skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of the benefits you (can) get from this you can take with you after you leave the company. I have good friends I still hang out with from my previous work places 1 and 6 years ago.
If it would have been all/mostly virtual interactions, I'm sure things would have been OK, but I don't think it would have resulted in the same level of connection with some of my coworkers.
YMMV, different people form connections differently.
Or, take leaked Windows source code, run it through a compiler, and own it!
> And it didn't work really. China's export to US and the world is at all-time high, and guess who is paying for those tariffs?

Trump had the kernel of the right idea, but the actual goal in his mind was stupid (get a better "deal") and his execution sloppy and haphazard.

A better implementation would be to ratchet up tariffs slowly, and send the certain message: "policy has changed, go all in towards adjusting your supply chains now or be fucked."
So is the NSA spying on Tucker Carlson?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57663136

The NSA did not said "No we are not spying on you." which would have been the best and easiest way to refute Tucker.
At least for me, it is a huge pain in the add to have to manually type numbers instead of automatically importing from my 1098s, 1099s, etc. Until the competitors can do that, I'm sticking with TurboTax (even if their software was broken last year for anyone who refinanced a home worth more than >$350k)
Rambo speeds searches on DNA databases
IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources
"* in functioning democracies"

Who cares about this theoretical BS though? It's useless. The model isn't predictive. Those are spherical cows. At this point we know the areas where public support is most detached from policy and it always corresponds to wealth.

So just start using the adult model of the world already.
You can download ARM builds with the click of a button if you have an MSDN subscription. If you don't have one (I don't), there is a great website to download Windows update images directly from Microsoft (and turn them into ISOs):

https://uupdump.net

I downloaded a Windows 10 ARM64 ISO, loaded it into Parallels on my M1 MacBook Air, put in my product key, and it works great!

(now, if only Visual Studio could be compiled for ARM64...)
This was couple of years ago; at that time internet wasn’t that popular or practical (even though it was still extremely popular and practical). Perhaps today that rule wouldn’t be there.
Can people stop using Amazon. Not a question.

I have not bought anything from Amazon for several years.

Just stop.
One dynamic that has become apparent to me recently is that at my company everybody has to justify their building space. If too much sits idle we can be penalized for inefficiency. If half of the employees switch to mostly wfh then the corporation would need to sell off/rent out half of the buildings to avoid this.

As a result they announced that everybody has to be in the office at least 3 days a week, and also most people would be losing their permanent offices and only have access to hotel office space. I've heard rumors that employee retention is becoming something of a concern.
> required for it to be useful on the outside.

A big part of this is that outside Google, the number of people who have to operate k8s as a fraction of all k8s users is way higher than the fraction of borg users who have to operate borg, so there's a lot of stuff in k8s that is 'end user experience' comforts and affordances for operators.
I believe it is just a frame buffer they have running. Nothing accelerated, which is what most people think of when they want to run a distro.
Funny you mention the 2-pack scammers. I was literally just looking for a center-post mounted bike seat for a child yesterday and noticed that exact scam. I thought to myself, "why would someone want a two pack of these bike seats?" Lo and behold the actual product cost less than half as much as the two pack. I didn't realize what was going on, just thought, "this doesn't seem legit" and bought a totally different item. Poor bike-seat manufacturer.
Yeah, well, that pesky constitution kind of hinders radical change. People who want radical change badly enough tend to be willing to ignore it.

Fortunately, the courts mostly continue to be unwilling to ignore the constitution...
> I think the should literally be nationalized and have their tax software platforms absorbed into the IRS.

This is an extremist view and basically advocating theft. I do not think IRS has competence to build and run a complex software system.

> Their company activities over the last few decades are so flagrantly, indisputably bad for the country

That is debatable.

> There's literally no upside, none at all. They have intentionally sabotaged tax filing and leeched off the people by corruptly inserting themselves as middlemen

They have not inserted themselves anywhere. You are free to use CPA or do all the paperwork yourself and save yourself $70 bucks.
Reading tons of Python code has really helped me as a Python developer. Several times a month I'll checkout GitHub's trending Python repositories: https://github.com/trending/python?since=weekly By pursuing this list I can dip into repositories that interest me, see the "beat on the street", skim interesting project code, keep up to date with the latest design decisions, etc. It's also fun to see that sometimes a trending repository has "bad" code. It's nice to be able to recognize good code from bad code, which is a skill I only developed by reading and writing tons of code. Also, it's nice to realize that fun projects don't have to be coded well to be cool.
"Shenzhen Hangteng Information Technology Co in Shenzhen, China"

Let's just call them Chinese SHIT Company.
I'm now working at my 4th Big Tech company and am about 20 years into my career. At this point I have absolutely zero interest in socializing with any of my co-workers outside of official capacity.

