skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This general attitude is why Europe has barely produced any great new companies in decades.
> If I'm wrong, I want a list of millionaires that Musk has created.

I was with you until this. There are definitely many millionaires minted from their original equity grants several years ago that have gone up 1,000%+.
we don't get distracted in the office? no water cooler chats about the weekend? no loud conversations one cube over? no foot traffic all day long breaking your concentration? no hour long lunch breaks where I leave the office?
he's not right. i'm more productive at home.
The problem I have with forcing execs to the same policy as workers when it comes to return to office is that most tech offices are located in extremely expensive cities where most employees now can not afford a decent house to raise a family. The execs can live anywhere in the world and lavishly on their salaries but in the bay area a average house runs about $1.6M, try to buy that on a 100-200k a year salary.(note tesla office is in palo alto where the avg. price of a house is $4M dollars, I don't know how much the TX office home prices are)
Leaving the house mortgaged is a reasonable and prudent decision, particularly at the rock-bottom interest rates of the past N years. The size of the house may be excessive, on the other hand -- most of the returns on a large home are not investment returns, but rather a form of consumption -- and the purchase of a boat, financed or otherwise, was probably the real five-or-six-figure mistake.

I made $500k last year (selling 1.5 years' of equity compensation near the top of the market) and I'm celebrating with a brand new mortgage and a car, but my monthly payment on both will be lower than what I was paying in rent, inflation is eroding the value of my mortgage debt. A conforming loan of $647,200 at 4% is an inflation hedge with a rate of return around $2000/mo, or ~60% of the mortgage payment.

The car is going to be used (real interest rate around -4% to 0%, details TBD). Boat? Maybe a kayak or canoe. :)
"If it always worked, it would be business. Let's go to the pub." -- Me, consoling a grad student after experiment failure #24.

More seriously, if you're in basic science, your skills are valuable in transforming the work into a more useful thing to be used later. Using your science factory model, you have created a reusable widget that other people can use. The science factory model does work, you can see its results in things like MIAME: https://www.nature.com/articles/ng1201-365 Where large pooled datasets are used to get insights otherwise impossible.

There's not a ton of low hanging fruit in some fields, as time has gone on the edges are harder and more expensive to see to be at the cutting edge. Ex: you spend $2M on a microscope that does a cool thing and two years later the new model is all that, a bag of chips, and a soda for the low price of $750k. You hope you have a good enough relationship with the vendor that they will either mod or upgrade your system, or that those two years were enough for you to get ahead. It probably wasn't. And you now have a not as fast ferrari for more money than the fast ferrari.

There is a massive glut of international students willing to work for basically nothing, beholden to your PI by their visas. I say this not as xenophobia, but I was the only working class American (my parents do not have degrees) in the department. All students/postdocs that I worked with were from other countries, or if they were American, their families were doctors, or a faculty member. More generally, the kind of people that might own horses :D.

No firm would take this work on, as the profits are not clear, and the time scales for success range from two years to never. In this case success is "great job publishing, we'll give your lab another 2-3y of funding." After which, you better get good at writing books and eating pasta.
Right about what? There’s great economic value in collocated work, absolutely, and I personally much prefer it… but there’s also great economic value in remote work. The premise that the last 2 years (in which remote work was forced because of a disruptive global event) is representative of remote work’s economic value doesn’t hold up.

A more accurate take is, many companies are unable to realise the economic value of remote work because they’re still operating as companies that only know how to realise the economic value of collocated work. Musk is one of them. He’s right… about his own deficiencies.
Whichever side of the remote vs. in-person debate you fall on, I think this is a net positive for the industry. More companies are starting to become strongly opinionated on the topic and that leads to a wider spectrum of options when searching for a job. There are many people out there who hate fully-remote and are suffering as a result of the isolation. There are also people out there who are thriving due to remote work. Both can co-exist at different companies.

Of course, springing this on already remote workers is problematic. Tesla is no stranger to low employee retention. In the short term they will have an exodus but perhaps in the longer term they'll have a workforce more aligned to their culture.
Many people have poor impulse control around certain decisions and are unable to control themselves despite wishing otherwise. The percentage of overweight and obese individuals in the world is a good indication of this.

Unless you feel obesity is their priority.
I think you’ve forgot the websites with walls of white-on-white keywords/links at the bottom, trying to game pagerank. Many of these models were marked improvements compared to the generations before.
Don't generalize your own situation. I live alone in a decently big apartment, I have way less distractions at home than at the office. It's different for every person.
> commuting every time you wanted to enjoy the city life

How do you enjoy the city life when half of your disposable income goes to shelter? And you haven't eaten yet??

