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yafbum commented on Tiny volumetric display mitxela.com/projects/cand... · Posted by u/ttesmer

o11c · 2 years ago

Or just ... don't center, and change the math to acknowledge that the LEDs aren't centered?

yafbum · 2 years ago

There's another similar thing needing correction, which is that the LEDs near the center sweep a much smaller volume than the ones at the edge, and should be dimmed in order to yield equivalent luminance. LEDs describing tiny circles very close to the center would need to be dimmed a lot since they'd essentially be stationary. Wouldn't it be better then to sweep slightly larger circles at the middle anyways?

yafbum commented on Star neuroscientist may have manipulated data to support a major stroke trial science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/EndXA

yafbum · 2 years ago

Scientific fraud robs the community twice: the first time by wasting research funds on fraud, the second time because experiments with the appearance of success funnel more dollars to them, taking away funding from other areas that might look less sexy but might have yielded a breakthrough of they'd been pursued. Grant issuers should insist on some form of end-to-end third-party data custodianship to prevent tampering with data during analysis. Seems better than the many billions of $ being wasted on fraud and subsequent missed opportunity.

yafbum commented on Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says cnbc.com/2023/11/30/retur... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

ttymck · 2 years ago

That is how I understood the headline.

yafbum · 2 years ago

Looking at other comments, evidently a lot of HN readers didn't!

yafbum commented on Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says cnbc.com/2023/11/30/retur... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

yafbum · 2 years ago

The title is misleading without context. TFA doesn't argue that RTO is a bad policy or is being abandoned. It only presents facts showing that the post-COVID RTO trend is flatlining, i.e. employees aren't currently RTO'ing any more or any less than they were last month (as a share of paid work days).

yafbum commented on Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the European Union timeuse.barcelona/project... · Posted by u/caiobegotti

yafbum · 2 years ago

Time zones are geopolitical artifacts just like borders, laws, currencies, etc. They can't really be "permanent"...

yafbum commented on Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return despite no data fortune.com/2023/08/03/am... · Posted by u/softwaredoug

yafbum · 2 years ago

People need to stop using data as an excuse for making decisions, or apologizing for not having data, or arguing about the lack of data as an excuse for maintaining a status quo. As entrepreneurs, as managers, as individuals we make decisions with no perfect data all the time. It's called dealing with risk.

Sure you could get a sense for how much active coding time or whatever BS metric you can track, and look at correlation with WFH, but that stuff is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things. How's new grad onboarding affected? How's team culture and conflict management affected? How is dealing with difficult health challenges affected? Working remotely is a big shift with likely long term longitudinal effects on an organization that are hard to predict. You can't A/B test or analyze your way out of every single decision there. So I respect people making decisions without data on this, that's what they're being paid the big bucks for. As I'm sure they will respect my decision to leave the minute the terms of the arrangement no longer suits me, which will add a data point of N=+1 somewhere.

It's ok to ask to see the data if you're curious. But people are often asking for data not out of curiosity but just because they disagree with the consequences of a decision that affects them. I think that's disingenuous. You could deploy a team of data scientists to tell me that the org will definitely be 5% more productive if everyone worked from some office an hour away, and it wouldn't really matter to me. I still prefer having a remote work option and I won't commute more than 40 min to work. We don't need to ask for data about things we don't like, we can just disagree and either commit or create the attrition outcomes that will drive different behaviors in the future.

yafbum commented on My $500M Mars rover mistake chrislewicki.com/articles... · Posted by u/bryanrasmussen

askvictor · 2 years ago

One place I worked (some 20 years ago) had a policy that any time you run a sudo command, another person has to check the command before you hit enter. Could apply the same kind of policy/convention for anything in production.

yafbum · 2 years ago

I'm not sure this doesn't just lead to blind rubber-stamping unless this is done very very rarely

yafbum commented on Noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over "Pay or Okay" noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-gdp... · Posted by u/robin_reala

sgift · 2 years ago

The reason is that they are smaller and if you want to make an example to scare an industry into compliance it's better to go after big companies first. If Facebook gets dragged over the coals the smaller ones are next unless they adapt. This myth that only non-EU companies get pulled into court is nothing but propaganda, mostly spread by the poor, poor, US-based violators of privacy.

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ has a list of enforcement actions, and low and behold, most of them are against EU companies.

(The country filter is for the fining entity, not the fined entity, just in case anyone thinks this doesn't include US companies at all)

yafbum · 2 years ago

I'm sure there's plenty of local enforcement, I'm just talking about my own cookie wall experience which is mostly happening when consuming Europe-based news outlets. I was really surprised to see that it was enabled by some national agencies which have explicitly okayed the cookie wall for such cases.

yafbum commented on Noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over "Pay or Okay" noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-gdp... · Posted by u/robin_reala

yafbum · 2 years ago

News outlets based in Europe routinely pull this cookie wall crap. I guess they get a pass for very very principled reasons and not just because they are based in Europe whereas Facebook isn't... /s

Banging Facebook over the head might make Facebook suffer, but it isn't going to create an alternative privacy-conscious social network, or even the incentives to the existence of such an alternative. It's just going to further add cost to a bunch of properties that might have once been dominant and hegemonic, but aren't anymore (hello tiktok) and destroy value that would otherwise have accrued, primarily, to advertisers whose ads now will be much more crappily targeted.