skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotal, but I've talked to a few people at Google who are happy with the pay and perks but absolutely hate the product management culture.

Basically, performance reviews and incentives are structured around doing something with "big impact," so there are a lot of needlessly "ambitious" (quotes intentional) reboots, revamps, redesigns, repackaging, etc. of existing products, mostly so that teams and PM's can say they went big and get a good performance review.

The flip side of that is that there's no incentive to fix bugs (and usability issues) in existing stable products, because unless the bug is losing tens of millions of dollars for Google it's considered wasted time from a performance review perspective.

This is why Google is constantly relaunching and rebranding products, even making them worse, while neglecting long-running problems in, for example, Gmail.

Recently, my main Gmail account was upgraded to the new Chat interface. It actually looks worse (subjectively the new font seems less readable) and has removed the "Pop out to separate window" feature that I used to use all the time. But hey, now the interface has animated transitions and I can forward individual parts of a conversation to an email with one click! Wow!
I feel the EU did a much better job at solving cross border payments than crypto has. So I would say crypto is really only interesting for illegal stuff in places with working banks.

As long as I do transactions within the EU they are easy and cheap. Which is s good thing the EU forced the banks to do.
Is "Matthew" some sort of IT version of "Karen"?
Damnit, I'm all out of suffering points today. No meat for me!
>> They prefer a comfortable and often expensive lifestyle

> Is that so crazy if you're making 1.5x the national median income?

You left out the rest of the quote: "that leaves them living paycheck to paycheck."

If you're living paycheck to paycheck, you are living above your means. You have no financial room to adjust if something unexpected happens.

That's a problem. A completely unnecessary one as you would have enough leeway if you reduced your cost basis. People that earn much less usually don't have that possibility.
Perhaps less so for education, medical care, a car, etc.
Valid point. The system can be gamed.
Rat race and keeping up with the Joneses.

Many individuals like to show off when they have some money. Buying expensive cars, expensive clothes, expensive dinners, expensive outings, expensive gifts....and the list goes on and on.

I am extremely comfortable around $100k. I do my own house maintenance, projects, I do my own car maintenance and repairs. We eat out here and there but nothing fancy. I am constantly doing small updates on the house and I have decent medical expenses. Every month we have money to spare, while constantly investing in 401k, S&P/Russel, bonds.

People need to turn off social media and stop buying garbage. I have met a guy making $400k a year in the banking industry prior to 2008 crash. Wife stayed home, while kids went to daycare. They cleaning ladies, and sometimes cooks to make dinner for them. Few million dollar house. After he lost his job, they lost cars, house and then divorced.

The moral of the story is it doesn't matter how much money you make but how financially savvy you are. There is a reason many professional sports players in the US "flex" during their prime years but then go broke when money dries up.
I heard it from the original claim:
"Remember the bald headed crusty assed "well known" artist who went around groping female devs, and ended up having his face bit after trying to pour drinks down the throat of a girl whose already very intoxicated at the Massive Black workshop after party ?"
(https://twitter.com/BettyDesuJiang/status/127450059571858227...)
Loser
The only thing you need to teach students is how to use gnucash or kmymoney. Make they log every transaction and monitor their balances. See how much they spend and then tell them "spend less." Maybe the we wouldn't have such a drastic FOMO culture where students and college kids blow their financial aid money on things that absolutely do not matter in the grand scheme of life.
The ruling today was quite narrow, so players cannot do the straightforward thing at the moment.

There were very strong hints that the NCAA needs to change its rules around compensation completely, so it seems likely that they eventually will be able to do that. But it isn't the case now.
> "Does it ever lead to mainstream, widespread shunning?"

It seems like the answer to this is yes? or at least enough to have serious life consequences for those that find themselves on the wrong side of it.

Losing your job, losing your spouse, losing your reputation, it's basically a form of ex-communication that can have serious consequences.

Mob justice is not a great thing independent of specific instances, there's a reason we moved as a society to courts - they're not perfect, but they're better.

