skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's been a concerted effort to reset salary for tech workers in the past year or so, ever since Elon Musk kicked things off with the mass layoffs at Twitter. The default of Silicon Valley Bank didn't help, and neither did the VC money pulling back for all but AI.

One of the hidden chilling effect is Section 174. I don't know why it is such a big blind spot among tech workers. (Section 174 ruling means US companies can no longer expense software development, and must amortize it. That creates a significantly higher tax burden. It is driving companies to shed all but their best engineers, and drive AI adoption. I don't even know how startups are going to start up without enough capital to cover the higher taxes).
Actually, I think the problem is there are many definitions of hate speech.
Is this post a spam submission?

The website looks like a super generic landing page template; the kind you find when you search "youtube video downloader" and similar.

Take that "#1 AI Image Upscaler" banner for example. #1 according to who? The AI Image Upscaler Academy Awards panel?
If you are working remotely, you can move somewhere that you can afford a home office..
You’re being downvoted, but exactly.

The persons responses basically amount to: I can’t manage my time and need others to validate what I’m doing.

Take some personal responsibility.
I have this dream that the closed down/ghost shops blighting towns and cities across the UK will be converted into co-working spaces.

Your employer rents a desk for you, you probably get to walk to work or at least enjoy a very short commute. You have people from other employers around you for the social aspect. Etc

I guess WeWork was a similar idea that shows now is not yet the time for this.

I still think it’d be great - reduced commuting miles / time wasted. Cheaper offices that are nicer (don’t like this co working space? Just book into a different one) etc etc
If GTK+libadwaita is "native" for linux, then give me a custom UI. I grew up in the 80s and 90s and remember when every program rolled its own UI. It sucked, but modern GTK is in many ways worse.
On the other hand, it's likely that you have the potential to be really good at something that is totally outside your awareness right now, and having a broad education can be beneficial to expanding your exposure to such possibility.
one of my favorites

https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/sial/nist2387

dunno what the cannabis might cost

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/07/nists-new-hemp...
> “If you disclose your invention publicly and do not file an application within one year, you could be barred from receiving a patent on that exact invention,” she says. “Because of the ‘first to file’ system, if someone steals your idea by filing first, this can be hard and very expensive to reverse.”

If that doesn't tell you it's an extortion racket on anyone with useful ideas then I don't know what will.
No wonder there is rampant age discrimination in tech. Who wants to hire older workers who want to silo at home, avoid mentoring juniors, and force teams to have video calls when the rest of the team could have met in person?
> lots of people thought all their windows and console programming knowledge is gone, next was apps and iphone when people thought all their knowledge of web programming is gone

Those were gentle transitions. Probably the biggest was from mainframe to PC. I was in a team of designers in the early 90s and found I was the only one who could think in terms of user interaction instead of a basically linear flow. I had worked on getting to grips with it.
Wow these videos are so good! So lifelike. Love baby laughing and having fun riding the dog!
Inaccuracies like these is the reason I don't buy new games.
Ohh I'll come back into the office for the right price.

Let's say I'm remote and making 140k. I can live wherever I want. If a recruiter was like "If you come to NYC we can hit 190k".

Think about it. After taxes that's a 25k increase. Rent will be an additional 2 to 3k a month over what I'm paying now. Plus I'm spending a minimum of 45 minutes each way commuting.

So I'm already losing money on this. At a certain point more money wouldn't even be worth it. I'd need an additional 50k take home for this to make sense, which due to how taxation works quickly prices me out the market.

Basically I have a WFH job and unless I got a ridiculous offer, I'm not giving it up. I imagine if I finally get a FAANG job with 300k TC I'd consider it.
They pay the penalty and they are expected fix the issue. If they don't, there will be additional enforcement actions.
Why would a coupon be a way around this?

I think that document is specifically about taxes and coupons. It is not intended to define "compensation" for every statue in California and certainly not for federally issued rules from the FTC.

Even then, that rule is about whether the coupon issuer is compensated when a coupon is used, NOT about if a customer is compensated if they are given a coupon.
ADHDGpt
The problem with that is that pushes towards collective action come when people feel weak - which is exactly the time at which they have the least leverage. Good bargaining power comes from a place of strength, like what SWEs had 5 years ago. But in that environment, it's easy to think of your boss in non-adversarial terms, because they're incentivized to keep you happy because they know someone else could poach you. Tech workers, and SWEs in particular, mistook their market power for virtue on their employers' part.

When it's a sunny June day, it's too easy to blow off why anyone would ever want a jacket.
Unisys and Avaya are both reporting losses. This fine makes it even more of a loss. Further, if they don't mend their ways, the SEC will give them an even bigger fine.
The Sophisticated Investor Test
I'm not in this 40% but I would not relocate for a job unless there is a significant financial upside but the offers I get are typically lower than what I currently make.

