skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where do you work that the C-level people eat in the same place as the office workers?

I’ve worked at a Fortune 500 company for 20 years and I’ve never so much as seen a C-level person, even though we all work on the same campus. They have separate parking garages, separate buildings, separate fitness facilities, separate eating facilities, etc.
Humans were not made to spend 40+ hours/week not socializing.
Well, probably a lot of "I like the office" implies "... because I like being around my coworkers" and that obviously falls apart if you're the only one.
It helps that those tapes can be read in the future easily as well. HP at one point asked the company I worked for at the time if they could use their tape copy program with their new drives so that customers could copy older DAT tapes to a newer version so they didn't have to support older media formats in their newer drives.

The newer media is typically on a new very fast tape drive and sometimes it is difficult to saturate those anyway and keep stopping and starting and having to reposition over and over.
A 1700X is quite a bit more powerful than the i5-8250U in the author's Chromebook.

Probably around 2–3x the overall speed.
I thought Ferris was named after ferrous oxide, which is the old name for Fe(II) oxide. But chemically, rust consists of Fe(III) oxide, or ferric oxide. So perhaps a more appropriate name would be Ferrick?
As a parent, a five-day-per-week commute has many more opportunities for something to go wrong than an off-site I know about a month in advance that lasts for three nights.

Every single day, lots of things have to go right: dropping off has to be at a defined time (whether school or daycare, most activities have a predetermined start time unless the kid is very young, which mine isn't any more), then I have to get to work from the daycare, then I have to hope that nothing blows up during the day requiring me to stay longer, then I have to hope nothing blows up on the trip to daycare, and so on. I'm very fortunate that daycare is on a transit path for me because my family doesn't drive and transit around here is usually more reliable than driving.

Working from home for the last 15 months has been a godsend. I don't have to deal with any of those oddities. My spouse and I have traded off who takes a few days off every few weeks or so to be "on vacation" with the kid, or we sync up and take days off together to just veg at home as a family.

If you tell me I can skip the bullshit commute and only have to plan child care around a retreat that is booked a month, or even a couple of weeks!, in advance, I will gladly take that trade. Even if it's a "bring your spouse" kind of thing, I can get a set of grandparents to train or fly in for that time (or even go to them).
Let’s see where things are in 18 months.

As someone who hires, remote at least does have its pluses - one can reasonably expect comp (costs) to decline and perks are gone. Not sure why I wouldn’t just hire a team in Eastern Europe though once remote is the way.
Why would a hijacker abandon weapons? If their goal was hijacking and they found they were to be searched then why even board the plane? Just go back home with your weapon.
Think of a situation where you have, for example, a database like Redis. If you need to run two systems that need to access that data there will need to be some process that maintains that data and allows other people to access it.

You would have a hard time to make a resource efficient distributed in-process key-value store.

You could have an in-process library but this would cause your two programs to have either:

1. Store different data

2. All writes would need to be distributed to all processes (looping back to needing a network connection).
At small sizes the von Karman efficiency of airships is much worse than that of airplanes
I'm sure this post exists on HN because of the latest video in that series. The site linked by this post is mentioned by name.
Labor shortage plus inflation is the best thing possible for the people at the bottom of the economy.
I wrote something here, but decided it was coming across way to snotty and thought better of it.

Suffice it to say, I'm an appsec person, by way of an earlier career in vulnerability research, and ATT&CK is not a meaningful part of my field.
That Facebook, or Google, sells ad pricing via a live auction doesn't opine on whether that results in overcharging.

The mere fact that participation is effectively mandatory itself skews the market.
I think it's fairly obvious. I'm gonna build a massive mailing list.

When I get enough numbers, I'll include a link to a malicious website. Then people click on it and it'll download malware onto their computer. That will seed my botnet and then I can do bad things with it.
Roblox also, maybe moreso - https://felipepepe.medium.com/roblox-is-a-mud-the-history-of...
> especially when considering the damage their bodies absorb

Not all sports are football. Most professional sports don't damage bodies significantly.
It's a sad attempt to rescue the reputation of a modern nationalist movement the poster sympathises with by imbuing it with the moral righteousness of the independence movements of the 20th century.
Unless the problem lies in an interface shared across many or all services, or the assumed data model, or other higher level considerations. There are certainly monoliths that are successfully being developed on by many people at the same time (OS kernels for example), and I can see a few arguments why developing and debugging with microservices can be harder. For once, it's much easier to deal with most of your state in one address space instead of multiple.
> Ironically with the increase in unemployment pay and stimulus packages, it probably would have been better to be unemployed during the pandemic

Not for a large chunk of the HN audience. The stimulus and unemployment don't come close to covering the six-figure salaries many on here get paid.
Booting Linux or macOS is unlikely to happen anytime soon, but we might get them running in a VM if a jailbreak shows up.
The claim isn't that it's okay to break the rules, it's that this rule should be changed. We need rules against PEDs to prevent (or at least mitigate) an arms race with serious health consequences; we only need rules against pitch doctoring if it's bad for the game and the rules are enforceable.
But how else will that troglodyte and his minions call you a "noob"

Seriously it's 2021 who unironically still uses that term?
> Three languages

> ”At the heart of our Engineering Strategy is a rather simple document. A manifesto if you’d like. We call it Core Engineering Principles.”

