skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also heard most of our concepts of property law were built of the Romans, in particular slave owning Romans who viewed people as property. Puts a pretty dark light on our whole system if you ask me, started form a bad seed.
Except it was not "after the fact"?

He got interviewed for a senior position, got offered a mid-level position. Seems to fit exactly the case that you find reasonable.
Like sibling comments mention, "beginner" is a broad definition.

I was thinking about someone from school taking their first job. Or someone who has built a WordPress site and theme as a hobby and so on. I was not thinking about a 7-year old wanting to move a turtle around. Nor about an "arts student" looking if she may like webdev.

Though, a friend who has an after-school "tech" afternoon for young kids, includes a lot of arduino, adafruit and other hardware courses. Kids love it when some robot drives around the actual world, drawing lines. More than a virtual turtle drawing virtual lines. It requires C programming. He told me he has 8-year old kids writing some C.
> Interviewing is a minefield of legal stuff that can easily blow up into he said/she said lawsuits.

As someone with experience in the EU but mostly Canada, organizations with 150 employees and 150k employees, can someone put this into perspective for me please? It's this mostly an American thing? I've never had any issues like this or even any exposure to things like that happening around me.
first-party extra models: https://www.lego.com/en-my/service/help/bricks-and-sets/buil...

third-party extra models: https://rebrickable.com/sets/alternates/
Circa 2016 Reddit became a political propaganda free for all with a ridiculous amount of shill accounts trying to incite others and diminish viewpoints purely on political lines. Serious money was invested by interest groups to eventually help shape Reddit into the hive mind it became. I watched this transition as a long time Redditor and I hated every second of it.

Reasonable, discourse seeking people left Reddit in droves, the effect being that there's then a distilled concentration of politicized accounts, gen Z, and trolls. A few subreddits buck the trend, but frankly I kind of hate Reddit and hope someone makes a new one for the reasonable masses.
Reddit corporate is exceptional at making you driven and angry, literally "engaged" with the website. Keeping Reddit account for fun stuffs only or leaving Reddit altogether, for couple months to years, or to never to return, is a great idea at every point of baseline spacetime that the Earth possibly traverse through.

Don't you think those Redditors are a bit too often bit too dumb to argue with? They ARE! 9/10ths are corporate shills and half of them are bots and the rest are complete boneheads, yeah yeah I agree wholeheartedly. Why not relieve yourself of duties and use that extra time to morally ascend yourself a bit? Watch them run into walls and cry from couple miles away. MSMs are gonna cover them, you won't be missing single bit of it.

Just quit. Click "logout". Going back is as easy as buying a pack of cigarettes and lighting it.
Obviously their motive is to sell games, but their priorities likely don't currently include Apple's hardware as a result of wanting to compete in the console market and wanting to twist away Microsoft's near-monopoly on PC. Not everyone is a Linux user, but there are lots of people who would be willing to use it if it was sufficiently packaged. The Steam Deck is likely to be exactly that.

Fine, they want to sell games. They can still sell games to Mac users. If the back catalog isn't quite there, that's probably not a huge deal, as it's not exactly where the most money is made.

Could they go ahead and license Crossover, today, for every Steam user that tries to open a 32-bit game on macOS? Probably! Could they slap together a distribution of Proton for Mac? Absolutely (and for a time, it existed)!

But my guess is that the Apple juice just isn't worth the squeeze. It's probably not super important to their strategy, it's probably not going to yield back enough profit to be worth it, and if it were really so easy I suspect they would have furthered their work on Proton for Mac (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1344).
Please help me understand the use of the word ‘threaten’ here? I believe very few would care (for a very short time) if meta actually did that
According to my understanding of how Reddit works, it was the OG anarchist asshats who had mod powers, not the "liberal" noobs.

Occam's Razor says the OG's got seduced by their newfound popularity. In trying to square the anarchist/liberal circle, they flew too close to the sun. That's too bad. But that's the end of story in terms of a power dynamic.

Calling that "sanewashing and social gentrification" is incoherent. None of the noobs had mod powers. And there are plenty of examples of subreddits modded by irreverent types who would probably eschew a popularity bump in order to keep the sub pedantic. Try complaining about your job in lowercase on r/THE_PACK and you'll see what I mean. :)
I wouldn’t exactly consider valve a billion dollar mega corp. For one, they aren’t public and therefore aren’t beholden to the whims of share holders.
I think these comments highlight to me how difficult it is to reason and talk about intelligence.

Intelligence and stupidity suffer from fundamental attribution error.

The main thing I learned from reflecting on my error is that making any sweeping conclusions about people is foolhardy.

So yes, engineers can be idiots, test pilots can be idiots, smart people can decide to do dangerous things on purpose, idiots can do dangerous things on purpose, idiots can do dangerous things on accident, so on to absurdity.

