skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a version of "the Fox and the Hedgehog," parable everyone reads, where foxes know many smaller things and hedgehogs know one big one.

It's not explicit, but the "one big thing" the hedgehogs know effectively reduces to a triad of, "there is no truth only power," "trust and defend the system because you are it now, and it takes care of the people who support it" and, "protect insiders or be an ousider."

The strategies for foxes and hedgehogs are different. If you are a fox and know this about hedgehogs, you can lever them against variations of these axioms. If you are a hedgehog, you can usually succeed by betting foxes don't get traction no matter how spectacular their knowledge and displays.

The idea is if you practice these things, you're going to be lucky and stuff is going to work out. If you don't, you're the sucker at the table and you'll be preoccupied by conspiracy theories.

If you know this, some Bayeseanism, and some simple actuarial models, with practice you can play at a pretty high level. There are other great books on this like Pfeffer's "Power" (https://www.amazon.com/Power-Some-People-Have-Others/dp/0061...) that describe the game once you have those rules.

May the odds be ever in your favor!
Lots. And not just retail banks.
Not just slightly skewed.

Also the HN audience is far more remote-oriented than I’ve encountered among my coworkers over the course of my career, including > 4 years working full-remote.
Arctic Circle land temperature reaches 48°C during heatwave in Siberia
I don't get it, 5 minute ago it wasn't a trend and no the trend exist since the 20s? Which is it?

The classic "it's not warming" "ok it is but it always has been"
Lets Talk Blockchain Technology
I've been in steam rooms. You're strongly advised to stay no longer than twenty minutes inside.
See: Destination Trailers

https://www.forestriverinc.com/rvs/destination-trailers/sier...
The ends don’t justify the means, but you hear a lot of elites talk about tricking the population, because they think the average person is dumb. Then they can get elected and can really change the laws when they are in power to help their subjects who “clearly can’t help themselves”.
I bought a Klein Bottle from Cliff Stoll's website after seeing this video. Not only did he immediately pack it up and send it (very carefully packaged!), he sent along photos of the process, some glamor shots of the Klein bottle in his garden, and a (funny) personal note thanking me for the order. His nerdy passion for the Klein bottles is really inspiring.

https://www.kleinbottle.com/
I was responding to "It could start to replace us in 20 years." I think if it can do that, it'll basically be AGI and a lot of things will change in a hurry. I don't think that a tool that can do that is even all that similar to this tool.
I don’t necessarily agree with you that if supply > demand and 1 programmer does the job of 2 this will lead to a higher salary.

You can see this today in most places where you can walk on water, but you still need to be in your pay band.
I'm in my early thirties, and I have been applying to remote jobs since this pandemic started. I still have not landed a single interview.

I was an active "reverse code engineer" around 2005-2011, I worked on reversing popular software protections on both Windows & Symbian, and was involved with a certain famous (at the time) team that released tutorials on those subjects under pseudonyms.

That was back when I was in high school and early years into college.

I live in a third world country, and in my early twenties I dropped out of college to support my family.

I built a business that's unrelated to tech and the pandemic put an end to that, so I started thinking about applying to remote jobs thinking that I can easily land an interview and ace it.

Well, the problem was getting an interview.

I worked extensively with x86 ASM (MASM, FASM), wrote packers/unpackers in C back in the day, wrote extensions for IDA at some point. When I built the family business, I had free time so over the last few years and I've learned and used a few other languages (Golang, Rust).

I've been doing LC and LC-like problems over the years, so I can comfortably solve most DSA problems that I've seen thrown at FAANG candidates, tackled system design questions as well, so I'm familiar with SW architectures of modern software.

However, since I don't have a college degree, nor an active online portfolio (github and the like), I don't meet any requirements for any of these jobs which I can do better than a large portion of the SWEs complaining on Blind about their 6 figure TC and how awful WLB is at Facebook. I could do their jobs at a fraction of the TC.

Unfortunately, I was an idiot and dropped out of college.
Alright, I'm skimming this whole idea of newfangled "static site generators" that involve a lot of Javascript and I'm left with a whole lot of "Isn't this just ____ with extra steps?"

I'm seeing "shortcodes" and I'm like -- as in variables and/or configuration files?

Or, more broadly -- why Javascript for the backend? This looks like a silly level of complexity. I'd start thinking about it in Bash and then probably head over to e.g. Python once databases et al start getting involved. What am I missing here?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877543/
I don’t know about userbase but old.reddit with disabled subreddit CSS is quite usable for me.
I was at a bank/credit card company as a software dev, we were always just warned about it being a cluster fuck for business people that have to make a lot of excel reports due to those kind of issues.

From my perspective, if a client(like a porn co) repeatedly had high rates of charge backs, fraud teams are aware of that being possible fraud, business teams know that its causing a clusterfuck and might be losing the bank/cc company money, so its easier just not to support that client so less work has to be done.
If this is the case, what are the forums people with less established networks and industry experience use?

