skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They shut my office down in Canada. Lots of jobs. Most are remote for US companies though. Very few recruiters spamming me, but companies are very receptive to inbound inquiries from me.

I’m a senior eng in AI research though, which is obviously having a big moment right now.
This introduces an especially silly attack vector: if you expect that asking for a specific permission might alarm users, and if you can push it below the fold, just ask for more innocuous or plausible permissions than you need!

Besides the oversight of hiding some permission requests, this highlights that the order they’re presented matters too. Even if it weren’t scrollable with ~invisible indication of that, people stop reading at some point. If N lines (I’m gonna guess ~5 for most people) seem totally innocuous, the rest are probably effectively invisible.
> money should always flow from publishers to writers, never the other way around.

An interesting workaround is to still require money (or effort) to be spent by authors, but not have it go to the publishers. Only require that the publishers can get some proof that money has been spent. This way, the flood of AI junk submissions is halted, and writers can still be assured that publishers still have no incentive to solicit submissions in order to get money.
That already happened with Firefox for Android. The old version allowed extensions, the current version only allows something like 10 specific ones.

There will always be a forked browser or an independent browser that supports/allows extensions as long as the web uses HTTP.
There's so many...

Apollo Domain's.

ONC RPC.

DCE RPC (and MSFT RPC, which derives from DCE RPC).

SOAP.

LustreRPC.

And who knows how many others.

The biggest problem with RPC in general is that historically it was synchronous because that's what was easy to implement in the 80s. Fix that and an RPC sucks only as much as the encoding system it uses.

But RPC == remote procedure call, and that causes people to instantly think "synchronous", and that is a kiss of death.
> My conclusions after observing a ton of people in technical and nontechnical jobs is that beyond working 20-25 hours a week, having people do more is useless...

I'm not so sure about this. I was working in a remote "full-stack" (but really 90% front-end role) for 14 months from the start of January 2021 to the end of February 2022. I tracked my hours religiously the entire time I was employed there (not required, but just for my own sake). I had a spreadsheet containing the date, start/end times (rounded to the nearest quarter on an hour), task name, and notes.

When I left the company, my team lead thought I was one of the hardest working people he had ever worked with. He thought I had to be working 60-hour weeks to be doing what I was doing. I showed him the spreadsheet and calculated the average hours worked per week - came out somewhere between 38~39 hours.

My role wasn't a senior one so, for the most part, the vast majority hours were spent coding, but of course some was spent in meetings as well. But these were all real hours of real time spent working. It was all very doable and not useless time spent futzing around (I would also stop tracking my time for any break I took - no exceptions).

Granted, I think being the type of person that acclimates well to remote work made this all doable. I would not have been this productive in office.
Right, but it’s not some magical optimal number.

It’s lets you have 3 shifts per day (3 x 8 = 24) for full coverage. That also fits with the idea that it gave you a balanced life. 8 hours at work, 8 hours asleep, 8 hours for the rest.

It was a convenient number below the old, much worse, standard.

People act like 40 hours is some kind of natural law that can’t be questioned.

It absolutely can be.
> they don't grow at all typically.

Yep, as I said, internet would skew to a smaller web properties, and that's a good thing.

> push users to completely unmoderated forums

There's a counterexample -- Hacker News. Moderators here do a much better job at keeping it clean and focused on their intended audience than any of the big media. I'd be happy to see more of such focused forums than few huge "one-size-fits-all" platforms.
Previous Homa discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34871710 (on the front page)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28440542

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28204808

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33738711

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33401480
moving my fingers on a trackpad is way better than stabbing my meat stick on a screen in terms of accuracy and personal energy use
>simply cannot match the offers of the big FAANG tech companies with their sky high pay and oodles of RSUs.

But I bet they have no problem paying the CEO millions of dollars

Think of how much funding "smaller private companies" get from VCs nowadays. We're not talking about a startup in someones garage.
11 pm - 3 AM
understandable. and I agree. it was more like a test to see how the bots/npcs would react (with their downvotes).
While skin-in-the-game is a good tool for problems of this general class, the editor has said that refundable fees would not be workable in this particular case due to issues with payment providers[1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/117fq9m/clarkeswor...
Why is the logo image in Level 10 desaturated? I was sure that meant something, but it doesn't seem like it did.
This is a tough one, because stock (like bonus) is not guaranteed.

