skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better than what?

You seem to forget that while you might be an affluent middle/upper class person, a lot of people out there are struggling really hard to fulfill their primary needs. You realize how many people in the states are poor (lacking primary needs resources) or borderline poor? Yes, some people (plenty of HN users I am sure) might struggle to maintain highly consumerist lifestyles (not sure if that's necessarily bad) but for the majority of people, this will improve their lives for as long as UBI is a thing. All the money spent on fighting social phenomena that is the result of people being unable to or/and having being raised without enough primary need resources to ensure their physical, emotional and cognitive capabilities are not hampered by their poverty will be able to be allocated to better uses?
According to what though? Walmart is ubiquitous; do they have to let people protest inside stores? No. Do they have to sell antivax books? No. You could maybe argue youtube is closer to a pseudo public place like a mall, but even there you couldn’t force a mall to protest on behalf of someone else or sell something. What exactly is your end game? Create a new type of forum (like physical forum) where private companies are compelled to act according to someone else’s standards?
What would be the benefits vs hitting your API directly? (Having a "normal" API server)
Probably a better question is "Will the demand for software developers outpace the supply over the next 10 years?" Perhaps the looming failures of universities I keep reading about will mean less degreed professionals. I think the demand will increase as more industries become automated, but the supply is the big question.
Here's the "new" Microsoft:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23255591
We were looking into RabbitMQ but quickly retracted once we realized that it does not support external OAuth2.0 providers in a straightforward way.
That there are entire guides (see below) and even games written on phkmalloc exploitation proves kazinator's point rather than yours.

[1] http://www.ouah.org/BSD-heap-smashing.txt

[2] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/attachments/636...

[3] https://overthewire.org/wargames/vortex/vortex11.html

[4] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/woot11/tech/final_files...
Im in a smaller company of a few hundred employees. We had the option to go back to the office this week. Exactly 3 people are in the office, the same 3 who have remained at the office the entire time. Everyone else chose WFH until it is mandatory to go back to the office.
> I want it to happen. I'd like a word.

You could be shown the door in no-time. Amazon has forced attrition and the manager decides who gets the cull. They may make a mountain out of a mole to further their objectives.
Time to set up a family 1password, or if you're up for teaching your family, keepass.
> just noticed you mentioned "liberal city", so if it's political stances you're referring to then yes a more conservative-leaning person may not feel welcome on r/portland

funnily enough, I'm referring to the sub often times having a more conservative audience, often coming in from the suburbs (Vancouver being a big one there).
I tend to see people preferring RabbitMQ over Kafka and viceversa as if they were products solving the same problems but they are not. They do have in common the fact that they help decoupling applications but in different ways.
Both are great.
People might be unhappy about it, but without people willing to actually speak up and start a walkout or something, most aren't gonna risk it. The people who Google drove off were the catalysts who would start a walkout over this stuff, instead of just expressing discontent on Memegen.
> Paying back a signing bonus if they fire you seems super rough. Is this common elsewhere? 2 years also seems high - the time I got a signing bonus, it was "pay back if you leave voluntarily in 1 year" which was much nicer than the described.

I actually don't think this is true. My understanding is if you're PIPed they don't really care. The signing bonus is paid out monthly the 2nd year (and for people hired at SDE2+ its first year too) so you don't have to pay it back after the first year.

Disclaimer: Amazon L4
> The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish religious manuscripts that were found in the Qumran Caves in the Judaean Desert, near Ein Feshkha on the northern shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank. Scholarly consensus dates these scrolls from the last three centuries BCE and the first century CE.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls
And housing.
That's silly. None of my (I'm a math major) university calculus courses (calc 1, calc 2, calc 3, differential equations) allowed calculators on quizzes or exams. Graphing calculators are a zombie technology kept alive by completely bogus, artificial means.

There's no reason to use a calculator on a properly-designed calculus exam. We were doing everything from Taylor series to triple integrals without them. Teaching kids to rely on a calculator from a young age severely limits their ability to develop the basic arithmetic "muscle memory" (for lack of a better term) needed to manipulate equations quickly in more advanced math classes. It's a real shame.
Equivalence in ethics is non trivial, ergo your statement needs more thought behind it.
Id like to have a chat w. you about all the above. How can get in touch?
Payroll taxes may or may not be borne by the worker. Oversimplifying tax burden is a dishonest argument that is consistently perpetuated.
> During the hiring process, on-call is not mentioned in any way

Then next:

> are you willing to work nights and/or weekends

To be fair I'd say this is mention enough.

