skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I could see this for a services based company, like the old IBM Global Services, or one of the Big 5 consulting firms. I find it hard to understand how adding 1k devs for a product based company makes sense, but doesn't mean I am right.

2. On-boarding can be productized, I've done that a few times for companies where we were hiring rapidly and constantly. I learned this at GE where we worked hand in hand with HR to productize our on-boarding process where we could bring in groups of people and grow rapidly. At another company we had two "universities" one for new-grads one for industry experienced people. So groups of 20+ people would join every month into a "university" that lasted 14-60 days to train new hires on the company, industries serviced, processes etc. So you could easily do this and support 1000 hires in a year at one company.

3. No hard facts of course, but I'd imagine this is a non-issue overall, but maybe I am wrong. If you just said U.S. or EU, I'd think it would be harder.
This general concept has existed for a while, and the monitoring is often done in the US. The basic premise is to use video analytics to spot anomalies, most commonly along the lines of people jumping a fence to a secured property, and then sending an alert to the central station for an operator to review and act on.

In recent years, video analytics have (sort of) evolved to the point that some degree of gesture and action recognition can be implemented to spot acts of crime or aggression.

While the person-jumping-fence scenario can be repeatedly detected with a high degree of confidence, and false alarm scenarios like a cat or raccoon climbing the fence ignored, action/gesture recognition is far less accurate overall. I think this is why they are outsourcing monitoring to India instead of using one of the many domestic video monitoring operations (eg: Rapid Response, COPS, etc.). I would wager that maybe 1 in 50 of the events the remote operator gets alerted to is actually something of interest.

The remote audio talk down is very effective though, although these systems are more commonly used for outdoor theft and vandalism protection. The scenarios here of an indoor robbery are somewhat extreme. Typically if a store is at THAT much risk for robbery they end up installing bullet-proof plexi or taking other steps that are more effective in reducing risk than a remote operator and a speaker.

Source: this general market and application has been my focus for the last decade+
> Why are you assuming genuineness

I’m just assuming the question was asked in good faith :) I’ve seen this topic discussed on HN about many companies and sometimes there are interesting and unexpected reasons for the high headcount.
Of course, 100% agree, but I'm after concrete examples from other teams, because at the moment I belong to only one, which is a limited sample:) and I'm curious.

I should've asked what are the cases when one outperforms the other? Or, what are the cases where Django is a better choice than Phoenix (besides talent, available libs, etc...).

Or even, better, what are the concrete examples in which one is a better choice--from your own experience?

Given my (fairly superficial) experience with both Django and Phoenix I can see a tonne of similarities: convention over configuration, generators/scaffolding, ORM, fairly similar project structure (to some extent). At the same time things such as realtime/WebSockets feel so unnecessarily complex in Django and so much easier to work with in Node, Elx, Go, literally anything else.

I feel like Django fits in the niche once occupied by RoR, whilst Phoenix has a stronger overlap (in terms of use cases) with something like Next.js + Prisma.
UWP/WinRT is basically an improved COM, it never went away, rather took over most of the modern Windows APIs since XP.

Pity that WinDev keeps producing the same tools as back in MDIL 1.0 days though, the only good tool C++/CX, got killed by them.
Regular alarms are typically triggered at the point of entry / forced entry, to discourage the intruders from entering the building.

Silent alarms are triggered during a hostage situation. e.g. when a cashier / bank teller / etc. is in danger because they are being threatened with a weapon. At this stage, it is not advisable to startle the robber because it may cause them to harm the hostage.
The Sunk Cost fallacy is strong.
It's due to the way amazon prices 'returns'.

If a customer returns an item they don't like the color of, Amazon will see the package has been opened, and mark it unsellable.

If the manufacturer wants to get the item back to sellable condition (for example, by refurbishing it, and selling it as such), they have to pay for return shipping from the customer (~$6) and a "cross border removal order", costing ~$10 per item. Then they get the item back, and have to have staff to check and refurbish it, and then need to resell it (paying all of Amazons fees again, up to 40% of the retail price)

For most items, it's cheaper just to trash the item and manufacture a new one.
The CIA and Overhead Recon: U2 and Oxcart, 1954 – 1974 [pdf]
This has been known for years, at least in Europe. German article from 2018: https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/handel/das-ist-ein-riesengro...

Edit: people replying seem to think that I'm saying that:

1. only Amazon does this;
2. it can be prevented but Amazon just chooses not to.

I didn't say any of those things.
> Also, this is incredible Marketing for Bumble, as many people are going to share this in Slack channels in an effort to get their companies to do the same.

Agreed and ppl sharing stuff of slack channels are their target customers too.
> I think you don't see Noah's reply because he deleted that tweet?

