skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is absolutely and obviously true. Vulnerability researchers watch tool-assisted speedrun videos with jealousy. Side-note: when we did Microcorruption, game devs outperformed everybody but elite vuln researchers.
They may be out-of-touch but they understand when someone takes their money. And my message to tech CEOs is: if you want in-office, pay more. Or you will lose your company and your PJ and your golf club membership and your kids will go to public school in a big yellow bus built in 1982 with no seatbelts. You won't even be able to shift over to a successful company, because the companies will speak exclusively Chinese. The future of the western tech industry is in your hands, I hope you're smart enough to make the right choice.
>I.e. the problem is not the market venue, it's the amount of available stuff.

Which is a direct consequence of the local purchasing power and consumer spending habits.

Consumer electronics are cheaper in the US, and Americans have a lot more disposable income and a lot more inclination to buy into the latest trend or to experiment with latest and greatest gadgets, even if they don't need it so the used market is full of great stuff at bangout prices.

Consumer electronics cost more in Europe and Europeans are also poorer and need to be more frugal with their spending so the used market has fewer new stuff at rock bottom prices.
What was the name of the site again?? Other than that, ehh small detail, it seems pretty ok.
Awareness in general is already worthwhile, but has it been useful for other things? E.g. Changing your views on government labor policy, worker-friendly laws, etc.
You know people can move, right?

I can move 20-30 miles in different directions within the same state that would land me in HCOL, MCOL and LCOL areas.

Moving to any of these areas doesn't change my skill set to be better or worse.
It's literally true, even without dreams or stock option bets, that many tech workers are temporarily embarrassed millionaires. The source tweets are by an Amazon VP; an Amazon SWE salary with even moderately responsible spending is enough to retire as a multimillionaire.
As software engineer jobs get culled (citing the excuse of AI), I strongly urge experienced senior software engineers to flip the game, becoming AI-assisted solopreneurs instead. If you're sufficiently intelligent, you don't even need VC money to bootstrap it. Here are some income models:

Service:

1. pay-by-use

2. subscription

Software:

1. open-source with paid new feature development

2. sales (on app stores)

Physical products:

1: Resell from China in West

2. Develop new from China/anywhere and sell globally. Let big sites like Amazon and Walmart do the marketing and fulfillment.
DNS resolution seems to work again now. https://dnschecker.org/#A/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The 4.5 has better 'vibes' but isn't 'better', as a concrete example:

> Mission is the operationalized version of vision; it translates aspiration into clear, achievable action.

The "Mission is the operationalized version of vision" is not in the corpus that I am find and is obviously a confabulated mixture of classic Taylorist like "strategic planning"

SOPs and metrics, which will be tied to compensation and the unfortunate ubiquitous nature of Taylorism would not result in shared purpose, but a bunch of Gantt charts past the planning horizon.

IMHO I would consider "complex nuanced thought" as understanding the historical issues and at least respect the divide between classical and neo-classical org theory. Or at least avoid pollution of more modern theories with classical baggage that is a significant barrier to delivering value.

Mission statements need to share strategic intent in an actionable way, strategy is not operationalization.
To me, this seems a better treatment of the topic:

https://maddevs.io/blog/web-security-an-overview-of-sop-cors...
We dropped the special case for ll and ch in 1994. I don't remember a special case for rr, but in any case it's not a special case now.

(It's interesting, because when computers were finaly powerful enough to remember all the weird cases, we dropped them.)
> This was possible because AI helped write the file system.

I have my doubts
> I’m less empathetic than I might be because I came into the office 5 days a week for 30 years. My wife also worked. We raised three kids. I went to night school. It’s all very doable, and honestly not that hard.

To me this sentiment reads as "It sucked for me, therefore it needs to suck for you too. Feel the pain of previous generations!"

What happened to wanting to make life BETTER for people? Better for the next generation?

As someone that would complain about RTO mandates if I had to, I know that it's do-able, but does it make my life better? No, it doesn't.

Imagine your last 30 years of not having to go in 5 days a week? Think how much more time you would have had to do all the things you listed: raise your kids, spend time studying night school, etc. How much further ahead would you have gotten with that extra time?
I read it as “The DeepSeek team, though very small, accomplished what would have taken a much larger team before the introduction and adoption of genAI tools”
> You're paying off a chain of investors, all the way back to the investor who participated in Tesla's IPO, who did directly fund Tesla's factories. Claiming otherwise makes as much sense as "buying an apple from the grocery store doesn't feed back into apple farmers, because you're only paying the grocery store".

The more you distance and dilute from the original share, the less relation there is to the original investor. Eventually, there is simply no relation to the two. Similar to how buying a used copy of Frankenstein today has no benefit to Mary Shelley or her estate.

