skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But engineer compensation has been larger pushed up by the FAANG companies which are highly profitable.

If you go back and re-read this is exactly my point. Google, Facebook, Amazon have structural advantages that make them more profitable than the majority of useful services ever could be, much of which is based on the unregulated and morally questionable use of massive amounts of user behavior data. This sucks the oxygen out of the room for startups who could provide an honest product for an honest price, but might not be able to get the economies of scale to pay $500k per senior engineer. In other skilled labor professions $100k-$200k is considered well compensated, and that creates a larger sweet spot which enabled more diversity of services. With software + internet the potential for near-zero-marginal-cost global scaling push everything towards a winner-take all mentality, and so small shops providing diverse and higher quality niche products get squeezed for talent.

Again, I have benefitted personally from this dynamic, but I'm also old enough to be saddened at the unfulfilled promise of lower software build and distribution costs that we envisioned at the blossoming of the web and the release of Microsoft's iron grip on software profitability in the late 90s.
I haven't read all these words yet, but I recognize enough of them to know I have similar interests. I was excited to see https://bazil.org/2014/04/24/introducing-bazil/. Of course, now defunct.
> There is such power in the visual, and in the consumer-side.

This is, unfortunately, true with managers and execs. Do some backend thing, no one notices as long as the site doesn't go down. But do some flashy thing on the front-end, let's give so-and-so a promotion and a big bag of money. This is even true of tech companies where you would assume more tech-oriented managers exist. But sadly, no. They have to pitch your work to higher ups and the higher ups just have their eyes glazed over when they hear about databases and caching and transactions per second.
It's sad. It shouldn't have to be radical solutions like that. Poster above is very luck he had his record expunged (although it's possible his record lives on in Google). Most convicted persons are never able to clear their record, even decades later.
My solution has been to gravitate towards paid ad-free services, and avoid sites with business models I disagree with.
Email is in the original post: Richard@70MillionJobs.com.
That's fair, but I think it's also the case there: Salesforce, Twilio, and Snowflake are much better as customers than as competitors.
Haha, so I've not succeeded in making it a thing. Very evocative though, isn't it?

Ed: honestly though, it's kind of surprising no one else has independently come up with the same phrase. I know I'm not the only one thinking about things like this.
I support this initiative, but I'm not looking forward to the 22-hour workdays.
you had a dream and gave it hella shot Richard.

Respect & Gl on your next chapter in life
This is truly a sad time. You were doing such good work, and I'm sorry you're suffering through this.
We already solved the birthday celebration problem. The Queen's official birthday in Canada is May 24th. Charles' official birthday in Canada will be May 24th. We just decided at some point the best monarch's birthday to celebrate is Queen Victoria and have stuck with it.
When the miners stop mining because electricity is too expensive, the difficulty drops and it becomes less expensive to mine. Which encourages more mining.
> It’s hard to find discussions about the real downsides of using VC money

maybe because this is a forum, that belongs to the most prominent VC in the world?

> For instance, what happens when growth fails? Do you lose ownership of the business?

nothing, besides losing trust in your business’s ability to succeed, therefor not putting any more money in it

consider this: VCs are typically in hundred-million ranges, $500k for them is a rounding error, they only care about those companies that can show the promised growth

> What happens if you want to do something extremely risky?

that’d be actually great

more risk = more reward

> My project is a game

a thing about which no VC in the world cares

unless you promise it will become a “Metaverse”

> I can’t imagine that would receive creative encouragement

that’s not what you need a VC for, you need a VC for two things only: their money, their connections/status
Which part of the Linux ecosystem *is not* divisive? I love Linux but the community is the real reason behind its lack of popularity. Lack of consensus on every single aspect of the OS (and lack of standards) has led to hundreds of distros, each with multiple desktop environments each of which has hundreds of extensions, flavors, plugins, etc. On the surface it looks good because there is variety and choice, but really it all contributes to paradox of choice. Snaps are fine, but since the Linux community has to find something to whine about, you see lots of people talking bs about Snaps. How could novice users feel safe in the ecosystem when everyone just keeps attacking every idea?
That doesn't work. It's complex symmetric, but not real symmetric or Hermitian, so you can't use the spectral theorem.

This statement here:

It acts on R^N by independently scaling the coordinates of an orthogonal basis

is precisely the spectral theorem, which you can't use here.

[edit]

Also, the corresponding claim for Hermitian (and real symmetric) matrices isn't true either. If an eigenvalue of a Hermitian matrix H is negative, then no square root of it can be Hermitian (or real symmetric).
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=transformer+julia

Looks like this was posted 2 days ago according to the timestamp in the search result. But there's no repost since if you click on the first link you end up back here. Looks like it just managed to bubble up to the front page since then.
To get bumble bees protections judges determined bees could be considered fish
Yes. I manually update from Play Store too so I didn't notice the difference.

