skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Understanding social hierarchy is a skill that can be learned and you can raise your position in that hierarchy using that skill.

When people say "I'm not political" they're really just confessing to low social status and acumen. I personally wish things were different, but as you note they're not. So one may as well accept reality and play the game as best as one can. One can have a very successful career as a follower if one recognizes the traits of good leaders and the traits that good leaders are looking for.
> I think the divide between WFH and return to the office boils down to something surprisingly simple: how much longer does your current lease last and/or how much office property do you own.

Something I need to point out: the office is still cheaper to run when empty, even if the corporation pays the lease. And as far as I know, no company pays extra for working from home, in fact the opposite seems to be sometimes true. So I don't think your assessment holds.

I think the most important factor is... management. Managers just feel they lose the control. Maybe some are even afraid they will become irrelevant.
Yup, I learned that lesson very late in my career :(
Isn't the insulation on those types of homes terrible?
>That is not the point of the meme. The point of the meme is to counter the "you Amazon warehouse worker, fast food worker, retail worker, call center worker, teacher, shouldn't expect a living wage or a pay rise or a better minimum wage, or a home, or medical cover, etc. because you are lazy. We know that because if you were working hard you'd be rich. Since you aren't rich, you must not be working hard. QED.

I think the fundamental confusion is that this meme itself is an misrepresentation and strawman used in the ideological battle between right and left politics in the US. Nobody is claiming that blue collar workers are categorically lazy, especially not populist right politicians courting their votes.

Reasonable people across the political spectrum can agree that financial success is combination of hard work + aptitude + luck. They are likely to differ on the relative impact of each factor, and the degree to which the government should act as a equalizer to correct for aptitude and luck. It is a major problem that both sides choose to fight this issue in the context of extreme outliers and apply the conclusions to everyday situations.

Personally, I think the meme of emphasizing luck to the exclusion of hard work is destructive. When the belief is taken to the extreme and hard work doesn't improve outcomes, the path to improving your situation changes from being more productive and improving yourself. Why bother learning a new trade, relocating for a better job, building something, or taking risks if there is no payoff.
AWS in my mind can quickly lose the kubernetes war amongst cloud providers. This is every cloud providers chance: EKS on AWS is so damn tied into a bunch of other AWS products that it's literally impossible to just delete a cluster now. I tried. It's tied into VPCs and Subnets and EC2 and Load balancers and a bunch of other products that no longer makes sense now that K8s won.

In my opinion it needs to be re-engineered completely into a super slim product that is not tied to all these crazy things.
> IMO "can break up work into similarly-sized units" is equivalent to "can estimate accurately".

Yeah, agreed. What I've always seen is "break up work into logical units, ideally as small as possible" which always ends up with a mixture of tickets of different sizes.
> we are paying for multiple streaming services anyway.

I just cancelled my membership, for all of the reasons you cite. I had been letting my membership ride only because of their streaming video, but recently, they've started yet another dark pattern.

I rarely finish a movie in one sitting. Three times in the past month or so, I've started watching something for free, and then come back to find that it was no longer free when I wanted to finish it. Like, the next day.

Most recently, this was Freakonomics. It was free when I started it, then I hit the wrong button on my Apple TV remote (THAT'S real hard, amirite?), and when I went to restart it, it had become for-cost. I mean, seriously?

I can live without their exclusives, and the standard defense around here that they're not, actually, a monopoly for online shopping is certainly true, so I'm done.
Congratulations Douwe and team, I can't wait to see what you build next!
> Assuming Robinhood's story was accurate

There have been several Congressional Hearings since January’s drama, and something definitely doesn’t add up.

Robinhood’s CEO stated, under oath, that they switched off buys of GME following discussions with the DTCC.

In a later hearing, the head of the DTCC stated — again, under oath and on the record — that Robinhood’s decision was entirely their own, and they had never spoken with Robinhood about it.

Someone is lying.

I would urge anyone interested in this (ongoing) saga to read this excellent investigative journalism piece here:

https://prospect.org/power/how-the-gamestop-hustle-worked/
> 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?

You said it yourself: it's all about his ego. It's the one consistent theme throughout literally every aspect of his behavior.
A savings account is not open to an endowment and will be eroded by inflation. Any university endowment will need to be invested in something riskier.
I don't necessarily mean this in the context here of "work for a corporation" but one thing I have learned recently (thanks, therapy) is that one can lean too far in the direction of individual autonomy.

At a base level, everyone wants a meaningful, fulfilled life. A key component of that is having enough autonomy and control to feel that your decisions matter because they are your decisions. But another important component is to feel that your decisions matter because they matter to others. We are a social primate species and for most of us, our emotional systems are wired to feel the greatest peace when we feel we are helping our tribe and being supported by it in return.