But as long as enough people are willing to chase that dream rents will be high. That is, they will reflect what the market can bear.
I’m another odd man out joining you.
I don’t buy this narrative, I’ve tried in orgs which relied heavily on me (as half of my tiny team quit) and it backfired. Then I was laughed at during interview asking for a certain salary. Then I got a much higher salary than what I asked for from… big surprise a startup whom made significantly less money than the other two mentioned.

I’ve seen this backfire in “less prestigious” jobs too. The advice I was given was to work your way into a position of leverage within a company and then do this. But I learned that finding a company who will pay you what you want outright is a better strategy. You will be infinitely more respected and trusted.
I think he was doing well over the 6-10 year timeframe. It's the past 6-10 weeks that are out of character.
No, your total comp is probably no near 200, but what if your company was farming your work out? How much would they charge the client for your time? When my small company brings in consultants, it's usually at $100-150 per hour. $200 would be a tough sell, but it's not outside the realm of possiblitiy. $500 is a lot, but but lawyers usually produce results, and as described here, they don't get paid unless you do, so they have to make up that money somewhere.
How do these sites continue to exist? Since 2014, offering "a reliable and professional ipstresser service at an affordable price."

All, of course, hosted by Cloudflare. Maybe Cloudflare gets a kickback?
The extra security measures all boil down to "don't give anyone your account number"
No, it's not. People who are in the top 10% of incomes shouldn't need a roommate to get by, they should be able to support other people (like a family.) The income distribution is nowhere near flat enough for that to be acceptable; if elites are worried about getting by, everybody else is a lot more worried.
It really depends. Higher cost homes are tricky. Often hard to sell. Often they do not appreciate as much as your average home.

I would say $1.7m is probably on the edge of this category tho.
The vast majority of my peers prefer him to any other billionaire and why wouldn't they? Do you prefer the Zuckerbergs and Bezos' that do almost nothing but chase profit? I'll take the people who risk it for progressing tech and innovation any day of the week.
You've never had an Excel formula freeze the computer?
His first move into politics? His platform (even when he wasn't an antagonistic asshole) was political - climate change, species survival, deregulation.
I find that Google search results are still the best of any search engine for specific computer science and other specific tech-related topics, as long as you construct a fairly complex search string. However, for general information on things like world events, local news, national politics, etc. it's become little more than a mirror for corporate and state propaganda outlets. This is likely due to those very ML pipelines mentioned above:

Vince (authority/brand power), Panda (inbound link quality), Penguin (content quality)...

This represents a pretty severe narrowing of results on information and opinions - possibly the worst results are on Youtube searches for newsworthy events. It'd be very interesting to see what kind of content a pure PageRank algorithm-based search engine would generate today, and I'd be very interested in using such a search engine. Now, would it be overrun by SEO? I don't know, but it'd be worth finding out.

I kind of wonder if Google Scholar is purely PageRank or citation-count based, it still gives very useful results with relatively simple query strings.
The page Google saw might not be the one you get if you click the link they give you. This kind of thing is in the SEO bag of tricks.
This is basically the theme behind The Millionaire Next Door which argues that the people building wealth are often not the people flaunting it; they setup a fancy reception for people with a net worth of million+, expecting doctors and lawyers and other "high class" people and were surprised to get a bunch of construction workers and plumbers asking where the bud light was.
It would be helpful to see the difference with MLFlow. The deployment part as well as model registry part.
FLSA exemptions are great! And if an employee is not exempt you can just misclassify them, they probably have no way to know they're not exempt, and if they complain you can completely coincidentally not-at-all-in-retaliation fire them because at-will employment bebe.
So based on this clarification, then, it was targeted to executives. If that is the case I really don't see the problem.
The fact that he doesn't like the current administration does not exempt him from being an oligarch.
Great list! I'm curious to know if you've looked into Aptible as an alternative?
I have seen this occasionally work, but far more often not work. There can be several reasons for it to fail:

1) the supervisor is responding to their own bad work situation from above, and since they don't know how to do that, the bad supervising strategy is their adaptation to a bad situation.

2) the supervisor is just plain not good at being someone's boss, by temperament or aptitude, and they may know at some level that they're not good at it but don't appreciate their direct report telling them the specific ways in which they are not. However politely and respectfully it is put, if the supervisor knows they're not good at being a supervisor, then being told by the person they're supervising that the situation is not working, just makes them mad.

3) the supervisor believes that their direct reports need to be cowed in order to be productive, and they respond to any feedback of the sort you describe by taking it as a challenge which must be beaten down.

