skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best way to do it would be to not redirect at all but instead simply serve the different layout at the same URL using the same criteria they already use to redirect. (Or, of course, they could use something like CSS media queries for a responsive design with a single set of code!)

There's no reason for them to have a different URL for the mobile views (it should be a cookie or session state if the user explicitly overrides, otherwise automatic) and there IS a reason that Wikipedia is basically the only major site still in existence that doesn't serve up their mobile-designed view on the same URL. Yes, `m.` was a huge trend back in the days of "mobile" meaning "a crappy J2ME browser", but it's not anymore and for damn good reason!
As much as I like the fun factor of my magnetic 2nd gen case, it is inherently flawed. The magnets attract magnetic particles, and as the lid is repeatedly closed they're slowly beaten into the plastic and I've never been able to get those marks out. I imagine with a manget-free hinge this would be severely minimised, as everywhere outside of the magnets there is basically no staining.
Strongly support this. There’s a long way between here and fully replacing all these meaningless drone jobs.
We don't earn better pay and benefits because we are special, brilliant people. We are given these benefits because there is a perpetual labor shortage of people who have enough tech experience to do their employers' bidding and nobody will show up if they don't doll these out. In other words, we are a fluke, and we'll lose these benefits once they figure out how to commoditize software development.

Which is a pretty strong argument for a tech workers union (as well as a warehouse workers union), if not now, a few more years down the line when salaries go down as a result of saturation.
This is correct. "Couple" is singular, so "is" is correct.

You'd use "are" if both people are mentioned: John and Jane, who are Black.
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Yep. Which makes the entire thing absolutely ridiculous when the argument becomes “we need jobs for people to do jobs.”

UBI and whatnot is inevitable.
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Except the CloudFlare ToS (posted as an image from the tweet thread above) says "perform or publish benchmark tests or analyses..."
I'd be fine with an ad-based internet if ads didn't impact performance so much. All of the ad network scripts require heaps more resources and bandwidth, and that's before accounting for malware!
Well, no, because the value would flail around wildly. No sane person would do that. BTC crashes 10% in minutes, who would knowingly expose themselves to that kind of forex risk for the few hours it takes to get the confirmations needed to feel comfortable? When one could instead liquidate their position in seconds, confirm the amount, and wire it to their recipient - free of charge often. Domestic wires are free on FTX but sending USDC-ETH to your own wallet costs $25. There's literally zero good reason for doing what you suggest.
I like your ideas, but they seem difficult to enforce. It assumes good faith on all sides. One of the biggest complaints about AI/ML research results: It is frequently hard/impossible to replicate the results.

One idea: The edge competitors can create a public (SourceHut?) project that runs various daily tests against themselves. This would similar to JSON library benchmarks. [1] Then allow each competitors to continuously tweak there settings to accomplish the task in the shortest amount of time.

Also: It would be nice to see a cost analysis. For years, IBM's DB2 was insanely fast if you could afford to pay outrageous hardware, software license, and consulting costs. I'm not in the edge business, but I guess there are some operators where you can just pay a lot more and get better performance -- if you really need it.

[1] https://github.com/miloyip/nativejson-benchmark
You really had me until the very end, I even had a “parks don’t need disrupting” speech planned
It must work; my ISP blocks access to the URL.

(Choices are limited out here.)
Perhaps you should check out YugabyteDB
https://www.yugabyte.com/

or CockroachDB
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/
That's exactly how the party frequently chooses to portray itself, though.
> In this case the only way you could be compliant

This is overstated. Yes, consent must be clear. But it doesn't have to be a popup; merely clear.

And you would probably be legal to require users to pay more to avoid data collection -- there are conflicting cases from the ICO / washington post case and the Austrian DPA / derStandard.at case.
Mozilla added that warning for all add-ons unless developers pay to have theirs recommended and further vetted. IIRC Mozilla still does some sanity checks and validation for all uploads.
> The phrase could just as soon read "the couple, that is..." or "the couple, who are..." both of which sound better to my ear personally than "the couple, who is."

