skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. They tried that in the 90s and it didn't work out. It turns out timezones, language and culture matter. So yes, remote work will mean that US white collar workers will have to compete with workers in other countries, but that's not impossible. We may find that yes, that drags down compensation in the US, but it also pulls up compensation in the rest of the world, and there's just a wider range, more developers available in general and more coding happens as software continues to eat the world. How AI figure into this is anybody's guess - don't believe anyone who claims to know.
You could try Chicago95 for XFCE. It is a custom theme you have to download and install, but it gets the 95 theming down EXACTLY.

If you don't care about customizing like crazy and want something minimalist by default, the best thing I can point you to is GNUstep. Its a bit basic, old, doesn't really care about modern features, etc. It is, for lack of a better word, comfy. IceWM is also very nice. My biggest problem with these is that it takes a bit of config file editing to change the wallpaper.

Now if you want a lightweight WM with more modern features, I recommend enlightenment. Changing wallpapers is pretty easy and there are a few widgets...but it still feels very old-school.
That assumes you started your mortgage in roughly the last 10-15 years in the US or somewhere else with the same rate history. Average rates before then were consistently higher. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US

If you started your mortgage before then its a neutral to positive rate-wise.
You're right, but as someone in the queer community (gay) the gradual evolution of human behaviours between the sexes (and genders) including gender roles etc (being broken down for some, but not for others) will possibly eventually result in a collapse of all meaning within this system.

There's many points to someone's biological sex, medical and other. But when it comes to gender, once stereotypical gender roles have completely broken down (if ever, we have evolution/genetic to thank for that) what difference remains in that distinguishing your own gender even matters anymore? None.
Canada recently had a "controlled burn" that was made by an international association. They weren't trained on Canadian forests properly, now it's a huge wildfire.
As a Muslim, this is so interesting. Fasting is such a big part of Islam too, with Mondays and Thursdays being recommended fasting days. Different implementations, sure, but very similar idea and also gives me rhythm in life plus focusing on the spiritual self. Thanks for sharing!
That sort of data is normally not public
Better driver training and education is what should be required first. Seeing people on the road makes me think most people don't know about the physics of tailgating or speeding.

When I grew up in Germany it was the ADAC driver training, a half day of driving on a long and wide patch of road almost like an airport apron, and doing different manoeuvres and exercises that made me a much much more humble (and slow) driver.
Yes, the US judicial system has repeatedly demonstrated that it requires victimising the mega rich. The reason FTX is in deep water is because they scammed the mega rich, they happened to also scam "the common person", but they're under house arrest atm and likely heading to prison because they impacted the rich.

The fraud charges aren't being driven by losing their client's funds, it's due to them lying to the people and companies that were investing.
It's debatable whether that is true for everyone. I know I've tried to make myself like men on several occasions. I was definitely willing and not doing it out of self-hatred.
Economists are the successor to court-clergymen: interpret arcane texts no one else has the time to read in order to justify the king's actions.
One aspect that I find particularly vexing is the apparent lag when toggling between MacOS Spaces, even when the 'reduce motion' setting is enabled.

I utilize Spaces as an alternative to multiple monitors, often alternating between a full-screen terminal and a browser window in different Spaces. Anticipating the need to open a new browser tab, I transition to the browser Space and instinctively press 'Cmd+T', only to discover that a new tab has instead been created in the terminal window.

AFAIK, there doesn't seem to be a way to achieve instantaneous Space-switching devoid of any animation or delay.
That makes a lot of sense. By allowing the teams to fix things quickly and break things, management creates an environment where people can continuously learn how to handle fires and this makes them ready to handle bigger fires and also prevent bigger fires.
Perhaps LLMs would be a perfect fit for working through tax code and generating a large set of computer-readable business rules from it.
Unless you're willing to commit the effort and resources necessary to fork, it is someone else's product.
Adults also send emails to 45 clear-text To: addresses, or Reply All thousands of people.

Is this a good heuristic for acceptable behavior?
I lived near one of the areas that got a ton of media attention. Comparing what a certain breed of pundits were saying about it with what I could plainly see with my own two eyes showed that the pundits were mostly talking nonsense.

I'm not saying that there was no property damage or unrest. There most certainly was. but it was far more limited in area, and far less intense, than many were describing.

"Cities are burning" is one of those absurd things. Nothing even close to that happened.
Oh I bet they will
When Apple rolls this out as Continuity Recorder, it will require your car to be signed into your iCloud account.
This is why working remote /from home was probably the best thing to happen to me. So liberating to gain those hour's back stolen by commuting and organizing a life around being somewhere else all day
you can run the tank hotter and use a mixing valve to deliver hot water at a safe temperature. Let's you have a smaller, more efficient tank and also ensures your water heater is hot enough to never get infected with the bacteria that causes legionnaire's disease. Double win!
> I stopped buying logitech mice because the switches wore out in all of them.

