skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"imperious": arrogant, domineering

Did you mean "important"?

(My aim is to be helpful given the many non-native English speakers on HN.)
anecdotally, I can confirm this happening in a few companies I know... I left my job at the beginning of 2020 to work for myself. A lot of ex-colleagues took a similar path.

I guess the "focus on the mission" companies are trying to foster among their ranks is also useful to distract oneself from what your own mission actually is.

This hiatus on company focus might have been the best thing that happened to a lot of engineers I know.

Including, alas, myself.
I see no way that would be true, for example there should be no problem with a video platform telling a user that "Your Video @ 22:50 violated Section 5 of our TOS"

I am unclear how that would that would add a barrier to entry.
I have no idea how these quotes apply to what I said.
What kinds of sources do we use to determine how classical people said hello? Surviving plays? Correspondence? Speeches recorded in historical works?
Is this for an Open Source or other project? Not that I think there's any distinction at Alphabet anymore of course.
Damn, America really needs to get their act together.

Being from England, I hadn't even considered that healthcare is something that has to be factored into whether someone could take time off
Why Has Local News Collapsed? Blame Readers
looks like it is custom built: https://github.com/shaunlebron/t3tr0s-slides
>In the long-term, this might get people out of packed cities and horrific commutes and help become a rebirth of small-town America (or small-town Chile and everywhere else).

Perhaps. I think the shift will be to more healthy-livable cities, whether thats big or small.

Vast majority of humans seem love the benefits of high population density more than they dislike the costs, remote work or not.
Ideas are cheap. Investing in following a particular idea is costly and risky, especially since this also have to opportunity cost of not following a range of other ideas, given any business have limited resources.

Such stories of course have a selection bias since everyone like a rebel pirate hero story but businesses and organization don't brag about failed projects. After all, the space shuttle blew up due to high risk engineering. In those case we blame the management.

“we are always chasing after things other companies won’t touch”. - sounds great, unless you realize this also what CueCat did.
Google Workspace for everyone
Here is a thought experiment. The current fiat system requires negative interest rates. Austrian economics doesn't believe in the existence of negative interest rates as a result of market forces. If there is a central bank in the world that introduces negative interest rates on bank accounts and cash (via serial numbers) and it works, then Austrian economics is completely wrong not in just this aspect but wrong about fiat currency in its entirety.

They would have to acknowledge that:

* negative interest rates are necessary

* austerity and permanent saving don't work

* moderate inflation is necessary for a functioning economy

* central banks are doing a good job managing the economy
Hrm. That is odd, as I assume these old formats would be something that compresses well, which gets higher read/write speeds.

Edit: Hrm. I believe you can disable hardware compression on some LTO drives. Maybe that would help?
I learnt of this sort of thing only after I moved to the UK, where it's traditional for wealthy and middle-upper-class kids to take a long break between college and university - a habit that probably comes from the times of the "grand tours" of continental Europe in XVIII and XIX century.

I've met people who do it on a 6-months basis - 6 months travelling, 6 months earning. They don't make much, their career is somewhat stalled, it would have probably ended when/if they had a kid, but they did it. They were conscious that they were sacrificing something (money, comforts) in exchange for this lifestyle.
The ones I've rode look like these[0], so in case they are running in different directions, you can easily lift up the one side with just one wheel on both vehicles, and then just push them. Simple and not a heavy lift either.

[0] https://hemomkringvandring.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG...
well, it's not usual for first-gen immigrants doing a gap year unless rich, so i applaud parent for living his dream. it's pretty usual in western europe for middle-class children doing this.
Over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27495358 are some hints what Crownprince Root Lee is up to (or up against):

> ratww 15 hours ago [–]

> There have been some weird messages from the dude lately, the latest was

> > "<root> The community on IRC is made up of some of the smartest, most beautiful people in the world. It's been an honor to be here with you all, friends and foes. We've been waiting for IRC's return for quite some time -- and for you, we deliver. A new genesis is taking place uncovering a new era. Freedom, and the people, shall rise to power. Freedom is not dead, it lives, here, with freenode."

> > jamincan 15 hours ago [–]

> > This sounds like the message you'd hear booming over loudspeakers in a shelled out, dystopian regime.

I'd say he's lost his way.
It does not need to redirect to observables. It could have lived in d3js itself. I am not sure if i can copy paste it to a html/js page and run.

“At minimum” - your entitlement is truly ridiculous. So just saying a link to github is now not tolerated!
Basecamp was a fully remote company that got enough drama to cause almost half the employees to leave within a single month. Remote doesn't prevent in-groups but rather it allows them to grow in really odd ways without anyone noticing until it's too late to stop cleanly.
If you're in LTO5 land, you can get away with U320 SCSI instead of FC, and this can cut your costs in half. (Chances are if you're asking this question, you're the kind of user who won't be impacted much by the slower R/W speeds).

