skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agreed. The credible threat of termination drives employees to perform even if they also misbehave in other ways (e.g. CYA and office politics). Consider the Lesson of the Concubines by Sun Tzu:

"Sun Tzu then set the women a simple drill and made sure they understood what to do. However, when he started ordering them to perform the drill, the women burst out in laughter. He tried again with the same result. Sun Tzu claimed that this failure of the troops to obey was the fault of the commanders. So, despite the warlord’s pleas, he ordered the two concubines beheaded as an example for the rest of the company. Thereafter, the women did not utter a single sound and performed the drill exactly as commanded."

This is a depiction of Amazon. However, a "simple drill" is not high speed software engineering.
According to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affluence_in_the_United_States...

it seems that more than 99% of individuals (not to be confused with households) earn less than 200k. That's a reasonable definition for "almost all".
Completely strange people downvote this comment. It is completely logical, and if you disagree with any of this- it is up to you to prove otherwise.

Obviously it does make people uncomfortable talking like this.. I don't understand why, I guess they are scared of the simple truth that we are simply the most evolved animals on our planet- but still animals. There is nothing special about our brain (compared to other species), it's just a bit more advanced. And we have physical features that have basically allowed us to take advantage of our brain power and continue to grow.

We are animals. So anyone who wants to talk about consciousness being on something like a 'soul' or whatever better be just as prepared to talk about how my cat also has a soul.. and dolphins have a soul.. and why is this dolphin's consciousness in dolphin A instead of dolphin B.

I think the truth is a lot less interesting than people want to believe..
> For instance: if the barriers to entry are zero but the monopoly can price things below cost (e.g. due to cash reserves or strength in other markets), it can bury any competitor. The mere existence of that ability could have a deterrent effect that prevents competitors from forming in the first place.

If barriers to entry are zero, the deterrent doesn't exist, because the deterrent works by forcing the competitor to pay the cost of entry without ever making any profits to recover it.

Now suppose barriers to entry are low. Not even zero -- say it's $10,000. Some individual shows up, pays the $10,000, and the monopoly slashes prices so they can never recover their $10,000. But they got into it because they're a stubborn former customer who doesn't like how they've been treated, so making billions of dollars isn't the point. Their goal is to screw the monopolist. Which means all they have to do is sit on the ability to make product indefinitely and use it as soon as the monopolist attempts to raise prices above cost.

To prevent this the monopolist would have to sell below cost indefinitely. But in that case the potential competition is keeping them in check as much as actual competition would.

And this works even better when disgruntled former customers get together, so that it's not one guy willing to pay $10,000 to spite the monopolist but 10,000 customers each willing to pay $1.

Where this falls down is when the price of entry becomes billions and involves a major risk of failure.
I wish more developers would realize Safari doesn't support most modern browser APIs.
Credit card processing is 3.5-4.5%, dating apps are higher risk so let's say a bit higher, but it literally is 20%.

Dating apps subscriptions are no different from in game content as well - it's same dynamics and even gamifying everything.
Is jailbreak supported by Apple?
Indeed, Mel is (was?) real and we have a photo of him! If we go to Wikipedia for the LGP-30[0], it links to a wiki article on "The Story of Mel"[1] which names the titular "Mel" as "Melvin Kaye" with a citation, linking to a PDF scan[3] of an issue of "The Librazette" where on the first page, the photo on the left, in the very back and named last of all the people in the photo, is [sic]"Royal-McBee Applications Engineer Mel Kaye" standing and smiling in an all-white shirt.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGP-30

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel#cite_note-Lib...

[3] - https://www.librascopememories.com/Librascope_Memories/1950_...
Late to comment, but basically this is why I just ignore it all unfortunately.

I'm on a subreddit that talks about my profession and basically all interview processes are now broken in my industry. A lot of just nonsense, waste of time stuff. You hire the professional prep companies so you know the right buzzwords to say and how to show you follow the "framework", but almost nothing from the interview actually really determines how well you'll do day to day.

Instead of going to an interview, they should just call my dev team and scrum master and ask how things run with me and use their feedback as the evaluation.
You're right. This is (I think) the actual spec.[1] The other one is SAS's reference which claims to describe the POSIX spec. The actual spec says "should". Bleah.

"The arguments represented by arg0,... are pointers to null-terminated character strings. These strings shall constitute the argument list available to the new process image. The list is terminated by a null pointer. The argument arg0 should point to a filename string that is associated with the process being started by one of the exec functions."

"The argument argv is an array of character pointers to null-terminated strings. The application shall ensure that the last member of this array is a null pointer. These strings shall constitute the argument list available to the new process image. The value in argv[0] should point to a filename string that is associated with the process being started by one of the exec functions."

