skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry I've made an edit since your reply, I meant to write western nations, but in fairness I can't find any good collated citations, and it's not likely to be "most western nations" as I thought anyway. So I guess just consider my comment an anecdote. But anecdotally (ie based on googling around) it is around 38 hours in NZ, Australia, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, France, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Ireland and Luxembourg. It's usually reported as an average of hours worked by a full time employee, but in at least a few of these countries it's actually a government set maximum.

It wasn't really the 40 hours I was taking issue with anyway, as that's pretty reasonable. But what does it mean to say that if you want to work remotely, you have to put in 40 hours at the office as well, shouldn't that be all you have to put in? It's just a loaded way to communicate.
People who are used to making betweeen minimum wage and say $20/hr - getting their standard unemployment check PLUS $600 a week? - ya to them that was living like the 1%: staying home and making more than they were making before and doing what they want.
Just take a remote position, no one knows or cares if you veg out in front of PC for full 8 hours.
I personally save them using the SingleFile browser extension.

https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
I've noticed in Brazil that McDonald's is using less and less people.

One McCafé I sometimes stop by only ever has one person doing all the work.

And the adjoined burger spot has almost completely done away with cashiers and put machines in their place. It hasn't solved the queues or the waiting time, but it must be a bit cheaper for the firm (Brazilians wages are ridiculous - about a dollar an hour).
> Mathematics as a reflection of reality presumes that there is a pause button on the universe.

This sounds more like your personal biases than a fact about mathematics.
And no SMD mounted connectors, only hole through connectors. The problem with that is that it will preclude the use of certain kinds of cables because the whole industry has now pretty much moved to SMD where possible to shave off the last couple of percent cost.
Hard to get into, have to move to one of five places, usually requires security clearances (huge ordeal), extremely clean lifestyle, if your PI is evil expect zero protection, post doc can be considered entry level qualifications, can be asked to work 7 days a week. Ultimately, usually still pays less than entry level software positions offering full time remote work...
The 2008 recession was especially fun because of bean counters. Some of the big Indian outsourcers used this to remove all sorts of things from the office stating "we can save money with these things and avoid layoffs." Among things that were removed at the outsources I worked at? Paper towels in the bathroom were removed in favour of the hand drying machines.
This technique is also known as Greeking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeking#In_computing

> The term "greeking" was applied by various WYSIWYG editors of the 1980s, such as ApplixWare and Island Graphics. Greeking referred to the substitution of text with a placeholder gray bar upon moving out of focus.
It's often faster/easier to ((change your) company) than to (change (your company)).
I love the simplicity and power of Obsidian. It also lets me sync desktop and iPhone for free via iCloud.
You underestimate how large a manipulation could go undetected. [1] shows an election with a 28-41 win for Patrick, while the poll showed a 37-31 win for Dewhurst. That's a 10% absolute swing, and 25% relative. And the less attention an election gets from pollsters, the bigger the margin for error and manipulation.

Changing too many votes, to make people doubt the legitimacy of the election, is itself a powerful attack to sow division in a country. I'm sure I don't need to cite examples...

And then what is even the point of formal voting, if, when done online, it's a centralized way for an adversary to change results, and is only legitimized by reproducing results of informal polls (conducted by public research firms we trust, of course...) We may as well skip elections and use the polls directly.

I agree there are many other ways to manipulate voters, so let's not expand that list further.

[1] https://www.texastribune.org/2014/03/06/polling-center-poll-...
This would be cool to be added to street complete :)

(i know it's a different project, but, I suppose same profil user)
I think it’s great that you’re doing that. It being your choice is key. For many of us we’ve seen that we’re just as productive working remotely plus we have more free time. There is no personal upside to me working in an office.
NYT Opinion: When Elon Musk Dreams, His Employees Have Nightmares
Our company uses LastPass.

I don't know if AD integration is available. Ours is federated so that if you are logged into Google Chrome / Workspace then you are also logged into the LastPass plugin.
> almost anything to do with performing arts is a terrible career choice

I, for one, am grateful that there are those who make that terrible career choice.
Perhaps his/her problem are alymonies?
Because they're also doing more things. 20 years ago you might have a single server in the broom closet handled by the sysadmin and developers running tests locally (if you were lucky), nowadays we want all those things you mentioned for production, and CI/CD for developing.

I'd wager providing all those things 20 years ago without k8s and CI tools would've required relatively more sysadmins
That was definitely my experience with working at a satellite office at a FAANG company. I would take the train an hour each way every day, just to dial into a remote meeting in California. It didn't bother me at first, but eventually it really bothered me once COVID hit and we were allowed to work from home.

I'm not opposed to being on the train for two hours a day if I feel like there's value in me actually being there (e.g. if I were a lecturer or something), but my job is to sit on my ass and write code, and I can do that at home, in my office, with music playing as loud as I want, being able to cook my own lunch for cheaper, and my "commute" taking about 20 seconds a day.
Too much money chasing too few goods.

