skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zero wives, zero children, zero pets and dozen computers :) Of course if I was a doctor contacting sick people or a public person contacting hundreds of different people everyday, my choice would be to take a vaccine asap.
You could. But you can only tax them so much. And the truly rich are able to avoid taxes by moving capital around.

There are a lot of progressive spending proposals and they all can't be paid by just taxing the wealthy.

Using that money to pay for benefits that mostly go to privileged people is not the best use of dollars. College graduates make more money on average, by a lot, 30 thousand dollars.

Our current system address those who have loans but don't actually get high income. They barely have to pay their loans--and often don't pay anything. A person making 35k, with an average of 3.5% a year income growth won't pay a single cent under the PAYE program if they have a family of four.
That still requires you to live in the Bay Area and commute 3/5 days. Token crumbs.
This is my take too, but I don't know where it ends up long-term. Inertia is a bitch.
We've learned in this pandemic that for knowledge work the workplace is no longer a requirement for productivity. Work should be what you spend one third of your time doing, but it should not be where. During college I did my homework in the computer labs where other students were doing their work and we chatted and built a rapport despite working on different tasks. I look forward to working out of the office and out of my home and building relationships with people that are not contractually obligated to be with me.

I expect to treat my co-workers with respect, but that is no different than what Open Source projects have done for decades.
Maybe they mean UI?
Seems like a good reason to never use GitHub, and encourage other people not to.
Like most of hacker news, I think you vastly underestimate really how replaceable smart and skilled people really are. There are literally millions of them, most with far lower pay and conditions than offered by FANGS.
What is hydration? You talk a lot about it, but I've never had to add water to my websites before.
Not being a judge, Khan has no obligation to recuse herself. Amazon is grasping at straws. Since when does an investigator have to have a neutral opinion?
I don't see why not! And if you get started now - who knows? maybe you'll be able to work your way up to management consulting in 10 years or so.
I don't feel it's morally right to keep a profession around that is automated. Why should software be different?
Yes, this is true. It would be different if it were planned for. I hope to get back to coffee shops soon. I am somewhat hesitant at the moment given there's still a decent percentage of unvaccinated folks in the area.
You don't need to keep them all quiet, just yank their YouTube videos or arrest them for their machine having child pornography.
That's like saying that making a blurry , shaky copy of star wars is not derivative but original work. Thing is, the 'verbatimness' of the generated code is positively correlated with the number of parameters they used to train their model
> "I know what you are saying, but it is absolutely crazy to me that they would post a job ad with Minimum Requirements even someone like Carmack doesn't have."

Why? Carmack is an extreme outlier and it's likely that even among the people he knows that he would label as qualified for the position nearly all have at least a master's degree and the other requirements.
Right, the locations in a memory palace are just a form of "peg system" [1].

The advantage it has compared with a "link system" [2] is that forgetting one link doesn't mean you lose the rest of the chain. You can also jump to an arbitrary point in your palace.

You're right in saying the use of a physical location is just a convenient but not fundamental part of such a system.

A system that really pushes the idea that the pegs you attach things to can be arbitrary is SemCubed [3], a system where you create a large 2-dimensional grid of "pegs". It also makes use of the Mnemonic Major System that I'm a big fan of.

[1] https://www.ludism.org/mentat/PegSystem
[2] https://www.ludism.org/mentat/LinkSystem
[3] https://www.ludism.org/mentat/SemCubed
Several of your reasons for wanting to return to the office are the very reasons I want to stay at home.
> The moment Google just decides to stream ads through the same domain as the "regular" content (e.g. updates, Play Store, etc.), what exactly is the PiHole going to do?

I don’t use anything Google so your point, whilst true, doesn’t affect me. In fact I use PiHole to block Google and its tentacles from entering my network.
In Italian (which shares I believe no common roots with Ukrainan) it is the same, "person" (persona) is always feminine, and of course goes with feminine articles and adjectives are conjugated at the feminine gender and as well noone ever had issues with that.
It's odd that my BMW doesn't use it to set the clock. It's a pita changing the clock every spring and autumn!
Yeah.

- Free time. Sure, you need free time to do anything. But the async-workflow of kernel dev is actually fairly forgiving.

- A computer. Yes, if you are patient even a fairly slow computer will do. Not a huge barrier for someone who wants to work on something that is only useful if you have a computer to run it on.

- A reliable internet connection. You don't even need reliable. Cloning the first time will take a while (a shallow-clone won't be too bad), but the async email workflow is very forgiving of poor connections.

Overall I struggle to see how the kernel development workflow could be made more accessible. The only possible improvement would be making it easier to hack on a small part of the kernel without downloading and compiling the whole thing.
Does Furnace Creek has permanent permafrost? If so, an historically high surface temperature is very significant.
Ask HN: Favorite YouTube channels UNDER 100k subscribers
Hey all - I'm working on a website to aid in the discovery of new video content across various platforms. I've found that it's very difficult for me to find good youtube channels with under 100k subscribers - I was hoping some people here might have some recommendations.

