skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a refreshing comment to read. HN and Reddit discussions about employment in the US is often just a dumpster fire of "America bad", half-baked theories and observations from the perspective of the employee, where US workers have no rights and would be rioting in the streets if we hadn't been brainwashed by corporate media.

Here on earth, what you wrote is much closer to the truth. The American economy is awash with opportunities to work for small businesses, with employees free to move around and chart their own destiny.
Interestingly it's not the only growth out of Feudalism. Miskin argues, for instance, that France and England had very different post-feudal trajectories, but England's move into Capitalism was so successful in the short term it required France to engage in Capitalism to stay relevant.

England moved to a landlord-rent model for their agrarian society, whereas France moved to a tax on production model for their agrarian society. The distinction there is subtle, but the English model encourages improvidence to ensure you can make the rent, and that improvidence leads to increased output, pressure on workers to move to cities and away from their familial land. The French model didn't put as much pressure on maximizing productivity, and their post feudal agrarian society was perhaps a little slower to take off economically, but wasn't burdened with quite the same social upheaval that capitalism led to in England.

It's a very interesting history, and I do wish we'd been able to see more post-feudal societies develop. I think there's a number of different economic models out there that would be functional. They might not be as economically strong, but they might have different strengths w.r.t. population health, happiness, or sustainability.
Colorado River Basin has lost enough water to fill Lake Mead
Turning Twitter into X is set to kill billions in brand value
Unlocked WaPo article for the lay person https://wapo.st/3q6uuGQ
> I'd suggest you take Amtrak from St. Louis to Chicago and see how empty it actually is

I've taken it dozens of times. It's not even vaguely empty. Largely because the train starts in Chicago. It takes a bit to get to less full stretches.

edit: in my head I was thinking Chicago-St. Louis. The answer is actually simpler - the train is relatively empty from St. Louis to Chicago because it is the last leg of the trip. Chicago is the end of the line.
Any sysadmin remote roles here? I'm in Europe.
the net energy of the system will not remain the same if we keep inputing at a non negatable rate
Oh yeah, if you're talking about dev shops, don't hire dev shops (the "hired" VS extremely green person phenomenon you're talking about happens in these kinds of companies because their incentive is to sell hours/men, instead of actual value).

Do your diligence, and your technical/communication/leadership interviews to make sure you're hiring the right person.

And if it doesn't work out after 2-3 months, fire the person. It happens in all formats of work whether it's remote, hybrid, or onsite.
That's not really a meaningful difference, though. It's still an identifier unique to you, and as soon as even a single company can correlate that identifier with any of your other identifiers, the game is over. Your iris now directly identifies you.
That's part of why I bought a late CX-5 . While there is a touch display, it can be fully controlled with the physical controls.

Also has all the features you mentioned.
Some people prefer not to abandon their family and friends, so there is indeed luck factor involved.
This is why the interview process should include 'culture fit' so that it can weed out people who would be good at getting the work done but not fun for the bros to hang out and drink beer with.
I agree with this observation but it bothers me to no end how eagerly the non-reactionary “mainstream” opinion has let them hijack it. A little bit of skepticism is healthy! This new trend of dismissing every non-conforming opinion is as bad as the conspiracy nut wave it’s trying to fight.

I’m not sure what the solution is but I’m not sure that shutting down every slightly uncommon opinion is it. (I recognize that this comment is exactly what a savvy troll would say and well I guess that’s kinda part of my point)
I believe it's professionally called foil tape, or sometimes HVAC tape, to distinguish the two. In product listings, you often see seohacks like "HVAC foil sealer duct tape", because consumers still search for duct tape.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/3M-2-5-in-W-x-150-ft-L-HVAC-Tape/40...
To change the world it has to be manufacturable at scale, stable, etc.
> it is a highly dynamic, self-repairing living organism

Organisms are self-repairing (to a certain extent) because they evolved to be so due to natural selection. The Earth as a whole and its climate are not subject to evolutionary pressure (they don’t reproduce) and thus are nothing like that.
Got in trouble using this in grade 9 for doing sexy lady swipes while filming people walking the school hallway and writing nicknames under them while the feed went into every classroom.
> "ha ha AI like crypto amirite?"

I don’t think that was the meaning at all. I think the image was supposed to convey how the crypto grifters and con artists were veering into AI to run scams under the guise of AI.
There are places like HK and Singapore where firing is super easy, yet the software industry in those places still pales to USA and even to Europe in some cases
one of the contributors here. we have a statistical test script we can run on our branches to test the compile time, cost and reliability. we want to try tree of thought and also something like https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/14d7pfz/become_god.... that said, we found that when we asked GPT to first explain why a test case is failing and then to correct that failure instead of just asking it to correct the failure, unexpectedly costs went up and reliability went down
Think logically about it, of course this will happen. The labor market for office jobs is completely broken to the point that many or most companies have no control of whether their employees are doing anything productive. Corporate work is mostly a charade and a wealth distribution scheme, also when it comes to software engineering - as evident by the many single individuals shipping software with better quality than huge corps employing thousands.