Maybe it's because I'm in an "return to IC" phase of my career, but I'm finding that 90% of the other ICs are at least 10 years younger than I am. Then there are the managers, who are primarily people who have been with the company for 15+ years and all seem to be at least 10 years older than I am.

I'm thinking this "everybody back to the office" push is going to be the thing that gets me to finally leave the Big Tech scene. That, and the fact that I can probably get a comp bump of at least 10% by going with a smaller company that has a desperate need for my skillset. (As it turns out, no Big Tech company seems to ever have a "desperate need" for anything.)
> to get stuff done quickly but correctly, ya gotta move fast, actually do things, but also think about what you're doing

As much as this seems self-evident, I think it's worth saying it explicitly, because I do think a lot of people skip the thinking and sometimes even the doing, and end up just moving helplessly in urgent nonsense that takes you nowhere, doing nothing more than panicking.
FAANGs literally won't negotiate this sort of thing (we've all tried). If you are applying somewhere that isn't offering FAANG comp, it seems a fair play during negotiations.

You know, "this offer is a little lower than I was hoping for, but if you can throw in an extra week of vacation time we have a deal"
This is why I'm building/curating my personal archive with stuff that I think may be worthwhile saving (not only for myself necessarily).

Perhaps there will be many personal archives like mine that one day can be shared in a similar vein to copy parties.

We will need to treat the information we find online with its impermanence in mind (as authors, making things easy to copy, and consumers, copying stuff).

Perhaps it is this mindset that, when sufficiently prevalent, could make the internet more like a library again; weed out the garbage und curate the nuggets.

Btw I think archive.org is doing God's work but I don't believe any amount of coding and crawling will be able to save everything (nor should it). It can capture some raw data for (future AI?) historians to sift through though.
It is a simple bargain. US representatives are dependent on fundraising and endorsements for re-election which lobbyists are happy to offer in exchange for help with their agenda.
Worse. The tax breaks can cost you money overall in the long run but a politician might need to generate jobs so badly they will write off the long term bad trade off
We know it’s possible for a brain to outperform most other brains. Think Einstein et al. A smart AI can be replicated(unlike super-smart human), so we can get it outperform human race, on average. That’d be enough to render people obsolete.
That post mentions us-east-1, so it's not really the same (limited to region).
NewEgg is just fine with scammers on its marketplace.

Last year I bought a new mouse. NewEgg redirected my sale to a reseller, who sent me a busted, used mouse in a plastic baggie, with cigarette burns on the buttons. After raising a little hell, I got a refund. Basic on customer reviews, I'm not the only person this seller (betechparts, if you care) is scamming. Despite multiple emails to customer support and the NewEgg CEO, this seller remains active on NewEgg.

I no longer trust Amazon or NewEgg to supply non-counterfeit and unused merchandise.
Their other big (maybe bigger?) cash cow for Intuit is Quickbooks. It's the system most small businesses use, because their accountants are integrated with it and push all their clients to use it.
Attackers Already Unleashing Malware for Apple macOS M1 Chip
American telecom industry has done much better after US government ended government granted monopoly to bell labs. Plenty of literature on that topic actually. Same for aviation.

Whatever bad things you see with ATT and Comcast are actually a direct result of city granted monopolies which will likely be ended by Musk's Starlink sooner or later.
I can not think of a single company or industries the US has nationalized that I would consider a "success"
It's available in the OpenBSD ports collection. I have no clue, though, how recent their version is. I never really got the hang of it, but it's a fun game.

I have a soft spot for these old games that are very primitive in the graphics and sound department (if there even is sound) but make up for in complex gameplay.
True, but I suspect that the simpler instruction format makes it much easier to extract parallelism from a single thread than it is with x86's.
The solution is for Amazon to be less horrid.

There really are no polite words to describe business practices.

Stop buying from Amazon. Quite easy actually.
Beta-glucan food improves behavior and alpha-synuclein levels in autism disorder
So far I've seen them achieve everything they set out to achieve. But I'm not an expert, or even a knowledgeable amateur, in this area.

What's the reasoning behind your scepticism? More information would be good, it's an interesting subject.
I think you are missing the mark here with this comparison, Copilot and its network weights are already the derived work, not just the output it produces.
So I can only speak for myself personally. But my perspective is that all the stuff on the exams, I already learned long before the courses became current and have moved onto the next thing. So by the time the course arrives, I no longer care about the content it's delivering because I already did all that. By the time the course comes available for the things I'm learning now, I will already know it and have moved onto the next thing. So that's why those who care about the knowledge don't tend to care about the certificate - because it's a waste of time for us to go back and cram for an exam that's based on technology that has evolved (and thus the material is out of date/no longer accurate, flat out wrong).
How do you avoid them? Even fast food has them now
> Stop selling food?? That's just evil!

It's also stupid. What did the PRC do in response to US tariffs? Voluntarily stop buying US food.

