skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or the signals you're getting is that you're good at what you are doing, and not as well suited to other jobs as other candidates, at least in that context.

I don't think 'passive-aggressive' is the appropriate term, because there's not likely any conscious action by the company in these circumstances. You've applied, someone else was selected and that's it.

There's a tiny bit lack of self awareness on this thread with people with 'qualifications' assuming that there's some kind of implicit right to move up higher in the company. When they chose 'someone else' it's usually for a reason.

It's a pyramid, and just above manager it's really narrow there are just very few of those jobs, it's very circumstantial as well.

Looking outside might get you a sense of 'market value' and of course, there may simply be more opportunities elsewhere, but ultimately, the same structural limitations remain overall.

And finally, I would say that after various positions both contributor, managerial and also staff (i.e. reporting to VP's but without a team) - I'm not sure if most people recognize what the trade-offs are, the pay is nice but usually comes at a cost.

If you're doing something you remotely like, if you have a half-decent manager, and you're getting paid somewhere near a reasonable rate - you're already winning. Anything else is gravy.
how much time is freenas administration taking? That's what i use, and i barely need to spend time on it, so i'm not sure how much time you can save switching. If the issue is power, then you can stick with freenas as well just with a very small system. If, you just don't want freeNAS and you want something that should be more turnkey, any device with 2 drive slots and raid 1, with a plug-in or something to automatically sync to backblaze or similar will be fine.

Ideally you want to follow 3-2-1 (3 total copies, 2 local, 1 offsite) for backup, so I'd recommend the following setup:

A small FreeNAS box. Like, 3 hot data drives at most, small. If you really want to save on power and are willing to take a hit on performance, you can use something as small as a raspberry pi. (again, if you don't want freenas, then swap this for anything with 2 drives that can RAID 1 and can automatically sync with backblaze or similar).

On the local PCs pick a specific folder to back-up instead of everything, since you'll only have a small backup.

Personally, I would stay away from anything that isn't ZFS backed, but i've heard good things about synology. I wouldn't trust any solution from an HDD mfg, because i don't think their code is that good for that sort of thing (eg https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/2/22561140/wd-cloud-os-3-sec...)
https://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-N95-Particulate-Performance-D...

Home Depot sells this 20 pack for $24 from 3M. That’s $1.20 each.
MikroSim
Funny this shows up when I am watching this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMJWeluZ3tI
I think the Mac is getting too restricted these days, with the T2 and SIP and all
The big guys are trying to get this in their store models so that they can pull their 30% cut.
Video games are immersive experiences: you're interacting with only the video game when you play it (or at least, that's the design), and you don't experience the jarring from task switching because you don't switch.

For desktop applications — especially a password manager whose main use involves switching to it quickly to find something to enter into a different application — there is a lot of that resistance when you go between apps that feel totally different.

(I currently work on an Electron app — but that's because it was already one when I joined the team, and it's in a space where time to market for multiple platforms is definitely more important than a good polished experience, at least at the stage we're at. Sad as that is.)
Well that's why I highlighted the odd tone in the email.

The other odd thing was the "Make Ashley's Life a Living Hell" ticket screenshot. It looks incredibly bad, but then she replies on the ticket which can be perceived as playing along. I understand that victims sometimes cope that way, by pretending to go along, hoping the abuse would stop, but at the same time, it makes it harder to convince others later how bad things were.
Got 3 beers in Germany when I wanted 2 many, many, times before I learned.
> isn’t the premise that if privacy was rampant and patents didn’t exist then more people and companies would be able to innovate on the technology

No, because innovating on technology costs money and if you can’t get a return on that, the incentive to invest is eliminated.

The eInk situation is indeed dysfunctional, but the fact that one patent holder is bad at business doesn’t mean much more than that.
Based on my experience living in a "red state" in the USA, it really doesn't take that level of sanction. People almost universally wore masks in grocery stores here when: a) it was a state mandate/law and b) the asshole state politicians kept their mouths shut about it. Prior to the state mandate there was a patchwork of business and local health dept mandates that were far less well observed. Then subsequently (when the governor changed from Dem to GOP) the politicians realized they could score points with the "not gona do it" crowd by criticizing mask wearing and we went back to nobody wearing masks. And finally, delta variant seems to have scared a significant cohort into voluntary mask wearing.
10 or 42?
Open-source software economics and community health analytics: Enter CHAOSS
Can’t tell, monasto and folks keep settling
> The masked group might just take longer to get there.

That's not a bad thing. Remember "flatten the curve"?

Avoiding everyone from getting it isn't the goal. Preventing the collapse of the healthcare system is.
Hey HN, I'm the front-end dev/designer of this dApp, and I'm really proud of the way it's turning out!

