skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP, but your reply comes off as pretty rude, especially as I think its pretty off base.

The chart is showing "annual percentage change in labor output", not "gross productivity" which I think supports the OPs point.

If it went up 10% in 2020, and 6.3% in 2021 (or whatever the graph is showing), just because there is a -7.4% drop in 2022 doesn't mean its "far below any pre-pandemic baseline".

In fact it's probably ABOVE pre-pandemic levels, even with the drop. I can't be certain from graph.
Ok you’re espousing a view that’s fringe on HN and of course you were downvoted (not by me), but I’d just like to raise a technical point:

The truth of Wikipedia is epistemic, as is the truth of theology, and as such it’s possible to evaluate them in different epistemic systems and draw different conclusions.

But capital-t Truth is capitalized to indicate that it is an ontological rather epistemological signifier, i.e. a name referring to a personal entity.

So technically speaking God is not a higher or lower truth, in the sense of the verity of a proposition, as you can’t compare a person with a fact.

If we start conflating epistemology with ontology, then... God help us! We’ll end up calling night day, and figuratively literally :)
Looks neat.

I was hoping it would magically translate some of the math notation into plain English but I think it kind of just ignored it. Would love to see this.

Minor feedback: the UI doesn't really convey that the highlighted text is being processed. I was wondering if anything was happening at first.
I've been working from home since about 2017. I kind of echo this. In the beginning it was nice, I had a HUGE productivity boost. After a while I became disconnected from everything. The other day I realized the only adult I talk to reguarly in person is my wife. Somtimes on weekends I talk to a store clerk. Zoom meetings don't fill that missing spot, it's just work, and I have very little personal connection with any of my coworkers... Days and weeks and months seem to merge.

I'm an introverted person, I like solitude. But I guess all things in balance, it would be nice to talk to another adult once in a while about something that's not work.

I got really into Crypto, because Crypto seems to have a heavy focus on community. It was fun to fly to NY and talk to others in the community. But then I flew home, and the spot was missing again.
Channel your saltiness into uncovering illegal/fraudulent stuff happening within ads and become a whistleblower. Based on anecdotes (some within these comments!) stuff is clearly sideways with how ads are being delivered and attributed.
> Every commercial lease is structured this way.

Triple net leases are quite desirable for landlords but by no means are the sole kind of commercial lease. The most common splits some of the costs of building maintenance (a ‘modified gross’ lease)
Tokyo Night is a certified baller. I use https://github.com/ghifarit53/tokyonight-vim with Vim and it works pretty well.
Ben Thompson always writes positive Meta and FB content. I was a paid subscriber until I realized his strong bias for all things Zuck.
This is a problem with rental scooters but not private ownership.
I see that as being more helpful from a regulatory point of view (i.e., by providing a limited defense against claims of pay discrimination) than from an employee morale point of view. E.g., when people express dissatisfaction over the fact that those in the C-suite make X times what the average employee does, pointing out that the people in the C-suite have different titles or roles from the average employee doesn't seem to assuage anybody.
Sounds like it wasn't a monopoly then, huh.
Great find. Tyrannosaurus in 1,000,000 BC though? More like 65,000,000
> What if each agent cost $100K and was bringing in $900K?

From the first paragraph of your link: CBO estimates that portions of the Administration’s proposal to increase funding for the IRS by $80 billion over the 2022–2031 period would increase revenues by approximately $200 billion over those 10 years.

Later in the article is the argument that the IRS says previous multiples were 5-9x at peak and then immediately goes into why those numbers would not hold for future incremental investments in enforcement.

So, no, CBO doesn't estimate that it's a 9:1 return.
1992... Let's see. I had a fun job as a software developer at a university. I was a single person team (for the most part), writing C (for the most part), PC, Mac, embedded platforms. Designed my own electronics for various lab projects.

Did some work on various larger systems, IBM (VM/CMS), DEC (Unix).

Shelves with reference books. Lots of low level code (graphics directly on EGA/VGA etc.). Late nights on BITNET or the Internet. USENET/Newgroups.

Remote access with slow modems.

Borland/Microsoft tooling + tooling from embedded vendors (assemblers etc.).

Compensation: low. Work-life balance: None (I didn't have a life back then ;) ). Design principles: Some OO ideas, break things down to reasonable pieces, nothing too structured. Processes: None.

