skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“...They just want to build cool shit all day,” the employee said. “They don't want to deal with people, which is something you have to do as a manager … Jason and David just threw us away...”

That's... a win?? I mean, I've worked at some companies where some employees, specially some which basically are activists disguised as developers/PMs/etc cause 90% of the management work because everything is an issue to them. It's tiring, really tiring, and some of these people have negative value for the company actually, from my point of view as a developer anyway.

I'm a developer. I love my profession, I want to build cool shit all the time, and learn, and progress. I want to build a great product and, if possible, earn a ton of money. I don't want to go to the office to discuss the issues of the society or try to fix the world. I do that on weekends and after work, in the right forums. I do not force my coworkers to "take sides"... either you're a racist or you're this other thing or if you don't say anything then that's conceding.. WTF!!! I just want to work, learn, and earn money. Fix the world in some other place, please.

Hope this makes basecamp even stronger in the long term.
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It is possible that neither of them are lying and that Signal just misinterpreted what the Facebook ad system was telling them and jumped the gun a bit.
If it makes you feel any better, I'm young enough to have grown up playing Halo: Reach, Minecraft, and Battlefield 3, and I mostly turned out fine so far, I think.
Sorry - we is Canada in this case. I didn’t make that clear.
AWS was charging me 0.50¢ a month for over a year for an account that was tied to a Google Suite email address for a failed startup I was part of.

I couldn't recover access to the account. They couldn't figure how to give me access. They wouldn't just remove my credit card from the account.

One month the charge became $10 so I called my bank and had them block AWS charges. It seemed the only way to deal with the fear that someday that would creep up and up.
I hope the code of conduct advances free exchange of views and opinions. I even don't understand how an audience can be uncomfortable hearing an opinion, listening to arguments? They don't have to act or agree. Otherwise if they only hear comfortable and reassuring things: how could they grow, change and advance their knowledge?
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Firefox and Chrome still require Python 2 to build. They also had a decade to migrate but didn't. And these are the tech companies.
At some point you have to make peace with open questions you don’t have the answers to. That’s not being irrational, it’s just accepting that our rational brains are very limited.

I’d encourage you to try the experience for yourself. I may not be able to convince you that these visions are anything more than “scrambling of neurons” with my testimony. If you are intellectually curious enough and open to trying DMT/ayahuasca, then it can only give you more data to base your worldview on. Worth a shot imo.
> OK, there was 1/2 a sentence that touched on profits as almost an afterthought.

Are we reading different posts? The post you responded to repeatedly made the point that profits are one of the key builders of market confidence:

>> Firstly, say 5 years down the line, the holders have confidence that FB will still be making money, be profitable and be on the market.

...

>> They too must have confidence on FB that a further 5 years or more down the line, FB will be profitable and will be in the market and keep earning money.

...

>> So is FB really worth 900B, yes, if the holders keep holding it and FB keeps earning profits.

It's a key point of their argument!
The usual statistic that we hear from people who study genes is that about half of the men are fathers to women. It's a significantly different statistic from OKCupid / Tinder matches, which is closer to 80-20, and the fact that less young men are having sex than before suggests that it translates to real life.
It's a good lesson in cloud computing to know how much you're spending on services.

Usually if you're a single person and you leave an expensive product running unknowingly, AWS support have been kind and refund you the money and take the loss as 'customer made an error' type transaction.

It's not like they hold the debt over your head for life.

I think the article is a bit extreme to highlight the person's reaction, it's pretty easy bait for most people to swallow. Realistically though, if you can't afford $20, how on earth did you afford a credit card to sign up for AWS in the first place?

There are people comparing this person's response with the Robinhood investor that lost money and took their life. The real issue here is a mental health problem and better awareness around that - AWS is a cheap scapegoat we can all blame to ignore the real issue at hand...
It’s common to capitalize ethnicities and Black is an ethnicity in the United States. White is considered a race. Is your issue that Black is capitalized or that white is not capitalized?
Clang generates slightly better code than Go, I think, because it fuses the mov and or together into an lea (demoting or to add in the process): https://godbolt.org/z/1Gz5KzrzK

I'm unsure whether there is a perf difference, though, as register-to-register mov may get boiled away to nothing in register renaming.
I mean it usually goes "No really? When's your birthday" "I don't have one, thanks" and usually dies off from there.

I mean, if I have to put it on a form, that's one thing, but like office people don't need to know when it is.
Thanks for the detailed feedback! All makes sense – on it now.
Believe it or not, sometimes you want to raise awareness about something that would otherwise be hidden behind a kebab menu and rendered entirely clinical.

