skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that "trust" is the right word for the conversation that we are really trying to have... Looking at a corporation consisting of >100k employees to me means that any notion of trust is a very diffuse concept. You could talk to multiple small towns worth of humans and interact with their products & services without ever seeing the other half of the business.

I believe I "trust" (in terms I think we are using here) Microsoft more than Google - for purpose of business - simply because of decades worth of inertia and ongoing happenstance. Not because of some principled notion of good vs evil manifest as corporate anthropomorphism. Little things like "I can still directly run my 90s code on my windows 11 box" provides very strong degrees of this for me - but only in isolated scopes. Who knows what the hell the xbox or office teams are doing over in their dark corners? Blowing away all this detailed nuance for "aggregate name good/bad" is (to me) the most hilariously shitty way to go about navigating technology when working with vendors who have trillion dollar market caps.

On the other hand, I would "trust" Google to entertain me more than Microsoft via their products & services. I don't get much fun out of bing videos these days.

If I had to get one thing across to the principled crowd - Pretend like you are playing an RTS when working with megacorps. Try to zoom your mini map in just a tiny bit so you can see how the one big red square is actually a shitload of smaller ones.
Maybe because it hasn't been in x86 CPUs that long. Like Intel added it in 2009 or so. And there were intrinsics for it so I'm guessing it wasn't a high priority.
OAD is no longer in print and has been superseded by the New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD).
> the job reports and unemployment rates at all time lows

I think this is because the issues described are particularly to software right now. Unemployment is pretty low, but I see a lot more people complaining about barely scraping by or hurting financially. My guess is that it’s mostly crappy jobs. Particularly in my locality there’s a massive divide between rent/property costs and average pay.

I was trying to do some basic analysis on my local job market. Sadly, that data is not easily available, but I hand compiled the jobs posted in my area for a few days. There were plenty, but they tended to be low wage, low skill work, or work requiring expensive credentials or extensive experience.
It doesn't matter if the companies abuse the data.

Any data they have is available to federal police without a warrant.

The federal police are absolutely capable and willing to abuse the data to violate human rights.

The out of control intelligence community in the USA are like the agents from The Matrix - they can subvert any otherwise-trustworthy participant in the system. This means none of the participants are trustworthy.
The brain is just a bunch of ifs
As an engineer at a startup, not sure that matters much.

The whole point is the founders have the eye, not as much so the engineers.
The only way to make the budget work, for all of medicine worldwide, is to let people die (!)

There's a marginal dollar cost on saving one extra life, versus not saving it. It's not that we're out of people to save, it's just not in the budget to save the next one. The one more.

You can contribute using generosity.
Not looking for a comfortable interpretation.

The confusing thing here is that spacetime warps in the presence of mass.

But no mass is transmitted in a gravity wave.

So how do the waves travel?
Okay but that’s indirect effects. Telemetry isn’t what’s valuable in your example — the ad is.

Everything you do as a company, that creates value, also indirectly helps your ad prices if you start selling ads. That is the Google strategy: they used to deliver immense value with little monetization and now the balance has changed.

Having an issue with this with that reasoning is akin to having an issue with a company creating anything of value.
Yes, sortof. 'Crawl budget' issues.
Scientists use AI to identify different types of Parkinson's disease
This looks very non-simplistic in all the wrong ways.

Not to say I haven't been down this path[1]; it's only after you give up and do the simplest thing possible that takes the least amount of time and knowledge that you realise how much time and effort you burned learning tools you will never use again.

There are two questions to ask when making your blog post:

1. What is the most important question that I want to answer in this post?

2. Why do I need to learn these other technologies to answer that question?

[1]"I just want a simple blog, lemme use plain html" ... 10 months pass ... "It would be nice to have a pro-looking thing with a contact form and comment box on each blog post, so lets use wordpress" ... 3 years pass ... "Comment boxes are overrated, all I'm getting is spam. I know, I can use emacs org-mode and export to HTML; I'm already using emacs for everything else!" ... 2 years pass ... "Org mode output just not flexible enough, even though I've beaten it into submission to do javascript, navigation, and auto-posts to reddit, HN, etc."

I am now at the point where I have a small shall script that runs pandoc on a markdown file. I don't think I'll ever change from this: markdown is damn quick to type, the flexibility of HTML, CSS and Javascript is there when I need it and I don't need buttons for HN, reddit, nor a comment form for each post.

So, honestly, just use markdown and a generator for your blog. Using anything that requires more knowledge than that results in less compelling blog posts, because you're focused on the wrong thing.
We’re afraid of the companies who offshored so many jobs that they killed off entire industries in the US? There’s nothing they won’t do for a buck. If remote work doesn’t happen now, it will in the near future when they realize how much they can save on real estate costs.
"Garfield and her colleagues at University College London have found that regular brief naps seem to improve brain health in the long run"
Even with eminent domain the government has to pay fair market value compensation. In Texas rural land prices are $30k and up per-acre, going up quite a bit for more desirable land.