"The couple, who are" is incorrect. What "sounds" better is not always correct.
You should have complained more, I never would get that service, and my friend has had his screen replaced and never had problems as long as he had applecare or was under warranty.

>I keep buying because the alternatives are very weak in comparison and outdated, but really, if you get a bad product from Apple you are fucked.

I think the M1 is great but I wouldn't use a normal x86 from them.
I agree.

Recently purchased a home with a loan from aave polygon and it was pretty painless.
Barring value judgements about the subject, there are some large chronology and fact checking problems with this post. The federal scrutiny of Bitcoin happened a long time ago now.

The China crackdown was this year. The US agencies mentioned all started examining bitcoin in 2012 at the very latest, and had a decent grip by the next year. Left off the list is the agency with the most impactful jurisdiction- the DHS- who essentially "signed off" on the "legality" of Bitcoin in 2013, specifically citing the ease of tracing bitcoin transactions. The IRS gave its guidance on bitcoin (and classed it as property for taxation purposes) in 2014. FinCen was not particularly concerned at this time, according to someone at FinCen at the time.

Cooperation between compliance specialists (like Promontory) and major investors and the federal government (for KYC and AML) hit full steam by end 2013, by necessity. The FBI seizes assets suspected of being used in the commission of federal crimes, and bitcoin is simply another asset for them to seize, which the Justice Department has done successfully for a decade now.

One could argue that bitcoin was able to go to the moon because of these decisions, actions, and verdicts.

Sources: people who worked in these agencies or organizations at the time and the publicly available information at the time that it was disseminated.
This line of research sounds similar to causal entropic forcing [1] - the idea that you can get intelligent-seeming behavior from an agent that maximizes the future entropy of states in some non-deterministic system.

[1] https://www.alexwg.org/publications/PhysRevLett_110-168702.p...
Sure (to orientations). Here's how a pre-COVID SWE orientation at Google (for folks in professional jobs in Mountain View, not data center contractors in The Dalles): there is a dedicated lobby and theater with multiple people staffing the area welcoming you in. You're handed a laptop, configure your credentials, log in, access benefits, etc, then sit down for a couple motivating videos/speeches and some details on your benefits. At this point you're ready to go to your team's work area (many details could be different outside the mothership).

The second time around it was even more polished than the first time, but contained much less useful information and more cheerleading, so I left once I had my axe and saw that it was sharp.
You suggest performing one's own tests to evaluate performance of the services, which fits the definition of benchmarking.

The ToS explicitly say that performing any benchmark analyses or test relating to the services is not allowed without written permission from CloudFlare.

99% of the people reading and attempting to abide by the CloudFlare ToS are not lawyers, but as a rule contracts mean what they say when they say it clearly and unambiguously as this seems to.
https://archive.md/roB5n
Wires are often free. My bank (HSBC) charges me nothing for domestic wires, my brokerage (IBKR) charges me nothing for domestic wires, Schwab charges nothing for domestic wires, neither does Fidelity, USAA or Ally - even FTX charges nothing for domestic wires - even though moving USDC-ETH out of FTX and into your wallet costs $25.
Daily, it’s literally the easiest way to send large amounts of money in existence.
The amount of support that gorhill would need to respond to would be insane.
I doubt it's as low as 1%. If you hire half a million people in a year, it's pretty much guaranteed a lot of the people involved won't know what they're doing. Many of the HR and recruiting people will be new too.
not easy with distributed systemd. That's how the internet upended text / books/ music/ video. and now money
yes and i don't disagree with that

yet, have you seen how many bootcamps and hype there is about tech industry?

anyone wants to be in, anyone wants the perks

the companies will do anything to trivialise our job and race wages to the bottom, so they could justify spending less money on "human resources"
The last time I took a drug test the company itself was absolutely horrible.

