skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At the other end, you have employees who create your products being treated like unwanted interns because development and engineering isn’t given recognition for generating revenue. Obviously only sales and executives are money makers. Developers are just an unneeded, low skilled, interchangeable burden reducing your profits because they have non-commission-based salaries. Why not just fire all your developers then sell what they made without fixing or improving anything—wow, infinite profit!

Funnily enough I've worked in a company that did just that, they developed a TV software that puts ads on the streaming of soccer games and the software was 5 or so years old with no software team. They had a person who did support and was there for a long time and would always have 2-3 developers on the payroll who wouldn't stay more than their probation period. I left within 2 weeks but the company owner was very rich and seemed pretty OK with how things were...
Effects of weather-related social distancing on transmission of resp. viruses
HTML to PDF for .NET Core
I suppose it’s less about isolation than about control. Phone apps are even more difficult to sniff.
Blogger commonly linked to on HN, domain name is rachelbythebay.com
Checking I'm on my throaway.

I followed exactly this practice - immediately left crappy places -> kept strong clients. Took myself from $40K/year to $500K/year (not tech BTW so this is I think a bit harder than in tech).

Here is the kicker - some of the terrible places I left later called and specifically requested me. I literally burnt NO bridges. I would just apologize and say I didn't think I could meet their standards / expectations at that time and wanted to be prompt about letting them know so they could find someone new. And the reality - they are pretty friendly departures if done early - no time for crap to build up.

Quick things I don't recommend off the top of my head

* Having multiple bosses on a project
* Having responsibility but no authority
* Being asked to deliver stuff with no data / dependent on too many others you don't have control over.

Things I didn't mind.

* Bosses with high standards. If they were willing to pay, I'd be willing to live up to those. Even if I thought they went way too far with it cost / benefit side. I learned a lot from these folks. Some examples.

Me: You could pay someone $20/hr to do this work.
Them: We want you to do it.
Me: I charge $200.
Them: OK.

Me: I'm busy, I can't help.
Them: What would it cost to help.
Me: 150% my normal rate and I'd have to work weekends only - can you open the office on the weekends and have support staff in on the weekend to help me?
Them: Yes.

At the time I thought these folks were nuts, but they both went on to do really really well (and in one case I turned out to be absolutely pivotal in that).

* Working onsite - remote work is hard to see

But the bottom line - some consulting clients are not worth having, just move on. I never ever complained. I would make a few suggestions, give it my best shot, then moved on quickly if needed. In all but one case the tough ones imploded later. One case (that called me back) actually took my suggestions on my way out (you might consider restructuring department X like follows) and got 10x bigger.

Funny thing - govt work is very interesting. You can see how a Shadow IT setup comes into play if you work for govt.
Certainly that was part of it, anyway. Adams was a self-described "radical atheist" before that was a popular stance, and he and Richard Dawkins were mutual fans of each others' works and became personal friends.
> The reality is that if you care about your craft a tiny bit more than average, you will most likely end up feeling that you are overpaid for trivial work, that you could do so much more for the company, that your coworkers and hierarchy are apathetic to things that do not directly affect them (and will seek to avoid any change as much as possible).

Damn, I've never read a better articulation of how I feel at work haha. I'm in cybersecurity and the box checking "just need to get through the next audit" mentality is RAMPANT.
I always thought that the fragment about presidency being there to distract people from real power was ridiculously spot on.
You sound exactly like the kind of person you'd like to see branded. You first.
Since UB can be a bad beast to tackle while learning C and C++, I would suggest to frequently compare what you learn with cppreference.com, and check that you understand that what you think matches what the standard dictates. Cppreference is not the standard, of course, but is sufficiently similar and much easier to read.

If at some point you want to really become a master, then switch to the actual standard.
> There isn't a guide to learn how things fail on platform, compiler, version, options combo.

Yeah, that's the point. Chasing that knowledge is pointless. Instead, read the spec and find out what is legal and what is not. What is defined and what is not. Then you can stop worrying about how things fail and start worrying about not doing those things.
the text of the article is great! the D3 is way too heavy handed and distracted!
Sometimes politicians look good for having "done something" because there is no counterfactual to compare against to create accountability.
The DNA of every single cell in your body can have spontaneous mutations. But what is important for what you become in general is the DNA of your first cell that is rapidly multiplied to form your body. And what is important for what you leave on the next generation, is the DNA of your reproducing cells, which can too be individually altered, of course.
> Right but people buying F-150s are not buying Teslas. The use case is quite different.

Have you been to a Texas city? They're full of F-150s driving around a single person and an empty bed on paved roads.

