skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My criticism of your argument is that it’s silly to decide that nobody in town can leave their houses during the winter because you don’t want to get a shot.

Once again, that's not what they're doing. "I'm not going to take the medicine so everybody has to stay inside" you will note was not part of the dialogue.

> Furthermore, it’s downright ghastly to gloat about the upcoming, totally avoidable, suffering that they’ll be imparting on people that _AGREE WITH THEM_ in order make their point and own the libs.

People have a history of hostility to those they perceive, whether rightly or wrongly, as unnecessarily depriving them of their livelihood.

> We might actually be having a two way conversation if your next response included words like “snow” or “plow” or “stranded in your house by no fault of your own.” But please go on with your regurgitated Facebook nonsense about experiments or whatever.

Sure, It doesn't matter what tasks the people under discussion are saddled with, up to and including dealing with snow, plowing, etc, and it doesn't matter what consequences the absence of their actions will result in, up to and including leaving people stranded in their house by no fault of their own. The logic still applies.

Not wanting to take medication is not the same as actively wanting to inflict misery on other parties, and equating the two as you are continuously trying to do is false.

Displaying hostility to parties responsible for hostile actions is about as newsworthy as "sun rises in morning". In fact the hostility you're displaying to them here is just as unsurprising and not the problem at all.

The issue is purely one of logic; you're equating motivation to refuse a medicine with wanting to provoke misery for an opposing party. Clearly no such motivation exists. If it did exist, they would not have needed to say "I don't want to take this medicine, fire me if you have to." they could just jump straight to the end and go on strike to "own the libs" and no other reason.
I couldn’t imagine living without hot reload during development…
I think it low-key already happening first now talent markets are global so I bet there is companies that are willing to pay premium for premium remote talent. Then there is companies like uniswap which are unicorns and there is like 20 people working that kinda opens situation where they can outbid even google for premium talent.
HN guidelines suggest:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

If every author posted to HN will be greeted by their past failures, we may want to accompany that with their past successes.

Or comment on the posted article.
Product Management, in many orgs, is the old wine of Taylorism in a new bottle, where there is a "thinking class," and there is a separate "doing class." The stereotype of an engineer with poor social skills who can't grasp the "high-level cross functional relationships and strategies" (from nostrebored's sibling comment) is not very different from Taylor's idea of workers:

One of the very first requirements for a man who is fit
to handle pig iron as a regular occupation is that he
shall be so stupid and so phlegmatic that he more
nearly resembles in his mental make-up the ox than
any other type. The man who is mentally alert and
intelligent is for this very reason entirely unsuited to
what would, for him, be the grinding monotony of work
of this character.

It is sad to see this happen at places like Google, where engineers had a lot more autonomy.

Most knowledge workers who have the mental capacity to grasp deep technical topics will find the "cross functional relationships and strategies" discussed in garden variety business books a light stroll in the park.
The software stack story is amazing at nvidia for sure
Her ideas are over half a century old but are frighteningly applicable to current events. As a species we seem doomed to repeat the same mistakes again and again.
Avoid the Paywall: https://archive.md/0gWJO
I thought it was neat and wasn't really bothered. Though I'm not really sure what it's supposed to depict
Apple has cash and cash equivalents of $40B in their latest quarter, far cry from $1T.

The thing with market cap is, most of it is decided by the last trade price, which can be very volatile. With deep order book on index and household name like Apple, that volatility doesn't show up until a black swan event like it did in March 2020.
In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan
She submitted her paper late for internal review when it was too late for revisions. It might be the case that most papers are submitted late for internal review, but most papers don’t expressly criticize the employer’s work. That’s an important distinction, and it was naive to not anticipate that the paper might get extra scrutiny.

Regardless, being upset because you didn’t get your way doesn’t give you carte blanche to do unprofessional things that will get you fired. You can’t say “Give me X or I quit” and not assume there’s a chance your bluff will be called (especially when “X” is a demand for the company to violate its own policies).
If you really want to own music, learn how to make it :D

Seriously, though, I have rips of stuff.

My second wife had 300 records. I like listening to them. The ritual thing is real.

Moving them sucked, and they wear out.
Yes, a coin that's mined by "Proof of Carbon Capture" would be amazing, but I can't imagine how it would work. Decentralization and neutrality is hard/impossible once you're trying to interface with the real world. How could you verify the carbon capture without a centralized authority?

I can imagine it would be possible in the far future with automation/robotics verifying the captured carbon in a neutral and decentralized way, but with current tech I can't see how it could work without being susceptible to being gamed. But maybe I'm just lacking imagination.
Sounds like this is really going to be a great thing for everyone's health and well-being.
That's all true.