Only place where my manager expected me to work multiple nights per week. This was as a software engineer!

At this point drug tests are just a filter. Let's me know the company culture will suck.
I actually disagree. If you're going to look down at "those people" making the company run, then yeah, us techies are just as easily trawled through and filtered via intense programming interviews. What's the turnover time for SWEs at Amazon anyway?
What's nutty to me though is that we don't have enough of any kind of skilled tradespeople either. Electricians, plumbers, carpenters, cabinet makers, roofers - and I know it isn't just isolated to my geographic area. I've got a friend who is in the middle of building a luxury home to sell - he's basically doing all the work himself because he can't find guys who will just show up, stay off drugs on the job (hazardous!), and seek to do good work. Oh, and it helps if you don't steal tools from the job site too.

Here's a couple jobs that are in short supply: Home inspectors and appraisers. After the 2009 crash, they changed the licensing rules and it's led to a serious shortage of appraisers in particular. Both of these are gigs where you get to set your own schedule and can make some reasonable money while not needing to be a rocket surgeon. Yet, we can't find enough people willing to do it.
Every SWE role I've had in the last decade had a 1-day orientation (plus additional training after)
I was broadly agreeing with the poster that it's worth crying over. Without writing an essay, automation (and I mean mainly business process automation) has sucked the humanity out of work (maybe its always been that way), and people are treated at "resources". This happens at all levels but is worst, to the point of being potentially inhumane, in low skill jobs.
> I also would way rather make large purchases with crypto (e.g. down payment on a house) compared with wiring money.

Why would you ever sell an appreciating asset when you can borrow USD against it and wire it free of charge?
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I haven’t even seen a check in decades.

It’s incredible to me that you think a piece of paper and human contact is secure.
Fair enough, I was curious about that point too (but maybe they were working for govcloud, which probably has more onerous background checking).

Every single job I've had in California for the past 30 years (from academic software engineer to computer scientist to industry software engineer) has clearly stated that they do not drug test before I signed any paper. In fact, my manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab (RIP) was specifically sent there after he refused to take a drug test at a more serious DOE lab, "so he could fit in with all the other hippies and druggies".

I can't speak to any of the other roles, although in my time in the food service industry there wasn't any testing either.
“No one wants to sound like David Letterman.” eh? Bill Gates’s explanation of the Internet was idiotic. If he had explained penicillin like that any listener would decide it sounded like nonsense.
This person has clearly never had a job outside.
After reading that, I can’t help but feel like this is just someone experiencing awful anxiety and unable to cope with work:

“
I go home absolutely drained and i didn’t even do anything. I wake up with the worst existential dread I’ve ever experienced. I cried for an hour straight. Not because amazon specifically, but for the broader state of labor in general.

Sometimes id rather die then suffer until I die from an illness inevitably. I power through my break down. Leave for work to drive through a horrible storm. I ended up being a single minute late. I already get one point against me. Then I’m told if I’m not at my station by 7:05 I’ll get another point. I was never told where to report to. So I asked. In the rudest way possible they say they don’t know. I walk a little bit. 7:05 hits. And I just turn around and go home.

I did everything I was supposed to do but got shit on before I even officially hit the floor. From the time I applied to when I walked out. I tried so hard to be optimistic, but that was the worst experience I’ve had getting a new job. I can’t help but feel disappointed with myself. I’m not in a good financial situation, and my girlfriend is not going to be happy. But with it being a shit show the entire time I just don’t see how that was gonna work, especially at a company like amazon.
“
There is plenty of info online about becoming a worker at AWS if you are interested.

https://hiring.amazon.com/hiring-process#/
https://hiring.amazon.com/hiring-process/application-guide#/

This guy did an insanely detailed step by step of the process.

https://youtu.be/mfKctyhTi_Y?t=60

Playlist here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8Ja-dm83mgqj8B_cP4Gt...

He has videos about picking jobs, application, first day etc.

