skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wait until the general public finds out about the evolutionary/ selective pressures caused by a severity-reducing but non-sterilizing vaccine.

The general public won't "trust the science" ever again.
I don’t think so. Android, Gmail, Maps, Chromebook…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
The stuff in the beginning of the article, is rather glossed over. Stuff like the bubbles and the economy, and the crippling national debt, you can't just ignore that and then wonder why kids have been told that we need a college degree (and then we believe it).

The reality is that between our deficit spending and the various bubbles in the economy, our younger generations (i.e. most of us 45 and under) will not have an easy path to retirement, if we ever can at all, and that's even assuming that you get a nice FANG job (unless both partners have one). There is simply no easy way through e.g. homeownership that doesn't seriously mess with our economic mobility, for the vast majority of us. There isn't really a way to financial security.

And that is why most folks aren't opting for trade jobs.

In the end, the folks with the trade jobs probably don't end up worse off than the folks with the college degrees, simply because college was so expensive. Or at least that's my take living in the Bay Area where e.g. construction workers get paid decently. So, everyone's kind of a little screwed, no matter what they did. Some of us who were lucky enough to e.g. get into tech before it got big are at least comfortable, but that's not that many of us.

I don't think that e.g. going back to a gold standard would necessarily fix the problem of deficit spending. There've been many rulers in past history who inflated their currencies even though they were ostensibly fixed to some standard. If we want change, we need to start caring about economics – progressives including. And not just the populist stuff. In some other countries (like cough Germany cough) they are terrified of things like inflation, and for good reason. It's not to say that the German model would work for the U.S., but some of those sensibilities would at least have mitigated the asset bubbles that we're in in the U.S.

In some ways we're victims of our own success. If the U.S. weren't successful in the past, then there wouldn't have been this idea that we could deficit spend to wage wars, and then deficit spend to cover the infrastructure gaps that we should've been paying attention to instead of bombing places that probably would've been better taken care of with more peaceful means. The countries in Europe didn't have the luxury of spending so big in these last few generations. The Euro still isn't quite the reserve currency the dollar is. But that's also probably why the rent in Paris or Berlin is less than the rent in New York or San Francisco. You pump all that money out over so many years, and it's going to have to end up somewhere. And that's why e.g. stuff like trade jobs don't look attractive enough.
In the context of this paper it is interesting to remember that Rosenblatt's perceptron in the 60s was implemented in hardware with potentiometers for weights, tuned by stepper motors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron#History
One might argue genocide is worse than peppering.
> a good JTAG probe like J-Link for arm micros can cost 300-800 Eur

I’ve never understood how they stay in business. Dirt cheap SWD programmers work with pretty much any arm chips and give you all the debugging features like breakpoints over just 2 wires.
US minimum wage reached $1/hour in 1956, or $10.25/h in 2021 dollars

Since 1956, inflation adjusted GDP per capita increased by +218%

All things equal, this would mean ~$66k / year for a 9-to-5 job paying minimum wage
Any blog post that espouses the virtues of btrfs as better alternative to ZFS is going to be immediately recognized as uninformed and a little embarrassing by any operator with a significant degree of experience in both technologies.

As someone who _has_ operated many systems with both filesystems - for a long time - it’s malfeasance to shepherd someone in that direction. btrfs has its uses, but there’s no comparison in terms of project maturity. Sharp edges abound (behavior at high usage, RAID immaturity, the still-extant 5.16 kernel single-core max CPU use bug, etc.)
Not sure what your main point is? Telemetry is inexcusable?

I'm the first to agree that it absolutely should be OPT IN and not OPT OUT as it is now, but even so my biggest concerns would not be trying to evade hostile countries. If that is your bar you can't just install a mainstream OS and mainstream software and assume that it is a good idea.
It was one of the very first Linux distributions, so if you already an adult in computing around 1994, it was a natural way to dive into Linux.

On my case, it was offered alongside the Linux Unleashed book series, which on the first edition was shipping Slackware 2.0 with it.

Then as Patrick mentions on the annoucement, they got to be available in Walnut Creek CD-ROM collection, which was the way to get FOSS CDs shipped to your from anywhere in the world.

So you had basically FreeBSD, Slackware, Red-Hat, Debian and Yasdrill (which quickly fade away), Mandrake and SuSE came a bit later.

For me Slackware only lost relevance when Linux distributions adopted the package concept from UNIX clones, thus easing the pain to hunt dependencies with tarballs, or having to use alien to convert them.
> And synthetic aperture radar can be disguised such that its nearly indistinguishable from background noise

So the transmit power is the same as background noise and you can still get useful radar pictures out of it?
Amazing. I roughly know you can recover repeating signals that are below the noise floor, but still amazing.
> I only have one humble request, if I submited 51k lines of code in January and my whole team submitted 68k, do not call me a "Least Effective".

