skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultimately, at the market level pay rates are tied to productive value. We have a theoretical assumption of 40h/week, but almost everyone understands that it's fictional (and more people are learning that). Most people who are going home and getting the same work done in 2-3 hours aren't working less -- they're working more efficiently, or doing fewer other things (e.g. chatting at the water cooler).

For many types of thought work, 3-4 hours is pushing it anyway; the default assumption of 8 hours doesn't make sense with the heterogeneity of what different types of work actually entail.
Office365 as a platform appears to suffer from terrible unreliability. My last role was in a google apps shop, and i miss it every single day. (it's been 3 years).
What you need is a pipe through grep. It’s as reliable as it gets. I don’t understand, though, why your log filter should all of a sudden grow disk space monitoring and signal handling. This is what systemd and journald should be doing, and in their recent versions, they are quite capable.
Not GP, but:

https://research.google/pubs/pub43438/

https://sre.google/sre-book/production-environment/

are the best public documentation entrypoints that I know of.
Me too, I think a lot of my most upvoted comments are just truisms and preaching to the choir, whereas a lot of the more insightful things I've said quickly get greyed out.
I really don't get the money side of US politics. How do these companies use money (presumably) do sway politicians? Just openly contribute to individual politicians/think tanks/PACs?

How do they launder the money Is that what the PACs do? Make sure Joe Politican can get the money, but isn't seen handed a bag of cash from a company?

Or is it simply that accepting campaign donations from corporations isn't seen as corruption by voters, so politicans can do it in the open?
That was the generous year. Belief has waned since then.

Statista probed the question in 2019 and found strong belief at 11%. https://www.statista.com/statistics/959504/belief-september-...
10.9 was the first "free" macOS release, prior to that, it was a paid upgrade.
Exactly. My ideal setup would be a flexible week where I could come in between 2-4 days each week and work from home the rest. Maybe have everyone on the team in on a specific day and the rest are up to me.
Dating at work can be a bad idea. But also, a very large proportion of the married people I know met their spouses at work.
If the app works with 8GB, the app's requirements are stupid and should be ignored.
Egregious conduct is (and has been) punished by license revocation or revocation of FINRA membership. It may be the largest monetary fine ever levied but it certainly isn’t the harshest punishment.
Test vote please ignore
Absolutely, always consider potential bias and motivation when searching and judging content. I probably censor search results myself in the form of selective link-result clicking and phrasing of search queries :-)
Vintage Verification
Well time to upgrade the 2014 MacBook Pro!
> I ndeed, but parsing has remained a hard (to implement properly) problem

Indeed. But there’s a perfect one (for some definition of perfect) built into every compiler. It’s a shame that more compilers don’t do things like make the AST available.

.NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) is a great counter-example.
You mean the tax authority has a monopoly on collecting taxes?

That would be one way of looking at it yes.
If consumers are not willing to pay for the product, it makes sense that they would not get good customer service. The users are not customers of Robinhood or Google. The users are the product that Google sells to advertisers and Robinhood sells (in the form of data) to hedge funds and HF traders.

Schwab and Fidelity can deliver a good product with good customer service because users pay money for the product and are actually customers.
Just to clear up a common misconception, you can run F# on Windows, Linux, or macOS. I worked at a company for two years writing F# and never touched a Windows machine.
What type of growth are you looking for? You say you are happy with your work and team, but you're also here asking for something more. What do you feel is missing?

Also, what hobbies do you have? Perhaps you need to find something fun to do when you're not working and not being a dad/husband.

Or maybe you need to change employment to get out of your comfort zone a bit and see what else is out there. I've found it's easy to stagnate when staying with the same company too long, though there are of course exceptions.
not clear at all what it is
It is quite obvious they belong to a more sensationalism type of tabloid media. I refer them as 'dubious' due to this credibility issue. I may be wrong but there are definitely evidence of misinformation https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/hong-...

Sure in a western democracy it's fine (given that there's at least some alignment with party interest). But once it gets a lot of attention and an influencer status then the authoritarian gov won't let it grow further without consequences for sure. 'Redline' is a bad term but it's usually separatist, discrimination speech etc. Not all 'pro-democracy' media are targeted because they are simply not big enough yet.