Cancelling also conflates two things often, but the mob response is similar.

There are people 'cancelled' because they discuss ideas that others disagree with. I think this is the most objectionable. Then there are people cancelled for (often, but not always sexual) behavior - this is more nuanced in the sense that the action may be (but is not always) wrong, but the mob justice is wrong too. There is also a wide spectrum of behavior here that ranges from mild to actual crime, and in the public 'mob justice' sphere (rather than a court) often nuance is lost and the truth is lost too.

We have a criminal system, courts, and the presumption of innocence for a reason.
I see what you're saying and don't necessarily disagree in general; but it's not, I think, my desire; as I said, on a daily basis, I don't love the "hum & buzz" - I have headphones in my cubicle like many of us here at HN do.

Could an actor become somebody I respect, and effectively portray a worker I know, understand and respect, having a breakthrough or trying something a few times or brainstorming or teaching spontaneously? Dunno. Would they be cheaper than just get somebody to do that AND actual work, I don't think so :D. And in some ways a lot of these things "could" theoretically be done over webex/zoom/teams/whatever. I don't have the answers - only the personal experience that after 16 months alone in my (phenomenal, fun, ergonomic) home office, there's definitely something dulled in my work life/satisfaction/performance, and I've tried to articulate it.

What it comes down to - I'm personally surprised at both extremes: at those who ONLY want to work from office, and those who ONLY want to work from home. Both, for me, would be imperfect compromises in which I'd lose something.
The purist will say: You are always free to write your own porcelain.
Tumblr is doing fine though. The people making good posts & talking to each other didn't leave.

It may be fewer users (and fewer $$), but tumblr is waaay better since the NSFW ban. And I'd even say due to it.
Are you sure there is no lying involved with Dogecoin? What has the average buyer been told before they invest? What are their beliefs going into the scheme?

I’m not saying they have been lied to, but it definitely wouldn’t surprise me if they have?
Alternatively, universities would spin off their money-making teams into professional organizations in return for licensing fees.
If you're an early investor in Facebook and sell, then a later investor is paying for your profits. That isn't a ponzi scheme. It's missing the fraud part where the money isn't really there. Investors may own doge coins that are in a speculative bubble, but they actually have the doge coins they bought. Bernie Maddof's clients didn't have the shares he said they did because he never bought the shares with their money.
There are many things in society - scratch that, nearly everything in society - that I both dislike for one reason or another, but also accept they will never change. Still, it is nice to hear other people express similar opinions. Imagine where we would be if there was never any pushback against bad ideas.
I can't live without Everything!
No-no-no, you're smarter™ so that makes it different™.
porn wasn't what made tumblr likeable though..
My anecdotal observations do not match yours. A large percentage of the younger people (under 30) that I know are on twitter several/many times a day every single day. These are not tech workers, nor are they journalists, they're just college students, graduate students, and adjacent.
Incidentally, I deleted my Twitter today. 4600 followers in hell, which is quite a lot for a Czech language community (10 million speakers only), but I can no longer tolerate the toxicity.

Yes, journalists are overrepresented there and yes, their journalism often degenerates into "we are covering what happened on Twitter".

But the worst offenders in terms of toxicity aren't journos. They are ... well, tormented human beings who love to dish out some misery to everyone around. Usually under a superficial veneer of a respectable goal.

So long and thanks for all the tweets, but I am not coming back. After leaving Facebook in July 2019, I felt almost liberated; I expect the same to happen now.
Yep. Windows 7 would sometimes take a few minutes to finish whatever boot time disk i/o it wanted to do; for Windows 10 on a disk, it seemed to always be doing some i/o and never settled down.
Maybe if people were more financially literate they would stop letting the boomers rob them blind by always protecting their own interests (stocks, houses, healthcare for old people) at the expense of all other aspects of society (education, infrastructure, health care for non-old people).
>If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

-Cardinal Richelieu

If some people want to use the internet to destroy your reputation, they will, and there's very little that you can do about it. You can't prove anything to anyone, and once people smell blood, they frenzy on you, regardless of the truth.
Everyone makes mistakes, behaves incorrectly, and causes harm though. Everyone has. You, me too.
NBA? Sure. NFL? Yeah. They can probably fund and figure out the logistics for an operation like this.

