skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If my employer were to decide that we needed to be more like Google, my only thought would be "if I wanted to work for a company that resembles Google, I'd be working for Google."
> and if they did, they'd just get a MBP.

Or better Dell/HP/System76 with upgradable 32GB RAM.

Hardware of latest MBP aren't super reliable anymore, so I don't see any reason to pay premium price.
DuckDuckGo Tests How Much People Care About Privacy
The environment impact of useless bunches of bytes might surprise you.
Little wonder when we get "math is hard" Barbie.
Motorized scooter riders in CA are required to have a drivers license and wear a helmet. Most states do not require insurance for motorized scooters that cannot go more than 25MPH.
That's validating the rank. Ranking is done in another step.

If they use the data for ranking, they'll lose the huge amount of value it has for validating.
More info about the changes set to come here: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-80/
Yep. We will start by offering it to enterprises. We may extend it to individuals if we can offer it for sufficiently low cost.
Best quote in the excellent article:

“You can’t get a de­gree in how to fly to the moon,” says Dana Dens­more, who joined the lab in 1965 and be­came a con­trol su­per­vi-sor for the lu­nar-lan­der soft­ware. “You had to get peo­ple who know how to think, who are cre­ative and alert. It was all in-vented on the spot.”
> Anecdotally observed...

Yeah, I'm talking about actual research, conducted on large colonies of ferals, not a couple cats at grandma's farm. Some links:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/feral-cats-kil...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/moral-cost-of-...

https://www.audubon.org/news/feral-cat-predation-birds-costs...

https://www.thespruce.com/discourage-feral-cats-386479

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

EDIT: And I say this as a cat owner. My current and prior cats were literal street rescues.
That's a measure of reputation, not innovation. Nobody denies that they have a reputation for innovation, but reputations are by necessity backwards-looking.
I want an intellij plugin!

Looks really cool. Thx!
What would it effect Bezos Net Worth to double the warehouse operatives hourly rate to $22?
Fair enough, once there's more than a handful of replies a Twitter thread turns into a trash fire. The replies and posts that I have read, insofar as I had patience to read them, struck me this way.

I don't think any organization has the ability to hire exclusively 10x developers, even if they did exist. Large places with deep pockets can afford to hire many people and then promote those they perceive as meeting their own idea of what a 10x developer might be.

On average, I think everyone should try to hire the best people that they can. Companies should try to retain their best people and encourage everyone to improve. Over time, the productive people will emerge and should be valued by the organization. Are they going to be the mythical 10x developers? Maybe, maybe not.

This idea that you can hire a 10x developer to guarantee the success of your project is, in my opinion, a waste of time and money. If you think it's working then I bet technical debt is piling up and it will catch up with the organization eventually.
Does anybody know how hard it is for non-Chinese citizens to live and work in China?

One of the competitive advantages of the US has been its ability to draw top talent from all over the world and not just its own citizens. Chinese citizens leaving the US is not a good thing, but it is just one nationality. If China manages to draw talent from everywhere, then the US has a real problem ahead of it.

For example, my team in the US only has a few US citizens on it, most of us are foreigners who moved here for the opportunities. While a few are Chinese, the majority are from countries other than China and the US.
Probably not evil, just incompetent. Many internet multiplayer games today place trust in the client in order to grant a smoother experience on higher latency internet connections, which makes it easier to implement cheating mechanisms. The fight against this is all about verifying the client and the environment it is running in. WINE is quite hackable, so one can see why they'd want to blacklist the platform outright. Doing it in such a trivially bypassed way is pretty silly though.
Yes, that's my simple explanation for the hugely disproportionate salaries CEOs earn. Two possibilities:

1. They are somehow superhumanly increasing the company's bottom line

2. They target companies with enormous amounts of money and intentionally influence their salary to become very large, independent of their job performance

Insofar as #2 is possible, that seems the most plausible explanation for large CEO salaries. Unless the people determining the CEO's salary are somehow completely firewalled off from his influence, it is hard to see how #2 is not possible.
How is macOS restrictive?
How to Detect Facebook Metadata
I knew what this was as soon as I read "Brother Francis." This sentence is indeed a fitting counter-example to Lyttle Lyton. The whole book is beautifully crafted.
so if you put Sean Parent and Alan Kay in a room, they'd reduce the sum of all programs running in the world into a single floppy
Apple's MacBooks also got VP9 hardware decode support since several years, Apple could just enable it on the software side.

But they don't, so Safari users have to suffer.
> There's a powerful, xenophobic political movement that has made him president, and there's a mainstream political party that wins more elections than it loses, that panders to that constituency.

So very powerful, winning so many elections, yet they barely made a dent in even just legal immigration - it is still above 1 million per year, and the white population went from 85% in 1960, to 63% in 2010 [1] - a period during which the party that panders to xenophobia won more than half the elections, as you say.

