skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, intentionally obtuse and unsubstantive references to some unpublished something-or-other, and unspecified personal objections which are claimed to be 'common sense', are pretty vapid and dismissable.
Form follows function, I agree.
Agreed. We need a national dialog that makes sense.

Cheers!
Have you considered that some of the ways in which the alt-right demands their rights may be fascistic?

Ponder, for instance, the proud boy chant of "Jews will not replace us." Are you going to let that one slide because, well, those folks are just making demands for their rights?
How about the democracy syllogism:

1. We will pick a handful of people that you may choose from

2. You pick one of them (because there were no other choices)

3. Therefore you freely chose that person and are solely responsible for what that person does
Substandard in what way?
0.4 - 0.7. The original R increase was published as 0.4, and so far I believe the lower number.

The critical insight is not R being a bit higher, R could be easily brought down by 2.5 by policy measures, but the age group of <20 being dominant there. That's why R is a bit higher.
Estimate travel costs weren't apparent from the front page, there is no mention of it and the example plan (picture) only use walking.

I just found the Chicago itinerary in the blog post. It should be accessible from the front page.

I don't see enough value added over spreadsheets / custom Google maps to worth the money, but I'm pretty happy with our current system.
Buy some insulation, would be my unsolicited recommendation.
Ask HN: What should go in an Excel-to-Python equivalent of a couch-to-5k?
Yesterday, my co-founder published a blog about her experiences Ditching Excel for Python in her job as a Reinsurance Analyst [0].

One of the responses on reddit [1] asked what they should do, "Step 1 day 1," if having read Amy's post they were convinced to try and begin the long journey from tangled Excel/Access spaghetti.

My (flippant) reaction to a friend that brought the comment to my attention was unhelpful; "Step 1 day 1, quit." So he has challenged me to write eight helpful blog posts during the remainder of my Garden Leave.

What should go in them?

[0] https://amypeniston.com/ditching-excel-for-python/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/knbv5t/ditching_excel_for_python_lessons_learned_from_a/ghm559c/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
For their own app store, of course.
The 2-3 years is when funding start, not when results are expected.
Rebuilding My Website with NextJS, Chakra UI and Airtable
Standard Oil, US Steel, AT&T are the best known examples in the US. None of these (including AT&T) were government granted. They also share a few key traits

1) They dominated their "primary" markets

2) Their primary market was deep, and competing with them was cost prohibitive for any economic entity as in lose the GDP of a small country expensive.
>- The primary lesson I learnt is that it doesn't matter if you work hard. Nobody notices, and even if they do you will likely not get anything out of it. Do your job, but don't kill yourself over it. Work-life balance is king.

This. And the intrinsic metric does not necessarily align to the company's until much further down the road or sometimes not at all. Hard lesson for me to learn after a score at the same company and the health insurance stays the same regardless.
I feel like most managers and shareholders had this illusion of having tight control. And that remote / async work proved that illusion to be untrue. This misalignment with reality comes with a cognitive shock and many deal with it the worst way possible -- f.ex. insisting on a very micro time tracking software.

I agree it was nice to chat with colleagues face to face. But all said and done -- it's work, not your family's house. I dealt with it quite fine back when I moved to remote work 10 years ago. I miss it sometimes still. But the perks of working from home far outweigh this drawback.

Plus, remote work encourages you to have an actual social life outside of work, which I view as a very good thing.
Kenoph: is your company looking for people with experience in binary translation/compilers? My URL: http://gorton-machine.org/rick/index.html and resume hangs off of that.
Regards,
Richard
Yeah. It's always a bad situation, and really the best we can do is empathise when people have to go through it.

Voting with your feet is usually the best policy, but people with visa issues have an especially hard time with that. Sadly, asking our representatives for visa reforms to avoid putting people in indentured positions doesn't seem to accomplish much.

And some people will choose to demand justice even when it isn't the best move for their career or personal lives. I don't think it's right to admonish that.
> the supposed attraction of "just like a startup, but in a big company!"

I think the advantage is supposed to be that you won't come in one day and hear your boss say "Guess what? We're broke."
You want to talk about a nonsensical argument, take a look at the comparison you just made.

In the first situation, you have no way of knowing whether the cop even saw you. Or if they were on duty. Or if they were previously occupied responding to some other call.

In the second, the app was explicitly submitted for review and approved by Apple. Even more egregious, the app was explicitly mentioned, by name, by Apple.

Next time, I recommend you speed up and catch the cop to make sure they know you were speeding and see how things play out.
partly its a pain in the arse to fire someone, but also its useful to have a scapegoat about to blame. Also if I take the story at face value, I think there is some level of enjoyment they took in tormenting the OP
Grand Theft Auto comes to mind...

Plague Inc...

Drink extreme...

