skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pretty much have this ever-present aura of "citation needed" floating around in my head when I listen to people speak. Any kind of news/press thing, politician speaking (lol), or just anyone trying to claim/assert anything -- I can feel nothing but "citation needed" until they provide some kind of supporting evidence. I feel like people expend a shocking amount of energy proclaiming things they literally do not know with even the slightest degree of certainty - they saw it on some guy's sensational YouTube video and repeat it uncritically. The fatigue is real.
I have been at both and frankly I think this can be even worse at a very small company because there are no guardrails to keep it from being entirely personality-driven without even a pretense of serving some larger goal.
Well, ok, what specifically is being "extended" in this scenario?
Topic was discussed at great length a week ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34597507 1236 comments
This is a half truth. It's one of many factors taken into consideration to set a safe speed limit.

Speeds of motorists in normal conditions

Traffic volume

Roadway type (e.g., interstate, freeway, city street)

Roadway features (e.g., curves, hills, number of lanes)

Roadway setting (e.g., urban, rural, residential, woodland, farmland)

Number and spacing of driveways or intersections

Sight distances

Presence of on-street parking

Pedestrian or bicyclist activity

Crash history

Pavement condition
The argument isn’t that tech workers are oppressed more than any other laborer, the issue is that the balance of power between laborers and capitalists is flawed.

Tech workers can be oppressed even if other laborers are more oppressed; believe this is where the idea of class solidarity originates.

Tech workers are in the same class as all other laborers; not capitalists.
Thanks- did do a search before posting but (to my surprise) I only found 1 of the earlier posts.

On investigation this is because I searched the https:// url of the article. Note to self to be more thorough in future.
It is amusing that in 2005, "VLDB" (precursor term to "big data") was defined in Wikipedia to be "larger than 1TB".. after reading through the post and the author's experience.. it would appear that this was not actually a completely terrible estimate, although there are larger and smaller: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Very_large_databa...

The current version of that article states: "There is no absolute amount of data that can be cited. For example, one cannot say that any database with more than 1 TB of data is considered a VLDB. This absolute amount of data has varied over time as computer processing, storage and backup methods have become better able to handle larger amounts of data.[5] That said, VLDB issues may start to appear when 1 TB is approached,[8][9] and are more than likely to have appeared as 30 TB or so is exceeded.[10]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_large_database
Have you tried using github.dev for your remote grep? Press . in a code repo (while logged in) and it loads a remote VS Code for you in that repo. I don't entirely understand the complex interplay between how github.dev uses both the GitHub search indexes and in-browser in-memory grep, but being as it tries its best reproduce the local VS Code ripgrep experience, it may still be more optimized for your use cases.
Closer to 1/4th not 4x. US pop is over 400M.
Would it also be a tech coup for privacy given that DDG uses Bing?
> mentor them? help them find a better position? change managers?

None of those help if you just need less people on payroll.
Prompt based world building is going to be the killer app for VR. Zuck was too early.
You know that these 28 cars are unlikely to be driving all at the same time right?

Most of these neighborhoods you could 10x the traffic without anyone noticing.
Funny to imagine all 28 people leaving for work everyday at the exact same time.
Thats not many cars, and it's a short road. If each car takes 5 seconds to pass a particular point, that's only a few minutes overall of cars in a day.

I would suggest that Los Altos Hills should start enabling transit if their roads are overloaded. Or even better, they should have done some planning.
Mentor a company?
If the users don't want an Electron app, they won't use it and the developers will feel the need to change their ways.

Software development is not just about the users. Many Electron apps are single dev ventures. It's not easy to maintain multiple different platform specific apps even for a large enterprise. The larger the app the more difficult it becomes.
Ask HN: Will ChatGPT put an end to LeetCode screening?
Seems like there's no way you could possibly treat this as a meaningful signal anymore, given that ChatGPT can instantly generate a high performance solution to any hard question now.
Those statistics about CEO pay growth are often deceptive. If you sample the top N firms over time, where N is fixed, the mean market cap of those N firms will be growing, given that the economy has grown over the time window. That the average compensation of the CEO of these sampled firms is also growing is unsurprising. The omitted variable that causes this statistical illusion is GDP growth itself.

Now, even with a non-flawed methodology, I don't doubt that we'd still find that CEO pay has gone up a lot more than other job types. But that should be true for knowledge work in general, especially high-demand + low-supply roles. There has been large structural changes in the economic system that causes this. Mainly, China has come online, meaning the non-knowledge workers in wealthy countries must compete with a billion extra people, which depresses their compensation in the labor market, which increases the ratio of a CEO's pay divided by the pay of non-CEOs.

