skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is another way, which is negotiating and clearly stating one's goals. Workers tend to underestimate a couple of things: Their value, their ability to work out and improve a workplace situation, and often also the ability of their superiors to change perspective and collaborate on moving forward.

Path of least resistance. Changing an organization and/or employee organization (union or otherwise) is essentially a full time job and I already have one of those. Why would I stay and fight what will almost certainly be a losing battle when I can just leave AND make more money?

I'm very pro-union and employee rights but I've tried to fight this fight before. It was draining, thankless, and ultimately unsuccessful. I wasted years "trying to change the company", I should have just moved on.

Often the person best suited to lead organizing employees is not an employee. What I mean by that is programming (or insert your profession here) and organizing people are two very different skillsets that not everyone has (I would go as far as to say few do).
This is an excellent take. I personally never want to work in an office again, but I know many—many, many—people who never want to work remotely again after the past two years of pandemic.

We need both: companies that want to support fully remote staff and those that want everyone in-office every day. Having companies with strong stances is a good shift for everyone because enables workers to easily figure out where they do (or do not) want to work.
Janet Yellen admits she was wrong about inflation being transitory
He'd be bankrupt many times over without his ability to work massive $ from the US Gov - I'd argue it's one of his biggest strengths, trailing somewhere after his stock market influence abilities, both of which seem key to how he bankrolls massive capex+opex infra projects.
All of us, exactly. There is no reason to use nuance on the internet when talking about a large group of heterogeneous people.

Did you know there's maybe 600 million people in North America and over 400 million in South America?

Ah but you just meant all of those United States suckers?! 320 million. All of them "like to pretend they're rich when they're not."

And everyone on Hacker News uses broad sweeping statements to refer to a fractional subdivision of a much larger group.
I agree oligarch doesn't characterize Musk (tycoon or magnate might be more appropriate), but there are a great many oligarchs that end up on the losing end of the tides of politics -- surely this is true of Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine or countless now semi-exiled oligarchs in Russia.

But I also wouldn't want to exaggerate the temperature of the hot water Musk is in; he's under fairly minor securities scrutiny thanks to a series of unprecedentedly stupid foot-in-mouth decisions he had 100% control over and could have immediately and trivially avoided at no real cost, he picked a fight with the government over reasonable COVID restrictions and they more or less declined to fight back, and lately he's posted a bunch of tweets of the form "DeMoCrAtS mOrE lIkE dImOcRaTs pwnt!!!!" while a joke video game site slaps him around with a trout. Besides that the most credible claim there's political antagonism is a bizarre to make the White House press secretary say the word "Tesla" which seems at best to be a re-run of the "Why Won't Obama Wear A Flag Pin" controversy, only somehow stupider.

I'm just saying I wouldn't describe myself as having an antagonistic relationship with the government because I get parking tickets sometimes and I have tweets calling elected officials clowns.
There are valid complaints about Elon Musk (either a few or a lot, depending on your point of view), but categorizing him as an oligarch would remove the specificity of the former meaning of the word.

Perhaps people are bored with the word billionaire and want to use an edgier sounding synonym. That is how languages work - they evolve. (i.e. the word literally is now mostly a synonym for figuratively.)
It’s possible to develop relationships remotely. It takes effort, but doing so in person also takes effort.
Work IS a never-ending treadmill of tasks when you're maintaining a company. It's why some people prefer working on startups, because they get to build features and products instead of working on bugs and minor client-driven tweaks all day long. Also gonna let you in on a secret: there are millions of people in tech who don't spend every waking spare moment glued to a screen in order to do more tech things. It's okay to have other hobbies.

There are plenty on tech forums who will use their undying devotion to creating new websites and programs to be some sort of weird cultish flex, but the vast majority who are just going through their lives are stepping away from the keyboard when the work day is over.

