skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure if you compare the extreme end of one bell curve with the middle of another then, hey look the p95 people in one outperform the p50 of the other! But if you compare the median developer in each then what? My experience is that if you’re > 40yrs old it’s irrelevant as the industry was immature but younger than that and the median degreed engineer I’d expect to come out significantly on top.

You also have the problem of survivorship bias - you’re looking only at the non-degreed engineers who survived in the job and not all of those who dropped out. When hiring the question is whether the non-degreed pool of applicants can on average be expected to match the performance of the degreed applicants?

Anecdotally < 40y/o great engineers I’ve encountered without degrees almost always have a degree in *something* or they spent their youth tinkering with personal computers - historically an even more inaccessible privilege than a college degree. They are p95 folks.

I certainly don’t think degrees have to be required but at the same time I don’t want to wade through rivers of unqualified candidates searching for that p95 individual. Bootcamps are kinda the exception here but that’s another topic.
No. It feels like lying and I don't want to lie.
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Why not gitlab?
If you use "monopoly" in the same sentence as "Apple" and somehow fail to conflate the two, humanity has truly lost all hope.
Very good point. Shared screen note-taking over Zoom/conf while discussing the meeting subject also leads to better meeting engagement.

At that point the meeting leader simply facilitates and people assign themselves tasks as the agenda is discussed and notes are taken/shared.

If those notes also happen to be some collaborative app (e.g. Google sheets) that allows attendees/team members to view/filter their own data it's even better.
No, I didn't imply that at all. Legislation must come from governments and corporations must pay their part - but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't look critically at our own actions.

Did you know that in 2019, 60 flights departed from Amsterdam to London every day [1] - just a 4-hour journey by rail [2]? Clearly someone's taking all those flights.

Re: public health - I don't exactly understand the argument you're trying to make.

[1] https://www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/241554/londen-populairste-bes...

[2] https://www.nsinternational.com/en/england/london-by-train
I can't see anything due to the variable bitrate.
> It's probably lucky you were rejected.

Toxic positivity.

Its just as likely that their prior company was also doing something to candidates that wouldn't allow candidates to guess that it was a good job with good people.

There is really no filter that allows a candidate to know if their specific team or work environment is going to be good or bad.
I was a young CS student, and the VAX administrators had written a program called SETUIC to work around some limitations on hardware to allow business students access to an IBM mainframe.

If you ran SETUIC with no parameters, it set your UIC to [0,0], silently. Anyone, not just business students, could run it. The system environment variables pointed to it, like a big advertisement sign to a young CS student.

I learned many things about how the world works after accidentally discovering this fact. It is fortunate for me that a 2 year suspension was the extent of my punishment. They were hopping mad, not at my actions, but at those who I was foolish enough to share this knowledge with, and had acted far less conservatively than I had.

I later was a system administrator, elsewhere, for 15 years.
If I recall correctly, it has been already determined that using proprietary data to train a machine learning system is not a violation of intellectual property.
Remote Work Stole Our Foundation
Not sure why this is news to anyone.

Apple just built the most expensive on-site campus in history prior to the pandemic. It's a 40 year old company led by 50+ year old executives who have built their entire social and family lives around their offices. Obviously they're going to force everybody back to the way it was.

This means nothing for the big shift to remote however. The economic incentives for both companies and employees are just too strong for it not to happen.

It was never going to be led by gray haired execs at legacy companies like Apple. When you're currently the most profitable company in the history of earth, you can ignore otherwise rational incentives. But the key word in that sentence was "currently."

Instead of talking about what the winners of the past are doing, we should be thinking about what the winners of the future will do.

It's important to remember, no company has stayed at the top of the S&P500 for very long.
> has been significantly more challenging

Can you elaborate? when you say managing, do you mean like... it's harder to get ahold of people to be around to get stuff done?
> I imagine it's not because it's the most interesting but because market demands force them into it.

No one is forced into the jobs you're describing.

Market demands make those jobs more appealing to some. Appealing is interesting.
So, what do you use for something like a router?
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At the risk of sounding ignorant to anyone with more knowledge of radio technology than myself: I recently purchased a radio-controlled alarm clock and was highly fascinated by how these devices get their time (and date) information accurately encoded through amplitudes and frequencies of radio waves from some radio antenna hundreds of kilometres away. I'm young enough to have grown up with the internet and have a decent understanding of the different network stacks in use today. But radio communications and their various applications is still such a fascinating topic to me!
Maybe not your left toe, but your left lung?

