skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why on earth does everyone...

They don't. (And I don't know a single person who thinks they do).

But in any society where the "haves vs. have-nots" division is a major social problem - there can be serious downsides to convincing the latter that the former really don't give a crap about them.
What you’re describing sounds more like OCPD than ADHD to me
Thats where things fall apart though. Your opinion will be formed on the fact you get more done in the office.

I get less done in the office. I'm orders of magnitude more productive at home. So my opinion is formed on that basis.

Theres absolutely no need to force a single option. Where I work we went for an approach of "the office is there, its open, you've got a key, if you want to use it, use it. If you don't then dont."

That as far as I can see is the fairest approach. Those that prefer being in the office can do so, those that prefer being at home can do so. Theres no loser there, except perhaps anyone with a bizarre view of "well I'm in the office so you should be too" but those people are crazy nutjobs.
Xir father used to argue the same thing.

But the micro vs. macro distinction is only one of time and scale and that's the whole point: species aren't "real," even fish aren't "real" in any ontological sense, but the countless organisms that we categorize as such existed, exist, and will continue to exist regardless of how we conceive of them.

The ask of evolution and science in general is to accept the incredibly narrow capacity of human cognition as a starting point for an even deeper understanding rather than an end goal to rationalize towards.
The YouTube UI has got to be the pushiest, most bizarre UI I've yet encountered. It appears to be purposely designed to trick you into more "engagement".
Modern JavaScript for Django developers
> It's like the hype of chatbot LLMs circa '21-23.

That’s funny, since I’m using a “chatbot LLM” right now in another window, writing code.
What matters is not the diversity of the overall userbase but the diversity of what gets shown to you. From my (limited) experience TikTok is hyper-targeted and will narrow in on your interests/biases quickly and keep you in that bubble.

HN (and reddit) generally lacks this hyper-targeting. Obviously, just the act of going to HN is selecting for a certain cross-section of opinions, but once you're there what you see is determined by the community and not by your own personal preferences.
Indeed, Apple* seem to be one of the only companies with the long term vision to integrate vertically and improve industry as a result. The short term pennies-on-the-dollar of outsourcing is just brain-dead and non-innovative.

*this is an observation from someone who has never bought a new apple product due to their increasingly closed eco-system
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc. have mostly killed off the places where online groups formed when I was a kid.
> cosmo PRC cool kids (read: lean wealthy)

What does this mean?
I’m assuming he means capex vs opex ? Electricity is opex.
No one is learning about Critical Race Theory anywhere other than law school (or possibly undergraduate sociology classes that pre-law students would be likely to take). It's a heterodox thread in legal scholarship. Whatever you think primary schoolers are learning about race, it's not Critical Race Theory.
It's currently down (503 Service Temporarily Unavailable), so no, it's not taking over
The "War on Drugs" ensured that when an American dies from a drug overdose it is an American company, like Purdue Pharma, that made money killing them.

And when an American is brainwashed into believing a lie, it better damn well be an American company that sold them that lie.

That is the dream this country was built on.
What we have today is early gen "practical" AI.

Even current SOTA models would almost certainly be able to handle multiple speakers and pick-up on the intended tone and intonation.

Don't make the mistake of thinking what we have today is what we will still be working with in 5 or 10 years.
If you are employed at will then that employment agreement isn't worth the paper it is written on.
I don't think importance is a factor; it's simply a matter of whether a job can be done remotely.

Not every occupation, at this point, can fall under this categorization.
Isn't this already happening between companies? If people really prefer WFH jobs, then WFH employers would be able to lower their wages. Doing it within companies will be tricky though, because apparently you lose around a third of the benefits of in-office work if even one person is remote[1].

[1] "I think another possibility, and there our paper gives a little bit of evidence, is that if you have even one colleague who is remote, that yields about 30 percent of the loss from having everyone be remote." https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/06/remote-...
No they wouldn't, TW doesn't have the ordnance or ability to deliver said ordnance to structurally damage a gravity dam, especially one size of three gorges. They're much better off hitting PRC coastal nuclear (something that worries PRC planners), either way, it's suicide by war crime.
Well... yes... it's the owner the government is concerned about.

The law requires that ownership of TikTok be changed before it continues operating in the US, not that TikTok stop operating.
I would argue that even though you're not on tiktok, you are being influenced by the narrative that China is pushing. There are numerous genocides happening in the world today. Sudan. China (try talking about THAT one on TikTok...). Why aren't those being treated with equal concern? Because China knows that only the Isreal/Gaza one is a wedge in America, so they push that to sow discord.
I just burst out laughing with your last sentence.