And all you have to do, if you want to do other things, is to pay no attention to that cult. If they require access to your github as part of a job interview, then just don't take that job.
Ultima Genomics claims $100 full genome sequencing after stealth $600M raise
This is more a reflection on you than other people.
If anyone is curious, a submission from 3 years ago got 86 points and 60 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19717717
True. I cannot comprehend how people can spend $8 on a cup of coffee. To me, that isn’t even a question of whether one can afford it. It’s a question of sanity. I can make a great cup of coffee myself for mere cents. And if a business that specializes in selling hundreds of cups of coffee a day does it orders of magnitude worse than I can at home, I would feel foolish patronizing them. That makes me almost feel insulted. Same with clothing, btw.
> We made that illegal, effetively

I've not heard of this, how was it made illegal?
EU’s largest asset mgr warns that private equity market resemble ‘Ponzi schemes’
Oh no I agree, I don't like the policy at all, but if he's going to enforce the policy anyway, at least enforce it equally.

Don't get me wrong though, I'd be handing in my notice either way
Just for fun (and because I don't like unsourced claims) I fired up Mathematica to sum up the population of the countries listed. Here are the results:

In[1]:= comma = {"Albania", "Algeria", "Andorra", "Angola",
"Argentina", "Armenia", "Austria", "Azerbaijan", "Belarus",
"Belgium", "Bolivia", "BosniaHerzegovina", "Brazil", "Bulgaria",
"Cameroon", "Canada", "Chile", "Colombia", "CostaRica", "Croatia",
"Cuba", "Cyprus", "CzechRepublic", "Denmark", "EastTimor",
"Ecuador", "Estonia", "FaroeIslands", "Finland", "France",
"Germany", "Georgia", "Greece", "Greenland", "Hungary", "Iceland",
"Indonesia", "Italy", "Kazakhstan", "Kosovo", "Kyrgyzstan",
"Latvia", "Lebanon", "Lithuania", "Luxembourg", "Macau",
"Mauritania", "Moldova", "Mongolia", "Montenegro", "Morocco",
"Mozambique", "Namibia", "Netherlands", "Macedonia", "Norway",
"Paraguay", "Peru", "Poland", "Portugal", "Romania", "Russia",
"Serbia", "Slovakia", "Slovenia", "Somalia", "SouthAfrica",
"Spain", "Suriname", "Sweden", "Switzerland", "Tunisia", "Turkey",
"Turkmenistan", "Ukraine", "Uruguay", "Uzbekistan", "Venezuela",
"Vietnam", "Zimbabwe"};

In[2]:= Plus @@ (Entity["Country", #]["Population"] & /@ comma)

Out[2]= Quantity[1990645326, "People"]

In[3]:= period = {"Australia", "Bangladesh", "Botswana", "Cambodia",
"Canada", "China", "DominicanRepublic", "Egypt", "ElSalvador",
"Estonia", "Ethiopia", "Ghana", "Guatemala", "Guyana", "Honduras",
"HongKong", "India", "Ireland", "Israel", "Jamaica", "Japan",
"Jordan", "Kenya", "NorthKorea", "SouthKorea", "Libya",
"Liechtenstein", "Luxembourg", "Macau", "Malaysia", "Maldives",
"Malta", "Mexico", "Myanmar", "Namibia", "Nepal", "NewZealand",
"Nicaragua", "Nigeria", "Pakistan", "Panama", "Peru",
"Philippines", "Qatar", "SaudiArabia", "Singapore", "Somalia",
"SriLanka", "Switzerland", "Syria", "Taiwan", "Tanzania",
"Thailand", "Uganda", "UnitedArabEmirates", "UnitedKingdom",
"UnitedStates"};

In[4]:= Plus @@ (Entity["Country", #]["Population"] & /@ period)

Out[4]= Quantity[5210743028, "People"]

It's not accurate because I'm not taking into account things such as "only in French Canada" or "only in currency", so some countries are double counted. But it gives a rough estimate. Five billion people for the dot, two for the comma.
Just wait until you have kids. Your mental capacity will nosedive and you have no time to worry about it. Just hope that no one notices!
Thank you for saying it better than I did. Everyone seems to want remote these days. But it’s really not possible for even half of employees. If say maybe at most only 20% qualify for remote work.
> And yes sanctions against north Korea or Russia are more important than the inflation of Lebanon, Zimbabwe or Turkey.

