skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they look nice

That's the key to this entire thing -- I'm having trouble believing people don't understand that this: discussion on the functionality is fine, but at the end of the day the "fake shutters" are decoration.
Yes. I’ve been working in SV for 6 years. I’m more formally educated than your average coder, and still, when I open most CS whitepapers I just see hieroglyphics.
Putting 4 year olds on an advanced track seems pretty ridiculous. So does throwing our hands up and saying “no one ever gets to be in advanced class except by random luck”. But both may be a pretty honest reflection of how life would be for a middle class family in NYC.
Snowflake is this way too. Its so depressing
You left out the best part:

> We were expected to hit precise deadlines on multi-quarter projects (within two weeks), and when that inevitably didn't happen, we had to track all the time we spent on anything in 30 minute increments. It felt very cog-in-the-machine.
Wait, Autopilot, or FSD? Or both?
(Cross posted this reply to the twitter thread)

RE Railroads: This is much harder than it seems. Most of the railroads are also stuck with thousands of intermodal platforms that have loaded containers they can’t unload, or empty containers they can’t reposition.

Trains are stacked up outside intermodal terminals. UP has miles of them outside chicago. There are no ways to get them off trains and it snarls the system even further.

If we need to get containers off trains, we need to get to them and unload. The trip to Dallas isn’t the issue, instead we need to focus on shifting empty platforms to where they’re needed.
They're no longer about breadth, limitless innovation, and moonshots, but rather extraction of platform economic control.

They're the new Oracles, except they own mobile, social, and web instead of databases.

Start new companies and push them over. Fight their ability to land grab more.
Is this just long form "calling in rich"? With an L5 RSU package and the share price tripling, a few hundred thousand turns into a few million and you can afford to leave. Nice problem to have.
Hard to do that with a million/month though (like the local dispensary seems to do)
I just bought a brand-new laptop with an "1th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11370H @ 3.30GHz" and I'm 100% happy with it.
So you’re saying a new currency wants to supplant the US dollar, and the only thing that can stop it is the US government? Hold on, going to make a phone call to the US government.
“Quite a few activists and researchers were fired for asking Google to be a bit more ethical”

In the examples the author cited, those activists and researchers were fired for reasons going beyond “asking Google to be a bit more ethical. And frankly it doesn’t seem ethical for activists, researchers, and the author to deliberately misconstrue facts whenever they believe they’re on the right side of an ethical (and sometimes just political) issue.
Yep. https://www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-org-charts-2011-6
A few months ago, I considered applying to Google to join the JAX team.

It turns out that you can't apply to Google's JAX team. You have to apply to Google, and then managers at various teams select whether they want you.

The thing is, JAX is amazing. So I'm now faced with the uncomfortable idea that this process must make sense, because it clearly works. Yet I profoundly dislike it.

Perhaps my ideas are the problem, and Google is four steps ahead. I don't know. It just seemed like you should be able to apply to specific teams at Google, and that the team should be able to choose whether you'd be a valuable teammate.
"How the fuck should I know"

Edit: The dangers of not refreshing your tab before posting is that someone will have posted an answer before you that then makes your reply superflous. (I didn't need the video clip for the answer though. Just love that movie)
Why did he leave? The tl'dr is the L6 glass ceiling and the remote pay cut. I can speak to both of those:

First, for those that don't know, new grads get hired at L3, PhDs at L4 (which IMHO is actually a mistake but that's another issue) and there is an expectation of getting promoted to L5 (Senior Software Engineer). There's no set time frame for this. I've known people who stayed L4 for many years and were quite happy. L6+ start to require increasingly extraordinary influence and technical contribution.

> It's hard to get promoted beyond L5 for open source work

I'll clue you in on a dirty little secret: it's hard to get promoted to L6 for anything. This is by design. It's how the company controls costs and maintain retention (by dangling that L6 promotion, possibly for years).

