skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of it is the exact circumstances of you office as well. All else equal I think I would actually prefer working in an office assuming that:

1. It felt like a "real" space (i.e. not a beige cubical farm)

2. Was not excessively loud

3. I had a comfortable chair/workspace

4. I could walk there from my house in under 20 minutes

5. There was no dress code

6. There was nobody there who I found deeply annoying and also insisted on interacting with me regularly

And I think a lot of people (especially young people who live in cities close to where they work) actually do have something approximating that situation.
It is a bribe but it is accepted and perhaps not illegal
Company gave the Product team full reign and always "deferred" paying off tech debt to chase the next quarterly goal or business pivot. Eventually the tech stack was a giant, messy tarball with no test coverage and layers of hacks, but everyone could still deliver features because the original team was still there (this also provided justification to the Product team that tech debt payoff was unnecessary or could be "deferred" again).

After a while, business stagnation from constant pivots and new initiatives resulted in attrition and a downward spiral of budget cuts and reduced morale. Attrition and knowledge loss caused velocity to drop, which caused more of the team to leave, which made the business stagnation worse, which caused morale to go down more and budgets further cut, etc. Eventually the company couldn't recruit the same level of talent to replace people who left, hiring standards dropped dramatically, and it was now impossible to pay off tech debt or even really run the tarball reliably anymore (a Ruby monolith running an ancient, unsupported version of Rails with a million security holes and bugs).

Engineering leadership made a mass exodus, the few people that were left ended up on a death watch as the move to an outsourced engineering org from India was implemented on the way towards a full migration to a 3rd party vendor platform. Software engineering was completely eliminated from the company and the lesson the company leadership took from this was that "we never should have built the platform in the first place" along with a dose of "external business factors outside of our control caused the decline in revenue, forcing us to make hard decisions".
You think removing a massive cost of ownership will reduce America's useage of large SUVs and pickups?
Interesting how you automatically assigned a gender. My wife has worked from home for 4 years and can't wait to get back into an office. I like to think that some people just have different preferences.
All of smarter everyday's videos are cool but this one is my absolute favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toVfvRhWbj8
Do watch it if you are interested in IC engines/ photography/ fluid dynamics or you're just curious about everything.
It is also super easy to get around those transparencies - the lobbying system in the US is for sure a big big problem

Bribery with extra steps!
TKL definitely needs to be the new laptop standard.
> 5 of us wrote Microsoft Works for the Macintosh while working at home from 1984 to 1992. Without the internet

It's hard to imagine now how this could be done without the internet and a distributed vcs like git.
Perhaps getting rid of the fancy-chrome-breakable-thingies is a better way to make reliable devices that function 8-10 years or more? Or, making them encrypted and user-changeable(!) would help matters... But like most tech hardware, if they can gain access to the device, they can gain the device.
> KING US Government charging 20-45% income tax

> DUKE Apple charging 30% App Store tax

Note that Income tax is in reality earnings tax (as expenditures are generally subtracted), while Apple/Google fee is based on just income.
> having your service's icon implanted on the user's homescreen

PWA
Why not just stop watching people who do that if you don’t like it?
You can still try to estimate this using something called QALYs which are life years adjusted for quality of life.

A breast cancer scare, is certainly harmful, but it's important to remember that it is going to be a short episode as it becomes clear that the tumor is not growing. So you have maybe a few months of scariness.

On the other hand cancer is brutal, and death is permanent. Years of life cut short. The years leading up that are extremely sad. The impacts of death extend beyond the person to their family and friends.

When people try their best to measure these things on balance, breast cancer screening is overall a good intervention.
Don't know the answer but I think s similar example is when you are using an image preview tool to look through images by mouse clicking on the forward arrow, and at some point the image resizes and you're not clicking on in anymore. I hate that
Sort of tangentially related. Had this page bookmarked years ago because the craftsmanship on the puzzles is absolutely incredible -

http://www.pelikanpuzzles.eu/en/gallery.html
Thing is those people might not have struggled educationally at all. The ex math teacher i talked about? Made 4.0 in everything. Didnt even owe student loans because they had grants/scholarships. The ex laywers all did just fine educationally. (and their massive debts probably didnt help their credit scores)

Where it gets really messed up is the people who did what they were "supposed to do" and got a STEM degree in Chemistry/Biology/Physics. Only to discover that there is basically no employment for people with just Bachelors degrees in those fields and they would have to go deeper down debt holes just to make ultimately less money than what most coding jobs pay......

Those people do GREAT at coding boot camps and technical training btw.
I feel like this is science research in general - it's a battle for money, and only a few groups really manage great research vs. doing the whole grant application shuffle.

