skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The thing I've noticed at Amazon is that not only are the pre-existing conditions awful, but nobody has any interest or willpower to fix it. Everyone will happily vent to you and tell you how awful things are, but any suggestions to fix it or make things more efficient (even if the fix is very simple and requires low effort) will be met with hostility. And I'm not just talking tech issues, but also process/workload issues.

SDE1 here. IMMV of course but on my corner of the org I've seen a bunch of team members raising concerns regarding tech debt for the L7 to shut it down as it got in the way of delivering the features he wanted to deliver.

Also the elephant in the room is how the company relies on trial by fire as a form of performance evaluation, which involves inexperienced SDEs being pushed to deliver alone chunks of major projects in spite of lack of experience or insight.
> When it comes to something like a phone, I just figure 'it's a risk I am willing to take'.

I feel like the option to insure a phone is a money grab.

An add-on that allows you to upsell a bit more.. it seems like a thing nobody should need.

Same for insuring against have to cancel you vacation.. nobody should ever do that.

But people do, probably because there is a checkbox at checkout that allows you to easily add an "insurance".
There's no article.
Relocated space trash from Earth‘s sattelites, neatly arranged.
lot of content in the book seems focused on Freud being spectacularly wrong. this isn't news. Freud's contribution was formalizing a method for psycho analysis. anything else on Freud should be dismissed - thought that has already been established during the middle of last century. no idea why this book spins this into a regurgitated article on what any Dostoevsky fan is already aware. Using the name Dostoevsky in your book title seems like a strategy to piggyback as a wannabe writer.
I can’t speak to how unions operate in Germany because your labor laws and norms aren’t the same as ours. Just the concept of codetermination whether or not it works as advertised would baffle the average US worker.

Many of your labor protections don’t exist here unless unions agitate for them, and I won’t even broach healthcare. In the US, unionized workers make more on average than non-union workers (link below).

Without a union, you have zero bartering power other than the threat of leaving which is what I argue above to be a very temporary power. Even then, job hopping is nowhere close to an ideal solution for a variety of reasons that I think HN readers are smart enough to fill in.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf
I've been dismissing these "C is dead" posts for awhile, but now I'm wondering why Nim/Zig/Rust aren't superseding C entirely for new development. It seems like embedded development and FFI libraries are still all C.

My theory is that making a language is easy, but giving it good developer ergonomics and ecosystem is hard. Getting a C program to compile is still, in 2021, a pain in the butt. Do you use CMake, Scons, Ninja, Autotools? Do you need to compile on Windows/Mac? Where are the includes and libraries? This is a wild goose chase every time. How can new languages compete if the C ecosystem is barely usable after 50+ years of "progress"?
> which produce twice as much pollen as they would if trees were selected more randomly.

My understanding is that it's even worse than twice, because the female flowers of some species actually filter the pollen out of the air.
Honestly I love that our company has giphy on slack and I use it quite frequently. There are other productive tools like the integration with google calendar to know when somebody is on a meeting or zoom to quickly start a zoom call, but giphy says something about my company, it’s culture and can bring some very much needed levity to the day to day grind.
The same characteristics that animate imperialists to commit unjust acts, namely aggression, cruelty, apathy, racism, seem to be in good supply amongst all peoples of the world. The characteristics that led to Britain’s rich cultural heritage must therefore be something else. At any rate, the National Trust should be celebrating and preserving this heritage - the stately homes, estates, cathedrals, bridges, galleries, art works, statues, monuments, libraries, manuscripts, etc - for the people of Britain (and the world) to enjoy, rather than neglecting and denigrating it in favour of guilt-mongering.
Sudden stop is never harmless for a person even if we could eliminate the external mechanical injuries entirely - the brain continues forward and meets the facial bone structure inside the skull, internal organs rupture as they keep moving forward while the skeletal structure stops... Enter the airbag.

The airbags inside the car are meant to cushion the hard surfaces of course and the curtain bags are meant to keep people and their limbs in the protective passenger area when the car spins, but also they are acting as a counterforce and slow the speed of the person a little more gently, versus an instant stop to a solid object such as the dashboard, causing internal injuries as well as the external trauma.

Also airbags are a very good reason to wear a seatbelt - if you pop the airbags while colliding at relatively slow speeds, you'll probably lean forward a bit from the deceleration only to be punched in the face by the bag (and probably get some vertebrae renovated).

So while installing external airbags to cushion the pedestrian impact sounds like a good idea it probably isn't, as the bag suddenly expanding from the direction of the vehicle would simply add to the energy and "punch" the pedestrian away from the car at the 200mph at which an airbag expands.