Sure, farmers and contractors use trucks as trucks, but thousands of people use them as commuter cars. Most pickup trucks are used as trucks once in a blue moon.
When is the right time to start your own business?
Why are you talking in the past tense? IRC is alive and well and many people use it every day. In what absurd sense this means "failure"?
How Early American Inventors Funded Their Ventures
Interesting, the second new ML compiler to arrive on the scene, after Morel[1].

[1]: https://github.com/julianhyde/morel
This

> so I can't make a distinction for this particular practice.

was meant to be a rebuttal to this

> just because it is common doesn't mean it's not shady.

so I think you walked right into it.

> If a person at Company A is steering business toward Company B

and that's company A's problem
Can anyone elaborate on “and proudly brags about his criminal acquaintances in the news”? It’s a bullet point in the section about, presumably, antirez.
For your enjoyment: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/
Tom Steyer: What I Learned While Running for President
> The entitlement is strong with this one.

And stupidity. He is already behind $50,000 for refusing to sign off his rights to tell his 'story'. Maybe he feels there is a market for his skills (and to your point, um, attitude) for his take on things. (There isn't)

And the idea that there is no potential blowback from the company because of free speech means he is simply not aware of what a willing and able (financially) adversary can do to you if they want (using legal or other means). Company could decide to go after him just to send a message even if no chance of actually winning or collecting or other tangible benefit.
I get info from WHO, just making it clear they're not my only source. If I had to choose just one, sure WHO is great. Nobody has the "real" numbers for China so it's moot.

He's not a random guy; https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1228752554022068226 but he's also not my only source.

[Edit: I also didn't get my suspicion of China's numbers from him or anyone in particular; I follow China a lot and it's my own conclusion. In January I personally saw packed hospitals and dozens of dead bodies in twitter videos, and it's not exactly easy or safe to get those videos out.]

Maybe I've just been following the topic a lot more than other people. I can understand not having time for it. I have a respiratory condition, and live with an elderly person, so I actually worked my last day as a barista today in order to eliminate public contact. Where I am the virus probably won't come for a couple to a dozen weeks, if ever, but it's still a precaution I can afford to take so I did (I can consult from home).

Also I love tinfoil hats, thank you <3 (Sorry for the long thread, kinda hoping we get collapsed)
The concept of fixing corporate culture seems like a weird one, if you remove corporate and go for the generic term, can you "fix culture"?

I think what you can do is influence the culture of a company and reap the rewards, having done the devops transformation in two difference companies that were deemed unfixable (both more than 4 offices and 3k people) I feel it is very doable! It just takes time and it is not an algorithm you can learn and apply blindly.
The rumor among the US health industry is they are licking their chops they are going to make a bundle off this virus, causing millions more to go into bankruptcy - - the 5% who end up in ICU on ventilators without insurance, hospitals are already lining up their ducks, remember there are only only a finite set of ventilators at every hospital, when full up, it will be like "pay us $20,000 first and we will reserve a place for you" next up.

Don't think it will happen ? Guess again, take a look at M.D. Anderson in Houston, most famous cancer treatment facility. Few years ago they started admittance only on CASH UP FRONT, like serious cash down payment.
It totally did not fail. It is the most useful realtime chat for many topics I am interested in:

#python for the python language
#php for the php language
#javascript for the javascript language
#django for the django framework
#laravel for the laravel framework
#symfony for the symfony framework
#startups for startup stuff
#css and #webdev for web development
#mysql for mysql and mariadb
#math for math related topics

And many more.

Show me any other chat system where you can go online, ask a question and get answers from professionals in the field instantly. I would immediately use it. But there is none.
sending someone a link via email is a relatively common task.

why would it be undesirable to write short code that can do that?
So on a high level redux but for backend (Store-reducers-components) ?
Makes you question what failure is. IRC played an extremely important role in spreading computer science knowledge, bootstrapping what we take today as a granted IT world. It helped build communities for the introverts, with various clients introducing basic scripting and programming technique to the curious minded. For me IRC played an irreplaceable role in my life as a developer and I would never be where I am if it wasn't for the networks built on that protocol. I think that IRC never failed, it was just outgrown.
> Robert Heineken’s story: the Roads Must Roll.

One beer too many? Or an illiterate autocorrector?

Should be Robert Heinlein.

