skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And in the USA, unemployment is really low, and is usually lower than other countries in most economic climates. Investors are more prone to invest in new or expanding companies when the leadership is able to protect their assets faster by shedding costs in the event of a downturn. Wish we had a better healthcare safety net for people, but overall, I think our system is better.
Vanguard is not an active shareholder setting corporate direction.

Having them as a shareholder in common just means they are in the same index and has no impact on potential collusion.
I know at least some mildly incompetent people that were hired in medium to senior positions at Hashicorp. It's not unique to Hashicorp, but basically by just being in the valley you were immediately guaranteed high paying jobs against much more competent peers. Yes this might be problematic, but a lot of these people should never have been hired in the first place.

Unfortunately there is something extremely toxic about VC money(not saying it applies to Hashicorp) which is that growth is defined in headcount.
It sounds really scary, but it’s so they can actually collect evidence. Now they target a hacking group but can’t break in with their targets to actually collect evidence.

They still need a judge to provide a warrant, there is still oversight.

In practice not much will change, except they only have to ask for 1 warrant instead of 10 like they do now.
“why they felt the anonymous VPN operator was more trustworthy than a regulated ISP”:
- the VPN operator has never had an employee visit your home.
- the VPN operator did not require any type of credit check and/or require extensive personal information.
- the barriers to change VPN operator are substantially lower.

I’m not a huge fan of the VPN operators, but there are real differences in the trust required with each.
> (and, of course, vice versa).

True, but only one of these parties ever talks about fixing the system. To be fair, of course, that's partially because the data says they'd win almost every election if it came down to a straight popular vote, so any system not specifically gamed against them is in their favor.
Might have pthalates/softeners [1] which can be carcinogenic. Not ideal to circulate. Suggest cloth tape

[1]https://adhesives.specialchem.com/selection-guide/hot-melt-a...
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Vacancy rates for commercial real estate are what 20-30%? While the economy continues to grow, so no this narrative about productivity is pure bs.

Every post about how I overhead some conversation, the problem is you not knowing how to manage people. There are field workers, trades, all of India working remotely, always, long before Covid.

Had a 4 hour call to fix a bug , 1 on 1, never got distracted, no one butted in, no one asked to go out for lunch, coffee, had some bs made up management emergency that required everyone. No one told me that x,y,z brought apples and they are in the kitchen. My working day has more working hours than it ever did while living in NYC because as everyone knows ~20% of your waking hours are spent commuting.

Oh I remembered my all time least favorite activity, where we pile into a room to eat team lunch with plastic utensils off paper plates, while someone from some management organization tells us how we should see the world… yeah no thanks. I wonder why is there is no demand for commercial r/e oh that’s right because unless you are a unicorn company or actually physically need to be at a location to perform a task, the vast majority prefers working from home.
When you have methods named `cons` `car` and `cdr` that appear to work in the same way as lisp's methods of the same name it's pretty clear that you're not pretending or attempting to be "novel".

While it _should_ say it's a lisp / scheme, given those it doesn't really _need_ to say that because it's pretty forehead slappingly obvious to anyone who knows what lisp or scheme are.
The ideological perspective would not exist if nuclear was economic. It is simply an easy boogeyman to blame.

SMR are not looking that hot either, looks like the prevalent truth from the 70 years of nuclear construction: that bigger is better due to the large fixed costs, stays true even in 2023.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dream-of-mini-nuclear-plants...
I agree, it's essentially their proof of concept for "see ? it's not actually embedded we can work without"
I wonder what it plays like at more modest settings
The actual post: https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm#selected
I still don't understand why people are trying to poop on Reddit so bad lately. Anyone care to try to explain? Everything I've heard so far has been ill-founded and I mostly don't care to research it...
thanks for the detailed answer!

my quick notes while reading:

"[...] in fact, learn about sharing and friendship." yeah, no questions about it, I think you're still underselling the super part of the argument though. to me, it seems the point is that it picks a goal and then mercilessly pursues it with a super-weird strategy that has some very high likelihood of success (because it's truly fucking knows what it's doing, and we can't do much against it, because it's so so so smart, by the time we realize the goal it's too late). so to me it seems like the thesis is that it's like a really smart "Putin", powerful and set on a goal that's irrational for us.

"Transformer architecture reinforcement-trained AGI " ... I think it's not an AGI. It's a nice content generator that when engineered into certain setups can score a lot of points on tests. But it doesn't have memory/persistence/agency (yet).