Being part of a group (job or not) where you feel your efforts help not just you but the entire group is deeply important for most people. There's a reason that male suicide rates skyrocket not long after retirement. We are not happy alone and disconnected, even though being in that state in theory maximizes our personal autonomy.

Obviously, this is not to imply that a job is the only or best way to find that kind of tribe or group identity. But there are meaningful jobs out there and working together can be an important part of a fulfilling life.
Universities stopped being about education when 1) they became a replacement for on the job training and 2) activists began the “long march through the institutions.”

Today they are more akin to NGOs than schools.
"scumbag prosecutor" is not fair. I don't know him or her, and I'm sure you don't either.

Based on my not-a-lawyer experience, it is very likely that at every stage the prosecution team was going for exactly what they though they could prove in court at the time. They can't predict what evidence may come out in the future, and they can't predict how Judges will interpret the facts.

There were many victims. Not prosecuting one doesn't mean they can't for the others.
You may just learned that there's no more meaningful improvement to be made. That should probably be documented somewhere after that discovery is made.

Somewhat relatedly, I've refactored processes down from 25 hours to 20 minutes. It got to 20 minutes, and other people started nitpicking that it could 'be faster' (the same people who'd let it get to 25 hours, then threw up their hands and said "it can't be fixed"). They spent loads of time getting it from 20 minutes down to... 17-18 minutes (spending 2+ weeks in the process). I'd indicated "there's really no more 'there' there - this is about as fast as it's going to get, without faster hardware". They had to find out for themselves there wasn't much more juice left in the tank.

Maybe it's not related, but I felt like sharing it anyway... :)
does H&R Block handle investments and cost basis year over year information? That's the only tripping point im finding with whatever product I look to in comparison to Turbotax. Once your tax situation starts down that path I'm noticing getting a product that can pull from multiple investment accounts and keep track of cost basis correctly really narrows it down to Turbotax so far for me.
You mean EKS needs re-engineering?
I agree completely. We just can't imagine doing things differently.

Fun anecdote: when I was 16 (with a couple years of experience as a developer) I was working for a company on some PHP codebase and they hired someone with a master's degree in computer science to work on it with me.

10 minutes after the first meeting he set his Skype status to "HELP: can anyone teach me PHP programming"
Yeah, I always think about my structure as "some small number of h/d/w/m/q/y". I count 1 week the same as 3 weeks in terms of scale. ymmv
The Fed's balance sheet increased by $4T.

Federal deficit was $3.1T

Bank lending for mortgage originations increases M1 - this increased by over $1T.

Total = $8.1T

Since the Fed bought most of the government's debt, though, a lot of that $3.1T government deficit should be included in the $4T balance sheet increase of the Fed.

So this could possibly only account for half of it. I'm not sure.

Other personal debt (which includes auto loans) isn't even up another $1T. Margin debt in stocks is up $260Bn. Anyone else know what the rest is?
Of course the company will reap the lion's share. The town has to decide if the remaining bits are worth the tax break they give the company. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't.
> Because you might get fired or laid off or burnt out and leave and only then discover that you have invested too much of yourself into this faceless entity that does not care a whit about you.

I think how much you invest into this faceless entity is independent from whether you WFH or the office, no?
There's always someone willing to throw out the "be your own boss".

Don't.

Manage your career, invest in yourself, save and invest where you can. Enjoy life.
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Everyone surely has the right to fail projects & work on their improvements - that's a large part of learning. To clarify Lukas' point, we are constantly in contact with every single of our students and are making sure that Turing College is bringing value to them. In cases when students are progressing extremely slowly because of some factors, we have a process through which we inform students of our concerns and start having more 1on1s to help & support them.

The reason we are doing this is that at a certain point knowledge starts to "fade away" and even if you are in the middle of a course, you might start forgetting things you learned at the start of it. That said, self-paced learning is unfortunately not something that works for everybody. Our students get to try it out in our admissions process & demo month[1] to cancel free of charge before they commit.

[1] https://www.turingcollege.com/faq/what-is-the-demo-period-an...
Surely there is a stable middle ground between a savings account and a hedge fund?
The secret margin accounts is a red herring. They need to put up deposit with the DTCC even for stocks that's "paid"[1] with settled funds, and they can't use customer funds for it. So if you bought 1 share worth $100 and the deposit requirement was 100%, then robinhood has to come up with $100 of their own cash (or borrow it from someone) to fulfill the trade.