One of the things that Ruth Porat did when she became CFO is lowered the promotion target percentage. This meant less people got promoted at each cycle.

How promotions work is a committee of higher-level engineers (eg L7s consider promotions to L6) and will have 10-15 packets to assess. These will get stack ranked by the committee. If you're above the line you'll get promoted. If you're not, you won't. Ruth's change just made that line a little higher.

As for the pay cut, this requires some context. By the time you reach L5+ the majority of your total compensation comes from equity, both your initial grant (for the first 4 years) and annual refreshes and discretionary grants you get along the way. So less than 50% of your income comes from salary plus bonus.

For those employees who go permanent remote, there is a location-based pay adjustment. SF and NYC are at 100% rate. Other areas at 85-95% of that.

That only applies to the salary plus bonus (since bonus is derived from salary) part of your total compensation. So a 10% cut for L5+ is in reality <5%. You don't save on taxes by moving to San Diego but it is cheaper than the Bay Area. If you move to a no-state income tax state however your net pay can in fact be higher.

So, the argument for no pay cut is you're saving the company money by not having to pay for office space, a desk (etc), free food and so on, all while doing the same job. This seems to be the author's position and I'm certainly sympathetic.

The argument for a pay cut is that your compensation isn't really associated with your output at all and is entirely market-based. For many people not going into the office and being able to live somewhere that isn't the Bay Area is a huge plus so people are willing to give up something for that. Plus you could argue the company doesn't want people going remote who don't really want to by offering the same pay. By lowering your pay slightly it creates a psychological barrier such that only people who really want to do it do so. I'm sympathetic to that argument too.
You're right that the technology they use is very mature, but anti-machine stigma is a definite "thing" in the Dune milieu, blowback from the Butlerian Jihad. At one point Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam says something to the Lady Jessica about the difficulties of working with a feudal culture that has "turned it's back on most technology", something like that.

Ornithopter muscles are not electromechanical, they're organic.
Thanks for sharing that - I had never seen that before and it rings incredibly true
> If this particular exploit happened, it would have been more likely to get deployed but it would have also automatically gotten fixed as soon as the patch update rolled around.

Note that updating your deps to a non-hacked version would not "fix" it, though. The machine is persistently compromised until reimaged if it was given the chance to install the new package.
One half the population in 1948-49 (750,000) was expelled.

The massacres happened before the ethnic cleaning. In fact, they were used in the terror tactics used by the Hagana (as well as the Irgun and Stern Gang). Palestinians made up the majority of between eighty and ninety per cent of the total population in the 1920s.

When the Zionist movement started its ethnic cleansing operations in Palestine, in early December 1947, the country had a 'mixed' population of Palestinians and Jews. The indigenous Palestinians made up the two-third majority, down from ninety per cent at the start of the Mandate. One third were Jewish newcomers, i.e., Zionist settlers and refugees from war torn Europe, most of whom had arrived in Palestine since the 1920s. There was no civil war.

From the morning after the UN Partition Resolution was adopted, the 75,000 Palestinians in the city were subjected to a campaign of terror jointly instigated by the Irgun and the Hagana. As they had only arrived in recent decades, the Jewish settlers had built their houses higher up the mountain. Thus, they lived topographically above the Arab neighborhoods and could easily shell and snipe at them. They had started doing this frequently since early December.

My parents told me about other methods of intimidation as well: the Jewish troops rolled barrels full of explosives, and huge steel balls, down into the Arab residential areas, and poured oil mixed with fuel down the roads, which they then ignited.

The moment panicked Palestinian residents came running out of their homes to try to extinguish these rivers of fire, they were sprayed by machine-gun fire. In areas where the two communities still interacted, the Hagana brought cars to Palestinian garages to be repaired, loaded with explosives and detonating devices, and so wreaked death and chaos.

The idea that this was a civil war is laughable.