Trivia Crack Adventura...

Drug Mafia...

All of those are ios GAMES.
The Barry Diller Playbook
Please, lets not make computing any more cavemanlike than it already it. Is a world of obnoxious push-button apps with zero options or customizability not enough for you? Learn to love the contours of what you got and it will serve you even better!
It doesn't look bad because it's cheap, it looks bad because it's inhuman.
I don't really think these are compelling arguments, since at least for me, the only better thing than working for a megacorp as far as finances and QOL would be running my own company and succeeding which is substantially riskier.

>If you quit, remember that they will have forced you to sign an NDA and a non-compete.

Not really likely considering there is a huge revolving door between all the major tech companies. There is also a risk I get hit by a car on the way to work.

>You will probably be much happier at a small to mid-size company. The “dream job” megacorps have sold you on is just good marketing.

Actually I've worked on interesting, highly used stuff at megacorps in mature work environments, and was paid much more than most random small companies would. The concept of a "dream job" doesn't exist, neither in big companies or small companies, IMO.

>They could hurt you, and they could make you hurt others.

I could just leave and get another job at any time. I don't understand why this author is so paranoid.
Interesting link, thanks for sharing. I read it and I think there's some miscommunication going on. The author is criticizing Sal Khan and like for suggesting that there was a deliberate, cohesive factory model (designed in order to..) whereas the commenter recounting Foucault here talks about the effects of the model, not its intention (designed in a way that...)

Indeed there is no mention of Foucault in that article. I read through her blog more and this is the first one I found that mentions the book in question http://hackeducation.com/2020/07/20/surveillance (also an interesting read)
It's very prevalent in this industry. Newbies cost less and there is usually a lot of mundane work that needs doing, so they comprise the majority of any average team. Even more so in established or mid-size companies where the sudden expansion or huge existing base necessitates a lot of grunt work. Sadly, there is also a trend of managers bending over backwards to please newbies (otherwise the hiring pipeline is thought to dry up; also, it's easier to hand out raises that appear larger if pay is lower) which exacerbates the situation.
Find a vulnerability in the Messages app like the Safari one a few months ago that allowed you to share its SQLite databases :D?
"They may hurt you, but even worse, they will make you hurt others. You will be complicit in their ruthlessness. Privacy dragnets, union busting, monopolistic behavior and lobbying, faux-slavery of gig workers in domestic warehouses and actual-slavery of workers in foreign factories, answering to nations committing actual ongoing genocide — this is only possible because highly skilled individuals like yourself chose to work for them, build their war chest, or even directly contribute to these efforts. Your salary may be a drop in the bucket to them, but consider how much that figure means to you. If you make that $500K, they spend 1.5× that after overhead, and they’d only do it if they expect a return on that investment. Would you give a corporation with this much blood on its hands $750K of your worth? Pocket change to them, maybe, but a lot of value to you, value that you could be adding somewhere else."

I hope FANG employees recognize themselves in this paragraph. Where you work matters.
I’m assuming that the long term contract also carries with it a warranty? So if your furnace fails while in the contract it is repaired/replaced free or at a pro rated price?

If so, I could see people liking it as it serves the same function as an HOA: a hedge against bad things happening.

Water heater died? Plumber comes out, no charge. Neighbor starting a junkyard on his front lawn? HOA sends a letter, no confrontation.

Some people will decline an HOA for the same reasons they decline extended warranties: they’d rather deal with situations themselves, as they arise. Others don’t want to be bothered and let someone else handle it. I think there is space for both.
Hadn’t thought to look up more precise numbers, and the comment on CDN is good one. It’s an example of where smart choices in the client (pip) could keep the backend (PyPI) scalable.
Person Other (than) Grunt
See also "Is the front door designed to let one person through at a time, or many".

School buildings move their entire populations through the entrance in the space of 10 minutes. Prisons are more-or-less entirely designed to prevent exactly that from happening.
Most prisoners don't want to escape, or cause harm, they just want to finish the term and go home and move on. I'd say you could have the honor system (unlocked doors) for 95 percent of prisoners, by letting them know if they escape they'll go to a more secure and less free prison. Then you make prison a place to learn new skills and get treatment for addictions and therapy, and you'll actually see some improvement in society. Also, send less people to prison.
>One strategy that's been successful for me is skipping the technical screen and jumping to a narrowly-scoped paid assignment. If they do well, I give them a larger paid assignment, and we work our way up to regular work together. If they do poorly, I pay them for their time but tell them it's not a match.