If someone is willing to (or has to) look the other way at the time of hiring when something like this was explicitly said, then even a "hey, we have on-call here, you fine with that?" would be okay.
> 'we care about our employees' or 'do no evil' LPs).

Customer Obsession is "do no evil".
Help me understand. An average mortgage is 200k, at the average household income of 63k and a 30 year at 4.1%, thats 18.5% of your pretax income going into a mortgage. The same numbers for a 300k income and a 700k house works out to 13.5%. Seems like you are doing significant better than most? Happy to be corrected.
Civ IV!
A great example!

That single move from Microsoft more or less eliminated the need for any normal application run by any normal user to require admin-rights to function, something which up to that point more or less had been the norm.

Developers fixed their applications to work with a sane privilege level and pretty much everyone was better off.

Let’s do the same with the rampant JS-abuse on the web.
> I mention on-call duty because it is “peculiar” in that the only other profession requiring this kind of responsiveness is doctors

My only advice to this person is:

- talk to someone who does customer-facing tech support in your own company

- never take a job in customer-facing tech support
Ah, interesting. I did not know that.
If you're going to make an assumption, that one is definitely understandable.

However, taking a step back, you should have enough representative test cases (QA snaps a photo with iPhones, tries to upload) that whether assumptions are reasonable doesn't enter into it because you aren't making them.
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Of course, organ donation is far from a guarantee. There are a lot of complications and challenges, and it's major surgery.
Oh $1850 is high without a doubt, but Boulder is a desirable and somewhat high cost of living area. Compared to California though? Affordable.
The video actually get removed, how is this "fake outrage"
There are cases of dolphins bonding with humans, but they are formed after long periods of time.
There's that famous fued stoty of the douphin that commit suicide and inspired the ECCO games.
That's the thread of a great question we should be asking ourselves. "How has the behavior of the U.S. effected the global response to COVID?" I feel like your question only furthers my point that aggressive and confrontational foreign policy has a multitude of unintended consequences.
This is a promo for a service. You have to pay to see the other content.
It's called Airbus.
I'm sure there's an article in there somewhere: https://i.imgur.com/GqQCnVG.jpg

For some reason it even crashed my mobile browser.

As I was scrolling, more ads loaded and kept moving the text around.
Plus, AWS literally runs life-saving applications. Doctors need AWS online to authenticate and use all sorts of applications.
I have had a different experience with working at AWS. I've heard really terrible things working in retail, but AWS has been a pretty good place to work, with normal 9-5 hours. I can go more into detail about how my experience has been different from the article if people want.
How about double the size for 325k?

https://www.redfin.com/MO/St-Louis/1219-Washington-Ave-63103...
I've seen a lot of takes that boil down to: "We can easily end the quarantine if we just take steps requiring coordinated national effort that we're clearly not capable of."
I've heard that companies rarely enforce these clauses unless you really burned a bridge. If anything they won't give you severance if you quit within the first year.
You currently don't have the option to not work. Most people work more than they need to because they realize that the future is uncertain and having savings will be beneficial if there's trouble at some point in the future. Give the same people a trust fund that takes care of them and that they trust to last for their life time, and most will stop working as hard. They may still work, but much less and most likely on very different things.
Anyone working over their contracted hours needs to realise they're being exploited by their employer. Sometimes this is justified: we pay more than the going rate because we expect you to step up occasionally. Maybe it's kind of expected with Amazon in particular.

But when it descends into perma death march and your manager flings you "a few" days holiday in recompense... does that make up for it? If it doesn't, to whom has the profit gone?
Would you please not post in the flamewar style to HN, as you did here and downthread? It's not kind, it's not what this site is for, and it leads to worse. Above all, it makes discussions tedious extremely quickly, because curiosity is the first thing that gets dropped when people start attacking and defending.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful. Note these ones:

"Don't be snarky."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
So this is your source? An opinion piece in a right leaning columnist in a biased NY Post, where author couldn't even help himself but include other unrelated tidbits, like how is Joe Biden and Tara Reade related to corona virus? There's nothing there to verify that even the characters in the story are real not to mention the story.
>Is it that they want to believe that they are somehow fundamentally different from the distribution and grocery store workers, and fundamentally similar to Bezos?

