skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One of the problems is people don’t stick around for their entire career.

This is what I don't understand about people working for a company that builds silos or walled gardens. You always know that one day you are not working for that company anymore and you will be outside the silo/garden, and the company will effectively work against you (or against your entire profession) in ways you perhaps did not anticipate.

These companies pretend they have an "engineering" culture. But the policies of these companies show very little of that. When do these engineers wake up?
Counting the days: the origin of Julian day numbers
Your comments are getting more and more abusive towards those who are disagreeing with you. You doing OK?
Exactly! The fact of the matter is Accreditation and the State go hand-in-hand. You can go full anarchism like Wikipedia (and thats' great!) but if you want something a bit more curated, a bit more "official", you need officers (by the etymology even!) and you need funding, i.e. state support.
Did you not read the part in the GP where he said "I could just leave and get another job at any time."? How is that not easily walking away from it?
But also

> the HR lady looked at the evidence of all the listed issues and concluded that the iBuddy just does not know how to speak English

I also suspected it's a clique of a single race, but I went through all the normal ones (white, Mandarin Chinese, Indian), and nothing fit.
First, the mechanics: I'm reviewing entire books that I haven't read before; I have a Python script that will split up a text file and produce a CSV file for Anki to import. New cards are set to come up in the original order, but reviews follow Anki's scheduling algorithm. Because I only have 1-2 new cards per book per day, the effect is similar to having several bookmarks: One is the most current, the second trails the first by a week, and the third by a month, etc.

A "normal" length book, like a genre fiction or popular science book, generally produces about 1000 cards like the one above. At a pace of 1 new card per day, that's about a three year commitment. It's a lot easier to have more books going than to increase the pace on any single book; the brain likes variety. I've got about 20 books going at once, which is around an hour of reading every day, including both reviews and new material. Overall, that works out to an average pace of 1 "standard" book every two months.

As for why, it started as an experiment to fix several problems I was having at the same time: My preexisting Anki deck was running dry, but still contained items that I wanted to keep reviewing; I needed a source of low-effort cards to keep the review habit going. I also had a long list of books that I should read someday but that day never seemed to be getting any closer; I decided to force the issue.

And finally, I had been unable to figure out how to make flashcards for literature at all. What series of questions / prompts can you write that captures the essence of something like this:

It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?

The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide,
And I am next of kin;
The guests are met, the feast is set:
May'st hear the merry din.'

He holds him with his skinny hand,
'There was a ship,' quoth he.
'Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!'
Eftsoons his hand dropt he.

He holds him with his glittering eye—
The Wedding-Guest stood still,
And listens like a three years' child:
The Mariner hath his will.

The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone:
He cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient man,
The bright-eyed Mariner.

(...)

Short of memorizing the poem word for word, it's hard to imagine any set of prompts that would adequately capture this: The events are almost incidental compared to the cadence and sound of the words. Or, using the Bleak House passage from above: If this gentleman becomes a recurring character in the book, I'm bound to learn more about his personality as the story progresses. If he exhibits some small behavior in this scene that foreshadows his character development later, how am I to notice it? If I have simply noted that he and Esther first meet on this trip and never revisit the actual text, I'll not have the opportunity to make that connection.
Give people tenure after their PhD and pay them a crappy salary that is guaranteed for the rest of their lives.
> Immigrants are typically more desperate and companies take advantage of that.

An immigrant non-citizen employee who is harmed by an employer has just as much of a right to sue the employer as a citizen employee.
Is it possible to build a model boat that uses the battery principle discussed here? Like using a load of 2 base metals. Iron and magnesium?
Let me guess, you have no children of your own, right?
> I am not a resource. I am not a box of pencils, a copy machine, or a long ton of bituminous coal to be consumed by the company.

In the Harvard MBA school of management which dominates American business and which Wall Street incentivizes, that is precisely what you are: You are a fungible cog in a large machine.

This is certainly not the only viable business management philosophy, but it's the most common one in America. Regardless of what cute name the HR department calls itself, the MBA model should be assumed as the fundamental philosophy of the company until the company's actions (not their words) prove otherwise.

Costco is an example of a successful American company that does not seem to use this model. There are many others, but you have to search carefully to find them.
I don't want to engage in amateur sociology, but I have to wonder that if this is common behavior across ex-Apple orgs (I do recall reading about how the Nest acquisition has been bumpy, as the former company had a very un-"Googley" culture), how much of this is a legacy of the very big impression Steve Jobs made upon the company, and thus on the people who worked under him.