I should also point out that apples and other consumables have finite lifespans. The apple you buy from the grocery store has a near direct line to the farmer that sold it. Purchases of apples drive demand because they are almost immediately consumed.

Stock is more closely related to something like iron. Sure, someone had to refine it at one point and there is demand for new iron on occasion. However, generally speaking the recycling and reuse of iron has little direct impact or benefit to the original miner. Unlike iron or apples, stock never goes through a value add transformation. A share is a share. It provides no extra work or good.

> Source?

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/09/nx-s1-5103935/grocery-prices-...
We need to invest effort into researching how to make quick, high-quality decisions as a collective. Large concentrations of power emerge because we haven't yet discovered how to make effective decisions democratically. Representative democracy is not good enough. We need a robust system of direct democracy capable of producing decisions that are at least as good as those made by a skilled small group.

Innovations like blockchains and LLMs might finally enable us to develop such a system.
FDA has determined the shortages of the non-compounded versions has been resolved (of zepbound/tizepatide in October 2024, and wegovy/semaglutide last week): https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-c...

So compounders can no longer legally sell tirzepatide and will soon (April-May) be unable to legally sell semaglutide.

That said, the lowest doses direct from Lilly without insurance are $350-500/mo. And if you can do math, you can pay for a higher dose and spread it out over time to achieve a lower average price.
People bemoaning low flow don’t have experience with a good shower head. (Note: the author acknowledges this!)

Highly recommend the Speakman brand of low-flow, high pressure shower heads. I learned of the brand while staying in a hotel that had a fantastic shower (compared to what I was used to) and bought a similar model immediately.

I live in CA where my apartment has mandatory low flow, and I replaced the cheap 2.5gpm shower head with an even lower-flow 1.75gpm high pressure head and it was night and day better.

When visiting my family in western NY suburbs, they have all high flow but low pressure shower heads, and it’s just not a very effective or satisfying shower after getting used to our shower head.
I don’t. I want the surgeon to clearly state their concerns and the risks, but the patient to decide if it’s worth the risk. After all, it’s his/her life.
Yeah, there's definitely shades. I think for most games the people who find glitches and drive forward this kind of research usually aren't actually that good of runners themselves. But for TAS runs, where there isn't as much of human skill component and technical execution is more important, they're usually closer aligned. And in any case the speedrunners and glitch discovery people are all in the same discords together talking about the game.
America's avocado obsession is destroying Mexico's forests. Is there a fix?
What you're not differentiating here is between optional and mandatory tasks. If you're paying someone to cook, clean, grocery shop, or provide day to day child care you have time to do optional things, and people mistake that for being more efficient when in reality it's having the luxury to decide what to do with your time.
"For example, the future of CRM isn’t just software—it’s software + sales team. Startups that don’t want to hire salespeople will eagerly adopt AI-driven CRMs that automate outreach, and follow-ups."

I'm not involved in either side of this part of the business. Doesn't this read as "smarter spam"? Does that result in long-term customers?

Perhaps I'm just not aware of just how down-and-dirty the top of the funnel is?

My emotional response is: If you don't value _my_ time (as the customer), why should I consider your product?
Rust is so full of symbol soup.

<'_>)

is a very simple one, but there are ones with ~7 consecutive symbols, and there are a lot of symbols all over Rust code.

How come it is in demand?

Cool book though.
I don’t have a Time Machine or a 1998-era browser but I’m not sure what you described was the case. I think in the before times, a browser could send a request to any arbitrary endpoint that was not the page origin, and it could also see the response. I might be wrong.

But anyway, ancient history.
"If Mozilla dies, Firefox and derivatives will in all likelihood wither away [..]"

There once was a company with the second most popular browser but it could not survive against the monopoly. People got together and their browser rose as open source like phoenix from the ashes.

Initially they even called it Phoenix but switched to Firebird, for reasons I don't remember. Since this was also the name of a database they changed the name again this time to Firefox.

Don't you think history could repeat?
One would get far better responses if you just used the word "professional association" instead of "union".
spark is certainly the incumbent for this sort of thing.

one benefit for me personally: you should be able to move from local dev to cloud more easily.
The sad reality is that younger folks are too busy learning JS and backend devs just don't understand it. I've yet to learn new CSS patterns from anyone I've worked with in front end in the last 6 years. On the same note, I've worked on a few teams that have made backwards decisions and have chosen dead tools instead of embracing new CSS patterns. I think I have to take Ana Tudo, Lea Verou and Rachel Andrew for doing enough advocacy to keep my skillset relevant.
I'm sure some might be acting in good faith. Nonetheless, I believe they're generally wrong. From experience going to the office for the sake of going to the office doesn't help.