Great tip about Google Cloud! I would never have thought of that one. I'll check it out.
> The “violent and disruptive” student is also a child with a right to an education. And for what it’s worth, usually a child in crisis. For school staff, your role as an adult is to teach the child to participate in society with whatever limited influence you have. As a parent or classmate, of course, you have no reason to give a shit about some asshole kid, but the teacher has to.

This is where I wholeheartedly disagree with you. Education is not a right if you can't comply with simple rules. I'd also like to see where you're correlating "violent and disruptive" with a "child in crisis". I'm not saying it's not there, but I am saying I don't believe those two components are exclusive.

These games of "what if" and "what is" must be fun for some people - because they seem to be played quite often. Rules are rules, they can be cut and dry - even in this case. The excuses are played out, the fallback on so many "disorders" is rampant. Either society is essentially fucked, or people are abusing the exceptions. I do agree, there should be some exceptions, but those should be few and far between to avoid slipping through the cracks.

Finally, the implication that a teacher "has to" give a shit has got to be the worst idea Americans have embraced. No, they don't. If my kid was asshole in school - I would handle the situation and apologize. Parents who go at districts for not "giving a shit" about their kid when their kid has been taught there are no repercussions by their parents don't have a right to anything in my opinion.
If that cease-fire holds, I'll be very surprised.

More likely than Biden's incompetence is that Bibi now has a variable solved for in the geopolitical calculus: the American election now has a winner. He finds a kindred spirit in Trump and thinks he is now working with an American administration that will let him do whatever he wants without even the appearance of trying to rein him in. There is no Rashida Tlaib in Trump's party.

But that's on a different subject than the greater thread discussion.
At this point, I trust Xi approximately as much as I do Zuck and Musk with my economic future.
"Hey Homie, it's Tony,"

I've never been so interested in advertisements for commercial equipment before that guy.
You mean the Government of the host country, not the people.

See: 1990 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War.
There’s a implication here which I think most people are missing. People can incorrectly attribute consciousness, intent, and personality to things which don’t actually posses it. Pet rocks, stuffed animals, LLMs. But, how confident are you that you have a proper mental model for the people around you? Have you understood them with any sort of accuracy? Does your theory of mind match the real person particularly well? In the extreme, you see error such as a killer who no one suspected. In the more mundane arena, you have girlfriends and boyfriends who are head over heels, but cannot communicate over basic things. You have the more spectrum-y folks badly putting their feet in their mouths, primarily because they failed to mentally model the person in front of them. Most grim from my perspective, you have funerals: the full, deep person is lost to the world and all that remains the two-dimensional and very partial competing theories of mind from the surviving loved ones.
Your brain is lying to you about the “good old days”
Taiwan has an aboriginal population as well, there are very few countries where the original settlers are recognizable as the current population without squinting. China is one of the worst offenders, with the westward expansion of the Qing Empire contemporary with American westward expansion. Moreover, when America started serious decolonizing in the 20th Century (Philippines) and ending residential schools, China invaded Tibet and continues to pursue aggressive assimilation in its Western regions.
It is amusing that the reaction to using a Chinese app being banned because your government says it is dangerous to give them your information, is to give your data to another Chinese app instead. Not that I'd feel any less safe with Chinese companies having all my cat picks & ranting than I feel with American companies having the same (particularly under the upcoming regime).

Not that it makes a lot of difference to me, facebook is the only social-media-y thing I use and that is just under sufferance (only way to easily keep tabs on what is happening with some people, mainly family) and because I sometimes like to “breakfast with Lord Percy”. I might try bluesky at some pint as many contacts are moving from fb to there (though that seems rather twitter-like and that has never appealed to me even before I even knew Musk existed).
All that is great, except for the part where the algorithms that collect your reactions to content and then choose new content for you in a feedback loop—which as you point out, can produce valuable effects as well as harmful ones—are a black box under some approximation of direct control by the CCP.
Yeah, this seems neatest if you don't like line breaks

pipeline = (

task(get_data, branch=True)

| task(step1, workers=20)

| task(step2, workers=20)

| task(step3, workers=20, multiprocess=True)

)

Square brackets would create a list and braces would create a set of course. The contents still can be split over different lines-- just pointing that this syntax doesn't do the same thing.
I found this article to be more descriptive than prescriptive. That is, it does not answer the "why" question in the headline, but it does support the "struggling to find jobs" part.
My guess is "Knöpfchen" (German for "little button"). The "chen" suffix is difficult to pronounce for English speakers, so it's replaced by the word "keys" (as in the buttons of a keyboard)
Here is a better link, woth direct quotes of the source material, that back up my claim. An editorialized wikipedia article written by people who do not want the story to be true was not a good choice on my part. My apologies. I'd also suggest listening to Mark Zuckerberg's appearance on JRE if you want to get info from the horse's mouth so to speak.

