skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people have horrible ethics in the sense that the issues they strongly believe in end up having a net negative impact on the world.
Also, many hedge funds are betting on GME going up. To say that this GME rally hurts hedge funds demonstrates a lack of understanding about the market.
Current AWS employee. I haven't seen anything remotely like what is described in the OP. It strikes me as hyperbolic and a regurgitation of common posts on Blind.

My work life balance is good. My manager is supportive of me and my org takes mental health seriously. We don't hire to fire; in fact we can't hire enough people to keep up with customer demand.

Amazon is a huuuuge place with many different orgs. Maybe you can get stuck on a bad team in a unsupportive org. But to say every org operates as the OP alleges is simply not true.

I'm sorry they had a bad experience at Amazon. But their experience is in no way indicative of every org as they allege.

Also, I find it somewhat interesting that everyone who leaves Amazon after a negative experience blames URA and interoffice politics. It's almost as if it's never the person's fault they got fired.
I was also on the fence about vaccine, but what made me take is realization that there isn't only side effects of vaccine, but also side effects of catching covid. Media made us obsessed about deaths, but majority of people survive and among of them small portion get side effects. From what I remember it was about 1 every 10 people that had some kind of issue that lasted after recovering.

Even the blood clots that were found with AZ and J&J are happening with the virus itself at higher rate.

So it's just a simply choosing lesser risk.
There is a book that explores this topic called Developer Hegemony.[0]

"Developer Hegemony explores the past, present, and future of the corporation and what it means for developers. While it outlines problems with the modern corporate structure, it’s ultimately a play-by-play of how to leave the corporate carnival and control your own destiny. And it’s an emboldening, specific vision of what software development looks like in the world of developer hegemony—one where developers band together into partner firms of 'efficiencers,' finally able to command the pay, respect, and freedom that’s earned by solving problems no one else can."

[0]https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35051753-developer-hegem...
I made a nice 4x return riding the Polygon hype, but the writing is on the wall for this project long term. It's going to get absolutely crushed when real L2s like optimism, atribturm, zksync, starkware, etc. get significant adoption (likely by this summer). The meme of it being a better BSC allowed easy dapp porting and a quick surge of liquidity, but just being a better BSC is not nearly good enough long term. Liquidity can flow out of Polygon just as quickly as it flowed in when better solutions are available.

I think their somewhat recent branding from Matic to Polygon was a distraction ploy to get users to think they'll be competitive in the true L2 space and grow beyond just having a seperate POS chain. They keep saying how they're not just one scaling solution, but a suite of scaling solutions, yet have released no evidence of any progress on implementing rollups.

From what I can see right now, it seems highly unlikely the team will have any kind of working rollup in the near future. Rollups are still bleeding edge tech, and most of the code from the teams battling in the space is closed source. As far as I'm aware Polygon outsources most of its dev work, while other L2 teams are stacked with industry veterans with deep knowledge in applied cryptography. Once enough of the rollup tech becomes open source, Polygon can copy it, but by that time it'll likely be far too late.
The difference being, if you choose to get vaccinated, it’s 100% chance that you get mRNA. If you did not get Covid so far, the chances are going down you ever will.
I wonder what the battery life. ESP32 tend to be very power hungry with WiFi, not sure about pure BLE operation. This is why simple long-lasting (eg Withings, misfit) watches use nrf52 chips.
I'm going to pay careful attention to other news on the same day when the report drops.
These barely work. Even their example shows it generating `type : string[]` but `weaknesses : Weakness[]`. You would need to start from a schema definition (JSON Schema, SQL CREATE TABLE, etc.) to make the result any good.
> First, if some of the total compensation is through stocks, usually they reduce both the vesting amount and vesting frequency

Compensation through stocks applies to a tiny proportion of workers in the US, and a miniscule proportion elsewhere.
OpenGL 2D Facade (26): Dynamic Meshes – Design Patterns and Video Games
What happens when you buy a used laptop?

There's inherent risk in buying a device from a third party that you may not fully trust, but that risk is in the hands of the buyer to assess, and to mitigate as appropriate. When the average person buys a used laptop from Craigslist, I doubt they're doing a full disk wipe and reinstalling the OS, and they're definitely not verifying the bios or other motherboard-level code. There shouldn't need to be some special case applied for tablets or laptops either. They're all just computers.
it took a long time for HAART to be developed though, and a lot of people died during the AZT-only era.

if I had the option of choosing an effective HIV vaccine (god if only!) and HAART, I'd definitely choose the vaccine. HAART is apparently really rough on people.. it ages you.
I've moved your comment to the parent post now.
By this argument, automatic braking systems should be disallowed since they attempt to limit your freedom to rear-end other cars or drive into barriers (“however you see fit”).

