skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It entertains me that every time someone talks about the shitshow going on at one of the FAANGs the response is "other than that, how are things going at Amazon?".

A couple of months ago I talked with a hiring manager there and it felt like a hostage situation. If his camera had been on I suspect he would have blinked S.O.S. in Morse code. He hedged like I couldn't believe,

"Well Amazon is a great place to work... for some people."

"If you commit to doing something - well they value work/life balance but, you know, you need to meet your commitments."

I should send him a thank you note. I hope he makes it out in one piece.
We have them, but they're not that elegant and often add more complexity than it seems like they should. But they can be very useful/valuable. Just wish they created less complexity.
Numderline – A font patcher to make it easier to visually read large numbers
They hired the original lead developer of Homebrew, which seems to me like support. He chose not to continue working there and seems to now be selling NFTs of his old tweets and git commits, but it seems hard to pin that on Apple.

I'm assuming, of course, the idea was to let him spend at least some of his company time working on Homebrew.
I fully agree with removing Python from OSes, but I don't know that it's reasonable for the average user to manage their own versions (I wish I didn't have to manage my own versions and I've been developing in Python for the last 15 years). The alternative is to ship the runtime, stdlib, and dependencies with each application, but that seems pretty sucky for an interpreted language and especially one that leans so hard on random native extensions (I've seen relatively simple applications pull in 250MB of dependencies in a compressed tarball, never mind runtime and stdlib).

Really I don't think Python (and probably other interpreted languages) is a very well suited for developing end-user applications--although some people have fewer scruples than me about wasting user resources.
>"However, doing nothing isn’t an option."

Cynically, it actually is for a cash strapped municipality. If they lack the money for proper maintenance - but can afford the bare minimum amount of caretaking - they certainly cannot afford the cost to dismantle the bridge. They will go with bandaid solutions virtually every single time.
I was on the GAE team several years ago and I'd be really surprised if they moved source-of-truth out of google3. They would need massive infrastructure reorgs in order to make that happen, on a product that is very difficult to staff because of tech debt and new shiny things nearby. I bet this is "just" a public mirror (which doesn't mean it wasn't a big effort).
Grammar and context. It'd be closer to dictation than current speech to text, with gpt serving as a "brain" interpreting what you mean in the current context instead of raw input. You could tie in the "natural language to [sql,bash,log parse, regex]" capabilities of gpt-3 and so on.

Obviously it wouldn't be as good as a real person, but it'd be a nice leap to the 95%+ level of accuracy over the 80%ish on high performing commercial STT systems.
Also see:

• Prices and wages in Medieval England (2014) <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29882389> 2022-01-10, 119 comments

• Medieval Price List <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21669787> 2019-12-01, 147 comments

• List of price of medieval items <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15680005> 2017-11-12, 48 comments

• List of prices of medieval items (2009) <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11613093> 2016-05-03, 38 comments
>It’s not hard to see when people are looting and move away.

If you're asking that everyone in viewing distance leave, I figure that'd be an area about 20 feet around. The vast majority of protestors are in that area, and cannot even see the rioting.

>The reason it doesn’t happen is because the protesters don’t in fact have a problem with the riots.

This is an oversimplification and a generalization. The logic doesn't even hold up in reality. There already are cops around the majority of large protests. There aren't looters freely destroying things beside them. Looters are separate from protests, they just get grouped together. Looters aren't all in close geographic distance of protests
That makes sense, cloud providers are usually pretty good at giving you enough (besides the low level stuff you mention).

I'm thinking more along the lines of managed SaaS's, looks like there's a lot of missing insight into activity (who called this API, who performed this action, etc.).
He's probably not more qualified, but independent oversight of public expenditures serves a valuable purpose. A hired accountant has no incentive to point out that it might be wasteful or unnecessary to spend Y money on a thing X as long as everything is done by the book.
Nothing about the money laundering
Missed the point. If that operation is so critical, give me a workplace owned device to deal with it. My employer is not getting superuser access to my personal devices.
Games is a good point, but I didnt consider it since I don't game.

I did exclude streaming services though in my OP.
>A God, not being out for her own amusement, will likely create only one universe.

Why would that be? I see no reason why God might not create parallel universes
To me, when communities choose a managed platform that didn't exist on the old internet, I assume that community would have just died if the managed platform didn't exist. It has never been easier or cheaper to run a phpBB instance than it is right now.

That is what I mean when I say we did not lose the old internet - it's more available to us than ever, but people choose not to use it. Like...it is not "lost," it's unpopular. I agree with you about all the drawbacks of WhatsApp, but it sounds like your community doesn't.
Redis is more of a datastore than a database. Sure it will persist data if you coherce it forcefully to, but works best as a transient store, with data residing somewhere else.
The limit has been 26 tons for almost 20 years now.

