skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Everyone else" was probably a criminal too of some sort. They just hadn't received enough police scrutiny to make it official. It's basically impossible to follow all the laws (even ignoring the civil infraction stuff) all the time and live a reasonable life.
Totally, I still have ‘fond’ memories of Hungarian notation variables starting with ‘h’ and ‘w’.

What I can’t remember is what they stood for - ‘w’ was a word, and I think ‘h’ a half-word. But was a word 16 bits when I was writing that code?

Thanks for the PTSD.
There would be no way to do that with a giant public company.

Instead of distributing profits to shareholders, is Microsoft going to buy 1,000,000 BMWs for their investors and hold them on their books as company cars to dodge taxes? Not practical.
Should you really be fired for things you said 13 years ago?

Also we didn't see the entire context..
Cheap is probably not the question. The synchronization and communication overhead is enormous.

Would you check that every register assignment matches? Or every page write?
You get rewarded for your risk, its not nothing, its second key building block for a financial system. Those that have time, trade risk for money, those that have money trade money for reduced risk over a period of time. If this wasnt the case, people couldn't retire safely, there would be no one to trade their money for lowered risk.

What is interesting is that this setup has been exploiting youth for a long time. Its only now that, with crypto, GME, AMC, the younger investors can ramp up the volitility in the market, creating more risk for older more established investors, who then need to pay to reduce their expose to that risk.

There a lot more to this that further blurs the morality of positioning yourself within this power struggle, but ultimately, its just market forces at work.

At the end of the day, this revolution could be stymied by actually providing the next generations with a foreseeable path to home ownership, a family with good education and healthcare, and the american dream, without having to yolo it all, even on an engineers salary. But it seems the next generation is only path to enact change is by staking their assets for generational speculation war.
> math is often not introduced in a concrete manner, as well as in a way such that its utility is obvious

This cannot be emphasized enough. Most people won't be doing any higher order math in their lifetime -- we should be teaching math literacy and "real world" math for the masses rather then pretending that every student is going into physics.
Once again, FIRE doing great work in helping school administrators realize when they’ve crossed a line. I strongly urge everyone to support them.
Any solution that works is going to have to work for a small team of seven developers at a company that has twenty employees, most of whom assume they're tech experts because they tweet a lot. The bigger companies run the most code, but it's the smaller companies that are must vulnerable and most in need of solutions.
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Agreed. These types of agreements, this early, tend to be Letters of Intent that aren’t legally binding OR a contract stating that “if Boom produces planes to agreed upon spec by 2029, United will purchase 15...” plus a bunch of out clauses.
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Thank you. Everyone on this thread should read the original words instead of the pull quotes. I am a staunch progressive and am afraid to make my own comment on his words. We are living through a strange political moment.
Amazing how the only piece of tangible information in that post was how Boom promises to adhere to standards and regulation when it comes to noise levels.
Sure, which means that they were greatly affected by the war. Thus, according to you, they should not have been able to create a successful welfare state.
Was working with a guy to start a card game, it ended, he had other project on NFT. I wonder if I should share this with him. It's weird how easy it is to sell any cool sounding tech to laymen, even if laymen understand the tech a little.

Why isn't everybody able to draw a simple pro/con list to have a minimum of skepticism? Is it because it's marginally better than having a more normal salesman job, to be a nurse or to stay unemployed?

Tech is often like a tulip bubble. Businessmen go into the tulip market because as long as people like tulips, there is money to be made, so it's always money lost when you miss a trend.

I wish there was some rulebook on how to spot trends that will be short-lived.
Yes. You need to fly over the bulk of NYC to get to Europe from EWR. JFK is already out on Long Island.
NASA's flight will validate and improve the computer models that Boom is using to design their plans.
https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/other/DIP1008...

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What would jumping on the bandwagon mean in this case? If you think you could've been Beeple, that bandwagon left in 2007 when he started making Everydays, or maybe in 2019 when his work was associated with Louis Vuitton. If you think you could've been Christie's, that wagon left long before that...

People who are already rich/famous in some way are benefitting from this stuff. Are regular joes making anything worth while?

As for the why, well, you can look at similar purchases: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/business/art-money-laundering...
AR has a long way to go for sure, but I am more interested in AR than I am in VR and I think AR has the potential to go far beyond what VR achieved till now.
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I refused to get involved in 2to3 migration projects for years.

I recently took care of a 2to3 migration involving a popular web framework and a few technologies for one of my employer's clients. The codebase is large and convoluted but I still found it surprisingly easier and way more interesting than I expected.