Having moved a 300-record collection.... holy cow it weighs so much.
Also due to wanting to keep your employees. You can't make the same amount of money year over year and retain employees who never get raises above CPI or promotions into management/ownership. That's just not going to work.
This is what I don't like about JS world.

I started a project in react and it installed like 100+ random packages. I had to audit everyone, so silly not to have a standard library.
Cached: https://web.archive.org/web/20211023032551/https://jayconrod...
My direct supervisor has 75 direct reports. (Not a tech company––an elite private school in the Bay––but still...)
Doesn't matter. Under Australian law they can still be compelled to install backdoors.
The Social Dilemma (Full Feature)
I have a PS/2 Unicomp and recently tried finding a compatible converter because of a bug with AMD hardware on Windows 10 that causes PS/2 input to be delayed by up to 30s between each key (even when entered in quick succession) if all cores are pegged at 100%.

The best converters don’t lock up but still hard reset “under duress” when typing away. (The only good converter I found was by Tripp Lite.)
Yeah but it's not as impressive when you post your answer the same number of minutes apart as the video clip's duration, and what's the point if it's not impressive
Why do we have to take Google's word and not hers? (Especially in light of corroborating witnesses who say that what she did was completely normal)
It is significantly less risky if you assume, safely I think, that the US will funnel subsidies towards Intel in an effort to redomesticate semiconductor manufacturing. Even more so if you believe, again rightly I think, that the US will deem Intel a national security asset and too important to fail.

I think Intel has some rough times ahead, but there are extra-market forces at work.
APL Compiler Based on Tail (Typed Array Intermediate Language)
"We tweet, we like, and we share — but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? As digital platforms increasingly become a lifeline to stay connected, Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilization by exposing what’s hiding on the other side of your screen."
Do you have sources other than quoting yourself on HN? I'd like to read them
Trying to think what useful things can be done onboard a satellite in only software? If the customer is speccing HW, it would make more sense for AWS to again just sell the resultant data products (assuming sensors) or managed 'satelliteless' services for i.e. comms
Uuugh, I just finished reading them and, while the first one was pretty good, the second one dragged a bit and the third was interminable! It felt like the author had a laundry list of ideas that he hadn't fit into the story yet, and with the third book was on a mission to cram in every last one. It's something like 2-3 times longer than the first one and by the end I was only reading out of determination to finish it.

There were also a lot of odd assumptions/conclusions about how people would behave but I put that down to a different cultural mindset (and in this sense it was pretty interesting), however some of the recurring social themes stretched credibility a bit. Also for a book that's generally held up as being hard sci-fi, the actual science aspect had some glaring flaws in pivotal events which really strained belief. (Well, either that or my understanding of astrophysics is way off...)
To what end? Accelerating towards Eternal September?
I would be so surprised to even see that. For a second I pondered the idea of Apple perhaps using Intel as a fab for older chips in less demanding devices like the Homepod or the Apple TV, but that can never be better than simply using older iPhone chips. Just keep the old fabs pumping out old chips.

I have to come to the conclusion that this statement just a rallying cry. Woo the uninformed that Intel will get Apple back, and try and rally the informed using this crazy claim as a North Star: Intel will become so good in the future, Apple wished they could come crawling back, if not for their pride.
> I think it's worth reflecting on why we're so quick to believe the corporate version of events

I reflected on it and found that it mainly happens when the person affect have their entire work life on basis of their politics as opposed other victims of corporate malfeasance who get plenty of support/ empathy from general community.
As a practicing musician, now is the easiest time to learn whatever you want.

Sucks to try and make a living at music worse than any time in the 20th century. Technology killed that gig.

But learning? Better than ever.

I'll take 1000 slightly interested folks over 5 dudes who think they are SRV because they can play variations over everything Hendrix ever wrote.
Generally SEO should work fine if the migration is managed well (on Google at least). Google has a tool to verify ownership on both sites and notify them of the move explicitly.
Not a Googler, but I’m my experience 25 person managers can work (barely) if they are just their to keep the HR stuff in line and people actually transactional work with other teams or if there is an informal team structure beneath the manager. Think a team where there are 4 tech leads that actually run the teams, but where the “manager” deals with career and hr issues.

While working in consulting I spent about 4 months with a manager who had 60 direct employees. That was a disaster, but I got to spend 3 /4 months with no responsibilities :)
Constitutional Law typically involves weighing multiple competing rights/interests. The Interstate Commerce clause is relevant to US ports and under many circumstances overrides the 10A.

Also, the state governor can easily override a local ordinance temporarily under a State of Emergency. And IMHO we are approaching that point.
But her paper passed the internal review. It failed some additional internal review that wasn't policy at the time.
This makes an important point, but the writing rubs me the wrong way. Might be that rot has not much to do with thermodynamics, so invoking thermodynamics strikes me as pretentious.

