skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been remote a little over 9 years now. When I read a message that sounds a bit hostile, or the tone sounds a bit off, I reread it in an intentionally happy voice. Sometimes this helps me reframe it. Failing this I simply reach out on a video call.
Facebook should be avoided, but I don't think it's nearly as bad as Twitter. Twitter exemplifies the amplification of an irrational mob more than any other social media platform.
"The 1990s were expensive and awkward" <= this is what folks that didn't experience it don't realize. It wasn't just an earlier time with slower CPUs, computers were pretty trash at the time, peripherals sucked, the connectors sucked, everything crashed all the time, software quality was crap, and things were outrageously expensive. Oh and they had a lifetime of a couple years before they felt unbearably slow compared to the new expensive and faster crappy products.

It was actually novel when you'd find a well written piece of software that did its job well and didn't crash (at least for me, being poor and stuck in the world of DOS/Windows). Things like AutoCAD that people used to do actual work. Early WordPerfect struck me as pretty good too.

I still resent Microsoft and particularly Gates for keeping the state of computing in the dark ages for so long. Using Linux (circa 96 or so) was such a revelation, it's hard to explain how massive the jump in capability was. That Microsoft went so long not even leveraging protected mode in commodity OSs (not NT) speaks volumes.

It is nice to reflect on how far we've come, but I also appreciate Alan Kay's perspective on things: that phone and iPad style environments are primarily designed for passive consumption, and we could do a lot more to empower the users of these devices. But still, we're absolutely light years ahead of where we were!
would you care to point out at least one "glaringly ignorant statement" backed by a fact that shows it is glaringly ignorant?
Founder & CEO of a startup supporting remote work posts his pitch.

Nothing to see here.
This is exactly where I am at now. I live in Canada and where I am at the local market of companies is just pathetic. I generally receive recruter emails from companies in my city offering a 25-50% of what I am making at a smaller shop remotely.

I miss being in an office and having a connection to the people I work with, but I also refuse to compromise my salary, time, ergonomic home office, and flexibility to get this connection.
Also didn't work for me, in Safari on macOS.
The drying Danube River reveals explosive-laden WWII Nazi warships
This is the correct answer.

RISC has had its moments. Way back, it was better than CISC because the simpler instructions allowed a higher clock rate. Then CISC CPUs turned into RISC CPUs with a CISC-to-RISC translation on the front end. With that in place, there was a whole stretch of time where the only real advantage that RISC had over CISC was that RISC didn't have to have a lump of silicon that translates CISC into RISC instructions.

However, now there's enough space on the die for a CPU to have lots of parallel execution units, and the part of it that became really difficult to scale was the CISC-to-RISC translation unit, because each CISC instruction had an unpredictable length, making working out which instructions you can translate tricky and silicon-consuming.

And so RISC has a significant advantage once more, and that is the ability to vastly-simplify the part of the CPU that feeds instructions into the execution pool, compared to a CISC CPU, because the instructions are fixed-length. This allows this part to translate more instructions per clock cycle than a typical CISC CPU can, and this is what gives the improved performance.
a more persuasive theory imo is that yo-yo dieters that don't do serrious resistance training, have repeated cycles of sarcopenia and osteopenia -- i.e. lose 'good stuff' along with fat on the diet phase and gain back disproportionately fat after. The negative effects compound over time with each cycle.
But can it run excel with windows hot keys...
Would this be useful for quantum computing somehow?

Or maybe some kind of sensor?

Also could a cell be programmed to make this or do cells not have the ability to manipulate flourine?
Just FYI, it's "rapport" not "repor"
Has anyone ever encountered someone that was good at corp speak, but not also a sociopath of middling intellect?

I mean: I’ve found it’s difficult for individual contributors to ramp up and be recognized for doing their best work without adequate context from their peers.
no heat, no melting. just welding
I've had my comments and posts here turned into comedic bits and skits many times by certain YouTube channels (ehem)... Never got credit or a check for any it though. :P
Actually now I'm thinking you might be trolling.
Why is the clear paid marketing spam on hn
That already happened with the OPM breach in 2015 It seriously messed up people's credit, work life and daily lives. [0]

No slow down at all of data gathering.

There's been dozens of the exact kind you're describing and nobody cares [1].

[0] https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/arti...

[1] https://www.purdueglobal.edu/blog/information-technology/wor...
Amen, same here. Each to their own, I guess it depends based on personality type, the company you're at, maybe the country you're in... but I've made a lot of good friends through work who are still good friends of mine despite not having worked together for many years.

The polarisation of this debate is quite weird to watch. I get why people who prefer remote feel they have to fight for it now that it has become a common thing, but it's weird to deny that other people might have other preferences and there is room for both.
Have you consider that this is the case because it was designed like that, and that it could change if you just stopped constantly doubling down on cars?