What about all the other sports? At the moment, we've figured out a way to elevate less lucrative sports like track & field or swimming into a potential profession without making young people take massive risks by skipping higher education.
I think this comment thread is a Ponzi scheme because it is shaped like a pyramid and the highest comments accrue the most upvotes.
Browsers already have to include an encoder for JPEG and PNG. They need that anyway for things like toDataURL(), see
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasE...
None of those need, or benefit from, your real name.
It's not really about leverage or power. It's more of a strategic setting where the winning move is either to be 100% truthful (if you're innocent - and even JCS acknowledges this!) or not to play.

> As a side note it was fascinating that multiple times, interrogators lied about realtime, see through walls, global satellite coverage and not once did a suspect question that ability.

An interrogator can lie about what evidence they have, and yes some interrogators in the JCS videos overdo this in a way that's likely abusive. It can however be strategically beneficial to the innocent if done lightly and with proper foreknowledge, because if you can precisely and vigorously call the interrogator's BS about what evidence they do or do not have, this sets you apart from someone who's just making stuff up as they go along and cannot possibly be able to do this.
Well, that's what he says now. We only have his word for it.

If you put out a statement saying that one of your past statements was inaccurate, then that's hardly likely to increase confidence in the accuracy of your current statement.

Ultimately, people criticised him for doing things that he himself admitted to doing. As those things were pretty awful, I don't see that he really has anything to complain about.
I know it's just TV, but this situation played out differently on Silicon Valley. Instead, the competitors hopped to the front of the line to pay off the patent troll before a successful case emboldened the troll to raise their price. Has anyone actually heard of things playing out this way in reality?
Yep. Got injured/poisoned by a mega company. Gross negligence. But it’s a complicated case.
No lawyer will touch it.
Sometimes your just screwed.
>If you had to pay the athletes in these sports, then there'd be less money to go around for other teams that don't generate revenue.

This relies on the assumption that sports are somehow separate from a school's educational mission and therefore must be funded by the profit from other sports. There are a maximum of only 2 or 3 dozen athletic departments that are self sufficient in the manner you suggest. The rest fund sports the same way they fund any other extracurricular activity.

I'm not sure we should require sports to fund themselves when we don't have that requirement on something like a drama or music departments. The understudy in a school play is probably no more likely to make a career out of acting than the backup QB is to make a career out of football, so why do we pretend one is a worthwhile academic pursuit and one isn't?
Git takes stability and extensibility seriously. Your demands and expectations on version control may be radically different from mine.

Empty directories do not contain files or information, it's entirely reasonable for a VCS to omit such a feature. Not sure which use case for git is hindered by the inability to check-in empty directories. I would even suggest such a use-case may be a case of DIW
Read a Paper: Siri, Write the Next Method
That's a 35 minute commute. All the travel time is included, not just the mechanized portion.
Task Manager → "Start up" tab

Disable everything and see if it boots faster.
Almost reads like an april fools article. Unreal.
Nope, not true and a gross distortion of what happened that night.
Maybe because like 90% of devs use git; there's no language or framework that is used by so many.
Windicss – Next generation utility-first CSS framework
A little context might be helpful here?
I often "publish" artifacts internally in github actions with the actions/upload-artifact action. https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact

//.github/workflows/main.yml

name: Main

on:
push:
branches: [ main ]
pull_request:
branches: [ main ]

jobs:

build:
runs-on: self-hosted
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2

- name: Set up Go
uses: actions/setup-go@v2
with:
go-version: 1.16

- name: Test
run: go test -v ./...