In the past, I was able to find more of these, but now they're just a small fraction of all the channels I subscribe to.
I rather suspect judges would not see "improving the Service over time" as permission to create derivative works without compensation.

The person uploading files to github is also not necessarily doing so with permission from the rights holder, which might be a violation of the terms of service, but would mean there's no agreement in place.
Don't forget settlements paid in Ai-generated crypto-currencies backed by Gold mined in Australia fully automated mine. Run it all on solar and humans can just fuck right off.
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Confused, I thought we found out last year that machine counting and absentee voting in the US were incredibly robust systems that nobody need worry about, or baselessly question. Now we hear about a single city count error that is actually several times larger than the entire national margin of victory in the last presidential election?
Around 2009 my taxes grew complicated enough that I could no longer do them by hand and had to start using tax software for them. I've consistently refused to use TurboTax because the company is so evil. H&R Block is not necessarily a more ethical company, but at the very least, there's not more unethical. (And I'm vaguely aware of there being some open-source tax software of some sort out there, but when I looked it was kind of janky and didn't seem to give me much of an improvement over filling out the forms myself. I'd love to learn that things have changed.)
I'm in Canada and recently I started getting Prime items shipped from the US, with no indication on the listing or at checkout that it was gonna be shipped internationally. It makes returns much less pain-free.

For international returns they don't have labels, you need to pay for shipping, and they supposedly reimburse up to $20 shipping fees but I have found no evidence of an actual process in place to claim it.

(I had to return a book because they sent me a hardcover loosely packed in a box, from the US to Canada. Of course it was damaged in transport. For a place that started out as a book store this is really dumb. I re-ordered it from Chapters, who packed it properly.)
It’s really up to you who cares about something to archive it. I managed to find a torrent of early days video games from my region that has almost been lost to time. Luckily I found a discord and could coax someone to hop on to seed it. If I had waited 10 more years they might have been gone for good.

Everyone’s assuming that data now stays on the internet forever because it’s so massive. It’s usually one or two people who keep the flame alive
"lay at the beach"

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I wonder if MS will enforce the TPM requirement in the hobbyist space, like the RPi, or if ending the PC as an open platform is more important.
death.
I think the inability to control light, noise, temperature, scents and walk-up bosses/coworkers are more of less universal among offices.

But all of those things are trivial and unimportant in the shadow of the miserable 1-2 hour of commute every day, which is truly a waste of time, resources and our limited human lives.
The Steve Jobs quote is true: "Just ask."

It's the kind of thing everyone says "of course" or "that's obvious" to and then never do in practice themselves.

I'm in my 40s and only seeing the true power now of asking for things, for help, for what you want. In business, in friendships, in romance, in all aspects of your life, when you ask, the response is most often Yes, Sure, Of course, Happy to help.
I've been led to believe (through my own corporate lawyer) that NDAs are pretty much useless unless they come with a penalty clause. AFAIK here in Germany the maximum penalty is something like 20k EUR. So at the end of the day, they do seem to be pretty much useless, at least in Germany. I think they are something one can forgo altogether, for all intents and purposes. Sure, it is annoying if someone takes a concept from a presentation and creates their own startup, claiming it to be their own invention or such, but that's bound to happen one way or another given the vast diversity of personality types out there. Bottom line is I think it would be beneficial to everyone to abolish this nonsense altogether.
Prosecutorial mistakes. A failure of the justice system.
Now that others are not working in the office, I hope that communities realize that we are drastically under-creating shared spaces and push for significantly more of them.

As these offices are sitting empty and are no longer required, instead of letting them sit empty, let them be free to all. Community involvement is the only way to get this done.
This was a while ago, but I got a counterfeit fitness band (it told me to download a random APK from a 3rd party website) from Amazon, and they repeatedly told me to resolve it directly with the seller who, surprise surprise, were not interested in issuing a refund.
Yes it leaves a blank space where ads would otherwise show.
That's actually a good hack. I tend to take a similar approach, but using approximate days in a fibonacci sequence.

Start at the high end, will it take...
years: NO
quarters: NO
months: erm... NO.
weeks: maybe
days: Unlikely
hours: Ha. No.

So you end up with a range (days?-weeks-months). That's too broad, what could go wrong to avoid making it months long project (well we could investigate X, Y, and watch for Z). What needs to go perfect for it to be days? (well we could... wait, days is unlikely).

Those discussions about the high and the low to get "reasonable" confidence are super important.
> Because of that, we all host our documentation alongside our projects using GitHub Pages.

