skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's is a simple physiological component behind that, in testosterone and estrogen. Later in life now, hormone levels declining, I'm seeing some convergence.
Eh

To me that's C++ snobbery talking. Long compile times, confusing type system, RAII as guiding design light

Just admit that it's basically C++
On the bright side she wasn’t claiming disability then posting pictures of her jet skiing in Aruba. That seems to happen a lot in NYC, particularly among the police and transit workers. You think they would notice their buddies on the front page of the NY Post and not do that.
This is all incredibly difficult in a large company.

The intake queues suck because _some_ teams respond to Service Now and some don't. Like, you'll have a pretty easy task which requires stuff from 3 teams, 1 you put in the ticket and they do it same day, the other sits there and never gets picked up, for the third you can't even figure out which team is supposed to do it let alone how you would contact them. So, the hunt begins, and this requires talking to actual humans. Sometimes there are 2 or more teams who could do your thing in different ways but none of them want to.

This is made worse by some parts of the company on webex, some on slack, some only available on teams, some teams responsive to email and others not really etc.

The only thing that makes the whole engine work is an informal network of people that trust each other who glue the whole thing together behind the scenes.

The OP's problem is that large company communication is universally dysfunctional and the "glue" network between them and the people who need things from them is not strong enough. It helps to have a strong informal networker in the reporting chain. This is usually some kind of team lead and everyone accepts that their productivity will be destroyed because "everyone knows who they are" and contacts them out of the blue with their wacky requests. They should then prioritise and route appropriately.

If leaders are not amenable or functional in this way they get routed around and "person you contact to get things done" increasingly diverges from formal leadership.

IMHO, a keen eye for how the organisation actually functions, careful relationship management and knowing which levers and channels to use to get things done are the skills of a 10x person in enterprise.
That’s my point, by bringing it up in the article you can deflect most of the comments that would _try_ to turn the discussion towards race. Whether the author genuinely feels like that or not... who knows.
The problem I see is that the delivery system has evolved in many companies / tech in general to be JIT, but for human resources.

While at FAANG, I was at capacity every week. So a 'normal' week (which was actually quite rare), I expected to spend 35-45 hours in work + meetings.

But 75% of those weeks, some urgent issue would come up. Then you have an extra 15-25 hours of attending to the urgency, falling behind 5-15 hours on planned work, and then you spend all evening thinking about how to solve the Very Urgent Problem.

Even if you are good at compartmentalizing, you'll be confounded by redundant messages from middle managers asking you about the status of the Very Urgent Problem.

Taking a break / vacation means twice as much work for 1-3 weeks before the vacation, and 1-3 weeks after, as you must prepare for coverage for while you are out of office, and then catch up on what happened while you were gone.

Add in the death of a loved one, medical issue or even a string of minor problems and you're completely subjugate to external circumstances. This will lead to burnout, at a minimum.

As a younger person, this kind of environment made me feel important and necessary. Later I began to realize this is the opposite of the truth. Important and necessary people have the power to set their own terms.

I am not sure why things have evolved this way. I recently watched Koyaanisqatsi ('life out of balance') a film from the 80s about modernity and technology and found it as relevant as ever. However the busyness that used to be outwardly visible has now migrated into our minds and seems to be causing mass unhappiness and mental health issues.
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A lot of truth here. When my BMI was high, just the reduction of calories and the daily exercise (walking) was enough to lose weight.

I've also had RMR (resting metabolism rate) tests to get some idea of base metabolism and DXA (differential X-ray) scans to identify lean vs adipose tissues.[1]

The goal for me was to find a 'budget' of how many calories a week I could eat based on my level of exercise and maintain my weight. That involves spending a lot time tracking what you eat (and for me breaking up calories by fat, carbs, and protein). All to just to data analysis and to create a data driven mental model of what I could eat and how it would affect the aggregation of fat.

[1] Not sure how widely available they are but I've used Bodyspec for both (https://www.bodyspec.com/)
I got really into it at one point (circa 2001) but kept running into memory leaks that made it really annoying.

It’s like vim or emacs (or even got :) ) in that it has a logarithmic learning curve: steep up front, but the concepts you learn up front have a lot of leverage later on.
> Stamps are a kind of micro-types that exist just within the compiler. Like all types they represent information about values, but unlike types you’ve usually worked with, stamps can give us a variety of properties, such as whether an object can be null or not, or whether a value is positive or negative, or even which individual bits are set in an integer.

...so, they're just types - they define sets of values. Not quite sure why one would have to call it "a kind of micro-types". Especially when it's not even clear what a "micro-type" should be.
> All Prolog systems before Scryer Prolog use 16 to 24 times as much memory to represent a list of characters.