- name: Build Discover Command
run: go build -o discover cmd/discover/main.go

- name: Upload Build Artifacts
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
with:
name: discover
path: discover

For internal tooling we often publish tagged artifacts to releases on the repo using a workflow that is triggered when someone creates a release. The creation of the release makes a new tag and triggers the build.

//.github/workflows/release.yml

name: Release

on:
release:
types:
- published

jobs:
build:
runs-on: self-hosted
env:
GOPRIVATE: "github.com/OUR-ORG-NAME/\*"
NAME: deploy-${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}-${{ matrix.GOOS }}-${{ matrix.GOARCH }}${{ matrix.EXTENSION }}
strategy:
matrix:
GOOS: [ windows, linux, darwin ]
GOARCH: [ amd64, 386 ]
exclude:
# excludes 32bit on macOS
- GOOS: darwin
GOARCH: 386
include:
# includes a new variable for windows builds
- GOOS: windows
EXTENSION: ".exe"
steps:
# Runs a single command using the runners shell
- name: Print Info
run: echo '${{ toJSON(github.event.release) }}'

- uses: actions/checkout@v2

- name: Set up Go
uses: actions/setup-go@v2
with:
go-version: 1.16

# From https://github.com/mvdan/github-actions-golang/blob/master/README.md
- name: Configure git for private modules
run: |
git config --global \
url."https://${{ secrets.GHUSER }}:${{ secrets.GHTOKEN }}@github.com".insteadOf \
"https://github.com"
- name: Build ${{ env.NAME }} Command
run: |
GOOS=${{ matrix.GOOS }} \
GOARCH=${{ matrix.GOARCH }} \
go build -o ${{ env.NAME }} cmd/main.go
- name: Upload Release Asset - ${{ matrix.GOOS }} / ${{ matrix.GOARCH }}
uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
with:
upload_url: ${{ github.event.release.upload_url }}
asset_path: ./${{ env.NAME }}
asset_name: ${{ env.NAME }}
asset_content_type: application/octet-stream

edit: code formatting
Thanks for your kindness. I am slowly coming back. Let us hope that none of those aftereffects are permanent.
We actually do know what, or who, the denominator is. A large majority of tweets come from a small minority of tweeters: roughly 10% of tweeters account for roughly 80% of all tweets on the platform [1].

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-tw...
When you have to fight lobbyists, effective activism looks different. You try to cut off funding and political support. One could argue that there is already widespread support for these ideas, now it’s just a matter of doing battle against the establishment in real politik to achieve results.
I got triggered by "Twitter knows". It doesn't. It's just a bunch of mostly toxic wannabe-in-group imbeciles.

There are lots of exceptions, sure. But still. I lost count by orders of magnitude where the twitter mob-opinion was simply totally wrong (be it "masks are not useful" or whatever you name it). Thanks to the collective Alzheimer's, despite archive.org etc., this somehow doesn't hurt the mob mentality at all.
If you backload RSUs this process saves you a ton of money actually.
I'm not going by what he calls himself, I judge him to be left of center for the US (that might put him right of center in Canada).

The NYT are entitled to their opinion as well.
> If you're living paycheck to paycheck

Sure. But if regulations force prices of essentials (like housing) up enough to take most of your paycheck, how much is it down to personal responsibility? And how much to regulations beating down regular workers?
I keep seeing this argument cropping up and it’s really not a useful comparison.

If you buy a share, you generally buy (a) a vote that you can use to kick out the board and replace them with someone who will pay a dividend, and (b) a share of the assets of the company if it’s dissolved.

Those are both tangible rights, the crypto ponzi scheme offers nothing of the sort.
I do feel sympathetic to the families with two working parents and kids in school when the Inside Times came upon us.

Some don't have a dedicated office space at all, those that do often don't have it set up for two people to work (dueling Zoom meetings are a problem). Most people in the US can't afford or even get enough bandwidth to support two simultaneous video conferences, much less three or more if there are kids doing remote school.

