skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m downvoting it because it paints all management consultants with a broad brush of ‘being evil’ which clearly isn’t accurate.

> While amusing, this attempts to humanize them and somewhat whitewash their abominable actions.

Ouch - I’m a supply chain consultant (only one shade away!) is the implication that I am less than human and totally spineless? I know management consultants and most of them do in fact have a spine and are just trying to help companies work better.
While working as a software engineer on a 50-person product team, I faced this problem acutely. We had copy input from our PM, product designer, and a dedicated copy writer. Our product designer and copy writer created all sorts of spreadsheets and figma hacks to try and align on copy and then communicate it to me.

We found it pretty cumbersome to both get the initial copy in the product and then to iterate on it in the same ways we would iterate on visual design or bugs.

In our code base, we also had tons of different ways of defining constants and organizing our copy constants in the code. It didn't feel organized and was definitely not intentional. It made it pretty hard to imagine doing something like internationalization.

Based on all the teams you've talked to, I'm curious what stage you typically see a company start to develop better copy hygeiene? I am currently at a startup <10 people and we haven't put much thought to it.
It looks like a normal HTTP proxy supporting CONNECT (i.e. TLS over TLS), which wouldn't suffer from the problem you mention.

Note that TLS over TLS is _not_ the same thing as TCP over TCP. TCP over TCP is usually only a problem for VPNs or something similar (i.e. anything that sends raw IP packets over TCP).
Hmm. Sudden off-topic thought: I regularly hear about the decline in violent crime, and hear it attributed to the end of leaded gasoline. Could it be due to falling sperm count instead (or due to the cause of the falling count)?
I guess it depends on the basic living standard. If you say, I can not work and keep the same standard of living I have now then I'd probably travel more.

Take a motorcycle trip around the world or something like that. Canoe down the nile. Sail to Antarctica. Stuff like that.
If you're getting paid to do it, and you don't own the product/system being sold (as in, making a game you sell to customers), you owe your employer an explanation of what you're doing and why if asked. You're selling your time and skills in exchange for their money, which they want to turn into more money.

This question would get the same response from me if posed by an aerospace engineer in the context of making planes for Boeing versus a home-built ultralight aircraft or drone. Sure, you don't get the same control, and you have to explain your choices and efforts to your employer, because you're not doing the same thing in those two situations.

If you want to find joy in programming, you need to own the project or find a project and organization aligned with what brings you joy. I wouldn't get any joy out of making some b2b financial services system, but I would get money from it so probably wouldn't object. I'd clock out at 4pm or whenever my 8 hours were up every day. OTOH, I did enjoy making and testing safety critical systems for aircraft. I wouldn't do it as a hobby, but I wouldn't object to longer hours to try and get things working.
I think you should assume that every charitable organization you are donating to might throw the occasional party for their administrative employees and will certainly throw parties to attract donations.
Good luck with this.

Some feedback is to work on update speeds. The docs mention 15/5 min updates, which is a shame especially working with gsheets.

Also - i looked at the pricing and its PER APP PER MONTH and also PER USERS (since u have to add 1000user packs). This can turn a simple corporate app into a $10K annual hosting bill.
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AirPlay also works well with PulseAudio as a source IIRC, so even streaming from the desktop is pretty seamless.
My changes their spots depending on temperature.

From warm to cold:

Hall floor

Livingroom floor

Hall box

Livingroom box

Livingroom couch

Bedroom bed

Bedroom bed under the sheets
Super timely as I'm on day two of the National Association of Realtors Green certification course, where aspects of walkability is one of the key topics. This "article" is really nifty for giving consumers a "live" prospective on a topic we're hearing a lot of from buyers. Neat to see the world slowly turning away from car-dependent.
Seems our communication has broken down somehow. So at this point I'm not sure how to continue this discussion, it might be better to just cut our losses. Your earlier questions are loaded in such a way that I'm afraid I don't see how I could begin to answer them in a way that still makes sense.
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Do you want a line-item for how much they spend on office coffee-per-person too? Surely parties can't be the only thing you are concerned about.

There does seem to be a line "Special event expense, net". I would guess parties go in there? It was reported as around $300K, or 0.2% of expenses, in the most recent fiscal year.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/f/f7/Wikim..."

I cannot tell you how much they spend on office coffee though. I bet they're wasting it on unecological kuerigs and gourmet brands. It's probably a reason not to donate.
The foundation set up a Wikipedia Endowment some five years ago, which has now reached 90MM of a 100MM goal.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment
> Sadly just like Mozilla.