Been hacking on this for the past 3 months... couldn't have gotten the Tron-like UI without the amazing arwes.dev React framework.

I know there's a good deal of crypto skepticism on HN right now (rightfully so), but I'm happy to answer any questions about the design or mission to the best of my ability!
>Schedule II drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with a high potential for abuse, with use potentially leading to severe psychological or physical dependence

That describes Fentanyl very well. Compare that to...

>Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse

There are clear uses for Fentanyl. However, you could argue that we could phase out use of Fentanyl for any procedure in favor of other drugs and I wouldn't be opposed (which would shift it up to Schedule 1).
I've got one of each (wd red/ironwolf) in my Nas at the moment both still going strong 4 years later.
Here's a food analogy: everyone wants to buy the best looking apples, but then farmers are more incentivized to breed for looks than nutritious value, even though nutritious value is the superior metric.

Similarly, if everyone seeks to "dumb down" programming, you end up with a large pool of "dumbed down" programmers, which is counterproductive precisely because AI is imperfect and you need a higher level of expertise to compensate for its shortcomings. As Kernighan famously said: "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." Similarly, if one lets the AI do the thinking in their stead, what hope do they have of being able to debug it?

Ironically, though, programming already suffers from this exact problem in a very fundamental way: every tool exists to make a programmer's life easier, and consequently there are a lot of glue-code programmers. The few that actually impact the industry meaningfully (e.g. most notable software comes out of Bay Area) are very expensive because the supply of experts is limited.
We usually write RnRS. If you're into Unicode or markup languages like TeX and HTML, you can write R⁴RS, R⁵RS, R⁶RS, R⁷RS, or generally RⁿRS.

And yes, I think that "The Revised Revised Revised Revised Revised Revised Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme" is pushing the joke rather too far, but R⁷RS is what name got consensus. It's modeled on "The {,Revised|Modified} Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60", where the usual abbreviations were R, RR, MR, but I like to write R⁰RA60, R¹A60, R²RA60 instead. Ditto with R⁰RA68, R¹A68 for the distinct language Algol 68. Finally, the incomplete report on the Scheme offshoot Kernel is R⁻¹RK.
An Apple software VP forwarded the memo to engineers, saying:

> I wanted to share this note that we received today from NCMEC. I found it incredibly motivating, and hope that you will as well.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/06/apple-internal-memo-icloud-ph...
> Tangentially, I think keeping their servers clear of illegal material is actually Apple's main motivation

My guess about this whole debacle is that - with pressure from the government to scan their cloud storage - that this is the alternate scenario to avoid giving up (or being forced to) the "encryption" guarantees of their cloud. I'm not sure what technical process they have in place to "only decrypt with valid law enforcement requests" or allow account rescue, but it seems likely that not just any employee can view whatever they want, before or after this system.

Saying that I can maybe see a way the pressures are on this doesn't mean that I'm saying this is a good solution though. Clearly technically implementing this is opening a can of worms that can't really be closed again and makes a lot of other scenarios "closer".

Also, evidently, people are a lot more comfortable with the idea of them actively scanning stuff people store in the cloud than transmitting the information in a side channel so they don't even need to handle decrypted data without a hit.
The Japanese railway JRC or JRE can’t remember which one has a great program for this. Everyone being promoted needs to train their own replacement for leveling up. In practice or works great, and it is much easier to hire entry level then experienced and they even have their own university for training the entry level hires.
> That number will be much higher since as you said a number of people didn't/don't comply at a societal level.

...or it will be lower. The study confounds the effects of distancing and mask-wearing. Distancing was higher in the surgical mask cohort. Also, as others note, the confidence interval for the surgical mask group overlaps zero. You can't rule out that the observed effect is due to chance.
That makes sense to me but it still doesn't help... It just doesn't seem right to me that some random person can make a meme video and become a millionaire off of the ads alone. A society that enables these aberrations is sick and needs to be fixed.

I used doctors as an example but engineers are also comically undervalued in my country despite their extremely valuable and necessary contributions to society. It's a joke.

> doctors provide very valuable services to dozens - hundreds of people

I think this scale is a bit off. Doctors see thousands of patients per year.
> I feel like Copilot is the wrong direction to optimize development. This is mostly going to help people with already poor understanding of what they are doing create even more crap.

I can't wait until we start seeing Copilot Natives devs, who had it enabled from the moment they first opened VSCode at their "become an engineer in 3 months" bootcamp.

> To management (especially with wrong incentives) this seems like a perfect worker, because management usually doesn't understand the connection between lack of engagement and planning at design/development time with their later problems (or they don't feel it is them that is going to pay the price).

