skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant the original source, the inflation calculator site. Anyway, thanks for the figures. House prices more than doubled but I guess other things must have become cheaper to compensate.
Employee level metrics are a fast slipper slope to encouraging all the wrong behaviors. Most of what you actually want out of a good developer is not captured in metrics easily, but lots of superfluous stuff is.

I recall one of my worst managers was a guy who would nitpick the "how" of every action (email/slack to users, internal runback documentation, etc), but rarely if ever call anyone out for inaction. He was also pretty indifferent to the what (actual functionality delivered to users).

This created a tremendous bias to inaction in the team, and everyone developed slopey shoulders.. He eventually got fired but not before a lot of turmoil and turnover.

As soon as you start rewarding devs based on story points, ticket counts, response times, ticket closure rates you get all sorts of bad behavior. You'd be better served based on quarterly changes in user satisfaction metrics as thats literally all that matters - the end product.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42040802. (Nothing wrong with your post, I just want to pin the parent to the top so people don't miss the links, and it's better not to consume extra real estate up there)
>when more than half of New Yorkers do

I'm curious about what portion of those that are living on $74k or less are doing so solo, and how many are only able to do so by racking up debt / getting support from family / etc.

I live in an area less expensive than NYC and, at least anecdotally in my circles, if you don't have a partner (or other assistance like roommates, parents, or something along those lines) it seems pretty damn rough to get by on ~70k.
A small sample size, but all of my kids which go to a pretty high-end daycare seem to have a bit leg up on peers who have stayed home in terms of social skills, language, reasoning, and reading. That's not just me acting like my kids are the best (of course they are), that's those other parents mentioning it to me.

It's practically a college tuition per kid at age 0 though.
There are no severance requirements for layoffs in the US.
The latest issue of Fine Woodworking agrees and explains why this is true:

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Anecdata: I work from home and spend about a quarter of my time helping colleagues.
Can't get this fetish with on premise work when the code you write is on your machine, the systems you deploy to are in a data centre you don't know the exact location of.

If Linux kernel can be developed remotely spanning over several architectures and huge number of mission critical subsystems, surely your systems having blog posts, comments and such can work as well and if not, you have failed to articulate exactly what needs to be done and by when and under what constraints.
That's true, makes perfect sense.
Touch screens have always been bad outside of a small, bespoke set of cases.
Yes, I agree with your point that a realtime edit/publish cycle is a key part of the “wiki” aspect, instead of needing to do a build. I hadn’t considered that part of it.
There are situations where the model output being watermarked doesn't matter. For instance, I hear people on HN asking LLMs to explain things to them all the time, (which I think is a bad idea, but YMMV) and people use LLMs to write code quickly. (which I think is at least possibly a good idea) There are also some content farms which churn out low quality books on Amazon on various topics, and I don't think they care if they get caught using LLM outputs.

Thus it might reduce usage some, but it certainly wouldn't block all usage. Additionally, there are only a few providers of truly massive LLMs on the market right now. If they decided that doing this would be a social good, or more likely that it would bring bad PR to not do this when their competitors do, then they would at least be able to watermark all of the massive LLM outputs.
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> There's more in play here than math

As in "people feel as though they want to be paid more"? You may find the idea interesting and resonant, but how does that affect anything? It's still true that they're on more than journalists, regardless of how they feel.
I've used this one all my life:

"Eternity is a ham and two people"

Especially when the spouse's company simply mails one to us every year, and I want to give it away.
It's not merely that 50 years is a long time. There's a profound cultural watershed between the Before Times, the overcontrolled, neurotic world of roughly up to the late '60s, and the narcissistic/sociopathic world of today. Robert Crumb, and the whole Crumb family, embody that change in an unusually extreme way.
nyt makes tons of money from trump news. Its not the same as local news. Trump ironically revived "failing new york times" .
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But does what you care about matter enough to be the default?

Are you the majority?

Evaluate "majority" this way: For every/any random binary in a distro, out of all the currently running instances of that binary in the world at any given moment, how many of those need to be profiled?

There is no way the answer is "most of them".

You have a job where you profile things, and maybe even you profile almost everything you touch. Your whole world has a high quotient of profiling in it. So you want the whole system built for profiling by default. How convenient for you. But your whole world is not the whole world.