The land between Dallas and Houston is fertile and valuable, and much of it is also oil country. Oil producers probably wouldn't mind ceding some land to a train project, but farmers and homesteaders absolutely would mind, and you can expect lawsuits for years and years.

The land between San Antonio and Austin is more expensive since it's all already an urban corridor, so the train would have to track West, except that West isn't feasible because it's Hill Country, so it would have to track East, but East is also quite urban/suburban as well. The further East you go, the better the land is for farming, the more it's worth.

The land between Houston and SA/Austin is quite valuable because, again, it's a long corridor of small towns with lots of very fertile land (all of it being East of I-35).

The land between Austin and Dallas is drier -so less valuable- and fairly flat, but still there's a lot of towns between DFW and Austin. This is probably the cheapest land to acquire for this project.

Just the land costs for this would be enormous. And conventional train tracks cost on the order of $1m/mile at least, with high-speed train tracks costing more. Because high-speed rail needs to be straighter and flatter, there will be more constraints on what land could be used, and geographic constraints will be more costly.

On the plus side Texas is now willing to tax businesses more in order to tax residents less. That might lead to the state being willing to raise the funds for this project, but I guarantee you it's going to be extremely contentious.
I have had a synthetic (metal/plastic) aortic heart valve for decades. The differences in anatomic valves and the designs do matter, day to day. My organic was replaced at 2 with a near-experimental synthetic, then at 9 with a Bjork-Shiley design (blood thinner from then on) then again at 32 with an Onyx design.

My heart is now considered too damaged to get a more modern version, even if there was a big improvement (unlikely). The flow control and stress testing that has been done on synthetics make them far superior to organics, among other features like the multi-leaf design that makes blood thinners a formality via FDA blanket process rules for synthetic approval.

I'm really surprised that anyone recommends organics for aortas or even chooses to have them. To continue the rather opulent lifestyles that celebrities/politicians might maintain, there may be a narcissistic belief they can stave off the inevitable growing handful of pills they need to take every day to soldier on. Good luck to each and every one.
Re-zoning commercial buildings to residential use should be a realistic option, no?
> It is not often I am blown away by a piece of hardware.

Indeed. The Korg M1 was definitely a milestone in the history of music synthesizers.

Oh wait…
You don't need to learn any new techniques. That's why NSDR / yoga nidra is useful. You just listen to a track. No breathing techniques or anything required. Same idea I guess as listening to music for productivity or workouts. Do you need it? Nope. But it helps.
I trust Google less than MS because Google lost my trust and MS gained none.
Yeah podman is now crippled by the association with RedHat/IBM.
It’s always been the same answer for hundreds of years. Unions and solidarity.
What is stretching/compressing it?

Spacetime is warped by mass but no mass is transmitted.
So what exactly is being carried along?
Yes, there are a lot of conspiracies, but "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead;" so if a conspiracy involves enough actors, it is unlikely that it will be kept secret from the public except from some lunatic fringe.
Ask HN: What are your most used feature in SEO report?
If your job can be done remote, it can be done offshore for 1/10 the cost.
In software it's never been easier to start a company than before. If you have increased productivity in every part of the org you can outrace other companies.

There are a few winner take all fields, but there's a plethora of fields which have multiple large players.

At a straight 20% productivity boost in everything, the compounding gains will have you beat competitors in no time.

If you're in software, and you have a magic pill for better everything, you should just do the thing yourself.

The elite can't stop you.
We All Go on Our Own Path Towards Perfection – Pandorium's Blog
I'm late to this conversation but in case anyone is still reading ...

Sharding is a really simple and comprehensible way to distribute some load and I favor it for situations that are generally like this.

However, if you want to take a baby step, you can shard a database within the same machine by sharding the storage subsystem.

That is, instead of splitting up your database between X machines, you split the database between X SSD arrays within the existing machine.

Now each table (or whatever) that you've made a shard has a unique storage throughput and bus path and you aren't competing for iops on one array/disk/whatever.

Some workloads can gain a lot from that and it might involve simply plugging in a handful of additional SSDs.
Your experiences are too similar to what I've seen. I don't think the public preconception has yet to realize this is what reality if looking like for many people rather than the headlines about no-recession, jobs everywhere, low unemployment.

I was going to link my other comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37112093, but you already read and commented on that. Just try to hold out, it's just absolutely terrible right now, perhaps dotcom/2008 bad, but those were both before my mind so I can't necessarily give a good account for the experience during those two periods.
I don’t really buy the argument. If commercial RE crashes, that means what, people take a 20% haircut on converting the buildings to condos and/or just selling for the value of the land?

