skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the OP, anyway I used Debian on my old Mac Mini (first model, PPC CPU) about 2007 or so as media player connected to a projector, all mounted on a wooden shelf over a door; very compact and fit nicely in the living room. I used a media player roughly similar to Kodi (can't remember the name atm) that loaded just after boot without requiring login, set up to connect automatically to my NFS NAS and present all media as browseable directories; I later also added a USB TV dongle for DVB-T TV, so it was practical enough to be used by the girlfriend who isn't much into computers. A wireless IR keyboard with sort of a trackball (actually a giant equivalent of the Thinkpad red mouse "thing") completed it. It lasted a few years though, as pretty soon I discovered that a Raspberry PI that cost about 1/25 could do almost the same things, so I gave the Mini to a relative of mine who is an architect, and never heard that awful loud "boonnnnng" sound again. I had to fiddle a bit with startup scripts, kernel recompiles etc. to bring it to useable level, today it would be probably a plain install, but was helpful and taught me a couple things.
As for MacOS, I tried it, it was like a large polished, beautiful, golden cage. It has every possible comfort, but it was still a cage, and it lasted a few hours before I installed Debian over it.
Shorter version in article: https://www.accessnow.org/why-encryption-is-important/
Addresses are still quasi-public information - they are published in all sorts of places, property transactions are published and available online. Someone's address is usually are easily found if you go looking.
IAM Identities: Users, User Groups and IAM Roles
Got to cull the bottom 10% every year! I wonder how many people rejoin at a later point of their career, otherwise surely these sorts of practices would be unsustainable (without hiring lots of labour from abroad?).
Never happened to me. Please link some of those sites, I want to test them.
Florida changed its Covid-19 data
If you pay enough.
Familiarise yourself with the STAR recruitment method, alongside amazon's leadership principles. You won't only be judged based on your skills, but how well you seem to suit their work culture.
Yeah, with prolonged humiliation
There is also another factor for some of us...

Although practically I am interested in running Linux on an appleM1, my conscious will no longer allow me to fund the company producing it, so I can never own one.
Thats why many doing that kind of stuff probably use a third party that keep money for a definite amount of time.
He moans about a lot of things - try his "Doctors Don't Seem to Care if They Kill Their Patients"-article.

It painted a grim picture in my head about what kind of character he is. I honestly couldn't tell whether it was satire.
How the CIA Exited Its Base in Kabul
yeah, trying to blame me or others is spot on,its a thing i frequently do, have to work on that, thank you
My high school had one of those, and a couple Decwriter IIs, on their PDP-11. The III, in its day, was absolutely amazing.

My office had a III sitting in a storeroom years ago, which got pitched in a move. I had no place to keep it, otherwise I would have tried to save it. One of the keycaps was busted as well, and I had no idea how much restoration it would have needed.
The data for vaccination status of people that are hospitalized should not be impacted by the way people that are not hospitalized are tracked...the proportion of vaccinated people in the ICU is independent from the overall number of breakthrough infections (because their vaccination status can be recorded by the hospital directly).
If you join as an engineer it seems that getting on a decent team is a gamble. You could end up with great people, or with people who'll make you miserable.

Needless to say, I'd rather look at other FAANG options.
How does the housing market work in countries with negative interest rates, I am assuming the home loan rates are very very low so does that lead to a boom in house prices?
to them hiring 50k people??
Arlington, Virginia, the “HQ2” contest winner that so far has a small fraction of the 25,000 roles Amazon has promised it over a decade, currently has about 2,800 openings.
The Coming Age of “Natural Ned”
I've been on cat-v when devs were discussing developing wireless drivers for 9front (plan 9 fork) and most of these problems are due to lack of documentation. These cards are software driven so the driver isn't interacting with hardware registers or memory like an ethernet card but a protocol between the running firmware blob and the kernel. And you are responsible for loading that proprietary firmware into the card as well. You're essentially interacting with a black box. Its almost voodoo.

