skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big part of the reason it failed for decades is because of the challenges of remote work. It can be difficult to onboard, you need higher documentation standards, more asynchronous communication processes.

Now many people are gung ho on solving these problems to enable wfh. And I personally view that as indirectly solving a lot of the reasons that international offshoring failed.

Even things like challenges with taxes and local labor laws - there are now brand new companies to address exactly that.

In the end the only barriers will be timezones, and even that the aforementioned async flows seek to address.

People keep saying “they tried outsourcing for decades and it failed, it’s a bluff” as if nothing has changed. Lots of stuff changed like improved video tooling. But perhaps the biggest change by far would be the remote first culture people are trying to build. Pre-Covid, every single FAANG company was office-centric to a degree. Bringing in international teams and integrating them would be effectively impossible. Remote first changes that.

Hacker news has so many wfh zealots you won’t even see much discussion around it since people tire of getting downvoted. But worth noting in my experience talking to IC SWE it’s closer to 70/30 preference for remote but based on online convos you’d think it was 99/1.

I personally quit a FAANG job with FAANG comp precisely because my org went remote first. The culture was alienating, the camaraderie was zero, incident management was a coordination nightmare , documentation for onboarding was a mess, and best of all, all my new teammates were Brazilian but since they were contractors they didn’t do on-call.

Management absolutely plans to replace Americans with much cheaper foreigners but there’s still just so much friction with remote-first. The only reason this big outsourcing push might work this time is because of the number of Americans hellbent on overcoming the challenges of remote work and simplifying their own eventual redundancy.
I've already bought it, you don't need to sell it to me.
Uh, yeah. I've been looking at programmatically writing guide tone lines and motifs in jazz for my personal piano practice, and this... looks very sophisticated.
Wikipedia bans editors but sidesteps broader action in Holocaust distortion row
> The problem is that this "nonsense" is not a coincident. All of it is carefully planned, executed and fed to the public to divert their attention from core issues.

So, you do agree that this is a boring exercise which doesn't deserve the breathless coverage that it's getting?
Reddit has censored themselves into absurdity. I literally can't read the front page without being logged in anymore because it's actually just all propaganda from top to bottom. At least the site was usable during this cached period, but that version of reddit is totally gone now. The fact that they used to tout free speech is hard to believe these days.
That's not a name I was expecting to see on HN! I haven't had the luck of taking one of his courses, but I discussed many interesting puzzles with him at a conference last year, great guy!
> it’s currently the top OSS chat model that can be used commercially on the chatbot arena score board

To be fair, that filters the majority of models in the scoreboard.
Ha it was cool before I learned about web tech I didn't recognize some terms like PHP/wget, but later on with more rewatches I recognized/could read code.
A million dollar home only requires around 200-250k of income which isn’t that much for these areas. And if your partner is employed as well it’s even easier.

I even know people that make sub 100k in the Bay Area that bought their own homes after 10-15 years of saving.
Sunk cost fallacy. The developer has a product to sell regardless of how much effort was spent getting there; they own it and only need to sell it or even license it. The salesperson hasn’t demonstrated they can sell and has nothing of value other than their potential; just like all the other salespeople looking for jobs. A pretty easy class of people to join.
Yep, it is all different. Software and hardware. But what it comes down to isn't the number but the performance and we often have to watch these metrics closely.
People have been saying this and it has been happening; it sounds like you may be unfamiliar with how many jobs are regularly shifted overseas: “Since Trump’s inauguration on 20 January 2017 to 31 July 2020, over 308,000 workers have been certified for trade adjustment assistance benefits.” The history of off-shoring manufacturing is also pretty well known. Articles about the US’ resulting woeful lack of manufacturing capacity are easy to find.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/12/us-corporat...

Edit: spelling

2nd edit: noting these are not tech specific jobs, but the trend is there.
Spending 5 years in Thailand I've learned that Buddhism while funamentally different from other religions in the best ways operates just the same in practical reality. It's almost like classification and status is inherit to any group activity and not in a good way unfortunately.

To give perspective on the "dark" side of Buddhism I highly recommend "Come and See" documentary on Netflix which is hard to explain without spoilers but it's a great illustration of how everything evolves into a crab eventually.
Are language and communication skills, timezone, cultural willingness to disagree with bad decisions / report bad news, diligence, and UX skills are fungible?

Either they are, and every company has somehow overlooked them, or they aren’t, and years of failed outsourcing experiments has shown this.
Wonder how many people insisting that software jobs in the US are safe from foreign competition drive Japanese cars, use motherboards and top end CPUs designed and manufactured in Taiwan, use South Korean manufactured DRAM, and use other high tech products pioneered in western countries that are now largely engineered and manufactured outside of the west?
> Walking out to protest multiple rounds of layoffs may not be the power move you imagine.

