software).
The job of corporate media is to preserve the establishment, to perpetuate the status quo.

Sometimes, some token investigative journalism is allowed. (So long as those revelations do not challenge the status quo, natch.) Maintaining the charade of being the Forth Estate. Less so over time, as the "infotainment" biz model pioneered by USA Today transformed the industry. What kids today would call "enshitification."

FWIW, Propublica is a member of the so-called Fifth Estate, explaining why they can do what actual journalism.
Would you have a problem if it said "OpenAI develops novel LLM to solve math problems" rather than "Novel LLM solves math problems" too?