And that’s a great analogy to Apple’s approach: “It’s for your own safety and that of others.”
At the end of the day its a model and all models are fallible because they cannot perfectly capture reality.

Fundamentals is a narrative that assumes a lot of things like the stability and idealization of a businesses operating environment. These are just baked into the narrative in such a way that they seem “objective” and a part of the “economic reality”.

Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and Taleb’s Black Swan make really compelling narratives that everything is a narrative.
Vinix, a new OS written in V, now runs mlibc and bash
Petition instructs Jeff Bezos to buy, eat most famous painting
A lot of things in life are coincidental and I think python adoption is one of them. Its not a bad language but neither is Ruby.
No. I’m saying you’re hating the fish that swim in a polluted stream. Apple, and Amazon, and Exxon-Mobil, and Goldman-Sachs, etc. all swim in those same poisonous waters. The stream is the problem.
I'm introducing into your narrative a notion of morality in addition to your narrative (and the siblings narrative) of whether covid vaccination is in your self-interest.
I think the USB port is required to charge it.
Now the entire orthodoxy is facing reckoning for their sloppy and censorious actions.

Hardly - I do wish you were correct in this, but the same culprits in covering it up have root access to the minds of millions of people. They can just do what they're doing right now, present the lab-leak theory as new "news" and congratulate themselves for being the ones to educate and inform us unwashed masses.

There is no reckoning. The emperor has no clothes but many people just don't care.
Show HN: Text-Only Biography Platform
A history of anthrax lab leak in Soviet Union, which was covered up by SU, then few mentions of Wuhan lab, with hope to create parallels between them.

I expected to see mention of "Vector" lab incident in September 2019, but nope.

Lab leak is no joke. Locals are constantly afraid of lab leak. Just look at the face of a journalist, when he tells about possible lab leak at "Vector": https://youtu.be/_w7SAeNcXA8?t=16
Seems like it generates TS types, but doesn’t help with data access? i.e. not trying to compete with tools that generate full data access layers, like Prisma https://www.prisma.io/ ?

If so, out of curiosity, what’s the use case for generating just the types? How are you actually getting data to/from the DB?
I'm extremely happy with Julia performance. I'm using it right now to prototype some new algorithms for my PhD.

How fast is fast? Well in my case I'm trying to come up with things related to collision detection and I'm getting <30ns using SAT between OBBs (Oriented Bounding Boxes) and <300ns for minimum distance computation using the GJK algorithm again between OBBs.

In the context of recommender systems I did an experiment when I started learning Julia comparing against Cython and wrote about it, although I was a newbie and I should update it: https://plopezadeva.com/julia-first-impressions.html
Commenters going on about how other people are idiots is actually a strong marker of mediocre comments. If you guys would please indulge in that kind of thing somewhere else, we'd appreciate it. It's tedious, and it's against the site guidelines. Note this one:

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The word "worthwhile" was a poor choice — you're probably intending to talk about economics, about the price someone's labor might justify in the future. But it sounds like you're talking about transcendent moral value, because that's what we associate with the term "worth." Hopefully you don't actually mean to say that lesser academic ability equates to lesser import as a human being.
Many find software bloat objectionable, if not disappointing.
I saw this linked a couple of days ago on HN, it made me think more deeply about antropomorphizing technology: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/E...

I guess it also applies at some level to animals and insects - we can assume they feel some of the basic things as us, but their "understanding" of it might be quite different.
We have more than enough data - be it Glassdoor, stories here, etc. - to say with certainty that this kind of thing is far more common at Amazon. Portraying it as "a thing everywhere" is deeply misleading.

Many companies have teams that can push you hard (I burned out at Microsoft, who in general is fairly good for work/life balance), but none of them make it a core part of their identity. Amazon prides themselves on bare metal optimizations, tracking and micromanaging the smallest time quantums they can - it's why they have a fleet of warehouses that grind picking employees into a broken down mess, it's why their offices have almost no perks, and it's why there are so many stories of their codebase and process being a mess.

Living in Seattle, I'm fortunate enough to have friends who work or have worked in all the big cloud orgs - AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle. The ranting, burnout, and raw shitshow quotient of Amazon is off the charts. It's the only company that any personal friends have ever warned me against joining, and ALL my friends that have ever tried to work there eventually gave me that warning.
It's funny that we already have a big politicized example of experts and debunkers being wrong for political reasons and yet their March will continue on with large public support.
Amazon begged to interview, so i did. My friend worked there, and thought I go call her and find out how things worked there. That is when I discovered this forced termination of 30%. I thought it was 15% , but who's counting. So I gave amazon a choice. 2 year contract forced pay contract, if they fired me for any reason, other than fraud, I would collect the full amount. I done this twice.