$ npm update
> Tiny output binaries are also very quick to transfer and spin up in serverless as well - often reducing costs further.

Your point is specifically about cloud so maybe I shouldn't use go on Edge? In fact I'm struggling with the binary size right now (and have only just started with go after decades of C - because reasons beyond my control).

with go 1.17 the resulting executable (running on ARM) is 11MB (stripped ldflags -w -s). I can run upx --brute and reduce it to 3MB. But that is still heavy when another lua based application (a complete NodeRed clone - with massive complexity) and 100x as many lines of code (before importing external packages) is still just short of half a MB. (apples & oranges yes ...)

Maybe I shouldn't use go on an edge devices with such poor hardware?

I heard about tiny-go but looking at their website could only find instructions on how to x-compile for specific boards but not for specific HW (like ARM-5 softfloat).

Though I totally love the free stuff I get out of the box with go while also it feeling very familiar coming from C. The only thing I dislike is that it's not C :P
This is a phenomenon common to all low grade/incompetent dev managers: When a dev asks for a team change they view it as a slap in the face because it has happened to them so often in the past and they take it as a personal offence. The fact is they are lousy managers and usually incompetent and nobody wants to work in their team.

So they go on the offensive and try to manage the dev out before senior management realises that yet another dev doesn’t want to work with them.
As soon as they started talking about paying cash + HELOC against their duplex in the city - I knew this guy had a fuck load of money. This isn’t your average dude - it’s someone who got rich off of tech.

If you’re not in that ballpark - not likely worth thinking about tbh.

Watch builder videos on YouTube if you want to get an idea of how much this costs.
I wonder what `sudo perf top` says it's doing (in terms of heaviest symbols). That would probably be the most useful thing to stick on the end of a pitchfork :P

(The command accepts a `-p <pid>` parameter; without that it'll profile the whole system (I make this sound much heavier than it is).)
As an Indian, your path to staying in the US without worries about being kicked out is to get a Canadian citizenship. It can be done as early as 3 years, and then as a Canadian, you can cross over to the US as and when required.
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript(React & Vue).
Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CFMsVeK9FXFMqNuAFDrrJu7J...
Email: dansam5000@mail.com
> Furthermore, because Apple still has ultimate control of its operating system, it can design a careful flow to enable the use of third party app stores and side loading. It can hide it deep in Settings behind multitudes of "are you sure?" windows and security checks. It can coax users not to relinquish protections.

If they make the flow add package signers (or maybe a packagename,signer tuple), that would both be more friction than a on/off checkbox and possibly a better way to do it for users. I may want apps X from Y, but I don't want it if it's signed by someone else and I may not want other apps, etc.
Apple already sells a silent gps tracker: the iPhone. Realistically a piece of duct tape is all you need to put an iPhone under a car, then you can track it with Find My. This way would be better than using an airtag, since it wouldn't beep and I think it also wouldn't send a notification, but it gives you the same resolution (albeit shorter battery life).
I've spent 8 years at Amazon and for the most part I enjoyed it (mostly AWS teams). Never ever I felt anything even remotely similar to what has been described in all those stories. Not sure if I just got lucky or it's not bad everywhere and people with bad experiences are just more vocal.
Yeah no. I graduated college 2 years ago. Pretty much everyone I knew wanted to get (and got) a normal job. Oh, and making $200k at 24 is impressive.
Yeah it's pretty easy now to build USB HID gadgets with various boards from Sparkfun/Adafruit/Arduino... even the small Digispark board based on the ATtiny85 can act as an (emulated) USB HID device :-)
Ok, here is another one, then.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

You should learn to write some Go code then.
That observation suggests that if we want to improve player health, an effective place to start is to set up pro-bono or subsidized initiatives to create very high-quality, eye catching icons for the games recognized as healthy in order to help them compete. That's by no means an exhaustive solution - part of this is survivorship bias too. The devs are incentivized to invest in the dark pattern games that generate plenty of revenue for comparatively little effort and those investments include more frequent feature additions, bug fix and content updates. Services to buttress these offerings for healthy games would also be important.
Additional details available for dating apps in the Netherlands
Is it really so dysfunctional there that if this happens to you (manager puts you on PIP upon being notified you're doing an internal transfer) there's no one to talk to to make this right?

Maybe his manager is a piece of shit, but I can't believe there's no one to report to above him that can see this for what it is and make it right?
>I submited 51k lines of code in January

that is well beyond real.
Yep. It’s weird because it definitely sounded like it was their primary home from the article. But - it sounds like it’s just a ski resort home that’s a bit far from the resorts…
and ZFS has that nasty issue with 32 bit fragmented memory..
For real estate, don't expect automation change anything for the next couple of decades. Yes, all the goodies like online forms, video tours, etc. are already there and RE agents are using them all the time. But it's not the bulk of the work, it's helping people to find what they need at the price they need, and that's much harder to automate. There's a lot of local and domain specific knowledge there that is very hard to capture.