Meanwhile the non-xenophobic China has 1 million immigrants total, and is 91% Han-Chinese [2] - homogeneity and demographic isolation beyond anything depicted in works criticizing fascism like Man in the High Castle.

That the country taking in the most immigrants, and so rapidly changing its demographics, gets labeled as the racist xenophobic one, while the closed ethno-state gets no criticism of its immigration policy, is a sick joke.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China
Absolutely - most bigger companies have silos and can make excellent use of things like this.
Agreed. We run a summer camp for kids in a poor neighborhood. We've got plenty of money. What we need is people who are willing to actually spend time with kids!
1. What do you think of NoETL and SQL++?
Ref: https://www.couchbase.com/products/analytics

2. Do you think adopting a tool like Dataform makes more sense at mid-stage companies?
Ref: https://thinkgrowth.org/the-startup-founders-guide-to-analyt...
Yes. Don't be a scab and cross the picket line. Don't buy from Amazon today.
This is very accurate,. “Cats are responsible for helping drive 33 species of birds, mammals and reptiles to extinction on islands, including the Stephens Island wren in New Zealand in the late 1800s, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/outdo...
Any similar books come to your mind ?
It is not, and it won't be in the foreseeable future.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202567
Evil is a strong word. Can you explain?
This is precisely the hand-waving I was talking about. An employee rambling in a bar does not constitute evidence of search result manipulation, especially when the person recording it is known for stretching information, inciting people to commit voter fraud, and crossing the U.S. Mexico border dressed as deceased Osama Bin Laden to prove some point.

Likewise, the handful of people you know having political views, in an organization of 85,000 people, is not evidence that that organization's search results being biased.

If there is so much anecdotal evidence then it should be easy for you to prove, right? Or are you afraid of being disproven?
Do yourself a favor: head to a newsstand or Starbucks and buy a copy of today’s WSJ. This special insert on the Apollo mission is well worth it.
Is a whipping a proper punishment for chewing gum left on a Singapore sidewalk?

The last time I stepped in chewing gum I felt the answer was an unequivocal yes.
Why I’m turning my son into a cyborg
Nah, there's plenty of things that would be cool to borrow.

Generous (by US standards) parental leave, lots of holidays, excellent 401k plan, work flexibility, ease of job transfers, open/critical internal culture, blameless post-mortems as a standard thing, and of course, free food and gym.
The only reason 30% is the industry standard is because network effects and walled gardens make competition very difficult. The cost to valve, Apple, and Google aren't anywhere close to that, which in an efficient market means that the price should go down as competitors enter the space.

Steam isn't so much better than the competition that no one can compete with them--they just got into the market at the right time and network effects have taken over.
Actually, it's simply illegal for companies in the EU to export drugs for use in executions.
“You can’t get a de­gree in how to fly to the moon,” says Dana Dens­more, who joined the lab in 1965 and be­came a con­trol su­per­vi-sor for the lu­nar-lan­der soft­ware. “You had to get peo­ple who know how to think, who are cre­ative and alert. It was all in-vented on the spot.”
Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
When this was science fiction it was assumed we could all work less, not fewer people working more for less pay.
> hair saloon cutters

You need a government-issued licence to cut hair in Florida?!
Unfortunately there's a warranted general skepticism for any US federal agency, due to the people at the top. The current cabinet secretary was a former oil lobbyist, and seems to have put significant restrictions the scope of environmental impact research via order (https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060059865).

It's hard to get a sense of perspective, because everything is so politicized. But it is what it is, and I think questioning and skepticism is healthy, given the environment.
Cue the robot unions. Holding companies hostage for more frequent PM!
That's fair, I guess I shouldn't have used such absolute language, but I believe the point still stands.

If for-profit organizations find it beneficial to grow and expand using dedicated administrative staff, the assumption is that there would be benefits to growing a non-profit organization to a similar level. And while I'm sure there are ways to make it work, if we want them to run as well as for-profit companies are run, it stands to reason that dedicated administrative staff would provide greater returns to the organization (and their cause) over the cost of employing them.

If growing like that is an overall good thing is up for debate, but the idea that growing an organization requires dedicated and competent staff isn't really that shocking to me.
It's implied by the context of the thread. The subject is "ignorant reactionaries". No one has challenged that characterization, so we're left assuming that the commenter is arguing that "ignorant reactionaries" are equivalent to "healthy skeptics".
Sure. However, I think the poster is commenting on the insensitivity of the post by OP.

No one has denied that this is not happening because it is. We can however, comment on them in a way that is empathetic to the workers who are protesting. Never know, might come for any one of us one day.
I second this. And it's true that the official HN API is painful to use. Algolia's is a lot friendlier.