It would seem prudent to be aware of these other "HNs".
Call me when you need some surgery done! I've never been to med school or anything, but I both am really good with a knife in the kitchen, AND I've got an excellent track record following instructions on DIY Youtube videos.
In the US, I prefer walmart.com over Amazon for groceries because they do their usual price vetting, whereas you can end up paying three times the normal price for something on Amazon if you're not careful.
Haha dang it I was working on this also :< :>

kudos to the authors
The 2 day WFH thing will fade away as well.

My company has put those optional 2 days WFH to TLs to arrange amongst their teams, with the expectation that the whole team will have the same schedule.

Basically if your TL doesn't care or want you to WFH, or the team can't agree on days, you're done.

It'll be a major inconvenience and staff will ultimately not see the benefits of full WFH with 3, so it won't last.

I think there will be increased churn once the "wait and see" crowd clears
>If I had a flat lot that was accesssble, I would look into this further.

This was my thought as well. Seems like a quick and dirty solution to getting a house on an existing lot for immediate move in.

If you're cost conscious then going the longer term route of building your own might be better.
$400 a day for the crane. Not a big deal.
What many miss is also these large companies are doing something very interesting in the labor market. They are starving the competition. They spend a bit extra on labor but they get a long term benefit of lower number of effective competitors. MS did this for years in the 90s. Apple/Atari/Sony/IBM did it in the 80s. Being in office ('free lunch', perks, etc) is part of that lock in. If people are at home then they are more likely to wander off and find another job as at that point the only real difference between jobs is the kind of thing you work on and money.
Vets with 5+ years of specific subdomain experience within the company's ecosystem (along with experienced engineers who have experience from elsewhere) are much harder to replace.
I couldn't believe this, but looks like it's true:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-28/fired-by-...

What a trash company.
Yea, this makes perfect sense to me. I had WFH as an option at my first job. After 3 weeks the cool perk wore off and I was in the office by choice everyday.

Now I have a family at home and life is much easier working out of the house.
I think a lot of people are doing this same thing (I know several personally). Getting 2 hrs back a day is amazing, and after having it for a year it is really hard to give up.

> I don't mind meeting up with other employees on the occasional fun team-building outing, but I really don't want to work in an office again.

I think this is probably where a lot of companies will settle out; wfh, but with monthly or quarterly workshops/meetups for teams.
The missing step can be that in a large company HR needs to assign a grade/job type to the role before they advertise it and these are standardised typically with respect to both education qualification and years of experience. The combination of the hiring managers spec and the HR grade/type definition is what gets posted. This is usually the cause of a job asking for pointless qualifications or more years of experience than a given technology has existed.
You're glossing too quickly over the "corporate culture" part. It's not about sustainability or gaming out disaster scenarios: they're pushing for an end to WFH because they try to cultivate a culture where people want to go to the office. (That's what all the amenities are for!)
Agreed; I spend probably too much of my time debating conspiracy theories online, and I find these tactics incredibly common and incredibly disingenuous. It's very easy to reduce any conspiracy theory to the most absurd of its claims and claimants. One has to break down the different possibilities and the conditional probabilities that follow.

Was Epstein murdered, or did he kill himself? If he killed himself, was he told to, permitted to, or not permitted to and did it anyway? Did the towers fall due to plane collisions and fires, or explosives, or both, or something else? Were al Qaeda responsible? If so, did they collaborate with the US government? If they were responsible and didn't collaborate, did the US government have specific forewarning and let it happen for geopolitical purposes?

Any and every conspiracy theory absolutely should and must be steelmanned, and every person lobbing allegations must be taken seriously, if we're to have any hope of getting a micrometer closer to a shared sense of reality. Good epistemology requires taking conspiracy theories seriously and in good faith, even if one believes some percentage of conspiracy theorists may be acting in bad faith or may be in a state of psychosis, etc.
My work had plans to return to the office, but it's looking like the delta variant is going to allow us to kick the can down the road a bit longer. Looking at the UK numbers ramp up, despite 80% of their population being vaccinated, it seems likely the US will experience a bigger wave of infections.
The entire remote worker in India thing is a fear mongering tactic. If it was so much cheaper and more efficient they would have all done it years ago.
Direct representation is true democracy.

Does democracy mean something else to you? I think you are confusing your indoctrination of good and inclusive with democracy. Or Vice versa.

I’ve seen that alot.
> but the large scale power structures almost always remain largely intact

Is that anything new? That seems to be a repeating fact of life throughout history.
I think WFH is just a symptom, but not the cause. The pandemic working situations exposed some truths about work for probably quite a few people: the rather pointlessness of many tasks was previously masked by camaraderie in the office or the new impressions from travelling.

