skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh I'm not a crypto proponent to be honest with you, GPUs should be in gaming PCs where they rightfully belong.

What I'm saying is: why replacing a bad solution with a slightly less bad solution when you could instead adopt a good solution[1]? Reminds me of those power plants being converted from coal to natural gas "because gas is clean".

[1] e.g. an electronic currency not based on proof of work or, you know, just print on paper, a renewable resource that is not as resource intensive as cotton and certainly better than petroleum based plastics. Hell, I'll even bring compostable bioplastics in the mix of possible solutions. These are all better than cotton and plastic.

Edit: made the comment slightly less snarky in tone. Forgive me it's been a long morning.
Anytime your skip-level steps in to guide your work directly, it’s either a failure of your manager or the skip-level themself.
Highest order bit:

This sounds like you have an inexperienced manager. You should be given baby projects, with clear (generous) deadlines when you’re this junior.

Second order:

The most common failure mode I see in new employees (some of them quite senior!) is, given a 12 part project, thinking it makes sense to spend 1/4 of the allotted time on part one. This is almost never the right thing to do.

You have to spend much less than 1/12 of the effort on each individual piece, even if this means you’re hacking it together, THEN fill in the gaps, or you are setting yourself up for disaster.

A really good manager would’ve given you a 2-3 part project, as your first “real” project, so that you could learn this lesson without much harm done.

If, in fact, you got a project that needed only a few things done, and you committed way too much time to the first part, then this is just a lesson you’re learning about shipping real projects!
I look forward to hearing your results. I think you'll reach the 140-190 wpm range that way, not 250 or 350, and definitely not 500.
> 1. A way to store value without it being stolen by governments.

I've never understood this. You're still living somewhere; the government can knock down your door and gently rubber hose[1] you into handing over your supposedly state-proof cryptocurrency. Indeed, there's probably a strong positive correlation between "legitimately afraid of the government taking my money" and "my government wouldn't bat an eye at torturing me to get my bitcoins." But for the average bitcoin user, it's more of a LARP than a reality.

I think there's ample real-world data against (2), and (3) is, well, the problem.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
Yeah, I suspect the fact that Autism reduces a person's ability to relate emotionally and socially to themselves and others allows them to dedicate more brain power to thinking rationally. In a mild enough case, with a supportive tribe, they could be a useful advisor. No autistic members = tribe has trouble making good collective decisions. Too many autistic members = tribe can't collaborate. That's just my armchair psychologist theory though.
Twenty years ago I was working with EDI without XML. The format was a series of lines, each with a starting tag followed by a delimited list of values.

Each transaction type had a grammar, so each starting tag could mean different things depending on its position within the grammatical structure of the transaction. We were new to EDI and had to roll out a bunch of partners fast, so we bought $60K software to help us. Turned out, that software had no understanding of the grammar; you had to use a cumbersome GUI to essentially write code from scratch to pull out what you wanted, with the only control structure available being GOTOs. Just pulling out a dozen important fields looked like a significant engineering effort.

Then our partners said they required us to display to the user everything they sent. I ended up ditching the $60K software and writing my own tool with a proper parser, so I could input the grammar of a new transaction type in an hour and sort everything out right. After that it was easy.

We didn't have to deal with brokers at least, we connected to everyone directly. I think the company became one of the brokers after I left.
Ammonia may be a good option for fueling merchant ships.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54511743
A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics – With Sean Carroll
Sounds like you should get more informed about the environmental impact of cotton and plastic?

I posted to point out that money isn't made out of paper. That's not really the same as condoning the impact of the cotton and oil industries.
The tree could have fallen on you. Or any other thing that once in a while, very rarely, kills people.

I get the point and it is not all that bad writing. But, people don't die of rabbies all that often.
Maybe we wouldn’t reinvent the wheel so often if the old wheels

PO1**1*2P*0.0001*PE*GE*EDI Core~

didn’t require memorizing a huge compression dictionary just to work with.
Your boss has a problem of some kind and is trying to scapegoat you. Write up notes in as much detail as you can recall and store a copy somewhere with a date stamp - if you're not comfortable putting it on the internet, send yourself a letter by registered mail and don't open it when it arrived.

Then keep it on file and return to work. Change tack as explicitly instructed by otherwise just keep doing your job. Your contemporaneous records of the conversation are insurance that you can mention if/when you find yourself having an uncomfortable conversation in a HR office.
This too. I have been ghosted on way too many take home assignments.
I'd honestly be surprised if the number was greater than 5%.
Be humble. Try to take his (possibly unfair) criticisms in stride.