Lastly, I'm all in for the gel from Demolition Man, why aren't we funding it?? Would it come in different scents and colors? :-D Really the car could one day - when detecting an unavoidable collision - spray out a foam or expanding gel that would cushion the surfaces and also decelerate the fall of the pedestrian - I'm thinking Final Fantasy Spirits Within -soldiers drop gel"?
Maybe it was due to the very cold winter?
What features don't work as advertised?
> we stop sprerging for a moment

Yeah, a lot of empathy leaking out of your comment there. "It's called being human" ironic.
> I do believe there's intentional treatment of engineers as fungible assets, because the engineering quality is so shoddy and the business plan prioritizes maintaining system uptime, with no true priority given to tech debt removal, which actually would in short order surface measurable benefits.

I mean this how Amazon treats all of its employees. It can't quite lock devs and ops people to a desk and have them piss in bottles, but they would if they could.
Why gpl2?
All my doppelgangers seem much nicer than I am :^)

Also one was a throwaway of a guy talking about his time on shrooms /shrug

Edit: ah, one is most certainly not very nice ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Higher netstandard versions have more APIs. For performance or compatibility reasons, you can also target specific frameworks.
A "regular file" might reside in multiple locations on disk for redundancy, or might have a checksum that needs to be maintained alongside it for integrity. Or, as you say, its contents might not reside in contiguous sectors - or you might be writing to a hole in a sparse file. There's a lot of "magic" that could go on behind the scenes when operating on "regular files", depending on what filesystem you're using with what options. Directly operating on the block device makes it easier to reason about the performance guarantees, since your reads and writes map more cleanly to the underlying SCSI/ATA/NVME commands issued.
Hahaha. No light, heat? U see no light cuz ur blind, and feel no heat cuz you've no feeling. X? I don't even know where that is. Alright, you take it back home to x, that's where you're from. Not here. Bye bye.
World is mostly looking at China after its one-child-policy as the greatest example.

China's one-child policy was a success. They were able to put on the brakes during the period between health care getting good and standard of living going up, which is when population goes way up. India didn't do that, and their population shot up beyond the country's water supply. France is just leveling off. Japan is in actual decline.

China: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CHN/china/population

India: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/IND/india/population

France: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/FRA/france/population

Japan: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/JPN/japan/population
Working on a tool to track my groceries and create grocery lists for shopping. It uses a receipt printer to print the groceries and I’m learning ziglang and SDL while making it :)
How do fertilizers kill insects?
>Don't like iPhone/iOS? Don't buy it, go and buy Android. Simple as that.

That's a completely disingenuous response to any criticism. I'm allowed to dislike and like features of both iOS and Android. Anything I don't like shouldn't just be disregarded with 'Just get an Android'. iOS isn't perfect, and wanting it to improve is not wrong.
The fundamentals are all wrong though. Money is, amoung other things, a web of trust. Trying to remove trust from it is taking away some of what makes it money.

I do not think there is a solution in this space that works economically or financially.

What we need is a unit of exchange that: holds its value reliably, allows a lot of transactions, has low over head, allows anonymous transactions.

A central bank could build a system that does the first four, but they have no incentive to do the last.
An object that side won't be dissuaded with any of the firepower available to us. We'd be better off trying to build bunkers or something.
You can definitely switch and other companies don't know as much about your industry as you think.

Just be bold, go interviewing.
Alibaba uses facial recognition for their "pay with your face" feature. Though I doubt this particular GAN is relevant for that. Most likely just some researchers playing around and their employers let them in case they come up with something useful as a side effect.
I believe you misspelled bicycle kind sir.
It's not that I can't fathom that the other one exists, or even that it would be attractive to significant parts of the population, it's that I can't fathom that I'd ever change my personal preference, no matter how much of the other one I get forcibly exposed to.

So, I'm expecting a reality where, for workers with the luxury of this sort of choice, this will become an early "disqualifying question" while job hunting: are you remote or on-site? (It probably already is that disqualifying question, just not quite as prominently yet.)
If you think about it this suggests a strong selective pressure for religious communities that consider birth control sinful.
Well, I remember much harsher winters twenty years ago which apparently was no issue for the bees. And until some weeks ago I actually saw many bumblebee queens on the flowers, but then by end of May the number suddenly decreased sharply. Must be another reason.
We’ll write a longer how-it-works post soon, so you’ll be able to make your own version.
We can "make decisions based on morality and ethics" but why do these decisions have to be that we shouldn't eat meat? What is it that is inherently immoral, or unethical, about eating meat?

I mean, I'm probably just as capable as you of making "decisions based on morality and ethics" as you are, but I don't think it's immoral to eat meat. So clearly there are different interpretations of "morality" (duh). But your comment seems to assume that no, there's just one morality: eating meat is immoral. Why?
Do you even update it? Like maybe once a year?
Try now, it was updated to handle the load better.
Factorio creator under fire for “cancel culture” comments
Is this an actual useful application if optane, replacing the memory with near-ram nonvolatile ?
Let's wait to see which country, between China and India, can fare better over the next 60 years of economic development. India might not have enough water now but the raw material for solving any problem is found in problem solvers, not the ground.
Okay, how do you feel about monocultures of soybean doused in glyphosate and multi-annual applications of synthetic fertilizers (which create radioactive leachate as a manufacturing byproduct)?
Yep. And an engine swap.
Dong Phuong Bakery is in a bitter legal tiff, and its logo is at the center
I think instead of taking billions of stars we should look at the "alien life" from the aspect of chemistry and biology.