> Lists 7 fairly complex rules

> ”There are about 30 more touching stacks, architecture, and org structure.”

I’m dying. This could only be written with a straight face by a microservices enthusiast.
B2 is an upgrade option. You can still store an unlimited amount on their standard plan, or upgrade for a little bit more for access to a year's worth of changes. It would be worth it to keep a separate desktop with a dozen drives connected and pay for a second annual subscription if you have that much data.

The one-year retention plan adds $24/year. Even the "forever" retention plan for 50TB would only add $250/year.

If we're talking about home use, B2 really isn't necessary. And if you want a daily rotation every day for a year the tape costs can add up, depending on how much data Cha he's day to day. For home use, an HDD backup combined with something like Backblaze seems like a pretty reasonable cost for two layers of redundancy and a year's worth of file versions changes.
A 2010 computer is still fine for most anything today. In 2010 a 2000 computer was not sufficient. The advances have been in connectedness, mobile phones, smart home stuff etc.
>"management is insistent on disallowing WFH."

Color me surprised. For some managers it may become a time where they'd have to look for a new job and likely not because that was what they wanted.

Yes there are very good managers that help great deal in facilitating development. I am sure those would be just fine.

But I suspect there are more managers who are busy with nothing but convincing the rest of the company that they are needed and irreplaceable while doing useless work.
Sounds like you aren’t listening to youself?

Folks have to meet in the middle somewhere if we want a society - some people want full office, some people want full remote, some people want a hybrid. They can’t all be happy.

Saying ‘I want to meet my coworkers face to face at least some of the time’ seems like the compromise position if anything.
Tape is great because once you write it and forget it, you think the data is safe. Until you try to read it.
Yeah, that makes sense for the data store, but don't microservices split up much more? Of course this could quickly devolve into a conversation about "at what point is it microservices".
It def feels like a raw vs jpeg. The straight sensor data vs a compressed and corrected view.

Problem is, you can get caught on certain intricacies of the raw input instead of just taking it all in at once. Taking it all in at once you can see how it's different than what you preconceived, and that your preconception is just one of infinite perceptions of the single moment.
These libraries provide the same API, so from a user perspective, as long as you do not need low-level access, it does not matter what your GPU is.

However, the low-level library for AMD GPUs is more of an alpha quality in Julia.
They are using the same chemicals that batters use so it might be impossible to detect
Search for "pseudo liberals India" and you will find a lot of articles talking about this topic. To be clear I'm not talking about any of them being right or wrong, just that that's the term which has historically been used.
I got really into using gopher and Gemini a few years ago while playing on SDF, but I was never able to find anything that held my interest and I don't think I ended up setting up my own phlog. Maybe my dopamine circuits have been reamed out by years in the attention economy... Every once in a while I think about writing a gopher server that serves content out of a WordPress database...
> the stock market keeps going up

It's not because of productivity gains, the Fed has been pumping money into the economy without regard for inflation and we're finally seeing the financial system respond. everything is more expensive, not just stocks.
Unfortunately strong and unique passwords are not ever enough.
You always need to add 2FA where possible.
Hopefully there are stronger options of 2FA beyond the weaker form of SMS.
The saas pass password manager helps identify which websites, service and apps that you use where you have the option of adding the TOTP/HOTP based 2FA and even autofills them.
(involved in the design of the 2fa interface)
I think potentially so. There was a podcast episode with Tim Ferris or/and Kevin Rose once (maybe this one? [1]) where they talked about research from/with Valter Longo on this (and it’s likely in his book too). Also in Michael Mosley’s book “Fast 800” he talks about how once you’ve fasted for 12 hours your body triggers the “metabolic switch” and autophagy happens where your body starts dissolving/eating(?) unhealthy cells which are then later regenerated!

[1] https://podcast.kevinrose.com/guests/dr-valter-longo/
I really enjoy his address to the Jung Society because he is a little more formal without the amusing speculative half-serious statements. He really broke through to me in this one ("the dime dropped"), whereas I didn't take him as seriously before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvBP2sm5kJM
> Multiple languages/tech stacks.

