skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Highly educational and much appreciated.

> Even though I knew lots about ... the strengths of populist rhetoric in changing public perceptions

It seems to me - with no expertise or data beyond reading a lot of public affairs, history, and political science - that from the start almost everyone has had (or put) their heads in the sand about it, that such a response is the norm for insurgent populists (perhaps not unlike the response of the incumbent status quo to disruptive challengers in every field, including IT (think of all the 'disruption', or just Blackberry's response to Apple/Google smartphones)), and that those twin patterns were the biggest threat. And I think that has played out.

AND IT CONTINUES TO PLAY OUT: The competitors to the populists ignore the true political power, the populist reactionary messaging which can sell anything to the public (so far, they can fool enough of the people enough of the time), and try to focus on where they feel safe - legislation. I think they are afraid of the populist rhetoric, and I think people see that they are afraid and ineffectual. I predicted in November and predict now that it will be the downfall of Biden and the Democrats. Nobody votes for ineffectual and afraid - they have nothing to offer - they adjust to where the power lies and the future holds.

Is that just a bunch of BS? (I really did say those things and do think them, but that doesn't rule out a bunch of BS.) And if not, why the heck am I the only one to see the obvious? Is everyone just trying to ignore the disruptive challenger?
Transactional costs must also have a similar factor. Friends were difficult to make and retain the the suburbs as a kid. They've been nearly impossible as an adult.

Traffic and the dispersion of people across a wide area, driven by rent and jobs and just it being a huge metro region with some of the worst traffic in the country. The transactional costs in even the effort required to be there; let alone having time to make that effort.
Ok. So the problem is that your furnaces are too greedy. They are buffering up in the absence of oversupply. There are many in-game solutions to that, but in reality we use price signals. When price signals are not available, we shame people for being greedy and hoarding.
iPhone was not announced as a One More Thing at Macworld 2007. It was a direct transition from the Apple TV segment.
> That’s such a poor excuse.

More specifically, it is misinformation.
Are you familiar with the term "Company Town"? We have, collectively, quite a lot of history with the concept. The Soviet Union did quite a lot more with the idea than western countries did.

The GULag system was just one collection of data points. The nuclear weapons reservations, space launch complexes, and bio-weapons towns were others.

The experience was not, on average, considered inspirational.
> It makes no sense to tax speculated value.

and yet, the claim originally was that it makes sense on the speculated value of stocks.

> If you are certain that your baby this year is bringing home tangible income due to its TikTok page, then yes tax it.

so tax the dividends, or tax the capital gains that are realized - because those are certain. To own stocks is to speculate.
I wish we wouldn't allow upvoting here of articles behind a paywall, this just wastes everyone's time. And yes someone might post a link to get around the paywall but this is hurting our news industry so I cant support this as a workaround.
In my experience, the office crowd generally struggles with communication. They rely on conveying the same information in a myriad of ways, over an excruciating amount of time, to get their point across. I'll admit, it is difficult to do that without the bandwidth that face-to-face provides.

When you watch effective communicators, they can write a terse comment and everyone straight up understands without any more fuss. Once you have been on that kind of team, you will never want to communicate about work any other way. Remote work is very efficient under this model.

I think everyone can be an effective communicator, but it is a learned skill. A skill those who have spent their career in an office never had to learn. Those who were recently thrust into remote work without those skills have struggled, but...

What if this forced period of remote work has tipped the scales in favour of the critical mass learning how to communicate effectively? Anecdotally, I have seen significant improvement in the formerly office-going team I have been a part of since March 2020. We have a ways to go before we match what I have witnessed earlier in my career when I was lucky enough to work with some highly effective people, but if this carries on for a sufficient amount of time I think we might just get there.
I’ve observed this as well, good workers are generally smart people and will figure out their worth.

I think people underestimate the demand for talent and think that globally we can fill that hole. We can’t, yet. Humans don’t scale well enough and eventually automation will be the real problem. (But I also think that is further away than currently advertised, but different topic.)
Even then, I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if Google was selling Chromecast viewing data and similar for Amazon.

If not on the receiver, the client (likely your phone) may be reporting it.

And then if not that, wherever you're streaming from may be reporting viewing habits.

This seems like another one of those things that's just intractable because the overhead is too high. You can limit who gets your viewing habits, but preventing anyone from getting them is hard. Similar to tracking on the internet.

The solution is legislation, not playing cat and mouse with corporations.
I have been finally started working on my life long depression with a trained therapist, and our process doesn't include any medication at all. Just a lot of talking and feeling and expressing. It's one of the best decisions I've been ever made.