Are things better? I had more fun back then, that's for sure. For some definition of fun anyways ;). At work anyways.
https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox

It's been years, but I always come back to gruvbox
This is why you fail. Thirty years ago I could make a wire wrapped 68000k board that did nothing but play music. CE/CS was different back then. I'd cut pins and solder in chips to twiddle the filters on audio output. You could know the entire process from power on to running of your computer and it was easy to change bits even down to the hardware level like adding a 'no place to put it unless you build it yourself' CPU/MPU/RAM upgrade and make it work. Adjust your NTSC video output, just cut that resistor in lieu of replacing it with something really high resistance, it'll be better. Let's build our own new high speed serial port for MIDI. How about a graphics co-processor that only does Mandlebrot calculations, let's build three of them. Only few of the younger generation comprehend the old ways. And the machines have changed to fewer chips and machines have turned into system on a chip. It's a bit of a shame.
The question is who’s writing the code. A core part of a senior engineer’s job is helping to train and mentor junior engineers; it’s not unusual for an entire project to be designed and led by a senior engineer and implemented by more junior engineers. Design reviews don’t result in commits, deep dives on technical implementations don’t result in commits, negotiating an architecture change between groups don’t result in commits. A large amount of the actual heavy-lifting value-add of an actually senior engineer is not in the code they’re writing.
The landlords do not just eat the cost of purchasing and managing a property, they pass it on in the lease. So yeah, tenants still end up having to deal with it, on top of the day to day maintenance.
> if the person just knows if the procedure is covered because the insurance companies have stable standards and trust the medical providers rather than having it all be JIT decisions based on rules that either constantly shift or are so vague/low trust

None those are related to use or lack of use of technology. Those are purely bureaucratic rules setup by insurance carriers.

> And back in the paper days, the staff would pull up the records for the days appointments.

And sometimes those papers would get lost, or maybe they're still sitting in the folder on a door because someone forget to clean them up, or they were in the wrong order so it took the person longer to find the person's name, appointments would shift, etc. etc.

I can't believe I'm having to explain to someone the productivity advantages of a system of record to a technology focused crowd...
> What's a use case for this? Is the idea that you can use it for explicitly sequencing build order of dependencies, without making them actually dependent on each other? Why would you want that?

To introduce concurrency unsafety by deadlocks.
Taylor Leese is a respected Twitter engineering manager who tweeted on Sunday that he was no longer working at Twitter. While it's remotely conceivable that he quit, it's much more likely he was fired.

I had reports from friends who worked there that they were asked to stay available over the weekend, presumably for situations like this, or requests from the "war room" group that has been setup.
This is literally the reification of property-cum-captial. Like when people talk about social constructivism, this is what they're talking about. Please don't.
goto/if/switch have their uses (especially in C) but I consider them low level and deprecated in favor of pattern matching, expression-based loops, and fmap / map/reduce combinators.
I have been searching for a job at least few times in the past few years. I’ve emailed/messaged probably 100s of tech companies asking for a salary range. Maybe one or two companies failed to give me the salary range. I have no idea what companies you work with, but from my experience most companies in tech know the salary ranges for the positions they hire for, they just require an extra effort from people to find out.
Unless it's the core competency, companies are by definition conservative as all hell. They do not want to change ANYTHING unless they have to. Whenever the decision is "change something, or turn off X and not change anything" the latter will be the decision unless something forceful acts in the opposite direction.

They act this way even if "doing the thing" would be right, easy, good, productive, whatever.
how aware was Latour of Marxist influence on his work? most of what you described as ANT seems very reminiscent of whats called dialectical/historical materialism
The article is about 2022 specifically, obviously pandemic related.
> Which one are you looking to pay for? If you have budget for a superstar, why would you settle for just-over-the-bar talent?

Having done a fair amount of hiring over decades... because you don't know who will show up.

The minimum bar of the job description is who I need at least. But occasionally someone shows up who is insanely perfect, hitting on every optional wishlist item. I'll pay a lot more for that person, but I can't count they will apply because I can't wait a year for the perfect person to show up. So I'm also happy to hire someone at the minimum bar if that's how it goes.
From what I remember, it was way more cool people in tech and way less management overhead and processes.
These should be pretty entertaining when going down a steep hill.
if i ever got on the bandwagon for "defunding" something it would be DHS.
If it caused kids all over America to be afraid to go to a McDonalds but not burger king I would think McDonald's would have a case.
Ha! It means all the people that jumped at the chance to exercise their authoritarian fantasies and destroy peoples' lives get to escape any consequences for their actions.

That's gonna be a hard no from me.
>Almost half of car repair shops and auto dealerships were not able to meet their rent this month, the report said.

I’m very surprised that dealerships are having troubles. Haven’t they been charging all time high markups?
There would be as many landlords left as there were people who had a need to keep up the maintenance of property that they couldn't currently use, but planned to. The same reason why you would pay a housesitter.

I hope you're not implying that society should make rules based on the preservation of the passive income of landowners. Landlords don't add value to anything; they speculatively purchased a title, and are trying to extract value from it.
Good luck trying to negotiate any gross or modified gross lease when everyone else in the building is on triple net. They're better off taking the tax deduction than cashing your rent check.
Generally when running these kinds of tests you measure for further down the funnel metrics than sign ups. It's obvious sign ups would increase. In all the tests I've done around this, you look either at revenue or engagement over a longer term.
> It was to have a record that is standard, digital, transferable, etc.

