skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remote point notwithstanding, this is quite common, actually. Amazon's mean tenure is somewhere around 9 months and is well known for flogging their mandatory attrition curve; they also are known for having relatively forgiving hiring criteria to be constantly moving fresh blood through the system. Amazon backloads RSUs for this reason, and juniors routinely treat their employment there as a "tour of duty" before moving elsewhere, as the brand is still quite a strong stamp on the resumé.

Many parts of it can be a bad place to work. But it's a huge company. There are some parts doing cutting edge work as well that you won't get access to at other companies. But to your point, the likelihood that a junior engineer will get access to that is slim, and so your assertion holds.
That is not at all what the article is about.

The article is about bankers deciding that banks should not be able to leverage against the value of their crypto holdings - which is perfectly sensible given how volatile they are.
ADHD meds can also confound sleep unfortunately.
20 years is a bit much IMO...5-10 tho, that sounds at least reasonable.
Less anticompetitive is still anticompetitive!
[Hi from Argentina!] I'm not sure about the details of the transitions in Brazil, but each time there is a change of money here the bank accounts are transformed instantly to the new denomination and the bills and coin coexist for some time, like 3 or 6 months. It's more a cosmetic change, to make the numbers no overflow in the bank system. It also has a psychological effect, because with the change the government pinky promise not to take stupid economic decisions and reduce the inflation.
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I think the current (quite absurd) situation is a function of three factors: 1) how easily people get offended these days, 2) how easily accusations can spread thanks to network effects, e.g. on Twitter, 3) how much damage can be done by people fixed on causing you maximum damage legally, e.g. calling your employer etc.
That's not as absolute as you make it seem. At some point we decided it's correct to send murderers into a prison, and I doubt you think this is wrong. Yet, this is balancing individual rights against the needs of society. How much rights for how much need always matter.

The real argument here is that a school's principal is not a legislative body, and his authority to make those choices is completely illicit.
No the OP, but if they were the only things around that showed any possibility of combating Covid, sure. But that's not the case. We have vaccines and other therapeutics that show incredible effectiveness. Approving HCQ and Ivermectin in this situation is wrong.
You don't need to send this email to everyone. Only to those users who haven't clicked on a single link of your regular newsletter for the past X months.
Look, one problem with crypto is that there exists anonymous super-whale actors that are using it to siphon money off of smaller average-joe investors. No doubt some of these actors have nation-state backing (China, Russia, Iran...)

The other problem is that for every idealist crypto supporter, there's exists another thousand crypto investors who have only one intention; to convert their investment back to fiat at a profit.

The latter (the 99.9% super-majority) ensures that crypto, no matter its supposedly idealist origins, are intricately linked to fiat (virtual fiat at that).

In fact crypto has gone from being a form of anti-banker for-the-people idealist payment options to being a form of virtual faith-based shares whose value is literally linked to nothing.
There is no chance the US (nor China if it takes control) gives up the dominance of its currency.

Both state actors have more than enough means to squash Bitcoin or any other crypto
Why not use the Nvidia docker runtime and put your application in a container?
Put a little more blunt than I would have but there's nothing wrong there. Rarely a submission goes by where the first comments aren't people racing in to argue with the author.

There's an adversarial air that exists around dissecting, criticizing, nit-picking etc ideas presented, both here and in the tech world at large. As if one's most valuable contribution to a conversation is assuming the role of smug contrarian.

It's frankly tiring and obnoxious. I used to think non-geeks were just bad at communicating with us; that the fault was on their side somehow. But now I think we're just dicks.
There's no need to over-analyze this - we're talking about a generation of useless oafs. Days spent playing video games or other couch-bound non-activities, eating trash food, shitposting on the internet. I wish there was some way we could exile them to an island.
> We have military dominance by far across the entire planet. That sure seems like a great metric to me.

For someone who wants to think their arguments are principled and others' aren't, this is really hilarious. What you stated isn't a metric.

> And we'll maintain it and use the money better with time, and raise more if we need it.

You make what you measure. How do you know we're using money better over time, and what historical barometers are you using for such an assertion? It's just not possible to build precise metrics around this. So it's important to be clear what proxy metrics you're using and to state the caveats of these very clearly.

If anything I think there's strong evidence that we're using money worse as time goes on. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor the raptor cost $350M per aircraft, is no longer produced, and didn't even provide us superiority over its foreign competitors due to lack of flight range. Is that what you'd call efficient spend?

Do you really not see any problems with your advocacy for unlimited one-sided investment? You do realize it's possible to be simultaneously {pro-freedom and pro-american military supremacy} and {against unfettered military spending}?

