Why do we have so many meetings?(nber.org)

68 points by ilamont 6 days ago | 172 comments

NBER working paper by David Deming and coauthors presenting large-scale economic evidence on workplace meetings from a survey of over 9,000 workers.

Replaceable but Employed: Automation and the Meaning of Work(nber.org)

56 points by mooreds 1 month ago | 47 comments

Rising Young Worker Despair in the United States(nber.org)

27 points by johntfella 1 year ago | 32 comments

Anatomy of US inequality(nber.org)

62 points by hhs 10 months ago | 22 comments

Artificial Writing and Automated Detection [pdf](nber.org)

34 points by mathattack 1 year ago | 20 comments

Show HN: OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere(ok-robot.github.io)

494 points by MahiShafiullah 2 years ago | 103 comments

Project page for OK-Robot, an open, modular framework for zero-shot, language-conditioned pick-and-drop tasks by robots in arbitrary homes.