Work harder, do better. Be open to correction, take this as a growth opportunity.
You have some strange ideas about what fuzzing is.
He mentions asphyxiation but these tunnels have multiple ventilation systems just like other tunnel systems do. It's right on the home page: https://www.boringcompany.com/loop

Its hard to call a minute of waiting in this video a "traffic jam" though. I see worse at the street light next to my house.

My concerns about these boring tunnels are really just the cost for the limited capacity you gain.
Thanks for your response :)

> [...] alongside the culture of my employer [...]

I think you've hit the nail on the head here. As many others have said in different HN posts, culture is hard to change. And I would also understand the argument that one can also enforce culture changes with policies; my hope up to now simply has always been that engineers could "overrule" some artificial time limits in favor of more collaboration by referencing such a policy.

I guess if you're starting from a context where code reviewing practices "just work", introducing explicit policies also can't improve much, anyway. On that note: If you happen to know a good heuristic to detect such cultures during interviews or the like, I would be extremely interested :)
I think the problem isn't technical. Point to point links or satellite fit the requirements. The problem is that it's very dangerous to operate one in a state where the government has turned the internet off to suppress protests.
What are the "scary aspects" of that article? That Omicron is highly transmissible forcing people to take time off work?
Maybe they enjoy non-monetary rewards? One of the joys of the internet for me is experiencing peoples' self-less creations. More of that please!
Doesn't that only work if you used the exact same base? If I build 2 images from debian:11 but one of them used debian:11 last month and one uses debian:11 today, I thought they end up not sharing a base layer because they're resolving debian:11 to different hashes and actually using the base image by exact image ID.
Some of them are literally a form linking to the faq part based on user input.

I think it's ok as a first step to route customer care cases, like "payments issue","delete account" etc, but nothing more granular than that.

That and link rot, when procedures have been updated, but the faq haven't. Infuriating.
And with patents no one who originates an idea gets screwed?
This is not how a serious professional would provide feedback to a junior level engineer fresh out of college. If your boss is tearing you down instead of building you up, I'd go look for something new. You need mentors and people that want to see you grow.

As a director if I had the same thoughts, I'd approach it much differently.

- What do you think were the major blockers?
- What do you think we can we do differently to speed up next time?
- Have you had an opportunity to see <insert exhibit>, looks like some really cool ideas and examples
- What were the good parts of this project in your opinion?

He had an opportunity to build a rapport with you and decided instead to instill fear and doubt. I have never called myself the boss, I'm on your team, my goals are just a little different, but most of them hinge on the fact that you'll be successful, and that it's my job to ensure that success.

Plenty of people are hiring, you shouldn't have to feel like this for weeks on end because he lacks intelligence and empathy.
This is really cool! It might come in handy when house or property hunting. Here is another, similar tool I have found helpful for gardening. https://www.suncalc.org/
All the criticisms you mention concern the responsibility of others and do not reflect on the work you have put in (expected scope change, deadline changes) so it sounds like there is a communication issue between your manager and the boss. It was therefore ‘unfortunate’ they werent at the meeting.
I don’t see how you could have produced anything more based on your account. Perhaps you’re able to reflect similarly.

Besides remind yourself you are all working towards the same goal and put your best into the job, projects are never ideal, that’s ok
Sounds like multiple reasons not to worry and keep doing what you want doing if you live in USA
> this is wrong take, once higher paying companies find out they could pay less due to competitors, they will.

Companies already functionally share compensation information via companies like Radford. You pay a hefty fee and provide your company's info, and in return you get descriptive statistics of the market.

Google and facebook don't scour job boards when determining pay scales, they pick some percentile of the market per these surveys and set compensation at that level. As a result, the companies already have transparency, employees do not, so they can only really gain.
First, make sure you’re not over reacting to negative criticism. Remember, you paid your university and rated your professors. As a result, they probably coddled you to an extent. Now you’re in the real world, people are going to be brutally honest.

Second, ask for constant feedback. I try to ask my boss what I should keep doing and what I should start doing and if there’s anything I should change.

This serves two purposes. It helps me grow and make sure I’m meeting expectations. But it also serves as an anchor for your boss to also think about you in a positive frame (I’m assuming your boss likes at least some of what you’ve done, otherwise you’d be gone).
My first boss used to mark up my work with red pen (it was a lot of printed output). He was correct to criticize the work, but really sucked how he went about it. Like, it was intentionally a bit demeaning. I left after a couple years, even though I was doing quite well.

After reflection some years later, I would say I was overly reacted / was overly emotional over it. But it's hard to feel that way at the time.

Alternately, after several more jobs and life experience, I have made the most money by jumping companies and not sitting still. I have also learned some bosses are just dicks / incompetent. That boss was niether, but some definitely are.

