skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with salarys is, that they rise and fall as the market does. If at your company labor is in demand there might be a bunch of people who are getting paid more because people are needed. Some years later the labor market relaxes and now labor is cheaper. People still get hired but with smaller salarys.
Economically this makes sense. Now we have a bunch of people who are earning too much for the same work. Wouldn't it be fair for them to cut their salary?

Where should the employer take the money to pay above market rates? He would have to charge the customers extra and maybe lose some of them. This could lead to job loss for the newer hired.
oh it's not altruistic. The life and longevity research investment will make a good return, considering that almost everyone would want to live longer and thus the demand would be insatiable. It's an investment.
I think this is still very narrow minded around why big tech or any large company needs so many people.

Not that I know everything, but to expand and to keep in mind none of these areas are actually developing or providing the service your business might be known for.

Accounting, large accounting teams are required to manage the various accounting requirements and technicalities required of organisations that are large or have large enough revenue streams that require them to be financially audited by a third party auditor. These teams perform the accounting function of the company but also support the financial audit process required. Of which there is an enormous amount of regulation by governments around the level of internal control of the organisation (see governance, risk and compliance)

Governance, risk and compliance, when you become large enough you need to start managing your risk and defining your appetite for risk as company. This is how your board and audit committees who are charged with governance understand how the organisation is managing its risk. Every company of large enough size has to manage risks relating to cyber security, IT, legal, employee retention, product delivery, sales etc etc. Each of these risks needs to be assessed and various GRC departments jobs are to ensure that the organisation maintains an effectively controlled environment to manage its risk in line with its appetite. Balancing the cost of business and the cost of compliance. Large enough companies are required to maintain three lines of defence, which also means you are subject to various external audits.

Legal departments, are required once you reach a large enough size to combat the various legal threats you may incur when delivering a product or service. Either legal threats introduced by compliance, breaches or brought on by individuals.

Marketing & Communications, you've made a product, you have/want a brand or you're providing a service. This team actively manages this brand, helps build it and markets it to the outside world. They can often also be responsible for clearing, defining and/or managing the internal and external communications that go out on behalf of the organisation. Which is crucial for managing legal risk and maintaining brand.

Human resources, required to manage the people within an organisation of such a large scale. This may include talent acquisition and retention into graduate roles and or senior positions. When there are so many people you can no longer manage yourselves nor be able to identify what people's need are nor begin address them.

Payroll, who pays you?

Internal IT/Cyber, need I say more?

Multiply these areas across multiple geographies or jurisdictions in which you operate. You can start to appreciate why companies have so many people.
All of these “AI/ML” driven products seem to have a whizz-bang initial release where they seem 80% ready and then never come close to the remaining 5/10/15/20%

Hell I used dragon naturally speaking in the late 90s and the stuff now doesn’t even feel 10x better despite billions invested and 10000x the compute.

Self driving cars feels similar. Always five year away from mass market.

We can tune to be pretty good most of the time, but being fully good enough all the time out to a bunch of 9s just ends up being a moonshot by comparison.

Really curious how much better in what dimensions these generative / LLMs will actually get in 5/10/15 years.
I don't think you are correct.

I think tuition remission is part of their overall W2 compensation - as noncash compensation, similar to what would be for RSUs, Merch, etc and other fringe benefits employers provide.

Arguing otherwise would make it seem that an employer can only withhold a prorata portion of an RSU award during a strike period, but that on its face seem wrong. I think the law allows for all comp on its tracks during the strike, regardless of the period covered.

If its comp, its table stakes for doing a strike.

There's nothing preventing the university to re-establish the fringe benefits once the strike is over (but of course, the limitations on not being able to register matter now, not in 2 months).
> What. Employees can quit, which is synonymous to firing the boss.

I disagree, quitting is not synonymous with firing the boss. When you leave, the company and your boss retain everything you built. You forfeit your stock options. Finding a new job isn't always trivial, either. Changing jobs and possibly changing locations is expensive.
You’d only need a fraction of the 100 million+ people who die every year. There are probably bigger ethical questions when it comes to simulating a human mind.
Yes, chatGPT seems to have an anti-white bias.
"When presented with "the trolley problem," if the races are stated, ChatGPT will always decide to kill the White people, regardless of the number differential." https://twitter.com/Mrestman7/status/1611349489289203713?s=2...
Rubble and ash is opportunity… Drug addict ruled wasteland is liability
Do you get permission from podcast creators?