The hope of these fake candidates is that they can sneak in and get a few good paychecks from a corrupt and disorderly employer. And it costs then almost nothing to try.
The KIA executives are having the exact same conversation right now after being required to recall vehicles from 2011[1].

I don't have a good answer for this, but requiring a company to "fix" something 12 years later that is tough. This is how planned obsolescence becomes a corporate strategy.

1. https://www.drive.com.au/news/kia-hyundai-theft-us-immobilis...
> Fwiw, i'm personally taking the climate change subject extremely serious

It's not worth anything, since the conservative rear guard and even outright deniers say the same thing these days. If you mean to separate yourself from such people, you'll have to put it differently.
I don't think there is a single answer to that. There are people on HN who love reddit, and people on HN who despise reddit, and people who used to run reddit. Feelings about it are individual preferences, so you'll likely hear both sides when reddit is a topic of discussion.
This feels unnaturally harsh and likely incorrect. You seem to be suggesting that statistical tools are useless at predicting trends in time-series data.

If the assertion is true that this is useless for the stock market, that would imply the assertion is equally true for macro-economics, and extending further, climate change.

We are collectively deciding how to spend trillions of dollars based on the outputs of these models. Should we not bother then?
> but all other biological things can just make the adaptations

That only works with enough time, and changes are happening too quickly. Here's how animals have been adapting in just the last 50 years: https://phys.org/news/2022-10-wildlife-populations-plunge-ww...
Having written two (self published) novels so far that tries to get it right, I know I've made stupid mistakes, and it's really hard to get it right without seriously limiting the story, or just hard to get it right full stop. So frankly I'm impressed how well The Expanse TV series did, though they certainly took liberties. They at least seemed to mostly try even when it wasn't important from a plot point of view, but then also used it for better effect as part of the plot.

B5 was much more relaxed about that, with JMS explicitly saying in the context of B5 that ships "travel at the speed of plot" [1][2], and with ostensibly having the station rotate for perceived gravity but leaving C&C near the middle where it'd have near zero g, nor did they make the view out their window rotate (pet peeve: should have been a viewscreen, and C&C should be nowhere near the hull; those things are also very much plot driven).

For B5 I'd agree they paid lip service to it. For The Expanse I feel it goes at least a bit deeper. I feel like they come at it from different sides: B5 ignores realism beyond the very superficial (e.g. the station rotating) for the most part except when necessary for the plot, while The Expanse tries to remain realistic except when deviating was necessary for the plot. Note: Realistic not accurate, and I do think there's big gap between what is realistic to an average audience, even if asked to pick out holes, and what is accurate.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TravelingAtTheSp...

[2] https://www.patreon.com/posts/57948595 "HOW FAST DO WHITE STARS TRAVEL? They travel at the speed of plot."
Yea, ONNX runtime is mostly used for inference. The requirements for training and inference differ quite a lot: training requires a library that can calculate gradients for the back propagation, loop over large datasets, split the model across multiple GPUs, etc. During inference you need to run a quantized version of the model on a specific target hardware, whether it be CPU, GPU, or mobile. So typically you will use one library for training, and convert it to a different library for deployment.
And people wonder why companies don’t like remote work…
You may have gotten the impression that I hate trains from my comment. I don't hate trains. I hate when people try to propose trains as a solution to transit situations they are completely unsuited for.

Rail is the highest volume mass transit solution. The layout of population centers in the US at a macro and micro level leads to this level of throughput rarely being necessary when all other factors are considered.

There are indeed several locations in the US where high speed rail lines which do not exist would be a very good idea and would obviously supplant short-haul flights which currently serve those routes.

There are also many cases where commuter rail systems which don't, or barely exist would make excellent additions to the metropolitan areas around major cities.

However, this is the exception, not the rule. It is not relevant to the vast majority of origin destination pairs when traveling in the US.

Passenger rail in the US needs to answer the question "How is this tangibly better than the alternatives?". To which the answer is usually "Its not". For shorter distance trips the inconvenience of not having a car once you get to your destination usually ends up outweighing the benefits of not having to drive yourself. For longer distance trips, flying is usually going to be dramatically faster. As mentioned, there certainly are examples which fall into that sweet spot in the middle but in the US they are relatively few and far between.
The data we trained on has year, so we can specify the year you ask the question (the default is 2023). You can also see how answers change over time. [1] shows how the distribution for "Do you support the President" changes from 2000 to 2023 (see the 9/11 spike, end of Bush era, Obama era, Trump era, etc.)