What is the basic chemistry and biology of life? Chemicals, heat, water, single celled organisms, multi cellular organisms, bacteria, viruses, genetic materials, gene transfers etc. All of that in the context of universe, stars and planets.

I would like to see a research from that point of view. If anybody knows of such research papers I would like to read them.
Well insecticides and habitat loss kill insects. Intensive farming involves insecticides and habitat loss. And fertilisers in runoff may damage ecosystems causing further loss of habitat.
and one on a German island: http://www.sternwarte-norderney.de/planetenlehrpfad.html
PWAs are crippled by Apple's refusal to support browser features. Something as simple as a notification is impossible.
Why are we all here?

...

It's a news aggreggator, get over yourself.
The evidence is that a society filled with bitter, maladjusted people who's parents were too busy pouring their heart and soul into work to provide a stable, loving family household is one nobody should want. Like, there's shades of grey here, but you should prioritise your children over your next Jira ticket.
> The presence of natural satellites indicates this can indeed happen

No, it doesn't, because natural satellites are generally not captured, and for those that are captured, the process involves interactions with other bodies.
I have bipolar disorder and can be "all over the map" as my ex used to say. I was pleased that my twins were similar, so maybe the model does a better job matching with varied and distinctive data - more signal to work with.
Interesting! One of them is a banned account and another is a throw away.

Bucephalus355 0.944
freehunter 0.943
sn_master 0.943
protomyth 0.943
zapttt 0.942
cmhnn 0.942
1cvmask 0.942
sabujp 0.942
Jkvngt 0.942 (Banned)
GoinginSircles 0.942 (Throw away)
http://srp.stanford.edu/
It does very explicitly help you with a transient dependency conflict by outlining exactly what the conflict is and, if possible, resolving it by downgrading a dependency.
> Sometimes I like to think about how historians will talk about us in the distant future where artificial meat production is the norm.

Why is "artificial meat production" the norm in "the distant future"? Couldn't humans just as well re-organise their societies in small agrarian groups that produce their food without torturing animals?
I don’t know that I’d count Medicare since it’s not for the poor, it’s for people over 65 regardless of income. Social security also goes to everyone regardless of income. Calling public schools a welfare program disproportionately allocated to the poor seems like a stretch too.

Medicaid makes sense though, which is apparently about 10% of the federal budget.
> Company data showed that most employees became less eager over time, he said, and Mr. Bezos believed that people were inherently lazy. “What he would say is that our nature as humans is to expend as little energy as possible to get what we want or need,”

If this was truly the case, humans would have evolved very differently (and it's needs would be substantially smaller.

Also, what about all those people working for little gain?
This might not be smart, but I'd be tempted to tell your boss that you're putting in for a couple days off and if they deny it, to consider it your 2 weeks notice. Less aggressive way is to call it a mental health day off. Sounds like a terrible place to work.
The trick with nvidia on Linux is to not expect that they will ever work on anything. If you want to be sure that stuff works, either don't buy Nvidia or use Windows.
lol. “i actually did my reservations and your compensation is not competitive”
Social Security isn’t a “social welfare program”. It is a government-mandated retirement investment fund.
Umm, no. I wouldn’t expect an honest answer from them unless you know one personally.

They have no incentive to give you advice that even they feel is correct or safe. It isn’t their fault, however, as physicians are limited to providing you with the generally accepted standard of care. Anything that deviates from this opens them up to a malpractice lawsuit.
There already is one in most places - you can register a "special" car which many vintage car enthusiasts have to do. If you're happy with the steering wheel going through your chest on collision, or drive a DIY dune buggy, that's the category you can use.

But it's funny you mentioned that - dune buggies with roll bars are great for rolling over and keeping you safe. On the other hand, most widely available sport convertibles are not.
In 1980, Stallman and some other hackers at the AI Lab were refused access to the source code for the software of a newly installed laser printer, the Xerox 9700. Stallman had modified the software for the Lab's previous laser printer (the XGP, Xerographic Printer), so it electronically messaged a user when the person's job was printed, and would message all logged-in users waiting for print jobs if the printer was jammed. Not being able to add these features to the new printer was a major inconvenience, as the printer was on a different floor from most of the users. This experience convinced Stallman of people's need to be able to freely modify the software they use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
Also worth observing that “Human” is an adjective in that phrase, not a noun.
I was referring to the successful landing of Pathfinder but yeah... Space is Hard and NASA is good at it are both very true.
> Management has zero incentive to change any of problems you signal, and probably don't see them as an issue.

