skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> specially now that remote work is becoming a commonly available option.

I said this somewhere else in the thread but repeating here - remote work is only a short term solution and a big long term threat. Once all the tools are processes are established to deal with remote work, your job will be instantly shipped to a cheaper country - Canada, Latin America, Eastern Europe or India. American workers should realize that remote work is not going to be like 2020-21 forever. Shareholder class is ruthless.
I guess I’m privileged but I wouldn’t move more than 50 miles for any amount of $.
You can say "we managed to do X without Y" for a lot of values of X and Y.

I think that's the wrong way to go about things; instead it's more useful to ask "will this be useful?"

There's a long list of real-world use cases in part 3 of that blog series.

I miss telemetry in my app sometimes too; there's some features where I wonder if anyone actually uses this, and I also don't really know what kind of things people run in to. Simply "ask people" is tricky, as I don't really have a way to contact everyone who cloned my git repo, and in general most people tend to be conservative in reporting feedback. I have found this a problem even in a company setting with internal software: people would tell me issues they've been frustrated at for months over beers in the pub, when this was sometimes just a simple 5 minute tweak that I would be happy to make.

Can I make my app without telemetry? Obviously, yes. And I have no plans to ever add it. But that doesn't mean it's not useful.
In my very first interaction with Bing's bot, I was asking some details about PC components, and e.g. it was common for bing to give back answers containing phrases like "as we tested in our previous article" (verbatim, even using the plural 1st person). It is obvious it is just parroting from the websites it scraped. PC hardware means benchmark results which means benchmark websites/blogs which means the "as we tested in our previous article" phrase is common so it will just put it there in the answer even if makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

I really don't understand why people ascribe emergent behaviors to these systems such as "theory of mind". It's just randomness. I'm presuming there's just a lot of psycological pareidolia going around.

It also got a significant chunk of the answers wrong, creative mode or not. Often, the Bing search it appeared to do actually showed the correct answer right in the snippet of the first result, yet it was not able to scrape that. More rarely but annoyingly frequently it would just search for the wrong thing (e.g. searched for "X vs Y" when it just didn't make sense since they were two layers of the same technology).
In my country I don't need to do anything. They calculate the tax, and if I owe anything extra, or am owed a return, I get mail about it.

But there are downsides too, we also have free healthcare and the last school shooting was more than 80 years ago.
In the US we have a history of government-made websites and tools that fail the user.

Additionally, our revenue dept has an unforgiving reputation if you fail to complete your tax information properly.
If you wish to listen without the website popping up, just format the stream url like so:

https://stream.rekt.network/datawave.ogg

https://stream.rekt.network/nightride.ogg

https://stream.rekt.network/chillsynth.ogg

https://stream.rekt.network/rekt.ogg

https://stream.rekt.network/rektory.ogg
There should be criminal liability not just monetary.
You could probably emulate Windows 11 on a Multics machine if you wanted.
> 700 buildings damaged, burnt, or destroyed in Minneapolis.

Classic "how to lie with numbers". 698 buildings with a broken window, one with a minor fire, and one "destroyed" (whatever that means) would satisfy this description.

Not to say that there wasn't damage done; but the stats you give are clearly designed to look bad rather than to be informative.
I think we have to acknowledge that multiple causes are at play.
The graph in the article shows a strong decrease from the late '80s to the pre-pandemic period. There's a further decrease from the 2018-2020 bar to the 2021 bar, and another drop between the 2022 bar and the Q1 2023 bar.

I think the drop from the 80s to the pre-pandemic years is reflective of both greater precarity in employment and increases in housing costs in markets with lots of job opportunities.

The drop from pre-pandemic to 2021 may certainly be because of the greater share of remote-work that you're citing; people relocated, but often _in spite of_ work.

I think the gap between 2022 and early 2023 has gotta be at least partly due to the combination of greater economic uncertainty/increased recession fears and high costs to move b/c of high interest rates.

We wouldn't have gone from 29% to 1.6% without multiple factors swinging together over time.
> Functionally speaking, there's no reason I couldn't be on OSX Tiger or Windows 2000.

On the Mac side I think I'd go up to at least 10.5/10.6 for its native virtual desktop implementation (Spaces) that's actually better than modern Spaces by way of being a 2D grid instead of a single row.
Isn’t this basically expected? They will challenge it in court, and then they will follow whatever outcome happens there. It’s never immediately obvious whether a regulator (etc) action is technically legal in the first place, you’d sort of have to trust their lawyers I think?
I wish there were fines that executives were personally liable for rather than clawbacks.

Clawbacks somewhat arbitrarily limit the penalty to the amount earned in a way that doesn’t exist in other professions. They also seem to complicate the legal process of enforcement.
Oh we do have defunded our system as well - particularly the buildings are rotting. Estimates are 45 billion dollars [1], and that's just to catch up with deferred maintenance and upkeep work, not to create new school buildings to match the increased demand or new staff.

