skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of all I've been warning people that once you've proved the job can be done remotely, it can be done very remotely.

I disagree with that perspective. I've been remote since 2014. "Life happened" and I had to move.

When I moved in 2014, I kept my job but became remote. It worked out great for the company, too. We hired overseas. The office was West Coast and I was East Coast. I had overlap with the overseas timezones, the office didn't. I bridged a lot of communication gaps and cultural issues.

(It also helped that I had a lot of domain knowledge that was hard to replace.)

Ultimately the product finished its market window. It's becoming obsolete. I could blame "outsourcing" for why I lost my job, but that's a cop-out. I saw what our competitors were doing, and where they were beating us. I don't think the owners wanted to "keep fighting." I'm glad I got out when I did.

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In my new role, we meet on camera everyday and have live communication. Our sales are in the US. It wouldn't work if we were outside the US.

We need to set a wide net for talent, but we also need some on-site work because we have physical things that we need to be in a place in order to manipulate. Tech isn't just in cyberspace.

So we have a mix of on-site and remote.

It's great for me, because "life happened" and I'm married, have a family, and can't move whenever my employer changes. It's great for my employer because they can cast a wide net. And because we need to "have things" and "touch stuff," our jobs aren't about to be outsourced overnight.

I also suspect that "life will happen" with everyone I work with, and our flexibility allows everyone to keep working together.

> Most of all I've been warning people that once you've proved the job can be done remotely, it can be done very remotely.

A lot of tech involves automating yourself out of a job. It's just frustrating when people don't understand that. It's hard to collect rent in technology development because someone will make you obsolete or undercut you.
very curious about the little 'semantic model' at the bottom of the brain. does anyone know how that gets constructed and how it gets fed into the results?
> starting to feel that the system is incredibly flawed

It is! To this day the vast profits in tech are generated by (c)opywrong laws, which make no sense, and are downright evil—because poor kids get access to crap information even though we have the technology to get humanity's best information to everyone. There are some people that have exploited these bad laws, like BG (see his 1976 letter^1) and have made vast fortunes. For a moment it looked like Google would be different, but then no, they too opted for profits over doing the right thing, and the web is getting worse.

No one is connecting the dots, or rather—people in tech and the media industries can connect the dots but mentally don't want to face the truth: the vast profits are from dishonest laws, not from some magic value creation.

We need to get rid of these bad laws and make money the honest way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
>This is after they announced a separate release of non-bowdlerized versions.

That's not clear. The person quoted as having it happen to them posted that it happened the same day as the announcement of the non-bowdlerized versions, and the linked article was also published that day.
“I retired from modelling a long time ago. It’s time I retired from tech, too. We can make a simple change today that creates a lasting change for tomorrow. Let’s commit to losing me.”[1]

Being proud of her work doesn't mean she thinks people should have to see it in their work.

[1] https://www.thedrum.com/news/2019/11/19/gender-equality-ad-c...
What on earth do you mean by 1kw of fuel rod? Your quantifications make no sense and cite no sources. You're going to need to be more specific than "read the latest reports"; this report (https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Technical-P...) from 2021 for example makes it very clear that copper is not a trivial concern for renewables at all. If you have serious evidence for your unclear and uncited claims of "how much is actually needed", then go right ahead. none of your other numbers are cited either; your assumption of 1kg for lithium battery looks like you just made it up on the spot the way you did with your bizarre earlier falsehood about how much copper a nuclear reactor consumes--and a transition to a renewable-centric energy system will require significant battery storage capacity, so it's not a question that can just be dismissed.

A fuel rod assembly with 500kg of uranium produces about 200,000,000 kwH over its lifetime (https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazi...), which comes out to 400k kw per kilogram of uranium, or 400 kw per gram. The amount of rare earths in each solar panel may be relatively low, but it also uses a significant amount of silicon, which as a metalloid has to be mined. Beyond that, none of this even addresses the differences in intensity of production; because nuclear produces its lifetime energy much more quickly than a solar panel does, the relative density of solar that you need in order to provide a comparable level of power over time is considerably unbalanced.

"Again. Compare for me the volume of the tailings pit of a typical open pit uranium mine like Husab with the volume of every solar panel ever produced. A few hundred grams of metal encased in glass for an entire lifetime of energy is not 'significant waste'."
I'm at a loss for how to explain to you that this a fallacy on your part. I'm talking about waste production, and you're trying to compare apples to oranges by bringing up uranium mines instead of comparing waste production of the different methods. That you're so intent on repeating this obvious fallacy suggests to me that it's the best you can do. I'd like to say it doesn't matter, but the anti-rational fanaticism of green energy cultists is going to push the world off a cliff.
Neglecting to give consideration to the reasons for these limitations is a sign that you might have some low hanging fruit to pick off the ethical and morality trees of knowledge.
It's a job like any other, so go to the school's careers page and find the listing for a job you're qualified for, and apply.
In my experience, the "goals" you hit are really capabilities. Can you design bigger systems? Can you lead bigger teams? Can you define winning strategy?