I think this might be a big part of it. The idea that "I'm college educated and don't perform physical labor means I'm not like them" seems to be a pervasive societal thought not even strictly related to tech.
I live on the other side of the country. I am an essential worker so I've been on the roads every day since lockdown. I am terrified of the reckless driving happening nowadays. I am considering mailing lawmakers, something really has to be done.
this is encouraging, thanks. yeah, i started working remotely in December and felt i was just getting used to it.
TI-84 calculators have not seen an update in ages, so I doubt that TI will add restrictions to them now. I think they'd just rather push people to the "CE" calculators. (Which I personally dislike for other reasons, but I digress…)
At least they wouldn't deal with the extra stress of commuting, or traffic from other commuters.
From what I read, the guy that posted the list then got banned from plenty of those large subreddits. That probably fuelled the rage.
I don’t want to SSO with a site that I don’t have any idea of the quality or whether it will serve my needs. I can’t view more than subject headers without signing in - at least give me an idea of what signing up gives me.
I don't feel like Apple adopting a new format inherently means they're moving fast and breaking things. The work on HEIF started in 2012, and Apple has used it since 2017. 8 years isn't exactly a breakneck speed.

First off, they do a good job of converting it to a JPG when necessary. They've thought about backwards compatibility.

Secondly, if we didn't move forward, we'd never see any innovation. HEIF is smaller and allows for cool features like Live Photo.

Lastly, iOS is the second most popular phone operating system on the planet, and evidently they're asking students to take a picture of their answers with their phone. Is it not reasonable to expect the College Board to test it?
Amazon PR at its finest.
Reverse engineering Apple Photos - ML labels, quality scores and more
> lost entire queues because a small network blip caused RabbitMQ to think there was a network partition, and when the other nodes became visible, RabbitMQ has no reliable way to restore its state to what it was

I can offer a similar anecdote: we started seeing rabbitmq reporting alleged cluster partitions in production after enabling TLS between rabbitmq nodes, where manual recovery was needed each time.

After a bit of investigation we noticed that cluster partition seemed to correlate with sending an unusually large message (think something dumb like 30 megs) through rabbitmq when TLS between rabbitmq nodes was enabled. What I believe was happening was Rabbitmq was so busy encrypting/decrypting large message that it delayed sending or receiving heartbeat & then the cluster falsely assumed there has been a network partition.

Mitigated that issue by rewriting system to not send 30 meg messages- there was only one message producer that sent messages anywhere near that large, and after a bit of thought realised it was not necessary to send any message at all in that case (sending large message was to hack around some other old system performance problem that had gotten fixed properly a year back, but the hack that generated a huge message was still in place)
Furthermore, that ebay 10% cut is not taken off the top, it's applied to a monthly invoice, so that's important to remember.
You're one of the lucky few with a cubicle. Do you think you would feel differently if you worked in an open office?
Zuckerberg says employees moving out of Silicon Valley may face pay cuts
>I've never really been involved in the process of setting expectations

Nobody will ask you. You have to be upfront about it from the start.

Request time estimations and fully fledged requirement definitions from the start. Review them before accepting a project, push back against overly ambitious plans and propose changes that allow you to deliver value quickly and iteratively. It's easier to react to surprises if you are able to test the ideas as you go.

Stick to the plan as much as you can. Push back against changes to the requirements if they're not vital. Let others know about blockers clearly, as soon as you run into them. If you get behind schedule, communicate it properly. Stuff happens, unfortunately, and deadlines not being met is a part of life. You just get better at estimating with experience.

There's no way the upper echelons will adapt if they don't receive input timely and loudly enough. If your boss is any kind of decent, they will listen to you and trust your input. If they don't listen, then you should reconsider your current job.
The fact there is a global pandemic going on that requires the cooperation of virtually everyone is important context here.

Meanwhile, YouTube does little moderation of zany philosophical, conspiratorial, or otherwise disruptive, unconventional content. The ideas of Galieo, Socrates, Jesus etc. fall into this category. That is to say those figures did not promote public health opinions that undermined a global cooperative effort in a time of crisis.

I don't agree with censorship, but your analogy is off base.
That’s not correct, at least it’s not for me. Maybe you need to defrag hard drive?
Yeh I would argue don't use a message queue for this, they're really best processing many messages quickly, there are plenty of scheduling libraries that have various persistence layers to handle this depending on your ecosystem.
Thanks, I just discovered a wonderful cartoonist. A joy to read those illustrated thoughts full of creativity and humor.

Particularly like his honesty, exposing his vulnerabilities in a way we can only laugh, and reflect on it ourselves.

Whether you're an artist, an entrepreneur or aspire to improve yourself, you certainly can relate to his work and self-reflections.
Are you trolling? The environmental impact of reduced traffic is far more significant- and currently observable during this quarantine- than a hypothetical horde of hikers.
European Fiscal Compact
> What computationally intensive tasks does one even try to attempt on a calculator?

