skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At what point do high wage earners decide enough is enough and move to Florida or Texas?

Middle class people probably get a better deal moving to Florida/Texas. High Net Worth Individuals are too rich for it to matter.

But regular old high income people (LOL) are unlikely to save any money moving to Florida/Texas if they are looking to maintain the same lifestyle.

Nice places in those states have become really expensive, and there are all sorts of other costs that people don’t always look at (like insurance, for example). In Florida, especially, you won’t know what your property taxes are until after you buy the house - except that you know that they’ll be much higher than the current taxes.
I'm not the OP, but the slap on the wrist punishment seems appropriate for the violation. See VLM's comment about the form in question, for example, but the summary of events is basically:

SEC: Hey, the way you're filing those forms looks sneaky, don't do that.

church: k
So? I thought they were already in despair because the Feds made their sugar daddy move back in with his parents.

However, Eliezer Yudkowsky has a personal reason to despair because ChatGPT is 100x the bullshitter he will ever be. (I'm not sure if Yudkowsky is meaner or not than the last version of the Bing chatbot though)
Wow, this is amazing. I never knew the park around where I live has such a variety of trees. Another excuse to go for a walk.
Usually bad unit economics. The whole "make losses now to jack up prices later" thing does not work in reality. Usually the whole market just gets poisoned and the only way out is to leave richer investors holding the bag
But that makes the room twice as stuffy.
Sorry, I meant "Speak to the world" as precisely "describe the world". As in, "the countries stringent laws speaks to its cultural values" or "his eloquence speaks to his strong reading ability."

And yes, my point was to try to show that something seemingly trivial in fact shows something implicit about the way we think. That is the form of my assertion. I don't really think we are disagreeing about anything, but philosophy is definitely not for everyone! Only really for the worst kinds of people in my experience ;)
Especially if they were hired with remote in their original agreement. Changing the location of work would necessitate some additional consideration and a new agreement.
FAANG total comp is higher, but I think I've made way more money/hour off working remotely than I ever would have if I stayed at FAANG [1]. So while I have less total money, I have made the money I made way more efficiently. Which in some ways, makes me richer :)

I sometimes have to remind myself that this level of leisure is basically what "traditional retirement" looks like (but with like a quarter-mil/year income + benefits) and that gives me get a sense of perspective when I'm feeling stressed.

[1] A key thing that makes this true is that commute + forced office time is like 3-4x the active working time I average working from home. So it's not hard to beat the Amazon 400k total comp quote when weighted against hours - I honestly beat that at my first remote gig years ago as a relatively junior dev! And I have the same engineering output more or less.
It was and is about user traffic, not employees. WMF was at least implied to be one of the specific targets, because NSA had the Wikipedia logo on some slides about this program which were leaked by Snowden. Also, there was research showing the "chilling effect" - controversial articles saw less traffic in the wake of said leaks.
Contractor total comp is a lot higher than salary. I don't see anyone talking about the glamour and prestige, just the uncertainty and overhead. Companies that don't offer it 100% will be seen as "gig" equivalent. Cheap, manipulative, gross sweat shops.
It's the hive mind.
The problem is that the EPA has no credibility. They demonstrably lied after 9/11 about the air quality in Manhattan. Maybe you could say that it was a necessary lie to encourage people to clean up, join the rescue effort, get back to work, etc. But now why should I trust the EPA to not lie about Palestine? All of the same arguments for a good lie apply. The people in charge today are only going to worry about the immediate short term risk, and definitely will not care about long term risk- by the time you get cancer, they will have been long out of power.
They're just citing their source LOL!
None of my team is in the same state as me. In fact I haven't interacted with anyone based in my state so far.
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> What issues does the "tech subculture" not really pay attention to that could actually be far more significant?

Here’s one. They heard a case Moore v Harper that tests independent state legislature theory. Should state legislatures be allowed complete control over electors? Depending on how they rule, you’ll either never hear about it again or it will own the news cycle for a month.
Which forms do I need to fill out to axe my sibling?
I don’t think anything was broken with this MacBook. It was the 13” one and I had to run docker which just made it hot all the time. Now I do an even heavier load on the 13” m1 and the thing is cold while being so much faster.
Isn't that what ext filesystems on Linux do? IIRC the reserved portion is 5% which can be dropped if you need some headroom.
> What did we build exactly?

A shared workspace with centrally located and maintained resources. This allows for greater overall efficiency but allows the organization as a whole to quickly dedicate resources to new and emergent problems. In theory this should save money and allow the company to successfully capture and serve more business.

> None of these is the "right" model.

There is no "right" model. Everything is a question of compromises. Work from home has some employee benefits, but has higher direct and abstract costs for the employer.

