skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Once you have a family, living in a van in the Google parking lot and showering at the gym doesn't really work."

Are there actually folks who live in a van in the parking lot or is that a healthy bit of humor?
Thanks very much! We've come a long way, but there is always more interesting work required to keep up with the deep learning frontier and enable Cloud TPU customers and TRC users to expand it further.
I've found that short extension cables are one solution to this problem.
The thing I loved about Giverny's pond is how even with a hundred tourists and the distant sound of the road, you feel snuggled up in a little green cocoon. Even the benches and bridges are green. There's no space on the banks for a person to peek out, so all you see is green and some dull brown. Then there's a pop of pink, or purple, or white, or red, or yellow flowers. And between it all, the clear blue sky and white clouds reflected off the water and up above. At least visually, civilization is gone. It's almost foreboding; it doesn't seem made for leisurely laying on the grass by the pond. Rather it's for looking out on from some hidden corner, as if to say, this place doesn't belong to you; this is mother nature's home, and you're a guest here.
Think you missed the point. Burn out can come from working in a sclerotic organisation where you fail to achieve your goals (despite doing fine professionally and financially and going home at 4pm). This became obvious to the author when other aspects of life were diminished. It also seems procrustean to assume everyone should conform to your notion of work life balance. Working hard on a problem of perceived importance may be exactly what someone wants from life.

I mean sure, the author is in a somewhat luxurious position. But then, why does anyone leave Google if not for some version of this.
Hubs are trash in USB-C land.

I use USB-A hubs and an A to C adapter and that is FAR FAR better on the vaunted M1 macs for external keyboard+USB.

Fancy 200 dollar hubs? Lose my basic keyboard/mouse.

USB: a dumpster fire going on 25 years now.
I don't think he's referring to work-life balance in the standard way. His work-life balance issue wasn't because of too much work, it was because it was uninspiring somehow. He compensated heavily with 'life' as per his water bucket analogy. He played basketball and he hung out with friends, but when that was taken away, he clearly saw that he disliked his work and over relied on 'life'. So he eased the stress caused by work by finding something more inspiring. He may have found a better balance with work he actually likes.

As for the Eastern traditions I think you're implying, the solution is simple, but not easy. Clearly there aren't many Buddhas roaming around in continuous states of bliss, and it isn't for a lack of trying. Having said that, the insight he gained when he was stripped of his 'life' balancing activities is precisely the sort of realizations people can make on their path through some of these traditions.
This has sort of existed since Windows NT 4.0 days in the form of Administrative Templates, with the newer "ADMX" format shipping with Windows Vista / Server 2008:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/d...

https://admx.help/

https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/225/Q225087/
(OP here)

Correct about not including RSUs in that footnote. Since I've always budgeted to live off salary and not bonus/RSUs, they weren't part of that particular calculation.

Obviously my W2 will look very different in 2022, since RSUs essentially get treated as cash grants and startup options are illiquid.
A good reminder (for Americans) that Europe is full of foreign countries.
This is nonsense.

It’s true we don’t kill each other on sight. A trained consensus has been reached that’s not acceptable.

If something sells for price X consensus dictated that the right price for something was X.

Two people who walk into a building wall would agree they cannot walk through it. Consensus!

Consensus based truths appear all the time.

You’re being overly reductive.
1st party data and the customer being receptive (opt-in/looking to see what's in a Target flyer) seem like two advantages that an ad on the internet will never really have. Ad retargeting and such seem like multiple points of contact at best. Ads based on context seem like they could get closer in both ways.

In the context of this article, I would just like to see 3rd party cookie alternatives that do some of this better without tracking.
That isn't a timelapse photo. It's a picture of actual lightening. It is something that actually lasts for a long time.

It must of been nuts to the people under it. Just continuous thunder for an extended period of time.
Don’t use base58. Even bitcoin, which originated or at least popularized base58 has moved away from it. They are a pain to encode and decode, with a naive implementation requiring a bignum library, and they don’t save you much in the end over a base32.
Ask HN: How are you doing your smoke testing?
How is everyone doing their smoke testing? My hierarchy of test value basically goes:

- Live usage test

- Smoke tests

- E2E tests

- Integration tests

- Unit tests

And the likelihood of implementation in projects I work on is:

- Live usage tests (sanity checks, figuring out if the product flow is what I envisioned)

- E2E tests (more commonly for backend projects -- for an API this is basically the only way to ensure quality/functionality/prevent regression)

- Integration tests (I get worried about two components actually working together properly)

- Unit tests (I generally ignore these, type system does 80% of the work for me)
- Smoke tests

How is everyone running smoke tests in an automated fashion? All you really "need" is 3 things:

- An alert when a staging/production deploy completes
- A way to run the test (web-triggerable CI is everywhere now)
- (optional) affordances on the app side to set up/teardown state quickly or avoid heavy processes etc.

