skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reason is a libertarian think tank. Describing them as “slightly right leaning of center” is really sugarcoating things - their whole raison d’etre is coming up with arguments to oppose virtually any and all government regulations. That doesn’t make them wrong necessarily, but let’s call a spade a spade.
> Those impacts can be dismissed or chalked up to just a mild worsening of existing trends. Additionally, these issues are generally weathered relatively well by the impacted communities and insurance helps them rebuild/relocate.

And how many times per decade (per year ?) can it be weathered ?

We got lucky in Western Europe with the recent flood. What when it happens in December or January next time ?
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As technologists, we play in complicated contructed worlds, with rules and rituals, and obscure variations and debatably non-stochastic processes, created by other people all day long (and sometimes all night).

You don't have to believe in demons (or third normal form, or agile) for the body of knowledge to be interesting.

Some people take it pretty seriously, and some people do it for fun. Like LARPing.
As a guy, I pretty strongly disagree with this. I may not be able to change their beliefs, but by actively calling out their behavior, I can sure as heck change their behavior. When people know that saying something awful or treating someone poorly is going to make for a really awkward conversation at best, and possibly lead to being socially ostracized, they tend not to do those things.
New Zealand, with our borders closed my company has had multiple job ads open for intermediate/senior developers for over a year.

Every candidate we do interview, generally also has multiple other job offers.
Healthcare is a non issue for most non Americans and if you travel outside the US you can buy a decent health care for much cheaper than what it cost in the US.
It's only a catch-22 if you don't have the senior people. At least in my experience, companies have 80%+ senior and midlevel developers. The issue is that companies want to be cheap by letting other companies do the training and then taking them.
Even if a company asks, you can say no. I’ve never revealed this info and never will. You are giving them a free negotiating card. It doesn’t serve your interests at all.
Well I guess I really suck a lot
The programming interviews are getting ridiculous. It is really an immense pain to go through an interview for a senior developer role nowadays, and it is super arbitrary. I did like 5 at the end of last year and I was just sooo tired. Got mixed results as well even when I felt like I understood the problem better than some interviewers. On the other hand, I got two companies that gave me take home assignments which both took me an entire day to complete, but it was fun as hell at least!

BTW I also did a developer interview at FB to transition role (after writing code for two years at FB) and failed. It’s just really random.
New apartment rental system aimed at Seattle's tech workers breaks all the rules
Create a string, look up the address of a function in the library. Assign the address to a function pointer, call it.
You mean the no. 1 economy of the world generates the most plastic? <insert Picard surprise face meme here>

What's next breaking news? That China, the 2nd economy of the world, is 2nd place in plastic generating as well? Color me shocked. /s
>>didn't look further than the first list, the others are closer to my experience

So you agree with the list except for Osaka?
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And remember, I advised them of the need to pay special attention to accessibility in this product over a year before it launched.
Interesting, I personally far prefer the Windows one on 100 DPI displays at least. The blurriness is quite noticeable on OS X and certain Windows applications that attempted to use this style of font rendering.

Sure, it's great on higher DPI screens, but then it makes even less of a difference whichever one you use.

I'd say Microsoft made the right call here.
Isn't it also incompatible with the distribution model? Because personalizing video for every customer is hard to scale for companies that rely on reducing cloud costs
To me saying any $X big company is a ticking time bomb is nonsense.

The fact is, a number of companies control a huge number of eyeballs. An unethical exec taking advantage of that would cause enormous PR nightmare. If you're making money with a great brand reputation, you don't mess with the recipe.
In America, you'd use it as collateral.
What is a server developer? It's a very odd title, in particular, because most servers are Linux and Windows.
Thanks. Wasn’t sure how airdrop worked so wasn’t sure if connecting a compromised device that way was a concern. Unfortunately there is no info out there because the official line is “all apple devices are secure don’t worry!”
It’s an interesting tech however the big issue with photonics is that building complex logic and memory is hard to near impossible it’s quite good at doing relatively basic operations at scale which is why the tech can work with as simple components as a bunch of LCD screens that hold your input values as a pixel mask and a detector in the end, since the LCD matrix can be quite big say 1024x1024 pixels you are able to do basic but wise ops like XOR on huge matrices the challenge was always to A) get photonics to be fast enough where their scale can outpace the switching frequency of traditional semiconductors and B) get to a point where you can actually do useful operations.

My gut feeling is that Envise can actually do only a few basic operations in photonics, however if these operations are sufficiently tailored for specific tasks in ML that might be good enough.

It’s not that different than what NVIDIA did with their Tensor cores they aren’t general purpose ALUs they only do a few things but they are very fast at those tasks.
These are annual prices. Before covid you could get a private office in sfba for ~$10-12k/y in a coworking space. Cheaper if you get 2-3 person spaces
>Visiting the farm, meeting the people, understanding what they do, and buying from them directly. Consider this: eating an animal is a sacred act, like marriage.

