skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It literally takes seconds to read a message and decide “is everything on fire and I need to respond to this or can it wait until later”.

I guess your company has a lower message rate than what I've seen. In current company there are 30+ channels and a message arrives on average about every minute.

Each of those "few seconds to read" is a mental interrupt. Happening every minute. This leads to not being able to switch onto concentration mode to do actual work all day long.

The only solution is to switch it off entirely, only check at specific times. But if the company culture is to expect prompt response at all times, that's a conflict.
/r/superstonk used to show up in my feed on Reddit a lot, and it seemed like most of the highly-upvoted posts were elaborate explanations of how, any day now, there was going to be some sort of massive short squeeze that was going to cause $GME to hit a price of ten or twenty million dollars a share (at which point the outstanding shares of $GME would be worth more than everything else on earth combined), and everybody who bought in was going to be billionaires.

I was never clear if this was some sort of in-joke/meme, or some fringe idea that kept getting upvoted because it was hilarious, or if the people in there actually knew so little about stocks and economics that they thought something like that was possible.
By a factor of 5 to 10 is not expected.
Sure, you have a visa for me? I will be on the next flight over if so
IANA data scientist, but I would hope that 4 decimal places in the context of psychology would trigger anyone's BS meter.
I mean it in the sense that they undo the 'noise' added to (or reverse the scrambling of) the initial input .

even if they do it in a different way.
Couldn't you be fooled by someone that meticulously studied Cracking the Coding Interview but has never opened an IDE in real life?
I've been interviewing for multiple companies at all scales for over a decade in the US. Hiring lawsuits just haven't been a factor.

It was years ago, but I think I might have taken a half hour interview training session at a large company that was along the lines of "Don't ask about age, marital status, kids, etc, but it's fine if the candidate brings it up first. Use your best judgment." That was about it. I could also be mis-remembering and that could just have been something my manager at the time told me before throwing me into the interview rotation.

So I think calling it a legal minefield is stretching reality by quite a lot.
Great!

Of all the things we are seeing during this partial liberalization related to drugs, the concepts of education and harm reduction are the two I feel best about.

People will do what they do. And they have reasons. It is rarely just rando actions.

Obviously, we want everyone safe, happy, healthy.

To that end we have employed strong legal and personal judgement. Stiff consequences, the thinking goes, means effective prevention, and those who get snagged in all that are deserving somehow.

In one sense, that is all simple, clean policy. Easy.

However, the costs are high and learning can be life changing, lives ruined over what is arguably a not so uncommon act. And discrimination runs rampant. Brown people of little means see a very different outcome than say less brown ones of means.

Worse, take one substance and see one outcome, take another and see a very different, profound to a degree of genuine shock and wonder, outcome. A few laughs maybe a stern talking to vs. decades in a cage.

It really is a mess! Some parts of the world are extreme too. Both ways, permissive or scary authoritarian, obviously both making very little sense.

Where I live, decriminalization is seen as either a trend toward better, or the beginning of the end game despotism...

I cannot shake the fact we are losing in this struggle, off.

Meth, in particular is decimating peoples, and enforcement cost a lot of lives. Not mother natures kitchen too. Some schrooms seem like a rounding error, yet most of the world does not differentiate well. The same sorts of draconian policy get used and the conversation is as unproductive as many have come to expect.

And now here is the bad trip hotline!

I am just rambling, but maybe to a point after all:

My childhood was during a time when mistakes, bad calls of all kinds were seen as learning ops. Lives were not generally torched, records one cannot shake off did not get created, dooming people early on.

The idea of people hearing the bell ring at the school of hard knocks was a thing. As adults, we did not seem to benefit and it all got escalated into something far less forgiving.

War on drugs policy did so much harm.

Still does.

And we are generally are still losing. Badly.

The idea of ruining people to help them is broken.

And the times are damn tough for too many of us.

