skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i guess my first "writing software" job was in 1995, so, that's nearly 30 years ago.

Although that was a job while I was still a university student. (Creating the very first web pages for the university). So I was at the very beginning of my career at that time... and to this day my career has mostly been working in academic and non-profit settings, so not typical to compare, so my memory looking back may be colored by that.

But I'd say it was... "smaller". By and large salaries were smaller, not the crazy salaries we hear about on HN (which I don't really receive, to be honest). Work-life balance was a lot more likely to be there by default, things were just... smaller.

There were fewer jobs, fewer programmers, a higher percentage of them in academic settings. Other programmers were mostly geeks, in it for a fascination with programming, not dreams of being a billionaire. (Also mostly all white men, which I don't think is great).

Even 30 years ago there was (the beginnings of) an internet for learning about how to do things from your peers -- largely via mailing lists or usenet groups though. There was a large sense of camraderie available from such text-based online discusisons, you'd see the same people and get to know them and exchange ideas with them.

And sometimes exchange code. I think in some ways 30 years ago may have been close to the height of open source culture. (Raymond wrote the Cathedral and the Bazaar in 1999). As a thing aware of itself, and a culture based around taking pride in collaborating and sharing non-commercially, rather than figuring out how to get rich off open source or "open source". Open source culture was essentially anti-commercial mutual aid.

Also, you still often learned from books. There was always A book about any given topic that had gotten community acclaim as being great, and you'd get THAT book (say the Perl Camel book), and read it cover to cover, and feel like you were an expert in the thing. Which meant other people in the community had probably read the same book(s) and had the same basic knowledge base in common. There weren't as many choices.

I would say things were just... slower, smaller, chiller, more cooperative.

But is this my unique experience or colored by nostalgia?
But that's not what anyone was selling at the time. I'm sure complexity has only increased since then.

It was pre-AJAX and pre-"Javascript being useful", I think even pre-Firefox and was IE6 only. So it was loading java applets and stuff to just get some basic functionality
That's more or less exactly what we've done. Our SDK does have support for LSP. But, unfortunately those extensions still need to be made. Or are you talking about a generic LSP extension that is server-agnostic? That is definitely buildable, but my experience has been that the experience tends to be a lot better when customized for a particular server.
There's no law that says the number they give on the sign is the exact number you get on your offer letter and not some "work for us for X amount of time and get Y amount of pay increase over that time" that may (or may not) eventually reach 80k
Do you have a link that doesn't require sign-in, maybe Nitter?
Ah, great idea! I habitually avoid shirts-with-slogans, but I suppose this is a good reason to compromise on that :)
CTL+F "Saudi" https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-taking-tesla-private

Saudi finance partners were the reason he tweeted 'Funding Secured' in relation to Tesla. That's Tesla, not Twitter, but does show he has partnerships with the 'well connected Saudis'
Echoing the above, I had a bike commute in midtown Manhattan as well and found it more convenient than the subway and safer than biking in the suburbs.

Compared to the NYC subway it was faster, more consistent, and less prone to delays.

Compared to biking in the suburbs the car traffic typically moved more slowly, I didn't have as many close passes, and drivers seemed more aware of their surroundings. In the suburbs the majority of the people I see biking are middle-aged men in lycra, whereas in the city it seemed more like a demographic cross section.

I also saw other cyclists cross on red lights, knock into pedestrians, and swerve erratically in traffic, though I also saw drivers, moped riders, and pedestrians do the same at roughly the same rate so I always assumed it was a crazy New Yorker thing and not a crazy biker thing.
I strongly agree, also with the factor of energy and rewards: many of the people spreading disinformation have MUCH greater appetite for spreading it, even if it’s not actually their job, than normal people do for debunking it. There’s a burnout problem, especially when the volume of noise overwhelms the rewarding aspects of using a particular forum — less of a Gish Gallop than a Gish Stampede now.
Interesting idea, but how about don't let news outlets be owned by the fat cats they're supposed to be critical of?

The Telecommunications Act of 1996's supposed purpose was "to promote competition and reduce regulation in order to secure lower prices and higher quality services"[0]. Now there's far less competition since media conglomerates have greatly consolidated, and deregulation has allowed mainstream media to regulate the viewpoints of popular conversation.

[0] https://www.congress.gov/104/plaws/publ104/PLAW-104publ104.p...
Ironically, the closure also made Market St more unpleasant (an already unpleasant experience before) to walk after dark.
It's fun thinking about McMurdo as it relates to what long term habitation would be like on some place like the Moon or Mars (except this is like easy easy mode).

The waste there would actually be super valuable for growing food in.
> Recruiters are usually paid based on a percentage of the salary. It's actually in the interests of the recruiter that you are paid as much as possible, strictly speaking.

