skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> commit to something, but you don't know what...

The problem comes in when people think they do know 'what' it is, and they're just... adamant that you 'computer people' don't 'get it'.

I can't speak to all my clients - some are great - but have had some in the past that just insisted I was being obstinate or obtuse or difficult by asking clarifying questions. Then they'll take hours/days obsessing over shades of blue for a screen, then... the morning of 'feature launch' they'll question why there are no notification emails for feature X, when... that morning is the first time those words have ever been spoken.

But... fortunately, I've not had project work like that in a while :)
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"If the smoke alarm goes off, you shouldn't worry about evacuating the building."

Is this an acceptable way to convey that you should evacuate the building without worrying?
The web forum that I frequent most, https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com , has a policy of not allowing embedded images but requiring them to be attached on each post. The forum has been active for well over a decade now (site was founded in 2004) and has a thriving community that continues to grow. It is the community that keeps the forum alive instead of just one random company (although it technically is a company). This helps prevent link rot. Forums seem anachronistic in 2021, but they have massive benefits versus the gigantic platforms like Facebook or Reddit or Twitter, and the quality of the discourse and analysis is far higher. There are a few ads, but they’re very unobtrusive.

(Also, Twitter posts are often linked, but usually the text is copied for archival purposes.)

My experience with Wikipedia, forums such as those, and Wayback Machine and arxiv.org make me think that people will do a lot of stuff basically for free and that by building communities, you don’t need extremely clever trustless incentive systems like Blockchain or major paywalls (although granted, the forum does have something like a paywall for unverified pre-public info) or massive platforms with multi billion dollar companies in order to disseminate information, analysis, news, etc. Best practices of web forums from the 2000s (active moderation, a sense of common purpose, expectations of non-toxicness, etc), are a really good solution.
No. The 401k idea wouldn't work.
Code doesn't rust.
Apparently there's a CNN article about this here: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/29/politics/nyc-mayoral-race...
This is not how Apple hires.
The correct thing to do there is to continue to consult and charge them $HR_IS_DUMB.
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yeah I already both meditate and try to maintain mindfulness on a regular basis; it's helped a lot, but I'd happily incorporate any additional tools I can use!
I'd like to point out that that is exactly what you want to do sometimes. Our HR department absolutely refuses to put out reqs with anything more specific than a generic software engineer description, because they rely on having a general pool of applicants that they can shuffle around to different teams.

While that might work for most software teams, my team has a couple of specialties that are not just hard to hire for, but also hard to train for, and sometimes take years to learn. If we hire someone with general software engineering expertise, we typically consider their entire first year to be a training year with extremely limited productivity...even if they are a well experienced senior level engineer.

So we try to put out more specific requirements: Experience with geospatial information systems and standards. Or experience with constraint programming or other forms of mathematical optimization like LP, MIP, IP, or QP. Or experience with spectrum licensing regulation or 3gpp standards.

And because they don't put out easily searchable reqs, we never get candidates that we wouldn't need to train extensively, unless we do their job and seek them out ourselves.
It's astonishing to me that HN+Twitter believe that Github designed this entire project, without speaking to their legal team and confirming that training on GPL code would be possible.

Mind-blowingly hilarious armchair criticism.
2006?!?!?!?!?!?!
Seems they are also ripping off his product descriptions.

Anything that can be done to get these people off of amazon?
> Namely, the world in its current form is largely run by such nefarious schemes. The bad guys won a long time ago.

I’ve slowly come to the same conclusion, and my first reaction was pretty much hopelessness and despair.

But I think it’s important to realize that most people through history, who fought for change, faced similar or worse adversaries.

(Absolutely not an endorsement of historical atrocities)
The handful of Reddit programming communities I've seen are also very uninterested in returning to work. I have to wonder if the difference isn't so much "established career" vs "newbie" and is more simply self-selection, with people who are comfortable working remotely more likely to engage frequently in online communities, and those more interested in in-person work less represented.
Cliff Stoll stores Klein bottles i in the crawl space under his house and manages his inventory with a frickin' robot. The head clearance seems a bit short for a4 4D space!
Thanks for your reply! It's interesting how you found yourself moving back to your hometown, I've always thought if I ever settle down properly it'll be in the coastal town where I went to uni. I went back to my hometown after graduating as the job market is better there, but it's a bit too landlocked for my taste and housing is nightmarishly expensive (the cost of living generally is about as bad as London but without the London salary adjustment).
My idea is that you cannot have a huge machine that produces a whole wall in one go on a construction site of a single-family home, but you can have it on a factory. And the machine can work like 10x as fast as human builders.