As for manual trades like electrical or plumbing - there's nothing even close to "technological disruption" happening there, in fact, if anything, it's going backwards - with time, the gadgets we have become more complex, the regulations pile on, the infrastructure ages, and it becomes harder and harder to do those jobs. And there's absolutely no signs any automation is even on the horizon there.
Thanks for sharing this. I feel seen :)
Maybe a silly question on my part; did you manage to learn a lot?

In the past, I thought of putting myself in positions like these to increase my understanding in short time, at the short term expense of personal life. I wonder if that's just a stupid thought that leads to nothing but burnout, or actually a viable short-term strategy to get up to speed with some of the tech stack you know but haven't really used in prod at the scale of Amazon.

Nowadays, I have health issues (go figure) so it's off the table and all I can do is wonder :).
The Google product roadmap has absolutely nothing to do with whether Google maps — which we concretely know can function without network assistance — should REQUIRE said network assistance for all users at present. Yah, the results may be better with network assurance, but it should still work with out it.

This sentiment also applies to your second point — if Google wants to get some kind of navigation working without using gps in some niche market categories, that’s fine. But that shouldn’t require me, with the gps module I paid for in my expensive smartphone, to share data with Google that I don’t want them to have and they don’t technically need.
People say that working for Amazon for a year is enough “training” to serve as a resume badge. However, I’d like to provide a counter to that: when I see Amazon on a resume, I actually discount the candidate. In my opinion, the branding has suffered tremendously and I view the candidate as a compensation maximizer beyond all costs- why else would you join Amazon despite the well known horror stories, as well as their complete disdain for human life in the name of “customer obsession?”
> Is it impossible to imagine we might get better at animal agriculture now

Biochemistry is what it is.

So yes, as long as people insist on primarily eating vertebrates (cows, pigs, etc.), it is impossible.

With insect-based meat, the situation would be much different.
I personally wouldn't choose to get blackballed by every MAGMA/MAAAM if I was living in the US and taking that sort of career path. Glad some folks are making this decision.
Why are people who do this never named? They should be named. This type of behavior perpetuates because despite this employee revealing a company issue.. the individual perpetrator can still hide behind anonymity. CALL these ass holes out.
Alright, alright, it was not an accusation...
Your comment implicitly assumes that vaccination is the only possible way to reduce death, but we have many other interventions that we can choose to prioritize as a society:

* Mandate a minimum # of nurses and pay them fairly. Patient survival depends on nurses being able to do their jobs, but hospitals seem to prefer saving money by cutting staff.

* Improve society’s overall health by reducing inequality. Lives have intrinsic value that transcends any economic or profit-based calculus. We consider mass death unacceptable because we recognize this basic truth.

* Make paid sick days and short-term disability more accessible. It can take weeks to months to properly recover, depending on severity.

* New building regulations in public spaces to lower the viral inoculum (correlated with severity) using tactics such as improved ventilation and 222nm UV lamps.

* Ensure access to the basic necessities: healthy food, housing, healthcare. You can’t survive a covid infection if you’re dying of exposure on the street.
The licensing and resulting encryption-performance (first time hearing about that TBH) situations are indeed unfortunate.
The one point that that I feel is bordering on bad faith is complaining about the pitfalls of deduplication. Basically everyone (including official docs) will tell you not to use it unless you’re an expert with very specific reasons. It’s not functionality present in any other filesystem I know of and OP then agrees that it’s not a needed or even desirable feature anyway. It’s basically just present for backwards-compatibility at this point.

> No disk checking tool

I don’t understand this complaint. Is this not what you get by running scrub with checksumming enabled?

> High memory requirements for ARC

This section is simply wrong or at least very misleading: the main motivation for ARC today is not that ZFS can’t use the page cache but that its own strategy can perform better and more optimally (if tuned properly). Things generally do not get double-cached in both page cache and ARC at all. The memory usage can be tuned with various parameters including min and max sizes (though I do wish these parameters could be set per pool as opposed to on a system level). This section too seems to be in bad faith as a reader who is not deeply familiar with ZFS already will have an incorrect understanding.

> causing long periods of unavailability until a workaround can be found.

Has it really? The one situation I’m aware of is the one they’re mentioning. Which was not experienced any differently than the usual expected delay for things to bubble down to distro repos.

> btrfs

Is simply not ready for casual users yet. It will hopefully get there before too long but at this point I find it irresponsible to recommend it for non-expert users and production workloads.