In fact, almost the only times I have seen management's attitude really change, is when they have too many people leave (although even then, sometimes they just aren't capable of managing well, and cannot seem to improve). Most often, leaving for a better job is the best way of communicating that the situation needs to improve.

In large organizations, obviously case (1) above is the most common, and in small organizations (2) and (3).
"What are FPGAs?" https://www.fpga4fun.com/FPGAinfo1.html
512GB is probably good enough for 99%. 4TB is probably good enough for 99.9%.

Context for all this: I lead tech at Remind, where we support 30M MAU with around 1 engineer per million MAU. Years ago we focused heavily on horizontally scaling, including our datastores. We stored a few hundred GB in clustered redis, dozens of TB in dynamoDB, a half dozen postgres clusters, etc.

The past year we've reversed course and doubled down on AWS Aurora. Every time we've moved data into Aurora our stability has improved, our devs can move faster and our costs go down.

We've got an order of magnitude headroom in Aurora and frankly our code is far from well optimized. There's so much to be gained from simplicity.
Unless you hire and manage people working remotely it’s difficult for you to speak as an employee.
Tesla/SpaceX/etc have gotten a good number of tax breaks and government contracts.
Madrid is catching up with Barcelona in the Scaleup “Clásico”
Israel signs trade deal with UAE, its biggest with any Arab country
>This is the tightest labor market in history.

This data only goes back to 2000. Do you have more data to support this claim?

Not to discredit your point, I really appreciate someone bringing actual numbers to this discussion. It is noteworthy how high it is.
> Transportation? We don't have nearly the tax rate on fuel that, say, European countries typically do.

Sure, but how many miles does the average European drive in a year, and what's their MPG? Before he semi-retired, my dad's daily round-trip commute was ~70 miles. Do any Europeans drive that much?
Yes, it reflects the problem that Rust advocates miss the point of some industries work outside FOSS.

Ironically you point out CHERI, so when is the Rust memory model going to be fixed to fully support it, and catch up with C and C++ on that front?

Is Aria done with her blog posts?

The ISO clay tablets do happen to work for more people than Rust in its current state, even if they are a bit fragile.

But it is ok, assuming that Rust's main goals isn't to cover all industry use cases supported by C and C++ in 2022.
Right when it was formulated. In the best case - assuming the simulation hypothesis does not have any flaws, i.e. there are no hidden assumptions or logical flaws or something along that line - the simulation hypothesis provides a trilemma, i.e. one of three things has to be true. That we are living in a simulation is only one of them and arguably the most implausible one.

But let us just assume we continue exploring and inspecting our universe and one day we discover that space is quantized into small cubes [1] with a side length of a thousand Planck lengths just like a voxel game world. Now what? Are we living in a simulation? Is this proof?

Actually, you probably would not be any wiser. How would you know whether the universe just works with small voxels and we wrongly assumed all the time that space is continuous or whether this universe is a simulation using voxels and somewhere out there is the real universe with continuous space? You do not know what a real universe looks like, you do not know what a simulated universe looks like, you just know what our universe looks like. How will you ever tell what kind our universe is?

[1] This is purely hypothetical, I do not care about how physically realistic this is, what kind of problems with preferred reference frames or what not this might cause, let us just pretend it makes sense.
If the government committed to the project being OSS, they might be able to recruit some reasonably skilled programmers.
Isn’t automation an innovation?
> "Employees knew about such rampages. Sometimes Musk would terminate people; other times he would simply intimidate them. One manager had a name for these outbursts—Elon’s rage firings

Sounds like same ol' behavior as the narcissistic Ballmer and Jobs. Being perceived as "dangerous" is part of being an alpha male, but it goes too far when you get to the top, it seems.
The FBI took ten years to find Osama, after 9/11 had already completed. Except according to Zero Dark Thirty, wasn't it the CIA? The balls on these goons. The FBI should be reminded of their horrendous origin story: Taking down non-white political dissidents.

I'm not saying the astronomer did or didn't deserve it. I'm saying you don't get to the position of questioning citizens by not having a big dick for a mythical impression of big government.
I believe it. But for a lot of companies the standard playbook is everyone is replaceable and they probably wouldn't even consider meaningful change unless attrition hits a certain percent. They'd rather cut a new hire a fresh load of RSUs than refresh you to keep you from looking around.

Varies by company, but IME, bringing issues of pay and stuff up are often hit with the standard "we consider raises in November" or whatever arbitrary time period they've chosen. Then they're shocked when people leave.
I saw an article a while back about how, much like counterfeits that fool all the experts look amateurish after a few decades, the violins that compare well to Stradivariuses in these double blind studies eventually get considered inferior to new violins or at least go out of style. Something really funny is going on with how we perceive these old Italian violins and it's not all reputation-based placebo effect.