What do you think about the few groups actually doing electrode design (i.e. there was a UC Berkeley/Lawrence Livermore group looking at electrode designs)?

Vs. I think most of the innovations in BCI engineering happen to be in the commercial sector (i.e. deep brain stimulation electrodes from Boston Sci, Medtronic, Abbott, the arrays from Black Rock in Utah, Neuralynx, etc).
So I'm a software engineer too, but also a cyclist. A weightweenie. At certain point, you begin to mix and match totally incompatible parts, solvable with a modest manufacturing capability. For me, the learning path was basically the same as with programming - lots of motivation, access to internet and tools (a machinist). Back in school, we were taught part sketching and machining basics, which helped a bit. I picked FreeCAD out of available open source solutions, watched a lot of great tutorials on YouTube and, though trial and error, managed to produce designs good enough to serve the purpose. Machinist services in Russia are incredibly cheap, especially if they have their own machines in a garage. With small beginner projects, the price of error is just your time and materials, don't be afraid to experiment.

On a side note, my mechanical engineer acquaintance complains that he should have followed the CS route because programmers earn substantially more here. The grass is greener.
This is the same team that brought attention to Opera's predatory lending apps: https://hindenburgresearch.com/opera-phantom-of-the-turnarou...
That might be fun then; have the emulator write to a thermal printer, relive a bit of nostalgia I have for the awful printouts of Pokemon characters I used to have (and might still have in a box somewhere actually).
It’s the lack of corruption.

In India the projects are blocked by individual officials seeking to line their pockets, they don’t care if that causes their area to lose out on the project.
If the science is so clear, can you help me understand? Why do trans people claim what they claim? Can you point me to the research?

I need a more detailed explanation than “they have a medical disorder”.
The first step is them realizing they have a problem.
You have to consider that local competitors and other foreign competitors may not have any issues with bribery, maybe they’re both from cultures where bribery is normal.

Now you’re asking a local executive to paddle up river while their competitors go down river.

Unless you have a somewhat leveled playing field it’ll be an uphill battle.

I believe there were espionage scandals in Europe by US intelligence where US companies were given confidential info on other negotiations —this was ab attempt to level the field in the face of what the US saw as unfair competition brought on by bribery.
User died for this joke. Commitment.
I'm going to join you down at the bottom here. I agree with you it isn't quite right, and I _think_ the reason comes from a couple sleights of hand. One: healthy people don't go in testing for the presense of a rare disease. That is, if you are administering this test to 10,000 people and only one truly has the disease, then any statistic that you back out of this trial is well below any significance. Two: the colloquial use of 'accuracy' is not the statistical use of 'accuracy'. This post uses the former for our 'intuition' and the latter to demonstrate that our intuition is wrong.
What kind of payments should vendors be making regularly to customers?
If you don’t watch the videos, then you won’t see the ads, no?
The design is as cute as Nabaztag / Karotz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabaztag
Father of LAPSUS$ hacking suspect says he’s going to stop him using computers
> I figured out that the plan was to let natural attrition take over and for every person who quits from here, hire their replacement there.

Honestly, if the company has decided to move, that seems like a good way to do it, no? Nobody gets laid off, they avoid the bad will of axing a team outright or asking you to train your replacements; it becomes a simple gradual turn-over.
Uh, doesn't 1:00 AM mean the sun is overhead in 11 hours?
There's the time a student was misled by an error in the Feynman Lectures and wrote to him about it. Here's the story and the recent HN thread about it.

https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2020/feynmans-advice-to-wm-s...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30417660
Falsifiability is about grounding out in an experiment that can be performed. Epistemic legibility is a generalization of the concept, where the arguer highlights the cruxes of potential disagreement, and points to whatever evidence they feel is convincing--whether that's experiments you can replicate, official records, expert opinions, or their own introspection.
> What tools were available?

"My Briefcase", in Windows. It was like cloud shared storage, but using removable media.
I had a friend in elementary school who suffered from the same thing. He never mentioned table corners, but he definitely requested that you don't hold pencils with the pointy bit up if you sit next to him.

Sounds like it sucks. Take care of yourself!
> So why isn't this ratio part of the major test criteria?

Because it has nothing to do with the test. Sensitivity and specificity are facts about the test, and conceptually they will remain whatever they are if you start testing a different population.

Whether doing a test has any value is a fact about the population ("olympic athletes are never anemic, so there's no point in testing them for anemia") that has nothing to do with the test. Why would you evaluate the test based on that?
Metaverse may be $800B market, next tech platform
Election money is important but the role it plays is somewhat different.

Politicians do often woo companies to come to their sate.