That's not correct. As I said, it's a pretty basic optimization to store strings as native char buffers, and then only convert to explicit list representation if a variable bound to a string in that way is used in eg unification against a (partial) list, or subjected to a list (or other non-string) builtin. Definitely not new with Scryer Prolog; maybe true of F/OSS Prologs though I doubt it.
> do you ever wonder who keeps your path clear, who makes sure you can focus on delivery, who advocates for meeting-free days, good work practices, or explains why those conference passes are money well spent?

Yes I do, because no one has ever done that any place I worked.

If you're doing all the stuff you claim, then I tip my cap to you.
> The absolutely crazy thing is the person who caused this doesn't think they did anything wrong.

And now he's saying this of the person he took the work from [1]:

1. "I believe he is a good person, but love colorette too much and prefer impulsive actions ... Impulsive behavior can be very dangerous."

2. "Comments like this [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28662796] shows that his behavior in that case was very questionable. Seems like he is systematically put himself in conflicts."

True or not, I find his claims of the victim having impulsive or questionable behavior, and systematically creating conflicts, ironic.

On a more positive note - it looks like both parties are starting to discuss a resolution [1]; maybe even co-maintainership of the original work in question [2]. I personally think that would take a lot of guts, from both parties, given everything that's transpired.

I also think johnnyshields in the linked GitHub thread [1] deserves acknowledgement for some noticeably simple, but effective, attempts at facilitating resolution.

[1] https://github.com/ai/nanocolors/pull/14#issuecomment-927346...

[2] https://twitter.com/jorgebucaran/status/1442055448899641348
> The full rear of the car is still illuminated.

Only if the headlights are on. And many do not put them on in rain/storms/fog.
Yeah, 1% actually seems shockingly high to me. Are there other products or entertainments in which 1 in 100 users have suicidal thoughts they attribute to the product? I was surprised to see Facebook bragging that "only" 1%.
Working less.
This argument is dishonest or misguided. [1] Illegal immigration is real. There is a [2] crisis at the southern border.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration

[2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/09/24/poli...
Are Your family happy with Android-like OS without Google? Huawei smartphones are technically still sold in Japan without Google, but no one buy it, despite previously very popular.

(IMO Google Android ban is overkill)
> As a 54 year old Software Engineer, who has had a nice IT career for over 26 years, I'm spent.

What did you feel like at 30, 40 and 47 for comparison?

If it's different, what position / work did you do during those years vs what you do now? Software Engineer and IT is a pretty wide net.
Team up with the other senior developers to hire a senior, yes senior, labor lawyer and have him get to work on laying the groundwork for an age discrimination class action lawsuit.

His/her advice will be for everybody to begin a diary of interactions with management and retrieve what each individual can of their history with the employer. This is the time for everybody to copy and/or print your emails and other interactions with management to a place where you can access them after being frog marched out of the office.

Work from home situations make it easier to preserve the data your lawyer wants preserved.

A good labor lawyer representing several senior developers will know if / when it might be advantageous to fire a shot across the bow before terminations - AFTER s/he has complete documentation.

Oh yes, be very sparing in documentation of the processes you babysit.

My last multinational manager had me spend a half day to describe my weekly database update procedure to a well connected lady who had never seen a SQL statement before. That system slowly sank into the sunset as several more years and megabucks were expended on head office's chosen replacement.
2 comments:

1. A friend used to say "a human being can do 5 plus or minus 4 things" while holding his hand up and slowly closing one finger after the other ending up at 1. Your comment reminded me of that.

2. I can do a long list of 5-20 minute items. I can also do couple of big ticket items. Just not in the same day. I wish I knew that my Monday would be the long list and I would not mind. We have an on-call week, and that week I do not even pretend to look at big ticket items, but the challenge is that the small things do not stop appearing even when it is not the on-call week.
The take rate is 2.5% on OpenSea, which is very low for the art world, low for many crypto on-ramps, and a bit high for a centralized exchange's retail interface. It's not outrageous and will likely drop with time.
Huh, I'm surprised, my initial guess of "pays like shit" wasn't the primary reason - "bus driving has been privatized and the for-profit bus companies laid everyone off for C19" was the main one, with a chaser of "doesn't pay as well as other driving jobs".
they can be quite usable with something like the Serverless framework.

really though, in my opinion that should be a part of the core AWS solution. Lambda itself is otherwise "low level".
China Power Crunch Is the Next Economic Shock
> Just imagine there are people, some of whom are probably reading this too, whose job it is to artificially recreate or induce this dark and destructive part that exists in each and every one of us.

I can imagine that there are people addicted to doing this engineering, maybe believing that with a tweak or two more the negative effects will disappear. I'm reminded of 'Crazy Eddie' from 'The Mote In God's Eye', believing there's a way to engineer our way out of every problem.
Agreed, this result is more about creating 'food' without plants than it is saving costs. The useful thing is that it shows a path for out-of-ecosystem food production which will be useful in places like Mars or a Lunar colony.
This is a more complex question than you’re making out.

