skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm terrified of interacting with female coworkers.

I don't have a "-ist" bone in my body. When I review code, I only see the code and not the person that wrote it. When I pick a team, I look at engineering ability and nothing else. I abhor discriminatory behavior and would be the first to put my career on the line to defend someone getting discriminated against. And of course I keep anything sexual FAR FAR FAAAR outside of work.

Sometimes I write "guys" in chat (out of habit) and get a rush of anxiety. Did I offend someone? Should I correct it? If I correct it, will it make it more obvious? What if I get called out for using that word? How should I respond without making myself look like a goon?

I've stopped giving negative feedback. It started when I needed to give negative feedback to a female engineer who wasn't doing well. I was terrified of being perceived as sexist so I just gave neutral/positive feedback to protect myself. I didn't want it to look bad so I did the same for male coworkers. Now I just give everyone positive feedback all the time. Yea, it looks like I'm a doormat or just dumb but it's worth the sense of safety I feel.

I never EVER make jokes at work. I don't tell stories about my life. I certainly don't share political opinions. I don't talk about my hobbies because those might (at some point, not now) be correlated with something "-ist". Not worth the risk.

I obviously don't post on social media. I do intend to start at some point, but everything I post will go through a heavy handed PR filter. I'm thinking it'll all be positive/supportive. No complaining, no calling anyone out, no responding to politicians or popular figures, and definitely never supporting anyone that I don't know personally.

It's exhausting but at least it's opt-in. I just want a calm day to day life.
> Sure, you can take the position that it's managements responsibility to figure this out and fire you

Absolutely it is.

> how vehemently most developers reject any form of tracking.

Huh? I don't know a single professional developer who doesn't use version control. Usually some sort of bug/todo/issue tracking, as well.
on one hand I can see why would somebody think it's not the nicest thing to show

but on the other hand - holy **, you better get thick skin quick enough, because life's gonna be way harsher than this.
This comment is getting downvotes and given my experience playing D1 college, getting a STEM degree, this scenario is in no way possible.

Stanford on its own is one of the top golf programs in the country. Its practice facility is absurdly good (my team was able to use it once when we were out there. The reason we were in the bay area? Because we took our spring breaks to go play fancy courses with rich alumni to get them to donate to the athletic department, which is another part of money you don't see but athletics gets.) You need to be really, really good to play at Stanford.

Second, college golf is a case where, because of the niceties like practice facilities, tournaments, where you don't pay for any of that, it's a feeder to the main tour. In fact, PGA Tour University[0] came out to help get guys who were good in college to the Tour quicker. The quality of guys in lower level tours is crazy, and this is a deserved bumper for the good guys. Guys play in college first because that's where you grow.

I'm very anti-NCAA. Each sport is different in terms of growing to the professional level though, and how engrained the NCAA is in most cases though makes it tough to have an overall solution.

[0] https://www.pgatour.com/university/what-you-need-to-know-faq...
"I was terrible to women. I preyed on them. I ceaselessly hit on them. I got too drunk and did all manner of dumb things. Yes, I pressured them into sex. I was one of those shitty, creepy sexual predators you hear about" [0]

[0] https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/0...
"Irrational mob" also known as "social media".

We've just scaled up and weaponised people's bad behavior and worst instincts. People have always been this way but now they have a tool to find other like minded people and act in unison.
Make sure they still have their hull, but other than that normal grocery store lentils will sprout.
I think we continue doing what we always do: write mountains of terrible code. My argument is that it would be less terrible if you at least put yourself in the mindset of good development, and to me that means not obsessing over “catching someone slacking off”.

I also will believe we have a real developer shortage when dev pay and exec pay are more closely aligned. As it is, I see a lot of room to pull from exec salaries to pay for devs (which would be required if there was a shortage).
Not entirely sure that's how Gravity works, btw, as it's relative to this planet rather than the universe.
Isn’t this well documented by folks like Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman with Manufacturing Consent (1988)? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
Does a Ponzi scheme necessarily need deception in order to be a Ponzi scheme?

Seems like the essential component is more that future returns come from past investors.
What is meant is “abolish the police state”. The US throws more people in jail than any other country by several orders of magnitude. To get to where we should be, we do effectively need to abolish the system as it exists today. Most cities spend far more on policing than they do on prevention; much of this driven by self-serving lobbying on behalf of police unions.

Nobody except anarchists is claiming that we don’t need police; but a lot of people are saying we don’t need these police. Let’s define the role of police in society and severely curtail their monopoly on violence.
That’s completely irrelevant. Real estate is a vehicle for money laundering, yet nobody is calling that a Ponzi scheme.
Things don't take unexpectedly longer all the time. No, you can not make this judgement based on a single week, or even a single month. That's true whether the employee is remote or not.
Not all counterfeits are "counterfeit". Some literally come off the same production line as the legit products. A company will order say 20,000 units from a factory but because of overages in components it's actually cheaper (or not more expensive) to manufacture 22,000 units. They can then sell that 2k unit overproduction to a counterfeit dealer for pennies on the dollar, or fractions of a penny on the penny, to make a nice little bonus.