Similar studies for real estate agents who are also paid on commission shows that this is not true. It’s more about velocity than optimizing a single candidate.

https://freakonomics.com/2008/02/real-estate-agents-revisite...
But I'm sure the new luxury car the owner bought using their taxpayer-funded PPP "loan" is working great.
Wouldn’t labor productivity be impacted by really low unemployment and a low real minimum wage?

That should mean lots of people who would not otherwise be part of the labor market are getting low wage/low productivity jobs. So in an aggregate measure dollars of output over hours worked, you’re raising the numerator at slower rate than you’re raising the denominator.

Early in the pandemic, high wage white collar workers stayed home and kept their jobs. Low wage service workers were furloughed. -> labor productivity goes up.
Service workers get hired again-> labor productivity drops.
This discredited story began on a conspiracy website, was repeated by Republican candidate(s), Elon Musk (since deleted), and other conspiracy nutters. It has no traction as it doesn't appear to be based in truth, any more than the false story of Democrats running a pedophile ring out of the basement of a pizza restaurant in a slab-on-grade building. Conspiracy theories used to seem harmless before the internet was spreading them far and wide, but more and more, these stories are encouraging (generating?) stochastic terrorism.
I've done the same with taking the password manager approach and putting the master password in the safe. I've also place a "death envelope" in there that outlines who would need to be notified from my employer and other important contacts. We also have "safe opening" class every so often.
But critical thinking is genetic: https://philpapers.org/rec/SCHPBJ
Years and years ago, I went on a tour of the Paris Sewer (museum). It was billed as a cool and interesting thing to visit, and while there was a lot of neat stuff to see and learn, we rushed through it as fast as possible to get out of the smell.

Not sure what we expected.
I can also see data governance being an issue, giving someone from China access to your customer data would light red lights at a lot of European companies.
I've personally never had a good experience with teams, which is sad. If you don't like gifs then don't allow them in channels where you don't want them (possible on other platforms)
For many years, for political reasons we'll never have another "great depression", and this has possibly now extended to reporting recessions.

Its worth pointing out that the economic indicator of productivity is basically GDP divided by worker-years-equivalent worked. So if its double-plus ungoodthink to ever report a decline in GDP, we can still, for now, report a decline in productivity while also reporting unemployment remains mostly constant, as long as no one makes the connection and cancels them for reporting disinformation.

Its not a "recession" of course, that would be badthink of the highest order, its just a mysterious decline in the productivity metric, and nobody can talk about why while remaining politically correct. Its a good demonstration of how effective censorship can be. Why, I hear times are so good, the party is increasing the chocolate ration.
The $250 billion spend is "projected" over 10 years by the commentator.

Would META spend $25 billion/year indefinitely without earning a profit? I don't know but other scenarios seem plausible too.
Here in BC, Canada, many places don't even provide you a menu. You're expected to scan a QR code on the table, then use the website it leads you to. So the table fumbles around with their phones, using a website that usually has a terrible UX, and then the server arrives and enters your order on their tablet.

At least they don't require that we install an App. But I'm sure someone's thinking that would be a good idea.
Look at any data comparing wage growth with productivity since the 60s and that should go a pretty long way to explaining it.
SMS Multifactor Authentication in Antarctica
One of these years I still want to build support for HN users to connect with each other in the real world, have meetups and so on. Top bar slots are absolutely the scarcest thing we have but I could imagine putting 'meet' up there.

(Totally generic remark of no use to the OP.)
In the middle is 10 for $295, which is $30 per. That's a small enough number that you can split the cost with a few friends. But you can also get one from Australia, $88 for 10 or $44 for one.
Just 3 weeks ago people were mocking me about the incoming recession [1]. These companies that can't pay their bills are going to lay-off staff just to stay afloat. Unemployment is about to skyrocket.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33149381
As much as I wish it were the opposite, I have a feeling that the near future will venerate Nick Land in a lot of ways.
> giving Black students a slightly higher chance to get into Harvard

Giving Asian students a significantly lower chance to get into Harvard, because they're considered "more privileged" based on race alone.
TBH the example wasn't convincing at all
What does ownership have to do with misinformation? A hostile power can spread misinformation through services owned by them or not.
Nobody wants to pay for better GUIs in enterprise software, so no vendor puts any attention into them. An Enterprise Architect explicitly explained to me (when I was raising a point of choosing a software package that had much better UI) that good UX is a small factor and company (a bank in that case) would rather buy cheaper software and just have its workers suffer more, because it's deemed more cost-effective.
Depends on what you are using, for connecting block stores, you'll use some sort of fabric. That is Fibre channel, SAS, NVME over something or other

If you are using GPFS, then you can do stuff over IB, but I don't know how that works. Lustre I imagine does lustre things over RDMA.

For everything else, NFS all the things. pNFS means that you can just throw servers at the problem and let the network figure it out.

