skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you care about it, just buy a magnetic USB-C dongle: https://www.amazon.com/usb-c-magsafe/s?k=usb+c+magsafe

Returning to magsafe would be a downgrade when you can just magsafe-ify any of the ports yourself with a cheap adapter.
When interviewing people and giving feedback there's a non-trivial percentage of people that react with hostility to even the most constructive criticism.

We're actively recruiting now and it's amazing the amount of hostility we receive sometime when someone is rejected.

There's a HIGH false negative rate on our end. Meaning, we're going to screw up and walk away from candidates that are amazing - but we're unable to realize it in time.

Yet, people will still react negatively.

If I was a VC I would probably quickly learn to just keep my mouth shut.
I took a look at a few random recent papers at arxiv.org, in physics, biology, math, and economics. They all used "we".

Wikipedia says it is discourage in the social sciences, though, because "it fails to distinguish between sole authorship and co-authorship" [1].

I'm curious now why it is so important to distinguish between sole authorship and co-authorship via writing style. If you are reading the paper itself, a glance at the author list will tell you that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosism
Admittedly, this analysis isn't perfect since all my data sources have their problems.
>This is 100% true and 10,000% annoying. Effectively it blocks anyone who has an idea for an idea for a business that needs seed capital from competing unless they're already wealthy

There's your startup. Get some money and invest it in all those teams that need initial funding.

You may also want to establish an online forum for young entrepreneurs and engineers to hang out and discuss news and ideas so that they know about you and approach you once they need the funding.
While I don’t disagree with the decision to step down from the organization, I’m always concerned that in the long run, if committed, principled individuals just leave the organization, who will be left to stand up for those who don’t have that option.

The Amazon warehouse workers certainly don’t have the power in the organization. And they don’t have the representation at the highest management levels of the organization. So if the ones that do in the VP and Director roles leave, who will standup for them?
The point I'm making is that - even granting their claim, which I'm not sure I do - unionization doesn't have to work in the US tomorrow the same way it does today. Neither need benefits and worker protections.

Given that exactly these sorts of changes to the status quo are table stakes for socialist political movements including the one that's been trying to form around Bernie Sanders for half a decade or more by now, it is, again, strange to see an ostensibly socialist publication treat the status quo as immutable.

Poking around a little more, I get the sense from Jacobin's articles that they're written by the sort of, again soi-disant, socialist who can spend all day toying with highflown theories, but turns contemptuous on the instant when faced with the expectation to back up words with action, and thinks nothing of crossing a picket line when it'd be even slightly less personally convenient to do otherwise. In other words, I think they're a bunch of useless academic liberals who enjoy the cachet of calling themselves socialist but can't be bothered to do the work of earning the name.

Perhaps I'm doing Jacobin's writers an injustice, but seeing as I'm judging them by their writing, I don't think that I am.
You can definitely ship binary libraries and use only whatever is needed, and there is no need for LTO/WPO to achieve that.

In fact, LTO/WPO have nothing to do with the ability to link whatever is needed.
I've often been tempted to show my less-technical manager our commit log, but have always avoided it because I can't see any way it wouldn't turn into some stupid game about commits and lines of code changed.
"An enormous solar storm could short out telecom satellites, radio communications, and power grids, leading to trillions of dollars in damages, experts say"

(1) Telecom sats are no longer essentially to much of anything. The vast majority of communcations happen over fiber lines, buried or laying deep under the ocean. GPS satalites may be affected, but the current crop are hardened and expected to survive.

(2) Radio communications certainly may be disrupted during the storm. Our cellphones might be offline for a week, so too local radio stations: a temporary inconveniance rather than end-of-days.

(3) Power grids may well be distrupted. Some transformers may blow. There are a handfull in the US that are of vital importance, but they could be replaced. A worst case senerio might see some large areas without GRID power for a period of weeks. But the power plants will still be there. Some sort of diminished local service would be restored.

Who will feel the effects: The military. Militaries still rely on telecomunications via satalite. They still rely on radio for long range communications.
> FTL signaling does.

Pick some example of a "causal paradox" of the sort that might introduced by FTL signaling. If the underlying system is a quantum one (hence with continuous amplitudes, albeit the reasoning also extends to simple probabilities) no logical paradox actually arises because the underlying values are continuous. This would imply that there's no difference between that and a CTC.

Of course larger-scale physics appears classical to us but that's a consequence of quantum decoherence and ultimately of the "law" of increasing entropy (2nd law of thermodynamics). Which is just as much of an obstacle to classical CTC's.
At this point, the software engineer is more believable because he has fewer reasons to lie to you

I think this is false. Said software developer can have whole shebang of personal reasons to have his/her opinion on a subject be swayed either way. As a matter of fact your average software developer is often super opinionated about things. How can this not propagate to other areas I have no idea.
> People only say FAANG instead of FANG if it's Apple.

