skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to bring up open offices in unionization discussions as a very simple example of how SWEs, despite high demand and compensation, don’t nearly have as much leverage as we claim to do (lack of WFH, pre-COVID, is a more impactful variant.) Despite near universal worker complaint, it’s simply something that industry management has embraced and no amount of tweeting, blogging, or even studies (https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-truth-about-open-offices) will make a difference.

Does that mean a union should be built solely to put pressure to end open offices? No, but it does indicate that there are near-universal issues in the industry that such a union or professional association can address. Because without any organizing, management will just continue the status quo. There’s not even the added competition of some firms deciding to offer personal offices or at least cubicles as an alternative to woo candidates.

It’s an example of something in industry that everyone complains about but no one can successfully challenge.
I wish there were a better way to actually get an answer from your rep. These emails really don't work. Even when they come in en masse they don't work. I know people who work for representatives and manage these email accounts. They have filtering rules to pick these sorts of emails up and and throw it in a folder never to be read. Especially those websites that automatically generate the email for you, those are almost guarenteed to not even have a low level staffer see them. Catch some choice lines from the body and straight to spam.

I asked these people how constituents are to reach out toward their representatives for issues that matter to them, and to be honest what they said was that the only way you are going to get a response is if you are representing an organization or a corporation capable of financing advertising campaigns that can influence large swaths of the electorate in question. A single voter will never be answered by a state level or higher rep, if you are lucky you might just get a canned response from the staff outlining the candidate's platform on the issue. If you are a representative from a special interest lobbying group though with thousands in the war chest, that will get you a long phone call or even face time with the representative. This is how the game is played on both sides of the aisle.
I sort of stumbled upon this myself:

I'll have negative thoughts - your hair is messed up, they're looking at you, you're doing something wrong, not cool enough, they don't like you, etc

But I realized that of course these are completely ridiculous negative thoughts from my social conditioning in North America.

So one day I thought to tell myself equally ridiculous positive thoughts. When I have a negative thought.. my hair is messed up --- I'll counter it with a ridiculous positive thought: my hair is the most beautiful hair on planet earth.

It sounds so stupid when it's positive, but when it's negative I had been listening to it for my entire life. From this point on, it's difficult to give those negative thoughts any weight.
That's a much better written (and backed up) story than the one I remember, which I recall being in the Coding Horror "fireside tale" style. Maybe Raymond's was the original!
I'm in the similar process right now and for the life of me cannot figure out which software to use to store my notes in.

I know, this is time consuming but currently I'm using Obsidian, Foam (VS Code plugin) and Logseq all at the same time to jot down notes thoughts etc. and see which one fits my needs.
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This was my experience (regular cert not good enough)
Federal agencies investigating the situation does not mean they think there was anything wrong with it.
This shit always turns into people typing racist shock-garbage. I'm about 95% convinced anonymous online chats are a net negative for human-kind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosting_(machine_learning)
You'd think a fab, like most high tech, would be a "good job".

But close to where I lived in Cupertino there was a superfund site due to the all the insane chemicals that leached into the ground from a long gone clean room.
Oh god yes, I remember being confused and frustrated by that statement.
Vite is the way to go now, IMO. It just works and is extremely fast.
Pinterest bans weight loss ads in first for major social networks
Only in America, mind you. In Australia, all publicly traded companies are under CHESS, which means that when you buy a share, it's directly held in your name.
Why this is not a library instead of hosted api? Why do we need to run this as a service? does it come with its own DB & all?
> it's the most feature incomplete

And I am eternally grateful to Apple for this.

Somebody has to push back against the web-standard-of-the-week insanity. Like WebPartitionEditor, WebUSB, WebBootloader and WebSSH.

Google's not pushing back. Mozilla's not pushing back.

Thank you, Apple. Keep pushing. Push harder.
Fab workers are jumping ship to a meat processing plant? Is working at a fab an unskilled job or are the working conditions/job prospects really that bad?
This is such masturbatory silliness.
That’s you (and the large part of HN who doesn’t know anything about normal users). When GDPR came into effect, we even had people write us that they were annoyed having to reconfirm, as obviously they still wanted our newsletter.
Yeah but how does a PM or whoever decides whether a small feature in/out of Google's interest? Do they have A/B test for every one?
My usual reasoning is, if there's conspicuous branding on the clothing, then the money should be flowing in the opposite direction. Why should I pay a company to advertise for them?
Help! How Do I Accept That I’m Burned Out?
I'd never seen this before thats hilarious. Wonder how much of this really exists in the wild.
Their 606 disclosure does have PFOF https://clearingcustody.fidelity.com/app/proxy/content?liter...
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And what are the other options?
I recently pulled over to help a Model S driver with a flat.

Every doorhandle on the car had a thin zip-tie looped under it because the "present" mechanisms no longer functioned. One had to tug the zip tie to manually force the handle out of its flush position before being able to grasp it.

Quality.

