skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will be chatting with some folks who work on reproducible builds (turns out some of them are my colleagues here at NYU! :)) to see if I can use their infrastructure to extract some of this information. That would no doubt be a big boon for the reliability of the build process too – they've been at this for years whereas my own infrastructure was put together over the past couple weeks.
If you "[hold] a vile idea in your head" but only look at the aspects of the vile idea that would benefit you then you've chosen to ignore a pretty huge facet of the idea.
Exactly. FTA:

> Most of the "frontend work" I saw was via Rails ERB templates [puke emoji].

Okay, so ridiculous stack/language bias aside, he's doing frontend, but it's not the frontend he wants. He wants to be writing JavaScript. Which is fine, but he's implying Shopify messed up when it seems he just didn't have a clear understanding of what the role entailed and what the tech was he'd be working with.
God, same to me. I'm very conflicted about the guy, but it sank my heart to think that he died. Glad it's just a (possibly bad) post about his books.
San Bernardino has been broke for years. They are paying most of the pensions for retired police so it's not a surprise they are pulling stuff like this. I guess they have the best police pension so most So. Cal. officers transfer there before retiring. Meanwhile, their city infrastructure looks like Steven King's "The Stand."
> It's a scam when it's compared to how every other tech company does it.

Often but not always. I worked as a senior exec in a near-FAANG, large public corp and at one point the board changed the equity comp of my level and up execs to a pretty complex formula that was significantly back-ended but also had possible multipliers in the event our stock metrics exceeded the avg stock metrics of a composite of several similar firms in similar markets. At the time it was started, a lot of us assumed we might get about the same at the end of the day and maybe a little more but have to wait longer for it.

After four years, we actually maxed all the multipliers and ended up making >200% what we would have under the previous standard vesting. I heard that HR and the board comp committee felt they'd made a 'mistake' because we'd ended up getting so much more than the 'intended' range - however, we also worked our asses off and the companies stock was soaring, so they couldn't really complain. BTW, the net-effect of the back-loaded vesting and soaring stock was that we all ended up holding for longer than we otherwise might have which ended up adding nearly another 100%. Since we're already talking about pretty hefty comp numbers, post-multipliers plus a ~doubling of the stock price, it ended up being life-changing money. Good times, indeed.

So, not every 'non-standard' equity vesting schedule is necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes they are structured as a set of trade-offs, where the downsides are balanced by upsides tied to certain things and need to be assessed on that basis.
ubi is ultimately about control: continue to extract wealth upwards and everyone who's left gets locked onto the money-printing teat (so that taxes don't even need to rise for said wealthy). it has its own logic: the already powerful and wealthy get to ossify socioeconomic stratification, creating a permanent gentry class. we should be fighting this dystopian gambit at every turn (note that dynamism is what makes political economies great, not stagnation).

note that what we should instead be doing is pushing for more meaningful work up and down the economy.
My guess is that killing (edit: free) workspace was more about reducing maintenance and technical debt costs for users rather than raising revenue.

Google is also unlikely to kill Gmail because Gmail is the incentive for users to be signed into a Google Account, which allows them to target ads to you. That's a critical anchor.
Where are you talking about? I love riding motorcycles, but I've also been to Bali and Vietnam and I do not want to live in that kind of traffic environment.
Raspberry PI OS 32bit is compiled for ARMv6 to support the orginal Raspberry pi. I wonder what impact on benchmarks there would be compiling for ARMv7 hence only supporting Raspberry pi 2 and later?
> So we are going to raise taxes on the middle class to give free money to people that choose not to work?

No, ideally, we would raise taxes on the upper class, to give money (compared to the status quo system where we already have means-tested poverty support aid) to the people choosing to do more work (since means-tested aid gets cut with additional income, but UBI doesn't, except by the effects of progressive taxation.)

One way to do part of this:

* Roll payroll taxes into progressive income tax (including basing eligibility for payroll-tax funded programs on total income, not just income currently subject to payroll taxes.) For Social Security, this may involve adding one or more additional “bend points” to the benefit formula.

* Eliminate favorable rates for long-term capital gains, taxing them at normal income tax rates; to better target fairness for gains that genuinely require an extended period and which would be overtaxed if treated as income in the year of realization, allow freely recognizing income (not just capital income) for tax purposes in advance of realization, and additionally allow deferral of some portion of windfall (based on recent past years as baseline) gains over a period of several years.
https://tenthousandmeters.com/
CodeWarrior Pro 5 (1999) was the last to run on 68k. 6 (2000) was the last to compile for 68k. Older version ran on system 7 but you could use it to target system 6 (or earlier).
This is an agency with almost little to no oversight and an equal amount of respect for your basic constitutional rights.
Cash gives you the freedom to diversify. If you really wanted to be all in on Amazon, you could use the cash to buy shares. You get RSUs in the latter years to make up for the lack of cash bonus, which you can hold or sell.

