skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking a question is not making things up.
> The natural minimum wage that the market determines (absent all regulations) is $0 per hour and is called slavery.

Slaves are paid much more than that.
It's a super strong phenomenom, having a lot of people around you, an entourage, a posse. Projects a huge amount of power. And it's done with the whole management chain's approval, the low-level boss has more people then his boss has those same more people too because it's a tree.
Bullshit jobs is bullshit. Sure when tasked with some interminablely dull task it can sure feel like bullshit, but the reality is no firm pays for headcount unless it absolutely has to. Large organisations by the nature need a fair amount of box ticking and other admin to allow management visibility and control over an organisations' activities.
> Yeah, it's obviously an urban legend

Urban legend clearly benefiting Google.
Video game UIs exclude a lot of hard problems (e.g. accessibility, power use, cross-platform abstractions like I/O, many control types) simply by being embedded in a video game.
> We have historical proof that companies won't even pay their employees with real money unless the government mandates that they do so.

Well, we have historical proof that nearly all companies do pay with real money in the total absence of such government mandates. We definitely don't have proof of the proposition you claim, which is immediately falsified by the most cursory examination of history.

Note also that scrip is denominated in currency and accepted at par. The problem was generally not that you had a lot of scrip and couldn't spend it; the problem was that the company store charged high prices. But the store charged the same prices whether you were spending company scrip or currency.
If PoS works, ethereum will eat bitcoin for breakfast and the global energy use from crypto will shed 99%. If it doesn't, well, nice try.

None of this implies that eth might or might not be a good investment.
The model they use in the simulation is a bit weird.

In reality, keeping a steady nominal GDP is a good idea. In fact, adopting a nominal GDP level target will make the market help you keep things steady. (By anticipating your central bank actions.)
Your logical fallacy is assuming competence on behalf of the job creators. Companies waste money on many things, that is certainly true, and so why wouldn’t pointless roles be one of those things?
I’m willing to believe that technology is an S-curve, limited by physics, and that we are now in the upper portion. No more low-hanging fruit, increments from here on out.

But I also think we are in the very lowest portion of a cultural progress S-curve where there is no shortage whatsoever of low-hanging fruit available that could enormously improve lives.

We’re a long way from just getting people to a reasonable baseline of fulfilment or even agreement on what that means (health, food, housing, family, purpose?).
Indeed. Optional values are literally the same as null, but you know that it _can_ be null.
Depends what you mean by quantum computing; if you mean the warehouse sized labs full of lasers and cryogenics then you are correct. If you mean the study of quantum algorithms then actually it's been an exciting year. The first polynomial speed-up for an NP unstructured pseudo random function was published in April. It's not even clear how big a deal it is!
a browser extension when the only time this matters to me is when I’m on a smart tv, set top box, or video game console that has their own youtube app that would be cumbersome to sign in to
> Slaves are paid much more than that.

No, they aren’t.

Slaves have a higher total cost to employ than that, but none of it is wages.
Slightly OT, although there might be some sort of connection with origami: does anyone know if DALL-E can produce vector images?
Dan Abramov - Hot Reloading with Time Travel
https://youtu.be/xsSnOQynTHs
That's wrong; much of it is wages. Sometimes those wages are paid in cash, but in the more common case where they aren't, the slaves still get paid in food, clothing, and housing. Each of those is a direct transfer of value to the slave.
Assembler. The closer you get to the metal, the more interesting it is. Be the bits!

Here's a good start:

https://www.nand2tetris.org
This is pretty much precisely what Parkinson's Law predicts.
My favorite Bullshit Job was my very own. There was an employee that was hired only because, well I couldn't say No during the interview.

He had nothing to do so they turned him into a human website health checker. He had a page with dozens of iframes of all our websites. He would spend the day refreshing the page, reloading the iframes in intervals. If any failed to load he would report them.

Not knowing what the page was for, i was asked to automate refreshing each iframe after an interval. This meant, he wouldn't have to click the reload button anymore. Just sit and wait until a website failed. I thought his job was bullshit. Until, I realized that I had just automated a bullshit job.