>> "Source: brother"
> This is not a source.

I wasn't saying it's a research source, I'm saying it's one of _my_ sources for what I'm stating. I'm stating my opinions and where I'm coming from, in order to minimally convince a random reader that I'm not just pulling stuff out of my ass. I'm not writing a research paper. I don't even state any specifics of what I've learned from said relation. In normal conversation it's perfectly fine to say stuff like "oh yeah Yelp is a bureaucratic company, I know because I have N friends who work there." It's not rigorous, it's not something you'd write in a research paper, but it offers value to a normal-ass conversation, which is what's supposed to be happening here. In this case, since my brother is a SEAL I've probably heard some stories about how the Navy spends money. If you don't have similar context, you might be like "oh that's interesting to me." You also can ignore it.

> The opportunity costs of China or Russia telling everyone what to do? Have you not looked at any news recently?

Do you even understand what opportunity cost is? This is intellectually dishonest of you -- unlimited military spending is not necessarily needed to prevent China and Russia from telling us what to do. And you can also see, from the very news you say I haven't looked at, that unlimited military spending doesn't even prevent them from telling a lot of people (or "everyone" in your parlance) what to do.

Opportunity cost is: if I spend $1 on bullets, I can't spend that $1 on {healthcare, education, economic growth}. Consider the opportunity cost of even a single $350M F-22.
The wavelength is chosen to minimize the risk. The lamp is used to treat skin problems and the amount of time for that use is quite a bit longer than just to get some vitamin d from it.
We have never paid people based on the amount of effort they put in.
We should probably first do realistic estimates on how much that would increase prices for those products.

20 years is a long time and I wonder how much use a 20 year old iPhone for example even has.
>Rights are only a concept that exists within societies

I fundamentally disagree with this. Rights exist regardless of society, society merely limits them.
A field where floating point errors accumulate quickly and can totally ruin your results is computational geometry. See this paper https://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~mehlhorn/ftp/classroomExample... for examples.
It's actually a secret reference to the buddhist idea of "conventional reality", things that exist only by convention or agreement among people: political office, property ownership, money, diplomas, marriage, borders, ... most of modern life
A "good" manager can at least broadly know how long something will take, and not accept "40 hours" for a 1 hour project. A good manager may not be able to know that a 40 hour project will only take the employee 30 hours, but at that point, who cares? Is the employee sandbagging an extra 10 hours that problematic? Do we really need employees correctly estimating time to completion as perfectly as possible? Is an employee completing a task the company wants them too, ahead of time and on schedule, with a few extra hours to decompress or live their life really a disaster scenario?

What happens if the employee says "30 hours" and if it takes them 40. Do managers/organizations then move things back, or do they expect things done by the deadline given previously, even if it means putting in overtime to get it across the finish line?
This is like saying “it’s just metadata, what could it reveal.”

As for heart rate and temperature, having this info over time can show:

When were you sleeping, active, potentially emotional?

When did a woman ovulate? Is she pregnant now? Did she have a miscarriage? Or maybe an abortion?
https://archive.is/20iZl
Do you consider the fact that some people get really hurt by bubbles?
Up until my early 30's, I could never fall asleep before 1-2AM. If I could sleep until 10AM I felt great, any earlier and I felt miserable all day. This put me seriously out of sync with the expectations of the corporate work world.

In the 1990's medicinal herbs became popular and easy to get, including sleep aids. I discovered rather by accident that if I took melatonin or valerian right before going to bed, then popped a caffeine pill immediately upon waking up, I felt normal and productive during the day, even with only sixish hours of sleep. I started doing that routinely during the work week. Changed my life.

My sleep rhythms finally adjusted after about ten years of doing this, so I can now go to bed at 11pm-12 and wake up like a normal person in the morning without the aid of the herbs or the caffeine.
It's been a long time since the big news about psychological experiments performed on users without their consent [0]. However, intentional emotional manipulation unquestionably remains a core goal for the mainstays of Facebook - marketing, advertising, propaganda, and politics. Heart rate is a visceral emotional indicator that would add value in the context of Facebook, in ways that aren't as accessibly exploitable from the ecosystems of Apple.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_emotional_manipulatio...
that's a good idea for fly-on-the-wall ones! Will think about that
The majority of US states only meet a few months a year. Many have two year sessions that start in odd-years, so things that don't get completed in 2021 can get picked up again where they left off in 2022.

