skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I justified my point well. Eating extremely well made food is a major win for me. There's the obvious financial and time savings, but there's also a lot to be said for having a fresh made meal three times a day - and Dropbox always had variety, they pretty much never repeated dishes (other than the standards - burgers, pizza, etc).

I ate some of the best meals I've ever had while working there. After a certain point that matters more to me than an extra N dollars a year.
I think it's a necessary development as it might help anti-vaccine people.
Can't upvote on SO without spending ??? hours farming karma. People start answers with "don't have enough reputation to comment, but in response to the other answer [...]". Left the only answer on several questions, probably averaging 0.2 upvotes per answer.

My high priority work questions: mostly no answers, even years later. I wrote a self answer, years later one or zero upvotes.

I ask a question with an example, the only answer "solves" the example and ignores the question, I self answer correctly when I figure it out on my own, years later no upvotes.

Several questions I arrive from Google are closed without an answer, or duplicate to a completely offtopic question. Or it's an XY question where I still need an answer for X but I don't have the secret question Y.

If you're not actively gaming SO for karma, it can be kind of a wasteland for anything but read only.
Likewise here, I'm floating around $300-350/month at the store, and that includes non-food consumables like tissues and cleaning supplies.
Fun fact: Just like "Lord," the word "lady" is also etymologically related to dough via hlæfdige, or "one who kneads dough"

https://www.etymonline.com/word/lady
Location: Euless(/Dallas/Irving), TX

Remote: Either. Successful in either environment.

Willing to relocate: Not preferable but on the table.

Technologies: SSIS (+BIML), SSRS, SQL, Tableau, Microsoft Office Suite etc., Microsoft SQL Server, ETL Processes.

Email: Samuel.Armstrong91@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-armstrong91/

Summary: Looking for entry level work. 1 year of experience as Database Developer but also experience producing reports using Tableau. Achievements include developing new SSIS package schema focused on consolidating redundant processes, while trimming discrete packages to only contain tasks uniquely required for (sub)client specifications. Resulted in ~60% reduction in discrete package size allowing for changes/maintenance to be preformed with significantly less development time.
Wouldn't that be 'aerothermal' tendrils, then?
That’s not what GP implied.
Fun story: when I worked in videogame QA ~20 years ago, there was a specific Nintendo rule about games not doing anything weird when both left and right were pressed on the controller at the same time (this would have been Nintendo DS, I think). This wasnt possible on a normal console, so how was it tested? We had a special unit that someone had cut the Dpad in half down the middle with a Dremel tool.
> Drugs are illegal for Americans to buy, sell, and produce.

Are you seriously using the war on drugs as an example of a successful policy? Drugs are easier to get and more numerous than ever, even though we have these magical laws in place for decades.
So there's lots of evidence to support attribution, but your flimsy hand waving about uncertainty is supposed to carry weight?

Once again, we have:

* Shared infrastructure

* Shared TTPs

* Clues like language

* No evidence to the contrary

And that's just what's public. I assure you that quite a lot stays between people. I know many people in the field who can't share public details about breaches due to pending legal issues - Dropboxers couldn't talk about aspects of the 2012 breach until just this last year.
There was an earlier discussion today on this same story where a comment said that Amazon interviews include a “bar raiser” who isn’t the hiring manager who ultimately makes the hiring decision. It seems like the “hire to fire” story is just sensationalist clickbait.
Yes, absolutely logical and coherent. I’m not saying it’ll be so to someone that knows nothing about CSS, but rather to someone that generally understands CSS, because these solutions I discuss are straightforward and built upon well-known CSS fundamentals; they’re not complex in any way. The only part that is arguably not quite so logical, coherent and obvious is display:inline-block in order to limit the width, but even that I reckon is fairly obvious, that you’ll need that or to contain the element in certain styles of flexbox or grid.

Not everything is straightforward, but the things I was talking of are. (Incidentally on the matter of performance on animating box shadows, that’s actually not fundamental; Firefox has proper GPU rendering of it all, via the WebRender project, so that advice is irrelevant and actually (negligibly) slightly harmful in Firefox; it’s just that Chromium and WebKit haven’t caught up.)
>The slider interface on the second prototype is very appealing as a UX

Man, particularly for drums that seems so cool. Obviously you can nudge things off the grid in Ableton or whatever DAW, but just to be able to move the sliders as it plays in real time and figure out where things feel right seems like a lovely way to work.
I'm hoping this will be useful for improving react native performance on iOS. Due to restrictions on that platform the JS is currently interpreted and performance is terrible.
On rare occasions, there can be problems restarting a service, like if the service in the new configuration in fact relies on a newer kernel module than what you've got in your running configuration. In addition, sometimes Nix's garbage collector won't dispose of something because it can tell you've still got some processes running that use it or something like that, and so there's a bit of space you can't free up until after reboot. And of course, kernel changes still require reboots on NixOS.