Longer version: https://idiallo.com/blog/the-40-million-dollar-job
No, it's trained on pixels and it generates pixels. You could make a vector AI if you had millions of labeled vector inputs.
It's disgusting to treat people this way. You can replace people with robots and still treat them with respect.

I don't see it being very long until people get out their pitchforks.
Microsoft Access 2000 was great at doing table joins in a visual way. It automatically enforced relationships between tables without having to write any SQL.

It is possible to go all the way to writing programs with no actual text source, but the "cognitive impedance match" has to be reasonable. In theory, you could just take MIT's SCRATCH and hook it to a compiler... but it's not the right tool for managing that complexity.

My current feeling is that something like literate programming, with rich source, both declarative and imperative functional code is the way to go for optimal productivity. The front ends that handle GUIs and events match that part of the problem in a profoundly productive manner.
> The best I found was to try to raise rates during the good times so there is wiggle room during downturns.

Yeah, that's pretty silly in reality. There's no zero lower bound in reality.

Negative interest rates work just fine. Or even simpler: buy assets that are not just short term debt. (In the extreme case: any positive price for a 'perpetual bond' corresponds to a positive interest rate. Or take inspiration from Singapore's Monetary Authority: they buy foreign exchange instead of bonds, and thus don't have to worry about interest rates at all.)
>Nothing is part of Linux

Like ~every other Filesystem? Not sure if you just lack that knowledge.
It barely has begun. Climate change and high gasoline prices are making remote work an absolute necessity. Travelling on a daily basis, just to look at another screen, will soon be seen as obscene. Like switching your rare real fur coats daily.
I disagree. I feel we are on the cusp of close to general AI that may actually provide useful ideas to improve the world. Genetic engineering is in its infancy. Quantum computing and fusion are on the horizon. Neural brain links are a whole new paradigm. Renewable energy is just beginning to take hold.
I would also take the vision of an excellent designer over the design-by-committee / design-by-data approach.

The iPhone and its UI might be the best example of the last 20 years - very few things even come close. But - there are many more examples of bad designs created by people who were not as visionary or excellent as they thought they were.

That's why as a user I don't discount Google's approach - it will never reach the highs or lows of a visionary design, but for most things, the middle-of-the-road approach is probably best.
ok. that give me more confidence to use this and test it. good idea all in all
Agreed, I otherwise love the language just at face value but this was a big "ehhh" for me. I'd rather be boxed in and have to opt-into increasing bug surface area.
Quantum computing is slow to mature. Physics is a huge field.
DuckDB seems to be the real "modern SQLite".
Last time I worked on call I was compensated 2 hours overtime for every time I opened the laptop, as well as a fixed rate for the week. I was also able to convert some of the fixed rate to days off the week after. Still, having to wake up multiple times each night wasn't worth any compensation to me.
I suppose you're correct that compensation should be tailored to each situation, but the examples you give seem way too low to me. 350$ is nothing if there's any meaningful amount of incidents to handle. My company paid twice that, 10 years ago. I guess it would be ok if nothing really ever happens.
I don't know where you get that idea. In the historical Deep South of the US, slaves had to work the plantation all day without pay, then go home and grow their own food on the worst strips of land not deemed worth cultivating by their owners.

Traditional African American foods, like hog jowls and chitterlings, were based on the discards that White slave owners would not eat.
> ATGMs like Javelin, mines, guided mortars, etc and all but the heaviest drones are defensive and supporting weapons.

Naturally they're defensive. Tanks are offensive weapons; breakthrough armor, conceived to break WW1 lines. So weapons to defend against tanks have proliferated.

