skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about your organization, but at mine utilization jumped like crazy when we all started working from home. People threw themselves into their work and stopped taking vacations. Not a lot of people have taken time to breathe in the last year. Was that focus and effort required? Probably not, but with nothing else to do and in a time of such economic uncertainty people did what they needed to make themselves feel better. I understand why the company would be burnt out.
I would bet customer support is the most labor-intensive part of the whole company, with devops a distant second.
Hopefully they can get to a place where people are empowered to regularly take time off when needed!
I expect the act of programming will change quite a bit over the next 10-15 years. We will incorporate machine learning algorithms more easily in many workflows, so part of your work will be training models to produce black box functions that you’ll call to get answers to complicated questions.

Obviously, this happens now, but I think it will become more pervasive and many more programmers will find the pattern incorporated into their daily work stream. I see the act of programming becoming the human guiding the computer to write the programs and the human validates it.

I could be way off. I’d have bet anything in ‘94 that Beck would be a one hit wonder.
I have had native IPv6 at home for over 10 years.
Because this can be done piecemeal and in place. Additionally if you use modules and the like it can be done in swaths without issue. Additionally you can tie things across domains. Use Route53 with Azure servers, etc.
Child Labor in the Production of Cocoa
Hyundai has it's own Robotic labs too. They have plenty of reasons to invest in Boston Dynamics, apart from just car parts.

In addition, Robots manufacturing cars or car parts, improving their own robotic products could be another reason behind this.
This reminds me about how the person behind the telescreen tells Winston he needs to bend lower while stretching. (1984 film/book)
>certain populations are refusing vaccination for mostly irrational reasons.

It's not irrational for people to be cautious about a new treatment for which there's absolutely no data about long-term safety (can't know the 2-3 year effects of something that's only been around one year), which has bypassed normal treatment approval processes (the covid vaccines only have FDA emergency use authorisation, and have not yet passed the requirements for full FDA approval, requirements which are strict for a reason), for which some previous attempts have failed significantly (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22536382/), to prevent a disease that for many people has less than a 1/100,000 to 1/1,000,000 fatality rate (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.17.20097410v...), ten to a hundred times less dangerous than giving birth.
I thought it would get bigger and more important that’s about it.
Deterioration of Speed of Rail Transport
South Korea has been less of an ally than it has been a client state of the U.S. "Ally" implies some degree of autonomy for both parties. South Korea has never really had the opportunity to act for itself, and when it has, it has received cold and rather tonedeaf responses from the U.S. (just look at the recent visit by Moon to the U.S.). That's not at all to say that the SK-US relation is inauthentic; there's definitely something genuine there. But that authenticity doesn't to seem recognized by the current administration. Biden seems to want to keep South Korea as the client state that it has always been despite (what seems to me) to be reasonable demands of sovereignty.
Some things can't really be measured numerically, I think this is one.

I think you do things like talking to people afterwards and see if they think it was a good idea, looking at attrition rates and try and guess if it moved them, looking at whatever productivity metrics you have, and at the end you probably have a gut feeling on whether or not it was a good idea... That's probably the best that you get.
> A spokeswoman for Bumble said a few customer support staff will be working in case any of the app's users experience issues. These employees will then be given time off to make sure they take a whole week of leave.
'Giant arc' stretching 3.3B light-years across the cosmos shouldn't exist
IDK, I have a ten year old laptop that still does pretty well at those things. Its biggest issue is its terrible IO and slow HD, but those were its biggest issues when new too.
That's actually pretty good advice - cheers
Agree. I supported a DOS based touchscreen Point of Sale (POS) with technology from decades ago and it was fast AF. You only got 256 colors and the fonts didn't look that great. But it was a speed demon.
> Yeah, all this concern with scalability, portability and clean code, has created quite a dystopian software world.

I don't think scalability, portability, and clean code are the enemy.

C/C++ are as portable as they ever were, and Java/.NET provide higher-level abstractions that work across both Windows and *nix systems. Even Electron doesn't have to suck, in theory.

