Working from home is here to stay by miohtama

Hopes that Return to Office will bail out the office sector of CRE seem premature: Data on office attendance and Working from Home. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The good folks in commercial real estate, including institutional investors, have been saying for over a year that the Return-to-Office mandates will scuttle Working-from-Home and fill up office space

ByHackTechFebruary 11, 20250Comments

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Ask HN: Devs working at an Org – how big are your work items? by dieselgate

Like many teams probably the works ebbs and flows – it seems a lot of our work items are just super small (less than 1-2 dozen LOC diff). Part of this is by design to make work items “manageable” but it's kind of absurd to me.Is your job similar or different?

ByHackTechOctober 20, 20230Comments

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A good time to be working on AI: an interview with Professor Sue Black by JohnHammersley

“Because of my background, I’m always interested in how technology can serve the underserved in society, and how it can empower people to live their best lives.With AI, I’m not worried about robots taking over the world. I’m more worried about people using technology to do bad things to other people, rather than the technology

ByHackTechSeptember 14, 20230Comments

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Scientist working in UK for last 20 years joins China’s hypersonic programme by BlackNegro

A prominent physicist working in the UK for over 20 years on hypersonic technology has now joined China to lead an innovation team working to make hypersonic vehicles more efficient and effective. Zhang Yonghao came to Britain in the early 2000s from China to work as a computational scientist at Daresbury Laboratory. In 2020, he

ByHackTechSeptember 14, 20231Comment

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LangChain – Working with Large Language Models, Made Easy by michellezzz

LangChain is a framework that simplifies working with large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI GPT4 or Google PaLM by providing abstractions for common use cases. It supports both JavaScript and Python. To understand the need for LangChain, we first need to discuss how LLMs work. Under the hood, LLMs are statistical models that, given

ByHackTechJuly 27, 20230Comments

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Ask HN: How do you deal with distractions while working from home? by el_hacker

I am a remote worker, and the only solution I've found to stay focused is to close the door of my room. What about you?

ByHackTechJune 12, 20230Comments

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The luxury of working without metrics by headalgorithm

David Heinemeier Hansson May 23, 2023 There are a million metrics you can use to track the health of a subscription software business like ours. Customer life-time value, cost of acquisition, cohort retention, revenue churn, net promoter score, funnel conversion rates, to name but a few. All useful calculations, but I can’t tell you what

ByHackTechMay 30, 20230Comments

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How is this KVM switch working for a Mac? by CiciWu

SKU: 8KSW21-KVM $149.99 $127.49 Partner Discounts | Free Quote ● Immersed in 10K UHD: HDMI 2.1 & HDCP 2.3 compliant. Supports up to 10K resolution, HDR 10, Dolby Vision, VRR, FVA, ALLM, etc. ● Ultra-High Refresh Rate: Enjoy wonderful gaming experiences as it supports 10K@120hz, 8K@120hz, 5K@120hz, 4K@120hz, 2560×1440@165hz/144hz/120hz, and 1080P@240hz/165hz/144hz/120hz. ● High-Performance Transmission: Built with a cutting-edge

ByHackTechMarch 28, 20231Comment

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Tell HN: Dark Sky Is Working by numlocked

I have no explanation for this – but Dark Sky is working. I received a rain alert yesterday and thought it was a fluke. But got another push notification this morning, and opened the app to discover it working perfectly. Is anyone else experiencing the same thing? Any theories on what’s happening?

ByHackTechMarch 25, 20230Comments

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More women working as commercial surrogates as global demand rises by peanuty1

Dilara has been living in Tbilisi, Georgia for several months now, turning her hand to various types of work, from hairdressing to shoemaking to waitressing.But really, there’s just one job she wants: to carry someone else’s baby.The widowed 34-year-old mother of four left her children with her parents in Uzbekistan last year, hoping to find

ByHackTechMarch 7, 20230Comments

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