skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can’t agree more. OP argument only holds if “value” is an absolute and objective concept and if everyone in the company is measured by it.

It just does not work like that. It’s a simple maximization problem. If your ideal is science and engineering and good code then your value will only be recognized by people who share the same ideal and these people are usually not the one distributing money.

If your ideal is making money then you will do everything in the book to make sure that the ones that distribute it mostly distribute it to you. That means taking credit, over promising, transferring blame, sabotaging careers, networking, shmoozing, etc...

Sounds familiar? That’s the ABC of the corporate world. That’s why most large companies end up being steered by incompetent people (Peters principle, IOW the last level you can reach before your incompetence really shows and shmoozing is not enough anymore).

If money is what you are after, either stay in a big Corp and forget about technical excellence or start your business and pray. Or, realize that there can be other form of rewards than money for your excellence.
Harrisburg PA has an unofficial one as well, though only 25 ft high. Originally put up as a prank on an old bridge piling, then replaced it with the current (metal and slightly larger) version when the plywood one blew off.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mini-statue-of-liberty-h...
Advance directive for dementia:oneday your mind may fade,but you can have a plan
If you pretend simple economics is best representation of reality then this blog post is exactly on point, in a perfectly efficient market the value you earn for others is proportional to the profit you get in return and both are proportional to the good you do in the world.

Simple economics are not the best representation of reality.

For many pride in one's work can matter more than pay, the engineering profession attracts some of the most passionate do-gooders (Gates to name a famous example) who care about the world improving. They aren't usually recognized for it because they try to improve the world by fixing the systems rather than flying to a 3rd world country and building a house.

Additionally, in reality but not in simple economics, there is a huge gap in value-generated for the company and perceived-value-generated for the company. In fact, there can be situations where the two are negatively correlated and the engineer knows best.

Finally let's remember that short-term value to the company isn't the end-all-be-all. Did you know Zynga had some individual users who spent over 100 grand on virtual items? Great companies often arise by ignoring the short-term-profit and focusing on delivering a great product with a great experience, even if the market for it doesn't exist yet (i.e. what google did)
Thanks. I've invested in a new ablation agent for BMT but I never knew the second step was nonsurgical.
Many stores in the USA already have self checkout, and have had it for a decade or so. Go just eliminates the checkout process all together.
Trying to infer an injustice by the what the check is called has no point.

Sure it does. Ever seen a contract that promises a bonus of “up to” some percentage? That should be read as “no matter how well we do your upside is capped and management trouser the rest”. It's a calculated, deliberate strategy to exploit naivety.
This isn't as cheap as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16200064 but it's still a shallow dismissal of a straw view of the article. What's interesting here is not that these guys did or didn't have historical influence—obviously they didn't, end of story. It's that their ideas were surprisingly similar to later, more famous thinkers in a place few would have expected. That easily clears the bar for interest on Hacker News.

When the HN guidelines say the following, it applies to articles as well: Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And what about old civilizations such as Indians or Chinese? There has been religious vegetarian sub groups for a long time (Jain, Buddhist, Hindu, etc). Not vegan, but at the time there was no CAFOs either.
At least with Dominion, I'd say that predicting when the game is ending and adjusting your play is an important part of the game.

And unless it's really one-sided (which sucks, and maybe there is an argument that Dominion lends itself to develop one-sided games without recovery) or whoever you are playing against is keeping mental count of everyone's point (which wouldn't be impossible, but I've never met someone actually bothering to do it) they won't be able to say "I won" before everyone has counted out their points.
Unless you want to be micromanaged you need to keep the big picture in mind and think about how your work is providing value and how you can help maximize that.
High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets (2013)
> that in the context of a large firm, the author is wrong.

An accountant serves two roles in a company. One is to produce a correct set of books for the investors and the tax man. The other is to determine the value to the business of things the business is spending money on.

I.e. to determine the value produced by the engineers.

They may get it wrong, as at some level it is indeterminate, but the more correct they calculate it, the more efficiently and effectively the business can allocate its resources.

This calculated value determines, for example, what they're willing to offer you in salary. If they overvalue you, you're likely to get laid off, or more likely, no raises. If they undervalue you, they're likely to give you a raise to keep you from leaving.

In my experience, individual engineers tend to have a large disconnect in their opinions on what value they deliver vs reality. If you believe your compensation is way under your opinion of your contribution, it is worth taking a good hard look at it, and deciding if you are better off getting another job.
I avoid Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s because they are almost the only grocery stores without self checkout. Even Uwajimaya has self checkout now (ok H mart doesn’t, but they are rather quick anyways).
How much of the meteor that killed the dinosaurs is recoverable?
The revolution is in how you spend your time. On an ordinary day when you know what you want for lunch, it can take under a minute to pop in and get it, under 10 seconds if you’re in a hurry.
I think people predicted the crash of console gaming because they expected mobile gaming to eclipse it.