[1] https://twitterfiles.substack.com/p/1-thread-the-twitter-fil...
Hmm? I am amused by the attempted framing, but it is neither of those. The job is not entitled, but it is bound by requirements bestowed by reality of how that job functions. For example, cashier's job happens to, often, involve physically moving stuff around at the same time customer wants to have it moved. Therefore, they, currently, have to physically be there.

My job, for better or worse, however, has to exist in the same time-zone for the sake of meetings, while my output is more ephemeral.

<< Or is it "my job is bigger and important" argument?

Hadly. If anything, I would argue that my job is less important.
I have a friends group where everybody is hopping to this in the group chat. They are so eager to run from one addiction to another - and I told them so. They are so eager to give China all their data and to focus their own lives around an addictive app. It's baffling. Go live your life, enjoy not being indoctrinated by bullshit and having your time wasted by manipulative algorithms.
> if I give my data to China, what are they going to do, arrest me?

Flip the question around to your familiar villain. You’re a U.S. intelligence chief, and have a trove of embarrassing—possibly worse—information about ordinary Chinese citizens. How can you use this to make them useful to you?
It is actually legal to yell “fire” in a crowded theater.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_t...

https://www.whalenlawoffice.com/blog/legal-mythbusting-serie...
Plus, the author is wrong about both drivers running the red light. YEs, they are pushing the yellow, but they are both legal insofar as the car is over the line when the light turns red.

The first "running the red light" car at 11sec has his/her bumper fully over the white line in the last yellow-light video frame and his wheel fully on the line in the first video frame when the light is red. The second "running the red light car" has the entire car more than half way across the intersection with the light still yellow.

His point still stands that people are rushing to make the light, but it does his point no good to exaggerate like that.

While the 4-way-stop was maybe better for pedestrians, as traffic increased that would degrade.

Overall, it probably would be favorable to fix it in favor of pedestrians instead of vehicles, and to that end they should be narrowing the street and adding close-in trees and obstacles to cue the drivers that it is a much slower zone.
ah! the walking bike aka "toddler balance bike" is making the jump over the pond!

over here (Europe) we give one of those to our 2-3y olds. when they get their first real bike about 1-2 y later, they just get on the bike and start cycling.

then they need to learn how to brake :-D
Until two police officers come and frogmarch you to the back of a car when you are saying something the government doesn't like there is free speech.

Most people are just annoyed their social media addiction is being interrupted when they moan about account bans, or app bans in this case.
Connect in person as a teen when everything is designed around cars and stuff a lot more expensive. Where cops arrested for you for loitering. Where people see kids going home from school as 'they're up to no good'. A lot of the past locations are gone and no longer accessible for todays youth. Even fast food places want you gone as fast as possible.
Men, of all kinds, are.

Cowards posture.

It's like when someone threatens to sue: they're posturing from a position of weakness and fear and almost certainly will not.

Powerful, secure, people just do.

That's what makes all of the podcasting machomen so pathetic. Men just are. Insecure cowards ramble on about it.

edit: this is applicable to many things

The person who constantly talks about sex is almost certainly not having any or is insecure about how bad they are at it.

An "entrepreneur" on linkedin constantly posting grindset memes is almost certainly about to have his leased 3-series repossessed because he hasn't done anything except register an LLC.

A morality policeman or woman is with so few exceptions as to be irrelevant covering/masking/deflecting from their own immoral behavior out of guilt or malice.

And men who talk about how manly they are or how manly they want things to be are almost certainly insecure, cowardly, losers.
Thank you! appreciate that <3
FWIW, the vast majority of sales people I’ve spoken to over the past 5 years have been WFH/WFCS (work from coffee shop).

Certainly for bigger deals they come onsite for the final stages of the sales process, but most interaction is handled remotely and they aren't in an office.
Europe takes credit for ASML we can't do it without them the lions share of the work it takes to make the machines is due to ASML, it would be nice if they had big tech companies of their own. They decline of Europe is already happening the wealthy aren't as greedy there at least not greedy enough to work as hard as the American thus eventually US interests will control Europe.
> Literally same arguments used by Iran.

All governments/nations have some level of self-interest. That doesn't mean they are all equal in their motivations or approaches.

China is literally controlling the narrative through TikTok. Why shouldn't the US respond to that?
I can't stand the click of an Apple Pencil, and it annoys me that it only works on specific iPads, and I do not need yet another battery/capacitor to manage in my life (refuse to use wireless keyboards/mice).

Currently, all of the devices I use support Wacom EMR:

- Samsung Galaxy Note 10+

- Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360

- Kindle Scribe

- Wacom One 13 (gen one) display attached to my MacBook Pro (sometimes it gets switched to a Linux box)

and unfortunately, that's not possible w/ an all-Apple eco-system (because they haven't made a replacement for my Newton MessagePad (which had a stylus which did not need a battery)).