Education is one of the easiest things for politicians to "save money" by cutting budgets and the consequences usually take 15-20 years to appear, at which time the responsible politicians are long gone and can't be held accountable.

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/bildung/investitionsruecksta...
It's certainly not possible to avoid every business who has practices you disagree with, even if you're fully aware of their practices. But you can to some degree, and that's far better than nothing. It would be a shame to make doing that even more difficult than it is.
It would be unlawful in the state of California to mount a mobile phone in a position that would make it suitable for this purpose, in the way that most people would do it. Technically you can mount a Pixel-sized device in the furthest corner from the driver but nobody is going to bother doing it that way.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
As an independent voter, it's obvious why. When you become a member of one of these two parties, you're part of the team, and generally you're going to assume the best of your team's intentions, their media coverage and so on. And you'll think the worst of the other side's intentions, media, and so on. I think plenty of both sides' positions are valid and others completely fucking insane.
I could be wrong, but my assumption is the only thing that is actually being sent to openai is the shape of your data, not the data itself. The text query gets converted to whatever normal filtering/aggregating mechanism exist within pandas.

the larger question I have is... if you're already advanced enough to use pandas, do you really need/want this?
While I personally believe remote work is a net loss for workers (especially in high wage countries with good job protections), the economy, productivity, and society in generally, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if selling Teslas is the only factor driving Musk’s outbursts.
Sounds like my tax form last year (non us). Everything filed in, nothing wrong, just check the numbers, change one small number since it couldn't have known and it's all ok. Digitally sign it and off you go.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Not 1.2 or 1.4 birds in the bush
Thanks interesting diffs. I think functionality is the missing diff at this point. Appreciate the parallelization.
Equalising world GDP will be good in the long run at least. Of course it sucks if it happens to be you on the chopping block
I recently stepped on my framework laptop and crunched the LCD screen. Luckily I was able to purchase a new lid (got an improved lighter and stiffer lid!) And new screen (unfortunately the matte option was out of stock).

45 minutes later I had my old lid and screen removed and my new one installed with no tools beyond their provided torx screwdriver. It was amazing to be able to do that and not need to replace the entire laptop or mail it in for service! While I had it open I installed another 16gb stick of RAM to bump up to 32gb total.

I'm debating getting the upgraded motherboard... I may wait another year or two when the performance gap is larger and I find another purpose for the old motherboard. I could 3d print a case for it and use it as a home server, gitlab build runner or bench PC. It's really cool how flexible it is!

The raw specs are not the best, the battery life could be better, but I appreciate the mod ability.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35950836
Well, as others have mentioned, jobs are risky. You can lose them for any reason at any time, and leaving your support network is a bad idea in that case. This has always been true. It wouldn't account for why people are now less likely to wish to move, but I think housing prices do.

Right now, a person may have an affordable mortgage at a very low fixed interest rate. Yes, he/she may have more than $150k in equity due to the insanity of the housing market, but that likewise means that all of the other houses have gone up by as much if not more in price. This makes moving very unappealing, and more so if the place to which one is being asked to move is San Francisco, New York City, or some other likewise expensive location.
McLaren pushes Chrome as it's internal power tool
On the flip side, and to be crass, PHP is a hell language that many hate or refuse to program in. I do wonder if there's a correlation.
One of the most frustrating things I’ve seen during any period of layoffs including this one is seeing people that have just moved for a new position get laid off soon after. Especially so if they’ve moved overseas. Like you said, culturally we’ve decided that the newly laid off and relocated took the risk and it’s their fault for taking that risk. Companies apparently share no part in the burden even while trying to lure folks to work for them.
This kind of thing is why we have such long interview cycles and strong bias against false positives
People seem to forget that the moral of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is that the wolf does finally come. It's not "don't panic prematurely because people will stop listening to you"; it's "don't disbelieve real hazards even after repeated false alarms".
The answer to so much of this shit is common sense. Take away their phone and don't give it back.
Or pass an options object.

Regardless, it’s a strictly worse api in the general case. And it’s on par with passing around an options object in the case you want to share the same options in multiple places.

If the current api is either the same or worse compared to a pure function version in all cases, I’d prefer the pure function version thanks.
There are a lot of cases where the people eating them were not the ones that foraged, but were fed them at a meal at someone's house. Further, there are reports of immigrants accidentally eating poisonous mushrooms in the US, Europe and Australia because the poisonous ones bear a resemblance to otherwise safe mushrooms found in their home countries.