I'm doing that because I've been hit too many times by upgrades that reduced the functionality of apps or changed it in ways I don't like. I'm currently not updating K9 Mail past 5.6 and some useless Samsung apps that I can't uninstall.
I wish it were that easy. First of all lying like that is near impossible unless you know every single thing done in a Brahmin household, you'll be caught eventually.
In a workplace setting, you might be boycotted but if this were in India, you have a high chance of getting murdered brutally.

Dalits get killed for just riding a horse, walking through upper caste residential streets and many normal things. In this scale a Brahmin name would be deadly
Glad to see they're changing for the better. CNN's reputation has gone down a lot in the last decade or so. Reminds me of Obama's joke:

"Even reporters have left me. Savannah Guthrie, she has left the White House press corps to host the Today show. Norah O’Donnell left the briefing room to host CBS This Morning. Jake Tapper left journalism to join CNN."
Hmm, I don't think that's something we can predict. Someone could have said the same thing before general relativity... in fact, most people did because they thought we were almost done.
I'm glad you have the freedom to choose your own news sources, but some of your listed sources are just as bad or worse information quality than CNN (e.g. Jimmy Dore, Viva Frei, Tucker Carlson). It's fine for all of us to have our own opinions about which news sources are reliable, but just because someone isn't on cable news doesn't mean they are reliable or free from the influence from "corrupt donors and establishment organizations".
I have seen young people dismiss studies that say that being out in the forest will be beneficial for mental health by saying that for them it's the opposite. Forests gives them high anxiety and being in urban areas will calm them. This included parks.
Unfortunately I have found that a really good Product Manager is an extremely rare thing. However the best organizations and teams I have worked on have always had strong product management. There seems to be a general lack of education and training on how to be a product manager. Too often folks from other disciplines, such as Engineering transfer into the role with no training whatsoever and end up doing a terrible job with it.
What the flying f***.. Is this going to be a standard part of Microsoft 365?

Edit: Nope, luckily not. It's part of Microsoft Purview, which is an add-on to M365 by the looks of it: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/microsoft-... . At least it's not going to bother everyone that uses M365. It probably costs a lot to add on too. Meaning our company will probably not use it. Phew.

But whoever's employer does buy this are now constantly going to be scanned for potential malicious activity at work. Sounds like a scene from The Circle, or worse, The Every. Where the characters constantly have to express how happy they are and how aligned with the company because they're insta-fired if they're in the bottom 10%. This was meant to be a work of fiction. 1984 was not a manual, Microsoft.

When Microsoft started their data farming with office insights "purely anonymous and intended to help increase your personal performance!!" I always knew it was a way of introducing much worse. But I didn't imagine they'd go this far this quickly, I assumed they'd just use all the data for marketing and misguided employee performance metrics. I say "misguided" since Office insights used the same "healthy" metrics for online meeting hours, concentration hours etc regardless of employees' roles, which obviously differ greatly in the type of work and amount of collaboration. I'm not sure if it still does this by the way, as I turned it off after the first weeks. Which by the way doesn't stop it collecting data, it just stops emailing me about it.

It's a totally different thing to accuse employees of wrongdoing based on AI algorithms though.

Imagine saying something like "oh god what a day, I hate this place" in a private teams chat after a frustrating meeting. +1 potential leaver point. Or "hey I hope they're going to give us some nice goodies at that event!". +1 suspicious gifts point. A few more points and way to go, you're on the HR shitlist. Sure, Microsoft recommend an "explicitly opted-in investigator" looks at it but who has time to spare these days. It'll just end up a metric on an excel sheet somewhere.

I'm sure the data will be "anonymised" but this will probably mean that it will be averaged across a team. Since most of our teams are really small, it's really not that anonymous. And in fact, it makes it even harder to disprove, a low 'leaver' score might be caused by one colleague and put a dark shade over the entire team.

I really don't like this at all. I understand that corporate comms tools are not meant to be private. But to me that means someone could look at it in the case of major transgressions. Not to constantly look at it and weigh every word in search of things which aren't even transgressions (as far as I recall, wanting to leave an organisation is still legal).

PS: Also... "usernames are pseudonymized by default". What do you mean "by default"???, so it can be switched off to not pseudonymise?

I really wonder how legal this is in the EU, especially stricter countries like Germany.
Ah! Good ol' DNS. Nothing can go wrong now!
One of my hobbies is loading some old MIDI file from the era into Logic Pro X and produce a finished track using all my synths. Results are surprising, some times I think "the guy who tracked this MIDI didn't know it could sound so well!"
Main role of the PM is to prioritize: what get build/shipped first, what later, what not?