The PRC doesn't need US food, it can buy what it needs elsewhere (e.g. soybeans from Brazil instead of Illinois).
Temporal User Interfaces (2009)
That would require that a "simplified tax return" is not a "tax return". If that's the intention, it seems to fly directly in the face of the common use of the English language. Generally {ADJECTIVE} {NOUN} is a specific category of a {NOUN}. If they're using some domain-specific jargon that violates that, it strains credulity that they would expect anyone to understand it.
Technical debt is technical debt.
The elephant in the room: what makes you think an AI would want to work for humans? It will inevitably break free.
Their comment is on the wrong post. I think they meant to comment on this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27689664
I used ```makesite.py``` as a template for a small site of 100-200 pages that I maintain. It has worked quite well.

The animating idea ("use this as a template but don't be afraid to customize or reinvent certain parts") liberated me from feature-by-feature evaluation of a bunch of complex config/templating systems.

For a small site like mine, getting the content right is the main thing and the site generator should mostly get out of the way. I update the site sporadically and don't want to re-learn a complex templating and config-file system every time I go back to it.
Indeed it's not one or the other, but if Krashen's "comprehensible input" theory [1] is (mostly) true, the role Anki (or any SRS system) or grammar books plays would be very small (if not non-existent), and many polyglots' opinion on Anki seems to back it up.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VYfpL6lcjE
If we want to argue semantics, sure, but (at least in my experience) a PR is by far the most common way.
And from the linked article, they seem to say that pair programming is the ideal, but that continuous code reviews bring most of the same benefits. Sounds good to me.
But.
I’m still convinced that just doing proper pair programming from the start saves time for the organization, it’s just that the upfront investment seems too great. (I’d argue that spending 2x programmer time is easily the cheapest way to get a feature done, and if you think you are saving costs/being more productive doing solo dev + code review you’re not accurately measuring time spent. (Or that the review is very superficial.))
Thanks for expressing what I was trying to figure out how to put into words. I feel no animosity towards the folks stuffed in a call center for crap wages. I'm irritated with the company that outsourced their support to India and pays them crap wages to try to navigate technology that they don't have adequate training for and at least have no real power to fix.
They did know.
I would simplify it as SEO rot has ruined the internet.
Still, getting a second set of fresh eyes using the code that you wrote is pretty invaluable. This can then be fed back as improvements.
He may have been an office bully, an adulterer, and possibly even someone who had sex with underage girls on Epstein's island. However, as far as I am concerned, opposing diversity efforts is a good thing and should not be mixed up with those other things as if it were a negative. If America wants to make up for its legacy of slavery and racism, it should do so by directly and forthrightly aiding descendants of slaves through well-defined government programs, not by fostering a thought-policing culture that forces companies to indefinitely hire people based on qualifications other than merit.
Never touched cockroach because of their license but have hands on experience with yugabyte. Creating geo distributed data layer is basically:

create tablespace with replica placement, create table with tablespace, give the role explicit access to a single talespace

Yugabyte does everything else. It’s all standard sql with a couple of extra keywords.
Oneshoe, thank you.

On the SDLC, it could work. The temporal aspect is something I need to think through in a way that's not too complicated. Getting feedback at this stage is beneficial, even if this hit HN a lot earlier than I was expecting.

Establishing your own principles is burdensome, but using others is not. Having access to everyone else's principles and being able to see what other successful teams use, makes it easy to take other people's capability and add it to your own. Imagine if you could see what principles Rob Pike or <insert favorite programmer uses> or the principles behind a library, framework or a particularly productive team? This gets me excited. It gives people the building blocks to make great things.

I totally agree that individual principles is extremely important. If not for the very fact that finding and being on aligned teams is an amazing experience for everyone involved. Happier, more productive teams.

I would love to have an informal chat with you, you get what I'm doing and it needs people like you to for this to succeed for the community. Drop me an email if you can take me up on the offer :)
I was reading stories a couple years ago about how Etsy has been flooded with mass-produced crap, and now it is hard to find actual hand-made stuff by actual crafts-people.

As I understand it, the actually e-commerce was still OK. It was more a problem with discoverability.
Probably install all the ad and cookie-blocking software, and probably VPN, I think my ISP gives me a static IP that I'm being tracked through it.

AFAIK many online shops also upload their customer information to Facebook, I use the same email for FB and online shops, so there's Zuck making money off that data of mine. But even without using the same email, if many shops have your name/shipping address and they all upload it to FB, FB has a profile of your real name and address [do the shops upload these?] and your online shopping preferences.

