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I have worked in tech for two very large companies, both fortune 100, and well over 50k employees. I also worked for a small company that I could best describe as a late stage startup that was coming to terms with being a lifestyle business.

The trick to escaping bureaucracy is the same for both. Making friends with people, and talking to them directly when you need to massage the processes. It's just that it is much easier to be friends with 50 people than 5000. Working from home can be an issue, make sure to video chat when you can and goto as many official and unofficial events as you can.

If you have a good manager, and your manager has a good manager, they should have contacts around the company that can help with the red tape. Never abuse it, and when you're in a situation where your urge is to be a roadblock to another team, go out of your way to help them instead. It always comes back in a good way.

Office politics sucks, but it's the only way to stay sane in these environments.

Sometimes you have to remember that the friction is because they just don't know any better, or because they do no better, but they're too busy or too tired to create a better system. They are all dealing with the same nonsense, and it is soul crushing.

In my current job, I had managed to skirt a lot of the corporate nonsense for a long time, but we merged with a company that had a very by-the-book culture, and my manager had to resign for health reasons. Things have been downhill for the past few years, and if I could get a job making the same at a company that didn't do all that, I would probably take it.

..but that brings me to another point, I loved that small company, like family. Then One day a bunch of my friends were fired for personal/political reasons. I left a year or so later, and a year after that they sold the company, and a year after that the new company closed the office and just kept the data center. The point is that bigger companies are more stable, if you have a mortgage or kids it's really no choice.
> VS Code has a feature like this but I hadn't used it much before switching to Zed full-time.

Please check it out — being able to edit / run / debug code on a linux server using a mac desktop over ssh, and having the whole experience be as seamless as edit / run / debug locally, is a huge win — it's pretty much _the_ reason that I’m currently using VSCode 90% of the time despite being a huge JetBrains fan (to the point of paying for their full enterprise pack out of my own pocket)

(JetBrains tools do kind-of support remote file editing, but it’s flaky and slow, and remote run / debug are a nightmare — compare to VSCode, where I sometimes mix up local and remote development because they’re identical except for the hostname in the titlebar when running remotely)
And even if that didn't happen, teachers can easily score "civility" themselves. They all know who the troublemakers are.

The problem would become, though, that nobody really wants the rowdy crowd. Even the laziest teacher would nope out, and as much as self-sacrifice is probably more prevalent in the teaching class than in the general population, there are never enough willing to self-immolate for hopeless causes. Which, in turn, is why we get the Hollywood fantasies with exactly those heroic characters: because they're actually very rare.
They covered that in the original blog post, as a ton of their internal devs liked their current setup. They ended up writing a little command line utility that would let you SSH into your codespace (spinning it up if necessary), so you could use whatever editor you want (including JetBrains IDEs now that they have good SSH support).

https://github.blog/2021-08-11-githubs-engineering-team-move... (and if you want to try it, I think it's "gh cs ssh" in the github cli)
Maybe if a lot of people filed feedback that told them that this sucks...
What information do Stripe (& maybe ApplePay) want you to have, in order to clear payments at favorable rates (& have good options in case of disputes, etc.)?

What information would really be useful for customer service situations (account password reset, etc.)?

Dealing with sales tax is (often) a miserable hot mess. Doesn't Stripe have options, for handling most of that for you?
Cutting out wasteful spending may make your shitty schools cheaper, but it will not make them better.
Are there any studies that show beyond a certain level of policing there are further benefits to crime rate? It seems to me we keep arming the cops with ever more expensive military equipment and generous pensions, and I doubt it translates to any impact on the crime rate. Though if you have studies showing otherwise I would happily change my mind!
This sounds interesting. Any resources for a beginner? I use Selenium regularly.
> The first responders couldn't have been nicer. The firemen, EMTs, and policemen who responded were very kind and courteous.

Yes, I mostly agree. Fear of being treated poorly by the EMTs and firemen is not a reason to avoid calling 911. Even many police departments have been doing a much better job about making sure that their officers have a better training and mindset for calls involving mental health crises. There are still enough horror stories about police responses that I would evaluate the track record of your local department when deciding whether to be afraid of them when considering making that 911 call.

> It was the mental health infrastructure that was abysmal, not the first responders.

This was indeed the intended thrust of my comment. I think fixing the remaining issues with police training and attitude is a much smaller and less important problem than figuring out how to revamp, operate and fund our mental health system more effectively.
I have enormous respect for the systems, complexity and emergent behaviour (eg [1]) that these two guys have created over decades at this point and continue to create.

But I just cannot get into DF in the way I would like. Even with Dwarf Therapist, custom tile sets and so on it's still a management nightmare. I am told some people just have a lot of idle dwarves. It always struck me as there were too many dwarves before you've created any sort of structure.