A non-market based explanation is highly suspect and should not be the default explanation. You are basically claiming that shareholders are willingly giving away their own money for no good reason. Why would shareholders do this? They are not running a charity. The simplest and least nefarious explanation is the most likely: Shareholders believe the CEOs are worth that much in the context of current (2023, not the 1970s) supply and demand dynamics in the labor market for highly niche highly impactful CEO positions. If I own an asset worth $2 trillion, I do not care about paying $100 million for someone to not ruin it.

> If you replaced most CEOs with any reasonably thoughtful and educated person, you wouldn't see much change overall in the average performance of businesses.

At least recognize this is a speculative claim made without evidence. More of a hunch. A hunch that I disagree with.
I also think that it’s suffering from fewer fit-and-finish issues than the disruptors.
Unddit shows a lot of removed comments on the reddit thread in the video description: https://www.unddit.com/r/u_SamsungMobileUS/comments/10r7inq/...

Unfortunately it didn't capture what they were.
A minimum what could the be is voice interface to my phone apps and they can't even do that at all or in any consistent manner.
I've been working on re-framing nepotism as "selective altruism" -- it's like there's an "in" group, within which the members feel completely justified and even a little obligated to help each other out. So it's our usual human tribal stuff, basically, but we can recognize the altruism in there.

Of course the next step would be leveraging this thought to propose a mechanism to convince them to expand their notion of "in-group" to include, i dunno, everyone who works for them? Everyone who was integral in their success? Every living being with whom they share a planet? So that the altruistic instinct could be expanded to be helpful to many many more.

... no particular ideas atm, but commenting in case it helps someone else reach an actionable insight :)
Much of what what was created in Servo was later integrated into Firefox. Test beds are interesting because ideas are tested in them, and the successful ones make it into the real product.
Naw, knowledge workers have developed into a real thing.

The labor group that requires significant creativity and autonomy to be effective. The artifacts they create are a minority of the value they create.

Mostly they became a real thing because traditional management techniques fail to work well with knowledge workers.
I've set up feeds that watch many of the popular instances, using score thresholds (a weighted sum of boosts, likes and replies), so that the feeds just get posts that break a previous threshold I had set (the point being to just see some of the breakout popular trending posts and links, sort of rolling my own algorithm). Every time a post appears in these feeds, I up the threshold again, to a bit under the score of that new post.

In a downward trend, I might reasonably expect that this set of feeds I've set up would go quiet, as new posts fail to hit the high water mark I had set at the peak. Instead, my experience over the past couple months has been the opposite. Breakout posts are getting scores that have kept me pushing my thresholds higher and higher. I don't know what this says about overall usage and engagement, but I think it at least suggests that in certain ways related to popular posts, it's continuing to go up and to the right.
Sorry yes. Negative correlation.
There was a period of 2 months when googles third party integration wouldnt let you add new items to an existing registered account.

So dumb.
That'd be the "We should invest in competitors" part.

Monopolies are a problem. Businesses exploiting consumers are a problem. Both are worth solving.
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What if it's my hardware?
Because they pay for servers and engineers for a product that they don’t charge for. It also doesn’t help sell phones when only 15% of users use it at least daily:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/696740/united-states-vir...
- Consumer Prices in San Francisco, CA are 37.4% higher than in Tokyo (without rent)

- Consumer Prices Including Rent in San Francisco, CA are 79.3% higher than in Tokyo

- Rent Prices in San Francisco, CA are 178.4% higher than in Tokyo

- Average pay for a Sr. Software Developer is around $58k in Tokyo

$75k would probably be comfortable to live on.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

https://www.payscale.com/research/JP/Location=Tokyo/Salary
Maybe we should stop overrelying on cars and build some public transport while we're at it?
Reasonable to be wary of applying to NLP companies given the rise of ChatGPT?
I know it's not taking over the world, but I feel ChatGPT is impactful enough to create uncertainty in the NLP/Chatbot product space. I'm hesitant to work in the industry until the mania dies down and we can see the extent of its threat to companies in the ecosystem.
I don't agree with this but I understand the intent. "Science" has a special status, and that has been abused to push religious belief ("science tells us"). So science is getting the same pushback as teaching religion as fact in a school would. It's not good, but it's a progression in a kind of arms race
Communism and capitalism are allies, and frankly two sides of the same coin. Marx repeatedly makes it clear in his communistic manifesto, that a society first needs to become capitalist in order to break down traditions and family, before it is ready for a communist revolution. He states that communists should side with capitalists against traditional society, and then get rid off the capitalists after that. Smart capitalist politicians switch coats and become loyal party functionaries when that happens, corporate leaders keep their nice jobs and report to the party instead of to the shareholders. Bankers remain untouchable in both systems.

Just the fact that people think the world is left/right, socialist/capitalist proves that these two allied ideologies have been extremely successful in the last century.
> Back then people were making human sacrifices and starting wars because 'the Gods told them to do so'.