There is some actual difficulty in dealing with packages that have deprecated for years, and other gory details. But these days 2to3 drama is mostly a meme. The Python community, with a few exceptions, has done an amazing job at keeping things working.
So a lot of people are posting something about a red team test or some defense contractor. But is that really something a defense contractor would do? This thing violated federal and most likely state regulations in a bunch of different ways, there are serious consequences to this. I mean this isn't the days of MKUltra, are there any contemporary or recent examples of defense contractors blatantly violating regulations like this without consequence?
I'm welcoming any competition to the app store duopoly.

I'm excited about Ubuntu Touch [1] as well. It's open source and hopefully does integrate well with Ubuntu Desktop. Would like to see a "Ubuntu App Store" as well.

[1] https://ubports.com/
You are not wrong in that enforcement is definitely applied inconsistently and with extreme bias with regards to race and gender. I struggle with the correct approach to take though and if its cracking down on everyone or hoping that this at least is a crack in the door and people will realize the current trend of punishing people for decades old comments is wrong and should be stopped. Unfortunately it is likely that the rules will just continue to be unevenly enforced stoking anger and further dividing people.
There’s lots of circumstances where you’ve gotta accept that your coworkers might believe offensive things. Imagine being a gay man and finding a devout Muslim on your team who wholeheartedly believes it’s wrong to be gay - if she’s willing to treat you respectfully and not bring it up at work, would you insist she be fired?
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It comes by default on React apps, it’s not used for anything.
> but who is the right kind of person for a diversity job?

> I'm skeptical of roles with a "my job is to care about X" kind of definition.

Reframing it a bit (admittedly slightly off, but to get the point across):

"Who is the right person for a job all about caring about race?"

...I don't think anyone seeking that role should be hired for it.
My chemistry teacher at school (that was in Europe) once lost it over someone who had vandalised an election poster. Elections were coming up, and someone had vandalized a poster from the Socialists. Dude himself was part of the right lunatic fringe himself, but (maybe because of that) the constitutional right of political expression was sacred to him.

And here in the US you need to engage in discussion with your betters about your right to political speech. It's disheartening, it really is.
I read a bunch of comments in this branch, and I think yours nails it. Initially, I saw 60 USD per day and laughed. Thought to myself: "Ok, they will all be overweight in 1 yr -- like junior bankers!" Then, I realised the labour costs are pretty high, so 60 USD per day might be too low. It might be closer to 100 USD in "value" per day for Google to provide all your meals.
> The vast majority of the financial services industry is designed to screw people over.

I don't know where to begin with a comment like this. It's being so heavily reinforced by social media, but is so hyperbolically outside reality that I honestly don't know where to start.

It's similar to saying that the vast majority of the medical industry only exists to make people sick. Do people die on the operating table? Sure. Do people contract illnesses in hospitals? Yes. Is the VAST MAJORITY of medicine DESIGNED to make people ill? Convincing someone who believes this is impossible, because it's such an extreme view it cannot possibly be based on logic or evidence.

The financial system is a vast and complex. It's as old as the first Egyptian farmers. Do you honestly believe it was DESIGNED to screw over humanity since inception?

Is it so impossible for you to imagine the utility of bank accounts? Futures contracts? Mortgages? Bonds? Stock Exchanges? Fiat money? If these are all just elaborate scams, why does every society on Earth use them since literally 3000 BC?
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Yup, that's exactly what's going on here.

Google wants exclusive root on the web the way it has it on the phones they rent to you.
I remember reading Kon-Tiki and I, when I was a kid.

I think the journey (which was remarkable) was pretty much written off, in those days as "a bunch of proto-hippies, doing something," but these days, it would be a viral sensation.
They are a Republican political organization and have been for decades. They provide a bench of bodies for appointments to forward Republican political policies on the judicial side. Their ideals are a worthless slogan, they operate on realpolitik. They get wealth and power for delivering tax cuts for people like the Scaifes and Mercers.

This entire episode is completely on-brand.
My point was that Erlang and Elixir aren't that different. You can totally not use the syntactic sugar for proplists, it will still work the same.

Therefore saying "you need to learn 2 languages" isn't correct. It's like saying Javascript/Typescript are 2 different languages. Well yes, but if you're fluent with Javascript, you'll be able to read typescript, and if you're fluent with Typescript, chances are that you are fluent with Javascript too.

But I agree that one should learn Erlang first, because most of the documentation about Elixir seems to assume that you already know Erlang/OTP.
Interesting idea, and very nice and simple web page! I have no idea if people are willing to pay for it, but good on you for making an attempt.

A question though, isn't Monte Carlo a bit overkill? Would you lose much by modelling each deadline as a normal distribution? Then you could just calculate things analytically.
Worth noting that the organization that came to the satirist’s defense, The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, “FIRE” took a principled stand here. In other cases, it sides with the Federalist Society which comes under criticism from the left.