I got to a point where I needed a militia to defend against some monster and that was going to be a whole new system I'd heave to learn, assign dwarves to, suplly and manage and I was like "this is too much".

I know failure is the default mode (and some consider inevitable). It's a cool feature that if you play again on the same world you can find your old ruins.

I wish this were in a form where a community could contribute to and build this out because I think it could really help. I understand these guys derive an income from it and I support them in that. It just seems like there's so much missed potential here.

Some good iconography would go a really long way. If dawrves were wandering around with symbols above their heads showing they were hungry, thirsty, sad or whatever without having to inspect them you could communicate a lot of information. You might be able to see you have a food shortage problem or why dwarves have wnadered off looking for food. Or even that they're just bored.

If you were looking at dwarves you could see that they're your militia or your farmers or your miners. Not visually conveying information just seems like a massive missed opportunity.

[1]: https://www.eurogamer.net/why-dwarf-fortress-started-killing...
> I'm surprised that someone hasn't gone ahead and taken this data and put it up on github or something; it all feels very theatrical.

It would be out of date the minute you post it.
If the billing location is relevant for the fees, one would assume that consumer protection legislation requires to display the billing location before the transaction is approved. Whether all foreign businesses will follow the rules is another story. But if no such rule even exists that seems to be a gap in Australian consumer laws. (And as a sibling comment indicates in the US. But the US is generally more business-friendly than consumer-friendly, so I am not surprised.)
What? MySQL continues to work just fine. 8.0 (which was admittedly released two years ago) was the biggest release in ages in terms of new features and removal of things that should have been removed decades ago. Then there's MariaDB, which is named differently purely for copyright reasons and could be considered the 'real' MySQL (since its dev team are Monty and friends). I don't think MySQL came out of Sun's disintegration badly at all.

To be more precise: 8.0 finally has proper utf-8 out of the box, support for complex replication topologies (including multi-master), window functions, CTEs, etc.
Of course businesses and government programs are different.

If a business is not doing well, it will be defeated and shut down. If a government program is not doing well, it usually asks for more money.
It's fair to say more money doesn't necessarily result in better results, but it would be absolutely incorrect to think that endemic budgetary shortfalls don't drastically impact results.

It's like money and happiness. Money doesn't make you happy but it damn sure does eliminate a lot of barriers on the way there.
Schools are funded by a State or Federation member (eg provinces and territories in Canada). Gifted programs just exist. In that sense - yes - rich areas subsidize less fortunate areas.
There's also the benefit of "dog fooding" their own product that they're selling to customers.
> For the benefit of non-US readers, know that how the US funds public education (K-12) is rather unique. It's done through property taxes essentially. Depending on your state and city your property taxes can vary a lot with the same value property.

This is widely believed but no longer true. Federal and state funding have eclipsed local funding[0], and those funds are highly progressive. As a result, the highest-spending per capita schools are a mix of wealthy suburbs and failing urban districts. See this map[1] for examples, like the Philadelphia suburb of Lower Merion and the NJ city of Camden.

0: https://www.publicschoolreview.com/blog/an-overview-of-the-f...
1: https://www.aaastateofplay.com/school-districts-ranked-by-th...
Certainly true - but the advocacy of the philosophical distinction and its promotion originates from various intellectuals. I wish it would go back to where it came from, but I see that we may be stuck with it for quite a while.
It alarms me that anyone treats them the same. Government programs are a last resort to correct market failures. They’re completely different entities with different goals and structures.
Personally these and the Wikipedia posts are my favorite posts on here. News is cool, but there's a lot of cool things that don't change very often, and I love seeing those things too.

Also, in response to your "low effort posts do not invite meaningful discussion" from a different comment, I don't see how this is any lower effort than every other link only post (i.e. the vast majority)? And there's over 40 comments on this thread now talking about other scrapers, projects you can do with scrapers, better docs, tangential use cases and how to handle them, etc. Seems like a lot of people have a variety of things to say about this, I don't see how that's not "meaningful discussion".

EDIT: I also disagree with requiring a couple of sentences from the submitter. If they have something to say they can say it, otherwise it's fine if they don't try to influence the discussion - it's more interesting to see where the random commenters take something, then trying to chart a course.
Presumably test scores are a not terrible proxy for qualification. So if black and hispanic students of similar qualification are not being admitted into these programs, then the programs are not actually equitably enrolling people.
IQ correlates extremely heavily with having a successful life by western civilization standards, yes.
The raw data is publicly available: https://nces.ed.gov/ecls/dataproducts.asp
Meanwhile we are using devices to type on HN that use that same slave labor from a totalitarian state. Why is it energy we draw the line but not the latest iPhone or the chips in our alarm clocks.
Best option is paper ballots that are machine-readable and human-readable.