This is what I'm excited about--enabling a team to use the most powerful tools that address their own problems, rather than whichever Blub is approachable enough for the entire staff.
Having used said virtual whiteboards - they suck. Most of ‘whiteboarding’ is the low lag communication, body language, ease of just ‘doing something’ by hand. In my experience, the connection issues, lack of ability to get good fidelity in communication, random glitches and other issues, just ruins the majority of it.

Not having a terrible commute or paying 10x the national average for a closet to live in are definitely a strong plus in the other column though for sure.
Why not just work for big tech directly if your ultimate end goal is to have your work be purchased by big tech? It's a lot more stable and you'll probably make more money.
If the players faced consequences, then the coaches would be incentivized to check.

Imagine if you could pop out your opponents best player because, well, he's cheating?

I think I understand the 'unwritten rules' etc. but it seems maybe it's time to sort it out a little better.

In a way that doesn't incentivize people to be apocalyptic about it.
E3 2021: Microsoft shows off Halo Infinite, Starfield and Forza Horizon 5
then those things won’t be developed.

if human beings determine a need, then we should pay the price for their development. not force that onto “lesser” species.
The big problem I have with Gemini is TLS.

That makes it way too complex and also breaks the ideal of a complete, unmoving spec since cyphers tend to change as weaknesses are found. It also requires certificate management with roots of trust, expiration dates, etc... You basically need libs, which is a problem on its own. TCP is also a bit of complexity but not as much, and it is not mandatory, unlike TLS.

And now, since uselessness is the topic. Or more precisely, that Gemini can't be polluted like the web because it is useless, don't you think mandating the lack of encryption would make it even more "useless".

I mean, really, why do people want https? Why do Google insist so much on https? The biggest reason is e-commerce. The secret you have that everyone wants to know is your credit card number, and more generally, everything that allows someone to make a transaction on your behalf. Really for most people, https protects the bank account.

So, if you think that the commercial web is the enemy, making a protocol that is unsuitable for commerce can be an idea.

I took the reasoning from the ham radio rule that bans encryption. Simply, it is a way to keep most commercial operations out and keep it an amateur thing.
I understand where the author is coming from. I run a Ministry website (Industrial music website), and have since 1994. Used to be, and still is the place to go for information, however it doesn't even show up in google searches, and yet generic lyrics sites, or other non-detailed sites do. It's a completely different time.
We should have a site where these experiences are retained.

My teen years were in the 80s and I was mad about the Z80 in my cheap Laser 200 but was too isolated to have access to much information and equipment.

Yet, I reversed engineered the schematic of my little, made my own memory expansion (I couldn't afford the official one) out of stacked SRAM chips, mapped the ROM, build my own crude tools to see what was going on in the hardware, coded assembler by hand and poked the memory to store the programs, one byte at a time...

It taught me about electronics, fundamentals of gate logic and how microprocessors worked, programming (and no I wasn't ruined by BASIC), and those constant discoveries drove me to want to know more.

It was such a formative and fun experience for a curious teen to explore something in depth -with no help other than a few magazine and books- and uncovering the layers of what made a computer tick, however minimal that computer was.
Isn’t it .3 times (30%) faster? I think they meant to say 1.3x _as fast_ which is very different.
If you hadn't inserted "inability to refrain" out of nowhere, you could have been describing a perfectly ordinary (though pretentious) non-alcoholic. And you inserted that based on absolutely nothing, so good work.
I mean, that's a great example of a clear rationale! If my job required interacting with machinery or hardware that had to be centrally located, I wouldn't need to be "required" to come into the office any more than I'm "required" to use Git to manage my code—I'm a professional, and that's just part of what I do.

The issue comes up with roles when that isn't the case. In most programming roles I would not have any clear reason to be in-person, and even if I did have times where I clearly needed to be in the office, I would not appreciate being forced to come in outside those times. Requirements like that are frustrating because they require a real cost on my end (less flexible schedule, less control over my environment, a commute) and simultaneously signal a fundamental lack of flexibility, respect and trust from my employer.
Yes, I know we can't simulate a worm and that it's really hard - that's the point - much more brainpower and resources are required to make progress on the simulation front, but resources are finite and many of them are currently being spent on animal experiments - many of which are arguably not delivering value.
I think the fastest data structure for this is to replace the whole thing by one big finite state transducer https://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/ - such data structure can be built from the EasyList regexes, and perform all checks in a single lookup.

The idea here would be to compile the regex of each rule to an automata (each automata matches a set of strings) and them build a fst out of them (that would map strings to matched rules)
I'd use a slightly different metric for unfairness: it's unfair to use factors that people have no control over to make predictions about things that they do have control over.
> that’s an art form or a statement, not a tool.

