skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t disageee. I don’t see much value in 100% on-site work, but at the same time..100% WFH is not viable or feasible and employers would never and can never agree to giving the employees that kind of bargaining power.

It is also an ‘American solution’ to an ‘American problem’ that is mostly a fantasy. It may work for a handful of tech industry trailblazers.

But it is interesting to note that the segment of WFH supporting population are largely from the same family of employees that were coddled by the likes of Google and Facebook who infantalised their employees in the name of work perks to make their workplace ‘fun’. They just overworked the kids. It backfired. It became a golden cage.

My point..I guess..is that neither extreme will work. Flexible models gives both employees and employers negotiating and bargaining power. There has to be some ‘give and play’ for both sides.

There must be a middle ground somewhere. Hybrid/flexible is the only fair and rational solution. I would propose 20 flexible hour work weeks with maybe half of those hours on demand onsite work depending on the kind of work.
Exactly, it means nothing to me when some workers say they're ok with their job when I see evidence dozens upon dozens of their coworkers are abused. It means nothing because I have no reason to assume they won't turn back on their employers once they have a conflict as well. It merely signals a lack of solidarity and nothing else.
This effect was noticable a bit in the PCVR community after Oculus Quest 2 went mainstream (at least in comparison to previous gen VR equipment) and a lot of titles needed to be graphically down sampled to run all in one on the headset. For instance, VRChat had high def rooms and low res rooms just for Quest users. Some mix of an earned tech superiority complex with a mild resentful envy of how easy everything was for the newbies. Funny how these things can repeat with new ingredients.
I have a friend that works in an Amazon data center and he describes the work environment as “Have you seen any of the hunger games movies?”
The shortest answer is that the "hard part" of software development is not syntax, but logic and architecture. These parts get harder the more complex the app becomes. Hundreds of years of human history have shown that text is the easiest and most readable/writable way to represent complex logic and algorithms, so this leads to the need for text-based languages and text editing tools for working with most general purpose software of any non-trivial complexity.
I assume that everyone who signed on to this letter understood the likely consequences and accepted them — because they understood their firing would massively amplify any workplace concerns by turning it into national news and making SpaceX employees mistrustful of management. This is the problem with being predictably retributive: once everyone understands how you work, your behavior can be exploited.
And the sky is blue
Overture.js – Fastmail's front end library
I don't know what you mean by "what's the argument"?

Policies and the impact (something that should hopefully inform a policy) are more nuanced than just "mass migration" "more migration" and so on. Your understanding seems entirely disconnected from actual policy.

I can't possibly explain something that is going to be different from person to person or politician to politician, even more so if for you it only ends up being categorized in weird generalities that read like they're someone else's rhetoric skewed talking points / loaded phrases. I don't think you can expect to understand something if you just generalize in that way.
What pollution do you want to hold them accountable for exactly? Surely not the pollution created by the end users consumption.

Your comment makes it sound like you’re ok with the the oil companies and corporations just ceasing operations
Talking about wanting to buy a house isn’t the same thing as actually being able to afford one though.

The definition of demand is quantity demanded at every given price level. With mortgage rates rising, the size of loans any individual can take out at every level of wealth/income is dropping significantly.

At the end of the day, you can want to buy all you want, but unless you have or can get the money, it’s a moot point.
How much does it cost to replace Earth? The idea, while totally impractical because the vast majority of countries would never do such a thing, cannot undo the damage that is being done.
> Basically they were fired for using company resources for personal use and intimidation of their peers.

Knowing that this would be leaked and make news, they could have framed the letter to all employees in the best possible way for the company (both PR and HR). Let's hold out and see what SpaceX insiders and the fired employees actually say.
It is no different at all. However, in traditional finance that is called a "margin loan" in defi it is called a "crypto interest account paying 20% with 0 chance of losing all your money"
aka Freemium Speeches™
To your first point:

Person A follows the philosophy “If another person is good and they say X, then I will believe X.”

Person A can be manipulated through some difficulty. A bad actor has to convince person A that they are actually good, and then they can mislead them.

Person B follows the philosophy “If another person is bad and they say X, then I will believe !X.”

