skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it ridiculous that at a time when US workers had all the power after decades of no
power at all (the last couple of years), they prioritized WFH benefits which only serve to weaken any individual worker’s standing in the market.

If there is no advantage to your job being done while being physically collocated within the US, there is no advantage to your job being done by someone in the US.

What 90% of the people commenting here don’t seem to realize is that their argument for WFH implicitly states that the fact that they were being paid more than their counterparts in cheaper locales means they were being overpaid. And yeah, some of the LCOL folks are going Amen to that, except even the lowest cost of living employees is a few times more expensive than counterparts in Asia, South America, Eastern Europe and even Western Europe.

Jobs are more likely to move from LCOL and HCOL US locations to cheaper places abroad than from HCOL to LCOL US locations because the HCOL/LCOL US cost multiple is somewhere at 1.25 to 1.5 at most, whereas the US LCOL/place abroad cost multiple is closer to 2-4x.
- atop does not have mounts status

- interface a bit more intuitive:
- you see full day on top chart, see spikes on it and scroll into the moment to check it in details

- alerts/notifications

- does not need root
Do you believe metrics can accurately measure a developer's performance?
I saw this question on a tech manager community that I follow and would love to see your opinion as well
This so cool and weird, almost like I'm in a room with other people.
Hmm, I don't think separating independent units of work into separate pull requests is "overhead", I think it is good practice.

And the benefit is that instead of humans spending time deciding whether or not to squash commits in some branch before merging, or being asked to do so by a maintainer, a computer just does it automatically. It's a lot like automatic code formatting; it's a big win to have tools do things automatically, rather than requiring human time and judgement and communication.
The page mentions the possibility of file sharing/torrents using WebRTC which does exist if anyone is interested: https://webtorrent.io/ and https://instant.io/

The projects are open source: https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent
Tax incidence likely means it doesn’t matter who the nominal payer of the tax is. In the present situation even though the renter pays 100% nominally they might not be paying 100% of the incidence and vice versa if the nominal tax fell on the owner.
How is a massive increase in energy costs not relevant to the car industry, or anyone else operating equipment?

I agree that the Chinese were much wiser in terms of their product planning, but to say energy costs are "not relevant" is absurd.
I can't edit anymore, but want to clarify. Files are missing from my backups, not from OneDrive. The backup software fails to reproduce the data in OneDrive.
It feels like we are trying too hard not to learn the lessons of metal casting.

As metallurgy goes, casting is very old tech. I won't say it's the simplest thing, but it was simple enough that pre-industrial people were figuring it out, which says something about complexity.

Lathe work starts out with cylinders or polyhedrons, which

But we only carve shapes out of polyhedrons, or build them up from nothing. It seems more likely that for complex, concave or knotted objects, we should be using low resolution additive printing and high resolution subtractive printing in combination.

We may also need CNC machines with a an additional degree of freedom. Perhaps not a fully 'prehensile tail' but the ability to tilt the cutting head to say 45º would probably reduce the gap between additive and subtractive manufacturing's achievable shapes by quite a bit.
Wow, I gave this a try after work on my personal machine and it's amazing – seems to be more stable than the original thing at a first glance! Thanks again.
I’ve found “downgrade” mostly useful for quick iteration during local development (where you may well not care about lost data). Realise your initial cut of the migration wasn’t quite right? Run “down” then fix it, then “up” again.
So the local council has a shit tonne of things to payfor, but no real control on either raising taxes or defining how to deliver those services.

THey have a duty to:

provide social care (as in old people, homeless, disabled, orhpaned, etc)

Schooling (kinda)

large swathes of health care

planning

road maintenance

social housing

a whole bunch of red tape implementations.

However the actual execution is dictated by central government. Even the taxes you pay (council/buisness rates) are clawed back and redistributed. The local council has no real way to raise cash apart from cutting services, selling shit or risky investments.
Looks like this was originally submitted to HN back in 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9531265
Requires a login. And the paper is from 2012.

I found this video about a singing synthesis instrument also by Yamaha (as the author): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hk-kOPdHAY
I agree that physical accomplishments are easier to quantify by our minds to spin it into a story.
Let's get MS-DOS 6.22. :)
Depends on the mp, but I've had success emailing them after getting all that standard blurb. They actual seen human then.
I don't think I ever saw one. The director of the product I worked on (comprising a few hundred people spread across a few offices and countries) sat a few "pods" over from me for awhile. He did have priority use of a 1:1 meeting room though.
> What's the objective cost of one hour of work painting a house?

You answered your own question. It cost one hour of house-painting labor. You have an action and a measurable duration. It doesn't get much more objective. How much you or someone values that labor is subjective, but the labor itself objectively happened.
Life advice from Bjarne Stroustrup [video]
How was the implementation? Is it in RUST?