To do this a PM has to balance and understand the needs of the customers, the potential customers, the direction of the company, the direction of the market, the capabilities of the competition.

The engineering details are better left to the software engineers, architects, key users and UXers.
Since my company is my business, and Musk's company is Musk's business, it is both figuratively and literally not your business how we should run them.

But hey, you are always welcome to start your own company and run it as you think companies 'should' be run in the 21st century!
For data migrations / model versioning, have you seen Project Cambria [0], posted in 2020 [1]? (Also an inkandswitch.com project.)

[0]: https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria.html

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24699615
no, areturn is a jvm opcode.
As a current prisoner who is yet to be released, let me say thank you for everything you've done.

I've spent the last 9 years around felons and it is sad as most of them never had a chance in life, being born either into an environment that practically guaranteed incarceration, or being born with mental health issues that this nation fails to treat and instead incarcerates.
There's never a lack of relevant news. There is a lack of news that's interesting as a form of entertainment.

That's why it would be such a challenging turnaround. I don't think a competent and serious news channel can work as a profit center.

I guess CNN worked really well economically in the 80s/90s when there weren't many options for people to get news fast, and then gradually declined after people got online.
> Reads like HN is shutting down.

That'll be the day. I wonder what poor Dan G. and company would do with their lives then?
Hosting and domains can be two different products, and you can just switch hosting, right? All registrars I have seen allow custom DNS so this should not be an issue.
I mean, if you are going to be petty and sue everyone on what two lines of python can achieve, everyone's gonna fuck with you
Having been long in academia, what has increased is commercialization of all kinds of science, number of science managers (like modern day billionaires, taking credit for the work actually done by the graduate students and postdocs, growing to be huge), number of politicians putting their names in various papers (I see managers co-authoring on average a paper per week), brutal competition for status and citations, excellent writing and formalism with little or no substance, rise of administrators with large incomes, gangs and tribes accepting each other grants and papers, intensified politics on awards/recognitions/invited talks and control of main publications, people constantly chasing the same topical subjects for grants and industry relevance, and similar activities. The science component has actually decreased in my view. The system and practices sometimes remind me of the Wall Street, with the currency being fame.

I don’t think this system will last for too long. The environment is increasingly filled with status hungry people. Balaji has a good prediction on that.
In the sense that outside the United States by and large it is center-right. What is considered ‘left’ in the United States is often times a right leaning view in other countries. The politics of the U.S. have shifted very much to the right over the last 50 years in the U.S. Consider that it was Nixon who approached China, established the EPA and wanted to solve the healthcare issue in the U.S. Eisenhower built the interstate highway system and Regan believed the tax on labor should be less than the tax on capital.
> I was addressing your belittling of California's food production and its importance.

Again, show me where I did this. I'll continue to wait.
> Here’s the submission of the story, 4 hours ago

And even that's just the one that caught on. There were a couple posts about this yesterday too, that I guess didn't make the front page.
ah. TIL.
Program to compact text into small printable format
I have a lot of bullet points that I need to cram into 2 pages. Is there some program that takes in a .md or .txt file and outputs a printable representation of it limited to a number of pages compactly?
> But at the same time, randomness can make it harder to master,

Except that Magic: The Gathering is particularly bad for locking into specific "meta" (metagame) which then persists until new cards come out/old cards rotate out. Hardly random and hardly difficult to master.

The best MTG players are really good at what I call the "game mechanics corner cases". The know all the weird ways to play and resolve the cards--this gives them a quite persistent couple percentage point advantage.

However, it won't give them enough advantage to beat the "meta".
> (draw at optimal play on a 5x5 board, win for first player on smaller boards)

Somewhat relatedly, I keep wondering how board size affects the game of chess in particular.

It seems that a 1x8 board definitely leads to a stalemate (because the pawns in front of the kings would block each other), but at some point adding new columns (with the relevant pieces) makes the game impossible to exhaustively search, and at least plausibly introduces the ability for one of the players (presumably white) to win with perfect play.

That ability for a winning strategy to emerge just beyond our ability to compute is somehow tantalising.
Because of the whole "master" meaning a slave owner thing that the progressive left seems to think it means and it apparently hurt enough feelings to make it a movement (default main branch on Github repos is now also "main" because of this), and then you have companies that desperately try to be hip and cool, and they do this to get social clout. The whole thing is pretty sad if you ask me, but what do I know.
If local translation can help me use a website without a query to some cloud server... who needs the cloud? No backend that will experience downtime, and someday be decommissioned. No money sink of cloud processing pressuring the product to advertise or monetise in unscrupulous ways.