Person B is trivially easy to manipulate. A bad actor pushing Y just has to say !Y then act like an asshole on twitter.
> I could go on, but I'm definitely leaving gnome/gtk apps behind. I've eyed KDE Plasma which could give me everything I ever wanted from a DE, but I was using Ubuntu/gnome because it was mainstream enough that everything just works OOTB

Kubuntu was my first distro and posts like these reconfirm my decision to stick with KDE.
The problem with this logic is that you assume Dems or Republicans want to help the working class. They don’t.
This reminds me of those tiktok videos that have a spouse complaining about their significant other. They complain in public about whatever behavior, typically insignificant things, I think you can search like cleaning strike and see some of them. Even if it was 100% true, the people come of as petty, rude and disrespectful for publicly a private matter that makes then the bigger asshole. That is between spouses and has caused divorces and between coworkers or a boss employee relationship I would expect nothing less than the employee to be fired.
I see you get the entirety of your understanding of history and poltics from an actor with alzheimer's. Maybe you could expand your sources a bit to see that this is a lot less true than you imply.
No problem. They created new national laws for covid 19 enforcing lockdowns etc and then were photographed repeatedly breaking them, and eventually the prime minister was fined by police. On the international front, the same government negotiated with the EU and signed an agreement relating to Brexit and the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. They have now, a short time later, decided to unilaterally change the contract, breaking international law. The EU are now taking the UK to court.
"use illegal immigration for meat packing" isn't a broadly-held right-wing position, it's something certain unprincipled business owners do (and I'm not even sure that they're universally right-wing). In contrast, "increasing wages" and "increasing mass immigration" are broadly-held left-wing positions. Again, this doesn't suggest incoherence on the left.
I'm neither suggesting that supporting a republican is a horrible look nor that being conservative is bad. Please be careful not to derail this into partisanship.
The problem is that channers complain, but do not do productive things like file PRs. So problems that matter to channers will remain unresolved.

If you want something done right, do it yourself. Commercial software is no exception to that.

>why Linux on the desktops fails to take hold.

Linux fails to take hold because it doesn't come preinstalled on laptops, and because it doesn't have the critical market share to take over. Basically nothing to do with file pickers.

The ideal use case is just using drag-and-drop behavior from the file manager, instead of implementing the file manager twice. The reality is that products like Windows have shaped people into thinking about the desktop in a certain way, and linux has limited leeway in reshaping those ideas (including their idiosyncrasies like file pickers).
Mercedes that cheated on emissions in a huge scandal that cost them billions in fines? Whose CEO was indicted for man slaughter?

Hyundai, who lied about MPG and had to pay hundred of millions in fines? Whose chairman was arrested and convicted for bribery and embezzlement and had to spend several years in prison and fined over a billion dollars?

Kia, who had severe issues with engine fires that they failed to recall, and only became public after a whistleblower told them? That had to pay over $100 million in fines? That caused over 5000 fires and 158 injuries and several deaths?

Where are your standards for the leadership for these other companies?
Usually one where you're expected to answer the phone.
Isn't that the definition of free speech that Musk wants for Twitter?
Also a few months ago demoed here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29795482
I have had the same MX Ergo for a few years now; no issues. I went through several M570s before making the switch. In addition to durability I had constant signal issues with my M570s–lag, dropouts, etc–that I do not experience with my Ergo.
Sounds like you are a great manager in the making.

Obviously your job is to deliver the thing through your team. Don't be distracted from that. Otherwise help your rising star rise.

I was once in that position and had the privilege later to work for that person.
Did some comments not transfer over?

I was in mid reply and my reply got moved over as a parent and now I can't find the person's original comment that I was replying to.
He means soviet-style free speech. People were free to share opinions. The party was free to book them a ticket to the nearest gulag.
I think posts like these are why I haven’t even looked at rust as an alternative.

Here the author has boiled the problem down to its minimal form, and it’s still 10s of lines of code.

It is this weird overlap of over-verbosity a-la c++ and extreme succinctness a-la Perl. You have to spell everything out and every bit of punctuation matters.
I don't think anyone actually believes that a "free speech absolutist" would tolerate, say, an employee shouting racial slurs in the office through a megaphone. I guess this is supposed to be a "gotcha" about free speech absolutism, but if you're attacking a definition of the term that no one would actually endorse, then maybe it's not a good "gotcha"...
what firms are going to survive this, seems like everyone is being hit hard
Someone remind me: When was the "Year of the Linux Desktop"?
Boy they "helped" a lot of people during his time.
> biggest proponents of global warming theory fly to conferences

This what i call the caveman
technique of debating. The other day on sky news:

'we should insulate houses to reduce fuel consumption.

> have you insulated your house?

> no, i don't own a house

> aha, got you!
That’s what’s happening. Walmart is paying warehouse workers $25/hr and Amazon is losing workers to them.
We have quite a lot of legal framework for damages and environmental externalities. But included the "legal things" qualifier in your question so that makes it into the question of lack of coverage.
I agree however adoption of these instructions have been very slow. The additional real estate needed for these probably seemed less worthwhile when there is little to no consumer demand.
"Stay focused" is a little funny from the guy behind the SpaceX flamethrower, Neuralink, OpenAI, the Boring Company, and a $40B attempt to buy Twitter.
Talking about workplace issues in the workplace is a protected class
I think it’s simply because we are lacking a good no code platform for modern general software.
SpaceX leadership is clearly within their legal rights to fire these people, but the classic "CAN vs SHOULD" principle is important. The letter, which is pretty benign, is available at the bottom of https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/16/23170228/spacex-elon-musk...