Like, its perfectly reasonable in many places to live without a car. In fact, its the opposite of what you suggest, its possible LESS INCOME then having to own a car.

Compare the total cost of living and transportation when living a car centric lifestyle, compare to a bike/public transport one. I personally don't even use a bike, walking and public transport are perfectly fine in most even small (50k) European cities.

Now of course, sadly in many places in the US, living and work is often so far separated and so badly connected that the car is the only viable option. But that is exactly what needs to change.
I was seeing this as well, it looks like it was just fixed
In case author is reading this thread:

> When I told her the story, my girlfriend argued that HR should have found a term that conveyed the meaning of “discount” without its negative feeling.

> I think this is impossible. Employees in some locations are paid less than employees in other locations, and that kinda sucks for the lesser-paid employees to remember. Any word that accurately conveys the situation will also convey it kinda sucks.

An example of term you can use is ”high ROI location”.

Conveys HR-magical-thinking that the company invests in its employees (ha), and that the output from Detroit is better return on investment than the output from New York.*

Further, since ROI is the actual thinking that has — for instance — all the banks moving from New York to Houston and Tampa, so unlike much of corporate speak, it doesn’t bring that 1984 black-is-white dissonance if you understand what’s really going on.

Finally, well paid individuals from Brooklyn and San Jose are moving to e.g. Buffalo or Minneapolis for the ROI. The term “high ROI location” is a location classification that makes them feel clever, not bad.

*. There’s a better algo than median pay or cost of living for where to put your headquarters: (talent pool x domain learning opptys) per median salary rate. If you are doing knowledge work there’s no point in moving your HQ to discount low-cost towns without a vibrant ecosystem of similar domain firms and independent meetups for the crafts needed by the firm. This tends to surface not just Austin, Charlotte, or San Diego, but even more so, Kyiv or Minsk.

**. If you want to use an employee-centric term instead of a company-centric term, use “affordable” and the word “location”: https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/2022-most-affordable-sma...
Normally sending armaments to a rival/enemy isn't a smart move, because they are no longer under your control, they are under the control of the other party; and should be counted under their assets for belligerent purposes. The point is, is that assumption still valid for autonomous drones?
"Intellectual Property" laws allow economic rent seeking.

As we all know, in a free market, the cost of a good trends towards its marginal cost of production. But monopolies (or even oligopolistic competition) keeps that from happening. See Microsoft and the price of Windows. Same thing here. Rent seeking.
This seems like a very cynical way to look at the world. Work friends are real friends in the same way your pick-up league or board game night friends are real friends. You like some of them more than others, and you probably won't stay friends with most of them if you stop coming to whatever shared activity brought you together initially unless you make a concerted effort to stay in touch.
This wont happen whilst they have family and kids’ account types. Charge parents more for the premium option of not filling their carefully curated genre recommendations with nursery rhymes and Ed Sheeran.
reminds me of what Thiel in 0->1 was referring to when talking about company culture / mission.
No, we’re addicts to novelty. I’ve met very very few scientists who do it for social good. Maybe for some abstract notion of progress. Think about what motivated the physicists behind the manhattan project. Was it for the good of the country? Was it to be a part or something “important?” Was it out of self-importance? Was the Manhattan project seen as a source of income to work on fun problems and have creative freedom?
You've not really made an argument that it's a simpler explanation, just listed a bunch of reasons it's unlikely he'll profit from this, topped with pure speculation that he will anyway.
We always respond to the evil we see, not the evil unseen and looming in the shadows.

If you're about to get stung by a scorpion then deal with that before dealing with the lion slowly stalking you.
"But I only need to lock when I write!" O_o
The reason ESC was chosen is it was roughly where TAB is today on the developers old keyboard.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esc_key#/media/File%3AKB_Ter...
Is https://auroraoss.com/ their home page? This site gives off a weird vibe with the broken FAQ link and all.
Glyphosate can take up to 3 weeks to take full effect. There are a handful of resistant weeds. Palmer amaranth (pigweed) is one. Otherwise it is very effective.

If you don't want to use glyphosate that's totally fine, but just know that residential use is essentially a non-factor in these studies.
Whether it's any healthier doesn't really matter to me. I'm excited to be able to enjoy bacon without paying for the inefficiency of raising animals.
In stable state, your AC move as much heat out of your house as flows into it because of the heat difference between inside your house and outside of it.

The inflow is higher, the higher the temperature difference.

Switch of AC, and the temperature difference goes down, and so does the inflow.

So, if you switch off AC for part of the day, the total daily inflow of heat goes down, and, over the entire day, the amount of heat your AC has to move out goes down, too.