The declaration also says:

> In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
New iPad mini owners report 'jelly scrolling' problems
I actually prefer 3 para slack messages rather than 5 messages: "Hi", "you there", "needed to discuss something", "ping me when you are online", "talk to you soon" because I enable notifications and this junk keeps on notifying - only some people.
The article mainly focuses on pay.
And that's true, bus drivers need and deserve way, way more money. Anyone with a CDL can go out and make 6 digits without much trouble.
Yet they want people to do it for 1/4 the money.

In addition to more money, they need more power to throw kids off the bus or ban them outright. Today they must just tolerate kids cussing you out, throwing things at you, and oftentimes trying to physically assault you. You wouldn't believe the awful things I saw on a public schoolbus.

You'd have to be insane to sign up for that in current conditions.
In my experience, the tesla crowd does not care, they'll just cite it in the next Tesla thread.
The biggest personal lesson from covid and lockdowns was that I dont need to be running at 100% for work all the time.

Bertrand Russell wrote about this in In Praise of Idleness
100%.

I’m glad JF exists, but it needs so much work. From the server to the client, it’s an awful experience.

I want to leave Plex so badly, they introduce bugs more frequently than their useless “features”, but the experience is still streets ahead of JF.
AT&T says it has big problems. A T-Mobile salesman showed me how big
> To my surprise, I got an email saying that my app is similar to other apps on the app store and that it is considered spam. Literally.

Please tell me this is a joke, this can't be true. So I can't develop an app and upload it if there's one similar already on the app store? What kind of stupid rule is this?
"Semantic Web" didn't make a lot of sense. The current Web3 thinking isn't being forced onto crypto: "Web3" has (for years) been part of a grassroots effort within crypto to explain and expand crypto's impact on the internet beyond financial applications.

Some examples:

[1] well-known foundation for crypto development: https://web3.foundation/

[2] work of art that explains Web3: https://zora.co/tmw/2907

[3] recent Web3 wrap-up from xlr8r: https://xlr8r.com/news/web3-weekly-wrap-the-hundreds-sell-ou...

[4] https://twitter.com/ckurdziel/status/1442287212977033219

[5] https://twitter.com/saturnial/status/1442306962176102400
If they have gone unread for centuries how can they be so easily dismissed?
> I've found most managers have been a hindrance to getting the job done.

Same. Additionally, "management" seems to be the path chosen by the most incompetent programmers to try to salvage a career.
Do the sources even matter? I don't know how many articles I've read in the past that have had some very questionable "facts" so I check the source link and it's a dead link.

How does that work?
How did you manage this with your employer?
> Though obviously the average education standard in China is lower.

It is higher that in the most of the West, US included. I have not yet seen a single worker struggling with basic arithmetics the way even university grads in the US do.

> The margins are often large so they could be produced in richer countries, and labour is cheaper in other countries too so perhaps costs could be reduced elsewhere too.

In fact, skilled assembly labour in South China was hovering in between 10000 and 15000 CNY (without pension/insurance/provident fund payments,) the later is higher than the price of factory labour in the US in flyover states.

Skilled assemblers are becoming an increasingly scarce resource. People work for 5-10 years on such job, and then leave for something (or increasingly somewhere) better.

Indians, and Bengalis are importing Chinese engineers in droves these days. Guangzhou-Dhaka flight was booked full through the whole pandemic period. It was one of very few such flights in entire China.
> In fact I would argue that the "good" work is often the most invisible of all the work.

This is just another version of the mantra often seen on HN that the "silent, behind-the-scenes" dev work of refactoring, maintenance, etc. is extremely valuable but under-acknowledged.

The same holds for all levels of an organization, whether it's the CEO or a straight-out-of-school IC, but we seem to keep forgetting this principle when presented with a new face.
Turn signals that are also brake lights are just insane.

Turn signals that are also hazard lights are silly too. My personal pet peeve is the use of hazard lights to show a public transit bus is stopped for passengers. They'll then switch to a turn signal to re-enter traffic. There is no discernible difference to the lights when the right/curbside indicator light is obscured by a trailing car.
And failure to yield to the turn signal on buses is against the law.

/I guess I'm a blinkie.
Natural immunity as potential legal challenge to federal vaccination mandates
Do not know about the history but I think things were rather slow in my previous generation. Work started and ended at the work place.
You can get a UK election pretty much bang on with a similar sample size. It's not really about the sample size but how you handle the data.
I remember hearing that some people had changed it to "as long as love lasts". Imagine going to that wedding.
Physical punishment worsens behavior in children, and overwhelmingly harms children.

