skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For about two decades I was a big-time transit advocate. Did lots of organizing and protests, in addition to working with our local transit agency to improve their service to the public. Work from home was always one of our "commute alternatives" that we promoted but once the pandemic started and a significant number of information workers started working from home, my fellow transit advocates turned strongly against the concept of remote work.

Turns out many of they were never really for remote work but simply gave it lip service because it was so uncommon and could be used to bash commuting in a car. Now they're quite open about hating work from home because their agenda was never about reducing vehicle emissions, it was about creating more transit that they desired since they don't want to own vehicles themselves. If people can work from home, that takes cars off the road, but it also reduces the need for public transportation. The latter is what they were truly after, not the former.

There's also a smaller group who want public transit to dominate because they see it as a form of egalitarianism. If lots of well-paid people can work from home, they're not forced to sit next to people different than them on the bus and train each day. It becomes easier for them to stop caring about the issues that urban areas face when they stop going to urban areas to work. This is also part of the reason why they get so angry about private bus services bringing workers into the city. Workers on those buses aren't forced to "sit with their fellow man" nor do they have reason to support increased funding for public bus services when their employer has a private bus that provides a superior service (at least for commuting).
> Inflation has been tame over the past six months.

No, I don’t think so. 6.5% [0] is still an absurdly high rate compared to the past 30 years. It is nowhere near tame and may still fluctuate quite a bit.

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
Of course, and what is the issue with that? Propaganda has a vague definition, and basically any published opinion piece trying to persuade could be technically considered propaganda. At least it is labeled as an opinion piece, so what is the point about crying "It's propaganda!"? So what?

I have a problem with propaganda disguised as a news article, but that is not what is going on here.
So the plane has been flying over valleys at record altitude and we see a couple of mountains ahead that we will easily clear. Despite being absolutely no where near crashing, let's throw a couple of crew overboard so that we can continue to climb to new heights and keep the hype engines of our overvaluation going?
Not 19k dollars, but the comparative value in Argentine pesos, which has a big spread between the official rate and the actually obtainable street rate.
Just a much more public version of so many of us having a big ego early in our careers and being humbled by those around us.
Another "scientist" to throw in the bin of dogmatic ideologues. If you can't refute opposing claims with evidence then as a scientist you should shut the hell up.
how does someone learn the basics of "home lab" or small-scale server setup, particularly networking?

I'm pretty familiar with managing compute & storage, but the networking is largely a mystery to me. I've read a bunch of CompTIA study materials but it was all very abstract
That is what happens when doctors and scientists play politics. A minority of them actively supported the agenda through disinformation, but the vast majority of them sat quietly and offered no pushback - presumably out of fear for being blacklisted. I remember one testifying before Congress that he knew there were clear indications pointing to gain of function tampering, but said nothing because it might influence the upcoming election... Any attempt to garner sympathy from the public, who as a result were coerced into deciding between taking an experimental drug or being fired, will be fruitless.
Yeah I don't disagree with your overall point about people retiring in low cost of living areas globally. I just don't think those people will be coming back, or would even plan to come back. Of course doing so greatly removes your ability for #1, which is about the only way to make sure you're not fleeced and discarded.
Nintendo ‘Hacker’ Gary Bowser Seeks Early Prison Release
I’m guessing you didn’t read the article because Avatar made in over 2 billion dollars, exceeding even their expectations, becoming the 6th highest grossing film of all time. Or maybe it bombed, beats me.
If that's your burden of proof then you'll never find someone good enough
No one is going to disregard the source and their ideological tendencies when looking at their writings.
Correct, Marx talks about exploitation the same, whether of wood or labour power.

Marxism is explicitly amoral, it does not concern itself with that is morally right. It is a social science that analyses the contradictions within the material world and their consequences.
Why don’t you give us a 3 paragraph except of those “volumes,” then?
Does Timescaledb do streaming? I was under the impression that it was more focused on OLAP for time data.

I'm pretty sure Timescaledb is a very good product, but columnar vs row-based reactive streaming systems tend to very different needs.
As we should be if we want a utopian society. Better than paying corrupted, monopolistic, lobbying US medical companies over-inflated prices for everything because people have no other choice.

The only issue with public healthcare is the government corruption that tries to kill or diminish public healthcare, but it's still a hell of a lot better for society than private.
The economy is not a human body.
It's wild to me that "Ask Jeeves on Steroids" is being heralded as the potential google-killer...
Yes, it is a productivity multiplier. By a negative number. Microsoft's next step is to sell access to it, preferably inside overpriced Microsoft Azure. And continue to brainwash people in media by making them to think that it will solve a single problem better than people.
>the "plebes" saw a bunch of liars, fraudsters, careerists and also the complete opposite of scientific reasoning. Just like any other field...

