skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During that time the USD has suffered around 88% inflation measures by CPI, so in real terms that implies they're going backwards.
I was working on a startup that could tell an employer if their employees were looking for a new job so they had a chance to try and retain them instead of paying the huge cost of having to hire, train, put strain on the team, etc.

I talked mostly to startups between 10 and 400 people, but the problem I heard from most leaders was "if they are thinking about leaving, fuck em, they are dead to me already". I tried to reason with them, but it was fought as if held like religious belief. I mean if it's your baby they are unhappy with, I guess you can get defensive and maybe you are still in a scrappy mindset, but it was a bit frustrating for me as my idea was not hitting very well :/

My wife was considering leaving her job, but not because she hated the work, or the company, but because she wasn't challenged, given opportunity or paid for her effort, when colleagues got paid more to do 1/20th of the work. If she was managed and compensated properly, she would have been more than happy to be retained, and I imagine there are a lot of others in that scenario (but more who just want to escape their manager of course, which is also very good valuable for the boss to have when trying to retain people).
Slight jump, his course on succinct / advanced data structures is brilliant too
This article is BS. As others have noted, it is a straw man argument.

Everyone uses spreadsheets, including developers. I use them. I'm not going to spend 50 hours coding when I can create a spreadsheet in 5 minutes.

Of course, the issue is when things get complicated, as the author and others here have noted.

Creating a CRM from spreadsheets is pure madness, for example, when there are so many other options that exist, without having to custom program.

For me, whenever you have a one-to-many or many-to-many situation, that's where spreadsheets, to me, fall apart.

I personally have used spreadsheets to do my finances, but only because I was too lazy to scope out different bookkeeping systems. I'm fairly expert in accounting, too. I've used a LOT of different accounting systems, and installed and trained people on them. But there's no way that one can get up and running as fast as one can by using Quickbooks or other accounting systems, in terms of all the report features, etc.

Pre-defined apps are fairly unchangeable, but unless one has critical information that depends on a custom solution, it's better to shoehorn your business into a pre-existing app. I do admit that. Very few small and medium sized businesses require that, though, I've never seen one yet that can't use a prior existing solution. Though there might be, but only very, very small percentage, like, less than 1%. However, a large Fortune 1000 enterprise could have stuff they need custom programming, because of the scale. But I don't have any experience with enterprise organizations so I can't comment on that. Maybe SAP or whatever is good for them, I don't know.
Looks like yes: https://support.google.com/pay/answer/9867059?hl=en

> You can add your campus ID card to your Android phone to securely access your residence hall. You can also use your campus ID with Google Pay to pay for things on campus such as dining, laundry, vending, books, and more.
Notice I mentioned two options. The other option is they can just be a friendlier place to work. Most people don't care about compensation beyond their basic needs. They want a secure, safe, and happy place to work that pays a living wage. With UBI, places like that will do MUCH better because people won't have to work for bad employers to make a living wage.

Often the major predictor of an employee leaving/staying isn't the compensation, but the management.
america has been doing that for years. pretty much everyone is doing national buyin but Europe (because it is controlled by unelected ex goldman sachs managers, mondialists that are promoting the idea of a free market)
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This is ridiculous. I would prefer being at my current job, leverage my tribal experience to build things (and I have specific things on my mind) better and faster.

If I pitch this to my CTO, he will agree that using my knowledge to build things better and faster aligns with business goals.

Only middle management rationalizes theories such as you proposed. Middle management sometimes just forgets what is the goal of their job and instead focuses only on their actions (self obsession), ego and the presentation of success. An example of middle management self-obsession is your use and throw mentality. Middle management does this because they don't actually listen to their reports. Managers think they are on another dimension and don't need to hear anything from anyone.

A really competent middle manager would know that senior engineers, especially ones with tribal knowledge are the real 10x engineers in practice. Not because they type fast, not because they are hungry and energetic but because they can process situations and circumstances faster in their head to yield results.

If I were a middle manager, I would do my utmost to retain trustworthy people around me. It's almost a no brainer productivity boost.
How would you put guardrails on the spreadsheets to make sure spreadsheets do not accidently damage the database performance through bad calls? In the hierarchy of skills, SQL is significantly less prevalent that spreadsheets.
I'd be curious to see a Slate Star Codex piece on this. One of his classic pieces was "Meditations on Moloch" https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ ( and related: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage... )

It seems like the similar thing here - literally everyone sees how agonizing, exhausting, detrimental, and counterproductive the current system is. No one likes it. But yet, despite that, there's some gradient it goes against that prevents clearly better alternatives from emerging. I wonder what that case is in Korea, the subject OP, Japan, Taiwan, and other countries.
> Modern agriculture has enabled us to support a larger world population with less labour and less space, but can we continue as we are for another 50 years?

