skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Any job that can be worked 100% remotely can equally be 100% outsourced to a cheaper labor market.'

Manufacturing was offshored long before office work, and it wasn't because factory workers 'worked from home' so employers saw the opportunity.

Office work has been off/near-shored routinely and increasingly since the 1990's. The decision to do this has nothing to do with the recent WFH wave.

Same goes for automation. Nothing to do with remote work. It will happen once tech is 'good enough' to take over. No amount of ass-on'chair maratons in the cubicle farm or the 'let's pretend we are working here' open space office plateaus will change that.
Well, inflation makes that $7000 equal to $13,423.82 based on https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

You’re also going to have to adjust for profit margins of car manufacturers back then to now, as surely productivity (use of labor and resources through automation) have allowed for them to do more with less materials.

The inflation calculation is also an average and stuff like cars made with steel might have more inflation due to scarcity or cost increases of making steel.

Then I’d say whatever left over is the actual increase in cost of making a car now vs then due to added functionality (including R&D for cars to be safer or more fuel efficient). Although maybe someone else can point out if I’m missing something else to consider.
Most users just want the properly working latest upstream release, which just works from the first try. It means that somebody must properly recompile, test, fix bugs, integrate, and package the software package into existing distribution. Fedora often publishes even pre-release versions of some software packages, if you want to talk about "latest" version.
The whole thrust of tech for 20 years now has been to commodify every part of human relationships, knowledge, and experience that can be commodified, sell the commodified versions in place of the real thing, and sweep the unmeasurable/uncommodifiable values under the rug without talking about it too much.
Perhaps they embedded a deep commentary into the piece on how the crowd members operate on a level of simple automatons.

The meta-commentary is they consider the movie audience as part of the crowd.

/s
Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens
Wow, that is a new one for me. Thanks.
> The big draw of Twitch is live content and interacting with chat, they just serve you an ad and not serve the stream content during that time. How could you skip it?

So do they just discard the livestream while serving the ad? What if you miss something important because of that? This just feels awful all-around for everyone involved.
> That's excessive scope creep. Adding site-specific workarounds for some sites feels uncomfortable.

Not to Google and its fellow corporations apparently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29707078

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pa...

They have site-specific fixes for their own sites. Instead of fixing their stuff, they fixed the browsers instead. We can obviously apply the exact same strategy to dealing with every single website out there. If a website is broken or generally annoying to use, just fix it by providing a site specific version of the browser.

They don't even need to reinvent the wheel. Port yt-dlp to Firefox. That will fix YouTube and literally every other video website out there. What yt-dlp does should be a core feature of every browser out there. It's that good. uBlock Origin too.

> Who decides what websites get "fixed", and how?

Whoever develops the browser or its extensions. Arguably the whole of uBlock Origin and its filter lists are just databases of site specific fixes. If people can maintain an extremely huge list of advertisers and blockers for every website out there, surely they can maintain something like this.

> Also, remember how Mozilla is funded.

I remember Mozilla has about a billion dollars in the bank. Who cares about their Google funding? I doubt they're gonna drop them anyway. I bet they pay them just to ward off risk of antitrust lawsuits.
I'm sure people will pipe up to say worked fine for me/us but it's definitely one of the specific issues (i.e. not generic culture, energy, etc.) that I've seen raised. I'm sure there are all manner of best practices--some of which a lot of companies don't follow in-person either. But, at the end of the day (absent any in-person time), you probably need to work harder and accept both inefficiency and that it just won't work for some people.

I'd just add that socially I would have found it really difficult to graduate from school and worked from my apartment indefinitely.
Perfect job of a news site. If I had known Rowland White had a book out about mosquitos I would have read it already. I highly commend him to the HN crowd. His Vulcan 607 book is a masterwork. It explained the situation, the technology, and the human element too.
I did some sleuthing to try to figure out what part of computing history this could refer to.

- Maybe because one could lower the "wait states" BIOS setting on PCs, and this became a selling point and was marketed? https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/9779 https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/18333

Note: it is often perceived that the CPU with more "wait states" was slower. But the above links point out how often the opposite is true.

- The Apple II era was a very different world. The CPU was relatively slower than the RAM. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/23541
quantifying technical achievements is a lot easier than qualifying policy changes.

X amount of views, X amount of subs, etc.

vs

Removing problem people.
Thank god someone feels the same. No one cares when I put this argument forward against remote work especially for me as a junior/beginner dev
Climate-driven extreme heat may make parts of Earth too hot for humans
So I'd say that the page must hijack the history to not pollute it with navigations that from the user perspective, aren't navigations.
I experienced this when we brought on junior members and an intern right as COVID hit. The short answer is that you do it like anything else you do remotely.