But it's not just you, there are, zomg thousands, tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of developers and ops admins the same as you.

Yes and? Is even that most installed instances of any given executable?
No way.

Or maybe yes. It's possible. Can you show that somehow? But I will guess no way and not even close.
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Voyager's claims that it's a "learning agent" and that it "make new discoveries consistently without human intervention" are pretty much wrong considering how part of that system is using GPT's giant memory of ~~all~~ a lot of human knowledge (including how to play Minecraft, the most popular game ever made).

In the same sense, LLMs "not remembering the past" is wrong (especially when part of a larger system). This seems like claiming humans / civilizations don't have a "memory" because you've redefined long term memory / repositories of knowledge like books to not be counted as "memory" ?

Or am I missing something ??
Most people on the TrueNAS/FreeNAS forums use 10gb Mellanox nics that are sold on eBay. The sellers get them after server gear gets retired.
There's no such thing as a standard human. You can't find one trait or measure that is the same for all humans.

Everyone is different in every way, though the difference isn't always enough to matter.
I upvoted you for the sentiment alone.
Except none of these are true, they're just things people have made up to conceal the fact they oppose systemd for ideological reasons. There's little to no technical arguments against systemd - it's fast, much more robust than what came before it, and services 99% of usecases.

Users DID want systemd. Ask any sys admin, most much prefer systemd.

Also systemd doesn't "force" anything. Most distributions don't even ship all systemd projects, just a couple.

systemd-init IS small. The idea that systemd is a big ole monolith is just not true, and one glance at the git repo reveals that.
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Everyone benefits from the net performance wins that come from an ecosystem where everyone can easily profile things. I have no doubt that works out to more than a 1% lifetime improvement. Same reason you log stuff on your servers. 99.9% pure overhead, never even seen by a human. Slows stuff down, even causes uptime issues sometimes from bugs or full discs. It's still worthwhile though because occasionally it makes fixes or enhancements possible that are so much larger than the cost of the observability.
That last one is simply genius.
There was a clear, large cost savings and risk improvements with the project. The project was actually easy on the requirements front. They put all new non critical features on hold for 2 years and there was no question on the requirements: The new system's data must match the old system's data except for any bug fixes or agreed upon changes.
The OP didn’t claim they thought 600 was unreasonable. A charitable reading of their post is they were genuinely curious why it’s reasonable.
The Switch is an outlier early USB-C device. The situation sucks, but my wife hasn't had an issue charging hers with pretty much all the USB-PD power bricks in the house today. No special attention was made to buying these, they Just Work. I think we found one which we just tossed as to never have the issue ever again by accident, but that was many years ago.

Again, this seems to be a lot of social media hysteria over effectively a non-issue. I don't know anyone in my life who has a problem charging their phone and laptop off the same USB-C charger. Buy a 60W USB brick of decent quality and chances are it will charge everything you care about at a reasonable speed. These are folks who do not pay attention whatsoever to technology.

USB-C has absolutely improved the situation by a large margin. It's not perfect, but it's slowly getting better every year in my estimation. The early USB-C devices are starting to age out, and most things released recently are pretty good at conforming the basic set of standards you'd expect them to.

If you're doing out-there nerd stuff, I'd expect issues like anything else at the bleeding edge of tech. Such as trying to daisy chain multiple 4k monitors and the sort off one cable. That stuff can be difficult, but very few have such use-cases.

As a charging standard it's become pretty solid.
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Yes, the fairest and least corruptible system is to just provide PTO. People can use it however they see fit.
I don't remember for sure. But a lot of times it'll be resold and then recombined with other lists anyway. Like there's probably only one person of my name in my county, maybe even state.

They just spam and spam and spam.

If the politics mean that much to you, yeah maybe a burner phone and temporary mailbox. I am not sure if that's strictly legal though.