For example, the Rutgers law school student bar association had required all organizations under it to have sessions on CRT, but FIRE threatened to sue and they relented.

https://www.thefire.org/victory-facing-public-pressure-rutge...
Ya, I wonder at what point someone is accepted as having changed.
But of course it won't, this is a (similar to Apple's) play to reduce the amount of data other ad platforms get.
> Is Google inconsistent, or has their policy on how to deal with these things changed over the past few years?

Nope, they're being very consistent if you use the correct ideological goggles, change Bobb's color palette and first name a little and we would have another Damore-like shitshow.
Shakespeare is taught because Shakespeare is excellent. I disagree with the methods that are often used to "teach" literature (memorise this "official" interpretation, then spill these bullet points on the exam so the teacher is happy), but nobody can deny how brilliant it is. The mark of great art: they speak of things universal to the human condition, and transcend the time and space where they were produced. You are simply not a complete person if you do never read literature in your life.

> Everyone who speaks a language other than English learned to do so without Shakespeare

Well duh, they learn the masterpiece of whatever language they're learning. Be that Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Victor Hugo, or Luís de Camões.
The Boeing communications chief resigned due to a 33 year old article where he said females shouldn't be allowed in military combat roles.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/business/boeing-resignati...
I "learned to learn" during training in the military FWIW. The school system helped me with that skill, but it really took off in basic training and further in job-specific-training. A big part of that is the motivation during training...that if you fail, there are serious consequences, and you'll be stuck digging latrines until your term is complete.
There are 51 countries in Europe, if you count some technicalities around the Vatican, Monaco etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...

Though I suspect both yourself and the previous poster was referring to the European Union.
I'm glad that ship was sailed from UAE to Texas to sell the oil. It's only piracy if the little guys do it, right?
> It's probably a terrible long-term career choice, but so is fighter pilot.

If you're willing to accept the failure modes of non-fighter military pilot, non-pilot military officer, person with a college degree or person with some college (depending on when things go wrong) it's not a bad track. Lots of hedging. Then you can transition to a career in civilian aviation or management.

Compare that to something like enlisted Special Operations. Wash out of SEAL selection and you could be scraping barnacles off the side of a ship. Maybe you wash out of Special Forces selection and you end up in infantry. But then you decide you want to stop blowing stuff up, and the highlight of your resume is 4 years experience blowing stuff, with a minor in sweeping barracks. Failure modes aren't as nice.
Do you think that supersonic flights go supersonic within seconds of takeoff? By the time they get to cruising altitude, planes that takeoff from JFK and EWR will be well outside of NYC. The problem is that the great circle route from either JFK or EWR to Europe basically follows the Northeast Corridor to Boston.
I've visited a few times and find it very difficult to follow threads, so I kind of avoid it.
I am curious to read a study on this question. I would think that such a study would need to delineate between those who do homeschooling because of religious social conservatism, and those who do so because of a pragmatic belief that they can provide a better education.
They claim “$100” eventually which screams vaporware to me. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/boom-supersonic-four-hour...
He wasn't fired? Are you kidding me? He was reassigned to a comfy position in research?
I enjoy working at home just as much as the next person. I think many would agree that interaction in a school environment is important for people when learning. My point is that many forget that new employees, especially young people starting their career need interaction in order to learn and grow in their field. My employer is asking us to come in at least two days a week, which seems like a nice balance. In my field of architecture, nothing beats human interaction when designing and helping others in building and construction.
A simpler, if perhaps less effective, idea would be to just take advantage of ensembling. Get many estimates from everyone qualified to give them, then just fit a normal distribution to your final results. The average of many estimates tends to actually be quite accurate sometimes, with the famous example of visitors to a county fair guessing the weight of an ox[0]:

"At a county fair held in Plymouth, 800 visitors had participated in a competition to guess the weight of an ox. While most people's estimates were too high or too low — falling an average of 37 lbs. away from the true weight of 1,198 lbs. — the median of everyone's guess was off by only 9 lbs., or less than 1 percent of the true weight of the ox."

Curiously there is also some "within individual" averaging that helps too. If you would ask the same person to estimate the project timeline a few times, spaced temporally, then take the average, it'll probably be more accurate than a single estimate.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/03/12/592868569/no-ma...
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> The article manages to contradict itself at every turn.

That it might doesn't absolve the fact that Facebook has been essentially kicked about by the Big 2 that dominate the smartphone market. Remember that Apple and Google aren't exactly covered in glory as far as privacy is concerned. They want consumer data for themselves, and that's "private enough" in their eyes.

