skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep I am. Haven't been very active there for a while though, usually just end up there from Hot Questions when procrastinating.
It's a lot less baffling when you start looking at it as managers trying to control things. Managers don't feel in control if they don't feel like they know what people are doing, and they don't feel like they know what people are doing unless they can see those people in person. Emphasis on feel. At this point I think it's evident that managers can collect all the information they need remotely in most cases--it just doesn't feel that way to managers.

If you look through my post history, you'll see I'm generally not on the side of administration, but this is one case where I'm a bit sympathetic. When things are going well it's easy to stay calm. But when things are going poorly, it's hard to shake the feeling that there's a solution you're missing because you're not there to see it.

But ultimately I think going back in person is bad for everyone, both employers and empoyees.
I still don't see how you beat the market-driven salary. Don't you have to pay market rate for good managers, and market rate for good IC's?

If a company unilaterally cuts manager pay, they presumably won't get great managers, or at least not good managers who also want to be paid fairly.

It also means managers will only want to manage more senior IC's, so as to benefit from the higher salary, while it's the junior IC's who need more capable management.
I don't think the games were overpriced until you factor in overmonetization through season passes, DLC, and microtransactions in many games that release at full price. The full price would have been fair, the rest of the anti consumer business model means the full price is userous.
It would be possible to only enable them for Web apps you’ve explicitly installed / added to your home screen
If someone is currently living on a forested hillside where everyone's on ~2 acre plots, I doubt they'll be happy about the density suddenly increasing 20x regardless of the architectural style. These people apparently have the money to live in the middle of San Francisco if that's what they wanted.
You assume people haven't tried. Obviously this is all anyone has come up with so far.
Well said! I think my experience with this was combined with a cover-your-ass HR team that was very hesitant about putting anyone on performance review (PIP, etc) without loads of documentation and 2nd/3rd chances.

It seemed like we, as managers, were expected to turn a low performing IC into something magical with an indefinite timeline where we should have just pulled the plug after 6 months and moved on.
This is almost universally my thought when I see these lay off numbers. These companies are choosing to keep 250% of their headcount from 4 years ago heading into a recession. Why?

After looking through their financials though, I don't even know. They made like 3B in EBITDA In 2020, but then had a very strange financial statment in 2021 and now they lost 3B in EBITDA in 2022.

It seems like up until 2020 they were making enormous amounts of money
Wait, are you telling me GIS data of deer poop distribution in my backyard has no practical value?

But I have thousands of data points, thousands, I tell ya!
Haha yesss! I remember that post from a couple days ago. Really cool. I don't watch anime myself but the Itano missile effect is pretty sweet to behold
Improving incremental test times in Rust
Intentionally misleading title and lede picture intended to make one think it may have been stolen or otherwise actually vanished when the conclusion is ever so banal. Well-written but disappointing to have to stoop to that low.
Apparently there is ongoing debate within the US census as to whether Hispanic should be treated as an ethnic category. Some Hispanics have objected to being placed in the white racial category as opposed to just being called Hispanic. I'm thinking at some point in the future we'll realize that racial categories don't make much sense.
Yandex has become my first choice to search for articles and documents outside of academic journal articles. The results are better curated than Google and often shows things Google misses, especially with unpublished documents.
Businesses are not server-side compute limited. Ask any business basically. They would gladly trade more of their own CPU power & heat for more time on the site/service from their users.
Makes me wonder what all the other users of phab are doing. I know: twitter, dropbox, freebsd, and mozilla were all using it in some point.

I think haskell moved to GitLab, now Blender's on Gitea.

I'm curious if people are moving to phorge?

Wikimedia still uses phab for bug tracking. Taking a look at phorge Soon™
Kagi.com is pretty good. It's like how Goofle used to work. I'm saving my free searches on it. May pay for it eventually.

A curated search like the original Yahoo! would be nice. Goofle hides a lot of my preferred sources.
> But I don’t seek out sales people unless I desperately need what they have already.

In case you don't because you prefer to do the research yourself, I'm sure that holds for the large majority of HN users, including me. But why do we prefer to do the research ourselves? Because we don't trust the salesman's incentives, objectivity and breadth of knowledge. If we had a utopian salesman who only cared about getting the right product for us and has intimate knowledge of every relevant product, it'd be a fools errand to do the research ourselves other than as a genuine hobby.

I think the parent comment is hoping for the creation of AI Chatbots who at least get close enough to such a salesman. And while for-profit companies will surely attempt to instill perverse incentives, unlike with humans we only really need one AI salesman without them and we can all use that one. This might sound idealistic ("if everyone just used Linux..") but the barrier of usage is low enough that I see Google and MS having a much harder time competing with agents without perverse incentives than they've had competing with e.g. Linux or Firefox - especially if Google (the search engine) loses its moat.
It would definitely be constructive dismissal, but in most circumstances constructive dismissal is only illegal if being fired normally would be.
Keep in mind that his income is probably not what he lives on. He probably gets loans with the stock. That 500 mill bump probably got him a large loan.
I disagree. What are you thinking of that’s at odds with it?