Can you share more details on how you achieved this or the underlying changes that was needed?

Any changes needed on eszips for sub-hosting events?
This article stinks of that assertion/misunderstanding that "Tolerant of all but the intolerant" is a paradox or contradiction. It's not. It's a social contract and if you violate it you are no longer covered or protected by it. Put another way, give everyone a basic level respect until they demonstrate they aren't deserving of it.

It's worth mentioning you can take punitive, intervening and/or remedial action against someone and still be respectful.
What has the UK government done to protect children recently? In the last decade, say.
> Einstein talks of a planned economy towards the end. It's easy to see how someone in 1949 might think it's a good idea, but in 2023 the idea seems antiquated. All of the major economies are largely not planned.

AAPL? MSFT? AMZN?

A large corporation is internally a planned economy. Why do they keep outcompeting small businesses?
So, if you have two individuals or groups with self-consistent philosophies that are not congruent to one another, you auto-default to violence?

I am remembering that Jane Elliot experiment with kids, blue eyes vs. brown eyes. If the brown-eyed kids think they are the best, and the blue-eyed kids think they are the best, the time for words has ended. Let's start the slaughter.

No. This is terrible.
70+ years later and I don't believe it's possible to transition from (normal) capitalism to a socialist system without falling into "state capitalism" precisely because human social structures <generally> concentrate power. I guess I'll believe it when I see it.
The idea that we need to give grants to utilities that are ostensibly better as private institutions since private companies allegedly "drive innovation" is so nonsensical on it's face. All it's led to is a cadre of entrenched corporations that do not give the slightest fuck about their quality of service or uptime, and competitive pricing is a fucking joke in the American broadband market.

I have not heard any arguments in favor of this system that hold water in my entire life and it's only getting more and more true as consumers get screwed harder and harder with zero solutions on offer either by these mythical "competitors" or the Government that acts as defacto enforcer of their ability to choke customers out of more and more money for worse and worse service year over year.
I know about Hawking radiation, but it depends on the thing emitting it to have something to emit and a lower energy state to enter. What are those for a black hole electron?
It's the retroflex version of "Zang", where the "z" is sort of like a "t" followed by an "s" sound. "Retroflex" means that the tongue bends a little bit backwards and therefore touches the palate a little bit farther back. Don't sweat it too much, for most people the whole series of s/sh, z/zh, c/ch, and x/j/q are hard to consistently get right unless they are corrected by a teacher. Also, since romanized Chinese names usually lack tone marks, some ambiguity regarding the correct pronunciation remains.
What you described are not good Samaritan laws. Those are about lowering legal responsibility for people doing their best to help someone in peril. I.e. you did your best and accidentally injured someone while trying to prevent their death, do can't be sued for the injury.
Yes exactly. I've had this page up in a browser for many years, most of the time with only two other people. I have no idea who they are, no way to communicate with them, but feel very connected in a strange way.
Hmmm… well it certainly was for me. My code has gotten a lot simpler over time!
Just yesterday it became clear the foreign office will not release files relating to Prince Andrew until 2065 - long after he's dead. Seems like a pretty obvious cover up.
Hmm. You sure this is the same thing? I would say it’s more about confidentiality than about value.

Because what companies want to hide are usually secrets, that are available to (nearly) no one outside of the company. It’s about preventing accidental disclosure.

What AIs are trained on, on the other hand, is publicly available data.

To be clear: what could leak accidentally would have value of course. But here it’s about the single important fact that gets public although it shouldn’t, vs. the billions of pieces from which the trained AI emerges.
Free economy doesn't mean that a business shouldn't try and plan the hell out of things. It means that each business planning process is not the only one around, and all these business are free to have various obsessions (ethical, religious, racist or whatever - none of them traps everyone in), and all these are free to have other blind spots and bugs, etc. They do have bugs. They look for each other's bugs and respond to them.
Not Microsoft, but related:

I am convinced that there's a major issue with iCloud Drive and iCloud Photos losing files and photos. I've got more than one folder on iCloud Drive I know had files in them; but nothing is there. I've got old photo albums, from say 2012 or so, that have 6 pictures in them; but the identical album in Google Photos has 9 (I always manually replicate uploads, albums, etc to Google. A backup, I guess).

The one good thing I'll say about Google is; I've got Hangouts chat logs from like freakin 2007 or something in my history. In fact, their data retention may be too good; about six months ago I logged into Google Drive (Workspace) to find a bunch of folders I know I had deleted, years ago, and I mean years, just chilling in the root folder. Stuff from 2010? 2011? It was actually a trip down memory lane, and I'm not un-glad to have recovered some of the stuff for my archives, though its unclear why it happened.

Dropbox as well. I don't use it regularly, but I signed into my Dropbox account from the 00s one day the other day, and everything was just there. For 14-15 years, never paid them a dime.