Several times above, I have included a link [1] with both a screenshot and description which in no way indicate that... He was accused of being a known groper but that was not a behavior he explicitly apologized for.

[1] https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2020/06/noah-bradley-admi...
I live alone and have a dishwasher. Put it on once a week and would not live without it - the dishes are spotless after washing. If it ever dies, I will replace it immediately. Only downside is having to keep the dishes 'under water' to prevent encrustation but this is only bothersome when other people are due to come around.
Automated manufacturing that doesn't care about emissions will still outcompete automated manufacturing that does.

OT: Generally you tend to end up with locations that are only competive with automaton narrowing down their output to products that can have production runs nearly unchanged for years while stuff that is subject to fashion or fast innovation goes elsewhere.
This article doesn't but the original itv article mentions it:

> Why are hundreds of thousands of products being destroyed in this way? The answer is Amazon’s hugely successful business model. Many vendors choose to house their products in Amazon’s vast warehouses. But the longer the goods remain unsold, the more a company is charged to store them. It is eventually cheaper to dispose of the goods, especially stock from overseas, than to continue storing the stock

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millio...
And what prevents the checker from taking screenshots or recording the screen to harvest the data later?
If my washing machine suddenly decided it needed longer time to wash a load of clothes, that would be a change of specifications after the fact, and I'd be able to return it to the store without issues.

So... why not with CPUs?
SiFive P550 Core: High-Performance RISC-V Processor
> What are my alternatives? Qt? Gtk? Native libraries?

Yes. You are not a Javascript Programmer, or a Frontend Programmer; Choose the right tool for each job.
It can't tho. Even if the Ferrari uses old engine tech (14nm) vs latest engine tech (5nm) the Hyundai still loses.

https://techjourneyman.com/blog/apple-m1-vs-intel-core-i9/

Can't wait for Intel and AMD to get their hands on 5nm equivalent FAB processes.
One recruiter finding 1000 people for a single company.
the whole point of the product is to connect it to the internet and participate in a remote class, along with other gamification features that encourage using the product and staying fit. people buy it for this reason, generally speaking.
A: non-immune people this 18-year comes in contact with later
> tech that’s well-designed

The only criticism I can think of, is the QR code is too "fat". It would have scanning difficulties in low-light conditions, especially QR readers with cheap cameras with low ISO tolerance. The Base45 encoded bytes should be cut at least by half to make fast scanning possible.
Noah Smith Interviews Marc Andreesen
An excerpt:

>Housing, education, and health care are each ferociously complex, but what they have in common is skyrocketing prices in a world where technology is driving down prices of most other products and services. (See chart below.) I think we should build in the next decade new technologies, businesses, and industries that break these price curves -- and in fact reverse them, and make these three primary markers of the American dream easier and easier for regular people to attain.
A controlling stake doesn't have to own the majority of the company, just the majority of voting shares. It gives you meaningful influence over the board and executives but does not entitle you to all (or even a majority of) of any profit.
Tons of 3rd party sellers use the Fulfilled by Amazon program where they have Amazon store and handle all logistics on their items.

It's not cheap, and iirc cost increases over time. Amazon doesn't want their warehouses full of shit that doesn't move.

If the 3rd party stops paying and doesn't want to pay to have it shipped back to their own facility, then they need to get rid of it.
I agree. 2020 was one of the best years of my life.
I completed my study in compsci in early nineties. I was in for video games : optimizing 3D engines, etc. So I was expecting 3D to get bigger and faster but I got bored earlier than that.

Interstingly, I absolutely didn't see the web coming. I was very interested in BBS'es and Minitel (France) but I didn't connect the dots until I heard of the Amazon and FaceBook and Google which made it big.

But TBH, I didn't see how transformational was computing. Most of the revolutions that came, I saw them as mere gadgets (including the mobile phone), or funny things to do. It's only very late that I understood the potential.

The only things I saw right were : Linux will eat everything (not because of hindsight, just because I wanted it to be :-)) and I saw that independent gaming would come to life when tools would be cheaper (and I was spot on).

My third prediction was : computing will become invisible and ubiquitous (c'mon one has to carry a computer in its pocket all of the time ? tss...). This has yet to realize :-) Maybe with 5G ? :-)

I was also fortunate enough to learn FP back then and it allowed me to see the future of many programming languages.

But overall, I was "inside" the computer and I didn't realize how much it'd change things and how much it'd change itself.
Yeah....where the sun don't shine.
This sounds weird.

You interviewed for a PE role but instead was offered and somehow accepted a SDE2 position?

That's a 2 level downgrade and would mean a very different role for you with significantly lower compensation.
> Don't those amendments apply to individuals and not businesses?