My thinking about intelligence is nowadays based on Joscha Bach's theories. (General intelligence is the ability to model arbitrary things one pays attention to; and the measure of intelligence is the efficiency of this process in terms of spent attention and the predictive accuracy of the model. And consciousness is the result of self-directed attention.)

The recent AI progress made a lot of people worry, because it seemed "impossible" just a few years ago what OpenAI did. And it's amazing that now we have basically replicated the human brain's lossy data storage and sensation-based recall capability. But that's just a building block of a mind. (Maybe, arguably?, the one that seemed like the hardest. After all how hard it could be to provide some working memory, a few core values, and duct tape all that into a do-while loop!?)
Well. One is a language that has metasyntactic abilities and a decent standard library. One is not. Defining a package in guix is a lot nicer than in nix
If she flirts I’ll up it to 50%? Any takers?
Ask HN: How to make money in a pinch as a Developer
A tax invoice and a client with bad payment morale has left me in a pinch to earn a couple thousand EUR ASAP. What can a experienced Freelance Developer do to make some money quick?

Usually I would get another project but the only projects I was offered would start next month with earliest payment EOM. Which is too late.

The last couple of years I worked as fullstack developer with Rails/Ruby, Spring/Java, Kubernetes and associated technologies for German companies. In the past I also worked with C# & PHP and probably could get back to speed.

I would be able to live and breathe a project for the next couple of weeks the issue is how to find such a project quickly? Do you guys know clever alternatives like writing technical articles for blogs or something?

Thanks for your time and effort!
You can't just tell guy that moves boxes in CSS for a living to start writing database code
nothing's wrong with another lisp clone.

the problem is with not being upfront about it. The problem is the implication that this is something new, that may solve some new problem in some new way.

Now, it MAY do something other lisp clones don't, but if it does there's zero indication of it in the readme.
Beeftext: An open-source text substitution tool for Windows
There is no other site more dependant on its users for its success than Reddit. There is no other site with more militant users that Reddit. If they want to they can and will cause havoc. Do you want to invest in something with such a volatile and uncontrollable workforce? The Reddit management know how this will end, not well.
"reddit won't let me spam! Reddit is the problem", oh... Well at least they made their view of what the internet is to them.
By this rationale anything digital is an asset every PDF you buy, every software you buy license for or heck every offline piece of art you buy, why does it have value beyond raw materials.....
the "got" also makes it sound like it's a challenge to have chatgpt write whatever.
Yes! It was the “Rory Award” from Life, the Universe and Everything:

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Rory_Award

Definitely funnier as “Belgium”.
monitoring the presence of disk and network activity in general was a lot more useful when computers only did things when you told them to and only made connections to remote hosts when you explicitly requested it. Never knowing what your devices are doing or who/what they are communicating with without having to launch a full scale investigation was nice.
Going a step further, the constitution doesn't require states to have their citizens vote on the delegates to the electoral college. The state (Legislature) could decide that the Electors are actually always for one party's candidate and that no state wide election is necessary.

> [1] Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

[1]: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-2/section-1...
Most people would like to have a macbook. That they can't afford it is a different point. Most people who get a macbook can adapt to macos. Those who can't are the minority. I never said that macbooks are number one selling laptops in the world.
What exactly do you mean by "digital twins" and what benefits do you see? In other fields it indeed seems to be massive buzzword with little clarity around it.
I feel this. My love for BSD almost matches my love for Nix, it's unfortunate I have to choose one or the other.

I'm aware Nix is closely integrated with SystemD, so availability on BSD will probably never happen (though perhaps you could use the Darwin code as a starting point?), but I'd be curious to know what in particular limits Guix from being ported.
Is green electricity suppose to be nonviable now? If you can accept that green electricity, which will be the dominate source of unexpected cost, is going to be very cheap, then anything predominately made from it will also be very cheap.

This is a repeat of the anti-wind and solar attacks because it is the same general principle. Basically an appeal to the unknown that the new green technology couldn't possibly be cheap, despite plenty of evidence that cost is dropping or that there is no expensive supply chain.
Such a frustrating article. Does it work! That's all I want to know! This is such a trash article. The author clearly wanted to tackle this topic -it's a good topic, but didn't actually find any pre-existing concrete facts that could answer the question and so just wrote the article without answering the question.

Are wildfire particles bigger or smaller than 0.1 microns? I don't know, this article doesn't say, and without that knowledge you can't say the Dyson Zone works in this case.

