skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Eh i love remote work but people saying no one is slacking at home show a clear lack of judgement themselves.

No one is saying "no one is slacking at home". Individuals who don't slack at home are saying "I don't slack at home, and I don't want to be weird tangent punished for your other incompetent employees. If they aren't doing their jobs fire them, I'm not going back, and I'm worth more to your company than you are to me."
> You can almost always get what you want, for a price.

But there isn’t an infinite supply of qualified people.
Except for inelastic (including periodic) markets, which are many of our markets. For example, you can't self-heal the supply of fresh peaches if there are no more fresh peaches left in the season.
I use Davmail to talk to O365 and present standard interfaces like imap/caldav/smtp/etc and then use vdirsyncer to pull down my work calender to use with khal. It works pretty good for me, especially now that Davmail does MFA internally so no account changes are needed in O365
RavenDB’s OLAP ETL Opens the Door to Business Intelligence
Very interesting! I'm a woman.
The world is facing helium shortage 4.0
Examining the figures in regards to carbon dioxide emissions. It was the simplest, most impactful change I could implement in my life to lower my carbon footprint.

I've thought about the ethical aspects but for me personally I've kind of reached the conclusion that humans will exploit animals capacity in some sense. For me I'm ok with keeping cows for milk, chickens for eggs etc. With this reasoning I'm also fine with hunting.
Third outage in the last week, I have to say GitHub has seemingly become a lot less reliable over the last 3-4 years.
Ok well I can fix that. Hi, I'm a research software engineer and I don't have a PhD.

I'm in Europe. My salary is definitely better than the PhD students' salaries, and I have a proper adult pension as that's a legal requirement here. My salary is approximately equal to what a graduate might earn 1-2 years after graduating in the local market, so doesn't match my actual experience, but I accepted the post for pandemic-induced reasons. Certainly the salary does not, nor will ever, compare to levels.fyi/FAANG type jobs or a large corp in country.

However it is true that my position officially is very much a curiosity. We don't have a defined RSE type role, so the slot I fit in is "staying on to help out on project after graduating". My job is a fixed term contract that can only be renewed a certain number of times and I'm approaching that limit soon. There isn't any viable track to joining the ranks of researchers - I would have to do a masters first, and this ironically would require doing an internship, in spite of the fact I have more actual industry (non-university) experience than the entire lab combined.

I'm also not sure if my lab head bent the rules or not on hiring me - it might be the case that I am supposed to have a PhD or at least a masters.

I would agree with top level post in most points. It is interesting work, but I don't "belong" anywhere in "the system". This might change in 10-20 years. Artefact evaluation is very much becoming a thing in systems research, because being able to reproduce other people's work is quite important, and very occasionally you will stumble upon papers whose claims are, ah, more expansive than the associated github project can fulfil. As more research relies on software that graduate students are simply ill-equipped to write (by virtue of having no experience in anything and by being taught by professors most of whom no experience writing production code) the role of an RSE might become more important in time, but like anything it'll be a slow change.
Ability to pay matters though too, so in one sense what you say is true but it may also be irrelevant in terms of solving the problem. If the market-clearing wage for a given job at certain types of businesses is $30/hour but previously paid $25/hour that might be okay. But if it's a type of business heavy on labor costs with tight margins it might not be possible to pay $30. Raising prices is one possible answer but demand may be inelastic and business dries up at increased prices.

We can argue that such businesses had unsustainable models, but that wasn't true 2.5 years ago, even if inflation has made it true today. So perfectly reasonable business models that were paying reasonable wages are, suddenly, no longer viable and maybe they collapse.

I don't have a good answer for this. If they were business models that don't work if you pay a living wage I've seen some people say "well those were always bad businesses and deserve to be trimmed off the economy." For jobs a tier or two up that in this position because of recent economic trends it's not so simple. "Let them fail" seems like a neat free market solution but it also wreaks havoc on the economy with lots of people hurt and contagion spreading to other businesses as more people lose jobs, and a death spiral begins.

But what's the alternative to "let them fail"? UBI? I'm in favor of experimenting in that area but I'm not convinced it's a silver bullet.
Thrilled to see organized action on this front.

For too long, the only voices in the room were there for hype. It's easy for those with critical views to just ignore it.
I’m liking Earthly a lot: https://earthly.dev/
The Smartest Compression Features on the Market
What other people actually use matters a lot though. Hell, a greater proportion of Java devs ca. 2002 probably knew how to AOT-compile their programs than do today. Using minority tooling in a popular language is often just as painful as using a minority language.
Of course, that doesn't mean that price fixing is always a bad idea. We're just so used to not having to deal with genuine shortages that most people don't even consider what can happen when there's a true shortage of essential goods like food.
The researchers actual report: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.053...