Yeah, it's not about that. It's more about knowing your local producers, what they feed the animals, the quality of meet, cheese, etc, they make, etc.

Not about checking whether the animals were loved and had massages...
i love it. this is brilliant.
Because the only publicly acceptable answer would be to agree to all the poster's current and future demands, regardless of the cost, priorities, risk of breaking other features, etc. And it never works out because the demands tend to increase over time, and the PR damage of rejecting the very last demand is proportional to the number of ones previously accepted.

Make a thought experiment: think what if Cloudflare answered trying to explain the complexity, risks, and maybe cost estimates for supporting something like that, but refusing to add it right away. Nobody would listen to their reasoning. They would be immediately labeled as blind haters or whatnot, supported by endless news articles and retweets.

Make another thought experiment: assume they comply with the current demands and add the functionality at some fixed cost. Then in the future, the poster decides that the accessibility support is not sufficient and still makes life hard for blind people. He would come up with another set of demands and Cloudflare would again be forced to comply, because nobody would listen to their reasoning. And because it is physically impossible to make a blind person as productive at certain tasks as a non-blind one, there will be always room for improvement and room for more demands.

If you want to truly help the blind, please go ahead and launch a competing product. Or offer an ML-based tool working on top of existing products. Or create Wiki-like system where people would maintain semantic models of commonly used non-accessible sites, letting the accessible tools work over them. But all of that requires hard work, countless hours and numerous trials-and-errors. Trying to strong-arm someone else to put in that effort surely gives a much faster gratification, but it only results in further alienation and ghosting.

Sure, Cloudflare will release an official statement saying how they are committed and dedicated and working and planning and hoping, and the whole thing will get forgotten in a few weeks, but ultimately if you want to someone to help you, maybe try to understand their constraints and find a compromise, rather than trying to use the buzzwords to throw the mob at them.
Policing indeed reduces crime. But, to paraphrase what I said above: there’s no way you can hope to solve the crime problem in SF by focusing on policing as a chief measure.

US is already policing the shit out of its population, and that is obviously not working out great for you guys, does it?

Advocating for more policing seems to me like insisting to crank up more of the same thing, even though it’s failing badly. It would probably result in more police violence and even more extreme (and likely unevenly distributed) incarcerations - both endemically American pathologies.
> But if you must, start with something like Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. Don't just pull out the Goetia and start summoning demons. Reality may or may not be mutable, but our perception of it certainly is. Would you really pick that as a first experiment?

Maybe so, because my mind is so bull-headedly resistant to being modified (at least in the ways associated with occult stuff, like visions, extreme emotion, etc.) that maybe I need a dose of the hard stuff to even notice it ;)

As a naturalist I don't think I can sign on to the first half, even as a realistic possibility. But for psychological effects, sure, I could buy it. The ability of the mind to do get into pretty extreme psychological states, via ritual and otherwise, is easily underestimated.

In fact I would say many naturalists hold onto that argument harder than just about anyone, because it's critical to help explain the weird stuff people experience (e.g. alien abductions are often hypnagogic hallucinations or sleep paralysis, near-death experiences are due to various impaired brain states, etc.)
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Maui Jim manufacturers their glasses in Italy and Japan so not guaranteed to have a western made pair.
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/44/eabd0288

> The United States generated the largest amount of plastic waste of any country in the world (42.0 Mt). Between 0.14 and 0.41 Mt of this waste was illegally dumped in the United States, and 0.15 to 0.99 Mt was inadequately managed in countries that imported materials collected in the United States for recycling.
Thanks, this is a very nice discussion of these features! Especially like the before/after style of presentation.
In one (granted, particularly aggressive) part of the world.

Except it then got replaced (reduced to an ornament, if you like ornaments commonly associated with raping children) by humanism. So, it’s just one of the gods who was doing really well, and then failed.
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What's amazing is that my views have been essentially identical to Miller's for a good 9 months and yet the first I ever even heard his name was when someone linked directly to this on Twitter. It's impossible to find through YouTube's search as well. A testament to the power of controlling visibility.
My take as a PdO is that Agile is great for evolving an existing product.

You know where you are, you know where you want to go (what customers are asking for), and you can break the transition into discrete steps. Can sit with the dev team and say in 6 months we want to be roughly here - and then tell them what you want to see in 2 weeks.
If they deliver on commitment in 2 weeks, they've done their job, and everything else is on me.
If they tell me there's a problem, or point out some stupid mistake I've made - I can take that on board (new stories, new prioritization), and explain to everybody above why there's a delay.
Thing that I love most of all, is "we could make this better if". Hands down the things I'm most proud of, are when dev tells me something elegant and wonderful can be produced and I can say yes.