(1) Landlords arr often ibdividuals, and
(2) in any case, no, they apply to legal persons, generally.

> Also, the state already entered the game when evictions were suspended

There's a reason for different tolerance for litigation risk in those two actions, but in any case by providing essentially full-value compensation for the losses due to the earlier action, this action is not only on firmer ground viewed individually, but also greatly mitigates remaining litigation risk from the earlier action.
I’m afraid that’s quite a bit of self referential bias. So let me raise your hopes with some of mine: I met my wife when she was 30 and already had 2 kids. We’ve been together for 16 years now, got 2 daughters (so 4 children in total), and are nothing like the individuals we were 16 years ago. We’ve grown together, we’ve grown separately - we’ve changed yearly. Since you’re aware of it now: don’t become an individual with rigid expectations and assumptions. Life is constantly evolving.

Aim to hit 80 and still shake your head at the person you were when you was 70 ;-)

Here’s one of my favorite quotes that feels relevant:

“We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played”

You can find love at any age.
They do it because it works. There are more than enough idiots out there who will nod and keep giving them money to make up for those that won't.

"Vote with your wallet" doesn't work, because too much of the population are lemmings.
it's just cheaper for the manufacturer to make a new product than to check returns, due to the way amazons fees and policies work.
No, I mean deleted the reply tweet that you see in this screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbCzIRoU0AcR8Qk?format=jpg&name=...

This is what tptacek was referring to when he said that he used this apology in response to groping allegations.

It's hard to tell what's going on in twitter threads though. Twitter sucks at archiving this kind of info.
Because it's a political crisis rather than epidemic crisis. The virus will disappear once it's not needed anymore, but the digital infrastructure for tracking people and restricting access will remain "for our safety".
The 15-Minute Project
Or, the armed robbers panic, start shooting up the cameras and speakers, and maybe the cashier too, if they're particularly angry.

Assuming an armed individual will act predictably or rationally in response to being yelled at seems specious.
But then why waste resources on shipping back the items if they are going to be destroyed? Is it because if customers find out this is happening there'd be a spike in returns?
My guess would be about inventory space, shipping costs, returns, and stranded inventory.

Amazon has been fiddling with sellers inventory space on Amazon fulfillment centers for some years, and they keep reducing it, and penalizing sellers who don't sell enough (either by increasing their inventory fees, or reducing their storage volume).

For some sellers destroying inventory is probably the best option. Some product returns can't be sold, so you pay to have them destroyed.

So it's not just Amazon decision (I mean, if you leave stranded inventory and you don't move it, Amazon will warn you, and if you don't do anything then they'll destroy it).
So yes, there is a huge transitory supply shock that's inflationary. At the same time, there are structural labor and energy issues that in my view will contribute to longer term price strains but not of the 70s variety.
China is doing much better than Britain did, from several points of view.

Britain had a safety-netless trickle-down economic model that gave rise to huge economic inequality and combined it with a nearly uninterrupted hard gold standard and a very laissez-faire financial sector. This is the regime that gives a certain kind of right winger wet dreams, but it depended on resource extraction on a vast scale from the colonies for its success and still was hugely unstable, with five major economic crises hitting London in the C19th, with one deeper than the Great Depression.

China's interventionist model has some serious issues, but I think in terms of equity, stability and self-sufficiency its last 40 years compares well to any period of the British Empire.
The Northern Ireland link was easier to find:

> You must take at least four weeks’ holiday a year, so only holiday on top of this can be carried over and then only if your employer gives you permission or if this is permitted by your contract of employment.

I once had a colleague who was given a letter along the lines of "you still haven't used enough holiday; unless you advise us of your preferred days, you will be on holiday from date X to Y".

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/taking-your-holidays
You already can with devices like Ring. I have a Ring doorbell and I can yell remotely at anyone in front of my door using the Ring App. It has motion sensors so I get notified if someone is in front of the door even before they ring the doorbell and I can talk to them.
For Netherlands, this is the list of safe countries that do not require you to test/quarantine on return:

https://www.government.nl/topics/coronavirus-covid-19/visiti...

Granted, it is more complex to check what countries require to accept a person traveling from the Netherlands.
I very rarely return stuff I have bought but don't end up liking (and I try to only buy stuff I know I want), and stories like this make it even more likely that I will instead resell them on local auction websites instead. Might get a little less money out of it but at least I can be more certain that the product is actually going to be used.
If your scope is wide enough, everything is in-scope.
Selfhosting can also just be: hosting your own email and website and not on AWS.
whenever i go on vacation the first day or two are fun and relaxing but eventually i spend the rest of the week wishing i was back at work
Posted a few seconds earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27592081

(Also, the URL in this post is wrong.)
Took a look at their bio, then website, they appear to be "The Founder CEO of Micro Services, Inc."
Yeah, I think it's quite interesting in a sense that it tackles a similar problem than say Next + Prisma, but in a more opinionated (convention over configuration) way.

