skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A lot of businesses simply don't make a profit under reasonable conditions

Reasonable conditions of today include supporting wealth inequality (ridiculously top heavy salaries) to the point of being unstable.
What I was talking about is that there was once a pretty large community of smaller SEO manipulators that did a lot of experimentation on what really worked. Especially in the "black hat" realm. Finding things like areas on big-brand sites that would accept user-generated content, comments, etc, where you could bypass some checks and insert links to sites.

They would experiment in a pretty deep way, varying things like the rate of new links, type of new links, variations of anchor text / bare links, and so on.

It USED to be very effective.

The larger entities don't really have to be that detailed. If you have that brand power, you can just cut partnership/cross-link deals and pay a little attention to things like anchor text in links, contextual text around the link, etc.

Edit: Ah, yeah, agreed. What got lost in all this was good content that had no big brand behind it. The indiscriminate hammer Google used to kill off small-guy SEO spam also pushed a lot of actually good stuff, stuff that never did any SEO at all, off the first page.
Someone else suggested that too, logged here: https://gitlab.com/vincenttunru/obfuscate/-/issues/4
If you do experience reoccurring hypomanic states, coupled with reoccurring depression the author describes as “the pit”, then you might be clinically type 2 bipolar!
Well, if you did DevOps the way it is meant to be used, the idea is that the developers can do the minimal efford of the ops part, and you no longer need that role itself.
So, depending on what a company means by DevOps, it could mean developers willing to that bit extra, and clearly we need ever more developers, or they could understand it as just a modern kind of ops, in which case they are NOT doing DevOps.
Kubernetes has its complexities, but it certainly doesn't require more people than previous methods. But what it does require, is people with new skills, and lots of companies want to move away from their old fields to this new, and therefore neeed to fill those roles, while people only begin to reeducate. Add to that, that more companies are doing more IT in more kinds of business segments, and in many countries the bigger generations are leaving for pension, with less people coming after. DevOps, true or not, is hardly the only field with a lack of enough educated people. You will find the same in lots of engineering fields.
Coming from very humble beginnings, I default to living frugally and below my means. No credit card debt, no car loan, and a low principal, low rate mortgage on a fixer upper home. Each month I pay the mortgage and credit card in full, max out ESPP, and make sure I hit the 401k max annually. I still come out ahead and typically use that cash to fund home improvements. Last month I paid for a new fridge in cash.

It can be quite frustrating to watch folks who bring home much less live so much larger. I think it comes down to feeling that they’re being irresponsible. Perhaps growing up poor teaches you a thing or two.
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Well hardly surprising that a large manufacturer of "commuting devices" is against remote work.
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But the internal tech stack doesn't have much in common with Kubernetes, either.
I don't recall any FAANMG CEOs writing threatening emails to employees mandating them to work more than 40 hours. Do you have any examples?
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+1. For people without kids yet, pay close attention to this comment. If you have big dreams, better get on them now.

For OP's #3 question: Reducing inputs has helped me tremendously. You don't need to pay attention to everything. You don't need to stay abreast of everything.
I personally prefer working in person right now, and go in even though my organization does not require it. But Musk is wrong. There is nothing inherently worse about working remotely. If your people are less effective remotely it could be due to a lot of reasons (including morale), and they are all fixable.
There's a setting (annoyingly non-persistent) to make it try out plurals and some variants, but it's buggy.

This could be so much better with a few fixes and tweaks, but the author appears to have abandoned it immediately after launch. Such a shame, it's really quite a challenge.
I don't understand the outrage. I also like WFH, don't want to work more than 40 hrs a week etc, but Tesla is a pressure cooker of a company, aiming for the sky, what do you expect? It's not a lifestyle business kind of company. I like Tesla but would never want to work there myself, that's for a specific type of extremely ambitious, smart people without many obligations to family etc.
I don't wanna spend money or effort on it since I wasn't involved.
Apart from a few things like union busting and this remote policy, I've only liked him more and more over time. I was never a "musk fanboy" whom it's hip to whine about and degrade today (you agree with something mean space man said? bOoTlIcKeR sImP!111) but all that whining and degrading has only had the effect of pushing me to like him more. I love that he seems to stand by what he believes instead of letting society tell him what to think, and he's in a position to do so with "fuck you money." I can see a lot of what I would do in what he does so it's a kind of vicarious satisfaction when that makes Twitter droves mad. It's hip to hate cars, he still has cool visions using cars like hyerloop which I love; people whined about the aluminum ships, I love seeing some classic style brought back into things; ungrateful diver guy deserved to have his name dragged through the mud; etc.
I’m not living paycheck-to-paycheck, but it’s easy to see how that can still happen. Even in a relatively low COL area (comparing a town like Huntsville or Fort Worth to Seattle or San Fran), it’s easy to plow through a bunch of money between your mortgage, car lease, student debt, sending kids to daycare, and saving for retirement. I know you don’t have to have a new car and you can always try to get a smaller house, but that money goes pretty quickly if you aren’t careful.
He's gone from "building cool shit, but holy crap the hours are long" to "long hours for a toxic edgelord who has consistently over promised and under delivered" in the span of a decade.
Neoliberal economics is commonly correlated to monetarism, which came as a response against the implementation of Keynesian economics before it. Reducing Keynesian economics solely to printing money also seems overly reductionist.