I keep pointing to the fact that negative population growth is already baked in to the world's population pyramid, and responders conveniently continue to ignore that fact.

We DO NOT have to "continue as we are for another 50 years". In 50 years there will be desperation to increase fertility rates.

> But environmental destruction is way up.

> A good example is river health.

Demonstrably false in the U.S. In the U.S. in the 30s river fires were so common that they weren't notable. By 1947 they were so rare that a river fire graced the cover of Time magazine to get people outraged (and succeeded, and good thing too because that was part of a process that led Americans to care about their environment). U.S. rivers are much cleaner than they used to be. Sure, there are some terrible stories still (e.g., the Hudson river has some terrible pollutants now-thankfully-mostly-buried under sediment).

I don't know what's the case in the UK, but I would be surprised if the state of the UK's rivers today was worse than 50 years ago, and shocked to my core if it was worse than 100 years ago.
Since you're actually replying to me, I want to point out that I never downvote comments I reply to.
You are right of course, it’s just theory of constraints applied to software. I did read The Goal first before those two :)

My observation has been that theory of constraints is a hidden secret in engineering and most people instead refer to the devops/phoenix version of it.
Personally, I click on the launch threads because they're part of the current batch: a clear indication that they're part of the current batch (rather than just a generic "launch HN" announcement) is much more valuable to me than the reference to the type of business. The "Launch HN" title is used by non-YC people, meaning these threads come across as non-YC threads than YC threads.

I think on balance you're probably right that excluding a startup from the title is a problem though -- so yeah, in hindsight, I think you made the right choice.
I don't get what you're saying here. If I get granted 40k options and they vest in 12 months, that's a lot better than 40k options that vest in 48 months. I have 10 years to exercise them in either case, so 10 years to get my upside, right?
Is the implication that this is old news and they have certain repented from their evil ways? I'm not so sure.
Yes. In fact, E.G: C# and JS have them, although they don't have exactly the same features.

edit, sorry I've meant generators. Incidentally, it's also true for js decorators.
There was a recent discussion on HN about `npm audit` and its overwhelming number of false positive vulnerabilities [0]. I can see a policy like this being frustrating in the case of `npm dependencies`. Is this something you deal with?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27761334
> I'm all for a universal world-wide time. then we'd just have to learn what time is middle of the night for what location,

There is one thing that is highly inconvenient and to have day border during working hours.
I was gonna say cherry-pick is farily frequent for me. Also I seem to learn new variations once in a blue moon for common commands. E.g. recently I learned about the --cherry option for git-log and it changed my life.
On Mac, you could store the master key in the Keychain. I've been off of Windows for almost a decade so I'm not sure if they have a similar feature.

> Keychain items can be shared only between apps from the same developer.

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/keychain-data-prote...
> A small, cool fact about SQLite is that its columns are flexibly typed

I don't think that's cool - I think it's horrible.
Speculation, but I think this is likely to happen at some point. Perhaps when there is a new model of Powerwall introduced.

LFP makes sense in many ways for stationary storage, but it does have lower energy density, so you couldn't keep the same kWh in the same form factor without some changes.
This is an integration with Apple Wallet and Apple Pay, so it does indeed go beyond a regular app.
Based on talking to a friend who used to work at Blizzard, and was sad to leave his dream job, the main damage is long past. Key employees left over a year ago at this point.

I wish the new leaders well, assuming they sincerely wish to make positive change, but the soul of the company is gone
Internet was already useful very early to transfer physics experiment data between labs (at the CERN).
Cats, dogs, hamsters, guinea pigs, mink, a gorilla (ok not too worried about that one, if you have a gorilla in your backyard maybe covid-19 is not your main concern), and now deer. If covid-19 is able to infect this many different species of mammal, it is probably able to infect most of them. Squirrels? Raccoons? Mice? Possums? Other urban mammals?

Lockdowns and masks are not going to stop this thing, much less make it go away. The only two things that work are:

1) getting vaccinated

2) getting infected

Take your pick. There are no other options.
> But very briefly, yield in Python is often presented as a simplified method for writing generators, but what it does, suspending the execution of a function with the ability to resume it, is a much general concept than iteration. It enable a routine to do a small amount of work, and then pass the control to another routine, thus allowing them to run concurrently.

I don't think that is what concurrently means. Generators allow interleaved execution or lazy evaluation. In fact the author makes this point further down so I think the above sentence was just a slip of the pen. But I point it out because that very misunderstanding is one that tripped me up for a time.

