skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is net operators will continuously learn and adapt as renewables grow. More transmission lines, dynamic load management, storage at critical points etc. will be implemented as the share in renewables grows.

I didn't say it will be quick, but I think for example that Europe having 95% renewable electricity generation by 2043 is an achievable goal.
Do your own research. This is an article that leads to 0% taxation options, first thing Kagi suggests: https://www.theceomagazine.com/lifestyle/property/lowest-inc...
>Try again. His parents were first-generation immigrants and his dad died when he was little. His mom was an RN, he had two younger siblings, and he worked at Kroger his last two years of high school

We can trade anecdotes all day long, but the general point stands. And yes, things were different 20 years ago. But the average asian family today in the US is actually better off than the average white family:

https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/racial-inequ...
I take it in supplement form. A few different formulas actually. That mitigates any taste.
I worked at a bigco that followed this approach. I think the alleged fungibility of programmers is surface-level.

Sure - ~any decent programmer can jump into ~any codebase and do your JIRA tickets. But there's a more holistic ownership you miss out on that's going to be the difference between a system aging gracefully and a system becoming a giant hunk of butchered junk that's been one-small-jira-ticket-ed to death over a decade and now needs a very costly and distracting replacement/rewrite.

I worked at a different company that did the opposite of this. Programmers were expected to stay either 1 year or 10 years, and you'd be compensated according to which bucket you were falling into. They had excellent retention rates, and the dev team was small, <30 engineers. We never rewrote systems. They had owners who had either written them, or been handed off apprenticeship-style over the course of a year or two from the former master to the new master.

Place 1 was a fucking mess of tech debt and had constant incidents that made high value customers mad, execs mad, and oncall engineers mad. One of my coworkers literally went into his first oncall shift, got paged at night three times in two days, and resigned the next morning when he found out that yeah this is just kind of normal and good luck convincing leadership to let us fix it.

Place 2 literally never had tech incidents. The worst oopsies were generally related to (it was a trading shop) other people in the market fucking up and resulting in trade breaks that we had to clean up after hours, or exchanges having problems and sending us garbage data that we had to resolve by calling someone from the exchange to confirm order statuses and so on.

I only left place 2 because I was moving across the country and they didn't do remote (and still don't, even post covid). I was laid off from place 1.
The fun thing is that their R&D cost is dwarfed by expenses on Sales&Marketing and General&Administrative. So, if I understand their financial statements for 2022FY correctly, a 7% cut on R&D could lower their total expenses by 2% at best https://ir.gitlab.com/news-releases/news-release-details/git...
Even cutting their R&D 100% would not make GitLab profitable, if other expenses are kept the same, so economics is clearly not the reason for layoffs.
The current technology will not end search as we know it. Perhaps new technology will but currently LLM and search are complimentary.
Yes, I do, thank you.
Because the information it gives back has to be so sanitized I'm starting to feel that if search boxes start returning LLM results it will end up more like some safety team at Google/MS is having to almost write web queries by hand.

Doesn't feel as simple as the search world where you can just up rank some approved sources, unless there is somehow a way to just generate the language from approved sources and ideas.
When my grandmother got cancer the 2nd time, she decided that she did not want to suffer treatment to eek out a few more months or years. She lived at home until she died.

When she could no longer care for herself, a hospice nurse came twice a day. When the end was close, family moved into the house, and children were taken out of school. She pass in the comfort of a familiar setting surrounded by loved ones, and everyone witnessed her last breath and death rattle.

It was a very wholesome experience and how I would want to go.
I agree, very much depends on the individual. Currently witnessing a 94-year-old who can no longer get out of bed who absolutely does not want to die. Otherwise, I'm convinced it would have happened by now. I'm not surprised though, it's her personality.
Let's add to that that both fish and zsh have excellent vi modes (unlike readline's half-assed one)
(If don't see the benefit of using a vim mode for the command line, you probably still reaching far out to the top left corner escape key in the rare occasions you do use vim, and dislike to use it.)
Employers are not “people”, corporations are legal entities that are specifically created to shield the people.

Any for profit (or for that matter even non profit company ) is most interested in its own survival and well being.
It makes me sad. These are actual human beings losing their jobs. I guess they don't include “human cost” or “how much pain we inflicted” as a column in financial reports.
I am not sure about this (not disagreeing, just not sure). First, 10% of top performers out in 2 years is a normal attrition rate for a 20 year tenure. And I suspect mean time at the company is much lower.

But even more important, I think most top performers understand and accept the risk that their employment may end. For example, the company can fold. It is easier for top engineers to accept that because they likely have better connections and can pretty easily find a good job elsewhere. My 2c.
> the only reason … would be...that people of those backgrounds are inherently more lazy

Why would laziness be the only possible reason?