I don't know what the limit was originally, but PATransit should be able to accomodate bridge limits within two decades.
Hi Tau, thank you very much, glad to hear!
In the context of engineering:

> Odd take. I guess if you're shitty at picking startups. I know so many people who have made multiple 7 figures across secondary sales in various Series A-B companies.

Sounds like those people are the most successful VCs ever and should consider a career switch with their ability to pick winners.

> A VP at a fast growing SaaS company has millions in equity. Their comparable L-8 type position at BigCo won't give nearly the same upside.

A VP at a fast growing SaaS company has millions in fake money. Their comparable L8 type position at Big Tech has ~700k-1 million yearly compensation in real money.

> It's easier to make mid-high six figures at BigCo. It's easier to make a few million at startups. Frankly, the most talented people I know (outside of in engineering) always inevitably leave BigCo for a startup.

Citation required. Who are these people? What were their exits? How many times did it take? Stories from a friend of a friend do not make compelling data.

> BigCo is a far better place for more mediocre performers.

The pool of available jobs at all start-ups dwarf what's available at Big Tech. It's very hard to argue that there's more mediocre people at Big Tech than start-ups.
Yes, let's bring out the pitchforks for a spur-of-the-moment thing that someone did 40 years ago. Really. I'm sure the victim is still seeing his shrink on account of this.

Let's have a bit of perspective here.
Yeah, I know the 'rule'. The least messy war that comes to mind is the first gulf war, and that had loads of direct targeting of civilians[0]. Most wars (second gulf, various israeli wars, etc) are way worse. I cannot in fact think of a single example of the rule being followed, can you?

If you consider a really bloody war, like the korean war, they killed a fifth of the population of north korea, and destroyed basically every single piece of civilian infrastructure.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_air_campaign
I wonder about IT woes in the other branches, Army, Navy... Space Force?

Maybe they could share notes on best practices/trade equipment

On Sundays, Space Force gets to login on the "good computers", Navy on Tuesdays

Seriously, this sounds like a national security risk or consultant's wet dream.

Do other countries run Microsoft too?

:-((
I've been at most stages except early-stage startups.

The main tradeoffs are

- Cash vs lotto tickets

- Breadth vs depth of experience

- Knowing everyone in the company vs being more anonymous

- Knowing more inner workings of the company vs being shielded from those details

- Having broader organizational support vs. doing/learning things for yourself

- Some will say work-life balance, but this varies wildly by company and team

> I never really learned "the right way"

Large companies often do things in very idiosyncratic ways that work for them. These approaches rarely directly translate to startups. Different scale, different tools, and when you're massive, the tools aren't commoditized.

The other part of this is your experience. There's a difference between hacking something together that works and intentionally designing something that works. Some of this comes with experience, some with focus and diligence, but it's orthogonal to the size of the company.

> I feel like I've also cornered myself with my resume / experience by only working at startups, and might not even be a lucrative candidate for larger organizations.

Big companies will happily consider you for mid-level IC roles. They want good engineers. I'd argue it's a little harder to go from a big company to a startup because it's easy to get pigeonholed in a particular role, and you're less likely to be familiar with standard tools everyone else uses. Big companies don't have this problem because no one they're interviewing is familiar with their in-house toolset.
I fully admit I've been harsh in this thread, and frankly I'm unhappy with myself for letting my emotions get the best of me.

I appreciate your honesty and candor on your feelings on this subject.

What I will state bluntly is this:

You have stated, implicitly, that you support the policy of confining the unvaccinated to their homes.

Unfortunately, I don't see a path forward for me to ever forgive, or be willing to be decent to, people who hold that opinion, because I view it as absolutely and unequivocally tyrannical, to a degree that I view is a betrayal to the constitution. My ancestors settled in southern Appalachia in the early 1700s, and I would have a far larger number of relatives if not for so many of them dying in the Revolutionary War for the right to never again have their fundamental rights violated by inevitably corrupt, morally certain and powerful rulers in distant cities. They too, fled Ulster, where oppressive policies could have been avoided if they had made the CHOICE to convert to the Anglican church. Just a CHOICE. They CHOSE to not join the Anglican church, so they deserved the oppression that was visited on them in the eyes of the British monarchy. "Those stupid Scots-Irish Presbyterians. If they'd just convert, they'd be fine! Let's take their shit." The English KNEW that THEY were RIGHT. It was all justified.

I strongly suspect that, had you been born in 1914, you would have been fully supportive of the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II. Most Americans were, because violating the sovereign rights of fellow citizens made them feel safer. It reduced the risk imposed by some of them being spies. You have applied the same logic here. I know you view that as an unfair characterization. I don't fault you for that. Most people think that, if push came to shove, they would not have been one of the majoritarian oppressors they read about in history books. They think they are one of the small percentage of people who would have taken a stand, and sacrificed to do so. I see no evidence to support that belief in this conversation.

