skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't know liberia tried this. I know there has been a ton of successful small scale experiments. The science is in on this; very strong correlation between poverty and violent crime; but unintuitively inverse to the economy. The general thought is that it has much more to do with the 'covet thy neighbours junk' type of issue.

If you're in an economic depression or financial recession, violent crime goes down while poverty increases. It's thought to be because the poor people don't see people bragging or showing off their wealth. Which is also why gangs are all about displaying wealth.

>In Chicago, the murder rate is troublingly high, and the police fail to solve 95 percent of all shootings.

Sounds like the police aren't doing their job. 5% clearance rates is atrocious. As mayor I'd be firing police chiefs by the month until that gets fixed.

The top most priority for a government is to maintain their monopoly over violence. Nobody else is allowed to be violent except the government. It seems to me they are failing at their most fundamental requirement.

>Finding a way to prevent shootings and other violent crimes is an urgent priority — not only in that city, but across the US, as the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, remind us.

5% clearance rate on homicide, assuming true and this is probably not true because it's Vox, is the problem. Police need to do their job and arrest people. Why are the chicago police so bad at at their job? Homicide clearance rates in most of the world are >40%.

>Given that direct interventions like removing guns are largely blocked by political polarization, and trying to crack down on crime after the fact carries with it risks of policy brutality, we desperately need new solutions to the problem of violence.

It's largely blocked because that's idiotic at best. This is the chicago police not doing their job. If the police could just decide to stop enforcing the law until firearms are banned. The incentive would be to stop doing their job, that's terrible. The outcome would certainly be exactly what we are seeing.

If chicago is so desperate for new solutions to the problem of violence? I have a fool-proof way to fix their violence problem very quick. Police aren't doing their job anyway and police virtually never stop or prevent violence when they are doing their job.

Castle laws! Chicago should go in the opposite direction, or perhaps Illinois? Implement castle laws. Get everyone carrying a firearm who is willing to carry one.
My glib response is that automation is a lot of work.
I mean this was leaked? He didn’t post it.

And isn’t running a business efficiently, including on site workers, “focused on the cars and the share price”?
I’m actually surprised they allowed remote work at all.

I’ve had a few friends and coworkers work at, and subsequently leave, Tesla. It’s not a place you choose to work at if your goal is to have a relaxed job.
I can't believe I used to respect Elon.

It's not inherently bad to want people in the office (he's free to run his company how he'd like), but that email (and especially the one sent to more general workers) read like a post on /r/im14andthisisdeep with some guy who thinks he's superior to everyone else.
I don't think its about best practices, its about good design and communication. Even if we are just talking about PhD students, the majority of them are fresh graduates. They are no different than fresh grads in a company. Those grads work with experienced senior software engineers to guide them and provide design advice (not just best practices). Those engineers are often the ones writing the complex/difficult areas of code.

> RSEs should not be writing code for students doing PhD level projects in my opinion

So should a mechanical engineer PhD be designing and making all their own robot parts? Or should the shop engineer help them? The few mechanical engineer PhD's in robotics I know made a few early prototype test parts themselves with help from the shop engineer, but the shop engineer made and even helped design most of it, especially the final prototype.

> As you say, this is a great idea in principle. In reality I think that it's really difficult to make it work.

The point I'm making is that it does work and its proven to work very well (which is why the major industry labs do it). In my experience its Academia that doesn't like it. Anything which appears to take power/freedom away from scientists and gets in the road of their research is rejected. Though I think the core reason is (as other comments have mentioned), there is no incentive for Academia to make it work. The funny thing is that having a RSE working with them would actually help the scientists in the long run and allow them to focus more on the research because they wouldn't have to do everything themselves.
You think getting an unemployment check is "living like the 1%"?
For me, the missing feature is usually adding a note on my computer and accessing it seconds later on my phone. There are a lot of notes that would be tedious to create on my phone because of their complexity, but which I use on the go. Examples are workout plans, shopping notes, and travel notes. With Evernote, I create the note on my computer, walk out the door, and already have access on my phone.
A few thoughts...

1) Kubernetes is an infra platform for the ops in DevOps. If developers need to spend a lot of time doing Kubernetes it takes away from their ability/time to do their dev. So, there are a lot of platform teams who pull together tools to simplify the experience for devs or DevOps specialists who handle operating the workloads.