The letter is insubordination, it is fireable, and the employees that wrote it are also correct. Elon Musk would likely get fired for his behavior if he were a different executive - certainly disciplined - and that's a problem for SpaceX (and Tesla, and Twitter). It makes it seem like he's not accountable to anyone. Steve Jobs would not have done behaved this way publicly, nor would any other singular founder/execs I can think of at his level.
Beware the unhappy middle where even numbered presidents raise fuel prices through policy but nobody builds solar because they're expecting odd presidents to lower it back down.
> You don't have to take my word for this. Look up the history of what happened to the energy hedge fund Amaranth.

Amaranths positions were sold to Citadel and JP to wind down gently. That's pretty different from forced liquidation at the exchange.
Commerce Clause vibes
But that's how you be an internet celebrity these days. I see it all the time all over social media, I see fellow zoomers my age making generic dance video content, but then they get affiliated with a famous group, and now they gained 500k followers in less than a year making the same content.

Lex is very social media savvy, and he leveraged his network to build his own. When he was beginning (2018), he was on every joe rogan post in social media, he would crack jokes or post some relevant trivia and get upvoted to the top, most of the time at instagram. He further built his network and circulated his name further by injecting himself into conversations with JRE guests in social media. Usually after every JRE episode, Joe would make a few social media posts about it, and on one of these posts, Lex would tag the guest under the comments and ask them questions, with each twitter thread becoming popular on its own as the guest answers back. I'm not sure now, but back then it was innovative. He did all those and more til 2019, I'm not sure since then as I stopped using social media around mid-2019.

I'm not trying to minimize his accomplishments, lex produces good content, but plenty of other people produce good content as well but were never given the spotlight they need to blow up
Before Unix, there were multiple types of files in an OS, Text files (sequential access), Random access, Random Access - Indexed, Databases, etc... and the OS required you to use a different library to access each type of file.

So if you wanted to be able to do N things (grep, word count, sort) across these M file types... you had to write N*M functions, each a bit different.

Unix simplified this to having everything as a text file (a special case of a file of bytes). This made it possible to have a set of N tools that could work on any part of the system, instead of 1/Mth of it.

The pipe operation allowed tools to be composed, you could grep, then word count, etc. This greatly increased the amount of computation that could be expressed as a task straight from the command shell, without having to write new tools.
OF COURSE IT IS because its about British Columbia
Evernote is indeed a great piece of software. They have gone through very difficult times, but now the Desktop app is working very well (not the Android client, which is very slow, but improving), it is fast and despite it lacks some old features, it has great new features, like Tasks. I would not be able to work without it. Each time I thought about moving out, I realized I could not, because of some nice feature. So, Evernote is great and it is here to stay. My feeling is that those who are happy with Evernote do not write blog posts or tweets about it, it is mostly the haters and the frustrated who are writing out there.
> This "blame the consumer" bullshit has been happening since cigarettes... And it is bullshit.

Except that fuel is not literally addictive; it actually provides for some pretty basic needs for most people.

> These large corporations, controlled by a relatively small number of _people_ have a disproportionate and coordinated impact on the environment that outstrips anything the average person can do.

> They need to be held accountable, like we have done to other polluters and entities that have threatened public safety and security in our communities and society.

You might have point in some areas, but not demand for/use of fossil fuels. That is truly a democratic environmental problem.
> numpy already has, like, 99% of that functionality built in in the form of structured arrays and records

Respectfully, this is pretty wrong. Pandas does vastly more out of the box than numpy. Off the top of my head: I/O from over a dozen of data formats, joins/merges, sql queries directly to dataframes, sql-like queries on dataframes, index slicing by time, multi-indexes, much more ergonomic grouping/aggregation functions, ergonomic wrappers around common graphing use-cases, rolling windows.

I'm not even really a power user of it, so there's probably a zillion more things it does that numpy can't out of the box, and I don't wanna spend time writing time and validating if an implementation exists.
That's non sense, or then everyone has absolute freedom of speech, you just have to open your mouth or type a text.

What limits freedom of speech _are_ the "consequences". It either is "absolute" in which case there are no consequences, or limited, in which case there are consequences (but then by definition it isn't absolute anymore)

If you fire someone for their opinion about their employer, or jail them for their opinion about the president, you can't be for "absolute" freedom of speech.

It's like saying "you're free to murder people, but if you do you'll go to jail".
> That's pretty far into the protected category of talking about improving workplace conditions.