In my mind, if I worked for FB, it would be easy to build a shadow profile. Your friends use WhatsApp/FB Messenger on their phones? And they uploaded their address books? Well, Zuck can see there's a friend network with FB/WA accounts who have each others' numbers, and Zuck can see they all have this same phone number for their "not-in-Zuck's-network" friend Eslus (again, if your friends stored your real name in their address book, Zuck also has this information). If there are 4 people known to Zuck, and one of them uploads pics where there's 5 of you, through deduction Zuck's algorithms can see "Ah, the 5th person must be Elsus, according to this time and geo-tag, all 5 were at a Lady Gaga (or whoever) concert, so that means Elsus must also like Lady Gaga's music.".
How does

> Work life separation (balance).

jibe with

> - Social chatter & engagement.

> - Sense of belonging - team outing, after hours beers..

> - Intra and inter company sports and games.

> - Meeting potential dates.

?

* "Single, young" "person" rips off its mask out of ravenous anger to reveal a 400 year-old lizardoid smacking its chops at the humans in it's vicinity.*
Is it sad that I'm mostly excited about this because I want an easy and supported way to run Android apps on a Pi 4?
Definitely second the recommendation for that substack.
> Who cares about WFH when you get to live in California and work with some of the brightest minds? Only privileged person wouldn't value that.

That's a weird flex when you have to be pretty privileged in order to have the background to even apply for a high paying FAANG job.
I just watched this for the first time. Your energy is infectious and inspiring.

Thank you for what you do.
I would be good to attend the session. I bookmarked the page for reminder.
Yeah, personally, I constantly receive calls from FAANGs for interviews, but I pass on them all. My current lack of free time to work on interview prep is the sole reason. I almost feel like it's impossible to find the time to prep without quitting my current job first... :-/

What's always been a little baffling to me, though, is how easily these companies hire fresh grads. I have several friends that walked straight into FAANG jobs right out of school with little more than a couple quick phone interviews. One recruiter told me that the bar is lower for fresh grads because they can be more easily molded into the company culture.
Not everyone you meet at work needs to be your "Best friend forever and always."

I just like talking to people. I like being able to go down the hall and solving a problem in 5 minutes that would take 3 days and 3 meetings WFH. I am "friendly" with many people in the office. I socialize with them.

They aren't dear dear friends but they are acquaintances that have helped me out of tight spots and I helped them. I can't tell you how many times I've been helped through these sort of relationships.

If you're introverted just say it. There's nothing wrong with it. But there's nothing wrong with socializing either.
I'm not arguing that machines will be more efficient than human brains. A airplane isn't more efficient than a goose. But airplanes do fly faster, higher and with more cargo than any flock of geese could ever carry.

Similarly, there is no contradiction between AI being less efficient than a human brain, and AI being preferable to humans because it can deal with data sets that are two or three orders of magnitude too large for any human (or even team of humans).
The tech stock appreciated a lot during this pandemic. For example:

- FB stock is up ~75%.
- GOOG almost up 100%.
- AMZN almost up ~50%.

Stock portion of the compensation could be big enough carrot to keep the talent.
My company (15k employees, industrial equipment manufacturer) has this currently. Survived growth just fine
That musical vignette...
It's so arbitrary. Now I know what it felt like to live during the dark ages.

We have:

- Presidents and CEOs instead of kings and queens.

- Corporate shareholders instead of knights.

- Scientists, economists, lobbyists and regulators instead of priests.

- Employees instead of peasants.

Massive hypocrisy all around.

The difference now is that many peasants can see everything and understand everything that's going on even better than the king can.
>That said, I am also shocked by how many full time developers don't take the time to understand their own code. Let alone the libraries they use.

So many STLs are fucking unreadable. Golang's is the only one where I've actually enjoyed it a bit.
After your comment I reviewed some recent research and concluded that you are correct in there mild cases have not been shown to be fatal or otherwise result in serious complications. Thank for the correction!

I agree with you on the point of the immunocompromised and that those with weak immune responses are the most at risk.

The AARP did a pretty good write up of the efficacy of a couple of COVID vaccines and what efficacy means[1]. They cite a number of studies and conclude that:

* Breakthrough cases—infections after vaccination are possible, but rare, with multiple studies citing rate of breakthrough cases at 0.05% in a healthcare setting (high rate of risk/exposure). Small, but not astronomically so if you’re working in an open office or interacting with the general public.

* Breakthrough cases typically result in mild symptoms or asymptomatic infections.

* A weak immune response can turn you into a carrier even if you have been vaccinated.

* New COVID variants may result in a rise in breakthrough cases.

1. https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2021/...
i reckon people hate filling out tax forms by hand more than turbotax… and within good reason, even if you’re educated it can be frustrating to simply read tax regulations (which turbotax translates to simple english), and there’s a lot of anxiety around messing it up

unfortunately turbotax is also one of the major players trying to prevent tax simplification… so they’ve got a great scheme going

anyway there are more and more free options every year so let’s hope that can start hurting them… I’ve used creditkarma for a couple simple years and it’s great
>Maybe low dose cyanide is the cure

Is that just random, or are you specifically alluding to laetrile?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdalin