skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a market for both corporate success and talent. My wager is that companies that optimize for how people want to work and letting them work best will be structurally advantaged in both profit and talent acquisition and retention. Once the emotions die down and boards realize they can boost EPS by reducing real estate and their competitors with open working arrangements are eating their lunch in their markets the corporate provided management mandated human hamster wheel warehouses will be shut down.
I self-published eight (non-technical) books. They sell reasonably well, at least by Czech standards (just 10 million speakers), but the first one sold the best, around 10 thousand copies. The latest one only sold some 2500 so far.

This might be a post-Covid effect, though. During Covid, books sold well, people were probably bored. Post-Covid, with high inflation kicking in (we are around 17 per cent in Czechia), people reduced their cultural expenses first: food and energies are more important.

That said, I found the combination of being a programmer and a writer fairly efficient. Being able to write documentation in detail beforehand means that I discover a lot of subtle problems and corner cases before I actually implement something. And, as a practising writer, writing documentation feels easy to me, a natural flow.
Magnetic gear tech company wins 2023 Rice Business Plan Competition
This is a really interesting question to me because one can’t help but notice there are entities which are going to suffer immense pain if remote work continues.

Specifically, anyone holding the bag of commercial real estate - particularly in high CoL cities.

Edit: I strongly suspect there is a story here because if you happened to be holding that bag you would lobby, lie, cheat, steal, whatever you needed to do to try and get out from under that impending doom.
Cool, thank you for the link! What are your personal thoughts on the matter?
Your 3 users are probably okay with 99% uptime. No need to sweat over 5 9's for a hobbyist/personal site.
"And playing Go isn’t exactly a real job. There’s something perverse about treating games as work. Work, even when it is deeply rewarding, pleasurable, and meaningful, is something we do in order to accomplish something."

The top chess players in the world are spending a lot of mental energy during a game and prepare a lot between tournaments. It is what they do for a living. So it is a "real job" to them, even if the hours and pay are irregular. What they produce is entertainment for fans, and the attention of fans benefits sponsors. I assume Go is similar. In general, in an advanced economy, a lot of jobs are in the entertainment industry.
Doesn't really matter if you're salaried though, does it?
It would be nice to have performance numbers. Right now the only thing I can find on performance is "Cedar is fast and scalable. The policy structure allows your policies to be indexed for quick retrieval. The design also supports fast, scalable, real-time evaluation with bounded latency." which doesn't tell me if it is will respond within 100 ms with 100,000 entities or within 10 ms for 100 million entities.
Someday I should write an entire blog post about that, but basically:

1. Promise yourself you will do thing tomorrow

2. If you do thing tomorrow, make another promise and repeat (but maybe a more challenging thing)

3. If you fail to do thing tomorrow, make another promise and repeat (but a WAY less challenging thing)

Example:

1. I will do 1 pushup tomorrow

2a. Tomorrow happens, I do pushup. I promise myself I'll do 2 pushups tomorrow.

2b. Tomorrow happens, I don't do pushup. I promise myself I'll bend my knees in something vaguely resembling a squatting stance tomorrow

I definitely recommend books like "Atomic Habits" and "The Power of Habit" for getting ideas that might work for you.
I used CashApp Taxes for three years now (was Credit Karma). It's free and has the same thing as TurboTax.
True, but how often is whiteboard work a shared activity? At least in my experience, that's vanishingly rare. It's almost always just a visual aid for one person communicating with a bunch of others.
Some do. Some don't. Lots of churches rent their building.
> Also for some reason I do not understand almost all US reality shows and other entertainment(contestant based shows mainly) have to have someone British judging Americans like we are incapable of having our own citizens be makers of taste or standards.

Also, IIRC, infomercials, too.

I think America has some longstanding cultural assumptions that Europe is more culturally refined/upper class/fashionable. Probably dating from when America was mostly hick farmers and Europe had all that royalty setting trends. Throwing in a superfluous European accent is an easy way to hook into those assumptions.
I really enjoyed reading this book whilst I was in jail. It made me feel a whole lot better about my situation.
> ensures that the people _most able_ to secure those benefits from other companies will leave

This is the start of the Dead Sea Effect as described in http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...

(posted many times) https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=brucefwebster.com

The most interesting discussion is likely https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23166786 from May 13, 2020 with 127 points and 128 comments)
>Everybody want to be a bodybuilder but nobody want to lift no heavy ass weight

- Ronnie Coleman

Everybody wants a high or cool status job, but few truly want to suffer what it takes to get that job, and in the case of writing, as with many things, there's too much luck involved, too strong a power law.
If anyone is interested in how I use Notado to achieve what I've discussed below, I have published a tutorial playlist on YouTube[1] (short videos, ~1m each) that you can refer to in order to get a better idea of how everything looks in practice.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqXD2UoE8Do&list=PLllZnrEJu8...
Hmm, this is a summarization and classification model, not the chat model I think
If you say "I refuse to return to the office but will keep working from home" are you quitting or is the company firing you?
Not having read the book - judging by the (comprehensive!) table of contents - the most obviously missing piece is 5g (assuming it's not covered by the 4g section).

