skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are a sick and twisted individual.

I like that in a person.
I hope this is a hit for them. They brought a nice vibe to the industry. And it can be a bit stale today.

And I just like these people.
Yes the nadir of the V is the inner-ring BMW suburb class, I so disparaged. And I really meant it when I said I didn't care about them.

It might sound like I'm being a culture warrior chest-thumper about those "liberal elites", but I really do mean something more material / economic here. I think most of that classes struggles (and they do take on huge debts) would not be worsened by taking away their money.

- This is the class most thirstiest about getting their kinds into good schools without being able to donate their way in. But the scarcity of "good jobs" that motivates this credentialism relates to inadequate demand of the masses. Giving them more money won't help the fact that the Keynesian feedback loop has broken down, causing the job scarcity. (And really, consumption not work is the goal, we should fix the feedback loop by working less not consuming more, beyond guaranteeing basic needs.)

- This the class hitching lots of their wealth on real estate, but it's precisely because our cultural obsession with owning single family homes that good land (i.e. that with good access to the other good land where people need to go) is in perpetual short supply. Even if they are the "vacation home" winners of the current ponzie skin, the portion of winners will bleed away in successive generations if housing continues to be a "good investment" --- and thus unattainable to increasingly many people.

- Perhaps this class is less affected by expensive healthcare (other than the richer ones above), but would still benefit from it being cheaper. Not a majority of them is doctors or biotech researchers or whoever else benefits from our shitty healthcare system.

So yes, I think even if they are at the tax advantage nadir, they still are benefitting:

- Richer masses fix their job anxieties

- We should separately fix real estate and transit so they can be at peace in condos not mcmansions

- We should separately fix healthcare to their slight advantage.

Also, I sincerely hope and empowered working classes / lower classes will prevent the richest billionaires from emerging (at least more than transiently), so the 0.1% stuff should be far more of a theoretically problem as we get a "thinner vertical tail" power law.
people in ecuador don’t use credit cards. they use cash
He's clearly in the wrong field. He should be doing PR for megacorps with these results.
I had to look up the quote, it was by Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author.

As a soon-to-be-elderly and yet-to-be-distinguished scientist, I don't think we have a good answer for what to do about the fact that at any given moment, our present-day knowledge might be wrong. I think that science and science fiction have different and irreconcilable approaches to that problem.

In many cases, when I say something can't be done, rather than just leave it at that, I try to explain what parts I think are strictly impossible (this is actually rare), what parts are straightforward but require more effort than might be available, and what parts are likely to be legitimately hard due to the level of domain knowledge needed just to get started.
In Australia we tend to be 5-15 years behind most of the (dubious or otherwise) business trends from EU / US -- though every place I've worked here since the 1990's has eagerly embraced open office.

Reasons pushed typically include the common 'improved collaboration', but it's tacitly understood it's all down to real estate costs. Office space is expensive in major Australian cities.

I'm with a government agency that was in the throes of moving to a hot-desking arrangement when the pandemic arrived.

On top of 'improved collaboration' there were some benefits claimed that I can't believe were made in good faith, including gems such as 'more light between desks'. It wasn't clear who thought the inter-desk spaces were too dark. (These are floors with standard, horrible, fluorescent tubes flooding every surface.)

The week that our team worked from home while our particular area was being renovated (primarily the removal of partitions to allow everyone to always have at least two faces in constant peripheral vision left and right of your monitor) was the week that a lockdown was called here, and it was months before any of us stepped back into the office.

Even now we're one or two days a week, and some are eschewing returning entirely for the time. Perversely the poor coordination of our federal administration on the vaccination front means that we're still at least 8 months away from being able to make any claims of safety via herd immunity.

I don't doubt that someone with expensive shoes is running the numbers, trying to work out the best trade-off for offloading some office space vs ensuring useful productivity & mental health for the staff vs not raising the ire of staff or unions vs attracting good candidates beyond the current situation. I don't envy them.

On the other hand, I had two years pre-pandemic being on-site with the organisation & the team -- my job would be insanely difficult if I'd come into it while everyone was remote.

I guess the claim could be made that this reflects some lack of organisational sophistication - the reliance on knowing who to talk to, rather than having documentation and systems in place to help new or existing staff navigate that, but projecting backwards I don't believe I've worked in any organisation that had/has that. I expect more organisations will, coming out of this pandemic, reconsider that problem.
This is a great documentary from ~ 2012. If you love American diner culture or are interested in Boston, or just enjoy seeing stories of hospitality industry folks and how their places sometimes touch the lives of many people in a city, definitely give it a watch!
Too bad they chose a city with zero train service and zero public transportation.
- It's thrifty: houses further away are cheaper.

- It's good for the kids: suburban schools perform better.