A range of strategies was used by the Jewish forces to terrorize and demoralize the Arab population in a deliberate attempt to provoke a mass exodus. Radio broadcasts in Arabic warned of traitors in the Arabs' midst, describing the Palestinians as having been deserted by their leaders, and accusing Arab militias of committing crimes against Arab civilians. They also spread fears of disease.

They also talked about the use of loudspeaker trucks. These would be used in the villages and towns to urge the Palestinians to flee before they were all killed, to warn that the Jews were using poison gas and atomic weapons, or to play recorded 'horror sounds' the wail of sirens, and the clang of fire-alarm bells.
They are capped at 60Hz at the resolution stated because the actual limiting value is the available bandwidth, and they are choosing to report the bandwidth in terms of "maximum 60Hz resolution".

If the limit is 6K at 60Hz, you'll be able to run 4K at >60Hz. My M1 MacBook Pro runs a 1440p monitor at 165Hz just fine over Thunderbolt 3.
Sounds like a great way to end up with what $lastco called "super builds" - massive repos with ridiculous amounts of cmake code to get the thing to compile somewhat reliably. It was a rite of passage for new hires to have them spend a week just trying to get it to compile.

All this does is concentrate what would be occasionally pruning and tending to dependencies to periodic massive deprecation "parties" when stuff flat out no longer works and deadlines are looming.
The idea that products at large tech companies are going to be lead by engineers who by and large do not talk to people or understand the cross functional relationships and strategies is absurd.

This isn't a future engineers want either -- I hear complaints about meetings from nearly every engineer I know. The idea that you should have low level knowledge of the system you're working on and high level knowledge of all the cross functional team's responsibilities along with the responsibility for cultivating those relationships is ridiculous.

People say this without having any idea what PMs do.
>So it’s the same theme that I don’t really want Facebook seeing anything remotely related to this.

What's the issue of them anonymously collecting things like how big your room is, or what the average brightness of your room is?

>Compelling argument.

It's mostly subjective. The vast majority of it is blurry 3 DoF videos and proper 6 DoF content is limited.
This is the most optimistic thing I've read in a long time here. Much needed, thanks.
When you say "Implementing CLOS is a massive undertaking" do you mean implementing CLOS in some other language than Lisp?

Shouldn't it be possible to implement most of CLOS in CLOS itself and thus reuse already existing CLOS-code?
Competitive self-play with Unity ML-Agents
You just change the angle of the wing on the upstroke so it's slicing through the air. It's not actually a problem. :) Same thing real dragonflies and even birds do (though birds fold up their wings too).
A Decade After Borders Shut Down, Here’s What’s in Its Former Locations
My savings accounts are earning me -.5% per year... That looks like 'no benefit to the holder' to me, so Bitcoin is actually outperforming regular currency by just sitting at 0.
Competitive Self-Play (2017)
I'm not sure this is true. Normally I'd be inclined to agree with you, but the Timnit situation was handled badly.

Objectively, there was nothing wrong with her paper.

You may have a point about the other researchers. I'm not familiar enough with their situations. But I dug into Timnit's pretty thoroughly.

Their recent behavior isn't too encouraging either: https://archive.md/7jCQY

(Related Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/jackclarkSF/status/1451273190974660612)

Hopefully everyone will just chill out and focus on research.
Completely agree with all this. One thing that makes rock climbing and golf good for building connections is that there's relatively large gaps in time where you can talk with people while doing the activity (eg walking to the next hole, waiting for someone to finish a climb, etc). Some other activities just don't have this same dynamic so while you'd meet people for sure it would take longer to have conversations with people.
That wasn't bad in the early 2000s. Median U.S. household income was $42K in 2000, and you didn't have these $half-mil/year FAANG/unicorn jobs back then.
Wait till you get a raspberry pi and install pi-hole
If the team wants you bad enough, they can hire you. It has to come from the inside, which I'm sure has no impact on whether nepotism happens.
You could also set fees to fix the problem.