- Low interest rates for years made money cheap (drives debt and stock market)

- Stimulus during 2020 & 2021 has thrown an immense amount of cash into the economy
I would be interested about "Constant" feedback. That would imply that living or sleeping alone is bad for one's mental health.
Indeed. Gemini aims to be a text-first protocol. It doesn’t attempt to nor purport to be a general-purpose document transfer protocol. (Although you can transfer a PDF or LaTeX document over Gemini, most clients will simply download these files.)
I wonder how this complies with the GDPR, especially in Germany, a generally pro-privacy country?
This is the very definition of a shallow dismissal. You are trying to insinuate that people who believe crypto is bad technology and bad for society, are doing the equivalent of arguing that the web is bad technology and bad for society.

But 1) the arguments against crypto are specific to crypto; 2) the very people who are arguing against crypto are the same people who have been the most vocal advocates of an open web; 3) this is a dismissal from a technologist perspective of the finance industry's self-interested pro-crypto lobbying - there's no obvious parallel of an industry lobbying for 'pro-web' policy over technologists' objections that you can analogize this to. If anything, web-related regulatory discussions in the 1990s were the opposite - entrenched industries lobbying against technological arguments.
thanks for pointing out. I'll change the name.
> Labor shortage is a wage shortage is a housing shortage is an urban land shortage.

Or it's all a money printing inflation problem.
I'm mostly running a few VPS servers to host websites. I'm not too concerned about security - i'm more interested in features such as protection from DDoS attacks which I've come to learn that are quite common nowadays.
What are you comparing it to? You get raises every 6 months, health insurance, 401k…

People are just complaining.

Lots of people who work at my local costco have been there since i was in my teens and now I’m in my 30’s
In FireFox people can get a similar effect with F12 -> Style Editor ->

* {font-family:wingdings !important;}

Or in Chrome, F12 -> Elements -> Styles on the right -> Fight with Chrome's interface.
CC-BY = Attribution: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

CC-BY-SA = Attribution + Share-Alike: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

CC-BY-NC = Attribution + Non-Commercial only: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

CC0 = some jurisdictions do not recognize the concept of "public domain", CC0 is a license that explicitly codifies the same ideas and is generally recognized everywhere (IIUC): https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...

The clarification of "BY" <==> "Attribution" is highlighted reasonably well at https://creativecommons.org.au/learn/licences/, which also provides a comparative summary of the other CC licenses.
This is fair and balanced reply. I still think it comes back to nuance on the company, what task you are performing, team size.. etc.. It's removing the nuance that causes the 'group think' on this topic and any company being flagged as regressive just because of this workforce decision.
This is my alternative which tries to convert a page to Markdown:
https://github.com/deathau/markdownload
You clearly didn't bother watching the video before commenting, because he's not just triggering sequences, and you're acting childishly dismissive of a traditional drummer with a mountain of talent who is, in fact, performing live. I can't even imagine what would compel you to publicly declare that another musician isn't a real musician, especially given that both his and your performance methods are extremely similar. Your disrespectful elitism isn't welcome anywhere, and certainly isn't reflective of the greater music community.
Meditate 10 minutes and run 1 mile daily.
The Ptolemaic Clock – A Proposal (2006)
There's also ArchiveWeb.page, which records in the same WARC format as archive.org

https://github.com/webrecorder/archiveweb.page
It seems like your government has chosen one specific way for you to live, and not given you much financial flexibility to live any other way. Know that it is not the same everywhere. Where I live there are no government–imposed financial incentives to encourage people to commute. (A lot of _employers_ encourage commuting, but not all of them do).
assertion: thinking is synonymous with computation (composed operations on symbolic systems).

computation is boolean algebra.

-> therefore, doing math is to think.

I'm not trying to be pedantic, I just don't think using intuitive associations with words helps clarifying things. If your definition for thought diverges here, please try to specify how exactly: what is thought, then? Semi-autonomous "pondering"? Because the closer I look at it, that, too, becomes boolean algebra, calling eval() on some semantic construct, which boils down to symbolic logic.

What you may mean is that "neural" networks are performing statistics instead of algebra, but that's not what the article is about, is it?
There are over 16 million vacant homes in the US[0]. There is also only over 500k homeless people in the US[1] meaning we could house each homeless person around 32 times over. I think it could make quite a large dent

[0]https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/report-how-many-homes-...

[1]https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insights/homelessness-sta...
This essay is about: how we do we get talent if we can't pay at the top of the scale?

It says that the conventional wisdom is you have to instead attract people with "vision", some really exciting thing that the company is targetted at.

But suggests instead, basically (this part is more my interpretative summary, what do you think?) that you can identify the people who couldn't get those top of the scale jobs (for example don't have a degree), but nevertheless are well-suited for your particular company/roles.

