skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the original poster I'd mention that I'd love to see a much better public transit system but that I've also seen it repeatedly stymied by car-centric interests. I've seen stupidly large bus exchanges placed in the middle of fields because all the land closer to what people actually want to get to is covered with acres of parking and I've seen bus lanes shot down because of the expected impact on traffic. We need to accept that car infrastructure will be degraded to actually get meaningful transit changes and city densification efforts through and those box stores in lakes of parking need to die as a default footprint to build retail. If it takes seven minutes to walk from one storefront to the next then you're never going to get people out of their cars no matter how many buses you throw at the problem.

At the end of the day it comes down to: car infrastructure, walkability - choose one.
Gruvbox dark hard.
Hundreds of former Israeli spies working in jobs at Google, Facebook and Amazon
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/08/03/two-pedestrians-are-k...

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/09/18/slaughter-of-the-inno...

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2013/11/11/three-killed-by-curb-...

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2013/11/04/charles-hynes-brings-...

Now show your work. Give me all the fatal electric scooter crash stories.
he understand so much and interested that he is quitting. Why not stick thru with it?
Is this really needed for the "localhost" name? I understand the need for this because a lot of people create multiple local services with specific names other than localhost, so it would be flagged as not being secure?
How about "fight" "disinformation" "weapons" with explanations of the truth. The 4th branch of the govt AKA the mainstream media has proven a failure of disseminating truth when it counts, and thus has eroded our trust in it.

PSAs paid for w/ public tax $ like The Ad Council have their controversies but are generally countering some social issue with a "this is bad" message [0] but outright censorship of even blatantly false information is a sign that our government's integrity is shot to hell.

Next time you hear someone spewing some bullshit like the 2016 election was rigged (Russia) or the 2020 election was rigged (tbh not sure who the main villain rigged this one), remember that people have been accustomed to lies from the top and are not completely crazy for looking to the fringes for the real scoop.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Council#Famous_and_Controve...
One of the few game consoles that actually supports a subset of OpenGL, yet most WebGL 2.0 games are not up to Wii U ones.
This is not how productivity is defined or measured.
My biggest annoyance with most salary transparency law compliance is companies pretend they'll accept anyone in any location at levels between 1 and 5, resulting in ranges like "$85k" (lowest paid location, level 1) to "$250k" (highest paid location, level 5) - when they're (internally) looking for "level 3 or 4".
Its been that way at least 6 months. If you click Login then a close button finally appears in the top left. Garbage piece of shit UX.
Yes. Go to the New York Times, Washington Post, etc… Need a link?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-...
Yes absolutely. The government should be spending a lot of time writing very carefully worded press releases that encourage you to research facts, question their pronouncements, and wording all of their releases with a healthy dose of "I am not certain, but we believe" in order to rebuild the public trust.

That will go much farther towards combating misinformation then trying to suppress even outright lies by force.
I used it a lot for planning and multitasking in Pikmin 3, it felt like a really organic addition to the gameplay there.
Wow, they sound almost as bad as car drivers.
I wonder just how spiky your clothes could be before you'd get cited for incitement to danger. Is it illegal to walk around looking like a discount dime-store Sauron?
As technology develops, we need to work less. In 2050 I doubt we'll all be on a 40+ hour work week.
Thanks for sharing this.

I'd say its a lot of responsibility to get right, but not necessarily dangerous. And fwiw, I've seen old, established banks make reports that are objectively incorrect but then do everything possible to avoid fixing it.

On something like this, though, I'm glad you were able to get an email routed down from TC. I had multiple instances of this with matters addressed to Bezos but never with Apple.
The economic concept of productivity has nothing to do with anything you can measure about a single employee (or kind of employee), the article is just conflating two very different meanings of the same word.

In aggregate you measure it based on how much the company spends vs how much it makes off sold product. It's a measure of the efficiency of the company to its holders of capital.
I've basically stopped using Facebook as a social network anymore, almost none of my friends post to it and much of what I see is shilling. But it's also functionally replaced CraigsList for me to sell things or give them away as well as as a news bulletin board for various communities I'm in (community garden, my gym, my local neighborhood news).

So in a way, I don't use Facebook in the way I've always used it but I've had to confront that I'm still checking it every couple of days.
My guess it's a game against inflation. People understand they're getting paid less for their hard work, and not motivated enough to work harder every day. For comparison, I'm spending x1.5 more on groceries than 1 year ago. Some items even x2 more expensive, comparing to last year.

Salaries aren't growing that fast.

Personally, I love what do, and this fact didn't affect the ability to work. However, I can imagine some people can get seriously affected by that.
That documentation time is largely driven by the insurance industry which was really painful before these systems. It’s almost shocking how much more productive doctors are inside the VA.
Its simple. The healthy people moved away.