Dropping off an [empty?] container at the port? Pay $1000. Loading an empty container onto your ship? Get a bonus of $900. Now you have a feedback loop that brings the empty containers back to where they are needed. It's sort of a recycling fee.
Interesting. Jack strikes me more of a right wing libertarian type, where did you get the left wing impression from?
I worked at Google from 2005 to 2013, seeing it grow from 4,000 to 50,000 employees during this time.

In 2005, it was a wonderful, prestigious place to work with many great people and a startup vibe, the place was vibrant. By 2013, Larry and Sergey were put out to pasture, and the company took on a much more bureaucratic, compartmentalized feel.

I was working hard, most of my work was fighting bureaucracy and optimizing what I did for the horrific perf process, and going through constant re-orgs so that I had no consistent manager, and no chance of promotion (this is a big deal at Google). Joining in 2005 was the best thing I've done for my career, and leaving in 2013 was again the best thing I've done for my career. I value the time there, but the Google that I remember no longer exists.
This is absurd. I haven't been asked to file timesheets (other than for days off) as a sweng in over a decade, including when I was at Google. Management on that team has completely lost it.
> Update Jan-Feb 2005: A reader has reported success in using this USB to PS2 Adapter

This article is 16 years old?
I wish there was some kind of extension to run this thing locally on GPU, Deep TabNine is 2 years old now and still nothing tries to compete with it despite it using smallest possible gpt2 with cpu inference.
I really like this optimistic sentiment. And I think it’s true.

I work for a company that’s a unicorn this year. About five years ago it didn’t exist until Amazon decided to drop customer support for their warehouse robots, forcing a warehouse company to build its own replacements.

There is still plenty of room for new players to emerge.
so, zero examples
I keep telling people that my job requires this diamond throne and handsome set of fine watches, but they refuse to give me a raise.
The aricle deals more with the 6-Bit Byte than the missile tracking.
Relevant perhaps is the fact that Google folks just came out of a promo cycle, which is run by a committee. Folks I talked to seem to agree the process is utterly broken, so this is about the time many will decide to jump ship.
I read that as the "30 minute increment" tracking is used as a short term punishment for not meeting the deadline.
I don't think it's true that "you can't apply directly to a team". I've seen many people got interviewed/hired for exactly one position. The manager of the team will need to be in the loop though. If they don't know you and don't agree with you applying directly, then it's most likely you're going to the normal pipeline.
> And tanks work just fine in the desert, as has been amply demonstrated in the Middle East all the way back to Patton.

Probably not against sand worms.
>It is clear that big tech platforms behave more like utilities and should be regulated like common carriers.

The operative term there is "should." I don't agree (and not for the reasons you probably think), but if you think that's how it should be, I respect that.

But that's not the law here in the US. As I said, [i]f someone doesn't like it, they can try to get the law changed. For those who advocate that, good luck -- you're gonna need it.

Edit: Clarified my thoughts about current law and the likelihood of changing it.
You can still access healthcare for a period of time under COBRA.

https://www.healthcare.gov/unemployed/cobra-coverage/

This law was passed to address employment gaps as you described.

If you can't get a new job in that time, then it's time to look for a ACA solution for unemployed workers (insurance premiums limited to a percentage of income) or apply for disability or some other issue depending on your circumstances.

Health care insurance is pretty well subsidized for the unemployed and the poor, the issue is that providers zap the middle class with unexpected bills and extremely high bills that are not covered by insurance. E.g. the old losing your savings because of a snake-bite problem, which can hit both the employed and the unemployed.

Back when I lived in SF, SF General famously refused to accept insurance from anyone. Their entire business model was to charge outrageous bills and give free care to the indigent. That's why you'd get these 100K bills for a broken ankle.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/7/18137967/er...