Two places I think agile can go wrong:
1) Used where it shouldn't be. If there is some complex multi-year piece of work, somebody (product or architects) need to understand the vision. Nothing great is made 2 weeks at a time in isolation, and then presented 2 years later.
2) There needs to be slack in the system. To me the shining benefit of agile is that you can meander away from "the big plan" and add value where you see it. MVP should be say 70% of effort, with 30% we can all choose to use wisely. A complex system built from only MVP is going to be a turd.
I did screenreader support in a rather popular Android app. It took me several days to get from "can't focus anything at all on the main screen" to "all icon buttons are labeled and most of the functionality is usable, including the many very complex custom views with clickable elements inside".
This doesn't include digital purchases, only physical items that are shipped. Is there an equivalent report for digital purchases?
Let's say you buy three shares at prices of $5, $5 and $10. You paid a total of $20 for the three shares.

Now you sell 2 of them for $20 each ($40 in total), and have 1 share remaining. You want to calculate realized P&L using the average cost method. The average cost per share is $20/3, so the P&L is $40-(20/3).
It is.

> The United States generated the largest amount of plastic waste of any country in the world (42.0 Mt). Between 0.14 and 0.41 Mt of this waste was illegally dumped in the United States, and 0.15 to 0.99 Mt was inadequately managed in countries that imported materials collected in the United States for recycling.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/44/eabd0288
Putting the fun back in (fun)ctional soda
Could you talk more about how you made this pivot? Was the transition to product owner a step down initially?
Why not look now and just set your threshold for “I’m excited by this new place” slightly higher than normal?
Using standard units:

- 1589g of trash per day!

- 4767 cm3 to store it (3cm3/gram)

- 130 m3 per lifetime (75yr)

- 300,000,000 lifetimes.

- 78 km3 storage allocated

- 39 km3 required

~~We're gonna need a bigger boat.~~

Neat!
Im curious to hear what types of companies an L6 / E6 at FB is applying to. Without mentioning company names, what types of opportunities are out there that convince you to leave this type of comp [1]

[1] https://www.levels.fyi/company/Facebook/salaries/Software-En...
> Most people don't have the income to support "voting with their wallet", and even those who do don't always have the option.

I am old enough to remember when there was practically no plastic in food packaging. Twinkies and its ilk were more or less the exception (and fine examples they were of that exception!).

No doubt many remember glass ketchup bottles, glass mustard jars, glass peanut butter jars, glass mayonnaise jars... I swore to continue to buy only glass condiment jars but they no longer exist. I think the exception now is jams and jellies still come in glass jars. Honey too if you look for it.

Cereal? No plastic bag liner, it was wax paper or that weird paper foil stuff that Super Sugar Crisp came in.

I'd love to go back to glass, wax paper, but there just isn't any options any longer.
Start a new project on the side, using the skills you’d like to develop.
I don't know, I thought pets.com was stupid then, and chewy.com is stupid now. The main difference is the Chewy guys were smart enough to cash out before the bubble burst again, rather than spending their cash on stadium naming rights.
The part of Northeastern Connecticut where I grew up has experienced a happenstance version of this. It's a densely wooded area. As a kid, exploring in the woods you'd always find stone walls, old rusted out trucks from the 30s, the foundations of old houses, etc. I assumed the stone walls were from colonial times and that the trucks had been driven deep into the woods and abandoned. It blew my mind when I learned that in fact the whole area had been farmland just 60 or so years before. Those trucks were left to rot in a field. Those stone walls were at the border between fields. And the forest came back pretty quickly and reclaimed it all.

We should do a lot more of this everywhere.
Also fascinating is the story of the man that eventually proved the conjecture, Grigori Perelman [0], which famously later denied the $1M Millennium prize as well as the Fields medal where he is quoted as saying:

"The prize was completely irrelevant for me. Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed."

He later abandoned mathematics and returned to obscurity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
Yup. There are places where plastic bags accumulate. Once it was my doorstep. Every morning there were piles of plastic bags that were delivered to my house.

Just take a trip along any river or stream near a town and you’ll find them swimming by like lifeless jellyfish
Not really. All companies that make bags may be pulling consumers in different directions with respect to which style of bags they should purchase, but all will pull in the direction of "purchase bags".

You can zoom out from bags to fashion, and the same idea repeats itself.

Consumer consumption itself is the unified cultural zeitgeist. That's the issue - in some areas it'll spur innovation, but in others it is an obviously wasteful use of limited resources and time.
And microplastics don't just mess with digestion, they're also theorized to be part of the reason fertility is dropping in humans over time.
For me, on macOS, I had encrypted backups already turned on, using the Finder. So, when I did the "mvt-ios decrypt-backup" I omitted the "-p ..." and gave my login password. I had assumed that the Finder-initiated backups would use it, and it appears to be the case (the decryption data looks good to me).
>If I want to just get some yogurt, how do I “participate in it”. I “engage” with it when I eat it, but I gather that’s not what they’re mean.