It was a defunct mobile company. I had the contracting company put it in the paperwork, to my surprise they signed. cause they have multiple times let go of contractors to make C level "bonus". It was known for it. I got some push back, but they signed it, they needed an engineer who understood mobile routing records.

3 months into the contract, they apparently forgot, and let me and everyone go. Reason 'services no longer needed' aka CEO wanted to make bonus. I said ok, then called the contractor's legal dept. After 3 days, i got a call back. Told him look at page 4 line 30.. he read it. Long silence. 5 minutes of silence. "I never seen a clause like this. I will call you back with an answer." Next day, Both lawyers call, one asked would i be interested in returning. I said "fufill the contract terms". "Your check will be delivered in two weeks." Contracting firm, was getting paid too. they were happy and mad. Happy for $$$, mad that they probably lost a semi big client.

I got my check, had a new contract before the 2 weeks.

Fast forword to Amazon. They read it and said no. I declined. They offered little more, but I said I will not work for Amazon until they fix their corporate envirnoment. My friend worked there, she lasted 4 months more, after moving to Seattle, and finding out the hard way that amazon is pure corporate monster.
Mature companies that do not pay back dividend or buy back shares also exist and are still valuable (eg amazon).
Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming (1996)
Ask HN: Have you effectively reduced work to ~4 days a week due to remote work ?
Self explanatory I guess. How many of you are in some way "playing the system" by effectively having less "effective work presence", whether it's procrastination, or a conscious decision.

In some works, such as research work, i've personally discovered that it can actually be beneficiary, since forcing yourself to do stupid task to fill time is worse than taking time to think so it's really only half a "judgmental" question.

Share your experience :)
Roger Waters Tells Facebook CEO to Zuck Off
It's not in the guidelines but HN is an English-language site and we do ask people to submit articles in English:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I think long term we may see tokens for the various rollups. Arbitrum and zksync are going to launch in somewhat centralized ways, and as they decentralize over time they'll need to provide incentives to network participants and to support decentralized governance. Transaction sequencing within a rollup will become decentralized over time to help deal with front running and MEV, and it would make sense to incentivise sequencers with a network token, which also gives them some say in governance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation

The more likely you are to survive putting the car on it's roof, the less you think about avoiding it.
Corrupt governments pretend to have evidence of aliens in order to increase their legitimacy. At has always added up to this.
In Germany, the official statistics for 2019 state that someone who was fully employed worked 41.0 hours per week on average, when part-time employed the number was 19.5 hours. The average over all employees was 34.8 hours.

Source: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Arbeit/Arbeitsmarkt/Qualit... (in German). The article also contains a table of the average for a lot of European countries, which range from 30.4 in the Netherlands to 45.4 in Turkey. The article also states that the majority of the differences in the average working hours between the countries are typically due to a different ratio of part-time to full-time jobs.
But you would have to redefine pain to ignore the experience aspect. And that would be a completely different phenomenona. Yes it may share the same mechanism, but so what?

Plants are immobile. The only mechanism they have for moving about is relatively slow and lacks agency. They can grow in a particular direction, send out a clone,or use reproduction. A hormonal reaction to external stimuli could trigger that kind of behaviour. But what advantage would there be in having a consciousness? A chicken on the other had can run away. It can hide. It can learn to avoid damaging itself. Pain has an advantage.
With a physics degree, I was never a proper engineer, and am not employed as a programmer per se. But I think it's safe to say that I have capitalized on my programming skills to advance my career in terms of both rank and income.

At the same time, I don't regret not making a career of programming, because I'm not sure that I would have been happy or successful in a pure software job. When I was a kid, I had a summer internship at a computer facility, and programming struck me as something that would be interesting if I was doing it in the service of my own interests, but pretty dull if doing it all day for someone else. Granted, that was a very narrow perspective, and possibly obsolete, but it was the best I could figure out at the time.
Thanks I've read the first interview but didn't know about the channel.
Mitochondria may contribute to neurological and psychiatric disorders: research
I dislike that these articles always refer to the dinosaurs and their “extinction” or “demise” or similar terms. The clade of dinosaurs is not extinct. Birds are dinosaurs. People need to know this.

They should just talk about the extinction of the pterosaurs instead. Not only would it be accurate, it would also implicitly teach that not everything alive then was a dinosaur, including the famous pterodactyl.
Show HN: TomSelect Demo with Stimulus and Hotwire
The demo of the implementation is here - https://tom-select-rails-demo.herokuapp.com

and the code is https://github.com/ahmad19/tomselect-stimulus-hotwire-demo

I would love to know your valuable feedback on it.
> What's wrong with boring, especially if you have a family?

You are waiting for death. That is the only thing wrong.
I think you are misunderstanding what he has achieved. There is a secondary attack that he theorizes was possible and patched by Apple before he demonstrated an ability to exploit it. I agree that he should not receive any bounty reward for this (theoretical) attack.