That's the big nightmare scenario for healthcare patients in the U.S.
This website seems to have switched to stoplang, because it’s down.
Veritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda
Leonardo da Vinci's designs weren't ornithopters, or even anything like real birds. They were fixed-wing gliders with fanciful bat-like shapes for stylistic reasons.
I think reducing Weiss to a cancel culture advocate is the same kind of mistake as the one puritan statue-topplers are making.
How do banks keep time synced? It'd be an important input to some account balance calculations, but do they just outsource to NTP servers?
Your first claim I think is better stated that older CDs cut in their time from original sources sound better than similar music with modern processes. For pop, especially.

I seek out early 80's - early 90's CD (with sprinklings in pop to the early 00's).
The scale and the fuzzy boundaries between products and services that software allows seem to create those problems in unexpected places. In the pre-software days, if you sell cash registers to people and one of your customers happens to be evil no one would blame you. If you build an online shopping platform (selling virtual cash registers), get big enough that people notice you, and one of your customers is problematic in the eye of the public opinion, you suddenly have a moral problem on your hands.
I was actually about to use this package last week. Damn what a timing.
Google has 140,000 employees, the size of a size-able city in the U.S. Does anyone really care when someone leaves Google?
How big is their war chest? $9B would literally be pennies on the dollar to a company like Apple (>$1T reserves?). I doubt Intel’s is that big, but it might be big enough not to worry investors too much.
And not for covering long distances to where the spice is...
There is absolutely no shortage of workers at the lower end of the skills range, there is however a big monetary issue at play that prevents people from hiring people locally in a number of different situations. On top of this there are regulatory and taxation imbalances that make certain industries unable to compete with foreign firms that don't have those issues. The problems are frequently the price of labor not the raw availability of labor, people certainly will take on jobs if there is enough pay to make those jobs worth taking.
> The hardest part of explaining something complex is matching it to the recipient's existing frame of reference.

Nicely said, I was trying to say that significant number of us is quite bad at it. And on the other hand, if frames are completely different, first compressed explanation looks like "noise noise word noise noise ...". On the other hand, often I see people struggling to start explaining as they know they will loose 30 min of time just to get to basics, so saying "I need computer in smallest box" - can be translated to
"I want you to trust me and not bore me with you daily sale's pitch script you have learned by cart, I do not have time explain, I just need what I want not what you want to recommend me, unlike other customers I do not need your assistance I just need you to give me what I want. If customer is always right, just give me what I want, and I will make a purchase and you can move to the next customer."

Sometimes I think that this inpatient arose from search engines, where you type at most 3 words and you get your 10 results you were searching for. So, I assume it is reflected how we communicate with other fellow humans, demanding immediate results instead of 2 way communication.

We can argue it is rude, but for person who built his strong will over years in a hard way, attempt of manipulation and selling is also rude and intruding.

I do not have you ever been to Turkey or Greece where you have these shop owners who are literally trying to drag you in to the shop so you can buy something. For them it is like a ritual or the game, but if you do not want to be part of that theater show, you will find it very annoying.

In many Balkan countries they will ask you multiple times to eat or drink, and polite answer is "I cannot" but if you give that answer it is basically conversation starter for "Why? Are you ok? Is there something wrong...", it is part of social game to continue conversation. If you answer "I don't want to" although it is technically most correct, you will be showered with responses as "that is rude", "we will not poison you", "why is something wrong with my food", "why are you angry at me" ... and all you wanted to say is "I do not need any food or drink at this time as my body does not needed it, and I am perfectly content with my energy and liquid levels" :)

So, for many technical persons, who live most of their live in their own head, trying to juggle multiple ideas and resolve who knows what, small talk can be a major annoyance.

And I do not want to start with "this is secret project idea I am working on, I should not share it with anyone, someone may steal my idea ..." and everything along those lines...
I don't think it means anything really, just the author though it sounds clever.
This is before I worked in software. They needed people to staff the shop (as in, literal shop) in the evening. Also see my other reply for some more context.
10% of the company is at L6 or higher so it can't be that hard.