All in all, the service management stuff is handled very gracefully imo. I've never run into real trouble with it (and one time I had a power outage in the middle of a `nixos-rebuild switch`).
this week I've been hacking away on an advertising booking systems for people publishing email newsletters. I'd love to chat with people in this space! If you're interested, you can check it out - https://www.sponsaurus.com
Recently the was a rant against cryptocurrency, now this is a case for it.

I thought there were regulations in the US that would prohibit a financial institution to hold money that long. Looks like there aren’t.
> I think they made the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines extra strong (and double dose) because we were in the middle of a once-in-a-century pandemic.

Was looking into Pfizer’s effectiveness against the Indian variant since that seemed to be the most worrisome one out there and this was the vaccine I got.

What it boils down to:
1 shot + 3 weeks: 33% effective.
2 shots + 2 weeks: 88% effective.

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021052...

Happy to have gotten both shots of Pfizer as overkill looks like exactly the right amount of kill. If I can get boosters down the line in the form of a patch, all the better really.
"Prosus, one of Europe’s most valuable tech companies"

What do they actually do? It seems they hold a lot in Tencent, and ... that's about it?

They seem to have a web of corporate subsidiaries around the world, but... what do they do?
You don't have to commute. You chose to commute.

You maybe did it for a larger house. Or maybe for cheaper rent/mortgage.

We're not talking here about folks on minimum wage who can only afford to live 2 hours outside of the city they are working in.

The highly paid software engineers on hackernews could absolutely afford to live 5 minutes from the office, 30 minutes from the office, or 2 hours from the office.

They could afford to move to a city with good transit where they can only afford an apartment, or to a city with no transit where they can afford a giant mansion.
This bug is an example of why the absl swiss tables have nondeterministic iteration order. Found so many bugs in the codebase when this got turned on.

https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/container#iteration-order-...
The important part is if managers have discretion over who to fire.
Well that was fast. I’m not sure what I expected.

SV companies and their investors have been actively working to suppress remote work for as long as I can remember. So this move makes sense in theory.

I’ll be curious to see how much turnover this causes. I can’t name a single person I know that ever wants to go back to an office.

I see many comments here waxing about the virtues of forced commute and force colocated work, but it seems more like a cope for personal issues. If you’re relying on your work for friends, social interaction, preventing yourself from distractions, etc. then it sounds like you have personal issues. Issues unrelated to remote work.
I save a huge amount on food wfh. Working somewhere without free food, I would buy prepared food every day.

From home, I whip something up from my kitchen every day
They lost me at "hexagonal graphite blocks". All graphite moderated reactors have issues with the moderator cracking. Pebble bed is fine since the pebbles get replenished.
If you don't yet recognize Amazon's monopolistic tactics, it's likely you are incapable.
And wasn't that just a wonderful change?
If scifi has taught us anything it's that destabilizing currency, hacking infrastructure, biological warfare & moon trebuchets are the next/current stages in waging war if you're attacking a nation with unmatched stockpiles of nuclear and conventional weapons.
AFAIK there is no country who forces a company to host anything they do not wish to (with exceptions to government/political entities in some countries), if any company decides they do not want to be associated with something/someone they generally have a right to withdraw their business. Your best options are to 1) self host, 2) use a decentralized hosting platform, or 3) find a hosting provider who is willing to host your content.
The chart you linked says your numbers are wrong, and between those two years there’s about a 6-7% increase in fatalities per mile, with even larger fatality numbers in the years in the middle.

If you don’t have a dog in this hunt why are you posting wrong numbers, falsely stating there was no increase, and ignoring the deaths from 2014-2018?

[1] 481/470 -> 597/545 is a 7% increase.
compound interest is interest proportional to how much you already have. This is like fixed absolute interest. Not sure why I was downvoted.
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+1 for this, should work in many cases
Managers generally overrule other's opinions by giving promise of personally coaching the new hire to make them meet the bar. In most cases such people are put on coaching plan, and thereafter fired. URA quota is an open secret at Amazon, and some employee appreciate the practice of hire to fire, as it saves their own employment. That in turn ensures that objection to bad hire is non existent.
Config ctrl alt del svchost then delete all dll files don’t get consfused thats lifetime experience
> maximum number of days between the time an order was placed for a new line and the time the line was operational.