Sure it is, if you're unionised!

I've seen decades of comments, even here on HN, from devs who say that unions are not necessary for software development.

Welcome to the future, I guess?
Unfortunately Reddit moved past "slippery slope" censorship and went to full on avalanche.

"Hate speech" censorship apologists are the worst, by the way.
Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs was so spot on, Apple had him give a WWDC keynote speech in character.

Less celebrated, but no less brilliant, is John DiMaggio (yes, the voice of Bender) as Steve Ballmer.
>Large subreddits have their issues with transparency I agree but what are you trying to suggest? Reddit-appointed moderators? If so, you are in for a rude awakening.

I would create a system where moderators have far less power, and that Subreddit members can vote on rules, posts being deleted, etc. The system would be much more democratic. Members would also be able to challenge moderator actions or even reverse moderator actions.

As of right now, Reddit has a problem where moderators have too much power. On top of that, moderators aren't being paid so they can't be controlled.
Are there any estimates anywhere of how many A100s would be needed to e.g. train a 30B model in 6 months?
Yeah. Absolutely loaded with Ukrainian propaganda. Granted, I want Russia to lose the war they started.
Only study scientists with no friends.
Taking into account the limits of how much can be stored in a hidden state.

My theory is that the model will start generalising the information stored once it starts going past its limits (like real life humans)

So if we take books as an example, we probably do not remember every single word. But we might vaguely remember which section or book events occur

Combine this with the agent model, and we may have an alternative for embeddings. Where we can ask which pages the model recall is relevant to the question. Bring those pages up again. And get the answers

(Once again like how a human might answer in real life)
That’s not correct, if your service deals with PII from European then you are subject to GDPR. It doesn’t matter where the company is located.
With MySQL 8.0+, you might not even need pt-osc. A lot of schema changes can be performed online now.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/innodb-online-ddl-op...
Yes I am (apparently) in the acknowledgments. I was not an author on the paper because I didn’t have time to contribute too much. I also try to err on the side of not being added to papers, as my position (I run EleutherAI) tends to encourage people to be overgenerous with offers. I anticipate having more time this coming month and being on the version that’s submitted for peer review, but we’ll see.

BlinkDL has been working on this project for two-ish years, originally in the EleutherAI discord and then created his own to house the project.

I wasn’t thinking too hard about my exact wording, but yes I was thinking of EleutherAI and its various spin-off servers. EleutherAI doesn’t /run/ any of the other servers, but we all have a close collaborative relationship. I’m sure there’s a lot of duplication of membership (e.g., I’m in all of them) but quickly adding up the membership of each server comes out to around 70,000. EleutherAI and LAION are the largest at 25k each, with the others typically having around 5k each. I would expect at least 30k of those users to be unique though.
Maybe it's a good thing that they can't be controlled?
No it’s not. That salary is relatively high for the US but that is only because every other industry has been eviscerated for decades. Every other industry told themselves “it’s fine, I’m being paid well so I won’t worry about it” and then their job got shipped to Shenzhen.
Reddit hive mind latches onto feel good stories but ignores logic and history. Everything is black and white, good and evil to the average Redditor.

It's best to avoid Reddit front page and large subs.

PS. Reddit's transparent upvote system highly encourages popular and feel good opinions at the expense of accuracy. You can write a quality post backed by peer reviewed science but still get downvoted if it doesn't fit within a sub's consensus opinion.
it sounds like desire for prudence at a quasi-public foundation.

it might be completely misplaced though.

but more transparency might help in this case too. make the job have some standard salary, make the contract public, and allow people to submit their resumes and let the board pick the best candidate. again, this might be super naive (it is!), but that doesn't mean it wouldn't work.

of course if it's a requirement to have the CEO live in the Bay Area, continue growing the WMF (and in general do a lot more than keeping Wikipedia working well), then it's not surprising that the candidate pool is drastically smaller, and the money involved is a lot more.

(of course, again, maybe it's worth talking about what the public wants Wikipedia and the WMF to be, but ... maybe it's up to those who donate?)
True, optimising rules doesn’t always make things fairer or better…

But it doesn’t hurt to revisit old rules, especially when circumstances like cars have changed so much
How A Computer Broke a 50-Year Math Record
That's just like the cars. You want a feature, YOU PAY! monthly for that.

But the resources already went into production, all the necessary stuff is in board already. That makes it more expensive for the customers, as the return on investment is lower for the producer directly on selling day, didn't he buy to much of parts, did he?

I wish
On the other hand, there are entire communities that would entirely disappear if Reddit died tomorrow. Stuff like Marathon (the game) and ergonomic mechanical keyboards just don’t have enough of a presence online to be able to direct everyone toward a new gathering point.