I don't think this is the sound criticism you intend it to be.
20% is less than 50%, so I bet most employees are going to be happier now that politics at work are over.
I find it weird that Windows doesn't already tell you what app is holding a file/directory/USB locked when you try to move/delete/eject something.

Is there some common use case that makes this hard?
Problem is that the images Signal have provided don't really provide much concrete evidence that the ads were rejected after infact being run.
Why don't you cache the prerender and serve to everyone?
>multitasking is still being branded as something of a higher cognitive functioning.

not surprisingly given that it is branded that way by the "multitaskers". I mean you wouldn't find many deep contemplative thinkers at the mid- or top-level of corporations or even of the whole society. These days the ability to deep contemplative thinking is more like a handicap relegating you into the rank-and-file.
Worth learning as a normal SWE? Heck yes, at least to some degree.

It makes you a lot better at writing understandable, modular, composable code with sensible abstraction boundaries. Also makes you better at writing tests. At least this was my experience.
There's something fishy about the "multitasking [and long working hours] is bad" fad of the past 10 years.

If I had to guess, it's that these studies aren't sensitive to the outliers. Imagine telling e.g. Elon Musk "multitasking and long hours are bad for your productivity".

I've been keeping very detailed data on my personal productivity for years, while taking all of the consensus wisdom ("long hours = bad", "multitasking = bad") to heart. What I've instead found is that long hours (literal 14+ hour days) makes me more consistently productive.

Multitasking also has a strong synergistic component to it that I suspect doesn't show up in these narrow studies.* If multitasking across different projects leads to insights that shave years off of your respective project plans, but otherwise makes you slower locally, it's still more than worth it. Again using Elon as an example: Tesla and SpaceX have been made mutually stronger by insights being cross applied the two enterprises.

* To be fair I'm speaking more of multitasking at the project level, not at the minute-to-minute level.
And then Facebook pushed back again: https://twitter.com/Kantrowitz/status/1389773302160297985

The screenshots Signal posted showed they were from early March and show no ads rejected. I never thought I would say this, but so far I'm leaning towards believing Facebook over Signal.
Alternatively, you could view as a positive signal their decision to leave and find new less ethically compromised opportunities at their own pace. I don't really understand how people choose to go work at these companies, but I appreciate when those who are already there realise they don't understand either.
But how can you own part of a share?
It turns out if you mismanage a problem, it gets worse.
I’ve been using webcomponents heavily in my latest project. Built out a full SPA using vanilla js. They are not without problems, but GitHub is using them perfectly. GitHub isn’t pushing them to do what they aren’t yet good at. They’re amazingly suited for consistent components, especially view oriented ones.
GitHub also has in my opinion made the correct choice to make their own base element rather than using a standard library one like lit-html. A good base element has two things in my mind - styled component functions and shared util functions specific to your app. It’s amazingly easy to make a simple set of styled component base functions. Here’s the one I made for my project: https://github.com/jjcm/soci-frontend/blob/master/components... (lines 6-32 for the styled component functions). The rest of your component should be shared functions specific to your use case. Once that base class is there they’re so easy to use.

Two caveats with webcomponents however. The first is Safari will be the bane of your existence. You should dev in safari if you can. If it works there it will work in all other browsers. The second is stay away from form elements, for now. Or if you do, use an encapsulating component that inserts a slotted input into the light dom. The form registration api isn’t fully supported yet except by chrome, and even then it’s a bit rough around the edges.
The fingerprint is the "SHA-256 Hash of Subject Public Key Information", not the entire [unsigned] certificate. Basically, the DER encoding of the PKIX SubjectPublicKeyInfo structure. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-4.1.2.7 and https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3279#section-2.3.1 for RSA; for ECC keys see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5480 and https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8410.

Calculating this is generally easy from a typical WebPKI library; less straight-forward from the command line:

% openssl x509 -pubkey -noout < ./AmazonRootCA1.pem | grep -v '^-' | base64 -d | shasum -a256

fbe3018031f9586bcbf41727e417b7d1c45c2f47f93be372a17b96b50757d5a2 -

(Note: That matches the AWS hash.)

The hash of the public key is often used as a stable identifier for entities. Hashes of certificates will, of course, change w/ the validity dates and serial number.
> We are hundreds of years from that thermodynamic limit at our current exponential growth rate

…assuming Earth is a perfect blackbody, which it is not.

> It is also quite likely that extraplanetary energy sources could be available by then.

This is irrelevant. As long as that power is delivered to Earth, it doesn’t matter how or where we generate or collect it.

I mean, just take a step back a second. In the best case scenario, where we completely strip the atmosphere of carbon dioxide, methane, and any other greenhouse gases, we have maybe five generations before we have to completely halt our energy growth or we’ll literally bake the Earth and everyone and everything on it.