Putting people in buckets based on some observed criteria is rarely advisable; everyone's story is different.
13% is really not that much.

Somehow they mention but then gloss over the most important factor:

>> When it comes to deaths caused by infections, no single variable explains everything, or even all that much, with the exception of age.

The measures could be more targeted to protection of elderly as was suggested by the Great Barrington declaration and possibly it would have made a big difference.

Israel is having another peak despite administering the 4th dose. Turns out that the vaccination rate of elderly (60+ y.o.) is only 90% which is a big failure that no vaccine mandates can fix.
Have you considered there is a selection bias here? The people with low TC are the ones who want to leave.
Then he should have it presented it as tool to discover hidden opcodes. Everything else is dishonesty.
False. You'd need 4 trillion dollars a year to give 12k to everyone in the US. That would mean doubling US federal expenditures. And some people would stop working, hence stop paying income tax. Some businesses would leave the country.

I do expect someday it will be feasible though. Maybe in my lifetime.
There is Pythonista 3 for iOS which allows you to deploy code that is not shipped with the app e.g., it can be used to implement "download audio" button for youtube for iphone (and other supported by youtube-dl video sites)
Afaik, lego went through changes. They had period when then introduced a lot of special parts (I think nineties or so) and then period when they simplified again.

They introduced special parts at the height of popularity and money success. Simplified when they had money issues - simple parts are cheaper to manufacture. Now that they are popular again, they are having more special parts again, but still less then used to be.
Reminds me of Eliot Spitzer.

An executive can't use corruption of process under them as a shield or all corrupt executives would rely on damage to due process to be unaccountable.
Seems like you're missing the part where they have to pay someone (or more accurately, entire teams of people) a lot of money to actually come up with the set idea and instructions.

Boiling LEGO down to just "a bunch of formed plastic" is criminal.
If you give someone a fish, they starve after a day.

Teach someone to fish and they can eat + sell the fish.

But if I make a fish-catching machine to catch fish for everyone, does everyone eat, or does everyone starve?

UBI is essentially a means of ensuring that in a world where the robots catch all the fish, people can still afford to buy a fish.
The Linux Desktop community has had 20 years to make Linux Desktop a reasonable, if not attractive, platform for gaming and game development and they have consistently and utterly failed at it. Valve did the only thing that was going to work.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23166713

It seems like a "nothing up my sleeve" way to initialize the variables.
What a bizarre pile of mystical euroism. NXP/Phillips sued a university to quash research about the garbage security of their contactless smartcard implementations. I'd rank NXP/Phillips way down at the bottom of the stack with state-owned Chinese semi firms.
You definitely have to be opened minded in order to read this.

I can see how this could be offensive or distasteful but from a purely academic point of view it's interesting to see that a master-slave relationship was more than a contractual relationship. Leadership was just as important in that relationship as it is in a manager-employee relationship. And although we have since abolished slavery, we will always need leadership skills.

If your mind is open and is able to understand nuance (able to keep similar concepts separate amid complexity) then you can learn from history and take lessons from the masters (bad joke).
But that's just it - as far as I can tell (in the US specifically) there's always a path out.
It may be true, but the perception didn't change much (and the glassdoor scores are still bad).

I love Amazon as a customer though
It is definitely outside the box. But think of it like this:

For the last few hundred years, human productivity has vastly increased. Thanks to technological progress, farming has gone from what the bulk of people do to a niche activity that most see only driving by.

Who benefits most from the productivity increases? The rich. We are approaching gilded-age levels of inequality, while the wage for most workers is stagnant. What if instead of concentrating that wealth on a few people who won the "ovarian lottery" [1] we split the dividends of our ancestors' achievements among everybody?

This isn't totally ridiculous. For example, Alaska has spent decade giving each resident about $1000/year from a fund built up with oil revenues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund

So imagine a program like that but bigger. Maybe a poverty-level income for each person, like $1000/month. What would happen? Some people wouldn't work. But that's nothing unusual; only 63% of people in the US work right now. (And really, how many people are doing bullshit jobs that don't add much to the economy?) Others would keep working because they wanted more money, or just because they like working. (Personally, I'm in that last group.)

Could this work? Personally, I'm skeptical but curious. But it's definitely not impossible.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/16/warren-buffett-says-being-a-...
could I take this to argue that modern management theorists are current-day slave owners?

/joke
I had one job where literally the first thing I did on my first day was give an interview. I hadn’t even signed up for the 401(k) yet and I’m vetting someone (admittedly for my team).

“What’s it like working here?” “So far, this interview is going pretty well…”
Wordle is now running on the Game Boy
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Slaves were often given the job of overseeing other slaves.