So folks might want to do something else but might be difficult to actually find something that isn't the "same", really.
Before the pandemic FANGs seemed to want everyone in the office as much as possible. That's why they have their own cafeterias/restaurants, daycare, workout rooms, etc. They wanted employees in the office, working a minimum of 40 hours a week. I'm guessing even though remote work is going fine for now, they're concerned they're not going to be able to keep getting over 40 hours of week out of employees. (This is conjecture on my part, I have no idea how many hours FANG employees tend to work).
This works extremely well on a motorcycle at any speed above 20 km/h, even under protective gear (the only way I've tested). So well that I actually feel a bit cold at first when it's hot but not extreme (below 30°C).
I don’t understand the concern about database rights. OpenStreetMap is open (you can download it from https://planet.openstreetmap.org/), so why would they be concerned about copyrights?
But at least it's apparent that an end must be in sight for internet as we know it. That there's still other forms of internet waiting to be discovered.
Reminds me of a German story:

"In Germany, the story about how Frederick the Great was responsible for bestowing “potato happiness” on his subjects is well known. King of Prussia form 1740 to 1772, he is still referred to as “Alte Fritz” (Old Fritz) to this day. It is said that he ordered soldiers to guard a field of field of potatoes, ostensibly to protect this highly precious crop. Their curiosity aroused, the local farmers, who had up till then showed no interest in cultivating potatoes, stole some of them and started growing them themselves – or so the story goes."

https://www.alumniportal-deutschland.org/en/germany/eating-d...
I work super closely with recruitment and HR to ensure this doesn't happen. If they are unsure of a candidate, they just send a quick note on slack asking for a thumbs up/down on them. Honestly, after a year or so of experience, they kind of learn what technologies are analogs to the ones we use.

We recently had a person who did COBOL apply, which through recruiting for a loop.

I do get frustrated with the way our engineering manager write job descriptions. Especially since they can be wishy-washy on what they actually want (early on, candidate is good, but later on, mgmt wants more experience). It's been even worse recently as they've been just throwing out seemingly random job titles in order to just get candidates to bite. So I go for an interview and see they are applying for a job title like "data science engineer," and when I ask the manager wtf that is, they say, oh, that's your position (def NOT data science), but that job title gets more applicants.

I used to think HR was the problem, but the more I make sausage, the more I realize that engineering managers are a big part of the problem.
> Just as the OP said, these temperatures are deadly.

> > Thursday, September 6, 2007, HOUSTON – The death toll from extreme heat in Houston each summer will increase from about 24 to nearly 32

The actual number of heat deaths in Houston and Harris County in 2018 was 15; Houston itself sees 4–6 per year. Maybe air conditioning is more common a decade later than was originally predicted, or perhaps medical intervention arrives more quickly or is more effective.

Sources: https://nihhis.cpo.noaa.gov/Urban-Heat-Island-Mapping/Campai... and https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/in-depth/20...
> My suspicion is that it is because it is an effective class filter.

Not just that. College degrees are the perfect way for employers to outsource training (simply because an IT degree will transfer a lot of the knowledge needed on the job) and vetting (aka is this person able to meet deadlines with high quality output) cost and risk.
I preferred to read a bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf at least for 17 times googling for any new concept and then to implement a new Bitcoin fork for solidifying my knowledge. Btw, nice learning path of Ethereum, nowadays Ethereum topic is too broad to be learned in a while.
This varies on the manager. There are managers who do want to see butts in seats, but there are also managers who want to know their directs outside of "what's the status of JIRA ticket X-1234" in a scheduled zoom meeting. Sure, there are 1:1s if the agenda isn't too full, but it still feels kind of contrived as opposed to bumping into someone in the break room and asking them about their weekend, hobbies, or recent projects.
Calls to cancel Canada Day after graves found
Those people are also the CEO and breadwinner of often a surprisingly large support system behind their brand - assistants, house management, financial and business management, trustees, security, transportation, coaches, doctors, lawyers, agents, tutors, PR ... the list goes on.

Don't think they're just working for kicks and laughs. In fact, for them to unwind all of that is probably more financially treacherous than you just up and quitting your paycheck-to-paycheck job.
> fallacious thinking popular among westerners: the idea that peaceful protesting or rule-abiding political opposition is generally effective.

First, it's not 'westerners'. Democracy and peaceful protest are embraced throughout the world: All of North and South America, with few exceptions; almost all of Europe; Japan, S. Korea, Indonesia and the Philippines to extents, India, countries in Africa, etc. And protests happen outside democracy and go back long before it. Gandhi was protesting in a dictatorship; MLK was too, in many ways (it was in many ways a dictatorship for African-Americans).

But what an odd world we have become, where people go out of their way to tell each other these things contrary to what is all around them. As a simple example, look at all the policing and legal reforms, all the social changes, that have happened in response to the George Floyd protests. The Arab Spring happened not long before that. People invest enormous amounts of time and effort in changing public opinion, and causing/stopping protest. Despair seems like a dumb, unpleasant trend.