SDE1 here, I might be completely wrong but I'm inclined to believe that upper management is kept practically blind about the real struggles and issues experienced on lower-levels, and this scenario is abused by managers to scapegoat their way out of problems they have to deal with, specially the ones they created. I'm not going to provide examples as they could be easily traced back, but I can say that I've witnessed a L7 overpromissing on a project in spite of callouts from lower levels, and once postponing the delivery of some milestones started to become inevitable then I've started hearing said manager frequently mention "firing offenses" on dailies.
And yet, as a random Amazon employee, you feel empowered to dismiss other's cautionary tales as hyperbolic and regurgitation of blind posts?
https://docs.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository... This might help. Much better than announcing on HN that you have an announcement on Twitter to something on Github.
Did you have a trigger event before onset of a disease? Intoxication, infection, hypoxia or the like?
That is an insurance plan that you have chosen to get. Search and rescue is sometime we collective have decided as a society to fund with our taxes. When you start picking and choosing what meets your personal definition of risky or advised that is a two-edged sword and eventually it will come back and hurt you as well.

If you want to take an apt analogy it would be the fire department does not come out and attempt to cut you out of your damaged car until they've checked your credit record first just in case it's deemed you were at fault or risky. That's not the way it works fire and rescue comes out and attempts to do their best to rescue you from your vehicle without caring who you are or if you can pay. Reclaiming of damages for personal property is not the business of search and rescue. So in the original situation the Coast guard doesn't care whether they save your boat when you send out a mayday they come and help which is what we want.
But not on-by-default compiler warnings. Any new warning with an existing code base generally won't get turned on, because fixing all the bugs it reveals and suppressing false positives would take nonzero effort.
Not really. First we never have a 4-day policy. Second, when WFH I tend to slack more or get impacted by housework frequently, ending up actually spending more time "working".
"The location of the lab was not chosen arbitrarily either."

Source? The link you posted mentions nothing about that. Not saying you're wrong, I just want to hear where you heard that.
How many times have your house burned down?

Events worth insuring against are so rare that you can't use experience from the last time to pick a better insurance company.

Hence, why the market is regulated.

Actually, I think my both renters and auto insurance contains a legal assistance insurance component, which is probably useful if I need to sue the insurance company :)

(I'm not sure it's as large as it ought to be, but the idea is nice)
What leads you to conclude there’d be a million times the demand for SWEs in the absence of open source? Many times I think you’d find “we can’t profitably create software from the BIOS up” and you may find an overall smaller ecosystem, but I seriously doubt it would be even 5x as large, let alone a factor of a million.

Looked at another way: there were about 4.4 million SWEs in the US in 2019. That’s around 1 in 50 adults. If every adult became an SWE, you’d still be short by a factor of 20,000.
Will an end user downloading a video editing app (or similar) have a NVME drive, know how to give your app direct access to a NVME drive, and will your app not corrupt the rest of the files on the drive?
Maybe nothing is scarce but you should know how, when and where to look for it.
Yes and no. What is legal, what is ethical, and what is socially acceptable are all different things. Licenses only cover what is legal.
What would you recommend instead of NVidia's Jetson embedded platform?
Photographs themselves are plausible lies. They’re no more real than this.

If that sounds absurd, remember how much information about the world is lost when projected into 2D RGB. For example, one could imagine arguing vehemently “… but you can’t see depth anymore! You can’t possibly understand their facial geometry from a 2D projection. Color is totally different; that’s not how our brains work.”

The lie is that we feel photographs are more real than the plausible lies our minds tell us each day.

That’s reductive. But it’s not merely a dumb philosophical debate. I believe the outputs here are more real than the blurry source images. So real that you can imagine having a conversation with them.

People are so focused on the authoritarian abuse of power / dystopia angle that I think this is often overlooked. If these are lies, are you sure the truth is useful?

Depends what you use it for. But I’m aiming for “star trek holodeck.” We can do it; all the pieces are there. This is a step towards it, and everyone on the Enterprise understood that the holodeck was delightful fiction.

I’m bearish about AGI, so I’m surprised to hear myself say this: I give a >10% chance that within our lifetimes, someone might fall in love with one of these convincing simulations. Legitimate, actual love, as real as your love for your SO. People will cry their eyes out if these lies are deleted, since it will feel to them like someone died.

I think it’s best to get comfortable with those ideas sooner than later. Because from where I’m sitting, that paragraph seems a lot less fictitious than a Mars colony, at least over the next 30 years.
You welcome a world where affluent elites eath high quality food and everyone else eats shit?

Well, you don't have to welcome it. That's the current world. Ask the lady who cleans your office toilets how often she eats organic, or even just fruit, other than tomatoes.