skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re not reading what I’m writing. The fact that you know how long your wife’s shift is supposed to be is my point. The fact that nurses are being paid extra money for extra time is my point.

Engineers in Silicon Valley don’t clock in for a 12 hour shift. They are put on salary and any discussion of schedule is discouraged in favor of talking about “hustle” and “team players.”[1]

My point is not “health care workers don’t work hard.” My point is that they are set up with schedules and structure, which tech companies avoid… and then try to point at health care workers or “contractors” to justify the chaos.

Also I bet your wife is not working so hard just so the hospital can meet its financial goals. If she is like most nurses she is motivated by patient care and probably hates the administration, who are usually seen as bean counters who (if anything) impede care. Again, compare to tech companies who build myths around founders and corporate missions to obscure the purely financial stakes of their work.

[1] I know that not all companies operate this way, not all managers do this, not all engineers experience this. But there is obviously some sort of shared experience among a lot of people that the blog post at the top of the main thread is tapping into.
Hey there! I am big fan. Thanks for the book.

Just a tiny recommendation: Could you sync the Kindle book with the audible book? I love buying both and read the book while I am listening to it. That would be awesome!
The great sperm heist: ‘They were playing with people’s lives’
Granted, this was about 1.5 years ago, so a lot has probably changed, but when a fellow engineer friend and I decided to switch to Matrix, we have a lot of trouble getting the end-to-end encryption working. It required a lot of finagling and sharing of keys and was pretty annoying.

Being engineers, we did figure everything out, but I couldn't see any non-technical users going through the headache, particularly when Signal is just "install and you're done".
It's pretty uncommon for industries to simply "close shop" altogether, though - 'turning off' is just as hard as 'turning on'. As long as some portion of paper production remains locally, even if only for specialty products, it should be comparatively easy for that industry to expand as demand increases
Germany has a mechanism to couple gas prices to oil prices, a contractual requirement to appease corporations building pipe lines.
Every two weeks, in our case. Confusing word, sorry. We had two week "sprints". Every day a 15 minute standup before lunch.

We planned what we were going to do the next two weeks. During that time urgent work would also be added and other things wouldn't be finished, but they just moved to the next sprint. Releases were quarterly (customers didn't like frequent releases) so not related to the "sprints".

Some managers described this as "Scrum light", fine with me.
It's a great book. "The meeting went well" became a routinely used phrase in my circles :-) (read the book to understand what that really means!)
I matter to myself, hence my existence seems to answer your question
My understanding is a lot of paper plants converted over to cardboard, because there has been a lot more demand for it. Here's some random Bloomberg article I found that backs that up, but I read a different one a year or so ago that went quite a bit into the motivations. What I recall is the writing paper industry was in a bad shape due to reduced mail, but cardboard was booming because of online shopping.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-24/paper-sho...

> Skyrocketing demand for boxes and packing materials during the pandemic has slashed paper production across North America, and it couldn’t have come at a worse time for retail companies.

> ...

> With some mills converting to cardboard to meet the spike in e-commerce deliveries and others shutting down altogether, more than 2.5 million metric tons of North American printing and writing paper capacity—or nearly one-fifth of 2019 levels—has come offline since the start of last year. That’s according to Kevin Mason, managing director for ERA Forest Products Research, a financial research company that specializes in paper and forest products. Normally, printers would look abroad for supply but soaring logistics costs and other markets’ own booming packaging demand have limited that option. U.S. imports of paper and paperboard by volume fell 9.7% last year. Now supplies of certain grades are so tight that some commercial printers can’t get the paper they want “at any price,” Mason said.

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Edit: I'm pretty sure this is the article I originally read about this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/business/cardboard.html

> It was Sept. 21, 2017, and the paper mill that had employed Mr. Strick, his father and his grandfather was shutting down after 128 years. Demand for the glossy white paper that the mill produced for brochures was plummeting as advertising continued its flight to the internet...

> Then something unexpected happened: Amazon and China, two forces that are often blamed for destroying American employment in retail and manufacturing, helped Mr. Strick get his job back.

> “No one is shocked when a paper mill closes anymore,” said Kyle Putzstuck, the president of Midwest Paper Group, which bought the Combined Locks mill soon after it was shuttered. “The shocking thing is when one reopens.”

> The reason for the revival has to do with the millions of packages that Amazon and other online retailers ship around the world — specifically, the humble cardboard used to construct them. Over the past five years, e-commerce has fueled demand for billions more square feet of cardboard....

