skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a totally blind software developer who was born in the mid 80's. From my experience and limited discussion with other blind individuals I was born at the beginning of when life became a lot easier as a blind programmer as well as a blind person in general. When I started to learn programming in the early 2000's electronic versions of a decent number of programming books were available. I don't know how I would have learned C from a print copy of the K&R book in the late 80's. By the time I entered college I had GPS to help me get around campus. PRetty much everything but math was also available in fully accessible electronic format. Ten years earlier it would have been a lot more dificult.
> Nobody but the most OCD germophobe is going to have lower productivity because they are sitting in a desk that someone else was in a day before.

maybe, at the end of the day, the cleaning crew does a deep clean of the surfaces etc..
The way I feel about people who choose to work at Meta is how I'm beginning to feel about those coming onboard lately with Google. Strikes me as nothing like the rosy-principled place it set out to be in the 'do no evil' days.
Many years ago, decades actually, I used TextEdit + services shortcuts to filter text through grep, sed, awk. I found even syntax highlighting a distraction.

Then I saw someone using Vim. I was instantly hocked. The sheer speed of everything happening in the screen, I needed to learn that. And so I did and it’s been an amazing ride.

It’s a pain at the beginning, the amount of time I invested in my .vimrc will probably never payoff, mathematically speaking. But the joy and delight you get from using it everyday, the freedom and efficiency is just addictive.

It’s not for everyone, I was raised on the Mac paradigm, where “modes are evil”, so it was a step learning curve. But few programs have brought me this much joy and excitement over the years.
> 50% Indian user

Are you sure? According to Similarweb, most traffic comes from Korea.

https://www.similarweb.com/website/teamblind.com/#traffic
man when I get NSFW ads is the only time I'm NOT mad.
This author doesn’t seem complicated at all, a very basic and common personality type, who always sees “the system” as the problem, never herself.
This is absolutely garbage, and doesn't belong on HN.

From their 'analysis':

"Record profits on petroleum and mining activities (reinforced by a spike in global oil and gas prices following the invasion of Ukraine) led this surge, but the overall corporate sector experienced the most rapid growth in profits of any comparable period in 35 years."

So because of global shortages, commodity prices reached record highs, and companies most of which are price takers benefited from that, is now suddenly corporate greed?

BHP doesn't set the price for Iron Ore, the market does. BP doesn't set the price for Oil or Natural Gas, the market does. When you cut off Russia who are a key supplier of those goods, that creates shortages and causes prices to spike. This means companies which extract those goods will make more money as long as costs remain the same.

Most companies aren't making record breaking profits, their profits are rebounding to pre-COVID levels. Of course they look good compared to COVID times, when demand was suppressed.
My bias is for basic laws of thermodynamics.

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blog/2018/02/story-angus-barbieri...

"The fact of the matter is, people weighed less in the 80s then they do today. "

Because they ate less. Portions were smaller, Food wasn't marketed as much.

"No amount of stretching can change this quantitative measurement."

Self-reported calorie intake is not a reliable quantitative measure.

"You can continue to talk about calories in and calories out just like we can blame the overdose problem on people doing too much heroin."

I really don't understand why you think this statement proves. A heroin overdose IS caused directly by an excess amount of heroin in a given time interval, just like obesity IS caused directly by excessive calories in a given time interval. The time interval for obesity is years instead of hours.

Heroin and obesity are indirectly caused by people getting addicted to the dopamine levels consuming them cause.

You sound a tad like a 9/11 truther insisting on some over complex conspiracy theories to explain something fairly straightforward.
Poor GPU utilization even when available is the rule. Truly amazing. Staging of data is probably a huge part of it.
I like this a lot. Are there plans to be able to create places that persist?
I know it is a bit heartless, but this has a positive side to it.

The current wave of layoffs are coincident with the rise of significantly novel AI algorithms that will create a ton of new opportunities. There are going to be 1000s of AI startups, more than there would have been without these layoffs. If immigration laws force highly skilled developers to return home, then many of those startups will be located outside of the US. This would be good for their home countries, and less so for the US.