Sounds like it is in fact a single interconnected organism (like Pando) and not multiple plants that are clones.

> Our genomic and cytogenetic assessments of 10 meadows identified geographically restricted, diploid clones (2n = 20) in a single location, and a single widespread, high-heterozygosity, polyploid clone (2n = 40) in all other locations. The polyploid clone spanned at least 180 km, making it the largest known example of a clone in any environment on earth.
These are exactly the questions that invariably come up every so often and the conversations I typically don't enjoy anymore, it got old years ago.

I'd say yes, and I'd say the same about a human (instinctual aversion to cannibalism aside). If I'd personally actually eat it or not would depend a lot on the situation but in most cases probably not.
They used my identity to flog a doomed cryptocurrency – then things got weird
I have spoken to quite a few that made minimum wage (which is not even close to 30k).
Jester: Chess over Nostr
This would be only true if businesses weren't posting record profits. But they mostly are.
It is a pea-based replacement called Sproud. Milk replacement tastes are extremely individual, but for me it was the only thing that managed to taste just right in coffee. All the oat, almond, and other alternatives I've tried always seemed to create a distracting aftertaste for me.
Agree, but GitNoter is self hosted webapp it does not require any desktop/mobile client. It can be directly accessible with the browser.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll check if import from evernote can be added as a feature to GitNoter.
Build a Data Access Layer with PostgreSQL and Node.js
In my experience, background doesn't tell you if someone's passionate. Spending a few minutes talking about their (as well as your own) side projects and what they've been spending their evenings working on / reading about and seeing them light up is a big indicator for me.

Not everyone will do side projects - and that's fine - but passionate engineers will have something to get excited about without needing to think about it.
Source code: https://github.com/jesterui/jesterui
Article is May 2021, when Biden's vax mandates were just starting full swing. Your link is a year later when companies realized what a gigantic mistake they had made.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/here-are-comp...
Kinda ironic to see Roquefort cheese in an example of natural cooling and preservation system :)
>Once again, why are companies like Stripe [0], Moneygram [1], still using cryptocurrencies then?

Because they want to be part of the current buzzword, just like every company throwing around "AI" and "machine learning". For the most part those companies are also fairly quickly converting any crypto into hard fiat, their risk is entirely minimal, yet the fees they are charging are quite profitable.

They're mostly acting as moneychangers, not crypto fanatics. And their adoption doesn't change the fact that you can go on dozens (hundreds?) of DNMs and buy child pornography and drugs from the privacy of your living room.

The vast majority of crypto is currently speculation/pump and dump and illegal commerce. Period. It is cancer, electricity-hungry cancer.
My company paid out 2 billion in stock buybacks last year but we had to threaten to unionize to get a decent cost of living increase. Greed and the devaluing of the modern worker is the obvious answer.
The main benefit of a self driving car will be sleepy commute. Obviously he wants people to commute. No need for a fancy tesla when you can be sleepy at home
> But what's the alternative to "let them fail"?

There isn't really an alternative that doesn't cost the tax payer. "let" is a misnomer, because no one is "letting", it's a natural consequence of the inability to profit.

A business could increase their productivity or try to make do with a lower profit margin, but if none of these work, they fail.
Then it creates more pressure for productivity improvements. E.g. automatization.

Or product price increase reduces demand. E.g. pay restaurant workers more -> less people come to more expensive restaurants -> less workers needed.
Apple Lightning (2020)
Viral ‘Simple’ Math Problem Is Causing Serious Divide
And bonus points if you have a creek uphill that you can divert to the top of a vertical chute in your tunnel system to send it over a drip-grid when temperatures are slightly freezing: not too cold to have the creek still running, but cold enough make the water form icicles from the drip grid. Pass by once a day to kick down newly formed icicles, building an ice reservoir at the bottom of the chute. I know a brewery that solves all their cooling needs with this method.

(no idea if they reinstated that system in the oughts, when starting to advertise as "all renewable", or if they just failed to update to electric refrigeration long enough that it eventually became fashionable again - hardly more than a century of "yeah, perhaps next year, I'm busy!")
That depends on how elastic the supply is. If everyone is willing to pay more for van Gogh paintings they simply get more expensive. But most things have a much more elastic supply, even if often only on the scale of years instead of months.

If there's a sustained screw shortage that drives investment in new factories. If there's a sustained oil shortage and everyone is willing to pay double for oil that drives investment in extraction methods that previously weren't economically viable. Germany had a sustained labor shortage in the 50s and 60s due to a booming economy with a war-decimated population, which drove immigration of Turkish workers (including bilateral agreements to smooth the legal process).
The goal of research scientists is rarely to produce a finished and polished product. Instead, they aim to prove some concept/algorithm/technique/etc.