We can’t even get people to believe in a global pandemic, much less take it seriously enough to wear masks and vaccinate. What do you think are the odds we’ll convince everyone to rein in energy production globally to avoid catastrophe here? Especially when that means either a) telling the world’s impoverished that we simply can’t let them continue improving their lifestyle, or b) telling the world’s rich that they’re going to have to cut back dramatically. Do either of those sound like platforms we’ll readily elect politicians on around the globe?

And this is just one axis: energy. Humanity faces dozens of these problems simultaneously, all as a simple outcome of the mind-blowing scale we operate at. The oceans are being fished empty. Aquifers for farmland are quickly being depleted of water across the globe. I mean, we’re even running out of sand!

It’s true and I hope it’s uncontroversial that we can’t continue exponentially growing into a finite space. My fear, which appears to be founded by all the evidence I can find, is that we’ve already passed the point where we can even continue things as-is no matter how much we move to solar and wind, aquaponic farms, and electric cars. All of those things require resources too, and even if it’s less it’s likely still too much.

> I'm sort of unclear where you are goin with your argument? Are you arguing we need to kill of people or economically retard developing countries energy use?

My point is that our current situation of resource usage cannot last much longer. This is unavoidable fact. We can opt to find ways to dramatically cut back—far past current feel-good greening measures—or it will happen automatically for us.

As I said this is an uncomfortable reality. Your need to assume that I’m proposing nefarious, evil, and fascist solutions when I’m merely pointing out the unavoidable truth of our predicament should only highlight that more.

I have proposed no solutions because I personally don’t believe any achievable ones exist at this point. We as a species will continue to consume all available resources until the moment we can’t and then… incredibly bad things will follow. I don’t know how to stop it any more than you do. But it doesn’t bring me comfort to believe that vague promises
of human ingenuity will somehow overcome these very real problems.
The budget limits are delayed hard billing limits. Everything I've seen/heard suggests while you can go over, they absolutely don't charge the overage.
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No.

By the late 1990s, though I thought Apple were dead. My pet name for "Rapsody" was "Requium". "Hit out of the park" is in that context --- the company had been on death's door. It is no longer.
I think there's potential for consequences just blindly using the stuff they give away. Its advertising for them. "The best and most innovative work here, look what they do!". Now Facebook is in all of our web frontends now with react, google is in all of our data centers with Kubernetes. Can you even be innovative and get traction anymore without corporate backing? I'm skeptical a project like Linux could take off in our current computing world. Sorry a little ranty but I don't see why we need to keep giving these companies even more share of the tech world, even if they give it away for free.
The organizer's problem is not that it's not about the topic, but that the audience would become uncomfortable hearing, which is ridiculous.
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> The idea of building something neat is a lot more attractive than running a business that sells the neat thing to customers.

Doesnt Amazon bully small players to accept their offer or risk going bankrupt? I think that is what they did to diapers.com
Oh damn, I loved that book as a kid. It had these wonderful illustrations of mammoths.
I'm confused... what do you mean no one party has control over the funds? Surely the whole point of investing in a company is to transfer control of the invested funds to the company so that the company can do what it intends to do. Otherwise what are we talking about here?
i am using syncthing on all my devices. it does not fit for the above state use-case because it's not easy to share files with other people, and it's also not suitable for one-off sharing or copying without keeping files in sync afterwards.
Ironically, I think the internet's connection is causing the problem on both ends of the phenomenon.

Dating apps allow women to expand their dating pool to people they would never encounter in everyday life. I have quite a few female friends and I've been around them while they're swiping around and they are absolutely brutal in a way that's not at all malicious.

Then the regular (male) losers in that system can then all commiserate on 4Chan.

I think a smaller dating pool forced women to give men who _seemed_ less ideal matches a chance and resulted in more successful relationships.

I suspect that both men and women don't have any idea what would actually make a good relationship but they have a "type" that they like. With a limited pool, you could work through everyone of your type in a reasonable time frame. With a larger pool, it can take forever.
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Curious by which metric you are measuring productivity.

Also wouldn't it make quite a difference on what time scale you are multi-tasking? If it's on the time scale of days between context switches or hours/minutes.
Alt + . does the same thing as well, with the added advantage that you can keep pressing Alt and then hit "." several times to go through all the "last arguments" in your history one by one.
I’m pretty actively following a lot of the web components community so I thought I would jump in here with some hopefully helpful information. Depending on what you mean by SEO it’s worth noting that for a while now Google and I believe Bing and a few others haven’t had any kind of requirement to pre-render content. You can just serve standard web components or any kind of SPA style front end and it will get indexed just fine, no penalties and no real issues unless you’re doing something particularly strange.