The reason performance is bad these days is because developers are just bad. The number of developers doubles every five years. Ergo, half of all developers have less than five years of experience. The vast majority of them don't have a CS, CE, or EE degree. A large number of them went through bootcamps (which are an expensive version of the old "Learn VB in 21 Days!" books.) And they're all writing the Electron apps we love to hate.
I really don't see the problem here. The AI rights debate is fringe at best and is currently purely hypothetical. Maybe if it was genuinely at the level where it's competing with NGOs or international aid for funding, I could see the problem but we're not there at all and what investment towards AI there is has nothing to do with their imagined future rights but their current and near term utility.
They had their IPO a few months ago and I imagine all of their staff, not just engineers, were under a lot of pressure. And no one said they were working overtime, just that they were burnt out. Plus, when your company is in the news and your user base grows 30% in a matter if months, that's the time to strike while the iron is hot, which no doubt required a lot of work from all teams.
while I've heard of few incidents of devices being searched..I've never had any such issues where U.S CBP wanted to search my phone or laptop when entering the U.S.
Modern slaves on both sides of the camera.
Ask HN: What's your Go-to web stack for Java?
Which framework / set of libraries do you use and why?
It references "burnout," not "overwork." I think there's a difference.
In a way they were right. Movie and music have better definition, games better graphics but on a functional level everything we do today (web browsing, text messaging, video call, email, online shopping) already existed 15 years ago. There is more bloat (JS and Electron), more confusing UI design, more privacy invasive software now and but for the end user nothing really changed.
This tech is troubling, partially because it will work, the question is what it will work for. I've worked in privacy for a long time, and these passport schemes are just an absolute attack on health information privacy legislation and they create the precise outcome the regulations were designed to prevent, which was a literal tyranical society that used arbitrary medical pretexts to privilege and disadvatage people politically and economically. This isn't just rhetoric either, we have decades of health information privacy legislation built around this principle. Every single new government tech in many countries needs to go through a privacy impact assessment to ensure it isn't a mechanism to do this specific thing, and I guarantee these technologies would not have survived one.

Why should you give your vaccination status to anyone within the borders of a country, and what meaningful assurance does it provide to the pub/venue recieving it?

Here is what it does not do:

a) show you do not have a variant of a disease

b) show you are not carrying a disease

c) show you are or are not vulnerable to a disease or
variants of it

What does demonstrating this status signify? Perhaps I am missing something.
The car companies are publicly traded. OP was talking about giant family owned corporations. You should watch out for Schwarz especially. Walmart tried to enter the German market and failed. Lidl/Aldi are expanding everywhere. I would say they are the only example where the German efficiency stereotype is actually true.
There was a $67 billion trade gap, $60b to $127b, between the US and Germany for 2019.

The biggest US digital/tech companies aren't remotely coming close to having enough unaccounted for business in Germany that could fill in $67 billion.
> It's an app with some basic functionality.

> I doubt that all of their staff is doing DevOps or maintaining servers

Please don't assume this.

Just because you don't use the app and have no interest in the app or company does not mean you need to have a reductionist outlook on other people's work.

Bumble has a great and in depth engineering blog [0] here that doesn't make it 'an app with some basic functionality.'

[0] https://medium.com/bumble-tech
Memorizing a static succession of frames with nothing actually being dynamic and interactive isn't the same challenge as this.
From the qr generated and qr expiry timestamps, it looks like they are only valid for 2 days, so revocation isn’t that much of a problem.
(2^16)^(1/3) < 41
So why base 45?
> Seems like a question of reciprocity and solidarity.

I have to disagree here. There is neither reciprocity nor solidarity involved, because you gain/lose nothing by them having or not having additional freedoms.

Don't get me wrong I understand OP's frustration and that he/she feels treated unfairly. But OP's frustration is not rational. As harsh as it sounds OP's feelings are driven by envy.
Company-wide month off sounds amazing. Would you be willing to name it (would be great PR for them). If not, would you give a sense of geography, industry and size?
Yes, but that is not what I meant. I meant that the difference in power between the most powerful and the least is growing. The counter to that, seems to be rapidly disappearing. Without a negative feedback, and with greater automation, the super powerful won't have any incentives to keep the average person happy. Our tools of power (revolt and production of goods and services) are disappearing. That could lead to a very good future or a very bad one.
Bitcoin is going to drop till $15k
Sublime Traders founder Andrei Stanciulescu predicts that Bitcoin will reach $80,000 before the year ends.
Why are you talking about fairness in a context like this? Is there any actual health benefit from fully vaccinated people waiting until everyone else is vaccinated? Also, you probably also incur less healthcare costs than they do, but you still contribute to the public healthcare system. Is this also an issue for you?
Remember that the elderly also have more actual urgency, as they are much more likely to have less time to live than you.
> by “melting” some of the abstraction implementation layers.

So bake those supply chain vulnerabilities right in there, nice and deep.
I'm surprised by how much work at some companies should have been done automatically but instead it's some labor intensive excel+email workflow.

Maybe there's some of that happening in there
Wonderful. A number of airlines have a two person in the cockpit rule so one of the pilots can’t deliberately crash the plane because they are suicidal. Which has happened a non-trivial amount of times.
Probably one of the better companies to acquire controlling stake in BD because several of their own companies would directly benefit from robotics.
This is a very subjective statement. The pandemic has been bar none the best period of my life. Increased physical and social distance from other people, no need to emote in public thanks to masks, no need to commute, greater accommodation for non-social options like self-checkouts. My physical and mental health have skyrocketed, and as a result I feel like I've been on vacation for a year and half, despite only taking about 3 days of vacation the entire time and starting a new and more intense job.

