skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It used to be mostly just for fun / internet drama for the most part. Like, PS3 vs XBox sorta thing. I take sides but its all just for fun.

At least, it was all just fun internet drama until last year when Elon's COVID19 denials went on 100% full display so that he could keep his Fremont factory open. That pissed me off significantly, so I admit to being angrier today than normal. When I saw him use his "hype" to pretend that he was going to build ventilators for hospitals (with 100% confidence that he was bullshitting everyone again), that just made me angrier. Its no longer just him running a quirky company, he's actively stepping into dangerous territory and explicitly spreading COVID19 conspiracy theories among his fans now to push political ideologies that are convenient for him.

He's playing both sides: COVID19 denials when it keeps his factory open... COVID19 production ("ventilators", which happened to be worthless CPAP machines) to boost his own ego afterwards and help negate the damage. Its pretty annoying. (It is a donation of medical equipment, but it didn't help the COVID19 cause at all)

So that crossed a line for me. I do try to keep things in the "fun XBox vs PS3" kind of debate as much as possible, but I have to admit that the past year has really bothered me with regards to Elon.

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Even now, this year, he's suggesting that people don't get the second jab: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1370524129212964867

So while he's not quite anti-vax, he's spreading the paranoia about the vaccines (and was certainly spreading COVID19 denialism last year 100%, likely in support of his preferred factory politics)
In my experience, most large corporations are very badly lead by visibly flawed executives.
They are both regulations on the country AND on the player. You will have to perform KYC/AML almost guaranteed, and you will need gambling licences in the countries you register in.

You will have to do things like ban the US, attempt to detect circumvention of it, ...

Don't forget that server costs will be MANY orders of magnitude more - you can't just register in Malta and then host your application on digitalocean for example.
Why do these people think that, if everyone lives in a computer, they'll be happy? Rich Westerners already live Online. Has that made them happier? We don't call Twitter "heaven"; we call it "this hellsite".
This is silly. For one, large portions of the economy are not built on actual material. For example, take software, an evergrowing segment of the economy.

The number of computer programs is incredibly large. Even assuming a dense packed instruction set, even 512 bits is already enough to contain more programs than can be assigned to individual atoms in a universe! That's right. We could label every single atom with a number that would fit in the AVX instruction registers. That scale is mind-blowing, but it's true.

Take for example another growing part of the economy: AI. AI models like GPT-3 contain billions of floating point parameters. The number of potential configurations of the weights (which is what ultimately holds the value when models like GPT are productized) is orders of magnitude larger than the universe.

The fallacy here is the equivalence of economic goods to material goods. Many economic goods are not material.

Moreover, many material goods hold no value due to the material, but rather to the placement or arrangement of the material. In this sense, the same 'stuff' can be part of multiple goods and each of those goods can be more expensive than the previous good. For example, if I paid a laborer $10 to mine aluminum, the refinery $2 to refine it, the sheet metal factory $3 to make a sheet, the sheet metal worker $10 to make a good of it, and then the installer $20 to install it. I've made ever more money off the same 'stuff'. As industries like recycling take off, there is yet more opportunity to be had in the same amount of stuff.

And this doesn't even begin to touch on services and such, which do not even require material goods proportional with the economic value added.

In other words, there is no reason to believe we will hit up against an atomic wall after which we will be unable to expand the economy due to a shortage of atoms.
If interested, here's the course Gary Gensler taught on "blockchain and money" before becoming SEC chair - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-s1...

The last lecture especially gives a sense of how he's thinking through things.
I wonder if the security guards belong to a union.
depends on your definition of quality they still break on me often
It seems the masses disagree with you, but personally I also find it objectionable. I shouldn't have to click through and increase someone's ad view count just to find out the article is completely irrelevant to me.
Nothing has changed. Presidential candidates were vicious in the US early on.

> old model has no mechanism to handle market failure.

“market failure” has absolutely zero relationship to free speech.
I meant more at rest. I think even if you use an extension like LastPass with a policy that the user can't see the password, it's still going to show up in developer tools under the POST.
Bricks are good at demolition time, compared to poured concrete, and can be recycled. They also look kinda nice.
I disagree. What's fair is that they pay you for your work. Anything beyond that is just in your head. If they could still get your productive output and pay you half as much, they would. You should look at them through the same lens.
> my first mortgage was $600/mo just outside the Bay Area

Is that in todays dollars or what it was at the time? If it's in today's dollars that's just incredible.
Maybe you need to look into what he did to his first born daughter, I think that will change your perspective
> What is that? You don’t have own AMZN stock? Do you own an index stock? SPY, QQQ? Yeap you profited. Try to explain to your financial advisor how to give those profits back.