The question is has this proliferation made them obsolete? Can you still effect breakthroughs when a guy with a tube can kill armor from 5+ km away? And if his man portable tank killer can't do the job he can text a missile from 50+ km with a anti-tank precision warhead so big there is no mobile armor system known to man that can withstand it. You can't have a Battle of Kursk when one M270 could theoretically kill a dozen tanks every five to ten minutes.
I don't think they're able to implement it, actually.
Maybe. Or maybe it's just an indication that he wants to do something else for a while?
Did you feel any different or notice change as it was dying off/reducing? I was treated for a fungal infection a while ago with some anti-fungal drugs and the side effects felt huge, but the doctor told me those drugs are considered very mild. It made me wonder if the fungus was affecting the way I feel and it dying down made me feel differently (better, but it was a big change).
The ZVA is not the same use case as this. The competitor to URX is the teledyne lecroy lab master which also has 110 GHz bandwidth. The difference is that teledyne uses bandwidth interleaving, which keysight argues is inferior (they are probably correct, keysight has some ENOB advantages, however teledyne has other advantages). Tektronix has essentially left the competition for this super high end, they didn't manage to go beyond 70 GHz (which was some years back for all of these)
Could you please explain your reasoning for the comparison to perpetual motion machines?

(Keep in mind that biological machines, ie life, have managed to turn the surface of the planet into 'green goo'.)
Yeah same here in Germany, it's considered very rude to schedule a meeting that spills over 5pm. I may still be working past that time, but I will decide that.
Ah, you mean the "dark mode is more professional" crowd?
We don't know what the economic model is actually doing but remember the central bank controls the number of bankreserves, the reserve ratio and the interest rate. A -0.5% interest rate is the same as 0.5% inflation but with the caveat that it doesn't increase the money supply. If you never issue more central bank reserves the money supply won't go up but the circulation of money is encouraged by the negative interest rate. As long as your orchards keep operating and producing enough apples, the price of apples will remain stable with the money supply.

Central banks do QE to increase total bank reserves which is an ugly bandaid for not having to cut interest rates below zero. Inflation then allows real interest rates to be negative. Inflation isn't the same for everyone though, resulting in unfair wealth transfers.
Offline - to the author - means thats its not a SaaS tool

normal locally run software

It also only gives you a web page of the links to then hit on your own, or with another script
Not sure that always is applicable. Here in Germany you have too many incompetent, hostile and yet unfireable employees.

For instance in my 12 FTE team is a colleague. She appeared fine when we hired her, but within the first weeks of her employment she proofed to be incompetent, hostile and all talks went into nowhere. We wanted to fire her within the probation period, but suddenly there was a doctor's note that she is pregnant. Nobody believes her, but we cannot fire her.

He HAVE to employ her. She will go to maternaty leave in month 8 of her pregnancy. Before that she will take her 30 days (=6 weeks) of paid holiday. After the maternaty leave she has the right to work 50% at 90% pay for 2 years and cannot be fired, too, because she is a young mum.

We had our lawyers look into that. Nothing we can do. We will never be able to fire her.

We are also worried that she will manipulate data or sabotage without us being able to fully proof it.

Hence, we gave her a bullshit job.
Derp! I got this confused with the PNA-X, which is a four port VNA that does 110GHz with additional heads. Thanks for the correction.

Remember, caffeine first, then internet.
It’s not just incompetence, it’s much much deeper. Take for instance a consulting company placed on a project for another company. The consulting company might have one key person, but then adds three other workers to the project to impress management. The three excess workers are forced to invent work that justifies their existence. In this case, neither company would have reason to complain.
> the slaves still get paid in food, clothing, and housing.

If those are in the form of earned compensation to which the slave is entitled (which, sure, along with actual wages is common in some historical forms of slavery, but not really the norm in chattel slavery), they are benefits, not wages. If they are (as is typically the case with chattel slavery) discretionary items given at the pleasure of the employer based on the perceived future value to the employer of the worker having them now, they are just maintenance costs of the slave as an industrial machine.
You might be better off studying Scottish and Canadian monetary history, instead of the Bank of England.

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Money-Birmingham-Beginnings-Coin... is also really interesting.
Imagine bringing cold-resistant crocodiles to the Rockies and how much that’d shake up the ecosystem.