I don't think this is true. Actually, most people would like to replace "N" with "M" in that acronym, but then it sounds much worse…
Here is the page to cancel your Amazon Prime membership: https://www.amazon.com/mc/pipelines/cancellation
Blogging platform Ghost hacked through Salt vulnerability
I think a lot of the reason people hate on Amazon is just bad PR. Plenty of other companies are just as bad, or worse. Walmart has been a shit hole long before Amazon even existed and its worse than amazon. But Amazon steadfastly refuse to pretend they care. Bezos isn't constantly paying people to lie and pretend Amazon is a family and its workers are deeply valued.

Perversely, I actually think that's more honest and more likely to bring about changes to actually help workers...
Ruby Next: A Transpiler for Ruby
> Instead we crutch along shitty businesses for no reason.

The cost of healthcare to employers has more than tripled over the last 17 years[1]. We're not "crutching them along," we are passively watching as opportunities to grow are eroded by rising costs.

[1] - https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BF-AU065A_INSUR_9...
I was looking for my first job during the dotcom crisis and it took me about 18 months. I took a semi-programming job at slavery-level salary just to get my foot in.
What really helped was the fact that I had spent 3 months as an unpaid intern at a reputable software house 2 years earlier.
I remember my friends mocking me back than for being a looser and an idiot for "working for free".
This sentiment (entitlement?) is even stronger among young people today. They refuse to acknowledge that when you come in with zero experience and nothing to offer and get free training - you are the real beneficiary.
Why should you be the one to make that decision? I'm sure workers, especially highly skilled Amazon engineers, have the capacity to decide for themselves that Amazon isn't some evil company Hacker News paints them to be. And their warehouse workers are paid well relative to the position.
> bees have a queen.

The "queens" are gonad not brain.
The NHS worker opposite me would really, really like people not to clap, whistle or bang drums, because she's always asleep at that time due to her shifts...
This comment seems like it comes from a place that has a warped understanding of what typical pay is.

>They are on the lower end of big tech salaries.

Amazon pay may be slightly lower than FB, Google, or Netflix. But the $150k entry-level starting pay that most of the corporate workers get is still so so so much higher than the vast majority of companies pay that it's laughable to imply that Amazon doesn't pay them well.

>And the vast majority of their employees are warehouse workers, and they are paid very poorly.

Amazon warehouse workers get $17/hour minimum and amazing health insurance (probably better health insurance than most of the American posters on HN) for a job that requires no experience, education, or really any prerequisites.

When compared with a SWE job like most HNers are familiar with, it's really easy to look down on $17/hr as "paid very poorly". When compared with skilled manual labor like oilfield workers, $17/hr is low. But when put into perspective that this is a job available to almost anyone, even those unable to get job elsewhere, $17/hr is a huge amount to someone who was previously homeless or to a 16 year old getting their first job.

Again for perspective, McDonalds pays on average half of what Amazon's minimum pay is. And yet I can't even recall the last time I saw a post lambasting McDonalds as being an evil company for how it treats its cooks and cashiers.
Sounds very much like the company which spent recently spent $5 billion on suburban open offices.
I was just telling my family over the weekend that the one good thing about all this is that, for once in my life, I didn't feel bad about being a hermit, which is my natural state.
Sorry for the slew of questions and thank you for the answers! I am checking it out :D
> For backups, mapping one file to one object rarely works well.

Same for archiving. At my former workplace we however figured that out only after the horse left the barn.
I regret not purchasing a Surface device, despite the extra cost over the Dell.
How are you running Syncthing on iOS?
This isn't that hard: Just don't work for the evil ones! If their recruiters contact you, tell them why.

There are plenty of non-evil companies that will pay you well to do interesting work.

Even in your "FAANG" list, Netflix just makes entertaining videos. Apple makes pleasantly overpriced hardware and competes on privacy in software.

Apply to them, instead of ad-tech and sweatshops-as-a-service.
Not sure that the dominant ideology around here is "Marxist post-modernist". More like coastal urban shitlib. Also, isn't Marxist post-modernism an oxymoron?
There's also the reality that "low-skilled" really means "there's more supply of the skill than there is demand", or "depends purely on a skill that can be developed, as opposed to natural talent/advantage that few people have".
The email flows every brand needs to succeed
Even in 2020 you will always need to know if the facts you've dredged up are accurate and truthful.

You've always needed to do this. The internet just drives that point home hard. Because when I was growing up 50 years ago, I just assumed that all the good things said about Christopher Columbus (to pick an easy example) must have been true because they wouldn't print it in a book if it weren't, right?

Years later, thanks to that same lie-spewing internet Discovery Magazine warns me about, I find out that Columbus guy was a real prick. That, and an idiot who thought he was the first to cook up this "round Earth" theory (only to be beaten by 2000 years by, eh, the Greeks was it?), and got it massively wrong at that.