2) Kuberentes is, as Kelsey Hightower puts it, a platform to build platforms. You need DevOps/SREs to do that.

3) Kubernetes is hard. The API is huge and it's complex. The docs are limited.
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> A lot of scientists become severely tunnel-visioned, arrogant, conservative, downright disrespectful, and very hard to work with.

Tbf I can replace scientist with developer and it’s hold just as true.
The page isn't working for me. I get a error in the console and on url https://verdure.net:8443/radio/192/ is going nowhere.
No doubt he’ll follow that rule himself and not spend a huge portion of his time traveling and working from hotels.
> Should people with zero income be able to afford housing?

By definition, "zero income" (without infinite savings obviously) means you cannot afford anything! People without income obviously cannot be included in any conversation about affordability.

Should people without income be provided housing directly or through things like UBI? Yes, of course, but that's a different conversation.
> so there are more niches where hiring someone to babysit a few hundred VMs is profitable

This makes a lot of sense. The same thing happened in the past with new technology, such as the electronic spreadsheet:

"since 1980, right around the time the electronic spreadsheet came out, 400,000 bookkeeping and accounting clerk jobs have gone away. But 600,000 accounting jobs have been added."

Episode 606: Spreadsheets!, May 17, 2017, Planet Money
> 40 hours is already more than most nations salaried full time work maximum,

Citation? 40 hours is a standard full-time work week in many locations. Are you trying to suggest that “most nations” have work limits lower than 40 hours per week? Because that’s not true at all.
Sounds like a brilliant marketer.
Conversely, if you only look at the hours worked for people who make $200k+, you'll probably find that 40/wk is on the lower end. I think it's fair to say that North American engineers (like myself) are handsomely well-paid for the amount of time we put in, compared to really any other market in the world.
> You bet I think those people act with my interests in mind, since I elected the people who appointed them (unlike random scammers in croin space).

I want to live in this wonderland too, where are you?
> simply don't make a profit under reasonable conditions.

Profit is simply income minus expenses, accounting nonsense aside.

The problem is not that businesses cannot make a profit. Rather, its that we've build in worker exploitation into our economy. Our prices should be higher than they are.
I agree with this 100%. We're in the infancy of DevOps.

Ironically, "DevOps" started as a philosophy that developers should be able to do operations, e.g. deploy, monitor their apps without relying on external people (previously called Sys Admins, etc). Yet, we're at a stage where the "DevOps" role has become the most prevalent one. IMO things have temporarily gotten slightly worse to get much better later.

From the productivity standpoint, it is not acceptable that a Machine Learning engineer or a Full Stack Developer are expected to know Kubernetes. Or that they need to interact with a Kubernetes person/team. It is an obstacle for them to produce value.

Kubernetes is not THE solution. It's just an intermediate step. IMO, in the long run there'll be very few people actually working with technologies like Kubernetes. They'll be building other, simpler tooling on top of it, to be used by developers.

You already named few examples. I can name few more:

- Railway.app
- Vercel
- Render
- fly.io
- probably many more under way
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essentially Jevons paradox
> Housing shortage in just a land shortage in urban areas.

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.

> housing sits idle

Just curious on if there's a good estimate of how many houses sit idle and unused and if this has increased or decreased over time? I'm sure that some housing sits unused, but if it's a few thousand homes in an area where there's say a few hundred thousand families looking to buy, I'm not sure if that really makes a huge dent.
I wish the website came with a (detailed) list of features (especially regarding interoperability) and more screenshots. A 51-minute video on YouTube doesn't really help. :|
The issuance of Bitcoin is about as fair as one could hope for, for a non-state currency.

Satoshi advertised the currency and the start of mining beforehand, to give other people a chance to participate. There was no pre-mine.

In the early days there were faucets that handed out bitcoins for free.

Due to the boom and bust cycle of Bitcoin, many of the early holders cashed out instead of holding all the way to untold wealth. This is actually a nice side-effect of the early stages of Bitcoin adoption.

Very early holders of Bitcoin had to take the risk that the currency was somehow flawed and would go to zero, in some sense, the gains they made are a function of the risk they took.

The solution to wealth inequality is not to force everything to be equal, it's to allow both upward and downward mobility. The wealthy must be allowed to fail and not be bailed out.