Hmm. Maher earned about 375K in 2018 for presiding over a foundation with 145M in assets. I don't feel that's exorbitant in any way.

Looking through https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/31/Wikim...,
wikimedia has enough income from investments to keep the wikipedia site running indefinitely should donations collapse.

I don't like these big budgets for foundations and groups for the public interest either, but in my opinion Wikimedia definitely shouldn't be compared to Mozilla here.
I’m allergic to build tools because I want zero JS in the backend.

Thanks for the counter, I have made previous attempts at App-like websites but have left me high and dry. There is something to be said about clarity and separation in MVC frameworks. I love MVC. I love boring tech.

Python dephell is no more after poetry. Have you used it?
Thanks for the reply! The search results are a function of the images we have - we've only indexed 2M images so far. Also, the model prefers certain semantic patterns that we haven't automated yet. For example "a boy playing with a toy helicopter" gives more meaningful results. :)
> But it seems like you feel like you're "in the community, but not of it". There is an implicit distinction between you and your household, and the "locals".

If we're talking about a larger city, for example Boston (the city focused on for this webpage), then there will undoubtedly be communities in that city to which you do not belong. I would wager that in nearly every city in the world, there are neighborhoods and communities which non-residents of those communities try to avoid walking through.

> The "aggression" you reference is also a bit troubling because it is framed entirely with an external locus of control, which absolves you of any role.

Honestly, what are you talking about? Are you insinuating that pedestrians frequently go into neighborhoods in which they don't live to start trouble?
> The real reason a lot of rich people are supporting Modi is fearing income tax raid.

This may sound like an outrageous propaganda to those not familiar with current indian politics, but is a sad but true fact.

A good example of this is the Rs. 1.5 million suit that our Prime Minister got as a "gift" (that had his name embroidered all over the suit with gold). When he wore it meet Obama, he was criticised for his extravagance and faced accusations of bribery and corruption. To stem off the criticisms, he auctioned it off and claimed all the money had been donated to some charity.

Guess who were forced to bid for his suit's auctions, and buy it? Rich businessmen with huge tax issues:

Hitesh Patel: Diamond millionaire - Bid $690,000 (His firm had been raided by revenue intelligence officers for evading import duty.)

Mukesh Patel: Diamond trader - Bid $320,000 (His firm - M Kantilal and Company - was accused of 1.55bn rupees ($24.9m; £16.19m) tax evasion.)

Lavji Badshah: Entrepreneur - Bid $290,000 (A year before ... about 100 tax officials had raided Mr Badshah's offices.

Kamal Kant Sharma: Entrepreneur - Bid $225,000 (Mr Sharma's company was raided by tax authorities in 2012.)

(Source: BBC - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-31546742 ).
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Hosting a static site doesn't sound that expensive, plus they're likely not paying for a premium & costly cloud provider like AWS/Azure.
Wikipedia doesn't need that kind of attention. Writing for Wikipedia is like journalism, it is not automatically better just because you have more eyeballs.

What kind of people do you want to attract? Do you think the best writers are attracted by the best parties?

Wikipedia has loads of contributors in Germany. That is because of a long history of German intellectualism, it is not because Wikimedia is throwing parties. If Wikimedia were as global as you suggest, where are the parties in Iran and Russia? Are these parties without alcohol? I hope so, because we wouldn't want to exclude the muslim world, right?

I say this as a Wikipedia contributor since 2005 with 16k edits.
I think you mean the phone vendors, as they are the ones holding the unencrypted chat history in the users cloud storage. Facebook themselves do not have access to the chat logs (unless they are compelled to inject keys).
I didn't find this through HN, but just finished reading it. Very helpful, thanks!
The state is there to look after its people (in theory). If gig work doesn't provide livable wages and drives down wages or job availability for people looking for livable wages then it shouldn't be allowed
Do social media sites really need to be SPA's? Does Twitter or Reddit really have to be a SPA?

Do Reddit really need the UI = f(state) paradigm? Is there much of any complex cross component state sharing that an SPA would be valuable there?

Here is an example of Hotwire with Twitter https://twitter.com/tonysmdev/status/1355996616361205760
More ML roles I missed before!

- Search Relevancy Engineer (staff level) (7+ YOE)

- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, NLP (5+ YOE)

- Senior ML Engineer, Recommendations & Ranking(5+ YOE)

- Machine Learning Engineers (senior/staff) (5+ YOE)

Our tech stack: AWS Sagemaker, Elasticsearch, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Apache Spark, Python Flask, Kubernetes
> The fact that they are aware of their own lack of usefulness makes the whole enterprise even more cynical and shady.