Of course, to be economic, that machine should produce these walls day in day out without much interruption, hence the economy of scale.
>Why exactly is it that such a large portion of the discussion here tends toward actual adult conversation?

I attribute it to a few things that work in synergy

1. The voting model, and structure of the site work well for the crowd that gathers here. Keeping spam away is automated enough to keep the signal to noise high.

2. Dang keeps us from doing stupid things consistently enough that we collectively have learned good manners.

3. We've all seen how quickly things can get swamped, to make us really appreciative of what we've got here, and more careful about doing stupid things.

4. Upvoting, etc. are paced such that you don't get access to a bit of power until you understand it. It's subtle enough but very effective.

5. The management is not driven to push "engagement" or "stickiness" by the need to sell advertising.

If you took the codebase and started again, I'm not sure it would work more than 5% of the time.
But why would you remove "Windows Network Technology" from a network position? Hehehehehe.
I think where things fall down is on hiring junior candidates, or people re-entering the job market after years out of it (like my wife). "Minimum requirements" in those cases actually have a very deleterious impact because they filter out people with intrinsic motivation or talent but slightly different experience backgrounds. Either by the HR person themselves (who usually doesn't care much because it's a junior position, etc.) or the candidate (who gets put off by the min requirements label).
Not sure if you have in-depth knowledge about this so I can avoid doing a deep dive on the linked site, but what's the cost of something like this? If you were going to do a 20x20 footprint, what would those 4 walls cost if you assume 3 penetrations for a window on each wall and a door on the 4th wall?

Totally get it if you say "go to the website" but if you're involved with one of these companies maybe you could answer that more readily than I can figure it out.
Yes, of course it does, because if every user opted out then the model would not work as well as it does, and github would not be able to profit off the work of others to the degree they are (or will be). Just because they are taking code on a massive scale does not mean the outcome is inevitable: don't get it twisted, copilot only works because of the code human beings have written.
I can't help but keep thinking remote work will just lead to more wealth inequality. My dumb argument:

=> Amazon/Apple/Big-Tech petitions a city for a super center for bunch of middle-class (and upper-class) awesome jobs.

=> Construction, development, small shops, homes, form around the area.

=> Small economy/city is built. Suddenly fitness trainer "Bob" can sell $100/hr lessons, open a gym, and provide for family on unskilled labor. Etc...

=> Schools in area get better. Crime goes down.

=> And so on...

If remote becomes a thing and all these "super jobs" can be done from anywhere in the world, I just can't shake a dead-end for booming neighborhoods that aren't gigantic mansions is coming.
The easiest exploit I can recall (late 80s? Early 90s?) was getting credit card numbers from tossed receipts at gas station pumps.
You've seen some horrible things; I'm sorry; I've read about things like that and made a point of not turning my head, of being a (very limited) witness, but I can't imagine.

The very good news is that those aren't realistic risks in the U.S.. Beyond mass lynchings in the South (e.g., Tulsa) - a major exception - they haven't happened in US history, and even then I haven't heard of horrors that extreme. And note that those mass lynchings (and individual lynchings) were conducted by the people in power, not protestors against it.

We can't gun people down because we are afraid. Someone breaking a bottle or a window shouldn't be killed - that would be murder. The people in power often are the worst threat to order.

Consider the disorder people suffer when they are oppressed and abused, often physically, by the state, for example when police beat, shoot, and arrest them for things they didn't do, and they are imprisoned for much of their life. Do those people deserve justice and order like you and I do? Should they be able to walk down a street and conduct their lives in peace? If you get assaulted by a police officer or a mugger, what's the difference? (In fact the former is worse - you can't fight back, and the consequences are imprisonment.)

> A lot of immigrants for example, don't generally give a shit ...

Can you back this up, both that immigrants have opinions that differ from the public and that they match what you say?

Immigrants are also targets of police brutality, and have a whole division of government, ICE, that under Trump seemed to embrace cruelty toward them.
A lot of the modular home type solutions seem to encounter the same thing.

Cost savings on the surface but when things come together they're just not there.

A lot of the actual prefabricated style solutions that do save money seem to be small changes within your traditional systems.
He should just sue for copyright infringement.
Our HR was like this too! They were amazing. They sent a spreadsheet with each applicant in it, greyed out the ones who didn't follow instructions, and bolded the ones that they thought I should read first based on how close their applications were.

I read all of them, even the greyed out ones, until I'd read enough to trust that the HR team's filter was well-calibrated, and I also let the HR team know when they got it right/wrong so they could improve their filtering process.