Personally I just won't donate again. Can't really compete with Musk money anyway lol.
That hits too close to home. Except for us it's all about OKRs. You get one or two tasks for the quarter, and anything that isn't working towards that be damned. Which basically translates to launch your [AI] feature and fix nothing.
Forgotten by whom? Certainly not by me.
Unscented cleaning products in a communal workplace setting makes complete sense to me, tbh. It minimizes the exposure to any sensitivities or allergies that could expose a company to legal liability. e.g. it only takes one poorly-paid cleaner to forget that someone's bathroom has an accessibility policy because they're deeply allergic to the lemon scent in the cleaning product or something.
Basically article describes that thanks to the NAT you can have your own little garden where you can do whatever you want without caring what is happening in front of the NAT. I completely agree with that. No idea why I should care what is happening with ISP network, that's ISP problem not mine.
Several commenters who have not read the abstract of the paper are mentioning LLM-detection tools. That is not what is being shown here.

Rather they are saying how to modify the design of an LLM to deliberately inject watermarks into generated text such that it will be possible to detect that the text came from a particular LLM.

While interesting in the abstract, I think I can definitively say that absolutely nobody wants this. People trying to pass off LLM content (whether students or content providers) as human-written are not interested in being detected. People who are using LLMs to get information for their own knowledge or amusement or as a cybernetic augmentation do not need this. LLM providers want to drive adoption, and if you can be exposed as passing off LLM slop as your own, then nobody will use their stuff.
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In my opinion, the combination of team members working both remote and hybrid is the worst of all. Unless the manager is excellent which is rarely the case, it puts the burden of grunt but urgent tasks to people who are in proximity to the manager, hence bad for them. And you need huge zoom calls because of remote folks without the benefit of having the ability to turn down audio.
I knew that Lisp does this operator first thing, it's everything around this that I'm not familiar with. What does ; do? Is the => an arrow or greater than or equal to? What is t? Do I guess correctly that most-negative-fixnum is like INT_MIN?
Cancer was first documented around 3000 BC, and has been studied for a long time.
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Why are you quoting operating profit instead of net income? The expenses included in net income are not optional.
In what way do you think the current tech industry has turned into a shit show?
I see your point, but I don't see how that might be damaging. Deleting data would be damaging. Putting a flamboyant rant instead of the home page would be damaging. But this, to my mind, amounts closing the factory gates and writing "Strike" on them with a piece of chalk. Rolling it back would amount to commenting out a line or two in a config file, maybe even.carefully commented for that purpose.
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If there's no ticket, how will anyone know you did anything at all? How will submit your code change without a ticket # to satisfy the validator?
Not to be antagonistic, but just as a practical matter to consider: if your account username is your real name then I would be careful talking about your direct reports like this. People who you work with might see it.
How? How can we go from an HN comment to making this a reality?
When I read the jobs biography I had to put down the book and look up the next logo after how important that logo and design process seemed to have been.

I was quite disappointed and find it hard to say anything kind about it.

It works a lot better on Steve’s t-shirt where you can’t see the box.
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House prices aren't part of the CPI, but housing (ie. rent and owners' equivalent rent) is. The former is an investment but the latter is the thing you actually consume.
https://www.playsuckup.com/

It’s a game where you, a vampire, convince townsfolk that you’re not, so they let you in their house.

The NPCs are run by LLMs. It’s pretty interesting.
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You're making a couple mistakes on this.

The first is you're using the Nationwide averages as opposed to the regional numbers for New York where a lot of these increases are much greater than on the nation.

The second thing is the way it includes housing is by using a thing called the owners imputed rent. And what that does is it tries to back out the rental from a housing unit. The problem is in New York City rent has been rising way faster than that.

30 is the cpi's consistently underestimated a number of its own provisions because of the way it does hedonics and substitution. It basically says that while meat might have risen 50% people switch to fish now and it uses in lower value for inflation.

The CPI over the last 30 years have been so massively game it's almost useless anymore
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> I can’t help but think those people don’t understand that $100k is very much the new $45k of the 2000s

It really isn't.
Um, what? If anything, the bit about unscented cleaning products would be one of the more reasonable asks, since it's relatively cheap to provide, and makes a huge difference to quality of the workplace for those who care about it and are annoyed by the scents.
In private “host only” VM networks, the hosts do act as routers, DNS, and DHCP servers. In those networks you do not want the VMs getting addresses from the parent network, you want them contained in the laptop.
To be fair Jones is a common family name.

