skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> AWS is pretty reliable for the most part so I am pretty surprise that the code quality is that bad.

I'm not totally surprised because of two factors: very stable product definitions and lots and lots of users.

A number of years back, I was talking with people at a famous and popular site with a broad audience. I asked them how much unit testing they did. They said that particular isolated pieces sometimes had tests. But most of the user-facing stuff didn't because they had one-button rollout and one-button rollback. Instead of bothering with unit tests, they'd just frequently release changes, watch the metrics and the customer support queue, and quickly roll back if they'd introduced a bug.
My number 1 doppelgänger is a Swedish person.

I’m British and I’ve been living in Sweden for 7 years now, and it’s only just occurring to me that this could be affecting the way I form comments.
AWS have close to 200 services. If the origina cmmenter js saying each service has 50 folks, it is 10k people. Which sounds about right the company have more than a million people working across all sub organizations. So you can imagine all kinds of work environments
"These new philanthropists bring to charity an “entrepreneurial disposition”, Hay and Muller wrote in a 2014 paper, yet one that they suggest has been “diverting attention and resources away from the failings of contemporary manifestations of capitalism”, and may also be serving as a substitute for public spending withdrawn by the state.

Essentially, what we are witnessing is the transfer of responsibility for public goods and services from democratic institutions to the wealthy, to be administered by an executive class. In the CEO society, the exercise of social responsibilities is no longer debated in terms of whether corporations should or shouldn’t be responsible for more than their own business interests. Instead, it is about how philanthropy can be used to reinforce a politico-economic system that enables such a small number of people to accumulate obscene amounts of wealth. Zuckerberg’s investment in solutions to the Bay Area housing crisis is an example of this broader trend." [1]

Although with your "in excruciating detail" it sounds like you've been presented with the evidence before, yet you are somehow unwilling to admit the failings of the system. This last part is meant as an observation and not as a negative value judgement.

This video with Anand Giridharadas is also great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_zt3kGW1NM, as well as his book 'Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World'.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/24/the-trouble-wit...
I'm "one of those" that actually has the low sleep gene. 5hrs is typical, 6 makes me feel groggy all day. However, this only works without alcohol; add booze and I need 8 hrs. So, I rarely if ever drink any alcohol.
All true, but I’m not comparing a business-class hotel to a B&B, I’m comparing one kind of hotel to another. All the major chains have offerings in both markets I describe:

1. Hotels that appeal to guests who pay their own way, and;
2. Hotels that appeal to companies with business travel needs.

The second type of hotel has the massive machine hidden from guests.
That makes no sense. HR gives employment confirmation. Individual people you know choose whether to give references.
They only need 5 hours of sleep. Why is it so difficult to understand that not everyone the same ? There are a lot of variability in human.
I suppose if you find an employer discriminating against you based on this religion — rather than based on your state of residence or the like — then you are welcome to file an EEOC complaint.
> They're trying to kill gay men by turning them into women

I'm not sure how this is hard to understand. Trans-activists themselves have been emphatically raising awareness about gender dysphoria being a critical risk factor for suicide. You think healthy gay or bi males who increasingly get told by trans-activists that their non-heteronormative gender presentation means "they're not really a man" and should surgically transition to female are not going to experience dysphoria after transitioning?
iPhone and iPad have replaced almost all of my personal computing needs. I still use a MacBook for a DAW to play guitar. I am traveling these days and the MacBook stayed home.

My work laptop is now an M1 MBP. It's working out fine (after a few Docker hiccups).
I’d interview for CEO instead and see where that lands me.
Download MiniToolBox
Yea how dare people engage in behavior the tax code is deliberately designed to incentivize. The nerve of them!
If we take Scott's words at face value and assume good faith, this is a significant political statement:

"Putting large donors at the center of stories on social progress is a distortion of their role. Me, Dan, a constellation of researchers and administrators and advisors — we are all attempting to give away a fortune that was enabled by systems in need of change. In this effort, we are governed by a humbling belief that it would be better if disproportionate wealth were not concentrated in a small number of hands, and that the solutions are best designed and implemented by others."
I agree that it can’t replace a database, for most use cases. But an in-memory database I’ve yet to find a «real» usecase for.
It’s not so much about hiding the numbers from candidates, though there’s some of that too. The main thing is desperately keeping new hire offer numbers away from existing employees.
And if the company doesn't have a pay range?
You should ask yourself how you can be so self-assured yet wrong by several orders of magnitude. I'm not saying that as an insult -- it's probably worth re-evaluating your confidence : accuracy relationship.
Amazon is unapologetically Randian, and many senior people are proud of that. That doesn't have anything to do with the rest of your comment though.
The stated goal of the grant program is to rewrite stable software many people use in Rust with the implied context being that C can’t be trusted, but Rust can be. I’m surprised that a language with no specified guarantees is favored over well established methods of verification. When you poopoo formal methods and verified compilers, it’s very hard to find a coherent logic behind RIIR, which offers much less in terms of security.