So, I don't know where you and your bosses fall. If you genuinely think they would fire you (have they fired others?), then it would be prudent to interview other places. If it just 'feels bad man's, try and take the hazing with some pride that you survived. Over time, they may just respect that you are tough.

Good luck!
The lived experience of the Okies in California in the 1930s might be worth investigating before developing any grand schemes restricting internal migration.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-18-me-622-st...

https://www.sidmartinbio.org/how-were-the-okies-treated-when...

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-bumblockade/

Does the Pacific Coast want to reinstitute “bum blockades”?

Past Pacific Coast strategies for managing the unwanted included offering a reward for scalps of the unwanted, like the State of California had implemented for First Nations peoples in the 1850s…

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/8/14/567667/-

The Pacific Coast States in the US era have made some really bad missteps in addressing problems like this over the years. May just be a case of taking the “good” (weather) with the “bad” US citizens (that just aren’t as socially or economically desirable). The homeless/van life are living a lifestyle that, for hundreds of years prior to the Anglos/RR, was perfectly acceptable in that/your part of the country. Not an easy problem to address.
I haven't had this happen anywhere in my 7+ years of experience under 10+ different managers, some of whom were much better than others. While it might not be that unusual, op might also consider that this reflects poorly on their work environment and that there are better ones out there.

Also, this sounds like something that would happen at Amazon. I'm curious if it was there.
Yes, very similar to when Google started using WebKit for Chrome (which eventually ended in a full fork)
I guess it's thematically close enough for you to cast whataboutism, but no further.

In NK you have to worry about those closest to you monitoring you, you also have to worry about if being caught your entire family being labeled as bad blood. Some punishments go multiple generations deep.

Conducting 'illicit activity' in an authoritarian country vs a judicial one is a very different experience, in both the activities banned (almost everything in NK, even thinking), the risks, the punishments, and the enemies.

Doesn't really set in until you hear stories from NK defectors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTEDYEwfiwk
It strikes me as an outsider that Intel's issue has not necessarily been lack of talent but rather more of an internal processes and politics issue. The company's offerings have felt really disjointed and it hasn't felt like the company has been rallying behind unified goals.

Anecdotally, lots of Intel engineers have also been leaving due to frustration of getting things done and pretty poor compensation compared to the rest of the industry.
One of the more interesting government programs is the national rabies management program:
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/oral_rabies/downl...

which attempts to keep rabies out of the squirrel population in the west by vaccinating the Appalachian ridge (and to a lesser extent other borders).
> the assumption is getting fired instantly from a toxic organization is probably a good thing

That's correct – although I definitely take on board some of the other commenters' feedback about things like visas tied to roles. I'm going to add some clarification to make it clear this really relates to employees in good standing in tech companies (obviously a tiny minority of the populace and one of the few groups who have the guarantee you mention).
> when I write for fun, and know what I want to say ahead of time, I'm fairly certain I'm able to burst into the low 200s (don't have a solid way to test to be sure unfortunately).

What do you estimate your actual WPM to have been when you wrote your whole comment?

I find that it can take time to think about what I need to put down, and often need to edit and re-phrase for my audience.

The whole WPM thing focuses on pure technical ability and ignores that there is more to writing than being a stenographer.
I don't think you are missing anything. It is far more attractive on mobile due the the extension support and hence ad-blockers. That alone makes up for any (small) performance difference Firefox has.

Chrome on mobile without uBlock is as bad as you would expect.
A perfectly acceptable term outside some circles is, by definition, not acceptable, at least not “perfectly”.

And the (undisputed) fact that Asperger was quite the Nazi should, just by itself, disqualify the term. OPs comment linking the dual terms to the similar binary classification into useful/useless human beings goes even further by showing that usage of the term doesn’t just glorify someone who doesn’t deserve it, but shows how that practice derives from and continues the namesake’s hateful ideology.
A bit OT, but can you recommend/do you know of any touch typing training websites which include training for the numeric keypad, or even for the numbers/symbols row above the alphabetic symbols?
I said no such thing. Please don't put words in my mouth.
I'm not sure. I'm glad he told me, otherwise I wouldn't have known I was undershooting his expectations. I did make mistakes that made the project taking longer than it had to. I guess if I want to keep working here I'll need to find a way to make fewer mistakes like that in the future.
This is essentially why I think we're not going to get self-driving. A few years ago we produced something that could do a good job of pretending to drive under a tiny number of circumstances, and people went "OMG it can drive!" and assumed that we just have a few corner cases before the chat bot can have a conversation about anything. The truth is that often these very limited solutions are just that - limited, they aren't just a linear step on the way to something amazing. Tesla will release self-driving on the same day their cars can hold a conversation with you.
Right. But I don't see how either of these successes by large, cash-rich companies bode well for a random fork of Firefox.
Well put. This is advice I wish I'd gotten!
Because not everyone is a sheep.
Placebo effect is stronger than most people think, also works the other way.
Sounds great. It's hard to find nice tutorials for posix-ipc on the internet.
1. thaumasiotes is __________.