To me it was "The plebs read a bunch of words that they don't understand, running the information through their everyday layman brain and coming to totally wrong conclusions"

This happens all the time. Remember "cell phones will fry your brain"? There is a large subset of the population who will never be able to understand the difference between a microwave oven, microwave communication, radiation, and ionizing radiation.

Which leads to situations where someone from that subset stumbles upon some internal AT&T memo's reads them and comes away with "Holy shit, internally they blatantly talk about building towers that emit radiation over the whole population. Literally building huge microwaves to radiate over massive population centers!"

More often than not, the scientists, engineers, big brains, whatever, have a good grip and the general population is fucking retarded.
Companies hire in a frenzy based off future growth, esp. in tech, not exactly always current needs. How many times have you heard a recruiter or someone say in a company all-hands that we're going to grow our engineering team 300% by EOY, or TRIPLE our headcount.
I'm a huge supporter of GitLab, I love their product. Facilitated the use of it for my work and really admire how open their product development and company morals are. So when I say that this is probably one of the worst decisions they can make I hope you can understand I don't say that casually.

The problem with running an open company (check out their handbook[0] if you don't understand what I'm referencing) is that you can be held accountable to your values when you break them. All these blog posts regarding the "current macroeconomic climate" make it sound as though they've been blindsided by the downturn in the economy. To me, that's just a straw man. If you listened to any economist or financial adverser, even while the economy was doing okay in 2022, most knew there was a recession coming[0].

Even if they didn't know that, and they were completely ignorant (of which I would expect multiple executive level firings), they bragged in the Q3 Earnings Call on 12/05/2022 that "We added over 200 new team members in 3Q and we continue to experience lower attrition than the industry"[2], undoubtedly as they were planning layoffs. According to Wikipedia, Gitlab had 1,630 employees in January of 2022, so assuming they added 500 new employees in 2022, 7% layoffs would be about 150 positions. Given that, I love this quote from that same call[2].

> As Sid and I have said over the last several quarters, our number one priority is growth but we
will do this responsibly.

The "I" that quote is Sharlene Seemungal, acting CISO[3]. I don't even have to research the layoffs to know that neither Sid nor Sharlene have suffered from the layoffs.

All that said, it's laudable the level of investment you took in ensuring the employees you laid off have a good transition--but it would be better if you didn't play the corporate bullshit shocked pikachu face game when the downturn everyone knew was coming came and actually hired responsibly.

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/09/recession-will-hit-in-first-...

[2] https://ir.gitlab.com/static-files/96839a79-517d-4d92-989f-9...

[3] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/eba/
In one of the previous threads someone suggested betterbird and I've been using it ever since[1].

It doesn't fix the age old default search output, but it works comparably well for my taste. It also doesn't fix the idle CPU usage unfortunately.

[1] https://www.betterbird.eu/#featuretable
Everything has a purpose, unlike many "home labs" where people are just tinkering. There's nothing in here that would require fussy maintenance. It seems pretty reasonable to me given the functionality.
What is the relevance of the drug being a psychedelic?
I can get paid a salary more than most of the world makes and go home to my family at night if I'm a prisoner? Sign me up!

What your argument boils down to is everyone else needs to do the stuff that keeps you alive (grow food, keep your power plant running, emergency services, treat your water) while you sit at home and scroll through TikTok. Sounds just a tad elitist to me.

You get paid to do a certain thing and if that thing requires you to be somewhere at a certain (like EVERY job) then you will be there at that time. I wish I had Superman powers and was essentially immortal, but that's no more realistic than you thinking you ought to be able to do whatever you want while still getting paid to do a job and think that's sustainable for an entire society.

Alternatively, you could start your own business and make your own schedule. However, it's not going to go so well for you with the current attitude you've got. Most likely you're going to have to do things when you don't want to do them if you want your business to succeed.
I don't know, probably that would taste like chicken ;):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tastes_like_chicken
Not a single interview so far since a November (albeit I paused looking around the holidays figuring it was out less but didn’t get started again till a bit into January. Going to attempt to pay for a resume rewrite and see if it helps any.
Is not being racist now a liberal ideology? This seems more akin to signing a document that you won’t have relations with your students or that you won’t fabricate research.
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Yes and no. I do genuinely think that there are some things that should be taken into account when hiring - not in terms of quotas, but in terms of allowances made.

For instance consider two students:

Student A: Lived in a comfortable middle-class home in which parents worked in professional jobs and went to the best schools

Student B: Grew up in a deprived area to single parent who worked menial jobs. Had to work at weekends as well as study.

