skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, non-SV companies have no respect for full-time embedded software engineers. However a licensed PE who also does sw will have very high status since he can almost single-handedly ship a new release. (Multiply that respect disparity by 2 or 5 for Japan - sw is the lowest-paid eng. job in Japan.)

Note that even in SV it's very common to lay off the entire eng. team after a chip is taped out or a product is shipped. You'll see eng. managers desert like rats on a chip about 4-6 weeks before finish, then all the ICs get their final all-hands about a month later.

The exceptions are if the software toolchain is not done, or if you're a "customer engineer" - then the software budget gets more time. (Smart hw companies start both the hw and sw at the same time, but if they don't, then the sw will not be finished when the hw is ready. Oops.)

So stick to CRUD and sw-only companies, folks.
No, there's a long paragraph about YMO in "Electro" and some of their songs are played in "Synthpop".
I want a balance between being able to make diagrams pretty and how much work I spend on it. PlantUML has much more thorough example documentation. Even though I bump up against corners in the customization I do want, it’s easier for the role it serves (both documentation but also the source kind of misty gets translated into an acceptable diagram without having to overspecify certain things as I saw in some of the source snippets on that page). This is definitely good if I want to spend a lot making something pretty that I can version control. If that were the case though I’d collaborate with a designer to write that in this tool and make the clarity better (but if they wanted to do a traditional SVG diagram in Illustrator using whatever workflow they want, I wouldn’t care either). If it’s not worth a designer’s time, it’s generally not worth it for me to spend hours on a skill that’s not natural for me. So I like a program that makes it easy to make it pretty enough but that I don’t have to think about too much (eg having it embedded in Wikis at work also helps in the learn 1 useful thing and use it multiple places).
I support a couple people on it, because... I want to support those people and their content. If they chose another platform, I'd follow them there. The idea of patreon was interesting at first, but... listening to about 20 seconds of Jack talk about why they hired this new product person, to put together all the new stuff they've dreamed about, etc... I just have to wonder - WTF did this take years to get to this point? This just feels like some weird desperation.

Yes, the UI experience has been terrible for years. I've heard a number of creators talk about how the platform doesn't give them the tools they need. A seemingly 'easy' one on a podcast I follow is the ability for the host to give a free month of access to a guest so the guest can engage with the existing members in the comment section. The comment UI is, itself, pretty bad, imo, but that's a another story. I initially assumed the host maybe just missed out how to do it, but after poking around... it just seems like it's not possible to do what he needs.

I'd considered using patreon for myself, and still might but they've not seemed to take any interest in moving the platform forward for years. This messaging just seems desperate, and I don't have much faith they'll actually be able to make things markedly improved. Happy to be wrong though.
I assure you I was never complicit.
Simon Reynolds's book Energy Flash is a pretty good read on the history of early techno / rave culture up to about the 90s (if I remember corectly, it's been awhile). A lot of history regarding Detroit techno and the roots of the genre.

https://www.amazon.com/Energy-Flash-Journey-Through-Culture/...
When I was a teenager, I had a classmate that would often point out I was eating corpses and it was gross whenever I was eating a ham sandwich.

A friend of his, liked also to point out I believed in fantasies, myths and magic, because I wasn't an atheist.

One day the pair grabbed a holy book from my closed backpack (yep, they opened it without permission), and started playing soccer with it, while saying the book was useless for anything other than being kicked.

Let's say that wasn't an winning strategy, I am still not vegetarian and still not an atheist, all they did was convince me that they are assholes.
Then what's the problem?
This is a great example of what it is like working vulnerability disclosure intake at a F500. Now receive things like this monthly and try and have a constructive conversation with the reporter.
I recently started playing Factorio and had to introduce 'rules' that I'm only allowed to play on Fridays and Saturdays.
You need to tear up roads to lay cable, meaning you likely want to limit it down to preferably one per neighborhood, as all other infrastructure is.