The article overall, though, is surprisingly even-handed, lacking in ridiculous hyperbole so rife in such articles, and amazingly spot on.
Perhaps they'll cut off your VPN access.
To avoid PIP at Amazon you just gotta be more productive than the people on those internal discussion forums. And they wonder why they're getting pushed out. Leave the trolling for after work
I used to name my blog posts meticulously and provide detailed metadata with attention to (good, honest) SEO. The problem is that, while many of us here might use DDG, for the vast majority of people search = Google. And Google has changed its search results to outright hide a lot of standalone personal blogs, even if you search for the exact terms that are used in the blog entries. And there is a lot of content from the first decade of the new millennium that remains just as relevant today, because no one has posted anything more recent at such a length and detail, but Google has simply chosen to deprioritize older content.
> performance is different from learning

I'm not sure about that. Knowledge 'in a vacuum', separated from one's abilities to do anything useful, isn't what we normally mean by the word. To put it bluntly, no-one cares who has the most encyclopaedic knowledge of violins, they care who's best able to do the job.

Like I said in the other thread, sometimes there's no substitute for raw talent. Just about everyone is smart enough to learn algebra, and programming, but I suspect most people lack the raw intelligence to become an MIT professor, regardless of how hard they work.

You can put in as much work as you like, but if the other guy puts in just as much work and has an incredible natural ability in the field, you really don't stand a chance. Same goes for sports, where it's more about your physical limits than your intellectual ones.

Again though, I don't see that these realities should put us off self-improvement, whether learning, or sport, or any other avenue. It seems silly to even write it: learning still has plenty going for it.

> "ability" is often an illusion of opportunity costs. it's less "can't" and more "won't".

Agreed. For most of us at least, our intellectual ceilings aren't generally what steer our decisions.
I wouldn't put the threshold at basic necessities. There are lots of people that are just barely better of than living from paycheck to paycheck for whom it is not easy to take the risk to quit a secure job.

But after you can afford having savings as well as a desired lifestyle it always struck me as odd to still have money as the main factor on deciding where to work and why you would ever want to deal with a workplace you actively dislike.
Well, the blog is about reading passwords. What you do with them is another story.
CloudFlare's free plan can and does end at any moment, I wouldn't rely on it for any serious application
When working with Clojure teams, I personally ran into "libraries, not frameworks!". Interesting maxim, but I never found any kind of satisfactory explanation. There was a general deep-seated belief that Clojure was the right solution for every problem, with a similar amount of elaboration.
I hope that is true. I graduated from undergraduate 10 years ago. My alma mater used to be very good bang for your buck, arguably the best traditional engineering and nursing school in the state, less than 5000 a year, accept almost everyone and fail the ones who won't make it early so they can do other things. But pressure from the state government shifted funding to retention rates so that model of education was dying.
J. Crew Files for Bankruptcy in Virus’s First Big Retail Casualty
Just got it set up locally. Pretty nifty but a few limitations I noticed

- Photoshop document resolution and dimensions have to be hard coded in a file ahead of time

- The images returned from BASnet are very low resolution

- No idea of what the boundaries look like until image is taken (might be cool to have a contour or edge detector instead of the pulsing pixel array)

- The "copied" item doesn't show up on older iPhone screens (you only see it when its been pasted)

These can easily be ironed out in time. Might even take a crack at the autodetecting the PS document stats this week. Super cool demo and I'm excited to see where it goes!
Maybe you can work on your hiring practices? Even for low-skill jobs, you can hire for soft skills.

edit: I am being downvoted and don't know why. Can you please explain what's wrong with this idea? I think the parent paints a false dichotomy.

For example - another option is to deal with problematic individuals on an individual basis. You don't have to ruin the entire company culture.
Dang I'm the total opposite. 1 round in the Apple ecosystem and I'd never touch their products again.

I can't understand the appeal outside the marketing gimmicks.
Responsibilities of a product strategist [1 of 3]
Thanks for the note! Looking back on it, I probably would have use levels.fyi and tried to construct an analysis that would account for how salary grows over time in different regions but c'est la vie.
It was always that way. It used to be that nobility lived the good life at the expense of the peasants. Now we have replaced nobility with educated office workers. And the system is set up that if you are part of the top x percent you will never have to see how the bottom lives. They are well hidden.
> rather than trying to buy a single beefy box to support n users

This sentiment has always felt weird to me, as I have always seen UNIX as an OS that has been designed - from the ground up (in late 1960s) to support multiple concurrent users - whether it is via a serial terminal, and now multi-seat, VNC or an X terminal. By today's standards it's not even such a "beefy box" that can easily do that.
i don't understand this movement.

If there is a purity test, to gauge your alignment with the internal company rules associated with every goods + service you rely on, then there needs to be transparency across the entire world economic landscape.