Some cards work perfectly by copying OpenBSD drivers or have some documentation. Though many cards require cargo culting by copying undocumented behavior from undocumented Linux drivers in order to get the cards working. The big problem with that approach are issues which arise cant be debuged. Best they can do is poke around and guess.

This whole thing is the fault of hardware manufactures.
> Fired, but with extra steps

Heh, I like this one
My theory is most of the hate for telemarketers is by people who just don't spend money and aren't ever the target audience for them. So they feel grouchy and left out.

The target audience for telemarketers is more than likely thankful for them. There is a lot out there, it is good to be told about the bits of it that make life better.
Does it matter? You'll have Amazon on your resume. Its a door opener for whatever job you apply for next.
Performance Improvement Plan

It's what they put you on, before you are fired. Some people think it's purpose is to get people to quit before they are fired.
Very good points, I will for sure use this mentality when getting these details in
The biggest thing stopping me from using other compile-to-Javascript languages is that almost none of them fully support async-await.

Many of them have some support for async/await but few can handle all cases such as async-await within try-catch and so on.

Scala.js async-await is not part of the standard libary I think and has this limitation: https://github.com/scala/scala-async#limitations.

Kotlin.js might support async-await but I find their JavaScript documentation so confusing/non-existent I can't tell. But also, Kotlin is too similar to JavaScript already anyway. It doesn't have ML-style pattern matching for example.

The Java-to-JavaScript and C#-to-JavaScript compilers both are too underused as far as I can tell. The latter, Blazor, is too focused on ASP.NET for me to be able to understand if I could write it the way I write React apps.

Elm, ReScript, and other ML/Haskell-influenced languages are too niche even though I'm a big Standard ML fan.

I'm not sure what else there is to look at.

And I really don't want to go back to using promises and callbacks.
A quick search online brings up multiple articles dating back a few years with examples of the same thing. It's not "an impossible feat".

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160229-the-sea-nomad-ch...
Wow, "it's so dense; every single frame has so many things going on".

Love the walking cat gif http://vcfmw.org/friends.html
How much do they pay: I am not from the US and I see pretty large differences in salaries thrown around here for FAANGs.
Of course you can, there's nothing sacred in Apple's libraries. The only sacred thing is system calls, but it's more like API rather than library.
I have interviewed and done interviews for Amazon, I'd say leetcode easy with the occasional medium is to be expected, but Amazon is special in that it feels like a bunch of small team with different expectations and requirements so YMMV.

I know Amazon gets a bad reputation these days but I really enjoy working there so if you are considering applying I'd say go for it.
> UI changes

This, but I'd argue it's not limited to Ubuntu, or even to Linux.

For the desktop environment, I've been using Cinnamon with my family, since it's ostensibly most similar in the UI metaphor to Windows. That's luckily been a nonissue.

The problem has been Web browsers - looking specifically at Firefox. My mom and my grandmother had pretty big upsets when Firefox released Australis, and Photon knocked my grandmother off the Internet completely (she suffers from dementia and isn't able to comprehend changes in her environment anymore).

It doesn't have to be that way. My dad is still using SeaMonkey, and has almost completely avoided this problem - the UI has been largely consistent since the Netscape 4 days.
When I see numbers like this, I wonder what on earth those 55k people will do.

Like I recently interviewed a candidate who was working on a team of over 60 iOS developers working on a single mobile application. I've built fairly complex products with a team of 4-5 people - how would 55 more people manage to keep busy, let alone add value?

I realize Amazon is a huge, multinational corporation with a lot of product offerings, but do they really have enough to work on that they need another small city of tech workers?

Don't get me wrong, being in the industry I'm happy to have big players driving up the price of talent, but part of me wonders if they really understand how scaling works (or doesn't) with tech headcount.
That's baffling (an fascinating) to me. Does the "white" part look the same to you as things that are definitely white? Like the blank parts of the wikipedia page for instance?
"We know our vehicles depreciate faster than average, and rather than fix common security flaws or encourage gap insurance, we'll offer a token discount."