I think exposure to abuse normalizes some of the behaviors of abuse. So those who were used to that environment might act the same without a second thought. You see this even with behaviors that might be relatively harmless like being exceptionally cynical or critical.
They will fail where a stronger rim won't
Cocaine is also used as a medication. We use topical spray cocaine for anesthetizing the nasal cavity and pharynx before certain procedures.

Just saying.
That’s a great question. Combinational logic is an example of something that computes that isn’t a state machine. You can compute Boolean algebra operations with no notion of time, they’re essentially pure functions.

That’s where it gets slightly confusing though. Just because a function is pure, does not mean that its implementation is not a state machine. For example, an algorithm to compute the greatest common denominator between two numbers is stateful, even if it has a pure functional interface.
People keep claiming this without citations, here’s one:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...

Apple bashing is objectively a sport here.
It is unreasonable when the store is the only store in town, and the town (Apple ecosystem) ensures monopoly of that single store.
> a FAANG as it scaled from 5k to 30k people

It might be a different experience joining when the FAANG is already at 30k people though. More protobuf engineering and less "hey let's try this completely new thing."
Insomnia might already be another app but seems appropriate name.
I didn't say "it is worse", and, no. The comments and downvotes here are getting as bad as Reddit. It's supposed to be a place for intelligent discussion.
Don't develop for Apple platforms.

Don't tie your income to a platform you can't control.

App store, youtube, ... they all can lock your out without reason and recourse. Don't rely on them.
Hands are visible on the steering wheel for a fair bit of the first few minutes of the video (which is all I watched).
The problem is that the software industry does not have the same standards as other industries. People graduate CS programs with little to no coding ability in many cases. There is no certification program like there is for, say, accountants or CPAs. Companies set the hiring bar all over the place. At a lot of companies, bad hires stick around for years.

Other industries have higher and more consistent standards, and certification processes. The software industry is the wild west, and that is partly why it has succeeded and why so many self-taught programmers have found success in it. The other side of the coin is that the quality of candidates varies more widely than in other industries.
The latter could have gotten you in some serious trouble. Better and more effective to just go in your pants.
Foucault in particular is known for his genealogical approach, though. I agree that it's very easy to misuse their claims.
> (...) Or write plumbing, get paid well, and live a well balanced life, one thats not dominated by work.

More than 1/2 of your awake life is spent working. So better make sure it is fulfilling.
There are a surprising number of Christians in CS, but they're generally of the more contemplative kind. I definitely remember people being uncomfortable with that but big enough to not make much of a fuss about it.

I'm guessing it's been slowly changed by people big enough to realize the name doesn't matter.
So what? The fact, historically attested, is that an NPP of 900GW can be built in 4-5 years, using 1970s technology. Do you dispute that?
Perhaps it varies by specialty/region, but I have a good friend in the sciences here in Australia; funding has dried right up.

This year, less than 10% of NHMRC grant applications got approved, and of the ones approved most spent nearly as much time on grant applications as they did on the real work. Anyone who is only moderately motivated has retrained, because working for low pay half of the year is not appealing to anyone who can pass any doctorate program.

Even if you took the position that only the good ones are getting funded, spending 50% of your 'good' researchers time is a tragic waste of human ability.
To most of the world, that word does not mean farts. That is only the case where you happen to live.

To most people, it refers in this context to the noise an elephant makes.
Batterygate looks bad, but the technical reason of the battery not being able to supply enough current for the CPU to run at full speed without crashing makes sense, so I think it's mostly a case of communicating the change poorly.
The web loaded and rendered faster because Javascript was used sparingly, if it was used at all. XMLHTTPRequest didn't become a thing until 1999 and didn't catch fire until later, and so async requests just didn't happen.

For a short window of time we were using 1px flash objects to act as an async intermediary...

Yeah, I miss the static web.
> The housing market continues to show a preference towards communities with HOAs.

I wouldn't read too much from that. The market preferring something doesn't mean most people dealing with it like it, it means that it makes money for the people with most say in the matter.

In this case, I think the sufficient explanation for the phenomenon is that HOAs are good at protecting property values. In my experience, most of the silly / annoying rules can be explained by either protecting property value, or by most people being too busy to attend meetings, allowing a small group of bored people to take control.
> What keeps people off bikes is the fact that most places in the US are unsafe for cycling.

This may shock you, but most people don't live in the US, and different people have different motivations for either cycling or not.

Although clearly you represent the everyman and can be the one-person-focus-group for the bike market!
Most amphetamines except for methamphetamine are generally possessed legally. Surprisingly, most of the illegal market for non-meth amphetamine is misdirected legal pills.

They're also quite different from opiods because unlike them, they aren't inherently addictive if prescribed properly. For example, prescribed for ADHD, all cause addiction rates do not increase from amphetamine use. In general, it's about as addictive as alcohol, and that's perfectly acceptable as the name for software such as WINE.
Why would you publish this without names?
> but they hold all the cards..