Living in California today means signing up for multiple months of smoke inhalation, which is a problem that only seems to be getting worse. Not to mention that the Apple of today isn’t the Apple of 10 years ago either.

This is coming from someone who worked at Apple ~10 years ago (14 years ago to be exact), and would have agreed with your statement ~10 years ago. I recently moved away from the West Coast because I have no interest in being part of the cohort analysis on the effects of prolonged smoke exposure over multiple months per year.

Also, just to throw this out there, 10 years ago you had a high likelihood of having your own office at Apple. Now it’s an open office layout like anywhere else. Looks pretty from the outside I hear though.

Edit: One additional point I find fascinating. When referred to in the aggregate, Apple employees are the “best and the brightest.” However, when they express their opinions of what they want, they’re immediately dismissed as “privileged.” I understand that these aren’t mutually exclusive, but I am always surprised how unwilling we are to listen to these people that we in theory hold up as paragons of the industry. It’s a bizarre infantilization of people we hypothetically respect.
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That's not how I read it. Rather, I read it as the _ability_ to work from home is _obviously_ superior. As some people do better remotely and some do better in the office, requiring that everyone come into the office is an inferior choice. Admittedly, even that isn't unambiguously true (and neither would be the reverse).
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> general aviation has a better safety story

Quite likely _because_ , unlike driving, the vast majority of passenger-miles in aviation are not undertaken in small vehicles owned by the passenger/driver, or family thereof. i.e. because there aren't lots of "flying cars".
I still don't think Condorcet is complicated. If one candidate would beat all others head-to-head, that candidate is the winner. It's just the loop-breaking algorithms that make it complicated, and people get hung up on those when they're relatively rare. Besides, if there's a loop you could just hold some sort of a runoff for the looped candidates.

One of the major disservices to Condorcet is that the vote-theorist communities insist on talking about the loop-breaking algorithms as being Condorcet methods, rather than as separate tie-breaking (loop-breaking) processes that are bolted on after identifying the (usually 1-member) Smith Set. Some of this is because the algorithmic implementations do both steps at once, but it's not necessary.
> And then they added a feature where if multiple marketplace vendors are selling the same thing it combines them.

It's more the other way around. Initially you could only sell something on marketplace if it was something Amazon already listed, usually a book. There would be an option on the Amazon listing to buy it elsewhere and if you selected that there would be a list of non-Amazon sellers you could buy the book from - these would normally be individuals reselling books they had finished reading.
GitHub ToS requires you to allow others to fork your code on GH. This policy leads to a lot of bizarre licensing decisions on the site.

https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...
I was going to say, I don’t think that’s the message you were supposed to take from it, but it looks like he retracted his next book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Snake_Oil
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Any very large deviation dating from the 20s or 30s is probably a measurement error
https://www.worldtree.eco/empress-lumber/

It doesn't appear to be fundamentally weaker for many applications. If it's yields are 3-4x times what "SPF" is, then maybe use slightly larger boards in support roles?

I'm not associated with worldtree.eco, and obviously they are advertising a product, but I can't really find any more discussion on the pro/cons of empress tree wood production.

The invasiveness problem I heard was specific to a particular species of empress, there are empress species that don't spread so aggressively.
Especially since they are throwing out mask requirements and vaccination verification for folks returning to work - who wants to expose themselves to that?
I went down this rabbit hole and found everything to be overcomplicated for my use case. I'm so sick of static site generators that have seven layers of templating engines and complicated build systems.

Most of the static site builders I tried were either way too complex, or else just straight-up didn't work at all (looking at you, coleslaw).

I tried to go full emacs and use org export (org being my favorite text format) but the default export is horrendous and the documentation for org to html export is so bad it might as well not exist.

Software is simultaneously awesome and infuriating.

So after three days I just gave up on org-export and now I have pandoc shit out an html snippet that I concatenate with a hand-rolled html preamble and postamble via a Makefile.

Found a few rough edges, probably because org is underspecified. It's not elegant but it works for my use case.
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The problem is that unless the software is actively worked on and supported by someone, fixing a decades old vulnerability is going to be complicated when it does show up ( not to mention that the main way it can show up if you don't do regular pentesting is by a malicious actor exploiting it, aka too late). The people who set it up are retired, dead, or don't remember; nobody is using that tech anymore so community resources would be of limited use. Unless there's a vendor still alive and actively maintaining your old version in the case of third party software, you're pretty close to screwed. For first party software your only hope is that the people setting it up did a good job with documentation.