The company I worked for who had the best company culture was fully remote but put a strong emphasis on communication.

Meanwhile, my current company insists that people show up to the office regularly, and it's costing me 8h per week and I get a less comfortable work environment. It does nothing to solve our communication issues however. Even worse, it feels like some execs think the company culture will build itself just by putting people together in a room. It reminds me of people who schedule meetings because they don't know how to organize their thoughts and write down what they want to say.

edit: Rephrasing, I got emotional. I don't know how you managed to have a life with three kids, night school and a full time job + commute. All my free time goes to my child and family. I barely have time for hobbies. If a company wants to take more of my time they better have a compelling reason.
It's quite likely RTO was an initial attempt to reduce headcount by encouraging people to quit, without having to pay severance.
I think the person I responded to did insinuate that, and I think that the evidence they provided doesn't support their premise.

I am making the argument that the current administration is trying to make government agencies die, but that it isn't one centrally orchestrated conspiracy. I am using different evidence than the parent comment to make that argument.

More importantly, the purpose of my original comment is to inform readers of the thread on highly influential second-tier actors (Russ Vought is well-known, but he's not Elon Musk) and help foster a more nuanced discussion of the current administration, its motivations, and its actions.
I'm excited to try this! I'd love support for music recommendations via Plex music libraries. (Currently, I use a script to export my music library to a format suitable for LLM analysis.)
I'd like to see proof of government pressure for companies to RTO. In theory it seems likely, but it would be lovely to have a smoking gun to enter into evidence in the court of public opinion. DM me (joking, HN doesn't have DMs).
Oh boy, another questionably useful violation of privacy that could be handled with a full text search of existing local cache..
Tokio (rush hours aside) is enjoyable for commuting and having lunch outside. Despite all that people and building density.
One thing I find useful about enums is that they can be used as both types and values, which is ergonomic for decorator-based libraries (like class-validator, nestjs, mikro-orm, etc). The best approach I've found in union land is using const assertions and typeof, which I don't love.

Agree with the author that in almost every other way unions are better though... they play much more nicely with the rest of the type system. I find it endlessly annoying that I have to refer to enum members directly instead of just using literals like you can with union types.
I think I (or attempted to) invalidate everything up to the final paragraph because everything before that was about the Biden presidency which was not positively relevant to the Harris campaign.

Joe Biden's record is Biden's and Harris' responsibilities under the Biden administration was not positive. Let alone questions about her emphatic statements attesting to his mental capacity right up until the emperor had no clothes on national TV.

Unsurprisingly, people were not enthusiastic about being given a candidate who struggled nationally and was widely considered a bad candidate, right up until she was the candidate. Harris is and was a horrible candidate. Everyone knew it, even Democrats.

Democrats spiked the football on fourth down when they were losing with 30 seconds left.

Whatever people want to say about Trump, apparently Democrats didn't find him enough of a threat to democracy to put up a candidate that had a chance to win.
> My point is busy people do even more of the things that you think make you busy.

I don't think it makes me busy. It does.

> You think kids are taking up all your time? They have more kids and volunteer at the school, and run a church group, etc.

I'm not counting extremely-optional stuff.

> The clock is secondary because using time efficiently, planning, and classifying which hours you are awake and available are all skills.

Money puts this on extremely-easy mode, because for a huge variety of things "this is a problem that will take much time and attention" becomes "just pay someone to make it go away". I know, because I have enough money that sometimes I can do this (I didn't always, and I didn't grow up that way) and holy god, it makes life so incredibly easy when I can.
What exactly is wrong here? If workers don't want that control, well,
they can look for another place. Companies are not supposed to solve social problems like how people care for children.

After all, are there any workforce troubles in companies that mandated RTO, besides negative hacker news comments?
I can send a link shortly but I am just curious specifically, what you think is impossible
Do users create and moderate the group themselves? It seems like a subreddit, but for book related topics?
It is worth mentioning that companies colluding for forced RTO, so people can’t easily leave
Lecture 4 of how to design a RISC-V Processor available [video]
Ah yes, tech companies that provide zero personal support just scaling storage and delivery are the same as government which is MOSTLY providing support and person to person work, the OPPOSITE of scalable using tech.
SC governor declares state of emergency as wildfires prompt mass evacuations
You might say airgapped
No one owes the downtown business and property owners anything. Free market doing its thing. They got disrupted.
nih.gov seems to be back up.

And if you search for "trans", you get search results, tho unrelated (e.g., "transnational", etc.).

If you search for "transgender", it just redirects you to the homepage.

The cruelty is the point.
Yes I agree that conformist eras have existed before in American history. The 1950’s were another example of a conformist era that I think was bad.