Not doing that would give you this: https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/cables-above-street-kat...

So sure, ISPs per one phrasing is "government-granted monopolies", but the only problem was giving it to one private actor, not that government was involved.

It's not that you're technically wrong, but that it's an incomplete and unfair portrayal.
WTF Amazon: using my phone number for automatic 2-factory authentication
Today I was displeased finding out that not only Amazon did took my phone number from my addresses provided only as an easy way to reach me for shipping companies but they did also enable an automatic 2-factor authentication(SMS) at login with that phone number, something that I never enabled or agreed to do.

Here comes another creepy facebook, where your phone was only supposed to be only used in a given context but was proven otherwise.
The intention was to show that there is another party involved in the content, even if you intend on the content being private and unpublished.

That party can say that they don't want to be involved with content, regardless of its type.
Don't wait for the government to fix surveillance capitalism. It's up to us
I used to eat with some colleagues every week despite them being in a different team. Now, I don't bother even dropping a private message. It sounds silly, written out, but it's also means of death of many of my adult friendships and acquantances. And if I had joined the company in this climate, I wouldn't know them at all.
Most "premium" products costs are mostly Advertising, R&D, paying employees/shareholders, etc. They're valid things to spend money on, but don't reflect the "top quality ingredients" that consumers expect the money to be spent on.

I suspect many consumers wouldn't like to know that the $1500 iPhone they just bought only has $400 worth of actual parts in.
Politics has a tendency to seep in. For example, at a job a long while ago a colleague made a "joke" about a gang rape that had recently been in the news. He started humming the Batman song and sang "Na, na, na, na, GANGRAPE, na, na, na, na, GANGRAPE, ...." I told him his joke was tasteless and offensive. He said it was "just a joke" and our colleagues mostly sided with him. Was he bringing politics into the workplace by joking about gangrape? Was I bringing politics into the workplace? "Politics free" just means that the politics of the majority dominates.
Thanks for the comment. I had to manage BES for years, I know what a mess that is. I'm saying this one feature they had was amazing + never replicated.
Kazakhstan was it I think
Whats with this Anti-modi BS?
Is he some kind of a movement, race, religion?
Modi is a human, a human not exempt from human boundaries and mistakes he makes.
He failed, everything he starts with much fanfare, dies after the fanfare music stops with no outcome.
1. Demonetisation - no black money uneartherd
2. Make in India(Aatma nirbhar): we're still begging other countries for help, especially now.
3. Lockdown 1 - And were are crossing 3lakh cases in a day.
4. Swatch Bharat
5. Beti Bachao

Your Rahul Gandhi comparision reminds me of how people made fun of Biden being a senile old man compared to Trump. Its the failures of society if they have to choose between two bad choices. And you are to be blamed for it too.

Go stand near the families of the dead, you would hear the same sentences of anger and sadness.

This "human" who has his own cult, can't even handle criticism, when was the last time he took questions? Oh, Never, 0 press conferences in 7 years. He is a weak leader who rides on PR and lies.
well, good news! GMail proxies that img link. Also, Outlook by default doesn't load external images.
EDIT 2:
This is also really great, very recent talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Qt_YYtBoM

Speakers Site and slides used for ^
https://momjian.us/main/writings/crypto.pdf

For those who dont want to click on PDF (Good stuff) link to site: https://momjian.us/main/
Bruce Momjian is a legend.
I mean is this unexpected or even being argued here? This is the same case regardless of home country. Of course they would focus on CIA or NSA exploits
Saying that you have an unpopular opinion for something that is almost certainly a popular one is exactly the kind of comment you'd find on Reddit.

I do agree though that people should be careful about creating echo chambers. Not every opinion needs to be weighted the same, but it's important to be open to differences between people.
Maybe you're thinking of Kazakhstan. Important to note that citizens had to install a root certificate for this to succeed, and even Then major browser vendors took action to invalidate it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan_man-in-the-middle_a...
>Procrastination is serious problem and anything that helps someone deal with it should not be dismissed.