The only thing I can think of is MBA disease. But that’s rent seeking not productive management techniques.
> they won't use it

Except for all those popular Electron apps with lock-in effects, like Discord and Slack.
> being more than “just professional” and bringing your rounded self to work

The traditional advice to "be professional" might be better in many cases.

My observation is that employees usually maintain employment by fitting into office/work culture and leaving their private selves at home.

Most importantly, it seems like a good strategy to suppress anything personal that could be considered negative.
Afaik, GPT works with trigrams, and calls them tokens.
Except even scientists will often use "hypothesis" and "theory" interchangeably. For example Stephen Jay Gould's theory on punctuated equilibrium, kin selection (theory) vs group selection (theory), all the various names given to Williams/Dawkins/Ridley's theories on evolution, all the various theories relating ontogeny to phylogeny, and on and on. All these things are probably more properly referred to as hypotheses within the broader theory of evolution, where here the meaning of theory switches to be more in line with the "true" definition of theory.

But maybe this is just an idiosyncrasy of evolutionary biologists, I'm not familiar enough with other fields. But then again there are all of those mathematical "theories" like group theory, number theory, set theory, game theory, and on and on. Not sure how to categorize these.

Point is we (scientists/scientific communicators) often make this hardline distinction between the meaning of "theory" and "hypothesis" but regularly break our own rule.
Ok, let me say it a different way. They don't have the power to demand more than they are worth, because the amount the employer offers reflects what the employer thinks they are worth. You may disagree about how much value they supply, but that's not really relevant. Wages aren't set by what some 3rd party thinks is fair, they're set like other prices - how much the employee's skills are needed and the available supply of people with those skills. Hierarchy is only incidentally involved, and not always. Consider, for example, the wages of actors or professional athletes for example.
So... some of these DB objects are in turn more DB commands, so that if you fetch the thing, it fetches the underlying things? I don't know much about DB design/implementation but that seems kind of wild.
Uh, couldn’t link directly to Microsoft? https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-sear...
Co-existing is doing a lot of work there.
you can directly ask chat gpt this question.

I did and the answer was yes.
Also John Baez's posts

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2022/12/dividing_a_squa...

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2022/12/guillotine_part...
> discord

guess I didn't really want to contribute anyway
Have you ever tried to use public transport to get from Los Altos to San Jose? Any other developed country trumps public transport in the middle of the Bay. My wife, who loves public transport, gave up almost immediately when we moved here - I just Uber but would use public transport if available. Cycling just can't get you far enough sadly.
There is also this one that was discussed a lot yesterday, that's along the same lines - 'DAN':

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34676043
Intelligence is everywhere: From AI to cephalopods
Nope, the product managers in the tech industry do. It's all about cost (or perceived cost). Web tech is more successful because it seems cheaper. Not because the resulting apps are better.
The unit test story is indeed bizarre. Done right unit tests should test the unit, and you'll never hit these problems.

The villians here were monstrous test fixtures instead of mocks, "testing the fixture" instead of testing the code. Both were agency trading systems so "platforms" of a sort that needed significant refactoring to mock properly, so instead tests had to inject essentially fake concrete services.

Somehow I joined teams twice in my career that were trapped under this (who both indeed had "huge problems with their development practices") as their only coverage. The only way out is to write all new unit tests.
> I'd like to see more people-managers who aren't also product-managers and tech-leads: people whose job is to manage people, not work on the technical side of what the managed people work on. Some people are really good at this and should focus on it, to the exclusion of coding.

I’ve worked with managers like this but they were pretty rare ime. Most of the time it’s either a product person or someone who is subpar engineer grabbing the power seat bc that’s the only way they ever going to have any say in anything
This is a human generated response I assure you.

I'm just annoyed when people make this argument so complicated.

In general, it's quite simple and well-studied: remote work makes individual workers more productive but makes the coordination between individuals more difficult. As coordination is the primary function of managers, their job becomes more difficult. No one seems to understand this (or want to).

But once it is accepted that managers' jobs are harder when everyone is remote, the conclusion that remote work will soon experience massive decline (within the next decade) is obvious.

It will remain in varying degrees. The more coordination is needed, the more remote work will be discouraged. Workers needing more concentration but requiring less coordination, where the job is well understood, will continue to work from home. Even before the pandemic for example, call center workers commonly worked from home.

Start-ups are already very much against remote work in the large. Corporations will soon follow suit.

