skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming Robinhood's story was accurate that everyone was trading on margin (at least by default and thus a lot of traders) and that they were approaching some serious questions about if they had enough cash on had to cover the trades / possible losses ... I'm not sure what the right thing to do in that case would be.

Keep everyone trading and possibly run out of cash to cover everything? Or stop trading and possibly hose the folks trying to make trades?
> Right now there's a lot of recruiters trying to sell me on various nebulous hybrid positions (sounds like the companies don't really know or have committed to anything just yet, or are afraid to let potential hires know what they're really planning), but there's equally as many recruiters contacting me for 100% remote (and plans to stay that way) as well.

A recruiter (household name tech but not FAANG) pitched me on a position that was "1 day a week" in an office 300 miles from my home.

I knew my conditions* wouldn't be met, so I turned him down.

*The company covers my airfare and meals. I fly out and back same day. The morning outbound never departs before 8AM. The return never arrives after 6PM.
>This is one of those things where peoples' warnings to the young come from hard won experience, but where it doesn't sound right to people who have not themselves yet gained the experience.

Speak for yourself. I am very experienced. I have worked at many companies, some of which I left abruptly, and others where my close friends were fired/laid off.

But guess what? None of that matters. Just because a friendship starts at a workplace doesn't mean it ends when the employment ends. Some of my best, life-long friends are people I met at work. My current SO, who I will marry, is someone I met at at a past employer. My wedding party is going to be half-filled with people who I met at work, even though I no longer work with them. I currently mentor (and am mentored by) people from past jobs, one of which was actually fired.

This is also a self-fulfilling prophecy that I see in these conversations. People begrudgingly make nice with people at work, and restrict those relationships to only happen at work... and then are surprised when those relationships end when employment ends. If you only interact with your "friends" at your employer, then no shit those interactions will stop when your employment ends. But they don't have to, and for many people, they don't.

It's not any different than any other part of life. I'm no longer in college, but I'm still close friends with people I met in college, and I don't regret at all the fun activities I did during college. I no longer go to my old gym (I switched to a new gym), but I still keep in touch with someone I met at the old gym and I still benefit from the exercises I did there. I no longer live in my old apartment, but I still keep in touch with my friend who lived across the hall from me. Why should my workplace be any different?
Awesome thanks for sharing. I think for myself, it might be childhood since I was young I hated being forced to study and do work. Funnily enough I do all my day job while toasted cause its super fun, coding while sober seems so boring. I am trying to train myself to be more conscientious, I don't know why I did not pick it up as a child. My parents tried a lot with tutoring and studying.
Last I checked state governments have links for the free tax software that taxpayers are already paying for but the companies so desperately hide.
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I have started to go back (my choice) to the office roughly 1x/week, to a downtown Chicago hi-rise, still mostly empty.

It's been pretty nice -- 9 mile bike ride, then squatting in a small office or conference room with a view over the Lake, maybe 1-2 colleagues to have lunch with or a "water-cooler" discussion, all on a floor that was laid out to support hundreds of people.

I fully expect this to change once more people are there. The layout is mostly open floor plan, with anonymous desks in rows. Noise always was a problem before we all started staying home. I'm lucky enough that I can choose how often to go in, but a reading of this thread shows that many aren't as lucky.

What it highlights for me is that how quality of the workspace really does matter (especially acoustics), and that companies must compete along this axis, along with many others (location, WFH fraction, compensation, etc.).
Open is not the same as public domain.
I've always thought of it as running an education side-business for tax purposes
Is that a native build for ARM that's running? Impressive.
Same with my 2018 VW. At least it has a DST toggle in the menu, so the most annoying part of changing the DST is left out of this process.
If you don't handle data from the EU, nope
The success of Amazon retail is in part because of the ~feature~ of seamless, rampant IP infringement and zero legal or financial liability on the part of Amazon for making money off it.
You pretty much answered the question yourself. If you can get a job as a developer, you can have a career. Whether you should do something that pays less but you enjoy more is I don't think something anyone else can tell you. Trajectory can be anything really, I don't think there's any limits. Keep in mind you're 40, not 60, you've got more time ahead of you then you've put in.

My personal philosophy which is neither new or very sophisticated is that anything you don't enjoy doing is wasted time and money is a means to an end and not an end in itself, so if you enjoy coding more go for it, no point in being the richest guy on the graveyard.
That diet is more important than exercise. I wasted so much time in my younger years working out hard and eating like crap. This lead to an unbalanced body, i.e. a muscular outer frame paired with a fatty belly.

When covid hit and going to the gym was out of the question, I was forced to optimize my diet in order to stay “healthy”. The result of this is that I lost 20lbs of hard-to-lose weight, putting me squarely in the median weight for my height.