Maybe there are good answers. Maybe we can find them and maybe, just maybe...

Why even bother having conversations like this?

Me? Tired of seeing us lose! ...so damn badly.

And by "US", I mean humans.

It all seems to be a lot harder than it needs to be.
I'm pretty sure every other big tech company offers sign on bonuses with an evenly distributed vesting schedule.
Economics is where you really glean insights into university students. For example, they enjoy free food exponentially more than they like very cheap food. Also, they great at playing games for money.
You absolutely do not have to sell your labor to someone else.

If you learn to hunt, fish, farm and forage, you can sustain yourself. You can move to Alaska or the Canadian wilderness and do so. If you don't like the cold, there is the Amazon.

There are people who live like this.

The problem is: we want modern medicine, TV shows, cellphones, nice clothes, etc.

Living is the fight against entropy. In order to live, you have to put in effort.
What is your SLA for an expressive bid? I'm guessing it its less than 1ms?

Do you use a database of some sort?

How do you to handle settlement?

How do you handle ingest?
To be clear: working at Microsoft is a hell of a lot better than working in government. You're generally fulfilled creatively and paid extremely well - at least in comparison to everywhere but the very top paying tech firms.

What the commenter is saying is true though, Microsoft is a place where you can have an actual career and great work-life balance. It's been that way for at least a decade now.
You ever seen one of these in a laptop? (genuinely curious)
Gotcha. Plus, I would imagine, selling drop-shipped plastics on Facebook probably isn't the most inspiring thing in the world. I can see how that can get boring very quickly. Especially to someone who is much more interested in figuring things out than in making money to lie on some boring beach. (I'm projecting, of course.)
I was thinking sunk cost as well, but I don't know if it applies here. Can you call it sunk cost if the thinking is "if I get through this day, it's one less day to the pay off" as opposed to "I've already put so much effort to this, I can't leave now!"?
Love that analogy—thanks! Combinatorial auctions are in large part about ensuring atomicity. Traders call it legging risk. Auction theorists call it exposure risk.
Right. So, you were taking a risk trying to buy in the dips and sell in the bumps, you were not following your own advice to "Always check if something changed about the company itself." Which is fine, it worked out for you.

Of course, the bigger picture challenge is that -- modulo market freakouts -- everyone else is also "checking if something changed about the company itself", and that's already built into the market price, that's kind of the model of how the market works. To make money by buying in dips only after checking if something is changed in the company itself, you have to think you are better at noticing or predicting changes in the company itself than everyone else, I guess?
Thanks - I wanted to cite Xenophon but couldn't decide if it was Oeconomicus alone or whether one could argue that the Lacedaemonion Politeia includes an assessment of Spartan economic management with regards to their Helot-based economy.
Yes, it's also my assessment...
> may be taken negatively by the folks who put you in that situation

From the author's account they seem to have extremely supportive managers. Not only that, the business spent a lot of time and care helping the hire figure out if they are a good fit and with all that invested I am sure they'd prefer a shot at fixing the problem. I'd be a little upset if as a manager my report resigned cited any of the issues the author reported without at least allowing me a chance to work with them on it.

Also worth noting, the author is a senior dev.
Green belts are common in the UK too, they're very popular with the people who live in them and unpopular with people who don't on the whole!
sounds like a lot of dev work for little to no value..
> I can't really say new programs adhere to either of these principles. In fact, it seems those seem to be actively shunned.

They are being actively shunned, largely because they didn't actually work that well outside of running terminal programs that interfaced largely with ASCII text.
money is one thing, you also need to take into consideration how much work US tech expects, how little vacation is provided, and how things like Health Care isn't universal.
> At the time, Tesla noted that they were not selling their stake in Bitcoin and that they planned to resume taking Bitcoin payments once the network shows a higher mix of renewable energy.