It's a free app. There is no business to sustain. The indie dev can walk away, and app can die and Apple users will suffer.
This will be a year-long, if not decade-long process.

The UK will probably be reasonably ok on its own, I don't imagine things will suck too much for the UK after Brexit. So what would be the incentive for rejoining the EU?

Plus if the UK does decide it wants to rejoin, this time it probably will get 0 exemptions, or close to it. I think it might get some as it's a big economy and it's geostrategically important, but definitely not as many as it used to have.

Without a major external or internal shock for the UK, it probably won't rejoin the EU during our lifetimes.
No, you're making an assumption and misinterpreting the sentence as well - they're not saying all restaurants on their platform in the statement we're referencing are partners.

I agree them saying there are partners doesn't define what that means, nor if they said they "work with restaurants." That still doesn't mean it's valid to believe assumptions are truth when you don't know the answer.
> They are saying they will not sell it in their app store under that name.

But they were indeed selling it under that name for 6 years!

How would you like it if you spend a lot of money to advertise your company or product and create a brand value to it, to one day Apple telling you that they would like you to change the name or they will not distribute it on their store?

Yes, the app store is a closed environment where they can dictate some terms. But don't forget that the developers PAY THEM to use it, and as such their terms cannot trump the consumer laws that exist to protect against such abuse. (By the way, "my shop, my terms" have already faced legal scrutiny some of which were found to be illegal - popular ones include refusing to serve people of colour or gays.)
What works for me as a manager overseeing a few direct reports:

- Stand ups for 15-30 minutes in the morning.

- I screen share a Google form I made that asks three questions and I fill out for the team to see what each response is.

- What did you do yesterday? What are you doing today? Anything blocking you?

- The answers get put into a spreadsheet that myself or upper management can review progress on performance and services.

- If I’m unavailable to hold the daily check in, my team fills out the form on their own. If they don’t fill it out for the day, there’s a record they didn’t spend the five minutes to fill it out.

- I have weekly 1 to 1 meetings with the individuals to check in on how they’re doing with work, career development, anything they want to talk about, and how personal life is going.

It’s working out well for me. I also schedule a once a week meeting on Jira tickets to see where status is at on any lingering issues the team can’t address.

Overall I put enough in front of my team that I can track progress and ensure they’re doing their part while working from home. This way I avoid needing to be on zoom all day. I do leave the option open for my team to Zoom me if they urgently need me to help.
Exactly. Even on a team of 10, unless you're especially outspoken, you're not going to be heard very often.
Of course grades are fairly meaningless in elementary school, unless they are so bad you're needing to repeat a year. Being sick for a few days won't cause that. At that level grades are mostly just feedback to the parents.

As a parent, if my 4th or 6th grader got a lower grade due to missing homework as a result of being sick, it wouldn't concern me.

In high school it starts to matter more due to grades being a component of college admissions, but unless you're targeting really elite schools a couple of days of missed work isn't going to move the needle much. And if you are targeting elite schools, you're already working very hard and including a lot of AP courses and extracuricular activities and you will just buckle down and make up the work.
How the hell do they build / erect something like this?
Forcing companies to ask for permission changes a lot. In general, it's usually bad for market competition.
> who has not had many years of corporate experience

Once you have some experience, it's really nice to know you can get another job, what a good job looks like, have a green card, and have enough money saved up to be able to get out of a bad situation.
Sigh, this is disappointing. I’ve been using Amphetamine for years and it’s quite literally one of a handful of utility apps on the App Store that isn’t a scam or neutered by the policies of the store. Apple was right to recognize it it in the past, and they are wrong today in their reinterpretation of the guidelines.

FWIW, I do app review policy for iSH, which went though a similar situation recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25028252) where we managed to convince Apple that they had misinterpreted their review guidelines. If you’re looking for help to get Amphetamine approved as it should, feel free to contact me at saagar@saagarjha.com. I’d be really disappointed to see Amphetamine lose its years of brand value over such a petty review decision.
How do you track money laundering? Not everyone doing it is a virtuous rebel Fighing The Powah. A lot of them are just plain old crooks or other kinds of criminals.
Just give Apple time.
Yes. I’m into ML/AI and would love to read more papers on cool ideas studied in isolation, but most papers out there are more “we combined these fiftytwelve techniques and look it’s SOTA on this dataset!” (It should also say “we have no idea why” but they tend to leave that out.)
You can't set it. You can only start it at one of 2 correct start times. If you could set it, then at least it would have parity with VCR clocks.
I think this is the weakest argument? Selective enforcement of rules is a time-honored tradition and seems to be explicitly reserved as the right of the rules-enforcer everywhere. It might be a good argument in a hypothetical debate about the fairness and compassion displayed by Apple, but I don't think you'd get far with it convincing either Apple itself or even a court if one somehow was interested.
Returning multiple values from a Python function
Not again ! (see last two postings of this link)
Funny you mentioning „caffeine“ [1]as this is also an app for macOS which solves the same purpose as the one posted. But this one is not in the App Store. I just had a look and next to amphetamine we have taurine, theine and caffeinated and a few more that use some form of coffee / a substance that keeps one awake. The „Prevent Sleep“ app is the only one which clearly states what it is for :)
[1] https://intelliscapesolutions.com/apps/caffeine
Right, so the word "re-educate" never actually appears.

