skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If AI keeps getting better and better and status quo socio-economic structure don't change, trillions in capital will be captured by the 0.01%.

This is absolutely one of the things that keeps me up at night.

Much of the structure of the modern world hinges on the balance between forces towards consolidation and forces towards fragmentation. We need organizations (by this I mean corporations, governments, unions, etc.) big enough to do big things (like fix climate change) but small enough to not become totalitarian or decrepit.

The forces of consolidation have been winning basically since the 50s with the rise of the military-industrial complex, death of unions, unlimited corporate funding of elections (!), regulatory capture, etc. A short linear extrapolation of the current corporate/government environment in the US is pretty close to Demolition Man's dystopian, "After the franchise wars, all restaurants are Taco Bell."

Big data is a huge force towards consolidation. It's essentially a new form of real estate that can be farmed to grow useful information crops. But it's a strange form of soil that is only productive if you have enough acres of it and whose yield scales superlinearly with the size of your farm.

Imagine doing a self-funded AI startup with just you and a few friends. The idea is nearly unthinkable. How do you bootstrap a data corporation that needs terabytes of information to produce anything of value?

If we don't figure out a "data socialism" movement where people have ownership over the data derived from their life, we will keep careening towards an eventuality where a few giant corporations own the world.
Enjoying the convenient food, comfortable workstation, and low level social interactions you get from a good workplace is not an investment at all. If you get fired or quit then you just get the same thing at the next job. I speak from experience having done this multiple times.

Your point about not over-investing into a company that doesn't care about you is valid, but not relevant.
Let me be the devil's (to be read corporate) advocate for a moment here. You say:

> Why? Work is where you spend one third (or more) of your time during your adult life. Why the hell would I not want such a significant portion of my life to not also provide great benefits like opportunities to make friends, meet people, eat great food, and have fun?

I say: aren't you supposed to, you know, work while you are at work? The office is not a social club!

Jokes aside, I always wondered how much time people actually do proper, productive work while in office, in software engineering. My view is rather restricted to my own experience (personal + people around me). I'm asking because if it's, say, 4h a day, I'd rather just spend 4h a day in office, and spend the other 4h however I choose to (alone, with family, or with colleagues, friends etc.), instead of watching YouTube or listen to conversations I don't want to (thanks open plan office!), or whatever people do when they are not productive.

Maybe one day we'll collectively figure out the right amount of time we are actually productive, and get back the rest of the time.
Lots of reasons probably:

- Scalability: how long does it take to process ballets to create the electronic records?

- Error handling: there may be lots of permutations being tested (dark marks, light marks, `x` vs `/`, marks going out of bounds, etc)

- Realism: being able to roughly represent what will actually happen in "live" mode and think through scenarios that limited test data won't highlight
> Note: This visualization was designed for screens larger than 1024 x 1024 and for desktop-style interactions.
You can proceed if you'd like.

Why would you put in the work to warn people they'll have a bad time instead of just fixing the bad time.
And communism could work if only it were implemented correctly. But once one gets outside that ivory tower of hypotheticals, all too often it would seem those tax breaks still end up being a net deficit.

See also: "Revenues from hot dogs and ticket sales means the sports stadium that we've so handsomely subsidized will pay for itself in a couple of years."
Having no AC because it rarely gets hot is like having no roof on your house because it never rains. It's a silly risk to take, especially when heat pump systems cool and heat the house equally well and much more efficiently than furnaces or resistive heaters.
It's shocking just how much seawater will corrode steel. If you look at pictures of shipwrecks like the Lusitania and Titanic they've degraded a lot since they were first dived to in the '60s and '80s respectively. The former barely even resembles a ship now.
This is awesome and a must read for everyone in our industry. Free and open source is a fantastic tool for making money. It should absolutely be viewed and used that way.

Does it work? Yes. Google sells free software (Android). Red Hat sells free Linux. Even Apple sells free BSD Unix as MacOS.