I guess that falls in line with their reliabity standards and replace every 2 year business model.
Zero-Click iPhone Exploits
I read his newer book, "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst".

The book changed my view of the world quite a bit. Especially about wealth, poverty, crime and justice.
> Not to mention what happens when some good-intending but ill-informed agency release an enhanced photo of a suspect on the run.

The more interesting situation is when such "enhanced photos" are used in prosecutions. I suspect that ML "forensics" techniques and questionable expert witnesses will be used to elevate hunches to guilty verdicts and raise (false) conviction rates.
For all the people like you who might have reservations, there's a line out the door with slightly worse, or even comparable qualifications who would be head-over-heals for an offer from Amazon.
I decided to stop supporting non-Unix devices long ago. Microsoft ops/adminsys are gods, honestly. Cryptic messages, error logs that disappear, interfaces everywhere (i'm not against GUI but sometime its too much). I can't really configure networking since XP (or windows 7 i guess), it changed too much. Things that takes one hour to understand with most Unix can take a week for windows (versioning multiple php and multiple php-crypt, what a pleasure...).

Anyway, Mac are sufficently unixy that i don't have that much issues. I recommand chromebooks for non tech-savy people now and i did install linux mint on my grandmother PC shortly before she passed away (no relation hopefully), it was great and i had a remote access without installing a scam enabler. If you don't mind explaining things to your grandmother, this is a great idea. I did shortcut her three apps (and did aliases in the terminal to show her how i work usually, i don't think she ever used ctrl-alt-T after that day but still, great times). 100% would do again.
Tech people believe that highly skilled jobs are quality not quantity, Amazon CEO goes for quantity.
I know I'm extraordinarily biased in this situation, but I really hope that sailing makes something of a comeback as an eco-friendly means of international travel. Not flying shouldn't mean no more travelling, just that travelling happens at a bit more of a sedate pace.

The act of sailing doesn't harm the environment at all, and even now some yachts have eliminated their marine diesel engines altogether in favour of a sail/electric setup which I imagine could scale up as massive battery banks get more and more feasible. There's also been nearly a century of innovation in materials science since the last clipper ships and even they were pretty fast.
There was the argument of sovereignty for example which was aggressively shot down as xenophobia, although it is pretty much true. Nobody within the EU ever denied that it to be a reality, it was openly talked about.

The argument was that there is a larger scope that is also relevant for international policy, but that wasn't even mentioned anymore.

So people were directly and obviously lied to and their argument was misconstrued and people just didn't buy it. If the lie wouldn't have been created, maybe the EU would be larger today.

Perhaps it wasn't a smart move to leave. But the advertising for remaining in the EU was extremely incompetent. To reduce it to xenophobia is still reductive like that.
I actually use a similar setup as yours, but that's no the point. All my comments are in the context of the posted article, which explains why we need such a move.

People don't always use this setup, whatever is the reason. You won't change that.

The next best thing is to make sure if people don't, it doesn't break the world.
Typescript was about bringing the culture of static languages to a language design that explicitly rejected it. Large JS codebases already existed in 2006 (Gmail, ..)
They put the money in short term treasuries, I reckon. Money market funds come to mind as well.
A) Yes, if you don't have a problem with not paying taxes.
B) Yes.
C) I disagree. General rule here in Denmark is that house price, you can afford a mortgage for, is 3x your household income before tax.
> My (outsider's) perception is that Ruby came and went,

That's like saying PHP came and went. Just because something is no longer the new hotness and doesn't get discussed a lot on HN doesn't mean nobody uses it. Both Ruby and Rails continue to be updated just like PHP and it's popular frameworks. If you compared the number of websites developed by either compared to Erlang, it's not even close. Elixir & Phoenix would be a better comparison, but Ruby is still top 20 in the Tiobe Index (PHP is top 10), and Elixir is somewhere hovering around the top 50.
My children being physically assaulted and called racial slurs.
The housing market in the Netherlands is a complete train-wreck for almost a decade. The climate crisis pressing down on the ability to build new houses, the negative interests rate and a flailing government makes matter consistently worse. In Q1 2021 the prices rose with almost 12% compared to previous year, and the prices are rising almost quicker and quicker by each month, with no clear end in sight.