Overall it worked great but I understand that such functional HR teams are the exception, not the rule.
> [pathlib] is a good object-oriented solution

I'd agree that pathlib is a good solution, and that it's an object-oriented solution, but I'm hesitant to call it a good object-oriented solution. It uses some object-oriented hackery to work as elegantly as it does. I approve of this decision, but it leads to some weirdness such as the inability to subclass `pathlib.Path`. Instead you need to subclass `type(pathlib.Path())`, as the method resolution order changes once it is instantiated:

>>> from pathlib import Path
>>> Path.__mro__
(<class 'pathlib.Path'>, <class 'pathlib.PurePath'>, <class 'object'>)
>>> type(Path()).__mro__
(<class 'pathlib.PosixPath'>, <class 'pathlib.Path'>, <class 'pathlib.PurePosixPath'>, <class 'pathlib.PurePath'>, <class 'object'>)

In any case, weirdness like this can make for an even better learning opportunity!
> Obviously it’s the executives’ choice

In an unbiased fashion, does anybody have any evidence that proves executives are "right" to say being managed in an office is more productive delivery wise than working from home?
>GitHub co-pilot as open source code laundering?
The English language as I flush?
This is an issue with the NYC Board of Elections, not with RCV. Plenty of other jurisdictions already use RCV with no issue.

Unlike in every other jurisdiction in the country, the NYC Board of Elections is not an independent agency and is not accountable to elected officials. It's run by party leaders who nominate their own allies (oftentimes family), with disastrous consequences[0]. It's been criticized for years, but eliminating it would require passing legislation at the state level, and for various political reasons, that's an uphill battle.

This might be the latest bungle, but it's not the first. In fact, it happens almost every single election cycle in NYC.

- In November 2020, many voters actually received absentee ballots that were addressed to the wrong people: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/nyregion/absentee-ballot-...

- In July 2020, 20% of absentee ballots were rejected, which is a staggeringly high number https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/one-five-mail-bal...

- In 2019, the Board of Elections failed to meet state requirements to provide books of voter rolls to candidates, so instead they published the full voting records online, complete with the unredacted name, address, and party affiliation of every registered voter in the city, available for bulk download. After backlash, they took the information down.[1]

- In 2016, there were mass purges of eligible voters from voting rolls, in violation of both state and federal laws, which prevented voters from casting ballots in the 2016 primaries[2]. This resulted in a federal lawsuit[3], resulting in a settlement in which the Board of Elections actually admitted that it knowingly violated state and federal laws (unlike settlements where parties formally admit no wrongdoing)[4].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyregion/nyc-voting-elect...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/nyregion/nyc-personal-vot...

[2] https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/campaigns-e...

[3] https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2017/ag-schneiderman-moves-i...

[4] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/new-york-city-boa...
Don't expect a better result after a rewrite. Be prepared to accept that.
I commented elsewhere on this oddity, and the Vegas shooting, contrasted to the coverage of the recent condo collapse.
I'm not sure what your point is. You keep goalpost shifting. Bitcoin clearly is unfit as a currency as it stands. If you're will to argue that an asset with a 3% daily vlt is viable as a currencty, I don't think we will be able to find common ground.
Hollywood may be the pinnacle for some actors financially, but the stage is where many want to hone/demonstrate their abilities.

I disagree that drama classes should be free solely on the basis that actors, on average, are not highly-paid. That opens the door to income-based repayment for every other major/career combination.
Good point about Microsoft, too bad they aren't in the acronym. I think Facebook still fits though, if not for political reasons.

EDIT: Maybe "trillies" would have been a better word. https://interconnected.org/home/2021/06/28/trillies
> my productivity is easily 5-10x what it was before

How are you measuring this? Those numbers seem incredulous.
I'm not an expert on Swedish law, however rape is often a crime that people lobby to not require the victim to ask for charges. aka, The police/prosecutors get to make that decision.
> Demoing every day only works if your work is easily visible

I don't much like front-end work, but seeing how easy it is for front-end devs, designers, and UX folks to get noticed, makes me seriously reconsider my priorities, sometimes. For them, it's practically effortless, just something that happens.
You can't give Github or Youtube or anybody else copyright rights if you don't have them in the first place. This is what ultimately torpedoed "Happy Birthday" copyright claims: while it's pretty undisputed that the Hill sisters gave their copyright to (ultimately) Warner/Chapelle, it was the case that they actually didn't invent the lyrics, and thus Warner/Chapelle had no copyright over the lyrics.

So if someone uploads a Hollywood movie to Youtube, Youtube doesn't get the rights to play that movie from them because they didn't have the rights in the first place. Of course, if the actual copyright owner uploads it, it's now permissible for Youtube to play it, even if it's the copy that someone else provided. [This has torpedoed a few filesharing lawsuits.]
SourceHut is looking real nice these days...
This is exactly what my friend and I have been thinking. People are being priced out of even the cheaper, though still desirable, mountain and other rural communities in the western US. I strongly feel like tiny houses are a good solution for some folks who don't feel like they need 300-400 SF per person in their home. And they can be built to extremely rigorous standards for _relatively_ little cost.