But when the stock goes up every year for 20-years straight, it’s hard for people to not think its part of their guaranteed base pay.
Thing is, if it weren't for marketing I'm not sure this idea of "spreading filth" would even be much a thing, but marketing is such a social contagion that it has destroyed our ability to relate to people in a way other than as a means to promote something.
How do you figure we are close to bringing a meaningful amount of life to other planets? Just because we have the ability to put a few people on Mars like we did the Moon if we focus on it doesn't mean those three to six people will be able to create a civilization. They'll get back on there ship and head home. I realize becoming a true space fairing civilization may follow an exponential curve but were so far down on the curve with no guarantee of exponential progress that I wouldn't bet any amount of money that mattered on someone four generations from me being able to life in space or on another planet with no support from earth.
I feel as though the world would be a better place if we could just eliminate McKinsey.
I've often thought an authenticated proof of donation to a global charity could be a solution to these types of problems, scaled in price to the senders locale.

Not refundable, but at least a donation to UNICEF allows the receiver to impose a submission cost without the implication they are doing so out of greed.
The problem is not the printing - it's the mailing.

Clarkesworld intentionally went to electronic submissions to make it easier for international writers. International mail can be prohibitively expensive, and in a lot of places there's better internet access than there is reliable postage.
I think there's a middle ground. If you do a timeline or up/down vote rankings then that's just transmitting what your users post and falls under 230. If you use an algorithm to curate then you're exercising editorial discretion and get the liability that goes along with it.
COVID bull-run has been over for a year, and things have returned to normal.
Nearly all companies who tried a 4-day workweek want to keep it
This debate is a bit more nuance that it might look like.

Some people use the argument "you didn't give stocks back when price was going up". That's true, but there are unique feature of Amazon compensation package that make the current situation... peculiar.

This is a short primer: your compensation is composed of a base salary and RSU, which is calculated as a dollar value and converted to shares. When the RSU vest (twice a year) you get the shares at whatever market value. If they've gone up (as they historically did a lot) you win. If they go down (as the last ~2 years) you lose.

This is fair TBH. When you take part of your comp in stocks, you are assuming some amount of risk.

There are a few problems though.

a) Amazon bakes in a 15% stock price increase when calculating future compensation, and they adjust the amount of shares accordingly. This means that they effectively limit the employees upside. Also, think how ridiculous it is when your salary assumed a 15% price increase and it went down 30% instead.

b) Amazon has compensation bands, and target each employee comp to a certain spot in the band (say 50%) based on performance. If you are above band (for example, due to stock appreciation) you get nothing or a nominal amount. Notice this is different from similar Big Tech which issue "memoryless refreshers" i.e. stock refreshers are independent of previous ones.

c) Amazon issues raises one year out after the performance reviews happen. So say you did a good job in 2022, and you get your performance review in 2023, then they will issue new shares for 2024. I believe it also used to work like that for promotions (i.e. you get promoted now, but you'll see your raise next cycle), but they changes it recently.

d) Unlike comparable companies it doesn't have performance bonus, spot bonuses, or others.

We are waiting for our performance reviews to happen but rumor has they are not giving increases to make up for the lost stock value, meaning many people will be underwater.

Funnily enough this creates a very weird situation due to another quirk of Amazon compensation system. New offers include a 4 year compensation package, with most of the comp as cash for years 1 and 2, and backloaded RSU for years 3 and 4. Afterwards there is a "cliff" and comp is decided on a rolling yearly basis.

So the newest hires are going to be virtually unaffected while tenured employees will lose a big chunk of their comp. This is compounded by the fact that many recent offers have been overpriced w.r.t. existing employees due to the incredibly competitive job market.

At the end of the day this might sound like the world smallest violin coming from overpaid tech workers. In any event it has created huge disparities due to timing and luck rather than skills or value. Curious to see what'll happen later this year and next.
It does it in a way Clarkesworld has actively said they're trying to avoid.

I'd prefer not to throw the Making Science Fiction More Accessible baby out with the ChatGPT Side Hustle bathwater.
Given all the extensions in the store that are at some point updated with a trojan to sell your internet connection to shady people, the "review queue" is some kind of mythical beast that doesn't in practice do or achieve anything.

It would be trivial for Google to find all the extensions using that kind of crap, but they don't care.
I think it does make a difference: there are tons of Android ROMs (or even Linux distros like PostmarketOS) that run on many different Android smartphones. But I don't see the equivalent for iPhones.

Isn't that because iPhones are more closed somehow? Maybe there is another reason, I don't know to be honest.
Only one submission per public key?

You’re right, though, this is not as straightforward as it originally seemed!
Author here! I'm tickled to see that this whimsical cautionary tale is so resonant.
Yes, this is definitely something that was happening.

We recently added a question to the profile about "equity expectations" to try to solve this. I'm hopeful that will help, because then you can just not match with people who don't align with your expectations; would love any feedback on this.
Internationally, there are a lot of people working on laptops and phones cheaper than that. The problem is not the printing - it's the mailing.
Why would they shut down offices in western Europe? That must be the absolute cheapest (western) region to hire for.

In Japan it doesn’t seem to have affected much, though our parent US company went through a significant round of layoffs.
if anyone cracks this code I would pay dear money for it. maybe i should setup my tent in the backyard for a week
Hmm, this reminds me of Jim Rose's stroke order diagram retrographer-editor[0] (SODER) from some time ago.