> Look at your hands… you are part of the problem. So you might want to tone down your liberal hype, well cause you are just making your argument look weak.

Ah, talk about looking weak. It's the old "you can't complain about this bad thing unless you live in a shack in the woods totally disconnected from modern society" argument.
The original source is some strange indie news wire service I've never heard of before, "Zenger news."
Do you guys have a roadmap on Excel support? I’m afraid I’ve never worked anywhere (or met anyone in real life outside of K-12) that used Google Sheets, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone use Airtable in real life either. (This is most likely because I’m on the east coast and am mostly interacting with big company people where it’s extremely uncommon for GSuite to be the office tool of choice. That and I love Excel).
From a high level, iterators are basically just generators (which themselves are just simple continuations). Rust is a good example since pretty much all looping is done via iterators, and most implementations of the Iterator[0] trait look similar to the examples in the article. If you squint hard, calling `iter.next()` in Rust is just like the Scheme example, where you're continuously calling the generator function to get the next value. So, the people who use Rust at their day job definitely use (a form of) continuations at their day jobs.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html
yeah this isn't a bad idea. or maybe forcing the user to do the onboarding first?
ClojureScript in the Age of TypeScript – David Nolen
> a lot of engineers stagnate after a few years

Stagnate is also a way of saying got good at the job.

I mean after a couple of years at a place an engineer might be the person that know the systems best in the whole world if they are no commodity. It takes year to gain the experience and inside out knowledge of a complex system.

To me it feels like I get a mental picture over a system after some time where I can smell where bugs comes from and very fast decide were functionality should be inserted. Up to that point things are just a hassle and then it clicks and becomes a breeze.

Then I switch jobs to get a pay raise and the grind begins again ...
Maybe tell that to these people? [0] I think they want more than just a refund.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/business/tesla-autopilot-...
Having worked extensively with employment law and little union work I feel comfortable you will never find an example.

However there never can be can be a resolution to your proposal, so with that I will have to pass on your entertaining offer.

I will just leave this here for anybody who cares about employment law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
I believe the rule is against changing the title to make it more click-baity. (Or for any reason besides necessary shortening.) In this case the title of the original article was used unchanged.
This should be required reading for probably anyone who votes.

This quote is my take away -

"Almost every advancement in construction is small enough for a man to carry"
Just from Stephanie Seneff, whom a lot from the pro-vax & pharma industry label a quack and discard. Her points are pretty controversial but not without a lot of data and reasoning, but I am no expert in this.
https://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/2021/HealthFreedom2021.p...
Here's a fun example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGaSHDmuAPg
Yeah it's been wild hearing what people wanted to exclude if they could. Even the definition of "sin" stocks varies person to person. Some people are anti-tobacco but perfectly fine with stem cell research.

re: Wealthfront exclusion selectors - this is part of their direct indexing option at higher levels, yes?
Better, yea. Here's the color I used, which has a little less saturation: #d9534f.
saying "Given that they get paid so much, taking responsibility for things " sounds exactly like a paid scapegoat. Also what constitutes a "watch"? CEOs aren't omniscient, they aren't observing everything their execs do.
First of all, there ARE engineers companies are paying to stay. Those are anecdotal 20%, doing 80% of impact. But this is actually irrelevant.

The point is that companies should compensate their top-impacting engineers with equity, not money.
And then it adds note taking, literate programming, and hyperlinking to, well, anything you or someone else wrote a protocol handler for.

I'm not as smart as I used to be and my short term memory and long term recall are both not what they were in my teens, but using org-mode as a prosthetic brain has kept me as if not more effective.
Wait, so you were being bullied at a new job, and even though it wasn't handled the best way, the issues were resolved? And the response to this is that you should take a career break rather than talk to the management/offenders, or even take another job somewhere else? More context or details would be really helpful in giving you the right kind of advice.
Is there a trade off between depth and breadth here? While not the SV tech scene, I remember working for an aerospace company that had some people in the same positions for a couple decades. For the administrative positions it seemed to breed complacency, but for the technical positions it seemed to provide a very deep level of technical expertise that would be difficult to cultivate within a couple years
lol.. and we're talking about AI replacing humans next year so come get your basic income check.
I feel that people shouldn't be surprised by this. Amazon delivers you stuff extremely conveniently and cheaply enough that you don't really need to think about it. That is about the extent to which most people are engaging with them.
ProtonMail “secure email service” delivers user data to security authorities
Notes: Title is taken from the text, as clearer than the translated article title.