Why cherry pick? Just because media decided to bring it to your attention?

So you canceled Amazon Prime, everything else in your life was produced by some other entity. Do you go insane because you haven't vetted those sources?
I've owned a cafe and was able to pay myself and the head cook roughly $1000/week (each) when things were great. If that's not middle class, I'm not sure what is.
Right. Everyone who lives in that world knows and understands this.

People who only read about the non college degree people can have some very clueless ideas.
Just signed up to try it out - would really like to see some form of two factor auth that isn't SMS based. TOTP and/or FIDO U2F.
The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Analyzed by a Military Historian
In theory, diplomatic immunity only covers official stuff necessary for the functioning of the embassy. But there is no easy way to check. And yes, diplomatic status has a history of abuse, including drug smuggling.
You should speak to a few more cafe and restaurant owners if you believe that.
Is It true that Amazon’s internal chat tool doesn’t have as much support for “fun chat” stuff like stickers and emoji? I’ve been hearing along the grapevine.
>It used to be said that a college degree was a ticket to a well-paying job. Now, a few decades later, we're told to get a STEM degree, because other degrees are worthless. Who's to say that the criteria won't get even narrower in the future?

A degree was never a ticket to a well paying job. Showing that you have critical thinking skills and the ability to learn and a base level of organization/discipline in your life is what a degree might have meant when they were more rigorous and scarce.

Now that there are a billion schools offering a billion bullshit degrees in exchange for money, one way to cut through that is to bet on people who can do calculus and chemistry and physics, as those are better measures of analytical skills and whatever else employers are looking for.
What region are you moving from/to? Last I checked, b2 only exists in datacenters on the US west coast.
>> They have endowments.

A small minority of colleges have endowments worth discussing.
Sorry, I don't have specific resources to point to although I guess I could eventually take the time to do a write-up. I used to be an in-person instructor at a development bootcamp (also taught prior to this). While there, I was also trained on how to do instruction online for the rare instances where it had to happen. This is where I learned most of it.

I'm also an avid educational content watcher, so I've seen and tried to learn from the best educational content creators over the past decade or so. I've also followed the EdTech space, as a hobby, since before the MOOC acronym even came into existence. Combine all of that with tangentially related hobbies like:

* watching and reading about game design and how to incorporate it into traditional learning styles,

* listening to how podcasts and online content is created/delivered,

and that's where I learned about teaching online effectively. I wish I could continue working in this space, but well... that's a story for another time.
You can return anything you bought online within 14 days, no need to provide a justification.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...
Yeah, but that makes them third-party already for many orgs' policies, even if they come from the same set of developers.

As soon as you have to add a crate, you are in for extra review and pain.
Debatable.

Personally this is a con.
I feel you on this. I live in a studio loft, so I've only got one room total really. Time has no meaning, days bleed together and my work/live ballence has gone to shit.
The XPS13 optionally comes with Ubuntu preinstalled. Haven't had to fight drivers in a while (on my second XPS 13).
$1000/week is higher than the median American personal income. That's by definition not lower middle class.
Pre-crisis, Amazon's warehouse workers in Ontario made just a little over minimum wage.
Robinhood Raises $280M in Series F Funding Led by Sequoia
So where is the graphical debugging support and how do I single step a stored procedure?

I have used distributed transactions at life sciences.
Fairly well balanced presentation, even if behind paywall. IIRC, Economist lets one create an account and read 5 free articles.

One aspect that is particularly worrisome:

> Western experts say categorically that the sequence of the new virus’s genome—which Chinese scientists published early on, openly and accurately—reveals none of the telltales genetic engineering would leave in its wake. But it remains a fact that in Wuhan, where the outbreak was first spotted, there is a laboratory where scientists have in the past deliberately made coronaviruses more pathogenic.

[...]

> In 2017 WIV opened the first biosecurity-level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory in China—the sort of high-containment facility in which work is done on the most dangerous pathogens. A large part of Dr Shi’s post-SARS research there has been aimed at understanding the potential which viruses still circulating among bats have to spill over into the human population. In one experiment she and Ge Xingyi, also of the WIV, in collaboration with American and Italian scientists, explored the disease-like potential of a bat coronavirus, SHC014-CoV, by recombining its genome with that of a mouse-infecting coronavirus. The WIV newsletter of November 2015 reported that the resulting virus could “replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titres equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV”. In early April this newsletter and all others were removed from the institute’s website.

[...]

> Many scientists think that with so many biologists actively hunting for bat viruses, and gain-of-function work becoming more common, the world is at increasing risk of a laboratory-derived pandemic at some point. “One of my biggest hopes out of this pandemic is that we address this issue—it really worries me,” says Dr Pilch. Today there are around 70 BSL-4 sites in 30 countries. More such facilities are planned.