Fuck Reddit though. It’s all propaganda and censorship at this point. Both US political parties too - r/conservative has rules just as abusive as r/politics.
My favorite SimCity 4 bug:

There were several minigames where you would drive vehicles around in your city. If you drove a train, you would have to get from one point to another in a certain amount of time. Drive fire trucks to a fire to put it out. Stuff like that.

Emergency vehicles had sirens that you could turn on that caused other cars to drive towards the shoulder and stop so you could pass them, which worked great... except at intersections, which caused cars driving at right angles to your path to dart forward and come to a complete stop, blocking the road. Making the siren totally useless, oops!
As a software engineer, I needed to meet people for my growth in the start of my career, and I needed to meet people for character development. Old farts complain that younglings are not socially/emotionally independent and apt to talk to their computer all day, but that’s also a recipe for suicide.
Let's assume I agree that it should be a shared resource by all. How do you get from the current state to the desired state.

You start from a place where the state has granted water rights by law and told people that this is yours, you can use it up to the very last drop. This has been the law for 150 years and people have built businesses and lives based on the idea that the government upholds the laws and contracts it made.

Do you just start one day and tell people with water rights that it sucks to suck, but the people have decided that they want what we previously promised was yours forever. It's your fault because you believed that the government would be consistent and uphold it's commitments.
> seems the land of the Linux desktop has abandoned GNOME's years of user-hostile actions and moved to either KDE or to increasingly more obscure build-a-desktop stuff (ie, sway + waybar, or river, or bspwm, or w/e).

This is a bizzare take. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RedHat and its spinoffs all default to GNOME.
It’s easier to talk a big game on the internet than quit your job and work for a remote company.
EVs can be heavy; if quick internet search figures are accurate it looks like all Teslas beyond the Roadster are in the top fee bracket -- from the Model 3 (3,500 to 4,000 lbs) to the Model X (5,200 to 5,400)
Quite sure that’s a massive violation of GDPR. It’s almost guaranteed some European PII are in the dataset.
I've managed a few "prompt injections", nearly all benign. It is funny to me that SEO garbage works on resume/CV AI.

I wonder how linked "organic search engine results polluted with SEO nonsense" and prompt injection are, as problems.

Google can hire me and i'll figure it out.
Sam Altman doesn’t either.

Salary only complicates things.. especially your taxes.
In a right to work state, every single day is an implicit negotiation with your employer. The only reason you go to work that day is because you’re satisfied with your compensation.
Bets on how long until they seize the means of production and occupy those spheres with some kind of eco-libertarian anarcho neutral zone?
That’s a loaded question without deciding dataset size
At this point, I’d ask what you mean by meritocracy here. Is the (supposed) lack of meritocracy in the awarding of accolades the same as a lack of meritocracy when it comes to the recognition of the actual science done? Clearly from your comments, while these scientists didn’t win the Nobel prize, their work certainly got the recognition it did and made the impact it’s supposed to have.

This whole thread is a cesspool of bait and switch and moving of goalposts surrounding the idea of meritocracy. Has the Hacker News community always been so dogmatic about such topics, or is this a recent trend I’m observing in the last few years?
Why? It's cheaper to pay for parking one minivan than it is to pay for parking two cars.
All of these city games need to simulate bureaucracy. For example, if trying to demolish an apartment, you need to solicit 400 approvals and gain local support before doing so. Or to build to a railway you need to buy out all of the land and organize environmental studies for every square foot of it before laying track.
Maybe you grew up as a single kid, but if you take part in a society bureaucracy takes the role of managing the flow, conflicts and frictions between the different interests. What is the alternative? The right of the stronger? Warfare?

How "well" the private market solves certain problems can be observed in every nation that privatized parts of their former crown jewels. If there was evidence rhat "the market" did it better, I'd be all for it. But we have ample evidence for the opposite.
I care less about weight (although that obviously does affect road maintenance) and a great deal more about dimensions. The arseholes who block footpaths with their oversized vehicles have purchased something too wide to fit in a standard roadside park; the people who can't keep their killer security blanket in a single lane and hang into oncoming traffic because it doesn't fit on the road.
This is why user comments need to be cryptographically signed. Cryptography prevents this sort of nefarious and hidden corruption.
Reddit has never touted free speech.

They were just lax about moderation until things got out of control and the company was at risk of being kicked off the app stores and being held complicit in some of the illegal conduct that was happening on the site.
This might also be country-specific. I didn’t even have internet at that point, let alone chat.
Law enforcement is investigating. What are you talking about?
> You have a good point but software that exists with no one to sell it is more valuable than salesman with nothing to sell.

