skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than that it's outright stupid.

Look at what the UK tried to do their contact tracing program through an excel file. They ran in to problems at 80,000 entries because excel has limits and the whole thing fell apart during the peak of a pandemic. Spreadsheets are not Databases so don't use them as such -- thus "spreadsheets everywhere" isn't a good principal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54423988

Author seems to acknowledge the limits of Spreadsheets but then says:

"So you’re saying we should use spreadsheets more?

Yes! The hardest part about building most software is figuring out the process."

!! I'm lost at this point !!
> This economic war is accelerating.

Surprise. Meanwhile the U.S. has no will to change anything.

The current global mercantilist scheme is not a good thing.
Bitlocker actually has multiple keys. There's one key to encrypt your data. There's a volume master key that encrypts the data encryption key. And then there are zero or more key protectors for the volume master key. One of those can be the TPM (or TPM with PIN), one can be a long password, one can be a recovery key (IIRC 48 decimal digits), and I believe there are other options as well. Each one is independently capable of decrypting the volume master key, which in turn decrypts the data encryption key, which in turn decrypts the data.

So ideally you'd just get your recovery key and store it someplace well protected like a safe or a password manager.
Well, Uber _is_ the one who gave him the riders who carjacked him. Uber, to be clear, is the one who says they vet their riders and drivers. I'm not saying they should have known/predicted etc., but Uber is saying that's their value-add.

Except, as with all of these companies, it's actually not. It's more a matter of 'all privilege, no responsibility'.
Isn't graphene a high quality p type material as well?

What makes a material p or n?
> For example, I genuinely don't know if software developers have more of an impact than the product designers

Explains why this mentality exists. Middle management cannot see the impact.
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Most people have no clue these features exist, or that Excel even has advanced data modeling that supports all sorts of goodies including strict types and joins/merges/appends. It's not as accessible as just basic sheets, but I've had no problem crunching millions of rows of data in Excel with sub-second response times.
No, they give you 10k options that vest in 12 months, and then next year you get 5k options that vest in 12 months, and then 2.5k, and then 1.25k (if stock price doubles every year). So you get less than half what you would have.
(googler, opinions are my own).

I really wish we would have stayed with the Google Wallet moniker. Seeing that you can add student IDs, Walgreens Card[0], Vaccine status/card[1], various metro cards (like Japan's Suica[2]), it is more like a wallet than a pay app at this point.

[0] https://www.walgreens.com/topic/promotion/google-pay.jsp

[1] https://support.google.com/googlepay/answer/10890261?visit_i...

[2] https://blog.google/products/google-pay/add-suica-and-waon-g...
Yes, Plan 9 c has its own C library which does not follow ANSI/ISO though it is very similar to ISO C. Its syntax is pretty much c89 and the useful bits of c99. To build ANSI/POSIX you use the APE (ANSI/POSIX Environment) compilers and libraries which are built in. It's only reason for existing is to help with porting Unix baggage.

The compiler is kencc which is why it is different. Plan 9 also still uses a.out for binary images.
For all of the usual reasons we strip metadata too. Then we add our unique identifier in a custom XMP namespace. But we have a workaround for the issue you describe.

Users upload their assets to our storage with the unique ID embedded. They then get a shareable link or HTML that loads the asset and our verification Javascript directly from our embed platform.

You can see it in action here:

https://embed.tovera.com/preview/c65b0658ab6e4d89963b1e0a319...

The image itself shows up in a social media post, website, etc just as it normally would but if a user clicks it they see the above, with all of the extended metadata, etc.
That's one way of looking at it. Who says you need to extract the key for playback?
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I feel like the entirety of maths could do a bit of more a top down approach in terms of teaching.

At the moment it's a bit like studying only grammar, and spelling without reading a good novel for inspiration.
The bearings end up cold welding at friction points in the vacuum of space is one issue.
Who else feels a looming sense of economic disaster? For the past few years it seems like it's on the horizon but then the markets end up going higher and higher.
Rich people don't hold much of their wealth in cash and would hold even less if such policy were in place. You would just inflate asset prices (what rich people hold) and dilute cash (what poorer/less educated people hold).

If you give everyone a million dollars and it doesn't mean everyone can now afford a house in a sunny state. It just means houses will be more expensive as no one is going to give them away for worthless cash.
> economic diode

Great way to spell mercantilism.

> doesn’t benefit anyone

Not even China! (At least not Chinese people.)
I won't name it, but I can guess where you work, as the place I once worked had the same problem and surely not many places have made the same mistake.