What realistically happened was the forging of a new market, which will not stop folks from buying a console for a solid, reliable piece of dedicated gaming hardware.
How is that meaningless ? Do you also consider races meaningless ? Do you consider most sports meaningless ? You probably don't like it because that's not how you learned to enjoy games, not because it's inherently worse than Ameritrash
And when you try to cancel your Amazon Prime subscription: Hey, remember that time when you tried placing an item under your coat (video link)?
P.S. if it isn't obvious, companies who tend to be way off in determining the value of their engineers tend to go out of business.
Trader Joes has a lot of urban stores. For example the one at Copley Square in Boston is in a basement across the street from a Tesla showroom. Its always busy, but there's no room to expand--even add an extra register. The farther you get out of the city center the wider the isles get.
Books for Software Engineers Switching to Technical Product Management
Report: BPS replaces BPA in many store receipts
Refurbished Chromebooks would be hard to beat. Lots of sub $200 choices, and has the keyboard and monitor built in. You can also download a new Seabios ROM for most of them and run regular Linux.

Affordable rural internet access might be a bigger hurdle.
> stupider example

The EU side of the Euro is copyrighted, with a permissions grant that prohibits disparaging use. So nice closeups of Euro coins get removed from Wikicommons (as not freely reusable), and are yet-another-license pain to use in OER education content.
In my experience, Walmart has the worst self checkout software however: poorly designed and laggy as heck. QFC/Safeway are much better, even Target (which is pretty bad itself) is better.
There's more to it than simply what you see at first glance. Snow Crash and Ready Player One described the experience at length. The freedom of expression, of identity of who or what you could be. The ways that people talk, interact, explore, and represent themselves in the virtual realities of those books is more than just "how it looks." Some concrete examples are pulling up virtual windows to access resources from "outside" the reality, or the multitude of sizes and shapes that people represent themselves with.

The descriptions of what earlier versions of the virtual realities in Snow Crash or Ready Player One were, line up with the basics that VRChat encompasses.

Those are some of the things I was addressing when I said it was reminiscent.
My comments on this article seem pretty heavily disagreed with but here's my point. He doesn't want to work at amazon, he doesn't want to lose his benefits. Yet he spends almost no money in rent and does nothing so likely has a good amount of money saved up. He enjoys painting figurines and such things. Why not try and find a way to market that skill? It can certainly be done. Even while keeping his amazon job. Find ways to make money outside work. He clearly has the time and money to set some goals and put a plan into action. If he's so unhappy maybe do that? He works 4 days a week. I work 6 days and manage to fo visit my friend once a week, cook proper meals for myself, program, play music and have hobbies I enjoy doing. Many of the things he said were straight up 'I can't be bothered to do this so my life sucks' That is entirely his choice. Sometimes you have to take chances in life if you're unhappy. He should have enough money saved up to be able to live off it for a while. If he's too scared to lose his benefits and pursue what he wants that's his choice. I would respect him far more if this was a story about how he quit amazon, tried to change his life and failed than this. Even failure is more respectable because at least he tried to take his life into his own hands. This is just a whiny rant about how he's too scared to live life. It's his life, it's up to him to do what he wants.
This person should review this $850 HDMI cable, I hear it’s life-changing.

https://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-Diamond-feet-Braided-Cable...
The official React tutorial starts you out by installing create-react-app. I know that vue has something similar and I wouldn't be surprised if others did as well (are there even other important front-end frameworks besides React/Angular/Vue at the moment?)

https://reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html

This allow you to start off with a great setup and skip the configuration so you can get started with just writing React. I highly suggest starting with official docs before writing these off. A lot of other tutorials are of varying quality but you can trust the official docs for sure until you learn more about the community and which resources are worth it (or just use this https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links). It can be overwhelming if you aren't actively following the front-end world but the reality is that you need very little node knowledge and can go a very long way without ever touching webpack + babel. Even then, once you get to the point, learning to configure those things won't take much time and to me, it's worth it for the developer experience.