There are some interesting incentives and punitive practices that come into play, but I don't think they're applicable to the comparison being made.
> And yet I have 37% of my equity sold and sent straight to the IRS

You need a better accountant / portfolio manager.
>The community was mad at Doreen because they held a vote on whether to send someone to the Fox interview, and the consensus was NO.

Anyway, it doesn't really matter whether Doreen stood for the original ethos or the newer sterilized version that apparently would have consisted of the majority of votes, fact is that she didn't do a good job representing either in the interview. They really should have considered using a professional spokesperson who knows how to handle a live roast on national tv, if they actually had voted that someone participate.
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> I haven't browsed the subreddit in forever but just took a look, and it's sad to see it's just a bunch of stupid memes now. Every decent subreddit eventually devolved into a bunch of stupid memes.

The September that never ends. This has been a problem in the internet since its initial days (in the Usenet for example). The problem with systems like Reddit (less so news.ycombinator) is that the "ethernal september" cultural shift gets amplified by content voting. Given that the masses have equal right to vote content, the "minimum common denominator" is the pattern that arises in the system.

Sites like Slashdot or news.ycombinator try to work around this by giving voting powers to certain "filtered" populations (Slashdot algorithm was actually nice when I read about it). But I feel the current approaches serve to "delay" the inevitable path towards low-effort content, instead of cutting it from the beginning.

The one thing that was nice about usenet is that all comments were equal, so there was no "amplification" of the low-effort content. I think for people to provide higher effort content, there should be some kind of incentive. Social incentives is what StackOverflow or Quora used to have, as well as Slashdot at certain level (you knew you were in a conversation with highly technical individuals). I also think that using real names would help.
I can see that, but he also said he was told this was a front end position, and it seemed like majority of his work was not.

What I didn’t see him touch on was how much did he talk with his manager about this? If the role isn’t what he signed up for, that’s definitely worth a discussion for both sides to try to better align the fit.
to be more precise, it's not that switching cost is zero, it's that the marginal cost of switching is small. the initial switch into ridehailing is a huge cost, particularly around opportunity costs, but adding another app is a relatively small difference.

it's not negative though. you still have the cost of signing up, taking your car to get evaluated, getting trained, figuring out how/when to get paid, etc. it adds cognitive and accounting overhead, and you run into contention issues between the apps, creating negative rider feedback that you must balance against the increased income potential.

i do agree generally that there is little defensibility in ridehailing, and that's why uber (and lyft) tried to employ its supplier power to create competitive advantage/barriers. for instance, uber eats wasn't an expansion so much as a flanking move to lock in drivers on uber by increasing utilization.
I wonder why Xenophon's _Oeconomicus_ didn't qualify as management theory. That's exactly what it is, and it dates back to classical Athena.
One of my 2022 goals was to migrate my family's files into a JD filesystem. Photos, scans, music, email archives, everything. I'm already maybe 30% of the way there, and, call me a nerd, but I'm finding it thrilling. Wish I'd done this years ago.

I've also started using it as my personal task/time management system, which is probably crazy. 13.25 Tasks--Inbox, 13.26 Tasks--Today, 13.27 Tasks--Closed, etc. I just make a file for every task and move the files through the process.
Does this affect contractors, or just employees?
This year, I noticed Amazon hires international contractors for engineering roles and I don't think I saw that before.
I wonder if Amazon is opening up more roles internationally (via contractors), while increasing wages of employees to retain folks in US/Canada/etc.
I don't have any data to back this idea up, it's just a thought.
"Modern Standby" requires that power draw (and thus thermals) is comparable or lower to S3.

It's less about telemetry etc. (you could do it with age old ACPI timers), it's about people complaining laptop doesn't boot immediately from sleep when they open the lid - but also that on a system where power management support is heavily tested (read: not Linux) "Modern Standby" has less moving parts and is harder to break.
I would even say "infamous".
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Someone better educated than me can probably help me out here, but I think you're either misunderstanding what some things are, or mixing up your terminology.

Proton is the emulation layer created by Valve.

Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics API.

Your point might still stand, but it's worth debating. Without Proton, gaming on Linux is limited to native Linux games. With it, the story changes. Someone who likes PC gaming might be willing to turn Linux into their daily driver, game on Linux (with a mix of Proton and Vulkan), and now the market starts to support developers making more native Linux games, where they otherwise might not.
Mountain glaciers may have less ice than estimated, straining freshwater supply
Itch.io Twitter: “A few have asked about our stance on NFTs: NFTs are a scam.”
Nobody cares if people use the F word or any other "bad language" for that matter unless that language is around race or potentially a couple other things like disabilities (eg something like the word "retard"). Can you cite a single instance of someone getting canceled by either side just for cursing?

He's also admitted to doing basically every drug on the planet on his own podcast with absolutely no push back.
It's not useful because it provides empty universally accepted statements (i.e. you don't have to actually have any managerial experience to come up with this list) with no examples of what each means in the context of a relationship with a direct report.
Pretty much textbook abusive relationship.