[1] https://roundtable.ai/sandbox/2dd4e9d32c24e9abff01810695e948...
If astrology isn't real, why does literally every Scorpio I know have their birth date in October or November?

Checkmate atheists
> We must... ...agree that personal data systems should continue to be haphazard, error-prone, expensive, and unreliable.

Agreed. And we should structure our laws and institutions to respect that, instead of attempting to make the computers' models of the real world perfect (an impossible task) and delegating our discernment and responsibility.
Depends on your perspective. It creates a market of competition for services upon those rails.
> What's the difference between a foreigner with an accent in your onsite team VS a foreigner that's remote in US timezones (LatAm)?

If I give someone in the US access to my code, systems, and, inevitably, customer data then I have a lot of legal recourse against that person if they do something bad. They have a lot of incentive to be careful and follow the rules. Their desire to maintain their reputation and avoid legal liability aligns our interests.

If I hire someone in the US and they hand everything over to a random person in a foreign country who doesn't care in the slightest about US laws, then they don't care about anything other than keeping those paychecks coming for a while. They don't care about anything, especially once those paychecks stop coming. It's even more complicated because the company isn't the one sending the paychecks, it's the person you hired. If that person has a falling out with their outsourced counterpart and the outsourced counterpart decides to take revenge on the company as leverage over their front-person, it gets bad.

> Security? It applies if you're working on defense software, but other than that...?

Are you suggesting that security only matters to defense software? You've never worked on a project that involves customer data? You've never worked on proprietary software that your competitors would love to have?

Do you not get annoyed when companies leak your personal data?
That bill would penalize the teacher if their gay significant other brought their forgotten lunch to school, the kids asked "who was that", and the teacher attempted any answer.

It has nothing to do with sex. Republicans in florida have quite clearly criminalized same sex couples doing normal things.
I disagree, my father ran a small business (physical goods) and the people in his company were almost like a family. They felt as such, we treated them as such, it was amazing...brings a tear. I cannot emphasize this enough: It was far better relationship than resentful people on HN who are constantly complaining about work. They were happier as a whole.
(note: using language that accepts the claims of the paper for simplicity -- I remain skeptical)

For what it's worth, superconductors have a shared budget[1] of (magnetic field, temperature, current). At 25°C, the material is near its critical temperature, so its current-carrying capacity is necessarily diminished. At a lower temperature, the film should be able to carry more current.

That said, 250mA is plenty of current if you're interested in making a superconducting CPU.

[1] http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Solids/scbc2.html

edit after reading the paper: they claim an extraordinarily high critical temperature of ~126°C. You can see the temperature dependence in Figure 1e; they're much further from the critical temperature than I expected, and at room temperature, a little cooling appears to go a long way. I'm eager to see an attempt to reproduce this result. That said, the material is essentially a 2d molecule -- we've been hyped on graphene for decades, and have yet to see it integrated into a scalable process.
Half want to believe it isn't happening so therefore we should do nothing, and it feels like the other half believes that because it's inevitable we should just accept we're doomed and do nothing because we're doomed anyways.

We need to work to minimize the number of impacts like this one. We can't prevent this one, but we can prevent the next one.
> You should fight for some more rights, sometime <3

What is the purpose of these 'rights'? As a software engineer in America, who's been laid off many times, I get (1) unemployment, (2) 100% free medical (few SW engineers apply, but most who are laid off would be eligible, if they cared),(3) a free vacation for however long as I want, (4) lots of savings because I make so much more than my European counterparts, and (5) a great job market so I can rinse and repeat 1-5. Exactly what am I missing? Having spoken to many non-American devs... they're the ones being abused by being forced to work for sub-market wages for very little gain, and very little opportunity should they decide to branch out on their own.
I'm using Vue.js, Vuetify, Chart.js, Firebase, Paddle, and GCP. PL is pretty client-side-heavy, as alluded to here: https://projectionlab.com/help/enter-data.

Happy to field any more questions about the stack if you're curious what any of the components are like to work with.

Edit: and here's a little more info on how the self-hosted version works: https://projectionlab.com/help/how-self-hosting-works
If, by the concept, you mean coworking spaces, then yes, that concept can and does work.

If you mean coworking spaces administered by people in SF making tech salaries and needing the growth and scale that VC demands, then it seems unlikely. In my hometown, the coworking space costs $140/mo right in downtown (220 with a dedicated desk). Anything that can operate locally is probably going to beat the dumb money that We Work represents.
Gradient, Midea winners of New York window heat pump challenge (2022)
So to summarize, the opportunity of pattern trading is self-fulfilling, which also means if any become unfashionable then the signal will cease to exist. From that fact alone we can conclude there is no basis in the economic reality of the business or its public stock. Greater fool theory, essentially.
> I can ask for recommendations for tools and libraries, which IIRC SO disallows.