Those aren't artificial milestones, they are real things (eg, you'd need them if you ran your own company) and growing from someone who "can't" to someone who "can" is exhilarating.
Productivity is the only way wealth is created. From 99% employed farming to 1% employed farming, but using technology to make this possible. This is why we have wealth - we can all get more of our needs fulfilled, because fulfilling those needs requires less inputs (labor, time, physical elements).

This is such a fundamental and all-encompassing truth it is sad more people never grasp it.

Capitalism is but one way to organize people to improve technology (in the abstract, not the Silicon Valley meaning). Capitalism harnesses a very powerful component of human nature - one’s primary desire towards one’s own needs and pleasure - and uses that to drive technological progress.

I have yet to see any other type of human organization that is more effective than this system for driving technological progress (and thus human flourishing).
I could use this advice too. I love programming; it was a teen hobby prior to making a career out of it. I inherited some elements of my old man's work ethic ("If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right", "Do it right the first time", etc) which I think are, at best, a low priority, and at worst, incompatible with the way software is built in the majority of software gigs. Value first, quality ..maybe.

So I'm attempting to reconcile the reality of modern, corporate software development with the way I derive satisfaction/meaning from my career. Boiled down, my naivete about our relationship with work, which is undoubtedly encouraged and exploited by society, has started to wane, and now I'm trying to uncouple how I get meaning/satisfaction from how I get money.

New years resolutions aren't for me but this year I tried to start loosely viewing things in my life like investments, specifically in terms of ROI. It's more of a reminder of how to think than a spreadsheet. I imagine myself as having an 'energy' budget. Sometimes I spend some energy and I get some back; other times I get nothing in return. As far as my career goes, I need to spend X to get my pay check, which eventually converts to energy. Sometimes I spend X+Y, hoping I get something more, like recognition/education/satisfaction. Sometimes that Y is engaging in a debate in peer review. Sometimes it's trying to anticipate one's manager or "showing initiative". The important thing is to track Y and if there's no return, mark that as a bad investment to be avoided in future. I burned out a couple of years ago because I was spending Y like mad with zero regard for the ROI, or at least with the vague expectation there would be some ROI one day.

Obviously this is not novel, or even a good analogy ("all models wrong; some useful"), but this framing is a (potentially) temporary way to adjust my thinking and behaviour from the brainwashed, single-minded, career-focused, please-notice-me-ceo-daddy track I started out in after school/uni.
The correction came after my comments. You could see that in the timestamps of my comments vs the correction.

So stop spreading misinformation about my misinformation.

Edit:

Yeah it wasn't misinformation:

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-acquires-iconic-ro...

The article posted we are commenting on explicitly states RDSC authorized the changes.
I am not surprise there will be concerted movement to pirate these woke original non-censored books to hit the publishers pocket very hard. Used to see parents in my area strongly encourage buying books even if e-version. Now they actively recommend pirated way....down to which sites and how to best display with best format. They are the tech boom generations and they even actively teaching older boomers to do so. Publishers have no idea what hits them for going woke.
Now do Star Wars Special Editions.
Well that and they were literally just the same as we are now.

Imagine if you had 80 years to live and nothing but rocks to play with. You'd get pretty good with rocks and you would be pretty desperate to find something new and interesting to play with.
I'll give you my approach as someone in the profession for over a decade who started teaching part time at a private university last year. I enrolled (as a student) in a couple of classes at a local CC for fields that were just passive interests of mine. One lecturer was great and served as a model for in-class instruction.

After a semester of that I applied to various local community colleges and private universities (one my alma mater). Many of these universities didn't even have an official "adjunct lecturer" position posted, but I selected whatever sounded most appropriate and spent a lot of time on cover letters tailored to each university explaining what I had to offer to them and why I ought to be a good fit for whatever they valued in instructors.

It took over a month to hear back from the first which was pretty disappointing. 3 months later I heard back from the second, and I never heard back from a third private university or either of two local CCs. By the time I heard back from the second I had already been informally offered a position at the first.
Calling it violent is a poor way to get people to see your side. Makes me want to disagree with you when I agree with everything else you've said. I question if you've ever seen real violence if you're willing to write that
In the US, sure, but e.g. German courts may look at it differently.
I use one medical even though my insurance doesn't cover anything through them, as they're vastly more convenient for scheduling, telehealth, Rx renewals, etc., and the doctors I've seen are all good. They also have locations in "good" cities in the US, and thus if I'm traveling there, I have a decent local option. Completely happy with it.
Fine, I'll bait. How are they assholes? If I buy a book[0], I expect to be able to read it as such, and not read a re-edition of it.