Interestingly, bailouts are a common feature of the fiat monetary system.
From what I've seen, most developers either aren't systems thinkers or are too busy to take a step back and spot and eliminate redundancy. The best way I can explain this is that many software processes and pipelines within companies are usually complex Directed Acyclic Graphs and very often Transitive Reduction [1] is not applied to these processes.

At the end of transitive reduction, you end up with a graph with all redundant dependencies removed but functionally, it is still the same graph.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitive_reduction
>Every time this guy tweets, I regret my purchase more and more.

You are certainly free to feel however you like about your own purchases, but I have to say, I don't understand it. Either you like the car or you don't. If you do -- great! Drive away. If you don't -- sell it. Don't see what the WFH policy of Tesla has to do with anything.

Tesla employees are adults. They are not trapped by poverty wages. They are professionals. They can leave if they don't like it.

I'm a die-hard WFH'er and also not a CEO. Musk should run his company how he feels best.
In many cases, especially small businesses, there may not be sufficient profits to spread around. At some point on the price scale, a lot of restaurants just aren't going to have customers. And how many people will be willing to take an Uber if it costs $10/minute?
Be that as it may, but the article you linked actually confirms that places like this exist all over the world: "Kaltluftlöcher wie jenes im ‚Bierchäller’ sind der Menschheit seit jeher bekannt und wurden überall genutzt" ("cold air holes like the one in the "Bierchäller" have been known for a long time and were used everywhere"). Because warm air rises up, cold air tends to accumulate in holes in the ground. That's how an ice cave can form in the not very high and not very cold mountains of Romania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc%C4%83ri%C8%99oara_Cave).

In Germany (particularly Bavaria), the ground above the beer cellars was planted with chestnut trees to provide shade and help keep the cellar cool during the summer. Which was also an excellent shady place to serve the beer. For the sake of simplicity, the customers were allowed to bring their own food - thus the Bavarian beer garden.
That's an excuse anyway. Factory workers have to come in, because that's where the machinery is. Most other jobs are fine as remote. I'd never work for Tesla locally as I'd probably have to make over $1M/year to just have my current (very spartan) standard of living.
There's a lot of comments here and do far one thing which is missing to me the fact that we are seeing a classical libertarian playbook at play here: rail against the state while at the same time relying on regulatory capture. All state power and regulation is repugnant, except for the bits that benefit me.

It's especially ironic because of the ongoing rhetoric of the value of bitcoin &co being independence from the store of trust that is centralised government and regulations. If they are truly that unstoppable, I'd expect them to not waste their time lobbying the old system and simply build the glorious new crypto economy that's been around the corner for the last 13+ years. But no, instead we are making sure that the money inflow and cash out options stay secure, and keep trying to worm a redundant at best and useless at worst technology into as many use cases as possible in order to show potential and keep the line going up. I'm sure, once there is a decentralised Blockchain Startup talking some municipality of doing their barbers license applications or municipal bonds via NFTs both the value and the democratising effects will kick in.
Ah yes, the cargo cult of productivity - if i'm in the office, i'm producing value.

I think about this quote from Bezos in 2017 a lot, which is quoted in Mik Kersten's Project to Product:

"As companies get larger and more complex, there’s a tendency to manage to proxies. This comes in many shapes and sizes, and it’s dangerous, subtle, and very Day 2.
A common example is process as proxy. Good process serves you so you can serve customers. But if you’re not watchful, the process can become the thing. This can happen very easily in large organizations. The process becomes the proxy for the result you want. You stop looking at outcomes and just make sure you’re doing the process right."

I'd say "being in the office" is a proxy here.
> The factory workers have to come in every day. It’s probably demoralizing to them that the people with the cushier jobs don’t have to.

Sure, people who work a line have to actually be at the line to do their job, but even if the office staff has to go in, the complaint moves to how they get to sit in their offices and drink coffee all day. It's still not incorrect, but being present or absent isn't the source of the friction between factory workers and office workers.
37.5 in the UK last time I worked there.
Why does this bother you? He's running a business and for whatever reason he feels its important to productivity have employees come into the office. I don't know why you're so confident that this decision is an "ego trip" as opposed to an effort to more effectively produce cars and help the share price.

> If your employer is making you return to an unsafe office during a global pandemic, this is in violation of that.

You're living in a bubble if you most employers are okay with indefinite work from home after two and a half years.
1) Tesla needs to reduce costs. Getting people to voluntarily quit is a lot easier, cheaper, and less messy than layoffs or firing people.