I wrote a thin Python library on top: https://github.com/santiagobasulto/python-hacker-news

Here's an example:

results = search_by_date(
'Who is hiring?', ask_hn=True,
author='whoishiring',
hits_per_page=1000)

Full working example: https://gist.github.com/santiagobasulto/b3a3bb94a26c1798b965...
Foreign students usually pay at a higher tier. They effectively subsidize the local students at schools that have been actively courting Chinese money.
Or we stop it from happening. It isn’t inevitable. We are all of us making a choice to allow it.
Not evil - it's what has been attracting users to their platforms. PUBG had terrible anti-cheat, really hurt them for a while. In all these claims a reminder that client is trusted. EPIC does "ok" with anti-cheat - be curious to hear others impressions. Cheaters are a TOTAL drag to online multiplayer, so calling efforts to fight cheating "evil" is silly.
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. [0]

It is less plausible to me that a caution towards "healthy" skepticism is advocating some kind of utter credulity, than that it is doing exactly what it calls for: cautioning towards skepticism.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Blackstone is acquiring mobile ad company Vungle
Maybe a basic question, but wouldn't most of this be defunct in the age of https?
> Google simply has the best search product.

The best available doesn't necessarily mean the best possible. And Google is far from it, and it's getting worse, not better.
While the article is about general food drives, emergencies do introduce a bigger problem of scale and management that come and go quickly.

I volunteer with and donate to a group - https://adrn.org/ - and that's what we do. When Hurricane Harvey hit, they (I was traveling) mobilized 150+ churches around central Texas to support the coast with food, supplies, and transportation immediately after it hit. Further, we've supported cleanup operations and helped get people back on their feet.

One of the things I've helped with directly is developer our playbook so other groups worldwide can learn from what we've done and build the infrastructure and relationships to prepare in advance.

By working with smaller organizations, the closest to the problem, you get great perspective but backed by larger teams who can coordinate across a city, region, or country.

It's business management + crisis response.
Yes, I'm aware. I actually work close to the Network Integrations Center in NASA. Most space work is collaborative. :)
Mmmmh there are many retired ex-ceos who can perfectly volunteer for that work.
There are a couple of counter examples, particularly in New Space startups. At 26, I was a Mission Director (SpaceX's equivalent to a NASA Flight Director) for Dragon re-entry and landing.

As the old Apollo-generation engineers start to retire in the space industry, there _is_ fresh blood coming in, and even at larger companies, I've found young folks in top positions. It's just not widely advertised.
Postmates has explored sale to Uber, DoorDash, & Walmart instead of going public
There are probably economies of scale, sure, which is part of why Epic can get away with a lower fee for now. But it's also just business. They know how much it costs without economies of scale, and that sets a floor.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=stxVBJem3Rs Here's a talk from a very old indie company, there's one section talking about how they existed pre-Steam (and other stores they use since Steam's not exclusive) and appreciate what it's enabled.
Just a little reminder that many workers in fact do not get treated well just because their company thinks they do.
> I knew a Chinese exchange student who would debate all sorts of things, but when you brought up the Chinese government she would come to a hard stop and say "I don't talk about that."

If she's considering immigrating to the United States at any point in the future, she would be wise to not debate anything that has to do with the United States, in any electronically recorded medium.

All visa/status adjustment applicants now have to turn over their social media identities. It would be prudent for her to not express a viewpoint[1] that might have an adverse impact on her immigration.

[1] What are those viewpoints? We don't know - CBP won't tell anyone. And whatever they will tell, may very well change in the future.
I write this as someone who loves that book: that sentence is exactly the sort the editor/judge of the contest would probably classify as being kinda bad, yes, but also too likely to actually hook a reader to be a worthy entrant.

"Brother Gerard of Utah", "might never have discovered", "blessed" paired with the humorously cold and vague "documents", "girded loins" (just inherently funny, not exactly bad), "that" being just far enough removed from its referent that it reads awkwardly.

This all happens in part because (I'm pretty sure) it is supposed to read as kinda funny, because it's leaning into often-groan-worthy sci-fi tropes ("of Utah") but just happens to be one of the rare good books that does that, and because it is just a little less tightly-written than it might be. The combo's pretty amusing, but also too good for the contest.
To be clearer "Cognitive Dissonance" is the feeling,
it's not an activity that someone engages in.

That's correct. Cognitive dissonance is a result of conscious actions (the act of holding two mutually exclusive beliefs) and not the actions themselves. My posts would have been clearer if I'd correctly used the term.

However falling into a stable local minima because you didn't
become the CEO of a F500 company or become a championship tennis
player etc...and convincing yourself that being a regional VP
or a high school tennis coach is just as good because [reasons]
seems to be how people cope with this dissonance.

I think this is a very dark worldview.

Finding happiness in a "stable local minima" does not require a delusional belief that this situation is equivalent to some other, grander achievement. I'm sure it happens, but frankly I've never known anybody to really hold that particular delusion.

