skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"labor theory of value" -> this is what I was trying to say. Probably I did not phrase it well. I did not read the full book, but I tried to learn its main points. As incorrect as it is IMHO, it is still something everyone should study because of its impact in history.
All good! I hope my respectful disagreement came across that way (and not combative). I appreciate this exchange.
Thanks. I'm reading all the comments. I definitely felt like what the boss was upset about at the meeting had more to do with the technical side, rather than communication.

I feel like my communication with my manager was good. We have all-team meets (that the boss isn't a part of) where I gave weekly status updates, and there's a group chat on slack with my manager where me and the other person on the project discussed what we were working on. I also maintain a github project that shows the status of everything I'm working on that takes me more than one day (and try to keep it up-to-date with what the other person on the project is doing too).

But there was virtually no communication between me and my skip boss. My feeling is that I should have been doing more to keep him in the loop. I think, viewing from the outside, some might say that the management hierarchy exists for a reason and just communicating with my direct manager should be fine, but I think the skip boss would have appreciated being kept more directly in the loop.
Not really sure. They call it funding.

But they received a 50k grant to implement zero trust.

https://forum.forgefriends.org/t/nlnet-grant-application-for...

Is that the same? ( Funding = grant?). From my POV it's money to do something, in this case implement zero trust, no?
Please don't break the site guidelines by being snarky or fulminating, and especially please don't cross into personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well what I meant is, far less than we would be eating if we could get them. A price like I saw in the grocery store is not at all reflective of cost, even with a profit, it's the kind of price you get when there is a finite supply that cannot (yet at least) grow any, so the price goes up until enough people say "never mind".

For all I know, that truffle I saw was from Oregon. But regardless, there aren't very many. It was priced at about 4x the price of silver, per unit weight.
In France?

Grandparents post was all over the place
I'm not convinced it wooshed! But I also wouldn't be surprised :)
Amazon has them and estimates 2 weeks out. I placed an order around Dec 25 and got them about 9 days later. That might not help right now, but it's not like the pandemic is going anywhere by the time I expect to get them (even w/ the delay)
Great work. Can we also have timeline of day w.r.to area we are viewing instead of localized one? it can be much better experiance
I hope so, as I just started on Monday!
- Not banal
It's not hard, it's complex. I spent a few years going through 834 and later at a different company, 811. For the first I embedded a javascript interpreter to do translations. For the second I put most of the logic in the code.
One way to simply optimize Docker image size is to use https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless

Supports Go, Python, Java, out of the box.
The Virtual Table Mechanism of SQLite
I've been working on using github projects beta for the past couple months. I'm super excited for it, but right now it's hard to use because because it lacks basic features.

Things projects have that beta projects don't:

* No easy way to automatically add issues from a repo to your project. You have to add them one by one, or use the graphql API, which lacks batch operations.

* No issue preview on the board.

Basic feature missing from sheet view:

* You can't sort issues along the dimensions available in a repo's issue tab (e.g. newest, oldest, recently updated).

I thought I must have been missing something, until I realized that github's public roadmap repo itself uses a bot to add issues [0]. There's an issue there listing out the parity items [1], which will be super handy!

[0]: https://github.com/orgs/github/projects/4247/views/1

[1]: https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/287
My point is more of it being not a bad thing to improve on.

Most of the cases where you needed actual really fast travel have been covered for a long time and the number of careers or situations where a person need to travel fast have been declining for a long time, but I think we can all agree faster travel times are better.

Side note: stenography and chorded words with something like Plover (similar to the above) is where really fast typing usually comes into play for. I have not looked into any of the above because the pain of changing my habits hasn’t been worth the benefits to me yet.

I’ve considered it when I had to do interview transcripts, but ultimately I didn’t want to make the investment. I hope future generations are able to learn on something more designed for contemporary use than QWERTY and classic keyboards - I know my wrists have thanked me for moving to a split keyboard for the ergonomics alone.
In a similar vein I’d avoided all Marvel movies for years but just binged over the holidays. I get the allure, I found myself geeking out over the characters and actors.

But I think it’s better for me to “visit” since I’ve been guilty of entertainment gluttony in the past and start missing life goals.
Well, to be fair, you made a point about how the parent was "victim blaming" and that their comment was worthy of teaching others. I failed to see what was so wrong in the point they were raising, that the apparent reason he was let go was based on the seemingly weakest argument against him. Indeed, you have chosen the least charitable interpretation of mine & the parent's comment, that we completely ignored everything else, and assumed that is pretty telling of our character.