[0]: https://archive.org/details/soder
Restaurant Subscription Services Rise
https://archive.md/5rNqX
YouTube as Infinite File Storage
It's made me start reading on how to improve my writing. It's not good when you look at your own writing and think damn did an LLM write this?
How can they get paid 50% less when share prices drop by 35%? Can't get past the paywall.
Yeah there could be something else going on. Apps constantly reload too; the other day I had an app open, locked the phone, unlocked it 5 minutes later and the app completely reloaded. This happens all the time with loads of different apps. The battery health is quite low so maybe it gets more aggressive in killing things off? We'll probably never know.
Needs a 2019 tag I believe.
Poland. Amount of recruiters on LinkedIn decreases but they still exists. Heard of 0 layoffs whatsoever though.
A new low
> the only reason why we have 9-5, Monday to Friday jobs is because of infantile narcissists who have no other purpose in life than to go to work and push people like machines.

the current system is mainly because henry ford decided that it was the most he could make people do line work before productivity decreased and injuries increased. that of course was better working conditions of 10 hour days that the labor unions had negotiated before that. it's not impossible to forsee it going down to 32 hours or working more at home since the nature of work is different.

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/05/1052968060/how-the-40-hour-wo...
Shares of Amazon (and really most of tech) are only "down" from their peaks during the pandemic, when they were artificially inflated due to stimulus money as well as people thinking that the world's tech reliance would stay the same after things went back to normal. If you go back further, to say 2019 or early 2020, they are still up.
https://archive.is/aOXNu
Just because a job gets posted doesn't mean it is actually available to be filled. The barrier to posting jobs to LinkedIn or other hiring platforms is extremely low.

Don't let yourself be fooled into a false sense of confidence, you'd really need to test out the process to see if it can produce a real job offer! Doubly so in the current climate..
They try to launch at least one balloon a year from Antarctica https://www.csbf.nasa.gov/mission.html
Management consulting isn't about providing advice to management. It's about building pretty PowerPoint decks to justify decisions already made.

That said, expanding to take advantage of temporary market opportunities and then contracting when those opportunities isn't bad advice, per se. Probably generates more profits over a more static, restrained path.
I enjoy a good laugh at the expense of management consultants, and I honestly thought that chat GPT really reminded me of their style. But while slide decks are the only tangible thing consultants produce, they represent a very small amount of the value that consultants bring. Until you can get an AI to navigate cutthroat C-level politics, and defend a strategy from attacks by internal factions that trying to undermine any rivals then I don't think AI will be able to do much.
eCommerce growth rates rose dramatically during Covid. Everyone expected those trends to hold. They did not and have reverted to the mean.
The claims are reasonably specific actually[1]

If your robot doesn't have these specific design choices, plus some others, it's not in violation.
* Have a unibody base
* Have an arm that is raised and lowered along a trapezoidal rail by a belt-driven linear actuator
* Have a fisheye camera mounted on the center pole

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US11230000B2/en?oq=11%2c23...
Yes. It's mostly automated review, usually taking a matter of minutes, though I guess Mozilla reserves the right to do manual checks if they find something suspicious.
Interesting. I found most of what was described in this video fairly obvious. The prompt length one was useful non-obvious insight, but the rest of it I think is pretty easy to figure out on your own if you play with ChatGPT for a few evenings. But could certainly see it being useful to chatGPT novices.

I don't doubt that there is value is sharing useful workflows to learn how to write prompts or useful things to add to prompts, but I've seen a lot of people selling a 'list of tuned prompts' as if each was a plug-and-play deployable software stack. I think anyone who tried to actually productize these prompts would find the need to tweak the prompts so much they might as well have started from scratch.

In short, I think there is value in teaching people how to write prompts to custom-fit their needs, but the idea of general purpose couple-paragraph superprompts that mere knowledge of is worth tens of dollars seems fallacious to me.

Disclosure: I've never bought any of these, maybe they are that good. I'm very skeptical though.
An example of this already happening in a way that is transparent to the applications: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/elastic-n...
I think it's complex. The obvious reasons are the covid-19 bump is gone, and all tech stocks are down.

The less obvious reason is that Amazon retail growth doesn't seem to have as much of a long-term due to:

1) Market saturation

2) Declining customer service

3) Fakes, frauds, and cons

... and so on.

A lot of this might have happened due to poorly handling the covid-19 surge. Somehow, whatever made Amazon work before stopped working. It's now been going on for long enough that Amazon is losing reputation, and people (or at least I) am sceptical it can be fixed. Or perhaps it's related to Andy Jassy taking helm.