A job (particulary a well paying one) creates a lot of economic activity and can make that region prosperous. Politicians want this both for votes created due to prosperity but more importantly, once the region becomes rich, they have more money for their social schemes and freebies which is a prominent part of how they come to power. Not to speak of more bribes obtained in richer areas.
Now you need to git-bisect. And the range includes versions that ran in production with three different versions of your DB daemon (MySQL, PostgreSQL, whatever). The version might matter—in fact, look at that, the oldest few commits error on the current version of the DB.

Or you need to try something on another project that uses a different version of your database server. Or you need to pinch-hit on a project that has a half-dozen service dependencies at particular versions, none of which you have installed and running already.

The ability to very easily spin up clean installs of a bunch of services at arbitrary versions is incredibly useful. Containers aren't the only way to do that, but Docker does make it pretty damn convenient.
At it's core, we are talking about a business.

You're not "getting paid" in terms of ownership/title/etc.

Quit and move on.

Try to work with people you trust.

Good luck.
>But people see how bad the US is at doing that so they lose faith in the government and so decide that the solution is to privatise everything, thus actually exasperating the problem!

This is entirely intentional. Republicans get elected, they privatize, slash and burn, and otherwise stifle government function, and then run ads screaming "Look how shitty the government is, elect us and we'll kill it", repeat.
I think my positive perception of self named software dates back to Irfanview.

I've been using it since 1998, never felt the need to change to anything else.
As apps become easier to maintain and keep online, the extreme separation in roles is only important at companies with sufficient scale in some metric to need the specialization.

I can deploy a prod EKS/CI/CD setup with Terraform scripts, and be deploying code to the public in a morning now.

Like other service jobs, IT is going to contract sooner than later. NoCode infrastructure is where k8s was in 2014.

IT workers thinking in IT patterns as usual is a huge blocker to progress. Elder workers domain knowledge is stored in DBs and source control everywhere. It’s trivial to parse and transform into another syntax.

Congrats; you trained your Copilot replacements without even knowing it.
There's nothing that I'm aware of that is standard in all (acceptably decent) phones, built into the standard by, say, 3GPP, without need to install an external app, that can send a good quality (so no MMS here) images and videos to any group of people, with verifiable E2EE, with welcome features of things like realtime location sharing (with explicit permission of sender of course), read notifications, online/delivered status, reactions to messages, and starting video calls (3G video features never took off), other "fun" and convenient features like shareable stickers etc.

Almost all of WhatsApp, Telegram, Apple ecosystem, Discord, Slack etc. have almost all of it.

Which public standard that's available on phones do we have that provides these features worldwide?
Feel free to share if you have any criticism of this view.
The benefit to you is that you don't have to commute as far!
Foreign companies get fined billions for doing the same when it doesn't please Uncle Sam...
> What incentives can you offer me if I build it here?". Then the towns will bend over backwards, gut their taxes, ease their planning zones, and basically contort everything they can to become the most appealing location.

I mean, that's basically a bribe too, we just don't call it a bribe when we do it on our side.

"Woah, woah, woah. You can't just hand government officials money! That's bribery! You have to do business within their specific jurisdiction and trade favours on the planning and setup of your business (favours none of your competitors or existing other business will receive) all on the promise of future increases in tax revenues in exchange, *that's* how you hand government officials money!"
Being able to walk there from my house in under 20 minutes is a big thing for me. If I am a 1-3 miles walk/bike ride, I would go to the office all of the time. Assuming its a safe comfortable commute. I hate driving in rush hour personally, any amount of distance.

Also feeling like a real place is nice. I actually don't mind a cubical, though an office would be nicer. I really hate open office though, and open office makes me never want to go in. If it felt like a cozy coffee shop, or a college campus that would be ideal.
It's definitely not. This is why the welfare effect is described in the abstract as having directionality
> I live in Kazakhstan and while I don't have any evidence, I'm pretty sure that many huge western companies operating here bribed officials.

If the country requires bribes to operate in, and the western companies are operating in that country, then you can just do some simple logic to derive that they are bribing people.

However, a lot of western companies will simply just form legitimate contracts with local companies that will then "fix" everything for them. Things get even murkier when the western company forms a join venture with a controlling share local company.
Windows 3.1, 95, 98, Me all did exactly the thing described as "more trouble than it is worth"; they are 32-bit protected mode operating systems[0] that makes frequent context switches to 16-bit mode and utilize BIOS functions.

[0] Yes, I know, Windows 3.1 applications were almost always 16-bit unless you installed Win32S. It's somewhat complicated.
I've had a few Nikon FE bodies. I think they're excellent cameras. But I did need to have them serviced / repaired from time to time.

Depending on where you are, buying from a second-hand camera shop is a good avenue because you'll get some sort of warranty, and you can also ensure the camera is working before you buy it.
Now if only people in the west would apply this same logic to their own communities.

