skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've definitely had similar experiences with companies still at the "handful of employees" stage. If I'm actually interested in what they're doing, I enjoy the exercise. If I'm not actually interested, well it was an easy way to learn that before wasting their time or mine.
Dust-sized supercapacitor packs the same voltage as a AAA battery
As a survivor of the 2018 Paradise Camp Fire, I find this story one-sided and tone-deaf in the face of climate change.

California just had and has its biggest forest fire ever.

Chopping down trees is absolutely necessary in urban-wildlife interface when it creates a conduit to catastrophic fires.

Furthermore, other than minor points of appearances and ecological reasons, trees aren't carbon sinks, they're waiting match sticks.

Also, in the town of Paradise within Butte county, loggers engaged in widespread resource extraction and theft by taking trees without land-owners' consent and pocketing the money. 10k's of trees sold for logs $1000+ each.
I live in north-central Idaho. 10 minutes from 2 state-universities, but in an otherwise relatively rural part of the county with a 1/4 mile long, somewhat steep driveway.

Every year, I'm amazed at how quickly our personal "veneer of civilization" collapses in the snow.

The prior owners of our home would just keep their kids home from school, and work from home an average of "about a week every winter."

We're a little more aggressive with snow removal, but there are still mornings every winter where I'm getting up at 5 to spend a couple hours plowing and blowing out drifts on our driveway (after typically doing the same thing the night before) just in order for my wife to make it down to our county road which might still have a foot or so of snow covering it.

Similarly, in windy snow-covered conditions, there are a couple spots between us and town where the snow regularly drifts back over the road in a matter of hours, causing a "well, I know the road goes about here, I think I can make it through these drifts if I floor it so here it goes" situation.

Even when the roads are well plowed and clear, there are plenty of situations where it's difficult for me, a human, to distinguish between the plowed-but-still-white-road and the white snow all around it in some lighting conditions.

And let's take snow out of it. Our fastest route into town involves gravel roads. And our paved route is chip-sealed every couple years, and typically doesn't get a divider-line drawn back on it for 6-months or so after.

Which is all to say, I think it's going to be quite a while before I have a car that can autonomously drive me into town in the summer, and global warming aside, I'll probably never have one that can get me there reliably in the winter.
To each it's own.

E.g: I felt the same "taste" about your comment. It doesn't add anything objective to the discussion. And it sounds a lot like what my 4 year old son says about brussel sprouts.
Some say I'm still wandering the Wegmans, looking for sauerkraut until this very day
Skype wasn't shoddy per se, but it was extremely aggressively peer-to-peer, which resulted in exactly this kind of exposure of connection information.
I'm not following this. From the top; which claims in the article are you saying are specifically not true? Based on what not being well-cited?

Can you explain why someone should not be able to quote a sentence or two from a Wikipedia article (that anyone can easily find and read in its entirety) or anywhere else without being obliged to duplicate all the citations?
Yeah, looks like a Firefox rendering problem.
I have had take home assignments like this. Amortized I still have spent far less time on them than Leetcode.
tl;dr: It doesn't work.

If companies were empires, "get shit done" translates into exploitation colonialism:

1) "Recruit" large amounts of people.

2) Assign them to bruteforce tasks. Set production quotas.

3) Punish individual agency, self improvement and free thinking.

We know now that exploitation colonialism is an inefficient and primitive approach to governance that fails at achieving what it was designed to do: maximize value. Instead, it just maximizes poverty and misery. The empires that used it lost and capitulated to the empires that didn't. And this happened for a reason: it's a greedy heuristic, not a real strategy, it lacks a long-term vision.

The poorest countries in the world are governed either in this way or a similar one (extractivism), and are often so weakened by this form of governance that are forced to become vassal states that exist only to be bullied.

It doesn't matter if you throw all your entire country's population to "get shit done" (e.g.: agriculture, mining). Maximizing value means you also have to invest in education, infrastructure, science, culture, etc.

Instead of telling your employees to work mindlessly towards a goal, tell everyone to believe in themselves, and pursue their ideas if they think they have value.

"It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do, we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do" - Steve Jobs
I doubt that because it's probably illegal. Execs have to keep copies of things they write around.

EDIT: For those who are wondering, here is a quick summary [1].

Eric Schmidt's emails are definitely kept around a very long time, for very legal reasons, and whatever he happens to do with his own personal 'inbox' is not relevant to the subject at hand, and amounts to a kind of personal email/habit choice.

To suggest '72 hours' in response to a discussion about legal discovery etc. is basically misleading in that regard.

[1] https://www.spamtitan.com/web-filtering/email-retention-laws...
But are there two groups at Google:

Group A: not allowed to talk about monopoly

Group B: The group tasked with maintaining the monopoly.
I think documenting a very specific altruism is more effective than the B-Corp logo, which people may not even know what it is or worse, misremember it's meaning.