> The mill’s new owners, who called themselves Midwest Paper Group, eventually agreed that it should be in operation. Across the country, failed white paper mills were being converted to brown to feed the cardboard-box boom, and Midwest followed suit.
GameShell, a game to learn (or teach) the Unix shell
> The inflexible hierarchies of totalitarian regimes create networks of personal loyalties and secret infighting that use institutions and public resources into either weapons or sources of self-enrichment

Wow that sounds a lot like the global system we have today. Especially when you look at the unequal ecological 'exchange' (read: plunder) going on between the global north and the global south:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unequal_exchange

Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas is fantastic documentary on this issue, it beautifully lays out the struggles of the Ethiopian working class who are trying to hold onto their land which is increasingly being (literally) given away to global north capitalists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isiYYVmvn2U
Is Competition for Losers?
Amazon's Opensearch (fork of Elasticsearch) natively supports vector-based approximate KNN (using https://github.com/nmslib/nmslib/) which is integrated with Opensearch's native filtering functionality. Elasticsearch also has similar functionality, but I don't know if their KNN code scales quite as well.
Yeah, I even think a full file system based on SQLite format is possible; pretty much all ingredients are there, just waiting to be cooked. But it should have been cooked in the first place.
I actually think that this perception is what has caused most of the architectural overkill mentioned in this thread. People want something "actionable", so they extract the specific patterns.

The most important part of DDD is the principles. It's a way of looking at the world and at problems, of seeing things first and foremost from the business perspective. How you apply those principles to achieve that perspective must vary dramatically from project to project, which means that the details of action are left to you to decide.
Is, say, Apple known for more liberal beta test NDA's? Or do I have some dim association there cuz Apple [pro,per]secuted people for leaking things like pictures or commenting on antenna problems?
That guide would be simple: You don't. IBM does.
The value add for Quickbooks is they calculate payroll withholding based on the latest tax law -- which is probably not cost effective to continually do yourself.

However, where you aren't making payroll (household, a self employement, or a charitable foundation) then GNUCash shines.
With how many musicians use voice memos on iOS, this hits the right niche--somewhere between voice memos and garage band.
Yeah I had exactly the same problem myself on iOS, I'm really promoting it to all my friends and family but this is quite a bad bug. Also I've noticed that sometimes that calls don't connect through and the person will only notice the missed call when he relaunches the app.
I don't get Jira hate. It may be clunky, slow and overcomplicated but really it's just system to document stuff. If you don't document stuff on a sufficiently big project (I'd day >10 engineers, and especially at >100) then it's a recipe for a disaster.

As for solutions to document stuff, specifically issues, then Jira seems to be ok and not lacking in any area, maybe not a leader but not a worst thing to use too.
I am reminded of a line from Chris Rock, "[A racial demographic] always want
credit for some [expletive] they're supposed to do. They'll brag about stuff
a normal man just does. They'll say, 'I take care of my kids... I a'int never
been to jail.'"
From what I can remember from using a t9 keyboard quite a long time ago, was that you pressed each key to cycle through the letters on the key. with a break if you need multiple letters on the same key after each other.

the whole predictive word thing was something pretty much alien to me.
550 pages, ah back in the era where manuals were manuals and trees were scared.
I have to agree, I felt dirty watching the recording. The project looks great, though.
First we have to define what matters.

Even without a strict definition, I don't think I've contributed anything that truly mattered to society. And I probably never will.
All of the major providers wholly own a MVNO now. The only difference is that during times of congestion you are not first line. Other than that it is probably the same billing systems, policies, etc.

Unless you need to be first priority on a congested tower, not much reason to actually be on Tmo,Verizon,ATT.
Apple security is based on developer goodwill. If you’ve used private API, you did it by mistake. That’s how their security model works. That’s why they’re scanning binaries for unobfuscated calls. They don’t have an answer against malicious developers other than acting post-factum.
The problem arises when the gatekeeper either no longer understands or no longer cares why their position exists. Then they just become an obstacle to the very communication they are supposed to be there to facilitate.
The US military did not leave any helicopters when it pulled out.

The Afghan Army and US State department left helicopters.
> somewhere between voice memos and garage band

Nicely put :)
This is wonderful how this has ended up on the front page of Hacker News. It's one of my favourite pieces I've read in the last few years - I bought the book arising from it - I don't even like Bailey's! It's just a very neat story of product development, branding, etc.
Had a professor try to say in a serious voice that it was a paradox meant to stop AIs and robots from reading the rest of the manual. These days, I cannot say she was wrong.
I have very limited experience with Signal, but it has an issue I cannot figure out that massively limits the appeal for me. I very rarely get any sort of notification. If I open the app on my OnePlus 7 Pro running Android 10, it'll flood me with missed notifications. But that's about it. (I think it has notified me in the past without opening the app, but I can't remember for sure.) I'm sure it's not designed to work this way, but I haven't worked out how to fix the broken notification system on my phone. Some online friends use it for coordinating plans, so I'm "forced" to use it (and try to remember to "check" it from time to time), but I do wonder how common my issue is. Presumably quite rare!