Manufacturing can often be like hot dogs and hot dog buns. The end product is a hot dog in a bun but hot dogs come in ten packs while buns come in four packs each for their own reasons. The most efficient combinations of dogs and buns are common multiples but demand isn't always in those neat numbers. Storing the dogs and buns can be expensive and they will go bad so there's no guarantee you can ever use your stock of stored buns and dogs. If there's a counterfeit market for complete hot dog units you can unload the overproduction and not need to worry about storage or spoilage. You're in the hot dog construction business, not hot dog component storage business.

Clothes are particularly susceptible to the overproduction/counterfeit market.
Even algebra is of limited to no use for most people, and I support skipping it for something more useful to more people.
You should start a patent troll trade association, so when one of you is attacked you can pool your resources and counter sue.

Or maybe start a patent troll insurance company with similar goals. Make yourselves an unappealing target.
> If they WFH, they could still use the same daycare, or even save the money of daycare if they take on the burden of taking care of the children at home while working.

Depending on age, caring for kids is a full-time job. Perhaps even 1.25-1.5 full time jobs for 12-24 month olds. And even in those blissful moments when you don't need to be doing something specifically to care for them, they are either making noise or your brain is "on call" and splitting it's attention on work-and-watching-out-for-kid. It's hard.

Luckily they sleep outside of work hours so parents can rest or catch up on work.
>Your math doesn't work out here. I can't major in football

Literally, no you can't major in football. From a practical standpoint many of the athletes who go to a school like Alabama to play football do end up majoring in it. Maybe their actual degree will say something sports specific like kinesiology or sports management, maybe their academic advisers will point them to general education classes specifically targeted for athletes and they will end up with a super generic business or communications degree, but either way football is the primary focus for many of them.

>From my experience, club sports and clubs such as the theater club are funded via student fees, whereas departmental projects such as drama and music are funded via tuition.

The point is who funds a play or a concert at universities? Do they all need to be financially self-sufficient or do we accept that these pursuits have value outside of the number of people who will pay to watch them?

>In theory, the major areas are self-funding because of the tuition costs.

This isn't true. The costs to teach different subjects varies wildly and departmental budgets are therefore not always inline with the number of students in each specific program. For example, tuition from an English department would likely go to help subsidize a more expensive Physics department.
You probably don't know the half of it.

One of the things about public services in the US is that they are punitive in nature. They are designed to make you feel terrible about yourself and give you as big a hassle as possible.

If you're a low wage employee, you might need food stamps, cash assistance, housing assistance, child care assistance, and medical assistance. Every single one of those is a different government agency with a 9-5 schedule that doesn't do weekends or federal holidays.

Did your day care for your 2 kids forget to give you a form to fill out? Well then, when your child care has lapsed, have fun waiting 3-6 months for slots to open up. No, we don't care that you have a job which is why they're in daycare to begin with. Have fun with our antiquated automated service in which you wait 2 hours to talk to someone for 5 minutes in order to get a code to call back every week to check on the status of your case.

Rinse and repeat that for every state agency and program. Keeping up with state benefits is a 10 hour a week job if you have kids, and that's if everything is going okay.

On top of everything else, one of the reasons poor kids tend to have worse outcomes is because their parents are consistently stressed out from virtually every direction. If it's not the crappy job, it's the social services people. If it isn't the social services people, it's the stress of parenting adults.
Ooh, --force-with-lease looks like a nice feature, especially for updating github PRs that aren't yet merged. I still wouldn't want to use it where anybody else has a copy of the changes, since that's where you need a merge commit to avoid breaking somebody else's repo, but that gives me a safer option than a blind --force.
I read that apology as well and came away with a different opinion from what the post title wants you to think.

This seems like a very interesting branding approach on his part. Play up allegations and subsequent firing as being "cancelled" and come back as a victim of mob rule. Certainly a blog post that said "What it's like to feel the consequences of your actions" wouldn't have been as effective. (I suppose you could argue it's unfair to be fired for his behavior since it wasn't work related but I assume he was representing his employer at these art shows and it's bad for their brand to have him on staff.)
Which services in specific are undocumented services that frequently fail?
A pair of pliers and a blowtorch.
I can make great money working in tech without subjecting myself to a work environment where 6% of my colleagues will be forced out. So, in a competitive market where tech talent has its choice in the best employer... why Amazon? I've seen more articles written about Amazon being a dog-eat-dog place than any other large tech company.
what's the moore's law of general performance? How many months/years did we lose?

anecdotally, my next amd cpu+gpu upgrade at the same price point is about +30% 3dmark
> Amazon is obviously one of the most productive companies to have ever existed.