They are almost always time and resource strapped, so it becomes a near necessity to deprioritize factors like readability and maintainability.

Still, many RSEs could immensely benefit from applying basic best practices.
There is an existing market solution to this, which is futures. Unless you sell onions (loooooong story) futures exist to insulate farmers from some of the fluctuation in markets and provide price signals for future planting (which is on the order of years, iirc 10 for a peach tree to become fully productive).

It doesn't work perfectly and in fact can't. But it's there and it functions.

Edit to add the other half of this: someone looking to buy a peach wants to eat a piece of fresh fruit or make a dessert, a season of high prices might mean they make more apple crumble and less peach cobbler. It's not the end of the world. There were many years when I was in the black cherry buying market for roughly six weeks a year, because I couldn't afford to eat them over four bucks a pound.
people slacking at home slack in office as well no? We've had to experiment with work from home worldwide because of covid. Overall I'm not observing reduced (or improved) productivity
I think it is all russian accounts: https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/02/oracle_and_sap_suspen...
Smiling is all you need: fooling identity recognition by having emotions
Thanks Ben! I've actually toyed with using this library too, and Cypress.

We use jest for JS functionality testing and PHPUNIT for the backend tests. Will certainly look into Puppeteer more though!
Vivaldi Android 5.3 adds Syncable Search, Renaming Two-level Tabstacks and more
Increase price and demand will drop to match supply.
+1 to this. I'd go one step further and say that it doesn't matter who is actually slacking at home. The same people probably slack at the office too. In any case, if work from home increases the number of people who slack or the magnitude of slacking, it should be apparent in their performance. If this is set up correctly, you can identify those don't benefit from working from home and have a conversation with them about it.
Yes, I also modified timeformat and highlight_event_days (and highlight_days). In fact, I did quite a bit of other configurations as well. But the point I was making is that the system is usable after just a few minutes. If VIM is precedent, then we'll be configuring the poor thing for decades!
Both are defined as exactly the same value...

Edit: And from the downvote to disagree reaction, looks like people not only get their terms from economics without looking their meaning, but seem to be also incredibly confident on it.
South Sea Bubble 1720 Project
You can generalize many problems in a way that makes discussion around the specific topic at hand difficult.

Sure, price of stuff can be a problem. But talking about wages and people and empathy is specific and worthy of discussion…so dismissing this because of other problems is not helpful nor productive.
So in both cases, it's just poor web design. This is disappointing.

I could maybe forgive the use icon fonts (Google websites end up breaking the most, android's documentation website for example) but it's unforgivable to write `pre code { font-family: my-random-webfont }`.
next planting season, there'd be more incentive for someone to plant peaches (vs something else that has a lower profit margin).
“Setting up a new society elsewhere with our own currency” is the very definition of the US
Looks like you're not yet ready for retail investors?
Here's something I noticed when talking to or observing others when it comes down to this kind of thing.

When people are in unacceptable work situations, which almost always comes down to (at least seemingly) bad management, lack of respect and low wages, they tend to avoid the issue either by leaving and finding a better place or by trying to level up if they have the guts to change anything at all. Often they try and suck it up, which leads to all kind of issues down the line.

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.

And it is understandable. We tend to get taught how to be good worker bees. Reading and writing, math, discipline, shallow/propagandized politics and skills that prepare for work.

But we aren't taught how to negotiate, question authority, organization (the real kind, not the following orders kind), collective bargaining, solving conflicts and compromising as equals etc. These are _essential_ life skills.

Good leaders respect you if you have these skills, they love to solve problems and improve situations. And it can have powerful long term effects on a workplace if you become active. Freedom and power come from realizing that you already have it.
You can put images links in fine, between lines. Stick your svgs in and publish.
That's the standard line. Don't let it be a thought-terminating cliche though. There's no solution to the problem there.

Maybe question the idea of strict social segregation of children by age, social segregation of children by academic status, etc.
Of course you wouldn't run the system off VHS tapes 30 years ago but it is just absurd to me we have no change in the system when I can literally find all the lectures, the textbook and notes for basically any class in the next 5 minutes.

Not only any class but I can probably find multiple different professors teaching the class and take my pick of who I like the best.

To me, it can only be explained by our cultural obsession with education as credentials and the total disregard that classes have actual valuable information. We have had an absolute revolution in education that we are not taking any advantage of. Instead the classes mostly rot on youtube and the education racket collects rents no differently than in 1980 other than charging way more.
> lentils give me digestive problems

There are different types of lentils, the most protein heavy is called "toor daal", the one you get in restaurant dishes because it tastes good but is difficult to digest; the most light on the gut is "moog daal" because, compared to toor daal, it has less protein, with just little less "tasty".