Once the employees know this is being measured, they will presume it's also a goal, because why else measure it? Then they will act in ways to reduce the time between order and operational status. Is there any reason to believe that they won't game the measure, pushing orders to "operational" in ways that are detrimental to the business?
Remember Halite? Here's a list of upcoming AI game competitions
they WILL pay to save face
100%. A lot of the people here commenting that they like forced in person work don’t realize they’re indoctrinated.
I read about half of "The Republic". I would pull out the book again to find a good example, but I think I donated the book a few months ago.
Right. I did lost a long time friend when he became my manager.
Ask HN: Are Electron apps stickier than Web apps?
My startup is building an investment research platform and we're debating if we should package our web app as an Electron application.

The thinking is that Electron might be stickier since it'll live on the user's computer so they'll encounter it more often — whether it be on their desktop, mac launchpad, or windows start menu.

Is this thinking flawed? If you have any other thoughts about Electron vs. Web Apps, I would love to hear them as well!
> This is what caused me to let me eBay seller account die - they demanded Social Security Number (SSN) to continue selling.

Was this before or after they had to force-reset everyone's account password because their user data was compromised?
Thats pretty extreme. I am usually around $800 a month, but that includes about 2 meals a week at casual restaurants with friends.
We have a giant corpse glower at our city botanic gardens. I was not able to get to is flowering, but it was quite the local event.
Thanks, I'll save that for later reading.
Not everyone who prefers to WFH finds "work to be an unfulfilling drain on their leisure time", they just prefer to WFH for a myriad of reasons. (I like spending more time with my child, oof).

If you aren't a middle manager and the employee is productive, then honestly why do you have an opinion?
Agreed. Having Jeff and Joel on the podcast was great and the hosts really complimented each other. However, once Jeff left, that was pretty much for me though and I tuned out after a few episodes. Just wasn't the same without Jeff.

Personally, I was a latecomer to the podcast and was about a year behind the launch of SO but still in top 13 today.
Thoroum gets converted to U233 in the reactor. It's esentially a breeder reactor. It helps with non proliferation somewhat because U232 is also a side product of the Thorium cycle and it's highly gamma radioactive, preventing tampering with the fuel. Which also makes it more dangerous in case of leaks and environment contamination, because it would kill anything around it and also fry electronic circuits, thus preventing cleanup with robots.
One of my funniest work experiences comes from a coworker who had a question about an obscure RHEL 5 thing long after RHEL5 should have been abolished, him googling it, and finding an answer I had posted about a decade before when RHEL5 was in beta and I had experienced and answered the same issue.

Through the “asking and searching” phase, he was sitting next to me on a rooftop at a really stressful job, we were drinking daily on the job, and I had no idea why he suddenly started smacking my left arm and laughing to the point he couldn’t speak. He finally turned his laptop towards me and I just saw my StackOverflow profile with the icon I use at work and on GitHub and everywhere else, the picture of my first dog. He could have just spoken up (but I’d probably forgotten the answer) … he googled instead and got the answer of the person he was sitting next to.

When occasionally I have worked at big companies, now people know my dog’s face more than they know me as a person.
I can see the appeal of this if you're living alone or with some housemates who also live that lifestyle, but I can't see it working if you have a girlfriend or boyfriend unless they also work for a company that caters all their meals too. Otherwise you'd never get a chance to have breakfast or dinner together. That would suck.

I wonder, on some deeply dystopian level, if tech companies do this on purpose to keep their a large proportion of their employees single.
Would you be equally shocked if this was Thanksgiving in the US or Chinese New Year in China?

In my experience it really depends on the individual, team, and company just how strict people are with not working unscheduled overtime on national holidays to crunch a release or not.

But assuming that it will happen, that's a first for me.
With Jeff, loved the podcast. But without Jeff, not so much.
Google lifts 2018 ban on crypto
it only took them 3 year
Managers generally overrule other's opinions by giving promise of personally "coaching" the new hire to make them meet the bar.

In most cases such people are put on a plan, ironically called "Coaching Plan" itself, and thereafter fired.

URA quota is an open secret at Amazon, and some employee appreciate the practice of hire to fire, as it saves their own employment.

That in turn ensures that objection to bad hire, who is going to be "coached" is non existent.
WRT "roca", I guess the Author of my story has quite a sense of humor. You clearly didn't create the account or choose the name to argue against measures that limit the powers of the Argentine government to abuse fiat currencies, since you've been using the name on HN since 02014, and I believe you when you say you've been using it online since 01990.

Yet imagine my perception when I find that someone has popped up here to argue against such safeguards, and he's using the name of the guy whose face is on the $100 bill, whose fame primarily derives from commanding genocidal Argentine government abuses against the peoples in Argentina who didn't use the Argentine currency, and who is also the most famous person in the world by that name. The Roca $100 bills are gradually being replaced—all the ones I have here have Eva Perón instead of Roca on them—but it's only been, I think, a couple of days since the last portrait of that white-supremacist rapist visage has been inflicted upon me, when I got my change at the supermarket on Monday.