Some would say this was the origin of charity and corporate social responsibility. It was born as a financial optimization to hedge against optics risk, to engage in moral licensing. And it does its job very well there -- not in spite of, but because it directly humanizes the company and its executives.
McKinsey is a firm that simply does not do good work. I am unclear on what value their clients derive from them and why it has the reputation of being a good place to work at or have on your resume. They're basically opinion guns for hire, who can parallel construct their way to whatever conclusion you want, granting the goals of [your company or government agency] a sheen of legitimacy. They manage to avoid oversight regularly (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/14/sunday-review/mckinsey-ic...). They have a history of of corrupt leaders and fingerprints on numerous fiscal disasters (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-fea...).

They are also very careful to play the PR game well. A good example of their incompetency intersecting with their PR efforts is their spurious claims on diversity (https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our...). The "Diversity Matters" report here has been quoted by virtually everyone - from the Harvard Business Review to corporate HR teams. And it is remarkably deceptive, because it has been bandied about as evidence that more diversity = better outcomes. Their own study at the link above admits there is no casual link here. It states this in an incredibly misleading way:

> While correlation does not equal causation (greater gender and ethnic diversity in corporate leadership doesn’t automatically translate into more profit), the correlation does indicate that when companies commit themselves to diverse leadership, they are more successful.

And now here we are, with corporations normalizing discriminatory practices relating to hiring, promotion, and so forth.
if source code takes the form of human language I would no longer call it source code - it still might be excrement but not necessarily so.
As a Fortran programmer, I found his comments on "Evolution, not Revolution" to be interesting, including his argument for retaining 1-based arrays :).
I believe even technocratic communism would fail for the same reasons that agrarian and industrial communism failed. Lack of incentive to work hard, Goodhardt's law, destruction of those who try to retain property rights, etc. Even today's open source movement is very parasitic on the commercial sector. Without big tech companies OS would disappear.
Because shame is a shitty motivator, and for some people it shuts them down entirely.

You get many more people to participate by giving them hope for a better future, whatever form you’re pandering to.

Asking people to help divert a disaster smells of lack of planning, too. Even if it’s not your disaster you’re cleaning up, people start to wonder if they need to go up the chain to prevent the next one instead of fixing the current one.
In San Francisco, many people avoid walking in areas with higher crime - which is not mentioned on this site. Sometimes higher crime areas are not as well lit, don't have enough visibility, or don't have clear egress in the case where someone might hassle you.

Also, while walking routes are not 1:1 with running routes, Strava has very good data on popularity of particular streets globally. Here's a link to the Boston area (you can navigate wherever from there) which has strong similarities to the map that the MIT site shows.

https://www.strava.com/heatmap#13.00/-71.12481/42.34039/hot/...
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An extraordinary cynical view in this piece.

It’s true, ‘people like free stuff’. It’s also true that nothing in the ecosystem is actually free at all.

It’s paid for by advertising which is a cost that is hidden, and has deleterious effects on both the ecosystem as a whole, and on how our media works.

You can certainly make the case that Facebook having less control is to Apple’s advantage.

But if you are going to make the case that Facebook having more control is good for consumers, or the ecosystem as a whole, you have to actually make that case.

Simply saying ‘people like free stuff’ so anything that makes advertising less efficient harms consumers is complete bullshit.

Inefficient advertising just makes things like word of mouth more important. This is a good thing because it reduces the advantage that money affords in terms of acquiring customers and tilts more in the direction of competition on quality and value.
Trade offs? - When ever something sounds too good to be true my first Question is always, what are the trade offs? Apart from Cost.
This may seem like a silly question, but what is the point of the cloud if people don't buy goods / services over the Internet?

If ecommerce remained flat for the rest of time, do you really think the cloud would grow?
Based on what? In the U.S., Roe protects elective abortions (i.e. abortion on demand) up to viability, 20-24 weeks. Almost all European countries ban on-demand abortions after the first trimester (10-14 weeks): https://www.loc.gov/law/help/abortion-legislation/europe.php

Lots of other issues are tied up in this one. E.g. federal funding of abortions would result in public funding on-demand second trimester abortions that would be illegal in most European countries.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this project. I have edited my comment to include it.
Firstly, I wouldn't underestimate the level of separation between fiefdoms in Microsoft. LinkedIn, Bing, Github... these are all pretty different parts of the company. Secondly, so LinkedIn is better able to target people who own a raspberry pi? I'm not even sure what kind of signal that gives you (could correlated to a wide variety of things), but given it's 1-bit nature... ok so I'm headhunted more or less specifically a tiny bit? I can't imagine this is even worth the engineering time at Microsoft, but if it is somehow, I still don't see the big deal here.