OK, sure, that makes sense, just on an economic basis. It's a kind of "hiring arbitrage" -- and at it's worse may be treating the employees as much as commodities as that phrase sounds like. Like, I'm not sure the people will stick around if working at your company for a couple years makes them now more competitive for higher-paying jobs, and all you had to attract them was that you were willing to hire them when others weren't. But maybe that's fine, there will be more where they come from.

But how about instead considering what could attract an employee in addition to top-scale salary or "vision"?

How about "quality of life"?

This could be internal -- you will like your co-workers, our managers are good at managing, we have a non-toxic work environment, you will feel like you have the support and freedom to actually do good work here toward understood organizational goals. (It's amazing how rare that is, right? I think a lot of people would take a salary drop for it).

This could be work/life balance -- our hours are reasonable and predictable, our time off is flexible and plentiful.

Or, even take a risk and offer 4-day weeks for the 'full' salary you can afford to offer -- you'll honestly probably be getting nearly as much productivity as 5-day week.

Etc.
> This is effectively the same as saying credit card surcharges are legal.

They are functionally similar but not effectively the same. Most notably, you couldn't vary the discount based on card type, which makes it useless when negotiating fees with specifiv PCNs. This is precisely why there was a class action antitrust lawsuit, the settlement for which required PCNs (specifically Visa and Mastercard) to change their terms to allow surcharges.
Did a casino game for the Newton.

Maybe the most interesting/memorable part of my brief foray into the Newton was being invited to the Apple Campus and meeting other engineers (I was still so young then). We were each paired with a weird development Newton that was some kind of PCB bento.

It was cool to see how the sausage is made (or at least what dev prototypes can look like).

I remember too the one engineer I chatted with in the evening that told me, "You could work here." That really surprised me — I thought you had to have a PhD or something to work for Apple.

(Not too many years later, I would in fact get a job at Apple.)
I’ve also worked in warehousing for a lot of my career and would agree completely.

Your IT example is great as something that could be done offsite but worsens relations if that happens (and is not likely to be as effective).

There is a huge difference between the system slowing down and someone remote fixing it, and the system slowing down and everyone on the floor knowing that Dan from IT upstairs is working on it.

Also I have seen remote teams swear blind that there is not a speed issue, and they have remotely checked the systems and network on their end, while the warehouse/factory is in meltdown.
Oh I know, it's implicit, but I guess there is a big difference between implicit and writing it down in such a way that makes it clear that more is expected of you, like I feel this email does.
Time off doesn't really enable anyone to work a different schedule, as mentioned above. If your boss wants 40hrs/week and you want to work 30hrs/week, you’ll burn two weeks of time off in 8 weeks.
Kubernetes can't (currently) scale to Google sizes. It's designed for small- or medium-sized businesses, which might have 50,000 VMs or fewer.

There are entire SaaS industries that could fit into a single Google/Facebook/Amazon datacenter.
And a service configuration, ingress, other networking, persistent volumes, a mechanism for updating deployed applications, management of the nodes (even with a managed service like EKS or other cloud solutions), logging, roles, security, etc. If you're a developer and all you have to worry about is one deployment spec, thank your devops team for making your life easier. Kubernetes is great for making the dev team's life easier, but someone did a lot of work to make it that easy for you.
How about not being mean to anyone?
Hey Mark, you had me at "Common Lisp" so i googled and i had a skim through https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp - it looks right up my street. Over the past couple of months I've taken to coffee breaks in the garden with lisp / scheme / clojure books. Books about the size of the little/reasoned schemer work well but stuff like HTDP is hard to balance! Anyway, your section on ql setup & integration with emacs is way better than the official docs having gone through this only a few months ago.

Am i able to buy a physical copy / print on demand? Neither Amazon nor LeanPub are giving me the option (I'm UK based). Waterstones will let me POD your "Common Lisp Modules" book but that doesn't look as relevant for me (someone who's fallen for lisp but still very much learning). I do have a kindle but i've become one of those divisive types who now freely writes margin notes in his books.
Yeah I remember half bakery! Great site.

Here's my best idea: phone cameras should all have square sensors and record the entire sensor, but display just landscape or portrait. That way you can choose the aspect ratio after shooting.

Kind of blows me away how much people complain about portrait videos but nobody has implemented this obvious solution.

There have been cameras that take square photos - e.g. the Snapchat glasses, but they restrict you to square aspect ratios and I'm pretty sure they actually use a cropped rectangular image.
Nice try HCBS exec... $2 billion goes a long way in many other forms: bonuses for higher performance, increased health benefits, expanded parental leave, etc.

Or just give me the $50 and _I_ will decide whether that is significant or not.
smh my head, a truly adversarial wordle would just use your first guess
This internal language, if I'm not mistaken, is exactly what the encoder and decoder parts of the neural networks do.