I grew up in a fundamental religious cult. The culture within that bubble instills a world view that does not value learning, and from the earliest age, kids in that environment are indoctrinated to believe certain things about the nature of the world that if true, would legitimately make “worldly” pursuits a bad use of time.

I escaped the bubble, but plenty (most) of the people I grew up with did not. They work hard, provide for their families, and are absolutely not lazy.

When a meaningfully large portion of your worldview is shaped and informed by those around you in childhood, there’s a lot more working against you than some notion of laziness.

I’m well into my 30s and still work hard in therapy to undo the damage. I don’t think most people who haven’t experienced a broken upbringing can understand its impact.

And for every “but so and so was fine despite everything”, there are 100 who were not.
I think it could be useful in the followup to search queries or being smarter about using synonyms and others ways to phrase things to find better results but it reminds me of when facebook announced bots in there messenger. Lots of people tried it and showed all all these features and then they didn't really amount to much.
If the cow was going to be slaughtered anyway, and you still get the meat, what does it matter if you get less serum per cow than meat per cow? Shouldn't we be glad we're getting more utility per cow slaughtered?
I think it's being downvoted because it's a little too simplistic to be meaningful. Everything we do, literally everything, we do because it makes us feel good, and therefore everything is a transaction. We provide food and shelter for ourselves because, well, we enjoy those things. We help friends and family in need because we derive pleasure from helping others and seeing our loved ones flourish.

If we all agree on that basic universal law of human behavior, we can talk about higher level meaning about the role of an employer in society beyond the simple transaction of money for labor.
And just yesterday we were blaming Google for passing on false information about astronomy. GIGO.

Edit: Sorry; tried to edit this before the post went live but the site crashed for me for several minutes. I meant to specify that we were blaming their language model. There's certainly plenty of an argument to be made that Google is partly responsible for the current state of SEO and all that garbage going in.
Unethical, but could you seed the crowd sourced site with datapoints that increase the cost of living data, increasing the offer they'd make you next time?
> It's understandable that the external perception of the company is bad (and even sexist)

> They were adamant about hiring women.

So it seems like the perception is justified then.
Close to 50% or the federal budget is spent on social security, Medicare and Medicaid. It's a massive wealth transfer to the elderly already.

What's the long term plan for the UKs elderly healthcare programs that it's an aging country?
None of what you have said is evidence that the intention is to "instill fear".

Also, I am not sure how confidently you can assess the health of Gitlab. Those open positions my not actually be "open". While their revenue was up four months ago, much has changed since then. Their next quarter might be down and they are adjusting now.

> isn't anywhere close to a recession

No one knows where the economy is headed.

> It's a pretty transparent process, frankly.

Except that it is not. Perhaps you are correct, but you really have no evidence their decisions were to maliciously "instill fear". It is equally plausible that they are doing what they think is best for the company and the remaining employees.
Reflecting on the Past 6 Years of the Data Engineering Podcast
> The second effect is related to the fact that companies usually target older people with expensive jobs. In an a big org these are the wizards who have the unwritten cookbooks in their brains. When they leave en masse, a lot of the organizational memory is gone, and expensive operational mistakes of the past are forgotten. These have longer effects that will haunt the company for many years.

Is this true this round? I have noticed a few things:

* On the hiring front, much more demand for senior, staff, principal devs, less demand on the junior / intern front.

* (Anecdotally) A LOT of junior / new people laid off. It seems in this round companies want a small but elite force, rather than opting for junior people.
And keep wages down during a period of historical low unemployment.
The Advantages of Open Source
I'm getting "Main.Sudo.Error error 1." when I try to install Filmbox Lite on Windows.
I didn't try using it on my Mac yet.
You may be surprised. That said, do you _want_ to work for a company that is unwilling to honor their agreements?
I looked under the hood and did see a wasm reference.
A homeless traveler survived outside on cold Ithaca nights
> People who suffer heart attacks or strokes wait more than 1½ hours on average for an ambulance. Hospitals are so full they are turning patients away.

It's positively utopian! Meanwhile, in the hellscape:

> On average in the U.S., the length of time between a call for help and the arrival of emergency medical services is about eight minutes.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-emergency-response...
Its the hype cycle. Other hype cycles were things like the dot com boom (and bust). I don't mean it as a comparison of technology merits just that we sometimes have to live through a hype cycle to get to a real understanding of where the technology might be actually useful. My snarky comment implies that we will have to wait until someone is advertising their AI powered refrigerator (i.e. get out of the hype cycle) to understand what real use cases are out there.
I'm not sure when we'll be ready for 1.0 (at which point we will commit to stability in the language etc.), but I would guess 1-2 years based on the work we want to do and the pace of contributions.

