skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s clear to me that human-meaningful is the one to drop.

Status messenger has a nice naming solution. They give everyone a three-random-word name when they join (an Ethereum pub key is under that of course). Then (1) your friends can assign to you their own nickname for you, or (2) you can buy an ENS name that is globally findable.

I think of this basically like car license plates. You can optionally get a vanity plate.

Another project that I love is BrightID. It really embodies the idea that we don’t actually need a global registry of names for most use cases. Most of the time we just want to know if someone is legit or not. A web of independent Rolodexes is enough to determine that.
Yeah it's interesting that the person I was replying to used the word "privilege" when describing those perks. As if Google was doing this out of the goodness of their heart.
I don't see where I made the connection between practicing the craft and hacking together solutions.

If an engineering manager (presumably one who attained this position because they were or are a good engineer) is going to fix something, they're going to apply best practices because they know what they're doing.

If an engineering manager was hired just because they know how to manage, well then they aren't really an engineering manager, are they? They're just a straight people manager and in my opinion, shouldn't be managing an engineering team. They should be a project manager.
I've been working for 25+ years in huge, international, rich companies — at very senior (tech) levels.

Plenty of travel, plenty of team building, plenty of dinners and hotels.

My wife asked me a few times about the orgies the movies show, and damn it, I must have always been at the wrong parties.

It is interesting how this varies by companies and organizations.
Your job as a manager should be to ensure that things don't fall apart if people get sick. If there is a critical process managed by a single person then you failed as a manager.
how dare someone choose an example that would be relevant to the audience!
The average human has one breast and one testicle.
... implying that sushi is abnormal...?
Over 1k Hands Wrote 4,032 Lines of Code to Execute the SolarWinds Cyberattack
My two cents- subtrees were SO much harder for my use case. Rename a directory? Ugh. Subtree split? Commit history? Just a mess. I switched back to sub modules and it’s such a relief.
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Because unless you have significant equity in a company, your work is literally not your life. Your life consists of things you don't lose instantly if you're fired "for any lawful reason including no reason".

The US is potentially one of the worst places to get work and life mixed up without a securitized, legally binding combination of your work and life.
For memory that are actually two different domains, with different problems, different UX requirements, and different solutions:

1. For server workloads, the main issue is usually leaks. Lacking leaks you can just characterize the workload, give it enough memory (usually it's not very much per request), and call it a day.

2. For batch data processing, the main issue is ... using lots of memory to process the data :) Like, loading 4GB of data and doing stuff to it can easily use 20GB of RAM if you're not careful.

For the latter case, and specifically for Python, I've written an open source memory profiler (https://pythonspeed.com/fil) that helps you spot which code allocated the memory responsible for peak memory. You can also use it for leaks, but that's not the main use case.

It has some performance overhead, so it's not usable in production, but I'm also working on version that will be fast enough to run in production, at the cost of slightly less accuracy. For batch processing workloads that loss of accuracy isn't meaningful, mostly, who cares if you're off by 1MB on a 20GB peak memory usage. For server workloads with memory leaks... might take a lot longer to catch the problem as a result of reduced accuracy, and a tool designed specifically for server workloads might work better by taking a different implementation approach.
Nasuni Announces File Storage Partnership with Google Cloud
Looking at https://dnscrypt.info/public-servers, why quad9 doesn't have both DNSSEC and nofilter at the same time?
“Databricks brings its lakehouse to Google Cloud”
So happy to be on a website w/o any pictures or videos or bright emojis. To tell the truth I have some problems of communication in messengers where everyone considers cool to send animated sticker instead of words.
According to StatCounter it’s ~30% while it’s two times smaller than in the US (~60%) I wouldn’t say it’s “tiny”.
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Another glaring omission - he’s now sitting on 7 years of savings from his Google manager salary & equity. If you have a few million dollars in the bank it’s much easier to take the pay cut to work at a smaller startup and chase a more high risk/high reward outcome.

It’s completely out of touch to judge anyone for wanting a stable and in the scheme of things ridiculously high paying job with good work life balance, like working at Google.
> Ew. This comment is atrocious and shows your privilege. It sounds like you haven't listened to many stories of women experiencing systemic abuse and misogyny. It scares me that people say this stuff publicly.

The point is that for 2 girls complaining about abuse, in this industry there are 100 who perfectly know what they are doing and happy to play the sexual favor game.