> I liked tofu

Also try soya chunks for protein.
Tesla no longer allowing remote work
DeLorean is back for the future with brand new EV
But what's the alternative to "let them fail"?

There isn't an alternative to failure that is consistent with your premise of free market economics.
Not every interpretation of a piece is the same.
I think we have some models of what would happen to Go without Google, it's probably similar to what happened to Java under the weaker period of Oracle's stewardship.

The tool as-it-is keeps chugging along pretty well and even improving in small ways, but it stops reacting to larger trends and misses the boat at critical moments. Some new language in the same space comes up and finds it easy to shear off a massive portion of its user base by doing "the same thing, but modern".

(Less obvious models would be PHP to backend JS, and PHP and Python to Go, which had similar community development arcs.)
Uhuh... and if the state, with its monopoly on violence, wishes to ban these currencies?

D'you think an "ordinary person" is going to risk being thrown in a gulag?

The problem with all these tech utopians is they think the relevant problems are technical: we've solved trust! (Between machines negotiating over a network). We've solved currency manipulation (oh its not a currency, it's an asset; and oh it can be manipulated by the 3 people who own 50% of it).

All the problems are social, not technological. And crypto makes all of them worse! By an order of magnitude worse.
Sorry, it absolutely is optional. But I also agree with your point on regulation.
There are costs to firing people (morale, hiring overhead, other risks etc) so often they are kept around for a couple years on the hope that they will somehow improve.

0.1 devs are actually fine, they don’t really exist unless they stare at YouTube for 36 hours each week. Usually when incompetent devs start to do something the result turns negative quite quickly.
We just need these in Manhattan! LoL

Seriously, the concrete jungle is a big pain for cooling because the cement absorbs heat and radiates it, so after a few hot days in a row it's really tough to cool sans A/C. If the power went out, I'd probably go to the basement? But if it were out for a week+, pretty sure we'd recreate an urban version of The Ministry for the Future. :-(
Money is primarily measuring of how much their time other people were willing to sacrifice for the service or goods offered by the subject.
The argument I guess is that more GDP is more prosperity for the country, but with income inequality rising to the level that it is in the US, I don't think it matters much to the average worker that GDP is increasing if they're not getting any benefit from it.
Yes, they sent me this:
"Dear user,
Thank you for your inquiry. Oracle has withdrawn all operations in Russian Federation and Belarus, hence your account has been de-activated.
You may refer to https://www.oracle.com/corporate/conflict-in-ukraine/russia/.
"
but when I wrote to them that I live in the Czech Republic, they asked me to send confirmation and then they just disappeared:
"Dear user, Please provide any Government address and identity proof."
Safari has 1B users, but it still can’t touch Chrome
> We have a huge surplus of unemployed young men, they just have no reason to work

how come they got food to eat, and shelter to live in, and water to drink? They must either be living off savings (their own or family's), or living off taxpayers (some sort of unemployment payment).

In the latter case, they _do_ have a reason to work. Living off the taxpayer is not a long term sustainable mode of living. If they do not choose to work, because the social security is high enough that they can afford to decline work, then what does it say about social security?
I realize this is probably a big ask, but an import from Google Keep would be a huge plus. Google eventually kills off EVERYTHING good.
Also the transition from pensions to 401k.
"One of the hallmarks of mania is the rapid rise in complexity and rates of fraud"
identity verification (government issued id) + 2FA should be MENDATORY imo

a move in the right direction

also they should deny new IPs (other than different subnets) until real person verification
> But I would work may unpaid extra hours at home

I think that's incorrect. You would work the number of hours you wish to work (considering you produce reasonable value, but the bar is low). Research engineer (or researcher for that matter) in a public French research center is a civil servant position. They are difficult to get but you don't get fired unless something is blatantly wrong.

Source: I worked 10+ years in such a position. I work now for a FAANG and the pressure is considerably higher. Evaluations every 6 months, lot of peer pressure (engineers are on average better and more ambitious than those in academia and you need to keep up - some of them seem to work 24/7), extremely stressful oncalls. Gross salary is 5 times my previous salary and has the potential to increase much more.

Of course, this is certainly not representative of all cases, but most of the time, there's a price to pay for a higher salary. Another thing to think about is ageism: as a research engineer in academia, you're all set until retirement. In software industry, it's getting hard after 50.
Free speech absolutists should try Usenet. See how long that remains enjoyable (again).
At least we are getting a good education on monetary policy along the way.
It used to be expected that young bachelors would live in boarding houses, with (maybe) a private room with a bed, but shared bathing accommodations, usually with a meal.

We made that illegal, effetively, so the entire market between living in a tent and splitting a detached home with roommates is missing. Therefore, you get people who have four hundred a month to spend on a room, with no room that cheap, and they live in a van.