Yes, the loan rates are on a historical low, but have been already for a few years now.
how is that off topic?
> our entire legacy stack is stateful, there is no way around that unless you nixify the entire stuff

AFAIK Docker images aren't stateful: they're immutable snapshots, content-addressed by their cryptographic "digest". That's an elegant idea, which works perfectly well for legacy systems without "nixifying" anything (although personally I prefer to generate container images using Nix rather than Docker, but that's besides the point ;) )

Images are typically used as a "base", with further "layers" on top; those layers are also immutable: they use the same content-addressable "digest" mechanism, then get union-mounted together. This lets us use a known-good base, and add our application-specific parts on top, like a /var/www/html directory or whatever.

The problem with creating a layer via 'apt-get dist-upgrade' is that we no longer have any idea what will be in the image (it depends on when we build it, as repos get updated); we have to store/transmit both the old and new versions (the base and our layer); any security audits for the base image are invalidated; etc.

This isn't a "legacy" problem either: it's simply a rejection of the 'base image + layers' concept. It's fine to reject that concept, but there are cleaner ways to do it like debootstrap (which is the legacy solution, around far longer than Dockerfiles running 'apt-get dist-upgrade').

Also, the Dockerfiles controlling this stuff are usually kept in git repos and hence are also immutable. However, there's another anti-pattern of pushing their results to some ":latest" tag, which defeats much of the point of versioning.

These sorts of bodges are everywhere.

Consider the problem actually being discussed in this article: that files managed by 'pip install' may conflict with those managed by 'apt-get'. APT has been able to detect such conflicts for decades (even longer than Nix!). The article even mentions 'dpkg-divert' (part of APT's conflict-resolution system), but only as a patch for Dockerfiles to avoid the new pip-install conflict detection! A slightly different patch (e.g. running 'dpkg-deb -b' on the pip-installed libraries) would not only avoid problems from the new pip-install behaviour, but would also allow APT to tell us if we're breaking things.

I don't see these issues as a 'legacy problem' either; it's more like a WorseIsBetter approach which (a) undermines improvements when they're introduced, (b) propagates throughout the industry as "best practice", then (c) has to be supported forever, even by those who don't care to use it.
But how to implement a LVT?

There is a comment just above that profit from selling a house is taxed as income! (!!!)

As long as commerical and personal taxes are aligned, that seems a strong solution.

But no politician in US / UK could survive after introducing it.
How businesses can see big changes coming ahead of time
I'd be curious to hear too!

I knew somebody at Twitter years ago, and he said their mobile teams were bloated and individuals didn't do much. I mean, the Twitter app is quite simple overall, how can you have hundreds working on the UI?

My guess is it becomes hard to contribute quickly at an individual level due to process, lots of overhead with planning, and perhaps codebase not being clean, or just overly large that you don't have good sense of the scope.

Would love to hear from somebody that's worked on a team like this
Not from the US, I work from Canada (Montreal) and my salary is between 90-100k before bonuses and RSUs (those vary a lot more so it's a bit pointless to share). I'd say you can expect 110k total for L4 (SDE1) which is about as much as you can get for a new grad.
If your employer wants to fire you, then they’re going to fire you. The PIP is a miserable process, but there’s not typically a nice way to be fired. The PIP gives you a decent opportunity to make other plans at least.
Counter point: beginning of 2021, for weeks I was wondering why the markets were not reacting to Covid.

Only when travel restrictions were introduced, and only when they were introduced to the US, the market started taking notice.