Zoom, chat, email, regular check-ins. They join the standups and team calls, learn who to reach out to for help, are assigned a buddy, etc.

There can be benefits in terms of teambuilding and camaraderie in a collocated environment, but I don’t think there’s anything fundamentally different about a newer employee. Their lack of experience will be more about what they don’t know about the company, and not a lack of ability to collaborate remotely, a skill that they have most likely learned by now. And if they can’t collaborate remotely, they may not be a good fit for a remote company.
Welcome to public school education where nothing makes sense and teachers are fleeing in droves.
Wait till they realize there are high-quality devs in SE Asia, South America and India. That remote job can be done by anyone, anywhere. Literally.

Some industries may have regulatory protection, but I don’t think it’ll be long before others start mass-outsourcing the kinds of jobs people thought were safe.
An example of Legend2440's reply:

A mid-stage Computer Vision software startup just hired its first ML Engineer to work on multi-modal LLM, VLLM, GenAI for image & language-based tasks.

Their product is SLAM/Perception-focused and they have many CV Engineers, yet even they've found a need for LLM.
Absolutely not. Even a facebook group of < 100k is too much work for a single person to manage especially if it is discussion based.
>The FBI disagree

No it doesn't. The line you quoted says such an attack is theoretically possible, it doesn't say it has ever happened. And as another comment mentions, the tweet wasn't some update on things happening, they were parroting an old general practices guide.
I hate it. The over reliance on “Canvas” Which on the surface seems like such of a convenience. But every time I watch my kid turn in his math homework by holding his 2-sided worksheet up to the webcam I just cringe. He’ll never get any reasonable feedback on his work because it’s impossible to read.

Some assignments have “spot check” questions where you input the answer on Canvas. Instructions like “make sure you spell it right”, “use ‘i’ for infinity”, and “do not put spaces after the commas” should’ve made the teacher realize it was a bad idea. But alas.

And the teachers are SO GOOD otherwise. It makes me wonder how much of this is being forced ON THEM.
I always start my day with an empty browser window, otherwise I immediately become distracted by the no longer relevant tabs of yesterday. I have opposite problems: it is impossible to make Firefox forget its session after reboot or shutting down the computer.
my three year old (just this week, 4) had somehow learned to read on his own (he is on the spectrum). He seem to have picked up both sight reading and phonics as best as I can tell. He will try to sound out the word sometimes, but largely just looks at the word. If it’s big word a
, like “awesomeness”, he will try to sound it out, at least a bit.

The Dr Seuss books are a piece of cake and he could read them at 3 1/2.
Favorite antonym of cromulent: feculent

"foul with impurities : FECAL"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feculent
Even if i pay for the service i still get ads, with apps supporting SponsorBlock Youtube will become 100% clear from ads.
Even better, that manager could be used to log you in cryptographically, so you’re secret never leaves the device for authentication purposes.

https://bitwarden.com/passwordless-passkeys/
> Challenger search engines appear to have gained a significant stake in the tech crowd

I would say they have risen to a detectable but insignificant stake. The founder of Kagi was up here recently saying they have on the order of thousands of active users, after I suggested some objective evidence indicated only hundreds of active users. Kagi is one of the ones with the biggest memeshare on HN, but it still has an active user base of roughly zero.
agreed, other than your "Punishments are supposed to fit the crime statement." that's one ideal out of many. I would say that companies that create things that are beneficial for people to learn how to use, but that are prohibitivly expensive for students, and younger people to afford to learn how to use like how Adobe products used to be, should always put systems in place to allow people to obtain free access to their products where that kind of thing is obviously applicable. Things that are meant for consumption (movies, tv shows, music) only should be paid a fair market price for in one way or another by the people that consume it. I say this as a both a member of the music industry and the software development industry.
Contrary to stereotypes, kids are not "turned off" by more direct instruction methods. They enjoy the challenge, it's quite fun for them as long as they're not failing completely at it or being bored to death by something that has become trivial. Think about how videogames are designed to be engaging and almost addictive, good instruction should follow along the same principles.
> would you rather follow a link to one of them, or to a personal blog with info about the same thing?

Either one is OK frankly, as long as I get the information I need. Depending on my confidence level in the accuracy of the information on those sites, I might even visit both to compare and contrast.

Regardless, both are unlikely to survive without ads. Most people don't run their own web server to host a blog - most people don't know, and don't want to know, how.

Even if hosting isn't a problem for blogs, I think the amount of blogging will drop.

Who would want spend a week crafting a blog detailing their experiences with something and what they have learned then get next to no views because some AI appropriated their content and stole all your viewers?