* We plan 1 tree for every 100 foobars purchased.

or

* 10% of our profits are donated to foobars without borders.
Why does it stretch credulity? It's exactly the reason smart printer cartridges are popular.
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> my previous employer had like 20,000 employees NATed behind a single IP.

If so, it’s incredibly unlikely that all 20k were online simultaneously. If they were, each person could only open ~3 TCP sockets to the internet (even if via a proxy if dealing with individual login sessions) at a time before you’ve run out of ports.
In Kids, the Risk of Covid-19 and the Flu Are Similar – Risk Perception Isn't
This is one of those "play with fire long enough, and you'll get burned" situations.
Id never assume that usa is socialistic. Neigther is switzerland where the goverment might own 3% of the industry, which is where im from. Id assume only kuba might be considered a socialistic country if you look at these values.

My original point was, that rescuing the banks by the goverment was a socialistic act. Thats where the discussion started and i still need to see an explanation why this is not the case. But i think you might even agree to this.

For all other points i fully agree with you. The goverment does only parts of these functions (healthcare insurance, etc.) . Which doesnt make the country socialistic, but these functions the goverment provides are. (In my point of view)

My key takeaway from this discussion is that in europe socialism is defined broader then in the usa. At least for an average of the people. The part of „govermentally controlled production“ has never really a been part of what i assume to be socialism. I think of it much more in the way as our second largest party the sozialdemokraten do (sp schweiz). But describing that would blow this topic completely.

Thanks for the discussion.
Data is big $$$. Slap a couple of NoSQL databases and Spark on your resume and watch the money roll in. DBAs are disappearing with managed services, though.
I think we can safely ignore entry-level roles here - for a while in the early 00s everyone with an MBA thought that entry level engineers were just like other engineers but at 20% of the cost - what savings! Then the industry realized that both junior employees and off-shoring come with real costs that need to be analyzed in advance - they can be the right answer, but you need to tread very carefully.

So I'd take a look at senior employees which tend to be a pretty curmudgeonly bunch that have been through wage freezes and non-monetary compensation circuses before and will jump ship if they get a wiff of it happening again. Companies won't feel any loss of revenue for a few years after work weeks are slashed - it takes a while for consumer spending to adjust to lower income - instead we'd likely eat a fair bit of inflation (which has been unhealthily stagnate for a while now) and everything would move on from there.

If the companies are responding to a natural decrease in effective revenue it'll be staggered and upstream companies will be shielded from it for longer - so you'll likely see a value shift from customer facing companies to B2B companies aaaaand - any wage slashing that goes on will just reinforce that value shift as valuable employees jump ship.

All these ripples that go through the economy do so slowly - and no MBA worth their salt is going to say (on the monday after switching to a reduced workweek) "Welp all our employees know this will eventually impact us so lets just slash their wages now". No, they'll wait and see if their business is able to ride out the shifting terrain without decreasing wages since that's a more stable approach and puts the company at less danger - and if that company happens to need to adjust employee costs it won't be evident until multi-year contracts are re-negotiated to lower rates and customers refuse to renew since their pocketbooks are empty.

Economics moves sloooow - maybe it'd be better to imagine the invisible snail of the market!
99% of users don't need remote SSH login on their Mac yet that has a GUI toggle...
Which one? I always found both the 101 and 280 pretty clear!
One thing I've noticed about "get shit done" people is that they quickly become the poster child to management for "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap".

Managers go directly to these people for sketchy, half-baked ideas done in 3 seconds that can boost whatever metric makes them look good to their bosses.

Of course, it's always an unmaintainable spaghetti mess. Over my years in the industry I've come to realize these types of people are really damaging to engineering culture within an organization. They represent a quick buck over quality.
Yeah, Netflix is actually annoying with it - I was using my "ultra low security" password which is in... probably every public password dump around for years, got dozens of logins, just ignored them til someone finally tried to change it and I had to reset it.
Apple's love for Dieter Rams has gotten them very far, but their recent pivot towards 'making the computer disappear' is at stark contrast with the design elements that he employed. Personally, I think we've gone as far as we can with those design cues: our tablets have been reduced to black slabs, and our computers arranged into thin silver clamshells. Apple's (re)introduction of color in the recent iMacs is a step in the right direction, but there's still so much of the 'domestic computer' design space that hasn't been explored yet. I think of Teenage Engineering and their colorful (albeit expensive) synthesizers, game consoles, and the various Homepod/Echo/Nest/Etc. smart assistants that now litter our home: these are all experiments in making the computer disappear, yet nobody seems to be paying much attention the field.
No, but its a very common thing for people who have a reputation for getting shit done to do. Such reputations aren't built on actually getting shit done (and especially not on getting it done well), but on knowing how to present the image of someone who gets shit done. Responsiveness, both because of the impression it creates on its own and because it provides the opportunity to instantly begin image management when a concern arises and before other input has been received, is central to that.
There are those who forge the path and those who finish the paving. Both types are required as it's exceptionally rare to find people who can consistently do both.
You'd be screwed if the DB went down, for one.
it is whithin guidelines to use the rendered title viewed in the browser, or the title coded in the html header using the title tag, even if the titles are vastly different.