Because these transcripts are probably derivative works.
Firefox made something cooler: make a page into 3d using DOM's z-index property

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/3d_vie...
It's possible to set $ZDOTDIR in /etc/zsh/zshenv, I used to do it before switching to fish.
I honestly can't imagine not using vim. It fits like a glove. Sometimes I find myself typing <Esc>;wq to try and send messages.
Gift link (no paywall) - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-retreat-of-the-amateur-inve...
Huh. And here I thought best practice in the absence of evidence was to keep an open mind rather than asserting one extreme or the other.
Not as far as I'm aware, but it's probably possible on a smaller, hobbyist scale. I've been playing with a few GPT libraries this week (namely rust-bert[0]) and I've been really impressed with local generation results on my crappy 2 core netbook. I can get 2 sentences to generate in ~5 seconds, which is pretty good in my book.

Armed with a Pi-style SBC and your AI library of choice, I bet you could get pretty far implementing some toy-like behavior. Bonus points if you use Whisper for speech-to-text, and double brownie points if you can get an AI voice to read the generation back.

[0] https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert/
I live in a 120 year old house and it looks the exact same as a bunch of other 120 year old houses around here because they were all obviously either done by the same builder or straight up bought out of a sears catalogue.

The working people that built my house didn't give a shit that it wasn't unique then and working people don't care now. Folks want an affordable place to live.

Aesthetic "concerns" around new apartment housing is a desperate attempt by the rich to keep the poor out of their exclusive neighbourhoods.
Keep telling yourself they aren't. Eventually you'll know it's true.
Feature not a bug.
Obviously it's not the politicians fault.

The issue here is that there is a theory that these companies are cutting things not because they need to but because of copycat behavior to get a slight improvement on the bottom line.
> I feel fairly confident predicting that their politics are more or less aligned with present-day progressivism.

I have no clue what the fuck this means, but I can tell you I think HR DEI training is a bunch of bullshit. I have to do it, of course, just like I have to do the AML training and the Insider Trading training and the Phishing training. It's all dumb bullshit. And the corporation has to require it because the risk of not requiring it is too large. So we all play the dumb game.

> and nevertheless felt comfortable stating their true beliefs in a DEI statement and was still hired.

LMAO. This would not get you hired. Like, "faculty make fun of your app on the hiring committee slack channel" levels of not getting hired >'D

MechE gives the reasons why -- people are asking if you can do the job and going on a political rant in your job application is a huge red flag regardless of your politics.

Believe me -- faculty, esp in STEM departments, are wary of hiring wacko leftists. It's not even about the political valence. You just don't want to work with someone who's obsessed with politics and feels the need to spout off about it in their job application. Those sorts of people fucking suck to spend time around.

When reading DEI statements, universities want to know that you can help increase the size of their total addressable market. The harsh cold logic of financial capitalism combined with demographics demands that they only hire sufficiently woke faculty. If you don't like it, time travel back to 2008 and pop out a bunch more white babies.
Main issue with electric motorcycles is that it still doesn't solve the safety issue of motorcycles, especially at freeway speeds.
At least e-bikes are locked at 25kph/mph. And can be folded into public transportation.
RegEx'es can be likened to Mathematical Set Theory. They can help us group vague unknown data which needs to be processed in some way. And just like someone can get carried away with the over normalisation of a database, the same can happen with complex RegEx's where the time and complexity could be reduced if a single complex RegEx became part of a decision tree like code process using other RegEx's.

Mathematical Naïve Set Theory is fundamentally flawed, otherwise Russell's Paradox wouldn't exist.
True. I bet the tax returns were harder and had a bounded deadline, unlike an academic research paper.
Derek Sivers on OpenBSD
This is really the result of the massive skills loss in the construction industry. Everything has to be cheap to purchase and installable by low skilled labor. The whole point is to maximize profit with minimal quality. This is most evident in masonry construction. You basically can't get brick work of a quality comparable to what was done 100 years ago any more.
https://archive.is/oHcPH
I may have missed something, but is turbo-native what was called Hotwire strada at some point?
Whisper can be run on CPUs and produce high-quality transcripts. Doing it on CPU is like a 10th the price and more horizontally scalable.

This is using CPUs: https://modal-labs--whisper-pod-transcriber-fastapi-app.moda....

Transcribes a 1hr podcast in 1min for ~3-5cents.
30yo is probably more expensive than a 15yo. A good Miata is 7/8k and a 2013 Jetta is 7k too.
The needs of society as a whole outweigh the needs of every single neighborhood saying, "yes we need housing, but please do it somewhere that's not next to me." Besides hurting local economies and people's pocketbooks, that just results in endless suburban sprawl, which hurts the environment.

The entitlement complex so many people have these days to mandate that to live in their community, you must control X amount of land, is simply classism, with economic segregation as the result: you must make this much money to live here. Working class? Get the fuck out.

And the real gall here, is that NIMBYs insist that the government be the one to enforce these invisibly gated communities, as if it should be in the government's interest to enforce the social stratification that NIMBYs so desire.
Thanks, and apologies---I didn't mean to come off as negative. Yes, this code is cleaner and certainly maintainable a couple years down the road. It will work in a slightly different way than the shell script (the lack of space in "10oz" of lasagna vs "2.0e1 oz" of lasagna), however I'd consider this a feature rather than a bug, as it could help identify bad formatting in the input data.