An apex predator is only an apex predator in absence of a bigger, more dangerous predator.
Hehe, I'm doing a lot of SQL and python and feel the same about "solve pretty much anything". Is that the golden duo?
Yes includes a tree :)
this is good advice when situation is stable, but if you see storm is comimg, or there are other uncertanties, you must plan ahead or rush through. or have a backup plan, but yeah this is free soloing so no backup plan by design ;)
You need to argument when you negate someone's opinion.
Bitcoin mining: surging production costs crimp crypto margins
Depends on the inflation rate.

If prices are falling fast enough, a negative nominal interest rate is still a positive real interest rate.
Is it fixed? First page keeps loading forever.
For v2.3.0 (next big release) we have a UI refresh done by a graphic designer. Very exciting :)
IMHO (almost layman), takoff catapult is the way to go for energy efficiency of aircraft. If you imagine a takeoff around 200KIAS, the conversion of cynetic energy in potential energy gives you a big part of the climb. The spared energy would increase the flight range.
Extremely common here in Romania too. We call it 'plată în rate', or installment payments in English.
GPT-3 already seems capable of generating SVG. I prompted it with:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"

and it completed it to the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" viewBox="0 0 24 24" id="cloud-sun_svg__-SimpleVector-0"><defs><linearGradient spreadMethod="pad" x2="1" y2="1"><stop offset="0" stop-color="#fff" stop-opacity=".2"/><stop offset="1" stop-opacity=".2"/></linearGradient></defs><path d="M5.5 13.5A2.5 2.5 0 008 16h8a2.5 2.5 0 002.5-2.5S19.5 10 17.5 10H9c-2.5 0-4.5 2-4.5 4.5zM10 11h.5a.5.5 0 100-1h-2a.5.5 0 100 1H10zm2 3.5h2a.5.5 0 100-1h-2a.5.5 0 100 1zm-4 2H8a.5.5 0 100 1h2a.5.5 0 100-1zm-2-2H8a.5.5 0 100 1h2a.5.5 0 100-1z" fill="#000" fill-opacity=".3"/><circle cx="12" cy="19" r="2" fill="#fff"/><path d="M11.5 19h-2c0-1.5 1-2.5 2.5-2.5S14 15.5 14 17h.5a.5.5 0 100-1h-2a.5.5 0 100 1z" fill="#fff"/><path d="M10 13.5h2a.5.5 0 100-1h-2a.5.5 0 100 1z" fill="#fff"/><path fill="url(#cloud-sun_svg__-SimpleVector-0)" d="M16 6l-5 5 5 5v-7c1.5 0 3 1 3 3v2z"/><path fill="#fff" d="M12.5 17h2v2h-2z"/></svg>

which looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/sHpv4Ii.png
Why does the supply of money matter when it isn’t consumed? I understand why the supply of, say, steel is important: because we consume x tonnes of steel to create a building, so a limited supply of steel limits our ability to build new buildings.

However, when we use money we don’t consume it. It simply changes owner. Sort of moving through the economy unchanged in form.

> If you suck up all the money supply the economy might be stable in terms of inflation but it can't grow.

How do you explain the solid economic growth in the 40-year period 1870-1910, which happened during the international gold standard?
Gold standard and central bank are two relatively independent topics.

You can have both, neither or either one.
What are some interesting examples of applications / projects where this is or would be used?
This also applies to startups. At least recently. Many startups (specially in the finance market) try to hire and grow like crazy, because it drives investment (or at least so they think).
I generally agree, but I disagree with calling 1 mm IR. That's sort of arguing that the whole THz range is IR which I think is silly (I note that you did not make this up, but it is somewhat commonly used)
Eh, that did not happen in real life when countries were on a gold standard..
> But you don't see dust accumulating indefinitely on roofs, do you?

I do, actually.
Disclaimer: I couldn't visit the site, so all I have to go on is your quote.