You don't typically deal with something by making it worse, in this case spending more time not doing work...
Excess Deaths in 2020
As it says in the article "Sales of chicken noodle soup bowls ($4.95) in Harvard’s campus canteen increased 21.1%"
Good point! Sadly, I don't have access to the Harvard study (https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mksc.2019.1200), so maybe someone with access to it could check it, but the linked article might be misleading in some aspects (depending on the results of the study shown in the paper).

From the study's abstract:

> A preregistered field experiment indicated that diners were 21.1% more likely to buy a bowl of chicken noodle soup when a sign revealing its ingredients also included the cafeteria’s costs to make it.

From the linked article's sub-title:

> Sales of a chicken noodle soup increased 21.1% when people were shown the costs of making it.

The study's abstract mentions that they were more likely to buy a bowl of chicken; it's not mentioned that they actually bought it.
Inheritance was invented as a performance hack
Personal Branding for Developers
It’s plutocracy with emojis.

Other than that - absolutely nothing
One of the largest german drugstore chains still operates by that principle and they're successful with it. Computerized sales will not pick up on certain things - for example stuff that is not available in the store but people ask for.
Everyone is oppressed in some way. Unfortunately, everyone loses in the oppression Olympics. If you are oppressing others that you assume aren't oppressed enough, then you are an oppressor and the cycle continues.
Bubba Gump Shrimp seafood restaurants will start accepting Bitcoin payments
someone needs to make a website hasbeeperbeenshutdownbyappleyet.com
(2019)

(maybe?)
Exactly this. A lot of consumer gadgets that cost $60 involve spending $30 on ads.
The 2020 Census, not today’s post Covid population count is used for congressional apportionment. The current population of NY has nothing to do with it.
Probably not, so you’d either be renting them or (if you’re into golf) you’d have a set already. I just looked up my old local course (which is in a reasonably well-to-do town) and it’s about £20 for a round for one person. So a little more than “a few quid” as I’d originally said, but in Scotland at least, it’s definitely quite accessible. Now whether you’re actually into golf and would want to, is another thing entirely :D

https://montrosegolflinks.com/broomfield-course/
What Happens When the World’s Population Stops Growing? (2019)
"Do you have any idea the amount of effort it takes to train 36 people?"

It takes a long time for new people to have a real understanding of the current system, the tradeoff decisions and culture that led to the current system. And it takes a long time for new people to learn how to work effectively together. I'd think bringing in new leadership and product vision first, and having the existing team be given the go ahead to work towards those new goals should be the first step, only doing large scale replacements if they don't deliver.

Loads of people will point to the Spolsky "iterate, don't start from scratch" story about netscape. Replacing large parts of your engineering team vs just improving the team you have seems like the same "mistake". Also not sure how they have such a large team in the first place, but that may be part of the root reason. I don't just mean large engineering team - google is showing ~200 employees altogether, which just seems like a lot, but many of those might be CSR positions?

But I suspect this is all to do with bringing in much cheaper people.
Web Development – Course by Reddit Co-Founder Steve Huffman
> The most egregious misrepresentation of value creation in the letter is [...] compensation to employees. This is patently ridiculous. Every single dollar of compensation paid out is done transactionally: it is used to purchase labor. In a typical transaction, no market value is created. [...]

> Money and labor are both more abstract than fruit, so there is a little bit of leeway to interpret employment transactions as being non-zero-sum. [...] But however you look at it, taking full credit for every single dollar of compensation as value creation— as if Amazon, and not the US Mint, created those dollars, and as if the many, many millions of hours of labor consumed by the company in return were valueless— is a ghastly overstatement.

It's obviously sensible for the author to focus on Amazon & Bezos' letter in the blogpost instead of casting a broad non-specific net, but I feel like this very argument is the main one used by various government ministers / congressmen / economists / etc. ad nauseum to justify various support & investments in large multinationals and the so-called "job creation"/"value creation" they offer national economies throughout the world. Time. And. Time. Again. And it has never made any sense to me for these exact reasons.