Its obvious that much of the GDP is based on low aptitude/low skilled products and services (i call it fat juice and fat juice filtering, looking at buffetts investing advice). An unhealthy environment is not something to grow old with.

In the states, we can see that the illegal migration dumping is caused by the unskilled labor needed to support archaic GDP numbers.

As a technology native, I was too young to work when the H1-B economy started to spring up, but the linear from that is easy to see.

And somewhat off-topic, it looks like with the UK's PM, we get to see more of the effects that infosys played on the economy.

Businesses that outsourced gave away their whole business model is an easy conclusion, so now they all have lower quality/priced competition (obviously speculation, but plausible remains entertaining).

Looking at Walmart, I could never understand why they left their workforce in servitude, without paving the way for a future. The irony that "merica'" is filled with products from a communist country still astounds. They have no prospects for the future and supplement incomes with foodstamps and welfare.

Even quiet quitting is easy to decipher. Its an unhealthy environment.

Its simple. The healthy people moved away.
> Wars happen over words. Marriages and divorces too.

Words are not the cause of these events. They might, in several ways, trigger them, of course. After all, a declaration of war is nothing but words and so is a legal divorce filing.

However, for these and other conflicts, if we dug down to root causes, we always find a lot more than just spoken or written words. Two that come to mind would be, in the case of war, strategic/national interests and, for divorce, infidelity or serious lack of agreement on matters the couple deem to be important.
Do you run Arch Linux in production? How's it going?
Thanks for providing the color schemes!
The BLS recently reported that at its peak, only 7% of Americans were working from home, so this demographic is probably too small to have much large scale impact on the productivity numbers. If there is stagnation in the productivity numbers, we should look at what the other 93% of workers are doing.
Here you go:

NYPost: Washington Post, New York Times finally admit Hunter’s laptop is real — but only to protect Joe Biden some more

https://nypost.com/2022/04/01/new-york-times-finally-admit-h...
> so don’t seem like a big deal

The big deal is people being duped.

9.8M divided by $25 (my best guess on what an average person might donate) is 392,000 people being duped into giving $25 to something they did not intend to give money to.

The 30% surplus is just salt in that wound
I think this is generational. Young people may not subscribe to newspapers, whether electronic or paper, or watch TV news regularly, but they are still quite popular among older people. Ask your parents (and your grandparents if they are still living). They don't get their news off the Internet. And these older generations still have a lot of power. In many countries, such as the US, they are still the majority of politicians, for example.
Or making an impromptu campfire!
Sacks runs a VC firm with over $1 billion under management [1]…Staff Software Engineer is a big demotion for him, lol

1 - https://medium.com/craft-ventures/announcing-craft-iii-1-1-b...
> "productivity" doesn't mean how much workers get done but how much money is made off of what workers get done

This is so true. The amount of bureaucracy has actually increased. This makes every worker work more. But this bureaucracy is unproductive work, thus does not lead to a rise in income (for the company).

E.g. my healthcare provider uses fax machines (yes that FAX) to communicate with insurance providers. Fax is asynchronous and without confirmation/tracking of work done. Often, the fax is sent but the other side simply files it in a random place or forgets to process the work. So, I (the patient) now needs to follow up for weeks with insurance and healthcare provider to check on the status of that FAX.

This is unproductive work and yet, it is taking a toll on every individual involved in this process.
In the 1970s the Netherlands looked much like any slice of America you could randomly choose - that political will might be impossible in America, I'm genuinely uncertain if the hole has been dug too deep at this point, but in a more healthy political environment it certainly can be done... but it isn't easy.
Sales managers will just hand the accounts to new executives. It's not as if the business walks away because their AE isn't there anymore. They're spending money on twitter for the benefits it brings them, not to do favors for their favorite executive.
Remix looks like a standard server rendered web framework (like Rails or Django) except that is use React for its template language, and React has the advantage of running interactively on the client-side.

NextJS pre-generates (or generates on a trigger) most its pages. Like Remix it also uses React as its template language and client-side interactivity.
1980 wasn't about 30 years ago, though. 30 years ago is 1992 which is Wolfenstein 3D, Civilization, and Final Fantasy type games. It's on the cusp of games like Warcraft, C&C, Ultima Online, Quake, Diablo, and Everquest. Games that are, more or less, like what we have now but with much much worse graphics.
Then perhaps you'd like to enlighten us?
Companies get a huge financial lift by underpaying some percentage of their employee base. Consider any company whose main cost is people, and revenue is roughly proportional to headcount. (Consultancy, school, security, etc)

Let’s say they can utilize an information asymmetry to underpay half their workforce by 10%. That cuts their cost by 5%, and it’s all to the bottom line. If they were a 10% net margin business, now they’re 15%.

This is why they fight transparency. It’s a form of price discrimination.