- It's a sacrifice: a family man is supposed to prioritize his own comfort last.

- It's accessible: we don't look at bankers or tech workers and say how great it is that they're doing so much for the families. That's just classism and privilege at work. Maybe, if we're feeling charitable, natural-born talent. But we, too, could deliver a better life to our families by driving longer hours. We just don't have the stomach for it. So we respect those who do.

Of course no one cares what it's doing to the environment. That really ought to factor in the moral calculus. But right now super-commuting is just about the most virtuous thing an American middle-class adult can do.
Or there are a lot of random errors and only the politically sensitive ones make headlines and result in press releases?
How would that come about? Serious question. I do not see how price controls like that could possible work, unless El Salvador closes its borders to all trade.
DitherPaint – Modern MacPaint for the Browser
> In a real office, I'd have spotted that much sooner because I'd realize that a certain someone runs over to the team whenever there's a production outage - I'd see and hear it.

Why would anyone stand up and run over to tell someone about things in person when they could send a message and notify everyone at once? Like, this just seems like you want to work "in the 90s", not work "in an office", because unless your office has like five people total in it, this doesn't seem like a realistic way people would communicate.

> But now, that happens in a zoom/slack I am not in, and awareness is much lower.

Zoom replaces in-person meetings you also might not have been in, and frankly are even less likely to have been in because you can't easily be in two meetings at once, record the meeting to attend later, or attend the meeting while in transit or doing other work (all things that are reasonable as you are there as a manager to track what is happening, not do the work: you might even be in two meetings at once! sounds crazy, but people do that in person all the time, by running back and forth between two conference rooms, only now that is trivial).

As for chat: wasn't that your fault? If you need to watch the support team interacting with the engineering efforts, make sure their chat is configured so you can see it... if the workers are colluding to create secret back channels using personal Slack accounts that management isn't aware of in order to get their work done, something much more serious has failed at your company that you should be addressing before demanding everyone congregate in an office building.

I literally did all of the things I am known for without having met any of the people I did them with, as we met online and coordinated online and achieved great things having to talk in person... or on video, or even on the phone, because it was more than sufficient to talk via IRC and e-mail.

Here's something to consider:
I don't think these can be learned through books.

What you need is practice. Years of practice in performing arts has made me good in public speaking, and my stage-fear in non-existent.

And, since my childhood, I was always encouraged by teachers to write my own amswers to literary subjects as opposed to reading answers written in companion books and teachers' notes. Years of practice made me better. You would think that the skill of literary answer writing in middle school does not translate well into writing technical blogs, or project/grant proposal. You would be wrong. Many skills are general to writing.

What I suggest is that you begin reading non-fiction books in the areas that interest you. Start blogging. It could be about anything. Then improve your writing quality through iteration. Iteration is the only way to improve your writing. Generally read more. Read _anything_.

Same goes for speaking. Join a book club. Or any Clubhouse room with a topic of your interest where things are well organized. Prepare speeches. Talk. Seek brutal feedback.

Take any opportunity to speak and write.

I must warn you that these things take time. You will not be magically better after one month. You can see progress after, say, six-seven months. And if you are in the correct path, you will feel world-encompassing cringe in your writing and speeches from six months back. This is the way.

Think of a timeframe of five/six years. Be focused. Your speaking and writing will be completely transformed.

Pro tip: many people speak and write to woo an audience, project themselves as something they are not, impress peers, etc. Their effect is limited to only a small (and often insignificant) portion of people out there. The only important goal of writing and speaking is communicating your thoughts, feelings, knowledge, intuition, and so on. Everything else comes later.
And these are all good points. If companies stop treating employees as ignorant chumps and explain them costs, I think it would go long way in increased mutual understanding. But then employers feel scared that if an employee comes back and say how about I set up a home office? Win-Win right? So now employers comes with cost saving plan but smothers with bullshit of "next generation collaborative workspace" or whatever.
> The country is in desperate need of widespread unionization efforts.

No thanks. I don’t like working with clock punchers nor do I want to get paid as poorly as programmers in Europe/Canada.

Until unions in the US stop prioritizing seniority over competence for pay, they need to stay the hell away from this industry.
The level of absolutely bogus assertions coming from the uninformed or misinformed about technology is staggering.

I'd have filed the information and then verified the bandwidth claims. The claim sounds highly unlikely.
I am curious how managing secrets locally is less secure than a cloud based solution?
What's difference compared to using Chrome / Firefox with Noscript / UBO to block JS by default?
I think the reason we often see FAANG-related issues actually resolved when they're posted on HN is that so many programmers who work at these FAANGs read HN and can escalate real issues internally.