Impoverishing entire nations by making sure they can't buy necessary goods and thereby putting them at risk of starvation is more important than other nations who are impoverished and at risk of starvation due to their currencies collapsing.
Classic Elon Musk. The guy has the maturity of a 12 year old. Always disparaging and insulting people who don't agree with this controversial views.
If google returned the used item site for "kitchen sink" and nobody clicked on that result, it would be easy for an algorithm to make the connection that this is a bad result that shouldn't be ranked very high.
It's like losing weight - you HAVE to account for EVERYTHING.

Spend some serious time going over your spending (you don't need to make a "budget" per se, but DO map out exactly where the money is going) and preferably over an entire year. Many people get blown out of the water by expenses that only come in yearly (think: property tax that isn't escrowed, etc).

Convert everything to monthly billing (even if that means sending money monthly to escrow or a separate account) so you can track it down exactly.

Once you have it all laid out, it will be pretty clear what should be done (and just like with weight loss, it will often be something you don't want to hear).

If after all that, the debt load is way too high, consider bankruptcy. Done strategically it can be worthwhile.
Advancements in Microprocessor Architecture for Ubiquitous AI–An Overview
HSBC, Airbus, Deutsche Telekom, AXA, Shell, Nestle, Barclays, Metro, L'Oreal, BP, Michelin, AstraZeneca, Air France, Christian Dior, Philips, Anheuser-Busch, Vodafone, Lufthansa, Volkswagen, Siemens, Allianz, Bosch, Unilever, Maersk, Renault, Saint-Gobain, Bayer, Nokia, Ericsson, BT Group, Accenture, Madrigal Elektromotoren GmbH
It's been two years. If WFH was as productive or more the the front page of HN would be blitzed every day with studies proving that.

But nothing. Least studied mass cultural/work change in modern history and apparently not worth any academics time.
Not OP but in a very similar position.

How much time off do you think would be enough? Are we talking like a one/two week vacation or something more in the range of months (which ofc would imply leaving my job)?

Also does taking time off also include university or is it just the job that's going to be problematic?
I hire and manage people who work remotely. We've never been a stronger team.

Maybe remote isn't the problem, maybe you are?

Building the culture and systems to support remote takes effort and belief that it will succeed.
Yeah, a bookmarklet should work pretty well too, although indeed needs the font installed locally or requests going out to another sever. The advantage of the extension in that sense is that it includes the font locally and has a keyboard shortcut.

Someone else also mentioned that font, so I logged that here: https://gitlab.com/vincenttunru/obfuscate/-/issues/2
Threads like the below are why DevOps jobs exist and why Kubernetes infrastructure skills pay so much and why there's such a large demand.

Yes, it's quite complicated.

No, an API to control a managed EKS/GCK cluster + terraform + Jenkins/Azure DevOps/etc. does not mean that magically the developer can 'just deploy' and infrastructure jobs are obsoleted. That's old AWS marketing nonsense predating Kubernetes.

There's a whole maintenance of the CI/CD factory and its ever demanding new requirements around performance, around Infosec requirements, around scale, and around whatever unique business requirements throw a wrench in the operation.

Sticking to ECS I guess is a valid point. What Kubernetes gives you is a more sophisticated highly available environment built for integration (Helm charts and operators and setups that when they work give you more levers to control resources allocations, separations of app environments, etc.)

And as an aside, I've been doing this for 20 years and long before Kubernetes, before Docker, hell, before VMs were used widely in production, I observed the developer mindset: Oh but it's so easy, just do X. Here, let me do it. Fast forward a year of complexity later, you start hiring staff to manage the mess, the insane tech debt the developers made unwittingly, and you realize managing infrastructure is an art and a full time job.

A story that is visible with many startups that suddenly need to make their first DevOps hire, who in turn inherit a vast amount of tech debt and security nightmares.

Get out of here with, it's just API calls. DevOps jobs aren't going away. It's just the DevOps folks doing those API calls now.
I thought the reason they sounded so good was they were made from reclaimed church timber, old beams and such, and were thus touched by the angels.