A libertarian might say “It’s a free market, and everyone enters the contract willingly.”

I am sympathetic to that, though markets tend to work most efficiently when there is more information.

The one downside is some remote jobs might not be available in New York any more. NYC wage levels make remote work more difficult from a cost arbitrage anyway.
I'm sleepy from a bad night, but let me try to explain:

> our existence now is so unlikely that it's possible that we actually are the first. Something has to be first.

When the OP said that ^ I took we to mean humans with technology, presuming the OP meant that we were somehow special. Basically I took it as him saying that we're first because we're lucky so my argument was:

> How are we lucky? Look at all the other intelligent lifeforms on Earth! Surely the lucky winners would have had some sort of fluke that made them one of the few with intelligent brains on their planet! This could have easily happened sooner on Earth!

If the OP meant that life itself was extraordinarily rare on any given celestial object then that is something I don't consider especially groundbreaking since its part of the Fermi Paradox formula in its basic form the precise value of which has been debated for years and I do not find convincing.
Worth noting also that the poster has scrubbed her online presence, I would guess due to incessant harassment. Really stupid all around.
I see this comment getting downvoted, but I agree with the sentiment; it suffices to say that if there a compelling mathematical structure exists, there will be people studying it. I imagine most graph theorists are hardly interested in the applications of their field, they just happen to be studying a structure which has much more intuitive practical applications (social networks, molecules, etc).
Securing the Software Supply Chain (For Developers) [pdf]
Ask HN: How can I approach our CTO who seems checked out?
I joined a mid-size startup about two years ago as a very hands-on VP of engineering. My responsibilities including managing about 25 engineers, half of whom are out of the country and half of whom are here in the US. I also do a lot of infrastructure/devops type work, I write technical specs, manage our Linear board, handle releases. This is all in addition to writing code and submitting PRs...basically in the trenches with the rest of the dev team when I'm not doing higher level work.

Through the original interview process, it was clear that more hands-on management was needed and that I'd be taking over a lot of the day-to-day management to free up the CTO who was desperately under water. Since then, the CTO has seemed pretty checked out. Very frequently, he will message me to tell me he can't make it to the standup (which he stopped joining altogether for a while, which I was fine with). There's never really a reason given. To me, it feels like he believes he's in semi-retirement.

Part of me is trying to empathize and imagine what it must be like to be in his shoes where someone comes in and very effectively takes over a lot of his work. And the truth is there is a ton that he can do to help the team. I'm not suggesting it's all on me — it very clearly isn't — but perhaps he doesn't have clear idea on how he can continue to help and I haven't gone to him and told him explicitly. I'd hope I wouldn't have to do that, but it might be an awkward spot for him to be in. I don't know.

In any event, this puts me in a weird position where what I feel like communicating to him is something along the lines of:

- you seem checked out, you're often absent and we don't know why
- we can't rely on you for any concrete work because you aren't accountable to anyone
- the rest of us are working 10x as hard as you are
- part of your job should be to teach people, but you don't

and to implore him to recommit himself to the company or acknowledge he really is checked out and that it might be best to just leave.

But, I know that's not a constructive way approach the conversation; I probably wouldn't respond positively if I was approached that way.

So, how can I bring this up? What's an effective way to air my grievances and work towards resolving this situation?

When I approached the CEO, he basically acknowledged it's a problem and put it on me to bring it up with the CTO however I see fit.

Any recommendations on how I should approach this?

Thanks in advance.
The mostly uninteresting Hunter Biden laptop story suppression from mainstream media, Twitter, and Facebook in a very obviously concerted effort, and only for a period of time before the election, with orders from the top is a sign that, when pushed, the Arbiters of Truth will squash dissent to save face. (Here come the downvotes)
While it may seem that way there’s still plenty of market share on the table. Add vercel’s increasing coupling to its deployment system for best features, others will always welcome more agnostic approaches.
He is lucky he isn't trying to put ACPI on that machine, because they would have outright rejected 3/4ths of what he is doing.

They have already taken a pile of submissions to do things that they swore Linux would never support on arm hardware.
maybe performance of Twitter, not the particular employees?
That change is welcome. The previous setup was really obnoxious.
Interventions reducing polarization do not improve anti-democratic attitudes
> malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context, with harmful intent)

The summary of the entire business model of US media.
But wouldn't a "blatantly left leaning" organization stop transphobic harassment?
May be worth reading this update from September, where more facial features/clothes were added to the sausages: https://sbox.facepunch.com/news/september2022#ClothingandHai... https://sbox.facepunch.com/news/september2022#CitizenSkin

Makes them have a little more character.
In his last talk with lex Freidman he specifically predicted that Tesla would switch to vision only.
How is anti-aging tech going to be open-sourced? All I see right now is the life scale equivalent of a coin-op arcade machine:

“Keep playing? Insert two quarters.”