I still have a wired USB mouse I bought from Logitech in the late 90's that was in daily use for well over a decade without issues, but more recent wireless mice that I have purchased from Logitech haven't lasted much more than a year. Either one of the buttons fails or the scroll wheel fails.
1) it’s all good until you’re one of the ‘little people’

2) succession/plan B is always the problem with dictators/dictatorships.

If you’re lucky, the interests of those in power are genuinely aligned with your best interests and they’re competent - (Singapore/PAP, at least historically), but nothing lasts forever.
True, but I was basically just looking for a good mouse. I've never had any other mouse die or wear out, except for those Logitech ones.
I'm not a huge fan of Apple products, but honestly there is no point fighting it anymore.

Cheap androids are still buggy and terrible and even in 2023 lack basic features like NFC.

The terrible state of support and updates in the Android world means there is next to no used value for Android flagships. iPhones command stupid prices, but at least they retain their value.
It is certainly not just a first world problem. There are many problems in advanced nations that get a spotlight on them, but that doesn't mean those problems don't exist in less developed places. In some parts of the world, getting fresh water is the biggest concern. Solving that problem becomes so important that topics like mental health may be completely ignored. I would wager a guess that North Korean citizens rank especially high in prevalence of depression, but it's not even a top 5 concern for them.

The historical record has many descriptions of depression dating all the way to B.C. times. Depression has been a thing that has affected humanity for at least as long as organized civilization has existed.

I think a good question to ask is:
Do uncontacted ("lost tribe" cultures if you will) peoples have differing prevalence of depression compared to the connected world?

I don't know the answer to that question, but I wouldn't be surprised if the rates of depression in those cultures is lower.
Because people want to do many of these jobs, but at a livable wage?
This is not really true, and if you'd like to learn more than you ever wanted to know about this topic then you should start following Zeke Lunder from The Lookout and review some of his wildfire analysis videos on YouTube. He often talks about the idea of "good fire". Not all fire is "good fire". A lot of megafires, the kind that might be sparked by an arson technique ignorant of modern wildfire management practices, do not necessarily lead to "good fire". They may at certain stages (especially when wind dies down) exhibit some traits of "good fire", but for the most part, these are forests that are the way they are due to too much suppression for too long, and now require "good fire" if our goal is to still have a healthy forest after the fire. An arson that starts a megafire is going to potentially transition to a very different type of forest, or an un-forested wasteland, as seen in various places in the Sierra foothills and SoCal.
I doubt these property investors were planning to socialise their profits if things had turned out the same way as the last few decades why should their losses be socialised if the assets they bought just fundamentally have less demand now? Will they be stumping up to subsidise workers to work in offices or something?

Make sure noone goes homeless/starves Then let the market decide.
In my experience, sitting with the feelings pretty reliably leads to panic spiraling. I just don't think my brain is as capable of pulling back a level as yours seems to be. And I'm not sure how to change that.
Well if you expect them to rise or stay the same for a while then now is actually not a bad time to buy.
Yeah, people need to start teaching kids about their rights. Otherwise, kids who don't know about the 4th amendment (that you can tell actual police to go away and that's doubly true for rent-a-cops) are going to grow up and keep voting in politicians who'll keep chipping away at our rights more and more
Anxiously waiting for pandas to get its mojo. If there is any Python library that needs it, this is it.
What industry are you in?

In the technology sector, our income and share of remote work is actually pretty good. For example, most of us (in the U.S., in technology) are in or close to the top 10% of individual incomes in the United States.
Why would I want to relocate for a job when I can work remote and stay close to my friends?
ELI5 is tricky as details have to be sacrificed, but I'll try.

An attention mechanism is when you want a neural network to learn the function of how much attention to allocate to each item in a sequence, to learn which items should be looked at.

Transformers is a self-attention mechanism, where you ask the neural network to 'transform' each element by looking at its potential combination with every other element and using this (learnable, trainable) attention function to decide which combination(s) to apply.

And it turns out that this very general mechanism, although compute-intensive (it considers everything linking with everything, so complexity quadratic to sequence length) and data-intensive (it has lots and lots of parameters, so needs huge amounts of data to be useful) can actually represent many of things we care about in a manner which can be trained with the deep learning algorithms we already had.

And, really, that's the two big things ML needs, a model structure where there exists some configuration of parameters which can actually represent the thing you want to calculate, and that this configuration can actually be determined from training data reasonably.
Linking to joelonsoftware is the reference equivalent of “I still use Windows Vista”.
> Right is earned through investment.

Rights are absolutely not earned, they are granted. You do not earn the right to vote, or to have legal protection. A right is granted either by the state, by society, or by 'god'.
Yes - but here's the catch.

Orgs that are agile and unbothered by middle managers will thrive by adopting change, while the slow ones will lose competitive edge.

Eventually even the slow ones will have to adopt change.
Are you saying their research is of such vital urgency that a one week delay would matter?

Look, there are constituencies that matter here other than academics. There are the students who have a reasonable expectation that their grade means something and isn't corrupted by other students cheating. And the rest of the world has a reasonable expectation that academics do a good job of teaching and assessment. The vast majority of people care far more about this aspect than the research aspect, so the fact that academics seem to be giving up on teaching and assessment is going to result in a world of richly deserved pain for universities one day.
Cloudflare has made demonstrable efforts to accommodate Tor users, and I've personally noticed a reduction in the number of CAPTCHAs I encounter while browsing Cloudflare sites with Tor. They were definitely not required to do this, especially considering that sites like Google give Tor users unsolvable CAPTCHAs or block them altogether. And yet they did, which I took as a gesture of good faith.

Some sites are still annoying to browse with Tor, but it's only those that opted into the strictest security settings with their Cloudflare plan. In my experience, the default Cloudflare behavior is not any more unfriendly to Tor than it is to any VPN (which is not too unfriendly, for the most part).

I do agree with you that the global MITM is a huge problem for privacy and access to information. I'm just pointing out that Cloudflare has made some good-faith effort to reduce the friction encountered by Tor users. If I had to choose an operator of such a global MITM, Cloudflare might be the least bad choice.
A 3090 (or any GPU with >=20GB VRAM) can run StarCoder with int8 quantization at about 12 tokens per second, 33 with assisted generation -- which will come out for StarCoder in the coming days.

When 4-bit quantization comes out, I would expect a GPU with 12GB VRAM to be able to run it.

Disclaimer: I work at Hugging Face
So this blew up today. Reviewing all the comments now.

1. Yes, this is scraped from public sources.
2. Yes, this is free to use / is open source in the broadest sense. Apologies for the confusion on the lack of a license and no mention about this in our TOS. We probably should update our TOS to be clearer here.
3. This is a raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle. The handles are deduped, but the website is not.
yes - and I either use the drive-thru at the local liquor store, or I go in and browse

no self-checkout options at either
For sure. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I was just saying I'm always curious about what the processes are in companies that lead to these disastrous results.
> Wer macht, hat recht which translates to who makes is right. Complaining is simple, just shut up and do it better.

Ain't dealing with an avalanche of Abmahnung, and ain't going to shut up either.
Or work remotely. From somewhere cheap. It truly feels like a hack.

Not sure if these conditions will remain but it's just nuts atm. Entry/Mid level engineers out-earning local principal engineers with 30+ years experience.
Hah, well that’s the problem of course. Finding what to do next.

I’ve actually been planning on leaving since around 2019, but was absolutely lost trying to “min-max” things. My most recent plan was to go back to school this year, but then I got laid off and had a number of emergencies so I’ve just lost a ton of money and can’t afford it right now. If I can manage to find one more decent software job I can probably resume the plans in the next year or two. Of course the time costs are more frightening than the monetary costs, but the way I see it the only other options are status quo, or something I’d hate even more.
I don’t know if this is it. In the UK registering an ltd company costs £12 and takes less than a day. It’s still not a particularly entrepreneurial country.
Who is Yegge and why should I care? All I found on google is that he wrote code for google and blogs.
Here's a different 10-year prediction. AI will become good enough to be useful for programmers but not good enough to run on its own and will remain an assistant. Given that there is a shortage of programmers, more software will be written than ever. More software will beget more software engineers. Because the output of software engineers will rise, each individual software engineer will become more valuable to their business and salaries will rise.
The only one of those megaregions that's really a tenable megaregion is the Northeast Corridor, which is (unsurprisingly) the genesis of the term in the first place. Traveling from DC to Boston, there's not really any point where you escape to rural areas, and several metropolitan areas blend to the point where drawing lines between them doesn't make sense (Baltimore-Washington in particular).

Outside of the Northeast, the megaregions don't really play out. Chicago, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area are all cases where you have a dominant MSA with surrounding MSAs that are essentially dependent on the core MSA, with continuous sprawl between them. But it's not entirely the same dynamic as the Northeast region, although in terms of having a headquarters that people can occasionally visit in person, it works. The Gulf Coast, Cascadia, and Front Range megaregions that are identified are, quite frankly, fantasy that feels like an attempt to stuff as many people into megaregions as possible.
heh! never ever setup a factory there. Too many issues and none of the govt initiatives are supportive. It's only on paper and the ground reality will kill you. Much worse than another countries. It might favor big businesses though if it gets under the table support!!
That's not entirely accurate. The case for letting covid spread hinges on whether you have the medical infrastructure to manage the pandemic. If you can handle a "more than flu season" chunk of your population needing medical care then there's no real pandemic threat. Unfortunately, many countries in the developed world reduced the size of their medical infrastructure because they could rely on flu vaccines to minimize the demands of flu season. Sure, you can try to flatten the curve, but COVID-19 proved to be difficult to contain, and initially we had little understanding of how transmissible it was, and what it would take to contain it. This meant you had to plan for a worse that was almost certainly worse than we'd actually face.

The thing is, vaccines that haven't been through phase 2 trials can potentially make a pandemic worse. That's why you have to wait for them to resolve.
I suppose it was not entirely clear that the viewpoint I'm mocking with "just train it more bro" is the extreme end of evangelists. The people who seem to believe LLM's are proof that we have fundamentally cracked the principle of cognition in the form of the neural network, and that there is nothing more to figure out other than just training it more, bro. We've all met a trainitmore bro. They are about as tedious as the statistical parrot parrots. Both of these extreme positions deserve some amount of dismissive mocking imo.
Androids ditching headphone jacks boggle my mind.

It was clearly a ploy by Apple to push their expensive accessory upgrades. Google et al following suit just to push their own inferior accessories was so short-sighted.
Smoke and mirrors. I don't even trust the motivation behinds this article.
It's funny how OP does not address where this data comes from even though it's obviously from LinkedIn. I see many people in the comments asking questions so I will add my two cents as someone who is currently employed by LinkedIn and has an interest in web scraping.

This dataset was taken from scraping the company pages from LinkedIn. A company has to pay to have this page, so this certainly does not include all companies. If you have a premium account your search is not rate limited so you can iteratively scrape anything you want even though it's technically a violation of the terms of service.

There are many companies that sell data scraped from LinkedIn as a product. LinkedIn won a court case against hiQ Labs for scraping member data and other things[1]. I am not trying to compare this court case to the OP's website, just something worth mentioning.

In any case, web scraping is a sort of gray area of the law. In my opinion, this data set does not contain member data and is not being monetized so it feels kosher to me.

(Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.)

[1] https://www2.staffingindustry.com/Editorial/IT-Staffing-Repo...
Thanks! That's an even better image showing the default theme.
Looks awesome, really cool.
I'm surprised these private security goons don't get guns pointed at them more often. As I understand American law it would be legal to shoot them if they refused to leave your property in some states.
Since Twitter is a US company, why should Australia have any more say over its operation than, e.g., China does?
If your son is talking like that, it’s a strong signal you haven’t properly put things in perspective for him. The world has always been horrible in one way or another. Go ahead. Pick a time.

This is a 100% attitude and filtering issue.
Yeah, man, I wish that YouTuber had been you or an "Am I free to go?" style Libertarian

I would have loved to see a video of him slamming the door in some Pinkertons' faces and possibly calling the actual cops
> Chomsky said he participated in the meetings despite knowing Epstein was a convicted sex offender because he knew he had served his sentence and “according U.S. laws and norms, that yields a clean slate.”

I wonder if it’s also worth considering that a lot of people had no idea what Epstein had really been up to. I personally wouldn’t do business with a guy who served time for trying to prostitute a minor, though. I don’t think there’s a clean slate after that, or that a jail sentence would resolve issues in a person capable of that kind of behaviour.

I have no idea what their interactions were like or what the context was either. Who knows. I’ve certainly interacted with people I didn’t feel comfortable with at times, usually because circumstances made it difficult not to.
A viable solution might be the creation of an insurance fund to compensate for any unintended damage caused by prescribed burns. This fund, funded by utility companies especially those in wildfire-prone areas, would function similarly to banks' contributions to the FDIC. This could alleviate liability concerns, thereby encouraging proactive wildfire prevention strategies.
They could do more by just not growing water intensive crops like almonds in a desert.
This got flagged earlier. Hope this post stays up.

Anyone and everyone in Epstein's orbit needs to come clean. I don't care about wealth, political affiliation, anything. If they were involved in any way, shape or form, and had the ability to whistleblow on a large scale (and had the clout and eyeballs to back it up) , and didn't, they need to go down, as well as publicly name their co-conspirators.

Anything else is just more evidence that we live in a society where certain people are untouchable no matter how blatant and nefarious their actions are.
https://archive.is/lxwIt