It also strikes me as a pretty basic fallacy that should not hold up to any scrutiny when used by high-profile decision-makers like this.*
Clicking the link to read the article is absolutely free, give it a try.
You are conflating problems. Digital companies gained a lot of revenue when brick and mortar stores were closed, isnt that kinda obvious?
Thanks for your great contributions in this thread.

Can you please help me understand "rock is super messy"? The traditional narrative is "rock was mostly derived from blues (+ some other influences)" but the counter(?)example you provided is a classic 12 bar blues.

Do you have some messier examples? Or did I miss your point?
Maybe you mean for white collar workers? The separation between blue collar management and employees is very old: it’s in verses of “We wish you a Merry Christmas”, and is even discussed in the Bible.
This presupposes the requirement that your google account necessarily needs to link to a real person with verifiable metadata.

However, this was clearly debunked/lambasted LAST time they tried to enforce it with google plus.

This cavalier attitude towards my data and the fact that many services now enforce logging in with a google account rather than plain email and password, means that I need to create a "dummy" google account for those services. E.g. one of my accounts is dubbed Johnny English.

So how exactly is proving that my imaginary Johnny English persona is not underage have anything of real relevance to do with the law?

Answer, it doesn't. It's just another blatant attempt to strongarm people into surrenderring more data than they strictly need to.

Most people will cave and use their real DOB, simply because you KNOW Google will try to use it against you if you use a fake one (like, if God forbid you are ever kicked out of your account for one of Google's infamous "you broke our rules but we're not telling you which ones" shenanigans)
NFTs to the rescue?

Maybe blockchain can make digital goods be transferable.
European Investment Bank issues first ever digital bond on a public blockchain
This was talked about 2 years ago on here[0]. This service was also brought up in the discussion[1] of Ory Keto, as it's based on Zanzibar.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20132520

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26738344
Something has changed in the last year or two. Basically it is impossible to talk with someone about anything other than weather and the tasks in the pipeline. Everyone is afraid of being cancelled. Even if you tell something politically correct today, you don't know if this will be cancellable in 10 years and then a co-worker who doesn't like you will make a tweet about what you said.
Something has gone terribly wrong in the society...
The obvious problem with nationalism is that everyone is supposed to have their own nation that uniquely suits them, including the people that you are excluding from your own nation. This gets exceptionally contradictory when taken to the extreme.

E.g. Nazis trying to build an Aryan state, while simultaneously acquiring "Lebensraum", knowing that they are also acquiring people from other nationalities, which then have to be deported into another nation state whose nationalist people become angry. Of course this came with the twist that Jews are a nationless race and therefore should be incinerated.

It's the same thing with the refugee crisis. Nationalists in Lybia deport non-Lybians to Europe who end up as refugees there and then the local nationalists become angry and deport them somewhere else. It's a never ending shell game.
It is though? I'm thinking you and your partner(s) must either be very athletic, or you're watching some pretty tame porn.
Watermarks seem the least intrusive solution. You can go a bit too far with these kinds of things though. Petty theft remains petty theft, even if it's digital, and isn't really the kind of thing that warrants intrusive surveillance.
Claiming so much respect for people you just made jobless feels a lot like negging. Retrain, retain where possible. Show loyalty, instead they just give up on lives like an unthinking huge corporate machine.
I've been one to speak my mind. I see myself as having been punished for it. I was doing work a grade or two above mine but was held back from promotion. So I didn't make senior developer on that team. Then I was even in jeopardy of losing my job over a statement I made (not vulgar, disrespectful, or anything) so I have to switch stacks a couple times to move out of a bad area of the company. I'm 9 years in and just a midlevel. My trust in the company and my desire to work hard for them are abysmal.