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/e...
At this point, I'm not sure why anyone would choose to work at Amazon over other companies.

What do they offer over their competitors? Same work and pay at other big tech, but you don't have to worry about potentially crazy hours or getting fired for no reason. Or any of the other great companies outside of big tech. Good pay, good impact, no PIP culture.

Recruiters from AMZN are trying to lure me away from Google (as recruiters do), but why on earth would I leave my good job and risk being a sacrificial fire?
on L I N U X...
I have a vintage Mac setup, and I tried to get my nieces and nephews when they visited to play KidPix. It's a PowerMac 5400 all-in-one, and they thought it was a weird looking machine, but they kept trying to use it as a touchscreen. When they started to use the mouse with it, they played it for awhile then got bored.
You're being strangely combative in this thread, as though you are personally offended by something. What's your problem, and why are you letting it drive you to make such weak arguments? Do you have some past trauma related to being forced to read, or is it just bad experiences with Rails specifically?

It really doesn't take more than a few seconds to figure out why your analogy of learning a language by reading a dictionary written in that language is both stupid and inapplicable here, so I'm not going to try to further address that aspect of your comment (especially since you don't seem inclined to directly respond to anything in my comment).
Haven't tried Svelte yet. Do you think its mature enough? Just hoping it is a relatively less painful can of worms to explore :)
In SF you can't build a house that casts a shadow over a park ever no matter how small. The entire western half of the city is zoned for 4-story housing. This is why housing is expensive in SF. SF added less than half as many houses over the last few decades as necessary to keep pace with job growth and there's simply no excuse for it. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_aerial.jpg
When that one person on the team barely commits any code, and isn't busy with design docs or anything else, they just don't commit hardly any code, taking a week to land 10 lines that adds a new argparse option that you could have written in 5 minutes, then I'll be curious to understand how their tiny amount of LOC isn't relevant.

I think maybe you haven't seen how unproductive some people can be. And one hint of their productivity, is that they don't have much code to show for. If someone can explain to me how they're writing significant amount of new software with less code than this comment I'm typing right now, I'd be interested to learn how they did it.
You just made Apple's point though. The Microsoft ecosystem of flexibility introduced so much variation that lots of people moved to Apple BECAUSE of it's enforced uniformity. Microsoft's ecosystem of flexibility allowed their system to be abused and exploited by bad actors more easily resulting in people MOVING to Apple to get away from this. If you want flexibility, develop for Android or Windows. You don't have a right to have access to people who moved to Apple for the express purpose of living in a managed ecosystem that just worked and simplified their lives. Everyone is talking about the developer's rights but no one is talking about end users, many of whom choose Apple for the very reason this is trying to negate, even if they couldn't articulate it as such.
The usual argument I see for renting being good is that up-front barriers make home buying hard for a lot of people and that transaction costs make it impractical for short tenures. If those were independently solved somehow would renting still have notable advantages?
The question is, why did the FPV-experiencing consciousness happen to bind to the body you are in? And why does it stick?

I guess it would be interesting to look at why it persists through sleep. And whether there were ever instances of people who wake up with different personalities. Also edge cases around coma/near-death restarts.

Or maybe things work like coroutines, and no matter which thread you get assigned to the state is all in the context. I mean it looks like that is 99.9% the case given what we know about memory formation, physical brain structures etc.
> I wonder if that would run into net neutrality-type issues

It absolutely would. Who is Apple or anyone on HN to tell one developer that their app is more important/costly/uses higher priority SDKs than another?
Also an Amazon tech manager. I confirm that this is also my experience.

Managers don't like to put people into Focus or Pivot (unless the employee is absolutely terrible, which is rare). But we all have URA quotas to fill, mandated by HR.

This is absolutely terrible for team cohesion and morale; while also being the largest source of friction and inefficiency.
The author does point out your Christmas light comparison but identifies a key distinction: for Christmas lights, the point is the colorful lighting for human enjoyment. That's the upside and the energy cost is the downside. Coming up with a lower-energy way to generate the same colorful lighting will save energy.

For Bitcoin, the destruction of value is the point. The nature of proof-of-work is that you continuously expend more resources than a hypothetical attacker possibly could. If resources get cheaper or more abundant, you must burn more of them to compensate, because your attacker can too and you always have to outpace them. So Bitcoin incentivizes using an "expensive" amount of energy no matter how "cheap" energy gets.
Not sure if this post still ranks in the morning as it's evening in the EU so probably not many people will answer, while the Americas will. I know there are a lot of people from the EU here.
You can use Svelte completely separate from SvelteKit - we've been using it for a while now and integrating with our pre-existing APIs with no issues, some of those are serverless, and some are just instances behind a load balancer.
Similar experience, but different outcome:

I used Node (with Typescript) as well for small and simple stuff. Typescript is probably still my favorite language.