If both students apply to a job or college, should their final academic grades be treated equally? If both students got the same grade, who would you think was "smarter"?
> If there are problems, they are Gitlab problems, not macroeconomic problems.

Agreed. But pretty much every business is taking a hard look at their SaaS spend and are making cuts where possible.
Arabic Chat Alphabet
As a failed solopreneur myself, I appreciate the candor of this article. But I think the author skipped over the two most important reasons he failed!

#1. There was no need for the service. Don't make up things you like or want. Deliver on things that customers are hankering for. He skipped this step.

#2. Don't become a software company! Unless your business is software, stay out of the software business. This person built lovely software for... delivering coffee? That's expensive, not necessary, and puts you in the software development and maintenance business forever.
If you look at what Facebook is doing as opposed to what they say they are doing, you see that Facebook is playing the spoiler in the VR space.

Whenever a company is successful in VR, Facebook buys it. Frequently it shuts that company's products down, as it is planning to do with Echo VR

https://mixed-news.com/en/john-carmack-criticizes-echo-vr-sh...

Facebook justifies this by saying a game with a few 10,000's of users doesn't move the needle for them, they need a game with 10,000,000's of users. Trouble is it is a lot easier to shut down a site with 10,000's of users than it is to make one with 10,000,000's users. It is certain that some people who are booted from Echo VR will hang up their VR headsets. It is certain they'll spend a lot of money trying to make something new but not certain that they'll get any traction.

VR businesses that anybody else would be consider a wild success are considered a failure by Facebook. If Facebook is unable to succeed at VR that is all the more reason why the FTC, gamers, shareholders and the rest of us should get a restraining order against Meta that forbids them from acquiring any more companies... At least until Zuckerberg divests himself of a controlling interest in Meta.
I’ve never seen the movie, but that excerpt reminded me of crying as I watched Kipchoge break the sub-2-hour marathon.
You're literally comparing a player who got 4 years in with one who is at his All Star break. Not sure what point you're attempting to make.
This reminds me of https://checkvist.com, which I hope would be used more. It's actually a great replacement for Trello or any other kind of board for smaller projects.
Sometimes you need a blurry JPEG in a pinch.
Seems like some neat ideas here. but I am a bit confused who the customer is for this.

I am a software engineer that heavily uses todo tracking apps, but this isn't for me.

I use todoist to manage my life. Critical features are mobile app and scheduling tasks.

I use jira to manage project work. Critical feature is multi-user.

This is desktop only, so I can't use it for my grocery list.

This doesn't seem to let me share tasks with other people to track my progress and delegate work.

I guess if I am a solo dev and I wanted a private system to track my tasks that isn't JIRA, then this is useful?
I don't follow any sports and had no idea of anything about Kareem other than who he is. His interview in Conversations with Tyler really impressed me: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/kareem-abdul-jab...
Let's imagine a scenario:

There is a state of emergency presidential address. In Video A, the politician says X Y Z. In Video B, the politician says A B C. Both videos have equal credibility. The videos show no artifacts from tampering. The alteration is undetectable by experts. The broadcast has dire consequences in a divided country.

50% of channels are pushing Video A, 50% of channels are pushing Video B.

We are now in a position where the public actually cannot determine which video is authentic. The politician could broadcast a new statement, to clarify the validity of the first video. But, you could just as easily fake that too, to publish a statement that declares the opposite.

So, then you load up Hacker News or wherever, to determine for yourself what the hell is going on. But someone spins up 1,000 bots to flood the comments in favor of Video A, and someone else spins up 1,000 bots to flood the comments in favor of Video B. These comments are all in natural language, all with their own individual idiosyncrasies. It's impossible to determine if the comment is a bot. And because the cost is essentially free, these bots can be primed for years, making mundane comments on trivial topics to build social credibility. Actual humans only account for maybe 1% of this discourse.

Now imagine: our entire world operates like this, on a daily basis, ranging from the mundane to the dramatic. How about broadcasting a deepfake press statement from a CEO to make a shorted meme stock crash. If there are financial/political incentives to do so, and the technological hurdle is insignificant, these tools will be weaponized.

So how do we "not believe the media", do we all have to be standing in the same room together where something notable happens?