A personal tragedy for those who have build up lives here and will see that destroyed in a matter of months, but a net benefit for the rest of the world in the long run. It is things like this that reduce discrepancies between developed and developing nations - whether intentional or not.
About 3 months ago I went full thin-client using similar internal tools. 90+% of my workflow is using terminals and editors that work brilliantly over an SSH tunnel. For the stuff that can't be done on a remote computer (flashing boards, physical hardware), I have a couple scripts that allow me to do that locally. The whole thing has turned out to be less work than the physical tower under my desk.
> Google collects and surveils internet users' conversations on a mass scale without a subpoena, for whatever purpose(s) it chooses, for profit. To Schmidt, and 130,000+ other people on Google's corporate welfare, that's apparently acceptable.

There are 300 million people that live in the United States. Do you think they all agree with the country’s policies with regards to surveillance? How about pretty much any other country?
You forgot about the George Soros funded UN black helicopters and chem trails emitted from airlines for population control.
> lukewarm

I like to think of that as "chugging temperature" or "protein shake temperature".
Visionscarto’s “World Atlas”
How good is it when working from outside the office, on a rate from "painful" to "unusable"?
The world's biggest lake is right next to you!
It’s not a bottleneck for anyone.

Some people just like playing with tools. They do it for loads of reasons, but end of the day it’s basically a hobby tangentially related to software development.

I torment a friend of mine who talks all the time about VIM and their most recent config/workflow. But end of day, he’s happy and having fun while being productive.
I'm (non-confrontationally) curious if you fact checked this before posting, or if it was a quick copy and paste.

Truly: just curious.
Why focus so much on getting into Hollywood?

In my opinion it's the McDonald's of movies. Not particularly good, always the same few usual suspects on the menu, nothing adventurous but mindless consumerism. And a few people get rich off it. It's business, not art. But people use it in masses because it's easy to get and they know what they're getting. Some excellent stuff comes out of there too but it almost feels like an accident sometimes.

If you're really into your art form, I wouldn't even try to get in there. Sure, alternative cinema won't make you rich. But if that's your goal you're in the wrong business anyway. Making it in Hollywood is more about who you know and who you f*k than about your skills.
This is a bit absurd, xi absolutely wouldn't be able to go ahead with purges similar to those of Stalin in 1937, even if he wanted to. He simply doesn't have the authority to do so. The chinese politburo is a much much more complicated beast than the usual stereotype of a powerless puppet of an all powerful dictator, that tons of people in the west seem to think it is.
I was close to this exact situation. I regret it.

I'm assuming your in your 20's. Find a well paying job in an area you want to live in, and moonlight your business. When your business pays more than your day job, decisions and risk calculations are easier to make.

It also forces you to delegate from the get-go since your only have 4 hours "side project" time to work after work. If you're building something big, you will have to work with a team.
If I was more time constrained, I would have probably made more tactical decisions.

If your esports thing works, great! If not, you hedged your risk and you didn't suffer from opportunity cost.

Throw everything I said out the window if you achieved product market fit and are growing at a viral rate.

Ultimately do what trpv said. "Go with your gut"
This comparison never sits right with me because no one I know has ever bought coffee out every day. Everyone I know makes coffee with a machine, French press, aeropress, moka pot, or pour over at home. So an espresso machine is more expensive period.
Yeah I don't expect that to last very long. Once it is discovered you can have an AI army that will tear apart any human force like tissue paper, AI will be classified and regulated as a WMD. They'll amend the Constitution if they have to, or get SCOTUS to do it for them.
They created big brother. Creation turns on it's creator.
As Carl Schmitt wrote in 1922, "Sovereign is he who decides on the exception." Schmitt is somewhat out of favor, but his protege Leo Strauss basically created the times we now suffer.
> While often overstated, it is undeniably more efficient... once you've learnt it.