All I will say is that the machinery required to enforce such policies, as put on display in Australia, once put in place, can be used for any end, by any ruler who seizes power.

Regarding the political party aspects, it wasn't intended as a threat, but more of as a single data point that should make you question what the long-term fallout will be when this already endemic virus is eventually recognized as such by the vast majority of the American public. I'm not the only one who has hit a point of no return. I know I am in a minority, but it's an intransigent one, and the effect will be generational. I used to support gun control as well. Knowing that people out there are happy to violate my rights, I no longer do. 2 years ago, I viewed the NRA as a bunch of psychopaths allied with gun and ammunition manufacturers. My opinions, likely correct, was that a lot of the "Obama will take your guns" was designed to boost ammunition sales and profits for the gun/ammo companies. Now I view them as a useful counterbalance. I've been radicalized. Was it worth it?
Maybe just call it `system-python`.
So ironically, maybe it will be Azure that's the last one left standing?
My bank's 2FA consist of text verification which has notable issues.
Thanks, peakaboo! Session plugins seem like a nice idea, gonna check that out!
Yep. There's a balance to be found here. On one hand, a group of construction groups and civil engineers likely know what they're talking about more than most people, on the other hand, massive infrastructure spending that they advocate for directly lines their pockets.

It's like when you hear all the engineers and geologists at the American Petroleum Institute talk about fracking. Maybe we should keep a grain of salt.
Yeah but 40k people live in Penn Hills so…

EDIT: Maybe it’s this [0], but lol Pittsburgh is not unique in having some abandoned homes. Literally every municipality ever in history has an area with abandoned homes.

[0] https://archive.triblive.com/local/penn-hills/some-penn-hill...
People do much more than narrating natural language. They navigate menus, highlight text, launch apps, type commands on the terminal etc... I don't see how voice can best keyboard and mouse when considering all interactions.
Yeah, but then what's the likelihood of aiming directly at us? Even a fraction of a degree off and we won't see it.
They need superuser on Android? On iOS I just give permission for an app to send critical alerts. It's a hard requirement for apps like PagerDuty.
Interviewed a candidate last month who was leaving Amazon (downgrading his salary as well) because acc to him, working there was having a big impact on his mental health.
Is your comment meant to be an improvement?
I can’t recommend enough the book Practical Vim by Drew Neil.

Vim isn’t hard, and it’s faster than everything else.

Vim is the one true editor (except for that other one true editor which is also ok).
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We are running a B2B sales ops for our talent matching service & HR SaaS (focused in Asia market). Any good recommendation on buying leads?
I hate society. So some people get to take 6 months off doing absolutely nothing for the company and still get paid whereas their colleagues are probably getting written up for being 5 mins late back from lunch or taking too many toilet breaks. So fair. Why can't I get paid to work on a personal project for 6 months?
The real reason they declined to answer what they found objectionable is that the movement to ban books is coming from ‘grassroots’ groups that are financed by GOP mega donors and the donors would rather have that part left out. The purpose is to keep stoking the culture war to keep people voting for their side.

In this instance, it’s the GOP, but all sides are guilty of such maneuvers.
I know I'm completely missing the point of whether this good for the industry or they still need to make changes etc. etc. (I know nothing about it).... thanks for the link - the introduction is going to make for a fun Friday evening challenge :D :D
these guys seem to think the same way: https://www.failory.com/
Are people still using actual vim? I am, because I'm old. But what's the story with NeoVim, should I be considering switching to that?
Config level defaults were set in the flag service. But when that goes down, the client has to decide what to do.

I think there was an optional arg for specifying default behavior, but even when used there’s the problem that the default you pick for a rollout will be “off”. If you don’t go back and change it later, you’re back in the same boat.
they have been doing this forever
There's nothing about using transit that would decrease the number of bridges in a city like Pittsburgh. The transit needs bridges to cross rivers and hollows too.

An awful lot of these bridges started as footpaths and ox-cart turnpikes.
Seriously, they could be running on thin clients like a chromebook. No need to give everyone top-end machines to run MS Office and some webapps. It's mind boggling this is even a debate on HN.
Entrepreneur from Home [pdf]
I worked with a former Amazon dev who took a municipal government job (1/3rd the pay) back in Canada and no longer owned a computer at home (it was a problem when it come to WFH as the government had no laptop to give him) because of his experiences at Amazon.
This post doesn't contribute anything new to the discussion. These problems have been known for years and the company continues to do well.