I don't see what downside there is?
Quite standard in Western Europe
Yes! Completely agree! It's like the conversation is pre planned and totally unnatural as in its impossible to occur in real life.

It's so off putting and weird to me.
> I guess we're not as selfish as the last generation?

One might also guess that our generation (you're a year older than me) did not grow up with as much anti-communist propaganda - we were born right after/during the fall of the Soviet/Yugoslav Bloc and there was no need for more.

What we have grown up however is the realization that global problems (especially climate change) are growing ever more dire - and that unlike past global problems like CFC gas or acid rain, politicians not just don't do anything meaningful but actively deny that there is a problem.
Valve Steam Deck Hardware Review and Analysis [video: GamersNexus]
I haven't seen screenplay typography in a while... how did you typeset that?
https://andymatuschak.org
That really stood out to me as something that suggests this is a person I would not enjoy working with at all. The dislike for HTML templates is just a sign this author has a blind spot in their understanding of their role in the world. Rather than provide value, they are more interested in moral judgements of which technology is superior. React and Virtual DOM in general is just a workaround for browser limitations. To have bought into the hype and fandom around a technology like that is quite annoying. It's why I never hire anyone that is purely "front end" or "back end". While expertise in a particular technology is useful, understanding more of the stack is making him more valuable.
What a weirdly specific issue to have. Almost every company will have stories like this where founders were being scrappy or wanted to be perceived as scrappy.
Yeah this sort of language was what threw me off. It explicitly states that they want to "get to know you" in a way that, presumably, extends beyond "how many years JavaScript experience."

I actually remember thinking "perhaps figuring out that the question they asked is not the question they actually want answered is the test. Figuring out that a stakeholder wants something very different than what they initially ask for is a very important skill for developers." If so, good on shopify recruiters! They're playing 3D chess.
HN has already discussed this topic to death in thousands of comments across multiple years[1].

I have never seen anyone change anyone else's mind on this topic. It's just a flame/culture war. People join the discussion with a predetermined tribe and don't leave it.

1. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I’ve been talking to close to a dozen current and former Amazon employees since the end of 2021, and reached out to people publicly sharing attrition observations. Amazon attrition is really bad, even in AWS (Amazon employees all agree that AWS is a much better place to work in tech than Amazon retail).

At the same time, Amazon has had to pay very high for new hires. Hiring managers used to need to get L10 approval to go out of bands on offers outside bands, but starting late 2021, they could go out of bands up to ~20% higher with no approvals.

To top all of this, Amazon has a 6% internal URA (non-regretted attrition) target: something that has been in place for close to a decade. The Amazon Music group revolted late 2021 as reported by the Big Technology publication in-depth [1] as they didn't have 6% of people to fire, at the very time when they could not hire. Yet they were forced to hit this URA target, just like all other orgs in Amazon. Apparently this “rebellion email” leaked across the company and is sparking Amazon-wide outrage, and adds fuel to the fire.

Amazon has been extremely frugal for the skillset they hire for, very demanding and have created a stressful workplace. They still force 6% of engineers to be fired, even when their own leadership opposes this (Amazon Music).

I wonder why they can’t hire. Also, why is Amazon still part of the FANG abbreviation when they have this culture across many of their organisations?

[1] https://bigtechnology.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_...
What Is GTMF and PLG? Yes, Go-to-Market Fit Is a Thing
It doesn't have to be forever. The biggest problem with Linux gaming was simply the games you want to play don't run and the ones you did want to play the, makers had no incentive to distribute a linux build. This bridges that gap, removes a lot of friction for game makers to support linux and with the steam deck it could give them millions of new users to target. It's a massive step in the right direction, IMO.

While these moves are incredibly beneficial for Valve, I applaud them for doing it in a way that benefits the community as a whole and not just themselves.
I’d love to pay Google if it meant I could trust they wouldn’t read/index my email and use the information in for any purpose.
> This is the process working. This is all okay, and welcome

No! This sort of thing casts enormous doubt on the field of psychology and many soft sciences as a whole. A lot of it is academic politics and people being afraid of calling things out in fear of hurting their career prospects. It's much easier to just stay silent, ignore it, and play along. Who knows who will sit on your next grant proposal's committee. Academia is full of this and it's a disgrace.
I also use Fastmail. I think I've been using it around 5 years and haven't had any issue. They added throwaway email addresses recently which has been helpful.
The world and people's motivations are far more complex than you seem to understand.

How do you classify geniuses? How can you so broadly paint entire industries with the worst possible attribute? Why do you think these people aren't doing what they want? How do you think society is being destroyed?

Nearly every sentence you wrote has at least one naive assumption and a sweeping generality.
> We definitely have public transit here.