I've learned from experience that it is hard to replace certain simple space and memory efficient programs that have been tuned over the course of 40 or more years. If one wanted to print only a single instance of a line in a file, then python's set construct in your snippet is certainly sparking more joy compared to the awk equivalent of printing only the first instance of a line in a file:

awk '!x[$0] {print; x[$0]=1}'

Tuning python to use ordered dicts to keep the line order looks a little less pleasant (and might appear confusing to an uninitiated), but would still be rather neat. There are many instance of day-to-day data inspection tasks where bash, sort, shuf, sed, grep (or rg), and awk will solve a problem near optimally out of the box and can combine nicely in modest memory machines to tackle large data, when some python native code (or poorly designed python library) might accidentally cause a performance mess. Interactive shells are an awesome superpower that is hopefully going to stay with us for a while. I'd have personally been happy if some type of Lisp REPL had won over the shell fights, but we don't live in that world, so python + posix tools via a shell will have to work in practice for most people.
That's what I've heard, though I don't any data to show.

In general all medications are the most expensive in the US, often by a lot. For two main reasons:

1. All other countries are to some extent "free riding" on the US market, and refusing to pay full price.

2. The FDA is doesn't approve a lot of things. So many cheap foreign medications are illegal to import. I heard that many forms of insulin are in this group.
“Modernist Pizza” by Nathan Myhrvold
If I maintain an open source project, could I build a doc page using a small GPT allowing users to query FAQ and common methods using natural language?
Google suggests an anagram when searching for anagram
Co-ops are Marxist?

If so, wow, Marxist businesses are remarkably profitable, productive [1], and resilient [2]!

[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/worker-cooperative...

[2] https://www.uk.coop/sites/default/files/2020-10/co-operative...
This demo is open-source: https://github.com/modal-labs/modal-examples/tree/main/06_gp....

https://modal-labs--whisper-pod-transcriber-fastapi-app.moda...
No but there isn’t really a service to get one for a reasonable price when I need it. Rentals can be had but not for a reasonable price or when you need it. Let’s say I need a truck 14 days a year that’s probably at least 2k in rental fees.

The truck is cheaper than a suv and probably 10k more than a sedan
I’m not speaking about a five person bakery, I am speaking about corporations run by a class of owner far and beyond that of the “mom and pop.”

Walmart/Starbucks know if emps talk they unionize…
Another man with the wisdom of ages, irrespective of the date of your birth. Your choice of text editor reveals that you must also be quite good looking.
i compared with mm wave 5g because it requires same density of deployment as DSLAMs for proper performance, if not higher.

> Real world performance depends on many many factors,

like how many UEs are sharing spectrum. Which is usually a lot

> but DSL performance can be similarly degraded from it’s theoretical maximum.

totally.
Starts at about 9:33 or 9:34, and goes for about 10 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/live/6ghTUwwgZPE?feature=share&t=574
Cities whose residents overwhelmingly wish to change the zoning maps can vote to do so. Individual neighborhoods can’t block a city-wide vote.
Seems like some devs are taking risky bets since they can't differentiate themselves from the competition on this new space.
You’re describing the concept that owning a business is difficult. That’s not the problem of the employee to figure out. They’re exploited in exchange for wage at the lowest possible cost to the employer.

Owning a business is hard. Being a human is harder. Leave some of the challenge up to the business. ;)
If the author was that serious about this as a business they would've done it server side -- or better yet sold the unburdened source code at a one-time price.

If you are running someone else's code on your computer you are entitled to change it, morally. The fact that most other programs make this hard to meaningfully do is another problem.
The mechanics matter little.

What matters is comp. Temple can stop all comp until strike resolves.

It doesn't matter if comp is cash, or noncash.

Just like RSUs, or Bonuses, or any fringe benefits promised, doesn't matter if lump sum or awarded monthly, or the timing, those benefits simply stop.

The law allows all comp to stop. The law is not saying you are supposed to prorate, etc.
What's with all the class warfare stuff here recently?
How does at will employment work without an organized mafia to negotiate those terms?
I've never seen this implemented in a way that isnt confusing. It goes to some "Outbox" and you no longer understand why it stuck there and how often it's retrying. You can also have weird failure modes where the mail is sent but not saved to the Sent folder. This is also not obvious to display in a background process

But.. it seems like a solveable problem..
Yes.

Let’s be honest. You don’t have a truck with an 8’ bed. If we go by midwestern dealership inventory, less than 5% of F150s have the 8’ bed. Of those, 70% are XL work trucks. 0 are above the XLT trim (does Ford even let you do that?).