Wouldn't the older wood just be lighter, dryer and less dense?
If we're not talking about hughes conquest to control the government then I'm at even more of a loss to how there's any comparison to Musk. Exactly how is Musk anything like the extremely OCD recluse? Musk who is notorious for sleeping in factories isn't anything like that so the only conclusion I can draw is that people just thought of the first "rich bad guy" that came to mind and drew a (weak) comparison.
The article is clickbaity and somewhat self-contradictory. For example:

> To finance their lifestyles, higher-income households are more likely to put expenses on credit cards -- but also more likely to be able to pay off their balance in full.

This means using cards as a convenience or optimizing for cashback (miles, status, ...) and not "to finance their lifestyles".

On the subject -- I am constantly surprised by the "you must buy as much house as you can afford, and then some" mentality in the US (I did not grow up here). I know several families, with 2 good professional incomes who loaded up on expensive housing to an extent that if either of them gets a noticeable pay cut they will be screwed. While there is still cheaper, smaller houses in the same town with the same school that they can handle on a single income (and invest or travel on the second; or just take it easy). So I am not particularly surprised that a high income family can dig themselves a financial hole. My 2c.
> surely if workers are systematically undercompensated, there is room for a disruptive firm to come in and take the best talent and still make a profit.

Other good replies here, but this part of the comment reveals some assumptions that need better definition. Having been both, I can comfortably say that academics aren’t “workers” in the same way that industry programmers are “workers”. The parent comment is not correct about the norm; programming for research projects is not usually sold for profit later to industry. It happens occasionally, but most academic work stays academic. Sometimes when it does happen, it’s in the form of a spinoff company that brings the original authors of the software, and so they end up getting some of the proceeds… when the business survives.

Also the top comment didn’t say ‘undercompensated’ - in business this has a clinical meaning that someone is being paid lower than market rates. We know that adademics pays lower, but we do not know that it’s lower than market rates for academics. It’s plenty true in industry alone that you can make a lot of money at Facebook or very little money at a small indie game dev shop. That doesn’t mean the indie game devs are undercompensated, it means they’re in a different market.

Starting firms to compensate researchers better is what pharmaceuticals (for example) are. The problem with your suggestion is that the need for income can undermine the ability to do research that is unbiased, risky, controversial, critical, or just free of agenda. If you pay researchers in line with what Bay Area programmers get, it will put an enormous burden on the PIs to make many multiples more money than their peers, and compete with them using a small fraction of the number of people of peer groups.
That's a loose definition of guarantee, I think. They know what's on the page because they include a brief summary in the results, but even there quoted terms don't always appear.

Here's an example someone posted a few months back where google decided the user didn't really want what they said they wanted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30132344
>Search is objectively worse today than it used to be

How would you demonstrate that search is objectively worse? And how would you then show that it's a result of Google's algorithms, and not a consequence of the content of the Internet changing significantly?
Leverage is excellent in good times but horrible in bad ones. As they say, after an ebb you see who was swimming naked.
I wouldn't say it's the industry, but the mission. You can earn more and work less at practically any other major aerospace company, and also get hired more easily. But instead of working on a goal of getting humans living on Mars, you're working on a goal of maximizing quarterly gains for shareholders.
In the UK, spending by financial services firms on AML compliance [1] exceeds all police spending [2] (£28.7 Bn vs £21.47Bn).

This represents a massive misallocation of resources. Public safety would almost certainly be improved if we doubled police spending by slashing AML burdens by 2/3rds.

Unfortunately it's hard for politicians address crime by raising taxes to fund real police but easy for them to attempt to address crime by increasing AML regulation, even if the latter is barely effective.

[1] https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/resource/cutting-the-costs-o...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/298637/united-kingdom-uk...
I'm one who started with only a BS, and I'm at a top-20 public university in the US. It depends on your PIs, but I've definitely been appreciated on many of the projects I've worked on (e.g., listed with 2nd most ownership percentage on invention disclosures, which also won a campus-wide yearly award).