Link is to a translation of the original German in https://steigerlegal.ch/2021/08/02/protonmail-daten-usa/
Brains are resource-intensive only if you are in a massive hurry. Starfish do fine, entirely without a structure you would call a brain. Packing it all into one noggin is risky, for no benefit. If you're not in a hurry, you don't need nearly as much of it, because it doesn't have to do everything at the same time.

There is no natural speed that life has to operate at. Any aliens we encounter are much more likely to be very, very slow, because it is they who can stand the vast chill void between stars. If they visit, and you dare to chop one down, you wouldn't find anything recognizable as brain inside.
That quote in isolation is also evidence-free (and sort of appalling imo), I’ll have to look into all that Ord has to say about this. But I’d like to point out that choosing whether to improve lives in rich vs poor countries is not equivalent to choosing whether or not to engage with climate change aggressively.
If it's unlawful, will Amazon be punished? Doesn't breaking the law usually mean punishment?
Probably because it doesn't work long term. Sure a bit of extra money can keep someone around for a short duration. Eventually that person is going to leave for the underlying reasons that aren't financially motivated.
browsers are pretty limiting on this functionality as is - pretty long timeouts, and firefox/safari have very big indicators explaining how to disable it
> unions are better able to represent the interests of the employees than, for example, the HR department would be able to

Employees are really good at complaining (at least in the US). Management that is interested in knowing what bothers employees definitely knows without a union.

> This could attract more talent to the company, improve retention

Paying more money works even better. People choose better paying jobs pretty consistently even if it means dropping the union.
I’ve changed jobs a few times and achieved great compensation. But each hop required arduous months of networking, study, and interviewing, all on top of a full time job. I know other engineers who are more talented than me, older, and get paid half as much, because they don’t have the personality type to go through that gauntlet. Some of these people work at companies that pay very well, but their managers have successfully cowed them from demanding promotions they deserve. Their employers are getting an amazing value. Why would they rock the boat?

In short, the software engineering interview (and leveling) process is designed to discriminate between employees with different levels of competence signaling and negotiation skill, so each employee can be paid as little as possible.
And if the revenue tanked would you accept half your salary, say, or would you expect a floor to be applied?
Remember when Consumerist ran their Worst Company in America series, and it was always Wal*Mart, Comcast, Verizon, Bank of America, or AT&T/Time-Warner in the final four? Makes me wonder where Amazon would end up today if they still ran the poll.
Small nit on your copy: I don't think that the average homeowner is going to know what GitHub is, what it offers, or why it's useful.

Super interesting nonetheless.
In theory that would be good. The issue is that a lot of managers don't like dealing with problems. If somebody is doing badly and maybe should be fired (which is what a PIP is supposed to indicate) you don't want a manager just passing the buck to some unsuspecting team.

Ultimately, I think you're right. It's impossible to build a bureaucratic pachinko machine that will make the correct personnel decisions. You really need line managers dedicated to coaching staff, and higher-level managers coaching line managers. One-size-fits-all rules are not the optimal solution. But bad management is endemic in so many organizations that I'm sure these abuses go on all the time.
This is what all the cool-aid drinkers are missing in this thread. You can feel like you worked your ass off, or you can feel like you've been coasting, and still get the same performance review. I've seen genuinely valuable engineers get middling performance reviews because they didn't commit as many lines of code to Github that quarter as the other guy on their team.

That's an extreme example, but even in a "good" system, management is notoriously blind to the actual value of an engineer. In a perfect system, performance could be measured empirically and compensation would be based on that. But no one on earth has figured that out yet, and something tells me they never will.
> This is part of a multi-decade trend in ever lower 30-year yields stretching back to the Regan administration.

Interest rates have been going down, at least in Western countries, with some gyrations, since 1310 AD:

* https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2020/eight-cen...

* https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-history-of-interest-rat...
Everything you bring up requires mass amounts of energy, which consumes mass amounts of fossil fuels and natural gases, and is not “free”.
Yes, it is different in the US.
> Management that is interested in knowing what bothers employees definitely knows without a union.