The idea that free and open source software survives on donations and love is not only inaccurate but also stifling because it keeps people from monetizing free code when they could and should.
- Making friends with employees

- Work life separation (balance)

Does not compute.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...

https://www.propublica.org/series/the-turbotax-trap

“ProPublica has long detailed how Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, and other companies have worked against making tax preparation easier and less costly. They have lobbied to ban the IRS from offering free, simple tax filing. And they have deceived customers who should qualify for the Free File product.”
That’s interesting. At my job I’m low enough on the totem pole that I don’t get time with executives more than like once a quarter. But from what I can tell, both the executive team and my direct supervisors, are very supportive, and in many cases excited, of offering more remote and hybrid jobs. I think the executive team sees it as a way to both make the company more flexible in general, and to make the company more attractive to potential candidates.
The installation procedure is documented by the same person at the link in the tweet (https://miyagadget.tokyo/archives/274) and Google Translate manages to produce an intelligible translation. Seems to be a straightforward process.
Less red tape, facilities and services, special attention in planning and execution of infrastructure and other development. It doesn't have to be money...
It's different. Here you train your partner to be sold as part of massive corporate product and have all your code phoned home in exchange for a little assistance.
But are they? Or is this just like pro sports stadiums, where the company/team reaps the lions share of benefits, and the town is mostly left with low income jobs and a pile of debt?
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I didn’t delete my reply, but I totally agree with you.
> Most people don't have enough of their savings in liquid assets to retire early was, I think, the original goal posts.

This must be a misunderstanding. I never made this claim so now this wasn't the original goal posts. Apologies if I somehow gave off that interpretation. I actually was pretty explicit I think when saying you could save $10,000 (this is cash) via a 401k or other investment vehicle and the math works out to be around $900,000 saved.

> Your point about housing (and mine) would benefit from actual data. My contention is that for greater than 50% of people in the US, that they cannot, without moving (say the concrete metric here is a move that doesn't require children to switch schools), purchase a home for $200k or less. This is my intuition based on experience with housing markets and a general sense for how the population is distributed in the country, but it may well be wrong.

Again, not a claim I've made. I've simply stated that you can buy a house for less than $200,000 and live just fine (this was based on accumulating a million dollars and that there was an assertion that you couldn't live off of that). It's trivially easy to see for yourself on Zillow or via another product that you can buy an affordable enough house and live just fine in most of the U.S..

> I think the confusion in our conversation is that you seem to be talking about what people can do, if they're focused from an early age on accumulating liquid savings, whereas I'm making a descriptive point that most people, even with large net worth, do not have most of it in liquid assets.

Yea that about sums it up. So I'm not sure where you're really going with any of this. I guess it's cool as a general assertion (and I think it would be interesting to discuss) but I'm bewildered as to why it would used as a rebuttal to something I've said. That's why I asked why you were shifting goalposts.
You can (I do)
Suggesting that a group should be investigated for "their actions" without providing any specifics is straight out of the conspiracy-theory playbook.

Any rebuttal is easily countered with "that's not the action I was talking about. I was referring to their other illegal actions."

You're setting up a non-falsifiable argument, which is the basis of a conspiracy theory. You're throwing out non-specified accusations and expecting your non-specified accusations to be disproven.
Here in Cambridge Google began work on an expansion before the pandemic, and it is now almost done. Do they now actually need it? Will be interesting to see.
I still remember when Windows computers beging hooked up to a dial up would be open on the internet. Lots of them had no admin password and all drives where shared by default.

So by just port scanning on the SMB port you’ll find a lot of computers and would have access to all their files.
I'm out of the loop on what Robinhood did, and the news articles on this fine seem to be a bit vague. What did they do that is manipulative and predatory?
This is actually a similar idea to the latest novel by Andy Weir (Author of "The Martian"), "Project Hail Mary", which is great and I highly recommend if you liked "The Martian".
> Backend ... no principles found

Site checks out

https://imgur.com/a/orYiokW
There's software and cheap receivers that allow this even today.

I personally couldn't get my decoder working with new Linux though, the lack of sysfs GPIO broke the only decoder I could find.

I think it kinda indicates how DCF77's popularity has dwindled.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2007/aug/16/imf.interna...
> Some are under pressure to "add value" to hiring, so they insist on rewriting job reqs and screening all applicants.

That means it's too big and time to cut full time employees and hire contractors.

If HR are in charge of hiring for technical positions, the company has deep issues...
You sound overly dismissive and uncharitable. There are many opportunities that occur when one doesn’t need to turn every conversation into a 30 min video call. As one example, my office (like many others) provides lunch.
Los Angeles urges everyone to mask up because of delta variant–even vaccinated
https://archive.ph/PfGT6
Or was it Afgha—....
i remember at my first job we had company wide satisfaction surveys yearly. there was one question about whether employees planned to leave within the next 2 years. the results always showed greater than 70% saying yes.

yet the attrition rate was way lower. in the time i was there almost no one left
Free association with ex-CIA director / head of state department during period of extreme Sino-US tensions? So much so that their meeting was posted on state department website implying it affected foreign policy decision making. Ditto with HK lawmakers who coordinated with US to impose sanctions on HK. PRC under One Country has full authority over foreign policy. So no, not free association, treason. Incidentally these people were sensibly prosecuted at first available opportunity.