Finally, you have to a be a little cold to think someone deserves death because they ate something unknown to them to be poisonous.
You should have seen the one I went to. There was warning stickers on all the walls not to disturb them because they were filled with asbestos and it represented an enormous mesothelioma hazard if you like, knocked into them hard enough and breathed
The executives and lobbyists involved can go straight to hell (better yet, prison), but I am somewhat concerned by how this might affect employees. There are some 80,000 tax preparers in the U.S.. These people did not invent this scam and are not getting rich from it. [1] There are more people involved if you include software developers, cleaners, receptionists, and so forth.

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes132082.htm

The industry should be destroyed and the earth salted, but doing so will hurt some decent people.

>The IRS estimates that setting up and operating a direct file system would cost the government between $64 million and $249 million annually, depending on the number of users and the complexity of returns it could handle.

For all practical purposes, it's free. Intuit alone has some $12.7 billion in revenue, so we could spend fifty times the estimated cost and still be in the black.
You could try Karl Casey's White Bat Audio on youtube
"A fence around the chicken coop is wholly redundant and is nothing more than a solution in search of a problem," said Sly the Fox. "It will unnecessarily cost the farmer thousands of dollars and especially harm the most vulnerable chickens."
It's cool, does it work without the app? And does the card have a QR code printed on it?

I'd really like to exchange contact info when meeting new people more easily. It's always a negotiation of "do you have this app?" "no but I have this app" "ah I don't have that app, do you have this" "no, but I can give you my number". If they can scan a QR code and get all my info without needing to install anything, that sounds great.

Actually quite surprised Apple doesn't have a feature to exchange info on your own contact via NFC.
> Monster Bash has a voice that sounds like Katey Sagal (Peggy Bundy, Leela/Futurama)

No idea how I hadn't made that connection—as soon as I read that, I heard some of the lines in my head and went, "wait, that does sound like her!"

Dunno if it really was, though.

> You rarely see Junkyard (or ToM-- a top 5 IMO) mentioned, but it is a unique table.

I'd played a whole lot of Addams Family at a pizza joint that had it (also Johnny Mnemonic—a table I've seen a few times that has some really great, flowy ramp play, but always seems to have something broken), and some time later played a fair bit of Junkyard at a different pizza joint. I'd never really looked up any pinball stuff online, so didn't have any tips or clues about what to expect—the day I stumbled on Addams Family's Mamushka mode in Junkyard I just about died from joy, LOL. Totally unexpected.
That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
I believe that was only educated workers. Metropolis's are still growing from uneducated workers.
I"m seeing a lot of people taking the 'Back in MY day...' approach to this topic. I think in this case there's more at play:

School aged children have just gone through a once-in-a-100-year pandemic that absolutely _wrecked_ social lives and completely upended the schooling system. That, and there's growing evidence of neurologic impact from tick-borne illnesses like Lyme disease that have _doubled_ in the last 20 years. We're still also figuring out what impact pervasive social media is having on kids.

To be clear, none of these are the fault of the children. Each one is outside of their control. Blaming them is doing them a disservice and deflecting the responsibility of the remainder of civilization to provide them a world in which they can flourish.
Most of the PHP haters haven't worked with PHP since the 5.x days. PHP 7 started to reverse the trend and PHP 8 together with a decent IDE is on-par with Java.
Could this potentially be used for self-driving or other AI training, now or in the future? I can imagine ways one might use data like that, even without access to the car’s driving inputs and even without having to upload the video anywhere.
Remote work has been the reality for years now and yet this hasn’t happened. If anything it’s the opposite and companies are focusing on more in person workers.
Agreed, and if you combine silence with physical movement (aka go for a walk or hike) the benefits of both are amplified.

So many brilliant men in history are known for having walking routines. I'm not going so far as to say walking made them brilliant, but I do think it's likely it contributed to them being able to maintain the physical and mental health needed to be able to think deeply and communicate their thoughts to others.
> Calling this anything other a brilliant success is just bad faith.

No, it's not bad faith. It's having a different opinion. "Bad faith" is making disingenuous arguments to support a position you know is incorrect.
Came here to post about LCM too, amazing place.

Sadly "in stasis" is pretty generous. I know several people who were in that win of the Allen org and they've all said that Jody Allen viewed it as a waste of time and money and was delighted at the opportunity to close it and never reopen courtesy of the pandemic.
Thank you for this blog post. I have been trying to audit it on my own and always got stuck on the assignments.
(I know this doesn't really help you now, but) If you install your self-representing operating system as part of setting up a new phone, then you don't end up in a situation where it's some huge disruptive undertaking. Also doing so within the purchase return period assures that your phone can definitely be unlocked, rather than finding out otherwise when it's too late.
Depends on who you ask. I wouldn't trust them too much. I think their security reputation is mostly hype and marketing, which some on this thread seem to have bought hook, line and sinker.
> Resources are things that we exhaust, pump dry, clear cut, and eventually discard.

sounds pretty accurate to me.
There will always be people who believe the end is imminent, and that furthermore we deserve it
I'm wondering how you draw the distinction between saying that children having disorders means they have no agency and that's bad, but also saying you shouldn't give children agency to make choices. Personally, when I was finally diagnosed with anxiety as an adult it was an opportunity for me to collect the tools required to better myself, it wasn't a way to absolve myself of my responsibilities or "self victimize".

