skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you have 90 units of work to be done you might hire 9 workers at 10 units each. If the standard work goes down by 10%, you now need 10 workers at 9 units each.

Assuming per-hour productivity is constant, which it is not; productivity goes down with more hours worked (both in a “full work week” and in the annual number of full work weeks.)
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I've worked in environments like that (in and out of software), and this is almost always driven in reaction to something, which is why it's hard to unteach. In my current office there is a culture of consensus building and feedback. If someone feels they were not given sufficient opportunity to participate in a decision, they will complain, resist or otherwise cause an issue in the future. Sometimes they are correct, which is why it's not as easy as simply firing them. Sometimes the red tape is in response to problems in the past. Policies that were poorly enforced that resulted in negative consequences for customers (support failures or discriminatory behaviors). Sometimes it's there to protect low level staff from accusations of the above or to provide clear guidance when dealing with a high stakes/high stress situation. Sometimes it's to protect customers, such as regular security reviews.

So no, I do not think this is about "low effort", though that can be a side-effect. No one sits in an office wanting to find ways to make their coworkers lives difficult. More often than not the policy is a response to pressure to do something to prevent whatever failure prompted the policy. The people who like the process heavy approach, in my experience, anyway, are often remembering a time when failure to follow a procedure resulted in negative consequences for someone.
The problem is, even if you could develop a moderation system which can give individual reports this level of consideration, I don't think there's anyway to remove this kind of content without also removing a ton of legitimate discussions that happen to be used as dogwhistles in some specific subculture.
The stealing part (or rather "dishonesty part") happens when you realize a mistake has been made and intentionally choose not to correct it. If a cashier gives me a $10 bill for change instead of a $1 and I realize the mistake out in the parking lot and choose not to correct it, yes, I am guilty of being dishonest and yes, I am stealing from home depot even though it was 100% the cashier's fault.

I don't see why this is a moral dilemma. If the opposite happened and you got short changed and home depot refused to correct it wouldn't you think home depot stole from you?
Of course plenty of accusations of anti semitism are valid.

It's also true that a vast number of them are false accusations used by Israeli racists to quash criticism of the apartheid system within Israel.

Politicians who criticize Israel legitimately are always subjected to this.
technically the filename can be in the inode. Just depends on the filename.
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I think that's overstating. To be sure some real tech challenges in distributing work horizontally, but I don't think it's created anywhere near the amount of value that's come out of e.g. space race research.
Thanks! Yeah, we think it will be. But more importantly, the old way isn't a viable option. It's effectively off the table. Sweden has already banned mining of limestone (https://www.ribaj.com/products/cementa-limestone-mine-suspen...) The product comes out as a really finely ground powder
New Zealand funds its roads via taxes on petrol, and for non-petrol vehicles "Road User Charges" which are basically a tax on oddometer kilometers. I haven't checked if how the balance between revenue generated by these taxes compares to spending on roads, etc. though.
The trouble is it will be opaque and now I have to worry about one more opaque dystopic thing when installing games over Steam. I'll consider it Valve's transgression against me if they let me install anti-cheat malware without warning me any less strongly than screaming at me.
I skip any and all interviews that require math, algorithms, or anything else. First of all, I'm an infra / devops engineer and not a full-time software developer. Secondly, I've never used this stuff.

And thirdly - because it's a proxy for intelligence by people who think they're smart for having memorized sorting algorithms.

Who wants to work in a place where people who memorize things are conceived of as smarter than people who didn't memorize the same thing at the same time interval (i.e. cramming before interview or just out of college?)

Fuck those places, I'd rather work with human beings.
It Was His Day Off. Then the Space Station Went for a Spin
I would argue that Sleep and Hibernation came about because booting Windows took so long.
Some republicans, yes.
> Facebook and Netflix are excellent examples of companies that contribute greatly to our GDP whilst simultaneously draining our reserves of actual capital and mental health.

It's not so clear to me that this is true. The fundamental question is - if not this, then what? If you accept that people can only work a certain amount, then a "perfectly" "productive" society involves people working just that amount, and then going home and entertaining themselves the amount that is necessary to recharge, safely, and then repeating. If not Netflix, then what? Alcohol and drunk driving?

I'm not saying watching Netflix is what we should aspire to, but compared to the alternatives, it seems reasonably likely to contribute to economic growth. A passive workforce works.
Good luck!

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Or alternatively, people just don't care about his favorite mid-20th-century authors. People keep writing great books, and not everything introduced to the "canon" gets to stay there.