The fascination with Microsoft in the corporate world is a collective psychosis that we'll probably never recover from. Everything they make is shit. Its insecure, unreliable, doesn't do half of what it advertises, and does the other half so much worse than the worst competition that their products' adoption in organizations could by any reasonable logic be correctly viewed as intentional sabotage.
> Is there any point owning ostentatious possessions if everyone knows your debt level?

Perhaps it seems safe to assume not, but it couldn't be further from the case. First of all, it's not necessarily the case that overleveraging so you can have possessions to enjoy is enjoyable.

Especially at the higher end of the earning, this can be very apparent. $20m underwater and living in a mansion. Am I really toughing it out? Remember when the Trump said a homeless guy has more money than him. Yet he's pooping on the street and not a golden toilet.

The truth is that people never care how much you really earn it. Our society would be totally different if so. Yeah, implied with the respect is that you earned it, but people don't care.

People either "like" you because they can share some of it, imagine themselves like you, or they're envious of your stuff. If you earned it that's just a cool bonus.
> Every deposit originates from a loan

How is the cash I deposit from the dividends I earned originate from a loan?
How about the community banks that purchase gold from their customers?
In terms of usefulness, clarity and formal rigor, nothing really beats Sun’s Java v1.2 API documentation from 1998.

Example: https://javaalmanac.io/jdk/1.2/api/java/util/Collection.html
My impression is that that lesson was NOT drawn at the time by the German A-listers, and especially not by Bismark - the AAA-list genius behind both this victory, and Germany's long process of unification. Bismark was very public, both before and after the Fraco-Prussian War, in his general opposition to European wars. Especially larger or longer wars. And he was very opposed to risking Germany getting caught in a two-front war.

But then Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm I got old and died, and was soon succeeded by his grandson, Wilhelm II - who didn't like Bismark's cautious foreign policy. Wilhelm II wanted vigorous & rapid expansion, to enlarge Germany's (and his) place in the sun. Bismark, who was getting a bit old & unsteady himself, was replaced in 1890 with a new German Chancellor, more to the young Kaiser's liking.

Note that both WWI and WWII stuck Germany in large, long, two-front European wars. And that Germany got into WWI under the same Kaiser (Wilhelm II) who had dumped Bismark for being too cautious and anti-war.
Probably when they archived it on GitHub? or setup the git repo
another relevant link: https://medium.com/@losvedir/ephemeral-p2p-project-ff07cbd20...
This is not as inconceivable as you make it sound if there's chemical reaction involved
If you think Latin tattoos are bad, check out the kind of shit people get tattooed with in (what they think is) Chinese:

https://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/
I hate that I’m largely living in a JS world, but I’m fast and effective with it, and the standard library, ecosystem, and tooling has matured enough that I can deal with the quirks.
As someone who regularly writes both JS and TS, I'm fairly certain that this dichotomy is not real. There are places where TS makes more sense (eg large, trustless applications with many devs) and places where JS makes more sense (eg libraries that would otherwise need to have very abstract types).

I'd understand opting for either JS or TS as a policy going forward, but it's hilarious that this dude probably worked himself up so intensely about this that he brazenly rug-pulled his own repo and invalidated all open PRs.
Yes I've wondered about this - the market-vs-planned economy question got decided in an era with completely different networking and information processing technologies. There's this famous story:

Sometime before 1989, a Soviet official asked economist Paul Seabright who was in charge of London’s bread supply. Seabright gave him an answer that is comical but also true: ‘nobody’. The bread we eat turns up on our tables thanks to an incredible team effort (bakers, machinists, electricity suppliers, distributors etc etc). And even more incredibly, there is no-one in charge of that team. It just happens.

Also - please do weigh in on this, its a genuine question - we are used to the idea that markets are efficient in that way - as described above. But that efficiency of the current state, but doesn't seem to take account of the evolution that happened to get to that point. Has anyone measured the work it takes to get the market to that endpoint? Is there even a name for this concept?

That is: For every business that is involved in the supply of bread to london today, there must also be lots of businesses that tried to be involved but failed. Is there an economic term for the work that goes into the failed businesses and initiatives that dont survive long enough to become players in the market? The bankruptcies, the people that had to sell their business off cheap to a competitor, the people who spent a few years trying then gave up and pivoted to something else. Is there a name for that lost effort?

Because it seems that if were comparing against a planned economy thats what we should compare with - the total effort over time to produce whatever X.
Taxation is not a problem. The only problem is who pays the taxes.

With inflation and the current cost of living, nobody making under 50k (100k in London) should be paying any.

The people at the top, who already only pay effectively single-digit percent rates of tax should be footing the bill and paying their fair share (technically if they were playing by the same rules the common working man is subject to, they should be paying ~50%).

