skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does he do Figma CTO-ing and at the same time building esbuild? That’s mad hours.

Also one of the things I love about Figma is their obsession on performance. It feels such a joy to use. Runs circles around any Adobe product. It’s written in a browser. Figma and vscode are my inspiration for browser based tools.
Why don't these employees take their high skills, work for $30k/year for 100/hours per week, take no days off and like it?

This guy is hopelessly out of touch. You work to live, not the other way around.

As for misaligned incentives, this is how it is throughout the corporate world - it's not exclusive to Google or other big tech companies. As one of the guys who puts the team on his back and works hard for the users, the reality is that doing a good job does not benefit me in the slightest. My executives care about the number of tickets and new features we churn through. I don't get paid for retention; I don't get paid more for writing good code; I don't get paid more if we get new customers. The only way I get paid more is if I get promoted. What's my motivation to work as hard as I do? My only motivations should be getting promoted or getting a new job.

The only reason any of us work for these companies is for money and benefits. We don't care about your mission statement; and neither do these executives, or they would change the incentives. It's a purely business arrangement: we agree to work X hours per week for Y dollars in total compensation under Z conditions. It's in our interest to reduce X, improve Y and Z. It's the employer's interest to do the opposite - but the employer also cares about other variables, such as retention, total revenue, total profit and costs.
This post should have (2009) appended to it. It's not obvious because there is no date on the post, but if you scroll down to comments, they are from 2009.

That means these code examples were written in Git v1.6. The current Git release is v 2.30. I haven't inspected the commands, but I'd be willing to bet the interface has changed since then.
I think you would still need to interpret the output outside of the pim so it wouldn't be an on-dimm or universal system by any means.

It might open the door to more sexy error correction or caching.
I feel like I need a follow up article from Google along the lines of "Why did we let this guy stay so long?"
Yes, that made me want to run a mile from ever working for him. He is right that we are entitled though. As software engineers we are extremely lucky to be in a profession that is in demand by companies that make (a lot of) money. Companies compete for us with salaries, quality of work and other benefits. This puts us in a lucky minority compared to the rest of the population (even if we limit to talking about developed nations).

We have expectations based on that. Some things are the norm for us. We should absolutely try to be aware of that and not take it for granted, and we should absolutely understand that for others it is the norm. Everyone feels entitled to what they get all the time. You need to accept reality, even if you don't like it.
Right after you provide an image that's as effective as the text of the First Amendment.
> The big question is will internet free the good artists that were gatekeeped

I don't think so. What they need the most is publicity, and this is not magically granted by internet.

Just take a look at e.g. Spotify; I'm sure there are hundreds of extremely gifted artists sitting down at barely a few dozens listenings, just because no one found them.
Ford plans for all cars sold in Europe to be electric by 2030
Very interesting thought. I believe that chains would initially split, effectively being forks of each other. However, the consensus algorithm of Bitcoin dictates that the chain with the most work is the valid one, meaning that in the event of a "reconnection", one of the chains would be abandoned (and everyone would agree which one to keep, namely the one with the most work).

In the case of a total disconnect between countries, there is no other way than splitting the network. If partial connectivity exists (using satellites for example), transactions could still be broadcasted from one country to another. However, the same coins could be double-spent in your own isolated network as well... until a reorg happens upon reconnect.
You're selling a service, not yourself. There's plenty of people for whom a sexual favor is not a big deal, and they see it as a huge return on investment.
Asexual people actually are the ones erasing their own existence. On a generational timescale, at least
Users assume submodules would behave sensibly, and they don't.

State of submodules is part of a commit, so you'd expect that checking out a commit checks out the submodules. It doesn't.

Or if you notice git doesn't care about the content of submodules in the working tree, you'll be surprised when rebasing (change of a dir to/from submodule breaks rebase).

Merging has "ours"/"theirs" startegies, except it doesn't for submodules (there's suddenly local/remote distinction, and breaks -Xtheirs in rebase).

From the diffs it looks like submodules are defined in .gitmodules and the tree, so removing them from these places would delete them. It doesn't (it fucks up internal state of .git dir).

And you'd think .git dir is a dir, except when it isn't.

It's like whoever designed submodules just loves saying "gotcha!" and telling frustrated users they suck at git. Everything submodules do is subtly different with sharp edges.
The line I draw is that the manager never knows or cares when you work. They only see the output and the occassional indication that you take your work seriously. If someone ever says you should work more or I've never seen you work in a weekend, of course I would also run away.
If this happens once every 10 years, it means that each year there is 10% probability of happening. I would happily pay a 10% premium knowing that measures are in place to not let my family freeze to death when the temperature slightly drops.
Sleeping your way to the top isn't what's under fire. It's the people in positions of power expecting sex.
He's certainly been saying that about COVID.
Contrast it with the NBA. It is not as if 20 year old Shaq could walk in and they would tell him, sorry the role of center is already filled! There are always open roles for a 7 foot guy who can bench press 500lbs. But someone like Shaq rarely comes along. The teams sadly shake their head and wonder why they can't fill the position of Shaq jr. Then they tell everyone, look! There are unfilled positions!