As I've said elsewhere in the thread, we're building one right now (https://imgur.com/gallery/KbPlbPR) and our hope is that this somehow is something we can reproduce, potentially on a cheap parcel of land, where people who can't otherwise afford a conventional house can afford these. We're definitely thinking it's for the not-quite impoverished, though, because when people have zero money/jobs you're relying on government to step in and fund/subsidize.

Of course lots of questions about entitlements for tiny house communities; affordability when financing isn't available; etc., but gotta start somewhere. Seems like there's a path to providing some long-lasting shelter for folks who otherwise would have to opt for single or double-wides or, worse, end up unhoused.
I think it is pretty common for schools to let hedge funds manage a large portion of their endowment. Not sure what the reason for drama is.
I wouldn't call government-backed loans "superior". They fuel tuition inflation and thereby contribute to the rising costs of education even for those who want to pay out of pocket.

Leaving education loans solely to the private sector (with regulations against predatory marketing and usury) would ensure the money is spent efficiently. It wouldn't be possible to get a large loan for a degree with dim economic prospects. Colleges would need to look at their cost structures and charge students according to the actual market value of the degree.

The European model at least has costs under control. The people who get university degrees presumably also contribute more to the tax base, once they start working, than people without degrees. So it's less regressive than it seems.
The new campus only seats a small portion of their Bay Area employees, so a large percentage of the employees are dialing in to meetings anyway.
You can just pass the query to an external search engine , adding a `site:xxx` restriction.
They're definitely built to collapse inward out of necessity to avoid damaging other buildings/creating dominos.
Did you ever consider why they decided to move forward with their decision? Clearly they are not complete idiots, since they did end up building the most valuable company in the world. There's gotta be something to it, don't you think? Sometimes it's helpful to give others the benefit of the doubt and at least ask yourself what kind of analyses they might have done to come to a conclusion. As you correctly state, WFH would have been actually cheaper in the short term, so what do you think could have made them go the other way?
I know your comment is probably tongue-in-cheek but I must say (without disagreeing, regardless) that perhaps modern day digital infrastructure can transcend the considerations early buddhists may have had for the natural world and then-contemporary human-built structures.
IIRC: Amazon won't tell him who it is and he suspects it's just someone out of legal reach / as the book is just self published his legal resources are pretty limited.
New York has had a host of election related struggles this year. In July of last year they had to invalidate 20% of votes in a primary race: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/one-five-mail-bal...
I have some similarities in background as you and I _hated_ networking but I've been very happy with my career trajectory. You need to make sure you filter out highly political jobs during your job searches, do the best work you can, and maintain touch with the good people you've worked with. For the latter I email/text folks I want to work with again every quarter (using a calendar reminder to prompt me) just to keep the connection warm. For the first one, asking questions like "How do key decisions get made at this company?" or "Can you tell me about the last project that didn't go as planned, what happened afterwards?" will give you reasonably strong signal.
Ok but why not sell it at cost and really shake things up and save lives?
Welcome to the other side. I haven't renewed Amazon Prime in quite a while. It's not that bad because you can still shop on Amazon with free shipping as long as you hit the minimum amount. I may keep things in the cart and sometimes it becomes a reminder for me to grab those items at the local shop. The only time I get an 'itch' to get back on Prime when I'm at Whole Foods. Other than that, goodbye free shipping!
Using sqlite3 as a notekeeping document graph with automatic reference indexing
Sunlight cures all infection.
I had the earth poster printed large at my local FedEx store.
You have to know where to look online, very rare these days.
Counterpoint: Chicago skyscrapers.

Chicago typically doesn't have well accessible bedrock. I know of one civil engineer who unexpectedly ran into granite and was able to sell it for added profit on a project. Point being, CE's don't typically expect great bedrock yet have developed methods to build skyscrapers in a city that was formerly a swamp.

"He says even though new technology makes it easier to find solid bedrock beneath 100 feet of wet clay, it doesn’t always make sense to drill that deep. Modern engineers still use the same general principle Burnham & Root employed when they floated the foundations of the Monadnock Building on an even flimsier layer of soil known as desiccated crust: They just spread the load."[1]

[1] https://www.wbez.org/stories/building-skyscrapers-on-chicago...
Don't most weather reports mention the "feels like" temperature, which is essentially the same thing (temperature adjusted for humidity)?