Er... GitHub Pages only serves content over IPv4. So is completely unusable for large portions of the world.
So, I can't see how they can argue that the code generated is not a derrivative of at least some of the code that it was trained on, and therefore encumbered by a complicated, and for anyone other than GitHub, impossible to disentangle, copyright claims. If they haven't even been careful to only use software under one license that does not require the original author to be attributed, then I don't see how it can even be legal for them to be running the service.

All that said, I'm not confident that anyone will stop them in court anyway. This hasn't tenmded to be very easy when companies infringe other open source code copyright terms.

Until it is cleared up though, it would seem extremely unwise for anyone to use any code from it.
No I would not. Home electrical wiring is becoming increasingly complex today, with the rise of whole-house surge suppressors, backup generators, solar panels, and sensitive expensive electronics everywhere.

Assuming that half of the US houses were built before 1980 (when electrics were still primitive and wiring was sometimes aluminum), fitting modern services into a home with knob and tube wiring and floating grounds (like mine) is NOT something I want to trust to a jackleg, no matter how many years of experience he has.
Sure, but the difference is that no-one gives a shit about that unless you are attached to, and high up in, a project with massive, successful PR (e.g. React). Showing up in a meeting with some at-least-competent design mock-ups and getting lots of positive reactions and excitement, meanwhile, is the norm, in my experience, even on fairly mundane parts of mundane projects.

Ugly but technically-impressive weekend code projects may impress programmers and gain visibility there. Meanwhile, designs routinely impress non-technical management, stakeholders, product managers, and clients. I mean, the degree to which that's true is so well-known that it's practically a cliché. There's a huge difference in how hard it is to get people who matter (in terms of career advancement, comp, and even just staying off your back about how much work you're doing) to notice your work. It's not at all comparable, and it's entirely to do with how legible one's work is to the rest of an organization.

The down side is that where non-UI developers meet confusion and ignorance ("so... what is it you still need to do? Why will it take so long? What do you mean it doesn't work yet? Oh you made the query finish in 3% the time it took before? That's nice, thanks. Moving on...") designers instead get endless suggestions, because every dumb-ass thinks their ideas about UI are good, and some of those dumb-asses really, really want to influence the design (why? Because it's so high-visibility, so it's something they can point to for higher-ups or in a portfolio and say "I did that"—they want to acquire some of that natural designer/UI/UX legibility-of-work for themselves)
> There are some very obviously dumb conspiracies that have no basis in reality

Many of which are psyops.
If Oklahoma gets good internet I'm sure they would. I know NW Kansas has great fiber internet and the cost of living isn't bad. Not much to do out there unless you love hunting or astronomy or church though.
> * unit tests are superb documentary as every dev can see how it is used and how it works at runtime.

Those unit tests have to be derived from somewhere, though, right? Hopefully, there are requirements docs -- but often those are too high-level, or omit details that were discovered during implementation, and in those cases I'm very appreciative of comments describing intent and purpose of a code snippet or function. Of course, like all things, comments rot without active maintenance and refactoring.

In a perfect world, code comments would be redundant, but they do provide a very low-friction way of documenting interesting bits while writing the code, while it takes a lot more effort to back-port information into requirements documentation.
I find it insane that HR is interfering with engineering hiring.

In all my jobs we ALWAYS sidestepped HR to do any form of hiring, even though we used recruiters which had their own ways of sourcing candidates (that was mainly useful to get candidates of a certain race and gender to fill in diversity quotas).
The CTO has the budget and agrees benefits with HR. After that the job post and ways of sourcing candidates is through the engineering team.

Once we do an offer, the ball is back to HR and they finalise the contract / bureaucracy.
Screen printing, not painting.
Alastair Smith and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. I'm not familiar with either of them or with other work in this space, but I found their arguments compelling.
I'll post a couple to get things started:

DarkAero - aeronautical engineering, composites, etc (45k subscribers) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPUZCBNrduwUsw_MTW-sDxw

Xyla Foxlin - maker channel (~99k subscribers) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEn3fRj2e0mpqYsijxnzayg
It doesn't matter how secure the messengers are if every device they're running on is compromised.
well he gets done by 11am(8am-11am?) so 8 hours into 3 hours, 8/3 != 5x let alone 10x, sounds like maybe an exaggeration
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Yes this is true. $/ft2 is only really useful to realtors. Most home shoppers probably understand things more like cost per living space (rooms)
Relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/932/

[A television is showing Blondie as a news anchor. The inset picture of the news shows the logo of LulzSec, a man wearing a monocle and top hat.]

Blondie: Hackers briefly took down the website of the CIA yesterday...

[Ponytail, sitting in an armchair, is watching a television (seen from the side) standing on a table hearing what Blondie says as indicated with a zigzag line from the TV. Above the top part of the frame is a smaller frame with a label:]

What people hear:

Blondie (not shown from the TV): Someone hacked into the computers of the CIA!!