It's not politics. It's just taste and fashion.

It helps that some of the current taste and fashion is "Hey, how about we read some books not written by dead white men?" That's not so much "politics" as "there's only so much space on the syllabus".
I have a similar experience. I grew up wanting to work in robotics but found pure software work to be as enjoyable (maybe not as "meaningful", but as enjoyable), and much more lucrative.

Not sure why coding CRUD pays so much more than what robotics tends to. I guess there's more material costs, costs to get a company started and profitable could be higher.
China's investment into hard-tech (semiconductors, etc) doesn't not mean it can't also allow for the growth of consumer tech. For instance, we subsidize farming to keep it state-side but we don't prevent food processing companies from growing and consolidating.

Maybe the point here is that the government in china wants to always be between the consumer and the service, which makes a lot more sense. Maybe Alibaba and the like have a connection to every person and the gov'ment is threatened by that relationship.

There are many possibilities but I don't necessarily agree with the conclusion of the author: that to grow their hard-tech industry, they have to punish consumer tech.
I can't call the constantly shifting sands of "nodejs" ecosystem a better tooling.
A few years back I purchased a deer rifle from a local sporting goods store and when I got home I realized they had forgotten to remove their trigger lock. It was about a 30min drive back to the store so I just picked the lock and tossed it aside. Naturally, the next day the store calls looking for their lock and they are very adamant I should return their equipment, but they were less inclined to actually drive over to my place and pick it up.
Employees at fast grocery startup Gorillas describe random firings, exploitation
I've read plenty of threads here talking about the US. Very few of them pivot into discussion about military spending. Certainly not 100x or 1000x the number about Israel that pivot into military aid
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There is no discussion. In order to prevent cheating, the game companies must stop my computer from doing what I want it to do. They must own my machine. The only difference between their software and malware is their software comes with a terms and conditions license that nobody reads.
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I've never been to Costco, but Toys R Us used to have their video games like that in the 80s. We also had a chain of stores around here called Best, that I seem to recall having a conveyor belt of whatever you bought, and you would stand there with your receipt waiting for it to come out. I may have imagined that though. Either way, it would be much more effective at stopping theft.
Facebook, sure. Why Netflix? TV and movies have always been around. The US owes its status as a cultural superpower to Hollywood. Too much TV and movie-watching isn't good for a nation, sure, but you could make that argument about any pastime.
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Those speeches usually contain about as much actual information as a corporate PR statement: they, at best, tell you why the dictator wants others to think they are doing something.

The only logical way to interpret the intentions of political leaders is to look at their effects. Anything else, even personal diaries, are likely full of interested reasoning and outright lies.
> If I ran into "scrutable" or "wieldly" in a sensible context, I'm not sure I would realize they were archaic.

Archaic or not, I think most of us would find it "out of place" or awkward. When's the last time you used scrutable or wieldy in conversation? We probably could figure out the meaning but I bet most of us would find it odd. Though if more people started using it, we'd quickly get used to it.
Worth noting, calculus and differentiation help alleviate some of the uncertainty around determining the rate and effects of change.
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You'd never need to know anything about it as a user. I don't know how anyone could seriously make the argument otherwise.

In fact the only reason I know anything about inode and dentry specifics is because they are 'very clever' interviewer favorites! I've been a professional UNIX admin for 15 years and I've dealt with inode issues literally once in my life lol
From what I understand, the theory adds velocity and acceleration into the mix, meaning at a fundamental level that those attributes may be converted into other forces under certain conditions. Faraday was attempting to unify gravitational force with electromagnetism and did experiments of dropping highly diamagnetic materials into a mat to measure if they emitted electricity when the underwent a change in acceleration.

His results were inconclusive.
What’s the Point of the C Preprocessor, Actually?
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Crunch time is something I would absolutely switch jobs to avoid. It would be fine if it were emergency only situations and they happened once or twice a year for a couple nights. But if it's such a regular thing that it has a name "crunch time" I'd be out. I work to live my life, not live my life to work.
Mint works consistently for me now. Of course, there were fixes I had to implement myself. But I get to decide my own upgrade cycle, and can always timeshift everything back (like System Restore). The OS convergence of features are high, so differences are small today. Hopefully Pulseaudio and such stuff that often break can become better.
As someone who works at google, that guy has a stick up his butt. Sorry for your experience.
Agree, that's the best course. For 24/7 types of situations, it will only be a change in use patterns.