YMMV, people might say mine wasn't real depression, but there is more than just medication. It helps, but often times like Tylenol helps: the headache is still there, you just don't feel it anymore.

Medication being the only solution to all of mental illness is a very American view of the matter. And by American I mean prescription-happy.
What a wonderful non-answer. “I think the answer to your question is obvious, so I will not answer it, and just give a sarcastic reply.” But, I’ll still answer your question about what could make it worse…

It could have super-wide text, like Hacker News. That would make it worse. The line length is a fairly comfortable length, unlike Hacker News’s dizzying long lines.

It could have unusual scrolling behavior, like those Apple product announcements. That would make it worse.

You’ve mentioned the biggest thing that makes websites worse—interspaced adverts and popups, which are downright ubiquitous now. Nearly every site I visit has those.

Honestly, it seems very easy to read for me.
Thanks. I’ve been a Crashplan customer for eons and the last two restores I’ve done from code42 went sideways. So looking for a reasonable alternate.
True, but consider that compiling hello world takes me about 5 minutes in gem5 when using a semi-realistic model of the computer.
I have more often than not heard the quality is better, as in the output. Are you referring to the quality of the experience of work being worse?
Ya, my 3 year old's absolute maximum wait time is however long it takes her to count to 20.
I would name the "distributed" actor and func keyword "remote" instead. It's shorter and more understandable.
Alright then, see you on the otherside of the currency collapse caused by your superior MMT.
Lease vechicle in many cases, and pay for any damage.
It curates the presentation of people in your life to maximize their profit, not your happiness. Actual problems aside, that’s not a friend I want
Chevron wins case to jail lawyer Steven Donziger
So the meth is cheaper, more abundant, more physically dangerous, and more socially destructive than it was before they banned ephedrine. Can we get our good decongestants back now please?
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Why would I assume that the research is wrong? We’re talking about a century’s worth of readability research, here. Cheap, easy-to-replicate studies which have been done over and over again over the decades. Backed by simple-to-explain theories that explain why. Seems like a completely unreasonable assumption, to be frank.
There are also different 'politics' careers or sets of knowledge.

I own a digital agency that does digital marketing/fundraising for Democrats. so my view is there is a ton of knowledge and experiences that are unique to how political campaigns are run.

For sure a lot of knowledge is transferable like if you know how to buy FB ads. (sidenote imho political consultants are way too insular and lag behind what the rest of the digital marketing world does)

But I believe there is unique expertise that one builds up learning through years of working on campaigns. It's a weird blend of science, marketing, and some unquantifiable 'experience.'

Which is BS sometimes for sure.

But an example of experiential expertise is that say you want to make decisions based on data. So you do polling and surveys. But one can write a poll question in a bunch of ways to get pretty different response. Framing and background knowledge is important. though lol now that I wrote this out polling might not be the best example, it's a big can of worms. Pollsters after each election say they learned what was wrong with their weighting/models ex post facto lol.
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Don’t forget clever Hans:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
> And if they can do their jobs remotely, why can't an equally skilled engineer in a country with a cost of living 1/10th of the "rich countries" do the same?

Same reasons as last decade. Time zone difference, language/culture barrier, the legal complications of hiring across jurisdictions. I don't see how any of it has been addressed by recent events or incremental improvements to remote working tools.

I think it came up in a previous thread on the topic that the non-US workers that can overcome these barriers but aren't interested in immigrating, still demand competitive US rates when working with US companies (through consultancies, iirc).
No I don't like it because it's heavily encouraged that every stenographer heavily modify their dictionary, making it harder to learn. There's a million and one different theories, it's somewhat strange.
I mean, isn’t that what’s happening in general? The community banks are just switching to service providers and ditching the 1994 systems.
Ah, well I typically don’t have super wide windows, because it has a negative impact on readability. The difference between 1215px and higher widths isn’t really significant anyway… above a certain line length, readability has already reached its minimum and doesn’t decrease further as the lines get longer.
This is probably his most widely appealing post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-...

All the ones listed here are pretty good too:

https://slatestarcodex.com/about/
"maximum-introvert"

What seems missing from this discussion are the social connections remote workers pursue in the absence of water cooler conversations and company social events.

For many office workers, their co-workers are their main source of social interaction.

For remote workers, it's a deliberate decision to keep their social lives separate from work. They very well may be extroverts in their personal social activities.
2, like with v6. 3, if you count link local (like with v6).
Could there be legal repercussions for doing this?
If that's the argument it's the same with any department in any uni. All those math professors are just citing each other. That Erdos is the worst circle in math!!
yeah, no. Salaries are going to rise all over the world, especially if you talk about salaries. Is it true that a junior dev can have $240k/y in US for example? screw decades of my experience, imma be a junior dev :D

You also have to take into account that working for US company is not that desirable because of the employer culture, for example. Some of us like worker protection laws, for example, or government-mandated guaranteed vacation time or double pay for overtime or some weeks off when you have a newborn on your hands. Or be informed months in advance about your lay-off and be compensated hansomely for that (if the company isn't folding).