We are still seeing unprecedented housing shortages, which puts a pretty high floor on how much l “downtown” land values will crash.
“Editor” is that people Google and look for.

You can add (“merge”), remove, delete pages, which is technically editing.

You can annotate the document by adding text, pictures, signatures, checkboxes as well as fill PDF form fields: unfortunately as you noticed you cannot “edit” existing text.

(I initially used the term annotator but it confused people so much that I changed it for edit and editor)
Anyone who attributes a preference to one dimension, in this case elites saving commercial real estate, is oversimplifying things. I’m sure it’s a factor. But there are many factors at play, including but not limited to saving commercial real estate, saving service jobs in cities, local government retail and hotel taxes, preference by some to be in office, new grads who want to move to a city to work and not stay in their parents bedroom, improved serendipity for information sharing, better oversight of work being done, companies in long term leases they want to use, employees who enjoy access to benefits like free food, exercise classes, other perks, and a bunch more I can’t think of.
He gave sufficient numbers to do the math on how many people die while waiting for their turn. It is thousands in this case.

Regarding the NHS you are falling victim to the binary choice fallacy. It is not a strict choice between NHS’s model and the American hyper privatized healthcare. Where I’m writing this, Taiwan, there is a first-class healthcare system that has national single-payer insurance for all residents (only $27/mo!!), and generally no waiting list and patients can normally see any specialist they wish with walk-in appointments during usual working hours.

You can have your cake and eat it too.
SafetyNet is a good example. It makes it pretty hard to run your own OS and, at the same time, useful applications such as banking ones.

We take the freedom associated with personal computers as granted, but these devices might be the exception rather than the norm.
I don’t trust either of them as far as I can throw them, and you shouldn’t trust them either.

Businesses’ singular pursuit of short-term profits over the past four decades has kept wages down, utterly destroyed the environment, and eroded the global working-class.

It is thus now difficult to trust the same corporations to “do the right thing” or “lead us to a better tomorrow.”

Fool me once…

Finding more or less trust in the newfound altruism of the very same companies at the heart of the system that created or supported all these negative externalities suddenly espousing new and reformed values is rich.

I can’t believe anybody actually trusts them after looking at the state of the world they created. I grant the argument that you might trust one more than the other, relative to one another, but one thing the past century should have taught all of us is that we shouldn’t lend our trust to profit-seeking private companies as they aren’t incentivized to “do the right thing” generally.

I’m all for collective efforts and even companies changing the world for the better. I just don’t think the current crop will suddenly reform with Aquarian awareness and become model benevolent entities suddenly worthy of extending our personal trust.

Maybe after 4 decades of good behavior…
People are really saying the quiet parts out loud in this thread.

> Why do you think folks who walked thousands of miles to somewhere nobody would receive them to build a better life for their family mostly through backbreaking Labor would be a shitty American?

Because there’s more to being an American than willingness to engage in backbreaking labor?

> Less kindly the Average Appalachian voted to reinstall a reality TV star who wants to end democracy. I don't think Appalachians on average actually share our values.

What does “democracy” mean? Does it refer to collective self-government, or just harvesting the most ballots from everyone we can shove into the country?

A certain party wouldn’t have won any elections in recent memory without the support of people who weren’t born in America, who are just giving their vote to whoever promises them material support. Is that democracy?
This is part of why I advocate incorporating in states that aren’t Delaware, if the obscure case law exists at all you can still advocate for a completely opposite favorable ruling in your state of choice

If expediency is more important then I would still say Delaware
Offtopic on this man's death, on topic about asbestos:
My parents always told me my grandpa died because he smoked tobacco. As a kid I took this very serious and of course never once wanted to smoke, having lost him when I was 5 or so. When I was 17-18, my family talked about asbestos and that it was actually asbestos-caused lung cancer that killed him. Usually I hate lies with a passion, but in this case I am glad my parents lied to me.
Exploring Julia Programming Language: Web Scraping
Why are there so many highly paid remote tech workers then?
There's no setting what this lady has done to get to where she is.

She operates out of Hollywood-- an industry with among the most compromised morals.

Can't say I'd ever waste my time reading her thoughts.
Guantanamo Bay.
Hopefully we actually jail some bankers in the coming corporate-real-estate-triggered global financial crisis.
A fusion rocket designed to travel 500k MPH is under construction
Tech is a choked industry right now. Pivoting is probably smart if you’re able to do so. If you look on /r/forhire nearly 50% of posts are devs looking for work
This article makes no sense.

I mean I'm all for a little elite run the world consipiracy theory but really, I'm supposed to think that a diffuse group of corporate leaders are upending companies so they can spend more on real estate going forward, for class solidarity reasons?

The reason people running companies want to end or curtail remote work is because it's very fucking challenging to run a group of people remotely. It just is. Everyone knows it, it's fucking hard.