I'm curious what others are doing for this, and what automation/backdoors they put in place. Feels like something I'm overlooking too much these days.
Smart corps should have realized by now that open office spaces are disliked by employees, are noisy, etc. Looks like there aren't very many smart corps...
We try to make it easy to switch back and forth between Cloud TPUs and other hardware platforms using JAX, PyTorch, and TensorFlow. This is a difficult technical challenge, but the XLA compiler helps a lot, and switching is easier now than it has ever been.
Private Equity Looted America
What about a social media site for congressmen where you can only, like / vote / comment if you are a verified constituent and every post is linked to a real identity. And moderation was done wikipedia style. As in a comment may be removed, but you can see why it was removed and it's content and author can still be viewed via history or something similar.
Welp, devotion plays the largest role when it comes to enjoying something, and paying for an album already means the person is already devoted into it. Devotion allows juicing out more fun from the same item.
Vanilla JavaScript: a website mocking JavaScript frameworks
The connection parameters including encryption parameters and certificate from the origin.
There are a lot of weird rules in WebPKI you may miss, this is beyond a general purpose TLS library.

Enforcing Certificate Transparency rules or CAA records, is the proxy doing this?
This is great but unfortunately it's not very mobile friendly, the WP article is better for that.
This sounds pretty bad. I can't imagine anything like that happening in the bay area or anywhere else in the U.S. The U.S. has strict anti discrimination laws and individuals know that being professionals also means not discriminating and addressing these kinds of acts.
I'm not sure I ever considered the iPod Touch a music player; Apple hasn't made a decent MUSIC PLAYER in years. They've made a lot of very capable portable computers that sit on your wrist or rest in your pocket but there's a lot more noise than signal coming from them ...
> to buy-in to the Lisp language to even get going with Emacs. It just doesn't compete with the ease-of-use of data / declarative configuration of VSCode's JSON approach,

hmm... do you know about M-x customize ?

> Node development environment running inside a container with VSCode. I don't even know if you can do that with Emacs to begin with.

Install docker-tramp.el and then `C-x C-f /docker:image_name: RET` to open a dired buffer in the container.

`M-x shell RET` for a shell in container.

Use this often? Make a bookmark with `C-x r m bookmark name RET`, then next time get to it from your bookmark list accessible with `C-x r b`.
The cross-platform GUI is WWW.
>offering legal aid

That phrase makes it sound like their actions represented an expenditure rather than a revenue generating operation.
We build our data sets on top of publicly available information (whois, BGP, rdns etc), but also combine it with lots of data we collect ourselves (ping & traceroute data from our probe network of over 100 locations). And then we do a whole lot of work with that data to produce our actual data sets. And there's a whole lot of work that goes into continuing to improve them, evaluate them, and ensure they're consistent etc. It's not easy!

And that's just producing the data. Making it available via a low latency and highly available API that handles over 100 billion requests per month requires some work, along with supporting data downloads in various file formats, and integrations into all of the various platforms that our customers want to use our data with.

And that's just on the engineering side of things!

But I'd say that even if our data was publicly availble (and to be fair some geolocation data is available for free - although it's generally not very accurate, and we also have other data sets beyond just geolocation) - there's still lots of value is making that accessible, easy to use and understand, and helping your customers get back to solving thier own problems while you worry about solving that piece for them.
The only reason I ever used Docker Desktop is that Docker Engine wasn't otherwise available on Windows or macOS. Why would I ever subject myself to it, and especially its new onerous licensing terms, when I can just use Docker Engine without it instead?
So does any other GUI program....

He was looking for a cross-platform GUI toolkit.
You forgot the part about it dating to the English bill of rights of 1689, a country that never had slavery on its shores and no non-whites to oppress.
I'm confused. The page is dated 2022, and it touts support for Windows XP???
If you'd like to see an implementation of something that uses Perlin noise, check out this generative art project I did: https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs

Perlin noise is how the lines flow togeher rather than crossing each other during the animations.

I have a technical write up that explains how it works at the bottom.
There was ~$1.6T of CDOs, plus some amount of separate MBS’s that weren’t re-securitized into CDOs, and over $30T of CDS’s, and the main Wall St. banks were over-leveraged up to 33:1, and Fannie and Freddie were over-leveraged by around 100:1. Between the banks and Fannie/Freddie, there was about $9T in over-leveraged debt with insufficient equity or collateral, almost half the US GDP at the time.

The conditions back then dwarf the current crypto market. But I am worried the crypto market is doing its best to not learn anything and to repeat those same mistakes anyway.

And I actually got lucky and in late 2006, as I was getting interested in investing for the first time, discovered an online community of forensic accountants piecing together from public filings what was happening with all the house flipping.