Now when the gym opened back up, I had the foundation of a solid diet paired with consistent exercise, which lead to me being in the best shape of my life.

I’m still tweaking my health strategy, since there is no such thing as perfect, but now I always start with improving my diet.
>Because if you live in a great place, all those things are available to you without discontinuity regardless of WHO you work for.

And how is this an argument for not also getting those things through work?

I have many hobbies outside work. I live in a great place where I am able to spend my free time meeting people and doing things outside work. I still want those things from my workplace, too.
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> companies don't really know or have committed to anything just yet

That is a good point. My company doesn't know or has not set a return policy. So I imagine it is hard for recruiters and hiring managers to give an honest answer. And I wonder if it is better to wait until more companies have set a firm policy.
I always find surprising that Robinhood was able to build such a large business with such mediocre customer support.

I switched to Charles Schwab and just the fact that there's a 24/7 phone number compensates for the lack of simplicity.
I used to think that I wanted the simplicity of something like Robinhood. But I have learned to appreciate the complexity of Schwab. The reality is that behind Robinhood's simplicity there's a lack of sophistication and process in their operation.

I commend what they built, but Robinhoood it's too exposed to the cross winds of retail trading and regulatory scrutiny.
I feel that by having my investments in Robinhood, I'm adding some sort of risk multiplier that has nothing to do with the nature of my investments. It has to do mainly with how amateur-ish their brokerage operation feels.
No, I haven't and I won't as it has FB attached to it, which is a real pity, because it does indeed look very interesting.

But that's off the point. It's not the product I'm salty about.
I saw the title and imagined a scenario where someone combined the idea of "The Martian" with interstellar travel. Basic idea: interstellar colony ship with colonists in cryo-sleep. One of the colonists is inadvertently awakened mid-journey and has to attempt to survive the multi-year journey in solitude without jeopardizing the whole colony's travel.

Feel free to write this if you like, any of you. Ideas are cheap and I have more than I'm likely to use in what remains of my life.
It's a shame that a small-time reseller like Cliff has to go to the trouble and expense to register a trademark to protect his listing (which I doubt Cliff will bother with).

Until about 5-6 years ago the changes Amazon made almost universally made their service better and more pro-user convenience/efficiency. Since then it's really become a nightmare. I realize they are being abused by scammers who are scheming every way to subvert the system but as a technologist familiar with web tech and distribution, it's clear there are some anti-consumer experience issues which Amazon could fix but is choosing not to.

For example, allowing vendors to list alternate "versions" which aren't really the same product at all. It makes it harder to tell what the star rating averages are for the version I actually want (and I have to sort reviews by version which is only accessible on a subpage. Frankly, I'd rather they just go back to one listing per product. Yes it's less useful for a hundred different sized machine screws but it seems like a major source of these issues.

Then there's the nightmare of letting different sellers sell on the "same" product listing. Crap clone products flit in and out contaminating the integrity of reviews because a shoddy version slips in but only from one seller out of six or seven.

As someone who deals with them everyday, do you think they are NOT doing some of the things they could to stop these issues due to strong incentives (Amazon makes more $$$ allowing users to be frustrated), or do you think they are sincerely doing what they can (within reasonable costs) to solve these chronic issues? They used to understand that accuracy and transparency ultimately yield more sales (even if lower for an individual product). I'd like to believe Amazon didn't change their ethos from the early days, but...
I disagree. They have a couple hundred students there at any time and the percent of people who will make an actual career from it is still relatively low. Way better than moving to Hollywood with no connections but it is still extremely winner take all.
That the world doesn't work the way were taught in school. That goes for job prospects, college info, politics, government services, corporate dealings, etc.
The "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mind set is only one part of the equation.

Most organizations acknowledge that it's generally preferable to run up to date and modern software. But at the same time, updating or, even worse, replacing a piece of technology can be extremely complex, and also quite risky, so people naturally chose the path of least resistance and keep old pieces software (or hardware) running.

And even Facebook or Google are likely not immune to that.

For example, Google used to run RedHat 7.1 (release in 2001) for a very long time, only transitioning recently to a more modern Debian OS base.

http://events17.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slide...

This is of course with huge caveats as Google has the resources and the people to basically maintain their own distribution, and practically did so upgrading this RH 7.1 base with security and bug fix patches, and including newer components such as recent kernels. But overall, the base system Google used was quite old, almost to a scary extent to be honest.

