skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I somewhat sympathize with those living in a small apartment who used to walk, take a shuttle bus, take the subway, etc. to work where they were fed 5 days a week or more--and now they're stuck in their small apartments with most restaurants closed and facing the prospect of maybe having to move to a bigger place. So one can choose to interpret complaints about meal expensing in that vein.

That said, in general, at least for the well-paid workers at these companies, complaints about insufficient expense reimbursement like that come across as pretty whiny.
Ha! I had almost forgot. About a decade ago (time frame made up / guessed) I used Thunderbird as my RSS reader. Just checked and it can still do that. Since it's my primary email reader, voila!

(But I use Feedly.com web site on computer and Feedly app on phone now which is easier for managing RSS than Thunderbird by a mile. Though looking below there is Export/Import of feeds, I'm not sure there's a way to just sync them up everywhere. And I don't use Thunderbird on my phone!)

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-subscribe-news-feed...
While optimizing for promotion is definitely a corossive aspect of large company culture, it's simply not true that you can't "fire" people in Google. There is a bi-annual perf cycle, and there are ratings, and they mean things, your peers are involved, ratings are discussed among managers, results are callibrated, and there are "needs improvement" flags and "performance improvment" processes.

No you can't fire a person on the spot, but the assumption is that if they got into Google in the first place there's something of value there, so the company has a commitment to fix the problem before jettisoning the person.

What this guy seems to be complaining about is his inability to make personal arbitrary choices from his own authority and only his.

Yeah, you for sure can't do that at Google. Thank god. It's not a feudal kingdom.
I guess my number one piece of advice is to estimate time accordingly. Most things can be solved using pre-existing solutions with a bit of work, if you’re patient and you can afford to put in the time to do it.

Secondary to that:

- Learn to use FFI very well try hard to find libraries written in C.

- Familiarize yourself with the structure of LAPACK and what it offers.

- Learn to use a profiler and debugger (if using Lisp: SB-SPROF, TIME, SLIME, and SLDB).

- (if using Lisp) Contribute useful things back to existing libraries, like MAGICL [0].

In my opinion, Lisp has no good libraries for plotting. I always have to plot by using another tool.

SIMD/AVX are things you use directly in SBCL if you want to achieve very high FLOPS.

Maybe it’s not the best analogy, but scientific programming in Lisp is currently like woodworking (compared to building IKEA with Python).

[0] https://github.com/rigetti/magicl
"But with Blitz you can almost forget an API is even there."

How does it work for clients using an old version of the app? I.e. if I change the db schema and update it for new clients, what will happen to older clients?
As I said, they tried and failed because nobody downloaded it. I'm not sure why you're suddenly bringing Epic's motives into a comment chain about the desirability of sideloading though? Epic is obviously looking to skirt store fees and doesn't actually prefer to run their own store, but that has nothing to do with anything above in the chain.
> Even if you have a government dept. of 10x geniuses

In Government? I chuckled.

> it will just become another grant vehicle for academics in the publish-or-perish regime

I can already see the selection committee, all from non-technical backgrounds, getting clear instructions on who to fund and who to reject based on the demographics the party wants to appeal to and existing donors.
The article doesn't say why IKEA is ending the catalog.

This is the closest they come:

>Times change, however, and global companies hoping to stay relevant have little choice but to change with them. To that end, IKEA has announced that its catalog’s glorious run will come to an end, a decision the company arrived at within the past few months.
He seems like the kind of CEO I would love to work for.

It seems like he tries to care about his users a lot, and wants his team to as well.

Also, the "offensive things" in his talks were only offensive to a small vocal minority by his own account.
It’s always seemed like more of a hassle to expense lunch/dinner etc. given what we’re getting paid.

Who the hell wants to deal with concur for every lunch?!

Then again, if your only goal is to extract as much money as possible from the corporate machine, it might work.
Apple's own store proves this incorrect. Apple's App Store has VERY few instance's of Malware (at least in the sense of exploiting security issues). The App Store does have an ongoing issue with dark patterns and subscription fraud, no doubt but in general Apple's App Store is the by far the best and safest App Store for consumer. I'm an app developer and the App Store has more than it's share of issues like discovery and subscription fraud but ALL of those issues are worse on other more "open" platforms.
That's a really intresting story, but does the body actually get enough nutrients from just raw meat? No deficiencies in any vitamins or minerals? no risk of scurvy for instance?
There is something special about software engineering because it is fundamentally about automation. As a result, an individual software engineer can create the sort of impact that traditionally would require a team.

I'm trying to make sense of the rest of your post, but it uses a lot of pronouns that don't appear to reference anything.
Makes sense - I specifically want some darker shade of blue or purple, but that's because I want the window to match the colors from my brand palette, and not just be grayscale.