Is there a hope of this happening, with Bitcoin? I thought proof-of-work coins were fundamentally energy intensive, and proof-of-stake coins (like Ethereum 2.0) are the only way out of it.
IMO it's pretty clear the root cause is we kept this 18th century of public school and teachers are pumped out as if they were the result of an assembly line by the education apparatus. This is still the model of education all over the world even if kids get ipads or chromebooks to do the work. I'm not an educator so I don't know the fix but we sure as hell can't keep going on like this.
How many people do you think it took to build that yacht?
Except that's not what the police abolitionist movement that came up with the slogan wanted.

It was just adopted by a bunch of people that didn't actually agree with it, which is why it doesn't make sense.
That's totally fair!
Thanks a lot for the links!
It from bit? (2015)
You can stay at Google or Facebook forever, it's just a matter of finding yourself on the right teams with the right work-life balance. If you chase the most exciting projects at any company, it's a recipe for burn out because you'll be working a lot more than you would be on a "necessary, stable, boring" project/system.
Uber was incentivizing new drivers—in the form of artificially high payments and losing money on rides.

This would have been fine if the market were winner takes all, but it turns out that it wasn't, so in a way they ended up subsidizing their competition.
Man, this is amazing. I had to hand-unroll bit packing in a binary encoding scheme we used in a game. Rare enough that making a tool wasn't worth it, but damn I love your visualizations! Doing something like that would have helped others understand how I was "seeing the matrix."
Will do. Any recommendations on where I should post our findings? I don't have any personal blogs.
For a long while now, I've always had a mouse button mapped to backspace. Good for browsing and for deleting. ... Upon testing, it seems I no longer do this, and forgot. Guess that button's set to "browser-back" now.
-PR approved “Rando said it looks good “-
That hasn't been my experience at Google. I feel like the work life balance is pretty good, and I typically work under 45hr/wk.
> It's only a scam if you assume the first year you work there you are as productive as the 3rd

It's a scam when it's compared to how every other tech company does it. The standard is a 1 year cliff at which point you get 25%, then uniform vesting every quarter.

> that you're not eligible for a bonus until you have been with the company for a full year for exactly this reason

This is exactly the standard in tech as well, but we're talking about an equity grant vesting schedule, not a bonus payout.
You realize that it's incomprehensibly high in most of the countries in the world regardless of how it's taxed?
If you are a Mexican citizen, then a TN visa for a software engineer is pro forma - should be about $50, no caps/quotas and adjudicated in a few weeks. If from further south then why not have an employer sponsor you for an H-1B around lottery time and you either get it or you don't? The employer handles the cost and paperwork. You don't start until they do. If this really is life changing money it seems like the risk-reward profile favors application.

Of course if you're willing to take 20-30% less pay, immigrating to Canada and working for one of these tech companies in Vancouver or the Toronto area is much, much easier.
There's nothing tragic about this! It's hilarious!

* Loons create internet forum to abolish work

* Meme-obsessed teens crowd it out

* Chief loon goes on Fox News, is transsexual dog walker, is Fox News producers' wet dream

* Masses LOL

* Earnest articles are written

* Yet more earnest comments are written

* /me skips work for 10 minutes to read and chortle

What's not to like? THIS IS WHAT THE INTERNET IS FOR PEOPLE
"And just as a household needed slaves, so companies need staff. Permanent employees, like slaves, are far more desirable than outsourcing to outsiders. The Romans thought external contractors could never be relied on like members of the primary social group. They failed to turn up when instructed to, took liberties with their fees and, taking little pride in their work, carried out their tasks shoddily. With slaves, however, who were stakeholders in the system, the Romans could be sure that work would be carried out as they wanted it."

I'm not sure this is a helpful paragraph for convincing people to learn from Roman management practices.
>> Ok, most. Some people always find excuses.

> Excuses? Like there's some kind of moral imperative to use Linux?

That's not what I meant at all, apologies if I was unclear.