>What is so bad about foreign influence that it must be crushed?

Read the foreign policy series on how PRC was thoroughly infiltrated by CIA thanks to NGOs. See how HK is spy capital of Asia - there's a reason US HK consulate employs over 1,000+. An situation that was made possible because HK refused to pass NSL and thought it could exist in an national security state of exception. That kind of foreign influence gets crushed anywhere.
I still do my taxes manually. I've looked for open-source software to assist. I've tried OpenTaxSolver, it is OK for what it does (basic 1040 and a few schedules like SE income and Schedule C). It does not come close to handling all possible scenarios.

It's possible that you could write your own modules to handle any mising forms, in fact I tweaked one calculation that wasn't handling some edge case properly. But that's more than most people would want to do, and would certainly be more work than just doing those forms manually with pen and calculator. But like any open-source project, it relies on individual efforts like that to build something that's useful to more people.

The UI itself is extremely minimalist and would not be regarded as "user friendly" by a user from the general public.

Edit: it also only attempts a few state returns. Mine is not one of them, but fortunately in my state the tax forms are pretty easy assuming the Federal return is done.
Same here, the kitchen wall clock and all my alarm clocks use it. It just works, much more efficiently than NTP over a whole network stack, so an AA battery easily lasts a year.
So once OSM moves to Europe I can clone OSM database without worries just by residing in the UK?

Surely this is a problem already with the USA and the rest of the world?
If this protection is not enforced everywhere in the world, it's quite useless. I just need to setup a foreign company to bypass it.

This is probably something that is "solved" with a contract:
Eg. "By downloading this database you agree to abide to these rules: don't clone it or we'll sue you for X millions"
Add this to the reasons I would never consider working for Intuit. This and making taxes harder to do for everyone in the US.
That's pretty interesting.

Going off on a tangent here, but thinking of how most of the world ran Windows XP/Windows 7 on cracked versions, would it be possible that following the TPM requirement, someone would write a TPM emulator (or maybe some more clever hack) so that Windows 11 doesn't complain about those stuffs and just install/boot? (disclaimer: I have no idea how TPM works and have never had to use it...)
That makes sense, thanks for clarifying.
I started right before I turned 36. I'm doing great. I've leveled up 6-8 times in the last 6 years and I'm right about the same level as my peers are now. I've passed up a couple of promotions recently because I'm really happy doing what I'm doing and the team that I'm on.
As always, the premise is “you should” not “I should.”
It's the signal-to-noise ratio.
I once tried to write a script that would generate the most efficient encoding of an arbitrary length number using the Mnemonic Major System. Definitely an interesting problem!
Maybe DigiKey.com ?
The article doesn't get into any of the reasons. Do you have a link to something that explains why?
They could have also said that they'll stop giving everyone secret margin trading accounts and tell users that any trade (due to market volatility) will take 2-3 days to close.
Amazon Got Some Warrants
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Agile, is in practice, a way to have the dev team under more strict scrutiny than anyone else in the org. It doesn't happen anywhere else, mostly because other industries have a long standing unions and working rights instead of free "professionals" doing services.
I have friends who lied in their resume about the technologies they have experience with. They learn on the job. 9 times out of 10, this seems to work out.

I never did. Those who lied are doing better than me.

Now I feel like an idiot. I guess these kinds of lies are not that bad in the long run? This is more of a problem with the system than the candidates. This is a chicken and egg problem...
Where do you get the assumption from that Carmack knows people that fulfil these minimum requirements?

I would bet he doesn't or at least thinks the minimum requirements are overkill, otherwise why would he make a remark like he did?

The point is that when a legend like Carmack doesn't make the MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS maybe there is something wrong with the requirements.
> so unless historians dig deep in third-party archives, they'd never understand where that belief came from

I expect future historical tooling will exist to solve exactly this problem. Assuming Archive.org and the like nabbed it, the evidence is all there for future generations to see.
Passengers (2016)
Andy Weir, the author of the Martian, just came out with a new book called Project Hail Marry. It’s premise is similar to what you are describing. If you liked the Martian, I highly recommend it. It’s one of the best books I have ever read.
Google's recent invention of text links should help this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filler_text#:~:text=%22Now%20i....