(Author here) I would definitely view Gemini more along those lines. Gemini is an interesting space to inhabit and explore -- a space dramatically different than the modern web due to its design. That's the value in it for me!
servicitis sounds like the absence of an experienced system architect, or the absence of any kind of system architecture as such.
> until some Institution (CDC/WHO/etc) decides on a Consensus of Truth, and that this Consensus of Truth

No need to draw unfounded "implicit" proposals. I explicitly invoked a body of everyone with domain expertise to evaluate claims, not a singular institution.

Those people often do connect via institutionS created to support and benefit from their work and its utility, like professional associations, journals and trade publications, domain-specific forums, research arms, university departments.

The emphasized plural in institutionS should underscore the point that as neat a rhetorical flourish the invocation of an oppressive capital-I Institution is, it's actually substantially wrong as a way of engaging this topic. The actual truth is not going to be somehow hamstrung or stamped out if the stewards of a large public platform like YouTube follow the conversations in these communities of expertise on some topics rather than letting Lone Gunmen lead them into controversy-view battle against it.

Like Paul Graham recently said "Most implausible-sounding ideas are in fact bad and could be safely dismissed. But not when they're proposed by reasonable domain experts." The first best way to tell if someone is a domain expert is to become one; the second best is to see if the maverick can convince other domain experts.

If collective expertise itself sounds oppressive to you, wait until you try the oppression from giving authority to collective ignorance.

> the efficacy of wearing masks?

If this is talking about the surgeon general's take circa Feb/Mar 2020, I welcome its admission to this discussion, because it's actually an illustration about the problems of mass communication and how someone can say something where every last word is defensible and most of it holds up over a year later ... and yet harmful mass misunderstanding (and a handle for disinformation) can follow. And that should encourage people towards more cautious use/responsibility when it comes to media reach.

And still, even with all the problems with that... the official narrative that you seem eager to characterize as potentially misleading or oppressive had actually fixed itself, accompanied with accessible arguments and demonstrations within months.

> As for YouTube being “mass media”, come on—it’s filled with random crap uploaded by members of the public.

Walter Cronkite broadcast on narrow-producer mass-audience media.

Youtube is both mass-audience AND mass-producer. Some videos on the long tail see a few dozen views. Some videos have reached more of the world than Cronkite ever did and may still be doing so long after everyone who ever heard his voice live or even remembers his name is dead.

Seems to me that doesn't make YouTube any less "mass."
I heard her once described as a “human cigarette”, which has always stuck with me
You may be able to do some of it with mods - but you want to compare how people react with different settings, sprites, sounds, or even gameplay rules.
Analysing bird songs with Wigner transform
Your comparison is flawed. The article explains that Twitter's 'censorship' came only after its India-based employees were threatened with imprisonment by Indian authorities after not complying with an earlier censorship request. Your comparison of a tiny subset of internet users demanding 'censorship' in about a thousand different directions isn't the same thing as state violence.
Sadly, YouTube doesn't offer speeds like 1.1x, 1.2x, I often find some YouTubers talking just slow enough to stress me out but too fast for 1.25x speed. It's worse when 2 people are having a conversation and one of them is 1.5x faster than the other, so any fix for the slow person would break the fast person.
You could go a long way with the standard scientific method - make predictions, do measurements, compare.
Roblox is indeed a MUD, but I would argue that Roblox contains too much varied niche "game content" to meet the needs of kids looking for a platform for mediated socialization. Not enough of the people who are playing Roblox are playing it just to socialize. You get more of the MMO experience (or, I guess, the "social multi-game lobby" experience, ala NeoPets), where no strangers want to stop and talk OOC; they only want to engage with the game elements themselves or with your character via RP. Everyone's there to see or do some novel-to-them thing. Nobody's treating it like an old, familiar place to hang out.

Minecraft doesn't have that same constant flow of novel game-elements to match the number of hours people invest into it; and so most play in Minecraft is a lower-key "post-game" kind of engagement with evergreen mechanics — the same "maintenance" kind of play that you see in e.g. Animal Crossing, together with the "practice" kind of play you see in the speedrun community. That kind of gameplay is extremely amenable to being interrupted for socialization. It's like gardening in a community garden.

(Analogy for socially-mediated entertainment for the pre-MMO-era kids: it's like getting together with your friends with a bunch of individual LEGO sets you got for your birthday to construct them all; vs. getting together with your friends to play with the same big old tub of random assorted LEGO bricks you've had for years. Building the sets favors engagement with the novelty of the work, over social engagement with your friends. Building from a tub almost forces social engagement with your friends, as that's the mechanism through which any consensus arises as to what you're going to be spending your time doing.)
Trans rights are human rights. Always will be
The majority of rich countries, in fact!
Dell is notoriously funny about QC. Weird when you’re branding yourself as high quality, huh.

Design and serviceability are nice, but coil whine and a rattly touchpad are pretty common. r/dell has some more horror stories.