In the US these things are under the employers' discretion, and it's considered something amazing and impossible, like ambulance rides that don't cost more than your kidney on black market.

And lose that over 1/10th of what you guys get? Hahaha, oh wow, you're insane. If I have no guarantees, I want to be compensated accordingly! So don't get your knickers in a knot and perpetuate the "omg remote is killing workers" meme. Remote is better for everyone.

Oh and by the way, you know what protects you from %worker apocalypse reason%? UNIONS. There's a reason the bald fuck's afraid of them.

Jesus.
Isn’t that what the HN comment section is like, though? Or maybe I’m just used to reading things like design documents at work (with tons of comments), or standards documents (with footnotes that take up more space than the page body).
I have worked with remote developers from Poland, Romania, and Portugal, each making approx $20-50/hr, producing code of far higher quality than stuff I’ve seen from $500k/year software engineers here.

Also, their English was almost indecipherable from a native speaker.
Define fixed hours? Fixed hours sucks when people live in 4 or more different timezones.

I'm trying to figure out if my current remote job is fixed hours. Nobody has ever asked me or said anything about the hours I work, but I am expected to be present for meetings, which usually occur in the middle of the day for me. Is that tier 3 or 4?
Presumably, the sender pays unless you respond.
Hmm. As a chip designer, I think there is no chance this will happen. Running a modern foundry is a huge investment and while they move a lot of silicon volume, it is not enough to support a foundry. Not even close. Second, a foundry is a relatively low margin, high volume, high risk business. That is not the kind of business area that Apple enters. Third, running a modern foundry is an incredibly complex process with a huge level of specialized knowledge requiring years of experience to make it all reliably work with high yield. As someone who has been in the business for over 30 years, I won't hold my breath waiting for Apple to build their own semi foundry.

On the other hand, might they contribute some investment to help TSMC expand into the US or other locales to further improve their priority and pricing? That is likely to happen. They often make large investments to help their partners spool up and meet the required volumes for Apple business.
I don't hear about drunken street fights in the US either, probably because I don't consume the local media and street fights don't make it to the international news section.
You're right about that. My point isn't about his overall wealth, or whether it's socially good that he has it. A few comments up the tree, someone asserted that Bezos wasn't strongly incentivized by the value of his Amzn shares because he had already "cashed out", though. That's what I responding to.
Since I was forced to work remotely due to Covid lockdowns I "waste" much more of my time in meetings now then I did when I was working on site in an office.

When there was friction involved in organizing a meeting (Needing to gather participants all in one place, book conference room, get projector working etc.) people were reluctant to call trivial meetings.

Now it feels like everyone has discovered Microsoft Teams and people feel obligated to call meetings for all manner of things that would have previously been solved by email or 'water cooler conversations'.

The volume of meetings I find myself attending now has skyrocketed compared to how often I'd be physically present in meetings when I worked in office. The only saving grace is you can mute yourself and alt-tab which is much more difficult when you are physically present at a meeting.
What makes it good/better? Do you any examples you can share?
> Prioritising or selecting policy agendas is largely an exercise in choosing what to value, and there is no scientifically correct perspective on human values.

> the goals of your policies should be to align with what people want, even if you think people want stupid things. All other forms of government are authoritarian, including technocracies run by “experts”.

Great points overall, though I think it shades too much toward making all values and preferences equal and relative. Some values and preferences are superior - that's objectively, philosphically, unprovable, maybe (or maybe not), but we are living and acting in reality. We don't need absolute mathematical proof to make a sound judgment, or we'd all be paralyzed.

Also, providing what people want is complicated. First, many elect you to serve as representative, not mouthpiece. The rep is supposed to spend time figuring out issues and deciding the best course of action - I have my own job to do. In this respect I want the rep to do what I would do if I had all the information.

Second, as any consultant quickly learns, what people say they want now is not what they later remember or say they want, and what they articulate is not exactly what they feel or think. It's your job to deliver what they really want in the appropriate timespan (often in the long term). If I told my client 'I knew this solution would suck but you said you wanted it' they would fire me immediately. It's my job to lead them away from folly; I'm the expert; that's why they pay me.

Finally, people sometimes want evil things. That's why we have universal human rights and limited government - to prevent the majority from doing bad things to the minority. All of us, especially political leaders, have a job to help each other with our human folly.
I absolutely won't defend his Livejournal comments or any of that other stuff. It's trash and he's wrong.