[Megan, sitting in an armchair, is watching a television (seen from the side) standing on a table hearing what Blondie says as indicated with a zigzag line from the TV. Above the top part of the frame is a smaller frame with a label:]

What computer experts hear:

Blondie (not shown from the TV): Someone tore down a poster hung up by the CIA!!
You are super-productive and you are spending a lot of time having amazing conversations. That makes sense. Yup. Must be working sixteen hour days.
Overall, change in climate will be beneficial i.e. unlock more resource from permafrost, increase agricultural output, open up new artic transit opportunities, reduce net need for winter heating.
I'm glad RH got fined, but this is a reminder that FINRA hasn't meaningfully fined the likes of Goldman, Morgan Stanley, HSBC or any other large brokerage.
He didn't say anything about a conspiracy.

Brokers have a duty of care and I can imagine Finra investigating if they took good care of their clients during this period, no matter the reason behind it.
he's paid more than almost all tech workers and developers in the 1st world, who also typically have .... zero passive income.

You live in an elite bubble full of rich Americans I suspect.
My favorite contrast is CNN describing Adams as having “well-founded worries.” Apparently that’s the opposite of “baseless claims.”
I saw that talk a long time ago, but I can still hear you saying "I would dearly love to talk about one-sided objects!" I appreciate your infectious energy.
Low Confidence = fast estimate = broad estimate
high confidence = slow fast estimate = narrow estimate

It's a scale that you can choose where you want to be.
It mentions the program getting an eight year renewal in 2021, is there any word on the future of the program?
Breaking down work into similarly sized tickets/units can,
over time, be used to predict delivery/capacity

IMO "can break up work into similarly-sized units" is equivalent to "can estimate accurately".

Re: that article - I can't imagine many things LESS accurate than "we have 104 tasks on the board and each team member's cycle time is 2 days so we can finish all the tasks with 10 people working for 20.8 days". Yeah, it makes for a nice graph - but it omits important details like dependencies...
1. This is not going to happen, outside of a proper full-remote position, and those are still going to be much harder to come by (though there will be more of them than now, to be sure). Most companies are still going to require you to live within the vicinity of an office, for lots of reasons; not having to manage multiple states in which they employ people, the ability to have someone come in for a meeting, etc.

2. Your commute time is reduced by not having to commute twice a week.

3. This is a question for HR, and they will likely make accommodations for whatever your needs are.

The point is that those things haven't changed; companies are likely to offer more flexibility about WFH days, but it is going to be rare, at least for the short-term, for companies to go full remote. Expecting anything else is just a setup for disappointment, imho.
Friends are friends and workmates are workmates. A lot of people confuse these groups and think they are somehow the same.

Workmates might become friends but more likely they are work colleagues that vanish after a contract ends, especially if they didn't mesh with your network.

In my circles we as a group often get work at a company. At least do referrals etc. We also leave together to find new opportunities when the place goes feral. This is partly why we think office work is less than good a lot of times.

I'd argue most offices devolve into hellholes as management forget about people and treat them as things.
Good question - it's probably more geared toward personal use in the sense that you'd use it to seek out particular contacts.

Have you received any emails yet? Did the subject line and email content make sense?
Hey we used tectonic ;-) was a great tool at that time.
Tectonic did influence some of the concepts around ORBOS.
Just think of Tectonic combined with GitOps, minus the iPXE part.

Disclaimer: I am working with ORBOS
With the number of fines this company has occurred in its short existence Im very surprised they are still allowed to be a brokerage of sorts and will be allowed to go public.
That's why I try to give Ballpark first, not estimates if I can get away with it. I would say "This can cost anywhere from $x to $y units (time/money)" where $y-$x is usually a big range.

Then we start breaking it down further if there is interest and for that we need everyone involved like you said. Not always easy but sometimes it works.
They do. I use pickup lockers without Prime all the time.
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Sleazy company hijacked Cliff Stoll’s Amazon Klein bottle listing.

To me “foreign seller” implies Amazon sellers/buyers has some sort of national context?

Note: I do feel bad hijacking happens in Amazon.
> But the business invariably doesn't want to spend the time and money to do that.

Most engineers can actually estimate things fairly well when they take the time to iterate on a PoC and gather all sorts of details. Estimation fails when management has unrealistic expectations, e.g. asking for an estimate immediately after a proposal, or some set of initial documents are written.
Meta analysis of 60 Ivermectin studies:

https://ivmmeta.com/
I learned to do it so it’s easier for people to read instead of a wall of text.

There's a new technology call "paragraphs" that a lot of people are using these days. I don't know that it'll catch on long-term, but it might be a worthy middle-

road

between walls of text

and unnecessary line feeds.