Those of you who have found the slightly over a year duration of the pandemic difficult have gotten a sample of how miserable pre-pandemic life was for those of us who are more introverted or misanthropic.
Parentheses Are Just Typechecking
I'm actually working on a follow up to build interactive yee diagrams for IRV (version of ranked choice that's getting popular in the US), but Ka-Ping Yee already has a post with some static versions. IRV has some really unpleasant effects that these diagrams help make visible. For instance, in some cases a candidate might want to actively move public opinion away from their position because it makes it more likely that they would win. http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
> I helped build up a team- Google Accelerated Sciences- which does basically what I thought Google should be doing all along.

MD?
When I see Cargo on hn, I thought it was about Rust..
Main reasons to use CF over TF in the AWS world include: rollbacks (giving you some form of transactionality), better understanding of success criteria (though arguably Terraform now can understand what it means for an ECS deployment to succeed), and more complete support for newer features.
Based on profits at the date of valuation. Its a useless way to value companies, but that's basically always what this comment means.
What about us 70s and 80s programmers?
And what has been stopping malicious companies from doing this before? To enter bars in most European countries you are already required to show identification prior to entering.
The headline is a bit misleading - the main body of the article is how the remote workers are more acting as virtual over-the-shoulder supervisors of the 7-11 workers, e.g., pestering them if they paid for that drink they took, etc.

Yelling at robbers (and capturing data) is a great idea. Constant monitoring is a burgeoning hellscape.
Biden is proving to be a China lap dog as expected…
Thanks. It seems that everyone one who's tried it says it's totally worth it. My concern is saving enough for retirement. But that guy dying of natural causes at 41 really hit home that I may not get a retirement!!
I expect the future of tech (especially data) to be more decentralized. Not necessarily because of privacy, but because there are several opportunities to use the staggering amount of power available in mobile devices. Someone will figure out a killer app or platform, and open the flood gates.
> In contrast myself and my CS friends had, well, we had knowledge of Turing machines with infinite tapes.

Yeah. Going to school for Computer Science is probably the biggest regret in my life. I could have spent that time & money learning something useful/interesting instead, or better yet, not waste my time in University at all.
Blackrock has thousands of funds, hedge funds, ETNs, subsidiaries resulting from acquisitions which have their own funds. It still matters that they are all under the control of Blackrock and this single entity may drive decisions at the board level through their different vehicles.

They basically own 10% of the DAX. Which is a massive concentration of power over german companies (and it must be similar in other countries).

To the point that if I was a regulator I would question whether it is ok to have a single entity (and the likes of Blackrock) have that much control over the country's corporate landscape.
Such a stupid move even from a pure business point of view. People who can fork out $3k for a treadmill (as well as have the space and time to use it) are people who are in a good position to defend themselves from this sort of bullshit
Easy answer: the extra time spent every day helping my daughter with her homework. This has paid off enormously. Not because she's a grade-A student (far from it; she has a lot of difficulty). But because I've been able to consistently, calmly teach her the following skills that I'm now starting to see her pick up:

1. Everything looks difficult the first time. The hardest step is always the first one. Take a deep breath and just "begin".

2. Never give up. Even impossible tasks are just lots of easy, smaller tasks. Learn to break things down into manageable pieces.

3. When in a time crunch (e.g. a test), learning to triage is a very important skill. Don't get stuck. Just skip and move on. Come back later. Learn to prioritize, etc.

4. Don't be scared. Everyone gets it wrong sometimes. You'll never succeed if your too afraid to fail.

5. Trust your gut. If something seems wrong, then it very well may be. Don't just accept someone else's answer because you don't happen to know the answer.

6. Always verify your answers. Don't just finish a problem and assume it's right. And learn to verify the answers of others as well.

Finally, never ever ever say "I'm not good at that." Say "I'm not good at that YET!" That little difference over time is reminding yourself that you could learn/do it if you wanted, you just haven't learned to yet.
Google photos as well! Just discovered this feature last week.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/03/google-photos-adds-a-chat-...
This reads like someone who has never worked on anything. Here's something I totally made up but have experienced half a dozen times and caused it the other half dozen:

Come in to an exciting new opportunity. The first week you recoil in horror the technical debt. It appears the previous maintainer/builder didn't know one or more of: basic system admin, testing, documentation, packages, coding design, database design, or security.

