skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the sprint versus marathon mindset.

A small startup has a finite amount of time to either become a big company in their own right or do something so noteworthy that a big company sees the need to acquire them. Nothing else matters. There are minimal incentives to invest in the long-term welfare of your employees because in the long term, the company doesn't exist. You can't even guarantee that an acquisition will keep the employees you have invested in.

Large corporations like Google are incentivized to give their employees reasons to stick around. They can expect the company will be there in 30 years, and they can expect a good employee to put in a career's worth of work for them (and eventually have peer and mentorship contacts that encourage other good potential employees to join the company).

This is painting with a broad brush of how the incentives are structured... Not all big companies see it this way and not all small companies see it this way. But it's the behavior the marketplace appears to reward.
I highly recommend "The First-Time Manager" by Belker et al if you're interested in this.
Right now, no other use case. Though I think your question bakes into it a premise which is itself debatable: that speculation doesn't serve some function in the real economy.

Today, most rich people are able to collateralize their ownership in valuable assets to defer capital gains tax (guaranteed long term capital gain) and enjoy asset appreciation while still engaging in consumption and even levered investments in the real economy. Most billionaires live their lives like this: they take loans collateralized on their corporate ownership, and eventually pay them back while still enjoying value appreciation.

These DeFi platforms essentially unlock the same for everybody else: if you have your entire savings in a deflationary asset like Gold (or perhaps even the S&P500), you might want to be able to collateralize that for daily spending while still enjoying its appreciation for the future. Cryptocurrencies (especially Bitcoin) are more or less equivalent to digital gold. And with the advent of pegged coins, you can now represent really anything as a cryptocurrency, even equities and derivatives. You could extrapolate this further and imagine a world where even equities and derivatives can be purchased as a tokenized coin on some blockchain; and you'd then be able to take collateralized loans for spending off of your index-fund-backed savings account. You'd eventually pay them back while still enjoying value appreciation.

Asset speculation arguably serves a second order function to the real economy. Today, cryptocurrency is only one asset with very limited scope, but one might argue that it's just a start.
This is really great news, and I hope it inspires other libraries to partner directly with the Internet Archive.
Anyone who's read a few Old New Thing posts would know that Windows must be full of similar checks.
Me neither. I run Linux on everything I own.
I don't know the specifics, but decreased regulation and increased competition can have the affect of a race to the bottom. Without regulation that imposes certain standards, you can't afford to protect your business against rare events because none of your competitors are doing it either.
If I swanned off to do yoga during my contracted core hours I'd be sacked
I haven't installed the app for the reasons other users have pointed out here. I would have loved to see a web app, though.

Nevertheless, one of the things I miss from the old MySpace that seems to be missing from other sites is being able to search bands based on a location.

Yes, Bandcamp allows you to filter by location, but it seems to be restricted to a small set of large cities. What I really want is a way for me to find out "what are the new bands from my hometown?" or "how's the punk scene in this neighborhood city?".
Yes, still some bugs to fix :)

Looking forward to seeing you on there if you decide to give it a try :)
Ah right it's behind a paywall, sorry. The introduction opens with:

> Rapidly evolving artificial intelligence (AI) technology, such as deep learning, has been successfully deployed in various applications, such as image recognition, health care, and autonomous driving. Such rapid evolution and successful deployment of AI technology have been possible owing to the emergence of accelerators, such as GPUs and TPUs, that have a higher data throughput.

Edit: You might be right, I peeked into the ISSCC programme looking for something relevant from Samsung, and they are presenting a paper titled "A 20nm 6GB Function-In-Memory DRAM, Based on HBM2 with a 1.2TFLOPS Programmable Computing Unit Using Bank-Level Parallelism, for Machine Learning Applications". However, there is a lot of overlap in paper authors, so I'd imagine it's the same team.
Reserved nickname?
Obligatory plug for the Soft Skills Engineering podcast.

https://softskills.audio/
I try it today, and give it up so quickly. I'm tired. Maybe it's not bad, my friends seems to like it.

Open the app first time, you'll be greet by screen that let you choose which topics you're interested and who you want to follow. I just can't bring myself to choose, because I suddenly feel "Is this yet another "productive" things I have to do? Just thinking about it make me tired already.

I have new books I bought lying around that I hardly touch, Pocket article that I rarely read(yet I save it everyday) Tutorial video I plan to watch, etc.

My answer to myself is what I need is "quiet" time, not another channel to bombard the information(no matter how good it is)in your head. The information is overloaded already.

Again, some people seems to like it, good for them then.(Anyway, I like their app icon. :)
I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with leave days and team sizes; those things are probably perfectly fine.

The issue is:

> I don't believe long hours are a badge of honor but I also believe that we have to do whatever it takes to win, even if its on a weekend.

but, also...