Not sure about Debian. We generally rely on the community for distro packaging. Right now Homebrew is the easiest way to install Nu on most Linux distros.
As long as the amount of cultured meat is _relatively_ small, it's sustainable; FBS is essentially a byproduct, and no-one is slaughtering extra cows just to produce it.

However, at least one manufacturer is now claiming, apparently fairly credibly, not to need it anymore: https://mosameat.com/blog/cultivating-beef-without-fetal-bov...
It is my own library that I have created. I am planning to release the code with some open source license hopefully soon. The library is still very small and only include a tiny part of the whole PDF specification.
I was referring to the title of the original post: “Why is remote work seen as gift?”.

So I’m asking why see work as a gift in general? And from there I brought up the fact that in german, work is something that is given by the employer to the employee. Which is really the wrong way round.

Because, as you indicated , there is an exchange happening. The employee is giving work and is getting money in return.
FSB is a byproduct of existing slaughter, not a special process which kills extra aninals. If you're opposed to the use of FSB because you thinks it's immoral to kill the animals, you should be equally opposed to the meat and dairy industries as they are today. Both are responsible for the death of animals and often fetuses.

There is a risk that the FSB collection process will allow the fetus to gain consciousness before death, but those paying into the meat and dairy industries are already comfortable with killing conscious, sentient animals.
This just isn’t true. At the core of DEI is the understanding that negative cultural biases make life worse for everyone. These cultural biases (which differ individually based on a million factors) are an unavoidable part of the human experience and impact all of us in different ways, so DEI initiatives encourage being mindful of them in order to limit their harm.

Critics, execs trying to CYA, and incompetent practitioners of DEI work focus obsessively on simplistic guidelines around race, gender, and sexuality, but legitimate DEI work aims to support everyone in the areas where prevailing attitudes are letting them down.

You’re never going to hear about all the DEI professionals capably doing that work because it’s uncontroversial and often very private, but it’s happening all the same and it materially improves employees’ lives every day.
that people of those backgrounds are inherently more lazy

No more than the average Southern white American is inherently more racist. Your culture is an influence, an advantage or disadvantage for any particular endeavor. If the endeavor in question is academic and economic success in the academic and economic environment of early 21st century America and Western Europe, growing up in most Asian immigrant cultures will confer upon you an advantage in the form of habits, behaviors, and attitudes.
Part of the problem is that it’s very difficult to quantify the higher order effects of layoffs. It’s easy for an exec to understand “if we fire a bunch of people then our labor costs will go down”. It’s much harder to anticipate the effects of “if we fire a bunch of people then those who remain will be demoralized, will lose trust in us, may leave on their own, may be too distracted to work effectively for awhile, etc.” That means the risk assessment is a comparison between a sure thing and a bunch of possibilities—and there’s a long history of companies surviving after layoffs. It seems perfectly rational.

I have a couple observations from going through layoffs at a growth stage startup. If you have to do layoffs then you shouldn’t worry too much about protecting top performers—a noticeable percentage of them (10-20% maybe) will leave on their own _after_ the layoffs. You have broken trust with these folks, and they almost surely have other options. The people who stay either deeply and firmly believe in the company (good!) or for some reason feel like they don’t have other options (less good). Secondly, layoffs don’t end with the pink slips—your company is choosing to go down a long, slow path of rebuilding until almost anyone who remembers the layoffs is gone anyway. It will be harder to recruit top talent at standard market rates for awhile because folks will want to price in a risk premium to hedge against continued future instability, so replacing the fired folks may actually be more expensive in the long run.
Well, I am glad top see so many people deluded and thinking we are not in a recession. The only reason it doe snot look like a recession yet is because inflation is still higher then the Fed Rate. This is why the Industrials are not layoff as many people yet.

> You will not see tech companies balloon to the same number of employees ever again

I remember people sating this in 1999.

> both of those reasons are amplifiers

Nope, they are canaries in the coal mine.
> The current macroeconomic environment is tough

No, it isn't, and it's embarrassing at this point to continue insisting this. The macroeconomic environment is good, particularly in the United States. Business investment is growing at 3% a quarter (annualized), which is better than the average over the past decade. Employment is growing rapidly. Inflation has been tame over the past six months. And wages are growing steadily, but not rapidly in a wage-inflation spiral. In the US, the stock market is down about 10% over the past 12 months, but it's up over the past six months, and corporate earnings have been high.

Everywhere you look, the economic indicators are solid.