The poor guy was stuck in the summer desert heat, waiting for a tow with a flat in a ~5000lb luxury sedan too heavy to limp 10 miles to the tire shop without destroying its alloy wheel, that apparently can't manage to carry a spare.

I'm pro-EV, but it felt like Teslas are a disaster as I left him in my tiny 90s miata that manages to fit a spare in the trunk, has previously limped that exact route on a flat without destroying its own alloy wheel (~2400lbs), and has perfectly functioning doorhandles still after 320k miles.
Good advice. I have a model S and a model X. The seatbelts in the X are especially bad - I’ve had a service call where the belt was stuck closed and there was nothing I could do to open it and twice I’ve had small children become trapped for several minutes in their car seat because there was no way to release tension on the belt and get them out.

I was within seconds of cutting them out with my pocket knife the second time it happened.

I’m going to buy a cutter right now.
I prefer to see Safari as the new IE:

- On the most popular consumer operating system in the United States by numbers (iOS), it is the default browser, which is..

- furthest behind in supporting web standards. It is easy to theorize that Apple has no incentive to improve Safari given how lucrative..

- the App Store is. Apple is under antitrust scrutiny (see Epic vs. Apple), similar how Microsoft was under antitrust scrutiny due to IE integration into Windows. iOS goes further than Windows did in that iOS forces all browsers to use the same underlying browser engine.

* https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/united-states...

* https://caniuse.com/

* https://infrequently.org/2021/04/progress-delayed/
Vector Database, what's that all about and why should I care?
sizeof() is measured in number of chars, I.e. sizeof(char) is always 1. As he said, char was also 16-bit.
Most of the guys aren't Micron employees doing tech work in clean rooms. They're contractors doing dangerous blue collar work with chemicals, pipes and factory equipment.
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The problem is really that there are strong incentives to produce this stuff, usually from the universities or hospitals themselves. These aren’t prestigious places, and it’s not in their interest to spotlight how many garbage papers they produce.
Hmmm, slowness might be caused by minimizing / tabbing out and a bunch of messages building up. I can definitely fix this though. If it gets slow during normal usage, that's another story that I'll have to look into.

And regarding the other comment, I'm guessing you're referring to Google Recaptcha. Yeah, I see what you mean. Of course, I would prefer to not have that in there either but was forced to add it in to curtail people spamming the site with scripts / bots. If you have another solution to prevent that, I'm all ears!
Exactly the type of thing I was hoping to see. Mind blowing the 286 could run a fully fledged Unix. I wonder what the process isolation story is, did everything run in the same address space? If so then were all binaries position-independent?

Edit: answered my own question. So this is the obsolete segmentation isolation I’ve always read about!
Washington and Big Tech won the global tax fight
Oh, they give a damn about it. The damn they give is this: they are actively hostile to anybody trying to embed firefox [*].

[*] (except on Android, due to Google Play policy nonsense)
Many libraries also give you free subscriptions to local and national newspapers. You can stream movies and TV too.
For the catch all email setups yes. Not with the way apple does it. They have specific mappings setup so you have no way of finding other addresses of the user since every apple user is behind the same domain and the emails are long/random.
I'm not but you are.
I agree with you. I think the counter argument could be that the the training data is incorporated into the weights, and therefore some version is being copied. What gets "copied" into the human mind is exempt from copyright because of the long standing precedent that it cant be controlled. I think, like you, training ML models should get the same "exemption" because it's primarily an experiential thing, not making a knock off like copying a video e.g.
I think people like the twitter poster see ML benefitting from freely available content in new ways, and are upset that someone is getting some benefit without paying for it. I think the last thing we need is new ways of trying to rent seek.
A non-marketing example:

We were onboarding a large new client to our SAAS product. This process involved creating accounts for all of their employees (tens of thousands) and sending emails with an activation link. (Where they'd be able to set up their password.)

Our system sends these emails in batches, and as soon as the first batch went out we got an alert from our monitoring system that our bounce rate was surging - high enough to risk a sending pause from Amazon SES. We stopped sending and investigated the issue, and it turned out that the email list we were given was a mess - it included all current employees, but also a huge number of former ones. Just under 1/10th of the emails in our first batch were invalid.

We asked the client to give us a better list, but due to internal issues they couldn't get that to us any time soon. Meanwhile they were breathing down our necks to get these emails out ASAP, and they were a large enough client that our management wanted to keep them happy, so we tried out one of these email validation services. Unfortunately, it didn't work. It turns out that this technique doesn't work for all mail servers. It was reporting every email as valid, even ones we knew were invalid since they'd already hard bounced.

(Edit: thinking back - this was several years ago - I think it wasn't saying that they were valid emails, just that it couldn't tell whether they were valid or not - the service was able to detect that the server wasn't rejecting non-existent addresses.)