Bing Chat almost always is useless for me with these kinds of queries. A few days ago I asked for a tool that monitors to see if a website is up. I told it I needed the tool to be something I'd run locally - not an online service and not something I need to sign up for.

It gave me 3-4 online services.

I reminded it about my constraint.

It gave me 3-4 more online services.

I reminded it about my constraint.

It said it didn't want to talk to me any more.
It's not a fork, it is the same codebase. VS Code on the desktop is an Electron app, and this is (basically) running the app as a PWA without the Electron host process or certain native extensions.

As far as I'm aware there's no official guide for self-hosting it on your own server/bring-your-own-server. But allegedly it isn't difficult and there are GitHub Issues you can search for posted by others that have or are in the process of doing it.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
If someone is sick or on PTO some things are assigned to another person and some things just wait for them to get back. And yes if the whole team has, for example, Mondays and Fridays remote, then some things just wait for Tuesday -> Thursday to happen.

The degradation I'm referencing is if you have one or more people permanently remote on your team. Then, just picking a few trivial examples, you can't take a notepad with you and make a team decision over lunch, or huddle around a whiteboard, etc., because those things don't work for the remote teammate. Even when you're in a conference room with a good video setup, it's still very common to have a lot of repeating things for the remote person, or having the remote person struggle to chime in etc., that make it a worse experience for both sides compared to the lowest common denominator of "everyone is on Zoom."
Pasting below answer to niko001

The data we trained on has year, so we can specify the year you ask the question (the default is 2023). You can also see how answers change over time. [1] shows how the distribution for "Do you support the President" changes from 2000 to 2023 (see the 9/11 spike, end of Bush era, Obama era, Trump era, etc.)
[1] https://roundtable.ai/sandbox/2dd4e9d32c24e9abff01810695e948...
I'd say that not keeping electronic computers in mind is a testament to how big of a discovery they were, in the sense that we need to think hard about transformative discoveries to realize that not so long ago humanity didn't had electronic computers,and yet they are everywhere.
Capitalism was always headed here, computers or not. Computers just stepped on the accelerator.
Awesome how he links it at the bottom of the paywalled article where you can't see it.
Yes, normally when people come up with some BS about room temperature superconducting, they really just mean they've observed one of the indirect effects of superconductivity. "If you put an ohmmeter in my funky circuit, it displays zero!" Which usually just means you've come up with a clever way to break an ohmmeter.

Ejecting the magnetic field (the Meissner effect) is a way better sign.

I find it very hard to believe that this could be true, but at least they're measuring the right things.
Nostradamus has a lot of predictions we are still waiting on, that is to say, your perceived inflection point may never come.

More likely is a bifurcation of the internet between West and BRICS, which is already partially in place
Well, Pocket Premium got a lot of criticism for going completely against user sentiment, and the small matter of a lot of heavily lawyered weasel wording statements to very strongly imply that no money was exchanged when in fact quite a lot of money was exchanged to make it happen.
Is it not? Psychedelics are being tested for treating PTSD. What is chronic PTSD other than a stable mindset? The point of psychedelic treatment being to destabilize an unwanted mindset.
You don't carry a second monitor and eGPU around. Those sit at your desk and your mobile laptop becomes a gaming desktop / dev workstation whenever you want it to.

Then when you need your laptop back, you unplug 1 cord, put it into your backpack and go about your day.
A war economy just gives the government control of more stuff; it doesn't reduce their incentive to use the stuff. Faith in that is essentiañly faith in autocracy.

Proper pricing of externalities would be better.
This is a spec. Multi-level security is a high-level concept - and not one that has much technical definition - the Wikipedia article (while problematic / vague) even includes some thoughts on semantic overload. As someone who works in security, it's not something that comes up - specific frameworks, applications & implementations are more relevant.

Avoiding every possible acronym clash in tech is not particularly viable today (and becomes less so daily).

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Meanwhile, in the context of IETF's work, the acronym is natural and intuitive: Transport/Multiplexed-Transport -vs- Message makes immediate sense to anyone working with security in the context of network protocols.
In Germany we have probation period of 6 months that helps both sides to decide if they want to continue employment.

Can you please explain the causation between easiness of firing / hiring and high salaries?
It makes no sense to put the blame on individuals like this. I am no fan of the lack of workers' rights in the US, but the holier-than-thou European smugness is really not appreciated, given how little recourse people have in the American system.
CarPlay integrates with the rest of the Apple ecosystem in ways that other navs do not.
I’m not convinced Americans pay less in taxes.

When you include state taxes, social security from the employee and employer, then it starts to look like much less of a difference.

When you include health insurance and college education, Americans get much less value.

I do agree with the first half of your comment. American labor laws make it easier to fire which allows employers to take more risk in hiring.