Forcing five-day RTO is still ridiculous.
Collaboration is much easier in the office, but I find home much easier to go heads down, headphones on and work on something; hybrid is the sweet spot for me.
It all depends on the rest of the company. It's a big difference if the whole team + management are remote, and there are established practices to work that way, vs most of the team is not remote, and just a few individuals are. I find the last part harder. Not impossible, but just harder for everyone.

During the pandemic a lot of in-office teams were forced to adapt quickly, and that doesn't always work well; it takes time to build a culture around that and some people just don't work well that way. So not too surprised that after sometime it was declared a "failure" and everyone is forced to RTO.

For me, I was never in the office to start with, so there is nothing to "return to". I know I am taking a pay cut picking choosing, but I picked to spend more time with my family instead of commuting. It helps the environment, too. But being with my family was my top priority.
I may be misinterpreting, but I think that what the quoted post is talking about is probably independent from the kind of development you’ve mentioned.

For instance, while the person who never moved from their hometown might’ve been able to hit societal goalposts earlier on, they may never have had the opportunity to explore, experiment, and figure themselves and what they want to do out (as opposed to the identity they’d picked up via osmosis from family).

Speaking personally, in retrospect I was certainly underdeveloped in that way until my late 20s and early 30s, even though I couldn’t perceive that at the time. The requisite independence/autonomy and experience just wasn’t there until several years later. Had I locked myself into my situation with a marriage and children at that age I think it’s quite likely I would’ve come to regret it in the years following, increasing risk of outcomes such as divorce.
https://archive.is/rQ7Zb
Same boat here! :)
I use this; it does require changing the Firefox accelKey to something other than control, but works well. I also tried using nyxt but found it to be far too slow.
I've been doing this for a year or two with k3s + cert-manager.

Works great.

In my case everything points to a tailscale operator endpoint, which goes to nginx ingress, which routes to the appropriate pods.

It's very much a set-and-forget solution.
As a Kurt Vonnegut fan, their asterisk logo on claude.ai always amuses me. It must be intentional:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Claude_Ai.svg

https://www.redmolotov.com/vonnegut-ahole-tshirt
This is a gross mischaracterization of the stance. I want everyone to have an office to go to anytime they want— always, sometimes, never. If you want to make me go to the office we'll have words.

We have forced-office and office-available, no one is arguing for forced-remote.
Operating a computer?
If the goal is to emulate human behavior, I'd say there is a case to be made to build for the same interface, and not rely on separate APIs that may or may not reflect the same information as a user sees.
I've been finding Sonnet 3.5 is way better than ChatGPT 4o when it comes to python and programming.
I feel that it is time to criminalise corporate fraud - ie executives presiding over businesses or state organizations that lie, deliberately obscure or suppress any relevant facts should expect jail time. This ought to be at similar levels of time and standards of “should know” as health and safety law.

Several recent examples would have fallen foul of this … Grenfell tower, Tesla FSD, Boeing 737max, Thames Water, United Utilities and the EA.
A Map of Emoji Similarity
For a layperson, this is an accessible and directionally correct definition.

For the HN audience, of course this is 'technically incorrect'.

The article was written for the (larger) general public.

I am also glad they didn't squeeze in a word salad of LLMs and quantum technology and instead stuck to 'it's just standard ML'.
this may be what you're looking for

http://www.wtfpl.net/about/
It's not crazy to have a personal in-office preference! I'm very much team WFH but I recognize some people have temperament or home environment that will make WFH difficult. And also that there are sometimes specific types of work and phases of projects that benefit from a lot of in-person collab.

It's probably even reasonable to organize teams around similar styles, preferences, and demands of the actual work output. But it's good to recognize that a LOT of IC roles benefit strongly from greater control over their work environment and time, which can often be achieved via remote (and even a lot of managerial work that's high contact light touch direction can benefit from the tooling and organization required to support remote work).

What's less good is to universalize. It rarely reflects detailed attention to organizational and individual needs and output. It's more like the fad that produced the categorically inexcusable open-plan-office. Where it happens, it's often a cover for something else, or a reflection of limited interest in good management.
Throughout my time in college and university, I did have two teachers I would describe as "hard and not fair".

The first was a second-year Physics teacher at my community college. He said that at least 50% of the class should fail. Not 50% will fail, but that 50% should fail, and if less than 50% fails, the class was too easy. He demanded that we memorize 30+ equations that could appear on the final and did not allow a notecard of equations.