Considering how often I have to fill out the same goddamn forms (sometimes literally down the hall in the same building as another doctor), I think that goal failed miserably.
Intel has been doing the opposite - borrowing money and using profits to do $70B in share buybacks.

The executives get better short term returns on this than by spending money on R&D.
Why did you bother to install Homebrew in step #2, though, if you are unwilling to then use it to install something as trivial as a newer version of make?
This....is not how the majority of commercial leases work. Look up "triple net" leases.
I agree it's those damn regulations like lousy "worker protections" and boring stupid taxes like SS and "unemployment" back in my day you'd show up to a group of men pick out the 5-10 strongest and give em 5 bucks at the end of the day if they survived. I don't understand why we can't go back to that, I mean I hear people complaining about lead all the time but I drank out of lead plumbing all my life and am fine.

I mean seriously this minimum wage crap to makes things so expensive, plus I lost half my workforce when I couldn't send 12 year olds down to the mines anymore.

Like I am sympathetic to your argument but to compare the standard of living between now and Therou using one variable and then blaming it on regulations is absurd.

Also you say no electricity very flippantly I don't know about you but the thought of not having to start a fire in the morning when it is 3 degrees outside in order to have warmth is appealing toe.
Why are you framing this as a hypothetical scenario? They’re already doing it, and have been doing it.

>There is also a formalized process for government officials to directly flag content on Facebook or Instagram and request that it be throttled or suppressed through a special Facebook portal that requires a government or law enforcement email to use. At the time of writing, the “content request system” at facebook.com/xtakedowns/login is still live. DHS and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, did not respond to a request for comment. The FBI declined to comment.
> What about a private sector solution?

We have some prototypes: moderation systems (HN), peer review (science publications), Wikipedia, and perhaps even TikTok?

All of those systems have their virtues and problems.
This might be a very stupid question, but how do they measure productivity for knowledge workers?

What does it mean that a software engineer is less productive? Or a stock trader? Or various other knowledge jobs?
Java has the same in the form of the Spring framework that, afaik, forces you to write your own entry point controller and take care of providing the servlet container yourself. There is the Spring Boot framework which sets all of this up for you in about 10 lines of code.

People also made fun of this "framework for a framework" paradigm. But, if it works, so be it.
random thoughts about this without too deep consideration:

When you rent a place out some portion of the rent should be legally required to go toward an ownership stake. The landlord should have to buy you out if you leave, and you should have the option to buy the landlord out as well. Empty properties should slowly fall into public domain and be re-sold to the public at a low cost based on a lottery system or similar. While renting-collecting-systems aren't necessarily bad, they're usually bad and we should really seek to limit the ability of people to create them.

P.S. yes this should also apply to SaaS
"Just" seems to be doing a lot of work in that last sentence. I'm sure you know the idea behind vacancy taxes is to incentivize owners to offer rents that not only serve nominal purposes in making finance/accounting work but actually get takers so the space is productively used and mitigate any weird dynamics where there's simultaneously empty space there's no takers on and would-be renters who can't find anything they can afford, a situation which presents an apparent market failure.

If Spirit Halloween or whatever equivalent you're imagining is offered a rent they're willing to pay, then there is no market failure and policy is working.

How does that represent "getting around" the vacancy tax? Are we imagining that owners are creating Shell Game Seasonal Retail Inc™ and renting to themselves?
A regime is peaceful until it isn't. Monarchies lasted for millennia, USA isn't nearly as old.
Personally I've found that I prefer a consistent syntax with few special characters — like HTML, but less verbose — which led to the creation of xidoc: https://xidoc.nim.town/
Shanghai Disney: Visitors unable to leave without negative Covid test
My paycheck only goes ¼ or less of the way it went just 5 years ago. Maybe that's why.
It is closer to Twig than Symfony.
usually it's the other way around
Wikipedia has a list of controversial elections in the US[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversial_election...
The Homeless Problem in California and the Ways We Can Fix It [video]
If there is anything that the COVID pandemic should have made abundantly clear, it is that it should not be left to politicians to decide what’s true and what’s false.
It's crazy how advanced this stuff is.

It's easy to wonder why most of the world struggles with clean water until you realize every township in the Western world basically has the equivalent of world class manufacturing floor run by a handful of elite microbiologists.
Waiting for the solution that involves transforming Python code into an encoded Turing machine and implements a minimal UTM in some tiny subset of Python.
That doesn't answer the question. An 18 year old who has literally never worked a day in his life can not afford an apartment no matter what the price, inflated or not. Should land owners be obligated to lower the price to $0.25 so that this teenager can buy the property with a coin he finds on the street? Should it be $20 so that his first paycheck can be used to buy lodging? Should all plumbers and electricians offer their services for a couple dollars so that every teenager can keep their new property maintained?