Not relevant. All of those were established behavior patterns at the time. Not 'risk taking'.

> Innovation happens when risks are taken

For every such example you can pull out from history, there are dozens of innovations resulting from incremental improvement and learning from others and the nature.

> The rate of innovation has been slowing down due to the diminishing in the standard deviation of human behavior.

There has never been more deviants in human history than now. In human history, sticking with the social norms, known behavior patterns and keeping the existing social group and its framework safe were critical to survival. From traditions to laws everything were based on those. With your logic, it should be the most innovative period in history whereas the past should be the least innovative. Yet you are saying the opposite.

Innovation as you see it has been slowing down because science and technology have been privatized through patents towards the end of 19th century by big money entering the field and consolidating it. Exacerbated by the 'state secrets' concept. Before that, virtually everything was Open Source during the scientific revolution.

> So even if the guy who personally discovered fire

There was no such singular guy.

...

In any case, thanks for the discussion.
They created AJAX so they could do office email client in the browser. That was pretty game changer for web.
> PWAs could do significantly more if they had better access to system APIs.

Isn't the whole point of PWAs that they're easy because they're just web apps? If you start using system/OS specific APIs you lose all of the benefits except for the instant install time.
> If you've ever set prices for a product, you would see this yourself. Price*Volume=Revenue

If your market is completely elastic, then sure. But only hypothetical markets (and perhaps some fungible goods) are completely elastic. Most markets don’t have a perfect linear correlation between price and demand.

The other things you’ve completely ignored, is the fact that interchange impacts all sellers equally. So as a consumer you can’t avoid the interchange tax by shopping around, which in turn will increase a consumer’s willingness to pay higher prices.

This may come as a surprise to you, but consumers don’t have a perfect way to calculating the value of something. Ironically, the perceived value of a product is highly influenced by both its price, and the price of its competitors (with Veblen goods being the extreme). So if you introduce a flat 2% price increase across all sellers, then it’s reasonable to expect consumers value perception to increase by a similar amount.
A long time ago I bought, for a hefty sum, a 30" Samsung Syncmaster display, new. When it arrived, it had a column of dead pixels. They took six weeks to replace it under warranty. And when the replacement finally arrived... it was a refurbished model. And that one lasted only a year before it died.

Ever since, I have avoided Samsung in all product categories.
Phabricator's code-review (particularly if you're stuck on SVN) and ticket workflows were both great. Had both a decent command-line and decent web client. A lot of other things were a mess.
Going to go out on a limb and assume you don't have kids?
Part of being a parent is pushing back on things that you perceive as a long term risk to the happiness of your kids as well as a danger to your role as the ultimate decider for your kids while they are young. California openly has policies where they lie to parents of transexual children, keeping secrets from them. This is anathema to me. Even the potential of something like this happening in my kids school is enough for me to vote against it.

Regarding the two daddies comment, I have no issue with my kids knowing child X has 2 dads or whatever. Its the pushing of gay pride events, etc. Its making it seem like its a desirable trait that perhaps a kid should experiment with that I don't like. If my kid is gay/trans then so be it, I love them the same. I just don't want them thinking they are based on in school propaganda.

Now you may posit that its all in my head but its also in the head of many many other people. In addition there are very real policies in states like California that indicate its not all in my head. End of the day the thing I am most against is schools conspiring to withhold information from parents.
I wonder when they’ll integrate this into Cortana. I’d absolutely replace our Amazon Echo devices with that, if they offer it. The answers would be far better than the usual “I found this on the web…”
If anyone's interested in following progress of or building this: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=141170...
I agree there are good managers, but I've only had one who I can say made my life easier and helped the team be more productive.

IMO the easiest way to solve this issue would be to normalize ICs making more than their managers. That way, only the people who really want to be managers are managing.
Oh hey, I didn't expect my submission would make the front page of HN.
But LLM, while able to generate spam, if used used for search will reduce the need to click on a website, reducing the traffic to SEO websites… driving down profitability of doing it.
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IMO the easiest way to solve this issue would be to normalize ICs making more than their managers. That way, only the people who really want to be managers are managing.
Even a citation is insufficient nowadays. They will cite a "reputable" source like NYT, which in turn cites "an anonymous intelligence official", and so on. Unverifiable.

Misinformation and manufactured narratives are omnipresent and all we can do is consume as diverse a media diet as possible and develop a good nose for bullsh*t.
Thank you, yes that was how I meant.
> When the EM becomes an IC, how does this help the team grow their own skills and not get distracted by problems the EM should be moving out of their way?

Meta EMs do people-management only, which neatly side-steps interference on tech issues.
Thanks FreeJazz, I appreciate that. Your approval means more to me than you could imagine.
It is a kind of tyranny to override the democratic will of local communities regarding their land use preferences.
Grew up in Montana, now living in the Bay.