OpenZFS is not perfect and there are valid reasons not to use it. You don’t have to misrepresent it to find them.
Parelles, to allow my kids to use windows on mac's
Who cares about the 'original' earbud makers? Even if everyone copies each other, someone will stand up and innovate in order to sell and survive. It's a natural occurrence.
I think monitors were tested by manufacturers on windows. Also you usually had a no name monitor and you either selected something close to what you had or a generic one and then had to play with xvidtune.
>You could have the worst software and the best content and probably win.

You should see the apps from commercial broadcasters in Australia. Last time I tried using 10play/7plus (to be fair, this was 2 or so years ago), I swore off of using them ever again.

No progress tracking, batshit insane navigation, episodes playing out of order and there was a bug where it would semi-regularly not even load the right video.

Of course, good content can make up for some minor software annoyances, but if the experience is bad enough the content doesn't even matter any more.
Who tracks that?
No idea how things work at Amazon, but why did you accept such a tight deadline? Have you provided your own estimates for dev time?
Build channel by Matt Risinger on YouTube is good.
I don't think that is possible (to re-create that feeling of awe) on a single screen computer. Perhaps some VR room, but then again most people do not have such special hardware.

What I can see might be useful is a traditional Web space that creates a lesser but similar "flavor" of the awe by showing plenty of book titles while letting you navigate in different directions like you would wonder along the shelves in a physical library. At least such a low tech Web version can be consumed from less than wealthy countries.
To be fair they already have this with polio, mumps, rubella and others.
I wonder why it's faster - specifically *how* it's more efficient.

(Admittedly an expansively broad question; summary responses accepted!)
You will learn more if you're working under a competent lead in a similar situation.
Over 500 mobile apps are now using the term ‘metaverse’ to attract new users
Modern .Net is more CPU and memory performant than Go.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
The Chinese tech giants probably have the most motivation and capability to develop their own independent third party app stores, moreso than Facebook or Amazon imo. That said, I'm not sure if WeChat or Alibaba would be as interested as one would think- they've invested years and years of work into mini programs or lite app within their own apps themselves, building app stores would be undoing a lot of that work at worst, making it redundant as best.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/alibaba-alipay-mini-progra...
Never worked for AWS, but I'd imagine its different depending on division/team. Before starting a job once I had an ex-colleague warn me against the company, saying he had friends there and it was brutal (none in the team I was joining, but its a big company). Turned out to be the opposite for me, and in fact was far nicer than the company I worked for when I was working for him.

Big companies are often far less consistent across teams than you'd expect/they'd like it to be, for better or worse
The "great" insight here should be that anything normal can also be mapped as 80/20 and vice-versa. How you decide to map it is more of a political choice, or maybe an emotional one, based on where you fall on any given economic or social curve.

The medium, in other words, is the message. Every one of these things can be plotted on a bell curve if you frame it differently:

>> A handful of cities inhabit most of the world population;

Change to distribution of land per person on earth

>>majority of revenue for organizations comes from a handful of products;

Change to products bought per consumer, or revenue as a whole

>>a handful of nations win most of the gold medals at the Olympics;

Change to average gold medals per nation

All the 80/20 does in the above cases is lop off the bottom end of the curve.
As an engineer, I don't see how my hypothetical ability to lift dressers affects my pay
Not sure that means what you think it means. He might not have had regulatory or insurance permission to take non-employees in the car. Or it was just company policy to not allow family members (which would seem to be prudent before getting approval for general use), and he's being good and not using his position as CEO to get around the rules.
Um, you realize people need a job to put a shelter over their head and food in their mouth--right? For everyone below vice president Amazon is just a J-O-B to them. It's not their lifestyle, it's not their worldview. You're missing out on an unbelievable amount of good candidates with that view.
Amazing project, I think programming this thing may be a good entry intro USB device drivers programming world.

This should be also reproducible on Arduino, since a long time ppl are making USB arduino keyboards. Making USB arduino dip switch should not be more difficult.
How worried should we be about the new 'stealth' Omicron? Our expert weighs in
Same thing happened to me. After 8 years working at amazon including multiple raises and promotions, I got piped. I was trying to transfer to a new team led by a new senior manager who was a peer of mine at one point. Exiting the pip requirements were vaguely defined and included tasks with dependencies I knew wouldn’t be fulfilled. So I took the 50k they offered me to leave and I left.

There are some great directors and executives at Amazon. I enjoyed my time there. There are also some toxic, toxic people with too much power and ambition.
We'll do a Show HN once we have the basics in place (team, discussion forum etc). Thanks for your interest.

Good point about browser fingerprinting.
That's also true for code (and data) layout in computer memory, to get your program use the cache and execute faster.