With few visitors, probably just search engine and AI crawlers, and no comments on their blog posts ... it's hard not to feel that it's just a wasting time.
Nah he’s right. Yandex is pretty good. Easily on par with Google/Bing. I suspect just no one uses it in America so the results aren’t SEO’d to death.

I’d bet Baidu is decent too but that one really isn’t set up to interface with the Western internet.
> This take on being “poor” bothers me tremendously, because it equates being poor to something near sub-human or nearly irredeemable, and that’s an unfortunate take.

With all due respect, equating these things with “sub-human” or “irredeemable” is something you’ve done, not something the original commenter did.

I don’t view being an alcoholic or someone imprisoned as sub-human or irredeemable. We grew up poor and many people in my family suffer from these catastrophes, but they aren’t sub-human or irredeemable.

These things happen to everyone, but they happen more frequently to those in poverty.
As a casual who has contributed, it's not that hard. I do agree that I wish they had certain features that they currently don't. What was your ultimate objective?
Seems like an improvement - nobody argues that a career as "bleacher actor #847" is something to aspire to. It's something we should AI away.
In what way is it fallacious? Or dangerous? (That's a genuine question).

Fundamentally, it's the same problem - producers have to adjust their prices to reflect the threat to their income. If I produce something, and I forecast X% of my overall market to be stolen, I have to adjust my selling price according. It doesn't matter if that something is physical or digital.

If I produce something that is digital I have the luxury of being able to reduce the cost as low as I like to capture as much value as I can, but that is still my choice as the producer.
Thanks for pointing these out.
I was not sure whether I should wait for Horse Creek or get the MilkV now, but with all these bugs I'd rather wait and see which one will be less buggy.
Or minitel...
It doesn't mess with your blood sugar. Assuming you're eating a low sugar meal with high fat and complex starches, your blood sugar stays at a normal level. It does take time for your body to adjust, though.

I can wake up and go for a 15 mile hike with no breakfast and not feeling hungry.
anybody can simply change the ports on which they choose to download a torrent.
I’ve often wondered if a similar result happened for me. Six year old me got Pokémon Blue, which is pretty much all text based. Coupled with comic books at a friends house, I had great internal motivation to figure those out!
Obviously you have to believe that the behavior causes harm to justify a restriction, but if you don't accept this premise then you cannot have an opinion on what would be an appropriate response because you believe there should be no response.

I'm not trying to take a position on this either way, but within the context of 'internet piracy causes some sort of damage' I don't think the comparison is particularly problematic.
Sounds like another wretched case of human nature at work. Why would anyone care about actually achieving X in the real world, when they could instead do so much better (for themselves) by creating, promoting, and arguing about fancy BS-filled theories on how to achieve X? And, quite logically, all the real-world failures of their fancy BS-filled theories must be the fault of the little people...
I demand that you forget these words immediately after you read them. They are my property.
Also: young people who report chronic stress more likely to start vaping (and probably classic smoking too)
Silly me, I should’ve looked in the mirror before making this thread.
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To be clear it was more canvas over wooden monocoque than frame. It was made out of laminated wooden shapes made in molds, quite unlike early planes. The canvas was just for weatherproofing iirc.
There's no mention of the REPEATABLE READ isolation level, though it mentions that READ COMMITTED can exhibit non-repeatable read behaviour. Here's the docs:

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OSM is very tightly focused. It’s a factual geodatabase. Nothing else. No reviews, no photos, no StreetView, no consumer-facing navigation app, no “host your own data” a la Google My Maps, no public transport timetables. Just street, landuse and other map data. The principle is that others can then take that data and build on it - and they do!
The site is in English. So it’s just like are you going to judge them for not being native speakers of English and perhaps sometimes making mistakes?
Do you think the Xylitol in gum is good enough for that?
I think the point is that it's remote with presumably fluent English, cultural similarity, and a time zone difference that is absolutely routine for many, many teams.
Browser-based simulator for Petoi Bittle robot dog
Thank you, I'll have a look at it when I can find the time and frame of mind.
The geographical blocks are not enforced by Cloudflare as a blanket ban, but are chosen by each account owner (it's a setting you configure). I've worked with a few companies that saw this as a very valuable service (like small domestic companies blocking international traffic, especially from Russia and China, because we had no presence there anyway and that cut down bot traffic by like 95%).

Likewise, TOR access is similarly configurable. Companies choose to block it because more often than not it IS bot traffic, and the few potential real customers who use TOR are deemed not worth the headaches of the rest of the network.