Worst is where the NY local time jumps back due to DST and you have two actual points in time represented by the same numerical NY local time. That manifests itself as an hour long gap in the data for the Australian stock exchanges!
Spreadsheets are the original low-code/no-code platforms! There's something magical about showing a non-coding subject matter expert a few Excel tips and watching them subsequently visualize and automate a process on a spreadsheet. Also, looking at spreadsheets built by non-coders is a great way to spur software/start-up ideas.
You can at least try. My salary doesn't depend on it.

So far no one has been able to provide real proof or empirical evidence, only theories from assumptions we know are not accurate.
> "Code the Perimeter" is the key insight of Kevin Greer's fabulous 2016 analysis of why Unix beat Multics

Brian Kernighan's "UNIX: A History and a Memoir" delves into why multics failed and unix was created and opinions on why unix succeeded ( something they really didn't anticipate ). It's a great book, broader than just unix - bell labs history, the people involved, computer history, etc.
Yeah, it's one of the more practically relevant downsides of not really switching to metric.

It could start with mandating metric-based norms for building parts in new designs for federally-funded construction, as well as mandating in consumer protection regulation that the metric measurements have to be no less prominent than non-metric units (well, technically that'd be about SI units).

At some point potentially requiring operations with large-enough warehouses to offer the metric-norm equivalents for parts according to non-metric legacy norms, if they reach some threshold with inventory turnover on those parts where it'd not be a big burden to also offer those metric equivalents.

But yeah, I know the feeling of foreign norm components being hard to get, from when I tried to get the screws used for consumer-grade camera tripod mounts.
They are iirc 1/4" machine screws. Roughly like M6, but far from compatible.
I like your ideas, but they are no less ludicrous. Based on your reasoning, Jane Goodall would never have attempted communication with gorillas nor would her work be of interest to societies of research.
But how do you know for sure that the Earth isn’t just a floating brain? Mycology suggests that there are neural networks within forests, and the vast variety of species act in a sort of symbiotic equilibrium. Perhaps human consciousness and the creation of the internet was the final step in connecting the circuit.

I would say that planet earth resembles a living brain far more than it resembles a stagnant rock.
I was thinking the idea that the US are “helping people” was debunked since the war in Iraq.
The thing I don't understand is some people's implied or sometimes explicitly expressed belief that medical researchers are suppressing promising COVID treatments for some reason.

Clinical trial research is perhaps the most complex and challenging type of research to get right. It's necessary to be critical of clinical research and meta-analyses, so pointing out serious research flaws doesn't mean someone is rooting against a safe, effective, cheap COVID treatment. The VAST majority of candidate drugs don't work well even for the intended indication, let alone have serendipitous effect in a different disease.
Where are they buying the books? (sorry if the article mentions this, it's paywalled)

If it's independent stores, then I think that qualifies as a local enterprise hit hard by COVID, and fits in the spirit of the scheme, maybe even national bookstores can be considered thusly, too.

If they can give the money to Amazon, though, then maybe there's an issue.
Maybe in FAANG world, salaries really do increase linearly like the graphs from the blog showed, but in the F500 corporate and contracting world, the slope starts leveling out after 10 years of experience.

A decent and ambitious dev can definitely gain 30% salary increases after their first few jumps, but once you're at the "senior" level, it's just not happening.

In the first 5-6 years of my career, I jumped about 4 times, each with a large increase: from $55K to $80K to $100K to $120K and finally to $140K about 7 years ago in a relatively high COL city in East Coast US.

As expected, even though my knowledge and skills have really increased over the past 7 years at my current gig, the company gives only the typical 2% inflation raises each year, and there is no equity or bonus system based on seniority.

So now I'm at about $160K, which is still okay for my area, but disappointing considering somebody with similar experience and absolutely no institutional knowledge would be hired for my position at $180K (maybe higher in this market).

But I'm stuck. I can go and play the interview game. And based on what I've seen, at best I'm going to get a salary offer of maybe $180K, and of that $20K increase, I'll end up pocketing maybe $1K / month extra, as all of the extra income will be taxed at my max rate.

Is that worth leaving a company where I've earned respect, have a lot of knowledge, know is tolerable, and where I've got "credibility" and a history with senior executives and management?

It's not for $1K / month, which may even be less if it turns out health insurance has a higher deductible, or I end up having to spend $200 / month more on commuting costs.

I think most seniors hit this same glass ceiling earlier and earlier in their career - by mid to late 30's. And unless they move into management or really strive to jump to the next tier (e.g. FAANG company or finance industry), then there's no real financial incentive to jump, and a lot of risks if your current git is tolerable.
And employers know that.
Right, but the problem cited earlier up in the thread is that sales tax would prevent anonymous purchases; if you accept that income is not anonymous (which it already isn't), then you can still have a system with both sales tax and anonymous purchases.
Your description makes me wonder if you more so meant Drake's equation.