The issue is a classic one of centralisation - centralised power structures don't have any special resistance to corruption. The corruption is amplified so the results are more catastrophic.

I'm not sure what the theory of people advocating centralisation is on how this will be resisted. Possibly they believe because the results are worse, more people will try to stop them happening. I haven't seen evidence that works.
When I host parties I leave an iPad out and let people buy any song they want to play on my dime. People seem to enjoy it and there's lots of different/interesting stuff in my collection now.
The thing about most SaaS companies is a majority of your support calls come from your lowest tier customers. In a service like email where a huge number of problems are a mystery due to other mail servers possibly mishandling email Fastmail have probably added up the numbers and realised that dropping the cheapest plans results in significantly less support costs.
That's market cap, right?

When people say something is a $x industry, I normally think revenue per year.

How big is the industry as measured by transaction/service fees?
We've had fictional characters in movies for decades, in literature for centuries, and in myths and legends for millennia. And people have made their living (and occasionally made fortunes) telling those stories.

How is this different?
It's still a major selling point if you're raising money for your company. "Ex-Google engineer" somehow still makes rich people want to throw money at you, deservedly or not.
Write an epic on energy and or climate change. How people behaved, politics, etc. Link to all oil companies research, etc.

This topic will persevere.
Server overload by enforcing DHE key exchange using minimal bandwidth
Rotterdam did 14.1 million.
I mean it was a government regulation, there isn't much they could do about it. I assume the 2 stack limit was due to safety reasons, like maybe they are more prone to collapsing like dominoes when stacked too high, and a good wind blows, I don't know. It makes me think of the egg crate challenge a little bit.

It's good that the mayor made a temporary adjustment and was allowed to save face. Hopefully it will make a difference.
I don't know about that. There are plenty of examples of "boutique" companies who pay well and have insanely good retention over the long term— 37signals/basecamp as one example, at least until that dustup earlier this year. Valve is probably another.

It's not hard to imagine a Google that had taken this path, just focused indefinitely on search & search ads, run itself with <1000 highly skilled, highly paid employees, and never done email, maps, docs, payments, mobile phones, video, or and any of the rest of it.
Dr. Gebru was fired for having approached a lawyer about workplace issues. (She told Jeff Dean and others that she was doing so in an email made public). That triggers Legal to retaliate and look for a reason to fire the employee, immediately. Jeff Dean let the conflict drag out 6+ months because he thought he had control of the situation (and he was wrong). Without Jeff Dean’s persistence, Dr. Gebru would probably have been retaliated upon as swiftly as those in the Alphabet Workers Union. That’s how Legal and HR work—- they retaliate if litigation looks imminent. (Levandowski lasted so long because he was dealing with not Jeff Dean but Larry Page).

Google handled Dr Gebru’s exit differently than that of Anthony Levandowski, Andy Rubin, David Drummond, etc etc because Jeff Dean made the call in timing and he was really that clueless about public optics, especially with Tensorflow’s huge following. Moreover, Dr Gebru didn’t have the bankroll to fund a legal team like any of the others listed.

A lot of the posts here suggest Google is struggling with scale. Dr Gebru’s case definitely would have been handled differently were Google a smaller company. Also if there wasn’t COVID—- keep in mind she was fired a couple days before Thanksgiving during COVID. The whole country was a mess then.
https://wccftech.com/intel-vs-tsmc-chip-war-has-started-and-... Here they say that TSMC has a lead in the number of EUV lithography machines. " in 2021 and 2022, TSMC will have acquired 40 - 50 EUV machines while Intel will have procured 13 - 20 machines. Estimates based on Dutch company ASML, who is the sole supplier of the machines, suggest that TSMC had anywhere in between 30 - 63 EUV scanners by the end of last year." But Intel is playing catch-up "even as TSMC currently leads in machine inventory, Intel's future inventory could render this advantage moot. Mr. Gelsinger's belief that Intel aims for "leadership by 2024" seems to follow this timeline as well."
While we're on the topic, have a look at TubeArchivist

https://github.com/bbilly1/tubearchivist
When you live long enough it becomes evident that scale in tech is a pandemic. At a certain point greed inevitably takes over. I believe there's some kind of a threshold beyond which a company has no choice, but to turn evil.
It very much does not evaporate.

Her paper got got flagged during internal review. There wasn’t time to revise it because she submitted it late. She then wrote an angry rant to her coworkers that claimed she was oppressed and told them to stop working. And then she demanded the name of the anonymous reviewer and threatened to quit if the company did not meet her demand.

Your defense is that most papers were submitted late without a problem. Perhaps most papers don’t need revisions, but this one did, and there’s no excuse for how she handled it.

I’ve had papers rejected from my company’s internal review process. It sucks, but it’s not the end of the world. You make some revisions and submit to the next conference. You don’t go ballistic and tell your coworkers their work is meaningless and threaten to quit unless you get your way.
It’s not a million little government regulations that is causing the majority of the supply chain kinks.