We ended up unpausing the emails and just hoping for the best. Ended up with something like an 8% bounce rate that eventually fell off our record as our normal sending patterns resumed. Amazon's guidelines say they might cut you off when you hit 10%, so we cut it pretty close.
Do you also have the seatbelt unlatched? My S only does this if the seatbelt is also off.
Leaky pipes can be better for moving water
You're saying no MBAs work at IBM, and implying that things wouldn't be going wrong an MBA-run organization. This is a joke, right?
I feel like this will get your IP on block lists really quickly.
Got it. Make everyone poor and suffer. Great plan.
It’s not really a negative actually. In order to create good shock-garbage you need to be aware of what is actually shocking. That means the people posting this know some difference between right and wrong, they just choose the wrong path for the purpose of entertainment because the rest of their life is spent going down the boring right path. There’s so many colorful ways to say wrong things but only a handful of ways to say right things.

It would be more concerning if they actually believed their monstrous opinions in earnest and were not even posting them anonymously.
> Extremely bad to be messing with those frequencies. Potentially catastrophic.

If someone with a hobby electronics kit can cause that much damage, the system needs to change. Hobby projects like this can help expose the serious flaws in aircraft control, making us all safer.

Security by obscurity is no security at all. Security by hoping people don't do bad things is even worse.
I hear stories from them all the time. Casual discussion of the times they're gotten sprayed in the face or splashed with various chemicals. Of people being injured by falls. Of the chemicals that will kill you 10 minutes after skin contact.

I'm really glad my friends are jumping ship before they get seriously hurt. A few commute by motorcycle and we joked that the ride in was the least dangerous part of their day.
Not defending Tesla here - but most manufacturers no longer include full size spares and many don't even include donuts anymore. The former is reportedly because of weight savings which contributes to fuel savings for their federal requirements. The latter is because donuts were never maintained by owners so they never worked when needed (ie, already deflated or aged beyond safe).
I use Joplin: https://joplinapp.org/
Plain text exports, encrypted transfers, open source and cross platform.

I only wish it was encrypted at rest. Otherwise, great app, with an active community.
I don’t recall :/ will do some tests tomorrow in the driveway.
" The biggest block is often just to see proof that something can be done. "

This is super important in most sports. It's really hard to know if you are just doing it wrong or it's just not possible. Only the super talented can break through that. Most others need some guidance.
She advocates to „Limit spread of [scientific] misinformation on social media“ [1] yet uses social media to attack published and peer reviewed science (the gold standard used by fact checkers).

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest/status/1410653746...
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned that UNIX from Bell Labs was first developed on a 16-bit system, the PDP-11. 1BSD and 2BSD were both consequently 16-bit, and it wouldn't be until a separate small team from Bell Labs ported it to the VAX in a release called "32V" that it became 32 bit at all.

(This release and increase in word size revealed a lot of bugs in the 16 bit only Unix and C compiler -- I recommend reading the porting paper if this sort of thing interests anyone)

Edit: Paper is here https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/otherports/32v.html

To answer your question from the paper, it appears all the other data types were 2 bytes, except for char, which was one byte. And long/float, which were handled specially, I believe by the PDP-11's floating point co-processor "C code for the PDP-11 uses the FP-11 convention for storing long integers"
I've seen the same or similar lock device on fast food safes.
FYI: the additional requirements of the AGPL over the GPL trigger on modification not on distribution:

Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must...

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
Can I get an NFT of an invisible sculpture? Or, more importantly, can I sell one?
This caught my attention from the start: "Most of us want to make a difference. We see suffering, injustice and death, and are moved to do something about them. But working out what that ‘something’ is, let alone actually doing it, can be a difficult and disheartening challenge.

Effective altruism is a response to this challenge."

The article goes on to provide examples of real people from recent history that embody the concept of effective altruism.
Could you provide a link to the porting paper? Would it be possible for you to summarize how process isolation worked on the PDP-11?
It seems like the most practical solution to that should be calling AWS, explaining it for 5 min, and getting an exception. Is that kind of reasonable solution no longer possible with the cloud providers being so huge?
Man I was furious when the Zappos settlement a few years ago was a 10% off a future purchase coupon. I don't see any possible way that was a punishment.

Never purchased anything with them since I saw that.
How can we accomplish as much good as possible?
Wile I'm all AMD for GPU compute on linux, there are is one big reason to stick with Nvidia... CUDA. Sure, ROCm is incredible, but it doesn't really solve the problem of software availability.

When you see some wizbang library advertising supports GPU acceleration, 9 times out of 10 they just means CUDA. Worse if you need to use both windows and linux as ROCm is linux only.
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I think that's one of the reasons why F1 drivers are getting younger and younger. The games prepare them for the rhythm and a lot of other things you encounter with real cars. I remember first time I drove a really fast car on the track I had massive problems getting used to the brake distances and the rapid shifting. If you drive the car in a game you are already prepared for the basics.
idiot nya-nya-nya-nya
My uncle knows the answer to this question. Let me go ask him.
They're also defendants in this landmark case - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burwell_v._Hobby_Lobby
Just like the emperor had no clothes, whoever bought this has no art.