It's definitely interesting, but my gut reaction is that it is a bad idea. If you invited somebody, that means (a) you know them somehow and (b) you want them to participate in the community. Unless you have a stronger bond with the community and are willing to risk your relationship with the invitee for it, moderation will be quite lax, I fear.

On the other hand, having the inviter sanctioned if the invitee misbehaves is also an interesting concept. The behavior in the community will probably be better, but people will be very cautious to invite someone, possibly starving the community.
AI is not going to become self aware and destroy the world.

AI is going to cause something like the industrial revolution of the 19th century: massive changes in who is rich, massive changes in the labor market, massive changes in how people make war, etc.

It’s already started really.

What worries me most is that as long as society is capitalist, AI will be used to optimize for self-enrichment, likely causing an even greater concentration of capital than what we have today.

I wouldn’t be surprised that the outcome is a new kind of aristocracy, where society is divided between those who have access to Ai and those who don’t.

And that I don’t think falls into the “Ai safety” field. Especially since OpenAi is Vc-backed
I wonder why you got downvoted, it was an honest mistake and your comment was not aggressive in any way.
One of the early uses of Arpanet was to link together
seismic monitoring stations around the world to
track nuclear detonations
ECB has additional constraints. Since they don't want to bankrupt Italy, the lever goes only one way.
If you believe in all publicity is good publicity you can refer to Steve Balmer, jumping around all sweaty and screaming developers developers developers.

I don’t even remember what was actually demoed (maybe .net?) At least it left us all referring back to it for decades.
Whenever people say money printing I don't know what that is supposed to mean. If you mean the government does deficit spending, i.e. spends more than it earns, then yes it indeed does do that, in fact, it even does it to increase inflation but it doesn't change the fact that it is still directly liable for the money it spent via debt, unlike the printing of physical currency.

Money and debt is like matter and anti matter. They both emerge from nothing when separated and disappear into nothing when they come into contact.
Have you tried the Mindscape podcast with Sean Caroll? He has some really great episodes mixed with some less good ones. Definitely more of a science focus as opposed to technology, but there's a broad mix.

My strategy is to skim the descriptions and try the ones that sound interesting. I probably finish about 60% of the episodes I start.
I know nothing about the space, but as crypto has such huge gains over the past few years, couldn’t they have also paid for lobbyists?
Then why are you asking what leetcode is? I’m literally telling you that the process google, meta, and Amazon (never worked at apple or nflx so can’t speak to them) follow is programming challenges that require some algorithms and data structures knowledge.

This is known in the industry as leetcode because the leetcode website is entirely dedicated to practicing said problems and has entire categories dedicated to the leaked algorithms questions from these big companies.
I can't name a single job I've taken that was not a bullshit job. Ironically the better it pays, the more bullshit it is.

I made some good money on these jobs, but I always hated them. I can't think of a single product I worked on (as an employee) that is objectively net positive value to society.

Sure, it has some customers, but these customers are other corporations that are doing bullshit business. The end users themselves probably hate the product.

The only things I worked on that I felt had some positive value to society where things I ended up put out there for free.

This might be cynical but now I think a large segment of the economy is just bullshit excuses to circulate money around.
Ah yes, I see. Strictly speaking, both are exactly as safe, since safety is about whether unsafe actions can be done. It does not matter at which point the unsafe action is stopped.

But it could have some implications for software stability (compile time being obviously better) and productivity (run time being obviously better).
Their bread and butter is the midrange, same as it has always been. That's the area centered around $10k (at least for scopes; meters are lower and spec ans are higher), and is where the price-volume product is best.

The low-end crap is not particularly profitable, but best not to cede to your rivals as long as you can at least break even.

The high-end stuff makes great marketing and probably sells better than 3 per year... though that might just be 4. JPL and Los Alamos don't really need this stuff, though they probably have something somewhere. It's really designed for high-bit-rate stuff. I seem to recall DDR5 lowest-level debug being a major use case for the UXR in the early promo materials. I'd imagine it's also pretty good for some LTE stuff. And phased-array radars, because it seems like that's always what the highest-end stuff is for, no matter what it is.