I suppose this light rail train I am watching go by outside my window is just a mirage or something. Same for these buses, obviously a plant.
I disagree as the “defund planned parenthood” want to kill the whole org. I mean, that’s why it’s a dangerous proposal as planned parenthood performs many positive functions. So defunding them would harm more than just the part people dislike.
It is of my (very important) opinion that it was not a good joke.
I'm not sure I agree. In his own words, he had to ship around for a respected authority so that it would be taken seriously.

Once he had that, the journal have a bullshit response that it was passed two months since the original article was published, and so not eligible for publication. Sokal through his connections, went to the CEO to get that decision over ruled (edit: by threatening that the journal would be humiliated by refusing to publish it). The original debunker would never have got that far on his own.

To me, this sounds like a process that is far from some sort of egalitarian "judge ideas on their merit rather than the person presenting them." If he hasn't got Sokal involved, I wonder if this would have gotten published at all.

Edit: also, this casts a pretty negative light on the field, given that it's been cited 350+ times in this field. Not one of those other papers dug into the content (or understood it) enough to question it, and/or raise the alarm bells. It's one thing Its one thing if this was some obscure paper that never got eyes on it, but that is obviously not the case.
What a bizarre essay. It has a Modest Proposal vibe, but since "Poe's law" is a thing now, I can't tell if it's satire or not.

Morality is conspicuously absent, but I'm concerned that devoting any thought to this counts as taking the bait.
Not just part of the process, but almost always the most important parts of the process. Programming languages are almost incidental. I get that everyone has preferences and strengths, but deciding you will only work with React or Python or whatever is self-limiting. Stay in this business long enough and you will see everything come and go, you have to stay open to learning new things, and working with new people.

Measure twice, cut once applies to programming too. Without a plan you're just thrashing, which gets frustrating pretty fast.
> During our first talk, she never broke her cool when questioned about the inflationary moment and what it says about her theory. She laid out her response methodically. Times are weird, supply chains are constrained, decades of
corporate consolidation make it all worse. True M.M.T. policy would have thought about inflation in the first place, with tax increases or other stabilizers built in.

Right, M.M.T. totally works well, it's just the current special situation that it's not really ideally equipped for. But it's of course still the perfect theory to build upon.

/s
Your inbox is worth much more than your money, if they can take both they will. They are already charging for additional storage, so I expect it will just continue on that path.
Would be nice if you got some premium support for buying extra storage
This website is abhorrent on mobile and I have not read the article as a result
I agree that depression is likely so prevalent because it's adaptive in some cases that are increasingly common now.

I would suggest that rather than look at childhood experiences exclusively, we can look at current circumstances. It's much, much easier to be depressed when you're poor and have no hope for a better life, for example.
First, you sound depressed which is common when you reach a point in your life where you realise that you might not actually be living true to yourself (that’s the feeling lost part - something in you is making you feel acutely that you are not doing what you really want to be doing). My gentle advice is to take care of that because it’s probably dragging you down. You should probably talk with a therapist and start working out if you don’t already.

You also sound dangerously in need of self love. You obviously haven’t achieved nothing. You have held jobs in widely different environments. Tried to start a company multiple times and put aside a significant amount of money. Be gentle with yourself and try to cut yourself some slack.

Then I think you should realise you are not getting old. You are getting older like everyone else on this planet. There is no magic cutoff when you can’t do things anymore (I mean technically you might get unable to do them physically but you are still far from that). Do what you want. If you feel like going to festivals, no one is going to stop you. Some judgmental people might find it weird that you do things they consider inappropriate for your age but thankfully you don’t really have to care about judgmental people.

Finally, there is no miracle solution to feeling lost. You will have to ask yourself some hard questions (but a therapist should help you if you want to and need to) and figure out what you actually want to do with your life. Good news for you is that you are both single and somewhat rich. That gives you a lot of freedom.
I don't care too much about the arcade emulation, but there have been a few times where I wanted to run a microcomputer emulation (the MESS aspect of this project). However, I was unable to figure how to set it up or even what machines are supported. There are myriad red herring MAME sites that are out of date to the point of being misinformation.
Based on other people in the field whose responses were quoted at the end of the article, I suspect this phenomenon may still be occurring. Specifically:

"David Pincus, a psychologist at Chapman University who specializes in the application of chaos theory to psychology"

"Stephen Guastello, a psychologist specializing in nonlinear dynamics at Marquette University"
I like the general idea of UBI but I don't see it work without price fixing which is often the first step in an economical downward spiral.

Also I don't understand how any low-trust society like ours would survive the transition phase into UBI when people (even though they like working) might take an extended holiday if the UBI pays for all living costs. Suddenly millions of critical positions would be left unoccupied.
Like Iain M. Banks, or David X Cohen (the X makes it sound cool)
Because you'd like use the Python ecosystem, for example for writing ML code, but you'd also like to write typesafe code (or rather typechecked, using mypy)
It is still wrong.