> More accurately, yield in a function creates a generator, which suspends its execution at the point where yield appears in the definition.

That's better.
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Yes, exactly this. As long as the fiat on-ramps and off-ramps are KYC'ed everything that happens in between is an open book. The individual can just use cryptocurrency tax reporting software to provide a trade history for their taxes, and if they don't do that then the IRS can easily track all of their transactions since the IRS will know what addresses they are sending to from exchanges. There's no need for every DEX (or other service) along the way to KYC their users.
> it's much easier to manage junior than seniors, more so when you are not an engineer yourself

I definitely have not found this to be the case. Good senior folks require very little active management.
That software is Microsoft Access. Trouble is it's not updated much anymore, and it comes with Excel and doesn't need Corporate Approval, so it has a gigantic moat compared to other competitors.

There's tons of room for improvement, but it will be extremely hard to break in.
Is that talking to ants, or is that running experiments on them? Because those are two VERY different things. Additionally, talking to an alien race the size of a planet, is probably like speaking Ent: a human's lifespan is likely not long enough to hear an entire phrase of communication, because at the planet scale, shit moves a lot slower, or rather, it should, the way life moves. Hummingbirds move and react way faster than elephants.
For "Not a Malthusian", you have a very negative view of the future.
They don't? I was given an 11% raise (without negotiating) this year because the tech company I work for wants me to stay.

I could probably get more by leaving and finding a new job (15-25%) but 11% is more than enough to convince me to stay. Also, there are factors other than money at play, such as not having someone breathing down your neck, having coworkers who are nice, respecting your superiors, and so on.

I have a friend who recently left a position at a startup paying ~200K (which is a lot here, we're not in SF/NY) for a 145K position purely to avoid dsyfunction, stress, and incompetence.
This is such a cool insight - did you come up with it? It's totally worth writing up into a blog post or something.
It's not sufficient to make 1% more money. If it's not a 20%+ increase, you might as well bide your time. This means the first, lower paying job, is sticky. Otherwise you could leave instantly at every better offer without penalty to long term prospects.

And even for those brilliant people who can get it on the first try, you're taking about 2 months minimum to go through the interview process. If you're someone who doesn't like taking risks, that's a tall order until you've become convinced there is no path to promotion within your company.
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Inflation is mainly bad for the rich. About half of Americans have essentially no savings. For them, increased wages and inflation is a massive win.
There are no territorial disputes in Europe that involve nuclear powers threatening total annihilation on neighbors. Seoul is within easy artillery range of the North, and the badly misnamed DMZ (or, rather, both sides outside the zone itself) is among the most militarized places on the planet.
These are added to your phone through a regular application, but ID cards are added to Wallet.app just like concert tickets, plane tickets, payment cards, transit cards, etc. Apple has to be involved as they are the relationship manager for all of the physical security companies (TransactCampus, Allegion, etc.) to get them to read and understand the ID on the phone.

It's also PR.
I'm curious how different digital IDs will work in the near future. Will one app hold all your official IDs or will there be an app for each purpose?

After fall 2022, the EU plans to do a pilot of the EU digital ID. It would "let users store electronic forms of identification and other official documents, such as driver’s licenses, prescriptions and school diplomas." [1]

https://apnews.com/article/europe-health-coronavirus-pandemi...
The fact that they have two "co-leaders" and one of them is a woman makes me really wonder if they went for the two leader approach just so that they could have a woman without making a woman the sole "leader". As in, did they really want Mike Ybarra but were scared of being torn a new one by the Internet and their employees?

Has Blizzard ever done this before without being in middle of a massive shitstorm?
Thanks, I've emailed you.
The data is fully open already. They can’t be this stupid.
>It is so far so vaguely worded (maybe deliberately?) that the government can target everyone in the ecosystem with penalties:

That's the point. They reserve the power of arbitrary enforcement early on because they don't know what the stuff they won't like will look like. So then they'll go after anything they don't like and leave it up to the courts and the legislature to clean up the mess.
In telecom you get to work with real living adults, media industries are rife with exploitation because they're peoples "dream jobs".

If you read the legal complaint filed by the state of california, blizzard had gaming lounges with booze that people would often walk in on a couple having sex. At work.

Those of us who can't imagine working at a place like that should just consider ourselves lucky.
It's like saying "... it would simply be easier to stop using Amazon if you don't like fake reviews".

No, it would be better to make any fraudulent and scammy practices public so people and even government be aware of growing scams against citizens.
HGST is still the best. But looking at this data doesn't actually give me confidence, it makes me even more paranoid about my Data.