Get people feeling that they can't leave because of sunk cost and it's all going to be worth it soon, even though they're actively miserable.
It's not all that different from an independent record store promoting the latest collectible vinyl drop to pay the bills so they can continue selling niche recordings, or an independent theater playing Marvel titles so they can afford to run arthouse fare.

Lego has adopted the "keep a corporate job to fund your side projects" outlook, and given the consistent results in the Creator series and the continuing legacy of classic product lines, more power to them.
His Twitter account: https://twitter.com/sTeamTraen

Seems he does a lot of this data policing stuff. Neat.

The funny thing is that a lot of people go around saying "yeah, engineers go around thinking they can just walk into field X and study it without context". Yup. They do, and they can.

Another article https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/19/mathematics-...
Apple begins the Great App Store cost negotiation
A more direct comparison would be to apps that already support third party payment methods like Uber, Amazon, etc. How would you explain Apple forcing devs to include these stern warnings when buying digital goods but not physical goods?
Modern Standby has less moving parts that S3 sleep (and IIRC also avoids certain security related issues)
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Gut reaction:

There has to be a lot of additional data gathered at the time of 'intent to purchase or sell' - because otherwise your solution eats away a lot of powerful institutions alpha. And without 'novelly' expressive orders, there's no new place for them to go... that Trillion dollars doesn't just evaporate in today's world.
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If the latter were true, I'd be surprised. It's obviously a quip about using students as subjects for credits, but the average psychology study reveals very little about students. After all, it's how they got convinced psi exists (Bem, 2011).
Oh I agree, and I hope my wording didn't convey some sort of unbound ceiling if you just "put your mind to it". I more wanted to point at the first bump in the road.
Updated ;) ETR != highest bracket, ofc
One of the things I have seen many times with junior engineers is that, when things aren't going exactly as they desire, instead of having conversations with their managers: "Hey, can you give me a timeline of when I'll be able to focus more on frontend dev, i.e. React", instead they bail (or, mention it in the slightest of passing, and then if stuff doesn't change they feel their concerns weren't addressed and leave).

To be clear, I do NOT blame junior devs at all for this. It takes experience and growth to build the confidence to know how to be direct with managers in a way that is constructive to all parties. I'd just highlight with eng managers to be extra aware that, for junior engineers, that you'll likely need to "pull" more and dig out if there is something more that the engineer wants. Of course, you may not always be able to accommodate them, but if they do leave you will know it wasn't for lack of communication.
Let's create an app with WASM and yew
I think a lot of people are dismissing some of your very valid points here, cherry-picking things that annoy them. Tough to avoid with a comment of this size, of course, but I do think it's dismissing how much of a role public transit plays in this picture. It sounds like you're saying that public transit has actually gotten worse in recent years in Oslo ("There are museums, cultural events, restaurants, and people to visit that I simply cannot do anymore in any practical sense. I miss that.")... but for the select group of people who CANNOT travel the city using bikes or public transit. Does Oslo really not have exceptions to the "zero car movement" for inviduals with disabilities like yourself? Amsterdam, for instance, allows microcars to use bike lanes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ly7JjqEb0 ... which is mildly annoying by bike, but seems like a great solution to let disabled folks take advantage of bike infrastructure.

Overall I understand your frustration with how the city accommodates you, but I don't think the solution is allowing more cars in the city. It sounds like you would be best off if the city introduced some solution like microcars, forced all private vehicles (barring exceptions, like moving trucks and deliveries) from the city, and let you get around without traffic. Not sure if bikes are really causing the problems for you.

> Except we have winters (should not surprise many) when travelling by bike a good option. (Yes there is a tiny minority who risk life and limb by biking all year around)

I live in a US city that gets decent amounts of snow December->April. I really, really, really want to bike around my city, but:

- they don't do a good job clearing the roads or bike lanes
- (and much more importantly) private cars drive like maniacs and I'm convinced they'd kill me if I tried to bike when it snows

Obviously when it's actively snowing, it's hard to bike unless your city is really, really on top of clearing snow from bike paths. But the biggest obstacle for me by far is other people driving their personal cars around way too fast when there's snow on the road, which feels way too dangerous to risk.

One more point:

> I dont live downtown because it is far too expensive.

And here is the issue: if you don't live IN a city, it's insane to expect that you can take a car in every time you want to do something in the city. I live in my city, but I completely understand that I can't do certain activities, like concerts and public events, in other cities when it's going to be busy. Because I don't live in those cities. It is expensive, yes -- but that level of access is why it's so expensive.
Is there an infinite growth fallacy for economics? Because this business model sounds like it can assume infinite growth. In the same way both pyramid schemes do, and our economy as a whole does as well.