It felt like the complaints from the women was simply the excuse needed to fire an employee that he wanted to get rid of anyway - which doesn't sit right with me or many people here. Your comment also suggests that by raising the point, the parent was making a classic case of "victim blaming", which is where you and I diverge. Perhaps his action of watching people working silently rises to the level of a hostile work environment, but that should have been established by a review, which didn't happen here. As others in the thread have pointed out, touching is perhaps a fireable offense, but looking at people work by itself(some women brought it up, but was the behavior restricted to women?) deserves at least some questioning. Was he looking at peoples' screens or them? You are content to handwave the allegations since it affected an employee you felt deserved to be fired over other shortcomings anyway.
That doesn’t mention either of what I think are the most important differences:

(a) That RSS doesn’t support relative URLs, whereas Atom supports xml:base. I think some clients support xml:base on RSS, but certainly not all, so all links should be converted to absolute in RSS for compatibility.

(b) That RSS titles are of an unspecified format and bodies are only mostly HTML, leading to things like angle brackets in titles being mangled in different and incompatible ways by different clients, and plain text bodies being unreliable (indicated by the <content:encoded> mess which is I think theoretically identical in semantics to <description>, but they felt the need to duplicate it because clients had made such a mess of <description> because RSS developed “organically” in the worst way). By contrast, Atom gets it all right, allowing you to specify in each case whether you’re providing text or HTML. (And HTML is useful in titles: things like <em> and <code> are completely reasonable, and it’s a crying shame that almost no content management systems support inline formatting in titles. But if you are converting to plain text and know you’re dealing with HTML, you can strip tags. I do wish it supported both, e.g. “You don’t need <code>cat</code>” and “You don’t need `cat`” so you get backticks if monospace formatting is denied you.)

RSS is a mess that should have been completely retired about fifteen years ago. If you’re doing podcasts you have to use RSS because Apple started doing podcasts a few months before Atom was finalised, and they’ve chosen to just keep layering hacks upon hacks, namespaces upon namespaces, duplication upon duplication, for the next 16 years, rather than ever switching to Atom which would have resolved a lot of that (and maybe worked to standardise other parts, rather than duplicating fields half a dozen times for RSS, Apple, Spotify, &c. &c.). But if you’re not doing podcasts, please let RSS die. As a term, too, in favour of just “feeds” or “web feeds”, because it’s harmful, leading to people only hearing of RSS and so implement RSS because they didn’t realise they should be implementing Atom.
A range of experiences broader than just the good ones.
Depends on the data, but everyone should be treating metadata at the same classification level as the underlying data. Perhaps even moreso, as metadata leaks information about the company, versus leaking data about the user. (Rightly or wrongly, things that harm the company are more likely to be prioritized.)
If you're in a state which signed on for post-Obamacare Medicare expansion (or WI, which self-funded BadgerCare), you may be eligible for free health care without a wealth test. In other words, if you cut off your income to rely on savings, you may be able to get good healthcare from the gov't, until such a time as you start making money again.
Monuments are awesome, they are great for stories to be told, and for remembrance of long past peoples and events. But placing anyone alive on a pedestal isn't healthy. Worst even placing oneself on a pedestal.

Not sure if there are studies on this, but all my life I've seen an exaggerated fascination regarding musicians, actors, entrepreneurs, politicians, sports players or journalists. I've felt it myself, but the older I get, the more I try to exchange fascination for moderate respect.

But I'm not alone on this, people care about other people, for the wrong and correct reasons. We all are looking for our identity, and usually look for traces of it in other people. IMHO this is the greatest problem of our time. Perhaps it has always been a problem, but a more obvious one now that we are all connected.

Anyhow, I wrote this as context for my own thesis: "Fascination with celebrities doesn't have to do with intelligence", it is narcissism and loneliness rolled into a single expression. As evidence I've seen plenty of smart people fascinated with Elon Musk, Angela Merkel or Queen Elizabeth II.

Important topic, that needs to be talked, but I feel moving it to the realm of "smart people vs fools" is very unproductive, and basically missing the point.
Sure, but why is that important enough to make in the first place?

Note if you don't have a background in philosophy you probably can't answer this. If you do the answer will take many pages
It already does. I recently rewatched Juan Benet's presentation from one of the conferences.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=l44z35vabvA

"turning centralized apps into decentralized protocols"

Web3 is an ethos, not a set of discrete technologies.

https://web3.foundation/about/
Engineering Principles – Ramp Engineering Blog
Ahhh, I know that Entity Framework would do this at one point, IDK if EF Core does or not.

Linq2Db does it via T4 Template generation, so you can play with it more if you want [0]

[0] - https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db/blob/64a0db9a9ed7787ff755...
Can second Nix! With Nix we were able to reduce PostgREST image size[1] from over 30 MB to about 4 MB.