Unless the exercise is a pretext to rationalize the grant money (which would be the real purpose).
at best you'd move the threshold to remove yourself from the system a little higher, from those paying top dollar private schools to those who can hire tutors and/or have one of the parents dedicated to tutoring

there's no effective way to ban private tutoring in the sense and effect of this thread that doesn't also involve banning homeschooling

edit: or simply send the kids abroad, the classic rich-person-in-failed-society way
Yeah there's no way I'd put up with this. Trillion dollar company and still operating like it's amateur hour on many teams it seems.
> something like reverse third party insurance

Which is first party insurance.
(whence means "from where")
But isn't it a good thing where birds of feather flock together? Just not being dragged down from low scoring kids is worth it. Why can't they select for criteria they are looking for?
>You could say the same for the Maserati Ghibi which is inferior to BMW 5 series cars in nearly every way but costs tens of thousands more.

Yeah so it would be ridiculous to say that Maserati would have to increase car prices if they couldn't profit as much off of after sale services.

>If you think the profit margins are too large you can just not buy that product.

Sure. Entirely irrelevant though.
After the Ruby devops wave lost its momentum to Python and Go Ruby was left looking like a one-trick pony. The rise of microservices and API gateways also fits the lightweight Node.js async model better than Ruby's memory-heavy monolithic approach.
Taksim is on the European continent though:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6271669244#map=14/41.0320...
You’d still need to support iOS even if running other operating systems was possible on these devices. I don’t get what you mean.
FYI that clause is void in civil law (most of Europe), you cannot waive away responsibility.

Additionally, the license is a contract (license don't exist as a separate category like in the US), the "[...] WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT" is particularly misplaced.
that's right up there with saying mental abuse is not actual abuse because there's no physical sign of the abuse.
What's the penalty for putting "range $0 to $1MM" on everything?
Young ambitious people.
Amazon HR won't give a reference, period. They'll verify employment dates, and I bet that's handled by a third party. I haven't had a reference check in the past 3 jobs over 5 years.
> Who are the people who still dream of careers?

Those who like the paycheck attached to a career. 1 million in stock over 5 years is a good deal.
Do note that the law does not simply require a line of text to show a range, but other process changes were legislated. The one where you have to advertise positions internally (before you are permitted to advertise them externally) is probably the most likely to do burdensome things to a large company's recruiting processes.
Not breaking APIs is pretty considerate of your users.
Because billions of dollars can change the landscape of businesses or governments? This is going to directly change the lives of thousands of people, and since it's directed, it's sure to have far-reaching effects. It's totally OK to hold someone accountable for that.
This is me, in waves. When I become conscious of my crappy behavior, I take care to course correct. It's doesn't last though and I start to get burned out and stubborn and unpleasant. It's not a thing of pride. It's a known issue that I've only ever avoided while unemployed.
Ah, that makes sense, I've done that once or twice, but now I listen to audiobooks. Pretty much constantly actually, even at work. Especially at work: helps me concentrate without getting distracted. Unless something requires my absolutely full attention.
Where's the line of what is high paying? Median salary in the US is about $50k. Many teachers in the US make more than that. Some make less. A lot depends on local cost of living. We would also have to factor in other benefits not typically seen in industry, like pensions, tenure (this is really one of the main problems), and time off.

I'm sure there are states where teachers are underpaid. My state is in the top ten and that is not an issue here. I know a teacher making more than I do as a developer. The local district spends $14k per student per year (about average for the state). Money is not a problem here. There are still districts that have poor performance and test scores.

Instead if just trying to throw money at problems, we need to change the structure. Pay for performance would be a great way encourage good teachers and discourage people who perform poorly. It can be tricky to get the right metrics. The biggest issue is that the teachers unions oppose this.
For what it's worth, for me they are synonyms.
This is awesome. A friend of mine and I once did something for the local kids of our hometown way back (I guess, 2005-2007) where there was no proper Internet in that part of the country. A local LAN setup with few Desktop computers, where we load up videos for education. While kids takes turn to use the computers, they can watch videos in groups -- Videos which are readily available for free on the Internet. It didn't really "succeed" due to many reasons and I gave up.