> Yes, there is a challenge of how to compensate when there is no equity upside...

The complaint here is that people don't have 'skin in the game', so they dont care if the product succeeds, because it makes to difference to them; so they're taking personal days in a way that disrupts the (probably totally arbitrary) timelines and plans they have.

...so I mean, it's probably fair to say that if people are taking leave in a way that is disruptive, then that's more of an indicator that the team culture is totally screwed up than that there aren't enough people.

If one person wants to 'win' and everyone else a) doesn't care, b) that person has no power to punish them if the product doesn't 'win', c) there's no benefit to them personally if it does 'win'... well, its never going to work out for that one person in the long run.
Axial flux electric motor, cool.
Thousands of employees devote already 1/3 of their life doing a work they despise just so they can avoid starving.

Getting literally fucked to save 40 years of bad work doesn't sound too bad.
Thanks Sergio :)
“What did I do for the customer today” is often in principle not answerable within megacorps. If you’re the person who fixes a new employee’s password issues, you have to do mental gymnastics like “I helped X fix their password, then X created a new Jira ticket for Y, Y helped scope and plan the ticket in Z’s sprint, Z gathered requirements and assigned it to A, A paired with B and they wrote code that removed extraneous serifs from the new widget font, C reviewed their code, D took the new deployment to the mobile team who QA tested it, then E stamped approval on a new rollout of the app, and now users of iOS 13.6.9 who also specifically only use Firefox Focus won’t see extraneous serifs in the font on the widget tab in their account page. Let’s crack the champagne everyone!”

The degree of behemoth incrementalism is so extreme that outside the immediate blast radius of your work, there is no serious, intellectually honest way to connect the dots between your effort and the user. It’s like shipping a rover to Mars. You do a shitload of work and hope several time units later when it actually lands, that your work has some barely perceptible positive contribution to the sum total outcome.

And all this is even worse in companies where it’s not clear to anyone whether the user is the product or the customer. Just imagine that. “How did you help the user today?” should make you freeze like a deer in headlights. Do you mean the ad company who can target Starbucks-drinking soccer moms in Texas better now because of our cool new image filter for posting kid sports pictures? Or do you mean the soccer moms themselves? Or do you mean the NSA we are allowing access to all this data on both the advertiser and the soccer moms? Or do you mean the VCs?

Leaders who say platitudes like “what did you do for the customer” are just extremely arrogant know-nothings. They can use the stick of “the customer always comes first” to indiscriminately beat, shame or fire anyone that they conveniently need to attack, no matter how unrealistic it is to demand this kind of direct customer impact accounting.

Employees aren’t braindead morons who subscribe to your company like a religion. But that is exactly what this type of thinking is meant to induce.
I would like to see a polished Python package for data, math, and science, similar to Mathematica. Or perhaps Wolfram can start supporting Python? I’d actually use that over Pandas/Conda.
Moving to an OS with an even larger attack surface and larger nightmare for "DevOps" doesn't seem like the right move.

The right move would be to stop using a desktop OS for basic kiosks, develop an application-specific OS which could be based on something like Ubuntu. The attack surface would be significantly lower and updates could be better controlled.
> This counted on the fact that Google had promised us autonomy to continue to act as Waze and we more or less believed them.

Read: The promise wasn't spelled out in the contract. And whoever has experience in organizational politics knows that if it's not put in writing, it effectively wasn't said.

> Distribution - we quickly learned, the hard way, that we could get no distribution from Google. Any idea we had was quickly co-opted by Google Maps.

I know that "hindsight is 20/20", but if you have certain expectations from the purchase, why didn't you put the key items in the contract? This is not some minor loophole that you missed.

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> It is practically impossible to fire someone for the basic reason that you don't need this role any more

I very much doubt this. But:

> or there is a better person out there or just plain old. This neuters managers

So, the guy basically wanted to totally lord over people and be able to fire them essentially at will, or worse. Can't say that I'm very sympathetic here.

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> The only control you have to increase your economic returns are whether you get promoted since that drives your equity and salary payments. ... this breaks the traditional tech model of risk reward.

I thought you wanted people who were focused on the product and what helps users, not on maximizing their already-quite-high compensation?

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> I ... began wearing a corporate persona

Now, this I can very much identify with and commiserate. Of course, for me, I need a corporate persona the moment I'm hired anywhere, since unlike you, I'm not high-up in the hierarchy.
That may apply to yoga class at 11am, but asking for a day off? Come on...
The 10k Hour Rule Is Not Real
"I don't believe long hours are a badge of honor but I also believe that we have to do whatever it takes to win, even if its on a weekend."

lmao what a terrible, horrible manager. I would hate working for them, and I would not miss them leaving.