I meant of the people (gamers specifically in this context) who say things like "Oh I would use linux but X" and then X gets solved so it's now Y that is the blocker for them moving to linux. These are the excuse finders I was talking about. They speak a big game about wanting to switch but always find one more thing preventing it from happening. They are of course a small minority.

Also I didn't mean to imply that everyone wants or needs to move to linux, more that there are already a number of people wanting to move but they are waiting for X to happen before they can/will move and that wine/proton has been great for helping some of them to make the switch.

> I've used Linux Desktops on and off for 20 years and I've watched people like you consistently turn away interested users through this kind of dismissive bullshit.

I'm not sure where this is coming from or how I'm turning away interested users but that was not my intention.
Somebody has to argue against extending the brute force of the law to encompass everything that anyone (well, anyone with political power) thinks is wrong. That's known as "totalitarianism". In pluralistic societies, people accept that many things they regard as immoral should be addressed by persuasion and other non-legalistic measures, rather than by throwing people in prison.
good question. I don't use sounds, so not sure
I disagree with that. Take a look at MacBooks for example - excellent screens that are glossy but not very reflective. Never seen anything better on a laptop.
I am fascinated by all the new car companies coming up but also super skeptical the market is big enough for everyone to make the same high end to subsidize the low end that Tesla did, especially with all the legacy carmakers coming online with their own EVs now. If you're a consumer choosing between a new 75k+ car, are you going to go with the BMW EV, the Tesla EV, or the Lucid EV? Maybe a few fall into that last category but I don't see that much of a comparative advantage anymore outside of the co's doing more specialized applications (e.g. postal delivery vehicles).
Think about the risks! Anything your slave does that damages other people's properties or causes them to lose life or limb is your responsibility.

Those poor masters.

Seriously, anything that attempts to be 'open minded' about slavery starts off on the wrong premise: that there are useful lessons to be learned there about human interaction. It's a well that is so thoroughly poisoned that it is probably better to stay away from it lest you be infected.
I was not mentioning Proton explicitly. But the core of my point is that Proton de-facto delegates Vulkan to be a second class citizen whose purpose it is to serve as a backend of implementing a Microsoft-compatible technology stack. With Proton working well, the incentive to develop native Linux applications and games goes to wards zero — why would you even bother if you can just develop and test for Windows and let the Proton maintainers sort out the rest?

Currently, there are some games that use Vulkan to target both Windows and Linux. Proton encourages the developers to use the Microsoft technology stack instead. Apple has their own Metal, so Vulkan is dead in the water there anyway. Where does this leave Vulkan? Android? That is likely to move to WebGPU as I mentioned. GPGPU? That is totally dominated by CUDA and other vendor-specific APIs. Linux pro applications (Blender)?
I guess you're right. I interpreted that as "no body works" which...is not what they said.
> Israel is having its Edward Snowden moment. Not in the sense that an employee of its intelligence community has defected to Russia while leaking hundreds of thousands of top-secret files to the media.

Pretty tendentious to say that "Edward Snowden has defected to Russia".

He hasn't defected to Russia. He has fled the USA, and Rusia gave him asylum. Very different.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defect

> to leave one situation (such as a job) often to go over to a rival

He didn't leave one in order to go to the rival. He left one and then went to the rival.
> you can endlessly watch the global greatest hits on youtube, things you have no chance of "competing" with

I think it is pretty much normal. I'm reading Art & Fear (1985) right now, and it discusses a lot of myths about talent and genius that would be relevant to this.

Whenever my kids ask me how I got to my level of ability in art or music, I make sure to let them see paintings and prints that I abandoned on the way to a final piece. They see me reworking things on the light box. They hear me practice and flub my scales. I'm at least trying to instill the notion that there's always an effort and a huge mess on the cutting room floor.
> And of course you need a car since public transport isn’t a thing there.

Are we talking about Seattle? We definitely have public transit here.

> Sending children to a good colleage is probably 50k+ a year just in tuition.