Nothing will change until it hits the bottom line.
Isn't the PR exactly where you'd go to see that information, if you're an org that uses PRs to store that information?
So the question then becomes: Is there anything wrong with them deciding to go a different direction than their past messaging? Or should they forever be beholden to it?
I have some limited experience here, You should google this, most of the results are pretty accurate. They're just asking basic questions to see if you'll make them money, gauge your confidence/potential. Think, would you invest if someone else pitched u your idea.
There is not really a meaningful joint distribution. Some quantum observables are incompatible with each other which essentially means they can't be assigned simultaneous values.

More precisely a quantum observable is a map (a function) that takes in a quantum state and outputs a probability distribution, representing the probabilities of the various outcomes you could get if you measure that observable on that state. The equivalent statement is also true of classical observables and classical states.

Under classical rules it turns out that if you have many observables acting on the same system you can come up with a joint observable, that maps a state to a joint probability distribution for all the observables. For incompatible quantum observables this is emphatically not the case. Given two quantum observables there is generally not a joint observable representing simultaneous measurement of them.
> I'm very skeptical of these figures. $10-12K is more than I'll pay for my brand new Tesla, and it's a hell of a lot less than that when you amortize those figures over its expected lifetime.

Here's the source:

https://www.aaa.com/autorepair/articles/average-annual-cost-...

The big things people forget is the cost of insurance in addition to consumables and depreciation.

> Ultimately, this conversation illustrates one of the major problems with federalizing infrastructure. You get people from urban centers making policies based on incorrect assumptions about other areas of the country.

Note that the vast majority of the population lives in areas where this is an issue. The number of people who are truly rural is a lot smaller than the number of people who live in cities or their suburbs and still end up paying for things like parking.

My position isn't that someone should _ban_ cars but that we stop heavily subsidizing them and start factoring in pollution, too. There a ton of problems which could be solved quickly by market pressure but we've been really resistant to that as a society because it means rethinking the dominant view of the American ideal from the 20th century. A suburban house costs more due to all of the infrastructure requirements amortized over fewer residents but a lot of policy decisions have allowed people not to see that until the maintenance bill eventually comes due.
You're right but sadly neither of us really shape business culture.
Your link shows Pittsburg as number 4, which completely validates the statement "At ~450 bridges, it has one of the highest amounts in the world."
> "As soon as you question 'Is it a good idea to put a 2-year-old in a mask all day?' you're suddenly a psychotic, anti-vax right-winger," she says. "Which really couldn't be further from the truth."

I'll ask a different question: is it possible? I mean, for more than 30 minutes...

I'll ask another one: despite only making up 19.4% of the population, unvaccinated people represent 78.8% of COVID-19 hospitalization in the state of Washington. [0]

Should children be the ones paying the price for these people making bad decisions?

[0] https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/...
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I was told by the Waymo trainer that Lidar doesn't work in the rain. It certainly rains here.
I feel like internal implosions mean little unless like all the customers stop paying. The comments seem to indicate that it's Amazon, but unless Azure or something has a new "import your infrastructure from AWS; we have bug-for-bug compatibility and are 10% of the price", none of this matters for revenue. us-east1 is down every month even when they aren't internally imploding, and it doesn't seem to upset their position of #1.

These companies have so much cash it doesn't matter. I can't imagine things getting so bad that they can't just get rid of R&D and consumer products, and pay a skeleton team of SREs an outrageous amount of money to keep the lights on. Any of the FAANGs "keeping the lights on" will probably keep them in the Fortune 500 for decades at this point.
Notably, however, Apple didn't drop x86 support in a minor update.
I’ve installed iterm a few times but the built in app is basically perfect. I never make the switch
It depends. From that article:

“However, the Supreme Court has held that prosecutors do not enjoy absolute immunity when they act as investigators by engaging in activities associated more closely with police functions.”
Almost Kubrick...
Gene for ‘toy’ dog breeds found in ancient wolves – Science – AAAS
I mean in a sense it's clear, there's a collapsed bridge with a bus on it ...

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/11/26

But if it was actually over the posted weight limit, that'll come out shortly.
+1, and legitimate emails going to the spam folder. Now I check my spam folder multiple times a day. Since 2004 Gmail never sucked this bad, and they don't care.
> I'm not sure what they mean here. Firecracker doesn't restrict the set of system calls guests can use. In my mind, that's one of the biggest advantages of Firecracker's approach - there's no hard tradeoff to be made between isolation strength and guest software compatibility.

gVisor is also not artificially restricting this set (it is limited by what's implemented, but that's not a hard trade-off); the sentence means that both Firecracker and gVisor restrict the host surface available to the effective "supervisor", either the VMM or the Sentry.
> privilege escalation in the first place.

it fails to do so in many ways, including not blocking old, no longer maintained, known to be vulnerable android releases

it also has little to do with moding and more with having a proper working free marked which allows alternatives besides Google and Apple
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Both of those are firm entries in my playlist <3