While there probably are thousands of real issues that don't make it onto HN and thus never get resolved, there's probably multiple millions of people just as desparate that are just trying to skirt some rule or are telling half-truths to try to get their way and bypass policies.
I guess the Walmarts near me are different. I just scan stuff and I can either bag it on the platform or put it straight into my cart. The portable barcode scanner means I don't need to take the 50lb bag of dog food out of the cart either. There's no special aisle to exit, you just leave the regular way.
> Anecdata: I experienced as frequent internet outages at various offices as I did working from home.

That’s not the point. If everyone is in an office, an outage will simply affect everyone at once. If everyone is working from home, and you’re sufficiently distributed, then it’s possible that the company winds up with at least one employee out on bad internet every day.

Depending on the sort of work they do, one or the other might be preferable.
Thursday was fish day in the USSR
> I never understood why someone would live over an hour away from where they work.

A lot of people are married to someone who works in another part of the bay area.

A lot of people buy houses and change jobs later.

And then there are safety issues. I don't feel safe in San Jose.
Same. I noticed younger colleagues (<30) tend to prefer open office where older crowds prefer more separation.

On the other hand, I've lost count on the number of Bose/Sony noise cancelling headsets I came across in the office.
Poor people don't interview for tech jobs?
I agree with the author. But this phenomenon has been happening for a while with corp speak and marketing buzzwords. It's jumped the perimeter and now has metastasized in the political arena in identity politics as well as in actual journalism. It's not just joe and jill college student, but it inhabits the mouths of professionals too now.
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> Ross [...] claims he did not know SilkRoad would be used for drugs

The quote is:

"I had no idea Silk Road would work, but now we all know it caught on. It was used to sell drugs, and now I’m in prison."

He's saying he didn't know it would work. He isn't saying he didn't know it would be used to sell drugs.
Reminds me of problem in the early days of Google:

> On Sanjay’s monitor, a thick column of 1s and 0s appeared, each row representing an indexed word. Sanjay pointed: a digit that should have been a 0 was a 1. When Jeff and Sanjay put all the missorted words together, they saw a pattern—the same sort of glitch in every word. Their machines’ memory chips had somehow been corrupted.

> Sanjay looked at Jeff. For months, Google had been experiencing an increasing number of hardware failures. The problem was that, as Google grew, its computing infrastructure also expanded. Computer hardware rarely failed, until you had enough of it—then it failed all the time. Wires wore down, hard drives fell apart, motherboards overheated. Many machines never worked in the first place; some would unaccountably grow slower. Strange environmental factors came into play. When a supernova explodes, the blast wave creates high-energy particles that scatter in every direction; scientists believe there is a minute chance that one of the errant particles, known as a cosmic ray, can hit a computer chip on Earth, flipping a 0 to a 1. The world’s most robust computer systems, at nasa, financial firms, and the like, used special hardware that could tolerate single bit-flips. But Google, which was still operating like a startup, bought cheaper computers that lacked that feature. The company had reached an inflection point. Its computing cluster had grown so big that even unlikely hardware failures were inevitable.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
I see. Thanks for clarifying.
This is so true and a pithy statement. I am gonna use it in many conversations going forward!
This reminds me of one of my pet hates; you pose to the team an issue that needs solving, or perhaps you're in the middle of solving, and someone pipes up with "Couldn't you just X?", where X is the first thing any competent person might think of. Yes, sometimes we overlook the simple solutions and get caught in our own bubbles, so there is some value there. Personally when I find myself wanting to "couldn't you just" someone I start with more probing questions because I'm going to assume the obvious answer was the first thing tried/abandoned, which is why we're even talking about this.

I suppose this is just the manifestation of the best way to motivate an engineer being to tell them something is impossible.
Sunnyvale to Mountain View? I'd bike that.
It has nothing to do with security - they want to move everyone to a subscription model for reoccurring revenue. I can't blame them for that, but it isn't necessarily the best for customers.
There is more to investigating then gathering admissible evividence.

For example, if you are talking with Alice and she says that she heard from Bob chat Charlie was in the office at a weird hour on the day in question investigators have gains nothing that they can admit as evidence [0]. However, there is nothing that anyone (defense or a third party) can do challenge this portion of the investigation other then keep it out of evidence, and the investigators are free to follow up with either Bob or Charlie to get something that would be admissible.
That is a very...strange wiki. If not self written, then perhaps written based on spoken self accounts.

Also, I know of no place in Florida called "Coral Gates." Perhaps the transcriber misheard.
Coastal birds like these are laying their eggs openly on the sand. You can see a picture here:

https://bit.ly/3gcjZbY

A dog off-leash would rip through and harass ever bird in the vicinity as well as damage any egg they wanted to. The "island" looks like it's in a shallow swamp that a dog could run across easily enough, though someone mentioned the area is usually fenced.