Maybe I'm just playing into their "young people don't want to work" stereotype, but if that's what working means, I don't want to do it with them.
If you can fan out enough RS-232 ports out of the USB's, you can probably run an 80's corporation with terminals for everyone out of one such board.
I really enjoy forth for interactive embedded development, it has one downside in the inability afaik to do static analysis of forth programs. Seeing a skilled engineer bring up a new multiboard system over a serial link in an afternoon and write system tests insitu had me sold. I did something similar years later with a hardware control application in Java by using Jython to get a remote low level repl.

Forth tends to be one step in bootstrapping a system, or it is so small that it is correct by observation. Forth is powerful, but the systems that use it should be held to a small size.

I think for the most part, Python/MicroPython now occupies the same place Forth once did in the embedded world. As MCUs get more capable and default to more memory, not only will higher level interpreted languages become the norm, low level languages can be integrated via Wasm, either compiled or interpreted on device.
AFAIK FreeBSD loses to Linux on benchmarks, so IDK why you are saying it runs Linux binaries faster than Linux itself.
Indeed, speculation offering a counterpoint to the implicit assumption that renewable energy used by Bitcoin miners would not have any capability of impacting the energy market when used more efficiently.
Show HN: Lizard – An online card game for up to 6 players
I perceive your parent comment to be straightforward and not sinister in the least. Why not Bezos (the billionaire who most easily comes to mind), why not HN (the website we're on)? Seriously, what's with the weird angry insinuating questions.
Well he said.

> I don't believe long hours are a badge of honor but I also believe that we have to do whatever it takes to win, even if its on a weekend.

I guess he missed the memo that google had already won.
please stop spamming the comments section here
It is not a fake problem. Of course, working hard all the time is not a badge to be worn and is not by itself an end, but it's also true that SV tech community is filled to the brim with people thinking very highly of themselves when the reality is they don't contribute much. What the author is asking for is that employees take a degree of personal responsibility without needing to give up on a concept of personal life. I come from academia that's rife with no work life balance and it was positively jarring how badly the pendulum swings in the tech world. There's surely a middle ground that is not by any means unreasonable.

Importantly, this is a personal choice. I don't want to be in a team where members don't take personal responsibility, and I am willing to contribute the same. If Google does not allow such a team to operate with its own norms then the author is justified in saying it's not a good fit.

And to be clear, are you seriously saying that any person saying, "what? Sushi again?" Is actually going to have a real empathizable reason for saying so? Honestly Google sounds like it's filled with what can be considered the modern equivalent of upper middle class government administrators of past eras who don't really contribute much, couldn't give a rats ass about much more than what their weekend plans are and what their paycheck is and I will be more than happy that they are happy they don't work with someone like me if that thought process ever came up.

Of course, companies like Google have found a way to factory-fy this system of getting "maybe mediocre but never truly bad" engineers and scale a massive software conglomeration that runs the world. But this is only possible because of massive excesses these companies procure through counterproductive and anticompetitive revenue streams like ads and data aggregation, so in some ways people in HN want to complain about how these big tech companies are evil but at the same time draw heinously enormous paychecks from them and act as if they truly deserve them. That seems to be the problem.
Money, power, sex and elephants.
Someone earning high six figure salary needs their subsidized food significantly less than someone earning minimum wage.
This feels like an arbitrary perspective.

Text has all the same properties as an image.

It’s a composite of elements of varying height, width, and meaning to the whole.

Some sentences can be longer, or shorter. One element can be overloaded with meaning more than another.

I’m not really sure if there’s a point here at all.
I recognized this quote.
Topographic maps of Perseverance landing site in hardwood
I think it's important for all the Google bashers out there to note this example of a high profile employee leaving because Google cared too much about privacy (or "noise" as he terms it).
We started with mobile development and just continue building, were't thinking about the web so much. Also we are currently a small team. Web app will definitely be awesome and possible in future. Follow us for more :)
Have you missed the part where he things that working nights and weekends is expected in a job? "we have to do whatever it takes to win"?
Exactly. Insisting on how shameful and/ or traumatic some experiences must feel is, deep down, incredibly puritanic.
4000 bytes? That tweeting bird picture really is worth a thousand words ;).
What Was Observability Again?
Days off are certainly fine, as long you give enough notice for your coworkers to plan around your absence. Not counting emergencies of course.
I've had some god awful managers in my engineering career and my managerial philosophy is twofold: have empathy and keep coding.

Most, if not all, of my managers over the past 10 years have been people managers cloaked as engineering managers who have all stopped programming a decade ago. So much respect is lost for managers who have turned their back on the very craft that brought them into management.