Something similar is happening at Microsoft. It is not like no one is applying to Microsoft. There are likely hundred times more applicants than there are employees. Good engineers too. But if they can't invert a binary tree on a whiteboard they can fuck off. And then Microsoft will claim they can't fill the position.
To me, if you're using AWS, GCP, or Azure, you should be using their "hard to migrate away" services. That's the value of the brand name cloud platforms. Plumbing that's done for you.

If you're going to the trouble of being agnostic, then you might as well deploy to a way cheaper bare metal datacenter and enjoy market rate storage, compute and egress.

Running cloud agnostic on AWS, GCP, etc, is the worst of both worlds.
> 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.

That seems like an unfair interpretation to me.

The guy wants to be able to do what's best for the team. We've all worked with that one guy who shouldn't be there, but is.
> whether an employee takes personal responsibility towards their work.

This is a good take. Something that's perhaps overlooked: those rare occasions where you need to stay late to deliver are very memorable. Isn't it true that strong bonds are often built from intense experiences? I think those few times that you stay late earn you massive respect from those who stuck around, and builds a relationship beyond your career. Especially if it isn't even your responsibility specifically, maybe it's the team lead's ass on the line or a colleague's. It's like indirectly saying "hey I got your back on this, you can trust me I'm a team player -- we ride together we die together bad boys for life"
We didn't have a situation like this, though it was a close call power-wise.
Lovely, as other tools by Skilldrick. I've used Easy6502[1] before and forked it to customize it for a project of mine.

I was just about to install Forth on an STM32 (blue pill) MCU, which is pretty nice![2]

1. https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvTI3KmcZ7I
If google provides food for employees then that's essentially indirect compensation. Employees can now use the money they would have spent on food to buy other things.

So now that they're remote and have to buy their own food they have effectively received a pay decrease.

How is it entitled to complain about a decrease in compensation for the same work?
I am self-employed and 11am (or, in my case, anywhere within the 11am-3pm window) exercise is actually a great refreshment for my mind.
It's ok. If you even slightly hint at being self righteous or virtuous you will get downvoted. I saw it coming the second I said 'asexual people exist', which is just a declarative statement of fact and nothing more.
Storytelling is frequently done as a collaborative process. Spielberg famously likes to take his screenplays through 14 drafts and meticulously drafted storyboards put together by a creative team. Large television shows are written by rooms full of writers, and on reality television shows a big chunk of the writing happens in the editing room, often with a committee in the editing room picking at and debating every little detail before a final cut is produced.
Most popular languages don't let you define custom syntactic forms. C and C++ have a preprocessor, Scala has macros and you can squint and pretend that passing blocks in Ruby counts, but that's it. It's not a killer feature for the vast majority of programs, Go's boneheaded straightforwardness is a good counterexample.
Yes actually I tried it last when the raspios 64 beta was just released and didn't have an SSD for the pi (SD cards are really slow). I plan on adding another pi for building and one for DNS so that if the Pi is compiling it won't slow down any DNS queries (which it shouldn't but you never know).
Copyright is messed up. It should definitely be shorter, or require annual registration fees that grow exponentially, or something. Society loses with copyright law the way it is.

I suspect exponential growing registration fees is something that is more likely to get done, because people like Disney will pay for valuable asset protection but every random work from 20+ years ago is fine.

So like $0 copyright for 20 years, then $1,000 for 5 year extension, $10,000 for next 5 year extension, $100,000 for next 5 year extension, $1,000,000 for next 5 years etc.
It might have gone better if you'd said "aphorism" rather than "axiom", because boy howdy are there a lot of people in these comments who don't know what an aphorism is and are taking it literally.
I came exactly to say that, the guy is a nut job manager. Working weekend and probably being belittled by this guy while doing that, for what? A driving app, wow.
> Being promoted has more impact on the individuals economic success than the product growth. The decision which product to work on stems from the odds of getting promoted and thus we began onboarding people with the wrong state of mind - seeing Waze as a stepping stone and not as a calling.

Their ability to maximize their own income before the acquisition was based on how successful your product was- they had stock options! Their ability to maximize their income after the acquisition was based on getting their next promotion.

They were never actually in love with your product. The passion was not passion for what you did. Their passion was for money. Waze was always a stepping stone.