But, either way, both are awesome and related. My intro was a discussion panel Seti did in the early 2000's - ~'where is ET?'

The conclusion at the time was effectively that the ticket to earth was way too expensive.
I used "should" two places, both hypotheticals.

Of course people will see the same situation in different perspectives, so perhaps any call for reason and leniency is made in vain.
> If they could afford it, why wouldn't they raise wages to $15, or even $20 an hour?

Because they can afford not to.

You're taking a view of the free market that's a little over-simplified from how it actually works. Most industries have areas where they hit happy mediums, where they don't actually race completely to the bottom. Wages can be a part of that. It requires something to shake up the market to force businesses to start competing and lowering profit margins, which arguably is exactly what's happening right now.

Some businesses are paying employees more, and they're not seeing the same labor shortages. But I think a sizable chunk of businesses are mad about the idea that wages work this way, and their ideology is that the government should make sure that low-income workers always stay in a position where low-wage jobs seem attractive.

A big thing to recognize with economic theory in the real world is that profit margins don't always trend to zero, at least not in the immediate short term. If businesses did all increase their profits to $20 in your scenario, they'd collectively all have the same hiring problems and lower profit margins. So that kind of thing won't happen until an event (a pandemic, increased government aid, better worker mobility, a shift in culture, new companies entering the market) forces businesses to get competitive with each other over a limited resource.

> Maybe the answer is that due to covid (recession, lockdowns), business is down so they can't justify paying each employee $15, because that's close to the value that they provide?

I think that's unlikely, multiple industries (Amazon included) saw profits rise during Covid, not shrink.

And in any case, the market is a big part of determining what value employees provide. If you can't afford to hire employees for $15 an hour, and that's what the market is demanding, then the problem isn't that the employees are overvalued, the problem is that your business isn't sustainable and you can't afford to pay market rates.

That's a big part of how the free market works: there are a ton of business ideas I could pursue if I had access to free labor, but unfortunately in a free market you have to pay market value for things (workers included).

There are lots of ways to think about an economy and market incentives, but surely a pure Capitalist reading of this situation is that if your business can't make money paying market rates for its workers and supplies, then your business doesn't deserve to exist. I'm not sure why I should be sympathetic from any perspective, Capitalist or otherwise, if a business complains that the only way it can afford to operate is if its workers are made to live in poverty and forced under threat of poverty to take low-paying jobs. That doesn't sound like a free market to me.
I don't know, but assume it's usually "hey Alice, hey Bob, I made Charliecracker, you made FlannAlice and Bobernetes, we're working on similar things, let's form a club".
I don't think there is a generic answer to this. It mostly depends on the startup size, their legal team and the team's. I have seen quite a few hire outside US, and then there obviously are startups outside the US that YC funds too.
I love when right wingers bust out the holodomor as if it’s this ultimate horror that would never happen in the US capitalist system.

You realize about a quarter of a million people die due to poverty each year in the us, right? Not to mention drug deaths and deaths from the violence in those areas.

Let’s focus on the modern atrocities we are letting happen than going mustache man bad.
Without getting into the whole vaccine thing...

People need to start protesting with their wallets.
People need to talk less and act more.

I work in NYC, in an "essential" service. In the beginning myself and other workers were threatened with discipline if we did not show up for work. We were told to go straight home, and stay inside, and do as little as necessary otherwise.

Now, this is easy for me, as I am single with no family, but I continue that policy to this day. I buy the essentials and no more.

You want to threaten me? If I don't do this, I can't travel? Fine, I'll keep my money. I can't go to a restaurant? Fine, I'll keep my money, and cook myself. I can't go to the beach? Well fine, I'll keep my money. I'll find something else to do (some of the parks are empty this time of year as everyone's at the beach!). Can't hurt me by telling me I can't spend.

I do the same when gas prices jump. I travel less. Not because I'm hurt more financially, but as a middle finger to the corporations behind the price increase.

Yeah, it doesn't make a dent in the grand scheme, but at least I don't feel the fool.

Honestly with all of this spending less and the way even essentials are jumping in cost, I haven't been able to save much more, and that's a shame.

There are so many ways Americans could make this work, to send a message, if they didn't spend as the corporate overloads told them they have to do.
Am I the guy with the bong in his lap if I say that any man-made structure should be considered visual pollution?
Don't microservices using shared code correspond to going back to a monolith in disguise?
I think we are in agreement just coming at the argument from different angles.