We still dont have some cheap Data Storage that last for a life time. My friend were showing me photos of her daughter from 10 years ago and most of them had it "backup" on a DVD. I couldn't quite bring myself to explain to her about DVD life time.
It’s not 100% bullet proof, but it’s safer than pulling any random repos directly from the internet.

It’s also good that your business doesn’t have to rely on a third party every time you need to pull down your dependencies and build your software.
In time of an economic crises, Municipality have a much simpler making of bankruptcy than national government. Same on household. But I call Eurozone worse because ECB have less room on moving interest rate so fewer tools. My above point more was that both are in badly because of never recovering after the previous issues.
It's very simple actually.Koreans hate the working culture and long working hours but at the same time require convenience that can only be achieved by maintaining this hellish working culture.
> Defining the number of shards is a critical element of your configuration, as it defines the ability to scale and your underlying performance...The number of shards is not big enough to use all the CPU resources on all machines...If you do not have enough CPU threads for all shards at the same time, it will negatively impact your response time.

This is a key point. There is rarely enough discussion around this in normal debates around sharding/parallelization.
It seems that the endgame is to keep on pushing tighter and tighter restrictions on certain communities of people, strongly discouraging open debate, leaving dissenters no other option but to physically remove themselves, until only the most compliant remain, forming a tight-knit, ideologically homogenous group.
I read this all the time but have never seen proof of this. Can somebody please name a few if they are so countless?
"Micro-Coworking" sounds interesting. Something like a pub with cubicles, perhaps.
Thank you for this forward thinking product in an era of ever-increasing digital vulnerability! Mazel tov on the launch!
I'm sorta surprised by your statement. I've lived in Seoul, Tokyo, and NYC for various periods of my life and I'd definitely say Tokyo feels the most "modern" when you scratch beneath the surface.

For example, I'd say the basic subway system between Seoul and Tokyo are pretty similar but you also have the advantage of a vastly superior rail network that serves Greater Tokyo and the rest of Japan. KTX and SRT in Korea are improving every year but don't really compare yet. Additionally, the new subway stations in Seoul are quite nice (Line #9) but you also have really old lines (Line #1) where many of the stations are so badly maintained they feel inferior to their counterparts in Tokyo (Ginza, Hibiya).

I can't really speak to the english speaking issues in South Korea, but in Tokyo I never really had any issues even though I don't speak Japanese. Most places in Tokyo will have english menus because it's a tourist centric city. Neighborhood family owned dives probably don't speak english very well but they wouldn't in Seoul either.

The thing that makes Seoul fall short for me is the standard of building maintenance. Although things are changing, it was generally the case that for several generations of building maintenance they just expected to tear them down and rebuild. Tokyo has a similar problem, necessitated by constant building damage and updated building codes from earthquakes, but the biggest difference is that a lot of these buildings in Seoul are 10+ stories tall. Most of Tokyo's building stock is <10 stories. It's become cost prohibitive in Seoul to actually tear these buildings down and rebuild them.

One of the worst things for me is how car centric Seoul is. It's rare in Tokyo to have 3+ lane roads that aren't toll road/expressways. They're all over Seoul and the side roads are packed full of "valet" parking for restaurants that don't actually have parking lots. The entire car culture feels way more chaotic there than Tokyo. In Tokyo, you can't buy a car unless you prove you have a registered parking spot. In Seoul, you just double park your neighbor and put your phone number in case you need to move your car.

Lastly the air quality in Seoul is way worse than Tokyo. Feels like you constantly have to stay indoors for weeks during the bad "yellow dust" season.
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We can have a discussion about ethics and utility if it's a starving person stealing from Jeff Bezos, but these ransomware firms are large-scale organizations just like the companies they're stealing from.
I'm sorry, my first thought is murder/coverup. Thought the same thing when it was Hunter Thompson and the 9/11 responders. I have no evidence. And suicide is plenty plausible. Just want that idea out there for some reason. It should at least occur to people.
Thank you, quietbritishjim. I actually met Dr. Kahneman at Google, although I didn't introduce him. I got to ask him at lunch:

"Dr. Kahneman, you've been at this for 40 years. Do you think you've changed anyone's ways of thinking?"

He smiled and said "No, not even my own!" and then recounted how in his personal life he'd made a mistake which he'd written about extensively (not the one about planning, though). It's a human failing, not a methodological one.

I'm also vague about his example, but I think it was a new textbook. He asked his committee to reflect on their own past experiences with similar books. "Two years" was the past experience. Then they decided that it really should be six months, and that's the estimate they went with.

No one wants to accept that shit happens and it's going to happen again. That's why estimation is hard.
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Well let's see if they help now.
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