But with regards to the SSRI article, Siskind says the libido effects are significant and that "[the effects] usually go away a few weeks to months after stopping the medication, but in rare cases they might linger for months or years, and there are a few people who say their sexual side effects never went away. These cases are very unusual and still not well understood."

So he's almost completely agreeing with the posted article. He disagrees on how common these events are but doesn't offer any more evidence than the posted article does, and I think his disagreement is one the current medical establishment shares.

I think his SSRI article therefore remains credible; it is if anything a more mainstream view than the one presented in the posted article. I'd be more than happy to refer people to somebody other than Siskind if some other non-alarmist summary of SSRIs existed that was comparable. I've looked, but haven't found much.
> MHO, the Swift Foundation needs to move much more of the ecosystem to platforms other than Apple's.

I suspect Apple is trying to do this for straightforward reasons like wanting to remain relevant and foster community growth as to retain credibility… while also subtly trying to not encourage the use of Swift as a language for any other GUI framework/platform than Cocoa + macOS. Obviously I don’t have any evidence to support my fantasy speculation (well, X11 for macOS is dead) - but consider how Apple is so very protective of their UX moat (and PWAs be damned). It’s not in Apple’s interests to facilitate and support any kind of true cross-platform UI framework: remember how Java AWT/Swing apps were like on OS X? The majority of dispassionate (I.e. not Panic Inc) devs are never going to optimise a cross-platform UI for macOS because the whole point of using an xplat UI is so you don’t need to spend time on platform-specific code. Those two reasons combine form a vicious-cycle negative feedback loop that devalues their platform.

But with the web finally becoming the true, real, cross-platform that Microsoft was then-irrationally terrified of 25 years ago, I don’t know what Apple’s strategy is to remain the best provider of the best UX when everyone is going to be using Chromium in some form. And if Apple keeps pushing their own native apps devs to their hostile App Store while everyone else moves to the web, then the value-prop of an Apple computer looks bad compared to a Chromebook which is essentially just-as-locked-down and just-as-capable, just without iOS integration and a modest selection of (albeit) high-quality boutique Mac App Store apps.

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On a related note: Apple does not have long-term support commitments as a matter of policy - which means enterprise/slow-moving/blue-chips won’t be interested in using Swift at all (compared to ISO-backed C++, Oracle’s Java, or MS’ .NET). Apple is going to have to maintain Swift’s support for Win32 and *nix in the long-run if they need to build their credibility and win-over large programming projects - but it’s just so against their corporate culture. It reminds me of their middling support for Safari for Windows. I know Apple gets Win32 and nix support for Swift “for free” by piggybacking off Clang+LLVM, but that’s basically the same as making Swift more like Java (“xplat for free”) but that’s just the bare-minimum they need to do: without Apple actively investing significantly in the developer experience for non-Apple platforms it just isn’t going to take-off. And they can’t do that for fear that a critical-mass of hackers will port Cocoa to Win32.

Swift is basically analogue to Google’s Dart+Flutter but it wants to be like Go.
The thread specifically says that they bet on fast transfer on and off of the gpu becoming common, and then the exact opposite of that happened. When you care about a performance characteristic that no one else cares about, you're going to get very weird performance results and it's not a given that a gpu better for normal workloads will be better for you.
- Einstein was a pretty successful physicist.

- Well, I wouldn't say that... what else did he do other than relativity?
Linux was 9 years old in 2000.
Freak spikes in demand cause freak spikes in supplier parts prices. Manufacturing volumes of complex goods are quite inelastic. Burst manufacturing price would likely be much higher than steady flow retail prices, not lower. Zuckerberg would basically have to redirect humanities entire smartphone manufacturing capacity for multiple years. Including the part that usually ends up sporting some fruit brand, this wouldn't be cheap at all.
“Everyone remote” works right now because everyone has pre-existing relationships. Double your team with everyone having never met in person and I guarantee the cracks will start to show and the culture will suffer.

I’m dealing with a company that decided to try outsourcing for a second time starting just before covid hit and it’s just as miserable as it was the last time they tried in 2009. “But video conferencing” doesn’t bridge cultural friction and timezones.
I think GP's point was that $10 billion is not nearly as much as some of the larger competitor of TikTok.
With the metaverse -- I don't really see how that would work (if it's envisioned Ready Player 1 style). Either you have one game engine everything has to be in (limited), or like a lobby system to launch games which is basically just VR Chat with a launcher (not seamless), or youre constantly launching and quitting game engines (messy, hard to make seamless). Am I missing the mark here?
Yeah, both of those medications are criminally expensive.