Whole Foods isn't donating money to the private school that the children of some local politician to attend because of their belief in the school's mission. They're doing it because they want to redevelop a strip mall and a new soccer field costs less than anything that involves a courtroom.
Consider that an undergrad takes 4 years, with a 2 year master's on the end of it, but that's for students who are distracted. You can completely reinvent in 3-5 years, and at that age, you will have condiments in your fridge that have lasted longer.

Can't say much for finding jobs, as I've contracted and consulted for most of my career because I prefer the problems and change, but really, your options are either to manage, or become manageable. That's the decisive factor in finding a job as we age, imo.
great now make it print github issues
No, that's still not a reason to conceal the behaviour/purpose of the UI element.

If you want to emphasize/de-emphasize a UI element, you can do something like was established on most GUIs 30+ years ago: make the default/safest option have a thicker border, and the secondary/de-emphasized option have a thin border. Early examples (1985 and 1991 respectively):

https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/wi...

https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/system/features/search...

Note how immediately-obvious it is which action is the "typical". You don't even have to read the text, you could even squint your eyes or glance from a great distance and still understand which button is the one you probably want.

UI design involves trust, especially for software where people are trying to actually get something done. Making unconventional designs erodes your users' trust. Have respect for them and what you can reasonably expect them to "know" arriving at your software, and they will have an easier time and love you for it. As we can see, these conventions have existed for decades, and deviating from them warrants a very compelling reason, not just "cuz it looks neat".
Thanks so much for your work on Postico. I had been using Sequel Pro working with MySQL and was looking for something as good, when i switched to a company that uses Postgres. Postico has fit that bill entirely and then some, and has been one of the few tools i've been wiling to pay money for, along with Sublime Text.
Youtube Premium is not available in my country. I should not have to endure two unskipable ads at the beginning and middle of a two minute video because of that.
You seem to be appealing to the presumed moral superiority of your position. Others disagree, both with your expectation of what is a right and what must be done to respect those rights. The existence of vouchers demonstrates that they exist and in sufficient numbers to get their way in at least some areas.

We live in a pluralistic society, in which compromises between differing moral systems
are required. Someone with either of the alternative claims I listed (fund the high achievers who are most likely to repay society, fund all kids the same) has every bit as much claim to moral righteousness as you, and every bit as much right to invoke the word “scam” to describe your preferred policy. Planting your feet and asserting your moral correctness, as evaluated by you, doesn’t change that.
I say go for it. He might want to consider areas such as database development (SQL) and stable, commonly used technologies (Java, C#) as opposed to front end where frameworks seem to be constantly changing. You mentioned he might be good at Excel - that could come in handy also, especially in finance and/or data analysis type roles. Don't worry about ageism - it's a good asshole filter. Also his leadership experience could be useful if he wants to manage engineering teams.
> public officials are paid very little with the expectation that they will supplement their income with bribes.

I'd like to offer my own perspective on this issue, having spent a lot of time in the third-world, that may not be obvious to many of us in the western world or from more developed economies.

Many countries that are struggling with i.e. building robust transportation and energy infrastructure, are also struggling with the infrastructure that enables the reliable collection and enforcement of taxes. These issues happen to be related. Tax collection in the US isn't perfect, but it generally works. What do you do when huge parts of your economy runs on cash or when huge swaths of your population don't even have bank accounts?

There's a joke that bribes in the third-world are "directly paid taxes". There's a kernel of truth there. If Microsoft pays $100 in tax that's paid to a govt salary, versus that tax not existing and them paying it to the same official, what's the difference? Loss of accountability and oversight, yes.

BUT -- the reason bribery is so egregious in the West is that the officials taking the bribes are already fairly compensated. Also, the Western system of government is filled with unethical bribe-analogues, in for example the lobbying system we have, worse in some sense is that this unethical behavior is codified into law in a way the general public may not agree with but has no real way of changing (refer to Princeton voter preference study).

Consider all that when these "corruption index" lists are published where the US are the good guys with a green-colored country and countries in the third-world are red-colored bad guys. /rant
One could argue it’s more efficient. If you need to get something done, at least there is a way to receive service whereas in the US because there is little bribery, you’re at the mercy of the bureaucrat who doesn’t depend on your bribe to survive and so has lost the incentive to serve you.
The whole corvid family is incredibly social and intelligent. They can remember and recognize human faces, and quickly deduce what's important to you (your laundry, for example), so you really don't want to end up on their "enemy" list.
This is true historically but the culture does seem to be moving away from the idea of it being OK to date coworkers. I know a lot of younger people (like me) would be quite nervous about the prospect of coming onto someone in the workplace. Even with good intentions there is potential for miscommunication or making someone uncomfortable.