The only part where you are right is that it should be made more public, so that "innocent" (not like amber heard) girls would not get so surprised then.
What is the generic name for these triangles where you can "select any two" but never have all three?
The replies here are neither flippant nor pat. The phrase "reasonable expectation of privacy" comes directly from a supreme court ruling on the topic of privacy in public spaces. Whether or not you think people should be entitled to privacy in a public space, currently the law in the United States provides no such protection.
All I really want is to be able to listen to what my friends are listening to - know what's the latest track their jamming to - and this seems to go in that direction
This was in no way meant to be a critique on SQLite; SQLite is a phenomenal, high quality software and it is extremely useful. Why, I often use it myself and it's my first go-to database for solving all kinds of problems, or even just for simulations. I've known about and used SQLite for almost two decades now. Fantastic software, and that is rare in this day and age when most software is utter garbage. It would be so wonderful if more software were of as high a quality and as simple as SQLite...

What I was answering to is the completely unwarranted criticism of pjmlp from various posters here. Not only do I find it unjust, I find it appalling. The gall...
To me your comment is illustrating your privilege. Prostituting oneself three times to be financially set for life could be a perfectly acceptable trade off for millions of people. The fact that you wouldn’t even consider it shows that you haven’t gone hungry for a while.
We assume books are permanent because we've always had them. But in medieval times books weren't permanent. We only have the knowledge that we do now because monasteries had a dedicated team of monks who constantly copied and rewrote books onto new parchment.
If spending your free time on the weekend working doesn't sound awful to you, I think we're just very different people.
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Beware this page is mostly conspiracy theories
Interesting that Sierra Nevada Corp's space plane looks so similar to the USSR Spiral
Some of these look like German WWII aircraft eg ME-163
McAfee ATR Finds Vulnerability in Agora Video SDK
I sincerely wish him luck. It was a blunt, forthright essay. Lots of self-revelation, and he didn't sugarcoat anything. I don't know the chap, but, from what I read, the essay seems to fit his personality.

I might not enjoy working for him (but I could be wrong -I often am), but I completely sympathize with him, and his essay gave me a good window into the current SV mindset. I am glad to read his empathy for folks that don't have it as good as he does, and I suspect he has it pretty good. I don't encounter that kind of awareness too often, and it's nice to hear, from a C-level. He seems to have both feet planted firmly on the ground.

I worked for some fairly "stolid" corporations, for most of my career. It was not a particularly enjoyable experience, the whole time, but it taught me a lot of things about Integrity, Loyalty, personal Honor and Consistency. I was never paid FAANG wages, but was, nevertheless, able to build up enough of a "nest egg" to get to the point where I don't need to work, if I don't want to. I'm currently working with a 501(c)(3) startup, not making a dime, and working harder than I ever have in my life.

And loving it. I currently feel as if it has all been worth it.

The thing that really bothers me, is that the entire tech industry is now built around engineers remaining at a company for 18 months. I was talking to a Facebook manager, some time ago, and he was boasting about being at FB for longer than he had ever worked anywhere.

"How long was that?" I asked.

"27 months."

I worked at my last company for 27 years. It has drawn a lot of sneers from current SV denizens, but I'm proud of my record. I went places that people have no concept of. I worked at a level of trust, for a conservative, classic Japanese corporation, that few Americans ever experience, and my tenacity and Integrity had a lot to do with it.

When high turnover is endemic, it has a huge impact on architecture, corporate culture, productivity, hiring, and, at the end of it all, product quality.

I tend to design fairly large, heterodox, infrastructure systems. They take months and years to develop and refine, and I expect them to last for years. I have written software architectures that are still in use after 25 years (albeit greatly changed).

In my experience, "letting go" is vital. I spent ten years developing and refining a project that I turned over to a new team, about three years ago, and walked away completely, so they don't have the "Grandpa can't let go" thing happening. They have done very, very well. My being there would have destroyed a decade's worth of work. Instead, they built out my infrastructure into something amazing.

Walking away also gave me the luxury of working on new stuff. I'm in the middle of refactoring a server system that I wrote two years ago. It lay fallow until the project I'm working on now, and it has aged very, very well. I look forward to, one day, turning it all over to someone else, and walking away to new horizons.
Why are several people denigrating the 11am mindfulness session?

We're not going to talk about people showing up to work on acid to perform but make fun of people out of college taking advantage of the mental health and exercise course offered on site for an hour, and then excuse an entiiiiire personal day just because its ... more familiar?

oooookay.

just a perspective.

this manager didn't know how to schedule his workers, and couldn't calibrate it and chose to go with "entitled young people are the problem" just like people probably said about him and millennials, there's nothing more to read into this article.
I wonder if it's common in other industries e.g. dance. And how many victims there are, and how many of them are those most easily exploited: the poor, weak, and underage.
I'm actually a python developer, but I might be the only one appreciating the identity investment that people on both sides put in their chosen language.
if microsoft can pull that off, windows can really shine as a developer friendly OS
There's definitely a pendulum with degrees of difference. I've been called militant before at work because I showed up on time, worked while at work, and went home when the day was over. I just call it being professional to not goof off all day.