Also, library units are often cheaper than standalone drives for reasons I don't quite understand. I purchased a 12 tape autostacker for around $250 shipped, paid another company about $50 for the upgrade to make it 24 tapes, and another $50 for the HBA.
Yes, it was the irccloud ban. I await the Matrix ban, as Matrix is around ~20K users.
Oh I assumed it was under sole Federation control from the prefix “Deep Space”, wasn’t aware it was under Bajorian ownership. I stand corrected.
I think this is horrible advice. I’ve hired all sorts of people with voluntary time off on their resume. Your experience doesn’t ‘expire’ in a single year. Life is about more than just working, if you have the money to take time off to enjoy your life you shouldn’t not do it out of fear.
Nintendo seems to wax and wane, more than rise, fall, and rise again. But when their consoles are popular, they're stupidly popular.
Can you give some examples of this financially incentivized OSS that falls under 'crypto' ?
The arc of human history, especially in the west, has bent toward equality. I think some hierarchy is necessary, but I like how one of the previous comment distinguishes between organizational hierarchies and social (status) hierarchies. I’m not sure the latter are useful at all.
I can tell you all the market for devs is white hot at the moment. I mean it was never cold, but right now seems to be insane.

If the work-from-home thing has given you thoughts about what you like, now is the time to go. I see very few firms insisting on onsite work though, having interviewed with quite a few over the last few weeks. Even guys that I know would rather have people in the office and would pay them very well are feeling forced to let people work from home at least a couple of days.

Salary wise it seems like it's breaking upwards too, though of course all I have is my own offers and the word of some recruiters. There's also just a lot of firms out there who are happy to create roles for people they like, or discuss new ventures with new people.

Also, don't forget if you're going to look, absolutely everyone is interviewing remotely. You can sit at home at interviews all day until you find the job for you, something you might not be able to once more firms go back in the office.
[citation needed]

Now, from memory I seem to recall that depending on which staffing survey, and how you phrase it, 10-35% of all employees say they intend to quit.

I'm not saying that we will won't see and increase turn over. However I suspect that given the level of disruption we've already had, I would be skeptical that its going to get worse.

The counter argument to that is of course that the people who were forced to change jobs from ones they liked (ones that were heavily hit by covid) to ones that existed, will migrate back to their old profession.
I was quite surprised too, yesterday how the commentators appeared to be condoning the fouls. Although the Croatian side fouled more so... (also, is it just me or do national teams foul more then domestic clubs?)
Not sure if this was just pent up demand from the limited mobility due to lockdowns last year. Now that places are opening up, people can actually move.
I've been a consultant for years, and I'd be unable to work as an employee for any company, especially a larger one. Seeing all the bullshit employees have to put up with at companies would make me scream.

I'm not talking about the work, it's everything else. The culture.
One of the pitfalls with the security model of Chromebooks is the end-of-life of their products. In one respect, it is great that Google is up-front about the duration of support. On the other hand, the only way to get security updates after that point in time is to replace the operating system.
Don't call them side projects. Call them apps, products and businesses. Each one used a particular tech stack, each one had a life-span of some kind: a start, a launch or a middle, users maybe, etc.

How would you explain all this work if you were hired by a small company to build them? You wouldn't hesitate to claim the years working on these interesting projects as valuable years and part of your career growth and progression.

We tend to downplay things we do or build ourselves, as if the very fact that another person (a boss) tells us to do something makes it immediately more valuable than if we choose to do that something ourselves.

It doesn't. The app you built because you chose to has just as much value as the app you built because someone paying you a monthly check told you to build it.

Wrap your 'side projects' inside a business and claim the credit for all that work.
We were quoted $40 for a $4 STM32 microcontroller, by a component broker. Due to our desperate need, we caved in and paid for the 10x price and our only hope at this point is that the parts will be genuine. Sigh.
There was a time back not so long ago when there was a craze to rewrite every desktop app as a webapp because the web was going to eat everything. It was the hype cycle of web 2.0. Those days are gone imho. Instead it was mobile that ate everything.

The OP that Jeff is commenting on isn't wrong. I see it everyday with junior devs that have very little practical experience with real engineering but they know a little python, maybe a javascript framework and can figure out AWS well enough to deploy it all using serverless.

This has been going on in multiple tech stacks - not just desktop programming. There was a time, for example, when people didn't use ORMs or nosql. Working with a real database is becoming a lost skill. One of the dirty secrets of the success of nosql is frankly because new developers are just bad at databases and don't understand fundamental skills. Ditto for AWS and application architecture.