Gog, Microsoft, probably Funcom and a number of others (I'm not into gaming, I'm just pointing out he was extremely wrong, so wrong even I could see it. Or there is some missing context that I failed to see despite trying twice now in which case a clarification might be needed.)

Edit: Blizzard and Activision publishes outside of Steam (too)? (I don't know if the publish on Steam.)
Intel joins RISC-V international and invests another billion in foundry
I'm getting a lot of bcc: spam these days. Which gmail refuses to mark as spam, since I'm in the bcc: list, I guess.
The talented API developer Brandur Leach has his technical blog here:
https://brandur.org/articles

Lots of articles on Go, Postgres and databases in general.
What I find interesting is that I spent a good few evening clearing out the junk from my gmail account. I got it down to around 80% and within a few weeks I'm back to 95% again...
I let myself do a little bit of thinking and I guess this might be helpful when you are doing functional style pipes/chains but you can wrap the whole chain into a try except block. But the question is still there: why would you do that? Why the one would write functional code in a language that ain’t very good with maps and filters, has no lazy calculations and has no constants on language design level? Why would you set `Maybe[int]` type for a function argument? That’s an obvious overcomplication imo. Go and write some F# or Haskell. Well, the variety of options and flexibility is always good, but the language is fundamentally not meant to do it. From what I can see, it only makes sense in recreational programming, making some eye-pleasing code, but it all is just a workaround on a language that would not benefit from that code style.

All above is strongly imo of course since I only write Python and am just learning Zig.
The second-hand stress of social media
As a kid I had a ton of legos and my main obsession were technic sets (Still have them). But, before technic sets I had a bunch of the early town themed sets. So for example if you bought the gas station, it comes with a little mechanic figure and tow truck. Most of the blocks were standard and a few specialty blocks rounded out the set like windows, doors, auto chassis parts, wheels, even trees and plants. Of course the majority of the blocks were generic enough so you could build whatever. Even the technic sets gave you a ton of freedom to build whatever.

Now have a look at the modern licensed sets and notice how MOST of the pieces are specialty. Those specialty parts are there to add more features but they are completely useless outside of their intended position in the licensed puzzle. How do you turn that fancy haunted house into a boat or truck? Lame.
This is the blog post’s author. The books aren’t even new to me, just new to many of the readers.
check, next PHP fan boy please.
2.5GbE is relatively common in gaming laptops: https://geizhals.de/?cat=nb&xf=31_LAN25g

I own a GPD Pocket 3 which has it: https://gpd.hk/gpdpocket3

And 10GbE is basically limited to the MSI Katana: https://geizhals.de/?cat=nb&xf=31_LAN10g
100% I wish more people understood this about the value of gmail to google. People sign in because of gmail. Signed-in users enjoy much better search quality. It's a big win.
Imagine what an incredible intelligence resource gmail is. They'd be mad to charge for it.
Which begs the question of what is even the point of having their own distro anymore. Why not just push a bit more to land their changes upstream in linux, and make debian the default noobs install, while providing the option to do all the other OS's as well.

I've said this before, that instead of focusing on building a custom distro everyone would benefit if they instead focused on just enabling all the other distro's and OS's. Pretty much everything, including windows runs on the darn thing, its the closest piece of HW in the arm ecosystem (other than the server class machines) to a random PC motherboard when it comes to just about working with any given OS.
Oops, February 2020…
The bonuses are not traditional bonuses in the sense that they're not guaranteed and based on company performance.

The employment contract is "x per year and an extra y year one" not "x per year and y year one under the right conditions".

It gives them the freedom to not increase your salary or give you more stock, but you should still have a guaranteed known rate for 4 years.
Rumble Offers Joe Rogan $100M to Leave Spotify
You do

one.google.com
Don't you? I seem to remember them advertising human support when they first started calling it "Google One," but I never tried it.
Who's your "evil empire" now? :)
It works the further out a historical event goes. US slavery is still very recent compared to Roman slavery. Once 1000 years has passed from the US slavery, historical takes will probably be different from what we have now.
> This doesn't say where the money comes from.

Taxing the middle class.
I would be amazed if they stopped offering regular Gmail for free because it hooks users into the Google platform and encourages them to create an account. What I can see though is they might start charging for services that currently come with Gmail e.g. you might find they start charging for Google Drive and Google Docs etc. Some manager will come along as say "Hey Microsoft charges for this stuff so why can't we?"
They are: https://www.reuters.com/business/exclusive-amazon-hikes-star...
This, except in my circles I heard “police abolitionist” followed by “it doesn’t really mean abolishing the police…”