And on this note, I'd recommend not jumping in and trying to learn everything. Too easy to get overwhelmed.

Start with the bare basics and treat it like nano with syntax highlighting, then start learning and getting used to its broader functionality in small bursts.
This is awesome — I originally misread it as an implementation of Redis that stores data in Postgres (which IMO should exist), but I guess it’s half there
She's had more therapists than I've had partners.
Might be 50% of users in America is of Indian origin (H1-B Visa).
Google has been getting steadily stingier with personal space for a long time. My last job there was at Crittenden, and the desks were next to each other with no dividers whatsoever. That was the worst of my twelve or so locations, by far. But this really takes the prize.

Personal story: in the 1980's I had about a half hour interview with Eric Schmidt, at Sun (yes, that Eric Schmidt). The one thing I remember is, he said that if you looked at the cost for private offices vs. cubicles, they were about the same, and that must be the case because the market will equilibrate. This was at a time when private offices still existed.

I don't think Google's Real Estate division got the message.
Comment from the author of the Leaflet[0]:

> So nice to see a sane, well explained approach to geographic boundaries — thank you @recifs! And a reminder to never ever use Natural Earth default boundaries, which don’t make any sense, promote Russian aggression and have no use in civilized society.[1]

[0] https://leafletjs.com/

[1] https://twitter.com/mourner/status/1628342188823179266
As someone who had an H1 for a brief period myself, I think two changes can fix the whole problem:

1) Allow H1 holders to switch jobs to ANY qualifying company any time after 3 months and be legally ok as long as they work at same or higher pay until the visa expires. This will prevent companies abusing visa holders. But now we get companies who sell H1 visas. So to avoid that…

2) Sort job titles (categories) by descending salary (adjusted for location) and pick the top N qualified petitions. No more race to the bottom.

Now it doesn’t matter if candidate is from CERN or fake-IIT. If a company is willing to pay above market rate even if the candidate can leave in 3 months, they are admitting that this job is not easy to fill locally - basically aligned with the spirit of the visa.
No, this is what the legal team would say when people asked them why they instituted a short retention policy and they didn’t want to say “we keep having crimes show up when people do discovery against us”. This would also result in an attempt to reduce the amount of content needed to search through during discovery.
Online dating may make women more vain and entitled. It’s still her responsibility to recognize that bias and work against it. If she truly wants a partner, at least. Otherwise it’s hard to have sympathy for someone inundated with choice who has rejected people for liking Starbucks and Marvel movies. Especially when she herself has been divorced twice and already has kids. She isn’t exactly a prime fruit, but she seems to expect a perfect man in return. If she had some empathy, gratitude, tolerance, and non-judgement, I’m sure many of those 100+ men would have been great partners.
Playing the devil's advocate: How would the older guys know that their work didn't matter?

My personal experience: 2001 I got assigned to an internal project to keep me busy. When planning and getting feedback from the internal stakeholders I realized that they weren't interested in the project. I slacked off, because there was nothing else to do. I got laid off six months later.
> Internal to Google, if you want to blow your whole leg off and disrupt your career by deleting some critical info, that's on you.

They should consistently apply the deletion policy, in fact, they should go even further and do what governments do to their own sensitive information: keep a deletion log that stores item IDs, authors and content types (but not the contents) that had been deleted along with the initiator and the date of deletion and the IP address of the machine that received the deletion. Something at Google's scale deserves ğovernment-level scrutiny.
> Also, it seems arbitrary that OTR chat should be recorded but hallway conversations and phonecalls are ok to delete…

If you regularly create records of conversations and phone calls, evidence preservation rules apply to those records as well; you cannot delete them, either.

The fact that no records are usually made in the first place and that the only evidence of the content of such conversations is witness testimony not records means that evidence preservations laws don’t apply (but if you tamper with the witnesses, that is a fairly serious offense.)
Ableist because I didn't factor in that adjusting a chair is a horrific injustice? Can we just agree that that is ridiculous and absurd and comically dramatic?