If you really want to dabble in just writing React code, you can also try these browser IDEs if they float your boat.

https://codesandbox.io/
https://stackblitz.com/
Few years back, I was brushing up on some topology I studied in college. One thing lead to another and I came up with the idea that there are 5 dimensions of the absolute nature of our natural universe. Wrote it down as a medium post last year: https://medium.com/@kapv89/logically-there-is-a-5th-dimensio...
They've had some ingredient mislabeling issues and also some reports of people suffering from algal oil allergies (it's a novel food additive, and it turns out that while it has certain health benefits, a lot of people can't process it nicely). They have since removed the algal oil from their newer formulations, and hopefully have better processes around labeling so they don't make that same mistake again.
I don't think we're that far away from not even needing the phone at all - it might actually be a "privacy feature", ie: give you the illusion that they don't know already who you are.
When I work with legacy projects
Yes, I don't like how some people try to rationalize the circus that really goes on. In reality, for most people, it's chaos, it's random and it doesn't make any sense... For a select few people everything just happens to work out; then these 'survivors' feel compelled to lecture everyone else about how everything works... In reality, these 'survivors' know nothing about how things really work because their personal experience is so far from the norm that it is not applicable to anyone else except themselves and other equally biased survivors.
Yep - floor space ROI is calculated down to square inches in some retail stores. Cash registers don't increase the ROI.
> a society where there is even less real social interaction,

Every time I shop at my favorite store, I encounter InstaCart employees more than regular shoppers.
Again, it's the amount on the check that matters, not what the check is called.

Seriously, if you believe you're delivering far more value than what your checks represent, it's time to have a chat with the boss and go over it. If there's still no agreement, find another job.
They are testing that in Seattle as well.

https://www.amazon.com/afx/nc/aboutpickup
That was my point; I was like "wow it's in the Times, programming really is going mainstream." Of course I was wrong!
Do you recommend any resources to learn rust?
Impossible and Beyond really aren't comparable. I prefer Beyond, because the Impossible tastes and feels just a bit too much like meat for my tastes. The Impossible burger also crumbles way better. I haven't tried to crumble the Beyond burger, but I have a strong feeling it wouldn't end nicely.
Other than the obvious difference of being done by a hermit in a cave, it might be interesting to try and logic out where those other philosophers got more purchase in their own countries than did the subject of the article in Ethiopia.
Or, Apple had piggybacked off the mistakes of Palm Pilot. The same thinking will lead you to a belief that all of the things Apple had ever done were perfect and there was only one way of doing it (since they did win in the end), when the situation should account for all of the players in the act.

Also, let's not forget that Steve Jobs had repeateadedly refused to do chemo instead prefering homeopathy; and there's a huge chance the only reason those products are here are due to his highly pumped up ego, rather than the deeply thought-through design.

Or in other words, "Those who don't know history, are doomed to repeat it".
Next level magic: you enter the shop and a little robot hands you a bag with what you were going to buy anyway.
I dunno. Yesterday at the Farmers Market, I was shopping for produce (salads) and had a conversation with 2 different women. The first offered advice on what to pick, and their health benefits. The second, in turn, was the recipient of my limited knowledge.

I live in San Francisco.
I like this explanation. I've found that frame dragging (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame-dragging) completes this intuition. In a hypothetical reference frame where the universe is rotating around the bucket, the effect of the rotating mass "drags" space-time such that the geodesics are curved and the water experiences an outward "force".
This is totally a real problem. I just celebrated my grandmother's 90th birthday. She still lives independently and regularly goes shopping. She doesn't own a mobile phone, let alone a smart phone.

In a world where services that require phones are dominant, choice narrows for elderly and low income persons.
Same thing as been happening for the last 50 years as automation has vastly replaced human labor, without bringing about the revolution?

Or in other words, people will get a different job, and there will be winners and losers, but on AVERAGE everyone's lives will be way better (as has been proven for the last 50 years).
Author of CxJS here, which is also missing from the list. Please consider CxJS if you're looking for an enterprise-grade framework with ready to use form elements, form validation, advanced grid (data-table) control, navigational elements, tooltips, overlays, charts, routing, context-sensitive layouts, theming, drag & drop, culture dependent formatting and more.

https://cxjs.io

https://github.com/codaxy/cxjs
I'll note that many Whole Foods stores, which Amazon now owns, got rid of all of their self checkout lanes about a year or so ago.

My guess is that there was a much larger amount of loss at self-checkouts, especially given the amount of produce WF sells (e.g. I bet you would see the ratio of organic to conventional sales much lower at self-checkout lanes)
Why use a throwaway account?