I didn't connect John David Washington to Denzel until I looked him up.
Agree the creatures look similar but that isn't at issue in the case, it's gameplay mechanics (catching creatures and then using them to battle).
Because of allergies basically. It's a big problem for some people. My mother's church asks people wearing perfumes or other scents to sit on one side every service.
I used one at a relative's house and I agree - worst appliance user experience that I've come across.
Are you seriously complaining right now that systemd doesn't have a specific feature no other init for linux has either, while at the same time complaining it is too complicated and does too much stuff?
i didn't have practical exposure to Forth, only somewhat theoretical, but did to Postscript (yeah, that Adobe one under the PDF, printers etc).

Postscript is also RPN based..

And btw, the HP 11c "calculator" is also RPN based :) . Used it to solve some matrix things in university..
Heh… that exact situation came up here a few years ago, when someone posted their software implementation of the puzzle:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10540014
Sarcastically, CDE is one way to move cost from CAPEX (get your developer a Mac Book Pro) to OPEX (a monthly subscription that you only need to pay as long as the dev has not been lay off)

It's also much cheaper to hire contractors and give them the CDE that can be terminated on a moment notice.
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Corey needs to get an editor or stop using chatgpt.
> After we found out that our manager was being evaluated on this score, we all started giving 10s no matter what.

Same with Uber and other "sharing" apps: If you can't give the highest score, it's a sort of death sentence, so don't.
Don't forget the classifieds as a critical revenue stream.
I should have been clearer. jq is a programming language, but it's also a data language in that a) valid JSON is a valid jq program, b) you can construct JSON data trivially with jq.

E.g.,

: ; jq -n '
.users[0].name="John"
| .users[1].name="Jane"
'

or

: ; jq -n '
.users = []
| .users += [{}|.name = "John"]
| .users += [{}|.name = "Jane"]
'

but you can make it much much richer than that.
Yes. So much of our economy is built on the idea that future people will be able to support and pay for today's economic choices.
You have roommates. Or you live in less than 400 sq feet. Or you're in an older rent control.
The sad thing is, the logo was a tiny part of the experience, which these days folks only see the successors of iOS (and derived) devices, and Mac OS X (or whatever they're calling it these days).

At least we've moved on from the early releases where the Carbon Finder.app was a significant impact on memory, and the Java calculator app took multiple bounces to load Java and run.

I just wish that Apple would do something more meaningful than Sidecar so as to provide a stylus experience for Mac OS.
This is just pure cowardice:

> As for Crumb’s depiction of that scene from the musical [the viciously racist depiction of a black woman], lets not even go there. Suffice it to say that a cover like that will not see the light of day today.

Especially if you're not completely avoiding Crumb's views on race:

> Asked about how a white guy connects so deeply with black music created in the 1930s, he answered: “I don’t know. There’s something so raw, kind of beauty that speaks to me in a deep and direct way. Personally I barely even know any black people and I can’t relate to lower class black culture very well at all. It’s very alien to me in a certain way, and people I’ve known from that black culture, I’ve never been able to get very close to, because their values are so different. So what is it about their music that speaks so directly? It has some universal appeal because it has had such a big influence on the music of the entire world.”

There's a straight line between "lower class black culture is very alien to me" and using darky iconography the same year MLK was shot - even in 1968 this was a deliberately racist provocation. There's also a line between Janis Joplin as a white blues singer and her approval of the artwork. And of course there's the straightest of lines between ignoring Crumb's racism while uncritically hagiographizing his connection to black music.

You can still tell a sympathetic story about Crumb: he is far from the only young avant garde American artist to use racist rhetoric to elicit cheap thrills and controversy. And unlike, say, Quentin Taratino, Crumb's later work shows a sincere understanding of and repentance for his earlier dreck.

But you can't claim to be telling the story of the album cover if you're whitewashing its most controversial aspect. What you're doing is spinning a fairy tale.
You might be understating this. Perhaps it’s more like “execs are existentially threatened by remote work”. If an exec delivers little to nothing but everyone in their employment is working hard as hell, that’s pretty good cover (it just just be a hard problem). If they deliver little and no one is working particularly hard, then they may be seen as weak.