On top of that, it's not actually clear to me that the Zone actually works as a product at all - yes the air that goes through the filters gets filtered to some scientifically measurable degree, but does that filtered actually get into your lungs? Because the mask is not sealed, so it's perfectly possible when you take a deep breath you just suck in a tonne of air from around the mask and so your 99.9% pure air is suddenly 50:50 mixed with completely impure air.
Sorry. I'm not arguing it doesn't happen. (I agree that it's an extremely common outcome.)

I'm arguing that it shouldn't happen and, if it does, that would explain that layoffs disproportionately hitting those whose return-on-cost is lowest means disproportionately hitting those whose candles-on-cake is highest.

> Slowly accumulating raises as you age without seeking a management role means out eventually.

At whatever the career level is for your org, some people should probably stop getting merit raises entirely. If their merit isn't increasing, there's no reason their pay should be either. They could drift up as the entire market wage drifts up, but if a 10-years-at-VP is just as valuable as a 20-years-at-VP, they should be paid the same. (I'd much rather start having that conversation when they're 11-at-VP and get no merit raise and it's still a good time economically than 9 years later when they're surprised to be shown the door with zero warning after a string of merit-free merit increases and a stack of "meets expectations" performance reviews.)
Sorry, I can't remember. They suddenly lowered the amount of clients a few years ago. This locked me out of my e-mail client. Since 2FA updates were sent to my e-mail it lead to a bit of tail-biting. Pretty much the same problem can happen with a passkey. Either way this blew away a lot of the trust I used to have in password managers, so out of frustration I coded my own as a backup that can digest Dashlane output so I never need to rely only on them ever again.
We need to quit telling ourselves stories, do the math, and find a workable solution that addresses the problem before we reach “too late”

At this point we need to address several problems at once. There’s no one solution and we need to be relatively quick.

Also, Coal is still the low hanging fruit because it produces 20% of emissions. It needs to go to zero as soon as possible.

https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/its-critical-tackle-coal-...

Maybe gone by 2040?
lisp is great, I'm currently learning Janet, playing with fennel and clojure.

But a new 'lispish' should not replicate ancient historical 'accidents', IMHO, and in fact lisp itself should deprecate these names (and caar, caadr, caaaddr ... OMG).

first, rest, or head, tail, or whatever please.
Some companies can't for cultural reasons. Sometimes, it's really just that you got your strategy wrong and now you have a bunch of domain/technical experts who specialise in stuff that's altogether useless for your new direction.
Dr. Dobb's Dec 1994 had an article on writing HTML. I used it as a reference to write my first homepage (remember when homepages were a thing?) in Dec. 1994 on the computer science club's server. It was my first introduction to the inner workings of the web. Fun times.
Yea but nowdays the amount of work to buy a home to turn on your lights from takes 30x what it used too. So what's it really matter...
And then lose the moderators that make each sub Reddit work, they could do that, but then it would just turn into Voat eventually.
I don't think I'm confused. I'm merely extrapolating current trends. Are you hoping it's an s-curve or asserting it is?
> I say this as somebody who manages a wholly remote team from across the world, 5 countries and timezones.

Doesn’t this partly imply you wouldn’t have good data to compare performance of remote vs local?
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Thank you for explaining this.

Normal people who are used to cooking at home see it as no big deal to whip up a simple meal.

Some of the rest of us encounter insurmountable obstacles in our own kitchens.

Personally, I haven't prepared a single meal at home since last October. I've been ordering delivery at an extraordinary markup.

Several bad experiences last year put me permanently off home meal preparation. I've tried all the alternatives. I'm desperate to save money; I'm desparate to eat better. I have been left with no other choice.

Basically 100% of my paychecks go to fund those meals because the alternatives are absolutely intractable, due to several of the above factors.
I just don’t understand that metric or why Dvorak people keep using it. Yes my fingers might travel less, but do we know that moving your hands less leads to a reduction in pain and injury? I’d argue having them constantly in the same position might also do that.

And what about comfort? My index finger is stronger than my pinky; id much rather move further with my index finger than my pinky..
My Bowflex scale does this. I tend to switch modes / user profiles if I care about accuracy.
I was saying that people who have macbooks and can't adapt to macos are in the minority. Not that laptops sells the most laptops in the world
I operate https://apewisdom.io/ I think that I can deal with the new pricing, but only at the condition that Reddit improves its current API, ideally adding websocket support, so that I don't have to pull a complete subreddit every x minutes.

Also currently you cannot get all the comments on a thread in one API call, it can take you hundreds to do it, because you can only do so by querying individually nested response when there are many. So it might cost you $1 already just to pull a daily thread under the current API system.

Also, you can only query the 500 last submissions (in new / best).