But to answer your comment: the comment was not about the chit-chat with the cashier, but other people in the line.
Nice chats don't have to resolve 'American tribalism' to be worthwhile.
I was under the impression (from trying exactly this) that the vim keybindings conflict heavily with org-mode's keyboard shortcuts. For example, the table shortcuts didn't work at all for me in evil mode.
My last few languages have all been prototyped by hand, but they were all live languages (with continuous re-parsing and interpretation), so I didn’t have much choice :). I havent bothered with ANTLR since grad school.
They are pretty strict in who you share the data with.
Do you have any reason to believe computers are a better learning medium then the no-power-needed, high resolution device known as a “book“?
Creation of an intermediate Dropbox subscription plan
Which is wrong, because of Trademark law you are not allowed to publish images of certain buildings from the US either, if that building is the main/dominating subject of the image. Among of those are the Empire State Building, the Chrysler building, and others.
People are taking on responsibilities later, but society is kind of forcing them to take them on later. Its a kind of forced coddling. I rarely see teenagers in jobs these days. When I was a teen, it was normal to get a job, and only privileged or lazy didn't get them. It even seems to be a thing that teens are avoiding getting drivers licenses in greater numbers.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/12/1312...

This seems like a clear sign of decreased independence.

Instead of increasing the age of majority, we should be allowing and encouraging young people to take on responsibility earlier.
ES7, ES8, styled-components...
Yeah,Epic Spell Wars is awesome!
Some people here talk about conversations struck up waiting in the check-out line or at the DMV. I think that is the exception rather than the norm. Just the like bus, or airplane are other forced scenarios, but I think people who strike up a conversation are the exception and not the norm, and I would suspect that they have been down-trending for awhile.

What people call "tribalism" I would re-frame as class structuralism. People might segregate themselves by class via Whole Foods vs Walmart, but that doesn't mean people are striking up conversations within-class or between-classes. That doesn't seem very "tribal" versus what American Christians have; rather it seems loosely coherent.

And again, I would ask whether a commercial space is really the best place going forward. I am struck by the number of places a young person wouldn't feel like going without a credit card.
If I'm understanding right, the Equifax vulnerability was CVE-2017-5638, where if an invalid Content-Type issue is given, it gets passed to an error-message printing function that searches through the entire provided message for OGNL code (a domain-specific language that apparently can deserialize arbitrary Java objects, or something), and so an attacker can pass OGNL code that spawns an external process in the Content-Type header?

I'd argue that this isn't a language-specific issue at all. It happens to be the case that this is implemented using exception handling in Java, by throwing an object containing the request headers, and having it caught by something that parses the provided message for code. But a language without this type of exception handling, like C or Rust, could have the same issue as easily:

if (strcmp(request->content_type, "multipart/form-data") != 0) {
char *error = asprintf("Bad Content-Type header %s", request->content_type);
log(error);
free(error);
return -1;
}

void log(char *message) {
char *ognl = find_valid_ognl(message);
if (ognl)
message = evaluate(ognl);
...
}

I doubt that any language can really, fundamentally, save you from wrongly deciding to evaluate untrusted strings. (I do think that the vulnerability here was made more likely by OGNL being able to instantiate arbitrary Java objects and by not distinguishing TrustedString and UntrustedString types, and a good language can gently steer you away from those mistakes, but it won't be able to completely save you.)
have you looked into evil-collection? This is a collection of evil bindings for various emacs packages. https://github.com/jojojames/evil-collection
I get the feeling that a lot of claims about eiderdown wouldn't stand up to scientific scrutiny. Neat niche market though.
this is from a guy writing abook on Docker, so I hope this is for a single purpose cointainer with now other users of THAT /tmp
I've never heard of eiderdown, but did a while back buy a down pillow that was around $400 (at Stanford mall), which I though was outrageous, but proved to be great for a good night sleep. When I went back to the store, it was replaced with another expensive one that cost over $1,000.

The pillow does make a big difference in sleep quality.
I took his guide at the end and apparently we are supposed to do micro services, which is good, because we do as an engineering org of 800+ people.
Stickyness is the key and the trickiest - especially if you use multiple host names pointing the same codebase to get around HTTP 1.1 limitations around multiple connections.

For example, you roll out a new canary on your main domain and sticky a %age of traffic to it. Fine, requests come in, but you forgot - you have a cdn.example.com subdomain which serves your styles/js etc - but this is not stickied.

Result is your either serve old content to the canaries, which isn't great (would fall under client errors in the blind spot I suppose), but the other option is your global CDN caches old content for your new cdnkey/cache buster (you know because that key came from the initial canary request)...so now you turn on the canary and everyone is getting old styles/js from the CDN. Boooooo!
How am I supposed to walk an pick things up with the same finger?!

More generally, I want to be able to change the controls.
Yeah, I flagged the article, as I'm reasonably sure the entire reason for it's existence is to get readers to click the referral-tagged Amazon URL and get a cut of their unrelated purchases.

(If you want to skip the referral, it goes to https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01ITDNLZA/).
More blogging and less social media