Does Signal work better on other platforms? (For me, no - I also have it installed on Windows and do not get notifications.)
> And for most business/tech books, the second price is orders of magnitude more costly than the first.

Couldn't agree more.

The idea is great. Lean books should be a thing.
I think the author's intention was to give people a quick way to understand what they were talking about. I agree that it would have been better if they said "The Mom and Dad Test" or "The Parent Test". But I thought their analogy was very salient and I understood it quickly.
I have to agree here. It is no different then any other distraction, toy or whatever in class. If the teacher is unable to get control over those, there is larger issues in there - either with teacher or with the school not empowering teacher.
If you have no sales skills, asking if someone would by it or how much they’d pay merely soothes your ego.

If you understand what the customer needs, the customer has money, and you know how to sell then you are going to make money. If you have no sales skills then no amount of assurance will result in sales.

I met a young founder who had an obviously bad business plan. I asked if she had customers. She said “no, but businesses said they’d buy it”. I told her to go get a check from those customers, refundable if she didn’t deliver. Not one gave her money. I’m sorry that wake up call came so late in development for her.
Especially that.

What with provoking the Japanese before Pearl Harbor to get an excuse to join the war, the propaganda over decades to dismiss the importance of USSR in the fall of Nazi Germany, Dresden, the reasoning behind hitting Hiroshima and Nagashaki, the cozying up with "ex" Nazis in West Germany (now an ally), and tons of other dirty laundry...

What, you expected at least this to be a clear cut "pure good vs pure evil" affair, the way "sanctioned" national histories retell it?

Here's but an example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis#The_%22Voyage_of_...

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/06/american-nazis-in-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/hitlers...
The article is using “mom” as an example of a person who is supportive and uncritical of you, not as an example of someone who doesn’t know what’s going on.
> AUD is definitely not what people think when they speak of alcoholism.

That's true, but what people think of when they think of alcoholism is pretty silly and it's not how any addiction specialists think of addiction today. There's an enormous gulf between what experts think about addiction and what laypeople picture when they think of an "alcoholic."

> For example if twice during the past year you went out with friends longer than you expected, had more beer than you were planning to, ended hangover the day after and thought "I should really stop drinking" you have mild AUD.

And why not? If you took a drug that resulted in adverse consequences and your response to that is that it's no big deal and you'll probably do it again, then that suggests something that's at least mildly problematic.
There is a link to the paper, but I’m not going to try to read it on my phone.

I’m wondering if the reason it was overlooked before is because it was a very small phenomena before the rise of social media.
My current company is like this. I work directly with the business people anyway. When anyone says anything I just point them to my output, quality, and the feedback from the business people - shuts them up every time.
That is a nice idea of a summary and highlights as well. I thought about visualising the final cheat sheet as well :)
> surveillance-based advertising should be phased out and, in time, banned.

Best date to do that would be yesterday. Surveillance undermines trust. Have any problem with that? Press? Politics? Your anxious teenage daughter? No? Never mind then.
NFT Marketplace on Ethereum with Polygon and Next.js
The post is just this web page. You just need to read the posted link.
> Bitcoin's volatility is a problem, but widespread adoption (or adding a stablecoin/altcoin) would mitigate that issue.

There is an extremely large audience within the crypto space that uses stablecoins (as you mentioned) and treats the base currency as inventory to be used as fuel to process transactions. It is currently a $100bn market with high daily volume. Our entire society is familiar with volatile prices of fuel and we don't transact directly in it.

It is strange to me that - 12 years into this - people are still leaning on the base units as being the payment method itself and worried about how the volatility could work in economic theory.

Its not an argument. If you want it to be an argument, then add the theoretical hedging capabilities with some kind of micro-futures contract that neutralizes volatility for the user. Merchants already hedge or autoliquidate via their own crypto payment processor. But volatility as an issue is simply not an argument. The technology is waaaaay past that.

The zenith of the base unit's scarcity and use comes from the small fractions of it used in each layer1 transaction.
Is it just me or does this look great for a 2nd grade class.
> there's a good chance one of them knows something the other does not

Or that the assignment of points is arbitrary and imprecise and that different people have different ways of making up numbers.
Oops, just seeing this. I put a similar comment about notifications not working for me on Android or Windows.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28670777
SHOW HN: I made a dashboard for Perpetual Protocol Traders
A job well done can be its own reward, that is true. Just be careful that the satisfaction does not turn into the main reward, because your management also knows that you derive significant value from the satisfaction and will attempt to save on raises/promotions/etc since you are apparently already happy enough even without those.
Becoming a Software Engineer at Microsoft (Without a CS Degree)
Appears to be _mostly_ a mediagenic phenomenon: the driver shortage caused a few stations to run out, a minister told everyone not to panic buy, so they immediately started panic buying. Like the great toilet paper shortage.