> And WFH is where we have reached for now.

This is understandable, companies have not been particularly cognizant of sharing the rewards of the above configuration with their employees. To me, though, this seems like an opportunity wasted to correct this.
Disclaimer: I used to work for AWS ML

Buried in the press release is the announcement that there will be a push to bring up models on the AWS Trainium accelerator.

In the name of "ML democratization" this agreement could help shift tides away from the Nvidia HW + SW monopoly. Amazon (trn1) and Google (TPU) are little guys compared to Nvidia.

The book may already be written.
Pytorch is heavily biased towards libraries that are customized for cuda/Nvidia (see FSDP). This leaves the other HW folks playing SW catch-up, with everyone rallying behind the open source XLA compiler.

It's too bad the press release didn't touch on these points and used cliche rhetoric instead.
And this is where I disagree. The inability to execute on a good idea doesn’t mean that the idea creator isn’t the best person to shape the idea. The idea may be more than a one sentence pitch and instead an entire vision.

The one sentence summary of the idea may be a dime a dozen, but that’s only because the listener is discounting the rest of the idea as not having any value, or that the one sentence pitch is a common idea, and the rest of the vision is unique and special.

The team needs to be able to execute, not the individual. If an idea person is both good at creating a succession of ideas and discarding bad ideas, why shouldn’t that a) have worth and b) be respected enough that they are compensated for their talent. Don’t do for free…

I have a good 10+ fairly complex product ideas, that I don’t see envisioned elsewhere. If they are a dime a dozen, why don’t I see other people coming up with them? Are they bad ideas or are they unique ideas that maybe are special. Maybe we will never know. Maybe everyone who doesn’t have ideas wants to convince others their ideas are worthless so they give up and share them.
Microsoft and Nvidia Announce Expansive New Gaming Deal
It'll be the most appropriate to write it using ChatGPT/NAI/etc.
Count the number of management layers and the percent of MBAs in roles managing non-analysts. That tells you everything you need to know.

You can abstract away from FAANG and generally observe that companies with "professional manager culture" have less work from home, while companies with "founder culture" or "SME culture" have more remote/hybrid work.

You see this even in "never were work from home" fields like Medicine -- plenty of MDs I know will be WFH doing zoom apts for more days/week than SWEs at Amazon, which is kind of hilarious.
This is basically how I started WFH before the pandemic necessitated it

The doors know I haven't been there in X months, but nobody in my distributed org cares to look
Other comments. You can also use docker-swarm with just a single master node.
Yes, but at FAANG scale, it's near impossible to have all the people in a meeting located in the same place. Apple might have been the company that held out the longest, but even they have now officially gone multi-site for their engineering (And de facto, even when most people were in Cupertino, meetings could still sometimes involve impracticable amounts of travel to be held physically).
We use a combination of our own language models + OpenAI.
The difficulty is that questions that solicit opinion based answers often become unnaturally popular and difficult to moderate.

Consider https://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorit... and the "is another answer going to be useful?" Or https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-...

The "no opinion based questions" is a clear line that can be drawn (rather than other squiggly lines that are more difficult) that reduces the overall moderation workload.

You'll note that https://mathoverflow.net allows such questions - but they have many fewer questions per day and a much higher percent of the userbase performs moderation actions. This means that you can allow for that additional workload (which is a few questions rather than hundreds or thousands) to be spread across a larger part of the site's users.

If you want Stack Overflow to allow such questions, then get 1% of the user base to close questions that should be closed every day so that the moderation tasks on them don't get too heavy on too small a group of people who would eventually say "we're not carefully moderating this anymore and instead not allowing those questions at all."
Wilson's 3D-printed basketball is full of holes but never goes flat
Alternate publications:

https://apnews.com/article/business-d114ef8be69e1665fd22c395...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/4-day-work-week-trial-yie...

Related story:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230220-is-a-4-day-workw...
Poor content, canceled.
Where was it hosted? And was there not a "block" button?
Hard to believe that 100% of the teams have members that live all in the same city. In all the companies I’ve worked for that wasn’t the case (and I have worked for small and medium size ones )
Dude, I live in Springville. We had a regional conference in which a GA explicitly told people that not getting what you wanted in an election was not grounds for insurrection. You'll forgive me for believing that my neighbors strongly believe otherwise.
Smaller salary to be able to live in much cheaper cities where your general quality of life will also be massively improved?

Sounds like a win-win to me. Especially considering that the decrease in cost of living probably far surpasses de decrease in salary.
> If this is fair and legal, why not have Google do the same things?

Google has never injected an ad from what I know, but they’re bad actors too.

- They push chrome when using Google via Edge

- If you login from Edge or IE the security warning email includes a huge ad for Chrome, or at least it did.