Here's a video of me flying a drone slowly over a group of crested terns sitting on rocks (birds similar to those in the story). I am maybe six feet above them. The only time they really moved was when a large wave hit the rocks and they left and returned when it subsided. There are a few dozen birds under the drone, while others are returning after the wave washed through - you can see they are not particularly bothered by it. (Obviously a drone crashing into the ground would spook them more.)

https://bit.ly/2T4t5PT
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Combine Tor Browser with the archive.org/archive.is sites?
Yeah I like tor because the tor browser has built in fingerprinting protection.

Otherwise you could use a privacy hardened firefox version along with some kinda proxy.

I would say you could rent your own vps, use a vpn service that maintains their own servers, use a decentralized vpn (these are a new development) or just use someone else’s wifi that you don’t also use with your „real“ identity.

Opsec can be hard to maintain but boy is doing so fun.
Curious if IPFS file hash is compatible with this list?
One crucial bit of shared context that gets mostly missed…lunch. Not having lunch together has been, IME, the single biggest indicator of a dysfunctional team.

The neat thing about lunch is that the conversations are entirely non-directed without feeling like the time is being wasted in a meeting. Conversations can cover a specific project, when a high degree of coordination is necessary, generalized venting, when there are shared frustrations or just be about non-work topics that help a team bond and get to know each other as people rather than workers. It’s like a meeting that doesn’t feel like a meeting that can be strategic or therapeutic as needed. There’s really no way to replicate the beneficial effects of eating lunch together when workers are remote.

As a manager, this has also been one of my go-to tricks for successful cross-team projects lasting any significant amount of time. I tell one of my team members to setup a lunch with at least one member of the other team on a weekly basis and use the incentive of authorizing the company to pay for it. For ~$20/person/week, the cross-team communications issues basically disappear. It’s ridiculously cost effective and almost magical in how well it works.
Nice. Though it might be nicer to take a pattern like "Start" rather than the count.
I feel like you are a kindred spirit! Although Julia is far for my first language, Julia is the first language I ever did a coding interview in (at Apple; it was the language I was doing the most work on and I took their "use whatever language you're comfortable with" to heart. It went poorly).
I think iOS does this right. It helps you get a password from the Bitwarden app when using the browser. No browser extension with injection is required.
How convenient. Media mostly ignore an event. When there is predictably not much outrage among people that are largely unaware of it, claim this is evidence they think it's OK.
You can import chrome passwords from other browsers so I think you can also export them for backup.

I agree that I don't think you can add custom secrets.
To be honest even though I hate open office with a passion and cannot concentrate single person office is not ideal at least for me. A large part of my time at google we had a shared team office for 4-10 people and that was never an issue and has all of the collaboration. Another time my desk was in a noisy open landscape next to the main reception and a busy cafeteria where the kitchen staff would often chat loudly and play video on their phone using the speaker.
And here I always dreamed of having blinking neon lights, like noir films, in office bathrooms that says "This place is full of shit".
Apple is famous for requiring most of their engineers to work 60 to 90 hours a week.

It should come as no surprise that their leadership is requiring them to come back to the office, because without that, they cannot enforce such crazy overworking requirements.
Deflation means I can buy more stuff for less money. This allows me to work less and have more leisure time. Therefore, deflation is desirable.
Mmm... haven't tried WebAuthn, so I'll have to figure that out.

Curiously, I haven't had the issue with coworkers at my company using their password where they shouldn't... but the company I'm at is rather small... and I do scare them with a long phishing presentation when they join the company, and show them all the ways they can be phished, and tell them very carefully not to use passwords where they aren't suggested... I bet there are people who are like that though. And that would be a pain =/.

I haven't had to deal with the 2nd thing you mentioned, but yeah, I imagine it's quite a bit more secure that way. I bet it's caused a few trouble calls, that's for sure. I'll check out WebAuthn though.
Sacha publishes the weekly Emacs newsletter and has many org related blogs on her site. She is also one of the most wholesome tech person I have ever seen.
Lightning isn’t an app - it’s an open protocol supported by dozens of programs. This one app you’re talking about also supports it.
I quite liked parts of the Windows Phone 7 take on UI.

Some bits were just old school UI switched out for blocky rectangles. But other parts were great. It had a beautiful hotizontal scrolling pattern [1] that replaced patterns like Windows tabs and the iOS style navigation bars. The background had a parralax scrolling effect that tied it all together.

When the design used animation and motion well you could see a glimpse of something that was both unique and good. Even 11 years later, those designs look modern and usable.

Unfortunately Windows 10 has gone exclusively down the old-school UI with blocky boxes route.

1: https://youtu.be/8dM4X-KveSs?t=1m23s