And no matter how much we don't like it they're the ones signing the paychecks.
"here's a artistic talent you spent decades crafting, now anyone can duplicate it with zero incentive to credit you"

Definitely entering the surreal disposable humanity
All I want is this:

if new follower has <=4 tweets.total and all(tweets) === type=image
block
.. more socio/psychopaths with too much power in places where they don't need to be.
I remember this!! Similar with the 9850G, could upgrade it to the GII with a slightly modified hardware
Ah, I was looking for that but thought it was SAN (Say Anything Now), so I wasn't finding it.
Stock market is not guaranteed to gain 7% over the next 20 years, but you can effectively guarantee your electricity usage is probably going to stay the same or go up and can somewhat guarantee the performance of the panels (given the warranties).

It also is a useful form of diversification. If you only had $15k, it might not be the best overall investment, but if you have more money than that lying around it probably isn't a bad place to invest some of your money assuming you plan on using lots of electricity over the next 20 years. At some point having all your money in the stock market isn't the best money allocation either.
That's just the choices people make.

I saw an interesting factoid some time ago. In the early 20th century, it was considered enough to have 7 m2 of living space for an adult and half of that for a child. If people still considered that enough, they could buy homes and be debt free before 30. But because people can reasonably expect to afford more, they take loans against future earnings to buy bigger and better homes. Meanwhile, students live alone in apartments that once housed families.
And if you're a minority group like Asians, Hispanics or African immigrants, you get called terms like white-adjacent or internalizing racism when upholding values of hard work and discipline to get ahead, because those are somehow values of a "white supremacist" society.
Are brands protected in the metaverse? Hermès and NFT artist spar in US court
> Why does that matter, though? Web developers don't assume the entire world is "Safari on iOS". They have to handle all the various desktop browsers, as well as everything that runs on Android.

My comment might have been in wrong place, but the point was that it is difficult to be competitive with Firefox or Chrome on iOS if Safari integrates better on Apple systems.
And what if implementing these impacts other platforms.
"I started out as Roadrunner. Meep!"

"You mean meep meep?"

"Nah, they only paid me to say it once. Then they doubled it up on the soundtrack. Cheap bastards."
Make a nice API and let people write client apps that connect to it. Provide your official ElectronJS app next to that, and let the users choose.

I would definitely not use the ElectronJS Slack app if I had a choice.
It doesn't matter what the data says if it's telling you to go in a direction that is unethical.
They've increased their effective hourly rate and, given that they haven't been fired, the company seems to be fine with it. What's not to like? Sounds like you should take notes.
> Most of these companies (or the bigger ones) aren't losing money with these new products, they were just losing profit margin because its profitable but not as profitable.

Maybe, if you consider the company as a whole. If you consider the product line, no, because the product line isn't earning revenue yet. It's a bet on the future.
> AAA video games have been $59.99 for like fifteen years.

AAA video games haven't actually been $59.99 for over a decade. AAA games for the last decade or so have had an "entry-level" / beginnners plan (at that $59 price point) but content that previously would have been in the base game has been sectioned off into upsells / DLC / add-ons for an extra $15 to $40/ea.

I don't personally care much (indie games have gotten so good, I barely play AAA stuff much anymore) -- but in the interest of honesty, inflation correction has already been happening in gaming this entire time. However, the "add on another extra 15% just for the CEO alone" increase that other industries did in 2021/2022 hadn't happened in gaming yet, and that's what the higher base price is for here.
Without examining internal Amazon or Apple data on the marginal sales increase estimates for Siri/Alexa it's impossible to say, though.

Apple has earned a lot of money on devices with Siri included. Microsoft has made a lot of money on OSes with Minesweeper included.

It would be wrong to conclude anything about the profitability of Minesweeper based on that fact, just as it is wrong to conclude anything about the profitability of Siri based on the equivalent fact from Apple.
That's only 17k net a year left over before savings, travel, or restaurants.

Going out to eat almost anywhere decent is a hundred bucks these days.

$1500 a month is not a reasonable assumption for monthly housing overhead even in a low CoL location. Also mortgage interest rates are much higher now.
What is ai good at besides porn?
You're implying here that ICs are less experienced than managers, which is not the case.
I would argue that the credit of first 3D open-world game belongs firmly to Mercenary from 1985, and not to Hunter with it's 1991 release date.

Mercenary is a 3D vector environment where one can navigate the environment freely, on foot or by using different vehicles and aircraft, enter buildings and explore their interior.
The graphics is much more limited than Hunter with the first Mercenary game from 1985 only using simple wire-frame graphics, you can most of the time just walk through.

Even with the technical limitations of it's time this game proved really captivating, once you made it past the initial hurdle of figuring out what the hell you're supposed to do in this game, after crash-landing on an alien planet in the introduction.

It was one of the few games that really fascinated me back then, and I spent many hours playing it.