The lorry driver shortage inflicted by Brexit is starting to cause problems, though.
NCBI is down, redirects to Access Denied
Or perhaps a byproduct of the increase in the price of oil.
So you have no sources I presume? And the bills were not paid.
Salaries here for senior developers are approaching such figures, he is right. You need to ping any HR agency in Bulgaria (e.g. Minds) and they will be happy to find you a position. I am currently unavailable to find better job in EU in financial terms, because of this. And that’s excluding rents that are ridiculously low, as well as everything else. Many foreigners came here in last 10 years, even from places like Switzerland, France or Germany. We are yet to see if the new government will manage to screw this achievement.
It’s incredibly sad it’s come to this, but it’s an entirely self inflicted pain. Voters were lied to and this is the result.
While I think playing vinyl records or CDs is inconvenient, I know that the interface is not going to change. I can quickly learn how it works and integrate it into my subconscious mind. There are no impending updates, UI changes, new formats, missing codecs etc. that I have to think about.

If you own non-IoT hardware, it really is yours and you can feel the difference.
Every software evolves but what I took away from op's post is that it starts out so small with just 2-3 features that you don't have a "story" after which to build your product and so there is zero "what if".

Example: "You can edit text" doesn't say if it will be Word or Visual Studio or Google Docs. You'd probably build different things for that and would already have a backlog of "nope, not yet" ideas where 5% will actually be asked for and will be implemented later.
Seriously? China is pretty petty.
Every commit is code reviewed separately and merged to master after review + automated test gatekeeping as necessary. Additional testing may occur downstream post-merge which may cause your commit to rolled back automatically. Time to deployment into production depends on how those deployment pipelines are built, could be minutes to days before it lands.

It's very unusual to merge more than one commit to master at a time.

You can think of it as a branch and merge approach, but the set of changes is small - a 100-line diff would be a large change (automated changes and deleting unused code excepted). The process and tooling optimizes for small changes. Refactoring is done incrementally. Big changes are gated with flags so they can be built incrementally and rolled out incrementally and turned off at the first sign of trouble.
What kind of meddling did the US do that is on the same level as a full-scale invasion? Moreover, while it’s flat-out ridiculous to argue that the US and Russia are in the same ballpark in terms of harm to Europe (or anyone else), we don’t need to fixate on this comparison as though there is a dichotomy.
Page 1-5 has tips for "Caring for Your Diskettes" including:

> Keep it away from electrical equipment (including the telephone and TV).

Was this a legitimate tip or an overly cautious manual? I know magnets could potentially damage floppy disks but could telephones and tube televisions, too?
Why explicit uncertainty matters for the future of ethical technology
There is the implication here that this is a conversation between peers, about the proper course of action.

I think it's actually a fight.

(between a small, well-organized, wealthy army and a vast disordered rabble)

The idea that it's a conversation is just so much wool pulled over our eyes. A method that our opponent uses to win the fight.

Welcome to the jungle.
Controlling Your Dopamine for Motivation, Focus and Satisfaction [audio]
> quality evaluation is not something that can be boiled down to quantitative measurement.

It absolutely can. For the majority of workers inside an Amazon FC, the job has no decision making in it. Decisions take time, take thinking, and can be made wrong. All of the apps driving work do not offer branches, choices. They direct the associate: do this thing.

The entire job is "do the thing as many times as you can per hour, without doing it wrong". It's almost always the same thing, over and over. The metric they are judged on is their overall rate of doing that job. And mistakes from doing it wrong are found, identified, and tracked back to who did it.

> Judging workers solely based on some rubric will create a class of people who min-max the system and will lower the overall quality of the service provided, while disenfranchising the best employees.

The cases where people have 'gamed' this system usually make the news: people peeing in bottles rather than walking to the bathroom, so that they can keep their rates high. Apart from that kind of insanity, there aren't really any ways to improve the metric except to go faster. And either way. it's a net win for Amazon.
Agreed.

Facebook, et al is essentially pushing a casino / Skinner box at my kids that evolves every day. My change in thought happened when I found out that Facebook/YouTube was pushing pro-eating disorder material to a teenage relative and my 6 year old was getting pulled into weird videos that had a visible impact on his behavior. I don’t work for Facebook and frankly don’t have the energy to stay up on the latest innovations for stealing my kids attention at any cost.

The only responsible choice that I can make as a parent is to not use it, but that obviously creates a forbidden fruit situation where I have to balance what I believe against peer pressure and other factors to avoid a worse outcome. Avoidance also means that the great material on these platforms is walled off.

Running a cesspool is too profitable for self-reform, something needs to change the way this business works.