- On iOS they refuse to let you simply open links from YouTube in safari. They always prompt about what browser you want to use and ignore the default. The prompt is obnoxious, designed to make you misclick, and the app never remembers your choice.
Unless the sentence starts with ‘Don’t.’
I would very much prefer to live in a world with a single state, provided it is a democracy. The current international system is clearly inferior as a means of providing universal well-being than a world government would be. In fact, i don’t see a way to get universal human rights without a global government. Believing such a thing to be impossible or undesirable comes across to me as giving up on the concept of universal human rights.
I think it is just a generic ‘no necromancy’ policy that a lot of forums have to stop people from dredging up old stuff constantly. However, if you want l to discuss that topic, maybe you could start a new thread and link the old one ?
Yes, let’s trivialize people’s very real commutes with your made up number, cmon, I’m sure you’ve got more
Ask, and ye shall receive:

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34722910

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34887968
TLS is worthless if they control the software that is rendering the website after it's decrypted. And, well, they do control Edge.
So Google advertising their own products on their own website means we shouldn't be complaining about Microsoft injecting ads when viewing competitor websites? And as users, we have to wait for Google to stop advertising on their own websites before having the prerogative to complain about Microsoft using their browser to inject ads?
I think the paradigm is called “use a ton of javascript to do something really simple”
Getting the occasional Lyft/Uber is a heck of a lot cheaper than buying a second (or third) car. Even for working class families.

Taking one twice a day, of course, not so much.
Checkout "INFINITE ODYSSEY MAGAZINE" which is only AI-generated art. I'll use the term "art" here because there must be some human skill involved. Personally I'm not able to get results as good as theirs when I use these tools. There are some really cool image series they've put out.

https://www.infiniteodyssey.net/
I don't think it went "just fine". It looked like companies were doing well because we were in a bubble market.

I definitely feel, and observe, a noticeable decrease in productivity and speed of execution compared to where my org was a few years ago. I know others have noticed it too, including management.

On top of all that, companies are expected to run leaner than before because now that the bubble is over, apparently everyone remembered that having a sane balance sheet and making a profit are things that matter. So now we want per-worker productivity to increase because we can't hire as many people.

The basic social contract of work has not changed. Tech workers have better pay and benefits than almost anyone else, and we should not be whiny about this. Most workers in other fields had to return to the office too.
Because Google owns the browser and can render whatever they want onto your screen.
Usual counterpoint is that you're not being paid just for the things you get done, but also for availability - for being there when there's a need to handle something unexpected. This has real value to a business, so you being available for 80% of the time justifies some degree of pay cut.
Yes, but for a brief period of time it felt like most people saw this as a weakness humanity was in the process of overcoming.

What is sad is that several communities (not just SO by any means) discovered ways to rebrand this ancient vice into a modern virtue.

To be fair to SO, I believe they have made enormous progress in the last several years. They've been making pragmatic compromises away from their early idealism in favor of the messy business of being a healthy community.

I really enjoy the StackExchange sites these days (for the most part).
Thanks will take a look at.
I got "SIM swapped" on a T-Mobile number even though my account had 2FA protection on it.

A T-Mobile customer service in another country rep literally gave my number to a hacker because they asked for it.

I suspect that many of these numbers are SIM swapped.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam
No love for Atari/ATASCII art?
It’s another layoff really. Just less expensive. Some people will leave for whatever reason. Then, when the cycle completes Amazon will go full RTO. I’m betting it will happen by the start of Q4.
> "Want to talk collaboration and productivity? Let's see if a company bans zoom for office days (but none will)"

This wouldn't even be practicable - pretty much every BigTech company has offices spread all over the country, if not the world, and the odds are you work day-to-day with someone who sits nowhere near you.

If you are forced to come in and you weren't allowed teleconferencing, you'd literally get nothing done.

The idea that you can staff whole teams of people (and their dependencies!) in a way that they're all guaranteed to sit within a short walk of each other is straight-up madness. Beyond a certain scale this is quite impossible.

Heck, even in the same city this isn't practicable. When I worked at Google we frequently had teams and their dependencies spread across building all over campus. Even if everyone involved sat in Mountain View, in an office, you still can't get away from teleconferencing since it takes half an hour for someone to commute from their building to yours!
> Parents can monitor a child’s every move through an app.

I cannot imagine anything that would be more likely to train an entire generation to simply leave their phone at home.
Congrats on unplugging and recovering your health which I think is severely overlooked until it is too late. Heres to it only getting better now. Now I may not have the most palatable news. Il preface this by saying it is not even fair and you don't deserve this roll of the dice that is shortsightedness by employers and the current market conditions.