Strictly speaking, I don't think this is a counterfactual. A counterfactual is a figure of speech that considers a situation wherein the facts are different than they really are. For example, "If I were you, I'd quit." This is a counterfactual, because I am not you, but if I _were_, then so-and-so would be the case. Google gives the example, "If kangaroos had no tails, they would topple over."
That's the idea, a transaction commit log decoupled from underlying durable storage allows you to build your own persistence layers. I'm still thinking to build a simple (memory-mapped?) layer, but as an optional, separate lib.
Windows 7 is 12 years old now. Spinning hard drives are 100% dead in the consumer market.

Why in the world would a modern operating system not optimize for SSDs?

I can’t think of a single reason to use a spinning drive on my computer. Almost every conceivable use case is better relegated to a separate NAS box.

You can get a 1TB PCIe nvme SSD rated at 3100Mbps read speeds for $125. Why would I chip off an order of magnitude of performance to save $40?
Any sufficiently confusing financial scheme is indistinguishable from fraud.
It seems like most social media platforms are hazardous to your health and livelihood and there’s very little upside to voicing your opinions.
Damn, now I want to make a statistical study. Well, that or have a beer. Priorities…
I think that's one of those things where "wrong" becomes rather subjective.

If you've been strongly sensitized to feelings of actual or potential distress due to unwanted sexual attraction, or the sexualization of the (in this case) female body, or whatever the problem might have been, it's probably seen as wrong or at least problematic. The sensitization might have happened due to personal experiences, or due to hearing a lot about such experiences from other people, or, well... *looks around on the Internet*.

If you haven't been strongly sensitized that way, there probably isn't anything particularly wrong with that. Most people would probably have some kind of a middle ground perspective where e.g. physical attraction, and its expression (and humour about it) is part of normal human experience. The same people might see it as lewd or inappropriate in other contexts, or if expressed in other ways, or when it's too much. It might sometimes feel uncomfortable, and the extent to which people tolerate (and want to tolerate) that varies, as does the line where people begin to deem it "not right".

Which part of the spectrum is right or wrong is not an objective question. Right now lots of people (at least in social media) seem to be rather preoccupied with the former, perhaps because legitimate problems have often been overlooked. Some people who are in the former end of the spectrum are being rather aggressive. The anger is often understandable, although that doesn't mean they're objectively right or that you're wrong if you don't follow the same line.

With that said, people who were already sensitive about not causing ill feelings were probably not the actual problem in the first place.

This is just my random view, of course.
JPEG XL is available (in beta/with a flag) in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. Seems likely once it's no longer in beta that some web developers will start conditionally using it depending on the user's browser.

It doesn't need to be useful everywhere to be useful.
this is why i was so sad when mercurial support ended. I loved using mercurial it just works and it was so intuitive. My firm last year switched all projects over to github and it's been a pain, I learned it no problem but still have to google the occasional thing, but I spend most of my time fixing other people messing up the repo.
Cryptocoin is a certificate [of uniquity], which are assets. Ponzi schemes are something totally different, sometimes done with currencies and sometimes with assets such as cryptocoins, but the coin itself can't be a ponzi scheme by definition.
Yep, I have been doing this for a while. By spending a few mins a day I have a regular harvest (every 1-3 days) of a variety of microgreens / sprouts. Once you have a plan of when to start things and some basic equipment, you can go on autopilot!
It's pretty simple. There was not and will not be a market for Personal Health Records. Google Health was designed to be a store of PHRs where users had significant ownership over their health records, and they would allocate access to service providers.

That's not how health records work in the US where Google tried to start the product. HRs are effectively owned by the companies that provide health care, while patients have access to the records. There is a multibillion industry dedicated to keeping things that way (Cerner, Epic, the hospitals themselves) and even with Google's ostensible ability to change the world (at that time), they would never have been able to build a product that sustained itself because there wasn't a market for the product.

In short Google tried to compete with EPIC and Cerner without a market for their alternative product.

Individuals in the US (present company excepted) aren't interested in owning and managing their own health records; they want their HRs to be managed conveniently for them.

Today, Google (and AWS and Azure) makes deals with EPIC and the Hospitals (to host infra in their cloud) and also makes research deals (to help build their health research projects). This is a much more realistic approach given the constraints.
I see a lot of articles online when searching for "QR database download patent lawsuit". It seems patent trolls are very active in the QR field.

Such a shame for innovations in this area. I hope something can be done, but I am sceptical.