"Even correcting people who are clearly misinformed on clear matters of fact can cause offense."

I was stupid enough to do this too. People were discussing the gender wage gap the way the TV reporters do - that a woman in the same job as a man, with all things equal, makes 80 cents on the dollar. So I brought up the BLS study that shows that the 80 cents number is about an aggregate comparison of all men and women in the workforce, and that the main driver of the discrepancy comes from the types of jobs that men and women are in. I wouldn't be surprised if I get downvoted on here for this comment too.
Please, let's not get distracted by videogame violence.

We have seen historically massive upticks in child abuse material [1], caused by two inventions: the internet and smartphones with cameras, and there's a strong case made that it reflects an actual, large, increase in child sexual abuse.

I don't have a specific article to link to, but Gabriel Dance discusses in a podcast [2] how many paedophiles are gradually indoctrinated by communities; they are made, not born.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-...
Warning: extremely distressing descriptions.

[2] https://samharris.org/podcasts/213-worst-epidemic/
Warning: ditto, though not as bad.
I'm willing to buy a $1500 phone w/ $400 in parts because it has a better user experience than $150 phone with $50 worth of parts.
All they had to do was keep focused on their actual demographic (high-end office workers), allow their other demographic (drug dealers / buyers), and let everyone else worry about consumers

If they had opened up BBM, WhatsApp would never have happened.
That can't be true in all cases.
There is nothing creepy about 2-factor authentication.
Just a remark: Spain had much more variety than Valencia's Ruta del Bakalao and Ibiza.

For example Catalan dance clubs made a huge hit here in 90's/early 00's such as Pont Aeri and Scorpia.
The US is considerably less dense than the UK. We could afford lots more rail in higher density areas, rail to everywhere doesn't make any sense (we have freight tracks, the part that wouldn't make sense is frequent passenger service).

My county is rural but not that rural and has a density of 12 per km². It's a 2 hour drive to a small city.
Also works fine in Safari, looks like regular scrolling.
> Just off the top of my head: - 2001 raid on Armando Diaz.

That's 20 years ago, if there is widespread abuse, you'd have something in mind more recent.
I'm not sure why everyone keeps scoffing at the idea of calling some of these folks Nazis or racists. It's not hyperbole or an exaggeration. We did have a rally with a bunch of white nationalists exercising their "free speech" to chant "The Jews will not replace us" and they ended up murdering someone there. We had a National Security Advisor to the President of the United States promoting replacement theory. There are countless other examples major and minor over the last 12 years. Just how much racism and bigotry has to be clearly and consistently demonstrated for the labels to stick?
One of the authors is Mike Burrows -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burrows
I've told many people over the years this:

If you ever get stuck or you're bored, open the repl and just learn something that you didn't already know. Then write it down somewhere, on real paper, and keep it.

I'm not ashamed to say I still do this. I've got probably 3 dozen pages in an old composition book of little perl/bash/python/jq tidbits. It's amazing how much detail is in the little tools we use everyday.

Factorio is cool, but it's just not very productive. There's that translation layer between the game and real code for real life.
Intellij IDEs autogenerate/sync UML.
And if you're not on Intellij IDEs you've got a bigger problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdGrC9S4PYA
Looks great, is it out on Kindle? I'd buy it there for easy reading.
Here is the special sauce: “We can consider the the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) to be an artificial neural network: it is a single layer network, with no bias, no activation function, and particular values for the weights. The number of output nodes is equal to the number of frequencies we evaluate.”

A single layer neural network is a sum of products, the basic Fourier equation is a sum of products.

In this view there are lots of single layer neural networks out there. For me, it’s the training algorithm (backprop) that sets apart the neural net.
Yes but this article shows that the matrix coefficients of the Fourier transform can be learned.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the law says the exact opposite, i.e. that Google cannot reasonably extort that kind of data from its users, without a clear intent, consent, and opportunity to refuse without punishment.

At least the GDPR in Europe says so.