Shortly before I found them they had concluded it was a massive unsustainable bubble forming, which would inevitably end in collapse. Their research and evidence convinced me and formed my worldview before I even had a chance to drink the Wall St koolaid. All credit to them though, I just got lucky in discovering them.
Oberheim Company Re-Launches, Releases OB-X8
> It is highly disputed among Christians that our holy books claim the God-imbued soul begins at conception as opposed to the first breath

That may be so, but it doesn't change what I believe to be true - that babies are people too and should be treated as such.

> If we treated our peers like Jesus treated the woman at the well, rather than like the subjects of our moral empire, then the country we pray for would be closer to a reality.

I agree with you on that - and I believe it's right to live and speak that way with people who are in need. Doing so doesn't mean not advocating for specific policies and laws based on what I believe to be true -- namely that all people are valuable, including babies.
I’m in as long as they make the buttons perform different on every update like the touchpad in my beloved Fedora running laptop.

Oh, and turn on auto-update checking no matter how many times I manually turn it off.
Sure they lost, but we can look to their writings for aid in our understanding of the meaning. I'm not saying that the quote is binding in itself.

> That's because "people" is the plural of "person." "Militia," on the other hand, is not the plural of "person."

This is a weird take. There is no indication or grammatical reason that "people" and "militia" are convertible.

If you read the various state versions of the 2A many are more clear than the federal that it applies to individuals. There is a state court case
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunn_v._Georgia

Also the infamous Dread Scott decision mentions it:

> It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished; and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went.

10 USC was not supposed to be a gotcha. It is showing that just as at the time of the founding, all citizens were expected to keep and bear arms, and thus also know how to use them so still does federal law reflect that.

Quick note: people are not protesting with "assault rifles" because one is defined as select fire and they are very expensive to acquire. Although I do wish that this was not the case.
If you are ever to pursue such a project, please pay close attention to proper electronic circuit design and safeguards when it comes to relays. Otherwise, you risk burning out the controlling pins or the whole system, due to reverse voltage (measured in hundreds) that is generated by the relay's coil when the relay is turned off.

The easiest approach is to just use a commonly available relay modules used with Arduino or similar platforms/microcontrollers, as they already contain minimum or all protection mechanisms. So, the module will contain the reversed diode in parallel with the relay, while additional transistor and optocoupler will allow you a complete galvanic isolation of the controlling- from the and relay circuit.

YouTube has plenty of user-friendly resources with schematics and functional overviews, just search for "relay module" or "relay arduino".
What I really want is an index across all of congress and the senate.

One that can buy into their non-public companies too
I've tried gretl and liked it, but scripting with it was challenging IIRC.
I see! Thank you lifthrasiir.
That Windows Explorer is always running to show the desktop UI is something between an implementation detail and a hack. It could have been implemented as a separate program. And one can use a different file manager than Windows Explorer.
Smart Contract Development Hell
Being boring is one of Golang's strongest suits. There just isn't a whole lot you need to learn compared to most languages.
I love how you can’t distinguish lI| in that font. Very futuristic to have that relic of the past!
Or better yet, you could use neither! If it helps you remember, JavaScript is bad, so more JavaScript is more bad.
>"Met some amazing folks and saw some amazing stuff, but the intro to Beverly Hillbillies kept intruding into my thoughts."

I thought this was laugh out loud funny. I was in need of a good laugh so thanks for that.

I'm curious though did you just walk away because it wasn't for you or something else? Isn't just getting in there a colossal months-long interview affair?
All the dialogue feels like fiction, and probably is, but the underlying story is mostly accurate from what I've read in other sources.
What Is Googliness?
True. But the difference here is that the corp directly and immediately benefits, by reduced costs. It's easier to be smart if it means more money in your pocket.

Cost is probably part of why open offices were a thing anyway, reduced costs and more flexibility. So incentives are aligned with WFH, but weren't with open office bullshit. That should be the difference here.
They can work hard, but it is really rare, extremely rare, that someone who was born to unfortunate circumstances will be very successful.
https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/cty/pdp/spd/optiplex-70...

Configurable with a 12900 & up to 64GB of DDR5. Seems to be pretty much what you're asking for.
It's not a straw man at all.

Even in this post you restate the ideological underpinnings of starve the beast.

If you want governments to work like efficient machines, you need to invest in them, which requires political will that will only exist after dispelling the narrative that they are incapable of solving problems.

Also, I'm confused about the comment about newspapers and journalism. Do you have a source for that claim? My everyday experience is almost the exact opposite.
(OP here)

Yeah, I was in a role where I was full time managing for the second half of my Google tenure. Hence the rusty coding skills.