The other was my Algorithms teacher in my third year, who basically wasn't teaching what we really needed to know, as far as I was concerned. I was expecting to learn breadth/depth-first searching, binary search, sorting algorithms, maybe even path-finding like A* and Dijkstra's, etc. Instead, the entire course was about algebra dealing with Big-O, Big-Theta, and Big-Omega, with only a slight nod to how they related to code.
I tried to get it to translate a document and it stopped after a few paragraphs and asked if I wanted it to keep going. This is not appropriate for my use case and it kept doing this even though I explicitly told it not to. The old version did not do this.
I hope the FTC staffs a large office for enforcement on this. There are surely many hundreds of companies in the business of selling fake reviews, many of them outside the US, and I don't expect much change in the consumer reality of "most reviews are fake" without a great deal of investigatory effort tracing money flows to shut these operations down.
FYI client side is under www/assets. https://github.com/solcloud/Counter-Strike/tree/master/www/a...

There are no dependencies besides threejs. No typescript or build pipeline. Actually fun to just read the code.
Awesome. Does planetscale vector support multi node indices (like Milvus) and even further blob store index storage which can be separate from compute, allowing to pay for compute on demand when queries are run?
To put some less anecdotal data to this: an 80th percentile salary ask in our data set (from engs looking for jobs) is 33k higher [1] for an in-office job than it is for a remote one; a lot of those are people who already live in HCOL areas.

[1] https://www.otherbranch.com/blog/quantifying-the-cost-of-rto
He might also fail the standardized test entirely.
And yet lawyers need to earn.
Yeah super weird that we didn't design our GUIs anticipating AI bots. Can't fuckin believe what we've done.
You're right, it should work better on AWS, GCP, and other clouds. We'll get to that in future builds of Drasi. We've submitted to CNCF and, just like with Radius and Dapr, we'll make sure it works well on more than just Azure.
I can manage my time just fine! The problem is that I find it very demotivating to be working completely alone, and enjoy working with others around. It's a personal preference, no more complex than that.
I used to make money with patents. I've held six of them. But once US patents were weakened, it was no longer profitable.

The trouble with a weak patent system is that things which used to be patented are now trade secrets. How Waymo and Tesla do self-driving is a trade secret, for example.
The people in control will be long gone by the time the consequences catch up. There is no appetite to solve the problem.
The point that you are missing is that this is not just about what you can do, but how the system as a whole is rigged.

The fact that you know how the sausage is made and yet you are not actively working to dismantle it would be a strong sign of apathy, but when you come boasting about how you are for "getting a nice TV for cheap" just turns the whole thing into complete moral bankruptcy.

You are not sticking to the man. You are just a rounding error to them, when you could full well be part of an alternative that puts human decency above petty savings.
Ageism was already a thing before COVID sent us all home.
Did I miss where the article mentions that those workers tend to be older?

Also - why does working at home imply any of those things (besides video calls).
Finding a work environment that makes you most effective and productive IS taking some personal responsibility. Different people have different needs, and a big part of responsibility is understanding and managing your own needs relative to those of others.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99vz4kz5vzo
I've been using htyper.com
None of those things change by physically being somewhere else.

Nobody cares what you’re doing because they’re sitting vaguely near you.

Those rose colored glasses are goddamn dark, my friend.
I think there's only 1 main definition. Which is clear in spirit, but it's of course possible that people may interpret the definition definitely.
DANE without DNSSEC isn't a good idea. DoH secures the connection between the user's device and their recursive resolver, but it cannot secure the connection between the recursive resolver and the authoritative name servers. If you're using DANE you need a stronger guarantee that the records are valid.
I don't mind using it to make inline edits or more global edits between files at my descresion, and according to my instructions. Definitely saves tons of time and allows me to be more creative, but I don't want it make decisions on its own anymore than it already does.

I tried using the composer feature on Cursor.sh, that's exactly the type of llm tool I do not want.
does anyone know what are some use cases for "computer use"?
It might, and that’s part of the reason why I put a smiley. On the other hand, the larger you go, the less relevant it becomes, because if the light cones don’t touch then it might just as well be a separate universe.
Ask HN: Am I doomed to always work at startups now?
I’m a full stack engineer that’s been working for about 5 years, I have worked at 3 different companies each for about 2 years (I’m coming up on a year at my current company)

The first company I worked at was a mid sized, well known company but the last two have both been startups. I left the last company I was at after 2 years because I didn’t agree with the direction the product was going, and now I’m in a similar position at the company I work for now, not really feeling like all the extra work and stress is worth it.

When I worked at my first company (the largest one) I would get recruiters asking me to interview from other similarly sized companies and bigger, but now since I’ve worked at startups the only recruiters messaging me are from startups, most of them being AI wrapper companies. I’ve tried applying to bigger companies but usually don’t hear back or am rejected.