Back in high school I regularly hit integrations that took minutes to do on my TI-89.
I didn't know this was missing from my life. Love the idea!
It's good to be on top. The reason AWS is so great for those with voices whom we pay attention to, is because of the misery of a whole lot of people below them.

It's not even programmers like OP but also all the servicepeople and staff at datacenters, and the rest of the crew which makes up the infrastructure that makes it work.
Amazon seems to be an annoying company to work for, even overseas.

1-datapoint (@India): Their interviewers have uniformly managed to be both obnoxious, and somehow simultaneously also quite insipid.
> how to combat "perceived opaque behavior"

As the GP said, transparency is for the punished is not sufficient. Governance must be transparent to the public, otherwise it will seed distrust. The behavior you described isn't "perceived" to be opaque, it is opaque.
Not if I use the time gained productively for your own purposes & goals that your employer cannot satisfy. This can involve more income, more life satisfaction, etc.

I've been able to be well above mediocre in west coast tech for years now with this strategy /shrug For FAANG, startups, and other BigCos.

FYI, the bar can be the bar needed to get a promotion & bump your pay grade. It can also be to keep your current job & stay the course. And it can change over time strategically.
I don't understand what's so dystopian about it. Some systems are critical and need to be kept online at all time, or at least have very minimal downtime.

The description in the post is not even that bad. A page a week is nothing. And it is clearly state that your workload is reduced during your on call period.
Even assuming that the vast majority of people would keep working to maintain their standard of living, there are major issues with UBI:

1) The incentive to enter the workforce is greatly reduced. Every high-school graduate would have the means to shack up with a few of their buddies and live the college lifestyle indefinitely. I'm currently a productive adult, but only because there was no alternative. UBI is an alternative.

2) The nest-egg required to retire is greatly reduced. If a married couple is saving up for retirement with a retirement income of 60K, they're currently need $2,000,000 to retire (pre social security). If that same married couple is receiving 12K each in UBI, the required nest-egg is almost halved to $1,200,000. That means couple can retire a decade earlier than they previously could. This will see millions of people retiring during what would have been their most productive (i.e. tax-payingest) years.

3) Much like a shorter work week, UBI will be a tremendous competitive disadvantage for US goods and services. When the labor market inevitably shrinks, wages will necessarily rise. This will a competitive drag on exports of US goods and services.

I'm not saying that these things are bad. They sound great for the individuals in question. But they will eventually hollow out the workforce.
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The same technologically incompetent leaders who manage failed software projects are going to be the ones to write these standards/certifications.

The real problem is a lack of technologically competent leadership. Many of the skills required to excel at technology do not overlap with the skills required to be a good leader. Then, both technology and leadership are difficult skills to train and develop individually. And lastly, the few people who are competent technological leaders would rather work for big tech where they will get paid so much more and would not have to fight with technologically incompetent leadership to set up good standards.
The "̶b̶e̶s̶t̶"̶ most representative examples often involve egregious cases of abuse against parties either without consent or without a capacity to consent.
Stop making this personal.

> so you are excluded

from what, playing the piano? Do you maybe see a connection here to why somebody might not know "how to play the piano"?

Or in other words: A garden without "you" is not really a garden, except in theory, if the proverbial tree makes a sound when nobody can hear it fall. That's a slippery slope argument.

Many people may lack impulse control, but preemptive judgement can't weed them all out. That's one reason why it's "not fair". It's fair to those that have "impulse control", maybe, but it is perhaps unfair that they get to decide what that is, when a moderator might act out of impulse, or experience, all the same. It is however futile to assume that life were just not fair, because then "you" have already lost.

If entry is taken to afford the gate keeper, it is not an open garden anymore, open to the public. At least not if the submission requirements are arbitrary to an uncertain degree. Maybe it's the wrong approach to take that internet discussion is not important and impulse control therefore let down too easily. But then again, the impulse to post or visit at all might be the problem to begin with, as in this post.

Really, who's aspiring to become a concert pianist in this day and age? That's a weak rhyme, unless you meant to imply that the reddit moderator cabal were playing the readers like an instrument.
Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The divide between AWS employees and everyone else employed at Amazon seems to be "2007 Google employee" against "sweatshop"; they're run mostly-separately, from what I've read.

This is incredibly offensive. I work in CDO and have friends in retail and AWS and the biggest difference day-to-day is that we have different systems to manage our AWS accounts.

Equivocating me to a Wipro employee is honestly really disgusting. These sorts of microaggressions are the worst part of working at Amazon, the WLB is fine.
You do you, but... chicks dig guys with good careers.

(You may think that's a bad thing, but it's still true.)
I used to work in a call center and now work as an EE with a masters degree.