Now, I'm using Go for about 2 years and to my shame I haven't really understood Go modules properly. I still need to look up simple stuff in the standard lib regularly. I can relate that Go is quite different than what many from us coming from other languages are used to. To me, Rust syntax felt much simpler to learn.

However, Go is now my standard tool. Rust takes just too much brain power just for memory management. The Go std lib is a huge time and headache saver. Go gets overall so much right that I learned to live with some of it's quirks.
Fortnite generates 5 billion a year.
The "money creation spigot" is lending. Anywho who borrows money is at the spigot - that's how fractional reserve lending works, and that's where money comes from. This means anyone with a mortgage, anyone with a credit card, anyone with a post-paid phone plan.

Indexing minimum wage to inflation substantially solves the problem.

Can you quantify the spread you claim exists here? I feel like just pointing to the "cantillon effect" and blaming it for everything without actually quantifying the magnitude of the issue you think exists is harmful to the discourse.

The charter of the central bank is to maintain low predictable inflation and maximize employment. That's the function of monetary policy.
I had a friend automating a production line and he needed to detect the level of peanut butter in a vat. He settled on an ultrasonic device as basically anything else ended up caked in peanut butter. It was an impressive setup, all done in Arduino.
Will it use the new Unreal Engine with all of it's enhancements?
You expect there should be no profit, and the whole commission therefore must cover some costs? That was the line of argument of Epic in court; it didn't go well.
Who thinks it’s hard? When you have answer to that then you understand consciousness.
Incredible. 2 months ago I got an email notification for a Mozilla bug that I subscribed to years ago. It was based on a difference between Chrome and Firefox for one of the first web projects I ever worked on. Now I'm thinking of revisiting that project
Slight offtopic, but is Rails again on the rise? I see a lot of startups using it. Can someone who is more into startups share insights?
well, the thing is iOS itself isn't exactly a separate "thing" from these services. Also it wholly belongs to apple. You don't (and shouldn't) have a "right" to develop for it on anything but Apple's terms.
> few remaining issues

The issues which are subject to political decision making are anything but "few" or "unimportant". Even in the most freedom-loving society, you're going to need some mechanism to discipline policy makers when they make bad decisions. Electoral politics is one convenient way of doing that - it's anything but perfect, but by and large it's what we're all familiar with.
What are quarks made of?
Is the purpose of education just to be a filtration mechanism or does learning and growth happen?

I'm reminded of Harvey Mudd's(1) success in creating a Comp Sci program with good gender ratios. They found the main reason women were dropping out of or not trying comp sci was due to intimidation factors, or to simplify grouping experts with beginners in the same classes made the beginners feel inadequate and quit. The solution they came up with was to split the classes based on computer experience levels and let the experts take a fast track class.

I believe engineers or any medical professions could benefit similarly, instead of merely weeding people out with difficulty(which mostly translates to familiarity or previous experience)we could instead let those already familiar fast track it and those less familiar become familiar to the point of competence. It could benefit everyone really.

1. https://www.inc.com/kimberly-weisul/how-harvey-mudd-college-...
Most likely it indicates protons have devalued their currency slightly. Probably not a big deal for now but we should keep a close eye on it in case it happens again.
In the world where Scala and Kotlin exist "It's the new Java" is not exactly a compliment.
It reminds me of ISPs' arguments that Netflix and like should pay more for fast connection to their customers because "otherwise who is gonna pay for the bandwidth?" We the customers do. We pay a high monthly fee for our connection and ISPs want to slow down our traffic to double-dip by charging content providers the access to us. If I pay 1500$ for a phone, I expect Apple to treat me as their customer, not as a resource to be sold to App developers.
Cash is exponentially better: your risk is much lower if you get cash and just invest in the broad market.

It was fun while it lasted, but i think the great tech bull run is over and there will be a slow decline.

Lets see how well this comment ages lol, i could be the next dropbox guy.
How to find out if I can do EquityBee?
Full time employee at private company with equity. Trying to find out if exercising my options via EquityBee would be allowed. Sounds like company doesn't want me to, basically because golden handcuffs. Any tips for navigating this, or for finding an attorney who specializes in employee equity and can read my option grant and the EquityBee contract?
I use yellows in lamps and blues in the ceiling. The ceiling lights are turned on only when I need to really see what's going on (cleaning, can't find something, etc)... most of the time I'm using the lamps.
Or the TI-92 / Voyage-200. Same OS, same hardware platform, but with a bigger screen and a proper keyboard.
Thanks, this was helpful.