Unless you install a huge AC to bring down the temperature very fast, I don’t see a reason why that wouldn’t lead to lower energy use by your AC.
In the 4 quadrants formed by startup/not and remote/not, wouldn’t remote non-startups be where top talent goes?

Weirdly, the article title mentions startups but the article doesn’t.
(Re)Introducing mirrord (bridge your local process to remote K8s)
Doing a job hunt right now and im trying to assess "what's my day to day like" and it comes down to two factors: what are the people like, and what is the actual work.

I want to really like the people, as I've discovered my life is way more boring otherwise. I spend 8-10h/day working, I need to be able to laugh and make other people laugh and have interesting conversations. I'd love to make friends out of it. People often tell me don't rely on work for that, but the time investment is too steep not to use it as a social outlet.

I also want to know the actual work. Not the buzzwords, or the product name, or fast paced industry, but the actual initiatives for the next year. Crank out new features for mobile app? Not my skill set. Typical oncall rotation? Nah.

I'm shocked how many companies are willing to start the interview process immediately. I decline until I have at least an hour convo with who would be my manager.

As per the article, yes more blogging helps but how do I know it's genuine and not marketing bs? I don't.
Scenario 6:

The super intelligent AI creates an even smarter AI, which replaces the parent, and so on and so forth, forcing the AI into an endless series of reproduction.
I think the problem is that people that misses working from an office don't miss the office itself, but the rest of their co-workers. So for them to be happy, they need the employer to mandate everybody back into the office. Otherwise, if they can go back to the office, but they find they're the only ones that actually want to work from the office, or maybe a couple of guys more, then it won't cut it.
Yes, it's so interesting how tortuous and serendipitous the evolution of Java has been. It started as a language for embedded devices, then made its way to the interactive web because its bytecode was so portable, and then somehow people figured out it's a good language for the backend because it's managed and thus safer than the alternatives, despite its inherent performance disadvantage. So many unintended extra lives.
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Give it 100 years so that there's enough people nostalgic for it around.

Or, even, you don't have to! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_McDonald%27s_restaurant "Along with its sign, it was deemed eligible for addition to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, although it was not added because the owner objected"
That was fun. Just like the TLD.

More of this internet please.
My wife just got a new iPhone, and she picked the blue (we've both had black for a while now) and then she picked up a clear case specially so you could see the phone color underneath.

She said, "If I'm gonna get the fancy color there is no point in covering it up with solid color case".
It was 100% possible to do this at technology companies in 1995 (in retrospect).
These rankings are always strange to me. SQL is a declarative query syntax, and may be Turing complete but building complete software in SQL is not done. It's a domain-specific language. I'm not sure I'd call myself a programmer if I only knew SQL, I would probably say I was a DBA.

If you're going to toss SQL in on a programming list with C and C++, ok go for it, but I don't see how you can then leave off Bash or Powershell.

Either way on my nitpicks, the overall language used within the article is strange, like it's from a complete outsider to the industry.

Indeed, the combined popularity of C and the big C-like languages—C++, and C#—would outrank Python by some margin.

Everyone in this industry knows Python is C-like. Java is C-like. JS.

While most developers don't really know SQL and employers want it, that part is true. They don't want you enjoying those ORMs, and I am an ORM fan until it doesn't work. Even then when I'm writing SPs, I remain an ORM fan.

An aside, frontend development is where I see most people lacking that I know rather than SQL, including myself. Too many flavors of the month. I try to stay in the C# lane and have settled on Razor Pages/MVC and Blazor.
Of course, but it's still there after drying. dogs/cats sniff the ground, lay on it, eat bugs that have interacted with it, etc. (hopefully not for all of these, but I am sure they do)
I read and watch a decent number of PC hardware sites/channels and they don't seem to use geekbench. The only time I hear people mention geekbench is in relation to apple.
Is there a reason why pc hardware sites don't seem to use geekbench?
let the extroverts have their beloved office and introverts their home. anyone undecided can be "hybrid".
The problem I have in assigning credibility to Twitter's position on bots is that they seem to have held multiple seemingly inconsistent positions (all paraphrased):

1. "Finger in the air estimate based on sampling", aka. "don't read too much into it"

2. "Not more than 5%"

3. "Methodology can't be understood externally"
And the 3.5mm Audio
This is frankly a ludicrous ask of a 35 dollar hobbyist single board education computer with an old CPU. I hate the dreaded car analogies too, but this is akin to buying a cheap Toyota saloon and expecting it to accelerate like a Ferrari.

For what its worth, there are some rosetta like options on RPi - you can run x86 containers in QEMU, for example. Its just again you've bought a 35 dollar computer - its not going to be fast enough to be performant for most tasks when translating (in real time!) software written for a completely different CPU architecture.