It seems like what's happened (like in a lot of society) is that extremes have formed. Either people are in the work 24/7 camp or play frisbee golf all day camp. Whatever happened to simply being professional?
I work in big tech. Not Google. This is one of the best blog posts I have read about big tech. I agree with most things. The most important one is the wrong optimization for promotion. People would happily push something complicated and unnecessary to production just because it can help them to get promoted later on (by showing fake impact). The other thing I strongly agree with is working on things that don't add value to users but rather to follow company guidelines. But it's hard to avoid this one. Finally, moving very slowly due to complex systems and so many teams that need to get involved in making change. In the end most employees end up exactly as described in the post - staying because of the amazing salary and benefits, contributing less and less as time goes by.

Regarding firing people. From my experience it's doable but takes a long time. That's why offloading an employee to another team is usually easier.

With all that being said, I still think for most people who work for someone else, big tech is better than startups once you're experienced. If you don't work for yourself than optimizing for money is a reasonable thing to do.
No, of course. But it still is an open door to many people who wouldn't be there otherwise. I'm not giving any assessment whether this is good or bad.
FWIW, RPi 4 is fraught with peril on FreeBSD < 13.0 -- and even if you could have gotten it to boot, you'd find neither ethernet nor USB.

FreeBSD >= 13.0 has an aarch64 RPI image that should boot OOTB for both RPi3/RPi4 -- the medium article referenced predates the introduction of this image, and it should generally make all the firmware steps obsolete. The dts replacement might still be necessary with it, I hadn't really looked at the differences between the one placed in review vs. upstream.
Submodules have been working very well for my emacs config for years now. However, I've used them for software projects and they are indeed awful. I joined a company where the lead engineer had set up a build system that was to be included as a submodule in every repository. It was a nightmare.
Literally like Shrek: "Some of you may lose your weekends, but that's a price I'm willing to pay..."
Or the people who complain about work-life balance and sushi are the kind of people you would not want to be in the trenches with in any sort of challenge.
So what's the five or ten year story here? It's hard to look at D as a serious systems language option when it seems like the handful of people who are actually invested in its development have no interest in expanding the community and ecosystem. With so few people involved, there's too much risk that the capricious desires of a single developer or small faction will make an unexpected change or end support.
Hacker Claims to Have Stolen Files Belonging to Prominent Law Firm Jones Day
I'm honestly sad to hear this. The catalog had great style, and the layouts and framing were gorgeous. For those who haven't seen it, rest assured it was not a boring sales catalogue with tiny product images jammed into every page.

It was something you could put down and pick up every once in a while, and have new decor ideas. It had a curated feel, which is another example of the human touch that will disappear with algorithm-generated "inspo" layouts on Pinterest, or affiliate link heavy blog posts from Apartment Therapy.

At least they plan on keeping an archive and having a compendium available for purchase. I hope that doesn't turn out to be vaporware.
Banking secrecy in Switzerland is not different today than the one in France or Germany.
>They should be coding because they'll be able to relate to their supports in a deeper and more fulfilling way.

That's a valid point although I've seen it go badly when a mostly out of touch manager (time is finite, even the most technical manager will be out of touch) thinks they're still at the top of their technical game. They then force out of date engineering decisions on the team.

>They'll be able to mentor and provide guidance on technology best practices and patterns.

That should be done by the senior engineers and tech leads with support from the manager. These are the people who spend 100% of their time thinking technology while even a technical manager will do it 25% of the time. The manager should be the one to structure these conversations, formalize mentorship processes and so on.
This is also part of the argument for basic income. Having a stable source of income allows people to take risks like starting their own business or joining a small startup.
I don't think it said they were forcibly raped; but that the sex was in exchange for something of value, like opportunity or promotion. So long as both parties are adults and in agreement, the "not willing to engage" part doesn't apply. Maybe it's still unethical, though.
> But the second your manager walks in and says "john, I expect you to work this weekend" I'd start looking for a different job.

Of course. A condition of my personal investment in meeting deadlines is exactly my not being treated like this.
"so long as my family and I are good" - wealth goes a long way to ensure exactly that.
My SVG is extremely rusty, but it doesn't look as if that

xmlns:v="https://vecta.io/nano"

serves any purpose besides advertising.
Mac support issues more likely software or peripheral problems than hardware
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If, say, the government abolished the IRS and demand plummeted for USD, the Fed would respond by taking money out of circulation. The Fed creates an elastic money supply. You cannot reason about the dollar's value by studying demand for USD in isolation.