2. everyone likes being __________, but...

3. ... not everyone likes criticism, even when it's __________.

4. therefore, often HN comments are downvoted despite being __________.
UPDATE:::::

Due to Greg from Twilio seeing this post and providing me a way to reach out, I was able to get the problem resolved.

He spent about an hour on the phone with me today and provided some more information about the issue. A few highlights:

* Twilio has doubled in size since the beginning of the pandemic
* Spamming and phishing through text message has gotten a lot more common very recently.

These two things together caused a sort of novel situation with them having to either auto-ban accounts of ban accounts with only a very shallow look and then not having a way for someone to get the account un-banned in a timely manner.

My initial concern with this post was that something had changed within the company culture where they were willing to cull off "smaller" accounts like mine in the $10,000 a year range by treating them very recklessly so that they only needed to work with very large companies which would be more simple and more profitable. This would mean that I would need to change providers or risk them doing other damaging things in the future that I would not be able to predict.

Based on a few things that Greg said in the conversation, I no longer believe this to be the case for a few reasons:

1) They have people like Greg reaching out to people like me at all.
2) In case Greg was not available the next time something like this happened, he provided me the contact information of some other people who were kind of high up in the company and explained that they would be very concerned that something like this was going on where legitimate customer accounts were being suspended.

This changed my interpretation of the situation because Greg's actions communicated to me that this is a temporary problem having to do with Twilio increasing in size very quickly at the same time spam and phishing became a big problem. They had to scramble to fix a problem with their providers before having a chance to refine their systems to make sure the implementation was done fairly and correctly. It does not seem to be a problem with top-level executives deciding that customers like me don't matter.

I also own a company and am very familiar with how things can get out of hand very quickly when demand increases. Shit hits the fan, then things suck for a while until the work is put in to become more organized. This takes time. And it takes trial and error.

I would expect over time for them to correct their systems and properly service smaller mid-range customers like me.
It’s just 15 days. What’s the worst that could happen?
I always just dictate a note in Keep on my phone. I don't think there's a more effective mobile note-taking system.
It seems to me that you have bad managers. Blaming the rookie underscores their ineptitude.

Don't worry too much about it. Prepare yourself to not be like them when you're the boss.

Every project has tons of things to iron out. It is best to discuss them openly, hear everyone, and backtrack when necessary.
Since when has banning new technology been a good idea? I can't believe how many "technologists" want to take the same policy stance as the CCP on decentralization.
Why misdirect from the real issue just to rally an internet mob in your favor? The problem clearly isn't that you received a fraud text (as the title suggests), it is that you SENT fraud texts using Twilio. That will obviously get you banned from any mainstream service.

Also:

> I don't need tech support, I just need someone to call, explain the situation to, and have them click a button.

What do you think tech support is?
It's hard to do but an effective tool to build political standing and gain insight to be able to assess the quality of feedback.
This sounds like a highly problematic solution. If twilio actually greenlights spam that starts with "Forwarded from XXX.XXX.XXXX:" as Greg suggests, you can be sure actual spammers reading this thread will catch on and start sending spam texts with a header intro like that, probably by EOD today.
That's good short term advice, but long term if you are still not getting recognition you should think about leaving or transferring to another team.
I always feel helpless with python containers - it seems there isn’t much savings ever eeked out of multi-stage and other strategies that typically are suggested. Docker container size really has made compiled languages more attractive to me
> Inflationary monetary policy is wealth transfer into the upper class

No, it is a means of wealth transfer to the government without raising taxes. Where does the trillions in deficit spending come from? Inflation!

The politicians, of course, know this. But they keep up the misdirection by blaming it on greedy capitalists and/or unions.

The notion that it is for monetary stability is also propaganda. Milton Friedman in "Monetary History" showed that instability increased after the creation of the Fed.
Samsung shows off foldable laptop, tablet, and smartphone concepts
Do you have an implementable solution for this?

Would UBI be a good way to do that? I do not know much about it but it seems that it could potentially lead to a whole generations being able to try new things, tinker with technology, make mistakes, see what works what does not work. A lot of human thoughts could be shifted from "how to make sure me and my family are fed, clothed and sheltered" to more creative ones.