Don't forget that with parents in the office and kids at school, lunch was pretty easy to take care of if you could afford to eat out, and often dinner would be scattered among friends. Now you've got to figure out food for the whole crowd. Ordering delivery gets expensive.

That's the skeuomorphic way of working from home, of course. While the article is on point, it doesn't offer any suggestions for new ways to work. Where are the Forbes, WSJ, CNBC, Bloomberg, etc articles on embracing remote work?
Alternatively, stop labeling everything and everyone sexual predator.
Actually while you're responding here, can you verify that you had these '48 laws of power' as your desktop? https://twitter.com/arvalis/status/1274765367957573632/photo...
Is it? Right now, fees make up only 10% of block reward, despite being insanely high by historic standards.

Perhaps with PoS being implemented.
I was put on a PIP at Google and kept my job afterwards, they basically put massive training wheels on you. I had a director checking in with me 2-3 a week to put the pressure on, even doing some pair programming which was interesting. They really are trying to figure out why you aren't working well and see if you are a lost cause.
Fantastic Plastics are a husband/wife duo that play Devo-inspired synth pop. It’s not normally my cup of tea, but they’re fun and the production value is great. They’ve got costumes, make extensive use of green-screening, OBS overlays, and interstitial video between songs. It’s silly and fun and they’ve clearly put a ton of work into it.
A federal reserve police force would open some interesting additional avenues for affecting interest rates outside of open market operations...

(this is a joke)
Cryptocurrency technology has utility which has not been fully exploited yet. At present, the two variants with the most market cap, Bitcoin and Ethereum, do have reasons to exist. (Which, again, involves some present utility but more future utility.)

Bitcoin has earned a certain degree of trust that value moved into that form will continue to exist, just because there is so much distributed hardware behind it that it would be hard for a bad actor to compromise it. It's not impossible, but there is a certain amount of utility there.

Ethereum also has earned a certain amount of trust which, today, is based on hardware, but within the next year will be based on Proof of Stake, with many billions of dollars in stake. (The amount of trust it will receive will depend on how decentralized the stakers turn out to be.) But it also has "smart contract" capabilities. It has speed and expense limitations but those will be lessened over time with sharding, rollups, etc.

There are newer crypto technologies that may overtake those leaders in market cap, or may not.

In any case, there is utility to these technologies. Because of that utility, some portion of the world's currency supply should be in the form of cryptos in order for the world to get maximum benefit. Say that is X% for a particular cryptocurrency. (Remember, BTC and ETH have somewhat different roles and so may be able to coexist.)

Then the value of a coin should be X * .01 * (the total value of the world economy) / (the number of coins). That's not a Ponzi scheme at all. What is happening is that the world is moving slowly, in fits and starts, toward the discovery of the numerical value X for each coin.

On the other hand, DOGE really does not provide utility that isn't being provided by more trustable cryptocurrencies, i.e. others are more likely to stick around for the long haul without crashes making the coin asymptotically approach zero in value. So, it really doesn't have the same kind of reason to exist. It's more like the Dutch tulip craze. It doesn't seem to fit the technical definition of "Ponzi scheme," but that label does capture the fact that its price is only what it is because of previous buyers.

[Update: edited to point out more explicitly that a lot of the utility is future utility. I say a little more about that in a thread below.]
I manage our PhD program in economics. We are not highly ranked yet our students do well on the job market. The bigger hurdle is getting into a PhD program. The qualifications of the applicants that we can't make a first-round offer from our program is astonishing.

There are definitely some parts of economics you want to avoid though. If you're interested in anything that fits in the "Freakanomics" classification, the job market is going to be challenging, and I'd personally not recommend getting a PhD if that is your area of interest. I chaired a search for a labor economics faculty position a couple years ago and found their job market to be absolutely brutal. Many, many top candidates with good publications were applying as postdocs. Some of them, in spite of their outstanding publications, could not find academic jobs even after completing the postdoc. I don't think any of them will be living in poverty. A tough job market nonetheless.