The dark/light definitely look good on most palettes regardless, so great defaults.
Do you get more thanks than just telling people to use MySQL than your 3 layer complicated solution?
No idea why your post is downvoted because it really mirrors my thoughts. I can see that he doesn't understand why he's percieved as overbearing and disliked. We also have way too many people like that floating around making people miserable.
Wow, there's not only _domain_ specificity, but also HTML _element_ specificity in this quirks list.

// When panning on an Amazon product image, we're either touching on the #magnifierLens element
// or its previous sibling.
auto& element = downcast<Element>(*target);
if (element.getIdAttribute() == "magnifierLens")
return true;
if (auto* sibling = element.nextElementSibling())
return sibling->getIdAttribute() == "magnifierLens";

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/3def0062f77b82a46fc40c...
If you’re going to make that claim, you’ll need to back it up with literally any evidence or even anecdote.

I buy iPhone because it is basically the only reliable computer I own, and a single, reputable source of software is a big part of that. Not being extorted into installing Steam is a huge part of that.

No, I didn’t _really_ have a choice to install Steam and I fucking hate it, thank you very much.
The problems that I am passionate about are large at scale and really require large amounts of capital and not within my expertise.

So I need wealth (money).
I don't know about that. Was MS ever not filthy profitable? They are very successful with azure, was that started by balmer or nadella?

People here give MS too little credit. Their reach is MASSIVE. No american company has the world wide reach that MS has. Practically every enterprise in the world is their customer.
President Johnson made a fascinating comment about the space program:

I wouldn't want to be quoted on this.... We've spent $35 or $40 billion on the space program. And if nothing else had come out of it except the knowledge that we gained from space photography, it would be worth ten times what the whole program has cost. Because tonight we know how many missiles the enemy has and, it turned out, our guesses were way off. We were doing things we didn't need to do. We were building things we didn't need to build. We were harboring fears we didn't need to harbor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap
Russia, China to sign agreement on international lunar research station
“Russia opts for lunar project with China over continued cooperation with ISS partners beyond LEO”
Can't upset our Chinese overlords. Say what you want about Trump but at least he was willing to stand up to China.

buT AmEriCA is BaD toO. Yeah but we don't have concentration camps for people right now. I think I'll take the US.
Frozen? Elsa makes absolutely no proactive decisions for the entire movie. She is completely reactive.
The placebo group got this same regimen as well, but showed markedly less weight loss.
Is part of your reasoning also the fact that devs can't even mention in their apps that they have a website that users can buy their subscription from?
Look at Pixar before and after John Lasseter.
Visualization of connections between UK politicians and pandemic contracts
In 1995 you needed to save 10px, they're just not as advanced any more.
> A lot of what he dislikes about Google is true of any large company.

Lol, yeah. A lot of what he said made me nod along :)
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Maybe we're doing something wrong? Don't know what.
Why not? Competition is healthy!
It's in the original 1980's Blues Brothers at least:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdR6MN2jKYs
They do have a choice, use Android if they don't like it. All the major apps are available on Android. Good hardware is available. There is nothing besides time and money to stop them. I don't understand how anyone can ask for choice when it already exists.
> why cant employees expense food since they are not in the office

This is surprisingly not specific to Google. I've heard of other instances of this in other bay area companies, including mine. For us, it had to be put to rest at a company-wide all-hands meeting, along with other overly entitled complaints like "comp is not competitive", when in reality levels.fyi ranks it higher than even FAANG.

Greed sometimes defies logic.
As others have commented, I think the animosity against this announcement isn't necessarily that it wouldn't be successful, just that it's a clear attempt to widen and hush up the current government's already large grift pipeline.

FWIW, from my experience in UK public projects, I think the question of how to improve their varied success is complex and would take a long time to fairly cover. Though, off the top of my head:

* Pay market rates; non-private research seems to be struggling to attract and retain talent due to the lower wages, and without meaning to be unkind to anyone in particular, there is an evaporative effect where those that leave tend to be higher achievers that can find better offers elsewhere, so the organisation becomes increasingly mired and less functional over time.

* End the mentality of "promotion" meaning "to management", which eliminates at a stroke any meaningful technical contribution from the promotee. I think this one is improving lately, but it's taking a long time to undo the damage of the 1990s–2010s.

* Have advisers for scientific programmes at the level of policymaking, and *listen to them*. It's vexing enough from the outside, but an acquaintance employed in this capacity for the previous government described the scene from inside as "a shit show".
You have to remember that as pixar got bigger, more people had a say in the story.