It's drastically easier to maintain and patching recent software. You don't need to have everything written in JS and running on Kubernetes for that.
I love that it took a 35 horse power transmitter (with what, 20 making it out as EM radiation) to do it. That kind of power in a radio signal is just wild to me, especially because of what kind of components it takes to build the transmitter.
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Our team is about to release the second version of our bucket list social media app and we are hoping to find 10-15 people who would be interested in participating in a usability test. Should take 20-25 minutes and will happen over a Zoom call.
I am missing something that connects real estate ownership to WFH policies. Let us assume you have committed to real-estate and you cannot sub-lease it and you are on hook for paying for it. It does not matter whether it is occupied or unoccupied, right?

Is there something that reduces the cost if the building is fully occupied rather than mostly empty? If so, companies could remodel the buildings to have lower density, but more comfortable working spaces - turn all available spaces into small meeting room/working space.

In fact, it might be cheaper if your employees WFH rather than come to office since you can avoid paying for subsidized lunch, snacks, coffee etc. at office, power and cooling all of which I would think are substantial.
Good thing there are many other platforms we can move to. And most of them are open source unlike GitHub.
I think the state code should forbid state officials from entering agreements that force them to conceal information material to do their official job. It's even more straightforward than conflict of interest limitations.

If the code does not do that, it should be amended.
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This. My observation (and mine alone) is that the FAANGs have commoditized software engineering roles, eg via standardized interviews, disregarding experience - unless you have a "creator" brand etc. This has increased the pool of candidates who are still clamoring to get in (and recent IPOs just made it busier). The FAANG calculus sounds like betting on all this. Infact they are probably calculating this attrition even contributes to some of the unregretable kind!
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This post [0] sums up my general feeling toward SvelteKit. It seemed very opinionated and very restrictive, two qualities which seemed opposite the philosophy of core Svelte.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/sveltejs/comments/ni9g5d/svelte_vs_...

Do you have concerns with using SvelteKit in production? It's still in Beta last I checked.
What determines whether the merger is non-radiative in the EM? Why was the collision of two neutron stars radiative?

It seems like the universe would be immeasurably more dangerous than it already is, if all of these events were primarily EM radiative in nature.

As a non-physicist, I'm also curious how gravity is simultaneously so much weaker than the other forces, but yet spacetime seems to be able to stably survive these immense releases of energy.
Not enough years of experience with react, auto reject
Fascinating movie, thank you for linking to it! I loved to see what logging and tracing looked like back in the day. Looks a lot more fun than just dumping terabytes to S3. I also really enjoyed how stoked and energetic Cliff was about the whole thing. What a gem!
I blame Zizek and his 2020 book Sex & the Failed Absolute who link unorientables (klein bottle, crosscap and Mobius) to unfinished human subjectivity.
same af
The thing I don't get is what's Cuomo's game?

For 8 years now it seems like his only goals are massaging his ego and fucking over NYC as much as possible. What's the point?
The ability to choose, on a daily basis and on the needs of your work and coworkers, whether to work from home or the office is, in my experience, far and away the best possible arrangement. Even when my commute was 2 hours each way, I still chose to go into the office once every week or two (and worked from home the rest of the time).
Thank you for the link. Amazing. And Cliff as himself !
I read the book but just could not stop watching the documentary.

Next time I am in Hannover will have to take a photo in front of the flat. It got a repaint though...

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.371627,9.7208921,3a,53.1y,13...
Isn't that basically solitary confinement, something we consider to be cruel and unusual punishment? I would actually challenge anyone to make it past 30 or even 50 days under those circumstances without losing it. I bet it is much, much harder than you think.
Looks like the high resolution original tiff files can still be snagged at archive.org WayBack Machine… → https://web.archive.org/web/20190213183244/https://www.jpl.n...
I’m pretty sure it’s BS propaganda.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27684856

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27687297
My understanding is that the dependency analysis in Pip just isn’t very good, so it’s easy to end up with incompatible versions.
I love the fact that they setup the house in just one day. And those big windows are a huge plus for a person like me.
The thing about taxes, is that we all get to decide how they are spent…

And we did. We defined a set of criterion for social goods to which a person can donate their income without it affecting their income tax.
I don't think you understand what Taleb meant by "anti-fragile." (He's also a prominent foe of cryptocurrencies, for what that's worth.)