The incidents start. The code is so interdependent it's terrifying to make even a small change. Fixing a bug in their custom json generator breaks a service you don't know exists and takes out billing. Yes they wrote their own. You lose the confidence of the team already there. Now you are too afraid to make changes.

All you can do is toil or try to think about selling a rewrite. When one or both of those hit burn out you fire up LinkedIn and beg for mercy.
All this personal health infos should never ended up being encoded in clear in the QR code.

Some french researchers and Laquadrature are going to court to remove those infos from there:

"la lecture du code en 2D permet à n’importe qui, toujours aussi facilement, d’accéder à des données de santé très sensibles mais parfaitement inutiles au fonctionnement du passe : date de prise du vaccin, nom du vaccin, contraction passée de la maladie"

https://www.laquadrature.net/2021/06/09/passe-sanitaire-atta...
Neat idea, reminds me of Memojis in iMessage
> That's always been true, and CRT has nothing to do with it.

I have seen it happen to preteens first hand. Children that a year ago were comfortable hanging out, are no longer so.

CRT encourages kids to engage in paint-swatch racialism.

It is heartbreaking to see first hand children who used to just be able to play together, worry about whether they should include or exclude other kids because of what they look like.

Teaching children to pre-judge people because of where their pigmentation is on a paint swatch is grotesque and it is child abuse.

If your ideology leads you to hurt children, then your ideology must be wrong.

So, pre-judging people is wrong because it erases their identity by making unfounded and unfair presumptions about who they are because of arbitrary physical characteristics that they can not control. Racial pre-judgement is a dangerous bronze-age heuristic that society should try to be moving past, but CRT encourages it.

Implanting racial self hatred (and racial pride) is a pernicious and dangerous thing to do, and if you can't see that I don't have time to educate you. Reducing human beings down to being "black and brown bodies" is disgusting. The correct response to that kind of dehumanization can only be disgust. And again, people in positions of authority imposing that in CHILDREN. At least adults have more agency to push back.

I don't care if that isn't "real" CRT. It doesn't matter if what I am talking about isn't textually correct. If the CRT you are talking about only exists in the minds of obscure scholars and texts, then it is just a fantasy, and doesn't really exist. The only real CRT is what is actually being implemented in classrooms across the country.
>, but I think you are minimizing network effects by simply calling it "easier".

The gp is saying the millions choosing the "easier" action is what causes the network effects.

E.g. another example that applies to tech-savvy programmers: most developers have the knowledge (or can Google a tutorial) to host their own personal git server but most choose not to. The collective millions choosing not to bother with self-hosting leads to emergence of something like Github.

Signing up for a free account on Github is easier than:

- hosting a personal repo at home on a laptop or Raspberry Pi

- buying a $10/month shared VPS server to host it

So even before Github had network effects (say less than 1000 user accounts), it was still easier to create an account on an unproven Github platform than self-host. Those early adopters leads to future strong network effects.

But that also leads to unwanted side effect of Github deleting repositories from DMCA takedowns, etc (aka "censorship").
> collective burnout

> fortnightly manicures, hair trims and "blowouts" which the founder said showed "appreciation for our busy bees"

> Working hours? Not nine to five apparently. Employees can choose the hours they want, just as long as the work gets done

It's all just a bunch of BS. Give your employees reasonable time off policies and encourage them to actually take time off instead of letting them get burned out and then closing the office for a week.
It's not a privacy problem, it's a human rights one.
Sadly, no one seems to care.
Requiring a genetic treatment, to work, travel or live is a dystopic future. Madness.
The complete list of codes can be found in the github repo containing the schema for the qrcode data https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development/ehn-dcc-schema/tree/r...
> I doubt that all of their staff is doing DevOps or maintaining servers

I should imagine there's a fair few customer support people along with at least a handful of content moderators - considerably more labour intensive than software dev/devops/sysadmin, I think.

Obviously there's also comms teams, marketing, HR, finance, etc. I'd say these are probably also more labour intensive than dev/devops/sysadmin because they tend to involve a lot more human contact, etc.
This story [0] covers a report that they worked with the CCP to help with the Geoocide against the Uighurs. That's not exactly what you asked for, but I think it contributed to the deeper point: if you do business in China, you give the CCP what they want.

If that's Uighur's hiding in cellars or a senator's affair before (s)he votes on tariffs or whatever, it doesn't really make a difference.

Don't get me wrong, the NSA are playing the same "game" and have been caught a lot more often.

[0] https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/tiktok-s-owner-is-helping-...
What for? We haven't needed one until now?
Open-Source Psychometrics Project
You're getting it backwards. What if you go to work 7 days a week, and the numbers are still going down? Bumble is taking a week off because they're doing poorly. I have no opinions on whether the factors are in their control or not.