Now certainly we should find ways for kids to go to school, but hard assing it seems like a bad way. Once the kids become adults who have had little agency in their lives and an intense hatred of having been forced to go to school how is that going to turn out? Is the hope they'll look back at all the anxiety and go "You know what? that gave me character! Thanks Mom and Dad!"?

If we want an educated populace dragging children kicking and screaming through twelves grades seems like a bad plan. You need to instill a love of learning and education that continues after that point. Graduating high school should just be the beginning.
"Download blasphemous books"? That sounds like a highly specific use case, one I've never sought out. Why would it be inherently dangerous on Windows 95?

I think there's some context or euphemism I'm missing.
hopefully open source survives the current assault openai is leading against it, but it looks like open source LLM's are catching up rapidly.
The difference is that GPT can convince the teacher that the student is a competent essay-writer, but can’t convince the PE teacher that the student is an NBA player.
There is this one in italy: https://museo.freaknet.org/it/
The same goes for music. People plug in ear buds the second they sit down at a desk or step out the door.

The only time I find it hard to do things in silence is while exercising... mainly the treadmill.
I think the parent post's point is not that its less likely to get laid off, but rather that there are prospects for employement that don't require relocation when you de get laid off.
Linked article says nothing about bank employees returning pay.
This will add another regulative legislation on top of a pile of existing regulation in the banking sector — no amount of government control can prevent bank failures. Recently, there was a thread of “dystopian surveillance” of employees in the banking sector which is the natural outcome if you constantly ask the government for help.

The current problems of the banking sector are a result of the bad incentives created by monetary policies. Banks will never work perfectly well for everybody but all these financial crises during the last couple of decades root could have been avoided by less government spending (for wars) and a much tighter monetary regime.

Left-leaning people should start informing themselves about monetary theory and general economics to avoid a vicious cycle of ever more government meddling dealing with the results of previous meddling that will ultimately undermine and destroy our free society.
I want to start making a series of open source template sites for government agencies
Hey as long as it can hallucinate a big return and carry the liability, I'm down.
Even as remote work fades into the past and management wins out, this will still be true. People will leave money and advancement on the table in favor of stability and "community" of a kind. For better or worse, in a time of social upheaval, people will be correctly afraid to go where they are perceived as outsiders and will try to stay where they feel they belong.
The consequence is firms won’t hire relocated employees. Which is strictly worse
Statements like this need more of a thesis. There are not enough details in your comment to have any kind of a productive, non-flamebait discussion.
https://stream.rekt.network/<station_name>.mp3

station_name = rekt | rektory | nightride | chillsynth | datawave | spacesynth | darksynth | horrorsynth | ebsm
Now just replace cities with the USA and same logic applies. I think the loser is going to be the entire American worker pool (especially the ordinary ones, 10x developers will be fine).
> Rick Heineman

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickheineman/

https://theorg.com/org/intuit/org-chart/rick-heineman
THe fact that human love games proved that human is always God's child.
This is a collection of highlights from a book, so I don’t think it’s “all that is required of staff engineers.”
A few years ago, I moved to Boston for a tech job. The cost of living was like 25% higher, but my salary almost doubled, so I came out for the better.

This job was on-site, so there was no choice but to live here. And by "here" I mean a 60- to 90- minute commute, both ways.

Now? My job is 100% remote, and any job I would consider would have to be 100% remote. Assuming this trend continues, I think we'll see an exodus from high cost of living areas to (slightly) smaller towns.

People are still going to want to live in places that have services, entertainment, and so on, so this isn't going to gut cities, but it will make living in the sticks more plausible.
Can't a car hit you while you're sitting in your house? Of course anything can happen in theory, but as a landlord you're trying to minimize the risk as nobody will cover you if your tenant fucks you and destroys your property, so you optimize by picking the safest and less risky option.
As the sibling post noted, most of the positive natality in Western Europe is due to immigrant mothers. And since the US has quite a strong barrier to entry for immigration they don't benefit from this effect.

[edit] Looks like in term of raw numbers, the US has much more immigrants than Germany for example. But in terms of legal immigrants there's about twice the number in Germany vs. the US for 2021 (dunno how reliable statista is though).

https://www.statista.com/statistics/199958/number-of-green-c...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/894223/immigrant-numbers...