Also, the upgrade process detailed in the slides is really interesting and show how complex and involved it was for Google. For organizations less able to attract very good engineers this kind of upgrade would either be extremely painful (bugs, downtime, etc), or even nearly impossible.
Wasn't there a study some years ago where they could reconstruct subvocalizations (the "inner voice") by placing electrodes on the throat or jaw? The realisation was that when you say something in you head, you send a very weak signal to the acutal muscles that can be picked up. I remember a bit of hysteria that someone would be able to do this remotely, in order to scan people at airports, but that fortunately never materialized.

I think this was the story: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180405133040.h...
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I wouldn't trust Privacy.com with money. Read their terms and conditions. They're much worse than the normal obligations of a bank issuing credit cards. They disclaim responsibility for mistakes and fraud. And they charge 3% extra for doing that.
Not crumbs; intentional flexibility, likely while still maintaining the in-office requirement 3 days / week and keeping people near the office because their data says it's better that way.

Also, this isn't a 'plan for the decade'; this is a 'return to work plan.' The social contract pre-pandemic was that you were in office; I don't know why anyone expected large companies, who generally change direction as quickly as an ocean liner, to suddenly embrace remote work and give up on decades of hard-learned management techniques for in-office workers. That was never going to happen instantly.

People are welcome to (and should) advocate for themselves and their needs, but to expect suddenly for the world to go full remote immediately is, frankly, misguided.
here is the problem: estimating is also work. breaking down the work is hard work. sometimes it takes more to break down and think things through than to do the work.

the fundamental problem is that management does not want estimates. they want quick estimates (ie close to zero effort) and after that they turn around and use those estimates as deadlines.

now as a developer what are you supposed to do? you’re gonna get burned a couple of times and be forced in death marches. after that you’ll: take your time estimating. you will pad your estimates to mitigate risk. ruthlessly dissolve complains about how big the estimates are by pointing out all the things that you need to think about and do. reestimate everything when anything but the most trivial thing changes.

everyone loses. really. management believes that they are squeezing the maximum amount of value but they’re not even close. developers end up doing the bare minimum and will take absolutely zero risks even if it would make the product better. fuck all that agility we claim to have.

welcome to software development in the 21st century. oh… I know. I’ll use copilot to write my code and I’ll also update it to estimate stuff! glorious!!!
yes arm64, the twitter thread also said they didn't have to do any TPM tricks, it just worked.
i read somewhere else only the installer now requires TPM, the OS boot does not, but that will change when it goes gold
Not saying it ain't. I'm saying that should be clarified because people will assume air temperature unless its specified.

The title was clarified so now there will not be confusion.
For sure. The IRS needs to offer a tax preparation platform, the grift in this industry is astounding. I've always had decent experiences with TurboTax, but they've gotten extremely good at making your taxes hell if you want to avoid giving them $89.99.
There is so much marketing to the effect of "millennials love tiny homes!" I can't help but think if regular homes were even slightly affordable for the average 30-something, there would be no tiny home trend.
Such a small amount, sure hope it doesn’t cause the CEO to lose sleep.
100%.

Work is a decent place to meet people, but I don’t think it’s particularly healthy as your only or even primary opportunity for social connection. That might not be the case here but it sure sounds like it could be.

My own life improved immeasurably when I finally started having interests outside of pushing buttons into a glowing rectangle of light.
The answer I most often get is that the person doesn't have the authority to do whatever it is.
It's not clear to me that verbatim would be the only issue. It might produce lines that are similar, but not identical.

The underlying question is whether the output is a derivative work of the training set? Sidestepping similar issues is why GCC and LLVM have compiler exemptions in their respective licenses.
Good question. Hydration is where Javascript is rendered statically or on the server and the client needs to take over that HTML.

Traditional frameworks like Next.js, Gatsby, Nuxt.js all "fully hydrate" the client.

This means that every bit of HTML that is sent to the is browser is taken over by JS on the client.

This has it's costs but it is done to give interactivity.

Partial hydration is where you are only adding interactivity to the parts of the site that need it... think of it like the good old days of jquery but with a modern front end framework... Svelte.
As an individual engineer, I think it's inherently valuable to make my projects easy to hand off (in addition to as maintenance free as possible). The company is less impacted if I leave, sure, and it also means I can take a vacation without constantly getting messaged. Long term, it means that I end up working on more bleeding edge "cool" projects, since I'm not bogged down with years of making myself irreplaceable, and folk want new work to benefit from the same level of redundancy and maintainability.

I believe that I have a perception of being irreplaceable, but it's because of my future value rather than past value.

I've never felt like I was being treated like cattle at work, though, so maybe I've just been lucky enough to work at good companies.
yes go for it. Be willing to make the sacrifices in the short term. If you already enjoy coding, it is one of the safest jobs out there. You just have to get better at it with time/practice but if you can code, you will hardly be unemployed. A lot of management consultants/MBAs struggle if they are let go from their corporate jobs. An average developer ? Not so much.