# signifies an anchor

:~:text= signifies a text link

%22Now%20is%20the%20time%20for,21%20(1918). says show me the text between "Now is the time for" and "21 (1918)."
I wish people in the US would stop blaming specific bad actors in a system for acting in their own best interest and start blaming the system that empowers them. ExxonMobil and Intuit lobby the government in their own best interest just like FAANG companies and basically everyone else that has the size to do it. That is how our system is designed. It isn't Intuit's fault this works, but since it does work, they would be stupid not to do it. Blame the legal and political system for allowing what they do to work and/or go unpunished. Don't blame individual actors for responding to systemic incentives.
> Making friends with employees

This is a lesson I learned in the last year. Even though I've made real friends with colleagues and I wouldn't change that, I would still advise caution. It can be tempting to make friends at work because spontaneous regular encounters and shared experiences are the natural basis for cultivating friendship. However, making friends at work has hidden hazards.

Most (but not all) colleagues are like fair-weather friends. It is easy to confuse someone being friendly with someone being a friend. If you couldn't imagine spending time with this person outside of work, they are probably friendly but not your friend. If it would be weird for them to call you outside of work to ask how you're doing, they are probably friendly but not your friend.

Why wouldn't you want to cultivate true friendship in the workplace? Don't expect workmates to continue to be friendly when you switch workplaces. If you're not engaging with them outside of the workplace, their friendliness will simply fizzle out. Secondly, confusing friendliness for friendship makes it easier to be exploited. I've stayed at a dysfunctional workplace far too long because I liked my "friends" there. However, when I finally did switch and these "friendships" fizzled out, it became much more clear that these were simply friendly people. This doesn't make them bad people, it's just a social lesson I learned. Finally, the last hazard of workplace friendships has to do with the insulating effect of selection bias. Especially in the tech sector, workplace friends will tend to be a much smaller slice of class, race, and gender and it's easy to have a narrow worldview as a result. Maybe the importance of that differs from person to person, but it makes it easier to wake up one day and realize, "Huh, I have only middle class white guy friends. What's up with that?"
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Isn't most of modern coding, just googling for someone who had solved the same problem that you are currently facing and then just copy/paste from Stack Overflow?

To the extent that GPT-3 / co-pilot is just an over-fitted neural net, then it's primary value is as an automated search, copy, and paste.
On YouTube, user leepspvideo posted a full demo of it working and how he got it installed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLb0d7zTsRY

Seems like it runs fine with any ARM64 software, though a bit slow since the CPU isn't very beefy.
The written sizes are correct. By default I will manufacture the two smaller displays with the same frame dimensions. The small device in the comparison image is from a custom order, which allows for a better size comparison. For custom orders I can create the frames in arbitrary sizes accurate to a millimeter. I'll add a note.
Intuit is a perfect example to me of the flawed reality in a libertarian ideology. We know they’re terrible, we know their products aren’t great… yet where are all the meaningful competitors? People who are at least meeting their bar if not substantially exceeding it? It’s not like this is a new industry that takes time to bake. Where are the YC startups trying to take them on? Meanwhile they continue to make live expensive and complicated for the rest of us just so they have a guaranteed revenue stream!
I live in a part of the heat bubble that rarely if ever experiences extreme heat. The hottest day of the year is typically 30C or so. This week, we hit 40.

People in Arizona are prepared for that kind of heat. But up here, nobody has AC. Many people don’t even own a fan. My house reached 40C and I basically had to leave because that’s unlivable.
> I always find surprising that Robinhood was able to build such a large business with such mediocre customer support

You must be new to the tech industry. :-)
Clain.io is hiring Senior C++ Engineer (remote)
...or the fact that the only way to get this information is a HN comment from an independent Amazon consultant.
Telling users here (some I'm sure will / would download the code) seems entirely acting with the user's best interests in mind.
It wasn't that surprising - they just went after a new market, that being those who rarely if ever did any sort of investment or trading.
$50k will buy a reasonably nice RV that includes wheels and a hitch and such options abound.
Court correctly overturned the conviction with prejudice because the DA's office and the prosecutors made colossal mistakes. Agree it's horrible for the victims and unfair in our hearts but the justice system works (ideally) in an objective matter. The lives and money this cost though...
Yes, it is the same thing. Italian and Ukrainian belong to the same language family (Indo-European), so they are distantly related.
> Not much to do out there unless you love hunting or astronomy or church though.

How are the schools?