And possibly a "future" bit on http/3 - also a little unclear how much there is about QUIC - but i assume the http/2 section covers it.
> What the fuck does that shit have to do with Computer Science in the first place?

Universities are not trade schools. If you expect a trade school, go to a trade school. If you expect education long many topics, with a focus on one, then go to a university. Worried that many places of business prefer university graduates to trade school graduates? Maybe there's a reason they prefer to hire from those pools. Maybe there's a bunch of small reasons that combine in the the status quo.

> The idea that you have to take courses such as "Young Karl Marx" at a university in the US in order to graduate should be alarming to anyone who understands world history.

To me, that's no more alarming than history courses in high school going into the motivations, both economical and and otherwise, which caused the U.S. civil war. There is a benefit to understanding alternative points of view, even if you don't share them. Some people, of course, will share them. I don't think that's a valid reason not to discuss those topics critically, it might make it an even better reason to discuss them, and where they worked and where they didn't.

> where you can spend a year becoming an expert in the Communist Manifesto and other related topics. Which society do you think will generate better outcomes?

Hopefully anyone that spent a year becoming an expert in communism would at least have learned that it's mostly failed, multiple times and in multiple places, and that pure communism is not something we can realistically assume would work?

Similarly to anyone in college that looks at capitalism closely will see that we don't have a system of pure capitalism, and that what makes our system work is less ideological view and more nuanced approach that uses capitalism and free markets where they work, buttresses that with regulation where there's incentives that are against the public interest, and sprinkles in socialism where it is the better fit.

Not letting people discuss this and instead insisting that that no, communism can't be given any mental space when to accurately describe the reality of the system we currently have requires knowing how it affected us throughout history strikes me as somewhat shortsighted.
As does forced WFH for some people (minus the climate aspects). Or unskillfully conducted WFH (even when everyone agrees in principle).

I think it's pretty clear that this is a topic that people have organic, gut-level differences of opinion on -- and not without a very substantial basis (thinking here of the experience of people who hate WFH and find it to be as damaging to their mental health as others find it to be liberating).

I'm still in the camp that holds that on balance there are more benefits to WFH, and fewer downsides - provided everyone is on board. But what's needed to bridge the divide is more empathy for the other side - not a bullet to the head of everyone who disagrees with us.
> If your goal is to ensure that you're getting rid of your top talent, it's a fine strategy.

Usually, you're not going to fire your top talent over corporate policy for the plebs. You're going to bend the rules.

If the company isn't bending for you, you might not be top talent - and more like just slightly above average talent - in which case, yeah, the company doesn't really care about you.

And if you really are top talent, you're not concerned if your company doesn't bend. You can go anywhere. Who cares?
kragen, what's the current status of BubbleOS?

Also, I'm curious what you think of Arcan (https://arcan-fe.com)
In the case of taxes in the United States this doesn’t really follow because if the government says you owe $x.xx then you have to go through the bureaucracy either way to either pay or dispute the charge. For most people (simple wage earner) TurboTax and other software is just an additional regulatory tax and no different than the government except that it takes money from citizens.

A government has a monopoly on taxation by definition or else it can’t be a government so calling it a public monopoly doesn’t make a lot of sense.
> The human genome [...] is about 1GB

I don't get how this is impressive or relevant on its own. Sure, it sounds small in face of the final result : a full-grown human. But this 1GB program is born out of and expressed into the full OS that is the physical world.
Does that work when the percent you're supposed to pay depends on income bracket? (Genuine question!)
> loofuck [loo·fuck]: any of various sheep of commercially weak soils. "the loofuck of some large farms"

Wow, that is NOT what I would have thought the word meant.
You're absolutely correct.

I really wish you weren't though - it makes me somewhat sad to see how often the more motivated and passionate a person is about what they do and even the success of their company, the more likely they are to eventually cross some political or etiquette boundary and end up paying for it.
You're welcome to move to another country that doesn't have taxes.
Yes, but this is like the opposite of a tragedy of the commons scenario. Are you saying the companies do this in order to save the cities and real estate prices? That's likely not even a small factor at the bottom of the list.
It isn't hard in the simple case. When you have kids and HSAs and education expenses and self-employment income and more complicated investments it gets more complicated.
> But, if a dog can do it (care about suffering) then? It's not a purely human thing

It doesn't matter if a dog cares about suffering, it matters, in this context, based on the assumptions in the first message of the thread, that the aforementioned dog cares of the suffering of fellow dogs and other living beings.

As of today, not only we can't say it does, we have evidence that they do not care as much as we do. Not by a long shot.

I've never seen a dog dig a hole to warm a rabbit dying in the snow...

We know of humans that did it, despite the fact that they could eat the rabbit to survive.

> anyway this whole discussion is based on uncertain ground -what is consciousness? What is suffering?

that's not the question though.

At the best of our knowledge today, would you prefer to have a fellow human in case of need or a dog?

If you are suffering, which living species is most probably going to help you?

Who are you betting on?

Dogs? Cats? Ants? Snakes? Sharks? or humans?

That's the question here.
But to that I ask - don't we all feel these same types of effects ourselves? Does anyone here feel happy about how much they look at their smartphone? And we're adults with fully developed brains - I cannot fathom the havoc it's wreaking on the adolescent (and younger) mind.
> If no one is willing to hire juniors, then how do you get a pool of seniors

It's self-correcting: the fewer seniors there are, the more they cost. Eventually hiring a junior becomes the more economical option. The market gets exactly as many seniors as it deserves :)
Nah. At a previous call center job I spoke with a fella who was almost 80 and very much into modern games. "I"m retired, did the military thing for 30 years, now I just wanna kick back and play Call of Duty"

Still one of my fondest customer interactions. Dude knew his stuff and was still incredibly enthusiastic about gaming.
...that is fucking terrible.

Do they not know back button and tabs exist in browsers ?
That would be dumb - now not only they are losing talent, but they are also marking themselves as 'no go' for such talent by shutting off remote work. In future they could have to work as hard as Microsoft to change that reputation like how Microsoft had to work hard to change their reputation about Open Source software. (and still couldnt actually manage to do that).
I can't, because it's clearly a good argument.
I got "recoveryism", which doesn't "exist", but is supposed to refer to the use of psychotherapy in, well, recovery.
Yes, let me give up even MORE personal and professional autonomy. I'm sure that joining a union will help me accomplish my career goals as a remote developer.
Yes, now just imagine if mainstream media could create millions of TV channels specifically designed for each human being instead of broadcasting one channel to millions of human beings?
I guess we will see what Global Britain actually means.
Their employees only unionized 8 years ago. The rapid decline and eventual bankruptcy of a company following unionization is a common pattern.

And unfortunately, the bankrupt company cannot get out of its collective bargaining agreements, making it difficult to find any buyers for its business units.
In a way, it's a permanent brand you have to wear and some employers may avoid you indefinitely thinking that you may always be vulnerable to the itch to go out and start your own thing. If I'm looking for a dependable programmer the last thing I want is an ambitious entrepenuer.
In NYC at least I expect we'll see yet more smoke shops open in their place.
if you're using it for business purposes you can use credal.ai (disclaimer: I am the founder)
Cowen has been inviting AI doomsayers to share their models and assumptions, so we can all have a reasoned debate and discussion about them. Instead, Cowen says, most of these doomsayers have been writing "these very long pieces online, which just stack arguments vertically and raise the level of anxiety" -- without actually providing information that everyone could use for evaluating the validity of those arguments. It's hard to disagree with Cowen here.
Could do that, or could unionize.

> If most of my colleagues and the owners of the company I work for decide they prefer to work in an office

If most of your colleagues prefer the office, I assume your union wouldn't push for mandatory WFH.

As for the owners—well, reducing the effect of their preferences on the experience of workers is the point of a union.
If you want to be pedantic, this isn't from the official documentation (that's the bajillion-paged manual of every instruction), it's from the intrinsics guide here: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/intrinsics-guid...

Ideally, it should pull from the same master repository of information, but given my limited experience with how documentation tends to get built, I would be not at all surprised to learn that it's copy-pasted between several different projects, so that bugs in one don't get reflected in others.
Why does that apply to this situation? What is the "common good" being destroyed by individual self-interest?
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35705683 (256 points, 55 comments)
The tax industry goes out of their way to make it seem harder than it is to justify their existence. You can do the forms by hand (not even a calculator) faster than most tax software - most of that time is added delays to make it seem like the computer has to work hard to do something hard. Unfortunately if you do things by hand you will eventually make a trivial mistake and the IRS will get mad about that.
I have long adored Salvador Dali. If you're ever in the greater Tampa area definitely check out the Dali Museum which is in St. Petersburg, even if you don't generally like art museums. They recently moved to a newer, much larger building and can display more of their collection.

https://thedali.org/
I don't think this is a one-size fits all.

I've been WFM for 7 years now. I don't think RTO is a bad thing, but its all situational. How silo'd are projects and how much inter-team coordination do you need? How long is your commute? What kind of person are you (some people just work better in office environments)? Do you need physical access to equipment? The list goes on.

Being fully remote has allowed flexibility for team members to relocate without being forced to leave and thats been the biggest advantage. Going from a FTO to WFO or RTO is a big transition that requires re-defining workflows and communication mechanisms. Products like Zoom and Slack have made that far easier, but the bigger the organization, the harder the transition.

Personally, I miss having an office. I've lost human connection by being isolated at home that isn't replaced with normal social interactions. Maybe thats just older men not making time, but office space traditionally filled that role for me.
No. They are hosting adding a beta feature that will part W2s but it didn’t work for me.
Not with one button. You must select the mails first, then you can mark them.
Came here to say this. Everyone wants the services taxes provide, no one wants to pay taxes.

> If you want lower taxes, you have to specify what things you're going to cut. (And you have to be honest about it: singling out tiny programs you disagree with doesn't even begin to cover it.)

I read an article saying that if the US federal government wants to cut the deficit to zero with no tax increases and avoid touching the entitlement programs (social security, medicare), they need to cut 70% of every other program. If you cut it evenly, it's 27%. 27%! Here's the article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/06/upshot/balanc...

If you want to cut spending, bring on the detailed proposals.
> Okay but with remote work, what's the unregulated common resource being depleted or ruined?

The power of workers to dictate their working conditions. Currently, this common resource is being overused by elites who are able to command remote work for themselves but not for regular level workers.
The film showed pets everywhere and advertisements on transit for a pet fashion spring collection.
"Someday"
This is the company behind RedPajama, which is a VERY big deal.

It's the most realistic open source attempt at recreating the Facebook LLaMA LLM, from scratch, in a way that supports commercial usage.

They released their full 2.6TB training dataset last month, and it's significant: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/17/redpajama-data/

They've also started releasing new, commercially-usable openly licensed LLM models trained on that data. You can try one of those out here: https://huggingface.co/togethercomputer/RedPajama-INCITE-Ins...
Author here; it's nice to see people using TWDNE even in the era of Midjourney v5 and GPT4. Always happy to answer questions if people have any!
Mystery tremors on Danish Baltic island puzzle scientists
Yep... Canada never got it's teeth kicked in by the 2008 crisis, but we had similar price appreciation so there was never a lul to get the younger generations into the market without significant up front costs. It's also slammed the breaks on most families upsizing their homes. They live with what they got.

I'm looking at homes today and to enter the market for a house is 1.4 million. Our family has a good income so that's actually achievable. The vast majority will never earn enough.

When real estate is perceived as a better investment than equities, society is doomed.
I'm in tech and have lived in Asia. I ran into 0 until I visited Sydney.
Basically, I disregard *ANYONE* who cows about "the market".

The market is Moloch : https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

If you could get your first born's weight in $precious_thing , you'd have a line of people doing just that. Sell a piece of your humanity and autonomy? Cool!

Hell, "the market" people would reinstitute slavery if they could.... Oh, wait, they did. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/indentured-servit...

"The market" is whatever the fuck you can get away with to get even more money for you. Most are ethical-ish, but if you look too hard, you might see the 10 year olds in the butcher plant, or the 8 year olds assembling your Apple shit.

I think that summarizes what I think of anyone who leans on "the market".
> Whatever happened to toughing it out and becoming better/stronger in the process?

This literally is not possible with a lot of mental health problems.

When your brain chemistry or your literal brain development is messed up, how are you supposed to just tough it out?

It's crazy to think that people can just overpower their own brain chemistry.
One of my favorite Windows editions of all times! But I might confuse it with NT, it's been a while...
US institutions are more constrained by notions of due process and human rights than comparable Russian or Chinese institutions. Which is probably a good thing for Americans, in general.
... except your soul
Yes I'm aware that the A stands for Atomic in Rust, not Automatic. But it is still automatic because you do not need to increment and decrement the counter manually.

> Since = is the same as .clone() in character count?

Why does character count matter? I think you're getting a bit distracted from the point.

Will you need to manually free/release objects? No you will not.
The Vatican is a state.
There have been many proposals along these lines, but Republicans in Congress don't like it because they believe making it painful to file taxes will win support for their generalized opposition to taxes.
"You should only write when you feel within you some completely new and important content, clear to you but unintelligible to others, and when the need to express this content gives you no peace."
appreciate this comment - saved me from wasting too much time -

I see it mentions ' Terms of Use of the data generated by OpenAI, and Privacy Practices of ShareGPT' on top of the other limits imposed by the project creators.

I wonder if there are any commercially usable, self hostable types of things similar, this one mentions it can be trained for around $300 - I could find uses for something like this..

but I also want something that does not have terms issues from openai or similar as well.