Just don't expect the same salary and perks in the beginning even though you can catch up quick if you are really good.
S.F. is getting world's first lab grown 'cultured sushi' tasting room
Actually, no. Cuil did it for about $50 million. They failed due to lack of a revenue model, but they did get search working, sort of.
There's probably ad, biz dev, and other teams and departments in media organizations that do this, not the writer.

They probably use specialized tools to scan text for keywords that have high paying ad payouts.

Fucking interesting shit honestly.

You've got:
1. ad keyword auction data
2. product pricing and product margins
3. internal business goals
4. external business relationships and deals

Gross and cool, think quant monster geeks. I'm sure some people love working on this, I wish them the best. It's nice to feel good in what you do and your life.
Here you go:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydration_(web_development)
Wait, who in tech is starting work at 8am? My average day starts around 10. 10x is an exaggeration to be sure, but I will happily defend 5x.
There was a post yesterday about someone installing it on a recent machine and then swapped the drive to an older allegedly "unsupported" old machine and it worked just fine. YMMV.
> The blogs that go down here typically back every request by MySQL (ahem, WordPress) which is totally unnecessary and often actively harmful since MySQL has very low default total connections allowed.

WordPress is not my favorite thing and some of the available plug-ins do terrible things with MySQL, but the problem is not too low default connections; it's too many PHP workers. WordPress is generally focused enough that most of the wall time is spent in waiting for the database, so you want to optimize for throughput; one or two workers per cpu thread is plenty for that. More concurrency than execution available reduces throughput, so it's better to queue requests in your http layer than to process multiple at once.

Large numbers of MySQL connections are more appropriate when the web pages do a mix of things, but more/mostly idle DB wise; in that case, you might still want persistent connections to reduce round trips before a query, but are less likely to have a query backlog large enough where task switching overhead becomes significant.
Of course, a lot of people taking their big tech paychecks to some lower-cost place will just be exporting the problem to another place. A sudden big inflow of cash into a low-cost area is going to raise prices.
These were all software companies in or near Silicon Valley. Cube farms, not open office. Maybe you are one of the lucky ones to get your own office (with a door)
> Women have been stuck in home kitchens for eons ... we've been depending on others for food prep for a very, very long time.

Did the slightly more than half the population throughout history also have someone else cook for them too? A woman's woman perhaps?

No, I'm not buying any argument that says a person is not privileged to have someone provide for them just because they consider the provisioner to be a lesser being like a woman or a slave. Quite the contrary in fact: I consider that a reinforcing argument for a privileged existence.
I tried to have the same, but I'm barely out of the signal's range unfortunately.
This kinda seems like just someone throwing a fit that Nintendo didn't give them an SDK / support their game?

There's more to making a game than just making the code and hoping someone supports your efforts. From the wikipedia page, I don't find the story all that sympathetic, at least as far as vs Nintendo.

Story seems more like one of a troll or mental illness, and kinda sad.
Restricted gifts exist, but it's wrong to state categorically that the existence of restricted gifts precludes spending any endowment income on tuition. GP is also simplistic - not all the endowment income is available to cover operating expenses - but is directionally right. Lots of scholarships and the like offered by schools are transfers from the endowment to the operating budget mediated through a 'lower' tuition bill for the student. A relevant number to look at is the average income per student (money + loan proceeds) to the school - usually that's much, much less than the stated cost of attending.
They have investment management companies now. MIT has MITIMCO; Yale has the Yale Investment Committee.
Just because you see them all presented as equals on /r/conspiracy doesn't mean that every conspiracy researcher considers them all equal.

I hope everyone here can internalize that. We need engineers in these communities.
> I don't see how this topic is challenging or complex

No offense to you, but this is HN in a nutshell.
AFAIK windows 10 already had official raspberry pi builds, so it's not too surprising.
Graphcore brings new competition to Nvidia in latest MLPerf AI benchmarks
The report seems to have placed the yellow emoji into a binary choice of black vs white, so having about half of the black people who were asked identify it as a white/non-black image doesn't make it seem like this is ground breaking research.
For those who believe that a good economic system is one that kills the "least fit"...I wonder what their idea of an optimal ratio of fit-to-killed is. Should the policy levers be set so that each year 0.1% of the population starves/freezes/overheats to death, or 1%?

For a system which targets killing off "unfit" people, what would be signs of killing off too many people? Killing off too few?

Instead of a stack-ranking system, is there some minimum bar that they imagine people should have to exceed? I wonder how many people would have exceeded that bar 500 years ago, or 500 years from now.