Note that from what I've heard Amazon really leans on the tech (ie, Amazon A to Z). You can resign / quit etc even from the phone app you download.

Probably for the best for this person they didn't make it more than 3 minutes at the job - its not that easy in the end from what I've heard - much easier WFH type jobs these days if you can get them.
When you’re a regulator, it’s often useful to allow things to grow into giant systemic failure so you have greater latitude to “fix things” when the time is right. As Sarbanes-Oxley demonstrated, the fix is often worse than the problem, and can hold economies back by decades (and if you study the history of some of the greatest fallen economies, such as in Old China, you will see that it can trigger permanent decline).

The anti-crypto people on here are as annoying as the “social networking websites are not worth hundreds of millions of dollars” were in the early 2000s.
I think this space is ripe for something better. Your problem will be integrating with vendors device configs (apple, samsung, android etc).

I don’t have them spread out everywhere but I think I’m atypical. A good example are my parents-in-law who used to backup photos on iTunes to their pc (but where’s the redundancy?) and then it changed and they don’t know why (an apple update or crafted prompt?) and everything backs up to iCloud now. They now pay extra to iCloud as they’ve gone over the storage. To export and redo their process would be painful and a huge waste of time… and that’s just with one vendor. Make the management and import/export (portability) easy and I think you’ve got a good market for non techies.
The virgin Macbook screen vs the chad grain of brown rice https://twitter.com/kaxamdays/status/1438403620391763971
Yeah much better to have it attached to phone number that can be sim swapped, biometric data that can be easily stolen, centralized user accounts, and my favorite national identity that you have no control over at all.
Yeah there is also: https://wiki.c2.com/?ThePrevayler (I see it footnoted in the Martin Fowler article) The idea of a transaction log to reconstruct current state of the application and to allow point in time recovery is the foundation of databases. I worked with stock exchange software that worked this way (application state was shared memory + on-disk transaction log) 20 years ago and it was by no means a novel idea at that time.
It seems more than a bit like quoting the front page of /r/relationship_advice to make a point about how bad relationships are these days. Even if you don't have any specific reasons to doubt it, how can you trust a source that adversarially selects stories for virality?
And one that's actively being remedied by both RTP (already rolled out to many customers) and FedNow in 2023.
My credit union can do wires online too, but only up to a certain limit, which wasn't high enough when I bought my house.
That's... not an anecdote?

Also, fun math question: if they have 1MM workers, and hire 500k every year, what is their turnover rate?
What he is describing is SOP in every rail yard, pit mine, construction site, ship yard, inter-modal facility, airport, etc, etc, etc and has been since not long after the advent of these kinds of workplaces.

In addition to staying in your "zone" (men use man doors vehicles use vehicle doors, service trucks use service roads haul trucks use haul roads, etc, etc) your obligation in these settings is to stay out of the way of everything bigger than you and behave predictably so that everything smaller may stay out of your way. The smallest most nimble and greatest visibility traffic (usually a pedestrian) is expected to not get crushed underfoot of everything else. The biggest "slowest to take evasive action" traffic with the worst visibility has the greatest obligation to behave predictably and stay within the bounds of where, when and how it should be operating. And of course if there's someone in charge of directing traffic everyone listens to them.

Pedestrian yields to forklift yields to semi truck yields to crane yields to haul truck yields to ship (granted I can't think of a workplace where a haul truck would encounter a ship but you get my point).

I could say this is "OSHA 101" if I wanted to rake in the cheap virtue points but most of this stuff was formalized a century before OSHA in the rail yards of the 1800s.

>Who do you think is more likely to be the idiot in that situation?

Whoever is least able to empathize with what the other is trying to do and predict the other's actions correctly. The car driver probably has been a pedestrian from time to time so....
Nwa?
I know Amazon isn't known for the same work environment as other SV places, but most of this post are about HR issues. And HR is awful in lots of places, and not representative of the rest of a workplace.