I understand that there could be upsides, the world isn't all doom and gloom. But, I think engineers get myopic, and do not heed the warnings.
gasoline for example
Sure, but that is what happens when you over hire at crazy speeds like the companies did a couple of years ago.
They bought out one of the registrars I had been using. I cringe whenever those domains come up for renewal.
The POTUS isn’t required to give a state of the union speech. It only states he give Information from ‘time to time’. He could send a letter by courier or mail and there is no annual requirement
Somewhat ironically, from Hired. Thanks for the good vibes.
Do you not understand how statistics work? She had a lower chance to die, that doesn't mean she's immune.
> Counterpoint is that it requires the shift key

Nope. MacOS's filesystem is by default case-insensitive but case-preserving:

cd ~/developer

and

cd ~/Developer

should both work if you have a subdirectory called "Developer" in your homedir.
Fair, but though I was not alive during his career, he seems to have always been portrayed as level headed and wise.
I've heard good things about Parsec if you're connecting to a non-Linux machine.
I've known dying folks that still feel as the above describes. I'm sure there are also lots that change their mind.
This was my issue as well. Here's my primary use case for an app like this:

A group of friends go on vacation together. Everyone takes photos and videos with their own devices. When we get home, we upload all our photos to a central location (self-hosted and running on Free software), so everyone can browse all the photos, and download copies of those they'd like.

From the documentation it looks like I could share my photos with photoprism, but my friends wouldn't be able to contribute theirs.
Weren't around for the '99-'05 timespan, eh?
the comment you're replying to shows revenue up 8% for them. Is there any evidence of this claim? It seems like everyone is watching Andor, and they're fresh off the new Avatar movie, one of the highest grossing films ever? like i don't watch any of these movies, hate marvel and the new star wars, but you're just wrong?
Unless they were actually at "war" shooting guns and killing people, groups of people using non-violent means to achieve an end is politics. One of Carl von Clausewitz most famous quotes is "Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln" or "War is merely the continuation of politics by other means".

A conspiracy is just a group of people working towards a goal and keeping most of their actions secret, i.e. many groups.
For any given word, there are multiple meanings that vary by context, along with possible misspellings, etc. So a search on a specific phrase can yield a fractal tree of possible interpretations/matches.

It would be useful if a search engine could find the top 10 different interpretations of the phrase in latent space, and offer the top results (with a means to pursue more) in each of those separate meanings.

For example: "hypertext markup" matches way too many things about HTML, and not enough things about marking up (annotating) hypertext

LLMs could make search much more powerful in this manner.

ChatGPT, on the other hand... is not a search engine, even before you consider its tendency towards BS.
> I miss asking my coworkers how their weekends went.

What stops you from doing that when working remotely? You don't just have to chat about work.
Show HN: Browser extension to summarize the key insight from articles with GPT
I don’t know if they still do, but Boeing used to have a deal with the state where if they allowed employees to work from any office of their choosing they’d get a break on taxes.

In Seattle, Boeing employees are the beginning of rush hour. They like to work 7-3 and so the highways fill up just before the school day starts/ends. So getting even a few thousand people to avoid cross town traffic is huge.
This is great. Let’s all pick some random town on the beach in Costa Rica, pump it up to Manhattan-level cost of living in the crowdsourced DB, apply to Gitlab.
If these layoffs were just done to go with the flow and because everyone else in tech is doing it, holy moly will it go down as one of the worst actions a CEO can take in history. Gitlab lives, breathes and dies on customer trust. If I send them money I am betting on them being a good steward of my source code (_the_ most important asset for many companies) and host for my artifacts, CI, etc. Nothing gives me more concern about the near and long term future of the company than a massive layoff out of the blue. How can customers trust Gitlab will even be functioning or exist in a year? If I depended seriously on them today I would be rapidly finding and moving to an alternative.
"dying at home is often unattainable for many, unless they have family members who are willing to give up their own lives to be caregivers or the patient is willing to spend down their life savings to qualify for Medicaid to pay for around-the-clock help."

You mean like what Grandma or Grandpa did to bring life into this world. Your life I might add. You owe them so much and you haven't clue. It is worthless and shameful.
Satoshi explicitly was making bitcoin as a medium of exchange, as described in his paper, but apparently couldn't do the math to realize that his system would never manage more than a few hundred transactions a day. That's a pretty massive oversight IMO, and evidence that satoshi is just a normal dude, not some prophet or messiah.

The decision to not expand block size limits was 100% coordinated by a huge amount of chinese mining capacity because the ingress routes to their networks of miners would not have handled the higher throughput, and like six dudes who controlled 80% of the miners sat up on a stage together and talked about it. How is that not coordinated? Bitcoin had every chance to improve it's ability to be a currency, but guess what, the oligarchs who controlled all the mining thought it would give them less money to go that route, so they stopped it. It's almost like a system that allows you directly more power based on how much wealth you personally control doesn't work "For the people"