I see it as somewhat inevitable that the next gen of developers want to do easier development. The logical conclusion of this will be 'point and click' (LCARS from Star Trek?). 30 years from now we'll be complaining that our kids dont know the 'complexities' of python/javascript development and do nothing but 'low code' development.
Learn to prevaricate better... And meet a friend who will do it for you.

"Yeah, I was the CTO of a startup. I learned a lot. Call this guy who was the CEO, he'll tell you about it."
There are exceptions and probably in a parallel universe IRC is all the rage with very few changes.

I think the issue is that HTTP and the web platform are so flexible, that we've stopped evolving dedicated protocols and just slap everything on HTTP and then eventually use mobile and desktop apps to cover the rest.

This also allows companies to build walled gardens where you register with them, they provide the service, and they control it. Which obviously has a strong investment/monetization incentive, compared to an open protocol like IRC.
Status Update 2021 (Prawn PDF Ruby Gem)
I personally have no desire to use it outside of Windows, but Powershell fixes all there things if you're so inclined:

> flags are inconsistent

At least among the core command set, there is a set of "core flags" like -ErrorAction or -Verbose that are consistent. Though I don't know how often you'll find them in third-party commands.

> case sensitive

There's a preferred case that you'll get if you tab complete, but -Verbose is -VERBOSE is -VERBOSE.

> not good discoverable

Tab completion works for flags everywhere and each of them should be included in Get-Help regardless of if the author documents them.
Let's all buy gold and do nothing. We'll be rich!
The insinuation is that locking read-only access behind sign-in requirements is spreading, making preserving privacy online even more difficult.
I don't think the ownership system gives you that directly. But I think you could make a trait with a #[derive] macro which could add up the owned memory of an object. And for complex objects, recursively calculate the owned memory for all of an object's fields.
> crypto[currencies/tokens]

From how I perceive the definition of the 'crypto' domain, it's a lot wider in range than currencies/tokens. These are just one integral primitive of a p2p economy.
I am speaking from the perspective that all governments are corrupt, and as history shows, all governments can and one day will betray the trust of their citizens.

If we want to preserve our privacy, then solid cryptography is our best bet. On the software side we are eliminating entire classes of vulnerabilities with advancements like memory-safe languages and strong containerization. The government would end up burning all their zero days if they attempted surveillance on anywhere near the dystopian scale of today.

I agree that these rights should be enshrined in law, but practical reality means that we have to take our privacy into our own hands.
Optimistic. It's a small step from those to compulsory "social credit" - like money, but worse - and other more or less overt forms of thought control and behaviour modification.
Tiny CSS variables library (alternative to TailwindCSS)
Its far more nuanced than that.

you won't be marked as radioactive, but you will have to reassure people that you're not planning to do it again with little to no notice. apart from that, I would plan to get back a month earlier than planned so you have a money buffer to get a job you want, rather than _need_
I’m not making the statement that everything in the universe is a computational process, only that everything in my brain is, at least the functionality of my brain towards creating my consciousness.

Now can I prove that ? Of course not. But it seems like a fairly solid working hypothesis (any other alternative hypothesis sounds far more quacky anyway? What quantum entanglement of mocrotubules?).
I think that time zone bands will temper this somewhat. It’s a lot easier to work with people on the same schedule than trying coordinate with people/teams that are +/- 3 time zones away.
NASA has just rejected missions to moons of Jupiter and Neptune
The other inertia is that companies are usually already doing something that is quite profitable. And all the people they’ve hired are good at doing the things that make the company profitable. It takes long-term thinking to see that it won’t last forever.
Yes, I can stop working and have a decent life. The income isn't tied to work.

> why can't you buy elsewhere?

If you could see the view from my bedroom window, you'd understand. :)
Layman here: doesn't violating one imply a violation of the other?
> Like Abruzzo or Calabria, it looks nice and folksy when you visit a week or two [...] organised crime is a massive issue.

I'd like to hear more.. I can't even imagine what this is supposed to look like in places like that. Are there roving gangs, probably not. Home invasions? Not for pots and pans and crockery..

(I mean if one's chances of crime victimhood go from 1in100000 in nominally/outwardly more affluent places to 1in99000.. that's more dangerous on paper and for statisticians, but people aren't hiding in their cellars, with communal life abolished etc.)