The original pitch might have been absolutely groundbreaking, but for what ever reason one of the producers didn't like a character, and pushed for it to change.

All movies are a collaboration. there is no such thing a single "author" on a movie, its always team work. Sometimes that team is aligned to the same vision, other times not, and a compromise has to be hashed out.

> Their technical chops are probably best in the world.

They were ground breaking, but up until recently they insisted on making their own version of everything. This was fine in the early 90s when there was no other option. But now there are better tools out there. Thats not to say that all their tools suck, far from it.
Epic's move (if it succeeds) would have a direct positive effect on the consumer. Across the board. It's not a gamer issue anymore. It is now bigger than them.
I'm not sure about critical thinking, overall, but a major component of critical thinking is logical thinking. You could look into books like Smullyan's which teach logical reasoning through puzzles and stories.
>How does he do Figma CTO-ing and at the same time building esbuild? That’s mad hours.

My guess is an alignment between purpose, fun, and skillset. I would say (not for the sake of bragging but for qualifying the legitimacy of my position) - I probably pull similar hours across CTO-ing, investing, and learning biochemistry. Then again, I'm commenting on HN and Evan isn't, so maybe not. :P
get him a lawyer
> I can hardly wait to use Amazon App Store to install Amazon and then open up the Epic Game Store to install random game and then open up EA Game Store to install random game and then open up Facebook App Store to install Facebook and then open up the Apple App Store to install the Blizzard App Store to install Hearthstone and then go back to the Apple App Store and update the Blizzard App Store so I can get the latest Hearthstone updates.

This is how life is as a PC gamer and it's.... actually good. Who cares if you need to open multiple stores? That is the smallest possible inconvenience, and in exchange we get an insanely competitive marketplace where consumers are regularly given free games and deep, deep discounts to lure them into competing stores.

Would you prefer every city had one car yard? Is it a major hardship for you to have to go to different car yards for Fords and Nissans?
The post is about Epic.

Do you think anyone would install alternative stores on iOS?

If so, Android is obviously an irrelevant comparison.

Epic clearly believes iOS is different from Android.
> If the electricity for a vertical farm is supplied by solar panels,...

Indeed, it is not a good idea to power vertical farms with solar panels.

But of course there are other sources of electricity, which can lead to a net gain in term of land space, and vertical farms also allow to save on transport.
/ignore ..
*This

I came here to say something similar. I'm a founder, I've been a manager and a software engineer, I did 5 years @ Google.

When I hear someone in "upper management / founder / in a position of power over employee's lives" say that what they really needed for their own success was a way to threaten/risk the livelihood of their employees so that they would work harder, it just makes me sad for anyone affected by them.

Yes, sometimes employees need to be fired... but sometimes management also needs restructuring. The truth of the matter is that at a company the size of Google, it gets harder and harder for an individual employee to directly influence success. I think that's mostly because of the policies in place to make sure that employees don't directly *damage* success either.

This means that you have to work within the system you have. An employment contract is two-sided, you're offering something that the employee wants, and they're offering something that you want. If your first reaction when there's a problem is to cut their pay or fire them, then you're the one with the problem, not them.

Yes, there are times you need to fire someone (and I have), but that should be reserved for one of two cases: 1) they are actively damaging the business (e.g. destroying company property, morale, hurting business prospects), or 2) despite your best efforts, they are unable/unwilling to fulfill their side of the contract. Just realize that firing someone has a cost for your company and team as well as for the employee.

I'd rather part ways amicably, finding them something that works for them if possible, and I think what Noam said about managers recommending great employees is unfair both to the managers and the employees. I've had employees who were hard-working and passionate, just not passionate about the project they were working on. When that happens, the best thing you can do for both of you is to find them the fit that works.

Can you build a large company that doesn't get mired down in things like management and governance and legal and policy? I hope to someday get large enough to find out, because I've got some ideas... (Like separating those functions out in the same way there are engineering teams dedicated to software tooling.)

But it requires a will and effort from the top down, and the people who get excited about building billion dollar businesses don't seem to get excited about maintaining them once they get that size.
For more context, Derek Lowe recently wrote a very interesting blog post about this drug:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/15/gl...

This is not a miracle drug. It needs to be injected, comes with a risk of serious side effects and we don't have long term safety data. However, diabetes and obesity are also serious so anything that promises to help on that front is welcome news.
It's easy to demonize groups you aren't a part of.
Wow, there's a nice 77 characters function name [1]! Yes, with a typo. Hard to keep the lines under 80 characters...