Maybe at Amazon it is representative? But it's often not.
If you hire 500,000 people per year, you may be rejecting 500,000 people per year. Where and how you reject them may also be bad stories.
Content from that subreddit has gotten a ton of play on social media in recent months. It does seem the most viral stories from the subreddit are embellished, but I can't pinpoint why they seem that way.
Felipe Hoffa did a lot of last year’s Advent Of Code in Snowflake SQL. It’s worth a look - https://towardsdatascience.com/sql-and-adventofcode-2021-on-...
You don’t have any information whatsoever about my personal behavior.

Even if I hypothetically did raise rent with the market, I don’t find it compelling to say doing so is “bad” behavior. This is what a market is, and prices are very important for allocating resources. “If you’re a landlord, don’t raise rent” is not a society-level solution, let’s not waste too much time on it :)
No one is saying that mobile readers shouldn't ever share a URL on the "m." subdomain (despite them, quite literally, saying that). The criticism is that Wikipedia even has 2 separate resources for the same article and that the default behavior on "m." is to share the mobile resource while that's not the same case for the "en." subdomain (or other language variants). The only thing being said is that it should be consistent or it should be seamless - "en." always takes you to desktop and "m." always takes you to mobile or both should take you to the same page and the page should be responsive to the device you're using at the time. When users are saying "don't share the 'm.' page", they're only saying that because it doesn't exhibit the behavior of the "standard" page (which I'm only calling "standard" because that's how it was stated despite the fact that I don't agree that's a proper name for it).
You'll appreciate that HR is done through an app. If you want to quit you can literally do that on the app, no need to talk to anyone. Same with apply for the job, accepting your offer, etc. It's mostly computerized.

That said, it's not THAT hard to get through process, and something of the steps are just filter. We don't know the posters work history / capacity / etc. We do know amazon probably cares very little that this person made it only 3 minutes?

I did hear that for older workers they have a work hardening process during peak to try to harden up workers a bit more gradually to be able to handle full shifts.
Kafka is one way to look at it, but if anything the description of the process evokes The Good Place to me.

It must be an accident that the process is so catastrophically bad that it leaves new hires drained and crying. But you'd almost start to wonder how much worse you could really make it, if you were optimizing for "plausibly deniable torment”. I don't have it in me to imagine how.
Checks are converted to ACH payments.
There was this chap about 150 years ago, wrote about the alienation from labour caused by breaking down jobs into tiny, mindless motions that slowly eat away at your sense of self.

This stuff isn't new.
Empowerment is an old line of research (particularly because of physicists, who have never met a problem they didn't want to interpret as entropy-minimizing/maximizing). It's fine but not important. The important innovation here is showing that if you use random reward functions, roughly like 'assigning arbitrary values to all possible states', you still get power-seeking.

This is important because one of the arguments people have always used against Omohundro drives is "but you haven't proven that lots of reward functions will want to seek power, aren't you just anthropomorphizing from a few special cases? Sure, entropy-seeking will seek power, but that's just one of a whole universe of possible reward functions; if that's dangerous, just don't use it: I would simply not make the AI dangerous. And I will use this as an excuse to dismiss the dangers from any other useful reward function you propose too."

But now we have an example of how power-seeking is the default, and the burden of proof reverses to be on anyone who thinks that AIs will just not be power-seeking, to explain how that very special passivity will come about.
I think it captures the main point that Amazon hiring procedures for 99.9% of people are based on optimizing their bottom line. If they want something specific, they'll acquire it/copy the idea. Backend optimizations/tooling stuff I don't know. Maybe they're recruiting those people based on their research credentials.
> Even at the lowish speed limit of 18miles/h (30km/h) there is around 25 meters/81 feet of stopping distance

That seems extremely long. I always used the rule of thumb that the braking distance from 20 mph is 20 feet and it’s a quadratic function of speed.

You would need to add a full 2 seconds of non-reaction time to get to 79 feet from 20mph.