Of course, those same people that are meant to be paying the tax are sliding checks to politicians' pockets to ensure this doesn't happen, or are the politicians themselves.
I believe capitalism is the best economic system we've invented and likely will invent, but, you give it too much credit. American capitalism has worked largely because it was underpinned by a foundation of Christian morality. With that foundation crumbling, capitalism will fail, like any other system would when managed by a largely corrupt and immoral society.

We are seeing it happen in real time. Our president is a crook. We have plenty of evidence that he influenced-peddled to foreign countries for millions. Our media lie to us constantly. Most of the government, including the DOJ, FBI, and CIA, are run by corrupt, partisan, and evil people who are largely unaccountable to the public. Our judicial benches are filled with partisan activists who largely ignore the law and the constitution as they make whatever rulings they can to promote their ideologies or world views. Capitalism will not save us from any of this, especially as long as so much of the public keep voting into office people who actively support this kind of corruption.
People don't use turn signals in Massachusetts; that's considered giving information to the enemy.

The navigation app has a clock, GPS location, and acceleration and orientation sensors available to it in the phone. If you miss your turn, it will notice and find the next best route.

Why would you want to pause navigation on a gear change? Velocity plus the connection to the vehicle tells you everything you need to know. Zero velocity but still connected? Keep displaying stuff; you might be parking and you might be in traffic. Disconnected but velocity is high? The passenger is going to use you; keep navigation alive in the background. Disconnected and velocity is zero or walking? Go back to powersave mode.
> and force most of humanity to dramatically alter their lives

History tells us that when that happends it's their lives that get dramatically altered. See what happened in europe with most dictators and kings that didn't please the masses long enough.
Market capture and high barrier to entry to producing the same caliber of service/product, particularly given network effects.

These are not good examples.
Five years ago, yeah, it was.
> It's because Salt Man doesn't believe it. He knows it's not the end of anything, it's the start of an insanely lucrative market.

Which is such a dick move to be frank. As if the world does not provide enough material to feed your depression or anxiety.
It is an observation that well established, non controversial, principles of economics such as the effects of price controls are still challenged by socialists. Are socialists ignorant of economics or something else?

Example #1: Rent control. Why do socialists continue to demand rent control? Promoting better, cheaper and abundant housing for everyone is an excellent cause. It is critical to understand exactly how to achieve that outcome. Econ 101 classes all over the world teach the basics of supply, demand and pricing. These are well understood concepts that anyone involved in public policy should master.

Paul Krugman is as liberal as they come and a Nobel prize winner in economics. This is what he had to say about rent control in NYT:

"The analysis of rent control is among the best-understood issues in all of economics, and -- among economists, anyway -- one of the least controversial. In 1992 a poll of the American Economic Association found 93 percent of its members agreeing that ''a ceiling on rents reduces the quality and quantity of housing.'' Almost every freshman-level textbook contains a case study on rent control, using its known adverse side effects to illustrate the principles of supply and demand. Sky-high rents on uncontrolled apartments, because desperate renters have nowhere to go -- and the absence of new apartment construction, despite those high rents, because landlords fear that controls will be extended? Predictable. Bitter relations between tenants and landlords, with an arms race between ever-more ingenious strategies to force tenants out -- what yesterday's article oddly described as ''free-market horror stories'' -- and constantly proliferating regulations designed to block those strategies? Predictable."
> You can phrase pretty much any side of a political question as being either tolerant or intolerant with a bit of work.

And we determine who is right and who isn't through the power of reason and evidence.
There might be a geographical divide. I have heard that animosity to OBL was much stronger on the East Coast (near NYC) versus West Coast.
> They are written so poorly that Albany, in theory, can tax someone who attends on-site meetings in NY for two days out of the year that otherwise works remotely from Fairbanks, Alaska, which is utterly ridiculous.

Every state has the right to collect tax from income earned from work performed within the state’s boundaries. Sports players and performers often pay a ton of state income tax while only working in a state for 3 hours.

Are you suggesting that people who travel to work to NY owe NY income taxes on ALL of their income, even that which was earned outside of NY?

> At some point I expect SCOTUS will slap that law down based on the Interstate Commerce Clause but the correct challenge has not reached the docket yet.

I am not so sure about this. With the South Dakota Wayfair ruling, and the proliferation of “market based sourcing” rules for determining taxable revenue, even this conservative Supreme Court does not seem to be leaning towards canceling that. Right now, if you have a business in one state (including just you working by yourself as a 1099 contractor), and sell your services to a recipient in a state with market based sourcing rules, then you will owe business taxes to the state where the benefits of your work was received, even though you never stepped foot or even shipped anything physical to that state.

See this for example:

https://www.withum.com/resources/new-jersey-legislation-impl...