The ADA legally mandates that accommodations be made for people that need them and if you're not in that category you're being ridiculous and if you are this doesn't even apply to you.
I'll take any change over usurping Iowa (though IMO New Hampshire actually functions quite well historically as the first primary based on my recollections, I think the worst that happens is that a small state gets good roads), but going small population to large population kinda still "discriminates" against large urban centers.

I think an established rotation would be better, and at least a medium sized state rotating in the "first wave".
Large language models will change programming a lot
H1Bs are time limited (6 years). And converting them to Green Card is VERY expensive.
> if you looked at the cost for private offices vs. cubicles, they were about the same, and that must be the case because the market will equilibrate

... How? That is, through what mechanism?
You left off #5 :

5. In the modern world, technology (dating apps, ML/AI-assisted image enhancement shifting expectations of average attractiveness, and the destruction of socialization by TikTok/Insta/Snap) has rendered a significant portion of the male population undateable/unmatchable. This has tipped the scales largely in favor of the men in the desirable pool, as more women compete over that narrowing set. Purists may call this some sort of extreme Darwinism. The end result will be at least a generation or two of outsized suffering for males in the middle of the bell curve.
Ask HN: Which Android Phone is the least bloated and the most “free”?
This is not the way to solve your problems, this post does not help, you just whinging, you just manage to upset the people involved
Religion? You'll have to do better than that.

Meanwhile, what's your take on the historical fact that gold rushes (when money was backed by gold) resulted in inflation?

What's your take on the fact that the US had net zero inflation from 1800 to 1914, and endemic inflation ever since (except for a brief period during the Depression)?

And why are oil price hikes always blamed for inflation, but when oil prices fall there's no deflation?

Let's face it. Inflation is the result of the Fed policy of "spend all you want - we'll just print more!"
I’ve literally never had issues. So like 9/10. Works perfectly when on coffee shop wifi. Google tooling works perfectly with it.
Is there specific government meeting or record you have in mind, that legally should have been public, but isn't?

Generally we have enough proof of politicians doing/saying deplorable things. We don't have enough voters punishing their politicians for misbehaviour.
It is possible to nuke the "use Chrome" and similar nags via uMatrix or a CSS stylesheet manager, by selecting and removing / setting "display: none !important" the specific elements.

Not that the behaviour isn't Annoying As Eff and anticompetitive to boot.
I hate political stuff.

I used to like arstechnica but it's degraded into what I am complaining about. The title of the article implies that people are crammed in desks next to each other by being purposefully vague.
What's the audio latency? I've found remote desktop to be a bad experience as a blind developer. At a prior job we used thin clients which had decent audio performance from my desk in the office. Once Covid hit and we had to connect from home audio latency was awful and it took me an act of god to get a corporate provided laptop.
you described the work environment at pretty much any Fortune 500 company (tech or not)
No doubt. All of my customers moved to the cloud a long time ago. Without exception they either paid some outside company to do it and now can’t get support, or they had one of their own people who doesn’t know enough about it set it up. Cloud infrastructure generates problems faster than npm.
Just for fun, below is taken verbatim from Google's Memo in Support of its Motion to Transfer Venue filed earlier this week in the latest antitrust case in the Eastern District of Virginia. After reading, take the quiz.

Google's lawyers first began anticipating litigation in

(a) 2020

(b) 2021

(c) 2022

(d) 2023

(e) none of the above.

"In September 2019, the attorneys general of forty-eight States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico announced an investigation into Googles ad tech business, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.1 At the same time, the DOJ opened its own antitrust investigation into Googles ad tech business.2 In October 2019, the DOJ issued a Civil Investigative Demand to Google calling for production of documents relating to Googles ad tech business, along with a host of other topics. These two investigations of the same Google ad tech business proceeded in parallel. The DOJ and Texas both made expansive requests for production of documents concerning Googles ad tech."