Yes, this also means I'm ridiculing myself on the whole OKR framing thing.
It’s funny how people try to frame the second amendment as racist, when a much clearer case exists for gun control being racist: https://theatlantavoice.com/gun-control-historically-has-mea...

It’s almost as if there’s no principle there and it’s just an effort to smear something you don’t like anyway.
Linux is a monolith. With more than 25 developers I believe. Seems to be doing OK last time I looked.
How does working more hours help his work-life balance? Maybe the title should more be “not working a soul-sucking job”
> Relatedly, why can't I get a simple USB-C hub? I have four USB-C ports on my laptop and I need six. Back in the USB-A days, I'd just get a $30 hub and four new full speed ports at the cost of one on the laptop.

The problem is that, I believe, a USB-C port is effectively required to provide a minimum of 5V at 3A on every port. I believe that USB 3 only requires 5V at 0.9A and USB 2.0 only requires 500mA (you nominally have to negotiate up to 500mA from 100mA--but nobody ever does that they just suck down 500mA without paying attention).

At that point, you can see how much more power USB-C is shoveling around. A 4-port hub is shoveling 60W minimum for USB-C, roughly 20W maximum for USB 3 and roughly 10W maximum for USB 2.

And, to be fair, life wasn't magically better in the USB 2 hub days. I have had loads of USB 2.0 hubs that do screwball things once they get a little overdrawn on their power. I eventually discovered that a good way to predict reliability of my USB 2 hubs was to look at the amperage of the wall wart that they shipped with it (the bigger the better).

And USB 3 isn't automatically better. I literally just had to replace a whole bunch of old, very nice, very stable, aluminum wedge USB 3 hubs because Microsoft updated something and simply plugging them in would blue screen the computer. Once I bought all new plastic chintztastic USB 3 hubs, Windoze is now happy. Microsoft can go die in a fire.
Ultimately people like to have some ownership in direction of projects and products.

Many times that is taken from you on larger teams.

It is odd that HBS and value extractors (business/finance/project/marketing) have taken so much power from value creators (creatives/developers/product people) in terms of the power balance, most people know that makes bad products and was really the basis of capitalism starting, ownership of direction.

> In his landmark 1776 work The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith showed that a clever division of labor could make a commercial enterprise vastly more productive than if each worker took personal charge of constructing a finished product. [1]

The project managers and finance want to make the product now, from a value extraction viewpoint over a value creation one. It ultimately leads many value creators to go do their own thing.

No matter how hard they try to remove the creative element of product creation, it is actually a key input to successful projects.

Products are like creative works, they should be built with depth, deep dives and aim to be a fun experience and friend of the user.

Bottom up processes can create great products with polish and love, they are value creation processes.

Top down processes and deadlines create shallow features and products, they are value extraction processes.

The best value creation process is just an iterative/incremental cycle, with lots of power in the court of the value creators over the value extractors.

[1] https://hbr.org/2019/01/the-high-price-of-efficiency
Disinformation is not. A lack of critical thinking is though.
After a few years of this, I'm getting the sense that losing money is part of the plan over there. Its called SoftBank after all, not DifficultBank or StingyBank. Anyone know why that might be the case? Propping up the yen? Devaluing the yen? Some noble, longterm goal that doesnt require profit?
Because they might be able to get the labor they want for less than 80%?
Sorry, I don't want "digests". They all sound just as tedious as Tucker's monologues, and not necessarily any more honest.

A simple transcript and arguments to that would suffice.
My favorite grant from that link was the $20k one for someone to learn to ride a bike and think about AI.
Japan has the tsukutsukuboshi, which is a cricket that sounds like that.

There’s definite animal naming from their sounds. For one species, we get: crow, corvo, karasu, Krähe, cacalotl, gaa, kkamagwi.
Okay, now this is going down a rabbit hole lol
Sure. What’s a little threatening with layers between friends?

He also publicly slandered said employee and never corrected himself. It’s a big thumbs down from me.
In Emacs, I found the restclient plugin quite useful. https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el

I imagine other editors have similar plugins.
There is this amazing technology called “libraries”, “modules”, and “frameworks” that allows thousands of developers to work on the same monolith. It has been around for quite a while. No micro-services required. There is even this amazing technology called “automatic testing” that can test each library/framework independently before delivering to clients. I happens to use both of those amazing technologies at work every day and it works really well. I also happen to be sharing an office with a college who is fighting a 20 years old micro-services application. The worst piece of garbage I have ever seen in my 25+ years career. Every little functionality is running in its own process. There are hundreds of them. The complexity and difficulty of the system is truly mind blowing. If you think monoliths are hard, just wait until you split the same functionality into a distributed collection of micro-services. Welcome to the world of distributed systems. The additional failure scenarios just sky rocketed. Have a nice day!