:-)
And Eastern Europe, colder parts of Russia etc.
Is IRC really a failed endeavor? I would consider something to be a failure if it never took off the ground, instead we have a protocol that is over 30 years old being finally supplanted with newer technologies. There is no inherent reason why IRC failed, except that it was designed with the sensibilities of 1989 in mind, but the requirements of the modern day are not what they used to be. I enjoy the simplicity of IRC as much as the next guy, but when you have things such as a lack of chat history availability being something you have to work around, I understand why it has been supplanted by newer products, as has a vast majority of things from those days.
Read access patterns matter more than cache sizes, triple digit improvements are possible of you have linear reads.
I don't really follow web development much...what is the status of DOM APIs in WebAssembly? Is it now possible to use a WebAssembly-compiled language end to end, without any javascript acting as an intermediary?
Such demands infuriate me to no end. BI's prescription seems more mild than others, but a good example of where they can go awry is YouTube. Youtube used to be a great tool for finding primary sources and citizen livestreams during ongoing events.

The coup in Venezuela, the Yellow Vest protests, and even Charlottesville all had individuals, both partisans and observers contributing to a body of information that allowed interested people to develop a more holistic awareness of the ground-level context as it unfolded in real-time.

Seemingly there are a number of medical professionals providing coolheaded analysis of the COVID outbreak, but if I were to search it up, I would be subject to a tsunami of vapid, hyperbolic observations and speculations breathlessly belted out by talking heads whose two great skills are reading a teleprompter, and running their mouths between segments.

Every time something of cultural interest or controversy occurs, self-interested media outlets run hitpiece after hitpiece against whichever platform hasn't bent the knee to their industry in the recent past, all under the auspices of the public good, and ensuring only the highest quality information is available.

Which, of course, only inflames the skepticism and paranoia of those convinced that the media is plotting to control them, even as they deny knowledge to those capable of keeping themselves informed and acting through their own sources.

Traditional media is being outcompeted as a primary source for both critical audiences that want to stay informed, as well as for credulous audiences who want to be entertained, and hear what they already agree with.

This isn't to denigrate the great work being done around the globe by investigative journalists. News reporting is a thankless, and unprofitable venture. It's unfortunate that their great work is so often buried beneath a sea of punditry with little more insight than a reddit thread.

HN has been a great source for information on COVID 19, and I get links to primary articles that I wouldn't know to find, and which most publications only reference in passing. It helps me stay informed. If I was just passively reading/watching the news, I shudder to imagine what I'd think.
How do you like AutoSleep? I’ve been interested in finding a decent Apple Watch solution for sleep tracking but it’s been a few years since I’ve tried those apps.
Sorry - the presentation was never recorded. There's more information in the GitHub repo, however: https://github.com/cattius/opcodetester.
I guessed that is who it was but I you know she is not exactly 'PG'. And her name isn't unique enough like 'Elon'.

I read comments on another blog whereby one commenter thinks he is a guy who can use his girlfriend's name as if everyone should know that is who he is talking about like he is on a first name basis with the crowd.
BTC-E: Crazy Story of Financial Crime, Unshared Spoils, and Lies
Stupid joke. Don’t quit your day job
What was the time frame on your $40k -> $500k jump, if you don't mind my asking?
Interns also don't read articles properly.
Separately from this specific case, Glassdoor is a very imperfect way to evaluate an org. Companies will encourage employees to juice the reviews (https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/22/companies-gaming-glas...).

Anecdotally, Glassdoor will often remove negative reviews for paying employers by giving flimsy excuses like "They are against the 'Community Guidelines'" (something that's so broad it's impossible to hold them to specifics). The "features" they advertise for paying employers are all above-the-board though.
> Undeserved panic does no one any good. But neither does ill-informed complacency. It’s wrong to assuage the public by saying “only 2% will die.” People aren’t adequately grasping the national and global systemic burden wrought by this swift-moving of a disease. 23/n

Isn't the best approach then to do nothing? To be blunt here: if what she's saying is true, most of the vulnerable groups are going to die anyway. So why not just ignore it completely, and spend the healthcare resources on other stuff?

I mean, if the choices are:

1. 2% of the population dies and the healthcare system and economy collapses completely

2. 2 + ε% of the population dies

Then the second option is arguably preferable.
If people are not allowed to talk and read about what they found to be wrong, they will never figure out how to fix it. And they will never figure out what real problems are and what is fluff.

First step toward being able to participate in fixing anything is being able to reflect on what is going on and being able to learn from what others in similar situation did or did not do.
Yes, this is self-sabotage, I would never hire him and I would leave a company if they were to hire him. Yikes.

Edit: and I didn't catch the audio clip at the end until just now! Wow. What is this guy thinking??
> "I worked from home for three years with a $220,000 salary"

I stopped reading right there. I really don't want to hear someone in this situation complain. Suck it up or find a new job - take a pay cut if you're really that unhappy. I've worked for shitty companies for a fraction of that salary.

Hell, It's taken me over 15 years to get to a salary even within spitting distance of that amount - and I've never been able to work from home.
Wow. Bold.