[0] Although I understand that in most ebook stores, you're buying a license to the book, and not the book itself. This may be true and legally sound, but as an end consumer it still bothers me.
How much K2 do you take? 100mg? And do you vary the time of day that you take it?
Original title: "Animosity, Amnesia, or Admiration? Mass Opinion Around the World Toward the Former Colonizer"

spoiler: it's not animosity, it's actually the opposite.
US federal population projections don't foresee a big change in 18-24 year olds into the future [0]. Though generally there's a trend of a slight increase in foreign born populations over native born.

[0] see particularly table 2 https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2017/demo/popproj/2017-su...
Does piping to cat help? That’s one of the first things I do when I run a command that insists on interactive output and I can’t be bothered to figure out what flag to set to turn it off.
you still don't own your house. The bank can take it away if you don't pay them.

then you have property tax, insurance, maintenance, and a huge amount in interest.

My aunt is a landlord. And at the end of the day, her profit is around 20%.

which means you are only paying 20% less than a renter, however, you're completely locked in and can't go anywhere.

and even more unfortunate... even after your mortgage is paid off ....you'll still be paying: property tax, maintenance, insurance etc etc. forever

and none of that is getting any cheaper.

people lose their houses all the time because property taxes got away from them because rich people moved in and just took the neighborhood.
Because it's a tough sell to put a camera right in front of people's TV. IIRC, the only product managed to do this is Portal TV from Facebook...

I actually tried something like this and talked to lots of potential users about this (during 2020 pandemic). But the willingness to pay for the camera is quite low.
I'm trying to sign up now. The "Next" button after entering mailing address is disabled. Anyone else having that issue?

Wonder if maybe they are no longer taking sign ups?
Why don't you release two versions, one of which is 'clean version' like David Goggins does.
China and India can burn everything they want but we need to give up everything.
>not being able to save money for situations where I could help my parents and whatnot in the future definitely made me feel at unease

Interesting point. Thanks for your post.
It sounds like they can afford to screw around and hoard the money.

I'm interested in a theoretical optimization problem where education becomes expensive without bound and as it grows over time how that affects both admissions and birth rates, eventually killing itself or reducing its own influence over society.

You know, because modern society has just become a min-max living simulation for people in power and leaders across all industries operate without moral values, substituting them with nietzscheistic organizational values instead.
I hate myself for knowing this, but there is such a thing as resistance marketing. In a sense, it is a way to get automatic contrarians, because some will go to support whatever is forbidden or has the appearance of being so. I would not be that surprised if what you said was an actual marketing campaign depending on fake controversy.
Are there any tools you'd recommend for WSL2?

SourceTree has the same problems. I'm fond of just using the CLI but I'd like to be able to recommend a UI tool for other Devs. Haven't found one that works for Windows and WSL2 together.
So they're editing the Kindle versions and kind enough to allow us to spend money on the originals we already paid for?

Awesome.
What happened for you to get "kicked out of the house"? This is sometimes in the back of my mind. I'm usually just curious - but sometimes even asking a question is seen as an indication of wrong think.

You may be surprised at the spectrum of people who are a)admissions officers and b)support the current thing.
I think the prior paragraph connoted "adventurous, swashbuckling globe-trotter—a page at a time" and the new one connotes "likes to read classics", as far as how they contribute to characterization. Pretty different.
Do you know many older or elderly people? I’ve met many who basically do not know, and have a very hard time understanding, all the unspoken rules about talking about things like disability (or race, religion, etc.).

I sympathize with them a bit because it really is complicated. Why is saying “the blacks” bad, and “black guy” suspicious, but “black person” fine? Why is it ok to call someone disabled but not crippled? Why does saying the word “Jew” range so much in terms of offensiveness based on context and tone?

I know, from my perspective it’s kind of silly and not that hard too. But for people who are perpetually confused about things like that, I can totally see why they lean heavily towards the side of caution to avoid offense. Then of course there are the people doing it for performative reasons, but I’d wager a lot of those people are motivated by fear of saying the wrong thing or being branded a bigot too.
I still have yet to hear a coherent and succinct definition of "woke."
I’m not sure if this is supposed to be a clever counter point because no one was happy with that either.

But at least it was the creator themselves editing their own works. And Lucas didn’t reach into your DVD collection and stop you watching the originals. It was just a new edition.
Don't do it. It's tempting. I bought a high-end System 76, and I am very happy with it.
The article describes an important issue. For the effect to look right, you have to close one eye. I suppose if you had a stereoscopic display this would not be an issue
To administration.
Note: this is a link to a question from pg in 2007, not solicitation from current mods.