[1]: https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/tree/main/nix/tools/d...
EJS looks a lot like a framework to me. Just because it leverages vanilla JS doesn't make it a non-framework. Or does it?
Work at places that don't hire junior devs.
"found someone I like,"
"met someone special,"
"dating"
There are many things he could have said that are way less cringe. Not to mention that the word "courting" feels like it implies a gendered asymmetry between the two. It's old fashioned to put it mildly.
Another service that would be useful would be an email list to rss bridge. So you can get marketing emails as rss then easily unsubscribe by simple removing the feed.

One reason i love rss is a deal site in my country offer a feed of when a particular product is at a discount. So i can subscribe to those and get alerts when that happens.
There’s actually a whole community fascinated with your turds at https://xeromal-dumps.com
I agree with you here entirely. I don’t really see how this is transformative compared to any chorded typing system.

The specific op I was replying to was saying

> …and 0.5% actual typing, I think I am quite safe with my good 'ol QWERTY.

And there were a host of similar comments initially.

100% on fighting snake oil.
0% on pushing back against people trying new things that might improve the status quo
I'd say "clearly" not.
>That is not what I meant by a Merge Queue,

I meant exactly what you're referring to. Source code isn't the only thing that can go under source control. As long as the file isn't fully binary and is in a somewhat readable human format it can be subject to version control and therefore a Merge Queue.

>It's practically impossible to optimize something like: will our software development process allow us to deliver new functionality faster and win market share?

This is my point. It's impossible in the same way optimizing a painting of still life is impossible. Therefore it's not really engineering.

>There is far more ambiguity in software development than in other fields.

Edsger Dijkstra, had it right.
Little Orphan Impls (2015)
The lyrics of the old Rush song “Red Barchetta” also became a bit more like reality: https://www.rush.com/songs/red-barchetta/
The NYTimes spelling bee, which they said they were inspired by, also is unobscured in the source
There's a lovely ad for malt extract tonic (wink wink) on page 19

https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1922-05-07/ed-1/?sp=...

Totally not beer!
I found this pure python implementation very easy to follow:

https://github.com/ghallak/jpeg-python/blob/master/decoder.p...

Some of the helper functions in this separate file:

https://github.com/ghallak/jpeg-python/blob/master/utils.py
Slavoj Žižek has a joke about this. His answer would be: "German".
Code_connect: A subreddit to hangout, discuss projects and team-up
In response to a recent question on HN regarding ways to connect with other developers, I created a subreddit to hangout, discuss side-projects and team-up for new project.

Please do provide suggestion to make it better.
You do know that the oldest Gen Z’s are a few years out of college, right? There are so many MBPs on campus that
a $1600 laptop isn’t making anyone blush anymore.
If a Leninist system institutes free-market capitalism, as in China, it stops being Leninist, however dictatorial it may still be. As it happens, in this case the incentives usually run to the preservation of the system rather than its extinguishment.

The two examples are temporal inverses of one another. In the situation of capitalism collapsing into government-granted monopolies, free-market capitalism is the first stage, and state central planning is the second stage. In the situation in China, the first stage was a vanguard-party-led society governed by a dictatorship of the proletariat that carries out state central planning, and the second stage is mostly free-market capitalism.

I don't think that anyone ever tried to use "Leninist system" to mean "a system where the government is not corrupt", but maybe I just haven't read enough of Lenin?
"theres no sonos chat app" ... yet.
This is not quite right. levels.fyi has data for all companies that have enough submissions. For historical reasons it has a lot of data from well-paying tech companies in SV, but it also has 167 data points for SWE compensation at Accenture (which is pretty far from the "best compensation" you can get).

The median on levels.fyi is probably higher than the true median, because well-paying companies are overrepresented (people who work at those companies tend to be more plugged in, etc), but most companies that have a sufficiently large number of developers will have enough data points listed that you can get useful information out of it. Heck, there's 69 data points for SWE comp at Nordstrom!
I was under the impression chemists/lab techs regularly store nasty chemicals in “glass beads.”

They put the nasty stuff into test tube, then melt the tube shut. The result is a glass bubble filled with poison.

This makes it easier to store, move etc.

The movie portrayed glass bubbles of nerve gas as a way to deploy nerve gas, which makes no sense.

It also portrays glass a fragile, which isn’t true.

But scientists in a laboratory storing toxic chemicals in “glass beads” is very much something that “checks out.”
> Not evident what that has to do with the Tether printer?

Shortly after that exchange, they realized they could just take the money out of the Tether bank account, and use it to satisfy their withdrawal requests. I speculate this is the moment they realized that they did not have to actually back their USDT, and turned on the printer.

> Of course, prolonged bouts of that would've reduced trust in crypto and exchanges, reasonably so.

I think that is a completely reasonable alternative explanation.

> And btw, do you have any links on the hedge fund connection, and Alameda and Cumberland?

Check this out. Protos did the legwork to figure out where all the USDT issuances were going. Of $96B in outbound distributions to market makers, $36B went to Alameda and $24B went to Cumberland. That's almost 70% of all distributions ever made to large accounts.