1 See Harper Neidig, 50 attorneys general launch antitrust investigation into Google, The Hill (Sept. 9, 2019),

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/460550-states-launch-antitrustinvestigation-into-google/.

2 Sara Forden & David McLaughlin, DOJ Scrutinizes Google Advertising, Search in Antitrust Probe, Bloomberg Law (Aug. 8, 2019),

https://www.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberglawnews/antitrust/XF6V15CS000000.

Source: https://ia601604.us.archive.org/11/items/gov.uscourts.vaed.5...
It's backed by collateral.

And when the loan is paid back, the money is destroyed.

Note that when the Fed borrows money, it is not backed by anything but the promise to borrow even more money to pay it back. Hence, inflation.
Twitter has been sued by at least 6 companies for failing to pay bills
The power of stream deck is that some of the plugins are more advanced. Recreating these with hammerspoon or auto hotkeys can be difficult for some of them. For example, exiting Zoom calls.

Having said that I use my steam deck on my Mac to play audio and exit from zoom calls. On windows I had a bunch of scripts to launch tools that required multiple steps.
The owner / founder likes to kill elephants.

Not a company I’d like to support.
> He always preferred to emphasize that everyone has abilities, and we should see what people have, not what they don’t have," Schroeder said. "He never felt he’d been shortchanged or cheated or anything. He was never bitter or resentful about his condition."

Boyer is an inspiration to me, and hopefully to all of humanity.
Old-School Solid Axles Still Have a Future in Electric HD Pickup Trucks
you make a point about offshored labor. But idea that H1-B talent comes cheaper is completely wrong.
They are providing scrutiny and criticism of your position. Specifically that you might be in a privileged position where you are unlikely to see the negative effects of casteism. While it is meaningful to say that you don't see it, it's not meaningful in the way you intend it. It's demonstrating the problem that this is trying to solve.

I'm a White person from Utah. Saying that I don't see Racism is missing the point. Of course I don't see Racism, it's well hidden from me as a part of my culture. And above and beyond that the Racism I do see is actually the hiding of clear discrimination such that it is invisible to me.

The first step to solving a problem is admitting you have a problem.

Unfortunately, criticism/scrutiny on the internet is not always nicely couched. So people will be direct like this commenter was.
Google pays for Firefox's livelihood to prevent anti-trust coming for Google Chrome.

Google does not care about Firefox's market share. Google only cares that there is an appearance of competition in the browser market.
Now tell me, what’s the expected value of a 1% chance of a 100x return?
True. Still never made the connection.
The part where he summarizes the “Soviet Outlook” is interesting.

I was just reading a book about Soviet foreign policy in Eastern Europe post WWII. Keenan is very wrong.

Stalin was hurting. The USSR was recovering from WWII and didn’t want a costly occupation or aggressive expansion.

The main goal was to create a large number of buffer zones with the west. Austria, Finland, etc.

The policy failed with the creation of a hard border in Germany.

But Stalin was more than willing to tolerate liberal democratic parties in East Germany if it meant a less costly occupation.
Last time I was writing mail client code was around 2004-2005 and even around that time every large IMAP provider (AOL, Yahoo, …) had UID support.
What is the release status of WebGPU? Seems like it changes so fast that browser support , i.e. Firefox nightly for example, is spotty.
What could this balloon collect that any regular jet couldn't? I don't think the government is transmitting secrets over such a wide open medium. Anything broadcast over radio should be assumed to be public knowledge.
> superior method to MCMC

Superior in what ways?

I could imagine simplicity for many problems. Roughly "here, replace your complex simulation with this magic function approximator". But for problems where you're calculating a physical quantity with a true answer, I don't see NNs being "much superior".
I disagree. Mistakes in software like this can affect large numbers of people. It is as important to learn about the source of these mistakes (our own ego) as it is to learn about other bug sources, such as buffer overruns and use–after–free mistakes that so commonly afflict code written in C.