However, one of the more exciting projects in the web components space (lit.dev) now also supports proper SSR as well which is a very new thing in the world of web components. They are trying to build it in such a way that any other library can take advantage of through a common interface.

In fact there are some kind of early stage talks happening over here https://github.com/webcomponents/community-protocols where a bunch of companies like Google, Adobe, ING and others are trying to develop some open protocols on a whole bunch of topics to improve interoperability between various libraries so that no one has to buy in 100% to any one setup.
This is simply false.

We go over our budget "limits" literally every month. We do this because they are simply alerts, nothing more. We have separate alerts set up for 25, 50, 75, and 100% of our "limit" so that we can track variable usage and catch spikes early.

We, of course, pay our full bill every month - over the "limit".
Benchmarks: https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder/blob/cinder/3.8/...

There are some perf hits, as well as all the improvements.
But by focusing the on just one - SpaceX might be on Mars, and Tesla might have a real self-driving car.

Unfortunately it’s difficult to test that hypothesis. And it’s survivor bias to pick Elon Musk.
> For those purposes, qemu-user works quite well: we are even considering using it to build the entire riscv64 architecture in the 3.15 release.

We‘ve been doing that in Debian on m68k and sh4 for quite a while now and it helped finding quite a lot of bugs, both in the target-specific emulation code and in the qemu-user code.

There is still one nasty bug in conjunction with glibc if anyone wants to help:

> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23960
Any time I take issue with someone's past employment at a company, I never hold that against them without an opportunity for them to address it. Their tenure at these companies is also a major factor in how I view it. Someone that started in the late 2010's and only stayed for a few months is going to mostly get a pass. Someone that joined in 2011 and stayed around for 7 years is going to get a lot more than a cursory glance.

That is, if you worked at Google or FB before, I will definitely ask about your time there, and what led you to leave. This is not necessarily something I would do for some other XYZ Software Co. on your resume.
In general we teach children not to do "anything that can raise an eyebrow" because it's wrong. Because the raised eyebrows of the adults who care for them are based in compassion, protection, and legitimate moral authority. And if they find themselves scheming about how to avoid the eyebrows then they are knowingly and intentionally doing something wrong, self-destructive, or both. And that is not the kind of people they are, or want to be.

I think many parents would be profoundly uncomfortable spending significant money so that their children can evade supervision and guidance by authorities they are meant to respect. My own parents were pretty liberal, and it would still creep them out.
It's funny that if you look at the background of the image Signal posted you see pretty clearly their account was disabled due to some unusual account activity not ad violation.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0lx59fWEAI9HcX?format=jpg&name=...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0lx59bXIAMn5hr?format=jpg&name=...
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There are numerous OTC stocks trading for over $5,000, I know of at least two over $20,000.
Cool, I thought it was dead (like the fictional character called, coincidently, "Snake"). I see that active development has restarted 6 months ago, seemingly. Kudos to everyone involved, specially @Kodiologist who seems the main contributor over the recent period.

(Shameless plug: more functional languages that look like Python, or compile to one of the Python VMs: https://github.com/sfermigier/awesome-functional-python#lang... ).
Yes, we own both URLs. The point of the post was to show that we got https://hurl.it back online and I inadvertently put https://hurlit.com as the link.
>Postfix is written in C, and none of us should be comfortable with that

qmail is written in C, and it has never had a serious security hole that I am aware of. Not all C code is unsafe.
They better be huge or super niche, otherwise this sounds like an egotrip. Not sending data to a major cloud provider is quickly becoming like producing your own electricity because you don't trust the grid will provide a stable frequency and won't go down. At some point you just need to trust the utilities and go with it. Plus you can hopefully encrypt your data if this is a major concern.
Wang in Mandarin, Wong in Cantonese. There is a difference.
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The context is he was responding to employee #4 who constantly quoted Breitbart on company forums (which employees brought up until Basecamp went in and erased old messages.), and the company #1 and #2 backed up the Breitbart supporter, and denied employee request to change the racist code names for outside companies. This is similar to GitHub where they fired the Jewish employee for telling people to be aware of Nazi sympathizers on January 6 because using the word Nazi offended some “apolitical” employee who objected to using the word Nazi to describe Nazis.
Amazing. I still have one of those t-shirts in the wardrobe came into it’s own on endless zoom calls talking about site availability.
When more isn’t better: inflation in the 21st century
Why do the Carters look so tiny alongside Joe Biden and his wife in picture?
I’m just like you. In the afternoons, I switch from my monitor to just my laptop. I sometimes prefer a smaller screen so I experience less eyestrain