If they don't get into UW you mean? UW in-state tuition is only $11,745 (I say "only", but it is much higher than when I went there). However, it is a very competitive state university to get into.
Talking to the people who assemble the reports for the congresscritters. Those folks have a strong BS detector, and tend to assign higher engagement with higher effort. Picking up a phone and calling tends to show more effort than a text.
Conservatives do mean abolish for those things, though.

They want to abolish sanctuary cities, abolish planned parenthood, abolish medicare, abolish social security and abolish state-run education standards.

Moderates don't want to abolish most of those things, but hardcore conservatives completely do.
What happens to those incentives if the fed increasing rates bumps the stockmarket back to flat or down for some time I wonder.
1979 is the year Baudrillard published Simulacra & Simulation (a sort of obsession for me) and became the philosophical superstar of postmodernism, documenting a great cultural sea change towards a more cynical, superficial, often delusional worldview that pervaded the 1980's and echoes today. He was more inflammatory than objective/rational himself, however.
Trash comp? You might be talking about FAANG companies but very few Devs (maybe London) in the UK would get close to $160K, let alone $350K. They might want to attract talent but I suspect there are diminishing returns after a while, you only have to look at Amazon music App, Amazon web site, GMail and the Netflix app on my smart TV to realise they are not releasing good stuff all the time.
Inline x86 Assembly in F#
I didn't know either, honestly! I only discovered it while trying to learn about what "rootfs" is when I saw that term in the "Getting Started" section of the Firecracker microVM documentation here [0]. That led me to this [1] Debian wiki, which eventually led to me a Debian ramfs wiki here [2]. That wiki contains the link that is attached to this submission.

And I totally agree with you on the difficulty of making documentation like this! I recently had to create documentation for a project at work that also required not assuming prior knowledge, and it took multiple revisions for me to get it into a state I was happy with. Doing it for the Linux kernel is certainly much more difficult, but I think that speaks to the skill and dedication of the maintainers who do it!

[0]: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main...

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/rootfs

[2]: https://wiki.debian.org/ramfs
"Begun the unikernel wars, have"

From my fairly naive-POV it seems like UniKernels are the next logical step in computing. Docker being the last jump and unikernels sitting to be the next with some form of WASM as a host.
That's one thing the Romans did pretty good.
Thanks! :) good analogy and spot on about the market-making costs - hedging atomically as an EMM could unlock quite a lot in the way of liquidity.
> But this is precisely the point of nationhood at all. Otherwise, what is the meaning of one's nationality?

If it was the point of nationhood then wouldn't we expect immigration control to be one of the first things new nations implement?

Yet the United States had wide open borders until 1875, 83-99 years (depending on who you ask) into nationhood. It wasn't until the Page Act in 1875 that restricted immigration of Chinese women that the US started controlling immigration.

That was followed by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 which extended restrictions to include men.

By the end of the century they had added some restrictions on non-Chinese immigrants such as a small immigration tax, a requirement that you could take care of yourself, and a requirements that you were diseases free.

In 1917 a literacy test was added, but you could take it in your native language.

It wasn't until 1924 that the US got restrictions the seriously limited integration beyond the anti-Chinese limits. The Immigration Act of 1924 introduced per-country limits based on how many people in each country were in the US in 1890.

The official goal was to "preserve the ideal of US homogeneity". But no one really cared whether or not say the ratio of Scots to French in the US was changing. It was almost certainly about Jews.

The European countries whose contribution to US immigration had increased disproportionately were largely those that had greatly stepped up persecution of Jews, and it was Jews trying to escape that persecution that was making the immigration increases from there disproportional.

By limiting those countries based on 1890 levels they could reduce the number of Jews that got in. That's not as effective as an actual limit on Jews, but even in 1924 that would have been difficult to do.
Well yes, but I would not be happy as a frontend dev scammed into working backend due to recruiters not finding enough other people.