Pretty much the only paper I use is for grocery lists (and if Amazon or someone would make a small e-ink device which used a Wacom EMR stylus which I could leave in the kitchen and which would synch to the cloud, even that would stop) or for sketches/diagrams which want to be larger than the Kindle Scribe allows.
wish there was a website like this for gstreamer
That's the worst of all takes, I'm afraid.
My first thought was 'ah, yes.' My second thought was 'but what about nonlocality?'
It's too basic for what you need but the video from eyesomorphic [1], is a wonderful conceptual introduction

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViPNHMSUcog
Yes and no. Breach of contract is a breach of contract.
>Workspace AI includes things like email summaries in Gmail, generated designs for spreadsheets and videos, an automated note-taker for meetings, the powerful NotebookLM research assistant, and writing tools across apps.

Maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon stuck in my ways, but I haven't found much compelling value in these use cases in my day-to-day work. For summaries and note-taking specifically, I feel they're solving the wrong problem: it's not that I have all this information that I really want to go through, but it's that I have too much information and it's become all noise.

The real solution to too much email is fewer and higher-priority emails. The real solution to too many meetings is fewer and more-focused meetings. These tools paper over the root cause of the problem, which is that people/organizations cannot (or are unwilling to) be clear about communication priorities and say "maybe this email/meeting isn't a good use of time after all."
Thats cool! Id like to check that out if you want to share! jonas@sliplane.io or you can find me on Twitter/X (JonasScholz19) :)
If I recall Coqui is very much a dead project, just one to be aware of.
There's security checkpoints and police officers in bulletproof vests and carrying guns as well in some cases, because what if a school shooter shows up? Of course, when one does show up a hundred militarized police will show up and... do nothing, because what will the union do if one gets shot?
It is SOMETIMES legal, which means that it is in the other times illegal.
Right, I guess I'm agreeing with you that social media is an effective propaganda machine (they're ad companies and what is an ad but propaganda to buy a product) and the US Govt wants one where they set the tone.

I was disagreeing with GP that seemed to act like TikTok was uniquely a propaganda engine
Well, that depends in whether you keep training it
Exactly this.

Not to mention the tens of thousands of people who were killed in the witch trials (medieval and contemporary), among so very many other examples.

Few things are more personally relevant than not getting tortured and executed by your neighbors because you were granted no defense against spectral evidence.
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Yes, we're on Hetzner! The availability is actually insane. Thank you :)
So you're suggesting that religious people who home school have some sort of intrinsic characteristic that causes them to raise scientifically ignorant people? It just seems a bit far-fetched to me for someone who claims to be pro-science, especially given the number of respected religious scientists in the world.
Not going to lie. That sounds awesome and was not the vision of homelessness the title prompted in me.
It's not a breach of contract if the company is allowed to change the contract whenever they want.
SEC sues Musk for late reveal of Twitter share purchases
110 MPH is never a safe speed for a car on a highway. Crash rate increases exponentially with speed. At 110 MPH you are placing your life and the lives of other road users at risk for no real good reason.
Congress shall make no law respecting ... or the right of the people peaceably to assemble ...

unless they mumble 'national security', and then screw the constitution ...
To go down this rabbit hole, the deeper question is about the vector in Hilbert space that represents the state of the universe. Is it infinite dimensional?
They kinda do this already with location-based pay.
I learned a bit of assembly and it was a god send to understand linkers and how FFI works. Also make it easier to have a good model on using a debugger. Not that useful on a tactical level, but really great when faced with some errors in your compiled programs.
> As safe as you can be with a million dollar necklace around your neck...

It's an easy way of declaring ones badassness.

Looking at Mr T, people had to ask themselves, "What kind of person feels confident enough to walk around with that much money on his neck?"
I downloaded Rednote and was already blown away by just the app quality. So much better than X. I'd never used TikTok but I really hate the idea of our government censoring what I can and cannot see. Rednote has a bunch of great content on it too. Thanks for the Streisand rec US gov!
I honestly don't think I got more done in the office, certainly not when I consider the commute time was another hour of non-productive time I devoted to work.

I firmly believe that a knowledge worker can't produce anything of any quality for eight hours a day, fives days a week. When I was in office I just spent more time pretending to be busy, and I think that's what management wants to see - the productivity pantomime.
Agree with this take. Additionally it brings geopolitical stability by not putting the onus on just one-to-two countries (Taiwan, US) to produce the majority of the worlds info-tech infrastructure. A 16nm process is still very very modern in the grander scope of things.

Be interesting to see if there's integration with research environments within the EU.. otherwise it could fizzle in terms of it's true potential positive impact.
i wonder what corbusier would say