The Reddit API as it stands currently really sucks.
I have learned that it makes sense to hire less good looking people, other things being roughly equal. Very attractive people - both men and women - are a distraction to a workforce of young, single people, and lots of flirting in the office can get toxic very quickly. Furthermore, if two people appear to be equally qualified for a job, you can bet your bottom dollar that the uglier one had to work harder to get there. To my knowlege, there is no law against discriminating on an attractiveness basis, as long as both men and women are treated equally.
chronofar's comment isn't incompatible with that.

I don't think a remote-first approach inherently takes more time and effort, but it requires a culture change.

If you alone are trying to adopt a remote-first strategy I definitely think it will take more of your time and effort, but if your company culture is remote-first I don't think it should.
Eurozone falls into recession, hit by high energy prices and interest rate hikes
Good ones!
Keeping water away from the house is the most common answer to "I have water problems", level the ground away, pull rain gutter away, and if you have the chance (a new house for example) make sure drainage along the foundations is built correctly.

Here is Sweden we have freeze safe faucets, otherwise it is not enough to cover them you need to empty the water from the lone leading to them (Source- I skipped that and a pipe burst)
>equal numbers of terms won by each party. Therefore, in my view gerrymandering doesn't really have a negative effect on democracy

The point of democracy is not to deliver an equal number of victories to each of the parties. It is to reflect the will of the people. A 10 percent lean in one direction is a 10 percent negative effect on democracy.
Reddit could have done zero development in the past decade and the website would be more usable today, not less
> Gcp is profitable, azure is not

Asserting that GCP is profitable while Azure is not doesn't necessarily determine their respective successes. A company might reinvest all its revenue back into growth and innovation, hence posting zero profit - this doesn't signify poor performance. Conversely, a company reporting a profit could potentially be stagnating, inflating profits to appease shareholders potentially seeking to exit. Profitability alone isn't a comprehensive measure of a company's health or potential.

> Google invented LLMs

Poor argument. E.g. Xerox invented GUI, where are they now?
—>“new development allows for more efficient gerrymandering”?
Smaller companies and organizations have an incentive of going remote-only or mostly-remote to save on rent.

Google owns offices. Similarly, Apple may have not demanded workers' presence in office if they haven't built their huge doughnut in Cupertino.

One can only hope that smaller orgs won't brainlessly copycat Google "because it's Google, they're big so they must know what they're doing".
Isn't the Angolia backend just one of the possible 'sources' as they put it? You can easily add your own backend as a source I imagine
Very interesting, thank you. I'll definitely try it out.
I don't know your special teams/managers etc.

I switched from a technical position to a manager one one year ago. My team is remote mostly, myself included in different countries/continents. I do travel to the office to meet colleagues going to the office and having face-to-face time with some.

I don't need to see my team everyday but I do need to have a vision of what they are doing and busy with because we are working on a lot of different projects, pursuing sales opportunities and trying to balance the work based on skills/time available/opportunities to learn or emergencies. So I tend to do 1 team meeting weekly and weeklies with most of the time on the side at least, track project on slack/jira/crm and try to have a board view of my team while being read to deep-dive when needed.

Do I like being on site? Yes but mostly to talk with project manager and product owner, it is more easier to brainstorm/have meaningful discussions in a semi-informal setting of a coffee. For technical colleagues on my team, it is different depending on the tasks : creative/architecture/whatever or routine/operational.

Can't see my team on site everyday anyway but would prefer for some specific type of interaction.

Well that's just me trying to find my way in management so grain of salt and personal bias and imposter syndrome warning :)
Well, I tried running it on my MBP M1 Max 64gb and whilst it works great (in low res, it does not go max on 4K with acceptable fps), it gets really hot. Just don’t game on a laptop.
There are plenty of people who are super regular, and super disciplined in their routines. What would be really impressive to me is if she never once got food poisoning or flu and broke the streak in that way.
Hotter climate is supposed to create more rain is it not?
In this case, you're shooting the messenger. You can think that citing company values can be moralistic, but at the end of the day it's all about showing the people to not drink the Kool-aid and how ruthless the market is.

It's easy to say that the ZIRP time was the main drive of this decade for the crazy market where we are, but let's not forget that most of those companies lured people and part of the market based on some misleading "employer branding" optics like transparency, being a great employer, autonomy, inflated salaries, distorted incentives and so on.

They are co-responsible for these shaky times as well also.
It is good to know the basics, but there is so much to learn and so much variation in how houses are built that a lot is taught simply from (painful) experience