what the submitted title looks like is there is a program of vaccine injury compensation being used in high frequency, when the message is that there is a mechanism of redress available should vaccine injury occur.
"here's how I make sure to only hire people with a similar background and personality to myself..."
HN isn't nearly as bad as some "open" source projects, whose code and infrastructure has been completely taken over by seriously under-performing but power-hungry Microsoft, Google and Facebook employees (Amazon and Apple are less prominent here).

You can still say many things here that can't be said practically anywhere else on the Internet.

Sadly, like "open" source developers, startups are quite afraid of MAGAF as well, so they no longer talk as freely as they did 5 years ago.
I think the definitions you're cherry-picking are examples of the erosion of the term's specificity, We need a word to describe scraping data values from a body of human-oriented markup. These folks are pushing the limits of ambiguity to rob us of that, and our reward is yet another word that just means using any API.

What is the upside of using this word in such an oddly vague, expansive way? What happens to those of us who need to convey the original specific meaning we coined it for in the first place?
Felt a little dirty managing data analytics integration for a free to play video game where the client would go "ooooh!" whenever someone who paid >$100 on currency to spend in the store, want to see whatever they bought, and then immediately set the entire dev team on creating more of that type of content (like cosmetic items), and not caring at all about improving the overall gameplay experience at all, which the game desperately needed.

Pretty sure he would even call them whales (pretty standard term for it, but still) in our meetings with him.

But not too dirty because ultimately the game failed and the client lost millions of dollars on it.
I get the impression this trend has peaked. For a while, young people stopped going topless on the beach, for example, for fear of photos appearing online. In the last years, it's been making a comeback. I believe it's both a sense that there's so much out there, chances are rather low someone you know will come across any photo. And that it just doesn't matter. I am absolutely certain you wouldn't be able to hurt someone with sending their work colleagues a topless photo you found, but rather risk your own job if you're found.
Yes. Being good with a straight razor meant more than just a neat shave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber%27s_pole
I've been in one of those interviews with a person with really bad English. It's a preview of how painful working there is. I just quit the interview after hearing the first question, and a few days later got a nice well-paid job at a larger company with a 30min interview about my previous experience.
He used gmail addresses. Just goes to show how little ppl pay attention to the email address.
No no, this will all go away when we get the vaccination rate to 70%.

... I mean 80%

... actually make that 90%

...
Been a fan of FastAPI! Does this support async?
Does it make companies more competitive against companies that don't adopt it?
> If the people want Sharia, than they should be free to chose it.

That sounds disturbing to me.

As if you had said, if the majority of the voters in the US want to enslave all black people, they should be free to do so.

Sharia laws enslave women.
It's also absurd to me how the answer to "how can folks with whom I generally respect have reached such a significant gap in thinking?" is basically "they must be brainwashed by their Communicating Safely training"... That's such terrible way of dismissing someone who has a different opinion than you.
Yeah, a large problem in software engineering is that we have zero metrics for how terrible anything is. So, you have some engineers complaining about code written by another one of your vendors. Are they just unfamiliar with the technique/programming language being used? Or maybe the other vender is just too sophisticated and their engineers can just do better? Or maybe they were a bunch of hacks that threw together code until it worked well enough to pass the acceptance criteria needed to get the final milestone payment released.

One way to pass the buck is to just "hire on the ability to get shit done" and justify it with "well, the shit needed to be done and now it is."

I can see it working okayish in the short term. However, eventually you want something (or need something a competitor has) and the answer is "cannot be done because the codebase is infested with demon spiders." Meanwhile the "got shit done" people are either gone (if you're lucky) or insist that the only way to do it is to continue the nightmare development philosophy they created on their own that mixes ideas from shintoism and kabbalah into C++ templates. Every week they're "making good progress" but the features are going to show up exactly never.
And hero worship when they circle back and clean up their own messes.
A woman who brought us the world
U.S. Space Command is now a ‘warfighting force,’ needs permanent home
Again, not free.
As an engineer you should be focused on delivering objective value, not subjective value.
They are dumb because

- they involve storing secrets on a readable filesystem

- are tied to a particular instance of a filesystem, not actually tied to a piece of hardware, which fails the "something you have" part of 2FA