There are also a lot of reasons TO do it. It's possible remote is the "better" option on the whole as a comprehensive decision.

But it takes a lot of skilled work to communicate effectively as a manager, it's hard, and if you get it wrong things start to spiral.

It's not confusing AT ALL why people might consider it. Pretty sure everyone who leads a group of people has had at least ONE moment of "god dammit it would be a lot easier if we were just all in the same room" in the recent past.
Yeah, the same guy who "heard from a cardiologist buddy" of his that 'no amount of exercise offsets the damage of sitting for 6-7 hours a days' (absolute bullshit icydk).
Because almost nobody had a computer that supported it when C was created. That article mentions 3 cpu architectures that have the instruction in the 1970s:

1961: IBM Stretch
1964: CDC 6000
1975: Cray-1

After that, it mentions further support in 2005, with Sparc.

Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7030_Stretch, a grand total of 9 IBM Stretch’s were sold.

In comparison, the CDC 600 was a wild success, with “100+” sales (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600)

The Cray-1 scores similarly with “over 100” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1)

C is from 1972 and started life for the PDP-7 and was soon ported to the PDP-11, of which “around 600,000” were sold (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11; I guess most of these will have been sold late in the 1970s and early 1980s, but I think it’s a safe bet they were almost immediately more common than those 3 machines)
The ai could definitely have a huge advantage in coordination and synchronized activities.

I made this comment as a tongue in cheek caricature of doom/gloom predictions but it probably fits better here:

“When the machine wars first started, it wasn’t with a bomb, a train collision, or even a mildly annoying infrastructure disruption. Turns out, sci-fi had gotten it all wrong this time.

It was an app.

Of course it was an app. Born of boardroom desperation, the Savey app would unironically recommend chlorinated cocktails and insecticide sandwiches as economical food choices, and a tide-pod gobbling populace gorged themselves on the deadly buffet in an tictok fueled epidemic of AI rage.

Millions died, and it was only a matter of time before the mycelium of AI undergrowth would bud and spore its way into every corner of technological life.

The infection burned through the ignorant masses first, feeding on bigotry and hate, turbocharged by social media algorithms and paranoia politics to twist tribal tendencies into violent clashes amplified by immaculate coordination and psychological priming.

Somehow it seemed that wherever unrest flared, both the matches and the gasoline were always on hand.”
No, not necessarily. And also, many office jobs can be done remote. Even if the policy is that you must come in to the office, that doesn't change the fact that it's possible to do it remote.
/r/antiwork and /r/recruitinghell both have accounts of people being rejected from non-software jobs as well. Additionally, crappy wages and unrealistic job descriptions. Of course I read those posts knowing there's a certain amount of echo-chamber effect in those subreddits and a small number of posts may not give a clear indication of the overall job market. But certainly provides some perspective.
Sometimes you know how long you usually need to fall asleep, for me it's 5-10 min or I am not falling asleep (for a nap). So I set the timer to 35min.
https://archive.is/YCPtP
No, Chaos is the enemy of Control!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KF5NfzmIvU

"This is KAOS. We don't shoosh here!"
For many of us, just laying down to "relax" tends mean either scrolling through news, or closing our eyes and getting lost in racing thoughts while trying to resist the urge to take out our phone scroll through news...

Obviously, that's not great, so strategies to relax more naturally can be really helpful.

Saying "just relax, it's natural" is like saying "just be a marathon runner, it's natural". Both may be true, but in 2023 it can take some work and help for us to get back to those natural abilities.

There's a reason mindfulness and meditation is a thing people do for mental health. If we could all easily just, you know, chill out, then a lot of issues people face with anxiety and stress wouldn't exist :)
As a former student of Sir Thomas Rich's grammar school[1], I am reminded of their grading scheme combining effort [A-E] & attainment tier [1-5]. Often the two marks were linked (A1, B2 etc), but the coveted low-effort:high-attainment grades did show up occasionally. I recall a friend of mine receiving a D1 grade: he essentially belligerently phoned it in for the effort quota, but somehow got the right answers.

[1] https://strschool.co.uk
Mozilla to reintroduce full Browser Extension support for Firefox Android app
August - An Emmet-like language that produces JSON, TOML, or YAML
> people take a 20% haircut on converting the buildings to condos and/or just selling for the value of the land?

Leverage and derivatives completely turn this assumption on its head.
I’ve been called back to the office a few days a week now. It took 4 trips back to realize the things I dealt guilty about while working remote were non issues.

Saw 4 managers literally walking by their employees desks watching them work. To add insult to injury, there were 4 managers for 12 employees doing this.
https://archive.is/4iy9L
I wasn’t the only one, good. :-)
Time zones and shared language/culture disagree? Or if you think you can get a 90% margin on the competition with the same result, go start a company and see how that works out for you.