Firstly what is your financial situation (eg buffer, health insurance, expenses etc). Il assume (and pray) that you are financially unencumbered if you were able to take time off to take care of yourself.

Now to the 4 points-

1. Leetcode and side projects. Good news is these are actually opposite. Companies that value one generally don't care about the other. So depending on your preference of companies and areas of passion you can see which to focus on. If time is not of the essence I'd suggest focussing on networking (say 10-20% or your time) to see what areas are hot, intersect with your passion and build something to get your brand and visibility on.

2. Short stints are hard to manage but assume you are managing to get calls to talk to a real person (recruiter, manager etc) be upfront and show how you grew in the 4 year break. Imo a resume can only tell so much. You can show a much better picture. Show what you learnt and what enlightenment you attained so that your next stint will be a huge killer! Doing (1) above well can come really handy.

3. So the kind of roles you used to do (some backend, some net admin) may not be much of the thing these days (at least in tech and startups?). So a bit of learning will be needed. Here is where #1 and investment is needed (depending on your urgency). Without this upskilling or learning or showing what you are passionate about (with artifacts) your ability to #2 is going to be weak.

4. Yes market timing sucks and is largely out of your control.

So it comes down to what is your urgency and in the best case scenario if you had say 6 months what are you willing to commit to?
Yes to all.
I think the ads we run on https://officesnapshots.com are good quality (we sell and host them).

We have traditional banners as well as micro ads where we highlight and link to the specific products found in the office design project photos we publish. The latter are very helpful for designers in the industry as they are 100% contextual.
Do you mind me asking if you're under 30yrs old?
Everyone I work with barr one person lives in a different country, and it would be impossible (for visa reasons, mainly) for us to move to one place. So if I was in an office, I'd still be videoconferencing as much as ever.
Couldn't help think of this[0]: the idea that chatgpt and other such breakthroughs might help us hit escape velocity from bullshit jobs.

[0] https://thezvi.substack.com/p/escape-velocity-from-bullshit-...
When was a mathematician, I worked as hard as I could until I was mentally exhausted. I actually calculated how much I worked per week over a period of two years.

On actual "hard thinking", like working through logic, I spent about 7 hours. There was another 7 hours writing and clarifying topics, and another 6 hours or so on classes, seminars (sort of like meetings, but productive). That gives a total of 20 hours per week on work. Beyond that, I was not productive and so I didn't do any math-related work.

If you add the administrative overhead of a job, that might be another 5 hours at most, so about 3 full workdays. I think if you are truly just doing productive, meaningful technical work, beyond 3 full days most people can't do it. People can do it for short periods of time, but more than 3 days leads to universal burnout.

Now, I'm just talking about mentally demanding, technical work. I can work longer if the work isn't very mentally demanding, but even so, not for more than 4-5 hours a day. And now I'm an independent content creator, so every additional hour I work is proportional to profit.

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, especially when it comes to fostering people in the long-term (short term is different).

I feel 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.
Yes it can! That's pretty much the only way it works. The `moon run` command will only run if affected by changed files, and `moon ci` will only run affected tasks/projects in CI pipelines.
I don't know of you are making a judgement there but I think it's important to point out that there is practically no useful way of measuring performance in our industry; it's not a company problem.

Some of the most useful employees I've met probably produced less than the most junior developer in tangible assets.
What do you think of having it completely voluntary to RTO?
In Steve Sanderson's video showing off the prototype (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48G_CEGXZZM) he mentions around the 2min 15s mark that SSR has no websockets/SignalR or even JS required. From what I could gather, websockets will kick in when an interactive blazor component needs it. And there will be the option start downloading the WASM/DLLs in the background. When WASM is ready your app will switch from websockets to WASM. Hopefully that switch will be 'live', but in the demo it looked like a page refresh was required
>The existence of warrantless wiretapping

If only FISA required warrants, ohh wait!
And that ultimately is what WFH is all about.

These companies have generous vacation policies and health insurance benefits not for reasons of productivity, but because that's part of what it takes to attract talented workers. People love to argue about WFH for reasons of productivity, but in the end that flexibility is another benefit that these companies may start to compete on.
In Amazon's case, it might not be theater.

Amazon owns around a dozen skyscrapers in downtown Seattle. Amazon has a massive number of employees in downtown Seattle, and whether those people are downtown or not makes a significant difference to the real estate values in downtown Seattle. Making their employees come into the office may in fact mean a significant financial reward to Amazon, but not because the employees are doing better work.

Also, Andrew Jassy specifically has a number of personal financial interests in the Seattle area, including the local hockey team and the nearby Key Arena. Keeping downtown expensive and full of people is in his personal interests.