- either (a) fail if you reinstall your OS, OR (b) need to transmit secrets to Google and Microsoft to allow you to reinstall the OS, both bad

With Yubikey TOTP you cannot read back the secret, the hardware itself doesn't provide an interface to do that.
Actually Nelua have been tested to work with Arduino, AVR, RISC-V and some other embedded devices. You can make some free standing code with the language if you follow some rules (avoid APIs that uses lib C and use a custom allocator).
Does a human see a clear path and kill someone or not?
Recfiles
What if you just want to spin up servers in an easy to use platform so you can use them to other things, and not learn the integrals of virtualization?
Yes, this happened at Google, in a huge way. Ten years ago you would hear interesting things at TGIF, the weekly informational company-wide event people would demo not-yet-launched software and hardware, discuss R&D, etc. After such a lot of cumulative leaks people stopped saying anything interesting at TGIF. You'd get information faster by reading the company press releases than by waiting for Friday.

It's not like the leakers did some kind of noble service, either. They were just assholes who destroyed something nice.
Bitcoin and the like simply make Panama papers style hidden wealth all the more likely and possible.
Not directly related but I have a theory that Google has shaped public opinion online - and been very good at it- in a couple of instances when there was a risk to their business.

The first was net neutrality, where you found various think tanks doing stuff like YouTube explaining why it’s bad to lose net neutrality. Once I dug into who was funding one of those think tanks and it looked a lot like Google. Given the % of bandwidth that is people watching YouTube, Google had potentially some big bills coming their way with the loss of net neutrality.

The other one is Kevin Rudd in Australia taking on Rupert Murdoch while Google is at risk of having to share ad revenue on news with NewsCorp. I haven’t researched this much but the question is simply who’s funding Kevin Rudd to fight Murdoch.
Surely you needn't feel like you're plagiarizing, just give credit. The credit won't be any less deserved next week or next year, even if you "Know" you'd definitely have fixed this without prompting, nobody else knows that, and so it looks like you avoided giving credit where it was due, so, don't do that.

Nobody's asking for royalties, so "Shout out to @SomeoneOnTwitter for reminding me" is enough.
The experimental reason is that damage to most areas of the brain causes consistent and remarkably narrow impairment, ie aphasia.

The reason you should predict localization just from first principles is latency. The bulk of your brain is connective tissue networking the cortex to itself, but even still signals can make many round trips within a small patch of cortex before it can cross the brain. Neurons are large and slow, and the more distant the neighbors they have to interact with the larger they have to be.

Does that mean that the regions of the brain kindly sort themselves into exactly the high-level categories we want them to be in? Absolutely not! Concepts like "attention" or "memory" might not even make sense when looking at how the brain is actually implemented. But regions of the brain probably perform specific tasks.
Those are Asians. They might as well be white. No one cares.
"disengagements" is a disingenuous statistic - that'd be like a human driver just giving up and getting out of the car.

What you want is "interventions". Additionally, look at where those miles were driven. Most of them are some of the most simplistic road driving scenarios possible.
The real issue is redefining the market. This is common in antitrust cases.

I could see an antitrust decision that forced Google to sell off the third-party ad, ad tracking, video streaming, email, messaging, and phone businesses, while retaining the search and search ad business. Then at least they couldn't use one monopoly to promote others.
I've always been fascinated by people who spend huge chunks of time creating and maintaining Wikipedia articles. Are they driven by a simple love research and curating information? Or maybe knowing their articles could potentially inform and educate millions of people.

I wonder how driven content creators would be if they believed no one would read their articles; if the information they carefully curated was mere bot food, digested and summarized on a Google search results page. The summaries may have greater utility for search engine users. Yet at the same time the ecosystem as a whole would be degraded if the incentives for creating rich detailed content are degraded.

Google relies on free and open access to a vast sea of information. Most of this information exists due to the labor of other people. If any company wants to use this information to create a free and open source search engine, voice assistant, etc., I say more power to that company. But when a company uses free and open data to power proprietary walled gardens, we should consider the regulatory implications and the effect on the ecosystem as a whole. And Google is large enough that when it creates a walled garden (keeping visitors tied Google properties and products) that it could have a significant negative impact.
The policy isn't to avoid crushing competition or becoming a monopoly in some market, it's to avoid specifically setting out to do so. Unless Google intentionally slows development/cuts resources, the amount of capital and level of talent they put into products makes "make the product better for users" a plan very likely to result in naturally taking over the market.
Human _resources_
I read lobste.rs but don’t have an invite. It’s absent of politics and ideology discussions. Pure tech as far as I can tell. “What are you doing this weekend?” threads are fun.
https://go.ludotune.com/oAJQ

Pretty fun!
Is this even legally possible? Can you make use of clauses that impede justice?