Coming from Node, having to mess with WebSockets in Django feels so backwards, although I do appreciate less cognitive load when you're dealing with more traditional, MVC + REST style apps.
Lets see what Windows 11 brings, but I bet it will still be WinUI powered.
So I take it she didn't react right away or you would have figured it out.

She didn't take a bite of beef and immediately feel something go wrong. She just slowly declined over time after the bite of beef?
Thank you! Glad to see someone finds it useful.
The challenge with moving to another country is that you have to get the requisite visa and immigration, not to mention the cost of movement every time you want to visit the US. With States, there are open borders, which brings movement costs down considerably.

> But maybe people have preferences of what they want in life

As with everything in life, there are tradeoffs. If someone is so wedded to the idea of living in the Bay Area or New York City, then they should accept the reality that a low six-figure salary won't get them very far in terms of material benefits and creature comforts. In return, they get trendy brunch places, awesome dim sum, and proximity to Hamilton. You're right that if people prefer that, it's their prerogative, but they also can't come back and complain that they can't afford a nice big house and maybe a little more disposable income like their peers in Iowa. Ideally, these cities do more to construct housing to meet their demand, but as long as that's not happening, this is a very real tradeoff that every rational person needs to make; especially those that are privileged enough to earn $100k+ per year.

I chose to live in New York City, and fully accept all the upsides and downsides of my decision.
This per-page link may be faster, but will only last for 3 days: https://secureview.isolation.site/uploads/file4llq.4bjloff.p...

Original here: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/1992-04-01A.pdf
I was a programmer in the 90s but I didn't become a paid professional until the early 2000s.

I thought that the internet would kill the tabloid press (I am in the UK), and give the public better quality news and information. Instead, the internet became the tabloid.

I thought that it would be the "other guys" who would first leverage the internet as a political platform. People descended from 90s hacktivists, DMT-eating civil libertarians and the like. The rise of internet driven populism was a surprise to me.

I thought that in the future I would own an SGI home computer with superpowered custom chips, or something like a Playstation 2 with an os and keyboard. That is, something highly integrated like the home computers were.

I kind of miss the immersive experience of working with a computer where the whole thing is a unified design and you have a couple of big books which tell you everything you'll need to know to program them, and all the layers of abstraction are accessible and make sense to the programmer-user.

Back then, I thought that the computers of the future would be more profound rather than merely more complex. That they would still be knowable to the lone hacker, only they would demand more from them. Instead we have these huge complexes of ordinary complexity, reminiscent of power station piping diagrams, that we work on in teams as bureaucrats of abstraction. Of course, back then I was a kid, in love with the mystique of computers, there was a lot I romanticized, and a lot I didn't know.

I thought there would be more visual tools for programming, things derived from NeXT Interface Builder, Visual Basic and multimedia authoring systems that people used to use to make CD ROMs and information kiosks in the 90s. And I thought that the development process would be more integrated. We wouldn't be bothering with stacks of batch-mode build tools and things like that, and it would be relatively easy to open a window or play a sound in a high level language without having to do C bindings to third party cross-platform toolkits etc.

I didn't think programming would be replaced with graphical tools, I thought it would be augmented by them, in a unified, ergonomic package.

I thought VR would get going sooner than it did. I was a big fan of Howard Rheingold's 1991 book "Virtual Reality" (a great guide to early VR) and got to try it out in 1993 at a computer exhibition. I used to fantasize about going to VR arcades and playing flight simulators with a bunch of people. Now I do it at home with IL2: Great Battles.

One prediction I got right was shaders on graphics cards. Back in the late 90s I was a user of BMRT, a shareware Renderman-compliant raytracer which introduced me to the idea of programmable shaders. I figured it was only a matter of time before they ended up in consumer hardware, and my ears pricked up when the author of BMRT went to work for Nvidia.
I use Google Docs nearly daily for work and they have definitely gotten new features over the last few years. Mostly around better collaboration. A few notable ones: @mentioning prime in a doc, assigning actionable comments as action items, automated creation of action items in meeting notes.
The first link you posted is an empty page. The second link returns a page not found error.
Ah yes, we already have generally intelligent AI. It's apparently accessed through amazon mechanical turk.
You say that as if making claims about ethnicity has ever lead to a positive outcome for all parties involved.
I’ve twice deleted Sophos for slowness. I’m now running Bitdefender on a 4GB 2012 Air, and performance is reasonable (so long as I restart Firefox daily).