China was the only country working full speed after the Wuhan lockdown for about a year. The entire world bought masses of PPG and ventilators in addition to our normal plastic consumerism widgets. China sent tons of full containers to the rest of the world but those containers haven’t returned to China.

Everything else is a symptom of some local issue due to a region or industry being host to a disease outbreak or being host to a supply/demand mismatch with either containers or chassis.

Even that distribution lot would not need containers stacked above 2 high if the distribution channels downstream of it were not similarly overloaded.
Because plenty of other researchers working at Google regularly publish papers critical of Google and are just fine? Even Timnit had already done that many times, she just got into trouble this time but all the other papers she published was fine. If Google really cared about these researchers publishing critical pieces then Google would have shut down that entire group rather than just firing her.
That's not my experience in W3C. Having an implementation gives us a strong voice.
I got ratioed on this post, which is kinda fun. Hasn't ever happened to me that I can recall.

On one level, I don't agree with you. The ritual of playing records is a real thing. And folks should enjoy what they like.

On another level: yeah.

A record collection is an art collection.

That's okay, though.

I've had both. I prefer my art collection cause it weighs less. Neither are worth anywhere near what I put into them (my musical instrument collection is nice cause at least it keep in line with inflation).

Where I really agree with you: sterophile audio equipment ain't really much. That's different that a record collection though. Most of my record friends have old deep cuts and are playing on $300 players.

If it helps, there was a time around the first decade of this century when you find really, really cool stuff for, like $2/album. It used to be hella cheap to be a record collector.

Now though, especially if you factor in the audiophillic tendencies you point to, it very much has little to do with the medium and much to do with the milieu.
I always find it interesting that lots of tech folks I meet are strongly in favor of more income equality except when it would cause them to earn less money. Then it's a shitty thing to do.
I think this speaks to the credulity of VCs more than anything else. Google is huge, a decent chunk of us are ex google pure as a function of the numbers. Never mind how many ex googlers were doing something unique to Google and not something other higher grade tech firms are doing.
> To summarize, <why I left>

He didn't like working enough to make himself happy, I guess. It's a person who is at a different point in their life than when they started. Notably with enough money that they question their own motivations to continue.

These blog posts seem devoid of anything interesting or actionable.
Google Will Eat Itself (2014)
Fuck that. Nobody is being served by that arrangement. Nobody.
I think you have made excellent point here. I absolutely see this behavior at workplaces. The Architects/PMs one side and developers who are mainly Jira/Daily standup chumps on other side.
https://archive.md/Ukfcr
> But the vaccine campaign began in December/January 2021. Back then, BioNTech's CEO believed the protective effect would last "for at least a year"

Being "optimistic that the immunisation effect can last for at least a year," (CEO's words) is a lot different than claiming that the vaccine is a "cure" which will last forever, as the person I was originally responding to was claiming we were told.

Claiming that we should be "optimistic that the immunisation effect can last for at least a year," does not mean or imply that we should never have expected or ever require booster shots.

Claiming that we should be "optimistic that the immunisation effect can last for at least a year," does not speak to the durability of that immunization over the course of that first year.

People are not being advised to get boosters because their immunity is completely gone after 6 months. Many around the world will probably be waiting "at least a year" for their boosters and will have some useful level of immunity all the way up to that booster. Exactly how much is still TBD.

> Waning immunity was never really a topic

While the mainstream media may not have focused on it, "waning immunity" was a consideration from the get-go for anyone with a basic understanding of virology, vaccines or anyone who chose to be informed.
Let's go Brandon!
Ah good save, I did see a rough cut 2x4 of tiger maple once, plus a couple sheets of appearance-grade 4x8 red oak... and thankfully I was smart enough to grab those.

Personally I'd use the mahogany ply for something furniture-related if it didn't have ugly knots or cracks in it. It was a rather nice looking wood the few times I've seen it, so it seems a shame to use it for something purely structural.
That mindset towards workers I think should be considered pretty gross in most contexts. Punishment for not meeting a software deadline? This sounds like highschools with conservative leadership.
Oh top of what everybody else mentioned, even in the case of an actual UBI I would expect there to be a bit of a rough transition if it were just flipped on. But soon a new equilibrium would be found, with more people generally doing what made them happy and some goods and services changing somehow to fit the new market realities.

But it would not be the end of the economy or anything… and I think once we made it through the transition we’d actually have a much better / happier / healthier economy.
Allegedly, the 2 stack limit was put in place for aesthetic reasons. On the ships they're stacked way taller than that!
Why not real shutters? Very handy in hot climates. People complain about the electricity price, so how about not building a greenhouse and then mechanically cooling it...