Admittedly, my path was convoluted; I started as a engineer to help with non-research software at a large lab, and got pulled on to projects via reputation. But I was replacing a Master's student who was essentially at the same academic level as me anyway. It does pay less, but I made the tradeoff for the quality of projects, which was worth more to me at this point in my career. It's still much more than I need, just not at industry levels.
Honestly, how would you propose to generate the political will to just get rid of public institutions? This sounds more like a libertarian pipe dream than a pragmatic solution.
They survive by not having $200k (average and median) in student loan debt that needs servicing.

It's always been an unspoken truth behind the "the people with really high student debt have huge earning potential" counterargument for student-debt cancellation: yup, they do, those are your doctors (in particular). They go into tons of debt to get there, they forego many years of income due to an extended educational/credentialing period. And generally, so few people are willing to take that risk that we already have a massive shortage of them.

And unless you reform the educational system, the cost of that student-loan debt all gets rolled into the cost of their services and we all pay it. And it does show up as income in this fashion. It's one of the reasons that fixing the problem is so tough - it's really at the nexus of several broken systems that have complex problems with many stakeholders who are all reticent to reform.
It's not only strange that these sort of stories are coming back after being so brutally mocked a few years ago, but again the examples have a large part of their huge monthly nut going into their savings, retirement accounts, and assets (mortgages.)
Agree 100%.

The decision is far more about the culture leaders want to create in their organisations than about the “right” or “best” way to do things.
In the Fremont facility, assembly workers have a breakroom which is stocked with many brands of cereals. Dispensers full of that dried carton cereal. It was just cereal, milk, water, and drip coffee. Hot cooked meals you can get from a food truck waiting outside between the lobby and parking lot. Tech workers had longer lunches and can walk across the street to the burrito joint. While Google has a restaurant in every building, Tesla had a food truck.
OP, are you aware that the React team are testing their own compiler for React? Not to say your project is obselete, just want to make you aware. The team talked about it at React Conf 2021 (see youtube videos), currently named React Forget.
Only when it involves large amounts of negative numbers.
This reminds me of the fellow who looked at historical data on rents in San Francisco going back to 1948 and found that "Today's outrageous prices are exactly in line with the 6.6% trend that began 60 years ago."

~ "Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments" https://experimental-geography.blogspot.com/2016/05/employme...

It's a fascinating article, well worth the read.
> He certainly had his detractors before then, but it's hard to find a single person standing up for him today.

Maybe in your echo bubble, but that is factually quite incorrect.

Elon has made some questionable choices over the years and while I not a fan of many of them, I think he generally at least tries to use his capital for the betterment of the world. I think his "mission" is in fact the reason he uses to justify harsh behavior like described in this article.
Work harder slaves! Twitter’s acquisition will not pay itself!
This sounds like a preemptive hit piece on a researcher who is now free to publish an article that is critical of Google researchers work and perhaps even shows hints of outright fraud.

Nothing is brought forth except to say that this person had persistent claims of issues in the work with no proof provided to disprove these issues, and Google was preventing scientific publishing of the critical work to the point of threatening to fire the person and they now actually did.

The genders of the people involved are irrelevant but are pushed as some argument as to why the criticism is invalid. I’ll look forwards to seem the critique being published so the claims can be weighed against each other honestly.
Successful Transplant of Human Liver Treated in Machine
Google Play helps indie games go further faster
I don’t think normalizing the situation is good in anyway. This will only create bigger problems in the future. The US and Canada already have issues with drug addiction compared to other western countries.
I came to this thread to suggest what you've labelled "Lipsum Mode", because it would preserve the typography style of the page, among other things. I like your other two as well.
The risk that you may lose your job has to be considered in the equation, taking into account how "rare" your situation is (if you're work-from-home at $250k, will you be able to find that again, or will you have to move to get a similar income?) and how much savings you have.

Remember, when you take a loan you have extremely large banks on the other side of your "great idea" so either they're incredibly stupid, or they can take into account more factors.
That's a lot of assumptions there about me, and what I do without answering the question.
I wonder how this compares to jemalloc, mimalloc, snmalloc?