Somebody also discovers a different "secret of the Stradivari" every decade or so. Thirty years ago people were going to make carbon-fiber composite violins that imitated the mechanical properties of the wood used in them, for example.
Why are you worried about distractions? Is the sole focus of your company that the people you pay are 100% focused on something? Obviously not. Pick a better metric, measure it, and see if it is performing worse than before remote work.

And if you don't have the metric to back it up, you can't claim remote work is bad.

If you think you can't measure something, read How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

https://www.amazon.com/How-Measure-Anything-Intangibles-Busi...
I agree. All tied into a single, non-cash-flow generating asset is risky, to say the least. And it will really be an asset only when they sell it. Until then, they only pour more and more money into a bottomless pit that a house is. EDIT: for $250,000/year income, the most expensive house one can afford is $750,000. Their $1.7 million house is way above their means.
I guess I'll be waiting to apply to Twitter until after all this Elon drama is over :)
The Linux kernel is basically 100% remote work, for one huge counter-example.
Remote work is not suitable for all positions and for all people. There is a percentage of us (mainly in the software industry) who work better remotely, but this is heavily related to the team composition, experience, environment, management...

Can we please all of us stop being at the two extremes, office or remote, and accept that there are shades between black and white. The companies that will benefit from all this shift of mentality will be the ones that will adapt, allow remote work to those that can really utilize it and benefit from it and on the other hand bring back to work the ones that thrive in an office :-)
He is not right. He thinks he is right, and his confidence and certainty are persuasive to some folks. But he's not right about this.
We just went through over two years of fully remote work and our productivity has never been higher. We've onboarded many people during that time.

It's not even been particularly difficult.
Zero. The same number of apples you get if you have all the necessary labor and no land.
I think the part that people most take issue with is the "you have to spend 40 hours in the office (the other 40 hours you are expected to work per week you can do from home)" part...
Cures
So how does this lead to a classless society?
> It's always somewhat surprising to me that given a bit of time, a seemingly inexhaustible resource like heat capacity of the ground or ground water can actually be depleted once we put our minds to using it.

Or the ability of the atmosphere to just "disappear" all that ICE exhaust.
On a serious note, modern bands using IEMs and talkback mic's can do a lot of the things that body signals (raising/slamming guitar necks), facial expressions, eye contact, and mouthing words do.
Oligarchs don't need to work with the establishment. I'd argue in many cases they exist by subverting the establishment.
It's certainly a risk to be relying on any proprietary SaaS or Cloud but I don't really get the reason to be doing CI/CD as if it can never be down. There are a lot of risks in having credentials on hot spare alternative systems you rarely need and the number of times I've really had to rollback a deployment quickly is something I can count on one hand. Isn't it better to focus on quality to not need to deploy on a moment's notice?
Contest of ideas to democratize machine learning
It's not just troublemakers who the cops harass.

It depends on the cop, the situation, who you are, and the cop's mood.

It's the most vulnerable, powerless, and despised (like poor drug addicts) who are most likely to have some asshole, powertripping cop selectively target -- whether or not the victim is doing anything wrong.
This doesn't provide any data on the livability of those homes. Homes that have sat vacant for years would needs tens of thousands of dollars to be habitable, or impossible to bring up to modern code
Simple and effective.

Mine is Cycling, but there is a lot to this, especially for your mental state. Rest and activity boost growth hormones and help your brain to sort things out. Burnout can feel like depression. For me, that's when I know I need to be giving myself more time between things. Work hard and rest hard. Work your body like you do your mind.

So find an activity that you like or want to try and get sweaty - get body-tired to match your mental-tired-ness.

And share your efforts with your manager. This is actually part of leveling up. Knowing what you need to do for -you- that will help you do better, more motivated work with a fresh perspective is a value-adding process as much as going to a conference is.
> If you check my original comment I gave a simple scheme to attack HITS rank. Sybil attack is a little harder for Pagerank.

OK, but how is it harder for PageRank? I can't really see any differences in the semantics of the two algorithms, so I'm not sure what kind of added vulnerability one or the other could have.

> One could pose this as an adversarial game.

Yeah, I appreciate that, that's what I was referring to as "the idea that people will try to game it". It's not really the kind of 'game' that would be considered in game theory, though, because it doesn't have any interesting or emergent properties - the designer's response will just be "oh yeah we should stop people gaming our algorithm".