> Physical punishment is increasingly viewed as a form of violence that harms children. This narrative review summarises the findings of 69 prospective longitudinal studies to inform practitioners and policy makers about physical punishment's outcomes. Our review identified seven key themes. First, physical punishment consistently predicts increases in child behaviour problems over time. Second, physical punishment is not associated with positive outcomes over time. Third, physical punishment increases the risk of involvement with child protective services. Fourth, the only evidence of children eliciting physical punishment is for externalising behaviour. Fifth, physical punishment predicts worsening behaviour over time in quasi-experimental studies. Sixth, associations between physical punishment and detrimental child outcomes are robust across child and parent characteristics. Finally, there is some evidence of a dose–response relationship. The consistency of these findings indicates that physical punishment is harmful to children and that policy remedies are warranted.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
I mean, if we're going to go down that rabbit hole, we should call out the fact that the guy literally restrained the USCP from suppressing an insurrection while deploying lawyers to find ways to overturn a legally operated election, all while throwing his own vice president to the insurrectionists for his refusal to take part.

Seems anyone trying to establish the stability of US democracy through backchannels was doing so in the face of the biggest known risk against the American democracy since the civil war.
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Coolest fact I've learned today. Thank you!
Consider that COVID is part of it. I was enjoying myself at work until it hit and then my motivation and desire to learn new things plummeted. I decided to take a sabbatical to recharge and it took a few months before I could enjoy writing code again.

I just didn't realize I was burnt out by the world in general.
My 2011 macbook air performs fine in teams, I pulled it out in a moment of desperation/frustration to try and it's now my laughable solution for all teams meetings I have to attend
No, that's not at all what I meant.
> Code running in a toolbox container still has access to the user's home directory, and based on the bug reports on the topic, there are no plans to address this limitation.

I knew it could have access, but damn, I expected that would be optional. That's disappointing.

It's a real shame. With some additional hardening, it could achieve a nice balance between convenience and security.
Hmm, on Safari I get:

"You have 2 free member-only stories left this month."
Of course it's Greek! The byzantine empire lasted another thousand years and the Greek speaking world was vast when Rome was still a republic.
Even the article makes it clear that this repair is perfectly possible, just more difficult as you have to transplant a chip from one screen to another.
> Results are calculated using the OpenFisca-UK tax-benefit microsimulation model, and assume no behavioural or macroeconomic effects. See the repository for more information.

Isn't this the complicated and interesting part? It'd nice to add a 99% tax to rich people and big business, but they may just leave the country and build a factory abroad, and there will be no local jobs.
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being the "good guy" is subjective and history is written by the winners. plenty of parties in both sides of war have tried bombing or disrupting communication and logistic assets in order to win a war.
Exactly - corporations pretty much by definition will never do anything that challenges their core revenue generators.

I mean, just look at how Facebook fought tooth and nail against Apple's anti-tracking changes. Facebook still knows an absolute boatload about you, they can still show you extremely targeted ads on Facebook, but they treated a removal of their ability to track you on pretty much every site or app you visit (and not even a removal - just a question on whether you, the consumer, want this) as the end of the world. Their ads claiming how they were just sticking up for small business owners were nauseating and gross.

Since it's clear Facebook would never release a study, even if true, that said "Gosh, you know, we looked over this unbiased study that says that Instagram is extremely damaging to children and teens, so we're just going to prohibit access to Instagram for those under 18." then any communication Facebook releases on the subject can be summarily ignored.
It might even be the start of your journey into tail light enthusiasm.
I'd rather not be reminded about reddit's existence.
Bus drivers get benefits in the district I live in and the pay is not too bad. Still, I'd never consider it because the kids part.
I think this article misunderstands what productivity is and is trying to achieve.

Productivity is about achieving your goals with as little waste as possible, and getting things done. It's not about deciding what those goals are. That's not a slight on productivity, it's just what the word means.

This article isn't talking about productivity, it's talking about meaning & fulfilment. But the idea that deciding what you want out of your own life is some new thing (a "3.0" as opposed to something humans have been concerned about since the dawn of time) is a mistake.

So... I'm not sure if it really says anything.
Seems like it'd be nice to have a bot that you could add, so you could click a button on the message and respond, "Hey, would you mind giving me your email and I'll follow up on this as soon as I get a few minutes?", and then when they respond, have it create an email draft with the previous message quoted and with their email pre-filled.

A nice in-the-middle solution that a number of people might appreciate!
Well, at the very least, Ruby already has a type system so it's convenient to call these something different.

And while you're correct that the stamps appear to be an alternative type system, for most people these types will be "unlike types you’ve usually worked with", because most people aren't heavily into Haskell or ML or other languages where it's natural to construct complex type systems like this.