All the while, here you are complaining that you can't arbitrarily fire people, that you can't "speak your mind" for fear of HR complaints, just generally wishing you could continue to abuse your employees. These are things you only did because those employees were just a stepping stone for your success, not people.

What a whiny hypocrite.
The design looks so neat. Music sharing deserves more attention than folks just sharing snaps of their day to day activities IMO (don't hate me lol)
No, but until they're mid-teens, they do need one parent most of the time. If one of them is working weekends a lot, then that assumes the other one is available to parent.
I was thinking about domains that may have transferred recently. We took over a very "nice" domain last year, but obviously not the historic emails.
> Yoga has zero place at a serious busines.

The free market seems to say it's worth the boost to employee retention or PR or whatever.
Hmm the HN comments say that it's kinda interesting.

However, i read the title as: "We couldn't think of anything good about the product, so we added a buzzword in fashion."

Same comments mostly say this has nothing to do with AI.
Never heard of benefit called "taking free days last min is no problem"
Roll initiative!

On a more serious note, that all depends on the type of contract you've got. If you're salaried and get a constant wage, you're not exactly being compensated for going above and beyond, especially in terms of hours worked.

Surely, if the work to be done is important, that means the employer is willing to pay for the privilege of having it done during off hours? If not, I would argue the employer, not the employee is feeling entitled.
Last time I somehow ended in a company with culture/managers similar to the one above I quit after only a month and a half. And I don't exactly fit into "young people don't want to work" stereotype. You'll only get this kind of expectations in extremely toxic places.
Augmented Ouija
It's making a POST request to https://captcha.reclaimyourface.eu/getcaptcha so unless you're blocking all captcha URLs then I would have thought that it would work. You probably also need JS enabled.
He made money tho...

Maybe bad for mental health of the average employee but not for everyone.
And to speak up about it, as obviously pictured once again here - gets us downvoted into oblivion, only confirming our feelings of being unheard...

For real, it's been such an issue here I have had emails with an admin but didn't press the issue further and I think it's due time to send another one. They really did seem to care and to be concerned.
Wow. I’m curious what previous colleagues, employers and board members would say about this guy.
Blitz.js Now in Beta (Batteries Included Framework Built on Next.js)
Kliper never was a classified project.
My mistake. It looks like google still waits for an initial email view to cache the image. Kind of wish they would load images for unviewed emails too.
You are still talking about iPhone parts.

China is behind on leading edge integrated circuits.[1] However, China can manufacture a computer from entirely Chinese parts.[2] America cannot manufacture a computer from entirely American parts.

China not only made plans for a 100% domestically produced computer, they have already achieved it.

We don't even have plans.

[1] https://semiengineering.com/china-speeds-up-advanced-chip-de...
[2] https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1193625.shtml
Re: It's the sprint versus marathon mindset.

As someone who did track in high school, the whole agile nomenclature around "sprint" continues to rub me the wrong way. If you aren't a startup facing a launch-or-fail moment, the approach should be much more that of a marathon.

I was joking with my wife that "sprint" to me implies that you go all out and then take a long break before you go again. We should be treating the longterm plan like a marathon and the intermediate steps like "splits".

If you are working on a product that's been around for years , the idea that you are an all-star for delivering your 5 points the day before your 2 weeks sprint ends and a lazy jerk if you deliver it the day after sprint ends just incentivizes a lot of shorterm-ism and corner cutting.

The model of working "all out" and your "break" for planning is a 2 hour meeting in between sprints where you get praised or scorned for a 10% difference in delivery speed is..
Dumb post. It's not a contest. Use whichever is appropriate.

I design systems using both diagrams and text sometimes laid out in understood, non-linear patterns. I also enjoy music.
Same. I can live in a hut in Guatemala if I feel challenged and am enjoying my work. Wealth is fun but so long as my family and I are good, it’s not a motivating factor. Solving problems is.
Is there a standard internet graveyard? For example, some place where all of your social media, blog posts, code and platform data can live under one ID after you pass away?
> We tend to severely underestimate oral "technologies." Scholarship existed before writing.

This comes up a lot in Bible scholarship.

Many modern people assume the words of Jesus, for example, were lost to a game of telephone before being written down years later in the form we have today.

But conveying the teachers words with true fidelity to what he said was very important to a rabbi's students, and they had a culture and techniques to make sure they did this with high reliability.
Have you written to your MP regarding facial recognition?
Lockdown has affected a lot of us severely. There's no shame in talking to a professional. Your local health service might help you narrow down who you need to talk to, e.g. psychologist, occupational therapist, etc. You might have depression, or have just simply outgrown your job and need some guidance. Good luck!
I guess you probably heard that classic joke that the (project) manager is the person who thinks that a baby can be produced and delivered in a single month given nine women to do it.
> Could you kindly verify that by repeating your post using something other than what amounts to a text file?