I also wonder what "desperately poor" means in 2021 in any EU region no matter how desolately remote. Is the income too poor to maintain a sneaker collection and latest FitBit, gaming rig or there's a lack of escooters to rent, that's one thing. A persistent (good)food shortage at the prevailing local income level or totally war-like infrastructure levels, now that's another thing. Which is it? Tapwater rollout levels from 70 years ago won't tell =)

I'm probably not the only European who is most curious about places exactly like that but within the Schengen+Euro area, just in case one wants to "semi-soft-'dropout' but without visa/statehood/banking headaches"... (although I'd still be shooting for somewhere slightly hotter in such a future eventuality =)
It's sort of wild that they just split out all their services and consulting as well, so I'm not sure what IBM does now, aside from Watson, an also-ran cloud hosting business, and the old big-iron.
If you made a nice script and people pester you for a GUI now, this looks like a nice low-effort way to satisfy them.
He's right about it being harder to get a job while unemployed. You finish your gap year and then spend another 6 months trying to get hired. Maybe if you lived in SF it'd be easier.
The hypocrysis of the german government/army of that time, is staggering.
They were the the ones, who introduced chemical weapons, poison gas, to the battlefield - and then cried about shotguns?!

Oh and later, when the war was lost, it was of course the fault of the communist and socialdemocrats, who stabbed the army in the back and not of the glorious, heroic army.
And there are still lots of people glorifying the Kaiserreich. I am glad its gone.
Haskell.Careers, New Haskell job site
It would be hard to prove that it hasn't already.
The campaign to scale up night trains
It's great stuff for the kids to watch. You can get a seat near the touchline and it teaches them how to play real physical football. :-)
I had the impression some people got their positions via water cooler talk.

They just became friends with their bosses when they talked about private stuff at work.

Introverted people usually don't do this and missed out on this opportunity.

Remote work removes many of these non-work related things, that could still impact your work. People who profited from it in the past won't so much in the future.
Ask HN: How do I allow my deaf friend to hear the door?
My friend is deaf, which affects his ability to hear people at the door. He has a doorbell which causes his phone to vibrate, alerting him. However, it seems that an overwhelming number of delivery people / visitors knock on the door, instead of using the doorbell.

Is there some similar technology that instead uses cameras that's privacy protecting? I've heard terrible things about ring on this site, but I guess "that sort of thing".
AD: Systems Thinking is getting out of date, but in the spirit of knowledge sharing, another fantastic systems thinker is Donella Meadows, heres her most linked piece on leverage points in systems: https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-t.... Her book 'Thinking In Systems' is a fantastic read to open your mind to continuous systems and modelling them, as well as the counter intuitiveness of larger systems.

To expand on 'out of date' - systems thinking is centred around command and control, IIRC it came out of Cybernetics ala Norbert Weiner, Ashby and others. The command and control angle is based on the assumption that with enough information any system can be mapped, predicted and controlled. Whilst not wrong, it excludes another type of system which is truly complex and precludes mapping and prediction by the fact there are either/all too many variables to model or the very act of measuring or acting changes the system or the agents of the system can change the rules of the system.

These systems are deemed by the sense-making community to be Complex Adaptive Systems or Anthro-Complex (specifically for human systems). To approach these systems you have to become comfortable with uncertainty and re-arrange your thoughts on cause-and-effect, which is a whole new world view for many of us in software.

https://cynefin.io/ is great resource, Dave Snowden is a big name in naturalising sense-making and these broader views of complexity.
In Germany, gap years after school or sometimes university are pretty common (at least for the middle class). They do often work, but rarely in a field related to what they studied or want to do. Instead, it’s travel-financing jobs.

It used to be that it was more a thing for women, but that probably changed since draft was abandoned (before that the gap year for men would usually have been military service or alternative civilian service)
Beyond the distasteful idea that we should always act in a way demonstrating obedience to potential employers, the solution to this is extremely easy. Gap year? No! I am merely doing independent consulting. Do I actually have any contracts? So many questions!

Plus if you actually use the time to work on OSS instead of traveling or whatever I have no idea how an employer (that you'd want to work at) could fault you for that. Seems like a huge asset.

You may enjoy this article by our friend NNT: https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-legally-own-another-person...
In the US, before Jerry Garcia died, it used to be called 'touring with the Dead'
Money gotta money. At least crypto is a slightly-less-obnoxious industry than ads and tracking...
> Unless rent and mortgage payments somehow evaporate, there won't be some massive wave of resignations

The prediction isn’t a massive wave of unemployment. It’s people switching jobs. They will still be earning money, just perhaps elsewhere.
Decentralization needs two properties at once:

- ability for the system to run entirely in people's home. Anything that requires datacenters can be easily regulated.

- distributed holdings with no entity holding more than few percent at most.

Solana fails on both, most egregiously on the latter. Only 4.3% of coins were even offered in a public sale. The idea that defi can run on a chain controlled entirely by few VCs is ridiculous. Even Libra would be preferable with their Swiss based Libra Association.

https://icodrops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Solano-token...
Fortifications and trenches are waaay older.
I think the romans were the first to master it.

But I am not sure, if what you describe qualifies as trench warfare.