You can't use "talking about improving workplace conditions" as an excuse for creating a hostile work environment by harassing your coworkers (BTW, sending unsolicited emails can very much be harassment). The NLRB has specifically ruled about this as part of the Google-James Damore case.
reaperducer says >"Can't HN be the one place on the internet that isn't sullied by triablism(sic)?"<

Can't HN be the one place on the internet that isn't sullied by obvious misspellings?
How do you support your argument that the current administration is being effective in killing off oil? We are still a net exporter of oil [0] and crude oil production is about where it was at in late 2018. It took a dive during COVID-19 and has been recovering since.

0 - https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=m...

1 - https://www.macrotrends.net/2562/us-crude-oil-production-his...
Not as Musk often describes it.
Would it be so bad to just develop better robots for this type of work?

Keynes had a prediction that we would be working 15 hour work weeks by now.

In your opinion, why haven’t we obtained this?
Those idiots!

Everyone and their mother knew that printing money since 2008 was going to blow up one day. Technology and unsubstantiated sectors allowed them to print without repercussions for a while and the administration and them also tried to fool people into believing the inflation was transitory... Reckless idiots. And now wage labor is the one to suffer most.

4TT in spending for BBB? Uhhuh! Even Yellen said it was crazy.
>> It's unfixable behavior because the GNOME devs stopped respecting their own gsettings, org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser location-mode, to FORCE the path-bar experience on everyone. Because no one needs to type file paths, apparently. So why bother respecting the settings for path-bar or filename-entry?

Control + L will turn the path bar into a simple string w/ autocomplete. Am I missing something here or are you talking about pasting a path into the filename portion of the dialog?
Manual blue collar work is also largely automated these days and doesn’t require that many man hours. I feel like we need a whole paradigm shift in how we look at ‘work’.

I farm and there is no way I can work 40 hours/week. I will drop dead from sheer exhaustion. When I was working restaurant jobs, we had a shift system and only one double shift per week…but only if the restaurant was super busy. Because I worked in fancy Michelin restaurants, we always knew bookings in advance. And because of the nature of the job, always one double shift/week.

In places like..McDonalds, it’s just a way to keep people on the payroll as they surely are not working 8 hours/everyday.

In the middle level jobs like management or even certain tech jobs, this will create a gap for incoming young workforce. Because the older workforce will simply be idle and can’t afford to retire(esp in America).

When young people should be employed and accumulating resources to start families, they are not gainfully employed. Older people cannot retire comfortably. More jobs would open up if we cut work hours to 20 hours/week.
> maybe you imagine one being divinely ensouled and the other not?

Not at all, I'm a pretty hardcore atheist.

> projecting your own sense of inviolate categories

Now, this is a good point. Even if I do not seen these categories as inviolate myself, mating between members of Genus Homo (aka 'Humans') and other animals is a social taboo, and punishable by up to three years in prison where I live.

> If a horse and donkey, lion and tiger, dog and wolf, or two formally distinguished finch species mate, we just acknowledge it as two compatibly close species mating.

All of these examples produce offspring that are not usually able to reproduce in the wolf, except dog and wolf who are both of the species Canis Lupus (with dog being the subspecies Canis Lupus Familiaris).

I don't have a problem with the real science behind all of this. Indeed, I don't even think it makes sense to define a "first human", as every member of her tribe, both before and after should be categorized in the same category as her.

Previously, I've been of the mind that, for a question like "Who cam first, the chicken or the egg?", the answer was obvious. Regardless of your definition of "Chicken", it did come from an egg. So the egg must have come first.

Let's compare this to the difference between the colors "red" or "orange". Anything of wavelength above 780nm is considered red, anything below is considered orange. So let's say a "generation" of colors is 0.00001nm then 780.000005nm would be read and 779.999995 would be orange. Now, using the category definition strictly, we can make this distinction. Even if the bird that lay the first egg that would become a chicken were almost identical to the first chicken, we could chose a defintion that would make the mother belong to the category of not-a-chicken.

But today, after thinking about this, it is a mistake to accept the question as well formulated. The term "chicken" is a social construct. At any point of time, a species can refer to a group of animals that would belong to the same species, had they lived today. Also, they would belong to the same species as their parents and grandparens at least a few generations back, probably hundreds if generations or more.

In other words, my current opinion is that it does not make sense to make a definition of human vs ape very sharply. Instead, we need to accept that a spectrum exists between fully human and fully ape.

Even if we choose to define a typical Homo Habilis as "fully human", there must have been their ancestors must have been near the middle of that spectrum, and even if we COULD define a set of criteria that would sharply split individuals between Homo Habilis and Australopithecus, that over some time period, proto-Homo animals must have been somewhere on that spectrum. (It has to be a spectrum, as just adding more categories would just move the category split somewhere else.)