But again, if IO speed is critical, you move IO over to a dedicated fabric of somesort. for most thing NFS is good enough. (except databases, its possible but not great. but then depending on your docker setup, you might be kneecaping your performance because overlayfs is causing io amplification)
Simply no other options really if you borrow billions of dollars to buy Twitter than to do this.
I don't think the "metaverse" needs to succeed as much as the hardware does. A set of AR glasses that aren't bulky or sci-fi enables a huge amount of brand new functionality, on maybe even more than smartphones did. In that case, if Meta has the best option on the market, it doesn't need to write the killer app, someone else can do it, just like the App Store enabled iPhone developers to do.

I'm less optimistic on the VR takeover, but I can imagine a future where VR headsets would be preferable to using laptops for daily use, and the same thing applies there.
Can I just start a non profit “publisher”, buy a block of ISBNs, and hand them out at cost? Costco for ISBNs sort of thing, just enough margin to pay for a few hours a year of my time and a little app to drive the process.

Edit: HN throttling, can’t reply. What if the Internet Archive gets a block and hands them out via Open Library? They seem positioned to argue they’re a bonafide publisher.
I say this a bit loosely, but Lower Decks is best new Star Trek since DS9. They not only capture Trek, but do it with a silly genre (yes, Orville proved this out first). My problem with Disco/etc is the extreme over indexing on a singular characters, great as they may be.

Either way, SNW is fantastic and I agree with your comment.
Thank you! I've been interested in ham radio for a while, but I've been pushing it off since it sounds like it requires a big time investment which I can't do right now. Do people in ham meetups tend to be okay with people showing up who don't have a license/radio?

> One other method to recommend: If there are small shops like internet cafes, computer stores, or local internet providers around they should 100% be able to hook you up with relevant info if you ask them.

That's a good one! I'll give it a try.
Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

Perhaps you don't owe kernel maintainer foes better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, it kinda stinks. I want to edit my comment saying that cog sci is just mostly the alt bucket for comp sci, but it's too late. My roommate was cog sci because he actually cared about it, then he switched majors.
As long as Zuck is in charge, yes.
>> My claim is that we all have things we believe dogmatically. They for the axioms of our mental models.

I agree but think of it as a scalar. Some mental models are assigned a "conviction" of 1.0 - that could be considered dogma. Some (like the expectation of what tomorrow's weather might be like) may have a "conviction" of 0.3.
Then they are bad at their job.

What if the police abuse their power, well then I guess we shouldn't have any.
Tier in Germany did have helmets on some of their older scooters, however it seems like they replaced them with newer ones which don't have them anymore.
major news outlets like wapo have a lot of issues, like so many issues, but making up sources is not one of them.
Trick is to be hourly!
Wittgenstein's ruler comes to mind: what is 'productivity' measuring?

A quick glance at the chart in the article suggests that the variance of this metric is huge. It is more or less a white noise source with a small DC offset. Given the formula the BLS uses, I would be hard pressed to calculate my own productivity (outside of lawyers and people working on assembly lines or at fast food establishments most people do not keep track of their hours). If I can't measure my own 'productivity' then I have no idea how the hell the BLS is going to do it.
Intel may not ever fail, but that sure doesn't mean shareholders will reap any rewards. Boeing won't fail either, but has been losing huge chunks of money every quarter for 2 years now.
>Amazon, for example, may give you a free ISBN for your ebook as long as you publish it using KDP,

That is indeed a bit of a ruse, since an ISBN is supposed to identify an edition or format, but not the sales channel. We give our epub files an ISBN, and all the vendors that sell that file (including Amazon) use the same number. But when you publish with KDP, you are not the publisher. Amazon is, so you have less say in the matter.
Working with Git Worktrees
Can I ask why you're so defensive about it?

I feel like, if there's ANYTHING we have learned in the past decade or two it's that people who defend a company tend to be doing so for the wrong reasons. See Sony or Microsoft, or Apple or Android, etc. Defending a company is just weird.

I look at replit as a tool, run by people. The tool might be cool, but the CEO made a bad decision and now I judge the product on that CEOs actions. There's no definitive time frame or action that just magically makes it better.

But in general, I'll stop thinking about the stupid actions of the CEO when my brain stops reminding me "Oh, no matter how cool this is, the actions of the CEO were incredibly poor." When will that be? No idea, but maybe sometime down the road he does enough good things that I will suddenly stop and think "cool, looking back, he's done enough good that I can probably forget about the poor decision he made and start looking at this again, because he's proven he isn't that one stupid action."

Goodwill is earned, it's not simply given. It's often hard won, but incredibly easy to lose.
It would be funny if it weren't true to a large extend apparently :/
It's so rare for a superstar not to know their market rate as to be unlikely.