However, the first half of the article focuses on him successfully being able to reset the password on any iCloud account that hadn't been used to log in to an Apple device.

Being able to remotely change the password of an iCloud account should earn him the full $100,000 reward, even if it is only on some subset of iCloud accounts.
I welcome these sort of new experiments as long as they give an option to revert to the previous behaviour. At least until they have a real world data to confirm 99 percentile users are happy with it. I don’t know if Apple provides that option in this case, but I think that will reduce the public outcry.

It doesn’t make sense to not expect experiments like these in an actively developed product.
It looks like Kanel is actually alot more feature rich, I wouldn't see any advantage of switching.

I started using schemats because it's a single CLI interface and gives me all I need. I put together a few tools for a typescript heavy backend development experience and one of my requirements was that each one would be powerful enough to achieve my goals + not powerful enough to trip on how to use it (or in schemats case, patch it).

Currently schemats and ts-json-schema-generator got me there, only issue was schemats was a few years out of date so the types weren't as friendly.
bloated disk space usage can be an indicator of bloated cpu and memory requirements.
Same here, I went down to a 4-day week around 5 years ago, taking a 20% pay cut in the process - one of the best decisions I ever made! Also, somehow, by compressing the working week I still get done in 4 days what I previously did in 5, so it's been pretty good for the company (I presume I'm procrastinating less, and spending less time on HN etc).

A 3-day weekend feels like proper time off - you have time to do all the chores and stuff that needs doing, and you have time for self and/or family.

My other great move was going almost fully remote around 10 years ago. Because of the pandemic, the benefits are now well known by many, so I won't bore you by detailing them again here :)

Through these 2 decisions, work and life feels well in balance.
I don't think that would result in a better society but I think I can be convinced. We could instead also uphold the dolphins to our standards and give them the same rights and responsibility as any human. I would love to live in a world where we made dolphins pay tax.
This is as unethical as it can be. Animals are the last thing they think about, and I dread thinking what goes into creation of this artificial meat.
Its interesting that people are truly testing "what you can get away with". There is someone on r/algonftmarketplace selling pictures of rocks. Not selling the actual rock, just photos of it. Which I would be on board with if it was an interesting rock or he at least polished the rocks first.

But there is nothing interesting at all about this rock. And what he is doing is putting them in the tumbler for a very short while, and then every time he takes them out, he "mint"s a new NFT and tries to sell it.

I really like shiny rocks. But it seems like he needs to tumble for like twice as long to get there because he is not even cleaning all of the grit off of these before taking the photos and they are really dull looking rocks so far.
Please don't break the site guidelines like this. If you have a legit question there is no need to drench it in flamebait. Moreover the guidelines ask you to email hn@ycombinator.com with such questions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This works quite well for me, I see a list of people who all seem to have agreeable comments. All my similarity scores are in the range 0.988-0.986.
Note that the photos show nothing except rows of identical houses. No services of any kind. No restaurants, no markets, nothing. If you need a plumber, where is the plumber? Someplace far away.
Security and privacy in Switzerland made by American companies (see founders and sponsors). So a new Crypto AG.
I run Fedora on both my desktop and home server. If/when the server goes sideways I'll choose something RHEL based, It's changed from something that I tinker on to something that I depend on for Plex, torrent seeding, ad blocking, and more recently, hosting game servers.
That's neat, I wasn't aware of it!

The difference, I suppose, is that by inspecting the schema, you can make assertions that take the whole architecture into account, rather than just the specific piece of SQL of one migration. I don't personally run the tool in CI, I run it before generating types, which is when I am writing a new migration.
The deposit you mention if you do this on Ethereum just corresponds to legal fees you have to pay in case of conflict in the traditional contractual approach.

This incentive already exists without Ethereum, and Ethereum doesn't improve the situation in that regard.
> While NFTs are not sure proof of a physical Birkin bag's authenticity, they all but ruin the economic incentives of counterfeiting.

I disagree. It means you get to have your cake and eat it too -- you use and wear out the authentic Birkin bag for years, a bag you got almost for free because you bought a cheap counterfeit and resold it together with the NFT while keeping the original.

If anything, it seems like this could increase counterfeiting because this would seem like such an... obvious scam to pull.

Indeed, I can even imagine the NFT being resold 10 times, each and every time the person thinking they got an authentic bag, buying a counterfeit and reselling it as authentic... when the only person who kept the actual authentic bag was the one who bought it from Birkin.

This is the fundamental problem with NFT's as I see it -- there is fundamentally no way to tie it to a physical object. Every owner can always sell a counterfeit and keep the original.

So the idea that this "ruins the economic incentives of counterfeiting" doesn't seem to hold water at all.