[1] quotes used because settlement actually happens 2 days after the trade is made.
von Plato, "In Search of the Sources of Incompleteness", Proc. Int. Cong. of Math, Vol. 4 (2018) (https://eta.impa.br/dl/209.pdf), p 4087:

> A shadow is cast on Gödel’s great achievement; there is no way of undoing the fact that Gödel played a well-planned trick to persuade von Neumann not to publish.
A house is much more liquid of an asset than most people make it out to be. Old folks qualify for reverse mortgages
> Does the BOE run any “real” elections, or are they only responsible for party primaries?

All elections are run by the Board of Elections

> It’s been noted many times that a party primary is basically a meaningless farce, since the DNC/RNC can invent any arbitrary procedure for selecting their candidates.

The party control is actually much deeper than that. Parties can even cancel primary elections altogether if they want their "blessed" candidate to run in the general election without having to go through a primary.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/nyregion/new-york-politic...
Thanks!

Yes, it's pretty heavily focused on the git repository, but it could be applied to other repositories with a little difficulty, and with mixed results. The main issues would be:

1. Getting the data. Currently a script needs to be run over the contents of a git repository to gather all of the commit data that's required. GitHub's API for commit data wouldn't allow all of the necessary data to be retrieved in a timely fashion, so that needs to be processed offline.

2. Cleaning the data. In order to link to github accounts I had to manually align commit author data to github profiles, which I wanted to do for this project because seeing a person's profile helped link the effort to the individual. You could throw that away for a different repository, I suppose, and just show the commit author information.

3. Creating milestones. The git milestones are mostly handcrafted (linking to release notes where they exist, etc), so they'd need to be replaced with something that could be generated from the repository or from some other process.

That said, I do think that it would be interesting to see other repositories in this style. I tried a couple of others just to see the basics, but the results were underwhelming because the structure of the visualizations depends so greatly on activities of the contributors.

Would you use it on other repositories if you could? Which repositories would be interesting to you?
i'm not anti-social at work. i'm friendly and it can be fun to shoot the shit, but i've rarely had workmates turn into real friends. i don't know why, but the people i tend to connect with don't often work in the same industry. i know how to keep work and home separate (i have a couple of ways of setting work context for myself so i have a way to leave when i'm done).

the only good thing about working at an office is the free food, but food isn't terribly expensive anyway. i could probably use transport savings to buy myself a nice food every week or two.
Correction: Surface temps in the Pacific Northwest reached 63C (145F), which is higher than in Siberia [1].

1. https://gizmodo.com/ground-temperatures-reached-an-astoundin...
From what I've heard W11 in a VM won't require a TPM to install. So worst case install it to your HDD from VirtualBox and see what happens booting on bare metal?
This is what I got from 1-on-1s with my coworkers too. Clear separation: Single people want to go back to office. People who have families do not.
As long as it's not validated via the unique manufacturers key in the TPM it's possible. Any other software/website will assume you have a working TPM if you are running Win11 and will likely break however so the experience will be somewhat unusable.
Our software has violated the world and people's lives legally and illegally in many instances. I mean none of us cared when GPT-3 did the same for text on the internet. :)

Reminder - Software engineers, our codes, GPLs are not special.
I certainly do not know what the secret ingredient is, but it is quite plausible that a number of extinct species (Neanderthals, Homo erectus, maybe Homo habilis) also had it to some degree.
You probably won't get an entire operating system out of it, but I could totally see a project like Wine using it to implement missing parts of the Win32 API and improve their existing implementations.
I've been a long time critic of RH but you can see the value to their business. They mainly target millenials who are largely shut out of the investment market because of their poor financial situations. Tiny portfolios and game-ified trading is a good way to capture that audience. Millenials won't stay poor forever so RH's customer base is actually quite valuable. A more mature company can either acquire RH for those customers or RH itself can transform into a more stable and reliable operation with a large customer base that will acquire more assets over time.
Why did not the recruiting person and their peers not informally / formally complain about HR.
I love that you get on a call with real native speaker in the US with Schwab; that part of customer support has been stellar. I like that they cover international ATM fees too.

I don't care for how they handle security though. I really wish they supported WebAuthn or at least TOTP that didn't require Symantec's proprietary TOPT solution. I wish they supported PGP for messages as well (I know those GMail users are having their financial data read by Google). When I asked about what "SchwabSecure" really is and what sort of encryption they use gave me marketing fluff, even stating "The reason you may not find more detailed information available online which supports this is so that we can prevent criminals from obtaining this information, and using that to get a foothold"--as opposed to my recent evaluation of email providers to see the competition who could provide the MOST transparency about how they set up their security.
Can somebody post a link which wouldn't start with "One more step Please complete the security check to access"?
Former Chinese Party Insider Calls U.S. Hopes of Engagement Naive
I think their software is good and I usually have a very easy time filing taxes. In comparison, I remember filling out my FAFSA application and that being long ordeal. I don’t think government has the willingness to create a seamless tax-filing experience.