Except two quarters is the average person’s life savings so Jeff Bezos can build another drone.
I always found it pretty funny that the system's best game, Zelda: BoTW, features a tablet carried by the protagonist prominently in the game, but the game makes ZERO usage of the gamepad. This was likely a last minute change due to the decision to also make it a launch game for the Switch, and they didn't want people to say "the Wii U is better because you can manage your items on the game pad more easily".
A knowledge worker's productivity can easily (and provably ) range from -10x to +1000x.

So, it's much easier to prove in the court of law that the ranges are justified.

Dude who created the React Framework is always 100x valuable to the company than an average Javascript developer. A couple of brilliant dudes is all that is required for a company to be a mere $100 Million company vs $1 Billion company.

It's ridiculous to pay the same $100,000 for each of them
Preprint :

https://osf.io/7evmp/
> And even if you are an atheist, you probably still accept the bible is the closest thing we have to a human origin story.

wtf! what did he smoke?
Just what we need: unlimited ads, this time even less thought through.
To be fair, if you're holding a professional cycling race, you should probably close off the roads to other traffic.
Shanghai Disney shuts over Covid, visitors unable to leave
> As a user, I struggle because of one main reason. The seeming lack of LTS version either currently or planned.

> I currently am predominantly Debian. Which is inherently LTS

In what possible way is Rocky not LTS? Its releases have longer lifespan than Debian, even with Debian LTS releases
> Ah, so the middle is to just do nothing in favour of boosting marginalised groups,

Well, yeah. That's what "neutral" means
> Focus on education and providing more information, not suppressing the information you don't like.

A: Education is at best only partly-effective as a response — too many malevolent actors follow Steve Bannon's largely-costless strategy of (his literal words) "flood the zone with shit."

B: Mass purveyors of disinformation are thieves — they steal the time of people who take seriously the need to figure out what's true when, say, voting.

C: It's already established that you don't always get to say whatever TF you feel like without consequence — for example, the Federal Trade Commission goes after people for false advertising, and people have been imprisoned for leaking classified information. (At the zoo with my kids years ago, I saw small monkeys scampering quickly around a set of monkey bars in a giant outdoor cage — they shit and pissed whenever the urge struck them, heedless of where it fell. I get much the same impression from people who get indignant when told that they can't say whatever they want whenever they feel like it.)
If one has to equate information with direct physical violence before arguing for suppression of information, what does that say about the validity of the argument? If it's so important to suppress certain information one should be able to argue for this in terms of information qua information, without having to falsely equate it to literal physical violence first.

It's also quite constructive to conceive of "disinformation" as information (as opposed to physical violence) because it leads naturally to the realization that the remedy should be in the realm of information as well (education, establishing trust, trustworthy or verifiable information from trusted sources, etc..), instead of violence (suppression, shutting down, imprisonment).
> I do not understand why this organization exists when we already have the NSA

More money for defense contractors?
Completely agreed. The tile based graphics that pushed the limits of a mid-80's computer (and in some cases required special hardware) can now be done off the cuff with totally naive code in a matter of a couple hours:

https://github.com/mschaef/waka-waka-land

There's lots more room these days for developing the story, etc. if that's the level of production values you wish to achieve.
I guess advertizing is malinformation, wonder how this'll affect big adtech giants. ~:)
Everything in the laptop.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-...
Right but it's hard to take this as genuine concern for the quality of the forum when you're mostly posting troll things with a troll username. You want to improve the tone, post things that improve the tone.
Why not? No different to the unix lib prefix
Something like this is an extreme range (clearly no one in engineering would be at 40k) and would make the employer look quite bad IMO.

FWIW GitHub https://github.com/about/careers has eng salaries for US positions be like "min 110 max 250" and while the range is high, it's still more useful than no information at all IMO.

I wonder though how this would look like for non-tech jobs.
The Ocean Is Not Full
China: Lithium batteries may soon power 'world's largest fleet' of submarines
React is a library. Remix is a framework.
Don't you worry, the next gen of block chain apps which are built on a bedrock of implicit trust, will make your concerns moot.
https://developer.apple.com/app-extensions/
Oh, that's very interesting. Can you get more specific? What's the difference between productivity in this sense then, vs profit margin?
Its totally not obvious if this is usable for a non "connect" server side implementation (Grpc.net etc)?
I would prefer people were taught critical thinking skills with a focus on identifying and dismissing propaganda for what it is. I suspect the main reason we don’t is so much of the propaganda is home grown and considered essential to maintaining a compliant population. Corporatism hasn’t yet figured out how to maintain a population that’s receptive to marketing and resistant to foreign propaganda. For now there seems to be a focus on provenance and restricting of speech for non-approved concepts.