That's something I really want my competitors to do. Honestly it makes finding stocks to short much easier (or poaching talent...)
But upgrading HVAC systems is far more effective.
Solution to the pandemic: turn off your TV.
So am I understanding the study correctly?

> Those living in villages randomly assigned to a series of interventions promoting the use of surgical masks were about 11% less likely than those living in control villages to develop COVID-19

The surgical masks are 11% more effective in preventing COVID infection than not wearing masks at all?
That's on me, although I haven't quite figured out what causes it :). It's all static pages.

I'm going to completely remove all Javascript on pages that don't need it, which is most of them.

Investigation continues...
I am not arguing with the method, I only think the language of the paper is misleading to the point that the parent commenter aparently thinks they actually analysed hundred of thousands of subjects when they just extrapolated their observations to that number. It may even be right and significant but that is not my point.
The correct way is to count in binary, and easily reach 1023 without needing a third hand [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_binary
> Every time I've asked questions like these (which are generally considered sensitive financial information) I've gotten laughed at.

That's a red flag that the company you are talking to isn't serious.
Even though I know it is the case it never fails to shock me how naive and unquestioning people are when they read something. It’s like they feel the act of them reading it makes it likely to be true.

If people then question or doubt it when the person just repeats it they get angry when it’s they that should have done that
> All you're doing here is outing yourself as the opposite of the "apple sheep."

Fair point. I feel its a deflection from the point though. Nothing about this whole saga has much to do with tech. Understandbly since this is an engineering medium - fair play.
Intelligent enough that a vegan should probably feel bad about eating it though. You are cutting off the sexual organ of a somewhat intelligent living thing and that probably causes pain or at least distress signals. Same for plants though. Let’s all just starve to death.
Chicken supports fx+ and flround as well, as do all R6RS and R7RS-large systems.
What's even more simple than your solution, is to pressure Apple politically to change this.

And it looks like that worked, and apple got rid of this self reporting feature.
I recently was comparing. Both QNAP and Synology have demo web UIs to try. That was enough for me to stop considering QNAP. It was almost like a joke of the worst most annoying UX possible with all kinds of alerts popping up and everything inconsistent and terrible.
Yeah, this has been done many times before by other tech companies. Facebook being the prime example.
> Piracy is potentially good for the overall market (free innovation, etc)

I haven’t seen any innovation done by software pirates other than what’s necessary to circumvent protections.
Thank you. 42.
I edited my comment above.
> Automatically scanning your stuff and reporting the bad things to the police is like the concept of God always watching.

What I find interesting is how our perspectives shifted over time. 1984 was considered a dystopian nightmare and within that world Big Brother wasn't always watching but rather _could_ watch at any time. The simple ability to be able to tune in was enough to create the fear and have people report others. We're well past that to be honest and interestingly our interpretations have shifted as well to Big Brother _is_ always watching and that being the dystopian nightmare. In this sense we're there in some areas of our lives and it has shifted to "I have nothing to hide" or "what can I do?"

So it is interesting to see that essentially the window shifts further and further in that direction and as long as the shift is sufficiently slow the general public seems not to care. I wonder if there is a turning point.
At the end of the day all government mandates come with an implied threat of violence, but that aside, since we are talking about Bangladesh in this thread, I know some people from there and the police regularly beat people in the street for violating covid mandates and they even broadcast the beatings on television as a deterrent.
If you read the article you’ll find that this is exactly what it’s talking about. Ships of yore developed techniques to fend off pirates which eventually led to faster, more reliable shipping.
This might explain the reason for the copyright: https://mathlets.org/training/

Edit: More specifically:

> This self-paced short course by Professor Haynes R. Miller, Ph.D. [ Biography ] focuses on the use of technology in mathematics education at the university level. The course begins with an introduction and then explores the MIT Mathlets collection by providing examples of Mathlet use in three different contexts.
It makes all the difference in the world on whether Apple scans their own servers for content they don't want versus your phone snitching on you.

I can choose to not upload things to Apple.

If my iPhone decides to scan my photos just because, I can do nothing.

I won't accept my device being a snitch under someone elses control. Companies change values and Apple already brazenly allows the CCP to snoop on Chinese iCloud data.
Yeah, anything non-SMR and with RAID-focused firmware should be fine. For WD specifically that means Red Plus not Red, because Red has SMR. Seagate Ironwolves should be just fine, but I haven't bought any since the WD version was cheaper at the time I was purchasing.
> If backward compatibility is king, the only analysis needed would be "dual decoders is too complex".

So AArch32 has a variable width decoder but it was too complex to build one into AArch64. That makes no sense at all.

I'm making no claims at all that Arm made the right choices - just that they actually made a choice and it's very unlikely they would have left huge amounts of performance on the table.