Yes "things want to be as simple as they can be"...so when something dumb like DRM is bolted onto it, you point allows us strip it out that much easier. I believe that one day the design of an item will put DRM first and function second such that the item itself will be secondary to the DRM. I don't know what form this will take but I feel that it is coming. That is why I discussed maintaining my old equipment as long as possible to stall this inevitable day as long as possible.

>Take a look at the printer industry, for example. You can buy the cartridge cartel inkjet printers, but most people already know that a laserjet is way more reliable -- because it's so simple.

I'd argue that you are conflating two different things: Reliability with freedom(lack of DRM).

Laser printers are more reliable not due to the DRM but due to the technology itself.

If you wanna look at it from another POV: Laser printers suffer from cartridge lockout chips that count number of pages printed, the yellow dots printed on sheets that allow the government to trace a printed document back to a specific printer and now the encroaching trend of adding spyware to the printer drivers. Does that make Laser printer technology any worse? Nope. But all that DRM is there regardless of how good laser tech is.
I think the answer is relatively simple. It is cheaper for the company to let a usually small percentage of their employees leave than it is to give larger pay raises to all their employees.
> In the same sense that Apple is not at fault for allowing its hardware to connect the assailant and victim.

Except that Uber claims that the value-add its "marketplace" provides is vetting riders and drivers and providing safety.

Doesn't mean they could predict this (though there's several instances of people being reported for other aggressive/harassing behaviors and -not- being kicked off), but when you're slurping "value" from both your rider and driver predicated on providing vetting and safety, well...
They're insinuating manga is not French culture.
Why are all of the retail demo names in Windows 10 male?
Countless examples, yet you failed to name a single specific example.
Your anecdote proves the point. If your friend was paid more, they might not have left.

But in essence what you highlight also shows why companies don't pay to keep people to stay. Instead of paying someone money who hates their job, they might prefer paying less money to a new grad who isn't burnt out on their culture yet.
One thing slack sucks at is any kind of “priority inbox”. It’s instead this game of hyper-vigilant whack a mole where you constantly have to decide what to respond to. Constantly making these decisions makes us less effective. This drains our focus and ability to work on what’s important.

Honestly it’s acceptable as a dev, unless you have an explicit expectation, to ignore most slack messages and respond to what’s important. What’s “important” is pretty contextual.

I only look at 5-6 channels relevant to my team and mute all others. I respond relatively quickly (within 1-2 hours) to teammates and team stakeholders unless it’s a true emergency. For randos that want help or to put work on my plate, I usually respond in a few days. I look at silly, social channels sporadically only when I’m just bored, feel like bonding with coworkers, or am too drained to think about work..

When conversations have complex subtleties, I ask to chat on a zoom or voice call so we can focus on the conversation instead of quick, easy to misinterpret text.
Hah I feel your pain, internet stranger. I feel it keenly.
> I am curious if we're entering a period where western governments must run deficits and central banks must purchase said debt at sub zero interest rates to keep the economy running

It's been that way for 13 years, so you'd better.

There's no money simply because there's too much bad debt and all banks and governments that matter are insolvent.
Instead of telling us to buy a boat, you could describe why you think buying a boat will lead to assets with no value.
> I'm not sure if it's a messaging thing, or if culturally we're just primed not to care.

I think that lots of people don't give much of a shit about prison experiences. The classic maybe you shouldn't have committed crime in the first place, let that be a lesson to you etc.

Prison is supposed (in many peoples view, irrespective of stated aims in law) to be a deterrent. Not Fun. Breaking rocks and digging ditches and not having cable tv etc fits that mould.

So I guess you'd want to change that pretty ingrained cultural precept? Personally I'd rather pitch "prisons should be safe, comfortable, clean" over "no more modern slavery" - feels like an easier sell.
It's just the convention we've adopted for bit positioning. To the programmer, it doesn't matter since you never actually see sub-byte data, so we just conventionally use the same meaning of shift "left" and shift "right" opcodes regardless of byte-endianness or how the CPU itself arranges the bits.

So if we had followed the original Indian endianness, then a shift "left" would divide by 2 and a shift "right" would multiply by 2. All of our troubles stem from not swapping the digits around when we adopted the Indian/Arabic number system in the 10th century - we had to keep up the convention at first because it was compatible, and later because it's "natural".
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Imagine the US healthcare system if it was operating under an embargo.

It won’t be hard cause there wouldn’t even be one.
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I agree with the your statements. Would add that it is important to understand most developers of spreadsheets have never taken a programming class and do not fully understand many of the issues discussed in this thread.

Also, there is little motivation to the spreadsheet user to change. In the examples given by the author, the original creator of the spreadsheet is long gone by the time the problems surface.