On a lighter note; here is an "Internet in a Box" https://www.dropbox.com/s/52f9ceusbm9kd4j/internet-in-a-box....
You might consider the concept of "Normalization of Deviance": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance

I agree people can get used to almost anything. We've all been living through a pandemic. Society made it through the black plague. But part of "functioning" through bad conditions is losing touch with the the possibility of something better.
Admittedly I've even heard senior executives rhetorically ask "What do all those people at $LOCATION even do?" At scale, you need a lot to sell, support customers, put marketing programs in place, do developer outreach, test, be on call, etc. etc. But, yeah, you'd think it would obvious that even just talking about straight engineering, you need more than a fraction of a person to develop and enhance each AWS service.
Businesses are not literally people. Treating a business as a legal person is sometimes convenient, but there is no reason to cling to this fiction in all circumstances.
Yes! And also, the urge for a rapid answer is ideological. Never has the origin of a virus happened in a year. Or two. The Spanish flu was from Kansas. Ten years after the fact SARS is mostly proven to be from bats. https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=27551349&goto=threads%.... MERS, similarly the origin is from African Bats but the actual precise location is still being investigated. The impulse to answer now, in 90 days or even to answer in the next decade is cultural and being leveraged and weaponized in every direction. The answer is: We cannot know and do not know and won't know for a long time. Any kind of accusation or speculation, especially against America or China has the chilling effect of destroying any possible evidence. Perhaps that is in effect the point. How can China or America or X prove the negative? This is a weaponized geo-political conversation precisely because the politics is forbidden into the framework of the conversation that is, at its outset, profoundly political and ideological.
My adblock prevents site from loading, Lol.
I think zkSync use other tokens to pay the fees
i dont care about gender stuff. i use they also if unknown.
but using they if subject is clearly male just strikes me as wrong
> Swift -- for the longest time I couldn't get it for RHEL or Fedora, but could for Ubuntu

Long before it became available on Ubuntu you could very easily run it on Arch. Same for many other applications. It's pretty sad that a bunch of pimply children managed to meme it into a thing that a civilized person shouldn't even mention these days, because the software availability situation is above everything else out there (thanks to AUR and incredibly simple package format — you can write a proper package in a few minutes).
It could also just be a bug in the launcher: https://www.pcgamer.com/a-bug-in-the-epic-games-store-launch...
Where did you read this? That's important context.
No it doesn’t. Discriminating against any racial group — not just disadvantaged groups — in hiring is illegal
An important lesson I've learned is to ask in the interviews "how is employee performance evaluated?"

If the response is blather about 360 peer review, be wary.

Also scan all available information about if they perform any stack ranking.

I worked at a place where managers would bring in other people just so they could meet their "must fire" quotas but keep their existing teams intact. I left shortly thereafter.

An organization must be able to identify and cope with true "non-performers" but when it turns into a global quota for all teams you're in the hunger-games.

The culture of a place radiates from upper management / C Suite; if they're sociopaths you end up with this sort of organization where certain types of people filter up.
I remember listening to an interview by an Italian man who did lot of volunteer work in Africa. He said when he was young, he went to Africa (I forgot which country) - he saw very fertile soil and thought "why aren't the locals planting anything here?". Acting smug, he went ahead and planted some stuff, the locals raised eyebrows but said nothing. One morning he goes to the field, the entire place is trashed, like a warzone. The night before, wild pigs had had a good time partying in his beloved field! If he had asked the locals first, they would've told him to take care of the wild pigs problem before planting anything.

He said that was the last time he assumed he knew more than locals because of his fancy degrees and elite upbringing.

This is also my main complaint with organizations like the Gates foundation. They do a lot of good, but they also act on the firm belief (arrogance?) that they know more than anyone else in the room, especially the locals. Examples below

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/africans-speak-out-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-melinda-gates-foundatio...
> Its good to be able to let friends/family grab the car

Dont some companies have conditions which say only the people who are on the policy can drive the car?
Hotwire/Stimulus hasn't reversed Ruby's decline, as far as I can tell. Nor have the promised performance improvements in Ruby 3 so Ruby's downward slide looks likely to continue. Revivals are a rare thing in programming language adoption.
In my opinion:

A progressive tax structure would have made this the people's money to spend. You spend it on what seems fit to the people (via your elected representative) - health care for example.

You have lost control of your money This money is now beholden to a group of individuals who can decide what works best for them. It could be malaria or it could be building a spaceship to Mars. The decision is not yours.
There is not a single "trans activist" who wants to deliberately induce dysphoria in people. Many of us know what dysphoria feels like: why would we want to make other people suffer for no reason?