Well, if you were from e.g. France, Italy, or heck, even the rural US, you'd know (and probably in tons of other places too, just some I know of).

You can get to know your local producers, talk to them, know the quality of their meat, cheese, yoghurt, etc., know which varieties this or that producer deals with and so on.

It's pretty common in many places to know the producers of at least some of the local stuff you buy.

Now, if you live in e.g. NY, well, good luck with that...
Yeah I know it's a drop in the bucket but for now it's all I can afford to do. I've talked to my SWE friends (inside & outside FB) and have convinced a few to do the same. Others simply don't care or feel it's disloyal to the company, which is fair enough.
Definitely not true.

Wildfire burns down your house (assuming no intentional negligence?) - fire burned down your house.

Tsunami happens and wipes out your village? That was a tsunami, not people.

Neighboring countries army invades? Yeah, that’s people.
HOW?

Google Cloud Platform has MASSIVE markups compared to equivalent service providers, either from "the big three" or smaller service operators. These smaller service operators have far less margin to work with, yet manage to not only break even but to turn a profit! Either GCP has some product that is a metaphorical black hole consuming all of their excess revenue, or Google generally is spending far too much money doing the same thing that everyone else is doing.

One of the things I've noticed GCP prides themselves on is uptime, and I'm wondering whether they're doing something like _doubling_ their costs to have seven nines of uptime for the entire platform, which practically doesn't matter for anyone other than a handful of clients (healthcare, government, military, etc)
We just gave our devs relatively modest increases, and only one raised any objections and ended up with a more than a 15% increase. I worry about all those devs who won't say anything (why should they have to?) and will just go somewhere else for a 20% bump.
> But it is possible to have empathy for others, which clearly you have none of.

To show how much empathy I have, I'm going to write a post named "Ask HN: Let's talk about how much empathy I have" [1].

Addressing a few points here:

> But with your lack of empathy and obvious lack of respect for original human thought and emotion, I decided to come back and post this.

It's not original if a large number of people think in the same way, create bubbles and reinforce preconceived ideas about a subject, it's group think. You then get annoyed because somebody with an actually original thought challenges your own.

If you have something to argue then please do, otherwise claiming that I am less than human or lack human traits is not exactly going to progress any conversation. If you assume other people argue in bad faith, there is no way for us to move forwards productively.

> What you are doing is hurting people and is holding this industry back.

Open discussions are not holding the industry back. Debate is not holding the industry back. It's a lack of these things that hold the industry back - when a woman for example is treated in a sexist manner and people refuse to speak.

To push an ideology you must win hearts and minds. Your point here is that you want me to shut-up for the sake of your cause.

> Being online behind a username does not give you a pass to treat someone less than human.

I don't say anything here I wouldn't say to you in person. The difference would probably be that when I listen to what you say, you'll see that I'm not without empathy, I simply disagree with your opinion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28029434
Second rule: you should talk to a post-Soviet official by acknowledging the rule she refers to, but appealing to her human understanding. All this with great patience. Not demanding, like Western tourists who pound on the table in the name of their rights and reason, because with this you ruin everything in an environment where there are neither rights nor reason, and where the table is a hallowed treasure. In this way, you might inspire the person to find a creative individual solution to the problem within her space to maneuver. And usually some is found.

I travel once in a while myself and this is excellent advice nearly everywhere.
Hard to know what is a good or high total comp in the current market.

I’m at $175k in central FL. I see a lot of people posting much higher pay on various forums and I often wonder if I’m underpaid. Now more than ever.

Outside of FAANG (and similar) I’ve only found companies paying around ~200k total for senior level engineers.

These places still have rigorous interviews but not quite FAANG difficulty.

Still, the motivation to even interview for such a small bump is not really there for me (wife and 2 kids).
I can’t capitalize on my interviews but I get a few through recruiters. Just get into one system - like CyberCoders or teksystems and you will get bombarded as resume gets passed around. They have a relationship w the companies so they forward you directly
Of course we can improve it - by identifying where people’s behaviors and systemic effects are causing undesirable behaviors. That probably doesn’t happen if we blame ‘finance’ for it though?

Every system has exploitable loopholes and will become unbalanced once enough people start gaming it. Some of them (especially new ones) are easier than others.

It’s easy to say ‘this is terrible’, but that can easily turn into rejecting a known system with adjustments and corrections for bad behaviors that isn’t perfect into a system that gets gamed even easier by bad actors and turns into an even worse (but different) mess. See 90% of all revolutions ever.
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