[1] https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pa...
About 4 months too late. Could have saved lives if we had challenge trials to get more confidence in our vaccines early on. My 2 cents is that society has embraced deontological ethics over consequentialism in this pandemic to its detriment. You can't bake a cake without cracking some eggs.
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Department of Homeland Security Confirms Neo-Nazi Leader Used to Work for It
People really don't like to do nothing. Of course there will always be people that do, but they are certainly not that large of a group. There are also plenty of things that need doing that don't produce resources or money. If by doing nothing you mean not sacrificing their lives to do menial tasks then yes, I would prefer most people do nothing. That isn't what would happen though.
If you look at the traditional ‘news’ shows you see at 10am or noon you’d see much less sports and much more ‘lifestyle’ news. This is largely a historical oddity based on work norms and who had free time to watch when.

In the modern world with 24 hour dedicated channels for effectively everything this is just tradition now.
FYI, the iOS sandboxing model is the innovation behind the security of iOS. It is separate from the notion of having an app store. Apps would be just as restricted from accessing your data and modifying the OS as they are through their own store.

So this argument is wrong but will be peddled by Apple for sure. PC operating systems had viruses because of the non-restrictive, unsandboxed access their APIs gave to every app.
> 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.

That's a no for me when the incentives are different in magnitude.
> I can't figure out how they prevent you from getting multiple accounts

I'm not sure about that, to be honest. One thing to keep in mind though is the importance of validating identities in person. I think you get higher trust by scanning each other IRL.

So a whole network of anonymous avatars could "connect", but it would be rare for them to scan each others' devices in person. I would imagine that most people would simply lack the energy to go through the whole process with two different devices. So on-the-whole, the anonymous avatar style network would be less trustworthy algorithmically.

This is probably a question worth asking them https://twitter.com/BrightIDProject
Absolutely yes. As a user, I really wish Microsoft required the use of their store. Having a single place to go is a lot easier
Unless individuals change their purchasing behaviour, big cooperations will have little incentive to do anything different. It's the same as "blaming" China for high emissions while still buying products manufactured under these conditions.
But don't forget:

> In those taking semaglutide, the average weight loss was 15.3kg (nearly three stone), with a reduction in BMI of -5.54. The placebo group observed an average weight loss of 2.6kg (0.4 stone) with a reduction in BMI of -0.92.

With n=1961, this is well beyond significant.

Also, this is a hunger control drug, and anyone who's been on a diet can tell you that's probably the hardest part.
It works the same as any other fullstack web app (possibility for discrepancies). We'll add a hook/API that allows you to easily detect if a new version is deployed and handle this gracefully by e.g. notifying the user.

I'd also like to go even further and add some type of detection to the build that would notify you of potential issues.
Microsoft has, imo, a monopoly of sorts on two critical pieces. 1. Its ability to permeate Enterprise, 2. Its channel strategy/network.

What comes to mind most recently? See Slack.
> Here’s a list of things that can go wrong (here in the context of domain controllers)

That article was written because DC is a business-critical infrastructure. Here’s a comparable one about Oracle: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/A87860_01/doc/server.817/a76965/c...

NTFS: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/i...

> Not quite reasonable for a database containing a search index on a consumer device.

Before I switched to MS Outlook, I was using Windows live mail (now discontinued) as an e-mail client for a decade or so, it used ESENT for everything.

When I run process explorer and search for “esent.dll”, it finds a dozen of system services using ESENT databases, many of them critical like CryptSvc.

I try to buy good hardware, but that’s not server-grade components. I don’t use ECC RAM nor a UPS, and I suffer from brief power outages couple times a year. If ESENT would be corrupting databases when the power is turned off suddenly, I would have noticed.
That's not how current government funding for projects currently works - why is this so fundamentally different?
https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/bitco...

Worth noting that we have a futures contract to use in hedging BTC holdings (hodlings?).

If the June contract current price is any indicator we're still moving north. Of course a lot of factors work into this price and a good bit of that could be raw risk.

I expect this to be a stabilizing influence on the price of BTC to some extent.
I wonder if the typo was done on purpose given the point of the function is to suppress autocorrection.
I find it unbelievable that people find it difficult to watch one's weight, and adjust accordingly. I was always very slender in my life, and wore the same size clothes for years. I began working out a few years back, and in just a few months, I started growing out of my old clothes. How can the majority of people in the U.S. not notice their weight gain, and not care at all?
The problem with people complaining about "cancel culture" isn't that cancel culture is good, it's that it's not that big of a deal.

We have climate change, growing inequality, migrant crises, and (in the US) lack of access to healthcare and housing. But conservatives who don't want to deal with these problems can distract the masses by talking about pseudo-problems like "cancel culture". As if a few celebrities being harassed on Twitter is the most important problem in 2021.
I dunno. Sounds like a fun environment to work in and accidentally leave an S3 bucket open :)