You have created a false reality, and then cried foul when real life didn't play ball.
Yes and no. No, the entire west is not kinetically at war with Russia. But yes, the west is supplying Ukraine with hardware, training, intel, cyber, and financial (at least). It's not just Russia vs Ukraine, it's Russia against Ukraine plus as much as the west can do without going kinetic.

So, yes, Russia started this war, and the moral blame is on Russia. But when Russia says it's at war with the whole west, there is an element of truth in their position.
>don't shoot the messenger

You’re not exactly just “the messenger” here. You posted several paragraphs explaining that a good chunk of your livelihood depends on this phenomenon of “not sharing data about pay.”

A messenger’s salary is independent of the opinionated slant of the information he conveys.
If the IRS hires 87K more people than it currently has, ELI5 how that's not an expansion of the federal government.
These ppl are always looking for problems in their solutions.
If my conpaby doubles staff at same pay, for internal whatever, but generates the same product, what happens to productivity?

Now, what if instead my company hires some other external business, to perform the same function with the same people at the same price? What happens to productivity?
Restaurants existed before current capitalization structures and traditions, despite this being impossible.
> Companies absolutely have fixed hiring budgets and salary guidelines.

Yes, they hay budgets and salary guidelines.

All of that is negotiable as a hiring manager. Just a matter of how many levels up the chain you need to go to get the approval and whether you (hiring manager) can convince them, which depends on how strong the candidate is.
> Islamic State destroying ancient buildings and killing people.

You added "killing people" to the statement because...?

You are being lazy tbh or not just occasional hypocrite. If you cannot create a link between "destroying human heritage" and "for a policial cause", I don't think we have much to keep discussing here. Yes until now the "attacks" were harmless but it is escalating. They will increase the damage otherwise they dont get the attention that they want[1].

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/kenney-suzuki-climate...
I everytime sayd it's not a big deal. Got my vaccine as it was ready but don't done anything else to don't get it. Now it's 2022, never had COVID, or maybee I don't noticed it. So, yes, not a big deal for me.
Does anyone know how much of his own money he actually put in, as opposed to conning others?
Because burnout is pervasive?
There is not a clear duality of "Israeli spy" vs. "Not an Israeli spy." Mossad in particular is known to maintain a network of sympathizers called Sayanim who would take action for the Israeli authorities if they were asked to. So it's clearly possible that Amazon and most tech companies can be/ have been compromised.

You can argue that Israel is a nation which has processes in place not to use these capabilities in the wrong way. But it's not wise to argue that "There is no Israeli spy network, it's a conspiracy, etc. " That just makes it seem like you have an agenda.
We could test this pretty easily by getting a state to pass a privacy law that salaries cannot be disclosed, even indirectly.

In reality most tiny businesses wouldn't be affected, and most larger ones would just split into two legal entities closely allied, until finally someone like Google takes it to court, where the Interstate Commerce Clause would actually be used for regulating interstate commerce.

Before that, however, the states would probably work to negotiate something so they don't get slapped federally.
> the all in one framework that does it all out the box

Wouldn't Angular and Vue count as cohesive "batteries included" frameworks?

Having to work on your own build setup feels very inane.
Some people are sure why, they just dont listen to them...
It doesn't make sense that top people return many times what the average does but you are only able to pay them 50% more. That kind of thinking is why salary ranges should be posted before top people waste their time applying.
This is a bit abstract, but I think this has to do with processes and liability.

Whenever there is a problem people look for someone to blame.

The easiest thing is to create a new process to avoid this in the future, and be protected against blame.

If this proceeds unchecked, the process grows and grows until every little thing takes forever. The processes need to be pruned sometimes too, not just added onto.
The people attacking him have time to track down every single infrastructure host behind the site, bully the company, hack their stuff and ddos their network.

The attack on kiwifarms has shown the internet is no longer free.
> There are states in the US where teacher's unions are out-lawed.

That’s a bold statement. Care to back it up?
I've had no issues making accounts with my custom domains, fwiw.

Did get a phone-number nag that I was able to ticket myself out of.
I was wondering the same thing -- how could one measure my productivity? (as a software engineer)

The best connection I could think of is something related to the company output, but in a market downturn I could be working 12 hour days, and the company would still be doing worse...
No, a janitor doesn't disseminate ideology. This is.. ridiculous. Anyway, obviously this has spiraled into a farce, so all the best!
It never trickled down, if anything it trickled up. Pretty obvious why in my opinion.
Shut up and work harder nerd.