I doubt it was anybody's grand ambition to be a high school tennis coach, but it's actually a pretty cool job if you like that kind of thing, and it's awfully dark to think that all ~25,000 high school tennis coaches in America engage in conscious acts of delusional thinking in order to fool themselves into making it through their day. I know a few, and they just... enjoy tennis, teaching, and children? Plus tennis isn't the only thing in their lives?

I also know folks who've briefly played pro sports, and while they didn't achieve all they hoped, they're proud of what they did accomplish. No self-deception required.

Things I have seen a lot of, though not from athletes or coaches:

- Folks who get somewhat close to some goal and decide it's not for them once they have a more realistic picture of the day-to-day reality of that goal. Example: a rising executive who realizes that CEO life for company XYZ requires being on the road 300 days a year and not being around for her kids while they grow up.

- Folks who are delusional about the reasons why they didn't achieve some goal

Ultimately, people choose goals like "become a CEO of a F500 company" or "become a championship tennis player" because they imagine those things will make them happy. That is the true goal. And many times, people simply find different ways to be happy. No cognitive dissonance required.
I always wondered what those companies think they'll gain by hiding the products they sell.
It's probably just a by-product of modern living in a large complex society. Free riders are punished in small communities because individuals know each other and are aware of each others actions over [x] period of time. In a large society no on knows anyone else and free-riderism is much more difficult to control.
Says Jeff Bezos’s newspaper.

It seems like the only point here is that Apple opposes state by state regulation in favor of federal regulation.

The headline is therefore absolutely false.
There is a really strong counter-argument to this that "the boring work" doesn't really matter in the long-run.

I've seen many great projects sink over time because management over-indexes on easily understood, time consuming efforts, with only marginal customer impact. These efforts are easy to justify quarter on quarter - but are incredibly generic.

Great big products tend to emerge from driving repeatable improvements in something everyone needs e.g. search, content, recommendations, servers, networks, data etc. and solving the hard problems that no one else has the dedication to solve.
Do you realize how many companies run on AWS?
A job is not like slavery, nor higher risk than entrepreneurship
Giant Shipper Bets Big on Ending Its Carbon Emissions. Will It Pay Off?
Because of social norms? I don't need to pay for a candy bar if I eat it, but I do, because that's just what I do. There's so much trust in almost every society that what you're talking about just doesn't happen very often.

Every person has many opportunities to steal pretty much all the time without consequence, and yet, they don't.
Yes, I think a better analogy would be an antivirus program that simply deletes any file (or more accurately parts of a file) it thinks is suspicious.

.. by no means an optimal antivirus program, but in a sense, it is effective.
I don't see the relation of High Motion Video, ( Sports ) to Video Codec and Resolution. Why cant H.264 not be used? ( Which is the standard used world wide now for All Sporting Events )
Commander B. G. Robinson is very feminine and graciously endowed: everything she has two of are perfectly matched, coordinated, and move with a wonderful grace that is called “woman.”

Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Outrageous Okona” shooting script
adapted by Harper Cole

Someone obviously has a different idea of TNG than Gene Roddenberry.

Edit: Link
http://adamcadre.ac/18lyttle.html
I agree with the worker in the video, they should be treated as human beings. One of the issues is doing a simple, monotonous task every 8 seconds, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, without creating anything of value, is going to be dehumanizing and unfulfilling regardless.

Robots carrying out this work would probably be for the best for everyone involved, although Amazon should do right by the workers carrying them over this difficult transition period where they're still required for part of the menial manual labour tasks. The compensation should reflect the mental and physical stress they put people through.
Scabs are workers who cross the picket line, not customers. If you think boycotts are a good idea, ask the auto unions how well customers not buying cars worked out for their members.
because the USPS makes money off this obviously
Subjective it may be, but the greatest opening line in all of literature is surely:

"The beet is the most intense of vegetables."

From Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins.
> He says he has to pick an item about every eight seconds, or 332 per hour, for a 10 hour day.

Ignoring the math, it’s hard to imagine that pace. Are they forced to continually be moving? Or is the person counting picking up, say 15 usb chargers as 15 separate things?
Everyone on this site uses AWS.
> You know someone somewhere got a can of creamed corn.

But the point was you don't know that. If they get deluged with creamed corn, it might just sit in a warehouse, get shipped to a different community, or even get trashed. Donate a can if you prefer, just don't fool yourself with false guarantees.
I totally agree on the make-it-your-own bit being important. An awful lot of places are unable/unwilling to think about their environment holistically and from first principles. So execs cargo-cult the visible things from successful companies.

The classic example for me is the ping-pong table. Can they be a useful way to get cross-team interaction and bonding that increases the company's ability to solve cross-cutting problems? Sure. But they are often bought because that's what startups do. E.g., the photo recently going around Twitter of the ping-pong table marked with "NO PLAYING BEFORE 6 PM".