Something that is not fragile isn't necessarily ANTI-fragile. It has to actually benefit from chaos. You haven't shown that for cryptocurrencies.
It doesn't sound like you write much JavaScript :)

> I think there's a case to be made that there is a completely unnecessary "bloat" to Javascript

"Bloat in JS" is something of a trope, and I'm not really even sure what you mean by it here. Typically people mean "too many JS dependencies are often drawn in for web pages", but that's not really relevant. Maybe you mean syntax bloat (method calls instead of list comprehensions)? If so, you're not totally wrong, but it's also not really a big deal in my experience. If you're talking about runtime/performance, well... V8 tends to be faster than CPython in raw compute (excluding native modules) because Google has put so much work into optimizing it (not that that matters much for a SSG either)

> it ends up boiling down to "what handles text well and in an established and smooth way," and Javascript does not score high there

Whenever I need to process some nontrivial text, the first thing I do is open up a Chrome tab for the JS repl. I think the following it pretty smooth:

const csv = `
Name,Email,Phone Number,Address
Bob Smith,bob@example.com,123-456-7890,123 Fake Street
Mike Jones,mike@example.com,098-765-4321,321 Fake Avenue`

const lines = csv.trim().split('\n').map(line => line.split(','))

const [headings, ...data] = lines

const objs = data.map(datum => Object.fromEntries(
headings.map((heading, index) => [heading, datum[index]])))

console.log(objs)

// output:
[
{
"Name": "Bob Smith",
"Email": "bob@example.com",
"Phone Number": "123-456-7890",
"Address": "123 Fake Street"
},
{
"Name": "Mike Jones",
"Email": "mike@example.com",
"Phone Number": "098-765-4321",
"Address": "321 Fake Avenue"
}
]

Not to mention template-strings, which I use extensively in my own website:

const header = `
<h1>Welcome to ${pageTitle}</h1>
`

Of course it's all subjective and Python does have format strings and some slick dedicated syntaxes. But I don't think it's fair to say "JavaScript does not score high" when it comes to text-shuffling.
> Resigning is ABSOLUTELY THE WORST response, both individually and collectively, for those interested in enshrining a more remote friendly ecosystem.

Not if you are refining in favor of entrepreneurship providing remote-friendly work, or taking available remote-friendly work. Heck, even just withdrawing labor from the market arguably helps.

Reducing the supply of workers who treat remote-hostile work as acceptable is the only way to enshrine a more remote-friendly ecosystem.
> Clearly they are not complete idiots, since they did end up building the most valuable company in the world.

We should add a new fallacy to the list, ad money. There are many companies get rich by playing to the powers that be. Has nothing to be smart, and a lot to be corrupt.

Money!=Morality

Money!=Intelligence

Money==Money

> There's gotta be something to it, don't you think?

By that reasoning Apple can't do wrong, they always have a hidden plan.

> WFH would have been actually cheaper in the short term, so what do you think could have made them go the other way?

That is answered in the article.
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No, that video was produced only for the campaign.
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I think technology will be invented to keep track of everything and their associations even if the link becomes dangling. It's an obvious problem to work on.

You only lose what you cling to

Gautama Buddha
Care to explain why you think that? The sources in the article are clearly stated.
Problem is there are way too many employees to change culture. It's different when most employees want change, a la Amazon warehouse for instance. It's something else entirely when a minority of employees want a change. (And let's be frank, it's impossible when each of those unhappy employees have literally a 1000 candidates outside Apple's front door clamoring for a chance to take his/her job.)

I'd argue that companies like Apple are probably one of the places in the tech industry where the employer really has all the power. I can't really think of any skill that an employee could bring to a place like Apple that would make that person worth a culture change. Maybe some of the guys and gals in design? Probably transcendent design eyes don't come along very often. But even then, I don't know? Probably not.
Careful now, that sounds like socialism!
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When I was a defense contractor it always struck me as weird that the guardhouse at USMC HQ at the Navy Annex was staffed by $12/hr private security guards.

On the other hand the commander of the group I was doing work for pointed out that a fully trained Marine private was far to costly an asset to waste checking visitor ids.
One of the things I came to enjoy regarding React was that the router was separate and kept the core React API small. I had hoped that something similar was the norm for Svelte, but it was quite clear that the official recommendation was to use SvelteKit.

Have you built production apps with just Svelte? Is the tooling and feature set good enough to use Svelte alone in an actual app?