I do not have insight into Gitlab's customers, or the current state of Gitlab's business. But it is simply not true that the macroeconomic environment is tough. It is not. If there are problems, they are Gitlab problems, not macroeconomic problems.
Is it working fine to have IOT on a different vlan, lot of IOT use weird protocol ( mdns, multicast etc ... ) that are not friendly with vlan? I know that some people have issues for example with the Chromecast being seperated since it needs internet but also be able to communicate with your phone on a different vlan.
This is the definition of ad homenim fallacious argument.

Do you have evidence to support or refute the claims being made? Is DEI productive for academia?
There's a great /r/nba thread[0] on this post too, for those looking to see comments from an NBA community perspective.

My couple notes on this post:

1) > For the past 20 years, I’ve occupied myself with social activism, my writing career

Kareem is incredibly good at writing, and with the focus of his writing career, which is something that's rare. Many famous people spout opinions, but him putting a label of "writing career" is really cool to see.

2) It's hard to imaging, going back in time to when LeBron was in high school with his games being played on national tv already, and him still blowing all those expectations out of the water. Absurd how someone can do that.

3) When people talk about GOATs, it'll be interesting to see how much the perspective changes in terms of time frames. LeBron still being one of the best after multiple decades without sustaining injuries is incredibly impressive, and I think people will more and more start to consider high quality play over time just as important in determining who is the best as they do with an few year hot streak.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/10x1c9w/abduljabbar_wh...
pdfDIFF (comparing and highlighting 2 pdf files) would also be a nice feature.
Show HN: Comment on Any Website
Hello HN,

One of the great things about HN is being able to see what other people think in the discussion. The same goes for Youtube, Twitter and Reddit. I find it exciting to read the comments and follow the conversations.

Unfortunately, not many websites enable people to leave comments. Some of them filter and control what people are allowed to say (e.g. reviews).

So I thought it would be great to be able to comment on any website. My solution was to create a browser extension that does exactly that.

The extension shows up as a small icon on the side of the webpage. It can be expanded so that you can leave your own comment, and see what other people have said.

I do care about privacy. The extension only uses the URL of the current website, and it does not track any of your activity. Moreover, the comments you make are completely anonymous.

I would love to hear your opinion about this!
7% is the amount of layoff larger companies can "in general" layoff without hurting operation too much. Hence why some huge companies lay of the bottom 7% of performers every year (and normally hire that amount too).

So if the layoffs come not because of hard "we have x to much cost" reasons but of "we need to be more robust for potential dives in profit and increased cost" reasons and an arbitrary number must be chosen which isn't affecting operation too much but also makes a difference 7% is a common choice "because that worked well for some other large companies". Especially when the push comes from shareholders without much company insight 7% is likely.

If your company is smaller you make decisions on a one by one basis (after having some target for rough performance where you cut). But the moment your company has 100+ or even 1000+ people that gets impractical so a % line is set for how many people need to be cut.
We can talk about philosophy all we wish. But reality is that I can’t take the philosophy and exchange it for goods and services. Whatever you think the role of an employee should be, we have to accept reality for what is and take responsibility accordingly.

My wife and kids had no desire to talk prosaically about the role of the employee when I got laid off a decade ago.

They were assured when I told that we had 3 months worth of savings in the bank, that my resume was updated and I had a strong network and could get a job quickly - I had an offer in less than a week at another company. While now admittedly it would take longer, I’ve also reduced my expenses.
Where does the requirement for it being a generic library come from? The point is that a lot of things that are available as command-line utilities for shell scripts already have a C API available as well.

And libav* is used by a lot more than /usr/bin/ffmpeg
A piece of metal with rust could be called fatigued.
Similar to another OpenAI founder who mistakenly thinks his other company's AI is flying by stodgy old Google for the last 7 years.
> Why is remote work seen as a gift?

Justification. Rationalization. Denial.

Companies have spent untold billions of dollars on physical assets, structures, infrastructure, etc. and are loath to give up that power. The only way to keep the power is to keep those physical assets utilized.

In the mind of those holding the corporate money-bags, they /are/ being generous and gifting employees /additional/ resources by allowing Work From Home.

Try to put yourself in the CFO's position. Your company has 150 million dollars in physical asset / infrastructure in your city. And, yet, your employees refuse to utilize this infrastructure; they're revolting /refusing/ to use this already bought-and-paid-for buildings, networks, furniture, phone systems...

For the CFO, it IS a gift to grant WFH to employees. For the CFOs, the employees are a bunch of whining, ungrateful, assholes that they can't wait to terminate...
Well, once you know which genes are causal for which adverse social outcomes, you could use CRISPR to address the problem. Unfortunately, genome-wide association studies are famous for yielding poor results wrt. these things. So a good default guess is that the effect of various social, institutional, cultural etc. factors is being misidentified as primarily genetic.