Never seen that happen. Software that exists with no one to sell it just doesn't get sold.

On the other hand, a salesman with nothing to sell is Bill Gates when he signed on to provide MS DOS for IBM.

In fact, if you look over the history of this industry, success has, with few exceptions, always been sales-first, then development effort.

It's why we prioritise MVP: do the minimum necessary that we can sell, so that the dev effort is not wasted. At it's core, MVP would involve absolutely no development at all.
RSUs, stock options - those provide incentive that scales with the company’s success. Just because you’re at Company X that makes billions of dollars and makes one more billion next year does not automatically entitle you to part of that 1b as it’s likely due to work done by employees before you.

Turning it around - would you also take a paycut, or even clawing back bonuses or past income if the company starts losing money?
Bringing GPS to the Moon Is the Next Frontier
This is a total misunderstanding of the way Reddit works. If you don't like the moderation and enough people agree with you, you can just go start your own subreddit. All it is is an SSO and identity solution across multiple communities. If you don't like the moderators, you can start your own subreddit.

It's actually perfect because lots of people complain about "the power-hungry mods" but in the end, very few of those could do any better, which is why there are a few schism subreddits do well.

Ultimately, Reddit is the master of "show me the money". You think you could do better? Then do better. There's nothing stopping you. Just outcompete them in the marketplace of ideas.

You can start a subreddit and pay moderators. No one will get upset.
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history

"Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell’s journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past — an event, a person, an idea, even a song — and asks whether we got it right the first time. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance."
As a student, I think I only saw this a few times. Maybe at the end of 6.001 with Abelson & Sussman? As a professor, no, I've never gotten any kind of applause, though some polite "thank you" is no uncommon (and very much appreciated).
Solving Rubik's Cube via Quantum Mechanics and Deep Reinforcement Learning
We employ a quantum formalism and a unitary representation of the Rubik's Cube, using Deep Reinforcement Learning to navigate Hamiltonian operators for potential quantum solutions.
Another CEO hoping to avoid laying off people by forcing them to self-select quitting.
I believe that’s in large part to the battery, which weighs somewhere around 1,200-1,700lbs
Pro-war propaganda is the right way to look at it.

The USA profits from a protracted war in Ukraine. All of that money we send just goes right back into the military industrial complex.
In a game of chicken, everyone who plays does so knowing the cliff is right there. Riding what you know is an investment bubble has a little more upside than driving toward a cliff. Same exit strategy, lesser consequence, similarly reckless in attitude.

At the time people showed the necessary cashflows & growth required for profitless doctcom companies to justify their price and nobody could make it make sense. You'd have to be pretty stupid to think greater fools buying can go on forever.

I'm sure some people in finance "believed" in it and others claimed to. Not many in the circles I moved in even paid lip-service unless they were in the IPO business. Plenty played. Did your experience differ?
This is factually wrong. The only barrier isn't 'time zones' and will never be just time zones. It's cultural, environmental, political. The way a US-based team builds a product is different from an outsourced team in India which is different from having an actual office and team in India. Trying to get a team in a whole 'nother part of the world operate on a US time scale is incredibly hard because they are going to have different holidays and time off. You may need a product delivered this week, but your key developer in Ireland is off for a week and they have the federal right to do so.

In the United States we have -zero- mandatory minimum paid vacation or holidays. Your employer could require you to come in and work to push a product out. You cannot do that in most other countries.

Like with these kind of remarks I start to wonder how seriously you're aware of with countries and holidays outside of the US.
Democracy on a platform known for having thousands of bots and more popping up all the time seems unlikely to perform as desired.
Reddit is a business not a charity.

If you want advertisers and be able to operate legally around the world then you need moderation.
I guess it's the same problem as with the all-loving god of Christianity and the people who claim "God hates ...'.
I know lots of top performers who enjoy being back in the office, and low performers who would prefer WFH so they can coast under the radar
The most woo woo articles somehow get traction outside core hours.
I'd love to see more systematic documentation of Reddit's censorship, since they have so much power over the opinions of so many. There is https://www.reveddit.com who has done a lot of work for anti-censorship.
Banks Got Rising Rates Wrong
Remember that Microsoft is heavily invested in OpenAI, so Gates as a strong interest in believing and saying AI will kill Google and Amazon.

That doesn't disqualify the statement, but know your source.
I am skeptical that this is due to any positives on the NYC side, but more a story of the Bay Area's decline.

Of the 796 US cities with 50k+ population, San Francisco ranks 796/796 in population growth % over the last 2 years (-7.5%) while NYC ranks 793/796 (-5.3%).

https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2...
Professional licensure would be great. The whole union thing is for people lower in the pay scale.