Cryptography doesn't help; what you need are processes which make fraud difficult (for instance, observers with line of site to all ballot boxes from when voting starts until they're counted; cross-checking counts of blank, spoiled, and voted ballot papers before & after voting, translucent ballot boxes that are clearly empty at the start of election day, etc.,)
Why did it take so damn long to catch this?
"Real real fast"
Well, I was a dirt poor child of a single Puerto Rican mom in eastern Kentucky and I was accepted in gifted education the first year I went to public schools (which was the first year it was offered--the reason I went.)

But to your point, I was not able to take algebra until 9th grade due to reasons that felt a bit discriminatory as you'd described, but my mother was a maniac and no one liked her, so hard to say if that didn't add weight.
The elephant in the room: In the US, average East Asian IQ is 105, average white IQ is 99, average black IQ is 85-95. Nobody in politics can afford to admit that.
> Unlike VSCode, Emacs and Vim have a learning curve.

That's not the point, we were talking about plugins.
What other medical records does oracle have?
My MIL is a teacher, and she's taught at wealthy schools and poor schools.

Wealthy schools have more money, but they actually often have less - if a school's average socio-economic class drops below a certain point, there's a slew of federal funding available and she often had more resources in a poor school than a wealthy one. The poorest schools are often the middle-class - those too wealthy to qualify for the funding but not wealthy enough to be rich.

The real benefit to wealthy schools, in her mind (anecdata) was the number of single income households. Students and classrooms do a lot better when there are a bunch of volunteers.

Schools used to have Teaching Assistants. Dedicated, low-pay non-teachers who could help in classrooms. We don't have these (in my state) any more.

But the wealthy schools do. Because there are a lot of volunteer parents (mostly moms) who don't work and are happy to come in one day a week. When my MIL taught at wealthy schools, she often had 2 parents in her classroom every day of the week helping prep. In the poor schools she had Chromebooks for every kid (before that was the norm), but no help so she didn't bother breaking them out.
Equity is a bullshit copout because actual equality is hard. Infinite can kicking while the actual socioeconomic problems go unsolved.
Very often equity at all cost means leveling down everybody. It also feels a bit contradictory to privilege already gifted students with a programme though.
Equality of outcome is not the goal of equity. That’s a straw man argument created by its detractors.

People point out disparities as evidence that there aren’t equal opportunities in society.

The conservative position is simply to assert that equality of opportunity exists cuz America, and if you question that you are a communist who just wants everyone to be the same.
It's a double-edged sword. For surgeons, specialization improves outcomes as practice makes perfect. Since this is HN, I'll liken it to using the same programming language daily, versus being asked to fix a bug in a language you last used years ago, within a fixed time window.

The only missing peace is the a doctor on the care team who chooses which type of surgery is best, becasue once one is referred to a specialist: they are going to get that specific specialized care.
IntelliJ idea also includes most or all features Atom does, but that does not validate this statement:

> VSCode is basically a rewrite of Atom that reuses a big chunk of the original codebase

They both use Electron as their framework, but that's about where the code similarities end.
I've taken a close look at the numbers for individual schools in my tri-state area, (NY, NJ, PA) and from my estimate it seems that lower performing schools far and away have the highest per student budgets.
For some reason progressives are against voter ID laws. I've said that before and will say it again: Most of EU requires ID to vote. I will support Republicans that want to do this. It is sad to bring EU in the picture to convince progressives but it is a magic word that somehow brings logic and reason. We shouldn't have to say "They do it in EU, so it must be good".

People have stopped thinking for themselves. Anything to improve integrity of election is good. Want to put 4k cameras during vote counting process? I'll vote for that. More transparency and integrity, not less. I really don't give a shit which party wants to propel this.
The startups and small companies are playing offense - they are trying to get their foot in the door and hunting.

BigCos are playing defense - they want to maintain the status quo and not kill the golden goose. They've built a castle to protect it. It's only natural that they will add friction everywhere for the fear of killing the damn bird.

Relax and coast for a bit, and jump to a small company. But like others have said, you will work more hours, and they can be insanely high cognitive load for other reasons.
I had worked at smaller shops, then took what I thought was going to be a next big step at a company who's mascot is a reptile. Friction EVERYWHERE. The TLDR was that I left after 5 months and that company was the most unhappy I've been in my career.

When I started, I had a single monitor machine that didn't have Visual Studio installed. I was told I'd have to wait till the next budget cycle for a second monitor. I didn't get Visual Studio installed for 3 WEEKS and no one seemed to care. I'm not sure why they thought it was fine for a six figure developer to basically be sitting idle for 3 weeks, but that attitude was basically the norm.