> in which they reason about decisions

I'm in awe of what the latest neural networks can produce, but I'm wary to call it “reasoning” or “deciding”. NNs are just very complex math equations and calling this intelligence is, in my opinion, muddying the waters of how far away we are from actual AI.
The Strange Elephant in the Room: Struggles, Passions and Hopes
Collaborative pianist here. Since the beginning of the pandemic I’ve noted more difficulties inferring musical intent when we’re masked. Obviously the eyes say something but without the whole gestural package there’s something missing.
4 8-hour days instead of 5 would be what I want.

It does seem somewhat rare.
Utterly baffled by this comment.

If you can't make a profit under reasonable conditions you have a cult, or perhaps a crime syndicate. Or a slave plantation.

What you don't have is a business run by balanced functional adults.
"Before you begin, make sure your Kubernetes cluster is up and running."
Or, employment taxes should be lower.

This is really a very complex problem and equation. There is also the question of "worker exploitation" in the sense of "is it reasonable to assume a McDonalds cashier should earn enough to support a family?".

In some, maybe even many, cases workers are likely underpaid. However, in many other cases, workers are paid relative to their overall value, but those same workers want to have a standard of living that is simply not practical with the job they hold.
I think this is only a half-truth. There certainly are examples of academic research being translated into lucrative products by industry (there are even prominent examples in software/systems engineering) but I think that many times the translation of academic research into a useable product is also a massive endeavor that deserves recognition in its own right.

I see this scenario described in medical research all the time with people saying that industry just leeches off of academic research and what people leave out conveniently is the vast amounts of money and research that goes into translating research into a real drug (billions spent on clinical trials to meet regulation, millions to billions spent on scaling manufacturing and synthesis of the drug to industrial volumes, drug delivery like pill design or injection methods)

Additionally many industries also do have well-paid research positions that "move the needle" on science and basic research. While they're more targeted at producing and supporting products instead of full liberty to exploring just for the sake of knowledge, it's not like there is a complete black and white poorly compensated academic research vs industry.
Ah, the uManager guys! Great software, sits on top of ImageJ (open source image analysis).

Our software was a custom C+Win32 app that was ported from CodeWarrior on MacOS 7/8. Windows timers were so crap that I ended up using Ryan Geiss' timer from Milkdrop: http://www.geisswerks.com/ryan/FAQS/timing.html

Yes, that Ryan Geiss, the Winamp one. He now works for Nvidia I think.

Our machines were bristling with serial ports, driving high speed filter wheels, lasers of every color we could get our hands on, special shutters coated with teflon, fast expensive cameras, and more! Their work is very much in my old field, I was in bioenergetics, specifically mitochondria and their dysfunction.

Thanks for the link down memory lane!
> You're talking about supply when you mention housing shortages, but let's look at the other part of the equation in a shortage: demand. Another perspective for a housing shortage might be to call it a people surplus. I don't blame anybody for seeking a better life, but I'd think at some point, an excess amount of illegal migration would have a noticeable impact in some areas.

The demand in urban housing comes from rural areas going decrepit: schools close, no higher education at all, no fast and reliable Internet and 4G/5G mobile connectivity, no public transport, rotting roads and bridges, no banks, no medical services, no shopping, no employment, no entertainment other than drinking and shooting tin cans.

If you want to live a modern life, there is no alternative to moving to urban areas.
> how they could stop me doing stuff like donating to political causes I agree with

Like I said upthread, this lasts until the second plane strikes the tower.

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia brought a huge, unprecedented wave of financial sanctions. If cryptocurrency actually worked for private, uncensorable transactions, they would have shrugged this off and moved to Monero. Perhaps we shouldn't rule this out. But remember the level of law changes to privacy and surveillance rolled out after 9/11 as well. We've not yet seen the first terrorist attack that would not have been possible without uncensorable cryptocurrency funding; the response to that will be something to behold.
If you have 100 prospective employees and 200 jobs, there's a labor shortage by definition.

This setup leads to a wage price spiral, as competitors continue to raise wages to poach employees, and people ping pong between jobs frequently for pay raises.

There is an aspect of LFP where higher wages may draw in new employees, but there's not a huge well to tap there.

Labor market is hotter than ever before, while LFP is declining. Pretty fair to call it a labor shortage. Though more accurately I'd call it an overheated economy. Typically the Fed triggers a recession under these circumstances.

Also keep in mind rising nominal wages above productivity gains does not benefit workers at all. It has to be real wage gains. Real wages have been declining at a record pace
I didn’t mean to imply that implementing it should be easy. Only that it should be unsurprising that it is possible.
Where your comparison falls apart is that every nerd knows that you can't run all cores at 100% all the time, that's just wasteful.. thus underclocking and shutting off cores when not in use is part of every modern processor.