The people in power want you to think you are powerless; it obviously suits them for you to believe it. Similarly, to suppress votes they say 'your vote doesn't count' - something I've encountered in poor communities. The power is actually yours. History is filled with protests changing the world.

Governments have power only from the consent of the governed. Like the fiat power behind currency, the government's power comes from people giving them that authority - the government says you must do X, and people choose to listen. They don't have nearly enough other power to survive without it, including - or especially including - non-democratic governments. If nobody listens to them, who are they? Just some people talking (ironically, similar to what authoritarians try to say about protestors - nobody listens). What is their authority? And if people don't go to work, if the streets are filled with protest, then it affects many more interests than those in office. You can see why some in power try to spread this idea that you have none.

Protests also demonstrate and galvanize public opinion. People sitting home and feeling alone and powerless are no threat; other people telling them that that they are powerless are ideal. When people see others taking action, when they see they are not alone, then they act.

Sure, life is more complicated than that. Few things happen only because of a protest, but that's just because the world is too complicated for simple solutions. But to say protests aren't a huge factor is really a fantasy of authority, and they push it for a reason. The world is yours.
Job listings are written like this to give the illusion of being an equal opportunity employer. It's meant to be impossible to fill, through the front door, because they are holding out for someone coming through on a personal recommendation. Because people tend to only socialize with people just like themselves, personal recommendations for jobs end up reinforcing the existing corporate culture.o
> increasingly throttled and blocked and excluded from walled garden

I keep thinking back to Jacob Applebaum's stance of "facebook and the other walled gardens are the real dark web."
If that even works. Do white guys who apply say to themselves "those requirements are BS", and minorities say "I don't meet those requirements so I shouldn't apply"? Or is it white guys are more likely to not read them as closely? Or white guys are more likely to feel "I'm good enough to do it regardless of what it asks for"? Or something else? Because just telling minorities "the requirements are more suggestions than requirements" isn't going to help if it's any of those.
Hypothesis: an underestimated reason why people don't want to go back to the office is not (just) because they like WFH, but because offices suck hard for knowledge workers when they need not. The reason why is based on a major historiological mistake, see the book Deep Work (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25744928-deep-work)
Exact. And a similar trick can be used with a bed sheet hanging extended in rope for cooling your bedroom in very hot nights.
When most people talk about conspiracy theories, they are actually talking about motivational theories.

For example, with the 'China lab leak theory', there is no actual evidence of Sars-Cov2 in that lab before the outbreak. What does exist is the belief that 'the Chinese government lies'/'scientists lie'/'Chinese people lie' or some combination or offshoot of these. There is a belief that sinister things happen in labs. There is a belief that it would take serious coordinated effort by humans to cause this much disruption in our lives.

It is psychologically much easier to believe that if we could find the people responsible for this and stop them, we can prevent pandemics like this. It is very hard to hold in your head that disease agents can be transmitted from animal populations to human populations at any time and we have no significant control over this.

I'm sure I'm doing a lot of projection here, but then so is everyone else.

Just FYI - I think it is possible that the virus leaked from the lab, but it is significantly more likely that it was an animal virus (like 1000:1 in favor of 'natural' zoonotic origin)
I had a project one time for a school district and had access to all of that. Made me think of the "changing grades remotely" trope and had a pretty good chuckle. Wouldn't have been possible when I was a kid but it is now I guess.
That works great until it doesn't. A lot of Canadians depended on this mechanism instead of air conditioning, especially on the prairies which is semi-desert: high days, low nights and low humidity. But when your nighttime low is 27...
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but Carmack would pass those with flying colors.
"Polio vaccine rolled out to 1M kids as a test" is seen as a good thing but remember:
* Tuskegee experiment
* LSD experiments on military
* Many other hidden experiments

But you know, that wouldn't affect him so let's go do it.

I just find his pov so self serving it's very hard to read.
Parent comment was responding to a comment that used the term "male." Responding with equivalent phrasing and saying "female" in that context makes a lot more sense.
You keep saying "I'm not making that argument." If you're not making any arguments that are relevant to this particular thread about slippery slopes and overreaching governments, I'm not sure why you replied to me in the first place. Simply saying that censorship comes with a cost is so obvious and broad that it's not much of a contribution.
> It’s not as though Sundar Pichai sends out a survey to all Google employees.

They actually send surveys to everyone. They also talk to the VPs, but surveys have weight.
It's a very old and common stylistic device in literature.

I find it refreshing to read, but I also doubt it plays a major role in the 'reduction of sexism'.
What if you published your book as a newsletter (like Andy Weir once did)?
https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.html#picking-your-route
Reminded me of good-old Troff pages.