Disclaimer: I'm not necessarily defending any side, just want to discuss more nuances.
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Just dont add the slant to the questions next time, it is just ...... not even unnecessary, it is counterproductive for you and everyone, to the other person is just as irritating as what I did to you with the previous reply + smiley

Or alternatively go watch that veritasium video that's being shared over the thread, it is very good
I did the same this year, but found that FreeTaxUSA's support for crypto transactions was basically non-existent. Filing through TurboTax was way less work than what I would've had to do with FreeTaxUSA.
This is my experience as well since the BPoS days…

Not that it matters. Companies on the Microsoft stack just tolerate the outages so they can keep using Microsoft for everything.
you might start at a lower level, and then people would judge you for being older but "only" a IC2 or something
I wouldn't be surprised if it's not largely driven by personal profit motive/asset exposure of the decision maker class ... executives, boards, and upper management at such companies are nearly uniformly composed of wealthy individuals who probably have diversified investment portfolios including tons of commercial and residential real-estate interest in places like the Bay area ... what happens to real estate prices in the bay if tech becomes remote? Personally I can't imagine choosing to live in San Francisco in the first place -- but how many of the folks who did for work, then left during the pandemic to live in more livable places, would really want to go back if given the option not to ...?
To me that - and really any form of common boilerplate - is just evidence that we're lacking abstractions. If your editor is generating code for you, that means that the 'real' programming language you're using 'in your head' has some metaprogramming facilities emulated by your IDE.

I think we should strive to improve our programming languages to make less of this boilerplate necessary, not to make generating boiler plate easier. The latter is just going to make software less and less wieldy. Imagine the horror if instead of (relatively) higher level programming languages like C we were all just using assembly with code generation.
May be referring to the common 3 layer architectures (see Fowler's PoEAA) which map closely to ECS:

Top layer is for "frontend", whatever that means for the product (UI, sound, simulation, etc.), the stuff with side effects. "Systems".

Middle layer is purely functional, for business/domain logic AKA utility functions. The most liquid layer, but should not be confused as trivial.

Bottom layer is where state (or a way to access & modify it) lives. Data access layer, component layer, etc.
I think you need to look at the books which are not about interaction with compiler. Mythical Man-Month, Pragmatic Programmer, Passionate Programmer, maybe Code Complete (have not read), maybe OOP Head First (requires some creative approaches to sound it), maybe TaPL (too hard for being read depsite it has almost no code).

My choice is to start from Charle's Petzold Code because it is the most beginner programming book I know book which really need popularization. Yakov Perelman has written some awesome nowadays forgotten books for kids, but they are about sciences not about programming.

I used to listen many audiobooks in my adolescenthood, some of them with cool audio effects. I named some books which I want to be read or listened in that age. Now I hate listening anything except podcasts or good retro music. Now I can read with my eyes too fast to bother about slow-pace and sometimes shortened audiobooks. I would continue to listen if there existed an mp3 player with 5 second backwards button and ability to change a speed with a fader without looking at the screen.
Only novel tech they have been working on that I’m aware of is quantum computers…
Oops, fair enough.
I'd previously got about 3/4ths of the way through filing my taxes using TurboTax, only to find that I wasn't able to deduct student loan interest on the free product. Intuit also regularly deletes threads of people who go on to ask why an expected feature isn't in the free tier, advancing the dark pattern of needing to pay for the feature on both the federal and state level returns. This is likely a systemic problem- the self employed through platforms like GrubHub & freelancers have less simple tax structures and even if they're only making a modest wage; spending $80 just to fill out your own return definitely acts as a regressive tax that disproportionately affects lower-wage groups.
If you want to succeed in this industry. You have to constantly lie, cheat and manipulate. All the people I know who got promoted with big salaries had this in common.
Show HN: 3 clicks to record an audio discussion and publish it to the web
Do you think if it was a government program that it would have the same level of UX polish and ease of use?
Maine Passes the Strongest State Facial Recognition Ban Yet
Trusts do not avoid estate taxes. They can be used to engage in tax planning, but they are still subject to the same limits on tax-free transfer.
Just to give a counter example here:

In my country (Netherlands), the IRS itself provides the software. Once a year, you download and run it. Everything is prefilled: income from work, bank accounts, mortgages.

So if you're a boring, financially stable person, the entire process is literally next -> next -> next -> submit.

Filling out tax forms is not a value-add economic activity, so I have no idea why you'd insist on free market, nor do I understand the classic American anti-government stance.

If we have solved this a decade ago, why can't you?
My guess would be that's just their login, but their email would not have their location sub-domain (I've never seen a sub-domain in e-mail, well actually not true, people with domain + country TLDs all have it, e.g. clarkson@bbc.co.uk).

Of course moving locations/departments would mean getting a new login which is all sorts of problematic.
Donald Rumsfeld Has Died
At least they maintain the reputation: nobody ever got fired for buying IBM because the termination email didn't come through.
Experimental assessment of CO2 inhaled by children with and without face masks
Ha, true, I get your point. After 20+ years and dozens of technologies things sometimes seem easy :P

Don’t get me wrong, I like what you do, I’m simply a jerk sometimes!
They support their AS400 line. No one else in the market. This plus some companies they bought (e.g. redhat) is all that IBM is left as today.
I, too, do jerky things sometimes. ;)
I used Plato at udel , and had my first programming jobs there. It is hard to underestimate how far ahead they were, and that system influenced all my designs in my entire career.