I'm sure cloud processing is better in many ways. But if this is "good enough" I'd rather just do it all locally.
There are only 40 hours in a productive work week (if you care about your health). In those 40 hours you simply cannot do everything needed to manage a software project. So we specialize. Some folks focus more on one set of problems, and others focus on other sets of problems.

There should be a good amount of crossover, but having "specialists" who "own" aspects of a software project has been found, over and over again, to be the most effective way of managing a software team.

Two roles that do not fit into one person's brain are Product Manager and Software Engineer. Should a Software Engineer be knowledgeable about what the Product Manager is doing? Yes. Should the Product Manager be knowledgeable about what the Software Engineer is doing? Yes. Should those roles be merged? Absolutely not.

Product ownership should be left to the Product Managers. Product vision, purpose, and strategy should be available to everyone, and everyone should have a say, but to think that Software Engineers should also do Product Management is ignoring how much work both jobs entail.

I write all of this having actually read the article, and knowing the article doesn't actually say anything I'm disagreeing with here, but I feel it's important enough to say these things anyway.

Software Engineers are in those roles not because they cannot do other roles, but because someone needs to write the software, and writing software is a hard enough job that it's more or less the only thing a Software Engineer should need to focus on. I think people forget that sometimes.
Forgot a part:

> And employees are opted in without any notice from their employer

[edit] Obviously professional communication channels are monitored, but it would still be nice to be informed when policies change. (Anyhow, personal and professional communications should always be kept separate to avoid this issue)
Hilariously, no.

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/lies-we-tell-ourselves-to-k...
There’s another post on it - it IS worth it and the prices aren’t insane if you consider it as a moderate hotel on wheels.

There are fancier long-distance trains that run on different schedules.
Indeed it is, but the 'hard right' doesn't exist on CNN. I wouldn't expect people to bring up the problems with progressive commentators on a thread about, say, Fox News, because they don't exist over there.

To me, in this thread with this topic, this reads as whataboutism.
I think discoveries of equivalent impact are being made, but not in physics laboratories. Looking back at the current century I think it will be clear that the most impactful discoveries / inventions were related to information processing and that they were made in the private sector.
Fluke testers are the gold standard in the trades. Electricians often say fluke, meaning tester. Mine is a Fluke 376. Typical.
point is that it doesn't matter which one of them wins. Both screw over working class people.
Probably because the wages are very low and the work loads way too high. Some link: "How the current worker shortage is really a wage shortage" https://www.nynmedia.com/content/opinion-how-current-worker-...

"It’s not a labor shortage — it’s a wage and workers rights shortage" https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/570441-its-not-a-labor-s...

"Our employment system has failed low-wage workers. How can we rebuild?" https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/04/28/our-emplo...
> 1911 Solvay Conference on Physics

The Solvay conference was invite only, but I think your point still stands.
Short term (3-6 months) I agree with you, and I think we've been seeing that for the past ~2 weeks with the stock market bouncing off its lows.

Longer term, I'm pretty confident you're incorrect.

The Fed is looking at the wage increases in the economy (which are blunting the effects of commodities inflation on the consumer) along with unionization drives and will definitely be hitting the brakes hard on the economy.

So for example:

"Fed Governor Christopher Waller says he's prepared to take rates past 'neutral' to fight inflation"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/fed-governor-christo...

But to really throw the brakes on the economy the yield curve should actually invert and short rates should be at least 3-4% or more.

And I disagree with the title article that the recession is likely to be "mild" since the Fed is going to introduce significant amounts of pain and things like CMBS are pretty much primed to detonate and create a financial crisis (along with the likelihood of a massive crypto collapse). If the Republicans take over congress that will also create a lot more excitement than in 2008 since many of the Tea Party Republicans are ostensibly against bailouts and TBTF and will see economic chaos as a way to damage Biden.
> Or, because they're too stupid to realize it's in their own self-interest because they could end up in the exact same situation at any time.

How would open borders in a country be necessarily beneficial to people in the country?

Are you presuming that if Country A opens its borders, all other countries will?

And, considering first world countries and the countries from which people who would benefit from borders being open, is it likely that conditions in the first world countries will degrade to the point that it would be advantageous for them to immigrate to one of the countries whose citizens would benefit from open borders?
The comment (unintentionally?) singles out progressives when the statements apply pretty equally to journalists on both sides of the spectrum. That is why it is controversial.
For sure, I had all this stuff before k8s as well
It’s called market competition. Why can’t neighborhoods vote every year whose contract to renew? Police agencies could compete.