Does the market extrapolate future earnings and macro economic trends, sure. Do some people have secrete insights beyond that? Sure. But I'd say the market as a whole is pretty stupid and reactive.
will this drive up salaries?
It is not clear what “ideological axe to grind” I or my friend may have nor why we should make up anecdotes. Convincing you or anybody on this site of anything doesn’t advance any item on my agenda.

Said that, is police data enough evidence?

https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/hate-crime-undermines-t...

> National Police Chiefs’ Council Lead for Hate Crime, Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said:

“We now have a clear indication of the increases in the reporting of hate crime nationally and can see that there has been a sharp rise in recent weeks. This is unacceptable and it undermines the diversity and tolerance we should instead be celebrating.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/brexit-race-hate...

You don’t have to reply, if you think the police are all crazy leftists who hate brexiters.
You can observe this (at least) in Germany right now. (Probably all over Europe, though.)

Interest on saving accounts is < 1%, loans are cheap, so everybody's trying to buy houses right now. House prices are rocketing up.

There will be lots of tears and people will lose their home once this starts to change and the fixed rates run out on some of those very cheap loans.
Eh… that really depends on what the source of the depression is. I’m bipolar and I’ll never be free of depression, hypomania, anxiety, and the various parts of my brain that are broken.

While medication and therapy can reduce symptoms, there is no cure. When I get depressed, I just have to ride it out. All I can do is accept that.

There are forms of depression that are biological in nature, just like bipolar is, and there is no cure, only mitigation.
Still making stuff up. Read again
Yes, junior devs and (and students) "get" classes much better than they do prototypes. This is a Hugh win when you care about productivity.

(Also note, => is not just a different syntax for function)
> It was previously known that some people can change their pupil size at will, but by using indirect methods.

> For example, researchers already knew that just thinking about the sun could constrict the pupils and that thinking of a dark room or mentally calculating something could dilate them, […]

Apparently, it is about changing the pupil’s size without any physical or mental stimulus.
Capitulation to that will never end. To wit, what is “misinformation”? Whatever those people don’t want.

Maybe it will take drastic measures to get those people out but there really is no other choice. Who owns Reddit, some mods or the people who call themselves the owners?

I only use one small part of the site so I actually haven’t seen this at all, for what it’s worth. Those big parts of the site are complete garbage dumps of ideology, which is probably what led to this. The politics forum is just absolutely atrocious.
Sheesh, that's quite a lot of

BRICK WALLS OF ALL-CAPS SHOUTING.
Is Amazon competitive, salary-wise, in the FAANG/Finance space anymore?

My understanding is that max salary is capped at ~$175K, bonuses/options take years to vest, and managers play games with these.

If you get hired and manage to stay for years, you'll do well in terms of total compensation, but the chances of that seem low.
Great advice! The wording in the draft does not even mention that the SLA should have a fee, so I don't know if they expect it to be flat or if they are trying to trick me into getting it as part of the custom plan I am offering them ;)
Isn’t now a good time to forbid the usury?
I was once asked what drugs I had taken, which confused me because I had taken none. A mirror inspection revealed that my pupils were hella dialated, for no apparent reason.

"On command" seems a plausible stretch from "spontaneously for no reason."
> Right now virtually all the incentives in software are tilted toward SaaS, cloud lock-in, and surveillance, because the other competing business model of pay-for-software has been destroyed.

The problem is that Non-Commercial licenses also do nothing to help with this situation either, because they explicitly ban traditional funding sources like pay-for-software.

I agree with you that current funding incentives push people towards the cloud. I don't see how Non-Commercial licenses help with that at all -- Non-Commercial licenses make it harder to just sell downloadable software that you run locally and privately on your computer. If the current incentive problem around funding is pushing people to adopt SaaS models and treat their software as a funnel into unrelated services, why champion a license makes that incentive problem even worse?
Especially if they want to discuss Free Will.
If it's something that is multiple countries... I could see 1-2 people per language/region for language/ui/testing.
Since we now know that some people can change their heart beat at will, their body temperature or their immune system response, and that it's something you can train, I don't think anybody find that very surprising. But good to know.