Before the people manager crowd chimes in with "it's not my job", "we have leads", etc, I want to say that it's about the principle of the matter. I don't care if it's "not your job", on principle you should want to keep your skills sharp in order to fully relate to your supports and, if shit is on fire and you're the only one around, to actually do something and fix the problem instead of completely leaning on your team.
I'll just leave this here for anyone who wants to consider the idea that reactions to perfume may not always be psycho-somatic:

https://davidsuzuki.org/queen-of-green/dirty-dozen-parfum-fr...

https://www.ewg.org/research/not-so-sexy

https://www.mamavation.com/featured/toxic-perfume-chemicals....

https://alituranaturals.com/the-top-10-toxic-chemicals-in-pe...

https://www.forceofnatureclean.com/truth-about-toxic-fragran...
Russian ballet comes to mind as well
CSS Timeline Examples for inspiration in 2021
I'm using submodules in a project and I have to agree - they're awful. The fact that their ergonomics are so bad in as trivial cases as switching branches is flabbergasting.

I mean, it was the Right Tool for the Job for my use-case but the experience was awful.

I'm pretty well convinced that the emperor wears no clothes when it comes to Git in general.
>After the acquisition, we have an extremely long project that consumed many of our best engineers to align our data retention policies and tools to Google. I am not saying this is not important BUT this had zero value to our users.

If it prevented a data leak or a security incident, I'd argue that it did actually provide value to your users.

At some point, you have to do the non-trendy infrastructure work, skyscrapers aren't built with bricks.
Looks pretty cool! Kind of reminds me of Google sketchup but in code.
The answer to that question is a "no".

Those large companies are distributors, packaging a product and selling it to consumers.
Think of distribution like a motorway Vs dirt road.
If you're doing it yourself, you're running down that dirt road trying to get from point A to point B, battling with millions other people trying to do the same.
If you're with a distribution company, you're on their branded luxury touring bus cruising down a motorway, you'll be arriving any minute...
I think you misunderstand the phrase; it's about society as a whole, not individual people. Things are implicitly about sex and power on an ingrained level, and asexual people are just screwed (SCNR) even more by this.
Startup Freshworks Hits $300M in Sales with IPO Looming
I do have the same issue, but since I work in corporate, I have to think about everything I say or write within company. I still do curse a lot when communicating within closest people in my team(which are mostly developers) and noone minds. We even share the hate for the corporate forced politeness together with some.
Yup, if that was true interest rates should be going up, right?
So, it's women exploiting men for money?
I read from parent's point that what you are trying to communicate matters. I take from that, that text works sometimes, and sometimes something else is a better form of communication.
I recently filled out an eConsult form hoping that it would allow me to get help asynchronously without having to get an appointment.

The response I got was pretty much "call us". Useless. I have a feeling that form I filled will never be looked at again.
On a 32 bit machine of course.
> At the end of the day, this is the only way that non-Chrome browsers can meet Google’s hegemony

Except these quirks include a whole lot more than just Google. Some of the domains in there:

1. nytimes

2. twitter

3. ralphlauren

4. baidu

5. warbyparker

6. nfl

7. gizmodo

8. microsoft

I'm not sure what each different piece of code does but there is many more domains in there.
I love the Swiss, I really do, but their reputation has been in tatters since the Crypto AG fiasco. Crypto AG basically sold backdoored crypto hardware to foreign governments, at the behest of CIA and BND (German foreign intelligence agency). It recently came to light that the Swiss knew and let it happen.

In fact, the Swiss government also bought machines from them, on a wink wink nudge nudge sort of understanding that they would get the non-compromised ones.

Now this company could still be excellent, but that would not be because it is Swiss. I have no reason to distrust their claims.

However I would like to point out that they give you censored DNS data, with supposed malware sites being removed. Be aware of this when you use them. Their web site is very up front about it.
I like how the modern meme can capture an entire gestalt in 640x480 px. It's an extremely efficient means of communicating amongst people.
Angular Password
Yes - or rather, it's a tool that helps you build a monorepo from separate repos.
Libro: Computación y programación funcional
A book about lambda calculus and functional programming using Racket and Python.
I also highly recommend "Managing Humans" to all engineering leaders. No affiliation (other than happy reader).

https://randsinrepose.com/books/
HN: Legalize prostitution, it is normal work.

Also HN: Sleeping your way to the top? THE HORROR.

I know quite a few people who did the latter, they don't seem to regret it at all.
I wonder if it's mostly battery supply. This would explain why EV's continue to be so expensive, there is no point in reducing prices if you can sell everything you can make.
> Security made in <foo> is always a PR stunt.

I mean to a degree. There's other talk about some countries wanting to require backdoors in end to end encryption products. If you're in a country that doesn't have that and offer an E2E product, i mean yeah, that can be a selling point. And you should probably point out that your regulated in a country that doesn't require backdoors.

But in this case, the laws in Switzerland are frankly just... shit between the mandatory data retention (BÜPF) and DNS censorship under the guise of preventing gambling (Glücksspielgesetz). Yeah, it's a negative for me if my DNS is regulated here.