There's a good introduction and walk-through of the game and it's sequels on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWTAEd0Z9uI
No, it worked for me just now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34702822#34702865
Management track is usually the only way to be in the room where decisions get made. Sure, the top engineers will be consulted and kept in the loop, but 99% of the strategy discussions and planning happens without them.

So for people with an innate need to join in the steering of the ship, there’s only one career path.
I.... uhh... can't say I tried that... as it's against the TOS... cough All joking aside, they have banned accounts from other projects attempting to do the same, so if I were to do that (and I'm not saying that I would), I'd want to make sure that the exporter is solid prior to risking any account.
You know, if you actually think that, instead of are just using it as a cheap rhetorical trick, you might supply some explanation of the comment I was replying to...
I just searched HN and found references 12 years ago.
Agree with this post.

Big data was vendor generated hype that convinced many engineers to confuse the size of their dataset with their, ahem, shoe size.

They didn’t do their employers any favors.
Right here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nswindow/14...
As I said in another thread, what makes this dubious is that YIMBYs are already home owners. Sure, the rental stock needs to get up to an acceptable level where renting one side of a two bedroom duplex isn't $3.5k/month, but I'm understandably more concerned with helping people build generational wealth. At the very least, I'd expect YIMBYs to be championing both, but many of them are specifically against home ownership while owning homes.
I will just ask somebody to purchase iphone from Eu.
Here's an open source nameserver that helps ID DNS resolver in use: https://github.com/redirect2me/which-dns
I mean, Marxism really did do much better at giving the profits to the workers.

Wait...
> But in my experience, there's this massive trend across the tech world that flat out rejects the value of domain/subject matter expertise. Instead, all you need is an engineer who can throw some ML at the uncurated mountain of data your organization has collected. Little to no value is placed on the resources that can frame an actionable hypothesis, even though the entire value proposition arises from this exercise!

Sounds like the data scientists need to get together with the MBAs and they can do companies where nobody needs to actually know what they're doing.
Try rock climbing? I could never do gyms but rock gyms were something I'd do for fun and it can be equivalent exercise
I've mostly reverted to 90s-style browsing: there are some sites that I check regularly, and I'll follow outbound links if the title seems interesting.
What happens when you reach #1 on Hacker News
I wish this was the case for me. I have a wife and child. At home the distractions on constant. No amount of boundary setting seems to work as well as not being physically there.

I'd like to work from home one day but it's not possible in my current circumstances.
ChatGPT3 Prompt Engineering
Oh in the last line of your original post, you said you think we will gravitate Towards working from home. Typo?
I loved it: the code review system, integrated wiki (despite its custom markdown syntax), integrated kanban, remote repo sync, and the ability to easily and cleanly link everything together. It had its warts but I haven't yet found a single system that does everything that it did well. I know Phorge exists, but it seems to be struggling to get traction, maybe because it appeared just slightly too long after everyone had accepted Phabricator's demise.
Let me guess, you don't wash your family's clothes by hand, instead you use a washing machine? You don't even sew them yourself, instead you buy clothes pre-made by some factory in Bangladesh? Too damn fucking lazy.
Doing my best! I think it would also bring a lot of joy to my elderly, extremely isolated mother.
It says in the post that they're registered at a family member's address
Literally. You forgot the "if there are more than 8 digits in username, purge immediately"
What the leading indicators of a good manager? How would you recognize one in a hiring process?
I haven’t moved anything. You just didn’t know where my goalposts were to begin with.
Do it or don't, man. I don't care.

But I stand by the statement that most able-bodied Americans could find some way to incorporate more human-powered transport into their routine if they really wanted to. And in many cases they could do it without any adding any superfluous travel. I.e., it may be slower or even less convenient in some way, but it was a trip you were going to make anyway. You're just changing the mode of transit.

(Incidentally if it's truly too dangerous or inconvenient to walk across the Costco parking lot with a loaded shopping cart I think we're well on our way to the people from Wall-E.)
KDE isn't bad, but MATE uses less resources.
Browsing web with firefox + ublock origin feels like liberation
Some will begrudgingly stay till one millisecond past the next large stock vest, and then GTFO.

The company has no loyalty to you. You owe it none either.
And yet, huge tracts of code are released under MIT licence.
This is a false dilemma.

The choice isn't Apple's walled garden OR Google's web dominance.

The choice is: Apple makes a broken browser with no available substitutes to make more money off the app store, OR they will need to actually invest in their browser and compete with Google.

The EU has wisely decided that Apple forcing people to use a broken browser is anti-consumer.

So now, Apple will need to compete in the browser space as well.

It's amazing how fast Apple has started to fix it's many problems in Safari all of a sudden, <sarcasm>I wonder what the reason could be...</sarcasm>