2) We’re all talking about this topic here, which is exactly what Elon wanted. So he was quite successful here too.

3) This whole WFH or not debate is going to ultimately be settled by the markets on an industry by industry basis. If being in the office matters and one company does that while another offers WFH the latter will get its ass kicked in a competitive environment. If one trusts “the market” in the long run companies will migrate to what works best and those that don’t will be out competed and gradually perish, either because they struggle to operate or struggle to recruit the best talent.
It is so past time for him to hand over the reins.
The premise of your question is invalid. Have you ever tried setting up a Kubernetes cluster and deploying apps in it? Kubernetes doesn't save work, it adds work. In return, you get a lot of benefits, but it wasn't designed to reduce human work, nor was it designed to eliminate devops jobs. It was designed for scalability and availability more than anything. Most people using Kubernetes should be using something simpler, but that's a separate problem.
Gource is great indeed, it can be really mesmerising watching projects with long histories.

To add a couple of "pretty" alternatives (full disclosure: both mine):

- Repography[0] makes posters from the same data, with a few different designs

- Work/Artwork[1] is the same concept but even more abstract

[0]: https://repography.com/

[1]: https://workartwork.org/
From my experience, Kubernetes drastically reduces the number of DevOps people required. My current place has a team of 5, compared to a similarly sized, vmware-centric place I worked at a decade ago with a team of 14.

But DevOps means many things because it's not clearly defined, which also makes it difficult to hire for. It's a "jack-of-all-trades" role that people somehow fell into and decided to do instead of more traditional software engineering.

Also, from what I've experienced from our internship program, CS programs are really bad at covering these fundamentals. Students aren't learning such basics as version control, ci/cd, cloud platforms, linux, etc.
Picking a career purely for profit and being good enough at it without passion to compete with the passionate people shows a calculated grit and intelligence that I think you might be passing on. You might be missing the person who can make the calculated decisions without emotional investment, the person who can give you hard truths as to the viability of the business, the person who can take their personal out of decisions and act.
I can understand this. Factory workers need to be present obviously and to have a large part of company remote, it kind of is bad for morale. And morale is vital part of Tesla, they are on the mission.

That said, I don't think I would be working from office anytime soon, preferably never.
too true. I'm always caught out by how direct everyone is here :) It's refreshing in a way, though it does come across as incredibly rude too.

I'm always thinking "why do you think I said that to you now?", because if someone said to me "sorry, my English is really bad" I'd respond with something like "Oh OK, I'll slow down then, or is there another language we share?".

I was brought up in England, and there it can be very rude to ask for what you want directly (usually depending on class, as most things do in English culture). So it feels very wrong to just come right out with it ;) but I'm learning.
If I were a factory worker, I would prefer something material over any vain "solidarity".
Discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31577268 (190 points/260 comments)
A quick internet search reveals that Costco do not offer great pay for store employees
WeFunder and StartEngine are accessible to the average person.
/u/henrysun1313 tried writing a corp-speak version of this email, I prefer the original! :

Dear colleagues - as we get back to working from the office, it is important that all of us do our part to spend time together face to face to enable communication and group alignment. Remote work is not able to help Tesla advance production and innovation at the pace required to meet our goals and fully serve our shareholders. As such, myself and the leadership team are committing to at least 40 hours a week in person and need all employees to do the same. Appreciate everyone's compliance with this policy, where your manager cannot make an exception without my direct approval.

Let's charge forward with the Tesla mission and drive results.

Thanks
Elon
However it can't protect against real falls in the purchasing power of bitcoin vs the currency it's commonly transacted against, the dollar.

I'm starting to think there's a good argument for the US treasury trying to export financial stability by making USD holdable globally. Except that runs into the policy problems relating to who's using it.
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You're choosing to interpret the analogy outside of the bounds implied by the argument it is supposed to relate to.

In which case the rebuttal to your argument is as simple as adding another arbitrary layer of assumptions that do not generalise, in order to restrict your use of arbitrary assumptions that do not generalise, e.g "the government will not allow that split, back to discussing the original scenario."
> I'd never work for Tesla locally as I'd probably have to make over $1M/year to just have my current (very spartan) standard of living.

There is no big city in the USA where anyone needs $1m/year to live a “very spartan” standard of living.