As for your "HND" hypothetical, it's very plausible that you could mint your own currency and control its value. You would not be able to control the total value of all HND in circulation. In aggregate HND would probably be a relatively worthless currency but so long as you are willing to constrain supply very tightly you will ultimately end up with a market for the few weirdos who are willing to part with $1 to obtain 1 HND. That may be a total of $1000 or less in the end, a laughable sum, but the unit price would still be controlled.
That sounds like a you problem. This site is one of a dwindling number that work flawlessly with a text-only browser, so if you view it in Links or similar (as I am right now) you can have a pure text experience without any of those pesky non-text technologies getting in the way!
Yeah.

sips coffee

I'm going to need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too.
I have often heard personal days are to be used if say, you can't get to work due to transportation issues or if your child is home from school. If they aren't to be used that way how do they differ from vacation days?
It feels a bit hypocritical when Apple laughs at FB for complaining about their new tracking pop-up yet when the shoe's on the other foot and Apple may actually have to compete on its own platform they double down and defend their right to be judge, jury and executioner.

Apple competing with third party app stores on iOS is going to be amazing. No computer platform should be allowed to prevent sideloading or other stores from competing.

This isn't the case on Windows.
This isn't the case on Android.

Or Linux for that matter.

It's more disappointing it takes 10 years for regulators to step-in and say "that's bad, no more, open up your platform".
Or maybe someone who've read Frans de Waal "Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes". Power and sex seem to be interlinked due to evolution: the more power one have, the more accessible sex and reproduction become. People are trying to break this link for some reasons (probably good reasons), but it is not so easy.
Of course, focus on the one thing he said you don't like. Not to mention he didn't really say he's against work life balance. But for some people words are more important than content like he said.
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You can still pump the new coins, you just won't need to create megatons of CO2 in the process.
It’s All Rigged
Work-life balance is always available, but you're not entitled to a top-tier salary if you want to 9-to-5 it.
Hey, I used to do most of the coding for that site. I'm pretty sure Rayn is still running the place.
This is probably the most interesting comment here. Especially (as a moderate to liberal) with the cancelling of Parkor which was deeply troubling.

Is anyone speaking publicly and/or thinking deeply on this future of everyone in the value chain being able to deny freedom of speech? Obviously in some cases it's warranted (violence), but in others where the attack is very pointed (heard instances of cloudfare being petitioned to take down content which is literally internet plumbing) it's relatively concerning.
It's astounding in so far as how unique this conversation is to tech. I've worked as a pipefitter, electrician's apprentice, and general construction hand in the past - I could only imagine how it would go telling my former foreman that I'd like to head off to yoga in the morning for an hour. Big jobs that require overtime to complete get folks to work that overtime - even within a union. If it's not you, it's someone else, and they'll be remembered for stepping up.

Bringing experience in other fields, namely the trades, to the conversation here might make it more clear why these things outlined in the article are seen as extreme entitlement. It's not a lack of work-life balance - something I see and hear about in most industries now - it's about caring deeply about your career, your work, and perhaps the project at hand, while not allowing that work to define your life. Pride and dedication to work can be balanced with family. It's not a zero sum game. What the author is trying to explain, in my mind, is that there is large priority on only one side of the equation (life), while indifference towards the other (work).

We have it AMAZINGLY WELL being in tech, and we have luxuries that are unique to tech and bewildering to folks in other fields.
> Actually a single letter is "a picture".

It certainly is not.

Think about character recognition software. The point is to take a picture, and map it to a discrete value. The pictures that correspond to "a", for example, have a lot of variation. But the point of writing is to remove the ambiguity inherent in drawing something, and map it to one of a small set of discrete values.

So even before binary encoding systems, or even the printing press, text was a technology for conveying information with less ambiguity than drawing.

One could argue speech is similar. There are a lot of variations of sound corresponding to a phoneme, but language reduces a continuous stream of sound to a discrete sequence of phonemes in our brain, which are then disambiguated into words and sentences conveying concepts.

The whole continuous -> discrete mapping underlies both spoken language and text.
>You have/raise a minimum wage, consumer prices inflate and then it costs more to live with that minimum wage.

I've never understood why people continue to make this argument when there are easily demonstrable counter-examples to the "But you won't be able to afford anything!!!" line of thought.

Look at countries like Switzerland, or even in the US there is Washington DC where minimum wage is $15, and society isn't collapsing.
No idea about US (I'd guess - yeah), but it's certainly a big deal here in continental Europe. I've also not seen anyone casually swear in London either.
It's considered quite unprofessional and aggressive.
"StavrosK's triangle".
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PG doesn't need skills, he needs to be fulfilled.