In either case, a lot of people I know have been trickling away from Amazon. It's not enough to make a dent yet, but it's definitely not growth.
I assume because equity is more than 50% of total comp. Or was.
I'd like a fork of chrome which removes all (or at least most) the "features" mentioned - a browser that renders well but just doesn't support these masses of unsecure features.

If you want to give 3rd parties access to all that stuff, you can run chrome. But I don't - I want the bare minimum that will run normal websites. I know that will break some pages, I'll accept that. (And that would give me a smaller & faster browser.)
Seems like you work in the industry. What do you think about BCG with their Gamma side? How do they compete with as a package?
I wondered the same thing. There's cities changing R1 to R3 or R4, and the infrastructure wasn't stopping them.

On the other hand it might necessitate upgrades if all R1 units are converted to R3, but then you have three times more taxpayers per mile to pay for that infrastructure.
> huge successful social media site

> charged a small monthly fee

These two goals are diametrically opposed. Social media sites only hit critical mass when everyone has free access to them.
Remember that Amazon stock is still up when compared to its pre-pandemic (so early 2020) price. The employees will survive.
Yes please send the money to rest in my account and I'll be sure to forward it to the authors
I don’t think that’s how this works. Amazon doesn’t print money when they give employees stock. They give x% of the company as stock (where x is a really really small number). They might give less or more depending on a number of factors, but buybacks are unrelated to that.
And this is why I welcome “control over” what I can do with my device by my OS vendor. Even though it’s mostly trivial to bypass, it still serves as a good gut check in the rare case where I might skip over my own scruples. 99% of the time if I even get this far I back out because I’ve realized by that point I was being foolishly trusting.
https://archive.ph/Wgxug
your comment pushed me to installing this
If you change the stack at TCP level...

- How many hardware network components would need replacing/upgrading to support a layer not expected to change?

- How many network + application software libraries would need to support parsing at packet level instead of byte level?

- How many OSI diagrams showing that high level byte and string based protocols run above the transport layer need to be re-written to say that's no longer the case.

- How many versions of RPC would need to be supported... just look at the numerous revisions of CORBA/RMI/SOAP(Document or RPC Style!)/REST/GRPC to see how many times you can re-invent (and misinterpret, break standards of) a wheel.

- Look how long IPv6 needed buy in and refinement, and then adoption. That was a necessary change with no alternative too!

There are many applications that shouldn't need TCP, such as those only doing short network hops or needing real time traffic with expected packet loss. They should use UDP but often don't. TCP is ubiquitous for the very reason that it is the chameleon mentioned in the article - TCP is not ideal, but it is convenient and well understood.
It’s like people treating a tax return like they got a bonus. If these things fool someone, they’re likely not managing their finances well, if at all.

On the other hand, life loses a certain spice when the money just disappears into the money pile, serving only to balance the Spreadsheet of Predictability.
Where would I find one of these lossless fabrics?
Amazon does a weird thing where the mix of stock to cash varies by tenure. So, someone might have been at 85% cash 15% stock in year 1, but are now at 50% cash, 50% stock. So they're getting more stock now than in earlier years.
> It wouldn't be a good look to say "hey actually we can't take your project on because we believe a recession is coming".

Why not? I'd trust a consultant who demonstrably trusted their own judgement like that even more, and even if they were wrong on that particular call.

I may have to find a different consultant because that one couldn't take me on, but I'd be more likely to consider checking on them later to see if circumstances have changed enough to bring me in.

(Just to be clear, I'm talking about business consultants generally. Certainly not McKinsey specifically)
As if OpenAI hasn't already thought through this.
Now try actually distributing it.

My guess is this wouldn't even get close to getting through the review process for the Chrome Webstore. From our experience with Streak, this would def get picked up in review.

Seeing other comments in the thread pointing to this article as a reason why MV3 is bad I think misses the point. Personally I think MV3 is a step in the right direction (even though it negatively affects us!). But it's only one piece to make extensions more secure - the others being manual review, policy adjustments and automated scanning. Even though the APIs allow for all sorts of functionality doesn't mean you'll be able to get through the rest of checks.
But can it outsmart a bullet?
Amazon doesn't treat stock compensation the same way other employers do. The messaging has consistently been: if the stock goes up, we won't issue refreshers if your total comp (including elevated stock) is above our pay target for you. But also: if the stock goes down, we will (eventually) issue more stock to put you back into the target pay band.

See this much more detailed comment on how weird it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34889838
If you cannot discriminate on class, the purpose of class is abolished. After the british left, the caste system was outlawed. The constitution was written later to rule out class based discrimination.

I never said it wasn't still practiced. Just that its much more observed outside of the big cities than in it.
In 2020, there were quite a few possibilities, ranging from "it's a flu" to "the new normal."

I think share prices had all of those baked in. "New normal" would have meant the end of retail.

Now that we know where things landed, it's possible to re-adjust.