> https://gist.github.com/Sitin/bfa5e770b80ab4b8740c88e648666c...
Great! How do I print it?
I think their target demographic is vegetarians/vegans who are trying to reduce their footprint or use of animal products.

> consumers will likely be willing to give it a shot—especially knowing that it’s easier on animals and on the planet.

The ultra-health-conscious will still probably avoid it. Oreos are also vegan and not very healthy.
I agree with the vast majority of the article, but take contention with this sarcastic question:

> Does anyone, outside of company management, believe that considering your coworkers your closest social relationships is a good thing?

Over the years, I have really underestimated the strength of friendships which were made at the office. And also, how much they meant to me as well.

The flexibility of remote work is awesome, but I don't think it is in its final form. There are definitely aspects missing which we haven't solved yet.
Kitchen cycles for less waste and better building blocks
Checkmate!, atheists.
Where USB-C?
> we also get the most important projects and are paid the most

Seems like this would drastically affect motivation and therefore output. Sounds your company may have a self fulfilling prophecy about remote work being less productive.
I agree. Its not going to be good. My main concern is staying employed for that whole period of time. As long as I can stay employed, I think I can come out on top, since people currently employed get hired easier than people who get laid off, ironically.
I don't expect the economy to ever "return to normalcy." Our economy is currently diabetic and we are pumping it full of insulin to offset the years of sugar we pumped into it last decade. It may even out after a REALLY long time...everything does eventually. But until then things are going to be rocky.
What the fuck are you talking about? It literally talks about how often they work on Saturday and Sunday.
What separates corpspeak from any other style of communication shared by a group of people in certain contexts?

I thought corpspeak was just a type of codeswitching. How is it different than me using different phrases when gaming, or in formal situations. If everyone just spoke literally all the time it would be boring.
> if only the "anti-vax" mob could have been motivated towards upholding Internet privacy

They’re a natural demographic! But connecting to them requires showmanship, crossing a partisan line for some, and bridging to the anti-Big Tech crowd. No easy work.
Fed up with poor broadband, he started his own fiber internet service provider
> And why, after more than 50 years, are our most common interactions with AI, for example with our bank’s computers, still so unsatisfactory?

Guys guys we don't need to worry about skynet because our banks are bad at UX.
This is an avenue i've been considering. In my case it does require enough budget to allow for a somewhat permanent co-working space setup (big monitor, mouse, keyboard etc), but it's an option.
The scientific method is fantastic. And scientists can of course do great things, but at the end of the day they're just people who can be very wrong or misguided about something.

Personally speaking, if there's one profession that deserves a lot more credit for the positive things that exist in the world, it's the engineers who actually build stuff. An engineer can't bullshit you to the level that a bad scientist can: there's no faking or ambiguity about a bridge that can't stand upright or a building that collapses.
This should be done to politicians that lobby for data brokerages. They only do the correct thing when personally affected.
And in both cases those making the claims have somehow managed to ignore existing biological counterexamples.
The pandemic turned out to be the gamechanger - as it ushered in remote work on a unprecedented scale.

At least it gave a decent indicator (for companies) on what worked, what didn't, and how adapt for the future.
Those are all gigantic cities, Portland is about as big as the largest city in my country.

There are far, far more cities below 200k and in those its very hard from what I understand. Even some large cities with 500k people have really bad public transport and bad bike infrastructure.

And to live a car free live, you need to live reasonably close to the center where housing is very expensive. From what I understand, the places that are best to live for walk-ability are usually the most expensive.
> When are people going to stop blaming stimulus and unemployment that stopped happening years ago at this point

Because even though it stopped happening a year and a half ago, a lot of stuff was closed down still so people weren't spending yet. They were saving. Americans built up $2.7T in "excess" savings [1]. That money is being spent, and has been spent, over the last 6 months to a year. Notice that inflation really only started up after re-opening.

The article gives two examples, one of a public policy employee who got an extra $500/mo from the pause in student loan payments and built up substantial savings, and a family that was laid off but received equivalent funds from unemployment, and ended up with more money than they previously had due to stimulus+child tax credit. The family ended up spending money on dance/karate lessons for their kids.

So not only did a lot of people not seek alternative employment (e.g. in a different field) when laid off due to inflated unemployment benefits, but they also ended up being able to spend more than they could previously afford due to stimulus. What does that additional spending require? More labor, which there was a shortage of due to unemployment payments.

If it was only energy costs and supply chain that was causing inflation, we'd see substantially decreased consumption and few wage hikes. Wage hikes are driven by labor's supply relative to demand, not by cost of living (although CoL can affect supply). We are seeing relatively high demand relative to supply and increased bargaining power for a lot of labor, which implies decreased supply. Guess where that decrease came from?

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-finances-got-stronger...
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