Kudos to you. You have worked out one of the fairest ways to gauge someone. May your tribe increase!
Haha. It's just a convenience, not a need. There's nothing stopping you from going to screensaver settings and energy settings, manually setting it to "never", then going back after you've completed the download, screenshare, or whatever, and changing your settings back. Alternatively, you could use Apple's built-in CLI tool, `caffeinate`, as others have mentioned.
> It always seems strange to me that people won't bat an eye at taking a day (or more) off work to come on-site for technical interviews, yet the idea of giving someone a 6-hour project do at home, at their leisure, is somehow a bridge too far.

One of the key differences is the company has "skin in the game" at an interview, but not in the 6-hour project.

When you interview, you know the company has included you in a shortlist and they will put time into getting to know you. For the time put in, you have a chance to pitch yourself, to at least get across your general abilities and personality, and some people will pay some attention. Also you can learn more about the company and the people you might work with.

When you get a take-home project, it's like the way spam is cheap: It takes almost no effort for the company to send the same project to a lot more candidates at low cost.

You do the work, but there's no guarantee the company will really assess it. Sometimes the company drops the ball and just "forgets" the application, or discards it the same way résumés are filtered: By skimming though 6-hour project submissions and casually throwing some of them away. It's not uncommon to not hear back anything from a company after sending the result of working on their project.

Some candidates will enjoy doing a project more than an interview, but that's not the only consideration in determining their value to the candidate.
This is why we should move to Holochain and DAT: it allows this + more.
Annual Reflections, Soul, and Carpe Diem
Yes, boring in the conventional sense is desirable from a scientific point of view (because the preference for surprising results leads to the biggest problem science has today: most published findings are incorrect). The linked article doesn't really do a very good job of explaining what "boring" means to the author, but my hope is he doesn't have a problem with boring in the sense of negative findings or unsurprising results.
I feel like you skipped the most compelling reason. I posted it in this thread already, but it's the abhorrent behavior that these companies routinely engage in and the harm they cause, enabled by well-meaning engineers who just want to solve problems and do interesting work.
Comparing chlorinated chicken to diesel is just insane.
Stuff like this is why I refuse to work at large companies. Shit does happen at smaller companies, for sure, but it seems like larger companies are just that much more dysfunctional that I don't want to take the risk.
Does Apple promote fruit consumption?

(No, Apple does not promote fruit consumption.)
What do you think about noise pollution?
Some food are really good for takeout. The extreme example would be Japanese Bento box. Delicious even after hours.
Regarding the replication crisis, can I ask why we don't yet have a central body to which scientists report their intended experimental design, sample size and research hypothesis before the experiment begins? Then we can eliminate publication bias due to null results not being published which is a big part of the replication crisis. The meta-analyses only survey those studies that reported this ahead of time and the scope of possible publication bias can be quantified.
Steve Bannon said of Breitbart when he was still in charge of it that "We're the platform for the alt-right". Miles Guo, the CEO of Guo Media, seems to have latched on to Bannon's brand of political journalism as well-suited to the objectives of at least some of his enterprises, e.g. Gnews [1].

[1]: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/gnews/
High-end office buildings cost massively more to build. Also plenty of them put employees in a very aesthetically pleasing well-lit panopticon with open-plan seating. I much prefer my dingy fluorescent-lit office that has a door that closes. (And I turn of the fluorescent lights in favor of my own small lamp.)
All of the correct keywords and 3900 of the correct commits to ago along with them
I've never had a startup that hasn't roped me into a production support on-call for a month or more in addition to regular duties. Under 10 engineers, 50 engineers, 500+ engineers: they've all done this.
Anti-Aging: State of the Art
> Looks like you can get a hepa filter for £70 that will fix the issue for the most part.

That's not a fix.
The best argument against Apple is the inconsistency in application of rules. If what you say is reasonable why would they also promote iOS apps whose explicit purpose is the simulation of cartel wars or marijuana dispensaries? My hot take is one doesn’t make much money for Apple while the others provide a clear incentive to act willfully ignorant given their in app revenue streams.
> Man, I wish I too shared such optimism in EU or other massive multi government bureaucratic organizations to pull something off like this in 2021. But sorry I simply don’t.

I can understand your concerns. But if you look at mid-range airplanes the European monster Airbus did respectably catch up with incumbent Boeing.

In with the Jumbos they clearly surpassed it engineering-wise but failed in their commercial predictions that such planes would be needed.

So EU is neither a guarantee for failure nor for success.
Indeed. I don’t even own a camera. People don’t need to see me to work with me.
Both are often government contracts so they are often going to attract the same firms and contractors. They share a lot of the same requirements; large and cheap. The exterior facade needs to be easy to construct and unremarkable in that government building kind of way.
Is there a collection of stories like this about Apple where you have been able to see a common theme?
Medical doctors have a professional organization enforcing strict standards. People cannot practice medicine without passing a series of standardized exams that only recognized universities can administrator, they have and a lengthy internship process, review board etc. If they break the rules they can have their licence suspended.