Who is stopping the IRS from making a competing easy to use tax filing website? Are people suggesting Intuit is stopping a good product team from operating within the IRS?
True, cost is not the biggest issue. Separation of teams with different velocity and needs on the other hand is.

One API as abstraction with shared processes eases the pain for the people relying on a platform.
I “Coded” a Web App to Translate and Summarize the News
Also the fact that a new EKS cluster takes at least 20 minutes to come up and be ready, makes AWS' offering the weakest among the Big Three cloud vendors.
stop doinf everything and start doing hydroponics https://howhydroponics.com
Stadiums are generally done as Public-Private Partnerships, which typically go way beyond tax breaks.
> Someone is lying.

Or, both people are stating the story from their side, and there is context missing.

Robinhood: "We switch off after discussions with the DTCC [about increased reserve requirements which we could not meet]"

DTCC: "It was entirely their decision, we never spoke to them about [the explicit actions they would have to take. It's definitely a coincidence that most other brokers did the exact same thing]"
If you were American and in war zones then you were probably handling operational intelligence rather than strategic.
Many look at this current situation and draw conclusions around how much office-centered work employees are willing to put up with, which is great. But others are looking at this as an opportunity... workers leaving companies means openings at those companies.
There could definitely be other concerns too. Such as security. It'd be much easier for someone to copy a code base, or get evidence of wrongdoing by your employer, or whatever, when at home rather than in an office. It's also harder to secure all your employees' home networks than one office network. But I wonder how many people who work at offices still bring their laptops home to use.
Some people earning more money and reducing the income/wealth gap is not a terrible problem to have. The rapid-ness might cause some friction in the short term, but the alternative of stagnation and deflation in the long term is a far worse problem.
Who's being vague here though? "Conspiracy Theory" is made up of two words with relatively precise meaning. That you decide to attach your own meaning or lack of meaning to it doesn't make everyone else's usage of the term a failure.
Original source: https://www.finra.org/media-center/newsreleases/2021/finra-o...

Yahoo! Finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/robinhood-hit-with-record-fin...

Archived version of Reuters story: https://archive.is/NxI0t
They are paid to route their order flow through the same firm that is heavily invested in shorting GameStop. The specific action I’m referring to is the banning of buying any more shares of $GME. Assuming everyone was playing by the rules, there should be no reason why margin requirements would increase for buyers of a stock but not for the shorts whose collective positions had recently become net-negative in the $10,000,000,000+ range.

Robinhood may have simply been coerced to do this, but regardless, it eroded my trust in their ability to provide me with any share I want in any quantity I can afford. I and many other retail investors switched to bigger firms that won’t have liquidity issues, or enact arbitrary restrictions on stock purchases because of those issues or their close relationships with the billionaires on the other side of the trade.
>DTCC who increased their margin requirements on buyers for seemingly no reason other than [...]

...except credit risk

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-29/reddit...

>[T+2 settlement] means that the seller takes two days of credit risk to the buyer. I see a stock trading at $400 on Monday, I push the button to buy it, I buy it from you at $400. On Tuesday the stock drops to $20. On Wednesday you show up with the stock that I bought on Monday, and you ask me for my $400. I am no longer super jazzed to give it to you. I might find a reason not to pay you. The reason might be that I’m bankrupt, from buying all that stock for $400 on Monday.
> Also, prod and staging/QA/dev - never the twain shall meet.

You're expecting a lot from developers who were chosen because of their relation to elected officials rather than their domain expertise.

> The list of relatives stretches even to the [Board of Elections] computer programmers, including Rubén Díaz III, a Democrat who is the son of the Bronx borough president and grandson of a City Council member.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyregion/nyc-voting-elect...
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I think Cosby is a sexual predator but I also don’t believe that someone should be sent to jail just on the word of witnesses. There has to be some corroborating evidence and I didn’t hear any in the trial.
Try https://scroll.pub

It uses Scrolldown instead of markdown, which is simpler, cleaner, and incredibly extensible.

The command line app has just a few commands—-and they all take zero params.

A site is just a single folder, and because content is written in Scrolldown, it works great with git and is great for content sites or collaborative strongly typed databases.

It fast, I get about 300 pages per second, and not a lot of code (sub 1k excluding dependencies), and the code is tested.

It’s in nodejs now but no reason scroll can’t be language agnostic.

I’ve been around SSGs for over a decade and designing this one to be simple, reliable, and to stay out of the creators’ way. I think it could be the last SSG you’ll ever need.
Working for doorstep lending or payday loan companies that prey on poor people.
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And there's the irony that's pointed out in the article as well - official documentation on government websites may not last past an elected official's term, yet blithe comments on a social media site that are later regretted may last forever.