So when you said

> Calling for mob justice and encouraging your followers to “re-educate” people is utterly appalling (dammit, they even re-use the Nazi and Stalinist newspeak)

It was based on what exactly?
Interesting, thank you for commenting!

Popular management research does seem like an extra easy target... I have had exposure to several social science departments across continents, not just management, and those members that could be described as "mainstream" are somewhat lacking in reflexivity, with some exceptions. (When they are critical, they stand out extra bright, like Alvesson, Wilmott, Rowlinson)

But about management research. When a leading critical figure in the field summarizes it as follows:

"Whilst there are plenty of theories in management,
there are no laws" [P.Griseri,as quoted by P. Morris in "Reconstructing project management" ],

one could wonder if that state of affairs could perhaps be explained by deeply ingrained subservience of management research to industry [ as described by Alvesson and other Critical Management Studies (CMS) practitioners].

As far as Taylorism, there may not be self-identification in the field per se, but whether taylorism, puritanism or any other -ism linked to a fundamental desire for subservience, control and performance measurement as sound management practice could be described as to run deep. ( A gem of a paper is "The impact of Puritan ideology on aspects of project management" by Whitty & Schultz )

I have been doing some preliminary experiments with applying CMS to recruitment - a short summary could be "treating developers with respect by providing necessary information and establishing transparency in the job announcement increases responses dramatically. Who knew!"

Another interest of mine lies in sociophysics, which I have a huge reading list to catch up on. Did you have any sociophysics topics that attracted your interest in relation to political communication?
Speed can refer to a drug, but it can refer to a lot of other things too; people will think very different things depending on whether they see the word next to a picture of pills or one of a running shoe.

You surely know this already.
Your response, like your article, is essentially useless. You have massively overgeneralized, telling an elementary schoolchild's story.

Is a city bad or good? It is both. Complexity is unavoidable. Different experiences in a large corporation happen.

I've personally seen counterexamples to every single point you've made, and they are not isolated.

Your failure to acknowledge that points directly at the most obvious bias -- your own.
For an EE, it might be analyzing or designing a simple circuit. Or writing an state machine in Verilog or VHDL. Or demonstrating their understanding of a industry standard.

In some industries an engineer might need to be licensed. That requires passing multiple tough exams and working under another professional engineer to get their license.
Collaborative Jupyter notebooks to train, track, deploy, and monitor ML models
This is absolutely horrid, imagine if Amazon could blacklist certain products they compete with
Yes, the idea of the comment was not to say that PMs are comparable to children.
I've been on the opposite side of this, as either a firm working with early-stage companies or as a freelance developer. Biggest issues I saw were "entrepreneurs" with really unrealistic expectations. They had a very "build-it-and-they-will-come" viewpoint, and seldom had the budget or the marketing abilities to make anything happen. And of course they want a five-year product roadmap all built by a single developer and done tomorrow. They are generally taken in by whomever has the lowest cost and will promise them the most. They reneg on every agreement, delay payments, treat the developers like they are disposable, and then act surprised when they get ghosted.

So to answer your question: Actually, there's lots of good talent out there in the world, often affordably. But you have to do your upfront due-diligence not in the form of endless reference checks and technical quiz BS, but in the "can I work with this person?" type checks. Because you need to be able to work together and communicate, and stick to a plan together. And, you need to be realistic about how much you are asking them to do, wrt to time and budget. Remote absolutely can work, but chances are there are also people local to you who have the talent needed. You don't need to be ex-FAANG to be good / good enough to get the job done. And, given that you are going to be reliant on this person, find someone you respect and treat them with respect.
What makes Artichoke more suitable than MRI for compilation to WebAssembly (and for embedding, and for single-binary distribution [0])?

Is it just that Artichoke is written in Rust? Or does it make different trade-offs in its design?

[0] https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke/blob/2d67d8537c1340f1...