Could you kindly present me your comment without using all these inferior non-text technologies involved on my side to read it off my screen? That's the irony, if anything.
Can you really not see the difference? In prostitution sex is the product being sold. In other environments sex is a distorting factor that puts those not willing to engage in it at a disadvantage and can cause great harm when it becomes an expectation.
Uh, I agree with the sentiment of not wanting to work for free, but

> I couldn't think of anything sader or more depressing that giving away my own personal time for someone else.

You just described a job.

Whether you're giving your time away or getting paid for giving it up makes no difference to the fact you are parting with it in order to produce for someone else.
Good luck, iDevices are a very tiny portion of European mobile market.

Looking forward to the EpicOS Phone, running yet another SDL/Qt variant.
Playing GTA3 on FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2
That was certainly the bet about a decade or two ago in many industries.

Now, over the past 5 years or so we're seeing online tech magazines move into print[0], record labels racing to get back up to speed for vinyl printing[1], and "lo-fi" looks and sounds and devices taking up a larger and larger space in pop culture[2].

If anything, I get the sense that the younger generations are seeing the value in attention and peace, and are moving in directions that afford them more of that—or at least control over that in their own lives and thoughts.

The general attitude, at least as far as I've discerned from my own observations, has been that "everything has it's optimal place" rather than adopting one tech to rule them all.

[0] https://store.increment.com

[1] https://longlivevinyl.net/2018/07/30/pressing-concerns-the-n...

[2] I don't have a nice summary for this one. It's just everywhere I look.

As with most things, I gather humanity is continually optimizing for itself. And what that looks like is what most gamblers usually get wrong because our foresight is often just that limited—especially when the result is going back to something most people thought we were done with. We are just a bunch of monkeys acting strangely, after all.
That's not how I read it.

He clearly states that he understands the value of work-life balance, but there are workplaces where work is just not the #1 priority during business hours anymore. And that's totally fine and I'm happy if it works for people and their employers. But it's not viable for startups that need to find product-market-fit before burning through all their cash. Or companies trying to make best-in-class products.
"were"?
Great comment. I completely agree.
Texas hit a peak of 69GW of production, not 37. 37 is what we're able to do after a ton of natural gas plants froze over.
> Every little bit helps and this seems like an easy win, ecologically speaking.

It is likely not helpful if IKEA gets to enjoy the image of an environmentally-friendly eneterprise based on a token gesture. Many companies engage in such gestures to get themselves off the hook for their involvement in problematic practices.

I'm not saying that it's IKEA's fault that people buy throw-away furniture, or that the population is growing etc, but still.
I was confused on this, but it looks like the email has to be opened once for Google to cache the image.
Any reasonable person understands that "compensation includes food stipend of $8000" in a contract means they get $8000 if they're home. Clearly GP is referring to less cut-and-dry scenarios, i.e., nearly all scenarios in this domain.
As Keynes said: "In the long run, we're all dead". USD has intrinsic value as the reserve currency of the largest economy in the world and is actively managed by the Fed. Which is a thing most people like despite what you may read online. Dollars will eventually be worthless but not in our lifetime.
You don't have to participate in the Noogler orientation week at all. You can just get straight to work if that's what floats your boat.
Well, that's the thing -- no one directly pays me extra when I work an odd night or weekend to make sure things get out in a timely manner, but I also definitely only have the salary/etc. I do because of the responsibility I take (which includes that willingness).
Exactly, you do you buddy. Let's just not act as if it's some God given right that you only work 40 hours for outrageous sums of money. We are not talking about minimum wage workers, and his point is they're not even putting in the 40 hours anyway. All he's asking is that he wants to have a different culture within his team. It's not his intention to force people who don't share his values to work against their will. And as much as it might be hard for some to believe, there are people who don't need a constant amount of private time that's mandated by law (especially when we are not middle class or poor). I want to work on interesting things, learn how to be as effective as I can be at them, keep improving myself in ways that matter to me, and contribute meaningfully to whatever the hell it is that I'm paid to do (and be okay with contributing to that cause). And then I want to find and work with people with similar minds. Clearly we exist.
Get your test levels checked.
Hire developers if you are a non-tech
Top tips for all business owners who are starting a digital transformation.
I don't think it's a "young people" stereotype. I'm an oldster and I wouldn't want to work for someone like that who is trying to squeeze every last drop out of his "resources."
> Several platforms implement refutations of Zooko's conjecture, including: Twister (which use the later Aaron Swartz system with a bitcoin-like system), Blockstack (separate blockchain), Namecoin (separate blockchain),Monero OpenAlias[5] and Ethereum Name Service.

Another implementation is the I2P Address Book, https://geti2p.net/en/faq.