When I actually got coding, everything was road blocks. Policies and procedures everywhere. No one had time to explain anything. Everything had to be submitted through a ticketing system. It was just bad. Daily standups where I just made up BS because they'd barely given me anything to work on, and no one seemed to care.

The thing was that when I looked forward at my team lead, my manager, etc., who in theory would've been my next steps at the company I'd have to jump through ridiculous hoops just to get into those positions, and they all fundamentally had very little power. They were still at the bottom tier middle managers, and the BS policies, procedures, and technology decisions all got handed down from managers above them.

I couldn't deal with the environment, but from my coworkers who were there, I got the sense from them that they just accepted things. Progress was slow, jump through the hoops you're told to jump through, but by in large, it was steady well paying work that they could just check out at the end of the day. No harm in that, but it just felt like my career would just stagnate there, and I'd find it very hard to get out once I got comfortable with it. I planned on sticking around till 6 months, then looking. I wound up starting to reply back to recruiters earlier and was out in 5. Best decision I made was leaving.
The problem is that it is a self-amplifying logic, a self-fulfilling prophecy of disaster: you pick Linux because it's easier to hire, so there's less job offers for FreeBSD, so job seekers (and schools) focus on Linux, so it's harder to hire FreeBSD sysops and easier to hire Linux sysops.

That's how we create software mono-cultures, end up being forced to use mediocre software, and how searching for vulnerabilities becomes very profitable (ransomware etc.). Companies should think about the ecosystems they live in, not only about their sole immediate profit.
From the perspective of a victim, there is also a huge difference between stopping a crime in progress and preventing a crime from ever even being attempted. Being the victim of an attempted crime can still be traumatizing. People likely wouldn't even know if they would have been the victim of a crime that is successfully avoided.

Either way, this discussion doesn't matter at this point. As I already said, this is not a legal decision being handed down. These are claims by victims and the accused haven't even responded yet.
IMHO worth it
Definitely a priority.
That $6,000 per student figure is from 1998 according to the link you provided.

Today, the crappy school district near me pays $15,900 per student and the good school district near me pays $19,800 per student.
I don't know how to say this without sounding like an asshole, but why do most people who are all about FIRE talk this way? Am I the only one who doesn't look at working a cushy office job 30-35 hours a week as "a lifetime of servitude?" I'd rather give up some time for a few decade, and enjoy life during that time, and retire earlier than most but later than I could, than be miserable for a decade just to live a lower middle class life without any skills to fall back on (as would certainly be the case if the market drop 50% 8-10 years into your retirement - you're now in your 40s, a decade removed from tech, and you need a job now).

How does anyone read fringe nonsense like "ethically I wouldn't want to birth a child into a life of bondage under capitalism" and not roll your eyes hard enough to get RSI?
Hilarious. Get off your high horse and stop ripping off other people's voices.
Ask HN: Practical Books for “Critical Thinking” and “Game Theory”
I know enough about Game Theory and I want to believe that I have decent critical thinking skills.

I need to find PRACTICAL books on Game Theory and critical Thinking Skills, but all I can find are academic books long in theory and short on practical skills.

HN: got any suggestions? or is this a void in the marketplace ready to be filled?
Looking at the same page I come to a different conclusion. The pros it lists are permissionlessness, censorship resistance, and avoidance of a single point of failure. Cons are scalability and cost.

While they don't mention the word "trustless", those 3 pros are all things that you lose when you rely on a trusted third party.
And since you pretty much always have to add a trusted third party to make the dApp useful, you effectively lose the pros and keep the cons.
Wow. I hadn't thought of him since Abscam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam).
DHS bulletin warns of 'heightened threat environment,' violent months ahead
I notice you've not cited it either.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001698629303700...

> Results indicated that parents perceived that their children were experiencing a decline in energy, curiosity, and intrinsic motivation to achieve at high levels and were beginning to disengage from the traditional curriculum [after elimination of the gifted programs].

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10416...

> This review also found that the needs of many gifted and talented students are not addressed in many regular classroom settings across our country... A large body of research supports the finding that various forms of acceleration result in higher achievement for gifted and talented learners.
So you can't have a high IQ and not be in gifted?
I’ve simply never found Siri useful - I don’t know how much of that is fighting comprehension, vs fighting Siri’s generally not great search behaviour. I find talking to machines awkward in general as even for the best cases I still find myself making deliberately structured sentences such that I prefer typing. (Obviously typing doesn’t work for the “assistants”, but I don’t have any of them due to the above issues essentially ruling them out)
Australian public schools are funded by state and federal governments, not local. So all public schools tend to be pretty similar. On the flip side the government also partially funds private schools, which is an issue at the moment.

https://www.dese.gov.au/quality-schools-package/fact-sheets/...