To me it just sounds like a general distrust of Microsoft compared to the Raspberry Pi foundation. I just wish it was more framed as 'I don't like Microsoft, no matter how rational or irrational this fear is.' I'd respect that far more than alluding to some potential tangible harm cross referencing that you own a Raspberry Pi with your github profile. You already declare what you own in your user agent when you use github to begin with -- why is an RPI so different and that much worse?
There’s a major economic and racial discussion missing here... the huge gaps in the southern part of their map (east and west of warren st... roxbury and dorchester) are the poorest areas of boston and heavily segregated racially... I’d wager that this data isn’t actually representative of the population and skews heavily towards high income white people...
Lots of the sciml.ai packages and documentation use Weave — you can look there for some examples. Here's one:

https://diffeq.sciml.ai/stable/tutorials/sde_example/
This is excellent. I have a Macbook for work, and a Linux media center, and I just added this as a button on my remote so that I can Airplay. Much better than the previous workarounds I was using.
Also Tables are abandoned altogether even when we need them like displaying tabular data.
Something like a global pandemic that removes their job?
Maybe it is because I'm still not there yet, but I feel that there is a nugget of wisdom in here that I still can't wrap my head around completely.

Is this pointing to the same idea behind "the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken"? I concede I may not be as quick to learn as I was when I was in my late teens/early 20s, but I hope that I'll still be able to learn new things and able to recognize the error in my judgement well into my old age - despite having been a classically high performer in school (although grad school did pummel me down).
(Copyright inf. is not stealing, it is another lesser thing.)

But yes, if you think you can keep things off the internet just because you said so, you've signed up for a hopeless battle. It is up to IP holders to make good choices regarding making their content available conveniently at a fair price. If not, they've made their bed and have to lie in it.
This may seem like a silly question, but what is the point of the cloud if people don't buy goods / services over the Internet?
If ecommerce remained flat for the rest of time, do you really think the cloud would grow?
> Japan despite all its wealth and technological innovation, has experienced economic and social stagnation for decades, and I believe there's similar hopelessness among the youth in Taiwa [0]. Even parts of South Korea is seeing this as deindustrialization begins to set in. [1]

The article properly describe how Japan has the same "disease", yet with different symptoms.

The cause is not capitalism, but uniform objectives prescribed by society and adopted by its people. If you accept them as an unmovable truth, you can not work on alternatives.

The McDonald example was another great piece: the student did the right thing (to keep trying the same thing while it fails and hoping for different results is a definition of insanity in the Simpsons joke), but even that was criticized. There is little hope people can find good solutions, if any attempts to do things differently is attacked.

> It's not hard to spot the similarities to the decline of the American Dream.

Indeed. The American Dream died in the 1960s, when "counter culture" was not recognized at its true value: an antidote to this involution.

The article you linked are interesting, but they give the wrong solution: giving up by touching fish (slacking at work) is not very fulfilling unless there is something else with meaning in your life. It is accepting the same narrative, and just inverting your response to this narrative, instead of creating your own.

Hopefully, China will manage its democratic transition better than America managed in counter culture. I have lots of hope, when I see accurate descriptions of the problem like this.
Yes, and the SDM as described in the nature article in parent^2, it would require a something far more complex than a repeater (which in most cases is actually just a purely optical amplifier).

Current practice is to use erbium doped fiber amplifier or raman amp for boosting optical signal at long intervals for transoceanic runs. Given the complexity of spatial signal, I don't think a regular optical amplifier will work? I could be wrong, this tech is changing but submarine fiber-optics tech is necessarily conservative and slow moving.
if donations stop they can't even last two years. I don't see how this is a "deep and stable financial position that will help us grow and protect us from any storm".

It depends on the company and the industry.

One industry I worked in, six months was considered the minimum cushion.

In a post-COVID world, though, I bet a lot of those industries will increase their padding.
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Anecdote: it worked fine for me in spacemacs. I switched from spacemacs to VSCode because the latter's vi emulation was better, not because r-a didn't work well.
Shh, you've said the quiet part out loud ;)
Whoa! C++ has become an almost completely different language since I learned it over 10 years ago...
The analogy falls a bit flat because this forum contains, mostly, the arbiter of the root problem- namely that signal is not censorship resistant by itself. And we should criticise them for that because it was a warning delivered in a timely manner and never heeded.

Helping my neighbour in this case means allowing them to use my social insurance. Namely by using xmpp/matrix. It is low/no cost to them (unlike moving countries for socialised medicine.)