You'd be surprised both how much they're expected to get done in a few months, and also how little some state legislatures actually pass. State and Federal agencies serve a huge role in the US, partially for this reason.
This. And 2 days ago it seemed so obvious that there was no reason to leave any bread crumbs.
> Can you really look at the Blackrock disaster [4] (Wall Street slumlordism) and tell me the system doesn't harm people?

Yeah, someone could do that for any system. "A horrible thing happened somewhere" or even "this part of the market is totally screwed up" are facts about every plausible alternative. So though they may be facts about the current system, they don't tell us how to improve the situation.

You can make an argument that the problem is systemic, but having one example of a problem doesn't do anything except score rhetorical points in a game where evidence and argument don't really matter.
Fiat currencies are mostly "backed" by the necessity to pay taxes and other government fees using them.

The US Dollar has the additional advantage of being the currency through which most large financial trade transactions are required to be paid.

Ultimately, however, this backing is mostly possible through the unexpressed coercive threat of legal action and ultimately force.
Isn’t it the opposite? If a person who owns the property has a mortgage, wouldn’t rent always have to be higher?
I've long found it funny that this blog titled with "pedantry" has so many disclaimers. Pedantry is usually about poking all the tiny wholes in the opposing argument not your own!
Reading Assembly may not be difficult, but reverse engineering and figuring out what it is doing is. Same as with bread. Pulling a loaf of bread apart and seeing the individual grains and how the connect isn't difficult, figuring out the process for making it is.

If you're trying to explain to a non-technical person what source code is, the bread example from OP is actually a great analogy. It's simple, to the point, and almost everyone will know how bread is made. Is it oversimplified? Sure. But that's the entire point of trying to give a real brief overview to someone with no technical experience.
> I've spent 10 years writing security critical C code. There's no problem writing secure code in C. You just have to stop being clever and prioritize security above "speed". Your code will probably be fast enough anyway.

Are there good examples of what you mean by this? From my own C++ experience, when dealing with c libraries and std::string types, I'll sometimes use the copying api's[0] when passing around std::string::c_str() because I find it easier than worrying about invalidating the returned reference if the string is destructed or modified.

[0]: e.g. https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS.html
In fact users did get other users' data just by using the app normally, so it likely didn't happen the way you describe it.
It's the money. In the past the instructor would have given each student an oral exam, but with introductory classes with more than 200 students that approach doesn't scale.
And not just any weapons but thousands of strategic and tactical nuclear weapons.
Who cares? The point here is that web apps are safer to run than native. Yes, they're resource hogs, yes they're feature-poor, but they are still safer to run than native code, so it's perfectly reasonable that an OS makes it harder to run arbitrary native code than webapps.
doesn't this translate into a many year long permission to sell a drug with no evidence that it works?
Yeah, he asked me for a new one as part of the reset (or just for his further amusement?!) - I just used my brain's PRNG for a few words for that.
Schelling point is another name for this.
I had a whole company to make those with millions of downloads

After my first startup failed I was rejected for developer jobs, and a few places said it was because they thought I'd want to quit and start a new company rather than stay there for the long haul. More anecdata obviously, but some employers see someone's previous independence as a forewarning of that person looking for independence again in the near future.
There's no difference except in my miscommunication - I used the term once because you described it as a single event, I did not mean to imply that it could not happen again or wasnt happening often and inopportunely, but instead to comment on the contrast between a measured event that sucks and millions of measured events that suck way more.
How?

100% tax on crypto-to-fiat transactions? National firewall inspecting traffic for numerically-low hashes? Police kicking down doors of suspected miners, looking for GPUs? Something else? I'm sympathetic to some of the reasons, but isn't the devil sort of in the details here?
> Which is reasonable to me. It takes years to test drugs like this and if a patient and her doctor believe this is the best treatment, the FDA shouldn't prevent them from getting access to it.

I can understand this argument as long as Biogen isn't making any money off of these drugs. In fact, they should really be losing money if anything since they are gaining value from the data.
Really? I remember people buying Satnavs and maps, and paying for email and hosting
Your argument misses some of the important reasons of the approval process.

Firstly, approval limits the legal liability for drugmakers. If we adopt a policy where approval does not exist. As long as the government takes part in the risk so it should have a say in the matter.

> treat adults as adults, and let them and their medical providers make such choices.

Signing out of medicare and all government assistance in case of becoming invalid, so that government is not in the hook for personal decisions would be a huge ask.

If 10 million individuals make the same decision independently, and it backfires, that has negative consequences for the rest of the country. One decision does not matter, millions of decisions become collective matter.
I’m using Hearts of Space or the chillout mixshows from truehouse.net for the same effect.