Stories like this are a good reminder of the excesses perpetrated in our red hinterlands.

The dog whistle in Emrich's statement is how he talks about scientific facts and theories. He's aiming for Darwin and he's got a little Intelligent Design in his back pocket.

These guys are nut jobs scoring points by attacking science class. And I'm not saying "trust science" here. I'm saying science is theory upon theory, and the best ones have a lot of support in fact. Emrich lacks the brains to grok that, or at least he pretends to.
Is your plumber charging you monthly for your toilet subscription?
>Japanese salarymen are worse paid than FTEs in almost any highly developed economy.

I find this obsession with instantaneous salary to be odd. In my mind, you're best off working toward total lifetime earnings, optimizing for stability. Sure it's nice to be making six figures at some startup. But that means nothing over a 10 year period interspersed with layoffs and periods of unemployment. As an American, I'd take the salaryman deal any day of the week over making a bit more and waking up every single day wondering if I'll be fired.
And nevertheless they pay out on those policies time and again, providing a lot of social value.
Obsidian is offline static markdown files

If offline static markdown exist to be input for AIs to learn, then OK.

But for me, long before Obsidian, they're just notes, because the act of writing them causes you to process them "outbound" which is the same process you need to recall them later.
Money quote:

> The developer hazards to guess construction will take at least five years to start
Bought it. It’s very good. Indexed my 15,000 photos in a few mins (iPhone 14). Search seems fast, a few seconds only.

Am I missing a way to jump from the photo preview to the photo in the Photos app?
Your PDF options in Asciidoc boil out to this:

Asciidoctor-pdf:: this is the Ruby prawn-based thing, it's the current official path, but SVG and images can choke it. Complex customization means extensions, and that has its own overhead.

FOPUB aka docbook-xsl:: this is built in to the AsciidocFX dedicated editor, and uses the DocBook-XSL pipeline. Yeah, I know, it's XSL, but since DocBook has such a long tail there's a huge amount of customization that's possible, along with some docbook-only features like better indices, list of figures, etc. It's also very capable of chewing through thousand page books if it's in its own environment. But again, XSL.

asciidoctor-web-pdf:: this is the semi-experimental web based PDF tool, based on Paged.js, that uses the CMM Paged Media Module Level 3 (CMM PMM L3). I think this is built in to Antora now. This has the best promise, in my opinion, but it's still pretty raw, again, in my opinion. Bring your JS and your CSS hat. Chews through some huge amounts of memory . . ah wait, they fixed that.

After these you have DBLATEX, which uses DocBook->LaTeX as its typesetting, and you have the Haskell thing, and the wiki-2-PDF converter that's default in Visual Studio Code Asciidoctor extension. There's a few others that have largely stalled, like the packt build system for docx, but they're interesting. I still use the packt thing.
> But who came up with these rules?

Who came up with second chances? You have a receipt for it?

> And why does Ackman have to comply?

He doesn't have to do anything, but nobody has to extend him an olive branch, either.
Why did you have to "relay decisions I didn't believe in as if they were on purely my own"?

Why could you not say "I disagree with X, Y, and Z, but I am going to follow through with it because 1, 2, and 3"?
What about the land owner's will to build what they wish on their own land?
Blackrock and Vanguard didn’t choose Tim Cook, Jobs did. Sundar Pichai was chosen by Larry and Sergei, who still have control of the voting shares in Google.

Even if they did have the power to fire one of these CEOs, that doesn’t give them any leverage at all over small details like browser strategy, because their only option would to replace the CEO with someone who understands much less about the company. I.e. they can really only do anything if the CEO is manifestly failing.

Honestly your argument doesn’t work, and doesn’t reflect shareholder influence.
Meanwhile, California simply defunds science education…
The companies backtracking on flexible work
There is! Management would be replaced by cheaper management if it were possible to do so at the same level of quality.

Either corporations are insane immoral pathological paperclip/profit maximizers, in which case any manager would be replaced with a cheaper version or even a algorithm, or they're not and managers aren't worth what they're being paid.

If the CEO or upper management is so fungible, why aren't they being replaced with staff who will work just as hard and effectively for a tenth of the price?
Wave bye to cells, gravity, and germs
A lot of the specs firefox hasn't added are of questionable value like WebUSB which exists to make chromebooks less useless.
Nintendo is in Kyoto (though they have a few Tokyo satellites). And many employees commute from neighbouring towns or prefectures, so it actually strengthens your point. Expenses will be massively cheaper.
there seem to be more and more regression errors these days
Sadly they do not seem to have all the papers. ArXiV is missing completely, e.g. searching for „Attention is all you need“ does not return the paper which has been published on NeurIPS