Can you work around the patent?
How do you conflate the institutional knowledge of Twitter the corporation and the crowd knowledge of Twitter the user-base?
I think people are judging on a case by case basis. But in general, if you do something very bad, it is very difficult to persuade people that you've genuinely changed. How could it be otherwise?

Try thinking about it with Noah replaced by one of HN’s favorite ‘bad guys’. Facebook periodically puts out statements saying “Oops, sorry, but don’t worry – we totally respect privacy now”. How long would it take for you to believe that Facebook had really changed? How would you feel about a privacy conference accepting sponsorship from Facebook, and justifying this decision by pointing to one of the apologetic statements?
yeah, just go sit in the back of the bus, don't be uppity, it should be enough we gave you rights, don't throw that back in our face by exercising those rights.
It is exactly the nature of game dev. Most people fail to understand the level of complexity behind it. I think there's also this false sense that "basic features" in games are both simple to implement and universally applicable.

By example, grab two successful games that are considered to be in the same genre - say, Counter-Strike Global Offensive and Call of Duty - and compare them on a single, "basic" feature like character movement. There are actually massive differences in how they feel and play, and it goes much deeper than just tweaking some settings on a customizable character controller asset.

It's easy to take stuff like this for granted and just assume the implementation is simple. In reality it is much more complex than that, and many of the differences that seem subtle may actually be much greater when it comes to design and programming.
You haven't needed to manually defragment hard drives in Windows in decades.
Without knowing the content of the patents(merely that they are valid) - would you be able to differentiate between a patent troll and someone with a great patent that wants their hard work licensed instead of taken for free?
Just to be clear, I am using the word "productivity" in a very general sense: output over input.

I'm not sure I understand your reasoning. How would any of these metrics not rapidly collapse under a 90% workforce cut? Are you assuming that the majority of Amazon is somehow automated? It definitely isn't.
Why is your idea of an employee's value relative to who that employee is?
25% y/y growth with like $100m revenue after being around for over a decade? No thanks.
Noah you are saying this now but your original apology says the opposite. Which is it?
On OSTEP, there's a course in educative.io from the authors of the book:

- https://www.educative.io/courses/operating-systems-virtualiz...

Which is worth checking as an introductory course.
Bradley sounds like a crotchety old asshole that would be happier if he'd get with the times and use an digital system instead of limiting customers to 3 items and not accepting paypal unless the total is over $50/
All the lentils from the supermarket that I've tried (and all legumes for that matter) have successfully sprouted: brown, pardina, black (beluga), and red. They're also good raw when sprouted, but not pardina, which I found ended up with occasional super-hard ones that hurt my teeth.
Leica Is Launching a Smartphone, with a Lens and Magnetic Lens Cap
> To be fair, meme activism has had its upsides.

The author seems to dislike the meme #BlackLivesMatter, but also praises some memes like "#5DemandsNot1Less to generate pressure on the Chinese government to preserve the relative political freedom of Hong Kong".

Both of these are memes. I am curious, what is the principle by which one decides which memes are "good" and which ones "have gone too far"? They propose 3 recommendations at the end for how to engage with memes, but couldn't this be applied to #5DemandsNot1Less as well?
The price to pay for not lobbying enough to software patent abolition. In the US, the STRONGER patent act and in the EU the UPC are 2 projects to validate software patents.

You can contact me at zoobab at gmail.com, we have has similar requests from small players in the US and in thr EU.
I won't disagree, or agree. If you are running spinning rust rather than an SSD, you are getting exactly what you chose. Just about any use case that justifies spinning rust can be solved with an external platter, thumbdrive, and/or SD card.
> But until then you're just going to have to trust that there are hundreds of people who witnessed Spacey's behaviour.

Or you can go to Wikipedia to find a list of accusations (sourced with articles written by journalists) and evaluate whether you find the claims credible based on the journalists/newspapers/people/accusations involved.

I think it's perfectly okay to claim that all of these people involved are lying and it's just a big conspiracy, but at least provide some arguments to this specific case instead of vague "oh, but can we actually trust words on the internet???".
FileLocator Pro for me (there's a free personal version). Been on that since Windows 7 quite frankly.
I'm sorry but I don't understand.
If every participant knows what’s going on and participates willingly, how is it a fraud? Where is the scam?
People often create their persona as a defense against childhood trauma. Indeed, many people never really figure out why they are creating the life they are, and never realize that what is propelling them is something that happened long ago. What you become in life can never really fix those internal scars, though.
> cbsmith obviously didn't mean the comment the way you took it (nor do I believe most people would read it that way), and then tried extra hard to apologize and all you've done is pile on.

Thanks for saying that dang. I really screwed up and I'm trying my best to make up for it, but I was starting to question whether I was even doing that right.