[1] https://protos.com/tether-papers-crypto-stablecoin-usdt-inve...
The spam filter analogy landed for me, thank you! Really appreciate the H1 anecdote as well, I did not know that.
I'm looking at this from a PM's perspective and not a devs perspective so take it as you will.

>he basically tells me this project should have been finished a long time ago and he can't believe it's taken this long
>>Sounds like a manager with a MBA and lack of hands on technical experience.

>he says I probably just misinterpreted an offhand comment of hers as a hard requirement
>>The problem isn't you not understanding her requirements, its a lack of documented well defined requirements - and any changes to said requirements should be noted and tracked.

>no longer necessary due to changing requirements
>>Once again, this sounds like your manager is deflecting the fact that they didn't have well thought out and well defined requirements before the project began.
Good point. I should try to look on the bright side.
if ever the threat of a sustained and deeply-buried 51% attack actually appeared, the core devs, effectively meaning Adam Back, would just find an excuse to fork away by declaring the exploited fork uncanonical (in so many words).

The mob of laser-eye HODLbugs will fall right in line and go on full social media attack against anyone supporting the old chain. All will all vehemently deny any ensuing comparison to ETH vs ETH classic.
Or maybe the universe is digital if you could look small enough!
I think what probably happened here is this ... your bosses boss, has had misgivings about the project and your work on it, that he's been passing on to your boss. I think your boss either disagrees, or agrees but has been trying to softly nudge you in the right direction without alarming you.

My feeling is that it's probably the latter, which is why you haven't heard anything since the meeting between two of them after you left. You're new in the industry so this isn't something that you should even be able to pick up, but what I'd suggest is a bit more tactful probing around these ideas to find out if one of those guesses is correct.

If you, or worse you AND your boss are on the higher ups shitlist, you want to take corrective action as quickly as possible even if your boss doesn't (which might involve lining up another gig, just in case).

As an anecdote, in a toxic environment, I had a boss who was shielding me in similar fashion from his boss who was supportive of some other coworkers I was repeatedly butting heads with. My boss agreed with me and thought my approach and work was the right way to do things, but I had no inkling till one day he casually mentioned that his boss had weighed in on what up to that point just seemed like low level squabbling. That got me very alarmed indeed, and he was shitcanned not even 4 weeks later. Turns out that they had pressed him repeatedly to fire me, and used he refusal to do so as one of the reasons to get rid of him.

In came a new boss, and within weeks (conveniently after I'd wrapped up a very difficult project, which was part of the reason my now-former boss had been shielding me from them) I was told I had no future at the company (directly from the higher up). So, keep your ears and eyes peeled and proceed to do some digging.

Your boss might not be giving you the full scoop on what's going on behind the scenes, and you might need that information to take evasive action. Hopefully I'm wrong though.
Does that 130 billion include or exclude humans and their livestock?
So you evaluated a whole list of things against your requirements, then chose something not on the list of things evaluated that didn’t meet your requirements?
Kazakhstan’s deadly protests hit Bitcoin – world’s 2nd-biggest mine shuts down
Although I can understand additional size that comes with any framework, all the apps I worked have metrics so far, was in tens or hundreds of kbs. Never in ones. I was surprised when I read 3+7kb of Preact was felt heavy.

On Side Note: I think very soon most of JS Frameworks will reach that saturation point where all have equal performance metrics. After that it's more of developer experiance in building applications.
My original side project is now my full-time job.

Most of my current side projects are flavors of what I am already good at and have success doing.

These haven’t made money (yet), but I think of them as successful because the learning translates to my day job which earns money. They also scratch the creative itch so I don’t needlessly update my normal website because I’m bored.

This helps me in my normal job as I can solve similar problems in news ways and some of those new ideas work themselves into my other projects.
More info on the implementation can be found at:
https://sites.google.com/view/eliza-your-own-ai-bot/home
> what signal does the salary itself give?

That someone else thought you were worth that much.

> why should I answer

You don't have to answer any question you don't want to. But if your previous salary was high, mentioning it will frame the negotiations in a higher salary bracket.
This is a good book on Matsutake, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mushroom_at_the_End_of_t...
Sidenote: Ghost in the Shell had people with cybernetic hands that would convert from ten fingers to dozens for super rapid typing.

Which was a bit weird in a show about cybernetics with tons of direct mind links: why not just thinktype?
They're just practicing SDD: Shyamalan-driven development
Credit Karma Tax Is Now Cash App Taxes
It's a core part of Sonos' complaint, I am sure you could find it in the legal filings, but this article about a preliminary injunction against Google in Germany about the same issue starts with that detail in particular: https://chromeunboxed.com/google-sonos-lawsuit-2021