I looked at pnpm and I like it... so it's bringing the Maven strategy of having ONE place where dependencies are downloaded to and shared between projects to JavaScript!?.. which has been used since early 2000's in Java land... :D good.
> while no one is allowed to compete with Apple for iOS customers.

This is basically the core question in Epic vs Apple, wherein the court has ruled that "iOS Customers" is not the relevant market to consider.
Each open world keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

I wonder how interesting it will be. Handcrafting stuff for a yet bigger world is always more difficult and time-consuming, and the difference between things to do handcrafted with care and procedurally generated busywork is night and day.
At the end of September 2021 the number of sold copies was 155 million.

Source: https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/03/take-twos-bookings-grow-3...
On a related note, gas appliances have pretty substanial adverse health effects: https://mobile.twitter.com/curious_founder/status/1481746460...

Even if I wasn't against fossil fuel based appliances in principle, this was enough to make me actively worry about living in a house with a gas stove.
So if you check the appendix section, they say they're measuring latency not when the keyswitch makes contact, but when the finger first begins pressing on the key. So they're taking key travel time into account, and that ends up being the majority of the "latency".

It's a fair point for the gaming argument they make, if you want to jump 30ms quicker you'll need shorter keys. But it's not really correct to say the keyboard is adding so much latency when it's actually the user.
Comparing apples to pomegranate seeds, surely. But perhaps that's the point. If third party app stores were allowed, they needn't all be shoddy wannabe Apple App Stores run by rival tech giants trying to publish as many apps willy-nilly to cut into Apple's market. Instead, perhaps there could be many boutique curated app stores, some non-profit even, that aim to cater to specific user experiences.

The benefit is that it could be a solution for the app discovery issues that currently come from having a single App Store with a single search interface. Users with specialized interests or needs can subscribe to smaller third party app stores as they see fit. There would be competition in app discovery. More customization in user experiences. Variety in editorial control.

It's a bit akin to reversing the current state of the web where giant closed sites such as Facebook or Google are single-entry points, and going back to the past where there were web communities and webrings. A Neocities for apps would be neat.
It is also our choice to use anti-competition laws, to require Apple to not engage in anti-competitive practices.

If you don't like it, then feel free to vote for something else (but if you lose the vote, thought luck), or move to a different country. Your choice.
People usually call those internships but he's gone and described them as full jobs. Unfortunate. The timing lines up for a winter and then summer internship / coop role.
Ignorant outsider to the field here: I've often heard the claim that quantum mechanics has been verified to amazing accuracy, that its predictions match with reality to the maximum degree that our instrumental precision allows, etc. A 5% difference seems big enough that at least some of our experiments should have error limits less than that. So how is it that this is only now being found, and there's still uncertainty surrounding it?

I feel like I'm missing something fundamental here, and I'd like to know what it is.
I use it on my w530. It feels fast and responsive, but I haven't done a proper test or anything.

One of the good things it's that includes patches that allow Anbox to run so I can use Android apps.
Hence the market abuse regulations, we can't really have only two companies controlling all the market. iOS became too big for Apple.
Regulators can't force banks to provide service in an unsafe environment, which a rooted phone essentially is.
The instant WA becomes a paid product is the instant every grandmother jumps ship. And chances are it will be to Telegram, not Signal.

Charging for premium features or business usage could work, though.
California doesn't have to be the center for tech anymore as the world has shifted to a distributed workforce.

The US doesn't, for that matter, and you can tell it's happening due to all of the new international investments.

Edit with some sources:

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/europe-vc-funding-unicorns-...

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Market-Spotlight/Venture-c...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-24/startup-f...
np! I miss those early Internet days.
> But it is not the same question as: how is it possible that we have any experience at all?

You're right, it's not the same question. Dennett answers that question too though: you don't have conscious experience, you only think you do.

Thus, the questions he and these authors address are the only ones worth investigating. In time, exploring these questions will reveal the illusion behind consciousness, just like the progressive elaboration of the biochemistry of life revealed the fiction people tried to spin around how living matter simply had to have something different than non-living matter ("elan vital" in vitalism).
certainly it wouldn't actually be banned. but price would drop for sure. governments still have power even over "decentralized" stuff
Worse, you dig at it for too long and collapse the wave function, and it never works again despite you having made no changes.
So you're arguing that because apple makes a profit from the initial sale of the phone...they shouldn't also make a profit from the services they provide for that phone (such as maintaining an app store and the infrastructure for that app store)?

That's a bold position to take. What makes you feel entitled to that? Did apple ever sell iPhones as a one-and-done purchase? I'm pretty confused about how you're justifying this argument. It seems to me that you think all developers have some kind of entitlement to make a profit off of Apple's ecosystem without Apple making a profit from an ecosystem they risked a lot to build, because Apple is already making a profit off the iPhone. Am I following that correctly?