So, I hope you can forgive my error of assuming that the astounding degree of relevance of your chosen name to the topic at hand, which I take to be the social value of alternatives to the state-imposed currency system in Argentina, was intentional partisan trolling on your part, rather than a sort of absurd coincidence of cosmic proportions. I should have at least checked your HN bio, as you say, before assuming ill intent.

I continue to maintain that your dismissal of the utility of Bitcoin bespeaks either an astonishing degree of willingness to prioritize your own interests, and the interests of people like yourself, over the interests of people like me; or an astonishing degree of confidence in your own judgment of what causal relations obtain in Argentina over the judgment of those of us who live here.

After this exchange, though, I don't blame you if you don't think much of my judgment!
Dropbox allowed guests. I brought a number of people over my time there.
Your Father's Stock Market is Never Coming Back
> there is zero evidence in the article that "hire to fire" is actually a thing at Amazon. In fact it cannot be a thing since managers do not have the final say in who gets hired and who doesn't.

Hiring and staffing is always horse-trading even when it’s not being actively manipulated in the way this article suggests.

“Send me your req so I can land these two top tier candidates and I’ll be sure to work your projects first”. “Everybody rate your employees for bonuses, then submit the ratings to the CIO so we can decide who gets the two ‘above and beyond’ bonuses we got this year.”

I’m not saying it is happening at Amazon as I have no direct knowledge. But it is pretty easy to see how stack ranking can introduce bad incentives: ICs doing the interview recommend candidates worse than them to pad their positions, managers do the same so their chaff gets approved.
What's the privacy violation risk here? A doesn't learn anything through those prefetches about whether or not the user has previously cached any B resources (because A never sees the timing or result of its prefetch requests - it doesn't even know if the browser attempted them).

B obviously knows what resources A prefetched because they were requested from B in the first place. And if A wants to pass information to B, they don't need to do a complex prefetch dance, they can just load an img src.

So I don't see any way for A or B to learn anything about the user's behavior on one another's site without the other site's cooperation?
Apologies if I missed your actual point. The parent post you're referencing was evidently gone by the time I replied, so I was responding on face value, not contextually.
> We illuminate it with an extremely powerful flashlight—about 100,000 times brighter than your typical flashlight

Wow! How much of this hits the atmosphere/surface of Venus. Is this the amount of energy output from the Radio Telescope or that hits the surface.
Limitations of ACH, not eBay specific.
I have no idea how this is supposed to prevent human error by reading that page.
Heck, you could do a single 1-D list (no object), and just give the header count as the first element, which would be even more compact.
Just take a few minutes to skim the NixOS manual, then keep it in front of you on another device while you do an install. Enable a web browser, a desktop environment, and NetworkManager in your initial configuration.nix.

Then just start adding software that you want to be able to use. Search for it first in the NixOS options[1]. If you see it there, enable it and configure it using the options that make sense to you. If you don't see it there, search for it in the package collection[2], then use the name you find for it there to add it to `environment.systemPackages` in your `configuration.nix` file.

Just kinda take it easy and continue with that process until you have an environment that's more or less comfy. Then you're free to revisit your config and think about stuff like tying it in with your dotfiles, using Nix to manage your home directory, services you might want to run, etc.

—

1: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=21.05&

2: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=21.05&
> and obviously the people trying to catch them don't want to reveal the techniques they use to track and attribute their alleged activity.

Most of these methods are already public knowledge, usually advanced versions of "don't reuse email addresses."

>Of course, their saying "just take my word for it" doesn't mean you should trust them or their findings, but it doesn't mean you should necessarily distrust them just because they don't reveal their methods.

I should assume their statement is false until evidence is provided. That's a fairly universal concept.

>What's the source on this one? Sounds like an interesting story.

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/two-birds-one-stone-panda/
It exceedingly hilarious that you didn't flame your co-workers here or talk negatively about office culture, yet.... most the replies seem to focus on how you imply that office culture is not for you or somehow toxic.

I feel like the stalwarts here are most likely young and bushy tailed. Wanting to pander to their really toxic boss, who says the only way to get promoted is to work 80 hour weeks and make them look good. Sorry, that isn't sustainable in any industry. Have fun

(Cool I am going to report the really arrogant replies to this thread... which at this point are literally most of them)
My first encounter with programming (after childhoolds basic coding) was a Max/MSP course at music school. I remember I built a program which plays a short loop and each iteration modifies the loop a bit. It ended up pretty nice, but unfortunately I've lost the copy long time ago.