Trans activism is about giving people the ability to self-determine their gender presentation, their personal identity and their sexual characteristics. It's about liberating us (all of us, cis and trans alike) from oppressive notions of sex essentialism and medical gatekeeping. Fundamentally it's about shifting the source of truth to one's personal experience rather than societal messaging of any sort, i.e the exact opposite of what you describe.

Again, for the record: we have no interest in telling anyone with a non-normative gender presentation that they're likely trans. We want to get rid of the idea of telling people what they are in the first place. We want to replace it with the idea that people themselves are the best judges of what they are.
Well this controversial opinion sure got pounded down.

> The British cracked the German naval codes with no more mathematicians than can sit at a table.

The Government Code and Cipher School employed almost 10k people during ww2.
Don't you have better days and feel smarter, when you have slept more? It's a night and day difference to me. With little sleep, work is a chore and spare time is unorganized, with enough sleep I handle both better.
Matter Labs is launching their mainnet in August. zkSync.
The org is getting what it wants out of the team; why would they fix it?

As long as you've got meat for the grinder, you can keep making sausage.
struggling to understand your logic there, or how the US subsidies would hurt the named countries.

South Korea's semi industry evolves largely around the heavily-commodified memory chip production and two SK companies, Samsung/SK Hynix combined, supply about 75% of global memory chip needs. Samsung is South Korea's only foundry business there and their global market share is only about at 15% -- while it's a "growth" business for Samsung, the memory business is still their bread-and-butter. The company also has a $15-B plant in Austin, TX and it looks like they are going to expand that plant by throwing another $17B. Further, in addition to Samsung's announcement to invest $110 in logic chip business (which includes their foundry plant in Austin, TX) last year, the South Korean gov't unveiled $450B investment plan to boost the country's high-tech competitiveness. So it doesn't seem like this particular proposal in the US is going to necessarily divert resources or investment from SK (again, the foundries business is a "growing" business), or "hurt" South Korea. Trump/Biden's chip war on China has been a boon to SK's semiconductur industry otherwise -- it eliminated potential threat from China's "Made-In-China-2025," (announced in 2015) and scared off US companies such as Apple from throwing more money at Chinese companies, though Apple is still fighting hard to protect their supply-chain in China and maintain the quo. All in all, this is reminscient of Reagan's war on Japan in the 80's -- and it's likely to enhance South Korea's chance of further gaining more significant share of the global logic chip manufacturing business.

Likewise for TSMC. Sure, Trump's arm-twisting eventually forced TMSC to open foundries in the US, but the Taiwanese gov't has always had heavy handed, direct approach to managing their domestic chip business, from the founding of TSMC in the late 80's to what it is today (ie, direct investment and tax subsidies). Both Samsung and TSMC routinely spends $10B-$30B in capex every year and I don't think that 25% tax credit is going to significantly change the current state of semi-manufacturing for either countries.

Japan is no longer the semi manufacturing giant it once was. While they still maintain presence in manufacturing equipment and electro chemical business, they are nowhere as significant as Taiwan and SK counterparts.
>> Not a software engineer or someone who's ever worked for AMZN.

Exactly. There is SO much more going on than you realize.

The Amazon retail website gets hundreds of thousands of orders every second. New code gets deployed literally every night.

The retail website is like the tip of an iceberg floating above the water. There are hundreds of web services underneath that provide the backend and data stores. Each one of those services has a team of engineers to maintain the service with one engineer oncall 24/7.
If you're a true ninja you say sudo !!

http://yogihbti.github.io/images/bang-bang.jpg
We compel businesses to all kinds of speech, for instance, they have to specify what kinds of ingredients their products contain, and their nutritional value.

Regular everyday people are allowed to lie in their private lives if they wish, but try lying in an advertisement and see how it goes. There are strict rules on what you may or may not say as a business.
How much disk space does wikipedia and SO take for you?
Some questions:

- Who is writing the queries, and what interface do they use?

Are the SQL queries known at compile time, or does the user provide them to your compiled .NET program at runtime?

- What does the SQLite SQL dialect give you that Linq/functions does not?
Why is there a miniature bike lane inside a very long stretch of road without a bike lane?
> It is good practice to be cynical about politics.

This sentence itself is political and presents a cynical worldview.

Anything can be use as a political tool.

However, no psychologist would doubt than compassion is a fundamental trait of a healthy human mind.
Secure Linux Servers by Default – Fak3r
You clearly have no idea how the US tax system works.