But I'd like a link to the archive.is version of a page, if available. To bypass paywalls and for sites that have been hugged to death.
Isn't this is more hardware dependent? A 2012 Intel notebook vs a 2022 AMD laptop would yield different results with same code. Also a well tune assembly can do these way faster. A python wrapped with assembly functions and run on a machine 6ghz Intel machine with ramdisk would also outperform this. I always feel this kind of claim is not helpful in day to day usage.
I also feel like it has something to do with the aging process itself, perhaps biochemical. When I was younger I just wanted to hang around and try to find girls to fuck. The idea that I would enjoy working was crazy to me. Now in my 30s and with a family, work and contributing to society starts to seem more interesting rather than just something I half-ass for the money. I'm not totally sold on it yet but maybe in another 10 years I will be.
Kenyan Court First to Tell Meta It Can’t Walk Away
You got further than me. Just seeing the size of the monstrosity was enough for me to nope the f out.

Well, that on top of the creepy uneasiness I always feel whenever dealing with companies like Google (or M$, FANG, etc.).
I remember when the Xbox 360 was announced and the core idea is that you plugged all your media crap into it. Combined with Kinect, it screamed, “we just want to know what you’re doing.”
What evidence do you have that this technique is overfitting the training data rather than reading the brain?
Here's a link to that page on 23AndMe: https://you.23andme.com/reports/ghr.alzheimers

In essence, this gene controls the levels of cholesterol and fats and the blood. If you're prone to high cholesterol and triglycerides, you can mitigate it with a low dosage statin or through diet modifications.
I'm arguing that all of that processing happens prior to you picking up a pen or taking to a keyboard to write. I'm disputing the claim that there's materially more 'thinking' happening in the second or two longer it takes one to write a sentence with a pen than with a keyboard.
> Also wish for notifications of comment replies but I understand that maybe this isn’t done for minimalism purposes.

You might be aware of it, but in case others are not there's the unofficial https://www.hnreplies.com which does exactly that for many years already. Works great!
thank you, i'm flattered you liked it; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35017711 for my thoughts on the things that are possible now but not happening
Wrong!

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-acquires-iconic-ro...

RDSC had to approve the changes.
> Really does feel orwellian to change the authors being referenced.

> This change I feel is one of the least objectionable, IMHO.

I think it's one of the most objectionable changes. Removing authors whose politics have gone out of style, and replacing them with more palatable ones, reminds me of Party members airbrushed out of photos with Stalin.

That it's done in a children's book is that much worse - a middle-man censor posing as Dahl and recommending what books to read, and presenting a false consensus on which authors were popular.
Conspiracy Theories Have a New Best Friend
Covid-19 vaccines – An Australian Review
>A worldwide Bayesian causal Impact analysis suggests that COVID-19 gene therapy (mRNA vaccine) causes more COVID-19 cases per million and more non-Covid deaths per million than are associated with COVID-19. An abundance of studies has shown that the mRNA vaccines are neither safe nor effective, but outright dangerous.
For me it’s the fact you can’t use external displays and the fact it can’t sleep yet so it drains while the lid is closed.

All things that should be fixed soon.
Found some data on person trips by transportation mode [1] and person miles by transportation mode [2]. Based on that, about 75% of miles are done with car/truck/suv/van, and 0.2% with bicycles; but trips are more balanced, 80% by car/truck/suv/van and 1% by bike.

So I think the fatality rate per trip is probably about the same for bike vs car/etc; but the rate per mile for bikes is significantly higher. It'd be interesting to look at comparable rates from say the Netherlands or another country where bicycling is better positioned.

[1] https://nhts.ornl.gov/person-trips
[2] https://nhts.ornl.gov/person-miles
To me, it's not enough for someone to simply "identify" as an owner.

To me the definition of ownership means someone cant come take your property if you don't do what they say.

what's even more fascinating is that even after you pay off that mortgage, your land is still able to be taken from you forcefully if you don't pay your property taxes or the government sites you for code violation.

you just traded masters from the bank to the government.

homes are one of the biggest scams of modern times in my opinion.
I don’t know any of the science behind it, but my experience with these kinds of ideas (including the 2007 wiimote target demo which I replicated and showed to family), is that they feel exhausting to use beyond a 15 min novelty.

My guess is that the brain detects that the motions and such are not quite right, and like a wrong eyeglass prescription, your brain and eyes work overtime trying to figure out compensation.
It doesn’t feel offensive so much as a little outdated, especially for physical disabilities, since the current vogue is the term “disabled.” Which taken literally is not as nice as the term handicappped, but it works better with language like “I have a disability”
Everyone looking to write an opinion piece on it should be required to watch a lecture on how it works first.
The amount of mental gymnastics some will go through to discount a LLM performing a task it is clearly doing is amazing. People just be making up their own vague and ill defined definitions of understanding and reasoning just so an LLM won't qualify.