Which Reddit did you post to?
Well China has cut their number of cases so they did something that worked.
The usual pitch: if you're interested in seeing more Standard ML news, check out /r/sml on Reddit. There's relatively good discussion and postings for a small subreddit.
Probably Rachel By the Bay: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/03/04/annoyed/
> this idea that people should (or can) just leave employment, needs to stop

I don't think this applies when you are pulling down nearly a quarter of a million dollars a year - then I think you probably have quite a lot of freedom to just walk out the door anytime you want.
It's even more brutal reading articles properly and realising he wasn't an intern.
Well, if you figured it out then maybe Rachel is unique enough =)
Cool! I hadn't heard of this. SOSML [0] is the other most recent one I'm aware of.

[0] https://github.com/SOSML/SOSML
Isn't the speed and usefulness of Q&A a function of the community itself and not IRC though? For example, the Matrix devs hang out on many matrix channels and are fast to reply to any questions. Experts over at the hackintosh discord are also very fast to reply and extremely helpful to help troubleshoot issues.
Well, there's https://stackexchange.com/ but I guess it has its own set of ails
If you look it's actually p clear where on a road (e.g. highway) cars are driving , wear patterns can definitely be seen.
Yes, in the Army there is even a term for this: spendex. (spend exercise). A lot of fun blowing through all your extra ammo at the end of the year!!!
The interesting thing to me is that they had an open-source support business getting requests to buy their services, which the salesmen dropped because it wasn't the most lucrative deal they could be doing. But presumably there's a viable business in that particular type of support.
All sources I've seen so far have been showing primarily that cumulative, so it's not odd, it's standard.
I’m aware that you have a definition of “algorithm” that only includes things that don’t change, and I think I know roughly what you mean, but also algorithms are pretty much unavoidable in line of business development. Whether or not they’re well defined, sufficiently general, and have a good name is another thing. In this case you’re right but in a codebase with no documentation where people are doing things like re-implementing JSON parsers from scratch, as I was stuck with at my last job, I’m very wary of “this algorithm is simple” because I don’t trust my coworkers in that case to actually know what they’re talking about. I’m completely sure you do, for what it’s worth.
Also it had an enormous impact on early online gaming. IRC was the default way many clans assembled, communicated, recruited, and coordinated match play and scrimmages between each other. Channels like findscrim allowed CS teams to match with other parties of equivalent skill looking for scrimmages in real time all over the world, 24 hours per day.
> It should also be noted that Pivotal was acquired by VMware for ~$2.7B.

This doesn't mean much. Both Pivotal and Dell were controlled / belonged to Dell at the point of the acquisition, so this was more of a Dell-internal restructuring than an acquisition on the open market.

That said, I agree that the OP is way over the top to be taken seriously.
The market is still desperate for developers so you can get away with it here. Technical interviews mean you have an alternative to your work history, so you can get jobs if you have skill but have some gaps or sudden departures. If anything, we've learned that finding the right fit is difficult. This is just knowing the market. If the market changes, then yes, people won't be able to suddenly quit as often.

There are some crazy boring jobs out there that will absolutely be fatal to any real passion and some people want to see where that takes them.
I think the graph meant 96 million infections active in the peak two months. Hard to be sure without seeing the presentation, but it definitely isn’t the next two months.
Intel laptop parts had 128MB of eDRAM starting in 2013. Is that mainstream enough for you?
To be sure, IRC is alive. I just know I've stopped using it a lot less. I make the point that I (and perhaps many of us) used to use tools everyday that were standards based, now they're not, and that's a shame. Especially true with chat clients. It's like it's 1999 again, when you needed to be on MSN IM, AOL, and Yahoo chat to reach all your friends. Then pidgin came along. What a glorious standards based time that was. It was also the time I got into IRC. Then slack came. All of a sudden the people I needed to reach were more likely on slack then IRC. I also got on mobile around that time much later than everyone else. That's when I really started using XMPP and IRC less. That's all well and good, but now where are we? GroupMe, Slack and Teams open on my laptop 24/7. Multiple chat clients. Hello, 1999. It's been a while.

My point isn't "yeah it really is dead" but "man we need to get back to those pidgin days somehow"
I didn't even bother reading the article after reading the headline. As you pointed out, IRC was far from a failure. Even with the coming and going of all sorts of realtime chat networks in the 1990s and 2000s, IRC still maintained vibrant stable communities of users. Freenode was a great more modern example. It's succeeded through a whole variety of what one could more reasonably consider 'fad' technologies.
Probably in that while internet usage exploded by 100000x, yet IRC is less popular than ever with barely any new users.