I'd say the Fed is more interested in propping up growth rates regardless of the fundamental instability or the unfair effects of a more unfettered capitalism.
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Why would I spend two hours + a day in a car if my goal is to maximize profit per hour worked?
Hawala has kinda been out there for a long time, and I'm not sure that there is a space for incremental improvement since, as I already mentioned, its main security properties lie in hawala being out of modern fully electronic systems. This is the case when we are talking about the general mechanism, of course; a group of 2, 5, 10, N people | N < some abstract big number where we can't tailor solutions easily and need to scale, there some customization may surely be devised as an improvement.
I work as a research engineer in Italy. My path was academia (Physics)->industry (Finance)->mix. The "mix" where I am now is a strange case: it is located inside an university, nearly everybody has a PhD and we also have PhD students, but we are not academia, it is a private no profit company doing applied research. I am getting the same money I was getting in the industry but also 7+ weeks of vacation per year, more autonomy and less stress. Plus, I am not working to make rich people richer.

Most of my job is about optimizing numeric code, lots of numpy, pandas, numba but also thinking of new algorithms. I get respect and they put my name in the research papers they publish, even if I did not write a word in the paper and have no knowledge at all of the underlying science ;-)
Such companies are rare but they do exist. Much better than academia because there is no bureaucracy. I got in because of a friend of a friend...
I could tell you stories about how remote work has made my team exponentially more productive, but what would it matter? Anecdata is cheap.

Sounds like you’ve been making the wrong hiring decisions, honestly.
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Please don’t just say it was “proven” without showing proof
One wonders what the world would look like if AT&T could design a processor worth a damn.
Maybe they just don’t?

For instance, I teach high school English. Cost of living in my city is 40% below SF, but I still couldn’t afford to live in the community where I teach. I commute from a cheaper area. Even then, I am actively planning an exit from teaching after this year because my wages aren’t keeping up with rising costs (10 yoe, TC 52k).
> Of course, springing this on already remote workers is problematic. Tesla is no stranger to low employee retention. In the short term they will have an exodus but perhaps in the longer term they'll have a workforce more aligned to their culture.

From Elon Musk's statement, Tesla's employees have far more pressing matters plaguing their employee relations than the crapfeat that's this remote vs on-site stance.

Once your eggregious boss makes it his point to refer to mandatory minimum work hours of 40h/week, this means Tesla's employees are already being exploited and subjected to abusive working conditions that are recognized and imposed from the very top.

Elon Musk sounds like a Dickensian factory worker, and working for such a character sounds equally soul-crushing, even if you work from home.
Lets be honest. Searching for https://hn.algolia.com/?q=burnout in hn shows so many people suffering from burnouts working in industry.

My SO is a research software engineer.

1. As you say, she doesn't build ad-ware and do take pride...
2. relaxed and convenient job timings
3. In EU - close to 31 days paid + usually Professors are very generous about going home early etc...
4. Pension, unions, unlimited contracts
5. No one gives a shit when github/gitlab/heroku loses credentials on a Easter weekend. (We were in roadtrip) - chill life.
As one person with kubernetes I can build and operate quite a big platform more secure and better than ever before.

Our current platform is much more stable, has more features, and bigger than what the prev team did.

There are plenty of things you can't see like security or backup or scalability.

Backup were done app by app basis. Now you can do snapshots in k8s.

Security still is a mess. But now you can at least isolate stuff.

Scalability meant installing your application x times manually and configuring load balancer etc. Now you set it up per cluster.

Additional features you get with k8s: Auto scaling, high availability, health checks, self healing, standardization.

A lot of things got invented which lead to k8s like container or yaml.

Now with the operator pattern you can also replace admin and embed operational knowledge I to code.

Infrastructure was not ready to be controlled by code like this ever before.
Good idea, logged here: https://gitlab.com/vincenttunru/obfuscate/-/issues/5
Does Google get paid more if they link you directly or if they link you to the middleman?

> The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. - Backrub paper
By enum I mean this:

> An enum type is a special data type that enables for a variable to be a set of predefined constants. The variable must be equal to one of the values that have been predefined for it. [0]

> Is it just a set of constants of a given type or a sum type (aka variant type)?

So by above definition, it is a set of predefined constants.

> But, again, that's not a variant type, so you can still assign a different value to the variable of the type Season.

Which kinda defeats the purpose doesn't it?

> Which is rarely a problem in practice (there are other ways to validate data rather than by type system constraints).

I'm not sure I agree that it is a rare problem - if I can't rely on the type system to do a check that something belongs to a set of predefined constants, that is a pretty basic part missing. Of course there would be other ways but being able to lean on the type system would be a pretty reasonable expectation.

> So just to clarify, many of the use cases for enumerated values do not need string representation.

Sure - just like many of the use cases do require string representation. It is not unreasonable to expect that enumerations as defined above should be able handle cases that do and don't require string representation.

> Go has no magical way to translate varibale/const name into the string.

You keep using this word magical when it comes to addressing the limitations of the language. Java isn't doing "magic" when it is able to return a string representation of the enum value - it is part of the language. Credit where credit is due etc.

[0]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/enum.htm...
Bezo’s isn’t progressing tech and innovation? Odd since there are very few areas of tech that Amazon/AWS aren’t on the cutting edge of.
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WorkOS raises $80m in Series B financing, acquires Modulz
Do you use ACI at that scale? It's interesting how Microsoft also promotes AKS rather than ACI. For Azure ML they even explicitly state that ACI should not be used for production purposes, which I find quite curious.
I find using the 'verbatim' option under tools is usually necessary to get the exact phrase. However if I also try to use an exact date range (uploaded in past five years, say), then the verbatim option is automatically disabled. Can't do both at the same time, it's really annoying.
This is a really good point to keep in mind when looking at your expenses/budget - what things are mandatory, which can be changed with little effort, which can be changed with major effort, and which are entirely optional.