Of the latter, I prefer the shows I’ve been listening to for over a decade.
It's not just kids who like RGB lighting. I know a few people in their late 30s and early 40s that love the colorful effects.

Personally I do like lighting, but I want static colors. The great thing about RGB lighting is that I can choose whatever color I want. Much better than when the choices were basically just red or blue and you had to commit to one when you bought it.
Anecdote: I saw someone this morning get pulled over for rolling through a stop sign.
Perception is everything in a society. Police can't be everywhere, and the stability of the system is maintained by everyone accepting the legitimacy of a certain political structure.

There may not actually be fraud, but strengthening the election system wouldn't hurt, and it would calm those who think there is and help stabilize the system during a tumultuous time in our country's history.
> I would so love to eliminate winner takes all from states as part of the electoral college

The manner of Presidential elections is a whole lot less important to having a partisan duopoly than the manner of legislative elections and the fact we have a strong Presidency.
> as counter-example ... the kind of woman who would be interested in having a life-long career ... that is not the case ... men who wish they could be stay-at-home dads

You seem to be saying the same thing OP is saying: there are few women who are comfortable being the primary (or sole) breadwinners.
How is your health affected?
It means giving up, more or less. The default handling that a supervisor provides is probably not sufficient for a looping failure, was the point.
I think we're in agreement, this isn't going to happen. I'd just frame it differently.

If a politician were to try and ban this, I'm sure compentent spin doctors would think of better lines of attacks than bitcoin == rich people == evil. They might throw a line in the direction of nationalism (chinese control, dangerous!), or note its environmental impact, or note the risks due to instability (so we'll compensate you small fry, but not <xyz>), or claim a connection to organized crime, or note the issues of tax evasion...

I mean, it's not hard to come up with a list, and I firmly believe - not just because it's crypto, but just in general - that people just dont care about this kind of technicality. To be clear: they would need to buy out at least the vast majority of current holders or some such scheme to at least take out the sting for most people - but then, that's something that's attractive to a few special interests too, so that could well fly.

But why would they bother? It's just not going to happen.
This is 100% my point. The idea that open source exists to make software free for "the people" is the biggest and most convenient lie in our industry.

Open source exists because its easier to make money with software if you don't have to pay developers for the code you start with!

How you make money is up to your business model. In the case of Google, that's the egregious advertising and surveillance business. As much as I dislike that, it is still a business that monetizes open source software.
I rather thought the premise of the story was the dominant view among classicists, so I scanned the article thinking there might have been some new development.

Turns out, the purpose of the article is to tease a new biography of Parry (the one who nominally "killed" Homer), written by Robert Kanigel called “Hearing Homer’s Song”.
And it could also be insider trading. This was a market moving announcement (in TSLA) a few days after she bought.

There's plausible deniability for sure, it might've been coincidence, and I'm not denying that.
Your comment seems to be unrelated to the issue in the article.

This development actually seems like it institutionalizes crypto more, not less.
I'm of the opinion that you should commit WIP stuff. Use the SCM for managing your source code, damn it!

Just don't publish WIP crap; fortunately, you can have your cake and eat it too, with git.

The biggest reason git (and any similarly advanced SCM) is superior to non-distributed alternatives like Subversion is that I can use it to manage my own workflow, instead of just as the final off-site backup of whatever I decide to publish. I get to actually use everything git offers for shuffling commits and code around while coding.

Want to switch contexts quickly? git commit the whole thing and just switch a branch.

How about untangling a hairy merge? Do it piecemeal and commit when you're done with each bit; it's trivial to then undo mistakes, redo, combine or reorder stuff and you cannot lose any work by accident because git commits are immutable.

All of these features essentially require history rewriting; sure, you're free to rebrand and not call "store WIP state in repository" a commit even though it is one, but I would consider any SCM without these features nigh useless for most work.
What problem it is solving? I have gone thru the docs, but couldn't figure it out the purpose :(
Non-removable batteries are annoying, but they allow you to make devices which are much more compact, or which have a larger battery at the same size.

The battery in e.g. an iPhone 6S takes some work to replace, but it's still quite easy for a repair shop to do, so that seems like a very reasonable trade-off to me.
Declaring certain currency notes to be valueless doesn't change the demand for currency. It reduces supply.

But people still need it to pay taxes and the government will only pay for services with it.

In most developed nations, the government is responsible for 20%+ of the total GDP, so that's an inbuilt "floor" to the value of its currency.

So yes, the government can change the currency and the notes, but they control the supply and demand of whatever they deem to be the currency.