Sure, but unions are good at motivating management to care.
A couple of past threads:

Apple iPhone charger teardown (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23057091 - May 2020 (71 comments)

Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in an tiny expensive package - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3996171 - May 2012 (167 comments)
The writer, on the other hand is not understanding the legacy impact that golden and red delicious have. Many of the best sold apples in the market like Fuji, Pink Lady or Rubinette descend directly from red and golden delicious
I'm unconvinced. I used a MacBook for about three years around 2010, and had to have the charger replaced twice as the cable started cracking near the MagSafe connector. The third charger started falling apart (insulation yellowing and cracking along much of its length) while sat unused in a drawer. I've also had two or three Lightning cables fail in a similar manner until I switched to Anker cables.

I've only ever had one non-Apple laptop charger break in a similar way, and that was after five years of heavy daily use. I've never had the insulation break on a micro-USB or USB-C cable (I used Windows Phones until I got an iPhone 11). If it were entirely due to user behaviour, I wouldn't expect to see such a disparity between Apple and non-Apple cables.
PSA: Careful when adjusting your volume while your wearing headphones (without a mic), while your phone is in your pocket by squeezing the sizes of your phone.
There’s nothing more stressful than trying to pull over on the shoulder, get your helmet and gloves off, while a 911 dispatcher is repeatedly asking if you’re ok and need help.
My first introduction to the internet was downloading Magic the Gathering card lists as postscript files via FTP and then FTPing them to a postscript printer. Would have been 1994 and they were some sort of Sun machine at LMU. Internet has been all downhill since then.
I definitely want to avoid having my credit card details stolen. The inconvenience of calling the bank to report fraudulent transactions and then waiting a few weeks for a replacement card to arrive is something to avoid if you value your time.

I save most passwords in the browser, including discord, but not important things like banks and emails. Password manager for that. I think it's foolish of Chrome to offer to save CC details.
72% is a C in most schools. I wonder how they'd do against Comcast or Bank of America.
I see this all the time on HN and it's maddening. Every other site I read has rules against clickbait titles.
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No, not books meant to paint politicians in a good light. I’m talking about these “orange man bad” books. Why would I want to spend hours of my life reading more details about a man I don’t want occupying my mind?
We are trying really hard to keep it at $299.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_tunnel: “The main barriers to constructing such a tunnel are cost first estimated $88–175 billion, now updated to $1 trillion-20 trillion, as well as limits of current materials science.“

China-USA would be a bit longer and go through the ring of fire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire), making it a bigger challenge to build.

I would guess a bare tunnel itself is less of a challenge than its ventilation (even if you build a parallel tunnel tube for ventilation, pumping it out over thousands of kilometers will be challenging. The alternative would be to build ventilation towers every x km) and safety (how long will it take to get an ambulance to a traffic accident? To get people out?)
I'd appreciate any links you have to this evidence. I also found this:

> After conducting a detailed analysis of recommendations received by each channel type, we refute the popular radicalization claims. To the contrary, these data suggest that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm actively discourages viewers from visiting radicalizing or extremist content. Instead, the algorithm is shown to favor mainstream media and cable news content over independent YouTube channels with slant towards left-leaning or politically neutral channels. Our study thus suggests that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm fails to promote inflammatory or radicalized content, as previously claimed by several outlets.

Here's a more accessible writeup[1].

[0]: View of Algorithmic extremism: Examining YouTube's rabbit hole of radicalization https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11211

[1]: https://mark-ledwich.medium.com/youtube-radicalization-an-au...
Half?!? In most companies, a manager with half their people on PIPs would indicate the manager is really fucking things up somehow. Bad at hiring or bad at managing. That's not the case at Amazon?
This is what terrifies me about the FIRE movement.
The great contempt that computer people have for the skills that every human brings to the jobs that the do is always on display here. We haven't automated driving; we haven't automated picking tomatoes; we haven't automated bricklaying; we can't automate cooking a fucking hamburger. But they are completely convinced that it's just around the corner, because they are full of contempt for the skill and intelligence of ordinary people.

Frank Bardacke in his book, _Trampling out the Vintage_ describes the great skill that agriculture workers bring to the job that they do, from knowing whether something is ripe enough to pick to the dexterity required to pick it without destroying the fragile fruit or vegetable. Some jobs have been automated, but many more have not and most likely never will be.

Please, learn some humility and try to understand the skills that every human possesses and that they bring to their work.