Conformism of any kind is bad. There are those of us (such as myself) who are against the conformism of the 1950’s (which was also a type of puritan cancel culture) and the conformism of Victorian England (just throwing out an example) and what happened starting in 2019.

I distinctly remember in the early 2010’s that conformism had diminished. Maybe I felt that way because I was in college at the time but I remember there were a wide variety of options across the political spectrum being expressed and vigorous debates both in the media and around college campus. No talk of “deplatforming” back in the 2010-2015 era. The idea I remember was to invite people of different views and listen and debate them.

Tv shows and movies had many scenes that were “offensive” without the kinds of responses you see nowadays.

The “white conservative male” was not dominant in 2010-2015. Many voices existed.

I myself am not white. When I was in college over 10 years ago I never got the feeling white conservatives were dominant.

Around 2018-2019 the conformism began again. It was a different type of conformism than the 1950’s. A conformism in a different ideological direction. But it was still conformist.
In denotation, "dropped" can be used equivalently to "released", yes; but in connotation, using "dropped" instead of "released" implies either that:

1. the particular release was sudden, unexpected, and not highly pre-advertised or post-advertised — as in an album being "dropped" by a band (where the band more often "releases" albums.) Usage of "dropped" here evokes the feeling that the releaser is casually "dropping" the thing in the public square and walking away, leaving it there to be studied. A band would release an album by going on tour selling it; or they might just drop an album on Spotify one day.

2. the particular release was a single limited production run / limited-time event — where people were anticipating something would be released at a certain specific time, but there was no advance statement from the releaser of exactly what people would be getting. Strong analogy with the NYE "ball drop" — the release is an event that people count down to or line up for. (Think: dropping a new limited-edition colorway of a product people ravenously collect — sneakers, Stanley cups, etc.)

3. the particular release was a bounded-in-size batch or "tranch" of production, all put out to be purchased at once where "once they sell out, they sell out" for now — but with the expectation that the releaser is producing more, but where this will take time, during which the item will remain sold out. (Often, the item has actually been produced in quantity, and this limited dribbling-out and repeated fast selling-out is purely a marketing technique to induce hype and demand.) This usage isn't a figurative extension of the literal verb "drop" — but rather a shortening of the word "airdrop", as in military resupply and/or NFTs. You would be more likely to see this phrased as "[X] dropped another [Y]" or "[X] dropped more [Y]"; or perhaps "there was a drop of [Y] today."
They aren't closed systems, they ultimately cool by evaporating water to reject heat.
In Solar vs. Gas Matchup, It Was Energy Storage That Killed the Beast
I would love to talk to someone/read someone's content who is seriously thoughtful and believes this to be the truth. Even the "best" content I can find does not thoroughly describe to me what they think the world looks like if they're successful in tearing down the current system.
iOS Messages app AVIF image bug
To add to this, while this approach may work for long tail, transactional sales with low ACVs, and work very well, it will not work for larger strategic/enterprise deals.

Sales teams are alive and well in this area. I’ve been in GTM for nearly my entire career. I have yet to see a company closing 6+ figure deals on a credit card and without a relationship.
A municipal electric company can use private contractors just the same. The difference is that the municipal electric company is accountable to the captive residents they serve, while a privately-owned monopoly escapes most accountability.
I got laid off at the start of my first day back in the new office. Had to leave my morning standup early to receive the news.

Fortunately I didn't have to uproot my life or move cities, but it was a wakeup call as to the true nature of at will employment. You can't take anything for granted.
Your tax history and data will be shared throughout the government. This is unambiguously illegal.

Additionally, considering how the data is being analyzed, it is likely the largest breach of federal records in the history of the nation.
I'm not sure how I feel about the take on "disappearing pillars". I think that knowledge and expertise in the different "pillars" the author describes has become easier to access, reducing the moat around the individual pillars and allowing greater overlap between professions. So while you might not need a "sales team", you do need "sales knowledge". Cloud solutions are amazing until they are not and you need "infra knowledge" to understand where you are going wrong and to evaluate potential solutions.

I would argue that at a given size, scale, and growth you would find yourself looping back to the "original pillars".

The example of Neartail[1] competing with Shopify is a prime example of this. Shopify has a large market cap, shareholders demanding profits, a large quantity of paying customers. Neartail has none of these, it may have paying customers and it may have some potential in the future but it is currently all within the sphere of control of a few individuals.

Obviously a lot of what I'm saying is self-inflicted, you don't _have_ to grow endlessly but if you _do_ you need many decision makers and domain knowledge simply starts to reach limits for individuals (even when using AI).
COVID? The US seemed to have weathered it fine, on paper, but I can't think it would be absurd to think that it might have left massive impacts to its capabilities.