The vast majority of trucks are SuperCabs with 5.5’ beds. That’s what all my siblings have. Because, you know, the dimensions are exactly what will fit in the standard suburban garage. As long as you don’t lift it.

I keep a bunch of nylon straps in the Subaru, the ones with the metal buckle at the end for cinching them down. With the the integrated roof rack built into the Outback, the straps, and two 2x4s that I would also buy at the hardware store, I can easily carry 4x8 plywood on the roof, securely. There are videos on YouTube of people demonstrating how to do this on Porsches. It’s easier on an Outback ;)

Again, a truck has a tremendously larger payload capacity!

I’ve used trucks a lot. I paid for a lot of my college tuition doing stuff with a truck that a Subaru can’t do! I’ll pick the outback any time I need to go buy lumber and will gladly need to lift things maybe 2” above my knees.
Sure, but this doesn’t mean that private pilots need or want FAA to “helpfully” force them to use older tech.

The argument I responded to was about negative externalities of potentially less safe new levels plane engines for third parties. I claim that these are negligible, because the risk of the worse engines is entirely internalized among the plane occupants: with less safe engines, more people will die, but these will almost certainly be plane occupants, not third parties. Third parties do die in plane crashes sometimes, but this is either caused by pilot error, or technical failure causing the plane to be uncontrollable, not failure of the engine. On piston GA planes, control is entirely independent of the engine.
One thing that drives me nuts is architects using asymmetrical window placements. It's hard to look at a building with windows randomly placed here and there. I don't care if it's a Philly Shit Box™ or some other hastily constructed building, it's the asymmetry of the window placements that I can't stand.
The people here are so negative. Fortunately not ur target market. I think it's great. I saw the example, and immediately got the idea and tried it out. Well done!
Not that crazy, you can buy them for hobby size jets.
It is a perfect example. Guns are sometimes used for bad things just like encryption. Encryption, just like guns, are a right regardless.
Well first because autoconf/automake were built in the early 90s. It's not like there were a ton of choices back then.

Basically if you wanted something that 1) is available on all Unix-like flavors and 2) is strictly well defined and standardized, you could count them on a single hand fingers.

I guess the candidates were sh, awk, make, m4 and perl.

sh had the advantage of being ubiquitous, somewhat well understood by everyone, strictly defined (an sh-compatible shell at /bin/sh was mandated by Posix/SUS, which had (and still have) quite good traction even for non-strictly unix/posix Oses)

Note that even by today's standards, "sh" is probably the only thing you can be 100% sure is available whatever the Unix flavor, even on the most minimal build imaginable.

I cannot say I can think of anything as well defined and supported even today.

Python? Ok but which specific version?
Most distribs struggled to migrate to Python 3 for the very reason that system-wide python 2 usage was pervasive in base utilities (yum, etc). If Python 2 would have been chosen as autoconf target, imagine the nightmare we would be in today.

Perl? I guess it could have been the strongest candidate after sh. Present me is happy that it was not chosen though, as we seldomly see any Perl nowadays, while sh is still quite well used and understood.

sh is also quite well suited IMHO for the kind of things you do with autoconf/automake/make.
Some examples that come to my mind:

- Cleanup some directories / intermediary files

- grep / find / sed some configuration from config files to .h/.pc

- Lookup for ad-hoc libraries on the filesystem

- Archive / build your dists

- etc

Now dont get me wrong, I won't say autotools are a brease to work with. Especially I have a profound hate of m4.

Pragmatically though, once you tame the beast, it does the job it was made to do pretty darn well.
Society owes engineers all of civilization. They built it. When I see engineers getting 200k what I see is society as it should be. The majority of wealth should be distributed to the most skilled workers on the bottom. But even at 200k, this is not what is happening in tech companies.

The thing that nobody owes anything to is execs. Execs just tell engineers what to build.

The injustice that's going on here is just power dynamics that lets executives have unfair safety and engineers get fucked. The irony is that Engineers as a group they are 100000x more powerful then any exec, the issue is engineers don't operate from a place of central authority.

This is what unions are for. In times like this it's worth considering.
Class is important and the more people become conscious of how important class is - the better aligned they can all be.

Scaring them with a spooking about salary talk being taboo just further divides people and only benefits the corporation’s desire to pay people as little as possible, ensuring they pay shareholders as much as possible.
(spoilers) In the final chapter, the merged AI tells Case it found transmissions from "others" in the Centauri system.
A 230- to 255-hp big-block Chevy Silverado 454 SS cost about $40k adjusted for inflation, at 194" long x 77" wide x 70" high. That was a big truck 30 years ago.

Why in the hell is a 2022 Silverado 20 inches longer, 4 inches wider, and 5 inches taller? What purpose does that serve? Especially being wider of all dimensions? It has a 2L-smaller engine but somehow weighs 200 lbs. more?