Cloudflare's WAF is really pretty granular, with a lot of toggles and overrides: https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/managed-rules/

Anecdote: For small businesses with limited web resources, these are just everyday tradeoffs they have to make in order to keep hosting and security fees reasonable. At the place I worked at, previously we were spending tens of thousands a year on hosting and thousands more for a competing WAF that cost like 10x more and didn't work very well. Cloudflare let us move to a much lower hosting plan and cost like $240/yr and drastically reduced bot traffic. Not a single customer complained over the next year or two. It was a huge improvement in both performance and costs.
The tech for this will obviously get better (is the example shown even recent?). The complaints in the Twitter thread are ridiculous imo. Disney is right to be experimenting with this stuff, it’s clearly going to be super relevant in the future.
Ahhh this is the puzzle piece I was missing
What is Nvidia's gold mine? They don't make their own chips, right? Doesn't that mean that other companies can quickly catch up, if they are even behind?
Anyone can disable, bypass, or remove the breathalyzer in their car.
I think the note on classism is basically the entire story. Avoiding phonics probably works great for families who have already taught kids to read by the time they reach school.

I could intuitively sound out words by the time I was in grade school. I also had parents reading books with me multiple times a day my entire life up to that point. We made games out of reading the book backwards because if you read words backwards it sounds funny. Being able to do this implies already being proficient in phonics.

By the time I was in grade school, what I needed was a quiet place and dedicated time to practice reading short, easy novels (which I continued to do at home every day). Doing this without already being able to read sounds like nonsense.
if you are referring to this change, i don't think it is related to synching between browsers: "Sync autosaved sessions with all views in real-time"
With all that is terrible with Disney entertainment (and the rest of the last 2 decades of studio output), I do not think 'background crowd did not look real enough' would make my top 100 of things wrong with film/tv.
it is related in the sense that ISPs have no business or should not be burdened with policing the data their customers transfer. if someone violates the law it is up to the courts to prosecute them and if appropriate deny them internet access. however given that internet access is now as important as a phone used to be, this should practically never happen.
I think education as a scientific discipline suffers from the credentialism that has required increasing numbers of teachers to get graduate degrees.

The focus in departments granting professional degrees is going to inevitably be on those students, and the dollars they bring with them, rather than on research.
Thank for the suggestions!

My voice is terrible, so I'll definitely follow your latter point.

I hadn't even thought about playback speed, especially since those are all pretty quick, but I'll think about it for sure.
But you know that the bleacher actor #847 of today is the single line actor of tomorrow and potentially one day a leading role.

How do you expect actors to get a start if there's no where to start?
I find this argument really alien to me. I'm personally not a huge "environmental" person but when I see this argument I substitute ICE car with horse, electric car with car, electricity with "fuel" and charging station with a fuel station. I'm sure when the ice car was new there weren't enough fuel stations, it was a chicken & egg problem.
Because it's not private property. When something is a private property, that means that if I have 100% of it, you have 0% of it. That doesn't happen with, for example, songs. I can have 100% of a song and listen to it as much as I want and that doesn't mean you can't have and listen that song as well.

Copyright (and patents) are a limited monopoly granted by the state, thus they are inherently immoral, as everything that any government does, as they do that by the use of force.

Other way to look at it is that ideas are not scarce at all and it's copyright/patents/the government that creates scarcity where there's abundance.
Typically most institutions such as hospitals have multi T1 lines from separate providers. Ignoring piracy/automated systems, sometimes isps just have outages, so it's the same problem.
OK, I should have thought a bit more before posting.

But in that case the recipe for refried beans isn't recursive; there are no refried beans in the ingredients for refried beans, even if you grow your own beans as part of the recipe.

I had a boss who liked to be obeyed immediately; if you said you'd do it shortly, he'd say "Don't call me Shortly". He wasn't very tall.
Because every website decides that it is fine to show the annoying popup even though they don't use the data they collect. I wonder if there is a way to give incentives to do it better for the user.

Many websites becomes huge apps for no reason, e-mails abuse HTML and are usually unreadable in plain/text, etc. It's not even clear to me if that makes those websites more successful or if it is just cargo cult ("we have to look modern like the others").

But users mostly don't give a shit and won't support those who e.g. don't track them and therefore don't show the cookie popup.

I don't see a way to solve this, though...
How about Real Intelligence web (RW) or Human Web (HW)?
Nobody aspires to peak as a junior software engineer even though they mostly just do small, easily automated tasks. Is that a valid reason to completely gut a set opportunities that provide a foot in the door to something bigger?
There was a "strong" product, the Beagleboard X-15. It came out before the Pi4 and had better performance than a Pi3B. However, it was on the expensive side at over $200.
I think the word piracy is worse honestly, because what it really means is to swashbuckle on the open seas. And i don't think stealing physical goods or digital goods is quite comparable to that.