I think it would be a shame to bring this sort of thing to software development, but it would allow us to get rid of some of the hoops people have to jump through to ensure they can actually do the job being hired for.
Attitudes towards the replication crisis seem to me to vary between researchers in any given social science discipline. Those (careless?) empirical researchers whose careers are being retrospectively ripped apart are inevitably horrified (and coming up with a huge range of arguments both reasonable and unreasonable as to why they shouldn't) while theorists are mostly happy and younger empiricists are taking up the reproducability/better science challenge with some enthusiasm. Likewise, attitudes to perfect citation vary wildly. I don't care as long as it's vaguely consistent, which is a common (but not universal) position in my sub-discipline.

I'm not sure how much of your experiences are specifically a feature of management research rather than the social sciences in general. I spent a bit of time studying management (and being a manager, in pre-academic times), though now I'm a computational political communication academic. Management research is seen by the rest of us as a bit weird - a bit of an outsider discipline, with different attitudes and surprisingly little scholarly overlap. I wouldn't expect that many political scientists or sociologists to be Taylorists, for example.

Publish or perish, boring papers, and problematic academic management on the other hand - that is very familiar.
What window manager do you use?
Author here. This post wasn't written for you. People who have already drunk the kool-aid need a much different approach to break their cognative dissonance.
This whole thing is why I'm so glad someone finally sued Apple over their control of the app store, it's just more fuel for the fire.
> Well maybe because in government grants waste and fraud are the rule, while in private startups they are the exception.

Are they really? What are the failure rates for both?

> But with governments, it is OUR money squandered away by politicians and their friends.

https://qz.com/1719019/wework-and-ubers-losses-may-be-subsid...

https://www.businessinsider.com/weworks-investors-include-pe...
Stop distractions in the first place. (Instant) Reward(ing) with another distraction sounds counterproductive for me.
You could argue that this is also why we now have system services instead of daemons.
Outside of "forced labor", just about any large building is going to have people & operations that occur on fixed schedules and have some degree of security.
Border control should, apparently, exclude information control. Why?
> Freedom of speech means the government won't/can't prosecute you for what you say

The First Amendment says this. Freedom of speech is “a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction” [1]. It is broader than the First Amendment, and gave rise to it, though the First Amendment is its most successful codification in the modern world.

A society that shuns those who say “bad” things, even without state action, may not hold true to the values of freedom of speech.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
The author avoided this, but I wonder if the clique was all the same ethnicity. I've definitely seen teams in tech companies that are Chinese teams or Indian teams. Also some white teams, but not as many.
(This is from April 2020 -> could use (2020) in the title)
Ex-primary teacher here. At any one time a certain percentage of kids in the class would be off sick, it was a given. So the curriculum doesn't proceed linearly but more like a helix: it circles around and around the same topics year by year with each child being supported to learn at the level they are - always a broad range in any one class.

So it's in my experience totally untrue to suggest that any child would have to "catch up" any learning missed due to sickness (and also reveals that schools are talking bollocks when they suggest that taking a few days off to go on holiday during termtime will have any noticeable adverse effect, but shhhh)
I am sure he meant people on a work visa, whom the employer had applied for and are waiting to get a green card. The process can take from 2 to 10 years, so you are at the mercy of the employer during that time- where abuse often worsens because of the power leverage.
>I don't think most people strive for mastery. But many things just aren't that fun or satisfying if you don't at least achieve competence.

Learning how to play the guitar was frustrating for me, but my stubbornness to be able to play the music I listened to is what kept me going. I'm constantly listening to music and I knew I would enjoy it in the long run so I'm glad I stuck with it, but man, the first hundred hours or so of learning honestly wasn't enjoyable to me. I love it now but it felt like a chore at the time.
Yes this. The hypocrisy of the gatekeepers is infuriating. Let’s not forget that almost all popular games are mass murder simulators. One of the most popular kids games is a dog fighting game.

Now, I’m not advocating to remove those. I like games, but let’s not pretend that somehow calling an app after a molecule is worse.
I don't know. Work fairly, certainly. Work hard... what's the point?

So in some cases you want to fast track your advancement in a direction that you like and this possible through this method, and you actually can work hard, so in this case take the chance if you want to. But that kind of situation is quite rare, I think.

Also certainly do not appear to be working too lightly. But also do not appear to be working extremely hard if it is not the case.

And remember, the (perceived) results are more important than actually working hard. It can be very unfair sometimes, because e.g. if you have to maintain and add features in a legacy codebase, (poor, but that's common) higher-ups may be uninterested with your difficulties caused by the spaghettis of your predecessors, but well life is just unfair I guess :P
But they would fit right into these pictures. Not super expensive design offices, but normal administrative building looks roughly the same.
Gaiman on Pratchett