Rather that if you're going to make claims for RISC-V materially exceeding Arm performance you need to have some evidence beyond back of an envelope cache size analyses to back it up.

And sorry a copy pasted SiFive press release from Ars with some odd claims on die area doesn't count as evidence.

I don't have any skin in this competition and like RISC-V a lot. I just don't like these spurious claims like the 20% in the thread above.
Well. I didn't get the new role, but I did send my updated resume to the 5 different recruiters I'm cool with.
In my country you are removed and fined if you are seen indoors or outdoors where you can't keep a distance without a mask.

It's when I read comments like yours that I feel so jealous of the US. You don't even know what living where I am is like. For you it's like a place that couldn't possibly exist. :P
I was always perplexed at Blender's quality and polish, given that it is F/OSS. It turns out it started off as proprietary software, and was open-sourced later. (It's also impossible to create a feature film, start to finish, with Blender alone, which was my point; not that there aren't 3d animation tools that work on linux.)
Developed by Kent Dybvig, sold to Chez which did who-knows-what with it (hiring Dybvig as well) but never commercialized it directly, and then open-sourced by Cisco.
> Widespread mask use came as close to wiping out last year's Flu season as we've ever seen.

I don’t think masks get alll the credit here, not even most possibly. The US was busy spraying down shopping carts with alcohol, fogging stores with disinfectant, and wiping every surface we could find with Lysol. Turns out that does nothing for Covid, but it’s extremely effective against flu virus.
without controlling for average time spent at various distances it seems hard to get any conclusion from this.

if wearing a mask results in people staying away from you, is the mask effective, or is distance effective?
The web is a good distribution method. However, HTML/CSS was intended to display the equivalent of MS Word documents, and is completely unsuited for general purpose UI. In fact, we know how general purpose UI should look like, because all the non-browser UI toolkits look pretty similar. And it's nothing like HTML/CSS.
Thanks for the link. This is an important part of this discussion, and something I don't understand well. If I'm going to compare compensation in different fields, it's important to know how variable compensation, like stock options or overtime, figures in. This is especially important in software vs nursing, since variable pay makes up a big part of software but overtime is rare, whereas overtime figures heavily into nursing but stock options are unusual.

Note that according to the BLS link you provided, overtime is also excluded. My company stock has never been worth a dime - I worked for Sun Microsystems before it crashed, and later for a startup that went kaput. This is all a combination of timing, luck, choices, the ability (or lack thereof) to pick a winner. Clearly variable pay is worth a lot at google, facebook, and many early startups, but my story is absolutely not unusual - and on the other side of the coin, I can assure you that nurses do get a tremendous amount of value out of overtime. Furthermore, overtime pay is predictable: you work more hours, you get 1.5-2x more money. But this pay is also excluded from the comparison I made above.

Without these considerations, the data is of limited value. FWIW, I have always been a little suspicious of how low the software engineer pay is on these surveys.

Overall, though, I think that in spite of the noise, the general principle does hold, that pay and benefits are good enough in other fields available that there's no reason to be puzzled about the low to medium interest level in being a developer in Silicon Valley, that this all explained as rational behavior in labor markets among hard working, academically inclined people.
Just a fun project. I dont want to attach names to the people, just attributes
I just want to chime in and say that at with my personal computer setup I was not able to recreate these findings at all. I was getting keypress to character latencies of around 30ms in Windows gVim as measured by averaging multiple runs w/ a 240Hz camera. I don't even think I have a particularly low latency setup as I'm using an eGPU.
All right then. Perhaps my memory is shit. I recall it being common to downvote anyone here on HN who alleged that Rentech was just a tax fraud.
I created a simple NFT “generator” and now everyone is using it
Might it be that not everyone would view taking on a big challenge with a potential ton of impact "career suicide"--or, would you shun an industry peer who tried to make Windows better?
> the MIT culture of credit theft

This makes me think about who we revere as scientists and who we compare ourselves to.

A lot of success in life is out of our control. Conditions produce outliers, not diligence and hard work (Outlier X probably did work hard, but the conditions were so for their nervous system to act as such).
"Telling an employee they have no opportunity for vertical growth in an org typically results in negative consequences."

Consider the fact that a company is a pyramid, and that there really isn't any material opportunity for advancement for 90% of the staff.

That's basically an implication of the structure of the org itself, which should be fairly discernible to any participant.

So the rational posture for most staffers at every level is going to have to by default: "There are limited opportunities for advancement". Once step further and you realize that advancement it probably going to be fairly competitive, though not always meritocratic, it is what it is.

So the implication that 'it's hard to advance' is not something the company should really need to tell employees, it's something mature workers should really understand and internalize.

That said - there's a lot of room for advancement in high growth companies, so look for those if you're keen on that.