There's a reason Facebook (and Amazon) has a devices division and is betting on AR/VR.

Things will get interesting from here on.
I don't see why your perspective is any more valid than OP's, just because you took the time to read the article and have a grasp of the facts.
I don't work at the top consulting firms (of which McKinsey is one) but the first year or 2 at any major financial or consulting institution is a bit of a meme as to what they go through in hopes of making it. The 80+ hour weeks working on pitch decks, next-morning deadlines, etc, aren't just a Hollywood meme. I've read some of the 600+ slide powerpoint decks that exist in consulting and finance, and I think I got interesting information out of the experience exactly once (Radio ads were a close #2 in advertising ROI against the internet back in mid 2010s, with TV and other mediums far behind.)

There's a few blogs around about it; this one seems less hyperbolic than your average news headline but does mention the hours: https://managementconsulted.com/interview-first-year-mckinse...
Its even in the actual hyperlink. Trolls will be trolls.
It would also ensure that the packages actually get delivered, instead of just being marked as so.

Granted, sometimes this happens because the drivers are being held to an impossible standard for the deliveries they must make; Amazon gets to have someone to point a finger at.
I've been self employed and mostly working from home since 2006 and yet I'm with you that "working in the office is a competitive advantage." Not for me because I'm self employed, but I believe it is for people working in companies with other people in the office close to the eyes and ears of their managers.

I saw it happen 25+ years ago when working from home wasn't a thing. I worked for a consulting company. We had about half of our workforce working at customer premises. Not low fee body rental but projects that had to be run there. Well, the people getting advances in pay and career were mostly the people working in the headquarter. Managers of successful remote teams got career advances, some key remote developer got them too (customers wanted them) but most of them were forgotten wheels of the company machine.

But I'm in no competition with colleagues so working from home is great. I won't go back unless I'll ever start starving.
> Ultimately, the only safe way is to use Pascal string-style length prefixes.

Note that length-prefixes aren't necessarily safer when nested. For example, `line(10 bytes, [cell(1000 bytes, "xxxxxxx...`. This can lead to vulnerabilities like buffer overflows (naively allocating 10 bytes for the line, then trying to put 1000 bytes into it)
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I've bought Huawei phones and tablets in the past. I don't care one whit about the default UI. Samsung's sucked for years before OneUI. LG Mobile (RIP) wasn't good either.

The best part of Android is that you can make the interface look however you want.
It’s not universal yet but many of the tenets of Theory being incorporated into public school programs are, within the frame of considerations of parents choosing an educational track for their children, akin to the same concerns (or benefits) when choosing to enroll them into private religious schools.

Fortunately some states are banning taxpayer funded teaching of things like race-based guilt or complicity. In theory this would ban educational programs which incorporated tenets of white supremacy and other race-based illiberal ideologies, but in practice we can see the only programs that actually are being surfaced as likely affected by these restrictions (to the point of possibly having to cancel entire, active curricula) are the ones grounded in Theory.
Yeah, modern CPUs already have hundreds of millions of logic gates and can do calculations much faster than the human brain, yet we need an ridiculous amount of code hours to display some stuff in a screen in a way that barely works.

My 100% baseless opinion is that animal brains are fundamentally different from computers, although they might share some characteristics (like, we can do maths right?).
I've been a mostly remote employee (at a company that is mostly not remote) for about 7 years now, so the shift to 100% remote had minimal impact on me, but had immense impact on most of the teams I work with.

I think there will be a bit of a pendulum swing as things open up and then a normalization somewhere in the middle.

I'm an introvert, and a "Highly Sensitive Person" and I find remote work to be really helpful for me. But as a product manager, the shift to 100% remote, especially by folks who are not accustomed to it, wreaked havoc on some of the planning/design/brainstorming work we generally do in person between each release.

I'm very happy that there's some return to normalcy. I hope the pendulum doesn't swing too far, and I hope that companies focus on working onsite when it makes sense instead of just because.

But I do think you're right about CEOs, manager types and some extroverts - some will look for any reason they can to go "back to normal".
Are you responding to the parent comment? Do you not see how "I'm a mercenary" is as toxic as "I hustle 12 hours a day everyday"?
How do you get randomly pinged outside working hours? Is Slack on your personal phone? If so, delete it. Keep your work emails closed (and not on your personal phone). Use a separate browser profile for work/personal if you are working on your personal laptop.

I sympathise with people finding it hard to switch off (I was one until I did all of the above) but it's a simple problem to solve and it's absolutely nothing to do with WFH.
It should be obvious that the market will eventually support supersonic flights. The question is just when. OP is probably asking these questions to determine if the time is now, or in the future.