What I can see happening is that more corporations start doing SDE 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12, with different ranges, and most of the interviews are at 7-10 and are "releveled" at 3-5. We will end up in the same place we started but with more games.
Some of that seems straight forward. That said, I question point 4. "Vision" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in robotics. Everything is sensor reading, such that there is no reason to restrict the sensors to the same visible spectrum that humans have. The only advantage of doing that, is that you can easily get data labeled by a human.
Ah, another feather in my cap. I keep saying that Linux's "drivers-included" model won't scale long-term. I'm just going to sit back and sip some iced tea, soon you all will come around to my way of thinking, and Linus (or someone) will announce an amazing new initiative to move drivers out of the kernel tree.
Cmd-Tab -> switch apps, in most recently used order, keep Cmd held down and repeatedly tap Tab to cycle though the switcher bar
Cmd-` -> switch windows of current app
Cmd-H -> hide current app
Cmd-Opt-H -> hide other apps

They all work very fast

If you want more options, try Alt-Tab app: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
Too many institutions now presume internet access for that to be true, even here in Germany, despite many of the people around me with the meme that German bureaucracy is pre-digital.

And I have a driving licence, but have had no need to drive since moving to Berlin.
I am not a lawyer. I just like to speculate about what feels reasonable, with a remarkable 10% success rate or lower in legal rulings.

My thought is that it will be a Solomon split based on how the entities set up operation. If you have operations out of NYC and hire for operations to be based in NYC, then you'll be required to post (akin to Colorado today). There seems to be precedence for this with regards to taxation.
Good point. What's people-friendly may not be machine-friendly, and vice versa. Further, what's human writing friendly may not be human reader friendly. When writing, verbosity reduction matters most; but when reading, clarity often trumps verbosity concerns.
Yep, 95% of anyone's needs in this regard can be taken care of by a spouse or relative, possibly with the aid of a death certificate. I highly doubt anyone would be interested in taking over most of my digital files.
Ah, I see you've emerged from cover.
I’m sure I could find some, but I haven’t bothered.

We know that our current understanding of physics is incomplete (various niggling little problems with the Standard Model, the whole Dark Matter question etc), but these are surprisingly small problems. We only know about these problems because of the extreme sensitivity of our instruments. The new physics that will eventually fill these gaps will answer fascinating questions, but won’t change anything about our understanding of life.

For example, petaquarks were first observed in the early 2000’s, and the Large Hadron Collider provided additional evidence for their existence. But they’re so unstable that they can never stick around long enough to participate in any life processes, so as far as our understanding of aliens goes they are irrelevant. Maybe they exist naturally inside the cores of neutron stars, but that’s not really a very habitable environment.

Similarly, however we resolve the apparent paradoxes in our understanding of gravity and quantum mechanics won’t matter at all to the study of life. Gravity is so weak that it is essentially irrelevant in any sort of chemical system, even when quantum mechanics is necessary to understand the fine details.
It's not mentioned anywhere in the post, but McMurdo Station is in Antarctica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Station
> IMHO, this is because the people writting GUI's these days are mostly incompetent, or hamstrung by "web" technologies.

The latter is definitely not the problem. Even the Twitter re-design from a couple years back still supports all the old hotkeys.

All it takes to at least support a tab-based workflow is using the "tabindex" property if your form isn't logically laid out already, and the rest can be done by capturing hotkeys.

Even multimedia content can be operated using hotkeys. Youtube is a good example. There's no excuse but laziness and incompetence IMO.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...
> Thanks for that comment

Thanks yourself :)

> , but one small thing - in the military it's really not 'planning' so much as it is 'training' (or 'preparing').

I think this depends a lot of the rank as well as the type of conflict. At low ranks and in a strict C&C doctrine, I suppose drill, practice and discipline play a huge role At higher ranks or higher levels of autonomy, war becomes way more of a mind game, while motivation may be an ok replacement for discipline.

When I used the term "Military Strategy", I meant primarily the operational level and above, or basically from a division commander (Mj.Gen.) and up, as well as the general staff.

At the tactical level, war becomes more of a science or craft, governed by doctrine and training. Higher ranks, though, are more likely to encounter the novel and unexpected, especially if facing an enemy of approximately equal strength.

> The #1 factor in terms of predicting project outcomes is the 'quality of the people', so 'training' speaks to that.

Training is important, for sure, and if you are in a position to only hire the very best, so much the better.

But technical leader will still need to figure a lot of stuff out about emerging trends and technologies as well as find litterature and other writings (or videos) for more established domains (that are new for their company). For these roles, there are a lot of ways to screw up, whether through stagnating or going all cargo cult based on a trend they don't fully understand.
I had been under the impression that LWN does archive the entire ML; but it seems that I was mistaken and that you are correct.
Or just buy some more money until they have enough for rent?