Like realtime chat with any other user, character by character updates (what, you have to press enter to send? primitive!)

Friday afternoon dogfights used a lot of resources, but were super cool. Tens and maybe 100 users all in the same real time flight space, duking it out...
Same context, same anecdote here.
At a former company I worked for, every branch would create a new environment with those changes (and some shared components that were owned by other teams); and, if multiple repositories had the same new branch name, it would use all the ones with the same name.

Depending on your system, this is entirely doable.
I'm honored to see my blog appear here. I hope some of you pop over and comment, particularly if you have any additional information or intelligence on those old games!

--Chet Bolingbroke
Sure but many Apple employees don't interact with hardware at all. There's a good chance that many people who do interact with hardware only do so part of the time. Another section might work with hardware but could maybe take some of it home with them (clearly physical hardware has left Apple in the past).

Sure, the remainder have to be physically present but that is the job/career they picked and even probably enjoy. Letting everyone else WFH means those remaining on-campus employees can have better offices & live closer to work. Seems like a win-win to me.
I'm at a FAANG and for any of these categorisations that I think about I can immediately come up with enough counterexamples (across age, marital status, role, ...) that I don't believe there's any easily pinpointed uniform grouping.
“Long Term Support” should be at least five years
TL;DR: if it's not supported for AT LEAST five years from release it's not "long term" support.

For my day job we're currently scrambling to upgrade a bunch of code before the .NET Core 2.1 end of support in August but we can only able to upgrade to 3.1 right now. Most of the apps we're upgrading don't have major upgrades but there are breaking changes from 2.1 to 3.1. Going forward Microsoft is only doing 3 years of LTS for .NET Core releases which practically means that every 18 to 24 months we need to drop what we are doing and upgrade all of our "old" code. Being forced to upgrade our code this frequently and calling it "long term support" is a contradiction in terms.

Should I be annoyed by this or be thankful for the break from "real" work to do this six weeks of upgrading code every other year?
Results: Workplace flexibility, culture, work-life balance
Neal Stephenson and Co. turn failed Magic Leap AR project into an Audible drama
It Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights
FINRA is the industry equivalent of a firm’s Chief Compliance Officer. They’re supposed to identify and correct issues at the expense of the industry rather than wasting the government’s limited resources. FINRA conducts regular exams of all members the way a Compliance Officer will regularly examine all department functions. Whereas the SEC conducts random periodic exams (like an auditor), targeted exams (like an investigator) and occasionally “sweep” exams relating to the topic du jour (usually in preparing to issue to a new rule).
in a real world future chinese nuclear module would save him quite fast :)
This isn't the first offense. They were fined $65M in Dec 2020 for similar infractions [1]. Clearly that wasn't enough to deter bad behavior. I'm a fan of exponential backoff. Pick an exponent. 3x-10x the last infraction seems reasonable (assuming similar levels of harm to users).

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robinhood-sec-fine-65-million/
I’m sure there are exceptions based on the gifts, but I doubt all $35B have such restrictions.

Also it seems odd that a large number of donors would have restrictions that prevent covering tuition and expenses of teaching.
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This has nothing to do with GPL. Copyright is copyright. You can’t even count on public domain everywhere in the world.
I call it Office361 because it goes down at least 4 days a year.
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Rather, I would not buy a software product from them or accept any project that depended on one since they eventually will sell it to some smaller company to dump it, apparently even when they still need it themselves.

Reminds me of this recent thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27517846
>HN is the place we come to for dedicated tech related news

As far as I know HN exists to aggregate news people applying for YC funding would find interesting. I don't think it's supposed to be about any one subject in particular. I imagine YC applicants have a wide range of interest, including traditional news stories from the sources you mention.
This movie was way more incredible than it had any right to be
Cybersecurity Workers Flood Twitter with Bikini Pics to Protest Harassment
Does it mean that Dutch is now a query language?
>saying it is their responsibility to vet any code they produce

But, if some of the code produced is covered by copyright, isn't Microsoft in trouble for distributing software that distributes copyrighted code without a license? How would it be different from giving out bootlegs DVDs and trying to avoid blame by reminding everyone that the recipients don't own the copyright?
A QBE Back End for the Antimony Programming Language
Yeah, it's what Dwight D. Eisenhower said. The first line of my previous comment was a quote from him.
Author is mad about COVID lockdowns, says they did no good:

> stay-at-home orders did not have an impact on rates of fatal infection

and provides links to studies. However, the linked sources contradict author's point, e.g.:

"Biomedical evidence from the
early months of the pandemic suggests that lockdowns were associated with a reduced viral
reproductive rate" (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3782395)
Dry air, low elevation helped create record-breaking hot spell in Lytton
Micron to Sell 3D XPoint Fab to Texas Instruments for $900M
#4 is the key part! I mean maybe I have an irrational obsession with the idea of a corporation chartered with an expiration date, heh.
You can't force a private entity to sue another private entity. The regulator (government) can sue it if it finds it at fault. And a private entity can choose to complain to the regulator if it wants. The agreement here between MSFT and GOOG is to try and resolve disputes internally if possible without suing each other or complaining to the regulator. There's nothing illegal in that.
Active vs. Passive Mindset
That's mutation testing[1]. For most languages there are tools that can scope the mutations to a diff.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing
SWORD Health closes on $85M Series C for virtual MSK care
yeah, but I see those everywhere... all the time!
> HN is the place we come to for dedicated tech related news, views and blogs.

According to who? Certainly not the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
All of the people supercritical of Intuit in this thread make me wonder, do they think the government would truly be providing a service on par with TurboTax? When has the government ever done Internet right…looking at you, Healthcare.gov.

$90 bucks a year to ensure your taxes are right, with a streamlined interface that almost anyone can follow, that returns you back significant value in time and tax return…

Intuit legally cannot sell your information like other companies can, because they are in the business of taxes.

People here LOVE to tell founders, “oh, you should be charging for your product! Otherwise it isn’t sustainable!”

I’m sorry, would you rather TT be free and them be slanging your data like Facebook and Amazon? Or alternatively, the government just in charge of replacing it with a congruent service? I didn’t think so.
That hiring process, all that LeetCode, and they still couldn't work how to create a system that worked. Tragic.
I love my Klein bottle earrings, there so tiny! Thanks Cliff!
> Where did you stick the TPM chip

Lol
Then you have the companies that take every estimate and cut it down to 1 month without changing scope. Doesn’t matter if the estimates are 3 months worth of work or 6. And now as an eng you have to either lowball your own estimates and burn yourself out to seem like a ‘team player’, or push back and burn yourself out from a losing battle.
IBM getting the IBM treatment
At this point, why not just drive it up to the logical conclusion? Treat your business model as cattle, not pets. Customers leaving? Fire up another business until capital runs out, and if it does, no worries, jut hop to another job!

Sorry, but I feel like I landed in crazy-land. Kubernetes is already an exercise in how many layers you can insert with nobody understanding the whole picture. Ostensibly, it's so that you can isolate those fucking jobs so that different teams can run different tasks in the same cluster without interfering with each other. Hence namespaces, services, resource requirements, port translation, autoscalers, and all those yaml files.

It boggles my mind that people look at something like Kubernetes and decide "You know what? We need more layers. On top of this."
HN needs a "related" link, this post about Mr. Stoll's basement is surely because someone read the HN headline earlier today about how a Chinese company used an Amazon exploit to hijack his Klein bottle listing, this someone did some more reading about Mr. Stoll, and found this video. If there's an "Other HN stories about Cliff Stoll", there wouldn't be this "repost".
I worked at a large European tech company (~10k employees) that was a big user of Notes, Sametime, Domino, etc. While we left a few workflows in Notes, the overall transition to Outlook for email and scheduling was largely painless for the end user. I hope IBM recovers soon. I wouldn't wish this level of corporate hell on my worst enemy.
Lots of older companies still have subdomains in email, left over from when that was actual machine to route to.
I agree with you in that I would not use this service.

The only issue I had was with shaming the developer for building something he thought people would want and soliciting feedback. If that wasn't the intention of my parent comment, I apologize and retract my statement.
Appreciate that you thought about how to future proof these components and build in a way that they'll work in any front end setup with any user interface.
I'm interested, and it will probably come out around the time I'd be replacing my Volt... but if they insist on the dashboardless, touchscreen-focused control system like in the Model 3, I won't go near it. I hope consumers in general put their foot down about this dangerous trend in (bad) car UX.
> I don't really see many engineers trying to migrate from the first class to the second class.

I don't think they can in the first place. It's like law, where compensation is highly bimodal.
The way I express it is that estimation is fundamentally a design process. You can't get an estimate without doing design work, to some appropriate level of detail. That design work is not going to spring forth from the void unbidden, so it needs to be paid for.

This does not mean that you need a big design up front, but it does mean that you need to be happy with a level of precision to the estimates commensurate with the funding that has been given to the design process.
They did this to directly compete with Amazon, I'm constantly baffled as to why they persist with this design.

Every time you hear, "<Crazy thing X> sold on Walmart website!" it's always a reseller, not directly from them.
3x exponential sounds right. Thank you for the context!