It feels like I’m stuck having to work at startups which I’m not a huge fan of, is there something I can do to position myself better to work at a bigger more established company in the future?
For me, one of the more useful steps on macOS will be when local AI can manipulate anything that has an Apple Script library. The hooks are there and decently documented. For meta purposes, having AI work with a third-party app like Keyboard Maestro or Raycast will even further expand the pre-built possibilities without requiring the local AI to reinvent steps or tools at the time of each prompt.
> I am curious where this comes from, because my thinking is the absolutely opposite. As much business logic as possible should belong in the model.

The opposite of this is what Fowler has called an "Anemic Domain Model"[0] which is ostensibly an anti-pattern. What I've learned from my own experience is that with an anemic domain model, the biggest challenge is that the logic for mutating that object is all over the codebase. So instead of `thing.DoDiscreteThang()`, there could be one or more `service1.DoDiscreteThang(thing)` and `serviceN.DoDiscreteThang(thing)` because the author of `service1` didn't know that `service2` also did the mutation.

Domain models are hard to do well and I think the SOA era brought a lot of confusion between data transfer objects, serialized objects, anemic domain models, and domain models.

[0] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/AnemicDomainModel.html
I bought a truck for similar reasons (was tired of constantly having to rent/borrow cars to tow or haul/pick up something that doesn't fit in a "normal" car). I got a lot of utility use out of it over the years and I do honestly agree, even though I now almost never have to use it for anything truck-related I'm still very happy with it, it's very comfortable and reliable. I'd buy another one in a heartbeat. The convenience of knowing I can spontaneously throw anything I want in the back without ever thinking or planning about it in the rare cases I do still occasionally have to is just the cherry on top at this point.
I don't have the most faith it will be easy to execute but I would imagine:

- Some disgruntled people at company's could leak directly, which would make engaging in this behavior riskier

- Random individuals or competing companies could monitor product reviews and report. For example, show that an Amazon product ID used to be for another product 3 months ago when reviews were written.

I'm optimistic. There are a lot of regulations (including digital regulations) that everyone ends up following even if the government isn't monitoring things themselves. The risk of penalty just needs to be high enough, and hopefully places like Amazon realize the downside/penalty of fake reviews now makes it worth policing.

It obviously won't help your "first impression" review problem but that's not the intent of the law and not sure why the government would be involved in that. A lot of movies don't hold up well on a rewatch, too. If you are that particular about buying something that lasts X years then you can seek out dedicated advice blogs/youtube channels.
Amazonz doooomed
This is a much more likely attack scenario than browser zero days.
"Transport to where-ever you need to go, an what-ever time you need to go there" has to functionally be pretty car-like. My question is how he wants to dispatch it on demand so it doesn't need to stay parked near us.
> MQTT is being used a lot more in recent years inside of factories for sharing data between machines. Historically it's been used in Oil & Gas for SCADA (getting data from remote well sites).

This is where I first encountered it too -- chemical production. Also saw a lot of it in aviation and railroad control systems.

That said, seeing a lot more Kafka and RabbitMQ crowding into MQTT's marketspace.
Using ClickHouse is one of the best decisions we've made here at PostHog. It has allowed us to scale performance all while allowing us to build more products on the same set of data.

Since we've been using ClickHouse long before this JSON functionality was available (or even before the earlier version of this called `Object('json')` was avaiable) we ended up setting up a job that would materialize json fields out of a json blob and into materialized columns based on query patterns against the keys in the JSON blob. Then, once those materialized columns were created we would just route the queries to those columns at runtime if they were available. This saved us a _ton_ on CPU and IO utilization. Even though ClickHouse uses some really fast SIMD JSON functions, the best way to make a computer go faster is to make the computer do less and this new JSON type does exactly that and it's so turn key!

https://posthog.com/handbook/engineering/databases/materiali...

The team over at ClickHouse Inc. as well as the community behind it moves surprisingly fast. I can't recommend it enough and excited for everything else that is on the roadmap here. I'm really excited for what is on the horizon with Parquet and Iceberg support.
Chrome uses it too. However the CDP protocol allows any local app to control the browser so you can use that to open the browser in windowless mode, examine the list of passwords at chrome://passwords, then open a bunch of tabs to all of those sites and extract the passwords from the HTML forms they get auto-inserted into.
I'm tempted to add a button to support connecting data from/to ODBC/JDBC but at same time worried about security stuff...

maybe there could be some intermediate layer to support this :)
disappear.net uses mnemonics (bespoke or securely generated). No cli support yet, but I think I'll work on a cli client for it in the coming days. The nice thing about using mnemonics or passwords instead of deep links is that you never expose the url anywhere and it's easier to pass along the files or notes using non-digital channels.
This is the human cost of non-AI moderation. Not AI. This job is going to be automated, if it isn't already.
Then go to coworking space? Jesus. Stop trying to ruin everything because you’re lonely and want to shoot the shit by the water cooler like it’s 1952
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I would assume any positive effects are balanced out by living in Arkansas.